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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

CGI Stardust posted:

coating my nads and asscrack in peanut butter and letting the haunted ghost toilet go to town

A sentence I never thought I'd have to read again

Edit ah poo poo. Um, 151 is a lovely numerical palindrome

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runwiled
Feb 21, 2011

Barry Foster posted:

It's the devil's choice. I was doing similar until recently and it was affecting my mood and motivation, so now I keep it to the weekends and just try to work through the sleep deprivation. Which affects my mood and motivation even more, lol

It's useful as hell when it's an every so often thing, though, I still believe that. It gives me a bit of separation from my constant rumination and helps me assess my mindset and situation a little more objectively. That kind of mental space is invaluable when you're otherwise caught in the hurricane

I feel like there's a balance that can be achieved and I think it's entirely possibly to use responsibly. I'd be tempted to try it myself since as I mentioned, I occasionally feel a desperate need to get some kind of relief but I'm not sure if I would end up falling back into bad habits and use too much.

I miss sleep and not having my jaw hurt so much from clenching almost constantly.

The Question IRL
Jun 8, 2013

Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

Guavanaut posted:

Three Shell based post

Back in the day I know, awful human Harry Knowles did a long interview with Sylvester Stallone on Ain't It Cool News about his career and one question was about how the Shells worked.

He definitely gave a good answer about it. But to find that one would have to go into the Internet Mines of Moria.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

runwiled posted:

I feel like there's a balance that can be achieved and I think it's entirely possibly to use responsibly. I'd be tempted to try it myself since as I mentioned, I occasionally feel a desperate need to get some kind of relief but I'm not sure if I would end up falling back into bad habits and use too much.

I miss sleep and not having my jaw hurt so much from clenching almost constantly.

FWIW I find that it's not too much strain to not fall back as long as you're not in the habit in the first place. Once you've 'dried out' and broken the cycle it's not too hard to say 'this is a sometimes food'. It's habit forming, not addictive per se. Certainly back when I had way more trouble with booze.

Keeps it special too. It gets very boring if it's constant and you have a high tolerance, most of the good stuff goes away

Edit but I'm not trying to encourage you, you have to do what's best for you and if that means abstinence then I really don't want to come across as questioning that

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

crispix posted:

Is the prude toilet going to activate when a fat person uses it, since it uses weight to determine if there are two people in?

I had that thought too, and figured that the smart way to handle it would be to detect an increase in weight as a second person enters the stall. But the way to beat that would be to already be having sex before you enter, so that one person can walk in with the other person wrapped around them.

Welcome to the sex toilet arms race!

Deketh
Feb 26, 2006
That's a nice fucking fish

Barry Foster posted:

It's the devil's choice. I was doing similar until recently and it was affecting my mood and motivation, so now I keep it to the weekends and just try to work through the sleep deprivation. Which affects my mood and motivation even more, lol

It's useful as hell when it's an every so often thing, though, I still believe that. It gives me a bit of separation from my constant rumination and helps me assess my mindset and situation a little more objectively. That kind of mental space is invaluable when you're otherwise caught in the hurricane

Same here, recently went from a daily habit for a couple of years to weekends only. I got so used to switching myself off at the end of the day to deal with everything and convinced myself that it was still helping me. The mental space it gives is invaluable, I agree, and that just became a fog with daily use. I'm still miserable but at least it's cheaper and I can actually do stuff in the evenings now.

Barry Foster posted:

FWIW I find that it's not too much strain to not fall back as long as you're not in the habit in the first place. Once you've 'dried out' and broken the cycle it's not too hard to say 'this is a sometimes food'. It's habit forming, not addictive per se. Certainly back when I had way more trouble with booze.

Keeps it special too. It gets very boring if it's constant and you have a high tolerance, most of the good stuff goes away

Edit but I'm not trying to encourage you, you have to do what's best for you and if that means abstinence then I really don't want to come across as questioning that

Also agreed! It's better as something to look forward to. Took me about a week to dry out and get past the habit. Some people have a much harder time from what I've read, with physical withdrawal symptoms. I had some but they weren't too bad.

Deketh fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Nov 12, 2019

Ash Crimson
Apr 4, 2010
This fetish talk is gross, sex is icky and disgusting

It is entirely normal to feel disgusted with yourself after doing anything sexual...

Right?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Probably more common than is generally advertised at least.

The Deleter
May 22, 2010
I mean I just feel disgusted with myself all the time so it cancels out :v:

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Barry Foster posted:

A sentence I never thought I'd have to read again

Edit ah poo poo. Um, 151 is a lovely numerical palindrome

Common chord progression in old folk music.

Which is in fact why most harmonicas are made in the Richter tuning :toot:

Bobby Deluxe
May 9, 2004

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

This is actually a space (not the revenge porn, the actual-amateur) that Tumblr used to fill quite well before Verizon went all puritan, which is a shame. I know quite a few independent content creators were extremely put out by that, not sure where they all ended up if anywhere.
Reddit, which as I understand it is an absolutely wretched place to do any kind of amateur stuff - an astonishing amount of performers get stalked out of there within a few months and now most of the porn is headless bodies in front of a blank magnolia wall.


Surprise T Rex posted:

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?
I'd be interested because the nearest I got to advice was one of the techs at the helpdesk I used to work at (just entry level answering phones) telling me to download active directory and play about with it until I knew what I was doing (which I tried and got nowhere).

A lot of the advice has been frustrating like this, like a friend who plays about with raspberry pi and stuff like that who claims coding is all just copying things from stackexchange and then changing it to fit the rest of your code. I also bought a uDemy course that was reduced from £200 to £10 a few christmases ago on how to learn c# for the unity engine, but it gradually devolved into the same bullshit - here's how to look up what code to copy on the wiki, with no explanation of what the different elements were.

If you don't know the underlying syntax or the logic of the difference between a global and local variable, you may as well be copying gibberish. You need that underlying framework to know what you're doing.

I know MIT are supposed to have their courses online for free, but I've never looked it up.

I suppose my problem is that I self learned HTML/CSS, but then unfortunately by the time I actually got round to seeing if I could make websites for other people, everyone wanted web 2.0 stuff and I discovered I didn't know enough for it to be a marketable skill.

What I would want is more specifics about "here's how you get a qualification that coding jobs will accept" or "here's how to get a coding job circumventing not having a qualification."

VideoGames
Aug 18, 2003

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

If I had a twitter I would reply something like: No a DDoS is more like the amount of people in 2019 using the foodbanks at once in a place meant for 2010 numbers.

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Ash Crimson posted:

This fetish talk is gross, sex is icky and disgusting

It is entirely normal to feel disgusted with yourself after doing anything sexual...

Right?

It is common, but it shouldn't be. You can't choose what turns you on, so should not have to feel ashamed of it as long as you don't harm anyone. Solo sexythink and playtime with consenting partners are a-okay.

Also you don't have to do anything that you do not really want to. Some do not like 'standard' sex, but there is enormous pressure on us to make that the thing we do. Asexuals exist, as well as people all along the spectrum to nymphomania. Try to figure out the things that you are really into, it's way more fun that way :eng101:

Imagine the pointer is a dildo.

Braggart fucked around with this message at 14:10 on Nov 12, 2019

Diet Crack
Jan 15, 2001

Hoooray, after 3 weeks I’m finally being discharged! Not over yet as I need to follow this iv course in the hospital everyday until Tuesday, but I elected for that cus I’m tired of being in the ward and am good enough to go home, also need blood work every 2 weeks and will be visiting TB clinics every month for the next 9 months along with the tablets to complete the course and monitor progress. Feels good to get the gently caress out finally though.

Bonus note to no go back to work until next Wednesday earliest on light duties depending on how I go over the weekend



Can’t wait to play games watch new Rick and Morty and unleash my jism to the nastiest porn there is to offer in the spirit of this thread. Probably a bit too early to have sex yet, plus I don’t wanna rip these IV lines out accidentally.

Diet Crack fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Nov 12, 2019

Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.

sebzilla posted:

lmao was this actually delivered? Our postal workers are great.

Don't you legally have to deliver it? In any case I'd rather it was delivered so we have an opportunity to see it and report it to the polis.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

A ddos on a labour platform is much more like a rich rear end in a top hat sending the cops to break up a strike.

runwiled
Feb 21, 2011

Barry Foster posted:

FWIW I find that it's not too much strain to not fall back as long as you're not in the habit in the first place. Once you've 'dried out' and broken the cycle it's not too hard to say 'this is a sometimes food'. It's habit forming, not addictive per se. Certainly back when I had way more trouble with booze.

Keeps it special too. It gets very boring if it's constant and you have a high tolerance, most of the good stuff goes away

Edit but I'm not trying to encourage you, you have to do what's best for you and if that means abstinence then I really don't want to come across as questioning that

It's ok! I don't think you're trying to enable me and I'd like to try to use it as a, 'sometimes food,' but sadly I have no way of acquiring any right now so it's moot. I do think it'd be helpful on the days were my anxiety is really bad but until such a time as it becomes available to me again, I'll have to make do without.


Ash Crimson posted:

This fetish talk is gross, sex is icky and disgusting

It is entirely normal to feel disgusted with yourself after doing anything sexual...

Right?

It is not. I hope one day you can learn to love yourself. Aren't you dealing with dysphoria right now? That'll gently caress you up good.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Coohoolin posted:

Don't you legally have to deliver it? In any case I'd rather it was delivered so we have an opportunity to see it and report it to the polis.

If it's a recognisable address, sure. I just enjoy the image of some poor postie looking at that and sighing.

Although this sort of thing makes it through so really they're just heroes.



(image leeching from the Daily Mail, I hope their servers die)

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Weed is my only real addiction and I'm trying to kick it. For some reason nothing else is as hard to kick apart from maybe sugar, even mephedrone was easier and I loved that poo poo.

It just makes me extremely, extremely stupid and actually makes me sleep worse not better and be more anxious.

Been trying to quit entirely for a year or so now and managed 6 months before falling off the wagon, now 2 months. Takes me about 6 weeks to start feeling properly normal and good. Mind you I smoked heavily for like 10 years straight.

It's tough cause everyone I know chooms every spare moment

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Duzbuns hopsit farmerrc.

Deketh
Feb 26, 2006
That's a nice fucking fish

runwiled posted:

It's ok! I don't think you're trying to enable me and I'd like to try to use it as a, 'sometimes food,' but sadly I have no way of acquiring any right now so it's moot. I do think it'd be helpful on the days were my anxiety is really bad but until such a time as it becomes available to me again, I'll have to make do without.


It is not. I hope one day you can learn to love yourself. Aren't you dealing with dysphoria right now? That'll gently caress you up good.

Sorry if you mentioned this earlier, have you tried the CBD oil available in the UK? I don't know if the stuff here is any good. I haven't tried it but I'm tempted to, although I don't expect much as ingested cannabis doesn't do much to me.

Josef bugman
Nov 17, 2011

Pictured: Poster prepares to celebrate Holy Communion (probablY)

This avatar made possible by a gift from the Religionthread Posters Relief Fund
Is there anyone you know who doesn't have at least some level of addiction to something. How do people live like that?

Camrath
Mar 19, 2004

The UKMT Fudge Baron


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50387254

Of course, absolutely no chance of this happening but I’m wondering if the backlash to yesterday’s announcement is getting to Farage..

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

Josef bugman posted:

Is there anyone you know who doesn't have at least some level of addiction to something. How do people live like that?

Mostly by not being aware of any alternative :v:

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Tesseraction posted:

There's ones you can use to retrofit UK toilets to have a bidet.
I've seen them, you can get ones that are just cold mains water straight up your rear end in a top hat, or ones that have the electric functions but suffer from :ghost:UK Bathroom Electrics:ghost:

There's a bunch of other things I desperately need to save for to fix in my bathroom first though, like whoever positioned the shower was apparently 4' tall and the windowsill is next to the shower and slopes towards the window as if it was designed to be a black mold farm. The whole thing is loving terribly designed, even by the standards of "bathrooms banged into Victorian box rooms".

Deketh
Feb 26, 2006
That's a nice fucking fish

Communist Thoughts posted:

Weed is my only real addiction and I'm trying to kick it. For some reason nothing else is as hard to kick apart from maybe sugar, even mephedrone was easier and I loved that poo poo.

It just makes me extremely, extremely stupid and actually makes me sleep worse not better and be more anxious.

Been trying to quit entirely for a year or so now and managed 6 months before falling off the wagon, now 2 months. Takes me about 6 weeks to start feeling properly normal and good. Mind you I smoked heavily for like 10 years straight.

It's tough cause everyone I know chooms every spare moment

Good job on the 2 months mate. Must be really loving tough to still be around it when you want to quit forever.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Sexual guilt is incredibly common in the UK because it's a socialised emotional response left over from the days when we were a predominantly Christian country. Even though religion has been separated from British identity over the last couple of centuries the repression remains. As separation of social norms from religion is essential for living in full luxury gay space communist paradise this means being unashamed of your sexual desires isn't just healthy, it's praxis.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Guavanaut posted:

It'd be pretty cool if the SNP was actually the Socialist N***az Party and ran UK wide, might consider voting for them over Labour.


Straight outta Commons, crazy motherfucker named Mhairi
From the gang called the SNP
When I'm called off I get a sawed-off
Referendum then Scotland gets hauled off

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Rarity posted:

Sexual guilt is incredibly common in the UK because it's a socialised emotional response left over from the days when we were a predominantly Christian country. Even though religion has been separated from British identity over the last couple of centuries the repression remains. As separation of social norms from religion is essential for living in full luxury gay space communist paradise this means being unashamed of your sexual desires isn't just healthy, it's praxis.

:circlefap: for the revolution, comrades!

Spaff oppressors to the wall!

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Rarity posted:

Sexual guilt is incredibly common in the UK because it's a socialised emotional response left over from the days when we were a predominantly Christian country. Even though religion has been separated from British identity over the last couple of centuries the repression remains. As separation of social norms from religion is essential for living in full luxury gay space communist paradise this means being unashamed of your sexual desires isn't just healthy, it's praxis.
Sexual guilt seems to have persisted entirely separately from religion though, like it's more about the British "we don't talk about [x] in public" which can leave people feeling sexually isolated or unable to discuss what's 'normal', compare with some Catholic countries that talk about sex all the time comparatively (but also have a history of homophobia, so it's only the 'right' sex you could talk about openly until more recently).

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I would suggest that androcentric and heteronormative sex talk also persists rather heavily which if those things are offputting to you, can put you off the concept as a whole.

runwiled
Feb 21, 2011

Deketh posted:

Sorry if you mentioned this earlier, have you tried the CBD oil available in the UK? I don't know if the stuff here is any good. I haven't tried it but I'm tempted to, although I don't expect much as ingested cannabis doesn't do much to me.

Does CBD help with relaxing and anxiety? I thought that was the THC bit

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Jippa posted:

No someone posted a really in-depth thing about it in TGRS. There is a whole really weird connection between the southern states and a weird fascination of white guys being afraid/attracted to black guys loving their wives. It goes back hundreds of years.

It's a very specific thing.

Apple used a song ("Gigantic", by The Pixies) based on a film that references exactly this phenomenon in a massive ad campaign.

It's not even like it was one of Black Francis' weird multi-layer stream-of-consciousness lyrics which don't even make sense when you write them down, Kim Deal wrote and sung it and it's about as straightforward as you can ask for, referencing "a big black mass" and a "hunk of love". The chorus, which they used over and over and over again in the ad, really doesn't leave much to the imagination - "Gigantic, gigantic, gigantic, a big big love".

Only tangentially related but I still giggle every single time I think of that advert.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lol that XR have links to regime change in Bolivia despite that going to result in far worse devastation of the Amazon

https://twitter.com/measure7x/status/1193631161991479296?s=19

Jose fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Nov 12, 2019

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Borrovan posted:

I've had both, the cards & keys suck hard, but the tickets are great (because they are physical objects & therefore can be stolen)

Off topic, I'm in a bit of a bind & don't know what to do. I basically can't do my job atm because of my depression (like, seriously, I can just about turn up & make appropriate sounds come out of my mouth, nothing much else is happening). Luckily, nobody particularly knows what I do with my time as long as I turn up a few times a week & my teaching continues to get done. If I had any job security I'd talk to my line manager (who is cool btw but also overworked & dropping any poo poo on her would be a bad move politically even if she'd be chill with it, as she's a very useful ally & sees me as completely dependable), see occy health, take some time to get back on track. But, I've got a fixed term contract & am on probation, so lol if anyone thinks employment rights or equality legislation means a drat. I'm thinking I just half arse the rest of the term hoping nobody notices & then take all my holiday leave to get better, is this smart or dumb? Genuinely can't judge.

If relevant: my bosses are aware that I am considered disabled due to mental health issues. Top level boss is very clear that I just need to let them know what's going on & if there's any problems. Advice from senior colleagues is to never, ever do that, or she will poo poo on me, just don't be ill basically. & top level boss is a much better lawyer than me so my rights don't mean a drat. Also my local Union branch are useless cowards and the acting secretary is literally good friends with my boss

This may partly be down to you completing and submitting your thesis (assuming you have). After I submitted mine, I couldn't even read a book for about a year (that said I don't have particular mental health issues). Coast for a while, do what you have to do to keep your job and don't feel bad about it. Find something completely different to do in the rest of your time - wind surfing, painting model aircraft, archery, chess, playing saxophone, binge watching Game of Thrones.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Camrath posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50387254

Of course, absolutely no chance of this happening but I’m wondering if the backlash to yesterday’s announcement is getting to Farage..

this political alliance requires some finesse and bojo fucks everything up and has the finesse of a fat drunk thrown through a pub window

Zalakwe
Jun 4, 2007
Likes Cake, Hates Hamsters



Camrath posted:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50387254

Of course, absolutely no chance of this happening but I’m wondering if the backlash to yesterday’s announcement is getting to Farage..

Of course the Brexit party will still have an impact at this election and he'll get some sort of payout but I think Farage's backers in wider scheme of things have decided he's done. He's never going to be an MP. He's never going to be kingmaker. He's learning he is the disposable tool of power and privilege just like his followers and he isn't very happy.

I wouldn't be either if all I had to face up to was a mid-life crisis I had never dealt with in a world presided over by my privileged rival.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

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.

At least some anti-ginger prejudice is echoes of old racism - Jewish people and Irish people both have considerably higher rates of red hair. And I say this as someone who made a ginger joke last night, oops.

Diet Crack
Jan 15, 2001

Communist Thoughts posted:

Weed is my only real addiction and I'm trying to kick it. For some reason nothing else is as hard to kick apart from maybe sugar, even mephedrone was easier and I loved that poo poo.

It's tough cause everyone I know chooms every spare moment

I’m n the same boat decided to stop properly this time after this illness came about as I’m certain smoking pretty much everyday for the past 14 years probably didn’t help my symptoms and I’ve felt incredibly guilty and upset with myself in the past when I’ve said I’d stop but have had no self control and immediately bought more.

It’s not cheap either and I’m always consciously aware that I’m just passing time away and actively not achieving anything, whilst being consciously aware that I’m just being a vegetable and it was bothering me inside but the addiction was very real and I’d make excuses for it. Being in a relationship and justifying £80 on weed instead of going out for dinner and activities was making me a little depressed inside.

It’s been 3 weeks but I feel that first month will be the biggest hurdle, and I’ve removed every source or link to getting any that I could find and have promised myself that it’s time to grow up and move on after this long abuse of it and get on with life. I will miss aspects of music and gaming with it, but know it’s entirely possible to continue enjoying those things without it.

Good luck! Just gotta stick to your guns and stay strong when cold turkey. I did it with cigarettes so I know I’m capable.

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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Deketh posted:

Good job on the 2 months mate. Must be really loving tough to still be around it when you want to quit forever.

thanks mate, its tough to begin with but not anymore really

problem is i still feel like i need to be slightly hosed up on something when socialising, not really out of social anxiety but more out of habit.
if all my friends are caned on weed it feels weird to be sober

so i drink arty beers instead, for some reason i have no trouble with alcohol being a sometimes food but one spliff and i'm immediately back to getting stoned every waking hour and feeling anxious if i'm not high, then more anxious while high lol
my mum is a low level very functional alcholic and my dad is teetotal after quitting for being an alcoholic when i was little, so addiction runs in the family but alcohol really isnt my bag, baby. the only issue with it is it lowers my inhibitions so the first couple weed quitting attempts ended when i got drunk and was like "ah, an edible is fine thats not smoking" then "lets do edibles every day" then "my tolerance is gone, time to do edibles AND bonghits" then just back to smoking every day

weed is like the lamest addiction lol but it really gets its claws in me somehow, i didnt even start particularly young

Diet Crack posted:

I’m n the same boat decided to stop properly this time after this illness came about as I’m certain smoking pretty much everyday for the past 14 years probably didn’t help my symptoms and I’ve felt incredibly guilty and upset with myself in the past when I’ve said I’d stop but have had no self control and immediately bought more.

...

Good luck! Just gotta stick to your guns and stay strong when cold turkey. I did it with cigarettes so I know I’m capable.

solidarity, comrade!

Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Nov 12, 2019

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