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That's why I never made it as an electrician. I was an apprentice for a few months.
I passed out digging in the hot Florida sun. Instead of taking me to the hospital they gave me a glass of water and told me to get back to work.
I gave them the bird and told them to go f*@+ themselves.
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I'm sure the nudity helped. Or didn't.
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Okay, update time.
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"If he's cold, tell him to shovel more" - coworker.
There's truth in there. I probably would have been more comfortable if I were walking around grand canyon to generate heat, rather then sitting on a bus. That's how I keep warm in San Diego. By walking.
I can walk out in Arizona but not run. Once temperatures reach past 85 I don't think I can do hard labour.
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its fine for the cold however if you are about to pass out from heat exhaustion the shovel more thing does not help.
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Thanks, Wikipedia. The page for "Fear of Bees" has a big old bee picture on the top of the page.
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Red shirt is a young guy, time for outdated 90s references.
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everyone is getting new blood.
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I've been watching DB Super, and I have to say, though I'm tired of them sticking to the "Goku must be the one to win" formula, it's nice that other characters get to shine. Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo, hell, even Krillin gets a moment of being a badass.
Also, I'm pleased to see strong female characters with the tournament. 18 remains a bad b*!%#, and Caulifla might be one of my favorite characters.
Kale as girl Broly is just f$%@ing stupid, though. Just...ugh. So dumb.
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Red shirt is a young guy, time for outdated 90s references.
The 90s, like the 80s, will never be outdated! Until they are!
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Feel better, soon, John!
Why is Season 6 of The Walking Dead? Like... at all? Just... why?
We already did this one three seasons ago.
:/
(Also: heavy-handed, much?)
You will look back with nostalgia during season 7.
7 is really hard to watch.
... hhhhhhhhhhh-how, tho.
Season 5 was already painful ("hur-dee-hur, let's all be villains, now, but, no, seriously, we're still the good guys and toooootes justified, unlike that jerk, the governor") and now Season 6 is, somehow, worse ("hey, told you rubes we were justified in being bad guys; now let's kill off <spoilers> and <spoilers> for no real reason in dumb ways, also we, the makers, hate literally everyone that watches this show! And we just used literally wrong: suck it, nerds!"). Just... just what.
Like, I got the premise of 5, at least, and it made sense.
And I get that Season 6, at least, has a kind of a point to it all. But it's a retread of almost the exact same over-arcing premise with the Governor for no particular reason. Like, yeah, there are bad people who will do bad things to you, for power-grabby reasons. And the individual character arcs... really haven't developed all that much. The only ones I reeeaaaaally care about are the two kids, Michonne (who is the best), and <spoiler+spoiler> (and they <spoiler>'d <spoiler>, so even that's hard to really get into).
But I can give it the benefit of the doubt, and am willing to soon wonder why (and how) Season 7 is so much worse.
As an unrelated aside, Galavant is fantastic. I love pretty much everything about it. Even how it <spoiler'd> at the end of Season 2! So good!
... that... is not inaccurate.The Walking Dead Horse?Why is Season 6 of The Walking Dead? Like... at all? Just... why?
We already did this one three seasons ago.
:/
(Also: heavy-handed, much?)
Yuuuuuuuurrrrrrgggggcccchhhh. They <spoiler-reversal'd> the <spoiler> involving <spoiler+spoiler>?! What. The. Heeeeeeeeeeeck. You can't just walk something like that back! I mean, obviously I guess you can, but... no. Ugh.
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I've been watching DB Super, and I have to say, though I'm tired of them sticking to the "Goku must be the one to win" formula, it's nice that other characters get to shine. Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo, hell, even Krillin gets a moment of being a badass.
Also, I'm pleased to see strong female characters with the tournament. 18 remains a bad b#@+*, and Caulifla might be one of my favorite characters.
Kale as girl Broly is just f$%$ing stupid, though. Just...ugh. So dumb.
what are you talking about?
Kuririn-san is the star of the show.
Who gets the hot wife?
Who gets gainful employment?
Who has a nice quiet kid?
Who is the most powerful human on the planet?
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I've been watching DB Super, and I have to say, though I'm tired of them sticking to the "Goku must be the one to win" formula, it's nice that other characters get to shine. Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo, hell, even Krillin gets a moment of being a badass.
Also, I'm pleased to see strong female characters with the tournament. 18 remains a bad b#@+*, and Caulifla might be one of my favorite characters.
Kale as girl Broly is just f$%$ing stupid, though. Just...ugh. So dumb.
what are you talking about?
Kuririn-san is the star of the show.
Who gets the hot wife?
Who gets gainful employment?
Who has a nice quiet kid?
Who is the most powerful human on the planet?
Dude, I am soooo suing them! That describes me to a T!
I've been watching DB Super, and I have to say, though I'm tired of them sticking to the "Goku must be the one to win" formula, it's nice that other characters get to shine. Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo, hell, even Krillin gets a moment of being a badass.
Also, I'm pleased to see strong female characters with the tournament. 18 remains a bad b#@+*, and Caulifla might be one of my favorite characters.
Kale as girl Broly is just f$%$ing stupid, though. Just...ugh. So dumb.
what are you talking about?
Kuririn-san is the star of the show.
Who gets the hot wife?
Who gets gainful employment?
Who has a nice quiet kid?
Who is the most powerful human on the planet?
To be fair, Goku's wife is pretty bangin, too. So is Bulma. Hell, she's the sex symbol for the series for 2/3 of it's duration.
Best job? Hit. Strike that. Vegeta. "King" is an amazing job. Or "house husband to a wealthy billionare" is pretty sweet, too.
Quiet kid? You know what's better than a quiet kid? No kids. (Hey, this is purely a matter of opinion, but it's mine.) Gonna go anyone but Goku, Vegeta, or Krillin on that one. Also, Trunks may not be quiet, but he is obedient. Vegeta again if you like kids.
Most powerful human? Really depends on if Tien is considered human. That third eye never actually blinks, or moves, or does anything, so I assume it's a tattoo. I know there's "unofficial" answers that he's the last of a weird species, or whatever, but - Tien would beat the living bejesus out of Krillin. In fact, he has.
You combine it all and Krillin has a great life, for damn sure. But - in that universe - it's all kinda meh. I mean, you really don't need "gainful employment" when you can take what the hell you want.
See, this is why I don't have powers. I'd go all Freeza. Maybe less killing. Maybe less blatant. More like Frost. I still say Vegeta wins "best life" though.
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Great, he's one of these kids you have to micromanage.
Why couldn't they give us Big (Slow) Pete.
Man, there's a guy that will stare into space for forty minutes if you let him. Not this "what are we doing next! What are we doing next! What are we doing next!" bullshit.
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You're upset you have a proactive employee? Dude. That's the stuff management dreams of. And if you don't encourage that kind of behavior people like that eventually get frustrated and tone down their enthusiasm to "just enough to not get fired"
Ufh. I'm starting to feel really under the weather, and I have a concert to go to tonight :(
Oh, no! Good luck! :/
... that... is not...Feel better, soon, John!
You will look back with nostalgia during season 7.
7 is really hard to watch.
... hhhhhhhhhhh-how, tho.
<snip>
And I get that Season 6, at least, has a kind of a point to it all. But it's a retread of almost the exact same over-arcing premise with the Governor for no particular reason. Like, yeah, there are bad people who will do bad things to you, for power-grabby reasons. And the individual character arcs... really haven't developed all that much. The only ones I reeeaaaaally care about are the two kids, Michonne (who is the best), and <spoiler+spoiler> (and they <spoiler>'d <spoiler>, so even that's hard to really get into).
But I can give it the benefit of the doubt, and am willing to soon wonder why (and how) Season 7 is so much worse.
Yuuuuuuuurrrrrrgggggcccchhhh. They <spoiler-reversal'd> the <spoiler> involving <spoiler+spoiler>?! What. The. Heeeeeeeeeeeck. You can't just walk something like that back! I mean, obviously I guess you can, but... no. Ugh.
The Walking Dead Horse?
...
...
... and then you walk it back again you complete and utter JERKS.
Hate S7 already. Hate it so bad. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate.
S6 narly ruined any credibility. S7 succeeded in one episode.
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I stopped watching Walking Dead after season...3, or 4...I forget. When the Governor lost his shit and killed a bunch of random people because...he was crazy? Yeah, that's the dumbest motivation cop out ever. You spend an entire season establishing that this is a calm, collected, motivated for the "greater good" of stability villain, and then just throw it all away by having him kill his own team because - reasons.
That's not WHY I stopped, just about when. Why I stopped was two-fold:
1) I don't like how, now that GoT is so popular, killing protagonists is just the "in" thing to do. Look, I get it, you want to throw the story a curve ball. That's fine. Do it once, maybe twice - but if you just shred protagonists like George R. R. Martin, we lose any and all attachment to them, because we know they're going to just die anyway. It completely kills your immersion into the story.
2) How many f~$@ing times do you need to see someone you know turn into a zombie before you realize "uh, that's not my friend"? Seriously? I get it - great plot point for season 1, maybe season 2, but after a while it makes you want to choke the main characters for their complete and total idiocy.
That is basically correct. And S7 is, officially, just more of the same.
(Though they have, finally, apparently gotten over the zombie thing.)
S6 narly ruined any credibility. S7 succeeded in one episode.
Totally gnarly, my dude.
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I've been watching DB Super, and I have to say, though I'm tired of them sticking to the "Goku must be the one to win" formula, it's nice that other characters get to shine. Trunks, Vegeta, Piccolo, hell, even Krillin gets a moment of being a badass.
Also, I'm pleased to see strong female characters with the tournament. 18 remains a bad b#@+*, and Caulifla might be one of my favorite characters.
Kale as girl Broly is just f$%$ing stupid, though. Just...ugh. So dumb.
what are you talking about?
Kuririn-san is the star of the show.
Who gets the hot wife?
Who gets gainful employment?
Who has a nice quiet kid?
Who is the most powerful human on the planet?
To be fair, Goku's wife is pretty bangin, too. So is Bulma. Hell, she's the sex symbol for the series for 2/3 of it's duration.
Best job? Hit. Strike that. Vegeta. "King" is an amazing job. Or "house husband to a wealthy billionare" is pretty sweet, too.
Quiet kid? You know what's better than a quiet kid? No kids. (Hey, this is purely a matter of opinion, but it's mine.) Gonna go anyone but Goku, Vegeta, or Krillin on that one. Also, Trunks may not be quiet, but he is obedient. Vegeta again if you like kids.
Most powerful human? Really depends on if Tien is considered human. That third eye never actually blinks, or moves, or does anything, so I assume it's a tattoo. I know there's "unofficial" answers that he's the last of a weird species, or whatever, but - Tien would beat the living bejesus out of Krillin. In fact, he has.
You combine it all and Krillin has a great life, for damn sure. But - in that universe - it's all kinda meh. I mean, you really don't need "gainful employment" when you can take what the hell you want.
See, this is why I don't have powers. I'd go all Freeza. Maybe less killing. Maybe less blatant. More like Frost. I still say Vegeta wins "best life" though.
iirc Tien is not human- I think he is the last of his kind.
You have a damn good point on the house husband thing. But I never found bulma that hot.
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Great, he's one of these kids you have to micromanage.
Why couldn't they give us Big (Slow) Pete.
Man, there's a guy that will stare into space for forty minutes if you let him. Not this "what are we doing next! What are we doing next! What are we doing next!" b$!$#!&&.
I miss Big (Slow) Pete!
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He's changed, man.
I said hi yesterday and I don't think he recognized me, and he doesn't even wear his giant floppy hat anymore.
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You're upset you have a proactive employee? Dude. That's the stuff management dreams of. And if you don't encourage that kind of behavior people like that eventually get frustrated and tone down their enthusiasm to "just enough to not get fired"
I'm forty two in a physical industry, he might as well wear a hat saying "I'm here for your job!".
That would be if he knew anything, or if he finished the first task I gave him before asking what we're doing next.
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A more detailed answer.
Yes, enthusiasm is great but I don't like getting asked these questions every five minutes when 1) he isn't done with the current task, B) I already went over everything step by step when we got there, 3) I'm trying to shave exactly a half inch of dirt off an entire front yard.
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That is basically correct. And S7 is, officially, just more of the same.
Ughhh hm, your reasons for not liking 7 are very different from it being hard for me to watch.
Without spoilering anything, I think I just engage with TV shows fundamentally differently than you (and many people). The things you've said about earlier seasons...I'd probably agree with you if we sat down and talked it thru while watching the highlights. But I've never watched it critically, so the Walking Dead (as well as most screen media) exist in a thick haze of impressions and momentary emotions for me.
Which is neither good nor bad, I'm just ruminating on how differently people consume media. :)
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A more detailed answer.
Yes, enthusiasm is great but I don't like getting asked these questions every five minutes when 1) he isn't done with the current task, B) I already went over everything step by step when we got there, 3) I'm trying to shave exactly a half inch of dirt off an entire front yard.
Fair enough.
I read your initial description and went "Yup, that sounds exactly like me." Because the first week or so of a new job I'm anxious, lacking in the its greater context, and driven to prove my work ethic. So I'll do a task and then immediately ask for the next; but I chill out after I settle into the job.
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My witch died in a game of Kingmaker I'm playing on Fantasy Grounds with some friends from Florida. I have replaced him with a mounted fury barbarian.
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I am beyond p!ssed off.
Still don't know what's wrong with me, and my PCP has effectively thrown up her arms and gone "Frack this shyte, I have no interest in figuring out what's wrong with you, go get help elsewhere!"
>:(
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Rip her to shreds online. Google reviews, WebMD reviews, every review you can possibly find to destroy her reputation. God bless the internet.
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Ufh. I'm starting to feel really under the weather, and I have a concert to go to tonight :(
Our Dutch cousins would like to see the concert too!
Unless it's Coldplay, or Sobbing Deathquack, or 'Disco' Wim Wouterhoepen.
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Hi, everyone. Well, I actually managed to have a good night's rest last night. Instead of waking up every ten minutes or so, I only woke up four times. And I barely have to clear my sinuses at all. So, yeah. I'm starting to feel better. Thanks for all the Get Well Wishes.
*Hands John an extra helping of tea and scotch to speed his recovery further*
Ufh. I'm starting to feel really under the weather, and I have a concert to go to tonight :(
*Sends Woran some tea and scotch too*
I am beyond p!ssed off.
Still don't know what's wrong with me, and my PCP has effectively thrown up her arms and gone "Frack this shyte, I have no interest in figuring out what's wrong with you, go get help elsewhere!"
>:(
That's some grade A bullshit from your PCP TS.
If she's/he's really that stumped about your condition it's still in his or her best interest to help you find and/or get in contact with a specialist, who might get to the bottom of your ailment.No, 'best interest' isn't really enough…she/he should do whatever he/she can think of to help you get better medical help, if she/he doesn't feel up to the task of properly diagnosing you.
Really I wish there's something I could do...or say to help out somehow. But I'm here if want to talk, or if you feel there's something I can do, send me a PM and I'll do what I can.
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We're running out of money.
I've been juggling credit cards to stay afloat. I'm trying to get a job but I have to be careful; if it's too many hours or if it doesn't have good insurance, I'm screwed. My bipolar medication alone is over 600 dollars a month, and that doesn't count doctor's visits, my anxiety medication, and more...and I lose Medicaid if I make over 1000 a month. So if the job makes 2K I basically break even with 1K. I don't know how close we're going to be to not make rent. I'm scared. I've been trying. I don't hold jobs well. If I get one and lose it I lose benefits too. I'm looking every day but nobody wants a loser who hasn't held a job for over a year in ten yeaes.
I'm scared guys.
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We're running out of money.
I've been juggling credit cards to stay afloat. I'm trying to get a job but I have to be careful; if it's too many hours or if it doesn't have good insurance, I'm screwed. My bipolar medication alone is over 600 dollars a month, and that doesn't count doctor's visits, my anxiety medication, and more...and I lose Medicaid if I make over 1000 a month. So if the job makes 2K I basically break even with 1K. I don't know how close we're going to be to not make rent. I'm scared. I've been trying. I don't hold jobs well. If I get one and lose it I lose benefits too. I'm looking every day but nobody wants a loser who hasn't held a job for over a year in ten yeaes.
I'm scared guys.
Ouch! I am so sorry to hear that. I hope that things improve and quickly.
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We're running out of money.
I've been juggling credit cards to stay afloat. I'm trying to get a job but I have to be careful; if it's too many hours or if it doesn't have good insurance, I'm screwed. My bipolar medication alone is over 600 dollars a month, and that doesn't count doctor's visits, my anxiety medication, and more...and I lose Medicaid if I make over 1000 a month. So if the job makes 2K I basically break even with 1K. I don't know how close we're going to be to not make rent. I'm scared. I've been trying. I don't hold jobs well. If I get one and lose it I lose benefits too. I'm looking every day but nobody wants a loser who hasn't held a job for over a year in ten yeaes.
I'm scared guys.
start the GoFundMe, I will donate. And NEVER stop looking, there is someone out there who wants you when you think noone does.
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Since you asked...I've done so much it's hard to remember. I lasted longest as a dental lab technician, three years and then again later for a year. I write, I type REALLY f!~$ing fast, and I'm good at grammar.
I worked in education as a teacher's assistant, as a substitute, and as an after-school worker, but I can't go back to that - I had a traumatic psychological experience that caused me to quit. Maybe it may not seem like a big deal to you guys, but I had the primary teacher I was an assistant to tell me off in front of the first graders that would be my solo responsibility next year as a full teacher after I was forced to handle a double class load for a week by myself. It...didn't work well.
I have been studying to be a poker dealer, I've worked in a psychological facility as a mental health tech, I've worked at grocery stores but I hated that, and done more retail than I can shake a stick at - and I hated that even more.
I've got a degree in psychology, or as I like to call it, a BS in BS.
Thing is - I've got lots of prominent tattoos, including on the back of both hands. The left one started as a cover up for my wedding ring tattoo when I got divorced, the right one is sort of a symmetry thing. I've been working on sleeves for both arms for a couple years. I know this is frowned upon by morons stuck in 1950s people with a conservative industry.
I'm really smart. I learn things really fast. I like to read and write.
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start the GoFundMe, I will donate. And NEVER stop looking, there is someone out there who wants you when you think noone does.
I did. Right here. I really didn't feel comfortable doing that. I'm sure you know exactly how I feel.
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Freehold will likely frown at this. But, how's your math skills?
Pretty good. Not phenomenal, but doing basic odds calculation was a big part of my last job as a casino banker.
I'm so so very tired of education. I don't need a job months from now after finishing an adult education program - especially considering every post-graduate class I've taken has been a waste of money for a career that never panned out.
That being said, if it were a free option (I don't have MONEY to take classes) and relatively short, that would be a different story.
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I just got an anonymous donation, already. Thank you so very much.
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John, haven't you used/posted links to some free courses in the past?
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Sorry things suck for you VE, here's to you getting a decent job soon!