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Title: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 07, 2014, 08:33:09 AM
I shaved in the shower this morning and forgot to double check in the mirror. I missed a patch of hair on my cheek. Now I look like a lunatic.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 08:35:02 AM
I have to have a conference call with a fortune500 because I want to sub a guy for a fucking wireless survey and he doesn't file OSHA reports because well.....wireless surveys consist of walking around with a fluke meter.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: archnemesis on October 07, 2014, 08:42:23 AM
I'm tired and hungry and it's 15 minutes until I can eat the fruit salad I brought with me to work. How am I supposed to last until then?!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 07, 2014, 08:48:17 AM
I have an interview shortly, within my current job, that I'm pretty sure I have no chance in hell of getting due to lack of experience.  Should be fun.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 08:51:00 AM
I have an interview shortly, within my current job, that I'm pretty sure I have no chance in hell of getting due to lack of experience.  Should be fun.


Hmmmm....The fact they are interviewing you would lead me to believe they might be trying to get you into the position at less than it typically pays but a bit more than you do now.

Keep you head up and use these words

Team Play
Driven
Exciting Opportunity
Want to learn

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 07, 2014, 08:53:32 AM
I want to drink some tea and watch Catch a Contractor, but not any of the teas I have. And I'm using up all my bandwidth getting the rest of 2K15 because I didn't expect them to actually respect PC users with a midnight release.

It's like I'm living in 900p just because of stupid social justice warriors and their obsession with fairness.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 07, 2014, 09:08:54 AM
Was too lazy to buy lunch and I have a workout session in 2.5 hours, I'm gonna die brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 07, 2014, 10:04:47 AM
got my first cold of the season so I'm moaning and sulking all over the house
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 07, 2014, 10:26:11 AM
My battle.net account got hacked a little after midnight while I was playing Hearthstone. I was too tired to get it straightened out and did it this morning. Now I'm back to using an authenticator like the 3rd world peasant class. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 07, 2014, 10:28:39 AM
I had to deal with childish drama in the vanpool this morning (I drive the vanpool).  People basically fighting over who gets to sit in the front seat and then when we got to work someone went and told on everyone.  somebody save me!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 07, 2014, 10:32:37 AM
Just getting up was a bitch today.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 07, 2014, 10:34:26 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 07, 2014, 10:35:41 AM
I had to deal with childish drama in the vanpool this morning (I drive the vanpool).  People basically fighting over who gets to sit in the front seat and then when we got to work someone went and told on everyone.  somebody save me!

Holy shit. These are adults you are driving with?!


My battle.net account got hacked a little after midnight while I was playing Hearthstone. I was too tired to get it straightened out and did it this morning. Now I'm back to using an authenticator like the 3rd world peasant class.

It was your fault for having 'ihatezoo' as your password.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 07, 2014, 10:37:06 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(

Keep them all. Give them a raise. Have management take a pay cut.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 07, 2014, 10:38:37 AM
My battle.net account got hacked a little after midnight while I was playing Hearthstone. I was too tired to get it straightened out and did it this morning. Now I'm back to using an authenticator like the 3rd world peasant class.

It was your fault for having 'ihatezoo' as your password.

It was 'ihatezoo12', but I see where you are coming from.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 10:39:32 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(

Keep them all. Give them a raise. Have management take a pay cut.

Yes and you might has well have jesus come in and high five him too....Doesn't work like this, bro.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 07, 2014, 10:43:48 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(

Keep them all. Give them a raise. Have management take a pay cut.

Yes and you might has well have jesus come in and high five him too....Doesn't work like this, bro.

There were lots of times my step dad didn't take a paycheck so all his employees could get paid during tight times. It sure does work like that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 07, 2014, 10:43:56 AM
the sky is gray, and i wish it was blue.
:pacspit
overcast (http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/232608/diddy-dance-o.gif)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
unlesss it's actually raining :kobeyuck
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 10:46:49 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(

Keep them all. Give them a raise. Have management take a pay cut.

Yes and you might has well have jesus come in and high five him too....Doesn't work like this, bro.

There were lots of times my step dad didn't take a paycheck so all his employees could get paid during tight times. It sure does work like that.

Sure, if you work for a small company, of course. But if you have shareholders, get the fuck out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 07, 2014, 10:53:11 AM
i have to skip some episodes of it's always sunny in philadelphia now
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 07, 2014, 10:54:00 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(

Keep them all. Give them a raise. Have management take a pay cut.

Yes and you might has well have jesus come in and high five him too....Doesn't work like this, bro.

There were lots of times my step dad didn't take a paycheck so all his employees could get paid during tight times. It sure does work like that.

Sure, if you work for a small company, of course. But if you have shareholders, get the fuck out.
Like corporations give a shit about shareholders until they speak up.
http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffet-v-coca-cola-plan-to-pay-executives-13-billion-2014-10
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 10:56:05 AM
I have to meet with a VP today and negotiate the future of 5 people's jobs.  :(

Keep them all. Give them a raise. Have management take a pay cut.

Yes and you might has well have jesus come in and high five him too....Doesn't work like this, bro.

There were lots of times my step dad didn't take a paycheck so all his employees could get paid during tight times. It sure does work like that.

Sure, if you work for a small company, of course. But if you have shareholders, get the fuck out.
Like corporations give a shit about shareholders.
http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffet-v-coca-cola-plan-to-pay-executives-13-billion-2014-10

I like you bud but you're so far out of your league on how large business works that I'm going to go ahead and stop this now to not derail the thread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 07, 2014, 10:57:23 AM
Word
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 11:24:30 AM
I'm alive.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 07, 2014, 11:42:42 AM
My taxes were $650 more than I estimated, so I have to go on lockdown $1 menu mode until the first week in Nov.

No Halloween for me this year :(

And it's on Friday this year :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 11:51:20 AM
I'm waiting on my STD test results and just beat all the games I have to escape from the dreaded wayward thoughts.

Use rubbers man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 11:52:17 AM
My taxes were $650 more than I estimated, so I have to go on lockdown $1 menu mode until the first week in Nov.

No Halloween for me this year :(

And it's on Friday this year :(

This sucks. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 11:52:46 AM
I do, but then you're drunk and want to go down on the girl.

:whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 07, 2014, 11:58:54 AM
my right nipple is super itchy for some reason :tocry

Your ring infected again?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 12:00:08 PM
A pawg coworker is walking around the office whisper singing "I'm all about the bass, bout the bass, no trouble." I want to interrupt her and say the lyric is treble, NOT trouble, and explain the wit and #duality/double entendre of the line. But nah. I'll just sit here and wait for lunch time.

:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 12:00:33 PM
my right nipple is super itchy for some reason :tocry

Your ring infected again?

One Ring to pull them balls.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eric P on October 07, 2014, 12:04:33 PM
i had to go to the post office to pick up a package.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cool breeze on October 07, 2014, 01:03:54 PM
I have a box of parts to build a small table but I'm too lazy to build it and the box isn't big enough to use as a small table.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 07, 2014, 01:04:39 PM
My network guy was supposed to come do network things, but he had to reschedule to next week.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 07, 2014, 01:09:56 PM
My ribs feel like jelly, new hot girl giggled at me (not in a good way) this is how it all ends brehs :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 07, 2014, 01:13:50 PM
i have to hold a fart for at least another 5 minutes
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 07, 2014, 01:15:04 PM
My ribs feel like jelly, new hot girl giggled at me (not in a good way) this is how it all ends brehs :tocry

Yeah....ouch, you're out of her potential pounding pool.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 07, 2014, 01:18:16 PM
A pawg coworker is walking around the office whisper singing "I'm all about the bass, bout the bass, no trouble." I want to interrupt her and say the lyric is treble, NOT trouble, and explain the wit and #duality/double entendre of the line. But nah. I'll just sit here and wait for lunch time.

:snoop
Maybe she's talking about the fish?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Supermanisdead on October 07, 2014, 01:33:48 PM
drove to walmart
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 01:39:26 PM
Reading Ruzbeh's game opinions.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 01:40:04 PM
:pacspit
overcast (http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/232608/diddy-dance-o.gif)

spoiler (click to show/hide)
unlesss it's actually raining :kobeyuck
[close]

WTF? Who on earth prefers overcast skies besides young kids in afghanistan afraid of getting blown up by drones?

i'm going to blame karakand's influence for this terrible post.


(http://i.imgur.com/mv87Xyi.png)

Got bad news Esch  :goty2

I can appreciate a sunny day with a clear sky but the grey overcast even when raining...it just speaks to me breh (http://i5.minus.com/ib0QmYLL3apxWu.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 07, 2014, 01:47:21 PM
Trying to come up with a slutty Halloween costume that doesn't cost too much money

Trying to slim up to fit slutty costume that won't cost too much money
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 07, 2014, 01:47:49 PM
I had to deal with childish drama in the vanpool this morning (I drive the vanpool).  People basically fighting over who gets to sit in the front seat and then when we got to work someone went and told on everyone.  somebody save me!

Holy shit. These are adults you are driving with?!

yep.  all in their 40's and 50's too.  Ridiculously petty.  I'm bailing out of this ASAP.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 01:54:37 PM
I'm going to have to buy another external hard drive soon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 07, 2014, 02:06:36 PM
I have a pimple on my ass.

And I think I may have aids.

No joke.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 07, 2014, 02:07:57 PM
Sorry, but that's a struggle beyond the scope of this thread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 02:08:47 PM
I have a pimple on my ass.

And I think I may have aids.

No joke.

Both of them are not jokes?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 02:11:46 PM
buncha debbie downer ass

(http://i.minus.com/ibjnQIUR69ymMm.gif)

How does it feel Esch. How does it feel to know your playground putdowns aren't winning the war for their hearts and minds. :lawd

Soon Abilify will flow at the Bore more freely than gay subtext and my kickbacks from Otsuka Pharmaceutical will flow like wine at a Bacchanalia. :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 07, 2014, 02:21:07 PM
I have a pimple on my ass.

And I think I may have aids.

No joke.

Its unlikely that you have AIDS unless you are HIV Positive.  You could totally have HIV though.

Best of luck with your pimple. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 07, 2014, 02:23:26 PM
FWIW, I try to hold back with depressing shit. But I still 'like' a lot of downer posts, so I'm probably contributing indirectly. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 07, 2014, 02:46:26 PM
My song for today:

There were nights when the wind was so cold that my body froze in bed if I just listened to it right outside the window.  There were days when the sun was so cruel and all the tears turned to dust and I just knew my eyes were drying up forever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 07, 2014, 02:46:32 PM
I have a pimple on my ass.

And I think I may have aids.

No joke.

Both of them are not jokes?
I'm not joking about either, in fact I'm very serious. As serioius and informed as a paranoid man child can be.

Weeks ago maybe two months ago I had oral sex with some condom coated penetration. Maybe 5 mins at most. They say it's harder to get it through oral, but it's still possible.

I thought nothing of it.

But then I got a cold. I thought it was harmless. The weather is changing, I sleep in a basement near the wall, and with no shirt. Some people were sick at school. In fact my mother got sick right after me.  Yet, I was still paranoid because I am paranoid. I read some quick things about aids, but I'm too afraid to read and look up more concrete things and you know how everything sticks out to you more when you go in all paranoid and shit? Well the fact that I had a cold soon after intercourse scared me. The fact that I've felt unwell since. Nothing serious, but I feel like I'm going to hurl after each meal and pretty much everyday. I don't throw up and maybe since it's all in my head I'm making myself sick, yet it's a cycle and I feel like everything is confirming my own psychosis. Since my cold I've felt unwell, but nothing offensive. Nothing thats impeded my day and I feel ok sometimes. I haven't had mono or a rash as of today either or really anything beyond the fell of hurling. My poop has been fine.

But my throat has that feeling of roughness. It's there ever so slightly. I haven't had a sore throat or anything yet, but my throat in general has felt somewhat rough and that has never left me. I keep looking at my tongue and I can't remember if my tongue was always this white. Now I don't have white spots or even pain in my tongue(though I can feel like some pain is coming, though again that could just be because I'm being paranoid). But because of all this I've put more thought and anylyzation in how much of a white tint my tounge has. I've asked my mom if my tounge looks strange and she says no it dosen't. Her tonge has the same whitish tint as well.

Yet it's today after drinking some coffe that I looked at it and it looked a bit more prickly I guess you could say. Red spots looked more pronounced. It just freaked me out because all of this is on my mind and I'm scared. But since I'm so secretive, I don't want to tell anyone or do anything. I also simply don't know anything about aids and this could all be in my head. Then again don't people not notice these things until it's too late? I feel like I keep noticing more and more problems and blowing them out of proportion because of this. I feel like this feeling of wanting to throw up is nothing new, but hey because I'm currently paranoid this is now a big deal. I feel like my tounge has always looked like this, but now it's a big deal.

I don't know. I'm sorry for telling you this, but because you don't know me personally it's much easier for me to say these things even if i sound stupid.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 07, 2014, 02:48:31 PM
You don't have aids.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 07, 2014, 02:50:24 PM
If red spots are a sign of AIDS, then I get AIDS every time I eat an excess amount of sugar. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 07, 2014, 02:52:03 PM
Jolly Ranchers may well be AIDs capsules.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 07, 2014, 02:53:06 PM
Get a test and quit bein a bitch


if the test comes back positive, I'm sorry for being callous.


My struggle is McDonald's won't stop giving me free food, stuck in an endless monopoly loop that may give me diabetes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 07, 2014, 02:53:13 PM
If red spots are a sign of AIDS, then I get AIDS every time I eat an excess amount of sugar.
Yeah. I read sore throat and immediately thought "too many sweets". :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on October 07, 2014, 02:53:27 PM
Love overcast. I even put up a blanket over the blinds today to block out the sun (http://i.imgur.com/WuOyAzc.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 07, 2014, 02:55:09 PM
Sunshine > over cast, all times of year, all locales, don't be dumb.

The sunny fall weekend I just had at the coast was brilliant. Driving through the coastal forests with the leaves turning and the sun shining, so angelic.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 02:59:18 PM
I forgot that this is the same forum that doesn't like Summer....

:dead

You don't live in the south do you?

Summer activities are great but the heat gets real old, real fast
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on October 07, 2014, 03:01:30 PM
i like sun during cool spring
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 07, 2014, 03:01:52 PM
I mean, I guess we shouldn't expect differently, Esch. Overcast skies more closely resemble the conditions the target audience of this board is used to (indoors) :trollbron
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 03:04:31 PM
You don't have AIDS breh. I'm familiar with that paranoia but nah, you'd have to be the unluckiest person in history to get AIDs orally. Might as well go get checked out for other things.

Speaking of other things, and since you were open about your issues...I'll give an update on myself. Got my test results back and yea...looks like it's time to find a new ladyfriend. I'm fine now, symptoms are gone. But clearly she was fucking someone on the side because I'm not active with anyone else. Not a huge deal, she's not even my gf but we were perhaps moving in that direction, she stays at my place often, etc. That's over now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 03:05:56 PM
i like sun during cool spring

Spring/late Fall/Winter, it's fine.


In the summer  :pacspit

Cant even cool down in the comfort of your own home its so hot
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 07, 2014, 03:09:52 PM
You don't have AIDS breh. I'm familiar with that paranoia but nah, you'd have to be the unluckiest person in history to get AIDs orally. Might as well go get checked out for other things.

Speaking of other things, and since you were open about your issues...I'll give an update on myself. Got my test results back and yea...looks like it's time to find a new ladyfriend. I'm fine now, symptoms are gone. But clearly she was fucking someone on the side because I'm not active with anyone else. Not a huge deal, she's not even my gf but we were perhaps moving in that direction, she stays at my place often, etc. That's over now.

Thank the Egyptian gods for bread mold, eh?

Drippy penis :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 03:12:27 PM
fuck around with 19 year olds brehs
:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 07, 2014, 03:13:24 PM
I drank too much last night and slept in until 1:30 today
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on October 07, 2014, 03:19:38 PM
Don't feel like going to work today so I rescheduled. Now my partner wants to do a job tomorrow and I have to reschedule again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on October 07, 2014, 03:43:52 PM
I am attending a conference later this month and two vendors have invited me out to a fancy dinner (they will be paying of course) but in a Blossom-like twist the dinners are at the same time

:shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 07, 2014, 03:47:29 PM
I do, but then you're drunk and want to go down on the girl.

(http://i.imgur.com/ZVdAeFK.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 04:06:11 PM
I am attending a conference later this month and two vendors have invited me out to a fancy dinner (they will be paying of course) but in a Blossom-like twist the dinners are at the same time

:shaq2

Better skip breakfast
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 07, 2014, 04:40:10 PM
I am attending a conference later this month and two vendors have invited me out to a fancy dinner (they will be paying of course) but in a Blossom-like twist the dinners are at the same time

:shaq2

Come and knock on my door...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 04:49:01 PM
Esch I love summer. Just not in Houston. You haters need to toughen up, come to the souf during summer months, or shut up. Right now that it's fall, It's now prime nature exploration time down here. Gonna act all high and mighty when you don't live in a place where it's 80% humidity almost every day for four months.

:pacspit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 04:51:46 PM
I prefer fall since I like overcast skies and middling temps.
:yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 04:51:54 PM
I am attending a conference later this month and two vendors have invited me out to a fancy dinner (they will be paying of course) but in a Blossom-like twist the dinners are at the same time

:shaq2

:mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 04:55:02 PM
Fall here is sunny skies and 70-80's temps. Perfect weather. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 04:57:14 PM
I live in a place where the seasons are:

11+ months - sunny with temperatures ranging from :aah to :stahp
1 month (if Tlaloc smiles upon us) or less - rain :gloomy

That shit gets fucking old after awhile and I've spent my entire life here. :goty2

It's not even like I'm a cacdemon that can't tan, blessed Semitic genes let me go from cacdemon to IDF enlistee if I can spend a few weeks in the sun. My unfortunate peers that can't must have a really bad case of Stockholm syndrome. :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 04:58:45 PM
From what I hear of people from hot places like AZ and TX, LA heat ain't shit and that the natives need to stop crying :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Quaker on October 07, 2014, 04:58:57 PM
I forgot that this is the same forum that doesn't like Summer....

:dead
Eh, it's kind of bullshit that it's still in the 90s every day when we're three weeks into fall. Next week doesn't look much better. I just want that sweet autumn breeze. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 04:59:43 PM
Fall breezes :bow

That's my favorite season. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 05:00:12 PM
From what I hear of people from hot places like AZ and TX, LA heat ain't shit and that the natives need to stop crying :yeshrug

Our heat is nothing like their heat, no.

Doesn't mean I want to be blasting my AC in late September doe.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on October 07, 2014, 05:01:42 PM
I am begging for a cold front to hit Florida soon.

Unbearably hot during the summers. Still fucking hot and it's fall.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 05:02:30 PM
Mmm hmm. Fuck them bills.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 07, 2014, 05:02:56 PM
My grad class in cryptography is killing me.  I don't get any of this shit. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 05:05:50 PM
Only bad thing about fall is that bagging leaves is the WORST yard work activity. I hate that shit. I enjoy cutting grass in the summer, I like shoveling snow (especially late at night) but leaves are fucking annoying as shit. Even when they aren't wet.

Last year I waited until the last possible time to do the leaves, December 8th lol (day of that snow bowl game between the Lions and Eagles lol). Like 5 minutes after getting them into various piles it started to snow...and literally I didn't see the ground without snow until like early March. What a winter...

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 05:10:08 PM
So is this the new random talk thread
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on October 07, 2014, 05:16:08 PM
Phoenix heat is UNBEARABLE. Worse than the south, worse than tropic Mexico, worse than the pacific islands. Like being in a fucking furnace. God that city has great, cheap food but it is so not worth it for more than a day or two. You appreciate local weather more after going there.

Valley heat can get pretty bad in So. Cal but it isn't comperable. Actually a few weeks ago during the freak humidity was probably the worst heat of my life. 105 with insane humidity  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 05:16:23 PM
Winter  :rejoice

Chilly weather > hell on earth  :obama

The winter gear I get to wear  :whoo

Drinking hot chocolates and eating other assorted holiday food (http://i3.minus.com/ibuJTxCeEgmcTP.png)

Bundling up inside with loved ones or going out and looking at christmas lights with them (http://i5.minus.com/ib0QmYLL3apxWu.png)

Bugs going inside of the ground for the season  :lawd :lawd :lawd


It truly is the most wonderful time of the year (http://i2.minus.com/i6P2EGLjoNGyQ.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 07, 2014, 05:17:01 PM
this is the nerdly scumbag catch-all thread, going by how many of yall hate warmth and sunlight
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 05:21:54 PM
can we ship all northerners down south so they have some humility? :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 05:23:08 PM
Winter  :rejoice

Chilly weather > hell on earth  :obama

The winter gear I get to wear  :whoo

Drinking hot chocolates and eating other assorted holiday food (http://i3.minus.com/ibuJTxCeEgmcTP.png)

Bundling up inside with loved ones or going out and looking at christmas lights with them (http://i5.minus.com/ib0QmYLL3apxWu.png)

Bugs going inside of the ground for the season  :lawd :lawd :lawd


It truly is the most wonderful time of the year (http://i2.minus.com/i6P2EGLjoNGyQ.png)

Winter here is like, sunny skies, and 50 degree weather. :rejoice

Phoenix heat is UNBEARABLE. Worse than the south, worse than tropic Mexico, worse than the pacific islands. Like being in a fucking furnace. God that city has great, cheap food but it is so not worth it for more than a day or two. You appreciate local weather more after going there.

Valley heat can get pretty bad in So. Cal but it isn't comperable. Actually a few weeks ago during the freak humidity was probably the worst heat of my life. 105 with insane humidity  :stahp

Where in the valley? :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 07, 2014, 05:37:43 PM
can we ship all northerners down south so they have some humility? :stahp

They wouldn't make it to July. Hell, mid-June.

Winter  :rejoice

Chilly weather > hell on earth  :obama

The winter gear I get to wear  :whoo

Drinking hot chocolates and eating other assorted holiday food (http://i3.minus.com/ibuJTxCeEgmcTP.png)

Bundling up inside with loved ones or going out and looking at christmas lights with them (http://i5.minus.com/ib0QmYLL3apxWu.png)

Bugs going inside of the ground for the season  :lawd :lawd :lawd


It truly is the most wonderful time of the year (http://i2.minus.com/i6P2EGLjoNGyQ.png)

Winter here is like, sunny skies, and 50 degree weather. :rejoice

Virginia can be a bit tricky. Sometimes it'll be sunny, sometimes its overcast, temperatures can range from 50s to 30s and below, and snow is a bit unpredictable. One year it won't snow at all and the next a blizzard will hit I'm shoveling my front porch and driveway hoping I don't slip.

And I really hope we don't have another odd year where we practically didn't even have Winter. Upper-60s/70 degree temperatures in December/January (http://i6.minus.com/i7h3KK1DuumdM.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 07, 2014, 05:56:04 PM
Took a short nap and yet...my tea situation is unchanged.

My house has become my own personal Amistad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 07, 2014, 06:00:06 PM
My grad class in cryptography is killing me.  I don't get any of this shit. 

Ya, it sucks. You should have taken cryptozoology instead.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on October 07, 2014, 06:49:40 PM
I can't stop 'playing' Clicker Heroes (http://clickerheroes.com/).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 07, 2014, 07:17:39 PM
Phoenix heat is UNBEARABLE. Worse than the south, worse than tropic Mexico, worse than the pacific islands. Like being in a fucking furnace. God that city has great, cheap food but it is so not worth it for more than a day or two. You appreciate local weather more after going there.

Valley heat can get pretty bad in So. Cal but it isn't comperable. Actually a few weeks ago during the freak humidity was probably the worst heat of my life. 105 with insane humidity  :stahp
Tucson is essentially Phoenix-lite so yeah, fuck you if you try to take my enjoyment of gray skies away from me.

:bow Monsoon season (sans-occasional downpour) :bow2

:bow Late fall :bow2

Late January-February is golfing weather here. Check your moderate climate privileges.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on October 07, 2014, 08:21:22 PM
Some parts of my state received snow last week.  Fuck, I hate winter.  Everyone and their dog is saying that it's supposed to be colder and wetter than last year, which was a fucking nightmare.

To share the struggle of the day, I've had a big case of the fuckits recently.  However I'm halfway through the fall semester and I'm going to be taking the PMP exam on the 24th of this month.  It's not a good time to not want to do shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 07, 2014, 08:22:43 PM
i have to choose between intercourse and grinding for set items in diablo 3.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on October 07, 2014, 08:44:58 PM
Have to pull an all-nighter finishing a college report due tomorrow at 10.  :'(

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on October 07, 2014, 08:51:07 PM
I hate Summer. I live in the Caribbean so its the only season we get all year long. Can't escape the heat.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eric P on October 07, 2014, 08:58:42 PM
I can't stop 'playing' Clicker Heroes, now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 09:06:47 PM
I bought some food tonight, went inside the restaurant to pick it up. Gave the cashier my card while I picked out a drink...and I noticed she had her cellphone behind the cash machine, with my card still in her hand; she was clearly texting when I walked in the door. I know she didn't, but she could have very easily typed my card number onto her phone. I need to stop ordering food late at night, I notice there are often problems, presumably because customer traffic is low and the manager is gone.

She was pretty hot though. Very tall. :leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 07, 2014, 09:15:37 PM
Esch I love summer. Just not in Houston. You haters need to toughen up, come to the souf during summer months, or shut up. Right now that it's fall, It's now prime nature exploration time down here. Gonna act all high and mighty when you don't live in a place where it's 80% humidity almost every day for four months.

:pacspit

Sis, we live in St Louis. Crazy fucking humidity and hot as fuck in the summer, crazy fucking cold and snow in the winter, and we 12+ hours from the closest beach. Fucking horrible.

We will literally have a 40+ temperature swing in a day. I've left for work at 80 degrees, and came home in the snow. WTF WHY NOT?

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 07, 2014, 09:16:29 PM
I bought some food tonight, went inside the restaurant to pick it up. Gave the cashier my card while I picked out a drink...and I noticed she had her cellphone behind the cash machine, with my card still in her hand; she was clearly texting when I walked in the door. I know she didn't, but she could have very easily typed my card number onto her phone. I need to stop ordering food late at night, I notice there are often problems, presumably because customer traffic is low and the manager is gone.

She was pretty hot though. Very tall. :leon

No mention of her hair? 5/10 post, would not read again
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 07, 2014, 09:22:14 PM
Struggling not to say something about St Louis that would get me actually arrested.

Yea wouldn't want to say anything crazy...

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Everyone from St Louis can fucking die horribly.

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I hope your grandparents die feeble and alone on a cold wet street, all your children are stillborn, the ones who aren't stillborn become strippers, etc.

Quote
Again, die in a fire P-Touch, Shaka, and anyone else in St Louis.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 09:26:22 PM
Esch I love summer. Just not in Houston. You haters need to toughen up, come to the souf during summer months, or shut up. Right now that it's fall, It's now prime nature exploration time down here. Gonna act all high and mighty when you don't live in a place where it's 80% humidity almost every day for four months.

:pacspit

Sis, we live in St Louis. Crazy fucking humidity and hot as fuck in the summer, crazy fucking cold and snow in the winter, and we 12+ hours from the closest beach. Fucking horrible.

We will literally have a 40+ temperature swing in a day. I've left for work at 80 degrees, and came home in the snow. WTF WHY NOT?

You poor people. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 07, 2014, 09:28:17 PM
I bought some food tonight, went inside the restaurant to pick it up. Gave the cashier my card while I picked out a drink...and I noticed she had her cellphone behind the cash machine, with my card still in her hand; she was clearly texting when I walked in the door. I know she didn't, but she could have very easily typed my card number onto her phone. I need to stop ordering food late at night, I notice there are often problems, presumably because customer traffic is low and the manager is gone.

She was pretty hot though. Very tall. :leon

No mention of her hair? 5/10 post, would not read again

She was black
:yeshrug

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 07, 2014, 09:32:54 PM
Chipotle ran out of white rice and I cut myself dry shaving that little patch of hair on my cheek.


Worst day ever.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on October 07, 2014, 09:51:07 PM
pulled in 2 12+ hour days at work trying to meet a deadline, my coworkers have been giving me an attitude since I'm always so forgetful about shit and I ask a lot of questions.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 07, 2014, 09:54:58 PM
Esch I love summer. Just not in Houston. You haters need to toughen up, come to the souf during summer months, or shut up. Right now that it's fall, It's now prime nature exploration time down here. Gonna act all high and mighty when you don't live in a place where it's 80% humidity almost every day for four months.

:pacspit

Sis, we live in St Louis. Crazy fucking humidity and hot as fuck in the summer, crazy fucking cold and snow in the winter, and we 12+ hours from the closest beach. Fucking horrible.

We will literally have a 40+ temperature swing in a day. I've left for work at 80 degrees, and came home in the snow. WTF WHY NOT?

I missed Himu's post :whew luckily len came in.

Basically we live in extremes. We live hot as fuck humid mississippi weather and then bitter, bitter chill. When it gets close to winter and summer sometimes you have no fucking idea what to throw on when you leave the door.

At all times of the year, I have a blanket, a jacket, flip flops, flats, heels, and an umbrella in my car.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 07, 2014, 09:58:35 PM
A client was reading a company name to me today. "ABC Sprockets Oy... whatever Oy means," they said and I--with every ounce of self-control I had--had to resist the urge to tell them about the legal entity one can form in Finland called an osakeyhtio (abbreviated Oy) because some information no one should know, not even me.

Then I came across the company that always triggers our arguments about how to say Bern (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42081.msg1940851#msg1940851) and I discovered that the company spells Bern "Berne" which is the French spelling which means I've been right the entire time we've been fighting this forever war, and not just in a "Switzerland is a multilingual country way," but in a "that's its fucking legal name asshole" way and I know I'm not going to be able to keep that one to myself now that I've started indulging my id's bad attitude in exchange for having life goals that I can achieve and a respite from the incessant QQ of my super-ego.

I'm also clearly crazy, but that's not really a struggle of the day but more of "Why do I exist?" struggle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 07, 2014, 10:01:57 PM
Esch I love summer. Just not in Houston. You haters need to toughen up, come to the souf during summer months, or shut up. Right now that it's fall, It's now prime nature exploration time down here. Gonna act all high and mighty when you don't live in a place where it's 80% humidity almost every day for four months.

:pacspit

Sis, we live in St Louis. Crazy fucking humidity and hot as fuck in the summer, crazy fucking cold and snow in the winter, and we 12+ hours from the closest beach. Fucking horrible.

We will literally have a 40+ temperature swing in a day. I've left for work at 80 degrees, and came home in the snow. WTF WHY NOT?

I missed Himu's post :whew luckily len came in.

Basically we live in extremes. We live hot as fuck humid mississippi weather and then bitter, bitter chill. When it gets close to winter and summer sometimes you have no fucking idea what to throw on when you leave the door.

At all times of the year, I have a blanket, a jacket, flip flops, flats, heels, and an umbrella in my car.

:lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 07, 2014, 10:07:02 PM
Ok three pairs of heels. Lets be honest here. It's where heels go to die at the end of the day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 07, 2014, 11:00:29 PM
I am attending a conference later this month and two vendors have invited me out to a fancy dinner (they will be paying of course) but in a Blossom-like twist the dinners are at the same time

:shaq2
Which conference?  Dreamforce?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 07, 2014, 11:48:53 PM
So today's lesson in life.
Middle Eastern people make TERRIBLE italian food.
If I go to an italian restaurant and everyone's middle eastern I'm gonna run like hell.
It's gonna be a rough night.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on October 08, 2014, 12:00:03 AM
I can't stop 'playing' Clicker Heroes, now.

It grinds while it's closed. I'm on Day 12 and coming up on my first Ascension
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on October 08, 2014, 12:22:01 AM
Is clicker heroes like cookie clicker? I may need to call my sponsor.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 08, 2014, 01:05:40 AM
Struggling not to say something about St Louis that would get me actually arrested.

repeat after me:



"GO CARDS"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on October 08, 2014, 01:19:14 AM
I spent at least 3 hours fucking with compatibility settings in an attempt to get an old Ted Nugent hunting game working.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yulwei on October 08, 2014, 01:41:11 AM
Just heard Kendrick Lamar's new single "I"

(http://i.imgur.com/stbOSB4.png)

Imma keep on listening to this here good kid maad city
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 08, 2014, 08:13:09 AM
My kid sprain his ankle in practice yesterday, poor guy. Really wanted to play against his cousin this week.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 08, 2014, 08:20:32 AM
I have an interview shortly, within my current job, that I'm pretty sure I have no chance in hell of getting due to lack of experience.  Should be fun.


Hmmmm....The fact they are interviewing you would lead me to believe they might be trying to get you into the position at less than it typically pays but a bit more than you do now.

Keep you head up and use these words

Team Play
Driven
Exciting Opportunity
Want to learn

Without reading your reply, I did in fact use "exciting opportunity" and "want to learn."   :lol

This is for an 'internship' position, so the pay would be the same, but the role would be different.  It would be really good experience so I want to try it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 08, 2014, 08:23:37 AM
I have an interview shortly, within my current job, that I'm pretty sure I have no chance in hell of getting due to lack of experience.  Should be fun.


Hmmmm....The fact they are interviewing you would lead me to believe they might be trying to get you into the position at less than it typically pays but a bit more than you do now.

Keep you head up and use these words

Team Play
Driven
Exciting Opportunity
Want to learn

Without reading your reply, I did in fact use "exciting opportunity" and "want to learn."   :lol

This is for an 'internship' position, so the pay would be the same, but the role would be different.  It would be really good experience so I want to try it.


Best of luck Bork Laser, I look forward to your epic showdown with Bulk Duggan.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 08, 2014, 09:57:29 AM
My struggle against that terrible middle eastern italian food is going to continue into today apparently.
Sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 08, 2014, 10:15:30 AM
My struggle: the guy who left a tuna sandwich in his area for three hours this morning and stunk the place up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 10:38:09 AM
I'm still alive.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 08, 2014, 10:40:26 AM
New day, new struggles:

Tired from lunar eclipse, got mcdonalds coffee, won medium fries :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 10:42:28 AM
I won a free McFlurry the other day. I should ship that to you. :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on October 08, 2014, 11:12:16 AM
Is clicker heroes like cookie clicker? I may need to call my sponsor.

Cookie Clicker with cute isometric JRPG art, yes
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 08, 2014, 03:13:53 PM
More struggle: yahoo hasn't updated their projection for Prater so my projected points are lower than they should be :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 08, 2014, 03:15:16 PM
More struggle: yahoo hasn't updated their projection for Prater so my projected points are lower than they should be :fbm

Who gives a shit about projected points man?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 03:35:58 PM
Someone asked me how a taxpayer could only be a partial year resident for tax purposes in one state but a resident for tax purposes in California.

Applying logic to legal classification and taxation. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 08, 2014, 03:47:41 PM
logic goes out the window once you learn what credit and debit mean

:trollbron:
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 04:13:00 PM
I actually think double-entry makes quite a bit of sense with the (admittedly large) caveat that the basic accounting equation is rather arbitrary in and of itself. Debits and credits are almost Newtonian, tbh.

This situation may be one of my struggles for the day, but the memo I'm writing about it is arousing me in the way that only being pedantic can arouse me. It's a lucky thing the other state isn't Rhode Island because having cause to use Rhode Island's full legal name would probably make me climax. :whew

On a tangential note, and not to sound like a donor to the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, but you really can tell trial lawyers write / influence much of California law when you actually look at it. This other state isn't exactly Ground Zero: GOP and its relevant law was ambiguous enough that I had to also consult their state regulations to clarify some terminology. Meanwhile the relevant text in the Revenue and Taxation Code is almost a third of my memo. :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 08, 2014, 04:35:56 PM
More struggle: yahoo hasn't updated their projection for Prater so my projected points are lower than they should be :fbm

Who gives a shit about projected points man?

Well obviously they don't *mean* anything, it just makes me feel good :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 06:09:35 PM
The fucking intern has sound enabled on their phone and I have to hear that fucking Android chirp bullshit every few seconds when they get a text. :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 08, 2014, 06:12:36 PM
I awoke and the world was still here
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 08, 2014, 06:21:49 PM
My kid sprain his ankle in practice yesterday, poor guy. Really wanted to play against his cousin this week.

Just break the cousins leg, then they will be fairly matched and can play.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on October 08, 2014, 06:27:52 PM
I'm allergic to my contacts.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: drew on October 08, 2014, 06:34:15 PM
I do, but then you're drunk and want to go down on the girl.

you can get STD's that way? shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 08, 2014, 08:01:43 PM
I can't stop 'playing' Clicker Heroes (http://clickerheroes.com/).

You bastard. There went 90 minutes I’ll never see again.  :maf

Very cute game though. :uguu


If you think those posts are even 60% of my theoretical maximum salt level, you don't know me very well.
Maybe someone’s just trying to warn you about your salt level, and how no-one wants to see it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 08, 2014, 08:43:30 PM
great news guys I just showered for the first time since Monday morning
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 08, 2014, 08:44:24 PM
I just ran over a bird. fuck  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 08, 2014, 08:44:47 PM
you sick bastard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 08, 2014, 08:50:01 PM
you sick bastard
I thought I'd be able to 7-10 split him, then THUMP.

Checked the front of the car when I got home, feathers all over the grill :-\.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 08, 2014, 08:55:28 PM
Run over two or three more and you gotta stew goin'
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 09:09:45 PM
great news guys I just showered for the first time since Monday morning

living the dream
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cool breeze on October 08, 2014, 09:28:08 PM
no being able to perpetually exist in the shower would be the dream

yes, absolutely.  half the time I shower I daydream about being arab oil rich and living in a giant shower room.  the other half I reflect on embarrassing moments. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 08, 2014, 09:38:04 PM
I used to spend a sizable portion of my shower time pondering life's mysteries.

Now it's mostly spent thinking about sex.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 09:58:21 PM
Sheesh, even I don't brood in the shower. :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 08, 2014, 11:38:38 PM
My legal argument was rejected for not making sense even though it follows the letter of the law. :shaq2

I even cited appellate court opinions. :goty

I could have really blown some minds by informing peeps that in 2012 this taxpayer was (for income tax purposes) technically a simultaneous resident of 2 different states. :goty2

Commiefornia is so brutal with resident status. Even if you leave you can't lose it until you can demonstrate that you're domiciling outside the state. :lol

Why do they do that? So they can tax your income on all sources instead of just California source income. :shh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 08, 2014, 11:47:00 PM
Book 1 is hard to read anyways
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 08, 2014, 11:59:29 PM
man all this tax talk reminds me when my company and I had to deal with compensatory. My god, what a nightmare.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 09, 2014, 12:00:01 AM
Book 1 is hard to read anyways

I'm glad to hear someone else say that they felt that way, too. Man, I liked it plenty, but there were a few slogs, and the ending was... weird.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 09, 2014, 12:21:00 AM
Don't worry books 2-4 are great and start explaining things.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 09, 2014, 02:21:03 AM
711 is our of their super straws. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 02:24:27 AM
Writing a Blossom synopsis so I can watch an episode of Blossom.

Getting home from work at 23:20.

People driving fucking slow on the interstate at ~23:00.


Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on October 09, 2014, 02:32:49 AM
Had to return Drive Club and a second copy of project Spark to two stores.

My body and I continue to work on our relationship with one another. Its been a real struggle lately for me.

I bought more Trap team figures for Skylanders today.

Came home to enjoy dinner and a movie which was interrupted by an asthma attack set on by cigarette smoke from outside.

I voted early and got my assigned polling place that I'll be helping out the public with.

I had a Skype interview with someone while they were on vacation in Hawaii. I got mad jealous as I've never been and my last vacation was in 2011.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 09, 2014, 03:22:33 AM
LAN was down for 5 minutes, had to walk to someone in the office to physically ask them something FACE TO FACE BREHS  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 09, 2014, 07:57:04 AM
The next fucking asshole who comes in an puts my fucking radio on any station that plays AC/DC is fired. I am writing that note as soon as I post this.

Unacceptable.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 09, 2014, 08:28:19 AM
Everything felt like a struggle today, but looking back it is all perfectly smooth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 09, 2014, 08:37:41 AM
I'm supposed to wake up at 4:30 but I stayed out late last night seeing Gone Girl.  So I woke up at 5:22 this morning.  My phone alarm has been sketchy for a while.  The other morning it would just vibrate but not set off the actual alarm.  So I guess I need a new one.  I had to be at the van pool at 5:50 so I can drive it and it takes be about 13 minutes to get there.  I made it at 5:45.

I grabbed my electric trimmer and razor on my way out the door so I could save time by shaving at work.  I forgot the guard dealy on the trimmer and almost trimmed my beard down to nothing.  But luckily I just took a sliver. 

Then I'm at my desk and I read the dumbest fucking email from someone on the other side of the world and in a fit of rage I spill my coffee all over my desk.

Fuck today.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 09, 2014, 11:24:18 AM
The roofers across the street woke me up earlier than I wanted to wake up  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eric P on October 09, 2014, 11:41:07 AM
i left my laptop charger at home
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 11:43:22 AM
I thought I had a frozen chimichanga left but it was either expropriated by the commune (likely) or I ate it while drunk one night (also likely).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 09, 2014, 11:44:54 AM
great news guys I just showered for the first time since Monday morning
Please tell me you have a non-special fellow explanation for this struggle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 09, 2014, 11:45:18 AM
I'm supposed to wake up at 4:30 but I stayed out late last night seeing Gone Girl.  So I woke up at 5:22 this morning.  My phone alarm has been sketchy for a while.  The other morning it would just vibrate but not set off the actual alarm.  So I guess I need a new one.  I had to be at the van pool at 5:50 so I can drive it and it takes be about 13 minutes to get there.  I made it at 5:45.

I grabbed my electric trimmer and razor on my way out the door so I could save time by shaving at work.  I forgot the guard dealy on the trimmer and almost trimmed my beard down to nothing.  But luckily I just took a sliver. 

Then I'm at my desk and I read the dumbest fucking email from someone on the other side of the world and in a fit of rage I spill my coffee all over my desk.

Fuck today.
singapore or India?

Just sayin
 :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 09, 2014, 12:23:35 PM
Struggle: I started Malazan book 1 and now I'm struggling with it cause took weeks off from reading it and i know that it's going to fuck my perception of the book :goty

Only solution is to power through it :whew

This is me with Storm of Swords. Haven't touched it in over a month
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 09, 2014, 01:29:33 PM
Storm of Swords is easy though.  You have no excuse. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 09, 2014, 01:33:31 PM
struggle to read the best fantasy book of the last 20 years brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 09, 2014, 01:44:28 PM
i left my laptop charger at home

I left my Wii U pad charger the other day during an STL bore game/geek day in. Such a struggle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 09, 2014, 01:49:12 PM
remember flying through those last 500 pages of ASOS

skeptical of PD's assessment of optimal contemporary genre literature

assuming his sample size consists of wizarding school diaries and grimdark erotica novels
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 09, 2014, 02:19:12 PM
Storm of Swords is easy though.  You have no excuse.

struggle to read the best fantasy book of the last 20 years brehs.

I blazed through the first 2 books but I've somehow developed ADHD with the third.

Between Layton vs. Wright (which I still haven't finished), Danganronpa 2 (which I still haven't started), discovering Arrow on Netflix, and helping my mother paint her front porch and outdoor furniture, I just haven't had time for it.

Only 30% done according my Kindle.


Not even sure if I should mention I've gotten the urge to play around with the PSP emulator here lately as well

Fuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 09, 2014, 03:15:10 PM
Drop Arrow to improve your life
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 09, 2014, 03:27:46 PM
Drop Arrow to improve your life

I actually like it so far  :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dmj on October 09, 2014, 03:30:44 PM
This person that sits next to me annoys the very fiber of my being.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 04:39:25 PM
I ate Taco Bell for breakfast (like off their breakfast menu). :-X

Didn't have time to get some overpriced yuro mineral water to soothe my resulting upset stomach.  :'(

I have to leave my room unlocked tomorrow because the commune is switching to satellite. (Thanks for the short notice.) This means I have to secure a whole bunch of shit that I usually don't have to secure because my room is locked at whatever god awful hour I drag myself home. :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 06:29:46 PM
I was about to chide you for buying bottled water but then i remembered cali tap water is shite

(http://i.imgur.com/NsARqvd.png)

It wouldn't be me if I didn't eat garbage food but drink mineral water that ran over $5 a bottle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 09, 2014, 07:12:46 PM
I was about to chide you for buying bottled water but then i remembered cali tap water is shite

(http://i.imgur.com/NsARqvd.png)

Aren’t you in Los Angeles, Karakand? LA has the worst tap water of all the bad California tap water. You’d have to be drinking recycled astronaut pee to have worse-tasting water.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 09, 2014, 07:24:53 PM
Oh there's worse water in California by miles.  You should be so lucky.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 07:33:50 PM
I live in a part of the Southland where DWP's water tastes like Evian in comparison. :'(

I used to drink that shit like it was full of opioids when I lived in Los Angeles proper. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 09, 2014, 09:26:55 PM
Struggle: I started Malazan book 1 and now I'm struggling with it cause took weeks off from reading it and i know that it's going to fuck my perception of the book :goty

Only solution is to power through it :whew

Power through. 2nd and 3rd books...

:lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 10:31:15 PM
I have a block of gruyere with my name on it but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to have some of it. :stahp

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 09, 2014, 10:33:07 PM
I'm supposed to wake up at 4:30 but I stayed out late last night seeing Gone Girl.  So I woke up at 5:22 this morning.  My phone alarm has been sketchy for a while.  The other morning it would just vibrate but not set off the actual alarm.  So I guess I need a new one.  I had to be at the van pool at 5:50 so I can drive it and it takes be about 13 minutes to get there.  I made it at 5:45.

I grabbed my electric trimmer and razor on my way out the door so I could save time by shaving at work.  I forgot the guard dealy on the trimmer and almost trimmed my beard down to nothing.  But luckily I just took a sliver. 

Then I'm at my desk and I read the dumbest fucking email from someone on the other side of the world and in a fit of rage I spill my coffee all over my desk.

Fuck today.
singapore or India?

Just sayin
 :yeshrug
Singapore. How'd you guess bro?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 09, 2014, 10:34:40 PM
1. Other side of the world.
2. High proficiency in English.
3. You work in a financial reporting capacity of some sort.

no racist
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 09, 2014, 10:37:57 PM
Hahaha fair enough. But to be fair the person I am working with isn't involved in financial reporting and I correspond with about 20 countries in the Asia Pac area on a daily basis.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 10, 2014, 11:52:58 AM
The day I had to go commando because I forgot to do laundry is the same day I spilt hot coffee in my lap.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 10, 2014, 12:18:43 PM
I'm supposed to wake up at 4:30 but I stayed out late last night seeing Gone Girl.  So I woke up at 5:22 this morning.  My phone alarm has been sketchy for a while.  The other morning it would just vibrate but not set off the actual alarm.  So I guess I need a new one.  I had to be at the van pool at 5:50 so I can drive it and it takes be about 13 minutes to get there.  I made it at 5:45.

I grabbed my electric trimmer and razor on my way out the door so I could save time by shaving at work.  I forgot the guard dealy on the trimmer and almost trimmed my beard down to nothing.  But luckily I just took a sliver. 

Then I'm at my desk and I read the dumbest fucking email from someone on the other side of the world and in a fit of rage I spill my coffee all over my desk.

Fuck today.
singapore or India?

Just sayin
 :yeshrug
Singapore. How'd you guess bro?
I'm a consultant. Work with tons of people everywhere. Saw "dumb email"/"other side of the world"
Simply went with usual suspects

(some racist)

as to my struggle. Had to present to the entire company today at 8am. I didn't sleep well worried that I'd oversleep.  Luckily it's friday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 10, 2014, 12:55:56 PM
Just found out my birth mother who I've only ever contacted through Facebook has melonoma. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 10, 2014, 01:02:28 PM
Thanks, bro. It's kinda along the lines of "how do I parse this information"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 10, 2014, 01:10:50 PM
It was either wear button fly jeans or dress up for work today. I chose the jeans and I'm regretting it.

Having to undo your belt and pants to take a piss like a child. :kobeyuck

I may as well go full distinguished mentally-challenged fellow and push it all down to my ankles.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 10, 2014, 01:43:31 PM
got woken up to skateboard videos/radiohead. also i have 5.83$ to my name
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 10, 2014, 03:46:56 PM
QuickBooks Online. SaaS is :trash.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 10, 2014, 03:51:43 PM
I thought I wasn't going to hear about Ebola today because my coworker was on about Muslims, but he did eventually work his way back around to Ebola.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 10, 2014, 03:52:33 PM
80 + degrees again...great.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 10, 2014, 04:14:13 PM
My wife's asthma is way out of control with these wildfires. Poor thing. She's really lethargic due to it. She's on special meds for it now but still, it's gonna be a long way til she's better. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 10, 2014, 04:42:53 PM
My wife's asthma is way out of control with these wildfires. Poor thing. She's really lethargic due to it. She's on special meds for it now but still, it's gonna be a long way til she's better. :(

damn I hope she gets better Ronito :tocry

astha can be pretty scary
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 10, 2014, 07:32:23 PM
I thought I wasn't going to hear about Ebola today because my coworker was on about Muslims, but he did eventually work his way back around to Ebola.

PBUH-la?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 10, 2014, 07:33:12 PM
closet reduction :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 10, 2014, 07:52:15 PM
Sucks breh. One of the hardest days in my life was the day I gave up my last walk-in closet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 10, 2014, 07:53:09 PM
Too broke to go out. (http://i.imgur.com/x7nxh4j.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 10, 2014, 08:00:33 PM
Stayed late at work, now I'm home and feel like I'm still at work. (http://i.imgur.com/x7nxh4j.png)

my soul was drained
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 10, 2014, 08:00:41 PM
Too broke to go out. (http://i.imgur.com/x7nxh4j.png)

I know that feel :goty2

Let's hold each other 'till Wednesday. Don't let go, Jack.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 10, 2014, 08:01:07 PM
Sucks breh. One of the hardest days in my life was the day I gave up my last walk-in closet.
actually i'm moving shortly and have a surplus of garments that I do not need but am unsure if I want to donate them or not. goodwill plebs will not appreciate them fully  >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 10, 2014, 08:23:08 PM
Fuck 'em, what do they know.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 10, 2014, 08:35:34 PM
What kind of work?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 10, 2014, 10:39:40 PM
Drank too much fantastic beer last night, couldn’t sleep at all, so now I’m hung over and can’t stop yawning to save my life.

Probably should have got the Sausage McMuffin with Egg, which is The Chronovore’s Guaranteed Hangover Cure. Went with tea instead of coffee.

:piss getting old :piss2

Also got a rejection letter from a job I could not have accepted anyway. Still, would have been nice to be the turner-down, rather than the turnee.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 11, 2014, 12:22:12 AM
That sucks man. Management consulting is like 95% image and very little about substance.  I have a friend that has 20 years management experience and is probably the best director I know but none of the management consulting firms will even look at him because he didn't go to the right kind of trendy school. The whole community and all of it is toxic. I much prefer tech consulting.  At least there skills are king more than who you know or how you look
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on October 11, 2014, 02:02:41 PM
It's 1 PM and I haven't done shit today.  I'm too lazy to even pull out my pud and jerk off.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 11, 2014, 03:02:58 PM
the best kind of days :rejoice
I'm proud of you son
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 11, 2014, 03:48:56 PM
well i emptied three rooms today. struggling to do more. the struggle to not down a bottle of wine.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 11, 2014, 05:08:58 PM
well i emptied three rooms today. struggling to do more. the struggle to not down a bottle of wine.

Don't worry, I'm drinking for the both of us. :jawalrus

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Just fuck for the both of us pls. :stahp
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 11, 2014, 05:15:16 PM
will be doing that in tminus 3 minutes actually.  :anhuld
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 11, 2014, 05:15:17 PM
well i emptied three rooms today. struggling to do more.

Damn, what'd you eat, breh?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 11, 2014, 05:39:06 PM
struggling not to drug children who wake up at the worst possible time  :comeon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 11, 2014, 05:55:36 PM
Got home after spending hours helping my parents move some seasonal stuff to a storage unit in preparation for winter. Opened my room door, sat down, was contemplating taking a shower when my cat jumped on my bed and promptly threw up.

 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 11, 2014, 06:08:56 PM
Realizing how pointless my existence is while writing synopses of Blossom episodes while fucking trashed on the first Saturday I've had off in weeks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 11, 2014, 07:43:24 PM
twice the children, twice the cockblocking.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 11, 2014, 08:58:56 PM
GF wants to stay in and watch a movie tonight. I suggest The Thing since it's October and horror movie season. She says she'd prefer a comedy.

The struggle is real, brehs  :goty2

Evil Dead 2 is funny.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on October 11, 2014, 10:35:48 PM
My Big Mac container didn't have any Monopoly pieces on it.  :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 11, 2014, 10:41:40 PM
Staying conscious until my pizza arrives.

It's supposed to take an hour.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 11, 2014, 10:45:51 PM
if this motherfucker says pineapple...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 11, 2014, 10:48:19 PM
Pepperoni and Italian sausage.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 11, 2014, 10:48:48 PM
:whew

struggle averted
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 11, 2014, 10:52:33 PM
My struggle of the day.
Feeling outcast for liking pineapple on my pizza  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 12, 2014, 12:02:06 AM
Only Gaf nerds see a problem with pineapple on pizza  :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2014, 12:06:13 AM
I like pizzas that tend to have the word "supreme" in the name. Pepperoni, sausage, onion, peppers, mushroom, etc.

Rarely enough mushrooms though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 12, 2014, 12:08:08 AM
Nah, you can't bring that bullshit in here :neogaf

you're mad because people don't like soggy ass pizzas :flabbypd

Papa Johns gets the job done

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most of the time  :brazilcry
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 12:11:20 AM
I like pizzas that tend to have the word "supreme" in the name. Pepperoni, sausage, onion, peppers, mushroom, etc.

Rarely enough mushrooms though.

you would like the wealthiest pizza
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2014, 12:17:30 AM
Usually the cheapest option after about two extra toppings. Indicating an malinvestment if I were to order one more specific to tastes, with more profit going to the petty bourgeoisie owner of the establishment.

Vital information conveyed by prices.  :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 02:02:31 AM
Sorry, only registered users can see this content. Please Login or Register. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 12, 2014, 12:48:18 PM
I love veggie pizzas these days, they just seem to sit better with my ibs too

Mushrooms, olives, onions, peppers :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 12, 2014, 01:00:01 PM
Woke up at 1PM, all I did yesterday was play civ
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on October 12, 2014, 01:13:11 PM
Working today.....worked yesterday.....gonna work again tomorrow.....

But we're leaving on Wednesday for the Caribbean to stay in our time share on Saint Thomas for a couple weeks so that'll be nice.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 01:44:11 PM
Realizing I binge drank liquor that cost $6 a mL yesterday. How am I going to look anyone in the face at Elders of Zion HQ on Monday? :snoop

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At least it was just my La Clandestine that I don't really like that much and my Kubler was spared. :whew
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 12, 2014, 01:55:49 PM
$6 a mL?

You drinking fermented panda cum?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 01:57:56 PM
Worse, absinthe.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 12, 2014, 02:08:55 PM
Realizing I binge drank liquor that cost $6 a mL yesterday. How am I going to look anyone in the face at Elders of Zion HQ on Monday? :snoop

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At least it was just my La Clandestine that I don't really like that much and my Kubler was spared. :whew
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While watching the The Forest and Hellraiser 2 and eating Pizza Hut pizza. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 02:15:28 PM
There is nothing you can do to me that I have not already done to myself. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 03:15:57 PM
I heard through the grapevine that one of my clients has been trying to pimp me out since I came back on the market, actually. :goty2

Be a piece of meat brehs. :fbm

e: I don't think the majority of my clients even think I'm a sexual being tbh. Either that or I'm :fabulous and going to burn in hell forever because I talk about the arts more than sexuality. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 12, 2014, 03:20:53 PM
I just had to advise a grown woman that was having a hard time keeping a guy because she's essentially into three positions in sex and nothing else (can tolerate oral but really nothing beyond that). It was hard not to pull the Chris Rock betamax line, "Damn girl, they still make you?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 12, 2014, 03:24:40 PM
$6 a mL?

You drinking fermented panda cum?
:nsfanyone


http://imgur.com/2oSwY
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 12, 2014, 03:26:56 PM
My guitar skills are such shit right now. I came up with a nice finger-picked riff that I'm kind of proud of, but I'm so out of practice that I can barely play my own composition.
I know that feel.
It's hard because the normal stuff is too easy to hold any of my interest. But I'm good enough to know that the stuff that does interest me would take more work than I'm willing to put in right now.

I used to be great. I used to be incredible. :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 12, 2014, 03:28:05 PM
$6 a mL?

You drinking fermented panda cum?
:nsfanyone


http://imgur.com/2oSwY
Why do I click? Why do I always click?

 :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on October 12, 2014, 04:52:37 PM
My struggle: Refer to my lat two posts in Random Talk Thread
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 12, 2014, 06:06:37 PM
Helping my dad with computer to fix "that thing that spins when I'm clicking and then nothing no internet but pop up say wait it wants me to click I clicked" over the phone. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 12, 2014, 06:51:11 PM
My guitar skills are such shit right now. I came up with a nice finger-picked riff that I'm kind of proud of, but I'm so out of practice that I can barely play my own composition.
I know that feel.
It's hard because the normal stuff is too easy to hold any of my interest. But I'm good enough to know that the stuff that does interest me would take more work than I'm willing to put in right now.

I used to be great. I used to be incredible. :goty2

Didn't realize you were Ronito until just now.

Yeah, I remember your story about how you surpassed your first guitar teacher in like a year. I never had dat prodigy-level talent, but I was good enough to impress. I'm determined to get it back.

Next spring, my b-school competes against a bunch of other west coast b-schools up at Stanford, and the weekend culminates with a battle of the bands. My goal is for our band to open with Thunderstruck. I'm going to play the intro with 100% picking. I can do it with hammer-ons and pull-offs, but it doesn't sound as good. This is within the realm of possibility for me.
I was never good at picking. I played that intro with my fingers. It was easy that way. But I never got the whole "Thunderstruck with a pick?!" thing. Even with my poor pick skills it's not that bad. Now the solo from One picking each note. That's a challenge.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 12, 2014, 07:07:41 PM
Does Kirk pick each note?
Nah, he's notoriously lazy. Only picks sometimes.
It's one of those exercises my professor gave me because I looked down at shredders.
(backfired though, now I look down at them even more)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 12, 2014, 08:13:15 PM
 couldn't decide between finishing the bottle of rioja or uncorking a bottle of malbec
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 12, 2014, 08:17:40 PM
Go for the fermented panda cum instead.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 12, 2014, 08:26:48 PM
fat polynesian cocks all OVER my face

what IS a boy to do

:phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 12, 2014, 08:31:00 PM
polynesians have an obesity problem and I think its wrong of you to take their fat cocks lightly. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 12, 2014, 08:54:03 PM
Just found out that one of my client's CEOs makes as much yearly as my entire multi-national company's entire yearly gross revenue.

 :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 12, 2014, 09:04:14 PM
Just found out that one of my client's CEOs makes as much yearly as my entire multi-national company's entire yearly gross revenue.

 :fbm

It's better if you don't go too far down this rabbit hole, trust me. You could end up bemoaning the cancellation of your favorite Hoxhaist newspaper if you don't.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 12, 2014, 09:05:00 PM
my preferred nfl team lost, I hate my life
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 12, 2014, 10:55:19 PM
Stay calm, you're in an enclosed space outnumbered by libertarians, just stick to non-aggression and if things get too dicey just say "assuming we have to have taxes, should we tax land or sales?" and you'll have enough time to make an escape.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 12, 2014, 11:47:30 PM
Being pursued by the same obnoxious chick across three dating sites
:brazilcry

She sent me a message on okcupid a few days ago, I made the mistake of replying. It was late at night so I said "well I have to head to bed, work tomorrow. Good night." She responded by saying "I understand, sleep is sleep. Sweet dreams."
:beli

I promptly changed my user settings so no one can know when I'm online. A couple days later she liked me on Tinder. Tonight she liked me on another dating site I feel like a fool for using. She seems nice but is 250 pounds or something, and prompts conversations I'm not ready to have right now in my life as a grown adult: she asked me if I believe in magic. I asked if she meant chemistry (not the science, the romantic type). No. Real actual magic. This is what I get for listing Harry Potter on my profile.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 12, 2014, 11:50:00 PM
 :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 12:10:07 AM
Since I am a buzzed off pumpkin ale I will explain my tinder strategy:

1. Like everyone unless they're posing in pics with other people. If she has friends, parents, etc in her pics she clearly is selling a package deal I don't want to buy.

2. Take a picture of yourself outside. My responses increased 30% once I took a selfie outside.

3. Single mothers either want to fuck or complain about the baby daddy. The best way to check is to say "I'm just chilling how about you." If she says she's chilling too you can smash. If the question prompts a long winded list of complaints, she isn't fucking.

4. Tinder is dominated by white women, which sucks if you're not a white guy. The best way to handle this is by listing white shit in your profile: Kanye West, Jon Krakauer, Hunger Games, etc.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 12:51:01 AM
She seems nice but is 250 pounds or something, and prompts conversations I'm not ready to have right now in my life as a grown adult: she asked me if I believe in magic. I asked if she meant chemistry (not the science, the romantic type). No. Real actual magic. This is what I get for listing Harry Potter on my profile.

 :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

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I wish I could get on Tinder. :stahp

Going to have to open ANOTHER support ticket this week. :bolo
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 13, 2014, 01:07:29 AM
The best way to handle this is by listing white shit in your profile: Kanye West, Jon Krakauer, Hunger Games, etc.

Harry Potter
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 01:50:27 AM
But that's what I am. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 13, 2014, 01:55:08 AM
Borrow someone's pet then.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 13, 2014, 01:59:40 AM
Prison pen pals.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 13, 2014, 02:08:47 AM
$6 a mL?

You drinking fermented panda cum?
:nsfanyone


http://imgur.com/2oSwY (http://imgur.com/2oSwY)
Why do I click? Why do I always click?

 :beli
Personally, I always feel like this Arvie-NSFW tag is challenging me directly. As someone whos seen just about all the fucked up shit the net has to offer I go in thinking "nothing can phase me" and leave feeling " :stahp "
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 02:24:28 AM
Deciding where I should go for Thanksgiving (if anywhere at all) because I have no earthly attachments to speak of and this just sank in while I was taking a piss. :neogaf

I kind of want to go camping but I'm not really sure someone who has a chronic sleeping problem should go attempt to sleep on the ground for 2-3 nights, even if sleeping under the stars is :uguu.

On the other hand, an animal could kill and eat me or I could fall and break my neck or something if I went camping. :lawd

I'd say there's always working at a soup kitchen but I've been told that's a desirable day to volunteer your time and I have no wasta at all in that scene. :shaq2

Maybe I'll just buy a gallon of Wild Turkey bourbon. :yeshrug

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 13, 2014, 02:59:46 AM
Watched Oblivion finally. Now I’m struggling -- and failing -- not to think about.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 04:34:16 AM
:ufup insomnia instead of my usual biologically unable to sleep insomnia.

Caffeine ain't got shit on negative feedback loops. :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 13, 2014, 04:38:55 AM
Ain't that the truth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 13, 2014, 08:37:43 AM
:ufup insomnia instead of my usual biologically unable to sleep insomnia.

Caffeine ain't got shit on negative feedback loops. :whew
I'm sure there's an excel formula to break that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 09:44:28 AM
Deciding where I should go for Thanksgiving (if anywhere at all) because I have no earthly attachments to speak of and this just sank in while I was taking a piss. :neogaf

I kind of want to go camping but I'm not really sure someone who has a chronic sleeping problem should go attempt to sleep on the ground for 2-3 nights, even if sleeping under the stars is :uguu.

On the other hand, an animal could kill and eat me or I could fall and break my neck or something if I went camping. :lawd

I'd say there's always working at a soup kitchen but I've been told that's a desirable day to volunteer your time and I have no wasta at all in that scene. :shaq2

Maybe I'll just buy a gallon of Wild Turkey bourbon. :yeshrug

I'll cosign the soup kitchen idea, it's actually a good idea. You can choose your hours, it's not hard, you'll meet some decent folks, etc. I'm not the most social guy and I had a good time doing it a few years ago in Detroit.

I kind of want to skip Thanksgiving dinner, might go to a soup kitchen again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 13, 2014, 10:22:59 AM
My wife is on the no sex kick because I came home late from the browns game yesterday. WTF woman, we are now like 2-19 versus the son of a bitches since the browns came back and a brother can't get no victory sex....damn.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on October 13, 2014, 10:40:13 AM
Being pursued by the same obnoxious chick across three dating sites
:brazilcry

She sent me a message on okcupid a few days ago, I made the mistake of replying. It was late at night so I said "well I have to head to bed, work tomorrow. Good night." She responded by saying "I understand, sleep is sleep. Sweet dreams."
:beli

I promptly changed my user settings so no one can know when I'm online. A couple days later she liked me on Tinder. Tonight she liked me on another dating site I feel like a fool for using. She seems nice but is 250 pounds or something, and prompts conversations I'm not ready to have right now in my life as a grown adult: she asked me if I believe in magic. I asked if she meant chemistry (not the science, the romantic type). No. Real actual magic. This is what I get for listing Harry Potter on my profile.

:camby: Having standards ass nicca. You better hit that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 10:42:57 AM
Damn my homie had similar issues every time we went to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch NCAA tournament games. She was even texting me asking if he was talking to other girls. In 99% of cases I wouldn't betray a friend - I've done it before, but in both cases it was pretty dire shit that needed to be addressed. This dude is the most clean cut, faithful, cream corn black regular mother fucker I know (outside of myself of course), he'd piss his pants before cheating. And his gf drove him away with all that jealousy bullshit. They broke up and he hasn't been the same since.
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 13, 2014, 10:45:13 AM
Damn my homie had similar issues every time we went to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch NCAA tournament games. She was even texting me asking if he was talking to other girls. In 99% of cases I wouldn't betray a friend - I've done it before, but in both cases it was pretty dire shit that needed to be addressed. This dude is the most clean cut, faithful, cream corn black regular mother fucker I know (outside of myself of course), he'd piss his pants before cheating. And his gf drove him away with all that jealousy bullshit. They broke up and he hasn't been the same since.
:tocry

I dated a girl like that in college. She use to come over and basically accuse me of fucking every girl on campus. Once she came over and I was studying with 3 dudes and one girl from my class and she just started ripping on the poor girl who was there for no reason. I had to punt that bitch after that shit.

Thanks god this was pre cell phones because I promise she is now that serial texter type that gets pissed off if you don't respond within 2 minutes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on October 13, 2014, 11:02:14 AM
Came up with a great idea for a Friday 13th sequel but it'll never be made. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 13, 2014, 11:05:57 AM
Came up with a great idea for a Friday 13th sequel but it'll never be made. :stahp

hmmm....Jason somehow comes back to life and kills a bunch of bitch niccas? Brilliant.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 11:09:44 AM
Why be in a relationship if you don't trust your partner? I understand having reservations about certain things - it's natural. But if you can't trust your SO to go chill with the fellas, study with someone of the opposite sex, etc...you lost.

I hang with some pretty regular folks. We don't really chase after chicks, we're not going to strip clubs regularly, we don't really fuck around at bars much...pretty laid back chill shit. Now if a wife or gf was concerned about you hanging with a BAD group of guys sure, I understand.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 13, 2014, 11:12:43 AM
Why be in a relationship if you don't trust your partner? I understand having reservations about certain things - it's natural. But if you can't trust your SO to go chill with the fellas, study with someone of the opposite sex, etc...you lost.

I hang with some pretty regular folks. We don't really chase after chicks, we're not going to strip clubs regularly, we don't really fuck around at bars much...pretty laid back chill shit. Now if a wife or gf was concerned about you hanging with a BAD group of guys sure, I understand.

My wife is awesome...she likes or tolerates most of my friends. The only one she doesn't really care for is the serial playa in the group. Who usually ends of getting in a fight or needing a ride home from a girl's house late at night. She hates it when I help him out and I can see why.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on October 13, 2014, 11:15:53 AM
Came up with a great idea for a Friday 13th sequel but it'll never be made. :stahp

hmmm....Jason somehow comes back to life and kills a bunch of bitch niccas? Brilliant.

It would have started with a town already completely rekt and a hardboiled buddy cop team show up after the fact and are basically on the run from Jason the whole time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 13, 2014, 11:17:24 AM
Came up with a great idea for a Friday 13th sequel but it'll never be made. :stahp

hmmm....Jason somehow comes back to life and kills a bunch of bitch niccas? Brilliant.

It would have started with a town already completely rekt and a hardboiled buddy cop team show up after the fact and are basically on the run from Jason the whole time.

Get Sam and Dean from Supernatural and that shit sells, fo sho.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 11:19:33 AM
Yea that's more understandable IMO. I forgot to ask, did you tell her you were staying out late or did it just happen? Still trust is earned and if you've earned it, she or he has to respect it nahmean.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 13, 2014, 11:21:40 AM
Yea that's more understandable IMO. I forgot to ask, did you tell her you were staying out late or did it just happen? Still trust is earned and if you've earned it, she or he has to respect it nahmean.

I didn't tell her. But you'd think after..oh...a shit ton of years of marriage she'd allow me to have a good time. I mean she isn't straight bitching about it, but the passive aggressive "I'm too tired, hmmmppphhhh" bullshit is always a :ufup moment for me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 11:25:04 AM
well next time she wants you to fix something around the house you know what to say.

"I'm too tired...maybe I'll do it tomorrow"
(http://i.imgur.com/0ysNPTM.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 02:26:17 PM
Dealing with a coworker who hovers around sexual harassment territory. He's like a GAFer in the sense that he thinks any female interaction=flirting. I've mentioned some of his shit before, but today he has been saying distinguished mentally-challenged shit in earshot.

distinguished mentally-challenged fellow: 3 of my cats have died over the last decade
female intern: ohhh that's so sad. what were their names
distinguished mentally-challenged fellow: Adie. I name all my cats Adie
female intern: that's so weird, why  :brazilcry
distinguished mentally-challenged fellow: because it's my favorite name. If we had a kid we'd name it Adie whether it was a boy or girl
female intern:  :uguu  .... :goty2  ohh

He has asked her out to dinner a couple times in weird ways. Honestly she gets a lot of attention and I know dudes stare at her but this guy goes right up to the harassment line and winks at it. She probably won't say shit because she wants the job.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2014, 03:11:07 PM
I once had to fire a guy like that but he took it to the next level.
He plastered a client's cubicle with all these hand made butterflies and had left a several page long poem professing his love for her.
Dude's interaction with the woman came down to  ONE meeting where there were like a dozen attendees.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2014, 03:19:46 PM
Does Kirk pick each note?
Nah, he's notoriously lazy. Only picks sometimes.
It's one of those exercises my professor gave me because I looked down at shredders.
(backfired though, now I look down at them even more)

"I'm pretty shit with a pick. Btw, my professor told me to pick the entire solo from One, and it made me respect shredders less."

I mean there's humblebragging, and then there's this.
:yeshrug if I can do it anyone can. All it'll take is practice and time. Not talent.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 13, 2014, 03:20:42 PM
But that's what I am. :stahp
FRIENDLESS PSYCHO BROS!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 13, 2014, 03:35:40 PM
I once had to fire a guy like that but he took it to the next level.
He plastered a client's cubicle with all these hand made butterflies and had left a several page long poem professing his love for her.
Dude's interaction with the woman came down to  ONE meeting where there were like a dozen attendees.

 :expert
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 13, 2014, 03:37:18 PM
Watched Oblivion finally. Now I’m struggling -- and failing -- not to think about.

It's a good movie to watch twice. You catch the subtleties you missed the first time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 03:45:25 PM
I once had to fire a guy like that but he took it to the next level.
He plastered a client's cubicle with all these hand made butterflies and had left a several page long poem professing his love for her.
Dude's interaction with the woman came down to  ONE meeting where there were like a dozen attendees.

 :expert

Actually it's never the fat neckbeard in my experience; they seem too shook to do or say anything. It's always the skinny guy with a pot belly because he doesn't eat enough to get truly fat, but also has a good enough metabolism to avoid gaining fat in his face or appendages. Scrubby facial hair, nervous eyes...the type of guy who looks like he's one makeover away from looking normal.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 13, 2014, 04:15:24 PM
I once had to fire a guy like that but he took it to the next level.
He plastered a client's cubicle with all these hand made butterflies and had left a several page long poem professing his love for her.
Dude's interaction with the woman came down to  ONE meeting where there were like a dozen attendees.

 :expert

Actually it's never the fat neckbeard in my experience; they seem too shook to do or say anything. It's always the skinny guy with a pot belly because he doesn't eat enough to get truly fat, but also has a good enough metabolism to avoid gaining fat in his face or appendage. Scrubby facial hair, nervous eyes...the type of guy who looks like he's one makeover away from looking normal.

Straight up stalker. He probably scared the shit out of her.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 13, 2014, 04:41:17 PM
I had to read this posted to a friend's wall who's an epidemiologist today after he told everyone to get a flu shot:

 I have question though __ I live fairly remotely and my kids are homeschooled (and properly vaccinated) -- I make homemade vitamins with elderberry and we don't ever get the flu (kids have never even been sick)-- and, the one year I actually did get a flu shot I got the flu so bad I ended up with pneumonia!! My husband travels a lot and he gets them. Would you still say that I and my kids "should" get the shot?

 :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 04:43:16 PM
#NotAllHomeschoolers

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 13, 2014, 04:44:44 PM
The anti-vaccination thing is this amazing confluence of right wing homeschool nuts and left wing new age nuts.  It's the perfect combination of stupid to kill lots of people.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2014, 04:59:05 PM
I once had to fire a guy like that but he took it to the next level.
He plastered a client's cubicle with all these hand made butterflies and had left a several page long poem professing his love for her.
Dude's interaction with the woman came down to  ONE meeting where there were like a dozen attendees.



 :expert

Actually it's never the fat neckbeard in my experience; they seem too shook to do or say anything. It's always the skinny guy with a pot belly because he doesn't eat enough to get truly fat, but also has a good enough metabolism to avoid gaining fat in his face or appendage. Scrubby facial hair, nervous eyes...the type of guy who looks like he's one makeover away from looking normal.

Straight up stalker. He probably scared the shit out of her.
Oh yeah that was a great day.  Show up to work and have an executive and three guys from security waiting at your cubicle to have a "discussion" with you about one of your employees.  Lady was freaked out (as she totally should've been). I couldn't fire that guy fast enough.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 05:03:19 PM
I'll cosign the soup kitchen idea, it's actually a good idea. You can choose your hours, it's not hard, you'll meet some decent folks, etc. I'm not the most social guy and I had a good time doing it a few years ago in Detroit.

I kind of want to skip Thanksgiving dinner, might go to a soup kitchen again.

It's my #1 choice but as I said, I doubt there will be space for me on the volunteer rolls.

If the commune vacates the premises for even a day, I think I'm going to clean the commune thoroughly. The filth is kind of getting to me in communal spaces, tbh.

RE: another conversation chain itt.

The only partners I've ever had who couldn't trust me were the ones who were two-timers themselves.

Project your failings onto others y'all. :hitler

(No implications meant for other people discussed in the course of this conversation chain, only certain kinds of people form a relationship with me and they're hardly representative of anything at large.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 13, 2014, 05:03:59 PM
Can't figure out what to be for Halloween, probably just gonna be fat middle aged Charlie Brown again

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 05:05:26 PM
Can't figure out what to be for Halloween, probably just gonna be fat middle aged Charlie Brown again

:fbm

Louie CK.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 13, 2014, 05:09:53 PM
Can't figure out what to be for Halloween, probably just gonna be fat middle aged Charlie Brown again

:fbm

Louie CK.

Would have to shave my beard, plus it would be another reminder I'm not as funny as he is.

...I could just go as Brian Posehn, tho

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Brian_Posehn_Get_Smart_premiere_arrival.jpg) vs. (http://i.imgur.com/qOrgSdD.jpg)

:leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 05:10:57 PM
I'd suggest Patrick Rothfuss but you're too bald for that.
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 13, 2014, 05:28:37 PM
Go as an adult with enough dignity not to play dress up.

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Just kidding I wore a costume to the GoT premier.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2014, 05:30:20 PM
Wife's going as Mabel, and I'm going as Dipper from Gravity falls.
After trick or treating is done we'll get down to the oh so hot halloween twincest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 05:40:52 PM
Go as an adult with enough dignity not to play dress up.

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Just kidding I wore a costume to the GoT premier.
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Based on your hair and weight, I'm gonna guess: Bran Stark.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 05:49:26 PM
Go as an adult with enough dignity not to play dress up.

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Just kidding I wore a costume to the GoT premier.
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I did this one year but forgot about the dignity part and surrendered my smug superiority. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 13, 2014, 05:57:15 PM
Drank an energy drink that expired 2.5 years ago
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 13, 2014, 05:58:41 PM
Wait. Did you know of the expiration before or after consumption?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 13, 2014, 06:00:23 PM
After. I'm probably already dead.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 13, 2014, 07:00:55 PM
Wear traditional garb and if a white person says "nice costume" say "my culture isn't a costume, asshole."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 13, 2014, 07:00:58 PM
Or you could go as Aziz Ansari

:jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 07:04:53 PM
Too predictable. Like getting stoned and going as kumar

:beli

You should go as the Prometheus Engineer and watch people struggle with the #duality.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 13, 2014, 07:09:53 PM
Walrus should go as a WASP.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cosmicblizzard on October 13, 2014, 07:10:50 PM
Nothing bad happened today.

Wife's going as Mabel, and I'm going as Dipper from Gravity falls.
After trick or treating is done we'll get down to the oh so hot halloween twincest.

Of course you're into pinecest you crazy cat puppy >_>
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 07:42:10 PM
My group got our entire analysis wrong in Financing the Emerging Enterprise because we all forgot how to do accounting over the course of a summer.

Karakand help

 :omg I'm needed. :-*

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If it's a managerial accounting problem I can't help you. From a course description it doesn't seem like managerial accounting is used in this course, but I could be wrong.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 13, 2014, 08:45:00 PM
When finally getting a quiet minute away from my hellish professional existence (that's been exacerbated by the looming 15th deadline) with a nutritious dinner from the Taco Bell dollar menu it dawned on me (after realizing that even though I did literally nothing for 48 hours, I'm already exhausted by 17:00 on Monday) that I have no idea whatsoever what precisely is holding me together anymore.

The more bemusing question that follows is, if I don't know what I'm even running on anymore, how can I know when it's all gone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYIlga8sas
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cosmicblizzard on October 13, 2014, 11:40:11 PM
Spoke too soon.  Thought I had this video editing thing down, but something else comes along to frustrate the fuck out of me :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on October 14, 2014, 12:13:19 AM
I' going as Tina from Bob's Burgers I think...but that means I have to shave my beard :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 14, 2014, 12:44:15 AM
wish I was drunk right now, I ain't 'bout this sober life. miss working shit jobs for shit pay and having no worries about showing up to work still drunk. fuck this chit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tribal on October 14, 2014, 08:11:17 AM
Got told I was being "put on the backburner" during a job interview for Morgan Stanley, because I don't own a mobile phone. Lol.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 14, 2014, 10:08:16 AM
Got told I was being "put on the backburner" during a job interview for Morgan Stanley, because I don't own a mobile phone. Lol.

At least it wasn't because you don't own a car? :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on October 14, 2014, 11:26:09 AM
Contract renewal is coming up at work and I'm hoping they don't renew me so I can collect EI and look for a job that doesn't make me want to blow my head off.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 14, 2014, 12:24:47 PM
While looking for :snoop samples from Marvel Civil War comics last night I found a pic that I think would work great as my avatar here, at least for the duration of my Blossom #struggle, but that means betraying Larry Stohler-sama. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 14, 2014, 12:29:41 PM
Got told I was being "put on the backburner" during a job interview for Morgan Stanley, because I don't own a mobile phone. Lol.
why you ain't got a cell phone, breh?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 14, 2014, 01:03:44 PM
House is 83 degrees because I cut the AC on too late....since its 80 outside, it wont cool off until later tonight/tomorrow  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 01:11:20 PM
why aren't you at work or in school, young black man.
 :oreilly
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 14, 2014, 01:16:00 PM
 :gurl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tribal on October 14, 2014, 01:20:04 PM
Got told I was being "put on the backburner" during a job interview for Morgan Stanley, because I don't own a mobile phone. Lol.
why you ain't got a cell phone, breh?

I left it in the park 1 day and never bothered getting another one. She actually said it was weird that I didn't have one, like I'm some kind of Victorian freak or something.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 14, 2014, 01:28:17 PM
I left it in the park 1 day and never bothered getting another one. She actually said it was weird that I didn't have one, like I'm some kind of Victorian freak or something.
the exotic and sentimental modes of disability rhetoric :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 14, 2014, 01:30:21 PM
Everyone in my training session is hot, or it seems like it. There are only two guys including me and this one particularly hot girl kept ending up bending over close to me. I struggle, legit. I dunno where to look anymore :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 01:55:06 PM
Everyone in my training session is hot, or it seems like it. There are only two guys including me and this one particularly hot girl kept ending up bending over close to me. I struggle, legit. I dunno where to look anymore :/

Lock eyes with the guy, I'm serious.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Momo on October 14, 2014, 02:00:57 PM
Everyone in my training session is hot, or it seems like it. There are only two guys including me and this one particularly hot girl kept ending up bending over close to me. I struggle, legit. I dunno where to look anymore :/
Lock eyes with the guy, I'm serious.
I.. kinda shuffled over to the dude and started talking sports with him, it was the most awkward 'sports' conversation I ever had.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 14, 2014, 02:09:18 PM

the exotic and sentimental modes of disability rhetoric :lawd

:dead you need to stop with these knockoff karakand style posts :lol
:sabu
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 14, 2014, 02:20:03 PM

I left it in the park 1 day and never bothered getting another one. She actually said it was weird that I didn't have one, like I'm some kind of Victorian freak or something.

I feel your pain. Back in 2003-ish, I couldn't get out of my contract with a cell company and decided 'never again'.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 14, 2014, 02:20:36 PM
ARGGGGHHHHHH

 :( :maf :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 02:29:53 PM
Sorry to hear that Gundam. Are lives in danger or something? Regardless I hope things get better.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 14, 2014, 02:36:05 PM
Got told I was being "put on the backburner" during a job interview for Morgan Stanley, because I don't own a mobile phone. Lol.
why you ain't got a cell phone, breh?

I left it in the park 1 day and never bothered getting another one. She actually said it was weird that I didn't have one, like I'm some kind of Victorian freak or something.
I don't have one either and I'm completely normal. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 14, 2014, 03:27:03 PM
Contract renewal is coming up at work and I'm hoping they don't renew me so I can collect EI and look for a job that doesn't make me want to blow my head off.
Can't you do that while working the shit job?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 14, 2014, 03:48:43 PM
:dead you need to stop with these knockoff karakand style posts :lol

Teaching people how to find joy in a variety things. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 03:53:16 PM
Post tight like I was born Jewish
:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 14, 2014, 03:55:05 PM
he has the potential to be a goat paragraph poster :rejoice

I wrote ~800 words on the Dawn of War series and Blossom last night. :smug

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 14, 2014, 04:41:49 PM
Struggle : the #dualities of being a punchline poster, enjoying it, yet at the same time wishing you could break from the gimmick to push more paragraphs

(http://i.minus.com/jAwQ2LYw3OpHl.png)

Dumbed down for your audience to double your daps huh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 04:45:31 PM
Struggle : the #dualities of being a punchline poster, enjoying it, yet at the same time wishing you could break from the gimmick to push more paragraphs

(http://i.minus.com/jAwQ2LYw3OpHl.png)

So he's Big L on the cusp of signing with *shots fired*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 04:49:33 PM
nooo the shots fired weren't about Hov, it was a way to saying Big L was shot before signing with the Roc, where he presumably would have improved as a rapper.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 05:14:23 PM
Nah, L was right on the cusp of signing that Roc deal. Premo said Hov and L have some unreleased tracks that are fire.
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 14, 2014, 05:15:52 PM
Or Interscope, so he could be moulded by Jimmy Iovine like another battle rapper we know :hitler
:dayum
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 14, 2014, 05:19:14 PM
Today's struggle: not enough money, too many bills.


Let's go ahead and future date repeats of this post until at least the first. Okay yeah past then too
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 08:57:46 PM
My group got our entire analysis wrong in Financing the Emerging Enterprise because we all forgot how to do accounting over the course of a summer.

Karakand help

 :omg I'm needed. :-*

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Got ethered in the class yesterday. Our group's numbers were way off, and I asked the professor if his posted spreadsheet would be on the course website, and he said, "No, because I'm not here to re-teach you accounting."  :fbm

(http://i.imgur.com/GzCkvre.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 14, 2014, 09:02:43 PM

the exotic and sentimental modes of disability rhetoric :lawd

:dead you need to stop with these knockoff karakand style posts :lol

Gotta be honest, I didn't even look at the name and assumed it was karakand. :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 14, 2014, 09:05:20 PM
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 14, 2014, 09:07:28 PM
guess you can change that avatar now breh, it doesn't matter
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 14, 2014, 09:26:03 PM
I was waiting for the nexus 6 to upgrade, but it's gonna be a shitty fucking phablet, and I hate hate hate HATE that fucking form factor so much, brehs.

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 14, 2014, 09:41:09 PM
My group got our entire analysis wrong in Financing the Emerging Enterprise because we all forgot how to do accounting over the course of a summer.

Karakand help

 :omg I'm needed. :-*

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If it's a managerial accounting problem I can't help you. From a course description it doesn't seem like managerial accounting is used in this course, but I could be wrong.
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Got ethered in the class yesterday. Our group's numbers were way off, and I asked the professor if his posted spreadsheet would be on the course website, and he said, "No, because I'm not here to re-teach you accounting."  :fbm
(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls0p0ooL0C1qjkmyu.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 14, 2014, 11:32:02 PM
Argh! I swear these people must have been on Walrus's project group because they just don't understand basic accounting but like to cc directors and VPs and then I have to spend all this time explaining to them that no, the system isn't broken, it's that they don't know how to accounting. Arrrrggggh!! Singapore!!!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on October 14, 2014, 11:33:34 PM
Haven't been posting as much because my job is getting crazy again.

And when I'm not dealing with that mess I'm plugging away on my portfolio. I'm feeling rather burnt out but... I think if I can get 6 solid pieces done by the end of this year I'll be good. Hopefully.  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 14, 2014, 11:54:39 PM
PS3 controller died. Too lazy to get up to swap for a charged controller. Sitting in silence with the Amazon Instant Video screen up, but can't select the next episode of True Blood.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shadow Mod on October 14, 2014, 11:55:12 PM
PS3 controller died. Too lazy to get up to swap for a charged controller. Sitting in silence with the Amazon Instant Video screen up, but can't select the next episode of True Blood.

PS4 controller dies so fast. That backlight is just the dumbest shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 14, 2014, 11:56:21 PM
can you turn it off? for whatever reason I really really hate the lights on the 360 controller.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shadow Mod on October 14, 2014, 11:57:47 PM
can you turn it off? for whatever reason I really really hate the lights on the 360 controller.

Nope you can dim it but it doesn't do much.

Some guy modded his controller so that light would turn off and he got 4+ extra hours of batt life. The fuck sony.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 15, 2014, 12:02:13 AM
PS3 controller died. Too lazy to get up to swap for a charged controller. Sitting in silence with the Amazon Instant Video screen up, but can't select the next episode of True Blood.

PS4 controller dies so fast. That backlight is just the dumbest shit.

No shit? Damn... Our PS3 controllers last forever and I'm still too lazy to plug them in.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 15, 2014, 01:06:42 AM
Looked at some personal life shit I shouldn't have, especially in consideration of the fact that it's the night before deadline day.

Now I'm on edge and trying to calculate sales made under Section 1296 elections, which isn't really difficult per se, but it provides ample opportunity to :ufup which is aided by being on a runaway feels train.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 15, 2014, 02:01:15 AM
Just read "Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg" abbreviated as "LBBW" on some records and now I can't stop snickering in an immature manner about a massive bank being a Latina BBW.

This is how I pass my time, friends. This is how I pass my time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 15, 2014, 05:41:17 AM
Deciding between taking a catnap and risking not waking up for my early morning commitment or going into deadline day on an all nighter.

Maybe I'll just watch Blossom. :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 15, 2014, 06:08:11 AM
Sorry breh.

I found Valerian didn't really do much for me, but I was taking it in the middle of a panic attack that lasted some godawful amount of time (6 days was it?).

Wish I could do what I did last night (double my dose of diazepam). Sleep was so angelic. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on October 15, 2014, 06:48:44 AM
i use the light on the ps4 controller so i know where the hole is when i plug the power cable on.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 15, 2014, 07:58:56 AM
It's 4am and I'm awake.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 15, 2014, 08:00:05 AM
I had a damn 3 flusher this morning, fucked up my whole morning shit/shower/shave schedule.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 15, 2014, 08:43:38 AM
PS3 controller died. Too lazy to get up to swap for a charged controller. Sitting in silence with the Amazon Instant Video screen up, but can't select the next episode of True Blood.
This is when my xbox one kinect voice controls come in handy.  a new level of laziness!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 15, 2014, 08:47:26 AM
Yahoo FF waivers aren't processing this morning :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 15, 2014, 05:23:36 PM
Realizing if someone took my blood right now they'd probably go :brazilcry.

Doping yourself through deadline, it's so quixotic friends.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 15, 2014, 05:25:24 PM
Kojima knows jack shit about medicine.

That's not all he knows jack shit about- turns out he sucks at making games, too
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 15, 2014, 05:34:06 PM
REKT
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 15, 2014, 07:20:36 PM
Spent an hour trying to figure out how in the world they came up with their numbers for On hand inventory only to find out that when they say "On hand inventory" they mean "Distinct number of item types in inventory"...so not inventory at all. Sigh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 15, 2014, 10:15:04 PM
Spent an hour trying to figure out how in the world they came up with their numbers for On hand inventory only to find out that when they say "On hand inventory" they mean "Distinct number of item types in inventory"...so not inventory at all. Sigh.

Who are these idiots?

Also, do they use FIFO or LIFO?
FIFO on inventory (you practically have to in retail) but use AVCO for costing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 15, 2014, 10:25:42 PM
I can't find Brach's Apple Pie Candy Corn in stock anywhere in town :(

(they are delicious)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 15, 2014, 11:38:03 PM
I missed most of Brain Damage tonight, I hate my penis
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 16, 2014, 12:21:38 AM
That's not all he knows jack shit about- turns out he sucks at making games, too

Are you telling me love can't bloom on a battlefield? :uguu

*Cancels contract to be a foreign volunteer combatant in the fight against IS*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 16, 2014, 02:43:25 AM
A fringe benefit of my job is getting to party hard sometimes with my clients after a deadline passes. Tonight was one of those nights.

At one point we were talking about how our trade provides opportunities for amusement but it's the sort of amusement that you can't really appreciate without knowledge of shit no one gives a fuck about.

So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about how the tax preparation program that one of my clients (who was present for this debauchery) uses, specifically how it treats foreign countries. Instead of letting you type the name of them in on a form, it makes you select them from a drop-down list. Confining the names of countries to a drop-down list means many countries' formal names are almost always abbreviated. If these abbreviations present ambiguity, an explanatory parenthetical follows them. (e.g. "Korea (North)") Did I mention I've gone through the entirety of this drop-down list? I'm sure this shocks no one.

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I wrote "Swiss Confederation" on a Form 8621 this morning because this program doesn't support it and I had to manually prepare one. Specificity in protest. :lawd
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Now what I wanted to talk about is how this program predates Yemeni reunification because it still has an explanatory parenthetical for Yemen in its drop-down list despite the fact that there is only one Yemen now, and more importantly than that, it doesn't even have the right explanatory parenthetical, it has the one for the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. :dead

Of course I needed to introduce all this information because no one but me is so depraved that they would go through the country drop-down list in this tax program.

Did I select an example that pretty much any ignorant American't would know? (The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.) N O P E. I picked the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. :snoop

"As an example, for the two Congos it has the capital of each country in this explanatory parenthetical," I told them, but before I could continue on to the exciting frontiers of Yemeni reunification, someone at the table said something like, "That's silly, do you even know the capitals of the two Congos?" and without missing a beat I said Kinshasa and Brazzaville with a tone that indicated I couldn't believe the person didn't know this. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 16, 2014, 11:08:10 AM
A fringe benefit of my job is getting to party hard sometimes with my clients after a deadline passes. Tonight was one of those nights.

At one point we were talking about how our trade provides opportunities for amusement but it's the sort of amusement that you can't really appreciate without knowledge of shit no one gives a fuck about.

So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about how the tax preparation program that one of my clients (who was present for this debauchery) uses, specifically how it treats foreign countries. Instead of letting you type the name of them in on a form, it makes you select them from a drop-down list. Confining the names of countries to a drop-down list means many countries' formal names are almost always abbreviated. If these abbreviations present ambiguity, an explanatory parenthetical follows them. (e.g. "Korea (North)") Did I mention I've gone through the entirety of this drop-down list? I'm sure this shocks no one.

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I wrote "Swiss Confederation" on a Form 8621 this morning because this program doesn't support it and I had to manually prepare one. Specificity in protest. :lawd
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Now what I wanted to talk about is how this program predates Yemeni reunification because it still has an explanatory parenthetical for Yemen in its drop-down list despite the fact that there is only one Yemen now, and more importantly than that, it doesn't even have the right explanatory parenthetical, it has the one for the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. :dead

Of course I needed to introduce all this information because no one but me is so depraved that they would go through the country drop-down list in this tax program.

Did I select an example that pretty much any ignorant American't would know? (The Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea.) N O P E. I picked the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. :snoop

"As an example, for the two Congos it has the capital of each country in this explanatory parenthetical," I told them, but before I could continue on to the exciting frontiers of Yemeni reunification, someone at the table said something like, "That's silly, do you even know the capitals of the two Congos?" and without missing a beat I said Kinshasa and Brazzaville with a tone that indicated I couldn't believe the person didn't know this. :stahp

You sound like quite the party attraction.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 16, 2014, 11:18:45 AM
I haven't been sober in three days 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 16, 2014, 11:40:47 AM
I haven't been sober in three days
I haven't been three in sober days.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 16, 2014, 11:51:46 AM
ran out of proper oj for my 5 am mimosas, had ta use some nasty fake "guava-tangerine" shit the kidsa been swillin  :stahp :stahp :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 16, 2014, 12:08:32 PM
Was running late this morning and couldn't settle on the right bookmark for the book I'd be starting today (a compilation of Brecht's lehrstucke) to amuse myself.

I use currency as book marks (and not just funny money like Zimbabwean or U.S. dollars) and I was flummoxed that I couldn't find a currency that embodied the antithesis of what I'd be reading. (U.S. dollar wouldn't work for biographical reasons.)

Fortunately at the bottom of my foreign reserve there was a Hong Kong dollar. :whew

Too bad for me the first lehrstucke was set in China and deals with (Soviet instead of English) imperialism. :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 16, 2014, 02:00:38 PM
I did absolutely nothing today. Nothing. And yet I'm tired at 8pm.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 16, 2014, 02:01:55 PM
Realizing I could be a killer Cenk Uygur for Halloween but I live in a red state where no one knows who that is :stahp
:beli

Why not go as Crixus?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 16, 2014, 03:56:45 PM
dry cleaner broke a blazer button. this is not the struggle, I have a couple replacements. the struggle is that the replacement buttons are in a packed box and I'm not sure which one. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 16, 2014, 04:28:25 PM
Had to introduce myself to a team of folks I work with but didn't "know" until today. After the official shit they asked the real questions: favorite movie/book/tv show/celeb gf.

Things went well but when I mentioned that my favorite book is Black Boy by Richard Wright, a chipper guy blurted out "well can I read it, as a white boy? Guffaw guffaw!" 
 :beli

No one laughed with him, and he took the L with the aplomb of a marketing major.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 16, 2014, 04:39:36 PM
Trying to get people to realize that data is a visual language, not a written one and they just don't get it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 16, 2014, 04:43:28 PM
I missed most of Brain Damage tonight, I hate my penis

The movie turned out to be a pretty damning indictment of casual sex and drug usage. You probably needed to have seen it.  :wag
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 16, 2014, 07:38:58 PM
The other day I had to straight up leave my Korean work experience off an online job application form because their system didn't even have an option for country. Just city, state, zip code. What kind of horseshit is that?

Live in a continent-sized country where no one gives a shit about the outside world y'all.

You sound like quite the party attraction.

PD, you mock (and not without cause), but making sure I'm known as a repository of useless information has saved me from being exposed as a member of the Tribe so many times.

Just last night I was the only person who laughed at a Jewish joke (it was forced, polite laughter, I hate it when we get to the "ethnic joke" part of the night after we've gone through the "this job has destroyed X romantic relationships of mine" part) that was a Jewish joke only someone who was Jewish or hung around a lot of Jewish people would get and no one batted an eye that I was able to explain it before the joke teller could because I'm that fucking dipshit who knows about Brazzaville. :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 16, 2014, 09:20:58 PM
After multiple failed attempts at eating at this cheese steak food truck we'd been eyeing, I finally had it today and it was fucking shitty and expensive. Worst fucking lunch ever.

We've seriously spent a total of 2 hours in line for this food truck over the last year, and some fucking catastrophe happened every time that prevented us from getting our food. At this point I was fucking determined. Finally get food and it was fucking shit. I live-blogged to my husband obscenities and complaints throughout my lunch. I seriously thought I was coming down with a cold and couldn't taste anything. Nope, it was just that fucking crappy.

The worst part was that I noticed I lost like 2 more pounds this morning. Then I wasted calories on pure bland. PISSED.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 16, 2014, 10:23:41 PM
After multiple failed attempts at eating at this cheese steak food truck we'd been eyeing, I finally had it today and it was fucking shitty and expensive. Worst fucking lunch ever.

We've seriously spent a total of 2 hours in line for this food truck over the last year, and some fucking catastrophe happened every time that prevented us from getting our food. At this point I was fucking determined. Finally get food and it was fucking shit. I live-blogged to my husband obscenities and complaints throughout my lunch. I seriously thought I was coming down with a cold and couldn't taste anything. Nope, it was just that fucking crappy.

The worst part was that I noticed I lost like 2 more pounds this morning. Then I wasted calories on pure bland. PISSED.

expensive but bland food it's some of the most rage-inducing shit, I swear. like I don't even give a shit if you wanna make some mediocre food, as long as you just charge me $5-7 for it. but you wanna dress it up like it's something fancy when you know DAMN WELL you didn't use a bit of seasoning, AND THEN you got the nerve to charge a premium price for it? FUCK YOU FOR WASTING MY DAMN PAYCHECK
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 16, 2014, 10:40:57 PM
Kind of contemplating the point of it all.

Got rejected from the last of my target firms in consulting today. This is a tough one to handle. There are still some firms I could get into, but... a dream kind of died today.
As a consultant and having worked with management consultants I don't really get why you'd want to be one.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 16, 2014, 10:55:07 PM
Man, given all the drama lately it's hard to keep from blurting out everyone's secrets from the confessionals and laughing at everyone's hypocrite faces. I'm a man of my word, but sometimes I like to think of what would happen if I weren't and smile a little.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on October 16, 2014, 10:57:27 PM
Ate a lot of dinner and now I'm too full to try this pumpkin beer i got  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 16, 2014, 11:03:00 PM
Ate a lot of dinner and now I'm too full to try this pumpkin beer i got  :(
This is the saddest thing I've heard in ages.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on October 16, 2014, 11:03:58 PM
not to mention dinner was some taco salad thing since i'm trying to not be a fat fuck and booze is my only escape from this hellish existance
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 16, 2014, 11:09:50 PM
Ate a lot of dinner and now I'm too full to try this pumpkin beer i got  :(
This is the saddest thing I've heard in ages.
update: second saddest :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 16, 2014, 11:11:21 PM
not to mention dinner was some taco salad thing since i'm trying to not be a fat fuck and booze is my only escape from this hellish existance
And dinner was SALAD?!

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 16, 2014, 11:18:07 PM
For supper I had half a chicken and some chocolate milk and I'm losing weight, nachobro.  Sometimes I struggle with being so awesome.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 16, 2014, 11:18:53 PM
I wasted many hours developing a personal budget/expenses spreadsheet... Two days in an I'm already over budget. Worst project manager ever. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on October 16, 2014, 11:19:07 PM
 :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 16, 2014, 11:20:01 PM
I told you that glow in the dark condoms was a luxury you couldn't afford. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 16, 2014, 11:22:25 PM
I wasted many hours developing a personal budget/expenses spreadsheet... Two days in an I'm already over budget. Worst project manager ever. :noah
This is a pretty good summary of the GAF Steam thread after everyone bought You Need A Budget on sale.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 16, 2014, 11:30:38 PM
After multiple failed attempts at eating at this cheese steak food truck we'd been eyeing, I finally had it today and it was fucking shitty and expensive. Worst fucking lunch ever.

We've seriously spent a total of 2 hours in line for this food truck over the last year, and some fucking catastrophe happened every time that prevented us from getting our food. At this point I was fucking determined. Finally get food and it was fucking shit. I live-blogged to my husband obscenities and complaints throughout my lunch. I seriously thought I was coming down with a cold and couldn't taste anything. Nope, it was just that fucking crappy.

The worst part was that I noticed I lost like 2 more pounds this morning. Then I wasted calories on pure bland. PISSED.

expensive but bland food it's some of the most rage-inducing shit, I swear. like I don't even give a shit if you wanna make some mediocre food, as long as you just charge me $5-7 for it. but you wanna dress it up like it's something fancy when you know DAMN WELL you didn't use a bit of seasoning, AND THEN you got the nerve to charge a premium price for it? FUCK YOU FOR WASTING MY DAMN PAYCHECK

For the record, it was Steak Louie. Also they charged an extra dollar to run credit, which was indicated on a piece of cardboard with sharpie scrawl freshly duct taped to the side of the truck. Apparently a lot of these food trucks have been jacking up their prices when they show up to my work. If they only knew how little we are paid. :usacry They sell out every time, but gotta gouge too. STILL PISSED.

Pie Oh My showed up last week and their chicken pot pie was so horrendous that I legit made my own afterward to make up for the disappointment experienced. That shit they brought made frozen pot pie look like a damn delicacy. It was so fucking sad. People heated up soup and poured it over over top because it was so dried out. Saddddd.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 16, 2014, 11:40:08 PM
Dinner was two Taco Bell Cheesy Bean & Rice burritos, from the New Dollar Cravings (tm) menu, the way god intended

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on October 17, 2014, 12:21:19 AM
Happy ending update: I drank the beer
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 17, 2014, 12:36:08 AM
There's a song I've been meaning to find and I don't know the artist, don't know the lyrics if there are any, and I don't know the title of it.

All I can remember is that I've heard it in a restaurant I've dined in a few months back (that I can't even remember the name of  :mindblown) and I SWEAR it was in either GTA or Saint's Row but neither series soundtracks has it.

It's like some kind of elevator music but really catchy with an 80s kind of vibe

 :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 17, 2014, 02:56:28 AM
Kind of contemplating the point of it all.

Got rejected from the last of my target firms in consulting today. This is a tough one to handle. There are still some firms I could get into, but... a dream kind of died today.

Sorry breh, but you've got 2 M degrees coming to you and a lifetime of opportunities, it's not all lost.

Think of how you'll show them that they :ufup instead of thinking about how you (might have) :ufup.

This is a pretty good summary of the GAF Steam thread after everyone bought You Need A Budget on sale.

How do you :ufup when you have YNAB? :dead

I wasn't the sharpest international banker in my youth, but :neogaf.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 17, 2014, 12:29:40 PM
I was thinking about camping at Joshua Tree for Thanksgiving. Since I had some time this morning I looked into it and apparently that shit is really popular. Like "be there before Thanksgiving" popular. :beli

I really had no idea people didn't just sit around their house and hate their relatives while gorging themselves in such numbers. :ufup

Mojave National Preserve is a lot longer of a drive than I wanted to make, but it sounds like that'll be my only realistic choice given that I can't leave until Wednesday night. :yeshrug I ain't driving all the way out to Twentynine Palms only to find out a host of cacs and Gen X stereotypes have taken all the campgrounds. :neogaf

At least Mojave has no entrance fee and as best I can tell there are no fee fees for roadside camping. :obama

Plus this is on Mojave's site.

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Few established trails exist; carry a good map and familiarize yourself with desert travel and survival skills before beginning your trip.

Being carrion for Mother Earth. :aah

Now I just gotta figure out how much stupid camping shit I want to buy/rent. As I don't see this being a regular cactivity of mine, I think I want to limit my investment. I'll probably end up spending more money on figuring out how to keep my phone charged than on comfortable sleeping. :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 17, 2014, 12:37:34 PM
I've got lots of camping stuff that I don't often use (an autistic 3 year old does not lend itself well to camping).
If you wanna borrow anything let me know.  Dried bodily fluids included at no charge.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 17, 2014, 12:43:29 PM
I need come coke but I don't want to go to shoppers to get it.  Need caffeine. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 17, 2014, 03:34:43 PM
I've got lots of camping stuff that I don't often use (an autistic 3 year old does not lend itself well to camping).
If you wanna borrow anything let me know.  Dried bodily fluids included at no charge.

Thanks Ro. :-[

I haven't camped since my Scouting days and I'm a lot less disposed to creature comforts than I was then so I'm not even really sure what I'll need. Is a tent really a necessity even if the weather is clear (but cold)? Worse comes to worse I can just sleep in my car, which tbh I was considering doing regardless since I'm alone and can lock my doors.

I don't need cooking stuff or cutlery because I'd just be bringing nutrient gruel, dried goods you can eat with your hands (e.g. trail mix), couple of gallons of water, and booze to substitute for the empty Taco Bell calories in my diet.

I don't need to look presentable because I'm alone and I'm not going to pick up on any hot babes while reading a stack of books in the middle of nowhere or doing something stupid like hiking at night.

I don't really need to sleep in comfort (no bedrolls or cots).

The only camping specific thing I can think of that I'll need is firewood because they don't let you collect it there. And that's only assuming I'll want to stay up at all at night and sit around... never been much of one to read by firelight.

STRUGGLE :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 17, 2014, 03:38:35 PM
I did a work order in this dude's apartment today, and he was so filthy he had chicken wing bones in his bathroom sink  :sabu
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 17, 2014, 03:39:45 PM
I did a work order in this dude's apartment today, and he was so filthy he had chicken wing bones in his bathroom sink  :sabu
oh look at this guy, putting his chicken bones in the trash  ::)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 17, 2014, 03:41:21 PM
#notallwhitetrash
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 17, 2014, 03:53:53 PM
I did a work order in this dude's apartment today, and he was so filthy he had chicken wing bones in his bathroom sink  :sabu

:dead

You gotta learn how to class up your filth. The commune leaves bottles of Martini & Rossi Asti or Crown Royal around our kitchen along with their days of dishes and half-eaten fast food. Gives it that continental trash vibe. :obama

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 17, 2014, 04:03:21 PM
how was his toilet bowl? I can only imagine :lawd :mouf




Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 17, 2014, 04:13:26 PM
I wasn't about to touch that lid and find out
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 17, 2014, 04:14:32 PM
I was thinking about camping at Joshua Tree for Thanksgiving. Since I had some time this morning I looked into it and apparently that shit is really popular. Like "be there before Thanksgiving" popular. :beli

I really had no idea people didn't just sit around their house and hate their relatives while gorging themselves in such numbers. :ufup

Mojave National Preserve is a lot longer of a drive than I wanted to make, but it sounds like that'll be my only realistic choice given that I can't leave until Wednesday night. :yeshrug I ain't driving all the way out to Twentynine Palms only to find out a host of cacs and Gen X stereotypes have taken all the campgrounds. :neogaf

At least Mojave has no entrance fee and as best I can tell there are no fee fees for roadside camping. :obama

Plus this is on Mojave's site.

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Few established trails exist; carry a good map and familiarize yourself with desert travel and survival skills before beginning your trip.

Being carrion for Mother Earth. :aah

Now I just gotta figure out how much stupid camping shit I want to buy/rent. As I don't see this being a regular cactivity of mine, I think I want to limit my investment. I'll probably end up spending more money on figuring out how to keep my phone charged than on comfortable sleeping. :dead
Joshua tree is a huge climbing spot during Thanksgiving.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 17, 2014, 06:24:57 PM
had to do a shitty ruck yesterday and then do stupid army shit in the woods all night. rucked back today and my back is a mess. think I'm going to have to drink tonight #h8mahlyfe
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 17, 2014, 07:38:05 PM
HOW CAN THERE BE NO RECORDING OF THIS :tocry :tocry :tocry :tocry :tocry
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Race_to_Urga

Leonard Bernstein adapting perhaps the most heavy-handed of Brechts's lehrstucke. :dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 17, 2014, 10:57:48 PM
got approved for unemployment I applied for like a month and a half ago AKA a ten week extension on my current lifestyle choice of 'hypershunnable trash person'  :rejoice /  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 17, 2014, 11:04:34 PM
congratulations for your success at being unsuccessful. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on October 18, 2014, 12:12:24 AM
It's tough outchea, brehs.  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on October 18, 2014, 12:54:57 AM
Third Tinder date in a row where the girl...how should I say...really knows how to take a good picture  :-\

I feel so bad for not being into these girls when I meet them, but I can't help it that I'm just not attracted to them while meeting them in person.  Makes me think that I also am someone who only takes "good pictures."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on October 18, 2014, 04:27:55 AM
Co-worker quit without giving any notice.

lots of extra hours to go around, but now I'm not sure that I'll even be able to make all those nifty Halloween parties that I've been invited to.  We've been short staffed as is, now the situation will be extra strenuous for at least the next few weeks until we can get someone else.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 18, 2014, 09:58:32 AM
Woke up at 4:30 without an alarm going off or anything.

Listened to a voicemail left for me last night when we were Plug-DJing that gave me a panic attack. (I won't expand on this further.)

Have fucking tax law class today after weeks and weeks of the Long War that I have to attend dead tired and in the middle of a panic attack.

Agreed to work for a client tomorrow because I did the "text the wrong person" thing even though I'm still operating on empty after doing fuck all last weekend.

I think that about covers it for now?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 18, 2014, 10:32:59 AM
I wake up at 4 30 daily without an alarm. Because I wake up at that time everyday for work and by 9pm I am usually passed the fuck out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 18, 2014, 10:48:58 AM
Woke up at 4:30 without an alarm going off or anything.

Listened to a voicemail left for me last night when we were Plug-DJing that gave me a panic attack. (I won't expand on this further.)

Have fucking tax law class today after weeks and weeks of the Long War that I have to attend dead tired and in the middle of a panic attack.

Agreed to work for a client tomorrow because I did the "text the wrong person" thing even though I'm still operating on empty after doing fuck all last weekend.

I think that about covers it for now?
she pregnant and it's yours
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 18, 2014, 11:10:38 AM
I wake up at 4 30 daily without an alarm. Because I wake up at that time everyday for work and by 9pm I am usually passed the fuck out.

I went to bed around 1.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 18, 2014, 03:31:28 PM
The last time I was involved in a pregnancy scare she didn't tell me until months later.

Be an emotionally unsupportive piece of shit y'all.

This was an improvement on the one previously, BTW.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 18, 2014, 04:01:39 PM
Staying in Antalya, Turkey. Our lodgings have toilets with primitive, cold water butt-bidet nozzles. In their default position They will shoot out water too low, hitting nothing and shooting out from the front of the toilet.

Everyone in my training session is hot, or it seems like it. There are only two guys including me and this one particularly hot girl kept ending up bending over close to me. I struggle, legit. I dunno where to look anymore :/
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shadow Mod on October 18, 2014, 04:02:19 PM
Wanna listen to music.

Nothing really appeals to me right now.

 :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 18, 2014, 04:03:59 PM
Time for a Spotify tour.

How about this for a start?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTqgpQJkefo

 :sabu
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 18, 2014, 04:05:42 PM
I wake up at 4 30 daily without an alarm. Because I wake up at that time everyday for work and by 9pm I am usually passed the fuck out.

I went to bed around 1.
Christ.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shadow Mod on October 18, 2014, 04:06:22 PM
Wanna listen to music.

Nothing really appeals to me right now.

 :fbm

listen 2 this :aah :rejoice



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Mw0zmHa2I

Listening.

Spotify always gives me the same shit over and over or remixes of the song I just listened to. It's been pissing me off lately.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shadow Mod on October 18, 2014, 04:11:28 PM
I liked it from the beginning since I have listened to other Eno stuff and I'm all about that ambient/experimental/build up stuff.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 18, 2014, 05:34:59 PM
I wake up at 4 30 daily without an alarm. Because I wake up at that time everyday for work and by 9pm I am usually passed the fuck out.

I went to bed around 1.
Christ.

I'm surprisingly spry. #Blessed anxiety adrenaline y'all. :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 18, 2014, 05:41:10 PM
I didn't sleep at all for my night in the woods, then conducted a buddy team life fire the next day. felt surprisingly great too
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 18, 2014, 06:11:13 PM
There are three parts I absolutely hate about camping: arriving at the campsite, setting up camp, and packing up everything to get ready to leave. I wish I could just ship my camping supplies, have someone set everything up, and just arrive and be ready to do whatever.

Don't pick the campsite closet to the outhouse.  :goty2

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on October 18, 2014, 06:58:24 PM
sleeping outside on purpose  :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 18, 2014, 07:07:38 PM
Our dog woke up a few days ago with her eye half-closed.  Turns out she somehow got a light scratch on her eye.  The vet is optimistic she'll be fine (and after a day her eye was opened all the way again) and the dog is acting normal, so no worries about that.

The struggle here is getting the medicine in her eye.  It's not eye drops, but instead this slow-oozing gel.  This dog is smart and she knows when it's coming- the instant you pick up the bottle, she runs away or thrashes her head around if we pick her up.  So we've been trying to get the medicine in -and failing- since Wednesday.  For some reason she will let my mother do this, so every night now my parents have been coming over or we meet them to get the medicine in.  They are coming by at 11:00 PM tonight to do it.   :-\ 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 18, 2014, 07:09:26 PM
your mom sounds like quite the bitch!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 18, 2014, 07:10:00 PM
I give nami peanut butter when I need to give her ring worm stuff but that goes on the back of her neck.  Hope your dogs ok.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 18, 2014, 07:26:47 PM
your mom sounds like quite the bitch!

 :goty2

I give nami peanut butter when I need to give her ring worm stuff but that goes on the back of her neck.  Hope your dogs ok.

Thanks, we think her eye is already better.  This medicine just seems to be to ensure that the healing process goes well.  Never had a problem giving her other medicine before.  Had to give her eye drops last year and that was much easier compared to this.  Koko is a small dog, but that's like a small bundle of pure muscle and insane energy and it's really hard to keep her still.  But it's just until Tuesday evening so not much longer to go.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 18, 2014, 09:22:48 PM
My wife got the medicine in!   Bribed the dog by holding food up in front of her.   :lol

I give nami peanut butter when I need to give her worm stuff

I bet.

:heh

Dandy, are you talking about heartworm meds in pill form?  You can get these little treats called Pill Pockets that have a space to stuff pills into. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 18, 2014, 11:45:51 PM
My wife got the medicine in!   Bribed the dog by holding food up in front of her.   :lol

I give nami peanut butter when I need to give her worm stuff

I bet.

:heh

Dandy, are you talking about heartworm meds in pill form?  You can get these little treats called Pill Pockets that have a space to stuff pills into. 
My heartworm prevention stuff is a liquid I put on the back of her neck.  Don't know why I said ring worm. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yulwei on October 19, 2014, 01:10:14 AM
Can't decide if I want to jump into R. Scott Bakker's Prince Of Nothing series.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 19, 2014, 02:00:57 AM
I threw my blackness in the bushes tonight. I made oven baked fried fish using Silk soy milk instead of eggs, quinoa w/green peas & mushrooms cooked in chicken broth, and broccoli.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 19, 2014, 02:25:39 AM
The mushrooms were so flavorful
:lawd

You read my mind breh, I'm aiming at stir fry next. I always walk through the sauce and seasoning aisle like damn I should try something. Definitely doing it next week.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 19, 2014, 02:36:17 AM
I don't get the use of the soy milk.

You know how when you fry fish you dip it in egg, butter milk, or regular milk before coating it with your corn meal/bread crumbs? Well since I didn't have eggs or milk I used Silk soy milk instead. Then I coated it with a bread crumb, corn meal, paprika, and Cajun seasoning mixture. Sprayed a pan with some butter, put the fish in, sprayed the fish, then put it in the oven. 375, 30 minutes in order to ensure it was crispy. The Silk gave the fish an almost sweet taste, similar to when you use butter milk.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on October 19, 2014, 03:18:15 AM
I need to get another crockpot. That thing was amazing for making good food with almost no effort. Since my last one broke I've definitely been eating worse.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 19, 2014, 03:21:33 AM
whenever i ask for stolichnaya a bartender looks at me like i'm from mars and i have to say "stoli"

i ate a hipster restaurant where my dinner and 2 drinks cost twice what getting fucking trashed at a dive bar cost later on tonight

also they played "call me maybe" at the dive bar
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 19, 2014, 03:34:51 AM
Still adapting to Eastern Yuro-peen Time Zone. Waking up at 5:00 every day, sometimes can get back to sleep, other times not.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 19, 2014, 03:36:54 AM
The mushrooms were so flavorful
:lawd

You read my mind breh, I'm aiming at stir fry next. I always walk through the sauce and seasoning aisle like damn I should try something. Definitely doing it next week.

Man like I said fish sauce is goat. Idk if you can find it at normal Detroitistan super markets but any asian marts will have it. Some other stuff to consider is some hoisin sauce, mirin,  and sambal oelek.. I love stir fry because it's just an inauthentic do what you feel like thing, and you can throw whatever you like together. I use it a lot to experiment with asian stuff.

Just, never, ever look up how fish sauce is made. :eww
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 19, 2014, 02:50:10 PM
Antalya, Turkey:

Struggle 1 - EVERYONE smokes here. Starbucks had a huge patio, maybe 80 seats. Interior, no smoking, 5º hotter than outside and only 4 seats total. Everyone in all the various seats outside was smoking. Men, women... even a table of 15 year old boys had cigarettes sitting on top of the table.
:mindblown

Struggle 2 - The women here. Green or blue eyes against olive skin. Curves.  Immaculate grooming, and absolutely no fear of sexy clothes or embracing femininity. Tall women with broad shoulders; women who look like they could probably lift me up.
:lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 19, 2014, 04:15:32 PM
Sounds like I should be teaching myself Turkish instead of Afrikaans.

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Endured a goy reducing the Reuben--which is only surpassed by compound interest, the writings of Sholem Aleichem and the discography of Barbra Streisand as a cultural achievement of the Tribe--to "the world's best hangover cure, bro."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 19, 2014, 04:20:43 PM
Played Jimmy Graham :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 19, 2014, 05:44:52 PM
whenever i ask for stolichnaya a bartender looks at me like i'm from mars and i have to say "stoli"

i ate a hipster restaurant where my dinner and 2 drinks cost twice what getting fucking trashed at a dive bar cost later on tonight

also they played "call me maybe" at the dive bar
dive bars :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 19, 2014, 06:08:05 PM
Atlanta's best dive bar was so fucking evil, they had to move it once and then bulldoze the original site.

http://clatl.com/atlanta/rip-lennys/Content?oid=2550813
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 19, 2014, 06:30:15 PM
I had a five day weekend, but now it's almost over.  :noooo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 19, 2014, 09:28:44 PM
Finally going through my shit from storage. Nice to know I got a couple hundo worth of stuff to sell (before Magic cards, BTW they reprinted the allied colored fetchlands and trashed my 401(k) :pacspit MaRo) but the entire process is just reliving my massive L taking this year and idk how I'm chugging through this without getting emosad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 20, 2014, 02:37:31 AM
Organizing my notes is probably my #1 source of angst these days. I mean that sounds ridiculous but given that my notes have all my concepts, intellectual conceits and life plans in them it makes sense ... my inability to sort my notes satisfactorily is a fitting proxy for my inability to sort anything in my life satisfactorily.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 20, 2014, 05:19:55 AM
fucked this rican bish but was too drunk to finish. she was on her rag and bled on her blankets, the skankiness turned me on. not enough doe 8[
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 20, 2014, 08:53:46 AM
My heartworm prevention stuff is a liquid I put on the back of her neck.  Don't know why I said ring worm.

Ah, OK.  We have a pill for heartworm stuff and then a liquid for the back of the neck for fleas and ticks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on October 20, 2014, 09:10:24 AM
Settled into bed at 7am to go to sleep. Currently 9an and can't fall a sleep.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 20, 2014, 11:49:12 AM
Girl I am TAing came was trying to talk to me about her bad mark on the midterm and if she should continue with the class.  She got 3/20 and was nearly in tears while talking.  Feels bad man.  On the other hand I really enjoy giving out failing grades when I mark and don't have to see the tears first hand. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 20, 2014, 12:22:54 PM
Girl I am TAing came was trying to talk to me about her bad mark on the midterm and if she should continue with the class.  She got 3/20 and was nearly in tears while talking.  Feels bad man.  On the other hand I really enjoy giving out failing grades when I mark and don't have to see the tears first hand. 

Don't let it get to you. I often would pull that crying shit with my professors when my grades were bad (quite often in calc/applied math classes). Usually I took real life drama and would trump it up, the truth was that I wasn't applying myself enough and was too busy chasing girls/good time.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 20, 2014, 12:25:26 PM
Listening to Thom Hartmann liken the U.S. to the GDR's surveillance state while I wait for underwear to finish in the washing machine. :stahp

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 20, 2014, 12:39:01 PM
My mouse software wasn't working so I couldn't import the macro file that has four common, banal phrases I use at work a lot, forcing me to actually type things to people.

:stahp

...I fixed the issue though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 20, 2014, 03:39:32 PM
Rivalry week, Michigan v Michigan State this upcoming weekend. Man the smug nature of Michigan stans is amazing. We've got a guy in the office shitting on a MSU grad - nevermind that the MSU grad just got his CPA, will be getting an MBA soon, etc etc while the Michigan grad is essentially a good ole boy hire.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 20, 2014, 05:08:29 PM
The stupid hipster shirt I bought to wear to stupid hipster eateries / pubs downtown isn't going to ship until like fucking mid-November. :maf

Buy clothes from CIS countries y'all. :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on October 20, 2014, 05:30:24 PM
Slava Voynov probably beat his girlfriend bad enough to require hospitalization  :beli

Don't want to see this fuck around the Kings ever again if the allegations are true
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 20, 2014, 05:35:19 PM
nhl>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nfl when it comes to this shit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 20, 2014, 05:35:35 PM
Are you his girlfriend; is this really your struggle?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 20, 2014, 06:06:01 PM
The struggle against domestic violence is everyone's struggle.  :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 20, 2014, 06:14:02 PM
Pretty sure it is at least one person's triumph.  I mean someone has got to win the fight. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 20, 2014, 07:09:47 PM
Jury duty was tomorrow, got rescheduled for March :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 20, 2014, 09:49:03 PM
My CEO has dropped all semblance of decorum and is totally skipping my boss and coming straight to me for what he needs, almost daily.
Further he just dropped something on me essentially saying "Hey, we've been at this one project for a few months and sorta screwed it up. I need you to come up with a project plan to set it right....by tomorrow."

Saving other people's projects you know nothing about  :-\

The only thing you can do in that case is fail.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 20, 2014, 10:59:39 PM
Let me squirt some stuff in your eye and make you feel good. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on October 20, 2014, 11:08:17 PM
I wanted an Oreo shake but the shake machine at Burger King is broken so I went to McDonalds to get an Oreo McFlurry.  :(

And I just remembered I have a Monopoly coupon for one right now as I was typing the last sentence.  :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 20, 2014, 11:10:32 PM
An Oreo Blizzard is what I now want; thanks for that. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 20, 2014, 11:43:46 PM
My bra is sorta broke and is poking me. It's like this. Fucking annoying.

(http://i.imgur.com/uMhT8vt.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 20, 2014, 11:44:24 PM
I've felt about 5 seconds away from passing out for the last 2 hours. I'm close to having my roommate drive me to the hospital.

Don't be a tough guy breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 20, 2014, 11:44:37 PM
I've felt about 5 seconds away from passing out for the last 2 hours. I'm close to having my roommate drive me to the hospital.

Do it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 20, 2014, 11:49:30 PM
I've felt about 5 seconds away from passing out for the last 2 hours. I'm close to having my roommate drive me to the hospital.
Don't be a hero cholo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 20, 2014, 11:51:05 PM
Realizing I spent more to ship myself a copy of Ubu Roi than I did on a copy of Ubu Roi. :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 20, 2014, 11:54:55 PM
meh, that's a common occurrence with me with sheet music.
I'll pay like $12 for the actual book but then drop $25 to have it shipped internationally.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 21, 2014, 12:06:09 AM
It seems one of our servers run by our offshore is having all sorts of issues, turns out it has a bunch of malware on it somehow.
The team is pulling the whole "We've been compromised!" card.
More likely someone was surfing porn on it.

 :picard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 12:22:37 AM
It drove me up the wall that the Canton of Neuchatel's coat of arms looked like the Italian flag despite having been adopted before Italian reunification and I actually went out of my way to research how this happened. :stahp

On the plus side, I know all sorts of useless information about the history of Neuchatel now that I'll never have any use for. :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 21, 2014, 06:06:54 AM
My new job sucks, I went home sick today and forgot to pay for the train, got a 120 dollar fine

Fuuuu

@gs; live in varansi breh, thats a struggle
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 21, 2014, 06:53:25 AM
I've felt about 5 seconds away from passing out for the last 2 hours. I'm close to having my roommate drive me to the hospital.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Otla5157c
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on October 21, 2014, 07:02:45 AM
Can't sleep and I've got an appointment in 3 hours. Another fucked up day for me.

Also the Xbox in the living room (mine) is acting like a dick and wont connect to the net for some ungodly reason. It has to be due to the freaking nat structure and how the Xbox One doesn't like if more than one of them are on the same damn network.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on October 21, 2014, 07:30:21 AM
I've got this bitch wired in cat6 and all that lovely cable goes to my nighthawk. It's an issue with the Xboxes and how they communicate on the network, it's a first world problem.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 21, 2014, 09:30:46 AM
Is he group sized?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 21, 2014, 09:51:00 AM
Strikes me as very weird anyway. Is he a regular that always saw you plug in and decided that, today, he would fuck with the Laptop guy, because...? Just weird.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on October 21, 2014, 11:21:18 AM
Fuck racists Wrath, you grow up in this world being a minority and before you know it you start interpreting things from that perspective and people be like "naaaah" when they dont understand.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 11:23:11 AM
I spent twice as much money to get my sitar shipped back to the U.S. as I spent on the sitar. And I bought a pretty quality one. And the gourd still cracked during the shipping process  :snoop

Live in Varanasi for a month training six hours a day on the sitar only to lose it all because DHS breaks your instrument, brehs. I wrapped my fingers in bandaids to keep training, because those strings are like knives with the way the instrument is set up.

Well like that's a large musical instrument that given the context provided I assume you purchased in India.

This is like a 50 page play (if that) that's not even being shipped from outside my timezone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 21, 2014, 11:38:46 AM
The moment I went in to my coffee place to sit on my couch some old dude jumped, ran and took it :what

I explained to him that I need the couch since it's the only spot with a power outlet and I need to do work on my laptop, and all he kept asking was if I had a group coming with me and how laptops can last a while so I let it go by taking that L and sitting somewhere else. Now my laptop has an hour left in charge and I need to finish stuff up fast.  :-\
Consultant trick. Carry a powerstrip with a long cord in your laptop bag. This is especially handy in airports.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: doctavius bonbon on October 21, 2014, 12:08:27 PM
During breakfast I looked down at my bowl of honey comb cereal and triggered my trypophobia. :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 21, 2014, 01:17:59 PM
Went to get some hot cocoa

There was no more cocoa left

Did somebody just eat all the packets yesterday?  WTF   :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 21, 2014, 01:27:02 PM
soup for lunch
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 01:27:42 PM
soup for lunch
:tocry

Shoulda had nutrient gruel breh.

Same amount of calories, less sodium, and more nutrients than your body needs. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 02:29:54 PM
My ex-fiance and little sister became best friends and hang out all the time now :tocry

ل
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 03:00:29 PM
Akhi, let me help.

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Today has truly been the day of raining L's :goty2

Not only did I spend most of the past 2 months truly fatherless, but I've been reminded by my ex-parents in a very passive aggressive manner today of that very fact :beli

It's my sister's birthday and my ex is hanging out with her, and now she recruited my sister in the #GetBackWithTheExAndComeBackHomeTeam :snoop

Not too mention my 5 consecutive expulsions of fecal matter  :larry

On top of all that, I'm obviously failing at jacking Karakand's steez when it comes to his coli smiley use :shaq2

Truly a blessed day! :rejoice
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 21, 2014, 03:01:50 PM
Akhi, let me help.

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Today has truly been the day of raining L's :goty2

Not only did I spend most of the past 2 months truly fatherless, but I've been reminded by my ex-parents in a very passive aggressive manner today of that very fact :beli

It's my sister's birthday and my ex is hanging out with her, and now she recruited my sister in the #GetBackWithTheExAndComeBackHomeTeam :snoop

Not too mention my 5 consecutive expulsions of fecal matter  :larry

On top of all that, I'm obviously failing at jacking Karakand's steez when it comes to his coli smiley use :shaq2

Truly a blessed day! :rejoice
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That is so much more understandable.  I went from no sympathy to mild sympathy of his L taking. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 21, 2014, 03:12:41 PM
Wrath, flip a coin and give one to me.
:noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yulwei on October 21, 2014, 05:38:30 PM
Ate a small slice of cheesecake and feel like death

never eating that bullshit again
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 21, 2014, 05:45:17 PM
:ufup with some bad cheesecake, man. Good cheesecake is amazing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 06:50:02 PM
Despite it not really being a lie and having been lied to in far worse ways in my life, I can never forgive cheesecake for calling itself cheesecake when it doesn't have delicious cheese in it, but just fresh cheese.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on October 21, 2014, 06:53:53 PM
Cheesecake is glorious I duncurr. I remember at a Christmas party at my grandparents there were several platters of mini cheesecakes. I ate.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on October 21, 2014, 10:34:44 PM
Tap tap tap tap tap..... Goes the noise in my ear. It won't stop unless I'm moving around. I guess it could be tinnitus. I'll be getting it looked at on thursday, but reading about it makes me not very hopeful. Its been less than a day and I'm already feeling mildly psychotic.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Pickles the Firecat on October 21, 2014, 11:08:07 PM
You arrive to work on Tuesday. Your employer wants you to finish a marketing proposal before Thursday. You say you will have it done Wednesday, giving you Monday evening and a few work hours the next day to finish. You feel this is more than enough time to finish the proposal, so you prioritize other tasks for the day.

But today was Tuesday
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 11:18:22 PM
You arrive to work on Tuesday. Your employer wants you to finish a marketing proposal before Thursday. You say you will have it done Wednesday, giving you Monday evening and a few work hours the next day to finish. You feel this is more than enough time to finish the proposal, so you prioritize other tasks for the day.

But today was Tuesday

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 21, 2014, 11:32:13 PM
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 21, 2014, 11:47:50 PM
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ME TOO. Only I have them about an hour apart so I can dump my graphic novels off at the library and get some more in between since I already have a too big of stack of actual books I need to finish. (I will probably wind up with more actual books anyway...)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 22, 2014, 12:08:17 AM
I think I would probably benefit from talking to a mental health professional. I'm really leery of taking any medicine, though. And, finding one I'd be comfortable talking to would be a chore too, because I'm not gonna talk to anyone I think is dumber than I am, and I have a really high opinion of my own intelligence.

Guess I'll just continue to bottle shit up!

:heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 22, 2014, 12:14:26 AM
I have a cold. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 22, 2014, 12:15:01 AM
With offshore:
"Hey puppy we finally got that other 50% of the code completed please check it out."
"OK, so I can see that you can show me this number that's good. Now please show it with the other number."
"What other number?"
"The other 50% of the code."
"Oh that number? You want to see them together?"
"Yes, I sent you requirements and sheets and examples, of course I want to see them together it makes no sense separate. You wouldn't call it half the code if there wasn't another half to put it with. That's how halves work!"
"Ohhh.......well I don't think we can do it together. We'll need a few more days."

This was supposed to be done last week
 :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 22, 2014, 12:38:38 AM
ME TOO. Only I have them about an hour apart so I can dump my graphic novels off at the library and get some more in between since I already have a too big of stack of actual books I need to finish. (I will probably wind up with more actual books anyway...)

Despite not being much of an actual achievement, allow me to be the first to congratulate you on making better life decisions than I have.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 22, 2014, 12:39:48 AM
pick therapists based on IQ instead of emotional competency and empathy brehs :dead

I'm insane, I won't listen to anyone I feel is dumber than me. Makes for awesome relationships!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 22, 2014, 12:43:15 AM
You won't really be able to tell how smart they are if they're good at kayfabe, Triumph. I didn't think my therapist was that well-read until they tipped their hand about something a couple of sessions ago. :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 22, 2014, 12:47:49 AM
Pffft, well read doesn't matter to me. I need someone that realizes life is a random, cruel, pointless endeavor. I mean shit, I'm barely literate, much less literary.

...basically I need another crazy person to talk to.

 :picard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 22, 2014, 12:53:20 AM
Despite not being much of an actual achievement, allow me to be the first to congratulate you on making better life decisions than I have.
Hooray! It wasn't even of my doing, when the psychiatrist was like what time do you want to meet I was all "well, I can't do Wednesday at 3 because that's when I have [therapist]" and he goes, oh! I've got one at 1:40! And since I already have Wednesday afternoons "offsite" I was like everything is coming up benji.

pick therapists based on IQ instead of emotional competency and empathy brehs :dead
My therapist I've slowly found out to be incredibly ignorant of like everything outside of psychology and NPR and biking. Including like not even knowing what exists on the other side of Lansing. He thinks I'm freakin da Vinci in terms of polymath levels. By weird chance me and another patient got him to watch Wilfred just by mentioning it two weeks in a row and he saw it advertised on Netflix or whatever. (He's one of those "I don't watch TV/don't have cable" people who have switched to watch Netflix/Hulu/Amazon and I'm like "you're still fucking watching TV programming!" And probably doing it on an actual TV too!)

My psychiatrist seems like one of those guys who could create a cocktail to turn you into Hector Hammond but then never remembers which side of the car his gas tank is on so he has to go around the station twice.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 22, 2014, 01:00:36 AM
Pffft, well read doesn't matter to me. I need someone that realizes life is a random, cruel, pointless endeavor. I mean shit, I'm barely literate, much less literary.

...basically I need another crazy person to talk to.

 :picard

Mental health practitioners can fucking fuck up your life fierce, trust me the only thing you want less than a crazy one is a fucking greenhorn who gives a shit about their legal obligations way too fucking much.

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on October 22, 2014, 01:05:42 AM
I'm really leery of taking any medicine, though. And, finding one I'd be comfortable talking to would be a chore too, because I'm not gonna talk to anyone I think is dumber than I am, and I have a really high opinion of my own intelligence.
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"Yes, I will still attempt to initiate sex  ::)"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 22, 2014, 01:20:26 AM
the only thing you want less than a crazy one is a fucking greenhorn who gives a shit about their legal obligations way too fucking much.
Both my guys are older, psychiatrist like late 40s and the other early 60s maybe. The psychiatrist in particular seems real lax about things like giving out DEA controlled prescriptions. If I go to his nurse practioner she won't write any refills for them. He wrote he me a prescription with 120 pills of klonopin with two refills so I could experiment with finding a good dose schedule. Then wrote me another one the next time because he forgot he did it the time before.  :lol

Though like four months after I was going to my therapist I found out he's the dad of a girl* I went to school with. Which works out because when he can never remember how old I am (which is like constantly) I just remind him that I graduated HS with her.

*She married her HS boyfriend and they have two kids.  :omg :heartbeat :heart
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 22, 2014, 02:53:01 AM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135386287&postcount=256

An arrow to my heart, at least I have my subject for tomorrow.

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 22, 2014, 06:08:12 AM
I have a long power cord, just not that long.

Meh, don't care. Class is almost over, everything was done. Going to head home, JO to porn, and pass out.

:humblebrag
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 22, 2014, 07:21:54 AM
In Turkey. Bought a USB cell modem with prepaid internets from Turkcell. Thing has worked beautifully for the last five days. Today it is shitting the bed, appears to be overheating, and dropping me down to 14.4K bps speeds.

Man, seriously, having the internet here has been a lifesaver, and having it choking and dying on me is THE LAST FUCKING THING I FUCKING NEED, YOU KNOW? :maf :maf :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 22, 2014, 10:20:13 AM
I remember a lot of types like that in Westwood, GS. Not that I was ever really big on formal education (as evidenced by my history of autodidacticism and failure to achieve in academia), but to see people pilfering work at such a high level I was just like :badass.

*She married her HS boyfriend and they have two kids.  :omg :heartbeat :heart

 :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 22, 2014, 01:23:26 PM
AWESOM-O, the best approach would be to not give a single shit what other people think, unless she has some means of sabotaging your grade.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 22, 2014, 04:10:29 PM
There hasn't been a new Cruncheons in a month.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 23, 2014, 12:27:41 AM
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 23, 2014, 12:32:38 AM
Got up this morning.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 23, 2014, 12:33:47 AM
"Is there something else I should know?"

"Let me tell you about a site called The Bore"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on October 23, 2014, 01:07:53 AM
I think "Is there something else I should know?" is therapist code for "Are you gay?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 23, 2014, 10:28:05 AM
Speaking of therapists, I'm starting to think I've wasted a lot of time and some money on mine. He rarely seems engaged, checks his phone, closes his eyes in a sleepy fashion...but yesterday decided to suggest we need to "re-focus" which apparently means doing stuff we did when we first met.

I've been telling him about recent doctor's visits, and I fucked up by hinting at information I'm not telling him. I told him I went for a couple check ups recently, but only explained one: I haven't been able to sleep properly for months. We discussed that and then he asked about the other visit. I'm fine with telling my Bore bros about my....crotch burning but I didn't feel like telling him that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 23, 2014, 10:48:35 AM
I think the official term for Bore bros should be Boritos which I think captures our enjoyment of wrapped meat. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 23, 2014, 11:05:51 AM
If it hasn't given you any trust issues, it's probably not worth discussing PD. idk why you're seeing one (and you don't need to say why) but any kind of sexual issue can be interpreted as a red flag by a practitioner and you really don't want to be wasting session time going (http://i.imgur.com/rb5TdH7.png) because they read too much into something. I'm capable of dressing up red flag behavior in analytical language that assuages this sort of thing because of my extremely high recidivism rate, but even I have to exercise discretion sometimes. Sorry, only registered users can see this content. Please Login or Register.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 23, 2014, 11:15:26 AM
They're your therapist not your mom. Geez. You don't need to be keeping secrets and if you do, time for a new therapist.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 23, 2014, 11:56:48 AM
Your mom can't 5150 you (I supposed technically she can ask that you be 5150'd) or maroon you from access to your meds for however long it takes your insurance to process a change in provider.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 23, 2014, 12:35:42 PM
I'd rather avoid any mention of it because I know how he operates - every issue brought up becomes a macro topic of supreme importance and leads to multiple questions about past things that might have no influence on anything. I told him about the relationship some time ago and he kept insinuating that it might be a sign of me being rebellious against my parents (my mom HATES my ex, hence why I didn't mention it to her), as if I was 15. In reality it was just a case of me knowing someone forever, one day seeing them in a sexual light and the rest is history. Meh.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 23, 2014, 03:42:35 PM
My continued #struggle with the TurkCell USB cell modem today includes moving from 5GB remaining to 2GB because I forgot how prepaid internets work, downloaded a bunch of music from friends’ DropBoxen, imported it into my iTunes for my stepdad’s iPod, so it then copied 14 hours worth of music up to iTunes Match.

:fbm

Gotta go recharge the prepaid tomorrow. And then turn off all my automatic upload/download/preload bullshit on this machine.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on October 23, 2014, 03:55:04 PM
Cooked my steak well done  :yuck :fbm :derp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 23, 2014, 05:56:44 PM
dumb it on the floor and eat it like an animal you piece of shit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 23, 2014, 05:58:57 PM
I can't believe Alton Brown got that twitter shut down.  What an asshole.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 23, 2014, 06:21:27 PM
 :o :( that was the best tweet of all time
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 23, 2014, 06:34:42 PM
(http://www.graphics99.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/stop-being-a-dick-food-netwerk.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 23, 2014, 06:46:21 PM
I can't believe Alton Brown got that twitter shut down.  What an asshole.
i've heard talk of him being a douche, this just seals it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 23, 2014, 06:59:56 PM
One of my clients politely reminded me that I have to pick an area of expertise soon and get hustling but I have no one I can really mine for advice who doesn't have an obvious conflict of interest (i.e. they are current clients) and I lack any other kind of support structure that I don't pay for.

(Spitballing in quotes cuz it's shitposting.)

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There's international taxation too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 23, 2014, 07:05:09 PM
Where is the quit and become a rodeo clown option? 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 23, 2014, 10:06:23 PM
Had a job interview recently.  The following happened:


 :neogaf
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 23, 2014, 10:15:59 PM
Well if it makes you feel any better, at least it wasn't the suit that kept you from that job.

Wait, that didn't come out right.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 23, 2014, 10:21:02 PM
 :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 24, 2014, 03:18:42 AM
:rofl

Is there a term for “backhanded ether”?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 24, 2014, 08:25:37 AM
finding out you got thrown under the bus by members of your platoon while you were on staff duty and not around to defend yourself, brehs. fuck this place
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 24, 2014, 08:27:52 AM
I have a horn growing out of my face.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 08:44:14 AM
My wife is mad because I did not enjoy what she attempted to cook last night.

I believe a London Broil is probably above her skill level and should not be well done.

 :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 24, 2014, 10:17:36 AM
I went to opening night at the theatre last night but there was no place to eat at on the quick nearby because haute bourgeoisie ain't having none of that so I strolled down to the corner bodega and bought a Hot Pocket and beef jerky.

I was dressed up (at least by my standards) during all of this, BTW.

Some schmuck from Uber rolled up while I was outside stuffing my mouth with a scalding Hot Pocket to make it in time to the performance and asked if I wanted a ride and I wished I could have said, "Asshole, do I look like I need a fucking ride right now?" but I had scalding Hot Pocket in my mouth and just gave him the "fuck you" look.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 10:23:52 AM
I went to opening night at the theatre last night but there was no place to eat at on the quick nearby because haute bourgeoisie ain't having none of that so I strolled down to the corner bodega and bought a Hot Pocket and beef jerky.

I was dressed up (at least by my standards) during all of this, BTW.

Some schmuck from Uber rolled up while I was outside stuffing my mouth with a scalding Hot Pocket to make it in time to the performance and asked if I wanted a ride and I wished I could have said, "Asshole, do I look like I need a fucking ride right now?" but I had scalding Hot Pocket in my mouth and just gave him the "fuck you" look.

Please post "fuck you" look.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 24, 2014, 10:27:27 AM
 :comeon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on October 24, 2014, 10:52:27 AM
:comeon
This is actually what I imagined as I read your post
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 11:13:07 AM
Escaped client x from hell a few months ago because I said there was no way the project was going to be successful.
Luckily I was placed on project that was successful. Now a few months later guess what? Client x's project is going sideways.
Now I have to back to this dumb client and complete design. At least it's only for a week. I can handle that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 12:22:04 PM
to give you an idea of how bad this client is this is an actual conversation I had with them:

Me: "OK so we're going to need a stable non-changing environment to be able to validate data."
Them: "We don't have that."
me: "Just create a copy of an existing environment and give only us access. That'll work."
them: "We don't have the disk space for that."
me: "You're a hard drive company."
them: "......"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 12:24:59 PM
to give you an idea of how bad this client is this is an actual conversation I had with them:

Me: "OK so we're going to need a stable non-changing environment to be able to validate data."
Them: "We don't have that."
me: "Just create a copy of an existing environment and give only us access. That'll work."
them: "We don't have the disk space for that."
me: "You're a hard drive company."
them: "......"

Off premise IT for them is something they may want to consider...jesus.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 24, 2014, 12:26:30 PM
My wife said "That's why you married me, to not listen to me and be sad when you didn't" when I did something really dumb she advised me against.  I still feel the ether today :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 24, 2014, 12:26:32 PM
There is a girl in the class that I TA that I totally want to smash and she was wearing knee highs, heeled boots, and a very very short dress today

 :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 12:30:10 PM
to give you an idea of how bad this client is this is an actual conversation I had with them:

Me: "OK so we're going to need a stable non-changing environment to be able to validate data."
Them: "We don't have that."
me: "Just create a copy of an existing environment and give only us access. That'll work."
them: "We don't have the disk space for that."
me: "You're a hard drive company."
them: "......"

Off premise IT for them is something they may want to consider...jesus.
You have no idea man.
The infrastructure meeting for installs and support for this 1 application has no less than 3 directors in it, 2 VPs and 10 other people . That's right 15 people. Weekly. To discuss 1 application which isn't business critical. Holy shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 12:31:53 PM
to give you an idea of how bad this client is this is an actual conversation I had with them:

Me: "OK so we're going to need a stable non-changing environment to be able to validate data."
Them: "We don't have that."
me: "Just create a copy of an existing environment and give only us access. That'll work."
them: "We don't have the disk space for that."
me: "You're a hard drive company."
them: "......"

Off premise IT for them is something they may want to consider...jesus.
You have no idea man.
The infrastructure meeting for installs and support for this 1 application has no less than 3 directors in it, 2 VPs and 10 other people . That's right 15 people. Weekly. To discuss 1 application which isn't business critical. Holy shit.

I imagine Microsoft Patch Tuesdays are akin to the Korean War over there, shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 12:36:48 PM
to give you an idea of how bad this client is this is an actual conversation I had with them:

Me: "OK so we're going to need a stable non-changing environment to be able to validate data."
Them: "We don't have that."
me: "Just create a copy of an existing environment and give only us access. That'll work."
them: "We don't have the disk space for that."
me: "You're a hard drive company."
them: "......"

Off premise IT for them is something they may want to consider...jesus.
You have no idea man.
The infrastructure meeting for installs and support for this 1 application has no less than 3 directors in it, 2 VPs and 10 other people . That's right 15 people. Weekly. To discuss 1 application which isn't business critical. Holy shit.

I imagine Microsoft Patch Tuesdays are akin to the Korean War over there, shit.
And CIOs think I'm crazy when they ask me what I'd do if I was in charge of their IT and I reply, "I'd demote you to a director MAYBE VP, put the COO or CFO in executive charge of IT, put everything in the cloud, and lay off most of your infrastructure and internal app development teams."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 12:39:26 PM
to give you an idea of how bad this client is this is an actual conversation I had with them:

Me: "OK so we're going to need a stable non-changing environment to be able to validate data."
Them: "We don't have that."
me: "Just create a copy of an existing environment and give only us access. That'll work."
them: "We don't have the disk space for that."
me: "You're a hard drive company."
them: "......"

Off premise IT for them is something they may want to consider...jesus.
You have no idea man.
The infrastructure meeting for installs and support for this 1 application has no less than 3 directors in it, 2 VPs and 10 other people . That's right 15 people. Weekly. To discuss 1 application which isn't business critical. Holy shit.

I imagine Microsoft Patch Tuesdays are akin to the Korean War over there, shit.
And CIOs think I'm crazy when they ask me what I'd do if I was in charge of their IT and I reply, "I'd demote you to a director MAYBE VP, put the COO or CFO in executive charge of IT, put everything in the cloud, and lay off most of your infrastructure and internal app development teams."

COO/CFO should always control IT. CIO's are a fucking joke because they never really have any power anyway.

Put the money in charge, let them understand when they spend it what they will get, go a good colocation, make sure you have 2 good networking guys in house and one infrastructure guy to manage the colo, and call it a fucking day.

Mark my words, in 10 years the only people who won't be on the cloud fully are going to be hospitals, banks, and idiots.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 24, 2014, 12:46:42 PM
I had two slices of pizza with garlic for lunch but they put a fucking shit ton of garlic on them and now every vampire in a 50 mile radius dies a little when I exhale.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 12:47:09 PM
10 years? I'd say that's the case now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 12:48:12 PM
10 years? I'd say that's the case now.

Oh no, not even close.

I have 2 colleges, 4 fortune 500's, 3 hospitals, and a goddamn tech giant that are all like "cloud?"  :kobeyuck

Put it this way, anybody who is making tires still wants me to design their own datacenters.  Seriously, datacenters...in 2014.

I usually reply with this:

www.expedient.com

you're welcome.

If I would make a meme it would be something like this

2014: Wants a datacenter  :jawalrus
2015: Complains about cost of cooling and electrical requirements  :mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 24, 2014, 12:54:07 PM
My wife is mad because I did not enjoy what she attempted to cook last night.

I believe a London Broil is probably above her skill level and should not be well done.

 :kobeyuck

the ultimate struggle: pretend you like it just enough that she doesn't get mad, but not enough that she feels like making it again
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 01:02:45 PM
Oh and to be very clear...cisco is the one putting it in their heads that they can manage their own clouds...which is utterly stupid. But cisco is all about maintaining market share while dumping bugged as fuck nexus switches on them for 250k+ a piece.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 24, 2014, 01:16:04 PM
My wife said "That's why you married me, to not listen to me and be sad when you didn't" when I did something really dumb she advised me against.  I still feel the ether today :stahp

:whew Smoked like a cigar.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 24, 2014, 01:33:04 PM
IT stuff goes over my head, as I've never really worked on it. But I have an interview coming up with a consulting firm that does a lot of IT projects. They say, "You don't need a tech/IT background; we hire people with all different backgrounds," but still. Gotta start researching so I don't come off completely clueless.

Tell them you hate juniper and that latency is more important than bandwidth and you'll be fine.

Read this, every other idiot CIO does.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 01:44:00 PM
Let me rephrase.
If you don't have a plan to get to the cloud then you're an idiot.
Sorry that's the way it is. Colleges are very reluctant, which to me I just don't understand. If there's any type of org that could really leverage the cloud colleges would be amongst the first but usually they're like "No no no! We can't do that!!"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 24, 2014, 03:03:06 PM
Had to spend my lunch break helping my uncle store his car at my place. He's flying out to Arizona for the next couple months to help his girlfriend's...medical marijuana business get up and running. To make matters worse he's in the middle of a mid life crisis. I'll post a pic once I can but yea, dude was dressed like he walked off the set of The Mack.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 24, 2014, 03:04:00 PM
Had to spend my lunch break helping my uncle store his car at my place. He's flying out to Arizona for the next couple months to help his girlfriend's...medical marijuana business get up and running. To make matters worse he's in the middle of a mid life crisis. I'll post a pic once I can but yea, dude was dressed like he walked off the set of The Mack.

Clearly you meant to post this in the Triumph thread, rite???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 24, 2014, 03:19:15 PM
A flunky at a big 4 bank is trying to tell me that they can't access shared drives to receive confidential documents I had uploaded for them.

That might be the case, but it might help to fucking tell me that ahead of time you fucking dipshit. Not everyone knows the specific access policies of every bank, nor should they.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on October 24, 2014, 04:22:55 PM
Still waiting on two paychecks... :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 24, 2014, 04:24:50 PM
I'm wating for my paycheck.  From my bank.  From my work account.  That I paid to myself.  I hate my bank so bad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 04:25:55 PM
Gotta fly to Seattle for the first week on November. I actually love Seattle but I've been working from home so much my kids are used to it and they're gonna be devastated.
 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 24, 2014, 05:04:07 PM
This report is going to be the most disappointing thing I've produced since my first OKC profile.

:dead

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 05:07:02 PM
My boss wants me to prepare a report on solar PV forecasts and their methodologies.

Problem: anything you can access for free is just prognosticator-level stuff. "We predict that continuing declines in $/MW and innovative financing programs will ensure that solar continues to grow despite the phase-out of federal subsidies, etc."

If you want anything with any real meat, you have to pay, usually multiple thousands of dollars. Navigant Research, for example, charges about $4k for their solar PV forecast. At best you can get an executive summary, but there's very little about their methodology. I have no idea what kind of forecasting techniques they're using. CAISO and CPUC are the only studies I've found so far where you can get into the statistics for free.

This report is going to be the most disappointing thing I've produced since my first OKC profile.
At the very least make it look pretty.

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/

People are willing to overlook crap reports if they look pretty.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 24, 2014, 05:09:01 PM
I worked on a project where the whole design doc was the ridiculously slick powerpoint presentation.  Told you fuck all about how the game was actually supposed to play, but the execs ate that shit up.  The game was fucking terrible.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 24, 2014, 05:24:26 PM
I'm wating for my paycheck.  From my bank.  From my work account.  That I paid to myself.  I hate my bank so bad.

I always feel kind of weird when I pay myself along with everyone else every two weeks. Like, I'm cheating or some shit.

No checks tho, Wells Fargo has direct deposit so that shit shows up the next day.

:heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on October 24, 2014, 06:48:05 PM
Was at a semi mixer/info session and had a good dialog going on with a dude before realizing I didn't know his actual position. Going with a blunt "who are you again" mid convo was not my smartest use of dialog.

Crossing one program off my list

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 24, 2014, 06:49:49 PM
My uncle as promised.
http://i.imgur.com/IGFyhg2.jpg

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 24, 2014, 06:50:32 PM
O NO
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 06:56:59 PM
The difference between my final year of grad school experience and that of many of my classmates is pretty amazing.

- Because I'm doing a dual degree, I have to take more units/year than most. 18 this quarter, and I'll need one more 20 unit quarter, either in winter or spring.
- I'm working full-time hours every Wednesday and Friday this quarter, as my internship offer was contingent on me agreeing to work through the end of December (and the extra money helps a lot)
- I don't have a post-graduation job offer locked down yet, so I'm going to recruiting events all the time
- I have a capstone project for each major, while the single degree students have one project

Lots of classmates are taking 12 units this quarter, planning how to spend their signing bonuses from the full-time job offers they've already received, and going to happy hours all the time. That life would be great.
Reminds me of my time in college. I'd take 18-20 units per quarter, many of those would be .5 unit classes for my music major which required ridiculous amounts of work. Hell, my performance class was my freaking major and if I got a B- or below I'd be summarily kicked out that was a .5 unit class and it required 5-8 hours of practice every day.  And I worked 4am-8am every day as a custodian and taught at night. I remember my non-music major classmates sweating their 12 units, living on their parents money and worried because they had a paper due that week. I was like "Bitch, I have 4 papers due on Friday one of them a 20 page paper on the importance of latin america influences on baroque music, a music dictation test tomorrow which I'm not ready for, gotta write my thesis, I have 2 concerts to play this week, 3 the week after and then my solo recital coming up in 2 weeks." Then they'd say "LOLZ Liberal arts majors."

 >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 24, 2014, 06:57:26 PM
My uncle as promised.
http://i.imgur.com/IGFyhg2.jpg

:dead
Hey, wasn't he on fat albert?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 24, 2014, 07:36:57 PM
Also, Huff could have just taken him back to his place and fucked him, then looked at his driver's license after the dude was passed out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 24, 2014, 08:57:31 PM
beat off to #gamergate tears, but couldn't cum

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 24, 2014, 09:15:30 PM
My uncle as promised.
http://i.imgur.com/IGFyhg2.jpg

:dead

Everything I'd hoped for and more. :rofl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 24, 2014, 09:31:41 PM
one more  :sabu
http://i.imgur.com/MFRfDW7l.jpg
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 24, 2014, 09:33:40 PM
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on October 24, 2014, 11:15:14 PM
Was at a semi mixer/info session and had a good dialog going on with a dude before realizing I didn't know his actual position. Going with a blunt "who are you again" mid convo was not my smartest use of dialog.

Crossing one program off my list

You had multiple better options here.


You don't say.

It's a little story about me putting my foot in my mouth. Dude laughed it off.


Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 24, 2014, 11:41:00 PM
one more  :sabu
http://i.imgur.com/MFRfDW7l.jpg

"Ho you better not be talking back or you'll get the ring hand" 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 25, 2014, 01:02:50 AM
a fuckin owl attacked me THREE TIMES walking home yesterday
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 25, 2014, 01:35:56 AM
CEO called. I'm needed at the corporate office next week. Looks like I'm leaving one week early. San Jose.
 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 25, 2014, 07:33:38 AM
a fuckin owl attacked me THREE TIMES walking home yesterday
(http://i.imgur.com/MoqEp5a.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 25, 2014, 08:15:01 AM
one more  :sabu
http://i.imgur.com/MFRfDW7l.jpg

Fresh to death.

:dead
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovmS20sc2_U
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 25, 2014, 10:01:16 AM
(http://reenied.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/flagbros3s-744x1024.jpg)

Tip    every black family has an uncle that still has clothes from this joint....
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on October 25, 2014, 01:29:58 PM
Found out today one of the biggest fuckups and dummies from my high school now makes close to $200,000 a year and just closed on a gigantic house, and is getting married to a really pretty girl in the spring.  He's 24.

 :goty :goty :goty

what the fuck am i doing with my stupid fucking life
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 25, 2014, 01:38:51 PM
Major in finance or accounting brehs
:obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on October 25, 2014, 01:51:53 PM
I would prefer castration tbh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 25, 2014, 02:15:24 PM
At 24? IIRC i-bank analysts start at around 80-90k out of undergrad. 200k would be more of a post-MBA salary including bonuses. 24 is awfully young to hit that salary on any typical career path.

Prolly has wasta.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 25, 2014, 02:26:49 PM
Found out today one of the biggest fuckups and dummies from my high school now makes close to $200,000 a year and just closed on a gigantic house, and is getting married to a really pretty girl in the spring.  He's 24.

 :goty :goty :goty

what the fuck am i doing with my stupid fucking life

I know that feeling. When I was 26, the clerk from my favorite video store had just won the Palme d’Or at Cannes while I was messing around teaching English in Japan.
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on October 25, 2014, 03:39:43 PM
he's just a marketing dude who happened to get a gigantic promotion at a relatively new company.  who knows how successful the company is, but this dude was taking molly while in bio class not 8 years ago  :-\

oh well.  I consider myself lucky because I had a job before I even graduated college and it looks as though I have a lot of room to grow there.  but I will never make that much money unless I get stock options before we sell  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 25, 2014, 05:07:13 PM
At least it's just The Cure and not your favorite band. :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 25, 2014, 08:49:53 PM
I'm a stickler about friending relatives. A few days ago I got a friend request from who I thought was my brother, so I instictively responded by sending him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha2QqQuQAi0

turns out it was my dad's new Facebook account. My brother and him have the same first name
(http://i.imgur.com/QfEBYuB.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 25, 2014, 09:06:01 PM
Holy shit PD what an L. :rofl

On topic: I bought a 3 hole punch to put my pages of photocopied tax articles in a binder and it can only punch like 3-5 pages at a time. I had probably 300 pages of articles to punch. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 25, 2014, 09:39:52 PM
Bicyclists are also fucking assholes on the road. GTFO with that 4 wide shit, you knickerbockers can see how wide the bike lane actually is. :comeon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 25, 2014, 11:15:13 PM
I was at the local game store looking at the PSOne games, and some dude in a Zelda tshirt starts bragging to some other people about how he's got every Nintendo system ever made (INCLUDING THE FAMICOM DISK SYSTEM ZOMG!) and then he starts looking through the NES carts and loudly whistling the Tetris theme. Not even a brief snip of it, but an entire loop.

:brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 25, 2014, 11:18:17 PM
:lol these last two posts. My last roommate is a dude who rides 80 miles a day, his GF who basically also lived here is one of those running-is-god lunatics, and I'm a sedentary alcoholic piece of shit who would frequently still be awake and cocked when they got up to do their dumb rides and runs at five in the fuckin morning like a couple of animals. and I'm still more well adjusted to society than those weirdos
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 25, 2014, 11:26:23 PM
how do you know he wasn't just into Tchaikovsky  :derp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 25, 2014, 11:39:29 PM
how do you know he wasn't just into Tchaikovsky  :derp

If it had been something from Swan Lake, I might have let it go.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 26, 2014, 01:17:34 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/wLW2bil.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 26, 2014, 01:51:12 AM
females :ferengi:
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 26, 2014, 01:55:42 AM
Earlier today I used guided navigation for the first time in my life and it was the most bewildering thing I've ever had happen while driving I think. Usually when I look at a map or something first I get a feel for where I'm going but I can't remember fucking anything about where I drove today other than it was annoying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 26, 2014, 02:32:04 AM
I hit on girls left and right but my dumb ass brother managed to unintentionally cock block me thrice :stahp

And last night I was cockblocked by a female friend :stahp

But when I go at it alone I tend to be quite and not on a rool like I usually am with my friends and brother, which usually sparks a laugh from whatever cute girl is in the vicinity which is enough for me to get something going.

I suck completely at this now. Whatever worked before doesn't anymore, and what works now comes with bigger obstacles.

Bro if you don't have sit there game then you are in the struggle. Deal with L's and accept V's.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 26, 2014, 02:52:57 AM
a fuckin owl attacked me THREE TIMES walking home yesterday
They watch you at your hearth, they watch you in your bed, speak not a whispered word about them, or they'll send The Talon for your head.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on October 26, 2014, 02:43:36 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/wLW2bil.jpg?1)
feels ebola man
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Post by: team filler on October 26, 2014, 06:18:32 PM
they was out of menudo, so I had to get pozolé instead  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 26, 2014, 06:23:22 PM
Been going back through Always Sunny and I keep thinking 'that guy put his dick into the hand of a 12 yearold girl'.  Kind of ruins the ultra-good guy he's trying to be in the show. :(  I guess the crime of child rape harms more than just the children.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 26, 2014, 07:07:15 PM
Ya I've had that visiting my grandparents farm.  Last time I was there was grade 3.  The house was so small from what I remembered it as. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 26, 2014, 07:13:18 PM
Been going back through Always Sunny and I keep thinking 'that guy put his dick into the hand of a 12 yearold girl'.  Kind of ruins the ultra-good guy he's trying to be in the show. :(  I guess the crime of child rape harms more than just the children.

We should start an advocacy group. For the two of us.

i have to skip some episodes of it's always sunny in philadelphia now

:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 27, 2014, 06:56:42 PM
I keep ordering Taco Bell for breakfast. :stahp

Waste half of your daily caloric intake on some of the most generic, awful fast food breakfast food y'all. :goty

(Today it was their sausage flatbread melts which despite having NO eggs or hash browns in them still clock in at a ridiculous amount of calories.)

I thought living walking distance from the Bell would be a blessing, but really it was a curse. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 27, 2014, 06:58:19 PM
Soon you'll be attractive to demi!

:phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 27, 2014, 07:01:43 PM
Nah man, I'm only going to be attractive to the kapo in my camp who won't notice me. :uguu

When I do shit like this I just dope on caffeine until I can go home and sleep off the calorie deficiency.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 27, 2014, 07:41:49 PM
Man I had an allergic reaction to something last night while cleaning my place. Struggled to breath most of the night, felt like shit at work. Man...walking out of the building after work was like getting out of prison.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 27, 2014, 11:30:22 PM
In essence have been awake since 2am this morning. After a crazy day at work (thanks again offshore team for reinforcing my opinion of you) my brain is fried and I'm ready for bed. But I can't go to bed yet. It's too early.

Also, this hotel stinks. I've stayed in hundreds of hotels. This one easily is up in the bottom 5. I mean I've stayed in places where I've been afraid for my safety but at least they tried. Here? Not at all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 27, 2014, 11:56:41 PM
I'm really lonely, feeling extremely existential, and dysphoric tonight. I'm at a bar watching mnf, and despite trying to hold conversations everyone is in their own world and I just to talk to someone and them act like they give a shit. I doubt myself more and more and I feel like I'm completely alone in this world. Pretty depressing post but I just wish there were someone to hold me sometimes. I do everything by myself. My birthday is in like a day and I'm sure im going to be spending it working, doing something I loathe to someday hopefully do the thing I love. I turn 30 next year and I feel like I have accomplished nothing. I'm so sick of the battles. why does life have to be such a battle?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 28, 2014, 12:02:39 AM
Himu I'm going to give you a big fucking hug for your 30th since you'll be out here then. :hyper
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 28, 2014, 12:20:39 AM
Himu, if you ever come out here I'll give you way more than hug.  :-*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on October 28, 2014, 12:28:26 AM
It makes me sad that this is always one of the top threads, and has so many more posts than the triumphs thread. :(

My Bore buddies deserve better.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 28, 2014, 12:29:27 AM
Your bore buddies are realists.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 28, 2014, 12:40:14 AM
Your bore buddies are realists.

Or in some cases, fatalists.

(https://drawception.com/pub/panels/2013/3-23/19B8gKCCdM-4.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on October 28, 2014, 12:42:41 AM
Another struggle: I really wanted to end my last post with the :hug emoticon, but it seems it has been stricken from the list
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 28, 2014, 12:45:00 AM
:tauntaun is "borespeak" for hug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on October 28, 2014, 01:11:42 AM
Tonight was a struggle. Tonight I am weak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=976b8TPPFJU

Tomorrow is a brand new day, though. Born anew.

:heart
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 28, 2014, 01:22:22 AM
a lot of brown people suddenly on my facebook wall.

yeah this is a struggle noracist.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 28, 2014, 01:28:30 AM
:anhuld














:phil :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 28, 2014, 01:44:05 AM
It makes me sad that this is always one of the top threads, and has so many more posts than the triumphs thread. :(

My Bore buddies deserve better.

I can't really make my triumphs funny (and not just because my triumphs consist only of things like "I didn't kill myself today"), so I don't post them as often as my struggles.

On a forum that's kind of like the Bore in origin / makeup I've posted at for way too long we have separate struggle threads for minor and major struggles, I feel like this alleviates the problem you describe since really the minor struggle thread is a heavy post thread and the major one isn't.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on October 28, 2014, 01:56:57 AM
Ate an entire box of wheat thins tonight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 28, 2014, 03:10:35 AM
SODIUM COMA!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on October 28, 2014, 06:17:55 AM
I thought drinking the cold medicine would help me fall asleep before sunrise but it's not looking good. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 28, 2014, 10:13:23 AM
Ate an entire box of wheat thins tonight.
(http://i.snack-girl.com/m/i/wheatthinscomp3_.jpg)
 :anhuld
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 28, 2014, 10:14:38 AM
I am tired as fuck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 28, 2014, 10:55:40 AM
I am tired as fuck.

Me too and I sleep like 10 hours a day all the time but its a shitty as sleep where I wake up all the time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 28, 2014, 10:57:42 AM
Ate an entire box of wheat thins tonight.
(http://i.snack-girl.com/m/i/wheatthinscomp3_.jpg)
 :anhuld
So you're saying he got his daily content of Iron?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 28, 2014, 11:01:26 AM
Perplexed by some of the sums there. Rounding, I guess?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 28, 2014, 11:46:01 AM
woke up at 5AM to my daughter covered in her own shit  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 28, 2014, 11:46:55 AM
woke up at 5AM to my daughter covered in her own shit  :-\

Been there breh. Not a good time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 28, 2014, 11:51:59 AM
still not as bad as the my son's best work. the portable crib did not survive  :lol  :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 28, 2014, 11:53:44 AM
still not as bad as the my son's best work. the portable crib did not survive  :lol  :yuck

My oldest could eat one fucking pea and shit out 2 pounds of fecal matter.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 28, 2014, 12:01:27 PM
Reading about fecal matter at noon.
:what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 28, 2014, 12:06:25 PM
Reading about fecal matter at noon.
:what
Sorry, you'll have to hold your wank until you get home.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 28, 2014, 02:03:57 PM
Reading about fecal matter at noon.
:what
Sorry, you'll have to hold your wank until you get home.
:rofl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 28, 2014, 03:10:05 PM
Ultra spicy General Tso's chicken  :lawd

Knowing the havock this is going to wreak on my intestine  :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 28, 2014, 03:11:08 PM
Ultra spicy General Tso's chicken  :lawd

Knowing the havock this is going to wreak on my intestine  :kobeyuck

I had Chinese from essentially the MSG Hut....gonna be nothin' but explosions come 6am.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 28, 2014, 06:58:47 PM
Two hour phone conference across one “assistance company” and four insurance companies, trying to figure out who isn’t communicating with whom, playing connect the dots across a cloud of interconnected partner companies... and the hospital which is holding my stepfather’s body ransom, now three days gone, over money they were guaranteed six days ago.

Yeah, today can go fuck itself right in the ass.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on October 28, 2014, 08:22:26 PM
Jesus that's horrible man!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 28, 2014, 08:59:55 PM
wtf people in the office across from the room I work in are having a loud conversation/argument about their love lives, I don't need this, if you're going to have loud inappropriate conversations at work at least close the fucking office door >:(



Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 28, 2014, 09:05:53 PM
Their love love life, or their looove love life?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 28, 2014, 09:15:04 PM
dude has strong opinions about the relative merits of using tinder and okcupid vs. making out with strangers in clubs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 28, 2014, 09:20:54 PM
wtf people in the office across from the room I work in are having a loud conversation/argument about their love lives, I don't need this, if you're going to have loud inappropriate conversations at work at least close the fucking office door >:(
Dude, I could write several books about this.
One of the better stories I remember I had been at client for like 2 days it was december and they put me in a cubicle tucked away in a corner where there was no one else.
Well I guess some women had taken to just using some of those cubicles as their place for private conversations. They couldn't see that I was in a cubicle. It was my second day and one lady says "Look I don't care what I get for christmas so long as it is a big fat teen cock." I tried to shrink down as small as possible.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eric P on October 28, 2014, 09:24:54 PM
read the gamergate thread
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 28, 2014, 09:35:06 PM
The ambiguities of the English language. :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 29, 2014, 12:25:24 AM
Told you he gay.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 29, 2014, 12:28:12 AM
i'm not gay and you can tag in bb
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 29, 2014, 12:35:56 AM
just to be clear i mean with me, not the wife. if it isn't emotional it's really no different than contact sports.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 29, 2014, 12:46:53 AM
:dead

(different friend)
Just how many black gay friends do you have?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 29, 2014, 01:00:51 AM
"Oh no Esch, I mean SHE tags out."  :-*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 29, 2014, 01:10:59 AM
get a cropped eye photo and send to pd for analysis
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 29, 2014, 01:34:06 AM
:dead

(different friend)
Just how many black gay friends do you have?

First person perspective of all of Esch's black friends...

(http://i.imgur.com/vgxuZGu.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on October 29, 2014, 01:35:02 AM
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 29, 2014, 01:35:03 AM
the classic bisex blur
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 29, 2014, 01:41:33 AM
You're right. It wasn't the right tinge. How about now?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 29, 2014, 01:42:14 AM
It was my second day and one lady says "Look I don't care what I get for christmas so long as it is a big fat teen cock." I tried to shrink down as small as possible.

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 29, 2014, 01:45:35 AM
You're right. It wasn't the right tinge. How about now?
much better, you can clearly see how the desire for the subject has brought the lens out of pictorial focus, and replaced it with an sexually-charged canvas of lines and tones.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on October 29, 2014, 01:56:40 AM
Just wrote a tldr post but it's getting late and I really don't want to unpack all this shit.

I'll just sum it all up with this:
(http://i.imgur.com/bAznu8I.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 29, 2014, 02:11:12 AM
i'm in a garage right now, and it's pouring pretty bad outside. my house is about 100 feet away, and i kinda want to chill for a minute and see if it stops, cuz i don't wanna get wet :brazilcry

and i only have 25% battery :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 29, 2014, 02:21:34 AM
Caught up with the Bore gamergate thread

I regret it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on October 29, 2014, 02:28:50 AM
I'm struggling to fight an unknown infection('s) and my stupid Target pharmacy damn near killed me with pseudoephedrine. I was rushed to the local ER this morning because they mislabeled my meds. I'm feeling better now but they had to flush my system out and gave me some plasma.

I'm eagerly awaiting my panels so the doctor can figure out what's going on. They think I have kidney, gallbladder, and ear/nose/throat infections. Doctor says that its treatable stuff.

I'm trying to relax and fight off the fever I got. I'm on antibiotics and steroids with some nasal and ear drops. I'm pretty miserable, but I just have to keep calm and rest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on October 29, 2014, 02:33:43 AM
It's really hard to watch your own back.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 29, 2014, 11:21:24 AM
They're telling you to get a Go-Pro.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 29, 2014, 11:34:19 AM
I woke up at 4am to urinate. Peed on my right big toe. (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 29, 2014, 11:47:00 AM
Time to sit down. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 29, 2014, 12:25:46 PM
Join us in the "I'm old and don't want to piss on my feet" 4am sitters club

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 29, 2014, 01:40:32 PM
It was the first time it's happened out of maybe 20,000 urinations. I like my chances for next time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 29, 2014, 03:29:19 PM
i chose to consume 16oz of mr. pibb zero

all the Ls

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 29, 2014, 03:49:08 PM
It's finally come to this. (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)

I'm going to have to turn the light on next time, brehs. (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 29, 2014, 04:29:11 PM
It's finally come to this. (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)

I'm going to have to turn the light on next time, brehs. (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)
You won't if you sit down. :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 29, 2014, 04:31:54 PM
one time i took one of those early morning pissshits with a raging hardon and i sorta dozed off and took my hand off my member and accidentally peed all over myself and my pajamas (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)

it wasnt that bad cause i was omw to school and hopped in the shower but still (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/l9oVMRQ.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on October 29, 2014, 04:32:38 PM
If you're sitting won't your saggy old bowls dip into the water?  ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 29, 2014, 04:50:04 PM
shout outs to Shaka for the assist. I've been holding that for a week, waiting for an L.  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 29, 2014, 04:53:42 PM
Nah that pic of you eating Korean food was just so perfect for a larry holmes emote, I had to ask the god for a connect. It almost looks like you have a flat top without the photoshop.

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 29, 2014, 05:09:54 PM
If you're sitting won't your saggy old bowls dip into the water?  ???
If they're hanging that low already you should probably have a catheter anyway.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 29, 2014, 05:14:33 PM
Two hour phone conference across one “assistance company” and four insurance companies, trying to figure out who isn’t communicating with whom, playing connect the dots across a cloud of interconnected partner companies... and the hospital which is holding my stepfather’s body ransom, now three days gone, over money they were guaranteed six days ago.

Yeah, today can go fuck itself right in the ass.

Jesus that's horrible man!

I spent about half of my day dealing with it again today. Got a call a few moments ago, and it sounds like the hospital insurance people dropped the ball at some point.
1) Pre-guarantee today, this morning, I specifically asked if this meant I could call the funeral home. They said no, but the insurance company stated clearly now, yes, “pre-guarantee” states that the patient will be paid for, so they could have released the body.
2) From the moment their assistance company was engaged, contractually there is nothing stating the hospital can hold a body hostage against insurance payments, that’s not a right they have, so they were wrong from the outset.
3) Full guarantee arrived tonight at 19:00, half an hour after I sicc’d the hounds on them; they didn’t call to advise that it had come through, though they knew I was waiting on it.

Just, seriously, I’m happy it’s over, but if I was litigious, this would be lawsuit time over the suffering they’ve cause my mom and I while we wait for them while they prove they can't find their asses with both hands and a flashlight.

Update: I wrote the above on the heels of finishing a call with the insurance agencies, and 10 minutes later, here at 23:20 in Turkey, the hospital called to let me know they’ve received confirmation from insurance, and have also called the funeral home for me so my stepfather will be moved tomorrow morning.

THANK GOD.

Jesus, what a week.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 29, 2014, 05:58:32 PM
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 29, 2014, 09:53:35 PM
So there was someone online that had a cat that kept getting attacked by their other cat and so all the cat did was hide all day. We've had cats before so we figured we'd take him so he could have a better life than just hiding all day. But it's been quite a while and the cat is still terrified. Like it's seriously traumatized. It wont ever come out of its hiding place. I'm starting to think that maybe I should take him to the humane society so they can rehabilitate it because this is way beyond anything we've dealt with and they'll have a less chaotic environment than my house with kids. We've had nervous cats before and been able to deal with them, but this kitty is on a whole other level.  It's getting to the point where he could have a life of fear and hiding in my house or a chance of something better if someone can rehabilitate him. :(

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on October 29, 2014, 10:20:56 PM
I'm a Knicks fan. (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rahxephon91 on October 29, 2014, 10:50:43 PM
Was hoping to just get some ok seasonal work this xmas. I always do the damn internet applications for pretty much all the retail stores around here. Never get called back. Whatever.

I got one though from Target and they actually called me in for an interview. Everything went really well. Lady even said "welcome to the team". To me that sounds like you got the job. I also don't remember the lady doing the interview ever saying anything about a drug test. Nope, I remember something about they may ask for a drug test if you are brought on beyond seasonal. Yet I guess that could have meant "another drug test".

Anyway, they did give me a peace of paper. I did'nt read it. Dumb mistake on my part. I get home and then look at it and I guess it was a paper for a scheduled drug test. I call the day of the interview and the next day. The interviewer is gone. Read up online that yes they do have a drug test and it has to be done 24 hours after being offered the job. Well that window has passed.

Well I guess I'm fucked for this xmas.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on October 29, 2014, 10:57:28 PM
I have the trots so bad it feels like I'm peeing rubbing alcohol out of my butthole :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on October 29, 2014, 11:11:46 PM
So there was someone online that had a cat that kept getting attacked by their other cat and so all the cat did was hide all day. We've had cats before so we figured we'd take him so he could have a better life than just hiding all day. But it's been quite a while and the cat is still terrified. Like it's seriously traumatized. It wont ever come out of its hiding place. I'm starting to think that maybe I should take him to the humane society so they can rehabilitate it because this is way beyond anything we've dealt with and they'll have a less chaotic environment than my house with kids. We've had nervous cats before and been able to deal with them, but this kitty is on a whole other level.  It's getting to the point where he could have a life of fear and hiding in my house or a chance of something better if someone can rehabilitate him. :(



i have a cat just like this!

i hate that fuckin thing
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 30, 2014, 12:51:23 AM
one time i took one of those early morning pissshits with a raging hardon and i sorta dozed off and took my hand off my member and accidentally peed all over myself and my pajamas (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)

it wasnt that bad cause i was omw to school and hopped in the shower but still (http://i.imgur.com/kKoujSY.png)

I've been there  :snoop

Still better than taking a piss and having the stream split in 2 different directions for about 2-3 seconds (read: not in the toilet)  >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 30, 2014, 10:21:25 AM
Our dog woke up a few days ago with her eye half-closed.  Turns out she somehow got a light scratch on her eye.  The vet is optimistic she'll be fine (and after a day her eye was opened all the way again) and the dog is acting normal, so no worries about that.

The struggle here is getting the medicine in her eye.  It's not eye drops, but instead this slow-oozing gel.  This dog is smart and she knows when it's coming- the instant you pick up the bottle, she runs away or thrashes her head around if we pick her up.  So we've been trying to get the medicine in -and failing- since Wednesday.  For some reason she will let my mother do this, so every night now my parents have been coming over or we meet them to get the medicine in.  They are coming by at 11:00 PM tonight to do it.   :-\

The dog's eye is now fully-healed!  No more eye medicine! 
 :jawalrus

But now she needs ear medicine for two weeks.
 :dead

At least that's easy to apply.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 30, 2014, 10:25:39 AM
Stepped in a big pile of dog shit last night.  Saw a guy with a huge dog hurriedly-walking in the opposite direction when this happened.  The best part is that this was right in front of a dog poop baggy/trash station.  Lazy mother fucker couldn't pick up the crap and throw it out.   :-\  Wish I knew who he was; the apartment office encourages these people to be reported and they get fined for it.   :punch

This shit was rancid...even for shit.  Cleaned it off using an old toothbrush, hot water, soap, and some rubbing alcohol.   Still better than the location (same complex) we were at up until earlier this year-- the grassy areas there were literal dog poop minefields.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 30, 2014, 10:43:11 AM
I need a co-supervisor for a Ph.D. and I sent out a bunch of emails to potential supervisors and they all ignored them.

Very depressed over this.  Fuck. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on October 30, 2014, 11:03:18 AM
Scrollwheel on my nearly 10 years old MX 510 broke, looks like I finally have to get a new mouse.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 30, 2014, 11:42:32 AM
I need a co-supervisor for a Ph.D. and I sent out a bunch of emails to potential supervisors and they all ignored them.

Very depressed over this.  Fuck.
Go corner them in their office when they want to be somewhere. It's the only way.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 30, 2014, 11:45:40 AM
Overheard a CEO of a big-ish local company joke that if he wasn't a CEO he might consider going to a Halloween party as Ray Rice.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on October 30, 2014, 11:48:11 AM
Ya that is the next plan, which sucks.  Its also not like I'm applying to get into the grad program; I'm guaranteed to get in, with funding, so long as I have an eligible supervisor.

 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 30, 2014, 11:52:12 AM
Overheard a CEO of a big-ish local company joke that if he wasn't a CEO he might consider going to a Halloween party as Ray Rice.

So instead he's going as Dick Cass?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on October 30, 2014, 11:59:37 AM
Drank too much. Should get out of bed in an hour or two maybe. Maybe I should just stay here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 30, 2014, 12:04:48 PM
Ya that is the next plan, which sucks. 
I talked to one guy about being on my committee (not even adviser/main dude, just one of the extras) and he said that'd be great and to e-mail him to remind him so he could set an appointment to talk to me.

He never responded to the e-mail. So I talked to him again and he told me he didn't get it and to send another one.

I asked somebody else even though they weren't as "good" as this guy in terms of lining up with my work.

Did I mention that the first guy was the MA Program Director and this was how he treated everything? Took him over a year to find out if a course could be replaced for people who were in a sort of limbo between two sets of required courses due to program changes. The Chair was like "what? Of course, why would we make people take effectively the same course three times?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on October 30, 2014, 12:54:35 PM
I got my property tax bill today and it's due on the 1st of November
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on October 30, 2014, 01:44:31 PM
MacBooks keyboard is completely unresponsive, applecare expired less than a month ago, and I live a fucking hour drive away from a mac store  :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 30, 2014, 02:04:30 PM
I got my property tax bill today and it's due on the 1st of November

They are STILL doing that shit?

 :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 30, 2014, 03:54:40 PM
Last night I ordered whiskey neat with a splash of water, I saw my server write this down, and I was brought whiskey on the rocks. :goty

Why is it that I order the simplest things and they get fucked up or I have to translate what I want into "fucking idiot" (see: Stolichnaya --> Stoli)? I should just start ordering the most fuckstupid cocktails.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 30, 2014, 06:09:20 PM
Listening to someone from the South #struggle to say Anaheim repeatedly while trying to schedule something on the phone.

Asshole, the Ducks are still the Anaheim Ducks, you got no excuse. :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 30, 2014, 06:33:01 PM
Where would he stumble? Part of me wants it to be the second a. :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 30, 2014, 06:35:01 PM
They kept saying "Ana Him." :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on October 30, 2014, 06:39:58 PM
They kept saying "Ana Him." :snoop
Aw, boring.

Anna's Hymn is going to be it's post apocalyptic name.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 30, 2014, 07:47:06 PM
I just realized I'm the only non-Indian in the whole office.
(at least we're all brown)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 30, 2014, 07:50:54 PM
Anna's Hymn is going to be it's post apocalyptic name.

I like this, I'll have to remember it when I'm leading a marauding gang of degenerates in assless chaps across the irradiated / global warming wasteland.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on October 30, 2014, 09:56:59 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/jlx166y.jpg)

my son has discovered "the cool bzzt sound" you can produce when combining metal and electrical outlets. fortunately (unfortunately?) he was not zapped in the process. :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 31, 2014, 12:32:40 AM
I made the mistake of putting on a classical guitar station on my drive back home.

I have such a tortured relationship with the classical guitar. Really, I believe that there's no other instrument that is as personal, intimate or versatile as the classical guitar. There's no bow, no keys, no amp, no wind, no reed, nothing. It's just you and six strings.  And because of that with the right piece of music you can delve so much deeper into emotion than any other way. I mean really performing the masterpieces like Tedesco's Platero y Yo, or Piazolla's 5 pieces, or some of Brouwer's masterpieces will literally change your life as you can really plumb the depths of music and emotion with them. :lawd

And the great thing about it is that most people have never even heard of them.  So you can introduce them to it. But for every masterpiece there's mountains of crap pieces that the more you learn about music the more you see that they're really just disposable and really not very good. Like 90% of the stuff out there for the classical guitar is like that. Another 5% are masterpieces but ones you've heard so much you just sorta roll your eyes every time you hear it, like how most pianists roll their eyes at the moonlight sonata, yeah, it's a beautiful piece but it's been done to death. So really you have only 5% of the stuff that's worth listening to/playing out of an already tiny repetoire. It's sorta like having a girl you once loved that is beautiful and intelligent then spend almost her entire time doing meth.

 :goty2

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on October 31, 2014, 08:47:38 AM
Finger picking and nylon strings can turn enjoyment into a real chore.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 31, 2014, 11:07:21 AM
Asked a client how things went with an intern of ours, who did some basic things for him. He said "it was horrible but fun at the same time. She had all this leather out and was smacking me back and forth....just kidding, she was great. Cute girl." She was in the room and overheard this btw.

After he left I apologized, and said I assumed he'd just say "she was great" because I know for a fact that she did her job well in this case. It looked like she wanted to cry but instead she just said "I know it's not your fault. Seems like no matter what I say or do..." Then she excused herself and left.
:fbm

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on October 31, 2014, 11:37:33 AM
Asked a client how things went with an intern of ours, who did some basic things for him. He said "it was horrible but fun at the same time. She had all this leather out and was smacking me back and forth....just kidding, she was great. Cute girl." She was in the room and overheard this btw.

After he left I apologized, and said I assumed he'd just say "she was great" because I know for a fact that she did her job well in this case. It looked like she wanted to cry but instead she just said "I know it's not your fault. Seems like no matter what I say or do..." Then she excused herself and left.
:fbm
When will we live in a world where this struggle to preserve ethics in gaming journalism is no longer needed?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 31, 2014, 12:31:04 PM
Asked a client how things went with an intern of ours, who did some basic things for him. He said "it was horrible but fun at the same time. She had all this leather out and was smacking me back and forth....just kidding, she was great. Cute girl." She was in the room and overheard this btw.

After he left I apologized, and said I assumed he'd just say "she was great" because I know for a fact that she did her job well in this case. It looked like she wanted to cry but instead she just said "I know it's not your fault. Seems like no matter what I say or do..." Then she excused herself and left.
:fbm
What industry is this in? It doesn't probably matter. I'm betting it's either the sales or marketing department.
I once had a sales client get on his needs and pretend to fellate me in front of everyone when I handed him the invoice.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: octopushover on October 31, 2014, 01:08:35 PM
people at work evidently don't know The Thin White Duke.  :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 31, 2014, 01:14:00 PM
I made the mistake of putting on a classical guitar station on my drive back home.

I have such a tortured relationship with the classical guitar. Really, I believe that there's no other instrument that is as personal, intimate or versatile as the classical guitar. There's no bow, no keys, no amp, no wind, no reed, nothing. It's just you and six strings.  And because of that with the right piece of music you can delve so much deeper into emotion than any other way. I mean really performing the masterpieces like Tedesco's Platero y Yo, or Piazolla's 5 pieces, or some of Brouwer's masterpieces will literally change your life as you can really plumb the depths of music and emotion with them. :lawd

And the great thing about it is that most people have never even heard of them.  So you can introduce them to it. But for every masterpiece there's mountains of crap pieces that the more you learn about music the more you see that they're really just disposable and really not very good. Like 90% of the stuff out there for the classical guitar is like that. Another 5% are masterpieces but ones you've heard so much you just sorta roll your eyes every time you hear it, like how most pianists roll their eyes at the moonlight sonata, yeah, it's a beautiful piece but it's been done to death. So really you have only 5% of the stuff that's worth listening to/playing out of an already tiny repetoire. It's sorta like having a girl you once loved that is beautiful and intelligent then spend almost her entire time doing meth.

 :goty2

What's the complaint, exactly? Isn't there plenty of music of this type? The good shit is out there, it's just very difficult to find.
Mainly that most of the stuff is crap and the good shit is out there but really rare.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 31, 2014, 02:36:30 PM
Asked a client how things went with an intern of ours, who did some basic things for him. He said "it was horrible but fun at the same time. She had all this leather out and was smacking me back and forth....just kidding, she was great. Cute girl." She was in the room and overheard this btw.

After he left I apologized, and said I assumed he'd just say "she was great" because I know for a fact that she did her job well in this case. It looked like she wanted to cry but instead she just said "I know it's not your fault. Seems like no matter what I say or do..." Then she excused herself and left.
:fbm
What industry is this in? It doesn't probably matter. I'm betting it's either the sales or marketing department.
I once had a sales client get on his needs and pretend to fellate me in front of everyone when I handed him the invoice.

Accounting/finance.

We've had a few cases of stuff like this with employees, but I've seen it more with clients. For instance we have a Halloween party tonight and during the build up there was a guy in the office talking rather loudly about how he couldn't wait to see [insert names] in hot skimpy costumes. I'm not even going to the party, and might end up chilling with another chick I work with.

As I said in the gaf thread, it's amazing how professional and decent you can look by simply not being a dumbass.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 31, 2014, 03:24:01 PM
Stepped in a big pile of dog shit last night.  Saw a guy with a huge dog hurriedly-walking in the opposite direction when this happened.  The best part is that this was right in front of a dog poop baggy/trash station.  Lazy mother fucker couldn't pick up the crap and throw it out.   :-\  Wish I knew who he was; the apartment office encourages these people to be reported and they get fined for it.   :punch

This shit was rancid...even for shit.  Cleaned it off using an old toothbrush, hot water, soap, and some rubbing alcohol.   Still better than the location (same complex) we were at up until earlier this year-- the grassy areas there were literal dog poop minefields.

This mother fucker has turned the entire surrounding area into a poop-infested turd field.   :-\  Narrowly-avoided another shit-mine last night.  I want to find out where he lives, then scoop up all the poop and dump it outside his door.  :punch
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 31, 2014, 04:11:44 PM
Asked a client how things went with an intern of ours, who did some basic things for him. He said "it was horrible but fun at the same time. She had all this leather out and was smacking me back and forth....just kidding, she was great. Cute girl." She was in the room and overheard this btw.

After he left I apologized, and said I assumed he'd just say "she was great" because I know for a fact that she did her job well in this case. It looked like she wanted to cry but instead she just said "I know it's not your fault. Seems like no matter what I say or do..." Then she excused herself and left.
:fbm
What industry is this in? It doesn't probably matter. I'm betting it's either the sales or marketing department.
I once had a sales client get on his needs and pretend to fellate me in front of everyone when I handed him the invoice.

Accounting/finance.

We've had a few cases of stuff like this with employees, but I've seen it more with clients. For instance we have a Halloween party tonight and during the build up there was a guy in the office talking rather loudly about how he couldn't wait to see [insert names] in hot skimpy costumes. I'm not even going to the party, and might end up chilling with another chick I work with.

As I said in the gaf thread, it's amazing how professional and decent you can look by simply not being a dumbass.
I am in utter shock. I've worked with tons of accountants and finance people and have never found a lech in them. Tons of racists but no creeps or anything. I was willing to be dollars to donuts it'd be sales and marketing. Wow dude. That's seriously messed up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 31, 2014, 04:12:56 PM
Stepped in a big pile of dog shit last night.  Saw a guy with a huge dog hurriedly-walking in the opposite direction when this happened.  The best part is that this was right in front of a dog poop baggy/trash station.  Lazy mother fucker couldn't pick up the crap and throw it out.   :-\  Wish I knew who he was; the apartment office encourages these people to be reported and they get fined for it.   :punch

This shit was rancid...even for shit.  Cleaned it off using an old toothbrush, hot water, soap, and some rubbing alcohol.   Still better than the location (same complex) we were at up until earlier this year-- the grassy areas there were literal dog poop minefields.

This mother fucker has turned the entire surrounding area into a poop-infested turd field.   :-\  Narrowly-avoided another shit-mine last night.  I want to find out where he lives, then scoop up all the poop and dump it outside his door.  :punch
Don't get your hands dirty scooping up poop. Just give him your own. Sheesh man. Are you weird or something?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on October 31, 2014, 04:18:41 PM
Have seen/heard some of the dumbest shit where I am.  It's as if people think they're in high school and not working for a living.  Aside from people saying stupid shit, one guy here started messing with a co-worker in ways I could not believe.  He hooked up a wireless mouse to the guy's PC and would move the cursor around while he was helping clients, and then later on proceeded to wrap the guy's PC/monitor/most of his desk up in saran wrap.  This was to get 'revenge' because the other guy apparently threw a little bit of water on him or something.  Amazingly, the guy doing this ended up getting promoted despite his shenanigans, only to quit shortly thereafter.  People also played this stupid 'game' where the goal was put as many post-it notes as possible all over other people's desks.  SMH.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on October 31, 2014, 04:19:50 PM
Trying to book our tickets home from Turkey to Seattle, lodging on arrival, and rental car. Mom keeps interrupting with non-Internet advice and anecdotes.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 31, 2014, 04:20:26 PM
Asked a client how things went with an intern of ours, who did some basic things for him. He said "it was horrible but fun at the same time. She had all this leather out and was smacking me back and forth....just kidding, she was great. Cute girl." She was in the room and overheard this btw.

After he left I apologized, and said I assumed he'd just say "she was great" because I know for a fact that she did her job well in this case. It looked like she wanted to cry but instead she just said "I know it's not your fault. Seems like no matter what I say or do..." Then she excused herself and left.
:fbm
What industry is this in? It doesn't probably matter. I'm betting it's either the sales or marketing department.
I once had a sales client get on his needs and pretend to fellate me in front of everyone when I handed him the invoice.

Accounting/finance.

We've had a few cases of stuff like this with employees, but I've seen it more with clients. For instance we have a Halloween party tonight and during the build up there was a guy in the office talking rather loudly about how he couldn't wait to see [insert names] in hot skimpy costumes. I'm not even going to the party, and might end up chilling with another chick I work with.

As I said in the gaf thread, it's amazing how professional and decent you can look by simply not being a dumbass.
I am in utter shock. I've worked with tons of accountants and finance people and have never found a lech in them. Tons of racists but no creeps or anything. I was willing to be dollars to donuts it'd be sales and marketing. Wow dude. That's seriously messed up.

In my experience sales and marketing is the exact opposite usually, simply because there are more women at every level. Whereas typically the finance/accounting people I run across are men, and often younger now of days. As I said though more often than not it's the clients who are pieces of shit, and there's not much we can do about that, if anything.

Dunno, I've seen some crazy stuff that I didn't expect to see in a professional setting, but part of that may have been due to me being more sheltered than most. The bad thing about all of this is that I can definitely see myself getting a management nod, given my demeanor, and I really don't want to deal with that shit. I don't even like being team lead on stuff. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 31, 2014, 06:59:04 PM
I only encounter racism and ableism in my corner of the accounting world. :yeshrug

spoiler (click to show/hide)
A lot most of my clients are women. :hitler
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 31, 2014, 07:05:31 PM
I'm about to put on my costume, but hands both are occupied by accessories necessary to complete the outfit so I can't take a selfie right away. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 31, 2014, 07:07:24 PM
Edit: My struggle is so real the board decided to duplicate it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 31, 2014, 07:25:44 PM
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on October 31, 2014, 09:22:23 PM
When we hang next month I'll get you hooked again. I've already knocked one friend off the wagon. :smug

*avatar quote*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2014, 09:26:35 PM
I played Sunset Overdrive for an hour and then five hours thinking of inventive ways to carve people.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2014, 09:36:59 PM
I played Sunset Overdrive for an hour and then five hours thinking of inventive ways to carve people.

What was the message you got when you were demodded?

Quote
I'm not sure what your intentions were with this post or what your state of mind was at the time, and I'm pretty concerned. Is everything cool?

In terms of how it represents NeoGAF, I hope it's obvious that it's not something that can be reasonably associated with the site on any level, so I have to remove your moderator status. Hope you understand.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on October 31, 2014, 09:45:25 PM
Yeah.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 31, 2014, 09:46:53 PM
That's Lore, concerned about how the website is being represented by its administrative staff. Gotta love the dedication and high standards.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on October 31, 2014, 10:57:16 PM
Wait, is the pedo understander guy still a mod?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on October 31, 2014, 11:04:28 PM
Opiate? Lore just needs to send him in for maintenance.

Robots with artificial intelligence need their logic core's tweaked every now and then.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: octopushover on November 01, 2014, 12:01:27 AM
Evilore worried about how the administration makes NeoGAF look  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 01, 2014, 04:28:20 AM
Just took possibly the biggest punch to the gut I've taken so far while recruiting. Jesus, I'm going to need a drink tonight.

Spoilering the story so it doesn't shit up the page.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Found out I wasn't invited to interview with a low-tier firm that I was almost certain I'd get. They had reached out to me in the spring about interning there over the summer, and I had very positive conversations with four people in the company. They're looking to expand their Los Angeles office, and it seemed like an awesome fit.

I'm thinking back to where I flubbed it... there is one definite foot-in-mouth moment I can remember from the conversation I had with their recruiters last week. Not sure if that's what did me in or not. I thought it had actually gone over fine, but maybe it didn't.

Fuck I need a drink.
[close]

It probably wasn’t you. It was probably something on their end. Don’t fret, and try not to assume it’s always on you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 01, 2014, 10:54:40 AM
9:45 AM: "Let's go out for breakfast!"

10:54 AM: Still waiting for her to finish "throwing on some clothes."

 :neogaf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 01, 2014, 11:33:10 AM
9:45 AM: "Let's go out for breakfast!"

10:54 AM: Still waiting for her to finish "throwing on some clothes."

 :neogaf
i know this struggle all too well  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 01, 2014, 11:34:33 AM
11:33 AM: "OK, I'm ready."

:dead

Screw getting breakfast now.  Getting sushi.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 01, 2014, 11:40:37 AM
9:45 AM: "Let's go out for breakfast!"

10:54 AM: Still waiting for her to finish "throwing on some clothes."

 :neogaf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LGEiIL1__s
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 01, 2014, 11:40:42 AM
did you get the 'hold up shit to my body that looks fine but nah i think i'm gonna go ahead and dig out a blouse that needs to be ironed and hey since i have to finish fixing my hair (a second time because i didn't like how it looked the first time) do you mind ironing this for me'?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on November 01, 2014, 11:42:12 AM
Mega hungover from halloween; have to get ready/drive to a wedding. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 01, 2014, 11:52:58 AM
took twice the recommended dosage of cyclobenzaprine and slept for 14 hours :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 01, 2014, 12:03:28 PM
11:33 AM: "OK, I'm ready."

:dead

Screw getting breakfast now.  Getting sushi.

The triumph thread is another thread. :ufup

e: On a related note, having to text a liaison I'm now utterly bored by to perpetuate the pretense of interest this morning because I make bad life decisions.

Speaking of bad life decisions, I'm going to a party in South LA tonight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 01, 2014, 12:44:35 PM
One of the potential co-supervisors just replied for a meeting - after 3 weeks and 3 emails on my part.  At least I'll get a meeting now!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 01, 2014, 01:06:21 PM
did you get the 'hold up shit to my body that looks fine but nah i think i'm gonna go ahead and dig out a blouse that needs to be ironed and hey since i have to finish fixing my hair (a second time because i didn't like how it looked the first time) do you mind ironing this for me'?

Yeah, pretty much.   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on November 01, 2014, 01:36:51 PM
took twice the recommended dosage of cyclobenzaprine and slept for 14 hours :dead

Sounds like a triumph. :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 01, 2014, 02:05:47 PM
After a 45 minute phone call with my mom’s CC company to authorize getting our flight home charged to her card despite overages caused by hospital bills, the travel agency was unable to keep the booking, and are now trying to find us entirely new flights.

FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 01, 2014, 02:15:39 PM
took twice the recommended dosage of cyclobenzaprine and slept for 14 hours :dead

Sounds like a triumph. :larry

well, missed my daughter's halloween excursion   :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 01, 2014, 06:56:51 PM
https://tickets.peacecenter.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=BookofMormon&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

Goddamnit! All sold out.  :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on November 01, 2014, 08:30:17 PM
I woke up at 2ish and I'm probably going back to bed again soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 01, 2014, 09:05:47 PM
Spent quite a bit of time doing leaves outside. Ran out of bags and said fuck it...I have a few piles left but I'm not going out there again until next weekend. I hate raking leaves brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 01, 2014, 10:35:48 PM
https://tickets.peacecenter.org/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=BookofMormon&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

Goddamnit! All sold out.  :goty
Don't worry  I'll tell the spoiler:

The Book of Mormon isn't true.

.....
....

....


 :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 01, 2014, 10:46:34 PM
Spent quite a bit of time doing leaves outside. Ran out of bags and said fuck it...I have a few piles left but I'm not going out there again until next weekend. I hate raking leaves brehs.
I just blew them into two big lines. Then it was too cold for me to bother mowing over them. Maybe some giant will snort them.

I assume in the morning they'll have blown all over the place and new ones will have joined them, and I'll use that as an excuse to not do anything about them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 02, 2014, 03:59:54 AM
No other tickets were available to leave Turkey, so my Mom and I are both in Antalya for one more day, having already said tear-wrenching goodbyes to all the locals who supported her for the THREE WEEKS we’ve been here.

Today when we go out, we’ll both wear a burqa to disguise ourselves, since we’re supposed to be gone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 02, 2014, 09:18:50 AM
jerked off for the first time in about 2 months, wish I had kept my streak going  :goty2

also feeling the effects of the flu mist I got on friday  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 02, 2014, 09:31:05 AM
Daylight savings has me waiting an extra hour for football :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: octopushover on November 02, 2014, 09:38:19 AM
David's Tea Advent Calendars sold out the day they arrived.  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 02, 2014, 12:58:20 PM
Neither my friend or I planned ahead before going out last night :ufup which is to say neither of us checked to see how many cigarettes we had before we were on the web of freeways that define the Southland. "It's alright," I joked, "we'll stop at a liquor store before we get to the party and grab some." (We weren't going to a party in a nice part of LA.) The response I received, of course, was :comeon.

So we're nearing our final destination when what should happen to pop up along the road? A liquor store. What does my hardened smoker (that's my fault BTW) friend do? Make a sudden turn into the liquor store parking lot. :beli

My friend walks up to the counter and orders a pack of 27s. The person at the register looks at them like :what and asks what those are.

It was around this time that I realized we'd made a horrible mistake. :ufup

My friend then tries to explain what 27s are. :snoop After this fails miserably I try and salvage this debacle by suggesting they show the person at the register the pack of 27s they already have but apparently there are other varieties of Marlboro that have a gold/copper packaging so that didn't work either. :snoop My friend got so flustered that they just stepped away from the counter and left me to the wolves. :brazilcry

The only cigarettes I could actually see from the counter were Newports and I wasn't about to compound the :snoop that had already occurred so I sheepishly asked for a pack of Newports and the person at the register went from Lost in Translation to market expert and started asking me all these preference questions I was completely unprepared to answer. :holeup I fumbled my way through 20 questions in perhaps the caciest moment of my fucking cac life :snoop and managed to complete a sale. :rejoice

My friend then walks up and asks for a pack of Reds. :beli (At least no translation was necessary for this choice.)

As if taking this L wasn't bad enough, I had to take more Newport-related Ls at the actual party.

-A person who is not a cac saw me pull the pack out of my shirt pocket when I was fishing for something else and asked me, "So, how do you like Newports? :hitler"
-When we'd go out for a smoke some knucklehead would always pop out after a few minutes and ask to bum a cigarette off of one of us. We would always offer them a choice between Reds or Newports and every single person would go for the Reds.

The moral of the story? Don't smoke. Buy your fucking cigarettes before you go out for the night. Be prepared. :american
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 03, 2014, 01:11:59 AM
Realizing every Sunday night that no matter how much cool or productive shit I do on the weekend I still have to walk into the unrelenting hell that is my life on Monday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 03, 2014, 02:04:40 AM
The rational side of me doesn't believe in luck but really there's just so much evidence that I have bad luck that I can't overlook. I've been on over 2 dozen flights so far this year, and out of all those flights only 3 were ones where the person next to me wasn't in my way in some way. There was an old lady, another consultant, and a preteen kid. 3 flights out of over 2 dozen flights. Was flying into Seattle tonight when I checked in a few hours before my flight I saw that the seat next to mine was open (unless I'm connecting I'll take the window seat so people with connecting flights can get out faster). I sat down and I look up and I see a guy that's the size of a smartcar coming down the aisle. I thought to myself, "I know my luck, there's no way that guy is sitting anywhere else in the plane other than the seat next to mine. No way." Sure enough, Mr. Smartcar comes down the aisle and somehow manages to squeeze himself into the seat next to me. Luckily it was only about an hour and a half but still I was scrunched up against the wall that entire time. Like I said, the scientific side of me just wants to bat things like that away as perception stuff. But it's happened so often I just can't overlook the odds. A whole plane full of relatively normal sized people but when Andre the Giant's smelly grandson steps on the plane I know exactly where he's going to sit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 03, 2014, 02:10:17 AM
luck? don't be silly. it's actually a conspiracy to drive you insane, they see you've booked a flight and immediately ring up the local circus to send one of their sideshow attractions over to keep you company.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 07:51:32 AM
9:45 AM: "Let's go out for breakfast!"

10:54 AM: Still waiting for her to finish "throwing on some clothes."

 :neogaf

You dating my wife breh??

Sunday: Breakfast with my mom at her house

Targeted time to leave: 8am
Wife starts getting ready: 8am
First shoe struggle: 8:25am
Kids issues: 8:40am
Finally Leave: 8:45am
Supposed to be there at 10am....told them 9am on purpose!

Got there wife was like:  :gurl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 03, 2014, 09:22:15 AM
Fucked up my second route in 5 months by dropping water on it
:what

First time I luckily just took my parents' old one, which I bought for them a couple years ago. I'll have to buy a new one this time.

also gotta finish the leaves today after work :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 03, 2014, 10:06:24 AM
I feel like I got Ebola of the pancreas. Gonna take a sick day and hope the end is quick.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 03, 2014, 10:26:42 AM
Because I have big ass toric lenses my eyes get dry as fack during fall and winter :(

Astigmatism is #struggle breh. :stahp

---------------------

It's cold enough that I need to use a second blanket at night or close my window. Also the duvet that came with the bedding I bought recently sucks at providing warmth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 03, 2014, 10:27:39 AM
Put some plastic up in your window, comrade.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 03, 2014, 10:32:52 AM
I just saw a reflected mirror selfie taken with an iPad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 03, 2014, 12:02:47 PM
I start shipping wine across the country today.  Far and away the shittiest part of my job. :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 03, 2014, 12:14:41 PM
I start shipping wine across the country today.  Far and away the shittiest part of my job. :-\

You can't find some poors in Oakland to do that for cheap???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 12:16:30 PM
I start shipping wine across the country today.  Far and away the shittiest part of my job. :-\

You can't find some poors in Oakland to do that for cheap???

Yeah, that shit would never get past west oakland bro. lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 03, 2014, 12:17:46 PM
We sent wine to someone in Virginia, and it got stuck in kentucky for a few days, and when it finally arrived some of the bottles had been drunk and recorked :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 03, 2014, 12:19:28 PM
How did they think nobody would notice. :what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 03, 2014, 12:36:31 PM
How did they think nobody would notice. :what
Kentucky brehs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 12:38:30 PM
How did they think nobody would notice. :what

Never been to Kentucky eh?

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 03, 2014, 12:45:52 PM
Guess its reputation is warranted, huh?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 12:47:19 PM
Guess its reputation is warranted, huh?

First time I went down there for a football game my pops said if you can't see the Ohio river, quit the team and come home.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 03, 2014, 01:16:30 PM
:lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2014, 01:42:48 PM
Took the day off to burn through a vacation day.  I've spent most of the day napping on the couch and answering work emails.  Christ I am lame.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 03, 2014, 01:45:18 PM
Took the day off to burn through a vacation day.  I've spent most of the day napping on the couch and answering work emails.  Christ I am lame.

This isn't the Triumph thread, breh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2014, 02:01:32 PM
I also watched The Wild Thornberry's movie, bro.  In case there was any confusion about how awful this day has been
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 03, 2014, 02:05:42 PM
:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 03, 2014, 02:47:30 PM
got a squad competition the next 3 days. I have to be up at 2:30 am and my day won't end until 1 am. I hope i blow out my knee or something, so they can stop sending me to do stupid shit like this. being healthy and in decent shape doesn't payoff at all in the army. meanwhile the fatties get to sit on their asses all day enjoying life. the army actually punishes you for doing the right thing and rewards the shitbags
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 03, 2014, 05:20:19 PM
got a squad competition the next 3 days. I have to be up at 2:30 am and my day won't end until 1 am. I hope i blow out my knee or something, so they can stop sending me to do stupid shit like this. being healthy and in decent shape doesn't payoff at all in the army. meanwhile the fatties get to sit on their asses all day enjoying life. the army actually punishes you for doing the right thing and rewards the shitbags

(http://media.giphy.com/media/EXQS2BiplXi1y/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 03, 2014, 05:23:49 PM
got a squad competition the next 3 days. I have to be up at 2:30 am and my day won't end until 1 am. I hope i blow out my knee or something, so they can stop sending me to do stupid shit like this. being healthy and in decent shape doesn't payoff at all in the army. meanwhile the fatties get to sit on their asses all day enjoying life. the army actually punishes you for doing the right thing and rewards the shitbags

The commitment to excellence. :tocry

Unrelated but on-topic: been EMOSHUNAL all fucking day. Have my last exam on Saturday, really can't have a bad week this week. (All your weeks are bad weeks. -Ed.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 03, 2014, 05:25:15 PM
got a squad competition the next 3 days. I have to be up at 2:30 am and my day won't end until 1 am. I hope i blow out my knee or something, so they can stop sending me to do stupid shit like this. being healthy and in decent shape doesn't payoff at all in the army. meanwhile the fatties get to sit on their asses all day enjoying life. the army actually punishes you for doing the right thing and rewards the shitbags

(http://media.giphy.com/media/EXQS2BiplXi1y/giphy.gif)

:noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 03, 2014, 05:40:12 PM
I'm not sitting at home cooking 12 pounds of chicken and eating from three different snack bags: chester's hot fries, cheetos puffs and nacho cheese doritos.  THIS DAY JUST GO TA WHOLE LOT BETTER

edit: my bad.  wrong thread I guess
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 03, 2014, 07:42:34 PM
Went to Target to buy the new router after work. Couldn't find what I had (Linksys WRT54GS) so I just picked a Linksys N300. Seems like it'll do, although this is my first n router.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 07:49:45 PM
Sitting at a club witb some friends....Joe Haden just told me he has respect for "old" men in the game like me.

I said "tuesday walkthrough is 8am dude"

He said "I'm young I'll be good"

Feeling old

:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 03, 2014, 08:51:18 PM
Sitting at a club witb some friends....Joe Haden just told me he has respect for "old" men in the game like me.

I said "tuesday walkthrough is 8am dude"

He said "I'm young I'll be good"

Feeling old

:snoop

why you clubbing with ballers on Monday tho
:what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 10:32:13 PM
Because dudes I do business with love to take selfies with them guys.

Wish I had a cooler answer.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 03, 2014, 10:45:23 PM
Finding bras that fit nice and snug is today's challenge.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 03, 2014, 10:50:25 PM
Himu....I have a legit struggle

Do you prefer to be called "breh" or "girl" ?????

Either is fine by me. Just for future reference
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on November 03, 2014, 10:52:10 PM
I woke up at 4pm, stayed in bed, naked, pondering whether I preferred fluted or unfluted revolver cylinders, and then pulled on some boxer briefs and got out of bed to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on November 03, 2014, 10:53:51 PM
unfluted ftw, btw. Better aesthetics, imo. Come at me brehs/girls.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 03, 2014, 11:05:21 PM
Himu....I have a legit struggle

Do you prefer to be called "breh" or "girl" ?????

Either is fine by me. Just for future reference

brehette or girl, whatever. prefer feminine pronouns, but if you use gender neutral pronouns like 'guys' i'm okay with it. thanks for asking, very sweet of you. :)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 04, 2014, 08:23:00 AM
found out all you had to do to get out of the squad comp was fail the first event, which was a fitness test. did just under the minimum required for pushups and now I'm chillin  :smug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 04, 2014, 10:49:39 AM
Singapore wasted my whole offshore teams day yesterday over nothing.
You know you gotta be bad when even the offshore team is like  :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 04, 2014, 11:18:24 AM
gonna write in Mike Brown for half the damn ballot
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 04, 2014, 11:20:27 AM
Sundown at 5pm. :goty2

spoiler (click to show/hide)
The current angle creates especially pretty colours though. The sky was almost violet. :uguu
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 04, 2014, 11:23:34 AM
gonna write in Mike Brown for half the damn ballot
That doesn't void your vote? Over here doing anything but checking the box(es) means they go straight to the bin.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 04, 2014, 11:42:58 AM
Arsene :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 04, 2014, 12:19:10 PM
gonna write in Mike Brown for half the damn ballot
That doesn't void your vote? Over here doing anything but checking the box(es) means they go straight to the bin.

nope, write-in mean I could put down Johnny Peniswrinkle and they'd have to mark down a single vote for him in the tally
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 04, 2014, 12:22:29 PM
That's amazing.

And horribly in-efficient. :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 04, 2014, 01:21:12 PM
hmm, preemptive mass-email negging. interesting strategy, will use on okc :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 04, 2014, 02:14:39 PM
So I get this from a company today:

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Dear Walrus,

Thank you for your interest in Our Company, Inc. We have had the difficult task of choosing among many excellent candidates for the Associate position.  While your credentials are quite impressive, we have decided to pursue other candidates whose qualifications more closely match our needs.

Again, thank you for including Our Company, Inc. in your career search.  We wish you success in your employment search.

Sincerely,
Recruiter
[close]

Pretty standard, right? Except they fucking reached out to me with some "We think you might be a great fit!" letter before I'd even heard of them.

I really want to write back:

"Dear Recruiter,
Thank you for the form letter. I sincerely wish you had not contacted me in the first place, as it would have saved you some time and me considerable time and stress. Best of luck with the candidates whose qualifications more closely match your needs. There sure are a lot of them, aren't there?"
Sincerely,
Walrus"

I know this is the kind of thing you're not supposed to send, but I've never been so tempted before.

(http://www.thecoli.com/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/sass1.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 04, 2014, 02:18:20 PM
So I get this from a company today:

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Dear Walrus,

Thank you for your interest in Our Company, Inc. We have had the difficult task of choosing among many excellent candidates for the Associate position.  While your credentials are quite impressive, we have decided to pursue other candidates whose qualifications more closely match our needs.

Again, thank you for including Our Company, Inc. in your career search.  We wish you success in your employment search.

Sincerely,
Recruiter
[close]

Pretty standard, right? Except they fucking reached out to me with some "We think you might be a great fit!" letter before I'd even heard of them.

I really want to write back:

"Dear Recruiter,
Thank you for the form letter. I sincerely wish you had not contacted me in the first place, as it would have saved you some time and me considerable time and stress. Best of luck with the candidates whose qualifications more closely match your needs. There sure are a lot of them, aren't there?"
Sincerely,
Walrus"

I know this is the kind of thing you're not supposed to send, but I've never been so tempted before.

Then why are you thinking about it?

I hope I never walk in front of your car while in the crosswalk or something.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 04, 2014, 02:44:45 PM
Houston Intercontinental Airport TSA can go fuck itself.

As we got off the plane, some shitpile was pushing a passenger's wheelchair toward passport control, and reaching over to interfere with people pushing empty wheelchairs toward the plane, basically turning them toward oncoming traffic behind him, i.e. my 72-year-old mother and me. I thought about chewing the guy a new asshole, but I worried all he'd have to do is point at me, and I'd find myself in "secondary interview," and I had another flight to catch.

I got nailed with a secondary interview anyway. My Mom had to wait down the road for me, wondering what was going on for 40 minutes, after they'd told her it would only be 10.

Afterward, despite never leaving a controlled area, there was another Security Check Gate, where even more checks were required than the flight from Turkey to Houston. The staff were talking with each other and giving no instructions. I asked what I had to remove for electronics, and they told me everything, plus shoes, jacket, belt... Jesus. The Middle East was less invasive, and his was ALREADY IN A CONTROLLED AREA.

They also confiscated the root beer my mom had bought at a vending machine in the controlled area. What. The. Fuck? In the end, they made my mom cry. Freshly widowed, that's not a major trick these days, but they could at least do their job right and not giggle idiotically.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 04, 2014, 02:59:15 PM
Sorry, Chrono.  I can definitely confirm that IAH security is fucking horrible. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 04, 2014, 03:56:17 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/604107_10204423299776587_1929408375761825631_n.jpg?oh=4568e6bb03281aa21c2e617a33bdcf19&oe=54F33E63&__gda__=1424424170_6a431780d90283fc954616af35b3dcc7)

 :goty2 :goty2 :goty2 :goty2 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 04, 2014, 04:01:11 PM
bae...?

:hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 04, 2014, 04:02:46 PM
Voted.  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 04, 2014, 04:06:14 PM
Voted.  :goty2
I should probably get off my ass and do that
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 04, 2014, 04:11:02 PM
Not my struggle, but I got to the new FKA twigs LP in the mail today, and in the package was a smaller envelope that I opened without looking at the address (I like to drunkenly make one click purchases and half the fun is seeing what I thought I needed when I was ranked) to discover an OEM iPhone 4 cable that some dude had payed 23$ to overnight on the 30th. I tried calling Amazon to let them know :ufup and they weren't trying to hear that shit.

On the one hand, I feel bad that this dude is out 30 bucks and a cable. On the other, he payed over three times in shipping cost for a cable you can buy in any 7-11 or grocery store in the country. If I can mail it in a standard envelope I'll drop it in the mail later this week :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 04, 2014, 05:21:02 PM
Shit chrono, when is your odyssey going to end.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 04, 2014, 08:30:00 PM
I discovered flight simulator channels on twitch. Lord help me. My spare time :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 04, 2014, 08:52:13 PM
I actually craved a cigarette. Never had this experience in my life outside moments where I almost died or something.

I guess Newports really do have that much nicotine in them.

The fucking L that keeps on giving. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 04, 2014, 09:27:53 PM
Newports? But we're interested in what YOU smoke. Not what your grandma smokes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 04, 2014, 09:29:14 PM
Sundown at 5pm. :goty2

spoiler (click to show/hide)
The current angle creates especially pretty colours though. The sky was almost violet. :uguu
[close]
I swear when I get old I'll totally get sundowners because being alone at night time just really depresses me for some reason.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 04, 2014, 09:33:37 PM
Karakand smoking Newports
:dead

#DSF secures another high quality prospect.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 04, 2014, 10:35:58 PM
Karakand smoking Newports
:dead

#DSF secures another high quality prospect.

It wasn't my fault. :stahp

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42407.msg1957846#msg1957846

I'm never cigarette shopping in South LA again. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 04, 2014, 10:39:38 PM
Houston Intercontinental Airport TSA can go fuck itself.

As we got off the plane, some shitpile was pushing a passenger's wheelchair toward passport control, and reaching over to interfere with people pushing empty wheelchairs toward the plane, basically turning them toward oncoming traffic behind him, i.e. my 72-year-old mother and me. I thought about chewing the guy a new asshole, but I worried all he'd have to do is point at me, and I'd find myself in "secondary interview," and I had another flight to catch.

I got nailed with a secondary interview anyway. My Mom had to wait down the road for me, wondering what was going on for 40 minutes, after they'd told her it would only be 10.

Afterward, despite never leaving a controlled area, there was another Security Check Gate, where even more checks were required than the flight from Turkey to Houston. The staff were talking with each other and giving no instructions. I asked what I had to remove for electronics, and they told me everything, plus shoes, jacket, belt... Jesus. The Middle East was less invasive, and his was ALREADY IN A CONTROLLED AREA.

They also confiscated the root beer my mom had bought at a vending machine in the controlled area. What. The. Fuck? In the end, they made my mom cry. Freshly widowed, that's not a major trick these days, but they could at least do their job right and not giggle idiotically.

(http://www.hoshuha.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/bowing-282x300.jpg)

Apologies.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 04, 2014, 10:40:22 PM
I like newports, but when i was a smoker for about 4 months i used to blast those Marlboro 100s

:aah :holeup

Camel blues/lights.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on November 04, 2014, 10:44:59 PM
I smoked hella Newports and Kools when I smoked  :-\

Tried one recently after doing the e-cig thing for about 8 months  :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 05, 2014, 12:54:23 AM
I hate contract negotiations.

This happened today with a client today that's been nickle and diming us for months:

"OK so here's the contract for the fixed bid for us to give you 2 deliverables."
<client takes contract and sends it back saying, "We made a few slight changes. Please send us a signed copy."
I look at it and see they changed it from 2 deliverables to 10 and said, "Um...this is a fixed bid, so nope. We're not signing this."
"Please?"
"No"
"Ok instead of 10 would you sign up for 7?"
"No"
"How about 5?"
"No"
"Come on help us!"
"I'll sign up for 3 and you can build the other 7 and we'll answer your questions."
"Great! So you'll help us until we get the other 7 done?"
"No. It's not perpetual."
"What?! Come on help us!"
"My team can't just be kept on the hook forever because you decide to take a long time to build your stuff."
"Please?"


I ended up saying they had 2 weeks from the contract start date and that's it, no help after that. If they come back asking for anymore stuff I'm just walking away. I'll find other stuff for my team to do.  Also, why am I editing the contracts and doing the selling? I'm neither a contract guy or a sales guy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 05, 2014, 10:38:35 AM
It was a two Xanax night, still after 1:30 before I could finally get to sleep.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 12:57:30 PM
Xanax is kinda shitty as a sleep aid imo, have you tried another medication for that purpose?

Unrelated but on-topic: Having to describe how I sexually self-objectify in therapy. Also all the fucking bullshit about people that I guess is normal but I loathe. (e.g. Feeling insecure and looking for reassurance from others.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 05, 2014, 12:58:56 PM
Xanax is kinda shitty as a sleep aid imo, have you tried another medication for that purpose?

Unrelated but on-topic: Having to describe how I sexually self-objectify in therapy. Also all the fucking bullshit about people that I guess is normal but I loathe. (e.g. Feeling insecure and looking for reassurance.)

You know what works as a good sleep aid?

About 6 gin and tonics.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 05, 2014, 01:05:38 PM
The best sleep aid I've used was synthetic tryptophan.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 05, 2014, 01:07:26 PM
Xanax gets a bad rap. I wouldn't have survived my early 20's without it.


Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 01:29:16 PM
It's a great short-term anti-anxiety medication. Just don't think it's that great for sleep unless anxiety is what's keeping you up.

Also can't believe TA ever needed PEDs. :o (You always struck me as a pretty together breh.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 05, 2014, 01:47:46 PM
It's a great short-term anti-anxiety medication. Just don't think it's that great for sleep unless anxiety is what's keeping you up.

Ya, usually it is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: demi on November 05, 2014, 02:04:43 PM
Sounds like yer not pounding fist enough

Nature's sleep aid
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 02:20:58 PM
It's a great short-term anti-anxiety medication. Just don't think it's that great for sleep unless anxiety is what's keeping you up.

Ya, usually it is.

Sorry. :shaq2

Are you taking a daily anti-anxiety med in conjunction with spot relief medication? I feel waaay better since I got on buspirone. I think I've needed spot diazepam for its presribed purpose just a few times since I went on it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 05, 2014, 02:33:21 PM
Sounds like yer not pounding fist enough

Nature's sleep aid

Am married, can verify this as fact.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 05, 2014, 02:40:53 PM
Want to get some BK, but don't wanna walk to get it.

Have 1 across the street from my office.

1.49 10 piece nuggets brooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 05, 2014, 02:53:11 PM
i need to piss but i'm kinda comfortable at the moment :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on November 05, 2014, 03:26:01 PM
Same here, although in my case my girlfriends has locked me to the coach. Already getting sleepy legs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 05, 2014, 04:21:13 PM
It's a great short-term anti-anxiety medication. Just don't think it's that great for sleep unless anxiety is what's keeping you up.

Ya, usually it is.

Sorry. :shaq2

Are you taking a daily anti-anxiety med in conjunction with spot relief medication? I feel waaay better since I got on buspirone. I think I've needed spot diazepam for its presribed purpose just a few times since I went on it.

Yeah, I take Celexa and it's helped a lot. The Xanax is just for emergencies.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 05, 2014, 04:22:41 PM
Started coughing a bunch.  A girl sitting nearby loudly states that she doesn't want to catch ebola and proceeds to withdraw into her hoodie.   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 05, 2014, 04:28:54 PM
O shit if only they had hoodies in Africa.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 05, 2014, 05:00:06 PM
Murderously hungover. Thank the fucking lord for marijuana. I could really use a Xanax too tho
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 05, 2014, 07:12:57 PM
Let's see, where to start...

-My exgirlfriend has stage 1 throat cancer. She quit smoking in January of this year and started having problems in April. Haha.
-My mother went back to work a couple months ago, then her car broke down. I gave her some money, she fixed up a small suzuki sidekick/geo tracker thing someone had to use as her car. Problem is, it's a stick and driving it has fucked her already fucked up knees up to the point where she can barely walk. She tried to do work from home for her call center job, but she's technologically stupid and they couldn't keep her doing it, so she's losing her job. OH GOD, SO HILARIOUS, LIFE.
-I have had a horrible fucking time signing up for obummercare after moving to GA; they can't explain why after filling out everything I don't qualify for a subsidy when in fact I'm about 7k a year under the cutoff line for single person. DERP. The problem is that my teeth are fucked up and I would really like to start getting them fixed; obviously I need to buy dental insurance to do this.

So, I need to figure out: do I help my ex, who is going to have to miss work and needs money to help support herself and her daughter; do I help my mother, who probably needs money in order to be able to keep living in her house or have to move into a fucking home; or do I sign up for health care and maybe start fixing my teeth.

Or, you know, option four, just fucking shoot myself in the face because all of this is a fucking farce.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 07:19:29 PM
We live in hell but at least we have the freedom to choose which hell. :american
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 05, 2014, 07:23:24 PM
Let's see, where to start...

-My exgirlfriend has stage 1 throat cancer. She quit smoking in January of this year and started having problems in April. Haha.
-My mother went back to work a couple months ago, then her car broke down. I gave her some money, she fixed up a small suzuki sidekick/geo tracker thing someone had to use as her car. Problem is, it's a stick and driving it has fucked her already fucked up knees up to the point where she can barely walk. She tried to do work from home for her call center job, but she's technologically stupid and they couldn't keep her doing it, so she's losing her job. OH GOD, SO HILARIOUS, LIFE.
-I have had a horrible fucking time signing up for obummercare after moving to GA; they can't explain why after filling out everything I don't qualify for a subsidy when in fact I'm about 7k a year under the cutoff line for single person. DERP. The problem is that my teeth are fucked up and I would really like to start getting them fixed; obviously I need to buy dental insurance to do this.

So, I need to figure out: do I help my ex, who is going to have to miss work and needs money to help support herself and her daughter; do I help my mother, who probably needs money in order to be able to keep living in her house or have to move into a fucking home; or do I sign up for health care and maybe start fixing my teeth.

Or, you know, option four, just fucking shoot myself in the face because all of this is a fucking farce.

Make sure you do your research before signing up for an ACA dental plan, a good deal of them are trash. Check the effective dates on basic and major coverage.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 05, 2014, 07:23:48 PM
You're right; I'm going to go to a gun show this weekend
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 07:53:36 PM
Does your ex have any support other than you?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 05, 2014, 08:01:35 PM
Let's see, where to start...

-My exgirlfriend has stage 1 throat cancer. She quit smoking in January of this year and started having problems in April. Haha.
-My mother went back to work a couple months ago, then her car broke down. I gave her some money, she fixed up a small suzuki sidekick/geo tracker thing someone had to use as her car. Problem is, it's a stick and driving it has fucked her already fucked up knees up to the point where she can barely walk. She tried to do work from home for her call center job, but she's technologically stupid and they couldn't keep her doing it, so she's losing her job. OH GOD, SO HILARIOUS, LIFE.
-I have had a horrible fucking time signing up for obummercare after moving to GA; they can't explain why after filling out everything I don't qualify for a subsidy when in fact I'm about 7k a year under the cutoff line for single person. DERP. The problem is that my teeth are fucked up and I would really like to start getting them fixed; obviously I need to buy dental insurance to do this.

So, I need to figure out: do I help my ex, who is going to have to miss work and needs money to help support herself and her daughter; do I help my mother, who probably needs money in order to be able to keep living in her house or have to move into a fucking home; or do I sign up for health care and maybe start fixing my teeth.

Or, you know, option four, just fucking shoot myself in the face because all of this is a fucking farce.

give a little money to ex gf and mom; won't be enough to help but hey at least you can strengthen those emotional bonds, right? make sure you save a little bit for yourself so you can further a drinking problem. then spend the rest of your time trolling internet shithead conservatives who left you in this hellhole because they're too damn dumb to realize how much they're fucking all of us over.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 05, 2014, 08:26:45 PM
Does your ex have any support other than you?

Yeah, she does. And I sent her $200 already a couple weeks ago. She's scared and freaking out, though. Wants to see me which is a big turnaround considering that when I moved to Atlanta in May I was basically dead to her.

I sent my mother $300 today. She's having trouble finding a small efficiency apartment anywhere; she doesn't have a lot of money coming in each month, and my sister is a fucking evil sponge that no money or hope can possibly escape from. Sister also just had another kid, so yaaaaay for that.

Alright. Gonna climb into a bottle of cheap bourbon now. Maybe I come out the end of it someday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on November 05, 2014, 09:58:56 PM
ate a whole pizza today, my first day of dieting :mjcry:
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on November 05, 2014, 10:14:35 PM
I've wanted to lock this thread for a week because I'm tired of looking at it, but it feels like it would be rude. Like I'm the asshole that threw a party, then starts turning off all the lights at midnight to make people go home. I hate that guy.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 05, 2014, 10:19:18 PM
no dammit I want to hear the lamentations
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 10:20:28 PM
If you lock it we'll just shit up Random Talk. :yeshrug

Though Random Talk has been a bit languid of late.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 05, 2014, 11:01:41 PM
I'd make another one. Every board needs a place to lament life. Might as well leave this one open.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 05, 2014, 11:10:32 PM
Still good to have a dedicated sink. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 11:16:58 PM
Triage unit is probably more of an appropriate term. :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 05, 2014, 11:22:07 PM
I've wanted to lock this thread for a week because I'm tired of looking at it, but it feels like it would be rude. Like I'm the asshole that threw a party, then starts turning off all the lights at midnight to make people go home. I hate that guy.

Is it because you know that despite our struggles, most of us end the day in quiet peaceful solitude with no children or sagging wives bugging us.

Single Bore
:rejoice

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 05, 2014, 11:26:07 PM
give your sock a kiss for me :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 05, 2014, 11:29:20 PM
It's a wool sock.
:noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 05, 2014, 11:36:23 PM
I live in a commune of arrested development, I think I'd rather have the wife and kids.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on November 05, 2014, 11:43:51 PM
Sometimes I feel like I'm my own personal commune of arrested development.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 05, 2014, 11:50:45 PM
I've wanted to lock this thread for a week because I'm tired of looking at it, but it feels like it would be rude. Like I'm the asshole that threw a party, then starts turning off all the lights at midnight to make people go home. I hate that guy.

Is it because you know that despite our struggles, most of us end the day in quiet peaceful solitude with no children or sagging wives bugging us.

Single Bore
:rejoice

Gonna laugh when you're the first to get wifed/child up.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Nah, probably gonna be Esch. nicca doing good :obama
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 05, 2014, 11:54:28 PM
Yea Esch gonna wife up a fine white woman soon, just watch.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 05, 2014, 11:58:26 PM
No way I'm not getting married till I'm like 28-32. I'm 24 breh :holeup

PD getting married next.

Yeah but you're Indian, that's like +10 to Familial & Ancestral pressure to settle down and procreate.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 05, 2014, 11:59:20 PM
lol the first 2pac-bbc-loving pawg to cross pd's path and it's over.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 06, 2014, 12:05:21 AM
My mom keeps talking about grandkids. She had kids late, so many of her friends are now grandparents.
:fbm

27 is too young to end your life by having kids IMO. Have fun, make money, set yourself up to do that shit later (if ever).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 06, 2014, 12:07:54 AM
I went on some dates with a white chick that liked Pac.

It didn't work out, obviously, but that's like saying the sky is blue with me.

On a related note, I wish I could just tell my older lady that she's not in any way scandalous sexually and what she thinks is titillating communication just makes me laugh at her. I think I'm going to actual use sounds on my phone so I can have it play that, "As thrilling as this worthless vandalism is proving to be..." clip whenever she texts.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 06, 2014, 12:08:47 AM
lol the first 2pac-bbc-loving pawg to cross pd's path and it's over.

Don't you put that on PD, don't you dare. The one thing that'd truly destroy my kneega is for him to have biracial confused children who can't understand his life as a #midnightboy

(http://i.imgur.com/2sHyXlq.png)
I'd throw him in the bushes. My child gotta be blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 06, 2014, 12:27:15 AM
Aite it's clean. I need space for 1000 PMs. Fuckin Demi...

Too many friends are having kids but aren't mentally prepared. One of my friends is depressed as fuck because her social life has died. She seems quite unhappy, whereas her cornball partner is gone all day at work and partying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 06, 2014, 12:31:23 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/DXvoW3M.png)
o. m. g.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 06, 2014, 12:42:30 AM
Struggle: watching any highlight reel or historical sports video and it has early 00s electronic music over it. I'm just trying to watch some footage of  Kaká and there's damn house music on every video. I'd blame the europeans in this case but it was the same with boxing, unless it was from before the 60s, then it would have old black music over it.

:rofl

putting bad music on top of great sports compilations is one of THE worst things sports fans do

THE WORST
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on November 06, 2014, 12:50:09 AM
link to these kaka vids
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 06, 2014, 12:52:11 AM
Why don't you watch the Zizou movie? It has a post-rock soundtrack. :trollbron:
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 06, 2014, 12:58:26 AM
The greatest sports highlights mix ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtLfHM7-sos
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 06, 2014, 09:52:47 AM
woke up this morning feeling like i got punched in the face on stage and my entourage didn't do shit to help me out (besides throw a beer bottle)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 06, 2014, 09:54:24 AM
woke up this morning feeling like i got punched in the face on stage and my entourage didn't do shit to help me out (besides throw a beer bottle)

Sucks man, mind if I ask what happened?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 06, 2014, 10:13:52 AM
woke up this morning feeling like i got punched in the face on stage and my entourage didn't do shit to help me out (besides throw a beer bottle)

Sucks man, mind if I ask what happened?
just had too much wine and weed last night
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 06, 2014, 10:32:24 AM
woke up this morning feeling like i got punched in the face on stage and my entourage didn't do shit to help me out (besides throw a beer bottle)

Sucks man, mind if I ask what happened?
just had too much wine and weed last night

I don't smoke anymore but...

wine + weed =  :phil   for me
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 06, 2014, 03:17:04 PM
I have jury duty next month  :pacspit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 06, 2014, 05:00:06 PM
I have jury duty next month  :pacspit

I can teach you how to rant about bourgeois justice and be excluded from the jury pool.

You'll probably end up on some lists doe.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 06, 2014, 05:02:18 PM
Still haven't studied for my exam.

Tripled again today.

Am going to quadruple tomorrow.

On the plus side, the amount of stims it'll take to get me through the next 2 days should shave at least 6 months off my wretched life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 06, 2014, 05:49:59 PM
I can teach you how to rant about bourgeois justice and be excluded from the jury pool.
It's soooooo much easier than that.  :teehee
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 06, 2014, 05:54:42 PM
I can teach you how to rant about bourgeois justice and be excluded from the jury pool.
It's soooooo much easier than that.  :teehee

I just say I'm a black republican, that usually does the trick as long as the defendant is black.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 06, 2014, 06:33:41 PM
When I asked a lawyer friend if there was a definite way to get out of jury duty he said everything you've ever tried has been seen, someone else in the pool is doing the same thing or worse, what makes you unattractive to one side often makes you attractive to the other, and the things that will really dump you can get you held in contempt of court.

He also said in all his years no one has ever said anything overtly racist to get out of it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2014, 06:42:08 PM
I struggled with how handsome I look today
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 06, 2014, 06:48:06 PM
On one hand, I would just ignore it and toss the summons because I mean, how could they prove I got it since it wasn't certified  :smug

But on the other hand...what if they actually give a damn and fine me/give me a warrant if I don't go  :goty2


Think I'll just go  :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 06, 2014, 07:42:28 PM
found some tortellini in the fridge but no sauce. spent the last hour sitting and thinking how to resolve this without leaving the house.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 06, 2014, 08:11:17 PM
Don't let cheddahz fool y'all he don't really smoke crack
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 06, 2014, 08:27:57 PM
Someone tried to steal my boat last night.  They broke into the storage lot and tried to take off.  Unfortunately for both of us they didn't realize that the tie down positions for storage and transport of a boat on that trailer were different so when they took off the boat came loose.  So now I have a boat with a cracked hull in the middle of the storage lot that I need to get rid of because it's blocking other units.  I have no trailer to put it on.  I don't want to buy a new trailer to put it on because the trailer would probably be worth more than the boat (a 1989 Bayliner Capri) and then on top of that I'd have to fix it.  So now I have to pay someone to get rid of it.  Lose/Lose.  Oh well.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 06, 2014, 09:18:13 PM
found some tortellini in the fridge but no sauce. spent the last hour sitting and thinking how to resolve this without leaving the house.

Got any olive oil, garlic, and rosemary?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2014, 09:18:42 PM
Man that sucks.  The lot isn't responsible for the theft? 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 06, 2014, 10:04:01 PM
found some tortellini in the fridge but no sauce. spent the last hour sitting and thinking how to resolve this without leaving the house.

Got any olive oil, garlic, and rosemary?

of course I do I'm Italian. holy shitballs why did I not think of this hours ago :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2014, 10:07:00 PM
Look at these people, unable to sympathize with the lost relationship between a man and his boat.  Tisk tisk.   
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 06, 2014, 10:08:32 PM
dude we're talking about tortellini here
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 06, 2014, 10:11:52 PM
But its a boat.  Mups has lost the implication.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9spNzOFPk
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 06, 2014, 10:28:48 PM
of course I do I'm Italian. holy shitballs why did I not think of this hours ago :(

Those 3 ingredients are the holy trinity of #dgaf Italian food. *makes the sign of the cross* Use this knowledge together. Use it in peace.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 06, 2014, 10:31:42 PM
Man that sucks.  The lot isn't responsible for the theft?
nah.  they're not liable for anything.  and i was under the assumption home owners insurance would cover it since it covers storage units or other 3rd parties in possession of my stuff.  But I should have asked because since it's a boat it's not covered and only boat insurance would cover it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 06, 2014, 11:06:40 PM
Someone tried to steal my boat last night.  They broke into the storage lot and tried to take off.  Unfortunately for both of us they didn't realize that the tie down positions for storage and transport of a boat on that trailer were different so when they took off the boat came loose.  So now I have a boat with a cracked hull in the middle of the storage lot that I need to get rid of because it's blocking other units.  I have no trailer to put it on.  I don't want to buy a new trailer to put it on because the trailer would probably be worth more than the boat (a 1989 Bayliner Capri) and then on top of that I'd have to fix it.  So now I have to pay someone to get rid of it.  Lose/Lose.  Oh well.
jeez man. :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 07, 2014, 12:48:02 AM
Analyzing the problematic aspects of your sexuality with your partner instead of having sex. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 07, 2014, 08:35:53 AM
thanks, bros.  Turned out okay I guess.  I put an ad up on craigslist last night for someone to take it for free.  An old couple from the area wanted to pick it up and said they love fishing but can't afford a boat.  So they want it to repair it and use it.  They sounded really excited and said it was a dream come true.  So while I still lose my boat at lease I don't have to pay for it to be taken away and I make someone happy in the process.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 07, 2014, 08:38:16 AM
On one hand, I would just ignore it and toss the summons because I mean, how could they prove I got it since it wasn't certified  :smug

But on the other hand...what if they actually give a damn and fine me/give me a warrant if I don't go  :goty2


Think I'll just go  :yeshrug

I had a friend who tried to ignore his summons. He got called in for contempt of court. 250 dollar fine bro.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 07, 2014, 08:39:37 AM
thanks, bros.  Turned out okay I guess.  I put an ad up on craigslist last night for someone to take it for free.  An old couple from the area wanted to pick it up and said they love fishing but can't afford a boat.  So they want it to repair it and use it.  They sounded really excited and said it was a dream come true.  So while I still lose my boat at lease I don't have to pay for it to be taken away and I make someone happy in the process.

As a former boat owner (goddamn outdrives) I can clearly say the two best days of boating are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.


BOAT (BRING OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 07, 2014, 08:48:08 AM
thanks, bros.  Turned out okay I guess.  I put an ad up on craigslist last night for someone to take it for free.  An old couple from the area wanted to pick it up and said they love fishing but can't afford a boat.  So they want it to repair it and use it.  They sounded really excited and said it was a dream come true.  So while I still lose my boat at lease I don't have to pay for it to be taken away and I make someone happy in the process.

As a former boat owner (goddamn outdrives) I can clearly say the two best days of boating are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.


BOAT (BRING OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND)
Agreed.  Taking it out is a pain in the ass and owning it is a pain in the ass.  Expensive from beginning to end.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 07, 2014, 08:50:59 AM
thanks, bros.  Turned out okay I guess.  I put an ad up on craigslist last night for someone to take it for free.  An old couple from the area wanted to pick it up and said they love fishing but can't afford a boat.  So they want it to repair it and use it.  They sounded really excited and said it was a dream come true.  So while I still lose my boat at lease I don't have to pay for it to be taken away and I make someone happy in the process.

As a former boat owner (goddamn outdrives) I can clearly say the two best days of boating are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.


BOAT (BRING OUT ANOTHER THOUSAND)
Agreed.  Taking it out is a pain in the ass and owning it is a pain in the ass.  Expensive from beginning to end.

I lost an out drive twice in one year. 2500 bucks. Decided....sell the son of a bitch.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 07, 2014, 11:54:27 AM
Pretty sure no one is gonna beat this guy's struggle of the day.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/04/guy-in-hospital-after-getting-girlfriends-strap-on-stuck-up-his-bum-4935198/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 07, 2014, 11:55:53 AM
Pretty sure no one is gonna beat this guy's struggle of the day.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/04/guy-in-hospital-after-getting-girlfriends-strap-on-stuck-up-his-bum-4935198/

LOL!

How do you even begin to try to explain that? I mean at that point you just pretty much have to say "yes I was getting pegged by my girlfriend, indeed"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 07, 2014, 12:00:19 PM
Pretty sure no one is gonna beat this guy's struggle of the day.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/11/04/guy-in-hospital-after-getting-girlfriends-strap-on-stuck-up-his-bum-4935198/
the actual livelink vid is horrifying and hilarious. when they pull it out :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 07, 2014, 12:13:59 PM
There are so many people in the room. :lol
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f1e_1414960834 :nsfw obviously
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on November 07, 2014, 04:17:07 PM
Molten ice water sipped over the chocolate bananas that I kept in the back of the fridge, had to dry them with kleenex  >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 07, 2014, 07:24:59 PM
Afternoon client let me off the hook, so now I gotta not :ufup tomorrow. NO PRESSURE OR ANYTHING.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 07, 2014, 07:42:56 PM
The 40K audio drama I listened to today during my commute made fun of me. :fbm

(http://i.imgur.com/BM1BRAQ.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on November 08, 2014, 03:53:22 AM
I keep finding myself in the middle of these ridiculous Michael Brown debates between drunk people in my own house so I can't even get the fuck away. Jesus fuck. Everybody's got an opinion but I don't give a shit about any of them to be honest. Well at least from white people sitting all cozy in their suburban homes with nothing more to say than, "lol thugs lol pants up don't shoot."

Everyone has lost their fucking minds in St Louis anticipating next week. Crazy company emails from upper management are freaking people out, people who likely have absolutely nothing to worry about. I gotta say, I'm happy I'm going to be out of town next week, not so much because of the protesting that will most definitely happen, but so I don't have to deal with smug ass white people.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 08, 2014, 10:01:04 AM
I keep finding myself in the middle of these ridiculous Michael Brown debates between drunk people in my own house so I can't even get the fuck away. Jesus fuck. Everybody's got an opinion but I don't give a shit about any of them to be honest. Well at least from white people sitting all cozy in their suburban homes with nothing more to say than, "lol thugs lol pants up don't shoot."

Everyone has lost their fucking minds in St Louis anticipating next week. Crazy company emails from upper management are freaking people out, people who likely have absolutely nothing to worry about. I gotta say, I'm happy I'm going to be out of town next week, not so much because of the protesting that will most definitely happen, but so I don't have to deal with smug ass white people.

it's fucking ridiculous out there new. the whole damn city is on edge, way worse than is been any other time in the last three months. if we had some leaders that would actually work towards defusing this instead of ignoring it or hyping up the fear we would be in a much better place, but hey.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 08, 2014, 10:09:30 AM
Is big jumbo PT? Everything makes a lot more sense now if so
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 08, 2014, 11:18:51 AM
I only notice name changers if it's a poster of any real importance :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on November 08, 2014, 02:49:24 PM
I keep finding myself in the middle of these ridiculous Michael Brown debates between drunk people in my own house so I can't even get the fuck away. Jesus fuck. Everybody's got an opinion but I don't give a shit about any of them to be honest. Well at least from white people sitting all cozy in their suburban homes with nothing more to say than, "lol thugs lol pants up don't shoot."

Everyone has lost their fucking minds in St Louis anticipating next week. Crazy company emails from upper management are freaking people out, people who likely have absolutely nothing to worry about. I gotta say, I'm happy I'm going to be out of town next week, not so much because of the protesting that will most definitely happen, but so I don't have to deal with smug ass white people.

it's fucking ridiculous out there new. the whole damn city is on edge, way worse than is been any other time in the last three months. if we had some leaders that would actually work towards defusing this instead of ignoring it or hyping up the fear we would be in a much better place, but hey.

It's St Louis' Ebola.

We need a flowchart. Do you ever drive outside of St Charles County? ----- No ------ You're not getting Ebola nor need to buy a gun to protect your house from Ferguson rioters.

It doesn't even need a Yes option because no one out here ever leaves.

WHITE PEOPLE.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 08, 2014, 03:53:14 PM
dude I seen a reporter saying their source in the st Chuck pd was talking about how the cops were worried about "black Muslims beheading women and children." :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 08, 2014, 04:34:02 PM
Math making me feel stupid.  I have an interview with a machine learning co-supervisor on Monday and I feel like a dunce. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 08, 2014, 04:37:34 PM
Slept 20 hours or so.

Definitely old now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on November 08, 2014, 11:28:53 PM
dude I seen a reporter saying their source in the st Chuck pd was talking about how the cops were worried about "black Muslims beheading women and children." :lol

:dead

Doesn't even surprise me. I'm sure its all the black Muslims fault that we need a prescription for over the counter decongestants out here too. They created the meth epidemic as part of a jihadist movement to take down trashy white people.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: PlayDat on November 08, 2014, 11:54:55 PM
I just read an article on sex negative feminism :yeshrug :dead

Link?

I'm a little suspicious of people who describes themselves as sex-positive since they'll so often forget the part where it's also about not shaming people who aren't interested in sex, and aren't willing to do any of the hard work required to protect the rights of sex workers.  You also tend to hear the phrase used by men who only care about the fun parts of feminism so I feel like sex-negativity would be a perspective worth hearing from.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 09, 2014, 12:29:49 AM
The seller I bought my absinthe glass and spoon from put absinthe on the shipping label and I wasn't the one who received the package. :snoop

Using a spoon requires a lot more patience than what I had been using. I'm going to have a fountain soon. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 09, 2014, 07:24:06 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/bWHGI0Y.png)
 :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 09, 2014, 08:23:05 PM
That sucks! What's worse is now your car is hostage until you rip the rest down. Any damage to the car?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 09, 2014, 09:28:55 PM
Crikey! Thats horrible dude
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 09, 2014, 10:51:55 PM
8018830f
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 10, 2014, 12:24:27 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/bWHGI0Y.png)
 :(
lol, how did this happen?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 10, 2014, 12:43:05 AM
did you back into your garage?  ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 10, 2014, 03:17:45 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/bWHGI0Y.png)
 :(
lol, how did this happen?ti
did you back into your garage?  ???
Shamefully, yes. I jumped in my car, instinctively shifted to reverse, realized I didn't have my wallet, and shifted from reverse to park while jumping out. I didn't actually fully click into park while I was exiting and managed to back up a foot and a half through my fucking door. And worse yet, this is the second time this fucking year.

The worst part of all of this? I was completely fucking sober both times.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 10, 2014, 04:40:05 AM
whoops
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 10, 2014, 04:40:41 AM
whoops
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 10, 2014, 06:50:21 AM
driving through the door twice AND triple posting? suuuure you don't have a problem, alky
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 10, 2014, 07:52:00 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/bWHGI0Y.png)
 :(

My wife did this once. Sucks. Call Action Door or whatever you have in your area. That spring that locks the garage door above can kill you if taken off incorrectly.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 10, 2014, 09:50:50 AM
One of the new QA people got Cryptowall on his machine at some point(I'm guessing Friday) and was found this morning. Thankfully, it didn't infect the rest of the company. I do non work related activities(reading the bore) on my work machine but I would never go deep enough to get my shit infected with anything.

Does anyone know where you go on the internet to get randsomware on your machine?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 10, 2014, 09:53:20 AM
One of the new QA people got Cryptowall on his machine at some point(I'm guessing Friday) and was found this morning. Thankfully, it didn't infect the rest of the company. I do non work related activities(reading the bore) on my work machine but I would never go deep enough to get my shit infected with anything.

Does anyone know where you go on the internet to get randsomware on your machine?

Porn sites probably.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 10, 2014, 10:03:30 AM
Which would be funny considering he sits next to his boss and is good friends with her son who also works here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 10, 2014, 11:26:22 AM
whoops

whoops

Did you just back through the door two more times?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 10, 2014, 01:11:57 PM
driving through the door twice AND triple posting? suuuure you don't have a problem, alky
Make no mistake, I took that as a sign to get as loaded as possible ASAP, so a 5 am triple post is par for the course. I almost wish I had been shitfaced when I destroyed the door, because then I would be a drunk instead of just distinguished mentally-challenged.

AiA, what is this deadly spring you speak of? I was kind of tempted to replace the bottom 3 panels with that of the second door and board up the second door, as I don't use the other space in the garage, but I'm not trying to risk my life attempting to save money  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 10, 2014, 01:14:52 PM
driving through the door twice AND triple posting? suuuure you don't have a problem, alky
Make no mistake, I took that as a sign to get as loaded as possible ASAP, so a 5 am triple post is par for the course. I almost wish I had been shitfaced when I destroyed the door, because then I would be a drunk instead of just distinguished mentally-challenged.

AiA, what is this deadly spring you speak of? I was kind of tempted to replace the bottom 3 panels with that of the second door and board up the second door, as I don't use the other space in the garage, but I'm not trying to risk my life attempting to save money  :-\

Above your door will be a huge coiled spring. Don't fuck with it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 10, 2014, 02:14:42 PM
Came home found the wife and kid sick. No prob. I can take care of them.
Next day. I'm sick too and they're still sick. This sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 10, 2014, 02:15:59 PM
I've gotten sick maybe once or twice after seeing Unbreakable in the theater.
:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 10, 2014, 02:17:47 PM
I've gotten sick maybe once or twice after seeing Unbreakable in the theater.
:rejoice

You should immediately go find a late night screening of Boogie Nights bro....just sayin......
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 10, 2014, 02:34:03 PM
I've gotten sick maybe once or twice after seeing Unbreakable in the theater.
:rejoice

I can't tell if you are saying unbreakable made you sick or if you are using Unbreakable as a time reference, in which case you should probably use a better movie if you want to relate time to other people.   
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 10, 2014, 02:47:02 PM
I've gotten sick maybe once or twice after seeing Unbreakable in the theater.
:rejoice

I can't tell if you are saying unbreakable made you sick or if you are using Unbreakable as a time reference, in which case you should probably use a better movie if you want to relate time to other people.

The protagonist in the film doesn't get sick, and since seeing it my immunity has been similar.

fuck you for making me explain nerd shit instead of being able to make a quick reference. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 10, 2014, 02:53:21 PM
Unbreakable sucked, also your reference would only make sense if you hadn't gotten sick.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 10, 2014, 02:59:33 PM
I guess my struggle today is taking Ls online.

:stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 10, 2014, 03:00:07 PM
Unbreakable sucked, also your reference would only make sense if you hadn't gotten sick.

There is no truth in this statement. 0.

Unbreakable was good shit.

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 10, 2014, 07:57:08 PM
nvm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 10, 2014, 11:50:21 PM
I went to a smokeasy last night. :larry

When my friend and I walked in to the half of the bar that was the smokeasy we got that Mos Eisley Cantina look from everyone inside. :snoop

Seating was limited--I guess there is a market demand for bars you can still smoke in :ohhh (no benji)--but we had some choices available to us. My friend picked 2 seats next to the scariest looking dude in the place. :bolo

It appeared that the custom of this particular establishment was that you were to lay your pack of cigarettes on the table you were sitting at. I didn't ask anyone why we did this, I just did it. :yeshrug

What pack of cigarettes did I yank out of my pocket and slam on the table without understanding what was going on? The fucking pack of Newports I bought at the so-stereotypical-it-hurt South LA bodega. My friend irl lol'd at my :ufup on that one. :neogaf

To avoid further fucking Newport mistakes in the future I smoked the rest of the whole damn pack while getting plastered, shouting over far too much noise, and meeting cute grad students who popped into the smokeasy half to bum a cigarette from my friend and I because we were (I guess?) the most normal looking people in that half of the establishment. :mynicca

My fucking lungs today. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 10, 2014, 11:53:12 PM
the only smokeasy I've been to was in seattle and it was a private goth club. kinda corny as it had an all black clothing req but not a 'don't look like a nerdy anime dude' requirement.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 11, 2014, 10:10:50 AM
After successfully getting my stepfather's body and my still-living mom out of Turkey, through the funeral and wake in Washington state ( :bow seattle bore :bow2 :bow :bow Mr. Gundam :bow2 :bow2 ), she is now safely ensconced back in her home in Idaho.

Less than an hour after arrival, I was troubleshooting her inexplicably fucked up home computers.  :-\ :-\ :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 11, 2014, 10:11:55 AM
The trains were announced as being late this morning.  The platform starts getting insanely crowded.
 :goty2

So I leave and go across to the other platform.  I'm the only one standing there; gonna totally catch the train going the opposite way so I get a seat, no problem.  There's only one other station going the other way, so it's going to turn around and come back.
 :jawalrus

Then out of nowhere, a train comes from that station, meaning it had just been sitting there for a good 20 minutes.  No reason why it couldn't have come on time.  There's no way for me to make it back to the other side in time.
 :dead

10 minutes late for work.
 :picard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 11, 2014, 10:13:43 AM
driving through the door twice AND triple posting? suuuure you don't have a problem, alky

:rofl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 12:32:33 PM
Hit my head on a pipe....hurts like hell. Who the fuck hangs pipes 6 feet off the ground? Midgets?

But my biggest struggle is a friend of mine met a girl about 3 months ago. She lied about being on the pill and is now pregnant. Which he totally downplays. She's clearly using him (dad has a company and she's white trash from white trashville), and I know this. However now his mother wants me to talk to him about it and I feel like that's breaking the bro code line as we broached this subject once.

Going back at her again is going to effect our relationship, I know it will. However I love his mom too and she is legit concerned and see's through the fake ass bitch.

Struggle, brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 11, 2014, 01:04:39 PM
Breh you gotta save him.

A friend of mine is the grandson of a major (rich) landlord in this area. He works for his grandad and would do a lot of repair work at the various properties. One of the tenants was a rather shitty chick, looks sort of like Brittney Murphy with big boobs. He did some repairs at her place and two months later brought her to a party as his gf. I know this girl from back when I did work with section 8 families. She has a kid, is a horrible parent, and overall is VERY shady. I told my friend about this and he said "she has a kid? I didn't know that."
:snoop
spoiler (click to show/hide)
(BTW that exact same thing happened to my uncle years ago. He dated a chick for half a year and didn't find out she had a kid until he was about to propose. And he still married her. Divorced after about 3 years)
[close]

That's a huge fucking red flag right? But he didn't even consider breaking up with her. They came to my house a few months ago to hang with my (now ex) gf and I. She was super ghetto trailer park breh...just trashy. It was kind of jarring, and I know my friend HAD to see it but he wasn't saying shit.

Fast forward to now: they're still together and he's bragging about how good it feels to fuck her raw. :what

She's on the pill but I keep telling him YO this is a horrible fucking idea, she isn't fit to be a mother, and worse yet she'll be taking money from you. His grandad is planning on leaving the business in my friend's hands, in about 3-5 years. It's a perfect storm for fuckery and he won't fucking listen. In fact he keeps rubbing my ex fiasco in my face and claiming it was the "same situation" and I'm being hypocritical. At least my ex didn't have a kid, isn't on section 8, is in school, and comes from a good family. Yea she was a dumbass and I shouldn't have done certain things with her but this isn't the same case.
:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 01:06:47 PM
Thanks PD.

The thing is this girl is the lowest form of trash. I PROMISE you she'll get fat after the kid and never lose it. Make him buy her a house and a car...and essentially ban him from hanging with us (that has already started. Trust me if I wasn't black in the white hood I'd be off his list too).

They'll marry, in 3 years he'll divorce her and be crushed (my dude is one of those feels dudes) and she'll keep half this money.

He already no longer attends our thursday night bro's day out because she is "pregnant and wants him around" and he can't come out for mostly anything unless I invite him. If any of my cac bro's asks, answer is ALWAYS no. So it always devolves to Rev calling me and making sure Kyle can go to his GODDAMN bachelor party because he knows if he calls the answer will be no.

My wife saw through her first. First time we met her as soon as we got in the car she said Kyle has got himself a gold digger...it ain't gonna end well
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 11, 2014, 01:09:03 PM
Hit my head on a pipe....hurts like hell. Who the fuck hangs pipes 6 feet off the ground? Midgets?

It's maddening.  :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 01:16:33 PM
Save your friend, breh. I know too many dudes who were smart otherwise but dumb when it comes to women get their lives wrecked by awful choices in women. There's still time for him so make sure he gets out.

Yeah but the cost is high. Until he sees it for himself I will be the "bad guy" to both of them. I don't play the bad guy as well IRL as I do on here breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 01:21:40 PM
Sometimes you have to be if you're his friend. I've done it before and when it worked, we're still friends. Those who didn't listen are now in horrible situations and wish they would have listened.

No I get it, and I'll do it. I just don't look forward to it. We're doing lunch Friday.....I'm not going to be looking forward to Friday this week.

 :stahp

And of course his mom wants me to do this but doesn't want me to drop here name, rolling solo brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 11, 2014, 01:59:39 PM
The way I look at it: if you're 99% sure the relationship is going to result in failure, take the shot and confront your friend. He may hate you for it, you might lose him as a friend...but in 2-3 years when he is divorced and paying child support he'll come to you and say he should have listened.

If this was just a case of a controlling chick who was an asshole but competent outside of that (job, education, stuff going for herself, etc) sure, I wouldn't intervene. But this is different.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 02:00:30 PM
The way I look at it: if you're 99% sure the relationship is going to result in failure, take the shot and confront your friend. He may hate you for it, you might lose him as a friend...but in 2-3 years when he is divorced and paying child support he'll come to you and say he should have listened.

If this was just a case of a controlling chick who was an asshole but competent outside of that (job, education, stuff going for herself, etc) sure, I wouldn't intervene. But this is different.

Yeah I believe the APEX of her career was a bartending job at a crappy chain restaurant. Which of course she quit the second she moved in with him because "it's just so far away now babe" (it's literally like 8 miles away)

I had the pleasure of being there for that one. We were eating at a local joint and she broke that news as casually as you would say "nintendo sucks right?" before paying for our lunch with a copy of Kyle's credit card.......
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 11, 2014, 02:14:09 PM
The way I look at it: if you're 99% sure the relationship is going to result in failure, take the shot and confront your friend. He may hate you for it, you might lose him as a friend...but in 2-3 years when he is divorced and paying child support he'll come to you and say he should have listened.

If this was just a case of a controlling chick who was an asshole but competent outside of that (job, education, stuff going for herself, etc) sure, I wouldn't intervene. But this is different.

Yeah I believe the APEX of her career was a bartending job at a crappy chain restaurant. Which of course she quit the second she moved in with him because "it's just so far away now babe" (it's literally like 8 miles away)

oh hell no.

I can definitely understand why his mom is heated. Lord knows my mom would sabotage that shit unilaterally. :lol

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 02:17:08 PM
The way I look at it: if you're 99% sure the relationship is going to result in failure, take the shot and confront your friend. He may hate you for it, you might lose him as a friend...but in 2-3 years when he is divorced and paying child support he'll come to you and say he should have listened.

If this was just a case of a controlling chick who was an asshole but competent outside of that (job, education, stuff going for herself, etc) sure, I wouldn't intervene. But this is different.

Yeah I believe the APEX of her career was a bartending job at a crappy chain restaurant. Which of course she quit the second she moved in with him because "it's just so far away now babe" (it's literally like 8 miles away)

oh hell no.

I can definitely understand why his mom is heated. Lord knows my mom would sabotage that shit unilaterally. :lol

She is a great lady. She was the first person nice to me when we moved here. I really enjoy her. Kyle has been my friend for many many years now. I hate getting in the middle but his mom once saved my ass from getting into trouble with some of the local morons who had an issue with colored people in their little dive bar. I owe her as much.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 02:29:59 PM
Goddamnit, I just hit my head on the same fucking pipe, fuck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 11, 2014, 02:35:06 PM
Goddamnit, I just hit my head on the same fucking pipe, fuck.
(http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljke4pqXzz1qzydh2o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 02:39:50 PM
Well to be fair I did miss two games in high school by giving myself a severe concussion by walking into a patio door.....twice....
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 11, 2014, 02:42:54 PM
I found out a once-friend just had a kid and named them for a Nintendo character. It's a triumph that we're not friends, but it's struggle to know of child abuse like this.

Between this and the recent relationship convos itt I'm sure glad to be devoid of purpose.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 02:45:23 PM
I found out a once-friend just had a kid and named them for a Nintendo character. It's a triumph that we're not friends, but it's struggle to know of child abuse like this.

Between this and the recent relationship convos itt I'm sure glad to be devoid of purpose.

Shut your mouf, I was gonna name my out of wedlock son Totodile yo.

:stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 11, 2014, 02:49:32 PM
My wife quickly killed my son's name: T-bone Optimus-Montana *my last name*  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:06:23 PM
My wife quickly killed my son's name: T-bone Optimus-Montana *my last name*  :(

I wanted to name my first son Boss, but my wife said no so we didn't. They spoil all the fun.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cool breeze on November 11, 2014, 03:12:48 PM
the trick is to ease into the better names.  Thunderlips The Ultimate Male doesn't sound so bad after Goku and Xehanort.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:15:08 PM
the trick is to ease into the better names.  Thunderlips The Ultimate Male doesn't sound so bad after Goku and Xehanort.

Got it, so if I have another kid (oh god, no please)

Start with

Luigi

go to

Beezlebud

End with

Conan


Conan is a good name.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:28:17 PM
This fucking cornball at work is going on and on about veterans day :dead

It's only funny if he isn't a veteran.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:32:20 PM
he isnt :dead

 :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 11, 2014, 03:36:12 PM
veteran's day is always a struggle for my pasty never-served ass. on one hand, we live in a world where defense is necessary, and it's a HUGE thing to ask people to put their lives on the line to defend us.  :american

on the other hand, the social media of the day is so full of cloying, jingoistic, nationalistic garbage sentiment from right-wing mouthbreathers, paranoiacs, and rage junkies that it's all but obscured the simple message of appreciation for lives endangered in the name of security. also, most of the vets who DO speak up are of the unlikable YOU MUST HUMOR MY INSANE RIGHT-WING POLITICAL OPINION BECAUSE I SERVED variety, not the bright ones that might plead for common sense about the necessary horrors of human violence. it's so demonic, patriots.

 :goty2  :supergay :fbm

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:37:57 PM
veteran's day is always a struggle for my pasty never-served ass. on one hand, we live in a world where defense is necessary, and it's a HUGE thing to ask people to put their lives on the line to defend us.  :american

on the other hand, the day is slow full of cloying, jingoistic, nationalistic garbage sentiment from right-wing mouthbreathers, paranoiacs, and rage junkies that it's all but obscured the simple message of appreciation. also, most of the vets who DO speak up are on the unlikable YOU MUST HUMOR MY INSANE RIGHT-WING POLITICAL OPINION BECAUSE I SERVED variety, not the bright ones that might plead for common sense about the necessary horrors of human violence.  :goty2  :supergay :win

Can't argue with this (shocking I know)....my dad and his friends who were vets would get together and drink a few beers and eat ribs. That was veterans day. They never forced it on anyone.

I ran into two veterans today at work. One was a really cool guy who downplayed it but ended up being a pretty well decorated soldier (his wife brought in his pics and you could tell he was uncomfortable) so I bought him lunch.

The other....well he liked to tell everyone within 10 feet of him he was a vet. He fixed airplanes and never went overseas but you'd think he was fucking rambo by the way he talked.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 11, 2014, 03:38:58 PM
My wife quickly killed my son's name: T-bone Optimus-Montana *my last name*  :(

i wanted to name my daughter "cunnifred clitorbeater erickson" and THAT was stone cold rejected. :fbm

guess i shoulda married lena dunham.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 11, 2014, 03:40:16 PM
veteran's day is always a struggle for my pasty never-served ass. on one hand, we live in a world where defense is necessary, and it's a HUGE thing to ask people to put their lives on the line to defend us.  :american

on the other hand, the day is slow full of cloying, jingoistic, nationalistic garbage sentiment from right-wing mouthbreathers, paranoiacs, and rage junkies that it's all but obscured the simple message of appreciation. also, most of the vets who DO speak up are on the unlikable YOU MUST HUMOR MY INSANE RIGHT-WING POLITICAL OPINION BECAUSE I SERVED variety, not the bright ones that might plead for common sense about the necessary horrors of human violence.  :goty2  :supergay :win

Can't argue with this (shocking I know)....my dad and his friends who were vets would get together and drink a few beers and eat ribs. That was veterans day. They never forced it on anyone.

i'mma drop by my preferred dive bar on the ride home and buy all the vets a round (or two) of coors light. if they start in on obummer or libtards, i'll just bring up that harleys are now water-cooled and they'll switch lamentations inna green zone second.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:41:20 PM
veteran's day is always a struggle for my pasty never-served ass. on one hand, we live in a world where defense is necessary, and it's a HUGE thing to ask people to put their lives on the line to defend us.  :american

on the other hand, the day is slow full of cloying, jingoistic, nationalistic garbage sentiment from right-wing mouthbreathers, paranoiacs, and rage junkies that it's all but obscured the simple message of appreciation. also, most of the vets who DO speak up are on the unlikable YOU MUST HUMOR MY INSANE RIGHT-WING POLITICAL OPINION BECAUSE I SERVED variety, not the bright ones that might plead for common sense about the necessary horrors of human violence.  :goty2  :supergay :win

Can't argue with this (shocking I know)....my dad and his friends who were vets would get together and drink a few beers and eat ribs. That was veterans day. They never forced it on anyone.

i'mma drop by my preferred dive bar on the ride home and buy all the vets a round coors light. if they start in on obummer or libtards, i'll just bring up that harleys are now water-cooled and they'll switch lamentations inna green zone second.

Tip: Just mention Obama isn't a vet...it'll sort out the fucktards on the quick.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:43:17 PM
military fanboys are among the worst fanboys, only slightly worse than people who listen to Rush and slightly better than furries.

I'm the son of a military man who was wounded in battle. I guess that makes me a fanboy.

RIP Pops, miss ya every day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 11, 2014, 03:48:01 PM
my old man was a front line medic for two tours of duty in vietnam. he pulled parts of friends out of foxholes and tunnels, and had his helicopter shot down. he wasn't drafted; he left college and went because he was afraid his brother might get drafted. for all my trolly shit, i do honor his service, courage, and humanity even as i mock his more absurd political opinions. and you know what? he'd never argue that i don't have the right to.

:american
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 11, 2014, 03:48:05 PM
military fanboys are among the worst fanboys, only slightly worse than people who listen to Rush and slightly better than furries.

I'm the son of a military man who was wounded in battle. I guess that makes me a fanboy.

RIP Pops, miss ya every day.

I don't mean you. Or anyone with family who have been in the military who appreciate what they do.

I mean the never-had-duty weirdos who cover their walls in memorabilia and fill cases with old functional m1 garands and singlehandedly fund surplus stores and wear camo in non-hunting environments.

Oh yeah. My little area is chock full of wannabe commandos. Weird people they are.

I remember back in the day my pops asking some militant dude why he wanted violence? They guy said "cause I'm a warrior" my dad laughed and said "son the first time that shot at this nicca, I shit my pants, there ain't no motherfucking rambos"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 11, 2014, 03:59:57 PM
my old man used to say "we got a lot of john waynes and an equal number of caskets"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 11, 2014, 04:37:18 PM
My grandad didn't talk about WWII much but when he did it was always some depressing shit. He was in a segregated unit, and initially the black soldiers weren't given weapons. Instead they'd carry ammo back and forth. He said he saw an entire line of white soldiers get mowed down but the commanders still wouldn't arm him and the other black soldiers.

He also said Japanese soldiers used to leave propaganda pamphlets everywhere that detailed the various racist things that were happening in the south, and asking black soldiers to deflect.

He also said that one of the first things that brought the black and white soldiers together was hearing that FDR died. He said the entire camp busted out in tears.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 11, 2014, 05:06:42 PM
Just found out 1080p/60fps videos lag like shit in Firefox while 720p/60fps runs just fine.

The killer part is that Firefox doesn't even utilize 60fps playback atm  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: SpeedStats on November 11, 2014, 05:29:09 PM
Started feeling bad yesterday and completely not like myself today.  Bailed out on my classes and went for a drive because I didn't feel right.  Then started feeling so anxious that my brain was screaming to go buy some alcohol (which I did and haven't opened), and then came home and cried a lot for no reason.

Not sure why that happened since I've been feeling pretty good for the last two months.  Compared to 2013, 2014 has been pretty generous to me so I'm not sure where the anxiety came from.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 11, 2014, 05:37:45 PM
Comcast has a 300 gb data limit on our monthly intertubes plan that we'll go over if I stream tv shows, which is horseshit. There is no higher tier plan. There is no other current alternative for high speed access in our neighborhood.

:piss regional monopolies :piss2

:piss stone age US ISPs :piss2

GIMME DAT GOOGLE FIBER, PLZ
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 11, 2014, 05:41:51 PM
I was gonna go to paseo for lunch this weekend  :'(


and nobody thinks about the sacrifice military spouses make :usacry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 11, 2014, 05:45:18 PM
Comcast has a 300 gb data limit on our monthly intertubes plan that we'll go over if I stream tv shows, which is horseshit. There is no higher tier plan. There is no other current alternative for high speed access in our neighborhood.

:piss regional monopolies :piss2

:piss stone age US ISPs :piss2

GIMME DAT GOOGLE FIBER, PLZ

If I ever become a domestic terrorist, it will be over data caps.  Greatest ill of society by far.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: SpeedStats on November 11, 2014, 05:52:25 PM
That type of thing can't be normal. Any sort of problems that can bring this about? Issues from last year coming back up or something?

I hope not.  2013 was a really bad year mentally, where I felt depressed almost every day.  Today sort of felt like that, but it was the most random thing since everything feels like it's going fairly decently lately.  Usually when I'm anxious it's due to family stuff, school/finances not working out, being stretched far too thin, reading stuff that'll annoy me, love life not working out, etc.

I probably just need some sleep and to veg/not think of serious stuff for a few days.  It was probably something small but enough to get me feeling that way.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 11, 2014, 06:10:51 PM
Found out today that someone (with my phone number) created some account on a college social network called Yik Yak under my name (I don't have my number anywhere online, so it's someone I know) and posted that "I" was going to "go into the college library tomorrow and kill myself" (and the school actually had the library closed up all day)

I've been in numerous meetings with the campus police and counselors all day and I'm trying to get this worked out, but so far, it's just been a stressful day (hell, I found out if I didn't agree to meet with the counselor, the school was going to call the cops on me)

I've talked to both of my parents about my situation and they're on my side, but I don't know, today has just been a mess and I'm going to meet with the campus police tomorrow to provide them with my IP address (so I can prove that it wasn't me who posted on Yik Yak)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 11, 2014, 06:14:56 PM
That is struggle. :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 11, 2014, 06:15:49 PM
Wow, that's crazy. The paranoia such an event would create must be the worst part, long term. It's clearly someone you know.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: naff on November 11, 2014, 06:20:45 PM
Are university staff/police at least reasonable when you say it wasn't you or do they just  ::) putting the impetus on you to prove it wasn't you seems strange, even weirder it sounds like the cell phone number is a key part of authentication/identification but they don't use a text code for account confirmation?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: naff on November 11, 2014, 06:24:33 PM
Also, do you know Arvie IRL?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 11, 2014, 06:25:39 PM
Also, do you know Arvie IRL?
Yes, I go to school with them and I've only given my number to maybe five people I go to school with
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 11, 2014, 06:31:14 PM
Well, I just downloaded this Yik Yak stuff on my phone and it doesn't require a number whatsoever (though it requires your number on their site to get the areas closest to you)

Shit....
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: naff on November 11, 2014, 06:50:17 PM
Yes, I go to school with them and I've only given my number to maybe five people I go to school with

 :ohhh

Sounds v. annoying, sorry dude. Also, possibly a fairly innocent but misguided and idiotic prank that spiralled out of control  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 11, 2014, 07:33:28 PM
Diving back into Tinder again.  :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 11, 2014, 07:46:33 PM
Diving back into Tinder again.  :snoop

I agreed to let a client pimp me out with an employee of one of their large clients. :heh

The potential for Zack Morris :ufup is going to be so :lawd brehs. #dgaf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 11, 2014, 08:12:08 PM
Been pretty sick last 2 or 3 days. Fever, cold sweats, shaking the works. Throw in like four or so hours of feeling "okay" besides my head weighing a ton and general weakness/light headedness. Felt a little better today in the sense that so far the shakes have not struck me back to the bed...yet. =/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 11, 2014, 08:13:48 PM
So the LDS church made the front page of the NYT with a story about how Joseph Smith had 40 wives. a lot of mormons are reconciling it by saying "He wasn't a pervert! Yes, he married 40 women, many of them underaged, but he never had sex with them!" I dunno, to me it seems if he didn't have sex with him it makes him even more of a pervert.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 11, 2014, 08:24:28 PM
The second leader guy whos name I forget also had a shit ton of wives, and mormons explain it buy saying he married widows and the unwanted so that they would be financially taken care of.  Sounds a lot better than saying the dude enjoyed a having a gilf harem.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 11, 2014, 11:56:11 PM
Those days suck, Wraff. Hang in there; it's temporary.

I like you.

:hang-in-there-cat-poster.jpg (http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs50/i/2009/325/b/a/Hang_in_there__baby_by_dinmoney.jpg)


Taking the wife and son to the airport tomorrow morning. Going to get up at 04:40 to do it. Not looking forward to being without my wife's sane balance while looking after my mom.

Also, my sister didn't give me my license renewal, so it's illegal for me to drive even though my license is being processed. Being driven around at 47 by my 72 year old mom. I might as well move into a basement and buy anime posters.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 12, 2014, 01:11:58 AM
Late night binged on Taco Bell instead of drinking or pillzing myself to sleep.

The Fritos burrito is OK for a buck, BTW.
Title: !.
Post by: El Babua on November 12, 2014, 02:19:17 AM
My local Taco Bell puts extra meat on theirs.  :shaq

Definitely makes it feel worth more than $1

Got my mom a tablet. (Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4) Now I have to teach her how to use it. :stahp

Fuck your unintuitive GUI, Samsung.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 07:55:23 AM
Lots of sad folks on the bore around the holidays.


My struggle today is that I spilled some coffee on my peacoat and it's driving me nuts.

And for the fashion oriented, this is my coat

http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/lauren-ralph-lauren-labrada-double-breasted-wool-blend-peacoat?ID=879642&pla_country=US&CAGPSPN=pla&CAWELAID=120156340001030608&catargetid=120156340000990183&cadevice=c&cm_mmc=Google_Nongender_PLA-_-Nongender+Apparel+Brands+-+GS_Lauren+Ralph+Lauren-_-56463285729_-_-_mkwid_yH5pEo6U|dc_56463285729%7C-%7CyH5pEo6U

feels bad man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 09:35:42 AM
I destroyed a leather jacket I've had in great condition since highschool last week in the rain.  Every time I look at it I feel awful. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 09:46:38 AM
Well fortunately it isn't destroyed. I just dropped it off at the cleaners and had to play fucking 20 bucks for same day service. Thieves.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 12:12:21 PM
One of the girls I TA is a dead ringer for Sasha Grey and today she was wearing a very short red dress and pantyhose in class  :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 12, 2014, 12:15:24 PM
4 projects at once and the least important one to me keeps trying to schedule my time over and over.
I keep having to send out declining messages. What part of "I'm on 3 other projects. I'll get to you when I can do you not understand?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:21:23 PM
4 projects at once and the least important one to me keeps trying to schedule my time over and over.
I keep having to send out declining messages. What part of "I'm on 3 other projects. I'll get to you when I can do you not understand?"

Ha, back when I was working as a corporate stan for a media company this was my typical day

declined
declined
tentative
declined
tentative
declined
declined
tentative

I once entered tentative on my own contract renegotiation due to it being in another state in 2 hours. Then I read it and it said "webinar"

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 12, 2014, 12:24:11 PM
I have to admit it's sorta nice actually because this 4th project I hate and anyone can do it, while the other 3 are things that only I can do.
So even if I do have the time to attend something for the 4th project I don't attend lest they get used to having me around. I hope that they catch on and think "Hey....we can do this ourselves instead of having to wait...." Besides the other 3 are much higher priority.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:26:20 PM
I have to admit it's sorta nice actually because this 4th project I hate and anyone can do it, while the other 3 are things that only I can do.
So even if I do have the time to attend something for the 4th project I don't attend lest they get used to having me around. I hope that they catch on and think "Hey....we can do this ourselves instead of having to wait...." Besides the other 3 are much higher priority.

Sure.

But when we literally had an all hands meeting.....about having too many meetings...I decided it was perhaps time to venture out on my own. I still help them on occasion.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 12, 2014, 12:31:04 PM
Be lazy and weak willed, brehs.
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 12:34:29 PM
I got a beagle and cream cheese at tims but they didn't toast the beagle. 


Also guys I'm serious; Sasha Grey.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:36:22 PM
I got a beagle and cream cheese at tims but they didn't toast the beagle. 


Also guys I'm serious; Sasha Grey.

You mean that weird ass chick with the "I'm bored" fuck face who thinks she's gonna go mainstream?

:stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 12, 2014, 12:36:29 PM
I have to admit it's sorta nice actually because this 4th project I hate and anyone can do it, while the other 3 are things that only I can do.
So even if I do have the time to attend something for the 4th project I don't attend lest they get used to having me around. I hope that they catch on and think "Hey....we can do this ourselves instead of having to wait...." Besides the other 3 are much higher priority.

Sure.

But when we literally had an all hands meeting.....about having too many meetings...I decided it was perhaps time to venture out on my own. I still help them on occasion.
I got you beaten handily.

I once was at a client that called a 2 hour meeting with 28 attendees about how we were having too many meetings and how to run an effective meeting.

Welp, if you're trying to run an effective meeting and you schedule it for 2 hours with 28 attendees? It seems to me you have no idea how to run an effective meeting.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:38:42 PM
I have to admit it's sorta nice actually because this 4th project I hate and anyone can do it, while the other 3 are things that only I can do.
So even if I do have the time to attend something for the 4th project I don't attend lest they get used to having me around. I hope that they catch on and think "Hey....we can do this ourselves instead of having to wait...." Besides the other 3 are much higher priority.

Sure.

But when we literally had an all hands meeting.....about having too many meetings...I decided it was perhaps time to venture out on my own. I still help them on occasion.
I got you beaten handily.

I once was at a client that called a 2 hour meeting with 28 attendees about how we were having too many meetings and how to run an effective meeting.

Welp, if you're trying to run an effective meeting and you schedule it for 2 hours with 28 attendees? It seems to me you have no idea how to run an effective meeting.

I dunno my old company spent more on one conference room (crazy can be one huge room or 9 small rooms or 3 medium rooms) then they did on the goddamn voip install.  To this day I don't think they have ever as much as moved the faux walls in the thing and the network for phones goes down daily.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 12:48:13 PM
I got a beagle and cream cheese at tims but they didn't toast the beagle. 


Also guys I'm serious; Sasha Grey.

You mean that weird ass chick with the "I'm bored" fuck face who thinks she's gonna go mainstream?

:stahp

Ya, that's the one. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:54:48 PM
(http://static.cdn.ea.com/battlelog/prod/emblems/320/506/2832655391568317506.jpeg?v=1334861216.9)

Oh yeah baby, I'm totally feeling it.....yawn.....


I just can't unsee her porn face.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 12:55:42 PM
Why would you ever want to unsee her porno face? 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 12, 2014, 12:55:43 PM
Oh yeah?!

I once worked with a client where the EVP said "Bring together all the stakeholders and come up with a schedule."

So I pulled together all the stakeholders from all over the world. 24 of them. Since they were big wigs I had to get them nice hotels and all that. Then I had to cater breakfast lunch and dinner while these 24 stakeholders and a team of consultants met to settle upon a doable schedule. Overall the meetings for that week with expenses, salaries, and consulting time probably came close to $200k. But at the end we had a detailed plan and a schedule signed off by all stakeholders agreeing to meet the schedule.

I took all this stuff back to the EVP and said, "Here's the agreed upon schedule. All stakeholders agree that end of September works."

The EVP didn't even look at the schedule and just said, "That's too late. Make it June."

"But sir, we've spent all this time and resources to come up with this schedule which everyone agreed to and they all agree to September."

"I understand. June."

$200k down the toilet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:56:09 PM
Why would you ever want to unsee her porno face?

Because she constantly looks bored as fuck?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 12:57:47 PM
Why would you ever want to unsee her porno face?

Because she constantly looks bored as fuck?

 :nsfw :nsfw :nsfw
http://www.reddit.com/r/borednignored
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:58:00 PM
Oh yeah?!

I once worked with a client where the EVP said "Bring together all the stakeholders and come up with a schedule."

So I pulled together all the stakeholders from all over the world. 24 of them. Since they were big wigs I had to get them nice hotels and all that. Then I had to cater breakfast lunch and dinner while these 24 stakeholders and a team of consultants met to settle upon a doable schedule. Overall the meetings for that week with expenses, salaries, and consulting time probably came close to $200k. But at the end we had a detailed plan and a schedule signed off by all stakeholders agreeing to meet the schedule.

I took all this stuff back to the EVP and said, "Here's the agreed upon schedule. All stakeholders agree that end of September works."

The EVP didn't even look at the schedule and just said, "That's too late. Make it June."

"But sir, we've spent all this time and resources to come up with this schedule which everyone agreed to and they all agree to September."

"I understand. June."

$200k down the toilet.

You win. I've never seen anything quite that bad.

Worst I've probably seen is our CEO scheduling a helicopter to fly him roughly 4 miles at a cost of about 45,000 bucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 12:59:55 PM
Why would you ever want to unsee her porno face?

Because she constantly looks bored as fuck?

 :nsfw :nsfw :nsfw
http://www.reddit.com/r/borednignored

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 12, 2014, 01:01:07 PM
This was the same company that when you got promoted to VP they gave you a $10,000 budget to decorate your office.
SVP $25k, I can't imagine what EVPs got.
All that just to decorate their office.
Oh and it was an annual budget. So they got that every year.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 12, 2014, 01:02:56 PM
This was the same company that when you got promoted to VP they gave you a $10,000 budget to decorate your office.
SVP $25k, I can't imagine what EVPs got.
All that just to decorate their office.
Oh and it was an annual budget. So they got that every year.

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I got 5k to do my office and I bought about 700 dollars worth of shit and banked the rest....thug stylo. They did not feel regional controllers had to produce receipts...old school thought that was bothersome
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 12, 2014, 01:16:18 PM
I had the same thing and it morphed into bronchitis I still have :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 12, 2014, 03:00:03 PM
Oh yeah?!

I once worked with a client where the EVP said "Bring together all the stakeholders and come up with a schedule."

So I pulled together all the stakeholders from all over the world. 24 of them. Since they were big wigs I had to get them nice hotels and all that. Then I had to cater breakfast lunch and dinner while these 24 stakeholders and a team of consultants met to settle upon a doable schedule. Overall the meetings for that week with expenses, salaries, and consulting time probably came close to $200k. But at the end we had a detailed plan and a schedule signed off by all stakeholders agreeing to meet the schedule.

I took all this stuff back to the EVP and said, "Here's the agreed upon schedule. All stakeholders agree that end of September works."

The EVP didn't even look at the schedule and just said, "That's too late. Make it June."

"But sir, we've spent all this time and resources to come up with this schedule which everyone agreed to and they all agree to September."

"I understand. June."

$200k down the toilet.

You win. I've never seen anything quite that bad.

Worst I've probably seen is our CEO scheduling a helicopter to fly him roughly 4 miles at a cost of about 45,000 bucks.

This was the same company that when you got promoted to VP they gave you a $10,000 budget to decorate your office.
SVP $25k, I can't imagine what EVPs got.
All that just to decorate their office.
Oh and it was an annual budget. So they got that every year.
Good God.  Now I'm glad that my company is so damn frugal.  At least when they cut all our budgets and make us suffer they also cut the budgets for the Execs and all their perks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 12, 2014, 03:01:24 PM
I had the same thing and it morphed into bronchitis I still have :stahp

Same :stahp  Was given nasal spray and an inhaler for the cough, which they think are allergies of some sort.  Happens every fall and spring now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 12, 2014, 04:18:11 PM
Date for tonight cancelled on me.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 12, 2014, 04:36:43 PM
Watch some Sasha Grey videos
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 13, 2014, 12:25:55 AM
:nsfw :nsfw :nsfw
http://www.reddit.com/r/borednignored
Some of these  :neogaf

The one titled "(no) fun in the woods" :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 13, 2014, 12:42:16 AM
Client-organized celebratory dinner for my recent career advancement next week. :holeup Being the center of attention. :brazilcry

On a related note, I find myself unable to construct a sufficient personality test relating to my new title. To explain what I mean, there are certain topics people rotely discuss because no one actually gives a shit about anyone else but people are too chickenshit to just say as much. Schooling is one such topic, well at least above certain socio-economic strata. Having an usual major and an aversion to being noticed, I answer the question "So what did you study?" with a broad category. People respond to this in a couple of ways.
2. then breaks down into:

Unfortunately the broad category for my new title is as opaque as the title itself, so I can't really replicate this unilateral personality test as simply as I do for education. I tried it out at the bar on Sunday night and I just got a :mindblown from the gal I was talking too. :shaq2

I will persevere in this endeavor though, pretty much everyone is going to ask you what you do for a living. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 13, 2014, 12:50:48 AM
I tried it out at the bar on Sunday night and I just got a :mindblown from the gal I was talking too. :shaq2
Patrick Bateman: Ask me a question.
Club Patron: So, what do you do?
Patrick Bateman: I'm into, uh, well, murders and executions, mostly.
Club Patron: Do you like it?
Patrick Bateman: Well, it depends. Why?
Club Patron: Well, most guys I know who are in Mergers and Acquisitions really don't like it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on November 13, 2014, 04:18:54 AM
Spent the last day in the hospital due to an infected gallbladder and pancreatitis. I got sent home with a bunch of antibiotics, pain pills, and some stuff for nausea. They found a stone the size of a nickel apparently. They gave me a bunch of stuff for inflammation and something else that might help break up the stones as well as keep the bile machine in check. I don't know why they didn't remove the gallbladder, but it might have to do with the risk of infection. I have to find out when they'll schedule it and it's ruining my holiday spirit.

This month has sucked.  :'(   
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 13, 2014, 06:13:03 AM
Being drunk and crying over dead friends :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 07:51:36 AM
Being drunk and crying over dead friends :rejoice

Been doing that since I was 11 bro. Never a good time. Sorry for your loss.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 07:54:34 AM
Listening to someone continually pronounce Mao as "Mayo" while discussing a Chinese documentary she watched last night.
:beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 07:56:57 AM
Listening to someone continually pronounce Mao as "Mayo" while discussing a Chinese documentary she watched last night.
:beli

LOL, I'd hate to see how she handled a documentary about Than Shwe
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 13, 2014, 08:19:27 AM
Listening to someone continually pronounce Mao as "Mayo" while discussing a Chinese documentary she watched last night.
:beli
I heard they used Miracle Whip at the struggle sessions.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on November 13, 2014, 08:19:45 AM
 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 08:29:16 AM
Listening to someone continually pronounce Mao as "Mayo" while discussing a Chinese documentary she watched last night.
:beli
I heard they used Miracle Whip at the struggle sessions.

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 09:03:13 AM
PD's inbox is full and I wanted to discuss my kiddos michigan visit, feels bad man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 09:05:16 AM
aite breh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 13, 2014, 09:12:38 AM
Every time someone complains about PD's inbox being full, he deletes 1 PM.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 13, 2014, 10:38:56 AM
I've been feeling uneasy ever since Tuesday
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 10:39:44 AM
I've been feeling uneasy ever since Tuesday

Hmmm, what is bugging you man?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 13, 2014, 10:42:28 AM
I've been feeling uneasy ever since Tuesday

Hmmm, what is bugging you man?
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42407.msg1962389#msg1962389

It has just sucked. My parents have constantly been checking up on me to make sure I'm doing "fine" and it just bothers me that someone would post something like this and get me into a world of trouble
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 10:43:10 AM
I've been feeling uneasy ever since Tuesday

Hmmm, what is bugging you man?
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42407.msg1962389#msg1962389

It has just sucked. My parents have constantly been checking up on me to make sure I'm doing "fine" and it just bothers me that someone would post something like this and get me into a world of trouble

Oh that's right. Man I have no remorse for the fucker if they catch him. I hope he goes away for a few years. Unacceptable behavior from a hater.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 13, 2014, 10:51:01 AM
I've been feeling uneasy ever since Tuesday
Man, that'd be rough.  Hope you get it sorted out soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 11:20:13 AM
Is it possible that your dad did it? Given that he reads your online posts, maybe he did it to convince you not to use forums or something.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 02:09:56 PM
Went to my second favorite local taco place for lunch, and as I was waiting at the front desk I noticed someone to my right, just staring at me. I casually gave her a glance and it was a 14-16yo girl, blushing and looking at me. I pulled a MAF and pretended to get a text, whipped out my phone and then she said "you don't remember me?" At which point I started looking around expecting the cops at any minute
:brazilcry

Turned out she's my friend's little sister, and I hadn't seen her in 5 years. She was there doing a paper on Mexican food, for school.
:whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 02:14:36 PM
Went to my second favorite local taco place for lunch, and as I was waiting at the front desk I noticed someone to my right, just staring at me. I casually gave her a glance and it was a 14-16yo girl, blushing and looking at me. I pulled a MAF and pretended to get a text, whipped out my phone and then she said "you don't remember me?" At which point I started looking around expecting the cops at any minute
:brazilcry

Turned out she's my friend's little sister, and I hadn't seen her in 5 years. She was there doing a paper on Mexican food, for school.
:whew

LOLS

My wife's sister hit on me pretty hard when we were first dating (she's older than us by 3 years). She left a message on my phone back in the day of answering machines along the lines of "yeah baby I'd love to sit on your lap...daaaaaaaddddddddyyyyyyy, holla" while my wife to be and I were watching a movie.....so the next night at dinner with her family my wife said hey babe you want some more mashed potatoes daaaaaadddddyyyyyyy, holla"  oh the uncomfortable looks at that table.

Memories AND always having one up on her!

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 03:11:05 PM
NOOOOOOO
:dead

:rofl

Who was at the table brehs. Damn. She must have really thought you'd smash to leave a message.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 03:13:09 PM
NOOOOOOO
:dead

:rofl

Who was at the table brehs. Damn. She must have really thought you'd smash to leave a message.

I might have flirted a little (she was a piece) but that is lost in the passage of time.

 :jawalrus

At the table? Wife, sister, brother, brother, brother, dad, mom, grandma, and weird uncle Felton.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on November 13, 2014, 03:13:45 PM
Blacked out again. Barely still alive.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 03:25:56 PM
NOOOOOOO
:dead

:rofl

Who was at the table brehs. Damn. She must have really thought you'd smash to leave a message.

I'll give a bit more detail.

Got home from movie, hit play on answering machine.

Sis talking some dirty shit

wife gives me the  :gurl

I'm all like, I don't know what that woman is trying to do girl, for real...damn   :holeup

She buys it  :whew

Wife promises not to saying anything but you know black women PD

Busts out daaaaddddyyyyy

I'm like  :shaq2

brothers are like   :leon

pops is like  :sabu

uncle felton all  :umad

sis was like  :brazilcry

mom was like "what the hell is happening y'all"   :gurl

everyone "nothin"  :badass

awkward next hour until I get the first opportunity to jet.

Sis and wifey had a nasty phone call about that shit and that was that. You know that type of my call....all I heard on my end was "that's my man...get your own man....your triflin.....that shit dirty.....whateva....."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 13, 2014, 03:35:30 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot, my wife had a new hair going so she was like "I ain't trying to struggle with my sister over this shit and fuck up my hair" then immediately struggled with her sister.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 13, 2014, 03:41:48 PM
You watched them wrestle? (http://i.imgur.com/jUaN7hP.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 13, 2014, 03:51:01 PM
So it was dirtier than just "sit on your lap, daddy?"

:dead

Pops and Uncle Felton not giving a shit :lawd

That's some Grade A fuckery. The last time I saw some uncomfortable shit like that, it was a Christmas party at my uncle's house. Another uncle had brought his gf over, and it was kind of clear she was kind of ghetto; my dad's side of the family are basically Huxtable black folk. We were doing some type of family event in the living room when his gf went into the kitchen. She came out 5 minutes later.

10 minutes later we all went into the kitchen and I heard my aunt yell "who the hell cut my cake?!" Brehs, the gf cut my aunt's cake and ate a piece. I wasn't aware but apparently going into a woman's house and cutting her cake/pie/etc before her is a major form of disrespect, apparently.

The fuckery that erupted :lawd

My mom and grandma had to take my aunt outside to cool her down, while the gf tried to hold my uncle's hand, as if she wanted protection. Brehs I shit you not, my uncle gave her the "I don't know you" face. She left 5 minutes later after apologizing.
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 13, 2014, 04:00:31 PM
Families. :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 13, 2014, 04:02:25 PM
Day 4, and still fucking sick. Heavy head, nausea, with a fever that only seems to strike at 5 in the fucking morning. As soon as I go to bed my body goes into nuclear reactor meltdown. Eating fruits, mainlining theraflu. Just want this shit to go away.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 13, 2014, 05:39:45 PM
Just so pissed off today. Wish I could quit my job.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 13, 2014, 06:15:15 PM
Urgh!This fucking client!
Honestly most of the conversations I've had can be summed up like this:

"Where do I put the gas?"
"You don't need gas you bought a Tesla"
"But my old car needs gas."
"Yes, but this is a Tesla it's electric it doesn't need any gas."
"See? The gas tank is right there."
"But you don't need gas."
"How's about if I just pour the gas in the back seat?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 14, 2014, 02:46:22 AM
Apparently I looked so bitchy/depressed/whatever last night that even though I'm known around town for my surly disposition and general "glass is half-empty" attitude, multiple people felt the need to ask me if I was ok.

So, you know, I've got that going for me. Which is nice.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 14, 2014, 03:22:06 AM
Just shelved/scrapped a design I spent 70+ hours on.  :picard :noah

But... the new visual style I'm going with for the revision is soooo much better.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 14, 2014, 03:41:34 AM
Oh, and I deactivated Tinder for the 100th time.

Shit makes my anxiety spike like a motherfucker. Plus, I can't focus on anything when I have it active. It just kills my productivity.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 14, 2014, 09:59:28 AM
Trying to head to work this morning and my truck starts up, but it won't reverse whatsoever and I ended up having to ride my skateboard to work (and I was twenty minutes late, but thankfully nobody else was in it). I'm having one of my step-dad's friends to come over and look at it after he gets off of work, but I'm just hoping it's not a fix that is going to cost me me loads of money (cause I don't have the money right now)

 :snoop :snoop :snoop :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 14, 2014, 11:48:25 AM
Sorry Ched, you having some Karakand tier luck of late.

My party on Monday has a circulating email. :brazilcry It also said I accomplished a goal when my only goal in life is to die. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 14, 2014, 12:33:10 PM
skateboarding to work :lol :lol :lol

live your life like a weezer song brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 14, 2014, 12:50:10 PM
Trying to head to work this morning and my truck starts up, but it won't reverse whatsoever and I ended up having to ride my skateboard to work (and I was twenty minutes late, but thankfully nobody else was in it). I'm having one of my step-dad's friends to come over and look at it after he gets off of work, but I'm just hoping it's not a fix that is going to cost me me loads of money (cause I don't have the money right now)

 :snoop :snoop :snoop :snoop
Does the shifter move into reverse at all?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 14, 2014, 12:59:58 PM
Trying to head to work this morning and my truck starts up, but it won't reverse whatsoever and I ended up having to ride my skateboard to work (and I was twenty minutes late, but thankfully nobody else was in it). I'm having one of my step-dad's friends to come over and look at it after he gets off of work, but I'm just hoping it's not a fix that is going to cost me me loads of money (cause I don't have the money right now)

 :snoop :snoop :snoop :snoop
Does the shifter move into reverse at all?
I'm able to shift into reverse, but whenever I apply some pressure to the gas pedal, there's no movement whatsoever

skateboarding to work :lol :lol :lol

live your life like a weezer song brehs
Only way I could get there in time

 :goty2 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 14, 2014, 04:01:38 PM
Why am I always the last one to know when I'm on a project.

"Hey man, so I heard you're going to be leading this project"
"What?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 14, 2014, 04:49:04 PM
My warehouse lost 50 cases of wine and instead labeled 50 cases of plastic gin mini bottles as my wine, which means a bunch of shady liquor stores around the bay have all my wine.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 14, 2014, 05:18:39 PM
Got sucked into a macro-econ debate on the WSJ comments section with people who seem to think the IS/LM model is Marxism  :brazilcry
(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/3806936/sesame-street-letter-l-o.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 14, 2014, 05:41:53 PM
Just made supper for tomorrow and dropped the whole thing on the floor while putting it in the fridge.  Damn it. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 14, 2014, 05:43:56 PM
Just made supper for tomorrow and dropped the whole thing on the floor while putting it in the fridge.  Damn it.

Now you have to go out and kill another hobo  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 14, 2014, 05:46:17 PM
Just made supper for tomorrow and dropped the whole thing on the floor while putting it in the fridge.  Damn it.

Now you have to go out and kill another hobo  :-\
You don't think Arvie has spares in his freezer already? :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 14, 2014, 06:05:34 PM
But they take so long to thaw.   
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 14, 2014, 07:07:33 PM
Arvie exhibits little of the rage (cold or hot) or vengeful nature/vindictiveness that you expect from a serial killer, he's just a weirdo.

Wouldn't that be in line with serial killers who only commit murder while in an altered state?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 15, 2014, 04:02:24 PM
Learning that long lost relatives are dumb racists :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 16, 2014, 01:46:06 PM
tried to give one of the campus cops my ip address and they were like "nah, i believe it wasn't you"

i kinda want everyone to know it wasn't me, because i have been so damn uneasy since i got accused of everything tuesday and honestly, it really has soured my "college experience"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on November 16, 2014, 02:03:51 PM
tried to give one of the campus cops my ip address and they were like "nah, i believe it wasn't you"
be white brehs :win
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 16, 2014, 02:46:42 PM
Learning that long lost relatives are dumb racists :kobeyuck
it's fun to peek at some distant relatives' facebook pages now and again. mostly for this reason.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 16, 2014, 02:53:48 PM
Being the black sheep of the family and a general asshole that no one wants to keep in touch with

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cool breeze on November 16, 2014, 04:41:32 PM
it got really cold really fast.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 16, 2014, 04:42:40 PM
Being the black sheep of the family and a general asshole that no one wants to keep in touch with

:rejoice

Nah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 16, 2014, 04:51:11 PM
Being the black sheep of the family and a general asshole that no one wants to keep in touch with

:rejoice
being the black sheep asshole that people do want to keep touch with and feeling like crap because you rarely call anyone  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 16, 2014, 09:01:56 PM
Being the black sheep of the family and a general asshole that no one wants to keep in touch with

:rejoice

Nah

People are gross, nasty complications with legs. Not having to deal with your cousins bullshit just because they're your cousin is awesome, wouldn't trade it for anything.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: naff on November 16, 2014, 09:24:32 PM
Being the black sheep of the family and a general asshole that no one wants to keep in touch with

:rejoice
being the black sheep asshole that people do want to keep touch with and feeling like crap because you rarely call anyone  :fbm

That feel :fbm I keep in touch with immediate family but don't bother with anyone else, but my mum is good at letting them know what im up to in general so it's kinda ok. Feel especially guilty re my step mum since my dad died, it's more that it brings up feels i have never really faced properly though.... And resentment she took everything he had and we didn't get shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 16, 2014, 09:30:19 PM
Being the black sheep of the family and a general asshole that no one wants to keep in touch with

:rejoice

Nah
eh, depends on the family. most of mine are weird codependents or abusive assholes (good combo to be sure). thankfully my wife's family, well her mom's, is full of great people who often strongly disagree on matters of life etc but can still function like normal people.

I've spent more time with them in the last 7 years than my own :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 16, 2014, 09:34:11 PM
Just made supper for tomorrow and dropped the whole thing on the floor while putting it in the fridge.  Damn it. 

Nami's eatin tonight. (http://i.imgur.com/ZH8JNGe.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 16, 2014, 09:36:06 PM

People are gross, nasty complications with legs. Not having to deal with your cousins bullshit just because they're your cousin is awesome, wouldn't trade it for anything.

(http://i3.minus.com/iQu79TLlrlhBl.png) astute observation, friend. Have you read the new Dawkins yet?

I'm not wrong

:hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 17, 2014, 02:19:20 AM
Boise Idaho is experiencing a cold snap so we had record snows, and now we have an inversion, which means we have no chance of the snows falling until next weekend. Shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 17, 2014, 02:41:26 AM
Man, snow is mad complicated huh?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 17, 2014, 02:45:26 AM
Yeah. We tried going out to the store today, and there is a very mild grade hill near by her house. We were cruising up it without much trouble, but when we stopped to safely merge, we couldn't get any traction to start moving forward again. The car actually rotated, slipping around on its center, which was pretty scary.

Coming back we realized it was going to be icy all the way down, so we were both pretending to be calm but secretly grinding our teeth in stress.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 17, 2014, 04:51:07 PM
fuuu I hate forgetting that I got family that follows me on Twitter. I put way too much on there that I'd never talk about irl. thankfully they have yet to bring any of it up at family stuff yet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 17, 2014, 04:52:55 PM
fuuu I hate forgetting that I got family that follows me on Twitter. I put way too much on there that I'd never talk about irl. thankfully they have yet to bring any of it up at family stuff yet.

damn I can't even give you an L since you can't control who follows you. But Facebook? Don't friend them and say "I don't use Facebook that much."
:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 17, 2014, 04:55:35 PM
fuuu I hate forgetting that I got family that follows me on Twitter. I put way too much on there that I'd never talk about irl. thankfully they have yet to bring any of it up at family stuff yet.

damn I can't even give you an L since you can't control who follows you. But Facebook? Don't friend them and say "I don't use Facebook that much."
:rejoice
Or Friend them and then Block them, or just use the Close Friends filter and make certain you control your privacy settings per post.

Piece of cake.  :-\

And they said technology would make our lives "more convenient..."  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 17, 2014, 04:55:43 PM
I've had a figurative lump in my throat for a week straight now. Fucking annoying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on November 17, 2014, 06:59:22 PM
Lost a friend to stomach cancer. She was fine in July, started feeling sick, diagnosed after a ton of tests, and died today. Feel horrible for her husband. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 17, 2014, 07:22:04 PM
I'm so sorry, Len :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on November 17, 2014, 08:45:41 PM
Thanks guys... I think the worst part is that I knew her well, but don't really know anybody in her family or her other friends, so I don't feel comfortable going to the funeral, and didn't go to the hospital when she was alive. That's always such an awkward thing when her family is in such a vulnerable state to show up. I've been on both sides of that.

We took pilates classes together, and we would get to class 30-45 min early just to bullshit, talk about our dogs, talk about our awesome husbands, to be in awe that she looked 25 but was 40, etc. Then we'd stay after class to bullshit more. I'd visit her at her work, and she saw me through every single week of my pregnancy, more than my friends and most family. She was just a sweet, gentle, caring person that you couldn't help but love.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 17, 2014, 09:39:15 PM
Well, I would say that if you feel like you need some sort of closure and the funeral would give that to you no one would look twice if you went. I'm sure she mentioned you to family and friends at some point so you wont be a stranger.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 17, 2014, 10:10:01 PM
very sorry to hear that. you have my condolences.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 17, 2014, 11:15:34 PM
I'm sorry for your loss.

For what it's worth, my daughter's best friend died about a year or so ago and her friend's family almost exclusively only spoke Vietnamese. It was uncomfortable but since then the parents have told us on several occasions that my daughter being there really meant a lot to them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 17, 2014, 11:20:52 PM
In a work related struggle. The silliness as to "what extra project will puppy be working now?" continues.
Today I got a request from a client I've never had dealings with asking for me to fill out forms for a background check. Typically this means that someone's put me a project without telling me anything about it. I ain't filling out shit until someone tells me what the hell is going on.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 18, 2014, 02:04:51 AM
Sorry to hear that, Len. Man, 2014 is really overstaying its goddamned welcome at this point.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 18, 2014, 11:51:13 AM
My condolences, Len

Probability  of riots here is definitely  a thing

:tocry

You're in MO right? Stay safe man
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 18, 2014, 03:09:13 PM
I'm sorry to hear that, Len.

If it were me, I would attend the funeral. And I would take the time to write a letter explaining what their daughter meant to you, and how her generosity touched people her family didn't know in ways it didn't know. They may appreciate that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 18, 2014, 03:37:20 PM
Probability  of riots here is definitely  a thing

:tocry


ain't nobody trying to protest in west county  :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 18, 2014, 03:40:07 PM
It's so cold I'm dreading leaving work (!) because I'll have to walk outside to my car.
(http://i.imgur.com/5Q2j5gS.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 18, 2014, 03:41:50 PM
I got a heating pad for my car seat and it was the best decision I ever made
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 18, 2014, 03:45:21 PM
I'm getting heated grips for my bike next year.  :rock
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 18, 2014, 03:47:55 PM
Last Friday, my wife came home and asked me why I had blood all over my face.  I get up and look in the mirror and find that I somehow cut my head and a neat little stream of blood went from the upper-right of my head to my right eyebrow.  I looked like Kratos.  No idea when this happened, but LOL if it started when I was on the train going home.  Maybe that's why I was able to get a seat so easily. :lol  Pretty sure it happened after I got home though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 18, 2014, 04:10:58 PM
It's 25 F with a persistent 20mph wind out now. Supposed to get down to 12 tonight.  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 18, 2014, 04:44:00 PM
Probability  of riots here is definitely  a thing

:tocry


ain't nobody trying to protest in west county  :bolo

good point, time to relax :aah

spoiler (click to show/hide)
stay safe man
[close]

thx duder. I'm gonna be right up front tho so I'm ready for whatever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 18, 2014, 07:28:00 PM
Got nostalgic about AIM scripts with Winamp plugins, remember when everyone knew what was playing?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 18, 2014, 07:42:19 PM
Listening to two baby boomers complain about Facebook. One keeps complaining about someone who responds to all of her long ass posts with smilies. :heh

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 18, 2014, 07:43:00 PM
Start using coli emotes on the complainer's posts
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 18, 2014, 07:45:35 PM
Start using coli emotes on the complainer's posts

as if I'd friend these shitlords.

"My daughter keeps putting smiley faces on random people's pages...a lot of them are single men. She says they're friends but won't tell me where she knows them from."
:what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 18, 2014, 07:54:28 PM
Low 60s tonight. Might have to put on a sweater.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 18, 2014, 08:02:15 PM
SUCK MY BALLS DUDE, SUCK MY BALLS
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 18, 2014, 08:06:06 PM
Low 60s tonight. Might have to put on a sweater.  :-\

we need a neg option for shit posts.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 18, 2014, 08:23:13 PM
Looking at 25 tonight. It's 35 right now.


Oh wait, this is the struggle thread  :teehee
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 18, 2014, 08:29:03 PM
Low 60s tonight. Might have to put on a sweater.  :-\
:mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 18, 2014, 09:55:48 PM
Right click, save as, post them your damn self you moocher

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 18, 2014, 10:00:29 PM
Low 60s tonight. Might have to put on a sweater.  :-\
that feel when you have to don the cashmere lined gloves :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on November 18, 2014, 10:55:09 PM
Enjoyed the bitter cold of 58 degrees outside.

Will be conformable sleeping shirtless tonight in my moderately sized blanket.  :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on November 18, 2014, 11:02:55 PM
spent my entire day working outside in the bitter cold, assholes in charge decided we couldn't wear our beanies an hour into it with the temperature dropping
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 19, 2014, 09:07:41 AM
Start using coli emotes on the complainer's posts

Might start doing this.  Am really getting tired of Facebook.  I rarely post anything because it's just so boring. 

Does anyone have any Facebook friends who seem to ignore your posts?  For example, there's a guy I said happy birthday to and he liked every other post except mine.  I sent him a message once and he never responded.  I keep wondering why I have people like this on my friends list-- and why they have me on theirs if they don't want to respond.  I guess I should just do some friends list clean-up, but really I should probably just log out and check the feed monthly instead of daily. 

There is something about Facebook that is oddly stressful for me.  I love fucking around on message boards, but hate FB.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 09:08:49 AM
Start using coli emotes on the complainer's posts

Might start doing this.  Am really getting tired of Facebook.  I rarely post anything because it's just so boring. 

Does anyone have any Facebook friends who ignore their posts?  For example, there's a guy I said happy birthday to and he liked every other post except mine.  I sent him a message once and he never responded.  I keep wondering why I have people like this on my friends list.  I guess I should just do some friends list clean-up.

Meh, I barely reply to anyone. Besides 80% of the time it's my mom and her sisters posting recipes and hating on their husbands....
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 19, 2014, 09:10:33 AM
That's another thing- relatives.  Don't mind having cousins on there, but I have some aunts and uncles.  If I remove them, I'm going to get shit for it.   :-\


Meh, I barely reply to anyone. Besides 80% of the time it's my mom and her sisters posting recipes and hating on their husbands....

I need to stop taking that shit personally, I guess.  But this was the guy literally responding to/liking posts from everyone except me.  It stood out. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 19, 2014, 10:25:55 AM
That's another thing- relatives.  Don't mind having cousins on there, but I have some aunts and uncles.  If I remove them, I'm going to get shit for it.   :-\


Meh, I barely reply to anyone. Besides 80% of the time it's my mom and her sisters posting recipes and hating on their husbands....

I need to stop taking that shit personally, I guess.  But this was the guy literally responding to/liking posts from everyone except me.  It stood out.

:rejoice Being the black sheep in the family

I'm friends with my old man, my two cousins on my mom's side because they're pretty chill, and that's it. Not friends with my mom or sister or any extended idiots otherwise. Everyone knows I'm kind of an asshole so other than mom no one cares.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on November 19, 2014, 10:35:02 AM
Fucked up majorly at my job. This one is going on my permanent record.
Thankfully half this company runs on things that only I know, so firing me on the spot will not be an option.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 10:39:04 AM
Fucked up majorly at my job. This one is going on my permanent record.
Thankfully half this company runs on things that only I know, so firing me on the spot will not be an option.

Details?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on November 19, 2014, 10:58:41 AM
We are a small, start up sort of company. I'm in charge of a lot of stuff, like finance, purchasing, IT, HR.
The fuck up regards purchasing. I forgot to send forecasts to our factory (three months in a row!), for them to reserve capacity. This resulted in them not having enough capacity to produce two big orders, which fucks up a launch in a new territory (we are too late to match their marketing efforts) and us missing our total company yearly sales targets by -5%.

However, since as soon they fire me everything regarding finance and stock goes to shit, I'm covered for now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 10:59:26 AM
We are a small, start up sort of company. I'm in charge of a lot of stuff, like finance, purchasing, IT, HR.
The fuck up regards purchasing. I forgot to send forecasts to our factory (three months in a row!), for them to reserve capacity. This resulted in them not having enough capacity to produce two big orders, which fucks up a launch in a new territory (we are too late to match their marketing efforts) and us missing our total company yearly sales targets by -5%.

However, since as soon they fire me everything regarding finance and stock goes to shit, I'm covered for now.

(http://static.tumblr.com/af04f38a6c2f3acfe0f5c4332b7d25ff/2g0qdnl/xp0n0uphp/tumblr_static_ayyyyy.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on November 19, 2014, 11:00:32 AM
HA! Walked right into that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 12:07:27 PM
I would have purchasing as a job function of an operations manager rather than a CFO.

I would also set up some kind of system where if they don't get your forecast they call you to remind you.

You would think a factory that depends on work to stay open would actively call it's customers for projections.....weird.

Then again corporations are getting weird now. The one I left has purchasing AND IT (wtf) under the CFO

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 19, 2014, 12:22:23 PM
I'm guessing the key word is "small" in "small start-up."

Hell, I just interviewed earlier this year with a company, it was clear they didn't need a Producer, they needed a business manager to cover a constant and consistent need for financial negotiation. I told them as much. I didn't get the job, and I think they're still looking for someone who fills their current job description instead of fixing their system.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 19, 2014, 12:57:47 PM
I would have purchasing as a job function of an operations manager rather than a CFO.

I would also set up some kind of system where if they don't get your forecast they call you to remind you.

You would think a factory that depends on work to stay open would actively call it's customers for projections.....weird.

Then again corporations are getting weird now. The one I left has purchasing AND IT (wtf) under the CFO
I think IT works best under the CFO (or COO if not the CFO) though. It keeps IT from becoming self justifying.
But yeah I like purchasing under COOs. They handle that stuff better. But most companies thing "Money, money = CFO."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:01:01 PM
I would have purchasing as a job function of an operations manager rather than a CFO.

I would also set up some kind of system where if they don't get your forecast they call you to remind you.

You would think a factory that depends on work to stay open would actively call it's customers for projections.....weird.

Then again corporations are getting weird now. The one I left has purchasing AND IT (wtf) under the CFO
I think IT works best under the CFO (or COO if not the CFO) though. It keeps IT from becoming self justifying.
But yeah I like purchasing under COOs. They handle that stuff better. But most companies thing "Money, money = CFO."

I concur. There should NEVER be anyone called a CIO, what's the damn point? You're paying a guy a lot of money to essentially beg the other C-level people for money anyway.

IT needs a director who reports to the COO/CFO and a project manager who handles expansions/revisions/etc.

Meh, I went off premise with my IT and I enjoy not having to worry about cooling though/electric....:yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 19, 2014, 01:07:35 PM
In my struggle I went off premise too.
Azure had a huge outage yesterday and today everyone's like
 :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on November 19, 2014, 01:07:58 PM
I accidentally clicked on a Sonic the Hedgehog thread and confusedly read through a few posts before I realized what had happened :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:09:10 PM
In my struggle I went off premise too.
Azure had a huge outage yesterday and today everyone's like
 :ufup

Gotta have 2 breh. I have one located locally and another in Indiana. Failover for the win. Thanks based Cisco
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 19, 2014, 01:09:37 PM
Might not be applicable, but within the same company? Over-specialization and the resulting tunnel-vision can lead to some really dumb shit. At best it's not the individual's fault, at worst they know where to look or who to adress, but don't because fuck you; not in my job description, not my problem. Even if it takes all of two minutes to attend to.
Step in the elevator and get the thing, asshole. Two minute walk or two hour headache, pick your poison. :beli /vaguebooking
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:19:55 PM
Might not be applicable, but within the same company? Over-specialization and the resulting tunnel-vision can lead to some really dumb shit. At best it's not the individual's fault, at worst they know where to look or who to adress, but don't because fuck you; not in my job description, not my problem. Even if it takes all of two minutes to attend to.
Step in the elevator and get the thing, asshole. Two minute walk or two hour headache, pick your poison. :beli /vaguebooking

Pretty much why I'm doing my own thing now. A lot of suits pointing fingers and assigning tasks to people not relevant to the project (IE once our CEO demanded that IT take over security because "one of them computer things plugs into it")

Put IT in charge of security guards breh.....First goddamn day I had our security boss tell us basically to get fucked and if we need him he'll be drinking coffee in the guard shack. Watching our IT VP trying to learn fire safety procedures was great fun for us though.

:beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 19, 2014, 01:21:16 PM
Put IT in charge of security guards breh

:beli

:phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 19, 2014, 01:22:56 PM
In my struggle I went off premise too.
Azure had a huge outage yesterday and today everyone's like
 :ufup

Gotta have 2 breh. I have one located locally and another in Indiana. Failover for the win. Thanks based Cisco
Yeah, client didn't pay for HA.
So there's no failover. Not my problem. But it doesn't stop them from bitching about it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:24:02 PM
In my struggle I went off premise too.
Azure had a huge outage yesterday and today everyone's like
 :ufup

Gotta have 2 breh. I have one located locally and another in Indiana. Failover for the win. Thanks based Cisco
Yeah, client didn't pay for HA.
So there's no failover. Not my problem. But it doesn't stop them from bitching about it.

IT breh....nobody knows you when things are working and everybody hates you when something is down. And the time in between is spent trying to show morons how to put corporate email on their smartphones.

Our guys use to put the biggest tech nerd on that help desk.....Mobile Support....he'd leave at the end of the day looking like somebody stole his shoes.

Hey there Mr Williams, how was your day bud?  :oreilly
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 19, 2014, 01:36:04 PM
There are places being in IT would drive people to drinking. Being in IT in a technology company isn't that bad in comparison. At least there is a higher level of patience. It's a hell of a lot better than when I was an in store technician for VZW. I was more of a cell phone psychologist.

"My cell phone drops calls."

Me: "They all do."

"My screen is broke."

me: "How'd it break?"

"I woke up and it was broken."

me: :comeon

"It should be covered under warranty!"

me:  :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:38:43 PM
Nah breh, I use to have an office by the mobile guy

"Yeah this is Williams"

"No, no, you can't send me your phone, it's easy...just open up the email tab"

"The thing that says email"

"Yes your phone has one"

"Now click that icon"

"Tab CLICK THE TAB"

"Pin is 8771"

"8771"

*Puts phone on hold

"FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU"

"Lets try the pin again"


Have an office next to the guy and just toss him your phone, brehs

 :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 19, 2014, 01:47:18 PM
We use Airwatch which is easy to administer over the phone.

me: "Download this app from the app store."

"Ok, it want's me to put in my email address"

me: "put in your email address"

spoiler (click to show/hide)
"My work one ,right?"

me:  :maf
[close]

"Ok, now it wants my username and password."

me: *whistles*

"Now just hit confirm?"

me: "Yep" :smug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:49:01 PM
We use Airwatch which is easy to administer over the phone.

me: "Download this app from the app store."

"Ok, it want's me to put in my email address"

me: "put in your email address"

spoiler (click to show/hide)
"My work one ,right?"

me:  :maf
[close]

"Ok, now it wants my username and password."

me: *whistles*

"Now just hit confirm?"

me: "Yep" :smug

Yeah we use that too.

Worst time was blackberries back when them shits first came out. 6000 people trying to get email on their phone at once breh.....

President had to literally walk down to mobile guys office and basically say "me, now, hang up on them"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 19, 2014, 01:53:16 PM
That's why BB is shit these days. They had the market on corporate email and pissed it all away.

People bitched about not having tactile keyboards, but they adapted. Seeing anyone in public with a BB gets a double take. It's like seeing a unicorn.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:54:17 PM
That's why BB is shit these days. They had the market on corporate email and pissed it all away.

People bitched about not having tactile keyboards, but they adapted. Seeing anyone in public with a BB gets a double take. It's like seeing a unicorn.

You honestly know what killed blackberry? The horrible outage they had 5 or 6 years ago (the one that lasted days)....any last bit of large corps endorsing BB went out the door.

edit, guess it was a little less than 5 or 6 years

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/13/technology/blackberry_outage/

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 19, 2014, 01:57:30 PM
That's why BB is shit these days. They had the market on corporate email and pissed it all away.

People bitched about not having tactile keyboards, but they adapted. Seeing anyone in public with a BB gets a double take. It's like seeing a unicorn.

You honestly know what killed blackberry? The horrible outage they had 5 or 6 years ago (the one that lasted days)....any last bit of large corps endorsing BB went out the door.

edit, guess it was a little less than 5 or 6 years

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/13/technology/blackberry_outage/

I remember getting a flood of users asking to switch to iPhones and Droids after that.   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:58:42 PM
That's why BB is shit these days. They had the market on corporate email and pissed it all away.

People bitched about not having tactile keyboards, but they adapted. Seeing anyone in public with a BB gets a double take. It's like seeing a unicorn.

You honestly know what killed blackberry? The horrible outage they had 5 or 6 years ago (the one that lasted days)....any last bit of large corps endorsing BB went out the door.

edit, guess it was a little less than 5 or 6 years

http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/13/technology/blackberry_outage/

I remember getting a flood of users asking to switch to iPhones and Droids after that.   :lol

Got a samsung droid the next week after that, never looked back.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 19, 2014, 01:59:08 PM
Yup I remember that. It was dead in the water after that. No one wanted that exposure anymore.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 19, 2014, 01:59:39 PM
Yup I remember that. It was dead in the water after that. No one wanted that exposure anymore.

Try and fail to upgrade your san in a live environment without informing customers breh...then try to cover it up.....

House corporate emails on blackberry servers after that? LOLS

That IT breh probably still don't have a job.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 19, 2014, 02:04:06 PM
For us, the nail in the coffin was that the new touchscreen BB's had to be on a new separate server that needed it's own set of licensing. So we would need 2 servers running for mobile email. We don't hand out phones. We reimburse people to use theirs so we really can't tell people to upgrade their phones.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 19, 2014, 02:18:16 PM
I'm just in shock that someone could miss forecast for 3 months and no one said, "Hey, where's the forecast?"

That kind of failure is way beyond something you can pin on one person.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on November 19, 2014, 04:57:37 PM
was walking home and when i was crossing the road, my art box accidentally opened up (i must had not closed it all the way) and almost all of my shit fell out and got ran over

i went to the nearby art store on my way home and got the stuff i needed for the rest of the semester, but i'll be using whatever christmas money i get this year to replace everything i lost (because most of it was stuff my mom handed down to me from whenever she was in school and i just feel bad about it)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 19, 2014, 08:49:00 PM
matlab's face detection is going to take like a month to process some research data unless I down sample the videos :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 19, 2014, 09:06:00 PM
I was playing sunset overdrive trying to get one achievement. I finally got it but didn't get the popup so I snapped achievements to look and it said "unlocking" on that achievement and then refreshed and moved it to the unlocks category. So I never got my popup. I counted my points and at least it dis add it to the total points. But still, the popup is half the fun
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 20, 2014, 04:06:00 PM
That feeling when you see a clients profits for a single day and realize just it would set you and your family up for life. Just profits. For just one day.

 :fbm


Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 20, 2014, 04:12:24 PM
Who doesn't use the term funny bone? :what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 20, 2014, 04:23:00 PM
Today I had to deal with some one today who refused to use the term 'funny bone' and instead voluntarily choose to call it 'the nervy spot'.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on November 20, 2014, 06:19:38 PM
It's not even a bone though! I'm with Esch on this one.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 20, 2014, 06:23:07 PM
Esch "I hit that nervy spot on my elbow"
Someone else "your funny bone?"
Esch: "...yes :fbm"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 20, 2014, 06:27:39 PM
Stepmom died Tuesday, cracked my phone yesterday, roommate tells me he's moving out at the end of the month today. Can I pay someone to put me into a medically induced coma for like 4 months?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 20, 2014, 06:33:08 PM
I"m sorry for the loss of your stepmom and damaged phone. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 20, 2014, 06:33:45 PM
phone upgraded to android 5.0 and now it runs like crap. super sluggish and janky. blah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 20, 2014, 07:16:28 PM
Man Seagram. I'm sorry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on November 20, 2014, 09:51:42 PM
Just found out my HOA is making me pay $9600, due by March 1, to repair the shoddy workmanship on the roofs when they built the place. And there's no opting out, just doing a monthly $100 payment for 10 years which would mean I'd be paying $3000 interest on top of that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 20, 2014, 10:00:33 PM
sorry about your step mom breh
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on November 21, 2014, 12:59:09 AM
i specifically refuse to use that term because it sounds stupid. there's nothing funny about it (http://i.imgur.com/l1x61OA.png)

Do you actually say nervy spot out loud?

Yeah, that's perfectly normal.  ::)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 21, 2014, 01:00:32 AM
sorry to hear about the stepmom dude















esch... :what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on November 21, 2014, 01:37:09 AM
Thanks, everybody.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 21, 2014, 12:18:25 PM
Nah I just say nerves.

Also fuck all of you.
but where would you fuck us?
In that "all rectally area"?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 02:26:15 PM
Make the mistake of replacing your technically challenged wife's old samsung with a new Galaxy brehs...

"It's too big"

"My fingers don't fit"

"What's this one do?"

"Where are my contacts at?"

"I don't like this color I want a white one"

"How do I put this in my purse?"

"Where's candy crush at?"

"How do I email for work?"

"How do I make a call?"

Struggle brehs.

Hold the phone like this and ask me how to make a call brehs

(http://static.trustedreviews.com/94/00002baa6/2c75/s5-back-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 21, 2014, 02:39:27 PM
I got some chicken udon at a Japanese place today. Burnt my finger touching the handle to move it. The soup was so hot it took 40 minutes to cool down to a comfortable eating temp. I would have liked to enjoy the soup with everyone else who was eating.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 03:12:51 PM
Have 239 conversations on your phone and have your wife picking though them trying to find her friends/necessary contact numbers

 :holeup

"who's "Kara from CSC" (that's how I enter vendors) and why is she asking you about buttsplices? What the FUCK is a buttsplice is that some crazy white girl shit?" :gurl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 21, 2014, 03:16:32 PM
Take her old and new phone back to the store. They have a machine that will transfer everything to the new phone from the old phone. Even the pictures if you want to wait that long.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 03:17:25 PM
Take her old and new phone back to the store. They have a machine that will transfer everything to the new phone from the old phone. Even the pictures if you want to wait that long.

No I did that. She's worried some didn't come over/making an excuse to check me in.

Marriage brehs

 :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 21, 2014, 03:18:58 PM
The only texts I get from other women are asking when I can fix their laptops. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 03:20:39 PM
The only texts I get from other women are asking when I can fix their laptops. :tocry

I checked my wife's shit for about 4 minutes before I went into the store.....nevermind

Wife "girl he making me mad today"

Cousin "he always be playing to hard"

Wife "No shit I'm gonna snap if he don't get off his ass and stop watching football"

Cousin "Yeah he lazy sometimes"

 :mynicca

----------------------------

Wife "I dont know what to make for thanksgiving"

Her mom "Turkey and gravy"

Wife "How do I make two turkeys at once?"

Her mom "Get your man to buy you a bigger stove"

Wife "Yeah hes cheap"

 :kobeyuck

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 21, 2014, 03:24:07 PM
Can you imagine if she saw convo's on your phone talking shit about her?  :whoo

It's not fair, brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 03:24:46 PM
Can you imagine if she saw convo's on your phone talking shit about her?  :whoo

Nah them shits get deleted asap. Be married as long as me and know the game breh.

Me and Her dad are always talking shit about them, right at the end one of us always says "alright delete this shit"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 21, 2014, 03:35:24 PM
Can you imagine if she saw convo's on your phone talking shit about her?  :whoo

Nah them shits get deleted asap. Be married as long as me and know the game breh.

Me and Her dad are always talking shit about them, right at the end one of us always says "alright delete this shit"

:obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 03:35:52 PM
I am at the point where I think I need to get a burner phone for my female vendors....fuck

BTW my father in law is funny as fuck.

I remember this one from last year (I am going to try to emulate his typing skills)

Pops "my lady gots a not good fat ass"

Me "What you mean?"

Pops "she ask me if er buttt was fat and I said hell yeaa"

Me "oh shit"

Pops "she aint give me ass anyway rigt now"

Me "For real?"

Pops "yeaa I was a litle friendy with this white girl at applebes"

Me "LOLS"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 21, 2014, 03:46:40 PM

"It's too big"
"My fingers don't fit"


:leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 21, 2014, 03:47:09 PM

"It's too big"
"My fingers don't fit"


:leon

 :mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 21, 2014, 06:21:58 PM
I'm just outchea tryin get smash brehs, and both guys in front of my are signing up for the gamestop credit card. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 21, 2014, 06:23:25 PM
They're letting you reconsider this course of action. This belongs in the triumph thread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 21, 2014, 07:02:04 PM
My entire life has been one long wrong course of action. It's too late to reconsider. Also, they were sold out anyway.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on November 21, 2014, 07:05:25 PM
Should have gone to the Gamecube Hut
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 21, 2014, 07:20:43 PM
Should have gone to the Gamecube Hut

They've already sold 50k copies, but maybe there's still a few left.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 21, 2014, 07:30:07 PM
Trying to set up my mom's computers to be bulletproof so she can use them easily before I leave for Japan.

Setting up bulletproof computers... closest analogy for my mom and computers is someone who looks up the barrel when cleaning the gun.   :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on November 22, 2014, 06:05:56 PM
Wife wanted to watch a Christmas movie, Die Hard wasn't on Netflix :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 22, 2014, 06:15:27 PM
lethal weapon?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 23, 2014, 03:25:15 PM
So remember how I was talking about my wife's grandpa was on honor parade for being a WWII veteran? He passed away this morning. He was old and we knew his time left would be in months not years but this came a surprise.

 :fbm

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on November 23, 2014, 03:29:44 PM
 :fbm RIP
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 23, 2014, 03:42:33 PM
Wife wanted to watch a Christmas movie, Die Hard wasn't on Netflix :fbm

It was last year.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 24, 2014, 03:38:49 PM
Wife calls me

Me "Hi baby, what's up"

Her "Um I think I did a bad thing to the car"

Me "You call triple-A?"

Her "well no I just traded it in for a new one"

I just FUCKING BOUGHT HER A CAR FOR A CHRISTMAS PRESENT HOW THE FUCK AM I GOING TO FIX THIS SHIT FUCK.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 24, 2014, 03:42:59 PM
:dead :dead :dead
no fucking way

on the bright side, you're definitely getting laid tonight.  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on November 24, 2014, 03:43:02 PM
You bought her a car for xmas. She's treating herself to a new car for xmas.  :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 24, 2014, 03:47:28 PM
You bought her a car for xmas. She's treating herself to a new car for xmas.  :jawalrus

Yeah no shit man. I already paid off her XMAS present so I really don't want to return it. Guess my spoiled ass son getting an Acura because I ain't giving him no goddamn boxster.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on November 24, 2014, 03:52:23 PM
Reference post #152

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42453.msg1958259#msg1958259

My soon to be 18 year old gonna get a 2014 Acura......asshole.

I ain't giving him my car and he is NOT getting a porsche, fuck that news.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on November 24, 2014, 05:18:15 PM
70+ degrees in November  :pacspit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on November 25, 2014, 01:11:13 PM
I come home to the news that my stepdad had his email "hacked". I check out exactly what he did and, to no one's surprise, it was a simple case of getting an email from "google" about reviewing a document which, when clicked, took you to a website for you to input your username and password. What was baffling is that the website url was very obviously NOT google, but he couldn't  take 3 seconds to look at it and realize that it was very obviously a phising attempt.  :snoop

Not even an hour later, I'm told that my Mom received an email from my stepdad (while his was "hacked") and fell for the SAME THING. I kinda of expected it from my naive step-dad, but I didn't think she'd be just as clueless. :beli Just the thought of having to lecture two grown ass adults on basic internet security has me groaning.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on November 25, 2014, 01:26:44 PM
Making a new short movie and coordinating everybody to be available on the same day is nightmarish. There's "only" like 5 people that have to be involved but that's still proving difficult. I'll work something out, but I figured it wouldn't be easy. :P They're working for free so I literally can't complain, lol.

At least the script is done. Now I need to buy the props and rent the equipment. :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on November 25, 2014, 01:27:25 PM
70+ degrees in November  :pacspit

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 25, 2014, 03:01:43 PM
the fan in my retina has died  :'(


applecare doe :rejoice

give me a new computer mothafukkas
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on November 25, 2014, 03:40:48 PM
I need to call Verizon to cancel the line I stopped using over a year ago but I hate calling anyone and when I finally called today the stupid automated phone system gave me the runaround. :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 25, 2014, 03:50:56 PM
keep a line for a year because you can't talk to people on the phone brehs :P

i just hit 0 until i talk to a human ymmv :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 25, 2014, 04:14:40 PM
with voice operated phone systems a lot of times you can just scream into the phone and it'll give you a real person
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 25, 2014, 04:19:49 PM
make sure to scream things like 'they're killing me oh god'
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 26, 2014, 12:24:47 AM
Went out to eat at a local diner. Nearby table was packed full of nubile young women, all laughing and giggling. Three of them in the booth facing me, two facing away. When they all got up to leave, one long-haired brunette was wearing low rise jeans, so I got a glorious, clear view of tremendous upper butt and ass cleavage. Then the brunette turned around and he had a full beard.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 26, 2014, 02:53:24 AM
it's 2014 ass is ass :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on November 26, 2014, 08:05:22 AM
Went out to eat at a local diner. Nearby table was packed full of nubile young women, all laughing and giggling. Three of them in the booth facing me, two facing away. When they all got up to leave, one long-haired brunette was wearing low rise jeans, so I got a glorious, clear view of tremendous upper butt and ass cleavage. Then the brunette turned around and he had a full beard.

:fbm
I had an old man moment the other day.  My wife and I were driving out a parking lot of a restaurant and some young girl is getting out of a car and he (glorious) ass cheeks are just hanging out of the tiniest shorts I've ever fucking seen.  I could not believe someone actually goes out with anything that skimpy.  I had to confirm with my wife that they were not underwear.  Oh well.  It looked awesome.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 26, 2014, 09:48:57 AM
Gotta drive out for the funeral (to fly everyone out last minute on thanksgiving week would've been several thousand dollars).
Gonna be in the car with the kids for like 12 hours.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 26, 2014, 11:49:30 AM
thanks to all these protests I now have a bunch of family including my wife following my Twitter account :ineveraskedforthis
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 26, 2014, 11:54:03 AM
Gotta drive out for the funeral (to fly everyone out last minute on thanksgiving week would've been several thousand dollars).
Gonna be in the car with the kids for like 12 hours.  :-\
Drive safe breh. As my parents would say whenever I had to drive my brothers somewhere: deliver the package safely.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on November 26, 2014, 12:38:53 PM
not enough time between my morning run and my noon therapy session for a real lunch  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on November 26, 2014, 02:25:44 PM
Went to a take-out buffet place for lunch.  Had to wait while some guy picked out all of the meat from some Chinese pepper steak tray, leaving only the vegetables, and blocking all the surrounding trays while he did it.  This went on for a good 10 minutes, easily.  I kept going back there and he was still at it.   :wtf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on November 27, 2014, 04:34:15 AM
I switched to Mozilla and it's awesome. But I can't log in to twitter for some reason.

 :noooo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on November 27, 2014, 07:26:06 AM
I think nowadays a sucky browser is mostly a reflection of how much the user sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yulwei on November 27, 2014, 10:20:48 AM
spending today alone and eating instant ramen because i'm in the middle of changing jobs but it's whatever. i have music and games to keep me occupied.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on November 27, 2014, 10:51:50 AM
hit the nervy spot in my wrist.  Ouch.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 27, 2014, 12:28:10 PM
Chrome sucks :yeshrug

I switched back to firefox last year then back to chrome again and i don't even remember why. I was using Waterfox (https://www.waterfoxproject.org/) for awhile too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 27, 2014, 01:40:08 PM
A pair of jeans I hadn't worn in a while must have mysteriously shrunk down.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on November 27, 2014, 01:49:58 PM
I've gotten fatter too
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 27, 2014, 01:51:38 PM
:goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on November 27, 2014, 04:36:02 PM
I broke my fake tooth so I am cosplaying as a meth addict for thanksgiving

also, I went out for coffee this morning, so first I had to find a place that was open (in Bellevue lol) then when I finally did I discovered I'd left my card at home so had to walk back 12 blocks to retrieve it and then back-back another 12 blocks to get the coffee aaagh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 28, 2014, 03:13:31 AM
Edit: late night mind drival
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 29, 2014, 02:47:30 AM
I sent through The da Vinci Code tonight. Jesus fucking Christ.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on November 29, 2014, 12:31:52 PM
Had the vet take out my staples when we took our cat for a check up
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 29, 2014, 12:58:21 PM
Funeral was yesterday. He was a great man that lived through the great depression and stormed Omaha Beach. It is sad to know there's one less hero in a world that has so few.
 :fbm


But  one thing was really nice. One of the pall bearers of this mormon patriarch who was a descendant of the original mormon pioneers who was ultra conservative and made his religion his life was the native american partner of his openly gay son.  Seeing him carry this great man alongside other men who were staunch republicans and mormons and seeing each of them reach out in support and love. Well, that gives me hope.
:leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on November 29, 2014, 01:04:36 PM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 29, 2014, 01:39:49 PM
I have a running list of struggles from my absence but I don't have the energy to write them up. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on November 29, 2014, 02:10:45 PM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

if you have a career, this is the WORST feel.  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on November 29, 2014, 03:23:37 PM
Been in bed sick all day.

Had weird ass dreams combining the craziness of Black Friday shopping, brutal murders in bathroom stalls, and lines like "special fellow Illuminati".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on November 29, 2014, 11:09:33 PM
Also, my sciatic pain has returned with a vengeance and now I'm having nerve pain in parts of my body that I didn't before.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on November 30, 2014, 12:54:07 AM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.
Yup, time to move on. Sucks man. Sorry,  but companies are dumb
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 30, 2014, 04:32:28 AM
Can't sleep. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on November 30, 2014, 11:55:02 AM
Mrrggh... That cold weather malaise is starting to set in.

edit: Oh wait, it's 63 °F here... Well, that doesn't change the fact that I feel like crud and all I want to do is stuff my face with sinful carbs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 30, 2014, 01:48:41 PM
Sounds like winter.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on November 30, 2014, 01:51:24 PM
Contemplating buying some vodka to make a white russian but don't feel like spending $20 on vodka.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on November 30, 2014, 02:02:41 PM
don't listen to those lies. buy some stoli and have a mind-erasing party.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on November 30, 2014, 02:15:51 PM
I dunno man, I'm no fan of vodka but popov-tier is ppreeeeeeettty awful compared to something like stoli or absolut. even a microscopic increase in smoothness is welcome  :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on November 30, 2014, 02:19:17 PM
Catch an awful stomach bug the day after Thanksgiving, brehs

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on November 30, 2014, 02:36:10 PM
I dunno man, I'm no fan of vodka but popov-tier is ppreeeeeeettty awful compared to something like stoli or absolut. even a microscopic increase in smoothness is welcome  :yuck

Esch thinks vodka stops at ~$16 a bottle. :lol

@Ruzbeh Thanks but I know why I wasn't sleeping. It's just annoying to take enough diazepam to kill a small mammal and still not be able to sleep.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on November 30, 2014, 02:41:50 PM
Catch an awful stomach bug the day after Thanksgiving, brehs

:fbm
You're avoiding the weight gain from the feast though. :dayum
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on November 30, 2014, 04:55:56 PM
Had to deal with transferring DirecTV account from my deceased stepdad to my mom's name.

DirecTV -- the website doesn't work properly. Anything having to deal with password changes is busted. Everything, everywhere, busted, for current IE and Chrome. Seriously, it has GOT TO BE intentional. Even "chat with representative" in the flow for forgotten passwords requires a login to the account.

I finally called customer service and managed to get through, but they wanted to speak with next-of-kin, so I passed the phone to my mom, who confirmed for them that I was dealing with this stuff for her, then she told the representative some stories about her travel to Turkey, where her husband passed, and the other nice stuff I've done for her, and then she hung up on the representative instead of handing me back the phone.

I started to have tunnel vision, and my ears were ringing, distantly.

I called them back and took care of the remaining business. If I ever have to deal with DirecTV again, it will be too soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on November 30, 2014, 04:58:56 PM
garbage vodka opinions
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 01, 2014, 09:55:20 AM
Stopped at a Subway after picking up groceries yesterday.  Funny, since we bought a baguette to make sandwiches with.  There were two rather young people behind the counter.  One of them appeared to be on something, because the conversation basically went like this for both us:

Clerk: What kind of sandwich do you want?
My wife: Turkey.
Clerk: You want cheese?
My wife: Pepper jack.
:::The guy then proceeds to make a chicken sandwich:::
Me: Uh, she wanted a turkey sandwich with cheese.
Clerk: Oh my bad, I thought she said chicken.

Clerk: What do you want on your sandwich?
Me: Letuce and onions.
:::Puts lettuce on sandwich:::
Clerk: What else?
Me: ...
Me: Onions.
Clerk: Huh?
Me: Onions.
Clerk: Anything else?
Me: Salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, and oregano.
Clerk: Salt, pepper, oil, vinegar, and mayo.  Got it.
Me: No, NO MAYO.
Clerk: Oh, OK.  What did you want?
Me: Oregano.

At this point, the other clerk who has done nothing proceeds to cut the sandwiches and then rings us up.  Meanwhile, the other guy picks up a mayo bottle, unwraps both sandwiches, and proceeds to drench my wife's sandwich in mayo.  He literally emptied half the bottle out, then proceeded to do the same to mine, although I stopped him.  We then had to wait for him to remake my wife's sandwich and go through similar to the above all over again.

 :dizzy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on December 01, 2014, 10:00:25 AM
Why would you even eat at Subway?

Also, a sandwich with lettuce and onions is a thing?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 01, 2014, 10:42:24 AM
It's open for breakfast before Taco Bell and I live by both.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on December 01, 2014, 11:34:37 AM
Smirnoff is doing a good job when it comes to preventing hangovers. Presence of smokers is a much bigger factor for me these days.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 11:57:16 AM
Working from home after a long holiday weekend

 :rejoice

Trying to amass enough "mental traction" to be effective while working from home after a long holiday weekend

 :brazilcry

It's gonna be a long day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 01, 2014, 12:02:47 PM
Wife was snoring like a damn bear last night. Got about 3 hours of sleep and am working all day. In addition she's leaving on business today for 3 days and I have to take care of the kiddos....gonna be a long day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 01, 2014, 01:11:24 PM
I'm MUCH more efficient working from home.
My typical day has more "stops" in it but I'm on way longer. Whereas when I'm onsite I gotta worry about getting onsite, traffic and meals. Though I will say with some clients if you're not visible they totally drag down in productivity so sometimes I go on site  more for them than for me (actually that's almost always the case).

But today I can just feel "the gears slipping". It's happening a lot more the older I get. I used to be able to be up and in 5 minutes be on a call at the top of my game and then work until 2am. Now I need ramp up time. I can still work that late if needed. But the ramping up time is new.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 02, 2014, 02:14:45 AM
Taking up the cloth (so to speak) has been #struggle. Had two or three Kodak moments (https://www.marxists.org/archive/korsch/1934/why-marxist.htm) in the past few weeks that I can't tell anyone about. :tocry

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on December 02, 2014, 02:28:25 AM
Also, a sandwich with lettuce and onions is a thing?

dude where the hell did you grow up? prison?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on December 02, 2014, 06:09:03 AM
Also, a sandwich with lettuce and onions is a thing?

dude where the hell did you grow up? prison?

Like, bread, lettuce, onions, done?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 02, 2014, 08:19:15 AM
Why would you even eat at Subway?

My wife wanted to go there. 

 :stahp

Also, a sandwich with lettuce and onions is a thing?

dude where the hell did you grow up? prison?

Like, bread, lettuce, onions, done?

:what

No dude, bread, cheese, meat, lettuce, and onions.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 02, 2014, 08:21:10 AM
Lettuce sucks. Complete waste of time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 02, 2014, 08:53:27 AM
my oatmeal congeals before I eat it, then I have to chop it up and eat it in cold chunks.  this is a daily struggle I must live with, but I'm speaking out   :goty2

edit: a 1/4 cups worth and I swear I've been eating/chewing for the past 15 minutes
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 02, 2014, 01:54:07 PM
Lettuce sucks. Complete waste of time.

 :leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on December 02, 2014, 03:00:55 PM
I use lettuce to pad out the sandwich and make me feel full, not because it is a particularly enjoyable part of the sandwich.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 02, 2014, 03:08:09 PM
Lots of mental errors from people today, clearly folks aren't mentally here. I can tell folks are trying to cruise into Christmas/New Years.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 02, 2014, 03:09:31 PM
I've had 5 panic attacks in the last 24 hours.  getting to a doctor stat.  ugh fuck this gay earth
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 02, 2014, 03:13:39 PM
I've had 5 panic attacks in the last 24 hours.  getting to a doctor stat.  ugh fuck this gay earth

I feel for you, man. That shit sucks and can really sap you of your desire to do anything.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 02, 2014, 03:14:05 PM
Lettuce is just crunchy water.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 02, 2014, 03:15:06 PM
Lettuce is just crunchy water.

I think you're thinking of ice.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 02, 2014, 04:13:31 PM
fuck lettuce.  just steam some kale, chard, spinach, or worthwhile green
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 02, 2014, 04:27:16 PM
Lettuce is just crunchy water.

I think you're thinking of ice.
Mah man, ice can actually make things better. Unlike lettuce.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 02, 2014, 05:42:01 PM
I've had 5 panic attacks in the last 24 hours.  getting to a doctor stat.  ugh fuck this gay earth

Wishing you well. Shit sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on December 02, 2014, 06:18:32 PM
Indeed. Fuck panic attacks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on December 02, 2014, 08:05:37 PM
I've been a gassy fuck all day. Felt like an alien was gonna burst out of my stomach while at work.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 02, 2014, 09:41:45 PM
I was hoping my current client base would accept that I was moving on. Instead my most demanding one told me that we're going to renegotiate higher fees for me when I'm official.

Even making more money is depressing in the Karakandverse.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 02, 2014, 09:53:16 PM
cook with chilies and then rub your eye brehs :tocry

 :kobeyuck Where was your head at
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 02, 2014, 09:54:49 PM
I went to Taco Bell and ordered a #10 Cheesy Crunch Gordita Combo w/Nacho Cheese Doritos Shell. I was going to order a Triple-Layer Nacho too, but I forgot when I was ordering, but I was thinking that when I went to pick up my order, I'd order some nachos too. But when I went to pick up my order, somehow it had morphed into a #5 Nacho Bell Grande + a Nacho Cheese Doritos Taco. I thought about taking it back, but I actually did want some nachos, just not the Nachos Bell Grande. But how do I go up there and be like "wtf, I didn't order nachos, but oh btw, can I get an order of nachos?" The #dualities of this situation where too much for me to handle, brehs. (http://i.imgur.com/y4ICZGU.png)

I mean, I'm sure you're thinking that I could have just ordered a Cheesy Crunch Gordita extra, but the CCG is $2.50 and the Triple Layer Nachos are only $1. They'd be forcing me to spend an extra $1.50 to fix something that wasn't my mistake. And i would have had to spend $9, and anytime you spend $9 at Taco Bell while the Dollar Menu is existing seems like a serious :ufup moment. The situation was untenable, so in the end I just ate the nachos.  :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 02, 2014, 10:01:21 PM
I was hoping my current client base would accept that I was moving on. Instead my most demanding one told me that we're going to renegotiate higher fees for me when I'm official.

Even making more money is depressing in the Karakandverse.

You'll be able to afford better cigarettes.

After my Newport debacle(s) I started buying Nat Shermans. :whew

Buy top shelf spirits and cigarettes while subsisting on low rent food y'all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 02, 2014, 10:09:38 PM
MS refuses to release a new flagship phone so I bought a nexus 6.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2014, 12:35:54 AM
$232 props bought :stahp

$224 equipment bought :stahp

$142 lens rented :stahp

Have an expensive passion project brehs.  :goty2

LOL I'm totally fucked this month if this roommate doesn't come through. Especially with Xmas gifts. (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif)

On the plus side, schedules are finally ironed out. Kinda. :rejoice

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Only having a week and a half for editing... (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif) (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif) (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif)
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 03, 2014, 03:43:49 AM
I have been dealing with my mom's computers all week. She has an ancient iMac that she wants to give to somebody else, so I used her initial install disks to restore it to factory settings. She has a brand-new iMac that I have set up with all kinds of shortcuts for her now.

My stepdad, deceased, had an older Windows XP machine, which I had planned to either overwrite with Linux, or physically disable the hard disk drive for privacy and identity theft concerns.

I have been using his new-ish Win8 machine all week. It has been a constant struggle, because  it does so many things differently than any previous version of Windows. But I wanted to get rid of my Steam and XBL account on it so that none of my information remained on this computer that I'd never see again. But for some reason it had conflated my account with the local account of my stepfather, so when I deleted my stuff, it deleted his stuff too.
:fbm
Is there anyway to recover an account in Windows 8?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2014, 09:50:20 AM
Lol yeah that's peanuts compared to not just real movies but indies too. I can't really complain. I went as cheap as possible on everything. Audio recorder, boom pole, etc. Good thing is I'll reuse that stuff in the future.

Wanted to rent a 5D Mk. III but I just don't have that cash (would have been like $200 more.) So I have to stick with my T2i for now. The lens will be doing most of the work anyways (50mm f1.2), I just worry about how much of the picture it'll get since the T2i isn't full frame like the 5D is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 09:53:03 AM
Lol yeah that's peanuts compared to not just real movies but indies too. I can't really complain. I went as cheap as possible on everything. Audio recorder, boom pole, etc. Good thing is I'll reuse that stuff in the future.

Wanted to rent a 5D Mk. III but I just don't have that cash (would have been like $200 more.) So I have to stick with my T2i for now. The lens will be doing most of the work anyways (50mm f1.2), I just worry about how much of the picture it'll get since the T2i isn't full frame like the 5D is.

If it's 142 dollars to rent the lens, how much is it to buy one? wowsers
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2014, 10:35:31 AM
$1549 according to Amazon. I mean, I could almost definitely find it a little cheaper if I looked, and f1.4 and f1.8 are exponentially cheaper (the latter is like $125 to buy lol), but I need dat hipster bokeh. Plus low light is much much better with the higher* f-stop.

*Flubbed this, 1.2 is actually higher than 1.8 since it's f/1.2, as in the aperture divided by 1.2. Always get that confused.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 10:36:24 AM
wow 1500 bucks for a lens? man i am in the wrong business :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2014, 10:36:54 AM
wow 1500 bucks for a lens? man i am in the wrong business :snoop

You're into cameras?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 03, 2014, 10:37:23 AM
wow 1500 bucks for a lens? man i am in the wrong business :snoop

You're into cameras?

We design installs for security cameras but no, not on the level you use them...not even close.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2014, 10:58:12 AM
Ah.

Yeah, I mean it's all relative. The RED Epic is like $20k or whatever. For the price, DSLRs can produce some damn good looking videos. The 5D Mk. II was used for some shots of The Avengers, which is crazy to me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 03, 2014, 02:16:57 PM
Holy shit I just realized that the 50mm lens I just rented isn't compatible with the T2i. :neogaf

GUESS I'M RENTING THAT 5D AFTER ALL (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif) (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif) (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif)

Edit- How much of a fucking dumbass can I be, it totally is compatible. :lol Now I need a refund on that 5D rental. (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif)

Edit 2- I fucking hate my life ugh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 03, 2014, 06:30:08 PM
I love excel formulas :heartbeat

Ya'll don't do work methods or job aids, bro?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 03, 2014, 07:01:28 PM
I have been dealing with my mom's computers all week. She has an ancient iMac that she wants to give to somebody else, so I used her initial install disks to restore it to factory settings. She has a brand-new iMac that I have set up with all kinds of shortcuts for her now.

My stepdad, deceased, had an older Windows XP machine, which I had planned to either overwrite with Linux, or physically disable the hard disk drive for privacy and identity theft concerns.

I have been using his new-ish Win8 machine all week. It has been a constant struggle, because  it does so many things differently than any previous version of Windows. But I wanted to get rid of my Steam and XBL account on it so that none of my information remained on this computer that I'd never see again. But for some reason it had conflated my account with the local account of my stepfather, so when I deleted my stuff, it deleted his stuff too.
:fbm
Is there anyway to recover an account in Windows 8?

system restore.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on December 03, 2014, 07:31:52 PM
Bout to turn down 6 figures to make less than half of that
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 03, 2014, 07:47:25 PM
I think my deep fryer is broken :(  I just filled it with almost a gallon of oil and I bought all the stuff to make wings.  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 03, 2014, 09:53:35 PM
I think my deep fryer is broken :(  I just filled it with almost a gallon of oil and I bought all the stuff to make wings.  Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
false alarm.  fixed the deep fryer
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on December 03, 2014, 10:13:42 PM
Bout to turn down 6 figures to make less than half of that

Don't do it, Huff!!!!

  it may pay of in the future  with a job I might like more
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 04, 2014, 01:21:46 AM
system restore.
Thanks. That's actually the first thing I looked at, and it appeared to reset things to factory defaults, and the other thing named similarly appeared to be a bit of proprietary HP software, which wanted me to make a journal from which I would have a starting place. A little bit too late for that, HP.

What kind of system restore are you talking about?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 04, 2014, 01:45:02 AM
Working with my relatively new offshore counter part on a project proposal and he saw my bill rate for the first time and was like

 :brazilcry

Poor guy. It'd better not cause drama.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 04, 2014, 08:10:07 AM
Working with my relatively new offshore counter part on a project proposal and he saw my bill rate for the first time and was like

 :brazilcry

Poor guy. It'd better not cause drama.
Should have just been a bit condescending about purchasing power in 3rd world countries and how in reality he is living better than you are. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 04, 2014, 08:23:35 AM
Ate Chipotle twice yesterday. My ass wondering what it did to offend me brehs

 :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 04, 2014, 09:13:37 AM
I think I might suck at DE shaving.  Every time I get a spot of razor burn.  An alum block helps, but once that and moisturizer wear off, the burn comes back (usually at night or the next morning)

Ate Chipotle twice yesterday. My ass wondering what it did to offend me brehs

 :kobeyuck


i got double steak in my burrito bowl yesterday.  had double cow farts the rest of the day
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 04, 2014, 11:49:27 AM
There's a gentleman at my office who uses the phrase "wherefore art thou" when looking for something. :maf

InigoUsingThatWord.gif
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on December 04, 2014, 11:52:47 AM
I think I might suck at DE shaving.  Every time I get a spot of razor burn.  An alum block helps, but once that and moisturizer wear off, the burn comes back (usually at night or the next morning)
Do you have a patch of hair that grows in all directions? That's usually what causes me irritation.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 04, 2014, 11:52:58 AM
There's a gentleman at my office who uses the phrase "wherefore art thou" when looking for something. :maf

Poop in his desk drawer.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 04, 2014, 12:04:26 PM
I have two cats. Sly is 15 and a half and was my dad's cat before he died in 2007. Pico was my cat and is about 14. I have taken care of them since he passed away. They are extremely important to me.

Two weeks ago Pico had some bad rot on his front fang and got the tooth removed. The blood test before the oral surgery uncovered that he was diabetic. So I started giving him insulin and also antibiotics for the giant, deep hole in his gum.

After about 5 days he became extremely lethargic with labored breathing. Some complication had caused a large amount of fluid to be produced in his chest cavity and he was operating at something like 20% lung capacity. The vet said he would have died overnight had I not called in for an emergency visit. He was on IV for a day or two, got his chest tapped, they thought it was cancer. They gave more antibiotics and a diuretic.

For another week he kind of limped along, not in great shape but getting a little bit better each day. The vet assumed he had died since I didn't call with another emergency. Yesterday I took him in for a follow-up and they found that the fluid had almost completely vanished and he was no longer on daily death watch. They called it a miracle and said he is completely out of the woods. Last night I felt at peace for the first time in two weeks.

Today I woke up and Sly was panting and had lost use of her rear legs. She had a blood clot in the rear part of her body. Her rear feet were ice cold and had no pulse. I rushed her to the vet where they administered an IV and gave an extremely negative outlook, even more negative than Pico.

Still waiting to hear how that is going. Her recovery will be long, if at all, otherwise I may have to put her to sleep.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on December 04, 2014, 12:50:01 PM
$1549 according to Amazon. I mean, I could almost definitely find it a little cheaper if I looked, and f1.4 and f1.8 are exponentially cheaper (the latter is like $125 to buy lol), but I need dat hipster bokeh. Plus low light is much much better with the higher* f-stop.

*Flubbed this, 1.2 is actually higher than 1.8 since it's f/1.2, as in the aperture divided by 1.2. Always get that confused.

Have you actually tried the 1,8? Because it's quite capable of bokeh effects and in general offers a lot of bang for the buck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 04, 2014, 12:57:59 PM
$1549 according to Amazon. I mean, I could almost definitely find it a little cheaper if I looked, and f1.4 and f1.8 are exponentially cheaper (the latter is like $125 to buy lol), but I need dat hipster bokeh. Plus low light is much much better with the higher* f-stop.

*Flubbed this, 1.2 is actually higher than 1.8 since it's f/1.2, as in the aperture divided by 1.2. Always get that confused.

Have you actually tried the 1,8? Because it's quite capable of bokeh effects and in general offers a lot of bang for the buck.

It's on my wishlist, will probably buy it soon cause yeah, it is cheeeaaaap.

Low light is really where the 1.2 shines and that's basically what you're paying for.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 04, 2014, 01:25:04 PM
I'm really sorry, AV.  I hope she pulls through.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 04, 2014, 03:00:39 PM
I think I might suck at DE shaving.  Every time I get a spot of razor burn.  An alum block helps, but once that and moisturizer wear off, the burn comes back (usually at night or the next morning)
Do you have a patch of hair that grows in all directions? That's usually what causes me irritation.


nah, i think I'm just bad at angling it against the grain and occasionally I press a bit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 04, 2014, 03:53:13 PM
My wife's grandmother just had a massive stroke and it looks like she won't make it through the weekend.  She's the one who helped get my business off the ground and always supported the both of us in whatever we did.   :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 04, 2014, 03:54:24 PM
My wife's grandmother just had a massive stroke and it looks like she won't make it through the weekend.  She's the one who helped get my business off the ground and always supported the both of us in whatever we did.   :'(

sorry to hear that :fbm

hoping for the best :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 04, 2014, 04:05:12 PM
There really isn't a best except for she goes quickly without pain.  She has a pretty strict no life support in place.  I just hope my wife can see her one last time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 04, 2014, 04:09:09 PM
My condolences to you and your wife, Steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 04, 2014, 04:32:04 PM
Ouch. Condolences to you and Mrs. Contra, man. Sorry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on December 04, 2014, 04:35:20 PM
cook with chilies and then rub your eye brehs :tocry
This is the second worst thing ever. The worst was tne time I scratched my nuts after handling peppers hours earlier. I can die saying I've dipped my nuts in cold milk now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 04, 2014, 05:36:13 PM
I can't tell is this neural net lib is using cross entropy or mean squared error for the cost function;  I feel dumb.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 04, 2014, 05:38:07 PM
Thanks brehs :tocry

cook with chilies and then rub your eye brehs :tocry
This is the second worst thing ever. The worst was tne time I scratched my nuts after handling peppers hours earlier. I can die saying I've dipped my nuts in cold milk now.

(http://i.imgur.com/55ZAyVll.jpg)

This is me the last time I did that :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 04, 2014, 06:49:29 PM
I'm sorry, Steve :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on December 04, 2014, 07:04:38 PM
I'm sorry, Steve and Mrs. Contra :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 04, 2014, 07:20:37 PM
My wife's grandmother just had a massive stroke and it looks like she won't make it through the weekend.  She's the one who helped get my business off the ground and always supported the both of us in whatever we did.   :'(
Man, I'm sorry for this.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 04, 2014, 07:22:49 PM
Thanks brehs :tocry

cook with chilies and then rub your eye brehs :tocry
This is the second worst thing ever. The worst was tne time I scratched my nuts after handling peppers hours earlier. I can die saying I've dipped my nuts in cold milk now.

(http://i.imgur.com/55ZAyVll.jpg)

This is me the last time I did that :fbm

OMG you poor thing. Looks so painful.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 04, 2014, 07:40:53 PM
So fucking painful.  Plus the added humiliation of my wife laughing at me while I was trying to wash my eye out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 04, 2014, 07:43:02 PM
when I handled those ghost peppers last year, I took a shit and wiped.  Fingers touched my asshole

 :fbm :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 04, 2014, 07:51:23 PM
I don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to prevent finger to butthole contact with the liberal use of toilet paper while wiping, spicy fingers or not.   Let alone fingers
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 04, 2014, 07:52:58 PM
sorry to hear about the grandmother, steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 04, 2014, 07:54:08 PM
I don't know about the rest of you, but I tend to prevent finger to butthole contact with the liberal use of toilet paper while wiping, spicy fingers or not.   Let alone fingers.
in brandnew's defense, wiping his asshole and fingers touching his asshole could be two entirely separate events. might not even be his fingers :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 04, 2014, 08:22:05 PM
:shaq
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Barry Egan on December 04, 2014, 08:36:01 PM
I now have a minor addiction to Ativan and I am worried about what is going to happen when I run out :-/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 04, 2014, 08:54:48 PM
Sorry to hear that, Steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 04, 2014, 08:57:19 PM
sorry Steve....I lost all my grandparents by age 32....feel free to PM if you guys have any questions sir.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 04, 2014, 09:00:06 PM
Singapore
 :picard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on December 04, 2014, 09:01:29 PM
My wife's grandmother just had a massive stroke and it looks like she won't make it through the weekend.  She's the one who helped get my business off the ground and always supported the both of us in whatever we did.   :'(

Ouch... really sorry to hear that, Steve.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 04, 2014, 09:47:48 PM
I swear this is the conversation I just had.

Singapore: "So Puppy, we have so many metrics to use. Like Total Available and On Hand. Which do we use when?"
Me: "Well, whichever one is appropriate."
Singapore: "So Available?"
Me: "Well, if that's what you're looking for then yes. But there are going to be times where you want to know what you have and how much room you're taking up in which case 'On Hand' is more appropriate. It's rather simple. Available means that it's available to sell, On hand is everything you have"
S: "I don't think you understand how retail works. We sell what we have."
Me: "Not everything. For example, floor models."
S: "We sell those too."
Me: "Ok bad example, Let's say I just received 20 beds in the back."
S: "OK"
Me: "I have 20 beds to sell, and 20 on hand because that's what I have. OK?"
S: "Ok"
Me: "Let's say that someone then comes in and buys 5 but they haven't picked them up and wont for a week. OK?"
S: "OK"
Me: "So your Available to sell is 15 because you can't sell those 5 again. But your on hand is 20 because those 5 you sold are still taking up space in the back."
S:".......I don't think you understand how retail works."
 :mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 04, 2014, 09:51:37 PM
I don't think you understand how retail works.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 04, 2014, 10:02:27 PM
Be the middle man stuck between grown ass women work drama, brehs. Stop pestering me with IM's. I'm already busy IMing my male coworker as we try to decipher which Pokemon all of our coworkers look like.

:bow dudes

:maf chicks
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on December 04, 2014, 10:12:32 PM
Yeesh, didn't see that post before my dumb story. Sorry to hear that, Steve. Family illness is the worst. I wish you good luck and strength.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on December 04, 2014, 10:30:25 PM
Be the middle man stuck between grown ass women work drama, brehs. Stop pestering me with IM's. I'm already busy IMing my male coworker as we try to decipher which Pokemon all of our coworkers look like.

:bow dudes

:maf chicks

does anyone look like snorelax
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 04, 2014, 10:35:30 PM
Be the middle man stuck between grown ass women work drama, brehs. Stop pestering me with IM's. I'm already busy IMing my male coworker as we try to decipher which Pokemon all of our coworkers look like.

:bow dudes

:maf chicks
lol the last place i worked had an internal IM system for resolving problems that was only used by the middle-aged women to talk shit about each other to me and others who pretended to care :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 04, 2014, 10:37:18 PM
spell snorlax wrong brehs


I just found out I left my USB drive on campus. Got home, wasn't in my backpack :shaq2. All my schoolwork's on there, which isn't a big deal atm because I only have one paper left this semester (that I was putting in gradual effort over the past month in order to ease the workload: "Fuck were you thinking? :neogaf" -YHWH) but this is a total pain in the ass and the shit cherry on a shit past two days.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 04, 2014, 10:39:50 PM
care about the spelling of pokemen brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 04, 2014, 10:41:40 PM
system restore.
Thanks. That's actually the first thing I looked at, and it appeared to reset things to factory defaults, and the other thing named similarly appeared to be a bit of proprietary HP software, which wanted me to make a journal from which I would have a starting place. A little bit too late for that, HP.

What kind of system restore are you talking about?

sr.exe -- rolls the system back to the last update point. worst case is usually back one week
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 04, 2014, 10:43:50 PM
There really isn't a best except for she goes quickly without pain.  She has a pretty strict no life support in place.  I just hope my wife can see her one last time.

oh no. my condolences, man. :-(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 04, 2014, 10:47:03 PM
Be the middle man stuck between grown ass women work drama, brehs. Stop pestering me with IM's. I'm already busy IMing my male coworker as we try to decipher which Pokemon all of our coworkers look like.

:bow dudes

:maf chicks
lol the last place i worked had an internal IM system for resolving problems that was only used by the middle-aged women to talk shit about each other to me and others who pretended to care :lol

lync was invented solely for interoffice shit talkin
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 05, 2014, 09:20:11 AM
Be the middle man stuck between grown ass women work drama, brehs. Stop pestering me with IM's. I'm already busy IMing my male coworker as we try to decipher which Pokemon all of our coworkers look like.

:bow dudes

:maf chicks

does anyone look like snorelax

Yyyyeeeeeeeup. lol I got an email from my coworker with a pic of Snorlax and a pic of Work Snorlax with the comment, "I'VE NEVER SEEN THEM IN THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER, HAVE YOU?"

And one of the broads arguing is definitely Psyduck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 05, 2014, 01:27:10 PM
go from zero physical activity to walking daily to longer walks to jogging to running/couch-to-5k, oh my god i'm doing great and getting in the best shape of my life!!! AAAaaaaaaaaannnnddd shin splints  :'(

just spent a couple hours reading about the millions of possible causes and cures, gotta try em all I guess
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 05, 2014, 02:35:36 PM
the most common way shin splints go away are by running/walking more and building up your supporting leg muscles.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on December 05, 2014, 02:49:29 PM
yeah I had them real bad for around a year. they've gone away lately though
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 05, 2014, 02:54:19 PM
the most common way shin splints go away are by running/walking more and building up your supporting leg muscles.

I feel like that's the case for me, since I would get huge cramps in my shins just from walking too far at first.  Then the point where the cramps/pain would crop up kept getting pushed further back.   

I'm just getting some compression socks, ice packs, and working in some different stretches.   
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 05, 2014, 03:03:47 PM
Just run through it, best advice I can give.

Signed up for another half-marathon in January. I think this will be my 10th. :rock
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 05, 2014, 06:26:01 PM
if I've learned anything from a day of reading and talking to people, it's that everyone has a different opinion on shin splints.   :lol

today was rough, but now that I think about it, my morning stretches/warm ups were shit, which probably contributed the most. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 05, 2014, 07:26:46 PM
Trying to sell into a game company and the sales guy is trying to be all smarmy and was trying to explain how we deal with multiple buyer personas and he thought he was clever and was like

"So, you guys make games right? So a persona can be just like Mario. He wants to save the princess right?  But sometimes he just wants to get to the...uh...goal, you know the top of the tower to fight the turtle guy."

And the client was like  :oreilly

I had to interrupt him and be like "I think he's trying to make the point in videogame metaphors. A better one is the MC in Persona. They have the ability to call on a huge number of personas, each of which is very different. Your customers are like this when it comes to buying, differing circumstances, attitudes and situations change which 'persona' they'll use and we help you track that."

The client was like  :leon

After the meeting I told the sales guy to never try to make a videogame metaphor again  :comeon

Still, good to know all those hours in Persona wasn't for nothing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on December 05, 2014, 10:50:38 PM
My sleep is fucked.

Went to bed last night thinking "Oh, if I go to bed at 8 pm then I can wake up at around 5 am and get a bunch of stuff done in the morning."

Nope.
>Went to bed at 8 pm shot right into REM sleep
>Was dreaming about doing a bunch of web page layouts. So... I was essentially doing work in my sleep...
>Woke at 10:30 pm and was wide-the-fuck awake until 3:00 am
>Wake up at 8:00 am feeling like shit

I think staring at computer screens all day is really doing a number on me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 05, 2014, 11:37:40 PM
my daughter shit on me. i thought we had this worked out.  >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 06, 2014, 02:04:34 AM
Trying to sell into a game company and the sales guy is trying to be all smarmy and was trying to explain how we deal with multiple buyer personas and he thought he was clever and was like

"So, you guys make games right? So a persona can be just like Mario. He wants to save the princess right?  But sometimes he just wants to get to the...uh...goal, you know the top of the tower to fight the turtle guy."

And the client was like  :oreilly

I had to interrupt him and be like "I think he's trying to make the point in videogame metaphors. A better one is the MC in Persona. They have the ability to call on a huge number of personas, each of which is very different. Your customers are like this when it comes to buying, differing circumstances, attitudes and situations change which 'persona' they'll use and we help you track that."

The client was like  :leon

After the meeting I told the sales guy to never try to make a videogame metaphor again  :comeon

Still, good to know all those hours in Persona wasn't for nothing.

awesome! however if you ever said that shit to me in a meeting I'd certainly punt your ass out of my office.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 06, 2014, 03:09:43 AM
Agreed. Why he thought to start talking about Mario, even though they were a game company, was beyond me.  And they give me a hard time about client facing skills. I'm not the one starting terrible metaphors using Nintendo characters in sales calls.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 06, 2014, 09:17:03 AM
Buyers are like waifus, each one has different personalities and demands that you have to meet before you get to have sex with them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 06, 2014, 11:13:39 AM
Buyers are like waifus, each one has different personalities and demands that you have to meet before you get to have sex with them.
I don't even want to know what type of company you'd use this pitch on.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 06, 2014, 01:43:54 PM
hooker agency
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 06, 2014, 02:11:11 PM
All our waifus are driven by money.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 06, 2014, 07:04:24 PM
So I'm trying to get drunk in the middle of the day, because why not? I had a few gin and tonics, but didn't have much gin left and quickly ran out.

I scanned my fridge. No other mixers but that tonic. The only liquor I had left was rum. I was like  :yeshrug

Let me tell you: a rum and tonic is some scust shit. I'm powering through it, because I just want to be drunk, but goddamn I would not wish this on anyone  :yuck

rum IS the devil's liquor of choice in case you didn't know. Especially spiced rum.

VERY demonic my friends
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 06, 2014, 07:19:36 PM
Might as well drink rum straight because at least when you're dying the next day it's not because of a sugar overdose.

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highkey feel this way about every liquor but I recognize I might have a drinking problem
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 06, 2014, 07:52:14 PM
Went to a chinese place that had all-you-can-eat crab legs, but they didn't put out any crab crackers so I just had to rip them open with my bare hands.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Oblivion on December 06, 2014, 09:02:27 PM
Have to read roughly 300 pages by Monday morning for class.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 06, 2014, 09:12:41 PM
Went to a chinese place that had all-you-can-eat crab legs, but they didn't put out any crab crackers so I just had to rip them open with my bare hands.

The last time I saw Chinese people eat crab legs, they cracked them with their teeth, and they were fast as fuck. Maybe they were coaxing you to use the best crab crackers?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 06, 2014, 10:55:59 PM
Went to a chinese place that had all-you-can-eat crab legs, but they didn't put out any crab crackers so I just had to rip them open with my bare hands.

The last time I saw Chinese people eat crab legs, they cracked them with their teeth, and they were fast as fuck. Maybe they were coaxing you to use the best crab crackers?

I will think on this, sensei.  :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 07, 2014, 12:43:13 AM
Trying to sell into a game company and the sales guy is trying to be all smarmy and was trying to explain how we deal with multiple buyer personas and he thought he was clever and was like

"So, you guys make games right? So a persona can be just like Mario. He wants to save the princess right?  But sometimes he just wants to get to the...uh...goal, you know the top of the tower to fight the turtle guy."

And the client was like  :oreilly

I had to interrupt him and be like "I think he's trying to make the point in videogame metaphors. A better one is the MC in Persona. They have the ability to call on a huge number of personas, each of which is very different. Your customers are like this when it comes to buying, differing circumstances, attitudes and situations change which 'persona' they'll use and we help you track that."

The client was like  :leon

After the meeting I told the sales guy to never try to make a videogame metaphor again  :comeon

Still, good to know all those hours in Persona wasn't for nothing.

awesome! however if you ever said that shit to me in a meeting I'd certainly punt your ass out of my office.

yeah, i work in software, and i'd hafta agree. i'd nod, say "VERY CLEVER" and then have security wedgie you on your way out the door.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 07, 2014, 01:17:50 AM
#salesgate
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 07, 2014, 03:27:46 PM
I have a coke zero addiction where I drink like 3L a day.  Its how I get my caffeine fix.  Shoppers was all out of it and i'm I can't afford to pay regular price for it so I don't have any left.  I had to buy instant coffee for some caffeine.   Shit is gross. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 07, 2014, 03:36:33 PM
I have also gained 10 pounds in a month and just ate 2/3 of a carrot cake in one sitting.  :(

Accumulating mass
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 07, 2014, 03:38:27 PM
And that last 1/3 is looking pretty tasty hmmmmmm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 07, 2014, 03:40:26 PM
eat it bb and post belly pix :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 07, 2014, 03:42:37 PM
I'm too ashamed for pics. 

I think the problem is I'm super bored if my work and like a month behind on it.  EEG data is boring and gross. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 07, 2014, 06:35:23 PM
Don't check the ISO levels before shooting so all your highlights are blown out, brehs :fbm

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Not too bad but I'm kicking myself over such a rookie fuckup.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 07, 2014, 07:45:39 PM
Sure, shoot me as many tips as you can think of off the top of your head. I have two more days of shooting, so tips are appreciated. This is also the first time I'm using a boom pole and audio recorder, so any tips there would be cool too.

Also, please include the stuff you worked on in the PM! I wanna see it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 07, 2014, 08:02:23 PM
Camera tech has improved by such a crazy amount in 10 years I can't even imagine what it'll look like in 2025. Like damn.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 08, 2014, 12:12:38 AM
There was a gas leak at the hotel I'm staying at. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: The Legend of Sunblade on December 08, 2014, 12:15:40 AM
Was expecting a group member on this assignment due tomorrow to mail me her part so I could simply re-organize it, put it together with my stuff and have it ready for tomorrow. Of course, her part is missing stuff I asked her for and didn't follow the assignment format at all.

I don't know why I expected otherwise.   :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 08, 2014, 10:16:12 AM
Camera tech has improved by such a crazy amount in 10 years I can't even imagine what it'll look like in 2025. Like damn.

Isn't that kinda weird though.

I thought it was all just glass.

I would say it's mostly been to rapidly falling prices. DSLR's didn't even really start catching on until 2005 (they were around before that but extremely cost-prohibitive.) Now? I could get a good DSLR (which has way more functions and options than anything released in 2005) for like $500. The high end of DSLR gear currently consists of stuff that would have fetched a small fortune ten years ago for the same quality. A 2005 lens might be compatible, but even lenses have developed a fair bit. In addition there's other innovations, like in-body stabilization, and mirrorless cameras have started to catch on (I've read a couple "death of DSLR" articles.)

Like most tech, it's always "existed" but the higher end keeps dropping in price and size until it's attainable for most people. Did you know you can get a 4K DSLR for  $1500? (http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-DMC-GH4KBODY-16-05MP-Mirrorless-Cinematic/dp/B00I9GYG8O) This is something an indie film maker could easily use to make an entire feature film, and 4K (digital) films didn't even exist a decade ago! If you wanted to make a feature back then, you needed to use film and I shouldn't even need to say how incredibly expensive that could get. (Let's say, a lot more than $1500 for potentially not as high quality footage.)

Now it seems most stuff is being made in 6K digital with RED cameras and the like. In a whole 10 years, you'll probably be able to get a camera that offers the same picture quality but for $1500 instead of $20,000. (And the high end will have something even better to replace it, like 16K or something insane like that.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 09, 2014, 09:16:18 AM
Had a crazy broad get in a car and follow my driver home from dinner/beers with my friends and nearly killed by my wife. That was weird and of course I am in trouble even though I didn't do anything wrong....marriage brehs.

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 09, 2014, 11:23:34 AM
I'm sick, had to get up early for a dentist appointment, and the toilet in my apartment is stopped up and flooded.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 09, 2014, 11:25:18 AM
Last night I dreamt that I watched an episode of Blossom.

Last night I dreamt that I watched an episode of Blossom with continuity errors. (Anthony was trying to get back into college and stressing about it because he'd been doing nothing with his life since he got clean EVEN THOUGH HE'S A FUCKING EMT in prior episodes.) I dreamt being offended at this, BTW.

Also Joey Lawrence had blond hair.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on December 09, 2014, 12:36:04 PM
Last night I dreamt that I watched an episode of Blossom.

Last night I dreamt that I watched an episode of Blossom with continuity errors. (Anthony was trying to get back into college and stressing about it because he'd been doing nothing with his life since he got clean EVEN THOUGH HE'S A FUCKING EMT in prior episodes.) I dreamt being offended at this, BTW.

Also Joey Lawrence had blond hair.

(http://i.imgur.com/xHFQx3K.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2014, 12:37:17 PM
Had a crazy broad get in a car and follow my driver home from dinner/beers with my friends and nearly killed by my wife. That was weird and of course I am in trouble even though I didn't do anything wrong....marriage brehs.

:rejoice


wut
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 09, 2014, 12:39:02 PM
I got home yesterday to find a Prius parked in front of my driveway on the street. I managed to swerve around and park in my driveway, but it's still annoying. Parking cop was out doing his rounds and he ticketed the Prius.

Came out to the car this morning and the driver side rear tire is totally flat. Got it off and put the spare on. There is a cut in the side wall. Fuck.

Could be coincidental, but I can't think of any other reason how my tire got a puncture on the side like that without driving it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 09, 2014, 12:40:36 PM
You think the Prius owner slashed it?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 09, 2014, 12:42:01 PM
You think the Prius owner slashed it?

I have no clue. I'd like to think they didn't.

This just sucks. My wife is in Boston this week for work and left our other car at the airport. Took a sick day so I'm home with the kiddo and heading to get a new tire soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2014, 12:43:54 PM
I didn't know Kaepernick drove a Prius.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 09, 2014, 01:17:07 PM
Had a crazy broad get in a car and follow my driver home from dinner/beers with my friends and nearly killed by my wife. That was weird and of course I am in trouble even though I didn't do anything wrong....marriage brehs.

:rejoice


wut

Yup. Bitch was crazy hot but also crazy crazy and had it in her head we were "meant to be" and decided to not take no for an answer. My life brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2014, 01:20:28 PM
Yea but were yall talking during dinner
:hitler

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 09, 2014, 01:25:22 PM
Yea but were yall talking during dinner
:hitler

Her friends/my friends.....I'm a social guy :yeshrug

For the record I was wearing my ring and discussing my wife as well.

Thank god for my driver. We were pulling in my gate and he noticed a car coming down our street (it's not a busy street in the least.) kinda fast and made sure to shut the gate. She was standing on the other side screaming "we need to talk" and after about 2 minutes of me trying to tell her to leave my wife comes out like fucking godzilla. "Who THE FUCK is this BITCH?"

I let her handle it from there.

 :pacspit

I'm gonna chalk it off to an overdrunk 30 something who's biological clock and financial security are probably in an intense battle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 09, 2014, 01:39:11 PM
My wife's grandma died late sunday :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 09, 2014, 01:39:56 PM
Sorry Steve.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 09, 2014, 01:40:17 PM
My wife's grandma died late sunday :'(

Sucks man. My condolences.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 09, 2014, 01:42:41 PM
sorry contra  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 09, 2014, 01:43:31 PM
I'm sorry, Steve :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 09, 2014, 02:07:01 PM
Sucks man. I'm sorry steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 09, 2014, 06:30:54 PM
I got too much data to run naive shit on it.  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 09, 2014, 10:00:22 PM
Sorry Steve :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 09, 2014, 10:25:02 PM
I tried to play guitar today and I sucked, badly. Lost my touch  :'(

Cue me spending the next few months trying to go back to what I was.
Story of my life. Anything I can play with little to no effort bores me. Anything that will take my effort I don't have time for
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 09, 2014, 11:38:09 PM
 condolences :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on December 10, 2014, 12:00:12 AM
Steve   :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 10, 2014, 12:01:24 AM
damn steve, sorry to hear. hope you are all doing well.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 10, 2014, 02:20:10 AM
My condolences, Steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 10, 2014, 08:25:05 AM
The MRI came back and my 14 yo has a torn meniscus. :tocry :shaq2

No winter track this year. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on December 10, 2014, 12:48:09 PM
My counselor just straight up told me that "our sessions aren't working because I keep on rescheduling them". Sorry that my truck broke down and I thought I was getting it a few days ago, but I'm not getting it back till today

 :gurl :gurl :gurl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on December 11, 2014, 12:10:51 AM
all the genius women on Twitter up and left in protest and now the site sucks. might as well just read reddit or some shit now ffs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 11, 2014, 12:29:58 AM
What happened on Twitter? GamerGate-type shit?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on December 11, 2014, 05:29:59 AM
Picked up my father in law from jail, only to bring him home again!  :-\

Family sometimes really sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on December 11, 2014, 09:42:50 AM
nothing specific happened, just years of getting plagiarized from ppl who can turn their tweets into profit, plus never-ending attacks from conservative dipshits, 4chan scum, and reddit trolls.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 11, 2014, 10:11:24 AM
Some of our friends are naming their daughter the same first name as our daughter and almost the identical middle name. And then acted like they just came up with it. No, you came up with it when you checked Facebook and saw a post that my kid won't fall asleep until her nails are painted orange.

It only took me 30 years but I finally have completely irrational pissiness in true girl form. Next step: using my period as an excuse to break shit and eat ice cream.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 11, 2014, 10:35:41 AM
My wife's friend has a Brayden, the friend's husband's sister has a Jayden, and the friend's brother has a Kayden. I guess it wasn't planned and it doesn't seem that weird of a coincidence to them.  :mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 11, 2014, 10:51:02 AM
It may be Braiden. Not sure. They all sound the same.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 11, 2014, 11:19:32 AM
I could almost understand if it was a really common name, but Evey Shea and now Evey May? C'mon. The jig is up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2014, 01:05:31 PM
Fuck it, I'll just put my fingers into the pickle juice. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 11, 2014, 05:51:06 PM
Drive-through window experience from the other day.   This was a humorous struggle, I suppose.  The guy sounded just like Jeremy Piven and when he said "THIS COMPLETES THE ORDER," it was more of a statement instead of a question.   :lol

Clerk: CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER?
Me: Yes, I'll have a #3 combo, but no-
Clerk: SMALLMEDIUMORLARGEANDWHATTODRINK
Me: --Uh, no mayo on that and iced tea.
Clerk: THISCOMPLETESTHEORDER
Me:  :lol no, I also want to get a #10 combo with-
Clerk: SMALLMEDIUMORLARGEWHATDRINKTHISCOMPLETESTHEORDER.
Me:  :lol Um, medium combo with unsweet tea.
Clerk: THISCOMPLETESTHEORDER

Then at the window, he goes "OOH IS THAT A TACO BELL DOG YOU HAVE THERE? TACO BELL DOG! (Looks at co-worker) TACO BELL DOG!"

My wife said I couldn't stop laughing!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 11, 2014, 05:56:26 PM
Should've asked him his gaf name.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 11, 2014, 08:47:33 PM
Gotta go to LA next week for a day. Client is a ways away from nearly every airport.

Drive in LA traffic brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 12, 2014, 11:56:53 PM
My mom made a late night stop 20 minutes ago to drop something off. We talked a bit and then she sat down and turned the TV on and said "so, want to watch something?" I lied and said I was about to go to bed, but she started randomly selecting channels...and eventually got to the HBO channels....and stumbled across The Super Sex Program (which is still on btw). Soft core shit with Mary Carey.

During one of the sex scenes of some girl getting plowed my mom said "this is porn...wow." I casually said I didn't believe they were having sex - it's pretty obvious no penetration is going on - and my mom turned around and asked how did I know.
 :brazilcry

I reached into my pocket to pretend to get a text and realized my phone was in my room.
 :goty2

she left shortly thereafter thankfully
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 13, 2014, 01:22:13 AM
Pretend your mom doesn't know you watch porn or have sex brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 13, 2014, 01:26:54 AM
Nah it's not that. It's not a conversation I'd want to has with my mom lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 13, 2014, 01:52:44 AM
Hahahahaha holy shit. I can't even imagine. Wow.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 13, 2014, 02:38:46 AM
And unlike Lisbeth you can't take a revenge-W later on (http://i.imgur.com/L6YRQKN.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 13, 2014, 02:41:05 AM
Stupid puppy won't pee, so she sleeps in the crate tonight

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 13, 2014, 09:35:42 AM
My mom has made several awkward jokes about me remembering to pick up condoms, lol.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Also, for as many struggles as I do have, lack of regular sex isn't one of them. :shh
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 13, 2014, 10:25:00 AM
Stop it breh. I've endured far worse than that.

When I came back from school on a break i saw Girl With a Dragon Tattoo with my mom.

In theaters.

Had no idea the scenes were coming.

(http://i.imgur.com/l1x61OA.png)
:noooo

I saw Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon in the theater with my mom, which includes a crazy sex scene out of nowhere but yea...your situation was far worse.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 13, 2014, 01:01:10 PM
I’ve been in the USA since November 4th, from Seattle to Boise to San Jose. It sure was nice meeting up with Seattle-Bore, though I honestly expected Treesong to have a little more girth by now. You’re a married man! Start eating like one! Thanks again to Cruncheon and Mr. Gundam for paying for my delicious times at the tap room!

Going back to Japan in less than 48 hours. Looking forward to seeing my family and sleeping in my own bed after two months of being away, and getting back to work.

I am, however, unhappy about how beer is going to increase 6- to 7-fold in price, good hamburgers 12-fold, and missing all my American family and friends.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 13, 2014, 01:02:58 PM
All dat sushi tho
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 13, 2014, 01:04:07 PM
Stop it breh. I've endured far worse than that.

When I came back from school on a break i saw Girl With a Dragon Tattoo with my mom.

In theaters.

Had no idea the scenes were coming.

(http://i.imgur.com/l1x61OA.png)
:dead :dead :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 13, 2014, 05:11:07 PM
Drive-through window experience from the other day.   This was a humorous struggle, I suppose.  The guy sounded just like Jeremy Piven and when he said "THIS COMPLETES THE ORDER," it was more of a statement instead of a question.   :lol

Clerk: CAN I TAKE YOUR ORDER?
Me: Yes, I'll have a #3 combo, but no-
Clerk: SMALLMEDIUMORLARGEANDWHATTODRINK
Me: --Uh, no mayo on that and iced tea.
Clerk: THISCOMPLETESTHEORDER
Me:  :lol no, I also want to get a #10 combo with-
Clerk: SMALLMEDIUMORLARGEWHATDRINKTHISCOMPLETESTHEORDER.
Me:  :lol Um, medium combo with unsweet tea.
Clerk: THISCOMPLETESTHEORDER

Then at the window, he goes "OOH IS THAT A TACO BELL DOG YOU HAVE THERE? TACO BELL DOG! (Looks at co-worker) TACO BELL DOG!"

My wife said I couldn't stop laughing!

 :ufup

Mayo  :yuck :yuck :yuck :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 13, 2014, 05:55:16 PM
I watched Wyatt Cenac's most recent stand up special, and he was talking about how gentrified Brooklyn is getting. His final nail in the coffin was a specialty mayo shop.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 13, 2014, 06:09:54 PM
How can anyone not like mayo. It's fat and creamy.

But anyways I'll share a recent struggle.

I got to know a cool person through WoW. She was similarly dorky like me but when she chatted with a mic she seemed cool/funny enough that I began to like her a lot, interesting person, really fun to chat with, etc. For 5 or 6 years I've been very reluctant to chat to anyone at all on the internet, so this was a change for me. It felt weird to have such engaging conversations about random stuff, but also fun. Talked about dreams, aspirations, career paths, but usually light-hearted in-game WoW-related shit.

The struggle part is I quit WoW and that's basically the end of that. I remember she mentioned having the dorm kitchen all to herself one day and baked a ton of cookies. Well. I recently made cookies too. But now I can't talk to her about dem shits.  So I got back on to get her contact info.  It progressed from instant messaging to skype until finally one day we decided to meet in person.  And that's how I got raped by a 280 pound, 45 year old balding cac.

 :goty

I like my story better.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 13, 2014, 07:00:36 PM
And to think I was going to make a joke a few days ago about nerds telling people they "know" the guy who wrote Book Of Eli.

I hate it had to be you, Walrus
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 13, 2014, 07:01:21 PM
Ya.  My policy is if someone even sees me browsing a forum over my shoulder, their name goes into a list.  If I ever become a politician they will need to be dealt with.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 13, 2014, 08:10:55 PM
The girl that has been flirting with me at the grocery store just dropped that she is in high school randomly in a conversation today. Welp. There goes my twice a week feel good "I've still got it" conversations.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 13, 2014, 08:15:24 PM
Sounds like someone is make a preemptive evidence post so that you can say later 'see totally wouldn't touch that.  Are you sure this thong isn't yours?'
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 13, 2014, 09:57:19 PM
I have to do 3 demos next week.

I'm not a sales guy.

 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 13, 2014, 10:18:22 PM
be required to feign interest in the lights n' sound toy you're buying a child who can't talk and still shits herself brehs

:goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 13, 2014, 11:05:02 PM
be required to feign interest in the lights n' sound toy you're buying a child who can't talk and still shits herself brehs

:goty

Aww come on, it's not that hard to fake interest in Nintendo products.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 14, 2014, 10:33:47 AM
Got bagels and cream cheese just to realize I don't own a toaster. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 14, 2014, 10:49:16 AM
Got bagels and cream cheese just to realize I don't own a toaster.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf92603626.tip.html

:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 14, 2014, 10:58:41 AM
Got bagels and cream cheese just to realize I don't own a toaster.

Use the oven.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 14, 2014, 11:34:25 AM
Now I want bagels and cream cheese. But I don't wanna go out in the rain.
 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 14, 2014, 12:09:25 PM
So my gf works for a production company that's affiliated with Sony. They've been affected by the hack, and we've been talking about the various leaks. So when I saw that Gary Whitta got mocked by a Sony exec, I mentioned that I used to post on a forum with that guy before he got his big Hollywood break, and didn't really like him then, so this was really funny to me as a result.

She asked, "Oh, what was this forum?"

At this point I got a little nervous, but decided to play it straight. I told her, "It's a videogame forum called NeoGAF. I don't post there anymore, but I still browse from time to time."

Her: "Why did you stop posting there?"

Me: "Well, they banned me for trolling."

Her: "Wait, you trolled so hard you got BANNED? What kind of stuff did you write?"

Me: "I don't think you quite understand. They ban a lot of people over there. A lot."

Her: "You're still telling me you got banned from a web forum for trolling. You're ridiculous."

 :snoop
 :snoop
 :snoop
 :snoop
 :snoop
 :snoop  :snoop  :snoop  :snoop
Call her back the next day, and claim you feel really unsupported on your Whitta position.


Glen, under nooo circumstances should you let her see the shit you posted on the internet

:holeup
This, one hundred times, this.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 14, 2014, 12:13:56 PM
Got bagels and cream cheese just to realize I don't own a toaster.

Use the oven.

Thats what I did but its not as good of a toast.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 14, 2014, 12:34:37 PM
Got bagels and cream cheese just to realize I don't own a toaster.

Use the oven.

Thats what I did but its not as good of a toast.
Actually it can be. Heat a skillet up on the stove,,throw some butter in it, then put your bagels in. You'll be able to perfectly toast it to whatever level you want...just be careful you don't burn your food.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 14, 2014, 12:49:31 PM
I got a wok, that's all I got.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 14, 2014, 01:18:49 PM
Finally (FINALLY) making progress in Storm of Swords

I'm really not trying to read anymore Bran chapters  :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 14, 2014, 03:18:13 PM
Bran is the worst character ever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 14, 2014, 03:26:29 PM
That's one of the worst things you have ever typed. Ever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 14, 2014, 03:30:10 PM
So you're saying Brienne>Bran? fuckouttahere :heh

With Bran you always get some interesting lore and magic shit. And cannibalism.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 14, 2014, 03:43:50 PM
So you're saying Brienne>Bran? fuckouttahere :heh

With Bran you always get some interesting lore and magic shit. And cannibalism.

I enjoy her banter with Jaime a hell of a lot more than fever dreams and self-pity with frog people.

I get that Bran's the catalyst for all of this and it was tolerable in the beginning, but I'm so over it now it's not even funny.


You can't imagine my disappointment when I finished Clash of Kings  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 14, 2014, 03:43:58 PM
they're all fucking boring as fuck past the first book, who cares

edit: the Bran chapters gave us
spoiler (click to show/hide)
the green knight frame narrative
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so I'm fine with em
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 14, 2014, 03:46:10 PM
they're all fucking boring as fuck past the first book, who cares

 :badass
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 14, 2014, 04:21:59 PM
So you're saying Brienne>Bran? fuckouttahere :heh

With Bran you always get some interesting lore and magic shit. And cannibalism.

I enjoy her banter with Jaime a hell of a lot more than fever dreams and self-pity with frog people.

I get that Bran's the catalyst for all of this and it was tolerable in the beginning, but I'm so over it now it's not even funny.


You can't imagine my disappointment when I finished Clash of Kings  :stahp
Agreed. There may be cool ideas with the Bran sequences but the execution of the dialogue and writing in general leaves something to be desired.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on December 14, 2014, 04:46:48 PM
Ran out of meds right when I have one of my largest attacks yet, two days long now. I should have gone to the ER but I was stubborn and tried to wait it out. I've stressed out my whole house because there really isn't anything anyone can do for me. I just have to wait till next month when I can get this thing out of me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 14, 2014, 04:58:09 PM
Bran has some of the best chapters in ADWD.

Talk about damning with faint praise... that's like saying "such and such is the best track on a Muse album"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 14, 2014, 05:12:31 PM
Wonder which fantasy epic PD will hold up as perfect next. He's already gone through the Bible, Harry Potter, and now A Song of Ice and Fire.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 14, 2014, 05:21:56 PM
Wonder which fantasy epic PD will hold up as perfect next. He's already gone through the Bible, Harry Potter, and now A Song of Ice and Fire.

 :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on December 14, 2014, 06:58:37 PM
Bran III in ADWD is a top 5 chapter in the series.

Some of Martin's best writing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 14, 2014, 07:53:02 PM
do yall read fantasy or do yall skim through it
(http://i.imgur.com/6m1fH5h.png)

I always assumed most people though the worst POV in the series was
(AFFC spoiler)
spoiler (click to show/hide)
Brienne
[close]

It gets better towards the last ones but yea...that's the worst POV brehs by a mile. Bran has too many dope moments for me to damn him as "worst ever" due to some travelogue chapters. I liked his GoT chapters mainly because they gave extended glimpses of the rest of the northern houses (Manderly, Umber, etc). The other kids were dealing with far more interesting stuff at the time - I'd imagine we can all agree on that. ACOK...things got interesting when the Reeds showed up, and even moreso when Theon came along.

ASOS tho? We gonna act like it didn't introduce some interesting lore shit brehs?

Bobby Doucher is right. Too bad the show turned that scene into some Harry Potter bullshit.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 15, 2014, 01:47:53 AM
1) Struggle for the Day: Having shit from the three Game of Thrones threads bleed over into the Struggle of the Day thread.

2) Packing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 15, 2014, 03:12:39 AM
Been painting my new apartment the whole weekend.

I'm tired.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 15, 2014, 03:40:42 AM
Keep your windows open and don’t fume yourself to death.  ;)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 15, 2014, 04:38:09 AM
I actually feel sick today from the fumes I think, nausea.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 15, 2014, 01:56:09 PM
Someone reported me to Washington Department of Transportation for illegally using the carpool lane.

My daughter is in the back seat. :lol

No ticket, just this really funny letter in the mail. Called them back and told them what was up and the person I spoke to was like "Yeah, lots of people like to complain about kids."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 02:01:15 PM
Someone reported me to Washington Department of Transportation for illegally using the carpool lane.

My daughter is in the back seat. :lol

No ticket, just this really funny letter in the mail. Called them back and told them what was up and the person I spoke to was like "Yeah, lots of people like to complain about kids."

There is nothing worse than a fucking secret call in narc'ing. I hate that shit.

Once I was at my old house and my wife and I were being pretty loud during a disagreement about how to handle an issue one of the kids had. There were no threats nor was there even any real derogatory insults either....5 minutes later cops show up, like 5 of them and pulled me outside. One of the new dipshit local cops proceeded to ask me the following (no shit)

"Is this fight about drugs"

"Do you hit your wife?"

"Are you feeling angry right now?"

"Are......."

They he got interrupted by the Chief who said "They are arguing about their damn kid, enough. Sorry sir we received a call that there were threats and possible violence...clearly this isn't the case"

And then he nodded at my stupid religious cac neighbors. Who got nothing but death stares for about a month after that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 15, 2014, 02:04:26 PM
There is a hotline in WA to report HOV violations. What kills me is that someone was so bothered that they took the time to call and report me. I know my daughter is hard to see in the backseat, but I'm not going to cheat the system.

:lol

My wife noticed that I trimmed her hydrangeas too short this Fall. She yelled at me in the front yard so our neighbor came out and was concerned. :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 02:09:01 PM
There is a hotline in WA to report HOV violations. What kills me is that someone was so bothered that they took the time to call and report me. I know my daughter is hard to see in the backseat, but I'm not going to cheat the system.

:lol

My wife noticed that I trimmed her hydrangeas too short this Fall. She yelled at me in the front yard so our neighbor came out and was concerned. :lol

Yeah I don't know when all this shit started...or has it always been that way in white neighborhoods? Where I grew up you didn't get involved in marital/family affairs....best to leave that shit alone.

And honestly if I was outside and I heard your wife yelling at your about cutting your hydrangeas too short I'd just giggle and say "white folks" to myself and keep doing what I was doing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Gundam on December 15, 2014, 02:11:52 PM
There is a hotline in WA to report HOV violations. What kills me is that someone was so bothered that they took the time to call and report me. I know my daughter is hard to see in the backseat, but I'm not going to cheat the system.

:lol

My wife noticed that I trimmed her hydrangeas too short this Fall. She yelled at me in the front yard so our neighbor came out and was concerned. :lol

And honestly if I was outside and I heard your wife yelling at your about cutting your hydrangeas too short I'd just giggle and say "white folks" to myself and keep doing what I was doing.

:brofist
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 15, 2014, 02:26:43 PM
I really need to shit but don't like using public toilets 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on December 15, 2014, 02:33:15 PM
in my experience that is definitely a "shitty old white lady with too much time on her hands" problem. use to have to deal with those assholes complaining about every little thing - cutting through their yard, cussing outside, having the music up in my car. an old lady that lived across from my brother used to get the cops on his gf because she'd go down the street and check to see who's plates were expired :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 15, 2014, 02:38:43 PM
We gonna act like ADWD wasn't mostly awesome?

No.

No it was not.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 02:43:01 PM
There is a hotline in WA to report HOV violations. What kills me is that someone was so bothered that they took the time to call and report me. I know my daughter is hard to see in the backseat, but I'm not going to cheat the system.

:lol

My wife noticed that I trimmed her hydrangeas too short this Fall. She yelled at me in the front yard so our neighbor came out and was concerned. :lol

When I was a kid we'd organize basketball games with some of the kids in our suburban subdivision. There was this one weird kid a couple houses down that we didn't let play with us because he'd spit on people. He never passed the ball (he'd either shoot the ball or get it stolen from him no matter what), and if you stole the ball he spit on your shoes. We banned him from playing with us, and even gave him a second chance after he promised not to spit anymore but he did it again. So we banished him, and someone (not me!) called him Dickolas (since his name was Nicholas). He ran away crying. Mind you this guy was 11 years old at the time, well above the age of acting like that big of a bitch.

His mom proceeded to call the police on us 3 times that summer for being "too loud" outside, playing basketball...
:heh

He spent the whole summer playing by himself, loudly in an attempt to impress us, in front of his house.
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 02:44:07 PM
There is a hotline in WA to report HOV violations. What kills me is that someone was so bothered that they took the time to call and report me. I know my daughter is hard to see in the backseat, but I'm not going to cheat the system.

:lol

My wife noticed that I trimmed her hydrangeas too short this Fall. She yelled at me in the front yard so our neighbor came out and was concerned. :lol

When I was a kid we'd organize basketball games with some of the kids in our suburban subdivision. There was this one weird kid a couple houses down that we didn't let play with us because he'd spit on people. He never passed the ball (he'd either shoot the ball or get it stolen from him no matter what), and if you stole the ball he spit on your shoes. We banned him from playing with us, and even gave him a second chance after he promised not to spit anymore but he did it again. So we banished him, and someone (not me!) called him Dickolas (since his name was Nicholas). He ran away crying. Mind you this guy was 11 years old at the time, well above the age of acting like that big of a bitch.

His mom proceeded to call the police on us 3 times that summer for being "too loud" outside, playing basketball...
:heh

He spent the whole summer playing by himself, loudly in an attempt to impress us, in front of his house.
:dead

This is a JR Smith story isn't it?

(http://24.media.tumblr.com/3c4e77550c5ee7c8d81d314b61e5687b/tumblr_msbo5luQzS1rs5ngxo1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 02:53:13 PM
BTW that's the same weird ass kid from my story about taking my brothers to see The Hulk movie.
:heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 15, 2014, 02:54:22 PM
What became of Dickolas? Is he a meth addict now? 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 02:57:22 PM
What became of Dickolas? Is he a meth addict now?

General Manager of the Pistons. So yeah pretty much.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 15, 2014, 03:03:21 PM
Los Angeles
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 03:14:03 PM
He's in college and works at a grocery store. I see him every now and then at the store, he's awkward but is a good guy now.

My favorite Nicholas story: one year we saw him maybe a couple times outside during the winter, didn't see him during the spring. Then one day in July we saw him outside his house shooting hoops with flowing, sparkling blonde hair - Dirk Nowitzki style. You have to understand, the Nicholas we had known for the last few years always looked the same: patchy, uneven buzz cut, a childish t-shirt, wack sneakers, and an eternal facial look of mass confusion. Now we watched from afar as he hit jumper after jumper, practiced post moves, took free throws, etc while wearing a nice Reggie Miller jersey and decent sneakers. After some debate we decided to invite him to play with us, and everyone wanted him on their team. I could tell he was more confident, poised, his voice was less annoying, he wasn't constantly saying "HEY YOU GUYS," etc...

The game started, and after a minute he got the ball for the first time. He took a dribble (!), stopped, took a shot...and it missed the rim by a foot.
:neogaf

He proceeded to miss every shot he took, but passed the ball, didn't spit on anyone, and was cool about everything. And that's how he became one of the fellas.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:18:29 PM
He's in college and works at a grocery store. I see him every now and then at the store, he's awkward but is a good guy now.

My favorite Nicholas story: one year we saw him maybe a couple times outside during the winter, didn't see him during the spring. Then one day in July we saw him outside his house shooting hoops with flowing, sparkling blonde hair - Dirk Nowitzki style. You have to understand, the Nicholas we had known for the last few years always looked the same: patchy, uneven buzz cut, a childish t-shirt, wack sneakers, and an eternal facial look of mass confusion. Now we watched from afar as he hit jumper after jumper, practiced post moves, took free throws, etc while wearing a nice Reggie Miller jersey and decent sneakers. After some debate we decided to invite him to play with us, and everyone wanted him on their team. I could tell he was more confident, poised, his voice was less annoying, he wasn't constantly saying "HEY YOU GUYS," etc...

The game started, and after a minute he got the ball for the first time. He took a dribble (!), stopped, took a shot...and it missed the rim by a foot.
:neogaf

He proceeded to miss every shot he took, but passed the ball, didn't spit on anyone, and was cool about everything. And that's how he became one of the fellas.

That's a cool story.


We had a kid on our block who called himself Mikey J (real name Nate) and was probably top 5 worst pick up ballplayer in the world. He had all the right equipment but managed to make it look bad. A normal day in the hood was him going about 2-43 from the field while fouling the fuck out of people and dribbling off his shoes.

We eventually moved to a different park.

Right before we moved we went down and were playing and there was Mikey J...we said sup Mikey J and he replied "man I'm nate now" and stood up. He was now like 6'7 and about 220 pounds. He whooped our ever loving asses for 3 hours and ended up playing some college level ball before he knocked up some broad. Last I heard he works at ford now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 03:21:20 PM
BTW that's the same weird ass kid from my story about taking my brothers to see The Hulk movie.
:heh

Is it the same kid from the "We heard you were looking for friends. Well, here we are!"

:rofl

Nah, after that summer we never saw each other again.
:whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:24:02 PM
Ha ha funny how we meet our friends.

We had a party in college one night and a freshman showed up. I told him "come back with 5 girls and I'll let you in" and then he brought back 10 (he told them there was free beer for girls which was total bullshit)

Guy is now my best friend and was the best man at my wedding.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:25:09 PM
I had a friend in college who was unbelievably bad at basketball.

I'm pretty awful myself, but I took him to school.

Breh half my football team in college shot like Shawn Marion with worse results (tom brady =  :neogaf ). Different strokes for different folks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 03:45:12 PM
He's in college and works at a grocery store. I see him every now and then at the store, he's awkward but is a good guy now.

My favorite Nicholas story: one year we saw him maybe a couple times outside during the winter, didn't see him during the spring. Then one day in July we saw him outside his house shooting hoops with flowing, sparkling blonde hair

some fairly gay prose here, PD. Subtle, like a few stalks of saffron in a curry.

My bball crew consisted of my brothers, a black guy, an Arab guy, a mixed guy, an Indian guy, and a couple Asian guys. We had never seen a white kid playing ball competently, despite the subdivision being predominantly white; the white kids were mainly female, and the boys didn't really play sports. So seeing him out there hitting jumpers, his hair spun like gold, the breeze making the locks take wing...it's hard to explain it without sounding gay or like a worshiper of whiteness....but we were all impressed.
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:45:47 PM
He's in college and works at a grocery store. I see him every now and then at the store, he's awkward but is a good guy now.

My favorite Nicholas story: one year we saw him maybe a couple times outside during the winter, didn't see him during the spring. Then one day in July we saw him outside his house shooting hoops with flowing, sparkling blonde hair

some fairly gay prose here, PD. Subtle, like a few stalks of saffron in a curry.

My bball crew consisted of my brothers, a black guy, an Arab guy, a mixed guy, an Indian guy, and a couple Asian guys. We had never seen a white kid playing ball competently, despite the subdivision being predominantly white. So seeing him out there hitting jumpers, his hair spun like gold, the breeze making the locks take wing...it's hard to explain it without sounding gay or like a worshiper of whiteness....but we were all impressed.
:tocry

 :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:47:56 PM
Just sayin...I'm pretty sure PD guarded the post like this:

(http://yazmar.com/wp-content/uploads/downlow.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:54:54 PM
Missing: Flowing locks.

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__n1_3RcC-yw/R1TJzC_NWbI/AAAAAAAAAm8/V3vhBxJCQ_I/s1600-R/gay+bball+2.JPG)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 03:56:21 PM
I was older than everyone except one of the Asian guys who was my age, and none of the older kids in the neighborhood played bball - at least not in our area of the subdivision. I created the bball crew because I had to watch my brothers outside, and when I was doing solo shit they wanted to follow me around...so making a team that could play all day was perfect.

I was better and bigger than everyone so I kind of just passed the ball around, took a few shots here or there, no show boating.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 15, 2014, 03:59:41 PM
I was older than everyone except one of the Asian guys who was my age, and none of the older kids in the neighborhood played bball - at least not in our area of the subdivision. I created the bball crew because I had to watch my brothers outside, and when I was doing solo shit they wanted to follow me around...so making a team that could play all day was perfect.

I was better and bigger than everyone so I kind of just passed the ball around, took a few shots here or there, no show boating.

Yeah right, I picture it more like this

(http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/741/635/2eff2ab2d341f543c426b7a5bbcf2d88_crop_north.?w=630&h=420&q=75)

Get gud
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 15, 2014, 04:11:15 PM
:what

I was good. Coasted through JR since I was bigger than everyone, but in HS/AAU I realized I needed to get better at my game since everyone was now my size. Worked on my handle and jump shot all summer, worked on driving to the lane. My post footwork was always good due to coaching, but I added some nice post moves.

Favorite bball moment was my granddad attending one of my AAU games. He had never seen a basketball game live and I scored 10 points.
 :rejoice

I was never great, and I had that big man issue of being too passive...but I held my own, average double digits during an AAU tournament, etc. Ultimately I wound up quitting AAU because I really didn't fit with the team, personality wise.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 15, 2014, 04:23:39 PM
I had forgotten how L.A. people are really really ridiculously good looking.  I feel like an ogre.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 15, 2014, 06:20:32 PM
Shit is going around.  I just got over it last week.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on December 15, 2014, 06:47:23 PM
I have a head cold and super sore joints.

And I had a ton of work I needed to get done today but of course that didn't happen...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 16, 2014, 12:42:46 PM
JET LAG. 2:43 AM here. Two months abroad, and I am no longer of this time zone at all...

I had forgotten how L.A. people are really really ridiculously good looking.  I feel like an ogre.

:fbm
L.A. has ugly people, they just don't ever go outside.
:fbm

I actually feel sick today from the fumes I think, nausea.
My first design job, I eventually had one of those days where one loses track of time leaning over a Sharpie. I did it the whole day, and then had the worst headache of my entire life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on December 16, 2014, 12:47:14 PM
...So does it reduce or increase friction?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 16, 2014, 12:53:10 PM
He told us his whole routine. He mixes up the gold bond with lotion and goes to town.


work with people with no social skills whatsoever brehs


(http://i.imgur.com/mv87Xyi.png)

Wait...what?

What kinda fucking people sit around and talk about jacking off all day?

*looks at no fap thread

Oh

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 16, 2014, 12:55:01 PM
I might spend the rest of the work day imagining Esch's face during that conversation.
:dead

so close to being able to fire people like that :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 16, 2014, 12:59:25 PM
I might spend the rest of the work day imagining Esch's face during that conversation.
(http://i.imgur.com/6IiPeDP.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 16, 2014, 01:00:59 PM
I might spend the rest of the work day imagining Esch's face during that conversation.
:dead

(http://i.imgur.com/JgZs64Q.png)

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 16, 2014, 01:39:55 PM
I guess I paid it no mind and went on with my business but someone else at that lunch table felt otherwise. I can hear the lead investigator/MDPhD yelling at him in his office right now.

(http://i.imgur.com/yhcj75G.png)

Weird dude or not dry snitching sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 16, 2014, 01:46:01 PM
At first I thought it would be :what but that's moreso for breaches of common sense and forgivable but offensive fuckery - like getting your eye brows threaded or purchasing a Captain Toad game. Wack shit no doubt, but nothing that might end a friendship or work relationship.

I'll go with an initial (http://i.imgur.com/v3v0Yph.png) of surprise, followed by (http://i.imgur.com/qIRHMEM.png)

The conclusion being a neutral state. After all, in the face of such subversive ignorance what choice does a man have but to put on a straight face while mentally eliminating any strands of association/acquaintance with that fuckboy?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 16, 2014, 02:12:32 PM
he went out his way not just to extend a simple/short troll joke, but made it his own. scusting
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 16, 2014, 02:13:29 PM
he went out his way not just to extend a simple/short troll joke, but made it his own. scusting

Yeah, I'm turning on random dude now.

Throw him to the bushes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 16, 2014, 02:38:18 PM
Were there any women in that group?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 16, 2014, 02:47:21 PM
Esch working with antisemites, smh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 16, 2014, 02:53:27 PM
Were there any women in that group?

There's two women in the project but they werent there.

Wait wait, so it was just dudes talking?

C'mon man. I've heard worse than what that dude was talking about today.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 16, 2014, 04:15:39 PM
He was constantly stepping over the line, with his hook nose and his Christ murdering and his running Hollywood.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 16, 2014, 08:09:27 PM
Pizza delivery driver gave me the wrong fucking pizza...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 16, 2014, 09:41:59 PM
Man, sometimes I just hate business. We have to fight tooth and nail for every project we have and we have some of the best in the industry in our ranks. And to get every project we have to essentially go in fighting like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. But then I turn around and see clients with other consulting firms that have much much bigger projects and these firms, well I wouldn't trust those idiots to run a lemonade stand, let alone a multi-million dollar divestiture plan project. Spent a whole meeting with these idiots thinking "These must just be the grunts." After the meeting I looked at their cards and saw that they were actually the partners :goty

Honestly, I was like "K, so your current POS system goes away in March right?"
"Right"
"So what POS system will you be using?"
"Don't know yet. TBD."
"TBD? You're going to have to touch every register you own."
"Yes"
"You have 300 stores."
"Yes."
"And you have essentially 2 months to update every register across 300 stores and if you get it wrong your registers shut down and you don't sell and you're telling me that you don't even know what system you're going to use?"
"Yes"
 :mindblown

How do these people get this job when we have to essentially rip our competitor's heads off to even get in the door? It is infuriating.

Also I met one of our new sales guys. He's a nice bloke, I think we'll get along perfectly. He gets it. But, he looks like an older overweight Paul Atreides.

Spend 3 hours running a sales meeting trying not say "The spice must flow Paul." or "Shai Hulud"brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 16, 2014, 09:53:02 PM
It was. But that dude is a habitual line stepper; always making racy jokes and hitting on the female researchers and support staff (and even test subjects in one case!). I think whoever ratted on him has had a hateboner for a while :heh

Talk about your penis at work brehs

white/jewish previlege brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on December 16, 2014, 10:15:44 PM
I feel like I have no real friends
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 16, 2014, 10:40:24 PM
I feel like I have no real friends

I laughed out loud to this, then right after I empathized. I think this is part of growing up, becoming an adult. This is why you build a family and legacy. To temper lonliness. At least in part.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on December 16, 2014, 10:43:41 PM
got bombarded w/ offbrand colognes by a traveling saleswoman on my lunch break today  :goty2

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on December 16, 2014, 10:47:30 PM
I feel like I have no real friends

I laughed out loud to this, then right after I empathized. I think this is part of growing up, becoming an adult. This is why you build a family and legacy. To temper lonliness. At least in part.

all my people are back in cali and I'm stuck out here with all these army fucks. I'd sooner hangout with you message board brehs than these muppets.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on December 16, 2014, 10:54:13 PM
:dickgere
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on December 16, 2014, 11:07:00 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/U9JsvMP.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 17, 2014, 02:14:01 AM
So I got put onto another project (I think this is the 4th one I'm working right now).

And on my first day the following happened:

- Client PM was yelling at my boss about how if he didn't get something by EOD that the schedule would have to be pushed
- Found out that while we're in day 3 or 4 of testing (which is the client's responsibility) there's no testing plan or schedule
- An employee of mine on the team is so sick of the project he's threatening to quit.

7am tomorrow I have a meeting and have set out the following:

- Tell the client PM that until he has a testing plan and schedule to stop threatening me with schedule pushes
- Explain to him that right now his set of work is more at risk of pushing the schedule than anything else
- Tell my employee that he's welcome to quit and try and find a job with his aging tech skills. Or he could just put on his big girl panties and deal for a few weeks and I'll get him on another project after this phase is done

Honestly, I get that being a consultant is a tough, tough life. But the nice thing is if you have a project you don't like, you just grit your teeth and wait because a few weeks later you'll be done and you wont have to deal with those people ever again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 17, 2014, 10:43:12 AM
Man, sometimes I just hate business. We have to fight tooth and nail for every project we have and we have some of the best in the industry in our ranks. And to get every project we have to essentially go in fighting like Brad Pitt in Fight Club. But then I turn around and see clients with other consulting firms that have much much bigger projects and these firms, well I wouldn't trust those idiots to run a lemonade stand, let alone a multi-million dollar divestiture plan project. Spent a whole meeting with these idiots thinking "These must just be the grunts." After the meeting I looked at their cards and saw that they were actually the partners :goty

Honestly, I was like "K, so your current POS system goes away in March right?"
"Right"
"So what POS system will you be using?"
"Don't know yet. TBD."
"TBD? You're going to have to touch every register you own."
"Yes"
"You have 300 stores."
"Yes."
"And you have essentially 2 months to update every register across 300 stores and if you get it wrong your registers shut down and you don't sell and you're telling me that you don't even know what system you're going to use?"
"Yes"
 :mindblown

How do these people get this job when we have to essentially rip our competitor's heads off to even get in the door? It is infuriating.

Also I met one of our new sales guys. He's a nice bloke, I think we'll get along perfectly. He gets it. But, he looks like an older overweight Paul Atreides.

Spend 3 hours running a sales meeting trying not say "The spice must flow Paul." or "Shai Hulud"brehs.

Been there.


Try this one:

Hospital "So we need to pull and terminate 2500 Cat6 cables"

Me "Okay here is the design have you bid the project out yet?"

Hospital "No"

Me "When do you want it done?"

Hospital "By end of january, people are scheduled to move in February 1st"

Me "Uh can't be done"

Hospital "Why?"

Me "Nobody can pull in 2500 cables during the holiday season"

Hospital "fuck"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on December 17, 2014, 10:52:55 AM
i need to make more money to buy more records
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on December 17, 2014, 10:58:51 AM
i need to make more money to buy more records

high quality problem
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 17, 2014, 01:41:41 PM
He's in college and works at a grocery store. I see him every now and then at the store, he's awkward but is a good guy now.

My favorite Nicholas story: one year we saw him maybe a couple times outside during the winter, didn't see him during the spring. Then one day in July we saw him outside his house shooting hoops with flowing, sparkling blonde hair - Dirk Nowitzki style. You have to understand, the Nicholas we had known for the last few years always looked the same: patchy, uneven buzz cut, a childish t-shirt, wack sneakers, and an eternal facial look of mass confusion. Now we watched from afar as he hit jumper after jumper, practiced post moves, took free throws, etc while wearing a nice Reggie Miller jersey and decent sneakers. After some debate we decided to invite him to play with us, and everyone wanted him on their team. I could tell he was more confident, poised, his voice was less annoying, he wasn't constantly saying "HEY YOU GUYS," etc...

The game started, and after a minute he got the ball for the first time. He took a dribble (!), stopped, took a shot...and it missed the rim by a foot.
:neogaf

He proceeded to miss every shot he took, but passed the ball, didn't spit on anyone, and was cool about everything. And that's how he became one of the fellas.

So basically blondes do it have it better
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 17, 2014, 01:55:10 PM
Someone stole an employee's paycheck out of the mail and cashed it with a stamp from a small church in LA and now I have to get it fixed :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on December 17, 2014, 02:06:35 PM
So, I've gotta ask, why do you still mail actual paychecks? What's wrong with direct bank transfers?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 17, 2014, 02:08:55 PM
Some of my pay checks come in the mail ... because i was too lazy to fill out a direct deposit form. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 17, 2014, 02:11:57 PM
How can a bank cash a check with a stamp and no ID? This close to xmas too? I'd get a hold of that church too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 17, 2014, 02:12:56 PM
So, I've gotta ask, why do you still mail actual paychecks? What's wrong with direct bank transfers?
Because my bank is shit and the charge for anything beyond the basics is more than it's worth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on December 17, 2014, 02:17:23 PM
How can a bank cash a check with a stamp and no ID? This close to xmas too? I'd get a hold of that church too.
I'm doubting it was cashed at a "bank"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on December 17, 2014, 02:17:47 PM
Welp, that sucks then. Hope you can get this sorted with minimal headaches.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 17, 2014, 05:26:53 PM
that sucks, reminds me of yesterday when my pops-in-law called me asking if we sent anything to their house that had to be signed for, as he just missed the dude after he left the note... said no... so he catches the UPS guy at the end of the long driveway (shared by 4 neighbors), but the guy won't give it to him without ID (nevermind the slip was put there all of 10 seconds ago lol). so he goes back to the house, gets ID, dude gives him the package, and he dropped it off at the wrong house  :lol

dude got all huffy after my dad called him out and just drove off  :lol :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on December 17, 2014, 05:33:48 PM
I seriously haven't had an erection since at least mid November. No lie.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on December 17, 2014, 05:37:28 PM
I have a head cold and super sore joints.

And I had a ton of work I needed to get done today but of course that didn't happen...
Still sick with the addition of a rather sore throat.

I basically went this whole year without getting sick and *BAM* sick as a dog for about a week.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on December 17, 2014, 06:12:05 PM
Probably just a side-effect of his meds.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on December 17, 2014, 06:29:50 PM
so i pick up a suit from the cleaners and they shortened the sleeve but didn't move the buttons? :beli

wtf am i supposed to do with a blazer that has buttons near the edge of the sleeve :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 17, 2014, 06:31:40 PM
I seriously haven't had an erection since at least mid November. No lie.

Get your prostate milked for fuck's sake.

FTFY
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on December 17, 2014, 08:36:10 PM
Christmas gift for my Dad arrived  :gladbron

(http://abload.de/img/fuckyoustoptalkinghcl8y.jpg)


:beli :beli :beli :beli :beli :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on December 18, 2014, 04:00:59 AM
Hm?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on December 18, 2014, 04:27:43 AM
What are you wearing?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 18, 2014, 04:28:48 AM
you don't even wake up with one?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on December 18, 2014, 04:40:27 AM
No arousal comes from my dreams.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 18, 2014, 04:41:26 AM
I'm sorry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on December 18, 2014, 05:07:55 AM
Videodrome is death.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 18, 2014, 05:23:07 AM
Videodrome is death.

It's always painful to remove the casette, to change the program.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on December 18, 2014, 06:58:05 AM
Spend a couple hours seasoning my iron pan and now after the 7th round of seasoning the patina came off again.  >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on December 18, 2014, 07:11:37 AM
Hm?

look at the the sticker on the record....came from amazon.com, was to wrap it and gift for my pops, took the sticker off, but now i got that 3/4 sticker removal thing happening, fuuhk
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on December 18, 2014, 07:22:33 AM
I had an airplane boner last week. That's a thing right?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on December 18, 2014, 07:42:05 AM
I had an airplane boner last week. That's a thing right?

(http://static.tumblr.com/af04f38a6c2f3acfe0f5c4332b7d25ff/2g0qdnl/xp0n0uphp/tumblr_static_ayyyyy.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 18, 2014, 11:16:48 AM
Got a big boner today.
:lawd

due to seeing this though
(https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/2667786/dorisdribbles.0.gif)

I'm fucking someone this week. I can feel it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 18, 2014, 11:19:39 AM
Doris burke kinda has that mannish femininity going on

I'd still smash :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 06:37:21 AM
(http://imgur.com/QbkAguC.jpg?1)

forgot to do half the door...damnit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 19, 2014, 08:13:33 AM
It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 10:08:53 AM
(http://imgur.com/QbkAguC.jpg?1)

forgot to do half the door...damnit.

I knew it.

Text from wife "The door looks bad"

:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 10:31:13 AM
It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

End of year financials. Nothing ever balances the first 10 times you try it. Ever.

Also deal with the Unions, brehs.

:tocry

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 11:11:15 AM
After spending $500 on xmas gifts last night, the wife says we still need to to get the girls the Uggs they want. Ugh  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 19, 2014, 11:22:49 AM
Christmas gift for my Dad arrived  :gladbron

(http://abload.de/img/fuckyoustoptalkinghcl8y.jpg)


:beli :beli :beli :beli :beli :beli

Miles Davis' cover of Don't Stop Believing is amazing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 19, 2014, 11:36:10 AM
It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

End of year financials. Nothing ever balances the first 10 times you try it. Ever.

Also deal with the Unions, brehs.

:tocry
GL account balances :tocry

Even worse is dealing with capital carryover or people who waited til the last minute to cap projects

No unions for me luckily
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 11:39:10 AM
It looks like I'm on the path to change positions at my company.  It'll be a good change with more opportunity and I've been doing this same job for over 5 years now (been with the company almost 10).  But this position has given me the opportunity to travel a lot and with the new position that will pretty much be coming to an end I think.  Can't have it all I guess.

Also, it's year end.  Anyone else involved in financial reporting crap knows how much fun that is.

End of year financials. Nothing ever balances the first 10 times you try it. Ever.

Also deal with the Unions, brehs.

:tocry
GL account balances :tocry

Even worse is dealing with capital carryover or people who waited til the last minute to cap projects

No unions for me luckily

 :badass

Add in that I'm refinancing concurrently and you understand my pain bro.

 :deadpos
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 19, 2014, 11:42:38 AM
I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 12:55:10 PM
This is only going to make sense for about 5 people here but goddamnit....

F500 tire maker wants to add 10 wireless access points to a lab facility. Ok, got a heat map? Sweet.

Architect: We want to have gig connectivity through these points as we are BYOD company.

Ok no problem. Here are the Aruba's you should use.

Architect: Okay we want Cat5e cable

What? It's in a magnetic lab environment. You need shielded cable.

Architect: We don't want to play that much

Huh? Your waps are 10,000 dollars, the cable is going to run you about 500 dollars a box.

Architect: no...we like the 150 we pay for Cat5e

Did you READ your heat report on EMF?

Architect: Let me do that real quick...Oh

EXACTLY


I wish I charged by the hour.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 01:00:53 PM
:heh

You don't get to be a F500 company unless you skimp on your CAT5 wire boxes. :teehee
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 01:02:12 PM
:heh

You don't get to be a F500 company unless you skimp on your CAT5 wire boxes. :teehee

Unfucking real. We'll pay 600 dollars a piece for intelligent patch panels we can't figure out but fuck off paying an extra 100 dollars for C6E breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 01:08:08 PM
You know what's ridiculous? The prices of 10GB equipment.  :shaq2

We've been on 1GB  switches for almost 10 years now. The pricing is almost 10X that of gigabit and it's bullshit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 01:16:09 PM
You know what's ridiculous? The prices of 10GB equipment.  :shaq2

We've been on 1GB  switches for almost 10 years now. The pricing is almost 10X that of gigabit and it's bullshit.

GBICS breh.....gotta love cisco. If you ever need to upgrade I can provide a cheaper alternative.

If I had my way I'd go complete SM fiber which can run 40gig but nobody wants to pay for that :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 19, 2014, 01:18:40 PM
Don't charge by the hour brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 01:20:49 PM
Don't charge by the hour brehs

Bidding situations brehs.

Out this way we bid on jobs just like everybody else.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 19, 2014, 01:20:52 PM
I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.
Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 01:21:37 PM
I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.
Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all

What he can't say is the CEO (and by proxy the CFO) was taking money off the books.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 01:23:32 PM
We have 2 of these (http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/NETGEAR-ProSafe-12-Port-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-Price-reflects-instant-savings/2982815.aspx?cm_cat=GoogleBase&cm_ite=2982815&cm_pla=NA-NA-NTG_MW&cm_ven=ShoppingFeeds&ef_id=VCWb3AAAAEI5gchP:20141219181859:s&gclid=CPqy__Db0sICFcdj7AodomgAwg) right now. The server NICs are a couple hundred a piece too. By comparison, you can get an 8port 1gb switch for $65.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 19, 2014, 01:24:22 PM
I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.
Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all

What he can't say is the CEO (and by proxy the CFO) was taking money off the books.
I got that much. But I assume he had specific LOL stories of incompetence
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 01:25:31 PM
We have 2 of these (http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/NETGEAR-ProSafe-12-Port-10-Gigabit-Ethernet-Price-reflects-instant-savings/2982815.aspx?cm_cat=GoogleBase&cm_ite=2982815&cm_pla=NA-NA-NTG_MW&cm_ven=ShoppingFeeds&ef_id=VCWb3AAAAEI5gchP:20141219181859:s&gclid=CPqy__Db0sICFcdj7AodomgAwg) right now. The server NICs are a couple hundred a piece too. By comparison, you can get an 8port 1gb switch for $65.

At least you aren't dealing with these piles of bullshit

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/index.html


Cisco Catalyst series  :lawd

Cisco nexus series  :ufup

Edit: For Brehvolution

http://www.championone.net/

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 01:35:48 PM
Thanks breh. :mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on December 19, 2014, 02:38:27 PM
1hr 10 minute phone call with  :piss Dell :piss2. 

Issue still unresolved. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 02:39:57 PM
1hr 10 minute phone call with  :piss Dell :piss2. 

Issue still unresolved.

Still work with dell in 2014 brehs

:beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on December 19, 2014, 02:41:24 PM
woke up at 1030am. Been wearing the same underwear for 3 days. Haven't worn anythin but underwear for three days. I kinda want some Cinnamon Toast Crunch and/or Moons Over My Hammy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on December 19, 2014, 02:41:45 PM
 :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 19, 2014, 03:05:27 PM
Cinnamon Toast Crunch
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 03:13:56 PM
1hr 10 minute phone call with  :piss Dell :piss2. 

Issue still unresolved.

What's the issue?

Still work with dell in 2014 brehs

:beli

What's wrong with Dell? I've never had any issue with them. We probably do $100k-$200k a year  with them for equipment. Support has always been top notch for me. :shrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 19, 2014, 03:16:02 PM
1hr 10 minute phone call with  :piss Dell :piss2. 

Issue still unresolved.

What's the issue?

Still work with dell in 2014 brehs

:beli

What's wrong with Dell? I've never had any issue with them. We probably do $100k-$200k a year  with them for equipment. Support has always been top notch for me. :shrug

They have great servers....anything more than that and you're risking being customer #13029 unless you're somebody like general dynamics.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 19, 2014, 04:16:31 PM
I once worked for a company that was never able to fully close their monthly books, let alone year end.

Yeah, that was the company where the police came in, arrested the CEO and dragged him out in cuffs.

The stories I could tell about that place.
Please do share. Our F&A group busts their ass every month to close the month on time. Hats off to them. Month to month isn't so bad for my part of the organization. Year end though... Fuck them all
Loads of stories, not sure which I can share but I'll do the ones that are out in the public due to the court hearing

- They were never able to close their books
- Towards the end of my stay there I would look at the accounts and know they did not have enough to cover payroll. Then on payday magically, money would appear from nowhere. I'd look in other accounts for a transfer or something but no, the money just appeared. This was the main reason I left, I figured eventually they'd get to the point where the money would no longer magically appear for payroll. Sure enough a few months after I left they bounced their entire payroll.
- In look through their CoA there were some account codes that I couldn't find anyone who knew what they were for, but they had regular activity
- I once came into work and was told not to touch my computer at all until 5pm. Because they had sold all our equipment to one of our child companies for the day and then they would sell them back to us at day's end. I guess not touching the computer was a legal technicality.
- We had a hosted solution that we paid more for than most F500s pay for their architecture. We had one of the biggest SANs of the time in the entire country though no one could tell me why we'd even need a SAN let alone such a huge one. Came to find out later the CEO owned substantial amounts of both the hosting company and the SAN company
- I lost like 40% of my 401k there. Because they ended up going bankrupt.
- we ended up going without a CFO, at all, because no CFO would sign off on the books. There was a person in charge but was the VP of IT.

Loads more and worse stuff but this is the stuff I can share.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 19, 2014, 04:23:51 PM
Corporate fuckery :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 20, 2014, 01:57:48 AM
I made an attempt to get back to US game development in 2012, landed a good gig at a reputable developer, and did well there. My wife’s dad got really sick, so we postponed (aborted) the move to the USA. During my time at the developer, the dev gave away nice pint glasses with etched logos and the year. After leaving it at my sister’s for 2 years, I managed to pack it up nicely and bring it back to Japan, a reminder of the last game dev job I had, and how much I enjoyed that team.

I had it here for two days before dropping it in the sink and shattering it.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 20, 2014, 02:50:48 AM
read the signs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on December 20, 2014, 04:44:52 AM
Yeah, did the shards spell Oscar?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 21, 2014, 12:42:22 AM
read the signs

It spelled “clumsy dumbass.”  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on December 21, 2014, 07:28:51 PM
had to spend $80 watching the Rams suck today :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on December 21, 2014, 08:53:29 PM
Friend of the family who was basically an uncle died this morning from esophageal cancer.

He'd been in hospice for the past couple months after fighting for two years so it wasn't exactly a surprise. Still hard to hear
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 21, 2014, 10:33:36 PM
had to spend $80 watching the Rams suck today :/

I've paid more to see rams sucking.

Wait
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on December 22, 2014, 08:40:00 AM
Starting Monday with literally no sleep because I'm a shitty procrastinator (http://i.imgur.com/ApKMfa7.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 22, 2014, 02:01:34 PM
I constantly get to overhear political talk in our lunch area.  I was trying real hard to ignore it today.  It started off talking about cops and protesters.  Then moved on to the North Korea hack.

Coworker: As soon as they threatened us they should have dropped a bomb
Me: (fed up listening to stupid shit)  Okay that wouldn't have worked out so well
Coworker: *smugly* Why not?
Me:  Because a city with 25 million people sits right across the border with the one of the world's largest militaries pointing all their rockets at it.  There's a reason we haven't done anything all these years.
Coworker: So?  That didn't stop us from making Iran and Russia get rid of theirs.  But I know they still have them no matter what you say
Me: Get rid of what?
Coworker: Their nuclear weapons!
Me:  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 22, 2014, 03:18:10 PM
It would get bombed but it wouldn't be super bad.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/north-korea-and-flattening-seoul

My guess is seoul probably has a iron dome like system for some defense and any north korean guns targeting seoul would be bombed pretty fast. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 22, 2014, 09:12:22 PM
Not my struggle but it's annoying

I have a friend who had a really hard time having kids. She tried for years and then finally she got pregnant and had a girl. Then after she turned like two she showed autistic tendencies. My friend then decided it was time to have another. Despite knowing that she was having a hard time she went and not only had 1 more but 3 more in a short amount of space. So in essence she has 4 kids all with varying levels of autism (some of them rather severely so) all 5 and under. Her facebook is essentially a list of complaints about how hard her life is and how she's overwhelmed. She's a friend and I want to sympathize, but part of me is like "Maybe having 4 kids in 5 years is a bad idea, especially when you knew they'd likely have autistic tendencies lady. Sheesh."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on December 22, 2014, 09:46:25 PM
it's actually hilarious how shit the company i work for is.

we have these webstores we open for teams and organizations and process out all the orders at once since it's all custom made. well i got a call in today some customer looking for her kids order so i go to look this up thinking surely we have some system to organize a bunch of fedex tracking numbers right for quick/easy access

yeah my boss hands me a folder about 2 inches thick with everyones orders from the club (200+) and tells me good luck  :dead

folks really looked at me like i was crazy when i suggested a half dozen ways to do that shit better. just so much basic shit they fail at and dont even try to fix.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on December 22, 2014, 10:07:39 PM
Not my struggle but it's annoying

I have a friend who had a really hard time having kids. She tried for years and then finally she got pregnant and had a girl. Then after she turned like two she showed autistic tendencies. My friend then decided it was time to have another. Despite knowing that she was having a hard time she went and not only had 1 more but 3 more in a short amount of space. So in essence she has 4 kids all with varying levels of autism (some of them rather severely so) all 5 and under. Her facebook is essentially a list of complaints about how hard her life is and how she's overwhelmed. She's a friend and I want to sympathize, but part of me is like "Maybe having 4 kids in 5 years is a bad idea, especially when you knew they'd likely have autistic tendencies lady. Sheesh."

Wtf? Yea 4 kids in 5 years is a bold move for anybody, but when your first kid is on the spectrum... Even if the rest of your kids are the most laid back, easy kids in the world, its going to be insanely overwhelming.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on December 23, 2014, 09:24:37 AM
There is a damned good chance I'm going to be sick for xmas. :noah

Sunday - was bedridden all day
Monday - Worked and felt better. Even had a couple brews.
Tuesday - Woke up a 4am and couldn't breathe through my nose. Gave myself a vicks mustache. Now I'm at work feeling like shit. If I didn't cash in my leftover PTO I would have taken the day off.  :-\ I'll probably ruin some others xmas break now.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 23, 2014, 09:41:00 AM
god I love vicks. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 23, 2014, 05:58:13 PM
Matlab:  when you do a repmat and do repmat(A, size) instead of repmat(A, [1,size])  and suddenly you've just tried to initialized a 100GB matrix  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 24, 2014, 09:26:51 AM
Work today.  Not abnormal, but unlike previous Xmas eves, they are not letting anyone go home early.   :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 24, 2014, 09:29:53 AM
I got to work today too.  I'm super behind on a project due on the 15th  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 24, 2014, 09:55:29 AM
I get out at 2.  I usually get to work at 6am but since I get out at 2 no matter what I came in at 8:30.  Traffic was incredible.  Set the cruise for 75 and relaxed the whole way.  Eating breakfast.  two large cookies and a big cup of warm milk.

I guess this should be in the triumphs thread
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: eleuin on December 24, 2014, 10:50:44 AM
Working today at a supermarket, have to deal with 100s of angry cacs  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on December 24, 2014, 10:57:35 AM
Working on Christmas break (again...) because my immune system decided to give the fuck up last week.

My creative director said I don't have to but... we have a meeting with a big client on the 30th I don't want this branding package to suck ass.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 24, 2014, 11:03:43 AM
Working today at a supermarket, have to deal with 100s of angry cacs  :-\

You're getting gangbanged in a super market?  Public Disgrace has gone too far.  Stay lubed dude. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 24, 2014, 02:13:17 PM
Two hours and 13 minutes to go.  But who's counting? 

...

 :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 24, 2014, 03:22:40 PM
Two hours and 13 minutes to go.  But who's counting? 

...

 :(

I'm certainly not. :smug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 24, 2014, 03:31:20 PM
Two hours and 13 minutes to go.  But who's counting? 

...

 :(

I'm certainly not. :smug

 :flabbypd

One hour to go!   :punch :punch :punch

I get to go home and sit on my ass in front of the PC  :punch :punch :punch

After a long day of sitting on my ass in front of the PC  :punch :punch :punch
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: PlayDat on December 25, 2014, 09:51:42 AM
One of my childhood friends has been ignoring me for the past month.  Hasn't been responding to texts or returning calls.  I've known this motherfucker since we were 5.  Went to the same high school, we live two blocks from each other, our moms became friends because we were close.  We were supposed to hang out yesterday (at his suggestion!) but he never answered when I called.  I tried twice in 2 hours.  This isn't the first time something like that has happened.  I've ceased communication with other people for smaller offenses.  Best case scenario is that he's just being forgetful but that doesn't make me feel any better.  It's impossible to complain about this kind of thing without seeming needy/uncool so I probably won't bring it up if we do run into each other over the next couple weeks.

:goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on December 25, 2014, 09:54:12 AM
yeah bruh you sounding like a bitch bruh maybe change your tampon bruh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on December 25, 2014, 10:10:40 AM
I've got a friend that I have the same issue with. It's definitely offensive when you've known them for so long. But rather than toss the friendship I suggest adjusting your expectations accordingly. Also, maybe he's going through something? Some people go through a funk and suck at communicating
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on December 26, 2014, 03:43:46 AM
These hoodlums are banging Death Grips outside my building right now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 26, 2014, 04:29:34 AM
One of my childhood friends has been ignoring me for the past month.  Hasn't been responding to texts or returning calls.  I've known this motherfucker since we were 5.  Went to the same high school, we live two blocks from each other, our moms became friends because we were close.  We were supposed to hang out yesterday (at his suggestion!) but he never answered when I called.  I tried twice in 2 hours.  This isn't the first time something like that has happened.  I've ceased communication with other people for smaller offenses.  Best case scenario is that he's just being forgetful but that doesn't make me feel any better.  It's impossible to complain about this kind of thing without seeming needy/uncool so I probably won't bring it up if we do run into each other over the next couple weeks.

:goty2

he found new dick
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on December 26, 2014, 07:40:47 AM
Had to finish up additional paperwork for my new bank account, which was annoying because they had previously given me a list of all the documents they would need, so this was strictly some higher-up, shit-bird CYA tactic that wasn't even on the by-the-book requirements.

The teller who assisted me was charming, gorgeous, and had distractingly large breasts. I kept thinking that I'd walked onto the set of one of those situational pornos. "Chrono-sama, we apologize, but we're going to need a 'sizable deposit.'"  :-[ :japancry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 26, 2014, 07:58:54 AM
These hoodlums are banging Death Grips outside my building right now.

Well, did you see how Death Grips was dressed?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 26, 2014, 02:57:29 PM
I'm fairly certain that a customer that spent $3k with us in the past week is functionally distinguished mentally-challenged, and I'm in the middle of helping him now.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 26, 2014, 07:11:44 PM
One of my childhood friends has been ignoring me for the past month.  Hasn't been responding to texts or returning calls.  I've known this motherfucker since we were 5.  Went to the same high school, we live two blocks from each other, our moms became friends because we were close.  We were supposed to hang out yesterday (at his suggestion!) but he never answered when I called.  I tried twice in 2 hours.  This isn't the first time something like that has happened.  I've ceased communication with other people for smaller offenses.  Best case scenario is that he's just being forgetful but that doesn't make me feel any better.  It's impossible to complain about this kind of thing without seeming needy/uncool so I probably won't bring it up if we do run into each other over the next couple weeks.

:goty2

he found new dick

 :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 26, 2014, 07:35:49 PM
I'm fairly certain that a customer that spent $3k with us in the past week is functionally distinguished mentally-challenged, and I'm in the middle of helping him now.

:fbm
I've just had one of those clients. I was complaining to the wife that I thought these guys might be distinguished mentally-challenged, and my wife told me I had said that about other clients before and it was nothing new. But honestly this time I sincerely mean it. Honestly this was a conversation I had with them this week:

Them: "The report took 23 minutes to run."
me: "Yes, because the SQL you demanded we use takes about 23 minutes to return any data, even if you just run in it in SQL plus."
Them: "But we bought this reporting tool for better performance."
Me: "Yes you did, but you insisted on using this SQL which takes 23 minutes to run and precluded us from doing any tuning or changes on it. So if it takes 23 minutes to get the data from the database, obviously it's going to take at least that long to display the data. If you want it faster we're going to need to do some tuning to the SQL."
Them "No, no changes to the database or the SQL. Isn't there some flag you can check to make it go faster?"
Me: "No, there isn't a bend space time flag to get the data out of your database faster than it can serve it."
Them: "Are you sure? I want a second opinion."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 26, 2014, 08:33:47 PM
I can't tell if this chicken is ok or if i left it too long in the fridge.  I think its ok but now its in my head that its bad so I can't eat it  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 28, 2014, 12:42:34 PM
Seeing how the PAD thread is dead:

I spent 3 stones trying to take down Mephistopheles because I got the black jewel invade and then got orb trolled for turns with my U&Y team.  I'm very sad.   
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 28, 2014, 02:37:37 PM
My right knee is in that annoying verge of going out/not going out. I wish it'd either just give out already and let me stop worrying about if it's going to, or just get better and stop threatening to give out. Just be broke or fixed damn it!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on December 29, 2014, 11:30:39 PM
I was watching the Golden Girls with someone who had sexually assaulted me the previous night and during the post-opening credits I saw the following:

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
PAUL JUNGER WITT

This name seemed familiar to me so I trawled the ol' Karakand-2000 memory banks and then I remembered Citizen Witt not only executive produced Blossom too (http://i.imgur.com/EyFKgXL.jpg), but served as the inspiration for one of my episode names.  :neogaf

I of course ranted about this in a most vitriolic manner while tactfully leaving out the whole blogging about watching Blossom thing. (Even with criminals one must always preserve face, perhaps especially so one might say.) Seriously, how does your work history include opposite ends of the quality spectrum like that. I know insurance on a Ferrari is expensive but come on. :goty2

Thank thirsting gods I'd already shown my elephantine memory cards to my assaulter or else they might have legitimately wondered how I knew Paul fucking Junger Witt executive produced Blossom. :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 30, 2014, 04:59:42 PM
I've been eating a lot of greasy chicken lately and when I eat it, it gets in my beard.  I feel like a dirty barbarian. 

spoiler (click to show/hide)
And it turns me on.
*rubs nipples
[close]
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 30, 2014, 09:44:49 PM
I swear this is the conversation I just had.

Singapore: "So Puppy, we have so many metrics to use. Like Total Available and On Hand. Which do we use when?"
Me: "Well, whichever one is appropriate."
Singapore: "So Available?"
Me: "Well, if that's what you're looking for then yes. But there are going to be times where you want to know what you have and how much room you're taking up in which case 'On Hand' is more appropriate. It's rather simple. Available means that it's available to sell, On hand is everything you have"
S: "I don't think you understand how retail works. We sell what we have."
Me: "Not everything. For example, floor models."
S: "We sell those too."
Me: "Ok bad example, Let's say I just received 20 beds in the back."
S: "OK"
Me: "I have 20 beds to sell, and 20 on hand because that's what I have. OK?"
S: "Ok"
Me: "Let's say that someone then comes in and buys 5 but they haven't picked them up and wont for a week. OK?"
S: "OK"
Me: "So your Available to sell is 15 because you can't sell those 5 again. But your on hand is 20 because those 5 you sold are still taking up space in the back."
S:".......I don't think you understand how retail works."
 :mindblown
Remember all this from several weeks ago?

Well here's a conversation I just had with exactly the same people a few minutes ago

S: "Puppy! These numbers don't match!!"
Me: "That'd be because one of them is Available and the other is On hand."
S: "Yeah they're supposed to be the same."
Me: "No they're not."
S: "What do you mean?"

 :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on December 31, 2014, 12:59:02 AM
 :lol :lol :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 31, 2014, 02:51:04 AM
On one hand I'm a bit worried about being on 3rd shift since it's not getting me anywhere in my career.

However when I remember I never have to deal with customers fucking ever, I stop worrying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on December 31, 2014, 02:57:07 AM
hours people with lots of friends, family and offspring don't want because they want to spend them with them while secretly resenting everything in their life and openly complaining about this existence to people they only know because of the wheel of capitalism

 :mouf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 31, 2014, 01:09:51 PM
My ex, who just finished treatment for cancer, had her car stolen yesterday

 :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on December 31, 2014, 01:12:04 PM
Man that sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on December 31, 2014, 01:13:42 PM
At least the cancer got better tho.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on December 31, 2014, 01:14:48 PM
hours people with lots of friends, family and offspring don't want because they want to spend them with them while secretly resenting everything in their life and openly complaining about this existence to people they only know because of the wheel of capitalism

 :mouf

This is just....strange
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 31, 2014, 01:18:23 PM
Maybe the cancer stole the car as an act of revenge?  Pretty sure this can happen if the Venture Bros. are to be believed.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 31, 2014, 01:35:16 PM
I'm currently in day 4 of an itchy throat, mucus draining, hacking cough cold. At least I feel a little better than yesterday, but that's about it. :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 31, 2014, 01:37:02 PM
I'm currently in day 4 of an itchy throat, mucus draining, hacking cough cold. At least I feel a little better than yesterday, but that's about it. :-\

I had that shit over Christmas, hung around for nearly a week
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on December 31, 2014, 01:39:34 PM
This is just....strange

no u
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 31, 2014, 01:43:37 PM
I'm currently in day 4 of an itchy throat, mucus draining, hacking cough cold. At least I feel a little better than yesterday, but that's about it. :-\

I had that shit over Christmas, hung around for nearly a week

I've actually already had it once this year, a couple weeks before Christmas. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on December 31, 2014, 01:48:04 PM
On-going for the last few months- Went to a gastroenterologist in the summer.  Ended up having to get an endoscopy.  So that was one doctor visit and one hospital visit for a minor operation.

But the bills just keep on coming.  I check them and paid everything as they came, made sure the insurance went through, etc.  The bills keep coming.  I call the billing department and ask if I still owe anything.  Am told I am all paid up.

Just got another bill.   :dizzy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 01, 2015, 08:24:01 AM
My life sucks :yeshrug

Naw, you’re just having the tail end of a rough period. It’ll blow over.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on January 01, 2015, 11:45:31 AM
I've had to shit 3 times this morning.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 01, 2015, 12:41:56 PM
My life sucks :yeshrug

You're too cool to have a sucky life breh. You have a dope ass brother, you're chilling in America aka GOAT country, you watch soccer or whatever it's called, banging pawgs here or there. And you're my nicca.

I love you breh
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 01, 2015, 10:32:10 PM
calling a matlab script from python; took a whole day for me to get working again after mysteriously breaking during the night.   :punch
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 02, 2015, 10:19:04 AM
Wake up late. Forgot deoderant today.


Walking around the office like a T-rex.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on January 03, 2015, 08:50:47 PM
I'm not sure what the culprit is (I'd like to blame Blossom...), but I'm writing fiction again. (And by fiction I don't mean posts on the Bore.) :brazilcry

And I'm doing it by hand for some reason, which you'd think would make it easier for me to stop writing but in fact it's having the opposite effect. My hand hurts like fuck and I take fucking breaks to write during work. Work on your workbreak y'all. :fbm

Unrelated: MyFitnessPal actually has a warning now when you close out for the day and your calories aren't above 1500 (if you're a man). Seen that shit way too much this week. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 03, 2015, 09:39:21 PM
Sounds like you're being productive and watching your weight. These sound like wins? Not everything is misery karakand-sempai~
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 03, 2015, 09:59:05 PM
my son has projectile vomited 3 times today. i will be monitoring him through the night to ensure his comfort using daddy cuddle powers. thus it is highly likely i will be covered in child vomit and tears at around 2 am

:brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 03, 2015, 09:59:26 PM
I realized today that I can hardly tolerate watching movies.  A while ago, I realized I can no longer watch a movie in its entirety in one sitting and now every time I see a movie on my Netflix list, I balk at loading it up, even if I have watched the movie before and liked it.  I wonder if it is winter induced anhedonia.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 03, 2015, 10:47:28 PM
Someone kill me.

Hold On
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on January 03, 2015, 10:51:20 PM
Someone kill me.

:noooo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 04, 2015, 02:50:06 AM
I've really had to shit about 6 times today, each time less solid than the last. It's the "I ate something bad" sort of shits but I haven't really eaten anything bad or unusual.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 04, 2015, 04:56:53 AM
I think I may legitimately be sick. Things have gotten worse since my last post--more symptoms.  I still don't feel very sicky, but my body is very clearly rejecting me trying to put things inside of it, and I'm coughing and sneezing and my nose is a faucet. I still don't feel sick, but I'm beginning to think I might not wake up feeling so hot.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on January 05, 2015, 07:57:01 AM
Because of some work-related things I won't be posting here much in the near future, starting today. I wanted to say something beforehand since when I've stopped posting before people eventually ask why, so here you go.

I'll probably still lurk but I'm trying to not do so during work hours. Such is the struggle brehs. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Junpei the Tracer! on January 05, 2015, 09:15:11 AM
Well it was nice to have you back for a bit. Come back when you can.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 05, 2015, 11:19:57 AM
Yeah corruption. (Deleted)

Ugh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 05, 2015, 11:30:52 AM
The mob does IT work now?


You should read up on the corruption story dude, it reads like the godfather 4. (complete with tapped phone calls)

nt

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 05, 2015, 11:37:40 AM
snitch on yourself online brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 05, 2015, 11:42:54 AM
aia bout to turn up missing
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 05, 2015, 11:44:56 AM
snitch on yourself online brehs

I didn't get charged.

:yeshrug

Nor did I have anything to do with the bids in question. But I had to deal with the aftermath when we had ongoing projects and all the sudden the cabling guys were shut down due to FBI raids.

Tell a hospital their ER will be down a day because of that....not good times.

Anyway, this isn't me concerned about my safety...this is me concerned because Cleveland is running well now and this could potentially muck up what we have worked for for the last few years. The concern was never about the quality of work provided, it was about how the end user determined the winning bidder.

To be honest I met with these guys quite often. They were pretty good people outside of the elephant in the room we never talked about.

My life brehs

 :what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 05, 2015, 12:29:48 PM
Because of some work-related things I won't be posting here much in the near future, starting today. I wanted to say something beforehand since when I've stopped posting before people eventually ask why, so here you go.

I'll probably still lurk but I'm trying to not do so during work hours. Such is the struggle brehs. :stahp

I'll re-read Infinite Crisis for you.  :supergay
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 05, 2015, 10:48:39 PM
I'm gonna have to take the bus to school for at least a week because I wasn't able to get a parking pass during the regular application period, and I'm applying for a discretionary permit through the business school.

God I hate the bus.

God, buses in LA are the Shame Train. I'm sorry for you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 05, 2015, 10:50:40 PM
I got shit results for a 3 month project.  Which has been the way the last two projects went as well.  Gradschool is stressful and I feel stupid.  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 05, 2015, 11:22:07 PM
Every time I sneeze or throw up I can FEEL my kidneys throb :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 05, 2015, 11:29:50 PM
FUCK

 :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge :drudge
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 06, 2015, 12:36:56 AM
Keith go to the hospital man that shit ain't right!

Another night of crappy ass pain due from my gallbladder. This cholic shit is awful, and the oxy can only do so much. Good thing come friday it's gonna get taken out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 06, 2015, 03:07:55 AM
I took 600mg of seroquel after my last post and I'm STILL WAKING UP TO SHIT AND PUKE. Every color of the rainbow has come out of my body these past 2 days. I feel so fucking sedated yet the bad stuff won't stop. To top it all off some bad news and things were made known to me today and because I'm so sick I feel completely powerless to react, even though I couldn't really do anything if I were feeling okay. I really wish I'd have a stroke or a heart attack or just suddenly die.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 06, 2015, 04:54:40 AM
TVC 15, go see a doctor. Jesus, man. It sounds horrifying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 06, 2015, 03:08:30 PM
This thread is supposed to be about fake struggle. Not real shit.


Like this one:

The tyranny of my cable company, I just learned that they are charging me 8 dollars a month to rent their cable modem. Time to go buy one.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 06, 2015, 03:19:29 PM
I'm dealing with some really bad night terrors that I haven't had since I was 9. Of the thing I feared the most then. Al-Masih ad-Dajjal is what it's called. As always, when something like that scares me I delve deep into it as I legitimately find the Dajjal interesting and cool when he's not haunting my nightmares. I have a strong interest in the darker aspects of religion and mythology(which is probably why I gravitated to metal at such a young age).

Oh and I'm not going to sleep cause that fucker won't let up. Remnants of an Islamic upbringing, I guess.

Perphaps you're a prophet and these are less night terrors and more visions.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 06, 2015, 03:33:15 PM
Go to the doctor TVC, come on...

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 06, 2015, 07:59:28 PM
This thread is supposed to be about fake struggle. Not real shit.


Like this one:

The tyranny of my cable company, I just learned that they are charging me 8 dollars a month to rent their cable modem. Time to go buy one.

Possibly helpful?
http://gizmodo.com/5948616/how-to-beat-time-warners-bullsht-modem-rental-fee
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 06, 2015, 09:16:28 PM
Still throwing up a lot. The kidney pain has pretty much completely disappeared, so I think I'm over the hump. It was a really rough night. Aside from one brief period of being awake and checking the computer, I didn't get up until 430 or so. I'm not to thrilled with trying to figure out a way to deal with reality. Deep down I was hoping it was some sort of kidney or organ failure and that I was really going to die. That the sickness wasn't that means that my future will be all the worse.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 06, 2015, 09:39:17 PM
Just because the pain is gone doesn't mean you're out of the woods. Go to the doctor dude. A free clinic anything.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 06, 2015, 09:40:59 PM
Even if I didn't want to die, I really can't afford to go to a doctor.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 06, 2015, 09:55:35 PM
If I was going to beg for money, I have far more pressing things that need to be paid for. Around the middle of this month, I need a refill on my primary medication. Since 2014 ended and I have to pay off 2015's premium before insurance covers anything, I'd have to pay for the entirety of the refill's ~600 dollar price. I have a feeling things are going to get REALLY interesting once I go into withdrawal. And even still, I have other, bigger problems..
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 06, 2015, 10:02:27 PM
Actually, looking online, it's 800-900 dollars. I misremembered.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 06, 2015, 10:58:41 PM
Dude why aren't you on Obama's care?  :usacry

Seriously though, you need to see a doctor and I'm sure given your history most hospitals would see you and write down the debt given your illnesses. Please stop making excuses and go seek some medical attention. We're gonna have to start a damn intervention soon enough if you don't dude!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 06, 2015, 11:16:53 PM
I have insurance. I just can't afford the premium this year. My psychiatrist is even waiving her fee to see me.

Anyway, I haven't thrown up since my last post. I'm going to go buy a fifth of scotch and get loaded. The last time I had any alcohol was when Steve Contra visited like half a year ago, and that was just a beer or two. I haven't been drunk in years. I haven't drunk alone in at least six years. Fuck life. I can't believe things are ending up like this for me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 06, 2015, 11:26:56 PM
I'm down to skype or take a call if you want to chat with someone.

Same here if you need someone to talk to.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 07, 2015, 12:08:16 AM
I bought 4 fifths of rum. I'm just going to drink until I die.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 07, 2015, 12:13:01 AM
dude wtf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Supermanisdead on January 07, 2015, 12:55:40 AM
damn
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 07, 2015, 01:15:50 AM
 :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 07, 2015, 02:03:58 AM
Progress:

(http://i.imgur.com/jRrmhfh.jpg)

That's 1.25 fifths down. I fuckin pounded number 1 in under an hour. Haven't thrown up yet. Kinda wrecked. I feel like shit but NOTHING STOPS THIS TRAIN.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 07, 2015, 02:23:47 AM
Dude, stop now and go to bed. You will be hungover for days if you continue.

I think that's the point, and let me guess to top it off you'll take some sleeping meds so you won't wake up and vomit in your sleep thus killing yourself?

Keith why would you want to do this to yourself? Is there nothing in this world worth living for? What about trolling some folks on the internet like the old days?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 07, 2015, 02:44:14 AM
Just had 2 20oz Red Bulls to keep my lazers charged. Starting to attack that second bottle hard now, but I think I'm still too concerned with pacing myself. I'm going to make it a goal to be on bottle 3 by 1230. Still not nauseous but I am fuckin smashed. I'm watching TV and it's like impossible to follow the moment to moment logic of the plot or remember what happened more than a few seconds ago.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 07, 2015, 04:25:29 AM
Bottle 2 has passed into the great beyond, but I've admittedly been sick and I'm now way behind schedule. There's been some significant throwing up. Drinking some water before moving onto 3. I'm kind of hungry for a greasy hamburger or breakfast, but I also think not having eaten since sunday is the only reason I'm not more sick. Not so tired and there's not yet danger of passing out thanks to strategic energy drink consumption.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on January 07, 2015, 01:54:08 PM
:heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: MrAngryFace on January 07, 2015, 03:25:58 PM
Handed a new project.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 07, 2015, 08:01:12 PM
First day of working on a project for a friend, I opened up Adobe Illustrator and realized I haven’t used it in years. The basic tools are all the same, but a mess of other UX behaviors are different now, and I was like I_HAVE_NO_IDEA_WHAT_IM_DOING_DOG.gif

Ended up roughing out designs on paper (a better idea anyway), but will have to struggle to regain lost chops in .AI
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on January 07, 2015, 08:17:53 PM
Probably not as applicable to what you're facing with the UX stuff but I've been using Illustrator since CS3 and it used to give me fits until I installed some nice plug-ins.  :aah

For my design work I use this one non-stop:  http://www.astutegraphics.com/software/inkscribe/

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on January 07, 2015, 08:43:46 PM
The payroll company we dropped a few months because they're awful won't give me information for Immigration because they said our company has been sent to collections for money we owed in 2011, even though they didn't say anything for the three years we worked with them since.  It's just a vague, "oh, you owe us some money" :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 07, 2015, 09:02:18 PM
Really waiting for the update. Hopefully there is an update.

Profile says active this evening. Still alive.  :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 07, 2015, 09:16:14 PM
I don't remember everything. I made it about 25% into bottle 3 but I know I was throwing up a lot so it's anyone's guess. I feel like absolute shit. In addition to a fucking mega hangover (I'm going to have to drug myself to sleep again if I sleep tonight) I'm definitely still very, very fucking still sick with flu-y symptoms. The kidney pain is back and worse persistent so I guess I wasn't over the hump yesterday. I'm not drunk but I'm still not right. I'm drinking a lot of water, going to Fred Meyer, getting a new bottle (so I have 3 more for tonight) and probably going to Denny's to try to eat something. I've decided to cease taking all of my medication and I plan on spending the rest of my days in some sort of haze, or worse, until I come up with some interesting plan or something. I feel like fucking shit and even crawling out of bed to get to my laptop was pretty arduous. I might just go back there and drink water or something for 2 hours. Goal is to be drinking again by 9 or so.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 01:27:51 AM
I just megapuked in the fred meyer parking lot after wolfing down an all a merican slam at dennys. But I made it this far and I will buy more rum and energy drinks.

Give me movie recs to stream tonight. I can probably reuse said recs tomorrow due to the impending blackout I have scheduled for tonight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 08, 2015, 01:55:23 AM
Why don't you stream that one movie about the guy who went to the goddamned doctor?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 03:26:39 AM
We've been over this! I can't afford to go to the doctor, aside from my psychiatrist who is waiving her fee this month (that appointment is on the 27th, I believe).

Most people that know me, Walrus, know I am a career Trier-o-maniac. I am more intimate with Antichrist than I should be.

I haven't started drinking yet. After throwing up in the parking lot I went into Fred Meyer, bought one fifth and one 375ml bottle of rum, 4 20oz red bulls and a large bottle of water. I used said water to try to disperse as much of the vomit as possible in the parking lot, but since I had just eaten it like literally 5 minutes before, it was still like a solid meal so it didn't really dissipate, but since it still basically looked like food it probably wouldn't really look like vomit unless an observer got super into investigating. It's also foggy so no one will probably even notice. Being how salty Dennys food is it's probably healthier that I threw up so much. Most of the chunkier, wetter part of the vomit ended up on the side/interior of my car (I basically opened the car door after parking and erupted everywhere. Pretty sure there's no vomit on my clothes). After the episode I had 2 of the red bulls and decided to chill out at home and maybe listen to my body and not drink for a few hours. I sat on my bed and listened to Blood on the Tracks on my headphones. I restrung my guitar and considered trying to remember how to play the little I know of Tangled Up in Blue. I ended up singing along instead because it and Idiot Wind are the best songs ever recorded. Now I feel ready to drink. I'm still sick and dizzy and flu-y, but my kidneys don't hurt anymore although I can still kind of physically feel them, which is arguably not a good thing. Current plan is to pound that 375ml-er, drink another red bull, move on to a fifth. The reason I went with a 375ml bottle is because I was too exuberant in drinking that first full fifth last night, so I think having something physically smaller will allow myself to pace better. For those not counting, in addition to that smaller bottle, I have 3 fifths and one half fifth.

Being that you've all FAILED me in recommendations, again, I'm going to be binge watching Saved by the Bell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 08, 2015, 03:54:20 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/fbURu13.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 03:58:26 AM
Slater is so dreamy.  :-[
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 04:00:47 AM
Fuck no. If I accidentally die tonight I don't fucking want Friends to be the last thing my eyes see. I consider enjoying Friends a MAJOR character flaw for a person to have.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 04:05:50 AM
I'm not a psychopath. I sometimes suffer psychosis.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 04:13:26 AM
Since I stopped my meds, in a few days I'm expecting everything to rubberband and it will either be like I'm on ecstasy all the time or maybe it will go really really bad and be like being on really bad ecstasy all the time. While simultaneously being very very drunk because I have a frightening amount of alcohol here and I only plan on buying more.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 05:16:46 AM
I would seriously suck off a 9 year old boy to get Slater to fuck me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 06:19:13 AM
Fucking kill me now. Kill me now. Kill me now. I',m so trhrowing upo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 06:20:47 AM
FUCKING KILL ME ME ME KIL ME KIL ME she'S MESSING UPO MHY IORDER AND SHE ISN'T FINDIGN MY TABLE kill her KILL HER
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 06:21:53 AM
KILL ANYONE THaT LIKES TORIA AMOR OR ANY OTHER BITCHES NAMED THAT

I WILL CHOP FUCKING HIMUJORIS HEAD OFF. SHE IS A WHORE AND DESERVES DEATH. SHE NEEDS TO DIE. SHE NEEDS TO NOT BE ON THE BORE
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 06:22:21 AM
steam up the windows
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 08, 2015, 09:15:39 AM
stick some fingers up yr butt, watch some internet snuff videos, and chill tf out
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 08, 2015, 09:18:58 AM
At least hit up a free clinic, man.

Or go to a real doctor and then let us know what you owe, I'm sure a few of us can chip in and help you defray your cost.

Reading these last few pages is heart wrenching.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on January 08, 2015, 11:19:38 AM
At least hit up a free clinic, man.

Or go to a real doctor and then let us know what you owe, I'm sure a few of us can chip in and help you defray your cost.

Reading these last few pages is heart wrenching.
This.  Love you, TVC
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 08, 2015, 01:04:18 PM
Yeah, set up a fundme thing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 08, 2015, 01:09:12 PM
Yeah, set up a fundme thing.

Great idea. If you get it going I might chip a few dollars towards his next binge.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 08, 2015, 05:16:43 PM
Dealing with socially awkward coworkers
:beli

I was talking to a couple coworkers - one female, one male. We were kind of just shooting the shit while discussing a project. Wound up talking about guys being afraid to ask chicks out. She said it annoys her because she doesn't like asking and expects the dude to make the first move. Then this happened.

Me: Yea, I understand being anxious but I'd rather get it over with than worry about stuff like that.
Her: Guys just need to stop trying to find some loophole to avoid basic social functionality
special fellow coworker: Well we have lobbyists working to create a loophole on that subject *laughs at his own wit*
Her: *polite half smirk*
special fellow coworker: We could even create a super PAC to finance the firing of people who disagree, hint hint
Me: (http://i.imgur.com/SOwCzsF.png)
Her: Uh...ok.

He likes her btw.
:neogaf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 08, 2015, 08:21:33 PM
Got to go to Dallas for 3 weeks between Jan and Mid Feb.

 :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on January 08, 2015, 08:41:25 PM
Locked myself out of the apartment earlier today.

What a waste of money.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 09:40:38 PM
I woke up earlier and threw up into a bag of chex mix. The bag was unopened so I had to tear it open quick before vomiting. I couldn't make it to the bathroom. No kidney pain, fewer flu-y symptoms. My stomach feels like I ate something that was once alive but was rotting when I ate it. Put on some Rapeman and jammed the fuck out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UegitO6qIng

best lyrics ever

I swear I didn't say anything,
he just followed me in there.
It was like, "...what the?"
and he just took my shirt up...
And we just... right, right there on the sink.
I was so drunk I was dizzy,
and she was in the kitchen
while we were downstairs fucking and she called me a bitch, and
I tried to tell her it was nothing...

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they take advantage of me.
I want all men to use me
for their only satisfaction.

I'm really drunk...
There's nobody over...
Why don't you come by?
You'll like it...
You wanna stay up with me?
We can... buy a pizza.

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they just wanna bust a nut.
I hate it when they're on top and
they all have little dicks. I
think I'll get out of town wh-...
where a girl can find some peace of-...
Maybe move to another country wh-...
where men aren't all so sexist.
Maybe if I hide in the closet...
maybe with a bottle of wine...
I'll crack you on the noggin' -
we'll have a real wild time!

Remember what it used to be like when-...
when all we did was eat and fuck?
I let you shave my pussy;
you let me, paint your dick.
You were always late for work...
you said it didn't matter.
Then after a while,...
I guess it-... I guess it did start to matter.

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they take advantage of me...
and they'd all wanna use me,
but they're all satisfied now.

I've gotta stop drinkin' around men,
they just wanna bust a nut.
I hate it when they use me;
they have such little dicks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on January 08, 2015, 09:47:51 PM
Got to go to Dallas for 3 weeks between Jan and Mid Feb.

 :goty
Lol!!! I'm bored after a few minutes there
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 09:59:37 PM
Anyway, tonight's agenda is to eat at Dennys and drink until I die. I only made it through that 350ml bottle and 3/4ths of a fifth last night, and I still have 2 more fifths. I'm really hungry right now and I regret befouling that chex mix. The only other food products in my apartment are liquor and red bull. The thought of drinking red bull right now is actually making my stomach queasier than the thought of more rum. I'll be further deep dipping into Saved by the Bell. I'm way into that Tori leather jacket chick introduced in season 6. Also, the dude that plays Zach appears to be like 30 at that point in the series. If anyone has any better recommendations on what I should be watching, I'm all ears.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 08, 2015, 10:00:57 PM
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 10:04:50 PM
Fuck it, I'm drinking the red bull, but only because I know it's a bad idea. I guarantee I'll be throwing up in a few minutes. I'll keep you posted.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 08, 2015, 11:34:53 PM
I'd appreciate these posts more if they had some pics to go with them
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 08, 2015, 11:43:35 PM
I'm not much for taking pictures. If you want visualizations, you're just going to have to hope that someone here is writing a screenplay based on me. As a matter of fact, if someone isn't writing one, they really should be. I think I'd make for a great character.

However, here's a photo of me 5 minutes ago:

spoiler (click to show/hide)
nsfw http://www.sonichu.com/cwcki/File:CWCRockin4Way.jpg
[close]
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 09, 2015, 12:08:05 AM
Got to go to Dallas for 3 weeks between Jan and Mid Feb.

 :goty
Lol!!! I'm bored after a few minutes there
What's worse it's for a client that's doing a fixed bid feasability study and has nickle and dimed us for everything in our negotiations.
I understand about getting your money's worth. But I've never heard of anyone doing a fixed bid for a feasability study let alone being cheap about it.  It's almost the antithesis of a feasability study. I mean you're eventually going to run a project that's $5 million++ and you're going to fret about $6k and a few days on the work to make sure that multi-million dollar effort is worth it/feasible? What's wrong with you? Hopes are not high.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 12:26:26 AM
Oh, on the bright side of things, today and yesterday are the first days of 2015 that (as far as I recall) I haven't soiled myself to some degree.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on January 09, 2015, 01:38:14 AM
Forget basic multiplication due to fatigue brehs  :snoop

I almost fucked these rug measurements up
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 02:43:35 AM
It's gonna be hard to drink tonight. My throat isn't un-fucking itself up. It feels like I constantly have an eruption on deck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 02:55:35 AM
I think I jst took a shit out of my mouth :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 03:54:11 AM
Being that everything I've eaten since Sunday has been rapidly thrown up, most of my poops have just been like my ass is dispensing Pepsi fountain soda-style. I don't even have to push. I just have to get to the toilet in time and sit, or else.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 09, 2015, 05:02:34 AM
UNSUBSCRIBE
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 05:22:00 AM
Ugh, I have to shit again. These are the worst shits. Cleanup is awful because it's like a sprinkler is going off in my ass every time I poop. Like my entire ass is wet afterward. Even worse, I've had half a fifth of rum so the smell WILL make me fuckin' vomit all over the place again. My throat is still super irritated--is it possible the alcohol going in and coming out and then going in again as I fill back up will keep it disinfected?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 09, 2015, 05:28:37 AM
jesus fucking christ, dude
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 05:34:30 AM
You are in one of my screenplays that will never go anywhere.

After what just happened in the bathroom, I hope you can get a healthy CG budget.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 06:01:20 AM
 :bow :bow :bow :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqaXfFJD9c  :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow2 :bow :bow :bow2 :bow2 :bow2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 06:14:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDaqCzuudnU  :mouf :mouf :mouf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 06:48:12 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TNymL13lQE

"I'm God's gift to women,
they always want my dick,
except for that girl thinks I'm trash
And I'm God's gift to women, always want my dick,
except for that college girl
I'll kill her"

 :tauntaun :hump :gun :meeble :geoff
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Eric P on January 09, 2015, 07:56:02 AM
well i was going to complain about Win7 restore up from image being a huge pain in the ass but jesus christ
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:50:10 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWENGfz_Os

despair will hold a place in my heart
a bigger one than you do
and i will always be nicer to the cat
than i am to you you you

I have 8 (EIGHT) Xiu Xiu albums on vinyl. OH GOD WHY. Also lol at having an album titled Dear God I Hate Myself an having it be one of the more approachable albums in your discography.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 09, 2015, 09:09:53 AM
Stop bitching and do something about it. Several of us have offered to help.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on January 09, 2015, 09:13:11 AM
Got to go to Dallas for 3 weeks between Jan and Mid Feb.

 :goty
Lol!!! I'm bored after a few minutes there
What's worse it's for a client that's doing a fixed bid feasability study and has nickle and dimed us for everything in our negotiations.
I understand about getting your money's worth. But I've never heard of anyone doing a fixed bid for a feasability study let alone being cheap about it.  It's almost the antithesis of a feasability study. I mean you're eventually going to run a project that's $5 million++ and you're going to fret about $6k and a few days on the work to make sure that multi-million dollar effort is worth it/feasible? What's wrong with you? Hopes are not high.
In my experience these are the guys that don't see the big picture and usually act when their hand is forced.  So basically the worst people to do any project for.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 09:18:37 AM
Stop bitching and do something about it. Several of us have offered to help.

Dude, this isn't bitching. I've accepted where I am. There is no hope and I am learning to accept that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud1nRWG0t6M
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 09, 2015, 09:39:51 AM
(https://xenogamers.com/attachments/16803/)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 09:46:13 AM
Stop bitching and do something about it. Several of us have offered to help.
This guy is done breh. Probably better off not clicking on this thread for a while.

When I reveal more, it will be in here, though. My situation is far more hopeless than people in here know at the moment. I don't want to tease reveals too much, but let's just say help is impossible (or at the very least incredibly improbable). Hope would have to be gangbanging both of my fucking nostrils right now to even begin to make a difference. Thus, rightly, my goal isn't to seek some unlikely help; it's to make The Bore, a sort of internet cult, complicit in everything that is going to be happening.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JA59b2eYa4

EDIT: AiA, I do appreciate the sentiment. I'm not dismissing you or anything.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 09, 2015, 09:53:43 AM
man it's so good to have tvc back
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 09:57:48 AM
Unlike previous songs posted, this one isn't particularly meaningful to me but it makes my dick really fucking hard. It's allegedly about Elliott Smith, who is particularly meaningful to me and makes my dick really fucking hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUoJ0AA3mU
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Supermanisdead on January 09, 2015, 10:01:32 AM
i thought i was fucked up. that xiu xiu song is great btw
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 10:13:18 AM
I want breakfast sandwiches but I am by far too drunk to drive. AiA am cry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 10:26:05 AM
Am I REALLY too drunk to drive? I want some fucking sausage in my motuth pretty fucking bad. Who's the judge here?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 10:26:55 AM
I fucking hate school children, especially girls. Is this still a weekday?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 09, 2015, 07:15:52 PM
Just ordered a deep dish seafood pizza; couldn't think of anything else to spend this 50% off coupon on. Regardless this could be an L depending on how it tastes. The description: Black tiger shrimp, onions, mushrooms and banana peppers.

:larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 09, 2015, 07:18:59 PM
Pics and a review in around 20 minutes.

:what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 07:22:56 PM
Pics and a review in around 20 minutes.

:what

Awesome. I haven't vomited lately.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 09, 2015, 07:26:27 PM
Black tiger shrimp, onions, mushrooms and banana peppers. [/i]
good luck but this legit sounds awful. maybe it will be amazing. but probably not.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 09, 2015, 07:38:00 PM
Does it have cheese on it? Because that really, really sounds disgusting if so. Your pizza place might be run by the mentally challenged.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 07:41:25 PM
Black tiger shrimp, onions, mushrooms and banana peppers. [/i]

:larry

I can't stop mentally envisioning this toxic mix coalescing in the stomach, and it is revolting. I can almost taste what it will be like when it makes its inevitable return voyage out of your mouth. Why would you do this to yourself, PD? And shrimp? Shellfish? When did you abandon the Old Testament?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 09, 2015, 07:43:09 PM
heinous pussy: the pizza
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 07:57:45 PM
While we're waiting for PD to upload photos of his pre-vomit, I'd just like to announce that tonight/tomorrow morning will mark the end of Phase 1 and my foray into career drinking (mainly because drinking until 9am prevents me from being able to get breakfast sandwiches). Phase 2 begins Monday, with Saturday and Sunday being dedicated to planning. You probably won't hear more about Phase 2 until a few days after it begins. Wednesday is mybirthday, maybe then, although right now it sounds a little to early.

Today's health is pretty fine. I don't really feel ill. There's some hangover action, mainly in the throat (feels acid reflux-y). Judging by the assfeel of the contents of my butt, I'm still going to be making soup today, but that has more to do with not eating much this week due to illness.

Note that my health bitchings will increase even though I am no longer ill or drinking or hungover. Withdrawal from meds will probably start hitting me hard next week. Things will get dark and I bet this will all find a way to affect my shitting.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 09, 2015, 08:03:21 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/EkI9uBdl.jpg)

For maximum TVC vomit:
(http://i.imgur.com/j6uTbR6l.jpg)

Review in a couple minutes.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:05:06 PM
Those look like fucking slugs in tha. . .Dean fucking Koontz? This is what you've been reduced to?

Also, since you have the camera out post pictures of your cat.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:06:00 PM
Hold on, WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE MAYO OUT NOOO
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 09, 2015, 08:10:22 PM
PD never gets to talk about books again.

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 09, 2015, 08:14:00 PM
The seafood aspect is underdeveloped in my view. You would think there would be more shrimp but there are 1-2 pieces on each slice. The cheese is fine, the mushrooms are fresh. The biggest problem is that the crust is horrible. Over cooked and there isn't a sauce or spice on it; I love flavored crust.

This would be much better with flavored crust and more shrimp.

2.5/5.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:14:56 PM
What about the Koontz and Mayo?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 09, 2015, 08:16:07 PM
What about the Koontz and Mayo?
Placed for maximum vomit from you. I've never read that book, it was a Christmas present years ago.
:hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:17:28 PM
You should read Behind the Bell. It's pretty awesome. Behind the Bell and Ketchup > Koontz and Mayo.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 09, 2015, 08:23:27 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/PNrUFUCl.jpg)
Nicie approves the pizza.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:25:05 PM
Thanks! Nicie is cute!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:44:15 PM
Best Cure album, by a weepy, feelsy mile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x7vX2nBxFo

I need a book to read. I want hot trash, lots of sex and or violence (sexualized violence a plus), a little black humor or alternately a book containing all of the above that also happens to poorly think it's making some sort of social statement.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 08:50:35 PM
The only album you mentioned that I'd even bother ranking is Faith!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 09:38:13 PM
I think the shitty recording fits well with the murky tone of most of the songs. My production complaint about it would be that it doesn't give a quite proper representation of Robert's beautiful voice, but the first album had this problem, too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 09, 2015, 09:44:29 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/PNrUFUCl.jpg)
Nicie approves the pizza.

Nobody wants to your socks nicca gross
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 09:48:10 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/PNrUFUCl.jpg)
Nicie approves the pizza.

Nobody wants to your socks nicca gross

Oh no. There are definitely people with filthy sock fetishes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 09, 2015, 10:47:21 PM
My gauze bled through and freaked me out since it was fresh. It wasn't coming from there, it's coming through the skin like sweat. Doctor got me on Skype and reassured me I'm ok. I still bled a lot, and ruined my favorite shirt.

Meds aren't doing their job.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 10:47:49 PM
Okay, heading to Denny's to eat for the third night in a row. But this time maybe I won't throw up.

Oh, regarding the megapuking in the Fred Meyer parking lot two nights ago: upon returning to FM last night to buy more alcohol, I noticed that there was no trace of my vomit. It hadn't rained or anything, so someone must have had to clean up my flu-invested alco-vomit. I get a little thrill from this. I hope it was some gross teenager nobody likes that already lives a shit life. Welcome to my world.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 09, 2015, 10:49:56 PM
Show us your blood, G!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 09, 2015, 11:05:33 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/EkI9uBdl.jpg)

For maximum TVC vomit:
(http://i.imgur.com/j6uTbR6l.jpg)

Review in a couple minutes.
do you need a hug breh? i'm here for you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 12:27:46 AM
Okay, Ghidorah, I just lived some strong potential material for Act II of your screenplay about me.

I drove to Denny's, but as I was walking to the front door, the acid reflux turned to nausea and I knew I needed to explode all over the fucking place. I was literally right outside the front door, I could see like, the bored staff right at the front waiting to seat people, they probably saw me. I ran back to my car and let the fuck go. I haven't been drinking any fluids or anything today so I'm pretty dehydrated, so there was at most maybe a pint of vomit, all over my fucking car, smells and tasted like straight up acid. I continued dry heaving for an uncomfortable amount of time. It was less than a minute, but it feels like a lot more when it feels like your throat is trying to turn your entire body inside out. I abandoned my plan to eat at Denny's because I was self conscious about the staff seeing me spaz out and dash back to my car. I kinda didn't even feel like eating because my mouth felt revolting, but the rest of my body is so fucking hungry. No lie or exaggeration, I haven't kept anything significant down aside from liquid since Sunday. So I decided to go get teriyaki. I got it take out because I'm afraid of vomiting in public and causing some nasty scene that will mentally keep me from returning to an establishment I like. I then drove to Fred Meyer to buy more alcohol. I ate my teriyaki while sitting in my car in the Fred Meyer parking lot, where just 2 days ago I had one of the most notable vomit explosions in my recalled vomit history. I still haven't vomited up the teriyaki, but I'm really full and feeling bloated and satisfied. Unfortunately, I can already tell that due to this I'm not going to be able to drink very fast tonight without having to throw up most of what I've eaten. I'm seriously considering pulling the trigger now because I think that teriyaki sauce will be delicious to vomit, and if I throw up now it will taste better than if I had already started adulterating the contents of my stomach with liquor.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 10, 2015, 12:43:08 AM
Keith answer my message on facebook.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on January 10, 2015, 12:44:49 AM
there was a giant bag of tortillas at work when i left yesterday morning and i fully expected it to still be here tonight

it's not here :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 12:47:22 AM
Keith answer my message on facebook.

I haven't been on Facebook in days. People keep harassing me because they're concerned about some things and I really don't want to deal with it by logging on and having people message me. PM me here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 10, 2015, 01:02:19 AM
Keith answer my message on facebook.

I haven't been on Facebook in days. People keep harassing me because they're concerned about some things and I really don't want to deal with it by logging on and having people message me. PM me here.

ok well what is this about wanting my head chopped off
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 01:03:21 AM
I probably said it in a moment of passion.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 10, 2015, 01:07:00 AM
mi amor~

if you could choose, what would you prefer in the afterlife?

a. heaven/hell

b. total darkness

c. nothing

d. reincarnation/rebirth

e. you're actually the vessel hooked up to a machine and this is the matrix and when you get to die (or in other words wake up) you get to choose between living in a super advanced society or choose perma death?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 01:10:16 AM
C, easy. Oblivion. I don't want to deal with any of the bullshit that comes with any sort of existence.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 06:52:44 AM
Note: Contrary to what I said earlier, I will be drinking again Saturday night/Sunday morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QprzMD6Xevk
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on January 10, 2015, 11:27:48 AM
When the fuck are you going to give me your number so we can chat?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 11:47:54 AM
I can't give you an answer right now, sweetie. There are a number of people I want/need to talk to but I'm too volatile and not quite ready yet.

Last night of hardcore drinking got postponed to tonight because last night I fell asleep after eaten and still felt too full after waking up. Natural, non-alcohol-induced sleep felt really good, too. Pretty bad dreams though. . .

In the dream, two cops came over because I guess I had done something suspicious or behaving erratically. I ended up having to shoot them both. I was distraught afterward because I knew I'd definitely get in trouble. People would come to check on the cops and the situation would just get ugly. I knew I had to run, but I couldn't use my car or the cop's car to escape because there'd be an APB or whatever. I'd last about 15 minutes before getting busted. Instead, I went into the kitchen, grabbed a chiappa rhino, and walked about 2 blocks down to the grocery store. I found a car in the parking lot with an unlocked door and I got in the back seat. When an old lady came and packed up the car, I held her hostage with the gun and made her drive me away. We drove for a while, we ended up on a remote-ish road that's about a 40 minute drive from my place. I realized I needed to switch cars because someone would know that old lady was supposed to be home by then and they likely also knew where specifically she had gone shopping. The police would realize her last known location was mere blocks from where I had murdered the 2 cops and it wouldn't take much work for them to figure out what license plate numbers they should be looking for to find me. So I pulled off on some access road that may or may not exist in reality and I shot her in the head, dragged her to a drainage ditch on the side of the road and draggd some branches on top of her to conceal the body. It wasn't a great hiding job or anything, but due to the season and weather it's unlikely the body would be discovered until the changing of the seasons.  I drove in the car another half hour or so before ditching the car, putting considerable distance between the car and the body was a goal to keep my trail disjointed.  I walked back to the road and flagged down another car and shot the driver, but I put the corpse in the trunk this time. Switching cars and doing my best to hide this murder by keeping all evidence on me meant I was sufficiently satisfied with my job of cooling down the trail on me. I drove further but the roads started getting really snowy and icy and foggy. Eventually I had to pull over because it was getting difficult to control the vehicle. This is when I kind of realized that there probably wasn't going to be a good ending to all of this. I got out of the car and walked to the side of the road, and there was an enormous, cliff-like drop there. I considered jumping off but I instead just put my gun in my mouth and shot myself.

Throughout this dream, it was really intense and I kept trying to wake myself up. I kept thinking and saying "this has to be a fucking dream. This can't be real." I'd jolt and wake up for a second but I'd fall immediately back asleep. Or maybe I was dreaming the jolts and waking up.  Everything was very real.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 10, 2015, 12:34:20 PM
I can't give you an answer right now, sweetie. There are a number of people I want/need to talk to but I'm too volatile and not quite ready yet.

Last night of hardcore drinking got postponed to tonight because last night I fell asleep after eaten and still felt too full after waking up. Natural, non-alcohol-induced sleep felt really good, too. Pretty bad dreams though. . .

In the dream, two cops came over because I guess I had done something suspicious or behaving erratically. I ended up having to shoot them both. I was distraught afterward because I knew I'd definitely get in trouble. People would come to check on the cops and the situation would just get ugly. I knew I had to run, but I couldn't use my car or the cop's car to escape because there'd be an APB or whatever. I'd last about 15 minutes before getting busted. Instead, I went into the kitchen, grabbed a chiappa rhino, and walked about 2 blocks down to the grocery store. I found a car in the parking lot with an unlocked door and I got in the back seat. When an old lady came and packed up the car, I held her hostage with the gun and made her drive me away. We drove for a while, we ended up on a remote-ish road that's about a 40 minute drive from my place. I realized I needed to switch cars because someone would know that old lady was supposed to be home by then and they likely also knew where specifically she had gone shopping. The police would realize her last known location was mere blocks from where I had murdered the 2 cops and it wouldn't take much work for them to figure out what license plate numbers they should be looking for to find me. So I pulled off on some access road that may or may not exist in reality and I shot her in the head, dragged her to a drainage ditch on the side of the road and draggd some branches on top of her to conceal the body. It wasn't a great hiding job or anything, but due to the season and weather it's unlikely the body would be discovered until the changing of the seasons.  I drove in the car another half hour or so before ditching the car, putting considerable distance between the car and the body was a goal to keep my trail disjointed.  I walked back to the road and flagged down another car and shot the driver, but I put the corpse in the trunk this time. Switching cars and doing my best to hide this murder by keeping all evidence on me meant I was sufficiently satisfied with my job of cooling down the trail on me. I drove further but the roads started getting really snowy and icy and foggy. Eventually I had to pull over because it was getting difficult to control the vehicle. This is when I kind of realized that there probably wasn't going to be a good ending to all of this. I got out of the car and walked to the side of the road, and there was an enormous, cliff-like drop there. I considered jumping off but I instead just put my gun in my mouth and shot myself.

Throughout this dream, it was really intense and I kept trying to wake myself up. I kept thinking and saying "this has to be a fucking dream. This can't be real." I'd jolt and wake up for a second but I'd fall immediately back asleep. Or maybe I was dreaming the jolts and waking up.  Everything was very real.

Maybe it was real and this is hell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 01:11:14 PM
I'm not hungry but I feel the strong desire to eat since one of my reasons to cease drinking is to allow myself to consume more breakfast food.  So where should I go for breakfast?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 10, 2015, 01:15:54 PM
I'm not hungry but I feel the strong desire to eat since one of my reasons to cease drinking is to allow myself to consume more breakfast food.  So where should I go for breakfast?

http://wordpress.tokyotimes.org/mayo-mayhem/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on January 10, 2015, 02:10:30 PM
Last night I needed dessert so I warmed up and ate donuts left over from wednesday. I also downed a quart of milk with them. Never again. I feel awful
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2015, 02:45:16 PM
Himu, I just want to say that during the fantasy I had while eating and using the restroom at Denny's about 20 minutes ago, you were an out of control animal slut.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 04:38:13 AM
Back from acquiring liquor, going to Denny's, and now GOAT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7LqgIefUNI
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 11, 2015, 04:44:45 AM
Last night I needed dessert so I warmed up and ate donuts left over from wednesday. I also downed a quart of milk with them. Never again. I feel awful
WWCD?
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 05:22:07 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eQ3fsilOks
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 11, 2015, 06:14:40 AM
today the area around the (6 year old) scar on my chin is super swollen for an unknown reason. also i overcame the temptation to spend another hour at the bar and went and bought groceries instead.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 06:22:52 AM
today the area around the (6 year old) scar on my chin is super swollen for an unknown reason. also i overcame the temptation to spend another hour at the bar and went and bought groceries instead.

I was thinking earlier tonight that you, specifically, would be a good writing partner. You'd help reel in some of my extremes. I might be difficult to work with, though. I have no idea. I've never tried writing with a partner.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 07:04:29 AM
You're afraid to respond, aren't you? You don't want jack shit to do with me. You think I'm a lunatic. You're fucking typical.

You're fucking pathetic. I have a lot of worthwhile things to say. I gave you an opportunity, and you gave us your cowardice. Fuck you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 11, 2015, 08:59:08 AM
Himu, I just want to say that during the fantasy I had while eating and using the restroom at Denny's about 20 minutes ago, you were an out of control animal slut.

I an about dat slut life :uguu
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 11, 2015, 10:46:53 AM
TVC, if you're looking for a good way to kill yourself, have you considered being raped to death by a camel?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/11/us/camel-attack-deaths/index.html
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 11, 2015, 12:02:19 PM
Hey look at me life sperging aside....I have a serious struggle.

I stubbed my toe walking down the stairs. Hurts like the dickens and my over 30 basketball league starts in 3 hours. I have never missed a game and putting myself on the injured list almost assures us taking an L. In addition if I miss the game my wife is suggesting I go to the store with her.

Icepacks don't fail me now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2015, 12:08:08 PM
Where does the dickens fall on the visual analogue pain scale?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 11, 2015, 12:10:18 PM
For the record I am not implying I have wonderful basketball skills. I am the only black guy in our league and the sheer presence of a black dude in our suburban league is usually a +5 ,advantage for us.

In addition they always lag off me when they D me up. This is either because I can actually still play a little or more likely because these yuppies think they'll absorb my sweat and immediately start listening to rap, encouraging white women to grow their asses out, and have irresistible urges for ribs and cornbread.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 11, 2015, 12:11:50 PM
Where does the dickens fall on the visual analogue pain scale?

Somewhere between an owwie and "fuck man that hurts"... Pretty close to wall punching level.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 11, 2015, 02:39:30 PM
You're afraid to respond, aren't you? You don't want jack shit to do with me. You think I'm a lunatic. You're fucking typical.

You're fucking pathetic. I have a lot of worthwhile things to say. I gave you an opportunity, and you gave us your cowardice. Fuck you.

i had fallen asleep.
i'm not sure i could collaborate on writing unless the writing is just a component of a work in some medium i associate with collaboration, like a movie or game or musical theater or whatever. for prose literature i would probably get too possessive of the story.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on January 11, 2015, 04:36:45 PM
Because people are nothing if not predictable in their banality, this month I've been having the same conversation over and over because resolutions receive attention for the first month to quarter of a year. (In honor of Janus, I will be accompanying what I said with parentheticals containing my actual thoughts.)

The Yenta¹
Yenta: Karakand you look great. How much weight have you lost?
[Pregnant pause.]
Me: A lot.
Yenta: So, how did you do it?
Me: Nothing special, just calorie counting. (Clinical depression and intense self-loathing with a side of crippling ennui.)
Yenta: [Dejectedly] Oh.

The Madame de Rênal²
Mme. de Rênal: [Diffidently] Karakand . . .
Karakand: Yes.
Mme. de Rênal: [Diffidently] Have you . . . been losing weight?
Karakand: [Impassively] Yes. (Dépêchez vous Mme. de Rênal.)
[Mme. de Rênal lights up]
Mme. de Rênal: I knew it! You look fantastic!
Karakand: [Impassively] Thanks.
Mme. de Rênal: So . . . how did you do it?
Karakand: Nothing special, just calorie counting. (Clinical depression and intense self-loathing with a side of crippling ennui.)
Mme. de Rênal: [Frowning] Oh.
Karakand: [Comradely] I know it's easy to do when you only have to think about yourself.
Mme. de Rênal: Yes! Every night it seems my family wants pizza or tacos.
Karakand: [Resigned] That's life. (Way to drop a dime on your loved ones, chief. A slice of pizza or a taco aren't going to max out your calories.)

The Fuggin' Jagoff
TFJ: Look at this guy! How much have you lost, Karakand?
[Pregnant pause.]
Me: A lot.
[TFJ slaps Karakand on the back.]
TFJ: "A lot."! Look at how modest this guy is.
[Karakand politely smiles.] (Fuggin' jagoff.)
TFJ: [Grandstanding] You trying to impress a girl? What's her name?
Karakand: [Inimically] The opposite.
[TFJ is deflated and bemused.]

Remember citoyens, your body is not your own.

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2015, 04:53:22 PM
Is trying to impress a boy the opposite of trying to impress a girl?  Or are you trying to repel a girl with a skeletor look? Or is she the product of dope head new agers and actually named 'the opposite'?  I'm guessing TFJ is as confused as me.  Bemused can easily be confused with hidden confusion.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 11, 2015, 05:33:26 PM
i thought about this kind of stuff a lot as a kid, and reincarnation always seemed to make more sense to me than heaven/hell.
afaiui in the heaven/hell system the world is basically just a staging environment to test some creations that are all going to be migrated into god's world (heaven) if they're any good, and eventually god is going to blow up the world and there will only be heaven (and hell which at least in some theologies sounds like it's just a trashbin for stuff god doesn't want). so if you think about it the world isn't all that important in the scheme of things - heaven is in effect the "real" world and in fact this seems pretty similar to the "computer simulation" premise. but if that's so, a single human life strikes me as a really arbitrary haphazard way of testing souls.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 11, 2015, 05:39:58 PM
Is trying to impress a boy the opposite of trying to impress a girl?  Or are you trying to repel a girl with a skeletor look? Or is she the product of dope head new agers and actually named 'the opposite'?  I'm guessing TFJ is as confused as me.  Bemused can easily be confused with hidden confusion.

He's trying to be impressed by a girl.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 11, 2015, 05:43:02 PM
Is trying to impress a boy the opposite of trying to impress a girl?  Or are you trying to repel a girl with a skeletor look? Or is she the product of dope head new agers and actually named 'the opposite'?  I'm guessing TFJ is as confused as me.  Bemused can easily be confused with hidden confusion.

He's trying to be impressed by a girl.

that would be the dual (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duality_(mathematics)) rather than the opposite. #dualities
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2015, 05:46:16 PM
Duality algorithms were some of the coolest shit I learnt in CS.  Computational geometry :bow2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 11, 2015, 05:49:27 PM
My roommate is very cold all the time, so she turns the heat up to what are (to me) stupid levels of like 68 or 70- I like a bit of a chill and would leave it on the low 60's if it were up to me, especially during the day when it's like 50 outside. My room retains heat really well, hers is way bigger and surrounded by windows/outside on 3 sides, so it doesn't, compounding my misery. My room has gotten so hot, stuffy and dry that it's drying my nose out and I had to buy a humidifier and close my heating vent today.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 11, 2015, 05:51:46 PM
Buy her a big blanket, and it if she doesn't get the hint, use it to dispose of the body.

People who don't like a brisk chill are evil. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 05:56:37 PM
I had this dream that I was in my old, beloved apartment in Arlington, a short walk from Where I worked in Georgetown at Olson's Books and Records (rip). It was the happiest time of my life. I remember it being a month after 9/11, and the tension on the street was palpable. I was listening to Lou Reed. Anyway, in the dream a sniper shot me shortly after leaving my apartment. The dream was Republican/AiA pornography.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 11, 2015, 05:58:37 PM
Recursively, whatever the form, I think any collaboration between the two of us will result in good art. I have a microkorg if you want to do musical theater.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 11, 2015, 07:10:07 PM
Good news: Made it to the game.  We won.

Bad News: Yelled at my sister in law's boyfriend for basing her out in front of me.

Worse News: Of course she is mad at me
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 11, 2015, 10:48:45 PM
My roommate is very cold all the time, so she turns the heat up to what are (to me) stupid levels of like 68 or 70- I like a bit of a chill and would leave it on the low 60's if it were up to me, especially during the day when it's like 50 outside. My room retains heat really well, hers is way bigger and surrounded by windows/outside on 3 sides, so it doesn't, compounding my misery. My room has gotten so hot, stuffy and dry that it's drying my nose out and I had to buy a humidifier and close my heating vent today.

:fbm

Tell her she has to deal with 60-65º or pay a disproportionate amount of the power bill for heating.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 12, 2015, 12:03:43 AM
Starting a crazy new set of work

This week: San Jose
Next week: Dallas
After that: L.A.
After that : Dallas
After that: Home
After that: Dallas

This means that it'll be a month before I'm home for more than 3 or 4 days

 :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 12, 2015, 03:51:43 AM
I've got some great ideas flowing for the musical recursively and myself are writing. It's actually interfering with my Phase 2 planning.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2015, 09:20:43 AM
I was sick this weekend and now I'm super behind for a paper deadline on the 15th.  fuck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 12, 2015, 09:42:54 AM
ohhhhhhh......update

My wife's sister's boyfriend apparently posted "I'm gonna do him up old school. That motherfucker got one coming on me..brick to the head type shit" on facebook and forgot my wife was a facebook friend of his.

Nothing like them sissy ass city niccas who don't say shit to your face but try to put you on blast on facebook....then delete it. Now even my wife is heated so here's to about 3 months of family struggle.

LOL

Edit: LOL

Wife posted this on my sister's timeline "Your man ain't doin shit. Keep your dogs at your house bitch"

 :gurl


 :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 12, 2015, 09:49:36 AM
ohhhhhhh......update

My wife's sister's boyfriend apparently posted "I'm gonna do him up old school. That motherfucker got one coming on me..brick to the head type shit" on facebook and forgot my wife was a facebook friend of his.

Nothing like them sissy ass city niccas who don't say shit to your face but try to put you on blast on facebook....then delete it. Now even my wife is heated so here's to about 3 months of family struggle.

LOL

Edit: LOL

Wife posted this on my sister's timeline "Your man ain't doin shit. Keep your dogs at your house bitch"

 :gurl


 :jawalrus

You bitch about me wallowing in my problems and then you go and post stuff like this? Really? I hope the super important world of your "wife's sister's boyfriend" improves, because it's totally awesome. Maybe it will be a telenovela some day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 12, 2015, 09:50:53 AM
ohhhhhhh......update

My wife's sister's boyfriend apparently posted "I'm gonna do him up old school. That motherfucker got one coming on me..brick to the head type shit" on facebook and forgot my wife was a facebook friend of his.

Nothing like them sissy ass city niccas who don't say shit to your face but try to put you on blast on facebook....then delete it. Now even my wife is heated so here's to about 3 months of family struggle.

LOL

Edit: LOL

Wife posted this on my sister's timeline "Your man ain't doin shit. Keep your dogs at your house bitch"

 :gurl


 :jawalrus

You bitch about me wallowing in my problems and then you go and post stuff like this? Really? I hope the super important world of your "wife's sister's boyfriend" improves, because it's totally awesome. Maybe it will be a telenovela some day.

Black people family problems breh. And who's wallowing? My wife gonna go ham on that shit while I eat some reese's pieces and giggle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: parallax on January 12, 2015, 10:10:28 AM
ohhhhhhh......update

My wife's sister's boyfriend apparently posted "I'm gonna do him up old school. That motherfucker got one coming on me..brick to the head type shit" on facebook and forgot my wife was a facebook friend of his.

Nothing like them sissy ass city niccas who don't say shit to your face but try to put you on blast on facebook....then delete it. Now even my wife is heated so here's to about 3 months of family struggle.

LOL

Edit: LOL

Wife posted this on my sister's timeline "Your man ain't doin shit. Keep your dogs at your house bitch"

 :gurl


 :jawalrus

"do him up old school?" how old is this dude?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 12, 2015, 10:13:33 AM
ohhhhhhh......update

My wife's sister's boyfriend apparently posted "I'm gonna do him up old school. That motherfucker got one coming on me..brick to the head type shit" on facebook and forgot my wife was a facebook friend of his.

Nothing like them sissy ass city niccas who don't say shit to your face but try to put you on blast on facebook....then delete it. Now even my wife is heated so here's to about 3 months of family struggle.

LOL

Edit: LOL

Wife posted this on my sister's timeline "Your man ain't doin shit. Keep your dogs at your house bitch"

 :gurl


 :jawalrus

"do him up old school?" how old is this dude?

She's 38 he's 27.

 :sabu
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: parallax on January 12, 2015, 10:24:51 AM
ohhhhhhh......update

My wife's sister's boyfriend apparently posted "I'm gonna do him up old school. That motherfucker got one coming on me..brick to the head type shit" on facebook and forgot my wife was a facebook friend of his.

Nothing like them sissy ass city niccas who don't say shit to your face but try to put you on blast on facebook....then delete it. Now even my wife is heated so here's to about 3 months of family struggle.

LOL

Edit: LOL

Wife posted this on my sister's timeline "Your man ain't doin shit. Keep your dogs at your house bitch"

 :gurl


 :jawalrus

"do him up old school?" how old is this dude?

She's 38 he's 27.

 :sabu

the stupid facebook posturing said it all. he seems so soft you could spread him on toast
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 12, 2015, 10:30:13 AM
Why is he mad at you AiA

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 12, 2015, 10:34:42 AM
When keeping it real goes wrong.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 12, 2015, 10:40:35 AM
Why is he mad at you AiA

:dead

They were over and the boys were playing some cards while the women made fun of us, so a normal sunday night. Wife's sister comes over and says "babe we gotta leave soon I gotta work early tomorrow" to which he replied "bitch never approach me when I'm playing cards with men, ever, got it?" thinking we'd all be like "what a cool guy."

Rather then that my uncle said "don't be disparaging females dude" and he said "it's my life" to which I simply stated "men don't treat women like that, if you do it again I'll be escorting you out of my house."

Then he made the mistake of saying "take to me like a man, because that's what I am" and I flipped the fuck out.

Whole time he didn't say shit. Then he picked up his money and left. I thought well that's that and then sister in law comes back in and tells me "don't be putting your ass in my business...you always messing with my life" and walked out....
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 12, 2015, 10:46:36 AM
So he disrespects 3 family members of yours and it's you that has it coming?  :comeon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 12, 2015, 10:48:29 AM
So he disrespects 3 family members of yours and it's you that has it coming?  :comeon

He's from the East Side of Cleveland so he clearly thinks he's some kinda thug. Because you know, none of us ever came up like that.

 :badass
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 12, 2015, 10:54:29 AM
Bigger struggle, live in Ohio brehs

(http://i.imgur.com/3Xj1HB1.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 12, 2015, 10:56:52 AM
Why is he mad at you AiA

:dead

They were over and the boys were playing some cards while the women made fun of us, so a normal sunday night. Wife's sister comes over and says "babe we gotta leave soon I gotta work early tomorrow" to which he replied "bitch never approach me when I'm playing cards with men, ever, got it?" thinking we'd all be like "what a cool guy."

Rather then that my uncle said "don't be disparaging females dude" and he said "it's my life" to which I simply stated "men don't treat women like that, if you do it again I'll be escorting you out of my house."

Then he made the mistake of saying "take to me like a man, because that's what I am" and I flipped the fuck out.

Whole time he didn't say shit. Then he picked up his money and left. I thought well that's that and then sister in law comes back in and tells me "don't be putting your ass in my business...you always messing with my life" and walked out....
Tyler Perry presents
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2015, 07:00:37 PM
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 12, 2015, 07:11:04 PM
Why is he mad at you AiA

:dead

They were over and the boys were playing some cards while the women made fun of us, so a normal sunday night. Wife's sister comes over and says "babe we gotta leave soon I gotta work early tomorrow" to which he replied "bitch never approach me when I'm playing cards with men, ever, got it?" thinking we'd all be like "what a cool guy."

Rather then that my uncle said "don't be disparaging females dude" and he said "it's my life" to which I simply stated "men don't treat women like that, if you do it again I'll be escorting you out of my house."

Then he made the mistake of saying "take to me like a man, because that's what I am" and I flipped the fuck out.

Whole time he didn't say shit. Then he picked up his money and left. I thought well that's that and then sister in law comes back in and tells me "don't be putting your ass in my business...you always messing with my life" and walked out....
:mindblown

HOLD ON

This dude is calling his wife a bitch in front of her blood relatives (her sister, uncle, etc)? The fuck...

btw this isn't the sister in law that wanted to bang you right?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 12, 2015, 07:17:25 PM
Demented grand father called me a bastard and tried to hit me when I went to babysit him after work today :tocry

He's going to the nursing home soon.

Oh, Esch I'm so sorry. What steps is the family taking now? :(

And AIA that guy sounds like pretty soft. Actually, given the Facebook posturing and the posturing at the family event, I wouldn't be surprised if he were gay and possibly on the DL. Hyper machismo and the will to "prove" your manliness smells of it. I bet you he likes dicks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 12, 2015, 07:38:32 PM
sorry to hear that Esch :fbm

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 12, 2015, 07:44:07 PM
Jeez, I just can't imagine going through with that. Cancer with my gramps was plenty stressful, but THAT. Wow. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2015, 08:21:00 PM
Ya.  My grandpa doesn't know who I am half the time I talk to him anymore and it's getting worse.  Suicide is definitely my first course of action if I ever get like that. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 12, 2015, 08:40:45 PM
Family assisted suicide should be legal.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on January 12, 2015, 09:40:54 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/RqSDznm.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 12, 2015, 09:46:31 PM
:( damn esch I'm really sorry to hear that
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: parallax on January 12, 2015, 09:47:18 PM
I'm just done taking care of him. I can't handle it anymore and neither can anyone else in my family. He has to go.

He was such a smart guy too. Attorney general of Fiji, they sent him to europe to learn all sorts of shit on sscholarship,  he was the man. Taught me to read and fix flats. Taught me how to cook lunch for myself.

Now he's just a mess. He eats soap, raw chicken, anything. He's hostile even on sedatives. He's still physically active so it's worse than most people I see in my research job which is also geriatric centered.

been there with my grandpa. he had dementia while my grandma was here, but when she was around it wasnt as bad. when she died, shit kicked into overdrive. eating old ass clam chowder and getting massive diarrhea, fighting us for giving him his meds and clocking out in public when we find out that he would spit them out. cussing me out for telling him he needs to take a shower, then having to bathe him. he did a lot of shit that made me pissed off at him. then right before he died i caught him watching an old church tape that had my grandma and him in it and seeing him crying made me realize thats what he has to deal with, and before i could do much he had an accident and died.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Shaka Khan on January 12, 2015, 09:50:22 PM
I didn't see Esch's post. :-\ Sorry to hear that bro.

To be fair though, he's not white.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2015, 09:50:46 PM
Dementia is actually a non-white person problem, Shaka

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25535/

 :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2015, 09:52:23 PM
I'm just done taking care of him. I can't handle it anymore and neither can anyone else in my family. He has to go.

He was such a smart guy too. Attorney general of Fiji, they sent him to europe to learn all sorts of shit on sscholarship,  he was the man. Taught me to read and fix flats. Taught me how to cook lunch for myself.

Now he's just a mess. He eats soap, raw chicken, anything. He's hostile even on sedatives. He's still physically active so it's worse than most people I see in my research job which is also geriatric centered.

been there with my grandpa. he had dementia while my grandma was here, but when she was around it wasnt as bad. when she died, shit kicked into overdrive. eating old ass clam chowder and getting massive diarrhea, fighting us for giving him his meds and clocking out in public when we find out that he would spit them out. cussing me out for telling him he needs to take a shower, then having to bathe him. he did a lot of shit that made me pissed off at him. then right before he died i caught him watching an old church tape that had my grandma and him in it and seeing him crying made me realize thats what he has to deal with, and before i could do much he had an accident and died.

:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: parallax on January 12, 2015, 10:12:19 PM
I'm just done taking care of him. I can't handle it anymore and neither can anyone else in my family. He has to go.

He was such a smart guy too. Attorney general of Fiji, they sent him to europe to learn all sorts of shit on sscholarship,  he was the man. Taught me to read and fix flats. Taught me how to cook lunch for myself.

Now he's just a mess. He eats soap, raw chicken, anything. He's hostile even on sedatives. He's still physically active so it's worse than most people I see in my research job which is also geriatric centered.

been there with my grandpa. he had dementia while my grandma was here, but when she was around it wasnt as bad. when she died, shit kicked into overdrive. eating old ass clam chowder and getting massive diarrhea, fighting us for giving him his meds and clocking out in public when we find out that he would spit them out. cussing me out for telling him he needs to take a shower, then having to bathe him. he did a lot of shit that made me pissed off at him. then right before he died  i caught him watching an old church tape that had my grandma and him in it and seeing him crying made me realize thats what he has to deal with, and before i could do much he had an accident and died.

Honestly, this is what I wish would happen. Just let him go peacefully into that goodnight.

He's become violent and angry. when some people get dementia they just become confused and addled. Others get angry, or start wondering around a lot, become highly oppositional.. He argues and fights constantly, elbowing, punching, pinching and berating. Sometimes its different, and he's downright cheerful, and he'll call me my kid nickname (Cuppy), and give me hugs, but that's about 5% of the time.


Luckily though he's leaving for a nursing home in California. My grandma needs to be free of him. She's put up with years of taking care of him with this and deserves to enjoy the remaining life she has on her clock.

i was in that boat before when he was really acting up(i cant see a marie callendars without getting pissed off)but after he had passed i felt like shit for thinking that. but i also know some old people really want to die, and they act out because of it, so theres nothing you can really do about those cases. being in a home might be the best for him as well.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 12, 2015, 10:13:19 PM
This page
 :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: parallax on January 12, 2015, 10:22:22 PM
This page
 :fbm

i actually shared that when you were still taking randoms. before people starting making up shit to get it posted
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on January 12, 2015, 11:24:23 PM
Got my first rejection email.

"While your portfolio is impressive, I regret to inform you that we will not pursue your candidacy at this time. Again, thank you for your interest and I wish you the best of luck in your future search."

Looks like I wont be heading to Missouri anytime soon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 12, 2015, 11:30:01 PM
New wrinkle today. I've pretty much been told when my last day has to be by. Naturally, revealing it to strangers isn't the best idea, but you'll all find out soon enough.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 12, 2015, 11:30:59 PM
I'm so sorry.  It must feel awful being rejected from someone from Missouri.

On the bright side you can now tell the girls you have an impressive portfolio and that you won't be going to Missouri anytime soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on January 12, 2015, 11:54:37 PM
Post grad.

I figure 8 years in school is enough for this go round
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on January 13, 2015, 12:19:01 AM
Post grad.

I figure 8 years in school is enough for this go round
You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 13, 2015, 12:31:04 AM
Got my first rejection email.

"While your portfolio is impressive, I regret to inform you that we will not pursue your candidacy at this time. Again, thank you for your interest and I wish you the best of luck in your future search."

Looks like I wont be heading to Missouri anytime soon

burn you don't get to hang out with stl bore
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 13, 2015, 01:10:27 AM
Though this may not be on-time for your grandparents, hopefully this will be something which keeps it from our generation or the next...?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11280504/Has-Stanford-University-found-a-cure-for-Alzheimers-disease.html

Quote
The researchers found that, in mice, blocking EP2 with a drug reversed memory loss and myriad other Alzheimer’s-like features in the animals.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on January 13, 2015, 02:11:31 AM
getting more news about gf's new job progress (and move to nyc) during the same week she's extremely busy so i won't see her much

not feeling great right now brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 04:02:55 AM
Just threw out my journals, dating from 2002 to 2014. It was tougher than I thought it would be. I drove a town over and threw the book journals in a dumpster behind a grocer store so they're far enough away that it would be inconvenient for me to go back and retrieve them before it's emptied. Deleted most of the PC ones, though I think I missed a few years (I switched to PC ~2011 because it was more convenient, but I switched places/storage mechanisms/whatever a few times. I think I got all of em but I have a nagging feeling).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on January 13, 2015, 04:21:32 AM
Was in the IRL version of TLR for the last few hours.

Triumph: Got two free beers out of it though.   :obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 05:04:45 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siGKxcKol0
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on January 13, 2015, 08:43:28 AM
cut a small chunk out of my pinky finger with a bread knife  :lawd

still bleeding when i took the band aid off this morning  :kobeyuck



owie!  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 09:23:06 AM
I'm just done taking care of him. I can't handle it anymore and neither can anyone else in my family. He has to go.

He was such a smart guy too. Attorney general of Fiji, they sent him to europe to learn all sorts of shit on sscholarship,  he was the man. Taught me to read and fix flats. Taught me how to cook lunch for myself.

Now he's just a mess. He eats soap, raw chicken, anything. He's hostile even on sedatives. He's still physically active so it's worse than most people I see in my research job which is also geriatric centered.

Damn Esch, that really sucks bro.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 09:25:30 AM
Why is he mad at you AiA

:dead

They were over and the boys were playing some cards while the women made fun of us, so a normal sunday night. Wife's sister comes over and says "babe we gotta leave soon I gotta work early tomorrow" to which he replied "bitch never approach me when I'm playing cards with men, ever, got it?" thinking we'd all be like "what a cool guy."

Rather then that my uncle said "don't be disparaging females dude" and he said "it's my life" to which I simply stated "men don't treat women like that, if you do it again I'll be escorting you out of my house."

Then he made the mistake of saying "take to me like a man, because that's what I am" and I flipped the fuck out.

Whole time he didn't say shit. Then he picked up his money and left. I thought well that's that and then sister in law comes back in and tells me "don't be putting your ass in my business...you always messing with my life" and walked out....
:mindblown

HOLD ON

This dude is calling his wife a bitch in front of her blood relatives (her sister, uncle, etc)? The fuck...

btw this isn't the sister in law that wanted to bang you right?

Nope this is the smart sister. She actually has a really good job too. She struggles with self confidence.

As for him, he's a kid. I'm willing to excuse his behavior as an attempt to "man out" once. But he isn't going to get that break from my wife.

I know some of you guys are a very mature 27 but I sure wasn't, I was still growing as a man. We all make mistakes. I don't appreciate disrespecting women though. I was raised different than that as you can see with my uncle being the first to call him out. Thank god my dad wasn't alive as he would have thrown him out by his collar.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: octopushover on January 13, 2015, 09:51:32 AM
junior employee i was mentoring all last year in order to get her to join my team quit today because of constantly being mistreated by her current supervisor.

feels bad man.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 09:52:31 AM
junior employee i was mentoring all last year in order to get her to join my team quit today because of constantly being mistreated by her current supervisor.

feels bad man.  :-\

Was she a good worker or were you trying to get it in? Be honest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 13, 2015, 10:18:23 AM
I was raised to respect women as well. I know tumblr fegs disapprove but fuck them. My mom expected that I open the door first for her/women and for elderly people of both genders. I was always pressed to be respectful of women, to the point it is now second nature.

That's part of the reason I get so rustled at work about women being mistreated. Not opening doors for women doesn't make you a bad person obviously - I'm talking about guys who take advantage of their position to pressure women into things. Or guys that always want to have inappropriate conversations around women. Since when is that shit cool?

But like I said, it really makes decent dudes stand out. You look like a great guy just by not being a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 10:20:55 AM
I was raised to respect women as well. I know tumblr fegs disapprove but fuck them. My mom expected that I open the door first for her/women and for elderly people of both genders. I was always pressed to be respectful of women, to the point it is now second nature.

That's part of the reason I get so rustled at work about women being mistreated. Not opening doors for women doesn't make you a bad person obviously - I'm talking about guys who take advantage of their position to pressure women into things. Or guys that always want to have inappropriate conversations around women. Since when is that shit cool?

But like I said, it really makes decent dudes stand out. You look like a great guy just by not being a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.

Totally the same way I feel.

When I was a youngster my father would literally whap the back of my head if I didn't hold the door open at Church for any woman who came  up. This sometimes had me holding the door for 15 minutes while everybody arrived. In fact it's one of my first memories.

ME "I'm gonna sit down daddy"

Pops "You see Mrs Jones?"

Me "Yeah"

Pops "Hold the door open for her"

Me "But I"

*whap

Pops "don't mouth me, do as I say"

Me "Yes sir"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 10:22:11 AM
Fuck you and you're door openings PD.  Do you know how hard that is to do non-awkwardly when you are short and fat?  You are creating an expectation not all men can compete with!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: thabiz on January 13, 2015, 10:24:08 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 10:25:01 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.

Balance the healthy egg white with a couple of pieces of bacon!

:mouf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: thabiz on January 13, 2015, 10:26:26 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.

Balance the healthy egg white with a couple of pieces of bacon!

:mouf

sausage and cheese.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 10:27:25 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.

Balance the healthy egg white with a couple of pieces of bacon!

:mouf

sausage and cheese.

Hmmmm.....spicy sausage or regular variety? Lately I've been addicted to spicy italian sausage patties for breakfast.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-italian-sausage/

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: octopushover on January 13, 2015, 10:30:00 AM
junior employee i was mentoring all last year in order to get her to join my team quit today because of constantly being mistreated by her current supervisor.

feels bad man.  :-\

Was she a good worker or were you trying to get it in? Be honest.

she was a good writer. i'm a loyal boyfriend thank you very much.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 10:30:39 AM
junior employee i was mentoring all last year in order to get her to join my team quit today because of constantly being mistreated by her current supervisor.

feels bad man.  :-\

Was she a good worker or were you trying to get it in? Be honest.

she was a good writer. i'm a loyal boyfriend thank you very much.

Oh I wasn't trying to insult. It's just I've seen both sides of the equation.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: thabiz on January 13, 2015, 10:32:57 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.

Balance the healthy egg white with a couple of pieces of bacon!

:mouf

sausage and cheese.

Hmmmm.....spicy sausage or regular variety? Lately I've been addicted to spicy italian sausage patties for breakfast.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-italian-sausage/

regular.


im hooked on soppressata for pizza.  nice and spicy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 10:34:19 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.

Balance the healthy egg white with a couple of pieces of bacon!

:mouf

sausage and cheese.

Hmmmm.....spicy sausage or regular variety? Lately I've been addicted to spicy italian sausage patties for breakfast.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-italian-sausage/

regular.


im hooked on soppressata for pizza.  nice and spicy.

Isn't that like pig tongues and stuff? You have more balls than I sir.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 10:36:00 AM
I woke up with the chorus of Proud Mary in my head, now it won't leave and I'm compelled to sing it repeatedly - just the chorus. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: thabiz on January 13, 2015, 10:37:38 AM
egg white or regular egg for my breakfast sandwich.  i shouldnt have to start my day like this.

Balance the healthy egg white with a couple of pieces of bacon!

:mouf

sausage and cheese.

Hmmmm.....spicy sausage or regular variety? Lately I've been addicted to spicy italian sausage patties for breakfast.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/hot-italian-sausage/

regular.


im hooked on soppressata for pizza.  nice and spicy.

Isn't that like pig tongues and stuff? You have more balls than I sir.

yep.  pigs head, tongue, belly and stomach.  SO GOOD!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 13, 2015, 11:07:43 AM
I was raised to respect women as well. I know tumblr fegs disapprove but fuck them. My mom expected that I open the door first for her/women and for elderly people of both genders. I was always pressed to be respectful of women, to the point it is now second nature.

That's part of the reason I get so rustled at work about women being mistreated. Not opening doors for women doesn't make you a bad person obviously - I'm talking about guys who take advantage of their position to pressure women into things. Or guys that always want to have inappropriate conversations around women. Since when is that shit cool?

But like I said, it really makes decent dudes stand out. You look like a great guy just by not being a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.
I was raised the same way, never had a problem with it until for some reason in the past 5 years it's started to really backfire.
Like I'd hold a door open for people but I've had a woman say "I could've done that for myself" as she passed.
Or when I was in Seattle a few months back there was a lady standing and she had all these bags and a backpack, I got up and offered her my seat, I didn't have anything heavy and my stop was coming up. Why not? She accepted but said, "Thanks for the seat but I'm not interested in exchanging numbers or anything."
Another one was when I go on a business trip to a city where I'm alone I'll do lunch with people I know, and in return for keeping me company I ALWAYS pay. Men/Women whoever. I pay. It's my way of saying "thanks for taking time out of your day so I don't waste away in a hotel room" So I actually met up two gaffers (they actually happened to be women) and had a nice dinner, in a new place in the city I was staying in and when the check came I pulled out the card and they were like "DON'T WHITE KNIGHT ME!!" I was so flummoxed I had no idea what to say or how to respond. If someone offers to pay and I didn't want them to I'd say "Hey I appreciate it but let's split it."
The best one was I was getting off a southwest flight in Houston and this guy was getting up to leave the airplane and saw a lady was having a hard time with her bag and he said, "Here let me help you." And the woman turned around and said "Don't think you can just get into my pants by acting all gentleman like. I didn't ask for your help!" Well behind the guy was his fiance who turned around and was like "Nuh-uh bitch!" A scene from Jerry Springer ensued and the flight attendants had to break it up.

I'm not gonna stop being nice to people and doing what I do, but I am sorta perplexed at how people react to it lately.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 13, 2015, 11:15:47 AM
I've been told the same thing "I can do it myself, thanks"

I just say "Have a nice day" and smile. Dust off my shoulders man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on January 13, 2015, 11:26:00 AM
you guys holding doors open for jerks wth  ???

usually what happens when doors get held open, is no one remembers or cares enough to say "thanks" to the person doing it, :pacspit

or those people who hold doors open for you, when you're still far away from said door  :shaq2 and have to do the lame hastened-trot shit, fuck that too 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: mormapope on January 13, 2015, 11:32:10 AM
 :lol

Door holding definitely has an awkward range. Holding the door when someone is too far away always results in instant polite panic.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 13, 2015, 11:45:31 AM
What's the cut off for waiting on them to get to the door you are holding open? Personally, if I think I'll have to hold it for 3 seconds for them to get there I won't hold it.

Holding it open longer than 5 seconds is  :cody -tier
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 11:54:03 AM
:lol

Door holding definitely has an awkward range. Holding the door when someone is too far away always results in instant polite panic.

Sometimes, only sometimes mind you, I like to hold the door in the awkward range for attractive girls, just to see them in their polite panic.  So sexy. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on January 13, 2015, 12:23:43 PM
My holding doors open isn't gendered, I do it for everyone if I am the first one to the door. I also have a rule for how long to hold a door open if someone is on their way to the door but not quite there yet. I estimate how long it would take for the person to arrive at the door, and I estimate how long it would take the door to close if I were to let it go. If the door would fully close before the person arrived at the door, then my obligations have been met and I can walk away. I do give myself a bit of leeway though, because it wouldn't do for the person to arrive at the door only to have it close in their face. And of course if I see the person speed up their pace towards me I will hold the door open no matter how far away they are, because the person is obviously expecting you to hold it open for them and is being polite enough to speed up so you don't have to hold the door open as long.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 12:40:35 PM
:lol

Door holding definitely has an awkward range. Holding the door when someone is too far away always results in instant polite panic.

Sometimes, only sometimes mind you, I like to hold the door in the awkward range for attractive girls, just to see them in their polite panic.  So sexy. 

Especially when they are wearing heels and their furious short steps leave them breathless by the time they get to me.  So sexy. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 13, 2015, 03:00:25 PM
I let doors slam behind me no matter how close the person behind me is, or their gender. Fuck you all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 13, 2015, 03:13:22 PM
If I got the "thanks but I could open it myself" treatment I'd just say "I'm sure you can. It would be insulting for me to assume you're female based on your appearance."

:umad
take that, tumblr fegs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 13, 2015, 03:25:43 PM
yet another doors thread. i expect my doors to man up and hold themselves.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 13, 2015, 03:29:10 PM
Doors with the handicap button. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: MrAngryFace on January 13, 2015, 04:21:48 PM
Sometimes i'll pretend I am checking myself for my wallet or engaging in some other distraction to avoid a door holding situation.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 13, 2015, 04:23:37 PM
Sometimes i'll pretend I am checking myself for my wallet or engaging in some other distraction to avoid a door holding situation.

One of the great things about living in the smart phone era. Basically always have a super convenient way to pretend to not notice people exist in your pocket 24/7.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 13, 2015, 04:33:06 PM
never had anyone ever get mad at me for holding a door or helping them out. must suck for you rapey-looking trollface dudes :smug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 13, 2015, 04:35:34 PM
No one expects me to hold a door for them, because I look like a hobo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 13, 2015, 05:02:43 PM
Sometimes i'll pretend I am checking myself for my wallet or engaging in some other distraction to avoid a door holding situation.

I'm in your corner with regards to the "pretending to get a call/text in order to avoid certain social situations" but I cannot stand with you on this, sir.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 05:11:39 PM
PD sits were MAF stands on doors, news at 11.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 05:33:24 PM
Real people problems time. In 2 parts:

1) I'm definitely starting to hit major withdrawal symptoms. I have this worst headache where it weels like my brain is painfully expanding in my skull. Just like my kidneys when I was sick, I can fee it throbbing. Also, my face feels hot. Not in a fever way (there is no fever, I checked). There's also some mild nausea/weirdness in the chest and stomach that is unusual, but that's not really terrible if I remain in bed, which I am.

2) Yesterday I sent my brother an email explaining my situation. I kept it devoid of melodrama and made sure everything was clear and terse. Just the facts. I figured he deserved or needed to know what's happening and that chances to communicate or make things right or settle things with me are limited at this point.

I haven't had a good relationship with my brother. The other day I mentioned living in Arlington and working in Georgetown, back from 1999 to 2002, and referred to it as the best time of my life. At the time I was living a block away from my brother and we were best friends. Argh, I regret getting into even that much detail. Long story short, my brother and father simultaneously getting and dying of cancer in 2003 altered our relationship in a couple ways and things deteriorated over the years. In the past 6 years I have spoken to him twice, once being him asking me to borrow money for legal reasons. The second was an extremely awkward attempt by me to try and open lines of communication again. Up until about 6 months ago I routinely called him, though he'd never answer.

So I sent him that email yesterday, and today he's called just about every hour and I've ignored it just because I can't have that conversation. I just blocked/set my phone to ignore calls from that number. His wife called me (I answered because I didn't know the number or have it in my phone) and rapidly hung up and blocked it. Through the magic of facebook, I've oddly had a more communicative relationship with her over the past several years than I did with my brother.

Between doing the journal thing last night and all this bullshit, this is fucking hard. This is fucking ugly. It informs me that my life was in embers long before the events of the past 6 months.

I know nobody cares or reads this stuff or takes me seriously here. I wish you did.

I don't think I have a point to this post anymore, but I may as well ramble. Last night, before I got rid of my, ugh, 13 years of journals, I read a bit from the very beginning, which coincidentally covered my initial plans in moving to Seattle. It's kind of the reason I started the journal, or at least one of them. My deal was to write at least one full page (in whatever medium I was currently writing) a day. I came up with a lot of details and stories and plans. It made me a better person. Over those 13 years, there were a number of gaps, maybe 4 or 5, of about 6 months to a year. These periods where I stopped writing were the worst periods of my life. I'm not saying "I stopped writing and my life went to shit," I'm saying "My life when to shit and I subsequently stopped writing." This means that looking at my journals painted a very positive picture of me. The TVC in there was ambitious, could plan things well, had good things and occasional happiness in his life, frequently was good natured and wanted good things to happen. Now, it's all so fucking alien to me. I look back at that person in 2002 that decided, largely on a lark, to move across the country and start his life over again without anything or anyone he knew, and I so fucking hate him, and I hate everything after, because I'm jealous of that person. He succeeded in what he set out to do, but he sold out himself and what he stood for and ignored every opportunity or chance to set things right or move onto a better path. He could have been a lot more. That fucking person became me, and I hate him and I fucking hate myself.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on January 13, 2015, 05:44:08 PM
It's not that we don't care, I think it's just that we don't know what to say anymore.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 13, 2015, 05:50:36 PM
It's not that we don't care, I think it's just that we don't know what to say anymore.  :-\

Pretty much this.

I've read every single thing you've posted on your descent, TVC. I'm not entirely sure what all has happened to you in the past six months- I know generally that there have been work and health issues, but not much more than that. I'd say that I wish you well, but it's clear at this point that you don't wish yourself well (I've been there) so I'll just say that I hope things turn out as well as they possibly can.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 05:51:17 PM
It's not that we don't care, I think it's just that we don't know what to say anymore.  :-\
ya
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 05:59:02 PM
It's not that we don't care, I think it's just that we don't know what to say anymore.  :-\

Pretty much this.

I've read every single thing you've posted on your descent, TVC. I'm not entirely sure what all has happened to you in the past six months- I know generally that there have been work and health issues, but not much more than that. I'd say that I wish you well, but it's clear at this point that you don't wish yourself well (I've been there) so I'll just say that I hope things turn out as well as they possibly can.

Things aren't going to turn out well. Whether it's fate or bad luck or whatever, multiple problems have/are converging on a set of dates in the very near future. Even if I could solve one problem, there are others. Two of these problems are, as of this week, beyond their expiration date. If they were somehow solved even today, it would be too late.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 13, 2015, 06:31:24 PM
Real people problems time. In 2 parts:

Pretty sure the only people here who aren’t reading your posts in this thread are the ones who are unable to visit the thread because they can’t subject themselves to your implacable, narcissistic, self-destructive diatribe.

There are a lot of people who care about you, and you’ve dismissed offers of help, as well as directly spewed invective at several of them in an obvious ploy to get other people to hate you as much as you’re currently hating yourself. Oddly, it has not worked; everyone here is still concerned for you, but we have no course of action against your defenses.

You said you wanted to give your brother a chance to make things right, and then prevented him from having any means to do so. And then you’ve told us about it, because you know what you’ve done. Yay! You’ve increased the drama here, and with your brother, and his wife, AND managed to remove his ability to actually follow through on what you asked of him. In turn, this gives you even more reason to hate yourself.

Check into a clinic. Get treated. Hell, check yourself into a mental hospital; your actions are clearly not only self destructive, but you’re trying to cut off any option of backing out.

Too bad it’s not working, because people still care about you and are worried.

It’s trite, so I apologize for that in advance, but suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems.

My father committed suicide 9 years ago, before meeting his grandson, just over a year old at that time.

I know you’re going to decide your own path, either wave off or go through with it, and it’s ultimately your decision. Don’t put anything on anyone else; there have been unasked-for offers of help, and you’ve refused the ones which you did ask for.

Take responsibility for your own life, and choose to fight for existence.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 06:34:20 PM
I've considered the hospital, but the practical problem there is that I have nowhere to go afterward. I won't have an apartment or anywhere to go. I'll die before I'm homeless.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 13, 2015, 06:39:25 PM
Why not try tackling one problem at a time? Hospital first, get well, and then worry about where you’re sleeping.

I was raised to respect women as well. I know tumblr fegs disapprove but fuck them. My mom expected that I open the door first for her/women and for elderly people of both genders. I was always pressed to be respectful of women, to the point it is now second nature.

That's part of the reason I get so rustled at work about women being mistreated. Not opening doors for women doesn't make you a bad person obviously - I'm talking about guys who take advantage of their position to pressure women into things. Or guys that always want to have inappropriate conversations around women. Since when is that shit cool?

But like I said, it really makes decent dudes stand out. You look like a great guy just by not being a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.
I was raised the same way, never had a problem with it until for some reason in the past 5 years it's started to really backfire.
Like I'd hold a door open for people but I've had a woman say "I could've done that for myself" as she passed.
Or when I was in Seattle a few months back there was a lady standing and she had all these bags and a backpack, I got up and offered her my seat, I didn't have anything heavy and my stop was coming up. Why not? She accepted but said, "Thanks for the seat but I'm not interested in exchanging numbers or anything."
Another one was when I go on a business trip to a city where I'm alone I'll do lunch with people I know, and in return for keeping me company I ALWAYS pay. Men/Women whoever. I pay. It's my way of saying "thanks for taking time out of your day so I don't waste away in a hotel room" So I actually met up two gaffers (they actually happened to be women) and had a nice dinner, in a new place in the city I was staying in and when the check came I pulled out the card and they were like "DON'T WHITE KNIGHT ME!!" I was so flummoxed I had no idea what to say or how to respond. If someone offers to pay and I didn't want them to I'd say "Hey I appreciate it but let's split it."
The best one was I was getting off a southwest flight in Houston and this guy was getting up to leave the airplane and saw a lady was having a hard time with her bag and he said, "Here let me help you." And the woman turned around and said "Don't think you can just get into my pants by acting all gentleman like. I didn't ask for your help!" Well behind the guy was his fiance who turned around and was like "Nuh-uh bitch!" A scene from Jerry Springer ensued and the flight attendants had to break it up.

I'm not gonna stop being nice to people and doing what I do, but I am sorta perplexed at how people react to it lately.
I was right with PD until he said “distinguished mentally-challenged fellow.” As a class, people who are mentally distinguished mentally-challenged/learning disabled, make the kindest and most sincere efforts at being consistently polite.

As for the other cases with women becoming angry at our attempts at being polite, if they respond defensively or angrily, that’s on them. Maybe they have been hit on by guys who were “nicely just trying to help them.” Maybe things have become ugly for them. Or maybe they’ve just read a bunch of Jezebel and decided that men are oppressing them all the time.

It doesn’t matter.

It’s their decision how to react. We only get to control our own choices, not theirs. I choose to continue to display manners, because it still seems to be appreciated most of the time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 07:53:35 PM
I took 600mg of seroquel and then threw it up 10 minutes later :( I considered fishing the pills out of the toilet (they were my last 2). I really want to just pass out for a bunch of hours. Oh well, at least there's new AC DLC to pass the time.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Barry Egan on January 13, 2015, 08:40:56 PM
It's not that we don't care, I think it's just that we don't know what to say anymore.  :-\

Pretty much this.

I've read every single thing you've posted on your descent, TVC. I'm not entirely sure what all has happened to you in the past six months- I know generally that there have been work and health issues, but not much more than that. I'd say that I wish you well, but it's clear at this point that you don't wish yourself well (I've been there) so I'll just say that I hope things turn out as well as they possibly can.

Things aren't going to turn out well. Whether it's fate or bad luck or whatever, multiple problems have/are converging on a set of dates in the very near future. Even if I could solve one problem, there are others. Two of these problems are, as of this week, beyond their expiration date. If they were somehow solved even today, it would be too late.

Can't you just tell us what these problems are already?  It's hard to empathize when we don't know the scale of the obstacle(s) or the extent to which your reactions are justified.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 08:42:58 PM
Does anyone know about thyroid issues? Could issues with thyroid levels be causing the weirdness/throw up-y feeling in my throat? It feels like somethings stuck in there. One of the meds I stopped taking affected my thyroid levels and I actually had to take a med to counteract that. Since I stopped taking the one that caused the thyroid issues I stopped taking the one that counteracted them. There's probably rubberbanding or something going on. I'm going to take my thyroid med. I think that one is cheap anyway.

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Can't you just tell us what these problems are already?  It's hard to empathize when we don't know the scale of the obstacle(s) or the extent to which your reactions are justified.

I probably will at some point. It's kind of painful to open up about. A number of people on the board that are close to me know most of what's wrong, aside from the developments of January, most of which are just the culmination of previous stuff anyway.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 13, 2015, 09:31:15 PM
I also worry that commenting on some of your more extreme posts encourages you with you suicide idealization which isn't good and something none of us want. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 09:37:56 PM
Don't be concerned about encouraging me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on January 13, 2015, 10:10:55 PM
bish I married to get out the barracks threatening me now, lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 13, 2015, 10:29:27 PM
Does anyone know about thyroid issues? Could issues with thyroid levels be causing the weirdness/throw up-y feeling in my throat? It feels like somethings stuck in there. One of the meds I stopped taking affected my thyroid levels and I actually had to take a med to counteract that. Since I stopped taking the one that caused the thyroid issues I stopped taking the one that counteracted them. There's probably rubberbanding or something going on. I'm going to take my thyroid med. I think that one is cheap anyway.

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Can't you just tell us what these problems are already?  It's hard to empathize when we don't know the scale of the obstacle(s) or the extent to which your reactions are justified.

I probably will at some point. It's kind of painful to open up about. A number of people on the board that are close to me know most of what's wrong, aside from the developments of January, most of which are just the culmination of previous stuff anyway.

According to thirty seconds of Google, thyroid problems are at the root of a number mental of problems. Also related, hypoparathyroidism does cause mental instability.

You’re sick. Get medical help, starting with a free clinic if possible, a regular hospital if not, and then worry about how to pay for it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 13, 2015, 10:30:22 PM
Fuck, what if it's a goiter? My face feels really warm and it feels like there, I dunno, a big almond or something stuck in my throat. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

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According to thirty seconds of Google, thyroid problems are at the root of a number mental of problems. Also related, hypoparathyroidism does cause mental instability.

You’re sick. Get medical help, starting with a free clinic if possible, a regular hospital if not, and then worry about how to pay for it.

I'll be fine once I'm through this withdrawal period. If I was taking prescription drugs that fucked with my thyroid levels, I guess it's too be expected that there'd be some thyroid rubberbanding. I'm just extra bitchy about not feeling physically well because I just came off that week of have the flu (or whatever).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 13, 2015, 10:53:22 PM
I wish you'd try to get help TVC. On one hand it almost seems like you partially think your posts are entertaining in a "gawkers watching a car accident" way but it's not. It's sad and I wish you wouldn't do it like this. You've been talking to some of us, like me, for a decade. You know other people here IRL. None of us are thinking "oh fuck that guy" right now, we're all concerned. If it's true you have limited income, might lose your place, need to buy medication, etc etc...why are you wasting your money on booze, and documenting it here? I get the impression a lot of people would be willing to help you if you asked. Some of those people have tried to contact you on Facebook, more than likely, but you said you're avoiding Facebook so as not to deal with it. Come on man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 14, 2015, 12:23:11 AM
I just want to say on the subject of Keith. That I too am very concerned and would be more than happy to help out in any way I could. The better part of me doesn't want you to have to go through all this alone and suffer. It's hard to see you go through these issues publicly and another to know you don't want to bother others with the burden of helping you out. If you would just ask for help we'd kindly give it if we knew your intentions were just and true to get help and stay healthy. But till you realize that you need to change things and accept the help and want to work on it, or things will continue to be a rollercoaster for you.

Don't give up man, I care very much about you.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 14, 2015, 01:25:17 AM
bish I married to get out the barracks threatening me now, lol

You married some random woman recently just to get out of the barracks?

Keep making those awesome life decisions, breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 14, 2015, 08:17:55 AM
I actually fell asleep in Denny's last night while drinking coffee repeatedly. The waitress woke me up at 4 and I went home. I think I was only asleep for like 10-15 minutes but it was still embarrassing. I didn't get to do my long drive :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 14, 2015, 08:51:49 AM
"Passing Out at Denny's at 4AM on my 34th Birthday" is probably the name of an old Tom Waits song. Maybe a b-side to "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 14, 2015, 09:23:33 AM
With windchill it was -9 on the way to work today. And of course I got stuck outside with no coat on for 15 minutes because I arrive early and left my goddamn key fob on my desk when I ran out to the car for a second. Fuck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 14, 2015, 09:58:37 AM
Google said -10. My car said -5.  :yuck

I can't remember it ever getting this cold growing up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 14, 2015, 10:13:20 AM
let's all move to the equator :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 14, 2015, 10:14:49 AM
let's all move to the equator :(

I'm not dealing with that many latinos on a daily basis dude. I'd rather freeze,

Latinas though:

:hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 14, 2015, 10:16:57 AM
Goddamn it's cold! It's like 45 degrees out there. Brrrr!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 14, 2015, 10:19:48 AM
this weather is literally hell wtf are you talking about

I'm sick of hibernating
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on January 14, 2015, 10:21:29 AM
it's a little cold out :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 14, 2015, 10:22:26 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1_JaqegnVQ

Joni :( It's like she talks directly to me. I wish she had a penis, even if she is like 70.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 14, 2015, 11:00:24 AM
Fuck it and fuck Am_I_Anonymous. I'm going to get breakfast food. From Dennys, Burger King, AND McDOnalds. Consider this prose purple, you miserable asshole.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 14, 2015, 11:34:40 AM
Fuck it and fuck Am_I_Anonymous. I'm going to get breakfast food. From Dennys, Burger King, AND McDOnalds. Consider this prose purple, you miserable asshole.

The fuck did I do man? Enjoy your breakfast.

Purple prose? Are you an exterminating angel of depravity?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on January 14, 2015, 01:21:22 PM
My last Grandpa died on Sunday. :'(

Oh and TVC if you ever need to talk my wife and I are always available.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 14, 2015, 01:25:57 PM
Fuck it and fuck Am_I_Anonymous. I'm going to get breakfast food. From Dennys, Burger King, AND McDOnalds. Consider this prose purple, you miserable asshole.

:what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 14, 2015, 07:03:01 PM
My last Grandpa died on Sunday. :'(

Oh and TVC if you ever need to talk my wife and I are always available.
Man, everyone's grandparents have been dying lately. I'm sorry man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 14, 2015, 07:32:08 PM
My last Grandpa died on Sunday. :'(

Oh and TVC if you ever need to talk my wife and I are always available.

Sorry breh. I've been grandfatherless for a couple years now.  :'(

Still have both grandmas though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 14, 2015, 07:39:34 PM
TVC, I made the suggestion a few months ago to contact your brother - even if estranged - due to your complicated situation. I think if you had done it at the time, you would be currently more hopeful and positive. Still, I'm really proud you took it up and contacted him, even if you didn't follow through and let the two of you make amends. I think it's a step, and a very important one.

A few things.

1. Go to a mental hospital. Tell your unemployment and the fact that you no longer have the means to afford medicine. Without anti-psych medicine you cannot find a job. Surely there are means to help you. But what's more important is getting you on medicines.

Before leaving for the hospital:

2. Contact a social worker and talk about options.

3. Look into Washingotn state's disability program. In Texas, we have DARS, department of assisstive rehabilitative Services. Surely WA has something similar and covers people with psychosis.

4. Save as much money as possible. Sell a shit load of crap you won't need. Just in case you need to stay in hostels after leaving the mental hospital.

Hospital first. Seek assistance from government. Seek social worker for options. That's what they are for. Once you've got your medicines again, get back on track to your job search. You can do it. You worked at bloody MS. Consider leaving the state even.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 14, 2015, 07:43:38 PM
My last Grandpa died on Sunday. :'(

Oh and TVC if you ever need to talk my wife and I are always available.

sorry to hear that breh

All my grandparents are gone. It has really ruined my view of most holidays. They just feel empty without my grandad sitting in the front room telling me that while going to college/having a job is nice, what I really need to do is learn how to be a farmer. Or my grandma's computer questions, or my other grandma trolling my mom nonstop.
(http://i.imgur.com/QfEBYuB.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 14, 2015, 08:11:07 PM
Washington state disability programs

https://www.dshs.wa.gov/esa/disability-determination-services/disability-determination-services
https://www.dshs.wa.gov/jjra/division-vocational-rehabilitation

If it's anything like DARS, they WILL help you look for a job and offer job search specialists.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on January 14, 2015, 08:14:26 PM
My last Grandpa died on Sunday. :'(

Oh and TVC if you ever need to talk my wife and I are always available.
Man, everyone's grandparents have been dying lately. I'm sorry man.
That's 2 in one month.  Fuck. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 14, 2015, 08:15:50 PM
It's fucking terrible is what it is. Condolences towards your family like I said on Facebook.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on January 14, 2015, 09:33:34 PM
I'm sorry Steve :(

And I care about you, TVC. I dont know if you remember, but after my divorce in 2005 you were there for me. I used to work night shifts and I was a scared 19 year old dealing with life and you used to give me some good advice and keep me company. You probably dont remember, but I do. I'll do whatever I can to help you. Call me or PM me, man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 14, 2015, 09:48:08 PM
Google said -10. My car said -5.  :yuck

I can't remember it ever getting this cold growing up.

Jet stream blasts BA plane across Atlantic in record time
 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11337617/Jet-stream-blasts-BA-plane-across-Atlantic-in-record-time.html); good thing there’s no climate change, or I’d be worried.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 15, 2015, 03:12:19 AM
I came here to post some bs about work , but now all I can say is: condolences Steve.

TVC; I don't know you or haven't kept up with what you write here, but hang in there. I'm sure there is tons of people here that would help you out in some way.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on January 15, 2015, 02:25:54 PM
I've been talking to this chick recently and I'm not going to be able to talk to her for a month due to the fact that she's in training (she's in the Marine Corps) and her best friend invited me out to lunch today and I was reminded that I just can't text the girl right now  :goty2 :goty2

My last Grandpa died on Sunday. :'(

 :what
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on January 15, 2015, 02:28:33 PM
I have to go to a funeral this weekend for my wife's Grandma who just passed, and then head home to see my family.  Fuck this brehs. :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 15, 2015, 02:36:33 PM
That's rough, Steve. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 15, 2015, 02:41:10 PM
I have to go to a funeral this weekend for my wife's Grandma who just passed, and then head home to see my family.  Fuck this brehs. :'(

I feel you completely. My grandma (dad's mom) died two weeks before christmas in 2006. So we ended up going to california. grandpa (mom's dad) died the very day of my grandma's funeral. Like, that morning right before we left, and we got the call. Going to different funerals for two different loved ones in the span of a week is tough, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. I've gone exactly what you're going through. Be sure to pm if you want to talk.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 15, 2015, 03:32:42 PM
I'm sorry, Steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 15, 2015, 03:34:19 PM
I'm really sorry steve. Any loss is hard to take, I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 15, 2015, 03:35:25 PM
Sucks Steve. Sorry man.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on January 15, 2015, 04:56:16 PM
Condolences, Steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 15, 2015, 05:10:49 PM
Sorry Steve  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 15, 2015, 10:52:18 PM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 16, 2015, 02:41:47 AM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwYcsMiB2UM
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 16, 2015, 04:08:12 PM
Went in for my after surgery check up and got bad news. I have a possible infection (got meds and new steri-strips) and they forgot to remove the stone in my pancreas. So now I have to wait for scar damage to form around it and possibly have another surgery in a few months.

What sucks is I feel fine otherwise.   :-\

I'm gonna try and ignore this little set back. But I have concerns since this increases my future risk for issues down the road.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 16, 2015, 05:06:27 PM
That sucks.  How do they forget a stone?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2015, 07:13:47 PM
vodka is shit tier but on the other hand you get friends so it balances out bb
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 16, 2015, 07:15:45 PM
Wait...there are bars dedicated to...vodka? What?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2015, 07:17:38 PM
Vodka lovers are picky!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 16, 2015, 07:21:35 PM
wait....there are lovers of....vodka? what?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2015, 07:22:52 PM
Yeah! A lot of people (women, gays, fitness freaks) drink it because it's has no carbs!

To be fair, vodka is a solid spirit and good for cocktail mixing, so you can do a lot with vodka! That is assuming this bar makes cocktails.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: cosmicblizzard on January 16, 2015, 07:29:17 PM
I make vodka sauce and it is damn good. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 16, 2015, 08:47:58 PM
Vodka is the perfect drink for 16-19 year olds: it's pretty much babby's first hard liquor.  Half of the fun to me was finding which other drinks you can mix with it.  Everyone starts off with grapefruit juice of course but eventually you may opt to go for other types of juice.  You can also slam down some shots and a vodka drunk is a good, reliable drunk.  It's not like Tequila where crazy shit can happen or Jagermeister, which tastes like a fermented asshole.  It's pretty predictable and it's good for some douchebag teenager (like myself) to get shithammered for the first time: enough to throw up but not enough to do some crazy shit.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 16, 2015, 09:00:51 PM
:what at you guys shitting on vodka as a wuss drink when it's the beverage of choice for Russians, aka the most hardcore dgaf people on the planet
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2015, 09:19:08 PM
so?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 16, 2015, 09:35:00 PM
I love vodka
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 16, 2015, 09:48:49 PM
That sucks.  How do they forget a stone?

In their words it was deemed too large to remove safely. They diverted the common bile duct where the stone was located, which they said will allow it to form the scar tissue. What sucks is they didn't let me know about this till today, they let me leave the hospital thinking everything was fine and taken care of.

The good thing is I don't have the pain anymore and can eat once again. The bad will come someday later, but for now it's better than it was before.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 16, 2015, 09:52:30 PM
Will they perform surgery to remove it?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on January 16, 2015, 09:56:11 PM
Ran into an amazing chick, who was with some of my college friends, while I was walking around the downtown part of my city. We hit it right off and had a lot in common with each other  :)

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Then I woke up from my nap. 

(http://i.imgur.com/QMqH5Pg.png)
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 16, 2015, 10:30:58 PM
Ran into an amazing chick, who was with some of my college friends, while I was walking around the downtown part of my city. We hit it right off and had a lot in common with each other  :)

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Then I woke up from my nap. 

(http://i.imgur.com/QMqH5Pg.png)
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(http://i.imgur.com/Af30xmD.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 17, 2015, 03:00:10 AM
btw, don't take my silence as of late as a sign that my plans have changed at all. I've just gone silent for a while because I feel bad for Steve Contra's loss, so I feel bad about posting about my fun death hijinks at the moment. When I do come back, I have, as of right now, two more fun chapters. The on for today might be the best and bleakest yet.

Hope things improve, G. Hope you can still have fun at PAX.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 17, 2015, 02:43:08 PM
Will they perform surgery to remove it?

If they can, they will. The operation will remove a portion of my pancreas. I'm hoping my body learns to work around it, thus not requiring surgery. But the major risk of leaving it in is cancer, so I'm scared by that thought more than anything else.

Hope things improve, G. Hope you can still have fun at PAX.

If my fever improves I'll go, but it's sitting pretty high right now (101.6)

They gave me meds, but so far its only been one day and only gone down a bit.

It's really a downer, but I'm gonna be fine and take that trip next week and have a freaking blast!  :D POSITIVITY TRAIN!!!

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You make sure you stay around for the pictures. It'd be nice to meet you too someday, so stay around a little longer ok?
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 17, 2015, 03:47:23 PM
Ran into an amazing chick, who was with some of my college friends, while I was walking around the downtown part of my city. We hit it right off and had a lot in common with each other  :)

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Then I woke up from my nap. 

(http://i.imgur.com/QMqH5Pg.png)
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(http://i.imgur.com/Af30xmD.gif)

is this moe?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on January 17, 2015, 06:05:24 PM
Starting a crazy new set of work

This week: San Jose
Next week: Dallas
After that: L.A.
After that : Dallas
After that: Home
After that: Dallas

This means that it'll be a month before I'm home for more than 3 or 4 days

 :fbm

Hey, well I have a three day weekend if you're bored in SJ.  I think G/bzchan/Garrett also lives around this area.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 17, 2015, 06:21:21 PM
today was nice, upper 50 degrees and sunny.  decided to go play basketball outside for the first time in three months.  Felt limber, energized, and couldn't wait to get out there.

(http://s1.totalprosports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/deandre-jordan-brick-terrible-basketball-shots.gif)

(http://s1.totalprosports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/arize-onuaku-free-throw-fail-terrible-basketball-shots.gif)

(http://gif.mocksession.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BRICK.gif)

(http://www.viralhoops.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Devin-Harris-Airball.gif)

 :shaq2 :shaq2 :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on January 17, 2015, 08:30:09 PM
Planned on reading today

played video games instead  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on January 17, 2015, 09:11:16 PM
Drinking at 5:30 :snoop
:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 19, 2015, 07:50:59 PM
Man, it's just sad to eat at a restaurant by yourself. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 19, 2015, 07:53:28 PM
Starting a crazy new set of work

This week: San Jose
Next week: Dallas
After that: L.A.
After that : Dallas
After that: Home
After that: Dallas

This means that it'll be a month before I'm home for more than 3 or 4 days

 :fbm

Hey, well I have a three day weekend if you're bored in SJ.  I think G/bzchan/Garrett also lives around this area.
Too late man. Sj was last week. Dallas this week. But I think I'm going back After this battery of travel
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 19, 2015, 08:01:14 PM
Man, it's just sad to eat at a restaurant by yourself. :goty

If I'm on the road I usually just grab a few beers and take food to go.

:yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 19, 2015, 08:04:38 PM
Man, it's just sad to eat at a restaurant by yourself. :goty

do you bring your laptop? That way you can at least pretend you're getting work done.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 19, 2015, 08:53:45 PM
So I'm driving back to the hotel from the restaurant (btw, the reason I don't do take out is because I hate my room smelling like food all night).  And I'm flipping through the stations and I hear the Red Hot Chili Peppers and think "Yeah, I like the chili peppers." Then after the song was over a voice came on saying "You're listening to John Tesh Radio!"  :brazilcry I'm old!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 19, 2015, 10:12:15 PM
So I'm driving back to the hotel from the restaurant (btw, the reason I don't do take out is because I hate my room smelling like food all night).  And I'm flipping through the stations and I hear the Red Hot Chili Peppers and think "Yeah, I like the chili peppers." Then after the song was over a voice came on saying "You're listening to John Tesh Radio!"  :brazilcry I'm old!

:dap

I know that feeling: Year-before-last, the RHCP had a tie-in promoting their album/tour by using their song in a Japanese advertisement.

The ad was for a mini-van.

 :picard
 Double damage
My family’s only car is a mini-van.
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And my emoticon is from a TV show which has been off the air for well over two decades.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on January 20, 2015, 12:49:57 AM
trying to take this take home quiz and i'm just an idiot (i've never been good at math, no matter how hard i try) and i think the professor made a fuck up on one of the problems as well (or she worded it weirdly or something, it's confusing me none the less)

i'm just an idiot
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 20, 2015, 01:09:37 AM
Hmm, this thread is getting a little too frivolous. It may be time to start keepin' it real again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on January 20, 2015, 01:27:13 AM
I started drinking malta. :tocry

At least Moxie (another bad soda I like drinking) has certain nostalgic airs to it. Malta is just :holeup.

This is what happens when you start drinking every permutation of Jarritos available in the U.S. market, y'all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 20, 2015, 09:17:52 AM
I know that feeling: Year-before-last, the RHCP had a tie-in promoting their album/tour by using their song in a Japanese advertisement.

The ad was for a mini-van.

 :picard
 Double damage
My family’s only car is a mini-van.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
And my emoticon is from a TV show which has been off the air for well over two decades.
[close]
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At one point, I had 2 mini-vans. :tocry Now we have none. :rejoice

There is a light at the of the tunnel.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 20, 2015, 10:00:15 AM
So I ended up getting back with an ex, it was going well for a while. Then I said something incredibly stupid, then tried to save it and ended up saying something even worse. I might have ruined this before it even restarted :snoop

Ha ha, being married is like this but their is no out clause. No worries breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 20, 2015, 11:55:01 AM
Getting back with exes is a fun experience. Because you both have grown a little so they seem different, yet completely familiar. The sex is great, the conversation is easy.

 But then a few weeks into it, there will be that ONE THING they do that you fucking hated but forgot about.  Then it's all you can focus on and then you start noticing numerous other things you hated about them and then it's all downhill from there.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 20, 2015, 11:55:53 AM
Getting back with exes is a fun experience. Because you both have grown a little, so you seem different, yet familiar. The sex is great, the conversation is easy.

 But then a few weeks into it, there will be that ONE THING they do that you fucking hated but forgot about.  Then it's all you can focus on and then you start noticing numerous other things you hated about them and then it's all downhill from there.

This is gospel.

It'll be all good until you realize she chews loudly then boom...floodgates opened.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 20, 2015, 12:13:28 PM
Getting back with exes is a fun experience. Because you both have grown a little so they seem different, yet completely familiar. The sex is great, the conversation is easy.

 But then a few weeks into it, there will be that ONE THING they do that you fucking hated but forgot about.  Then it's all you can focus on and then you start noticing numerous other things you hated about them and then it's all downhill from there.

Oh I'm aware, trust me. She seems to have gotten over the one thing that really bothered, so we'll see how it goes.

Your resistance to eating pork products?  :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on January 20, 2015, 01:06:05 PM
Planned on reading today

played video games instead  :fbm

Planned on playing some video games today

wasted away time on forums instead :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 20, 2015, 07:26:11 PM
I know I’ve said it before, but getting back together with Exes is like trying on a pair of shoes again, when they didn’t fit the first time.

Enjoy the sex!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on January 21, 2015, 12:36:01 AM
had the flu all weekend and it keeps on going this week :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 21, 2015, 12:40:45 AM
I just watched an episode of Gotham.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 21, 2015, 12:54:23 AM
I just watched an episode of Gotham.

You truly are a masochist.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 21, 2015, 07:36:41 AM
Update from the now-inappropriate "triumph" thread post: Tax accountant called me back, remembered some other items I'd listed, and now that I'm profitable, I owe like two grand. Hrmph.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 21, 2015, 08:44:05 PM
Planned to go out last week, as there’s a weekly Thursday game dev get-together in downtown Osaka. But it rained.

There’s been a week of good weather, and I was planning on going out tonight (Thursday here), but it’s raining again.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 22, 2015, 12:46:09 AM
Had a dream. Can't remember the exact contents, but the thought upon my waking up was to call my mom, explain everything, and let her help me out.

As I looked at my phone I remembered my mom's been dead for 3 years. Fuck that memory weirdness when you wake up.   :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 22, 2015, 01:13:01 AM
also earlier today I ate 2 egg mcmuffins that had been sitting on my counter for about a day and a half, and I think my body is rebelling :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 22, 2015, 11:55:38 AM
The shelf life of McDonald's food outside of the restaurant is less than 4 hours.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 22, 2015, 12:04:58 PM
I want to go to McDonalds for lunch...but I don't. I just want some fries tbh. None of their burgers appeal to me, although I do like the jr burgers. I always feel like I fucked up when I eat there...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 22, 2015, 12:24:08 PM
Yesterday, my daughter was hungry after her physical therapy and wanted some MCD fries. I pull up to the drive thru and ordered a large fry and a bottle of water. The lady said $5 and I said fuck that and took her to Subway. Got her a sub and a drink. Then the lady asked her if she wanted cookies and I was Thurgood at the hot dog stand:
(http://i.imgur.com/Tb5MtiI.png)


Ended up costing $10 instead of $5, :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 22, 2015, 12:39:31 PM
Ended up going to a Mediterranean fast food place lol. Got a gyro and some fries.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on January 22, 2015, 05:29:03 PM
Damn Esch  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on January 22, 2015, 05:41:24 PM
Damn dude. Sucks that you have to make this choice. :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 22, 2015, 06:46:19 PM
Hang in there, Esch. Do what you have to do to feel the way you want. Treatments will continue to improve, and it’s good that you’re open to trying different treatments.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on January 22, 2015, 06:47:51 PM
I want to go to McDonalds for lunch...but I don't. I just want some fries tbh. None of their burgers appeal to me, although I do like the jr burgers. I always feel like I fucked up when I eat there...

honestly the only thing really edible at mcds is the fries. and the apple pies. everything else is scust.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 06:51:16 PM
Got back on my ADHD meds again. I feel so conflicted about it. Every couple of years I think, damn, I don't need this anymore. Have i outgrown it? So I go off them. Then I start underperforming, things don't go my way and I slowly have to get back on them.Think I've finally come to terms with the fact that barring any new radical treatments, I'll need to be on stimulants the rest of my life if I want to perform to the standards I want.

On the other hand, I fiddled with the dose this time and went with something lower, administering myself 20 mg of vyvanse as opposed to the normal 40 and I feel, pretty good. Not really grumpy or angry the way i usually get when I have to take them. My appetite will be fucked of course, but whatever. I just hate how they make me feel, so serious and humorless. I love to make jokes and smile and be happy, and I just can't on this shit. But its this or fail at everything in life.

:(

I'm similar. My results aren't nearly as good as they used to be but I don't like being some person with a stick up their butt due to adhd meds either. Still, I think I'm going to get on them again for the same reason you are.


I guess I could give Concerta a try. I remember not liking it in junior high but who knows, things are differnt now. I tried to use Strattera (non stimulant alternative) and the shit gave me heart palpitations. Making me like 1% of people who use the drug.

(http://i.imgur.com/WzD6Psq.png)

I tried straterra. I didn't want to take a narcotic last time because they make me feel awful. But I just let my staterra sit because I wasn't getting results.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 06:55:49 PM
I realized I needed to be back on them the last couple months. Being off them is like living your life in a complete haze or a dream. You can't really focus on anything. You hear people say things but they don't really register with you that well. Almost like you never heard them at all. If you're doing tasks, you just feel yourself drifting away slowly. It's like having your eyes, ears, and head wrapped in cotton.  On the other hand you feel happy and content. No stress. But it's impossible to really focus on any level for any period of time. I'm not getting the workouts I used to, making small errors at work (not getting caught tho :hitler ) and if i want to move into this next stage of life I can't really fuck around on any level.

:yeshrug



Best description of what adhd is like I've ever seen. Damn, I don't really wanna be on meds again but I have to be on meds again. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 07:08:19 PM
Ah yeah, taking the weekends off with adhd meds was the best.

There's gotta be alternatives to crappy adhd meds. There's gotta be. :tocry

Worst thing about adhd meds is the loss of pride it inflicts on me. I have to take a medicine to be 100%. That pisses me off. I ashamed of having a disability.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 22, 2015, 07:16:33 PM
Got back on my ADHD meds again. I feel so conflicted about it. Every couple of years I think, damn, I don't need this anymore. Have i outgrown it? So I go off them. Then I start underperforming, things don't go my way and I slowly have to get back on them.Think I've finally come to terms with the fact that barring any new radical treatments, I'll need to be on stimulants the rest of my life if I want to perform to the standards I want.

On the other hand, I fiddled with the dose this time and went with something lower, administering myself 20 mg of vyvanse as opposed to the normal 40 and I feel, pretty good. Not really grumpy or angry the way i usually get when I have to take them. My appetite will be fucked of course, but whatever. I just hate how they make me feel, so serious and humorless. I love to make jokes and smile and be happy, and I just can't on this shit. But its this or fail at everything in life.

:(

(http://i.imgur.com/QfEBYuB.png)

My nicca you gonna make it. Makes me wanna pack my bags and fly down there to bring a smile to my homie's face.

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then promptly insist Shaka introduce me to his pawg associates :lawd
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 07:21:13 PM
How did you handle college, Esch? I didn't take meds in college. I'm pretty sure if I did I'd be cum laude or some shit. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 22, 2015, 07:21:54 PM
lmao I just got my add prescription refilled after being off it for like a year. medicated touch ahoy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 07:25:42 PM
Name good non-narcotic adhd meds, please.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 07:34:59 PM
I was on that adderall that kept me going from 7 am to 4-5 pm. :brazilcry It's a big reason I loved band practice so much. It was around that time when the medicine would come down and I could be myself.

Vyvanse? 

Goddamn, you were chewed out pubicly? Sheit. :( At the very least, you know what it feels like to feel down about your grades, but then get back on the meds again and then make an A and make niccas jealous. :mynicca You know the struggle, dude. I'm here. :brazilcry

My GPA is B as well. I decided that if I ever go to school again, I'm doing so on meds.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on January 22, 2015, 07:56:19 PM
And here I am worrying about some damn Tylenol.

Brehs/brehettes  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on January 22, 2015, 08:11:11 PM
I was on that adderall that kept me going from 7 am to 4-5 pm. :brazilcry It's a big reason I loved band practice so much. It was around that time when the medicine would come down and I could be myself.


oh man all the fuckery from after school programs makes a lot more sense after reading this.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 08:34:40 PM
Did you lose your appetite during lunch on meds? I didn't eat lunch for a few years because of it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 22, 2015, 09:38:46 PM
Pretty good. I haven't been on the pill for ten years. :larry I wonder what adult me is even like on the pill. I'm getting scared just thinking of it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 23, 2015, 08:06:15 AM
I was on that adderall that kept me going from 7 am to 4-5 pm. :brazilcry It's a big reason I loved band practice so much. It was around that time when the medicine would come down and I could be myself.

Vyvanse? 

Vyvanse is a mix of adderall salts and acouple other ones. I find it to be the best stimulant option out of all of them; tends to be slow and effective and I suffer the least side effects.

I hated going to football practice when I was coming down off that shit. Made me so irritable, gave me headaches, i'd occasionally mess up plays.

Overall w/e.

Wow. When I was playing we use to take adderall before games (it wasn't illegal then) and it always seemed to help me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 23, 2015, 08:55:33 AM
Yeah it works just fine during the actual duration of the drug, but when you're on the come down and it's not working anymore I get sluggish and burnt out for an hour or two.

Sorry to hear about this struggle Esch. The choice between being aware but quasi-unfocused and a zombie is a tough one to make.

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 23, 2015, 03:21:37 PM
Do you have feelings while you're on add meds? Cause if not I might fake a diagnosis just to get rid of my feels. Plus, I like being hopped up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 23, 2015, 03:23:14 PM
Do you have feelings while you're on add meds? Cause if not I might fake a diagnosis just to get rid of my feels. Plus, I like being hopped up.

Yes. You're even more focused on them. Probably best to just stick with heroin at this point bud.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2015, 03:24:05 PM
You have feelings for sure.

As far as I know, if you don't have adhd, the meds will just get you high. But if you have adhd they'll do their job. At least, that's what I've heard. Could be wrong.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 23, 2015, 03:25:39 PM
Jesus fuck, I just want a pill that will make me into an unfeeling robot so I can live until I have to die. Is that so fucking much to ask?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 23, 2015, 03:26:09 PM
You have feelings for sure.

As far as I know, if you don't have adhd, the meds will just get you high. But if you have adhd they'll do their job. At least, that's what I've heard. Could be wrong.

Well we use to take 20mg's before a game. You get a bit of a boost for the first hour or so then it's pretty much just a level of focus above what is normal. You go from read and react to starting to spot tendencies. I imagine this works in every field.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 23, 2015, 03:28:13 PM
You have feelings for sure.

As far as I know, if you don't have adhd, the meds will just get you high. But if you have adhd they'll do their job. At least, that's what I've heard. Could be wrong.

Well we use to take 20mg's before a game. You get a bit of a boost for the first hour or so then it's pretty much just a level of focus above what is normal. You go from read and react to starting to spot tendencies. I imagine this works in every field.

It works that way for poker for sure. I would pop a pill before sitting down to poker night and would be a fucking monster, my concentration levels were always crazy high when I did that. If I didn't, I'd get bored after 3-4 hours and would start to do stupid shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2015, 03:28:19 PM
Jesus fuck, I just want a pill that will make me into an unfeeling robot so I can live until I have to die. Is that so fucking much to ask?

...ahhhh you wanna talk?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2015, 03:29:57 PM
I gave Mups my ADHD pills in High School.

I thought the same thing: people who don't have ADHD loved adderall, whereas people who do like us fucking hate it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 23, 2015, 03:29:58 PM
Jesus fuck, I just want a pill that will make me into an unfeeling robot so I can live until I have to die. Is that so fucking much to ask?

...ahhhh you wanna talk?

Nope. No amount of talk will help things. I need to do certain things or just shut up. Thanks, though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 23, 2015, 03:33:26 PM
You have feelings for sure.

As far as I know, if you don't have adhd, the meds will just get you high. But if you have adhd they'll do their job. At least, that's what I've heard. Could be wrong.

Yea. People who take the shit that don't have ADHD tend to love being on it. If you're at college and some people find out you're on it they'll harangue you like stupid fiends for it.

Yeah, or trainer was pretty stingy with them bitches come to think of it. Then again I imagine half the team was asking for them every monday morning.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2015, 03:45:11 PM
Do you have feelings while you're on add meds? Cause if not I might fake a diagnosis just to get rid of my feels. Plus, I like being hopped up.

Of course.

Just makes you exhibit less of them.


Side note: I cut my dose down again today from 20mg to about 10 and it's interesting. Is this what normal feels like? Too early to tell. It doesn't help that i'm essentially eyeballing it by volume. I should get a scale.

How do you feel?  Need all info i can get for when I get back on the train.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 23, 2015, 03:50:56 PM
How do you feel?  Need all info i can get for when I get back on the train.

Pretty good. The good thing about vyvanse is that you can crack open the pill and ration out the insides. I have a prescript for 40mg, so i open up the pill, pour some into water, stir drink it and seal it back up again for tomorrow.

I'm definitely in a good place today. No overbearing dry mouth, appetite seems decent, and I'm able to focus on things/don't feel cloudy.

They haven't time released all the options yet? That seems to be the trend. My daughter takes that stuff and hers is definitely time release.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 23, 2015, 04:05:14 PM
I need to try this. I'll ask my doc about it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 23, 2015, 11:03:42 PM
I want to go out tonight but I can't.  :(

Why not? Pregaming before going out. Might chill with this one girl but it's never easy with this one.... >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on January 24, 2015, 02:25:03 AM
Signed up to be a tutor for the first year students in their Finance and Operations classes :snoop
wait, isn't finance the class where you fucked up the group project so bad that the professor threw shade at you in class?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 24, 2015, 02:09:49 PM
I got stood up last night

I was talking with this girl and we were planning our second date for last night at 8:30 at a higher-end burger joint.  I texted her saying "great!  Let's meet up there at 8:30, sound good?"  And she responded with "see you there! :)"

So I get there early at like 8:20 and grab an open table.  I texted her at 8:25 "here!  Got a table near the front."

I didn't get a response from her for 40 minutes.

I texted her several times and tried calling her, with no response.  I asked if she was okay, where she was, etc.  Finally at 9:05 I texted her "Alright, nevermind, maybe tonight wasn't great for you or something."  I promptly walked out of the restaurant and went to a nice bar a mile or so away for a bourbon.  I FINALLY get a response back from her at 9:10. 

"Wait, you didn't leave did you?"

I responded:

"I did.  We agreed to meet at 8:30.  Didn't you get my texts and calls?  I was there for 40 minutes without hearing from you."

She responds:

"Unbelievable.  My GPS has taken me to the wrong place like four times and I don't get service"

I rolled my eyes to this because any moron can operate a GPS.  She continues:

"The right thing to do would have been to pick me up.  I would NEVER stand someone up.  I don't think this is going to work."

I respond:

"I mean, we agreed to meeting there at 8:30.  If it needed to be any different, I would've appreciated a call or some sort of indication.  I'm sorry for the misunderstanding."

She goes:

"You just TOLD me to meet you there.  We didn't agree on anything."

Haven't responded to her since.  That raises the question though...did I wait long enough?  Did I do the right thing?  It certainly FELT like being stood up, and I'm sorry but if you're having problems with your car or phone, that's not really my fault.  I don't know.

I think I dodged a bullet with this girl regardless, though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 24, 2015, 02:20:33 PM
She was going to be coming from work, at least that's what she told me the day before.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 24, 2015, 02:21:17 PM
don't feel guilty at all. you dodged a bullet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 24, 2015, 02:24:43 PM
Sounds like a dodged bullet, bro
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 24, 2015, 02:26:15 PM
And I think 40 minutes is pretty fucking fair, especially since I hadn't heard a single thing from her

The crazy shit is that she works only like two miles away.  It shouldn't take her 40 minutes to get there :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 24, 2015, 02:36:43 PM
exactly.she lied and tried to blame shit on you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 24, 2015, 02:53:31 PM
yeah.  chick was kinda cold.  This is one situation where I don't feel depressed about the whole ordeal.

still reeling from the girl in October/November
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on January 24, 2015, 03:05:25 PM
Worked on a Saturday for the first time in almost a decade. I volunteered to do it too, which makes me feel even worse about it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 25, 2015, 02:34:02 AM
yeah.  chick was kinda cold.  This is one situation where I don't feel depressed about the whole ordeal.

still reeling from the girl in October/November

You're in the clear. Anyone who is 40 minutes late for whatever reason, and doesn’t start with an apology is nothing but trouble.

Hope you get over Miss October soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 25, 2015, 02:46:36 AM
I can still taste egg everytime I burp from those 2 1.5-day old mcmuffins I ate like 3 days ago :( Either that or something is rotting in my body and it tastes like mcmuffin.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 25, 2015, 04:05:59 AM
I'm allowed to feel shitty about a shitty situation, Shinobi.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 25, 2015, 04:30:51 AM
I'm allowed to feel shitty about a shitty situation, Shinobi.

You seem to really get upset by what other people think. Why let it bother you?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 25, 2015, 04:35:48 AM
Struggle or triumph, I dunno, but: this Macallan 12 isn't helping me figure out database UI design, but it /is/ helping me feel happy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 25, 2015, 10:32:43 AM
Someone broke into our storage space below the complex and stole my Saturn and a drill machine.

Prob thought there was a laptop in the laptop box.

Would maim on sight.

Too bad I wasnt insured for break ins, but thats taken care of now.

Police didnt even bother coming by.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 25, 2015, 12:05:07 PM
I'm allowed to feel shitty about a shitty situation, Shinobi.

That's what great about America, we're free to engage in all sorts of unhealthy behavior!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on January 25, 2015, 01:41:23 PM
I thought you mean Saturn like the car for a minute and got really confused.

That sucks man.  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 25, 2015, 02:41:48 PM
I still have all the games, they werent shipped to Denmark yet.

Its a good neighbourhood and I didnt expect this, but I did put everything in open sight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 26, 2015, 07:44:42 PM
A few days ago I posted about not shoveling 1-2 inches of snow because fuck it. Well it's been sunny every day since and the snow has melted into hard ass ice
:fbm

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on January 27, 2015, 02:57:17 AM
Went to see the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra perform and:


(There was also some dude across the hall from me in a teal beanie. I know the Charlotte Hornets are back, but that doesn't mean that teal is back too.)

Then keeping to my meticulously crafted caricature I mixed high with the low and went to the smokeasy only to discover that the smokeasy isn't really a smokeasy on Saturday night but a bar where dipshit 20 somethings do dipshit 20 something bar stuff where you can smoke inside. I go to the smokeasy to smoke while drinking overpriced liquor with like-minded spirits, not listen to whelps howl when the DJ throws on "Party Up (Up In Here)".

¹The "secret encore" was the finale from The Nutcracker, which despite being seasonally inappropriate even by Orthodox standards, was a better showcase for my mother fucking god damn HARP than the last third of the concert.

²The irony of the fact that this statement in and of itself made the performance political was apparently lost on Tov. Vladimir Lande. "So heißt unparteiisch sein für die Kunst nur: zur herrschenden Partei gehören." :wag
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2015, 06:11:01 AM
Went to see the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra perform and:

  • had to endure plebs in patricians' clothing not knowing when to fucking applaud.
  • spent the whole time jonesing for the harpist I was fucking promised in the program and they only performed for the final third of the concert¹.
  • had to halfheartedly clap along when the conductor opened up with some spiel about how art--and especially music (their words not mine)--are above politics² because people are morons who can't separate a touring orchestra from Vladimir Putin or something. This received thunderous applause from the limousine liberal crowd, be tea dubs.

(There was also some dude across the hall from me in a teal beanie. I know the Charlotte Hornets are back, but that doesn't mean that teal is back too.)

Then keeping to my meticulously crafted caricature I mixed high with the low and went to the smokeasy only to discover that the smokeasy isn't really a smokeasy on Saturday night but a bar where dipshit 20 somethings do dipshit 20 something bar stuff where you can smoke inside. I go to the smokeasy to smoke while drinking overpriced liquor with like-minded spirits, not listen to whelps howl when the DJ throws on "Party Up (Up In Here)".

¹The "secret encore" was the finale from The Nutcracker, which despite being seasonally inappropriate even by Orthodox standards, was a better showcase for my mother fucking god damn HARP than the last third of the concert.

²The irony of the fact that this statement in and of itself made the performance political was apparently lost on Tov. Vladimir Lande. "So heißt unparteiisch sein für die Kunst nur: zur herrschenden Partei gehören." :wag
(http://content8.flixster.com/question/42/87/77/4287770_std.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 27, 2015, 06:59:15 AM
I, uh, seriously had a dream I went to a Phish and John Lennon show and LIKED it. God is waving the red cape at me, my friends.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 27, 2015, 09:01:04 AM
Alright, 6AM. Time to get up and prepare for a morning full of bullshit. I can use your strength, friends. Keep me in your thoughts. We'll have The Bachelor tonight, and things will be good.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 27, 2015, 11:52:59 AM
Caught a cold. I think I was sick less than a month ago, but I’ve been mostly healthy --more than ever-- for the last couple years. What the hell is up with this?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 27, 2015, 01:03:52 PM
Caught a cold. I think I was sick less than a month ago, but I’ve been mostly healthy --more than ever-- for the last couple years. What the hell is up with this?

Getting old
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 27, 2015, 04:56:01 PM
I can't find my beard comb today and so my beard feels all tanglely and shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: MrAngryFace on January 27, 2015, 05:05:37 PM
Document revisions provided without Track Changes :*(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on January 27, 2015, 05:09:55 PM
Decided not to take a sleeping pill last night since they always make it even harder than usual to get out of bed. Couldn't fall asleep till 8AM. :sabu Note to self: never try to sleep sober.  :duh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 27, 2015, 06:03:39 PM
Ate too much icecream.  Now my throat hurts and I'm unfocused and jittery. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 27, 2015, 06:05:59 PM
I think I legitimately went mad over the weekend, btw. I'm not sure how to quantify things in explaining them but I sort of almost believed that my various deep-ish esoteric studies over the past two years may have cast a dark influence over my fate, leading to the events that have me in the situation I am now. In particular, I believe Bune has somehow expressed influence over certain events that have befallen me, as I spent some time making sketches of his binding seal. I think maybe in drawing the seal incorrectly or something that I've instead become involuntarily bound to him. It explains a lot, at least from my point of view. I'm pretty sure it's not true though, but there's still this little tinge in the back of my head that will hopefully fade and leave me feeling very silly.

Bune: http://littledoomwitch.tumblr.com/post/66054908512/demon-a-day-bune-bune-duke-color-green
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 06:34:37 AM
Had a truly awful dream. I'm not going to be able to go back to sleep. I want to say I don't know where the things in my head came from, but I can't.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 28, 2015, 06:18:34 PM
Bought $10 of gas, it equaled 4.7 gallons, not 5
:tocry

Also bought what I thought were Sour Patch Kids. Opened them up when I got home...they're "Sour Patch Xploderz" and fucking horrible. Chewey balls with some type of goo inside them, and it's not even sour AT ALL.
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 28, 2015, 06:21:01 PM
I'm sorry your chewey balls weren't sour PD, though I know of some sour balls you may prefer. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 28, 2015, 09:18:58 PM
I'm talking about my testicles, PD.  My testicles.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on January 28, 2015, 10:02:37 PM
the little sour watermelons they sell are really good.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 28, 2015, 10:40:47 PM
Now think about what else he jokes about and what else can be balanced on shoes. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 10:43:52 PM
I just walked in on my brother fucking a fleshlight he's balancing on his shoe :fbm

This is fucking awesome. What was his reaction? How old is he compared to you?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on January 28, 2015, 10:49:15 PM
Did it go more like this

(http://i.imgur.com/XujHL.gif)

or like this

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3Us9Pp_na3Q/T750HAScVkI/AAAAAAAABO4/t8-egObGIQY/s1600/guy-opening-door.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 10:56:41 PM
Can you still see it when you close your eyes?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 28, 2015, 11:01:46 PM
Is he large?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 11:03:32 PM
How is your brother's penis?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 11:13:27 PM
Do you see yourself ever trying the fleshlight? Be honest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 11:29:29 PM
Nah, I'd buy my own if I was into that idea. Got my JO game on lock so no need.

How do you know your JO game couldn't be even better? Unless you are using some next level device.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 11:49:57 PM
Better be soon, my friend.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 28, 2015, 11:53:34 PM
Do you see yourself ever trying the fleshlight? Be honest.

I have a lot to say about this subject. I really enjoyed owning one and the many attachments that went with it. Too bad it was found...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 28, 2015, 11:56:16 PM
Do you see yourself ever trying the fleshlight? Be honest.

I have a lot to say about this subject. I really enjoyed owning one and the many attachments that went with it. Too bad it was found...

Let's hear some stories, bitch. Daddy needs to be amused, bad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 29, 2015, 02:03:21 AM
they have attachments? I thought you just chose between various orifices :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 29, 2015, 02:10:18 AM
Is there an attachment that makes you feel like you're stretching out and fucking another dude's urethra? Because I could be sold right here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 29, 2015, 03:04:38 AM
they have attachments? I thought you just chose between various orifices :ohhh

There's a foot fleshlight now called a vaganckle or something. Considering my brother's affinity for fleshlights in shoes, I think I know what to get him for his birthday.

Is you're brother maybe homo? I'm disappointed you aren't. Any way you can sneak into his hiding space and see if he has the anus attachment on?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 29, 2015, 04:11:21 AM
Beginning tomorrow evening, I'll again be detailing what I'm going through. Nothing has gotten better since the last time I was frank. I've been quiet lately out of respect for Steve Contra's loss and because I've had business to clean up that could net the attention of people on here that I know in real life. As of tomorrow, all the business is clean and Rygar's mourning period is over.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 29, 2015, 09:23:22 AM
I miss my parents so much, dude. If either of them were alive, this whole mess could've been easily diffused.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 29, 2015, 11:08:12 AM
they have attachments? I thought you just chose between various orifices :ohhh

There's a foot fleshlight now called a vaganckle or something. Considering my brother's affinity for fleshlights in shoes, I think I know what to get him for his birthday.

http://internet.gawker.com/why-are-young-men-masturbating-to-pudding-filled-sneake-1670486070
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 29, 2015, 11:12:24 AM
He should reduce his masturbating, it'll injure his sex life. Most guys use too much pressure while wanking, and then they bang an actual chick and can't finish because the grip isn't nearly as tight as your hand. I haven't used a fleshlight but I'd imagine most people use tight ones and exert a lot of pressure.

I had this problem and still do. I can barely finish using a condom. Whereas a HJ (with good technique) or bj will usually work.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 29, 2015, 11:16:37 AM
You may wish to try larger and or thinner condoms as well. I used to have problems finishing with condoms on until I realized it didn't fit me. Of course, being married condoms are spectre relegated to the past now
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 29, 2015, 11:31:48 AM
You may wish to try larger and or thinner condoms as well. I used to have problems finishing with condoms on until I realized it didn't fit me. Of course, being married condoms are spectre relegated to the past now

Do they sell XS sized for PD?

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on January 29, 2015, 11:37:59 AM
Today feels like Friday. But its not
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 29, 2015, 05:01:11 PM
My direct superior can't seem to understand that we're capable of accomplishing tasks in a timely manner and keeps scheduling us to come in early for overtime. We end up with nothing to do for the last half of the day.  :snoop

This pattern has been going on for years. This week he kept scheduling us early, saying we might even need to work Saturday despite our assertions that that was ridiculous. Anyway, I'm going home early today because we're done through month end now...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 29, 2015, 05:04:20 PM
My boss is driving me batshit with end of the year accounting stuff. Giving me corrupted files for qb, asking me randomly to get him spreadsheets I wasn't aware I should be keeping, not responding to my questions. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 29, 2015, 05:05:41 PM
I wish I had a boss :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 29, 2015, 05:08:35 PM
My boss is driving me batshit with end of the year accounting stuff. Giving me corrupted files for qb, asking me randomly to get him spreadsheets I wasn't aware I should be keeping, not responding to my questions. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK.

document everything. Your emails, his emails, everything.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 29, 2015, 05:12:00 PM
so my youngest brother is engaged. which is good, i've known the girl since she was a kid, her parents are nice, he's a nice dude. i am happy for them.

unfortunately, my relationship is so utterly dead and damaged with my parents i really cannot conceive of attending the wedding whenever it happens. and i don't mean in a pansy-ass 'they hurt my feels' way, but a long and complete failure on their part, well, my mother's part mostly. I feel awful about this, but i made this decision a long time ago to cut them out. :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 29, 2015, 05:14:28 PM
What do they have to do with going to your brother's wedding? Go for your brother. You don't need to even acknowledge your parents outside of a nod.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 29, 2015, 05:18:13 PM
well in theory that would be possible, but considering what happened at my own wedding with my parents, it would be excruciatingly awkward and unpleasant for my brother and everyone else. my mother is a drama addict and my dad is a rageaholic, no way could I go there and make an under the radar appearance. i have not talked to them in 7 years.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 29, 2015, 05:23:47 PM
Go, don't speak or talk with them, bounce after the ceremony but make sure your brother understands. I'd imagine he knows that your parents don't get along with you.

I just feel like your relationship with your brother is more important - as is your relationship with his soon to be wife and her family. It's long term whereas the relationship with your parents is over, so I think you should just focus on the brother and throw your parents in the bushes.


If you go, will your wife come?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 29, 2015, 05:24:02 PM
the only outcome i can forsee in doing so is my mom having a total emotional meltdown during the whole wedding or my stepdad doing something weird to my car* out of some weird desire to fuck with me.

I understand what you're saying, I should go for my brother's sake, but considering how my parents operate, I should also probably not go for my brother's sake.

*i'm not pulling this from the air, he's messed with my engine before for reasons I cannot fathom.

edit there is no way my wife or kids are going.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 29, 2015, 05:24:36 PM
My boss is driving me batshit with end of the year accounting stuff. Giving me corrupted files for qb, asking me randomly to get him spreadsheets I wasn't aware I should be keeping, not responding to my questions. FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK.

document everything. Your emails, his emails, everything.

Easily done, since we have no office and every communication I have with him is text, email, online chat, etc. It's all available.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 29, 2015, 05:30:35 PM
I know you mentioned it before, but what happened at your wedding?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 29, 2015, 06:38:38 PM
Go and call out your mom.  You just go up to her and say "Mother, I have a wardrobe full of pure white tuxedos which only differ from each other in their lapel design.  This is not normal, mother, and it's all you're fault!"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on January 29, 2015, 06:54:16 PM
no I haven't been invited yet, he just announced it yesterday on facebook. I assume I will be, but I am not sure, we don't talk too frequently as it is.

re: my own wedding, well, to tldr the event, apparently my dad refused to let my mom buy anything for the wedding (not a problem, whatever, I'm used to that), and my mom bought the cake without his permission. so they got in a fight on the way to the wedding (3-4 hour drive), got in a fight during the reception in the parking lot, and had to leave early so they could fight on the way back home. all while dragging my poor brothers along. and by fight i mean screaming and shoving that i could hear from the reception hall. this was kinda the capstone on several years of weird emotional (waking my brother and I up in the middle of the night to tell us how terrible we were, etc), sometimes physical abuse, on part of my stepdad, while my mom and her family stuck their heads in the sand. so at that point i was just kinda like... eeehhhh fuck this and haven't talked to them since.

i could go on for a bit on this but one of the issues is that myself and one brother are from one guy, and the now-engaged brother is my stepdad's biological son with my mom, and we were definitely treated much differently by my stepdad. I don't hold that against him at all, but it makes it difficult to for my brother, who until recently was living with them, to understand why we have zero relationship or contact with our parents. I figure at some point he'll grow tired of it himself, it will just take longer. i guess i'm just kinda bummed that the only fix i could find for this whole mess was to dump them in the bushes.


Go and call out your mom.  You just go up to her and say "Mother, I have a wardrobe full of pure white tuxedos which only differ from each other in their lapel design.  This is not normal, mother, and it's all you're fault!"
:dead

the fabric weaves are completely different :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 29, 2015, 09:07:42 PM
go to the wedding wearing headphones so you don't have to deal with your parents or anyone else
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 30, 2015, 06:10:43 AM
This is going to be a very difficult day :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on January 30, 2015, 07:00:08 AM
Well that sucks Mac....I thought cacs were the only ones with weird family drama like that.

You have to go to the wedding man. I missed my sister's wedding due to football and it stick socks me right in the feels.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on January 30, 2015, 07:47:18 AM
I just walked in on my brother fucking a fleshlight he's balancing on his shoe :fbm

This is fucking awesome. What was his reaction? How old is he compared to you?

He jumped up and pulled his pants up right away. Said "Hey, this is weird". I was like "Yeah, well going to my room and I'll be out in 5" to give him a chance to hide everything. Came out and was like "do that in your time in your room, k?" and he was like "K".

I'm 24, he's 21.
So, wait, am I reading this right, that your brother was wanking in your room, not his own? That would weird me out more than the Fleshlight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 30, 2015, 07:58:55 AM
I just walked in on my brother fucking a fleshlight he's balancing on his shoe :fbm

This is fucking awesome. What was his reaction? How old is he compared to you?

He jumped up and pulled his pants up right away. Said "Hey, this is weird". I was like "Yeah, well going to my room and I'll be out in 5" to give him a chance to hide everything. Came out and was like "do that in your time in your room, k?" and he was like "K".

I'm 24, he's 21.
So, wait, am I reading this right, that your brother was wanking in your room, not his own? That would weird me out more than the Fleshlight.

I was wondering about this, too, but I figured that he must have been fapping in some neutral territory since Ghidorah goes to his room to give him a chance to finish. In the fantasy version of this scenario that I masturbated to, he was doing it at the kitchen table, with the refrigerator open.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on January 30, 2015, 09:26:29 AM
Took my kids to their first orthodontist appointment. Both are going to need work done, so I started the process even though it's a wee bit early.

You never really know what your insurance plan is until you need it. So, the receptionist is laying out the payment plan to me and she says, "How do you want to use your 800 dollars towards this work?" I am overjoyed and say, "Wow, 800 dollars a year? That's very generous, lets use it all." She laughs and says, "No sir, that's 800 dollars lifetime."

Oh ...  :goty2

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 30, 2015, 09:39:18 AM
I went through that same shit with my oldest. I think we got a grand toward a $5800 bill. I have to say it was worth it though. It was a real confidence boost for her when it was done.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 30, 2015, 10:02:16 AM
:stahp my stepson just got referred to the orthodontist, y'all scarin me
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on January 30, 2015, 10:08:15 AM
Dental insurance is a scam. Add your premiums up and subtract what they have covered and you'll probably see that they only paid out 50-60% of what you paid them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 30, 2015, 10:10:42 AM
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 30, 2015, 07:16:40 PM
Depends on your plan and what your employer negotiated with the insurance company. There are plenty of good dental plans, people just tend to gravitate towards the cheapest options. Next time inquire with HR with respect to the different tiers.

also ask if the office accepts Care Credit.
http://carecredit.com/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 30, 2015, 10:45:42 PM
Tomorrow is going to be a difficult day.

So who wants my Steam account?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on January 30, 2015, 11:49:14 PM
dibs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 31, 2015, 11:09:57 AM
Second day in the hospital, it sucks but I'm alive.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 31, 2015, 11:20:00 AM
What happened?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 31, 2015, 12:16:33 PM
Got a text from my (older) cousin a few minutes ago, who wanted to know how I'm doing. After some small talk she said I love you...and I said I love you too. But then she responded "I know you do."
:mindblown

That seems like the type of thing you'd say to your wife or husband, not a family member. I only said I love you as a courtesy. I like her, she's my cousin...but that term seems best regulated to your mom and grandparents IMO.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on January 31, 2015, 12:30:21 PM
smh pd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 31, 2015, 12:32:25 PM
Ya it makes me uncomfortable when my aunts end emails with love you.  I'm all like whooo whooo stranger danger.  Like PD said, 'love' only moves up the family tree. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 01:47:04 PM
Whatever, Arv. You're enough of a mess that you'd nut in a cuz, no question.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 01:52:09 PM
Also: today is going to be the hardest day of my life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on January 31, 2015, 01:55:46 PM
Like you need to say I love you to nut in someone
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 31, 2015, 02:00:43 PM
Also: today is going to be the hardest day of my life.

ok Jack Bauer.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 02:23:19 PM
Also: today is going to be the hardest day of my life.

ok Jack Bauer.

My habit of sleeping like 14 hours a day would make for better television than 24. I've just decided I'm not yet ready to face the day and I'm going to spend more time in dreams. Maybe 4 more hours.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 31, 2015, 03:07:57 PM
Common bile duct ruptured, and I am suffering from pancreatitis. They did an operation to help it but my liver function hasn't returned to normal.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on January 31, 2015, 03:14:33 PM
That does not sound good. Get well man. :/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on January 31, 2015, 03:20:14 PM
They said it might be five days till I go home. I'm trying to be OK with it. No one has come to see me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 05:20:09 PM
I hope you get better or at least feel better soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 06:56:59 PM
I didn't accomplish anything today. Now I have to wait until monday. I just stayed in bed alternately sleeping and crying. I hate dreaming and seeing people I loved. I wish I had gotten cancer and died instead of my brother or had died in one of my several car crashes. Why am I lucky? Fuck. My. Life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 31, 2015, 07:18:17 PM
Spent two hours at the barber shop today. Walked in and saw their were 8 people ahead of me. The barber I see has his own place and runs everything solo. Most black guys I know tend to stick to one barber under normal circumstances, and I'm definitely in that camp.

Dude is great at what he does, tells amazing stories, used to cut many of the Fab Five's hair back in the day...but man his conspiracy shit is just too much. Everything revolves around ceilings placed on black men, and how you can't get to x level because the white man won't let you. As an example, we were naturally talking about the Super Bowl as well as the Lions. The conversation turned to poor officiating and one guy pointed out that the league is foolish for not hiring full time refs (I agree). My barber proceeded to argue they'll never hire full time refs because the current crop fixes games. He then said the infamous ref fuck up in the Detroit Dallas game happened because the league wouldn't let a black coach beat Dallas at home.

Then he flipped it later and said Dallas got fucked by the refs against Green Baby because tea party control Wisconsin, and thus they weren't going to let Dez Bryant beat them with that (obvious) catch. Now I was as mad as anyone about Detroit getting fucked; I thought it was blatant bullshit. But that had nothing to do with our coach and GM being black. If we had handled our business we would have won that game handily, and wouldn't have been in a position where one bad call had such importance.

It's amazing how prominent this line of thinking is amongst many people, especially older black men. I'm not going to deny institutional racism exists but come the fuck on. There's something wrong when you think a black man attaining success must mean he's being allowed to thrive by the white man, or that he sold his soul to the devil/gays/etc. jeez
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 31, 2015, 07:38:44 PM
If you eliminate a bunch of words from your post, you can clearly see satanic symbols form.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 07:49:52 PM
Two fucking hours in a barbershop? Dude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 31, 2015, 07:53:26 PM
I didn't really have anything planned today, and it's a Saturday so meh. Now I'm home doing laundry, contemplating where I'll go to eat. It's going to snow 10 inches tonight (allegedly) so I don't feel like doing too much of anything. Might see if someone wants to come over and watch Netflix I guess.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 08:01:05 PM
Hmmm, do you think I could pay a prostitute to kill me?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on January 31, 2015, 08:19:47 PM
you don't have enough money for it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 31, 2015, 08:21:06 PM
Hmmm, do you think I could pay a prostitute to kill me?

male or female?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 08:25:03 PM
Hmmm, do you think I could pay a prostitute to kill me?

male or female?

I think I might have better luck with a female. Find a really cracked out one. Offer her a couple hundred bucks and a meal at Dennys. I imagine dude whores as not being all cracked out and fucked up. I mean, I'm looking at the dregs of whores here, and I could see the worst of the worst she whores being way more depraved than the worst of the worst boy whores. Not sure how crazy I could expect transwhores to be. Himu, can you make an educated guess?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 08:34:39 PM
I want to go out drining tonight cause it's surprisingly warm for a winter weekend here but I'm broke  :'(

Guess I'll have to drink scotch alone again.

I will drink with you. On the internet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 08:42:25 PM
Where does a man go to find cracked out prostitutes?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 08:54:04 PM
I just figure that if the Green River Killer could murder 70 prostitutes, maybe they should get to kill someone for once. Also, he managed to find   more than 70 prostitutes to kill around here. That's a lot. There must be a fucking lot of desperate hookers around Seattle. They've had plenty of time to replenish.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Himu on January 31, 2015, 09:12:23 PM
Damn, I wish i could be there for you, TVC. I wish you could go without suffering for a while.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 31, 2015, 10:23:59 PM
TVC browsing backpage.com
:brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 31, 2015, 10:26:26 PM
I'm sick
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 10:29:40 PM
TVC browsing backpage.com
:brazilcry

This is kind of the problem. If a whore is organized enough to have an online presence, she's probably too together to murder a client at request. I need crazy. Where are all the crazy whores?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Stocky on January 31, 2015, 10:31:06 PM
Coming down with some sort of terrible cold the night before the Super Bowl. Guess I'm missing the party tomorrow :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on January 31, 2015, 11:17:55 PM
I still haven't gotten out of bed.

I'm also so constipated. I haven't shit in at least 2 days.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 01, 2015, 02:49:06 AM
Got a text from my (older) cousin a few minutes ago, who wanted to know how I'm doing. After some small talk she said I love you...and I said I love you too. But then she responded "I know you do."
:mindblown

That seems like the type of thing you'd say to your wife or husband, not a family member. I only said I love you as a courtesy. I like her, she's my cousin...but that term seems best regulated to your mom and grandparents IMO.
Quit trying to get Mups horned out.

They said it might be five days till I go home. I'm trying to be OK with it. No one has come to see me.
Wow, that’s a big thing in the USA then. I’m sorry you’re not receiving visitors. That sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 08:07:37 AM
Im in isolation as of yesterday, seems I have an infection of the liver. I've never been sicker in all my life. The abdominal pain is one thing, but add vomiting and large amounts of nauseating drugs and its a nightmare. I'm part of the 3% of folks that go through this after their operation. I just want to be healthy and go home.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 08:10:05 AM
I'm sorry, G. I'd offer you my liver but it's probably even more trashed than yours.

Can you at least sleep through a lot of the day on those drugs?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 08:16:48 AM
Not really. they got me on large amounts of cipro, which makes me very alert, hence why I'm up. I've been getting  that and another drug in my iv which makes me want to throw up constantly. My body rests when it can but it's not resting long enough.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 08:18:57 AM
Are you actually throwing up? Can you eat?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 08:22:12 AM
Npo (nothing by mouth) and yes I've been throwing up bile it's painful.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 08:26:47 AM
On a scale of 1 to 10, how does the suffering rank with other moments of suffering you have experienced in your life? What words come to mind when you think about it?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 08:33:30 AM
12, it's exhausting, excruciatingly painful, eye opening, a deluge of negative stuff, I don't know any more adjectives outside of being scared shirtless at all of this. They don't really even know if it's liver failure or something else. The doctors have said very little to me and what little I get from my nurses isn't the whole picture.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 08:43:50 AM
If you're having liver problems this bad now, you're probably never going to be allowed to have fun again :( I feel bad for you :( Even though I'm a paranoid, suicidal shut-in, I'd probably think about possibly potentially visiting you if you were around here :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 08:48:48 AM
I appreciate the thought Keith, it means a lot coming from you in your current situation. I don't know where this train is taking me, but I'm asking for the journey now. I plan to ask the doctors what their prognoses is and dive deep into what my roadmap to recovery looks like. I need to know that there is something that will get better here in the short term.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 08:52:47 AM
It sucks that you're probably going to have to wait until at least Monday for a real update on the situation.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 08:56:02 AM
Yeep I've already committed to that timeline due to the Superbowl. Weekend staff aren't the main doctors, that much I know.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 08:56:54 AM
What are you doing to pass the time if you can't sleep? You don't appear to have been trolling around the forum all day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 09:01:15 AM
I've been reading (when I can) and watching horrible TV. The Mexican stations always have the best movies.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 09:03:34 AM
I love incomprehensible Mexican TV. What are you reading?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 01, 2015, 09:06:41 AM
Going back and forth between the Martian and air force gator. Both have been a pleasure to read for different reasons. The TV is great, but there isn't any sound. So it's kind of a wash.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 09:33:42 AM
What will you do if you can never drink again after this? How will you fill that hole? Religion? I've only been drinking for like a month and I already don't know what I'd do without it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2015, 10:25:50 AM
Keep your head up G, I hope things work out for you soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 01, 2015, 12:58:44 PM
People coming to work with the flu, now I've got the flu.

(http://i.imgur.com/0FEOiUz.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TVC15 on February 01, 2015, 01:08:12 PM
Maybe you've just evolved the ability to self-lubricate.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 01, 2015, 01:42:27 PM
I'm either really hungover or really sick. either way I can't eat this food in front me without feeling like I'm gonna puke. fuck everything
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 01, 2015, 01:57:24 PM
I want a fucking snow day
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2015, 01:57:27 PM
I think I've reached the end of my Taco Bell relationship guys. The local taco places around here are just too good, and I've realized Taco Bell just doesn't compete. I'll still get Taco Bell as a last ditch fast food (say when I don't feel like cooking or ordering food) every now and then...but the days of me having a long term relationship with cheesy bean and rice burritos, chalupas, etc are over
:tocry

My favorite taco place has amazing salsa. I'm going to head to the grocery store and see if I can find anything that tastes like it. I think it's like a minced salsa with red peppers but I'm not sure; the other is definitely a salsa verde. Really makes traditional Tostitos salsa taste like trash.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 01, 2015, 02:02:02 PM
People coming to work with the flu, now I've got the flu.

(http://i.imgur.com/0FEOiUz.gif)

:goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2015, 02:07:57 PM
People coming to work with the flu, now I've got the flu.

(http://i.imgur.com/0FEOiUz.gif)

:goty

I miss the days when I thought you guys were in a relationship.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 01, 2015, 02:09:56 PM
I think I've reached the end of my Taco Bell relationship guys. The local taco places around here are just too good, and I've realized Taco Bell just doesn't compete. I'll still get Taco Bell as a last ditch fast food (say when I don't feel like cooking or ordering food) every now and then...but the days of me having a long term relationship with cheesy bean and rice burritos, chalupas, etc are over
:tocry

My favorite taco place has amazing salsa. I'm going to head to the grocery store and see if I can find anything that tastes like it. I think it's like a minced salsa with red peppers but I'm not sure; the other is definitely a salsa verde. Really makes traditional Tostitos salsa taste like trash.

Taco Bell has been on a long decline anyway.  They really fucked up when they got rid of the original Grilled Stuft Burrito maybe 3-4 years ago.  I went to a Taco Bell recently and they had a chicken quesadilla for $3.59.  That is almost double the price almost instantly for some reason (it used to be $1.99 just a year or two ago) but no additional chicken or sauce or cheese either.  In 2008 I could get an XL Baja Blast, a chicken quesadilla, a beef grilled stuft burrito, and a spicy chicken burrito for $7.77.  Getting fat never tasted so good.  Now, all that is left is an overpriced quesadilla, a shittier version of the GSB, and no spicy chicken burrito.  Their breakfast sucks and when I ate one of their rolled chicken tacos, it was that moment when I realized that the Taco Bell I knew and loved was dead.

Oh well, it had a nice run.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 01, 2015, 02:29:21 PM
Those rolled chicken tacos are horrible. My mom used to buy the frozen rolled tacos for us back when I was a kid, and I always felt they were ok but nothing special. Taco Bell's managed to be worse than that...

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on February 01, 2015, 04:20:19 PM
Ate Domino's pizza today for the first time. Kinda disgusting, meat felt very cheap and crust was overdone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 01, 2015, 05:03:06 PM
Maybe you've just evolved the ability to self-lubricate.

Lamarck was wrong about how evolution works.  No matter how many times he puts something up there, it's not going to evolve him into Homo Slick-holus.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 01, 2015, 09:57:30 PM
While drunk the other night I wrote a surprisingly coherent and thorough essay on how to pronounce Moleskin. It was combative, but not angry drunk combative, it was more snide academic combative.

I was morbidly curious what I would have even been writing about while drunk and read those pages yesterday while compos mentis and when I got to that part I was :snoop irl.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 01, 2015, 10:09:32 PM
Got sick last week, 102.5º fever Wed. night, went to doctor on Thursday morning: no influenza

Stayed on prescription, but got more sick, with a cough getting progressively worse over the weekend, got maybe 2~3 hours sleep each night.

Monday morning here, I just got back from the doctor’s office again. X-rays show no pneumonia, but I have acute bronchitis.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on February 01, 2015, 10:32:56 PM
Jesus dude bronchitis sucks. Feel better and take it easy. It can take a few weeks to feel back to normal and get that shit out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 02, 2015, 07:36:21 AM
Jesus dude bronchitis sucks. Feel better and take it easy. It can take a few weeks to feel back to normal and get that shit out.
Thanks! I'm just happy it's not pneumonia. I'm feeling better compared to last night, but that's not saying much. Managed a five hour nap today, which was contiguous and wonderful. Exhausted though.

Thanks for the well-wishes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 02, 2015, 08:43:39 AM
My neighbor freaked out in the middle of the night and he caused a huge event. I haven't been able to stop having pain since. The nurse here ran and didn't take my safety into account, so I had to deal with him till the security came. I'm just shaking my head at the bone head decisions made tonight.

Liver functions went from high 1000's to mid 400's yesterday. Had my lab taken a short while ago and am hoping it's even lower today.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 02, 2015, 02:30:50 PM
So I've been going though a really rough time lately, well all last year actually and there doesn't seem like its going to change anytime soon and I think I've decided I don't want to do a Ph.D.  I'm pretty sure I'm just not good enough to end up doing the work I'd like to do.  Now I have to figure out what I want to do with my life and how to get there.  Fuck. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 02, 2015, 05:19:27 PM
Turns out that Joe doesn't have the flu. :rejoice

Guess I should have posted this in the triumph thread, though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 02, 2015, 07:15:55 PM
strong immune systems  :rejoice

weak paychecks tho  :foxx
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 02, 2015, 07:24:41 PM
Lot of sickness goin round
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on February 02, 2015, 08:26:23 PM
well, I have the flu apparently :fbm

Sounds like what I had back in November man. Came out of nowhere and you should expect at least 4 days of fucking misery. I couldn't sleep, yet I couldn't really get out of bed either for the peak of it. Days were better than nights too. For some reason it would really come on strong between 3 and 7 am.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 02, 2015, 08:32:16 PM
So I've been going though a really rough time lately, well all last year actually and there doesn't seem like its going to change anytime soon and I think I've decided I don't want to do a Ph.D.  I'm pretty sure I'm just not good enough to end up doing the work I'd like to do.  Now I have to figure out what I want to do with my life and how to get there.  Fuck.
The problem you previously encountered wasn’t even your fault. Stick with it, finish your Ph.D. and THEN get a job at a gas station, in the MENSA tradition.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 02, 2015, 08:50:17 PM
So I've been going though a really rough time lately, well all last year actually and there doesn't seem like its going to change anytime soon and I think I've decided I don't want to do a Ph.D.  I'm pretty sure I'm just not good enough to end up doing the work I'd like to do.  Now I have to figure out what I want to do with my life and how to get there.  Fuck.
The problem you previously encountered wasn’t even your fault. Stick with it, finish your Ph.D. and THEN get a job at a gas station, in the MENSA tradition.

Well its not just that.  Got a paper rejected today that was submitted 6 months ago (and rejected for decent reasons).  I'm certainly not proud of anything I've accomplished during my masters and I'm not sure the work I'm doing is going to change.  I don't want to be prof. any more and I don't think I'll accomplish anything that would let me do industrial research, so a Ph.D. doesn't help career-wise.  I'm also just really sick of the stress and being unhappy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 02, 2015, 09:40:11 PM
When I went to the clinic today, I stopped by a pizza place on the way home and I saw my boss in there. He walked up to me and was all like "So, you feeling better? :smug "

Dammit, I really am sick, I got a doctor's note and everything, but am I not allowed to also be hungry? Also, what were you doing there??  :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 03, 2015, 12:27:26 AM
Anyone know how to display time and battery life in landscape mode on an iPhone (safari). This shit is pissing me off. I finally downloaded the new iOS and this must be a bug.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 03, 2015, 12:46:35 AM
Anyone know how to display time and battery life in landscape mode on an iPhone (safari). This shit is pissing me off. I finally downloaded the new iOS and this must be a bug.
Unfortunately that's working as intended.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 03, 2015, 12:49:46 AM
Anyone know how to display time and battery life in landscape mode on an iPhone (safari). This shit is pissing me off. I finally downloaded the new iOS and this must be a bug.
tap the top of the screen brah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 03, 2015, 01:01:01 AM
That doesn't it make it stay showing though, does it?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 03, 2015, 01:04:37 AM
Huh.  I've seen happy drunk.  I've seen sad drunk. I've seen angry drunk.  I ain't never seen esoteric drunk.

Last year while drunk I went on a multi-minute diatribe about why Proust was a fucking asshole for making us more aware of the phenomenon termed involuntary memory while sitting at the bar in a bar.

Someone was dancing on the bar at the time and I felt I needed to one up them. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 03, 2015, 01:50:53 AM
That doesn't it make it stay showing though, does it?
Well nobody said it had to stay there!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 04, 2015, 12:38:21 AM
This is why you need to get your revenge by writing a novel in the genre that surpasses In Search of Lost Time.

This would be one of the most depressing books ever written. Just my pathetic romantic episodes in the last 9 months alone would up the suicide rate a quarter of a point.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 04, 2015, 01:33:16 AM
Anyone know how to display time and battery life in landscape mode on an iPhone (safari). This shit is pissing me off. I finally downloaded the new iOS and this must be a bug.
tap the top of the screen brah

All I see is the URL bar. I see time/battery/etc in portrait mode by not landscape. Rustles my jimmies...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on February 04, 2015, 02:16:11 AM
This is why you need to get your revenge by writing a novel in the genre that surpasses In Search of Lost Time.

This would be one of the most depressing books ever written. Just my pathetic romantic episodes in the last 9 months alone would up the suicide rate a quarter of a point.

I'm waiting for you to say why this would be a bad idea.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 04, 2015, 11:22:19 AM
I signed up to be a tutor, and I now have six (six!!!) students.

:obama

I'll be doing some substitute teaching for a former teacher of mine. Accounting intro class (financial). Looks like I'll be going over the second chapter mainly which would be surprising in most cases; usually classes are well into chapter 3 or 4 by now, in most of their classes. But this teacher put a lot of emphasis on those early chapters, drilling basic shit into students like double entry, understanding accounts, etc. Lots of pop quizzes to make sure people get it.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 04, 2015, 04:23:56 PM
Reminder that people in the 15th century (at the least) could grasp double-entry but accounting 101 courses are littered with absolute imbeciles in 2015.

God I wish I could rant about the interns I've had to deal with lately.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on February 04, 2015, 09:46:41 PM
The way our business is set up, most of our entries are quad. :fbm

Been there for a couple years and I still don't get it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 04, 2015, 10:19:43 PM
quad? uggg.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 04, 2015, 10:25:40 PM
I get the idea of double entry, but I get confused about what to debit and what to credit sometimes. Journal entry quizzes kicked my ass.

Pick a simple example you can always remember and think about the logic of it in other situations to guide your line of thinking. My preferred one is (assuming a cash basis of accounting):

Sale to customer:

Debit cash in the amount of X to reflect the increase to your cash balance.

Credit sales in the amount of X to reflect the increase in sales for the period covered.

Let's say that now I'm presented with a journal entry to reflect the sale of new stock in the company.

I'm receiving cash, so I know I'm going to be debiting cash.

What am I going to credit? Even though I sold stock, I wasn't selling product. I was selling equity. Equity... wait a minute, that's it. I credit an equity account.

(These are obviously simple situations, but I hope the point gets across.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 04, 2015, 10:32:05 PM
imo the way that really works is by doing enough examples so that you can readily reach back and pick one if you ever get confused. You can get away with not doing much homework in a variety of college classes IMO. Not accounting.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 04, 2015, 10:34:25 PM
I get the idea of double entry, but I get confused about what to debit and what to credit sometimes. Journal entry quizzes kicked my ass.

Pick a simple example you can always remember and think about the logic of it in other situations to guide your line of thinking. My preferred one is (assuming a cash basis of accounting):

Sale to customer:

Debit cash in the amount of X to reflect the increase to your cash balance.

Credit sales in the amount of X to reflect the increase in sales for the period covered.

Let's say that now I'm presented with a journal entry to reflect the sale of new stock in the company.

I'm receiving cash, so I know I'm going to be debiting cash.

What am I going to credit? Even though I sold stock, I wasn't selling product. I was selling equity. Equity... wait a minute, that's it. I credit an equity account.

(These are obviously simple situations, but I hope the point gets across.)
Yes, yes. But do you know the difference between On hand and Available?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 04, 2015, 10:42:03 PM
I never had too much trouble with accounting, but tax kicked my butt at the higher levels.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 04, 2015, 10:47:35 PM
Is that a reference to something? Because that's obvious.

On hand = amount of stock physically present
Available = amount of stock unallocated to any order or demand
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 04, 2015, 10:58:52 PM
Here it is.
I swear this is the conversation I just had.

Singapore: "So Puppy, we have so many metrics to use. Like Total Available and On Hand. Which do we use when?"
Me: "Well, whichever one is appropriate."
Singapore: "So Available?"
Me: "Well, if that's what you're looking for then yes. But there are going to be times where you want to know what you have and how much room you're taking up in which case 'On Hand' is more appropriate. It's rather simple. Available means that it's available to sell, On hand is everything you have"
S: "I don't think you understand how retail works. We sell what we have."
Me: "Not everything. For example, floor models."
S: "We sell those too."
Me: "Ok bad example, Let's say I just received 20 beds in the back."
S: "OK"
Me: "I have 20 beds to sell, and 20 on hand because that's what I have. OK?"
S: "Ok"
Me: "Let's say that someone then comes in and buys 5 but they haven't picked them up and wont for a week. OK?"
S: "OK"
Me: "So your Available to sell is 15 because you can't sell those 5 again. But your on hand is 20 because those 5 you sold are still taking up space in the back."
S:".......I don't think you understand how retail works."
 :mindblown
Remember all this from several weeks ago?

Well here's a conversation I just had with exactly the same people a few minutes ago

S: "Puppy! These numbers don't match!!"
Me: "That'd be because one of them is Available and the other is On hand."
S: "Yeah they're supposed to be the same."
Me: "No they're not."
S: "What do you mean?"

 :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 04, 2015, 11:06:50 PM
Oh I think I get it -- if they don't pick it up, you can just sell it, right? :teehee
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 04, 2015, 11:27:12 PM
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 05, 2015, 01:52:57 AM
They said it might be five days till I go home. I'm trying to be OK with it. No one has come to see me.

Just saw this, still sick? I'll visit you, being bored and alone in a hospital is the worst thing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: G The Resurrected on February 05, 2015, 02:24:12 AM
They said it might be five days till I go home. I'm trying to be OK with it. No one has come to see me.

Just saw this, still sick? I'll visit you, being bored and alone in a hospital is the worst thing.

Thank you for the offer, but I just got home tonight. They kicked me out because It was healthier for me to be out of the hospital than in it due to hospital born illness. Which didn't matter because I also got whatever is going around.

spoiler (click to show/hide)
I'm going back in a few days most likely, I have an auto immune disease that they are unsure of as of right now.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 06, 2015, 01:19:36 AM
I deliberately hung a painting I hate in my room. This is a level of fucked up I didn't know I was capable of.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 06, 2015, 01:21:54 AM
Nothing famous or even recorded in the pages of history, just something my paternal grandmother painted.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 06, 2015, 01:29:23 AM
Good form, nice colors, and utterly insipid.

I know I'm not one to judge people for wasting talent, but wasting talent you don't even comprehend you have is like an Nth degree of hell for me to observe.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2015, 02:06:32 AM
I know I'm not one to judge people for wasting talent, but wasting talent you don't even comprehend you have is like an Nth degree of hell for me to observe.
(http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20150201.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on February 06, 2015, 03:11:02 AM
Course overhauls when tutoring always sucks, especially if you've been tutoring the same thing for a couple years, and then the professors suddenly do a major overhaul.

And it's not like the students can be any help with it.  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 06, 2015, 09:57:04 AM
Sitting in a meeting with a VP of Sales and a VP of Finance is like being between Russia and the Ukraine.

Sales VP: If our budget is this I believe we can return this...

Finance VP: Believe? How do I quantify "believe"

Sales VP: Quantify it by knowing I pay for your ass to sit in that seat

Score one for the sales guy I guess

:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 06, 2015, 01:25:06 PM
Who do each of those guys report to?

<<<<<<<<<<<

 :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 06, 2015, 01:42:42 PM
:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 06, 2015, 02:00:41 PM
i want one of those cookies from Papa John's or Pizza Hut, but i just ordered a pizza from a local place.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 07, 2015, 01:56:25 AM
Feeling like my soul mate TVC; all I want to do is throw my remote through my television. I think I'll settle for my bedroom window, though. I kind of like the TV.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Barry Egan on February 07, 2015, 03:42:22 AM
Will you like your TV as much without the convenience of your remote, though?  surely you can throw something less sacred. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 07, 2015, 05:27:50 AM
I have the satellite remote. I'm sure those are easier to replace, and it's not like I watch it anyway if it isn't. Good thinking.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 07, 2015, 08:23:54 AM
I have the satellite remote. I'm sure those are easier to replace, and it's not like I watch it anyway if it isn't. Good thinking.

There is an ap for the satellite remote for android...probably IOS too. I've been using it to fuck with my wife for about a month.

Be technologically deficient brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 07, 2015, 10:04:36 AM
Had an important meeting yesterday with my boss. But I couldn't make it because my kid was sick.
So I ask to reschedule. He's on the east coast so he's like 7am your time tomorrow (now today).
I've been up since 5am preparing for the meeting. Then 20 minutes before the meeting I get an email saying "Oh yeah, I've got this thing to do with my kid, let's do it tomorrow."
 :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 07, 2015, 10:06:48 AM
Sitting in a meeting with a VP of Sales and a VP of Finance is like being between Russia and the Ukraine.

Sales VP: If our budget is this I believe we can return this...

Finance VP: Believe? How do I quantify "believe"

Sales VP: Quantify it by knowing I pay for your ass to sit in that seat

Score one for the sales guy I guess

:snoop
Lol. Sales culture is weird it's different everywhere. Some places the Sales people are king and saying things like that.
Other places, like my current place, they're on the other end of the totem poll. My boss told me a few weeks ago, "Puppy, you need to use sales guys like they're your secretary. That's all they're good for."

btw, get that sales guy in check.  Nothing good comes of that. Finance will start putting up road blocks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 07, 2015, 10:06:37 PM
Back's been hurting since this afternoon

Feels a little better now but I still feel pain  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 07, 2015, 10:26:20 PM
Sitting in a meeting with a VP of Sales and a VP of Finance is like being between Russia and the Ukraine.

Sales VP: If our budget is this I believe we can return this...

Finance VP: Believe? How do I quantify "believe"

Sales VP: Quantify it by knowing I pay for your ass to sit in that seat

Score one for the sales guy I guess

:snoop
Lol. Sales culture is weird it's different everywhere. Some places the Sales people are king and saying things like that.
Other places, like my current place, they're on the other end of the totem poll. My boss told me a few weeks ago, "Puppy, you need to use sales guys like they're your secretary. That's all they're good for."

btw, get that sales guy in check.  Nothing good comes of that. Finance will start putting up road blocks.

i always wondered what sales culture at other places would be like. at my job we (as a department, not me :jawalrus) basically just bully the shit out of the other departments.

it's like 1/3 by design of how the different role responsibilities are setup. 1/3 of it is the owner basically pitting sales & operations against each other. then the other 1/3 is that most of the sales reps act like dicks about everything. it's just a really toxic culture.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 08, 2015, 12:42:05 AM
PCE emulation  :pacspit

edit- mednafen is pretty nice  :mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 08, 2015, 10:56:21 AM
training myself to sit up straight and actually take advantage of the lumbar support offered by my pc chair instead of hunching over  :paul
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 08, 2015, 02:35:37 PM
Woke up late this morning because I did stupid shit last night and my parking spot across the street from my Sunday breakfast hangout downtown was taken by a car with an Apple sticker. I had to walk like a whole block and a half.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 08, 2015, 02:50:10 PM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.

Some positive news, my boss on Friday let it be known to us that he put in a request to go back to his old position.  That's right, after six weeks of doing the job, he's tapping out already.  This is pretty unheard of but the guy is extremely connected to the VP and other senior management (which is how he got the job in the first place) so I'm guessing they would be more likely to take his request more seriously.  Fortunately for this guy, they still haven't filled his old position (our corporate bureaucracy is like molasses on a cold day) so it is possible.  If they were to go through with this request, due to said bureaucracy, it may be 1-2 months until it goes through in which case maybe they will repost the position.  Am I a big enough masochist to go through the whole process again?  We'll see.  Knowing my luck, they will either deny the transfer request or fill in the job with some other dickhead.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 08, 2015, 03:32:56 PM
do eeeeeeeeet

make money
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 08, 2015, 05:25:12 PM
Yeah, try again.
 It's not often that the world seems to adapt to our needs, so take advantage of it. :win If it doesn't go your way you can go back to packing your bags.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Freyj on February 08, 2015, 06:45:03 PM
Reading all of that reminds me why I am so fucking done with corporate shenanigans.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 09, 2015, 10:37:53 AM
Sitting in a meeting with a VP of Sales and a VP of Finance is like being between Russia and the Ukraine.

Sales VP: If our budget is this I believe we can return this...

Finance VP: Believe? How do I quantify "believe"

Sales VP: Quantify it by knowing I pay for your ass to sit in that seat

Score one for the sales guy I guess

:snoop
Lol. Sales culture is weird it's different everywhere. Some places the Sales people are king and saying things like that.
Other places, like my current place, they're on the other end of the totem poll. My boss told me a few weeks ago, "Puppy, you need to use sales guys like they're your secretary. That's all they're good for."

btw, get that sales guy in check.  Nothing good comes of that. Finance will start putting up road blocks.

i always wondered what sales culture at other places would be like. at my job we (as a department, not me :jawalrus) basically just bully the shit out of the other departments.

it's like 1/3 by design of how the different role responsibilities are setup. 1/3 of it is the owner basically pitting sales & operations against each other. then the other 1/3 is that most of the sales reps act like dicks about everything. it's just a really toxic culture.
This I agree with.
I'm typically the first person to jump to corporate america's defense when people level accusations of sexism and racism against it because I've been at dozens and dozens of companies and by and large they take gender and racial equality seriously even up to the highest levels. But I wont defend sales at all. Sales is downright toxic and an old boy network and sexist and racist to the core. I mean it's bad enough that when I talk to other consultants about really sexist/racist companies I'll sum it up by saying "The whole company is like one big sales department." And there's nothing else that needs to be said.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 10:42:51 AM
The issue, puppy, is that Type B's don't perform well in sales, period. You'll never have a laid back guy lead the company in any sales related measurable. So you hire Type A's who will get the job done but will also demand to be noticed, cause issues, and generally act as if they are the glue that holds the company together.

The following 3 departments should probably never meet with sales on a peer to peer level

1) Engineering: Just forget it
2) Accounting/Finance: The typical accounting person won't be helpful here. They'll shut down.
3) Marketing: Becomes a big dick measuring contest nobody has time for

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 09, 2015, 10:50:52 AM
actually I can't see any team that you'd want to to pair with sales. I mean even Operations and IT can't because they get derailed into panics because "OH NOES! The sales VP wants x!"

Best to treat it like a microcosm of testosterone and pissing contests.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 10:53:57 AM
actually I can't see any team that you'd want to to pair with sales. I mean even Operations and IT can't because they get derailed into panics because "OH NOES! The sales VP wants x!"

Best to treat it like a microcosm of testosterone and pissing contests.

I'm fortunate to have a sales VP who normally (the case above is a freak occurrence, not the norm) who conducts himself pretty well most of the time. Our Finance guy is a ball buster who I love because he's great at what he does and can take the abuse. But yeah, IT and sales should never mingle unless it's in the insurance field.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 09, 2015, 10:54:39 AM
fuck sales people
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 10:55:11 AM
fuck sales people

Yeah trust me, if I didn't need them I wouldn't have them.

I find it taxing to slog through bullshit pipelines and the finger pointing they like to generate.


The other funny thing is they all try to emulate sports feelings/emotions but those of us who actually did play see right through it. Grow up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 09, 2015, 11:09:09 AM
The way it seems here is there is one sales guy who busts his ass, flies all over the world, and clears closed to if not over $1M in commission every year. Then there are rest of them that coast as account reps and are happy with their support contract residuals.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 11:13:11 AM
The way it seems here is there is one sales guy who busts his ass, flies all over the world, and clears closed to if not over $1M in commission every year. Then there are rest of them that coast as account reps and are happy with their support contract residuals.

I don't have a large sales staff or near that level of sales < 10 people but they do a hell of a job for me. So far everybody seems to pull their weight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 09, 2015, 11:16:39 AM
My company keeps scaring sales guys away.  :-\
I guess that's what happens when sales guys are the owners.
They want it done their way.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 11:20:22 AM
My company keeps scaring sales guys away.  :-\
I guess that's what happens when sales guys are the owners.
They want it done their way.

Sales is transitional anyway. People come in promising the world and deliver nothing...gone. Or do very well and move along to a better paying opportunity...gone. Or act up and get fired....Or my personal favorite...have a meeting in chicago, get drunk the night before, end up in jail, miss the meeting. Fired.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 09, 2015, 11:23:33 AM
What is the leash time before you realize that a sales person isn't pulling his weight? We seem to have a ridiculously long leash time. There have been a few that were here 18 months and never sold a single thing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 11:27:33 AM
What is the leash time before you realize that a sales person isn't pulling his weight? We seem to have a ridiculously long leash time. There have been a few that were here 18 months and never sold a single thing.

Hard to quantify it's really about the opportunities he's bringing in. Time frames in the IT industry are bizarre...could be the end user needs it done "right fucking now" or could be "we are going to build a data center in 2017."

Basically it's a play it by feel game. I've released guys within 90 days and I've held on to a guy for over a year before he started making the company a profit.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 09, 2015, 11:37:12 AM
The damn weather here in south central NY is awful. (http://i.imgur.com/4nE8HT0.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 09, 2015, 01:18:44 PM
hung out with esch yesterday and think I caught his flu

 :bolo :bolo :bolo :bolo :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 09, 2015, 01:23:54 PM
nooooo
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 01:24:10 PM
:tocry sorry bro if I did, thought I was all better :'(

Unprotected sexual contact no doubt.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 09, 2015, 01:24:19 PM
And if by flu you meant herpes you'd be right!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 09, 2015, 01:28:14 PM
My company keeps scaring sales guys away.  :-\
I guess that's what happens when sales guys are the owners.
They want it done their way.

Sales is transitional anyway. People come in promising the world and deliver nothing...gone. Or do very well and move along to a better paying opportunity...gone. Or act up and get fired....Or my personal favorite...have a meeting in chicago, get drunk the night before, end up in jail, miss the meeting. Fired.
I get that's normally the case, but in this case I think it has to do more with salesguys being pissed off about being told how to sell all the time. My leadership is very hands on. That doesn't matter much when it comes to consultants, they'll just say" yessir" and move on, we do it with clients all day, no sweat.  But sales guys chaffe easily in that case.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 09, 2015, 01:39:57 PM
:tocry sorry bro if I did, thought I was all better :'(


Lolol it's alright I'll be fine. just spent the morning evacuating every ounce of liquid in me and I'm kinda sorta feeling a little bit better now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 09, 2015, 01:50:16 PM
The wing stop by me always serves up over cooked dry ass chicken :'(

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 09, 2015, 01:56:17 PM
:tocry sorry bro if I did, thought I was all better :'(

Unprotected sexual contact no doubt.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/Flu-like-symptoms-after-encounter-with-Gay-Stranger/show/493646

:hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 09, 2015, 02:17:27 PM
:tocry sorry bro if I did, thought I was all better :'(

Unprotected sexual contact no doubt.
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/Flu-like-symptoms-after-encounter-with-Gay-Stranger/show/493646

:hitler

H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 09, 2015, 02:29:39 PM
:tocry sorry bro if I did, thought I was all better :'(


Lolol it's alright I'll be fine. just spent the morning evacuating every ounce of liquid in me and I'm kinda sorta feeling a little bit better now.


Lmao this motherfucker :ufup

You got diarrhea (like me) because we destroyed some WingStop not cause I gave you the flu :dead

RIP my colon
So, what you're telling me is that you and rufus met and now both of your colons are destroyed.
 :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 02:32:09 PM
:tocry sorry bro if I did, thought I was all better :'(


Lolol it's alright I'll be fine. just spent the morning evacuating every ounce of liquid in me and I'm kinda sorta feeling a little bit better now.


Lmao this motherfucker :ufup

You got diarrhea (like me) because we destroyed some WingStop not cause I gave you the flu :dead

RIP my colon
So, what you're telling me is that you and rufus met and now both of your colons are destroyed.
 :hitler

:ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 02:44:34 PM
That was my first time eating wingstop too. probably shouldn't have crushed that many mango habanero wings but I'll be damned if they weren't tasty.

wanna try their hottest flavor next :rejoice

Be indian and eat shit that will burn your face off, brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 09, 2015, 02:51:15 PM
That was my first time eating wingstop too. probably shouldn't have crushed that many mango habanero wings but I'll be damned if they weren't tasty.

wanna try their hottest flavor next :rejoice

They are actually hot, which is good.

Damn, craving some right now since it's 50 cents a boneless wing day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 09, 2015, 02:54:14 PM
boneless is for children smh what the hell dude
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 09, 2015, 04:02:47 PM
boneless is for children smh what the hell dude

10 for $5 :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on February 09, 2015, 04:05:10 PM
Every day has been a struggle lately. Not gonna make it. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 09, 2015, 05:07:03 PM
Owning salespeople is one of the few pleasures I have in corporate life.  The key is to make sure everything, especially crucial or critical items, is in writing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 09, 2015, 05:31:32 PM
boneless is for children smh what the hell dude

They get the job done  :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 09, 2015, 05:46:17 PM
Boneless wings are pure :expert magus-tier shit. they have none of the flavor or taste of the real mccoy with that dark meat and the crunchy bit :lawd

 :mouf

Shouldn't have come in here hungry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 09, 2015, 05:47:41 PM
Boneless wings are basically mcnuggets
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 09, 2015, 05:55:29 PM
Every day has been a struggle lately. Not gonna make it. :stahp

I try and keep it funny/caricature itt now but this is going to be one of the longest weeks of my life. The only thing keeping me together is the promise of a 6 am happy hour bender on the fourteenth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 09, 2015, 05:59:36 PM
Boneless wings are basically mcnuggets

(http://i4.minus.com/ibqsG2MZiScJka.png)

I wouldn't wish Mcnuggets on my worst enemy.




Actually, I probably would (http://i6.minus.com/i7h3KK1DuumdM.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 09, 2015, 06:07:53 PM
Pulling all the bones out and then going to town :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 09, 2015, 06:13:29 PM
Ripping animal flesh off the bone with my teeth. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 09, 2015, 06:22:20 PM
there's a wing place near me that has terrible wings but their boneless are amaze. they're just strips of breast meat breaded and fried. so it depends on where you go.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 09, 2015, 06:51:00 PM
Pulling all the bones out and then going to town :lawd
I break one bone off, leave most/all the meat on the other, then put it in my mouth and pull out the bone and chew the end off.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 09, 2015, 06:55:19 PM
Y'all is pretty passionate about finger food.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 09, 2015, 06:56:02 PM
It's all about snapping off the connective tissue, eating it, twist and pull the bones out clean, THEN DUNK THAT SHIT AND EAT IT IN ONE BITE YEAHHHHHHH
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 09, 2015, 06:57:43 PM
Only opinion I have on wings is they should have a nice slight vinegar taste and be hot as hell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 09, 2015, 07:12:46 PM
Y'all is pretty passionate about finger food.

it's not really about wings per se, it's about the #BoneInglobal philosophy.



#fuckboneless

 :fabulous

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 09, 2015, 07:23:18 PM
Y'all is pretty passionate about finger food.

it's not really about wings per se, it's about the #BoneIn global philosophy.

#fuckboneless

Seems like a limiting philosophy. Eating fish, for example.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 09, 2015, 07:26:47 PM
I can't fuck with that comparison, breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 09, 2015, 09:22:44 PM
figured I'd try Burger King's 10 chicken nuggets for $1.50 deal...

 :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 09, 2015, 09:54:26 PM
figured I'd try Burger King's 10 chicken nuggets for $1.50 deal...

 :holeup

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 09, 2015, 10:01:34 PM
The only thing worth getting there is the Oreo Shake.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 09, 2015, 10:14:41 PM
Yeah, the new maintenance and repair regulations are going to break me this year. It's barely February and I become physically ill when I look at Form 3115.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 09, 2015, 10:25:45 PM
made the mistake of trying on a $13,000 shearling jacket on a lark today. mistake being it is the nicest garment i have ever worn for any period of time.


5 hours later it still vexes me (http://i.imgur.com/XCcztE5.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 09, 2015, 11:08:24 PM
:larry

not a bad idea, but i might as well go whole hog and get the $1600 hiking boots too.

hot cougar loan consultant: what brings you to my office today, mr. user?

me: I'm here to take out a multi thousand dollar loan


for a jacket and shoes :patel
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 09, 2015, 11:26:09 PM
I can't even fathom spending more than a thousand bucks on a jacket
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 10, 2015, 01:06:43 AM
The only thing worth getting there is the Oreo Shake.

The Hershey Pie  :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 10, 2015, 01:11:01 AM
So, what you're telling me is that you and rufus met and now both of your colons are destroyed.
 :hitler
(http://media3.giphy.com/media/Qy9hRuWrKjY2I/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 10, 2015, 01:16:46 AM
I can't even fathom spending more than a thousand bucks on a jacket
well, saving a huge influx of american dollars into my account, i'm obviously not going to buy it, but i can shrug off all manner of indulgences of that nature (gucci you mean nothing to me), but hermes got me all in a twist :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 10, 2015, 01:43:00 AM
fuck sales people

newsfeed pls.

fuck both sales and marketing.

I worked at O'Neill Sportswear in the late '80s and early '90s, the company which makes most of its money from wetsuits. There were three rounds of layoffs, gutting 75% of the headcount, and they were a major employer in Santa Cruz, which had a precarious economy during the economic downturn of that time. Oddly, $50 ($90+ adjusted) walking shorts were not really a hot item.

Eventually, marketing and sales were both shown up by our art director, who had taken up diving. It's largely a wealthy person's hobby, unaffected by the downturn; on his own dime, he went to a diving trade show, and all the diving suits looked lame, and the booth work at the shows was minimal compared to what O'Neill had been creating for surf/snowboard/skate shows. They spent the next few years eating the diving companies' lunch.

If Marketing and Sales hadn't been asleep at the wheel, the layoffs wouldn't have needed to happen. So many people could have stayed employed. And, let's face it, it's not hard to draw up a list of sports which use wetsuits. This should have been a no-brainer.

When I first got into the game industry, my first job was at a start-up. We were a cheap business to keep running; the S&M chumps only had to move 30,000 units for us to keep our doors open. We had write-ups in Entertainment Weekly and WIRED, but the Sales guys somehow managed to fumble having our product on shelves when the reviews ran, and didn't think to put any kind of sticker or notice about the positive word on the boxes once they were going out. Losers. Incompetents.

Yet, when the layoffs came, the boss laid off the development staff which had shipped three products on time for him, and kept the sales staff who had to-date not managed to earn their income or perform up to their own promises.

On top of this, S&M employees have consistently driven the best cars in the parking lots of every place I've worked, and have received the "110% Award" from management from the week stayed as late as 9PM to make their deadlines, while crews I've been with have worked until 2, 3, 4, and 5AM for months to make deadlines based on shifting goalposts marketing pukes have decided were critical for presentations at E3, etc.

I fucking loathe both departments.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 10, 2015, 02:03:30 AM
I'll be honest. I hate every fucking department in a company. All of them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 10, 2015, 02:36:15 AM
Be born into a religion that excommunicates people for supporting LGBT rights while extolling that the church itself needs the right to discriminate brehs.
:goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 10, 2015, 02:41:01 AM
Be born into a religion that excommunicates people for supporting LGBT rights while extolling that the church itself needs the right to discriminate brehs.
:goty2

Not sure if you're still active in the church, but if so the only thing keeping you there is your unwillingness to deal with any fallout.

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 10, 2015, 02:47:41 AM
Be born into a religion that excommunicates people for supporting LGBT rights while extolling that the church itself needs the right to discriminate brehs.
:goty2

Not sure if you're still active in the church, but if so the only thing keeping you there is your unwillingness to deal with any fallout.

:ufup
We haven't gone to church in years. But still, almost all of my and my wife's family are still mormon, and nearly all of my wife's friends are mormon (I have a few, not many though). You can't escape something like the church easily.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 10, 2015, 04:04:23 AM
So from listening to y'all it sounds like alienating work is alienating.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 10, 2015, 04:34:07 AM
Started working in an environmental testing lab a month ago . My coworkers in this department are all female during the day including my supervisor, a 60-something Filipino woman who likes to gossip with me and compliment me but seems really condescending and bossy towards the women.

Anyways, today my boss' mmenopause was in full swing and she was criticising everything one of my coworkers was doing. I think she went to the bathroom a couple times to cry. When the supervisor went on lunch, it was really slow so I decided to calibrate the pipettes. The first one I picked up was totally busted  somehow so I put a big red tape on it and wrote the issue and time/date it was discovered, like you always do with lab equipment. I showed this to the crying coworker and she said that she'll show it to the supervisor when she comes back since my lunch break was about to start.

So I go and come back and that big ass piece of red tape warning everybody not to use it was gone and when I asked the supervisor if the coworker explained the issue to her, the supervisor glows red and starts screaming at the coworker about her habit of breaking lab equipment and trying to hide it and the coworker is just swearing on her daughters life (literally) that she didn't drop it. And now the supervisor is trying to figure out if my coworker is to blame or me, although I am the one that reported the issue and I haven't used the thing in two weeks since I'm still taking certification tests. Basically, we all know that my coworker broke it but we don't really know. I realized already that I was apparently brought in to replace a previous tech that wasn't really working out and now I'm guessing that this is the one so this is just a messy situation that might make me look potentially guilty to protect someone who might not work here for very long.

The best part of it is that I still haven't told the supervisor about the red warning label that went mysteriously missing since I don't want to get my coworker fired as she does have two children and is an immigrant. When I had to look up and email a form on my coworkers computer few days ago, I noticed that on her chrome homepages most visited sites, that she's definitely been looking for a new job but at the same time she said she's excited about the pay raise she'll get when she hits the one year mark in a few months. I don't plan to be here very long since I hope I get into grad school in 6 months (my bosses knew when hiring me) but I just can't think of anything to do or say in this situation.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 10, 2015, 07:50:13 AM
:larry

not a bad idea, but i might as well go whole hog and get the $1600 hiking boots too.

hot cougar loan consultant: what brings you to my office today, mr. user?

me: I'm here to take out a multi thousand dollar loan


for a jacket and shoes :patel

Who you kidding, you ain't no cac

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 10, 2015, 12:54:36 PM
dealing with people who don't get hints :snoop

I'm all for including people in stuff but man...some dudes are born to be reserved to the bushes. There's this guy at work who isn't a "bad" guy but is awkward as fuck. Like, Michael Scott awkward. I overheard some coworkers planning a get-together to watch some UFC shit. I don't fux with UFC so I already turned down an invitation. Anyway...

Coworker 1: So we're gonna head to BWW or something, but whichever place we should we have to get there early...
Coworker 2: My brother gets off work at x, he can save a table for us
Coworker 3: Perfect
Michael Scott: Hey fellas
Coworkers 1-3: Sup...
Michael Scott: You guys want to watch the fights at my house?
Coworker 1: Nah we're planning to head out
Michael Scott: Ah. Can I come?

Now...Michael Scott was once invited to chill with these dudes including me, at BWW last year. He took an L by trying to impress us by hitting on the waitress and making things incredibly awkward. Then he underpaid for his meal and left early; he pretended to go to the restroom and left, probably out of shame.
:brazilcry

At work the next day someone told him that he was short $5 and didn't leave a tip (we paid the remainder), and he tried to play it off like "oh...well the food was only worth $7 amirite guys!" Needless to say we haven't invited him to anything else since.

Fast foward back to the present...a coworker lied and said they reserved x seats so they didn't have room. Most people would respond to that by saying "oh...ok" but instead he said "well I can get a table next to you guys."
 :holeup

They shrugged it off and said the place will be packed, so the guy said "well if anyone cancels I'll take his seat. You have my digits, hit me up."
 :goty

He's an Asian guy who is <35yo and balding.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 10, 2015, 01:05:19 PM
 :neogaf

Take so many L's in 5 minutes breh...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 10, 2015, 01:08:16 PM
Kinda just feel bad for the guy, was probably homeschooled or something
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 10, 2015, 01:08:48 PM
Kinda just feel bad for the guy, was probably homeschooled or something

They apparently gave the dude a chance last time and he completely fucked it up. No fucks given.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 10, 2015, 01:12:19 PM
Dude was coming up the stairs with a ladder so I waited for him to come up.  I expected him to say thanks but instead he said 'how's in going' like I knew him.  I said 'Good' and went down the stairs without asking back but we kind of stared at eachother for a bit while I was processing the wrong reply and I could see he was expecting me to ask him back but I just let.  I could tell he thought me rude and not just awkward. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 10, 2015, 01:14:18 PM
Change it to Yancy, that's close enough, right?  :teehee
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 10, 2015, 01:14:53 PM
Dude was coming up the stairs with a ladder so I waited for him to come up.  I expected him to say thanks but instead he said 'how's in going' like I knew him.  I said 'Good' and went down the stairs without asking back but we kind of stared at eachother for a bit while I was processing the wrong reply and I could see he was expecting me to ask him back but I just let.  I could tell he thought me rude and not just awkward.

Take more time to think about the social interaction than the actual social interaction brehs...confidence is a biiiitccchhhh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 10, 2015, 01:16:10 PM
I know what you mean.  Every one goes 'Harvey?' after I say my name and I have to say no no.  I actually get excited when people get it right in one try. 

Sometimes makes me think if I should legally change my name to Bastardman so people don't talk to me. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 10, 2015, 01:38:03 PM
dealing with people who don't get hints :snoop

I'm all for including people in stuff but man...some dudes are born to be reserved to the bushes. There's this guy at work who isn't a "bad" guy but is awkward as fuck. Like, Michael Scott awkward. I overheard some coworkers planning a get-together to watch some UFC shit. I don't fux with UFC so I already turned down an invitation. Anyway...

Coworker 1: So we're gonna head to BWW or something, but whichever place we should we have to get there early...
Coworker 2: My brother gets off work at x, he can save a table for us
Coworker 3: Perfect
Michael Scott: Hey fellas
Coworkers 1-3: Sup...
Michael Scott: You guys want to watch the fights at my house?
Coworker 1: Nah we're planning to head out
Michael Scott: Ah. Can I come?

Now...Michael Scott was once invited to chill with these dudes including me, at BWW last year. He took an L by trying to impress us by hitting on the waitress and making things incredibly awkward. Then he underpaid for his meal and left early; he pretended to go to the restroom and left, probably out of shame.
:brazilcry

At work the next day someone told him that he was short $5 and didn't leave a tip (we paid the remainder), and he tried to play it off like "oh...well the food was only worth $7 amirite guys!" Needless to say we haven't invited him to anything else since.

Fast foward back to the present...a coworker lied and said they reserved x seats so they didn't have room. Most people would respond to that by saying "oh...ok" but instead he said "well I can get a table next to you guys."
 :holeup

They shrugged it off and said the place will be packed, so the guy said "well if anyone cancels I'll take his seat. You have my digits, hit me up."
 :goty

He's an Asian guy who is <35yo and balding.
Reminds me of when I was a little more abrasive and a coworker came over and was like "Hey puppy! You wanna go bowling after work?"
"Huh? No I'm knee deep in this and I don't really bowl."
"Oh come on."
"really dude? No. After I'm done with this I'm going straight home and hanging with the wife and kids."
"You sure? This is just so depressing, in my last company we all used to hang out and stuff."
"Well in this company we focus on doing our jobs."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 10, 2015, 02:31:48 PM
Kinda just feel bad for the guy, was probably homeschooled or something

They apparently gave the dude a chance last time and he completely fucked it up. No fucks given.

Yup. Plus if he had simply explained why he left in a decent fashion or apologized, we'd probably at least be open to chilling with him again. But he acts like it was no big deal/nothing happened.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 10, 2015, 02:38:10 PM
Kinda just feel bad for the guy, was probably homeschooled or something

They apparently gave the dude a chance last time and he completely fucked it up. No fucks given.

Yup. Plus if he had simply explained why he left in a decent fashion or apologized, we'd probably at least be open to chilling with him again. But he acts like it was no big deal/nothing happened.

See there is a fine line though to be honest. Give to much of a fuck? The Bushes.....Don't give a fuck? The Bushes

All I know is accountants never forget and never forgive, gotta be on eggshells around you niccas, for real.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 10, 2015, 02:56:05 PM
I have a similar friend of a friend that I try to avoid, he's in his mid-twenties and extremely needy yet rude/entitled towards people.

But he's a very overweight and rapidly balding actor who hasn't starred in a play since high school so I kind of get it that he's a depressed shit bag who hates everyone. He was also the only real bully I ever had so I try to fake some concern for what his next step in life is. Unfortunately, he moved out to a house his grandma left him in some suburb next Sacramento so I probably won't see him ever again.
Been kinda annoyed with the whole song and dance that comes with telling people my name. Especially since my name doesn't have any letters that aren't found in english or a different pronunciation in arabic. The worst is when I give my name to someone and they try their damned hardest to pronounce it in a way they think sounds arabic, in a way where it's all "you don't have to dumb down your name for me, I'm cultured" bullshit.

Sometimes makes me think if I should legally change my name to Jack or something and be done with it.

My first name is Sarmad, even middle-easterners get confused but having a unique name is nice sometimes. I thought your name was something popular like Omar for some reason.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 10, 2015, 04:05:33 PM
All I know is accountants never forget and never forgive, gotta be on eggshells around you niccas, for real.

Occupational hazard of spending the majority of the time living in the past but unlike, say, a historian, you have to live in the past under immutable rules you have to remember. Also a priest codified our fundamental rules.

We talk sooooo much shit when it's just us chickens. :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 10, 2015, 07:24:02 PM
Is there anything worse than pooping with a deadline?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 10, 2015, 08:47:02 PM
Is there anything worse than pooping with a deadline?

Like when your boss wants to see that poop on his desk by 4:30 or you're fired?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 10, 2015, 09:19:32 PM
not really a struggle of the day but more of a struggle of the month.

i think i'm firmly set in hating my job. i used to be kind of 50/50 on it and it swung like a pendulum depending on how shit was going. but the last month has just been astonishingly frustrating. bout a month ago i was told i'd be getting a solid raise and the freedom to do pursue whatever i wanted with no significant oversight.

4 weeks later i'm busier than ever because they refused to hire the help that was promised in order to free me up. i'm stuck under the thumb of the laziest person i've ever met. i got put on a team pursuing a new segment that they're too chickenshit/broke to put any real resources and support behind. and because i'm so busy during the day they expect me to just pursue this shit in my off hours when i'm not getting paid. 

all while they're still dangling the promise of a raise out like a twinkie for a fat kid on a treadmill. and after i spent a good 3 weeks in january bailing them out in production because they don't know how to plan for our biggest season of the year. still crushed my goal while i barely sat at my desk and im pretty sure im the only person that's hit every month since i started.

i need a new employer to save me from this (http://i.imgur.com/560PZlL.png)

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 10, 2015, 09:57:11 PM
I realized that a Fourth International shirt would be the most ironic piece of clothing I could wear but then it dawned on me that anyone seeing me in one wouldn't get the irony. And while that's the case with other casual wear of mine too, being mistaken for an EADS employee is not like being mistaken for a Trot.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 10, 2015, 10:05:00 PM
Is there anything worse than pooping with a deadline?

Like when your boss wants to see that poop on his desk by 4:30 or you're fired?

Like when your insides feel like they're boiling and the alarm gets set in 10 minutes
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 10, 2015, 10:54:45 PM
Gotta a 5am meeting tomorrow with my England team.

Getting sleep deprived.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 11, 2015, 12:52:37 PM
My Marxism mom has become a white Maoist. I think I should have a funeral or something.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 11, 2015, 06:58:03 PM
Honestly I get that there are plenty of consultants out there that are more interested in the bottom dollar than doing what's right. I get that. We're not a charity. But that doesn't mean that everything I say is biased towards money. Sometimes when I'm telling you that you really shouldn't try to better your vision by taking that sharp flaming iron poker and sticking it in your eye I'm not just telling you that because I'd make money selling you glasses, but more because after 15 years of watching people put sharp flaming iron pokers in their eye I know it is not conducive to better vision.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 11, 2015, 07:03:20 PM
The steakhouse we're going to for Vday just called to say they are only going to serve beer and wine that night. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Dickie Dee on February 11, 2015, 07:09:37 PM
A fifth of my team got laid off and we all have to take 7% across the board pay cuts  :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 11, 2015, 07:11:59 PM
A fifth of my team got laid off and we all have to take 7% across the board pay cuts  :shaq2
Holy hell! Most companies are raking in the cash. What industry are you in?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Dickie Dee on February 11, 2015, 07:18:11 PM
A fifth of my team got laid off and we all have to take 7% across the board pay cuts  :shaq2
Holy hell! Most companies are raking in the cash. What industry are you in?

Oil and Gas :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 11, 2015, 07:19:47 PM
dealing with people who don't get hints :snoop

I'm all for including people in stuff but man...some dudes are born to be reserved to the bushes. There's this guy at work who isn't a "bad" guy but is awkward as fuck. Like, Michael Scott awkward. I overheard some coworkers planning a get-together to watch some UFC shit. I don't fux with UFC so I already turned down an invitation. Anyway...

Coworker 1: So we're gonna head to BWW or something, but whichever place we should we have to get there early...
Coworker 2: My brother gets off work at x, he can save a table for us
Coworker 3: Perfect
Michael Scott: Hey fellas
Coworkers 1-3: Sup...
Michael Scott: You guys want to watch the fights at my house?
Coworker 1: Nah we're planning to head out
Michael Scott: Ah. Can I come?

Now...Michael Scott was once invited to chill with these dudes including me, at BWW last year. He took an L by trying to impress us by hitting on the waitress and making things incredibly awkward. Then he underpaid for his meal and left early; he pretended to go to the restroom and left, probably out of shame.
:brazilcry

At work the next day someone told him that he was short $5 and didn't leave a tip (we paid the remainder), and he tried to play it off like "oh...well the food was only worth $7 amirite guys!" Needless to say we haven't invited him to anything else since.

Fast foward back to the present...a coworker lied and said they reserved x seats so they didn't have room. Most people would respond to that by saying "oh...ok" but instead he said "well I can get a table next to you guys."
 :holeup

They shrugged it off and said the place will be packed, so the guy said "well if anyone cancels I'll take his seat. You have my digits, hit me up."
 :goty

He's an Asian guy who is <35yo and balding.
Reminds me of when I was a little more abrasive and a coworker came over and was like "Hey puppy! You wanna go bowling after work?"
"Huh? No I'm knee deep in this and I don't really bowl."
"Oh come on."
"really dude? No. After I'm done with this I'm going straight home and hanging with the wife and kids."
"You sure? This is just so depressing, in my last company we all used to hang out and stuff."
"Well in this company we focus on doing our jobs."

This is how you end up 40 with no friends, ronito.
I'm a consultant dude. I wont be seeing anyone I work with after 6 months anyway.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 11, 2015, 07:20:20 PM
A fifth of my team got laid off and we all have to take 7% across the board pay cuts  :shaq2
Holy hell! Most companies are raking in the cash. What industry are you in?

Oil and Gas :shaq2
oh yeah. That.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 11, 2015, 10:07:49 PM
Amazing how many companies don't understand

(http://i.imgur.com/DctApad.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 12, 2015, 03:45:24 AM
welp I'm over this stomach flu, but now it's 3 am and I'm not tired at all. I revert back to nocturnal mode whenever I'm off work too long. fortunately I don't have to feel guilty about calling in one more day bc of that stupid policy that makes you need a doctors note if you want to get back thru the door.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 12, 2015, 08:35:22 AM
I can't help but be equally impressed and annoyed by my cat's ability to do exactly what I don't want her to do. Recently I started letting her come into my room after I go to bed; I'll leave the door open enough for her to come in, sleep on my bed, etc. But instead of cherishing the priviledge of being in my room after 11PM she decides to act like a fool.

She'll be cool for 30 minutes...then will start climbing up my window curtains. And when I put her out/close the door she has the audacity to cry like she doesn't know why I banished her ass.
:brazilcry

During the day when she jumps on the curtails I'll spray her with a water bottle but she never changes her behavior. I have two rules. TWO. Don't lay down near my computer (it has a side fan) and don't fuck with the curtains. And that's all she wants to do when in my room.
:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 12, 2015, 09:37:52 AM
You need to spray her before she gets on the curtain. And/or provide an outlet for that instinct you're okay with for her.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 12, 2015, 02:01:54 PM
Trying to set up this server on a RAID 6 with 6 900gb drives and get about 3.3TB space. Windows 2012 R2 takes 1.3TB and says it's unallocated and basically unusable. It gives me no option do anything with it.  :mindblown
I've never ran into this before. RAID 6 is expensive as it is to have another 1.3TB not be available. :comeon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 12, 2015, 02:05:27 PM
Trying to set up this server on a RAID 6 with 6 900gb drives and get about 3.3TB space. Windows 2012 R2 takes 1.3TB and says it's unallocated and basically unusable. It gives me no option do anything with it.  :mindblown
I've never ran into this before. RAID 6 is expensive as it is to have another 1.3TB not be available. :comeon

:ohhh

Asked my Server Storage guy about it, I'll report back if there's a way to reduce the footprint breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 12, 2015, 02:10:00 PM
We've had a few close calls where RAID 5 still lost data after 1 failed drive. RAID 10 is a little too expensive for what we want to do. I'll do it I have too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 12, 2015, 02:36:22 PM
I"m so glad that I got a guy who deals with that crap.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 12, 2015, 04:28:17 PM
pd a cat is never gonna sleep the whole night thru. just give it a place outside your room to sleep, and then come up with something to make sure it'll regret whining at your door, i.e. an ass whooping or chasing it away.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 12, 2015, 04:32:37 PM
That's not really a good idea, hitting a cat doesn't work like hitting a dog. A dog will submit under those conditions, a cat will only learn fear or distrust from it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: MrAngryFace on February 12, 2015, 04:34:29 PM
Hitting doesn't 'work' with any animal.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 12, 2015, 04:43:13 PM
Hitting doesn't 'work' with any animal.

I certainly hope no one took my post to mean hitting dogs is okay -- there are much more harmonious ways to train a dog -- but the truth is dogs will respond to violence with submission. Cats won't.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 12, 2015, 05:31:34 PM
can't fucking find my right boxing glove

:ufup

edit: nevermind, awesome (http://i.imgur.com/qBsuB5s.png) hidden under some luggage. also found an old jacket i was missing.

playing Skyrim IRL
:lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 12, 2015, 05:37:25 PM
the idea of misplacing a jacket :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 12, 2015, 05:54:49 PM
A fifth of my team got laid off and we all have to take 7% across the board pay cuts  :shaq2
Holy hell! Most companies are raking in the cash. What industry are you in?

Oil and Gas :shaq2

Wow, how strange! You’d think they’d have had some money saved up!

So of course this means when gas prices go up, you always got a raise and profit sharing, right?

 :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 12, 2015, 05:56:03 PM
Baby has been sleeping for two hours but I cant fall asleep

I know that when I fall asleep the baby will wake up

Thank god tomorrow I only have 3 meetings and am way behind my targets
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 12, 2015, 06:43:25 PM
the 5 tender strip meal with red beans and rice + biscuit was too much Popeye's.  and the large drink, which was the biggest large I've ever seen.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 12, 2015, 07:09:24 PM
the 5 tender strip meal with red beans and rice + biscuit was too much Popeye's.  and the large drink, which was the biggest large I've ever seen.

:heretic

Pretty sure there’s no such thing as “too much Popeye’s."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 12, 2015, 07:24:31 PM
Worried I'm going to be too sick to go to 6 am happy hour on  Saturday. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 12, 2015, 08:48:45 PM
Woke up at 4am with the runs and sit on the toilet until 4:45am. (Thanks, Esch)
CEO forgets what timezone I'm on and wakes me back up at 5:30 am
Been working since and still have hours to go before I'm done.
I have to write a massive feasibility study then give a 3 hour long presentation about it to client VPs and my CEO next week and my CEO wants to do a "dry run" the day before which in essence takes an additional work day away from me working on the feasibility study.
And if we land this deal, what do I get? I don't know...too busy to negotiate right now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 12, 2015, 08:53:34 PM
You complain when you get the wet runs and you complain when you get the dry runs.  Make up your mind dude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 12, 2015, 09:00:02 PM
You complain when you get the wet runs and you complain when you get the dry runs.  Make up your mind dude.
Ok I gotta admit, this is pretty clever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 12, 2015, 11:35:08 PM
the 5 tender strip meal with red beans and rice + biscuit was too much Popeye's.  and the large drink, which was the biggest large I've ever seen.

:heretic

Pretty sure there’s no such thing as “too much Popeye’s."


when lentils and steamed spinach sound good for dinner, that's when you've had too much
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 13, 2015, 10:08:54 AM
the flower site i used to get flowers for my girl is apparently a giant scam and my flowers will very likely never get delivered. the track my order feature has suddenly stopped working, they never responded to my customer support form, and their line is just busy.

made the mistake of hinting at something happening today to her so i had to tell her about it. fucking sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 13, 2015, 10:35:43 AM
Bad move, you should have behind the scenes made something else work! Never admit defeat on Valentine's!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 13, 2015, 10:52:10 AM
2 hour school delay since the wind chill was greater than -20 degrees F. It's gonna be a cold next few days.  :comeon :shaq2 :dayum
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 13, 2015, 11:58:10 AM
2 hour school delay since the wind chill was greater than -20 degrees F. It's gonna be a cold next few days.  :comeon :shaq2 :dayum
Fuck dude, it was 72 degrees F here and beautiful yesterday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 13, 2015, 12:27:13 PM
Man, I hate having to get things from people that are dumb enough they got themselves in a situation where they will be fired soon but are just smart enough to know that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 13, 2015, 01:49:05 PM
Taco Bell breakfast... Just isn't good
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 13, 2015, 01:51:53 PM
Every now and then I'm get a bacon AM crunchwrap. Nothing else on the menu looks appetizing at all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 13, 2015, 01:56:27 PM
I heard a promotion on the radio, they were giving away free Cinnabon delights if you got their flavored coffee. I watched them make it in some kuerig knock off. The cinnabon delights are still awesome, but the burrito I got was questionable. I probably didn't choose well though, don't know what I was thinking getting country gravy in something from Taco Bell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 13, 2015, 02:11:17 PM
Hatin' on the crunchwrap?
:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 13, 2015, 03:18:02 PM
I had it a few times when it was new, and they managed to burn the insides both times so I gave up
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 13, 2015, 04:42:48 PM
I need one of those cuticle cutter things, but the dollar store only sells super girly looking ones and I'm too ashamed to bring it up to the till. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 13, 2015, 08:59:55 PM
Bad move, you should have behind the scenes made something else work! Never admit defeat on Valentine's!

I wake up and find out they actually did arrive. Crisis averted.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 13, 2015, 09:47:46 PM
Bad move, you should have behind the scenes made something else work! Never admit defeat on Valentine's!

I wake up and find out they actually did arrive. Crisis averted.

cool, so it'll be a surprise for her after all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on February 13, 2015, 09:50:45 PM
Bad move, you should have behind the scenes made something else work! Never admit defeat on Valentine's!

I wake up and find out they actually did arrive. Crisis averted.

cool, so it'll be a surprise for her after all.

yup. i was up and check my phone and she texted me when i was sleeping and put a picture on facebook.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 13, 2015, 10:08:59 PM
I need one of those cuticle cutter things, but the dollar store only sells super girly looking ones and I'm too ashamed to bring it up to the till.

It's the dollar store, they've seen worse.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 13, 2015, 10:23:51 PM
But I've never been down that low.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 14, 2015, 02:48:42 PM
I want to get a pizza for one, which I don't really want in the long run because I'm all fat again, but want in the short term because I'm hungry and want some carbs, but then I remembered its valentines day and I think that would be more shameful. 

Being a woman sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 14, 2015, 05:09:27 PM
Pizza is right, no matter what. Learn from your warlike southern neighbors
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 14, 2015, 10:50:50 PM
njoy ecigs are bullshit!  gotta order some new coils and juice for my real ecig.  :-\

I want to get a pizza for one, which I don't really want in the long run because I'm all fat again, but want in the short term because I'm hungry and want some carbs, but then I remembered its valentines day and I think that would be more shameful. 

Being a woman sucks.

i had some pizza and 2 cadbury eggs for dinner.  just don't get two cadbury eggs and you won't be at the bottom!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 14, 2015, 11:15:10 PM
They took Spooks off Netflix. :tocry

I can't watch "The Russian" (aka the funniest episode of anything) on demand anymore. :ussrcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 14, 2015, 11:58:10 PM
Finished a day of work-at-home plus all the Mr. Mom activities and a 2 hour workout with a trip to my neighbor'a party. Four hours and four bottles of sake later, I managed to crash at 2AM.

Today has been spent remembering that I'm not in college any longer.

Ouch.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on February 15, 2015, 12:05:53 AM
Instead of plugging in my work hours & writing up my invoice (because I'm a contracted worker. not an employee) I drank a bunch of beer and dicked around the internet today.

I mean, I could get this stuff knocked out in a hour or two but my attention span is pretty much shot by the time the weekend comes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 15, 2015, 12:48:40 AM
N/T
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 15, 2015, 06:14:51 PM
After today I'm going to have to cut off contact with my only sibling. :shaq2

I should probably stop going :pacspit at the skeins of causality, I keep getting dished the L.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 16, 2015, 02:34:37 AM
._.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on February 16, 2015, 03:14:03 AM
Since I'm the only girl around these parts not sexually frustrated/obsessed with 50 Shades, I spent part of the day reading the first book in the trilogy.

Got 90% through it and gave up. It's fucking horrible, which I expected, but even the sex is fucking boring. The author keeps repeating herself, and keeps using British terms when the book is set in the PNW and written in 1st person.

I'd say a good quarter of the book consists of emails between Anastasia and Christian. One after another, fucking 10 in a row. Omfg kill me now.

Did myself a huge favor and read the wikis for all three books. Wow, dodged a fucking bullet there. They end up agreeing to boring sex and ditching the kinky stuff (that never got all that kinky), and the rest of the trilogy is about people trying to kill or kidnap them. Shut fucking up.

So now instead of pretending to be interested in conversation, I have to hide my pity that these women at work have such horrible sex lives that this shit seems exciting.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on February 16, 2015, 03:37:37 AM
After today I'm going to have to cut off contact with my only sibling. :shaq2

I should probably stop going :pacspit at the skeins of causality, I keep getting dished the L.

I had...have siblings. They're very far gone now. This family line is basically dead except for me... :dayum

Maybe I can produce a few bastard children...:goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 16, 2015, 10:24:25 AM
Started out with -13 degree weather this morning.

Car would not start. Had to pull the wife's car out of the garage at 6am to jump start the son of a bitch and that required about 15 minutes in the freezer we call ohio.

Then waited 20 minutes while a ignorant dicksniffer played more lottery at one time then I have played in my life.

Then got to the office and we have a frozen pipe somewhere in the building so I can't take a shit.

Today can fuck itself, hard.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 16, 2015, 10:35:33 AM
Yeah, the house was down to 62 degrees this morning. It was -10 at 10:30 last night.  :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 16, 2015, 10:51:01 AM
Saw two homeless people outside with signs. -9 degree weather. Fuck...maybe I can't look at the issue realistically since I've never been homeless, but I can't imagine standing outside in this weather. There's a university and a community college within 15-30 minutes of the street corner they were panhandling on. Why not head there and chill in the library. I know the community college's library allows computer access without having a student account...that's where I'd be, in this weather. Nobody is opening their car window to give panhandlers money in this weather.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 16, 2015, 01:31:56 PM
I bet it's actually a time where more people feel bad and give money
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on February 16, 2015, 04:34:57 PM
I need to lose 225 lbs to be thin again :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 16, 2015, 04:48:56 PM
I need to lose 225 lbs to be thin again :snoop

Are you on the west coast, or somewhere that isn't buried in snow? Just increasing your daily walking will help you lose weight. Of course you also have to start eating better breh. Get some fish, sauté some veggies...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 16, 2015, 04:54:13 PM
Or just eat all the skinny people and become the new norm.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on February 16, 2015, 05:39:43 PM
How I lost weight and remain thin 'til this day:
#1: Avoid “white” starchy carbohydrates. This means all bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and grains.
#2: Eat the same few meals over and over again, especially for breakfast and lunch. I eat a fuck ton of eggs, chicken, broccoli, mushrooms, and carrots.
#3: Don’t drink calories. Beer, soda, and juice are big no-nos. Exception: 1-2 glasses of dry red wine per night is allowed.
#4: Don’t eat fruit. (Fructose –> glycerol phosphate –> more bodyfat, more or less.) Avocado and tomatoes are fine.
#5: Take one day off per week and pig out on all the delicious junk food you want (a.k.a. Cheat Day). I choose and recommend Saturday.

Also, I was addicted to soda a couple of years ago but once I weened myself off of that an onto seltzer water and finally water I was able to shed pounds rather quickly.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 16, 2015, 05:45:44 PM
The most weight I gained in my life was 100% diet. I ate potatoes nearly every day early in my college years. They were cheap and versatile - sometimes I'd make fries, mashed potatoes, oven roasted w/garlic, etc. Had to throw them in the bushes after gaining a ridiculous pot belly.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 16, 2015, 06:02:05 PM
At 2 pounds a week it's going to take you awhile, Stealth, but you can do it. If you get your calorie intake under control at the beginning, the weight is just going to fall right off.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 16, 2015, 10:04:24 PM
Been getting annoyed with my sensitive as fuck brother. I usually leave him alone as I don't want a crabby bitch for a roommate most nights, but sometimes he decides to harken back to our family tradition of harsh insults and can't deal with my comebacks. Me? I'm usually fine, I can deal with horrible insults lobbed my way. My brother? Gets passive aggressive and bitchy.

Today he made some joke over my shirt lifting up when I stretched, I got a bit of a belly lately due to my diet. Responded back with calling him a midget due to how he's a bit shorter than me and I could see the anguish in his face. He's only 5'7, that's not THAT short. Dude started being passive aggressive about everything. And I'm getting really annoyed, as I'd rather not play babysitter to his emotional bitch self when that comes out.
You ever tell him not to dish it out if he can’t take it in reply? Unless it’s limited to the family dynamic, that shit’s going to keep him down for the rest of his life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 16, 2015, 10:23:10 PM
it's just money right? easy come easy go. but damn i hate seeing a check go out before i even get it. car maintenance is a bitch.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 17, 2015, 12:57:47 AM
KUSC made me listen to the score from Interstellar.

Then I had to listen to an interview with Hans Zimmer where he illuminated me with such facts as, "l don't know how pipe organs work," and the host asked him if Bach was his "hommie."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 17, 2015, 03:05:50 PM
it's just money right? easy come easy go. but damn i hate seeing a check go out before i even get it. car maintenance is a bitch.

I have another year of that life due to college bills. At least I did the good thing and went with a lower ranked UC which gave me enough grants to have free tuition but still, system is fucked.

I do have to drive 500 miles a week for work tho but bless  fracking/Muslim being sectarian fuckos.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 17, 2015, 03:16:21 PM
Apparently there's trouble renewing my passport. Which is strange since there's no issues whatsoever that would lead to this. My assumption is either that my dad is incompetent or someone at SACM reaaaally doesn't like me. My dad said I had to go LA for the passport renewal. Not sure what he means by that. Going to be an interestingly awful next few days.

That's not a good thing man. You're on some sort of list whether by blind draw or somebody making shit up. Prepare to be grilled.

Bureau of Consular Affairs, breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 17, 2015, 03:19:01 PM
Don't worry bro, I got your back. 


Death has no intentions of blowing up government buildings, NSA.  You can believe me; I'm white. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 17, 2015, 03:46:59 PM
Be my RDP, Z, we'll get you on the green card express. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 17, 2015, 03:50:18 PM
Well, I hope you don't share a name with someone who actually has dirt on them.  :derp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 17, 2015, 04:24:58 PM
How the fuck does looking at 2 kitten flea bath videos mean I want to be recommended disgusting worm videos?

The fuck Youtube?  :mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 17, 2015, 04:35:53 PM
O you want worm videos?   Check your PMs. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 17, 2015, 04:47:18 PM
Be my RDP, Z, we'll get you on the green card express. :noah

RDP?

http://www.irs.gov/uac/Answers-to-Frequently-Asked-Questions-for-Registered-Domestic-Partners-and-Individuals-in-Civil-Unions
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 18, 2015, 09:04:41 AM
struggle of last night

mom forced me to dance at a fundraiser event to mustang sally as interpreted by four 60 year old white men   :tocry

my parents can both dance way better than me :tocry

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 09:10:01 AM
struggle of last night

mom forced me to dance at a fundraiser event to mustang sally as interpreted by four 60 year old white men   :tocry

my parents can both dance way better than me :tocry

Man nothing to be upset about, ain't no different for me. I can tear up new shit but I can't fuck with my elder relatives when it comes to dancing to motown. My mom can tear that shit up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 18, 2015, 09:10:21 AM
How the fuck does looking at 2 kitten flea bath videos mean I want to be recommended disgusting worm videos?

The fuck Youtube?  :mindblown

just don't look up Senran Kagura on amazon or your recs will be like "here are these weeb games, pedo"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 18, 2015, 10:04:42 AM
struggle of last night

mom forced me to dance at a fundraiser event to mustang sally as interpreted by four 60 year old white men   :tocry

my parents can both dance way better than me :tocry

Man nothing to be upset about, ain't no different for me. I can tear up new shit but I can't fuck with my elder relatives when it comes to dancing to motown. My mom can tear that shit up.

true.

grow up dancing to fu-schnickens in jr high   :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 10:07:55 AM
struggle of last night

mom forced me to dance at a fundraiser event to mustang sally as interpreted by four 60 year old white men   :tocry

my parents can both dance way better than me :tocry

Man nothing to be upset about, ain't no different for me. I can tear up new shit but I can't fuck with my elder relatives when it comes to dancing to motown. My mom can tear that shit up.

true.

grow up dancing to fu-schnickens in jr high   :goty2

Fu-schnickens and Das Efx

:lawd

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 10:17:57 AM
Esch

:lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 10:24:37 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Fq-S1rMAc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9F5xcpjDMU
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Young ass Busta Rhymes

:lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 18, 2015, 01:46:10 PM
Someone got fired today. I had to euthanize him in the digital realm.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 01:48:26 PM
Someone got fired today. I had to euthanize him in the digital realm.

Ah the ol' IT knew you were getting fired before you did game.

Had a guy call me once "Hey AiA is our email down?"....."Not that I know of, come see me in the office today please"

:ufup  IT guy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 18, 2015, 02:46:33 PM
Young ass Busta Rhymes

:lawd

The Coming and When Disaster Strikes...  :whew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW3jrotyx7A

I miss this dude man  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2015, 02:50:57 PM
Just had terrible sushi.  Shit was like sand.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on February 18, 2015, 03:22:47 PM
Just had terrible sushi.  Shit was like sand.

Bad sushi especially sucks.  There's a a place in the food court at work that has sushi.  Obviously not the place to expect anything anywhere near stellar, but I went there and almost threw up some really awful red tuna nigiri.   :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 03:28:12 PM
Too much fat tuesday for me....feel like poop.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 18, 2015, 03:43:50 PM
Just had terrible sushi.  Shit was like sand.

Bad sushi especially sucks.  There's a a place in the food court at work that has sushi.  Obviously not the place to expect anything anywhere near stellar, but I went there and almost threw up some really awful red tuna nigiri.   :yuck

Getting nigiri at a trash tier level sushi place

:neogaf

Stick to the basic bitch rolls at those places and you should be fine
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 18, 2015, 04:16:36 PM
Bad meat served rare. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 18, 2015, 04:31:18 PM
Saw this headline: NICK GORDON TWEETS TATTOO OF BKB and I wondered why anyone would get a Black King Bar tattoo.

I haven't played Dota on the reg for almost a year.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 18, 2015, 04:32:26 PM
Still snowed the fuck in

Trash pickup still scheduled for Thursday as usual


seems legit (http://i4.minus.com/iVGnaNzbKbSsp.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 18, 2015, 05:03:32 PM
Too much fat tuesday for me....feel like poop.



I ate an entire bag of oreos yesterday.  Pretty sure it took 2 years off my life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 18, 2015, 05:15:15 PM
God, if I could kill myself with oreos I so would.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on February 18, 2015, 05:25:11 PM
I could crush some oreos right now but it would definitely have to be the white ones though (vanilla oreos > regular oreos 4 life).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 18, 2015, 06:29:54 PM
I could crush some oreos right now but it would definitely have to be the white ones though (vanilla oreos > regular oreos 4 life).

 :hitler


Regulars or nothing at all for me
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 18, 2015, 06:39:49 PM
Flying out to meet executives of a client and give a huge presentation who's whole essence can be summarized as


"You fucked  :yeshrug"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 07:01:30 PM
God, if I could kill myself with oreos I so would.

Oreos + Ice cold milk.  :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 18, 2015, 07:22:28 PM
I think I'm alone in this, but double stuff is too much creme. It's all about the cookie. Milk is a must.

Birthday cake Oreos are pretty fuckin good btw
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on February 18, 2015, 07:39:12 PM
I think I'm alone in this, but double stuff is too much creme. It's all about the cookie. Milk is a must.

Birthday cake Oreos are pretty fuckin good btw
Plus packaged double stuff takes away the satisfaction of manually attaching two detached creamsided cookies. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 18, 2015, 07:41:37 PM
Quote
manually attaching two detached creamsided cookies. :noah

Sounds like what PD is doing for his birthday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: mormapope on February 18, 2015, 10:16:16 PM
Regular oreos are way better than double stuffed, the best part of an oreo is the chocolate cookie part, the creme just compliments the cookie.

The gimmick oreo flavors amount to a game of Russian roulette, some are really good, some are pretty bad.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 18, 2015, 10:29:57 PM
Yeah I really liked the birthday cake like I said, but the red velvet were awful.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 19, 2015, 05:40:20 AM
Pretty sure I'm never going to get REM sleep again. That can kill you, right? :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 19, 2015, 05:41:38 AM
Regular Oreos, and I don’t need any of that partially-hydrogenated cream garbage. The chocolate cookie portion of an Oreo is manna from Nabisco heaven.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 19, 2015, 05:23:11 PM
girl at the glasses store was very nice, trying to get me to talk, made a random video game joke (like what, really?), and I was all one word answers and "let's just get this business transaction over with"  :'(     I'm a terse douche when I'm hungry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2015, 05:24:45 PM
Everyone only wants to talk about stupid GAF and stupid the Order  :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 19, 2015, 05:42:26 PM
"Hey can you work this weekend?"

And so it begins... :salute
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2015, 05:47:19 PM
Everyone only wants to talk about stupid GAF and stupid the Order  :shaq2

You know why the GAF thread exists, stop doing this to yourself.

I know bro, I'm just lamenting the fact that it's sucking up all the activity we have today :lol

I want to argue about cocks or something :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 19, 2015, 06:06:00 PM
some dude at work took time out of his day to print this out as a humorous joke "that will make you think."
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-PZdwJIAAAD3U7.jpg)

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2015, 06:06:36 PM
Make me think he's a dumbass, maybe
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 19, 2015, 06:23:57 PM
Hm I smoke dope. Maybe I can be president too.

Makes u think...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2015, 06:34:17 PM
:lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 19, 2015, 07:41:38 PM
Have to fly southwest with the plebs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 19, 2015, 07:49:53 PM
Have to fly southwest with the plebs

post if ur ok
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 19, 2015, 08:13:38 PM
Have to fly southwest with the plebs
Enjoy your cattle-call boarding, and the “humorous” flight attendants.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 19, 2015, 11:06:07 PM
Went to grab some Taco Bell today cause fuck it. They asked me to pull my car around, so I do. I wait around for a bit and then a lady in a Taco Bell uniform comes out, looks at me, looks at the food she's carrying and then walks really quickly to the car next to me. Five minutes later, the dude comes out and asks if anyone brought out my order. I tell him about the lady and he says "Oh shit".

The Taco Bell lady stole my food.  :gloomy

On the plus side, I got like 3x the amount of free food than I ordered (free tacos, burrito, cinnamon jizz balls, apple pie things, and a soda and I only ordered a potato taco and some nachos supreme) and the manager came out to apologize. So that's nice. Still, I spent 20 minutes waiting in a Taco Bell parking lot tonight. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 19, 2015, 11:43:32 PM
That wasn’t a crime, that was winning the Taco Bell Lottery.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 19, 2015, 11:48:13 PM
Yeah the struggle was mainly waiting around at Taco Bell forever. But it was worth it in the end.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 20, 2015, 08:16:10 AM
I have to go to a Babies R Us today, to get a registry gift, for a "Jack and Jill" baby shower tomorrow, for my friends, third kid.   :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 20, 2015, 09:15:01 AM
Baby shower for a 3rd kid? Don't they have all the stuff left over from the first 2? I guess I can see it if the first 2 are 10 years older.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 20, 2015, 11:51:35 AM
Baby shower for a 3rd kid? Don't they have all the stuff left over from the first 2?

sayin!

I guess I can see it if the first 2 are 10 years older.

nope.   :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 20, 2015, 12:57:31 PM
I have to go to a Babies R Us today, to get a registry gift, for a "Jack and Jill" baby shower tomorrow, for my friends, third kid.   :shaq2

This is why you order shit online and have it shipped, breh

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 20, 2015, 01:24:15 PM
It's donation drive weekend on KUSC, which means instead of offbeat playlists it's proletkult outchea. I had to listen to the overture from Barber of Seville just now. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 20, 2015, 02:09:31 PM
I have to go to a Babies R Us today, to get a registry gift, for a "Jack and Jill" baby shower tomorrow, for my friends, third kid.   :shaq2

This is why you order shit online and have it shipped, breh

:ufup

just found out last night about the registry  :tocry



Regular oreos are way better than double stuffed, the best part of an oreo is the chocolate cookie part, the creme just compliments the cookie.

The gimmick oreo flavors amount to a game of Russian roulette, some are really good, some are pretty bad.

(http://i.imgur.com/WDaHL8E.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 20, 2015, 02:16:55 PM
At various points today, I'll get to hear Dennis Bartell, Alan Chapman, AND Rich Caparella solicit me for money.

Jim Svedja has the most entertaining donation drive soliloquies, but I probably won't be driving during the evening hour.

:dead :mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 20, 2015, 03:13:33 PM
Just got an email that there is a new person starting Monday and to get their equipment ready. :comeon  :bolo

After 3pm on a Friday... :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on February 20, 2015, 03:49:30 PM
Lessee-

My left wrist also started hurting after I woke up yesterday.  I'd think it was PC-related but I use a mouse with my right hand.

Today is fucking dragging on and on and on.  Only got like 45 minutes left but the work day has felt like three days combined.  Have a lot of packing left to do before getting out of our apartment and time is running out.  This is the only full weekend we have left-- have to be out on the 28th.  I just want to get the fuck home and get to it!   :punch

Just got an email that there is a new person starting Monday and to get their equipment ready. :comeon  :bolo

After 3pm on a Friday... :ufup

I feel for you.  I see these kinds of requests come through us at the worst possible times and think how much it must suck for the techs to have to rush to get things set up because some lazy idiot couldn't email earlier.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 20, 2015, 04:14:47 PM
I like to act like it's a big deal and then deliver like it was nothing.  :win
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 20, 2015, 09:32:19 PM
Hit a pothole and blew out a tire this afternoon. This was not helped by the fact that I was running on ~3 hours of sleep because I stayed out until after 2am last night drafting MTG. I need to stop doing that, but those 17-21y/o punk-ass kids ain't gonna kick their own asses (although, bless their hearts, they try).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 20, 2015, 10:00:45 PM
Honestly, I would give them money for all the good content I get but don't complain about on the internet even with the insufferable panhandling and promises of bad compact disc collections, but it'll be a cold day in hell before I write a check to USC.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 20, 2015, 11:56:23 PM
Didn't go to Babies R Us tonight--got drunk instead--so now I have to go early in the morning, fml.

PS.
All that's left on the registry is gag, bra/panty stuff, fml x2.

obviously I ain't going out like that, so I'll get some other baby related non sense instead.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 21, 2015, 12:08:28 AM
Pardon my unfamiliarity with normal social customs, but the idea of asking for adult underwear for a baby shower is :holeup. You have at least 3 holidays to get that shit at, the shower is a celebration of your poor life decisions. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 21, 2015, 01:53:43 PM
Every night as I try to sleep my mind is like waves broken on rocks but not yet drawn back into the sea, which is a cliched metaphor for saying I'm fucking bonkers after X hours of working and Y hours of chemical additives and Z hours of privation.

Anyway, during this stage last night I decided that it would be a good idea to learn Esperanto. When you are quite literally a rootless cosmopolitan, why not take up a constructed culture?

Plus despite its artificial nature it's still a eurocentric and sexist language so I can feed my insatiable need to feel guilty. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 21, 2015, 03:39:48 PM
Aside from the USC-UCLA football game I actually haven't much followed sport of any kind for months. The only pleasures left are reading and agriculture and I'm not a kibbutznik yet.

I do think about utterly ridiculous things no matter the circumstance, however.

On a related note, I don't much care for a comrade at the commune's main squeeze but today I noticed they had a John Player Special world champion sticker on their straight out of the first Fast and the Furious movie tuned hooptie and I had to begrudgingly give them props for having good taste in Formula 1 fandom.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 21, 2015, 04:13:13 PM
I've been trying to get into F1 since it's the sport of assholes but I just don't think I'll ever be into driving or cars. NBCSN HD makes it perfect background material though. Mastered the art of bland, barely noticeable commentary.

Its current incarnation is really terrible, don't feel bad. The highest tier of racing in the world uses fucking V6 engines and highly restricts the amount of testing teams can do. Some of the regular courses are really bad too. (And not just because they've divested from Europe, Monaco has been unsuited to the sport for as long as I can remember.)

The V10 era was :lawd doe. (Unless you hated Schumie I guess.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 21, 2015, 06:35:15 PM
Accidentally deleted a bunch of work I did by including it in with a bunch of shit I was getting rid of to make space like a fucking idiot

:stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 21, 2015, 06:39:02 PM
Well at least it was only work and not part of a porn stash. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 22, 2015, 02:46:26 AM
Why can't I find a simple program that'll mount .cue files properly  :goty2

I have Virtual Clone Drive and that mounts everything except cues

WinCDEmu didn't work

Daemon Tools/Lite does apparently but everytime I read up on it, someone gets infected with malware even if they know what they're doing when they install it

ImgBurn only knows how to burn cue files despite having options to create images from other image related files


 :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on February 22, 2015, 09:46:13 AM
I'm watching Mean Girls for the first time and it makes me laugh

:yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on February 22, 2015, 10:20:54 AM
My favorite porn site "likuoo" is no longer is working for me

keeping getting "Ошибка #300: Некорректный ответ сервера.
Попробуйте обновить страницу или обратитесь к администратору сайта"

terrible day
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 22, 2015, 12:06:10 PM
Russian doesn't have its own word for server. Interesting.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 22, 2015, 12:20:51 PM
We use the English term in German, too. Most computer related vocabulary is just assimilated as is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 22, 2015, 01:45:54 PM
I'm watching Mean Girls for the first time and it makes me laugh

:yeshrug

My wife keeps getting trying to get me to watch that movie, you sayin I should watch it?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 22, 2015, 02:33:14 PM
The therapist at the table next to me bragged that they were a good therapist and I can't accept their challenge + break them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on February 22, 2015, 02:37:25 PM
I'm watching Mean Girls for the first time and it makes me laugh

:yeshrug

My wife keeps getting trying to get me to watch that movie, you sayin I should watch it?

I think it works well enough for grown ups.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 22, 2015, 02:41:34 PM
The therapist at the table next to me bragged that they were a good therapist and I can't accept their challenge + break them.

Your therapist has multiple tables in his office?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 22, 2015, 03:12:46 PM
Not at all, I just hate backing down from a dare.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 22, 2015, 10:22:51 PM
I saw a picture of the Far Eastern Republic's flag and recognized that the image's creator had depicted it incorrectly. :goty2

The number of people that even know that state existed is infinitesimal. :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 23, 2015, 09:22:51 AM
I'm watching Mean Girls for the first time and it makes me laugh

:yeshrug

My wife keeps getting trying to get me to watch that movie, you sayin I should watch it?

Watch Heathers instead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 23, 2015, 11:59:23 AM
professionals being dicks to "the help"
:beli

Had to go to the bank today and saw a guy I know who works maintenance there. We're not friends but I've been seeing him at various places for the last 6-7 years. He used to work at a grocery store I go to and is now at the bank. Good dude, real friendly. Anyway he was walking out as I walked in and during a quick conversation he told me that his maintenance group got chastised  by the bank's management recently. They clean late at night, and during the process they put a sign up in one of the halls that's titled "Da Responsibilities." Da as in slang for "the." It's a list of all the cleaning priorities (clean x, make sure to do y, remember to turn off z, etc).

Apparently some senior analyst came by late to pick up something, saw the list, and reported it to management for being unprofessional (due to "da" being used instead of the). He said his cleaning crew has never received complaints about the job they do, but management basically told  them they're on notice now.
:mindblown

I asked if the sign could be viewed from outside the bank - perhaps management thought a customer using the outside ATM could look inside and see the sign. But he told me it's not even near the front, it's in a hall.


be a dick for no reasons brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 23, 2015, 12:02:08 PM
Russian doesn't have its own word for server. Interesting.

Sure they do, it's called the working party.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 23, 2015, 12:11:24 PM
Working in sales continues to torment me

If only i had a job I could mentally leave behind when I go home and not worry bout my families future
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 23, 2015, 12:36:13 PM
Maybe you could do sales for AiA's company. His sales force seems to have it pretty good if they can shit talk the Finance VP at will.

Perhaps. And maybe you can get a job?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 23, 2015, 12:39:16 PM
He's too busy drinking a lot and posting shitty things on people's facebook pages at roughly 4 am LA time.

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 23, 2015, 01:03:53 PM
Not working in sales is my new dream

Just some lame administration job

Do those even exsist?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 23, 2015, 01:47:58 PM
Anti-abortion protesters delayed me in the Taco Bell drive-thru twice. First when they decided to saunter to their lifemobile through the drive-thru, and second when the verkakte goy in front of me waved them back to give them promotional items.

Nothing is sacred to these degenerates. Not unimpeded voluntary commercial transactions, and definitely not the Bell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 23, 2015, 01:52:21 PM
Have you not heard to good word about the mobile app? Order from your phone, choose in store. They'll just call your name when it's ready  :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 23, 2015, 02:18:59 PM
First when they decided to saunter to their Birthmobile through the drive-thru

(http://i.imgur.com/LXaP0Mn.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 23, 2015, 03:16:07 PM
I even went out of my way to not call them pro-life. :stahp

That app sounds swank, but I'm not getting out of my one-four to get Taco Bell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 23, 2015, 04:13:18 PM
You choose drive thru with it as well
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 23, 2015, 04:21:38 PM
I have to give a 20 min presentation on a paper I don't understand on my birthday.  Jesus stressed out. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 23, 2015, 07:44:57 PM
I have to give a 20 min presentation on a paper I don't understand on my birthday.  Jesus stressed out.

What part is fucking you up? Not that I can help, I don't know shit about comp sci. I'm just curious if this is something you could Google your way to understanding like with bio/chem papers.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 23, 2015, 08:01:15 PM
It a computer vision paper doing probability graphical model shit, and I've never really studied that.  Basically I lack the background.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 23, 2015, 10:32:17 PM
It a computer vision paper doing probability graphical model shit, and I've never really studied that.  Basically I lack the background.

You made me Googl,  sounds  fun. I think you said your research spectrum is stuff in image compression right?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 23, 2015, 11:01:25 PM
Threw up at the Gym. Thankfully it was in the bathroom and not out on the floor.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 24, 2015, 01:38:48 AM
professionals being dicks to "the help"
:beli

Had to go to the bank today and saw a guy I know who works maintenance there. We're not friends but I've been seeing him at various places for the last 6-7 years. He used to work at a grocery store I go to and is now at the bank. Good dude, real friendly. Anyway he was walking out as I walked in and during a quick conversation he told me that his maintenance group got chastised  by the bank's management recently. They clean late at night, and during the process they put a sign up in one of the halls that's titled "Da Responsibilities." Da as in slang for "the." It's a list of all the cleaning priorities (clean x, make sure to do y, remember to turn off z, etc).

Apparently some senior analyst came by late to pick up something, saw the list, and reported it to management for being unprofessional (due to "da" being used instead of the). He said his cleaning crew has never received complaints about the job they do, but management basically told  them they're on notice now.
:mindblown

I asked if the sign could be viewed from outside the bank - perhaps management thought a customer using the outside ATM could look inside and see the sign. But he told me it's not even near the front, it's in a hall.


be a dick for no reasons brehs
I had something similar happen to me. One of my employees told me they were going to complain because the janitor was singing when they cleaned up after hours and it was distracting. I told them that they could complain when they janitor made as much as they did and when they spent a large part of their job dealing with other people's garbage and mess. I swear some people really don't have any empathy at all.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 24, 2015, 02:08:25 AM
professionals being dicks to "the help"
:beli
(snip)
be a dick for no reasons brehs
This really resonated with me as well; I just don’t get it when people are mean for no reason. They must feel powerless in something else in life which frustrates them, but against which they feel they cannot act. Probably parents?

I enjoy the old adage that you can tell a person’s true nature by observing how they treat people to whom they are under no obligation to be nice.

Your example is not only of someone being mean, but actually going out of their way to complain about someone else’s unrelated means of making their job a little less shitty. Fuck them.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 24, 2015, 06:11:24 AM
I was just talking a guy who said the doorman at his office building used to fist bump everyone and make small talk, and everyone loved him, except one person who complained. The man is no longer allowed to give you a fist bump.

Probably one of those shitheads who posted the “How to interact with an introvert” articles on Facebook.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on February 24, 2015, 06:36:58 AM
I consider myself an introvert but even I understand the basic idea that a) I am not alone on this fucking planet and that b) Not everything is some horrific fucking problem
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 24, 2015, 06:45:15 AM
My money is on some snob demanding 'proper' etiquette.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 24, 2015, 06:57:07 AM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=997922

Animal Control never showed  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 24, 2015, 08:12:20 AM
I got a grilled stuffed burrito the other day, and it definitely feels like it got nerfed from its previous incarnation, kind of like the pistol after Halo CE. Nowhere near as good as it once was.

People here seem to have a lot of love for the crunchwrap. I only ordered it once, and it was like 60% lettuce.

Order it without lettuce, they always put more of everything on there. Just a little thing I found out by hating lettuce my entire life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 24, 2015, 09:29:43 AM
It a computer vision paper doing probability graphical model shit, and I've never really studied that.  Basically I lack the background.

You made me Googl,  sounds  fun. I think you said your research spectrum is stuff in image compression right?

No I do computational linguistic stuff.  Right now I'm working on articulatory inversion, which is the task of predicting where parts of the mouth are given an audio signal (so are the lips open or mostly closed, is the tongue tip high or low etc.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 24, 2015, 01:21:33 PM
professionals being dicks to "the help"
:beli
(snip)
be a dick for no reasons brehs
This really resonated with me as well; I just don’t get it when people are mean for no reason. They must feel powerless in something else in life which frustrates them, but against which they feel they cannot act. Probably parents?

I enjoy the old adage that you can tell a person’s true nature by observing how they treat people to whom they are under no obligation to be nice.

Your example is not only of someone being mean, but actually going out of their way to complain about someone else’s unrelated means of making their job a little less shitty. Fuck them.
Exactly. I mentioned a few months ago that one of my coworkers was a total dick to wait staff at a restaurant we had lunch at. I see that type of stuff a lot. Not necessarily from my coworkers (this particular guy is a grade A piece of shit), but just watching how some professional people interact with others.

Honestly it's not even just professionals. I was listening to sports radio yesterday and one of the hosts said his car broke down around midnight and he had to call a tow guy. The host tipped the tow guy $10 and was basically asking the radio audience if tipping a tow guy is required (he didn't know whether they were salaried workers or not). Then the conversation morphed to whether you should tip food delivery people, and the dominant argument was no because they make $8-9 an hour. Many people said delivery people should get another job if that's not enough.
:mindblown

No empathy for fellow workers simply because they work "shit" jobs. That just blows my mind. I don't give a shit what a delivery guy makes, I give a tip. If I eat at a restaurant I'll tip the waitress/waiter regardless. If it's bad service I'll still leave a small tip (unless the service is straight up disrespectful). That's a horrible job where a business gets the greenlight to treat and pay employees like shit. I'm not gonna shit on those people.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 24, 2015, 01:37:01 PM
Being a good tipper also benefits you, so I don't even get the self-interest no tip angle. I never have to wait at the barber and get mistakes in my favor every time I hold court at the locally sourced watering hole. (e.g. I got a free kombucha last Sunday despite it being one of their pricier not that alcoholic beverages.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 24, 2015, 02:01:42 PM
:dead When a friend you haven't talked to in like 6 months sends you a text that says 'will you help me move'

damn I'm happy my parents taught me some manners :ufup

Ha! I just had that happen with a dude that's more of a friend of a friend than an actual buddy.

Ran into him a few weeks ago and he was like "Hey what are you and your son doing next sunday now that there isn't football?"

dick.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 24, 2015, 02:13:26 PM
Federal jury duty starts Tuesday :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on February 24, 2015, 02:53:05 PM
Moving back to my parents temporarily until I find out if I'll be moving to north Carolina or Tennessee.

Where did I get so much worthless shit. And I'm too fat for half my clothes now
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 24, 2015, 11:03:30 PM
If I survive this week it will be a modern marvel. Gut cancer can't kill me if insane stim use blows up my heart first. :smug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 24, 2015, 11:06:41 PM
:dead When a friend you haven't talked to in like 6 months sends you a text that says 'will you help me move'

damn I'm happy my parents taught me some manners :ufup

be like "yeah breh i like pepperoni pizza and a 6 pack of _____"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 24, 2015, 11:15:38 PM
Steering wheel tightened up significantly since Sunday. Not only is it tight, it has gotten inconsistently so. The wheel feels wonky when just edging it in either direction and it won't straighten by itself fully when turned - it gets stuck at the quarter turn mark.  :fbm

Backstory: First time it felt tight was this past Saturday right after I pumped gas leaving the engine on. It seemed to have recovered the following day with it being a roll of the dice whether or not it would feel tight. It wasn't that bad until tonight and I had to ask for a ride to work.

If pumping gas with the engine on did cause it, I really am trying to figure out how the hell it can happen. Hope it's just a fluid or alignment issue and not a buy a shitload of parts problem.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rusty Shackleford on February 24, 2015, 11:44:17 PM
Steering wheel tightened up significantly since Sunday. Not only is it tight, it has gotten inconsistently so. The wheel feels wonky when just edging it in either direction and it won't straighten by itself fully when turned - it gets stuck at the quarter turn mark.  :fbm

Backstory: First time it felt tight was this past Saturday right after I pumped gas leaving the engine on. It seemed to have recovered the following day with it being a roll of the dice whether or not it would feel tight. It wasn't that bad until tonight and I had to ask for a ride to work.

If pumping gas with the engine on did cause it, I really am trying to figure out how the hell it can happen. Hope it's just a fluid or alignment issue and not a buy a shitload of parts problem.

Time to rebuild the front end! Tie rods or joints are worn out. From the sound of it you'd be better off letting a mechanic handle it. Expect ~$300.

And for the record, the only problems that pumping gas with the engine on can cause are the fiery kind.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on February 24, 2015, 11:48:21 PM
my tar heels suck. they really really suck  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rusty Shackleford on February 24, 2015, 11:48:34 PM
Federal jury duty starts Tuesday :shaq2

I get called every two years like friggin clockwork. It's annoying as hell since no one else I know ever gets called.

I get excused every time, though. Helps to be in a family of lawyers.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 24, 2015, 11:55:05 PM
Steering wheel tightened up significantly since Sunday. Not only is it tight, it has gotten inconsistently so. The wheel feels wonky when just edging it in either direction and it won't straighten by itself fully when turned - it gets stuck at the quarter turn mark.  :fbm

Backstory: First time it felt tight was this past Saturday right after I pumped gas leaving the engine on. It seemed to have recovered the following day with it being a roll of the dice whether or not it would feel tight. It wasn't that bad until tonight and I had to ask for a ride to work.

If pumping gas with the engine on did cause it, I really am trying to figure out how the hell it can happen. Hope it's just a fluid or alignment issue and not a buy a shitload of parts problem.

Time to rebuild the front end! Tie rods or joints are worn out. From the sound of it you'd be better off letting a mechanic handle it. Expect ~$300.

And for the record, the only problems that pumping gas with the engine on can cause are the fiery kind.

Sounds about right. Oh well, good thing I already got my tax return.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rusty Shackleford on February 25, 2015, 12:03:41 AM
Steering wheel tightened up significantly since Sunday. Not only is it tight, it has gotten inconsistently so. The wheel feels wonky when just edging it in either direction and it won't straighten by itself fully when turned - it gets stuck at the quarter turn mark.  :fbm

Backstory: First time it felt tight was this past Saturday right after I pumped gas leaving the engine on. It seemed to have recovered the following day with it being a roll of the dice whether or not it would feel tight. It wasn't that bad until tonight and I had to ask for a ride to work.

If pumping gas with the engine on did cause it, I really am trying to figure out how the hell it can happen. Hope it's just a fluid or alignment issue and not a buy a shitload of parts problem.

Time to rebuild the front end! Tie rods or joints are worn out. From the sound of it you'd be better off letting a mechanic handle it. Expect ~$300.

And for the record, the only problems that pumping gas with the engine on can cause are the fiery kind.

Sounds about right. Oh well, good thing I already got my tax return.

It shouldn't be too costly. But as far as filling up with the engine on - you should put the kibosh on that because while it's unlikely to lead to fires, it prevents the car's fuel system from pulling the proper vacuum in the tank and can trip your check engine light. In the case of getting your car smogged, the CE light stays in memory for around 30 days and can actually cause a smog check fail until it's cleared. Modern cars just aren't meant to run while filling.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 25, 2015, 12:12:26 AM
Steering wheel tightened up significantly since Sunday. Not only is it tight, it has gotten inconsistently so. The wheel feels wonky when just edging it in either direction and it won't straighten by itself fully when turned - it gets stuck at the quarter turn mark.  :fbm

Backstory: First time it felt tight was this past Saturday right after I pumped gas leaving the engine on. It seemed to have recovered the following day with it being a roll of the dice whether or not it would feel tight. It wasn't that bad until tonight and I had to ask for a ride to work.

If pumping gas with the engine on did cause it, I really am trying to figure out how the hell it can happen. Hope it's just a fluid or alignment issue and not a buy a shitload of parts problem.

Get some transmission/steering fluid, it sounds like you're low.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 25, 2015, 12:20:34 AM
That was the first time I ever left the engine on while pumping.

Can't hurt to get the fluids checked. Got the car almost 2 years ago with approx 145k miles. It has almost 170k now. I replaced a whole bunch of parts after the initial purchase.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rusty Shackleford on February 25, 2015, 12:22:59 AM
After rereading the post I think PD's right. I misread and thought it was going from normally tight to excessively loose.

It does sound like the power steering. Fluid/pump/belt/lines issue. Check the fluid. You'll probably have to take it to the mechanic anyway because it shouldn't be losing any fluid during normal operation. Probably leaky lines or a failing belt.

Edit: Google your car's model and year. A lot of cars nowadays just have electrically assisted steering as opposed to ye olde hydraulic system. That'll help give you an idea of the cost involved.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on February 25, 2015, 12:24:13 AM
Paging the History channel.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on February 25, 2015, 12:32:05 AM
Thanks guys. Gonna research a bit and get it checked out Thursday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 25, 2015, 02:03:13 AM
That moment you look at yourself and realize you're reading Wikipedia articles about foreign and ancient versions of rock, paper, scissors and getting really deep about game theory so you just drink more whiskey and post about it on a spin off of a video game discussion board

This is where I look directly into the camera
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 25, 2015, 02:29:13 AM
That moment you look at yourself and realize you're reading Wikipedia articles about foreign and ancient versions of rock, paper, scissors and getting really deep about game theory so you just drink more whiskey and post about it on a spin off of a video game discussion board

This is where I look directly into the camera

This is me on a good day. :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 25, 2015, 03:44:04 AM
:dead When a friend you haven't talked to in like 6 months sends you a text that says 'will you help me move'

damn I'm happy my parents taught me some manners :ufup
I had a friend-couple ask for help moving, which I gave, then asked for a day to help paint their new home interior, which I gave, only to have them be busy on the weekend I wanted (not needed) help moving, they were busy.

::)

My new, live-in girlfriend was my only help that day. Of course, if I’d had help moving, I may not have had the realization that I should marry that woman.

:larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on February 25, 2015, 04:32:33 AM
DId some really moderate cardio training yesterday for the first time in years and already lots of joints are aching. Suuucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 25, 2015, 07:55:33 AM
professionals being dicks to "the help"
:beli
(snip)
be a dick for no reasons brehs
This really resonated with me as well; I just don’t get it when people are mean for no reason. They must feel powerless in something else in life which frustrates them, but against which they feel they cannot act. Probably parents?

I enjoy the old adage that you can tell a person’s true nature by observing how they treat people to whom they are under no obligation to be nice.

Your example is not only of someone being mean, but actually going out of their way to complain about someone else’s unrelated means of making their job a little less shitty. Fuck them.

It's funny that this gets discussed.

This week is National Engineers Week.  Yesterday we held a lunch for engineers and engineering technicians for appreciation.  One of the new hire engineers was bitching about how technicians were allowed to participate and eat lunch with the engineers.  I had to gently remind her how many times the technicians had to save her ass on a number of things.  She didn't seem all that convinced.

I admit I was more than a little pissed about her shitty attitude towards others.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on February 25, 2015, 09:26:36 AM
I don't normally drink coffee, but had a cup last night after dinner at a friends birthday celebration.

Laid down around midnight. Still wide awake at 5 am. wtf never again coffee after noon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 25, 2015, 10:04:49 AM
Wow that engineer sounds like a real garbage human
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 25, 2015, 10:05:51 AM
professionals being dicks to "the help"
:beli
(snip)
be a dick for no reasons brehs
This really resonated with me as well; I just don’t get it when people are mean for no reason. They must feel powerless in something else in life which frustrates them, but against which they feel they cannot act. Probably parents?

I enjoy the old adage that you can tell a person’s true nature by observing how they treat people to whom they are under no obligation to be nice.

Your example is not only of someone being mean, but actually going out of their way to complain about someone else’s unrelated means of making their job a little less shitty. Fuck them.

It's funny that this gets discussed.

This week is National Engineers Week.  Yesterday we held a lunch for engineers and engineering technicians for appreciation.  One of the new hire engineers was bitching about how technicians were allowed to participate and eat lunch with the engineers.  I had to gently remind her how many times the technicians had to save her ass on a number of things.  She didn't seem all that convinced.

I admit I was more than a little pissed about her shitty attitude towards others.

Nothing makes a party transition to awkward quicker than an engineer.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 25, 2015, 11:06:25 AM
i know three total engineers, they all home brew beer.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: thabiz on February 25, 2015, 11:09:50 AM
when the police find your secret tunnel.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 25, 2015, 12:35:00 PM
I don't normally drink coffee, but had a cup last night after dinner at a friends birthday celebration.

Laid down around midnight. Still wide awake at 5 am. wtf never again coffee after noon

I miss not being a caffeine junkie. :tocry

Just to be functional yesterday I had to drink three consecutive cafecitos and smoke a cigarette. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on February 25, 2015, 12:56:21 PM
Now I'm at a bar debating on just having one beer with my food or stay and get hammered. Youngest person here by 20 years.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 25, 2015, 01:00:22 PM
How does my baby know if were sitting down and holding her or standing up?

Struggle eerrrrdaaay
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on February 25, 2015, 01:01:43 PM
I don't normally drink coffee, but had a cup last night after dinner at a friends birthday celebration.

Laid down around midnight. Still wide awake at 5 am. wtf never again coffee after noon

The older you get the later you can drink and still sleep

My wifes parents and my dad will drink coffee near midnight no problem
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 25, 2015, 05:25:01 PM
My bottle of tonic water is flat.

I really need to start buying the smaller bottles with the speed I'm using this stuff. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on February 25, 2015, 06:11:58 PM
This winter has made me a bit (http://i1.minus.com/ibcZxqLTkXE5Yy.png)  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 25, 2015, 07:35:09 PM
Gotta go to Raleigh next Wednesday  :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 25, 2015, 08:12:55 PM
Be tasked to ship a mobile app built using an entirely new API and core codebase with only two days of internal QA, brehs

 :gddr5 :gddr5 :gddr5 this is me right now at my office
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 25, 2015, 09:05:00 PM
i like the pan cookies from papa johns too much
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 12:38:22 AM
Unintentionally made today cheat day. :tocry

Gonna have to order some nasty shit at Sunday breakfast now. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on February 26, 2015, 06:56:15 AM
Eating on my bed, reading the bore, getting cream cheese sauce stains on my bed sheet.

If I ever actually lead anyone to my room, there might be awkward questions

...

 :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on February 26, 2015, 07:27:21 AM
i know three total engineers, they all home brew beer.

Half the homebrewers I know seem to have a PhD in engineering or some natural science.

The other half  is a bunch of know-it-alls depending on their wifes' income.

Lovable people all around.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 26, 2015, 07:31:39 AM
 :drudge
WRITING
:drudge

anything longer than a few paragraphs is :noooo  :goty2 :fbm :stahp :stahp for me, even when it is just technical writing. i dunno how folks like prole who do it full time haven't suicided yet.

ok, gotta suck it up and  :miyamoto  :punch

close browser window.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on February 26, 2015, 07:44:32 AM
Most important thing to realize is that everyone around you sucks ass at writing. They just care less. In my experience, the people who don't hate writing are also the ones who are usually really bad at it and don't realize it. So you already have your doubt going for you.

I also suck at writing, and I try to counter that by taking my time. I usually write best late at night.

Writing gets much easier if you know what you (don't) wanna write about. Sounds obvious, but sometimes when you're stuck, it helps to read/talk/go for a walk and think about it without distractions. Clears things up for me very often.

And lastly (also obvious, I guess), doing it structured and somewhat iterative also helps. Make a bullet point outline, fill in the blanks.

But I assume you already know the above. You just need to realize that the fact that there's lots of good writing out there doesn't mean it's easy for everyone or even anyone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 26, 2015, 07:48:38 AM
thanks, but yeah I already know all that. :) as you say, the agony comes from when my standards >> my ability.

agggh CLOSE BROWSER WINDOW.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on February 26, 2015, 08:35:18 AM
Writing anything more than two or three paragraphs is what I imagine child birth is like. Exhausting on every level.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on February 26, 2015, 08:36:54 AM
Most important thing to realize is that everyone around you sucks ass at writing.


(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqqcyeJdJ41qbvaudo1_250.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 26, 2015, 08:40:59 AM
Most important thing to realize is that everyone around you sucks ass at writing.


(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqqcyeJdJ41qbvaudo1_250.gif)

(http://www.quickmeme.com/img/f2/f26f605daaccfc075cff900bb9d49e77fe8168f82db88e5c31947c35e9d1077e.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 26, 2015, 09:55:20 AM
the agony comes from when my standards >> my ability.
I 'think on the page' and then edit obsessively. Just keep writing to get some building blocks to work with, then re-arrange and re-write as necessary. It's neither efficient nor pleasant, but you'll get it done.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 26, 2015, 09:59:06 AM
pizza hut has a pan cookie that's basically the same thing as the papa john's one, so if I just alternate stores every day, it'll look like I eat a pan cookie only every other day.  I wouldn't want the employees to think I've hit rock bottom or anything.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 10:50:19 AM
My alcoholic parent does that, but with 3 grocery stores.

I don't think it occurs to them that there's no forensic countermeasure for buying booze at 9 am.

OT: I heard someone say the word antipenultimate.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 26, 2015, 10:53:13 AM
OT: I heard someone say the word antipenultimate.
Puzzling. 2nd? Third to last?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 26, 2015, 10:54:34 AM
My alcoholic parent does that, but with 3 grocery stores.

I don't think it occurs to them that there's no forensic countermeasure for buying booze at 9 am.

OT: I heard someone say the word antipenultimate.

people who try to cover their drinking habits are hilarious. Go to 3 different stores or bars....see them at the bar when you're having lunch and they say shit like "yeah figured I'd get a couple of beers today, totally cheating"...yeah sure man, I see you here every time I have lunch. Or my favorite.....be hammered and totally try to deny it even though you smell like a bud light can.....

Me, I embrace that shit, I don't get to drink every day but if I do I'm getting that shit done.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 26, 2015, 11:06:12 AM
that's the good thing about pan cookies-- no cookie breath.  although if someone looked in my window and saw me on the couch in my underwear with my mouth hanging open while playing Dead Or Alive, they'd probably deduce that I'm a pan cookie addict.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 26, 2015, 11:06:21 AM
Early lunch with a black coffee + whiskey is my special treat, don't hate on lunch drinkin
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 26, 2015, 11:07:21 AM
that's the good thing about pan cookies-- no cookie breath.  although if someone looked in my window and saw me on the couch in my underwear with my mouth hanging open while playing Dead Or Alive, they'd probably deduce that I'm a pan cookie addict.

Those pie cookies are my shit on cheat days. I can seriously eat the whole thing ha ha.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 26, 2015, 11:08:28 AM
Early lunch with a black coffee + whiskey is my special treat, don't hate on lunch drinkin

I'm not a day drinker, not hating. I'm talking about the guy who's at the same bar every time you go to eat. Every time. And still plays it off like he normally doesn't go there.

That guy is usually in his 40's and thinks he actually has a chance with the 22 year old bartender which makes it all the more hilarious.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on February 26, 2015, 11:16:22 AM
the agony comes from when my standards >> my ability.
I 'think on the page' and then edit obsessively. Just keep writing to get some building blocks to work with, then re-arrange and re-write as necessary. It's neither efficient nor pleasant, but you'll get it done.

yeah I do that too. still suxx!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 26, 2015, 11:19:25 AM
Yeah it's not something I do every day, week or even month but sometimes work is shitty and I just need to get a pub burger and a caffeine booze injection

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 26, 2015, 11:20:45 AM
the agony comes from when my standards >> my ability.
I 'think on the page' and then edit obsessively. Just keep writing to get some building blocks to work with, then re-arrange and re-write as necessary. It's neither efficient nor pleasant, but you'll get it done.

yeah I do that too. still suxx!
Yup. :v
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 12:29:31 PM
My alcoholic parent does that, but with 3 grocery stores.

I don't think it occurs to them that there's no forensic countermeasure for buying booze at 9 am.

OT: I heard someone say the word antipenultimate.

people who try to cover their drinking habits are hilarious. Go to 3 different stores or bars....see them at the bar when you're having lunch and they say shit like "yeah figured I'd get a couple of beers today, totally cheating"...yeah sure man, I see you here every time I have lunch. Or my favorite.....be hammered and totally try to deny it even though you smell like a bud light can.....

Me, I embrace that shit, I don't get to drink every day but if I do I'm getting that shit done.

Own it like you bought it. When I was a hard drinker I bought my six dollar hooch from the same store every day, the theatrics of deceit the ol' 'rent goes through is almost as embarrassing as the more embarrassing things they do.

Antipenultimate meant (in this context) 3 days left of an event, Rufus.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 26, 2015, 12:32:55 PM
As a young man, I find I'm never carded if I buy liquor before noon. They don't ask questions at that time of day, they don't wanna know
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 26, 2015, 12:34:20 PM
As a young man, I find I'm never carded if I buy liquor before noon. They don't ask questions at that time of day, they don't wanna know

Ha, I grew up where if your ass went to the liquor store you got what you wanted. 15? No problem little brotha, here's your OE.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 26, 2015, 01:45:14 PM
Antipenultimate meant (in this context) 3 days left of an event, Rufus.
I really don't want to be a prescriptivist, but...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 26, 2015, 01:47:19 PM
Well the problem here is that it should be antepenultimate which makes sense, really.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 01:59:47 PM
Massive self-ownage. :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 26, 2015, 02:00:27 PM
It may very well have been, you people have no respect for vowels. :hitler

edit: Ha.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on February 26, 2015, 02:01:55 PM
Massive self-ownage. :'(

not really that massive...that's likely the only time you will ever hear that word spoken and used in real life, outside of a "what are the most fucked up words" conversation  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 02:07:15 PM
For me it's massive. :tocry

Plus I'm famously anti-antediluvian (the word itself).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 26, 2015, 02:09:43 PM
Thinblood.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 26, 2015, 02:22:49 PM
Massive self-ownage. :'(

Self-ownage is my antedrug.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 02:48:21 PM
Thinblood.

World of Darkness 1.0 was so #struggle for me, breh, you have no idea.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on February 26, 2015, 05:18:58 PM
A pan cookie sounds pretty good. Gonna have to try this out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 06:30:32 PM
I really wish kombucha was something drunk primarily by people who legitimately like the taste of fermented beverages and not rubes predisposed to belief in pseudoscience. The market I buy it from is ground zero: Cacasaki and I think it's safe to say at least 50% of the children in there are unvaccinated. I sure am glad this raw, fermented beverage is made without GMO ingredients.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 26, 2015, 06:40:08 PM
That stuffs nasty, bro.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 26, 2015, 07:07:09 PM
That stuffs nasty, bro.

I don't believe in a holy trinity, but something that lets me indulge my love of tea, raw food, and fermentation simultaneously is about as close as I'll ever come to that. :banderas
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 26, 2015, 07:14:23 PM
I don't normally drink coffee, but had a cup last night after dinner at a friends birthday celebration.

Laid down around midnight. Still wide awake at 5 am. wtf never again coffee after noon

The older you get the later you can drink and still sleep

My wifes parents and my dad will drink coffee near midnight no problem

This is not true for me. I used to be able to drink coffee at any time, but now if I have it after 17:00, I’m doomed to a preternaturally long night.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 27, 2015, 04:49:54 PM
Every fucking intern I try and spare the sack ends up getting sacked anyway because their stupidity is infinite and I am but a single miserable pile of secrets. :goty

Care about other people y'all. :shaq2

At least this one went out on a hilarious note. :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 27, 2015, 04:52:46 PM
Ya when ever I try to spare someone the red dragon on my back makes me do it anyways. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 27, 2015, 05:01:16 PM
I like you, Arv. That's why when I write the Great Esperantine Novel I'm going to dedicate it to you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 27, 2015, 05:02:49 PM
And when my brown shirts start burning books, I'll have them spare yours. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on February 27, 2015, 05:23:04 PM
QUIT ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS WHEN THE DAMN TRAINING IS OVER WE'RE TRYING TO GO HOME
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 27, 2015, 06:02:09 PM
my son just poured my sample of hermes ambre narguile all over his body :brazilcry

he does smell nice tho :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 27, 2015, 06:04:34 PM
I'm sorry about your perfumed boy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 27, 2015, 06:07:10 PM
And when my brown shirts start burning books, I'll have them spare yours.

Jedem das Seine. :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 27, 2015, 08:14:48 PM
Took a near end of day shit break and finally got the stall that doesn't have the loose lock.

Somehow didn't lock it properly though, which I found out when a gentleman walked right in (handicap stall) to see me with my pants down browsing this forum and looking like a deer in headlights.

But it gave me the idea for disposable balaclavas, which can be useful in everything from office bathrooms to whore houses where the regular patrons don't want to know what each other is doing in there.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 27, 2015, 08:16:37 PM
'shit' break.  wink wink.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 27, 2015, 08:18:17 PM
I don't know what to do with the balaclava I bought for my Christmas vacation. If it was disposable, I could have just thrown it away.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 27, 2015, 08:23:48 PM
Commit a murder, so you have an excuse to get rid of the evidence. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on February 27, 2015, 08:24:51 PM
Go to a key party. There's a lot of those in OC right?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 27, 2015, 08:26:44 PM
You don't wear a balaclava during a key party.  A key party is not anonymous. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 27, 2015, 09:28:52 PM
Go to a key party. There's a lot of those in OC right?

Seems like something that would be popular outchea, but I already have enough social exposure risks.

Personal brands, they're so demonic, friends.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 27, 2015, 11:41:49 PM
Netflix is recommending I watch Frasier.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on February 28, 2015, 01:02:51 AM
Netflix is recommending I watch Frasier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIbEj1CIpuU
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on February 28, 2015, 08:18:30 AM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.

Some positive news, my boss on Friday let it be known to us that he put in a request to go back to his old position.  That's right, after six weeks of doing the job, he's tapping out already.  This is pretty unheard of but the guy is extremely connected to the VP and other senior management (which is how he got the job in the first place) so I'm guessing they would be more likely to take his request more seriously.  Fortunately for this guy, they still haven't filled his old position (our corporate bureaucracy is like molasses on a cold day) so it is possible.  If they were to go through with this request, due to said bureaucracy, it may be 1-2 months until it goes through in which case maybe they will repost the position.  Am I a big enough masochist to go through the whole process again?  We'll see.  Knowing my luck, they will either deny the transfer request or fill in the job with some other dickhead.

As a final update, it turns out that my boss's request was denied.  Turns out his previous position was basically filled and they weren't going to tell the replacement that he/she was SOL even though they made an offer to them that they accepted.  My boss has handled this by basically doing as little work as possible: won't respond to e-mails, won't return your calls, and attends meetings but is a passive contributor which by that I mean he only says anything if he gets asked a question.  We've started conversing directly with the VP again if there are issues.

This is a job that pays about $250,000 and it's in the midwest so it's about a $400,000-500,000 equivalent job out in the Bay Area.  I can't see this turning out well for this guy but I'm still pissed that they chose this dingleberry over me.  I've made the arrangements for my final semester of my MBA and then I'm gone.  Fuck this!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 28, 2015, 10:08:23 AM
Snooze didn't go off and so instead of staying in bed for an extra 20min I stayed in bed for an extra 3 hours.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on February 28, 2015, 11:16:04 AM
A few weeks ago my boss announced she was quitting at the end of the year.  She was lazy and incompetent so me and two of her other direct reports ran the department for her while she went out for Starbucks, fucked around on the internet all day, or just simply disappeared for hours a time with nobody knowing where she went.  I was delighted to hear that she recommended me to her boss (the VP) to take her place.  So naturally I applied.  I had two interviews and both seemed to go great.  Then I heard that some asshole from another department that isn't even tangentially related to mine wanted to make a lateral move into the position.  Overnight prospects went from great to shit.  Naturally I heard the bad news this week that they're going with this guy...who has absolutely no experience with the department.  He set up a meeting invitation late next week to talk about the department and he says he already has ideas.  Keep in mind he has no experience with engineering or operations whatsoever but already he has ideas.  I'm preparing for the worst.

Once I'm done with my MBA in the next few months, I think I'm ready to move on to another job.

As an update, this guy sucks ass.

Turns out, this guy and the VP started off working in the same year in the same department about 30 years ago.  He wound up starting on the 29th of December and was horrified to find that the VP would occasionally ask me or my peers for information.  His first declaration right away was that all communication gets routed through him first.  In my limited corporate experience, I have yet to experience one positive instance of closing off channels of communication.  Sure enough, it's only three weeks in and shit is already falling through the cracks.  The VP is making these requests still and it now gets routed through the Director.  Sometimes it gets to us, sometimes it doesn't.  The VP called one of the other managers in the group asking for a status update on something he never received.  Something simple became something urgent because the VP needed to talk to the state regulators and needed that information.  Since the original request was a few days before, it would have been no problem to pull together the information but in a few hours?  It was basically a chinese fire drill to pull it together.  The Director basically disappeared for the rest of the day: turned off his Lync, wouldn't answer anyone's calls, and wouldn't reply to anyone's e-mails.

I had a report that I put together and sent out on 12/15 to my old boss and the new one.  It is due on January 15th and required the director's approval and then the VP's.  On the original e-mail, since the guy was new, I stressed that it has a legal requirement to be in by that date.  I offered to walk him through the report, what we did, how we came up with the numbers, etc.  No response.  So once a week in December, I sent a reminder e-mail about the report, again stressing the due date, offering to meet with him to go over the report.  Nothing.  So about every other day, I called or e-mailed asking for the status and I wouldn't hear anything.  So this morning, our internal compliance staff sent out an e-mail asking why this report hasn't been signed and logged into our data retention system.  Within a minute, the Director, copying in the VP, myself, and a couple others, said he never received anything on the matter but was going to make it a priority to get it done today.  So I responded and attached the old e-mails I sent to him, saying that he received the report on December 15th and received several reminders.  Within a minute or two of sending that e-mail out, I got a call from my boss, one of the few times he's returned my calls, "Uh yeah, I guess I did receive it.  Uh, can you tell me what this report is about?"  About 1:30 today, everything got signed and entered and the panic was over.

I might need to move on to another job sooner than I thought.

Some positive news, my boss on Friday let it be known to us that he put in a request to go back to his old position.  That's right, after six weeks of doing the job, he's tapping out already.  This is pretty unheard of but the guy is extremely connected to the VP and other senior management (which is how he got the job in the first place) so I'm guessing they would be more likely to take his request more seriously.  Fortunately for this guy, they still haven't filled his old position (our corporate bureaucracy is like molasses on a cold day) so it is possible.  If they were to go through with this request, due to said bureaucracy, it may be 1-2 months until it goes through in which case maybe they will repost the position.  Am I a big enough masochist to go through the whole process again?  We'll see.  Knowing my luck, they will either deny the transfer request or fill in the job with some other dickhead.

As a final update, it turns out that my boss's request was denied.  Turns out his previous position was basically filled and they weren't going to tell the replacement that he/she was SOL even though they made an offer to them that they accepted.  My boss has handled this by basically doing as little work as possible: won't respond to e-mails, won't return your calls, and attends meetings but is a passive contributor which by that I mean he only says anything if he gets asked a question.  We've started conversing directly with the VP again if there are issues.

This is a job that pays about $250,000 and it's in the midwest so it's about a $400,000-500,000 equivalent job out in the Bay Area.  I can't see this turning out well for this guy but I'm still pissed that they chose this dingleberry over me.  I've made the arrangements for my final semester of my MBA and then I'm gone.  Fuck this!
You'd be surprised at how often this tactic actually works.  I don't know why it does. But in many many companies it does.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 28, 2015, 11:28:59 AM
A septuagenarian Hungarian man harassed me in Esperanto.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 28, 2015, 11:33:26 AM
:lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on February 28, 2015, 11:39:53 AM
Bringing peoples together. :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on February 28, 2015, 06:17:00 PM
Got talked into going to a bar to watch the fight tonight by a cute jewish girl who will be a bud light girl there for an hour before she has to go to a different bar to do the same thing.

Going alone to a bar to watch a sport I give no shits about to potentially talk to a girl isn't high up on my list of things to do tonight. But I do love jewish girls. So I'm in.



Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 28, 2015, 06:24:30 PM
Mazel tov.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 28, 2015, 06:50:30 PM
Got a haircut and my barber kind of fucked me up. I have natural waves, so when my hair is super short it looks like I have bald spots. Because of this I ask for slightly longer cuts. Well today he went low enough to make it look patchy, especially on such a sunny day. To make matters worse he didn't even use the brush thingie to brush the hair off my face.
:beli

An hour later I went to my favorite local taco place and experienced two more struggles. The tortillas were rather stale - they didn't taste stale but felt stale, which really annoyed me. I also ordered some chips n salsa and the salsa they gave me was too chunky. Maybe they changed their recipe or something because this one isn't nearly as good (or spicy) as the previous one.
:snoop

I also forgot to mention that I tried going to my bank's ATM to get some money for the barber but it was under repair, so I had to use another bank's ATM and received a $4 fee.
:stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on February 28, 2015, 07:37:20 PM
I'm sorry about your perfumed boy
Surprisingly, you’ve stumbled upon Nudemacusers’ pet name for his featured element at tumescent rest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on February 28, 2015, 09:52:43 PM
Ugh... went with friends to NJ for retro game hunting... we went to this store in downtown Newark, and I parked on a back street... which apparently was handicapped parking. But the lines weren't blue (well, what you could see of the lines due to the snow). So I got a ticket with a "court appearance required" on it, and no dollar amount when I go to the traffic violations website, so I can't pay it online.

My court date is in 2 weeks but I live about 2.5 hours away from Newark, and am really NOT itching to go back there. Anybody on here have any advice on what to do? I was thinking of calling the traffic violations bureau and explain the situation, and say "I'd rather just pay just so I don't have to take off a work day to head down to NJ to fight it".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on February 28, 2015, 10:34:38 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/bJ7xWio.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on February 28, 2015, 11:12:17 PM
I need a copy of that book. :gladbron
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 01, 2015, 12:16:51 AM
Using an online learning site, the course instructor is making all manner of common grammatical mistakes, and my OCD is focusing on them instead of the subject matter.
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 11:26:25 AM
I had a philosophical argument with myself about whether gratitude was a state of being or a thing (which would make it logically able to take an accusative case). :ohhh

I hadn't even got out of bed, either. :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 01, 2015, 12:29:03 PM
It's a noun and can be an adjective and even an adverb. There you go. :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 01, 2015, 01:04:07 PM
prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 01:40:50 PM
It's a noun and can be an adjective and even an adverb. There you go. :jawalrus

I more or less came to this conclusion in the shower, compounding my struggle for the day. :shaq2

I like that "thank you" is an adverb in Arabic (albeit with the caveat that the verb it's modifying more or less doesn't exist in the present tense :mindblown) and think that's the most logical way of viewing it, doe.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 01, 2015, 02:15:05 PM
loud mofo upstairs moved out yesterday, was very happy to get a good night's sleep.  the new people started moving in first thing this morning  :-\  they might be quieter though, already seem less foot-stompy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 01, 2015, 02:31:12 PM
I like that "thank you" is an adverb in Arabic (albeit with the caveat that the verb it's modifying more or less doesn't exist in the present tense :mindblown) and think that's the most logical way of viewing it, doe.
That's odd. :leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 02:44:26 PM
TBH, once you get used to it you wonder why we waste so much energy conjugating "to be" in other languages since things that are are rather evident.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 01, 2015, 04:57:05 PM
Did you spit on him?  Or was there a line?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 01, 2015, 05:11:32 PM
So, if I read that right, people can tell you enjoy a good cock just from some eye contact?  You got a gay-wink thing going on?  Eyes that say you're looking for some sailors. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 01, 2015, 05:59:40 PM
prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

It sounds a lot like a company which is about to run out of money.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on March 01, 2015, 05:59:48 PM
Hrrrrmm.... I sense a work related shit storm on the horizon.

*braces self*

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 06:00:14 PM
Someone thought it was novel (no pun intended, ugh) that I was reading in a cafe that fashions itself counterculture DESPITE THERE BEING A FUCKING BABY SHOWER THERE THIS MORNING FUCK YOU CACS AND CACABES and asked to take my picture. Posed. I was literally a poser, and possibly a poseur. Now I know how the caged bird sings those French girls felt.

On a related note, I was wearing a shirt that had I known I would be photographed like an animal at the zoo while wearing, I would not have worn. With my luck this picture will become some Facebook meme like "hey check this out. people read. books. :deadpos".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 01, 2015, 06:12:30 PM
prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

Welcome to lower/middle management.  You find that you have almost no authority but almost all of the responsibility.  You usually need to get to the next stage of management before you can actually enact the change you want.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 01, 2015, 06:23:01 PM
Someone thought it was novel (no pun intended, ugh) that I was reading in a cafe that fashions itself counterculture DESPITE THERE BEING A FUCKING BABY SHOWER THERE THIS MORNING FUCK YOU CACS AND CACABES and asked to take my picture. Posed. I was literally a poser, and possibly a poseur. Now I know how the caged bird sings those French girls felt.

On a related note, I was wearing a shirt that had I known I would be photographed like an animal at the zoo while wearing, I would not have worn. With my luck this picture will become some Facebook meme like "hey check this out. people read. books. :deadpos".

oh man, you're epic bookreader guy!?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 01, 2015, 07:15:38 PM
prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

Welcome to lower/middle management.  You find that you have almost no authority but almost all of the responsibility.  You usually need to get to the next stage of management before you can actually enact the change you want.

So do you recommend staying where I am or GTFO?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 01, 2015, 07:48:59 PM
prepping my résumé to find a new job.  My new leadership role has been completely undermined by my CTO and ownership.  All advice and direction I've advocated for the sanity of our workforce and success of our new product launch has been completely ignored for a "more projects now!" approach.  When I came to terms with that, my advice to increase our resources/staff to compensate for the workload has fallen on deaf ears.  My time estimates have been scoffed at, my intuition is seen as hesitation, and they finally hired a new project manager to oversee things along with me.

Fuck that.  I'm out.  I can't be a part of a company that hires me to do something then doesn't listen to the thing they told me to do.  I'm not gonna become a yes man and desert the needs of my developers.

Welcome to lower/middle management.  You find that you have almost no authority but almost all of the responsibility.  You usually need to get to the next stage of management before you can actually enact the change you want.

So do you recommend staying where I am or GTFO?

Here's the thing- it's probably not gonna be any better anywhere else in the same sort of position. I would recommend developing a drinking habit or finding a different career path. Possibly both.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 01, 2015, 10:34:11 PM
I dropped my Gen 1 Nook and broke it.  :'(

Now I have to decide whether to get a Nook Glowlight or a Kindle Paperwhite. Paperwhite seems like the better choice, but then I'd have to futz around with either converting all my epubs to mobi or jailbreaking it.

OTOH, the Kindle Voyage looks sick, but $200 man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 10:44:24 PM
I miss my Kindle. Reading with Kindle Android is turrible. :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 01, 2015, 10:46:28 PM
paperwhites are awesome. i use calibre to manage my library; it's not the best interface but when you get it down it makes converting and sending stuff to the kindle a snap.


so i'm at my inlaws earlier today and my son wants to play baseball (to the level that a 3 year old plays baseball), so as I'm demonstrating how to put on the mitt I feel some weird sharp pains on my ringfinger. I pull off the glove thinking there is a frayed threading or something weird but it's just a hornet that stung me twice.  :'(

now my finger is all swoled up, hurts and my hand is all numb and cramped.  :'(

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 01, 2015, 10:58:04 PM
kindle on a phone :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 01, 2015, 11:00:54 PM
kindle paperwhite  :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 11:02:56 PM
kindle on a phone :holeup

The things we do for love books. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 01, 2015, 11:21:03 PM
I've read books on my phone, I do everything on my phone, including this message
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 01, 2015, 11:31:57 PM
Can you do me with it? :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 02, 2015, 05:53:16 AM
so i'm at my inlaws earlier today and my son wants to play baseball (to the level that a 3 year old plays baseball), so as I'm demonstrating how to put on the mitt I feel some weird sharp pains on my ringfinger. I pull off the glove thinking there is a frayed threading or something weird but it's just a hornet that stung me twice.  :'(

now my finger is all swoled up, hurts and my hand is all numb and cramped.  :'(
:holeup
Fucking hornets should stick to eating pests :gun
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 02, 2015, 07:34:10 AM
I loved Stanza on iOS until its unsupported ass shat the bed with iOS 5 (or was it 4?). I had a huge collection of books on it, and read erryday on my iPod during my train commute. And I lost all the books when Stanza quit working, and I subsequently failed to recover it all from my iPod... probably could have extracted off the backup.  :'(

I must admit that I prefer the Kindle Paperwhite experience for e-ink visual quality. It’s just lovely. I don’t have nearly the collection I did on Stanza, but I still have plenty to read.

On some websites, I’ve also seen “send to Kindle” recently, which is nice for reading later.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 02, 2015, 07:45:20 AM
I find the backlight is too intense on iPad, and that dimming it makes it hard to read. I haven’t found the happy medium yet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Reb on March 02, 2015, 08:04:19 AM
I hate reading on any device other than my paperwhite.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 02, 2015, 08:48:11 AM
Left my wallet at home. I left it on top of the coach in the front room, which means my cat is more than likely going to knock it off and potentially bite the shit out of it.
:snoop

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 02, 2015, 09:08:06 AM
Japanese advertising people have realized YouTube exists, and have begun adding UNSKIPPABLE advertisements, some of which are over a minute. Like, someone at the firm said, “Hey, we need an editor for this advertisement,” but then someone said, “No, fuck it, it’s going on YouTube, let’s just use ALL THE FOOTAGE.”

If I could get some time alone with the guys who’ve put these ads in place, I’d staple their rectums shut.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 02, 2015, 11:56:31 AM
Thank the gods for Adblock/µBlock. :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 02, 2015, 11:57:12 AM
Turns out the sushi place is closed on mondays - wasted a 10 min walk.  I needs my raw fish.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 02, 2015, 01:30:43 PM
FWIW I have a paperwhite and I love it. if only it could render color images and graphic novels doe :'(

it's pretty good for manga. 

unfortunately, it seems like the only good manga on U.S. kindle is Gyo by Junji Ito.  I guess 7 Billion Needles is okayish. 

other than that it's all naruto and hentai/yaoi.

japan has Berserk  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 02, 2015, 03:05:08 PM
FWIW I have a paperwhite and I love it. if only it could render color images and graphic novels doe :'(

it's pretty good for manga. 

unfortunately, it seems like the only good manga on U.S. kindle is Gyo by Junji Ito.  I guess 7 Billion Needles is okayish. 

Last I checked they had stuff like Lone wolf and Club and shadow assassin on there tho :yeshrug . I have all the drops of god series on Kindle too.

i didn't realize Lone Wolf + Cub was on there.  i guess I should caveat that I don't know shit about manga, but when i look on the amazon store, it looks like a bleak selection.

Torrent manga, transfer it to your device.

You're welcome.

tried it, didn't seem to fit properly.  there are probably ways to fix that, but i'm done learning shit like that :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 02, 2015, 06:51:05 PM
About to phone in to see if I have jury duty tomorrow  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 02, 2015, 07:11:00 PM
Term ended, no need to report 8)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 03, 2015, 01:58:02 PM
I feel like my crack medical team has unintentionally defeated me the international banker. When you drop a couple hundo on medications you start asking yourself bothersome questions like "Should I really be putting this :trash in my body?"

One of them is Soviet educated so I'd make a Doctors' plot joke at this juncture if y'all hadn't been unappreciative of my Defenestrations of Prague joke in AiA's vacay thread. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on March 03, 2015, 04:26:35 PM
I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 03, 2015, 04:30:34 PM
I made a joke about variable interest entities that someone laughed at, then they looked at me seriously and told me not to try that one at the bar.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 03, 2015, 04:48:01 PM
I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

The joys of running your own business or something else?  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on March 03, 2015, 04:50:36 PM
Business and some family stuff.  Mainly business though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 03, 2015, 05:22:42 PM
More snow coming Thursday and Friday  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on March 03, 2015, 06:23:45 PM
How do you tell your friend that he shouldn't do amateur stand-up again next week because his delivery is really canned? There were a few polite laughs last night since it was his first time but I was laughing my ass off as I always do when someone bombs a joke.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 03, 2015, 10:00:27 PM
How do you tell your friend that he shouldn't do amateur stand-up again next week because his delivery is really canned? There were a few polite laughs last night since it was his first time but I was laughing my ass off as I always do when someone bombs a joke.
You don't. I know a few comedians and the ones that are successful all admit that they were terribad at the beginning and they needed to fail for a good year or so before they got their delivery/pace down. The problem comes in if your friend thinks he killed it or if he knows he sucked but wants to keep at it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 03, 2015, 10:43:45 PM
I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

jesus I had no idea stress could give you some major physiological nastiness as a result... I am double, nay, triple fucked my friends. I could be shitting and vomitting blood any moment :shaq2

Stress can indeed cause physiological conditions. It's bad for your blood pressure, your heart, it can cause muscle cramps especially in the back neck and shoulders, but also commonly in the arms, knees, whatever. Ulcers were recently proven to be caused by bacteria. The researcher who discovered this won a Nobel Prize. If you actually have an ulcer, instead of just an abundance of stomach acid, see a doctor and get some antibiotics.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 03, 2015, 10:51:11 PM
long-distance is rough
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on March 03, 2015, 10:56:33 PM
long-distance is rough

:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 03, 2015, 10:57:11 PM
long-distance is rough

Yeah. :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on March 03, 2015, 11:40:43 PM
There's always exceptions but indefinite long-distance is usually a death sentence for relationships. Monogamy is a big sacrifice and you start to question if it's worth it when you're only seeing other on occasion. But more than that, you just tend to grown apart from each other over time, living separate lives like that.

Good luck out there. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on March 03, 2015, 11:41:31 PM
How do you tell your friend that he shouldn't do amateur stand-up again next week because his delivery is really canned? There were a few polite laughs last night since it was his first time but I was laughing my ass off as I always do when someone bombs a joke.
You don't. I know a few comedians and the ones that are successful all admit that they were terribad at the beginning and they needed to fail for a good year or so before they got their delivery/pace down. The problem comes in if your friend thinks he killed it or if he knows he sucked but wants to keep at it.

That's true, I think he knows he didn't do great but it's the sensitive stage where I want to tell him what he needs improvement on without hurting his feelings. He's just did it for fun.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 04, 2015, 12:00:15 AM
long-distance is rough

PM me if you want to exchange numbers and talk. I'm only an hour and a half away. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 04, 2015, 12:19:14 AM
 :)

thanks. i appreciate it.

it's not as bad as i make it. we're planning for me living in the city with her soon, like in april hopefully. then when i'm settled and she's out of the temporary lease she's signed (last minute deal with people she knows) we'll talk about living together. i'm gonna be visiting the last week of march to see the city and look at apartments.

so it's not like we are looking at months a part. still. i'm not used to this. having the gulf of distance, not being able to readily see her whenever. it's just rough on me and it's only been a few days :\

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 04, 2015, 11:13:27 AM
one of the executive sponsors on one of my new projects last name is Freeze and everyone calls him "Mr. Freeze"
I'm going to have a seriously hard time not geeking out every time I hear that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 04, 2015, 12:22:29 PM
I use Greek letters in my work papers because I'm an :expert (e.g. sigma for sum, that shit is in Excel fuck you :pacspit) and today someone asked me what all these triangles in my work papers meant and without thinking I blurted out, "Those aren't triangles, they're deltas. :smug" as if I worked in a fucking lab where people would know what that meant.

I of course got the :what and had to think of a quick recovery to cover my :expert status which then lead me down the dreaded path of bonding with other people. :shaq2

Jingle, jangle, all along the banks of the Royal Canal...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 04, 2015, 12:23:09 PM
 DP :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on March 04, 2015, 12:49:16 PM
I have an ulcer from stress, and no boozing for 8 weeks :'(

jesus I had no idea stress could give you some major physiological nastiness as a result... I am double, nay, triple fucked my friends. I could be shitting and vomitting blood any moment :shaq2

Stress can indeed cause physiological conditions. It's bad for your blood pressure, your heart, it can cause muscle cramps especially in the back neck and shoulders, but also commonly in the arms, knees, whatever. Ulcers were recently proven to be caused by bacteria. The researcher who discovered this won a Nobel Prize. If you actually have an ulcer, instead of just an abundance of stomach acid, see a doctor and get some antibiotics.
Yeah, I'm doing all that.  But my stomach still has to heal :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 04, 2015, 12:57:35 PM
I have a buddy who had a hernia. He waited until it was the size of a fist before he did anything with it. Now it's coming back (he looks like he has a beer belly from the side, and what's he doing? Ignoring it again.

WTF, go to the damn doctor man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 04, 2015, 01:10:10 PM
I use Greek letters in my work papers because I'm an :expert (e.g. sigma for sum, that shit is in Excel fuck you :pacspit) and today someone asked me what all these triangles in my work papers meant and without thinking I blurted out, "Those aren't triangles, they're deltas. :smug" as if I worked in a fucking lab where people would know what that meant.

I of course got the :what and had to think of a quick recovery to cover my :expert status which then lead me down the dreaded path of bonding with other people. :shaq2

Jingle, jangle, all along the banks of the Royal Canal...
Fuck! I know and can relate exactly to a Vularai post.

 :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 04, 2015, 01:12:43 PM
Gotta fly to Raleigh next week.
I have two choices:

Leave a noon and lose most of a work day on the way there but arrive at 10:40pm

Or leave at 7pm, get in a work day, but take a red eye flight with 3 connections and arrive at 8am.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards 7pm.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 04, 2015, 01:34:05 PM
:dead

ed: I work some of the time in a lab, know what a delta means and i'd definitely still hit you with the :what if you said "those aren't triangles, they're deltas :smug "

I'm taking a lambda on this one, I know. :tocry

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This year I'm working with options and that means it's gamma time. :phil
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 04, 2015, 03:59:24 PM
I have a buddy who had a hernia. He waited until it was the size of a fist before he did anything with it. Now it's coming back (he looks like he has a beer belly from the side, and what's he doing? Ignoring it again.

WTF, go to the damn doctor man.

Can sympathize with him, the surgery almost seems worse than having a hernia.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 04, 2015, 06:47:41 PM
apparently you have to enter your tip ahead of time with this place I ordered food from.  awkward conversation when the delivery person didn't have anything for me to sign and I had no cash and they explained the system to me.  that's fucking backwards though!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 04, 2015, 07:10:39 PM
Gotta fly to Raleigh next week.
I have two choices:

Leave a noon and lose most of a work day on the way there but arrive at 10:40pm

Or leave at 7pm, get in a work day, but take a red eye flight with 3 connections and arrive at 8am.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards 7pm.

I always pick the ones where I can get the drunkest on layovers
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 04, 2015, 07:50:20 PM
Amazon just randomly decided to charge me for Prime today, wtf. I haven't had a Prime account in like 2 years, I haven't even bought anything from Amazon since last Summer. Cancelled it and changed my password just in case I got h4xx0rzed.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 04, 2015, 09:42:39 PM
Gotta fly to Raleigh next week.
I have two choices:

Leave a noon and lose most of a work day on the way there but arrive at 10:40pm

Or leave at 7pm, get in a work day, but take a red eye flight with 3 connections and arrive at 8am.

Honestly, I'm leaning towards 7pm.

I always pick the ones where I can get the drunkest on layovers
double the layovers means double the drunk. It's decided. Red eye it is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 05, 2015, 02:18:47 PM
Someone stole my lunch today!   :lol
 :neogaf

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly? 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 05, 2015, 02:21:42 PM
Someone stole my lunch today!   :lol
 :neogaf

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly?

I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on March 05, 2015, 02:59:17 PM
Someone stole my lunch today!   :lol
 :neogaf

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly?

I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.

Aren't you worried they might call the cops?  ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 05, 2015, 03:06:31 PM
Someone stole my lunch today!   :lol
 :neogaf

Damn bro, you wanted to eat a shitty little Digiorno microwave pizza that badly?

I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.

:rofl
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 05, 2015, 03:09:34 PM
I bet it was one of those people from the train, bork. :hans1
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 05, 2015, 03:10:29 PM
I bet it was one of those people from the train, bork. :hans1

First thing my co-worker said was "DUDE IT WAS JEAN JACKET LADY!"   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 05, 2015, 03:24:17 PM
Speaking of :hans1.

Some of you may recall (though I hope you don't) that I discovered that a popular tax preparation program thinks that the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen still exists (:teehee). Well I've been working with another popular program this year and I finally had the chance to scope out its list of foreign states.

Y'all it was a pedant's wet dream. It doesn't say North Korea or Korea (Pyongyang), it lists the country's full legal name. I was particularly impressed with how descriptive the U.K.'s name was.

So of course what did I do? Look up Yemen.

This program also thinks that the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen exists and is the sole Yemen.

The only logical conclusion to draw from this? That the tax software industry knew about the Houthi insurrection for years. Majestic 12 communicating with software drop lists, it's exquisite in its simplicity.

I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 06, 2015, 12:35:35 AM
Tinder is ruined
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 06, 2015, 12:35:57 AM
Literally the worst day
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 06, 2015, 12:36:40 AM
And jswipe is useless now too. Barely any Jews in my new area
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on March 06, 2015, 12:39:19 AM
I only had that happen once when I was a corporate guy. I goddamn did the patented fake black man melt down and nobody did it again. You should do that and if you're not black get one of your black buddies to do it for you. Trust me, nobody will fuck with your shit again.
lol yeah, get one of my black buddies, yeah haha... one of them, yeah...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on March 06, 2015, 12:45:01 AM
What did they change about Tinder?
Quote
In March 2015, Tinder announced the public release of their paid service, Tinder Plus, which has been met with disdain over limiting the number of "likes" a free user can give to other users in a certain amount of time and also charging greatly disparate prices for different age groups. The price of a Tinder Plus subscription was announced to be £14.99/$23 USD per month for users over 28, while the same service for a user 28 and under will be £3.99/$6 USD per month.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 06, 2015, 12:52:02 AM
Hinge is great but the limited areas. Ugh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on March 06, 2015, 12:53:37 AM
I'm probably late to the discussion of the delta symbol but the weirdest math symbol I've seem was an asterisk to denote a change in the sign of an imaginary number. Use that "correctly" in an email and all the quantum physicists will think get that you're being cute.

Quote from: Esch I'm nk=topic=42407.msg2004986#msg2004986 date=1425489865
:dead

ed: I work some of the time in a lab, know what a delta means and i'd definitely still hit you with the :what if you said "those aren't triangles, they're deltas :smug "

Oh, really? I saw it all the time in people's lab notes as shorthand for change in such-and-such value.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 06, 2015, 02:00:13 AM
How limited are freepleb likes? TBH I'm getting a junkie cold turkey vibe from y'all.

Also :dead at the price tiering.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 06, 2015, 08:46:35 AM
What did they change about Tinder?
Quote
In March 2015, Tinder announced the public release of their paid service, Tinder Plus, which has been met with disdain over limiting the number of "likes" a free user can give to other users in a certain amount of time and also charging greatly disparate prices for different age groups. The price of a Tinder Plus subscription was announced to be £14.99/$23 USD per month for users over 28, while the same service for a user 28 and under will be £3.99/$6 USD per month.
What a monumentally stupid move. :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 06, 2015, 11:55:54 AM

Oh, really? I saw it all the time in people's lab notes as shorthand for change in such-and-such value.

It's not the actual use of the delta, it's imagining him saying it like "that's no triangle, that's a delta :jawalrus" with the smug face lol.

Let's not forget the important part of that story, OK. I had to interpersonally relate with someone because they either couldn't pick up on the subtlety or crashed through it like LeBron traveling to the rim of my stock way of avoiding interpersonal interaction--answering questions furtively. I had to hear about dating history. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 06, 2015, 12:41:17 PM
lady at subway starts making the wrong sandwich, I correct her and she gets mad at me, then I apologize  :'(

also, eating at subway, how the fuck do i still make the mistake?  "oh herp derp haven't had subway in months, maybe that'll be okay for lunch, how bad can you screw up a sandwich"  fucking nope.  it wasn't okay in the least.  how does it taste so consistently strange?  I don't remember it being this bad as a kid, when they were a smaller chain.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 06, 2015, 01:16:02 PM
:lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 06, 2015, 01:20:30 PM
lady at subway starts making the wrong sandwich, I correct her and she gets mad at me, then I apologize  :'(

also, eating at subway, how the fuck do i still make the mistake?  "oh herp derp haven't had subway in months, maybe that'll be okay for lunch, how bad can you screw up a sandwich"  fucking nope.  it wasn't okay in the least.  how does it taste so consistently strange?  I don't remember it being this bad as a kid, when they were a smaller chain.

Subway  :ufup


Greater Grinders  :lawd


Local spots that are affordable  :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 06, 2015, 01:57:19 PM
Bought my lunch today because the pizza-thief might be lurking.

Went to this takeout-buffet place downstairs.  They have all kinds of food there for decent prices.  As I'm walking over to one side of the place, there's this sense of dread and people scatter.  Behind me is an immensely-heavyset woman, who I'd like to call "Big Bertha," filling up her box with huge amounts of food.  I want to get some pepper steak and say "excuse me."  Bertha gives me this death stare and promptly ignores me.  I manage to reach under the massive arm in my way, grab the spoon, get some food, and get out of there.  That shit was scary.  There was this weird aura about her.  It's like she was the black female version of Mr. Heart from Fist Of The North Star.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 06, 2015, 02:03:04 PM
What did they change about Tinder?
Quote
In March 2015, Tinder announced the public release of their paid service, Tinder Plus, which has been met with disdain over limiting the number of "likes" a free user can give to other users in a certain amount of time and also charging greatly disparate prices for different age groups. The price of a Tinder Plus subscription was announced to be £14.99/$23 USD per month for users over 28, while the same service for a user 28 and under will be £3.99/$6 USD per month.

That ruins the game of liking everyone and waiting for messages
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:04:35 PM
wait, wait. In full disclosure I have 0 experience with internet dating but why are they discriminating against people over the age of 28? And damn near 4x the cost? That's total bullshit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:09:31 PM
wait, wait. In full disclosure I have 0 experience with internet dating but why are they discriminating against people over the age of 28? And damn near 4x the cost? That's total bullshit.

because they can.

lowkey i also think it's because they see that older people populate paid websites like match.com and all that BS and assume that they'll be willing to fork it out.

Then they're going to get destroyed.

BTW isn't tinder the gay hook  up sight? Sorry I really have no clue.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:13:59 PM
wait, wait. In full disclosure I have 0 experience with internet dating but why are they discriminating against people over the age of 28? And damn near 4x the cost? That's total bullshit.

because they can.

lowkey i also think it's because they see that older people populate paid websites like match.com and all that BS and assume that they'll be willing to fork it out.

Then they're going to get destroyed.

BTW isn't tinder the gay hook  up sight? Sorry I really have no clue.


that's grindr (which there will never be a straight version of for a while). tinder limits pics and stuff to facebook, you have to like their profile and you have to like theirs. Gay people use tinder too tho iirc

Oh. So tinder fancies themselves as the next match.com or eharmony by doing exactly what led people to them by match.com and eharmony? Seems like a successful business case.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 06, 2015, 02:28:54 PM
I live in a rather diverse area but the Tinder demographics are about 85% white chicks, 10% black chicks, 5% Asian/Indian. To make matters worse the black chicks are straight up busted - overweight or oddly stereotypical ("I AM A INDEPENDENT WOMAN WITH THREE KIDS, IF U SERIOUS U NEED TOO UNDERSTAND I LIKE BEING SPOILED"). Rejecting each black chick just took a toll on me brehs. Meanwhile there are so many attractive white and Asian chicks. Made me feel like I was discriminating.
:brazilcry

I bet the selections would be way better/more diverse if I browsed Tinder on U of M's campus.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:31:06 PM
I live in a rather diverse area but the Tinder demographics are about 85% white chicks, 10% black chicks, 5% Asian/Indian. To make matters worse the black chicks are straight up busted - overweight or oddly stereotypical ("I AM A INDEPENDENT WOMAN WITH THREE KIDS, IF U SERIOUS U NEED TOO UNDERSTAND I LIKE BEING SPOILED"). Rejecting each black chick just took a toll on me brehs. Meanwhile there are so many attractive white and Asian chicks. Made me feel like I was discriminating.
:brazilcry

I bet the selections would be way better/more diverse if I browsed Tinder on U of M's campus.

Uh hell nah. U of M has two kinds of women......Serious ass "let's plan my whole life now" types and crazy white women who's daddy made them go there. Not really what you're looking for. That's why we use to go to Ypsi and Toledo/BG to farm tail breh.

Michigan women:   :goty2

Mac Women:   :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 06, 2015, 02:33:15 PM
But...I'm Tindering in Ypsi.
:brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:33:50 PM
But...I'm Tindering in Ypsi.
:brazilcry

No wonder it's full of white girls lol.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:36:17 PM
Also lol at serious black women.

You see that shit on craigslist when we check out the dating shit for laughs


(https://ioneelev8.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/fat-black-girl3.jpeg)

I ain't looking for no broke as nicca. This queen deserves a King and you best have your shit together if you hit me up. I don't drive and I ain't go no time to be fucking around trying to hit the bus.

You must like kids
Drugs and Drinking free
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 06, 2015, 02:37:58 PM
:tocry

That has been my experience. I love black women, not stereotyping them. When I get home I'll post a screen cap that just made me :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 02:39:09 PM
:tocry

That has been my experience. I love black women, not stereotyping them. When I get home I'll post a screen cap that just made me :snoop

I married one. These fat bitches on a different level tho. Expect to be treated like a queen but ain't given one fuck that they look like a goddamn chocolate ice cream cone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 06, 2015, 02:45:52 PM
tinder combines the mobility/hookup potential/ease of use of the grindr model but since you have to mutually 'like' each others profiles it helps filter out unwanted interest, and its harder to send dirty shit over it. I personally liked it cause i hate filling out/reading all the calculated okcupid style "this is what i like, this is who i am, this is what i do" type bullshit.

but obviously that's kaput. new wave is hitting on women in real life (http://i.imgur.com/9Gfa5G8.png)

New wave is going gay. :ufup

-Sexuality is fluid
-Head is head
-Retro appeal
-Losing civil liberties voluntarily / acquiring a purpose driven life
-No gene repositories
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 06, 2015, 02:49:29 PM
I dated someone last year who thought I was :fabulous because I had a job, a place, a car, and could carry a conversation without using misogynistic slurs.

How pathetic do we men get these days? :kobeyuck

Please note that I use man in a purely clinical sense and don't mean to imply any masculinity on my part.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 06, 2015, 03:02:44 PM
On the flip side I've heard "wow you act so white, I've never met a black guy like you" many times (from black and white chicks). For being nice.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 03:07:06 PM
On the flip side I've heard "wow you act so white, I've never met a black guy like you" many times (from black and white chicks). For being nice.

Protip: That's a backhanded white complement for not employing ebonics to communicate.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 06, 2015, 03:13:40 PM
On the flip side I've heard "wow you act so white, I've never met a black guy like you" many times (from black and white chicks). For being nice.

Protip: That's a backhanded white complement for not employing ebonics to communicate.

I know. Heard it from black and white people for years. But also it has applied to the way I act/treat people. Some women don't like being treated with respect I guess
:yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 03:16:30 PM
On the flip side I've heard "wow you act so white, I've never met a black guy like you" many times (from black and white chicks). For being nice.

Protip: That's a backhanded white complement for not employing ebonics to communicate.

I know. Heard it from black and white people for years. But also it has applied to the way I act/treat people. Some women don't like being treated with respect I guess
:yeshrug

Well there is some truth in "nice guys finish last" bro. People like to rip me on here for things I do with my wife but we've been married a long long time. Sometimes you gotta keep 'em flustered my brother.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 06, 2015, 04:15:02 PM
I am the farthest thing from nice yet I DNF'd. :philosoraptor

A thing that makes me :holeup is when gals remark how soft my hands are. Stop dating at the mini-mill, g-friend.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 06, 2015, 05:10:10 PM
Oh make no mistake....I keep my misbehavior to my wife well within the "small peck zone". I know better than to cross the boss. Hell truly hath no fury like a women's scorn brehs. But you have to win once in a while. Keeps it healthy..nobody wants a sponge but a man with no self worth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 06, 2015, 05:18:43 PM
I hate Tinder.  Too many flakey girls
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 06, 2015, 07:04:57 PM
Tinder will be a ghost town soon anyway.

Doesn't Hinge exist in Nashville - thats the go to app now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 06, 2015, 07:06:29 PM
Got a 3PM email that my boss has a new boss and he can't stand her. He was so pissed off, he walked out. At least she is based in Albany and not HQ. I'm pretty nervous he's gonna bail. He's the glue that holds 140 people, 3 offices, and over 500 machines together and that's key to helping keep a software company profitable. If he leaves, things will fall apart very quickly and I'm worried about being left holding the bag.

Only employ 2 IT people and piss off the one who holds the keys to the kingdom, brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on March 06, 2015, 07:27:46 PM
I live in a rather diverse area but the Tinder demographics are about 85% white chicks, 10% black chicks, 5% Asian/Indian. To make matters worse the black chicks are straight up busted - overweight or oddly stereotypical ("I AM A INDEPENDENT WOMAN WITH THREE KIDS, IF U SERIOUS U NEED TOO UNDERSTAND I LIKE BEING SPOILED"). Rejecting each black chick just took a toll on me brehs. Meanwhile there are so many attractive white and Asian chicks. Made me feel like I was discriminating.
:brazilcry

I bet the selections would be way better/more diverse if I browsed Tinder on U of M's campus.

breh go to any major city and tinder is piff. first time i went down to Charlotte w/ Tinder  :mouf
Washington DC tinder  :whoo

shit was like baskin robbins.

local tinder is depressing though. it's a bunch of busted chicks of all colors. then a bunch of rich chicks from up north that go to the private school and don't fuck w/ the locals.

my hometown tinder is decent. but i see too many chicks i know since i'm there a lot anyway.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 06, 2015, 10:46:21 PM
Are you all treating tinder as a sex app, or a dating app?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 06, 2015, 10:56:13 PM
Whats the difference? The endgame is sex, whether it takes a couple drinks or a couple dates
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on March 07, 2015, 12:46:22 AM
Tinder will be a ghost town soon anyway.

Doesn't Hinge exist in Nashville - thats the go to app now.

Hinge conjures up visual imagery similar to legs spreading open. And it rhymes with minge.  :ohhh That's pretty clever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on March 07, 2015, 12:52:20 AM
But my struggle of the day is that while I was screwing around on the internet I came across a rather unflattering image meme that I am fairly certain is my brother-in-law. I saw it close to midnight, so I won't be able to confirm with sources if it really is him until the morning. And I don't know what I should do about it if it turns out to actually be him.

   :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 07, 2015, 12:53:56 AM
When I become a meme for reading a book in an alt cafe I'll let you know how to proceed.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 07, 2015, 02:22:40 PM
Last night: "Hey I'm working a 7 day week, I should go home after rush hour ends and get some rest." :leon

*accident blocking half the interstate* :stahp

This morning: "Ah, time to take a leisurely drive to work." :aah

*bumper to bumper at NINE IN THE MORNING ON A SATURDAY* :beli

:piss other people :piss2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 07, 2015, 06:48:22 PM
I was at my bank (I suppose I should say one of several now) dealing with something I didn't want to deal with and towards the end of my ordeal the branch manager turned to me and asked, "Citizen Karakand, you don't have a beneficiary on your account, who would you like to add?" and I didn't think to say Bob Avakian. :snoop

In my defense I didn't say anyone, though, so I can still rectify this grievous oversight on my part.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 07, 2015, 06:59:22 PM
Bob is fine. But are you fine, comrade?
(http://i.imgur.com/SWTSajP.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on March 08, 2015, 01:58:03 AM
Shithead new bartender waited on me all night, good homie bartender closed my tab out. Tipped appropriately assuming the latter dude got it and praying the unfilled-star-arm-sleeve dude isn't seeing a fucking dime
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 08, 2015, 05:57:23 AM
So we have a home land line...because it came free with my interwebs/tv. I think I've used it once in the last 5 years.

Starts ringing at 5:30am....continually (no answering machine)....so I wake up with the "who died?"thoughts going through my head as I look it the kids room to make sure they are home.

Get to the phone and it goes like this;

AiA "Yeah?"

"This is the city of Oberlin we are under a boil alert....."

We don't fucking live in Oberlin nor do we utilize their water.

*throws phone in garbage

We don't have a land line anymore.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 08, 2015, 11:46:20 AM
fuckin daylight savings  :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 08, 2015, 12:10:32 PM
O so that's what happened. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on March 08, 2015, 03:30:10 PM
Going into tomorrow's math test knowing I don't know half the stuff covered.

FML.

Also, haven't had more than maybe 3 sips of beer in March.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 08, 2015, 03:33:10 PM
Ouch.  Goodluck. Knowing you don't know shit in math is the worst.  At least in other mathy subjects you can bullshit it a bit like in CS and Physics but math its basically getting fucked with no lube. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 08, 2015, 05:02:23 PM
I am the absolute worst an interior decorating  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 08, 2015, 05:41:37 PM
My solution is to not do any. Pass it off as minimalism.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 08, 2015, 07:02:38 PM
Realized that I'm working 20 outta 21 days. :anhuld
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Crash Dummy on March 08, 2015, 07:26:24 PM
Realized that I'm working 20 outta 21 days. :anhuld
if it's any comfort i've ended up working on the last two weekends because of three massive due diligence reports and i'm pretty sure it's given me white hair
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 08, 2015, 08:05:33 PM
Bob is fine. But are you fine, comrade?
(http://i.imgur.com/SWTSajP.jpg)

Update: I designated the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which for whatever reason has a U.S. office.

Leaving your estate to a SED front organization. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 08, 2015, 11:12:23 PM
Got an email today from someone saying the below:

"Puppy,
I wanted to let you know that Friday was my last day with <company>. I've decided to take a position with another company. I wanted to take a moment out and thank you for your example and mentorship. Working on your projects taught me so much about how projects should be run and employees treated and motivated and you are a great example."

And my reaction was

(http://lotr.darthscreencapture.com/FOTR/D/60/d/gandalf_526.jpg)
"I have no memory of this person"

Seriously. I remember the name vaguely, and I know they worked on one of my projects. But I don't remember what project it was, what they did on the project or how we interacted. Sent a "thanks and best of luck!" email but feel like such a fake. Especially since the praise was about how I treated and motivated employees.
 :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 08, 2015, 11:26:20 PM
It may also say a good deal about how badly the company was running things for that employee that your AMBIENT AWESOME field was such a strong influence on them.

The first Art Director I worked for was like that for me. He didn’t think he was doing anything special, but his leadership and vision, as well as moderated concern for his reports, were all central to my management style as I followed my own path.


STRUGGLE: I cleared out my Inboxes, and Google tells me “Your Social Tab is empty.”

This rings particularly true today.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 09, 2015, 03:26:34 AM
Adolphe Thiers was right.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 09, 2015, 10:54:36 AM
I almost deleted my porn folder last night  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 09, 2015, 10:57:29 AM
Gave me sweaty palms just thinking about it dude. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 09, 2015, 11:00:09 AM
I was so proud of myself at the amount of work I got done before 10am, then just realized that I didn't move my clock yet.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on March 09, 2015, 12:33:03 PM
got pulled over for the first time yesterday

ended up not getting a fine for speeding, but ended up with a fine for some sticker bullshit (since i never got the bill for it)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 09, 2015, 02:34:23 PM
:ufup shit is garbagewater
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 09, 2015, 02:36:46 PM
Bought some supermarket kombucha after reading Karakand posts :stahp

Ya I put an intro Esperanto book in my cart after reading Vul's posts

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No I didn't.  Just fucking with ya.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 09, 2015, 03:09:29 PM
Bought some supermarket kombucha after reading Karakand posts :stahp

Celestial Seasonings makes it. I bought some. Because they were BOGOF. There is nothing you can do to me that I have not already done to myself.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 09, 2015, 03:10:47 PM
Bought some supermarket kombucha after reading Karakand posts :stahp

Celestial Seasonings makes it. I bought some. Because they were BOGOF. There is nothing you can do to me that I have not already done to myself.

I sat through an entire 2 hour long Ronald Reagan documentary a few weeks ago.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 09, 2015, 03:55:51 PM
That's the brand I usually buy. :dead

Kombuchadog needs to step up their distribution. :bolo

Or I suppose I could just buy a case direct from them. :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 09, 2015, 07:17:57 PM
bought a Dreamcast bundle on ebay.  it arrived and one of the controllers had analog+dpad caked in chocolate and the games were all scratched up.  It was supposed to have Power Stone 2 complete, but it was a powerstone 1 case with both games stacked on each other. 

And of course, the seller is a complete nutter older woman who is totally standing her ground about this great injustice I've committed by not accepting her misrepresented shit.  Her dumb ass admitted that the game wasn't complete in the return dialog. 

after 10+ years this is the first time i've had someone straight up refuse to accept a return and deny any wrongdoing.  If I just follow through and send it back, I'll get a refund, right?  She was also threatening to send it right back to me.  After a certain point, ebay just gives you your money back?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 09, 2015, 07:29:07 PM
how did you know the brown smears were chocolate?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 09, 2015, 07:34:50 PM
lol you send it back you'll be out your money and your sack of busted games. keep the games and live and learn.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 09, 2015, 08:22:12 PM
how did you know the brown smears were chocolate?

i licked them

lol you send it back you'll be out your money and your sack of busted games. keep the games and live and learn.

that's not how ebay/paypal works.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 09, 2015, 08:34:39 PM
i think the real lesson is people holding onto dreamcasts in 2015 are probably crazy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 09, 2015, 08:37:08 PM
how did you know the brown smears were chocolate?

i licked them

lol you send it back you'll be out your money and your sack of busted games. keep the games and live and learn.

that's not how ebay/paypal works.
No, that's exactly how ebay works.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 09, 2015, 08:43:32 PM
i think the real lesson is people holding onto dreamcasts in 2015 are probably crazy

Guess who donated his Dreamcast in 2014. :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 09, 2015, 09:03:33 PM
You got what you deserved. You can EASILY pirate any DC game in existence, even the shitty Shenmue ones.

Paying for physical media in the year 2015 :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 09, 2015, 10:33:44 PM
Folding laundry and talking on the phone, the biggest spider I’ve seen in years crawled across my leg. it must have been on the towel I was folding.

I made a noise like R2D2 when he gets shot in the Death Star trench battle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 09, 2015, 11:47:12 PM
At the airport waiting for my flight. There's some asshole who's brought his guitar and is playing at the gate. I feel like snatching it from his hands schooling him and then tell him "Don't EVER play in public unless you're asked. Asshole."

But I'm weak, and a coward. Also, can't tell someone to not play in public by playing in public.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 09, 2015, 11:47:27 PM
how did you know the brown smears were chocolate?

i licked them

lol you send it back you'll be out your money and your sack of busted games. keep the games and live and learn.

that's not how ebay/paypal works.
No, that's exactly how ebay works.

ok, people who have never used ebay before should probably not answer.   

You got what you deserved. You can EASILY pirate any DC game in existence, even the shitty Shenmue ones.

Paying for physical media in the year 2015 :ufup

I was buying the system mostly.  i was gonna sell the games off.  Power Stone 1+2, Sonic Adventure 1+2...I would've gotten the system + an extra $30 or so to put towards a fleshlight modeled after morrigan from dragon age
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 09, 2015, 11:48:23 PM
how did you know the brown smears were chocolate?

i licked them

lol you send it back you'll be out your money and your sack of busted games. keep the games and live and learn.

that's not how ebay/paypal works.
No, that's exactly how ebay works.

ok, people who have never used ebay before should probably not answer.
Oh I've used ebay. But it's been a while. It's not 2002 anymore you know?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 09, 2015, 11:51:40 PM
how did you know the brown smears were chocolate?

i licked them

lol you send it back you'll be out your money and your sack of busted games. keep the games and live and learn.

that's not how ebay/paypal works.
No, that's exactly how ebay works.

ok, people who have never used ebay before should probably not answer.
Oh I've used ebay. But it's been a while. It's not 2002 anymore you know?


so then why are you answering if you haven't used it in 13 years
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 09, 2015, 11:54:14 PM
(https://senseofrightalliance.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/are-you-being-sarcastic-i-dont-even-know-anymore.jpg)
I don't even know anymore.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 09, 2015, 11:56:57 PM
it's ok.  the answer is that ebay pretty much always sides with the buyer.  so I'm pretty set, just curious if anyone had been through the process. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 10, 2015, 02:43:34 AM
I've only ever seen it from the other side, friends who were selling stuff and buyers who were trying to screw them, outrageous claims that either showed the buyer hadn't read the description before purchasing, or was scamming them.

As you say, it seems eBay sides with the buyer more often than not.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 10, 2015, 03:37:36 AM
Buyers always have the benefit of the doubt. But even then, I would take pictures of everything and show that in comparison to what was in the ebay listing so there's no doubt you got screwed.

I remember I bought a used copy of MGS1 on ebay and one of the discs was scratched and the seller was really quick to send a replacement disc. Didn't want to take any chance of me reporting him, clearly.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Crash Dummy on March 10, 2015, 08:31:48 AM
i got salsa dip on my silk denims  >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on March 10, 2015, 08:43:18 AM

got one of these. hand me an L :stahp




(http://www.localforage.com/photos/uncategorized/gtkombucha.jpg)

i experimented once in college, weve all been there  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 10, 2015, 08:58:59 AM
sounds like a plan, i will take pics.  fucking dynamite cop and sword of the berserk will have to wait  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 10, 2015, 10:43:30 AM
snuck the 3ds into my wife's purse this morning to get some streetpass points. a new personal low
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 10, 2015, 10:45:37 AM
i got salsa dip on my silk denims  >:(

post if ur ok
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 10, 2015, 10:55:39 AM
walrus...tell me you don't play acoustic versions of classic rock songs in public
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 10, 2015, 11:04:11 AM
oh glenn

not like this
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 10, 2015, 11:14:35 AM
At the airport waiting for my flight. There's some asshole who's brought his guitar and is playing at the gate. I feel like snatching it from his hands schooling him and then tell him "Don't EVER play in public unless you're asked. Asshole."

But I'm weak, and a coward. Also, can't tell someone to not play in public by playing in public.

You're a fucking Grinch. That man is bringing hope and good cheer to the masses about to board a shitty flight. I wish there was a guitar player at the gate before every flight I board.

Also street musicians are great. There was a trumpet player doing a mean Miles Davis impression in Santa Monica the other week, and that shit was awesome.

(http://i.imgur.com/64rLYug.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 10, 2015, 11:27:56 AM
Man, Portland house parties you're gauranteed to have a hippy band spring up. I don't know why there's so many damn banjos
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 10, 2015, 11:31:35 AM
I know that antisocial nerds who go to one party every three years or so and probably stand in the corner casting creepy glances at girls across the room might be opposed to a decent guitar jam. Cool people can dig it. End of story.

Making yourself the center of attention (in an area where people are trapped) and drowning out all other conversation/interaction is not cool. Never will be.

People are only paying attention because most people are generally polite and don't want to be mean. Their inner dialogue won't be so nice.



Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 10, 2015, 11:37:57 AM
I know that antisocial nerds who go to one party every three years or so and probably stand in the corner casting creepy glances at girls across the room might be opposed to a decent guitar jam. Cool people can dig it. End of story.

Making yourself the center of attention (in an area where people are trapped) and drowning out all other conversation/interaction is not cool. Never will be.

People are only paying attention because most people are generally polite and don't want to be mean. Their inner dialogue won't be so nice.

Pretty much this and assuming everybody wants to hear guitar during a party....:ufup

And this assumes guy on guitar is even decent as in my experience 70% of them should put that shit back in the case and go home.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 10, 2015, 11:42:22 AM
I know that antisocial nerds who go to one party every three years or so and probably stand in the corner casting creepy glances at girls across the room might be opposed to a decent guitar jam. Cool people can dig it. End of story.

Making yourself the center of attention (in an area where people are trapped) and drowning out all other conversation/interaction is not cool. Never will be.

People are only paying attention because most people are generally polite and don't want to be mean. Their inner dialogue won't be so nice.

Quote
I know that antisocial nerds who go to one party every three years or so... might be opposed to a decent guitar jam.

Case closed.

As for generally "playing in public," the best acoustic guitar player I've ever seen was a dude playing in a market square in Istanbul. He had a huge, appreciative crowd gathered around him. And that square was, wait for it... in public.

There is a difference in playing music on the street where people can stop if they choose and pulling your shit out in a house where people don't really have a choice but to hear you strum though the same fucking 5 songs every guitar guys plays.

I triple dare you to pull your guitar out at a black party and see how fast that shit lasts.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 10, 2015, 11:45:22 AM
would be uncool, sure, if it actually happened like that. I don't think I've ever seen that happen though. Are there people who demand everyone's attention and then launch into a guitar ballad? In 12+ years of going to parties I haven't seen that. Maybe it's a Midwest thing.

You were just defending some dude playing a guitar in a fucking airport. If you are going to have shitty opinions, at least be consistent about it.


I love street performers (the one's that are competent) and will always leave some money. But there's a time and place for that.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 10, 2015, 11:45:52 AM
Is the airport dude more akin to a party jammer, or a street musician?

Musicians are pretty ubiquitous in the subway, but you might only be there for a few minutes, whereas you're in an airport terminal for longer than that most of the time. It's an interesting question. I know I personally would love an airport musician.

You're kinda stuck waiting on your plane so he's definitely invading your space.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 10, 2015, 11:55:35 AM
A black man in his 60s playing some Muddy Waters in the airport terminal would be dope as fuck.

True story. I saw BB King in New Orleans at a super small bar/cajun joint where he just came in and started playing in the corner. There were only like 20 people in the whole place.  :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 10, 2015, 11:55:58 AM
A black man in his 60s would have to be doped as fuck to be playing guitar in an airport :smug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 10, 2015, 04:27:29 PM
Realized I'm such a pack rat with contact info that I still have a dead person in my phone book. :brazilcry

Is there etiquette for this, BTW, we obviously didn't cover this one in finishing school. Like does it have to sit Shiva for X months, then I can delete it?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 10, 2015, 04:48:21 PM
That must be a big book.  But to answer your question, just use a freezer next time. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 10, 2015, 07:18:22 PM
Printer will not copy this black and white paperwork unless I replace the yellow ink cartridge.

YOU DON’T NEED YELLOW. YOUR BLACK INK IS FULL.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 10, 2015, 07:24:43 PM
Nah you need yellow for black if you're using blasian ink.  Stop buying Deja-Chou printers dude. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 10, 2015, 07:26:03 PM
Printer will not copy this black and white paperwork unless I replace the yellow ink cartridge.

YOU DON’T NEED YELLOW. YOUR BLACK INK IS FULL.

did you learn nothing from the dress?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 10, 2015, 07:37:59 PM
Printer will not copy this black and white paperwork unless I replace the yellow ink cartridge.

YOU DON’T NEED YELLOW. YOUR BLACK INK IS FULL.
Is it a HP printer? My mother has one that demands yellow ink for b/w too. I think it has to do with some mandated tracking feature where they print a nigh invisible code in yellow dots across the page. There might be ways to force it to print anyway, but I don't know any, so off to Google I guess.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 10, 2015, 08:36:23 PM
Printer will not copy this black and white paperwork unless I replace the yellow ink cartridge.

YOU DON’T NEED YELLOW. YOUR BLACK INK IS FULL.
Yup I hate, hate, HATE this. Had an Epson pull this shit with me. Never again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on March 10, 2015, 09:44:00 PM
Was making japanese food for the first time in ages but forgot to use any dashi or put furikake on rice :stahp
baka gaijin :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 11, 2015, 03:28:28 AM
My printer’s an Epson. I think Epson just wants to mandate “all ink must be full if you want to print anything.” It’s sloppy and bad, and probably results in more ink cartridge sales, so as bugs go, it’s “as designed.”

Was making japanese food for the first time in ages but forgot to use any dashi or put furikake on rice :stahp
Furikake on rice is for children anyway. Adults generally do not do it. Yukari is a different story, for whatever reason. Most adults use pickles to flavor their rice -- and most kids don’t like pickles. So I guess that’s the division.

I like furikake, for what it’s worth.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 11, 2015, 06:16:09 AM
Slept 3 hours
Hate my job
 :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 11, 2015, 12:29:24 PM
The city put the commune on notice for being a public nuisance.  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 11, 2015, 01:52:55 PM
My printer’s an Epson. I think Epson just wants to mandate “all ink must be full if you want to print anything.” It’s sloppy and bad, and probably results in more ink cartridge sales, so as bugs go, it’s “as designed.”


I know this pain. I have an Artisan 835 that is tempermental as hell. I finally broke down and bought 3 packs of (knockoff) ink from Amazon just so I have enough spares.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 11, 2015, 01:53:41 PM
Printer will not copy this black and white paperwork unless I replace the yellow ink cartridge.

YOU DON’T NEED YELLOW. YOUR BLACK INK IS FULL.

I hate that. I had one where the scanner lamp died which rendered the entire unit completely useless. I don't think I ever scanned anything either. CAN'T PRINT BECAUSE THE SCANNER LAMP IS OUT!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 11, 2015, 02:04:00 PM
Not working in a post-scarcity office sounds kinda shitty. *prints big ass tax return just because*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 11, 2015, 02:25:17 PM
I hate that. I had one where the scanner lamp died which rendered the entire unit completely useless. I don't think I ever scanned anything either. CAN'T PRINT BECAUSE THE SCANNER LAMP IS OUT!
I hate shit like this. Purposefully break all parts of a all-in-one machine when one is broken. Fuck design like that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on March 11, 2015, 04:56:27 PM
this morning, I exchanged pleasantries with a multilingual bartender, very enjoyable experience.

and then I woke up.



there goes my only chance at code switching with Navajo and Latin :fbm

or having a friend :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 11, 2015, 05:13:43 PM
Sleep so fucked atm that I can't process what time of day it is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 11, 2015, 06:40:14 PM
Sleep so fucked atm that I can't process what time of day it is.

It's tomorrow right now. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 11, 2015, 06:45:06 PM
Mi damnas vin. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 11, 2015, 06:54:11 PM
Esperant- :noooo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 11, 2015, 06:56:50 PM
I wish I could give you three likes
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 11, 2015, 08:02:19 PM
u should learn it arv; it'd probz take u like an hour max and u could meet new men to show off 2 sushi girl or introduce 2 ur nana
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 11, 2015, 08:05:45 PM
There's a guy at work who's name is Arpit. I practically break out into a sweat every time I have to say his name to make sure I don' t call him armpit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 11, 2015, 08:45:18 PM
u should learn it arv; it'd probz take u like an hour max and u could meet new men to show off 2 sushi girl or introduce 2 ur nana

I'm NtGay!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 11, 2015, 09:13:57 PM
u should learn it arv; it'd probz take u like an hour max and u could meet new men to show off 2 sushi girl or introduce 2 ur nana

I'm NtGay!

Mi ne estas gaja!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 11, 2015, 09:22:31 PM
Is that Mexican or that phony language that is basically Mexican except you can't use it to proposition your Mexican maid?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 11, 2015, 09:22:48 PM
*samseksema :supergay

Using gay like that is krokodili. :wag
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on March 11, 2015, 10:03:15 PM
u should learn it arv; it'd probz take u like an hour max and u could meet new men to show off 2 sushi girl or introduce 2 ur nana

I'm NtGay!

New technology gay?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 11, 2015, 11:25:34 PM
*samseksema :supergay

Using gay like that is krokodili. :wag

Thanks for making me look like a fool, Google Translate! :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 12, 2015, 12:29:35 AM
how can u h8 a language THIS FUCKING STUPID, arv

http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/malkrokodili#Esperanto
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 12, 2015, 01:29:24 AM
malkrokodilantojn


...


:trash
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 12, 2015, 08:45:16 AM
You know what's trash?

The idiot driving in front of me on the way to work who threw out an entire bag of mcdonalds through her car window, fat whore. That shit pissed me off. I am not a hippie dippie environmentalist but goddamnit how hard is it to take your bag that was previously full of McMuffin's and throw that shit away at work/home?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 12, 2015, 09:08:43 AM

Furikake on rice is for children anyway. Adults generally do not do it. Yukari is a different story, for whatever reason. Most adults use pickles to flavor their rice -- and most kids don’t like pickles. So I guess that’s the division.

I like furikake, for what it’s worth.

Could have fooled me!   :lol  I saw that practice used all the time in Ishikawa.  My wife likes to put furikake on her rice too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 12, 2015, 09:12:39 AM

Furikake on rice is for children anyway. Adults generally do not do it. Yukari is a different story, for whatever reason. Most adults use pickles to flavor their rice -- and most kids don’t like pickles. So I guess that’s the division.

I like furikake, for what it’s worth.

Could have fooled me!   :lol  I saw that practice used all the time in Ishikawa.  My wife likes to put furikake on her rice too.

I'm sorry but as a non-japanofile I must say that furikake sounds like something that happens during a comic con.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 12, 2015, 09:40:41 AM
Maybe furry bukkake?

The funny thing is "bukkake " just means "heaped on," so it's common to see on menus. I laugh still when I see "bukkake udon."

Bork, all I can say is I've lived here 15 years, and my local experience is that it's mainly for kids. There are plenty who like it as adults, and it may be regional.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 12, 2015, 09:43:11 AM
:yeshrug it's tasty though. Adds that instant savory taste to anything
'
you would endorse the taste of a  furikake, indeed.    :fabulous
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 12, 2015, 09:44:40 AM
There was a thread on GAF a few days ago about a guy whose cat kept sleeping on his legs, cutting off circulation. Well I let my cat sleep on my bed last night and I'm pretty sure she fucked up my leg. I have a spot right under my knee that feels sore as hell, like circulation was cut off.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 12, 2015, 09:45:34 AM
There was a thread on GAF a few days ago about a guy whose cat kept sleeping on his legs, cutting off circulation. Well I let my cat sleep on my bed last night and I'm pretty sure she fucked up my leg. I have a spot right under my knee that feels sore as hell, like circulation was cut off.

How big is your cat? Seems unlikely.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 12, 2015, 09:59:58 AM
furry cock, eh?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 12, 2015, 11:11:20 AM
Guys next door are banging some old ass house music from my time on some 1200's.

My struggle is I want to go over there and get my jam on but I have to work   :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 12, 2015, 11:14:18 AM
malkrokodilantojn


...


:trash

I really like how rage inducing this thing is. I mean I'm kind of (http://i.imgur.com/fzFLwp7.gif) about it for reasons not pertinent to this post, but the fact that its existence is almost like trolling is extremely appealing. You even troll yourself in the process, so it's perhaps the most efficient form of trolling known to humanity. :omg
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 12, 2015, 11:16:54 AM
There was a thread on GAF a few days ago about a guy whose cat kept sleeping on his legs, cutting off circulation. Well I let my cat sleep on my bed last night and I'm pretty sure she fucked up my leg. I have a spot right under my knee that feels sore as hell, like circulation was cut off.

How big is your cat? Seems unlikely.

Not too big honestly. I'll weigh her when I get back. She tends to sleep in one spot for hours so it seems possible. I can't think of anything else that could have caused it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 12, 2015, 11:18:33 AM
There was a thread on GAF a few days ago about a guy whose cat kept sleeping on his legs, cutting off circulation. Well I let my cat sleep on my bed last night and I'm pretty sure she fucked up my leg. I have a spot right under my knee that feels sore as hell, like circulation was cut off.

How big is your cat? Seems unlikely.

Not too big honestly. I'll weigh her when I get back. She tends to sleep in one spot for hours so it seems possible. I can't think of anything else that could have caused it.

Lots of things can cause that, most are harmless IE/Not enough fluids before sleep, improper diet, aggravated mild strain, etc.

Also is a sign of diabetes  :yeshrug

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 12, 2015, 11:35:54 AM
All those sugary mikes :usacry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 12, 2015, 01:36:04 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/kyObl1a.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 12, 2015, 01:53:26 PM
Got complimented on my handwriting, which for a southpaw living in the Right Man's world is like being told you're "so articulate."

At least it was an opportunity to talk about how piss Unistat education is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 12, 2015, 03:20:45 PM
Maybe furry bukkake?

The funny thing is "bukkake " just means "heaped on," so it's common to see on menus. I laugh still when I see "bukkake udon."

Bork, all I can say is I've lived here 15 years, and my local experience is that it's mainly for kids. There are plenty who like it as adults, and it may be regional.

Y'know, I call that topping "bukkake" all the time.  It's childish, just like furikake apparently hyuck hyuck!

Must be a regional thing.  Things are weird in Kansai.   :P  Although they do make regular and children's furikake and oh my that sounds dirty now, thanks bore.

Also, I made comics just for you! (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=37475.msg2008327#msg2008327)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 12, 2015, 06:29:11 PM
Despite my best efforts today I have had neither a fatal heart attack or stroke. Instead I just have a migraine.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 12, 2015, 06:45:08 PM
Welp better luck tomorrow dude. 

Today despite my best efforts I got nothing done.  Depression sucks ass.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on March 12, 2015, 07:03:05 PM
Got acknowledged by the presenter in a work training today for using a "really awesome looking" fountain pen. In front of a huge group of people, most I don't know. Most embarrassing shit ever.

I LIKE PENS SHUT UP.

She didn't even know I had a calligraphy nib on it TO TAKE FUCKING NOTES. Oh my god I'm such a loser and my coworkers are enablers.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brob on March 12, 2015, 07:05:34 PM
Got acknowledged by the presenter in a work training today for using a "really awesome looking" fountain pen. In front of a huge group of people, most I don't know. Most embarrassing shit ever.

I LIKE PENS SHUT UP.

She didn't even know I had a calligraphy nib on it TO TAKE FUCKING NOTES. Oh my god I'm such a loser and my coworkers are enablers.

A flatmate once asked me to borrow a pen real quick and the most normal thing I had was a pilot parallel pen.  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on March 12, 2015, 07:28:30 PM
Got acknowledged by the presenter in a work training today for using a "really awesome looking" fountain pen. In front of a huge group of people, most I don't know. Most embarrassing shit ever.

I LIKE PENS SHUT UP.

She didn't even know I had a calligraphy nib on it TO TAKE FUCKING NOTES. Oh my god I'm such a loser and my coworkers are enablers.

A flatmate once asked me to borrow a pen real quick and the most normal thing I had was a pilot parallel pen.  :stahp

Oh my man.

I have a ton of little marker/felt tip pens, like Stabilo, so I usually offer those first.

My jetpens wish list... I already have my child's first fountain pen picked out. She drools over my marker pens already.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brob on March 12, 2015, 07:37:31 PM
I buy pens n such from a local shop, which the owner thinks is so nice he always acts like he's an old family friend when he sees me out and about in the world. And that happens often enough that I would die from anxiety if I ever stopped shopping there.

again, :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 12, 2015, 08:11:43 PM
Stationery goods. :drool
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 12, 2015, 08:11:46 PM
I used 24 hour time in a written response and the recipient asked me if it was a typo.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 12, 2015, 08:13:01 PM
edit: double derp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 12, 2015, 08:23:44 PM
got the refund on the shitty dreamcast, whew!   

i wish they gave you one last opportunity to talk shit.  this lady was the "lie until the very end, while dishing out insults" type. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 13, 2015, 01:21:11 AM
got the refund on the shitty dreamcast, whew!   

i wish they gave you one last opportunity to talk shit.  this lady was the "lie until the very end, while dishing out insults" type.
(http://i.imgur.com/olY12HT.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: kick51 on March 13, 2015, 09:55:42 AM
sure, that'd be the dignified and mature thing to do.  I, however, would like to get in one last "lol"

nobody puts baby in a shitty dreamcast
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Take My Breh Away on March 13, 2015, 11:20:23 AM
It's Saint Patrick's day in Dublin on Tuesday

You are now a directions guide for tourists because you have a "friendly face" and almost end up late for college

They ignore you after you tell them the pub they are going to is awful and overpriced anyway

All the pubs in the city are packed when you try get an after class drink so you give up

The pint quality dives across the nation because the bartenders don't even have to try

Shitty trad coming out of the pub anyway

Then you get the flu symptoms on the bus back and cant drink when you get back home anyway or the weekend

Is é an streachailt fíor :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 13, 2015, 11:25:37 AM
I can blast some Pogues for you to top off the experience. :rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEe7_b6NHtA

e: Might be a false friend but I'm kinda shocked that struggle seems so similar in Gaeilge.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 13, 2015, 11:29:32 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysH86MMwPs8

Get on my level noob.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 13, 2015, 07:50:03 PM
The cac market where I get my kefir and kombucha from BECAUSE THEY'RE DELICIOUS NOT BECAUSE I THINK VACCINES CAUSE AUTISM :hans1 has a small staff because it's a small market. Place is a living room with a business license and unsecured property tax liabilities.

This means that the same person rings up 90% of my fermented beverage purchases, and I am always dressed unprofessionally when this happens because if I ain't seeing a client I ain't wearing anything that wouldn't give mac an aneurysm. Well today I went there dressed to the four-and-a-halves after a meeting and I could tell how profoundly I had disappointed the Cherryl Brooks to my James Taggart who rings up 90% of my fermented beverage purchases. In the back of my mind I could practically hear her thinking, "Eww, I bet you drive a German import sedan too."

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 14, 2015, 02:38:07 AM
Baby got a fever, going to the hospital :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 14, 2015, 02:51:56 AM
Baby got a fever, going to the hospital :(
Pewp. That's the worst, esp. for first time parents. It'll all be OK though!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 14, 2015, 04:13:14 AM
thanks guys!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 14, 2015, 11:02:10 AM
Back home 9 hours later, they ran some tests buy everything is ok for now (except her cold) they kept us for observation. She looks a lot more awake now thank god.

Really makes you realize what is important in life!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 14, 2015, 07:05:20 PM
duder at the ferry referred to my friend's guzzi breva 1100 as a "nice harley" :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 14, 2015, 08:08:31 PM
At least he didn't say "Goo-zee"? :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 14, 2015, 08:09:06 PM
Back home 9 hours later, they ran some tests buy everything is ok for now (except her cold) they kept us for observation. She looks a lot more awake now thank god.

Really makes you realize what is important in life!
good to see she's ok, and yeah, babies and sickness make you freak the fuck out. for example, last week I was picking my daughter up and she started screaming nonstop, turns out I pulled her elbow out of joint (apparently a very common thing), and it took all of 10 seconds of bending her arm to fix it up, but I still felt like a monster for the rest of the day  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 14, 2015, 11:31:08 PM
I've seen the same mersh over and and over watching On Demand where the spokespeople ask if you'd haggle over chicken parmesan and I keep screaming about implied haggling in Olive Garden deals at the TV.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on March 14, 2015, 11:36:10 PM
Found today from my dad that he mainly went to flight school to get away from my mom while she was pregnant with me

Be a father to your child  :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 14, 2015, 11:42:19 PM
Found today from my dad that he mainly went to flight school to get away from my mom while she was pregnant with me

Be a father to your child  :beli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQMVsQW_kjM
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 14, 2015, 11:46:15 PM
Found today from my dad that he mainly went to flight school to get away from my mom while she was pregnant with me

Be a father to your child  :beli

Dealing with the baby is critical. Unfortunately, dealing with a pregnant woman is a different tier of commitment, which largely is masochistic. Wife pregnant with our first child was the most stress our marriage has faced to-date.

Asking honestly, not calling you out: How did you deal with your pregnant wife?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on March 14, 2015, 11:49:58 PM
both the pregnancy and the post-partum are brutal. why people have more than one kid after experiencing it is beyond me.

base animals, breh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 14, 2015, 11:57:14 PM
Back home 9 hours later, they ran some tests buy everything is ok for now (except her cold) they kept us for observation. She looks a lot more awake now thank god.

Really makes you realize what is important in life!

Glad to hear it!

both the pregnancy and the post-partum are brutal. why people have more than one kid after experiencing it is beyond me.

base animals, breh

There is scientific proof that mothers’ memories about the pain of childbirth are dulled after-the-fact. Maybe the same thing happens to both parents? :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 14, 2015, 11:57:53 PM
Found today from my dad that he mainly went to flight school to get away from my mom while she was pregnant with me

Be a father to your child  :beli

Dealing with the baby is critical. Unfortunately, dealing with a pregnant woman is a different tier of commitment, which largely is masochistic. Wife pregnant with our first child was the most stress our marriage has faced to-date.

Asking honestly, not calling you out: How did you deal with your pregnant wife?


Cheddarz is like 16, bro.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on March 15, 2015, 12:00:21 AM
More like 21  :jawalrus

Anyways, I'm sure it's tough as shit to deal with, but my dad has always been a shit father to me (he's done much better with my brother) and it just kinda adds to it, I guess
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on March 15, 2015, 12:00:45 AM
Found today from my dad that he mainly went to flight school to get away from my mom while she was pregnant with me

Be a father to your child  :beli

Dealing with the baby is critical. Unfortunately, dealing with a pregnant woman is a different tier of commitment, which largely is masochistic. Wife pregnant with our first child was the most stress our marriage has faced to-date.

Asking honestly, not calling you out: How did you deal with your pregnant wife?


Cheddarz is like 16, bro.

old enough to have 2 or 3 then :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 15, 2015, 12:13:32 AM
Found today from my dad that he mainly went to flight school to get away from my mom while she was pregnant with me

Be a father to your child  :beli

I'd rather have had benign neglect than active abuse, but sorry breh. Sometimes it's better to leave stones unturned.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 15, 2015, 01:17:44 AM
More like 21  :jawalrus

Anyways, I'm sure it's tough as shit to deal with, but my dad has always been a shit father to me (he's done much better with my brother) and it just kinda adds to it, I guess

Ah, OK. I’m not going to go all AiA on you and tell you not to judge stuff you haven’t experienced. I do hope you will look back on this thread and giggle at yourself once you’re married and she’s becoming hysteric and irrational from runaway hormones compounding natural fear of mortality. It’s... not fun.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 15, 2015, 04:33:29 AM
Asking honestly, not calling you out: How did you deal with your pregnant wife?

My wife was super chill in her pregnancy

Last stretch she had pains and she wa annoyed she couldnt do all the stuff we normally do
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 15, 2015, 04:36:08 AM
Asking honestly, not calling you out: How did you deal with your pregnant wife?

My wife was super chill in her pregnancy

Last stretch she had pains and she wa annoyed she couldnt do all the stuff we normally do

Pretty sure you’re the rare case. Most of my friends had rough patches similar to mine. I’m sure every woman is a unique snowflake when it comes to handling pregnancy, maybe yours is extra special?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 15, 2015, 02:16:30 PM
Wine hangover
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on March 15, 2015, 02:20:07 PM
Asking honestly, not calling you out: How did you deal with your pregnant wife?

My wife was super chill in her pregnancy

Last stretch she had pains and she wa annoyed she couldnt do all the stuff we normally do

I was the same way. After I had the baby, it I felt like Festivus' Airing of Grievances. I had a lot of problems with people and now they were going to hear about it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 16, 2015, 01:28:04 AM
Went to the ice cream shop with my gal friend today because it's Nineteen fucking Fifty and the fucking teen at the register assumed we were a couple and slapped me with the bill for both of us. >:(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on March 16, 2015, 02:22:13 AM
Damn, both Esch and Wrath almost got Ricky'd?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 16, 2015, 02:26:43 AM
I'm beginnig to think any and all assumptions are bad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on March 16, 2015, 02:44:00 AM
Even your snacks?! :dead

I'd be legit sad if someone robbed me for my gummy bears. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 16, 2015, 03:31:53 AM
Nicking Doritos at gunpoint... the depravity of America before the release of Doritos tacos at Taco Bell. :geoff
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 16, 2015, 04:10:30 AM
Gun culture  :yuck

I was the same way. After I had the baby, it I felt like Festivus' Airing of Grievances. I had a lot of problems with people and now they were going to hear about it.

Is the Festivus still on cause I wanna join
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 16, 2015, 09:11:30 AM
Kids.

That is all.

:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 16, 2015, 09:20:12 AM
I really think it's time I moved out of this town. Not cause someplace else will be much safer, just that I'm not exactly a fan of the red state small town mentality. 99% of my friend's are gone for good, a lot of why I enjoyed living here had a lot to do that. Fell out of love with the bar scene, don't think the romantic prospects are high at all, and just flat out don't really enjoy living here.

I always moved without staying somewhere too long, ever since I was a kid. And I feel like that mentality stuck with me. Don't like to be in the same place for too long, especially now since most people have moved on. And due to my city kid self I kind of miss being in one. Haven't decided where yet, but I'll find somewhere to go.

Overall, there's a bit too much dissatisfaction on my end. While moving might be a superficial change, it's definitely a change I really want to make.

Clearly feeling your nomadic roots. Start a caravan and just travel around the country!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 16, 2015, 09:57:20 AM
Stay somewhere and grow roots wrath
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 16, 2015, 10:00:25 AM
Stay somewhere and grow roots wrath

Nah, he's young enough to not yet realize that no matter where you go it's always the same. Let him do his thing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 16, 2015, 10:07:13 AM
Stay somewhere and grow roots wrath

Nah, he's young enough to not yet realize that no matter where you go it's always the same. Let him do his thing.

Sure, it's not like he will take my advice anyway.

Sometimes you do hit a good place though, meet the right people, don't fuck up then and try to stick around.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 16, 2015, 10:08:31 AM
Nicking Doritos at gunpoint... the depravity of America before the release of Doritos tacos at Taco Bell. :geoff

They were my favorite too. Cool ranch :tocry

Life was rough before the spicy sweet chili flavor dropped

Wait, they don't make cool ranch anymore? :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 16, 2015, 10:11:44 AM

Wait, they don't make cool ranch anymore? :ohhh

Nah they still do. Just saying they were my favorite (before the spicy chili flavor) and that dude stole them from me :dead

LOL ganked for 20 dollars and a sack of doritos. I might have shot you for having gummy worms though :mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 16, 2015, 10:21:50 AM
I like doing inbound sales and stuff, but now all I do is call people.

  :maf

I should have been smart and study something related to IT like I wanted as a kid. Had to study history though cause shit was interesting LOL. Also at the time people thought you'd get a cool job regardless of your study. LOL @ early 2000's
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 16, 2015, 01:43:55 PM
I really think it's time I moved out of this town. Not cause someplace else will be much safer, just that I'm not exactly a fan of the red state small town mentality. 99% of my friend's are gone for good, a lot of why I enjoyed living here had a lot to do that. Fell out of love with the bar scene, don't think the romantic prospects are high at all, and just flat out don't really enjoy living here.

I always moved without staying somewhere too long, ever since I was a kid. And I feel like that mentality stuck with me. Don't like to be in the same place for too long, especially now since most people have moved on. And due to my city kid self I kind of miss being in one. Haven't decided where yet, but I'll find somewhere to go.

Overall, there's a bit too much dissatisfaction on my end. While moving might be a superficial change, it's definitely a change I really want to make.

cum 2 boston boo bear
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on March 16, 2015, 05:01:11 PM
Boston? He's a Lakers fan and I assume he has at least some dignity.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 16, 2015, 05:08:57 PM
Boston? He's a Lakers fan and I assume he has at least some dignity.

...Lakers fans have dignity???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 16, 2015, 07:12:44 PM
ALLERGIES.

Last two days, the allergen report shows the western half of Japan in the worst portion of their gauge. All red. I’m waking myself up with sneezes during the night. When the alarm rings, I’ve got swollen eyelids. Bloody noses happening.

The pollen in this country can go fuck itself.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brob on March 16, 2015, 07:27:50 PM
hang in there.jpg

considering you got insects like these (http://i.imgur.com/wrvYcAI.jpg) I would not be surprised if the pollen looked like hail
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on March 16, 2015, 07:31:13 PM
all my work buddies are leaving me. :stahp

its like a rat race to get out for the young folks lmao.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 16, 2015, 07:41:21 PM
Youngest is way sick, poor kid. I hope he gets better soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 16, 2015, 08:58:48 PM
hang in there.jpg

considering you got insects like these (http://i.imgur.com/wrvYcAI.jpg) I would not be surprised if the pollen looked like hail

Thanks.

Actually, if the pollen were hail-sized, it wouldn't get up my nose as much. We've also got "PM 2.5" in abundance, which apparently makes allergies even worse, as the particulate matter acts as a pre-irritant and enhances allergic reactions.  :-\

I've seen those bees before. I don't know why that guy's got one on his hand; they can sting multiple times, and more than once can hospitalize or kill the victim.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 16, 2015, 11:01:04 PM
Boston? He's a Lakers fan and I assume he has at least some dignity.

I'm considering it, actually. Been on the west coast quite a few times, same with the south and now the north. So might as well go east.

:hyper
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 16, 2015, 11:45:20 PM
I mean the commune is lulzy and everything, but I'm so glad I moved last year Wrath. doit.gif
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 17, 2015, 02:08:06 AM
Actually, if the pollen were hail-sized, it wouldn't get up my nose as much. We've also got "PM 2.5" in abundance, which apparently makes allergies even worse, as the particulate matter acts as a pre-irritant and enhances allergic reactions.  :-\
Does it waft over from China?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 17, 2015, 02:40:44 AM
Do you have any other allergies chrono?

Youngest is way sick, poor kid. I hope he gets better soon.

Whats wrong?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 17, 2015, 03:57:00 AM
I finished setting up my Strava profile and for my bio I used a foreign language literary pun / reference. This seemed both perfectly fine and completely amusing to me at the time. :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 17, 2015, 04:22:21 AM
An app for people who care too much about running and biking. I just wanna know how fast I'm riding so I can make sure I end up as road kill instead of an N-plegic. :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 17, 2015, 04:48:57 AM
Actually, if the pollen were hail-sized, it wouldn't get up my nose as much. We've also got "PM 2.5" in abundance, which apparently makes allergies even worse, as the particulate matter acts as a pre-irritant and enhances allergic reactions.  :-\
Does it waft over from China?
The prevailing wisdom is that it's wafting from China due to all their polluting factories. Japanese people like to talk about it a lot and then order more crates of cheap crap for their hundred-yen shops.

Do you have any other allergies chrono?
Just hay fever, and I'm not even clear what pollen is affecting me. It's various grasses in the USA, and it appears to be cedar here. Lately I have a little reaction to cat-households as well, but it's minor.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 17, 2015, 11:10:39 AM

Youngest is way sick, poor kid. I hope he gets better soon.

Whats wrong?
Just a huge fever and lethargy. Nothing serious. But he's totally wiped out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 17, 2015, 05:06:51 PM
I laughed at too many of the telegraphed jokes in this. http://www.mhpbooks.com/communist-bracketology-an-exclusive-interview-with-the-creators-of-marx-madness/

Quote
Is there a prize, other than the confidence in the collective intellectual defeat of one’s rivals past, present, and future?

The prize is self-satisfaction and the confirmation that you were right—there is no better prize for a Marxian intellectual.

:rofl :rofl :rofl

It's FUCKING BULLSHIT that both Bukharin and Hobsbawm got bounced in the first round, BTW. :maf :maf :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 17, 2015, 05:09:50 PM
Rewards are bullshit we've been programmed to think we deserve by our punitive justice society  :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 17, 2015, 05:21:25 PM
 :lucas
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Crash Dummy on March 17, 2015, 05:45:45 PM
who did you pick between adorno and lefebvre?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: eleuin on March 17, 2015, 05:58:09 PM
Paypal account was hacked and the fucker bought 180$ worth of bluetooth headphones, guess it could've much worse :fbm

Save your card information on your account brehs  :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 17, 2015, 06:06:33 PM
who did you pick between adorno and lefebvre?

While cultural Marxism is certainly a go-to epithet for (particularly European) reactionaries, concepts like the right to the city prove more and more pertinent as urban areas are continually reduced yuppie lebensraum across the world.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 17, 2015, 06:11:02 PM
Paypal account was hacked and the fucker bought 180$ worth of bluetooth headphones, guess it could've much worse :fbm

Save your card information on your account brehs  :snoop
Time to turn on two-factor verification (everywhere).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 17, 2015, 10:06:53 PM
Paypal account was hacked and the fucker bought 180$ worth of bluetooth headphones, guess it could've much worse :fbm

Save your card information on your account brehs  :snoop
Yeah, I have had PayPal forever, but have been unwilling to associate card information with it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 17, 2015, 10:32:35 PM
restraining myself from binge-watching Utena any more than I've already done today (4 episodes).
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 18, 2015, 09:45:43 AM
Tried to get out of meeting with my supervisor so I could go back to bed and sleep depressively but got back a pretty strong reply saying to be at his office.  I so want to quit gradschool but I'm stuck until at least may in order to get my masters and really I should stay longer to finish up stuff and find a job.  But every day is a damn struggle. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 18, 2015, 10:53:04 AM
So inMails you receive in Sales Navigator on Linkedin don't go to your normal inbox but to the Sales Navigator inbox that doesn't show up on you main page.

Just found a message of a client I approached from 17 days ago

 :gloomy :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 18, 2015, 12:19:58 PM
Forgot to put out the garbage this morning. Now I have to live with Monday night's chicken scraps for another week.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 18, 2015, 12:35:58 PM
run home and put it in a neighbours bin that is still out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 18, 2015, 12:38:11 PM
So inMails you receive in Sales Navigator on Linkedin don't go to your normal inbox but to the Sales Navigator inbox that doesn't show up on you main page.

Just found a message of a client I approached from 17 days ago

 :gloomy :gloomy
That sucks.

It also reminds me I logged into LinkedIn yesterday :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 18, 2015, 05:30:47 PM
Saw a handwritten invoice (lol) where the net box was filled in with "due 10 days" instead of just "10".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on March 18, 2015, 06:11:12 PM
I get handwritten invoices I can't read airmailed all the time three months after I was supposed to pay the person and they won't answer a simple email like "how much do I owe you".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 18, 2015, 07:01:53 PM
this move to NYC is gonna drain so much money from me i'll be digging myself out for a pretty long time  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 18, 2015, 07:45:52 PM
The lengths we go to for love. :heart

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on March 18, 2015, 07:50:07 PM
Love.  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 18, 2015, 07:56:48 PM
:mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 18, 2015, 10:57:41 PM
got an official reprimand at work today for raising valid complaints about our work schedule and how its affecting our staff.  70 hour work weeks the past month.

yeahhhh I'm out
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 18, 2015, 11:32:45 PM
Have a new job lined up yet?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 18, 2015, 11:39:11 PM
Making the preparations for that.  Have an interview with a different tech company on Tuesday.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on March 19, 2015, 12:24:43 AM
it's tournament time and my boss came at me like i'm really supposed to get shit done thurs and fri  :lol
it's like they learned nothing from the acc tournament last week.

restraining myself from binge-watching Utena any more than I've already done today (4 episodes).

nah man finish that shit. then watch the movie for maximum  :mindblown :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 19, 2015, 01:39:36 AM
Making the preparations for that.  Have an interview with a different tech company on Tuesday.

Good for you!

This may seem like a no-brainer, but when you’re talking with the next company, stay positive about the previous company during the interview.

I had this one bite me in the ass a couple years ago. Everyone knows if you’re leaving, things are less than great, and staying positive will win you more points than being candid.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 19, 2015, 02:44:46 AM
As long as I get paid I ain't saying shit 'bout chu irl. (http://i.imgur.com/vadaL8L.png)

The only bridges I burn are all the ones in my personal life. (http://i.imgur.com/gng8woU.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 19, 2015, 03:58:57 AM
As long as I get paid I ain't saying shit 'bout chu irl. (http://i.imgur.com/vadaL8L.png)

The only bridges I burn are all the ones in my personal life. (http://i.imgur.com/gng8woU.gif)

So you consider your relationship with your therapists to be personal, rather than professional?

Tell me more about... your childhood.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on March 19, 2015, 06:11:53 AM
Got caught up in what I assume counts as a debate these days on GAF   :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 19, 2015, 07:57:12 AM
Airports :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 19, 2015, 08:21:44 AM
got an official reprimand at work today for raising valid complaints about our work schedule and how its affecting our staff.  70 hour work weeks the past month.

yeahhhh I'm out

:kobeyuck

What kind of work do you do? I have a few friends in the tech business out your way depending on your level of training.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Crash Dummy on March 19, 2015, 08:27:04 AM
Saw a handwritten invoice (lol) where the net box was filled in with "due 10 days" instead of just "10".

i had an invoice where it showed the net and gross amounts but not the tax so the client just penned it in supported by full arithmetic working
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 19, 2015, 10:27:48 AM
Making the preparations for that.  Have an interview with a different tech company on Tuesday.
tech companies  :pacspit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 19, 2015, 11:59:52 AM
As long as I get paid I ain't saying shit 'bout chu irl. (http://i.imgur.com/vadaL8L.png)

The only bridges I burn are all the ones in my personal life. (http://i.imgur.com/gng8woU.gif)

So you consider your relationship with your therapists to be personal, rather than professional?

Tell me more about... your childhood.

I was socialized (some might say abused, but I will be impartial) to be over-concerned for others to such a degree that I lack anything beyond a rudimentary sense of autonomous self and, to wed insult and injury, this makes the expression of autonomous self by others (the classic example being sharing your feelings about some daily triviality) profoundly revolting when I encounter it, whether I want to listen to the person or not. (Again, this might be characterized as triggering, but I consciously avoid using this word for ideological and audience reasons.)

As a large degree of what I need treatment for stems from being #WroughtThisWay, it will by necessity require a large personal element to undo whatever damage can be undone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 19, 2015, 12:04:51 PM
As long as I get paid I ain't saying shit 'bout chu irl. (http://i.imgur.com/vadaL8L.png)

The only bridges I burn are all the ones in my personal life. (http://i.imgur.com/gng8woU.gif)

So you consider your relationship with your therapists to be personal, rather than professional?

Tell me more about... your childhood.

I was socialized (some might say abused, but I will be impartial) to be over-concerned for others to such a degree that I lack anything beyond a rudimentary sense of autonomous self and, to wed insult and injury, this makes the expression of autonomous self by others (the classic example being sharing your feelings about some daily triviality) profoundly revolting when I encounter it, whether I want to listen to the person or not. (Again, this might be characterized as triggering, but I consciously avoid using this word for ideological and audience reasons.)

As a large degree of what I need treatment for stems from being #WroughtThisWay, it will by necessity require a large personal element to undo whatever damage can be undone.

There aren't any pills that are going to fix that. If you are a narcissist,which indeed it seems like due to this comment, then at best you suffered being forced to be a normal person as a youth and now don't have those shackles. As long as you're okay being alone without any real friendships I'd say just continue down your current course.

Source: I played in the league with a lot of them. It usually means you'll excel at whatever field you chose because you have no fear of stamping out any competition, whether perceived or factual.

Find yourself a beta wife and stop trying to fix that which you cannot.

Ask yourself these questions:

1) Do you have any fear of harming another person if doing so ensures you will succeed?

2) Do you ever experience empathy other than for self amusement?

3) Do you perceive the world as you versus them, always?

If so, save your money the shrink isn't going to fix it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 19, 2015, 01:35:21 PM
i really want to get in with the transgender gaming clique on twitter but am not sure i'm quite ready to actually transition to a woman just for this purpose. but i'm afraid it may be the only way to get senpai to notice me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 19, 2015, 01:36:49 PM
i really want to get in with the transgender gaming clique on twitter but am not sure i'm quite ready to actually transition to a woman just for this purpose. but i'm afraid it may be the only way to get senpai to notice me.

You're already a meandering bitch, what's so bad about cropping off your dick at this point?

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 19, 2015, 05:22:53 PM
Just got a call from my lead developer on one of my projects

"Hey Puppy, I was wondering if you're aware of my departing." <he's indian>
"Uh, departing where?"
"From the company."
"Umm...ok no problem. I'll begin finding a replacement. When's your last day?"
"Tomorrow"
"Tomorrow? How can you do this? That's really unprofessional."
"I told HR 2 weeks ago. They didn't tell you?"
"MOTHERFUCKER!"

Nice one HR.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 19, 2015, 06:57:34 PM
As long as I get paid I ain't saying shit 'bout chu irl. (http://i.imgur.com/vadaL8L.png)

The only bridges I burn are all the ones in my personal life. (http://i.imgur.com/gng8woU.gif)

So you consider your relationship with your therapists to be personal, rather than professional?

Tell me more about... your childhood.

I was socialized (some might say abused, but I will be impartial) to be over-concerned for others to such a degree that I lack anything beyond a rudimentary sense of autonomous self and, to wed insult and injury, this makes the expression of autonomous self by others (the classic example being sharing your feelings about some daily triviality) profoundly revolting when I encounter it, whether I want to listen to the person or not. (Again, this might be characterized as triggering, but I consciously avoid using this word for ideological and audience reasons.)

As a large degree of what I need treatment for stems from being #WroughtThisWay, it will by necessity require a large personal element to undo whatever damage can be undone.

Huh.

What’s wrong with using the term “triggering” here?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 19, 2015, 07:46:56 PM
There are already three unanswered questions in the queue. >:(

I consider it a legitimate term, but there's enough of a contingent here that spout it back derisively (while mouth breathing irl I imagine) that to avoid poisoning the well it's worth finding a more circuitous way of expressing the same phenomenon. Unless you'd rather be specific than heard that is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on March 20, 2015, 01:24:59 AM
One of my wisdom teeth is starting to come in and its hurting like a bitch. I have a dentist appointment Monday so I will see if it needs to be removed.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: mormapope on March 20, 2015, 01:54:54 AM
Chances are if its coming in and there's a lot of pain, that area is infected. Which isn't the end of the world, but if you let it grow in and don't get it removed that gum area will get infected constantly.

I speak from experience. My bottom right wisdom tooth was coming in and it hurt a lot. Would gargle salt water, clean the area gently with a brush. Eventually pain would come back and the area itself would turn reddish. Went to the dentist, got xrays, went to another dentist, got scheduled for surgery to remove all four of my wisdom teeth.

Have you gotten widsom teeth surgery before?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 20, 2015, 08:12:19 AM
The coffee at this embassy suite is turrible :yuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on March 20, 2015, 10:52:12 AM
Got an A on a math test and all the guys I studied with got an A+  :brazilcry

Time to sue for a better grade :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 20, 2015, 12:20:14 PM
Okay I think I win today....

Have two girls at work, one in accounting who's 45, fat, and umarried....have another in sales that's 27, cute, and married. This combination is like dropping a fucking torch into a propane tank.  Relentless passive aggressive niggling by the account followed by a completely warranted rebuttal at times from the sales girl.

Today takes the cake.

I was sitting in my office fucking around buying a gun working when the accountant barges into my office.

Accountant  "Mr. AiA, we need to have a chat"

Me "Ok........"

Accountant "Sales girl is purposefully brewing regular coffee in the decaf and I'm having jitters because of it"

Me "what?"

Accountant "Yeah, she knows I don't drink regular coffee and is trying to poison me"

Me "Poisoning sounds a little harsh, let me page her"

Sales Girl "Hi AiA, how can I help you?"

Me "yeah are you brewing regular coffee in the decaf pot?"

Sales Girl "Uh, I don't drink coffee"

Me "thanks"

Me to accountant   :beli

Accountant  "I'm going to get video evidence"

Me "Can we just focus on work please, it's friday"

Accountant "Sigh....okay......I am on to her"

Me "Are we going to have to have a meeting about this?"

Accountant "Oh no, I'd rather not"

Me :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on March 20, 2015, 12:29:08 PM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 20, 2015, 12:47:16 PM
Looks like someone needs a new accountant
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 20, 2015, 12:50:30 PM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.


God that would suck. She's amazing at her job when she's focused.

I'll remove the goddamn coffee brewer first. Go across the street to starbuks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 20, 2015, 01:04:39 PM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.


God that would suck. She's amazing at her job when she's focused.

I'll remove the goddamn coffee brewer first. Go across the street to starbuks.

You can just claim you're trying to foster conversations about race!

 :american
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on March 20, 2015, 01:07:29 PM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.


God that would suck. She's amazing at her job when she's focused.

I'll remove the goddamn coffee brewer first. Go across the street to starbuks.
???

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 20, 2015, 02:06:22 PM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.
i've been doing the 50 pullup challenge deal. i'm at the 16-20 now, desperately trying not to plateau :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 20, 2015, 02:33:31 PM
so i have a video interview in a couple of days. oh god. my peculiar blend of narcissism and body dysmorphia can't survive this :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 20, 2015, 03:03:46 PM
Better hire a lighting consultant and an editor. Maybe do an intro with dubstep playing in the background to let them know you are hip.

 

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 20, 2015, 03:08:47 PM
I'm ironing my finest non-moire producing suit and shirt, will be location scouting tonight :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 20, 2015, 03:09:55 PM
so i have a video interview in a couple of days. oh god. my peculiar blend of narcissism and body dysmorphia can't survive this :brazilcry

i have long been dreading a day when this happens to me :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 20, 2015, 03:12:32 PM
Didn't match with any of the programs I interviewed with and had to watch everyone else celebrate as they got their top choices.

Now scrambling to find open positions and send out my CV and references. Ruff friday
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 20, 2015, 03:43:58 PM
Good luck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 20, 2015, 04:33:51 PM
Some idiots disconnected our fiber line at the pole down the street. :comeon No internet or VPN for 3 hours.
Know what you are doing when you are up on a phone pole, brehs. :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 20, 2015, 04:41:58 PM
Some idiots disconnected our fiber line at the pole down the street. :comeon No internet or VPN for 3 hours.
Know what you are doing when you are up on a phone pole, brehs. :snoop

We do. I didn't even want to open a low voltage side to my business...but my buddy at a customer of mine suggested I hire some ex CLEC guys.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 20, 2015, 04:44:07 PM
For the record they are going to shoot it with an OTDR then fusion splice it with a pigtail. It's probably 188 strands so it's gonna be a minute
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 20, 2015, 04:49:21 PM
Okay I think I win today....

Have two girls at work, one in accounting who's 45, fat, and umarried....have another in sales that's 27, cute, and married. This combination is like dropping a fucking torch into a propane tank.  Relentless passive aggressive niggling by the account followed by a completely warranted rebuttal at times from the sales girl.

Today takes the cake.

I was sitting in my office fucking around buying a gun working when the accountant barges into my office.

Accountant  "Mr. AiA, we need to have a chat"

Me "Ok........"

Accountant "Sales girl is purposefully brewing regular coffee in the decaf and I'm having jitters because of it"

Me "what?"

Accountant "Yeah, she knows I don't drink regular coffee and is trying to poison me"

Me "Poisoning sounds a little harsh, let me page her"

Sales Girl "Hi AiA, how can I help you?"

Me "yeah are you brewing regular coffee in the decaf pot?"

Sales Girl "Uh, I don't drink coffee"

Me "thanks"

Me to accountant   :beli

Accountant  "I'm going to get video evidence"

Me "Can we just focus on work please, it's friday"

Accountant "Sigh....okay......I am on to her"

Me "Are we going to have to have a meeting about this?"

Accountant "Oh no, I'd rather not"

Me :snoop

It's interesting how different this plays out with dudes. I've worked with a few 40+ yo guys who aren't married and seem depressed or reserved to their lot in life; maybe they're . They just go about their business, sometimes taking advantage of people who feel bad for them. But a 40+ yo woman who isn't married, surrounded by eligible younger single or married women? Passive aggressive fuckery commences nearly every time.
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on March 20, 2015, 04:57:10 PM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.


God that would suck. She's amazing at her job when she's focused.

I'll remove the goddamn coffee brewer first. Go across the street to starbuks.

Then the accountant will think you're taking sales girl's side because she's cuter and that's what women who hate their own skin assume about most men. Just put a note on the pot saying to pay attention to which coffee it is and tell accountant that she needs to be less paranoid.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 20, 2015, 05:03:45 PM
accountant is just jelly of the number of pull ups the sales girl can do
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on March 20, 2015, 05:11:37 PM
got an official reprimand at work today for raising valid complaints about our work schedule and how its affecting our staff.  70 hour work weeks the past month.

yeahhhh I'm out

:kobeyuck

What kind of work do you do? I have a few friends in the tech business out your way depending on your level of training.

Project management and QA.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 20, 2015, 06:05:47 PM
Office catladies are the worst.  The key is to dump a bunch of busy work onto them so they don't have time to stir up shit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 20, 2015, 09:23:39 PM
I've literally spent a day trying to install a lib on my mac.  and its still not fucking working. 

Caffe :piss2  macs :piss2

Also Apple, quit fucking removing important libs when you update your OSs for fucks sake. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 21, 2015, 11:28:11 AM
I'm weak again. Struggling to do 7 pull ups straight, smh. Felt winded after 3 sets.


God that would suck. She's amazing at her job when she's focused.

I'll remove the goddamn coffee brewer first. Go across the street to starbuks.
That's fair enough, just don't expect much sympathy when you make your "Crazy lady shot my office up yelling about how the voices in her coffee told her we were trying to kill her" post

 :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 21, 2015, 06:51:09 PM
Why did I eat that second burger

I feel like absolute shit  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 21, 2015, 07:07:55 PM
follow it with a milkshake. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 21, 2015, 07:15:35 PM
(http://i1.minus.com/ib1eRuvfIC3RVN.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on March 22, 2015, 08:48:00 AM
GF's work friend and husband came over last night, both of them had fond memories of it and wanted to play Smash Brothers. 
I hand dude the gamepad and first thing he says is "oh do you mind if i get a real controller?  no offense."  :expert

none taken ya bissh, gave him a pro controller

then he won basically every single match  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 08:48:53 AM
Had one of them shit weekends. Hate those.

Friday: Wife was pissy all damn night. No particular reason.

Saturday: Got into a mild beef with a buddy who has decided that he doesn't need a job. He'd rather go to the local shithole bar and fuck around with a fat unattractive 20 something barfly who does all things you should not...smokes cigs, still lives with her parents, drinks every fucking day...etc.  I had people over and didn't tell him for that reason. Somehow that makes me the bad guy...Got a nasty text from him. Replied "I make the decision, blame me, not my wife" to which he said "you're just mad you don't got a young girl like me." I sat on that one for a while then replied "If that's your idea of a young girl that's worth a damn I'm a lucky man to have what I have"

White people......

Sunday: My goddamn groundskeeper drove his tractor over my new sprinkler system....it's my fault they are hidden and I didn't warn him about them. 1,000 down the tubes.

Actually looked forward to work today.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 08:53:14 AM
Last time I got together with the homies from the U of M we drank beers until about 10pm and went to sleep.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 09:17:48 AM
Last time I got together with the homies from the U of M we drank beers until about 10pm and went to sleep.

I'd have loved to do something just like that. But I guess sometimes it can't be helped lol.

On the side note I took an uber for the first time this weekend to get back to my hotel from beale. 30 miles for 19 bucks? absolutely merks any taxi :leon

Be careful with that shit. A friend of mine got robbed of his watch and wallet taking uber a few weeks ago. She "got lost" and happened to pull into a shady apartment driveway where 2 guys went up the car and took his shit. Crazy.

She has not been charged yet though my dude says she was definitely complicit. One of the guys even nodded to her during the robbery.

Anywho back to my shit "Nick" my buddy who's fucking around with the young bar whore apparently just sent a text to my wife essentially telling her to respect his woman. Now that takes it from minor beef to cutting you out of my life, well played. fuckboi.

You want to spend your life in a dive bar because you think they treat you well? Fine by me, have at it.

You go around me and demand my wife respect your little drinking bitch? You fucked up.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 23, 2015, 09:46:40 AM
Uber and Airbnb are the champions of poverty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 23, 2015, 09:48:23 AM
Was running late this morning and couldn't find my dress socks so I just grabbed two random ones - a thick, light black/almost gray sock and a super thin black. I figured no one would notice anyway so fuck it.

Got to work, sat down in a conference room to speak to someone, and an intern walked towards me...and proceeded to trip and fall not far from where I was. Before anyone could laugh at him he said "hey Phoenix...your socks don't match."

everyone: :leon let me seeeee

me: :snoop

I can't even hate. Dude turned an L into a W in less than 5 seconds.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 09:50:04 AM
Was running late this morning and couldn't find my dress socks so I just grabbed two random ones - a thick, light black/almost gray sock and a super thin black. I figured no one would notice anyway so fuck it.

Got to work, sat down in a conference room to speak to someone, and an intern walked towards me...and proceeded to trip and fall not far from where I was. Before anyone could laugh at him he said "hey Phoenix...your socks don't match."

everyone: :leon let me seeeee

me: :snoop

I can't even hate. Dude turned an L into a W in less than 5 seconds.

I gotta be honest. If we were in a meeting and that shit happened your credibility would dip for the duration of that event until I forgot you can't color coordinate your footwear. Could be a day, could be a year.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 10:09:03 AM
Now you guys got me shook to take Uber  . Not trying to have st louisans run up on me :holeup

No matter how they present it, you're getting into a car with a loosely vetted stranger. At least actual cab companies have to keep records of their drivers man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 23, 2015, 11:40:38 AM
sending angry texts to your friends wife to protect the dignity of some chick you met at a bar :mindblown

what kind of douchery
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 23, 2015, 01:02:14 PM
I use Uber/Lyft all the time, so does everyone else I know in Atlanta when they get shit-hammered, never had an issue

:yeshrug

Esch- you're still in your 20's, breh. You're supposed to have nights and weekends like that. If you're still doing that shit in your 30's, start to worry. For now just enjoy the ride.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 01:04:08 PM
I use Uber/Lyft all the time, so does everyone else I know in Atlanta when they get shit-hammered, never had an issue

:yeshrug

Esch- you're still in your 20's, breh. You're supposed to have nights and weekends like that. If you're still doing that shit in your 30's, start to worry. For now just enjoy the ride.

Yeah but you look like a bum, they probably think you are going to rob them to be fair.

Agreed on the second part though, you're in your 20's man, live life. If you somehow nod out and all the sudden you're 35 doing the same things you are doing now it's time to  press the panic button.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 23, 2015, 01:06:32 PM
I prefer "hobo-american" plz
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 01:51:51 PM
:yeshrug

Esch- you're still in your 20's, breh. You're supposed to have nights and weekends like that. If you're still doing that shit in your 30's, start to worry. For now just enjoy the ride.

I guess yeah. Maybe all my friends getting married and settling down and staying in on the weekends to do work has rubbed off on me hard. And most of us are just about 25 now :tocry

I was one of those early marriage adopters. But I really didn't settle down fully until I started having kids. Then, yeah, not much choice there man.

I went from 30 grand a show
to 3 grams of blow
to partying with Dre in his studio
To telling my wife "you know what I want to do to you"
to burping babies and being in bed by 10 bro.

Thug life y'all
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 03:22:32 PM
And you're one of the few exceptions, A_I_A. Most early marriages don't work out. So I wouldn't worry about it, Esch

If I were to give any advice that isn't cliche like she needs to be your best friend (truth) I'd say the secret to longevity is based on 3 things

1) Your moral fiber: If you aren't morally sound enough to stay committed to one person for 40 years, why even try? And you already know if you are or not.

2) Have interests outside of family/marriage: Play sports/drink beers/fix shit/Don't care with your friends at least a few times a week and encourage your wife to do the same. Spending every possible minute together is recipe for bad times.

3) Be honest. Don't lie. If you fuck up, be up front about it. I don't care if it's that you forgot the milk or that you're fucking the supermarket girl. Don't let her be the last to know.

You follow these three things, you'll be alright.


Edit: Oh yeah, "open relationships" don't fucking work. Don't even try. One of you is going to catch feelings. Never met an open couple that didn't divorce within 5 years of making that decision.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 23, 2015, 03:24:39 PM
Mine's way simpler.
Don't ever marry someone you can't live with. Marry someone you can't live without.

That and never argue unless you're naked.

edit: I've met plenty of people that made bringing in a third person or another couple in for some fun every once in a while work. Lots of those. But I agree with AiA on this one. I've yet to meet anyone that's actually made a truly "open" relationship work.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 03:26:09 PM
Mine's way simpler.
Don't ever marry someone you can't live with. Marry someone you can't live without.

Easy to say. Hard to understand. Youngsters ain't gonna have no clue what that means.


As for arguing naked, been there, done that. Don't do it with a black woman who tends to throw things and has bad aim.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 23, 2015, 03:27:26 PM
Mine's way simpler.
Don't ever marry someone you can't live with. Marry someone you can't live without.

Easy to say. Hard to understand. Youngsters ain't gonna have no clue what that means.


As for arguing naked, been there, done that. Don't do it with a black woman who tends to throw things and has bad aim.
Yes, but that's why I advise it. When you're naked and vulernable it has a way of putting into perspective if things really are or aren't as important as you think. "Is this really worth risking taking a thrown brush to the balls?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 03:28:01 PM
Mine's way simpler.
Don't ever marry someone you can't live with. Marry someone you can't live without.

That and never argue unless you're naked.

edit: I've met plenty of people that made bringing in a third person or another couple in for some fun every once in a while work. Lots of those. But I agree with AiA on this one. I've yet to meet anyone that's actually made a truly "open" relationship work.

Bringing in a third person MIGHT work for some. Having an open relationship where one dude is fucking a bunch of 20 year old money/lifestyle starved bitches while the wife is sitting at home on thursday is not going to end well. Neither is your wife nailing a bunch of dudes while you struggle.

And if there's one thing I know. If you're 35-40 with means you are going to be able to fuck a shit ton of 20 year olds who think a boyfriend means she's a glorified taxi service who also has to buy dinner. It's like throwing a grenade in a fish barrel.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 23, 2015, 03:33:19 PM
Totally agree. I tend to find that couples that are "open" together. Meaning they'll bring in someone else so they can enjoy them as a couple (not separately) that have a very confident relationship and view it as a thing they do together. I should also add the ones that do it every once in a while (like once a every few months)  They tend to be fine. But people that are like "Imma go off and screw a bunch, you can too." Or couples that decide to have a full on relationship with an additional person. That never works. I've never seen anyone be able to pull something like long term. Not once.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 23, 2015, 03:36:48 PM
I think things are changing nowadays anyway. I see women acting like men, and men acting like women. Who knows when the gender roles will fully reverse but it's on the way.

:yeshrug

Any man content to let the woman be the primary breadwinner in their house is a fool. She'll eventually trade him in on a better model.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 23, 2015, 03:39:48 PM
Mine's way simpler.
Don't ever marry someone you can't live with. Marry someone you can't live without.

That and never argue unless you're naked.

edit: I've met plenty of people that made bringing in a third person or another couple in for some fun every once in a while work. Lots of those. But I agree with AiA on this one. I've yet to meet anyone that's actually made a truly "open" relationship work.

Bringing in a third person MIGHT work for some. Having an open relationship where one dude is fucking a bunch of 20 year old money/lifestyle starved bitches while the wife is sitting at home on thursday is not going to end well. Neither is your wife nailing a bunch of dudes while you struggle.

And if there's one thing I know. If you're 35-40

 :gladbron

Quote
with means you are going to be able to fuck a shit ton of 20 year olds who think a boyfriend means she's a glorified taxi service who also has to buy dinner. It's like throwing a grenade in a fish barrel.

 :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 23, 2015, 04:09:17 PM
I think things are changing nowadays anyway. I see women acting like men, and men acting like women. Who knows when the gender roles will fully reverse but it's on the way.

:yeshrug

Any man content to let the woman be the primary breadwinner in their house is a fool. She'll eventually trade him in on a better model.
Eh, people are starting to say the same thing about women though.  marriage is just more complex than that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 04:43:07 PM
I keep on losing vision slightly in my left eye :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 23, 2015, 04:49:31 PM
Dark or blurry? I take it you scheduled a doctor's visit already.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 05:10:55 PM
Dark or blurry? I take it you scheduled a doctor's visit already.

blurry.  Its been like it for three days on and off. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 23, 2015, 05:26:25 PM
blurry.  Its been like it for three days on and off.
I hope it's nothing serious. :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 05:46:59 PM
probably just outdated contacts or diabetes. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 23, 2015, 06:08:11 PM
well if i were to get married i would like to argue with my wife as much as possible, preferably on web forums or Usenet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 23, 2015, 06:25:14 PM
probably just outdated contacts or diabetes.
:beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 06:36:07 PM
None of the park dogs have wanted to play with Nami for like a week and I feel bad for her. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 23, 2015, 06:37:01 PM
Like father like emotional support animal.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 23, 2015, 06:42:02 PM
Arvie, get that eye shit checked out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 23, 2015, 07:14:48 PM
Nothing makes me just want to curl up in a ball and never move again quite like dealing with people for work

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on March 23, 2015, 08:19:06 PM
learn a new sport as an adult brehs.

the distance between the baseline and net is so much further than it looks on tv :brazilcry

that shock to your wrist after you hit a ball wrong when you're tired  :stahp

falling on your ass trying to slide on a hard court line nadal does on clay  :neogaf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 09:45:21 PM
Thought my mango was ripe.  It was not.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 09:50:30 PM
Salt?

Also I ate two mangos and it was one to many mangos. :sick
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 09:52:52 PM
The internet has verified you're not insane Esch

http://www.marthastewart.com/318193/green-mangos-with-chili-salt-and-sugar
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 09:53:36 PM
8 seconds Esch, 8 seconds
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 09:54:37 PM
I'm kind of tempted to have the last green one now with salt.


I have food control issues.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 23, 2015, 10:04:29 PM
Need to find wine to wash the ambien down
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 23, 2015, 10:05:26 PM
Ya flavoured fruits are my kind of thing too
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on March 23, 2015, 11:52:25 PM
this Clear American sparkling water from Walmart seems like a pretty good replacement for soda (http://i2.minus.com/iVGnaNzbKbSsp.png)

0 everything and tastes great depending on the flavor (key lime for example can pretty much replace sprite)






so clearly this must be worse than actual soda  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 23, 2015, 11:57:42 PM
Meetings tomorrow. From 6am to 6pm.
All different clients and different projects.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop huffing glue.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 24, 2015, 12:32:10 AM
This could be x-posted to the whitest thing thread, but my box of red wine is almost empty. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 24, 2015, 07:37:34 AM
Went down to my alma mater this weekend. I thought I'd go visit my little sister, right, after all she's been asking me to come for years, right . Maybe i'll have dinner and drinks with a few of my select friends one night and get work done sunday night, right. I'll get a hotel out in germantown so i can dissuade myself with the partying a little, right?

nope. the texts and snapchats and demands start flowing in when i'm 100 miles out. Now all of a sudden it's 4am and I'm doing white girl in the bathroom of my favorite dive bar with my boys reminiscing over those once with us. and it's 6am a white girl who i said i'd never talk to again. the dualities (http://i.minus.com/jSH6A9POT8Bhw.png)

wake up in midtown like ok (http://i.imgur.com/2sbd10Q.png) , fair enough, had to go out one night. I'll just get some dinner and watch prem with my muslim brehsahibs right? right?
oh they all drink now is it? (http://i.imgur.com/emLYCGt.png)


now i'm at an absinthe bar at 5am on beale street 30miles from my hotel and work stays unfinished :mindblown


my chi is at all time :flabbypd

This is not the Triumph thread, you magnificent bastard.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on March 24, 2015, 10:35:48 AM
Trying so hard to avoid doing meaningful stuff, I just watched almost half an episode of TBBT

:brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 24, 2015, 10:38:26 AM
That's the life man. Just dive in and forget, life will be over soon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on March 24, 2015, 11:10:42 AM
planning on going out into the city alone today to check out a little local game store i've heard about

anxietyyyyyyy  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 24, 2015, 01:00:26 PM
So I recently moved.  Have to take a different train line to work.  Not exactly a big deal when Atlanta has like four train lines total and only two of them go in the direction I need to.   Coming back is the problem-- I need to take the bus.

I get to the station follow the signs.  Walk straight down the platform, go down some stairs, exit, and there's the bus depot.  No problem.

Except there's no signs with the bus number I need to take.  The train system here, MARTA, has an app.  You can view transit times and track bus locations.  It says the bus is already there. 

THERE ARE NO BUSES ANYWHERE. 
:dead

I walk back towards the station entrance and see a sign saying that the bus I need to take and one other are on the other side of the station, for whatever reason.  Literally just those two.  Go back in and get on the bus.

Then it hits me that I have no idea where my stop is.  I know the name...I can find it on a map...but when actually going there, I dunno.   :lol  So I use the app and track the bus in real-time.  This doesn't work because it's not using GPS, so before I know it, I've gone down way too far.  Get off at some college and have a nice 45 minute walk home ahead of me.  Fortunately this was only 10 minutes' drive from my place and my wife was home, so I got a ride back. 

Today I'm just going to tell the driver I'm an idiot and need help finding my stop.   :-[  In hindsight, I should have just stayed on the bus, told the driver I missed the stop, and he would have looped around back to it.   :-[ :-[

A new train line means no more crazy lady gang problems, but that's more of a post for the triumph thread.   :)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 24, 2015, 01:03:13 PM
I fell asleep on a bus trip to a college I was visiting and ended up missing it by a state. They never followed up lol.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 24, 2015, 03:48:20 PM
I just found out my thesis needs to be done like 2 weeks sooner than I thought. 

I so want to tell my supervisor I no longer want a Ph.D. tomorrow. But that would mean 1) a shit storm I can't handle right now. 2) not having a job for a month or two
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on March 24, 2015, 05:47:44 PM
I fed the baby and put her to sleep without burping

Now im thinking of waking her up to burp her

Yall dont even know the struggle is real
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 24, 2015, 06:09:15 PM
Got told I'll be talking at a conference next month!
Don't know which conference. Or what I'm talking about. But hey, it's something.
 :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Bebpo on March 24, 2015, 06:32:55 PM
I didn't sleep well last night and I'm tired as fuck and even lots of coffee isn't helping.

This is my personal struggle of the day.  I hate tired days.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 24, 2015, 07:29:39 PM
Took the bus home again.   :punch

Asked the driver to let me know when the stop was coming up.  :punch

I still managed to somehow miss the stop and got off a good 10-15 walk down from the right one.   ??? :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 24, 2015, 07:38:33 PM
Took the bus home again.   :punch

Asked the driver to let me know when the stop was coming up.  :punch

I still managed to somehow miss the stop and got off a good 10-15 walk down from the right one.   ??? :'(

You see dumbassery...I see opportunity. This shits crying for a 5 episode internet short bro.

Ep 1: The ride too far
Ep 2: Bus stop bugaboo
Ep 3: You Get It right....Gratis wife travel.
Ep 4: You fuck up again and decide to take the car.
Ep 5: film of you smugly driving followed by a look of shock as it says "Leaving Atlanta"

6 million views
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 25, 2015, 01:22:29 AM
Bus-themed struggles continue:
(http://i.imgur.com/iQ7iqVNl.jpg)


This is our a jurist pilgrimage bus driving away from one of the few craft breweries in Shikoku/Ehime.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on March 25, 2015, 01:23:40 AM
Got my Phil Robertson thread locked on GAF. Probably by Steve Youngblood.

 :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 25, 2015, 02:02:36 AM
sorry to hear that dude  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 25, 2015, 02:21:24 AM
Damn, sounds like that's pretty bad then. Both my grandmothers had breast cancer and it was unbelievably hard, and they had a decent prognosis which (from the sound of your posts) she doesn't have. I can't imagine how hard that must be. Sorry Esch.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 25, 2015, 02:26:38 AM
Then there might still be some hope. Don't let the world end just yet. :)

But yeah, I think seeing her would probably be worth the trip.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 25, 2015, 09:54:13 AM
Sorry dude
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Bebpo on March 25, 2015, 05:15:56 PM
I didn't sleep well last night and I'm tired as fuck and even lots of coffee isn't helping.

This is my personal struggle of the day.  I hate tired days.

Actually turns out I wasn't dead tired from lack of sleeping, I was coming down with a sinus cold :|

Tylenol helps a lot, yay. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on March 25, 2015, 06:00:12 PM
today is just one of those days where i don't know how i deal with the fuckery i deal with

class didn't start for an hour and a half cause this one damn kid kept on asking for help on his project (that was due today) and then in the next class, he burped onto my damn face and proceeded to tell me how he "doesn't give a fuck that Brian (my photo professor) was in a bad mood" and that "he shouldn't get mad at me whenever I talk in class (he's not even in that damn photo class, he just shows up to work on shit and then proceeds to be the loudest fucker in the room) and all of a sudden, the dude tells me that he "plans on pressing charges on Brian" if he can't find work after he graduates college in May

i can't fucking wait for the kid to graduate. the dude tried to touch some girl's boob in a class we had together and he ended up breaking my piece for the student art show (where you actually have to be accepted into and shit) last year and he has just been a pain in the ass to deal with

i normally get along with everyone at school, but he's one of the few kids i don't have respect for whatsoever
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 25, 2015, 06:37:04 PM
Esch man, I'm sorry. That's the hardest part of growing up is watching the ones you love grow old and have health problems.
Worse still to know that you'll soon be in their shoes and your kids will be in yours.

Mortality.

 :brazilcry

But then, I'd never want to be immortal either.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 26, 2015, 11:22:32 AM
Apparently the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane. The pilot stepped briefly outside the cockpit and was locked out.

This is surprisingly affecting. Guess I'm not completely dead inside.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 26, 2015, 11:24:50 AM
Apparently the co-pilot of the Germanwings flight deliberately crashed the plane. The pilot stepped briefly outside the cockpit and was locked out.

This is surprisingly affecting. Guess I'm not completely dead inside.

Heard about that this morning. You want to kill yourself? Go for it. What's the point of taking so many others with you? It's bullshit like this that makes me hope their is some kinda hell for guys like this.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 26, 2015, 11:28:52 AM
Yeah I have a battery of about 7 flights coming up in April.
I'm already afraid of flying. This isn't helping
 :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 26, 2015, 12:06:44 PM
Me and a couple dudes at work are trying to find a way to tell a coworker that he needs to buy new pants. He has multiple pairs but they clearly don't fit. He's bulging out, it's almost as if he's wearing yoga pants.
:brazilcry

Almost always looks like he has a boner due to the crotch being so constrained.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 26, 2015, 12:09:48 PM
Me and a couple dudes at work are trying to find a way to tell a coworker that he needs to buy new pants. He has multiple pairs but they clearly don't fit. He's bulging out, it's almost as if he's wearing yoga pants.
:brazilcry

Almost always looks like he has a boner due to the crotch being so constrained.

 :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on March 26, 2015, 12:10:33 PM
Me and a couple dudes at work are trying to find a way to tell a coworker that he needs to buy new pants. He has multiple pairs but they clearly don't fit. He's bulging out, it's almost as if he's wearing yoga pants.
:brazilcry

Almost always looks like he has a boner due to the crotch being so constrained.
just tell yourself to run to the store on your lunch break and buy some new pants

 :jawalrus
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 26, 2015, 12:11:22 PM
Me and a couple dudes at work are trying to find a way to tell a coworker that he needs to buy new pants. He has multiple pairs but they clearly don't fit. He's bulging out, it's almost as if he's wearing yoga pants.
:brazilcry

Almost always looks like he has a boner due to the crotch being so constrained.
just tell yourself to run to the store on your lunch break and buy some new pants

 :jawalrus

Nah, PD got them Based genetics. He knows how to wear pants.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 26, 2015, 02:13:20 PM
Me and a couple dudes at work are trying to find a way to tell a coworker that he needs to buy new pants. He has multiple pairs but they clearly don't fit. He's bulging out, it's almost as if he's wearing yoga pants.
:brazilcry

Almost always looks like he has a boner due to the crotch being so constrained.
just tell yourself to run to the store on your lunch break and buy some new pants

 :jawalrus

Nah, PD got them Based genetics. He knows how to wear pants.

How, around his thighs?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 26, 2015, 05:30:54 PM
Cut my beard all wrong.  Ended up having to half its length to fix it :(

Also I got fat again.  Fucking cookies,... doughnuts, carrot cake, cinnamon buns, regular buns,... bread in general.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 26, 2015, 05:38:10 PM
Cut my beard all wrong.  Ended up having to half its length to fix it :(

Also I got fat again.  Fucking cookies,... doughnuts, carrot cake, cinnamon buns, regular buns,... bread in general.

I've been on a tacos and rice krispies diet lately. Gained a couple pounds. Now that the snow is gone I'm gonna really work out hard.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 26, 2015, 05:44:26 PM
Ya I've gone from 158 to 180 :(  I started trying to bulk, gained a lot a muscle at first, then came the stress food :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on March 26, 2015, 06:02:01 PM
Gotta build one cheat day into your week, bruh. It's only way I can "diet" and still keep weight off.

Which reminds me a new pizzaria just opened up next to where I live and it has cannoli and zeppoles. Saturday I'm gon eat.  :lawd
 

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 26, 2015, 06:26:02 PM
It more I need to learn to handle stress way better.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on March 26, 2015, 08:00:23 PM
I really can't fucking stand the seemingly ever more pervasive conspiracy theory shitfuckery on the internet anymore.

It's not even the ideologies/bogeymen etc, I don't like or agree with half that shit either.

It's just that most of these theories are so blindingly, insultingly illogical that it makes me wanna puke the last remaining bits of my brain out.

Arrrrrrrgh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: naff on March 26, 2015, 08:03:57 PM
what hellish part of the internet are you browsing  ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on March 26, 2015, 08:15:47 PM
Facebook, Twitter, NeoGAF. :-(

It really feels like a lot of that stuff is getting "closer" so to speak. I mean, I'd hope I wouldn't really socialize with dumbfucks, but even among people I trust and respect I've encountered lines of thought that were so illogical and tinfoil-hatted that I couldn't help but facepalm internally.

The internet makes it way to easy to build your own detached reality. It's my most disliked aspect of the internet by far.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 26, 2015, 08:25:04 PM
For some reason I've been voraciously hungry today.
It's weird. Gonna have to work out hard tonight.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 26, 2015, 09:16:36 PM
It's just that most of these theories are so blindingly, insultingly illogical that it makes me wanna puke the last remaining bits of my brain out.
I can't even read that stuff.
Logic holes and contradictions are actually re-inforcing the beliefs, because when you start with a conclusion based on nonsense, every gap in the explanation only provides more space to fill with "evidence".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on March 26, 2015, 09:35:28 PM
Eating out for every meal this week has me feeling flabby and sick
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 27, 2015, 06:24:29 PM
I want to chew gum and sip coke, but when I sip my coke my gum losses its flavour, it's happened like 4 times and I'm up to an unchewable ball trying to get the flavour back.  :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 27, 2015, 08:16:10 PM
I tried making a vegan chili and it didn't turn out so well. :fbm Well I followed the recipe which was good but the recipe itself is shit. Not sure what I was thinking randomly looking up a recipe on a website I wasn't familiar with. :sabu

It's weird. Gonna have to work out hard tonight.

Evening workouts :holeup
I workout at 9 or 10 lol.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 28, 2015, 02:13:23 AM
Yeah, night workouts are great.  High energy until bed, then sleep like a baby.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 28, 2015, 02:54:37 AM
I really can't fucking stand the seemingly ever more pervasive conspiracy theory shitfuckery on the internet anymore.

It's not even the ideologies/bogeymen etc, I don't like or agree with half that shit either.

It's just that most of these theories are so blindingly, insultingly illogical that it makes me wanna puke the last remaining bits of my brain out.

Arrrrrrrgh.

The internet

(http://www.likecool.com/Gear/Pic/How%20the%20Internet%20Works/How-the-Internet-Works.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 28, 2015, 11:33:19 AM
The other day I bought 20 maple sausages for 5 fucking bucks, and now the store is out and I want more.  Best deal I've gotten all my life.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 28, 2015, 07:09:32 PM
Who'd try to stop you if you tried to leave?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 28, 2015, 07:25:30 PM
Damn I've felt tense and on edge all day for no reason I can think of. Usually Saturday is my lazy day but I haven't really felt relaxed at all. I don't really have any work to do, I should be chilling watching the NCAA tournament or something.

The only negative thing that happened today was that I had some subpar tacos, maybe that fucked up my day? I tried some fried pork tacos and they were pretty MEH. Usually I stick to marinated pork, sauce, or fried shrimp tacos at my favorite Mexican joint but today I tried a new place. First bite was so blehh.

Maybe that ruined my weekend  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on March 28, 2015, 07:58:31 PM
I had a recent epiphany that a lot of stuff I thought I had to do before getting to the stuff I really want to do, I don't actually have to do at all.

This is bad because now I have to figure out what I really want to do.  :-\

In general having extra free time is the worst. That bullshit busywork was the only thing standing in between me and naked existential dread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on March 29, 2015, 05:59:47 PM
Fucked up my focaccia. Recipe said it was easy and guaranteed to work out  :shaq2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 29, 2015, 07:00:42 PM
Cooking is alchemy, baking is chemistry. Or something like that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 29, 2015, 07:57:02 PM
Baking is 100% following directions. That's really all it is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on March 29, 2015, 08:16:52 PM
Well, directions often don't contain ever information. Also some stuff is difficult to convey in words. How to knead a dough or what consistency it eaxctly needs, how it should feel.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 29, 2015, 08:58:11 PM
Baking is 100% following directions. That's really all it is.

I mean, you can say this about cooking in general but we both know that's not really true is it?


Actually I disagree, I don't think cooking is about adhering to strict directions. I do all types of stuff while cooking to give dishes a different taste or dimension that I want, and I think most cooks do that. Whereas with baking I don't venture away from the directions at all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 29, 2015, 10:36:16 PM
:yeshrug

I haven't run across it breh. One of the coolest things I did with my grandma was bake cakes (specifically German chocolate cakes). Most of her "family secret" type flourishes were largely done after the fact; the directions of actually making the product was pretty standard stuff, no detours. 

I don't bake much today because it's time consuming but I found it pretty easy. There are all types of cooking recipes I fuck around with, try different things, etc. I don't do that with baking, that's all I'm saying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on March 29, 2015, 11:23:20 PM
how do folks w/ visible abs do it?

yall really outchea not stuffing your faces and getting shitfaced?

i'm never gonna be right for summer.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 30, 2015, 12:01:44 AM
Amtrak train back to Boston was basically cancelled tonight so now I have to take the 8:40 commuter rail in and leave by 7:45. :stahp

I haven't gotten up earlier than 8am in like four years :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 30, 2015, 12:10:27 AM
Amtrak train back to Boston was basically cancelled tonight so now I have to take the 8:40 commuter rail in and leave by 7:45. :stahp

I haven't gotten up earlier than 8am in like four years :stahp
:beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 30, 2015, 12:16:08 AM
Amtrak train back to Boston was basically cancelled tonight so now I have to take the 8:40 commuter rail in and leave by 7:45. :stahp

I haven't gotten up earlier than 8am in like four years :stahp

I haven't got up later than 7AM in maybe 14 years.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 30, 2015, 12:18:22 AM
Amtrak train back to Boston was basically cancelled tonight so now I have to take the 8:40 commuter rail in and leave by 7:45. :stahp

I haven't gotten up earlier than 8am in like four years :stahp
:beli

Fuck the morning :goty

Party all nite :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on March 30, 2015, 04:52:42 AM
Dropped my phone in the toilet.

Now it smells faintly of urine
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 30, 2015, 09:24:57 AM
Missed the train anyways :stahp

Waiting in fucking Worcester for the next hour and a half for the next one :stahp

Fuck Worcester :stahp

I'm tired as fuck and this coffee isn't doing shit :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 30, 2015, 11:41:09 AM
Head over to Wahlberger's. I heard their stuff will get you wicked hod.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: D3RANG3D on March 30, 2015, 12:43:41 PM
I was watching Batman The Brave and The Bold and it got removed from Netflix. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 30, 2015, 12:48:15 PM
Head over to Wahlberger's. I heard their stuff will get you wicked hod.

I'm always wicked hod. :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 30, 2015, 01:15:56 PM
saw someone with a six pack of bottled water on their roofrack today at 6am. this has legit bothered me all day. this sixer of water was not forgotten, it was instead strapped down with several cords.


why. WHY DID YOU DO THIS IT MAKES NO SENSE.  >:( :maf  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on March 30, 2015, 04:38:13 PM
I took a pretty big by L arguing with a rich white dude who repeatedly refers to gay people as a "protected class" :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 30, 2015, 04:50:53 PM
Left the office and encountered a putrid smell that was something like bad eggs and sulfur.  It was spreading throughout the building as I made my way downstairs.    :yuck

Bonus: Got on the train and almost sat down in this nasty wet spot a woman left after getting up.  When she saw it she ran off.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 30, 2015, 04:53:59 PM
Bonus: Got on the train and almost sat down in this nasty wet spot a woman left after getting up.  When she saw it she ran off.
When urin is the best case scenario... :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on March 30, 2015, 05:08:48 PM
Bonus: Got on the train and almost sat down in this nasty wet spot a woman left after getting up.  When she saw it she ran off.

 :mouf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on March 30, 2015, 05:08:48 PM
Was probably sweat but I don't think anyone was going to in for a closer look.   :-X

Wait, this is public transit-- somebody will.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on March 30, 2015, 05:13:51 PM
Swamp ass so bad it stains a seat? Through at least one (hopefully two) layers of clothing? Not impossible I suppose.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 30, 2015, 05:22:34 PM
I leave wet marks from crack sweat everyonce in a while.  I have a little dimple from where my second asshole was that gets moist. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on March 30, 2015, 06:50:01 PM
I've left dookie stains on seats :tocry

That's what happens when you got the swamp ass and go commando.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on March 30, 2015, 10:01:22 PM
So when I was little, I read a book in 4th grade about cultural differences and in it there was a first-hand story of a girl who just moved from China and she and her family felt kind of embarrassed eating soup at a dinner part since Chinese custom was to slurp loudly to show that you appreciate the meal.

Anyways, so last night a Korean friend who I had known for nearly 10 years was basically punctuating his sentences with slurps of coffee (they were his commas basically) and then slurps of Jack In The Box food. And I was totally thinking this must be something he always did in an innocent but gross way. So I asked him very nicely about it today and he admitted that that was not something he was raised to do, but that he can just be a slob and for me to remind him when he does that. I find this funny but also sad that I have a friend that imperceptive/immature. But then I tend to be hyper-attentive to what other people are thinking so maybe I just can't enjoy life?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 30, 2015, 10:08:22 PM
Ate too much ham
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 30, 2015, 11:11:49 PM
And here come the ham farts
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 30, 2015, 11:13:18 PM
Also the name of my punk band
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 30, 2015, 11:56:02 PM
Who needs zyklon b when you got ham farts.  Better open a window. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 31, 2015, 12:50:05 AM
Had to use this software that one of our partners is really pushing and it is TERRIBLE. I mean REALLY TERRIBLE.
IT, your job security has been secured for the next 5 years at least.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 31, 2015, 01:23:11 AM
I don't remember he last time I ate ham on a day that wasn't Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or a funeral.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 08:03:25 AM
I don't remember he last time I ate ham on a day that wasn't Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or a funeral.

Ham is :trash


Struggle: Wife forgot to turn off her lights last night. Was about 1/2 way to work when I got the call. Grrrrr
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 31, 2015, 08:33:32 AM
 :bolo swine is nature's finest meat and you guys are squandering your lives by not eating it daily
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 08:34:19 AM
:bolo swine is nature's finest meat and you guys are squandering your lives by not eating it daily

Bacon: Good
Ribs: Good
Pulled Pork: Good
Regular or Honey glazed ham: Plain and terribad.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 31, 2015, 10:16:20 AM
Honey baked ham :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 10:18:05 AM
Honey baked ham :aah

As if we needed any further evidence that your taste is terrible  :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 31, 2015, 11:25:34 AM
Salty, sweet and savory in each juicy bite. You can't deny gastronomic empirical truths.

My guess is you have some childhood trauma from family parties you hated where delicious ham was served. I understand, I have the same associations for jell-o salads.



Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 11:27:43 AM
wait honey ham is great. esp. on a sandwich with bacon and various spreads :noah


now that you mention i do hate the idea of jello salads. i wonder if there is a trauma involved.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:28:41 AM
Salty, sweet and savory in each juicy bite. You can't deny gastronomic empirical truths.

My guess is you have some childhood trauma from family parties you hated where delicious ham was served. I understand, I have the same associations for jell-o salads.

Nah, ham is just bland, the texture sucks, and it never goes well with anything we serve. I did prime ribs on christmas this year :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 11:32:25 AM
Stop serving shit stuff then.

Ham and swiss mmmm

ham and french toast mmmmmm

ham and yorkshire pudding mmmmmmmmm

ham and pretty much anything mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:33:21 AM
Stop serving shit stuff then.

Ham and swiss mmmm

ham and french toast mmmmmm

ham and yorkshire pudding mmmmmmmmm

ham and pretty much anything mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

You suck and your opinion sucks. Don't try to push your CAC faggotry onto me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 11:34:28 AM
Or you can just have ham off the bone like a real man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:38:00 AM
Or you can just have ham off the bone like a real man.

From what I here you should consider embracing the bone.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on March 31, 2015, 11:38:35 AM
Best ham I've had was from a pig that was buried in the ground on hot coals for a day. :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 11:39:46 AM
Am, I'm not the gaylord questioning the value of ham.  This is not a race issue; its an issue of your ham hating and its unnaturalness.  I'm pretty sure this is a mental disorder in the older editions of the DSM.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 31, 2015, 11:42:46 AM

You suck and your opinion sucks. Don't try to push your CAC faggotry onto me.

I guess this is the heart of the matter.

 Conflate food with racial identity, brehs.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 11:43:16 AM
Having hashbrowns and fried ham for lunch.   O ya.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:44:40 AM
Am, I'm not the gaylord questioning the value of ham.  This is not a race issue; its an issue of your ham hating and its unnaturalness.  I'm pretty sure this is a mental disorder in the older editions of the DSM.

Quote from: Bitchcakes McDuck
I guess this is the heart of the matter.

 Conflate food with racial identity, brehs.

(http://media.fyre.co/RyHSk0E0SCGEdNEB7wVg_jumpthroughhoop%20gif.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 11:45:07 AM
wait the hawaiians make great ham and they aren't cacs in fact the guy who roasted a pig for me once a few years back (friend of father in law) calls everyone fuckin haoles
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:46:45 AM
wait the hawaiians make great ham and they aren't cacs in fact the guy who roasted a pig for me once a few years back (friend of father in law) calls everyone fuckin haoles

(http://media.fyre.co/RyHSk0E0SCGEdNEB7wVg_jumpthroughhoop%20gif.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 31, 2015, 11:47:44 AM
People surmise that ancient religions banned eating pork to cut down on food-bourne illnesses among their people. But I bet it was the fact that honey baked ham tasted close to what premarital sex felt like and they got confused.




Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on March 31, 2015, 11:51:21 AM
I once made this argument to a classmate in university who I'm sure is now fighting in the Syrian Civil War or something equally :snoop and he got mad at me for offering a Marxist interpretation of history.

The shocking twist? This was before my ideological uplifting.

(http://i.imgur.com/X3293pK.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:51:28 AM
People surmise that ancient religions banned eating pork to cut down on food-bourne illnesses among their people. But I bet it was the fact that honey baked ham tasted close to what premarital sex felt like and they got confused.

Someone needs to get laid.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 11:51:56 AM
People surmise that ancient religions banned eating pork to cut down on food-bourne illnesses among their people. But I bet it was the fact that honey baked ham tasted close to what premarital sex felt like and they got confused.
like british parliament and their 12 year old boys, ancient leaders just wanted all that tasty meat to themselves.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 11:54:53 AM
Equate ham to fucking young boys

:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 31, 2015, 11:56:28 AM
People surmise that ancient religions banned eating pork to cut down on food-bourne illnesses among their people. But I bet it was the fact that honey baked ham tasted close to what premarital sex felt like and they got confused.

Someone needs to get laid.
Someone needs to eat better honey baked ham.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 12:01:25 PM
Equate ham to fucking young boys

:ufup
fuck? i make love to these hams, breh.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on March 31, 2015, 12:04:17 PM
Equate ham to fucking young boys

:ufup
fuck? i make love to these hams, breh.

Fucking Hams is what we called getting drunk and settling for a fat bitch in college.

"Where the fuck is Vularai?"

"Oh man, he fucked a ham last night, he's probably in hiding"

"Ah yeah"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 12:07:21 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/p8VdzkNl.jpg)

Try to deny this shit bitch.  Just try. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 12:09:00 PM
that ham may be screaming no, but it's body is crying yes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 12:11:20 PM
Going to pig out and put syrup on the hashbrowns too.  ahhhh ya
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 12:12:44 PM
Going to pig out and put syrup on the hashbrowns too.  ahhhh ya
post some pics to TOR so I can check them out through my proxies :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 12:15:38 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/tRCxDNDl.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on March 31, 2015, 12:16:56 PM
This thread is quickly becoming NSFW. :ahhh

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 12:25:10 PM
Mouth orgasms. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 31, 2015, 12:32:19 PM
Regular or Honey glazed ham: Plain and terribad.

(http://media.giphy.com/media/RFtQLFEP1FMKQ/giphy.gif)

Honey glazed is the food of gods :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 01:43:18 PM
Looks like Am ran away.  Guess he struggled with how delicious my meat is but I just shoved it down is throat until he couldn't take it anymore.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 31, 2015, 01:51:18 PM
Can we agree ham is better than turkey brehs? Maybe the women in my family just can't cook turkey but I've never fucked with it. Some foods I recognize are probably good but I've never had a good version of it. Like pot roast - my mom always made it taste meh. But I can't imagine turkey ever reaching beyond "meh it's ok I guess" levels no matter what.

This post is a risk btw. I will either be exposed as a plebe or more will come out the closest and admit turkey is trash.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 01:57:31 PM
Turkey is good if it isn't dry.  It's a nice change from chicken every once in a while, still when you got chicken turkey isn't necessary. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on March 31, 2015, 01:59:48 PM
So back to the struggle.
Finished booking everything. I'm going to have 8 flights in 5 days. This is gonna suck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on March 31, 2015, 02:06:58 PM
Turkey is good if it isn't dry.  It's a nice change from chicken every once in a while, still when you got chicken turkey isn't necessary.

Turkey skin :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 02:25:34 PM
Didn't get a scholarship worth a hundred grand  :(  Also got an email from my supervisor saying my thesis is due 2 days early.  Fuck.  So done with gradschool.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 04:23:57 PM
The ham farts are back
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on March 31, 2015, 04:30:24 PM
Turkey is great

Ham is great


Like...this shit isn't difficult, living your life around arbitrary dichotomies has to be exhausting
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on March 31, 2015, 04:45:19 PM
Bad ham is crime. That vile ham that is formed from multiple pieces of meat.

Good ham however is fantastic, especially the texture. Firm and really juicy at the same time, on white bread with some butter. Unhateable.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 31, 2015, 05:09:35 PM
Can we agree ham is better than turkey brehs? Maybe the women in my family just can't cook turkey but I've never fucked with it. Some foods I recognize are probably good but I've never had a good version of it. Like pot roast - my mom always made it taste meh. But I can't imagine turkey ever reaching beyond "meh it's ok I guess" levels no matter what.

This post is a risk btw. I will either be exposed as a plebe or more will come out the closest and admit turkey is trash.

breh let me welcome you with open arms. Turkey is a mediocre meat through and through. don't get me wrong; it has its uses. like chicken you can combine it with a lot to come up with something great. it's amazing for sandwiches. but on its own, or even worse as a substitute, shit is bland trash. tastes like ingrained chicken marinated in pure boredom.

that's why thanksgiving for me will always be about sides and pies. so much better than the main event.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on March 31, 2015, 05:19:40 PM
Aside from turkey sandwiches :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 31, 2015, 05:26:27 PM
Plus I hate getting judging stares when people see my Thanksgiving plate is just a bunch of side dishes.
:beli

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on March 31, 2015, 06:12:58 PM
I really hate ham and most pork products.  If I have bacon, it's usually beef bacon.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 06:14:43 PM
Go sit in the corner with Am. 


Disgusting. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on March 31, 2015, 06:17:09 PM
Ham is just okay. It's usually edible but a pretty boring meat overall. I've never been like wow, this ham is amazing!!  :o
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on March 31, 2015, 06:38:27 PM
I really hate ham and most pork products.  If I have bacon, it's usually beef bacon.

 :foxx
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on March 31, 2015, 06:42:13 PM
I think the ultimate test of my feelings toward Ham is that I would never order it in a restaurant. Something with ham in it perhaps, but I would most certainly choose say, bacon or chorizo given the choice.

ham with cream sauce pasta
a big-ass ham slice with a breakfast plate

two perfect uses of ham

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on March 31, 2015, 07:48:46 PM
> working on my computer
> get notification on my phone
> check notification on phone
> proceed to respond using phone’s keyboard instead of PC

 :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on March 31, 2015, 09:25:37 PM
Yall families serving up some wack ass bird. Probably has no rubs on it, no basting :fbm

Truth right here.

I get it. I was once in that boat. My mom's turkey was decent, better than most. Everybody else in my family did the typical overcooked pile of shit.

But my husband, he saw the potential. Or... he was unemployed during the holidays a few years back, watched too much Food Network, and was bored as shit as Thanksgiving quickly approached. I love turkey now, and my mom uses his recipe. So damn good.

Ham's still my GOAT though. :heartbeat
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 11:06:33 PM
So I legitimately think I had a panic attack today.  :(  Every time I think about my thesis and how disappointed with my work for the last year I start to freak out.  Thesis is due on Friday.  It's total crap.  My supervisor is giving my May off and I think I'm going to talk to a someone then.  Shit is killing me. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on March 31, 2015, 11:07:49 PM
 :(

I can provide no help whatsoever but good luck dude. I remember those feels. you'll make it bb.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on March 31, 2015, 11:11:57 PM
I think its mostly because I worked so hard for 4 years in undergrad for this and I completely wasted it/wasn't good enough for it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 01, 2015, 01:43:40 AM
The cool thing about rational anxiety is that talking to someone doesn't help and you get anti-anxiety meds. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 01, 2015, 10:31:37 AM
Have to give a presentation on shitty class project then meet with my supervisor today; Jesus the stress
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 01, 2015, 12:46:40 PM
Trying not to laugh or smh too hard...coworker just spent $35 on takeout for...

-a (admittedly good looking/smelling, large) burger
-a side of fries (ie not many)
-a medium amount of calamari
-a "thick vanilla shake" that's like a medium sized McDonalds shake

:mindblown

He got it through Grubhub, from a local burger/bar place so the delivery fee+tax+tip inflate the cost but jesus....you could get a mountain of food for $35 at most places just by picking the food up yourself.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 01, 2015, 12:56:04 PM
You could get a delicious Italian dinner for that price.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on April 01, 2015, 01:16:08 PM
I've always disliked expensive Italian dinners.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 01, 2015, 02:46:11 PM
I really hate ham and most pork products.  If I have bacon, it's usually beef bacon.

Beef... bacon...? :mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 01, 2015, 02:52:28 PM
Had a bucket full of ham and cheese for lunch, with 4 white chocolate macidema nut cookies.  Had a coffee crisp for breakfast 

Also gave Nami some ham last night and she decided to sleep butt to my face and she leaked ham smell all night :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 01, 2015, 03:20:09 PM
ummm make that 8 white chocolate macidema nut cookies.  I ate the whole pack. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 01, 2015, 03:33:27 PM
What are you going to do when you run out of ham, FM?
:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 01, 2015, 03:44:25 PM
Go back to being a loser without a topic to socialize around. *



I got another 4kg in the freezer and if I throw out the veggie bags I could fit another in there while its on sale.


Also I had too much sugar.  Now my throat is soar. 

*edit:  that was a statement about myself not an imperative. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on April 01, 2015, 03:47:49 PM
Humble Bundle wants to authorize my browser but doesn't send out the mail so I can do that. Not the first time that their e-mail server is slow as shit too.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Fifstar on April 01, 2015, 03:52:51 PM
Scratch that, I'm a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow who forgot that he has Humble Bundle e-mails set up for a specific folder  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 01, 2015, 04:02:00 PM
Humble Bundle wants to authorize my browser but doesn't send out the mail so I can do that. Not the first time that their e-mail server is slow as shit too.

You getting that Stickball Bundle, breh? :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on April 01, 2015, 04:04:06 PM
Think I'm coming down with a cold  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on April 01, 2015, 04:15:07 PM
realizing you chose a poor insurance plan
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 01, 2015, 04:25:36 PM
Lived the past three years with no insurance and I'm still alive. :rejoice

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on April 01, 2015, 07:11:27 PM
realized im a shit cook with little to no experience :shaq2

It's never too late to learn!  :lenowned
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 01, 2015, 07:43:25 PM
Went to Taco Bell and decided to try a new drink - the Mountain Dew orange citrus one. That shit is :kobeyuck

dunno why I keep giving MTN Dew drinks a chance, they're all trash.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 01, 2015, 07:45:58 PM
realized im a shit cook with little to no experience :shaq2

we're all shit cooks

I prefer "over-ambitious".
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 01, 2015, 11:33:13 PM
Scratch that, I'm a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow who forgot that he has Humble Bundle e-mails set up for a specific folder  :stahp
:ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yeti on April 02, 2015, 12:53:22 AM
Went to Taco Bell and decided to try a new drink - the Mountain Dew orange citrus one. That shit is :kobeyuck

dunno why I keep giving MTN Dew drinks a chance, they're all trash.

Try the Sangrita Blast, it's my favorite.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 02, 2015, 01:25:08 AM
The orange one is an energy drink, it's actually international law that all energy drinks taste like ass. Just another abuse of the state's monopoly on violence.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 02, 2015, 09:10:35 PM
why can't they make freezies that don't hurt the corner of your mouth?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 03, 2015, 01:12:33 AM
I was catered duck and it was cold. Y'all don't know #struggle. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on April 03, 2015, 02:30:24 AM
work is trying to move me to second shift. my anxiety started kicking in and i had a panic attack. a lot of stuff is going on in my life right now and i'm in a really fragile state of mind. luckily my direct supervisor is really cool and we talked about it and she's going to see what she can do. i'm not going to do it which means if there's no flexibility than i bascially have to quit and then my move to NYC is going to happen sooner than i expected.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 03, 2015, 07:00:45 AM
I went drinking instead of shopping for Good Friday and now all the shops are closed :-(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 08:19:57 AM
Didn't get a management promotion that I was pretty sure I was a shoe-in for.  All signs seemed to point to it, then they told me "we think your time off of a team wasn't good and we need people who are more familiar with the clients' needs specific to teams for this."  The only reason I was in the role I have now was because they told me when I applied for the same position in 2013, I was told "we need people who are more experienced in dealing with all of our clients."  So I was promoted then to this role and told everyone in this position was being groomed for management positions in the future.  So they did a complete 180.   :dizzy  In their defense, I know part of the reason I didn't get the promotion is because I fucked-up on my responses when they asked me how I would deal with problems with team members.  I came off as too "passive" in how I'd handle stuff. 

I was then asked to give more support to my current manager and got a very awkward response when I said "isn't that why you're creating more management positions?  Wouldn't whoever becomes the second manager for this team do that?"  Then they told me to hang in there because more opportunities are coming and I am feeling conflicted.  I trust the people telling me this stuff and don't feel that it's entirely bullshit, but at the same time I can't sit around waiting forever. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 08:31:55 AM
Uh either you've made yourself too valuable in your current position or they are phasing you out. Sounds like the former.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 08:42:04 AM
Uh either you've made yourself too valuable in your current position or they are phasing you out. Sounds like the former.

I work at a Help Desk and am in a "floater" role, able to assist any team with their clients.  Previously all floaters generally were on their own manager-less "team" and acted as backup.  They went through a major team restructuring and decided to essentially eliminate this kind of position, but none of us are going anywhere.  I'm back on the team I was on before and still have the same expanded skill sets/pay that I did before.  Absolutely not worried about getting phased out in the slightest.  This place is growing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 08:44:16 AM
Uh either you've made yourself too valuable in your current position or they are phasing you out. Sounds like the former.

I work at a Help Desk and am in a "floater" role, able to assist any team with their clients.  Previously all floaters generally were on their own manager-less "team" and acted as backup.  They went through a major team restructuring and decided to essentially eliminate this kind of position, but none of us are going anywhere.  I'm back on the team I was on before and still have the same expanded skill sets/pay that I did before.  Absolutely not worried about getting phased out in the slightest.

So it's like I thought. You're too valuable to surrender your current role to somebody who can't perform at your level. Sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 08:47:31 AM
Uh either you've made yourself too valuable in your current position or they are phasing you out. Sounds like the former.

I work at a Help Desk and am in a "floater" role, able to assist any team with their clients.  Previously all floaters generally were on their own manager-less "team" and acted as backup.  They went through a major team restructuring and decided to essentially eliminate this kind of position, but none of us are going anywhere.  I'm back on the team I was on before and still have the same expanded skill sets/pay that I did before.  Absolutely not worried about getting phased out in the slightest.

So it's like I thought. You're too valuable to surrender your current role to somebody who can't perform at your level. Sucks.

I don't think that's what it is in this case.  Not to mention, the way this place works, pay keeps increasing regardless of your position, so it's not like doing this would save them money or something.  There are some lazier types here who never go for promotions because they've been here for so long that they already get paid the maximum amount this place offers...making more than their bosses.   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 08:49:51 AM
Uh either you've made yourself too valuable in your current position or they are phasing you out. Sounds like the former.

I work at a Help Desk and am in a "floater" role, able to assist any team with their clients.  Previously all floaters generally were on their own manager-less "team" and acted as backup.  They went through a major team restructuring and decided to essentially eliminate this kind of position, but none of us are going anywhere.  I'm back on the team I was on before and still have the same expanded skill sets/pay that I did before.  Absolutely not worried about getting phased out in the slightest.

So it's like I thought. You're too valuable to surrender your current role to somebody who can't perform at your level. Sucks.

I don't think that's what it is in this case.  Not to mention, the way this place works, pay keeps increasing regardless of your position, so it's not like doing this would save them money or something.  There are some lazier types here who never go for promotions because they've been here for so long that they already get paid the maximum amount this place offers...making more than their bosses.   :lol

Ha ha. That happened at the last company I worked for. Their were Network Technicians Level 2 that were bringing in 130,000+ a year while their boss who reported to me was making mid 80's.

:yeshrug

Just goes to show if you fuck up what your worth in your initial hiring phase it's not the company's fault, it's yours :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 08:58:26 AM
Now I got a struggle, bros.

Wife "Hey babe can you stop by Theresa's house on the way home and pick up some things I bought from her?"

Me "What did you buy baby?"

Wife "I got us a new juicer and a recipe book for some new health drinks"

Awww fuck, we're going back into shitty juicer phase. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 08:58:47 AM
I wish I was making 80k.  Or even 60k.  Or 50.  Or   :'(

My plan right now is to get my fat ass into shape and then start job hunting if nothing has changed by then.  I think doing so will give me a big confidence booster and a better appearance won't hurt.  Already started a diet.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 09:00:03 AM
I wish I was making 80k.  Or even 60k.   :'(

My plan right now is to get my fat ass into shape and then start job hunting if nothing has changed by then.  I think doing so will give me a big confidence booster and a better appearance won't hurt.  Already started a diet.

Honestly you're 100% right. If you get into good shape and you're doing well at your job other companies will love you. If you don't think penny pinching HR people will discriminate based on weight then you're incorrect.

Good for you man. Get it done.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 09:00:21 AM
Now I got a struggle, bros.

Wife "Hey babe can you stop by Theresa's house on the way home and pick up some things I bought from her?"

Me "What did you buy baby?"

Wife "I got us a new juicer and a recipe book for some new health drinks"

Awww fuck, we're going back into shitty juicer phase. :tocry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b21MQqHthPs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 09:01:51 AM
No seriously, I have yet to have anything out of a "juicer" that didn't make me immediately want to punch the hell out of somebody.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 09:02:42 AM
I wish I was making 80k.  Or even 60k.   :'(

My plan right now is to get my fat ass into shape and then start job hunting if nothing has changed by then.  I think doing so will give me a big confidence booster and a better appearance won't hurt.  Already started a diet.

Honestly you're 100% right. If you get into good shape and you're doing well at your job other companies will love you. If you don't think penny pinching HR people will discriminate based on weight then you're incorrect.

Good for you man. Get it done.

Yup, that's why I'm doing this.  I needed to anyway with some of my health problems.  I was doing DDP Yoga last year but some health issues made that difficult for a little while, then I sort of fell off.  I'm getting back on that as soon as I can go get a yoga mat either today or tomorrow.  It's kind of uncomfortable to do some of that stuff on the hardwood floors in my new place.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 09:03:38 AM
I wish I was making 80k.  Or even 60k.   :'(

My plan right now is to get my fat ass into shape and then start job hunting if nothing has changed by then.  I think doing so will give me a big confidence booster and a better appearance won't hurt.  Already started a diet.

Honestly you're 100% right. If you get into good shape and you're doing well at your job other companies will love you. If you don't think penny pinching HR people will discriminate based on weight then you're incorrect.

Good for you man. Get it done.

Yup, that's why I'm doing this.  I needed to anyway with some of my health problems.  I was doing DDP Yoga last year but some health issues made that difficult for a little while, then I sort of fell off.  I'm getting back on that as soon as I can go get a yoga mat either today or tomorrow.  It's kind of uncomfortable to do some of that stuff on hardwood floors in my new place.

It'll kill you at first but I promise if you do 3 months of P90x you'll drop 35 pounds and replace it with lean mass.

http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/p90x.do

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 09:09:23 AM
That's something I'd like to be able to build up to, but I couldn't handle something like that right now.  The big problem I have is with my back, which causes me to have some bad leg pains, and the yoga stuff is great for that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 09:22:36 AM
That's something I'd like to be able to build up to, but I couldn't handle something like that right now.  The big problem I have is with my back, which causes me to have some bad leg pains, and the yoga stuff is great for that.

Do what any other cac with means does and get some good prescription muscle relaxers.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 09:28:20 AM
I get those if the pain gets really bad.  Was happening a lot over the past two weeks or so.  When I'm on a yoga regiment the pain is much less and it happens far more infrequently. Moving and buying new (heavy) stuff that I had to haul myself or with my wife is what did it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 09:29:31 AM
I get those if the pain gets really bad.  Was happening a lot over the past two weeks or so.  When I'm on a yoga regiment the pain is much less and it happens far more infrequently.

P90x has a lot of yoga in it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on April 03, 2015, 09:40:15 AM
Yoga was the one thing I skipped anytime I did p90x. Tried it once for only like 10 mins. I was trembling and sweating bullets everywhere. Plyo is hard for beginners too, but yoga just isn't for me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 09:41:41 AM
You should give DDP Yoga a try, Beezy.  The man works wonders. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on April 03, 2015, 09:46:57 AM
Wait, DDP as in Diamond Dallas Page?! :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 09:50:49 AM
Wait, DDP as in Diamond Dallas Page?! :dead

Yeah and don't knock it my friend. My wife does it and she's as flexible as ever  :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on April 03, 2015, 10:52:07 AM
Always thought it stood for double dick penetration.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 10:55:28 AM
Always thought it stood for double dick penetration.

You would
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 03, 2015, 12:20:16 PM
Always thought it stood for double dick penetration.

(http://i.imgur.com/MKne9vh.jpg)

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 03, 2015, 12:32:36 PM
red empty freezy tube leaked off my bed side table last night and stained my sheets :( 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 12:34:06 PM
red empty freezy tube leaked off my bed side table last night and stained my sheets :(

From what you say no worry, nobody else is gonna see it   :aweshum
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 03, 2015, 12:42:25 PM
I'm also not job hunting until I'm a sexy piece of meat, bork. Let's jerk each other off provide moral support on our respective quests.  :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 03, 2015, 12:43:55 PM
Wait, DDP as in Diamond Dallas Page?! :dead

Yeah and don't knock it my friend. My wife does it and she's as flexible as ever  :phil
you have my attention
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 03, 2015, 12:49:55 PM
I'm also not job hunting until I'm a sexy piece of meat, bork. Let's jerk each other off provide moral support on our respective quests.  :larry

What are the permitted finish areas? I have a tendency to aim for the hair.

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 03, 2015, 12:54:07 PM
I went drinking instead of shopping for Good Friday and now all the shops are closed :-(

Sounds like a "good" Friday to me!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 03, 2015, 01:00:48 PM
I'm also not job hunting until I'm a sexy piece of meat, bork. Let's jerk each other off provide moral support on our respective quests.  :larry

Count me in for this too :dead

:larry

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Bebpo on April 03, 2015, 01:18:13 PM
So, I need my sleep.  Like, if I don't sleep enough my work productivity goes down.  I use the weekends to recharge with decent sleep.  Last weekend on Sat/Sun there was stuff early each day so I didn't get a chance to sleep in.  Then the nice lady who cleans my house every few months wanted to come at 8:30AM on Friday (today).  I am not a morning person and because of health stuff it takes me about 90 mins to get ready in the morning, but I was ok with getting 4-5 hours of sleep since I could have a clean house and sleep in on Saturday and finally catch up on sleep. 

Was out getting glasses with my SO and they took foreeever and we didn't get back until 9pm and then I had to spend like 5 hours of heavy workout clearing out the house of all clutter so the cleaner could vacuum and clean everywhere (my SO is like hoarders messy, I'm OCD organized so the house is like half-way between + cats are messy hair and pulled up carpet and stuff everywhere).  Then woke up super early today to be all ready by 8:30AM with hardly any sleep so I can let her in and then go to work.

...and then nice cleaning lady didn't come.  Wasn't responding to texts and then at 9:10 responded that her husband was in the hospital and she could come tomorrow morning (she doesn't have a driver's license, her husband drives her).  Now I'm somewhat empathetic so that's fine.  But now I'm super tired, and the thought of waking up super early again tomorrow and possible going through another weekend without a good night's sleep (if something came up Sunday) was >_<  Luckily it looks like if she comes tomorrow it'll be at least around lunch.

First world problems, but man my sleep it's like top 5 life priorities to me.  I get so miserable when I go weeks without a good night's sleep.  This is one reason why no baby.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on April 03, 2015, 01:40:00 PM
Hit the back of my head on the wall while trying to sit back on my friend"s couch. (It's short, thin and propped right on the wall, please no make fun) Felt bad, but no lingering pain or anything.

Woke up this morning to take a piss and I nearly fell over as I started walking. Head's been bothering me since.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 03, 2015, 01:49:25 PM
Why do you need a cleaning lady? Saturday afternoon chores
:rejoice

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Bebpo on April 03, 2015, 01:56:53 PM
Why do you need a cleaning lady? Saturday afternoon chores
:rejoice

I suck at vacuuming.  The vacuum never grabs half the stuff no matter what the setting.   Plus I can never do as good of a job as a good cleaning person.  Same with tables/counters/bathrooms/tubs.  They make everything sparkly clean and that's nice every couple of months.  It's so worth the money.  More so than most things!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 03, 2015, 02:08:22 PM
Sounds like PD is offering to be your cleaning lady.  Make him wear the french maid outfit, it really frames his muscular tushy. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 03, 2015, 03:01:51 PM
I'm also not job hunting until I'm a sexy piece of meat, bork. Let's jerk each other off provide moral support on our respective quests.  :larry

Count me in for this too :dead

:larry

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 03, 2015, 04:37:14 PM
new golf clubs are hella expensive  :mindblown

guess it's time to hit craigslist.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 03, 2015, 04:56:36 PM
new golf clubs are hella expensive  :mindblown

guess it's time to hit craigslist.

Find someone to rob and murder and you'll have enough money for clubs in no time!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 03, 2015, 05:12:40 PM
Keep getting meeting invites from the CEO with Client's names on it and no description.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 03, 2015, 06:44:15 PM
Shoutout to whoever in city zoning decided that residential buildings and open air clubs could be located right next to each other.

Also, I seriously wish I knew what kind of drugs are necessary to enjoy this kind of music. Sounds exactly like a non-stop jackhammer. I enjoy EDM, but this only brings the E and maybe the D but definitely misses the M.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 03, 2015, 06:57:36 PM
new golf clubs are hella expensive  :mindblown

guess it's time to hit craigslist.
the #dualities of this post
:whoo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 03, 2015, 07:10:41 PM
Used the colors champagne, eggplant, and teal in a sentence. :supergay
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mr. Nobody on April 04, 2015, 05:21:13 PM
Definitely sick and I almost feel useless  :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on April 04, 2015, 07:28:59 PM
Had a well done steak for dinner. Needed to smother it in sauce to be edible. May have to retire pops from the grill
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: HiResDes on April 05, 2015, 09:08:20 AM
Belated struggle thing that I did last night. I got home did all the dishes cooked some Chorizo taco's inspired by another man, which came out phenomenal, and did all the dishes after my baby momma and her best friend just ate and dipped on me. I got the baby to sleep early, and waited for her to come back, but resorted to watching some dirty german porn. And when she finally comes in at around 2:30am she's vomiting everywhere and she reeks in our bed. My friends are all going to disown me because I dissed them to become a whipped dad, had like six haven't seen you in a while come out and chase tail texts.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 05, 2015, 09:31:57 AM
Dreamt of Civ 5 all night
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 01:32:33 PM
Do you sleep with them in? My torics don't dry out my eyes unless I sleep with them in.

ALSO, ASTIGMATISM BROS :brofist:
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on April 05, 2015, 01:33:37 PM
At least you can still wear contacts. Mine now cause super irritation and redness, either from becoming allergic to them or some issue with their shape/size
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 01:38:47 PM
bruh I have contacts and my eyes never trouble me. I don't even feel them. Superior euro contact lenses. :rejoice

I buy mine from Europe without a scrip to erode the power of the state and they still aren't that great. :bolo

That might be because they ship out of Romania, though. :larry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 01:52:15 PM
I used to lie on eye tests (get diagnosed with myopia when you're 8 y'all) and it wasn't until I was 15 or 16 that my astigmatism got prescribed for as a result. :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 02:04:07 PM
At least you never wore Croakies. :fbm

My first pair of glasses were so fucking dorky. Aviator rims with fucking EYE GLASS LENSES IN THEM. Let kids who are 8 and watch Top Gun a lot pick out their own glasses y'all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 02:37:37 PM
I got a pair of Transitions when they were cutting edge. :fbm

I returned them within a week because they didn't work right. :dead

I'm sure this is shocking, but I was counting down the days until I could get contacts. :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 05, 2015, 03:57:45 PM
Tf when you find an album leak and you don't know which of the fifteen download links to click.  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 05, 2015, 04:14:10 PM
I've been wearing glasses since I was 6. Was never to keen on puttings things in my eyes, so I stuck with them. They're part of my identity now. :yeshrug
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 05, 2015, 04:15:16 PM
I like using both contacts and glasses (not at the same time obv). You can totally change up your look on the fly.  :obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 05, 2015, 04:15:51 PM
I don't own this
(http://i.imgur.com/19H5ek2.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 05:52:34 PM
If you wear contacts exclusively in public but glasses in private with them it's a cheap way of building intimacy. :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 05, 2015, 05:55:28 PM
I got LASIK eye surgery so I wouldn't have to associate with you losers :pimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVwHydEgzAA
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 05, 2015, 05:57:21 PM
I got LASIK eye surgery so I wouldn't have to associate with you losers :pimp

"It's so frustrating... I'll never be able to see you--all of you--without my glasses."

Why would you ever trade this line in? ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 05, 2015, 06:05:16 PM
Just give Bell back his palsy; problem solved.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 05, 2015, 06:12:58 PM
I got LASIK eye surgery so I wouldn't have to associate with you losers :pimp

I was born perfect so I didn't even need to do that. Get on my level, bitch. :smug

Edit- Made this post before the bell's palsy thing, I now feel like a massive piece of shit :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 05, 2015, 06:34:28 PM
I like using both contacts and glasses (not at the same time obv). You can totally change up your look on the fly.  :obama

And then when girls see you with one or the other they're like "wow, you look soooo different now"  :ohhh

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I've been asked to surrender my glasses to people and I oblige when they're not shitheads. Same effect, more or less.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 05, 2015, 08:14:13 PM
Y'all are fine, I'm used to having shitty luck. My right eye is worst than my left now but not by much, especially not as bad as it used to be.

Keep having your eyes get so much worse that you need new lenses every two months, brehs. In retrospect, I kinda needed to get LASIK eye surgery.

Did you have to get multiple eye exams over a period of time?  I've wanted to get LASIK but it's been about 10 years since I last went to the eye doctor  :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 05, 2015, 08:44:49 PM
On another note, I've been getting lazier and lazier.  The weekend passed by and I didn't do shit.  What's worse is that I needed to have done shit.  Now I'm going to have to spend a bunch of time on Monday and Tuesday doing what I could have done easily on Saturday and Sunday.  This isn't a one time only thing, it's been this way for the past few weeks now (explains why I've been posting here more): I don't do shit on the weekends, stay up late during the weekdays to do what I should have done on the weekends, feel tired as hell, be lazy on the weekends, and the cycle repeats itself.  It's also carried itself over to food where I've gained about 15 pounds since the start of the year.  I'm too lazy to cook for myself so I just order out.  My metabolism is dogshit, I really can't eat out like I used to or much at all anymore.

Need to break the cycle :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 05, 2015, 08:50:57 PM
Go for a walk around the block. Just a little exercise will begin to build a virtuous cycle. Movement, sunshine, seeing other humans. It works when I get into a similar rut.

It’s also helpful to get away from your constant surroundings and just think, while walking.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 06, 2015, 06:55:53 AM
Bagged salad and pre-cooked chicken is good lazy man food. Much better than what you're probably eating out at.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 06, 2015, 09:05:00 AM
My stomach's decided I haven't been spending enough quality time with the toilet.  :paul
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:07:33 AM
new golf clubs are hella expensive  :mindblown

guess it's time to hit craigslist.

Honestly if you're newer at the game go to a second hand shop and haggle on a set there. You can get a decent set of mid tier clubs for under 200 bucks (sans putter and driver) that are regripped.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:19:45 AM
Also, old rich dudes always have like, 2 or 3 sets of clubs a couple generations old their wives haven't told them to throw away yet. I recommend schmoozing, saying 'i'm just a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing", "what kinds of clubs do i need", etc. You could find yourself the owner of some perfectly great top of the line clubs from 2005.

fucking golf, man.

:ufup


I have 3 sets of clubs

1 for the long ball game for distance courses

1 for shot shaping courses

1 for travel

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:24:58 AM
Ya but you actually like sports as opposed to being dragged along in the game of golf for business and/or trying to fit in with your old rich friends purposes.

Also I'd wager you probably take care of and remember the old shit you own, unlike some others :hitler

Yeah that's true. Come from nothing value everything. I got some affluent cac friends who have garages literally full of shit they don't ever remember they had. 

:mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 06, 2015, 09:46:01 AM
Also, old rich dudes always have like, 2 or 3 sets of clubs a couple generations old their wives haven't told them to throw away yet. I recommend schmoozing, saying 'i'm just a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing", "what kinds of clubs do i need", etc. You could find yourself the owner of some perfectly great top of the line clubs from 2005.

fucking golf, man.

this is a good way to take an L in the eyes of a rich man brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:47:16 AM
Also, old rich dudes always have like, 2 or 3 sets of clubs a couple generations old their wives haven't told them to throw away yet. I recommend schmoozing, saying 'i'm just a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing", "what kinds of clubs do i need", etc. You could find yourself the owner of some perfectly great top of the line clubs from 2005.

fucking golf, man.

this is a good way to take an L in the eyes of a rich man brehs.

Depends on if you get a douchebag rich guy or you get the "these little things will get me into heaven" rich guy PD.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:50:37 AM
Packrat syndrome ain't top tax bracket exclusive but it can be more noticeable with richer people cause they have greater ability to purchase more useless trash, replace their old shit with new shit, and probably more space to put their useless trash.

No doubt. I've seen dudes with no less than 5 sets of golf clubs because they "have to get them new pings" every time they are released. Honestly if you hit this type at the right time they usually have no problem letting a set go for next to free.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 06, 2015, 09:54:35 AM
this is a good way to take an L in the eyes of a rich man brehs.

This depends on the rich guy really. a lot of them love young dudes getting their way into shit like golf early, and love nothing more than to show people the ropes etc.

play your cards right and you can get a set of clubs on the cheap and get networking time on the course with someone important.

And maybe be on your way to being some rich dude's fuccboi.  :-*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:56:20 AM
this is a good way to take an L in the eyes of a rich man brehs.

This depends on the rich guy really. a lot of them love young dudes getting their way into shit like golf early, and love nothing more than to show people the ropes etc.

play your cards right and you can get a set of clubs on the cheap and get networking time on the course with someone important.

And maybe be on your way to being some rich dude's fuccboi.  :-*

Esch got a set of clubs off me last week. I was confused as to why he didn't even take them home.

 :uguu
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 09:58:10 AM
Everyone's some rich dudes fuccboi :yeshrug

I can tell you that Esch likes to go for the long balls with a stiff shaft.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 10:08:30 AM
Meh, I used to be prideful about not sucking up, asking for help, playing the game etc. I thought hey, I'll get ______ on my own merit or whatever( :heh ) . Left me with no jobs and internships.

if I'd been smart id have been ingratiating myself (pause) to rich dads since high school.

(http://www.quickmeme.com/img/63/6300bcb3da74ab9c3ab49393ddac790a7d09eeac03269fb7f87af00f0764a86f.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 06, 2015, 10:26:43 AM
I think I experienced a panic attack on Saturday night.  Went to my parent's house for a family dinner and suddenly had to get up and run into another room, then had what I can only describe as an "emotional explosion."  I guess lots of stress and a lack of relaxation will do that.   :-\  Went home and rested, felt much better Sunday, especially after watching Furious 7.  St. Paul saved me.
:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on April 06, 2015, 11:38:17 AM
Was awoken this morning by the cat vomiting on the bed. Went to grab something to clean it up and then the cat vomited on my pillow.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 06, 2015, 12:27:05 PM
Got a toothache

:shaq2

...but I also have some codeine

:shaq
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 06, 2015, 12:32:09 PM
Was awoken this morning by the cat vomiting on the bed. Went to grab something to clean it up and then the cat vomited on my pillow.  :-\
You missed a spot, human.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 06, 2015, 12:33:57 PM
Does golf "technology" actually advance? Is there any benefit to buying new clubs every few years other possibly replacing "worn-down" ones? :mindblown

this is a good way to take an L in the eyes of a rich man brehs.

This depends on the rich guy really. a lot of them love young dudes getting their way into shit like golf early, and love nothing more than to show people the ropes etc.

play your cards right and you can get a set of clubs on the cheap and get networking time on the course with someone important.

And maybe be on your way to being some rich dude's fuccboi.  :-*

Good thing I don't care about golf (yet.) :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 12:38:12 PM
Do clubs matter? Not to your average joe, no. always cracks me up to see Billy Joe Weekend Golfer with his 1,200 dollar milled calloways.

But to somebody like me who plays 40-50 times a summer? Yeah, there is a clear difference between Pings and walmart/dicks variety clubs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Bebpo on April 06, 2015, 01:56:52 PM
I really hate today's teenagers.  I went to get food and they swipe my credit card and it doesn't work on their swiper.  So they're like "do you have another card?" and I'm like dude, can't you just take the 10 seconds and type in the card number and the girl was like "I don't know how to do that" and called in her manager who was also like 16 and she swipes the card and it doesn't read and then she turns to me and goes "do you have another card or cash or something cause yeah your card doesn't work (which it does, just that swiper didn't like it for whatever reason)." and just refused to put any effort in beyond sliding a card.  Paid cash just to get out of there, but I wanted to get my 5% reward points goddamnit  :maf

I think I experienced a panic attack on Saturday night.  Went to my parent's house for a family dinner and suddenly had to get up and run into another room, then had what I can only describe as an "emotional explosion."  I guess lots of stress and a lack of relaxation will do that.   :-\  Went home and rested, felt much better Sunday, especially after watching Furious 7.  St. Paul saved me.
:rejoice

:(  Take care dude!

I went to the urgent care for the second time in a year wondering if I was having a heart attack last week.  Turned out it was anxiety like the last time.  When I get really stressed with work/life I get anxious to the point I feel like I'm having a panic attack/heart attack.  I need to make an appointment with a shrink so I can get low-dose anti-anxiety meds, but finding a decent psychiatrist who takes insurance is not easy.  Tried going down the list from blue cross after the urgent care experience but everyone was either rated terribly, not taking new patients, or too busy to answer the phone.

I'm not in a rush because this stuff only happens like once a month or two, but I do need to address it since I'm in a pretty stressful career.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 02:32:13 PM
Does golf "technology" actually advance? Is there any benefit to buying new clubs every few years other possibly replacing "worn-down" ones? :mindblown


Think that depends on your idea of advancement. Compare the sweet spot on the shit Ben Hogan was using to the stuff we have now, it's a wash. Same with tennis rackets.

But yeah year over year you're not seeing much change in sports 'technology'.

Big head drivers and milled wedges are telling you to shut the fuck up about shit you don't know.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 06, 2015, 02:40:51 PM
Does golf "technology" actually advance? Is there any benefit to buying new clubs every few years other possibly replacing "worn-down" ones? :mindblown


Think that depends on your idea of advancement. Compare the sweet spot on the shit Ben Hogan was using to the stuff we have now, it's a wash. Same with tennis rackets.

But yeah year over year you're not seeing much change in sports 'technology'.

Big head drivers and milled wedges are telling you to shut the fuck up about shit you don't know.

Knowing and caring about that shit is a bigger L than not knowing about it :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 06, 2015, 02:41:45 PM
I went to the urgent care for the second time in a year wondering if I was having a heart attack last week.  Turned out it was anxiety like the last time.  When I get really stressed with work/life I get anxious to the point I feel like I'm having a panic attack/heart attack.  I need to make an appointment with a shrink so I can get low-dose anti-anxiety meds, but finding a decent psychiatrist who takes insurance is not easy.  Tried going down the list from blue cross after the urgent care experience but everyone was either rated terribly, not taking new patients, or too busy to answer the phone.

I'm not in a rush because this stuff only happens like once a month or two, but I do need to address it since I'm in a pretty stressful career.

A shrink is likely overkill; try talking to your GP--a "break in case of fire" scrip of Xanax or something will probably work for you.

As for shrink reviews, generally speaking psychiatrists have a poor bedside manner and the quality of their treatment isn't really apparent to anyone but the most frequent guest of the mental health system, so any kind of customer review--let alone the Yelp types you're probably encountering--is more or less useless.

Unfortunately if you want a shrink you either need to pound the pavement and give them a month to 45 days to treat you or see a therapist for awhile who can recommend you one that will be able to handle your needs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 02:43:51 PM
Does golf "technology" actually advance? Is there any benefit to buying new clubs every few years other possibly replacing "worn-down" ones? :mindblown


Think that depends on your idea of advancement. Compare the sweet spot on the shit Ben Hogan was using to the stuff we have now, it's a wash. Same with tennis rackets.

But yeah year over year you're not seeing much change in sports 'technology'.

Big head drivers and milled wedges are telling you to shut the fuck up about shit you don't know.

Knowing and caring about that shit is a bigger L than not knowing about it :dead

You make non profitable youtube music or whatever based on a nintendo game , I play golf. Be careful what you're giving L's to.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 06, 2015, 02:44:34 PM
I really hate today's teenagers.  I went to get food and they swipe my credit card and it doesn't work on their swiper.  So they're like "do you have another card?" and I'm like dude, can't you just take the 10 seconds and type in the card number and the girl was like "I don't know how to do that" and called in her manager who was also like 16 and she swipes the card and it doesn't read and then she turns to me and goes "do you have another card or cash or something cause yeah your card doesn't work (which it does, just that swiper didn't like it for whatever reason)." and just refused to put any effort in beyond sliding a card.  Paid cash just to get out of there, but I wanted to get my 5% reward points goddamnit  :maf

When this happens to me, I ask for a plastic bag, wrap my card in it and tell them to swipe it. It works 95% of the time and they look at me like I'm a wizard.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Bebpo on April 06, 2015, 02:57:40 PM
I went to the urgent care for the second time in a year wondering if I was having a heart attack last week.  Turned out it was anxiety like the last time.  When I get really stressed with work/life I get anxious to the point I feel like I'm having a panic attack/heart attack.  I need to make an appointment with a shrink so I can get low-dose anti-anxiety meds, but finding a decent psychiatrist who takes insurance is not easy.  Tried going down the list from blue cross after the urgent care experience but everyone was either rated terribly, not taking new patients, or too busy to answer the phone.

I'm not in a rush because this stuff only happens like once a month or two, but I do need to address it since I'm in a pretty stressful career.

A shrink is likely overkill; try talking to your GP--a "break in case of fire" scrip of Xanax or something will probably work for you.

As for shrink reviews, generally speaking psychiatrists have a poor bedside manner and the quality of their treatment isn't really apparent to anyone but the most frequent guest of the mental health system, so any kind of customer review--let alone the Yelp types you're probably encountering--is more or less useless.

Unfortunately if you want a shrink you either need to pound the pavement and give them a couple a month to 45 days to treat you or see a therapist for awhile who can recommend you one that will be able to handle your needs.

Thanks.  Yeah the urgent care offered me a prescription thing and I probably should've just taken that, but I figured I'd see a psych and see what they say since low level anxiety is an issue for me.  Actually I think what scared me off of just taking the urgent care script was they said the immediate medications were addictive, but there are long-term ones you can get through a psych that aren't and though I've never had a problem with addiction in the past, I don't really wanna risk it if I can avoid it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 06, 2015, 03:01:45 PM
Does golf "technology" actually advance? Is there any benefit to buying new clubs every few years other possibly replacing "worn-down" ones? :mindblown


Think that depends on your idea of advancement. Compare the sweet spot on the shit Ben Hogan was using to the stuff we have now, it's a wash. Same with tennis rackets.

But yeah year over year you're not seeing much change in sports 'technology'.

Big head drivers and milled wedges are telling you to shut the fuck up about shit you don't know.

Knowing and caring about that shit is a bigger L than not knowing about it :dead

You make non profitable youtube music or whatever based on a nintendo game , I play golf. Be careful what you're giving L's to.

Actually my white person thing is fishing. :P

Reminds me, I need to order a new rod.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 06, 2015, 03:07:38 PM

Thanks.  Yeah the urgent care offered me a prescription thing and I probably should've just taken that, but I figured I'd see a psych and see what they say since low level anxiety is an issue for me.  Actually I think what scared me off of just taking the urgent care script was they said the immediate medications were addictive, but there are long-term ones you can get through a psych that aren't and though I've never had a problem with addiction in the past, I don't really wanna risk it if I can avoid it.

I took Xanax for about 5 years (in my twenties). They can be addictive, but they work wonderfully.

You just have to be responsible and take them only when you need them and don't bump up your dose (.5 mg should be good). If you find yourself needing more to satiate the anxiety, then you want to try a different route.


Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 06, 2015, 03:09:41 PM
Doctor gave me a xani-bar once.

Never again brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 06, 2015, 03:13:05 PM
Thanks.  Yeah the urgent care offered me a prescription thing and I probably should've just taken that, but I figured I'd see a psych and see what they say since low level anxiety is an issue for me.  Actually I think what scared me off of just taking the urgent care script was they said the immediate medications were addictive, but there are long-term ones you can get through a psych that aren't and though I've never had a problem with addiction in the past, I don't really wanna risk it if I can avoid it.

That's a fair worry, Xanax has a narcotic-like feel to it. Diazepam doesn't cause that feeling, but it's a bazooka in terms of tranquilizers and when you use it in an emergency you're kinda out of action until it wears off.

Just remember that you're not well at the moment and you need some help. That's more important than what the potential behavioral outcomes are from taking any medications you've been prescribed.

Like TA said, stay disciplined in your use and be completely honest with your doc about your intake as well as your health and you'll be OK with situational anxiety medication.

I'd recommend a supplement my doctor put me on as part of my 400 daily pill regime because it's been great for relieving stress but it's embarrassing in a self-aware white person way / morally questionable to suggest someone eschew medication in favor of nutritional supplements imo.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 06, 2015, 03:38:03 PM
just to get out of there, but I wanted to get my 5% reward points goddamnit  :maf
I think I experienced a panic attack on Saturday night.  Went to my parent's house for a family dinner and suddenly had to get up and run into another room, then had what I can only describe as an "emotional explosion."  I guess lots of stress and a lack of relaxation will do that.   :-\  Went home and rested, felt much better Sunday, especially after watching Furious 7.  St. Paul saved me.
:rejoice

:(  Take care dude!

I went to the urgent care for the second time in a year wondering if I was having a heart attack last week.  Turned out it was anxiety like the last time.  When I get really stressed with work/life I get anxious to the point I feel like I'm having a panic attack/heart attack.  I need to make an appointment with a shrink so I can get low-dose anti-anxiety meds, but finding a decent psychiatrist who takes insurance is not easy.  Tried going down the list from blue cross after the urgent care experience but everyone was either rated terribly, not taking new patients, or too busy to answer the phone.

I'm not in a rush because this stuff only happens like once a month or two, but I do need to address it since I'm in a pretty stressful career.

Thanks.  That's not normal for me and if it happened once or twice a month, I'd be going to talk to a doctor, stat.  I forgot to mention that I spent most of the week sick with stomach flu or something, so I was sick, tired, and stressed, and I did not get Saturday to really rest up like I needed.   Did not make for a good combination!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 06, 2015, 03:54:51 PM
Yea therapists...too bad there isn't a RateMyShrink site!

I've pretty much stopped seeing mine. Haven't really contacted him to make an appointment lately, and I assume he figures I quit. I can only be given the same advice over and over by a half sleep dude for so long before I decide my money can best be spent elsewhere.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 06, 2015, 03:59:33 PM
I went to a therapist (psychologist?  Not even sure!) of some kind when around my second year of college.  I moved back home after living in the dorms for a year and really started clashing with my mom.  Basically I wanted to be treated as an adult and my mother kept treating me like a kid.  So they sent me to talk to someone and I was completely open and honest about everything.

Long story short, after one session with this lady, she told me that I was perfectly fine, didn't need to be there, and wanted to speak with my parents instead.  This didn't happen and I never heard another word about it and was left alone!   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on April 06, 2015, 04:26:32 PM
too bad there isn't a RateMyShrink site!


oh shit, i forgot about ratemyprofs, just read eight years of my dad's reviews   :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 06, 2015, 04:59:30 PM
Are you gonna weave some details into a conversation to see if he reads them?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 06, 2015, 05:05:39 PM
just ate handfuls of jellybeans, m&ms, and cadbury eggs. :lawd :larry :snoop :shaq2 :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 06, 2015, 05:21:48 PM
too bad there isn't a RateMyShrink site!


oh shit, i forgot about ratemyprofs, just read eight years of my dad's reviews   :lol

My professor parent gives themselves fake positive reviews there. :dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 06, 2015, 05:25:24 PM
Oh boy.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on April 06, 2015, 05:45:23 PM
Going through old corporate tax returns with my new accountant to find out where our fired ass accountant fucked up :stahp

I guess this is a triumph as well because he's catching it before the IRS does.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on April 06, 2015, 05:49:12 PM
just ate handfuls of jellybeans, m&ms, and cadbury eggs. :lawd :larry :snoop :shaq2 :dead
oh shit i forgot there's probably loads of discount jellybeans at the store right now. too bad i'm already too fat  :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 06, 2015, 05:50:03 PM
Agri is one of the few parts of business taxation that more closely resembles individual taxation in all the special situations that can arise. You definitely need someone who specializes in it, which it sounds like you finally have Steve.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on April 06, 2015, 05:54:55 PM
Even if he doesn't have an answer, someone at his firm does, instead of just leaving information off the form :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 06, 2015, 06:16:54 PM
I'm in Raleigh, and I decided I wanted Thai.
I go to a Thai restaurant and order some Pad Thai and a Thai iced tea to start.
A few minutes later I get an iced tea. I look at the waiter and said, "I'm sorry, I asked for a Thai iced tea. This is iced tea."
"yes. this is iced tea."
"Yeah but thai iced tea isn't iced tea."
"It's not?"

It's then that I looked around the place and realized I didn't see a single Thai person working there. The pad thai came and it tasted exactly like you'd expect pad thai would taste like from a thai place that didn't even know Thai Iced tea was a thing.
:ufup

I'm sticking to burgers and bbq in North Carolina now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 06, 2015, 06:44:27 PM
I'm in Raleigh, and I decided I wanted Thai.
I go to a Thai restaurant and order some Pad Thai and a Thai iced tea to start.
A few minutes later I get an iced tea. I look at the waiter and said, "I'm sorry, I asked for a Thai iced tea. This is iced tea."
"yes. this is iced tea."
"Yeah but thai iced tea isn't iced tea."
"It's not?"

It's then that I looked around the place and realized I didn't see a single Thai person working there. The pad thai came and it tasted exactly like you'd expect pad thai would taste like from a thai place that didn't even know Thai Iced tea was a thing.
:ufup

I'm sticking to burgers and bbq in North Carolina now.

Xpost to the Whitest Thing That Was Done To You thread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 06, 2015, 08:36:22 PM
Setting up logistics for a meeting,
coworker: "OK, so I'll pick you up at 6:45, how will I know you?"
"I'll be the latino in a suit."
"OK, but what if there's two latinos in a suit?"
"There wont be"
:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 06, 2015, 08:46:35 PM
new golf clubs are hella expensive  :mindblown

guess it's time to hit craigslist.

Honestly if you're newer at the game go to a second hand shop and haggle on a set there. You can get a decent set of mid tier clubs for under 200 bucks (sans putter and driver) that are regripped.

Also, old rich dudes always have like, 2 or 3 sets of clubs a couple generations old their wives haven't told them to throw away yet. I recommend schmoozing, saying 'i'm just a beginner and I have no idea what I'm doing", "what kinds of clubs do i need", etc. You could find yourself the owner of some perfectly great top of the line clubs from 2005.

fucking golf, man.
i ended up getting a set of Adams clubs for $200 after some dude listed em on CL for $275 just cause i responded so quick.

breh was so happy to give me all kinds of tips and told me to hit him up after a few months of practice to go play at some expensive ass course where he lives at.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 06, 2015, 09:11:02 PM
The Hebrew is strong in this one.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 06, 2015, 10:31:53 PM
I honestly don't know how I'm going to survive until the 15th. Not even staring at my bank balances gets me back in the mood.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Quaker on April 06, 2015, 11:38:56 PM
Setting up logistics for a meeting,
coworker: "OK, so I'll pick you up at 6:45, how will I know you?"
"I'll be the latino in a suit."
"OK, but what if there's two latinos in a suit?"
"There wont be"
:fbm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arOmSCjfXng
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 07, 2015, 01:44:15 AM
I was cutting up an apple with my hatchet so I didn't have to walk to the kitchen and just smashed the plate under it.  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 07, 2015, 01:49:15 AM
Boss did what I was afraid he would do and finally started asking all kinds of questions about taxes the week before they're due despite the fact that I've been bugging him for a month to make sure everything was ok.

:snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 07, 2015, 01:57:37 AM
I was cutting up an apple with my hatchet so I didn't have to walk to the kitchen and just smashed the plate under it.  :brazilcry

Knickerbocker yo name ain't Brian Robeson. :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 07, 2015, 02:55:18 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

Nah, man sometimes when we make plans we just think about who is there. Don't overthink it and take it personal unless is a common thing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 07, 2015, 03:00:45 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

It's hard to decide if being intentionally excluded or unintentionally forgotten is worse.  :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on April 07, 2015, 03:01:08 PM
We messed something up setting up our company in New York but made every good faith effort to correct it and they fixed it, told us it was all good, and then a month later they send us a fine for 2500$ :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 07, 2015, 03:04:07 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

Nah, man sometimes when we make plans we just think about who is there. Don't overthink it and take it personal unless is a common thing.

^^^ This. Also, I've found that if I instigate making things happen, I tend to get involved in other people's plans too. Got invited to a big 4 day lake house getaway this summer by a group of friends I didn't think would do something like that, was pretty gratifying.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Nibel on April 07, 2015, 03:06:08 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

On the bright side you still have me breh; would catch a bullet with my tongue for you

I've been in a similar situation, despite being one of the most popular kids at school and shit; I don't know if it's an age thing or something like that. The mindfuck can be pretty rough and depressing, but in the end it makes you smarter when it comes to new relationships; and tbh, it brought me much closer to my family again. I was never disconnected from my fam, mind you, but I realized what I had was truly invaluable. Hope you find what you need when the time comes
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 07, 2015, 03:06:18 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

Nah, man sometimes when we make plans we just think about who is there. Don't overthink it and take it personal unless is a common thing.

^^^ This. Also, I've found that if I instigate making things happen, I tend to get involved in other people's plans too. Got invited to a big 4 day lake house getaway this summer by a group of friends I didn't think would do something like that, was pretty gratifying.

I mean seriously it could be some simple shit like "we can only fit four in the car, we can only get so many tickets, esch wouldn't like this, couples only, etc.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 07, 2015, 03:10:42 PM
Nah, man sometimes when we make plans we just think about who is there. Don't overthink it and take it personal unless is a common thing.

I got invited to it but the people behind said event completely forgot/didn't think/ask about how it relates to me  :neogaf

I should probably be less salty but still has me like :beli

You're acting like my wife right now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 07, 2015, 03:13:46 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

On the bright side you still have me breh; would catch a bullet with my tongue for you

I've been in a similar situation, despite being one of the most popular kids at school and shit; I don't know if it's an age thing or something like that. The mindfuck can be pretty rough and depressing, but in the end it makes you smarter when it comes to new relationships; and tbh, it brought me much closer to my family again. I was never disconnected from my fam, mind you, but I realized what I had was truly invaluable. Hope you find what you need when the time comes

Or go the extra mile and sever emotional ties with every person in your life. Better safe than sorry.  8)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 07, 2015, 03:35:09 PM
Esch come to Boston. Wrath's basically said he's moving here and we'll all go get shitfaced every night.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 07, 2015, 03:36:23 PM
edit: n/m

Come to Ohio yo. I know all kinds of women looking for a good dude like you.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 07, 2015, 03:37:07 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

Man that shit made me turn cold on my hometown. I dont fuck w/ them folks at all anymore.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 07, 2015, 03:38:00 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

always knew Shaka and Big Jimbo were bitches :pacspit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 07, 2015, 03:53:05 PM
We messed something up setting up our company in New York but made every good faith effort to correct it and they fixed it, told us it was all good, and then a month later they send us a fine for 2500$ :stahp

If it was an honest mistake and you made good faith attempts to correct it you can always request relief from penalty. It's kind of a time value of money problem at a certain point, but just firing off a polite request / explanation is probably worth a punt. I presume you're employing people there so it's not like you're persona non grata, though given my admittedly brief dealings with New York the size of your penalty leads me to believe it's payroll or sales tax related and agencies are usually more hard-hearted about those.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on April 07, 2015, 03:57:15 PM
No, nothing tax related thank god.  It's just a matter of gathering the relevant info and asking for relief.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 07, 2015, 04:17:17 PM
Tried to set up Ubuntu on a VM. Was reminded of my general and absolute cluelessness.

But hey, got to see my BIOS for the first time in the 3 years I've owned this notebook.

Also, it seems to work now. Please move this post to the triumph of the day thread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 07, 2015, 04:39:54 PM
No way. Esch should come to California and see the drought
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 07, 2015, 04:45:54 PM
esch this is why we need a borefest meet. i would never freeze u out bb :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 07, 2015, 06:10:16 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

always knew Shaka and Big Jimbo were bitches :pacspit

:pacspit :pacspit :pacspit
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 07, 2015, 06:48:33 PM
Had a coworker say, "You were a music major? But man, you can do your job pretty well."

I said I was a music major, not a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow. Next they'll be congratulating me on tying my own tie.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 07, 2015, 06:48:42 PM
Nah, man sometimes when we make plans we just think about who is there. Don't overthink it and take it personal unless is a common thing.

I got invited to it but the people behind said event completely forgot/didn't think/ask about how it relates to me  :neogaf

I should probably be less salty but still has me like :beli

You're acting like my wife right now.

AiA, you can check the IP address of any post on TheBore.com; I’ve verified and THE POST WAS SUBMITTED FROM INSIDE YOUR HOUSE. GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 07, 2015, 06:54:59 PM
That feeling when your friends leave you out of something. You run through some scenarios in your head like, did they even know? Maybe they just forgot about you? Maybe they just thought you were doing something else? But when it comes down to it, they didn't even ask so you know the ultimate net meaning of it all is that they don't really give a shit about you.

:yeshrug

Can't wait to move out of this miserable shit city and carve a life out for myself somewhere new.

“Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.”

I’ve been the guy who has forgotten a guest before, I felt like an utter clod; I felt so bad about it, but I was even unsure how to apologize about it without making it worse. People make mistakes; we’re best served by forgiving them and moving on.

Or, in Arvie’s case, capturing the foe with a roofie’d drink, locking them in the basement, and keeping them on a fortified saline drip for months while harvesting their organs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 07, 2015, 07:01:17 PM
I call it 'harviesting'
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yulwei on April 07, 2015, 07:43:57 PM
made some fries earlier. they were disgusting. threw them all in the trash
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 08, 2015, 05:15:01 AM
esch this is why we need a borefest meet. i would never freeze u out bb :(

Sitting in the fancy parts of Vegas and throwing shade on the fashion faux pas of the nouveau riche. :noah

Going to the male nude review. :phil

Being caught alive in Circus Circus. :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 08, 2015, 11:36:55 AM
gotcha bitch
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 08, 2015, 11:39:06 AM
Some fucker kept knocking on my door and ringing my doorbell, waking me up. When I got dressed and went to the door this person got in their car and stormed off.

Fuck you, whoever you are, for waking me up on a hang over during a day where I could have just stayed in bed.

Sorry that was me playing Ding, Dong, Durka Durka.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 08, 2015, 11:39:26 AM
Sent my supervisor a prepress release of the shitty paper I did that getting published, and the bib has a shit ton of errors in it.   And I had another panic attack.  I seriously feel like crap.  My thesis was suppose to be due last friday and its still not done.  Hard deadline is 14th where my two readers need to read it by then, which totally fucks over one of my readers.  I feel so goddamn sick.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 08, 2015, 12:28:31 PM
Arv, go shout at the sky as loud and hard as you can and then get back in the game. :bolo

Whether or not you deserve it you're getting the limelight, there's not much point in choking now. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: HiResDes on April 08, 2015, 12:43:16 PM
edit: n/m

Come to Ohio yo. I know all kinds of women looking for a good dude like you.
Come to Ohio might be the worst advice that's ever been given on this forum
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 08, 2015, 12:44:32 PM
edit: n/m

Come to Ohio yo. I know all kinds of women looking for a good dude like you.
Come to Ohio might be the worst advice that's ever been given on this forum

Not if you roll with me. Broke ass niccas need not apply.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 08, 2015, 12:47:23 PM
I was told that I need to be grateful. For myself. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 08, 2015, 01:05:13 PM
I was told that I need to be grateful. For myself. :brazilcry

:bow being God's chosen people :bow2

Caucasians?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 08, 2015, 01:38:13 PM
This is how I figure out what the true mean value of Vularai's comments are:

(http://www.tibco.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/abacus-620x360.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 08, 2015, 01:39:46 PM
Caucasians?

Given the general state of Caucasian living before the greeks classical antiquity period, nah breh :sabu

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God led us to the promised land of Cacdom.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on April 08, 2015, 02:09:48 PM
Some live blogging bullshit going on here but I just had a 5 Hour Energy drink, the Pink Lemonade version.  Who the hell drinks this stuff willingly?  Holy fucking hell it was like a drunk clown just pissed in my mouth after I just sucked a dirty pecker in a Burger King bathroom.  Put that on the bottle.  At least people will then know exactly what to expect.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 08, 2015, 02:19:28 PM
Mio Energy. :bow2

Meth in a squeeze bottle.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 08, 2015, 02:24:03 PM
Cocaine and cocaine (http://www.thebore.com/forum/Smileys/default/301gjmd.gif)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 08, 2015, 02:26:09 PM
Some live blogging bullshit going on here but I just had a 5 Hour Energy drink, the Pink Lemonade version.  Who the hell drinks this stuff willingly?  Holy fucking hell it was like a drunk clown just pissed in my mouth after I just sucked a dirty pecker in a Burger King bathroom.  Put that on the bottle.  At least people will then know exactly what to expect.
How are you so familiar with that taste?   :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 08, 2015, 02:43:09 PM
Mio Energy. :bow2

Meth in a squeeze bottle.

u just saved my life :lawd

Seriously, I drank something like 12 cups of coffee yesterday and was still tired.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 08, 2015, 03:00:49 PM
I've seen that mio shit but I wasn't aware of the caffeine content.  :leon

Figured it was just some vitamin-y bullshit. Like I need vitamins.  :heh

It's got 80mg of caffiene per 8oz "serving", so if I put the whole thing in my water....
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 08, 2015, 03:08:47 PM
It says 1080mg in the whole bottle. I wouldn't just die, I'd be transcending my mortal body on that shit.  :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 08, 2015, 03:11:37 PM
Sex gets pretty interesting at 400mg. I doubt she was having fun, but I sure was.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 08, 2015, 03:29:41 PM
It says 1080mg in the whole bottle. I wouldn't just die, I'd be transcending my mortal body on that shit.  :rejoice

I still can't believe this ambrosia was in front of me the whole time. It's like Taylor Swift took off her lensless glasses.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 08, 2015, 03:50:18 PM
Sex gets pretty interesting at 400mg. I doubt she was having fun, but I sure was.

I read this as 400kg, and I was like  :lucas
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: suppadoopa on April 08, 2015, 04:21:56 PM
my cost of attendance went up from 24K to 42K. Fafsa is only gonna cover $9500
 :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 08, 2015, 10:10:39 PM
I've spent at least several hours in 3 time zones today. I have one time zone left but I'm already messed up. What time is it? And which time zone am I in? Talked to a soap sales guy next to me on the plane. That can't be a good sign
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 08, 2015, 10:23:34 PM
my cost of attendance went up from 24K to 42K. Fafsa is only gonna cover $9500
 :stahp

You should stage an adaptation of the Caucasian Chalk Circle but with a framing device about college tuition instead of who gets the communal farm land.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 08, 2015, 10:35:13 PM
My third experiment for my thesis returned shit results.  That's shit results for all experiments :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 08, 2015, 10:39:52 PM
http://gfycat.com/ThriftyImpracticalDoctorfish.gifv

My gradschool experience 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 08, 2015, 10:40:02 PM
My third experiment for my thesis returned shit results.  That's shit results for all experiments :(
(http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/wcrz.com/files/2012/04/a16.jpg)

Sorry cholo.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 08, 2015, 11:06:21 PM
Crap, that's rough. Congratulations on finishing your schoolwork though!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 08, 2015, 11:42:08 PM
Just had this exchange with a gate agent

'hey your last name is puppy.  My brother's last name is puppy'
' Wouldn't that make your last name puppy too?'
' Nah, my mom's a whore'
'Uhhh....I'm sorry'
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Take My Breh Away on April 09, 2015, 06:51:35 AM
Use Taco Bell's twitter as one of the best case studies of brand engagement on social media

Realize the nearest Taco Bell is 194 miles away and separated by a stretch of water :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 09, 2015, 08:23:33 AM
Got buttdialed by a salesperson last night. 9 fucking times from 1:55-3:00am. Sounded like she was having a good time.

I get buttdials, I was probably the last one she called but fuck if that doesn't get my wife's ass fired up. Fortunately I put in on speaker and we both laughed about it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 09, 2015, 12:41:19 PM
Use Taco Bell's twitter as one of the best case studies of brand engagement on social media

Realize the nearest Taco Bell is 194 miles away and separated by a stretch of water :stahp

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Nibel on April 09, 2015, 01:49:59 PM
Keeping my younger brother from punching my dad, no comment

First I was like  :holeup then I was like  :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 09, 2015, 01:51:51 PM
Good news: I've finished all my required school work and am going to finally graduate.

Bad News: I did all of it in the past week only because I have to go back to Saudi on the 15th. Mostly because my visa runs out almost right away, and I don't have the financial means to support myself without scholarship money. My parents need me and It's about time I rebuilt the bridge. Problem is I don't know when I'll be back in the US. So we'll see how it goes.

Let me know if you change your mind and want to get married to get a green card, boo  :-*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 09, 2015, 01:59:16 PM
I'm jobless and am getting kicked out of my goddamn house.


Moving to Indianapolis tho.

#BoycottIndiana
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2015, 02:37:52 PM
they're playing Christmas music at work
:stahp :stahp :stahp

currently: Let It Snow by Kenny G
:dead

it's foggy as fuck outside, almost looks like snow. Kill me now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: HiResDes on April 09, 2015, 02:43:17 PM
guy at work will not stop about Obama. I'm trying to ignore him but dude is going off. Saying he wishes people would off him and that he's trying to build a one world government :stahp :stahp :stahp

Take my approach. Start shit talking Obama yourself, and then reveal you sympathize with Marxist ideals and that Obama didn't go far enough
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 09, 2015, 02:44:33 PM
He's practically a Khruschevite.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 09, 2015, 02:47:47 PM
what's the age bracket for this dude?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 09, 2015, 03:03:07 PM
I have to dap Obama for taking his troll game to levels I didn't even imagine. I just hope he keeps his guard up (and more black Secret Service members). Seems like he might be going a little too hard on cacs and Jews right now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: suppadoopa on April 09, 2015, 08:36:28 PM

You should stage an adaptation of the Caucasian Chalk Circle but with a framing device about college tuition instead of who gets the communal farm land.

Pretty sure the weeaboo in me can dig up a Mishima version of that.

Without the committing the sudoku part
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 09, 2015, 08:39:26 PM
There is a Mishima short story about a kabuki performer. :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 09, 2015, 11:46:54 PM
I'm drunk. I'm never drunk.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 09, 2015, 11:50:00 PM
got stuck working this sunday event that makes us no money, we get no perks and there's no food for us.

face gonna be on  :beli all evening

one day they'll learn to not send me out to a bunch of bullshit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 10, 2015, 12:01:07 AM
I'm drunk. I'm never drunk.

I was gonna post "I'm not drunk. I'm never not drunk" but I'm actually drinking right now so it would feel dishonest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 01:12:16 AM
I drank a whole bottle of Mio Energy and not only am I just fine (not even a mild arrhythmia) but I'm a lil tired tbh. Caffeine degeneracy. Scust.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 03:03:26 AM
That's more or less the pattern of emoticons I would have used. :ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 10, 2015, 03:15:00 AM
Yeah I'm falling into the abyss, drifting away but then my cats show up. How am I supposed to be fading away when you're snuggling my face. Rude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 10, 2015, 04:57:19 AM
I need to poop

But my bank guy is about to call me and I don't want to pick up in the toilet

Struggle is real keeping in the farts in the office now
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 10, 2015, 05:04:04 AM
n/m  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 10, 2015, 10:20:07 AM
My wife is giving me the silent treatment today and I don't know what I did  :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on April 10, 2015, 10:24:13 AM
My wife is giving me the silent treatment today and I don't know what I did  :snoop

The fact that you don't know is the reason. #wifelogic
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 10, 2015, 10:36:18 AM
My wife is giving me the silent treatment today and I don't know what I did  :snoop

Is it what you did? Or what you didn't do? Or perhaps what she hopes you do? Maybe what you shouldn't do?

:tocry

Who know, it's probably something like "you forgot to take out the garbage today", seriously, be married so long you draw your line at garbage take out when we have not 1, not 2, but 3 able bodied children living at home that can do that stuff.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on April 10, 2015, 11:08:52 AM
How in the hell does the woman down the hall in immunology get to bring in a service dog?  She doesn't have a disability and her only handicap is that penis swinging between her legs.  I call bullshit.  And that dog is like a chihuahua.  What the hell is it going to do in an emergency?  Lick her nuts until she comes to?

I want to bring in my dog damnit.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 10, 2015, 11:25:23 AM
Got another call from my dad :brazilcry

Saudi will suuuuuuuuuuuck

"Son, remember to bring fresh toiletries for the harem. I don't want to have to remind you again.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: mormapope on April 10, 2015, 11:37:07 AM
I'm ignorant as fuck when it comes to Saudi Arabia, is there anything good there for someone that isn't raking in cash? I don't mean to come of as an ass when I say that either, its a genuine question.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 10, 2015, 11:42:09 AM
Why are you going back?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 10, 2015, 11:45:03 AM
Why are you going back?

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42407.msg2020678#msg2020678

Fuuuuuck man. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 10, 2015, 11:55:02 AM
One more flight.  Just one more flight. Also, how is it possible that every time I fly into Phoenix I'm surprised by how crappy the airport is EVERY time? I mean I expect less every time and each time it sets the bar even lower
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on April 10, 2015, 02:18:02 PM
Sucks man. Been having those for almost two years now. Thankfully becoming better.

Though now my right knee is acting up. :tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 02:23:43 PM
Did yoga. :aah

X post whitest and girliest thing I did today threads.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on April 10, 2015, 02:33:10 PM
Smh, my right shoulder started acting up about 2 weeks after I started working out again. I don't know exactly what's wrong with it, but its happened before after working out consistently for months and sometimes pushing myself too hard. Can't really do any push ups or lifting until it goes away a bit.

I can't remember what I did to originally cause this, but it's been a constant thing for a few years now. Have random body pains at 27 when you've never played any sports, brehs. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 02:37:40 PM
Struggle of the day: read a white jew calling one of my people's treasured physical and spiritual practices girly and white :fbm :fbm :fbm

#Protocol14
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 10, 2015, 02:56:19 PM
Struggle of the day: read a white jew calling one of my people's treasured physical and spiritual practices girly and white :fbm :fbm :fbm

:lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Huff on April 10, 2015, 03:34:46 PM
Shaved my back today
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 10, 2015, 03:50:30 PM
I'm jobless and am getting kicked out of my goddamn house.


Moving to Indianapolis tho.

Sucks to hear that, dude. What happened?

The short answer is my dad is a cunt who is forcing me out and cost me my job the day before WrestleMania.

The long answer will come later via PM. This all goes back to November when I started working for the Target Corporation, so I want to get the entire events ordered and detailed.

What state do you live in? Do you have a plan where you're going to be living in Indianapolis?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 06:27:33 PM
Had to drive through an autism jog-a-thon. So many white people.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 10, 2015, 07:40:49 PM
One of the cats at the commune got out this morning and has been gone all day. He was my favorite of the three, too.

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 10, 2015, 07:43:56 PM
:( hope he turns up
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 10, 2015, 07:56:16 PM
:fbm

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 08:01:53 PM
Worst day of my life: got juniored, PoliceOne hid their comments from us proles and fearless leader Evilore got publicly disrespected by Major Nelson like a year ago or something.

 :fbm

spoiler (click to show/hide)
No, I'm not trying to use these irrelevant impersonal slights as if they were serious problems so as to escape or downplay those. Why would you ask?
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: HiResDes on April 10, 2015, 09:36:06 PM
Worst day of my life: got juniored, PoliceOne hid their comments from us proles and fearless leader Evilore got publicly disrespected by Major Nelson like a year ago or something.

 :fbm

spoiler (click to show/hide)
No, I'm not trying to use these irrelevant impersonal slights as if they were serious problems so as to escape or downplay those. Why would you ask?
[close]

How is Evilore getting disrespected a bad thing whatsoever, you lost me dude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 10:25:10 PM
It's difficult seeing your heroes brought to earth and reminding you that they're just as human as you are.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 10:36:06 PM
Fuck taaaaaaaaxes. :maf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 11:04:32 PM
Fuck taaaaaaaaxes. :maf
They're voluntary, because 16th Amendment never ratified. Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG2mcjAuLo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3V0rhp_8vY

Trust me, I'm learned tax law from PoliGAF and Lew Rockwell.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 11:33:27 PM
I don't trust anyone, especially people purporting to be looking out for me. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 10, 2015, 11:34:10 PM
Lips are dry and I can't find the chapstick. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 11:37:11 PM
Kiss ur cats on the nose. Problem solved and cactitude assured.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 10, 2015, 11:38:12 PM
Speaking of cats I just found it under the coffee table where all the toy mice end up. Someone's going to the pound tomorrow.  :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 10, 2015, 11:41:12 PM
I don't trust anyone, especially people purporting to be looking out for me. :bolo
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Wxnl9I5GL.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 10, 2015, 11:47:51 PM
No one. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 11, 2015, 12:02:13 AM
i'm looking out for you  :jawalrus

spoiler (click to show/hide)
when you make toilet :phil
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 12:07:49 AM
U also mercilessly judge my two wheel aspirations. :heart

Related: I recently found out about Royal Enfield. :leon
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 11, 2015, 12:14:19 AM
U also mercilessly judge my two wheel aspirations. :heart


Letting yourself be judged by a dude that rides a Gwyneth Paltrow approved scooter, and being happy about your humiliation.  SMH
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 11, 2015, 12:15:27 AM
the new enfields are fine. the little 500cc thumper in 'em is a -- can i say this? -- hoot. i'd still take a guzzi v7 racer over them, doe.

have you seen the NEW norton commando 961? the price and essential brit-ique quality is right up yer cornhole: http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/bikes/commando-961-cafe-racer.html
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 11, 2015, 12:15:33 AM
Went to a Providence Bruins (minor league) game tonight. :larry

They played so much better than the Boston Bruins it's not even funny. :stahp (Won 5-1.)

And I went with my dad and his(/my former) church group.:stahp

And there was a faith band playing after the game we stayed for. :stahp

And it made me miss my faith. :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 11, 2015, 12:19:07 AM
OH SHIT I PROMISED MYSELF I WOULDN'T BE A FUCKING BIKE NERD TODAY. thank the foul gods of your post-phoenician money cult that this is the struggle thread.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 12:22:03 AM
the new enfields are fine. the little 500cc thumper in 'em is a -- can i say this? -- hoot. i'd still take a guzzi v7 racer over them, doe.

have you seen the NEW norton commando 961? the price and essential brit-ique quality is right up yer cornhole: http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/bikes/commando-961-cafe-racer.html

20K for a pushrod engine in 2015. :aah

Kinda surprised RE gets your approval but iirc they're really torque-y. :obama

The Brutale is growing on me tbh. The triple exhaust is :lawd.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2015, 12:35:18 AM
When people say Enfield I think of this:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Short_Magazine_Lee-Enfield_Mk_1_%281903%29_-_UK_-_cal_303_British_-_Arm%C3%A9museum.jpg/640px-Short_Magazine_Lee-Enfield_Mk_1_%281903%29_-_UK_-_cal_303_British_-_Arm%C3%A9museum.jpg)

I blame Day of Defeat.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Yulwei on April 11, 2015, 01:16:06 AM
Kale goes with everything. I love it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 01:16:53 AM
DoD :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2015, 01:29:52 AM
Those grenades that came at seemingly impossible angles properly primed you hate(d) in DoD/DoD:S. I threw them probably.

Especially the ones I threw up so they'd hit the skybox and drop straight down. Or over and through holes in the map geometry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 11, 2015, 01:44:41 AM
Good news: I've finished all my required school work and am going to finally graduate.

Bad News: I did all of it in the past week only because I have to go back to Saudi on the 15th. Mostly because my visa runs out almost right away, and I don't have the financial means to support myself without scholarship money. My parents need me and It's about time I rebuilt the bridge. Problem is I don't know when I'll be back in the US. So we'll see how it goes.

Let me know if you change your mind and want to get married to get a green card, boo  :-*

I love this idea.

I want to see a sitcom based on it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 11, 2015, 01:49:34 AM
Struggle of the day: read a white jew calling one of my people's treasured physical and spiritual practices girly and white :fbm :fbm :fbm
There is not enough LOL emoticon in the world for this.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 03:36:36 AM
I broke my pastis glass. How will I be an old Marseillais man without it? Do I have to take up petanque now? :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 11, 2015, 04:01:06 AM
I broke my pastis glass. How will I be an old Marseillais man without it? Do I have to take up petanque now? :brazilcry
You know, if it wasn't for an Anthony Bourdain episode, you could have gotten away with me not understanding this post.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on April 11, 2015, 01:17:32 PM
back on the booze, everything went bad.im drunk now
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 02:07:56 PM
I broke my pastis glass. How will I be an old Marseillais man without it? Do I have to take up petanque now? :brazilcry
You know, if it wasn't for an Anthony Bourdain episode, you could have gotten away with me not understanding this post.

I'll get you next time, Inspector Bourdain!!!!!!!!!!! *flying away on debris from exploded plan for world domination*
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 11, 2015, 04:45:51 PM
You're gonna be alright Shark. You got this.
:rejoice

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 11, 2015, 06:04:18 PM
I went to REI on a weekend. :brazilcry

To make matters worse, just as I was about to be helped by the cutie who sold me my membership awhile back some fucking PNW cliche who probably doesn't know Kurt C ate a shotgun swooped in. :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Nibel on April 11, 2015, 07:03:24 PM
Met an old buddy of mine

Shook hands but mid-handshake he turned away towards someone else..?  :anhuld
I can tell you it was exactly 180 degree

Me and the group I was with were kinda shocked and confused I guess, not a great day and another dark chapter in my journal
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 12, 2015, 02:02:06 AM
I'm watching a Major Lazer vidya on the YouTube (which is already an L I guess) and a THREE U.S. HOUR Ben Shapiro talk is in my suggested videos. beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenji!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 12, 2015, 04:55:48 AM
Don't knock Major Lazer!
 :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on April 12, 2015, 02:39:41 PM
Getting the silent treatment today and I'm not sure why. Feeling like AiA right about now.  :gloomy
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 12, 2015, 02:42:37 PM
Don't knock Major Lazer!
 :bolo

Moombahton  :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on April 12, 2015, 02:43:57 PM
Actually since I'm smoking weed I guess I'm feeling more like AiA's white house boy or butler or whatever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 12, 2015, 04:05:48 PM
Went to a fitting for an Apple Watch today

buying one on Tuesday  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on April 12, 2015, 04:16:18 PM
lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 12, 2015, 04:23:04 PM
1) What happened to I won't buy one for a few generations?
2) You have to go in for 'fittings'?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 12, 2015, 04:25:53 PM
You should always get a watch fitted, we should commend our Steveistas for at least pretending to belong to a greater whole instead of their usual behavior--pretending slapping brushed metal on an existing product is innovative in any way whatsoever.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 12, 2015, 04:31:19 PM
you say that as if brushed metal shouldn't be on everything :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 12, 2015, 05:02:41 PM
Just finished filing my taxes and TurboTax says I qualify for government assistance for my groceries.  :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 12, 2015, 05:22:20 PM
you say that as if brushed metal shouldn't be on everything :lawd

When your people control the world's gold metals become passé. :ennui:
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 12, 2015, 05:36:01 PM
Went to a fitting for an Apple Watch today

buying one on Tuesday  :-\

:rofl Enjoy your boondoggle.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 12, 2015, 06:34:59 PM
Just finished filling my taxes and TurboTax says I qualify for government assistance for my groceries.  :-\

time to live off the fruits of the state :lawd

#dualities don't ask me how
 :whew
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 12, 2015, 07:04:15 PM
LA? :phil
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 12, 2015, 07:30:21 PM
Went to a fitting for an Apple Watch today

buying one on Tuesday  :-\

I'd laugh at anyone I saw wearing that shit in a business meeting.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 12, 2015, 07:35:09 PM
donate that money to charity instead

or set it on fire

anything else just plz don't do this
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 12, 2015, 08:04:41 PM
"is that a first-gen Apple Watch? You must be an app developer right?"
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 12, 2015, 08:27:07 PM
Went to a fitting for an Apple Watch today

buying one on Tuesday  :-\

I'd laugh at anyone I saw wearing that shit in a business meeting.

It's not that big a deal in my industry.  But if I was at a real corporate business?  Woof
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 12, 2015, 10:53:17 PM
"is that a first-gen Apple Watch? You must be an app developer right?"

Yeah, buying first-generation Apple hardware is specifically why there’s an “L” in “Apple.”
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 12, 2015, 10:55:10 PM
Cleaning house today, accidentally stood on the pillow while lifting it, and it tore of the tag that reads “UNDER PENALTY OF LAW, DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG.”

Now I’m cowering that if I submit this post, ESCHELON will have an international strike team on me in moments.

If I don’t post again by tomorrow, I want Eel and Esch to team up and search the Black Sites for me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 12, 2015, 11:30:17 PM
Went to a fitting for an Apple Watch today

buying one on Tuesday  :-\

I'd laugh at anyone I saw wearing that shit in a business meeting.
Wait til Tuesday
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 12, 2015, 11:31:58 PM
Went to a fitting for an Apple Watch today

buying one on Tuesday  :-\

I'd laugh at anyone I saw wearing that shit in a business meeting.
Wait til Tuesday

I'm confident I won't see one of those anytime soon.
:obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 13, 2015, 01:50:00 AM
I was watching a video review from a C tier site and they went through the main intersection you use to leave the commune.

Fucking freaked me out, man. :hans1
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 13, 2015, 03:29:19 AM
"is that a first-gen Apple Watch? You must be an app developer right?"

Yeah, buying first-generation Apple hardware is specifically why there’s an “L” in “Apple.”

"It'll git er done."

*two weeks later

"I can't tell if the performance/battery issues are due to the watch or our code."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 13, 2015, 03:37:14 AM
The flipside to spending some serious time in the dark depths is that if you come out, you come out with a renewed appreciation of all things in life not tainted by sadness and depression. But that's if u ever make it out. Some don't/
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 13, 2015, 04:04:07 AM
The flipside to spending some serious time in the dark depths is that if you come out, you come out with a renewed appreciation of all things in life not tainted by sadness and depression. But that's if u ever make it out. Some don't/

just leave me behind ur majesty

ur subjects need u

ur kingdom needs u
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on April 13, 2015, 08:31:36 AM
went for my first bike ride of the season  :phil

why wont my legs work?  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Great Rumbler on April 13, 2015, 11:55:17 AM
A storm came through today with lots of rain and wind, blew over a huge tree in the road in front of my house. I'll be the one to have to clean it up, too. :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 13, 2015, 12:24:37 PM
went for my first bike ride of the season  :phil

why wont my legs work?  :stahp

(http://i.imgur.com/gNiIHjv.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 13, 2015, 01:02:02 PM
GIS didn't give me a name for Wrath's avatar

:tocry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 13, 2015, 02:25:44 PM
Ilsa is my dream woman. :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on April 13, 2015, 02:28:44 PM
I just blew my top at work. I mean literally sweating and shit. Not a good look but it got the job done. Apparently I scare the fuck out of people when I'm mad because my secretary was cowering in her office.  Feels bad man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 13, 2015, 02:33:08 PM
I just blew my top at work. I mean literally sweating and shit. Not a good look but it got the job done. Apparently I scare the fuck out of people when I'm mad [for cock] because my secretary was cowering in her office.  Feels bad man.

Ya but I bet your top felt great.  I never thought you'd admit to being the bottom though.  Also you should do that shit at a hotel. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 13, 2015, 02:35:03 PM
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 13, 2015, 02:39:41 PM
Ilsa is my dream woman. :noah

What is it with jews and the she-wolf?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on April 13, 2015, 02:53:55 PM
Cleaning house today, accidentally stood on the pillow while lifting it, and it tore of the tag that reads “UNDER PENALTY OF LAW, DO NOT REMOVE THIS TAG.”

Now I’m cowering that if I submit this post, ESCHELON will have an international strike team on me in moments.

If I don’t post again by tomorrow, I want Eel and Esch to team up and search the Black Sites for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAaoHX9KiWY
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nachobro on April 13, 2015, 05:42:16 PM
What is it with jews and the she-wolf?
All the abuse reminds us of our mothers
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 13, 2015, 11:19:40 PM
I read an article about a chess pro being caught cheating and found it unbelievably amusing that his opponent was named Tigran Petrosian.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on April 14, 2015, 12:59:23 AM
Got a stomach cramp right as I was cumming :tocry Second time this happened...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 14, 2015, 01:06:35 AM
I don't understand.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on April 14, 2015, 01:09:07 AM
Got a cramp in my lower stomach while I was ejaculating. Don't know why.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 14, 2015, 01:48:45 AM
just stay up and pass out on the flight
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: suppadoopa on April 14, 2015, 01:57:20 PM
Was sleeping then all the sudden my boss calls me up and tells me that we're having a meeting right now that I was supposed to show up too (but I forgot too). I repeatedly told him I was sorry and told him I'd be on my way.

Then I fell asleep again right after the phone call lol

Not getting fired or anything, but apparently, there was free food that I missed out on.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 14, 2015, 02:23:27 PM
Was sleeping then all the sudden my boss calls me up and tells me that we're having a meeting right now that I was supposed to show up too (but I forgot too). I repeatedly told him I was sorry and told him I'd be on my way.

Then I fell asleep again right after the phone call lol

Not getting fired or anything
, but apparently, there was free food that I missed out on.

:mindblown
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 14, 2015, 02:30:25 PM
yeah wtf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 14, 2015, 02:50:23 PM
Where do you work? It sounds pretty chill.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 14, 2015, 03:22:28 PM
Must be a state or fed job.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on April 14, 2015, 03:28:25 PM
Gotta quit my job but I'm unsure how to do so tactfully. "yeah, I'm giving you my two weeks. Oh, why? Uh, your employees drop 'distinguished black fellow' a little too casually for my tastes. Can I get the reference?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 14, 2015, 04:21:14 PM
Why do you have to give them a reason?  Or why not just say you have to move or something? 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 14, 2015, 04:25:43 PM
Why is it that when someone else handles dropping off my business packages the failure to deliver rate somehow magically climbs above the failure rate when I handle my business mailing myself (0%)?

Depend on other people brehs. They definitely don't let you down.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 14, 2015, 04:42:15 PM
Quote
there was free food that I missed out on

The real struggle begins here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 14, 2015, 04:55:37 PM
Am on the train right now.  This large group of people from all over the world got on.  Noisy as hell.  Am currently squished in my seat by some Euro guy wearing entirely too small bicyle shorts, showing off his legs to everyone with his knees up, and listening to some kid asking the Japanese people if they knew about Big Hero 6.

Aaand they just got off as I finished typing this.
:rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: StealthFan on April 14, 2015, 05:32:05 PM
Come see me in Simi Valley breh. You can see how fat I am.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 14, 2015, 05:40:29 PM
Come see me in Simi Valley breh. You can see how fat I am.

I might visit Cali later this year...
:hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 14, 2015, 05:48:41 PM
I'm thinking of going to Fox & Hound. I always wanted to drink at a "British" pub.

Sorry Stealth, looks I'm babysitting while I'm here :fbm

There's a place like that here called Elephant & Castle that I love. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 14, 2015, 06:00:45 PM
So I was just accused of having asperger syndrome by someone close to me -- how do I know if they're right?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 14, 2015, 06:07:48 PM
We're all a little spectrummy here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 14, 2015, 06:09:32 PM
Some more than others.  :hitler

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:brazilcry
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 14, 2015, 06:22:24 PM
I found some online prescreen thing, but didn't follow through with it because it relies on self assessment. I never feel strongly enough to answer strongly agree or disagree.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 14, 2015, 06:39:04 PM
everyone should have that one topic or hobby in which their inner special fellow can flourish. IMO.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 14, 2015, 06:43:30 PM
everyone should have that one topic or hobby in which their inner special fellow can flourish. IMO.

Flags. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 14, 2015, 06:59:02 PM
Typefaces.  :fabulous
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 14, 2015, 07:02:20 PM
Typefaces.  :fabulous

This is a good one. Even getting snobby about Arial is enough to make you a pariah.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 14, 2015, 07:10:49 PM
i'm not even 6 weeks into the new salary/bonus i'm getting and these motherfuckers already have buyers remorse  :lol
i guess they never expected i'd put in the work to earn the hypothetical bonuses they were throwing around.

they trying to get me to take some new funny money deal that'd basically undo my raise. these motherfuckers pick the weirdest shit to worry about and they wonder why they can't make any money.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 14, 2015, 07:11:27 PM
Typefaces.  :fabulous

This is a good one. Even getting snobby about Arial is enough to make you a pariah.

:piss Arial

 :piss Helvetica (it's now passé because hipsters ran it into the fucking ground by using it so much)

Adelle Sans (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/type-together/adelle-sans/)  :gladbron

Ideal Sans (http://www.typography.com/fonts/ideal-sans/overview/)  :lawd

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on April 14, 2015, 07:22:56 PM
while walking across campus I cut off a girl in an intersection who, knowing she was within earshot, then retorted "Get out of my way..."


brb cutting myself
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 14, 2015, 07:46:58 PM
If you don't want to be cut off then you shouldn't be sauntering along.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: suppadoopa on April 14, 2015, 08:00:01 PM
Where do you work? It sounds pretty chill.
I work in a print shop. It is pretty chill. Get paid printing out/helping design posters, business cards, etc


Flags. :aah

shieet, I'd be down. I used to collect flags from every state and country I've visited.


Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 14, 2015, 08:02:12 PM
slow moving pedestrians  :bolo

slow moving young pedestrians  :gun
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 14, 2015, 08:03:40 PM
shieet, I'd be down. I used to collect flags from every state and country I've visited.

Bore class of 2015, GOAT. :rejoice
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 14, 2015, 10:28:08 PM
Today I found out that not only is there a California license plate A6MZERO registered to a late model Mitsubishi Eclipse with an embarrassingly oversized aftermarket spoiler but that I remember the model numbers of Imperial Japanese combat aircraft despite not having been terribly interested in this subject matter since childhood.

And because I'm not crazy enough, in the post office I noticed someone repping the Bf 109 on their t-shirt and then made a connection between this and the Mitsu I saw on the road.

For the love of god someone please lobotomize me.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 14, 2015, 11:28:30 PM
No surprise to anybody but I'm a bit spergy myself. I'll tell you to do as I do, don't give a give a fuck and do your thing.

Yep, same. Dat compulsion to catch all 721 Pokemon and complete the catalog in Animal Crossing... :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 15, 2015, 03:01:58 AM
Ordered xfinity for Internet and picked up a little ubee modem that I've never used and apparently wasn't like their normal ones that also act as a hotspot/have WiFi, so I go to Frys and get a linksys thing that looked good online and after I pick it up one of the employees takes me aside to check it in for the commission (whatever), after which he lets me go to the checkout line and I finally get home with everything I need by 9:30PM. I set up the router but it keeps getting a problem with activating the Internet connection so I decided to just call comcast rather than troubleshoot.

They provided enough help and attention to my problem to suggest that I call ubee as they would know more about the equipment and could help me. I look on the ubee website for a number and it specifically says that they don't do technical support since they only sell equipment to ISPs and that users should call comcast if they have any problems.

So I call back comcast at 10:05PM and I get a robot telling me that customer service shuts down at 1AM....eastern. I called Ms Robot a motherfucking fucker and now I'm eating some pizza.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 15, 2015, 03:03:46 AM
They provided enough help and attention to my problem to suggest that I call ubee as they would know more about the equipment and could help me. I look on the ubee website for a number and it specifically says that they don't do technical support since they only sell equipment to ISPs and that users should call comcast if they have any problems.
:miyamoto
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 03:17:15 AM
Eating pizza is a good solution to life problems imo.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 15, 2015, 04:15:57 AM
So I'm in LA and finished my passport shit in 30 minutes as I landed. Sweet, right?

Wrong. My brother somehow decided this is the worst day of his life and that he hates LA while only being here for 3 hours :beli

Dude's passive aggressive shit and getting angry over petty shit is getting on my last nerve. Sure the cab drivers we used suck, but overall today is a W in every way. Our biggest issue is solved in 30 minutes when we expected 3 full days for it and we get 3 days of chilling in Hollywood in a good hotel all paid for by my dad instead of having to pack. Which we already did and whatever else is there we have 4 days to get done anyway.

I've given him multiple passes for his primadonna antics. He's my brother, you know? But after it's been confirmed that I don't have any issues anymore, in less than a fucking hour. Where I can just chill for these few days and have some fun for the past shitty week. And I'm not even paying for anything, it's being paid for me as a belated birthday gift. And you decided to ruin it by being a cunt ass bitch? Fuck you. I'm happy I won't be living with your whiny, bitch made ass anymore. Fuck you for ruining this and trying to blame my dad for trying to help me out for once.

tl;dr
My brother sucks.

Next time take me to LA on your dads expenses bro.

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 04:32:27 AM
Vularai, do you know of a good pizza place in north hollywood?

The only good thing in NoHo is Game Dude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 15, 2015, 04:40:25 AM
Eating pizza is a good solution to life problems imo.
I was waiting to eat a pizza and I got banned from GAF. Hypothesis confirmed. Will put regression and data in appendix.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 05:44:53 AM
I wanted pizza earlier but the commune was watching Bravo in the living room and I didn't want to say something like, "Watch out for that four day old Slim Jim wrapper on the lawn on  your way out," to the delivery person so I just worked out instead. Now I'm eating dollar store cereal in bed alone. The struggle has never been more real.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 15, 2015, 08:43:21 AM
Today was bonus day for my company and they fucked it up. Now I gotta go back and say, "Hey! You shorted me x amount!" and fight for it. I hate having to fight for what I've already earned.

Also, the tax rate on bonuses :beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on April 15, 2015, 09:15:49 AM
At least you get a bonus. Our profit sharing goes straight to the 401k which, I assume, is to avoid the taxes on both the employer and employee. It would be nice to get some extra cash sometimes though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 15, 2015, 09:20:47 AM
I thought I was doing meh at work cause me boss wanted to talk about performance

Yet I got a nice bonus

 ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 15, 2015, 09:22:43 AM
I usually just move as much of my bonus as I can into my 401k.  Fuck losing 40-50% of it to taxes.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 10:31:40 AM
Unless you have some interesting predictions about the direction of tax policy, pretax retirement contributions for anyone younger than... let's say 45... are bad life decisions.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 15, 2015, 10:33:41 AM
Explicame tax bro
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 10:39:43 AM
Income tax rates are at historic lows, better to pay the tax on the income now and put it in a post-tax investment instrument.

Unless you think tax rates will hold or decline by the time you retire that is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 15, 2015, 10:43:07 AM
:ohhh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 15, 2015, 10:59:03 AM
I have both pre-tax and post-tax investments.  I agree that what is in place in 2015 isn't going to be how things are in 2050.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 15, 2015, 11:37:25 AM
Any kind of pension funds are scams, invest in brick and mortar bros.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 15, 2015, 12:05:24 PM
Yeah, this is untenable. Need to talk to the finance guy about this.

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 15, 2015, 12:18:22 PM
Yeah, this is untenable. Need to talk to the finance guy about this.

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.
hundreds :neogaf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 12:49:26 PM
:ohhh

Tax is a good area for "practical" economics. For example, generally speaking it's bad to get a tax refund (I'm not picking on anyone here when I say this) because you gave whatever tax authority that held the overpaid tax an interest free loan.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 15, 2015, 12:50:50 PM
Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.

There truly is a conservative within every ninthing. Without fail :lawd

Lololol

No.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 15, 2015, 12:51:20 PM
Yeah, this is untenable. Need to talk to the finance guy about this.

Paying hundreds of dollars to the government for taxes two years in a row is fucking awful.
hundreds :neogaf

On the flipside I'm getting a whopping $52 from my MA return. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 15, 2015, 12:59:19 PM
:ohhh

Tax is a good area for "practical" economics. For example, generally speaking it's bad to get a tax refund (I'm not picking on anyone here when I say this) because you gave whatever tax authority that held the overpaid tax an interest free loan.

One time I got the irs to pay me interest, I felt like a god.

(It was for my first time home buyer's credit)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 01:43:43 PM
The heavy duty hanger I use for my pea coat broke.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 15, 2015, 01:45:18 PM
Got egg in my beard.  Egg is among the hardest foods to get out of my bread. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 15, 2015, 01:47:37 PM
The heavy duty hanger I use for my pea coat broke.  :'(
a good opportunity to by a new hanger. and pea coat.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 15, 2015, 01:49:00 PM
I hate that. I only have 6 or 7 wood hangers and when they split it's always like an old friend died.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 15, 2015, 01:52:07 PM
heavy duty plastic with a little velvet plush > wood brehs. it is known.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 01:52:36 PM
The heavy duty hanger I use for my pea coat broke.  :'(
a good opportunity to by a new hanger. and pea coat.

Mine rules, though it could use some tailoring, I can't abandon it now. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 15, 2015, 02:27:25 PM
It broke the hanger.  It's already trying to abandon you.  Strike back.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 15, 2015, 02:42:56 PM
the relationship is over dude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 03:29:26 PM
If I used abandonment as evidence of a relationship's end I'd have no relationships to speak of. :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 15, 2015, 03:30:06 PM
read one too many arguments talking about what people "deserve" or are entitled to and caught the slightest of feels. so ashamed fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 15, 2015, 03:57:33 PM
Velvet on hangers is gross
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 15, 2015, 05:00:47 PM
it provides a nice gentle grip for suiting pants
If I used abandonment as evidence of a relationship's end I'd have no relationships to speak of. :ufup
well... do you? :heh
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 05:03:04 PM
That's the joke. :bolo

...asshole. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 15, 2015, 05:31:07 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/631g71I.png)

prey for me brehs
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 15, 2015, 05:32:32 PM
Hopeless. :goty2

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You will be preyed on, that's for sure.
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Beezy on April 15, 2015, 05:34:11 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/631g71I.png)

prey for me brehs
:teehee

Is this your first watch? Please say no.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Human Snorenado on April 15, 2015, 05:39:31 PM
Today was bonus day for my company and they fucked it up. Now I gotta go back and say, "Hey! You shorted me x amount!" and fight for it. I hate having to fight for what I've already earned.

Also, the tax rate on bonuses :beli

Due to the way our bonus program at work is constructed, we're realistically never going to get another performance bonus- we set an absurd monthly sales record last year due to a perfect storm of events that will never be replicated again. So, the only bonuses we get are year end holiday bonuses now, which are nice but it sucks because last year I got probably 3-4k in performance bonuses over the first 6 months of the year. Never again.

:fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 15, 2015, 05:39:59 PM
Four hundred dollars for that piece of shit??

Jesus, Apple fanboys really deserve the fleecing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 15, 2015, 05:54:27 PM
Four hundred dollars for that piece of shit??

Jesus, Apple fanboys really deserve the fleecing.

You ever get around to playing some non-Nintendo software, breh?

:obama

Lol I got a PS3 last year breh.

And at least a Nintendo toy has exclusive games I'll put hours into. What does an iWatch have? Exclusive watch faces?? :lol
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 15, 2015, 06:12:59 PM
I'm buying it to fuck around with Watchkit, mostly.  Shitty as it may appear at the moment, I feel like the development possibilities are exciting for it.

And no, I have other Fossil watches that I enjoy.  Fucked around with a Pebble but hated the display that came with it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 15, 2015, 06:18:22 PM
At least you didn't say Swatch. :obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on April 15, 2015, 11:11:32 PM
I'm getting kicked out the army, brehs. life sucks man
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 15, 2015, 11:12:43 PM
That sucks.  Why?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on April 15, 2015, 11:23:45 PM
I failed a piss test. i can't believe it, my military career is over. feels like a bad dream, i wish i could just wake up and be ok
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 15, 2015, 11:34:16 PM
Today was bonus day for my company and they fucked it up. Now I gotta go back and say, "Hey! You shorted me x amount!" and fight for it. I hate having to fight for what I've already earned.

Also, the tax rate on bonuses :beli

Due to the way our bonus program at work is constructed, we're realistically never going to get another performance bonus- we set an absurd monthly sales record last year due to a perfect storm of events that will never be replicated again. So, the only bonuses we get are year end holiday bonuses now, which are nice but it sucks because last year I got probably 3-4k in performance bonuses over the first 6 months of the year. Never again.

:fbm
True story,  I once worked with a company that was/Is so notoriously bad to work for that magazines write articles about It. after a few articles they thought to change this perception and one of the things they heard people complain about was the terrible pay. So they looked at the numbers and found that their attrition rate for the first year was 82% and that after 5 years there was a 99% chance the employee would leave. So what they did, and this was clever,  was announce very very generous bonuses that only vested 100% after 5years so if you left the company before that you got nothing.  The thinking was that they could use the bonuses as a hook to get new employees but there was really only a 1% chance they'd have to pay any of it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on April 16, 2015, 01:03:47 AM
I wanted pizza earlier but the commune was watching Bravo in the living room and I didn't want to say something like, "Watch out for that four day old Slim Jim wrapper on the lawn on  your way out," to the delivery person so I just worked out instead. Now I'm eating dollar store cereal in bed alone. The struggle has never been more real.

How have you not yelled at these people to pick up their shit/picked up their shit yet?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 16, 2015, 01:26:41 AM
I don't have a reasonable idea of what acceptable cleaning habits are so I never challenge people for being messy and just clean up after them if the low level anxiety their fucking disgusting filthmongering induces becomes uncomfortable.

Tangent: an office nickname I bear is "the surgeon" because I always put things back where they belong. Kind of ha ha clever, no?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: seagrams hotsauce on April 16, 2015, 04:10:46 AM
People leaving trash on the lawn is a little beyond 'you left dishes in the sink' type shit. I think you're entitled to check your roommates on that.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 16, 2015, 04:48:03 AM
Sometimes I catch myself singing a dancehall track and then I remember I'm a white as fuck German CS student.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 16, 2015, 06:01:59 AM
I failed a piss test. i can't believe it, my military career is over. feels like a bad dream, i wish i could just wake up and be ok

aw shit

Why did you smoke if you know you get tested though? Not trying to be an ass just curious
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 16, 2015, 06:19:58 AM
At least I'm only pissing away my future metaphorically...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 16, 2015, 09:21:33 AM
I failed a piss test. i can't believe it, my military career is over. feels like a bad dream, i wish i could just wake up and be ok
Didn't you get married just to get out of the barracks? Hope you haven't got much shit to split. :goty2
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 16, 2015, 09:43:42 AM
Typefaces.  :fabulous

This is a good one. Even getting snobby about Arial is enough to make you a pariah.

What's there to get snobby about, regarding that wannabe, license-evading shitstain of a typeface?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 16, 2015, 09:46:29 AM
Dropped my phone and it got a shit ton of cracks in it now. :-\

Will probably get a Moto E or something until the next Nexus release.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on April 16, 2015, 02:59:14 PM
the struggle is so real right now

(http://i.imgur.com/SWUwnuP.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 16, 2015, 05:44:28 PM
People leaving trash on the lawn is a little beyond 'you left dishes in the sink' type shit. I think you're entitled to check your roommates on that.

Yes, I know it's beyond mores, I only need to look at every single house in mi barrio (even the house the bangers congregate at!) to know we presently exist beyond the pale.

You asked how I hadn't blown up about it, it's because I'm aware enough to know I'm wired wrong, but not able to correct the wiring, so I negate that part of myself in its totality to acceptably function.

When y'all talk about my particular brand of #thedualities, you're usually commenting on a phenomenon that stems from this severe break between my thinking and emotional selves. Sorry to explain the unexplained. #spoilers
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 16, 2015, 10:13:41 PM
Root canal today. Yay.

On the plus side I get a fresh stash of Vicodin.  :heyman
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Steve Contra on April 17, 2015, 03:17:53 PM
My wife's uncle died tuesday night, and then yesterday another uncle was diagnosed with liver cancer and has about two weeks to live.  This year sucks.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 17, 2015, 03:20:29 PM
dude i'm sorry. don't know what else to say. hang in there.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 17, 2015, 03:27:13 PM
Im so sorry Steve, hope you get to see him still
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 17, 2015, 04:04:46 PM
Man steve. I'm sorry.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: lennedsay on April 17, 2015, 05:19:27 PM
:gloomy sorry bub...
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 17, 2015, 07:36:32 PM
Damnit, that's rough. Sorry to hear it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on April 17, 2015, 07:52:05 PM
Sorry to hear that, Steve :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 17, 2015, 08:22:34 PM
sorry to hear that contra. damn.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 17, 2015, 10:52:57 PM
My condolences, Steve. :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on April 17, 2015, 11:47:26 PM
I failed a piss test. i can't believe it, my military career is over. feels like a bad dream, i wish i could just wake up and be ok

aw shit

Why did you smoke if you know you get tested though? Not trying to be an ass just curious
i didn't smoke and it was just another in a long list of bad decisions I've made in life
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 18, 2015, 01:04:18 AM
I'm buzzed enough but still too fucking drunk and sleepy for Grindr. :goty Fuck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on April 18, 2015, 01:11:27 AM
moving to first shift next week

come in for tonights 3rd shift for an hour or two so i can prep my replacement

he doesn't show up

nobody in management has his fucking phone number

now i have to cover his shift

have been awake since thursday at 4:30

completely planning on sleeping through most of this shift
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: tiesto on April 18, 2015, 11:08:27 AM
Got my bottom 2 wisdom teeth pulled out yesterday and its been hurting like a bitch. At least I got some percocet out of it.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 18, 2015, 02:27:57 PM
I had a root canal Thursday and I got some vicodin lol. Afraid to take it though.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Barry Egan on April 18, 2015, 02:38:44 PM
I had a root canal Thursday and I got some vicodin lol. Afraid to take it though.

:beli
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Courage on April 18, 2015, 03:00:25 PM
I had a root canal Thursday and I got some vicodin lol. Afraid to take it though.

Sell it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 18, 2015, 03:14:25 PM
I had a root canal Thursday and I got some vicodin lol. Afraid to take it though.

Sell it

To me.  :mouf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 18, 2015, 03:59:45 PM
How much does it go for?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: CatsCatsCats on April 18, 2015, 05:29:47 PM
:drudge

Boogie, help
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 18, 2015, 05:51:36 PM
Lol I wasn't homeschooled.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 19, 2015, 03:22:39 AM
Watching a Spanish television feed and it can't keep a steady picture. No wonder this place is a sovereign debt slave, how can you be unable televise something over multiple days in 2015?

It's Catalonia too, not a poor part of Spain. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 19, 2015, 06:03:57 AM
Lol I wasn't homeschooled.

Princess Esch: Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder!

Handrex Solo: Who’s scruffy-lookin’?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 19, 2015, 03:04:36 PM
Could have ended the record breaking cold streak I've been on but I fuckin blew it  :noah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 19, 2015, 03:08:26 PM
I should go to the cafe for brunch today but I'm too exhausted still.

Work like 100 hours a week for months y'all.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 19, 2015, 06:30:41 PM
I felt good when I saw the pilot was woman.  Don't see many off Those.  Rough as hell approach and landing and this woman next me Says,  "yeah this is what you get for having a woman pilot. They got a woman flying this plane, as if you couldn't tell"

Yup,  I'm in Texas :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on April 19, 2015, 08:17:51 PM
Did you tell her the pilot that crashed in Lost was a man?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 19, 2015, 08:21:51 PM
No, because #notallpilots
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 19, 2015, 09:26:29 PM
So my flight is delayed. Why?
Because some idiot decided to back up his truck underneath the wing of the plane and got it stuck there. I've been through a lot of delays. But this one is a first.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 19, 2015, 09:29:00 PM
So my flight is delayed. Why?
Because some idiot decided to back up his truck underneath the wing of the plane and got it stuck there. I've been through a lot of delays. But this one is a first.

 :american
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 20, 2015, 12:46:02 AM
Here's a pic of the of the truck.
I love how they're all standing around like "Well....fuck." It's hilarious. I ain't even mad.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CC_6nyUUsAANtvJ.jpg)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 20, 2015, 01:14:47 AM
Well he's probably having a pretty shitty day over that. Can you imagine how frightened he was when realizing he lodged himself into the armpit of a jet?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 20, 2015, 07:00:56 AM
He’s probably fired-as-fuck.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 20, 2015, 08:51:51 AM
Wow Id never fly that plane, its wing has been compromised
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 20, 2015, 09:30:40 AM
They had to switch planes. The pilot was on my shuttle back to the hotel. Apparently the truck hit the wing right where the pipe for the fuel was and it was lucky it didn't pierce it. Either way the plane is out of commission for a while.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: fistfulofmetal on April 20, 2015, 12:22:45 PM
first day back on day shift

kill me please
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 20, 2015, 01:38:06 PM
Why the fuck is someone jackhammering at the commune.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on April 20, 2015, 01:47:27 PM
Why the fuck is someone jackhammering at the commune.
because that's the way she likes it
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 20, 2015, 08:29:11 PM
My QA counterpart at my new job doesn't know what regression testing is  :-\ :-\ :-\
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 20, 2015, 08:31:35 PM
sounds like u....... regressed in ur career path
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 20, 2015, 10:53:13 PM
6 flights in the last 24 hours. I get a days reprieve and then another 4 in 24. And my boss is like, "why aren't you accomplishing much this week? " we'll I would if I wasnt in a Plane all day
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on April 20, 2015, 11:00:09 PM
My coworker tells me she's a SuicideGirl.(http://i.imgur.com/j3UWUYj.png)





The realization that she uses a pseudonym.(http://i.imgur.com/gs1HOvF.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 20, 2015, 11:06:17 PM
6 flights in the last 24 hours. I get a days reprieve and then another 4 in 24. And my boss is like, "why aren't you accomplishing much this week? " we'll I would if I wasnt in a Plane all day

Blast "Been Around the World" next time this happens.

Bonus points if you can muster up some terribad Ma$e dancing while it's going.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 20, 2015, 11:13:19 PM
You think I don't already?   :hitler
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 20, 2015, 11:25:04 PM
sport bike is gonna be in the shop for three weeks. :-( fml.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 20, 2015, 11:28:27 PM
Lots of vertigo and dizziness this evening. No idea what's causing this. I've had these symptoms before, but it's worse this time.

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/brain-cancer/brain-cancer-symptoms
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 20, 2015, 11:30:40 PM
Lots of vertigo and dizziness this evening. No idea what's causing this. I've had these symptoms before, but it's worse this time.
Do you snore a lot? I had sleep apnea and I'd often get vertigo.

The thing about vertigo, is that you forget wheretogo  :heyman
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Van Cruncheon on April 20, 2015, 11:34:03 PM
 :nintendo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 20, 2015, 11:40:52 PM
sport bike is gonna be in the shop for three weeks. :-( fml.

What'd you do to it. :kobeyuck
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: TakingBackSunday on April 21, 2015, 12:14:43 AM
sounds like u....... regressed in ur career path

Nah I definitely upgraded.  I'm going to be developing a regression template for the company and focus on improving their API documentation, that was part of the reason I was brought in.  That and I'll be managing sprints and timelines
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: team filler on April 21, 2015, 12:34:16 AM
fucked for about a half hour and couldn't nut, because i jerked off 3 times in the morning. i told her this beforehand, but she didn't care. i feel so used
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 21, 2015, 11:01:46 AM
Flights to SA go out from the west coast?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 21, 2015, 11:15:37 AM
Just arrived at the Seattle airport. Now to wait 9 hours for my 14 hour flight :shaq2
It's cold comfort, but you can do worse than hanging in the Seattle Airport. As far as airports go, it's one of the better ones.
There's a pasta place there that's next to where all the rocking chairs are that's pretty decent.
Also  there's a Beecher's cheese place there, if you like cheese check it out.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 21, 2015, 11:20:14 AM
Be in so many airports you can recommend where to eat/hang out at random airports.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 21, 2015, 11:29:57 AM
sounds like he just needs some pussy
 :mynicca
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 21, 2015, 11:35:56 AM
Come home early, sun is shining, baby is coughing and fever and were at the hospital again
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 21, 2015, 12:24:50 PM
Another thought, if you're really there for 9 hours, the light rail goes from the Airport to downtown.
No reason you have to stay in the airport Go to the light rail and spend a few hours downtown. I think it's like $7 a ticket.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 21, 2015, 01:18:00 PM
Sometimes I just wanna give up on life. Binge watch anime & go full weeaboo, play the shittiest MMORPGs, become morbidly obese from eating chocolate cake and revile sunlight as a force of evil.

:fbm

If I could have a steady income without working I fear this is what I'd do too. Just instead of MMOs I'd be streaming myself playing retro games. :fbm
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 21, 2015, 01:26:01 PM
Sometimes I just wanna give up on life. Binge watch anime & go full weeaboo, play the shittiest MMORPGs, become morbidly obese from eating chocolate cake and revile sunlight as a force of evil.

:fbm

Its kind of comforting that this life option is always there though
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 21, 2015, 01:27:21 PM
Sometimes I just wanna give up on life. Binge watch anime & go full weeaboo, play the shittiest MMORPGs, become morbidly obese from eating chocolate cake and revile sunlight as a force of evil.

:fbm

get on ur VELO mon ami

u will find a nouveau lease on vie
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 21, 2015, 02:02:42 PM
Sometimes I just wanna give up on life. Binge watch anime & go full weeaboo, play the shittiest MMORPGs, become morbidly obese from eating chocolate cake and revile sunlight as a force of evil.

:fbm

My version of this is getting a job at a salt mine and drinking myself to death over the course of a few years.  8)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 21, 2015, 02:06:03 PM
The trouble is you need energy for that. :fbm

Did you know electric bicycles are extremely popular in my country? Despite it being flat as fuck here. Lol. :fbm

It didn't look flat when I watched the Amstel Gold Race yesterday. That is hardcore. @_@

Never been to the Netherworld (and probably never will), but I gathered they weren't as dedicated to cool cycling there as they are in the Habsburg Netherlands, so the preponderance of e-bikes isn't that surprising to learn. Yeah it sucks, but it could be worse, you could have hipsters riding fixies everywhere. :yuck

RE energy: you'd be surprised what you can muster up once you get on the pedals. I was "exhausted" before I broke 50 kilometers an hour the other day.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 21, 2015, 06:48:32 PM
Got a text from my brother which simply read "I have a pic of your first L. See you soon my nicca."

:dead

I'll be hanging out with him in a couple days, and will share whatever it is here.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 21, 2015, 06:51:42 PM
Over-under on it being a pic of you watching the Golden Girls at 14

spoiler (click to show/hide)
Though that's a W in my book. :obama
[close]
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 21, 2015, 07:11:33 PM
Stopped a guy from opening the wrong bathroom door, he then stands right next to me at the urinals. Some people have no sense of private space.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 21, 2015, 07:15:27 PM
wooh wooh dude, not this stall.   you go to the other stall and put it through.  This is suppose to be anonymous, jesus.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 21, 2015, 07:25:07 PM
He was about to go into the women's bathroom because his eyes were on his phone.

/onlyinfrance
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: milchs evil twin on April 22, 2015, 08:07:37 AM
Due to some kind of mix up, instead of the A+ my professor communicated to me, there's a C- entered in the system.

Unfortunately I can't even tell which is the correct grade. And the useless office is only open on Thursdays.

Fucking loss aversion kicking in hard. Wouldn't have been half as bad if I hadn't been running around for a week thinking I got a great grade.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on April 22, 2015, 09:56:37 AM
Ripped a callus in my right hand.

It wasn't that bad after the initial pain yesterday but now it's constantly throbbing.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 22, 2015, 10:44:59 AM
A few days ago, my visiting Mom mentioned that she saw Interstellar on the plane, but couldn’t understand the dialog because the volume wasn’t loud enough to overcome both her poor hearing and the background noise from the jet engines.

Tonight she brought it up again, and I asked if it had subtitles. She said it had not. I asked if she’d like to watch it again with subtitles, and she said maybe, but it wouldn’t make any difference. I was all ??? because she usually is able to keep up even with weird goings-on, like Inception and Mission Impossible series, etc.

Me:  “Why wouldn’t it make a difference?”

Mom: “Because I couldn’t understand the dialog!”

Me: “Well, if there were subtitles, why would you not understand the dialog? You usually watch TV with subtitles.”

Mom: “I watch shows with Closed Captions. With subtitles it’d be in a different language!”  >:(

Me:  >:( “It’d be English subtitles if we watch.”

Mom: “Those are Closed Captions.”

Me:  ::) “They’re the same thing. They’re both putting text on the bottom of the screen so you can understand what’s being said.”

Mom: “Well, that seems important to you.”

Me: “I’m just trying to figure out why you didn’t understand the dialog. Was it because you couldn’t hear the movie, or because the dialog, which you could either hear or read, didn’t make sense?”

Mom: “Let’s talk about this when I’m not tired.”

Me: :maf

Be 47-years-old and nearly get in an argument over technically-niggling semantics with your near-luddite mother. The self-inflicted L is real, brehs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 22, 2015, 12:30:37 PM
I respect that pedant game. :obama
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 22, 2015, 02:15:01 PM
find out you're like within 10 years of Chronovore's mom. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 22, 2015, 02:17:11 PM
Quote
Mom: “Well, that seems important to you.”

:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 22, 2015, 02:23:36 PM
Nami started her first fight ever because a little old women was giving Nami treats while also her dog treats and Nami didn't want to share.  I'm embarrassed by my dogs behavior. :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Rufus on April 22, 2015, 02:35:11 PM
Quote
Mom: “Well, that seems important to you.”

:dead
That's where the battle was lost.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 22, 2015, 02:39:47 PM
Nami started her first fight ever because a little old women was giving Nami treats while also her dog treats and Nami didn't want to share.  I'm embarrassed by my dogs behavior. :(

Probably time to put it down.  💉🐕
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: eleuin on April 22, 2015, 02:41:36 PM
Found out that one of my coworkers I talk to frequently is a 9/11 truther   :holeup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Brehvolution on April 22, 2015, 02:51:50 PM
They found thermite at ground zero!
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: nudemacusers on April 22, 2015, 03:12:07 PM
one of my favorite spring/summer jackets has a loose sleeve zipper. not sure how to fix. not even sure if i can get a replacement zip.  :'(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: bork on April 22, 2015, 03:13:29 PM
Nami started her first fight ever because a little old women was giving Nami treats while also her dog treats and Nami didn't want to share.  I'm embarrassed by my dogs behavior. :(

Probably time to put it down.  💉🐕

:iface
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 22, 2015, 07:37:07 PM
find out you're like within 10 years of Chronovore's mom. :brazilcry

You’re older than 62? (My Mom’s 71. I’m 47.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 22, 2015, 08:04:19 PM
In dog years he is.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 22, 2015, 08:14:15 PM
find out you're like within 10 years of Chronovore's mom. :brazilcry

You’re older than 62? (My Mom’s 71. I’m 47.)
Finding out that you're within 10 years of Chronovore

:brazilcry :brazilcry :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: chronovore on April 22, 2015, 08:14:59 PM
find out you're like within 10 years of Chronovore's mom. :brazilcry

You’re older than 62? (My Mom’s 71. I’m 47.)
Finding out that you're within 10 years of Chronovore

:brazilcry :brazilcry :brazilcry
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 22, 2015, 08:18:46 PM
I just realized that eating a huge burrito before a flight was probably not one of my better ideas. I am not a smart man.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on April 22, 2015, 08:21:11 PM
The PC I built way back in early 2012 is close to shitting the bed.  Once the Surface 4 Pro comes out, I'm thinking of getting rid of it and just having the Surface be my primary computer.  I'll buy an external hard drive for me to save the essentials (MBA files, porn, etc.) and then pitch the rest.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 22, 2015, 08:22:31 PM
External HD? Crashplan that shit dude :ufup
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 22, 2015, 09:40:03 PM
boss kept throwing some slang in the convo for our personal review meeting. 
couldn't decide if i wanted to   :heh or  :picard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Mupepe on April 22, 2015, 09:43:27 PM
I just realized that eating a huge burrito before a flight was probably not one of my better ideas. I am not a smart man.
I ate Pakistani food before a 16 hour flight once :(
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on April 22, 2015, 10:28:17 PM
Adderall is the best thing for ADHD, but now I'm sweating like I'm in a Gatorade commercial  (http://i.imgur.com/oXOoP2b.png)
Chode with Napoleon complex at work dubbed me "Sweaty Man"; catching unwarranted hostility from this dwarf and I'm just like (http://i.imgur.com/Z0JmMZ0.png)


We'll both be out Friday night celebrating another coworker's bday.
Think Ima get sloshed up and resort to violence (http://i.imgur.com/f818qFB.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Purrp Skirrp on April 22, 2015, 10:55:50 PM
If only it had a generic.

Addy is a close 2nd.

Strattera(http://i.imgur.com/7aRnKOF.png)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 22, 2015, 11:02:06 PM
Paying top dollar for patented medication. :aah
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 23, 2015, 02:06:57 AM
I realized there isn't a delicate way to tell a clerical employee that their time is worth considerably less than the toner and copy paper they waste when they print me every page of something instead of just what I need. Obama's America. :goty
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: I'm a Puppy! on April 23, 2015, 02:10:35 AM
Don't see the problem here Vulva. Just tell them. "You just wasted 20 pages when all I needed was a paragraph."

Teach a man to fish dude.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 23, 2015, 02:44:52 PM
Started talking to a stranger on the street about Nami.  Soon turned into him making very racist remarks about Asians being soulless on account of their dog and horse fighting, which he claimed he witnessed.   And me nodding a long trying to get out of the conversation. 

A feel like shit when I don't call racists on their bullshit.  Last time it happened was like 5 years ago at work with a guy talking about how lazy Natives are, and I'm still ashamed I didn't say anything. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 23, 2015, 02:53:42 PM
You'll never be able to look Sushi Girl in the eye again.  :'(  (I mean, not that you could before, but still.)
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Madrun Badrun on April 23, 2015, 02:56:46 PM
Nah she's not good looking.  I'm only intimidated by the good looking ones. 
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 23, 2015, 03:03:55 PM
Nah she's not good looking.  I'm only intimidated by the good looking ones. 

I've retconned Sushi Girl in my fanfic.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: sarslip on April 23, 2015, 03:57:29 PM
just got a freezing temperatures warning on my phone  :stahp
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 23, 2015, 04:36:13 PM
Don't see the problem here Vulva. Just tell them. "You just wasted 20 pages when all I needed was a paragraph."

Teach a man to fish dude.

Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again. :bolo
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: king of the internet on April 23, 2015, 10:25:01 PM
Cut open the top of my primary smartphone finger. Typing takes forever. Feel crippled. :brazilcry
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 23, 2015, 11:56:57 PM
Started developing a responsive website all by myself today and good god this stuff is straining my brain.  :dizzy

I'll probably need to grab a developer tomorrow to show me what the fuck I'm doing wrong.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 23, 2015, 11:57:44 PM
Responsive design :aah

What's hard about it? ???
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 24, 2015, 12:06:54 AM
My knowledge of CSS is still rather rudimentary and I'm also trying to understand Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/).

Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 24, 2015, 12:08:58 AM
My knowledge of CSS is still rather rudimentary and I'm also trying to understand Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/).

Bootstrap :aah

Make sure you customize it though, I've started to wretch when I see stock Bootstrap sites now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 24, 2015, 12:11:01 AM
Yeah, that's probably what I'm running into is the "stock" settings.

There's some odd padding (or margins?) when I use a column class in my divs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 24, 2015, 12:13:21 AM
Yeah, that's probably what I'm running into is the "stock" settings.

There's some odd padding (or margins?) when I use a column class in my divs.

You have to use it inside a "row" container.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Atramental on April 24, 2015, 12:14:21 AM
 Ah fuck. I forgot about those. :snoop
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Tasty on April 24, 2015, 12:18:03 AM
Lol yeah that threw me off too when I was getting started.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 24, 2015, 02:19:06 AM
My old company put a "coffee is for closers" poster in the office I saw on LinkedIn

Will I be the one to explain to them the movie/play is a critique of sales?

Talk about being dumb and sending the wrong message
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 24, 2015, 02:21:49 AM
My old company put a "coffee is for closers" poster in the office I saw on LinkedIn

Will I be the one to explain to them the movie/play is a critique of sales?

Talk about being dumb and sending the wrong message
Ideally, they'd respond with "Fuck you. That's my name."
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: dkdk on April 24, 2015, 02:31:36 AM
its some cats at my job that could stand to hear a good coffee is for closers type speech
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 24, 2015, 02:34:05 AM
Closers cannot have coffee until all salespeople can have coffee.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on April 24, 2015, 02:36:00 AM
I would love to post a response, but my company is working on a deal with my old one right now

My struggle to keep quiet is real
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: El Babua on April 24, 2015, 03:39:51 AM
Ate the 7x7 burger from Steak and Shake.

Feelin it now.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 24, 2015, 07:06:08 PM
Met up with my brother today and as promised/threatened he showed me my first L.

(http://i.imgur.com/o5NVkTal.jpg)
that's him kissing my first "girlfriend"

:neogaf
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 24, 2015, 07:06:53 PM
This time something good happened to my folks(Me and my brother visiting after I graduated) and they took me out to a family dinner at the Red Lobster.

al-karakand al-hamraa'iyya :lawd
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: brawndolicious on April 24, 2015, 08:16:04 PM
That's an adorable picture, it's like he rolled up on his trike and conked her on the head.

And they have Red Lobster in Saudi? I know Shias aren't allowed to eat shellfish but are Sunnis/Wahabbis?
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Positive Touch on April 24, 2015, 09:06:58 PM
I realized there isn't a delicate way to tell a clerical employee that their time is worth considerably less than the toner and copy paper they waste when they print me every page of something instead of just what I need. Obama's America. :goty

and you call yourself a revolutionary  :comeon

you should be working with that klutz to bring the place down from the inside
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: toku on April 24, 2015, 09:17:34 PM
Met up with my brother today and as promised/threatened he showed me my first L.

(http://i.imgur.com/o5NVkTal.jpg)
that's him kissing my first "girlfriend"

:neogaf

Gonna be a great picture to show to your white wife during your wedding dinner/toast.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: studyguy on April 24, 2015, 09:21:49 PM
My sister got a dog for her boyfriend, brought it around to show it off

smh that dog isn't gonna last, girl couldn't even give a rabbit enough attention back in the day to keep it alive. Nevemind a growing german shepard
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Kara on April 24, 2015, 10:19:12 PM
I realized there isn't a delicate way to tell a clerical employee that their time is worth considerably less than the toner and copy paper they waste when they print me every page of something instead of just what I need. Obama's America. :goty

and you call yourself a revolutionary  :comeon

you should be working with that klutz to bring the place down from the inside

I'm not toppling a nonprofit that works with people given the short stick by society so that someone who still has "congratulations on being hired" cards on their desk from friends and family months after being hired and goes to great lengths to make sure their vegan and gluten free lifestyle needs are met by the nonprofit can continue to inefficiently allocate resources without a care. The revolutionary mantle isn't all fun and Bob Avakian jokes, sometimes you have to break a few vegan eggs.
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Phoenix Dark on April 25, 2015, 12:01:57 AM
Met up with my brother today and as promised/threatened he showed me my first L.

(http://i.imgur.com/o5NVkTal.jpg)
that's him kissing my first "girlfriend"

:neogaf

Gonna be a great picture to show to your white wife during your wedding dinner/toast.
:dead
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: benjipwns on April 25, 2015, 12:07:28 AM
I'm not toppling a nonprofit that works with people given the short stick by society so that someone who still has "congratulations on being hired" cards on their desk from friends and family months after being hired and goes to great lengths to make sure their vegan and gluten free lifestyle needs are met by the nonprofit can continue to inefficiently allocate resources without a care. The revolutionary mantle isn't all fun and Bob Avakian jokes, sometimes you have to break a few vegan eggs.
Thanks for holding back the New Synthesis.

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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on April 25, 2015, 12:33:53 AM
had this idea of picking up a ps4 today (impulse buying that just came all of a sudden) and when i went to go get one, i kinda ran out of breath and next thing i know, i'm just sitting in my car without a console

fuck impulse buying
Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: Cheddahz on April 25, 2015, 12:37:52 AM
Go get one with Bloodborne and MK10, those games are fire.
already have mk10 on my xbox one though

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mainly wanted to get one to play baseball games and ffxiv honestly
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Title: Re: Please share your struggle of the day
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 25, 2015, 02:29:46 AM
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