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This heatwave can fuck off!
I honestly haven't seen rain since May! (It's rained briefly a couple of times but i have managed to miss it) this might not be too ridiculous to some of you, but i live in London, the UK IS 99% RAIN MOST OF THE YEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING?!
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I had something good to add to this thread but I had to take 3 days off the phone & internet to rest my arm & I forgot what it was.
I hate it when my carpal tunnel or forearm muscle twiches or backaches start up. I have so many health problems I don't even think about my shitty personal life anymore.
On the upside, I am getting a lot of reading done offline. I finished 3 books on the long weekend-- Persuasian by Jane Austen, On Beauty by Zadie Smith and The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
I love reading college fiction. I still write college fiction because I have no experience with marriage or parenthood.
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Who knew that a "NO SOLICITORS" sign doesn't apply to solicitors?
I fucking hate these doorbell-ringing dickholes who don't leave and even when I do answer the door and gruffly tell them to leave, continue their pitch like they have a chance and like whatever nugget of bullshit they're going to say is somehow going to change my mind and entice me to give money/credit card information to a total stranger who's so rude they can't be bothered to NOT FUCKING SOLICIT ME IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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Our landlord has subjected us to months of noisy construction in the apartment below, and more is to come.
Is it a bad idea to ask for compensation for all this, in terms of a month's rent back?
he's always been *polite* and basically my concern is that if our relationship becomes *openly* resentful or sour then that really would make our living here a lot worse...
landlords having the upper hand and you having to humor their bullshit is bullshit
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Posting on Facebook.
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Seriously, fuck this heat. I haven't been in one country for more than four days at a time since June, and I was sure that SOMEWHERE I would have days that didn't get too hot.
Nope.
she/her/hers
i don't think it's unreasonable to ask for some sort of compensation, but i wouldn't ask for a whole month's rent...i'd ask for a slight discount for a couple months or something.Originally Posted by aggroculture
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"Fur baby"
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I'm not a republican conservative but her show is so one dimensional and hypocritical it pisses me off. Bashes right wing thoughts and when right wingers spout their agenda on her show...but I guess it's ok if it's your agenda and ideology when you do it back on your own? Pffft. Piss off.
I agree. I don't even know who this person is. Who are these unknown people and why are they becoming popular? I'm an old school guy. I like old school comedy like Dangerfield, Mason, Lovitz, Kinnison. Their material had substance and it wasn't sex jokes or foul language every 5 seconds.
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Really? Kinnison was filthy. It was his thing.
Lovitz was good on SNL but I was never impressed with his stand up.
Sam is hilarious and her show is lovely.
she/her/hers
samantha bee has been around for quite a while, she was a correspondent on the daily show for years.
also, i'm sorry...rodney dangerfield and sam kinnison were both incredibly filthy comedians.
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Putting a TV above the large fireplace. Also, the fireplace being the centerpiece of the living room.
WTF????
That set up is horrible, and beyond dumb when you see “rich” people on TV with it. Have fun with your fucked-angled-TV neck pain.
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"Old school guy". Follow that up with your list, and I read that as "I'm a sexist old privileged white male".
Dangerfield "wasn't sex jokes"? Have you literally ever actually heard Rodney Dangerfield?
Also, just to kick the hornets nest: shitfuck.
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You know what...i think i'm done with Twitter. Every time i log on it's just depressing, a collection of the worlds worst people yelling at everyone all the time. I miss when it was just full of cat gifs and telling people you admired how much you admired them...it's just a clusterfuck of shit now.
she/her/hers
i do low-voltage for a living so i have to do this all the time for people and i die a little bit inside each time.
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I've never actually used it, but I *think* tumblr is maybe where the cat gifs and supportive messages are now. I could be very, very wrong, but that's my limited understanding of it
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Nope. Tumblr is also bad. You want closed meme facebook groups populated by a lot of mutuals.
Twitter genuinely brings out the worst in people, and I hate it for that.
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You took the words right out of my mouth. This was my exact thought.
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I already have a Tumblr that i on/off use, but mainly for said cat gifs and anime gifs (to see what i should be watching this season). As a place to 'talk' to people...it can also be a bit of a clusterfuck. Maybe not clusterfuck, but definitely not balanced. Might look at Instagram, that seem's to be getting more popular now and i've never used it, might be a better place to put my mini film reviews (i once did a mini review for Power Rangers 2017 on Tumblr, and someone went ape-shit because i didn't like it and accused me of being homophobic as it had a gay character, so by extension not liking the whole film meant i hated gay people...)
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Steve Hoffman's forum doesn't allow for diversity of opinions. If they sense any negativity about anything, then they will automatically close a thread. It's blatant censorship. No wonder there's been a mass exodus from that place. It's just not fun anymore. There is basically no freedom of speech. It's like China or North Korea. I should've done my research before I joined. Now I'm reading stuff (not good) about Hoffman's ethics. He is not well liked by his peers in the sound engineering industry. If I'd known that before, it definitely would've been a red flag for me.
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We met with the landlord to complain and not only did we not ask for any compensation but we came away feeling sorry for *him* for going through a divorce case in court and maybe selling the building
Typical
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Having a shitty dream that made me salty enough to just decide to get up early on a day off i usually work after staying up because i knew i could sleep in. I can probably nap later but that's not the point. I don't enjoy waking up like im about to have to fight someone. I'm just gonna stop before i shit on everything.
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woof that sucks for everyone.We met with the landlord to complain and not only did we not ask for any compensation but we came away feeling sorry for *him* for going through a divorce case in court and maybe selling the building
Typical
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My sister got married 4 times. I was dumb enough to volunteer to be a bridesmaid at one of her weddings. She never stopped asking me for money for all sorts of things, and I was a full-time university student at the time. That's why her marriages never last and she has very few friends. I still avoid her like the plague after all these years. I never wanted to be a bridesmaid ever again. Thankfully, none of my friends have ever asked me. I had to be in my brother's bridal party, but he and his wife have 6-figure incomes so they paid for the whole thing.
I was nobody. Nothing.
Man, I get tired of people trying to "correct" like everything I say on Facebook.
Guess what? I might not fucking think what YOU think. How bout that?
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Kind of curious for an example here. Because I for one am known for pointing out fake news / memes or other things that are objectively false and potentially detrimental to people having an accurate and informed view of current events. I can see how I'd be annoyed if I were the one posting bullshit and someone pointed out that I was wrong. But honestly, once in a great while I slip up and post something that turns out to be outdated or outright false, and I have friends who call me out on it...and I just own up to it and move on. Kind of makes me feeling like an idiot to realize I've been duped, but I'd rather be set straight than go on believing something untrue.
If we're just talking about opinions and subjective things, on the other hand...then yeah, "correcting" is more just disagreeing, and that can be annoying as fuck.
Also, if this isn't taking it too far...if you're not interested in what someone else thinks about something, why are you writing it in a public forum? (I'm genuinely curious; I don't mean that as an attack of any kind.)
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Partner has been having job problems for almost a year now.
Nobody wants to hire him full time.
One company wanted to hire him, already did all the testing and everything, and the place he's at currently (where he had been working part-time) offered him full time (which would have included benefits and a union, so it was the better deal) so he took it.
3 months later, he still isn't on the paperwork for full time, and asks about it.
Apparently they're not going to hire him full time after all. Because reasons? They wouldn't tell him why.
It's not a staffing issue, they need the help.
I just want to beat the living shit out of this guy for stringing him along and making him turn down the other job for this. He went to that guy's boss whose only reply was that it's that guy's decision for hiring. We're planning our trip out to Red Rocks to see NIN in a month expecting the paperwork to be going through soon and he had to hound the guy to finally get a "no" out of him after having worked there part-time now since April.
I was nobody. Nothing.
@theimage13 I mean disagreeing. BUT, people are so fucking RIDE OR DIE about their ideas that THEY think they're correcting me.
I'm a democratic socialist with a libertarian streak, and I'm a 7th generation Texan, so this bullshit comes from both sides.
As to your last question, I can't stand chaos and I'm insanely sensitive. So it's just something that's frustrated me over the past few years, to the point where I basically refrain from posting my views on social media.
When I do, I usually wind up deleting the post,.because either a bunch of people tell me I'm wrong or people who don't know each other wind up fighting in the comments in a hateful manner.
Because I'm from texas, a lot of people I grew up with wound up being conservative. But I love them anyway.
I'm down for civil discourse.
Sometimes.that's not possible. One of my VERY best friends, who hired me knowing I had a severe drinking problem, got me into AA, and didn't fire me even when I wound up on heroin (I worked for him for 8 years,)
anyway, he's an ultra conservative asshole when it comes to politics, and he isn't capable of civil discourse. So we just don't talk about that type of shit.
But yeah, it's usually that people think I should be a conservative, but a lot of the time im "not liberal enough."
an example is that I don't think I should feel guilty for being white. I had no control over that shit you know? I didn't chose it.
More often, though, it's that I say something about being pro universal healthcare or something along those lines, and a dozen motherfuckers go sideways on me.
And if you're gonna say I should block them, understand that these are people I grew up with, before we really understood politics.
There you go: a long answer for a long question.
And no, you didn't go too far.
Dude, basically it's that im open minded. I'm a free thinker and, irl, I can chop it up with almost ANYONE: Mexican mafia cats, Aryan Brotherhood, Gangster Disciples (these are obviously extreme examples from being in jail, lol) but you get the idea.
Facebook comments are different thoufh.
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Nobody wants you to feel guilty for being white. But you do need to recognize all of the power and privilege that comes with that.
Also you have a history of using racial slurs, so that could maybe be why people try to have the race conversations with you.
I was nobody. Nothing.
history of using racial slurs? Also I thought you had me blocked.
Furthermore, that's just an example of my thoughts (the white guilt thing.)that's not something I've actually posted. No one has had race conversations with me on social media, except to tell me they're happy I'm pro black, speak spanish, etc. Sorry. My bad. It wasn't a good example because it's not something I've actually posted.
I absolutely recognize white privilege.
But there ARE people who want others to feel.guilty for being white: oddly enough, every one of these people I've ever met was white.
Now. What do you mean "history of using racial slurs?"
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