Tino
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Me too. :blushing: :bat:
Post your random thoughts/feelings etc
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Me too. :blushing: :bat:
It's good to evaluate whether it's your own inability to appreciate something/someone, or whether the thing/person you don't enjoy is actually flawed.
The distinction is really important as it dictates your actions going forward. Think about things you weren't able to enjoy- or even opposed, as a kid but thoroughly enjoy as an adult. Even as an adult there's things for which you've currently have no the context or insight to enjoy or understand.
Not knowing how to appreciate something isn't an inherent bad thing. But it is important to be aware of when it is the case.
The distinction is really important as it dictates your actions going forward. Think about things you weren't able to enjoy- or even opposed, as a kid but thoroughly enjoy as an adult. Even as an adult there's things for which you've currently have no the context or insight to enjoy or understand.
Not knowing how to appreciate something isn't an inherent bad thing. But it is important to be aware of when it is the case.
Opaline
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Tino
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Thanks, I found that useful.
DriVe
I'm driving up to the Bay area by myself tomorrow so I'm kinda nervous. I've never taken that long of a drive by myself before. It's only 6 hours so it's not even that bad. It'll be worth it once I get there though, but a little part of me is still feeling panicked about taking the trek up.
I'm driving up to the Bay area by myself tomorrow so I'm kinda nervous. I've never taken that long of a drive by myself before. It's only 6 hours so it's not even that bad. It'll be worth it once I get there though, but a little part of me is still feeling panicked about taking the trek up.
Opaline
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I refuse to use that button. Even as a joke.
FountainandFairfax
in a VAN down by the RIVER
Woke up to a thunderstorm, no power, and a note slipped under my front door from the guys who cut my grass telling me they'd accidentally broken the passenger side window of my car.
My mother's husband didn't pay my electric bill because he's going out of town and wanted to save the cash for his trip (this is his signature, he's done this sort of thing over and over through the years, going back to when I was a teenager and still living with them in their house. He'd go out of town on a business trip and leave us to either a sweltering or freezing wake-up, depending on the time of year). I guess he was hoping he'd be out of town before they shut my meter off, but no such luck for him. The bad thing about it isn't the annoyance of not having electricity in the middle of a southern summer, they pay my bills and I'm exceedingly grateful. It's that I have an elderly pug who would've been stuck inside all day in June with no AC had I been where I was supposed to be today. I honestly don't know what I'd do if I came home and my little buddy was dead or in the throes of a heat stroke from his negligence. I truly don't.
The guys who broke my window left a note telling me they had someone who handles things like this, and that they just need to know the make and model of my car so they can fix things. But what does that mean? Am I going to have to go someplace and wait while they do it? New places are my worst fear. The thought of sitting in a garage's waiting room and acting like I'm not about to run screaming out of the place is enough to make me go ghost for days. They left a number for me to call, but I dread talking to strangers, even on the phone. Not to mention my registration is out, so before I can even take it anywhere to get my window fixed, I'd have to get it inspected and pay to get new tags, which means standing in line at the stinking DMV with the dregs.
When it rains it FLOORS.
My mother's husband didn't pay my electric bill because he's going out of town and wanted to save the cash for his trip (this is his signature, he's done this sort of thing over and over through the years, going back to when I was a teenager and still living with them in their house. He'd go out of town on a business trip and leave us to either a sweltering or freezing wake-up, depending on the time of year). I guess he was hoping he'd be out of town before they shut my meter off, but no such luck for him. The bad thing about it isn't the annoyance of not having electricity in the middle of a southern summer, they pay my bills and I'm exceedingly grateful. It's that I have an elderly pug who would've been stuck inside all day in June with no AC had I been where I was supposed to be today. I honestly don't know what I'd do if I came home and my little buddy was dead or in the throes of a heat stroke from his negligence. I truly don't.
The guys who broke my window left a note telling me they had someone who handles things like this, and that they just need to know the make and model of my car so they can fix things. But what does that mean? Am I going to have to go someplace and wait while they do it? New places are my worst fear. The thought of sitting in a garage's waiting room and acting like I'm not about to run screaming out of the place is enough to make me go ghost for days. They left a number for me to call, but I dread talking to strangers, even on the phone. Not to mention my registration is out, so before I can even take it anywhere to get my window fixed, I'd have to get it inspected and pay to get new tags, which means standing in line at the stinking DMV with the dregs.
When it rains it FLOORS.
People will keep thanking people they like over and over. People they're friends with. Maybe even just people with a pretty picture. All those thanks will start to build up and look like scores.
People without fewer or no thanks will feel bad.
Left out.
Alone.
:thinking:
At least they're doing the decent thing--letting you know they did it and taking care of it. That's something.
FountainandFairfax
in a VAN down by the RIVER
Yes, but I'm not done being whiny yet, ha ha.
Graeme1988
Hie yer hence from me heath!
Aye, me too.
Pacific_Loner
Pirate from the North Pole
*cough*
So... I'm sure someone asked already but what's the QR and thanks buttons for? :question:
So... I'm sure someone asked already but what's the QR and thanks buttons for? :question:
Ithior
Well-known member
The thanks button seems to be similar to the "like" button in Facebook and other social media. I think the idea was to have people thank for helpful posts in the anxiety forums, but it doesn't make much sense in the Off-topic area.
No idea about QR, I thought it was to multi-quote but it didn't work for me.
Edit: might be quick reply, sending you to the reply box at the bottom of the page.
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Pacific_Loner
Pirate from the North Pole
^Thanks 
Oh wait there's a button just for that
Oh wait there's a button just for that
kihira
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Sagan
Member
Random: This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
surewhynot
Well-known member
Hopefully we'll get a decent basic income by then.
The Observer
Well-known member
I'd like to do a loud fart into a megaphone right out my bedroom window while the neighbors are going to work in the morning. Yeah that be funny as hell cause their both quite prudish and uptight. Then I'd walk out an say hello like nothing happened hahaha.
I can't recall whether you were here at the time, but we used to have a reputation system which was in place a few years ago to give positive reinforcement to helpful posts of any kind. But unfortunately, since it was an anonymous system that allowed you to add a little message to the +rep, it was abused to troll and harass. It was subsequently removed.
It was a sore loss at the time because it took away the ability to silently agree/give a pat on the back without dedicating a whole post to it. A valuable ability on a site like this. I'm guessing that the ''Thanks'' button is a way of bringing the positive reinforcement back without the chance of it being abused again.