Vent Thread

[quoting_mungo]

I had nothing to do with the hip...

Sorry about the skein. Hopefully it all works out. But now I am jealous you have an awesome faire!

It’s honestly not all that remarkable a faire, but it’s an annual thing that makes a pretty nice diversion and they do sell a few things that can otherwise be hard to find. It irritates me a bit that I think three of our political parties had stands there - election was like two weeks ago! Go hide until the next one, please! Would much rather have seen a few more sellers of tat.

Tentatively have plans to give boyfriend a ride to a fabric store tomorrow, and have him pick me up a skein in exchange. It’s just… how much fucking bad luck does it take for a tiny skein of yarn to make it out of my bag without me noticing, and then not even have the decency to lie conspicuously on the sidewalk or whatever when I get back to look for it.

I seriously ended up walking like 10 klicks. SO MUCH WALKS!

 

[Xitheon]

WHY IS EVERYONE SUDDENLY AUTISTIC?!

It has become a "fashionable" diagnosis and loads of people who are very high functioning and have successful personal lives and careers are saying shit like "I'm 40 and I have two jobs and a huge social network and I'm happily married and nobody would ever have suspected that *gasp* I AM AUTISTIC. WOW I REALLY FOOLED EVERYONE THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED."

I was diagnosed at the age of 16 and I have severe social impairment (I'm totally clueless about how to talk to people or interact normally) I have crippling anxiety issues and sensory shit that makes my life a living hell and everyone else is acting like it's the new cool thing to be diagnosed with. I understand that it's a broad spectrum but they're making light of what can be a horrible disorder which leaves people like me completely unable to live a normal life.

It's not cool, it's not fashionable, it's a nightmare. Fuck off.

 

[Firuthi Dragovic]

WHY IS EVERYONE SUDDENLY AUTISTIC?!

It has become a "fashionable" diagnosis and loads of people who are very high functioning and have successful personal lives and careers are saying shit like "I'm 40 and I have two jobs and a huge social network and I'm happily married and nobody would ever have suspected that *gasp* I AM AUTISTIC. WOW I REALLY FOOLED EVERYONE THEY NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED."

I was diagnosed at the age of 16 and I have severe social impairment (I'm totally clueless about how to talk to people or interact normally) I have crippling anxiety issues and sensory shit that makes my life a living hell and everyone else is acting like it's the new cool thing to be diagnosed with. I understand that it's a broad spectrum but they're making light of what can be a horrible disorder which leaves people like me completely unable to live a normal life.

It's not cool, it's not fashionable, it's a nightmare. Fuck off.

They've been doing that with autism and the mostly-deprecated Asperger syndrome for at least a decade, if not more.

I have to structure my life pretty hard in order to keep the worst of the condition at bay, and there are still a couple of situations that are horrifyingly crippling for me. I simply shake my head whenever I see someone claiming they're autistic like this.

 

[ben909]

i think it was at 6 or so for me

 

[TyraWadman]

I feel like I have PTSD from something I've never experienced before.
I had a crime-related dream last night where I was shaken/shocked from the events but when I woke up and started my day with a YT compilation that happened to mention a murder with a gun my eyes just bulged. XD

What is this nonsense?
I found love in that dream but omg why IT WAS WITH ALEXANDER IRONFIST?!?!?!?!
It was definitely a cute/healing relationship. But damn my brain is whack.

 

[Xitheon]

i think it was at 6 or so for me

I probably would have been diagnosed with atypical autism at a younger age than 16 but I think when I was a child autism in girls and women often wasn't recognised or understood. They just thought that I was psychotic.

 

[ben909]

I probably would have been diagnosed with atypical autism at a younger age than 16 but I think when I was a child autism in girls and women often wasn't recognised or understood. They just thought that I was psychotic.

possibly

according to my parents the major thing they found about me was you could not get my attention to switch from what i wanted to talk about(or was) with most things that should draw someone's attention

 

[Minerva_Minx]

I feel like I have PTSD from something I've never experienced before.
I had a crime-related dream last night where I was shaken/shocked from the events but when I woke up and started my day with a YT compilation that happened to mention a murder with a gun my eyes just bulged. XD

What is this nonsense?
I found love in that dream but omg why IT WAS WITH ALEXANDER IRONFIST?!?!?!?!
It was definitely a cute/healing relationship. But damn my brain is whack.

Glad it was a good dream!

 

[TyraWadman]

Tis finally the season where I need to start hiding under my blankets all day

 

[quoting_mungo]

Womp womp. I’ve had a backache on and off (every day, but not constantly) for just over a week now. I know part of the reason is my sitting like a damn cheese doodle unless I’m actively thinking about my posture, so I’m sure I could do something to help things along. Feels sorta like nerve pain but it’s weird for nerve pain to come and go. So maybe I pinched a nerve, maybe not. It’s a mystery.

At least I got my damn embroidery floss after a long-ass drive (why does my tiny little local yarn store have a better selection of DMC floss than the big fabric/yarn stores in the bigger city?) and am now done with everything but the personal information (nephew’s name, birthdate, birth height) and the final assembly (hemming etc). So yay for that part!

 

[Xitheon]

Womp womp. I’ve had a backache on and off (every day, but not constantly) for just over a week now. I know part of the reason is my sitting like a damn cheese doodle unless I’m actively thinking about my posture, so I’m sure I could do something to help things along. Feels sorta like nerve pain but it’s weird for nerve pain to come and go. So maybe I pinched a nerve, maybe not. It’s a mystery.

At least I got my damn embroidery floss after a long-ass drive (why does my tiny little local yarn store have a better selection of DMC floss than the big fabric/yarn stores in the bigger city?) and am now done with everything but the personal information (nephew’s name, birthdate, birth height) and the final assembly (hemming etc). So yay for that part!

Womp womp.

 

[KimberVaile]

WOO WOO, here comes the first world problems train.
So my phone's battery had begun to bulge out, enough that it broke the glue and began to push the back-plate off the phone.
So, it became clear that I had to replace the battery, and fuck if I'm going to pay a repair shop the entire cost of the phone to replace the battery. Not gonna happen. So, I pick up a battery off of Amazon that comes with a couple cheap tools to work on the phone.

What a fucking nightmare that was. Having to peel off the remaining glue off the bloated battery, took a good 5 minutes to get it all off, then trying to unscrew the plastic top off to get the battery connector. Lord almighty, the screws are so tiny that I accidentally broke the threads on two of them by going too fast. Then just putting the new battery in and connecting it to the gnat sized connector on the board. My god. I despise the layouts of phones, they are so self repair hostile it's infuriating. I despise having to work with screws the size of fleas, and connectors the size of fucking gnats. I wanted to throw my phone against the wall when I was done. That's not even going into the idiocy of having to attach the back plate with glue. Why? It would have been a 100 times more repair friendly to just make it possible to screw and unscrew the phone's backplate back together. But why do that? That'd be too convenient, and superficial people would stomp their feet because they don't like looking at screwholes covered by rubber. So had to glue the phone backplate back to the phone.



I guess it still beats going to a shop, but man, really neck and neck there with how frustrating it was to just replace a god forsaken battery.

 

[Chaosmasterdelta]

I found out that the discontinuation of flash support caused all but about 15 of the games on Neopets to disappear.

 

[Bambi]

Random vent.

I remember so many people from here and like, now I'm sure they're gone. Vent vent vent

 

[Minerva_Minx]

Random vent.

I remember so many people from here and like, now I'm sure they're gone. Vent vent vent

Depends. I found our some went to alts. Few are elsewhere and not as active. Some are low profile for professional reasons. I thought same until I was corrected.

 

[TyraWadman]

WOO WOO, here comes the first world problems train.
So my phone's battery had begun to bulge out, enough that it broke the glue and began to push the back-plate off the phone.
So, it became clear that I had to replace the battery, and fuck if I'm going to pay a repair shop the entire cost of the phone to replace the battery. Not gonna happen. So, I pick up a battery off of Amazon that comes with a couple cheap tools to work on the phone.

What a fucking nightmare that was. Having to peel off the remaining glue off the bloated battery, took a good 5 minutes to get it all off, then trying to unscrew the plastic top off to get the battery connector. Lord almighty, the screws are so tiny that I accidentally broke the threads on two of them by going too fast. Then just putting the new battery in and connecting it to the gnat sized connector on the board. My god. I despise the layouts of phones, they are so self repair hostile it's infuriating. I despise having to work with screws the size of fleas, and connectors the size of fucking gnats. I wanted to throw my phone against the wall when I was done. That's not even going into the idiocy of having to attach the back plate with glue. Why? It would have been a 100 times more repair friendly to just make it possible to screw and unscrew the phone's backplate back together. But why do that? That'd be too convenient, and superficial people would stomp their feet because they don't like looking at screwholes covered by rubber. So had to glue the phone backplate back to the phone.



I guess it still beats going to a shop, but man, really neck and neck there with how frustrating it was to just replace a god forsaken battery.

I'm guessing it was past manufacturer warranty?

I've heard a lot about bloating batteries and I'm shocked at how common this is.

 

[TyraWadman]

I found out that the discontinuation of flash support caused all but about 15 of the games on Neopets to disappear.

They didn't finish remaking them all yet? Or have they been discontinued?

 

[TyraWadman]

Random vent.

I remember so many people from here and like, now I'm sure they're gone. Vent vent vent

TRIPLE POST!!!

It's possible they could be here. A lot of old users made new accounts under new names, and more recently, you have the ability to change them whenever. XD Could just be under a different alias!

 

[quoting_mungo]

I'm guessing it was past manufacturer warranty?

I've heard a lot about bloating batteries and I'm shocked at how common this is.

It’s honestly scary - if a battery starts bulging it needs replaced ASAP because they can and will explode given time to get that far. Depending on the specific manufacturer and model I believe there’s a fair number that have extended warranty specifically for this kind of issue. (Possibly because it would suck to be the manufacturer whose phones aren’t allowed on airplanes?)

I know some time back boyfriend helped our housemate replace the battery in her phone after it started bulging. It’s kinda scary that these are the power sources we’re currently depending on.

 

[KimberVaile]

I'm guessing it was past manufacturer warranty?

I've heard a lot about bloating batteries and I'm shocked at how common this is.

Yep, past warranty.

The manufcaturers do try to put some saftey nets in place to prevent injury/damage around the battery to give them some credit. Though, it begs to question, if they can bother to make add saftey nets around the battery why can't they make the phone easier to repair?

 

[Chaosmasterdelta]

They didn't finish remaking them all yet? Or have they been discontinued?

I read that they are "hard at work" with converting them to a non-flash format, but I'm not sure.

 

[TyraWadman]

I read that they are "hard at work" with converting them to a non-flash format, but I'm not sure.

Well, considering the overhaul they've done so far, I have faith they'll eventually deliver!
... or else. )8<

 

[Kellan Meig'h]

Take off the faucets and soak em in EvapoRust maybe? Takes forever, but the stuff works ok.

As easy as that sounds, nope. These are genuine rust flakes, like flaked off the inside of the pipes, that have jammed up the valves. Sometimes they're called turncocks angle stops or ballcocks. The little valves under the sinks that turn off the water to the faucet? That's what's all fooked up. They just happen to be 90° valves, just ducky for rust to jam the the hell up. Spent the day replacing one faucet, since that was the plan beforehand. I am slowly changing them out to ball valves that can't get jammed up with rust. We do soak them in CLR for a half-hour before using various implements to knock out the rust flakes.

 

[Minerva_Minx]

As easy as that sounds, nope. These are genuine rust flakes, like flaked off the inside of the pipes, that have jammed up the valves. Sometimes they're called turncocks angle stops or ballcocks. The little valves under the sinks that turn off the water to the faucet? That's what's all fooked up. They just happen to be 90° valves, just ducky for rust to jam the the hell up. Spent the day replacing one faucet, since that was the plan beforehand. I am slowly changing them out to ball valves that can't get jammed up with rust. We do soak them in CLR for a half-hour before using various implements to knock out the rust flakes.

You said turncocks and ballcocks...

 

[Kellan Meig'h]

You said turncocks and ballcocks...

Yes, yes I did. Maybe plumbers have dirty minds . . .