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Khazar-khum
Oct 22, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
2nd Battalion

Maggie Fletcher posted:

Re: handicap chat. I would never dream of using a handicap space, ever--regardless of how few minutes I'm going to be there--but my question is about restrooms. Say all the regular stalls are full and no one else is around so I go in the handicap stall. Usually no big deal, but for the few minutes I'm in there I'm terrified that I'm going to come out to face an irritated person in a wheelchair. But if I don't go in, and a line forms behind me, I'm the rear end in a top hat holding everyone up because I don't want to go in the handicap stall. Would actual handicapped people weigh in on how they would feel if they came into the bathroom in such a situation?

As an Official Disabled Person, I will say that if the line is long, use the stall. If the line is short/nonexistant, don't use the stall.

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littlebluellama
Jun 18, 2013

I am kind, brave and deserve love.

Nuebot posted:

Mine does it all the time, then he'll slow down and leap in front of you when you're about to go down stairs because he likes to clear them all in a single jump. This cat is going to be my death. I've already stepped on him several times because he walked under my foot. Why cat, why do you do this.

When I try to step over mine, they freak out and leap headfirst into my foot, before sprinting away.

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

Cowslips Warren posted:

When companies post openings, but they already have someone picked out that already works there, but they are legally obligated to post the poo poo, so it wastes everyone's loving time!

This poo poo is loving infuriating. Just tell me if you're only conducting interviews because you're legally or otherwise obligated to before I press my shirt and slacks and drive all the way to an interview for a job I have literally no chance of getting.

Seriously, when I call about the opening, just say "yeah we gotta interview fifty applicants but the boss' daughter just got her degree and well I guess it's up to you if you want to be interviewed, but ummm..." I won't be mad, I promise. You'd be saving us both time and trouble.

Problem!
Jan 1, 2007

I am the queen of France.
Wheelchair chat: I had surgery on my foot a few years ago and decided to go to the mall to get out of the house. I grabbed a wheelchair to roll around in instead of having to crutch around.

When is get to a store if it was a tight space I'd get up and crutch around instead. The way people treated me when I was in the chair vs upright was noticeable and mildly offensive. In the chair they treated me like I had a mental disability, talking down to me slowly and with simple words but treating me like a regular person when I was standing up. Having a goat fuckoff cast on my foot doesn't mean I lost any cognitive ability, people!

Thoughtless
Feb 1, 2007


Doesn't think, just types.

Jastiger posted:

A good pet peeve: religious stuff being socially acceptable. It really shouldn't be, but it is. Peeve.

Secondary pet peeve, probably cuz I'm a bit of a curmudgeon: a lot of heuristic sayings like "bless you" or "how ya doing" and stuff like that. I answer stuff honestly and I get in hot water when folks are like "How you doing" and I say "Not so hot, I was 5 minutes late today because the wind blew over my garbage cans this morning". They get all offended that I unloaded that stuff on them.

Don't fuckin' ask then. But oh wait, "how are you doing" isn't what you meant, "good morning"is what you meant.

Then say fuckin' good morning"

The non-question greetings are a somewhat interesting linguistic phenomenon. Like the "How are you?" doesn't actually mean they want to know anything, it's just a polite opener. It takes a bit of getting used to for non-native speakers especially so in the beginning we generally answer them truthfully instead of in the way they're expected to be answered.

Linguistic pet peeve: the pronunciation of "ewe". I can't figure out any logical etymology there. It only exists as a trap, I'm certain.

teenytinymouse
Aug 3, 2005

I'm Shannon and I'm the biggest Idiot Ever!

Thoughtless posted:


Linguistic pet peeve: the pronunciation of "ewe". I can't figure out any logical etymology there. It only exists as a trap, I'm certain.

It's so farmers can spot eachother when they're off the farm

Thin Privilege
Jul 8, 2009
IM A STUPID MORON WITH AN UGLY FACE AND A BIG BUTT AND MY BUTT SMELLS AND I LIKE TO KISS MY OWN BUTT
Gravy Boat 2k
Peoples cell phones going off in museums.

*silence, appreciating art*
DOO DOO DOODOODOODOO DO DO DO DO DO DOOO (that loving default iPhone ringtone)
HI HONEY HOW ARE YOU WHERE ARE YOU AT IM ONTHE FIRST FLOOR!!!!!

I seriously just heard some lady's phone go off with Black Sabbath's Iron Man, and she wouldn't pick it up because she wanted to hear the song. :commissar:


Yes I am posting on my phone in the museum like a lame-o but I'm very angry, and at least I'm silent and on the bench.

Magic Hate Ball
May 6, 2007

ha ha ha!
you've already paid for this

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Wheelchair chat: I had surgery on my foot a few years ago and decided to go to the mall to get out of the house. I grabbed a wheelchair to roll around in instead of having to crutch around.

When is get to a store if it was a tight space I'd get up and crutch around instead. The way people treated me when I was in the chair vs upright was noticeable and mildly offensive. In the chair they treated me like I had a mental disability, talking down to me slowly and with simple words but treating me like a regular person when I was standing up. Having a goat fuckoff cast on my foot doesn't mean I lost any cognitive ability, people!

Similarly, at my job I usually work front desk and do general office stuff, and the guests treat me like I'm on their level, but now and then, like on weekends, I have to do some custodial work, and suddenly I'm just some schmuck with a garbage bin. Though this does lead to some fun reversals, where a guest sees me first schlepping trash and treats me accordingly, then later comes down to check out or pay up or whatever and there I am, handling their money and coordinating their stay and they get all awkward about it. Like hey, wow, maybe the people who clean up your messes aren't shiftless, braindead morons.

Sweet As Sin
May 8, 2007

Hee-ho!!!

Grimey Drawer
Crossfit and paleo. And Nerium. Amway and all that sort of stupid MLM poo poo that my extended family is into.

Oh, I like to lift weights? I'm gonna love crossfit! No assholes, I like doing my own poo poo on my own pace on my own. There's just so many times I can politely say I'm not interested.

No I don't loving need expensive as gently caress stinky creams. Guess what, my skin is pretty much perfect with my current routine and I don't see a reason to mess with it, specially one that costs a lot of money!

A cousin came uninvited (HUGE PET PEEVE) to "invite" us to her wedding. That will supposedly be in the Bahamas, but to get there you have to sell a poo poo ton of Amway products and they will pay for everything! gently caress off, let us have dinner in peace, I'm not even sure the groom exists with my goon of a cousin.


Basically my family buying into every culty fad out there.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar
My feed is flooded with "Shakeology" lately. One of my friends is a "coach" or whatever and she posts constantly about how she lost weight after having a baby etc.. but the shakes just seem entirely tangential to everything. You don't need the shakes, you just need to exercise and not eat a lot of calories. It's not some magic thing, you're just paying out the rear end to replace your calories with terrible tasting milkshakes. It's annoying because it's hard to be mad at her because she's a really nice person and it is great that she's happy and all, but trying to rope other people into the scam is kind of lovely.

I guess my annoyance is that people credit some MLM thing with their success when they succeeded in spite of the program, not because of it.

Magic Hate Ball
May 6, 2007

ha ha ha!
you've already paid for this
God, people on diets in general. Our two morning regular staff are constantly going on and off diets together and it drives me nuts having to work morning shifts when they're all up and "on" their shakes and buzzing around talking about protein and walking. Of course, they're both cheating constantly, and eventually they fall off entirely for a few weeks before panicking and starting it all over, so they never get down to their goal weights, just on and off, up, down, up, down.

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice
I wish the state would crack the gently caress down on MLMs already. It's been common knowledge for a while now that they're legal pyramid schemes designed to siphon money out of their employees' independent agents' bank accounts.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Murphy Brownback posted:

My feed is flooded with "Shakeology" lately. One of my friends is a "coach" or whatever and she posts constantly about how she lost weight after having a baby etc.. but the shakes just seem entirely tangential to everything. You don't need the shakes, you just need to exercise and not eat a lot of calories. It's not some magic thing, you're just paying out the rear end to replace your calories with terrible tasting milkshakes. It's annoying because it's hard to be mad at her because she's a really nice person and it is great that she's happy and all, but trying to rope other people into the scam is kind of lovely.

I guess my annoyance is that people credit some MLM thing with their success when they succeeded in spite of the program, not because of it.

I hear you, this is why I can't stand that Weight Watchers or Nutri System crap. "You can eat what you want and still lose weight!"

Yeah, because all you're doing is telling them to control their portions and space their meals out. The fact that they have to have this beaten into their heads with pre-cooked prep food marked breakfast/lunch/dinner, food they could literally put together themselves, speaks to how utterly retarded some parts of the human species are. You lost weight doing exactly the one thing you kept saying failed and got you to this point. :psyduck:

teenytinymouse
Aug 3, 2005

I'm Shannon and I'm the biggest Idiot Ever!

Diet myths are really getting to me recently since I actually started trying to lose weight a few months ago. I am currently the rear end in a top hat who just read one book (or rather one thread in YLLS) and thinks she knows everything but like my mum and sister are still telling me literal old wives tales like I can't eat just two meals a day or my metabolism will slow down and I'll go into STARVATION MODE, there is NO WAY I can lose weight without exercise (I'm a lazy motherfucker) and 20lb is so much to lose, you'll diiiiie when I've already lost 17lb sitting on my rear end and I'm not dead and it's clearly loving working you dumbshits.

My sister is trying to lose weight by tracking calories without weighing anything, including herself.

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


Diets are one of the top ways to get initiated into conversations you don't give a gently caress about. Same with weddings. I cannot loving stand anyone in the process of getting married. A friend of mine recently got married and I swear to gently caress, if she'd said one more thing about her wedding (which was meant to be small) I was going to push her into traffic. Happiest day of your life, blah blah, I get it. I don't loving care, at all, one tiny bit. Your stupid wedding is stupid.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money
I love when people on diets start acting like assholes because they think they're thin now fore eating less McDonalds a week. A former friend of mine tried out a diet for like a month and there was no notable change in her size but because she lost like three pounds or something she decided it was her calling to start pointing out how fat everyone else was and telling them they should diet!

:( A lot of my circle of friends have self esteem issues and did not take it well.

Silver Falcon
Dec 5, 2005

Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and barbecue your own drumsticks!

Ozz81 posted:

I hear you, this is why I can't stand that Weight Watchers or Nutri System crap. "You can eat what you want and still lose weight!"

Yeah, because all you're doing is telling them to control their portions and space their meals out. The fact that they have to have this beaten into their heads with pre-cooked prep food marked breakfast/lunch/dinner, food they could literally put together themselves, speaks to how utterly retarded some parts of the human species are. You lost weight doing exactly the one thing you kept saying failed and got you to this point. :psyduck:

I don't know what Nutri System is, but I don't think Weight Watchers belongs in that sort of category. You're allotted a certain amount of "points" a day, and different foods are worth varying numbers of points. Eat at or below your point allotment and you lose weight. Now, sure, it's basically counting calories in a funny hat, but at least you don't have to eat any special food. Heck, their website even has point values for a bunch of restaurant food!

Maggie Fletcher
Jul 19, 2009
Getting brunch is more important to me than other peoples lives.
What bugs me is that one of the biggest fitness MLM scams, BeachBody, actually has amazing workout programs like P90X, Insanity, and T25. Insanity beat my rear end for three years before I finally moved on, and even now I still go back and do one and find it's still just as hard. But mention to anyone that you like or do any of these programs and suddenly they're a "beachbody coach" and want to tell you about this great program they're on and how I can make money from home in my spare time by being a beachbody coach! Sometimes acquaintances approach me unsolicited out of nowhere because they know I'm into fitness. Great product, terrible marketing scheme. I was approached on facebook by a stranger inviting me to be a beachbody coach, and out of curiosity I checked out her profile, and a recent post was about her and her husband losing their home to foreclosure. :(

SkinCrawling
Oct 9, 2012

I'm getting sick of people who don't bother to clean up after themselves, especially at the gym.

I wouldn't mind if they installed security cameras so they can kick out anyone who's leaving like 80 kgs of weight on every other bar. If you are so strong then clearly you should be able to take the weights off without a problem, right?

Same goes for the people who leave their empty schampoo bottles/gum/snus on the floor in the showers. It's stupid/gross/really loving gross and if you can't be arsed to get rid of that then don't go to a public shower you lazy poo poo.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

SkinCrawling posted:

It's stupid/gross/really loving gross and if you can't be arsed to get rid of that then don't go to a public shower you lazy poo poo.

That's why they go to a public shower, so they don't have to clean up after themselves like the gross manchildren they are.

Dr Scoofles
Dec 6, 2004

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Wheelchair chat: I had surgery on my foot a few years ago and decided to go to the mall to get out of the house. I grabbed a wheelchair to roll around in instead of having to crutch around.

When is get to a store if it was a tight space I'd get up and crutch around instead. The way people treated me when I was in the chair vs upright was noticeable and mildly offensive. In the chair they treated me like I had a mental disability, talking down to me slowly and with simple words but treating me like a regular person when I was standing up. Having a goat fuckoff cast on my foot doesn't mean I lost any cognitive ability, people!

I broke my leg, crushed my shoulder and broke my wrists and hands a while back. Since I couldn't use crutches I spend about 6 months alternating between wheelchairs and walking frames. I gained a serious appreciation for the amount of poo poo disabled people have to put up with and even then I still have no idea because I essentialy was just the equivilant of a weekend tourist in the shoes of a disabled person. For me the biggest peeve was find a spot my wheelchair could go on and off a pavement, like, unless I wanted to fall the gently caress out of my chair and into traffic I would have to go a fair whack out of my way to find a drop curb to help me. Even worse was getting halfway to where I wated to go only to find the pavement was blocked by a car parked on it, and no drop curb to get around it.

RabbitWizard
Oct 21, 2008

Muldoon
Common radio stations in Germany. I swear I will never work in an office again where a radio is on.

First, if all your music knowledge comes from listening to the radio you would think that every band only made one song ever, two max. Oh, you're a "rock" station? And the next song is from ACDC? Let me loving guess, Hells Bells? Is it that expensive to license more than one song from a band?

And for some stations, their whole music "collection" fits on 1GB of storage. I swear, some songs come on twice during 8 hours. Every day. For weeks. I can't even listen to music that I like that much, because that would ruin it.

And I don't know what's up with people that they like listening to that poo poo every day. I'm very prone to ear-worms, that makes it even worse. But even if you're not, how can you listen to the same songs over and over and over and over and over again?

Listen one day a popular station like FFH. I'll guarantee you, when you listen to it a month later they mayyyyyybe have 1 or 2 different songs going over the day. Otherwise you will only hear the same poo poo they send a month before. Listening every day to it is torture for me. Get loving headphones you piece of poo poo if you have to listen to music while working.

Magic Hate Ball
May 6, 2007

ha ha ha!
you've already paid for this
Every time I have to listen to the radio I'm reminded of why I don't listen to the radio. We have a couple of good ones here in Seattle but gott in himmel the standard stations are unbearable. I don't know if the awful ads are as pervasive in Germany but here they're probably more annoying than ones on TV, which is just insult to injury. I'll never forget the McDonald's ad for their jalapeno burger, which literally featured a man screaming at the top of his lungs for fifteen seconds. And not even words, just AAAAAAAAA.

RabbitWizard
Oct 21, 2008

Muldoon
It's like a contest of the advertisement companies who can create the most annoying ad. I joked about it ten years ago when the first "yelling ads" appeared that someday ads will only feature someone screaming while a siren is running. I don't joke anymore because this became close to the truth.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
My problem with people's radios is when they blast talk shows all day long. Same gripe with 24h/24h news television. Music I can tune out.

LITERALLY A BIRD
Sep 27, 2008

I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

Oh here's a very specific pet peeve, people that learn that my favorite band is the barenaked ladies and go "wow really that is a weird favorite band??" because they think they are a weird joke band like Weird Al only from canada or something?? because their radio singles were If I Had $1000000 or One Week or whatever back in the 90s. Like even their very first album was 90%+ """real""" songs and they've released like a dozen albums since then and they tackle what it's like living with addiction or bipolar disorder or clinical depression or whatever in loads of songs, maybe even the majority of them, but nobody seems to know that and also I'm pretty sure anybody else that listens to bnl as much as I do is probably like 50 so I am doomed to live forever with a completely unrelatable favorite musician/band.

I'm also peeved that Steven Page left because bnl has been not as good since he left and his solo album was also pretty bad, sorry steven.

Anyway there you have it, more words about the barenaked ladies than you thought you would read today so you're welcome and I hope you enjoyed!

e: I am still fired up so here is a song from their debut album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mV2u5P9W3M

LITERALLY A BIRD has a new favorite as of 22:48 on Oct 18, 2015

The Blue Pyramid
Mar 1, 2009

:poland: :poland: :poland:
Kiepski to nie
kaktus;
Pić musi!

:poland: :poland: :poland:
There was a very annoying ad that only ran for a few weeks on radio in which the company wrote an entire song that ended with a short spiel for their healthcare service. I dont mean a jingle, it was 2 1/2 minutes of a song followed by 30 seconds of ad. That got old very fast.

Something that pisses me off is that all the rock stations here seem to play their ads at the exact same time. I have a relatively short commute to/from work and I want to listen to music, not ads. Its even worse that half the ads are completely mismatched to the demographic of the station so a classic rock station gets interrupted by a mcdonalds ad with a hip hop song featuring a six year old autotuned to sing about lemonade

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Silver Falcon posted:

I don't know what Nutri System is, but I don't think Weight Watchers belongs in that sort of category. You're allotted a certain amount of "points" a day, and different foods are worth varying numbers of points. Eat at or below your point allotment and you lose weight. Now, sure, it's basically counting calories in a funny hat, but at least you don't have to eat any special food. Heck, their website even has point values for a bunch of restaurant food!

I still think it applies - a fancy name is slapped on, a different way to watch portions/count calories, and a few celebrity endorsements and all of a sudden a diet magically works. The points are a way of saying "stop eating so much/so often" and guess what? You eat smaller portions less often, and you lose weight. It falls between fast food and making your own meal - the convenience of not having to cook or prep, but it's all pre-made, overpriced crap anyone could get at the supermarket and make themselves for cheaper. It just kills me that most of these people keep saying "I tried a million stupid fad diets and this is the only one that worked", when the only difference is how their stupid diet is presented to them.

Maggie Fletcher
Jul 19, 2009
Getting brunch is more important to me than other peoples lives.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Oh here's a very specific pet peeve, people that learn that my favorite band is the barenaked ladies and go "wow really that is a weird favorite band??" because they think they are a weird joke band like Weird Al only from canada or something?? because their radio singles were If I Had $1000000 or One Week or whatever back in the 90s. Like even their very first album was 90%+ """real""" songs and they've released like a dozen albums since then and they tackle what it's like living with addiction or bipolar disorder or clinical depression or whatever in loads of songs, maybe even the majority of them, but nobody seems to know that and also I'm pretty sure anybody else that listens to bnl as much as I do is probably like 50 so I am doomed to live forever with a completely unrelatable favorite musician/band.

I'm also peeved that Steven Page left because bnl has been not as good since he left and his solo album was also pretty bad, sorry steven.

Anyway there you have it, more words about the barenaked ladies than you thought you would read today so you're welcome and I hope you enjoyed!

e: I am still fired up so here is a song from their debut album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mV2u5P9W3M

Pinch Me was extremely poignant to me...my depression is incredibly mild (basically three low weeks in November) but it completely nails it. The video is really well done, too. I always liked them, but I had a ton more respect for them once I actually sat down and listened to the words.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
Call and Answer kills me, I should listen to more BNL.
I just learned that was the last song Page performed with them too.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money
Another BNL fan here and I got a ton of poo poo for it back in highschool because no one in this state knew who they were. I'm always partial to "Who Needs Sleep" and "Angry People" personally.

yeah I eat ass
Mar 14, 2005

only people who enjoy my posting can replace this avatar

Ozz81 posted:

I still think it applies - a fancy name is slapped on, a different way to watch portions/count calories, and a few celebrity endorsements and all of a sudden a diet magically works. The points are a way of saying "stop eating so much/so often" and guess what? You eat smaller portions less often, and you lose weight. It falls between fast food and making your own meal - the convenience of not having to cook or prep, but it's all pre-made, overpriced crap anyone could get at the supermarket and make themselves for cheaper. It just kills me that most of these people keep saying "I tried a million stupid fad diets and this is the only one that worked", when the only difference is how their stupid diet is presented to them.

There are Weight Watchers branded food, but you don't have to buy those. The only benefit buying them gives you is it tells you how much points they are on the box, instead of you having to look it up yourself. Yeah it's just a way of controlling portion size/calories, but some people need a dumb system like that to motivate them.

The difference between it and things like Nutrisystem and Medifast is those are basically food-replacement programs - you pay them a ton, they ship you all the food you are allowed to eat. Those kinds of systems work as long as you keep buying the cardboardy microwaveable food and only eat that, but the second you get off you bounce back and get heavier than when you started because they don't teach you anything about controlling calories/portion size.

Anyway, the latest thing that's really bugging me is spouses posting on the other one's facebook. My stepmom does it to my dad and my step brother's wife does it on his. When my brother starts posting sappy things in a writing style he has never used before and nurse memes or my dad starts sharing anything that isn't a minion meme or a cute animal youtube video, it's obviously not them. You aren't fooling anyone. Even worse is when they fish for gossip/information (to be fair only my stepmom does this) by pretending to be my dad and asking what I feel about whatever thing she's upset about.

That's another one - gossipers. I basically can't trust anyone in my immediate family with anything important/private because even if I make them swear to keep it between us, the second I hang up the phone they are going to be calling everyone else and filling them in on all the details. None of them understand why I get mad about this.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Murphy Brownback posted:

That's another one - gossipers. I basically can't trust anyone in my immediate family with anything important/private because even if I make them swear to keep it between us, the second I hang up the phone they are going to be calling everyone else and filling them in on all the details. None of them understand why I get mad about this.

Oh man this is a great one. I learned not to share anything private with my sister the hard way when she immediately told our entire family something personal that I specifically asked her to not tell anyone. And then they wonder why when I talk on the phone the bulk of my conversation is just reactionary "uh-huh" these days. :shrug:

AlphaKretin
Dec 25, 2014

A vase to face encounter.

...Vase to meet you?

...

GARVASE DAY!

Try living in a small town. Not only does anything you say to family spread around the rest of it, anything you say to almost anyone spreads to everyone. :suicide:

Ms Boods
Mar 19, 2009

Did you ever wonder where the Romans got bread from? It wasn't from Waitrose!

Maggie Fletcher posted:

Oh, god, this is so true. For everyone, singles and marrieds alike.

[:words: that I heard for years]
I can't imagine what it's like for marrieds. At least I have the excuse of "let me get married first." You guys have no excuses.

I hit the half century mark this year, and my elderly mum still asks me if I'm going to have kids.

On the 'no one listens to you when you're ill/injured' -- mine comes from being the youngest, and having siblings who used to try to fake illnesses to get attention or get out of school. So along comes the baby, me, who is never believed when I fell ill. It used to be, feel like poo poo, get scolded for acting out, get dragged to school (hour long bus ride which didn't help matters), be so ill at school the teachers send me to the nurse's office, get scolded by the nurse for not telling anyone how ill I was, parents get called in to pick me up, get scolded by parents for being a martyr and not telling anyone that I was ill.

I also tend to develop a bit of a bronchial cough every time I get a cold/flu, and my dad honestly believed it was a fake attempt to get attention. I still have the ability to cough silently because of him shouting at me as a kid to stop faking it.

I broke one of the bones in my foot when I was still at university, and no one believed me; I limped to the infirmary, where the doctor on call refused to treat me, because if I'd walked there, I couldn't possibly have a broken foot. Managed to get back to the house (I lived at home when I was at uni), parents didn't believe me, even though by this point my foot was too swollen to get my shoe on properly. Older brother finally took me to a clinic to get it sorted.

And for the trifecta - if I ever felt 'off' or was having a bad period, my mother's immediate response was that I must have a sexually transmitted disease. I would get the occasional UTI that were quickly sorted with antibiotics, but of course, it was an STD (despite the fact I was a geeky kid who never dated or had a boyfriend until - not coincidentally - I moved out of my parents' house and got away from their weirdness). The only exception to that was when I came down with a UTI at aged about 9, and suffered with it for several days before my mother took me to the doctor, because, as with colds and flu above, she thought I was just acting out and being silly.

t:mad:

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money
On the opposite end, my sister is a crazy hypochondriac, the exact kind of person who looks up things on the internet then will spend weeks calling everyone to tell them how she totally has cancer and whatever rare exotic disease she saw on the news this week. So when she actually does get sick, it's incredibly hard to believe her.
Internet doctoring drives me up the wall too. Half my family keeps trying to insist I have autism now because I don't like loud noises and and tend to avoid social situations these days. The kicker is, is that I'm epileptic and not the lovely photosensitive kind either. Flashing lights and loud noises tend to just give me a wicked headache, as does being around multiple sources of noise and they can last for days. Meanwhile being tired and pissed off from something like say, a wicked headache is really not good for someone who's seizures get triggered by things like stress and exhaustion. But no, any time someone calls me up to tell me about their diabetes or asthma it inevitably comes around to "You should go get checked for autism! You totally act like that guy from Big Bang Theory! I was reading some stuff on the internet, too and it's totally you!"
:( I'm just goony, not actually disabled, yet.

Tiggum
Oct 24, 2007

Your life and your quest end here.


The fact that so few people put their address or phone number on Facebook that no one ever thinks to look there, so I end up getting messages from people asking me for information they could have got from my profile page.

Sweet As Sin
May 8, 2007

Hee-ho!!!

Grimey Drawer
People who don't know there's a reply to sender option on email and instead reply to 800+ people. Myself included.

Weird guys that add me after liking my band's page. I didn't even think it was connected to my FB profile but apparently it is!

artsy fartsy
May 10, 2014

You'll be ahead instead of behind. Hello!

Nuebot posted:

Oh man this is a great one. I learned not to share anything private with my sister the hard way when she immediately told our entire family something personal that I specifically asked her to not tell anyone. And then they wonder why when I talk on the phone the bulk of my conversation is just reactionary "uh-huh" these days. :shrug:

I want to beat your sister in the face. What does she say when confronted about it? How self-aware are people like this?

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Crow Jane
Oct 18, 2012

nothin' wrong with a lady drinkin' alone in her room
Re: medical stuff. My mom was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Her prognosis is great, she has great doctors, and while this is definitely a stressful and scary time for our family, things will likely work out okay.

I had to specifically tell my boyfriend not to tell his mother about it, because she would almost certainly, despite never having met my mom, post about it on Facebook and tag me, asking for prayers and poo poo (and likely earning herself a few likes in the process). I understand that her heart is probably in the right place, but I've told precisely two people in my life so far (and now a bunch of goons, I suppose :v:), and for now that's as far as I'm willing to take it. Boyfriend understood, but warned me that when he does tell her (the silver lining in all this is that it gives me a solid excuse not to visit his family in Ohio over Christmas), she will no doubt be offended she wasn't immediately informed.

Am I wrong in being incredibly annoyed by that?

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