Thread of Negativity and General 'Aw Crap'

[Stevorooni]

aww got my first council rates notice...




... **** YOU COUNCIL EXPECTING ME TO PAY YOUR PRECIOUS RATES!

[Super Mario]

aww got my first council rates notice...




... **** YOU COUNCIL EXPECTING ME TO PAY YOUR PRECIOUS RATES!

Suppose I can be expecting mine anytime then, damn.

[Slippery]

cbf claiming my tax return, its only like $30

[Mike-Towns]

cbf claiming my tax return, its only like $30

I'll take it.

[Watchers]

cbf claiming my tax return, its only like $30

But you could finally buy SWAT4!

[Super Mario]

cbf claiming my tax return, its only like $30

it will seriously only take you like 10 mins on etax.

[incompatible with life]

cbf claiming my tax return, its only like $30
And then get fined double that

[Lazlow]

I spent $40 on a french grammer reference. It'd want to be worth it. >.>

lol i spent $90 on a Norwegian textbook + CDs. O_o

[Tukenstein]

lol i spent $90 on a Norwegian textbook + CDs. O_o

I'm sure I mentioned somewhere about the $215 I threw quite aggressively down the proverbial drain for my core French textbook set. =p

[Dunkurtin]

My books for 2 units cost me $320. Should probably have skipped buying MatLab.

[Stevorooni]

Work can eat shit and die today, I don't want to play.

[adam_91vn]

People when you have sex look at the games being released 9 months later. There is bound to be calender conflictions :(

[Tukenstein]

I'm trying to paint a piece of pretentious wank for a friend's birthday, but it's not going too well. I have no idea what to paint for starters and the paint I have isn't the kind that splashes, so throwing paint at the canvas is out of the question. If only it wasn't tomorrow! >.>

[Second]

It's been hinted at work that with the loss of one our clients (or rather, they have a new DC which will be providing them with 90% of their lines), work may die down to the point that I'm no longer required. All depends on how well the DC goes and if they keep 90% of the lines there or not. :/

[Jickle]

It's been hinted at work that with the loss of one our clients (or rather, they have a new DC which will be providing them with 90% of their lines), work may die down to the point that I'm no longer required. All depends on how well the DC goes and if they keep 90% of the lines there or not. :/

Dammit DC, what have you done?!

[Second]

Time for new DCs.

[Azzaman]

People when you have sex look at the games being released 9 months later. There is bound to be calender conflictions :(

Umm, congratulations?

[Stevorooni]

Name the child after the game you're missing out on being able to play as an ever constant reminder of the inconvenience.

[fearofthesky]

My internet has been down since friday. God damn it. No XBL for me and Jickle, Hiredman and Jay are all on playing Battlefield...Bah!

The IINET guy came on tuesday to have a look but i forgot to tell my housemate and he went off somewhere (so not like him!) so the tech dude couldnt get in. I talked to him-apparantly I'm the only person ever to have their main telephone fuse box array thing INSIDE their apartment. Normally its outside. Grrrr....Now I gotta wait until Friday consarn it.

Thank Jebus for idiots who don't secure their wireless router! Its slow, but it does work about 3/4 of the time. What is this, the middle ages?

[FrozenSoul80]

Name the child after the game you're missing out on being able to play as an ever constant reminder of the inconvenience.

Child's middle-name should be "Dreamcrusher".

[Bronze]

lol i spent $90 on a Norwegian textbook + CDs. O_o

I ran into two lost Norwegian guys trying to find Kinkakuji Temple yesterday. They were really awesome. We ended up tagging along with each other to various places around Kyoto, and went out to a Geisha district for sake and sushi last night. We got onto the topic of languages, and they taught me how to say a few basic phrases in Norwegian. It sounds like a complicated language, grammar-wise. Nowhere near as hard as Japanese though. >.>

Edit: That reminds me... why Norwegian? The guys were explaining that almost everyone under 30 speaks English over there just fine, so learning the local language (and dialects) wouldn't be a necessity for stuff like travel.

[Gnomey_g]

Cos then he can read Norwegian Black Metal lyrics with ease obv >_>

[FrozenSoul80]

Currently depressed as horseshit. I went out and had a good time watching DVDs with friends, only to come home and randomly miss my ex. ****ing hell, I hate being clingy. I just feel all alone in the world and I want it all to stop :(

[TAT]

I'm tired, still at work, and my feet hurt.

Oh and my eyes are starting to sting and I have a runny nose (SWINEFLU)

[Lazlow]

Cos then he can read Norwegian Black Metal lyrics with ease obv >_>

Totally!

:p

Really, just personal interest. I've always wanted to learn a second language, and I've dabbled with German, and Italian. Probably add Norwegian to that list as I haven't gone very far.

[Azzaman]

At work, it's 9:10 and I wanna go home already...

[adam_91vn]

Name the child after the game you're missing out on being able to play as an ever constant reminder of the inconvenience.


Only problem is that its a girl.

So it will be Gay Tony or Soap Mactavish. Depending if it comes on the 29th october or the 11th of november or sometime inbetween.

[Stevorooni]

Call her Gay Soap, a name like that will toughen the kid up in the schoolyard

[adam_91vn]

Call her Gay Soap, a name like that will toughen the kid up in the schoolyard


:( I just spat coffee on my keyboard.

[Spudzilla]

You should feel bad for two reasons.

[Azzaman]

Only problem is that its a girl.

So it will be Gay Tony or Soap Mactavish. Depending if it comes on the 29th october or the 11th of november or sometime inbetween.

Dad, what were you doing when I was born?

Well I know what I wasn't doing, playing gta or cod:mw2!

[Stevorooni]

What's with fancy taps?

The toilet at work is broken so I went to the toilet in a food court at lunch time and the basin thing was basically a tilted bench and the taps were these big handles on the wall. I tried pushing them, turning them, waving my hand and eventually worked out that you have to tilt them backwards to get water to come out.

IS THE BASIC TAP DESIGN SO BAD? What's with this arty ****ing design shit?

The lesson here is: never wash your hands.

[Azzaman]

What's with fancy taps?

The toilet at work is broken so I went to the toilet in a food court at lunch time and the basin thing was basically a tilted bench and the taps were these big handles on the wall. I tried pushing them, turning them, waving my hand and eventually worked out that you have to tilt them backwards to get water to come out.

IS THE BASIC TAP DESIGN SO BAD? What's with this arty ****ing design shit?

The lesson here is: never wash your hands.

That in CityX? Those things freak me out.

[adam_91vn]

Dad, what were you doing when I was born?

Well I know what I wasn't doing, playing gta or cod:mw2!

http://smiliesftw.com/x/laugh2.gif (http://smiliesftw.com)

The first one had much better timing.

[Stevorooni]

That in CityX? Those things freak me out.

Yeah that's the one.

[Dunkurtin]

Felt like shit this morning when my alarm went off, so rang work told them i was going to doctors. Went back to sleep and didn't wake up till and hour ago. Since then i've rang every doctors i can find reasonably close to me and can't get into any of them today. =[

[Azzaman]

Yeah that's the one.

Using my powers of deduction I'll now be able to work out where you work.

It's only a matter of time.

If you're the battlefield2 guy in Harvey Norman's I'm going to slap you.

[Stevorooni]

Using my powers of deduction I'll now be able to work out where you work.

It's only a matter of time.

If you're the battlefield2 guy in Harvey Norman's I'm going to slap you.

It's not me, I work for a small business in an office doing web development.

I'm also the hobo asking for change in Rundle Mall

[Azzaman]

It's not me, I work for a small business in an office doing web development.

I'm also the hobo asking for change in Rundle Mall

OK, I'm going to slap him anyway, that guys a kn*b jockey.

My next guess is, you're xylophone guy?

[Stevorooni]

Yeah sure why not, that guy probably has more life prospects than me anyway

[Azzaman]

Yeah sure why not, that guy probably has more life prospects than me anyway

Dammit, I need pep for this, I got him to confess and everything.

[AranchineD]

The bus I caught on the way home pulled a Springfield School Bus, they're such pieces of crap!

[FrozenSoul80]

Dammit, I need pep for this, I got him to confess and everything.

I can give you an infraction if it makes you feel better. Your choice of colours :)

The bus I caught on the way home pulled a Springfield School Bus, they're such pieces of crap!

You needed to use your shirt as a parachute to stop at the next stop?

[AranchineD]

You needed to use your shirt as a parachute to stop at the next stop?

No, it hit an overhanging tree branch and broke down!

Thank god it's winter and there were no leaves on the branch...

[Azzaman]

I was thinking it rammed a gremlin off the road.

[sausage]

Australian buses have their engines in the roof?

You wacky inbred criminals... is there nothing you can't do?

[SOX]

How are you supposed to handle your partner of 5 years leaving you? I tried doing it her way and just give her space and try stay out of the way but that just left me feeling powerless (even more than I already was from having no say in her decision). Then I tried convincing her she wasn't making the right decision which made me feel better because I was doing something about it but really in her eyes I was just making things worse. Which is bullshit because I can either do nothing and lose her or I can try do something and lose her anyway...

Now she wants us to rotate seeing our friends which is crap because she is the only one stopping us all hanging out together. So now I am seeing who my real friends are because god damn I need some especially with one of my "mates" having his eye on my gf for some time now the ****.

WTF can I do?

EDIT: oh yeah she's trying to take her cat with her (an Xmas present) but I will ****ing lose it if she takes him away....

Fml

[adam_91vn]

How are you supposed to handle your partner of 5 years leaving you? I tried doing it her way and just give her space and try stay out of the way but that just left me feeling powerless (even more than I already was from having no say in her decision). Then I tried convincing her she wasn't making the right decision which made me feel better because I was doing something about it but really in her eyes I was just making things worse. Which is bullshit because I can either do nothing and lose her or I can try do something and lose her anyway...

Now she wants us to rotate seeing our friends which is crap because she is the only one stopping us all hanging out together. So now I am seeing who my real friends are because god damn I need some especially with one of my "mates" having his eye on my gf for some time now the ****.

WTF can I do?

EDIT: oh yeah she's trying to take her cat with her (an Xmas present) but I will ****ing lose it if she takes him away....

Fml


That shit is ****ed :(














Play some street fighter :D

[FrozenSoul80]

How are you supposed to handle your partner of 5 years leaving you? I tried doing it her way and just give her space and try stay out of the way but that just left me feeling powerless (even more than I already was from having no say in her decision). Then I tried convincing her she wasn't making the right decision which made me feel better because I was doing something about it but really in her eyes I was just making things worse. Which is bullshit because I can either do nothing and lose her or I can try do something and lose her anyway...

Now she wants us to rotate seeing our friends which is crap because she is the only one stopping us all hanging out together. So now I am seeing who my real friends are because god damn I need some especially with one of my "mates" having his eye on my gf for some time now the ****.

WTF can I do?

EDIT: oh yeah she's trying to take her cat with her (an Xmas present) but I will ****ing lose it if she takes him away....

Fml

There is nothing you can do, pal. All you can do is stay close to your friends and ride it out. Avoiding any shitslinging would be excellent, too, it will only end badly.

[SOX]

That shit is ****ed :(














Play some street fighter :D

yeah I just tried that but the comp beat me and now I'm back to :(

I hate having no say in the whole event, especially because it feels like something you deserve to have a say in...

[/backslash]

Neg:

Typed up a hideously long post about a particular software product on their forum only to discover after hitting 'Create thread' I found out that it automatically signs you out if you haven't done anything for more than 10min! And if you click on 'back' you'll just get another error message, unable to attain the stuff you just typed! Fail.

[Xanafalgue]

Ooops, I painted a cat-destroyed windowsill yesterday only to just discover the window is now sealed shut. My bad :D

[Second]

Ooops, I painted a cat-destroyed windowsill yesterday only to just discover the window is now sealed shut. My bad :D

My mum did that all the time at our old house! She also painted the fuse box shut too!

[incompatible with life]

From the estimate on E-Tax, it looks like i'll be paying a further $90 or so. unless i've really messed soemthing up. Which isn't outside the realms of possibility.

[Stevorooni]

From the estimate on E-Tax, it looks like i'll be paying a further $90 or so. unless i've really messed soemthing up. Which isn't outside the realms of possibility.

I'm gonna be getting a bill for about $90 too.

Stupid interest on my savings screwed everything up.

[incompatible with life]

Yeah, my savings are probably what tipped me over as well, that and not being all too aggressive with my Meals and Entertainment claims. Still, not too fussed about it.

edit: Managed to squeeze it down to around $50 after finding another invoice I can use for a deduction.

[Mellomaniac]

How are you supposed to handle your partner of 5 years leaving you? I tried doing it her way and just give her space and try stay out of the way but that just left me feeling powerless (even more than I already was from having no say in her decision). Then I tried convincing her she wasn't making the right decision which made me feel better because I was doing something about it but really in her eyes I was just making things worse. Which is bullshit because I can either do nothing and lose her or I can try do something and lose her anyway...

Now she wants us to rotate seeing our friends which is crap because she is the only one stopping us all hanging out together. So now I am seeing who my real friends are because god damn I need some especially with one of my "mates" having his eye on my gf for some time now the ****.

WTF can I do?

EDIT: oh yeah she's trying to take her cat with her (an Xmas present) but I will ****ing lose it if she takes him away....

Fml

Just focus on the important things in your life: career, hobbies, family. They will get your mind off her.
If she won't give you the light of day, she doesn't deserve your attention anyway!
When you find the next one, you'll be so grateful for what you have. At the very least, the only thoughts of her that will occupy your mind will be gratitude that you didn't hang onto that one.

The cat, is a tough one though. On one side, it would be a constant reminder of her. On the other, you obviously have an individual attachment to him/her. But i'd say hang onto it if you can, coz you'll get over the girl anyway.

[Second]

How are you supposed to handle your partner of 5 years leaving you? I tried doing it her way and just give her space and try stay out of the way but that just left me feeling powerless (even more than I already was from having no say in her decision). Then I tried convincing her she wasn't making the right decision which made me feel better because I was doing something about it but really in her eyes I was just making things worse. Which is bullshit because I can either do nothing and lose her or I can try do something and lose her anyway...

Now she wants us to rotate seeing our friends which is crap because she is the only one stopping us all hanging out together. So now I am seeing who my real friends are because god damn I need some especially with one of my "mates" having his eye on my gf for some time now the ****.

WTF can I do?

EDIT: oh yeah she's trying to take her cat with her (an Xmas present) but I will ****ing lose it if she takes him away....

Fml

You won't get over her for a very long time.

[Slippery]

Considering swapping out of my uni degree to something else.

I'm doing an accounting degree at rmit at the moment but I feel a bit like I did it because I'm clever (and concieted <.<) but don't really dig science or any of the other "clever" subjects. I'm interested by a lot of the arts degree style subjects like modern history and languages but it's pretty difficult to make a career out of them.

So I'm not really sure what I should do, other then look into economics, which is a field I'm interested in which may actually have jobs.

Ugh

[SOX]

Just focus on the important things in your life: career, hobbies, family. They will get your mind off her.
If she won't give you the light of day, she doesn't deserve your attention anyway!
When you find the next one, you'll be so grateful for what you have. At the very least, the only thoughts of her that will occupy your mind will be gratitude that you didn't hang onto that one.

The cat, is a tough one though. On one side, it would be a constant reminder of her. On the other, you obviously have an individual attachment to him/her. But i'd say hang onto it if you can, coz you'll get over the girl anyway.

Yeah the cat is tricky, not because of the constant reminder just that I bought him for her - so really he is hers. But I <3 him so much!

It's bad timing too because I finally got a real job (relating to my degree) which I should be ecstatic about but it's hard to get excited.. :/

You won't get over her for a very long time.

The longest relationship I had before this was like 2 years and I remember it taking a few months before I started to feel normal again (even tho I never really got over that one either..)

And alcohol just makes me panic about all this shit now - there's no escape!!

[AranchineD]

I'm doing an accounting degree at rmit at the moment but I feel a bit like I did it because I'm clever (and concieted <.<) but don't really dig science or any of the other "clever" subjects. I'm interested by a lot of the arts degree style subjects like modern history and languages but it's pretty difficult to make a career out of them.

So? Just do a purely knowledge based course if you want to and if you'll enjoy it, it doesn't all have to be about how much money you'll be able to make out of what you've learned!

Besides, if you do a more 'practical' course and end up in a career going down that path, but you're aren't happy with it, then isn't that worse anyway?

[SOX]

Besides, if you do a more 'practical' course and end up in a career going down that path, but you're aren't happy with it, then isn't that worse anyway?

Well, you would think so, but the $$ would help deal with that when that doubt comes.

[incompatible with life]

Considering swapping out of my uni degree to something else.

I'm doing an accounting degree at rmit at the moment but I feel a bit like I did it because I'm clever (and concieted <.<) but don't really dig science or any of the other "clever" subjects. I'm interested by a lot of the arts degree style subjects like modern history and languages but it's pretty difficult to make a career out of them.

So I'm not really sure what I should do, other then look into economics, which is a field I'm interested in which may actually have jobs.

Ugh
Well you could always finish your accounting degree (assuming that it's a career you at least might not object to) and then look at post-graduate studies.

So? Just do a purely knowledge based course if you want to and if you'll enjoy it, it doesn't all have to be about how much money you'll be able to make out of what you've learned!
Reminds me of the joke:
What is the first question a philosophy major asks after getting their degree?
Would you like fries with that?

The pursuit of knowledge is well and truly good and all but at the end of the day there is little point to university if there are few career prospects after you've obtained your degree.

[AranchineD]

The pursuit of knowledge is well and truly good and all but at the end of the day there is little point to university if there are few career prospects after you've obtained your degree.

Why? Who decided that the point of university (and while I'm here you could extend this point to high school nowadays as well) was simply to turn everyone in society into lawyers and doctors? Are you only allowed to be able to learn more about the world and how to understand it better if you earn $500k+ a year?


If I was into hyperbole I'd continue on to tell everyone who was born with inherent skills and interests in language and grammar or philosophy or whatever but not in many other areas to kill themselves now because they have no point in the world anymore.


EDIT: Not to mention the fact that there's a bit of a false idea in the minds of people that these types of courses only involve a bunch of people sitting in a room reading books together and arguing whether the use of 'which' or 'that' is more correct in a sentence, there's many (and I do mean many) subjects you can choose in these types of courses alongsode your normal knowledge based ones that do have more practical uses and opportunities for a career (see: learning a language, there's a few computing courses you can do, psychology and stuff as well). Just because you choose an arts style course doesn't mean you have to completely shut yourself out of any real money making opportunities (if that's what actually concerns you, anyway).

[Stevorooni]

If I ever had enough money that I never needed to work again, I'd quit working and study stuff I find interesting that wouldn't necessarily lead anywhere.

Until then, I have bills to pay!

[Jay]

Why? Who decided that the point of university (and while I'm here you could extend this point to high school nowadays as well) was simply to turn everyone in society into lawyers and doctors? Are you only allowed to be able to learn more about the world and how to understand it better if you earn $500k+ a year?


If I was into hyperbole I'd continue on to tell everyone who was born with inherent skills and interests in language and grammar or philosophy or whatever but not in many other areas to kill themselves now because they have no point in the world anymore.


EDIT: Not to mention the fact that there's a bit of a false idea in the minds of people that these types of courses only involve a bunch of people sitting in a room reading books together and arguing whether the use of 'which' or 'that' is more correct in a sentence, there's many (and I do mean many) subjects you can choose in these types of courses alongsode your normal knowledge based ones that do have more practical uses and opportunities for a career (see: learning a language, there's a few computing courses you can do, psychology and stuff as well). Just because you choose an arts style course doesn't mean you have to completely shut yourself out of any real money making opportunities (if that's what actually concerns you, anyway).

You make a lot of really good posts, but this is one of the best. :)

Education has to be about more than setting up money making opportunities.

[AranchineD]

I'm also incredibly bias in this area and am just trying to make myself feel better about what I've chosen to do. >_> And I am myself doing what I described in the latter part of my post, learning something I could potentially use as a career alongside just learning about things I'm interested in.

[Second]

You make a lot of really good posts, but this is one of the best. :)

Education has to be about more than setting up money making opportunities.

Seems a steep price to pay for something that could be considered a hobby at best.

[Slippery]

If I ever had enough money that I never needed to work again, I'd quit working and study stuff I find interesting that wouldn't necessarily lead anywhere.

Until then, I have bills to pay!

This, I'd be a part time uni student for the rest of my life

However, I feel like at the moment I'm trying to find a compromise between what Aran is saying and the practicality of getting a job which pays allright (allright, I dont have to earn monsterbucks or anything).

I'm only a year into my acc degree, so a lot of the stuff I've done is general business and can be used as exemptions in an Eco degree, which is what I'm currently looking at.

Unfortunately Eco degree at RMIT (which would be easy to swap to) has a lot of finance subjects which don't really appeal.

[Second]

This, I'd be a part time uni student for the rest of my lifeOnce I'm back in the Navy, I'm going to see how much extra free study I can get out of them. >_>

However, I feel like at the moment I'm trying to find a compromise between what Aran is saying and the practicality of getting a job which pays allright (allright, I dont have to earn monsterbucks or anything).

I'm only a year into my acc degree, so a lot of the stuff I've done is general business and can be used as exemptions in an Eco degree, which is what I'm currently looking at.

Unfortunately Eco degree at RMIT (which would be easy to swap to) has a lot of finance subjects which don't really appeal.

I had a mate who was easily one of the smartest people I know, but he had a passion for drama and the music. He was doing a science degree of some kind (Biology I think) and in the first year he filled some of his elective subjects with drama relating things. He switched to an Arts degree in the second year and (AKAIK) he's never been happier. Last I heard, he's currently in Ireland loving life with his music career.

[Jay]

I'm also incredibly bias in this area and am just trying to make myself feel better about what I've chosen to do. >_>

Me too. :)

@ Second

I'm not sure I fully understand your post. I make a very decent wage and I studied Arts at Uni.

[incompatible with life]

Why? Who decided that the point of university (and while I'm here you could extend this point to high school nowadays as well) was simply to turn everyone in society into lawyers and doctors? Are you only allowed to be able to learn more about the world and how to understand it better if you earn $500k+ a year?
Well, ideally university should be for people who want to expand their knowledge and not people seeking better paid jobs. What I was pointing out is the reality of the situation, in particular with respects to slippery's inital post about what to do. It is also why I suggested completing the accountign degree to have soemthing to fall back on and then consider graduate studies if accounting was not intellectually fulfilling. This is of course based on the premise that he doesn't mind accounting all that much.

If I was into hyperbole I'd continue on to tell everyone who was born with inherent skills and interests in language and grammar or philosophy or whatever but not in many other areas to kill themselves now because they have no point in the world anymore.
And you'd further my point about the futility of going to university for the pursuit of knowledge. Instead you'd perhaps be better off emphasising the benefits of pursuing knowledge over career or pointing out that a person's life is not solely determined by their career.

[Second]

Me too. :)

@ Second

I'm not sure I fully understand your post. I make a very decent wage and I studied Arts at Uni.

If I'm paying that much to study subjects I find interesting only, I'd want it to improve my career prospects at least. :P

[adam_91vn]

Samsung LCD had dead pixels. Some dude came replaced the screen. This one had more dead pixels = Fail :(

[Mellomaniac]

Considering swapping out of my uni degree to something else.

I'm doing an accounting degree at rmit at the moment but I feel a bit like I did it because I'm clever (and concieted <.<) but don't really dig science or any of the other "clever" subjects. I'm interested by a lot of the arts degree style subjects like modern history and languages but it's pretty difficult to make a career out of them.

So I'm not really sure what I should do, other then look into economics, which is a field I'm interested in which may actually have jobs.

Ugh

changing degrees/dropping is a big decision that you really need to think about. Of course it's fun to tackle things in life as they go, but if you are concerned about your future (which you assumingly are by your post), then think about your end goals.

You don't necessarily have to be 'an accountant' with an accounting degree so there's several options for you! Some companies simply offer positions to business graduates in general.
Is there any organisation you wished you worked for/are passionate about? Maybe work towards landing a position there and seeing what graduate programs they offer.

Perhaps a simple change in your student lifestyle is all you need to peak your interest. Study sessions with your classmates, or even extra curricular activities with them - that way you have something to look forward to once a class is over.

[AranchineD]

Well, ideally university should be for people who want to expand their knowledge and not people seeking better paid jobs. What I was pointing out is the reality of the situation, in particular with respects to slippery's inital post about what to do. It is also why I suggested completing the accountign degree to have soemthing to fall back on and then consider graduate studies if accounting was not intellectually fulfilling. This is of course based on the premise that he doesn't mind accounting all that much.

Well, actually, that's fair enough. Although like I said, you can study something to 'fall back on' alongside what else he wants to study, doesn't necessarily have to be an entire 'accounting' course followed by such and such Arts course (because that costs much more on your HECS debt ;))

[Slippery]

I don't hate accounting, I just feel like it's not interesting, I'm certainly not passionate about it at all. Sometimes I wonder if, like Mellomaniac said, I found an acc job at an awesome place, with a good atmosphere or purpose maybe that'd be allright.

For the moment though, I'm going to try and find out what sort of jobs there are that focus on my main (almost job like) interests; arguing about things, economics and politics/modern history stuff.

[Sytadel]

If you're as clever as you think you are, and you're truly passionate about what you want to do, you'll succeed in anything. If you're only a little bit clever then don't bother, though. Stick with accounting.

[Tukenstein]

I went to town tonight. That's the last time I ever pay somebody to make me a drink.

[Second]

Tukster was raped!

[AranchineD]

I went to town tonight. That's the last time I ever pay somebody to make me a drink.

Tuki: Oh, what the heck;

Give me a white wine

SPRITZER spritzer spritzer spritzer

[incompatible with life]

I had a very nice sleep in this morning but I wonder if it was worth it. it's 12:24pm and I haven't done anything constructive yet.

[Second]

I had a very nice sleep in this morning but I wonder if it was worth it. it's 12:24pm and I haven't done anything constructive yet.

I'm enjoying my doing nothing so much that I decided I'm not going to the footy. I'm going to enjoy this weekend.

[Slippery]

Instead of talking inanely to Surg and Watchers I get to go do accounting work, awesome.

[FrozenSoul80]

Currently battling paranoia that I will die alone and never be happy again. I think I'm losing the plot, what the **** is wrong with me? :/

[Silverwolf]

Currently battling paranoia that I will die alone and never be happy again. I think I'm losing the plot, what the **** is wrong with me? :/

Absolutely nothing. Life just sucks.

[FrozenSoul80]

Absolutely nothing. Life just sucks.

It's totally not helping that everywhere I go I see happy couples. They are everywhere, even on the calendar in the toilet!

[Xanafalgue]

Calendars of happy couples in the toilet? Someone hates you!

[Silverwolf]

It's totally not helping that everywhere I go I see happy couples. They are everywhere, even on the calendar in the toilet!

At least you don't work in a supermarket =P
Don't think they are all happy couples, either.

[Xanafalgue]

Happy because she's boozed up and he's rooting her sister.

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Neg:

Internet keeps on dropping out thanks to Exetel, I've been d/c like 20 times today :(

[Silverwolf]

Neg:

Internet keeps on dropping out thanks to Exetel, I've been d/c like 20 times today :(

Same, I wonder what they are doing. They interrupted an awesome chat I was having in WoW.
Annoying shit.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Currently battling paranoia that I will die alone and never be happy again. I think I'm losing the plot, what the **** is wrong with me? :/

Nothing's wrong with you. I've gone through the same thing at different points in my life (I think just about everybody has or is going to). Focus on the things you have. It may sound a bit cliched, but focus on your loving family, how successful you are in your career or the great plans that you have for the future.

[Lazlow]

Currently battling paranoia that I will die alone and never be happy again. I think I'm losing the plot, what the **** is wrong with me? :/


You're human.

I suffer the same anxiety, shit I'm 25 and been single a prtty long time. And not for lack of trying.

But the thing is if you can't be content being single, you won't have a healthy happy relationship. You'll be paranoid about losing the relationship and end up either jealous, domineering, clingy or a lap dog.

Be happy with yourself first.

[Mellomaniac]

You're human.

I suffer the same anxiety, shit I'm 25 and been single a prtty long time. And not for lack of trying.

But the thing is if you can't be content being single, you won't have a healthy happy relationship. You'll be paranoid about losing the relationship and end up either jealous, domineering, clingy or a lap dog.

Be happy with yourself first.

wise words my friend

[AranchineD]

It's totally not helping that everywhere I go I see happy couples. They are everywhere, even on the calendar in the toilet!

Stop driving down ironic streets then!

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Will Jeff Newman please just get off TV? I mean, he announced he was retiring from Channel 7 weather in Perth like a month ago and every second ad on Channel 7 is "Jeff Newman is leave. Shower him with praise". **** you Jeff Newman.

[FrozenSoul80]

You're human.

I suffer the same anxiety, shit I'm 25 and been single a prtty long time. And not for lack of trying.

But the thing is if you can't be content being single, you won't have a healthy happy relationship. You'll be paranoid about losing the relationship and end up either jealous, domineering, clingy or a lap dog.

Be happy with yourself first.

Why did we get rid of pep? We've made a terrible mistake D:

In all seriousness, thanks for the advice, guys.

[Second]

Currently battling paranoia that I will die alone and never be happy again. I think I'm losing the plot, what the **** is wrong with me? :/

You'll grow out of it.

[Xanafalgue]

Granted I never paid any real attention to what went on here, was there some kind of mass-banning? This place used to be pretty busy and usually had a substantial amount of people online, but it seems fairly empty recently. Why doesn't Hyper have an actual site? Why can't I have a bottle of V that never runs out.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

After the hack everybody was allowed back, but I think that because Hyper was down for so long people went to other places and didn't come back.

[Nic Xtreme]

Granted I never paid any real attention to what went on here, was there some kind of mass-banning? This place used to be pretty busy and usually had a substantial amount of people online, but it seems fairly empty recently. Why doesn't Hyper have an actual site? Why can't I have a bottle of V that never runs out.

We've been told that there is going to be a site relaunch, which I'm guessing will be advertised in the magazine. I'm guessing there'll be an influx on new users then.

If not, the current situation will be maintained, and there will be lulz.

[Xanafalgue]

After the hack everybody was allowed back, but I think that because Hyper was down for so long people went to other places and didn't come back.

Hack? So thats why it went down? Thats actually pretty funny.

[incompatible with life]

Hooray for upaid overtime!

[Watchers]

Liz Ellis and Georgie Parker on GNW. Fail. STICK TO ****ING COMEDIANS.

[SOX]

The fail that is my situation gets worse everyday. I come home from work today to find that half my gfs stuff is gone with as little as a mention on Friday that she was thinking about it to prepare me.

Then when I call her at first she was apologetic but it wasn't long til she got shitty at me and devolved into her saying "me me me me me me me (well there were other words but that was the jist, it's all her)".

FML again

[AranchineD]

Liz Ellis and Georgie Parker on GNW. Fail. STICK TO ****ING COMEDIANS.

You forgot Akmal.

*** OFF AKMAL

[Watchers]

I don't mind Akmal, actually.

<_<

[Stevorooni]

Stevo needs a hug :(

[AranchineD]

*hugs watchers*

YOUR OPINION IS WRONG STEVO PISS OFF

[AranchineD]

Oh...oh no...

[Second]

The fail that is my situation gets worse everyday. I come home from work today to find that half my gfs stuff is gone with as little as a mention on Friday that she was thinking about it to prepare me.

Then when I call her at first she was apologetic but it wasn't long til she got shitty at me and devolved into her saying "me me me me me me me (well there were other words but that was the jist, it's all her)".

FML again

I like your avatar.

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Neg:

Internet is still being shitty to the point where it doesn't even bother trying to load the page properly. *clicks on refresh, instant error* - not even a waiting period :( Keeps on going on & off - loads Google but doesn't want to go into Gmail, driving me insane

[Watchers]

Oh...oh no...

No-one can resist hugging me. NO-ONE.

[Silverwolf]

No-one can resist hugging me. NO-ONE.

I can.
What kinda metalhead doesn't like Insomnium. Fag.

[Stevorooni]

Well, work can eat shit and die.

[Azzaman]

Speaking of that, I spent yesterday vomiting and shitting. Great stuff.
There's a possibility that I may have swine flu and should find out today.

Feeling much better today. I can actually eat and drink something without vomiting all over the place! Hooray!

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Well, work can eat shit and die.

I spent most of yesterday at a TAFE campus that doesn't bother following procedures for installing new phones and trying to sort their shit out. Because they didn't contact me first apparently they've wasted $20,000 cabling up a block what hasn't been set up for phones. Now they're going to have to spend more money to get it all set up properly.

[Stevorooni]

I spent most of yesterday at a TAFE campus that doesn't bother following procedures for installing new phones and trying to sort their shit out. Because they didn't contact me first apparently they've wasted $20,000 cabling up a block what hasn't been set up for phones. Now they're going to have to spend more money to get it all set up properly.

Yeah well I'm getting piled up with more work than I can possibly do, some I don't even know if I can do, when I attempt to even compete some of it I'm repeatedly interrupted, then I'll get asked if I'm finished yet or if I've completed x task even though I've said it will take longer than the 30 seconds I've been given, and then because there's a hint of irritation in my voice my boss has a go at me for my attitude.

I mean, **** off I'm trying my best.

[sausage]

Smash that boss in the face Stevo; violence solves everything and the immense satisfaction from doing it negates ALL consequences.

Don't let anyone tell you different.

[Watchers]

I can.
What kinda metalhead doesn't like Insomnium. Fag.

A straight one.

[Stevorooni]

FFS AGL are dumb ****s.

When I moved house back in March they started billing my new house for electricity but then sent the bill to my old address. I ring back in May and get them to change the billing address to my actual address and get told it is done.

And here we are 3 months later and my bill is sent to my old address again.
So now I've sent them a passive agressive email enquiry thing telling them that my mail redirection is soon to expire so they can continue to send bills to somewhere I don't live if they want, but it means I will not be paying them.

[Second]

Unemployment again.

[Slippery]

And here we are 3 months later and my bill is sent to my old address again.
So now I've sent them a passive agressive email enquiry thing telling them that my mail redirection is soon to expire so they can continue to send bills to somewhere I don't live if they want, but it means I will not be paying them.

Enjoy living in the dark ;)

[/backslash]

Neg:

Reformatted my PC with a complete wipe (fresh install from BIOS), ended up spending the whole day backing up my files and reinstalling everything, now its already 8pm :(

Good part is, my internet actually works now & everything is nice & quick to load without errors

[adam_91vn]

NEG

$2,900 flippin council rates :(

[Stevorooni]

NEG

$2,900 flippin council rates :(

Bloody hell where do you live, Buckingham Palace?

Mine were $920 for the year

[texta]

Had my first constitutional law seminar for the year and my class is made up mostly of Foreign Exchange students and idiots.

Also we're in groups and there were 4 issues to talk on but each group only gets to actually present on 1 or 2 issues. I picked issue 2 and 3 and our group was asked to present on 1 and 4. Two weeks worth of study and an hour in class listening to idiots miss the point. FML.

[adam_91vn]

Bloody hell where do you live, Buckingham Palace?

Mine were $920 for the year

Just on the coast.

They don't even do anything apart from take the friggin bins.

[Azzaman]

Just on the coast.

They don't even do anything apart from take the friggin bins.

The bins are gold plated though, right?

[adam_91vn]

The bins are gold plated though, right?

One has a yellow lid :cool:

[Lazlow]

Trying to rip this DVD (don't worry I own it) so I can put it on my iPhone for my trip. One computer projected it'd take 4hrs... the other computer 11hrs.

>_<

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Been trying to find people to hang with since I can't afford to go out at the moment. It's interested to find which of my friends are actually will to put some time aside when I need to talk or just want to chil. My so-called best mate only contacts me when he wants something, not even him wanting to do something, just him wanting something. Last time he did anything to contact me that wasn't him replying to me was an email to see if I could help him get into a course, which I busted my arse trying to help him out, he got accepted then decided he didn't want to do the course. I'm sick of his shit. I've got enough issues at the moment without adding this crap on top of it.

[Lazlow]

Once last year a friend of mine emailed me at work seeing if we could catch up, which of course I said, yes.

At some point between asking me, and me actually turning up, another friend of hers (who I later learned I had actually met once, not that I remembered her name or face) had come back from Perth and messaged her asking if they could catch up.

So I spent an hour feeling like an idiot as I sat there silently as these two talked and talked and talked between themselves.

Ended just getting up and walking out. And its not the first time something like that had happened with the same friend. She once broke plans we had made, 30 minutes before we were supposed to meet, because some other friend of hers had asked her to do something.

Another time she organised to meet me, and then rushed it through in 30 minutes because she had made some appointment at a beautician she had forgotten about :/

Took a while, but I've eventually given up. We used to hang out a fair bit after Uni finished and we ended up in the same city. But as she started a job within marketing and PR it was natural she'd find a new circle of club rat friends to hang out with, where I don't really fit in.

The fact that she seemed to make little effort in actually keeping in touch with me outside of that circle (or a nightclub) meant we've just drifted apart. I just gave the f*** up.

[Jickle]

Once last year a friend of mine emailed me at work seeing if we could catch up, which of course I said, yes.

At some point between asking me, and me actually turning up, another friend of hers (who I later learned I had actually met once, not that I remembered her name or face) had come back from Perth and messaged her asking if they could catch up.

So I spent an hour feeling like an idiot as I sat there silently as these two talked and talked and talked between themselves.

Ended just getting up and walking out. And its not the first time something like that had happened with the same friend. She once broke plans we had made, 30 minutes before we were supposed to meet, because some other friend of hers had asked her to do something.

Another time she organised to meet me, and then rushed it through in 30 minutes because she had made some appointment at a beautician she had forgotten about :/

Took a while, but I've eventually given up. We used to hang out a fair bit after Uni finished and we ended up in the same city. But as she started a job within marketing and PR it was natural she'd find a new circle of club rat friends to hang out with, where I don't really fit in.

The fact that she seemed to make little effort in actually keeping in touch with me outside of that circle (or a nightclub) meant we've just drifted apart. I just gave the f*** up.

This has happened to me one or two times too. One time I was meant to meet up with a friend in the city, but found out they wouldn't be there because I ran into a mutual friend who told me that this other friend had been called into work at the last minute. And I had not been informed! Recently another friend said that we should catch up on the following Friday, then stopped replying to my messages when I tried to organise a time/place.

It's all too easy to let people **** you around, but it's also generally not too hard to cut people out when you know they're not worth your time, I suppose.

[Lazlow]

Yeah the empty offers of catching up shit me. If they meant it, they'd follow up. Not just say, "we should catch up some time".

There's only so many times I can be the one to organise things, until I just feel like its a one way street.

EDIT:

On the iPhone video front, decided to just buy one off iTunes... seeing as I have $30 in my account I haven't touched in months

[Spazzallo]

How long do Centrelink ****ing take to respond to a Youth Allowance claim? I friggin need the money as I just spent $500 ****ing textbooks for this semester. Looks like I'll be living off my last pay slip for a while at this rate :(.

[Lazlow]

F*** it I can't do it. $13 is too much for these movies.

[FrozenSoul80]

Phones and videos are just trouble, I wouldn't bother. Just bring some music, it's not a bitch to set up.

[Lazlow]

I gotta spend 2 hours on two different occasions waiting at Brisbane airport... what the hell am I to look at? >_>

[FrozenSoul80]

I gotta spend 2 hours on two different occasions waiting at Brisbane airport... what the hell am I to look at? >_>

Hot chicks.

[Lazlow]

Does Brisbane Airport have daycare facilities? http://uyac.com.au/forum/images/smilies/bizarro.gif

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Once last year a friend of mine emailed me at work seeing if we could catch up, which of course I said, yes.

At some point between asking me, and me actually turning up, another friend of hers (who I later learned I had actually met once, not that I remembered her name or face) had come back from Perth and messaged her asking if they could catch up.

So I spent an hour feeling like an idiot as I sat there silently as these two talked and talked and talked between themselves.

Ended just getting up and walking out. And its not the first time something like that had happened with the same friend. She once broke plans we had made, 30 minutes before we were supposed to meet, because some other friend of hers had asked her to do something.

Another time she organised to meet me, and then rushed it through in 30 minutes because she had made some appointment at a beautician she had forgotten about :/

Took a while, but I've eventually given up. We used to hang out a fair bit after Uni finished and we ended up in the same city. But as she started a job within marketing and PR it was natural she'd find a new circle of club rat friends to hang out with, where I don't really fit in.

The fact that she seemed to make little effort in actually keeping in touch with me outside of that circle (or a nightclub) meant we've just drifted apart. I just gave the f*** up.

Yeah, the worst thing for me is that I don't have many friends I'd hang out with, so I'll probably end up giving him a yell in a couple of weeks seeing if he wants to do something. He'll say he's busy but let's do something next week, then next week will roll around and he'll have forgotten. Thus, the cycle starts again.

[Dorkify]

I gotta spend 2 hours on two different occasions waiting at Brisbane airport... what the hell am I to look at? >_>

A book? :P

[sausage]

Sit by the toilets and as they walk in yell out "poos or wees?" for lulz.

[Ad-Rock]

Sit by the toilets and as they walk in yell out "poos or wees?" for lulz.

And tape their responses. We'll be waiting for the youtube vid

[incompatible with life]

Yeah the empty offers of catching up shit me. If they meant it, they'd follow up. Not just say, "we should catch up some time".

See I go by the principle that this particular phrase is the equivalent of "how's it going"? You just say it in passing but you don't actually expect people to go into detail of their day's events.

[Gilder]

I'm guilty of throwing the 'we should go for a beer soon' line to people. I do genuinely want to catch up, just probably not meaning that week. More in the vicinity of between now and the date either one of us dies.

[texta]

Just listened to an hour and a half of a two hour lecture that I thought I missed, before I realised that it was one I'd already been to. FML.

I agree, your life sucks|You deserved that one.

[Sweating Bullets]

Ducted heating is broken again.

[Slippery]

Foodpoisoning from some shithole Indian place near Melb Cent on Elizabeth St and sore head from smacking my head against a cabinet in said shithole

[AranchineD]

God damn Indians, when will their stranglehold on the lives and well being of the good people in this world come to an end!

[Slippery]

I love Indian food, but fast Indian is a recipe for disaster (and tastes crap anyway)

[Serenity]

I gotta spend 2 hours on two different occasions waiting at Brisbane airport... what the hell am I to look at? >_>
Wait till February and we'll meet up.

[AranchineD]

Have to go all the way to Kingsgrove tomorrow morning just to see if I can finally get this piece of shit laptop fixed.

I don't even know where Kingsgrove is!

[Slippery]

Right about here (http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kingsgrove&sll=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=56.398622,114.169922&ie=UTF8&ll=-33.941793,151.101365&spn=0.026132,0.055747&t=h&z=15&iwloc=A)

[Gilder]

Have to go all the way to Kingsgrove tomorrow morning just to see if I can finally get this piece of shit laptop fixed.

I don't even know where Kingsgrove is!

Its on the East Hills line.

[Dunkurtin]

After an awesome night out im in a really really angry mood. Waiting for the bus because the Midland line was down (again) and theres theses to little 'homies' trying to start shit. One of them comes up to me and asks for my name. I didn't want trouble so i was polite and answered, asked what his was. He replyed and shook my hand. Next thing i know his little mate is coming up asking if im being smart. Prick says i am so the little one starts getting in my face. Then out of nowhere the first one punches me in the face over his shoulder. I have my hands full with cd's and shirt from cd launch i was just at so i can't swing back. Just spat out some blood and walked into the station where i found 3 police. Unfortunately they'ed ****ed off by the time we got downstairs again. I was sopposed to wait while they looked for them but I'd already been waiting half an hour for the bus after a long day so i just got on when it showed up. >_>

[TAT]

What the **** is with people these days? Honestly.

[Dunkurtin]

Yeah, people are ****ed. Apparently they also hit this other guy who was on the bus before i got there. They were lucky he's not a violent person as it turns out he's on leave from the army and been in plenty of fights.

EDIT: does anyone know if it would be worth going to my local police station and making a statement or whatever just incase they did end up catching them and getting their details or would it most likely not be worth it. I feel bad for wasting the police officers effort in chasing them, i was just so tired and didn;t want to risk missing that bus with how long they are in between.

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

It'd be worth making a statement just so if this guy was ever caught, it's something else that can be added to their charges. Also, I think you can call 131 444 (the WA police assistance number) and give a report over the phone. Don't quote me on that though.

[TAT]

It would be worth it. The poh-leeeeeeeeeese usually have a photo database of people they know are trouble.

[fearofthesky]

Yeah, people are ****ed. Apparently they also hit this other guy who was on the bus before i got there. They were lucky he's not a violent person as it turns out he's on leave from the army and been in plenty of fights.

EDIT: does anyone know if it would be worth going to my local police station and making a statement or whatever just incase they did end up catching them and getting their details or would it most likely not be worth it. I feel bad for wasting the police officers effort in chasing them, i was just so tired and didn;t want to risk missing that bus with how long they are in between.

Man that shit is ****ed up, sorry to hear it. Yeah, make a report for sure. There's a lot of that crap at the Perth train-o or thereabouts. Just bored dumbshits starting crap for no reason, beacuse they have no money to go out and have fun, like you clearly were. I've still never had any randoms start on me about anything, which sort of surprises me considering how much I go out and catch public transport home late at night. I don't know how I'd deal with it...Probably rage.

That was the Siren Tower launch you mentioned in the gigs thread aye? Wanted to go to that, but I'm really not well at the moment and focussing all my energy on trying not to get full-on sickness. Good, I trust? Must check em out.

EDIT! They have lots of CCTV in an around the traino, the whole city really. Give them the time it happened and theyll probably be on crime stoppers!

[Jickle]

After an awesome night out im in a really really angry mood. Waiting for the bus because the Midland line was down (again) and theres theses to little 'homies' trying to start shit. One of them comes up to me and asks for my name. I didn't want trouble so i was polite and answered, asked what his was. He replyed and shook my hand. Next thing i know his little mate is coming up asking if im being smart. Prick says i am so the little one starts getting in my face. Then out of nowhere the first one punches me in the face over his shoulder. I have my hands full with cd's and shirt from cd launch i was just at so i can't swing back. Just spat out some blood and walked into the station where i found 3 police. Unfortunately they'ed ****ed off by the time we got downstairs again. I was sopposed to wait while they looked for them but I'd already been waiting half an hour for the bus after a long day so i just got on when it showed up. >_>

Man, I was on a bus last night, and these two incredibly drunk guys were harrassing just about everyone on there. They kept asking all the Indian girls in the back row how long they'd been in Australia, asking them for sex, and when they were rejected yelling "this is why people are racist!". They kept pretending they were going to steal my MP3 player, they started hassling the guy in front of me for reading a book, and they got really stuck into this Asian guy who jumped off at a stop that obviously wasn't his. They kept trying to get people interested in buying ecstacy off of them, too. They were mostly nice to me because whenever they asked me anything I'd just agree with them, and if they made any jokey threats of violence I'd say "nah you wouldn't do that, you're nice guys" (which they agreed with), but right before they got off they seemed to decide that I was getting smart with them. As they were getting off one of them spat at me for some reason (he missed), then kicked the bus once he got off.

I felt like a bit of a pussy because I didn't do anything about them when they were harrassing the other people on the bus...but I'm not a fighter, and there was two of them. The one guy they weren't starting on said that he sees them on there fairly regularly, and they're absolute wankers generally, but mostly "all talk". Bunch of savages in this town!

[fearofthesky]

^I feel your pain, Jickle. I have wanted to rage at dumbasses on the bus/train so many times, but held my tounge for fear of inflaming the situation. On a related note, the bus system is in crisis here in Perth, coz ****tards keep assaulting drivers and throwing rocks/bottles at the windows as they go by. A driver's strike is now imminent after a driver lost an eye (!) after some prick threw a chunk of concrete at him.

Don't worry about your town seeming to be full of savages. Mine seems to be too, just ask Dunkurtin!

[Silverwolf]

^I feel your pain, Jickle. I have wanted to rage at dumbasses on the bus/train so many times, but held my tounge for fear of inflaming the situation. On a related note, the bus system is in crisis here in Perth, coz ****tards keep assaulting drivers and throwing rocks/bottles at the windows as they go by. A driver's strike is now imminent after a driver lost an eye (!) after some prick threw a chunk of concrete at him.

Don't worry about your town seeming to be full of savages. Mine seems to be too, just ask Dunkurtin!

I'm so glad I never take the bus anymore. Way too many shitheads.

[BB2K]

I thought MacGyver was on today, but it's tommorow :(

[Dunkurtin]

Personally i blame transperth. Never would have happened if they had my train running like it's supposed to!

The amount of shitheads on public transport is terrible. Most of them are just talk. Was actually surprised this guy went that far. By the look on his mates face he was a little too, definetly a bit worried when i just took it, spat a bit of blood and gave them the foulest look before walking off.

[Xanafalgue]

Aww my week off comes to an end tomorrow :(

Actually, I've done so little that it will be good to be busy again! All I've done is play 360 and go online. My body is screaming to return to the gym!!

[fearofthesky]

Personally i blame transperth. Never would have happened if they had my train running like it's supposed to!

The amount of shitheads on public transport is terrible. Most of them are just talk. Was actually surprised this guy went that far. By the look on his mates face he was a little too, definetly a bit worried when i just took it, spat a bit of blood and gave them the foulest look before walking off.

Thats ice cold, man. Well done, thats gonna project a certain 'man we better not **** with this guy' vibe. If that happened to me after I'd had a couple, only one of us would walk away. Not saying I'm a hard bastard, or a nutter, but pretty sure I'd lose my shit and rage.

Again, well done to you sir, for having the balls to walk away. Takes much more than hitting them back.

[Dunkurtin]

Thats ice cold, man. Well done, thats gonna project a certain 'man we better not **** with this guy' vibe. If that happened to me after I'd had a couple, only one of us would walk away. Not saying I'm a hard bastard, or a nutter, but pretty sure I'd lose my shit and rage.

Again, well done to you sir, for having the balls to walk away. Takes much more than hitting them back.

Yeah i don't like violence much and i was completely sober because i had to drive. Get a few drinks into me and i doubt it would have ended like that. Also if they had have taken so much as one step to follow me i was dropping what i had in my hands and trying my hardest to cave their heads in. >_>

[Sytadel]

Friends who understand principles of conservation of angular momentum + spinning chair at scietch = sickness

[incompatible with life]

I felt like a bit of a pussy because I didn't do anything about them when they were harrassing the other people on the bus...but I'm not a fighter, and there was two of them. The one guy they weren't starting on said that he sees them on there fairly regularly, and they're absolute wankers generally, but mostly "all talk". Bunch of savages in this town!
I don't think you should feel too bad. I imagine that fighting back really wouldn't gain anything. I anticipate that it'd be a matter of:

1) Getting your ass handed to you.
2) Handing their asses to them but then they call some mates.
3) Handing their asses to them and having charges of assault filed against you.

I'm glad I rarely go on public transport and when I do it's only going on V-Line.

[Dunkurtin]

I don't think you should feel too bad. I imagine that fighting back really wouldn't gain anything. I anticipate that it'd be a matter of:

1) Getting your ass handed to you.
2) Handing their asses to them but then they call some mates.
3) Handing their asses to them and having charges of assault filed against you.

I'm glad I rarely go on public transport and when I do it's only going on V-Line.

It doesn't even have to come to violence though. A lot of the time just speaking out and showing you're not intimidated by them is enough to shut them up. As mentioned a lot of trouble makers are all talk. Also, if they swing first you can hand their arse to them AND then file for assault against them. Handy little thing called self defence.

[Lazlow]

Perisher has turned to shit today, howling winds and rain. Probably for the best though after the amount of times I nearly killed myself yesterday. This physique is not cut out for skiing.

[AranchineD]

Lazlow, didn't we go through this, if you french fry when you're meant to pizza you're gonna have a bad time.

[texta]

I didn't take the clothes off the line last night because the weather said it was going to be 20 today. I didn't notice the part that also said rain. FML.

[FrozenSoul80]

Think the Double Quarter Pounder I had last night has ****ed with my stomach. I woke up feeling really hungry, but after two bites I felt really full. Now I feel really sick.

[Tukenstein]

Same here, Frozen, but I was also drinking quite a bit last night.

[SOX]

Man shit keeps getting worse. Now I have no couches, the double bed is gone and I find out my ex is now living with one of my mates (well I thought he was... ****head)

[Stevorooni]

Have to go back to work tomorrow. Don't want to go back to work tomorrow. Gimme a fricken time freeze ray so that Sunday can last forever

[Kotche]

Man shit keeps getting worse. Now I have no couches, the double bed is gone and I find out my ex is now living with one of my mates (well I thought he was... ****head)

Wow sounds like she's screwing you over big time, time to change the locks

[FrozenSoul80]

Have to go back to work tomorrow. Don't want to go back to work tomorrow. Gimme a fricken time freeze ray so that Sunday can last forever

Sunday is a terrible day. Nothing good ever happens on a Sunday.

My stomach seems to have settled down so I can eat again, but I still feel like shit. I shouldn't have stayed out until 5am last night.

[Azzaman]

Sunday is a terrible day. Nothing good ever happens on a Sunday.

My stomach seems to have settled down so I can eat again, but I still feel like shit. I shouldn't have stayed out until 5am last night.

Lies, Sunday is scientifically proven to be at least 1049% better then Monday.
You can't dispute it, it's just a fact.

[StorminNorman]

The roof on part of the Royal Block at Melbourne showgrounds was blown off in last night's storm.

I spent this afternoon recreating a screening schedule on the assumption I'd have two, not three, theatres.

These two events may or may not be related.

[incompatible with life]

The roof on part of the Royal Block at Melbourne showgrounds was blown off in last night's storm.

I spent this afternoon recreating a screening schedule on the assumption I'd have two, not three, theatres.

These two events may or may not be related.
You could always host the first ever open air screening.

When life gives you lemons...

[texta]

DS Line Attenuation 14
Ds Rate (Kbps) 11168

Apparently Internode have some fault in Melbourne so for the last week they've connected Tasmania through Adelaide. As the nerds amongst us can see the result is that I lose about half my bandwidth. :(

[FrozenSoul80]

Trying to track down copies of the 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons core rulebooks is proving to be harder than I thought. It seems no one has new copies any more :(

[Second]

Trying to track down copies of the 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons core rulebooks is proving to be harder than I thought. It seems no one has new copies any more :(

You're digging in the past now, dude. I gave all mine away a while back. I think they've gone to Swinny or something.

[Bronze]

I think Kas might still have them.

[Second]

Well, there you go! FS80, you can ask Kas nicely if you can steal some!

[Azzaman]

Trying to track down copies of the 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons core rulebooks is proving to be harder than I thought. It seems no one has new copies any more :(

There's a whole bunch at my local DnD store. Unfortunately though it doesn't have a website, but try looking up games quest in Adelaide, they may be able to send it to you. I haven't looked at their stock but try games empire in nsw as well (they do ship).

[FrozenSoul80]

Well, there you go! FS80, you can ask Kas nicely if you can steal some!

Sell them to me >_>

There's a whole bunch at my local DnD store. Unfortunately though it doesn't have a website, but try looking up games quest in Adelaide, they may be able to send it to you. I haven't looked at their stock but try games empire in nsw as well (they do ship).

Crap, Games Empire only has the 3.5 Monster Manual 3 in stock >_<

I might give Games Quest a call later today. I had no idea there was a gaming shop so close to where I stay whenever I'm in Adelaide. Here I was thinking Hindley Street was just full of strip joints.

[Dunkurtin]

When i next go to adealaide im staying with whoever Frozen stays with.

[Lazlow]

Lazlow, didn't we go through this, if you french fry when you're meant to pizza you're gonna have a bad time.

Ftr pizzaing does sfa if the slope is steep and you weigh triple figures

[Azzaman]

When i next go to adealaide im staying with whoever Frozen stays with.

If you guys are planning a trip to the gentlemans equestrian club then let me know ;)

[Stevorooni]

Here I was thinking Hindley Street was just full of strip joints.


It's a Strip DnD store. To get a lapdance you need to roll a 7

[AranchineD]

You get nipple on a critical roll!

[Xanafalgue]

Bad day! *kicks cat* Still not craving cigarettes though :D

[Mellomaniac]

im being subpoenaed!!!!!

[Bronze]

Do you have anything to hide?

[Second]

Bronze is offering anal storage.

[Mellomaniac]

Do you have anything to hide?

no???
i gave a statement to the police about an incident that occured at my hotel.
a guy apparently hit his gf during an argument. The girl phoned down and ased us to call the cops. The guy left the hotel(possible the firestairs since no one saw him leave through the lobby).

the girl came down to the lobby while the manager was comforting and when he used the restroom, the guy called the front desk I picked up (i'm concierge but I was doing a graveyard and were mainly at the front desk on that shft). He admitted he had a fight with his gf and the police were being involved so he left. He asked me If he could get the bond which he paid for, for the room. The room was under the gf's name but his credit card was on file. I said he would have to wait to speak to the manager and he asked me to get the manager to call him back asap.

So that was the end of that conversation. When the manager returned, I told him that the guy called. The manager didnt call him. The cops arrived and spoke to the girl. I thought that was the end of it for us.
Months later, I get a call from the cops to provide a statement. I believe in justice so I did. And I thought THAT was the end of it....

Now I have to go to court in october. Don't know why, not much else I can add to what is in the statement.

[StorminNorman]

You could always host the first ever open air screening.

When life gives you lemons...

As fun as that sounds, we managed to get a replacement theatre together.

[Azzaman]

The $35 bluetooth headset I bought with the intention of using on my ps3 doesn't seem to work - at least the Yankee's I was playing with didn't respond to my constant "can anybody hear me?" whailing. I think I may have missed a setting somewhere...

[Stevorooni]

So last week when my electricity bill was sent to my old address, I rang AGL and asked them to change the address AGAIN and resend the bill.

After being assured that it was done , the bill arrives today, redirected from my old address again.



I really don't know what to do...

[Halt, Hammerzeit]

Send something to them addressed to the the water authority (or what ever the hell it's called there).

[Stevorooni]

Well I'm not going to call them any more because that obviously does not work.

So I'm going to put it in writing and send them an old fashioned letter explaining things quite clearly.
Then I'm probably going to look at changing electricity providers because that's obviously easier than them changing an address.

Any providers recommended?

[Shaddow]

I hear good things about hampsters.

[Ashmaran]

The $35 bluetooth headset I bought with the intention of using on my ps3 doesn't seem to work - at least the Yankee's I was playing with didn't respond to my constant "can anybody hear me?" whailing. I think I may have missed a setting somewhere...

Did you register it as a supported additional device? There's a setting to do that in the XMB.

[Spazzallo]

I've had to wait 3 weeks to get my ****ing youth allowance approved and I am now in debt and these ****tards at Centrelink have now locked my account because I didn't give them my passport number when I had given them my birth certificate number and other bits of information WHICH CLEARLY PROVE WHO I AM SEEING AS I HAVE TO ANSWER A ****ING SECRET QUESTION EVERYTIME I ****ING LOG IN.

I'm in debt and I need this money :(.

[Azzaman]

Did you register it as a supported additional device? There's a setting to do that in the XMB.

I had it registered, but I didn't have the audio going through it! Now it's working. All is good with the world and I saved my cheap backside $35.

Neg: I had a double qtr pounder for lunch and now I feel sick :(

[grimace06]

Been without my Laptop since thursday night (posting from uni). Motherboard is apparently cooked and my uni assignments are in tatters.

Pro-tip kids - those rubber things on the bottom of the laptop are not cosmetic :(

[Afrogamer]

assignments are starting to pile up :(

[Slippery]

Why did no one warn me that The Darkness is kinda shitty

An hour or so in and I'm not convinced it was worth the $20 I spent, I forgot games this gen ever looked so jaggy too.

Dull Ai, jaggy as hell and pretty mediocre gunplay - blehk

[AranchineD]

Well no-one warned you it was kinda shitty BECAUSE IT ISN'T KINDA SHITTY

[Banjo Tooie]

Yeah, it's a pretty ****ing good game. A great prequel to Bioshock.

[AranchineD]

If only they still made RPGs like these nowdays...

[Xanafalgue]

Why did no one warn me that The Darkness is kinda shitty

An hour or so in and I'm not convinced it was worth the $20 I spent, I forgot games this gen ever looked so jaggy too.

Dull Ai, jaggy as hell and pretty mediocre gunplay - blehk

This is one of two 360 games I ever hired from a video store, I just watched To Kill A Mockingbird and returned it.

[Xanafalgue]

btw I am so sick of being asked the same questions over and over by my dullard co-workers...

"How are you?"

"What have you been up to?"

**** OFF.

[Second]

I feel my anger building up. I know I shouldn't be angry, I know I shouldn't be sad, I know there was nothing I could do, but I just feel so shit since everything seemed to be going so well and then it all just disappeared and I'm back in the shit.

[AranchineD]

On the plus side your life is still better than mine.

And possibly Icky's.

[aubergine]

You just have to learn to embrace shit as I have. You're going to die and, in all likliehood, a memory of yourself that believes it is you will be pointlessly tortured for a longtime by a mad god invented by mad men. It's all downhill baby, the speedhumps are the peaks and good times hombre.

[Bronze]

Great advice, Aub. Just what anybody who's down wants to hear.

Don't let a few setbacks get you down, Jeson.

You're more than capable of picking yourself back up and fixing any problems that you've got.

[Second]

Aran, please marry me. I'll leave Maxi and you can make me happy all of the time.

[Xanafalgue]

Lets have a slumber party.

[AranchineD]

Aran, please marry me. I'll leave Maxi and you can make me happy all of the time.

But would society accept two people such as ourselves?

A homeless guy with magical powers to save the world, and a persistent Navy recruiter with the patience to drive 12 hours to pick someone up. People from opposite sides of the track, I don't think a relationship between us could ever work.

That said I can go down on you every day if you want. If you get a job you lazy bum then I can do other things too because it means you can pay me.

[Cerebral]

Tired with a hangover, heading to uni. Only four hours !

[sausage]

Broke my wooden-handled spade while leveraging out a hydrangea plant yesterday. Once I get my gardening-game-face on I'm pretty much a unstoppable force of unstoppableness; hence, gardening tool casualties.

May have to invest in a steel-handled jobby but those things cost frickin heaps.

[Sweating Bullets]

****. Meeting in 8 minutes. I am meant to present on something. I think I might get yelled at.

[Stevorooni]

Broke my wooden-handled spade while leveraging out a hydrangea plant yesterday. Once I get my gardening-game-face on I'm pretty much a unstoppable force of unstoppableness; hence, gardening tool casualties.

May have to invest in a steel-handled jobby but those things cost frickin heaps.

Digging out plants is a pain. I was ripping out one thing (can't remember what it's called, they're all weeds to me!) but it was so heavy that I couldn't lift it to move it to my pile out the back so I just kind of hacked it with a rake and managed to roll it away leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.

I need a mighty axe for chopping large things into smaller things...

[sausage]

Digging out plants is a pain. I was ripping out one thing (can't remember what it's called, they're all weeds to me!) but it was so heavy that I couldn't lift it to move it to my pile out the back so I just kind of hacked it with a rake and managed to roll it away leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.



I hear ya. Such satisfaction eh?

[Dunkurtin]

Amateur mistakes. If you're putting that much force into trying to lever a plant out of the ground and it's not working it's obviously still got roots connected. Work your way around the plant while thrusting the shovel/spade in under it to cut any connecting roots running off the main root system. Once they're out the way it's easy sailing.

Stevo, get a spade with a decent edge on it and break that shit up next time.

[texta]

Lost my jacket and also almost certainly got a speeding ticket (in unconnected events). Great times.

EDIT: What's wrong with me? I'm cooking tuna burgers and I put the pan on the bottom right plate and then turn on the bottom left plate. After about 10 minutes I notice they're not cooking and turn off the bottom left plate and turn the top left plate on instead.

[Araenel]

Lost my jacket and also almost certainly got a speeding ticket (in unconnected events). Great times.

EDIT: What's wrong with me? I'm cooking tuna burgers and I put the pan on the bottom right plate and then turn on the bottom left plate. After about 10 minutes I notice they're not cooking and turn off the bottom left plate and turn the top left plate on instead.

I do that far too often.

[/backslash]

Neg:

Atm I'm feeling like setting fire to Vista. Trying to turn the Windows Sidebar back on since I found a use for it (a gadget that calculates my quota) but then when attempting to turn it on it says "windows sidebar is managed by your system administrator". But I AM the admin! Even thought the UAC's disabled it still doesn't give me control for a stupid ***king program that can be turned off but not turned back on! Wtf is the point of that?! I'd rather be getting an illegal operation message just so I can laugh at its face for being so pathetic

Had enough of Vista, seriously. And no matter what I do I still can't disable that Windows Security List notification even after modifying my msconfig to stop starting up - I've already got my own internet security running, I don't care if my Windows Defender is disabled, just let me do what I want! :(

[texta]

Have you tried right clicking and selecting "run as administrator"?

[/backslash]

Yup, still doesn't let me. Even after doing that annoying MSDOS thing

[Stevorooni]

Stevo, get a spade with a decent edge on it and break that shit up next time.

I had hacked off all the roots the plant was just heavy and I'm not very strong!

But I do need better gardening tools, at the moment I've just got old ones my grandma gave me that are as old as time itself!

[/backslash]

I had hacked off all the roots the plant was just heavy and I'm not very strong!

But I do need better gardening tools, at the moment I've just got old ones my grandma gave me that are as old as time itself!
Shame it was his grandma's childhood tools

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[FrozenSoul80]

Neg:

Atm I'm feeling like setting fire to Vista. Trying to turn the Windows Sidebar back on since I found a use for it (a gadget that calculates my quota) but then when attempting to turn it on it says "windows sidebar is managed by your system administrator". But I AM the admin! Even thought the UAC's disabled it still doesn't give me control for a stupid ***king program that can be turned off but not turned back on! Wtf is the point of that?! I'd rather be getting an illegal operation message just so I can laugh at its face for being so pathetic

Had enough of Vista, seriously. And no matter what I do I still can't disable that Windows Security List notification even after modifying my msconfig to stop starting up - I've already got my own internet security running, I don't care if my Windows Defender is disabled, just let me do what I want! :(

In a few months we will have Windows 7 and the problems with Vista will all be over. I just hope I don't break my laptop by doing a complete format, I'm sure all this HP software that I keep finding all over the place does something to make it work >_>

[Stevorooni]

I was delayed by half an hour tonight on the train because a train in front of us caught fire or something. It was lame but whatever


Plus I keep worrying about random shit going on in my life and shit that's not even happening but has tiny potential to happen but I have no control over anyway, it's ****ing annoying. I need to be able to switch off my brain or something.

[FrozenSoul80]

Plus I keep worrying about random shit going on in my life and shit that's not even happening but has tiny potential to happen but I have no control over anyway, it's ****ing annoying. I need to be able to switch off my brain or something.

If you find a way to switch your brain off, let me know. I am always worrying about stupid shit. I've spent the past few days worrying that I may be gay and not know it, which in itself is pretty stupid as I'm pretty sure I'm into girls. All this is doing is causing a lot of anxiety. I honestly think I may be going insane.

[Second]

See your doctor about going to a shrink. They'll likely suggest some anti-anxiety pills while they get to the root cause, but it'll all help.

I used to never be able to sleep. I could never switch off, I'd always be thinking about tomorrow, about things I need to do, plans that need to be made, where I've done something wrong (hell, even minor issues from several years ago). I can now sleep and sleep well and it's GREAT. I still 'spiral' sometimes, but I'm generally able to pull myself out.

[FrozenSoul80]

I was seeing a shrink at the start of the year, but I'd thought I'd gotten better. Obviously not. It's really disappointing as I worked really hard to get better last time, and now I'm back at the start.

[Second]

The problem is we you need to keep working on it (assuming you went down teh cognitive restructuring route). Sadly, we can't just be "all better" as we can fall in the old habits quite easily. As much as I try to pretend it's a passive skill, it's an active skill and I need to put effort in to making sure I don't get stuck.

[Silverwolf]

In a few months we will have Windows 7 and the problems with Vista will all be over. I just hope I don't break my laptop by doing a complete format, I'm sure all this HP software that I keep finding all over the place does something to make it work >_>

HP software that came with your laptop? Completely useless, its basically just bloat on top of the bloat of Vista.

I love how much people hate vista though, I've never ever had any real problems with it. Windows 7 is way better, but Vista is just fine.

eh

[FrozenSoul80]

The problem is we you need to keep working on it (assuming you went down teh cognitive restructuring route). Sadly, we can't just be "all better" as we can fall in the old habits quite easily. As much as I try to pretend it's a passive skill, it's an active skill and I need to put effort in to making sure I don't get stuck.

It's really hard to break years and years of negative thinking and bad habits >_<

HP software that came with your laptop? Completely useless, its basically just bloat on top of the bloat of Vista.

I love how much people hate vista though, I've never ever had any real problems with it. Windows 7 is way better, but Vista is just fine.

I don't need those programs like the Wifi tool? I would have formatted from the start but the only copy of Vista I have is actually just a recovery partition on the harddrive. All computers should come with a ****ing Windows disk >_<

Personally, I love Vista and find it difficult to go back to XP.

[Silverwolf]

You shouldn't, or if you do need it, you should have CDs that came with it for them.
When I got my laptop the first thing I did was install Windows 7 on it, and it works absolutely fine.
Windows' generic drivers are ****ing awesome anyway.

[Lazlow]

Just got nudged on the road on the way to work.

Some 4WD was trying to get passed me before I had completed half a lane change, and I had to switch back. Unfortunately they had already snuck their nose in line with my right rear quarter panel.

Luckily no major damage. Some like paint marks, and maybe a light dent... though it could just be the wheel arch tricking me.