stupid first world problems you're dealing with

Furnace is broken again, no luck of getting anyone to repair it before next week. It's like 55 degrees in there (12.8 or so to my metric brothers) - my various house plants of which total in the dozens are very cold and unhappy.

Conclusion: Oil furnaces were built by the devil and illuminati, 911 was a part time job, 7 sides to a triangle, jet fuel and steel beams.

  On 12/23/2015 at 2:31 AM, ambermonk said:

Feeling jaded about the holiday season in general. Hyper-consumerism laden with pandemic stress, alcohol abuse, and family dysfunction.

Seems more trouble than it's worth anymore. Just glad I don't work in retail.

I feel you on that. Just hang out with the animals in whatever house your family ends up gathering in. My parents house has 4 cats and 2 dogs when everyone gets together, it's pretty fun to hang with them. I'm lucky my family avoids the abuse factor and just watches movies, some aren't so lucky.

I think the older you get, the less christmas means anything besides an obligation to spend money, visit family and gorge on liquor. Any gift I want is far to expensive to reasonably expect anyone to buy for me, and I suck at christmas shopping - it's not my holiday.

you guys need the spirit! tis the season of giving.

  On 12/23/2015 at 3:17 AM, Audioblysk said:

Furnace is broken again, no luck of getting anyone to repair it before next week. It's like 55 degrees in there (12.8 or so to my metric brothers) - my various house plants of which total in the dozens are very cold and unhappy.

 

Conclusion: Oil furnaces were built by the devil and illuminati, 911 was a part time job, 7 sides to a triangle, jet fuel and steel beams.

 

  On 12/23/2015 at 2:31 AM, ambermonk said:

Feeling jaded about the holiday season in general. Hyper-consumerism laden with pandemic stress, alcohol abuse, and family dysfunction.

 

Seems more trouble than it's worth anymore. Just glad I don't work in retail.

 

I feel you on that. Just hang out with the animals in whatever house your family ends up gathering in. My parents house has 4 cats and 2 dogs when everyone gets together, it's pretty fun to hang with them. I'm lucky my family avoids the abuse factor and just watches movies, some aren't so lucky.

 

I think the older you get, the less christmas means anything besides an obligation to spend money, visit family and gorge on liquor. Any gift I want is far to expensive to reasonably expect anyone to buy for me, and I suck at christmas shopping - it's not my holiday.

 

My X-Mas shopping approach is basically to gift card the shit out of everything, when you don't know what they want. I just hope come the 25th there's no drama on that day.

  On 12/23/2015 at 3:28 AM, yek said:

you guys need the spirit! tis the season of giving.

Like this Spirit?

^yes

It's 3am and I'm at work trying to read but my colleague has put on one of those America's Dumbest Criminals shows at (seemingly) full volume.

I can ignore the 50's 'murican newsreel narration and the dramatic music and cymbal crashes but what I can't ignore is all the dubbed effects they've added to silent CCTV footage (I think because it's kinda hilarious maybe?) I swear the punch noise they're using is from Streets of Rage or similar.

I have retreated to the office next door.

ex sex

shoot me now

  On 12/21/2015 at 8:55 PM, wasabi said:

 

  On 12/21/2015 at 7:32 PM, cwmbrancity said:

opening too many consecutive tabs in firefox, then it crashes, then wont reload the previous session after re-opening, then u have to go thru your own browser history with a fine toothpick to extract what u'll most prob miss anyway

 

not learning from it is an annoying habit in itself

 

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and ta v much Was

I was looking forward to some cheap subway sandwich goodness, but they were closed. Losers. So I went to fucking Bigwheel Burger, got the "ho ho ho special" and it was overpriced garbage of the lowest order. 12 goddamn dollars and they don't even give you fries or a drink. Their burgers are like Wendy's, but twice as messy and triple the price. Never again. (PS I would not have ordered it had the price been listed... originally I got garlic fries with it, would've brought the total price to $17!!! Fucking 0 class criminals running that establishment... NEVER AGAIN! *burns down a christmas tree*)

:(

I hate when that happens

i just had to write an email to a consumer explaining how to prepare a noodle based snack for which he could not find the fill line indicating the correct water level.

i had to explain that there was a picture of the pot with an arrow marked "fill level" just to the left of the instructions he quoted in his original email.

i sincerely fear for the future of humanity. what if this man was in charge of the world? just think about that for a minute.

I just touched my christmas tree before opening my laptop, didn't realise my hands were covered with spruce sap, which has now been inadvertently applied across most of my keyboard making it sticky and yucky

Also I have no biscuits to have with a tea this morning

FML

I think I offended my brother-in-law because my wife just let the cat out of the bag that I have a deep-seated, irrational hatred of Batman and he really liked the Nolan movies (which I hated most of all).

Also my Japanese sucks.

  On 12/23/2015 at 4:12 PM, sweepstakes said:

I think I offended my brother-in-law because my wife just let the cat out of the bag that I have a deep-seated, irrational hatred of Batman and he really liked the Nolan movies (which I hated most of all).

 

Also my Japanese sucks.

Watashi wa anata no nenchaku-sei no te wa subete no anata no rappu toppu-jō de ki no yūki o eru koto ni tsuite ōkina kanashimi o kanjitaga, watashi wa Battoman no anata no nikushimi no subete no jikan no saidai no sūpāhīrō o shitta toki, kore wa sugu ni jōhatsu sa semashita. Anata wa anata no kazoku o hazukashimemasu.

俺はもう日本語ができないもん、いえども北海道で留学したことあるのに。誰か助けてくれ。

だっていわゆる「第一世界問題」（FWP）なんです。

I'll be sad if OG Maco really has HIV/AIDS.

  On 12/23/2015 at 4:12 PM, sweepstakes said:

I think I offended my brother-in-law because my wife just let the cat out of the bag that I have a deep-seated, irrational hatred of Batman and he really liked the Nolan movies (which I hated most of all).

That first Nolan Batman movie really was awful, and it seemed the entire world went stupid over it. I couldn't stomach another of those, so I never saw the next one(s?).

I thought the first half was alright, but then it devolved into stupid. And yeah the next two got progressively more stupid. It's funny with so much backcatalogue to draw from and the whole thing basically story boarded for you by gifted artists of the day, why on earth do they not use this resource. Instead they have to give cousin morty's son a screen writing job and we end up with modern hollywood storytelling, a fatal carcrash between nepotistic hiring practises and the modern corporate design by committee.

mleh ...

Flats both on the way to and from work today. In the rain. Also apparently lost my saddle bag after fixing the first one this morning. Had sentimental value as it was a gift from my now retired favorite bike mechanic

It's going to be 75 degrees on Christmas day

Massive falling out with older brother--short version: his fault, always a jerk--and the reverberations are preventing me from concentrating on doing any meaningful work.

Brain is too worked up and full of ire to see right.

I'm in the middle of a cello editing nightmare and I can't wake up.

Yeah I only watched the first Nolan movie too, I can only assume that the others don't redeem it. I hated everything about it, and to be fair I came in expecting to hate it, but particularly how much everyone gushed about the "grit" of it. Like it's a dude in fucking tights with a twiddly ear mask, and you're enthusiastic about how serious this material is being treated? Get some fucking perspective. It's almost like a toilet for audiences to piss their feelings of helplessness and futility into instead of doing something useful, let alone talking or even thinking about genuine injustice. "But he's serious because his parents were MURDERED when he was a kid". Fuck you, this is fiction! How is that supposed to entertain me or teach me ANYTHING??

Lol, omfg see what I mean? I shouldn't even bring it up...

Reminds me of a certain plastic Batman toy that met his demise on a sidewalk in Montana...

  On 12/23/2015 at 4:48 PM, doublename said:

I'll be sad if OG Maco really has HIV/AIDS.

Lol r/hiphopheads and their vicious lies.

spending 2hrs IN an ambulance OUTSIDE A&E with a loved 1 in agony due to cancer complications waiting to be admitted, then 1 more hr IN A FKN CORRIDOR by a pediatric unit so a bunch of sicks kids could see my old man screaming in agony

yeah, bummer dude

still, at least we wont get fkn billed for it like other places round the world, small mercies

=[

that's rough man

Jeezus

I hope he pulls thru man. Seems like they should at least give him some anesthetic or morphine tho..