[Jakovasaurus]

2 inch long Asian hornets heading to the UK? Enjoy the summer weather while you can.
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[Maark Abbott]

Jakovasaurus, on 22 April 2015 - 05:34 PM, said:

2 inch long Asian hornets heading to the UK? Enjoy the summer weather while you can.
LINK

*flee*

[QuickTidal]

Loki, on 22 April 2015 - 02:01 AM, said:

Nice, friendly strangers who want to talk to me whilst I am at the park with my son.

Sure, I'm polite and I smile and make small talk but really I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU!

There's just no polite why to say 'I don't want to talk to you' when you have no excuse other than the fact that you're just not a social person.

On a scale of 1 to 10 this only rates a 2 but I wanted to contribute to the woe thread.

Gah! This happens to me all the time too. It happens in our elevator at home. There is this one woman who NEEDS to talk to whoever she's riding with for some reason...and I know this now (after having had to chat with her and have her baby-talk my dog...ugh) so I stare at the ground or away from her and I can SEE her looking at me out of my peripheral vision and I know she's dying for me to look up so she can get that eye contact ...which appears to be her "okay" for chatter. No lady, I DON'T want to talk to you. Quite frankly, I don't want to talk to anyone.

I feel your pain Loki.

[Vengeance]

I just planned out an attack in Coc and was right in the middle of executing it when I ran out of time. It was the first time I had used this attack and I totally blew it. Man I am so pissed right now.

[worry]

Don't worry, I'm sure you just need to practice. Nobody's great with Coc the first time out, and blowing it isn't the worst thing in the world anyway, after all. If timing is your issue, just concentrate on getting a good rhythm going early on, the rest will come naturally. Anxiety will only make you worse.

[HiddenOne]

Spoken like a true Coc Master

[Illuyankas]

It's hardly the acocalypse, after all.

[Gnaw]

I'm fairly certain that Vengy is more than a beginner at Coc.

















































My groove mess is apparently after the events of the last 2.5 months my alcohol tolerance is increasing. Definitely not a good thing.

[Silencer]

Well, starting tonight, my boss is officially on leave for more than three weeks.

For most, this might be something to go in the happy thread. Not so for me. It means I now have my bosses responsibilities, meetings, and duties, in addition to my own, and it means I'm going to have to put up with the other manager in the building all the time, who is on a massive power trip at the moment to compensate for her utter lack of knowledge.

Meanwhile, one team I now am responsible for is three staff down out of seven, soon to be four down.

I appreciate the show of confidence from my boss (who is awesome), but I am NOT looking forward to this month of pain...

[Dadding]

My roommate forgot to pay the bills and we lost internet for a day. It's back now but I don't ever want to revisit this dark chapter in my life.

[Tiste Simeon]

Dadding, on 23 April 2015 - 02:44 PM, said:

My roommate forgot to pay the bills and we lost internet for a day. It's back now but I don't ever want to revisit this dark chapter in my life.

Hey man we're here if you need help or someone to talk to.

You may need to see a therapist too, to get through this... ;-)

[A Demon Llama!]

Man, I purchased something online and it came in damaged. I just know it will be a pain in the ass to get a replacement at no cost to me.

[Andorion]

Just got hit by an earthquake. Everything started shaking and swaying and it went in for 20 seconds or more. Not too powerful it seems but pretty scary

[Puck]

Another long rant ahead, just skip.. *sigh*

My mother. But of course. WHAT ELSE? When has anything else made me rage inside so much within the last couple of years? Yeah, nothing. So, I'm broke. She knows that. Why am I broke? Because SHE borrowed money from me some months ago and swore on the high haveans she'd give it back BEFORE graduation. It's not like I believed her, but NOT to borrow her money when she knows I have it (even though I made it clear I saved it up for the special purpose of being able to afford graduating, what with printing costs and all) would have made life so much more unpleasant when the last thing I needed was MORE of her nagging me about something. NOW, I told her I NEED it back because I have to pay my freaking health insurance, the same freaking health insurance I could do without except for HER nagging me about because omg, what if I don't get my freaking meds and suddenly can't have freaking children, MAYBE, but she so wants freaking grandchildren she will NEVER get because I'd rather personally strangle myself than spawn.

Also, she's getting back into the habit of demanding I come and help out at the shop on Saturday mornings. She's been doing it since I went to school and SHE JUST WON'T ACCEPT THAT I'M KINDA-SORTA TOO OLD for going over there so I can do work she just can't say no to customers about and which pays me, what, six or seven euros for half a day. I earn more at my part-time job in a freaking hour. I also have to run after that money for weeks. And yet she makes a scene, with tears in her eyes, no less, when I'm somewhat late, even though I'm perfectly on time to manage whatever work she's got for me (that is, unless she 'miscalculated' again and there's actually, again, twice as much to do as she told me). Then she makes more of a scene because she has to pay her part-time help for doing that instead of me, so she loses the money. Logic tells me she'd lose it anyway if she actually kept her promise and paid ME for doing that. Frankly, she should just stop taking on that work. It does not pay and it's an annoyance to EVERYONE involved.

This is kindergarten. I don't feel taken seriously. She can't wait for me to earn enough money to support myself completely, yet apparently expects me to still be living with her and running to her to do stupid work for nothing even when I do so.

She's also gotten into the habit of making a scene whenever she perceives something I say as.. whatever she perceives it as. Something like:
Her: What are you doing?
Me: Making tea.
Her: That's so typical, you just can't answer normally!
Me: *looks at teapot in hand* ......

Now, I admit to not being too wordy about what I do. That's partly because I'm rarely doing anything exciting, and partly because I dislike anyone snooping around in my business and also because there's no point in telling her I'm also talking to my best friend on skype, because she will want to know what about which was in this instance 1. none of her business and 2. a discussion about Karsa Freaking Orlong in HoC.

The bottom line, of course, is that I need to get a place of my own. Sadly, unless some miracle happens, I doubt this will happen within this year. Unfortunately, I just can't shake the feeling that staying with my mother bogs me down, both financially and psychologically. I'm just sick and tired of having to report everything I do and every place I go to and every book I buy.

/rant

This post has been edited by Puck: 25 April 2015 - 08:35 AM

[DeadHedge]

Puck, on 25 April 2015 - 08:27 AM, said:

Another long rant ahead, just skip.. *sigh*

My mother. But of course. WHAT ELSE? When has anything else made me rage inside so much within the last couple of years? Yeah, nothing. So, I'm broke. She knows that. Why am I broke? Because SHE borrowed money from me some months ago and swore on the high haveans she'd give it back BEFORE graduation. It's not like I believed her, but NOT to borrow her money when she knows I have it (even though I made it clear I saved it up for the special purpose of being able to afford graduating, what with printing costs and all) would have made life so much more unpleasant when the last thing I needed was MORE of her nagging me about something. NOW, I told her I NEED it back because I have to pay my freaking health insurance, the same freaking health insurance I could do without except for HER nagging me about because omg, what if I don't get my freaking meds and suddenly can't have freaking children, MAYBE, but she so wants freaking grandchildren she will NEVER get because I'd rather personally strangle myself than spawn.

Also, she's getting back into the habit of demanding I come and help out at the shop on Saturday mornings. She's been doing it since I went to school and SHE JUST WON'T ACCEPT THAT I'M KINDA-SORTA TOO OLD for going over there so I can do work she just can't say no to customers about and which pays me, what, six or seven euros for half a day. I earn more at my part-time job in a freaking hour. I also have to run after that money for weeks. And yet she makes a scene, with tears in her eyes, no less, when I'm somewhat late, even though I'm perfectly on time to manage whatever work she's got for me (that is, unless she 'miscalculated' again and there's actually, again, twice as much to do as she told me). Then she makes more of a scene because she has to pay her part-time help for doing that instead of me, so she loses the money. Logic tells me she'd lose it anyway if she actually kept her promise and paid ME for doing that. Frankly, she should just stop taking on that work. It does not pay and it's an annoyance to EVERYONE involved.

This is kindergarten. I don't feel taken seriously. She can't wait for me to earn enough money to support myself completely, yet apparently expects me to still be living with her and running to her to do stupid work for nothing even when I do so.

She's also gotten into the habit of making a scene whenever she perceives something I say as.. whatever she perceives it as. Something like:
Her: What are you doing?
Me: Making tea.
Her: That's so typical, you just can't answer normally!
Me: *looks at teapot in hand* ......

Now, I admit to not being too wordy about what I do. That's partly because I'm rarely doing anything exciting, and partly because I dislike anyone snooping around in my business and also because there's no point in telling her I'm also talking to my best friend on skype, because she will want to know what about which was in this instance 1. none of her business and 2. a discussion about Karsa Freaking Orlong in HoC.

The bottom line, of course, is that I need to get a place of my own. Sadly, unless some miracle happens, I doubt this will happen within this year. Unfortunately, I just can't shake the feeling that staying with my mother bogs me down, both financially and psychologically. I'm just sick and tired of having to report everything I do and every place I go to and every book I buy.

/rant

Puck,

You have my sympathy with your mother, due to similiar circumstances i no longer have any contact with mine and feel a much better person for it.

Now im not saying that the best thing for you to do is break contact and i know that your unable to afford anything at the moment but i really hope you manage to get away soon. I cantell youthough that as sooon as you have moved out your outlook will be a million times better. And if you want my advice, move as far away as you can that way you are not hounded with visiting her or vice versa.

As you know everyone on the forum is happy to listen and sometimes even give advice.

DH

[Andorion]

And we got hit by a major aftershock. 6.9 on Richter scale

[Andorion]

I am in Kolkata, which is a few hundred kilometers away from Nepal. It was quite mild here, though quite scary at the time. Some people have been killed in India though, mainly North Bengal and Bihar. Historically the Himalayan belt is an active zone, so earthquakes are to be expected, though very few people are actually prepared.

[amphibian]

Andorion, on 26 April 2015 - 08:56 AM, said:

I am in Kolkata, which is a few hundred kilometers away from Nepal. It was quite mild here, though quite scary at the time. Some people have been killed in India though, mainly North Bengal and Bihar. Historically the Himalayan belt is an active zone, so earthquakes are to be expected, though very few people are actually prepared.

Many of my family are in the Kathmandu valley.

The thing about preparation for an earthquake there is that the biggest problems are things that individual people cannot prepare much for.

The landslides that take out roads or the broken water mains or the old buildings that cannot survive the quakes are not things that a family or individual can do something about.

Most people have propane tanks enough to cook food for a while and if the city's food can be brought in via a quickly cleared road, then it may not be that bad unless the water runs out.

[Andorion]

amphibian, on 26 April 2015 - 02:58 PM, said:

Andorion, on 26 April 2015 - 08:56 AM, said:

I am in Kolkata, which is a few hundred kilometers away from Nepal. It was quite mild here, though quite scary at the time. Some people have been killed in India though, mainly North Bengal and Bihar. Historically the Himalayan belt is an active zone, so earthquakes are to be expected, though very few people are actually prepared.

Many of my family are in the Kathmandu valley.

The thing about preparation for an earthquake there is that the biggest problems are things that individual people cannot prepare much for.

The landslides that take out roads or the broken water mains or the old buildings that cannot survive the quakes are not things that a family or individual can do something about.

Most people have propane tanks enough to cook food for a while and if the city's food can be brought in via a quickly cleared road, then it may not be that bad unless the water runs out.

Are your family ok? Its pretty bad in Kathmandu isn't it.

[amphibian]

My cousins, aunts and uncles have mostly checked in, saying that they are ok. None of them live in houses older than forty years, so there might be damage, but no flattened houses. I have a couple hundred cousins in Ktm and Sindhuli (mostly not affected significantly by the quakes).

My immediate family and I will speak with them over the next few days and we'll all coordinate to help out the Thapas that need it.