minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[jorma]

i dropped my incredibly slippery phone one too many times and now i can't use it because the touch screen doesn't work properly, can't use the old phone because the sim card is different

at the same time my cc got rejected at the store, and i don't know why. can't call them, and can't log in to my bank to find out why

also can't buy a new phone because without my cc or my phone, i have no money

[bork]

Got a vidya game from Amazon yesterday that I pre-ordered a few months ago.  Price was $39.99.  Received a "pre-order price guarantee" email saying I saved three cents (lol), then noticed today that the price dropped 18%. 

Contacted Amazon support, via chat, and was told nothing could be done to honor the lower price despite it dropping like 24 hours later.  Left a bad survey, re-ordered the game at the lower price (will then take the sealed copy and return it for the original price) and got a call from them.  Rep told me the same thing, dropping some idiotic "would you want us to charge you more if the price went UP?" logic.

I mentioned that I don't understand why they won't do anything when their system will allow me to just buy another copy and return the first order to get the difference back.  She says "I'm sorry for the inconvenience but this is the only way we can do it" and I said "I'm only telling you all this because it's not an inconvenience on my side- Amazon is the one who has to spend time/money to take it back, it's all free for me.  I don't get the logic here of why you wouldn't just give me a seven dollar credit or something."

First time that's ever happened.  They usually just give a credit without batting an eye. 

[Raist]

Got a vidya game from Amazon yesterday

[Rufus]

~50% packet loss on my home connection. ISP is working on it already, but it's still frustrating because I can't do shit besides wait.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry about your packets.  Hope you find them. 

[Tasty]

Yeah the office network is fucked right now too.

[BisMarckie]

~50% packet loss on my home connection. ISP is working on it already, but it's still frustrating because I can't do shit besides wait.

Telekom infrastructure?

State monopolies

[Rufus]

~50% packet loss on my home connection. ISP is working on it already, but it's still frustrating because I can't do shit besides wait.

Telekom infrastructure?

State monopolies

Privatize, but let them keep the lines.  

It's been fixed since Saturday morning.
Fully expected to have to wait until Monday.

[Raist]

its been over a year since i decided i wanted to have a beard but i still cant figure out what kind of style i want

im tired

[Coax]

its been over a year since i decided i wanted to have a beard but i still cant figure out what kind of style i want

im tired

[Madrun Badrun]

There has been an alarm going off i the hall way right under my bed all night.  This is the thrid time this has happened this month.  I can't fucking sleep with this shit. 

[BisMarckie]

Have to attend a conference today where I have to listen to boring talks about the ‚University of the future‘. 2 hours in and this is the most basic ass, boring shit imaginable.

Urge to pull the fire alarm rising.

[Fifstar]

Saturday evening and I am sitting in front of the door of my apartment without keys. Went out to get some snacks and forgot en. My wife is at home but switched off her mobile and for some dumb reason our door bell is on silent. Doesn't seem to her me banging on the door (or is she  ).

[BisMarckie]

Slipped and fell down some stairs this morning, landing on my left side. Might have cracked a rib since I am struggling to breathe and it hurts like hell.
Gonna see a doctor tomorrow, not going to the ER for an injury they can do very little about anyway.

[CatsCatsCats]

breh

[Kara]

I have a private joke about Polish men that they just don't comprehend the concept of mortality and do ill-advised things like delay seeking medical care. I believe I concocted it after watching Wajda's A Generation that opens with boys playing with knives in a rail depot in Nazi occupied Poland.

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I don't exclude myself from this joke; when I had appendicitis I waited over 2 days to go to hospital even though it was 15 minutes away and I had good insurance.

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[BIONIC]

Slipped and fell down some stairs this morning, landing on my left side. Might have cracked a rib since I am struggling to breathe and it hurts like hell.
Gonna see a doctor tomorrow, not going to the ER for an injury they can do very little about anyway.

A wake up call for you to stop jerking it in the attic

[BisMarckie]

I have a private joke about Polish men that they just don't comprehend the concept of mortality and do ill-advised things like delay seeking medical care. I believe I concocted it after watching Wajda's A Generation that opens with boys playing with knives in a rail depot in Nazi occupied Poland.

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I don't exclude myself from this joke; when I had appendicitis I waited over 2 days to go to hospital even though it was 15 minutes away and I had good insurance.

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That’s where I noticed that not enough of my socialization happened in Poland.
A true Pole would have smoked a cigarette to calm down.

[chronovore]

There has been an alarm going off i the hall way right under my bed all night.  This is the thrid time this has happened this month.  I can't fucking sleep with this shit.

Have to attend a conference today where I have to listen to boring talks about the ‚University of the future‘. 2 hours in and this is the most basic ass, boring shit imaginable.

Urge to pull the fire alarm rising.

Third time this month?

[team filler]

jerking it in the attic? what is this nazi occupied europe?

[Kara]

Bismarck is actually a huge fan of Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia.

[BisMarckie]

Bismarck is actually a huge fan of Witold Gombrowicz's Pornografia.

Upon the 2009 American release, Michael Dirda wrote in The Washington Post that Pornografia "seems as sick, as pathologically creepy a novel as one is ever likely to read. In some ways, it resembles a rather more polymorphously perverse version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses or one of those disturbing fictions by European intellectuals that blend the philosophical with the erotic: Think of Georges Bataille's The Story of the Eye or Pierre Klossowski's Roberte Ce Soir. ... Through its sado-masochistic material and its almost Henry Jamesian analyses of human motives, Pornografia underscores Gombrowicz's lifelong philosophical obsession: the quest for authenticity." Dirda continued: "Certainly, most readers will find Pornografia perturbing, or worse: repulsive, confusing, ugly. As Milosz once said of Gombrowicz: 'He had no reverence whatsoever for literature. He derided it as a snobbish ritual, and if he practiced it, he attempted to get rid of all its accepted rules

Gonna wait for TVC's book report to see whether this is worth my time.

[Kara]

It's not that titillating from what I remember; it kind of bleeds together with Cosmos in my memory though because they're both about guys named Witold in the countryside doing oddball stuff.

[Kara]

Really glad I stopped being a book guy because my brain still produces this garbage with the residual from when I was one.

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[BisMarckie]

X-Rays negative, probably just a contusion.
See folks, that‘s why you don‘t seek out medical care. It‘s a waste of time and then it turns out you’re fine. 

[Madrun Badrun]

I can't stop farting: day two.

[archnemesis]

Some websites can't recognize my browser (Firefox, running on Linux) resulting in weird default language choices. I get the Epic Games Store in Polish and GOG in Chinese.

[Tasty]

Some websites can't recognize my browser (Firefox, running on Linux) resulting in weird default language choices. I get the Epic Games Store in Polish and GOG in Chinese.

If you're using a VPN, that's the more likely culprit. Or the browser locality isn't set maybe?

[Kara]

Flew internationally on a red eye flight. Had the bright idea to pop some prescription pills with the off-label use of "knocking me the hell out" so that I could sleep through the majority of the flight and land refreshed.



First, one of the cabin crew shakes me awake to give me my dinner after I've been sound asleep for over an hour. What on earth would possess someone to do something like that for struggle vegetarian penne? Whatever, I ask for a drink and knock myself out again with its interaction with the pill I'd taken.



The German guy next to me shakes me awake an hour later to go to the bathroom. Fuck you, Jerry Krauthammer, I'm not the Sudetenland. Pay for an aisle seat next time.

By now the damage is done and I can't fall back asleep so I spend hour after hour in some bizarre chemical delirium with unquenchable thirst instead until I finally fall back asleep... to be shaken awake shortly later by a member of the cabin crew to serve me some struggle breakfast burrito. Fuck you, it's not even breakfast time local time now!!!!!!!!

[Ghoul]

If your intention was to sleep, should have window seated that bitch.

As for the stewards forcing you awake for food, that's just sick, why would they do that.

No real struggle from me, apart from the first line kids are off today, so I'm having to cover some of their silly little questions they get.

[Raist]

If your intention was to sleep, should have window seated that bitch.

As for the stewards forcing you awake for food, that's just sick, why would they do that.

No real struggle from me, apart from the first line kids are off today, so I'm having to cover some of their silly little questions they get.

You know why. One assclown out of 1,000 people would just sue them for not being offered food.

[Ghoul]

If your intention was to sleep, should have window seated that bitch.

As for the stewards forcing you awake for food, that's just sick, why would they do that.

No real struggle from me, apart from the first line kids are off today, so I'm having to cover some of their silly little questions they get.

You know why. One assclown out of 1,000 people would just sue them for not being offered food.

Yeah sounds about right.

[BIONIC]

Some airlines have stickers you can put in the seat in front of you to say that you don't want them to wake you up for meals.

Imagine if that was available and you missed it

[Bebpo]

Just got back from my HS 20th reunion,

oh boy does that remind you of your age and mortality in a way that generally hanging out with people 10 years younger than you and dating people 10 years younger than you does not.
Every.single.person.is.married.with.3.kids
not 1 kid, not 2 kids, but 3 kids.

Also too old to do anything because "I tried skateboarding with my kid and I was like if I fall and break my arm I'm out of a job" -_-

I'm such an old man now. 

[VomKriege]

I have a really irritating, emotionally unhinged coworker (that thankfully I only have to see every few weeks at worst) who is the sort of person who really make me roll my eyes and I'm torn between telling her that she's not close enough that I'm willing to expand the time and energy to accommodate her bullshit or just keeping on ignoring her as much as I could because I can't be bothered with a pointless argument and getting flooded by phone or mail.

Opinions ?

[Raist]

Option 1.

[Rufus]

Time to guzzle water and think of better times.

[remy]

Someone stole my bike 

[CatsCatsCats]

Sorry doof, get some cranberry pills

[BisMarckie]

If you‘re lucky it‘s just a gallstone moving through your gallbladder. It hurts like hell for 5-6 hours, but then you just poop it out. 

[nachobro]

kidney stones are my worst medical nightmare

[Joe Molotov]

kidney stones are my worst medical nightmare

maybe it's just butt cancer

[Rufus]

Did it disappear after you let one rip?

[Madrun Badrun]

Burnt the soup I was making.  how is that possibile. 

[ToxicAdam]

Not enough water., didn't stir it enough.

[Madrun Badrun]

O ya for got the stirring part

[Clockwork5]

Got my schedule mixed up for my new job and thought my next training shift was tomorrow. I thought as I woke up, “You know, it might actually be today...” Well it was today and I was 30 minutes late. Luckily nobody seemed to really care and only a couple of people laughed at me. I can be such a fucking airhead.

[chronovore]

kidney stones are my worst medical nightmare

…and where's cancer on that list? 

[nachobro]

logically i know cancer is worse, but cancer also doesn't involve how awful i imagine it is to get a rock out of my peehole so in that way it's much less scary

when i had a motorcycle accident i had to get a catheter and that was bad enough

[Kara]

Gotta tell them you don't want to be woken up.   Hate when I forget lol, i'm not a good napper.

On the flight back I wore a sleep mask in the hopes that this would convey the same message (I flew an A380 but didn't pay for a premium seat so the flight crew was more ethereal than corporeal) and nope, like clockwork I was shaken awake out of drug-induced sleep to be offered substandard food.

Need a dunce cap or something next time I do an international redeye. (Or, more likely, to just pay for premium seats where I'll actually see the flight crew more than 4 times in 11 hours.)

[Tripon]

I'm getting older, so its a small win per night when I don't have to use the restroom in the middle of the night. It doesn't help that I'm such a light sleeper that I get awaken by the smallest thing.

[Raist]

Gotta tell them you don't want to be woken up.   Hate when I forget lol, i'm not a good napper.

On the flight back I wore a sleep mask in the hopes that this would convey the same message (I flew an A380 but didn't pay for a premium seat so the flight crew was more ethereal than corporeal) and nope, like clockwork I was shaken awake out of drug-induced sleep to be offered substandard food.

Need a dunce cap or something next time I do an international redeye. (Or, more likely, to just pay for premium seats where I'll actually see the flight crew more than 4 times in 11 hours.)

Next time write "no wakie-wakie plskthxbye" on the mask.

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Not on the side that goes over your face tho. 

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[BIONIC]

Gotta tell them you don't want to be woken up.   Hate when I forget lol, i'm not a good napper.

On the flight back I wore a sleep mask in the hopes that this would convey the same message (I flew an A380 but didn't pay for a premium seat so the flight crew was more ethereal than corporeal) and nope, like clockwork I was shaken awake out of drug-induced sleep to be offered substandard food.

Need a dunce cap or something next time I do an international redeye. (Or, more likely, to just pay for premium seats where I'll actually see the flight crew more than 4 times in 11 hours.)

Should’ve seized the means of struggle meal production

[Yeti]

Went to Taco Bell and they were out of Baja Blast. I had to drink Mountain Dew Regular.

[chronovore]

checking my messages today on my phone crashes the app

... how the FUCK is that even possible? ive never even experienced anything like this on windows

i can get the overview but selecting one message crashes the whole thing

how the fuck does such a simple app manage to crash

android is garbage

Don't most people overwrite the vendor version of Android with a vanilla version for exactly this reason?

[chronovore]

well i got android one, dunno if that makes a difference

i think it already is the vanilla version

Sorry, that's all I've got.

[skullstorm]

I wish we had some snow, looking at yet another bleak, dark, depressing rainy christmas It's been like this many years in a row now, a white christmas is only a memory at this point.

Now we usually get snow in January, so like a week after christmas it will finally look like christmas, which is bullshit. I should start a petition to have christmas moved a week or two later.

[Kara]

Become Orthodox?

[skullstorm]

 

[skullstorm]

Okay good, I don't have to be jelly then. Dirty slushy snow