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    Best posts made by Aria

    • RE: MUSIC

      @SuperiorHuron
      I mean, your gif makes this one pretty obvious, but.....

      Queen.

      I have this theory that it is physically impossible to listen to Freddie Mercury and not feel at least a little bit better, regardless of whatever might be going on in your life. I've told this theory to many friends and they all think I'm crazy until they try it and it works every single time.

      I've had friends who had their partner of seven years leave in the middle of the night, cutting off all contact without warning. I've had friends lose a parent to a years-long battle with cancer.

      Did listening to Queen solve their heartache? No.
      Did it make those moments just a little more bearable? Yes.

      So, Queen.
      The only other band that comes even close is The Struts.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @tek I will see your dog doctor and raise you "that time I accidentally told the head of the Italian department that I have 19 butts".

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      Yes. And I will say that as soon as the connection was made, the offender was banned. Immediately within his local area and globally within a matter of days. I am very pleased with the higher ups for making this call and honestly can say that it only happened because he chose a location that wasn't immediately recognized for what it was. I certainly wouldn't have looked at it and thought "Wait, isn't that the name of.... HOLY SHIT, DUDE. No!", and I'm one of the people who specialize in the history of names.

      So I can see why someone reading a Medieval document might think something sounds cool and not realize that 600 years later... but. We don't need to make allowances for someone who made an honest mistake to keep making said mistake after they've been told. That's how people get away with ill-intentioned acts, all while giving a nudge and a wink. I'm just really, really glad that the two people who were 'concerned' about that are not remotely involved in the decision-making. At all. The existing rules against offensive or obscene names will be enforced as soon as we realize that's what they are.

      In the case of all the gross stories you've head in the past year, it's largely a big thing because those people are being banned and -- just like in MUing -- that's a thing that gets a lot of attention. I thus find those instances both upsetting because they happened at all and reassuring because they're being dealt with so firmly.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: It's where you putcher weed ...

      @SilentHills said in It's where you putcher weed ...:

      Can you actually smoke yourself retarded? Are past over the top pothead portrayals accurate? What is life?

      Like, permanently? No. Definitely not. And most highs aren't going to be anywhere near that, so these portrayals are, for the most part, grossly inaccurate.

      With that said, I also lived with dealers in college and smoked on a daily or near-daily basis as a result, so I had a fairly high tolerance. And even so, there was one particular night when I managed to get high enough that all I could do was sit on the couch with my head flopped back against the cushions, because holding it up was entirely too much to expect of me. At that point, I was actively expending effort not to drool on myself.

      Getting that fucked up takes a good deal of time, effort, and very strong pot. It's definitely possible! I also don't recommend it.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @TNP If y'all want to start naming shit Optimus Prime High School instead, I'm honestly sort of fine with that. Especially in comparison.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      So I said this to him after his first two posts about Candyman over in the movies and review thread. And he's probably going to be really embarrassed at me bragging on his behalf, but fuck that.

      I've been with my husband since 2008. When you've been with someone for a long time, it can be really, really easy to just slide into the boring practicalities of every day living and completely forget the things that you adored about that person to begin with. Those posts were a pleasant reminder.

      My guy is really smart, y'all. And insightful. And very good about not only respecting other people's perspectives, but considering them. And moreover, wanting to see and hear them.

      I lucked out.

      (And now you can start with your eyerolls and gagging sounds, you cynical shits.)

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @HelloProject Yeah, I don't have any practical tips whatsoever on how to deal with that besides maybe checking out this link with general guidelines and state-by-state contact info? But....

      It is super not okay. This is a person who had access to you during a particularly vulnerable state and the ability to take advantage of the power dynamic that results from the patient-therapist relationship. The fact that he waited until exactly when it would no longer be illegal to contact you does not speak to any sort of respect for reasonable boundaries. It speaks to knowing exactly where the line is, deliberately manipulating that professional knowledge to cover his own ass, and putting in the advanced planning to get away with it.

      That is straight up predatory behavior. Do not, under any circumstances, let any make your question your squicked-out feelings right now. Your gut is 100% right.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Anger

      @mietze said in RL Anger:

      @Cupcake luckily I pick my own, and will. It is pretty exhausting though and bringing back some medical trauma that has blindsided me a bit emotionally. (I had some medical care negligence many years ago that had some significant health impacts to me as well as almost leading to the death of one of my newborn twins, took about 5 years of intense therapy to be able to deal with the PTSD around that. This is a VERY different situation and nowhere near as severe, it's rather mundane and run of the mill for people who are fat, really,but for some reason it is triggering those emotions/memories like whoa. I'm thinking because of all the external unrelated stress.)

      I am feeling vulnerable. I loathe feeling vulnerable. But I know it will pass.

      Ahhh, yes. The "everything medically wrong with you is because you're fat" experience.

      I know that one well and it absolutely infuriates me. My favorite was probably the time I must've broken my foot because I'm fat. No, fucker. I broke my foot because I'm a clumsy dumbass and fell down a set of concrete stairs. I also don't have depression/anxiety/C-PTSD because I'm fat. Or allergies because I'm fat. Or migraines because I'm fat. How about we just assume I weigh whatever it is you're going to tell me I'm supposed to weigh and start our treatment from there, cause I also had all of these problems when I weighed less and exercised three hours a day/six days a week, thanks?

      In short, I'm really sorry you're going through this @mietze . The bias that fat people and women both face when seeking treatment for literally anything is well-documented and it is bullshit. You deserve better. And you have every right to tell them that.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @Ominous Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, that's definitely a thing. They used to have a center a couple of blocks from my house, before it burned down. Now it's a Baptist church.

      It was a strange thing to have in our neighborhood because it used to be mostly Jewish, now it's mostly black with a significant portion of the residents either being Caribbean immigrants or Sunni Muslim children of former Nation of Islam members, with a former synagogue turned into a rather large and active 'Church of Christ' at the end of my block. Most of the former Jewish resident now live four or five blocks over in the suburbs and go to a very large and very pretty Jewish Cultural Center at the edge of the neighborhood, but still own family businesses on our side of the city line. Or to this very, very Orthodox temple across the street from this super hippie Presbyterian church that prides itself on being inclusive, political activism, and posting really, really funny church signs.

      Weekends in our neighborhood are weird to say the least, but also mostly kind of wonderful? to watch. Even so, the dudes that I can only describe as doing a bad 'Yul Brynner in the Ten Commandments' cosplay stood out. Like a lot.

      They're angry and nasty and made everyone uncomfortable because they're super racist, usually ranting and waving about signs that Jewish people are impostors who stole their identity and the white man is an agent of Satan. Oh. And one of them yelled at me once about how women are the devil. So there's misogyny, too. Do not recommend.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL Sads

      @Macha said in RL Sads:

      ..but I totally want Amazing Grace on the bagpipes played.

      Yep. That was what got me. We've had to live-stream my favorite aunt's funeral because of the pandemic and they played it before they even had the opening invocation.

      Really, guys? Really? You just want 40 people ugly snot-crying into webcam close-ups before the thing even starts? 'Cause that's what happened.

      (I am processing my feels through sarcasm and anger right now, if that wasn't obvious.)

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Dead Celebrities 2020

      Same. I mean, it runs in my family. It killed one of my cousins when he was 28. And still, my immediate mental response was "DIABEETUS."

      I'm not sure if we're all horrible people for that reaction or excellent people for managing to censor it.

      both

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Covid-19 Gallows Humor

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      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Critters!

      @badger said in Critters!:

      It's been VERY weird only having one pet. It's all balanced out now.

      He's still nameless.

      He's FIV+, has a wonky eye, two cracked teeth, chirps like a bird, and purrs like someone's idea of a purr. He's fucking perfect.

      He is a precious angel baby. ❤

      perfect

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Good or New Movies Review

      @Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

      @Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:

      @Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

      it really is terrible how studios keep doing things that make money so they can keep making more movies i mean god they should just go full french art house ugh

      I mean wouldn't a French art house Trek be kind of amazing tho

      You know Tarantino planned to do a Star Trek movie? But it's apparently not happening any more.

      Oh, wow. Someone I'd be even more pissed off to see doing Star Trek than Abrams.

      Please excuse me while I get a rage nosebleed at the mere thought.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: The Work Thread

      @Auspice Sending a nice fruit basket to Khorne on your behalf.

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      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

      @auspice Yeeeeeeah, I might feel like more of a jerk doing this except, well....

      This time my team got a fucking D -- a 68%! -- on an assignment where I ended up requesting a regrade with page numbers and direct quotations from our paper where were addressed items their comments claim we didn't so much as identify.

      Sometimes even for assignments that I don't resubmit, I'll see my grade go up later without reply, announcement, or explanation. I'm guessing there's a very large proportion of assignments being submitted for review and after enough complaints, they just go in and adjust them for everyone.

      If that's happening week after week after week, it seems like the problem is obvious. And it's probably not the students.

      I think I've had one other professor/TA that pissed me off this much and that guy was just a legit fucking racist/misogynist jackass that I ended up having to report to the dean in a conversation that pretty much boiled down to "Y'all realize that sooner or later you're gonna end up dealing with a lawsuit because of this prick, right?"

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Tell me what you want -- work edition

      @rightmeow

      I want the exact opposite of this:
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      I realize that, as you said, the pay and the benefits, etc., are largely out of your hands. So is the behavior of the CEO. But I will always, always, always have 1000% more respect for any level of management that will get down in the trenches with their employees when the shit hits the fan -- or at least try to get them more resources and remove unnecessary roadblocks -- than absentee "leaders" who are just constantly bothering us for status updates and then doling out praise without having any real idea of the effort their employees put in.

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: Crafting Thread Part ?

      @jibberthehut I approve of this cat. ❤

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      Student discounts, when I actually remember them.

      It's so weird to be in my mid-30s and be like "Haha! STUDENT COUPONS FOR MY JEANS, FUCKERS." But I also love it, so. ❤

      posted in Tastes Less Game'y
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    • RE: RL things I love

      @tinuviel

      Look. LOOK. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. No one likes it. It's still necessary.

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