The Small Rants Thread VIII: Now more bitchin' than ever.

[Nanshork]

I'm a lazy American so I have no idea how tall I am in cm.   

[Kuroimaken]

My height is absolutely on the average side of 170 cm. It's one centimeter away from being criminal (only brujon will get this joke).

...and yet I'm the tallest guy in the house, go figure.

I'm one stocky, maybe barrel-chested S.O.B., though.

[Risada]

My height is absolutely on the average side of 170 cm. It's one centimeter away from being criminal (only brujon will get this joke).

... I know I've been lurking much more lately and am not as awesome as you and brujon, but it still hurts to be forgotten as one of the few brazilians here 

/jk

From the few pictures you put around, I guessed you would be taller, Kuro...

Edit: on another note, I am feeling quite down... Lately I lack the energy to do anything at all, I keep looking to be alone rather than hanging with other people ...  Not sleeping properly for a few months already and not getting focused on the stuff I do. Doing some mistakes at work, dying lame deaths in Dark Souls 2, and so on...

[oslecamo]

Not sleeping properly for a few months already and not getting focused on the stuff I do. Doing some mistakes at work, dying lame deaths in Dark Souls 2, and so on...

You can start by playing less Dark Souls. I won't deny it's a great game, but it's also somewhat on the depressing side.

At least don't play video games right before going to bed. Or anything computer related for the matter. Grab a book. That'll help you sleep better, which in turn will help you focus during day at stuff.

[Risada]

Not sleeping properly for a few months already and not getting focused on the stuff I do. Doing some mistakes at work, dying lame deaths in Dark Souls 2, and so on...

You can start by playing less Dark Souls. I won't deny it's a great game, but it's also somewhat on the depressing side.

At least don't play video games right before going to bed. Or anything computer related for the matter. Grab a book. That'll help you sleep better, which in turn will help you focus during day at stuff.

Thing is that I only play something on the weekends... Very rarely on the week, since I am most of the time freaking exhausted and unwilling to do much more than just take a bath and lay down on the bed.

And DkS2 is not as dark as it name sounds (even more now, since the last DLC is all white and stuff, but I get your point  ).... Playing through Tower of Latria from Demon's Souls right before sleep got me a dream where the mind flayer stabbed me to death once... After that I did not play it for one week.

[Kajhera]

... there was also someone decrying intersectionality of 3rd wave feminism in the comments ... brujon, that isn't an example of someone who cares about attitude towards minorities, at all ... rather just an example of horrible radical feminism ... please, please don't mix up third-wave (minority and queer supportive and sex-positive) with that sort of view.

[Kuroimaken]

My height is absolutely on the average side of 170 cm. It's one centimeter away from being criminal (only brujon will get this joke).

... I know I've been lurking much more lately and am not as awesome as you and brujon, but it still hurts to be forgotten as one of the few brazilians here 

/jk

From the few pictures you put around, I guessed you would be taller, Kuro...

Edit: on another note, I am feeling quite down... Lately I lack the energy to do anything at all, I keep looking to be alone rather than hanging with other people ...  Not sleeping properly for a few months already and not getting focused on the stuff I do. Doing some mistakes at work, dying lame deaths in Dark Souls 2, and so on...

I look bigger on pictures since I'm fairly wide. Especially if they only catch me from the waist up.

[Jackinthegreen]

179 cm here.  Also about 114 kg.  Hoping to get down to 110 by Christmas but we'll see what happens.

As for my own rants:  Aunt who lives with us is such a hoarder/lazy bitch who can't throw stuff away that her room got infested with bed bugs.  So now she's out of her room sleeping on one of the couches, but my grandparents are still getting after her to clean her shit up.  To give an idea of it, the only place in her room that can be walked on is from the door to halfway up her bed.  Everywhere else is pretty much waist high god-knows-what.  She piled stuff on the side of her bed because she's worried she'll roll over off it.

The bugs regularly turn up in the bathroom and now my dad says they've popped up in his room as well.  Needless to say, no one in the house is happy but apparently all my aunt cares about is reading her romance novels/porn.  I'd love it if we could just burn those damn books so she'd get off her fat ass and do something productive.

In my own news, my abdominal pains are flaring up again.  I'm going to call the specialist this week to arrange an appointment to get at least one other test done: swallow a camera pill so it can scope out my small intestines.  I've already used up the insurance deductible so I damn well hope this test is going to be free effectively.  Things would be soooo much better if I didn't have these pains, and if my dad has the same thing then hopefully he can get treated too.

And my removed toenail isn't healing very well.

[SolEiji]

Energy reserves depleted, I can't seem to power up at all today.  Much gloom, maximized fatigues, so unenergetic.

[trappedslider]

so i caught a cold and wound up in the ER from lunchtime till about 30 mins ago due to my asthma

[Raineh Daze]

I'm thinking that if I don't get some sort of concept of restraint, alcoholism is... basically inevitable.

[SolEiji]

I'm thinking that if I don't get some sort of concept of restraint, alcoholism is... basically inevitable.

I'm worried about you.  Are you gonna be ok?

Here, take up my habits.  Here's some Dark Souls for you.  Video games is good.

[Raineh Daze]

I'm thinking that if I don't get some sort of concept of restraint, alcoholism is... basically inevitable.

I'm worried about you.  Are you gonna be ok?

Here, take up my habits.  Here's some Dark Souls for you.  Video games is good.

Whether I'm going to be okay is a total mystery. As for video games, I'm trying to NOT spend several hours ignoring everything else to use cheats to turn grand strategy into my aquarium.

[Amechra]

Looks like you're a college freshman. It happens to a lot of people - we have a free ambulance service at my school for all the idiots who hurt themselves when they're drunk (or get alcohol poisoning).

I'd suggest not drinking at all on weekdays; that's a habit you don't want to get into.

[Raineh Daze]

No, first year was last year. Though I have somehow avoided anything particularly terrible. No alcohol poisoning or anything. As for the second one... uh, I could probably have used this advice a year and a half ago.

[Amechra]

Sorry about that - my recognition of time is... poor (I didn't vote for it).

But yeah, just do your best to not drink on weekdays, and maybe get a spotter on the weekends (You do bring along someone who doesn't drink so you have a ride home, right? If not, get someone.) It's helpful to have someone who can tell when you've had enough so you don't go over the edge.

Also - no drinking games. No. None. Not even then.

[Raineh Daze]

I don't go out, so it's more 'oh, hey, decent stuff at a sane price'. I am not terribly social. Which fortunately saves me from drinking games, unlike last year. On the other hand, this leaves everything to my judgement of what is sane... which is where I start to be concerned. >_>;

[SolEiji]

Flow of thought follows, I dunno if any of it will be helpful or relevant.

To be honest I had never drunk until about a few years ago (2?  4?  Not too long), and it was with my then girlfriend who decided to introduce me to it.  There's really only been three other instances of drinking from then, all of them with friends.  Perhaps because the good memories associated with this social drinking with friends, and the fact that I dislike most cheap alcoholic, I don't often end up drinking solo.  It feels... weird.  Certainly not as enjoyable.   Not social here either, so that probably helps keep me from drinking almost ever.

I only went overboard once (and regretted it for various reasons), and I remember my then girlfriend had given me a fairly good idea about how much is just enough.  I found that once I had balance issues (especially when standing up suddenly), it was too much.  And ways to delay or ablate it like eating, and eating bready substances specifically.

Where was I going with this.  Right, something about maybe associating drinking with social things only.  The presence of others (doubleplus if there's at least one sober other) not only is a better experience, but also safer. 

Got anyone on your side of the pond?

[Raineh Daze]

I'm technically working class, from the worst country in the EU with regards to drinking problems, and now spend most of my time in the constituent component of said country with the worst drinking problems. It could only get demographically worse if I move to Glasgow.

Last year was not, overall, a good thing for my sanity, though.

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Lesse... in order; terrified about screwing up living on my own, worried my parents would hate me when gender stuff came out (and even after I told my mother I was still worried until about August), spent much of the year panicking about poor budgeting ability, and then at Christmas my grandmother fell ill, dying in May.

Really not a good start when I already have all the resistance to vices of a wet paper towel.

[dman11235]

When did you come out about the gender stuff?  I'm pretty sure we've known for two+ years, right?