ROLLING ;_; THREAD

1. I can't find the lyrics to "Psyche-Out" so I must postpone my "favorite line from 'Psyche-Out'" poll.

2. That poor guys friend who put his hand in the fryer ;_;

3. HI DERE hurting a puppy with glass laced "snacks"

4. Dan, John, and FB no longer wear their 1991 fashion choices

5. my inflamed shoulder tendon

6. I am not drinking yet

7. I have to go to Apple Valley to get a rental car and I don't want to.

8. Eye-bleeding confusion from using Site New Answers and hitting reload at the time when all the poll notifications leap to the top

9. my dog ate my toast, admittedly i gave it to him, but he made me.

10. Missed the funniest thread of the day because of thinking "Shower head? Who gives a fuck about a shower head?"

11. this much time, T------H------I-------S much work

12. Can't find my favorite cookbook with the best chocolate chip cookie recipe and I PROMISED my son I would make them tomorrow

13. Useless car salesman being as useless as I'm led to believe car salesmen are ;_;

13. nz & us govts won't hurry up and sort their shit out, so now i can't come to oakland as soon as i hoped. i planned february, but now i just don't know ;_;

13.14^^^

Ha! wow

15. Rubyredd's ;_: pwns every ;_; I could think of except "lol RACISM" and that hasn't happened to me in a while

16. I'm competitive over ;_; wtf

yeah i had a pretty serious ;_; last weekend over it - really really had my heart set on feb/march, and was at least coming for a holiday if visa things weren't sorted, but just can't afford it cuz it would blow my savings right outta the water.

JESUS CHRIST GOD ALLAH I HAVE BEEN WAITING ALMOST A YEAR ALREADY CUT ME SOME FREAKIN SLACK

wtf, does the US not let kiwis in now? When did this happen?

they announced this new one year work/travel scheme last sept but haven't actually bothered to implement so i can't apply yet.

f'n bureaucrats.

(apologies to any bureaucrats here who are not shit)

That's really stupid. I apologize on behalf of my country's stupid bureaucracy.

we've been letting americans in for one year visas for like five years now. but we only let 5000 of you in each year.

17. the start of this thread

18. No one will do my work for me. Especially not Sara.

19. I am too dumb to be able to do Dan's work.

20. Dan is younger than me, too. Somehow this seems unfair. ;_;

21. we're not going to be able to finish the quarterly reports on time tonight and I'm going to be late to 69's birthday!! oh man just writing that made it even more ;_; like finally acknowledging your grief so you can move on

22. gmail and ebay accounts haxxxx0red ;___;

whoa what happened???

Both passwords are changed. pretty shithouse :(((

you got XSS'ed. that sucks

drunk, ha><0r or annoying partner/flatmate?

I'm quite certain it's teh ha><><0rness. I've been on numerous friends' computers over the last week or so. Thursday morning it was all fine, Thursday afternoon, no good.

Does anyone know if google are good at sorting this shit out? I've filled out the "someone's changed my password" form or whatever it's called. I assume they're not.

never had to deal with it, but I like to imagine they'd be super helpful. I mean they all work in disneyland

I'm so sorry to hear that and hope it all gets sorted. :(

ebay account reinstated ^__^b

The Password Change request was made from:
IP address: 82.128.21.247
ISP host: 10.10.63.249

w4lter have you changed all your other passwords for all your other internet stuff like paypal etc.?

my ebay was hijacked once. they used it to send spam for some chinese company. so you know, it might not be personal/super-malicious hopefully.

23. iphones mean that people can show you tubgirl whenever they want, like when you're in a bar happy and talking to people, they can just walk up and show you tubgirl ;____; i hate the iphone.

yes but then you can punch them.

and take their phone.

if that happened to me i would exact my revenge by throwing up on the offending party, and on the offending party's phone. and then i would faint. when i revived i would do the punching. and then i would ;_;.

</squeamish>

HI DERE, as an iphone owner, consider yourself on notice.

The Password Change request was made from:
IP address: 82.128.21.247

You got pwned by Africans. Looks like Nigeria.

Administrative Contact:
Admin, Domain d✧✧✧@multili✧✧✧.c✧✧
231 Adeola Odeku Street
Victoria Island
Marina, Lagos 44028
NG
+234-1-7740000

;_;

I don't want to start an OS cock-off or anything, but W4LTER, are you using Windows on these PCs?

Ha, yep.

The dude was sending messages like the following, all the items appear to be laptops. And there are dozens of them.

Am Ark Walter, am highly impressed with the advert of your item placed on ebay.l have read through and understand the conditions of the item.I am interested in buying it for my son who is in research mission Abroad as a New year present.And due to this,i am offering you $2.549.99 USD including shipping cost of $100.00 via US Postal Service.And kindly send me your paypal mail address and your full name through this my private box mdwal✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ so that i can remit the money into your account as soon as possible and I would appreciate it also if you could contact me directly through this same box.Also i want you to end the auction immediately to confirm to me your readiness to sell the product to me and more over,not to lose the item to another bidder.
Hope to here from you soon

..And I didn't change the spelling, he did say 'Am Ark Walter'.

There was a bunch of responses. Mostly like "are you joking?"

24. Husband still sick. Daughter now sick. Either I will get sick or I will lose my mind from constantly being in house with sick people. ;_;

or both!

estela painfully OTM

25. Ingrown beard hair on my neck has created a painful sore spot ;_;

Ouch!

26. I am now very sunburnt
;__;
;
:
,
.

27. the actual banning of louis jagger

oh shit sry jag

28. my stupid internet connection crapping out every goddamn fucking 10mins while i'm trying to have a conversation with my guy on skype.

29. Inducting a new guy for 6 hours straight and losing your voice

John still can't tell me apart from Fluffy Bear ;_;

Well, it's hard to blame him, since you ARE nearly identical in appearance.

I can barely tell the three of you apart and I've known you since high school. How can you blame John for getting confused?

I'm the tall one with dark hair, HI DERE is the one in the Bearsuit, FB is the one in the Wolfsuit.

31. Towel fell out of my pocket on the way to the gym
32. Couldn't do barbell rows because I couldn't remember what it was
33. Couldn't do weighted pull-ups because I could not put the weights on
34. Couldn't do deadlifts because I would get it wrong and damage my back
35. Towel was STOLEN
36. Rogue bastard moth made me get shampoo in my eye
37. ALL THIS HAPPENED IN THE PAST TWO HOURS

xpost You all look tall, dark, and kinda hairy to me.

Autumn Almanac, you definitely need to have a better next few hours. Shampoo in your eye is the WORST!

I think a knife in your eye would be worse.

^

;_!---

38. latent upper-back injury from this morning's fitness débacle

39. Feeling really unwell and foggy brained when i need to be at my sharpest to apply for jobs cos me and my bf are both out of work and we just paid rent with the last of our main money so now have one month to get a job or ... fuck knows.

wo that's awful

Yikes, that sucks. So sorry to hear!

Yeah I'm not panicking... yet. I can always get the dole but its not much. Ugh ugh ugh.

trayce needs to have triplets to score big AUS baby bonus

24. Husband still sick. Daughter now sick. Either I will get sick or I will lose my mind from constantly being in house with sick people. ;_;

this sounds like last 8 months in our house.

Yeah, once someone gets sick it seems like an unbreakable cycle.

40. I SWEAR TO GOD THERE ISN'T ONE FUCKING GROCERY STORE IN THIS CITY THAT SELLS CORN DOGS. ALL I WANT IS A CORN DOG. MOTHERFUCKER.

41.-53. reserved for mother-in-law staying in our flat for THIRTEEN DAYS

(she's sweet, grebt etc. but THIRTEEN DAYS)

I once told my MIL that she and FIL needed to do so, they could live with us. I hope to god that never happens because I'm pretty sure that it would lead to MURDER.

Thirteen days does seem like too many, too. I think my max is, like, 4 or so.

max = realistic maximum tolerance

PP has to deal with min 21days when my moms comes to town

My MIL stayed with us recently for almost three weeks. Except for some very minor stuff, all went well, though I think everyone was ready to "get back to normal" toward the end, MIL included.

xp ha

My MIL stayed with us for two weeks once.

(Once.)

Really, if it was just my MIL, I might be okay indefinitely; it is my FIL who I find more frustrating.

54. ow foosball side-effects (why is my knee sore, though?????)

55. I have a huge, multi-colored bruise on my right leg and I have no clue where I got it. It is hideous, though.

(at least I know it wasn't FOOSBALL)

56. I kind of forgot to make plans for my birthday.

IS it today? Happy Birthday!

^^^^ trip to drinkin' island, duh. xpost

It's Friday.

No, today is Wednesday.

GREAT SCOTT YOU'RE RIGHT

57. My best friends are sarcastic asshats. ;_;

wait, no: ^_^

Friday is a good day to have a birthday! mine is always in the middle of finals. :/

58. I do not have an awesome present to give to Dan for his birthday. ;_;

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/20BAH4MUWV5AJ

58: SOLVED!

I think your Amazon.com wish list might be even longer than mine, Dan. Kudos!

59. MIL gets up, switches on FUCKING SUNRISE

You don't mean the actual sunrise, do you? I would be very uneasy about having a goddess for a MIL.

That does sound troubling.

It's our Today show and I think it's worse.

60. My tram has stopped and now I will be late for wo WAIT it's going again

I always get uneasy when my in-laws are around because they listen to classical music radio 24-7 at their house and they have no tv. So I feel all uncomfortable when I watch tv, when I let the kids watch tv, and when I turn on any sort of music other than classical... all of which I do on a daily basis if they are not around. (OMG I like pop culture, how embarrassing!)

61. It has been cold enough for long enough that my elbow full of screws is starting to ache and I can feel where the metal is. It kind of hurts and also ew. ;_;

That's awful Sara!

I remember when I had screws in my thumb, the few days before they were pulled out, the screws were pressing up against my skin, it was v uncomfortable and hurty.

Yikes! These are at least embedded so deeply that they aren't visible. If you take an x-ray it kind of looks like someone went crazy at the hardware store and then accidentally spilled some screws onto the x-ray machine.

I have to say that I didn't mind the "pins" (a.k.a. more screws) that were in my wrist, but getting them taken out hurt. The doctors insist that "it just feels weird," but it's b.s.; it hurts to have screws pulled out of your bone and skin. Shocking! (Plus, I was due to have a baby any day. Were they thinking I was going to think that wasn't going to hurt, either? wtf people at sports medicine clinic!?)

Now, the important question, W4LTER. WHAT did you do that you needed screws in your THUMB?!

I was hit by a car on my bicycle. I discussed it somewhere on IL2RMB

Shit, OW! Was your thumb your only injury? (hands and fingers... so many nerves... wow that must have sucked)

Yeah, it was the only breakage. I had grazes all over the place: face knees, elbows, knuckles. I still have a bit of a scar from the grill of the car on my calf too.

Well, I'm glad you came out of it okay, but still... ouch. (I am not going to get over the broken thumb thing anytime soon... yikes.)

62. mil does not ever stop talking
63. mil changes subject WHILE I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE
64. mil puts her feet under my nose whilst I am trying to eat

65. mil spends 23.5 hours a day guessing what omgfamous people do in their spare time
66. mil judges aforementioned omgcelebrities based on what she thinks they're doing in their spare time

okay WAHT to 64

your MIL sounds fun

Wow, #64.

Only... 11 more days?

"How's the french toast? Does it taste like THESE?????????????"

I mean directly under the nose? To be honest, most everyone's feet is under my nose at a given time, unless they're doing a headstand.

http://www.filmreference.com/images/sjff_01_img0203.jpg

"Um... pass the salt?"

"Mrs. Robinson, I think you're trying to ruin my meal."

wtf, is she trying to seduce him while wearing opaque tights?!

Things were different in the 60s, Sara.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/n898850541_1973409_3536.jpg

^^^Bad evil mask from party the other week. It upset everyone. ;_;

I thank you in advance for tonight's impending nightmares, W4LTER.

I got like no sleep last night and I have to work tonight late until relief shows up

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/8436/freakshowjfxa9.gif

gah

I really hope that is not supposed to be Tom. Or any other ILXor.

"the candy colored clown they call the sandman..."

"pretty pretty you're barely alive MAAAAAN"

67. persistent unwanted mick hucknall visions.

You say that like there are wanted mick hucknall visions.

;_;

68. formatting ignominy on ^_^ thread.

69. socks and sandals

70. mil opens 200 ad-filled web pages in the morning and leaves them open all day, sapping my download quota
71. cannot get near computer ever
72. cannot get near television ever
73. 'er indoors is by turns clingy and cranky with me for no reason
74. AAAARGH I AM LOSING MY MIND

can't 73 be attributed to 62-66, 70-72, 74?

Yeah. Okay 74 is free again.

how many more days?

7 days 8 hours 1 min 34 sec

74 is occupied again.

Adam I very much comis, tho it was my actual mother rather than MIL (well I'm not married so I don't technically have a MIL but you get the idea)

My bf's parents are visiting soon. I haven't met them before but I'm not at all worried cos a) R's dad is a guitar repair dude/banjo player/musician and is awesome, b) his mum seems like fun, c) they're only coming over for 2 days (from perth - wtf??) and d) they aren't staying at our house WOOOO.

OTOH I feel very sorry for R when he has to meet *my* parents :/

hahaha oh noes.

This week is the best ever to have 600 hours of extra work to do.

Lock yourself in a room alone and work. Or just say you're working. She'll never know!

The option I have selected is to stay at work and finish all this freaking work that is choking me gah.

75. all this freaking work that is choking me

can't 73 be attributed to 62-66, 70-72, 74?

-- estela, Monday, 21 January 2008 10:09 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Oh you said 73! Yes. Absolutely. She's almost as harrowed as me by it all.

I hope that you get it all done without actually CHOKING.

Also, without stressing out toooooo much. (Easier said than done, I know.)

Thanks. I will if I do all this overtime. It all calms down in just over two weeks.

That can feel like forever when you're overwhelmed with stuff to do, though. Hang in there!

You know, if I had some freaking brain space I'd be fine with all this.

NB: THIS IS A REPEAT OF A PREVIOUS ;_;

76. some idiot talking on his cellie while driving ran red light at 40+ mph and smashed into us messing up my beautiful new honda.
BUT
- kid is so ok we don't think she even noticed it happened
- i guess hunting around for the safest car in our price range was worth it because our car is just a little dinged and the whole back of his was hanging off
- i suppressed the initial overwhelming urge to get out of the car and beat the shit out this guy for risking my kids life
- we're just so stupidly happy that we weren't a few feet more out into the intersection because it would have been a whole other, much worse, outcome

so i guess more :/ than ;_;

wau, glad yr ok

so glad you and the bubs are okay, ss. i fucking HATE seeing ppl texting even more than i hate cellph calls, because ppl aren't even looking up when they do it. stupid fucks

77. Symptoms = "acute bronchitis", which isn't apparently as bad as it sounds, but means I've got about 2 more weeks of this ahead.

xpost SO glad you and Beeps are okay. That sucks, though. We just had to replace a car due to similar idiocy (although the woman who hit my husband's car was not texting or even talking on a cell phone; apparently she was just too out of it to notice the stop sign).

I would have been more freaked about Beeps being in the car than anything.

John - so sorry to hear - but did they at least give you some antibiotics?

I haven't had bronchitis since 9th grade. NOT FUN, though, I remember that much.

See if you'd come out to MA behind my back like you were supposed to, you wouldn't have bronchitis now.

78. Learning about awesome surprises that didn't happen ;_; ;_; ;_;

Your wife is not so good at keeping secrets, is she.

Well, when it fell into the "so not gonna happen" bucket, she told me. I was completely bummed until I got the PS3, at which point I kind of forgot you guys existed.

fair enough

I was defeated by the fact that I wasn't sure if ringworm had been eradicated from my friend's house, and I didn't want to risk it coming to MY house. I couldn't leave my kids with Heather all weekend; she already has 4 of them!

SO glad you forgot about us. ;)

(But still, I was all ;_; yesterday because I would have vastly preferred being in Boston to going to H's kids' birthday party.)

You have no idea how tempted I was to post "MY FRIENDS DON'T LOVE ME" to this thread around #56. Then the PS3 showed up and I was all "Friends? What are those?"

We DO love you! But you moved awaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!!!

wau so much ;_; in this thread.

That car accident sounds horrific. Hopefully you're all okay and not set up for some latent neck injury. There's SO much to be said for safe cars.

my new theory is that I got bronchitis because of my lack of drinking over the last week.

Again, had you come to Boston...!

Also you would have been able to witness my "lol surprise MLK Sunday solo!" moment at church.

xpost So the alcohol would have killed off the germs...?

Wait, Dan were you surprised by the solo or was everyone else surprised?

i think the bronchitis is just my bodies way of telling me to fuck off for denying it sweet sweet alcohol

xpost

I might be more willing to believe that theory if I thought for a second that you had denied yourself alcohol before you got sick.

btw, I made the mistake of mentioning the Super Mario Brothers movie in front of Alex and now he's super excited to see it. He does not believe your thumbs down review.

oh sunny, i'm so glad you're all okay. what a horrible thing.

He does not believe your thumbs down review.

He will.

Wow shitthouse Sunny, if some arsehole ran into mah new car I would be so fucking cranky.

ALSO: my gf does NOT want to watch Cloverfield with me ;_____;

But she did watch I Am Legend

*SPOILER*(She cried when the dog died)

Wait, Dan were you surprised by the solo or was everyone else surprised?

Yes.

As I was getting ready to go out on Saturday night, I checked my email and found a piece arranged by our director with a solo for me in it. Everyone else found out about it on Sunday morning. Yikes.

WOW. I think I would have hidden in my house for several weeks under those circumstances.

I wish I could have heard it anyway, though. ;_;

Ah, it ended up being awesome. It helped that he was like "It's really an ad-lib thing so just sing something in the key." ^_^

"Just sing something in the key" OMG TERRIFYING INSTRUCTIONS WTF

I mean, seriously, he didn't give you musical notes and a text?!

Now I REALLY wish I had heard it. I am impressed and intimidated.

"Just sing something in the key" OMG TERRIFYING INSTRUCTIONS WTF

-- Sara R-C, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 09:34 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^ a Hollywood ending waiting to happen

No, there were notes and stuff! He just told me I didn't actually have to sing what he wrote, which basically meant that as long as I wasn't out of tune, whatever I did was okay.

"Just sing something in the key" OMG TERRIFYING INSTRUCTIONS WTF

lol u scared
see: why tomboto like jazz band

This is just reminding me of my friend's story about her hyperChristian Dad, and how he and his wife arrange Christian music. The text he was so excited about arranging started with, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death."

xpost Tombot, I would freak with those instructions, I admit it freely!

Okay if Jazz Band complete with matching saxophone controller gets released I am SO THERE. (See also: Hip-Hop Band)

Also to summarize:

Sara would freak with those instructions.
I would freak those instructions.

which basically meant that as long as I wasn't out of tune, whatever I did was okay.

-- HI DERE, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 09:58 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Post-modern performance in the making.

'I am siiiiingiiiing... but I haaaaave no woooooords... so I wiiiiiiill just do thiiiiiis'

"I am singing!!!!! And I have no idea what to saaaaaaay! Help me get off this stage nooooooooowwww!!!"

God I'm having flashed of Will Ferrell in Elf

THERE WERE WORDS, PEOPLE

I just had to repeat "Sing on" over and over. It only lasted 16 measures. NOT VERY TAXING IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS.

...so you didn't even get to wear an elf costume? ;_;

^^^^^ 79.

Yes, I am extremely disappointed about it.

80. my kids don't have school again tomorrow and they were AWFUL today

81. Feature Request: Changeable usernames/displaynames, etc

82. I have to go to the movie tonight ALONE. (Upside: no one will see what an utter chicken I am.)

83. I think we are officially trapped in a Bizarro universe. First Bush won ("won"?) TWO elections, then spinach became poison, then eli manning went to the superbowl, then out of all the crazy fucked-up druggie "starlets" in Hollywood Heath Ledger died. :/

oh and apparently some people on ILX are FAKE.

angrily echoing #81

http://i24.tinypic.com/295wfu9.gif

^post that had to be maed^

84. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/86665.html

I lol'd

It ended, though. ;_;

WOW

hahahahahhahahaha

UNBAN FREE HUGS

85. my new guy at work is all ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM ADAM

lol yr work with Kiki from Sluggy Freelance

86. can't get Scrabulous to work at the moment ;_;

87. saw the final stage of our postcard production today. the girl in my group in charge on putting the overlay on the cards totally fucked it up ;_; ;_; ;_;

WAHT

Okay, that sucks.

88. MIL IS IN THE TOILET AND I AM BUSTING

A nut? ew.

89. still at work

90. J has a small cavity (which sucks for her and also sucks for us because MONEY)

ps go home Dan

90. feeling extremely daunted by the amount of work i gotta get through in the next 2 weeks. not sure i can make it ;_;

9091. ^^^

You can do it! Just think how relaxed you'll be when it's all over.

92. a mouse

93. omw back to work

94. mil leaves front door key next to front door (great for burglaries)
95. mil scrubs feet with MY pumice stone
96. mil leaves pumice stone on top of the soap, meaning I have to finger her FOOT GRIT every time I have a shower

97. my parents are going to meet my bf before i do ;_; this is not right
98. my poor bf is going to meet my parents ;_; he's insisting, even though i keep giving him easy cop-outs. god, it was his idea. i think he will live to regret it. i feel bad i can't be there to protect him.

mil's only two topics of conversation:

99. '...and I said <blah-blah> and she said <blah-blah> and I said <blah-blah> and she said <blah-blah> and I said <blah-blah> and she said <blah-blah>...'

100. 'Do you like <some omgfamous person>? I don't like him. He looks nasty. Do you like <some other omgfamous person>? I think she's nice. She seems really nice. I don't like her boyfriend though. He's an idiot.'

there was a giant (about a 5-inch span) spider racing around in my study this morning, it frightened me and then it hid behind a bookcase and then it came out looking belligerent and now it is dead because we couldn't rescue it and also couldn't let it stay on the lam, it was beyond the pale.
also i have got hayfever.
this is all punishment for being boastful to sara about how warm it is here, it serves me right.

omg I think I prefer the freezing weather to 5 inch span apiders

But I'm still sorry; it sounds like you are having a rough day.

luckily i am remarkably stoical.

I can be stoical about some things, but giant spiders are NOT one of them.

Even fictional giant spiders scare the hell out of me. We saw The Return of the King in my house, on our little tv - and I had read the book, so I basically knew that it was going to be okay - but the Shelob scenes just GOT me. I bruised my husband's bicep I was hanging on to him so hard.

we have had weeks and weeks of rain and now it has stopped there are bugs everywhere, not good.

Yuck. I suppose there are centipedes, too. If there's anything worse than a spider, it's a centipede.

SO TRUE CENTIPEDES ARE THE WORST THING EVER

GAAAAAHHH i hate them

OH MY GOD, I TOOK THIS PHOTO OF THIS SPIDER ON MY PHONE THE OTHER DAY (I V MUCH HATE SPIDERS). IT'S ABDOMEN (OR WHATEVER) WAS PROBABLY ONLY SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN A GOLF BALL O_O

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j171/mdanielwalter/DSC00334.jpg
THAT'S LIKE A CICADA OR SOMETHING IT'S EATING

Wow. That is terrifying.

Centipedes... it's just that they move so fast and they look so... alien. And sometimes they are so HUGE. My method of disposal: get the vacuum, put alllllll the attachments on and, from very far away, suck the centipede up.

I gotta say, though, that probably wouldn't work for that giant spider in the picture, and this disturbs me.

I may have just lost all hope of sleeping tonight.

rolling ÒoÓ thread

i don't think we have centipedes here, we don't have them indoors anyway.
i'm always glad when other people say they don't like spiders either. sometimes in the middle of a spider discussion people will start to defend them by going on too much about their good points, in which i am not interested.

Their good points are all overshadowed by the fact that they have way too many legs, in my opinion. And the big hairy ones... ugh, shudder. Or the ones with really fat bodys and long black, legs...

Although I should say that I don't mind them if they are, say, in a glass container where they can't possibly get out and accidentally wind up walking on me. (Like at the zoo, or John's late pet tarantula).

Now if John had had a pet centipede in high school, I don't know.

Sounds like he would not have been very tempted.

you seem to have found his entomological achilles heel.

when is his birthday?

Oh, it's coming right up, at the beginning of March. I don't think he'd be very happy if I mailed him a birthday centipede.

But maybe Dan will do it. Dan does not live within reasonable driving distance.

mailing things is your job, sara.

But it would be so much more effective if I just brought it in person.

Also probably more immediately dangerous for me, so go US Postal service!

SHOULD SARA MAIL JOHN CENTIPEDES

101. SHOULD SARA MAIL JOHN CENTIPEDES

102. The guitarist for my band (also my boss) was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism and blood clots in his leg late last week. His doctor told him it was a miracle he was still alive.

103.

(Am I a bad person for half-hoping Sara would google 2g1c before posting and getting completely ambushed by it?)

-- HI DERE, Monday, January 28, 2008 2:17 PM (Monday, January 28, 2008 2:17 PM) Bookmark Link

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Yes, and sadly for you I have more sense than that.

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If only because I know who I'm dealing with here.

-- Sara R-C, Monday, January 28, 2008 2:19 PM (Monday, January 28, 2008 2:19 PM) Bookmark Link

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^^^ 104

xpost Aw, Dan, you know I love you.

Jessie, the eyes on that girl look a lot like some of the pictures in my medical dictionary.

105. mil hasn't been gone 24 hours and already I'm being dragged to more family shit

106. I just found out our new CEO's daughters were on "My Super Sweet 16" WAHT

107. so many meetings that I cannot make an osteo appointment

107. so many meetings that I cannot make an osteo appointment

YAY!

Because what is more fun than an osteo appointment, right?

;)

It hurts like hell but I sooo need it.

(there's a ^_^ attached to this but it is the wrong thread)

Sara you should buy John soooo many lizards*

*obligatory obscureish Futurama reference wot wot

TS: one birthday iguana vs. 100 birthday geckos

(I'm clueless about the reference, but thanks for the idea!)

iguana definitely: geckos are too easy to step on and squish. and how hard would it be to name a 100 geckos and differentiate them?

That is the fun of the geckos, obv.!

108. Thank you for shopping at Sears.

The item that you have ordered is unavailable in your area however; we value your business. We suggest you visit Sears.com to make a different selection of this item. Once you have made a selection, please inform us via email or by phone and we would be happy offer you a discount of 5%.

have you looked at r3furbd3p0t.com? im looking there for a tv. some are new in box (not refurbs) and the prices are pretty good.

i want to get this one (this one is a refurb):
http://refurbdepot.com/productdetails2.cfm?Product_ID=5944

500,000:1 contrast ratio !!

contrast ratio is not actually measured by any sort of standard recognized by anything so those are all fake-ass vendor numbers

I mean 500,000 whats to 1 what?

I haven't looked anywhere because I FOUND THE RIGHT TV AT THE RIGHT PRICE, JUST GIVE IT TO ME DAMMIT

but yeah that would be a pretty fucking sweet TV

I got my HDTV flatscreen last year but we had to watch the SB in SD. When they finally came and installed an HD dish upstairs this month, they disconnected my receiver, and it hasn't been fixed, so now I get no SB at all.

That is the true measure of ;_;. Luckily, as a fatalistic and curmudgeonly booze fiend, I know exactly how to deal with the problem.

Someday I will have a better, bigger tv than the old-fashioned one we bought in 1996!!!

110. I have no curmudgeonly booze.

1996 must have been the last year they made TVs to last over a decade. that's crazy.

111. the grammar in 108.

xp to tombot:
yeah i dont know. i did look at actual tvs in the store (sears!). most had contrast ratios of 10,000:1 or less. you could see the trailing blocks everywhere. well, the 10K ones werent so bad but the 5-7K ones looked horrible. then i looked at one that was 25,000:1 and you couldnt see any. thats the highest ive seen in an LCD tv until a couple of weeks ago when i found this one. So I figure 500000:1 must eyeblowing. I dont see how technology can jump from 25K to 500K so suddenly though.

xpost to Tom: the tv we had before that is one that I swear my parents bought in the mid-80s. I think it is still in use at their liquor store in Hastings. (Without cable, though, it was basically useless, as I recall.)

112. I don't think my tv has been dusted since about 2003, when we moved. Every time I look at it, I cringe, but then I forget about it the second I leave that room.

We bought the TV in our bedroom in 1997. The one in the living room was purchased in 2005. The plan was to retire the bedroom TV and move the living room TV into the bedroom. Now, I don't know what the fuck is gonna happen. Fucking Sears.

Can you look around for another tv...? And invest in some curmudgeonly booze.

Our second-hand 4:3 CRT is chugging along nicely. We could replace it but can't be arsed.

SD is fine on an antique once you get used to the big black bars everywhere. An HD decoder is too much effort for the shitty choice we get here.

sunny: the trailing blocks aren't really due to contrast. that's just the speed of the polarized crystals flipping back and forth, the VIZIO stuff is generally crap for that, yeah, Philips/Samsung both are really good though.
You really do have to go to a big box retailer that has like 20 of them running next to each other to figure out what looks best to you.

Okay, so, I'm sending good tv-buying vibes to Dan and J031 and good house-buying vibes to John and Caledonia. Anyone else need any positive thoughts sent their way?

(xp) Philips/Samsung-branded anything is only going to last you six weeks though.

sara, yes plz: i need people to reply to my emails asking stuff for my huge paper due next friday. and i need them to reply SOON.

also: i recently realised i have 358pts when i need 360 to graduate, so plz manifest that the 2pt difference will be waived or else i have to spend another 6 months at uni ;_;

Sending positive thoughts/vibes/whatever else your way, Rubyredd!

113. the bit in Toy Story when Buzz Lightyear realised he isn't a real space captain ;_;

114. just paid out $1000 from moving-to-the-US fund for income tax and student loan repayments ;_;

115. Still no speakers and no TV stand... ARGH I WANT TO SET UP MY LIVING ROOM ARGH

Haha sara I thought you wrote "I haven't been dusted since...(year)." YIKES. Thank god I cannot read.

lolol

116. MY FUCKING SPEAKERS GOT SENT BACK TO THE DEALER BECAUSE UPS IS RETARDED. STUPID FUCKERS.

Ugh, I'm sorry. I don't get it, though... WHY?

THAT IS A QUESTION I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE ANSWERED

So I'm glad I don't work for UPS right now. I fear the WRATH OF DAN

UPS and Electronics Expo had better be prepared to kiss my entire black ass.

117. A conversation with Electronics Expo:

"You're currently in the mode where you'd be getting a refund, so we can't just ship the speakers back out to you. You could always rebuy the speakers, though."

"That's fine. Will I be able to purchase them for the same price I originally paid?" (NOTE: This price is 50% off of the list price)

"I'm sure you will, just let me check.... Wow, that's low. Um, let me call you back..." *click*

YOU MOTHERFUCKERS I JUST WANT MY FUCKING SPEAKERS GIVE ME MY FUCKING SPEAKERS NOW FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU ARGH

PS: YOU MOTHERFUCKING FUCKERS

Okay, I'm getting kind of pissed off on your behalf, actually. I loathe bad customer service and find it really difficult to confront strangers unless I'm really REALLY upset, but in your situation, absolutely.

118. I have to take J. to get her first cavity filled at 4:30. I really don't want to transfer my fear of dentists to her. Hopefully she won't mind the experience nearly as much as I do.

(insert biased "buy from independent retailers or get shitty customer service at great prices" screed here)

No doubt, John, no doubt.

I actually lost my temper at the St. K bookstore last week. I am ordering most of my books elsewhere (from a small business retailer who is a friend). I am saving money this way, but mostly I just am not willing to spend any more money at a place where the hours are so thin for WEC students and then the service sucks so badly.

And yeah, college bookstores are in a category by themselves in terms of marking up merchandise, but I'm still peeved about this and it's a week later.

dan I would be mad with you but that shit happens to me all the fucking time thus lol @ said shit

Uh John, this is, as far as I can tell, an independent retailer who is giving me shitty service. Right now I am basically telling myself "They are doing a bait and switch which means I get to pick whatever I want from them, possibly for free if I am persistent enough" to keep from weeping bitter tears.

UPS is the color of feces for a reason

I didn't pick them, though! This was not under my control ;_;

119. pressed wrong button, deleted five milliov tv shows

119. pressed wrong button, deleted five milliov tv shows THEY ARE ALL IN THE UNDELETE DIR OMG I AM SO HAPPY

119 (for realz). I just gave myself a bitch of a papercut on a fingertip VERY close to the quick of my fingernail. NOT FUN

120. WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY SPEAKERS, ELECTRONICS EXPO???????

...time to make a phone call again?

121. The miserable collapse of my friends' marriage into a bitter and traumatic divorce.

ouch. been there, that always sucks

It's bad news -- I'm getting over the initial shock but it's only really just begun, the whole process. And there are kids involved. Great.

And it never $%^&*ing ends, either. (At least it seems that way with the friends of ours who have been separating/divorcing for about a year and a half). The kid thing is the worst. Sorry to hear about it.

122. The checkbook for the third store is a HUGE mess already in mid-January. By midnight I will be ready to kill myself.

123. I called today. My speakers have been sitting in a back room since the last time I called (Feb 6).

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKERS

Wow, they really are incompetent morons, aren't they. (Or am I being charitable here?)

http://consumerist.com/355447/woman-sues-best-buy-for-54-million-over-lost-laptop

124. i just slipped on a dvd case and in the process of stopping my fall, took a lightswitch shaped chunk out of the heel of my right hand o_O

125. and my first response to the incident after washing off the blood and wrapping a towel around my hand was to POST TO ILX

haha. i posted a pic of my injured ear after i tripped over a baby gate into a dog dish stand a few weeks ago. its sick.

the urge to report to ilx, i mean

xpost well at least you staunched the bleeding first

I burnt my thumb on a steering wheel yesterday. There probably needs to be a lolinjury thread.

126. one week left in L.A. before uncertain future (SF?)

That does sound disconcerting, remy. The possibility of SF sounds great, though...

yah remy, move to SF - i need friends when i move there soon!

That would be so awesome! Plus I'd have more people to visit whenever I get to SF next! (So really, it's all about meeeeee.)

Yes on SF move because I'll be there on a visit soon anyway. (Oh yeah Rubyredd -- you going to be there by the end of March?)

possibly premature 127 that might need to be transferred to the ^_^ thread:

The day after speaking with the warehouse that has been sitting on my speakers for the past 2 weeks and getting them to repackage and resend them to me, I received notification from Amazon that my money had been refunded.

Now, if my money has been refunded and I don't get the speakers: ;_;

If my money hasn't actually been refunded and I don't get the speakers: ;_;

If my money hasn't actually been refunded and I get the speakers: ¯\(°_o)/¯

If my money has been refunded and I get the speakers: o_O ^_^ ^_^ ^_^ ^_^

Are you going to call them and find out what the hell is going on? Because YOU SHOULD

I am afraid that if I call them, optimal scenario #4 won't happen, or they will attempt to cancel the refund (which I haven't confirmed receiving yet because I can't check my bank account without everyone in the dept seeing how much money I have).

So I need to check my bank acct first, then call them Monday so that if they've sent out the package it's too late to recall it.

man oh man if I pull off getting an $800 home theater speaker set for free I'm going to be fucking STOKED

STRATEGERY

Doesn't your bank have an automated phone number where you can check your balance? I swear I call mine every month before I pay my credit card bill because I AM PARANOID.

It does, but it makes you speak portions of your card/account number at certain times.

huh, that is weird. I just type mine alllllll into the phone ("followed by the pound key.")

I usually do this at, like, 2 a.m., so I always have a mini-panic before the automated line answers that I have accidentally misdialed and I'm waking some random person up, though.

So according to the bank: no refund has been processed.

I BETTER GET THESE FUCKING SPEAKERS

You MUST let us know what happens. How hard is it to deliver something that someone has PAID FOR?!

Well, if you're a business anyway.

Apparently it is really hard; the guy was telling me that they process 700 orders a day. I kept thinking to myself, "This sounds distinctly like something that is not only not my problem, but something that you should be able to handle given that you are in the business of shipping people things they have ordered online...?"

Yeah... I don't get it. If they are that incompetent, how can they stay in business?

I think they stay in business due to serious ass-kissing when they screw up. A good number of their comments say something along the lines of, "Excellent customer service! When my order got anally violated they grovelled to me for days!" (note to self: read the comments BEFORE ordering next time)

You'd think it would be easier to just not screw up all the time in the first place, but it sounds like for this business... not so much.

I hope the speakers appear for you soon!!!

okay now I am nervous

the refund was processed today

let's see if I still get speakers

I await the result of this affair with bated breath.

128. I am apparently at the point where I have enough papers and projects to do that I get stressed enough where I can't sleep, but at the same time I know I need to sleep in order to do a good job on the papers and projects. ;_;

129. I have to figure out how I'm getting my FREE SPEAKERS home.

The glass really is half empty, isn't it.

I know, ^_^

I mean ;_;

TAKE THEM ON THE T.

YES, THE THING I REALLY WANT TO DO IN THE MIDDLE OF A SNOW EMERGENCY IS TO LUG A 30" CUBE ONTO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

it would be hilaaaaaaarious. I'm sure if you bought the homeless dudes in Harvard Sq. a bunch of nips they would help.

oh and totally drag it into the middle of the car and put it on the ground.

hahahahaha tempting actually

being a complete dick on the T is the only reason to ride the T.

S on T's

130. I have to wait an hour for my wife to come pick me up so we can take our NEW SPEAKERS home.

131. HUNGGGGGGOVEEER and about to go to work

;_; confirmed ouch

132. The sermon just started. Usually we are leaving by now.

I hope you didn't realize you desperately needed to pee in the middle of this apparently superlong church service.

Long church services make me insane, btw. Not envying you this one bit!

186. On dial up spd for 2 more days. I thought i wouldn't be this ;____; about it, but i am.

187. Some fucker phished my Myspace account minutes after I logged into it for the first time in 3 months.

Hunt and slay. It's the only option.

188. house owner firm at listing price of house, so its a no go. This ;_; is somewhat mitigated by my "lol u never going to sell ur house at retail in a housing slump crazy person see you in 6 months.

Damn, sorry to hear it. :-/ Patience = watchword.

wau idiot

I'm irritated on John's behalf at the idiot, but you're right: if he wants to sell his house at the list price, he's probably going to fail. Has that dude not read a paper recently?

Maybe he's not really trying to sell and the whole thing is some elaborate bluff to put leverage on someone else whose name is on the lease. (Or maybe he's just an idiot.)

I vote idiot. Preparing a house to get it ready to sell is a huge pain.

189. SEMICOLON NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ha!

190. It would be *nice* to hear back from this one person...

SENDING POSITIVE (AND YET SLIGHTLY GENERIC) VIBES UR WAY, NED

Yay generic!

(I'm not really surprised if this falls through due to crazy scheduling but there you go. I just don't like the idea of doing random record reviews on a Saturday night because I have nothing better to do!)

wait wait wait do you have a potential DATE ned??

Not unless somebody said something otherwise! This is a friend who I haven't seen for about...a year? She's over elsewhere in the county but has this kinda insane life (three kids, single parent, her guy is somewhere in England I think) so I'm sometimes surprised we even have a chance to chat on line!

Anyway I've recently found about fifteen CDRs I needed to give her (yay fellow music freaks) and we'd made plans to try and catch up and I'm...waiting...waiting... (This has however convinced me to finally get the damn iPhone tomorrow, then at least I could wander a bit.)

Ooooh, iPhone buying! That is always good.

I hope she calls and you get to go out and have fun. People should be out having fun, dammit! I have to stay in due to multiple factors (tons of homework, couldn't get a sitter, J is sick), but at least I can console myself that I was invited somewhere. Sadly, I'm just going to write out our nursing ethics assignment.

BUT EVERYONE ELSE HAS TO GO HAVE FUN OR I WILL FEEL THAT YOU ARE NOT DOING YOUR DUTY TO ITR

i like this creative ijustifying.

Yay creative! (I'd had the money set aside since Christmas and was going to get it by the time of my SF trip in three weeks but now I'm all "ARRRGH FOR PRACTICAL REASONS ALONE I NEED THAT STUPID FUCKER.")

Which I now realize is precisely what John says about FB and vice versa whenever a drink is available for rating.

Yes, you all OWE it to me to have fun! Somehow.

I'm now picturing a John/FB throwdown over the One Last Drink on a desert island, and it is NOT pretty.

it's another one of those double shift days for me, so no fun tonight. but it would be cool if i turned up at work and got presents again.

^^^ this thred locked up ;_;

was fond.

eight more hours to go.

broek arm

Uh-oh. Really? How?

(More geekily... which bone/s?)

left radial head fracture, playing basketball falling down

s'not that bad really -- no cast, and i'm righthanded -- but button-flys are a torture

Damn, that sucks. I had a broken left wrist and elbow during the last 2 months of my last pregnancy. I could not do anything easily. I guess it was good that maternity pants do not have buttons.

I hope it heals quickly for you.

Did they put any pins in?

LO THO I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF JARVIK GOATEYSEDNEDESS I SHALL PHEAR NO EBILS unlok secretness

I ;_;ed today, I'm not sure if it was out of joy or sorrow

maybe it was out of tremulous uncertainty.

curtis it is good to cry sometimes without knowing why. best to get it out of yr system in some privacy, rather than let it build up and hit you at super inappropriate moment (as has unfortunately happened to me on more than one occasion)

I VOTE JOY

i almost ;_;ed today too, because i feel sometimes like maybe i'll never get to the US. i looked at the website today and realised that the $2000 i need for prerequisite funds is in US dollars, not NZ, which completely bummed me out.

and fuck those agency fuckers for putting up half the cost list in nz dollars and the other half in US. fucking hell.

i am EXHAUSTED. let me go HOME.

two more nights of this. then back to the regular shift. huff, puff. time to make the donuts.

donuts, what is this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0Ecn393qI

196. stupid minor car accident grrrr

197. hey look at me im stupid

No, no, you are funny! I regaled a fellow student who was having a very hard night tonight with stories about your numerous medical issues and by the time I was done, she had gone from crying to crying with LAUGHTER.

So thanks.

haha

I think the "John's girlfriend sold his prescription painkillers behind his back" was the best part, tbh.

198. just smashed a bottle of beer trying to put in fridge :(
199. Wore ugg boots in public at some stage last weekend

so my sister-in-law M is married to this irish dude called P they've been married for eight years and have two daughters aged 4.5 and 1.5. (also several other lost pregnancies, and M was bedridden for the final six months of the two girls' ripening.)

P looks like golfer john daly, just for reference.

P is a control freak. he runs a bar/restaurant/residential hotel and has cameras everywhere; he has boasted to me of the shit he sees on the tapes. (he also, the first time i met him, said that all he wanted to do in life was watch television -- in his basement is a small shrine to the sopranos.) he goes through M's purse and phone. M belongs to an online group of women who have struggled with pregnancy, and P has complained that she spends too much time online, that meeting any local members would be insane because internet = kidney thieves and he won't allow it, and has deleted group members' contacts from her cell phone.

P has never changed a diaper. i think he truly loves child #1, but his interaction with her is limited to either taking her to the toy store or allowing her to mill around his feet while he watches tv. child #2 is difficult and entirely beyond his ken. M is unable to physically leave the two children in P's care, which has the result of M essentially having no contact with the outside world. P's response is 'we'll hire someone' to watch the kids, but of course he won't do that himself and M has caught his contagious paranoia, so who is suitable? they live in the far suburbs, practically the country, and both have mentioned how disturbing it is that they haven't gotten the upstairs windows alarmed yet.

M used to work but hasn't in years due to child birthing and raising. and because P is very image-conscious and doesn't want his wife working (or, presumably, having money independent of him).

M and P both drink a lot. because P runs a bar/restaurant, his hours are odd. lately he spends the few hours he is at home drinking and watching tv in his sopranos shrine.

P is apparently also a sex freak, and though M is attractive, she is evidently insufficient to the quantity and quality of his needs. so he has sated his hunger on some number of other ladies, including, it seems, a 22-year-old waitress at his restaurant. P is 42, and M actually trained this girl as a 15-year-old.

all this has recently come to a head, with the result that my wife is M's only outlet -- and then only when P isn't around, can't eavesdrop, and the children are generally contained, which is fairly rare.

M and P's relationship has deteriorated to the point where M is all wtf and P is in turn wtf. except that M's wtf = why are you such an asshole and P's wtf = why aren't you putting out more. P recently revealed, to no one's surprise (including child #1's preschool teacher, who mentioned her suspicions to M), that he was sleeping around. the extent of his boasted wanderings has varied with his mood; sometimes it is everyone in their town, sometimes it only that waitress, who he claims was a virgin -- so M needn't worry about stds.

M and P have been sleeping separately for some time. their house (a pop-up mansion they moved into a year ago) has locks on the doors, but there's an override button up high so the kids can't lock themselves in. P normally drinks himself into a stupor in the basement. these days in the middle of the night, he has taken to entering M's room and standing over her while (he thinks) she's sleeping.

M and P argue all the time. P has no compunction about arguing in front of the children: 'she doesn't know what the fuck we're talking about.' he has his up and downs depending on his drinking and the day of the week. M suspects that thursday is his date night with whomever. some days he calls her a cunt, helpfully spelling it out: c - u - n - t. (i was tempted to bring up the terry bradshaw thing about not being able to spell cat spotted the c and the t, but it seemed tasteless).

three weeks ago P declared that he no longer loved M, had no feelings for her, and wanted out. M called her sister (my wife), who ultimately hooked her up with a lawyer. yet M was scared to mention to P that she was meeting with a lawyer, and indeed had no money to pay a lawyer nor anyone to watch the children while she met with the lawyer, because P can't handle theM after eavesdropping on M (out in the yard) talking to my wife, P said, 'poor M, always the victim.' the lawyer expressed an interest in ripping P a new one, but requires a retainer. the extent of M's money is a credit card backed by P.

bonus fun fact: M (and my wife's) mom lives in P's hotel.

in various moods, P threatens to take M for all she's worth. (she is worth nothing, financially.) or to take the children away to ireland. (this is ridiculous, as he has no idea how to handle them nor would any judge award them to him, but it hits home.) each day brings a new P: sometimes he is implacable ('you are a fucking whore'), sometimes he is conciliatory ('can't we just start from scratch?'), some days he offers to pay for her lawyer, some days he avows that he won't grant her a divorce (UH). lately, in the middle of arguments, P has declared that he could 'just fuck' M 'right there.' M locks the door when she showers; P does the child-override and makes comments during.

intermittently, including the last few days, P has begged that they start things over -- perhaps, or perhaps not, enjoined to do so by his lawyer. (nb: new york state courts require fairly thorough evidence of infidelity.) yet P has never actually admitted to doing anything wrong -- it was M's fault that he sought solace in the orifices of others. sure, maybe he drinks, but who wouldn't whilst living with a woman who won't ________ at any given time. and child #2 is such a nightmare!

there's other stuff i may not have touched on but it boils down to M is paranoid, scared and independently penniless. P is a fucking psycho -- no shit, we have been waiting for him to rape/beat up M my wife went halfway up there last week before M responded to messages. basically we want P to fucking leave the house -- but he won't. and M has no place to go, exactly (she and the girls could live with us in an emergency, but it's an apartment).

P has been in a reconciliatory mood the last few days. M called my wife yesterday and talked about how sad it was that the years and the family could be tossed aside as such. my wife restrained herself from throttling her through the phone.

today was even more accommodating. apparently she is folding up, whether 'for the sake of the children' (congrats: a father who will buy you toys and permit you to frolic in front of the television) or the 'eight years' (of what, exactly?). he has yet to admit any wrongdoing. there has been no discussion of possible increased interaction with the children (or M) or dismissal of his extracurricular benefits.

she is in a fucking hard position, considering going to court against an asshole who controls the funds in their relationshiP and she has experience with growing up without a father -- though it has been pointed out that to be a real father P might actually have to make an attempt, were the children not immediately around. the path of least resistance is tempting, but it is not, given the circumstances, natural to M -- she has been ground down by P and his control and his paranoia.

so what do we do? how do you support someone who needs support but is making an awful awful decision?

first guy that says TLDR gets a groinpunch, btw

you know you don't actually have to be a physically battered woman to call one of those abused spouse hotlines.

And anyone you can call in the area will likely be able to help out because it's all in NY, right?

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/crime/domestic_violence.html

Domestic violence is any pattern of coercive tactics, which can include physical, psychological, sexual, economic and emotional abuse, perpetrated by an intimate orfamily member, with the goal of establishing or maintaining power and control over the victim. This abuse occurs between any family or household member, spouse or ex-spouse, parents, children, stepchildren, persons sharing or formerly sharing a common dwelling, persons having a child in common and persons having or having had a dating or engagement relationship. Domestic violence crosses all ethnic, racial, socioeconomic, and sexual orientation boundaries.

I mean if you can get her to understand that she's being forced into this situation and that there are alternatives and find some help for her maybe you can turn this around

the problem is that she has apparently now conceded that they should 'reconcile.' whether it's the path of least resistance or a response to a (reasonable) fear of raising two kids on her own or an actual accommodation with her fucking psycho husband, i don't know. i would like to call the cops (at the very least on his drunk driving, for which he's been busted before), but it doesn't do much good if she's not on board.

also i would like to beat his ass.

just for the jazz

Oh I'd beat his ass too.

but I'd do it for the exercise.

200. I can't remember the title of the rolling happy face thread, and I had something to add. SO SAD NOW

:D

Wilter, YOU ROCK!

ROLLING 9_9 THREAD

Also don't forget ^^this important thread

Good point - THX

201. Some teeth hurt and I probably won't have dental insurance for like a year.

Post yr ideas for home dentistry here.

202. I haven't had time to look for a new job yet.

201. i'm too much of a baby to look for a new job yet

201203.

204. read david fincher thread

you know that part in indiana jones where they all have to close their eyes or their faces will melt off. it is a lot like that.

Well, you'd better close your eyes then.

M got a restraining order against P today (see above). but it unfortunately did not order him to vacate the house, just to stay out of M's bedroom and not to fuck around/scream at/etc her.

so now she and my wife and the two girls are barricaded in the bedroom while P is downstairs, pissed off and drunk.

That sounds crazy... and horrible.

yeah ;_;

also, my internets are barely working tonight

That's not a restraining order. I work as a domestic violence counselor in Mass., and as far as I know there is no such thing as a restraining order like what you are describing.
A protective order might have been issued...
which still provides for the safety of the issuer. But you have said that there's a reluctance to have police involvement.

I am going to contact you through web mail.

that's a horrible situation mookie

protective order, yes.

happily, nothing bad happened last night. M is back at court today (with lawyer and person from shelter) trying to get him ordered out of the house.

aw mooks, so sorry about all this and the fact that it is still going on ;_;

Good lord, Mookie. :-/

Sorry, mookieproof.