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  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I hate driving. I will never leave Toronto because public transit works and I do not want to drive ever.

    Commuting is boring and sucks. But driving can be a blast.

    on the flip side i am never stuck in endless traffic on my commute home.
  • DeebaserDeebaser Way out in the water See it swimmin'?Registered User regular
    If I had fuck you money, I would buy a boat and christen it The SS YOU CAN ALL EAT MY ASS
    #FreeThan
    #FreeScheck
    #FreeSKFM
  • MazzyxMazzyx Changing the World Order. Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Feral wrote: »
    So It Goes wrote: »
    that looks stupid to me

    except for the controls maybe

    whew

    I thought I was the only person who thought that car was ugly

    It's not pretty. I don't think you'd compare it to a statue or a work of art. No, it's insanity given form. It's the drawing many of our 12 year old selves drew as doodles. But with a bigger more powerful engine and less lasers.

    I bet they would install the lasers if you paid enough.

    Look, I'm already in talks with human trafficers to see how much I can get for you guys.

    We are all too broken and most of us too old.

    Now I could help put you in contact with some friends who have researched this in the Philippines. Great business there with the Japanese. ;)

    As long as I can drive the car and shoot the lasers at every car with the stupid stick family on it.
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  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Re: Theon:
    That is admittedly unfortunate!

    I had to close the windows to my room because that was so porny.
    I was all, oh get a fucking move on, he's being tortured we get it now

    but his expressions and the whole the fuck are you doing I'm being tortured here what was great.
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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
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    this

    this is the best car ever made
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  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    SammyF wrote: »
    Note to Feral that I have decided to call the Aston Martin "Feral's Car" so that you may feel like you own one just for today.

    <3
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    The Jaguar is a beautiful car.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    Ludious wrote: »
    If I had fuck you money I'd put the fuck you in fuck you money.

    I'd by that fighter lambo and put it a crusher on my FUCK YOU MONEY youtube channel

    I would write a several billion-dollar check for basic medical care for starving children in Africa.

    Then light it on fire.
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  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I'd buy music from itunes if I could do it in a browser without an app

    like every other decent digital music seller

    I find the purchase experience from amazon way more irritating

    like, buy the shit

    then launch this proprietary downloader instead of just downloading the file

    then like, where is my shit now

    whereas with itunes I just buy it and it's in my thing easy peasy

    but maybe it's diff on windows and I will come to hate itunes too

    I buy album.
    It syncs to my phone.
    I don't even need to plug my phone into a computer.
    iTunes is pretty awesome.
    The haters are cray.

    I buy album from Amazon. They give me free storage for it. I don't ever sync anything with anything else. 3 seconds later I press play and the music plays.

    Then I go log into a browser later and press play and the music plays.

    Or I log into someone else's browser at their house and press play. The music plays.
    Successful Kickstarter get! Drop by Bare Mettle Entertainment if you'd like to see what we're making.
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Cass your Dad

    Just

    Your Dad

    My brain is full of

    I don't even know, but it's squishy
  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Also I would buy a Mini.
  • TTODewbackTTODewback Pink haired tyrant On my throne of forum faces.Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    Deebaser wrote: »
    If I had fuck you money, I would buy a boat and christen it The SS YOU CAN ALL EAT MY ASS
    Is that the same type of boat as Chu's SS Asseater?
    TTODewback on
  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot Registered User regular
    Deebaser wrote: »
    If I had fuck you money, I would buy a boat and christen it The SS YOU CAN ALL EAT MY ASS

    chu shows up as you unveil it

    licking his lips
  • Dread Pirate ArbuthnotDread Pirate Arbuthnot Registered User regular
    Cass your Dad

    Just

    Your Dad

    My brain is full of

    I don't even know, but it's squishy

    yeah today is the first day where i can think about it without vomiting
  • MortiousMortious Move to New Zealand Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited May 2013
    if I had fuck you money I would probably buy a nissan gt-r

    or maybe I would get them to make me a custom lotus elise at 5/4 scale so I could fit in it

    Too bad you never will, since you decided to have a baby.

    Stop trying to have dreams Skippy, it's too late!
    Mortious on
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Irond Will wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    I also find that people are less sympathetic to conditions that don't have specified names and might be the subject of ongoing research and understanding.

    I have a mental health diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and also Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified), the latter of which is DSM-speak for "Clearly something is wrong but it doesn't fit existing diagnostic criteria for something more specific".

    Even among people who don't have the same stigma for mental illness (like SE++'s threads on brain problems, for example), I can talk about struggling with bipolar disorder but if I bring up my PDNOS issues people are largely confused and sorta struggle to sympathize, because they're not even sure if it's like, a real thing so they're hesitant in case I'm some malingering layabout or something.

    I also have some kind of inborn error of metabolism that I've struggled with since a teenager that never had a name or satisfied existing metabolic disorder diagnostic criteria and it was only a few months ago that a doctor did a CT of my organs and went "Oh, you have congenitally malformed adrenal glands, that's probably the source of a lot of this", finally giving me some kind of thing to blame in my body rather than just being a symptoms list.

    i mean, basically the nature of existence is unknowable, right? people without physical disorders can often understand what it's like to have a physical disorder - we all know what a leg is and what we use it for, so it's not hard to understand what it's like to not have a leg. we know what it's like to be injured and we know what it feels like to be sick.

    mental disorders are different, and i think it goes beyond just stigma. i think it's just hard to actually convey what it's like.

    like depression is generally explained as "you've been sad, right? well i'm sad all the time for no reason" but really it's not. the really crippling part of depression are the hits on motivation and sensation a lot more than just the sads. that is - you're sad, but also numb, and also there's no reason and also you think maybe it will always be like this.

    and depression is probably the very most accessible and sympathizable of all emotional disorders.

    the above is basically true of all mental disorders - they make people act in unattractive and sometimes frightening ways, and they're really really difficult to empathize with in any real way, because it's impossible to get into someone else's head.

    I try to explain depression to people who don't suffer it in a way that doesn't rely on emotions. Depression doesn't make you "sad". You end up sad because you are depressed, but that's not what depression is. Depression is the inability to recognize any kind of perspective and it distorts your understanding of the past, present, and the future.

    It causes you to hover about, numb and listless, in a constant meaningless present. Your past becomes a horrid blur of all the things you hate about yourself and your life, and the future becomes this grey haze of never-ending being like this.

    Depressed people don't just struggle with thinking it will ever get better; they struggle with believing that it was ever better than this. They see their life as this oblivion of an unchanging present. They can't acknowledge that it has been better (or worse) in the past, or that it may ever get better in the future. They don't give a shit about that. They just pass the time, whether it's by sleeping or doing boring things by rote or schlubbing along in their daily grind like an automaton.

    A forever present is a level of hell. I think that's a lot more understandable to people than "Well, it just makes you sad and numb."
  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    If I had fuck you money I'd put the fuck you in fuck you money.

    I'd by that fighter lambo and put it a crusher on my FUCK YOU MONEY youtube channel

    I would write a several billion-dollar check for basic medical care for starving children in Africa.

    Then light it on fire.

    then elton john comes out at gunpoint and sings KENYA FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT
    Google Talk: ludious83 My Blog: The Caustic Geek
  • WinkyWinky Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Winky wrote: »
    Someone I was talking to the other day was saying fibromyalgia is likely linked to depression or anxiety - the pain is very real but is caused by neurological issues in the brain itself, and should be treated accordingly. Like a more severe version of the aches and pains and soreness that often accompany depression.

    Pretty interesting.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatization_disorder

    Worthwhile read if you're interested in these sorts of things.

    EDIT: I think my pet theory when it comes to these things is that the individual is highly suggestible. It's the same principle that allows a person to become hypnotized.

    What.

    What.

    Sorry, I should clarify because it's important. I'm not claiming they're malingering or that it's factitious, I'm claiming that they literally do feel the pain, but they do so explicitly because they believe that they feel the pain. And not in a trivial sense of "they can just stop believing it, then"; believing in the pain is a mode of thought they automatically return to in the same way that someone with depression returns to sadness and thoughts of inadequacy, etc. My point is that I think it's less neurological than it is psychological, and would probably benefit from CBT, or even possibly some nature of psychoactive drug.
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  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Re: Theon:
    That is admittedly unfortunate!

    I had to close the windows to my room because that was so porny.
    I was all, oh get a fucking move on, he's being tortured we get it now

    but his expressions and the whole the fuck are you doing I'm being tortured here what was great.
    Theon was smart not to trust it. He knew that "he" sent them. But the asshole Simon blows the whistle just as he was getting into it and thinking he was gonna have a tiny break from torture. I guess it's safe to assume they went through with it after the scene cut?
    (V) ( ;,,; ) (V)
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    you ever feel like the calm, normal-acting part of you is a thin door straining at the hinges with the pressure of the panic abut everything going to shit that's building up behind the wall and trying to do something about everything going to shit would be like opening that door and letting it all flood in?

    in this metaphor this door is waterproof.
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  • DeebaserDeebaser Way out in the water See it swimmin'?Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Deebaser wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    I'd buy music from itunes if I could do it in a browser without an app

    like every other decent digital music seller

    I find the purchase experience from amazon way more irritating

    like, buy the shit

    then launch this proprietary downloader instead of just downloading the file

    then like, where is my shit now

    whereas with itunes I just buy it and it's in my thing easy peasy

    but maybe it's diff on windows and I will come to hate itunes too

    I buy album.
    It syncs to my phone.
    I don't even need to plug my phone into a computer.
    iTunes is pretty awesome.
    The haters are cray.

    I buy album from Amazon. They give me free storage for it. I don't ever sync anything with anything else. 3 seconds later I press play and the music plays.

    Then I go log into a browser later and press play and the music plays.

    Or I log into someone else's browser at their house and press play. The music plays.

    Yeah, I guess that's cool, but I can buy an album from my phone and play it on my phone right away.
    I don't need to open my wallet or nuthin.
    It's pretty rad. I'm no apple fanboy, but I can't understand why people are calling this remarkable "WELIVEINTHEFUTURE" piece of software Hitler.
    #FreeThan
    #FreeScheck
    #FreeSKFM
  • SenjutsuSenjutsu fiddy too Registered User regular
    audis suck

    just for reference
  • Irond WillIrond Will Super Moderator, Moderator mod
    Pony wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    My anxiety is out of control lately, it sucks because anxiety is way harder to sympathise with than depression.
    do you ever find that when you are having an anxiety attack and someone tells you to calm down or relax that you just kinda want to make their head go nova as they just made your anxiety twice as bad with a few careless words?

    Last month I was crying and going "I'm the worst, everybody hates me, nooo"

    and Aaron yells NO! STOP!

    and that just made it worse

    it was awful because it was just both of us were in over our heads and making each other feel worse over something that was no one's fault

    That being said I have been in the middle of a panic attack and Pony is so aggravatingly insistent that I snap out of it ... because I want to strangle him

    which works

    I guess

    Aaron and I need to have a talk about his efforts to learn how to help you. I have some books he can read and some resources I can point him in the direction of, because the simple fact is that him loving you is not enough in and of itself and he needs to know what he's doing. He doesn't. That's not his fault, but as your spouse it's his obligation if he wants to have a life with you. Alex understood that when her and I moved in together and we decided to make a life together, she understood that it's part of our relationship that she not just be supportive of me but to know how to be supportive correctly in a way that makes both our lives easier.

    He means well, but he's often out of his depth, and you're not really in the position to educate him on the subject. He needs outside help, and I can point him in the directions of where he can find that help which includes him talking to Alex and asking her for advice, because she's quite good at this stuff and has years of understanding and practice with it that he doesn't.

    also

    i'm da bes

    frankie has an anxiety disorder. she's on a medicine now that works for her and it's not so bad, but it used to be pretty severe.

    what i found was that being caring and supportive and nice, while necessary, weren't really the center of what she needed when in an attack. i had to sometimes be kind of stern with her to get her to focus out of her haze. i felt like kind of an asshole about it, but it often helped.
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Pony wrote: »
    Ludious wrote: »
    My anxiety is out of control lately, it sucks because anxiety is way harder to sympathise with than depression.
    do you ever find that when you are having an anxiety attack and someone tells you to calm down or relax that you just kinda want to make their head go nova as they just made your anxiety twice as bad with a few careless words?

    Last month I was crying and going "I'm the worst, everybody hates me, nooo"

    and Aaron yells NO! STOP!

    and that just made it worse

    it was awful because it was just both of us were in over our heads and making each other feel worse over something that was no one's fault

    That being said I have been in the middle of a panic attack and Pony is so aggravatingly insistent that I snap out of it ... because I want to strangle him

    which works

    I guess

    Aaron and I need to have a talk about his efforts to learn how to help you. I have some books he can read and some resources I can point him in the direction of, because the simple fact is that him loving you is not enough in and of itself and he needs to know what he's doing. He doesn't. That's not his fault, but as your spouse it's his obligation if he wants to have a life with you. Alex understood that when her and I moved in together and we decided to make a life together, she understood that it's part of our relationship that she not just be supportive of me but to know how to be supportive correctly in a way that makes both our lives easier.

    He means well, but he's often out of his depth, and you're not really in the position to educate him on the subject. He needs outside help, and I can point him in the directions of where he can find that help which includes him talking to Alex and asking her for advice, because she's quite good at this stuff and has years of understanding and practice with it that he doesn't.

    also

    i'm da bes

    you're okay

    yeah i'd appreciate it if you talked to him

    i've been trying to find us couple's therapy for a couple of years now and there's just nothing that is free or easily accessible.

    that book that you lent me a couple of years back, the big blue one, was really good.

    yeah i will go through my boxes and dig it out, it's got a really good section for the family and friends of people who struggle with anxiety and depression

    all about how to help them and how not to help them and shit

    he also has to be unafraid of asking Alex for help and advice, she's actually a better resource for him than I am because she is for me what he is for you
  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    edited May 2013
    with unlimited dollars I would have this

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    this maybe but I think I am too big

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    this

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    and this

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    maybe I will own the bmw one day
    skippydumptruck on
  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    you ever feel like the calm, normal-acting part of you is a thin door straining at the hinges with the pressure of the panic abut everything going to shit that's building up behind the wall and trying to do something about everything going to shit would be like opening that door and letting it all flood in?

    in this metaphor this door is waterproof.

    Sounds like finals week! Good luck facing the flood, Abdhy. :)
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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons LondresRegistered User regular
    Buying a fancy car is a bit silly.

    The best idea is building a strange castle on a remote island. Possibly with lots of odd statues.

    It would help with future tourism while also helping out the local community of sculptors in what must be a hard recession.

    Also, the blue tshirt is better than the white version I think

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    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I hate driving. I will never leave Toronto because public transit works and I do not want to drive ever.

    Commuting is boring and sucks. But driving can be a blast.

    on the flip side i am never stuck in endless traffic on my commute home.

    It takes me 15 minutes to get back and forth in heavy traffic. If I walk it takes 30 minutes. I don't have a long commute. Because I do hate commuting. My company moved buildings but I used to live just down the street from where I worked. 15 minute walk. Still love driving. There is a certain amount of joy in pushing a car as hard as you can. To ride the edge of the tires grip and feel it in your hands.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • HamurabiHamurabi Registered User regular
    Pfft, depression isn't even a Real Thing.

    Just watch some Mitch Hedberg and call me in the morning.
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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    I would possibly have an updated DeLorean custom built.
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Re: Theon:
    That is admittedly unfortunate!

    I had to close the windows to my room because that was so porny.
    I was all, oh get a fucking move on, he's being tortured we get it now

    but his expressions and the whole the fuck are you doing I'm being tortured here what was great.
    Theon was smart not to trust it. He knew that "he" sent them. But the asshole Simon blows the whistle just as he was getting into it and thinking he was gonna have a tiny break from torture. I guess it's safe to assume they went through with it after the scene cut?
    It was kind of dream-like

    like, you have a dream where I dunno, your guts are spilling out and you're all what's the matter with you people don't you see my guts are spilling out what is going on
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  • skippydumptruckskippydumptruck FAK U HODGEHEG Registered User regular
    ALSO

    my father in law works on old cars and buys and sells and restores them and gave each of his kids a car when they turned 1

    my wife's is a 60s camero convertible I think, but unrestored just sitting in a garage somewhere (he says he'll restore it for us when he retires)

    anyway they are coming to visit for sawyer's 1st b-day and I have a hope/suspicion that he will bring a car for sawyer
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    There are probably a dozen grants already submitted to NIH for looking for the Wager, et. al. pattern on people with fibro.
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • Ravenhpltc24Ravenhpltc24 Registered User regular
    Kalkino wrote: »
    Buying a fancy car is a bit silly.

    The best idea is building a strange castle on a remote island. Possibly with lots of odd statues.

    It would help with future tourism while also helping out the local community of sculptors in what must be a hard recession.

    Also, the blue tshirt is better than the white version I think

    porridge-m-131-french_blue-parent_1.jpg

    You caught my attention with this design earlier. I like it in blue as well. This would be a great gym-shirt for me.
    (V) ( ;,,; ) (V)
  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    I hate driving. I will never leave Toronto because public transit works and I do not want to drive ever.

    Commuting is boring and sucks. But driving can be a blast.

    on the flip side i am never stuck in endless traffic on my commute home.

    It takes me 15 minutes to get back and forth in heavy traffic. If I walk it takes 30 minutes. I don't have a long commute. Because I do hate commuting. My company moved buildings but I used to live just down the street from where I worked. 15 minute walk. Still love driving. There is a certain amount of joy in pushing a car as hard as you can. To ride the edge of the tires grip and feel it in your hands.

    that was very autoerotic
    Google Talk: ludious83 My Blog: The Caustic Geek
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    you ever feel like the calm, normal-acting part of you is a thin door straining at the hinges with the pressure of the panic abut everything going to shit that's building up behind the wall and trying to do something about everything going to shit would be like opening that door and letting it all flood in?

    in this metaphor this door is waterproof.

    Sounds like finals week! Good luck facing the flood, Abdhy. :)

    Oh, it won't go well, that I know.
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  • LudiousLudious Registered User regular
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    Pfft, depression isn't even a Real Thing.

    Just watch some Mitch Hedberg and call me in the morning.

    just don't overdose in your hotel room
    Google Talk: ludious83 My Blog: The Caustic Geek
  • ThomamelasThomamelas Registered User regular
    If I had fuck you money, I would buy Ralph Lauren's car collection. And I would buy Jay Leno's car collection. And I would merge them.
    There's no living with a killing. There's no goin' back from one. Right or wrong, it's a brand... a brand sticks. There's no goin' back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright. And there aren't any more guns in the valley.
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    Build a castle in the shape of a gigantic moai head
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
  • FeralFeral Who needs a medical license when you've got style? Registered User regular
    because who doesn't want to live in a moai head?
    I am comforted by Richard Dawkins’ theory of memes. Those are mental units: thoughts, ideas, gestures, notions, songs, beliefs, rhymes, ideals, teachings, sayings, phrases, clichés that move from mind to mind as genes move from body to body. After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many. They will all also eventually die, but so it goes. - Roger Ebert, I Do Not Fear Death
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