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What's messing with your groove?

#15561 User is offline   D'rek 

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Posted 06 May 2014 - 12:08 AM

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 05 May 2014 - 08:37 PM, said:

Thanks guys, much appreciated. We've actually decided to put her to sleep tomorrow. I've been away for two days this weekend and I can't believe how much she's aged in that time. It's the kindest thing, but it's heartbreaking.


Aww, I'm sorry to hear about this, too. Is this SpoilerCat? Can she grace one last reading with her divine presence before tomorrow?

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View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 06 May 2014 - 07:00 AM

 D, on 06 May 2014 - 12:08 AM, said:

 TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 05 May 2014 - 08:37 PM, said:

Thanks guys, much appreciated. We've actually decided to put her to sleep tomorrow. I've been away for two days this weekend and I can't believe how much she's aged in that time. It's the kindest thing, but it's heartbreaking.


Aww, I'm sorry to hear about this, too. Is this SpoilerCat? Can she grace one last reading with her divine presence before tomorrow?


Sadly not, no. That's a great idea though, it would have been lovely!
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Posted 06 May 2014 - 10:14 PM

Well she'll be in every reading in spirit then. Spoiler Cat Kenobi?

View Postworrywort, on 14 September 2012 - 08:07 PM, said:

I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 05:51 PM

Lack of sleep and the mother of all sun burns in my face. F*ck, that hurts.
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 07:26 PM

So this morning I was getting ready to leave for work, the gf readying to set out as well. I'm still barefooted, she's in her heels. She walks up to me to say something and steps on my toes. I scream in pain. She gets offended, says something amounting to "well, SORRY, but it's not like I did it on purpose????" in an offended manner. Before I get the chance to respond, she leaves and slams the door.

Dafuq happened there?
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 07:44 PM

People get flustered when unexpected things happen and do silly things as a result. Don't hold it against her.

My ex hated, hated, hated any raising of my voice, even if it was when I was in pain (I'm thinking of her accidentally smashing my recently cut finger). She'd take it personally, say something back at me to "defend" something and then kind of sulk for a while. The surprise of the shout and the fact that she'd caused it sort of made her momentarily nutso and she apologized later.

Heck, I remember once I had food poisoning after some bad street food and she was trying to baby me through puking in the toilet. In between heaves, I told her "No, please. Go watch tv and let me get through this." in a loud voice as my hearing aids were off. She got mad about being pushed away and my tone of voice, left and watched two hours of Disney channel to cool down. She really was new to having to deal with anyone who wasn't in perfect health and I didn't hold it against her too much.

I think I had similarly bad moments after I'd physically hurt someone, but they were when I was young with my brothers. We were always breaking something or slicing something open and learned to wait politely while the other person got over the shock and could conduct damage assessment. Over time, it got to be a routine thing and now that I grapple with people, it's a continued habit of just waiting quietly to hear back from the other person.
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 08:54 PM

 Gothos, on 07 May 2014 - 07:26 PM, said:

So this morning I was getting ready to leave for work, the gf readying to set out as well. I'm still barefooted, she's in her heels. She walks up to me to say something and steps on my toes. I scream in pain. She gets offended, says something amounting to "well, SORRY, but it's not like I did it on purpose????" in an offended manner. Before I get the chance to respond, she leaves and slams the door.

Dafuq happened there?


Seriously?? The key word in that is "she".

"She"s get angry at you. For something. They wait X number of hours/days/weeks/months/years for you to notice what exactly you did to cause that anger. The longer it takes you to figure out what exactly you did to cause the anger, the worse the reactions will be. Note that the reactions will usually have nothing to do with what is immediately apparent to you. If you're lucky, and she is feeling generous, she will tell you what it was that angered her in the first place. This rarely happens.

In the words of the immortal Lazarus Long: "apologize at once."


B)
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 08:56 PM

What's messing with my groove? The number of negative reps I'm about to receive. B)
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 09:50 PM

Lazarus Long was pure and demented wish fulfillment.

I also in no way agree with what you said about women and anger. Almost everyone reacts inappropriately at first to unexpected things. There is no gender line there.
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Posted 07 May 2014 - 10:40 PM

 amphibian, on 07 May 2014 - 09:50 PM, said:

Lazarus Long was pure and demented wish fulfillment.

I also in no way agree with what you said about women and anger. Almost everyone reacts inappropriately at first to unexpected things. There is no gender line there.


A: He was bat shit crazy.

B: Tongue. Cheek. Reactions. B)
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 05:26 PM

Lawyers. Fucking lawyers. Shakespeare is right.
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Posted 08 May 2014 - 05:52 PM

 Gnaw, on 08 May 2014 - 05:26 PM, said:

Lawyers. Fucking lawyers. Shakespeare is right.


Yep. Dick the Butcher was exactly right when he said that in order to effectively destroy a lawful government and forcibly replace it with a dictatorship, the first thing to do is kill all the lawyers.
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Posted 09 May 2014 - 09:35 AM

Lack of lawyers. If defendants could just stop trying to represent themselves and hire a lawyer my job would be so much easier. Well, more difficult I guess but a lot less frustrating.
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Posted 09 May 2014 - 10:40 AM

Barriers for laweyr-ism are even higher in .pl to get into the industry, though they are being loosened. You should be glad - less lawyers = higher fees!
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Posted 09 May 2014 - 11:41 AM

Well, there's not so much a lack of lawyers as a lack of people who understand that representing themselves is a bad idea. I do not want a forty page exposition on the threat of Chinese produce in Norway. I want a conscise explanation as to why you are not guilty, or at least not as guilty as we argue.


edit: I mean, it's not that hard to become a lawyer here. You need a Master of Law from one of three universities in Norway. Hardly insurmountable.

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Posted 09 May 2014 - 12:20 PM

Master of Law.
then you need to find a sponsor who's already in the game.
get several years' practice slaving away doing their dirty work for them for meagre money.
sell your soul.
get accepted to approach another humongous exam that often baffles even long established lawyers.
you can start!
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Posted 09 May 2014 - 01:19 PM

I don't know. The practice you need in order to work as a lawyer on your own is two years, and you can do it through many other venues than a private law firm. Furthermore, considering the responsibility you take on when accepting a client, a two year practice period seems more than reasonable.
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Posted 10 May 2014 - 04:31 AM

 Morgoth, on 09 May 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

Well, there's not so much a lack of lawyers as a lack of people who understand that representing themselves is a bad idea. I do not want a forty page exposition on the threat of Chinese produce in Norway. I want a conscise explanation as to why you are not guilty, or at least not as guilty as we argue.


edit: I mean, it's not that hard to become a lawyer here. You need a Master of Law from one of three universities in Norway. Hardly insurmountable.


?? I thought you were an academic.
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Posted 10 May 2014 - 06:16 AM

 Gnaw, on 10 May 2014 - 04:31 AM, said:

 Morgoth, on 09 May 2014 - 11:41 AM, said:

Well, there's not so much a lack of lawyers as a lack of people who understand that representing themselves is a bad idea. I do not want a forty page exposition on the threat of Chinese produce in Norway. I want a conscise explanation as to why you are not guilty, or at least not as guilty as we argue.


edit: I mean, it's not that hard to become a lawyer here. You need a Master of Law from one of three universities in Norway. Hardly insurmountable.


?? I thought you were an academic.


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Posted 10 May 2014 - 03:20 PM

He tries to tell us that pirates are bad people, but we all love Johny Depp!

what's messing with my groove?
People, and this fucking country.
after a 2 year battle with an illness I cant actually spell a little 5 year old boy passed away on Thursday night. A lot of fundraising had been done for various operations an stuff over the last 2 years and its a well publicised cause. My gf knows the family and helped raise a lot of money for him.
Anyway, kids died Thursday night, some assholes started tweeting yesterday along the lines of, 'haha, fenian c**t is dead '

what the fuck is wrong with people, like seriously, a 5 year old boy has just died and this is your go to response??
one of them was identified, his account suspended and his football club have banned him for life. Well played, someone linked the article in this mornings paper about it and there are now people commenting on it apologisj g for the asshole, saying 'he didn't know any better, its an ingrained sectarian culture'. Which made my fucking blood boil, this js not sectarian culture, this is a total lack of a moral compass. I bet his family are proud of him.

oh how I cant wait to leave this petty little nation
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