Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!
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Desert Storm Vet, here. Your friends remind me of this guy and several of my workmates.
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Jingoistic moron sitting on the american flag on the ground, while drinking beer through a straw
THROUGH A GODDAMNED STRAW!
Also a former Green Beret and NFL player suggested kneeling as opposed to sitting.
Edit. Hmmm looked a lot bigger in preview. Oh well..
Spoiler for size
Jingoistic moron sitting on the american flag on the ground, while drinking beer through a straw
THROUGH A GODDAMNED STRAW!
Also a former Green Beret and NFL player suggested kneeling as opposed to sitting.
Edit. Hmmm looked a lot bigger in preview. Oh well..
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oh god, I hated the guy enough for being a hypocrite.Desert Storm Vet, here. You're friends remind me of this guy and several of my workmates.
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Jingoistic moron sitting on the american flag on the ground, while drinking beer through a straw
THROUGH A GODDAMNED STRAW!
Also a former Green Beret and NFL suggested kneeling as opposed to sitting.
But there is no excuse for drinking beer through a straw. I need to take his man card away.
He's already a Jets fan.
Yeah, that's the other half of my irritation with them. They're not really concerned about respecting the flag or the anthem, or the soldiers.
I'm still too sick to eat and I'm so sick that I had to cancel my doctor's appointment this morning and I can hardly move without wanting to puke.
So, yes, crazy lady down the street who last spoke to me several years ago and was a total bitch when she did, today is a great day to send your awful little brats down to my house uninvited. Just peachy.
The reason she was so horrible to me? Because I wouldn't let her son sleepover at our place for our son's birthday party after he assaulted our son. I revoke his invite after the incident. Rude on my part? Probably. Necessary? Absolutely. I wasn't having that kid over so soon after that.
Yet here they were today and I had to look mean because I made them play outside because I was so sick.
So, yes, crazy lady down the street who last spoke to me several years ago and was a total bitch when she did, today is a great day to send your awful little brats down to my house uninvited. Just peachy.
The reason she was so horrible to me? Because I wouldn't let her son sleepover at our place for our son's birthday party after he assaulted our son. I revoke his invite after the incident. Rude on my part? Probably. Necessary? Absolutely. I wasn't having that kid over so soon after that.
Yet here they were today and I had to look mean because I made them play outside because I was so sick.
A master's would likely help me some, but not an amazing amount. I don't think I'll be working at my current translation company for the rest of my life, so when I do change jobs, I'll need to keep in mind that there are some companies that use degrees to whittle down the list of candidates. I'm sure my professional skills and work experience would be enough once I'm in, but I may need that degree just to get in the door.
As for my wife, it's actually a bit funny. She's a teacher at a public school, and in the public school system in Taiwan, your pay is adjusted based on a number of factors, including performance evaluations, years of experience, and your highest degree. So, basically, my wife will get a raise for getting an MA. However, we've calculated how much more she'll be earning per year and compared it to how much she'll be spending in tuition and living costs, and it turns out an MA from a British university will pay for itself in approximately 25 to 30 years. That is to say, approximately when she retires.
*Sigh*
Look, you always need to invest in the future. Education is never a poor bet.
I mean, sure, you might currently have that mortgage to worry about. Perhaps some student loans on top of that. In a couple of years you might hear the pit-patter of tiny feet, which to your ears can sound suspiciously much like money dropping down a well. And there may be a college fund or two to worry about soon after.
But that is only a temporary condition. I a few decades, you may anyway have paid off all your loans, your kids may be all grown up and moved out of the house and making a life for themselves, you will have had a career's worth of salary raises and promotions, and you might actually not need all that much money anymore.
But just think about how much happier you will be when your retirement benefit is a couple of bucks higher than it would be otherwise.
... I was not expecting to end up having an existential crisis when I posted my whine.
If somebody with First Aid (or better) experience could please post for how long it should be before his wrist should get examined by a doctor to make sure he doesn't have a fracture.Fell with the bike on the way to work this morning
Nothing too serious, but my pants are ruined, my knee's bleeding through, and my wrist hurts like a female dog. Owwie.
You don't want to leave stuff like that man. It's better if it's examined, otherwise you could have chronic pain forever.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/broken-wrist-broken-hand/symptoms-causes/syc-20353169
Your hands are worth some extra attention.
Thanks, but I'm pretty sure there's nothing broken. I do, however, have a cyst in the joint (about 1 inch x half an inch x half an inch), which hurts when I put pressure on it anyway, and that seems to have been impacted - the..."bobble" you could see on my wrist is now in a different spot. Though I don't know how much of a problem that is, really, it's not like it matters whdere exactly the cyst is pushing on tendons and nerves, after all.
Sounds like you should have someone with medical training look at it.
I live to serve.
A friend of mine who is also a former friend of crazy lady thinks that she’s trying to be friends again with me. My friend didn’t hear how our last conversation went and how ugly and mean crazy lady was to me though. She said some terrible things about me and then about my friends in the neighborhood as well, but I never shared them in detail with them because I saw no need to make the situation any worse than it was at the time and I didn’t want to hurt my friends.
As far as these little visits, I truly think it’s a matter of neglect and she honestly has no idea where her kids are. They’re pretty poorly behaved and totally wild and I wouldn’t want them around me either. She’s their mother though, so it’s her job to have them around.
She calls the police and various branches of enforcement on her next door neighbors several times a week still to punish them for not being friends with them, so I am concerned that she’d call the cops if she knew her kids were here. She’s batshit.
I learned to type on and love cheap keyboards. It's stories like this that make me happy I never bothered to get used to the upscale models. I'm currently typing on a $16 logitech K360. Normally I pay half that for keyboards, but I didn't mind splurging a little for the wireless
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I learned to type and and love cheap keyboards. It's stories like this that make me happy I never bothered to get used to the upscale models. I'm currently typing on a $16 logitech K360. Normally I pay half that for keyboards, but I didn't mind splurging a little for the wireless
I picked up an Amazon Basics keyboard after my most recent water spill. For $10, it does its job just fine. I also have $10 Amazon Basics computer speakers and used to have a $30 Amazon Basics DVD-RW drive that worked great. Now if only they'd put that level of engineering into their FireTV stick, we'd be golden.
GasBandit
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I shared your philosophy until my wrists started killing me. I found the Kinesis freestyle keyboards are the easiest on my wrists and it really helped heal my RSI.I learned to type and and love cheap keyboards. It's stories like this that make me happy I never bothered to get used to the upscale models. I'm currently typing on a $16 logitech K360. Normally I pay half that for keyboards, but I didn't mind splurging a little for the wireless
I like ergonomic keyboards, but I don't know if I could get used to using one that's split in two. I'm sure it's comfortable, though, since you can place them wherever you need to.
GasBandit
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That's the idea, yeah. I was astonished by how quickly I got used to the split key design. Even the regular ergo keyboards only helped so much. But being able to place the two halves ~9 inches apart and tilt them away from each other 15 degrees was like a miracle. I think I'm gonna splurge for the one with the 20" cord this time. I wonder if I can rig it so the halves attach to the arms of my chair.
My pupper had a seizure this morning - his second one in a month. After a vet visit, everything checked out okay, but if he has one more I have to take him to a specialist and it's likely cancer.
I know it's silly as he's just a dog, but I'm so sad. If you know anything about me, you know Fly is a huge part of my life. He was there when I had no one else. Literally. We've been through a lot and a part of me will die the day that he does. Which seems like it may be soon. :/
I know it's silly as he's just a dog, but I'm so sad. If you know anything about me, you know Fly is a huge part of my life. He was there when I had no one else. Literally. We've been through a lot and a part of me will die the day that he does. Which seems like it may be soon. :/
Kati recently requested (and got) a washable Logitech K310, but in her case it was because she hates a dirty keyboard and wanted one that’s easy to clean. Too bad they were discontinued in 2014.
—Patrick
That's not silly at all. A pet is family, and you care for them as such. Two years ago my dog Molly, who I'd had since middle school, went through much the same thing. She had a brain tumor and started having seizures, but was too old to really do anything about it. I still miss her.
On the keyboard front - the one I use at the moment is from my first Gateway - and it's one of those semi-mechanical keyboards. I love it. It's a lot like the ones at work (we have crappy IBM-Lenovos but they take the proverbial beating), but it also has volume controls and whatnot. I should do a complete key pry-out and clean one of these days, though.
On to the whine: when I showered last night before work, some of my fancy-dancy shower gel from Dollar Shave Club went right into my eye. I was okay at work, but when I got home (and the bright light of day), I felt like I needed to rip my eyeball out and scratch it. After a visit to the clinic, I now have antibiotic eye drops to get the redness down.
On to the whine: when I showered last night before work, some of my fancy-dancy shower gel from Dollar Shave Club went right into my eye. I was okay at work, but when I got home (and the bright light of day), I felt like I needed to rip my eyeball out and scratch it. After a visit to the clinic, I now have antibiotic eye drops to get the redness down.
I've been dealing with a pretty significant amount of pain in my elbow for the past several months. I'm sure it's a repetitive motion injury of some sort, and I think I've determined that it was caused or contributed to by my habit to let my whisking form slip when my forearm muscles get tired, and use my entire forearm instead of just my hand like I'm supposed to. (And no, it's not from masturbation.) It doesn't seem to hurt in the place that a UCL injury is described as hurting, or tennis elbow. At this point, all I need to know is whether it gets better with rest or strengthening and heat or ice; or surgery. The delay in getting this treated due to my issue with our clinic is not helping my charitability to them, though I did get a very good response from the Patient Feedback Coordinator to the letter I sent, so I'm going to give them time to correct the issues and not publish anything negative that names them. It's getting to the point that I really need to re-form the mouthguard I bought so I can wear it during the day to protect me from all the times I grit my teeth in pain. It really fucking sucks.
I'm so sorry you went through that.
So it turns out the white nationalist was home-schooled due to social maladjustment and autism. His folks were the evangelical type as well. That explains a lot. The rhetoric of the persecuted minority, the quarrelsome behavior, the emphasis on tribal identity, etc. I wonder if he'll combust when I show the class "Springtime for Hitler" after our WW2 unit.
And now my whine. The neighbors across the street keep their dog on the balcony pretty much all day. I think his owner's new boyfriend is allergic and that's why she leaves him outside. His carrier is there and I believe she leaves food and water out, but the poor thing is bored silly. So it barks, and barks, and barks.
And now my whine. The neighbors across the street keep their dog on the balcony pretty much all day. I think his owner's new boyfriend is allergic and that's why she leaves him outside. His carrier is there and I believe she leaves food and water out, but the poor thing is bored silly. So it barks, and barks, and barks.
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