Plus I Got Depression

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.

I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.

That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.

I agree with the last paragraph here. Of course I don't post a lot of (or any, really) stuff with actual content. I really just like chatting with you guys and reading the stuff that you guys write. I often don't reply to them because I don't feel like I have anything worth adding.
Most of you guys' stuff is good as is and needs no input from me. But you guys sure get me thinking.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Hmm. Guess I do have something to add to this thread though.
This last weekend I saw something that actually made me tear up.
I was driving down the Blvd and about to turn onto the road I live off of when I saw an old guy in one of those plaid jackets that looks like it was made out of a 70's couch, and nice pants standing on the side walk with a sign that said "cancer, homeless, hungry. donations/prayers to help?". He didn't look like any of the regular meth bums we have around here.
He looked like someone's grandpa. Missing most of his fingers on his left hand which made me wonder if he worked in a steel mill, or fought in a war.
I had no cash to give him. I even looked, just to be sure. Found a nickel, I felt like that would be an insult. So I just stared straight ahead.
I wondered what had put him in that position, if there were programs that could help him, if so did he know about them?
I wanted to take him to dinner and listen to his story while he gummed his food.
I felt awful. Then realized just how fucking good I have it.
I held Mr Squid's hand and said "I'll never let that happen to you." and he had a tear in his eye too.

[Nast]

 

I saw a hobo eat an entire gallon of chocolate icecream. I guess that's what I'd spend my money on too if I were in his situation.

[E.O.T.]

Or, more likely, it's a three-day weekend with Valentine's Day right in the middle, and people are off somewhere fucking in a hot tub.

I mean, I could post less fluff and "bloggy" type stuff, but the end result would be that I'd shift more of my posting elsewhere, and I would stop feeling as connected and attached to the people here, and more connected to wherever else I was posting my "bloggy" stuff, and then I wouldn't really have any context or motivation to post content here so I wouldn't.

That's kind of the way it works for most people, I've noticed. Almost no one pops on here once a week with a really well-written piece. Instead, it's the people who post all the damn time about the shithead they share an office with or who they're dating or what they did with their friends over the weekend who ALSO write the posts with content. Partly because they write all the time, compulsively, so some of it turns out to be good, and partly because they're emotionally invested in the board.

So for those of us who don't think everyone here has a need or desire to know our daily details, we're what? The  ignored stepchildren?


I am emotionally invested in this board. I do have friends here. I just don't post my shit because if it bores me who else would give a fuck? 


MY POINT was that after a week I come on and instead of any thought provoking threads the whole first page was all fluff and tarot. Do we need that many threads on the same thing?


Eh fuck it at least everyone isn't tearing each other to shreds. Carry on....

THE FLUFF

          Of the universe is a little more epic, when you take it to Cybertron, you must admit.

AND

          You gotta know, only Starscream stands around complaining all the time.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I saw a hobo eat an entire gallon of chocolate icecream. I guess that's what I'd spend my money on too if I were in his situation.

One time I saw a hobo eat... eh, nevermind.

My complaint is about "Type A" people, especially the kind who not only know they are Hot Shit, but go around all smug and moody about it like the entire planet owes them an apology just for showing up to waste their day with its drudgery and incompetence.

The Type A person in my life is also running the company I work for into the ground by way of his extremely large head and the way he "just knows" that certain industry trends are just "fads." And they are a fad, but in the same way that pants are a fad. This asshole knows his shit, albeit his shit was old news a decade ago.

He's secretly afraid that while he grows fatter and slower and stupider, the world is speeding up at a pace his poor overworked heart will never be able to keep up with, and one of these days somebody's going to say the wrong newfangled buzzword and it'll send him straight into cardiac arrest and he'll die. Secretly. Outwardly, he spends all goddamn day reminding people how wrong they are and how right he is about everything.

Anyway I am currently in the process of making him look like a complete dipshit in front of all the right people. So maybe this situation is temporary.

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My boss does the Rick Astley dance to the song blasted over the PA.

[Triple Zero]

My boss does the Rick Astley dance to the song blasted over the PA.

How is that something to complain about?

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I am complaining that it takes far too long to read and Surf anything on a phone and Payne is going home today.

[LMNO]

Alphapance will be on tmro a.m., I bet, like clockwork.

I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it that way, but reading this really, really sucked.


LMNO
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[Suu]

I'm complaining that I have to go to work in this slush. 

[East Coast Hustle]

7 pages already. I'm not sure whether to be thrilled or horrified.

[Suu]

I'm just helping you win your bet.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I saw a hobo eat an entire gallon of chocolate icecream. I guess that's what I'd spend my money on too if I were in his situation.

One time I saw a hobo eat... eh, nevermind.

My complaint is about "Type A" people, especially the kind who not only know they are Hot Shit, but go around all smug and moody about it like the entire planet owes them an apology just for showing up to waste their day with its drudgery and incompetence.

The Type A person in my life is also running the company I work for into the ground by way of his extremely large head and the way he "just knows" that certain industry trends are just "fads." And they are a fad, but in the same way that pants are a fad.

I'm sorry for laughing at your misery, but that's funny.

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm just helping you win your bet.

and don't think I don't appreciate it!

ECH,
just a posting fool

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yeah but so far in this thread someone has said the line, "And they are a fad, but in the same way pants are a fad"

which I am totally going to steal the next time I have the chance.