stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  KY said:

I don't know how to do one night stands. The thought literally took three days to cross my mind. My confidence too far in the shitter to even approach one night stands as a feasible option.

sorta similar fwp met a fucking awesome girl in da clubz i would like to see again, got her number but to scared to call. nearly had a panic attach earlier when i was about to ring her.

nearly hooked up with her that night, but she said i was too young for her, but wants to hang out again.

i want to meet her bad. i can't even remember the last time i met a human i actually wanted to talk to.

@KY jus meet both of them them and feed them drugs but do less than they do.

well if someone is incapacitated they can't really give consent, which probably explains why they aren't responding now that they're sober... so you're probably better off.

Does that mean I can file charges against every girl that's ever slept with me when I was drunk?

it is definitely a grey area. if you're both drunk it isn't as clear. but if the other person was taking advantage of their state, and feeding them drinks and drugs, then that's definitely rapey.

sorry to be a bummer

consent is for homos anyway. that's not how i roll.

IM POSTING IN WATMM

it's ok to joke about nonconsent as long as there are no women around. JEEZ GLUNK WHY U RUIN ALL THE FUNNY?

ps I personally believe that emotional issues are usually FAR more incapacitating than average drug/alcohol use. However one can lead to the other so there's some correlation.

IMO there's is only an issue if there is actual exploitation.

All of these girls that slept with me when I was drunk and they were sober...they are not rapists.

certainly

FWP: my sampler arrived unworking. FWS: solder! can't believe I fixed it without knowing anything about anything

  On 12/18/2012 at 6:11 AM, A/D said:

certainly

FWP: my sampler arrived unworking. FWS: solder! can't believe I fixed it without knowing anything about anything

which sampler?

  On 12/18/2012 at 3:46 AM, KY said:

I went to an all-night warehouse party and hooked up with two very cute girls on Friday (never have I made out with two women in one evening, so that was neat), but didn't realize until today that there was a good chance one (or both) wanted me to take them home with me.

 

I don't know how to do one night stands. The thought literally took three days to cross my mind. My confidence too far in the shitter to even approach one night stands as a feasible option.

 

Instead I got their numbers and sheepishly asked them out for drinks later this week, and no response(s). BACK TO SQUARE ONE

 

oh great and my post started a new page, fucking great

i feel ya bro, been there one too many times

  On 12/18/2012 at 6:11 AM, LimpyLoo said:

  On 12/18/2012 at 6:11 AM, A/D said:

certainly

FWP: my sampler arrived unworking. FWS: solder! can't believe I fixed it without knowing anything about anything

which sampler?

Akai S612. It arrived basically DOA, a bit poorly packed. Fortunately there was a big chunky capacitor just lolling around on the pcb. Soldered it back in place and full functionality restored! Lofi achieved.

Now to get all the MIDI things talking to each other . .

  On 12/18/2012 at 7:35 AM, A/D said:

Akai S612. It arrived basically DOA, a bit poorly packed. Fortunately there was a big chunky capacitor just lolling around on the pcb. Soldered it back in place and full functionality restored! Lofi achieved.

 

Now to get all the MIDI things talking to each other . .

Sweet sweet Akai 12-bit crunchiness. Congrats, my friend.

How's the sequencer?

Nice! Those seem super fun, especially with the loop point controls right on the front panel.

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dealing with a huge mental health crisis and i have a 15 page paper to write and a final on wednesday and i can't ddo this</p></blockquote>

yes, you can. you're a smart, awesome lady. GO KICK SOME ASS!!!!

ok, so i work in a bookstore. the company has a huge warehouse from which they send the stores i manage books that have these really obnoxious publisher stickers on them. when one such book sells on the internet my staff and i are obliged to remove the stickers before sending the books back to the warehouse to be packed and shipped to the customer. the other day i get an email from the warehouse saying they received a book to be packed from my store that still had a sticker on it. my coworkers are lazy and forgot to do it. so, the warehouse said they were going to send the fucking book back to the store so that we could remove the sticker. this would have delayed a paying customer's order by two business days. i told them it was a waste of time and the customer's patience. i'm a manager. two warehouse guys who are not managers gave me serious tude about it and talked about how they weren't going to "waste their time" "rewarding my staff" by taking the sticker off themselves and just sending the book off like proper fucking gents. so, a whole email exchange unfolded, the general manager stepped in and basically i had had enough and thought to just make a joke of it. so i wrote this email:

"Hi,

I will make sure that the staff is completely clear that they must remove the stickers before boxing the picks and if they do not do so they are not properly completing the job. Heads will roll. Empires will crumble. Despots will be deposed.

If by G-d a sticker should make its way to the warehouse do let me know and I'll try to get to the bottom of the tragedy and assail the culprit(s) with un-rewards. However, should that happen, definitely do not delay a paying customer's order by sending the book back to the store. That would be completely unprofessional.

Anyway, looks like we've duly exerted our energies over the tyrannical sticker in question so I'm going to go make sure my vessels of GOO-Begone! are at the ready and in a condition of flowing over, and this evening I will personally oversee all picks-related hardships. I hope I am up to the challenge.

Alcofribas"

now, this appeared to me to be completely facetious and sarcastic as it did to my other manager who thougt it was the cause of the lols that she emitted whilst reading it.

however, this morning i get an email from the warehouse in which i am told that "managers should act like managers not petulent children who get their feelings hurt when they're told to do their job." the person who sent this is not a manager. and keep in mind this is still just about a fucking sticker on a book.

so my Lady Alcofribas (who works with me) advises me to call the warehouse and clear it up. i call. i calmly and respectfully explain that my email was clearly a joke and i was just trying to make light of the situation but i do apologize for any hurt feelings. i explained that i felt it was completely inappropriate both professionally and personally for me to be called a "petulant child" by a coworker, especially one who i hardly know and who isn't a manager himself. he totally lost his shit. he said he didn't believe me that i was joking and that i just "didn't have the balls to man up." he said he has been in the book business longer than i've been alive (pretty sure he's like 10 years older than me) and thus demands a "great deal of respect" and if i want him to respect me well, he "has no reason to." he explained that if i wanted to have a "linguistic conversation" (i declined) he would "get all structuralist on my ass." i was like, look, there's just no need to call me names and tell me how to do my job. if you have some beef about work jbc, don't be all snooty and send books back to me so my staff can remove a sticker. that's asinine. he then explained that since i said my email was a joke so was his. i told him he was being insincere. he said so what? i said, well, what's the point of that? etc etc etc

the conversation ended with him saying he was too mad to continue.

so, normally upper management would chime in here. but upper management is full of shit. the general manager is a cunning little liar who is constantly bad mouthing me and other managers and lying to people about shit he fucked up so that other people take the blame. he's also a sexist pig. he's rude, dishonest and sadly full of himself even though he's a fucking loser. his boss is the owner. he's useless for this kind of thing (and most things in general). the hr manager? the owner's girlfriend. she didnt come into work this weekend because she was "too broken up about the shootings in CT." if you meet her for one second you'll realize this is complete bs since she's as heartless as it gets.

and i'm not even on the fucking clock right.

p.s. the warehouse workers aren't black, if that's what you were thinking lol

i've lost faith in humanity and I do wish the world ends soon, for us to revive like haunting souls craving for vengeance through space and beyond

  On 12/18/2012 at 6:21 PM, Alcofribas said:

ok, so i work in a bookstore. the company has a huge warehouse from which they send the stores i manage books that have these really obnoxious publisher stickers on them. when one such book sells on the internet my staff and i are obliged to remove the stickers before sending the books back to the warehouse to be packed and shipped to the customer. the other day i get an email from the warehouse saying they received a book to be packed from my store that still had a sticker on it. my coworkers are lazy and forgot to do it. so, the warehouse said they were going to send the fucking book back to the store so that we could remove the sticker. this would have delayed a paying customer's order by two business days. i told them it was a waste of time and the customer's patience. i'm a manager. two warehouse guys who are not managers gave me serious tude about it and talked about how they weren't going to "waste their time" "rewarding my staff" by taking the sticker off themselves and just sending the book off like proper fucking gents. so, a whole email exchange unfolded, the general manager stepped in and basically i had had enough and thought to just make a joke of it. so i wrote this email:

 

"Hi,

 

I will make sure that the staff is completely clear that they must remove the stickers before boxing the picks and if they do not do so they are not properly completing the job. Heads will roll. Empires will crumble. Despots will be deposed.

 

If by G-d a sticker should make its way to the warehouse do let me know and I'll try to get to the bottom of the tragedy and assail the culprit(s) with un-rewards. However, should that happen, definitely do not delay a paying customer's order by sending the book back to the store. That would be completely unprofessional.

 

Anyway, looks like we've duly exerted our energies over the tyrannical sticker in question so I'm going to go make sure my vessels of GOO-Begone! are at the ready and in a condition of flowing over, and this evening I will personally oversee all picks-related hardships. I hope I am up to the challenge.

 

Alcofribas"

 

now, this appeared to me to be completely facetious and sarcastic as it did to my other manager who thougt it was the cause of the lols that she emitted whilst reading it.

 

however, this morning i get an email from the warehouse in which i am told that "managers should act like managers not petulent children who get their feelings hurt when they're told to do their job." the person who sent this is not a manager. and keep in mind this is still just about a fucking sticker on a book.

 

so my Lady Alcofribas (who works with me) advises me to call the warehouse and clear it up. i call. i calmly and respectfully explain that my email was clearly a joke and i was just trying to make light of the situation but i do apologize for any hurt feelings. i explained that i felt it was completely inappropriate both professionally and personally for me to be called a "petulant child" by a coworker, especially one who i hardly know and who isn't a manager himself. he totally lost his shit. he said he didn't believe me that i was joking and that i just "didn't have the balls to man up." he said he has been in the book business longer than i've been alive (pretty sure he's like 10 years older than me) and thus demands a "great deal of respect" and if i want him to respect me well, he "has no reason to." he explained that if i wanted to have a "linguistic conversation" (i declined) he would "get all structuralist on my ass." i was like, look, there's just no need to call me names and tell me how to do my job. if you have some beef about work jbc, don't be all snooty and send books back to me so my staff can remove a sticker. that's asinine. he then explained that since i said my email was a joke so was his. i told him he was being insincere. he said so what? i said, well, what's the point of that? etc etc etc

 

the conversation ended with him saying he was too mad to continue.

 

so, normally upper management would chime in here. but upper management is full of shit. the general manager is a cunning little liar who is constantly bad mouthing me and other managers and lying to people about shit he fucked up so that other people take the blame. he's also a sexist pig. he's rude, dishonest and sadly full of himself even though he's a fucking loser. his boss is the owner. he's useless for this kind of thing (and most things in general). the hr manager? the owner's girlfriend. she didnt come into work this weekend because she was "too broken up about the shootings in CT." if you meet her for one second you'll realize this is complete bs since she's as heartless as it gets.

 

and i'm not even on the fucking clock right.

 

p.s. the warehouse workers aren't black, if that's what you were thinking lol

lol JBC man you're right

right???

my first post in this thread:

i'm out of pot. time to face some emotions i've been avoiding for the past few months.

also, shaky hands. :(

I want to play SNES games while on class or on the bus/train, but I can't find a decent smartphone without those shitty touchscreen controls nor a decent emulator.

  On 12/18/2012 at 6:29 PM, logakght said:

i've lost faith in humanity and I do wish the world ends soon, for us to revive like haunting souls craving for vengeance through space and beyond

Let's not and say we did.

  On 12/18/2012 at 7:39 PM, Alcofribas said:

right???

Alcofribas you missed an open invitation to get post-structuralist on his structuralist ass and explain calmly that the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as pound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

(what I'm saying is just pull some Judith Butler quotes from google and watch his head asplode)