The Bitching Thread

[Animeniax]

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. >_<

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.

[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?

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.

[Animeniax]

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.

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?

[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"

[Buffalobiian]

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?

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.

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"

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

[XanBcoo]

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)

[Assertn]

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

[itadakimasu]

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?!?"

[Death BOO Z]

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)

[Killa-Eyez]

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! 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.

[darkshadow]

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

[Buffalobiian]

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

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

[Kraco]

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

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...

[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.

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 !

[Buffalobiian]

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."

[Killa-Eyez]

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

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.

[Animeniax]

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.

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?

[darkshadow]

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.

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

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

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

[Ryllharu]

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.

[Xelbair]

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