Random Rants ΟΔ: broken record

[MaryKB]

Please don't leave @Synsensa, that'd be such a terrible shame.

 

[Takhisis]

He won't leave permanently, don't worry.

 

[cardgame]

An ill-tempered punch will go straight through any flat-pane glass on a car. When I was 14 a friend and I found an abandoned car in the middle of a remote field. Obviously, the best thing to do is to wrap up your hands and have a competition on how many punches it would take to break through the windows. Because, you know, that's reasonable and logical.

Back window was already out so it was just the windshield and 4 side windows. We both took three punches on our first window because we were a little hesitant, but when we moved onto our second we both did it in one punch. If two kids with wrapped up hands can break windows that easily, an able-bodied adult man won't be deterred at all.

The windshield was difficult, though. It took both of us stomping on it to crack it. Durable sucker. That's something you're not going to be punching through.

Nah, I remember a kid in high school punched through his own windshield (although, it was from inside-out, so it may be a bit different...)

 

[Synobun]

Nah, I remember a kid in high school punched through his own windshield (although, it was from inside-out, so it may be a bit different...)

I think from the inside it's supposed to pop out? I'm not really sure.

Unless you mean actually punched through. In which case, huh.

He won't leave permanently, don't worry.

Yeah. I've done it two or three times in the past. I've been here 12 years but 5 or 6 years of that was spent... not here. I'm usually good with maintaining self-imposed exiles but not when there are people who like me.

 

[Broken_Erika]

I've been here since 2004, but i only started positing regularly in the past couple of years. Most of my posting before that was at the Civ2 Scenario League, which moved here from Apolyton several years ago when Apolyton started having major problems(and a horrid orange and black colour scheme...)

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I just spoke with my sister again.

Like last time she called after dark she sounded slightly sedated, but otherwise alright.

She says that the doctor believes she will be sent home tomorrow, although there is not yet any official confirmation from the administrators there.

She spoke for about an hour today with her case manager, after I left a message with that case manager directly explaining some of my concerns. She said she thinks their talk was very helpful. The case manager said she would call us after their talk, but has not done so yet.

She has spoken to her husband on the phone a couple times and sat with him in person for an hour tonight. I considered driving down there to be a buffer between them, but due to a severe thunderstorm and rush hour traffic I wasn't sure I could make it in time and she said in her last call that she did not think it was necessary.

She said that he did not say anything that upset her tonight, but was as kind and understanding as she had ever known him to be. She insists this is much more normal for him, even if Saturday was not an isolated incident and stress had brought out that bad side several times before.

I sure hope things stay like this, and it is not just the part of a cycle where he lures her back only to abuse her again.

She still wants him to attend couple's therapy with her (in addition to having her own therapist without him), but did not have time to bring up that subject today before the visiting time was over.

They still have not found the bag of shirts and dresses I left her on Saturday (at the same time as the bag of pants and underwear that she did get), and she did not manage to contact her husband to ask for the shirts, shoes, a hair tie, and a clock that she has been wanting one of us to bring.

She said that her mother-in-law will help make sure nothing bad happens for now, but also that she is still looking forward to her leaving as her presence is a cause of stress and she would rather our cousin (technically my mother's cousin, who lives close to them and attends the same civil war reenactment events) come to help out instead.

She is really looking forward to seeing her daughter, and has mixed feelings about the fact that her current medications make it unsafe to breastfeed. She would rather be able to for the good of the baby, but also thinks that having a bottle that her husband or mother-in-law can use would be less stressful than being woken up every time either of them suspect the baby might be hungry.

She had previously asked me to take her and the baby to her pediatrician on Monday, but said her mother-in-law really wanted to be the one to do that.

She still wants me to drive her to her out-patient psychiatrist appointment Monday evening. (The pediatrician is on their side of town, but the psychiatrist is two miles from our house.) She said she may stay with us one night afterwards rather than driving back the same day. She'd like to bring their daughter to visit my mom, but her husband says our house is not clean enough for a baby.

 

[Takhisis]

I sure hope things stay like this, and it is not just the part of a cycle where he lures her back only to abuse her again.

This is quite possible, if not downright probable.

Have you talked to your sister's psychiatrist?

 

[cardgame]

I'm in a long distance relationship.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I'm in a long distance relationship.

Which is way better than no relationship at all. Congratulations!

Raves thread---->

 

[cardgame]

but the distance

 

[Takhisis]

Over here, Timsapt4nothin!

 

[yung.carl.jung]

lmao OMG what the heck do you mean? Boys are so weird, lol.

sexist much? I knew/know a lot of girls who like to smash glass or ice or literally anything that blows into thousands of pieces, it's not at all a gender thing

I gathered some new favorite words this week as well:

keifen, v. "to rail or nag in a sharp voice (in such a way as, according to the stereotype, is typical of an enraged older woman)"

röhren, v. "to vroom"

grasseyer, v. (of the phoneme /ʁ/, the letter R), "to pronounce uvularly"

you have some bomb taste. if you want really juicy words you should look into all the Yiddish "Leihwörter" in German.. kuscheln, großkotzig, zocken, ganove, ische, hechtsuppe, kaff, maloche, mauscheln, meschugge, mischpoke, ramsch, schickse, schmock. I'd be hard pressed to find more phonetically pleasing words

are you familiar with the idea of "verballhornung"? a good chunk of popular words still used today are essentially "happy accidents", Germans misunderstanding "foreign" words yet still appropriating them

An ill-tempered punch will go straight through any flat-pane glass on a car. When I was 14 a friend and I found an abandoned car in the middle of a remote field. Obviously, the best thing to do is to wrap up your hands and have a competition on how many punches it would take to break through the windows. Because, you know, that's reasonable and logical.

Back window was already out so it was just the windshield and 4 side windows. We both took three punches on our first window because we were a little hesitant, but when we moved onto our second we both did it in one punch. If two kids with wrapped up hands can break windows that easily, an able-bodied adult man won't be deterred at all.

The windshield was difficult, though. It took both of us stomping on it to crack it. Durable sucker. That's something you're not going to be punching through.

there is absolutely nothing weird about this. when I was little I would always try to break all the puddles that cristallized into ice. whenever my parents' little lake would freeze I'd grab a big stick and smash some of the ice. smashing things is fun.

 

[Zkribbler]

My TV is broken.

 

[Silurian]

My TV broken down about a year ago.
Wanted to get a rough idea of repair cost as it was about ten years old so most likely cheaper too scrap.
I contacted, Philips, the manufacturer, and gave them details of the problem which seemed to be with the power supply, and asked if it was any easy/ cheap thing to fix.
They replied by saying it sounds like you have a problem with the power.
I was expecting that they would say it could be x or y which would cost about a or b plus the cost of the repair man.
Bought a Samsung to replace it.

 

[sophie]

@yung.carl.jung or any other German speakers

is there stigmatization around the use of keifen as something that is so explicitly gendered and resting on harmful gender-based stereotypes? I'm thinking in terms of the way that to b*** is stigmatized in English

 

[Mouthwash]

There's no stigma for that that I'm aware of?

 

[The_J]

I think there's a slight stigma, but not toooo bad, I guess.
It basically says "you sound like on old woman complaining" (yes, remember, this was discussed here before), but I'd not take it as a stern insult.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I think there's a slight stigma, but not toooo bad, I guess.
It basically says "you sound like on old woman complaining" (yes, remember, this was discussed here before), but I'd not take it as a stern insult.

I think the question was about whether using something that references an "old woman" has fallen out of favor due to people playing it as sexist. If I tell someone "quit yer whining" it has the same basic meaning as if I replace whining with a reference to a female dog, but if I say the latter I am inviting being sidetracked into a discussion of 21st century sexism that makes it totally ineffective compared to the former.

 

[Synobun]

The new Gmail layout really sucks.

 

[Mouthwash]

I played Skyrim with SkyUI installed for some time. I gave it a fair shake.

Yes, I know that the vanilla Skyrim UI is incredibly limiting. But anyone who prefers SkyUI is sick in the head. Why is this garbage mod so popular?