Queen Combat posted:

I have no holiday money

Queen Combat posted:

school is difficult

Queen Combat posted:

my parents have disowned me

Queen Combat posted:

I can't numb my boredom at night with alcohol

Queen Combat posted:

and my peenor doesn't really work anymore (and likely never will again).

InitialDave posted:

Ask Billy Connolly to record a theme song for her.

Dagen H posted:

I need to to take delivery and get some pics, then I'll

Suburban Dad posted:

I haven't really done any Christmas shopping. And I don't really want to, either. I don't want anything and don't want people to waste money on useless crap for me but I'm sure it'll happen anyway. Why can't you just tell your family "Let's just not this year?" and it actually happen? Seems everyone has guilt in not buying garbage for people.

Fo3 posted:

Giftcards are the worst.
"couldn't be hosed doing anything other than locking you into one shop that may have conditions of use".
It's worse than cash, and it's not really a gift. Just send cash or a proper thoughtful gift.
I have strong opinion on this because amazon is poo poo, plus I never bothered to cash in a gift card most times. $$$$ wasted by the people that bought them for me and now I wouldn't get anything decent for them ever. The few I used was to buy a gift for someone else next christmas I think.
I'm fussy and get what I want where I want and don't carry giftcards around everywhere with me so they are often forgotten (plus often not valid where I want to get something right now)

A gift card is the lamest thing ever. Shops that sell them suck, people that buy them are fools. Stick cash in a card or something jeez.
It's like treating your friends and family like hobos begging for money. "no, I won't give you cash because you'll use it for drugs/booze, but I'll bring you food/a blanket". Like "can't trust this person with cash they'll use it for blow and hookers" type poo poo and retailers feed on that and hope all the people you buy gift cards for never use them.

Goober Peas posted:

Hugs are great

quote:

Shares in Ted Baker have hit a three-year low in London, after allegations of "forced hugging" around the fashion group's founder and boss Ray Kelvin.
By Monday afternoon, shares in the firm, which issues a trading update on Thursday, were down 15% at £15.42.

Rhyno posted:

I can do that. One more dumb question, should I use a specific type of primer for the wood?

The Door Frame posted:

I'm ok, and probably also thinking with my other head, but yeahhhhhhh....

We'd been together so long and our families got so close that the holidays are less comfortable apart. Thanksgiving "alone" was so rough on both of us that we finally sat and talked, and then things continued on from the talking and now I don't know what is happening

I'm still only planning for my own future alone and am not actively pursuing a relationship, but she's around again and in my life/bed

The Door Frame posted:

I'm ok, and probably also thinking with my other head, but yeahhhhhhh....

We'd been together so long and our families got so close that the holidays are less comfortable apart. Thanksgiving "alone" was so rough on both of us that we finally sat and talked, and then things continued on from the talking and now I don't know what is happening

I'm still only planning for my own future alone and am not actively pursuing a relationship, but she's around again and in my life/bed

Rhyno posted:

My friend's daughter cut her wrists last night. She's been struggling for a while but I guess the Tumblr poo poo was the tipping point for her. Sounds like that was where she spent all of her internet time and 99% of her free time outside of school. She is stable but he's losing it.

Rhyno posted:

16. Very introverted. I don't even know if she has any IRL friends. Any time I've gone over there she's been shut away in her room. She's definitely a bit odd as she spends a lot of time drawing overly sexualized cartoon characters (the tumblr connection). I guess she sold commissions through there and made a few bucks here and there.

Edit: the mother is being horrible and calling this a cry for attention.

NumbersMatching320 posted:

I just don't like big gobs of mayo on my burgers. Or anywhere but scandinavian seafood sammiches/as part of a coleslaw.

Queen Combat posted:

Happy 32 to me. I bought myself a Caboodle because holy poo poo they brought these back



However, the tray it has for <things> (seriously this is all new to me, I have zero idea what's supposed to go in there) is too shallow for the <things> I want to put in there. They hit the mirror.

InitialDave posted:

Run the whole cosmetics gig like a Snap-On truck, too, going round workplaces selling women stuff they never knew they needed on credit.

Rhyno posted:

I had a similar experience at my 20 year reunion last year. So many "this is your fiance???" comments from guys who used to call me a fag back in the day. I mean, I may not have the most amazing job or the nicest car but not marrying the first girl I banged seems to have been the correct choice. One most of my classmates probably ponder daily.

STR posted:

Finally added a light kit to the bedroom ceiling fan (bedroom is a wire free zone thanks to GF's wire-destroying cats, so no lamps, chargers, etc...). For whatever reason, the first few buildings in this complex don't have lights on the fans, even though the website photos show them (management gave us the okay to add the light kit).

Who can tell me what kind of surprise was waiting for me in that cover had I not noticed something lurking, and had I been a little careless with the plug? I'm glad it had a plug, but that could have been a rather... painful.. experience.

(sorry for portrait mode...)

The Prong Song posted:

Welcome back, STR found a woman so good she made him switch teams. Or he's pinch hitting. Or something something baseball.

STR posted:

I only found the tree and wrapping paper, and went through literally every box in the garage. I also rearranged it a bit. It took a few pallets of KY, but the Saturn is in there. It's a very tight squeeze, I can barely get out of it. She told me to go through every box to find everything, so I did. She didn't tell me NOT to rearrange the garage to not be a disaster while I was in there.

InitialDave posted:

I have just received an honest to God aerospace process document written in comic sans.

Signed off by the OEM and everything.

shy boy from chess club posted:

That's why I'm still mad. That car was just sick fast and pretty stock except an exhaust and I touched up the tune a little. I look at other ones sometimes but it'll never be the same as the first time.

meatpimp posted:

I was emphatically expressing my disapproval of my son's reply yesterday and slapped my hand down on the kitchen island.

Granite is hard.

Tungsten Carbide is hard.

Tungsten Carbide lost and I broke my wedding ring in half.

Rhyno posted:

I like my silicone rings but they react oddly to some of the lubricants at work so I wear a placeholder on a cord around my neck.

The Royal Nonesuch posted:

Lmao. How often do you see priapisms?

LloydDobler posted:

My ring was a perfect metaphor for my marriage. I asked for a smooth ring in white gold with a uniform design so I didn't have to orient it. What did I get? Yellow gold with deep, intricate grooves and 3 diamonds on one side. And it's not like I was shoving my opinion on her, she asked what I wanted and then did the exact opposite.

So I spent 10 years spinning it to orient the diamonds on top, and cleaning dirt and grease out of all the grooves. As I grew to hate the woman who gave it to me, I grew to hate that ring. And when we got divorced I threw the loving thing in the ocean.

everdave posted:

Mine was just stainless steel after losing the titanium one somehow after leaving work (skinny jeans i guess it popped off in parking lot). I also threw mine in the ocean. Felt good.

meatpimp posted:

The one from my first marriage got ground into fine gold dust on my bench grinder.

STR posted:

"I'm going to stick this in your dick and take 60cc of blood out of it" makes it go into hiding pretty effectively.

Gingerbread House Music posted:

Also, lol, my wife knows our marriage is dead, and has been for the better part of a decade.

Gingerbread House Music posted:

Logically, i know that. But being the product of a divorced couple, my brokebrains keep telling me to stay.


Also, "reigniting" anything with her sounds terrible tbh. I just want my space.

Somewhat Heroic posted:

but expensive. this year has been expensive.

Somewhat Heroic posted:

Not really. Our grocery budget was insanity this year. What amounted to a terrible bit of food poisoning while out of town on work resulted in an ambulance ride and stay in the hospital and was four grand which covered my insurance premiums for the year. We fenced our yard with vinyl to the tune of~$7500(but nice to have). My wife was diagnosed celiac last year after the birth of our third so she has been working with a functional doctor expensive nutritionist which involves a lot of lab testing to find out what certain levels are for different things and then supplements and diet associated with the results to get her levels back in line, which leads back to the first thing mentioned. I don't want to talk about our grocery budget which has rivaled (and probably surpassed) my mortgage payments this year. None of the tests are covered by insurance.

Somewhat Heroic posted:

Yeah she is feeling better than she has since the diagnosis but still has some ways to go. It is equally challenging from an emotional perspective as it is a drastic lifestyle/social change. She has not eaten from a restaurant in over 15 months. Not once. She(we) has had to make every single meal.

shy boy from chess club posted:

slidebite posted:

Hey man, 4K porn vids take up a lot of space!

Is there a primer on NAS and how they work? I have an 8tb USB3.0 drive attached to my main PC but I think it would be handy to share to all my devices in the house.

Gingerbread House Music posted:

Well, that was the most anticlimactic breakup, lol.

slidebite posted:

Hey, totally OT question here but I know we've got a good cross section of people here so hoped someone might be able to help me. It's a MS Outlook question that's been bothering me for years.

You know how you start a new email and type in the "TO:" address field, outlook goes through your contacts and gives you auto fill options? For some reason, Outlook mysteriously drops autofilling some names periodically for no reason that I can tell. Even if it's a contact I use with some regularity. I search through the contacts and the contact name is still there, so I am either forced to manually start a new email from the contact page or just find a previous email and do it from there.

Any ideas wtf is happening? Drives me up the wall.

I believe it's Office 2013.

quote:

The problem as initially reported to me was that some autocomplete entries that used to pop up were no longer showing and new entries were not being added. I finally realized the reason this was happening is that by default the autocomplete cache has a limit of 1000 entries and after that apparently it starts dropping email addresses off as you add new ones and sometimes fails to add new ones. This was the problem for both myself and another user who reported the issue.

slidebite posted:

Thanks, I think it is 2013. It is my work PC however that the IT group keeps them pretty locked down so I might not be able to run an .exe on it. Worst case, I'll try to flush it with the link spog gave and just start from scratch.