stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Twitter replaced favs with likes and the star is now a heart.......................................... UGH

UGH

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  On 11/3/2015 at 1:31 PM, MDM Chaos said:

we keep getting these letters at work which spout anti-women vitriol like "women are cunts and deserve to get punched in the tits and die from ebola".

 

and it makes me so sad to get this, i mean you'd think in this day and age a grown adult would at least be able to get access to the internet for this.

 

i mean seriously, who writes a letter? can they not get a local library membership? have they not even got a smart phone? i mean ffs!

Low-tech trolls are to be taken even less seriously than contemporary internet ones. At least those letters could be saved for the fireplace, especially with colder weather now.

  On 11/3/2015 at 3:53 PM, hello spiral said:

Don't you make dick ice lollys or something?

feminist penis tho

If there's a scale of things I imagine may wind-up an MRA type, a factory of women making penis shaped ice lollys may be quite high up on it.

  On 11/3/2015 at 4:41 PM, ambermonk said:

 

  On 11/3/2015 at 1:31 PM, MDM Chaos said:

we keep getting these letters at work which spout anti-women vitriol like "women are cunts and deserve to get punched in the tits and die from ebola".

 

and it makes me so sad to get this, i mean you'd think in this day and age a grown adult would at least be able to get access to the internet for this.

 

i mean seriously, who writes a letter? can they not get a local library membership? have they not even got a smart phone? i mean ffs!

Low-tech trolls are to be taken even less seriously than contemporary internet ones. At least those letters could be saved for the fireplace, especially with colder weather now.

 

no, take pics of the letters and post them

for posterity's sake

sorry, the letters are classified.

I have the clingiest, most confused new client ever... and he only recorded a couple overdubs with me. Two hours of recording and-- 165 texts!!

This, and I'm not even the main producer.

today i find out if some government cunt has officially declared me a spazz

you get exclusive parking & slightly cheaper rail prices....... how fuckin generous, kinda like giving you the finger twice, fisted even

if i was into that you'd see the meaning change

sorry, can i say cunts again, cathartic swearing

  On 11/4/2015 at 5:46 AM, xxx said:

 

  On 11/2/2015 at 6:00 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I think everything else may be contributing to my dour mood. Especially those Machina albums.

Can confirm. All I listened to was Machina/Machines of the Gods in the first half of 2000 and it was among the lowest points in my life. I pretty much never listen to it anymore despite it being a really good album.

Heheh I summed it up to my friend as a "heinously bad album" shortly after listening... I was excited to hear it again though, thinking I may have judged it too harshly as a young music snob. To me most of it sounds like unfinished song demos. It's like Flood mixed Everlasting Gaze then gave up and let Billy do his worst. Machina II had some potential. I'd be curious to hear a version that's actually been mastered. Could Corgan not afford to hire a mastering engineer without label support? Some perfectionist!

MCatIS on the other hand... that album is almost a masterpiece. It sort of dies halfway through the second half, but the rest is damn near brilliant. Really enjoyed listening to that one again.

I've never listened to any SP album after MCatIS.

Continue to talk about them pls.

What's Adore like?

FWP: finally starting to demarcate the divide between adulthood and that period of irresponsible extended adolescence, mostly spurred by uncomfortable revelations regarding money, solvency, socioeconomic realities, etc...

Finding myself feeling disturbingly nostalgic for cultural ephemera from my teenage years, a time when I, quite literally, had zero concept of the concerns I am now saddled with. Makes me wonder what sort of scope my concerns will encompass a decade down the line and how I'll feel about decisions I've made/am about to make.

  On 11/4/2015 at 10:11 AM, hello spiral said:

I've never listened to any SP album after MCatIS.

 

Continue to talk about them pls.

 

What's Adore like?

Adore was actually the album that got me (sort of) into SP, I think largely because I sought music that bridged the gap between rock/pop music and electronica/industrial the way Downward Spiral did... and coming up empty handed for the most part. It's the album where they were without drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, and rather than find a replacement drummer they opted to go the electronic route, with mixed results. There are a few songs with session drummers as well. Anyway, I do think the songwriting suffered somehow, and they lost a lot of the dynamics they had in previously albums, understandably. It's not terrible, but certainly doesn't come together as cohesively as Mellon Collie or SD. It lost some of the magic, but was an otherwise decent effort considering they had just lost such an integral part of the band. The Machina stuff and Zeitgeist "reunion" is pretty embarrassing imo. Oceania era was much better than I expected, but... if it didn't have the historical ties to the SP legacy, it's unlikely it would be of interest to me. Fantastic new drummer though --I think he may have inspired some musical life back into the Corgan.

  On 11/4/2015 at 10:52 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

FWP: finally starting to demarcate the divide between adulthood and that period of irresponsible extended adolescence, mostly spurred by uncomfortable revelations regarding money, solvency, socioeconomic realities, etc...

Finding myself feeling disturbingly nostalgic for cultural ephemera from my teenage years, a time when I, quite literally, had zero concept of the concerns I am now saddled with. Makes me wonder what sort of scope my concerns will encompass a decade down the line and how I'll feel about decisions I've made/am about to make.

omg I am going through this exactly. Hence the SP discog listening, which is now being followed up with selections from the NIN catalogue. It's sad times.... although hearing the downward spiral era remixes again is pretty exciting. Bittersweet though, as it really hits home what little I've accomplished with my life.

  On 11/4/2015 at 9:40 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 11/4/2015 at 10:52 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

FWP: finally starting to demarcate the divide between adulthood and that period of irresponsible extended adolescence, mostly spurred by uncomfortable revelations regarding money, solvency, socioeconomic realities, etc...

Finding myself feeling disturbingly nostalgic for cultural ephemera from my teenage years, a time when I, quite literally, had zero concept of the concerns I am now saddled with. Makes me wonder what sort of scope my concerns will encompass a decade down the line and how I'll feel about decisions I've made/am about to make.

 

omg I am going through this exactly. Hence the SP discog listening, which is now being followed up with selections from the NIN catalogue. It's sad times.... although hearing the downward spiral era remixes again is pretty exciting. Bittersweet though, as it really hits home what little I've accomplished with my life.

 

We have some catching up to do ;)

I'll be in Vic from the 16th to the 30th of Dec. Just bought my tickets :D

  On 11/4/2015 at 11:33 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

still dealing with weird bs bladder problem. been to the doctor 3 times, official response = "i dunno lol"

 

urine test = "i dunno lol". no blood though which is good.

subscribed anti biotics for prostatitis even though an overwhelming majority of cases do not respond to anti biotics. also i don't really have any pain anywhere and from what i've read it can be a painful illness.

 

basically what happens is i'll have to go pee, and then i pee a very small amount, and when i'm done i still feel like i have to go still. it waxes and wanes - some days i don't have much urgency and feel more or less normal. other days it is quite frustrating and i don't feel any relief at all.. often i have to wake up several times in the night (last night was every friggin 2 hours).

 

it's made me pretty glum, i just want to know wtf is going on.

This sounds so horrible :(

I have actually thought about how awful this would be to have. Have you seen a specialist, like a urologist, yet? Even more frustrating if so.

  On 11/4/2015 at 11:33 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

still dealing with weird bs bladder problem. been to the doctor 3 times, official response = "i dunno lol"

 

urine test = "i dunno lol". no blood though which is good.

subscribed anti biotics for prostatitis even though an overwhelming majority of cases do not respond to anti biotics. also i don't really have any pain anywhere and from what i've read it can be a painful illness.

 

basically what happens is i'll have to go pee, and then i pee a very small amount, and when i'm done i still feel like i have to go still. it waxes and wanes - some days i don't have much urgency and feel more or less normal. other days it is quite frustrating and i don't feel any relief at all.. often i have to wake up several times in the night (last night was every friggin 2 hours).

 

it's made me pretty glum, i just want to know wtf is going on.

prostate?

theres all kinds of piping n pressure points

jus sayin as not to spin/freak u out my old man has prostate cancer and those were all the classic symptoms

not being able to piss needs addressing is the badly made point

I kinda wanna buy a Southern Lord records T-shirt, but I'm slightly worried someone's not gonna know that it's a record label and I'm gonna get called a racist or something.

I just found out Substrata Festival is no longer a thing, due to Irisarri moving to NY. :( I've never even been to Seattle but I had been excited by the fact that a concept like that was successful and thriving in some city.

I can't distinguish Devo from Kraftwerk until the vocals come in... but then I discover which one it is and it all seems so obvious. (It's a recurring thing on this sanza playlist I've been listening to tonight.) Also, I am way drunker than usual, and waking up tomorrow will suck bad.

  On 11/4/2015 at 9:53 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

 

  On 11/4/2015 at 9:40 PM, Zephyr_Nova said:

 

  On 11/4/2015 at 10:52 AM, Goiter Sanchez said:

FWP: finally starting to demarcate the divide between adulthood and that period of irresponsible extended adolescence, mostly spurred by uncomfortable revelations regarding money, solvency, socioeconomic realities, etc...

Finding myself feeling disturbingly nostalgic for cultural ephemera from my teenage years, a time when I, quite literally, had zero concept of the concerns I am now saddled with. Makes me wonder what sort of scope my concerns will encompass a decade down the line and how I'll feel about decisions I've made/am about to make.

 

omg I am going through this exactly. Hence the SP discog listening, which is now being followed up with selections from the NIN catalogue. It's sad times.... although hearing the downward spiral era remixes again is pretty exciting. Bittersweet though, as it really hits home what little I've accomplished with my life.

 

We have some catching up to do ;)

I'll be in Vic from the 16th to the 30th of Dec. Just bought my tickets :D

 

Fuck yeah!

They said the layoffs were done but then when I came in I found out my friend was let go. Great for morale! Thanks guys!!!

"let go". what a shitty way of deflecting the responsibility for sacking someone. "I'm not firing you, I'm letting you go, free, into the great wide world of unemployment!"

  On 11/5/2015 at 8:52 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

I can't distinguish Devo from Kraftwerk until the vocals come in... but then I discover which one it is and it all seems so obvious

hah, that's odd... What albums/tracks are you talking about?

  On 11/5/2015 at 11:39 AM, usagi said:

"let go". what a shitty way of deflecting the responsibility for sacking someone. "I'm not firing you, I'm letting you go, free, into the great wide world of unemployment!"

He was a temp and just got a call from the agency a couple hours after his last shift telling him not to go in. And this is 2 weeks after they said reassuringly, "It's over." Everyone's pissed.

yeah, that's very familiar to me. HR people are particularly cunty with temps. regularly used to get calls telling me not to come in for the day "cos there's no work" when actually there is work but they're doing it on the cheap with less people. being a temp means being treated so, it's the whole reason temping became a thing.

if you're lucky you might land in an organisation that actually values its temps and can recognise their talents and provide them opportunities to progress into permanent employment. I was lucky enough to land in such a place and have a helpful/supportive boss who encouraged me to keep going. fuck knows where I'd be otherwise by now, probably at home in an impoverished drugged-up stupor or dead or something.

this is all very fitting conversation while listening to Sleaford Mods btw.