stupid first world problems you're dealing with

I'm quite tall and my natural walking pace is much faster than most peoples', so when walking alone I inevitably catch up with whoever else is walking in the same direction and have to slow down and wait for an opportunity to overtake. Despite how often this happens I still never seem to quite twig how dodgy it might look until I'm a few strides behind them. This has led to a couple of recent instances where I suddenly realise it must look like I'm shadowing some lone teenage girl. No I'm not stalking you, you just walk annoyingly slow you little shit

I'm also a fast walker, that shit always happens to me too. Why is everyone else so fucking slow?

  On 2/3/2017 at 8:52 PM, Tricone RC said:

I'm quite tall and my natural walking pace is much faster than most peoples', so when walking alone I inevitably catch up with whoever else is walking in the same direction and have to slow down and wait for an opportunity to overtake. Despite how often this happens I still never seem to quite twig how dodgy it might look until I'm a few strides behind them. This has led to a couple of recent instances where I suddenly realise it must look like I'm shadowing some lone teenage girl. No I'm not stalking you, you just walk annoyingly slow you little shit

This happens to me all the time, some slow poke walking in the middle of the sidewalk and I overtake them (I walk swiftly and silently) and sometimes they act very startled and annoyed "ah you came out of nowhere, scared me half to death!". Oh please...

FWP related to this: My partner walks at normie speeds so I have to match my pace to his when we walk together. Even so we still manage to walk faster than some people, but only slightly, so it creates these scenes in which we are barely overtaking a walker ahead of us or someone is barely overtaking us and there are moments where it feels like we are walking with this other person. It doesn't seem to bother Frank (my partner) at all but I find it pretty awkward at times.

i used to walk fast but then i gained weight.. i think you know what to do 

ah my fastwalking brethren

Death to pavement zombies!

  On 2/3/2017 at 8:52 PM, Tricone RC said:

I'm quite tall and my natural walking pace is much faster than most peoples', so when walking alone I inevitably catch up with whoever else is walking in the same direction and have to slow down and wait for an opportunity to overtake. Despite how often this happens I still never seem to quite twig how dodgy it might look until I'm a few strides behind them. This has led to a couple of recent instances where I suddenly realise it must look like I'm shadowing some lone teenage girl. No I'm not stalking you, you just walk annoyingly slow you little shit

this happens to me on a daily basis.

the worst is when they're staring at their phone and zigzagging down the sidewalk, walk in a straight fucking line so I can pass you without crossing the damn street

  On 2/3/2017 at 10:43 PM, hello spiral said:

Death to pavement zombies!

  On 2/3/2017 at 10:00 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

FWP related to this: My partner walks at normie speeds so I have to match my pace to his when we walk together. Even so we still manage to walk faster than some people, but only slightly, so it creates these scenes in which we are barely overtaking a walker ahead of us or someone is barely overtaking us and there are moments where it feels like we are walking with this other person. It doesn't seem to bother Frank (my partner) at all but I find it pretty awkward at times.

lock hands with Frank and the stranger to create an impenetrable wall that people approaching from the opposite direction have to step around awkwardly to avoid. sing a little ditty while you're at it.

  On 2/3/2017 at 11:15 PM, doublename said:

 

  On 2/3/2017 at 10:43 PM, hello spiral said:

Death to pavement zombies!

My legs are so god damn sore. I stood up all day yesterday.

my 5 year old nephew likes trump... i think cause his parents always bash the guy, he stands up for trump. funny

  On 2/3/2017 at 8:52 PM, Tricone RC said:

I'm quite tall and my natural walking pace is much faster than most peoples', so when walking alone I inevitably catch up with whoever else is walking in the same direction and have to slow down and wait for an opportunity to overtake. Despite how often this happens I still never seem to quite twig how dodgy it might look until I'm a few strides behind them. This has led to a couple of recent instances where I suddenly realise it must look like I'm shadowing some lone teenage girl. No I'm not stalking you, you just walk annoyingly slow you little shit

I'm normal height and still walk faster than most people. WALK WITH PURPOSE DAMMIT

major tooth ache. Feel like I need a root canal :(

general ennui

I started doing my taxes and noticed my company may have underpaid me for the year...

  On 1/26/2017 at 6:19 AM, ignatius said:

i don't have cable TV but i'm visiting family and every one has cable so i find myself sucked into the abyss

same thing happens whenever i goto visit my mother at her house. she always keeps the tv on. for some reason i find myself particularly affected by the commercials. they're so mind mindbogglingly stupid but i can't help but watch the train wreck

  On 2/5/2017 at 9:51 PM, juiceciuj said:

 

  On 1/26/2017 at 6:19 AM, ignatius said:

i don't have cable TV but i'm visiting family and every one has cable so i find myself sucked into the abyss

same thing happens whenever i goto visit my mother at her house. she always keeps the tv on. for some reason i find myself particularly affected by the commercials. they're so mind mindbogglingly stupid but i can't help but watch the train wreck

 

omg same here. Mainly at work. I struggle to explain effectively to other people how much normal television bothers me, in a way that I can't look away from or ignore. It makes me want everyone DEAD.

It's particularly tricky on nightshifts like now. Where I need to dominate the tv by getting a DVD on as quickly as possible, like a prick.

the walking speed thing finally has had me nearly bring it up

so what really irks me is i walk very fast, almost running, dunno why anyway it means that people commonly see me as a threat or competition and start hurriedly trying to walk fast than i am so i don't overtake them while looking around slightly shiftedly - but there is basically nothing they can do as half the time even at their fastest pace i am going twice as fast at them so they sorta stick their elbows out in a last chance defiant way like 'no i am going faster than you today mate' but - wtf this happens a few times a day - get over it and watch the ride prickfaces

then there is annoying inefficient zombies part 27: the supermarket shopper.

now these people go right INTO the items in the aisles so no-one else can see the items in that rack while they are like 'look i am shopping here right now fuck you it's my time to take ages to choose a butter' - seriously wtf stand back a little and catch the rays and take it all in like the 'rest' of us who can shop from any angle without needing to go in deep. 

anyway i digress, the populace are slow and stupid  - fucking get over it fenton

  On 2/6/2017 at 1:13 AM, fenton said:

 

then there is annoying inefficient zombies part 27: the supermarket shopper.

 

Oh, FUCK these people. I can't stand them. They're completely oblivious to everyone else trying to shop, those of us there that already know what we want, that want to be in/out of the supermarket?

  On 2/5/2017 at 5:54 PM, luke viia said:

major tooth ache. Feel like I need a root canal :(

wife had one recently, scary stuff but the meds they offer now and techniques/equipment they use is pretty advanced these days, lot less daunting than the past

hmm for some reason when using headphones through my amp (hooked up to computer) I hear tons of weird audio artifacts, almost like a quiet fax machine?

If I hook the headphones directly to the computer, no issues. If I use the amp with speakers hooked up to computer, no issues. =/

  On 2/6/2017 at 3:01 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 2/5/2017 at 5:54 PM, luke viia said:

major tooth ache. Feel like I need a root canal :(

wife had one recently, scary stuff but the meds they offer now and techniques/equipment they use is pretty advanced these days, lot less daunting than the past

 

I was shitting myself when I got a surprise root canal (I knew there was one planned but I guess my dentist had some cancelled appointments and suddenly during a different treatment said "hmm, we might as well start that route canal now")

It was actually a piece of piss, I nearly fell asleep in the chair.

  On 2/6/2017 at 4:09 AM, hello spiral said:

 

  On 2/6/2017 at 3:01 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 2/5/2017 at 5:54 PM, luke viia said:

major tooth ache. Feel like I need a root canal :(

wife had one recently, scary stuff but the meds they offer now and techniques/equipment they use is pretty advanced these days, lot less daunting than the past

 

 

I was shitting myself when I got a surprise root canal (I knew there was one planned but I guess my dentist had some cancelled appointments and suddenly during a different treatment said "hmm, we might as well start that route canal now")

It was actually a piece of piss, I nearly fell asleep in the chair.

 

heh, not mine. Apparently mine was super infected. After about 8 shots of local freezing agent it was still hurting like hell, the infection was disabling the freezing.

He said if the next shot didn't work he'd have to put me on antibiotics, etc. 

lol, when I went to get my painkillers from the pharmacy, I thought the girl was just being cute with me, smiling etc. Turns out it was because my face was covered in blood and half my face was drooping, looked like I stroked out.

  On 2/6/2017 at 3:27 AM, Bulk VanderHooj said:

hmm for some reason when using headphones through my amp (hooked up to computer) I hear tons of weird audio artifacts, almost like a quiet fax machine?

 

If I hook the headphones directly to the computer, no issues. If I use the amp with speakers hooked up to computer, no issues. =/

prob a ground loop hum! google it. annoying first world stuff. maybe through everything away and listen to silence.