Dec 4, 2017, 4:47 PM
Today my cat decided I needed to be away at 4 AM, fully 90 minutes before my alarm was set to go off.
Hopefully this is not predictive of how the rest of today is going to go.
Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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It was... busy yesterday, to say the least, at the Eaton Centre which is one of Toronto's largest malls downtown, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, right after they had put up a gigantic (and well publicized) tree in it.
And yet I could see parents trying to seal up portions of it to take mid-range pictures of their kids with their brand new point-and-shoot non-smartphone cameras and getting annoyed because random people wanted to, you know, walk around as well. Dude - this was only dads, it seems - this isn't your personal playground. Notice the thousands of people around?
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Today my cat decided I needed to be away at 4 AM, fully 90 minutes before my alarm was set to go off.
Hopefully this is not predictive of how the rest of today is going to go.
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My aunt is on one of her anti-vax tears on Facebook today and I'm in a shit mood, so I'm having a really hard time not replying to her threads with: 'Yeah, on my worse days, I do really wish I'd died of a preventable disease rather than be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. I'm sure <tag my mom> appreciates that you think that, too!'
But I probably shouldn't kick off any family feuds this close to Christmas.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@saosmash That you would normally have to be up at 5:30am seems like something well-worthy of disgruntlement in the first place.
Yeesh.Cats are lucky they're cute, because they can be major assholes.
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@auspice ....you have far more self-control than I do.
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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My aunt is on one of her anti-vax tears on Facebook today and I'm in a shit mood --
- Lack of empathy.
- Problems taking steps to start a conversation.
- Difficulty understanding their listener's perspective.
- Preoccupation with certain topics.
- A need for sameness and routines.
I double-dog dare you.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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I'M BEHAVING FOR THE HOLIDAAAAAAAAAYS.
(I mean I need a haircut and maybe Santa will decide I've behaved just enough this year to let me afford one okay.)
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
It was... busy yesterday, to say the least, at the Eaton Centre which is one of Toronto's largest malls downtown, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, right after they had put up a gigantic (and well publicized) tree in it.
Sup, fellow Torontonian!
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@tek The weather is turning on us
Winter is coming.- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@tek The weather is turning on us
Winter is coming.I'll be huddling in my basement apartment, a Sarah Harmer cliche
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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
(I mean I need a haircut and maybe Santa will decide I've behaved just enough this year to let me afford one okay.)
Santa finds out who's naughty and nice, but that doesn't mean he doesn't give the naughty people anything.
Heck, if it's your thing, the jolly ol' fat man will give you what you want, you saucy bitch.
(I have now found a new concept for a future Autumn changeling.)
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Heck, if it's your thing, the jolly ol' fat man will give you what you want, you saucy bitch.
You say that, but...
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@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My aunt is on one of her anti-vax tears on Facebook today and I'm in a shit mood --
- Lack of empathy.
- Problems taking steps to start a conversation.
- Difficulty understanding their listener's perspective.
- Preoccupation with certain topics.
- A need for sameness and routines.
You just described the Republican base.
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@tnp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My aunt is on one of her anti-vax tears on Facebook today and I'm in a shit mood --
- Lack of empathy.
- Problems taking steps to start a conversation.
- Difficulty understanding their listener's perspective.
- Preoccupation with certain topics.
- A need for sameness and routines.
You just described the Republican base.
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I swear, every time that someone mentions "Republican", "Conservative", "Democrat", "Liberal"... my finger lingers over the nuke button. I am so fucking sick of politics (and broken, fucked up politics at that!) that it will, at some point, drive me off of games, this board and so many other things that I enjoy.
I already avoid the news, have given up social media, and so many other things because of it, in the avoidance of it.
Not that anyone gives a shit about me, but seriously, I am not the only person/American here and elsewhere that is beyond the puking stage with politics and the zealotry and idle attacks.
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@rook said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Not that anyone gives a shit about me, but seriously, I am not the only person/American here and elsewhere that is beyond the puking stage with politics and the zealotry and idle attacks.
I'd love to ignore the shit out of politics, but I have neither the privilege nor the luxury to ignore it.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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FUCKING STOP TRYING TO CALL OUT HUNG OVER.
We all know why you feel shitty and we don't care. You're a grown man and you know when you work. Either calm the fuck down with work night drinking or suck it the fuck up.
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@tek Shoutout for basement apartments in cold weather lands! (Space heaters in place)
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@macha I'm super lucky. I'm in a newly renovated place with central air and heating.
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Youngest child in preschool for the first time and all 3 olders being in high school for the first time = never ending sickness due to two new cauldrons of pestilence. We’ve had two rounds of confirmed influenza, some weird headache/body ache thing, URI that jumps into the lungs, today is the first day in a long while I’ve not had to take some kind of pain med for joint and muscle pain...and now two of us have scratchy throats!!!