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Operation successful. Fair bit of pain tho.
Well yeah, you just got cut open and had an organ removed. You’re gonna be sore as hell for a while.
Operation successful. Fair bit of pain tho.
But you’re still here with us, and that is what counts.
Yeah, that's the main thing. And going by the use of that GIF, you're due at least 7 more films in the franchise, though some of the later were crossovers and the last was a comedy.
A pox upon any business located in a main building with an external entrance that does NOT make its address the actual street that entrance is on and instead uses the registered address of the fucking building.
I got my tooth pulled today. No worries, my dentist numbed me real good, and I took pain pills in advanced. She has magic hands. Gonna suck having soup for a few days, but I can manage. I need to rest now.
My gf's son is going through (well, "has gone through" if you're any rational person on the outside looking in) a breakup with his first "true love," read "first peace of ass." This is my first time witnessing what extreme "p*ssy whipped" looks like, and it's pathetic and frustrating. He just turned 21, and he's attending the University of Oklahoma (OU,) and has been maintaining this long-distance relationship with this girl for about two years. Last summer, he broke up with her, and that lasted all of two days before they were back together. Now, she's broken up with him, and oh my God, the meltdown is just dumb. He's driven he 3 hours from OU like 4 times in he past two weeks, basically stalking this girl trying to win her back. He's gone to her house unannounced and uninvited enough times that her parents called HIS parents threatening a restraining order. He's in Texas still right now where his coddling father tried to arrange him a therapist, but he refuses to go, and won' listen to reason when everyone is telling him "she's done with you, dude!!!" We just found out last night that he drove down here this time without his wallet and no license, which, while already stupid and short-sighted on its own, is 100 times compounded by the fac that his whole purpose for coming down was to invite this girl to celebrate his 21st birthday with him at a bar, y'know, the places that require ID before serving alcohol?
I'm about two more "tear-filled phone calls to his mommy" away from renting this jackass a prostitute to show him that all p*ssy might not be created equal, but there's certainly no shortage of it, for fuck's sake. He's had three households stressed the fuck out for two weeks with his desperation antics, between his ex's parents, ours, and his father's; we're all tired of it. He needs to go back to school, leave this girl alone, and quit looking for validation from everyone within his emotional gravitational pull that "there's still a chance." IT'S OVER!! LET IT GO!!
I'm about two more "tear-filled phone calls to his mommy" away from renting this jackass a prostitute to show him that all p*ssy might not be created equal, but there's certainly no shortage of it, for fuck's sake. He's had three households stressed the fuck out for two weeks with his desperation antics, between his ex's parents, ours, and his father's; we're all tired of it. He needs to go back to school, leave this girl alone, and quit looking for validation from everyone within his emotional gravitational pull that "there's still a chance." IT'S OVER!! LET IT GO!!
I've started further education, and it seems my profesors are more interested in throwing readings at us than engaging in lectures. That's honestly fine, but good God I forgot how fucking snobby academic writing is. Every paper throws frameworks and paragraphs at you when it could all be summed up in threee senteces with much less verbose wording.
And the worst part of it is, when it's time for YOU to start academic writing, you feel yourself falling down the exact same trap. I hate myself while I do it, but I can't deny I start using longer words I probably have never said out loud in my life. Blegh.
And the worst part of it is, when it's time for YOU to start academic writing, you feel yourself falling down the exact same trap. I hate myself while I do it, but I can't deny I start using longer words I probably have never said out loud in my life. Blegh.
Today I'm 2/3 down my plaque removal campaign on this semester alone so I empathize.
I'm having to replace my work laptop, and there are the following reasons why I am super pissed:
Oh, and the last kick in the nuts, this new laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad, and apparently, they are the only brand that swapped the positions of the Function and Ctrl keys. So I've got +15 years of muscle memory hitting Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V 1,000 times a day to unlearn. I've worn grooves into those keys with the amount of copy/pasting I do, and today, I don't think I've done it once without having to look at my fingers. I could get a wireless keyboard, but that's just extra shit on my already tiny desk, more shit to carry around, and money coming out of MY pocket to fix a very stupid problem Lenovo created for no goddamn reason.
- My current laptop is probably 10 years old. It's missing the "T" button, so half the words I type with a "T" are wrong, and the letter "I" is starting to stick.
- Of my working group, mine is the only laptop with the necessary network connections to our myriad data sources that we use every day, so I'm literally the only person in my group that can do some very critical work. Everyone else upgraded a long time ago, and found out the hard way that...
- ... through various forms of attrition, no one is left in IT that knows how to re-establish those network connections on a new laptop.
Oh, and the last kick in the nuts, this new laptop is a Lenovo ThinkPad, and apparently, they are the only brand that swapped the positions of the Function and Ctrl keys. So I've got +15 years of muscle memory hitting Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V 1,000 times a day to unlearn. I've worn grooves into those keys with the amount of copy/pasting I do, and today, I don't think I've done it once without having to look at my fingers. I could get a wireless keyboard, but that's just extra shit on my already tiny desk, more shit to carry around, and money coming out of MY pocket to fix a very stupid problem Lenovo created for no goddamn reason.
Here's a probable software solution for your problem
Apparently you can either mess around in the BIOS somewhere, if you feel comfortable with that, or use some Lenovo software ( Lenovo Keyboard Manager or Lenovo Vantage, apparently )
Imagine making a design choice so ass-backwards that your company has to dedicate an entire page on their support section to getting around it.
Yeah, I saw those same solutions, but my company is really pearl-clutchy when it comes to their assets, and have strictly disallowed us from installing any software that doesn't come from our IT. We can't even connect a USB drive or check personal email accounts from a company asset; they're that locked down with their shit. I thought about asking IT if they could do it for me since they ARE Lenovo's own solution to an issue that has pissed enough people off as to NEED a solution, but they're so bogged down and short-staffed, I'd be so low on their list of priorities, It'd probably be 6 months before they could finally be bothered to tell me no.
I know, right? Apparently, they wanted users to have easier access to the Function (Fn) key as to more easily utilize built-in functions like keyboard lighting and other shit that are nominal when compared to the millions trained on a mostly universally keyboard layout for decades. This might be a bit hyperbolic, but it' be like a car manufacturer swapping the gas and brake pedals citing that since most people are right-sided, it's prudent to have the dominant foot with primary access to slow a moving vehicle. Yeah, tell that to the thousands of accidents caused when people slam on the "brake" instinctively only to accelerate and plow directly into a bus-full of orphans at 90 mph.
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Also, on mobile, it un-hides the page selector at the top of a page, making it a bit easier to jump to the last page of a thread if you end up opening its first page for whatever reason.
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32 and still have no dating experience.
I hit the gym regularly, have multiple hobbies (LEGO, guitar, cooking, trivia, etc), know how to have fun, can be funny, and participate in social gatherings when invited.
It's my height, at 5'2", that has been a real crux when it comes to dating.
If any woman says "I don't look at a guy's height/I don't care for their height", I firmly believe they are consciously lying or lying to themselves, and that it's only applied when they are above average height.
Yeah, I can be friends with women, make them laugh, or impress them with my cooking/baking skills, but as soon as I even mildly suggest that we go out, they turn me down. It doesn't matter how long I've known them, I am not their type, they want to focus on themselves, etc etc etc.
At this point, if a woman shows a sign of interest, I keep my distance; They are either doing it as a prank, lost a bet and now doing it as a punishment, or trying to scam me. There is no way anyone would have romantic feelings for me.
Online Dating makes it worse, and my self-esteem is crushed.
I love every other aspects about myself and my life in general, but height really brings out the self-pity. Leg-lengthening surgery is out of option for me, as it's too expensive and I am not risking the side-effects and long-term risks, all for extra 2 inches. It really is something I can't fix.
I know some people in my parents' generation who was about my height and still was able to date and got married. Their spouses were willing to look past the physical appearance and see them for who they really are.
I don't think anyone in my generation has the same mentality; I've experienced too many times of instant "no" or trying for a few days and eventually dying out.
I don't have an "ideal type"; I have zero dating experience to understand what kind of person I am really looking for. Besides, they are just gonna turn me down anyways.
I am really tempted to just hire an wh*re, but I feel that would bring down my self-esteem even more.
Some people have been telling me "Dating is just asking for headache and is a mess", and I tell them "At least you got to date".
Dying alone and having no one in my life when I'm in my 80s or 90s sounds depressing, but it looks like that's where I'm headed.
I hit the gym regularly, have multiple hobbies (LEGO, guitar, cooking, trivia, etc), know how to have fun, can be funny, and participate in social gatherings when invited.
It's my height, at 5'2", that has been a real crux when it comes to dating.
If any woman says "I don't look at a guy's height/I don't care for their height", I firmly believe they are consciously lying or lying to themselves, and that it's only applied when they are above average height.
Yeah, I can be friends with women, make them laugh, or impress them with my cooking/baking skills, but as soon as I even mildly suggest that we go out, they turn me down. It doesn't matter how long I've known them, I am not their type, they want to focus on themselves, etc etc etc.
At this point, if a woman shows a sign of interest, I keep my distance; They are either doing it as a prank, lost a bet and now doing it as a punishment, or trying to scam me. There is no way anyone would have romantic feelings for me.
Online Dating makes it worse, and my self-esteem is crushed.
I love every other aspects about myself and my life in general, but height really brings out the self-pity. Leg-lengthening surgery is out of option for me, as it's too expensive and I am not risking the side-effects and long-term risks, all for extra 2 inches. It really is something I can't fix.
I know some people in my parents' generation who was about my height and still was able to date and got married. Their spouses were willing to look past the physical appearance and see them for who they really are.
I don't think anyone in my generation has the same mentality; I've experienced too many times of instant "no" or trying for a few days and eventually dying out.
I don't have an "ideal type"; I have zero dating experience to understand what kind of person I am really looking for. Besides, they are just gonna turn me down anyways.
I am really tempted to just hire an wh*re, but I feel that would bring down my self-esteem even more.
Some people have been telling me "Dating is just asking for headache and is a mess", and I tell them "At least you got to date".
Dying alone and having no one in my life when I'm in my 80s or 90s sounds depressing, but it looks like that's where I'm headed.
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Now that's some incel shit.
Move to any of the following countries, you'll be both average height and probably quite wealthy compared to the rest of the population.
Countries with the Shortest Average Heights
Which countries have the shortest average heights? Understand how health, nutrition, and social issues impact population growth.
www.worldatlas.com
Second that. Ok, not saying that there aren't some women who have a weird height hang-up, but it's far from all.
In all seriousness, have you considered professional therapy? So many of your posts are "woe is me;" you're clearly disaffected, or at least dissatisfied with your lot in life, and opening up to we strangers might feel therapeutic, but it sounds like you'd greatly benefit from talking to someone professionally.
You sound like someone trying to be an "ideal" person. No one itemizes the way they are "normal" unless those thing are actually abnormal to themselves. Well, not "abnormal," per se, but maybe "wooing ideals?" Like, when courting a woman: "I bought her flowers, jewelry, wrote her poetry, etc.," well, most guys aren't a florist, jeweler, or poet, but they know ladies like that stuff, so attempt to embody that stuff. I know this is going to sound cliche, but truly be yourself. Don't treat every interaction with someone you're interested in as a calculated opportunity to advance things. If you're funny, then be funny! Let her laugh, and don't read for anything deeper in her response. If you're a great cook, make a great meal and let her eat herself full, then turn on the TV to something YOU want to watch. Be yourself at all times WITHOUT any expectations of "gaining points" with someone else. It's a relationship, not a lab; sounds like you keep running to the chalkboard wondering where your calculations are off.
I know it sounds like a longshot, and I'm not bragging, but I've personally netted a couple of women in my time BECAUSE I didn't think I had a shot, and didn't try. They were way out of my league, so without any expectations, I was just myself around them, comfortable in the "friend zone," and on a couple fateful nights, I was basically physically assaulted by these women who'd apparently had a penned up desire for me, and the first question from them both was "wHy DIdn't yoU eVEr AsK mE oUt?!?" And when I admitted I didn't think I had a shot, THEY listed all the reasons I was an "ideal" to them, not me listing all the ways I tried to be what they wanted.