Reducing Our Dependence on Foreign Vitriol: new annoyed thread

[elpollodiablo]

Ohmygod NOW he is talking to his wife.

"How about this? How about this you FUCKING BITCH? How about I wheel that widescreen out to the fucking truck and drive it down to the fucking river and THROW IT THE FUCK IN? Would you like that? You think I won't? You think I---No. SHARON. NO. You leave my tools the FUCK ALONE, Sharon. GODDAMMIT you FUCKING BITCH."

et cetera. I kind of hope he stays here the rest of my shift and calls some more family.

[heather marie]

oh god, that's hilarious.

in other news, i'm pretty certain i have a kidney infection. i've drank about 3 liters of water today and am gonna get some cran tabs tomorrow. this sucks.

[died_trying]

yeah that can be an interesting job. when i worked at a front desk in whistler last year we had an insane cokehead living at that lodge. on overnight shifts i used to open up the common room for him so he could watch the massive TV and blow lines off the coffee table, because what do i care? one such morning at about 6:30 (right before guests start getting up) i was making my rounds and discovered he had THE FILTHIEST HARDCORE PORNO MOVIE blaring on the movie theatre sized screen. this is a room with glass doors btw that everyone can see into.

not inconsequently it was the day he finally got evicted, and the night shift subsequently got a little duller.

[slow west vultures]

Ohmygod NOW he is talking to his wife.

"How about this? How about this you FUCKING BITCH? How about I wheel that widescreen out to the fucking truck and drive it down to the fucking river and THROW IT THE FUCK IN? Would you like that? You think I won't? You think I---No. SHARON. NO. You leave my tools the FUCK ALONE, Sharon. GODDAMMIT you FUCKING BITCH."

et cetera. I kind of hope he stays here the rest of my shift and calls some more family.

i hope you're writing all this down for your screenplay. 

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Books. I fucking hate books! I'm moving house next Friday but we've decided to cart over a few things this weekend. There's hundreds of books. Every time I think I've got all mine I find another stash somewhere in this goddamn house. Fucking insane! The place we're moving to is much smaller and is gonna look like second hand book shop by the time we've moved in. Accept for the parts that look like a record shop that is. I'm also questioning my habit of buying vintage stereo equipment with a view to fixing it up. Which I never do. I've lived here for 6 years and had forgotten the horrors of moving.

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

oh god, that's hilarious.

in other news, i'm pretty certain i have a kidney infection. i've drank about 3 liters of water today and am gonna get some cran tabs tomorrow. this sucks.

shit, get well soon hm

[G.C.R]

Wait, what Scott? Where you moving?

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Wait, what Scott? Where you moving?

Not far. Just up the road, like maybe 10 mins walk away. It all happened very fast though, to the extent I have to pay two weeks rent in two places which kinda sucks.

[peacocks]

If I canned my books moving would be such a piece of cake!  I always think about selling or giving away a bunch every time I move (I move  a lot) but it never happens and probably never will.

[milesofsparks]

in other news, i'm pretty certain i have a kidney infection. i've drank about 3 liters of water today and am gonna get some cran tabs tomorrow. this sucks.

really?  don't mess with that--you can get permanent kidney damage if you don't get it treated right away.  the cranberry stuff does work somewhat, but more for UTIs than kidney infections.  is there any way you can get to a doctor?  or at least get one of those OTC urine tests?  some of them, I think, can distinguish somewhat between a UTI and a kidney infection... 

[peacocks]

boo.  My throat hurts today and I feel all sickly.  I thought I avoided getting sick this year as I watched my friends and family suffer through the epizootie unaffected but now I fear it's coming on.  WHO DID THIS TO ME.

[RavingLunatic]

Books. I fucking hate books! I'm moving house next Friday but we've decided to cart over a few things this weekend. There's hundreds of books. Every time I think I've got all mine I find another stash somewhere in this goddamn house. Fucking insane! The place we're moving to is much smaller and is gonna look like second hand book shop by the time we've moved in.

If I ever move into a place of my own I want it to look like a second-hand book/CD store.

[elpollodiablo]

Until you have to move to another place of your own.

I'm seriously feeling Killdozer's pain. Last time we moved, I had about thirty milk-crate size boxes full of books, and we've acquired more since September. And I know that's not even a lot compared to some peoples' collections, but man did it sure feel like a hell of lot moving them all in the middle of August.

If I could have digital file transfers of about 1/2 the books I own and maybe one of those neato Kindle things, I'd probably donate them all to the communal lending library just to save myself future headaches.

[Wally]

I don't think I'll move from this place ever if possible. Last time I did I donated a few hundred books to the nearest charity shop just because it was closer than the place I was moving to.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Thanks, its so lovely that you guys say that to me, but I wasnt after more compliments, its just frustrating that most of the other shit I got seems to be working itself out and that is one thing that just wont go away (though I guess its been around longer than any of my other depression stuff, so...). I was reading my old comics this morning, and I think I used to be way more angsty about it three or four years ago, so improving. But fuck it, its so frustrating to intellectually think, ok, people arent going to start dry retching at the sight of me, but emotionally be really scared of that happening.

two points:

1) i was sort of afraid that saying something would just make you feel worse, so i'm sorry if that's exactly what happened,

2) i have this EXACT SAME PROBLEM with my body image, but even moreso where being friends with people is concerned. even if i know my friends love and care about me, i'm always afraid they will suddenly turn on me and stop wanting to be around me or hang out with me. intellectually i know it's not gonna happen, but emotionally i'm constantly terrified of it. so i totally understand how you feel.

i don't know if saying either of those things helps either, but i just wanted to put them both out there.

[Babar]

   
 
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[G.C.R]

Thanks, its so lovely that you guys say that to me, but I wasnt after more compliments, its just frustrating that most of the other shit I got seems to be working itself out and that is one thing that just wont go away (though I guess its been around longer than any of my other depression stuff, so...). I was reading my old comics this morning, and I think I used to be way more angsty about it three or four years ago, so improving. But fuck it, its so frustrating to intellectually think, ok, people arent going to start dry retching at the sight of me, but emotionally be really scared of that happening.

two points:

1) i was sort of afraid that saying something would just make you feel worse, so i'm sorry if that's exactly what happened,

2) i have this EXACT SAME PROBLEM with my body image, but even moreso where being friends with people is concerned. even if i know my friends love and care about me, i'm always afraid they will suddenly turn on me and stop wanting to be around me or hang out with me. intellectually i know it's not gonna happen, but emotionally i'm constantly terrified of it. so i totally understand how you feel.

i don't know if saying either of those things helps either, but i just wanted to put them both out there.

It didnt make me feel worse, silly! How could a lovely friend who I've never met saying nice things make me feel worse? And yes, thats exactly the feeling. I was just in a pretty all around fragile mood yesterday (was me and difficult's  2nd wedding anniversary, so yeah, pretty sad)

[died_trying]

it's 20 to midnight and i am 12 pages deep into a fictitious proposal to remediate some dirty water that will end up being at least 30 pages. and it's due tomorrow at noon.

this will be the third all nighter inside a week. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME?

[edison]

Man, I am never getting tea from the machine at work again. It's like 50% sugar and 50% bad tea. Now to decide whether I just throw the damn beverage in a sink or drink it heroically.

[elpollodiablo]

I hate the German-born German instructors here. If there's anyone on this campus (outside of a mathematics instructor) who can make me feel like a fucking idiot, it's them. Today:
Instructor: (throws out two new idiomatic expressions in her machine gun-fast German and expects us to write a couple of discussions questions based around them)
Me: (looks blankly around the room, sees a lot of other people looking blankly around the room) "I don't even understand exactly what I'm asking when I say "Was hast du vor?"
Instructor: "Why not?"
Me: "... ... Why not?"
Instructor: "Yes. Why not?"
Me: "Uhm... because it's an idiomatic expression I'm not familiar with. It looks to me like half a question with a preposition."
Instructor: "Yes, it is idiomatic."
Me: "... ..."
Instructor: (to class) "You only need to be smart about your answers. Just pick out the pieces from the questions that you will need to form your answer, use these expressions, and you will be fine."
Me: "Okay, but I don't understand what the questions mean."
Instructor: "You shouldn't have to."

GAR. Fuck you, German lady!

[alex]

Wow, yeah, that's pretty douchey.

(In case it wasn't ever explained to you, "etwas vorhaben" is to intend or plan to do something, so the question is simply, "what do you intend to do?" Though you probably knew that by now, anyway.)

[elpollodiablo]

Yeah, I looked it up online and realized what it meant and felt pretty damn stupid. Then again, I don't think that's one you can really figure out through basic understanding of the language or even (in this case) context; some things you just need someone to tell you straight up "This means this."

alex could you come and be my German instructor for this final course? It'd help me out a lot.

[alex]

Yeah, I really don't think you could have known that without looking it up or having it explained to you.

I rather like my own academic turf for the moment, so I'm afraid that's not going to happen. But if there's anything I can help with again, you got my e-mail, so don't be shy about using it.

[Andrew_TSKS]

not actually annoying as much as embarrassing and frustrating, but a minute ago i was checking my email, and all i had were a few messages in my junk mail folder. i looked at them without really paying much attention, and was hitting the button to empty the folder when i realized that one of them was not junk at all but an email from a girl i've been talking to lately (there's a whole story here but i'm not gonna go into it at the moment). anyway, i tried to stop the operation from going through, but i was too late, and unlike when i delete messages from my inbox, the ones in my junkmail folder don't land in the trash but instead disappear completely. so i couldn't retrieve it, and had to send an email to the girl asking her to resend. gahhh. so lame.

[Greg Nog]

Books. I fucking hate books! I'm moving house next Friday but we've decided to cart over a few things this weekend. There's hundreds of books. Every time I think I've got all mine I find another stash somewhere in this goddamn house. Fucking insane! The place we're moving to is much smaller and is gonna look like second hand book shop by the time we've moved in.

If I ever move into a place of my own I want it to look like a second-hand book/CD store.

I've pretty much reduced all my CDs to a couple of big wallet-things, but I like having shelves full of books that visitors can browse and borrow.  Since graduating from college, I've moved eight times, I think, and each time it was well worth the trouble of packing and moving all the books.  I've found that the trick is to get coldforge and his girlfriend to pack them for you.