Random Rants ΟΔ: broken record

[Snerk]

So alphabet soup?

 

[Cutlass]

Get around overpacking by having contingency plans.

"If x happens and I run out of y, I will do z at [Location]."

As long as it ain't gasoline or food, I'll survive somehow.

 

[Cutlass]

Vacation starts in 3 days, and I'm sick. I've been sick since Sunday, and I really knew I should not have gone to work today. But I did anyways, and it was hell.

 

[Arakhor]

Get plenty of rest and don't exert yourself.

 

[Takhisis]

He still has to go to work.

 

[Arakhor]

Not if he really shouldn't.

 

[Snerk]

If you're sick you should stay at home both for the benefit of yourself and your colleagues.

 

[JohannaK]

I my case the unspeakable act was coming out. My entire family disowned me. Parents, uncles, aunts, cousins grandparents, everyone. I am dead to them and they are dead to me.

So people do stop being family sometimes.

Ouch, I am sorry.

Contrary to popular opinion, you can choose your family, and a lot of people should. You don't have to be stuck with a horrible person (or people) just because of fate.

Definitely, of course. I suppose I'm fortunate enough to have a good family where I can't imagine anyone disowning anyone else (except my grandfather and his brother, but that predates me), and I would be devastated if such a thing happened. I should think anyone would be devastated if their family fell apart. That was my point, that of course Mr Commodore's wife has an attachment to her family and might be extremely reluctant to let go.

 

[Takhisis]

Not if he really shouldn't.

He is from and in the United States of America.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

My sister is being committed to a mental institution tonight. She gave birth to her first child 3 weeks ago so I guess you could say she had post partum depression, but from what I've heard there seem to be symptoms of a mixed manic episode. She does have a history of Bipolar, as well as OCD mostly manifested as Scrupulosity.

My mother is coming home from the hospital tomorrow. She seems to be recovering well from the stroke she had on labor day and is basically back to how she was a month ago except for some more visual impairment. It is hard to say how much of that is due to neurological damage, diabetic retinapathy, cataracts, or losing her glasses. She can make out colors well now but has trouble reading with letters or numbers less than about a half inch tall.

Mom has been asking how my sister is doing, but dad insists that we need to keep her condition secret from mom as he fears worrying about it would hinder her recovery.

 

[Takhisis]

Mom has been asking how my sister is doing, but dad insists that we need to keep her condition secret from mom as he fears worrying about it would hinder her recovery.

I recommend that you first talk to her doctors before anything else. Your mother's, I mean, but now that I think of it, perhaps also your sister's.

 

[Zkribbler]

Omega-3 cures post-partum depression. I should know--I got my medical degree off the back of a box of Kellogg's cornflakes.

 

[Commodore]

Family is family, and then in-laws are also. It is ever growing, never shrinking. People don't stop being primary family, barring some unspeakable act.

No, there are family members who should be a higher priority than others. Your own children should be the highest priority and that's what I'm trying to impress upon my wife. I am trying to get her to see that every dollar she spends helping her parents is one less dollar that can be spent on providing the best possible life we can for our daughters. Her parents are grown adults who should be able to care for themselves without leeching off their children.

But he's still saying ‘do things my way or you're out on the street without a dime’ to her.

That's not what I say to her at all. I've told her she can leave whenever she wants and I won't stop her. She also has access to a joint bank account that would provide her with more than enough money to get back to her family (which is where she would undoubtedly go if she did leave).

And I don't want her to do things my way, I want her to be a stronger person who can actually stand up for herself.

To give commodore the benefit of the doubt, maybe his wife is one of those "I can't say no," people and her family are abusing that and manipulating her. That's what it sounds like from his story. Plus it can be really hard to cut ties with family even if they are toxic.

She is one of those people. She hates any type of conflict and never wants anyone to be mad at her. And it's not so much that her family is abusing those tendencies (at least not intentionally) as much as it is they just seem to have no shame about taking money from family members. Which is weird because they are also the type of people who claim to be too proud to go on government assistance. So they are okay with putting their family members in a bad position financially, but asking the government, who has endless amounts of money, is just unacceptable? And I know this, because I have actually suggested to them in the past that they seek government assistance and they just flatly refused claiming they "don't want a handout".

 

[tjs282]

I am experiencing German humour. They have words for everything. E.g. ‘Hausaufgabe’ (which I've properly capitalised because it is a noun).

I don't like this Hausaufgabe.

But is there not also a Spanish word for 'homework'? Google suggests "la tarea", "los deberes" or "el trabajo de casa"; that second one presumably has the same root as the French, "les devoirs" (= lit. 'the obligations').

Or did you mean that you never got homework from school in Argentina...?

The German tendency to use compounded words does sometimes feel a little like Newspeak, though (my wife has a translated copy of 1984, which I should probably have a look at at some point). Their animal-words are a case in point: How many of these have you met so far?

And here's a couple more that aren't on any of those lists:

Nashorn = 'nose-horn' = rhinoceros
Nilpferd = 'Nile-horse' = hippopotamus

...although admittedly, the 'English' words for those are (pretty much) straight outta Classical Greek...

Spoiler :

Rhino-keros = nose-horn
Hippo-potamou = horse of the river

...so who am I to judge?

 

[Lexicus]

Contrary to popular opinion, you can choose your family, and a lot of people should.

mad props to anyone who gets this reference

That's what it sounds like from his story.

How many transparently self-serving zero-thought arguments does he have to make before you stop trusting his stories?

 

[Synobun]

I find @cardgame's belief in others to be their best quality.

 

[The_J]

All the best to Magister Cultuum, he needs it.

Doesn't matter too much on this trip. But it's still a bad habit that carries over to other trips. And I don't have unlimited room. I have a car with one person in it. But it's not that big of a car.

I can pack enough stuff for 10 days in a single backpack. Even if your car isn't that big, I'm sure you'll manage.
Otherwise... you know the term "hoarder", right ^^?

Vacation starts in 3 days, and I'm sick. I've been sick since Sunday, and I really knew I should not have gone to work today. But I did anyways, and it was hell.

Get well soon.

I'm also sick at work, and right now slacking off. Despite the fact that next week I need to give a 45 min presentation to the whole department and I do not have any content, and the week afterwards I need to give a 1h lecture to a bunch of students, and have nothing prepared either.
Arg .

 

[EgonSpengler]

Good God, this couple in California may have raped hundreds of women. An AFP article says investigators have found "hundreds" of videos on their phones.

 

[rah]

Yeah, that was creepy. Lotta memory on that phone.

 

[shadowplay]

My sister is being committed to a mental institution tonight. She gave birth to her first child 3 weeks ago so I guess you could say she had post partum depression, but from what I've heard there seem to be symptoms of a mixed manic episode. She does have a history of Bipolar, as well as OCD mostly manifested as Scrupulosity.

My mother is coming home from the hospital tomorrow. She seems to be recovering well from the stroke she had on labor day and is basically back to how she was a month ago except for some more visual impairment. It is hard to say how much of that is due to neurological damage, diabetic retinapathy, cataracts, or losing her glasses. She can make out colors well now but has trouble reading with letters or numbers less than about a half inch tall.

Mom has been asking how my sister is doing, but dad insists that we need to keep her condition secret from mom as he fears worrying about it would hinder her recovery.

I'm sorry man. This is a hell of a lot to have on your plate all at once.