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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: December 25, 2019, 08:04:54 am »
Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 24, 2019, 09:24:56 pm
Again, I ain't Catholic, but I did think the whole point was to like, make a complex, symbolic ritual out of the process. Purell dispensers are effective and time saving but I'd probably not describe them as having an aura of reverence.

My church’s thing was a fancy little holder attached to a wall within which was a small saturated sponge you touched and blessed yourself.

As for my wtf, I had a headache yesterday and went to lie down at 5.30 in the pm and, while waking up a lot while my SO was active, and expecting to arise around 1, I woke up at 4.30 in the am and decided to continue sleeping until 6.30.

I also had toffee popcorn for the first time since I was wee, so that was good.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: December 24, 2019, 03:56:55 pm »
Catholic priest sprays holy water from a plane to bless parishioners.

I mean, Sloth is only one of the big ones, but I guess it’s only number 4..?

Also who cares about non-Catholics in the community? We can just claim they’re baptized Catholics now.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: December 23, 2019, 11:47:10 am »
Have you never heard the phrase “never work with kids or animals” in relation to entertainment?

One might suggest a movie set is not the best place for an animal, never mind the significantly easier means with which CG makes the animal do what it needs to do. There’s nothing here to go bananas about here.

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General Discussion / Re: Star Wars [Warning: Spoilers inside!]
« on: December 23, 2019, 09:21:09 am »
The prequel trilogy did have the closeup of Anakin and Dooku during their duel, which was mightily boring, and a bizarre design choice.

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General Discussion / Re: The small random questions thread [WAAAAAAAAAAluigi]
« on: December 22, 2019, 04:38:03 pm »
It’s normal to wake up a few times at night, though usually you don’t remember it.

There could be any number of reasons causing this, from stress to medication to the wrong temperature, or others.

Do you feel rested after sleeping?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: December 22, 2019, 07:35:09 am »
Nah, emotions are selfish, they push you to make decisions that make your existence... not necessarily better, but easier or something. More immediately fulfilling, I guess. /early morning philosophizing

Doesn’t do shit for the long-term though, so I guess I’ll just come to terms with my conclusions and eventually move on.

Perhaps this is why I’m emotionally stunted, realizing that emotions just make things more difficult, so fuck ‘em. It’s just anger and frustration have been something of a motivating factor for me for a while, or perhaps it’s just the primal lizard brain doing the talking. We’ll see how this goes over the ensuing few weeks.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: December 22, 2019, 02:09:18 am »
Fuck.

Just fuck.

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck.

I am angry, for what is a very good reason, but the thing I’m angry about will not change, so there’s not really any point to being angry. Indeed, being angry will just make things worse for what made me angry in the first place, and now that I’m thinking this through I feel less angry on one hand - there’s no fucking point - and more angry on the other - there should be a fucking point.

My desire for privacy evidently overrides my desire to hash this out. This is so fucking stupid.

/fucking vaguebooking cunts eh

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General Discussion / Re: Star Wars [Warning: Spoilers inside!]
« on: December 21, 2019, 11:41:20 pm »
I saw it, and it at least cheered me up from my astonishly bad mood for a while.

Finn remains as pointless as ever; he should’ve been a side character in the first movie and then killed off. I was sad to see no Poe-Finn gayness despite this.

It was very clunky at the start, and I probably agree with Reelya about some of the things that happened merely to be reasons for the characters to go places and do things.

Spoiler: mostly minor but one huge spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: [Awoo] A wolfgirl isn't just for christmas (Happy thread)
« on: December 21, 2019, 02:27:28 pm »
My cousin lost his phone while drunk one night and ended up in a multi-year romance.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: December 21, 2019, 02:25:01 pm »
I’d walk on the grass.

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General Discussion / Re: The friendly and polite EU-related terrible jokes thread
« on: December 20, 2019, 05:39:15 pm »
The net benefit of voter ID would be in weighing the number of fraudulent votes cast without it, which is impossible, with the number of people who wouldn’t vote because of voter ID laws, which is also impossible.

It is a stupid idea.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: December 17, 2019, 08:11:20 pm »
Quote from: Dunamisdeos on December 17, 2019, 08:02:24 pm
Quote from: Max™ on December 17, 2019, 07:25:09 pm
I do a voice which winds up sounding like Meatwad from Aqua Teen where I do that and talk nasally, I've done it enough that flexing my jaw muscles makes my ears pop and my beard wiggle.

Cool so this is you in me head now, with the voice and constant beard wiggles.
 
Also, insurance industry is indeed evil and awful. I don't think I could do it. They'd fire me for cutting breaks to people when I wasn't allowed, or some such thing.

Nah, they have a test for humanity. If you have any, you don’t get hired.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: December 17, 2019, 03:29:35 pm »
Nah don’t worry about ignoring the questions I ask (at least in the thread) I just have some experience with depression and like to think I can help, I’m just not very good at articulating my experience in such a way as it’s easily digestible and can serve as some sort of guiding light to better coping mechanisms or whatever I hope it can do. Be useful, I guess.

There’s no obligation on your part to acknowledge, answer, or even engage with my questions, ‘cause yeah, I know that thinking about what’s bothering you just leads to being more bothered by it. The questions I asked were more food for thought than anything else, ‘cause (and this is where I have trouble articulating stuff) it allows you to flesh out and then challenge bits about it.

The biggest problem with my way of thinking is I’m somewhat emotionally stunted so the things I do to avoid/get out of episodes might not work for others.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: December 15, 2019, 11:07:33 pm »
Perhaps the better question(s) would be why you think taking such drastic action is necessary to achieve your future in your hands right now (and what that would entail)?

Why you think you doing so will make you a completely different person?

Why do you think being a completely different person is desirable?

Is it even achievable? I mean, you’re you. You’re always going to be you. What joy will it bring you being not-you? What even is not-you?

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you mildly upset today thread
« on: December 15, 2019, 03:32:32 pm »
Quote from: JoshuaFH on December 15, 2019, 12:11:28 pm
Quote from: ChairmanPoo on December 15, 2019, 05:45:34 am
I quit my job. I was growing increasingly frustrated so I kind of had to. Even so it always makes one uneasy

I handwrote a resignation letter today for my job. I have it hidden away in my work-cubby. My friend wants to reassure me that I just need a two-week vacation; I really couldn't get a word in edgewise as to how I feel I'm wasting my life and that I'm certain to disintegrate psychologically over time, and that I'm already disintegrating. She's very well-meaning though, she doesn't want me to cast myself out into joblessness without a plan, when that's exactly what I want to do, as I want to establish a new baseline of living for myself before making another move; and she's worried that I'll waste all the seniority and shit I've built up over the years, though I don't really give a fuck about that I'm in a deadend job anyway.  *(EDIT: To be clear, I have 10k in the bank, so I definitely could live on my own for a while)*

Also, I can't help but think that that is very cowardly logic, and that if I'm going to do anything I need to throw what is logically the "good, safe idea" and just destroy my own identity. I can't do that with safe, step-by-step, methodologic planning; I need the force of suddenly, intense change to do that, to shatter who I am, so I can become someone else. Naturally I can't think of something like that to say in the middle of a conversation, but that's how I was feeling, and I couldn't really retort her optimistic reassurances except with an exasperated "....huh...". She really does want to give support, and she intuits that my motivations are partly suicidal, which they definitely are, so I can't be upset at her.

Still have this resignation letter, and thinking what to do with it, and I just hate the idea of taking things slow, I want my future in my hands right fucking now goddamnit.

Well, you don’t need to do anything that drastic. You have the pennies to survive joblessness for a time, but... you don’t need to be jobless immediately to change anything.

Equally so, your job is not your identity. What you do doesn’t have any bearing on who you are, unless you want it to.

If you’ve truly given up on your job, you look for another one. If you’re not sure what industry you want to work in, research. What do you enjoy doing is a good start. What happened to the careers dude you were seeing?

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