I mean, I think that "people with mental health issues" is a pretty serious area where people are trying to address prejudice right now. From my experience, there's still a lot of general prejudice against people with mental health problems. I've only personally experienced comparatively small mental health problems myself, but know and love people with serious problems. I know that most people on ilx are progressive enough to not be all like "depressed people are just weak", but I still try to take it seriously.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
No quantity of facebook memes will make me immune to the seriousness of the issue.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
It was an allusion to Barney on HIMYM, e, and feel free to poke around for lots of proof that I'm not awesome and in fact have been suffering through a particularly shitty string of late. I apologized, what more can I do? I sure as hell am not going to get through it pretending that its noble to surrender yourself to misery as that meme would like me to believe.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
Like pretty much every day this year since April I've wondered if my very mentally ill dad has killed himself yet, and that fucks up my ability to carry on with my attempts at a normal life, and then I see that meme once a week on FB, and I think "oh fuck you."
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Bah. Stressy day again. Carry on with jpegs of insipid thought, please.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
It was an allusion to Barney on HIMYM
Okay, that went completely over my head. Apologies for not realising it was a reference. I've just heard *that* sentiment a hell of a lot more in real life than the ham-fisted but at least supportive jpg it was mocking.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
I forgot about yr dad, FFM. I also have mentally-ill, potentially suicidal relatives. But I think it's important for normal people to be able somehow to relate to crazy people. I have mental health issues, but I consider myself relatively normal, but I have to deal with so many crazy people in my day-to-day. And it's tough. But I do the best I can. And part of what makes it so tough for me is the other normal people who have very intense reactions to the ones who are fucked up.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WEzG7.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
i hate the font and typesize in most of these fucking things, it's like they design them to be hard to read
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
remember 'what the media thinks i do / what my parents think i do / what i actually do'
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/aT99W.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry for offending other people with mental health issues. As a consolation, I will now offend an entirely different group of people:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150949828631275&set=a.180479986274.135777.177486166274&type=1&ref=nf
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/205351_10150949828631275_1331976100_n.jpg
wow, vincent price has a lot of books!
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
Why is this the thing you would share I don't even:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/306728_10150990319222669_364698562_n.jpg
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I don't get it.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
there are some serious Windows stans out there
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
HL: I do speak very cautiously around those I know with these issues..I tend to treat ILX as a bit of a place to unwind and as such it sometimes gets the worst of me. :) I'm much nicer & quieter irl. E, it was a shitty throwaway allusion and perfectly understandble that people would miss it, but I felt the word amazing was ott enough that my embellishment would shine through. Anyway. Onto the shitty memes!
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8IGF2.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
fair enough, ffm. I just have to deal with some depressives and some bipolars and some autism spectrum people and some people who are undiagnosed-as-of-yet on the daily. I know ilx tends to get pretty serious about other forms of bigotry and I know for example that talking shit about retarded people upsets Abbbottt pretty bad. but it's really not quite there yet in terms of the popular consensus. I just thinl that - as much as mental health shit is in the forefront for me - MOST folks it's not in the forefront for. MOST people NEED those shiity memes. Continue....
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvf2vao9Zt1qfdjbn.jpg
i guess i wouldn't have much confidence either
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
Eeeee! :D
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
bukowski and john waters otm. what i wouldn't pay to see them fuck.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://uberhumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Books+This+is+exactly+how+they+work.jpg
I have seen this posted at least ten times and every time I think, 'you're supposed to read them, not stand on them.'
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, that's what I thought, too. At least it doesn't say "literally".
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
I mean that looks like a precarious vantage point! They're going to Jenga out from under him or her at any moment.
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
I'm also imagining that the fantasy land he's looking at has built that wall to keep plebs like him out. This isn't good, it's some sort of gated community dystopia of the highest order!
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
Entrance fee is...your immortal soul, firstborn child, something like that. Is all the graffiti Cyrillic aside from the universal language of 'fuck you'?
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
lol, BOOKS: YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY CLIMB THE WALL
― Misc. Carnivora (Matt P), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
You forgot: FUCK YOU
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
so when is holden c gonna come along and rub out that 'fuck you'?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
He would but he is in the book the small human is standing on
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:21 (eleven years ago) link
He or she will never knowToo busy getting hypnotized by Mothra
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "ABHO" signs in the world. It's impossible.
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, doesn't that actually say "FAB HO"? It's like the nicest bitch of a teacher thing, maybe.
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
FUCK YOU FAB HO
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW THEY WORK
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
fab ho is arguing books work a different way
RICH FANTASYLAND SENDS ATTACK BUTTERFLIES TO THE GHETTO
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
"They're coming! The butterflies are coming! Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun"
books = butterflies of oppression
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
He would know he was safe – because there are no butterflied in the ghetto – if he was reading the Pavel Friedmann book instead of standing on it.
― Team Safeword (Abbbottt), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
what looks like 'fab ho' is russian 'gavno'. which means 'shit'.
― cb, Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/531520_445465745487815_1544769501_n.jpg
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
100% accurate IME
― carl agatha, Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
LOL. I've been called many things over the course of my life. Sweet, oddly enough, has never been one of them.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 19 July 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
february june and october really got hosed
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm the ~nicest~
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
I should be "the nicest" too, according to science, but . . .
Wait, it only says BORN the nicest. I got meaner.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s480x480/576046_10151037583372871_389664810_n.jpg
someone just busted out this classic
waiting for "hang in there baby!" or the tennis player scratching her arse
― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link