nagging feeling of near-impotent guilt re: the 1bn ppl living in poverty
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
xps i seriously SERIOUSLY wish i had never opened that thread - i still get a queasy feeling when i even think about it :/
― just1n3, Saturday, 25 December 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
It is horrendous.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I probably won't. I hope.
― scary-cat-mascot-costumes-for-kids2.tk (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Really don't. I didn't know what it meant. I backed out as quickly as possible.damage wasn't quite done, but nearly
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/1093460880_2af2500cc8.jpg
― gr8080, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit wrong thread
oh fuck you grady
― ENBB, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Ban grady!
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
give him one day for every lotus hole
― dayo, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
UNBAN GR8080
― markers, Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yah i read that thread and u all r crazy they are just holes in things
― plax (ico), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
if bein freaked out by that insane alien nonsense is crazy well mister I just don't wanna be sane.
― lenonsense (Clay), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!!!
― plax (ico), Saturday, 25 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Aren't at least half of escalators broken?
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
And post offices, DMVs, and other public offices always have multiple service windows, yet way too few people working at these windows to serve the long line of customers.
― Ivana Boob-Reduction (j.lu), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i caught myself getting pissed off at broken escalators yesterday
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
three words: single core processor
― new teen paranormal romance (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Escalators don't become broken they become stairs. Rip Mitch Hedberg.
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
The escalator in my building seems to break down at least once a week.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:54 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
rip indeed, but:
http://img3.photographersdirect.com/img/13725/wm/pd1118986.jpg
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^so sick of seeing this in the buildings surrounding my workplace/where i take lunchbreaks
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is the definition of first world problems
I HATE APPLE
― strongly recommend. unless you're a bitch (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
went with my sister to the local pastry shop -- upon exiting, she exclaimed with dismay "they put my petit fours in the same box as your tiramisu!"
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
reddening — what does yr name refer to?
because earlier today I had this idea about a video game where at certain points you might be like moving down a long hallway and suddenly you find that you can't turn your character around or walk backwards or even see what's behind you, because [ghosts/magic/whatever] — then I saw yr name just now and I went "GUH?"
(possibly I saw it earlier and subconsciously remembered it?)
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's from a flash game called Johnny in an art game?, which is parodying games like One Chance and Every Day the Same Dream where you kind of march forward into your destiny. I think it was just the parody-maker being lazy, though, since you can turn around in both those games!
― there is no turning back in an art game? (reddening), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
someone told me that escalators are extremely power-hungry and incredibly environmentally unfriendly as a result.
escalators are everywhere in HK, and we've got some reaaaaaallly big ones.
― dayo, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
and some reeeeally freaking tiny ones.
― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't remember where it was now but there was an escalator that was seriously about three steps long. 'er indoors is short and it was only about half her height. Then there's that eight-storey fucken thing in Mong Kok. If you fall you are dead.
― Suppositori Spelling (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AothOuCTCM0
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hong Kong escalators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUf-2NvxogE&feature=related
― Super Cub, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
was listening to a tech podcast from CES this year and people were complaining that they'll have to upgrade their flatscreen TVs every 3-4 years now since the technology is changing so rapidly
― dayo, Friday, 14 January 2011 06:04 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes i have to switch my QC3s to the 'lo' setting before i plug them into staticky speaker outlets. then, when i unplug them, the volume plays way louder than i thought it would and startles me for like half a second :( :( :( :( :( :(
― een, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
my debit card expired so now i've had to re-enter the number on tons of websites -- also my netflix rotation got thrown off by two days
― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 February 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Debatable coaching decisions are really hampering my fantasy basketball team
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 25 February 2011 06:34 (thirteen years ago) link
sandwich lady forgot to cut my sandwich
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Friday, 4 March 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers
― Alba, Friday, 4 March 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
have you guys seen the movie barcode thing yet? has dr.morbz seen it?
There needs to be some way of searching. Trying to find if they've done the Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
― emil.y, Monday, March 7, 2011 8:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― open jason segal (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha!
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
(Wouldn't really consider it a problem, more a thought that I had whilst looking at a site and decided to share with ilx. I should shut up more, I guess)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
it was just funny to me tbh
― open jason segal (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:54 (thirteen years ago) link
You know, when they do this, it's probably because they're going to do maintenance on it or because it's unsafe to walk on it.
OTOH, I have read that climbing a still escalator results in people tripping because the steps are taller than stair steps, so maybe they're cutting their liability.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there are so many poorly designed toilet paper dispensers/holders in public restrooms
― gr8080, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
mild insomnia so I'm drinking some beer
― bury my heart at wounded nerd (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like trying to alleviate mild insomnia w/ alcohol is something done across all worlds?
― little humma boy (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Terrible iPod Days
― Slow lorax loves getting tickled (dayo), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
nytimes.com sign-in bullshit
― goole, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, just came in here to post my gf this morning
"oh my god, did you see this, a nuclear plane exploded in Japan and... NO, NEW YORK TIMES I DONT WANT TO LOG IN!"
― Whiney On The Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 March 2011 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Sending this off to the shower of bastards that run our web-based back office system who claim they can't support anything above IE6!! Because it's so "stable"!! Well, so's an abacus!!
― Ned Raggett Reads Autumn Almanac (King Boy Pato), Saturday, 12 March 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Missed my yoga class because I forgot to turn the clock back.
― Virginia Plain, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
oh FUCK I've been offered a free trip to a Caribbean private island and I'm going to have to miss the second week including the women's final ;_;
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 May 2014 18:06 (Yesterday)
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:21 (ten years ago) link
can't wait for lex to lecture ilx more about privilege
― Mordy, Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:22 (ten years ago) link
thought abt this thread today when i got upset about some shoddy reparative tailoring on an old lanvin suit
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:24 (ten years ago) link
scum tbh
― the only thing worse than being tweeted about (darraghmac), Saturday, 24 May 2014 06:26 (ten years ago) link
Now a grim reality for the lad
― Who whom kissed? (imago), Friday, 6 June 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/oB3vRKv.jpg
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Paul McCartney got sick so now we have to wait four more months to see him
― building a desert (art), Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
I've missed a load of games due to Glastonbury and ugh the first one I will get to watch in its entirety will be Belgium USA, which will surely be like a really shitty midtable Premiership game.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:28 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
;)
― avicii usque ad arse (imago), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:31 (ten years ago) link
usb port on cheap laptop not deep enough to accept dragonfly DAC without having to jiggle the connection periodically
― brimstead, Friday, 15 August 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
my new sofa is too big for my house
― ogmor, Monday, 16 November 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
restaurants pricing sturgeon as if it were beluga, gtfo
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Monday, 13 November 2017 05:48 (six years ago) link
Want desperately to go to sleep as soon as possible this evening, but must attend condo association meeting tonight.
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Monday, 28 October 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
human suffering is a strange thing -- I have experienced "problems" over the last several months that, by most people's standards, would deserve me a kick in the head for even suggesting they were problems, which I feel embarrassed even to repeat here. Yet I have spent months feeling irritable, anxious, and scared the majority of the time, feeling like I was in a vise that wouldn't let up it's grip, feeling like I was going to lose everything. I am reminded of the saying from the Sopranos. "- "Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky." And that great wind is upper middle class white privilege I guess.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
i wish my colleagues didn't assume i had imessage on my computer and send me super long detailed texts with charts and files that no fucking way am I gonna deal with on my iPhone 6S
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link
i wonder if unless thinking about all the blessings in yr life gives you comfort (like to meditate on all the wonderful things you have to dispel yr anxiety) it could be that your awareness of the relative frivolity of yr problems contributes to yr suffering since you don't give yourself permission to experience it - instead you experience the suffering alongside yr disdain for yr own suffering xp
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
i meditate on the comfort of my iPhone 6S on the reg tbh
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:26 (four years ago) link
I mean, to be clear these problems involved several *major life decisions* of the type expected to cause stress, it's just that they were major life decisions that I am so lucky even to be able to make right now that yes, I did kind of hate myself for suffering anxiety over them.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
but even if the problems are truly trivial, the existence in which you are processing them is changing in unanticipated and unpredictable ways right now... it's kinda like trying to take a sip of a bloody mary while the plane flies through a a patch of turbulence
― rb (soda), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
that's an excellent metaphor and captures how it feels
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
Somewhat relatedly, this is strangely affecting although slightly overdramatic and FWP (forgiveable offenses for an extremely talented high school student):
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/ontario-teen-numb-short-film-liv-mcneil_ca_5eecd230c5b6d71ac27ff017
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkbd6hRkXo
And, appropriately, the 15-yr-old director's commentary:
This is just a generalization of the feeling of isolation, not my personal feelings, I for sure haven't been enjoying quarantine, but some have it worse. We have all been going through stuff right now, especially with Black Lives Matter, my struggles are in no way comparable to some things people are going though right now. this is my own experience, some are a whole lot worse than mine. I'm just showing what I know.
This is a mini film, Numb by me. I did this for a school project but I'm really happy with how it came out, so I'm posting it here. This took me a combined 3 weeks or so. hope you enjoy! please feel free to share as much as you like, just please credit me and M83, the band who made the music.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 23 July 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
company pass dangling from lanyard clacks annoyingly off my belt buckle when walking down the corridor of my office
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link
Wait, how low do you wear your lanyard?
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Back in the late 80s when I first joined corporate life, I remember hearing lanyards and passes would soon be obsolete now that retinal scanning was possible. The future has failed to arrive!
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
how high do you wear your trousers more like
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
this lanyard is not adjustable, it hangs where it hangsmy belt is around my waist you maniacs
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
Tying a loop in the lanyard itself is knot a knoption?
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link
(X post)I’m concerned where this forces security guards to look to check your credentials.
― Luna Schlosser, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Just get a shorter lanyard cord, if you want a rainbow one like mine I can give you one
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
ahah great problem.yeah the solution seems obvious : tie it up !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 15 November 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
or get your neck more swole
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
― suggest bainne (gyac), Monday, 15 November 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
They're always annoying long. I always had to tuck them inside my shirt while working with clients.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 15 November 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
Most injuries related to cutting avocados occur from April through July. Here’s how to reduce your risk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/06/26/avocado-hand-injuries-knife/
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 June 2024 17:30 (four months ago) link
Good thing avocado injury season is ending soon!! It's gonna be Taco Tuesday every day when August rolls around.
― Enjoy Nuoc Mam With Mr. Qualk (I M Losted), Saturday, 29 June 2024 03:52 (four months ago) link