Author Topic: minor inconveniences that are not struggles (Read 917824 times)

Mupepe · « **Reply #2520 on:** June 04, 2016, 11:47:55 PM »

Yeah. Play with that pussy.

I was changing the brakes on my wife's car tonight and the front left took like an hour. Most of that time was spent trying to figure out how to get the brake pads in the anti rattle springy-ma-ching. The instructions I found weren't working until I realized the instructions were for the same generation but a different year. My car had some improvements to the brake pad so I literally just had to push the brake pad in. The remaining calipers took me about 7 minutes each including the time it took to jack the car up, remove the tire and caliper and put it all back together. I felt like such an idiot. Oh well.

Edit: Oh and now that I'm done I want a beer but the nearest place that sells decent beer is wal mart and yeah.... No.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #2521 on:** June 05, 2016, 05:10:28 AM »

3 hour flight after ear infection $:-\$

Rufus · « **Reply #2522 on:** June 05, 2016, 11:46:36 AM »

Just make waist line preserving quantities.

TVC15 · « **Reply #2523 on:** June 05, 2016, 02:32:11 PM »

It's worth the effort though. Especially with blueberries or chocolate chips. Go get some pancakes.

chronovore · « **Reply #2524 on:** June 06, 2016, 02:11:37 AM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on June 05, 2016, 02:32:11 PM

It's worth the effort though. Especially with blueberries or chocolate chips. Go get some pancakes.

Bananas are also pretty great in pancakes.

Fifstar · « **Reply #2525 on:** June 06, 2016, 12:01:01 PM »

Broadband couldn't be activated today because my landlord forgot to make a connection with the "phonebox" in the basement. Apparently the previous renter didn't even have a phone connection. Now it's probably gonna take weeks till this is fixed and I get a new appointment for the activation..

Rufus · « **Reply #2526 on:** June 06, 2016, 12:09:41 PM »

I have a provider switch coming up myself and I'm already dreading it...

chronovore · « **Reply #2527 on:** June 06, 2016, 06:35:09 PM »

Along those lines, I realized our house has a nine-year-old modem, so we are almost certainly limiting our throughput. We have a fiber-optic connection, but our numbers don't hold up to what you guys sometimes post. $:-\$ And I'm pretty sure this modem is a required "lease," not a purchase, so we've probably made 20x profit for the company's purchase. $:-\$

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2528 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:10:35 PM »

Learning the harmonica (for a week). Man the second hole suck is hard. Finally figured out you have to breath from the chest and have a very open round mouth to do it.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2529 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:17:40 PM »

Also now I have marry had a little lamb stuck in my head all the time

Kara · « **Reply #2530 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:22:11 PM »

hot
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Sure am glad I'm never going to have to pretend playing that one is an accomplishment. #ExtirpatorExcellence

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Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2531 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:24:57 PM »

hot
cross
buns

is too easy now that I am at marry had a little lamb levels good.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2532 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:25:31 PM »

Children everywhere weep at my genius.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2533 on:** June 07, 2016, 11:33:10 PM »

This could be you.

Mupepe · « **Reply #2534 on:** June 08, 2016, 10:59:35 AM »

I went through a bunch of old photos from my old phone yesterday and I realized something: body dysmorphia is a fucking bitch. I had that phone from the point where I was my slimmest (193 lbs) until I was at my biggest and strongest (~235 lbs). This was over the course of about 30 months and I took various pictures for progress tracking. I added some fat during this period but I distinctly remember hating how fat I was at every stage. At 193 lbs I looked in the mirror and saw pure fat slob I was at 288 lbs. I was absolutely fucked in the head. At 235 lbs I thought I was fat and small - don't ask me how! I'd kill for any of those physiques now.

The worst part was that I had an image in mind that I never seemed to reach. Well, when I saw the pictures from late 2013/early 2014 I realized I had actually hit my goal. I looked exactly how I had envisioned.

Fuck.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #2535 on:** June 08, 2016, 11:38:30 AM »

It takes a few years to get over it. I've been in good shape since 20 and it was probably until a couple years ago where I no longer felt fat.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2536 on:** June 08, 2016, 02:29:46 PM »

Nami's meds just increased from 50$/month to 75$/month.

3 years ago they were 35$/month.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2537 on:** June 08, 2016, 02:45:21 PM »

cialism

studyguy · « **Reply #2538 on:** June 08, 2016, 03:28:40 PM »

I let a friend borrow my car this weekend and found a bottle of this yogurt smoothie thing under my seat. The cap was slightly open and now my car smells like rancid milk.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2539 on:** June 08, 2016, 03:29:13 PM »

Maybe it was semen.

Kara · « **Reply #2540 on:** June 08, 2016, 03:51:43 PM »

I was hoping my shrink would fire me today since I've been in remission for almost a year but instead I got downgraded from once a quarter visits to once a month.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2541 on:** June 08, 2016, 03:57:22 PM »

You can't just stop going?

Kara · « **Reply #2542 on:** June 08, 2016, 04:15:35 PM »

Sure, but unlike you I have a commitment to bettering my mental health. Besides, why do you think it's a minor inconvenience and not a struggle?

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2543 on:** June 08, 2016, 04:49:38 PM »

Mental health is for losers.

chronovore · « **Reply #2544 on:** June 08, 2016, 06:34:25 PM »

Quote from: Kara on June 08, 2016, 04:15:35 PM

Sure, but unlike you I have a commitment to bettering my mental health. Besides, why do you think it's a minor inconvenience and not a struggle?

Dandy's also committed to mental health, he just explores curative avenues through other people's pain in his basement.

Tasty · « **Reply #2545 on:** June 09, 2016, 12:05:38 AM »

I had a non-sexual but still very compelling dream about Kodi-Smit McPhee being my best friend and now I'm heartbroken in the waking world knowing we'll never know each other.

bluemax · « **Reply #2546 on:** June 09, 2016, 11:20:43 PM »

Got a call telling me I had won a prize with a free trip or cruise, but then the guy asked me if I was single and when I said yes he told me I was ineligible and hung up.

I'm 100% sure it was a scam but I was still sad.

chronovore · « **Reply #2547 on:** June 10, 2016, 03:33:24 AM »

Got a call from Adobe Japan theoretically following up on a support call that I didn't make, but which turned out to be them trying to upsell me from a single-seat Creative Cloud license to a group license. Yeah, let me ask everyone else here if we need that. Oh, wait, I'm the only person here. NO, WE'RE GOOD.

I actually managed to get a laugh out of the Japanese staff, which probably should put this in the triumph thread.

Mupepe · « **Reply #2548 on:** June 10, 2016, 07:46:32 AM »

Worked my ass off the last 4 days because all day today will be spent packing my office for the 5th move in 2 years. Whatevs. At least I still have a job.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #2549 on:** June 10, 2016, 08:59:39 AM »

Painting my house, by myself, with a single brush.

Mania takes on many forms. You just have to ride the wave.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2550 on:** June 10, 2016, 09:36:45 AM »

Quote from: Brehvolution on May 17, 2016, 11:40:16 AM

My video card died, brehs.

Do I upgrade or wait for the RMA? It's a R9 270X 4gb.

I won't have to upgrade after all. I got this email from MSI last night regarding the warranty replacement:

Uhhhhh, yes please!!!!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2551 on:** June 10, 2016, 10:24:18 AM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on June 10, 2016, 08:59:39 AM

Painting my house, by myself, with a single brush.

Mania takes on many forms. You just have to ride the wave.

Don't you have kids breh? My mom would make me help my dad do stuff like that with threats of violence.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #2552 on:** June 10, 2016, 10:40:48 AM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on June 10, 2016, 08:59:39 AM

Painting my house, by myself, with a single brush.

Mania takes on many forms. You just have to ride the wave.

Is there anywhere you can rent a paint sprayer? You could have the bulk of it done in a day and then hand paint the trim.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #2553 on:** June 10, 2016, 02:06:32 PM »

Kids are with wife visiting relatives. They are only 11, they would be of little help anyways.

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Is there anywhere you can rent a paint sprayer? You could have the bulk of it done in a day and then hand paint the trim.

I've been thinking about renting a sprayer. Just heard bad stories about waste/clogging, kind of wary of it.

Crash Dummy · « **Reply #2554 on:** June 10, 2016, 02:08:39 PM »

became acutely aware of my age when i had to explain who oj simpson is to someone who joined as a school leaver

Tasty · « **Reply #2555 on:** June 10, 2016, 02:30:55 PM »

Quote from: ToxicAdam on June 10, 2016, 02:06:32 PM

Kids are with wife visiting relatives. They are only 11, they would be of little help anyways.

My dad made me paint my grandmas house with him when I was 12. We actually got a lot done.

Though I guess overall I was only like 15-20% as efficient at it as he was.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2556 on:** June 10, 2016, 03:33:24 PM »

By the time I was 11 I had helped my dad and/or granddad redo a bathroom, repair multiple windows, lay a shit ton of mulch, change the car oil, and build a shed. Few years later me and my brothers (two of whom were younger than 11) helped build our deck.

That feeling when it's a great day outside and you're about to chill with the fellas...then your mom yells "go outside, your dad will be here in 10 minutes with a ton of mulch"

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #2557 on:** June 10, 2016, 03:39:56 PM »

Damn, I take it too easy on my kids. The most I ask them to do is pick up around the house or wash floors.

PD, your family sounds like the Amish and how they raise their kids.

Tasty · « **Reply #2558 on:** June 10, 2016, 03:44:26 PM »

Spring/summer for me was constantly out in the woods helping stack wood my dad chainsawed down, then loading it in his truck, then dumping it, then him splitting it and me stacking it (again, right next to our house.) Then in the winter we had to wheelbarrow it back into the basement every two weeks.

He also roped me into any around-the-house improvements my mom or grandparents wanted.

I tried to be hopeful during all this by thinking, "Well this will come in handy as an adult." NOPE. All it did was galvanize me to never get a wood furnace and never be so poor I couldn't afford hiring someone to do home improvements.

(Also never doing hardcore home improvements, ever.)

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2559 on:** June 10, 2016, 03:56:50 PM »

I'd some of the stuff I learned has been helpful. I know how to replace a garbage disposer, some basic electrical stuff in order to install fans/lights/etc, how to replace a broken window, etc. Also knowing how to change your car's oil is always a good way to impress single mothers.

Tasty · « **Reply #2560 on:** June 10, 2016, 04:10:57 PM »

Oh yeah. Well, oil is pretty braindead. Changing a tire is more strenuous.

Kara · « **Reply #2561 on:** June 10, 2016, 04:18:38 PM »

I appreciate manual labor (the charity I volunteer with, working on bikes, aspiring to be a kibbutznik) and I'm sure all the bullshit chores I had to do as a kid helped develop that, but I also loathe home improvement / maintenance work for the same reasons.

Atramental · « **Reply #2562 on:** June 10, 2016, 08:17:00 PM »

Me IRL (guy sitting at the desk)

chronovore · « **Reply #2563 on:** June 10, 2016, 11:17:37 PM »

Quote from: Pallando on June 10, 2016, 08:17:00 PM

Me IRL (guy sitting at the desk)

Me, IRL (all parties in the video).

chronovore · « **Reply #2564 on:** June 13, 2016, 01:50:38 AM »

I accidentally did my normal, post-lunch Facebook look-see, and made the mistake of clicking "read all replies" on a (straight, white male) cousin's thread supporting gun rights, with a number of his friends clucking on about "If you don't like 'big scary guns,' don't own them."

On the bright side, I think I'll avoid Facebook this week. It will likely make me more productive.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2565 on:** June 13, 2016, 10:05:38 AM »

In other Facebook inconveniences. My parents have both started up the guilt train on anything I post regardless of the context. Implying that I'm terrible and never talk to them.

Specifically my dad who just recently up and moved to Ohio to live with a chick he used to know. Yet I'm the one who abandoned them. Fuck off. Resorted to deleting their shitposts. Probably end up blocking them if they keep it up.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2566 on:** June 13, 2016, 10:25:22 AM »

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on June 13, 2016, 10:05:38 AM

In other Facebook inconveniences. My parents have both started up the guilt train on anything I post regardless of the context. Implying that I'm terrible and never talk to them.

Specifically my dad who just recently up and moved to Ohio to live with a chick he used to know. Yet I'm the one who abandoned them. Fuck off. Resorted to deleting their shitposts. Probably end up blocking them if they keep it up.

Accept friend requests from family members on social media brehs

Kara · « **Reply #2567 on:** June 13, 2016, 10:32:00 AM »

As the timeshare salesperson said when I told them I had no family and thus couldn't buy a timeshare to share with my family and justify the unreasonable cost of owning a timeshare, family are the people who matter to us.

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Sorry breh. Used to that kind of parenting, unfortunately.

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Atramental · « **Reply #2568 on:** June 13, 2016, 10:35:22 AM »

Have a Facebook, brehs.

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I know it's not a viable option for some who need to stay in touch with distant friends & family but... I don't think I'm going to reactivate my main account anytime soon.

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fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #2569 on:** June 13, 2016, 11:31:20 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 13, 2016, 10:25:22 AM

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on June 13, 2016, 10:05:38 AM
In other Facebook inconveniences. My parents have both started up the guilt train on anything I post regardless of the context. Implying that I'm terrible and never talk to them.

Specifically my dad who just recently up and moved to Ohio to live with a chick he used to know. Yet I'm the one who abandoned them. Fuck off. Resorted to deleting their shitposts. Probably end up blocking them if they keep it up.
Accept friend requests from family members on social media brehs

It's really only started being a problem recently. I have all my other family members on Facebook and it's been fine. It's bothersome because they treat it as if I'm doing something abnormal. Our entire family is like this. We don't keep in touch. We only talk on holidays.

When I was living an hour away nobody came to visit me. And I drove back to visit them plenty of times. So they can fuck off.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #2570 on:** June 13, 2016, 11:41:23 AM »

A waste of time and energy to have family on Facebook. I call my parents once or twice a month and that's good enough for me.

TVC15 · « **Reply #2571 on:** June 13, 2016, 03:22:16 PM »

I'm kind of verklempt about this whole OS X changing to macOS thing. Somebody hold me.

chronovore · « **Reply #2572 on:** June 13, 2016, 05:48:09 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on June 13, 2016, 03:22:16 PM

I'm kind of verklempt about this whole OS X changing to macOS thing. Somebody hold me.

I get the reasoning, but ignoring the history that Mac OS became horribly overwrought and buggy over its lifetime is the main complaint I have about changing OS X's name to macOS.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #2573 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:02:29 PM »

why do mens pants not come with extra fabric on the dick side to hide poorly done shakes?

Tasty · « **Reply #2574 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:21:32 PM »

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on June 14, 2016, 04:02:29 PM

why do mens pants not come with extra fabric on the dick side to hide poorly done shakes?

...shakes?

Rufus · « **Reply #2575 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:30:56 PM »

The last few drops of golden dew.

Tasty · « **Reply #2576 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:31:48 PM »

Quote from: Rufus on June 14, 2016, 04:30:56 PM

The last few drops of golden dew.

That's what underwear's for.

Rufus · « **Reply #2577 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:35:00 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on June 14, 2016, 04:31:48 PM

Quote from: Rufus on June 14, 2016, 04:30:56 PM
The last few drops of golden dew.

That's what underwear's for.

Wrong
https://www.vice.com/read/deep-inside-the-chain-pub-piss-dungeon

TVC15 · « **Reply #2578 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:41:41 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on June 14, 2016, 04:21:32 PM

Quote from: TheInfelicitousDandy on June 14, 2016, 04:02:29 PM
why do mens pants not come with extra fabric on the dick side to hide poorly done shakes?

...shakes?

D3RANG3D · « **Reply #2579 on:** June 15, 2016, 07:25:53 AM »

I made a twitter account and within a few minutes I was banned, didn't post on any of the people I followed.

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