i'm sick of the damn IRS punishing me for making money
― frogbs, Thursday, 11 July 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
viewing it as a 'punishment' is what got me... like yes, they designed this form specifically to discourage people from leaving their apartments. all for the sake of saving 45 minutes in filling out a form
― 乒乓, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
"Shouldn't society design data capture processes that encourage all these things, rather than "punish" the people who have these attributes?"
everytime I am faced w/ this challenge I end up using my gmail history
― iatee, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
i am strongly in favor of society punishing smug assholes
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― "Post-Oven" (DJP), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
i used to have to fill in Criminal Records Bureau forms on the regular because i work with children/vulnerable adults and i felt pretty smug when i'd lived 10 years in the same place and filling the form in got easier
on the other hand i'd rather they didn't let bad people work with vulnerable people so it doesn't seem a big hardship tbh
― the SI unit of ignorance (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:48 (ten years ago) link
Y'know, it's not worth complaining about, and nothing actually needs to be changed, and basically fuck this guy because his tone is horrendous, but it is a huge pain in the ass. I've lived in 20+ places since moving out of my mom's house!
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 11 July 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah, that's the thing, tons of stuff is a pain in the ass.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 July 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
the whole first world is one giant pain in the ass m/l
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, 11 July 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
streaming tv site updates adblocker detection, won't show you tv until you let them show you the ads too
― j., Tuesday, 11 February 2014 06:13 (ten years ago) link
pee related
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 07:03 (ten years ago) link
Remember when people used this moronic phrase
― usic and luriqs by Stephen Sonnedheim (wins), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 08:16 (ten years ago) link
"My home has been virtually destroyed by flooding"
"First world problems, bro!"
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
i need to see a Spike Lee Ted Talk to research a piece i'm writing and its nowhere on the internet
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 12:18 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 00:54 (ten 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (nine 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 (four 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
i meditate on the comfort of my iPhone 6S on the reg tbh
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 July 2020 21:26 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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