not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption
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When I had my 5 wisdom teeth removed (yes, -5-. I had an extra one) I went to an oral surgeon, as they had to cut out a fair portion of gum to get the last one. This was different... it was a molar and it was pulled. I wasn't put under this time.
I'm just glad they didn't have to cut it in half. They had to do it for my mother when she had to get dentures and said she could hear the snapping sound of it... through her jaw.
Gehh. I'm just hoping my luck holds. I have a wisdom tooth on the bottom (both of my previous extractions were uppers) that's cracked in half, and I'm hoping to get in and get it extracted before it abcesses, but it's right next to a tooth that's slowly shattering apart around the crater left by the root canal that they did on it a few years ago (I was never able to afford a crown for it).
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I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth pulled at the same time. Only 1 was coming in straight. The other 3 were tipped sideways and had to be cut out. So the oral surgeon used general anesthesia for the procedure. I woke up during the surgery. They put me right back out, but I remember my eyes being open and hearing the nurse say "Looks who's awake" or something like that.
That sounds fantastic - in a skin-crawling, cringing way. The only really bad experiences that I had were with the dentist I had as a child. He once drilled through my bottom lip (because I wasn't numbed all the way out before he started drilling and I was squirming in the chair) and he failed to completely numb me out when he pulled a baby-molar that was split into three pieces. He redeemed himself big-time when I got hit in the face with a fastball in 8th grade though. He got the joy of setting my upper jaw back into place and pulling my bottom lip off of the brackets of my braces.
On a completely unrelated note, computer users who know just enough to be dangerous and who can't/won't follow clear, concise, step-by-step instructions are incredibly frustrating. I'm so glad I'm only auditing these forums, not moderating them.
On a completely unrelated note, computer users who know just enough to be dangerous and who can't/won't follow clear, concise, step-by-step instructions are incredibly frustrating. I'm so glad I'm only auditing these forums, not moderating them.
I fucking hate people who give cryptic or partial information and then act smug or derisive when you form an incorrect conclusion.
When you say your feet are sore because of your shoes, asking if they're new shoes isn't a stupid question. How am I supposed to know it's because they're not running shoes and that you recently took up parkour? Jesus fucking Christ.
It always reminds me of that bullshit "There are three words in the English language ending in -gry..." riddle. Deliberately obtuse for no reason.
When you say your feet are sore because of your shoes, asking if they're new shoes isn't a stupid question. How am I supposed to know it's because they're not running shoes and that you recently took up parkour? Jesus fucking Christ.
It always reminds me of that bullshit "There are three words in the English language ending in -gry..." riddle. Deliberately obtuse for no reason.
Next time someone does that, ask them if they'd like to see how much your shoes can hurt them.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/169/
It's funny, after posting that comment I started to feel like it wasn't original, and yet I couldn't place where I'd seen it before. Of course it was XKCD. Lovely.
I keep having very stressful dreams. I wouldn't term them nightmares, but I wake up with this extremely anxious feeling, and I'm convinced of things like most of my money is gone.
Has this been going on long or is this a recent, short term thing? Because this was one of the symptoms of my anxiety disorder.
It's also a symptom of being stressed out - like everyone else on the damn planet.
I am no stranger to weird dreams. So I won't chalk it up to anxiety disorder or even a particularly stressful week. Just weird, and kind of irritating. The feeling subsides by the time I'm finished my morning routine.
Then yeah, it's probably nothing major.
Organizing human beings to do something is difficult. I know this isn't a stirring revelation, but I find it vexing. You'd think picking a restaurant for seven people to eat at wouldn't be viewed as a WAR CRIME because one person doesn't like Thai food (I assume he is insane) and another person had allergies I was hitherto unaware of. So now I must go through the exceedingly tedious task of finding another restaurant close to the venue we're going to afterwards, within a reasonable price range, and that everyone will like.
In my happy fantasy world, there is a future in which other people make plans, and invite me out, and I just say "Okay", grateful that the burden was not on me. Alternately, Spiteful Me will be like "FUCK YOU, BITCH! I DON'T EAT AT PLACES THAT HAVE APOSTROPHES IN THEIR NAMES! TRY AGAIN! BWAHAHAHA! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES."
In my happy fantasy world, there is a future in which other people make plans, and invite me out, and I just say "Okay", grateful that the burden was not on me. Alternately, Spiteful Me will be like "FUCK YOU, BITCH! I DON'T EAT AT PLACES THAT HAVE APOSTROPHES IN THEIR NAMES! TRY AGAIN! BWAHAHAHA! HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES."
figmentPez
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Argh! The power just blipped for the fourth time today. Apparently a light rain is too much for the utility company to handle. Normally this wouldn't bother me so much, but the batteries in my UPS died, and my desktop has been going down in the middle of working on stuff. Thankfully Newegg has a sale on a pretty decent looking replacement, so I should be back to thumbing my nose at brown-outs sometime next week.
figmentPez
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Some people are idiots! I'm venting about another forum here, but when there is a serious discussion going on, off-topic posts should be clearly labeled as such! Don't blame me for your moronic communication skills. Any post that appears to be about the subject at hand is going to be treated as if it is about the subject at hand. I don't care if you're offended that I took your post the wrong way, you're the one who brought in an argument out of left-field and then proceeded to claim you didn't mean it the way it was written.
We have brown-yellow water.
But it's getting better.
But it's getting better.
figmentPez
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Ugh, I seriously need to stop getting lost in daydreams. Or, at least, pick better subject matter. Daydreams shouldn't leave you feeling depressed when you snap out of them.
(Plus, getting lost is just embarrassing. I'm a figment, dammit, I should know my way around by now.)
(Plus, getting lost is just embarrassing. I'm a figment, dammit, I should know my way around by now.)
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This is exactly why I will not be a Cub Scout leader again next year. Leading the boys is nice, but it's not worth the leader meeting and pack meeting crap. It turns into these irritating sessions of repeating the SAME THING over and over again, and endless debate over crap that everyone mostly agreed on already the first time it was brought up.
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...and now I feel strange that I managed to organize a place for twenty rowdy Medieval Market actors without a problem from our side. The problem was trying to find a place that was open for dinner late on a summer Sunday.
Last night was actually the event in question.... One person just didn't show up, and two people couldn't come to the bar with us after dinner, but they didn't tell us until we were leaving dinner to go to the bar. Oy. But nonetheless, some live blues music, a little tipsy and no hangover... Plus I got a cheap dinner thanks to a friend's discount... I guess I can't complain!
I will have to kill that one guy for not showing up though. I mean, that's just rude.
I will have to kill that one guy for not showing up though. I mean, that's just rude.
I want to hate this guy, but I can't, hes an ok guy.
Wich means I don't hate him, what I feel is just because I'm jaelous of him.
Wich is saying something bad about me, not about him.
Wich means I don't hate him, what I feel is just because I'm jaelous of him.
Wich is saying something bad about me, not about him.
Man... I had the beginnings of a good monologue on the nature of Trolls when Gusto locked the Bastard Factory thread. Harrumph!
Sorry bro.
No worries... this is the internet. I will doubtless have an opportunity to craft another from the finest of verbiage again.
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