Please share your struggle of the day

[I'm a Puppy!]

Newports? But we're interested in what YOU smoke. Not what your grandma smokes.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Sundown at 5pm.

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The current angle creates especially pretty colours though. The sky was almost violet.

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I swear when I get old I'll totally get sundowners because being alone at night time just really depresses me for some reason.

[Phoenix Dark]

Karakand smoking Newports


#DSF secures another high quality prospect.

[Kara]

Karakand smoking Newports


#DSF secures another high quality prospect.

It wasn't my fault.

http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42407.msg1957846#msg1957846

I'm never cigarette shopping in South LA again.

[Himu]

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.

Apologies.

[Himu]

I like newports, but when i was a smoker for about 4 months i used to blast those Marlboro 100s

Camel blues/lights.

[nachobro]

I smoked hella Newports and Kools when I smoked 

Tried one recently after doing the e-cig thing for about 8 months 

[I'm a Puppy!]

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.

[Joe Molotov]

It was a two Xanax night, still after 1:30 before I could finally get to sleep.

[Kara]

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.)

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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.

[Brehvolution]

The best sleep aid I've used was synthetic tryptophan.

[ToxicAdam]

Xanax gets a bad rap. I wouldn't have survived my early 20's without it.

[Kara]

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. (You always struck me as a pretty together breh.)

[Joe Molotov]

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.

[demi]

Sounds like yer not pounding fist enough

Nature's sleep aid

[Kara]

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.

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.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Sounds like yer not pounding fist enough

Nature's sleep aid

Am married, can verify this as fact.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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

[nudemacusers]

i need to piss but i'm kinda comfortable at the moment

[Fifstar]

Same here, although in my case my girlfriends has locked me to the coach. Already getting sleepy legs.

[Joe Molotov]

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.

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.

[bork]

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.   

[Madrun Badrun]

O shit if only they had hoodies in Africa.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Murderously hungover. Thank the fucking lord for marijuana. I could really use a Xanax too tho

[Human Snorenado]

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.

[Kara]

We live in hell but at least we have the freedom to choose which hell.

[Phoenix Dark]

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.

[Human Snorenado]

You're right; I'm going to go to a gun show this weekend

[Kara]

Does your ex have any support other than you?

[Positive Touch]

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.

[Human Snorenado]

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.

[StealthFan]

ate a whole pizza today, my first day of dieting :

[ToxicAdam]

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.

[Positive Touch]

no dammit I want to hear the lamentations

[Kara]

If you lock it we'll just shit up Random Talk.

Though Random Talk has been a bit languid of late.

[Rufus]

I'd make another one. Every board needs a place to lament life. Might as well leave this one open.

[Rufus]

Still good to have a dedicated sink.

[Kara]

Triage unit is probably more of an appropriate term.

[Phoenix Dark]

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

[nudemacusers]

give your sock a kiss for me

[Phoenix Dark]

It's a wool sock.

[Kara]

I live in a commune of arrested development, I think I'd rather have the wife and kids.

[nachobro]

Sometimes I feel like I'm my own personal commune of arrested development.

[toku]

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

Gonna laugh when you're the first to get wifed/child up.

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Nah, probably gonna be Esch. nicca doing good

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[Phoenix Dark]

Yea Esch gonna wife up a fine white woman soon, just watch.

[toku]

No way I'm not getting married till I'm like 28-32. I'm 24 breh

PD getting married next.

Yeah but you're Indian, that's like +10 to Familial & Ancestral pressure to settle down and procreate.

[nudemacusers]

lol the first 2pac-bbc-loving pawg to cross pd's path and it's over.

[Phoenix Dark]

My mom keeps talking about grandkids. She had kids late, so many of her friends are now grandparents.


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).

[Kara]

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.

[Phoenix Dark]

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

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I'd throw him in the bushes. My child gotta be blacker than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle.

[Phoenix Dark]

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.

[benjipwns]

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o. m. g.

[Himu]

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.

putting bad music on top of great sports compilations is one of THE worst things sports fans do

THE WORST

[Himu]

link to these kaka vids

[Kara]

Why don't you watch the Zizou movie? It has a post-rock soundtrack. :trollbron:

[benjipwns]

The greatest sports highlights mix ever:

[Cheddahz]

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)

[Am_I_Anonymous]

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?

[Cheddahz]

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