stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 3/4/2014 at 10:28 AM, usagi said:

I made a funny comment on a Death Grips youtube video in response to Anthony Fantano and it keeps getting +1s. I keep getting notifications every time some bozo +1's it. it's been nearly 3 weeks. stop already.

Don't lie, i bet it gives you a boner every time.

i have a stupidly large workload as two of my colleagues have been made redundant and we have loads of new processes coming in.

9GAG and this site are the only things keeping me sane right now.

  On 3/4/2014 at 8:58 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Some jerks are coming over tomorrow at 9AM to fix up my balcony, and the next day, and the next day.

those fucking bastards

  On 3/4/2014 at 7:24 PM, baph said:

 

  On 3/4/2014 at 8:58 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Some jerks are coming over tomorrow at 9AM to fix up my balcony, and the next day, and the next day.

those fucking bastards

Godammit! How very dare they.

  On 3/4/2014 at 2:54 PM, MadameChaos said:

Leo didn't win an Oscar again

 

Barkhad Abdi should've won one (one won?) also

my mixin skills still are shit

i really want to quit one of my jobs, i'm not very good at it and it stresses me out for days, but my boss who is super nice keeps asking me if i want to work more and making the case that he really wants to keep me around. i want to quit but i could sorta use the money. bah.

  On 3/4/2014 at 11:21 PM, luke viia said:

i really want to quit one of my jobs, i'm not very good at it and it stresses me out for days, but my boss who is super nice keeps asking me if i want to work more and making the case that he really wants to keep me around. i want to quit but i could sorta use the money. bah.

can I ask what the job is that you think you aren't good at?

I was finally going to get health insurance after my gf and I get hitched in a week and some change, but she just quit her job to take a new one and the health insurance on that job won't kick in for a few months, so now I have to eat the uninsured penalty on (I guess?) my 2014 taxes because (I guess?) you can only be uninsured for 3 months in a one year period and if I apply right this second it may not kick in until well into April, not that I can really afford to toss $200+ on crappy high deductible insurance right now

basically THANKS OBAMA

but congrats lambytoes on the new job

^ what is it?

@ luke

  On 3/5/2014 at 12:13 AM, baph said:

I was finally going to get health insurance after my gf and I get hitched in a week and some change, but she just quit her job to take a new one and the health insurance on that job won't kick in for a few months, so now I have to eat the uninsured penalty on (I guess?) my 2014 taxes because (I guess?) you can only be uninsured for 3 months in a one year period and if I apply right this second it may not kick in until well into April, not that I can really afford to toss $200+ on crappy high deductible insurance right now

 

basically THANKS OBAMA

insurance is such a rort. it's exactly because of bollocks like that ^ that I ultimately didn't bother getting any (health insurance, that is). probably should at some point but I'd only really be interested in extras, not hospital cover.

(3 posts instead of 1, wtf)

I had to show 3 photo IDs in order to vote today. Dude behind the counter just wasn't 100% sure, or as he said specifically "are you like a spy or something?" My face is apparently inconsistent between mandated photos. Totally unexpected but I lol'd the whole time.

The great irony is that Voter ID (i.e. mandatory use of photo ID and not just voter card) was a huge controversial bill by the GOP that kept coming up over the years before finally passing. Yet here I was at a very Democratic heavy polling place with a presumably Democratic polling officer asking me to go beyond that.

  On 3/4/2014 at 8:08 PM, MadameChaos said:

 

  On 3/4/2014 at 7:24 PM, baph said:

 

  On 3/4/2014 at 8:58 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Some jerks are coming over tomorrow at 9AM to fix up my balcony, and the next day, and the next day.

those fucking bastards

Godammit! How very dare they.

 

I know, right? Then they showed up 3 hours late, right after I had adjusted to the idea that they were probably postponing it for another date.

  On 3/5/2014 at 12:12 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 3/4/2014 at 11:21 PM, luke viia said:

i really want to quit one of my jobs, i'm not very good at it and it stresses me out for days, but my boss who is super nice keeps asking me if i want to work more and making the case that he really wants to keep me around. i want to quit but i could sorta use the money. bah.

 

can I ask what the job is that you think you aren't good at?

 

  On 3/5/2014 at 12:14 AM, usagi said:

^ what is it?

they call me a "research technologist," lol. i'm just not into the job and i would like it to be passed off to someone who can really do it proper and actually enjoy the work -- but they're making it seem like i'm the one for the position since i've been working on this one particular machine for 9 months now, far more than anyone else in the lab has, and so i'm apparently an asset to them. (i recently picked up another job that's much more fitting for me, and it's something i enjoy, so i'm basically fwp'ing about the fact that my longer-standing job (technologist) is now asking me to be more involved, hinting at bringing me on full-time, etc... about a month after i told them i had accepted a second job elsewhere because i wasn't getting enough hours. lol.)

maybe i can offer to try to help find a replacement for my lab position through the same tech program i came out of... and i could even train them. that'd be a pretty good exit strategy i think.

new fwp: i just spent $350 on work gear for my other job. fucks sake construction gear is pricey. almost $200 on boots alone, sheesh!

I got pissed on by a rainbow lorikeet on my morning walk before bed yesterday. Yes i know it all comes out of the same hole so effectively i got shat on, but it was a clear liquid, probably down to their nectar based diet. Anyway, there was some low brush to duck under on the footpath and as i stooped to clear it i felt something warm distributing itself down my left arm, so turned around to see where it could have come from only to find in my eyeline a rainbow lorikeet staring back at me with as bemused an expression that an animal can have when it hasn't any facial muscles. After enough time to bury it's mirth at my misfortune deep into my psyche, it gave a little screech that it was going now, and flitted up to an higher branch to look for more of that sweet sweet nectar.

And no, it's piss wasn't rainbow coloured.

For the fastidious amongst you. There was one of those water fountain things not far from where i interfaced with the digestive drippings, so i could wash my arm.

lol

lollololol

that's cray cray

It didn't piss a rainbow like Gaylord Sweetwood's av then?

What does it meeeaaaaan

I'd pay good money to get pissed on by a bird like that.

That's one for the tournament right there!

Not so much an ongoing problem but a both very annoying and somewhat funny thing that happened last Thursday.

I went to Berlin with a friend last week for Eddie Izzard's show (which was hilarious!), but BEFORE the show, something incredibly enraging happened:

This was at the "Imperial Club", some nice-ish rather small bar/club type location in the basement of another club, your typical stand-up-comedy setting. Before the show, there was some music playing in the background, colored lights on, a bar, people talking. Me and my two friends got there about 45 minutes early, took seats in row 6-or-so, as the front was already taken. And I began to tell them a funny story while we waited, some rubbish about those old Cam-Rip SVCD bootlegs of popular films where you get people's silhouettes in the foreground - it was rubbish, really, but I told it in such a way that my friends were listening eagerly throughout, laughing. Right before I got to the actual conclusion of my story - the guy in the row before us - mid-20s, blond, possibly dyed, with an undercut, button-down shirt and a semi-transparent purple neckerchief - turned around and said:

"EXCUSE ME COULD YOU PLEASE NOT TALK SO LOUDLY, ME AND MY GIRLFRIEND DIDN'T COME HERE TO LISTEN TO SOMEBODY TELL RANDOM STORIES ABOUT SOMETHING!"

He kind of looked like this:

Me and my friends just kind of stared at him with the exact same expression, a bit like this:

... for about 10 seconds. I was both furious that he had ruined my punchline and amazed at the same time, especially amazed regarding the irony that someone said they "didn't come here to listen to random stories" at an EDDIE IZZARD SHOW.

When I caught my breath, the first thing I said to him, holding my ticket, was "Ohh .... I'm sorry ... mine says >comedy<, what does yours say?" - to which his girlfriend - anorexic blondie with high voice and tiny nose - replied: "You were being very loud, he is right! Please don't be so loud!"

Like I said, EVERYONE was talking, this was half an hour before the show, music on, and I wasn't even being loud in the first place! These guys wouldn't even have been able to hear me, had they been sitting a single row further to the front. I was kind of lost for words at this point, so I said "What is this, what's with this situation and people like you, I gotta get outta here - " and went outside with my friends who were both laughing furiously at this point, but I was still quiet in disbelief.

We returned to the same seats later to watch the show, I couldn't help but stare at the odd couple throughout. They were only laughing at the jokes that were somewhat-funny and remained quiet at the ones that had everyone freaking out. At one point, Izzard made a Monty Python reference, leading to them looking at each other and shrugging shoulders. The dude's laugh sounded a bit like that Austin Powers Supervillain in the beginning ("A-haaa .... a-haadeli-haaa!"), later it morphed into this chimp-like inhaling-noise as he was trying to catch his breath. His girl's laugh was a kind of inwards body-spasm accompanied by a short "Tchiihi." and a hand before her mouth every time, like she was apologizing for laughing or existing or both. I wasn't exactly sober anymore at this point (I had been throughout my "confrontation" with them though!), and I knew I was kind of ruining the show for myself by paying so much attention to these two people instead of just watching the damn show, but I had developed this thought in my head that I wanted to help them, and I got obsessed with the idea that I needed to give the dude the "advice" that they could get rid of all their problems if the dude would "fuck his girl up her ass just once" - I ended up not telling them though. Probably for the better. Might have ended in a fight or an extremely awkward threesome. /WATMM night out.

lolol wow

fucking hell, great double posts.

Rainbow shitting bird and fantasizing about teaching a cunt to fuck another cunt up the arse.

Bravo.

i lost my phone looooooooooooooooool :(