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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

Mikl posted:

I woke up with an extreme case of pinkeye, for whatever reason, and I spent the whole morning sitting in my GP's waiting room. I waited more than four hours total, including getting looked at by a nurse who said "welp this looks bad, we'll get the doc to look at you posthaste" ---- THREE HOURS LATER ---- I get my eyes looked at by the doc who said "Welp yes that looks infected, here's a prescription for some antibiotic eye drops".

So I lost an entire morning, and now I have to use eye drops four times a day for five days in a row.
Eye problems suck, good luck with that. I had the cornea sliced off my right eye and the bandage contact lens they put on it whole it healed was one of the most painful things I've ever experienced (eyeball has no nerves, but the inside of the eyelids sure do), it banged against the inside of my eye socket and it was nearly indescribably painful. Think of it this way: as soon as I fell into REM sleep it caused me to bolt upright in bed screaming.

My day wasn't great, got like 2 hours of sleep, woke up soaked with sweat from a nightmare and three separate phone calls at hour and a half intervals from various places woke me up shortly after I'd gotten back to sleep after the previous one so i dont think I even got any "proper" sleep. And now I'm at work for another 12 hour shift. Gonna be great

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HOLY FUCK
Mar 31, 2007

Cats are terrifying, everyone knows that! 'Cause they're witches! And they've got knives in their feet!


I am so fed up and burnt out and I hate everyone and everything and also want to die 24/7. I also am starting to suspect that I might be too stupid for college because I seriously cannot finish my loving bachelors degree after YEARS of trying and I only just managed to get an associates so far. At least I don’t have any student loan debt so far since I’m working full time and can actually afford these weird-rear end cycles of semesters of straight A’s and then one with an F and a W. I know I can do the work but I can’t concentrate and thinking feels like trying to force carrots through a sieve sometimes. :smith:

Sorry for the word vomit everyone but I’m so frustrated and trying not to cry at work like a loser :saddowns:

Midig
Apr 6, 2016

Thin Privilege posted:


E2:--Im really sorry for all the cursing, I'm just still mad about this. Stupid internet.

It really should not affect you. You can be sure as hell that if someone calls you a narcissist, sociopath etc. that they are most likely full of poo poo. Its the most common form of armchair psychology. Also, Christmas and I work at a post office, so I work 6 days a week full time most of them late. 13-21(22 let's be realistic). Which basically means I sleep to long, get to work and jump on the internet for two hours...

Midig has a new favorite as of 02:17 on Dec 14, 2018

Sentient Data
Aug 31, 2011

My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!
Welp, I'm a new manager of a team of around a dozen people, and I found out today that I was apparently brought in as a hatchetman. The team's been struggling to meet their goals since long before I was hired, and the HR manager wants me to go in guns blazing

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

Midig posted:

It really should not affect you. You can be sure as hell that if someone calls you a narcissist, sociopath etc. that they are most likely full of poo poo. Its the most common form of armchair psychology

One of the people was a (supposedly who knows it's the internet) a legit psychologist IRL. I really respected this person because they always gave good advice and seemed very knowledgeable. But: if you're a psychologist why would you ever say something bad about a person with mental AND health issues?

Life shitted on me again today and I'm not even going to say why. It doesn't matter.

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.

John Murdoch posted:

Woke up early to make it to a psych appointment. Got to wait in torturous agony as he slowly looked up my pharmacy's number on Google (I've been here half a dozen times or more, it's not on file anywhere...why??), tried to dial it but messed up, tried to dial it again and got some personal line because it turned out he wrote it down wrong. Third time's the charm? No, because he let Google autocomplete do the work and it gave him a pharmacy in a totally different town, leading to an awkward conversation as the pharmacist patiently explained that yes, he'd have to call the correct pharmacy to set up my prescriptions properly. This is on top of the usual problem that he calls this poo poo in on speaker phone and has a thick accent. Then he blasted me with a long string of insistences that I should go see my PCP (who I hate) and get poked and prodded by a bunch of specialists and also get blood work done, which he specifically put me on the spot about. For said blood work, he told me to talk to the nurse about it....the nurse who was no longer in the building and they don't do that on-site anyway so wtf? Well what he actually meant but never actually said was that he was leaving a note for the nurse to call me tomorrow (doubtful I'll be awake to receive it) to set up whatever the gently caress, for unspecified reasons.

The whole thing was so distressing, on top of being needlessly tedious and confusing, that it torpedoed my mood and despite grabbing several more hours of sleep I still feel equal parts anxious and angry about it.

As a follow-up to this: Hey guess whose pharmacy doesn't know anything about their new prescription, probably because their dumbshit psych called the wrong pharmacy TWICE. Also, guess who's looking to switch to a hopefully competent doctor.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Thin Privilege posted:

But: if you're a psychologist why would you ever say something bad about a person with mental AND health issues?

An unfortunate thing I've come to accept over the past several years is that just because you are educated on a particular field doesn't mean you have the proper means of conveying it or discussing it or acting upon it. I had a psychiatrist for a bit who was this wonderful lady who was from South Africa and she was old enough that she would have definitely lived through the apartheid and would have had first-hand experience with being discriminated against. Then at some point she found out that I knew what Brexit was and she told me about the time she lived in Britain and the awful foreigners who were all moving in and taking shits in pots out in the open and then just dumping it in the streets and how Brexit should happen because the diseased foreigners would stay out and dirty up another country instead.

....I'm glad she's not my psychiatrist anymore because hoo boy was that a lot to suddenly have dumped on me when I went in for a med appointment lol

I also know some people with psych degrees who decided that my fiancee's mental problems were actually fake and that she was just copying my mental problems and that this was all my fault because I was making her copy me because blah blah blah


Basically, it's really frustrating, but humans can just be really loving lovely to/about others, regardless of their education, regardless of their occupation, regardless of their experiences, regardless of facts, and regardless of common loving sense dictating that maybe someone trained and educated to not say certain things would, in fact, not say certain things. Sometimes, people are just idiots, whether intentionally, purposefully, maliciously, or unintentionally, obliviously, and I can only hope that you can take some solace in this video. It doesn't apply 100% to your situation but I hope the general message applies well enough that you can feel at least maybe the tiniest littlest bit better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvT2r828QY

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8foDBekOYM&hd=1

I've been following these guys for nearly a decade. Their podcast has been an incredibly good part of my week listening at work because not only was it funny but they hit on a lot of pop culture news I didn't get to follow in general in a pretty short time span, had lots of good guests, and got into the nitty gritty of things like fighting games that most other channels didn't. Their let's plays were often fun but it was getting more clear that Matt wasn't really feeling it in the last year or two, and I'm at least glad they didn't have a total nuclear meltdown like, say, the Game Grumps when Jontron went full nazi. Nine years, though. That's a hell of a run for a daily let's play channel. Gonna miss these guys, though at least Pat and Woolie will be continuing to podcast, though under what framework I guess we'll see.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
And they don't stop comin'...

Just stopped in to visit my dad and saw he set up the Christmas stuff including the tree, stockings, etc like he always does. But I noticed he set two out, one for me, and one for my sister. She's been dead for ten years now. He's still shackled by losing her :smith:

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

FirstAidKite posted:

An unfortunate thing I've come to accept over the past several years is that just because you are educated on a particular field doesn't mean you have the proper means of conveying it or discussing it or acting upon it. I had a psychiatrist for a bit who was this wonderful lady who was from South Africa and she was old enough that she would have definitely lived through the apartheid and would have had first-hand experience with being discriminated against. Then at some point she found out that I knew what Brexit was and she told me about the time she lived in Britain and the awful foreigners who were all moving in and taking shits in pots out in the open and then just dumping it in the streets and how Brexit should happen because the diseased foreigners would stay out and dirty up another country instead.

....I'm glad she's not my psychiatrist anymore because hoo boy was that a lot to suddenly have dumped on me when I went in for a med appointment lol

I also know some people with psych degrees who decided that my fiancee's mental problems were actually fake and that she was just copying my mental problems and that this was all my fault because I was making her copy me because blah blah blah


Basically, it's really frustrating, but humans can just be really loving lovely to/about others, regardless of their education, regardless of their occupation, regardless of their experiences, regardless of facts, and regardless of common loving sense dictating that maybe someone trained and educated to not say certain things would, in fact, not say certain things. Sometimes, people are just idiots, whether intentionally, purposefully, maliciously, or unintentionally, obliviously, and I can only hope that you can take some solace in this video. It doesn't apply 100% to your situation but I hope the general message applies well enough that you can feel at least maybe the tiniest littlest bit better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvT2r828QY

Thank you <3 I really appreciate you acknowledging that because you're right. Some people are just bad.

I've had a lot of crappy psychologists in the past but none that ever said such poo poo about me; the worst I've had was a lady who kept looking at her clock. I have a wonderful counselor now who is doing her absolute best to fit me into her schedule despite it being full.

I honestly assume that this person who said I was crap has very bad reviews everywhere.


Not related: dumb rear end Area Manager who is moody to begin with told me the wrong schedule despite writing it down himself and me talking to him and writing it down myself while talking to him on the phone and I told him to check the cameras, I wrote it down, is now pissed that I wasn't there but YOU TOLD ME I WAS NOT WORKING THAT DAY. He also wrote it down on his own schedule sheet!!! He is that type of person who is controlling and a liar and wouldn't even speak to me and I didn't even try to discuss it cause I'm not gonna put up with this poo poo, I'm too old for it. I was supposed to be promoted but I am 100% certain I am not now.

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Cheshire Puss
Sep 14, 2007

Only the insane equate pain with success.
Dad went to hospital today to see a consultant about a lump under his jaw his local GP found after he was complaining about pain on the left side of his mouth.

He's booked for exploratory surgery next Thursday to see what's what but basically it doesn't look good right now.

He beat cancer once already, like 7 years ago. He had it at the same time as mum who... didn't make it. Ever since then he's been firm that if he ever got cancer again he wouldn't do chemo or whatever, he'd just accept it.

He's 72 and intellectually I've always understood that sort of talk, in the abstract it's easy to think about. I think I'm okay with it now honestly. Or so I think sometimes.

I don't want the results to come back. I want time to just stop now. Goddammit.

fizzymercury
Aug 18, 2011
My goddamn favorite barncat died today. She was 17 years old, mean as a cold snake, and hated me. But that baby kept my sheep, cows, and dumbass llama happy and vermin free and I loved her.

Zoe, you mean old cuss, I will miss you more than I can say. If only for that time you brought me a living gecko and dropped it on my face at 4am. That poo poo was hilarious.

Anil Dikshit
Apr 11, 2007

fizzymercy posted:

My goddamn favorite barncat died today. She was 17 years old, mean as a cold snake, and hated me. But that baby kept my sheep, cows, and dumbass llama happy and vermin free and I loved her.

Zoe, you mean old cuss, I will miss you more than I can say. If only for that time you brought me a living gecko and dropped it on my face at 4am. That poo poo was hilarious.

I’m really sorry for your loss.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
I saw a family christmas party photo that was taken a day or two ago of my family from my dad's side and I'm just sad now. I'm sad because I don't really have any family. I'm alone. I have my fiancee and that's more or less it. Every other section of the family tree I'm potentially connected to is cut off in some way, and it's just so lonely knowing that you could have a family, at all, whether small or large, and you just... don't.

Like, this is totally first world problems here but I can't help but feel jealous that not only does my fiancee have a family that she can maintain a relationship, but she has a family that she chooses not to actually get together with, that she's forego family functions for one reason or another and avoid calling up her relatives or talking to her family in other ways other than seeing her youngest sister weekly and it's just...

I don't like that I don't have a family. I don't like that she'll avoid going to her own family functions to spend time with me. I don't like that she has the luxury of having a family and makes the choice to avoid spending time with them because it's just going to make her become more and more distant from them.

I've talked with her about this, it's not something I'm like mad at her about or anything like that, it's just something where I don't want her to end up like me. She says she doesn't particularly care to interact with the family she's got, while I wish I had a family that could support me at all when I was going through any of the multiple levels of hell I've gone through, and it's just... family won't be there forever, and the longer she avoids them, the more estranged she'll become from them, until she's just like me: a complete stranger related by blood who really has no business being there.

tl;dr blah blah blah I don't have a family others have families whine whine whine

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
Ok now I've talked to people who worked on Steve Wilkos. It isn't fake. I never thought it was cause I met the guy and he's a literal good person, and my hair stylist said she worked with him when he brought his kids to day care. He just really does not like bad people.

There's a story I'm watching about molestation and the lady is like "I was 11 and my son was already 2 or 3." I had to rewind it like 5 times to make sure I heard it right.

What. The. gently caress.

I hate people.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Apparently needing throat surgery after my thyroid shut down wasn't a good enough reason to delay Lyme treatment and I'm just making excuses. Okay cool. I enjoy being lectured about something you're not going through.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

So we have 3 stores that I can work in. 2 of them are a reasonable temperature, 1 of them is a sweltering shithole. I have very poor temperature regulation amd get severely overheated and sick every time I work in that sauna to the point I requested to never work there as a health and safety issue becaise I always feel like I'm going to faint or throw up.

They're sticking me in there tonight for 8 hours because they all of a sudden decided this year that new hires can't be left alone even though it was never a problem in the previous 5 years I've been there. We sell cheap toys from China. They don't need babysitting.

ulex minor
Apr 30, 2018

Thin Privilege posted:

Apparently I'm a narcissist and piece of poo poo. Really made my day. I know this is the internet and I shouldn't take it seriously but it still hurts. IRL tons of coworkers, customers, and friends say that I am super nice and nobody says poo poo about me except my old psycho GM who everyone hated. One customer said I was the best manager there cause I was so friendly and helpful. Anyways I can't even vent about being treated like poo poo at a hospital without people saying I'm bad for doing that.

I was treated better on Reddit of all places.

Anyways that completely ruined my day.

E, like 16 hours later cause of 16 hr shift: I got off work at a store I never worked at like an hour ago and a guy I never met said "it was great working with you, I hope I see you again." And it wasn't in some fake rear end tone, he was being sincere.

So gently caress off assholes saying I'm a narcissistic piece of poo poo.


E2:--Im really sorry for all the cursing, I'm just still mad about this. Stupid internet.

It sounds like you're going through a rough time but maybe if you try and step back and re-read your posts in that thread you might understand why you got the reaction you did. There are a lot of good and reasonable posters in that thread, as you said yourself.

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
Went to my favorite places of all (sarcasm), the hospital, again. Same symptoms as before. They were very nice and respectful, that's why I took an Uber 40 minutes there instead of the shithole next to me. I have been there many times before and all my doctors are through their health system so they know everything about me, including my prior alcoholism, and still listen to and treat all my symptoms. I'm only saying this because of the people who said I was being mean/whatever when I was saying the hospital next to me was a shithole.

I am going to the doctor today based on the diagnosis.

I have about 100 or more hospital wristbands. Reallll sick of the hospital.

So basically day sucks cause I spent the first quarter of the day in the hospital.

suuma
Apr 2, 2009
I have ear infections in both ears and drove into a pothole and popped a hole in the sidewall of one of my tires, so I got to change a tire in the rain. While sick. Whee.

Also I can't hear anything and there's snot coming out of every hole in my body, send help

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I finally finished peak season at work, have a bunch of time off before I have to return. Went to shoot the poo poo with some buddies on steam, noticed one hasn't been on in a while, and when I went to their profile to see if they left an away message, instead find a bunch of comments of varying forms of RIP, miss you, etc, apparently he died a few months ago and I never knew, and I'm having a real bad time about it, both at the loss and not knowing, but also the pretty real possibility that I'll never know, he's just basically vanished into the aether for me. This is what sucks so much about entirely online connections.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
That's one of the things I worry about rather a lot. Almost all the people I associate with are online, and also goons. My best friend (also a goon) has orders that if anything happens to me he's to go to several goon discords to at least let everyone know that happened to me.

I'm sorry about your friend, Invictus. I really and truly am.

E: I swear to loving god if my relief no-shows today I will go loving mental

E2: he's a no show but my boss actually answered his loving phone for once (which is a minor Christmas miracle in and of itself) so I'll only be here for an hour and a half at most.

Malachite_Dragon has a new favorite as of 14:46 on Dec 22, 2018

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
Yeah. I forget his SA name, it might've been the same, but his steam name was Markgreyam. Makes me think back a few years to when I was talking to another goon on steam, Micnato, and he suddenly started rambling about hating himself, that the world was joyless and he just wanted it to end, and that he was going to grab his shotgun and go deep into the woods where nobody would find him, and blow his brains out. I desperately tried to find ways to track him down IRL, to contact authorities or anyone to stop him, but it was fruitless. He never logged back on. He probably got what he wanted.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Captain Invictus posted:

He probably got what he wanted.

It's not your fault. You did all that you feasibly could do and idk if you feel blame for it at all, but it's important for you to know that this is not your fault.

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
no, I know. I did everything I could to talk to him about it, to try and get him to seek help, but he wasn't having any of it. It's more that I will never know what happened to my friends, because I never knew their personal info, just their screen name, because many folks like to have their online persona and offline persona and keep them separate. But because of that, people I'm otherwise very close by the things we talk to on the daily(like, for example, his depression) can just vanish forever the next day and I don't even get a grave to pay respects to, because I don't know who they were. And this now makes me question every person on my friends list who hasn't logged in in weeks/months/years, even though I know that's a pretty irrational fear.

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009
This is an odd way to look at things, but this is how it works for me. There are 2 selves, the online self and the offline. Sometimes people just disappear from the online, and they may never return, and whether they return or not, the online self is "dead" even if the offline self is alive and well. Unfortunately there are times when people who might very well be the best of friends online just up and disappear. I know that I'm personally guilty of this, there were a few people who considered me a really good friend through AIM and I just disappeared from it without telling anyone and now that AIM is gone they've no means of contacting me, and given my predilection towards suicidal ideation at the time, it would not at all be strange for them to have the thought "I wonder if Kite finally offed himself."

For me, I feel bad for anybody I've put in that situation, and I would personally prefer if they could just accept me as "dead" even if I'm not actually dead because at the very least it can give them some kind of closure and the ability to move on, rather than an MIA with the false hope that I'll somehow figure out a means of reaching out and apologizing for disappearing without much of a trace.

ulex minor
Apr 30, 2018

Thin Privilege posted:

Went to my favorite places of all (sarcasm), the hospital, again. Same symptoms as before. They were very nice and respectful, that's why I took an Uber 40 minutes there instead of the shithole next to me. I have been there many times before and all my doctors are through their health system so they know everything about me, including my prior alcoholism, and still listen to and treat all my symptoms. I'm only saying this because of the people who said I was being mean/whatever when I was saying the hospital next to me was a shithole.

No one was saying you were being 'mean' for complaining about your doctors - health professionals in the healthcare thread weren't responding to you when you kept double posting things like 'please be nice to your patients I beg you' because they're not a bunch of Nurse Ratcheds that need you to wake them up to their insensitivity to patients and would never have thought about being kind to their patients before you woke them up. You were being rude to talk to them like that.

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

ulex minor posted:

No one was saying you were being 'mean' for complaining about your doctors - health professionals in the healthcare thread weren't responding to you when you kept double posting things like 'please be nice to your patients I beg you' because they're not a bunch of Nurse Ratcheds that need you to wake them up to their insensitivity to patients and would never have thought about being kind to their patients before you woke them up. You were being rude to talk to them like that.

Hmm I didn't realize I was doing that :( now I feel bad for saying that stuff.

I do still stand by the statement that that hospital is poo poo because everyone I know says it and it has like a 1.5 star review but I feel really lovely that I said that stuff in that thread.

BetterToRuleInHell
Jul 2, 2007

Touch my mask top
Get the chop chop
I hate the holidays.

Personally, I'm fine with never seeing my extended family. I love them, but whether it's because i'm anti-social/introvert/whatever, I have no desire to drive out and visit anyone. Again, it's not meant to be a slight on anyone. I just like to keep to myself.

Where all this comes together into one big shitfest is with my parents and my brother's family. We all used to keep in touch more -- it wasn't a crazy amount, but we would regularly get together for dinner on the weekends, or again, holidays at the parents or relatives.

Now, we don't. There is tension between my parents and my brother and sister-in-law, specifically my mom and sister-in-law. It's never going to be resolved because if you approach either, poo poo gets blown up and made even worse. On top of everything, my personal situation doesn't help, because on top of keeping to myself, I work nights, so my schedule is the exact opposite of everyone else, so even if I did want to do something with anyone, they are on a different schedule.

I mean, everyone is....cordial, I suppose? I guess everyone tries to play nice and avoid confrontation, to be honest.

Now, it's Christmas Eve, and I don't even know if my brother is going to bring his family over to my parents on Christmas to say hello and open gifts. It's honestly 50/50 at this point. And this is after my father is going into surgery for a disc in his spinal today in about three hours.

Sorry if this seems like a lot of rambling, but I needed to get it off my chest. Family drama is so loving stupid. Sometimes I think, if it wasn't for my nephews and niece, I'd just leave the town/state and not even bother with anyone anymore.

BetterToRuleInHell has a new favorite as of 10:51 on Dec 24, 2018

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

I started a medication a couple days ago which can cause what is called a Herxheimer reaction, which is severe autoimmune-like symptoms when you get a massive and sudden dieoff of infection. It's happening and it's intense and I know I'm just going to get better after a couple weeks but that's when I start another medication for a different bug that causes the same reaction so I'm likely in for a really rough couple months. Starting both at once was potentially dangerous so I'm just going to have to tough it out over a longer period of time.

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic
I am not looking forward to my niece being a prat tomorrow. This child is slowly but surely making me hate Christmas. :(

Astrofig
Oct 26, 2009
I work tomorrow. 12 hours on my feet, mopping up racist old peoples' poo poo, no chance to see my family. This will be my fifth day in a row. I have skin wounds from the awful scrubs we have to wear. Merry loving Christmas.

MisterBibs
Jul 17, 2010

dolla dolla
bill y'all
Fun Shoe
A gift I bought for a friend (A Displate, those metal posters you might see ads for online) isn't perfect, and it's annoying for a bunch of reasons.

First off, its not half as crisp as the picture on the store says. It looks blown up from a smaller size, with the whole thing looking like someone casually increasing the size of an image in Photoshop. Which I might've done too many times, so I know what it looks like.

Secondly, this is the second time this has happened. This is the one I bought with store credit because the last one I bought I returned because - wait for it - the product looked bad because it looked blown up and blurry, and surely that was because I bought a Large poster last time, and surely if I bought a Medium one it wouldn't look blown up, right?

Thirdly, by sheer coincidence I've bought previous Displates for people, and theyve turned out fine. But for this one person, I'm 0 for 2.

And finally, I'm not 100% sure if anyone but me would even notice the image blow-up, because they haven't done the sort of thing I do (try and make a picture bigger, be unsatisfied with the results, repeat)

TLDR my day is low key ruined because the second gift for a specific person is Bad and I'm not entirely sure the Badness is just something that personally offends me. I just want a perfect gift :(

Astrofig
Oct 26, 2009
I have either a GI bug or food poisoning, not sure which. All I know is that around five or six pm yesterday I started feeling gassy and crampy and had the runs a few times. Then just after midnight I woke up to violently vomit seven times in a row. Since then I've been waking up more or less every hour to have more diarrhea. I have no idea where I'm even getting all this water to lose. My day is literally lovely, y'all.

Queen Combat
Dec 29, 2017

Lipstick Apathy
Your gut is pulling it from your body, especially those nice, juicy organs.


I know you don't want to right now, but drink water.

MisterBibs
Jul 17, 2010

dolla dolla
bill y'all
Fun Shoe
As I alluded to the other day, my life hasn't been so good. So not-good that I spent most of the day just laying around with my phone (s7) charging while I did random poo poo.

I decided to take a nap, rather unsuccessfully, when I hear/feel my phone vibrating. Text message?

Nope, phone decided to restart itself. Odd but okay, surely that's a random-but-whatever, right? Nope, it's been in a restart loop for the past hour. I've done some Googling and tried every suggestion, and none of them work, just changing which screen my phone displays before crashing and rebooting itself. Its two major modes right now are off-but-won't-charge and restart-every-few-minutes.

I've been relying on facebook messenger to get the word out to most people (because while Verizon provides the ability to text via a computer webpage, it doesn't loving work*), but a whole lot of poo poo is now out of my control. Can't text people (including my brother who will kinda-helpfully-but-make-you-feel-bad-for-asking drive me to the store tomorrow**, can't control my smart lights, no practical alarm clock (because I don't need one, I had a phone for that), my partner is out of town with family issues so I can't get help from her, and happy loving new year in general.

* Just realized that it doesn't really let me save/export the entire text history of a close friend of mine, which is a major gut punch

** Not sure if I mentioned it, but I got into a car accident a while back and totalled my car, so I'm relying on Lyft to get around.

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Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
I'm assuming you asked in the designated phone etc subforum about this? Someone there may be able to help out with that, they're pretty good with quickly figuring out hardware issues like that in my experience.

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012
Fiancée gave me back her engagement ring, told me that she's not ready, and left. gently caress.

MisterBibs
Jul 17, 2010

dolla dolla
bill y'all
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Captain Invictus posted:

I'm assuming you asked in the designated phone etc subforum about this? Someone there may be able to help out with that, they're pretty good with quickly figuring out hardware issues like that in my experience.

This might be the grumpiness of the entire shitshow revealing itself, but I didn't because the issue isn't some niche/mysterious issue, but one that is common enough to find all the solutions and all of the outcomes, and I was hitting dead ends on every one of them. All goons would be able to do is suggest things I've already done a bunch of times before bringing the question up, and I would've hit a probe level of assholeness really quickly.

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Sway Grunt
May 15, 2004

Tenochtitlan, looking east.

HOLY gently caress posted:

I am so fed up and burnt out and I hate everyone and everything and also want to die 24/7.

Quoting this line because ever since I read it about a month ago it's stuck with me as a kind of perfect articulation of how I feel. I said it almost verbatim to my therapist this morning. There was nothing aggressively lovely about my day today, just an assortment of small things that collectively weighed down on me and continue to do so. Each one individually is so monumentally loving stupid though, and directly derived from the bottomless depths of my personal dysfunction, that I feel disinclined to mention any specifically. With some the fact that it bothers me bothers me more than the thing itself.

Anyway basically what I wanted to post is, :same:, extremely. I wish I was dead, like, fifteen years ago.

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