[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Gorefest, on 09 August 2018 - 04:51 PM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 09 August 2018 - 12:16 PM, said:

Gorefest, on 09 August 2018 - 07:20 AM, said:

Get another smoker in?

I want to live in it!

It's fine. The years of your life that you will lose to passive smoking are at the end of your existence anyway, so no need to worry about it now. Plus who likes being old? Old age is for oxygenarians.

And, come to think of it, oxygen is exactly what you wont have anyway.

I should stop doing all these edits all the time. People will start to think I am fickle.

Not that I particularly mind, mind you, revising an opinion is the sign of an open and informed mind.

I would be fine living in the apartment in its current state — it's already been cleaned and repainted. The only part untouched is the floor.

It's the coop board that won't let me live in it. Damn nanny gubmint thinking they know best!!1

EDIT: Also, you used 'mind' three different ways in the same sentence. That was an exciting rollercoaster!

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 09 August 2018 - 09:12 PM

[worry]

Now that's usin' yer noodle!

[Tsundoku]

Moss Side shooting - Manchester members please check in and/or message each other.

[Tiste Simeon]

I don't think any of us live down Moss Side as far as I remember...

[Cause]

I am experiencing low motivation to work. Its quite common. Not that I don't like my job or anything like that. Its just I prefer not working. Don't we all. Still its particularly hard to make myself do my job today.

[Brujah]

Two friends died. A friend,Matt, that I considered my best friend during the college years(overdose), and an ex roommate from college years, Justin(liver problems). 7 days apart. They were both 39.

[Macros]

jesus, thats grim news for you.

Sorry to hear that man

[Tsundoku]

Nothing reminds you of your mortality like hearing about the deaths of people you went to school/Uni with.

Condolences dude.

[Cause]

My Greencard Lottery interview is in 9 days! I entered not confident I would win at all (but it was so easy) but because my country is possibly on a terminal decline and America may be a great opportunity for me to have a better life.

Now that its actually real and no longer months in the future its a scary thing. Even if I am approved in the interview (I am confident) I don't have to drop everything and go right away but its starting to dawn on me what a big deal immigration would be. Goodbye to friends and family. A different way of life. What can I afford to pack, to ship, what must I leave behind. Where do I stay, Do I rent? Do I buy. Furnishing the apartment. The USA is huge! What if the job opportunity turns out to be in another state?

I have never really found it difficult to make friends but I also believe their are friends and there are FRIENDS. If you have common interests with people and you spend time with them doing said interest friendship follows. I have family in the states but we are not close and the age gap is about a decade with the closest.

[cauthon]

Amazing these threads still exist

[Puck]

Cause, on 14 August 2018 - 10:37 AM, said:

My Greencard Lottery interview is in 9 days! I entered not confident I would win at all (but it was so easy) but because my country is possibly on a terminal decline and America may be a great opportunity for me to have a better life.

Now that its actually real and no longer months in the future its a scary thing. Even if I am approved in the interview (I am confident) I don't have to drop everything and go right away but its starting to dawn on me what a big deal immigration would be. Goodbye to friends and family. A different way of life. What can I afford to pack, to ship, what must I leave behind. Where do I stay, Do I rent? Do I buy. Furnishing the apartment. The USA is huge! What if the job opportunity turns out to be in another state?

I have never really found it difficult to make friends but I also believe their are friends and there are FRIENDS. If you have common interests with people and you spend time with them doing said interest friendship follows. I have family in the states but we are not close and the age gap is about a decade with the closest.

Can you look for job opportunities in advance? Iirc, you work in research, maybe you can use connections and/or look around for offers posted online?

[Tiste Simeon]

Sheesh how bad is your country that the current state of America appeals? 😉

Hope it all goes well.

[Tiste Simeon]

Brujah, on 13 August 2018 - 11:14 AM, said:

Two friends died. A friend,Matt, that I considered my best friend during the college years(overdose), and an ex roommate from college years, Justin(liver problems). 7 days apart. They were both 39.

Dang I just saw this. So sorry to hear. Condolences.

[Mentalist]

Headache all day long. And dealing with work that's only been to dropped on my lap cuz my boss is off for a month (and thus it's superseding my own work). With looming threats of loads more stuff being offloaded onto me in the coming autumn months.

[worry]

Good luck, Cause! That's exciting.

[Andorion]

So, there was an incident at work where a co-worker filed an official complaint that people were engaging in vicious gossip about her and its affecting her morale. Ironically this provoked a fresh round of gossip and I heard that in another location, there had been a written complaint against the same thing, but no action was taken.
This is not a healthy working environment.

[Morgoth]

Cause, on 14 August 2018 - 10:37 AM, said:

My Greencard Lottery interview is in 9 days! I entered not confident I would win at all (but it was so easy) but because my country is possibly on a terminal decline and America may be a great opportunity for me to have a better life.

Now that its actually real and no longer months in the future its a scary thing. Even if I am approved in the interview (I am confident) I don't have to drop everything and go right away but its starting to dawn on me what a big deal immigration would be. Goodbye to friends and family. A different way of life. What can I afford to pack, to ship, what must I leave behind. Where do I stay, Do I rent? Do I buy. Furnishing the apartment. The USA is huge! What if the job opportunity turns out to be in another state?

I have never really found it difficult to make friends but I also believe their are friends and there are FRIENDS. If you have common interests with people and you spend time with them doing said interest friendship follows. I have family in the states but we are not close and the age gap is about a decade with the closest.

Remember that many people on this forum are Americans, some are even quite nice. Almost anywhere you'd end up in the US offers at least one person you've talked to on here.

[Morgoth]

cauthon, on 14 August 2018 - 11:10 AM, said:

Amazing these threads still exist

We're tenacious people!

[Maark Abbott]

Morgoth, on 15 August 2018 - 06:38 AM, said:

cauthon, on 14 August 2018 - 11:10 AM, said:

Amazing these threads still exist

We're me! and KG!

That's me!

Go, form, tenacious p(eople)!

[Cause]

Tiste Simeon, on 14 August 2018 - 06:20 PM, said:

Sheesh how bad is your country that the current state of America appeals? 😉

Hope it all goes well.

How do I put this...

Barack Obama was Americas first black president but Trump is Americas first African president. My country has had a 'trump' as president for the last 20 years but what's worse is that we have Trump ministers, we have trump leaders at parastatals. We have not collapsed to be like Zimbabwe or Venezuela yet but many politicians in my country actually believe both countries to be models to follow. Yes I am not joking. They look to Zimbabwe with 90% unemployment and actually say its not a bad thing. My government is now toying with the idea of changing the constitution to allow them to take farms from white owners and give them to black people without compensating the current owners. pretty much what set Zimbabwe on a collision course to rock bottom.

You know how everyone is watching trump to see if he will fire the attorney general to get one who will close all the investigations against him? My previous president did just that. He was going to be trialed for corruption, collusion (if their is a law he broke it) and so he just suspended the head of national prosecutions and instigated a review into his fitness to hold office. THe national prosecutor stood his ground (he had not done anything wrong) so he was offered an illegal incentive of 2 million dollars to take early retirement.