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May 28, 2009#1

Scarlet Varlet

Massive photoshoot this weekend and can't find my camera battery charger!

(I rather like going into a shoot with a full charge and knowing where the charger is aftward to top it off again.)

Tear apart everything in the flat and can't find it. :aaahhh: Last time I used it was .. :wha:

Finally locate it. Sitting in a basket behind my desk chair with a few magazines sitting on top.

Wheeeew! Now ... will I remember to keep it in the camera bag from now on?

May 30, 2009#2

Scarlet Varlet

People changing lanes at the light.

May 30, 2009#3

Gusto

A lot of my friends are having Girls' Nights tonight, and I am a Dude.

So my plans have kinda been shot to hell. Oh well.

May 30, 2009#4

Pojodan

People who insist on saying 'We'll always be together' or 'I'll be your friend no matter what' whom ultimately abandon you.

May 30, 2009#5

HCGLNS

Rant: I had a serious discussion with my wife about how handsome Pat Sajak is.

May 30, 2009#6

AshburnerX

Talked to my friend who I'd been avoiding for a few weeks yesterday. Told her what was up and she refused to acknowledge any part she might have played in hurting me and instead tried to guilt trip me into saying it was all my fault. She also refused to acknowledge any of my efforts to make things right between us. In the end, nothing was accomplished and she still made me feel like crap.

At this point I need to decide if I'd rather have a friend who makes me feel like crap or no friends at all and feeling nothing again... and I'm having trouble deciding which is worse.

Jun 1, 2009#7

Gared

Found out 4.5 hours into my 8 hour shift that it was extended to 12 hours, as my only employee is too sick to come in. I don't mind him being sick or calling in sick, but I really wish my boss (the owner) would hire someone to cover these things that isn't a) a member of his family* or b) working full time elsewhere.

* This wasn't a problem in the first year or so that I worked here, but recently the nepotism is getting a bit thick, as I'm the only member of the staff who isn't a family member, and am also the only member who can't take vacations or get any time off.

On the plus side, I had already determined that I was going to tell the boss this week that I need to start looking for a job closer to home (I spend $200 a month on gas just commuting to work and back).

Jun 1, 2009#8

Without wanting to type everything out all over again...

blog.php?u=2&b=71

Be sure to check out the wonderful comments where I updated the situation.

Jun 1, 2009#9

AshburnerX

That's rough buddy.

Jun 1, 2009#10

Gared

Edrondol said:
Without wanting to type everything out all over again...

blog.php?u=2&b=71

Be sure to check out the wonderful comments where I updated the situation.

Dude... that sucks. I think I was spoiled by my incredibly tiny high school graduating class (we had 17 people), because even though everyone had their own receptions to go to, I think I saw all of my classmates at my party as well, and several of us went to more than one party. The only thing that really sucked about that one was missing one of my best friends' wedding that she held the next day (because her family was already all in town for her graduation).

Jun 1, 2009#11

CynicismKills

Ouch Ed, but nice Zing! on her Facebook, hah.

Jun 1, 2009#12

Hylian

Edrondol said:
Without wanting to type everything out all over again...

blog.php?u=2&b=71

Be sure to check out the wonderful comments where I updated the situation.

that sucks :popcorn:

oh and before I forget

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Jun 1, 2009#13

Jake

Edrondol said:
Without wanting to type everything out all over again...

blog.php?u=2&b=71

Be sure to check out the wonderful comments where I updated the situation.

People have graduation receptions? I've never heard of such a thing.

Jun 1, 2009#14

Chazwozel

Jake said:
Edrondol said:

Without wanting to type everything out all over again...

blog.php?u=2&b=71

Be sure to check out the wonderful comments where I updated the situation.

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People have graduation receptions? I've never heard of such a thing.

Wow that sucks. I sense a lot of hostility between Ed and his brother.

Jun 1, 2009#15

Cajungal

Old insecurities. I'm more angry at myself for being weak enough to let myself feel this way when usually I can push it away with good old fashioned logic. Bad Leslie. BAD! :slap:

Jun 1, 2009#16

Chazwozel said:
Jake said:

Edrondol said:

Without wanting to type everything out all over again...

blog.php?u=2&b=71

Be sure to check out the wonderful comments where I updated the situation.

Click to expand...

People have graduation receptions? I've never heard of such a thing.

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Wow that sucks. I sense a lot of hostility between Ed and his brother.

I'm less mad at my brother - they live a ways away and had just come home a couple weeks ago. The people I'm mad at are my nephews. Now you have to understand that I've done them a shitload of favors throughout the years and helped to raise them. In fact, less than a year ago I did my nephew's wedding ceremony & reception FOR FREE, saving them about $1000 in the process. I'd gone to both of their graduations and even given one of them a place to stay when they got kicked out of their father's house (sister's ex-husband). Hell, I got one of them a job DJing so he could get some extra money.

And THESE are the guys who blew us off.

Jun 1, 2009#17

Tinwhistler

AshburnerX said:
At this point I need to decide if I'd rather have a friend who makes me feel like crap or no friends at all and feeling nothing again... and I'm having trouble deciding which is worse.

You know, there is a middle ground in there somewhere. Just perhaps not with that friend.

Jun 1, 2009#18

Cajungal said:
Old insecurities. I'm more angry at myself for being weak enough to let myself feel this way when usually I can push it away with good old fashioned logic. *is nice to self and remembers that the head and the heart don't always communicate effectively, which is not cause for slapping oneself*

FTFY. :slywink:

Jun 1, 2009#19

Tinwhistler

Yeah, Ed, I have some relatives like that. It totally sucks.

I'm more mercenary about my family, though. I cut a lot of them out of my life a long time ago.

Jun 1, 2009#20

Cajungal

ZenMonkey said:
Cajungal said:

Old insecurities. I'm more angry at myself for being weak enough to let myself feel this way when usually I can push it away with good old fashioned logic. *is nice to self and remembers that the head and the heart don't always communicate effectively, which is not cause for slapping oneself*

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FTFY. :slywink:

[schild=21,1,000000,C0C0C0:3l81l8xl]HUGS[/schild:3l81l8xl]

Jun 1, 2009#21

Bubble181

@Dave: damn, that sucks :-(
@Jake: yeah, I never heard of those either :confused:

@Cajun: *cuddles*, Zen's right way too often in this sort of stuff.
@AshBurner: what Tin said...and also good luck on finding a (few) friend(s) who make you feel good about yourself and don't get you down.

Incoming manbaww/get-over-it-you-idiot thing, feel free to skip:

So it's been almost a year since me and the ex went our seperate ways, and I was sort-of getting over it. Not really all's well in Bubbleland, but, you know, not continuously feeling bad and insecure about it.
So, she came by here a while ago, since I have a shower, and internet, and food, all of these little things she doesn't have at her place, which she wanted to use. Fair enough. She ended up staying for 3 days, sleeping in my bed, watching 9 movies together (Die Hard trilogy, PotC trilogy, Narnia,...), and talking about our respective problems in life and all that. Some pretty messed up things about her which I'll skip over because, you know, I've decided to put a bit less personal information of her on the net, but anyway, yeah.
Now, of course, I'm waaayyy back to the hurting about it, feeling crappy, hurting myself, blahblahlbah phase. I honestly don't love her and wouldn't want her back in my life, but why in the hells do I open myself up like this for the pain she causes me? I shouldn't care what she does anymore, who she does it with, when, or whatever! Gah! Why am I back to feeling jealous and insecure and inadequate?

/manbaww

Also: my boss is trying to save money by putting us alone in day time, starting tomorrow. That means there'll be one dispatcher for 12 hours i nthe day, and three at night. I admit the day is calmer than the night, but really, it's moronic. We're dealing with lives and safety concerns here, I'm still flippin' allowed to take a bathroom break or go eat something, right? This just can't work properly! GAH!

Jun 1, 2009#22

Espy

Bubbles, whether or not you are in love with her is immaterial, because yes or no, it hurts you to be around her. Unless you wanna make a go of it you need to tell her she can't come around here no more.

Jun 1, 2009#23

Docseverin

So, as some of you know I was recently divorced. All is going well the paper work goes smoothly...until it comes to finance. I turn in the paperwork to adjust my BAH to single rate from married rate, and the paper work goes up smoothly. The the POG's in finance return the paperwork saying that I need additional paperwork to make the adjustment or I have to move into the barracks (it's a $1,700 pay cut). And to further compound the situation every time I get a paycheck I go $400 into debt with the Army which is bad because they tend to garnish it all in one paycheck. I am now effectively $1,600 in debt which could put me on my ass if they take it all out at once. RAWR I hate beauracracy!

Jun 1, 2009#24

Espy

Oh yes, military paperwork.

So much fun.

Jun 2, 2009#25

Wasabi Poptart

I feel your pain, Doc. When my husband got back from deployment they paid him all the extras (hazardous duty pay and the like) all tax-free for 2 months after he got home. He'd file the paperwork to have it stopped and the papers would some how get lost by PSD. Then, when they fixed it they only took out part of the money. Suddenly a few months ago they took out all of the rest in a lump sum.

Now they owe us about $800 because they sent him to a conference and we had to pay out of pocket for everything. His travel claim has been filed twice now. We have yet to see the money.

Jun 2, 2009#26

Batdan

Car insurance company told me I was set to auto-pay with my credit card every month, then yesterday (June 1) I get a letter telling me they canceled my policy back on May 1 for non payment. Luckily I haven't had any accidents or gotten pulled over and had the cops check my insurance status. Thankfully I got it all sorted out today during lunch (apology from the rep included). Scary though to think something could've happened even though I thought I was ok.

Jun 2, 2009#27

Scarlet Varlet

Google was melting down again today. Couldn't find things and then had some really odd Javascript errors.

I used Yahoo which matches with all sorts of icky sites which have nothing to do with what I'm looking for, but will match. They're Honeypots which bring up pr0n and the sort of ads I get in spam. Left me feeling unclean. Google, at least when they work, filter most of that filth out.

Jun 2, 2009#28

DarkAudit

Verizon admitted a couple years ago this area still has paper-insulated cables between the utility poles. So when it rains hard, like say, TONIGHT, the DSL connection goes into seizures until the rain passes. I'll have a minute of uptime, followed by 10 minutes of nothing. Rinse, repeat.

They KNOW it's broke. They've KNOWN it's been broken for YEARS. Just FIX THE DAMN THING! It's a university town, dammit!

Jun 3, 2009#29

Wasabi Poptart

I get to go for my glucose challenge test tomorrow morning. It should be loads of fun. I hate drinking that crappy orange syrup (the lab doesn't carry any other flavor). Fasting is a joy, too. :eek:

rly:

Jun 3, 2009#30

DarkAudit

You know all those stories of managers or players trashing the dugout or the clubhouse? That's how mad I am right now.

I grew up a Pirates fan. I started following them in earnest a couple years before they won it all in 1979. I stuck with them through the dark days of the '85 drug trials. I cried when Sid Slid. I grumbled but still cheered as they moved deeper and deeper into the wilderness since then.

But now, that's all I can stands, and I can't stands no more! They've traded Nate McClouth, their only All-Star from last year. A guy they signed to a big contract in February, saying he was a cornerstone as they moved forward, for a handful of minor-league prospects.

Basically telling the fans that it's already over for this year. A 17th straight losing season.

I live 75 miles away. Why should I spend even a dime to go see yet another 100-loss team?

Jun 3, 2009#31

Cuyval Dar

For the last time: I would not speak of or link to an illegal private server here. I like to think that I am more considerate of Dave and the future of this forum than that. Not to mention not wanting to have the FBI break down my door and have a million dollar lawsuit thrown at me.
All I want to do is kill Ewoks and Storm Troopers.

Jun 5, 2009#32

Scarlet Varlet

So much for people being all mellow out here in California.

Impatient, rude people even on a Friday.

Should suit people like that up and send them to Iraq so they appreciate the peace and security of the home country.

Jun 5, 2009#33

Cuyval Dar said:
For the last time: I would not speak of or link to an illegal private server here. I like to think that I am more considerate of Dave and the future of this forum than that. Not to mention not wanting to have the FBI break down my door and have a million dollar lawsuit thrown at me.
All I want to do is kill Ewoks and Storm Troopers.

I hear ya, brother. No need to fear.

Jun 6, 2009#34

AshburnerX

Edrondol said:
Cuyval Dar said:

For the last time: I would not speak of or link to an illegal private server here. I like to think that I am more considerate of Dave and the future of this forum than that. Not to mention not wanting to have the FBI break down my door and have a million dollar lawsuit thrown at me.
All I want to do is kill Ewoks and Storm Troopers.

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I hear ya, brother. No need to fear.

Uhh... WTF is this all about?

Jun 6, 2009#35

Selgeron

I just moved in with my girlfriend who I didn't really want to move in with and was really unsure of. My niceness came and bit me in the ass- she has no where else to go and her family is woefully supportive. However now I'm afraid she won't be pulling her part of the rent and I'll end up being her entire support because she can't stand on her own two feet. Again. And the lease is for an entire year... What have I gotten myself into?

Jun 6, 2009#36

North_Ranger

@Selgeron... I jumped ship before that happened to me. But honestly, the whole thing was jinxed from the beginning. The then-girlfriend found the place while I was still doing my service (and I had told her I wouldn't feel comfortable moving in with her until we had spent some real time together after I got back to 'civvies'), cried her eyes out to make me bend, rented the place even though the rent was $150 (a month!) more than she had "remembered" to tell me, it was a complete hellhole... and her idea of hygiene included using a wet-wipe on a carpet that her dog had pooped on, then leaving it at that.

Thank God she rented the place on her own name...

@Dave: I feel your pain, dude. Unfortunately, unlike friends, we can't choose the people we are related to. But hey, congrats to your son! If American high school final year is anything like the one we have here in Finland, he's done a grand job.

@Jake: Yes, at least in Finland we do.

Crap, not again with this post screen wonkiness... Gotta make another post, since trying to type with the screen jumping up and down like a kangaroo with a sugar rush makes the screen blink like hell.

Jun 6, 2009#37

North_Ranger

Anyhoo, had a pretty decent first week at my summer job as a telemarketer. The only thing that cheesed me off was that on Friday I noticed I was less than $50 worth of sales away from a getting a nice weekly bonus (since our paycheck is base salary + a commission of sales [5%], the bosses give us weekly bonuses based on individual sales) - and I still had a good hour and a half to spend on the phone. Usually that wouldn't be a sweat, since all I would need to do is get ONE order. Not even a very large one, say a six month subscription of a cooking magazine, or seven months of Donald Duck.

But not yesterday, no...

I managed to make 55 calls in that time. About ten people answered but hung up immediately or pleaded "I'm at work, I'm busy". With about 12 people I got to the point where I actually hoped to get a deal through... but no. Some of them simply refused to even listen to what I had, others played cat-and-mouse with me, asking for deals but then hanging up with a "Nnnnoo, I think I'll wait until fall" - and some people apparently have enough money to spend the whole summer travelling, but paying $45 for a subscription is "just too expensive".

Oh well... There's always next week (and God-dammit, the wonkiness started again!)

Jun 6, 2009#38

Iaculus

AshburnerX said:
Edrondol said:

Cuyval Dar said:

For the last time: I would not speak of or link to an illegal private server here. I like to think that I am more considerate of Dave and the future of this forum than that. Not to mention not wanting to have the FBI break down my door and have a million dollar lawsuit thrown at me.
All I want to do is kill Ewoks and Storm Troopers.

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I hear ya, brother. No need to fear.

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Uhh... WTF is this all about?

That is for the Forum Cartel to know and you to stay quiet about, citizen.

Jun 6, 2009#39

Scarlet Varlet

@North_Ranger: There's a reason I don't answer my home phone and only answer known callers on my mobile, wouldn't want to waste your time, mate. I Subscribe to one magazine and it's £70/year. It's a good enough magazine to rate the expense.

Jun 6, 2009#40

Pojodan

@all: You're all a bunch of Twittering freaks.

Jun 6, 2009#41

Bubble181

Scarlet Varlet said:
@North_Ranger: There's a reason I don't answer my home phone and only answer known callers on my mobile, wouldn't want to waste your time, mate. I Subscribe to one magazine and it's £70/year. It's a good enough magazine to rate the expense.

PLayboy's ony £70 a year over there?! Damn lucky bastards :tongue:

AshburnerX said:
Uhh... WTF is this all about?

Once upon a time, there was this nice little game, called Star Wars Galaxies...Or SWG for short. Now, this place went all to hell and back. Some people have been trying to emulate the original good version of the game with various tweaks on a private server, on some unkown .com site somewhere. It's rumoured to go live somewhere near the last day of the sixth month :confused:

But I have no idea how this is in aaannnyy way related to your question. Especially disregard any colours you may see in my post, that just means you're hallucinating.

Selgeron said:
I just moved in with my girlfriend who I didn't really want to move in with and was really unsure of. My niceness came and bit me in the ass- she has no where else to go and her family is woefully supportive. However now I'm afraid she won't be pulling her part of the rent and I'll end up being her entire support because she can't stand on her own two feet. Again. And the lease is for an entire year... What have I gotten myself into?

Yikes...Good luck. Mine just spent all her time at my place, but luckily could fall back on her parents when things went the way of the dodo. Good luck, and strength, and all that.

Jun 6, 2009#42

Scarlet Varlet

Hostway.com == IDIOTS!

Jun 6, 2009#43

Bubble181

hoesthatway? :confused:

Jun 6, 2009#44

Scarlet Varlet

My old hosting company was acquired by Hostway. In 10 years I contacted tech support for my old company about 5 times, tops. I'm on the phone to Hostway twice now. My pop.mydomain.com doesn't resolve and I'm unable to get email.

Support is the usual boiler room of people in India or Bangladesh with Anglo names who do not pay attention when I say the POP server is not being found - I'm not at issued with passwords or settings in my email clients, I can't locate the POP server. Duh! :explode:

Jun 8, 2009#45

Mr_Chaz

I know people who were proud not to have voted this week, goddamn proud! Now the BNP have got seats in the EU parliament. I mean fuck. :explode: There was a 35% voter turnout. Only 35% of people could be fucked to get off their arses and walk the few hundred metres to the poling station. Well they fucking deserve the fuckup the BNP would make of their country. Gorram. The BNP, seriously? Fuck.

Jun 8, 2009#46

AshburnerX

Mr_Chaz said:
I know people who were proud not to have voted this week, goddamn proud! Now the BNP have got seats in the EU parliament. I mean fuck. :explode: There was a 35% voter turnout. Only 35% of people could be fucked to get off their arses and walk the few hundred metres to the poling station. Well they fucking deserve the fuckup the BNP would make of their country. Gorram. The BNP, seriously? Fuck.

Now you know how half of America feels after every election :rofl:

Jun 8, 2009#47

Mr_Chaz

So my girlfriend lives in a shared house, and their contract runs out 30th June. As she's moving into a new place on the 20th she's got the phone line moving on the 22nd, and she's cancelled the internet as of then too.

Turns out that's not acceptable to her housemates. Apparently they all need the internet during the last 8 days, even though they all have other places they can live, and other places they can access the internet.

So now they aren't talking to her. How immature are they? They seem to think that, even though my GF isn't charging them for the phone AT ALL for June they're fully within their rights to complain that there's no internet. How about they just get out of the house occasionally? Or perhaps realise that my GF might actually want the phone when she moves into her new place?

Jeez, way to blow it all out of proportion housemates. Seriously, having a go at someone and not talking to them just because you're going to be mildly put out...at a time when you're moving out anyway. Get over it.

Jun 8, 2009#48

Espy

AshburnerX said:
Mr_Chaz said:

I know people who were proud not to have voted this week, goddamn proud! Now the BNP have got seats in the EU parliament. I mean smurf. :explode: There was a 35% voter turnout. Only 35% of people could be smurfed to get off their arses and walk the few hundred metres to the poling station. Well they smurfing deserve the fuckup the BNP would make of their country. Gorram. The BNP, seriously? smurf.

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Now you know how half of America feels after every election

Tell me about it.

Jun 8, 2009#49

strawman

Worked 64 hours last week, release due today. Found out this morning that due to others not doing their job correctly, I get to spend all day doing a bunch of tedious work by hand.

If the dome light doesn't come on in your 2010 SUV or Truck when you remove the keys from the ignition after having left them in the off position for over 20 minutes, blame my coworker.

On the other hand, if these are the 'major' software issues for this vehicle computer, then we're actually releasing something that's fairly decent.

Still. This should have been done correctly weeks ago, not left for the last minute.

Grrrr. :explode:

-Adam

Jun 8, 2009#50

Gared

http://forum.halforum.com/blog.php?u=472&b=98

Jun 8, 2009#51

Cajungal

.........dang.

*hug*

I hope things start looking up soon.

Jun 8, 2009#52

Espy

Alright asshole. Stop harrassing my employees. You don't get jack for free. Thats how it works. You want something you pay for it. You don't get special treatment for coming in every day, you don't get special prices because you buy something every day, are you so dense that you don't understand how businesses make money? Or are you just so self-focused that you can't see anything beyond your own little planet of personal-special-unique-snowflake-ness?
I love most of our customers, but there is this very special kind of pretentiousness that comes from University people sometimes, it's a snobbery that just makes me want to reach across the counter and... :eek:

rly:

Jun 8, 2009#53

Cajungal

Aw, man, I hate that. Something similar happened taking calls at the university. A girl hadn't placed herself in the dorm of her choice quickly enough, and all the spots filled. Her mom called all mad and said, "With all the money we pay you'd think..."

:eyeroll:

I say, "Ma'am, there are hundreds of people who paid the same amount as you who understand that the most popular places fill the fastest..." Man she didn't like that.

:\ Sorry you and your employees have to deal with that from university folk. It's always kind of nice when businesses give coupons or specials or whatever to loyal customers, but I don't feel that it's deserved just for supporting a place that I like.

Jun 8, 2009#54

strawman

Espy said:
a snobbery that just makes me want to reach across the counter and... rly:

"I'm really sorry you're so unhappy with our service. Perhaps -competitor- can help you out, here's their name and number. Thank you for your patronage, and if we ever change our policy we'll let you know."

I always give away my worst customers.

:twisted:

-Adam

-- Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:12 pm --

Also, today deserves a good "KAAAAAAAAHN!!!!" yell:

-Adam

Jun 8, 2009#55

Espy

stienman said:
Espy said:

a snobbery that just makes me want to reach across the counter and... rly:

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"I'm really sorry you're so unhappy with our service. Perhaps -competitor- can help you out, here's their name and number. Thank you for your patronage, and if we ever change our policy we'll let you know."

I always give away my worst customers.

-Adam

Unfortunately (I guess?) we have closed down almost all of our competitors. It's hilarious though when they say, "So and so place does it!" I just, and I know it's not "right", but I just say, "Maybe you should go there then".
It's nice not to be corporate.

Jun 8, 2009#56

North_Ranger

Great. Timo Soini got into the European Parliament... That's like picking a soccer player who likes to kick his teammates in the balls.

Jun 8, 2009#57

ThatGrinningIdiot!

Espy said:
stienman said:

Espy said:

a snobbery that just makes me want to reach across the counter and... rly:

Click to expand...

"I'm really sorry you're so unhappy with our service. Perhaps -competitor- can help you out, here's their name and number. Thank you for your patronage, and if we ever change our policy we'll let you know."

I always give away my worst customers.

-Adam

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Unfortunately (I guess?) we have closed down almost all of our competitors. It's hilarious though when they say, "So and so place does it!" I just, and I know it's not "right", but I just say, "Maybe you should go there then".
It's nice not to be corporate.

That's the same argument kids used on me whenever I wouldn't allow them to purchase smokes, energy drinks, or gasoline.

"My dad lets me buy this ALL the time!"

Me: "That may be true, but I'm not your father." *rasping noise*

Jun 8, 2009#58

Espy

You should try smacking them with your cane.

Jun 8, 2009#59

strawman

North_Ranger said:
Great. Timo Soini got into the European Parliament... That's like picking a soccer player who likes to kick his teammates in the balls.

Well yeah. The team always loses, but no one misses watching a game!

-Adam

Jun 8, 2009#60

ThatGrinningIdiot!

Espy said:
You should try smacking them with your cane.

Which one? :whistle voice:

Hmmmmmm . . . .

Jun 8, 2009#61

Espy

Yee-ikes.

Jun 8, 2009#62

BlackCrossCrusader said:
Which one? :whistle voice:

You have canes too? I have two, we could do a dual lightsaber duel.

(ITP: Homophones!)

Jun 8, 2009#63

ThatGrinningIdiot!

ZenMonkey said:
BlackCrossCrusader said:

Which one? :whistle voice:

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You have canes too? I have two, we could do a dual lightsaber duel.

(ITP: Homophones!)

Actually ZM, it's a sword-cane. Shee-sha!

If you're referring to my other 'cane', then you win by default, there's no way I'm using that in a lightsaber duel. :blargh:

Jun 8, 2009#64

BlackCrossCrusader said:
Actually ZM, it's a sword-cane. Shee-sha!

Damnit, those are illegal in CA.

I do have a couple-three epees though (as opposed to "epeens," please note).

*searches for that picture of me at a competition poking my friend in the butt with my sword*

Jun 8, 2009#65

ThatGrinningIdiot!

ZenMonkey said:
BlackCrossCrusader said:

Actually ZM, it's a sword-cane. Shee-sha!

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Damnit, those are illegal in CA.

I do have a couple-three epees though (as opposed to "epeens," please note).

*searches for that picture of me at a competition poking my friend in the butt with my sword*

Only epee's? How shameful. You'd be better off with a manly sword, like a zweihander or claymore!

~ Live by the sword, live a good loooong time! ~

Jun 8, 2009#66

BlackCrossCrusader said:
Only epee's? How shameful. You'd be better off with a manly sword, like a zweihander or claymore!

Sorry, only Olympic-style fencing here, none of that fruity SCA crap.

(a :slywink: appears necessary today)

Jun 8, 2009#67

ThatGrinningIdiot!

ZenMonkey said:
BlackCrossCrusader said:

Only epee's? How shameful. You'd be better off with a manly sword, like a zweihander or claymore!

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Sorry, only Olympic-style fencing here, none of that fruity SCA crap.

(a :slywink: appears necessary today)

Oh? A dancing around ever so gracefully in a tight fitting white suit isn't considered fruity? :angry:

Madam, I challenge thee!

*throws down glove*

Jun 8, 2009#68

BlackCrossCrusader said:
Madam, I challenge thee!

*throws down glove*

You're, uh, gonna want that on your hand when you fence, Mal.

*thinks way back to all the hotties in her fencing club...and stories she won't upset Mr. ZM by telling in public... :oops:

*

EDIT: Oh, and do ya think Jerry O'Connell is fruity? I practiced fencing with him in college.

EDIT EDIT: To stay on topic, I am really pissed that I can't fence anymore. I was just going through 20 hours of Olympic footage to find the two hours of fencing therein and I really miss it. I got to compete, and teach kids, and my coaches were going to send me to Olympic coaching school. I still have all my equipment but it's been years now since I've even bothered maintaining it.

So that was more of a whine than a rant, sorry, but all this banter makes me want to pick up an epee the way listening to swing music makes me want to go out and dance again.

Jun 8, 2009#69

strawman

Please don't turn this into "2 geeks 1 glove" ...

-Adam

Jun 8, 2009#70

DarkAudit

nbcolympics.com still has coverage by sport from Beijing. just a couple clicks and you've got fencing.

On a wild hunch I decided to move the rabbit ears from the basement next to the TV to the attic, on the teory that with less house in the way I might improve my OTA reception. An hour of sweat and futzing around later, I got about 10 points more on the one channel I was getting, but not a damn thing on anything else.

Jun 8, 2009#71

DarkAudit said:
nbcolympics.com still has coverage by sport from Beijing. just a couple clicks and you've got fencing.

Oh nice! Thanks for the info. No women's epee, looks like, but men's epee is almost as good.

(SOMETIMES AN EPEE IS JUST AN EPEE.) :tongue:

Jun 8, 2009#72

HCGLNS

Rant: "Coin operated air at the service station! Since when? What ever happened to knowledgeable staff filling it up, checking the oil, tires and offering fluid top ups?"

Jun 8, 2009#73

Troll

Missed an important deadline in one of my classes. This will probably completely fuck my grade, since my professor doesn't allow make up work. I'm just hoping it won't destroy my GPA, which would then jeopardize my status in the program. FUCK! :explode:

Jun 8, 2009#74

AshburnerX

HCGLNS said:
Rant: "Coin operated air at the service station! Since when? What ever happened to knowledgeable staff filling it up, checking the oil, tires and offering fluid top ups?"

People complained about needing to tip those people and it was simply cheaper to make it self service than provide quality service.

Jun 8, 2009#75

Scarlet Varlet

Three bad things today. Bad things can come in threes, too. Someone alert the Masons.

Jun 9, 2009#76

strawman

Been at work for 17 hours and counting.

blerg.

-Adam

Jun 9, 2009#77

Troll

stienman said:
Been at work for 17 hours and counting.

blerg.

-Adam

That's insane! Please tell me you get paid overtime at the very least.

Jun 9, 2009#78

CynicismKills

Bought an album from iTunes and it was a Clean version. It didn't say that (usually it does) and it was the only version available.

I hate censored songs. It breaks the flow of the music when words are randomly missing.

Jun 9, 2009#79

CynicismKills said:
Bought an album from iTunes and it was a Clean version. It didn't say that (usually it does) and it was the only version available.

I hate censored songs. It breaks the flow of the music when words are randomly missing.

Ugh, I agree, I'd definitely ask for a refund, if the iTunes store does refunds.

Jun 9, 2009#80

Gared

stienman said:
Been at work for 17 hours and counting.

blerg.

-Adam

That's insane stienman, I hope you get a break when that project is done.

Jun 9, 2009#81

CynicismKills

ZenMonkey said:
CynicismKills said:

Bought an album from iTunes and it was a Clean version. It didn't say that (usually it does) and it was the only version available.

I hate censored songs. It breaks the flow of the music when words are randomly missing.

Click to expand...

Ugh, I agree, I'd definitely ask for a refund, if the iTunes store does refunds.

Yeah, I was thinking to see if I can. Maybe torrent it since I own it, too, snag the songs that're censored.

Jun 9, 2009#82

strawman

A Troll said:
stienman said:

Been at work for 17 hours and counting.

blerg.

-Adam

Click to expand...

That's insane! Please tell me you get paid overtime at the very least.

Not time and a half, but I do get paid. Last week was 64 hours, and this week is not looking much better.

But it does mean my wife will get the shed she's been wanting for years.

Fortunately we made the release this morning, so today I just have to write some software and kick it out before I leave (hopefully early) and tonight I get to broadcast the local tech group's meeting live on ustream with my new wireless video setup, so I'm excited about that. We're having the editor and publisher of Make Magazine at this meeting, a few FIRST robots, and so forth, so I have something to look forward to.

And I got 5 hours of sleep, so I'll just need a 15 minute nap this afternoon and this evening to get caught up.

-Adam

Jun 9, 2009#83

Scarlet Varlet

Uneven signals coming in.

I need a Magic 8 Ball more than ever.

edit: Also my video card is acting up since Saturday and I can only read about half of what's on the screen. Time to take the computer apart and see if I can get this thing to behave. No money for new video cards at the moment.

edit edit: disconnected everything. used compressed air to clear out everything. inspected card edge for wear/defects, found nothing. seated video card and turn on. flickering artifacts again. slightest touch to the edge of the card and they go away. Argh! :angry:

Jun 9, 2009#84

Bubble181

God dammit. Shaving mishap. One of the tooth on my trimmer came off...So I suddenly had a huge gash from my collar bone to chin without hair. So, now I'm shaven clean again :tear: :eek:

rly:

Dammit, I prefer being beardy....And the girl I'm slowly but hopefully charming (cough) prefers beardiness too. Dammit!

Jun 9, 2009#85

Scarlet Varlet

Bubble181 said:
God dammit. Shaving mishap. One of the tooth on my trimmer came off...So I suddenly had a huge gash from my collar bone to chin without hair. So, now I'm shaven clean again :tear: rly:

Dammit, I prefer being beardy....And the girl I'm slowly but hopefully charming (cough) prefers beardiness too. Dammit!

Immediate solution

Jun 10, 2009#86

strawman

grrrrr.

I couldn't get the video streaming working last night for the tech group meeting. There's got to be an easier way.

-Adam

Jun 10, 2009#87

Scarlet Varlet

Can't get enough sleep, due to stress. Today is longest day of the week. Hooray.

Jun 10, 2009#88

AshburnerX

Email password got spoofed or something, so I spent all night changing passwords and being pissed off. This was the last thing I needed on my plate at the moment.

Jun 10, 2009#89

Wahad

I have a stomach ache from the stress. Curse you, stupid exam that was uploaded 9am this morning and had to be finished before 9pm!

Jun 10, 2009#90

CynicismKills

Bubble181 said:
God dammit. Shaving mishap. One of the tooth on my trimmer came off...So I suddenly had a huge gash from my collar bone to chin without hair. So, now I'm shaven clean again :tear: rly:

Dammit, I prefer being beardy....And the girl I'm slowly but hopefully charming (cough) prefers beardiness too. Dammit!

Collarbone to chin?

Now that's a neckbeard.

Jun 10, 2009#91

AshburnerX said:
Email password got spoofed or something, so I spent all night changing passwords and being pissed off. This was the last thing I needed on my plate at the moment.

Sorry you did that all night as I posted an announcement about this very issue.

Jun 10, 2009#92

Chronos[Ha-G]

Well, I received an almost $1,000 tax refund this year. I was planning on a trip to Britain with it - until I accidentally bottomed out my car backing out of the driveway, hitting the transmission cooling pump and knocking it into my radiator. I was lucky that it didn't actually damage the pump...somehow...but I did need a new radiator. So most, if not all, of that tax refund got spent on fixing that.

The worst part is that the day before I had spent about $100 on the passport that I no longer need. At least I didn't spring for expedited processing...

Jun 10, 2009#93

strawman

GRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR!

This post sponsered by Frustration! Try it today, and see what Frustration can do for you!

-Adam

Jun 10, 2009#94

Terrik

I spent all my money on ale and whores :explode:

Jun 10, 2009#95

Espy

I am so busy. I have a record to release but it has to be mixed and mastered. Classes start next monday. I have the class I teach to prep for. I have WORK at 6:30am. And I'm getting sick. Why. Why. Why. Why. Why. It's not a question. It's a statement.

Jun 11, 2009#96

Scarlet Varlet

Have the whole month budgeted. Now I get an Urgent email my Satellite Radio service is almost up. Wut. I paid in October 2008, how can this be? Turns out when I transfered service to a new tuner (in the new car) they only charged me 9 months (plus $15 transfer fee) to keep me on the old billing cycle of my old radio. :angry: FUME! :angry:

Jun 12, 2009#97

Allen, who is Quiet

Well, looks like it's going to be the third time.

shame on me. shame on me.

Jun 14, 2009#98

Occasional Poster

<cathartic rant>

So my flatmate's parents and their little dog visited this weekend. We've shared this apartment for two years and this is the second time they visit so naturally they don't have a clue of how things work here, but that does not stop his father from questioning our kitchen arrangements and accusing me of being a fucking mooch behind my back.

"...and how much of the groceries we buy you is going to end up in his stomach?"
Insult me while you're a guest in my home? Fuck you!
I don't need nor intend to eat what you are buying for your son. I am perfectly able to pay for my own fucking food and have never asked you for anything. Piss off.

I'm glad that my flatmate did not tell me about his father's 'concerns' until after they had left because they are good people and we do get along nicely, but his father managed to hit a nerve this time.

</cathartic rant>

Jun 14, 2009#99

Occasional Poster said:
"...and how much of the groceries we buy you is going to end up in his stomach?"

:shock:

Jesus, what a dick thing to say.

Jun 14, 2009#100

Troll

I waited too long on an assignment and missed my chance to turn it in. Most likely my grade will tank a result. This quarter has absolutely kicked my ass.

Jun 14, 2009#101

Wasabi Poptart

Had to have a few vials of blood drawn yesterday (as some of you already know). My veins are "tiny" according to most of the medical people who have tried to stick me with needles. There are almost always problems when I need to have blood tests done. So, today my right arm and both hands look like I'm some kind of junkie. :thumbsup:

Jun 14, 2009#102

WildSoul said:
So, today my right arm and both hands look like I'm some kind of junkie.

Acceptance is the first step on the road to recovery.

(Seriously though, ouch, sorry.)

Jun 14, 2009#103

Wasabi Poptart

ZenMonkey said:
WildSoul said:

So, today my right arm and both hands look like I'm some kind of junkie.

Click to expand...

Acceptance is the first step on the road to recovery.

(Seriously though, ouch, sorry.)

Like I told Bubble, since I had to quit drinking I've had to turn to other means of getting a fix. Pills weren't enough.

(Thanks. Though it does make me wish I had more light-weight long sleeve shirts.)

Jun 14, 2009#104

CynicismKills

House and pet sitting for my uncle while he's on vacation.

His cat's great, she keeps to herself and only wants attention here and there. She eats way too much so sometimes I have to ignore her meows for more food, but that's about it.

His dog drives me fucking nuts. No fence so I have to walk him, he's terribly trained and doesn't listen to me at all, he hates other dogs so I can't walk him very far, and almost always refuses for nearly 10 minutes to pee/crap in his own yard. He jams his drooly face in my field of vision all the time while I'm on the comp or watching tv, and tries to stand on my lap in order to get my attention (he is a beagle).

Why can't more dogs be like mine back home and be, you know, well-behaved?

Jun 14, 2009#105

Docseverin

Scarlet Varlet said:
Three bad things today. Bad things can come in threes, too. Someone alert the Masons.

Noted, thank you for your service to the fraternity Scarlet.

Jun 14, 2009#106

Rob King

I had a huge post ready to go, but I thought better of it. Some of the information might be sensitive, and though I'm confident I'm not giving anything away, I don't want to toe the line.

The incredibly condensed version: Friend of mine was brought up on charges. There were three charges. The allegations made were sketchy, but there would appear to be a kernel of truth. Two charges were dropped, presumably for lack of evidence, but one was pled guilty to.

Just checked the local media's webpage, and their article about the story. There are comments written in obvious ignorance, acting as if a guilty plea on one charge is an admission of all three. There are other comments that are decrying the legal system for allowing a criminal to get by with such light charges, questioning why they would drop the other two.

It doesn't occur to these people that the dropping of two MAJOR charges is an indication that they didn't happen? Is it seriously more reasonable to assume that the crown prosecutor is just lazy? Or toothless?

In the end, Francis was right. Nothing good ever comes from reading the comments.

Jun 14, 2009#107

Lally

It's a stupid thing to be pissed about, but I am. My boyfriend said he would listen to a concert with me tonight, then immediately proceeded to settle in to watch True Blood (a show which I can't stand, and seriously why do people like that show? The premise is amazing but the "acting" is unwatchable), saying he didn't want to DVR it and wanted to watch it live, and then as soon as it was over said it was too late to listen to the concert. If he never planned on doing it, why did he say he would? RAWR!

Jun 15, 2009#108

Rob King said:
In the end, Francis was right. Nothing good ever comes from reading the comments.

You are so right. Just went through that with my husband's work. It's not easy. I hope things work out okay for your friend.

Jun 15, 2009#109

@Li3n

Lally said:
The premise is amazing but the "acting" is unwatchable)

Ha... you obviously never seen real bad acting... i saw stuff that would drive you mad, MAD I SAY!

Jun 15, 2009#110

North_Ranger

@Li3n said:
Lally said:

The premise is amazing but the "acting" is unwatchable)

Click to expand...

Ha... you obviously never seen real bad acting... i saw stuff that would drive you mad, MAD I SAY!

Try Battlefield Earth... and come back to post when your eyes stop bleeding.

Jun 15, 2009#111

@Li3n

North_Ranger said:
[quote="@Li3n":2wd956s4]

Lally said:

The premise is amazing but the "acting" is unwatchable)

Click to expand...

Ha... you obviously never seen real bad acting... i saw stuff that would drive you mad, MAD I SAY!

Try Battlefield Earth... and come back to post when your eyes stop bleeding.[/quote:2wd956s4]

Nah... they have nothing on the crap they make over here...

Jun 15, 2009#112

Lally

Just because there is worse acting doesn't make this watchable. I have tried, I swear. I thought the show sounded awesome. I watched the first couple episodes. My boyfriend fell in love with it, and I really wanted to enjoy it with him, but I can't make it through a scene without rolling my eyes at least once or twice. Then, I read a review saying the show was getting better and better, and it was from someone who didn't like the first few episodes, so I decided to give it another chance and watch last night after catching myself up on all the storylines (they also played a refresher on HBO which was really helpful). Again, couldn't make it through a scene without rolling my eyes.

I guess I just have to read the books, because like I said, I think I could really get into the story, if only anyone in the cast could deliver a line without sounding over the top and fake.

Jun 15, 2009#113

Batdan

A couple of weeks ago I decided to make a bathroom shelf system for my gf. I made measurements and a drawing to make sure that it would fit correctly. I buy the lumber, mark the lines where the cuts need to made... and then she buys baskets that are just a little bigger than my plans. "No problem," I say as I refigure and remark the lumber. This weekend I finally got all the pieces cut and the shelves put together. My gf was all excited as we moved it into the bathroom last night and set it up against the wall. Then the following conversation took place.

Leah: "Wow, it looks so neat and I finally have a place to put all my makeup, clips, shampoos, ..., and even a shelf for your stuff when you stay over."
Me: "Yeah, I'm quite proud of myself right now."
Leah: "You should be. Thank you so much. *kiss* Now get out I need to use the bathroom."
*door close and clunk*
Me: "*#$%@&*$%"

The extra inch and a half I had to add for the baskets to fit made the shelves too big and the door wouldn't close. :explode:

Jun 15, 2009#114

Espy

Ouch BD... that is ANNOYING.

Jun 15, 2009#115

Okay, just a quick and very minor rant.

Having a really rough day today physically, so I decided to take a walk to the bank. (Sometimes a walk helps get the blood flowing and improves things but not today.) Lovely walk, no gypsies at the bank, etc.

Got home to find some guy in front of our house, about to light up a cigarette in front of our open windows. I asked him nicely, "Our windows are open, would you mind moving a little bit?" Before I could even get to explaining why, he yells in a Russian accent "DIS IS STREET!"

I think I've mentioned that the #1 thing I hate about Los Angeles is the entitled attitude of its denizens. I mean, really, dude, it would kill you to move like six yards further down to enjoy your poison so I don't have to?

I actually yelled back, which is extremely rare, "You know, I asked you nicely, jackass!"

At which point he moved. WHATEVER.

Jun 15, 2009#116

Espy

@Zen: The apartment building we live in has an ashtray built into the wall right next to the back door. It's right next to our windows. So anytime anyone goes outside to smoke we get it right in our windows. I hate it. I hate it so much I have considered buying some sort of smelly smoke bomb and following people back to their apartment and then setting it next to their window just to give them a taste of their own medicine.

Jun 15, 2009#117

I hear you. Mostly it's not too much of a problem; I tend to notice cigarette smell in my bathroom (which is just a few yards across from the neighbors' windows), but it's mainly late at night. Also our landlord quit smoking which is nice for us even though it wasn't too bad when he did.

That sounds asstastic, though. I would probably have vandalized that ashtray by now. (In a non-destructive way OF COURSE.)

And if I seem hypocritical for obvious reasons, I vaporize, not smoke, so there's not as strong of an aroma, plus I keep my windows open, fan on, and incense burning for maximum ventilation and odor masking.

Jun 15, 2009#118

Cajungal

I don't find that type of smoke to be as unpleasant, either. It doesn't hurt my eyes and throat the way cigarette smoke does.

Jun 15, 2009#119

CynicismKills

Ciggarette smoke never bothered me, neither did pot. Cigar smoke makes my throat hurt after awhile though, I'll likely not smoke those again.

Jun 15, 2009#120

It was more the fact that this guy was so determined that he had to smoke on THAT SPOT of the sidewalk, to the point where a nice request from the person who lived there was so offensive he had to yell about his rights.

Fucking Los Angeles.

Jun 15, 2009#121

Cajungal

That is pretty annoying... especially since a lot of people wouldn't even be nice about it. "Get your filthy smoke away from my house" or something like that. I have to shoo people away from the front entrance of the dorm where I work, because it seeps in through the window and fills up the office. They get pissed, but whatever, they're literally a foot away from the door. I don't require them to leave the shade and go the whole 25 feet... just far enough away so I don't have to smell it!

Jun 15, 2009#122

Espy

Well, I am all for peoples rights to smoke. Love it. Go for it. Smoke away. But don't smoke next to my window. I don't smoke. I don't want to smell like your cigarettes and I don't want to inhale your crap. So yeah. 20 feet or so would make all the difference.

Jun 15, 2009#123

Cajungal said:
That is pretty annoying... especially since a lot of people wouldn't even be nice about it. "Get your filthy smoke away from my house" or something like that.

Ha ha, I know, here I was all thinking "Well surely if I'm nice about it." I should have realized just yelling a name at him would get the job done.

Jun 15, 2009#124

CynicismKills

ZenMonkey said:
It was more the fact that this guy was so determined that he had to smoke on THAT SPOT of the sidewalk, to the point where a nice request from the person who lived there was so offensive he had to yell about his rights.

Fucking Los Angeles.

Yeah, that's lame of him. When I worked at a bar, the city law said you had to smoke 10+ feet away from any main entrance to a building. When we'd tell people (politely) they needed to move, they either did it with a grimace or gave us crap about it until we finally had to get mean (move or you're paying your tab an leaving). It's silly how rude people get over it.

Jun 16, 2009#125

Kitty Sinatra

Espy, if it's worth the effort you could probably get that smoking area moved. It's my guess that the laws require the building management ensure that smoke doesn't enter your apartment.

I know that here (Yeah, totally different country, but bear with me) it's the building's responsibility to make sure that smoke from other units doesn't enter mine. I could totally seeing that extending to "designated" smoking areas on the building's property.

Of course, it all depends on how much effort you're willing to put in to stop this living in what I assume is a rental apartment (I live in a condo, thus own my place)

Jun 16, 2009#126

Gusto

Hahaha, friggin' Los Angeles.

One thing I love about Canada is that our people are stereotyped as being very polite. It's not a negative stereotype at all.

There's a scene in How I Met Your Mother in which [spoiler:3et59z70]Robin, a Canadian, goes to a bar called Hosers which is for Canadians only. In order to test this, she intentionally rams into a guy who has his back turned. He turns around to face her, then apologizes and offers her a donut.[/spoiler:3et59z70]

Granted there are people EVERYWHERE who will be dicks but around my area people tend to fall over themselves to not upset other people in public.

Jun 16, 2009#127

Frankie Williamson

I am getting very sick of my job. I honestly dread going to work every day or night. I hate the paperwork, I hate the people, I hate the smell of body odour so foul that it comes close to the smell of rotting flesh coated with urine. I am sick of having to arrest the same people over and over and over night in and night out. I am sick of having to spend 3 hours on every day off sitting in a court room. Luckily for all the bad drivers and road law breakers I couldn't give a shit when it comes to tickets. I don't want the paperwork or the chance that I'll have to spend another fucking 3 hours in court if they decide to fight it. I am sick of living in this town that's only amenity is a Subway drivethrough and an A&W. I am sick of being so far away from my family and friends and I'm sick of my only friends being fellow members since this town is so hostile to police.

I should probably get a blog.

Jun 17, 2009#128

Enresshou

Gah...stupid thing to be annoyed about, since I still came out of it with a 3.78 GPA, but I was 32 points away from getting a perfect 4.0 from my hardest quarter...fuck

Jun 17, 2009#129

Espy

Frankie said:
I am getting very sick of my job. I honestly dread going to work every day or night. I hate the paperwork, I hate the people, I hate the smell of body odour so foul that it comes close to the smell of rotting flesh coated with urine. I am sick of having to arrest the same people over and over and over night in and night out. I am sick of having to spend 3 hours on every day off sitting in a court room. Luckily for all the bad drivers and road law breakers I couldn't give a poop when it comes to tickets. I don't want the paperwork or the chance that I'll have to spend another smurfing 3 hours in court if they decide to fight it. I am sick of living in this town that's only amenity is a Subway drivethrough and an A&W. I am sick of being so far away from my family and friends and I'm sick of my only friends being fellow members since this town is so hostile to police.

I should probably MOVE.

I'm just saying... :slywink:

Jun 17, 2009#130

Frankie Williamson

Easier said than done, I still have 2 years left on my posting here.

Jun 17, 2009#131

Espy

Ah. Ouch. Well then, my other suggestions is, since you appear to be an officer of the law... CORRUPTION. Time to make the money and run the town.

Jun 17, 2009#132

Mr_Chaz

Espy said:
Ah. Ouch. Well then, my other suggestions is, since you appear to be an officer of the law... CORRUPTION. Time to make the money and run the town.

A corrupt mountie?!? Nah.

Jun 17, 2009#133

AshburnerX

Mr_Chaz said:
Espy said:

Ah. Ouch. Well then, my other suggestions is, since you appear to be an officer of the law... CORRUPTION. Time to make the money and run the town.

Click to expand...

A corrupt mountie?!? Nah.

Hey... it worked in the Dudley Doright Movie!

Jun 17, 2009#134

Cajungal

This perky chick I work with is so nosey. "What are you writing down?" "What did that person on the phone want?" "Who are you calling?" Stick to your list and I'll stick to mine, and GOOD LORD STOP TALKING. Gragh her voice is like a baby bird's.

Jun 18, 2009#135

Gared

Cajungal said:
This perky chick I work with is so nosey. "What are you writing down?" "What did that person on the phone want?" "Who are you calling?" Stick to your list and I'll stick to mine, and GOOD LORD STOP TALKING. Gragh her voice is like a baby bird's.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the call center, CG. /sarcasm.

I feel for you though.

Jun 18, 2009#136

strawman

1. Ordered the iphone the 16th. Called Apple to make sure it would get in tomorrow. Order says "Delivered by 19th". This morning - shipping notification came in, and it says, "Delivery on 22nd" - call apple - they say that the shipment will arrive on the 19th, and I should ignore the shipping notification. Grrrr.

2. Boss says, "Next project dried up. You'll probably be gone in a week or three, but I don't have a date. Dust off your resume!"

3. Wife says, "Ummmmm.... might be returning iphone to sender unopened..."

:aaahhh:

I'm going to hold out for the iPhone anyway. We'll see. Technically it's already paid for, and the month-to-month service is cheaper than what we are paying for my cellphone now. Plus we've got about 3 months of savings, and a number of consulting projects I can work on, so I'm not overly concerned, but still...

-sigh-

-Adam

Jun 18, 2009#137

Batdan

Look on the bright side Steinman, you could always work for the local news doing traffic reports from your iPhone while floating over the city on your balloon. No wasted fuel firing up the news chopper.

Jun 18, 2009#138

Gared

Well crap. Fiance showed up at my office about 30 minutes ago, she's been laid off. Luckily she does get some severance pay, but not a lot.

Jun 18, 2009#139

figmentPez

ARGH! Stupid Left 4 Dead griefers! It seems I can't join a game these days without running into one. The latest trend seems to be towards a subtle approach of wasting health packs. I've shown up at a safe room to find all the health packs gone and players still in orange. Yesterday I caught a guy in the act, he was trying to heal me when everyone was green health. I meleed him so he couldn't, and he tried on another player. I kept smacking him every time he tried to waste the health pack and eventually he broke down and showed his true colors by opening fire on me. Even after that, it took him incapacitating Zoey for the other players to realize he was a griefer and vote to kick him! :explode: Valve has a system to rate servers in TF2, they need a system to rate players in L4D.

Jun 18, 2009#140

Rob King

Gusto said:
Hahaha, friggin' Los Angeles.

One thing I love about Canada is that our people are stereotyped as being very polite. It's not a negative stereotype at all.

There's a scene in How I Met Your Mother in which [spoiler:187pabwu]Robin, a Canadian, goes to a bar called Hosers which is for Canadians only. In order to test this, she intentionally rams into a guy who has his back turned. He turns around to face her, then apologizes and offers her a donut.[/spoiler:187pabwu]

My Chinese Philosophy prof, who (obviously) spends a lot of time in Asia, would repeatedly remind us that we Canadians are abnormally polite. She had a few amusing anecdotes about Chinese colleagues getting upset at her for apologizing for things that weren't her fault. There was one about a waitress at a restaurant spilling coffee all over the table, and then almost getting mad at my prof, because my prof apologized.

Jun 18, 2009#141

Gared said:
Well crap. Fiance showed up at my office about 30 minutes ago, she's been laid off. Luckily she does get some severance pay, but not a lot.

Ouch, dude. God damn are we seeing a lot of posts like this lately!

Jun 18, 2009#142

Gared

Edrondol said:
Gared said:

Well crap. Fiance showed up at my office about 30 minutes ago, she's been laid off. Luckily she does get some severance pay, but not a lot.

Click to expand...

Ouch, dude. God damn are we seeing a lot of posts like this lately!

Tis the season, I guess. Her job wasn't exactly secure. Her company had switched from a system that required a lot of man hours to enter service requests to a system where the service techs carry handhelds and do most of the work themselves; still, it would have been nice to pay a few more bills off first.

Jun 19, 2009#143

LittleSin

It appears I have lost the ability to relax.

When the baby is awake I'm constantly holding him, reading to him and talking to him. When he is crying I am feeding him, burping him, changing him and soothing him.

When he sleeps (and he has suddenly started sleeping like a log once settled) I am constantly checking onhim for fear he is hurt or has stopped breathing in his sleep.

I can't concentrate on the commissions I have to get done for a little bit (and I mean LITTLE BIT) of cash or even use this compute without having some kind of cat-like hearing on the go.

Please, God, let me relax a tad.

Jun 19, 2009#144

Wasabi Poptart

LittleSin said:
It appears I have lost the ability to relax.

When the baby is awake I'm constantly holding him, reading to him and talking to him. When he is crying I am feeding him, burping him, changing him and soothing him.

When he sleeps (and he has suddenly started sleeping like a log once settled) I am constantly checking onhim for fear he is hurt or has stopped breathing in his sleep.

I can't concentrate on the commissions I have to get done for a little bit (and I mean LITTLE BIT) of cash or even use this compute without having some kind of cat-like hearing on the go.

Please, God, let me relax a tad.

Welcome to motherhood. In 18 years you might relax again.

Jun 20, 2009#145

ThatGrinningIdiot!

LittleSin said:
It appears I have lost the ability to relax.

When the baby is awake I'm constantly holding him, reading to him and talking to him. When he is crying I am feeding him, burping him, changing him and soothing him.

When he sleeps (and he has suddenly started sleeping like a log once settled) I am constantly checking onhim for fear he is hurt or has stopped breathing in his sleep.

I can't concentrate on the commissions I have to get done for a little bit (and I mean LITTLE BIT) of cash or even use this compute without having some kind of cat-like hearing on the go.

Please, God, let me relax a tad.

Heheheheh. The last woman I dated had a little boy, when I asked her what being a mom is like. She said it was like having a switch turned on that you could never really turn off. She always used that against me in a argument. :eek:

rly:

Jun 23, 2009#146

After finally swallowing my pride and taking the difficult step of applying for state disability, I get denied, and find out that it's because our state community colleges (where I have worked for years) don't pay into it.

Talk about adding insult to injury.

:explode:

:waah:

...fuck.

Jun 23, 2009#147

DarkAudit

And that's where you should pick up the phone and ring up KABC, KNBC, KCBS, KCAL, and any other media outlet that will listen and get their consumer watchdog unit on their ass.

Just another PR disaster for the Governator. :Leyla:

Jun 23, 2009#148

I'm sure there's a good reason for it, like maybe the union (which I didn't work enough hours to make financial sense to join) provides its own insurance or something.

*sigh*

Now it's the two to four year (at least) process of applying for SSDI. Which at least I know for sure I am eligible for. :eyeroll:

Jun 23, 2009#149

HCGLNS

Rant: My social coordinator has started reading Twilight.

Jun 23, 2009#150

Cajungal

ooch.

K here is mine:

OH MY GOD. SEVENTEEN TO TWENTY ONE! THAT'S THE GENERAL AGE GROUP OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE!

And yet they have their mommies call and ask allllllll the questions--not just financial stuff, stuff the parent might be handling anyway, but how to get a roommate, where they can eat, simple things like that... and what makes it worse is that I hear the kid narrating to their parent what they want to be said.

GROW THE FUCK UP and call us yourself! You're going to be living here! You can't bring mommy! JESUS!

Half the time I can't explain something to the parent because they don't know what's going on as well as the student does--they're not the ones who go online to make room assignments. Well, some kids DO have their parents make all their room assignments. ARGH! Childish childish childish. DO SHIT YOURSELF!

Jun 23, 2009#151

AshburnerX

Went to my Brother's Wedding on Saturday, at my Brother's repeated request, despite every impulse in my body telling me not too. This wasn't simply my anxiety acting up, this was also my depression reminding me that going to a wedding is just going to remind me of all the things I don't have (loving family, lots of friends, some who wants to be with me) and don't know how to get. So of course, the entire time I was there I felt like going into a corner somewhere and hiding out the entire time, just avoiding everyone... but because it was his wedding, I made an attempt to socialize and managed to hold on long enough to catch up with most of the relatives, before leaving an hour or two into the reception.

During the event, my brother would routinely walk around the floor, catching up with everyone, which brought him within conversation distance with me several times (He actually stood next to me at several points.) No words passed between us and it kinda seemed like he was avoiding me. I figured "Fine, whatever" and simply figured that he was too busy to get a chance. Later, after the reception, I was talking to my mother and she tells me that my brother was upset that I didn't talk to him the entire time of the wedding. WTF, man? You had the entire time before the ceremony and during the reception to come talk to me if you needed to... you had every fucking opportunity to talk to me. You don't get to give me shit when you were the one who avoided talking to me.

He also complained that I didn't get him a gift. Newsflash dumbass: The fact that I showed up and acted like a fucking human being for once in my life WAS my gift to you. It's more than you ever fucking gave me while we were growing up.

Jun 23, 2009#152

AshburnerX said:
Went to my Brother's Wedding on Saturday, at my Brother's repeated request, despite every impulse in my body telling me not too. This wasn't simply my anxiety acting up, this was also my depression reminding me that going to a wedding is just going to remind me of all the things I don't have (loving family, lots of friends, some who wants to be with me) and don't know how to get. So of course, the entire time I was there I felt like going into a corner somewhere and hiding out the entire time, just avoiding everyone... but because it was his wedding, I made an attempt to socialize and managed to hold on long enough to catch up with most of the relatives, before leaving an hour or two into the reception.

During the event, my brother would routinely walk around the floor, catching up with everyone, which brought him within conversation distance with me several times (He actually stood next to me at several points.) No words passed between us and it kinda seemed like he was avoiding me. I figured "Fine, whatever" and simply figured that he was too busy to get a chance. Later, after the reception, I was talking to my mother and she tells me that my brother was upset that I didn't talk to him the entire time of the wedding. WTF, man? You had the entire time before the ceremony and during the reception to come talk to me if you needed to... you had every fucking opportunity to talk to me. You don't get to give me shit when you were the one who avoided talking to me.

He also complained that I didn't get him a gift. Newsflash dumbass: The fact that I showed up and acted like a fucking human being for once in my life WAS my gift to you. It's more than you ever fucking gave me while we were growing up.

Your relationship with your brother reminds me of the one I have with my brother. Good times, good times.

Jun 24, 2009#153

Gared

It is beyond mind numbingly boring at work right now. I could honestly get away with downloading and installing WoW (but really shouldn't, so I won't). Thank god my job doesn't depend on volume, but damn... it's slow.

Jun 26, 2009#154

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

*breath*

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

*breath*

rrrrr.

Jun 27, 2009#155

CynicismKills

It's kind of stupid, but I'm in the mood for some Don Bluth movies, and none of them are instant watch on NetFlix. I was planning to watch Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven, and of course An American Tail, but no such luck.

Jun 27, 2009#156

Far

Being in the mood for Bluth is never stupid.

Jun 27, 2009#157

CynicismKills

Far said:
Being in the mood for Bluth is never stupid.

yeah, phrased poorly because it's 5 am, meant that more as "not sure this is rant thread worthy."

But yeah, sadly I only owned his movies on VHS, and I've no idea where those are now (buried in boxes back in CA, I guess).

Jun 27, 2009#158

Far

Same and mine aren't with me either, had to leave them home when I moved out west.

Jun 27, 2009#159

CynicismKills said:
yeah, phrased poorly because it's 5 am, meant that more as "not sure this is rant thread worthy."

This thread should more accurately be called "Rants, whines, and minor bitching." There is no rant too small for this thread!

(Seriously, did you see my very eloquent post just above yours?)

I like this thread as a place to just vent about WHATEVER and move on. I certainly have never once read a post and thought "that doesn't deserve to be in this thread," even when it's, say, a post about being on hold too long directly after a post about someone getting divorced. (That's hypothetical; I'm not referring to anyone in specific here.)

Jun 27, 2009#160

Lally

ZenMonkey said:
(Seriously, did you see my very eloquent post just above yours?)

I think that was my favorite rant ever. I have felt exactly that way so many times... it's just like "SO PISSED. NO WORDS CAN DESCRIBE. RRRRRRRRRRRR."

Jun 27, 2009#161

And then a while later I wasn't pissed anymore and there wasn't even any need to have written out the minutiae of what happened.

Jun 27, 2009#162

Enresshou

I hate preparing for grad school...have to go take my GREs today, and I hate standardized tests. Missing out on gong to SF for awesome ramen because of it (although I do get to play Punch-Out later). Slightly stressed because the average math score for programs I want to get into is 750-770/800, and the range of my practice test scores was from 690 to 770, with 720 or so being most common.

Hate standardized tests. Pain in the ass. Hate stupid hoops you have to jump through for bullshit like that. And still have seven more months before I even have a shot at finding out if I was admitted to a school.

Fuck.

Jun 27, 2009#163

Denbrought

I hate you impulsive self. HAET. I liked my long hair T_T

Jun 27, 2009#164

Rob King

My brother graduated this past week. I'm not sure how things do things everywhere else in the world, but the whole deal happens in one three day period for us.

Wednesday morning: exams finish
Wednesday evening: Cap and Gown ceremony
Tuesday evening: Prom
Tuesday night-Friday morning: Safe-grad
Friday morning: Report cards
Rest of weekend: Various independant celebrations

Anyhow. I came to my hometown for my brother's graduation, to show support, see the family, take a break and all that. My mother had me meet all of her new friends, some of which are my age. Two of them were pretty awesome, and to my delight, I had found that they were fairly closely associated to my older friends. And it's been really nice catching up with old friends, and meeting with new people all at once.

But one of the guys I've met this weekend is just too frustrating to let pass without comment. I guess the only way I can put it is that he's a 'guy.' I've realized over the past few nights of parties and other social goings-on, that I am completely invisible to him. The reason for my invisibility is quite obvious: I have a penis. His social focus is irritatingly narrow. Over the past few days, he's met two new people: me, and one of my old friends who is female. Despite the fact that the girl is taken and absolutely not on the market, not his type, and everything else, 98% of his conversation, jokes, and activities have all been focused around her.

I wouldn't mind that so much. Being that small is it's own punishment. Except for the fact that he's essentially the crux of anything he goes to. He's fairly charismatic, and in such a way that the conversation mostly revolves around him. His jokes and comments are heard, laughed at, and commented on. Anybody else's are ignored.

Urgh. I guess this is just a manbaww "nobody is paying attention to me" post, but I was excited to come home, and instead of being welcomed home I get to watch this guy do his mating dance for three days.

Full Disclosure: I'm pretty sure this guy isn't being intentional in this, and it's probably just his comfort zone. And I know he's a decent guy. I know he does a lot of stuff in the community, and genuinely has a great heart. But it doesn't make watching his mating dance any more bearable. It actually makes it all that much more unfortunate.

Jun 28, 2009#165

Allen, who is Quiet

three weekends in a row, I've wanted to get some people to go out for some ramen.

three weekends in a row, plans fall through.

I'm so slightly disappointed.

Jun 28, 2009#166

Troll

I make plans with a friend to go out. He cancels at the absolute last minute. I make new plans with the same friend. He cancels at the last minute... again. I say screw it, and make plans with other friends to hang out. Suddenly my first friend is pissed because I didn't invite him to come along. Dumbass.

Jun 28, 2009#167

DarkAudit

[strike:1oyjctwp]Another night down the drain and once again I find myself asking: Why am I bothering if all I accomplish is embarrassing myself again?[/strike:1oyjctwp]

Because sometimes you need a balance before the good Karma can kick in again. PatrThom is my favorite poster ever tonight. :uhhuh:

Jun 28, 2009#168

Bubble181

DarkAudit said:
PatrThom is my favorite poster ever tonight. :uhhuh:

Dude, Patrick is right up there with Jake as being one of my absolute favourite posters whose posts I'll go out of my way for to read. :thumbsup:

Slight rant: I worked 3 12-hour night shifts this week - tuesday through thursday - after working three twelve hour day shifts right before (saturday-monday). I just forced myslef back into a day schedule to make the most of my 3 days off (friday-sunday) when they call me that a colleague has fallen sick and I have to come work a 12h night shift saturday night. And now I can come work monday-wednesday three 12h day shifts. To those not given to math, it may not seem that vbad, but all in all, it means a) by the end I'll have gone 12 days and 10 twelve hour shifts without ever having more than 245 hours in between and b) wil have changed day/night or night/day 4 times in that period.
My social life is suffering from all the crappy shifts anyway, but at this rate, my health is going down too. Dammit.

Even lesser rant: I usually manage to sort-of make it to most interesting events in campus life due to having a job with 12h shifts, which, after all, means I *usually* don't work all that much. Due to that guy falling sick, though, I'll now miss literally every after-exams, pre-vacation party, get-together, dinner, barbecue, and what have you there is. Meaning I won't be seeing many of my friends again for a couple of months without a last time out together, which sort of seriously sucks.

Third bit: The apartment next door, my brother rents to a friend of his (and mine) for €400 a month + charges right now, which is way below market price. He's moving out to live with his girlfriend, though, so my brother had to look for replacements. One option was to get another friend of ours (a better friend of mine, about the same for him) to move in along with a friend of his (and sort of mine too), for €600 + charges. However, my brother's decided to put it on the short-term furnished rental market because he thinks he'll make more money from it...Mind, the price there can go up to about €750 + charges, so it is more, but a) it'll be vacant quite often; b) he can't keep his official address there; c) he'll have to pay for the furniture, which, certainly in such short-term arrangements, tends to wear out very quickly; and d) I don't get neighbours I liked and/or could get to know better, I get an endless string of people who won't feel obliged to be at all neighbourly, since they're not staying anyway (I have experience with this sort of stuff, unfortunately. Lots of 2 or 3 month loaners in Brussels on European bussiness, and most really do manage to break down an apartment in weeks and behave like absolute dipshits to everybody around them). Gah.

Fourth: Some women, oy. But I won't manbawww this time :-P

Jun 28, 2009#169

DarkAudit

Sure, it's just "the internet" this time, but once again I've managed to turn myself into a punching bag and/or a bad joke. I've managed to find another venue where the mere mention of my name elicits groans. And I did it all to myself...

Jun 29, 2009#170

Bumble the Boy Wonder

Anxiety has started to run amok...
I can't seem to relax like I used to, and everything seems to stress me out.

Got a test tomorrow in Geology... can't sleep...

....fuck.. :grrr:

Jun 29, 2009#171

AshburnerX

Bumble the Boy Wonder said:
Anxiety has started to run amok...
I can't seem to relax like I used to, and everything seems to stress me out.

Got a test tomorrow in Geology... can't sleep...

....fuck.. :grrr:

This is me, pretty much every day. I hope it gets better for you soon.

Jun 29, 2009#172

Gusto

I smolder with generic rage. :eek:

rly:

Jun 29, 2009#173

Fun Size

AshburnerX said:
Bumble the Boy Wonder said:

Anxiety has started to run amok...
I can't seem to relax like I used to, and everything seems to stress me out.

Got a test tomorrow in Geology... can't sleep...

....smurf.. :grrr:

Click to expand...

This is me, pretty much every day. I hope it gets better for you soon.

This. A hundred times this. I used to be the role model for relaxation. Now I'm constantly stressed and angry and I can't figure out what's really bothering me or how to fix it.

This morning a guy pulls out in front of me. Not enough to cut me off, just enough so I had to hit my brakes a bit. I realized, as I vehemently wished for him to slowly die, alone and in pain, that maybe I need to take a step back and rethink some things about my life. :eek:

aranoid:

Jun 29, 2009#174

Mr_Chaz

I'm away for 8 days and I miss a podcast, and everyone changing their avatars. Bubble's not even an owl any more. Oh God, what's happened to you all ?!?

It's okay, I'll work it out.

You bastards.

Jun 29, 2009#175

Denbrought

If there is a law in place that prevents minors from working during night shift that's all nifty and swell. DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO TELL ME THE SAME DAY I'M SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ASSHOLES!?

Well there goes my fucking job. :explode:

Jun 29, 2009#176

Denbrought said:
If there is a law in place that prevents minors from working during night shift that's all nifty and swell. DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO TELL ME THE SAME DAY I'M SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ASSHOLES!?

Well there goes my fucking job. :explode:

Wouldn't they have known this when they hired you? Sounds like a bullshit excuse to me.

Jun 29, 2009#177

Denbrought

Edrondol said:
Denbrought said:

If there is a law in place that prevents minors from working during night shift that's all nifty and swell. DO YOU HAVE TO WAIT TO TELL ME THE SAME DAY I'M SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ASSHOLES!?

Well there goes my fucking job. :explode:

Click to expand...

Wouldn't they have known this when they hired you? Sounds like a bullshit excuse to me.

They gave me the job almost two weeks ago, but it seems that the damn woman didn't get around passing my data to human resources to formalize the contract (which I'd be signing... NOW) till today. Mere hours later, they call.

It may be a shitty excuse (definitively going to look up the laws on this if I find them) but I'm screwed either way.

Jun 29, 2009#178

Bubble181

Mr_Chaz said:
Bubble's not even an owl any more.

Oh, I am, deep deep down. You may not see it, but...Bubbles is an owl.

Onwards: screw my work. GRAGH. Since there isn't any other alternative, most likely, I'll be doping 6 twelve hour shifts alone this week. We're supposed to be with two, adn we're supposed to only work 3 shifts a week. That means I'm literally doing 4x what I'm supposed to do. That coming off a week where I'ved one 5 night shifts...and, since I'm alone in the day time right now, and can't quite cope, I have to stay later to finish up all the stuff I've started - today was a 13 and 1/2 hour day, and I don't forsee the next days being shorter.

All this during the days that I was supposed to be on easy street and going out with friends. :explode:

Oh, and of course the manager still laughs and jokes about how calm it is in the day...Those to hours a day he's around :explode:

Jun 29, 2009#179

Jake

Bubble181 said:
Dude, Patrick is right up there with Jake as being one of my absolute favourite posters whose posts I'll go out of my way for to read.

I'm huge in Belgium.

Jun 29, 2009#180

Fun Size

Jake said:
Bubble181 said:

Dude, Patrick is right up there with Jake as being one of my absolute favourite posters whose posts I'll go out of my way for to read.

Click to expand...

I'm huge in Belgium.

Unfortunately for Mrs. Jake, he ain't in Belgium.

Jun 29, 2009#181

Shegokigo

Fun Size said:
Jake said:

I'm huge in Belgium.

Click to expand...

Unfortunately for Mrs. Jake, he ain't in Belgium.

Jun 29, 2009#182

strawman

Denbrought said:
I'M SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ASSHOLES!

This sig quote brought to you by your local and regional sponsors, including Denbrought, Hanes, and Astroglide.

-Adam

Jun 29, 2009#183

Denbrought

stienman said:
Denbrought said:

I'M SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ASSHOLES!

Click to expand...

This sig quote brought to you by your local and regional sponsors, including Denbrought, Hanes, and Astroglide.

-Adam

Har har... Now let me work a rim...shot.

:rimshot:

Jun 29, 2009#184

Jake

Fun Size said:
Jake said:

Bubble181 said:

Dude, Patrick is right up there with Jake as being one of my absolute favourite posters whose posts I'll go out of my way for to read.

Click to expand...

I'm huge in Belgium.

Click to expand...

Unfortunately for Mrs. Jake, he ain't in Belgium.

Oh, but I will be soon enough.

I should mention that "Belgium" is my nickname for your sweet ass.

Jun 30, 2009#185

Lally

My boy and I got about 3 hours of sleep apiece last night (meaning Sunday -> Monday), and then he worked 12 hours today. We had just gotten home from having dinner with my parents, were headed to bed, when he got an emergency call from work and had to leave. He won't be home until about 5. (it's 2:30 my time) I don't know whether to stay up, or sleep, and if I do stay up, I've exhausted my entertainment options and everyone I was talking to went to bed already. [yaaaaaaawn] I don't know what to do

Jun 30, 2009#186

Fun Size

Today's lesson: if you find you must use a laxative, it's best not to follow it with a couple of spicy black bean burgers covered in hot peppers and "blazing" barbecue sauce.

That ought to keep Jake away, for tis a foul wind that issues forth from Belgium today.

Jun 30, 2009#187

DarkAudit

Geez, people. How do you expect me to post a rant full of waahngst when you've got me :rofl:

in nearly every thread this morning?

I was in a deep funk. Now I'm not. Thanks.

Jun 30, 2009#188

Shegokigo

Fun Size said:
Today's lesson: if you find you must use a laxative, it's best not to follow it with a couple of spicy black bean burgers covered in hot peppers and "blazing" barbecue sauce.

Jun 30, 2009#189

Wasabi Poptart

Fun Size said:
Today's lesson: if you find you must use a laxative, it's best not to follow it with a couple of spicy black bean burgers covered in hot peppers and "blazing" barbecue sauce.

That ought to keep Jake away, for tis a foul wind that issues forth from Belgium today.

I hope you don't sneeze.

Jun 30, 2009#190

Shegokigo

WildSoul said:
I hope you don't sneeze.

Jun 30, 2009#191

Bubble181

Well, that sure eplain the weather down here....

Jun 30, 2009#192

Fun Size

I'm always happy when I can use my personal suffering to amuse others.

Jun 30, 2009#193

Bubble181

You mean the fact Jake isn't, currently in yuor ass, you consider a personal suffering? I'll inform him...

Jun 30, 2009#194

Fun Size

Yeah, where the Hell is Jake today, anyway?

*Nervously clenching for multiple reasons now.*

Jun 30, 2009#195

strawman

I fail at reading comprehension. The example code I got only does half of what I need it to do.

All I want is a simple ini file reader/writer in c#. Is that so much to ask?

:angry:

-Adam

Jun 30, 2009#196

Denbrought

stienman said:
I fail at reading comprehension. The example code I got only does half of what I need it to do.

All I want is a simple ini file reader/writer in c#. Is that so much to ask?

:angry:

-Adam

Do you mean a streamreader/writer kind of deal? How are you having problems with that? >_>

Jun 30, 2009#197

strawman

Denbrought said:
stienman said:

I fail at reading comprehension. The example code I got only does half of what I need it to do.

All I want is a simple ini file reader/writer in c#. Is that so much to ask?

:angry:

-Adam

Click to expand...

Do you mean a streamreader/writer kind of deal? How are you having problems with that? >_>

I'm a C# newb!

Plus the data I need to store is all generated dynamically based on another input file, so it's not like I can create a simple class and serialize it.

But if you know what I should be doing, let me know!

-Adam

Jun 30, 2009#198

Aisaku

I just signed back to this forum I had left about a year ago, because neither talking to friends online and rl, or browsing the internet aimlessly can quite tickle my brain as this forum did. So ya, hi everyone.

Jun 30, 2009#199

Aisaku said:
I just signed back to this forum I had left about a year ago, because neither talking to friends online and rl, or browsing the internet aimlessly can quite tickle my brain as this forum did. So ya, hi everyone.

But this belongs in "Epic Win." :slywink: Glad to see you back!

Jun 30, 2009#200

Denbrought

stienman said:
Denbrought said:

stienman said:

I fail at reading comprehension. The example code I got only does half of what I need it to do.

All I want is a simple ini file reader/writer in c#. Is that so much to ask?

:angry:

-Adam

Click to expand...

Do you mean a streamreader/writer kind of deal? How are you having problems with that? >_>

Click to expand...

I'm a C# newb!

Plus the data I need to store is all generated dynamically based on another input file, so it's not like I can create a simple class and serialize it.

But if you know what I should be doing, let me know!

-Adam

I've taken a few classes on c# so I'm an intermediate person... If you seriously know less than me (that'd be a first >_>) we can talk over pm or something but you could create a parsing class using Streamreader and Streamwriter as basis, dunno if that'd work (without looking at concrete facts).

Jun 30, 2009#201

North_Ranger

Goddammit I hate this heat wave. Can't sleep, can't work, sweaty and head-achey all the time...

Gimme a frickin' thunderstorm, now!

Jun 30, 2009#202

AshburnerX

I came down with a case of Bronchitis about 2 weeks ago... and I've been off my anti-biotics for a week already. WHY AREN'T I GETTING BETTER!? I'm still coughing up stuff everyday (actually vomited up flem the other day) and it's getting to the point where coughing is giving me head pains. I think I need to go back to the doctor again...

Jun 30, 2009#203

Rob King

Denbrought said:
stienman said:

Denbrought said:

I'M SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ASSHOLES!

Click to expand...

This sig quote brought to you by your local and regional sponsors, including Denbrought, Hanes, and Astroglide.

-Adam

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Har har... Now let me work a rim...shot.

Wow. A rim shot that deserves a rim shot.

Jun 30, 2009#204

Allen, who is Quiet

Aisaku said:
I just signed back to this forum I had left about a year ago, because neither talking to friends online and rl, or browsing the internet aimlessly can quite tickle my brain as this forum did. So ya, hi everyone.

welcome back.

how have you been?

Jun 30, 2009#205

Scarlet Varlet

Receive pay and by noon most of it is already spent.

At least I'll be seeing my old mates and family again for a week this Summer. Now to find some new ear-buds as my last pair are in bits nonfunctional ever again. Rumour has it there are some fair ones at Target for $10. Massively long flights are where the iPod really shines.

Jul 1, 2009#206

DarkAudit

Dammit! I had plans. Plans that required both a tight schedule and a stop at the ATM on the way.

The ATM was attached to a mini-branch of the bank. A mini-branch that had been robbed not long before I arrived to find a Sheriff's SUV and a couple other LEA cars blocking the way in, along with a healthy length of crime scene tape. So much for plans... and Japanese for lunch.

Jul 1, 2009#207

Shegokigo

I fucking hate kids, and people who bring their kids to do important paperwork.

Just thought I'd rant.

Jul 1, 2009#208

Silver Jelly

So, all right, this is the thing. I'm going to study something I like to study, vacation is expecting me to free me from my reeeeeeeeeeeeally stressful life as a "freelance writer" and, well, I have a nice party to expect at the end of this week, as I had last week. I even finished the rough copy of the 20 pages of script I started writing. In english! And I had never written any scripts before!
So, why am I feeling so miserable?

·Because I'm fat. None of my summer clothes from last year seem to fit, and I'm back at the 100-101 kilos ratio instead of my usual 97. Just 3 Kg make a HUGE difference. But I had a week, A SIMPLE WEEK of eating without controlling my intake (before an important exam) and BAM. Since then, i've been unable to go back to this previous, still overweight, 97 kg.
My fans will remember that I started going to the gym:

·My "bad" leg hurts. I have a leg that has been operated twice to extract a tumor. Cronic pain, yea, but I get used to it. And the, I start going to the gym, losing weight, feeling fitter. A car door closes on my bad leg, on the exact place. I've been limping for the last 3 months, and doctors make me have 3 doses a day of watever you call "antiinflamatorios" in english and, of course, no gym. I hated goin to the gym, but i hate more not being able to decide if I go or I don't. I'm not the only one thta has healt problems at home though:

·My father has back trouble. And I have him all day at home, wich is a pain in the ass, and I keep accompaining him to hospital trips, to see doctors and listen to them, because he is unable to even grasp a word of what they are saying. Oh, did I mention I'm phobic to hospitals because of my childhood leg-jobs? But, well, at least i have the internet at home (when my father is not occupying my PC for HOURS to write 2 or 3 e-mails) and my friends to relax:

·My "traditional" childhood friends have been busy, and I semi-argued with one (even if we kind of settled things up after that). And what about my "new" friends, the friends I made at the University? I'm losing them, because I suck at social relations. When they see me day after day, they think "hey, this guy is great!". Well, I don't know how to keep contact. I don't ever call anyone, not just those friends. They don't feel the internet is a "good" way of communicaton, it's just a complement for other, "main", kinds. I have never gone out to have a coffee with somebody. I don't improvise plans. I can't drive, and feel disoriented in my own hometown. I was even awarded with the "Mr. Nice" and "Great friend" awards when we graduated. I was VOTED that.
And the worst part is, I don't know why, but I keep AVOIDING them when I have the chance to meet them. And sometimes, I even avoid them on the internet:

·Specially my female friends. Because, when I'm there and you see me every day, my creepy pervert comments are buried in between of lots of other talk and don't stand up, It's just my sense of humor. But on the internet, every word has much more weight. It's written down, it doesn't fade.
Oh, and of course, I'm still in love with the girl I liked and rejected me. I see her every day more ugly and hateful, but it still hurts to see her on Facebook or Msn.

Rant rant rant, put in there the typical stuff about not having a girlfriend, being socially inept, not knowing what to do with my life etc. etc.

Jul 1, 2009#209

Denbrought

Regarding the weight stuff, you could try exercises that don't involve legwork, there's a great deal of those.

The friends thing I understand exactly. I've been doing the same thing ever since I got back to spain, I've seldom met with them a few times over the last month 'n a half and I really don't know why, as I had turned out pretty social these last two years. Can't really think of a way to help there.

Hey, if you're bored enough and want to hang out around Barcelona, I probably have nothing better to do

Jul 1, 2009#210

Silver Jelly

Denbrought said:
Regarding the weight stuff, you could try exercises that don't involve legwork, there's a great deal of those.

The friends thing I understand exactly. I've been doing the same thing ever since I got back to spain, I've seldom met with them a few times over the last month 'n a half and I really don't know why, as I had turned out pretty social these last two years. Can't really think of a way to help there.

Hey, if you're bored enough and want to hang out around Barcelona, I probably have nothing better to do

Yeah, i could go and do not legwork stuff... I had been pushing the moment to go back to the gym because my leg feeling well was "inminent" every time I went to see the doctor.
FOR MONTHS, MAN. :angry:
And now... I feel I'd like to go, but I think "you'll do it for two weeks (I have a sciptwriting course starting next week for two weeks, so it leaves me two other weeks to go to the gym) and then, AUGUST! Paying your preppy gym all these months has been stupid enough. Go in there and get your doctor to sign you a piece of paper that says you can't work out so that you don't have to pay inscroption fees when you come back, and stop paying NOW!". This simply leads to me just not going but not wnating to "unsubscribe" either.

I'm not happy, but at least relieved, to see that I'm not the only one that has troubles with some friends... Of course, my problems have roots in my deep "Sheldon Cooper-i-tude", but I had become quite a party-goer! And now...

And about hanging out, well, I know where to find you*, so we might do something some day. Vacations are made just for this! That is, if you don't mind hanging out with an old man like me Xp.

*THE MIGHTY INTERNET!

Jul 1, 2009#211

AshburnerX

Silver Jelly said:
·Because I'm fat. None of my summer clothes from last year seem to fit, and I'm back at the 100-101 kilos ratio instead of my usual 97. Just 3 Kg make a HUGE difference. But I had a week, A SIMPLE WEEK of eating without controlling my intake (before an important exam) and BAM. Since then, i've been unable to go back to this previous, still overweight, 97 kg.
My fans will remember that I started going to the gym:

Start eating Vegan 3-4 times a week. Eat less processed food. Buy diet or zero calorie sodas, or even better, drink lots of water. Drinking a lot of water will help curb your appetite.

Silver Jelly said:
And the worst part is, I don't know why, but I keep AVOIDING them when I have the chance to meet them. And sometimes, I even avoid them on the internet:

You might be developing Anxiety issues like I had. Does it feel like you shouldn't even bother, because you think something is wrong with you? Perhaps you feel like you don't have anything to offer them, so your trying to cut them away? Do you have trouble just being out in public, in general? Are you finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning, wondering what that point of it all is? These are all symptoms of Generalized Anxiety.

My advice is to try and force yourself out there and to socialize while it's still mild... it might stop it from getting worse. Otherwise you might end up on anti-depressants like I was for 8-9 years.

Silver Jelly said:
Oh, and of course, I'm still in love with the girl I liked and rejected me. I see her every day more ugly and hateful, but it still hurts to see her on Facebook or Msn.

If you can figure out a way to deal with this, let me know. I still... hurt whenever I see my friend's posts about her life or how great everything is with the guy she is with.

Jul 1, 2009#212

Silver Jelly

AshburnerX said:
Silver Jelly said:

·Because I'm fat. None of my summer clothes from last year seem to fit, and I'm back at the 100-101 kilos ratio instead of my usual 97. Just 3 Kg make a HUGE difference. But I had a week, A SIMPLE WEEK of eating without controlling my intake (before an important exam) and BAM. Since then, i've been unable to go back to this previous, still overweight, 97 kg.
My fans will remember that I started going to the gym:

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Start eating Vegan 3-4 times a week. Eat less processed food. Buy diet or zero calorie sodas, or even better, drink lots of water. Drinking a lot of water will help curb your appetite.

[quote="Silver Jelly":18ibff54]And the worst part is, I don't know why, but I keep AVOIDING them when I have the chance to meet them. And sometimes, I even avoid them on the internet:

Silver Jelly said:
Oh, and of course, I'm still in love with the girl I liked and rejected me. I see her every day more ugly and hateful, but it still hurts to see her on Facebook or Msn.

If you can figure out a way to deal with this, let me know. I still... hurt whenever I see my friend's posts about her life or how great everything is with the guy she is with.[/quote:18ibff54]

I drink zero calorie sodas... I drik them too much even, because I'm mildly dependant on their caffeine, but at least they fill me up a lot. I might have to try and eat vegan some time (i have actualli considered doing it, and for somebody that loves meat as much as I do, this is an extreme thought!) but I have to say that I generally try to control a lot my calorie intake. It makes it even more frustrating.

And I don't think i have "general" anxiety, but i sure as hell have what I may call "Social anxiety". i don't know if this term already refers to something, but I know that social relations, even with people I feel good with, are really difficult for me. They "work", people always tell me "what do you mean you have trouble? You do perfectly fine!", but it needs a lot of work for me.

Jul 1, 2009#213

Denbrought

Instead of a gym membership, buy basic equipment that can fit under your bed ^_^ A few cheap weights, some strappable sandweights, an exercise mat or board, ... Cheap and small stuff that really pans out into a lot of exercises. My brother bought all of the things above a few years ago and everyone in the house gives them use, it really pays out if you keep using them.

I don't mind hanging out with an oldie, as long as you don't die on me

And yeah, the blanket term social anxiety exists, at least when it comes to self-describing. A lot of stuff might be the cause, and a lot of other stuff might be the solution. I've had problems with that ever since elementary, as I was bullied into a state of fear of social contact, paired a pretty big inability to filter out inappropriate stuff from my talk and thinking too fast for a good conversation rhythm. What's worked best for me was to force myself into new situations, and dealing with the subsequent (but increasingly less frequent) breakdowns/attacks in private.

Jul 1, 2009#214

I only just found out I'm more than twice Denbrought's age. :bush:

Also, dammit, what happened to my :shock: smilie??

Jul 1, 2009#215

DarkAudit

ZenMonkey said:
I only just found out I'm more than twice Denbrought's age. :bush:

Also, dammit, what happened to my :shock: smilie??

Hrm... for some reason I thought you were way younger. Really. (no, I'm not sucking up)

Jul 1, 2009#216

Denbrought

DarkAudit said:
ZenMonkey said:

I only just found out I'm more than twice Denbrought's age. :bush:

Also, dammit, what happened to my :shock: smilie??

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Hrm... for some reason I thought you were way younger. Really. (no, I'm not sucking up)

In contrast, I thought Zen was three times my age (no, I'm not trying to get killed while I sleep) >_>

Jul 1, 2009#217

DarkAudit

Denbrought said:
DarkAudit said:

ZenMonkey said:

I only just found out I'm more than twice Denbrought's age. :bush:

Also, dammit, what happened to my :shock: smilie??

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Hrm... for some reason I thought you were way younger. Really. (no, I'm not sucking up)

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In contrast, I thought Zen was three times my age (no, I'm not trying to get killed while I sleep) >_>

Then quit now. Really. I mean it.

OTOH, can I have your stuff? You won't be needing it much longer.

aranoid:

Jul 1, 2009#218

Denbrought

DarkAudit said:
Denbrought said:

DarkAudit said:

ZenMonkey said:

I only just found out I'm more than twice Denbrought's age. :bush:

Also, dammit, what happened to my :shock: smilie??

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Hrm... for some reason I thought you were way younger. Really. (no, I'm not sucking up)

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In contrast, I thought Zen was three times my age (no, I'm not trying to get killed while I sleep) >_>

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Then quit now. Really. I mean it.

OTOH, can I have your stuff? You won't be needing it much longer. aranoid:

All I have I would drink before giving to you. You can have half a box of kinda stale crumpets and a pack of bovril tho.

Jul 1, 2009#219

Denbrought said:
In contrast, I thought Zen was three times my age (no, I'm not trying to get killed while I sleep) >_>

I could say something about how much is explained by finding out how young you are, but I won't.

Oh wait...

DarkAudit said:
Hrm... for some reason I thought you were way younger. Really. (no, I'm not sucking up)

Well, my age is in my profile, I don't make a secret of it.

inb4 "You should."

Jul 1, 2009#220

Cajungal

This job made me sad today.

I hear so many sob stories that I've gotten really jaded in a short amount of time. People call in crying, saying they have "no idea" how their room assignment got dropped when we can look back and check how and when they cancelled (most of these people handed in a written cancellation, so they had to know what they were doing).

This woman called in today saying she needed her son's room phone fixed as soon as possible, because she's a widow and there's no one else she can call if she has an emergency. I didn't believe her at first, and I really wish I could have. But the excuses keep piling up every day, and all too often I find out it's just someone trying to get faster service or is trying to pin blame on us when they made an error.

The problem SOUNDS like they just didn't pay for phone service, but she wouldn't listen to me. So now I'm on a painstaking hunt for the answer to this problem... mostly because I feel guilty for doubting someone who might actually be widowed.

Jul 1, 2009#221

strawman

I spent far too long switching out my second monitor for another monitor, and it still isn't right! grrrrrr....

I'm going to have buy a new cable.

-Adam

Jul 1, 2009#222

Philosopher B.

Fuck motherfucking tetanus shots. My neck and back and arm are so sore, I want to spit.

Jul 2, 2009#223

Went to take out the garbage. My right ankle buckled for no reason and I almost took a header, but managed to throw my weight backwards so took the brunt of the fall (down one front step) on my left back and shoulderblade. Luckily i was wearing a sweatshirt or I'd have a really ugly case of road rash there; as it is it just feels like a sunburn.

For a split second when I thought I had actually broken my ankle I was all "hey, why didn't anyone come help me?" Then a few seconds later when I realized I was more or less fine I thought "I am so glad no one came to help me." Felt like a maroon.

Jul 2, 2009#224

Bubble181

Y'know, sometimes I wonder, should we change the tagline to HALFORUM: where ther socially inept come to socialize"? There's at least 6 or 7 of us here with social anxiety issues

aranoid:

Not much to rant about today. Home alone, it's hot and sunny out so I've got all my shutters closed and the airco on, I have no reason to go outside, so it's a whole day of surfing the net, playing computer games, and watching moves/series...and I look forward to not having to talk with people all day. Oh, right, that feeling's not a good thing *sigh*

Jul 2, 2009#225

Rob King

Well fuck. Just fuck. Fuck fuck fuck.

After one of the better days in recent memory, where I left the house intending to attend a picnic for an hour or two, and then returned to the house 12 hours later, today is just ... fuck.

I just walked over to the house in which I was doing homecare. I don't know if I posted about it before, but the couple I work with are stone deaf, so that makes things difficult. The man has been battling prostate cancer for some time now, and he was sent home to essentially wait for death. The doctors said that there's nothing more they can do.

Well, his wife managed to gesture enough for me to understand that the man was no longer in the house, (although not with the grief I would assume accompanies death) and I wasn't needed. She wasn't being rude, just blunt, and considering the language barrier, I'm glad for it. Anyhow, after miming a conversation for ten minutes, with little success, we went downstairs to where their daughter was living. She is hearing, but with deaf parents, she understands sign too.

"Oh yeah. He had kidney failure or something." she says.

A few things ...

A) Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Like I literally have tears in my eyes. I don't have any concept of how bad kidney failure is, but I know he won't be returning to his house ever again. And that's a sad thought, because he's such a great man.

B) I can't believe I wasn't there. I've been on vacation for a little over a week, and I know there would have been nothing I could have done, but I just feel terrible. I also feel a little stupid for feeling this, because I've literally only worked in the man's home for two days. Ten hours total. But he's the kind of guy that sticks with you, and apparently they had their neighbor call in to the home care place to make sure that when I got back off vacation, that I would be sent to their home again. Apparently they liked me a lot. A lot of that probably had to do with the fact that I was having them teach me ASL.

Protip: Language barriers are truly the most effective friend-makers. If you put the effort in to learning to communicate with someone in their language, and you can laugh at yourself the many many times you screw up, you are pretty much instantly liked.

C) What the fuck kind of mickey-mouse operation is this homecare company?! The wife apologized to me through the daughter for not calling to tell me I wasn't needed anymore, but that's not her job. That's the home-care company's job. I haven't called in to my boss yet. I figured I'd come on here, type until my fingers bled, scream into a pillow a few times, and have a good cry before I pick up the phone and possibly come off as insubordinate or something. But seriously. What the fuck is this place? I've been working for them two weeks, and I've already heard enough stories to know that I won't be hiring these people for anyone that I love.

D) I was hired on specifically for this man. So unless they have someone else they can match me up with, I'm basically up shit creek without a paddle. I'll be looking for another job. But even if they have someone I can work with, I'm not going to have as sweet a deal as I did with this guy. He was ten minutes away, the most lovable human being you could imagine, and it was the perfect opportunity for me to knock one of my big 'to do's' off my list: learn sign language.

So yeah. That's long. Whatever. I just needed to type it. I'll be looking him up in the hospital for a visit in a day or two, but I'm not sure if that'll be a useless gesture, because I still only know like ... twenty signs, and most of them have to do with what chores need to be done around the house.

FUCK!!!

Jul 2, 2009#226

Silver Jelly

"Oh yeah. He had kidney failure or something."

WTF? That's his daughter speaking?

Jul 2, 2009#227

strawman

Bubble181 said:
Y'know, sometimes I wonder, should we change the tagline to HALFORUM: where ther socially inept come to socialize\"? There's at least 6 or 7 of us here with social anxiety issues aranoid:

I've been thinking of a good poll for that for... well, ever, but I can't think of a way to do it in a fun way that wouldn't be offensive, depressing, or bring out those that would make the thread offensive or depressing. Still, it's fun to think about.

"I am broken..."
"Mentally"
"Physically"
"Financially"
"Spiritually"
"???"

Or do I just go with a list of the top ten psychiatric drugs and, have people check off...

"I am taking or have taken in the last 3 years:"
"Psychostimulant - Ritalin, Adderol, etc"
"Newer Anti-depressant - Prozac, Zoloft, etc"
"Older Anti-depressant - Adapin, Edrondol, etc"
"Antipsychotic - Thorazine, Abilify, etc"
"Anti-anxiety - Atavan, Xanax, etc"
"Lithium - I'm hard core..."
"Grue - ew..."

But it would just end in a horrible, horrible thread, I'm convinced.

-Adam

reference... just in case...

Jul 2, 2009#228

Denbrought

Specially for those of us who wouldn't get anywhere near a shrink by their own volition

Jul 2, 2009#229

AshburnerX

I'd also qualify for 3 or more catagories. I've been on Adderal, Lexapro, Dexedrine, and another anti-anxiety medicine that would utterly fuck me up if I took more than 5 mg... all in the last 3 years. If you pushed it back 10 years, that list would be around 15-16 different meds.

So yeah... it would basically be a trainwreck.

Jul 2, 2009#230

strawman

First day of work in a bankrupt company. Business as usual, except for the additional security posted at the entrance to the parking lot, news helicopters overhead, and a continuous stream of emails from upper management assuring us of our continued success through this "Minor debt restructuring phase"

Then my wife calls and asks me to find out why the direct deposit wasn't made last night...

:aaahhh:

For those not following the details:

I am employed by a contracting company A

Company A has me contracted out to contracting company B

Company B has me contracted out to Lear Corporation

Lear has filed for bankruptcy (actually it's a pre-packaged, already funded bankruptcy, so it's not nearly as bad as it sounds, I'm just playing it up for you folks playing at home).

So I call A, and they explain that it was merely a payroll processing glitch, due to a recent change in payment processors.

That just happens to have occurred the same day the company I'm being farmed out to declares bankruptcy.

:eek:

rly:

They assure me that the payment will occur tomorrow.

On a bank holiday.

When automatic payments never occur.

They assure me that the payment processor (ADP, for the curious) has assured them that it will go through because they really aren't counting tomorrow as a bank holiday.

:eek:

rly:

Of course, if it doesn't go through tomorrow, we get to wait until monday, and given that our mortgage and other monthly bills came out of the account already, we're not going to have much to spend on 4th of july if it doesn't get in tomorrow.

We'll be fine, financially, but it's annoying and unusually coincidental....

On the other hand, helicopters are cool in a thup-thup-thup-thup-thup-thup-thup way. Plus they're letting us leave at noon, which will provide newscasters with a very pretty shot of a bankrupt company with an empty parking lot in the middle of a business workday... :rofl:

-Adam

Jul 2, 2009#231

Jake

stienman said:
On the other hand, helicopters are cool in a thup-thup-thup-thup-thup-thup-thup way.

I spent my grad school and postdoc time in large medical centers with multiple heliports. That distant thup-thup might be cool, but the up-close engine screams get old pretty quick.

Yay, I have a rant!

Jul 2, 2009#232

Bubble181

stienman said:
"Older Anti-depressant - Adapin, Edrondol, etc"

Edrondol's an anti-depressant? So THAT's where his name comes from....

Jul 2, 2009#233

Silver Jelly

Bubble181 said:
stienman said:

"Older Anti-depressant - Adapin, Edrondol, etc"

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Edrondol's an anti-depressant? So THAT's where his name comes from....

Jul 2, 2009#234

DarkAudit

Jake said:
stienman said:

On the other hand, helicopters are cool in a thup-thup-thup-thup-thup-thup-thup way.

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I spent my grad school and postdoc time in large medical centers with multiple heliports. That distant thup-thup might be cool, but the up-close engine screams get old pretty quick.

Yay, I have a rant!

They get old REALLY quick. Naval Station Mayport is also the home for most of the ASW helicopter squadrons on the east coast. Meaning lots of SH-60s doing their thing. The main pier for cruisers and destroyers was right across the street from the airstrip.

Jul 2, 2009#235

Gurpel

Bubble181 said:
stienman said:

"Older Anti-depressant - Adapin, Edrondol, etc"

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Edrondol's an anti-depressant? So THAT's where his name comes from....

looks like somebody missed the joke >>

edit: wait, what if I missed the joke!? NOOOOOOOO I AM UNDONE

*is sucked into a triangle and floats away*

Jul 2, 2009#236

Shakey

stienman said:
They assure me that the payment will occur tomorrow.

On a bank holiday.

When automatic payments never occur.

They assure me that the payment processor (ADP, for the curious) has assured them that it will go through because they really aren't counting tomorrow as a bank holiday.

The 3rd isn't a bank holiday. All holidays that fall on a Saturday are "Float days", if they fall on a Sunday the holiday is observed on Monday.

Jul 2, 2009#237

Rob King

Silver Jelly said:
"Oh yeah. He had kidney failure or something."

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WTF? That's his daughter speaking?

Yes. She's the most ungrateful little shit I've met in a very long time.

Jul 2, 2009#238

Rob King

On a side note ...

If your website plays music that users cannot turn off, you are not enticing me to come back. In fact, that just means that I will avoid using your website at all costs.

Jul 2, 2009#239

It wasn't that bad a fall but now my back is fucked up today where I landed on it. Can't get comfortable.

Also,

at the stupid webcomics.com drama.

Jul 3, 2009#240

Shakey

I think I'm breaking out from poison ivy. I've never had any problems with it before, so I figured I was immune to it or something. I fell into a big patch of it the other day trying to drag a tree out of the woods. It's not real bad, so I'm wondering if I just got so much on me my body couldn't fight it all off or something. It's just a little bit on my arm, but I think I spread it to my forehead from itching it. Itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy. Stupid poison ivy. Plus my shoulder still hurts from the fall.

Jul 3, 2009#241

Gared

So, this year our company of 4 wanted vacation all on the same two days of the year. Bizarre, since they're random mid-August days, but it is what it is. Now, seeing as how I haven't had a vacation in 5 years, I wasn't going to give up the time off. At the same time, I didn't want my employee to have to give up his time off, and the owner and his wife were planning on going to Mexico, so I didn't want them to have to give up the time off.

Instead, we came up with a brilliant plan. We'd move the holiday from 4th of July to the first of the two days in August that everyone wanted off, and then just manufacture a random company holiday on the second day that everyone wanted off. Easy, right?

Alas, no. The owner contacted our German client (who has how many national holidays built into the calendar in the EU? Something like 20?), and they ain't buying it. Now, luckily, the owner and his wife got their Mexico dates confused and they're going to be in town those two days, so the owner's wife (who used to work for us) can cover the phones those two days. It still works out for my employee and I to be off on the same two days, so I'm willing to overlook that.

However, this means that we get no company holiday for the 4th of July, even though there is a floating National holiday built in to the system, because my boss (the owner) is too much of a pussy to stand up for our rights to take a day off, because he had already told the client that we were going to stay open today and Monday (the two most common float days) in order to trade for days that we're not going to be closed now because the Client doesn't want us to. I wouldn't even have minded, except that yesterday he offered us the choice of being closed today or Monday, we talked about it, decided we wanted to take Monday off, told him, and now he says no - because he doesn't want to have to call the client and tell the client that we're going to be closed on a god-damned national fucking holiday.

How about standing up for your fucking employees once in a while?
:devil:

Jul 3, 2009#242

sixpackshaker

Shakey said:
I think I'm breaking out from poison ivy. I've never had any problems with it before, so I figured I was immune to it or something. I fell into a big patch of it the other day trying to drag a tree out of the woods. It's not real bad, so I'm wondering if I just got so much on me my body couldn't fight it all off or something. It's just a little bit on my arm, but I think I spread it to my forehead from itching it. Itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy itchy. Stupid poison ivy. Plus my shoulder still hurts from the fall.

Clean the hell out of the clothes you were wearing. if you handle them again with out cleaning them the oil will infect you.

Jul 3, 2009#243

Shakey

Yeah, I will. Got em separate from the rest of my dirty clothes. I've seen people break out from poison ivy before, and this isn't nearly as bad as some people. Mainly just annoying.

Jul 3, 2009#244

Scarlet Varlet

I still cannot believe The PJs have not been release on DVD. Not a trace anywhere on the interwebs.

So I have a torrent going to download them. And people think this stuff is evil when they give you no alternative.

Jul 4, 2009#245

Cajungal

So I have this friend.

He's a mutual friend, actually. He and I hung out a lot in middle school, and in high school he became my boyfriend's best friend. He's a good guy, but my God he's obsessive.

We've been talking to him almost every day for about a month about this problem... He had sex with this really nice girl who he met through a friend. They thought about dating but decided not to. Anyway, his condom broke one time, and he freaked out. She didn't. And she isn't pregnant. She definitely isn't. But he thinks that SOMEHOW he's going to be "punished" for having sex with a woman he doesn't love. He's literally waiting for a call that somehow, after getting her period and even taking 3 pregnancy tests for HIS peace of mind... she's going to call him with some news.

He's got the "I'm sorry because I (almost) got in trouble" syndrome. Three months ago he wasn't a Catholic anymore, and he was vocal about it too. He wasn't sure if he believed in God. Now, when we tell him he doesn't have to feel so guilty for having sex with this girl, he gives me some snotty ass response, "Well, you have to understand, I was raised differently." Nooooooo, I got fed the same stuff you did. We had similar parents and had the same religious upbringing. But all of a sudden, after his first pregnancy scare, he's Johnny Pious again. It's like when we had to go to those stupid retreats and they'd try to guilt us into being all "on fire for Jesus."

For the record, I don't give a crap WHAT he decides or where he decides to put his damn dick in the future. I just want him to let this shit go and not be so self-righteous about his decision. But he does this with everything. For a month he took on a new "mellow" persona. Any time someone got mad he laughed at how "uptight" they were. Yeah, that lasted a long freakin' time.

Get. your. own. fucking. personality. Quit quoting people who you think are better than you when they're not, quit having a personality du jour, and quit fucking drinking to escape your emotional issues. DECIDE FOR YOURSELF.

And tomorrow I get to spend the whoooooole evening with him. Yaaaaaaaaay.

Despite my complaints, he's got a lot of good qualities too. But hey, I'm in the rant thread.

Jul 4, 2009#246

Gusto

Cajungal said:
Stuff.

Sounds like that guy has a penchant for elitism REGARDLESS of his personality on any given day. :angry:

Jul 4, 2009#247

Rob King

Why is it all of my friends are getting married? Seriously, what the hell is that?

Jul 4, 2009#248

Wasabi Poptart

So my in-laws usually don't bother coming to visit us. It's hard for us to get up to see them because of our son's motion sickness problem and me being pregnant (I have swelling issues if I sit for too long). Then this kind of shit happens. We make plans to go do something, leave the house, and sure enough while we're out we get a call from my mother-in-law that they are here. WTF!! They couldn't call last night or even this morning to tell us that they're coming to our house? Now our plans for the day are a bust. Awesome. :blue:

Jul 4, 2009#249

Cajungal

Gusto said:
Cajungal said:

Stuff.

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Sounds like that guy has a penchant for elitism REGARDLESS of his personality on any given day. :angry:

Pretty much. We're his "bring you down a peg" squad. Or sometimes we just laugh. He always has to one-up people. When I was telling him a few years back how happy I was about Culinary school and how exciting I thought working as a chef would be, he interrupts me and says, "Yeah, well, with MY degree, I can expect to make six figures within the first year. I don't think anyone I know can expect that."

When I lost a bunch of weight and HE asked ME about it, he interrupted with, "Well I lost about 100 pounds, and it was the hardest thing I've ever done." (FYI--he lost weight because of some digestive disorder he has.)

Months after graduating, thinking he was a big shot with his goddamned dime-a-dozen bachelor's degree (yeah he worked hard but so do thousands of other people--and HARDER, with a better attitude), he just quit an easy bookstore job because the managers were "stupid," and he's about to be a busboy. Terrible attitude when it comes to work. He thought he'd become part of the family business, but that didn't work out. So he needs to find outlets for his sense of entitlement and superiority.

Sometimes I think he'll live out his days in his dad's house playing video games on the big screen TV he won't shut up about.

Jul 4, 2009#250

Krisken

Cajungal said:
Gusto said:

Cajungal said:

Stuff.

Click to expand...

Sounds like that guy has a penchant for elitism REGARDLESS of his personality on any given day. :angry:

Click to expand...

Pretty much. We're his "bring you down a peg" squad. Or sometimes we just laugh. He always has to one-up people. When I was telling him a few years back how happy I was about Culinary school and how exciting I thought working as a chef would be, he interrupts me and says, "Yeah, well, with MY degree, I can expect to make six figures within the first year. I don't think anyone I know can expect that."

When I lost a bunch of weight and HE asked ME about it, he interrupted with, "Well I lost about 100 pounds, and it was the hardest thing I've ever done." (FYI--he lost weight because of some digestive disorder he has.)

Months after graduating, thinking he was a big shot with his goddamned dime-a-dozen bachelor's degree (yeah he worked hard but so do thousands of other people--and HARDER, with a better attitude), he just quit an easy bookstore job because the managers were "stupid," and he's about to be a busboy. Terrible attitude when it comes to work. He thought he'd become part of the family business, but that didn't work out. So he needs to find outlets for his sense of entitlement and superiority.

Sometimes I think he'll live out his days in his dad's house playing video games on the big screen TV he won't shut up about.

I know a guy similar, but this guy has burned all his bridges and caused almost everyone in the group to barely tolerate his existence. The guy is smart, but a total dick. Most of the time. Rarely he can be the coolest guy I know. I think that's what makes it so sad. If he wasn't the dick most of the time he could do so much more with himself.

Jul 4, 2009#251

Cajungal

Seriously! And he makes the worst first impression, right? So friends of friends have no idea why you hang out with him??? It bums me out, because down at his core, he's a kind and generous person.

Jul 4, 2009#252

Gusto

I sometimes worry I am That Guy.

Jul 4, 2009#253

Denbrought

Gusto said:
I sometimes worry I am That Guy.

I know that I'm That Guy.

Jul 4, 2009#254

DarkAudit

Denbrought said:
Gusto said:

I sometimes worry I am That Guy.

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I know that I'm That Guy.

Jul 4, 2009#255

Denbrought

Jul 4, 2009#256

HCGLNS

Rant: Seriously sir are you out of your flippin mind? It's co-ed recreational soccer for 3 & 4 year olds. There is no need to run up and down the field yelling at your son (at this age parents are allowed on the field with their kids) and telling him what to do. You ran over 3 kids yourself doing this, all so your kid could score another goal. We friggin get it, your 4 year old boy is bigger than my daughter and her new friend. And yes buddy I intentionally kicked the ball away from the goal when your steroided freak of a child ran in to score his umpteenth goal of the game, I'm not going to let him barrel into that little girl again. Odin's teeth its hard enough to get the kids to not try to score on their own goal at this age and you're keeping score? Chill out buddy. Why not use the game to help develop new friendships and teamwork for your kid?

Jul 5, 2009#257

EpicEpileptic

Bah! The holiday turned out to be a bust for me 4th year running. In the past three years I've always ended up working a full Saturday 11 hour shift at my job (My boss won't let us close early unless we didn't make money any money for four hours strait.) So this is the first 4th of July I've had off and it happens by chance and I'm stoked. I was supposed to meet an old friend to catch the movie "Up". SO I buy my ticket and wait for him to show and he never does. I text and call him right up until the show starts and he texts me half way through the movie saying that he was at a party/bbq. He doesn't even apologize!!
So I finish the movie, (Fantastic movie by the way) and I have two options in terms of 4th of July Celebrations to chooses from, I could:
1) Go to my sister's party. They have always been hit or miss, but I've never had an bad time at one of her parties.
B) Go to my friend's party, Never been to one of his parties but according to my other friends from the local Community college that we all attended they were supposedly, Legendary!!
I chose my friend's party... HUGE MISTAKE! First off they tell me to bring a Wii-mote so they can start up a tourny or something like that. So I bring in the wii-motes and arrive after getting lost for a half hour due to some extremely faulty google map directions. By the time I arrive, all the food and booze is gone, save for a couple of beers that I had to seek permission to drink. and the "tourny" turned out to be just two guys playing smash brothers a majority of the time and not even trying to pretend to share the Wii. Not to mention the host decided to hotbox the upstairs bathroom so about %85 of the party was stoned, which lead to several people talking nothing but drama. amongst their group of friends.
TO top it all off, one of my other friends, as the party is winding down but still somewhat lively, decides to watch Patton 360. Now this wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that he was bogarting the only working laptop, which wasn't even his but the hosts! and just watching the show. My friend/party host couldn't be relied to do anything about this because he was too busy blowing chunks upstairs.
Gorramit!! Next time I'll go to my sister's place. At least a majority of hers are themed.

Jul 5, 2009#258

Rob King

Wild parties, in my experience, have never been synonymous with good parties. Not to say that they're mutually exclusive, but wild doesn't automatically mean good.

Now, I'm posting here again. I've been posting far too much in this thread, but I thought I'd just throw this update out there.

In church this morning, they announced that the man I did homecare for died last night. I had gone to church with the intention of grabbing the woman who does the signing for the deaf, and asking if we could both visit him in hospital. Damn.

I didn't expect that so soon, and it hit pretty hard. Tried to keep from tearing up, but that didn't work so well, which was particularly disastrous because I spent the whole service on the platform (stage). Nobody noticed, probably, but it made me pretty self conscious. I couldn't even pay enough attention to the sermon to dissect why the preacher was wrong.

Jul 5, 2009#259

DAMNIT!

So, there's this girl that I've been e-mailing back and forth on Facebook. A mutual friend of ours kind of set us up. She's over in Britain right now, teaching, but is coming home for a month.

Anyway, I was just writing a long response to her, her last e-mail in Notepad for quick reference. I switch windows and back, hit backspace to fix something and...

...bam. The whole page goes back. Panicked, I hit the forward page button...

...and the whole frigging e-mail has been lost.

Fuck.

Jul 5, 2009#260

Denbrought

ThatNickGuy said:
DAMNIT!

So, there's this girl that I've been e-mailing back and forth on Facebook. A mutual friend of ours kind of set us up. She's over in Britain right now, teaching, but is coming home for a month.

Anyway, I was just writing a long response to her, her last e-mail in Notepad for quick reference. I switch windows and back, hit backspace to fix something and...

...bam. The whole page goes back. Panicked, I hit the forward page button...

...and the whole frigging e-mail has been lost.

Fuck.

Happens to everyone once. Just last week, a mate of mine was writing a long-winded email to the education ministry (school related stuff, she's a teacher), and after writing what could amount to two pages, she did the backspace thing too.

And this is why I write my emails on notepad.

Jul 5, 2009#261

Rob King said:
the woman who does the signing for the deaf

("sign language interpreter" :slywink

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Jul 5, 2009#262

Rob King

ZenMonkey said:
Rob King said:

the woman who does the signing for the deaf

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("sign language interpreter" :slywink

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Right. Thanks. On both accounts.

Jul 6, 2009#263

Gusto

My cousin miscarried.

Jul 6, 2009#264

AshburnerX

Gusto said:
My cousin miscarried.

Thread over. :tear:

Jul 6, 2009#265

Frankie Williamson

Ugh, so I log into my very sparsely used Facebook account (something I almost never use for a variety of reasons) and see some pictures of my cousin hanging out with a group of shitheads, every one of which I've arrested for reasons as varied as drug trafficking (one of these assholes is a repeat offender crack dealer) to beating the shit out of his pregnant girlfriend (I see he's holding the kid in the picture he so desperately tried to abort via violence too). It's seriously wounding. She knows what these guys do and she knows it bothers me greatly. She's like a little sister to me (she spent a ton of time staying with my family when we were younger due to her mother's own issues).

I don't even know what to do.

I fucking hate Facebook.

Jul 6, 2009#266

LittleSin

My husband went to his fathers birthday party last night. He got drunk. Came home with a mo hawk. WTF? Why did his mother let him do that?!

Jul 6, 2009#267

strawman

LittleSin said:
My husband went to his fathers birthday party last night. He got drunk. Came home with a mo hawk. WTF? Why did his mother let him do that?!

I'm sorry, but that's just hilarious!

-Adam

Jul 6, 2009#268

Cajungal

Gusto said:
My cousin miscarried.

So sorry, man. She's in my thoughts.

Jul 6, 2009#269

LittleSin

stienman said:
LittleSin said:

My husband went to his fathers birthday party last night. He got drunk. Came home with a mo hawk. WTF? Why did his mother let him do that?!

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I'm sorry, but that's just hilarious!

-Adam

Apparently his mother was the one who got out the clippers and gave him the freakin' mo hawk.

WTF mate?

Jul 6, 2009#270

Krisken

LittleSin said:
stienman said:

LittleSin said:

My husband went to his fathers birthday party last night. He got drunk. Came home with a mo hawk. WTF? Why did his mother let him do that?!

Click to expand...

I'm sorry, but that's just hilarious!

-Adam

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Apparently his mother was the one who got out the clippers and gave him the freakin' mo hawk.

WTF mate?

At least she didn't shave one side of his head and convince him it looked good that way.

Jul 6, 2009#271

Gusto said:
My cousin miscarried.

I am so sorry to hear that. Good wishes for you and your family.

Jul 6, 2009#272

Cuyval Dar

Krisken said:
LittleSin said:

stienman said:

LittleSin said:

My husband went to his fathers birthday party last night. He got drunk. Came home with a mo hawk. WTF? Why did his mother let him do that?!

Click to expand...

I'm sorry, but that's just hilarious!

-Adam

Click to expand...

Apparently his mother was the one who got out the clippers and gave him the freakin' mo hawk.

WTF mate?

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At least she didn't shave one side of his head and convince him it looked good that way.

Come on, doing stuff like that to drunk/heavy sleeping people is the best entertainment you can ask for. I bet that you are just jealous that you didn't think of it first.

Jul 7, 2009#273

CynicismKills

Gusto said:
My cousin miscarried.

Sad news man, sorry to hear it.

In other news, I hate my roommate's cat. She used to hate my guts until she was neutered, now she's either meowing constantly for attention or pawing/meowing at his closed door when he's not even home.

The further problems are I can't really enjoy her company at all. If I try to pet/scratch anywhere but her head she starts clawing/biting. She hardly listens to anyone but my roommate. She has issues pooping in the catbox (situates herself in odd ways so she drops 'em right onto the floor). She doesn't like to be picked up or held, and her fur is coarse and thin, so it's not even soft to pet. Also it manages to weave into clothes pretty often.

To top it all off he is fucking allergic to cats.

I normally get on well with animals. I think that's why this bugs me so much.

Jul 7, 2009#274

Cajungal

Jeez, how annoying. I never thought I'd miss all-girl classes.

Yeah, shockingly, my education classes are mostly female.

But anyway, we were talking in psych class about human development. The professor brought up how some women go months without realizing they're pregnant. So, I asked a question about that. I never knew if women had normal periods during that time or if they mistook a little spotting (which I've heard is normal) for a regular period. It's a fair enough question, damn it!

And I know that guys don't always want to hear that... but you stupid ass (a male student in front of me), don't tell me not to talk about it whenever the professor is. If I have a question that makes you uncomfortable, and it's related to the content you're supposed to learn anyway... well, maybe you should just grow the fuck up, close your ears, or change majors.

I grew up with men who spoke freely about things that would make most guys cringe. I accept that that's probably abnormal, and I wouldn't bring it up out of nowhere just to make someone uncomfortable. But MY GOD, in a class where you're learning about childbirth and all the gross stuff that comes with it, you need to shake it off and get the hell over it. I wanted to throw my mp3 player at the back of that moron's head. I hate being laughed at or chastised for being curious about something natural.

You stupid, stupid tool. Way to play the typical man.

Jul 7, 2009#275

Allen, who is Quiet

sometime in class, lean in close to his ear, and whisper "I bleed for five days and don't die"

Jul 7, 2009#276

Shakey

Freshman year of college I knew a girl that didn't know she was pregnant until she went into labor. I can't remember if she was still having periods or not. It was pretty messed up, I'm surprised the baby made it. She was drinking and partying the whole time. She didn't really show, kinda looked like she was just getting a little pot from too much beer.

Jul 7, 2009#277

There's a whole show on TLC or something called "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant." I cannot bring myself to watch it as I assume it involves huge amounts of stupidity.

Jul 7, 2009#278

strawman

Stupid cheating cookie makers! They don't fill it to the edges, fine, but to make it appear as though it's solid when they've really just put a 'donut' of cream on is really cheap.

Not that this'll stop me from buying and eating them in the future, but at least now I'm an informed consumer.

On the other hand, iPhone 3Gs macro photography FTW.

-Adam

Jul 7, 2009#279

Cajungal

@ Allen.

There happened to be a girl in the class who answered my question. She was 8 months pregnant before she found out. She had a regular period every month. She gained weight because she was eating more, but she didn't have a "pregnant" looking belly. Another girl said her mom went 6 months without realizing. Apparently that happens, just not often. I had a feeling it did, but I was not sure.

What annoyed me too is that the professor, who's been really cool up to this point, kind of egged the guy on. If you bring something up and don't want to answer questions about it, why bring it up in the first place???

Jul 7, 2009#280

sixpackshaker

My brother went to a small state college in Arkansas. He was close to graduating, but needed a Fitness and Health class (He played football for cripes sake). The school he was in did not have the class that semester, so he went across the street to a Baptist college to get the credit.

The guy that taught the class told a story of how his wife, also a health teacher at that college, started to gain weight. They started her on a serious diet, which did not work. Then started her on running and sit-ups to keep the mysteriously pooching belly down. Then some months later she went into labor.

TWO COLLEGE EDUCATED HEALTH PROF'S DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS PREGGERS!!!

But we bet that that baby hit the ground running.

Jul 7, 2009#281

strawman

sixpackshaker said:
My brother went to a small state college in Arkansas. He was close to graduating, but needed a Fitness and Health class (He played football for cripes sake). The school he was in did not have the class that semester, so he went across the street to a Baptist college to get the credit.

The guy that taught the class told a story of how his wife, also a health teacher at that college, started to gain weight. They started her on a serious diet, which did not work. Then started her on running and sit-ups to keep the mysteriously pooching belly down. Then some months later she went into labor.

TWO COLLEGE EDUCATED HEALTH PROF'S DID NOT KNOW SHE WAS PREGGERS!!!

But we bet that that baby hit the ground running.

In some cases, women with very low body fat or who are ultra athletes do not menstruate, or do so sporadically. It's possible to become pregnant, though, and if you already aren't used to a regular period then I can see how one might not know they are pregnant.

However, in general, I approve of "female" discussions that make guys uncomfortable. It's so much fun to watch guys squirm.

-Adam

Jul 7, 2009#282

Cajungal

stienman said:
However, in general, I approve of "female" discussions that make guys uncomfortable. It's so much fun to watch guys squirm.

-Adam

Probably one of the only times I'll use this in a semi-serious manner but...

I know, right???

Jul 7, 2009#283

stienman said:
However, in general, I approve of "female" discussions that make guys uncomfortable. It's so much fun to watch guys squirm.

Except when there's a sign language interpreter in the class, because then they all watch her to see if they can pick up on the "dirty signs."

Jul 7, 2009#284

Cajungal

Man, I love having a sign language interpreter in the class. I try to pick things up. I watch movies with foreign subtitles sometimes for the same reason.

Jul 7, 2009#285

sixpackshaker

Not so much a rant but a WTF?

4th of July.

Sitting with 3 friends and a stranger at a party of their co-worker. Just chit-chatting and catching up, getting to know this 55 y.o. party-goer, when out of the blue she says...

I SEE THE MOON
THE MOON SEES ME
GOD BLESS THE MOON
GOD BLESS ME
AND ALL THOSE THAT I LOVE...

Three of us start exchanging nervous glances, while the 4th, this other 50y.o. New Yawrker (yorker) blurts out,

OH MY GAWD.... THAT WAS SOOOO RANDOM!

Jul 7, 2009#286

Cajungal said:
Man, I love having a sign language interpreter in the class. I try to pick things up. I watch movies with foreign subtitles sometimes for the same reason.

Sorry to inform that any educational interpreter worth her salt knows how to down-low the "dirty" stuff. :slywink:

Although there wasn't much I could do in that one gym class when the teacher went on for five minutes about how gorgeous and perfectly formed his turds were.

Jul 7, 2009#287

strawman

ZenMonkey said:
Cajungal said:

Man, I love having a sign language interpreter in the class. I try to pick things up. I watch movies with foreign subtitles sometimes for the same reason.

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Sorry to inform that any educational interpreter worth her salt knows how to down-low the "dirty" stuff. :slywink:

Although there wasn't much I could do in that one gym class when the teacher went on for five minutes about how gorgeous and perfectly formed his turds were.

Oh great, here we go again with the German toilets.

-Adam

Jul 7, 2009#288

Wasabi Poptart

stienman said:
In some cases, women with very low body fat or who are ultra athletes do not menstruate, or do so sporadically. It's possible to become pregnant, though, and if you already aren't used to a regular period then I can see how one might not know they are pregnant.

However, in general, I approve of "female" discussions that make guys uncomfortable. It's so much fun to watch guys squirm.

-Adam

A friend of mine had this happen when she was pregnant with her first child. She was a dancer with a petite frame and low body fat, so her periods were very irregular. She knew she didn't feel right, but she didn't know what was causing it. She even went to her gyn, had an exam, and was told she was NOT pregnant! Her boyfriend finally convinced her, a few months later, to let him take her to the ER with some fake severe abdominal symptoms so they would run tests on her. She found out that she was 5 months pregnant.

Jul 7, 2009#289

Cajungal

stienman said:
ZenMonkey said:

Cajungal said:

Man, I love having a sign language interpreter in the class. I try to pick things up. I watch movies with foreign subtitles sometimes for the same reason.

Click to expand...

Sorry to inform that any educational interpreter worth her salt knows how to down-low the "dirty" stuff. :slywink:

Although there wasn't much I could do in that one gym class when the teacher went on for five minutes about how gorgeous and perfectly formed his turds were.

Click to expand...

Oh great, here we go again with the German toilets.

-Adam

Am I the unofficial Queen of TMI in here?!?

Can I help it if I was raised to talk about things like this in a nonchalant manner??

Jul 7, 2009#290

HCGLNS

Rant: I have misplaced my Scotch and pants.

Jul 8, 2009#291

Bubble181

It might be me, but what is cringeworthy about any of the conversation posted above? There are some "feminine" subjects I'm not terribly comfortable with, but...err...what, childbirth and pregnancy are icky now? :eyeroll:

Also: one part of my job is to follow up the safety of our agents - everyone has to call in (to an automated system of course, not to us) at predetermined intervals, anywhere from every two hours to every five minutes, depending on the risk wherever they're stationed. If they don't, the computer calls them and asks for a sign of life. If they don't respônd (or respond incorrectly) it generates an alarm.
Now, obviously, there are always little mishaps - people give the wrong code, people are in the bathroom or away from their phone, they're doing a guarding round, they're in an area where phones/trunkings/whatever aren't allowed, they're in the middle of a conversation with a client, they've already gone home and forgot to check out, whatever. In other words, these alarms don't get a really high priority - we'll usually wait at least 15 top 20 minutes so we don't make hundreds of useless calls.
Yesterday, an agent arrived, logged on, gave a life sign, keeled over. A colleague from the next building over happened to find him, blue and swollen. Whatever it's called, ruptured cardiac artery thingie. All help came too late...And the guy happened to be in an alarm for his life sign, but my colleagues hadn't checked in yet. Oops.

aranoid: :tear:

Jul 8, 2009#292

Cajungal

^I knowwww, it's ridiculous!

Jul 8, 2009#293

The self-loathing is strong with this one.

Jul 8, 2009#294

DarkAudit

I swear I could feel Zen raaage from here yesterday when the news reported that the LAPD had shut down the 101 and other freeways for the benefit of the Jackson funeral procession.

Jul 8, 2009#295

Jake

My mother went to the hospital for gallstone surgery and was told she couldn't have it, because she was apparently 5 months pregnant with my little brother.

EDIT: This goes along with the prior discussion and should not be construed as a new rant on a current situation. :retard:

Jul 8, 2009#296

wana10

what happens when you tell your university you want to take more credits next term? they bump you from resident to non-resident status...fucking pricks. if my appeal doesn't go through expect me back here. :explode:

Jul 8, 2009#297

Cajungal

Seriously... again.... this music some cell phone services use instead of actual ringing is getting old.

"Smack That" and "Hanging By a Moment" today. I haven't heard the latter in years, and that was just fine with me. What's wrong with "ring ring" you damn kids?!

I'm actually not mad at all... barely annoyed. I just think it's a stupid feature to have on a phone... imposing your crappy music on the people who call you.

Jul 8, 2009#298

Gusto

Cajungal said:
Seriously... again.... this music some cell phone services use instead of actual ringing is getting old.

"Smack That" and "Hanging By a Moment" today. I haven't heard the latter in years, and that was just fine with me. What's wrong with "ring ring" you damn kids?!

I'm actually not mad at all... barely annoyed. I just think it's a stupid feature to have on a phone... imposing your crappy music on the people who call you.

Vibrate, bitches. No one knows I'm getting a call but me. And it seriously weirds me out. I'm not used to getting called yet.

Jul 8, 2009#299

DarkAudit

Cajungal said:
Seriously... again.... this music some cell phone services use instead of actual ringing is getting old.

"Smack That" and "Hanging By a Moment" today. I haven't heard the latter in years, and that was just fine with me. What's wrong with "ring ring" you damn kids?!

I'm actually not mad at all... barely annoyed. I just think it's a stupid feature to have on a phone... imposing your crappy music on the people who call you.

That'll all be over if ASCAP has their way. They consider ringtones "public performances", and they want their cut. No cut, no more ringtones. :eyeroll:

Jul 10, 2009#300

This rant takes some setting up.

First, last year at the end of the season our mower crapped out. So my parents gave me theirs, even though it was older than the one that I'd had.

This year comes and I try and start it. No dice. But it's a wet spring and the grass (and weeds) grow. We borrow the neighbor's mower (neighbor across the street - this is an important point) and get the front yard, but it's a pretty small mower and can't get the back yard. In the meantime, the back yard is being overrun by these pernicious weeds that came from a DIFFERENT neighbor's yard (to the South). So the back yard is a fricking jungle. I get a letter from the city telling me I have 7 days to cut it down or they would come in and charge me to do it. I call them and ask how much. $145. No problem, I says. That's perfect. Please come in and do so because I don't have the equipment to do it. The guy laughed and was very, very nice about it. I was a little annoyed at the neighbors (to the North) who turned us in because they've never once offered to help us out. They have the equipment to do so, but helping us? No way!

Anyway, so I get a letter yesterday about the status of our pool. It gives us 7 days to fix all the issues with it or they will come in and take it.

Here's the list:

1) Before putting in a pool you have to have a permit.
2) Pools must have a fence or wall surrounded by a fence of no less than 48 inches.
3) Stagnant water is a mosquito breeding ground.
4) Emptying pool water into the street is verboten. Must use a drain in the house.

I called the number provided to point out the following:

1) The pool was here when we moved in. I'll need to get a permit, but I didn't know I needed one.
2) Our yard is totally fenced in.
3) We've already drained the pool as we haven't had the money to open it this year.
4) Oops. Didn't know that. Our neighbor (to the North) has always just put in a hose & drained his. I followed suit. Didn't know that was bad. Won't do it again.

Or at least I called to TRY and point this all out. The guy was a fucking prick. He could give a shit about anything I had to say. So unless I get a new fence put in on half of my back yard (apparently the fence on part of it is 46 inches, not 48) they'll take my pool. Initially he said I had until the 23rd, but because of my pay schedule he's given me until the 8th of August.

My neighbors to the North (the ones who started all of this shit) have just taken out their pool (in-ground) and are planning on getting a new one. If they do the city is going to be called any time they have water in it or are draining it into the street. These people have called on our cars (not being moved for a week - I was driving the good car and just hadn't driven it), constantly park in front of our driveway and now are the reason our pool will have to be taken down because we do not have the money to get a new fence.

Dicks.

Jul 10, 2009#301

Frankie Williamson

So I just about got murdered last night. It was pretty wicked. Got called into a domestic disturbance in town. Had to go alone, the only other guy on shift with me had to go out to one of the reserves half an hour out of town so it was just me covering the town (YAY STAFF SHORTAGES!). I get there and the two are screaming at each other like retarded howler monkeys. Not a big deal. Happens all the time in this depressed little hell hole what with the lumber mills shutting down and the oil fields out for summer and not likely coming back next winter.

I get out of my vehicle, ask both people to calm down and the woman runs at me and starts screaming that the man hit her, was threatening her child, is a lying, cheating prick...etc, etc, etc. So, I try to get her to calm down as best I can when she starts screaming at her boyfriend to put his fucking knife away and I turn around to see him brandishing his knife walking towards me. This never should have happened. I never should have let the guy out of my sight for an instant, but I was tired and it had been a long night up to this point. I made a rookie mistake and almost got knifed. I hate having to pull my gun, but fuck this, it was out and it took all the self control I had not to pistol whip the guy. I know, once again, I was exhausted and in need of some real sleep. Anyways, he was arrested, is going up on A LOT of charges and well, thanks to this little stunt, I won't be having to deal with him for a long time. He's totally getting remanded. There's no way he got any sort of bail.

The bad part is all the paperwork I now have to do.

And the almost getting my throat slit, stabbed, whatever he intended to do. That sucked too.

Jul 10, 2009#302

Frankie said:
So I just about got murdered last night. It was pretty wicked. Got called into a domestic disturbance in town. Had to go alone, the only other guy on shift with me had to go out to one of the reserves half an hour out of town so it was just me covering the town (YAY STAFF SHORTAGES!). I get there and the two are screaming at each other like retarded howler monkeys. Not a big deal. Happens all the time in this depressed little hell hole what with the lumber mills shutting down and the oil fields out for summer and not likely coming back next winter.

I get out of my vehicle, ask both people to calm down and the woman runs at me and starts screaming that the man hit her, was threatening her child, is a lying, cheating prick...etc, etc, etc. So, I try to get her to calm down as best I can when she starts screaming at her boyfriend to put his fucking knife away and I turn around to see him brandishing his knife walking towards me. This never should have happened. I never should have let the guy out of my sight for an instant, but I was tired and it had been a long night up to this point. I made a rookie mistake and almost got knifed. I hate having to pull my gun, but fuck this, it was out and it took all the self control I had not to pistol whip the guy. I know, once again, I was exhausted and in need of some real sleep. Anyways, he was arrested, is going up on A LOT of charges and well, thanks to this little stunt, I won't be having to deal with him for a long time. He's totally getting remanded. There's no way he got any sort of bail.

The bad part is all the paperwork I now have to do.

And the almost getting my throat slit, stabbed, whatever he intended to do. That sucked too.

Fuck! Want a pool? My rant seems so quaint now.

Jul 10, 2009#303

Frankie Williamson

If it wouldn't likely end up a piss/vomit hole for drunks. I would totally take you up on it.

Jul 10, 2009#304

Cajungal

I'm glad you're ok.

Jul 10, 2009#305

Lally

DarkAudit said:
Cajungal said:

Seriously... again.... this music some cell phone services use instead of actual ringing is getting old.

"Smack That" and "Hanging By a Moment" today. I haven't heard the latter in years, and that was just fine with me. What's wrong with "ring ring" you damn kids?!

I'm actually not mad at all... barely annoyed. I just think it's a stupid feature to have on a phone... imposing your crappy music on the people who call you.

Click to expand...

That'll all be over if ASCAP has their way. They consider ringtones "public performances", and they want their cut. No cut, no more ringtones. :eyeroll:

I'm guessing CG is talking about what you hear when you call someone, not what you hear when you get a call, but since you're talking about ringtones -- how could that ever, ever be enforced? Yeah, you can force cell phone companies to take them off their site, and you can even take down the ringtone websites, but when cell phones can play any mp3 as a ringtone, how can you stop them from playing songs?

Jul 10, 2009#306

Cajungal

Yeah, Lally, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You call someone, and instead of ringing you hear: "Please enjoy the selection while we contact your party." Then my ears are violated with some song I don't want to hear. It's just a pointless service to me. Ringtones make more sense, because you get to hear the music as you're being called. It just seems silly to sign up for this, however. It's such a gamble. You could either treat someone with a song they like or torment them. So far my ears have never gotten treated... just raped by poor-quality songs.

Jul 10, 2009#307

DarkAudit

Lally said:
DarkAudit said:

Cajungal said:

Seriously... again.... this music some cell phone services use instead of actual ringing is getting old.

"Smack That" and "Hanging By a Moment" today. I haven't heard the latter in years, and that was just fine with me. What's wrong with "ring ring" you damn kids?!

I'm actually not mad at all... barely annoyed. I just think it's a stupid feature to have on a phone... imposing your crappy music on the people who call you.

Click to expand...

That'll all be over if ASCAP has their way. They consider ringtones "public performances", and they want their cut. No cut, no more ringtones. :eyeroll:

Click to expand...

I'm guessing CG is talking about what you hear when you call someone, not what you hear when you get a call, but since you're talking about ringtones -- how could that ever, ever be enforced? Yeah, you can force cell phone companies to take them off their site, and you can even take down the ringtone websites, but when cell phones can play any mp3 as a ringtone, how can you stop them from playing songs?

Ah. Yeah. Sprint calls those "call tones". You call someone, and instead of the standard tone, you get this "now enjoy this music courtesy of Sprint"

Since the RIAA and such like to pretend the Betamax ruling never happened, they consider any home copying to be "theft". Therefore by their reasoning, any mp3 used as a ringtone is stolen property.

Jul 10, 2009#308

Lally

I have always thought that "service" made no sense. If you like a song, why put it as the "ring" (I think they are called ringbacks?) on a number YOU WILL LIKELY NEVER CALL.

To add my own rant on a different topic -- my boy and I have been on a serious healthy eating kick lately, but Wednesday we decided to eat bad because it was our anniversary. We were supposed to go to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner (this delicious place: http://www.gordonbiersch.com), but we ate a ton of delicious sushi for lunch and were both still too full in the evening, so we settled for a light snack at home. I was pretty disappointed, but it didn't make sense to eat a bunch of fattening, pricey food when we weren't that hungry. Then, last night, my boyfriend asks me if I want to go then instead. I have a lot of willpower on my own normally, but when he encourages me it tends to go out the window. So, I say yes, we get ready to go, and as we're walking out the door, he says "I feel like I'm enabling you. Maybe we shouldn't go." I wouldn't have been mad -- except HE brought it up, not me, and then snatched it away at the last VERY LAST second. I told him this morning it was like holding a treat in a dog's face, then smacking the dog and walking away. He just laughed. :eek:

rly:

Why are my rants always so petty? :bush:

Jul 10, 2009#309

Cajungal

So did y'all end up not going that night too? I'd have been annoyed at that too.

And I can identify with that enabling thing. Jake and I worked at that a lot in the past. We used to go really nuts on the weekends we saw each other, but since I started taking care of myself, he does too. Now if he'd just serve himself a human-sized portion of rice... he wonders why he always looks a little bloated.

D'ah well, his tummy is cute.

Jul 10, 2009#310

Lally

I guess it would have been helpful if I was more clear. [embarrassed face that was TAKEN FROM MEEEE] We ended up staying home. All in all it's good, because we're going out both tonight and tomorrow night for drinking, which is not exactly a low-calorie activity, but if he just had never suggested it in the first place, it would have saved me some aggravation. :eek:

rly:

Jul 10, 2009#311

Krisken

Cajungal said:
Yeah, Lally, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You call someone, and instead of ringing you hear: "Please enjoy the selection while we contact your party." Then my ears are violated with some song I don't want to hear. It's just a pointless service to me. Ringtones make more sense, because you get to hear the music as you're being called. It just seems silly to sign up for this, however. It's such a gamble. You could either treat someone with a song they like or torment them. So far my ears have never gotten treated... just raped by poor-quality songs.

My brother-in-law has this and the last time I called him I was forced to listen to Guns and Roses. What a dick.

Jul 10, 2009#312

CynicismKills

Krisken said:
Cajungal said:

Yeah, Lally, that's exactly what I'm talking about. You call someone, and instead of ringing you hear: "Please enjoy the selection while we contact your party." Then my ears are violated with some song I don't want to hear. It's just a pointless service to me. Ringtones make more sense, because you get to hear the music as you're being called. It just seems silly to sign up for this, however. It's such a gamble. You could either treat someone with a song they like or torment them. So far my ears have never gotten treated... just raped by poor-quality songs.

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My brother-in-law has this and the last time I called him I was forced to listen to Guns and Roses. What a dick.

WERCUM TO DA JUNGER, WE GAT FUNIN GAAAAAAYMES

WE GAT EVRYTHIN YWAN WIGGABUGGADEE BUGGIN BLAMES

Jul 10, 2009#313

Cajungal

Tuna was a bad decision. :puke:

Jul 10, 2009#314

ThatGrinningIdiot!

Frankie said:
So I just about got murdered last night. It was pretty wicked. Got called into a domestic disturbance in town. Had to go alone, the only other guy on shift with me had to go out to one of the reserves half an hour out of town so it was just me covering the town (YAY STAFF SHORTAGES!). I get there and the two are screaming at each other like retarded howler monkeys. Not a big deal. Happens all the time in this depressed little * hole what with the lumber mills shutting down and the oil fields out for summer and not likely coming back next winter.

I get out of my vehicle, ask both people to calm down and the woman runs at me and starts screaming that the man hit her, was threatening her child, is a lying, cheating *...etc, etc, etc. So, I try to get her to calm down as best I can when she starts screaming at her boyfriend to put his smurfing knife away and I turn around to see him brandishing his knife walking towards me. This never should have happened. I never should have let the guy out of my sight for an instant, but I was tired and it had been a long night up to this point. I made a rookie mistake and almost got knifed. I hate having to pull my gun, but smurf this, it was out and it took all the self control I had not to pistol whip the guy. I know, once again, I was exhausted and in need of some real sleep. Anyways, he was arrested, is going up on A LOT of charges and well, thanks to this little stunt, I won't be having to deal with him for a long time. He's totally getting remanded. There's no way he got any sort of bail.

The bad part is all the paperwork I now have to do.

And the almost getting my throat slit, stabbed, whatever he intended to do. That sucked too.

What town do you work in Frankie? It sounds alot like where I live. (reservation)
I've had knives pulled on me, and even a loaded gun pointed at my face. I'd say I was close to being murdered about two times now. I'm not even an officer of the law!

Jul 10, 2009#315

CynicismKills

Cajungal said:
Tuna was a bad decision.

MILK WAS A BAD CHOICE

Jul 10, 2009#316

Cajungal

Jul 10, 2009#317

V.Bond

CynicismKills said:
WERCUM TO DA JUNGER, WE GAT FUNIN GAAAAAAYMES

WE GAT EVRYTHIN YWAN WIGGABUGGADEE BUGGIN BLAMES

This made my day, honestly.

Jul 10, 2009#318

Rob King

This homecare thing has been really interesting.

For the last two days, I've been supervising visits by parents who have had their children taken away from them. Not really homecare, but it's something my company does, and it pays, so I don't complain.

Anyhow, aside from initial awkwardness (which is to be expected when I show up with a person's child and say "hi, now I will sit on your couch and make sure you are able to look after your own flesh and blood.") it's been pretty good. The couple I was with today were amazing, and I cannot imagine why their child could have possibly been taken away. It's not my job to determine anything like that, of course, but they just seemed so loving and friendly.

The family I was with yesterday were great. The parents were immigrants, and they had four children. At the end of it all, the mother (who has custody of the children) told me I seemed like I would be a great father. That was truly the most affecting compliment I've received in a very long time, even if I'm way too young to be thinking that way. (I've also been trying not to dwell on the fact that the children's father needs to be supervised when he visits, and thus, a potted plant might be a better father in this woman's eyes.)

Not so much of a rant, but I felt like sharing with someone.

Jul 10, 2009#319

Vagabond said:
CynicismKills said:

WERCUM TO DA JUNGER, WE GAT FUNIN GAAAAAAYMES

WE GAT EVRYTHIN YWAN WIGGABUGGADEE BUGGIN BLAMES

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This made my day, honestly.

I concur, this was excellent.

Jul 10, 2009#320

CynicismKills

ZenMonkey said:
Vagabond said:

CynicismKills said:

WERCUM TO DA JUNGER, WE GAT FUNIN GAAAAAAYMES

WE GAT EVRYTHIN YWAN WIGGABUGGADEE BUGGIN BLAMES

Click to expand...

This made my day, honestly.

Click to expand...

I concur, this was excellent.

To this day I have no idea what the hell he's saying in 90% of that song. I prefer to make it up myself. :uhhuh:

Jul 10, 2009#321

DarkAudit

CynicismKills said:
ZenMonkey said:

Vagabond said:

CynicismKills said:

WERCUM TO DA JUNGER, WE GAT FUNIN GAAAAAAYMES

WE GAT EVRYTHIN YWAN WIGGABUGGADEE BUGGIN BLAMES

Click to expand...

This made my day, honestly.

Click to expand...

I concur, this was excellent.

Click to expand...

To this day I have no idea what the hell he's saying in 90% of that song. I prefer to make it up myself. :uhhuh:

Jul 10, 2009#322

CynicismKills

DarkAudit said:
CynicismKills said:

ZenMonkey said:

Vagabond said:

This made my day, honestly.

Click to expand...

I concur, this was excellent.

Click to expand...

To this day I have no idea what the hell he's saying in 90% of that song. I prefer to make it up myself. :uhhuh:

Click to expand...

I have the collection with that strip in it somewhere. I love that comic.

Jul 11, 2009#323

Frankie Williamson

Cajungal said:
I'm glad you're ok.

I'm perfectly fine. Thanks for your concern though. It's not something we hear a lot of. On the positive side, the guy spent the day in cells yelling about how he almost bagged him a cop and how if he ever has the oppurtunity again he will finish the job. So, my co-members just put a tape recorder on the guard desk and got a good amount of what he was yelling on tape. This guy is fucked. Another charge. He got remand without bail too. Fuck him.

Jul 11, 2009#324

Rob King

Frankie said:
Cajungal said:

I'm glad you're ok.

Click to expand...

I'm perfectly fine. Thanks for your concern though. It's not something we hear a lot of. On the positive side, the guy spent the day in cells yelling about how he almost bagged him a cop and how if he ever has the oppurtunity again he will finish the job. So, my co-members just put a tape recorder on the guard desk and got a good amount of what he was yelling on tape. This guy is fucked. Another charge. He got remand without bail too. Fuck him.

This guy doesn't sound like a particularly bright specimen. My heart breaks for the average iq of your town. This guy must be dragging it waaay down.

Jul 11, 2009#325

AshburnerX

Lately I've been trying to patch things up with that woman I'm sure your all sick of me talking about and things have been going well. We're talking more and things are more relaxed between us, even if I still get the occasional twinges of pain from some of the things she says. Things aren't as good as they used to be but they are getting better and that's encouraging for me. It really gives me hope that maybe some day, things will be right between us... that someday we might be able to be the same kind of friends we used to be.

So anyway, she calls me up about 3pm today. Apparently she got arrested on Friday for shoplifting. Two women who worked at the place she was at saw her and confronted her about it, at which point she admitted it and surrendered. They then violently accosted her and handcuffed her, damaging her arm (she had been seeing a chiropractor about pains in it and her hand.) She gets picked up by the police, spends a tearful night in jail, but eventually gets released because they simply didn't have the space to keep her for the moment. She gets a court date and all of that... but here's a problem: Somebody trumped the charges from her misdemeanor to ROBBERY 3, which carries a 6 month sentence. She's understandably upset about this... not only is she looking at losing 6 months of her life, but the two women who assaulted her (and that's what it was, Assault, as they weren't licensed officers of the law) may have seriously hurt her arm. It's been discolored ever since she got back home.

Anyways, after she gets done talking to me about this, she jokingly (or perhaps not so jokingly) says that if she can't fight the charge and gets the 6 months, she's going to try and run. Here's how the conversation went from there:

"OK... well if I don't hear from you for awhile, at least I'll know why."

"Well you could always twitter (her boyfriend) for info, you know."

"*sigh* If I must."

"One of these days your going to see that (her boyfriend) is an alright guy, Michael."

"Look (her name)... I don't have a problem with him. This is an issue with me and my feelings, not him."

"I know. OK, look... do you like me?"

"Of course I do. Your my closest friend."

"And you'd do anything you could for me, right?"

"There is a line."

*jokingly* "Oh really... a line huh?"

I'd been dreading her asking me a question like this for some time now. Before all of this happened, there would have been no question: I'd have done everything I could have for her... and even afterward I'd have still done what I could have for her, but she has been pushing this crap with her boyfriend for months now. She has shown a callus disregard for my feelings through all of this and I've been having a hard time explaining to her just what the problem is with me being around her boyfriend (that I feel like he must be so much better than me that it triggers self-destructive desires in me whenever I even think about being around him). After all the pain she'd put me through... after all the lies she'd told me, all the times she had intentionally mislead me, and most of all, all the pushing she has been doing ever since this has all started, there was only one thing I could say: "There is now."

She got real quiet then and then quickly said goodbye. I had clearly hurt her feelings.

So here's what I don't get... Why do I feel bad about doing it? Why do I feel guilty about hurting her feelings when she hasn't shown me any compassion through all of this ordeal? Why do I feel like -I- should be apologizing, when I haven't done anything wrong?

Sorry for posting this... but hey, at least it's not a Manbaw this time! :slywink:

Jul 11, 2009#326

Krisken

I didn't say anything in the other thread Ash, so I'll say it here. Get away from this chick. I would bet 10:1 that she's a sociopath.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to walk away from a situation that could ruin your life for a very long time.

Jul 11, 2009#327

AshburnerX

Krisken said:
I didn't say anything in the other thread Ash, so I'll say it here. Get away from this chick. I would bet 10:1 that she's a sociopath.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to walk away from a situation that could ruin your life for a very long time.

I know full well what she is. I've always known... and as it is, I don't have any romantic inclinations for her anymore, based mainly on the fact that I can't trust her anymore (if i ever could). It also helps that she's on the other side of the country at the moment, so we basically talk mainly through Twitter and phone calls.

I understand your concern, but don't worry... she drives me nuts but it's not like she's physically in my life... and I am prepared for her if she tries to cross it.

Jul 12, 2009#328

Cajungal

You feel bad because she's your friend and you'd like to be able to do anything for your friends. But if you were to ask my opinion I'd say that you said the right thing. It's not easy to say what's right. One of my favorite teachers told me once that we need fewer nicepeople in this world--meaning people who will do or say anything to make someone feel good rather than telling the truth/what needs to be said.

She sounds like trouble, but it also sounds like you're handling it. If she runs, for God's sake don't let her in your house.

Jul 12, 2009#329

AshburnerX

Cajungal said:
She sounds like trouble, but it also sounds like you're handling it. If she runs, for God's sake don't let her in your house.

No shit. If she does run, I'd be willing to talk to her on the phone or something, but I'd never let her in my parents house. If it were just me, I might have been tempted... but I am not willing to risk my parents freedom to help her.

Jul 12, 2009#330

HCGLNS

Rant: No yeast whole wheat flatbread hippie buns, low fat caloried counted burgers, lite beer with lime in it? It's like my entire childhood has dissolved into a puddle of wuss. Odds bobs hammer and tongs I need a cigar.

Jul 12, 2009#331

Krisken

HCGLNS said:
Rant: No yeast whole wheat flatbread hippie buns, low fat caloried counted burgers, lite beer with lime in it? It's like my entire childhood has dissolved into a puddle of wuss. Odds bobs hammer and tongs I need a cigar.

This post is *1000 times better with that avatar. That is all.

Jul 12, 2009#332

DarkAudit

Any beer that needs a lime in it right out of the fridge is not worthy of the name beer. :humph:

Jul 12, 2009#333

CynicismKills

Was interested in this girl I had known from my previous move to GA. I thought she had matured thanks to college and living on her own, but after the last visit with her I was wrong. No mind-to-mouth filter, my friends can't stand her, and she still doesn't have a sense of humor.

Jul 12, 2009#334

Tress

DarkAudit said:
Any beer that needs a lime in it right out of the fridge is not worthy of the name beer. :humph:

Sooooo true. So very true.

Jul 12, 2009#335

Jesus fucking Christ, Ash! What the fuck does this chick need to do for you to realize that she may be a lost cause? Look at it this way, if you JUST MET her, would you hang out with her?

Look at what she's doing right now, sucking pity out of you, talking about her arm hurting and shit. Do you have ANY OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY other than her pity party stories?!? Dude, take it from the old guy -RUN!

Jul 14, 2009#336

Tress

My father had to be rushed to the ER today due to chest pains. After extensive tests it turned out to be a muscle tear near the rib cage rather than something to do with his heart. Still, I spent the better part of the day freaking out. Blech.

Jul 14, 2009#337

Tress said:
My father had to be rushed to the ER today due to chest pains. After extensive tests it turned out to be a muscle tear near the rib cage rather than something to do with his heart. Still, I spent the better part of the day freaking out. Blech.

Oh no, how scary! Glad it was nothing too serious.

Jul 14, 2009#338

Cajungal

Whew... glad it wasn't heart trouble. How's he feelin?

Jul 14, 2009#339

Tress

Cajungal said:
Whew... glad it wasn't heart trouble. How's he feelin?

He claims to be feeling better, but he's of the old school tough-guy mindset. He won't discuss how he's feeling unless he absolutely has to. He thinks showing any sign of pain or weakness would cause some kind of problem or inconvenience for us, so he won't do it whenever possible. He could be hit by lightning, get up, and bark at everyone who looked concerned about how it's no big deal.

I actually think he is feeling better, though. So that's a good sign.

Thanks guys.

Jul 14, 2009#340

Tress...don't post again.

(look at your user rank)

Jul 14, 2009#341

strawman

ZenMonkey said:
Tress...don't post again.

(look at your user rank)

I don't know ZM. You're a nice person and all, but calling someone rank is just not tactful.

-Adam

Jul 14, 2009#342

Aisaku

I hate... I really really hate SMT Devil Survivor, it's too hard! I enjoy the story a lot, the way it lets you pick your own path to end the game, but for every 5 minutes of story there's hours of levelling and preparation to finish a single fight. Of course not all fights are that bad, as the story progresses it gets harder and harder to the point you have to pretty much redo your team every single fight. Preparation can pretty much go on forever since it's not only your human allies, but their demons, bred and made stronger thru merging them together, levelling them again, rinse and repeat ad nauseum. Of course, you're supposed to rely on your main character, who deals the most damage of all characters. But guess what? I screwed myself over by making him a physical hitter, they let you choose your stats but in the long run the bigger bosses resist physical damage, are made to be taken down with magic.

So I'm close to the end but with little to no hope of survival unless I spend around 10 hours or more per fight. :slap:

I'm out, I'm putting it down until I get a vacation or a reliable faq. :zoid:

Jul 14, 2009#343

CynicismKills

Why does the coolest girl I've ever known have to live 12 hours away? And in a month she'll be back in CA while I'm here in GA.

Jul 15, 2009#344

Enresshou

Getting ready for, and applying to, graduate school is a pain in the ass. I have no idea where I'm going to end up, I don't even find out if I was accepted anywhere for another six months bare minimum, and I'm going to be spending about $700 on applications (and another $140-180 to send my GRE scores to these schools...fuck you, ETS, for your monopoly and bleeding students dry).

To top it all off--there's a damn good chance that this will be my fourth good relationship in a row to die because of distance. First was her being out of state, second was me moving back from Japan, third was her moving across the country, now I'm probably going out of state because of the massive suck of the California economy and the fact that the one in-state school I'm applying to is already hard as hell to get into.

I really wish I could speed up the next six months of my life and get all this shit over with.

Jul 16, 2009#345

strawman

Silly cat tangled with a skunk.

-Adam

Jul 16, 2009#346

Jake

stienman said:
Silly cat tangled with a skunk.

-Adam

They all eventually give in to that French accent.

Jul 16, 2009#347

AshburnerX

Jul 16, 2009#348

Cajungal

GARRGHINFLABBIN.

:angry:

Jul 16, 2009#349

HCGLNS

Cajungal said:
GARRGHINFLABBIN.

:angry:

I also dislike oversalted gumbo.

:angry:

Jul 16, 2009#350

Cajungal

HCGLNS said:
Cajungal said:

GARRGHINFLABBIN.

:angry:

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I also dislike oversalted gumbo.

:angry:

I didn't know you spoke AngryLeslie-ese.

Jul 17, 2009#351

David

So for those of you who don't know, I'm in an advanced animation class who's goal is to create a complete animated short by the end of the semester. This class occurs only one semester every 2 to 3 years, and for good reason: the prerequisite to get in is to finish all classes in either the 3DS Max or Softimage XSI branches, plus a photoshop class. It's intended for those of us who have received a Digital Animator certificate and are seriously considering this as a career. It is NOT meant for first-semester animation students.

So this guy was strolling around the classroom looking for something he could do. He was watching me work over my shoulder, I ask him why he doesn't mess around with the models and see if he can animate something funny to go into the blooper reel.
him: "I can't animate."

Okay, understandable, animation isn't everybody's strong point.

me: "Than pick a model that needs a texture and put a texture on it."
him: "I can't texture."

Seriously? Okay...

me: "Some of the models looks like crap, why don't you see if you can pick one and make it better?"
him: "I can't model."

...what?

me: "Than open photoshop and help us draw something to put into the credits."
him: "I dunno how to use photoshop."

Dude... that was the one prerequisite EVERYBODY had to have regardless of which 3D program they learned...

me: "How the hell did you even get INTO this class??"
him: "Steve signed me an add slip."

So apparently Steve (3DS MAX teacher), who told me this was the highest level animation class at the college, decided to hand out add slips to his first semester students like candy. It seems even the students who didn't even pay attention in the very first class, which covered basic box modeling quite thoroughly. There are at least 3 or 4 other people in the class like this guy, who doesn't really have any idea what they're doing.

That's just not fair to the rest of us pulling these guys' weight. :explode:

Jul 17, 2009#352

strawman

He's just acclimating you to the conditions you'll find in the industry once you leave school.

:tongue:

-Adam

Jul 19, 2009#353

CynicismKills

Why is it when everything seems like it can't possibly get any better that it all comes crashing back down?

Jul 19, 2009#354

David

stienman said:
He's just acclimating you to the conditions you'll find in the industry once you leave school.

:tongue:

-Adam

I would hope in real-life conditions these guys would be quickly fired. There's absolutely no excuse to be in that class and not be able to even bother trying to model something. If you sign up to be in a group project like this saying at the very least you know how to work the software, you damn well better know how to work the software.

Jul 19, 2009#355

David

And dammit, I just lost my stylus.

Jul 20, 2009#356

Cheesy1

How in the world does something that seemed so right go so wrong so quickly? :tear:

Jul 20, 2009#357

Rob King

You just gotta love being an afterthought!

During my first year of University, I made friends with a girl from my church, and her boyfriend who came from away. For about six months, we hung out every other night. On average, I'd say 4 nights a week were spent with this guy, slightly less with the girl. I counted him as my very best friend, and he helped bring me through a very dark time. (My parents had just separated, I was new to the city, and university, and I was going through some serious depression)

Anyhow, eventually his girlfriend moved away for six months so she could participate in some overseas learning experience. He, not having any other real tie to the city, decided to move back to Ontario for the time being. We said our goodbyes, were sad, and that was that. Circumstances have changed here and there, and it's happened that neither have them have moved back for any extended period.

Neither of us are very good at keeping in contact, but we tried. I've seen him a few times in the two years since then, but it's just not the same, of course. And that's fine. He's still a very important person to me and everything, but we're not living in a situation where we can maintain the same relationship we had.

So. They got engaged a year ago. They're getting married in a month, and they're flying here for the wedding. Some of my friends are bridesmaids, so I've gotten to hear about preparations from time to time, and the general excitement surrounding getting married. I heard when the invitations were in the mail and ... never got one.

I know several people who have gotten invites, and some of them baffle me. People I couldn't imagine having any sort of close relationship with the bride or groom, and yet, are invited.

Since they're going to be in town a few weeks before the wedding, I've emailed them both, and have been catching up. I haven't brought up not being invited, but I have to admit it hurt my feelings that I wasn't.

Now today, from a reply she sent:

Ok, so our guest list was pretty full with family and such but now a bunch of them can't make it because of the distance. Anyway, so we have some extra space and we wanted to know if you can come to the wedding?

I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. So glad to know I'm a backup.

Jul 20, 2009#358

strawman

Rob King said:
I haven't brought up not being invited, but I have to admit it hurt my feelings that I wasn't.

Now today, from a reply she sent:

Ok, so our guest list was pretty full with family and such but now a bunch of them can't make it because of the distance. Anyway, so we have some extra space and we wanted to know if you can come to the wedding?

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I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. So glad to know I'm a backup.

:blue:

Ugh. Well, at least you know how they feel about you, which is worth something.

Man. The nerve of some people.

-Adam

Jul 20, 2009#359

Bubble181

Well, this place has been pretty calm lately, apparently. But, don't fear, your local manbaww is back from a week in France!
So, anyway, spent a week in the south of France with some friends...Some things I just don't get. I don't really like the heat (it was 45°C there, which reduces me to a complete wreck...113 Fahrenheit, for the crazy folk out there). I just gave in to going to the south of France (again) because all of my friends wanted to go. Now, it turns out, the two main people in the group really can't handle the heat either. And two others don't like it much. And another two didn't really mind, but would've preferred going someplace else where they hadn't been yet. So...In a group of 9, why are we going here? :eyeroll:
Secondly, some of them really turned out to be differen than I thought. My friend who's always the one to drag me out of my house after work, when I just want to relax, turned out to not wwant to do anything at all during the vacation. He wouldn't even go along on a hike! What's the point of going halfway across the continent if you're going to spend all your time indoors, reading, sleeping, or playing computer games? I can do all those more comfortably closer to home! Gah!
Next up, foir heaven's sake, would culture kill you? In all of the group, there was only one guy besides me interested in going to see a museum, cathedral, or castle? It's the bloody south of France, it's full of historically interesting stuff. I'm not my mother, I don't want to spend my vacation seeing every ruin in a 50 mile radius, but would it have killed some of the others to go along? Blegh.
In the end, most of the time was spent doing nothing - we managed to get out of the house maybe three or four times in a week. I was bored! Come on, it's vacation, DO SOMETHING. :explode:

Next rant in a different tone:
I'm sure that even those of you who read this sort off things are, by now, sick of reading about my ex, but I can't help thinking about her lately. I's been just a year now since we broke up, tomorrow would've been our 4 year anniversary, and we spent our two year anniversary in the south of France, where I just got back from, so all in all, I guess it's not abnormal that I think about her these days, but it's bloody annoying. I know she's bad news, I know she has more bad than good sides to her, and yet I practically find myself falling in love all over again, not wirth *her* (haven't seen her in almost two months) but with an idealized version of her in my mind. I know she's nothing like that in real life, and I still find myself going that way. It's BLOODY STUPID.
On an only slightly related note, she's now been unreachable for almost two months by any of h er friends at college - I'm the only one with her home phone, so I called her once, got her mother, who assured me everything was fine. I heard her for about 10 seconds and she promised to recharge her cellphone and get on line and actually take up contact again, but she still hasn't. I don't know if I should be seriously concerned (she was semi-suicidal and cutting herself and whatever last time I saw her, after all), relieved that I'm not seeing her anymore (like that's working for the whole "forget her" bit...heh), or what. Seeking her out seems like a relatively smart thing to do, but it also reeks of self-destructiveness. Just ignoring the fact that she's apparently shielded herself almost completely from her previous friends and all that seems wrong, but calling her up seems somewhat wrong too - and is almost certainly a bad idea for me.
I dunno.

Third rant; more related to the first than the second but oh well: I know I'm difficult to live with sometimes. I'm not the most positive and radiant of people at the best of times. And I do tend to make fun of myself and drag myself down. All bad things, yes, yes. Still, spending a whole week with people whio aren't close family had been a very long time for me, and , frankly, hearing repeated over and over how you'd basically be the one they'd miss least, brings least to the table, doesn't belong in the group, is the outcast, and so on and so forth, really gets old and starts wearing you down after a while. Honestly, I know half of it's true, but...Geh.

Jul 20, 2009#360

Espy

stienman said:
Rob King said:

I haven't brought up not being invited, but I have to admit it hurt my feelings that I wasn't.

Now today, from a reply she sent:

Ok, so our guest list was pretty full with family and such but now a bunch of them can't make it because of the distance. Anyway, so we have some extra space and we wanted to know if you can come to the wedding?

Click to expand...

I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. So glad to know I'm a backup.

Click to expand...

:blue:

Ugh. Well, at least you know how they feel about you, which is worth something.

Man. The nerve of some people.

-Adam

AGREED. I would politely say no thanks, you already have plans.

Jul 20, 2009#361

Mr_Chaz

Espy said:
stienman said:

Rob King said:

I haven't brought up not being invited, but I have to admit it hurt my feelings that I wasn't.

Now today, from a reply she sent:

Ok, so our guest list was pretty full with family and such but now a bunch of them can't make it because of the distance. Anyway, so we have some extra space and we wanted to know if you can come to the wedding?

Click to expand...

I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. So glad to know I'm a backup.

Click to expand...

:blue:

Ugh. Well, at least you know how they feel about you, which is worth something.

Man. The nerve of some people.

-Adam

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AGREED. I would politely say no thanks, you already have plans.

Tell them that you're washing your suicide note that day, should get their notice.

Bubble181 said:
On an only slightly related note, she's now been unreachable for almost two months by any of h er friends at college - I'm the only one with her home phone, so I called her once, got her mother, who assured me everything was fine. I heard her for about 10 seconds and she promised to recharge her cellphone and get on line and actually take up contact again, but she still hasn't. I don't know if I should be seriously concerned (she was semi-suicidal and cutting herself and whatever last time I saw her, after all), relieved that I'm not seeing her anymore (like that's working for the whole "forget her" bit...heh), or what. Seeking her out seems like a relatively smart thing to do, but it also reeks of self-destructiveness. Just ignoring the fact that she's apparently shielded herself almost completely from her previous friends and all that seems wrong, but calling her up seems somewhat wrong too - and is almost certainly a bad idea for me.
I dunno.

Could you pass her home number onto one of her concerned friends? That way you can make sure that she's reminded there are people who care, without having to get involved yourself. Maybe ask that friend not to say they got the number from you.

Jul 20, 2009#362

Wasabi Poptart

Rob King said:
Neither of us are very good at keeping in contact, but we tried. I've seen him a few times in the two years since then, but it's just not the same, of course. And that's fine.

I know several people who have gotten invites, and some of them baffle me. People I couldn't imagine having any sort of close relationship with the bride or groom, and yet, are invited.

1. If you haven't really kept in touch until recently and your relationship with them is not the same as it once was, then maybe that's why you weren't on the first round list. I wouldn't invite people to my wedding that I haven't heard much from in the last 2 years. Given the cost of a reception, I would only want friends I actively am in contact with and relatives to be there.

2. Are you sure these other people who were invited don't have a close relationship with the couple or at least stays in contact with them more often? Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean they aren't more social with this couple or haven't otherwise continued their friendship with them.

I don't think they way she approached you about being invited to the wedding now that people have sent their regrets was the right thing to do. Honestly, it was completely lacking tact to tell you that there are now openings in the guest list as if you're second rate. However, if you value their friendship and plan to try to see them more often socially (or at least make more of an effort to keep in touch), then you may want to consider the invitation. If not, then chalk it up to old friends who have grown apart, politely decline the invite, and move on.

Jul 20, 2009#363

Rob King

WildSoul said:
1. If you haven't really kept in touch until recently and your relationship with them is not the same as it once was, then maybe that's why you weren't on the first round list. I wouldn't invite people to my wedding that I haven't heard much from in the last 2 years. Given the cost of a reception, I would only want friends I actively am in contact with and relatives to be there.

2. Are you sure these other people who were invited don't have a close relationship with the couple or at least stays in contact with them more often? Just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean they aren't more social with this couple or haven't otherwise continued their friendship with them.

I don't think they way she approached you about being invited to the wedding now that people have sent their regrets was the right thing to do. Honestly, it was completely lacking tact to tell you that there are now openings in the guest list as if you're second rate. However, if you value their friendship and plan to try to see them more often socially (or at least make more of an effort to keep in touch), then you may want to consider the invitation. If not, then chalk it up to old friends who have grown apart, politely decline the invite, and move on.

Perhaps you're right. Maybe everyone who got an invite have legitimate reasons to get them. And I could have been overlooked because of how we've drifted. Heck, I've verbally acknowledged the fact that the nature of my relationship to the groom has changed in the last few years. Maybe that pissed someone off. It could have been some of the drama that's gone on in the last two years while the bride and groom have been away: I dated one of the bridesmaids, we had a nasty breakup. Then when I showed interest in another one of the bridesmaids, she lead me on, and later got mad at me for being interested at all. So there might be some influence from the bridal party as well.

There might be a handful of reasons that I didn't get invited to the wedding. But none of them strike me as good reasons from where I'm sitting. I might feel differently if someone gave me a comprehensive history of why I wasn't invited, but I doubt it.

Because at the end of the day, looking at the portion of the guest list that I know of, and making judgments based on what I know of the relationship between bride/groom and guests - even trying to account for the possibility of some secret relationship that is completely hidden to me - I am utterly baffled and insulted.

Jul 20, 2009#364

There are tons of reasons why people do and don't get invited to weddings, and in my own experience organizing ours, many of those reasons are not personal. There are lots of people you are de facto required to invite, and with space considerations some people you would really like to have there just don't make it onto the first invite group.

Heck, I've verbally acknowledged the fact that the nature of my relationship to the groom has changed in the last few years. Maybe that pissed someone off. It could have been some of the drama that's gone on in the last two years while the bride and groom have been away: I dated one of the bridesmaids, we had a nasty breakup. Then when I showed interest in another one of the bridesmaids, she lead me on, and later got mad at me for being interested at all. So there might be some influence from the bridal party as well.

Ah. You didn't mention this part earlier. So not entirely a mystery, then.

Jul 20, 2009#365

Rob King

ZenMonkey said:
Ah. You didn't mention this part earlier. So not entirely a mystery, then.

Maybe.

The drama is all so old at this point, though, that the only reason it would be an issue at this point is because one bridesmaid is an utter child, and I guess - in the spirit of pretending like they're all still best buds - the bride and other bridesmaid had to cave to her juvenile ways?

If this ever comes out to be the reason ... I'll be even more disappointed than if it was an oversight. I would have expected two people who are getting married to at least act like adults.

Whatever. It feels like I'm losing ground here, and eventually it'll be clear that I'm whining about nothing. It's just a horrible feeling when you realize that two people who you feel are important to you, don't think you're so important.

Jul 20, 2009#366

Cajungal

Stupid campus jaywalkers. It was a game of chicken. There was a crosswalk 5 feet away, and my light was green. On the main campus road, there are signs that way "Yield to Vehicles". There's literally a crosswalk at every block. Do you really have to leap out in front of me, making dirty eyes at me too, pretty much daring me to run over your ass? I know I should be kind... I have the upper hand in the vehicle, but people like that are the reason for gridlock traffic on campus.

Jul 20, 2009#367

Rob King said:
ZenMonkey said:

Ah. You didn't mention this part earlier. So not entirely a mystery, then.

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Maybe.

The drama is all so old at this point, though, that the only reason it would be an issue at this point is because one bridesmaid is an utter child, and I guess - in the spirit of pretending like they're all still best buds - the bride and other bridesmaid had to cave to her juvenile ways?

If this ever comes out to be the reason ... I'll be even more disappointed than if it was an oversight. I would have expected two people who are getting married to at least act like adults.

Whatever. It feels like I'm losing ground here, and eventually it'll be clear that I'm whining about nothing. It's just a horrible feeling when you realize that two people who you feel are important to you, don't think you're so important.

My wife and I forgot to invite the parents of my best friend, who was the best man. I basically spent every waking moment at their house and I didn't invite them! I still feel like crap to this day.

Jul 20, 2009#368

Gusto

Cajungal said:
Stupid campus jaywalkers. It was a game of chicken. There was a crosswalk 5 feet away, and my light was green. On the main campus road, there are signs that way "Yield to Vehicles". There's literally a crosswalk at every block. Do you really have to leap out in front of me, making dirty eyes at me too, pretty much daring me to run over your ass? I know I should be kind... I have the upper hand in the vehicle, but people like that are the reason for gridlock traffic on campus.

Run they ass down.

Jul 20, 2009#369

Cajungal

Sounds like that bridesmaid could have something to do with it.

Maybe they were genuinely glad that someone rsvp'd 'no' and they had a spot for you after all. The cutoff has to be somewhere for a wedding, and if y'all had lost touch, they might have figured you would understand. When my sister got engaged, she sent a few people announcements who were not invited. She talked to them, apologized, and just explained that she would have loved to invite everybody, but the money wasn't there. Sometimes a call like that is nice; that way you know you were at least thought of.

-- Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:30 pm --

:rofl:

I had a dream that I ran over someone on campus last year... that turned me into a less aggressive driver for a while.

Jul 20, 2009#370

Espy

I cannot tell you the number of people I almost run over every day on the UofM campus.

Here's a hint: It's not a low number.

Jul 20, 2009#371

Allen, who is Quiet

somewhere between eight and eighty?

Jul 20, 2009#372

Too hot in the house to exist. Cloistered in bedroom with a/c. Body temp is yo-yoing like it does when I'm in a flare. Sweatshirt is on off on off on off on off. I need a day off from my illness please.

Jul 20, 2009#373

HCGLNS

Rant: My child is a ninja! My three year old daughter, managed to get up out of bed, open the office door, walk up to my chair and stick her head under my arm, without me noticing and go "Daddy water please." Took another decade off my life!

Jul 20, 2009#374

Krisken

HCGLNS said:
Rant: My child is a ninja! My three year old daughter, managed to get up out of bed, open the office door, walk up to my chair and stick her head under my arm, without me noticing and go "Daddy water please." Took another decade off my life!

Rant? Dammit, your daughter is a NINJA. That's EPIC FUCKING WIN!!

Jul 20, 2009#375

Cajungal

^_^ That's super cute.

And Zen- *hugs*

Jul 20, 2009#376

EpicEpileptic

So I was at $1 Burger Night at one of the Ale Houses near where I live and it's really one of the only nights I can cut loose with the alcohol consumption cause I'm not the DD (This is something we do on a weekly basis). So I'm slightly inebriated and I'm with three friends and I call shotgun, and my friend who's driving says his "Shotgun Rule" is who ever is buckled in the front seat when he's driving off gets the front seat. So me and my other friend, slightly drunk, wrestle for the front seat and I win. The guy decides to punch me in the groin, claiming he was aiming for my stomach. This whole little ball punch fiasco has pretty much confirmed my belief that he doesn't really respect me at all. I've know the guy since I was in second grade, (we're 23 years now) and he's always been kind of a dick and would always just sort of brush me off, bu the whole punch to the groin was new and low, even for him.

I don't think I have ever sobered up so fast in my life.

Side Note:
HCGLNS, You're daughter is a freakin' ninja! That's awesome and adorable! She can be your security system now!

Jul 20, 2009#377

Cajungal

So did you get him back?

Jul 20, 2009#378

EpicEpileptic

Cajungal said:
So did you get him back?

I was in too much pain to retaliate immediately, I can't remember the last time I was hit square in the balls with a direct hit. I might give him a swift kick in the nuts next time we meet though.

Jul 20, 2009#379

HCGLNS

Gaaah! She just did it again! :aaahhh:

Jul 20, 2009#380

Cheesy1

LOL!

That is awesome! :rofl:

Jul 20, 2009#381

Krisken

HCGLNS said:
Gaaah! She just did it again! :aaahhh:

Sooo.... how long until she's for hire? I hear there is a market for those skills.

Jul 21, 2009#382

Mr_Chaz

Edrondol said:
Rob King said:

ZenMonkey said:

Ah. You didn't mention this part earlier. So not entirely a mystery, then.

Click to expand...

Maybe.

The drama is all so old at this point, though, that the only reason it would be an issue at this point is because one bridesmaid is an utter child, and I guess - in the spirit of pretending like they're all still best buds - the bride and other bridesmaid had to cave to her juvenile ways?

If this ever comes out to be the reason ... I'll be even more disappointed than if it was an oversight. I would have expected two people who are getting married to at least act like adults.

Whatever. It feels like I'm losing ground here, and eventually it'll be clear that I'm whining about nothing. It's just a horrible feeling when you realize that two people who you feel are important to you, don't think you're so important.

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My wife and I forgot to invite the parents of my best friend, who was the best man. I basically spent every waking moment at their house and I didn't invite them! I still feel like crap to this day.

One of my old housemates (lived with him until 2 years ago) got married this week. He hadn't even told me the date. That kinda stings. Not a lot, we weren't hugely close, but a bit.

Jul 21, 2009#383

Jake

HCGLNS said:
Rant: My child is a ninja! My three year old daughter, managed to get up out of bed, open the office door, walk up to my chair and stick her head under my arm, without me noticing and go "Daddy water please." Took another decade off my life!

My 2-year-old daughter also has some mean ninja skills. She mostly uses them for pickpocketing (where did my phone go? again?) and general daredevil-ing. Last night I was sitting in a chair and she climbed up my back, stood up on my shoulders, and jumped onto the couch. As my friend says, she's an MRI waiting to happen.

Jul 21, 2009#384

Espy

So my band is trying to release an EP. We are a industrial rock band with an emphasis on the rock. The single we are hoping to release is a pretty dark cover of "I'm a Believer", we just have to finish up getting the rights to release it (which we will get, it's just a hassle to deal with Sony who own Neil Young's rights). So I've been trying to mix everything myself but it's a HUGE task and I'm taking forever. So I contact this guy who I found who has a great resume and his mixed work sounds awesome. He asked for a sample of one of the more industrial (read: complex) files. So I sent him one of the other songs off the EP and he liked it. Said he'd love to mix it for about 100 bucks a song (which, in my limited experience isn't terrible).
So why am I ranting about it?
He said it reminded him of the new Christ Cornell stuff, but minus the Timbaland.

Jul 21, 2009#385

Bubble181

If you want to truely develop this talent you've found in your daughter, you need to send her to a decent master for training. I think Shego would be happy to take her in for a while :-P

Jul 21, 2009#386

Cajungal

Not a rant, just.... slightly saddening in a stupid way.

I just bent over in a pair of linen pants, and they totally split. They weren't even tight. It's just a disheartening feeling when your pants split. :tear: It wasn't even on a damn seam, either! The fabric just fuckin RIPPED! Cost 30$, damnit....

Jul 21, 2009#387

CynicismKills

Cajungal said:
Not a rant, just.... slightly saddening in a stupid way.

I just bent over in a pair of linen pants, and they totally split. They weren't even tight. It's just a disheartening feeling when your pants split. :tear: It wasn't even on a damn seam, either! The fabric just fuckin RIPPED! Cost 30$, damnit....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgIYjd8Kq38:13257zc0][/youtube:13257zc0]

Jul 21, 2009#388

Chazwozel

Cajungal said:
Not a rant, just.... slightly saddening in a stupid way.

I just bent over in a pair of linen pants, and they totally split. They weren't even tight. It's just a disheartening feeling when your pants split. :tear: It wasn't even on a damn seam, either! The fabric just fuckin RIPPED! Cost 30$, damnit....

I had that happen once. Fucking tight ass Levi's

Jul 21, 2009#389

CynicismKills

Chazwozel said:
Cajungal said:

Not a rant, just.... slightly saddening in a stupid way.

I just bent over in a pair of linen pants, and they totally split. They weren't even tight. It's just a disheartening feeling when your pants split. :tear: It wasn't even on a damn seam, either! The fabric just fuckin RIPPED! Cost 30$, damnit....

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I had that happen once. Fucking tight ass Levi's

To be serious, I have too, and it sucks. I was at work back when I was a Merchandise Pickup associate at Sears, and had to climb up some shelves to get something. Didn't pull my shorts (Dickies, they went below the knee) up above my knees before I knelt down and ripped them right up the inseam. had to show my boss so I could go home and get new pants, embarrassing as all hell.

Jul 21, 2009#390

Lally

I'm burning some CDs for my boyfriend's car and I want to get them done by Thursday because we're going out of town. My CD drive stopped working on my laptop a couple weeks/a month ago. If I ask to use his computer he's going to yell at me for not getting it fixed yet under my laptop's warranty. So while I'm visiting my parents I planned on burning the CDs from my mom's computer. Also, I said I'd make him a CD that had all the studio albums of a band that we both really like. But of course, I don't have their latest CD on my computer because it came out after this problem happened with my laptop and I don't have it with me at my parents' house. All I have on here is a downloaded demo that leaked before the album came out (I still bought it -- support my band and all), which is ever so slightly different. I could probably put it on the CD and he wouldn't realize it, but I would know it was different and I'm too much of a perfectionist to deal with it.

So long story long I have to wait and come back to burn at least the most important of the CDs I said I'd make.

Another minor petty rant brought to you by Lally: If It's Not Worth Complaining About, She'll Do It Anyway! (TM)

Jul 21, 2009#391

Just did a series of favors for a doormat friend of mine. Remember that thread of family mottos and how mine translated to "Do a pig a favor, all you get is a grunt?" Yeah.

And her excuse is how stressful her life is. An excuse that for some odd reason no longer works on me. :pud:

Jul 21, 2009#392

HCGLNS

:aaahhh: Gaaaahhhh! How does she keep doing this? Have I turned into some kind of stump? :aaahhh:

Jul 21, 2009#393

Cajungal

Jumpy much?

Jul 21, 2009#394

Wasabi Poptart

Sometimes I really wish stupidity was painful. I have a friend who is living with a woman and he doesn't want to be with her any more. He asks me for some advice, so I tell him that he needs to get himself together and move out (durr). What does he do? He takes the money he's been saving, about $1500, and in an effort to come up with quick cash gambles away all but $300!! He has been in the casino industry for many years. He knows the odds are stacked against him no matter what table game he plays or slot machines he plays on. Dude WTF?!? :slap:

Jul 21, 2009#395

David

Apparently I'm still living in high school. One of my friends wants me to cause a distraction when he gives the signal tomorrow after class so he can have a minute alone with one of the girls to ask her out. Dude, just ask her out already... worst that will happen is she'll say "no" and you'll go on to have a crush on a different girl...

Jul 22, 2009#396

Frankie Williamson

I tore the crotch out of uniform pants once while wrestling with a drunk who would not cooperate. So, embarassing.

Jul 22, 2009#397

Fun Size

Frankie said:
I tore the crotch out of uniform pants once while wrestling with a drunk who would not cooperate. So, embarassing.

Embarrassing? More like terrifying.

"You may not care about making me angry, but you do NOT want to make him angry." (pointing at junk in the process of hulking out)

Jul 22, 2009#398

The Lovely Boehner

Espy said:
He said it reminded him of the new Christ Cornell stuff, but minus the Timbaland.

Ouch. I'm really sorry.

Jul 22, 2009#399

Fun Size

Charlie Dont Surf said:
Espy said:

He said it reminded him of the new Christ Cornell stuff, but minus the Timbaland.

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Ouch. I'm really sorry.

Well now, as I recall, removing the Timbaland would have greatly reduced the suck factor, right? I mean, it sounded just like Hunger Strike without Timbaland, right?

Screw you guys. I'm going back into my ball of denial.

Jul 22, 2009#400

So you know who Christ Cornell and Timbaland are, right? Says to me that this is a good thing to be compared to.

Jul 22, 2009#401

Espy

5 years ago, hell, 3 years ago being compared to Cornell would have been an honor... he's a horrible, horrible joke of a "rocker" now. Go listen to his new shi... er, "music" on iTunes. It's terrible. And I say that as one of the biggest fans of Soundgarden and Chris' solo stuff. I loved that mans music. I have seen him live so many times...
As to the comparison?
Yes. We use beats and live drums.
Yes. We play hard rock.
Yes. The singing is... um... singey?

So I guess on a basic comparison sure, we have a lot in common. :eek:

rly:

Really though, we sound NOTHING like the new Cornell. Not even remotely... other than the amazingly generalized things I listed above.
I wasn't hurt by what he said so much as just kind of blown away by such a poor comparison, if he had said "Nine Inch Nails meets Gravity Kills meets Perfect Circle" I would have thought, hey, that's a little more our genre, so he knows what what kind of stuff we are doing. Needless to say I don't think I will be hiring him to mix our stuff.
If you want a track to compare let me know, I just really don't see how he got that comparison. I really don't.

Jul 22, 2009#402

Krisken

Edrondol said:
So you know who Christ Cornell and Timbaland are, right? Says to me that this is a good thing to be compared to.

Trent Reznor said that he was embarrassed for Chris Cornell after listening to his latest album.

Jul 22, 2009#403

LordRavage

Getting a bit sick of NYC.

Nova and I plan to move to California next year but I am simply haveing a hard time waiting and planning. We want to do this right and go there with enough money and have it all prepared but I cant help but want to leave now!

It is driving me batty that I have to wait. I just want to go and damn everything else.

Oh yea...being a mature adult sucks!

:angry:

Jul 22, 2009#404

The Lovely Boehner

I love Chris Cornell. And I love Timbaland(producing). But them together just plain sucked in every way.

Jul 22, 2009#405

figmentPez

:explode: GRARGH! Stupid fire ants!

One bit me right between my toes as I was getting out of the pool today. I've had worse (on the joint of my thumb) but I'm sure glad I'm not allergic. A few years I was worried I was going to be when a bite made most of my upper body flush red for like a half-hour after a bite on my hand. Thankfully all my reactions since then have been more normal.

Jul 22, 2009#406

sixpackshaker

Frankie said:
I tore the crotch out of uniform pants once while wrestling with a drunk who would not cooperate. So, embarassing.

When I was teaching, I split my pants performing a jump at a pep rally. Mooned the whole Freshmen Class... Thank Cod I had on boxers.

Jul 22, 2009#407

AshburnerX

figmentPez said:
:explode: GRARGH! Stupid fire ants!

One bit me right between my toes as I was getting out of the pool today. I've had worse (on the joint of my thumb) but I'm sure glad I'm not allergic. A few years I was worried I was going to be when a bite made most of my upper body flush red for like a half-hour after a bite on my hand. Thankfully all my reactions since then have been more normal.

When I was a kid on vacation in Georgia, I accidently put my foot through a huge anthill of Fire Ants. When they were done with my foot, you couldn't tell where one bite ended and another began... so I feel your pain.

Jul 22, 2009#408

Espy

Charlie Dont Surf said:
I love Chris Cornell. And I love Timbaland(producing). But them together just plain sucked in every way.

Like Reznor said, it was REALLY embarrassing. Which is even funnier since before he left his record label they tried to get Reznor to let Timberland to do some beats for him, cause "you gotta get a hot song in da' club". He actually let him then promptly discarded all of the tracks he let him work on. Said it was horrible, both that he was stupid enough to allow it and that it was just bad music.

Jul 22, 2009#409

Tress

Just got word of an almost $800 fee increase for my tuition, starting next quarter. This news came right after I received a traffic ticket in the mail. And news that 2 of the 5 people working on a group project in one of my classes dropped out, leaving the three of us to do everything else with less than a week to go.

Shitty day so far.

Jul 22, 2009#410

Tress said:
Just got word of an almost $800 fee increase for my tuition, starting next quarter.

Cal State?

Jul 22, 2009#411

Tress

ZenMonkey said:
Tress said:

Just got word of an almost $800 fee increase for my tuition, starting next quarter.

Click to expand...

Cal State?

Yes.

rly:

Jul 22, 2009#412

Yeah, I absolutely hear you. I was trying to work it out so I could take the comp exams instead of writing a thesis once I got sick, just so I could get my degree already, but I would have had to take an extra class. Now I've given up on that idea. Hopefully I'll still get guidance from my advisor on my thesis (pretty likely) and some point way in the future maybe I'll get my damn master's.

As a student and as a teacher it infuriates me to the point of physical symptoms how the state continues to gut education to pay its bills. What happens when a state cancels long-term investment in its citizens for a short-term cash influx? Is that going to improve things, Arnie, you fuck?

Jul 22, 2009#413

Tress

ZenMonkey said:
Yeah, I absolutely hear you. I was trying to work it out so I could take the comp exams instead of writing a thesis once I got sick, just so I could get my degree already, but I would have had to take an extra class. Now I've given up on that idea. Hopefully I'll still get guidance from my advisor on my thesis (pretty likely) and some point way in the future maybe I'll get my damn master's.

As a student and as a teacher it infuriates me to the point of physical symptoms how the state continues to gut education to pay its bills. What happens when a state cancels long-term investment in its citizens for a short-term cash influx? Is that going to improve things, Arnie, you smurf?

I agree completely. I'm a teacher too. I'm furious at the way the state is treating us, the students, and everyone else who stands to get screwed by this. I'm seriously looking in to moving to another state. I would write letters to my representatives and the governor if I thought any of them gave a shit.

Jul 23, 2009#414

Gared

[blink:33swf71u]Warning, Blog Post Incoming.[/blink:33swf71u]

I honestly don't know whether this belongs here or in the Epic Win thread, and that kind of concerns me. As most of you will know by now (especially those of you on facebook and/or twitter) I absolutely loathe my job. I work for a company that provides outsourced customer service to a German company that provides outsourced customer service and eCommerce solutions to other companies around the world. We're not only a third party, we're a fourth party. And we get shit on all day long, every day. Now, some of that comes from asshole customers, but honestly at least 90% if not 95% of the people who are calling to bitch have legitimate gripes, and we're just stuck in the middle between a customer who needs help and a company that doesn't give a rat's ass.

Well, the company that we work for, our client, has canceled their contract with us effective the end of September this year. My job goes away at least the end of September, but possibly sooner, depending on whether it's more cost effective to pay me $18.36 an hour 40 hours a week and my employee $14.00 an hour 18 hours a week, or cut me and pay him $14.00 an hour 40 hours a week (I think it's pretty obvious which is more cost effective).

Now, on the other hand, I hate this place with a passion some days. I drive close to 79 miles a day round trip through horrible traffic (it takes me 45 minutes to get to work because I start work at 6:00am 39.5 miles from my house, but it takes me 1.5 hours to get home on a normal day and up to 3 hours every Friday). Plus, the whole city life thing is really starting to get me down; and my fiance agrees. I was born in a small town in Iowa, I've lived my whole life in small towns, and city life is crushing my will to live out of me.

So, for the past few weeks we have been planning (fairly seriously) to work on getting some savings put together and move to the country, where we plan to start farming for produce, dairy, and some meat production. Enough to provide almost all of the food that we need for ourselves as well as enough to sell to the public. We've gone so far as studying EPA and USDA rules and regulations, looked into how much land we would need, checked into solar power, wind power, and steam power (I plan to run a smoke house and figure while I'm burning wood to create smoke I may as well get everything out of it I can); we know how much money we're allowed to earn from selling excess power to the state per year.

We know how many cows we would need (milk), how many goats (milk), how many pigs (bacon, ham, etc.), how many sheep (wool), how many chickens (eggs), how much square footage of produce growing garden space, how many acres of hay, and how many acres of wood lot it would take to sustain us. We know how large and deep a pond would have to be to support trout (for smoking). We know that any moron with ground to call his own can grow vegetables and that if we want to make money doing it we'll need to be willing to put in more effort than others are willing to put in, which is where my love of pickling and jam making comes in.

Also, we know how much money we can get from the state and federal governments for starting a) a small business which is b) powered by green energy and which c) produces organic meats, cheeses, butters, milk, eggs, vegetables, and various products which can be made from those organic products.

Oh yeah, and about half of my family is involved in farming; dairy, beef and swine, and grain farming, so I have a lot of experience around the farm.

So really, while having both my fiance and I out of work and living on the dole may be a tight squeeze financially; this may be the golden opportunity we need to get the hell out of this gods-forsaken city and into a comfortable country life where we work like mad from before sun-up to after sun-down and are still happier than we are in the city working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

So I really don't know if this is a bad thing or not, but I'm really thinking it's not.

Jul 23, 2009#415

strawman

Gared,

I'd put that under Epic win.

Grab the bull by the horns, and hang on 'cause it's going to be a wild ride! I envy you - my land is not buildable (yet) due to the local council rejecting our sewage plans. We're waiting for the neighboring lot to open up and sell, which should give us a good area for a field.

-Adam

Jul 23, 2009#416

Gared

stienman said:
Gared,

I'd put that under Epic win.

Grab the bull by the horns, and hang on 'cause it's going to be a wild ride! I envy you - my land is not buildable (yet) due to the local council rejecting our sewage plans. We're waiting for the neighboring lot to open up and sell, which should give us a good area for a field.

-Adam

Yeah, I'd say that's the category that I'm firmly entrenched in for right now. I still think it's saying a lot that I found out my job was ending because the company is going away and it made me want to dance in the street. Hell, I was so excited I could barely eat lunch (not anxiety, excitement).

But I checked online and one of the local community colleges has a small business/entrepreneurship program that starts up in September, and WSU has an online Organic Farming certification program. I figure I can take both at the same time, while my fiance finishes up her nursing program at the same college; and we can get out of this city even faster. Plus, no more bitching about crazy customers or dealing with my business isp's comcastic service...

Jul 23, 2009#417

On yet off topic...Where in Iowa?

Jul 23, 2009#418

Gared

Marshalltown. My dad's side of the family were all born and raised around the Tama-Toledo area and my mom's side of the family bounced around the state a lot and wound up in Boone. I still have a cousin in Marshalltown, a few cousins and an aunt in Tama-Toledo, an aunt and uncle in Carlisle (right near Des Moines - in fact my uncle is a senior manager or VP or something for Anderson Erickson Dairy), and countless other relatives in towns around Iowa that I don't know. I love it there. We're actually going back to the Iowa State Fair this year for vacation. In fact, if land wasn't so expensive there right now, I might consider doing the whole farm thing there instead of rural Washington.

Jul 23, 2009#419

Marshalltown is not small. I'm from Minden, which is about 450 people. By comparison, Marshalltown is a booming metropolis.

Jul 23, 2009#420

Gared

This may be, but I spent all of about 2 days in Marshalltown. I actually lived in Tama-Toledo, still not as small as Colton, WA, where I went to high school and had a graduating class of 17 (in the 1940s or 50s they had a graduating class of 4). How about, it's small compared to the greater Seattle Metro-plex?

Jul 23, 2009#421

bigcountry23

Didn't get the house I had put in an offer on. Their agent kept telling our agents "the bid is good, I just need them to approve it, but I can't get ahold of them". Then suddenly he says "nevermind, we just got an offer that's less than yours, but is Cash and can close in 3 days" (as opposed to our loan and 30 days). The thing that pisses me off more than anything is while my wife and I would have used the house to raise a family and do the whole "american dream" forever house thing, these people will probably just rent it out or hold onto it until the market "recovers" and sell it for 300k+.

On top of that, now my standards have been skewed and I doubt I will find a property that "livable" at move in for the price we can afford.

Jul 23, 2009#422

Dude that sucks! Now I have to go back and remove all my spy devices and get rid of my drug-selling contacts from the high school a few blocks away.

Jul 23, 2009#423

Aw, sorry, BC -- I know how excited you were about that house. That sucks in a major way.

Jul 24, 2009#424

wana10

if you reserve a hotel room for someone else on your credit card and they don't show up, you will be charged, not them. calling me and bitching me out won't change that.

Jul 24, 2009#425

Cajungal

Sorry, BC.

wana.... ahhh, customer service jobs.

Jul 24, 2009#426

Gusto

I miss Juski.

Jul 24, 2009#427

Fun Size

Gusto said:
I miss Juski.

Damn youse, Bananahands!

Jul 24, 2009#428

Gusto said:
I miss Juski.

He'll be back you pansy.

Jul 24, 2009#429

Cajungal

I miss Silvanesti. Seriously, does anyone know where he's been?

Jul 24, 2009#430

Gusto

Edrondol said:
Gusto said:

I miss Juski.

Click to expand...

He'll be back you pansy.

Doesn't mean I can't miss him, fucker.

Jul 24, 2009#431

Cajungal said:
I miss Silvanesti. Seriously, does anyone know where he's been?

Last visited: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:34 pm

He went away for a weekend and never came back.

Jul 24, 2009#432

Cajungal

:waah:

Jul 24, 2009#433

Fun Size

Edrondol said:
Cajungal said:

I miss Silvanesti. Seriously, does anyone know where he's been?

Click to expand...

Last visited: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:34 pm

He went away for a weekend and never came back.

Did he jump out of a plane and get buttsecksed by the same guy as Calleja?

Jul 24, 2009#434

Yeah, been wondering about a few posters. Gruebeard, The Troll...

In other rants, it is astonishing to me how some people can be so stupid, and so (metaphorically) blind, and still manage to dress and feed themselves. Just had to cut someone out of my life for extreme -- and I do mean EXTREME -- cluelessness. (It's a long story and I promise you'd agree if you heard it.)

Jul 24, 2009#435

Cajungal

:clap:
Yay for simplifying your life.

Jul 24, 2009#436

Cajungal said:
:clap:
Yay for simplifying your life.

Ha ha...I wasn't going to put you on the spot but I wanted to say "at least two people here might confirm this."

Jul 24, 2009#437

Gusto

Jul 24, 2009#438

HCGLNS

Rant: I dislike people who ship me 20,000 lbs of plate steel by accident.

Jul 24, 2009#439

Krisken

HCGLNS said:
Rant: I dislike people who ship me 20,000 lbs of plate steel by accident.

To your home???

(worked in 1,000 ton press, knows what 20,000 lbs of steel looks like)

Jul 24, 2009#440

HCGLNS

Sadly no, it was work related.

Jul 24, 2009#441

Krisken

HCGLNS said:
Sadly no, it was work related.

I was going to say! Does it come in coils or pre cut sheets?

Jul 24, 2009#442

strawman

Drove to Toledo with a clunker to turn in for the CARS program (cash for clunkers) and found that not only does the dealership (and thus the gov't) require three forms of proof that you've had the car for a full year (title, registration(s) over the full year, insurance over the full year) but the insurance company's local office has no way (ie, the clerks are stupid monkey button mashers that only know how to do three things) to print proof of insurance for the full year if you've misplaced last year's proof of insurance.

GAH.

Should be ironed out by Monday or Tuesday, but there's only enough money for an average of 5k rebates per state, which means each dealer will be lucky to turn in 20 rebates.

In other words, all the CARS budget is likely to be gone by Monday.

We should be able to get ours in, but it's irritating.

It's the gov't's fault though. The "program" started July 1st.

They didn't finalize and distribute the rules until this morning in a 135 page document.

Oh, and I'm still losing my job, it's just next Friday instead of last Friday. Fortunately we're getting a 0% APR make-your-own-payment-terms loan from my father-in-law, whose clunker I've been driving to and from work since I wrecked my own car last year. So... The loan thing is mostly epic win. Plus it's a reasonably nice Mazda 5 that can fit all my kids and one adult, so whoever has the kids doesn't feel stranded at home if the other person has the minivan.

Still, it was a long drive to find out that the combination of the gov't requirements and the insurance company's ineptitude means I'm not driving the car off the lot tonight, and leaves a distinct possibility we will miss out on a $4,500 discount.

-Adam

Jul 24, 2009#443

Philosopher B.

Speaking of people no longer hanging around, I miss l33tn00b/Computergate. He was always good for a laugh. It was also always fun to bug him by continually calling him l33t long after the name change.

Jul 24, 2009#444

Rob King

HCGLNS said:
Rant: I dislike people who ship me 20,000 lbs of plate steel by accident.

That just sounds awesome, even if it is a pain in the ass right now.

"Hey, remember that time someone shipped us twenty thousand pounds of steel by accident?"

-- Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:57 pm --

I'm at work right now doing a child protection case. Every so often I hear a creaking in the hall. It has to be the father, who has an understandably pointed distaste for the child welfare workers who come into his home.

The child protection workers normally sleep on the couch overnight. I keep imagining that this guy is coming out just far enough to see if I'm asleep or not. I hesitate to speculate on my fate if I was the kind of worker who went to sleep on their shift.

This has to be the most uncomfortable job I've ever had.

Although my other current job is pretty close.

I think we're going to have to have a talk with a homeless lady who keeps coming to the food bank. It needs to be explained to her that the reason that she is homeless is because she keeps complaining about the homes that we find for her, and refuses to move in, and then yells about discrimination from the lady who just spent several hours trying to track down a roof for her to sleep under. If you have the choice between a home and the streets, and you keep choosing streets, I lose sympathy for you.

This is also the same lady who explained that she was allergic to orange juice. After I explained to her that we didn't have any of her preferred fruit punch on hand, she suddenly wasn't so allergic to oranges anymore.

Beggars can't be choosers, but it seems beggars loose the ability to self-identify as beggars at about the same time they show up at my food bank.

Jul 25, 2009#445

EpicEpileptic

So I'm hanging out at my friends and we're calling people to see who wants to go see a movie tonight and as I open the door to my car I feel something mushy on my index and middle finger and I look to see some one had smeared, what I can only guess was dog shit, all over my car handle. BLARG!! What the fuck is the matter with some people!?

Jul 25, 2009#446

EpicEpileptic said:
So I'm hanging out at my friends and we're calling people to see who wants to go see a movie tonight and as I open the door to my car I feel something mushy on my index and middle finger and I look to see some one had smeared, what I can only guess was dog shit, all over my car handle. BLARG!! What the fuck is the matter with some people!?

Oh fucking ewwwww. That is nasty and gross as hell. People are fucktards. At my old apartment building I came home one night to find shit smeared across the doorway and left on the stoop. But at least I didn't have to touch it!

Jul 25, 2009#447

Troll

ZenMonkey said:
Yeah, been wondering about a few posters. Gruebeard, The Troll...

I can't speak for Gruebeard, but my own search for his posts found a recent comment he made about having a dozen alts. Maybe he's using one?

As for me, I never left. :ninja:

Jul 25, 2009#448

Hey, look, it's The Troll!

I've been wondering about that $350 million in gold bullion that used to post around here a lot.......

Jul 25, 2009#449

Tress

I'm beginning to seriously worry about my emotional state. For the past week I've had two emotions: uncaring or enraged. I don't know what's happening. One minute I'm talking to someone, usually a friend or family member, and the next minute I'm shouting about something and balling my fists. There's no sadness, no happiness, nothing else. I'm either disconnected or incredibly pissed off.

I would love to get some help, maybe go see a therapist. This isn't the first time it's happened. However, I haven't had insurance in 4 years and I definitely don't have the money to cover any extra expenses. I feel stuck.

Jul 25, 2009#450

Wasabi Poptart

Tress - I don't remember if you're in the US or elsewhere. If you are in the US and uninsured, there may be services available to you in your community - either local, county, or state depending on where you live. If you go to church, your pastor may be able to help you with counseling. You might also consider making an appointment with your family doctor for a check up to see if something physical is causing your problem and discussing your emotional state with him/her. If you are in college, they may have services on campus that you can look into.

Jul 26, 2009#451

Tress

I am in the US. Thanks. I'm in grad school right now, so I'll see what options are available through campus services.

Jul 26, 2009#452

Cajungal

Definitely do that. That's what they are there for, and many of em are 24-hour. Until then, we can be your untrained support system. :tongue:

Jul 26, 2009#453

[strike:2itym176]godddamn motherfucking BULLSHIT another day ruined.[/strike:2itym176]\

Well it turned around somewhat.

Jul 27, 2009#454

strawman

I go to all the trouble of making a website about how State Farm Insurance is being a big bad meanie:

http://statefarmclunker.com

And it sounds like they may have actually produced the document that's needed. Righteous rage is nothing if the enemy caves in so quickly.

:humph:

-Adam

Jul 28, 2009#455

David

Another incomming rant about my class.

My artwork was thrown out of the project. All of it, everything I've worked on the last five weeks was for nothing. The man in charge decided he didn't want 2D artwork in the credits (he couldn't have decided this weeks ago when my partner and I started work on them?) and instead wants us to recreate them in 3D scenes.

That would be fine and dandy, except the modelers did a totally shitty job. I couldn't find a simple da vinci pose copy of the model that already had the bones on it, so I had to extract it out of an animated scene it was being used in. It's in like 20 different meshes (it was supposed to be 1) that I'm finding impossible to link together to move into a new pose. I'm going to have to rebuild the entire object at home. Also they completely ignored my character design and ran off with their own thing. What was the point of me being assigned as character designer than??
Somehow they took my character design, this

And made it this

HOW THE HELL IS THAT EVEN CLOSE??

Jul 28, 2009#456

Batdan

My gf has been having problems with her parents for years and tonight when I came over to her house she was in tears again. Apparently she was visiting her sister today at her parent's house when her mom decides to have a fit because she's there. My gf and her sister decided to leave for lunch and to go shopping to calm the situation. Halfway through shopping her dad calls and tells her that her car will be towed if not moved from their driveway in half an hour. Fortunately my gf got to her car in time and was able to get home alright. How much of an asshole do you have to be when you hate your kids so much that you would be willing to tow their car from your driveway because they want to spend time with a sibling? This is the final straw in a line of things that her parents have done to her over her life. Gah, it makes me so mad because she's such a sweet and intelligent girl who doesn't deserve any of this.

Luckily I was able to calm her down and reassure her, but I've never been so glad that I grew up with loving parents who actually care for their kids rather than resenting them.

Jul 28, 2009#457

Krisken

Wow Dan, those people suck.

Honestly, how hard is it to at least be civil? Especially to your own kids?

Some people are such selfish pricks. :devil:

Jul 28, 2009#458

David

Damn you, Halforum!

I was reading through the threads for the first time since I got addicted to Evony, and now the sun is rising :angry:

Jul 29, 2009#459

Rob King

I'm so tempted to start a thread about this, but I've been pioneering a lot of dumb threads lately, so I'll just shuff it here.

In the past two years, I've taught myself to like tea and coffee. In recent weeks, I've been eying more 'adult' things, chief among them cigars.

I've never smoked anything in my life. Not cigarettes, not anything. The closest I've come is walking into my smoking uncle's house, and catching a whiff of the smoke clinging to everything in the house.

Anyhow. I read up a bit, and kept seeing recommended Montecristo No. 4's as a good beginner cigar. So yesterday, after I got paid, I went to a smoke shop and picked up everything I'd need. Wooden matches, a cigar cutter, and a Montecristo No. 4.

I just smoked it an hour ago. I don't live in a smoker friendly house, and bars here don't allow smoking at all, so I did so outside. There was a bit of a breeze, so trying to light it was a nightmare. It didn't burn evenly, and I didn't get to smoke the whole thing. But I'm not too disappointed: I expected as much for a first time, and with nobody knowledgeable to teach me.

I can't say I loved it, but it was okay. I certainly liked it more than I liked coffee on my first go.

Speaking of coffee, the cigar tasted almost like it. More like a coffee aftertaste, plus the smell of fresh ground coffee beans. It reminded me when I was a child, going to the supermarket with my mother. I used to love to walk by the fresh coffee for the aroma of it. The cigar had almost that flavor, but a bit harsher. I wish I had a dialect that would let me talk about it more, because 'coffee' is really all I can say about it. But I suppose building a vocabulary for these things is something that happens gradually with experience.

Anyhow. It was an interesting first time. I'll admit that I'm tempted to buy another soon, but it was expensive, and I don't have the kind of money to smoke regularly. Besides, I really don't want to be fooling around too much when it comes to nicotine.

The only thing is ... it gave me a headache. Of course, I had always been told that tobacco can do that to you, but I had forgotten. Am I correct in assuming that that's the sort of thing that goes away in time?

As for acquiring new tastes ... in the next few months, I'll be moving on to alcohol. I'll definitely be posting a new topic when it comes time to get down to business with that.

And yeah, I'm not sure where I was when my high school friends were experimenting with this stuff. I like to think I was a bit beyond their maturity level, and I'm glad that I didn't do this sort of thing years ago with them, what with the smoking until they threw up, getting so drunk they needed their stomachs pumped, and being arrested for toking up in a public park. But that said, it is a little embarrassing to be such a late bloomer.

Jul 29, 2009#460

Math242

i would definitely avoid taking the habit of smoking if i were you.

it's bad for you, cigars included

this is coming from someone who's been smoking for 15+ years

Jul 29, 2009#461

Mr_Chaz

Yeah I've got to ask, what makes you want to take up cigar smoking? With all the very well documented health effects it seems like a very strange choice to make. It almost sounds like you only want to start to make yourself look more adult...yet you also describe yourself as mature, so why do you want to look more adult?

I can understand someone who smokes not giving up, but I really can't understand why someone would start smoking in the first place, especially as such a specific goal as yours seems to be.

Jul 29, 2009#462

Silver Jelly

Well, smoking cigars is pretty badass. Except it carries health problems... But if I could afford expensive cuban cigars, I may smoke one or two on special occasions!

Jul 29, 2009#463

Gusto

I brought some Cubans back with me from vacation, and I smoke one occasionally. Smoking an entire cigar kinda makes me light headed but it's pretty enjoyable overall.

Jul 29, 2009#464

Rob King

Math242 said:
i would definitely avoid taking the habit of smoking if i were you.

it's bad for you, cigars included

this is coming from someone who's been smoking for 15+ years

Mr_Chaz said:
Yeah I've got to ask, what makes you want to take up cigar smoking? With all the very well documented health effects it seems like a very strange choice to make. It almost sounds like you only want to start to make yourself look more adult...yet you also describe yourself as mature, so why do you want to look more adult?

I can understand someone who smokes not giving up, but I really can't understand why someone would start smoking in the first place, especially as such a specific goal as yours seems to be.

To be fair, I don't intend on taking up the 'habit.' Although I'm sure many chain smokers said that to begin with too. Much like taking up coffee, it's just something I would like to be able to do: smoke a cigar or something else without throwing up during a puff.

Any real reason I give is probably going to sound empty, but it's something I've been considering for a while now, and I made the decision to 'acclimatize' myself to smoking several months ago. I just haven't gotten around to it until very recently. But here are the reasons I can sort of verbalize appropriately.

It's part fatalism: realizing that in this day, nearly everything I do has been found to pose a threat to my health in some way, and saying to 'hell with it' to any health risk that smoking might bring. Looking at my family history, it's more likely that heart disease will do me in far before I suffer any repacussions from smoking. Especially if I only intend to smoke a dozen or so times a year.

It's part societal: smoking is just something people used to do, and though they didn't know the risks, I feel like it's worth giving the old ways a nod here and again. Same reason I've resisted buying an electric razor in lieu of wet shaving.

It's part social: I've been travelling more and more recently where a social smoke might be something that happens, and while I'm sure any respectable person would understand any choice I make not to, I'd like the ability to choose between having a smoke and not without having the decision made for me by the fact that I can't confidently smoke anyhow.

And yeah, I'll admit: it's part image as well. I mean, they were right in high school: the kids wearing windbreakers and dirty baseball caps sucking on a cigarette in blowing wind and snow certainly didn't look cool. But trade the windbreaker and hat for a good shirt and jacket, the cigarette for a pipe or a cigar, and the weather-assaulted parking lot for a leather couch in a smoking room, and you look awesome.

Jul 29, 2009#465

Frankie Williamson

I hate that because I am single I am required to fucking take on new room mates even though I have the smallest house of the Force housing by a God damn mile. Fucking bullshit. I'm not the least senior of the constables at all but still I keep ending up being the guy who has to take in the new people. Fucking bullshit.

Fucking fucks using my stuff.

Jul 30, 2009#466

Rob King

My landlord asked me if I could tidy up my room a bit, since he's going to be trying to sell the house in a little bit. I said it was no problem, since it needed cleaning anyways.

Anyhow. I'm half done, and my desk is not usable at the moment, so I turned my little chair 180 degrees to use the boxes behind me as a makeshift desk for my laptop.

I sat down, and noticed that my chair is slanted to the left. I hadn't noticed that before. I got curious, so I had a look at the chair ... nothing wrong with it. I pondered, and pondered, and then turned my chair back to the original position, and sat down in it. Feels normal.

I had an inkling as to the problem, and as another experiment, I laid down in my bed with my head where the foot normally is. It felt uncomfortable, like my feet were above my head.

As a last experiment to confirm it, I took a roll of tape and put it at one end of my room. It rolled unhindered to the other wall.

I have been living in this place for 8 months now, and I am JUST noticing that the entire room is slanted.

:Leyla:

Jul 30, 2009#467

strawman

Apparantly the Mac Mini I got open box on clearance? Whoever bought and returned it not only took the iLife '09 disc and the remote, but also used the serial number to get the next OS X upgrade.

I just don't understand the mentality of people who believe it's ok to buy something, take what they want, and return it to the store. I was willing to give up the other parts, but now I'm essentially out $160 if I want to buy Snow Leopard, and chances are good that eventually I'm going to have to so I can keep developing software on it.

:explode:

-Adam

Jul 30, 2009#468

AshburnerX

A few weeks ago I had been told that I had lost 20 pounds and I was pretty proud of that... I had been dieting for over a year now and I had given up almost all of my favorite things. I had cut down on portion sizes, started eating vegan 3-5 times a week, gave up regular soda, gave up fast food all but once every 1-2 weeks... the whole works and I'd manage to keep to it for a whole year. So I go back to the Doctor's yesterday, as I still had a nasty cough from my bronchitis a few weeks ago, and I notice they've replaced their scale. It turns out the old scale had been broken for quite some time and they just hadn't bothered to replace it until now. So they re-weigh me... according to the new scale, I had actually gained 15 pounds.

I know I'm fighting against biology here, as almost everyone in my family is REALLY, REALLY big, but I thought if I tried hard enough I could at least lost some of the weight I'd gained since I started having anxiety issues. But now I don't know what to think... was it all an exercise in futility? Am I always destined to be heavy unless I do something drastic like my cousin and get surgery? After all of the bullshit I've had to endure lately because of the people in my life and my mental problems, I really needed something to go right for once... I honestly needed the confidence boost. I needed a reason to keep trying.

This also doesn't take into account the fact that the old scale may have been broken when they originally weighed me before I had started trying to lose weight. I may have simply been heavier than I had been told and I HAD been losing weight. But in the end it doesn't matter... my confidence in myself has been shaken yet again and I don't know if I have the energy to keep fighting these uphill battles.

Jul 30, 2009#469

Espy

Adam thats super lame. What the heck is wrong with people...

Jul 30, 2009#470

Cajungal

That sucks, Ash... similar experience here, so I feel ya.

Weight is only part of it, though. Have you noticed changes in your body? Do you feel better physically? If so, it might not be as bad as you think. Like you said before, scales lie sometimes.

Don't give up, but if being heavy runs in your family, definitely talk to your doctor. What you've done already to help yourself are all great steps, but he/she might be able to help you along. Don't lose heart! You can do it! Anxiety doesn't exactly help the weight loss process, so try and put yourself in a calm place any way you can. Rooting for you.

Jul 30, 2009#471

Allen, who is Quiet

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Jul 30, 2009#472

Language, Allen, my goodness!

Jul 30, 2009#473

Allen, who is Quiet

I'm sorry. I'll try that again.

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Jul 30, 2009#474

strawman

Are those i's... line dancing?

:blue:

-Adam

Jul 30, 2009#475

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*hugs Allen*

Jul 31, 2009#476

Garbledina

I had a day-long argument on Monday with my best friend, and at the end of it I told him to go fuck himself. It was at that point I realized who the real asshole was in the situation (Hint: It's me) and felt like shit, and finally apologized.

But I still feel like shit about it. I'm a real bastard sometimes.

So now I'm ranting. /rant.

Jul 31, 2009#477

CynicismKills

It's hard to talk to her because it reminds me of how awesome being with her would be. I never thought I'd want to be a Mormon (not that there's anything wrong with being one, obviously).

Jul 31, 2009#478

Rob King

Garbledina said:
I had a day-long argument on Monday with my best friend, and at the end of it I told him to go fuck himself. It was at that point I realized who the real asshole was in the situation (Hint: It's me) and felt like shit, and finally apologized.

But I still feel like shit about it. I'm a real bastard sometimes.

So now I'm ranting. /rant.

I hate when that happens. I won't pretend it happens frequently, but when it happens, I begin to utterly loathe myself.

Last time something like this happened to me was a few months back. I was opining that the Twilight books were trash for putting forward a horribly unrealistic romantic worldview. I wasn't arguing that Twilight was unique in this, but it's popularity made it a prime example. My friend said that she saw Twilight as in the same vein as Harry Potter. I declared quite loudly that Harry Potter was trash too.

I'm not sure why I did that. I don't have near the same issues with the Harry Potter books that I do with the Twilight ones. In fact, I quite like Harry Potter.

And then I felt like a dick.

Jul 31, 2009#479

Gusto

I remember being able to sleep when I want to.

Jul 31, 2009#480

Batdan

CynicismKills said:
It's hard to talk to her because it reminds me of how awesome being with her would be. I never thought I'd want to be a Mormon (not that there's anything wrong with being one, obviously).

I hear you CK. I'm thinking about moving in with my gf here in the next few months (if we can find a cheap rent house). Although I wouldn't have to join a religion, we would have to deal with her family. I really do think we would make a good married couple. After we elope of course. We both believe there's no reason to stir up the drama with a big wedding fiasco when the time comes.

Jul 31, 2009#481

Enresshou

About two years ago, right after returning from the military, one of my best friends, Scott, started dating a girl. I was really happy for him, since he'd had a horrible string of girls before his current one (his previous girlfriend being the only girl I have ever completely gone off on...but that's another story). He obviously cares about her, and--though she's a bit shy and doesn't seem to really like hanging out around us, despite attempts to make her feel welcome--I didn't begrudge him that.

Fast forward a year, and he slowly stopped hanging out with us. He says he got busy with work, and he's working forty hours a week and having to take care of the puppies he had. I understand, and put up with it for a long while; but every time I call, he's with his girlfriend and says that he never has time for anything (apparently I was the last guy he hung out with...two months ago). He never calls when he's free, never makes any effort to keep in touch, and I've gotten fucking sick of it. I talked to him about it a couple weeks ago, and his response was,
"Well...want to go hiking Monday?"
"I have school all day on Monday."
"Oh.....okay."

It sucks, because he is (or at least was) one of my best friends, but I'm fed up with being constantly ignored and am strongly considering just cutting him off and seeing if he ever tries to contact us again.

Jul 31, 2009#482

CynicismKills

Batdan said:
CynicismKills said:

It's hard to talk to her because it reminds me of how awesome being with her would be. I never thought I'd want to be a Mormon (not that there's anything wrong with being one, obviously).

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I hear you CK. I'm thinking about moving in with my gf here in the next few months (if we can find a cheap rent house). Although I wouldn't have to join a religion, we would have to deal with her family. I really do think we would make a good married couple. After we elope of course. We both believe there's no reason to stir up the drama with a big wedding fiasco when the time comes.

Yeah, the problem here is she wants to marry another Mormon, big temple wedding and all that. I don't blame her, it's important to her. Doesn't mean it's any easier for me, though.

Edit to add: This also isn't to say I'm ready to marry her or anything. More that it's not like a relationship makes sense when there's no way it can go anywhere.

Jul 31, 2009#483

Mr_Chaz

Enresshou said:
About two years ago, right after returning from the military, one of my best friends, Scott, started dating a girl. I was really happy for him, since he'd had a horrible string of girls before his current one (his previous girlfriend being the only girl I have ever completely gone off on...but that's another story). He obviously cares about her, and--though she's a bit shy and doesn't seem to really like hanging out around us, despite attempts to make her feel welcome--I didn't begrudge him that.

Fast forward a year, and he slowly stopped hanging out with us. He says he got busy with work, and he's working forty hours a week and having to take care of the puppies he had. I understand, and put up with it for a long while; but every time I call, he's with his girlfriend and says that he never has time for anything (apparently I was the last guy he hung out with...two months ago). He never calls when he's free, never makes any effort to keep in touch, and I've gotten fucking sick of it. I talked to him about it a couple weeks ago, and his response was,
"Well...want to go hiking Monday?"
"I have school all day on Monday."
"Oh.....okay."

It sucks, because he is (or at least was) one of my best friends, but I'm fed up with being constantly ignored and am strongly considering just cutting him off and seeing if he ever tries to contact us again.

You might want to be careful here though, it's upsetting that he isn't trying to make time with you, but if you stop trying too you could easily end up never seeing him again. Is his laziness worth that risk?

Jul 31, 2009#484

Batdan

CynicismKills said:
Yeah, the problem here is she wants to marry another Mormon, big temple wedding and all that. I don't blame her, it's important to her. Doesn't mean it's any easier for me, though.

Edit to add: This also isn't to say I'm ready to marry her or anything. More that it's not like a relationship makes sense when there's no way it can go anywhere.

On the bright side, I hear hear they have quite an astounding Tabernacle Choir.

Jul 31, 2009#485

Thread Necromancer

Vasectomy. Leads the charts in all forms of birth control except for abstinence. Between 1 and 4 out of 1000 vasectomies don't "take" (ie regrow) in the first year. If it doesn't happen in the first year then the odds drop significantly for ever year after that. In addition to all of this, between 50 - 80 percent of men develop an immunity to their own sperm and if their vas do grow back they shoot blanks anyhow.

I had a vasectomy over 5 years ago. Have been tested yearly (up until this year) to make sure that I've still got no swimmers.

The girlfriend is usually a very regular person when it comes to her monthy event. Never late, never misses, like clockwork.

.... she is currently a week late.

Jul 31, 2009#486

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Jul 31, 2009#487

Thread Necromancer

Edrondol said:
Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

This is a very very VERY bad thing. There is a reason I had a vasectomy.

Jul 31, 2009#488

I've had one, too. But if my wife got pregnant (and I knew it was mine) I wouldn't be all that upset.

Now, the first thing I'd do is make sure I have no swimmers.

Jul 31, 2009#489

Thread Necromancer

That's the first thing I'm working on. Test has to wait until next week but ya, thats the first thing to check out.

One thing is, this is not a wife we are talking about getting pregnant. This is a girlfriend. We've only been seeing each other for about two months. I'm not saying we are/aren't going to be a long term thing, but I am saying it's way to early to have even considered that.

Jul 31, 2009#490

Jake

Don't discount immaculate conception.

Jul 31, 2009#491

Yikes, TN...a week isn't that unusual even for a normally regular person, so don't panic just yet. But I do hope it works out okay. That does sound like a potentially rough situation.

Jul 31, 2009#492

Allen, who is Quiet

Allen said:
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Jul 31, 2009#493

Jake said:
Don't discount immaculate conception.

Discount immaculate conception is the BEST kind of immaculate conception.

Jul 31, 2009#494

Jake

Edrondol said:
Jake said:

Don't discount immaculate conception.

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Discount immaculate conception is the BEST kind of immaculate conception.

Still too early. Wait till the slow season this fall.

Jul 31, 2009#495

Batdan

Edrondol said:
Jake said:

Don't discount immaculate conception.

Click to expand...

Discount immaculate conception is the BEST kind of immaculate conception.

I always trust the quality of the name brand immaculate conception myself. Sam's Choice just ain't cutting it for me.

Jul 31, 2009#496

strawman

CynicismKills said:
Yeah, the problem here is she wants to marry another Mormon, big temple wedding and all that.

You should try it sometime! I can get the missionaries over there and everything!

:heythere:

-Adam

Jul 31, 2009#497

CynicismKills

stienman said:
CynicismKills said:

Yeah, the problem here is she wants to marry another Mormon, big temple wedding and all that.

Click to expand...

You should try it sometime! I can get the missionaries over there and everything!

:heythere:

-Adam

Heh, it's like I said in the last post, she's awesome enough that if it was good enough for her I'd convert. I worry that it'd be like, stupid creepy though.

Jul 31, 2009#498

Tress

CynicismKills said:
stienman said:

CynicismKills said:

Yeah, the problem here is she wants to marry another Mormon, big temple wedding and all that.

Click to expand...

You should try it sometime! I can get the missionaries over there and everything!

:heythere:

-Adam

Click to expand...

Heh, it's like I said in the last post, she's awesome enough that if it was good enough for her I'd convert. I worry that it'd be like, stupid creepy though.

I've known many Mormons in my life. I grew up in the midst of a large Mormon community, actually. From what they've told me, it's a lot more common than you think. I don't think it's necessarily creepy. If you truly believe that you can commit to a new faith, I think you should consider doing it.

Jul 31, 2009#499

CynicismKills

The city in CA I grew up in is the same way, a lot of the people I knew were Mormon too.

Jul 31, 2009#500

strawman

CynicismKills said:
Heh, it's like I said in the last post, she's awesome enough that if it was good enough for her I'd convert. I worry that it'd be like, stupid creepy though.

I would be really, really surprised if she found it creepy. Really surprised. There's no stigma of being a convert either - if she likes you, and you are eventually able to give her the temple wedding, chances are good she would be perfectly happy with that.

But all that aside, she would likely be pretty enthusiastic if you told her you wanted to talk to the missionaries. They have several lessons, take about an hour each time, tell you about our beliefs, answer your questions, and give you the opportunity to join if you choose to do so. You can stop at any time, and chances are good your relationship with her wouldn't change. If nothing else it would give you a very good idea of what her beliefs are beyond what you already know.

Unless she's a psycho chick, then you're hosed no matter what you do. :rofl:

But yeah, if you are even slightly interested in learning more, she won't find it creepy or odd - she'll just think she's being a good Mormon doing missionary work.

Feel free to tell her you've got an inside man on the intertron. :ninja:

-Adam

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