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[Zingoleb]

fuck Jimmy in his various cephalopodic orifices

[Patrick]

Hey I bet he gives a great tentaclejob.

And Neko (I am really sorry but I have never properly learned your meat-life name!) my mom's already on antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds all at once. They are apparently working 'wonders' by her testimony. I'd really hate to see what she's like without them right now since it is really hard to deal with her attitude as it is. She's already embarrassed herself (and me) by playing the "I have cancer, do what I say!" card in the middle of the fucking oncology ward. It was mortifying. There are people in here who are literally only doing chemo so that they can have an extra 6 months and she's only known she's had it for a month and change (and she caught it SUPER EARLY) and my god I seriously cannot believe what I heard her say to me.

Finally finished with the day's chemical infusions so we will be going home. I will be promptly smoking the rest of this pack and hanging myself out of shame.

[sean]

guys why am i able to facebook chat somebody on their cell phone? why is that possible?

also what does one do when they get whistled at, in like a oh hey, manner.

[vegkitkat]

I ran 3.6km today! I'm training for a 10km race come May, and I feel like I will be able to do it and do it well. 

Also, Jodie, I'm glad you're ok.  Hopefully it'll dry out soon.

[Spluff]

My friend in Ipswich got evacuated from the evacuation center today, because it ended up underwater. So now he's back in his house, watching the water rise up to his door. It's expected to peak at 22 m tonight.

This is actually due to La Niña event that's passing over Queensland atm. Instead of droughts experienced by due to El Niño, this meteorological event results in monsoonal conditions. This is not really a direct or indirect result of Global Warming.

La Nina occurs on a semi-regular basis, and yet this is the worst flooding ever recorded. You can't definitively write off Global Warming as a contributing factor - it's especially suspicious considering we've had Australia's worst recorded bushfire and Australia's worst ever recorded flood within the space of only a few years. Extreme weather events are definitely characteristic of Global Warming, but then again it's impossible to definitively put down the cause of any.

[Jace]

It is 19 degrees and snowing where I am. PRETTY SURE THAT DISPROVES GLOBAL WARMING!

Okay, now you guys act like (USA) Republicans.

[Allybee]

climate change

[Tom]

@Spluff: That was unintentionally hyperbolic. Explicitly discounting indirect means was definitely inaccurate and irresponsible.

I wonder how much change has been exerted over the SE Queensland landscape in the past 40 years and to what degree this has effected the severity of flooding?

[nekowafer]

Patrick: Well it's good that she's on them, at least. Though I have to wonder if maybe she's not actually taking them? Saying that they're doing wonders and then not taking them, so that no one will think twice? It would make sense if they make her feel fuzzy or anything like that. I'm sorry that you both have to deal with this. You might just need to develop a tougher skin around her. It's difficult when it's your family and you're somewhat close, but it will save you a lot of emotional pain. I've had to do that myself, with a mother who still tells me I'm ugly. And my meat-life name is Elesia - hard to spell, pronounce, and remember. So Neko is fine

I have to admit that I do not understand this La Nina/El Nino thing, even after a read of the wikipedia page. Why have you failed me, wikipedia?!

[tania]

my classes are cancelled (yet again) today because of about 3 inches of snow. this is stupid and sucky because i really wanted to go to the gym and i only have class once a week. you're such a wimp, vancouver.

[pwhodges]

Surrey University (where my wife now works) is very reluctant to cancel ever, because they have a rule that if a day is cancelled, the whole academic year is moved back by a day - exam dates and all, so super-inconvenient! 

I suppose the point is that the number of days the university is available to students before their exams cannot be reduced whatever happens.

[tania]

i guess it kind of makes sense because my university is located on top of a mountain and all the buses maneuver up and down and around this mountain all day so snow and slippy conditions make that pretty dangerous. in hindsight though, it's also a pretty silly location for a school because this happened more than a few times last semester as well... i guess it doesn't snow very often in vancouver so they just don't prepare very well for it. because my classes last semester didn't get moved back i ended up missing a lot of really crucial information which really made my life difficult when the final term papers came up and nobody knew how to actually do them properly (statistics research methods was especially an absolute nightmare). hopefully this will be the last snow day for a while.

[nekowafer]

You would think that they would plan for a couple of closings per year. Even if the weather doesn't get in the way, which I would think it will at least once or twice a year, you have to have a contingency plan for things like power outages and such.

[JD]

my classes are cancelled (yet again) today because of about 3 inches of snow. this is stupid and sucky because i really wanted to go to the gym and i only have class once a week. you're such a wimp, vancouver.

I have 4 inches and they're still making me truck up there.(Which is good I guess I can't afford to miss school now)

[Liz]

A couple years back my university was closed for two weeks because of flooding. We still ended the year at the same time, but professors were canceling final exams and cutting entire novels or assignments from the syllabus for the semester. Best year ever.

[Allybee]

blizzard with lightning! my friend took a picture last night DURING A LIGHTNING FLASH:



spooky purple world

[StaedlerMars]

I guess I've kind of joined a band maybe? I mean, we kind of just jammed together for the first time today, and I didn't really know any of the songs, but I think I picked up quickly enough. Yeah!

[Patrick]

I have tomorrow, Friday, and then I leave. And the part that makes me absolutely ashamed of myself is that I seriously can not wait to get the fuck out of here. I'm tired of being treated like I'm somehow second-rate just because I'm not Cancer Woman. I've been playing along the best I can and nothing makes it any better. I bend over fucking backwards for my mom, and she and my sister both are treating me like I'm not only doing nothing, but am a huge, incredibly inconvenient burden for them.

I'm super pissed off right now and I'm at the point where I'm considering not talking to my mom or sister again. Sure, they're happy to support me financially, and when I go to the psych hospital in an ambulance after nearly killing myself they're happy to give me a single phone call. But the fact of the matter is, I'm not 100% better yet. I'm just partially better. I'm learning to deal with my issues better, and learning to deal with daily life better. But I am so fucking sick of my family feeding me and putting me in the corner and saying among themselves, "Oh, he's fine, he's got all he needs right there, just let him be and he will be perfectly okay."

No, I'm not okay under those circumstances. None of them even knows my favorite color. I haven't even thought about what my favorite color is in years; nobody I'm close to except my best friend has ever even bothered asking.

[october1983]

It is 19 degrees and snowing where I am. PRETTY SURE THAT DISPROVES GLOBAL WARMING!

[SonofZ3]

Where I used to live we would get lake effect snow from the great lakes. Basically, as long as the lake remained open (not frozen over), moist air from the lake would rise, cold air from canada would then come down and the resulting snow on the southern shore would be insane. I've tried explaining to people that climate change=lake open for longer =more snow, so yes, "global warming" equals more snow in some areas of the US. It never worked though, these tend to be the same type of people that try to justify being anti-homosexual with the phrase "God didn't make Adam and STEVE, he made Adam and EVE", then laugh and nod thoughtfully. Really? I hate my hometown.

[Eris]

Dear Sickness Thread,

These drugs I have been taking for my cough are fucking me around. I am pretty sure the steroid puffer thing is what is messing with me the most. I take the two doses I am supposed to, then later I start feeling sick in my stomach and my hands get all shaky and start feeling funny. I thought maybe it was just me worrying about all this and in turn making me feel sick, but I took it in the evening last night and started feeling ill when trying to sleep, and am feeling almost exactly the same as I felt yesterday, so I think it has to be something to do with this.

The problem today is that I have to go work for 8.5 hours, instead of sleeping for half the day to try and feel better. Also I am coughing more since I started taking all this medication, which it is supposed to be fixing. Thanks, medicine!

[Jimor]

blizzard with lightning! my friend took a picture last night DURING A LIGHTNING FLASH:

spooky purple world

Awesome picture! Allows me to share the cool science news that scientists have discovered that thunderstorms produce streams of anti-matter!

[David_Dovey]

I have a job interview! For a sound engineering job! But if I get it, I'll probably have to move towns. Looking for places to rent are hard. I also feel bad because I already committed to taking the room upstairs and now it looks like I'll have to squirm out of that, and quit the job I am currently at, which I've been at for less than a month. But: Better pay, more hours, and it's in my actual professional field! Whaaaaaaat

[JD]

Hey patrick what is your favorite color?

[Scandanavian War Machine]

blizzard with lightning! my friend took a picture last night DURING A LIGHTNING FLASH:

spooky purple world

Awesome picture! Allows me to share the cool science news that scientists have discovered that thunderstorms produce streams of anti-matter!

this is super cool

[tania]

i have a mushroom problem in my shower. i found a mushroom in there like two weeks ago and got rid of it but now they're back and there are like, four of them and they're getting BIGGER and i am really afraid to touch them and i don't know what to do, i think they will keep coming back no matter what i do, i honestly clean my shower every week so i don't even know what this is but right now they look like this



aaaaaaaah aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh

[Scandanavian War Machine]

seal that shit up with some caulk

easy peasy


...maybe spray some bleach in first or something, i don't know anything about killing fungi

[Tom]

Congratulations Tania, you have an infestation of Pezizaceae (cup fungus); No wonder it came back, those are just the fruiting bodies. The real fungus is actually behind the tiles/shower basin. Worst case scenario, you may have to refit your bathroom. Caulking is pointless because the fungus will just find another place to reproduce. This could be hazardous to your health so consult a microbiologist.
 

[tania]

if i'm renting, can i just take the coward's route and either move out immediately or make my landlord deal with all of it?

[Tom]

Solving this would be really invasive/expensive/intensive/etc. Just move out.

[tania]

so wait... you're saying i have a legit reason to move out of my shitty apartment now besides just really wanting to?

[Lunchbox]

I had one of those on the weekend too! A legit excuse to move out, I mean. Not the fungus. Although the skirting board beside my shower is rotting because I guess they didn't waterproof it.

Now I have to move out of a sharehouse and it is really annoying because I don't want to take any of the common furniture that I actually own but nobody wants to give me any money for it so now I have to sell it. Boooo.

[Inlander]

Where are you moving to, Lunchy?

Does it start with "M"?

Does it end with "urne"?

Is the bit in the middle "elbo"?

[Spluff]

I always wanted a pool in my backyard, but this isn't exactly what I had in mind.

[Lunchbox]

Tommy and Harry are both wrong! (Although I would like either of those places very much.)
I am moving to a small, non-scenic, slightly dodgy suburb a little bit further out from the city.

[Patrick]

Hey patrick what is your favorite color?

Not sure if this is an honest inquiry or if you're just ribbing me, but I'll bite! To be completely honest? Pink. The only reason I don't have more pink t-shirts (count is at two) is because I rarely find any shirts in pastel shades of it, and the bright "I'M FUCKING PINK" color is way too intense for my coloring. I'm also partial to more foresty shades of green, as well as browns and blues.

Dear blag,

Tomorrow I'm getting my hair cut finally. And I may choose to visit the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. I'll certainly be paying a visit to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for the second time in my life, because FUCK YEAH, OLD AIRPLANES THAT DID COOL SHIT AND PUSHED THE ENVELOPE OF TECHNOLOGY! (I have always had a Thing for aviation and all related fields)

I will also be meeting with an acquaintance of mine. His dad and my mom became buds in Albania, so they introduced us when our visits there coincided. Dude's pretty cool; I've only met him in meat-life the one time but we share a lot of interests and he was pretty fun to hang out with.

[Lunchbox]

Nobody knows my favourite colour either! It is not really a thing that people talk about, I thought?

My favourite colour is green but I have a green bedroom at the moment and I hate it, I would much rather have white walls.

[JD]

Hey patrick what is your favorite color?

or if you're just ribbing me

nahhhh I wouldn't do that

[Elizzybeth]

Nobody knows my favourite colour either! It is not really a thing that people talk about, I thought?

My boyfriend asks me what my favorite color is at least once a week, usually more often (we've been dating for almost three years).  It is cute or annoying, depending on my mood.  But mostly cute.

[scarred]

So, we got 6 inches of snow last night. That kind of shit never happens in Seattle. So what did we do? Grabbed 3 18-racks of Rainier beer (worse/cheaper than PBR) and went and played in the fucking snow. YUP.

Oh, and there's video.

It. Was. Glorious.

[Rizzo]

Yuuuuussssssssss. Just changed my facebook name to Hæter Aid.

[nekowafer]

I just put my financial aid application in the mail. Please, hospital peoples, take pity on me and decide to pay off at least some of my $2700 bill. If not, be prepared to wait at least a year or two to get all of your money. I have too many doctors appointments and co-pays and sick ferrets and hungry boyfriends to afford hospital bills right now.

[valley_parade]

So, we got 6 inches of snow last night. That kind of shit never happens in Seattle.

Oh suck it up. We got close to 3 feet here in Massachusetts.

[David_Dovey]

Yuuuuussssssssss. Just changed my facebook name to Hæter Aid.

[JD]

They make it sound like angst only exist in nerds. :<

[McTaggart]

Sam your band has a great name.

[nufan]

So I'm applying for a Masters, and Oxford want this thing called a Statement of Purpose. I have never heard of this in my life, but apparently it's central to the whole process, and key to differentiating yourself. As I understand it, it's an American thing that Oxford have decided to copy, and it's pretty much a covering letter for a masters application. This is annoying as one of the deadlines is next week, and the other uni I'm applying to (Manchester) doesn't need it, so now I have a choice between frantically working on getting it done, and it may very well be substandard and a detriment to my application, or spending more time on it and handing the application in on the final deadline (late March) by which time all the places may have gone.

What to doooooooo

[Patrick]

Man. My mom is super lucky. She's computer retarded. I mean, completely ignorant to anything to do with computers other than AOL, which she still hasn't given up.

The touchpad mouse on her laptop decided to quit working, and I was stuck with keyboard-only navigation. If left to her own devices, she would simply go in to the place she bought it and get super belligerent and demand a warranty replacement.

Me? I hit the Windows key, and using tab, the arrow keys, and the 'return' key, I updated the touchpad mouse drivers, restarted, and bam, 90 seconds later the computer has mouse capabilities again.

In order to avoid the tradition of "Hey Mom your computer had a problem and this is what I did to fix it, just wanted to let you know in case the problem ever arises in the future and you need to fix it yourself" and having her reply "YOU BROKE MY COMPUTER YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH IT EVER AGAIN," I think I will refrain from telling her it ever even happened. Some people just can't understand this shit.

[Jace]

My favorite Parents Using Computers is "don't move the mouse around when pages are loading, the computer has to process each movement "

[nekowafer]

My mom decided, one day, to go into a chatroom. This was maybe 8 years ago. She found a few people to talk to, and wasn't having many problems, but then some guy was hitting on her. She's a big flirt and at first she was fine with it. Then, he asked her if she was white. This upset her so badly that she wanted to leave the chatroom. She didn't close the window, or anything like that - she unplugged the computer. She made sure to tell me that a creepy guy was talking to her so that when I turned it back on, I wouldn't be "scared".

Now she uses txt speak when she texts or e-mails me. So does my dad. Weird!