stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 11/7/2024 at 1:45 AM, chenGOD said:

very yes.

10,000 burgers is not enough

  On 10/25/2024 at 6:27 PM, zkom said:

I'm fine, but a little concerned maybe that how long would it take for them to start suspecting that I'm just making up excuses

- Sorry I missed the daily, the electricity went out in the building
- Ok

Two days later:
- Sorry I missed the daily, my chair broke when I sat on it
- Hmm.. ok

Next week:
- Sorry I missed the daily, my keyboard caught on fire
- You're just making these up, aren't you?

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Fucking daily meetings - tell them to stop wasting everyone's time.

Continuing that, my old ass TV broke this week. I bought it used 12 years ago so good service I guess. But at least that didn't cause any work related problems. Now I'm without a TV at home the first time in my life (not counting all the temporary places like hostels I've stayed in). Even though I didn't really need the whole thing anymore it feels kind of weird to not have a TV.. Like a fridge is missing from a kitchen or something. I'm not really planning to buy a new one though and this last one I got basically because a guy just offered it and brought it to my apartment after my ex took the previous one.

Here I am looking at Jurassic Park lunchboxes for my one year old daughter and the only thing that shows up Jurassic WORLD branded shit. What has the world come to?
 

Fuck you, Colin Trevorrow. 

  On 11/9/2024 at 2:35 PM, Squee said:

Here I am looking at Jurassic Park lunchboxes for my one year old daughter and the only thing that shows up Jurassic WORLD branded shit. What has the world come to?
 

Fuck you, Colin Trevorrow. 

ebay probably has some vintage one for $75 or something. everything collectible is on ebay right?

  On 11/9/2024 at 2:35 PM, Squee said:

Fuck you, Colin Trevorrow. 

he even looks like an asshole

i wonder how can one get such titles (franchises) to work on with zero talent...

I'm trying to watch the second season or Arcane on Netflix, but the constant needle drops are fucking atrocious.

  On 11/14/2024 at 8:20 PM, Silent Member said:

I'm trying to watch the second season or Arcane on Netflix, but the constant needle drops are fucking atrocious.

that first episode is a banger though.. i think they wanted to go full action in that first one to get everyone's attention. i watched the first 3 that dropped. good shit. solid imo. 

If you are emailing me about an email from a 3rd party INCLUDE THAT FUCKING EMAIL.  I swear covid has destroyed most people's theory of mind.  I am not an NPC.  I do not know what you know.  This is now happening several times a day.  It has definitely increased.  I suspect partly as genz have entered the work place.

Been working since 5:30AM... it's now 01:15AM.

Don't Install explorer patcher. You want Windows 11 to fucking stop grouping everything together in the taskbar? You're SOL unless you want your next Windows update to boot you into a black screen with just a cursor 

I dinnae recommend

First World succes,: succesfully uninstalled explorer patcher 

so, every once in a while I get these periods when I have those lucid dreams where I keep waking up just to realize I keep dreaming, rinse and repeat during the entire night unless I take some benzos... 

got late to work cause took a bit more than usual cause I was having terrible nightmares during that night (yeah I already dreamt several times that I kill people and wake up completely nauseated ) although that night was not that... day after I was completely honest with my manager and he told me he had to report me besides the fact that I have a prescription... anyway he acted like a cool dude and said "let's pretend we didn't have this conversation then"... I appreciate your understanding and I'm very grateful you're not reporting me I replied back... after 10 minutes medical called me cause he ended up reporting me... what a bag of dicks...

went to medical, first thing they ask me in front of everybody was "so how long have u been taking diazepan" to which I replied "just last night cause I couldn't sleep" ... my supervisor could at least simply called medical and say that I was going trough some shit and couldn't sleep properly and that I needed to be seen by a doctor but no, he really reported me as simple as that, this guy is taking benzos and it's not allowed onboard... so I see a doctor and she said yeah we need to keep your medication with us and if anytime u really need it u come to us and just ask for it, we need to have it under control... after dayly appointments with the same doctor she gave me some "alternatives" like melatonin and some kind of antihistaminics cause apparently they make u sleepy... didn't work... been having shitty sleep like 2 to 3 hours per night for 5 days now... been off duty obviously cause my brain feels like poop and benzos take like 2 weeks getting out of one's system and I can't work while "under the influence"... in the meantime they couldn't find a solution so they're the ones now giving me the benzos once in a while, always reseting forward those 2 weeks... don't know how long they're gonna keep doing this but I'm not taking them cause I don't wanna get more addicted to that shit than what I already am... long story long I believe they're gonna send me home cause the guy I was going to replace was supposed to sign of yesterday and they extended his contract for at least one more 4 days cruise... honestly I'm up for it, I need to get home, find some proper time to quit weed for real cause quiting the day before coming to a new contract with sometimes 12 hour jet lag is hard af... and I do believe it's partially weed's fault cause it's basically my sleep aid when I'm at home... xoxo my fellow watmmers... so long and thanks for all the shoes...

Last night I went to a soccer match to record crowd ambiences for a documentary and literally 3 minutes after arriving the first drunk hooligan threatened to beat me up and tried to knock my microphones out of my hand. Security were quick on their feet though.

When I'm president I'll ban soccer.

What's the deal with soccer and hyped up fan aggression?  It seems notably more extreme than is the case with other sports.  I never hear about basketball or tennis fans beating the shit out of each other and setting the city on fire.  But I swear any time I hear about soccer there's always this violent gang rival aspect to it.  So weird.

  On 12/9/2024 at 10:43 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

What's the deal with soccer and hyped up fan aggression?  It seems notably more extreme than is the case with other sports.  I never hear about basketball or tennis fans beating the shit out of each other and setting the city on fire.  But I swear any time I hear about soccer there's always this violent gang rival aspect to it.  So weird.

Entertainment for the lowest common denominator? One of their braincells keeps track of the ball and the last two take note of which goal belongs to who.

What's even more scary is that when I was recording the crowd coming out, I saw very adult men - drunk as fuck on a Sunday night - shouting and screaming at the top of their lungs with their very young sons next to them whom they've dressed up in a team shirt, team scarf, team beanie and so on. Indoctrination at its finest.

  On 12/9/2024 at 6:20 AM, Squee said:

Last night I went to a soccer match to record crowd ambiences for a documentary and literally 3 minutes after arriving the first drunk hooligan threatened to beat me up and tried to knock my microphones out of my hand. Security were quick on their feet though.

When I'm president I'll ban soccer.

that's nuts... alcohol does things to people... also, i think some 'fans' go hyped up and expecting some kind of altercation.. it's the thing that they've been looking forward to for days or weeks so they go all in w/their emotions. i've seen this at american football games.. people in support of the same team even fighting over some dumb shit. 

but soccer hooligans can be like gangs and rival fans meet in fields to fight even when there's no game. it's crazy shit. different in different countries i'm sure.. but seems pretty toxic in a lot of places.. and much like a religion to some people.. as with other sports fandoms.. 

when i'm pope we'll do a crusade on the sports since they're a threat to catholic dominance. 

wish it was more like this .. i do love hockey though. 

Second hand record & CD shops, are you sticking the price stickers on with super glue or what????????

  On 12/15/2024 at 12:50 AM, milkface said:

Second hand record & CD shops, are you sticking the price stickers on with super glue or what????????

I've destroyed a "digipak" cover trying to get a sticker off once, lol.  Lesson learned, sometimes they can be quite cool, I recently bought a used Adrian Sherwood on-u cd comp replete with tags from both amoeba and in-your-ear records, as well as a generic "out of print" sticker. Pretty sure my copy of decks fx and 909 has the sticker from the shop I copped it from in Dublin (fwp: can't be arsed to look)

FUCKING HELL!!! ARRRGHHHHH!!!

Few weeks ago the screen on my MacBook Air went totally black while I was watching The Penguin. So (on my phone) I YouTubed the problem and pressed a succession of keys simultaneously to see if rebooting the machine would work. Nope. I must add that while pressing all these keys with a black screen a voice in my head was saying I hope you aren't fucking up your password. So I took it to Apple and they wanted to charge me £500 to replace the screen. But the local (but very good) Laptop Doctor and he did it for £350. But the password doesn't work. So I obviously did somehow mess with the password. And I just cannot wrap my head around what to do next. I guess another visit to the Laptop Doctor. Which he should of helped me with in the first place to be honest.

  On 12/20/2024 at 7:40 PM, beerwolf said:

FUCKING HELL!!! ARRRGHHHHH!!!

Few weeks ago the screen on my MacBook Air went totally black while I was watching The Penguin. So (on my phone) I YouTubed the problem and pressed a succession of keys simultaneously to see if rebooting the machine would work. Nope. I must add that while pressing all these keys with a black screen a voice in my head was saying I hope you aren't fucking up your password. So I took it to Apple and they wanted to charge me £500 to replace the screen. But the local (but very good) Laptop Doctor and he did it for £350. But the password doesn't work. So I obviously did somehow mess with the password. And I just cannot wrap my head around what to do next. I guess another visit to the Laptop Doctor. Which he should of helped me with in the first place to be honest.

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Not sure how it is with the newest versions of macOS but you used to be able to remove the password pretty easily on Macbooks by booting into recovery and messing with some things. I've got a fever right now and cba to look it up like this but I can do that tomorrow if you're not savvy enough to look for it.

  On 12/20/2024 at 9:08 PM, chronical said:

Not sure how it is with the newest versions of macOS but you used to be able to remove the password pretty easily on Macbooks by booting into recovery and messing with some things. I've got a fever right now and cba to look it up like this but I can do that tomorrow if you're not savvy enough to look for it.

I think if you got to Apple.com and log in to your id there you may find some breadcrumbs to your login password for your computer. There’s some scenario that allows for password recovery but I’m in a waiting room currently and can’t look into it. 

Someone texted my number by mistake the other day and I responded by being pretty cordial about it. They've started texting me "Hi" and "Hello" every day since, and asking me about my life. Apparently they manage a fitness equipment store. I can't quite tell if they're just incredibly lonely or they're some kind of solo phishing operation. They originally thought I was their best friend, someone named Alina. When I told them my name, they said "that's a very nice name, nice to meet you in a good way" and then asked me "what my day is about." I'm not opposed to having a random California number pen pal, but this is getting weird.

  On 12/21/2024 at 12:54 AM, luke viia said:

Someone texted my number by mistake the other day and I responded by being pretty cordial about it. They've started texting me "Hi" and "Hello" every day since, and asking me about my life. Apparently they manage a fitness equipment store. I can't quite tell if they're just incredibly lonely or they're some kind of solo phishing operation. They originally thought I was their best friend, someone named Alina. When I told them my name, they said "that's a very nice name, nice to meet you in a good way" and then asked me "what my day is about." I'm not opposed to having a random California number pen pal, but this is getting weird.

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Scam.  "Alina" gives it away.

  On 12/21/2024 at 1:15 AM, EdamAnchorman said:

Scam.  "Alina" gives it away.

Their name is Alyssa, apparently. They seemed legit concerned when I told them I wasn't Alina. What do you think they want? I can really only offer unhinged memes and lies.

  On 12/21/2024 at 1:27 AM, luke viia said:

 I can really only offer unhinged memes and lies.

Or just don't reply?

 That's what I/most people would do.