The Bitching Thread

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

Company blocking stuff

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Do they have any open proxies unblocked? If not, you can always try them.

@Killa-Eyez: I haven't got any nice things to say, besides that the Bitching Thread's always open for ya. Unless we get fed up of your personality and ban you ;)



j/k :) Like Ani said, starting fresh yet knowing you've got good friends to lean on sounds like a refreshing idea. Endure and build on those experiences. As someone once said, anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger.


(There are exceptions, but heck, fuck exceptions)

it's probably the best for you, Killaz.

fuck your old life if you didn't like them, you're talented enough to start a new ones.

My thoughts exactly guys. I currently live in The Hague and lived since I got out of the children's home. Only got bad memories here. While in the children's home I lived in Rotterdam and I had a good childhood there. It's where my best friend lives, so I'll be good.
Thanks for showing your support! :o

three days ago, i got a call for an interview at med school at my university. since then, i've been freaking out almost constantly. i can't sleep because my head keeps going through interview scenarios, and i can't eat because just thinking about it makes my appetite vanish.

actually, the interview itself is not my biggest worry. that i know i can do well on, provided i'm prepared. i'm just freaking out at the prospect of not getting in, considering my grades. getting in would be the best thing that may ever happen to me, and not getting in would break my heart.

it's going be a looong four months.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Do they have any open proxies unblocked? If not, you can always try them.

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They have all the main proxies blocked, they're very thorough. Some guys I know have cgi proxies but those are unreliable and get shut down all the time.

I found out today that theonion.com is blocked now! Could be a last straw for me...

i'm running xp-64 on my computer and my wifes also. Itunes wasn't recognizing my wifes itouch, so i found a work-around that involved editing a few lines of code in the msi file. it worked fine, but I made the mistake of updating the itouch and the damn thing is bricked.

i'm glad i didn't use my iphone first... supposedly you can plug it into a 32-bit OS and restore it w\ itunes. On 64 it just comes up as a generic usb device and won't load any drivers : (

f*#ing apple...

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

My company has gone communist with blocking internet sites this week, due to supposed continued (and erroneously reported) network abuse..

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Welcome to my world.

At least our 'security executive' had to change from Websense to Iprism because it was too expensive. Iprism is easier to bypass.

if we were going to block web traffic, I'd probably be the person tasked w\ setting it all up anyhow :)

we were looking into websense at one point but for a small company its way too expensive.

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Originally Posted by RyougaZell

Welcome to my world.

At least our 'security executive' had to change from Websense to Iprism because it was too expensive. Iprism is easier to bypass.

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They use Smartfilter at my company. I've checked around, seems pretty difficult to bypass, or I don't know much about network security. It's another nail in the coffin in my time at this company and in this place. Considering I'm in the IT department, exceptions should be made :o .

Part of a followup to your post Ani, and part bitching.

Iprism was placed, and while its easier to bypass, I think the security guy is an asshole.

The initial placement of Websense was because they didn't want us browsing for Football pages (Soccer for the americans) during the last World Cup. Then they left it there because they didn't want us browsing info on the Local Cups.

Now with Iprism in place all the damn Football pages are open while the Videogame pages are blocked. WTF?? This is Mexico damn it!! 99% of the employes browse Football while only about 30~40% of the employees browse videogames. He is an idiot. Period.

So is the security guy not a fan of video games? I've never trusted people in IT who don't like video games.

My current bitch: the DVD drive on the X360 is on the fritz and has been for a few days. It won't read disks and claims the disk is dirty or can't be played. Checking around it's a well known problem with X360 DVD drives. I have the Samsung 943A which is cool since it's supposedly easy to replace. The past few mornings I have had to open and close the DVD door and power the unit on and off several times to get it to read the disk. This morning nothing is helping, it won't fire up NFS: Most Wanted. Sigh.

I just found out I've got an extra course per semester to do this year, which is a bitch. Our practical placements also start in semester 1, rather than just semester 2, meaning coughing out 4-6 hours of unpaid "experience work" each week for who knows how long.

Oh, and after not running at all for like 3 months and not playing a serious game of soccer in 2 years, I barely lasted 15mins into the game. That sucks too.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Oh, and after not running at all for like 3 months and not playing a serious game of soccer in 2 years, I barely lasted 15mins into the game. That sucks too.

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A friend of mine is trying to convince me to join his soccer league, because they need more girls on the team. I'm considering it, but I know if I do the first few weeks are going to be really rough, since I haven't played at all in a few years. Ganbatte Bill!

My current depressing news is that I can't afford to pay my tuition that's due on Monday. I have maybe enough money in my bank account to buy groceries for the next two weeks. Looks like I'm going to be taking out another loan. I really need a job. *sigh*

Do a bake sale.

My friends and I decided to order pizza from Pizza Hut after we played some games and were hungry. We ordered the Family Fest and they said, "Alrighty, your order will be there in about 30 minutes." One hour has passed, and I decided to give them a call. "Oh, sorry, we forgot to send out your order. Okay, we'll be there in 30 minutes, pronto." Another hour has passed, and my friend decided to lay some steam on the Pizza Hut. We drove up there and guess what? Pizza Hut was freaking closed. We decided to eat somewhere else afterwards.

Haha. You should call the Pizza Hut main headquarters and suggest they grant that particular restaurant an award for superb customer service.

Edit: I have actually eaten only once at Pizza Hut (in Stockholm), and that time me and a buddy ordered small sized pizzas, they brought medium size by mistake. Naturally we only paid for small. So, I don't personally have anything to complain about.

If I ever want to eat a good and hot pizza I end up buying it directly in the restaurant because their customer service plainly sucks. They never deliver on time, claim they did and deliver the product cold.

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Originally Posted by Zell

They never deliver on time, claim they did and deliver the product cold.

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We do :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

We do :rolleyes:

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You aren't here on Mexico Bill :p

(check your pms)

They have pizza hut in mexico ?

The last time I personally dealt w\ pizza hut, we'd just got back in town from a 12+ hour drive and decided it would be faster to pick it up.... Wrong. I gave them a good 15-20 minutes before I got there and then waited 15 minutes and no sign of any service at all.

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Originally Posted by RyougaZell

(check your pms)

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Cut out the flaming in the GD section, Ryouga.

You should all know better by now that Papa John's is the place to go for pizza (unless there's a local joint that sells kick ass pizza).

Private Messages?

Whatever.

since I got my new car a couple week ago, I've been parking in a vacant area of the parking lot where one side is against a curb so nobody should feel the need to park next to my car... so, for some reason people who have been parking in the same spots since we moved in back in december suddenly decide that I picked a great place to park because the past 3 days when i get to work, my spot is taken. Today, the bitch is half-way in the spot and half way in the spot next to it... wtf.

Then yesterday when I got home, somebody was backed into my parking spot at home, where we have just 1 assigned spot ( 2 cars ) since we have a 1 bedroom. If there wasn't a vacant spot in the front i was thinking of having them towed, but then I was thinking that they would probably do something to my car for having their car towed.

That's the problem with being middle-class. You have too much money to not care, but not enough money to not care.

My buddy had a good idea, from now on he only buys used cars so he doesn't care if they get dinged up. Not a beater or hoopty mind you.

I helped this drunk girl with a broken phone find her friends about an hour ago. Just as the bar I was in was closing, I saw her fumbling with her stuff, crying. I sat down with her and asked her what was wrong and all she could do was sob uncontrollably. I eventually let her use my phone, which she could not operate correctly in her drunken state, so I had to talk to some guy on the other end who re payed my altruism with an accusatory "who are you??"

He eventually showed up and the drunken ditz hugged me goodbye as this guy stared me down. Stupid fuckers. Also I'm still not quite sober yet so if any of this is incoherent I apologize because I have not proofread my post like I usually do. The end.

Should've brought her to your home. She was crying right? And drunk? :p
I dunno, it's a good thing I never experience such things, lord knows what I would do.. :o

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Originally Posted by Killa-Eyez

Should've brought her to your home. She was crying right? And drunk? :p
I dunno, it's a good thing I never experience such things, lord knows what I would do.. :o

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You would take advantage of the opportunity, maybe? Nobody could blame you for that.

So anyway, I took a leak this morning and it came out looking like cream soda. Now I'm pissed that I don't actually have any cream soda to drink. What a fucked up day!

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Originally Posted by XanBcoo

I helped this drunk girl with a broken phone find her friends about an hour ago. Just as the bar I was in was closing, I saw her fumbling with her stuff, crying. I sat down with her and asked her what was wrong and all she could do was sob uncontrollably. I eventually let her use my phone, which she could not operate correctly in her drunken state, so I had to talk to some guy on the other end who re payed my altruism with an accusatory "who are you??"

He eventually showed up and the drunken ditz hugged me goodbye as this guy stared me down. Stupid fuckers. Also I'm still not quite sober yet so if any of this is incoherent I apologize because I have not proofread my post like I usually do. The end.

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Well when you're sober Xan, feel good that at least you did your part, even if it isn't appreciated. You'd feel a lot worse walking away, then worrying later about what could have happened to the girl.

Put it this way, you helped because you wanted to, not because you wanted thanks. It's only natural that their reaction should piss you off, but never let that be a reason why NOT to help someone out.

But if it's something they could turn around and sue you for, that's a different story.

After enjoying my party yesterday (or tried to enjoy), my cold spawned forth a rash. Now, I'm completely itchy all over and I have been trying to resist the urge to scratch where it itches. Only thing that keeps me from scratching myself is Gold Bond and other medications, so hopefully, it'll be gone within the next two weeks or so.

Try some betamethasone dipropionate cream. That stuff cures pretty much all skin ailments. It requires a prescription however.

I almost finished Need for Speed: Most Wanted today. It turns out after you become the top guy on the list, you have to survive an extended police chase. Sorry if that's a spoiler.

Right after you do 5 consecutive races against the #1 guy, you think it's over, but it immediately throws you into a level 6 cop chase. So I spent almost 3 hours straight playing this game, to the point my vision blurred. I wasn't sure if it saved after you beat the #1 guy, so I kept playing (and replaying cause I'd get busted a lot) to try to finish the game, but then the DVD drive failed on me again, so I have to wait until tomorrow morning to see if I have to do the 5 races again before I can try to finish the cop chase. Here's hoping it saved after the 5 races.

I've never gotten to finish Underground 1 or 2 (the only ones I like) to this day, that kinda bumbs me out 2. Now I'm playing GoW 2 with a friend of mine but he's busy alot so it's moving slow. I really want my PS2 back (it's at his place fo GoW, his house is cooler to play at), cause I want to practice Tekken before 6 comes out on the PS3. I wanna OWN on the online play.

Also, I live @ my sis' place in a flat. She has some trouble with a neighbour and it seemed that just after my sis left for vacation to Miami, he turned off the water supply. He could've done it, cause the watermeter for all houses is in the basement in a cabine. Offcourse I couldn't find a key so I had to knock on another neighbours door to kindly ask to loan the key. Very frustrating, and I'm not sure what I'll do to that neighbour the next time he starts shit. I don't know for sure he did it, but who else could've done it? I'm a 99% sure it was him, except, I have no proof.

Yesterday I was healthy and everything. Today my throat hurts, I spit alot and I just sneezed blood.

FUCK!

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

Try some betamethasone dipropionate cream. That stuff cures pretty much all skin ailments. It requires a prescription however.

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That's because it's a topical steroid ;)

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

That's because it's a topical steroid ;)

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I did not knowingly take any performance-enhancing substances.

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

I did not knowingly take any performance-enhancing substances.

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Don't worry. It doesn't enhance anything :p

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

Try some betamethasone dipropionate cream. That stuff cures pretty much all skin ailments

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Thought I'd say, if people have this lying around at home, don't put it on cuts, infections or tinea/fungus etc! -> being an immuno-suppressant means they'll just get worse.

Inflammations, hives and allergy etc are all good though.

It's a prescription for a reason ;)

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Don't worry. It doesn't enhance anything :p

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I can claim ignorance but that didn't work for Rafael Palmiero either. I guess I'll have to avoid becoming a professional athlete just to be safe.

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Thought I'd say, if people have this lying around at home, don't put it on cuts, infections or tinea/fungus etc! -> being an immuno-suppressant means they'll just get worse.

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Oh crap, thanks for this piece of advice. I've been putting this stuff on some cuts since I thought it would help them heal. It did help the wound close faster, but not healthily I imagine. I'll stick to the Neosporin.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Well when you're sober Xan, feel good that at least you did your part, even if it isn't appreciated. You'd feel a lot worse walking away, then worrying later about what could have happened to the girl.

Put it this way, you helped because you wanted to, not because you wanted thanks. It's only natural that their reaction should piss you off, but never let that be a reason why NOT to help someone out.

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My post reads a lot more angrily than when I remember it from yesterday. Actually I wasn't very annoyed at all and didn't really expect any thanks. I think I was just frustrated because I was still kind of drunk and spent an evening getting turned down by girls I asked to dance with :o. Also the drunk girl really could not do anything besides sob. All I could get her to say was her name and her friend's number. Very trying.

Wow ... the travails of you folks over the last few weeks make mine pale by comparison. Everything I have to bitch about is caused by my own laziness, negligence or lack of motivation.

Weird, I was thinking the same thing about my recently posted problems. A bad DVD drive in my X360 and having to redo some races in a game don't compare too well to some of the real life problems you guys are posting about.

Mostly my problems are a result of boredom.

Seth spamming Dhalsim's long arms in SFIV. Every. single. time.

Try to fight with kilik in SC4 then.(with other char than siegfried or nightmare - they own him)

Being sunburnt is no fun. :(

God, I accidently stepped on a nail. It didn't stab through that much, but enough to make it bleed and hurt more if I step on it. Now, I have to limit my movement around for a while till it heals up, and maybe go see a doctor it something weird presents itself (like an infection).

Just be sure your tetanus vaccination is still in effect. Seeing how you are 92 years old, you might have forgotten when you were last time vaccinated (booster).

Heh, I got it checked and it turned out okay as long as I don't apply any force on it. I did renew my tetanus shot so now I have another ouchie to worry about.

I discovered today much to my dismay, that a box Girl Scout cookies are on average 1/3 smaller than they were last year. They still cost the same.

It is only now that realization of the full extent of the global economic depression really hits me :(

Cookies? Bleh..

Try living outside the US and see you economy go downhill thanks to the dollar.
Before this mess began I could buy a dollar with 11 pesos. Today the freaking dollar costs 16 pesos. Thus... games, movies and whatever crap I want to buy ends up being almost 50% more expensive

Thin Mints are one of the greatest gifts mankind gave to itself. :p

Don't think it's that much better here. While it may be entirely our economy's fault, things are not pretty here. I lucked out by being in a slower-growth stable industry, but everything else has gone to shit. The huge company right down the road is laying off hundreds of researchers. That's a huge hit to the upper middle class in the region, which will cause a ripple effect over the long term. They all tighten their belts, everyone in the retail industries suffer. It can cause a big cascade.

As for the exchange rates...buy local?

I've got no problem with local things. But manga and videogames are extremely expensive now. For instance... Street Fighter 4 sells for 1200 pesos in its normal version, whereas if the economy hadn't go down it would cost only 700 pesos. And thats with 'legal stores'. Those that import illegally sell it at 900~1000 pesos.

Don't really want SF4, but it was a good example.

On a less depressing note, went basketballing last weekend. Caught in the defense a big fat guy drives in, hard, and I tried to hold him off with my D and reached for the ball. :(
Ofcourse a foul cause I hit his finger while reaching with my left arm, but at the same time I think my right got tangled up with his left in some way.
It felt like my arm was being dislocated and relocated on the spot. It hurt. Bad. But I shook it off and kept playing. Didn't suffer much from it the rest of the day.
Then in the evening the pain just came like a 100 MPH schoolbus into my arm. I thought it was gonna fall off. It's better now, though I can't make excessive movements with it. Today while playing, I reached with it for the rebound. I felt that. :o

Thank god that this economic disaster haven't reached Poland. Games are now expansive as hell(200PLN for new console game, average earnings 2000PLN(500-750 <- remove this for taxes), if they would be more expansive no one would buy them.

lol. In the midst of a global recession and you guys are only concerned about the cost of video games. Seriously.

The recession hits people in different regions in different ways.

you mean like how manufacturing activity in the UK is currently at 12 year lows, how your FTSE 100 has regressed to levels from 2002, or how the euro lost 20% gain on the US dollar?

You're right DS, time to load up on food, water, shotgun shells and xbox games!

The system has gotta hit rock bottom before you build it back up, or they'll just bandage it and this will happen again in the future.

Xelbair is a 17 year old guy. Video games and fast food are probably the two most important commodities to him at this stage in his life. Nothing wrong with that.

everyone, regardless of age, is perpetually young in these forums.

My example was based on games because its something I usually import. Like a book, a manga, a game or a movie. And because it would be easier to explain to many of those that post here.

I have no problem buying local things nor paying services (phone, isp, etc).

Plus... I leave at the North of Mexico, so going to USA and watch the cost of the dollar is quite usual.

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Originally Posted by Assertn

you mean like how manufacturing activity in the UK is currently at 12 year lows, how your FTSE 100 has regressed to levels from 2002, or how the euro lost 20% gain on the US dollar?

You're right DS, time to load up on food, water, shotgun shells and xbox games!

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Every region is different, there was only one bank here that almost died, but it was taking care off, people here joke about the economic crisis, simply cause, it hasn't really hit as hard as in other regions of the world. Everything still costs the same, people aren't getting fired, heck the only ones really experiencing some of it are people that are in stocks or large corporations.
So if the price of anything else wouldve gone noticably up, even games, I'm sure it isn't really that weird to bitch about it.

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Originally Posted by Assertn

everyone, regardless of age, is perpetually young in these forums.

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I absolutely love that, yet another great Assertn quote. Surprised you're making such a fuss over the current financial crisis though. You've been here long enough to know GW doesn't pay heed to such things.

Well - i just continued from what RZ said - about games and manga etc. most important thing for me right now is my guitar.

I'm starting to feel like everything in the world is losing density and falling apart.

My neighbor asked me a while ago to help her with a computer problem, turns out she was trying to copy-paste text from a webpage, and it turned out all backwards. this WAS an issue about ten years ago, when right-to-left text (like hebrew) didn't show up well on explorer so every site was written backwards so it would show up right. freakin' nostalgia.


but that's aside, how the hell is it Wednesday already? I have no recollection of doing anything this week, where has the entire week gone? on the same note, did we just skip out on February?


the most bitching thing is, however, the fact that my underpants somehow lost their rubberband. I have no idea how it happened, maybe I hulk out during nighttime and the rubber snapped (not to be taken is perverse context), but if sudden super powers is the best explainnation I have for why clothes don't fit me and I need to use my belt to keep my underpants up, something must be wrong in the world.


oh, economic recession, I don't personally feel it, my parents workplace isn't much effected by it, and my job is the kind of shit that I'd hate no matter what.

I don't know, one of the few industries actually doing very well according to economists was the video game industry. At least the publishers anyway...

It's a pretty solid investment, and it will keep you entertained when you can't afford much of anything else.

All that said, my 401(k) states otherwise when I try to say I haven't been hit too hard by this depression.

Gotwoot will survive this recession ;)

Regarding business, ever since my state's changed road rules so that Learners have to clock 100hrs over a 1yr period has been bad for driving instructors. People would rather learn from their parents now, since they have to drive for a year and clock up those times anyway, whereas before, it was 6 months, and as little practice as you wanted (~6-12 driving lessons?). This, more so than the economy, has made living as a driving instructor difficult. - a personal account from someone I know.

I'm blind as a bit these days. Yesterday, I beeped my card on the bus as I got on, and failed to notice a mum from our neighbourhood who was sitting right behind the beeper.

Today, I went and sat down on a seat only to find there was no seat.

There were 3 fold-up-able seats on the left and 3 on the right side of the bus. Sideway facing seats that could fold to allow wheelchairs/babyprams to fit if needed.

I moved to the front left and sat. All the seats were folded out/down except mine....:(

friggin internet. Been down forever at my house and I can't do crap at work dealing with torrents...about all I can do is read Wikipedia since its a resource....and my brain hurts.

But I'm back...thank god its fixed....and screw you hughesnet!

I just heated up some fish fillets to make a sandwich for tomorrow's lunch, and then found out that there's mold on my bread. Now I have to eat the fish fillets and buy lunch tomorrow.

Goddamn it.

I guess buying some more bread is out of the question?

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At 11 PM, yes.

I had to do a speech for my speech class yesterday and spent at least 8-12 hours preparing it and all of that was based on my powerpoint I made...

Get to class and the teacher doesn't have a key for the podium, which has the computer / projector remote in it ( 2 months into this class.. wtf ) so i had to just wing my speech and it went horrible. I was perfectly prepared to do it w\ the powerpoint I had prepared, but without that I just had a weak speech outline and 2 pages of works cited.

Daylight savings time started yesterday [as opposed to the scheduled day a few weeks from this point], where we had to change our clocks one hour forward, meaning I lost an hour of sleep.

This adds to my everlasting deficit of several hundred hours of sleep lost.

Screw the projected conservation of millions of oil barrels or the minuscule 0.03% savings in electrical consumption this year. I want my one-hour back.

On another note that correlates with the aforementioned topic, napping increases diabetes risk. God damn it.

Interesting. Like they said though, I wouldn't concentrate on napping being a risk factor too much. Not until they sort out whether it's "Napping causes diabetes" or "Those who nap are more likely to get diabetes because they also tend to do X activity".

Nap if you need to. Just stay healthy.

McDonald's delivery boys always forgot my fuckin straw.

McDonald has got delivery?
New to me - they don't do that here... i feel like i live in ancient times compared to you.

24hr delivery where I live. :)

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24hr delivery where I live. :)

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We get your Hambuguer within 24hr or its free?

Sorry, couldn't resist :D

I had to send my PlayStation 3 for swap since my last one couldn't read any discs, even after trying all of their suggestions at their website. Costed about $200 to get it swapped.

eww....

you should have dismantled your ps3 and cleaned the laser.

I bought 2 60gb ps3's for $250 total off craigslist because they couldn't read disks... cleaned both, one worked perfect after cleaning and sold for $400+ on ebay, the other didn't work and sold for $200.

That probably sounded bad.... like you have a 50/50 chance...

Do they only work with some Sony proprietary blu-ray drive, or can't you simply get the cheapest one from your computer store and put it inside to replace the broken one?

I'm not good at dismembering my PlayStation 3, so I wouldn't even consider that an option. My guess is that they work on some Sony blu-ray drive that my local computer store seems to have a lack of.

Damn, is this common or something? Playstation 3 lense stuff-up? I think mine's pretty dusty right now....

I so want Maccas delivered. It's probably not a very cost effective service in Australia though. We only just got free Wi-Fi here in February.

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Damn, is this common or something? Playstation 3 lense stuff-up? I think mine's pretty dusty right now....

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Common with all PlayStations that don't have flip-tops. I cracked my older model PS2 open at least a dozen times over the years.

Damn, and here I thought I escaped cursed hardware failures like the Red Ring of Death by choosing a PS3.

my friends have ps3 for 1 year and they didn't had even one problem with lenses - i have mine for half a year and still no problem.

going back a few days, i'm pretty disgusted with what some people are bitching and moaning about regarding this economic downturn.

seriously people. video games are too expensive? that's what you've got beef with? i'm almost hoping that what Animeniax said comes true (though I don't think it will, the system works on the myth of prosperity for all, and with world governments borrowing against the future to keep the myth afloat, it's a bandage over the dam breaking). people need to figure out their priorities.

so the other day I had a student in my class, an adult student. he was complaining about how he could not go on his annual thousand dollar skiing vacation this year because of the economy. i wanted to punch him in the face.

also, as for "video game sales are doing okay". Here are a few other products (in America) whose sales have not been affected by the depression: alcohol, guns, fast food. So it's not about "what's good enough to be bought?" it's about "how stupidly are people going to spend their money?"

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Here are a few other products (in America) whose sales have not been affected by the depression: alcohol, guns, fast food.

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2 of those I understand. What do people do when they celebrate? Stuff their faces and drink themselves stupid. What do people do when they're depressed? Stuff their faces and drink themselves stupid. It's a win-win situation for alcohol and fast food.

What's the deal with guns? Are gun-nuts stockpiling weapons in preparation for the all out war that is sure to come of Obama's actions in the White House?

Give them a break, they're only trying to protect their families from the Obamocalipse.

I know that in a global perspective it would only be hurting one area and helping another...but I think we ( president obama ) should give serious consideration to bring jobs back into america. I think outsourcing jobs to foreign countries needs to stop.

no offense to all the great techs in india that work hard and do a great job even with their heavy accents sometimes getting in the way of clear communication... we need to create jobs, and we need to make people feel comfortable spending money.

Also, we need to start planning out the legalization, taxation, and distribution of marijuana in america. Take a huge chunk of the 50-100 billion spent annually fighting the "war on drugs" take in the tax money, and put out a safe product to the people who chose to use it. Slap a surgeon generals warning on the cigaweed and collect fines from people who smoke it in public. WIN WIN situation. Spending goes down, Taxes come in, crime goes down.

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Originally Posted by itadakimasu

I know that in a global perspective it would only be hurting one area and helping another...but I think we ( president obama ) should give serious consideration to bring jobs back into america. I think outsourcing jobs to foreign countries needs to stop.

no offense to all the great techs in india that work hard and do a great job even with their heavy accents sometimes getting in the way of clear communication... we need to create jobs, and we need to make people feel comfortable spending money.

Also, we need to start planning out the legalization, taxation, and distribution of marijuana in america. Take a huge chunk of the 50-100 billion spent annually fighting the "war on drugs" take in the tax money, and put out a safe product to the people who chose to use it. Slap a surgeon generals warning on the cigaweed and collect fines from people who smoke it in public. WIN WIN situation. Spending goes down, Taxes come in, crime goes down.

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they should just make weed legal and war on drugs money invested in things we actually need like jobs kindof what you was saying I believe.....

Wouldn't that hurt jobs in law enforcement, corrections, and the judicial system? Without the multitude of drug-related crimes, there would be less need for people in these job fields.

yes, but no.
they can move to units that deal with heavier drugs trafficking, or join the FDA and make new pharmaceutical drugs acceptance rate higher.

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yes, but no.
they can move to units that deal with heavier drugs trafficking, or join the FDA and make new pharmaceutical drugs acceptance rate higher.

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That would require education in chemistry, biology, pharmacy and pharmacology. All of these disciplines are beyond the grasp of your average cop or prison guard. Lawyers and judges would have the smarts, but maybe not the interest to pursue the sciences.

Basically it would require changing people's career aspirations from an early age so that more kids would want to become scientists.

not really, most of the people you mentioned have a great amount of work still left (police is always undermanned. 'they never stop thinking of new ways to harm our country, and so do we'), the prison system will feel it's quota in no times (thanks to all the cops who could chase real criminals) and the legal system is always full of work.

the only people who would lose their jobs are those who deal directly with drugs. some CSI members, drugs analysis and co. and they already have the knowledge to move into pharmaceutical companies (or develop drug rehab methods).

it's like Orwell said (or somewhat resembling what he wrote): it's the same as paying someone to dig tunnels in the ground and then paying someone else to fill those tunnels. we're making sure nothing could improve our lives.

I found a ding in my car just now... its very small and on the trunk next to the light... but still :(

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I found a ding in my car just now... its very small and on the trunk next to the light... but still :(

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I think there's some law of the universe concerning that. The more you wish for something to not happen, the more likely it is to happen. When my tail-light got cracked a little, I considered getting it replaced. But not getting it replaced seems to have kept my car safe from other damage.

On XanBcoo's suggestion I got vanilla-flavored protein mix to add to my daily oatmeal. I've been on that program for almost 2 months, then the local store runs out of the protein mix I've been using.

So I try another protein mix and it's disgusting. Using the same prep method, the mix is grainy, lumpy, and flavorless and the oatmeal tastes horrible, almost worse than oatmeal by itself. I'm going to try a different method tomorrow but that's $36 bottle of protein mix I'll be throwing or giving away if this doesn't work out, not to mention my health program will be thrown off track without my daily oatmeal and protein.

Sigh, almost at the final days of the program and this happens.

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On XanBcoo's suggestion I got vanilla-flavored protein mix to add to my daily oatmeal. I've been on that program for almost 2 months, then the local store runs out of the protein mix I've been using.

So I try another protein mix and it's disgusting. Using the same prep method, the mix is grainy, lumpy, and flavorless and the oatmeal tastes horrible, almost worse than oatmeal by itself. I'm going to try a different method tomorrow but that's $36 bottle of protein mix I'll be throwing or giving away if this doesn't work out, not to mention my health program will be thrown off track without my daily oatmeal and protein.

Sigh, almost at the final days of the program and this happens.

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That really sucks. I've run through about 5 different brands and mixes of protein powders before I found the ones that worked and tasted the best. What were you using before, and what are you eating now?

I've heard a lot of people recommend Optimum Nutrition's 100% Whey powder. That's what I'm eating now, and it tastes really good. It also mixes very easily, as opposed to the mass gainer which I was eating before (which felt like cake batter when it mixed).

The cheapest way to get the stuff online is from this site: http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/opt/whey.html. There's a store in Houston I go to which sells it for the same price, but buying it from GNC or from ON means you'll be paying $20 or so more for it.

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That really sucks. I've run through about 5 different brands and mixes of protein powders before I found the ones that worked and tasted the best. What were you using before, and what are you eating now?

I've heard a lot of people recommend Optimum Nutrition's 100% Whey powder. That's what I'm eating now, and it tastes really good. It also mixes very easily, as opposed to the mass gainer which I was eating before (which felt like cake batter when it mixed).

The cheapest way to get the stuff online is from this site: http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/opt/whey.html. There's a store in Houston I go to which sells it for the same price, but buying it from GNC or from ON means you'll be paying $20 or so more for it.

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I was using Weider Muscle Builder Advanced just by blind pick at the store, and I got lucky because it mixes very smooth and tastes great. The new supplement is Muscletech Nitro-Tech and it mixes up in hot water like cake batter too. I'm going to try cold water and blend it more thoroughly tomorrow, but the taste is hardly palatable either way.

I'm thinking of ordering online from bodybuilding.com, but I only have 21 days until I leave, and it takes 7 days to get anything out here, so I'd get maybe 14 days of use. Not sure if it's worth it. Sadly the selection we have available here is pretty limited so I might have to stick with the Nitro-tech crap, though it will mean giving up on the oatmeal plan. Can't stand the taste.

Hah, my brother uses Nitro-tech as well. He complained about how it was hard to mix too, but he never mentioned the taste.

If you really like eating oatmeal, you could always find another source of protein to eat with it. That, or just find some other combination of carbs and protein for breakfast, like egg whites and toast/bagels.

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Hah, my brother uses Nitro-tech as well. He complained about how it was hard to mix too, but he never mentioned the taste.

If you really like eating oatmeal, you could always find another source of protein to eat with it. That, or just find some other combination of carbs and protein for breakfast, like egg whites and toast/bagels.

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It's not so much that I like eating oatmeal, but my cholesterol is probably dangerously high, so I'm trying to eat right. Like you said before, oatmeal is almost a perfect food because it gives you protein as well as fiber and other nutrients while being low in the bad stuff. Unfortunately it tastes terrible, which was the original purpose of the protein mix. Kind of silly to pay $28/bag for what was essentially flavoring, but the added bonus of getting the protein supplement made it worth it.

The nitro-tech product and some other protein supplements I've seen have less sugar and therefore less taste. The Weider advanced is 180 cal/scoop compared to 110 for the nitro-tech stuff.

I eat eggs almost every breakfast, but it's a powered egg mix so it has protein but also cholesterol and whatever bad stuff is in egg yolks. Thanks for the advice and encouragement man, I really appreciate it.

I hate being alone in crowds, especially when such crowds are made up of people who all know each other. It would have been better if I'd thought of bringing something to do, but I hadn't even been able to bring my knitting, so all I could do was stand in the corner and stare vacantly into the crowd. Also, this guy I met last week totally walked right by me without recognizing me. Twice. And it's not as if we'd just met in passing, because he was sitting next to me at a table for 6 hours on Saturday. >_<

Gee, you knit? That's gangster.

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I can't wait until the US invades Iran. We're massing troops and supplies at the border. It's on in 2009, Iranian bitches!