minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[milchs evil twin]

Get up -> #1 and #2 while reading the news -> shower -> change -> read more news/forums while drinking tea

I'm generally a morning guy, i like to wake up like an hour and a half before work.

Pretty much this, but I schedule the coffee before the toilet session.

[brawndolicious]

I'm no longer fake sick. But this day has confirmed how miserable my job makes me feel. I just hate working in for-profit labs though, all these educated people who are more concerned with their ambitions as far as personal wealth rather than learning. An academic research lab would put me into a good position for going to grad school since I'm one of the few non-premeds I know who actually really enjoyed that environment. Flexible work hours are only a small bonus.

Woke up to alarm at 7:45 but then went back under the covers for a few minutes because I have to plan my day wide awake in a fetal position before I can get started. So then somehow I fell asleep again and woke up at 10:15 which considering I had to be at work by 10 was a pretty big problem.

I know my bosses wouldn't give a shit but I'm way too embarrassed to admit the truth so I created a story of coughing violently during my commute and then stopping at CVS and then badda-boom I decide that this is going to be a day off so I don't make everyone sick. Of course they didn't ask a single fucking detail about anything.

I think this is the first time in my life I've taken an unscheduled day off.

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I still don't know what your emoji is saying.

[milchs evil twin]

Thinking "yay, I'm spending a lot less time on GAF", then realizing it's because I waste that time on the bore now.

[Beezy]

Get up -> #1 and #2 while reading the news -> shower -> change -> read more news/forums while drinking tea

I'm generally a morning guy, i like to wake up like an hour and a half before work.

Living in a big city and commuting to work means waking up 2.5 hrs before work just to reach on time.

[Kara]

Intuit insisted on informing me that QuickBooks got an Apple Watch update.

[Beezy]

I thought the attraction of living in a big city was not having to commute much to get to work?

Not when you live near the outside border of one of the outer boroughs and need to commute to the center of the city by public transportation which constantly has delays.

[milchs evil twin]

Still haven't figured out a way to drink coffee while lying on my back

[CatsCatsCats]

I've heard great things about coffee enemas, that might suit your needs

[milchs evil twin]

Dunno how that would really work while lying on my back...

And how does having my coffee with sugar and milk influence the effectiveness of coffee enemas?

[milchs evil twin]

Dunno how that would really work while lying on my back...

And how does having my coffee with sugar and milk influence the effectiveness of coffee enemas?

it's a camelbak, you bite on it and sip through the tube. theoretically you could lay the camelbak full of coffee next to you and suck on it (pause) like a hospital patient on a feeding tube.

I meant the enema 

I've ruled out any tube/straw based solution. I wanna keep it traditional!

[Yeti]

Of course they are Floridians. 

[Steve Contra]

I started watching that without my headphones and now my neighbors probably think I'm watching coffee enema porn at work :'(

[brawndolicious]

So I'm trying to eat healthy and stuff but I enjoy browsing seriouseats.com a lot

Apparently it's pancake week or some shit http://seriouseats.com/pancakes and now I can't resist trying out some of the stuff they put up

The thing is, pancakes can't hurt if you eat that shit rarely, right? Well, if I'm interested in a recipe, I keep trying it over and over until I really nail it. That means I risk diabetes and goddamned morbid obesity if I don't nail that shit in one try.

Such estrogen. Just I don't know, make it one at a time? I think you can only fuck up the cooking step as batter is batter.

[Huff]

Did chest and shoulders at the gym today. Then went to chill at my grandparents pool. Spend the next two hours throwing my little cousins around. Can't move my arms

[Tasty]

Cheat day, breh?

[CatsCatsCats]

Pro-tip: recipes scale down

[Tasty]

Related, I've been using Lose It (app) to try and make sure I eat enough calories every day. Trying to eventually get to 140 lbs.

Everyone I know is like "OMG I WANT YOUR BODY" () and don't realize forcing yourself to eat until (and beyond) you're sick isn't fun. Not saying fatties have it easy either but the struggle goes both ways.

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I say after inhaling a bacon/cheese/sirloin burger from McDonald's at 810 calories.

And I'm STILL not at my goal today.

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[Tasty]

Can't decide which Kindle to get

Wish Nook was still competitive, the product design was lightyears ahead of the shit Amazon is/has always been pooping out.

Plus being locked into the Amazon "ecosystem" 

[HiResDes]

Can't decide which Kindle to get

Wish Nook was still competitive, the product design was lightyears ahead of the shit Amazon is/has always been pooping out.

Plus being locked into the Amazon "ecosystem" 

Get a Asus Transformer instread.

[Kara]

I guess that would be a problem if I read picture books.

[Tasty]

Can't decide which Kindle to get

Wish Nook was still competitive, the product design was lightyears ahead of the shit Amazon is/has always been pooping out.

Plus being locked into the Amazon "ecosystem" 

Get a Asus Transformer instread.

Bitch, I already got the best tablet: Nexus 7 2013

They better make a new version this year.

Anyways I think I'll go with the Kobo H2O (next paycheck.) Big, great PPI, backlit, ePub support, and waterproof (plan on spending a lot of time at the beach this summer.)

[HiResDes]

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 is the best tablet breh, don't kid yourself with that oversized smart phone

[Tasty]

Like I'd ever believe you actually own one and can talk shit, filthy dirtpoor

[Rufus]

I solve this problem by not sleeping.

[CatsCatsCats]

Slept through my alarm this morning and had to destroy my morning routine to be punctual 

[I'm a Puppy!]

I don't play weddings normally, last time I did it was like 17 years ago.
But a friend is getting married and begged me to play. OK. Fine. It's not like I'm playing at a party or anything.
So I ask what pieces she wants played. First off, the ukelele version of Somewhere over the rainbow for the wedding party. Ok, no problem.
Then for the bridal march she wants Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". 
I was like, "Are you sure?"
"Yeah, it's our favorite song."
"But the lyrics"
"Yeah we love them and have each verse memorized by heart."
"And knowing that you STILL want this as your bridal march?"
"Absolutely!"

Pick a harbinger of relationship doom as your bridal march brehs.

[studyguy]

I have jury duty tomorrow.
Not the questionable kind that you call in and maybe have to go.
But the legit, this is your third warning taco, here's a date go or else status

[Kara]

I don't play weddings normally, last time I did it was like 17 years ago.
But a friend is getting married and begged me to play. OK. Fine. It's not like I'm playing at a party or anything.
So I ask what pieces she wants played. First off, the ukelele version of Somewhere over the rainbow for the wedding party. Ok, no problem.
Then for the bridal march she wants Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". 
I was like, "Are you sure?"
"Yeah, it's our favorite song."
"But the lyrics"
"Yeah we love them and have each verse memorized by heart."
"And knowing that you STILL want this as your bridal march?"
"Absolutely!"

Pick a harbinger of relationship doom as your bridal march brehs.

I was in a wedding where the bride and groom came in to "Mr. November."

[ToxicAdam]

It's funny how some people respond to music. Some only hear the beat and others only hear the lyrics.

 My wife is the former and I'm the latter. So, we never agree on what to listen to.

[seagrams hotsauce]

90% of lyrics are complete garbage anyway

[Kara]

It's funny how some people respond to music. Some only hear the beat and others only hear the lyrics.

 My wife is the former and I'm the latter. So, we never agree on what to listen to.

If you listen to opera you're both screwed.

[CatsCatsCats]

I like to point to Semi Charmed Life as an example of how little people pay attention to lyrics. What a fun and upbeat song, we all thought

http://m.

[Kara]

wish u would step back from that ledge spence..........

[king of the internet]

Just like seeing people at a club or bar get hyped up to Swimming Pools

[CatsCatsCats]

I've always wanted a mash up of jumper and jump by Van Halen

[seagrams hotsauce]

90% of lyrics are complete garbage anyway

Quality aside, it's just ancillary to me. I'd say they're probably more important to me now than before, but still. The meat is the music, everything else is the spice and/or sauce.

Oh for sure, but it just makes it that much easier to come from on-high in the music vs lyrics wars.

There are definite exceptions, but for the most part lyrics are completely interchangeable vessels for melody ( @ actually typing that)

[CatsCatsCats]

Also in the category of songs that sound upbeat but aren't lyrically,  pretty much the entire discography of Culture Club / Boy George

[Huff]

My phone now only charges when it's turned off. This is probably more like a moderate inconvenience

[ToxicAdam]

#TeamMusicIsWhat'sImportant


Your wife

Her playlist is littered with people like Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce and Kesha. If that's the team you side with, I got nothing ..

[Phoenix Dark]

#TeamMusicIsWhat'sImportant


Your wife

Her playlist is littered with people like Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce and Kesha. If that's the team you side with, I got nothing ..

aren't you a Pink stan?

[ToxicAdam]

Pink has good lyrics. Who Knew and Sober. Check it out.

 Not to mention probably one of the best pop vocals of the past decade.

[Kara]

This discussion has prompted me to revisit Limp Mixbit.

[Phoenix Dark]

Pink has good lyrics. Who Knew and Sober. Check it out.

 Not to mention probably one of the best pop vocals of the past decade.

[chronovore]

Got on the plain from SFO to ONT and some goddamned cornfed refrigerator of a man was seated next to me, spilling over into my area of the seat. This behemoth can barely fit in the seat near the window,  and his shoulders and elbow have eclipsed the shared armrest, my chairspace is annexed like Jackson rolling into indian territory. I spend the flight sitting at a leaning diagonal.

I have a paperwhite and it's lit, BUT no color pages

Same here, but I’m still entranced by it. Reading on iPad or iPhone was only good for max 30 minutes before backlights were annoying.

Posting here fucking sucks.

Not because I'm an outcast whose posts are not well Like'd.

But because of the timezone thing.

I get up early in the morning, and this board is dead till evening. Sometimes afternoon. But yeah. Most activity here is when I'm fast asleep.

Participate in forums with communities half way around the world brehs.

**daps**

[Kara]

Lose enough weight to force you to buy new clothes brehs

this shit FUCKING SUCKS

[king of the internet]

Lose enough weight to force you to buy new clothes brehs

Not even remotely as bad as being forced to buy clothes because you've gained weight

(ftr this is def not happening to me rn  )

[Kara]

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:kara

[milchs evil twin]

I'm always wondering what it's like to grow up with the standard music being in your own language.

Over here, the majority of (acceptable) music is in English, and even though I understand the lyrics by now, it's just not the same immediacy.

I often refuse to listen to German music because of the horrible lyrics. At the same time, I can accept songs with terrible English lyrics, even if I understand that they're shit. It's really weird. Like music is the only place where I can't switch between these languages without problems.

[Rufus]

Same. I can tune out shit English lyrics, but not German lyrics.

[CatsCatsCats]

That's because German just isn't pleasing to the ear, sorry krauts

[brawndolicious]

I like a lot of eurojank songs. Even ein, zwei polizei isn't okay with y'all Germans? 

[milchs evil twin]

No, that's not it. Really good German music, rare as it may be, can be really good. It just has to clear a higher hurdle.

Anyway, best German band, no question:




All on the same album, no less

[Rufus]

I can only think of pretty cheesy or practically satirical stuff. Nothing I would recommend with a straight face. Knorkator, Rammstein, KIZ... Can't think of a single singer-songwriter, though I'm very likely just a philistine in that regard.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I only listen to the music/beat, I usually ignore the lyrics.  I think we're in the majority here.

[milchs evil twin]

I can only think of pretty cheesy or practically satirical stuff. Nothing I would recommend with a straight face. Knorkator, Rammstein, KIZ... Can't think of a single singer-songwriter, though I'm very likely just a philistine in that regard.

The ones I can come up with are Kraftwerk, some Falco, Rammstein (I think they're legit) and maybe Seeed/Peter Fox. That's pretty much it.

[Fifstar]

I probably could tolerate the lyrics of german songs if the music wouldn't suck so much.

[sarslip]

Bore was down.

[CatsCatsCats]

I take it back. The German version of 99 red balloons is clearly superior.

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and I was just flipping ya shit in the first place

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[milchs evil twin]

I constantly want to use "Jedem das Seine" (to each his own) in daily conversation, because it's applicable all the time.

Alas


Fucking Nazis, man

[Rufus]

I refuse to give that one up. They can have all the others they made up or are more specific, but this one's mine, fuck the past.