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#16241 Cause

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 02:41 PM

I was going to buy a new phone, I had a 10% discount voucher but I fell asleep early and it expired! I lost 80 Dollars!

#16242 DeadHedge

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 03:03 PM

Kidney stones. Enough said

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#16243 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 04:17 PM

Last night a dude was murdered near where I work. He was a manager of a local business & had nearly £30k stolen from him. :unworthy:

stupid, senseless killing...

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#16244 QuickTidal

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Posted 01 November 2014 - 04:26 PM

DeadHedge, on 01 November 2014 - 03:03 PM, said:

Kidney stones. Enough said

I have been there. It is not pleasant. You have all my sympathy that it passes soon and as painlessly as possible.

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#16245 Gothos

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 08:54 AM

So I've a fair amount of chance to get a job at Blizzard in Cork, Ireland. As good as that is, it's putting quite a bit of strain and pain into my relationship. Dayum.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

#16246 DeadHedge

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 09:17 AM

QuickTidal, on 01 November 2014 - 04:26 PM, said:

DeadHedge, on 01 November 2014 - 03:03 PM, said:

Kidney stones. Enough said

I have been there. It is not pleasant. You have all my sympathy that it passes soon and as painlessly as possible.

Thanks for the sympathy QT.

One advantage of it is that I have been prescribed Tramadol and by jove they make me feel like a space cadet

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#16247 Tsundoku

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 10:37 AM

Well, after all those perfectly valid gripes I'm going to be selfish and petty. One does what one is best at after all.

Australias' form in the (cricket, of course) Tests against Pakistan has been truly diabolical. :unworthy:

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#16248 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 02 November 2014 - 07:16 PM

Flipping Wayne Static is dead. I used to love Static X when I was into angry Nu-Metal as a 17 year old...

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#16249 Andorion

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Posted 03 November 2014 - 11:50 AM

Just got jolted out of my sleep by some nutter on the phoen who wanted to know why her friend was not receiving her calls. Why does this happen to me??!!

#16250 Mentalist

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Posted 03 November 2014 - 03:29 PM

Yesterday finally got back to playing soccer after sitting out for 5 weeks due to an injury.

My God, I hurt EVERYWHERE this morning. My back and shoulders KILL, which is really bad news, given I have a desk job and a deadline this afternoon.

On the bright side, my team won the hard-won game. But, Christ, I'm in so much pain whenever I move,

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Jump Around, on 23 October 2011 - 11:04 AM, said:

And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#16251 A Demon Llama!

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Posted 03 November 2014 - 11:58 PM

I hear ya, I am somewhat sore from the intense sessions of ping pong of yesterday.

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#16252 Gust Hubb

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Posted 04 November 2014 - 04:00 AM

Back on the busy rotation, surgical pathology. Today was a 14 hour day. Expecting as much for the next 2 months. Happy holidays...

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#16253 Silencer

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Posted 04 November 2014 - 08:03 AM

Work + exams + fielding many of my colleagues complaints about work and management = me being absolutely shattered.

Not enough sleep, and way too much overtime. Feel like I'm coming down sick, too.

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#16254 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 04 November 2014 - 01:49 PM

Not well today and I was going to go and see Orphaned Land tonight. Bummed out!

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#16255 Lizradusa

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Posted 04 November 2014 - 02:13 PM

5 days of pain in my throat and 1 day of pain in my ears and the doctor says it's likely to get worse before it gets better. :wacko:

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#16256 Raymond Luxury Yacht

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Posted 05 November 2014 - 01:24 AM

Regarding the gamergate stuff, did it at one time have a legit point about the ethics business before it got all crazy and misogynistic? I don't pay much attention to it.

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#16257 worry

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Posted 05 November 2014 - 02:24 AM

It did not. This iteration started with a false accusation/gossip mill about indie game developer Zoe Quinn about her sexlife, and pivoted to "ethics in journalism" generally after those accusations proved to be ludicrous. But it's just one more cycle of the same hate mob that attacked Anita Sarkeesian nonstop (during the Kickstarter phase, remember, long before she had produced a single entry in the video game series), and women/POCs/anyone deemed a "social justice warrior" any time before that. It started as a lynch mob and remains a lynch mob.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#16258 QuickTidal

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Posted 05 November 2014 - 07:15 PM

I heard about the whole Taylor Swift album breaking records for sales this week, and then I supported her recent choice (her record companies choice?) to remove her albums from Spotify (I have no issue with artists wanting to make money off their craft, that's how this works...any other opinion is entitlement)...so I stupidly decided to give the newly released album (1989) a listen. Because I'm an idiot.

And fuck me...it's actually good.

I mean as good as a pop album can be. It's pretty flawless in that regard. And not even just the regular version....but the deluxe version with two more songs...both of which are worth listening to as well.

And I'm not sure what my brain wants me to think about that...so it's messing with my groove. I think.

You may as well have at me now...I certainly deserve it.

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#16259 Kanubis

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Posted 05 November 2014 - 08:34 PM

To be honest, the more I read about her as a person, the more I'm glad people like her music even if it is 'just pop.'

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#16260 QuickTidal

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Posted 05 November 2014 - 08:44 PM

Kanubis, on 05 November 2014 - 08:34 PM, said:

To be honest, the more I read about her as a person, the more I'm glad people like her music even if it is 'just pop.'

Agreed.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

"Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone." ~Ursula Vernon