Capt Caveman
Lifer
- Jan 30, 2005
- 34,543
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frostedflakes
Diamond Member
- Mar 1, 2005
- 7,925
- 1
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CRAAWWWWWWWLLLLLLINNNNGGGGGG IINNNNNNNNNN MYYYY SKIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
edit: Damn, beat me to it.
Usually to relieve stress I shred one or two out in a public restroom while making boisterous grunting sound effects.
Give it a shot.
Give it a shot.
Rufus12
Golden Member
Jeff7
Lifer
- Jan 4, 2001
- 41,596
- 20
- 81
Shred one or two out.
Ok then.:shocked:
Though it is kind of weird when someone comes in to use a urinal, and he keeps making grunting noises. Either these guys are really enjoying themselves while peeing, or else they've got a clog somewhere. Not that I've ever cared to investigate.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Just save up and GTFO as soon as you can. But be lucky you at least have a place to stay. Your parents could be charging you rent or kicking you out. If they charged rent then you'd be stuck there forever as your money would go to the hole.
There's lot of stuff I don't like about where I live, but they're fairly minor when I start thinking of how it could be worse.
Some of the things that tick me off:
- Server room downstairs: Verry poor lighting. I tried to make it better by getting a CCFL bulb, but what is needed is a 2 or 4 tube neon fixture. The cabling is horrible as the desk is badly designed for multiple machines. But that's minor stuff, it's their house, so meh. I deal with it.
- Electrical panel is epic fail. Not that I go there very often but lets just say it's probably illegal
- Water valve is a joke. Lets hope a pipe never breaks since we can't go shut it off asap... Need pliers and very long arms.
- have to walk by the entrance to go downstairs: that means wet feet if you don't watch where you step
- the whole house is a museum / obstacle course. My mom loves putting HUGE expensive furniture even though the house is average size. Stuff that would normally be accessible such as windows, is not.
But hey, it could be WAY worse. These are all silly things.
Could be like this:
http://forums.somethingawful.c...agenumber=1&perpage=40
(yeah, thats the ebay box collector mom house)
And in any situation where you really want it to get better but don't know what to do, pray. If you don't believe in God, then do whatever it is atheists do to try and get a situation better.
Oh and do you have lot of time where you're home alone?
I say learn about construction related stuff and start fixing stuff. Also if you really don't know where you're heading in life, maybe home renovation could be one, you have a house to practice on. (construction related trades are in high demand these days. Everyone wants to be these fancy management or IT titles, but we need more then that in the world)
There's lot of stuff I don't like about where I live, but they're fairly minor when I start thinking of how it could be worse.
Some of the things that tick me off:
- Server room downstairs: Verry poor lighting. I tried to make it better by getting a CCFL bulb, but what is needed is a 2 or 4 tube neon fixture. The cabling is horrible as the desk is badly designed for multiple machines. But that's minor stuff, it's their house, so meh. I deal with it.
- Electrical panel is epic fail. Not that I go there very often but lets just say it's probably illegal
- Water valve is a joke. Lets hope a pipe never breaks since we can't go shut it off asap... Need pliers and very long arms.
- have to walk by the entrance to go downstairs: that means wet feet if you don't watch where you step
- the whole house is a museum / obstacle course. My mom loves putting HUGE expensive furniture even though the house is average size. Stuff that would normally be accessible such as windows, is not.
But hey, it could be WAY worse. These are all silly things.
Could be like this:
http://forums.somethingawful.c...agenumber=1&perpage=40
(yeah, thats the ebay box collector mom house
)And in any situation where you really want it to get better but don't know what to do, pray. If you don't believe in God, then do whatever it is atheists do to try and get a situation better.
Oh and do you have lot of time where you're home alone?
I say learn about construction related stuff and start fixing stuff. Also if you really don't know where you're heading in life, maybe home renovation could be one, you have a house to practice on.
(construction related trades are in high demand these days. Everyone wants to be these fancy management or IT titles, but we need more then that in the world)I find it ridiculously hard to take you seriously considering you chose to lampoon the 'surround sound' setup in the house. It doesn't sound like you're living in a dilapidated shithole like the one on Paper Street in Fight Club.
Room too small? I shared a bedroom with two siblings until I was 16. Appears to me that a lot of the 'problems' you are citing can be easily remedied with some wallpaper and carpets. How expensive are those, any way? Even working minimum wage while not having to pay rent/utilities ought to cover that in a month or two. I'm not American and I can tell you countless stories of people that landed in America with nothing but a suitcase, a high school diploma and a couple of hundred bucks and now lead nice, comfortable lives.
Take a fucking step forward.
Room too small? I shared a bedroom with two siblings until I was 16. Appears to me that a lot of the 'problems' you are citing can be easily remedied with some wallpaper and carpets. How expensive are those, any way? Even working minimum wage while not having to pay rent/utilities ought to cover that in a month or two. I'm not American and I can tell you countless stories of people that landed in America with nothing but a suitcase, a high school diploma and a couple of hundred bucks and now lead nice, comfortable lives.
Take a fucking step forward.
Steps to improve your life (rather than me ridicule you):
1. Be a little more open-minded and less critical of people. You have a natural ability to point out what's wrong with others. Perhaps you should start attempting to point out what's right with others. You will never have a lot of friends until you start to be more open-minded. If you believe you do not need a lot of friends in life, then you are lying to yourself.
2. Offer to help your parents. Don't like your dirty walls? Paint them. Don't like the carpet? Tell your parents you're willing to spend your time to help them pick out new carpet, get it installed, etc..
3. Figure out if you are smart enough to do engineering or not. If you decide you aren't (something that is hard to do), then pick a different field and stick with it. Intelligence hardly decides what you are worth - rather, it's a combination between intelligence, qualifications, people skills, experience, and luck. Engineering curiculum is difficult and hellish at times - not everyone is meant for it.
4. Take your 'minimum-wage' job seriously or make minimum wage the rest of your life. Start looking at whatever you're doing as a stepping stone. Fix your attitude and go out and try to find something better. If you're the kind of guy that quits a job one day because you're pissed, then you will never have a good job.
5. Calm the fuck down. If you can't calm down, then calm the fuck down or go postal, pussy. I mean.. is it easy for me to piss you off? It shouldn't be. You should be the kind of person that is very hard to piss off. If you're pissed off all the time, no one will take you seriously.. I learned that. I have a temper that moves mountains.. and I use it rarely.. and I found that when I do use it, people do exactly as I say. It works in business and every other aspect of life.
6. Improve yourself. If you're on your computer, learn programming - any kind. Work out. Start trying to make friends. Ask people advice for making friends.. Pick something you love and learn every goddamn thing about it. Become an expert. Only experts make real money. If you can learn better on your own.. fuck college.. just make sure it's something where you don't need a degree to get your foot in the door. (ie.. programming)
7. Start listening to peoples' advice. You don't have to listen to mine.. I'm just a random guy on the Internet. But, I will say there's no reason for me to give you bad advice. Why would I care? It's not worth my time to give you bad advice nor does it benefit me. Most people are not out to hurt you. If you think everything I say is stupid, then talk to people until you find someone who is smart. If you think you are the smartest, then do engineering. The only reason I am giving you advice is because this kind of advice would've helped me through a few years where it looks like I had similar problems..
8. Work on your motivation. Are you tired? Tell your parents.. your doctor.. Do you have trouble concentrating? Do you have trouble controlling your emotions? See if you can get help for it. Only the truly insane believe they're perfect and everyone else is flawed.
There.. I just spent 15 minutes of my time giving you advice that came to mind.. Please don't make me feel like I wasted my time.
1. Be a little more open-minded and less critical of people. You have a natural ability to point out what's wrong with others. Perhaps you should start attempting to point out what's right with others. You will never have a lot of friends until you start to be more open-minded. If you believe you do not need a lot of friends in life, then you are lying to yourself.
2. Offer to help your parents. Don't like your dirty walls? Paint them. Don't like the carpet? Tell your parents you're willing to spend your time to help them pick out new carpet, get it installed, etc..
3. Figure out if you are smart enough to do engineering or not. If you decide you aren't (something that is hard to do), then pick a different field and stick with it. Intelligence hardly decides what you are worth - rather, it's a combination between intelligence, qualifications, people skills, experience, and luck. Engineering curiculum is difficult and hellish at times - not everyone is meant for it.
4. Take your 'minimum-wage' job seriously or make minimum wage the rest of your life. Start looking at whatever you're doing as a stepping stone. Fix your attitude and go out and try to find something better. If you're the kind of guy that quits a job one day because you're pissed, then you will never have a good job.
5. Calm the fuck down. If you can't calm down, then calm the fuck down or go postal, pussy. I mean.. is it easy for me to piss you off? It shouldn't be. You should be the kind of person that is very hard to piss off. If you're pissed off all the time, no one will take you seriously.. I learned that. I have a temper that moves mountains.. and I use it rarely.. and I found that when I do use it, people do exactly as I say. It works in business and every other aspect of life.
6. Improve yourself. If you're on your computer, learn programming - any kind. Work out. Start trying to make friends. Ask people advice for making friends.. Pick something you love and learn every goddamn thing about it. Become an expert. Only experts make real money. If you can learn better on your own.. fuck college.. just make sure it's something where you don't need a degree to get your foot in the door. (ie.. programming)
7. Start listening to peoples' advice. You don't have to listen to mine.. I'm just a random guy on the Internet. But, I will say there's no reason for me to give you bad advice. Why would I care? It's not worth my time to give you bad advice nor does it benefit me. Most people are not out to hurt you. If you think everything I say is stupid, then talk to people until you find someone who is smart. If you think you are the smartest, then do engineering. The only reason I am giving you advice is because this kind of advice would've helped me through a few years where it looks like I had similar problems..
8. Work on your motivation. Are you tired? Tell your parents.. your doctor.. Do you have trouble concentrating? Do you have trouble controlling your emotions? See if you can get help for it. Only the truly insane believe they're perfect and everyone else is flawed.
There.. I just spent 15 minutes of my time giving you advice that came to mind.. Please don't make me feel like I wasted my time.
Think positive. Think about all the hot girls you're gonna have in your room. You're totally pimpin.
SketchMaster
Diamond Member
- Feb 23, 2005
- 3,100
- 149
- 116
Ok, I'm going to try and keep cool and not rip on you because you need to realize that YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
Now, I grew up with a good amount of friends but I was never the popular one, I was the uber geeky kid that was kinda weird (still am) but my friends didn't care and most were skater punks that you would think would just pick on me. I moved to Colorado with my family when I was 16 and after a month hated it because all my friends where back home and I felt like crap that I didn't have any here and was scared that I couldn't make any since I was such a geek. I was home schooled but was... not very willing to cooperate with my parents, and thus, had to play catch-up later on.
For pretty much a year I had nothing you could really call a friend, just people I knew that I said hi to now and then but that was because I never TRIED to make friends with them. To pass the time I played counter strike all day and night. I was pretty much the image you conger up when you think of loser kid that does nothing but game all day and leech off his parents. I would wake up at 11-12, make some toast with butter and sugar and have it with a glass of milk while my computer booted up, I would then game until I got bored and looked at porn or got tired at 2AM and went to bed to wake up and repeat it all over. I hated my parents, I secretly blamed them for my misery and was an all around ass.
One day I woke up and realized a whole month had gone by and I hadn't even noticed, I sat back and thought hard about what I was doing with my life and realized I was pathetic beyond words. That day I removed CS from my computer, got dressed, cleaned up my mountain bike and went for a ride. I took the time to think about all the things I used to enjoy before I got sucked into computer games and how much I missed hanging out with people.
After that I went and got my GED, I started to get to know people at work, school and around the area I lived, got to know one guy pretty well and before you knew it we were friends. Now I have a good group of people I hang out with and though I'm still a bit rough around the edges (I'm still working on some bad habits) I still get along with most people just fine.
You need to sit back and think about YOUR life and what you want out of it and what you need to do to get those things. Don't worry if you don't know what you want to do with your life, you're young, from the time I was 17 to now I've taken classes on woodworking, computers, video editing, veterinarian science and a few other odds and ends and for now I've settled with IT work.
You need friends/people (who are not some guy on a forum) you can talk to, even antisocial people need someone to talk face-to-face with now and then to blow off steam or ask for advice. If you need help with interaction there are people on here that will help IF YOU ASK NICELY.
Brxndxn gave a decent list of things you should work on, if you are not just trolling, you should take what he said and try applying it to your life and I believe you will see a change for the better.
As far as you being stressed? Yeah, try being 22 years old sitting next to your mothers hospital bed and wondering what the hell you are going to do about your brain injured dad and all the bills if she dies.
Then you will know what real stress is.
Now, I grew up with a good amount of friends but I was never the popular one, I was the uber geeky kid that was kinda weird (still am) but my friends didn't care and most were skater punks that you would think would just pick on me. I moved to Colorado with my family when I was 16 and after a month hated it because all my friends where back home and I felt like crap that I didn't have any here and was scared that I couldn't make any since I was such a geek. I was home schooled but was... not very willing to cooperate with my parents, and thus, had to play catch-up later on.
For pretty much a year I had nothing you could really call a friend, just people I knew that I said hi to now and then but that was because I never TRIED to make friends with them. To pass the time I played counter strike all day and night. I was pretty much the image you conger up when you think of loser kid that does nothing but game all day and leech off his parents. I would wake up at 11-12, make some toast with butter and sugar and have it with a glass of milk while my computer booted up, I would then game until I got bored and looked at porn or got tired at 2AM and went to bed to wake up and repeat it all over. I hated my parents, I secretly blamed them for my misery and was an all around ass.
One day I woke up and realized a whole month had gone by and I hadn't even noticed, I sat back and thought hard about what I was doing with my life and realized I was pathetic beyond words. That day I removed CS from my computer, got dressed, cleaned up my mountain bike and went for a ride. I took the time to think about all the things I used to enjoy before I got sucked into computer games and how much I missed hanging out with people.
After that I went and got my GED, I started to get to know people at work, school and around the area I lived, got to know one guy pretty well and before you knew it we were friends. Now I have a good group of people I hang out with and though I'm still a bit rough around the edges (I'm still working on some bad habits) I still get along with most people just fine.
You need to sit back and think about YOUR life and what you want out of it and what you need to do to get those things. Don't worry if you don't know what you want to do with your life, you're young, from the time I was 17 to now I've taken classes on woodworking, computers, video editing, veterinarian science and a few other odds and ends and for now I've settled with IT work.
You need friends/people (who are not some guy on a forum) you can talk to, even antisocial people need someone to talk face-to-face with now and then to blow off steam or ask for advice. If you need help with interaction there are people on here that will help IF YOU ASK NICELY.
Brxndxn gave a decent list of things you should work on, if you are not just trolling, you should take what he said and try applying it to your life and I believe you will see a change for the better.
As far as you being stressed? Yeah, try being 22 years old sitting next to your mothers hospital bed and wondering what the hell you are going to do about your brain injured dad and all the bills if she dies.
Then you will know what real stress is.
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