minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Brehvolution]

There was a previous time?

Possibly, but I may have just gotten extorted for abortion money.

Yikes.

Times like these I'm really glad I'm not straight. 😬

AIDS can't be aborted
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[Corporal]

Fuck. The horrible things that can happen to you when you wake up at 2 a.m. and just wanted to take a leak.

A random spot on my back itches and it's just outside of my reach and I've already done the bear thing and rubbed my back against the door frame edge while grunting and groaning like some crazed loon and it's better but not gone.

I hereby resolve myself to buy another back scratcher. Again. Which I will probably hide away in some remote drawer (AGAIN) that I won't be able to find AGAIN (well, at two in the morning while half asleep and beset by back scratching demons).

By 2075 probably half of my apartment will consist of back scratchers.

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I mean, I could just seek out and woo a female of my species, but back scratchers and porn are cheaper and won't hope for love and other social interaction.

[close]

[HardcoreRetro]

Sitting around with this toothache for another few hours cause the dentist ain't in any earlier.

[Tasty]

I have like 30 tabs open and I usually don't have more than 5 and it's stressing me out and I know I won't be able to go to bed until I consume all the content in all the tabs and close them out.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I have like 30 tabs open and I usually don't have more than 5 and it's stressing me out and I know I won't be able to go to bed until I consume all the content in all the tabs and close them out.

Post if u r ok

[Tasty]

NOT OK

[Tasty]

No! I went bookmark-zero a few weeks ago and I'm trying to keep it that way.

[skullstorm]

I have 98 tabs open, I have no idea what's in any of them. You need to learn how to just ignore shit.

[Tasty]

And you need to learn how to let go.

[chronovore]

Visited Imgur and saw what Sony's gift to 10-year employees is:
https://i.imgur.com/0a9u4AI.jpg

Possibly my dumbest career move ever, I turned down a position at Blizzard prior to Warcraft. Here's what they reward for various tenures of service:
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/service-awards.html

I worked at my other six game dev companies for less than two years each. The only place I've worked for over 10 years, my reward was being laid off as their main publisher self-destructed.

[skullstorm]

And you need to learn how to let go.

Too much effort, can't be arsed

[team filler]

I had to abandon my last pc. It just sits there plugged in with 999 tabs open.

[Corporal]

Wait, you get a PS4 for ten years of slaving away at Sony? Or only the shitty-ass figurine thing?

I mean, receiving a current-gen console for free every ten years would be kinda nice. It's not much in the grand scheme of things, but hey, free is free. And the thing is at least somewhat useful, even if you only use it for watching movies or something.

[jorma]

my personal struggle:

doctor calls, tells me i have to give her a sample of my own shit.
i go to the clinic
get two tiny vials more fitting for blood samples

ask "how am i supposed to shit in this?" 

notice a tiny plastic shovel in my vial
nurse tells me that i have to use the plastic shovel and dig out six scopes of shit from my toilet and put in the two plastic vials. And then bring my shit back to the clinic.
nurse laughs and wishes me a merry christmas

[Rufus]

I've had to do that before. Unpleasant. Amusingly though, I saw a mother with her young hand (presumably) his sample to the staff. She had filled up the damned tube.

[hungrynoob]

with her young hand?

[zomgee]

Amazon had a nice Crock Pot on sale a couple days ago. I thought the wife needed a new one so I ordered it for Christmas.

I get the notification it's delivered, I come home, and there in my hallway is a box. A Crock Pot box with a shipping label on it. My wife was home when it was delivered and Amazon didn't put it in a box, they just slapped a shipping label on it.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[Mupepe]

Amazon usually tells you if they can't package the item in a way that hides what it is - which is usually anything over a certain size. 

I have a joint Amazon account that's linked to my wife's email so when I order something as a gift for her I have to go ninja and go delete the email that gets sent to her.  I missed one of her Christmas gifts and it got ruined.

[Huff]

I would pay extra for a no kids on a plane plane

[Brehvolution]

my personal struggle:

doctor calls, tells me i have to give her a sample of my own shit.
i go to the clinic
get two tiny vials more fitting for blood samples

ask "how am i supposed to shit in this?" 

notice a tiny plastic shovel in my vial
nurse tells me that i have to use the plastic shovel and dig out six scopes of shit from my toilet and put in the two plastic vials. And then bring my shit back to the clinic.
nurse laughs and wishes me a merry christmas

Eat a bunch of corn and a chunk of green crayon for the lulz.

[nachobro]

Bad headache and I threw up this morning. Is this dumb week gonna be over yet? I just want my two weeks off already

[jorma]

my personal struggle:

doctor calls, tells me i have to give her a sample of my own shit.
i go to the clinic
get two tiny vials more fitting for blood samples

ask "how am i supposed to shit in this?" 

notice a tiny plastic shovel in my vial
nurse tells me that i have to use the plastic shovel and dig out six scopes of shit from my toilet and put in the two plastic vials. And then bring my shit back to the clinic.
nurse laughs and wishes me a merry christmas

Eat a bunch of corn and a chunk of green crayon for the lulz.

I've been at home sick for nearly two months now, including three visits to the emergency and being drip fed. I'm all out of lulz at the moment :X

So yeah, my personal struggle is a bit bigger than just digging into my own feces, but perhaps not as entertaining i felt.

[Brehvolution]

I'm sorry for your pain.  :'( I hope you get better soon.

[jorma]

I'm sorry for your pain.  :'( I hope you get better soon.

I have been much better the last few days, thank you sir!
I would probably go to work tomorrow if this was mid season, but i won't since my christmas holiday starts in two days and i have sick leave until friday anyway.

edit: but there's still a shit ton of doctors and specialists on my schedule in january, i need a diagnose damnit!

[Brehvolution]

Did you just assume my gender?   

[Rufus]

with her young hand?

Son. Young son. God damnit. I have no idea why I wrote hand.

All I remember is editing the sentence. This is now my minor inconvenience for the day.

[jorma]

Did you just assume my gender?   

I'm sorry. Reading back now, I realise there were quite a few micro aggressions in my last few posts ITT, including digital blackface. And i probably didn't HAVE to specify that my upcoming holiday is a "christmas" holiday.

I've been off my game lately is all i can say. :-/

[Raist]

with her young hand?

Son. Young son. God damnit. I have no idea why I wrote hand.

All I remember is editing the sentence. This is now my minor inconvenience for the day.

"hand his sample to the staff"

[Rufus]

Sigh.

[chronovore]

Did you just assume my gender?   

A friend of mine has a daughter who came back from college and hit me with that. Stopped my ass cold until she started cracking up.

[TVC15]

I need to go put stuff in the dryer but there’s s cute kitten sleeping on my lap.

[TVC15]

Goddamnit the cat got up. Now I have to actually go put stuff in the dryer

[Corporal]

TMI NEWS

I must've eaten something weird. I'm extremely gassy today. Uncomfortably so. Been puttering about like some sort of broken car.

At least there's a small blessing: the farts are mostly odourless and not some kind of mankind-erasing weapon of mass destruction. And I'm staying at home today.

So there's that.

[skullstorm]

I need to go put stuff in the dryer but there’s s cute kitten sleeping on my lap.

What kind of monster (yes, I know this is TVC but still) mentions a cute kitten and doesn't post pics

[Am_I_Anonymous]

Goddamnit the cat got up. Now I have to actually go put stuff in the dryer

[TVC15]

I need to go put stuff in the dryer but there’s s cute kitten sleeping on my lap.

What kind of monster (yes, I know this is TVC but still) mentions a cute kitten and doesn't post pics

[Corporal]

I was about to suggest running around the block, watching a bit of porn and having a wank, then soaking in the bathtub while leaving open the bedroom window for fresh air and a chilly temperature. All in the name of helping my fellow forumite to escape the dreaded no sleep monster.

But now there's some cutesy cat picture in this thread and my intellect is leaving me.

Ooooh, kitty. I wanna rub its widdle tum-tum.

[skullstorm]

Kitty Why can't I have one  :'(

[Madrun Badrun]

https://i.imgur.com/i1IwkRL.gifv

[TVC15]

I have like a hundred pics of him and I’ve only known him two months.



He tends to not sleep like a normal cat if he’s not a pillow or someone’s lap.

[benjipwns]

He tends to not sleep like a normal cat

[TVC15]

[Valkyrie]

Awww he's so fucking cute.

[Rufus]

[chronovore]

That's a damned cute cat.

[toku]

i love him

[chronovore]

Started watching Metallica videos and can’t seem to stop.

[Madrun Badrun]

We alone together

[Rufus]

Yup.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Mildly nauseated but kinda hungry too

[bork]

Found it really hard to go back to work this morning.  Today's the only day in the office at least.  But man I wish I had some vacation time and was off this week.

[Bebpo]

When you're hungry and feeling like eating somewhere tasty that's like 20-30 mins away but there's no one you can just hit up locally to go eat with so you try to muster the energy to get in the car and drive off alone for a while just for some good eats vs just being lazy and making a sandwhich

[TVC15]

When you're hungry and feeling like eating somewhere tasty that's like 20-30 mins away but there's no one you can just hit up locally to go eat with so you try to muster the energy to get in the car and drive off alone for a while just for some good eats vs just being lazy and making a sandwhich

Use a dining app!

[Bebpo]

When you're hungry and feeling like eating somewhere tasty that's like 20-30 mins away but there's no one you can just hit up locally to go eat with so you try to muster the energy to get in the car and drive off alone for a while just for some good eats vs just being lazy and making a sandwhich

Use a dining app!

 

What’s that?

[TVC15]

When you're hungry and feeling like eating somewhere tasty that's like 20-30 mins away but there's no one you can just hit up locally to go eat with so you try to muster the energy to get in the car and drive off alone for a while just for some good eats vs just being lazy and making a sandwhich

Use a dining app!

 

What’s that?

Uber Eats, DoorDash, Caviar, Eat24. They deliver from real restaurants.

[Tasty]

I've been doing DoorDash at least once a week for three months and I feel like such a piece of shit lol.

But nothing can sate my need for Tasty Burger

Edit- I live in Southie now so I should be able to get off my lazy ass to go get some... but it's still like a 40 minute walk both ways. So probably not.

[Bebpo]

Oh, I thought you meant like an app that finds someone else who also wants to eat at the place you want to eat at and matches you together so you don’t have to eat alone.

I guess that delivery stuff saves time and gets rid of the sometimes awkwardness of eating alone but idk, doesn’t feel right unless you’re just getting a burger or tacos or something.

Like I ended up going to a Japanese restaurant (posting from there now) and got soup, sushi, katsu. Would be weird getting it delivery. Instead I’ve been seated at a seat facing groups of couples (sushi counter was full) while I sit and do stuff on my phone so I’m not just staring at them awkwardly. And reception comes and goes here...
Ok, I can see the benefits of delivery.

[Bebpo]

Actually now that I'm back, I was thinking there's also another plus to actually being at a restaurant and that's being around actual people, which is kind of nice.

And I'm going to make a version of that theoretical app from my last post. Like I'm going to start a meetup group called Food Friends which has a meetup once a week where you show up and meet strangers who like to eat. Then you can join into a LINE group chat for the group and anytime anyone in the group wants to eat somewhere and is looking for an eating buddy they can post in the group chat "Hey, anyone wanna join for X tonight at Y"? and everyone part of the chat will get the message and can reply if they want to join. The purpose of the weekly in person meetup is just so after you join the chat, you know who these people are posting in the group chat and if there's someone that weirds you out or you don't like, then just don't join if they're asking.

The goal of it is to make a safe, private, non-dating way for people to have a large group of friends in the area that they can hit up for eating and see if anyone is down. Sorta like how high school friends used to be.

[chronovore]

Actually now that I'm back, I was thinking there's also another plus to actually being at a restaurant and that's being around actual people, which is kind of nice.

And I'm going to make a version of that theoretical app from my last post. Like I'm going to start a meetup group called Food Friends which has a meetup once a week where you show up and meet strangers who like to eat. Then you can join into a LINE group chat for the group and anytime anyone in the group wants to eat somewhere and is looking for an eating buddy they can post in the group chat "Hey, anyone wanna join for X tonight at Y"? and everyone part of the chat will get the message and can reply if they want to join. The purpose of the weekly in person meetup is just so after you join the chat, you know who these people are posting in the group chat and if there's someone that weirds you out or you don't like, then just don't join if they're asking.

The goal of it is to make a safe, private, non-dating way for people to have a large group of friends in the area that they can hit up for eating and see if anyone is down. Sorta like how high school friends used to be.

https://www.meetup.com/topics/diningout/us/ca/los_angeles/

[Bebpo]

Actually now that I'm back, I was thinking there's also another plus to actually being at a restaurant and that's being around actual people, which is kind of nice.

And I'm going to make a version of that theoretical app from my last post. Like I'm going to start a meetup group called Food Friends which has a meetup once a week where you show up and meet strangers who like to eat. Then you can join into a LINE group chat for the group and anytime anyone in the group wants to eat somewhere and is looking for an eating buddy they can post in the group chat "Hey, anyone wanna join for X tonight at Y"? and everyone part of the chat will get the message and can reply if they want to join. The purpose of the weekly in person meetup is just so after you join the chat, you know who these people are posting in the group chat and if there's someone that weirds you out or you don't like, then just don't join if they're asking.

The goal of it is to make a safe, private, non-dating way for people to have a large group of friends in the area that they can hit up for eating and see if anyone is down. Sorta like how high school friends used to be.

https://www.meetup.com/topics/diningout/us/ca/los_angeles/

The difference is that those are pre-planned dinners, which is different than I'm talking about. Maybe it's just me, but I usually don't plan what I'm going to eat for lunch/dinner on any given day. When it's time for lunch/dinner that's when I think "hmmm, what am I in the mood to eat now?" Back in late high school/college-era, I'd just send a group text to a few friends seeing if anyone was free tonight for dinner.

My concept is for people who want to spontaneously invite others to eat an hour later. To give a place where people can meet, connect and form a group chat to do that. This is very different from pre-planned dining events that you have to rsvp for and commit to days ahead and plan around.