just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[maxpowr9]

I like how 4-8" of snow turns into 16-20". Love when meteorologists fuck up like that.

 

[Scealle]

Had a bad week this week. Nothing went as planned as usual, but it's twice and actually thrice as bad as usual.
Decided to chill with friends and played some tarot (as we are in a book cafe). Usually I don't really buy these type of things but a few predictions are so true! Dang !!! I picked a lot of bad omen cards and good cards with reversed signs I am starting to think it's my fate to be very unlucky

 

[sixthson]

Had a bad week this week. Nothing went as planned as usual, but it's twice and actually thrice as bad as usual.
Decided to chill with friends and played some tarot (as we are in a book cafe). Usually I don't really buy these type of things but a few predictions are so true! Dang !!! I picked a lot of bad omen cards and good cards with reversed signs I am starting to think it's my fate to be very unlucky

Your fate is not in the cards. It's in your hands. You have had a couple of bad weeks. Everyone does. Don't get discouraged and down about yourself and don't believe in this tarot foolishness.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Had a bad week this week. Nothing went as planned as usual, but it's twice and actually thrice as bad as usual.
Decided to chill with friends and played some tarot (as we are in a book cafe). Usually I don't really buy these type of things but a few predictions are so true! Dang !!! I picked a lot of bad omen cards and good cards with reversed signs I am starting to think it's my fate to be very unlucky

This is the only sign you really need to pay attention to:

 

[xbuzzerx]

The Millennials brought in a completely different mindset. I see it as the biggest change of paradigm in at least a century.

You grew up with technology, and have begun to think in binary code. Yes, it's true that Millennials often lack empathy, due to binary thinking.

But at the same time, you can look at situations completely objectively, without prejudice from religious or political blinding.

Evidence of this has already been seen. Razzie, I just watched Mann Coulter get eviscerated by some Millennial Libertarians. Just 20 years ago, this would have been unthinkable. You toed the party line or else.

I only hope I live long enough to see the Millennials get into power, when they age into their 50s. I believe Millennial thinking will pursue a path that actually works, instead a path that's either "stock-Republican" or "stock-Democratic". We may see monumental changes in the way our government works.

In my book, you guys walk on water.

Hah, that's not how I see it at all. Millennials are largely politically uninformed, but tend to speak in libertarian platitudes, which is a shame since it's probably socialist democracy that works best. But Millennials have been indoctrinated by all the "Amurrkah is great - embrace Reaganomics!" bullshit. It'll be another century or two before we finally get national healthcare at this rate.

If I can interject here as I've seen JohannBessler comment on the millenials before, I think the middle ground between what you two are saying is that young people, or people of x generation, are not necessarily "less apathetic", "more active", "more intellectual" or anything else on the whole than they were before, but younger people today are still a product of their times, and being a product of the times today embraces ideas like gay tolerance and support of gay equality in a way totally unmirrored in the older demographics (even when they were younger) and that is what JB is happy to see. (If I understand it correctly.) It's not necessarily saying (to Razor) that they're all more enlightened and intelligent-- but they did all grow up in a more enlightened time, with more enlightened ideas.

 

[xbuzzerx]

I'd take "unenlightened" and opposed to gay equality over apathetic and allowing the economy and the planet to get destroyed any day.

If having to live in some gay ghetto meant a better healthcare system, cleaner environment, and more job opportunities, I'd take the trade-off.

Granted, baby boomers are much worse about this stuff (brainwashed Reagan generation), but their offspring have chosen to do nothing about it.

You should watch Shark Tank, Razor. It's pretty much gospel in the business world that anything "green" right now sells like absolute hotcakes, and will generally outsell something "not green" other factors being comparable. We could have a totally different discussion about how many actual "green" products are really, in fact, net "better" for the environment, but the fact remains that people do want more ecologically friendly choices. We can't "blame" people in the U.S. individually for something like: "you're still using fossil fuels", because people much older and much richer than today's young people have made the decision for us that we should not have other options. You can't go out and vote with your wallet "against" things like fossil fuels as far as say-- transportation-- because you do not have any other options, unlike in places like Brazil or Iceland.

 

[xbuzzerx]

You can vote with your actual vote against legislators who continue to oppose crucial public transportation measures, but apathetic young people have managed to let screechy, NIMBY baby boomers strong-arm everyone into accelerated sprawl.

I think your comment implies that viable, aggressively green platformed candidates are all over and would have won strong holdings in government except for young voters siding with old status quo dinosaurs. I'm not entirely sure if that's an accurate picture of the political landscape. You and I have had some discussions about California politicians and as much as I do feel many of them aren't progressive enough on the right issues, I can't even pretend we'd be further along with Republicans in those seats instead.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I'm ready...to give up on men. :c)

Bend over and take it like a man.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

You know...I have such deep-seated bitterness, resentment, etc. about my time in school, that to this day...just the sight of a school bus makes me angry.

I wonder if I should see a therapist or something.

Only if the sight of one gives you a hard on...

 

[xbuzzerx]

Understand me.

They're not making you walk behind them because the sidewalk isn't thick enough, Kien.

 

[bankside]

Dear Friends,

Please walk single-file and don't monopolize the sidewalk.

Sincerely,

The Guy Trying to Rush to the Train Stuck Behind Your Dawdling Asses

Yup. This

 

[maxpowr9]

Understand me.

Fuck you and I mean that sarcastically.

I have to deal with asshole bikers [not the motor kind, the pedal one] all the time and they think they rule the road and I love to fucking tailgate the fuckers when they are not in single file. Fuck, even joggers in the morning are free-range targets when they are running against traffic, especially when they run in the street and not the sidewalk. If I haven't had my coffee intake, I will swerve to give them a scare because it is in fact illegal to run in the street when there is a crosswalk.

Lots of road rage against those two groups but it isn't my fault if they don't know the rules of the road.

 

[pat grimshaw]

…don't monopolize the sidewalk…

We have the same problem in my country. You have to walk with your hands out to stop them.

 

[maxpowr9]

I am so disappointed in myself right now.

It's one thing to be let down by someone else...but to let yourself down is one of the worst feelings ever.

Hun, I am an INTJ. Feeling good about myself is an anomaly. Right now, I see myself as "overweight" at 6'4" 180lbs.

 

[glasvegas]

Putting a positive note in this thread,

I am happy that my two best Aussie JUB members have found someone they like/love. I hope everything goes well with them and soon, I will be attending one of their weddings (provided Australia pass the law.)

 

[maxpowr9]

Putting a positive note in this thread,

I am happy that my two best Aussie JUB members have found someone they like/love. I hope everything goes well with them and soon, I will be attending one of their weddings (provided Australia pass the law.)

Not with the cunt PM Gillard you will but hopefully your people have the sense to kick her out.

 

[glasvegas]

Not with the cunt PM Gillard you will but hopefully your people have the sense to kick her out.

I don't think it is going to happen with Tony Abbott as well. It's really weird living in a open-minded country but yet holding such a conservative view.

 

[maxpowr9]

when I'm single, there's not much that annoys me more than happy couples.

bitter and sad, I know.

Couples hate single people too as I have learned that first hand.

 

[Kiwils]

I am so disappointed in myself right now.

It's one thing to be let down by someone else...but to let yourself down is one of the worst feelings ever.

/comfort Feel like talking about it?
I feel you. I still haven't fully gotten over one of my biggest self letdown, even when I partially made up for it.

Hun, I am an INTJ. Feeling good about myself is an anomaly. Right now, I see myself as "overweight" at 6'4" 180lbs.

I just did that the other day! Someone had sent it to me. I got an ISFJ.
Aww, definitely far from overweight though. Let's have some cheesecake.

 

[Axxess]

Oh, and that moment when you spot a really good thread on JUB that you don't have time to read, because you're headed out to work.

That, plus when you actually do get time to read it you find it's been deleted.

the worst thing is when people stand side-by-side on the escalator... that makes me rage, and I frequently end up nudging one aside.

there's an unspoken rule on the escalators.. if you're going to stand there, stand on the right and allow people who are walking down to pass on the left. never block the entire escalator unless there's literally no one else around.

You walk down escalators? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?