CGI Stardust posted:

love it when i'm taking a massive poo poo and suddenly the toilet turns into that haunted one with the teeth from the Ghostbusters toy line

ed: for the youth,

Junior G-man posted:

ShUt ThE gently caress uP vInCe.

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1194212734407188481?s=20

Junior G-man posted:

ShUt ThE gently caress uP vInCe.

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1194212734407188481?s=20

runwiled posted:

Hey Borrovan. I know I don't post much in here but I do follow this thread fairly closely and I thought I had something of worth to contribute here.

A few years ago I was in a similar situation working in a call centre as a "Senior," and found a lot of tasks at work to be incredibly difficult to complete and overall was suffering every minute I was in work. Driving to work each day used to fill me with dread. I smoke a lot of cannabis at night to knock me out so I could sleep and not focus on how miserable I was. I thought that soldiering through it was the correct thing to do and much like you even took a bunch of holiday all at once so I could take an extended break and hopefully come back recharged. It didn't work.

Eventually I hit my limit and had a total mental collapse after a manager told me during a performance review that I was the worst Senior in the department. I wasn't at risk of being disciplined or losing my position, but it did make me question why I had forced myself to try as hard as I had to function at work if ultimately I was still seen as underperforming. I couldn't carry on from that point and spent the next two years on sick leave (only six months was fully paid) and struggling to piece my life back together. I left the company since it was clear I wouldn't be able to return, even in a lower position and eventually got a temporary contract working for a local council. I thought I was better but I wasn't: I managed to complete the contract but towards the end depression and anxiety meant I was not really doing any work and merely coasting out my contract (luckily it was very easy to do nothing in that role and no one cared). That was two years ago and I've not been in work since.

There's other factors to why I'm still unfit to work but a large, large part of it was that I pushed myself too much all those years ago to keep going and ultimately fell apart in a spectacular manner. My anxiety from that job still plagues me now in every moment of my life and my advice to you is to stop and get help immediately. You may think you can't afford it (I couldn't either), you may think things will get better but trust me: it can get so, so much worse. Don't be a, 'hero,' and push ahead only to fall apart utterly. Be kind to yourself. Take the time you need to heal. Your workplace will carry on without you. Don't hurt yourself to the point that it takes years to piece yourself back together.

You have my support and I'm certain the support of everyone in this thread. Take this strain off yourself.

Rarity posted:

Shitposting is my real kink

Continuity RCP posted:

Thanks for this. I get that a lot from people with qualifications coming out their ears and it's intensely frustrating.

Anyway time to go to the horrible job I hate but is what I have because I hosed up school so badly lol

The Deleter posted:

She doesn't understand that.

Junior G-man posted:

ShUt ThE gently caress uP vInCe.

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1194212734407188481?s=20

Braggart posted:

I once came across redhead-specific sissy porn. The creator had written captions to the effect that people don't find redheaded men attractive, but they do find redheaded women very attractive, so the solution for redheaded men was to try to be women, in order to be accepted and loved and have some kind of worth and also be humiliated in a good way.

Again, if any of this is your kink that's okay, but my now-confused boner wondered whether the development of the above has anything to do with it being socially acceptable to say things like:

"Beaten like a redheaded step child."

"Redheads have no soul."

"Oh my god you're so pale it's disgusting HOT drat, a redheaded woman to objectify!"

Guys maybe South Park and Family Guy are bad.

Surprise T Rex posted:

Probably bad form but re-posting this just so this doesn't get lost at the bottom of the last page, in case it's helpful:


I'm not great at maths stuff but I touch computers for a living. While I do have a degree, it's in something intensely unrelated to the job I do (as is the BTEC National Diploma that got me into university in the first place).
There's a lot of good resources online for self-teaching code stuff if you'd like to pick it up with a view to switching careers. If you're interested I could maybe try and effort post a bit about how I got into it and recommend some stuff?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I like red headed men. I have a thing for David Caruso. (Mind you I don't know anyone else who does.) When I was 14 I had a major crush on a ginger haired guy.

sinky posted:

Weird how everything has got worse in the past ten years

Aphex- posted:

DEBATE ME COWARDS

sinky posted:

Weird how everything has got worse in the past ten years

The Deleter posted:

This thread is loving wild. In both senses.

Anyway I had a chat with my mum last night and she is probably gonna vote lib dem because "it just keeps swapping between labour and conservative and nothing changes", but what she really wants to do is blow up the houses of parliament. I am going to have to change tack and try and convince her that the lib dems are poo poo.

One of the problems I'm having is I feel like I can't retain any information or arguments with which to combat this. I can't elaborate on why the tories or poo poo or how labour is different now because she doesn't see them as any different, and as much as I try and feed her stories about what the tories have done she just sort of attributes it all to this nebulous "politician/government" class. She doesn't like Corbyn at all and thinks nobody will vote for him, because ?????. It's incredibly frustrating.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

I would very much disagree with this from personal experience.

I grew up under thatcherite education in the north east, which was basically jamming as many kids into a building to keep them busy during the day. This was before the national curriculum and ofsted and poo poo, so it really was a case of us just sitting there with a teacher at the front and as long as we didn't punch each other too much, the teacher would ignore us and we would ignore them.

The chief example of this was maths, where we were sat reading out of ten year old SMP books with no guidance, and at our own rate. The idea was that you'd finish a book, then go and get the next, and we could work at our own pace. But I blazed through the first two books, got accused of cheating, had to go down a bracket, gave up and stayed on the same book for two years while chatting to my friends, nobody checked up on me, and I was in a class of 30 with a teacher who sat at the front marking the upper sets work, so nobody noticed.

So there are a ton of mathematical concepts I didn't get, and was never tested on until I failed them at GCSE. I guess I was vaguely aware that I was supposed to be asking for help but (a) I was already being bullied to poo poo so there was no loving way I was going to keep standing up to voluntarily go to the front and put an even bigger target on my back, and (b) I found out 10 years ago that I have dyspraxia and ADHD tendencies, and last year that I have autism, which went undiagnosed right up to my second attempt at university, so I was one of the kids who slipped through the cracks and went un-noticed until it was too late.

Consequently there are huge holes in my education. And I know I keep bringing it up but neuroplasticity means that the older you are, the harder it is to learn new information and have it fully integrate with the other information in your mind. I have tried multiple times to pick up maths textbooks over the years, but it's not sinking in, and the information doesn't integrate in the way it does in a younger person. It's like I sit down to learn it, but unless I literally spend time every day doing it, my brain eventually drifts back to its 'crap at maths' configuration.

It also had a massive effect on my prospects. At college, I wasn't allowed to do computer science (the nearest you could get to a coding a-level back then) because my maths wasn't good enough, so I wasn't able to go on to a coding degree. At the point in my life when that qualification would have been free (If I hadn't had to resit my maths GCSE I would have been in the last intake to be eligible for grants), I wasn't able to get it, and I spent ten years pecking keyboards in dull office roles because the nearest I could get was IT as a component of a business GNVQ.

I realise you're going to want to say that this was a bad example because my education went wrong, but that's exactly my point - it's only when you grow up lacking a good education that you can appreciate how valuable a good education is.

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Tesseraction posted:

shower thought: I wonder if this was inspired by their first time on a bidet

Camrath posted:

Nothing useful to add, but ouch. Trapped in a similar situation due to similar problems and events. Solidarity, comrade.

CGI Stardust posted:

though.

love it when i'm taking a massive poo poo and suddenly the toilet turns into that haunted one with the teeth from the Ghostbusters toy line

ed: for the youth,


in the same way that Darth Vader killed Anakin Skywalker

CGI Stardust posted:

as a child i was terrified by toilet brushes

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I like red headed men. I have a thing for David Caruso. (Mind you I don't know anyone else who does.) When I was 14 I had a major crush on a ginger haired guy.

runwiled posted:

I smoke a lot of cannabis at night to knock me out so I could sleep and not focus on how miserable I was.

Tesseraction posted:

Coohoolin posted:

https://twitter.com/MhairiBlack/status/1193926763551875072?s=19

Tesseraction posted:

quote:

On the red carpet for "Gravity," MTV News' Josh Horowitz asked Sandra Bullock to once and for all settle the greatest mystery in movie history.

"Well, think of a bidet, right?" said Bullock. "There's several processes. You have number one, you have number two, and then the cleanup."

But it doesn't stop there. Turns out the seashells are also musical instruments. "You can use them as little maracas as well," continued Bullock, giving an example of the sort of beat you can drop with the future's answer to toilet paper. "See, it's a musical instrument, and it's a hygiene element!"

Coohoolin posted:

https://twitter.com/MhairiBlack/status/1193926763551875072?s=19

fuf posted:

The tenses here are confusing so maybe it's not an issue for you any more, and I know it's annoying to hear, but I was in a very similar situation for years and years and for me things started turning around when I finally realised weed was hurting more than it was helping.

I'm still miserable don't get me wrong

fuf posted:

The tenses here are confusing so maybe it's not an issue for you any more, and I know it's annoying to hear, but I was in a very similar situation for years and years and for me things started turning around when I finally realised weed was hurting more than it was helping.

I'm still miserable don't get me wrong

Guavanaut posted:

I want one of those Japanese toilet things with the built in bidet, but I worry what else they do.

Bundy posted:

I was going to quote it here to add that I also touch computers/program for a living, I only attained GCSE qualifications. Maybe a real time chat could be helpful in the discord?

Surprise T Rex posted:

I'm not great at maths stuff but I touch computers for a living. While I do have a degree, it's in something intensely unrelated to the job I do (as is the BTEC National Diploma that got me into university in the first place).
There's a lot of good resources online for self-teaching code stuff if you'd like to pick it up with a view to switching careers. If you're interested I could maybe try and effort post a bit about how I got into it and recommend some stuff?

Tesseraction posted:

Braggart posted:

That's just the world's most awesome bidet

Failed Imagineer posted:

It's only lunchtime and I've found my moronic take for the day

https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/1194201667610251266?s=19