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[Lines]

Woo!

[ackblom12]

Alright, who's gonna crash this wedding with me?

It will be on my calendar as a very good possibility.

Congrats guys!

[Zingoleb]

People I've seen at Walmart today:

Three women with mullets.
An old man with large breasts and completely hard nipples (not man tits, I mean actual boobs).
An old man wearing aviator sunglasses, tight black pants, a black turtleneck, a black leather cap, and blindingly white shoes.

And on the way to Walmart I was passed by an elderly women in a maroon van with a giant sparkly unicorn picture on the side. There were so many rainbows and it was professionally done.

[Liz]

Today in the mall (while I was working), I saw a man walk by with a shaved head. Shaved, aside from a bit of hair about 1"x1.5" on one side, a bit above the ear. The hair in this patch was a good two inches long.

Fashion statement?

[Inlander]

on the way to Walmart I was passed by an elderly women in a maroon van with a giant sparkly unicorn picture on the side. There were so many rainbows and it was professionally done.

She's from the unicorn pound. They catch stray unicorns. That is their van. After 2 weeks, if nobody's adopted the unicorns, they put them down.

When they put the unicorns to sleep rainbows turn black and fall like ash to the ground, silently. A man sweeps up the pieces of dead rainbow after everyone else at the unicorn pound has gone home and he dumps the pieces of dead rainbow in a skip in the alley out the back of the building. He has to wear heavy rubber gloves and thick-soled boots because the after dark the alley is frequented by intravenous drug users. He gets paid three dollars an hour.

[Zingoleb]

D:

[David_Dovey]

That's it I'm never mentioning anything I care about here again, lest Harry read it and work his terrible, terrible magic.

[Inlander]

If you have an alternative way of dealing with the stray unicorn problem I'd like to hear it.

Unicorns: they're not just for Christmas.















(They're good eating any time of year!)

[Emaline]

So my mom is a stupid cunt and recently posted this on a webboard:

So you don't like your mum hypocritically and selfishly complaining about her relatives, boyfriend, and other shit on a forum, yet you complain about your relatives, boyfriend and other shit on a forum?

It's good to vent but maybe you should actually resolve your problems with people in the real world so you don't have to get angry about all this stuff all the time?

I think it's more the part where her mom is shamelessly complaining about not being able to cheat on her dad because his time off gets in the way.

This,


Look, öde, why don't you eat a dick and fuck off? Seriously. You and fucking Jeans, are constantly fuckers towards me for no fucking reason. Don't like my posts? Ignore them! Thats what I do, and any other reasonable person does, with posts I find annoying! Crazy, huh?


For those of you who are not constant complainers,
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/unicorn-meat.shtml

[HiFranc]

DD, have a good trip and I hope that America works out for you.

[E. Spaceman]

 

[Metope]

Oh no! I'm so sorry, Sam, hope you feel better soon

[onewheelwizzard]

Sam, I'm terribly sorry.

So my mom is a stupid cunt and recently posted this on a webboard:

So you don't like your mum hypocritically and selfishly complaining about her relatives, boyfriend, and other shit on a forum, yet you complain about your relatives, boyfriend and other shit on a forum?

It's good to vent but maybe you should actually resolve your problems with people in the real world so you don't have to get angry about all this stuff all the time?

Look, öde, why don't you eat a dick and fuck off? Seriously. You and fucking Jeans, are constantly fuckers towards me for no fucking reason. Don't like my posts? Ignore them! Thats what I do, and any other reasonable person does, with posts I find annoying! Crazy, huh?

Um, what he said was pretty mild and wasn't insulting or mean-spirited.  I guess it's unfortunate that it came across in a way that you took personally but I really don't think a response like that was warranted.

[pwhodges]

Commiserations, Sam.

[öde]

For those of you who are not constant complainers,

I'm sorry to have upset you so much, I'm just a firm believer that ranting and venting don't actually solve any problems so I encourage people to try to fix them at the source.

Also, I hope we can all find a little humour in the irony of your "constant complainers" statement.


My condolences Sam, that's terrible news

[HiFranc]

Hugs Sam.

[negative creep]

Shit Sam, I'm deeply sorry. 

[tania]

Don't like my posts? Ignore them! Thats what I do, and any other reasonable person does, with posts I find annoying!

wow i am genuinely surprised you don't see the glaring hypocrisy of this statement considering you seem to love giving everybody else your opinion on everything in the most blunt and often tactless way possible.

i'm going to tell you the exact same thing i have told every single other member of this forum who has ever bitched and moaned when they posted something on a public message board and received a response they didn't want to hear: you posted it on a fucking public message board with a comments option. you're going to get feedback. you're not going to like all of it. suck it up, be an adult, and stop acting like a fucking brat.

[Emaline]

It's more the thing that I feel like he kind of seeks out my posts to bitch at me, and after awhile it getting really fucking annoying. I'd be fine if it was every once in awhile, but if every single time he feels the need to respond to me, he has to bitch me out, it gets a little annoying. Its like he cannot pass my posts without complaining to me. We've never had a friendly conversation because he can't do it at all.

[Alex C]

For those of you who are not constant complainers,

I'm sorry to have upset you so much, I'm just a firm believer that ranting and venting don't actually solve any problems so I encourage people to try to fix them at the source.

Also, I hope we can all find a little humour in the irony of your "constant complainers" statement.

You didn't encourage anything, you just came across as really passive aggressive. I mean, I don't have a horse in this race but c'mon guy. An apology isn't an apology if you back it up with "Now let's all laugh at your hypocrisy."

[Alex C]

I really don't see how Jeans needs to be brought into this either, for the record. But I guess I'm going to shut up now because this really isn't any of my business and already sort of regret posting.

[Ptommydski]

Everybody needs to calm down and give Sam some love because he just lost a beloved pet.

Priorities!

[Zingoleb]

I'm truly sorry Sam, that's horrible.

[Emaline]

I tried to be friendly towards you in a PM, Emaline, bot you just ignored it and then you complained about something I did in the pointless thread a couple of days later. And you said I had a problem with you!

when a lot of people are unfriendly to you in the same place but are friendly to each other then maybe they are not the problem

I gotta be completely honest here and say, if I ignore pms it is because I do not even know I have them! I couldn't begin to tell you what email address I use for this board, so that tells you how often I check it(which would hopefully alert me to pms.) Nor do I get a little pop up here like I do at most boards to tell me such things. So chances are I do not even know I have any pms.


And I'm not going to apologize for defending myself against öde. He does this shit constantly, and whether or not her can get along with others doesn't matter, since he also doesn't go around attacking other people's posts. I'm not saying he should stop boarding, or leave here, or anything like that. In fact, if he was so inclined he could spam the entire board with pictures of him petting a pony. I do not care. I do wish he would stop responding to my posts, unless he actually has something to add.

On top of that, that god damn post about my mother was mostly just so I could have documented proof of her bullshit, and also, yes to vent. I mean, its not like it is fantastically easy to tell the woman who raised you your whole life that she is such a horrible person.







But nevermind that bullshit.


Sam, was Sophie your dog? That is really really horrible. I've lost family members before, and nothing compared to the pain of losing my dog. They are like siblings and best friends rolled into one. It feels completely like losing part of yourself, and thats really horrible. I'm really sorry for your loss.

[Zingoleb]

(Psst, Emaline, you can set your options to have a pop up that comes up when you have a PM. Try it!)

[Alex C]

Still, there is defending yourself and telling someone to go eat a dick. I get that he opened up with what probably felt like "You do the same shit as your terrible mother," but it still could have been handled better.

[Gemmwah]

Oh Sam I'm really sorry for your loss.

[Barmymoo]

Losing a pet is horrible, I am sorry.

I just studied for an hour and a half with about a twenty minute break It's a subject I would not choose to study (contract law) and it is the summer vacation, so I am feeling quite pleased. Hopefully I can keep up this kind of habit during term time; if I can, there's no way I won't be able to buck my grade up at least a sub-division and maybe, maybe, an entire class!

[HiFranc]

Barmy, good on you.  You might find, when you get into it, that you really do enjoy it.

[scarred]

there are no words to describe how much i love direct deposit paychecks

[beat mouse]

In this day and age, the idea of having to go to a bank with your paycheck is unsettling and archaic.

[Patrick]

Look, öde, why don't you eat a dick and fuck off? Seriously. You and fucking Jeans, are constantly fuckers towards me for no fucking reason.

Don't make me regret defending your ass.

i'm going to tell you the exact same thing i have told every single other member of this forum who has ever bitched and moaned when they posted something on a public message board and received a response they didn't want to hear: you posted it on a fucking public message board with a comments option. you're going to get feedback. you're not going to like all of it. suck it up, be an adult, and stop acting like a fucking brat.

I'm going to say the same thing I've said to you on this subject, which is that if somebody doesn't voice their feedback in a non-inflammatory, non-assholish way, they should just leave the person alone and let others handle it more diplomatically.

I'm not disagreeing with you on the "be mature your own goddamn self" matter, but I'll disagree with you that people should feel entitled to be inflammatory pricks when giving feedback. It's rude, it's unnecessary, and it's not conducive to a feeling of community. It's divisive at absolute best.

[Lines]

Sam, condolences man. Losing a pet is possibly one of the worst things ever, especially when you've had them since childhood. Hugs.

[tania]

I'll disagree with you that people should feel entitled to be inflammatory pricks when giving feedback. It's rude, it's unnecessary, and it's not conducive to a feeling of community. It's divisive at absolute best.

there is absolutely no disagreement here because i agree with you 100%. in fact i am going to take a few steps back and apologize for my really aggressive post which i now realize was sort of uncalled for, it was the result of a really silly combination of getting little to no sleep over the last few days + terrible sickness + waking up at 7am to be at work. however i have read over dan's post several times and i really can't see what was inflammatory about it in the slightest. he suggested to her that she was being hypocritical and then offered a possible solution to her problems. bringing up to someone the possibility that they may be wrong in a particular situation is not the same thing as deliberately trying to piss them off and ruin their life. personally, i don't coddle my friends and tell them they are right all the time if they're not, because how would they learn? an example of an appropriate response from emaline could have been something like "actually, dan, you are misinformed about what happened"  or "actually, dan, i am not being hypocritical because this situation is different because..." and etc etc. usually the issue is just communication and this helps resolve it by clarifying whatever was misunderstood, which reduces aggressiveness caused by misunderstanding and makes it easier for people to actually give you the support and help you need, therefore benefitting everyone. responding to an individual telling you in fairly diplomatic terms that you seem like a little bit of a hypocrite and a fool by telling them to fuck off and eat a dick, however, only makes the situation worse and doesn't clear up anything. again, if a person isn't prepared to be told once in a while that they might be wrong, maybe a public message board is not the place for them.

anyway! enough of this. i don't want to shit up this thread any more so pm me if you don't like any of that and we'll talk about it some more.

sam, i'm so sorry for your loss.

[LittleKey]

I'm sorry too, Sam .

In other news, Cheesecake Factory tonight; sweeeeeeet. They have the best parmesan chicken I've had, other than Macaroni Grill, but that restaurant has changed and their food is not as good as it used to be.

[Emaline]

Hey guys, the reason I respond to Dan's post with aggressiveness is because he is constantly aggressive towards me. If you do not know the history of our posts together, I can see where you would think I was out of line, but the fact that he is constantly trying to shit on me, is why I read his post as aggressive, and why I respond in such a manner.


Also, I know that he is still mourning and whatnot, and maybe it is too soon but worry about him, but has anyone heard from Sam, and how he is holding up? Like I said, I realize it is still very soon, but I know how horrible it is losing a dog, and how difficult it is, and I guess I'm just concerned. I hope he is alright. Losing a dog is the worst.

[Slick]

I was at the grocery store yesterday and a birthday cake for someone named Trent was 50% off and it doesn't expire till the 21st so I got it.
My diet over the past 24 hours has been mostly jerky and cake.
This morning I had for breakfast cake, jerky, and cold pizza plus donair sauce, with cold coffee and orange juice to drink.
Sometimes life make me feel really good. This morning was one of those times.
I have just eaten a bunch of jerky so I guess it is now time for cake again!

[öde]

Hey guys, the reason I respond to Dan's post with aggressiveness is because he is constantly aggressive towards me.

I honestly can't remember these posts I've made, I don't have much time to keep up with the forums any more. Looking back into my posts for almost a year, the only time I have talked to, or about you, is to encourage you in working in a bakery. I'm genuinely sorry for the way I've come across to you, anyhow, and I can see how in this case it seems dickish.

[Patrick]

It would appear we're all in agreement. Hugs time!

I wish I were kidding about hugs time, I've had an exceptionally lame night but I'm in a good mood anyway. For now. We'll see if my usual unnecessary bitterness, self-hatred, and cynicism returns. I hope it doesn't but given my record it's not looking good.

However my lady and some of our buddies are interested in drinking tonight, I've been invited along, and you bet your ass I'm going to take the chance to socialize and distract myself from my inability to react to my own life properly.

[Emaline]

Man, I have had a shitty night as well! Weird.

I know I have been complaining about it forever, and hemming and hawing a lot over what to do with our apartment, but this is it. I cannot take it anymore. If we are not moving out as a couple, I am moving out on my own. No more of my boyfriend's charming indecisiveness holding back this decision! This apartment, and its landlord are horrible. Our sink is clogged and almost flooding, and despite calling our landlord about it, nothing is being down for it. When my boyfriend called earlier, he said "Oh you are so dramatic!" Our sink is flooding! As is our dishwasher! We cannot wash dishes! So, yeah, I'm done. I'm looking at craigslist now, and saving all of my "allowance money" for a deposit, and moving supplies. This cannot go on.

[Patrick]

Shit dude. That can't be fun. I've never had problems that bad, nor a landlord that sketchy. Exactly how long has this been happening?

[Emaline]

We called him yesterday. So today would be the third day.

But this is on top of him taking a month to replace our refrigerator, 3 weeks to replace our dishwasher, and god only knows how long it has been since the lawn has been mowed. This may all sound really nit picky, but the appliances are in our lease, and he refused to comp us for the extra expenses we had to take on due to his incompetence. Our neighbors are loud, and one constantly has the entire building smelling like pot. And it's not like we live in a terrible area! We live in a pretty decent part of town.

I'm actually beginning to think he has something against us. We've been living here the longest, and all the other people in the building are new. Maybe he is charging them more in rent? And is trying to get us to leave so he can get someone else to pay more. It's frustrating because we recently, we got Direct Tv, and even though there are two other satellites on the roof, he made us put ours in the backyard, in a patch of weeds that constantly overgrow(since he's not so keen on lawn care), and because of that, our signal is usually blocked. Every week or so we go out there ourselves and cut all the weeds down.

[HiFranc]

Emaline, it was a landlord that was slow at fixing things that was one of things that prompted me to buy my own place.[1]  I can't say whether the landlord is actively trying to kick you out (not being there) but, if the other tennants are paying more than you, he may simply give them higher priority for repairs.

[1] The other was realising that, if I wanted the mortgage paid off by the time I retire, I had to get hurryng.

[KvP]

I'm a little frustrated now, even without all the recent drama in here. Hearing about Sam's loss brought me back a few weeks to when my cat died and there were exactly 3 people here who seemed to notice how shit I felt - BrittanyMarie, Squawk and Jeans. I don't really know two of those people, but I like all of them a lot. And I like a lot of you guys too! I think it might be petty and I'm frustrated by the way I feel now, but it hurts me a lot to see such an outpouring of support here now and there was all of three people who were there for me even a scant bit when I was suffering one of the greater losses in my life. In fact in the sum total of my meat and net life it was those three people and my therapist who had any sort of presence - nobody was calling back, nobody was reassuring me of anything. I lost my best friend of 19 of my 23 years and it was like being dropped somewhere where no one spoke my language. It's made me a good deal more cynical than I was before. I don't know, maybe I wasn't saying the right things. Maybe my cat should've been a dog. Maybe June was just not working out for anyone.

So yeah, reading the last few pages has brought all that back. It's been too long now so just in case anyone was thinking of it, it's been a month and I'd rather you not act like it happened yesterday. These things just sort of happen. Just, I don't know, try to be more considerate of each other in the future? I know a whole lot of you see this thread as a rubbish bin for mindless navel-gazing at best and an arena for sniping at one another at worst but honestly a lot of times it shouldn't even really matter what you think of one another. Some people put a lot of stock in these internet connections. It'd be nice if that was warranted more often than not.

Anyway, Sam, I know how you feel. 13 years is a long life and you have to know that not a single minute of it wasn't worth it for either of you. I'm sorry for your loss.

*edited to tone it down a little bit.

[Jimmy the Squid]

Dude I didn't even know you had a cat.

[KvP]

That's great input Jimmy.

[Jimmy the Squid]

I'm just saying that had I known maybe I would have something something I don't know man. It sucks that your cat died and it sucks that Sam's dog died and it sucks that Emaline can't take criticism well and won't fucking drop it and it sucks that I'm home on a Friday night with no sweets and nothing new to watch.

Maybe the mods should just lock this thread and we can start number IV next month. Fuck.

[Ptommydski]

I'm a little frustrated now, even without all the recent drama in here. Hearing about Sam's loss brought me back a few weeks to when my cat died and there were exactly 3 people here who seemed to notice how shit I felt - BrittanyMarie, Squawk and Jeans. I don't really know two of those people, but I like all of them a lot. And I like a lot of you guys too! I think it might be petty and I'm frustrated by the way I feel now, but it hurts me a lot to see such an outpouring of support here now and there was all of three people who were there for me even a scant bit when I was suffering one of the greater losses in my life. In fact in the sum total of my meat and net life it was those three people and my therapist who had any sort of presence - nobody was calling back, nobody was reassuring me of anything. I lost my best friend of 19 of my 23 years and it was like being dropped somewhere where no one spoke my language. It's made me a good deal more cynical than I was before. I don't know, maybe I wasn't saying the right things. Maybe my cat should've been a dog. Maybe June was just not working out for anyone.

So yeah, reading the last few pages has brought all that back. It's been too long now so just in case anyone was thinking of it, it's been a month and I'd rather you not act like it happened yesterday. These things just sort of happen. Just, I don't know, try to be more considerate of each other in the future? I know a whole lot of you see this thread as a rubbish bin for mindless navel-gazing at best and an arena for sniping at one another at worst but honestly a lot of times it shouldn't even really matter what you think of one another. Some people put a lot of stock in these internet connections. It'd be nice if that was warranted more often than not.

John, I'm sincerely sorry about your cat. This is literally the first I heard of it because frankly at the best of times I read about 20% of the forums and almost never the Blog Thread. When I do, I tend to skim read. June was incredibly hectic for me and during the three weeks I was in the US, I didn't so much as glance at the forums. Furthermore, I've also recently lost three people I was pretty close to, not to mention experiencing the horrible demise of one of my oldest and most cherished friendships. It's been a very busy, at times very hard few weeks. I usually rely on Meebo or Facebook to tell me what is happening to my international friends but I wasn't on the former and the News Wall of the latter is a lottery. Given that this is the very first I have heard of your loss, I feel like my sympathy should be taken as genuine. If I lost my cat, I'd be distraught. I am sorry.

However, at the same time it's unfair to assume that other people on the forum didn't care. I'm sure like me, they just had other things going on in their lives and regrettably didn't notice your misfortune. I also feel like your comments above were slightly disrespectful to Sam, since he has legitimately no control of these variables either. There's also the uncomfortable possibility (slim as it might be) that a certain percentage of the people who post on here either don't know or don't like you, thus didn't feel the need to extend sympathy. While I'm sure that isn't true, you have to assume on a public message board not everybody knows you as well as you might imagine. In fact I'd go as far as saying a majority of people who post here don't like me at all, so I'm not going to begrudge them not leaping into action every time I make a post. Likewise, the people here can't realistically be blamed for your situation in real life.

I am sorry about your cat though. Take care.

[HiFranc]

KvP, we are here for you.

[Zingoleb]

I think you'll find that I give people the benefit of the doubt beyond even reasonable standards

It's true! He even defended me!


Anyways - Jon. I think I've said something like this before, but I'd like to say it again. I seem to remember something about your cat dying, but I find it incredibly awkward 9 times out of ten to try and offer my condolences on these forums because half the people I talk to seem to either not know me and thus don't care, or not like me, and thus don't care, and this makes it hard! I actually don't dislike anyone on these forums, actually, even people who would love to see me gone, so I still want to offer sympathy...but feel like it would be taken wrong, so I usually just don't say anything at all.