bravo1102
[The fear reaction is the same as are the thought processes behind them. Our minds are hard wired that way.

While these vignettes from your life are entertaining and enlightening about you Bravo, but I'm afraid they aren't always as universal as you apparently believe. ;)

-When being very literal and universal about everything you can make serious errors- For example, what Hippie Van said about the only thing she wanted right now being a snake but her dad wouldn't allow it, and I made a stupid joke remark about that sounding rude and biblical- If I was a real Freudian tit then I'd would've actually been serious about and gone on to explain just why it was so. It would have been amazingly offensive, inappropriate, and above all; quite wrong. :\
Which is why I use my knowledge of the outdated, crude Freudian perspective on symbolism for humour rather than social converse.

I'm sorry if I gave you such a mistaken impression, but the reason I related that story was to illustrate an unusual occurrence.
Sorry to seem like I'm jumping down your throat, I don't want to offend, alienate, or belittle you, but re-framing other people's personal motivations for no other reason than to fit into your own preconceptions is a little rude, especially when you persist.

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Now that's out of my system- I am horribly damp today. It rained like a bugger, it's chilly, and I'm simply just not drying out! These norks in the office always keep it way too cool. Now this might be offensive, but never let a woman over 50 anywhere near a thermostat.
That's all I'll say.

ozoneocean
I am horribly damp today. It rained like a bugger, it's chilly, and I'm simply just not drying out! These norks in the office always keep it way too cool. Now this might be offensive, but never let a woman over 50 anywhere near a thermostat.
That's all I'll say.

It's been raining quite a bit here too. At least I can see/hear it coming while at work. There's no mistaking that huge gray mass of a cloud in the clear night sky and that sound of a freight train in the distance where the cloud is coming from. I got rained on all night long and since I'm not allowed to take any shelter in any of the buildings OR my car I had an umbrella over my head… one that was advertised as “waterproof”. Except I've found that any umbrella that's made of nylon cloth or something similar is more “water resistant”. For some odd reason if you stand under the rain long enough the thing starts to leak really REALLY BADLY. My last umbrella had its ribs rust out from under it after only a few months…

It's not often I can say I have refrigerator related wounds, but this day would be amongst them. Carrying a fridge down the stairs was, ah, fun. Especially when the other guy carrying it down needs to rest his hands. So I got mashed between the bottom wall of the stairwell and the pointy underside edge of the fridge. Got this real nice bruise on my neck/shoulder area in the shape of a check mark, which was probably the corner edge of the fridge itself. On the plus side, I am moved into a new apartment after a week's worth of effort. Now to just get the new scanner online…

Someone
Now that's out of my system- I am horribly damp today. It rained like a bugger, it's chilly, and I'm simply just not drying out! These norks in the office always keep it way too cool. Now this might be offensive, but never let a woman over 50 anywhere near a thermostat.
That's all I'll say.

I hate to break it to you…

But its nice and warm over here in the east all of a sudden. ;)

Oh and yes, I believe its menopause. I used to go to mum's work, which consisted of no body under the age of 50 and every single one of them female, they had the air con on all the time and it was always FREEZING COLD and yet they complained about it being too hot still and that the air con wasn't working, while I slowly started to lose all feeling in my fingers and toes and actually used my bobs to keep my face warm.

That's right.

The secret is out.

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Goods break at dads, lots of fun with him and my older sister. However, no fun with older brother. Uuuughhh, remember how I knew I was going to ate being there because of him and his depressing ways? Yep, it happened. Only this time he acted like a dick to everyone at a dinner which was for my sister's 24th birthday, where he proceeded to complain about how shit Uni was (even though he doens't even GO to uni, its just that me and Amy were talking about it) and berated me on how rude and stupid I was while my father just stood by and didn't do anything.

Ugh.

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In other news. I have a massive sore just in the corner of my mouth, and every time I yawn, laugh, talk, or eat, it splits and bleeds every where and hurts like hell.

WOOOOOOO.

ozoneocean
Jumping down throat

If did jump down my throat I am quite able to chew you up and spit you out. :)

WTF? We're talking around each other and not to each other. Fear is a universal reaction. There is no disputing that. When and where you react that way isn't and I never said it was. How you deal with your fear differntiates people too. There's something to be said for insouciance and there's something to said for caution and flight and then there's harnessing your fear to get the job done. I've had to make the change in how I deal with it because of how universal it is in my life. It's an unreasonable fear. There's no reason for it and it's not universal.

I was saying that I have probably had to deal with more fear in my life in a lot more situations than most. What for you is an unusual occurence has been an everyday thing for me. That's what I meant. That's where you and I differ thankfully. Feeling fear is universal, when and where you do and how you deal with it is most definitely not. I was only hoping you would understand what I've been through because of the one rare occurence in your life with what I have had to deal with every waking moment and quite a few sleeping ones. Let no more be said of this.

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So a good friend's wife has breast cancer and went for her masectomy yesterday. One of those situations where you have no idea what to say because it has all been said before.

I can express my hope for a favorable outcome and my faith in modern medicine while everyone around me offers prayers. Coincidentally there was an entire issue of Free Inquiry about this very topic last month.

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Onlyfoolsandvikings:

The wife is in menopause so she turns down the thermostat everywhere so I feel your chill. Then there's sleeping next what amounts to a space heater in a New Jersey summer. I wake up dripping in sweat and it's below 65 degrees in the room. Then I put a hand on the wife and jerk away like I had put it on the stove.

blah, dealing with viruses- computery ones.

my computer systems were so old it seems, that the trojans and whatever other viruses had nothing to work with. it wasn't until we started updating that it became feasible for it to attack them. at least that's my theory…

meh.

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bravo, i wish the best of luck for your friends.

I learned yesterday that even tho key west is only 150 miles away, it's still a 4 hour car drive….all the tourists going down the highway at 40 miles an hour…bunch of jerks.
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i also began to feel bad about city dwellers. let's take miami for example. we went to my grandparents old house (they moved out after hurricane andrew in ‘92). then she took me to her first apartment, her first house (which is now a shopping center they were building right before she moved out), my aunts first house, my aunts new house.
we traveled a grand total of 5 miles.
city people have everything and more that they need within 20 miles. and if you live in a location like miami, there’s weekend vacations in the keys. so no need to go anywhere.
i would hate living in a city. i love travel.
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the wedding was small, but the reception WAS HUGE. i think there were triple the people there were at the wedding. my mom said it costs twice what she paid for her house. started up the dance floor. it was great.

Amount of things I've accomplished this summer:
Nothing.

…well at least I have one down.

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Working on a covers album though. Could be cool because I'd upload it and then anyone could get it for free.

And that just gets my name and music out there.

Example artists:
Oasis
Amanda Fucking Palmer
Pink Floyd
Jonathan Coulton
…

I've got a song from each of them going on there plus multiple others that I don't wanna say until it's out there.

You can actually look at that in my forum, link in sig.

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I have a job stacking wood for my neighbor and the plan is: buy a laptop.

This way I don't have to deal with my shitty computer and/or my brother being on it.

And I can stop worrying about him reading my documents, like a journal or a story that's not appropriate for him.

doin some house paintin yesterday an when i do this, my grandpa who used to be a house painter comes around (he is dead).

so i'm way down on the floor an i get this idea to make an sell custom wall mirrors, but when i open my trap an state this idea, a stepladder comes crushin down on my head so hard i see stars and little birdies circlin around

this is definitely granpa tryin to give me his opinion on on my future in custom wall mirrors, but does he dig custom wall mirrors or does he not dig custom wall mirrors?

Having a high anxiety day…one of those ones where I feel like I'm on the verge of a panic attack all day. I think I'm stressed out about needing a new job.

Going to have a rather boring thee week term holiday it appears. I've got a Massive SGP to write, an Ancient History Essay and an English speech, all of which will determine whether I pass or end up in a box on te street begging for scraps. Plus I have comics to work on, art works to get in to various people and family stuff going on, so it looks like I'm going to have no time to do anything.

Oh, and I got scared shitless last night when I was woken by the sound of some kind of scurrying under the floor boards. I thought I was imagining it, and lay back down and thne it started up again. I thought rationally to myself saying: “Its a rat, its a rat, its nothing more then a rat.” But as I am in a dark room, in a creepy old house, new thoughts come in going: “HOLYSHIT, ITS A MONSTER. GTFO OF THERE.”

And then I couldn't go back to sleep.

Yay.

I started doing some research on my comics subject…after I'd completed 35 pages.

If anyone asks i can still be like “it's fantasee”. Plus real life kings and queens seem to have been smallpox scar stricken stinky flea bitten religious baby machines, with the royal mistress being oh so sexy and my shirt opened?

Also i'm glad comics and video games set back in the days don't have smell-o-vision.

FINISHED!

Remember my half finished snow leopard of death that I uploaded a while back where I complained about not being able to finish it because it was massive and I was really lazy and had too much going on?

Well I finished it, just then.

Oh yeah!

And now… back to Essay writing.

Ugh… I hate it when I look at beautiful women. They give me a major headache… which reminds me that I need to stop wearing tight pants.

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Okay… now that the crude joke is out of the way…
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Didn't get any sleep last night. Just lay there in the dark looking at the ceiling and wonder about everything… Even thought of knocking myself out with my sledgehammer, but then that'd put me out permanently. Oh, well…

Tried to think up a comic idea for Comic Fury again… but for some reason all those ideas keep leading me back to the Drunk Duck. O_O

I guess I'll sit here and keep reading the forums now that I can't sleep yet. :(

Lonnehart
Ugh… I hate it when I look at beautiful women. They give me a major headache… which reminds me that I need to stop wearing tight pants.

Sorry about that, would you like me to leave the room? :)

@OFAV. That's pretty good.


who am I kidding it's awesome.

@Lonnehart, go to a brothel and scratch that itch.

Dodgy
this is definitely granpa tryin to give me his opinion on on my future in custom wall mirrors, but does he dig custom wall mirrors or does he not dig custom wall mirrors?

Clearly he was trying to steal the idea for himself.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings
Oh, and I got scared shitless last night when I was woken by the sound of some kind of scurrying under the floor boards. I thought I was imagining it, and lay back down and thne it started up again. I thought rationally to myself saying: “Its a rat, its a rat, its nothing more then a rat.” But as I am in a dark room, in a creepy old house, new thoughts come in going: “HOLYSHIT, ITS A MONSTER. GTFO OF THERE.”

At least it isn't a skunk like I have occasionally staying under the house. She likes to remind the wife and I about her residence once a month. That's probably when she and the local hunting cat see each other. This cat is a true stalker, he lurks and runs.

Animals love my backyard. They've built little special holes in the fence for easy access and holes in the house's foundation to get in and out. It's a two hole entranceway so it looks like an “in” and “out” door. The wife and I joke about the animal hotel under the house.

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My new super cheapo lawn mower just sucks down gas. I miss my self-propelled top of the line mower. But after 14 years of faithful service it gave it up last year. My neighbors have each been through 3 or 4 mowers in the same time so I will be grateful and hope this one will last nearly as long. But since it's a push mower and I am not getting any younger, the question now is; will I last as long? lol!

skoolmunkee

Dodgy
this is definitely granpa tryin to give me his opinion on on my future in custom wall mirrors, but does he dig custom wall mirrors or does he not dig custom wall mirrors?

Clearly he was trying to steal the idea for himself.

this would be in character. when i say he comes roun to watch me paint its not to lend support of encouragement - its to laugh at my inadequate brushstrokes

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holy crap - lookin aroun the library of google sketchup models, i found a model of the bar where i first met my lovely wife/superior officer! this is not like a famous place but nowhere, hicksville, so it made me laugh to see it there

plus i never run out of amusement for callin it Google's Ketchup

bravo1102
Animals love my backyard. They've built little special holes in the fence for easy access and holes in the house's foundation to get in and out. It's a two hole entranceway so it looks like an “in” and “out” door. The wife and I joke about the animal hotel under the house.

I've got that problem too, except animals love my roof and celler. The roof is the current residence of two large Brush-tail possums and a family of smaller Ring-tail possums, while the celler is home to large amounts of rats, mice and one time my brother.

We tried blocking up the Possum entrances into the roof with wire, ended up thaty 1 in the morning, there was an angry tantrum from a possum on the roof and she had ripped out all the wire to get back into her den…

10 AM to 2 PM.

Stacking wood.

Pain.

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Graduation party I'm going to tomorrow. My ex's party, that is.

Still should be fun, we still get along (obviously).

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I have an addiction.

…to this site.

…god…

…seriously. It's constantly in my thoughts of what will I post today, I wonder what ozone's response is going to be, will someone read my damn comic? …will I make a damn comic?

…it's kinda an issue…

I Am The 1337 Master
…seriously. It's constantly in my thoughts of what will I post today, I wonder what ozone's response is going to be, will someone read my damn comic? …will I make a damn comic?

Will you listen to the radio try-outs?

. . .


will you vote?


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will others vote?



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when will they vote?




Issues: the Baskin Robbins flavors of mentality

Wow… thanks to the price of oil going up my power bill went up another $20 this month. So now I'm paying nearly $200 a month for power despite using just a refrigerator, a TV, an Xbox, a computer and couple of electric fans and lights. Something about the fuel recovery charge on the bill… if not for this charge I'd be paying a lot less for power. And now the power company is planning on raising the rates again. Ugh…
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I guess when the new site comes up I'll post another comic along with Magiversity and Astronomalies… maybe… It's about this poor guy who is trying to get the attention of this pretty girl, but at the same time trying to avoid being killed by the pretty girl's adopted sister who happens to be murderous and loves her sister a LITTLE TOO MUCH (yeah… creepy enough already even though they're not biologically related). Kinda like how the Coyote keeps using plans and gadgets to get the RoadRunner. Her name? Jan D. Rei :)

Of course if I'm bored enough I'd make an LCD fighting game where the characters pull their arms and legs off and throw them at their opponent, then instantly regrow them to do it all over again. :)
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Oh, and OFAV… if I looked at you and I got a “headache”, everyone would look at me as if I was a creepy guy seeing as you're a lot younger than I am. Heh… you're young enough to be my daughter! You're very pretty though. I bet in a few more years you'd need a machine guy to keep hordes of hormone driven guys away from you. :)

Home on my own today, and feeling very sick and tired. I really just want to go to sleep, but uuugghhhh, I feel like a crippled walrus trying to haul itself up an arctic beach at the moment, so I think I'll colour some comics for the time being…

Also:

It's cool and raining, and as we all know, dog hair undergoes this strange chemical reaction when exposed to water and gives off that clasic “wet dog” smell, except… my dog hasn't been outside yet this morning… HOW?!

Lonnehart
Oh, and OFAV… if I looked at you and I got a “headache”, everyone would look at me as if I was a creepy guy seeing as you're a lot younger than I am. Heh… you're young enough to be my daughter! You're very pretty though. I bet in a few more years you'd need a machine guy to keep hordes of hormone driven guys away from you.

And this is the point where I hold up my hands and cry: “JUST KIDDING.”

I already have such a device for keeping hormone driven teenagers away from me, it's called screaming very very loudly and running away.

OnlyFoolsAndVikings

Lonnehart
Oh, and OFAV… if I looked at you and I got a “headache”, everyone would look at me as if I was a creepy guy seeing as you're a lot younger than I am. Heh… you're young enough to be my daughter! You're very pretty though. I bet in a few more years you'd need a machine guy to keep hordes of hormone driven guys away from you.

And this is the point where I hold up my hands and cry: “JUST KIDDING.”

I already have such a device for keeping hormone driven teenagers away from me, it's called screaming very very loudly and running away.

Heh… I guessed at that, but ran away with my response anyway. -_-
I do have an older coworker who looks at girls like that. I have to nudge him when we're at the subcommand office in the morning when he starts leering at the high school girls passing by (thank god it's summer and no one's swimming in the public pool across the street in the morning).

As for the wet dog smell… lots of moisture in the air? Usually happens when it's raining a lot, I think. Sometimes I wish I had a dog, but the last three dogs I befriended died horribly at some point afterwards, the last one being shot to death by poachers (because she and her pack were scaring away the deer inside the federally owned jungle that no one's supposed to be hunting in anyway).

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Thank goodness for CTRL + C (which I use when posting). Right when I post this reply DD decides to log me out and I'd have to type it all over again. -_-

wow, your co-worker is rather creepy, but it's not uncommon, sadly.

Far too many times I've walked down the street to go to the local art shop or to a take away joint and some tool has wolf-whistled from their car. It's rather prevelent where I am too, possibly because the town is mostly made up of inbred hicks and bogans, or because most of the girls that live there are little prostitutes anyway and they think it's normal.

I was thinking it must be something in the air, anyway, he went outside, and now I won't allow him back inside because he stinks and he's now watching me forlornly from the steps outside the front door. No, you smelly bastard, you're not coming back inside to spread your smelly filth around the house!

Jared Leto is a Satanic Super Soldier. Would you believe that?

The guy with the username “Dodgy” keeps taking me by surprise. Dodgy is my username/nickname on other sites and I'm like “-scrollscrollscroll- Wait What?! -scrollbackup- When did I post— oh no that's not me.”

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Ever notice that most of my posts in this thread are super depressing? haha~

This one will also be!

My friend (who currently lives in another state) keeps telling me she's depressed and doesn't want to talk, which I can respect. Then she doesn't talk to me for a few days, posts a suicide note on tumblr, doesn't respond to me after the note… then I see that she's been on xbox live and twitter talking to people all day. She finally responds with “oh, didn't know you'd be upset if I didn't respond to you” and gets mad that I'm mad at her because she has depression and therefore has a free pass to be completely unreasonable towards whoever she chooses and be normal to everyone else. I've known her since middle school and I've always understood her condition but this random suicide note thing is getting ridiculous…. She's done this three times this month. A girl I did cheerleading with killed herself in April so I'm really scared of something happening, but then my friend shrugs all my concerns off like they're nothing… or that they're annoying her. She refuses help and I feel like she's doing this in reaction to my own success lately. Like she's trying to make me worry about her so she has control over me.

I feel like such a jerk, but there's only so much I can do or take. ) :

haha! Actually I saw that username in the networking forums somewhere as well and thought it was you for a moment! I got rather confused… I thought you had changed your name or something!

And I have both a friend and a Brother who is just like the girl you're describing. Both suffer from depression, both believe that gives them to right to not take note of what anyone else is feeling and act dickish to all and the friend also talks about how he's going to “commit suicide because no one cares.” In fact, the depressed friend likes to run to me when he has problems, and then go away spreading rumours about me and then thinks its alright…

I know how you feel, it's very frustrating and sometimes really worrying, but don't let it get you down too. All you can do is listen, and tell her your concerns, which you have done. And heeey, this is the rant thread, ranting is what it's made for! :)

Glad I'm not the only one who gets super confused by it, lolol.

Also glad I'm not the only one who has someone close to them that exploits their condition sometimes. >>;