Vent Thread

[quoting_mungo]

I don't know if the neighbor kid came by in the like... 45 minutes or something boyfriend and I were out, or if he's decided he's too old (he's not even a teen yet!), or if they're going, like, some other day? But the last few years he's been coming, sometimes with a couple friends/cousins, so I noticed his absence.

Okay, he dropped by with a friend today. All is right in the world again.

 

[Parabellum3]

Sorry for your loss.

Are you really?

 

[Crimcyan]

The fender raccoon cheese grater pic should honestly be FA's logo. @Dragoneer make it happen!!!

 

[Minerva_Minx]

Are you really?

Let me be real for a minute.
I've lost 70 friends in 45 years: 32 to combat with 12 near me, 18 to suicide, 14 to international terrorism, and 8 to accidents. Lost mom in 2018, father in law last year to suicide. Grandfather to diabetes, two grandmothers to Alzheimers and dementia, wife's grandmother to Covid. Nephew to cancer. I almost quite literally have no more tears to shed.

I'm not posting this to one up anyone or even "holy shitballs, woe is me", or as some sort of contest or challenge.

I just want you and everyone else who I say "Sorry for your loss" that thinks I am offering an insincere platitude to know that I really f***ing mean it and they aren't hollow words to me.

 

[Parabellum3]

Let me be real for a minute.
I've lost 70 friends in 45 years: 32 to combat with 12 near me, 18 to suicide, 14 to international terrorism, and 8 to accidents. Lost mom in 2018, father in law last year to suicide. Grandfather to diabetes, two grandmothers to Alzheimers and dementia, wife's grandmother to Covid. Nephew to cancer. I almost quite literally have no more tears to shed.

I'm not posting this to one up anyone or even "holy shitballs, woe is me", or as some sort of contest or challenge.

I just want you and everyone else who I say "Sorry for your loss" that thinks I am offering an insincere platitude to know that I really f***ing mean it and they aren't hollow words to me.

Forgive me if I have potential misinterpreted your condolences, it’s just that the way you said it seems to lack any emotion. It sounded rather monotonous. But now that you’ve mentioned what you’ve been through, then yes my uncles death probably means nothing to you, and I understand why.

Also I send my condolences to you as well.

 

[Minerva_Minx]

Forgive me if I have potential misinterpreted your condolences, it’s just that the way you said it seems to lack any emotion. It sounded rather monotonous. But now that you’ve mentioned what you’ve been through, then yes my uncles death probably means nothing to you, and I understand why.

Also I send my condolences to you as well.

They were misinterpreted and contrary, it means a great deal to me because I understand that loss. Somehow sending you best wishes and get well soon just sounded so much worse.

But I get where you are coming from, as it does seem as nonchalant as thank you for your service.

 

[Parabellum3]

They were misinterpreted and contrary, it means a great deal to me because I understand that loss. Somehow sending you best wishes and get well soon just sounded so much worse.

But I get where you are coming from, as it does seem as nonchalant as thank you for your service.

Yeah it’s just the tone is what caught my attention, but whatever. I probably shouldn’t have paid attention to that.

And thank you for your service as well.

 

[TrixieFox]

I have sleep insomnia so I cant focus worth crap today

 

[quoting_mungo]

So Amazon decided they couldn’t do free shipping on a pack of highlighters because their free shipping is to a pickup point, and the markers are a “hazardous material.” (According to Amazon’s “durr we can’t ship here” error.) Product page still claims they qualify for free shipping.

They’re freaking water-based pigment markers! There’s nothing particularly hazardous about them!

Amazon go home you’re drunk.

 

[RamblingRenegade]

sometimes that's what I hate about typing online, emotions can get skewed and you can't tell if people are being serious or joking

 

[Fallowfox]

Watching my parents grow elderly and my brother and sister more enfeebled by their medical conditions. It's harder now that I am watching from 3500 miles away.

 

[Turbid_Cyno]

Almost had a lucid dream last night but failed. I was playing trivia in a bar, and realized my team name was wrong, realized I was dreaming but woke up right away. Been awhile since I've pulled one off.

 

[a sleepy kitty]

WHY

 

[Frank Gulotta]

Small work complaints

I hate office politics, some don't respect the fact I don't want to play it
Speaking of office politics and disrespect, you get free disrespect from being the office kid, I won't go into detail but I did a simple little (time-consuming) extra task when I filled in for a coworker for weeks, which I know he rarely does, now it's all forgotten and he tries to blame me for not getting some kind of late year bonus, not sure if that was legit or an awkward joke. I can't wait to be as disgruntled as he is
Also I got a tiny cut a few days ago, it keeps reopening and all of a sudden what started as a normal day is

 

[Fallowfox]

Sigh. Really?

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”
-Heinlein

Too much to ask to be capable of empathy and toughness? They're not mutually exclusive you know.

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To die gallantly changing a diaper. The most laudable of human qualities.

 

[Honey Lavender;]

Let me be real for a minute.
I've lost 70 friends in 45 years: 32 to combat with 12 near me, 18 to suicide, 14 to international terrorism, and 8 to accidents. Lost mom in 2018, father in law last year to suicide. Grandfather to diabetes, two grandmothers to Alzheimers and dementia, wife's grandmother to Covid. Nephew to cancer. I almost quite literally have no more tears to shed.

I'm not posting this to one up anyone or even "holy shitballs, woe is me", or as some sort of contest or challenge.

I just want you and everyone else who I say "Sorry for your loss" that thinks I am offering an insincere platitude to know that I really f***ing mean it and they aren't hollow words to me.

Here's to remembering our brothers and sisters who journeyed into the howling dark and never returned... combat's a special brand of hell that I wouldn't wish for ANYONE to experience, and yet so many of us volunteered to strap on plates and a helmet, grab a rifle, and risk our lives for the protection of our countrymen... RIP to your battles, and may they find peace in the aftermath of war

 

[Honey Lavender;]

So Amazon decided they couldn’t do free shipping on a pack of highlighters because their free shipping is to a pickup point, and the markers are a “hazardous material.” (According to Amazon’s “durr we can’t ship here” error.) Product page still claims they qualify for free shipping.

They’re freaking water-based pigment markers! There’s nothing particularly hazardous about them!

Amazon go home you’re drunk.

You'd be surprised how much otherwise innocuous freight is subject to HazMat markings according to the regulations. I recently had a load of nail polish, for example, that was notated on the Bill of Lading in red ink (the regulatory requirement for hazardous goods and materials). Falls under Class 9, though, so no placards required on the trailer unless it's moving internationally or by vessel...

 

[quoting_mungo]

You'd be surprised how much otherwise innocuous freight is subject to HazMat markings according to the regulations. I recently had a load of nail polish, for example, that was notated on the Bill of Lading in red ink (the regulatory requirement for hazardous goods and materials). Falls under Class 9, though, so no placards required on the trailer unless it's moving internationally or by vessel...

Nail polish contains solvents, though. Water-based pigment markers? Not so much. I believe (my memory is poor, don’t 100% remember where I had them shipped) I’ve had the same brand and line shipped to me international with zero issues.

 

[TyraWadman]

I wanted to make a sandwich but the bread was frozen.
Instead of just removing the tag I mistakenly ripped it open like a bag of chips.
I can't live with this brain anymore, I need a new one...

 

[Raever]

I wanted to make a sandwich but the bread was frozen.
Instead of just removing the tag I mistakenly ripped it open like a bag of chips.
I can't live with this brain anymore, I need a new one...

Rest in recees piecees bread bag.

 

[Fallowfox]

12 mile round trip on foot to buy a pair of trousers today.

 

[quoting_mungo]

12 mile round trip on foot to buy a pair of trousers today.

Shoulda bought two. Saves you a trip next time you need pants.

 

[Fallowfox]

Shoulda bought two. Saves you a trip next time you need pants.

I wanted to, but I am a different shape to most Americans. Since arriving I have struggled to find anything with a waist circumference shorter than the leg length, so eventually I had to give up and buy sweat pants.
My shoe size is also just large enough that I practically get no choice in stores.

 

[Woozle]

I wanted to make a sandwich but the bread was frozen.
Instead of just removing the tag I mistakenly ripped it open like a bag of chips.
I can't live with this brain anymore, I need a new one...

I'd offer you mine but I don't have one. Sorry.

 

[Mambi]

<the cat roars loudly in rage, disturbing the trees with the shockwave as his fury carries throughout the forest>

MY TWELVE YEAR OLD SON WAS JUST PEPPER-SPRAYED AND MUGGED!!!!! <snarls and spits>

A random passerby called 911 for him, and by the time I got there, the ambulance attendant was already with him. He'll be ok...his eyes are hurting and will for the next hour or so they said, and of course he's totally shook up but at least that's the worst of it. The police looked in the area it happened and found both the canister of the spray used and his smashed-to-fuck IPhone, so lots of evidence. Possibly even video if we're lucky as it was by a school.

Mess with me is one thing, mess with my CHILDREN??? AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

<the cat slashes futilely at a nearby tree in an attempt to channel his anger, splintering it more with every swipe as a tear of helpless frustration forms...>