Author Topic: minor inconveniences that are not struggles (Read 901275 times)

Corporal · « **Reply #5700 on:** May 25, 2018, 07:16:41 AM »

Hah, that'll teach you to buy cheap trash without VESA mounts.

Sounds pretty stressful. Hope ya can relax a bit.

Anyway.
Time for my minor annoyance. Dressed up nicely, drove to a client, was too early, ooooh, look, a cafe! I am feeling peckish anyway! Perfect. Time to be all smooth and suave and do that adult thing.

Yeah. I met my client looking like a hobo who dragged his suit out of a trashcan, bathed in a public fountain and then pissed his pants because I am unable to drink Latte Macchiato and ogle my surroundings at the same time. And then to clean my shit up without making it look ten times worse. Fuck me.

At least everything went well.

bork · « **Reply #5701 on:** May 25, 2018, 08:07:05 AM »

Quote from: Corporal on May 25, 2018, 07:16:41 AM

Hah, that'll teach you to buy cheap trash without VESA mounts.
Sounds pretty stressful. Hope ya can relax a bit.

ASUS MX monitors, mang- good shit and unique bases...which explains the lack of VESA support. At the end of the day, the shit with the arms and monitors and whatnot doesn't matter. The stress only comes from having to get that shit back to them, but hey, they're gonna have UPS come pick it all up at least. It's the plumbing issue that worries me.

EDIT: Wasn't too bad. Just needed a new pipe.

skullstorm · « **Reply #5702 on:** May 27, 2018, 06:37:55 AM »

A mosquito bit me under my eye and the under eye area reacted pretty badly to it and now I look like I got beat up, great.

Corporal · « **Reply #5703 on:** May 27, 2018, 07:41:07 AM »

The first mosquito bite of the year always puffs up really badly for me as well. Sucks, but what can you do. At least yours is at an exploitable location.

Time to profit: dream up a tall tale of how you took on a Pro Wrestler, Bear or Gang member for slighting you. "Should'a seen the other guy!" This is the time to invest heavily in siblings or best friends so they can corroborate your story.

Slept over the Champions League finale since I'm not a soccer guy at heart. Woke up today to 29349 Whatsapp messages of a friend who wanted to invite me to a public viewing. Later messages came with pictures of food and drinks he was consuming. Drat. I missed out. Bigly. Damn you, auto-do not disturb smartphone. This wouldn't have happened with a dumbphone.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #5704 on:** May 27, 2018, 03:10:51 PM »

The three day weekend is half over and I've wasted the first half completely.

chronovore · « **Reply #5705 on:** May 28, 2018, 02:20:45 AM »

Moved to Tokyo, no longer working at home. 3GB dataplan lasts first two weeks out of each month. Have to purchase extra GB first month. Still treat remaining data packets gingerly. Don't want to use company's wifi network because my usage is entirely unrelated to work. Don't even want it monitored, so it'll never be an issue. ("Why /did/ you stream 20GB of music last month, Mr. Chronovore?")

Upgrade to 20GB data plan tied to a new phone. Needed a new phone anyway. It's ordered during a holiday week, which delays it. I have to go back to Tokyo, but it will be delivered to my family home.

Again run past 3GB while waiting for new phone to arrive.

Again purchase extra data.

Phone arrives the next day.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #5706 on:** May 28, 2018, 09:45:32 AM »

got got by a secret track. fall prey to gimmicks you knew about in high school brehs

HardcoreRetro · « **Reply #5707 on:** May 28, 2018, 12:58:21 PM »

Blackbird ate the last strawberry from my strawberry plant.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5708 on:** May 28, 2018, 02:15:57 PM »

O dude, that really sucks. I'll keep you in my prays. PM me if you need someone to talk to.

I did something like that recently, had to lose an inch. Also decided to grow a handlebar mustache and trimmed the middle a bit, which I guess you aren't supposed to do, so now it will be like 3 months before I can pull it off for reals.

Tasty · « **Reply #5709 on:** May 28, 2018, 05:07:23 PM »

Quote from: Dufus on May 28, 2018, 05:01:14 PM

how is looking like a 12 year old a bad thing?

being able to hit on teenage girls without coming off as a creep

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #5710 on:** May 29, 2018, 02:01:26 PM »

Put in two weeks notice today and now the company wants to see what they can do to keep me. Ugh, just let me quit in peace. $:-\$

Edit: They couldn't match my salary, so that's over with.

chronovore · « **Reply #5711 on:** May 30, 2018, 12:34:38 PM »

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 29, 2018, 02:01:26 PM

Put in two weeks notice today and now the company wants to see what they can do to keep me. Ugh, just let me quit in peace. $:-\$

Edit: They couldn't match my salary, so that's over with.

Honestly, that is the best possible ending. They had the opportunity to retain you at any previous point. Only paying attention when you're bailing is not a healthy relationship.

Skullfuckers Anonymous · « **Reply #5712 on:** May 30, 2018, 02:14:06 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on May 30, 2018, 12:34:38 PM

Quote from: Skullfuckers Anonymous on May 29, 2018, 02:01:26 PM
Put in two weeks notice today and now the company wants to see what they can do to keep me. Ugh, just let me quit in peace. $:-\$

Edit: They couldn't match my salary, so that's over with.

Honestly, that is the best possible ending. They had the opportunity to retain you at any previous point. Only paying attention when you're bailing is not a healthy relationship.

Yeah, even if they had matched me I would've left anyway due to other issues I had. Glad I could avoid that awkward conversation.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #5713 on:** June 01, 2018, 10:46:01 PM »

Found out the current season of RPDR is airing on Netflix in some regions and I’m too stupid to get around their vpn blocking 😭

Huff · « **Reply #5714 on:** June 03, 2018, 06:36:42 PM »

Struggle thread seems a little too real for my inbetween inconvenience and struggle issue

Flight delayed due to weather at connecting airport. 90% chance we’re stuck in atl for the night. Ugh just hope they can figure out a flight home early tomorrow to avoid missed time at work

Other option is fly to an airport 3 hrs away (pending open seats) and drive through the night

Huff · « **Reply #5715 on:** June 03, 2018, 08:53:36 PM »

Missed flight. In Florida for another night. Doesn’t seem so bad

Rent a car. No one agency has a single unbooked car. Wth

Tasty · « **Reply #5716 on:** June 03, 2018, 09:37:19 PM »

Microsoft bought GitHub.

Corporal · « **Reply #5717 on:** June 04, 2018, 01:02:46 AM »

I got devoured by mosquitos last night.

So... itchy...

They shouldn't be out and about yet, but they are. Lesson learned.

shosta · « **Reply #5718 on:** June 04, 2018, 01:10:05 AM »

I stopped jerking off for a second because I had to Google what "Bantustan" meant

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #5719 on:** June 04, 2018, 01:21:58 AM »

Were you jerking it to apartheid porn?

Tasty · « **Reply #5720 on:** June 04, 2018, 10:53:45 AM »

Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database

brawndolicious · « **Reply #5721 on:** June 04, 2018, 03:15:47 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on June 04, 2018, 10:53:45 AM

Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database

I can't be the only one who thinks excel is great for creating strings.

Combine it with lookups of pivot tables of lookups, that'll get you a bit of job security.

Tasty · « **Reply #5722 on:** June 04, 2018, 03:17:59 PM »

Quote from: brawndolicious on June 04, 2018, 03:15:47 PM

Quote from: Tasty Meat on June 04, 2018, 10:53:45 AM
Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database
I can't be the only one who thinks excel is great for creating strings.

Combine it with lookups of pivot tables of lookups, that'll get you a bit of job security.

shosta · « **Reply #5723 on:** June 04, 2018, 03:59:45 PM »

Quote from: Tasty Meat on June 04, 2018, 10:53:45 AM

Galaxy brain: keeping your source code in an SQL database

isn't that just a stored procedure
*Badum tss*

bork · « **Reply #5724 on:** June 06, 2018, 09:32:09 AM »

Quote from: bork on April 06, 2018, 12:48:13 PM

Was just helping someone at work. While I'm fiddling around on her PC fixing her problem, she asks if I've ever lived anywhere else. Told her I'd lived in New York and in Japan.

She then responds with a joke about nazis and follows that up with a highly offensive racist joke about Japanese people. I just went on the other end of the line and didn't say anything. After an awkward silence, she goes "OH COME ON, THAT'S FUNNY!!"

Update on this nonsense- I haven't spoken to this lady much since this incident happened and HR talked to her. When I've gotten her on the phone, there's a pause, followed by "never mind, it fixed itself" and she hangs up.

Doesn't want to talk to me after she got in trouble? OK, fine, whatever. But I found that this lady has been calling in and talking shit about me to my co-workers in the last few weeks. Stuff like "Can I ask for people specifically? I don't want to talk to bork-- he got me in trouble with HR over nothing. It was nothing!!" and trying to get dirt on me or find out if I was the one who reported her for this. One co-worker has even been flat-out telling her that "no, bork didn't report you- it was our boss."

So it looks like this is going back to HR, per my boss. Jesus, lady, it's been two months already. You fucked up and now you're in denial over it? LET IT GO.

team filler · « **Reply #5725 on:** June 06, 2018, 10:15:58 AM »

a tyrant censoring sbw monster even outside thebore.com

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #5726 on:** June 06, 2018, 10:41:53 AM »

murdered in the physical realm

bork · « **Reply #5727 on:** June 06, 2018, 01:54:32 PM »

Quote from: filler on June 06, 2018, 10:15:58 AM

a tyrant censoring sbw monster even outside thebore.com

team filler · « **Reply #5728 on:** June 06, 2018, 05:41:48 PM »

*sbw=stalker beaks warrior

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #5729 on:** June 07, 2018, 09:52:55 AM »

Work is getting crazy again. I can feel the breakdown looming close.

Corporal · « **Reply #5730 on:** June 07, 2018, 11:04:16 AM »

I'm feeling antsy. Kinda like a hostage after spending a day or two with a gun to their head.

Just get it over with, MS. Pull the trigger. Fuck up my settings once more. Possibly destroy my installation. Do it, fuckers. Doooo eeeeeeet.

Well fuck you too.

Bonus:

Quote from: Browser

code.jquery.com is blocked
Requests to the server have been blocked by an extension.
Try disabling your extensions.
ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT

Fuck, how did I manage to bork this one up. Which one of the three dozen extensions and one hundred configuration options is the culprit? I'm not gonna do the enable/disable bullshit bingo to find out, at least for a while. It's not like I have javascript enabled all that often anyway.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #5731 on:** June 09, 2018, 12:13:35 PM »

Alarm clock broke this morning which put me behind on my trip to LA. Rental car company is closed on weekends even though I have a reservation for pick up today. UHHHH

So now I'm waiting for a ride to get a car at the airport. I'm about to just say fuck today and get on a plane.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #5732 on:** June 09, 2018, 02:07:48 PM »

Quote from: G The Resurrected on June 09, 2018, 12:13:35 PM

Alarm clock broke this morning which put me behind on my trip to LA. Rental car company is closed on weekends even though I have a reservation for pick up today. UHHHH

So now I'm waiting for a ride to get a car at the airport. I'm about to just say fuck today and get on a plane.

That massively sucks. I had a trip a week ago where they lost my reservation and then wanted to charge me twice as much so I stepped out of the line, booked it again on my phone for the original price, and then picked up the same car. At least booking things is so much easier now because of the internet.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #5733 on:** June 09, 2018, 05:22:12 PM »

Missed my chance to play Anthem/BFv at EA play, but that's ok I got on a standby list for a flight tonight. I forgot WWDC happened this week and there are no cars around right now. Hertz can suck it!

Mupepe · « **Reply #5734 on:** June 10, 2018, 10:23:18 AM »

I got cocky and underestimated my work load from my job when I decided to do 5 week summer courses to get ahead in school. Fucking shit. I knew I was in trouble when I saw my syllabus for my math course. Multiple chapters due every single day, including weekends. My life for the remaining 4 weeks is going to be to commute for an hour, work for 9, commute for an hour home and then work and homework for 5 hours until bed. Weekends I’ll have some extra time but still, fuck this shit. Never again.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5735 on:** June 10, 2018, 10:26:22 AM »

Its only 5 weeks. You got it.

I'm a Puppy! · « **Reply #5736 on:** June 10, 2018, 12:10:13 PM »

You can do it!!

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #5737 on:** June 10, 2018, 12:28:49 PM »

Time is flying by so fast it’ll be done in no time

toku · « **Reply #5738 on:** June 10, 2018, 01:01:20 PM »

It's worth it and you can do it.

Mupepe · « **Reply #5739 on:** June 10, 2018, 02:47:52 PM »

Thanks you guys. You’re awesome. Even you Stro.

Yeti · « **Reply #5740 on:** June 11, 2018, 03:11:47 PM »

When you start feeling overwhelmed with your course load and need some motivation , just picture stro in the corner stomping his feet and gnashing his teeth at you

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5741 on:** June 11, 2018, 10:07:37 PM »

I put my chunk of garlic sausage in a glass because all my dishes are dirty and now its stuck. I'd fork it out but then I'd need to wash one.

Madrun Badrun · « **Reply #5742 on:** June 11, 2018, 10:09:01 PM »

Nevermind. Thought through the problem. Tipped glass upside down an banged on bottom. Now I got sausage in my mouth. Yum.

shosta · « **Reply #5743 on:** June 11, 2018, 10:15:15 PM »

You got some tasty meat in your mouf

Corporal · « **Reply #5744 on:** June 12, 2018, 08:44:42 AM »

I'm probably going to be offline during the Nintendo stream. If I am, I'll be twiddling my thumbs, chat with some nice chaps and get mucho dinero for it, so, yay - but dammit, of all the conferences to miss out on. $:-\$ :'(

bork · « **Reply #5745 on:** June 12, 2018, 09:02:46 AM »

Brought a little bottle of Mi0 flavoring drops to work yesterday. Squeezed two drops into a full cup of water. Somehow the second squeeze just bounced off the water and exploded all over the place. Shit was all over my shirt, face, and hands.

It was surprisingly difficult to get it off my skin and my shirt was a lost cause. Spent the rest of the day avoiding people at all costs and somehow managed to make it without seeing anyone apart from my co-workers. Tried to bleach the shit out of the shirt, but it was ruined. :'(

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #5746 on:** June 12, 2018, 12:05:54 PM »

That's crazy the shirt was ruined. I've had that happen and just used a stain-treatment spray (Shout) and it came out in the wash.

TVC15 · « **Reply #5747 on:** June 12, 2018, 12:19:41 PM »

Rupaul finale spoilers are :-/

Kara · « **Reply #5748 on:** June 12, 2018, 12:50:50 PM »

Quote from: bork on June 12, 2018, 09:02:46 AM

Brought a little bottle of Mi0 flavoring drops to work yesterday. Squeezed two drops into a full cup of water. Somehow the second squeeze just bounced off the water and exploded all over the place. Shit was all over my shirt, face, and hands. It was surprisingly difficult to get it off my skin and my shirt was a lost cause. Spent the rest of the day avoiding people at all costs and somehow managed to make it without seeing anyone apart from my co-workers. Tried to bleach the shit out of the shirt, but it was ruined. :'(

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=43174.0

EVOL · « **Reply #5749 on:** June 13, 2018, 05:25:48 AM »

Quote from: Corporal on June 12, 2018, 08:44:42 AM

I'm probably going to be offline during the Nintendo stream. If I am, I'll be twiddling my thumbs, chat with some nice chaps and get mucho dinero for it, so, yay - but dammit, of all the conferences to miss out on. $:-\$ :'(

Good thing you missed nothing

Kara · « **Reply #5750 on:** June 14, 2018, 03:37:47 PM »

Sometimes I'm asked to email things to people I don't know (usually bankers) and because I am product of white culture that means web searching names from a lot of non-European languages to ensure I use the right honorific because English is a stupid language with gendered honorifics that are still in use.

Anyway, today I had to do this with a Japanese name I thought I didn't know and the first result back was a major person in the video game industry that I definitely know.

Take an L from Nintendo executives, brehs.

team filler · « **Reply #5751 on:** June 14, 2018, 03:50:14 PM »

shosta · « **Reply #5752 on:** June 16, 2018, 06:49:30 AM »

Got in a car with a girl who was literally drinking and driving simultaneously. Stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. Don't think with your dick.

team filler · « **Reply #5753 on:** June 16, 2018, 02:35:06 PM »

did you fuck tho?

shosta · « **Reply #5754 on:** June 16, 2018, 04:27:00 PM »

Was gonna but eventually me and my boy just said fuck this shit and we bounced

Tasty · « **Reply #5755 on:** June 16, 2018, 07:24:28 PM »

Forgot my Switch at home while visiting the rents.

I wanna play Bloodstained. :'(

Tasty · « **Reply #5756 on:** June 16, 2018, 07:37:20 PM »

Quote from: Stro on June 16, 2018, 07:35:59 PM

What kind of piece of shit buys a fucking Switch

Literally everyone on this forum, including Triumph.

Kara · « **Reply #5757 on:** June 16, 2018, 08:37:52 PM »

The only Berliner Weisse they had at the specialty alcohol megamart already had fruit flavoring added to it.

Atramental · « **Reply #5758 on:** June 17, 2018, 11:02:34 AM »

I’m sick on my birthday.

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #5759 on:** June 17, 2018, 11:27:54 AM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on June 12, 2018, 12:19:41 PM

Rupaul finale spoilers are :-/

Deleting you from the internet to be safe

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Author Topic: minor inconveniences that are not struggles (Read 901275 times)