Tired Shit - Page 32

Bringing this back to the completely trivial:

Increasing numbers of people that add an 'sh' to words that start with 'str'

shtreak

shhtreet

shhhtrait

shhhhtreaming

They have no other accent, but they mispronounce 'str' words, where the hell did this come from?!

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Originally Posted by MrBananaGrabber 

Bringing this back to the completely trivial:

 

Increasing numbers of people that add an 'sh' to words that start with 'str'

 

shtreak

 

shhtreet

 

shhhtrait

 

shhhhtreaming

 

They have no other accent, but they mispronounce 'str' words, where the hell did this come from?!

You need to stop hanging out with Sean Connery, mate.

fucking users that don;t have an understanding of how things work but want it to do things in certain ways.

Top tip: for e-mail there is no helpful little postman that runs around going "oh well, that must be for Sue at Number 72, even though it's address is wrong, I know she's expecting something, so it must be for her".  If someone mistypes your mail address YOU WON'T GET YOUR MAIL.

Had to bite my tongue big style today:

"What do you mean if someone has got my mail address wrong that you can't find where it went, or if someone had at least tried, without speaking to them?  I don't think you know what you're doing"

I'm sure there's a meme you can use for that.   This one would probably do ;p

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Originally Posted by Andy Bain 

fucking users that don;t have an understanding of how things work but want it to do things in certain ways.

 

Top tip: for e-mail there is no helpful little postman that runs around going "oh well, that must be for Sue at Number 72, even though it's address is wrong, I know she's expecting something, so it must be for her".  If someone mistypes your mail address YOU WON'T GET YOUR MAIL.

 

Had to bite my tongue big style today:

 

"What do you mean if someone has got my mail address wrong that you can't find where it went, or if someone had at least tried, without speaking to them?  I don't think you know what you're doing"

 

Oh lordy, do I ever hear you on that one.  Everyone knows my job better then me.  

"My friend works for Microsoft/Apple/Google/Once-tripped-on-a-power-cord, and he says..."

Fine, get him to fix your damn computer.

Addendum: On the whole, I work for a very nice company, with very decent people, but my job itself makes me see red.

I'm tired of unemployment.  I can't get retail work because I have no experience in retail.  And I can't get experience until I get hired somewhere.  So there's more or less no hope of me getting a steady source of income in the foreseeable future.

It's not even that I'm terribly enthusiastic about working in retail (is anyone?) but I'm running out of options here.  Art contracts are few and far between and my best hope for my next contract won't be happening until the Fall.  

Being out of power in the middle of a heatwave.

My street lost power Friday night, and I'm not sure when it'll be restored since the power lines were taken down by a rather large tree that nobody seems to have the equipment available to remove, since there are other outages all over the area. In the meantime, the highs are above 90°F and are looking to stay that way for a while (checking the ten-day forecast, no highs below 90° in sight), and, this being D.C., the humidity is making it that much worse. It's about the same temperature inside my house now as it is outdoors, except in the basement, where I slept on a couch last night. My roommates and I will see if we can get our landlord to find us a small generator or a window unit, but if and until then I'm foreseeing a lot of hanging out in air-conditioned bars and stores after work and seeing who's able to share their place for the night. On the bright side, though, I'm getting a lot of reading done, at least while it's still light out. But overall: tired shit.

Cosby~ I live near DC in MD, and experienced the same storm---it's arrival was unlike anything I've seen, and I've been thru tornadoes and hurricanes. I'm on the 15the floor and watched lawn furniture being swept off of the rooftop pools and crash down on the street below. My apt building has back up, so while all around us was dark we are full function.

Weird to live in the middle of a busy city street and outside is black as pitch at night. Sunday night I looked out my window and saw something burning a block away. A transformer-topped utility pole's full length was on fire (for some reason they cover these with a tar and that just acted like a wick) and the Tranfs. was sparking every now and then. It burned for 3 hours till it petered out.  Very surreal. David Lynch would've liked it.

I like (NOT) how the power company said everyone will have power back by Friday.  Said that on Sunday.

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Originally Posted by Zweit 

I'm tired of unemployment.  I can't get retail work because I have no experience in retail.  And I can't get experience until I get hired somewhere.  So there's more or less no hope of me getting a steady source of income in the foreseeable future.

 

It's not even that I'm terribly enthusiastic about working in retail (is anyone?) but I'm running out of options here.  Art contracts are few and far between and my best hope for my next contract won't be happening until the Fall.  

Have you tried applying for overnight positions at retail locations in a mall near you? Most mall stores, especially clothing, have overnight staff that refold clothes, etc to make the store look nice and tend to pay 10-12 dollars an hour...because you're working graveyard.

I have a bunch of customers that work at Hollister, A&F and Gilly Hick's. They all have overnight, and my friend used to do the same thing at Victoria's Secret. It'll still count as "retail" experience on your resume too. It isn't ideal but hey...getting paid to fold clothes is better than not getting paid at all.

Frankly I didn't even know that was a thing.  I'll give it a try, thanks a lot!

Starting threads, posts, statements, standup sets with "So ...". Or even lamer: "Okay, so ...".

Just get on with it without apologizing in advance dipshit. I'll still love you.

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Originally Posted by Zweit 

I'm tired of unemployment.  I can't get retail work because I have no experience in retail.  And I can't get experience until I get hired somewhere.  So there's more or less no hope of me getting a steady source of income in the foreseeable future.

 

It's not even that I'm terribly enthusiastic about working in retail (is anyone?) but I'm running out of options here.  Art contracts are few and far between and my best hope for my next contract won't be happening until the Fall.  

If you're good with Photoshop, I would look into developing websites using open source database management tools like Joomla or Woodpress for freelance work.  It's easier than it looks and you can develop really complicated website for local businesses (they're also very easy to crash and difficult to recover, so make a few practice ones before you go public).  There is some CSS and HTML coding involved, but it's worth it.  Being good at art and design gives you a distinct advantage over other freelancers.  If you know how to use Gimp instead of Photoshop, you're over-head is $400 for the laptop, plus the cost of internet and electricity and maybe a camera or scanner.  Inkscape is a good freeware ray-trace tool and I think there are decent open source 3d tools that will run on your basic $400/$500 i3 laptop.  It's not very glamorous work to do commercial freelance, but it's technically "art" and the better you get at software, the more likely you are to just "fall in" to gainful employment in production art.  Getting good at software is also a good way to explore design principals and hone your traditional art techniques.  You might be way ahead of me here.

BiPolar Bosses. Tuesday I was a God: today I'm a worthless Shitheel.

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Originally Posted by MrBananaGrabber 

Bringing this back to the completely trivial:

 

Increasing numbers of people that add an 'sh' to words that start with 'str'

 

shtreak

 

shhtreet

 

shhhtrait

 

shhhhtreaming

 

They have no other accent, but they mispronounce 'str' words, where the hell did this come from?!

People that whissstle their esses.  Especially if it's a salami-skinned, weepy-eyed Brit recounting WWII anecdotes.

I'm starting to find the phrase 'first world problems' increasingly annoying. You're allowed to complain about daily life, people. In fact, it's a natural, healthy form of stress relief that really doesn't need your white middle-class guilt fetish crammed into it. Your 'first-world' problems are my fucknut problem.

I love how we can cuss here if we wanna...

Arse!

Knickers!

Fanny pack (2 points if you're American and know why that's offensive)

Alright...A 'Tired Shit' and a question.

You know when you visit some websites (for me it's largely news sites)

and they have those little windows with ads and news/weather updates along the edges and sometimes in banner form.

They automatically play as the page forms, some even have autosound.

Usually I can't scroll  down with much control or speed until these things form and run. 

I use MozillaFirefox and want to find an add-on that blocks these, but I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE CALLED.

Any ideas?

Oh, and...HAIL HYDRA!

Easy solution to the problem in case anyone has Firefox and is interested in enhancing your surfing options.

I started looking at all the browser's tabs, options, etc. At some point I right clicked on an unoccupied area of a webpage and a selection box popped up with an option 'Image and Flash blocker' which will allow you to change the way your browser presents pictures and flash. You can select  if you don't want flash and then all those annoying cubes of commercials or flash videos won't automatically play unless you click their play button. Brilliant!

This.

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Originally Posted by Reasor 

News anchors who can't be bothered to spend five minutes on Wikipedia learning the etymology of the term "God particle" are Tired Shit. They just call it that because it's difficult to find with instruments, you walking hairdos, and there's still plenty yet to learn about the workings of the universe, you incurious fuckballs.

And even more tired shit is when they almost seem kind of proud that they don't know that type of information.  

It kind of goes hand in hand with some of the DJs on my local college radio station struggling to pronounce proper names: you're college students-take 5 seconds and look up the fucking correct pronunciation! 

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Originally Posted by Reasor 

News anchors who can't be bothered to spend five minutes on Wikipedia learning the etymology of the term "God particle" are Tired Shit. They just call it that because it's difficult to find with instruments, you walking hairdos, and there's still plenty yet to learn about the workings of the universe, you incurious fuckballs.

I got in a dust up with someone over the phrase "angels dancing on the head of a pin" because he assured me it was originally used to discuss the Higgs particle. One of my problems with scientific athiests is that some have little appreciation for the historical and cultural weight our religious past bears on language and culture.

The phrase 'sheeple', and the self-important spunknuggets who use it.

Also tired: drama series about young professionals in their 20s-early 40s that somehow manage to convince everyone that they're 'classy' modern dramas, when all they really are are yuppie soap operas full of punchable people.  I say this because I've had to watch a fuckton of episodes of Showtime Australia's 'Tangle' for an article, have a fuckton to go, and somehow have to come up with a critical analysis of the thing that isn't just a gif of a monkey throwing its own doo-doo. I know this sort of thing isn't to my taste, but it's still a repugnant genre.

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Originally Posted by Workyticket 

The phrase 'sheeple', and the self-important spunknuggets who use it.

 

Also tired: drama series about young professionals in their 20s-early 40s that somehow manage to convince everyone that they're 'classy' modern dramas, when all they really are are yuppie soap operas full of punchable people.  I say this because I've had to watch a fuckton of episodes of Showtime Australia's 'Tangle' for an article, have a fuckton to go, and somehow have to come up with a critical analysis of the thing that isn't just a gif of a monkey throwing its own doo-doo. I know this sort of thing isn't to my taste, but it's still a repugnant genre.

Just Shoot Me says you're wrong, pal.  

Ugh.  I feel so... dirty.  Also, what the hell's a "sheeple"?

I just walked out of a bathroom stall to find my boss brushing his teeth while using the urinal.  He doesn't wash his hands.  Ever.

I think I messed up by not explaining.

Tired shit = using the word "this" in any response on a message board or comment section EVER.

Whoever first thought "hey - instead of typing a response I'll just type the word 'this' and everyone will cheer" should be retroactively castrated.

It's not cute.  It's not clever.  It only exists for you to put yourself in the same league as a 12-year-old schoolgirl when it comes to internet communication. 

You agree.  You're lazy.  You type the word "this" instead of using your brain and typing words that have meaning to convey your thoughts. 

"this" is the equivalent of "durrrrrrrrrrr".

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Originally Posted by Scruff 

I think I messed up by not explaining.

 

Tired shit = using the word "this" in any response on a message board or comment section EVER.

 

Whoever first thought "hey - instead of typing a response I'll just type the word 'this' and everyone will cheer" should be retroactively castrated.

 

It's not cute.  It's not clever.  It only exists for you to put yourself in the same league as a 12-year-old schoolgirl when it comes to internet communication. 

 

You agree.  You're lazy.  You type the word "this" instead of using your brain and typing words that have meaning to convey your thoughts. 

 

"this" is the equivalent of "durrrrrrrrrrr".

I can agree with this.  If I have nothing new to say, I just don't say anything, which is why I've been here over 10 years with less than 3500 posts.

That being said, I was sorely tempted to just write "This" here.

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Originally Posted by wydren 

I can agree with this.  If I have nothing new to say, I just don't say anything, which is why I've been here over 10 years with less than 3500 posts.

 

That being said, I was sorely tempted to just write "This" here.

If you would have just said "this" you would have made my day. 

I really wish "THIS" wasn't so widespread.  I have some do-goody friend who likes to say "this made my heart smile".  Well, when I see "this" it makes my heart take a dump. 

I got it

Bottom Burp

Tired now
 

Actually..

I am so tired of hearing the term 'Best practice'

I mean, when we have achieved it. Where else is there to go?

So why do we have so many fucking meetings about it.

Work for works sake, generating work which does not work

Shoot me please?

Rejection.

Living.

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Originally Posted by Art Decade 

Rejection.

 

 

Living.

That sucks, dude, but scratch that last part. I'm just crawling out of one of the worst depressive periods of my life after being completely cold-turkey sober for nearly a week and am kinda terrified of the very real possibility of getting fired (my own fault due to depression/anxiety that I waited to have diagnosed) and need to get laid (which is a result of kinda bombing on OKCupid and not finding anyone I'm really interested in, but I hate the idea of online dating anyway), but even if I DO get fired and don't get laid for another two months, things'll still be alright*. Keep ya head up, in the words of one very wise street poet.

*Please quote me on this when both things happen and I have an absolutely batshit insane nervous breakdown replete with way too much screaming and crying from a nearly 28 year-old man.

1.  White oval stickers on cars that are indecipherable by the average passerby.  A lot of them even have what the acronym or abbreviation stands for in fine print at the bottom.

2.  Trite rhymes—almost always a sign of lazy songwriting.  Examples:

• Party/Bacardi—the last artist for which its use was even somewhat acceptable was Mellow Man Ace, circa 1990, and then only because the first line was in English and the second in Spanish.  Otherwise this was already tired when the very first West Coast rappers were using it.
• Knees/Please—how convenient that pleading is often done while planting one's patellae.
• Love/Above—few words are used as much in lyrics as "love,"  and few words rhyme with it, fewer yet working in any context.  Don't end your lines with it.
• Self/Else—like orange and silver, no words in modern usage rhyme with "else," INCLUDING MOTHERFUCKING "SELF."  Good lord, there are songs that use this in the refrain;  please pour molten lead in my left ear.

3.  Tank-top-and-long-shorts-halfway-down-ass-wearing-, close-cropped-hair-when-not-wearing-a-baseball-cap-in-any-direction-but-forward, walking-like-a-gibbon-with-hip-dysplasia-, loudly-talking-with-an-accent-of-a-city-he's-never-even-visited, ear-pierced-and-shittily-ugly-tattooed-to-fucking-hell Caucasian males.  I was not born or raised prejudiced but I'll make an exception for them.  They are living best-reasons for gun control I've seen yet;  not only because they tend to start fights whenever anyone takes umbrage with their savage behvaior, then tend to get their ass whupped, then tend to come back with a gun, but also because if I had a gun on my person I would tend to save everyone the trouble and shoot them as soon as they started to act up.  I haven't met a single one yet that was not a once or future inmate and I don't need a Pre-Cog to tell me what a sensible course of action would be.  Motherfuck habeus corpus.

Yeah we have those in the UK too...

...I watch this on an alomost weekly basis.

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Originally Posted by Black_Dahlia 

3.  Tank-top-and-long-shorts-halfway-down-ass-wearing-, close-cropped-hair-when-not-wearing-a-baseball-cap-in-any-direction-but-forward, walking-like-a-gibbon-with-hip-dysplasia-, loudly-talking-with-an-accent-of-a-city-he's-never-even-visited, ear-pierced-and-shittily-ugly-tattooed-to-fucking-hell Caucasian males.  I was not born or raised prejudiced but I'll make an exception for them.  They are living best-reasons for gun control I've seen yet;  not only because they tend to start fights whenever anyone takes umbrage with their savage behvaior, then tend to get their ass whupped, then tend to come back with a gun, but also because if I had a gun on my person I would tend to save everyone the trouble and shoot them as soon as they started to act up.  I haven't met a single one yet that was not a once or future inmate and I don't need a Pre-Cog to tell me what a sensible course of action would be.  Motherfuck habeus corpus.

This is kind of on the flip side but I'm tired of people not seeming to understand that whatever your outlook is on the "societal hierarchy" it doesn't apply when you're in the wrong part of town, on the wrong night, in the wrong bar "flirting with danger" for shits and giggles.

When you're young you want to do things that are sketchy and I can understand that, we've all been there. But holy shit if you're gonna try to "drink with the savages" then understand they don't give a fuck who you are at work, who your dad is or how much money you make. The whole "modern Roman" attitude of thinking what flies in your social circle, and the "laws" of it, are the be all end all of social behavior is a good way to get fucked up.

I recently started doing bar and club events with a friend and it's astounding how many townie kids will walk into a rough spot and think that a biker, or some huge Samoan gives a shit about who they are. Then you're helping carry them out to their car and they're telling you, through a broken nose, that they didn't start it. Well, guess what nose job, using the word "motherfucker" ten times in a row never made a guy want to punch you in the face less, ever, in the history of humanity.

More people should read Peyton Quinn's work or just go to bars where some pussy they know will sit there and take a brow beating and not...you know, beat their brow like they owed the guy money.

And in the same vein, club "security" that doesn't know what de-escalation means.

And I'm all for shooting douche bags. Go gun control!