The Bitching Thread

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Originally Posted by KitKat

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. >_<

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I know the feeling. It's one of the reasons I failed out of university the first time around. I'd go to classes 5-10 minutes before they started and sit quietly there while all the individual groups hung out and chatted together.

What I've found is that the grass is never as green on the other side as you might imagine. Interacting with some of these groups was some of the most boring and useless affairs ever, almost as bad as reading stitch's troll jobs. I'd have preferred to stay in my own world, maybe with some music to drown out the chatter.

I don't quite get how failing to mix = failing out of uni though...or do you mean you left because you couldn't stand it?

I'm kind of weird when it comes to mixing with people at a crowd. I can get along perfectly fine with people (or so I'm told). For example, in our prac group last week, where we were randomly assigned members, who knows how long we would have worked in miserable silence had I not taken the initiative and broke the ice.

On the other hand though, sometimes I fall into "quiet mode" where I don't really talk. It usually happens in situations where I'm not obliged to, like the "sitting in lecture" example. I'll feel perfectly fine just randomly eavesdropping on whoever would be nearby, or just staring off blankly, thinking about stuff or nothing at all.

I suppose lectures is a different case than what KitKat's talking about though (party?). If it's a party, the whole idea is to talk and have fun etc. At those times, I too would feel slightly awkward being by myself. I was lucky last year when I attended a friend's 20th to have a guy I knew. We then retreated to the front of the place and took the job of greeting all the guests who arrived.

As for the guy who walked right past....yeah. It's better than what happened to my friend though. There was a guy she knew (dunno how well she knew him), and when they walked past each other on the street, he stared her down as he did.

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Edit: My own bitch.

The Thermalright HR-01 PLUS is a heatsink that's hard to get a hold of in Australia. I've located 2 online stores that sell it, one for $96 and another for $55 (yeah, I know, lolwut?).

Thing is, both stores have listed the product as out of stock since January, and I've been checking both sites daily from that point onwards. Earlier this month, the store that sold it for $96 had it in stock, but I continued to wait for the $55 one to show up (who took it off their catalog until an ETA was confirmed).

Now that I was growing a bit impatient and was actually considering the more expensive store, they're now out of stock too.

So now what, another 3 months??

2nd bitch: I want to change to a new internet provide who'll give me >100% increase in my current download quota for -$5 from my current bill. Thing is, during the transfer I'll have 14-18 days of downtime. :(

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

I don't quite get how failing to mix = failing out of uni though...or do you mean you left because you couldn't stand it?

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Edit: My own bitch.

The Thermalright HR-01 PLUS is a heatsink that's hard to get a hold of in Australia. I've located 2 online stores that sell it, one for $96 and another for $55 (yeah, I know, lolwut?).

2nd bitch: I want to change to a new internet provide who'll give me >100% increase in my current download quota for -$5 from my current bill. Thing is, during the transfer I'll have 14-18 days of downtime. :(

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Yeah, that's one of the reasons, I couldn't stand it after a while. I was pretty self-conscious about not fitting in back in those days.

Is the cooling performance worth$96 or even $55 for this heatsink? Maybe get something cheaper that does almost as good a job. Unless you're seriously overclocking, you should be ok with the lesser unit. Is it even worth it to overclock that seriously?

Just spent about 4 hours in the ICU waiting room with a woman who thinks you need to beat your kids because "if they don't submit to their parents early in life, they won't submit to God later on" :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

Yeah, that's one of the reasons, I couldn't stand it after a while. I was pretty self-conscious about not fitting in back in those days.

Is the cooling performance worth$96 or even $55 for this heatsink? Maybe get something cheaper that does almost as good a job. Unless you're seriously overclocking, you should be ok with the lesser unit. Is it even worth it to overclock that seriously?

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It's not really necessary for cooling performance, but I'm probably going to go fanless with that to reduce fan noise. It'll be particularly useful when I leave it on at night to encode stuff, since CPU usage is maxed out (rather than just idling and downloading).

I'm going for a few nexus fans too to replace the tri-cools at the back.

I guess it's more a luxury than a need.

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Originally Posted by The Heretic Azazel

Just spent about 4 hours in the ICU waiting room with a woman who thinks you need to beat your kids because "if they don't submit to their parents early in life, they won't submit to God later on"

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Haha...yeah, I think I'll prefer my issues. That's a weird one.:p

I am livid right now. Jim Gaffigan just "stole" one of my jokes.

I'm in the middle of watching his new Comedy Central special "King Baby" which is airing right now, and he started talking about ketchup. He then mentioned those upside-down ketchup bottles and how embarrassingly long it took us as a species to figure out that conundrum.

"Damn, this ketchup won't pour out"
"Why don't we...make a bottle with the lids on the bottom?"
"No no, I'd rather slap the bottom of this bottle and look like I have a learning disability."

I wrote that joke down about a year ago and was saving it in case I ever tried out standup. It's useless now. THANKS A LOT JIM GAFFIGAN! I seriously feel ripped off.

(PS, seriously watch his new special, it's hilarious. I love the man)

Its ok XanBcoo, even very successful comedians steal jokes. Take Dane Cook for example...

Dane Cook is still funny though, not that I condone joke theft. I never researched his joke theft.

on the same topic, I watched this video of Joe Rogan punking Carlos Mencia who's real name turns out to be Ned something... pretty funny stuff if you have no idea that carlos mencia isn't mexican.

Joe Rogan has some good stuff "OH SH#@$@, It's that Fear Facta guy! he does comedy?!?"

things that I loath about my job:

1. some woman comes in and asks to buy a bag for her son (who's three years old), instead of saying we don't have anything decent for that age, I try to push her the only non-pink bag we have that size, which happens to have Naruto pictures on it. she says:
"I don't know, what movies are these guys from?"
"they're from Naruto, it's aired on the cartoon channel. it's all the rage nowadays"
"I don't know, are they (the characters) aggressive?"
"oh no, it's completely child friendly"

also, a guy came a few days ago and had a wallet with the leaf symbol imprinted on it, I asked to look at it, and then he said "it's not what you think it is! I got it from a friend, in new york", but I know better. narutard.

2. one of the coworker's daughter is having her bar-mitzvha (it's a jewish thing, don't ask), and I'm invited. fuck, it's a part time shit job (though, it's pretty good for a part time shit job), I'm not supposed to have to go through those tedious workplace politics.
am I supposed to come? is it just a courtesy invitation? I can ask to work the shift during the party, but then, am I excused from bringing a present? if so, screw it. If I'm getting her something, then I should at the very least get a meal out of it.

last thing: I don't know what to put as my custom title (A.K.A: suck on this, everyone who doesn't have one)

Great weather out yesterday. Ideal basketball weather. Would've been a great day for basketball. Yup...

But it wasn't. Just 5 min. into the game, some old school tard swinged the ball for a pass throwing his hand into my F-ing face with a 80 mp/h! :mad: My teeth went through both my lips, but the upper one was worse, looking pretty deep. Some fellow basketballers even mentioned stitching.

I've talked about it with a friend who's parents are doctors. Since I have no insurance since recently, I'm gonna drop by and let the parents look at it and get some medicine for it from them. If I need stitches I'm screwed.

How I love basketball.

It seems karma's a bitch.
A couple of days ago, being in an overly crowded tram, I was getting pretty irritated. I hate walking behind people who think they're the only ones walking out of the tram and off the station and some dude even stopped right in front of me. Getting even madder, I started swearing at the guy in which he replied with swearing. He shouldn't have done that. I walked to him and he immediately made a stab movement to my chest, punching it only though, having nothing in his hands. Letting my anger get the best of me I punched him in his lip, making it bleed. I shouldn't have done that. At that moment a friend of mine held me back telling me to leave it since he sees this guy often being mentally not a 100%, F-ing around with other people. If only he had told me that sooner...

What goes around, comes around. Ten fold. :(

Edit: Typo's, spelling.

That sucks, but dude no insurance? Wtf are you doing, that pretty much makes you an illegal resident.

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Originally Posted by darkshadow

That sucks, but dude no insurance? Wtf are you doing, that pretty much makes you an illegal resident.

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Is there a connection between insurance and residency abroad? And what insurance is this....private health cover?

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Originally Posted by darkshadow

That sucks, but dude no insurance? Wtf are you doing, that pretty much makes you an illegal resident.

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A few years ago I actually lived a couple of months without an insurance when my previous one terminated (it had an age limit) and I was slow to get a new one. Even though I've never had absolutely any use for insurances, it still felt weird knowing you don't have one. Damn brainwashing...

I cancelled my 401k a few weeks ago and it still hasn't taken effect on my paycheck... i'd rather have the $95 deduction in my pocket and not have it suddenly become $45-50, and not have access to it.

Idk why I even signed up for 401k... i'm not retiring any time soon, and all it really equates to is me making less money.

Insurance is also just meaningless. Everytime I've gone to the doctor w\ insurance, they still bill me after I goto the doctor and pay copay so, i dont see what the point of that is either.

car insurance.... i've had car insurance since i started driving and the only time I needed to have a claim or anything was when my last car got hit, and then I ended up having to pay $500 to get my car fixed anyhow and the other person wasn't held responsible because they said that they didn't know who was driving the car... even though I had plenty of pictures of their car and police report clearly showing they'd hit my car.

home owners insurance? what a bunch of BS. My parents have lived in their house since 1988 and have never had a home owners insurance claim. They need foundation repair but... oh... that insurance they've been paying for 20+ years w\ nothing in return just happens to not cover that !

I don't know about overseas, but here, private health cover means you get a number of free or discounted trips to an optometrist/dentist/physiotherapist etc. Doctor's fees are a little different. That's supported by the government subsidies, so if the doctor charges more than what the government is willing to absorb, you pay the difference.

The message insurance companies have been pushing at me is:

"Insurance is a money pool. People pile money in and help pay for the CEO's yacht those who are in need."

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Originally Posted by darkshadow

That sucks, but dude no insurance? Wtf are you doing, that pretty much makes you an illegal resident.

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Haha! Being an illegal resident is actually the reason why I don't have insurance. I'm not exactly illegal, it's just that I'm not registered as a citizen.

Edit: My lip's still swollen but it healed pretty nicely. Still gonna get concent from the friend's parents. Probably gonna need some medicine.

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Originally Posted by itadakimasu

I cancelled my 401k a few weeks ago and it still hasn't taken effect on my paycheck... i'd rather have the $95 deduction in my pocket and not have it suddenly become $45-50, and not have access to it.

Idk why I even signed up for 401k... i'm not retiring any time soon, and all it really equates to is me making less money.

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This is foolish thinking that will have you still working when you're 65. My parents can both retire but all of their friends still have to work in their mid-60s because they didn't save enough throughout their lives for their retirement. It's a given that money put away earlier in life grows exponentially towards retirement.

Is that $95/check or $190/month really the difference between surviving your current situation and not?

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Originally Posted by Killa-Eyez

Haha! Being an illegal resident is actually the reason why I don't have insurance. I'm not exactly illegal, it's just that I'm not registered as a citizen.

Edit: My lip's still swollen but it healed pretty nicely. Still gonna get concent from the friend's parents. Probably gonna need some medicine.

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Oh I see, well in that case that just sucks.

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Is there a connection between insurance and residency abroad? And what insurance is this....private health cover?

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There is no private health cover here, just one: "healthinsurance", which several provide. But this was made mandatory, everyone who doesn't have it, is illegal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_...he_Netherlands

I am enraged at the general myopic stupidity of my so-called legistative "representatives." The only thing they represent is their own self interests and whatever flavor-of-the-month kneejerk fix (ultimately causing more problems that require them to repeal aforementioned kneejerk fix) will let them get relected.

Seriously, fuck the US Congress.

In other words, that makes it a Wednesday.

It is the same here Ryll.
I guess that it is same everywhere in the world.

People who don't run the tap with cold water after using it hot. Bitches.

I'm doing research for a speech I have to do for my speech class and I found this video of the virtual townhall meeting Obama had in which around 10 of the top 50 questions were related to marijuana law reform...

When obama read the question about legalizing, regulating, and taxing marijuana, he read it as if it were a joke, and all the people who were in attendance where he was were laughing as well, as if it were a joke.

I know the last thing Obama needs is people hating him for considering this option... But, it is a serious issue and as a country we, the united states need to move beyond moral laws and start paying more attention to scientific facts to drive our policies.

Oh... and there was a related video on youtube of Rush Limbaugh talking about this that just reminded me of how much of a douche he is. Oxycontin, A-Ok, "Doobies" horrible

I'm willing to bet if you slapped in a rider (because you know how they weren't going to sign any more bills with pork spending in them...yeah, about that) legalizing small quantities of cocaine for recreational use, it would be on the fast track to Obama's office.

It started sleeting this time around and has continued over April. Now, I would be surprised if it started snowing in the Summer time, but that shouldn't happen... or would it?

So, this african guy in my speech class got in front of the class to give his persuasive speech today. He opens his powerpoint and it takes some of us a few seconds to gather what we're seeing on this 8x8 projection screen...
it's a penis... with some sort of disease going on w\ it. This slide was followed up by a few more w\ similar shock & awe images.

My speech on legalizing marijuana went rather well though, a few people commented that it was the best one given :)

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Are you bitching because his powerpoint worked, because you saw a deformed penis, or simply a follow-up?

Seems like your speech worked well enough without the powerpoint anyhow ;)

What was he trying to persuade that involves that kind of imagery?

he was trying to stress the importance of safe sex... i was bitching because I didn't want to be looking at things like that, and didn't enjoy getting burnt up like that..

I just thought though, that maybe it helped my speech... Can't do much worse... this guy just shows a room full of people pictures of <0<ks!

So .... does anybody else really passionately hate the diggbar already?

I spent the day thinking I was locked out of my house, and walked to my brother's place in the rain, waiting for my roommate to come home since the only place I have her phone number is on my phone which was in my room. Hours later, I find out that the door wasn't locked, it was just jammed. I could have gotten in all along. Ugh. You wouldn't think that I have an engineering degree.

If it was hours later, you could have used the time to bake something for your dear brother.

I love my friends.

So one of my friends suggested we get Left4Dead to play. My friends looked it up on Valve and found a four-pack. It was $150 for a 4-pack. Pretty good, we thought. That comes to about ~$37.50. However, the catch was that it was in USD. Since the value of the Canadian dollar astronomically fell from "par", this translates to about an extra ~$10 CAD more per person, making it about $47 CAD per person. Since my friend bought the 4-pack, it was expected that those who wanted to be in the pack had to pay up.

I got the game today.

It was amazing. Curiosity awakens me to compare the prices from the one we bought from Valve and my national electronics retail store (Best Buy's Canadian subsidary to you Americans), and it ended up being $30 CAN, which equates to approximately $25 USD. Using basic arithmetic, Valve is enjoying one of our $50 bills.

Also, my friends teamkilled my other friend and I after we reached one of the spawning point AND RESCUED THEM.

Go figure.

Oh, and our national state media's streaming news website is not working at all at the moment.

GREATTTTTTTTTTTTTT DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

"Also, my friends teamkilled my other friend and I after we reached one of the spawning point AND RESCUED THEM"

This is actually an achievement.

Where?

http://www.steampowered.com/status/l4d/

I can't find it in the above link...

what started as a simple project of blocking users from going to myspace, youtube, and a few other sites quickly got out of hand...

I was going to block traffic on a per computer basis using a custom host file, and then have requests for those sites goto my iis server w\ a blank white page.

I found opendns though, and it looked promising and my supervisor thought so too. So i set it to block adware and phishing sites, and then youtube, myspace and facebook.

I get to work today though and my supervisor blocked almost every category of websites, this one included which gets blocked as P2P / File Sharing. My first trip to my now blocked ebay garnished a verbal WTF?!

I feel like the office nazi now.

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Originally Posted by enkoujin

Where?

http://www.steampowered.com/status/l4d/

I can't find it in the above link...

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The "BACK 2 HELP" achievement.

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Originally Posted by darkshadow

The "BACK 2 HELP" achievement.

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Oh, I thought you mean rescuing someone and getting killed in the process was an achievement :p

I was bidding on a computer on ebay and there was like 16 seconds left and i was going to increase my bid and accidentally put 565 instead of 365 and then in the time it took to back page and re-enter it some tool had outbid me w\ $361... booo

Wow man, that sucks. Though I haven't experienced the feeling of being outbid like that, I can imagine it. Some things you just have to get :p.

Well, I've been trying to change over to a new ISP for the last month or so. They don't use any mutual ADSL2 hardware save the physical copper line, so I had to do the following:

`1) Check compatibility with new ISP (passed)
2) Disconnect current service (Had to use up my remaining 20 days because they forward-bill me.
3) Disconnect attempt #2 - told me they'll take 2-3 business days to physically disconnect it. Ended up taking like 9.


Finally it's disconnected now. I'm using a rental 3G connection (2GB free quota) while the new ISP sets us up. It's supposed to be up to 10 business days, so I'm hoping the estimate is right. 2GB doesn't last that long.

Meanwhile, I'm keeping up with anime using DDL sources on my uni connection with ~10GB which I bought for this situation. They blocked both P2P and irc traffic.

Not really a bitch, but it's just a tad inconvenient. Guess I'll play some more Fate/Stay Night to pass time. Or get on with my assignment, but you know....:rolleyes::D

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Originally Posted by Buffalobiian

Meanwhile, I'm keeping up with anime using DDL sources on my uni connection with ~10GB which I bought for this situation. They blocked both P2P and irc traffic.

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I can certainly understand blocking p2p, it happens here as well with uni connections, but blocking irc? You have some pretty nazi data administration over there.

"Blocking p2p in polish university is like trying to move the sea with one glass"
they'll always find way around this blockade.

and my bitch now:
I have study damned biology for test(my second most hated subject, first one is German), and my nazi-teache... i mean my German teacher is going to enforce more nazi...i mean strict rules(i already have test each day!) and she thinks that we don't have any more subjects other than German to learn...

Now I'm gonna either screw it and stop caring about it and just get grades to pass, or forget about bicycle and games and P&P RPGs and learn... yeah choice is obvious - i fu***ng hate German...

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Originally Posted by Xelbair

I have study damned biology for test(my second most hated subject, first one is German), and my nazi-teache... i mean my German teacher is going to enforce more nazi...i mean strict rules(i already have test each day!) and she thinks that we don't have any more subjects other than German to learn...

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I thought German was the official language of Poland...


I kid, I kid.

I've had Literature teachers who worked that way, and Chemistry teachers...and Chemistry professors...and physics professors...and Statics/Dynamics Professors...and Thermodynamics Professors...and Fluid Dynamics Professors, and Heat Transfer Professors who worked that way too. It's not going to get any better the higher up the education ladder you go. So ultimately, you end up doing what you can. Take good notes in class, review them before the exams, and just take it easy. Overstudying isn't going to help, you'll just burn yourself out.

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Originally Posted by Xelbair

Now I'm gonna either screw it and stop caring about it and just get grades to pass, or forget about bicycle and games and P&P RPGs and learn... yeah choice is obvious - i fu***ng hate German...

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I noticed forgetting about guitar isn't an option. ;)

My study habits have been really bad ever since I got into uni, so I shouldn't be advising you on that. :p

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Originally Posted by itadakimasu

what started as a simple project of blocking users from going to myspace, youtube, and a few other sites quickly got out of hand...

I was going to block traffic on a per computer basis using a custom host file, and then have requests for those sites goto my iis server w\ a blank white page.

I found opendns though, and it looked promising and my supervisor thought so too. So i set it to block adware and phishing sites, and then youtube, myspace and facebook.

I get to work today though and my supervisor blocked almost every category of websites, this one included which gets blocked as P2P / File Sharing. My first trip to my now blocked ebay garnished a verbal WTF?!

I feel like the office nazi now.

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You sir are a nazi.

I have nothing against the office security, but the local dude is an asshole as I bitched before.

They ordered him to buy a tool to block sites (because they are lazy to do so themselves) and their current proxy, BlueCoat, ends falling about 2 to 3 times a day. Some of us guess its a test version.

Anyway... he was ordered to buy it to block sport pages, specially football (soccer). Yet all the sport pages are open while all the videogame sites are blocked. Its idiotic actually for there are very few gamers here versus the number of sport fanatics.

I had bitched about this before. Just felt to do so again after your post.


New bitch... I hate this masks. Damn swine flu. At least we get friday off thanks to the Dia del Trabajo.

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Originally Posted by RyougaZell

New bitch... I hate this masks. Damn swine flu. At least we get friday off thanks to the Dia del Trabajo.

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I just returned from Cancun the day before the swine flu hysteria went mainstream. Funny thing is, I had the flu a couple days before I went to Mexico. Maybe I'm the root of all evil after all?

I coughed a lot today in my first class and wondered how many people I was making uneasy.

I'll believe the hysteria when pigs fly.

Deadline Dangers:

• Picked up the scholarship form this Monday
• Discovered submission date for mentioned scholarship form was on May 1 yesterday
• Paid the post office $20 for "priority" delivery, endured my father's nagging about procrastination, survived my worries about the application not being there on May 1
• Aforementioned application arrived at destination
• Called aforementioned destination to assure its presence there
• Learned that the application had to be stamped and dated before May 1 and could still be processed after May 1 (not necessarily due on May 1)

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Originally Posted by Animeniax

I just returned from Cancun the day before the swine flu hysteria went mainstream. Funny thing is, I had the flu a couple days before I went to Mexico. Maybe I'm the root of all evil after all?

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We've always known you're evil Ani.

News on Mexico... Churches are closed. Sports will be played without public. I'll be working from home Monday and Tuesday... and more crap. LOL.

Zell is alive! Working at home can't be that bad, right?

There's an article that looks pretty useful for my research assignment.

Ironic thing is....it's in Japanese.

Only Psyke has the abilities to translate it i think, i'm still not good enough.

This lady comes up to me and asks "excuse me, where is the restroom?" I pointed towards the restroom area and she went. Five minutes later, she comes back and tells me it's not there. I personally lead her to the restroom doors and pointed at the sign that said "restroom area". I didn't even say anything the whole time and she went "my, you are pretty rude, ma'm!" I replied "I'm a boy" and she rushed into the restroom without my consent. I think she didn't want to look stupid or something, but whatever.

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Originally Posted by Nadouku

I replied "I'm a boy" and she rushed into the restroom without my consent.

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Because she can only go if you allow her to?

She looked like she was waiting for me to say something like "go ahead" or "you may use it". I don't get these kind of people, though. They just seem uneasy.

So not only we are confused with your gender...
I hate this situations, i had one inside bus - some woman said "please sit ma'am" i just turned myself to see her(she was behind me) and her look was like "O shi..."

When I can't tell, I tend to look for their boobs. Not entirely foolproof though.

I can't tell whether some women are pregnant or need to go on diet sometimes, back when I took public transport. Might end up with a rude stare for wanting to give up my seat. :(

As for the gender issue, how about the adam's apple?

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Originally Posted by Psyke

As for the gender issue, how about the adam's apple?

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Hmm, I'll give that a go sometime. Doesn't sound as "fun" though :rolleyes:

I don't have one, so that's thrown out of the question. :p

In high school, when my hair was longer, I was hit on by 2 guys.

In my defense it was dark and we were outside and they realized their mistake in about 10 seconds. That doesn't take away the sting, though :(.

I walked into a men's restroom one time and a guy said something like "wrong bathroom, babe" before I turned and looked at him.

Did you turn around and look at him like this?

Thats nothing. I was changing my clothes once, don't remember if it was at the beach or what and this guy must have gotten a peek at my lower back, probably just my legs and he went and asked my sister for her hot friend's number. She told him I was her brother and he asked her if she was sure.

The nerve of some people.

Stop your whining, so you now have two clubs dedicated to you.



never been mistaken for a woman, but I guess it'd help in restaurants and shops.

The bulb is out on my tv... which means no tv or ps3 until tuesday or wednesday : (

replacement bulb was $78, which is good compared to the one I saw first that was the wrong model that was $259

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Originally Posted by Assertn

I walked into a men's restroom one time and a guy said something like "wrong bathroom, babe" before I turned and looked at him.

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Not only did he confuse you for a girl briefly, but for a hot one too? :p

Man, you guys getting mistaken for girls is pretty...strange. Especially Abdula. I take it you must have a great set of legs.
(but today, it's hard to really know anyway unless you look at the boobs.)


My bitch would be that my friend got her phone stolen so now I can't contact her. Stupid woman. :( She shouldn't leave it lying around.

Damn idiots at corel for releasing a trial version that is both limited in time AND limited in function.

Are they retards or what?

If I want to try some software, it's precisely for some of the functions!

The example is WinDVD 9.
They state they use the same DNM algorithm Philips use in their flat screens. DNM is said to be the best amongst frame interpolation algorithm for flat screens (too bad philips screen suck due to the panels... other story)

Would you believe retards at Corel thought that would be a good idea to prevent the trial version to activate the DNM functions?

So those retards think someone would want to buy their crap by testing what is a bloated video player with nothing new? Without trying for themselves wether the DNM algorithm work well?

When you propose a trial you either limit it, but do it well like 2 minutes playback max, or watermark or whatever...
Or full functionality but for a limited time.
But striping what makes your soft special and having a time limit too is really retarted.

End of bitching

Got my car towed for the first time today.

I know it's probably not likely that any towing company will get glowing reviews, but the comments on their citysearch page are a little unnerving. The woman on the phone also sounded like the kind of miserable hick that would work for such a company.

Figures it'd get towed today, of all days. I've cheated fate before and left it in that spot without it getting towed countless times. Today was the last day of class and I only left it there an hour. I even have to get to a party tonight. Ugh.

Edit: My brother drove me to go pick it up. Went off without incident, thankfully. Though I had to drop 2 hundo to get it back. Damn.

This week, I had my rear derailleur cable snap, the metal my shoe's cleat uses to attach to my right pedal fell off. I accidentally dropped a bottle (which I hadn't done in years) and a car ran over it. At work I got a flat when my inner-tube failed at the valve stem. My rear hub is getting sticky and acting up. The replacement frame for my current broken one finally arrived but Cannondale forgot to send the headset, so I have to wait another week to swap frames. My saddle bag broke, forcing me to use an old one, which in turn forced me to adjust my position a little, which in turn caused my thigh to rub the corner of my seatpost on every stroke, which resulted a hole in my shorts. Fuck, bad week for my bike.

Time for a new bike?

I bought the bike in mid October last year, so its only 7 months old. It's a carbon/Aluminum, frame. Pretty too.

http://i451.photobucket.com/albums/q...keandkit-1.jpg

Down tube and top tube (the two big ones) are C, the seatstay, chainstay, and seat tube (the three small ones) are all Al. You can't bind C to Al so near the seatpost there is a joint that the Carbon top tube slides into and I'm assuming should be glued) The top tube is coming out of this joint which is evidenced my a crack appearing radially around the tub at this point. The shop says they've never seen this problem before and it's their official opinion that I am just unlucky... which is actually Specialized's official position on me too. =(
This is my 10th broken frame in 10 years. 4 Specizlized FSR's, 3 KHS Flite team, 1 Simoneti, 1 scott, and now 1 Cannondale. *sigh* Seriously man, I'm always just riding along and they break. Though one of the KHS failures could be argued to be my fault because of the mountain biking I did in Santa Cruz one day.
The rest of the drivetrain is still good. If I can figure out my wheel issues, and cannibalize an old pedal I have. I think I can get my bike back in tip-top shape (once I get a hold of my new frame). If I break this frame again, I'm gonna ask Cannondale to upgrade me to a full carbon frame.

Unfortunately the new frame is gonna be black which pisses me off because I really dig my white frame, not to mention I went out and bought a bunch of clothes to match it...

btw if you think THIS is bad, you should see my car. Which I'm avoiding dealing with like the plague, hence all the riding...

I remember that day when a chain broke on me in a steep slope, hurts a lot because there's no reciprocating force to the full power you were in just miliseconds before, and you fall flat on the road like in slow motion unable to do a thing to get your balance back...

I remember breaking pedals too, I was one of those with explosive power they say, some stamina, not a mountain guy :D

Damn cycles not tough enough...

Oh beware with all that cycling, when you stop, fat will be very sticky and love you way too much, that bitchy fat...

I've definitely broken pedals forcefully before ;) But this was different. I was riding along, suddenly couldn't clip in, looked down and I had a broken frog. I have NO idea what/how it could have happened.

One of my worst crashes long long ago was during a sprint workout where we were starting from a standstill and trying to get to max speed asap. So at the snap you start dropping gears and exerting max power. On this day, as I was nearing 35 mph my chain dropped and I went down faster than a cheap whore on Friday night. I know your pain of putting in the power and it having nowhere to go. At least you were going slowly (I'm assuming) and didn't have a couple of teammates behind you ride you like a bogey board on a giant assphalt wave...

Why would I ever stop? :p

Pinhole leaks somewhere along a pipe going to the upper floor of the house. Replacing copper with PEX tubing (flexible my ass!) in crawlspaces with basically zero acess. Took 3.5 hours to do maybe 20 feet of pipes.

That had to suck. Worst pipe work I've done is replacing the thermostat and thermocouple in my water heater, not nearly the same thing.

on a side note...Holy shit! this is my thread! For once I feel like I did something that helped people, neat.

I have just contributed significantly to the problems of humanity. I have now joined the ranks of those who cause people to say "never trust anyone".

I am a person with a strong moral compass and try to live my life by it as best I can, but I went against everything I stood for and violated so many layers of trust and self-control I can't even look at myself without feeling disgusted. I don't know who I am. I feel like the worst person in the entire world.

Sounds like you reached the end of innocence.

Anything you can do to fix it? Or must you now accept you are just another cog in the great machinery, doing whatever it takes to claim your place?

spill the beans, what did you do that was so horrible that it made you think you're unworthy.

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Sounds like you reached the end of innocence.

Anything you can do to fix it? Or must you now accept you are just another cog in the great machinery, doing whatever it takes to claim your place?

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I think I have reached the end, and yeah, I'm kind of slowly letting go of my naivete about life and accepting that eat really is dog-eat-dog out there. People are motivated by self interest, and as selfless as I strive to be, I realize that everyone is capable of doing horrible things if they're presented the opportunity. It takes an unflappably strong will to do the right thing. I guess I don't have that.

On the positive side of it, I think I learned an invaluable life lesson. It's going to save me a lot of heartache in the future.

I don't mean to be melodramatic, it's just that this happened only about an hour ago. My head is still reeling.

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Anything you can do to fix it?

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I sounds like one of those things you can't fix. Similar to how you can't "unsay" some things to someone.

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spill the beans, what did you do that was so horrible that it made you think you're unworthy.

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For some reason, I have a hunch it's romance/friendship related.

probably, but I'd rather hear the story before I start crackin' jokes about it.

So. Xan, is this shameful thing only known to you, or is everybody in the office gonna talk about it tomorrow?

Selfishness is an ingrained human behavior. Its what allows us to accomplish great things with our lives and become successful. Even most acts of selflessness have some sort of personal interest involved.

That's the way I see things, anyway.

My tv's lamp went out on friday, and the replacement I ordered arrived yesterday. So, I put it in and now the replace lamp light isn't on but the power light goes from green to red and flashes... spent an hour or so messing w\ it and then my wife was messing w\ it and over-torqued the screw that holds the lamp door on... so now you can't take the screw off even w\ pliers : (

haven't had tv since friday... thank god for HULU though, I got to watch 24 last night and it's good quality. They also have the complete arrested development series.

Nothing of value was lost - seriously. i mean the programs not the tv itself.
but if you are hardcore-tv-fan it was really bad for you

I was ready to buy a new tv ( cheap $400-450 max ) and spent a little more time on it when i got home today... IT WORKS! I think what it was was this little rubber piece that goes over this metal clip that gets pushed in so that it knows the lamp is covered...

Glad we didn't go out last night and buy a janky 32'' lcd.( or smaller )


Current Bitching :

I won this "as-is" alienware computer on ebay for $212, I was like... ah... cool. It has a phenom 9550, 2 4650's, 4gb ram, but then the seller invoiced me and added $50 for shipping when I thought it was free... went to look at their other items, they have 1327 items and 1320 of them are free shipping while the other 7 all say they will ship with whichever shipper you want..bastards!

also, I had one person who couldn't login this morning because they changed their password the other day and couldn't remember it. A person who works at home called them and they told them there was a problem and that nobody could login. I come in, reset user A's password, call user B and user B is fine and connects right away w\ nothing being done. Then User A is meeting w\ their manager and ask me what was wrong and I tell them the password was being entered incorrectly at which point they start to grill me as if there had to be something else wrong... a simple Ok, thanks would have done much better than to try to explain away stupidity.

I guess I'm the only person w\ anything to whine or bitch about. So be it!

So... the tollway here in Dallas sent my file to collections... ( LOL )

The letter from the collections service says I'm due to pay $110 for a $3 tollway "violation"

I didn't pay it because I had one last year from after I'd sold my car and I paid it.. This one is from 2007 and they billed me for it a few months ago so I just don't get the logic of billing me for something in 2007 after I've already paid for another incident in 2008.

Aside from that, it's from april, 2007 and my car was stolen in march, 2007 so in both cases I wasn't even in posession of my car. Plus I have a toll tag and use the tollway all the time so they could always have automatically billed my account.

$3 really isn't worth the trouble they've obviously put into this and I'm pretty sure in the end, the $3 they were trying to collect is going to turn into alot more money in wasted time and money trying to collect it.

Scraped the car on the way into the garage. Metal can be seen. Paint job will be $800.

Still don't know how it happened. I was sort of distracted though, so that's WHY anyway.

Fuck.

Math exam tomorrow. I am well prepared except for geometry, I hope those parts won't be hard.

I should be at the Opeth concert right now. My friend backed out at the last minute and I don't want to drive in Memphis by myself, I don't know the town very well and tickets have likely sold out.

My favorite band in the world is playing and I'm stuck at home. Fantastic.

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I should be at the Opeth concert right now. My friend backed out at the last minute and I don't want to drive in Memphis by myself, I don't know the town very well and tickets have likely sold out.

My favorite band in the world is playing and I'm stuck at home. Fantastic.

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You should go it alone. Could be the greatest adventure of your young life.

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I second that notion. Some of the wildest nights I've had have started with me heading into the city alone on a bus with my bike to go raving, not knowing how late I'll be out, how I'll get home, where I'll go after the rave, who I'll see there, or how many parties that night will hold.
Go man! Go! Ike! ike! If it sucks you'll have the drive home to regret it. But if y ou don't go you'll forever wonder how awesome it could have been.




and on to the bitching. Got a new frame. Had a Cannondale Six thirteen (carbon/Al) now have a Cannondale System 6. Both 60cm. Swapped over all the components. Now I can't get into my hardest gear in the rear. It's not a derailleur adjustment issue, nor a cable tension issue. Never before have I been faced with a drivetrain issue I couldn't resolve. Nothing can make it work. Got a brand spanking new bike. My fastest bike ever, and I can't access my fastest gear. After work I'm gonna pick up a 12 pack, head to my shop, bribe them with beer and hopefully we'll all be able to fix it.

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Math exam tomorrow. I am well prepared except for geometry, I hope those parts won't be hard.

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Followup bitch: It didn't go very well. Reading various solution sheets now available on the net did not make me feel any better about it.

I took geometry in freshmen year of high school (some intro during middle school too). It was easy. I took geometry again in college as an elective. It was a great deal more difficult. It isn't going to make you feel better now, but it isn't a subset of mathematics to be underestimated.

I also notice now that you didn't call it "Maths." I thought only us language-butchering Americans left off the 's'.


(I would have had a math minor if I had not nearly failed Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations -_-)

I never heard maths - even from my English teacher(she speaks British English) - everyone always said math.

And man - go alone for the Opeth!
I nearly missed Iron Maiden concert here for same reason as yours - but it was worth going there alone.

Since math is just an abbreviation of mathematics, it would be correct to say maths. It's just that we've spent so long saying just math that the more appropriate version is weird to us. It's kind of like how we yanks say aluminum, when it should be aluminium.

My bitch today: water shortages. Second time in 3 days I get home from a day at work in the sweltering 110+F heat and I can't take a shower. So I'm sitting here at the computer in my grime and filth waiting for the community water tank to be replenished so I can take a shower. Happily this misery ends in about 1 week.

My bitch:

A week ago, this guy I knew back in high school agreed to buy one of my computers. I drove over to his home to show him the system, and he was mostly happy with it. He wanted to switch out the motherboard because the one in there right now doesn't have 6-channel audio output (which he needed). We then agreed that he'd have to buy his own motherboard, and in return I would drop the price by $50. We shook on that deal.

Fast forward one week and he still hasn't gotten a new motherboard. Today he told me he was looking at a bunch of other parts in addition to the motherboard. I told him I'm only willing to swap the motherboard; the rest of the system must be intact, otherwise I'm not selling the system.

He called off the deal.

I misstepped at a camping trip/bachelor party out at lake Sonoma Saturday night and broke my tibia at the ankle and shattered my fibula midway between the ankle an tibia. It took an hour and a half to get from the cam[p site to the Ambulance, another hour to get to the hospital. The messed up the first time putting in my catheter. took two people to get it in eventually. Then spent the next day or so kind of in a haze. And what really sucks, is that I'm going to lose al the fitness I've spent the last 4-8 months building up.... I was faster than I'd even been.

\and I may lose my job.

that sucks.... why was a catheter required?

Swelling would be my first guess.

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I misstepped at a camping trip/bachelor party out at lake Sonoma Saturday night and broke my tibia at the ankle and shattered my fibula midway between the ankle an tibia. It took an hour and a half to get from the cam[p site to the Ambulance, another hour to get to the hospital. The messed up the first time putting in my catheter. took two people to get it in eventually. Then spent the next day or so kind of in a haze. And what really sucks, is that I'm going to lose al the fitness I've spent the last 4-8 months building up.... I was faster than I'd even been.

\and I may lose my job.

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Wow man that sucks, especially about losing the fitness gains. Hopefully you will heal up quickly and have the motivation to work hard and get back to the level you want to be at.