What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.)

[tp4tissue]

my phone is going ****ing nuts

OMG pai, ur so Popular...  let me call you.. pick up' the phoneee

[paicrai]

my phone is going ****ing nuts

OMG pai, ur so Popular...  let me call you.. pick up' the phoneee

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no i mean its full of scanlines, static and other artifacts because ive dropped it more times than the bass does in a white dudebro's music playlist
edit: the backlight fell off my screen

[paicrai]

on another note of what's bothering me, brian molko isnt mine
that ****ing angel

[ttzhou]

a dude at my boxing gym hasn't showed up in like 8 months after an argument with my coach. I never got to spar him, but he was good and I would have loved to do a couple of rounds with him.

today my coach pulled me aside and told me that two weeks ago, he was in a motorcycle accident and went into a coma. doctors are saying he's a vegetable and life support would only keep him breathing - no chance of recovery.

dude was my age. blink of an eye, gone. i can't even imagine the pain his parents are going through.

this was an eye opener for me: life is precious and you only get one chance folks. enjoy your life and your family and friends and cherish every moment you have with them. life is too short for drama, hate, and bull****.

[heedpantsnow]

a dude at my boxing gym hasn't showed up in like 8 months after an argument with my coach. I never got to spar him, but he was good and I would have loved to do a couple of rounds with him.

today my coach pulled me aside and told me that two weeks ago, he was in a motorcycle accident and went into a coma. doctors are saying he's a vegetable and life support would only keep him breathing - no chance of recovery.

dude was my age. blink of an eye, gone. i can't even imagine the pain his parents are going through.

this was an eye opener for me: life is precious and you only get one chance folks. enjoy your life and your family and friends and cherish every moment you have with them. life is too short for drama, hate, and bull****.

+1 about life is too short. Stinks to hear about that guy.

Yesterday my wife and I were next to a guy on the interstate, RIDING A MOTORCYCLE AND TEXTING at 80 mph. Good gosh dude. We literally prayed as he passed us that he wouldn't be in a wreck.

[HoffmanMyster]

I got called into work at 19:30, got hopped up on caffeine since I knew I'd be there awhile, and left at 23:30.  Now I can't sleep. 

[demik]

you're in america, use real times you commie

[beehatch]

you're in america, use real times you commie

concur, you know better than to confuse us peons

[HoffmanMyster]

you're in america, use real times you commie

concur, you know better than to confuse us peons

CALLED IN AT 7:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
WENT HOME AT 11:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
HAD TO DRINK A LOT OF MOUNTAIN DEW TO STAY AWAKE.
NOW I CAN'T SLEEP.

[demik]

you're in america, use real times you commie

concur, you know better than to confuse us peons

CALLED IN AT 7:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
WENT HOME AT 11:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
HAD TO DRINK A LOT OF MOUNTAIN DEW TO STAY AWAKE.
NOW I CAN'T SLEEP.

and it's freedom o' clock.

[byker]

you're in america, use real times you commie

concur, you know better than to confuse us peons

CALLED IN AT 7:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
WENT HOME AT 11:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
HAD TO DRINK A LOT OF MOUNTAIN DEW TO STAY AWAKE.
NOW I CAN'T SLEEP.

Come play CS go! Or reply to that pm I send a few days ago. 

[beehatch]

you're in america, use real times you commie

concur, you know better than to confuse us peons

CALLED IN AT 7:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
WENT HOME AT 11:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
HAD TO DRINK A LOT OF MOUNTAIN DEW TO STAY AWAKE.
NOW I CAN'T SLEEP.

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and it's freedom o' clock.

well I didn't expect that to be in all caps

[HoffmanMyster]

Come play CS go! Or reply to that pm I send a few days ago. 

Too bad at CS:GO, haha.

And the response is no, sorry.    But I haven't responded fully because no caps here because moving.  :-/

I'm just full of disappointment tonight!   :O

[demik]

I'm just full of disappointment tonight!   :O

story of my life ;_;

[tp4tissue]

I'm just full of disappointment tonight!   :O

story of my life ;_;

I was drinking earlier, and gave a sex-ed talk on IRC.. 

Then I watched super girl

I'm sober now though.

[demik]

I'm just full of disappointment tonight!   :O

story of my life ;_;

I was drinking earlier, and gave a sex-ed talk on IRC..

I'm sober now though.

sex-ed talk on irc


for some reason, that's quite fitting.

[byker]

Come play CS go! Or reply to that pm I send a few days ago. 

Too bad at CS:GO, haha.

And the response is no, sorry.    But I haven't responded fully because no caps here because moving.  :-/

I'm just full of disappointment tonight!   :O

You don't have to be good to play! And sounds good, just let me know once you've moved. No rush on my end.

[ander]

My wife has developed the disturbing habit of getting mad at me because she thought I did something, or didn't do something (e.g. forgot to do it) with the deliberate intention of annoying her, disappointing her, or any number of other imagined evil motivations.

Sure, I forget to do things now and then—but it's usually because I'm distracted thinking about three or four other things I'm supposed to do. I never do (or don't do) anything to intentionally be negligent, or upset her.

Trouble is, when I try to explain, she doesn't believe a word I say. Instead, she tells me what my true intentions were. She actually thinks she knows more about my own thoughts and feelings than I do.

The irony is, I'm always trying to find ways to be useful around the house, and to do nice things for her, but she seems oblivious to that. For some reason, she seems to have decided that I'm a bad, undesirable guy. And I assure you, I'm nothing of the kind. What can a person do in a situation like this?

[septamber]

Can't sleep till the wee hours of the morning on weekends and I still wake up super early with no alarm. Why! 

[katushkin]

My wife has developed the disturbing habit of getting mad at me because she thought I did something, or didn't do something (e.g. forgot to do it) with the deliberate intention of annoying her, disappointing her, or any number of other imagined evil motivations.

Sure, I forget to do things now and then—but it's usually because I'm distracted thinking about three or four other things I'm supposed to do. I never do (or don't do) anything to intentionally be negligent, or upset her.

Trouble is, when I try to explain, she doesn't believe a word I say. Instead, she tells me what my true intentions were. She actually thinks she knows more about my own thoughts and feelings than I do.

The irony is, I'm always trying to find ways to be useful around the house, and to do nice things for her, but she seems oblivious to that. For some reason, she seems to have decided that I'm a bad, undesirable guy. And I assure you, I'm nothing of the kind. What can a person do in a situation like this?

There is nothing you can do. For whatever reason, women like to think that they know you better than you know yourself. They know that you actually mean to say they are a horrible ugly person when you tell them how attractive they are. They ask you a question, get the answer, then disregard it.

Literally nothing you can do.

[ander]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod—it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

[baldgye]

PS3 died, 8 years worth of saves etc
Buy new PS3 play it for a bit
Install old PS3 hdd into new PS3, can't do that, lost everything
Put new PS3 hdd back, can't do that, lost everything


This is probably going to mean that I won't be investing in a console again, for a very long time.
I've had PC's up and die on me a fair bit, but I don't loose my data, I keep it, on those drives. But because of some ****wit autistic design on a console, if it ****s a brick, that's it, it's all gone. Hell not even the ps2 has this kind of ****ing ****.

[ApocalypseMaow]

you're in america, use real times you commie

concur, you know better than to confuse us peons

CALLED IN AT 7:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
WENT HOME AT 11:30PM FREEDOM TIME.
HAD TO DRINK A LOT OF MOUNTAIN DEW TO STAY AWAKE.
NOW I CAN'T SLEEP.

Military Time is best time 

[katushkin]

PS3 died, 8 years worth of saves etc
Buy new PS3 play it for a bit
Install old PS3 hdd into new PS3, can't do that, lost everything
Put new PS3 hdd back, can't do that, lost everything


This is probably going to mean that I won't be investing in a console again, for a very long time.
I've had PC's up and die on me a fair bit, but I don't loose my data, I keep it, on those drives. But because of some ****wit autistic design on a console, if it ****s a brick, that's it, it's all gone. Hell not even the ps2 has this kind of ****ing ****.

I spend £50 on a pre-owned old shape 360 so I could put my old hard drive back on it. There was no way I was losing all of that.

Integrated, non-upgradeable designs are ****ing stupid. Consoles should take a leaf out of the new wave of gaming desktops and have options to upgrade.

[katushkin]

Also, some genius has decided to prevent us from installing any other browsers on our thin clients at work. We have been downloading Google Chrome for compatibility reasons for some web applications, and even some of our windows servers have firefox and chrome on. Yes it would get removed when we logged out for security reasons, but we could always install it again.

Now we can install either firefox or chrome, the installers just break.

So I'm using:

Internet

Explorer

NINE

[Fire Brand]

PS3 died, 8 years worth of saves etc
Buy new PS3 play it for a bit
Install old PS3 hdd into new PS3, can't do that, lost everything
Put new PS3 hdd back, can't do that, lost everything


This is probably going to mean that I won't be investing in a console again, for a very long time.
I've had PC's up and die on me a fair bit, but I don't loose my data, I keep it, on those drives. But because of some ****wit autistic design on a console, if it ****s a brick, that's it, it's all gone. Hell not even the ps2 has this kind of ****ing ****.

Have you thought about refowing it just to have it turn on and then copy the data to usb? That is if it's a graphics issue :x kinda sucks sorry man :/

[baldgye]

My old PS3 won't even boot, no idea what the problem is, I'm going to have to call Sony when I'm back at my place and see if it can be fixed so I can recover that **** to a USB, still though... What ****wit thought it was a good idea to lock hdd's to system and not just ps3's... Like it makes zero sense, I bought two systems, just give me my ducking save data back what the ****

[demik]

My wife has developed the disturbing habit of getting mad at me because she thought I did something, or didn't do something (e.g. forgot to do it) with the deliberate intention of annoying her, disappointing her, or any number of other imagined evil motivations.

Sure, I forget to do things now and then�but it's usually because I'm distracted thinking about three or four other things I'm supposed to do. I never do (or don't do) anything to intentionally be negligent, or upset her.

Trouble is, when I try to explain, she doesn't believe a word I say. Instead, she tells me what my true intentions were. She actually thinks she knows more about my own thoughts and feelings than I do.

The irony is, I'm always trying to find ways to be useful around the house, and to do nice things for her, but she seems oblivious to that. For some reason, she seems to have decided that I'm a bad, undesirable guy. And I assure you, I'm nothing of the kind. What can a person do in a situation like this?

There is nothing you can do. For whatever reason, women like to think that they know you better than you know yourself. They know that you actually mean to say they are a horrible ugly person when you tell them how attractive they are. They ask you a question, get the answer, then disregard it.

Literally nothing you can do.

You can tell them to **** off.

[katushkin]

With a wife it's not that easy.

[paicrai]

wow my phone really really means it

[fohat.digs]

What can a person do in a situation like this?

There is nothing you can do. For whatever reason, women  like to  think that they know you better than you know yourself.

They ask you a question, get the answer, then disregard it.

Literally nothing you can do.

I am afraid that I must agree, although while it is sometimes true, it is not always true.

My conclusion is that some people are fundamentally logical, and some people are fundamentally emotional. And while this can change over time for a variety of reasons, it is very rare for an emotional person to become logical, but it is much more common for a logical person to become emotional.

I have not found a way to deal with emotion on any level. Whichever way you go, it enables/encourages greater emotionalism, even with a "yes, dear, you are totally right and I am a complete turd" only encourages greater extravagance of emotion in the next go-around.

Do you have kids? My greatest fear is that my son and daughter will observe this and consider it to be normal and acceptable behavior.

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PS - about that quoting/hanging thing - I can't quote ander or katushkin quoting ander, but I could quote demik quoting them and then delete demik.

[tp4tissue]

PS - about that quoting/hanging thing - I can't quote ander or katushkin quoting ander, but I could quote demik quoting them and then delete demik.

I will make a thread to address this..

[tp4tissue]

My wife has developed the disturbing habit of getting mad at me because she thought I did something, or didn't do something (e.g. forgot to do it) with the deliberate intention of annoying her, disappointing her, or any number of other imagined evil motivations.

Sure, I forget to do things now and then—but it's usually because I'm distracted thinking about three or four other things I'm supposed to do. I never do (or don't do) anything to intentionally be negligent, or upset her.

Trouble is, when I try to explain, she doesn't believe a word I say. Instead, she tells me what my true intentions were. She actually thinks she knows more about my own thoughts and feelings than I do.

The irony is, I'm always trying to find ways to be useful around the house, and to do nice things for her, but she seems oblivious to that. For some reason, she seems to have decided that I'm a bad, undesirable guy. And I assure you, I'm nothing of the kind. What can a person do in a situation like this?

Hi Ander.

Sorry to hear about your troubles at home.

It would seem you and your wife have drifted apart and become emotionally distant.

Tp4 has a large extended family, and he has witnessed many times over how things tend to fall apart


The thing you need to really watch out for is your family finances.

The emotional boy-girl issues can always be fixed, AS LONG AS there's no financial pressure on your livelihood.


Often problems at home disturb external outlooks, which dampens job performance/ income -->  then someone says: "all you do is eat and spend my money" --> separation --> divorce..


KEEP your money straight.. nothing else is as important..


Love is NOT strong enough to overcome HUNGER/COLD

[bcredbottle]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod—it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

No that's when she'll cut your balls off. She'll keep doing this **** as long as you let her.

[tp4tissue]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod—it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

No that's when she'll cut your balls off. She'll keep doing this **** as long as you let her.

Remember when Ya'll said Tp4 = misogynistic.

LOL.. Bcredbottle.. hahahaha, there's so much h8 in your wurds.

[katushkin]

Basically, when I say you can't do anything, what I mean is you can't do anything without upsetting her.

What I did on Thursday is confront my gf about something. She got mad. Like, really mad. I ended up apologising, saying I shouldn't have said anything, but I think she did actually accept what I said, because deep down, she knew I was right.

If you say the right things and tell her she's doing something wrong. If she's in the wrong, after a while she should realise and come clean.

[tp4tissue]

Basically, when I say you can't do anything, what I mean is you can't do anything without upsetting her.

What I did on Thursday is confront my gf about something. She got mad. Like, really mad. I ended up apologising, saying I shouldn't have said anything, but I think she did actually accept what I said, because deep down, she knew I was right.

If you say the right things and tell her she's doing something wrong. If she's in the wrong, after a while she should realise and come clean.

Deep down she KNEW guacamole needs Cilantro,  but she just couldn't admit that Parsley was a -mistake-..

But once the chips hit the dip..  it's all in the open .. and she should make a new batch.

[noisyturtle]

This was my morning today, no embellishment needed:

Selling headphones on kijiji

Guy tells me he's interested, long back and forth about condition and ownership etc

Finally he says he wants them, but offers $100 less then what I'm asking

**** it, I need the money badly right now. Agree to his price.

Long back and forth about when and where to meet. Tell him I don't have a car so it's difficult for me to get around town.

Finally decide on a place to meet. It's a 30min walk, but I'll do it for the money.

We set a time to meet Saturday afternoon.

Guy texts me at 7am on Saturday telling me he's running early.

I'm still asleep but **** it, I really need this money.

Roll out of bed, skip showering, and walk in a zombified state in the hot sun.

Finally get to the Starbucks and meet the guy.

Starts testing the headphones while I go get some coffee I can't really afford.

He listens for about 5 minutes before taking them off and placing them on the table.

"These are nice, but I think I'm going to have to pass unless you can knock off some more money."

I tell him that's my bottom line and he is already getting a great deal.

He says he doesn't want them but can I sit tight for just a second?

He reaches into his bag and pulls out some pamphlets, "Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?"

MFW

[bcredbottle]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod—it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

No that's when she'll cut your balls off. She'll keep doing this **** as long as you let her.

Remember when Ya'll said Tp4 = misogynistic.

LOL.. Bcredbottle.. hahahaha, there's so much h8 in your wurds.

I'm not even saying you're right. Maybe you're a total prick to your girl and you just don't see it.¹ BUT if you just avoid every argument and become a doormat, she will walk all over you. Even mild-mannered people become domineering when they continually interact with people who are too passive.

¹ Though you are an Ergodox user which implies that you are intelligent, tasteful, and wise.

[demik]

Great story. Legit LOL at the end. These mfers are getting crafty with the preaching.

[katushkin]

Wow.

I did not see that twist.

[bcredbottle]

This was my morning today, no embellishment needed:

Selling headphones on kijiji

Guy tells me he's interested, long back and forth about condition and ownership etc

Finally he says he wants them, but offers $100 less then what I'm asking

**** it, I need the money badly right now. Agree to his price.

Long back and forth about when and where to meet. Tell him I don't have a car so it's difficult for me to get around town.

Finally decide on a place to meet. It's a 30min walk, but I'll do it for the money.

We set a time to meet Saturday afternoon.

Guy texts me at 7am on Saturday telling me he's running early.

I'm still asleep but **** it, I really need this money.

Roll out of bed, skip showering, and walk in a zombified state in the hot sun.

Finally get to the Starbucks and meet the guy.

Starts testing the headphones while I go get some coffee I can't really afford.

He listens for about 5 minutes before taking them off and placing them on the table.

"These are nice, but I think I'm going to have to pass unless you can knock off some more money."

I tell him that's my bottom line and he is already getting a great deal.

He says he doesn't want them but can I sit tight for just a second?

He reaches into his bag and pulls out some pamphlets, "Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?"

MFW

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Please post a picture of your plea bargain agreement after you poured steaming hot coffee on his stupid ****ing face.

Or it didn't happen.

[tp4tissue]

If you've never killed anyone..  That's as good a place to start as any..

hahahhahahahaah

great story n-Turtle

[tp4tissue]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod—it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

No that's when she'll cut your balls off. She'll keep doing this **** as long as you let her.

Remember when Ya'll said Tp4 = misogynistic.

LOL.. Bcredbottle.. hahahaha, there's so much h8 in your wurds.

I'm not even saying you're right. Maybe you're a total prick to your girl and you just don't see it.¹ BUT if you just avoid every argument and become a doormat, she will walk all over you. Even mild-mannered people become domineering when they continually interact with people who are too passive.

¹ Though you are an Ergodox user which implies that you are intelligent, tasteful, and wise.

Hahahahahah

I'm not suggesting any of it is ok..

I was merely observing that unmistakable bitterness in your previous post.

A tear in your soul that cannot be mended ..

[demik]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod�it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

No that's when she'll cut your balls off. She'll keep doing this **** as long as you let her.

Remember when Ya'll said Tp4 = misogynistic.

LOL.. Bcredbottle.. hahahaha, there's so much h8 in your wurds.

I'm not even saying you're right. Maybe you're a total prick to your girl and you just don't see it.¹ BUT if you just avoid every argument and become a doormat, she will walk all over you. Even mild-mannered people become domineering when they continually interact with people who are too passive.

¹ Though you are an Ergodox user which implies that you are intelligent, tasteful, and wise.

This is what I don't get. **** that "happy wife happy life" ****. You are both adults, if you have a problem with your SO then talk to them. Passiveness and passive aggressiveness is idiotic in a relationship, nobody wins either way. Next thing you know she's cheating on you all because you didn't tell her to calm her tits and tell you wtf is wrong. And that goes both ways.

[tp4tissue]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. I feel much better. From now on, I think I'll just smile and nod�it'll be so much simpler. I think that's all she wants anyway.

No that's when she'll cut your balls off. She'll keep doing this **** as long as you let her.

Remember when Ya'll said Tp4 = misogynistic.

LOL.. Bcredbottle.. hahahaha, there's so much h8 in your wurds.

I'm not even saying you're right. Maybe you're a total prick to your girl and you just don't see it.¹ BUT if you just avoid every argument and become a doormat, she will walk all over you. Even mild-mannered people become domineering when they continually interact with people who are too passive.

¹ Though you are an Ergodox user which implies that you are intelligent, tasteful, and wise.

This is what I don't get. **** that "happy wife happy life" ****. You are both adults, if you have a problem with your SO then talk to them. Passiveness and passive aggressiveness is idiotic in a relationship, nobody wins either way. Next thing you know she's cheating on you all because you didn't tell her to calm her tits and tell you wtf is wrong. And that goes both ways.

Yikes...

hahaha.. I think we need a Geekhack womens study thread..  ya'll are very damaged..

they're not all like that...

[demik]

Of course they aren't all like that. But we are talking about a specific group. And again, it isn't just women.

[tp4tissue]

Of course they aren't all like that. But we are talking about a specific group. And again, it isn't just women.

Ok. but man.. you guys got this mental fortress against making positive emotional connections. Very defense oriented..

I deduced that from your wording,  not the content..

[demik]

I can be extreme, you should know this already.

[tp4tissue]

I can be extreme, you should know this already.