The Update for Everybody Else

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The King is dead, long live the King. 

[Pheurton Skeurto]

I'm getting an Xbox 360 for my birthday. So pumped.

I'll give my gamer tag upon request.

[bballrox4717]

Somebody I graduated with died of a heroin overdose. I didn't really know him too well, but these types of deaths are happening way often on Long Island these days, and it's been continuously increasing the past few years here. It worries me.

[Morning in Atlas]

So, I have a more lighthearted story. A few weeks ago I was out with the guys and after our friend's grad party we all decided to go out for wings. After eating we decide to walk around because we needed some stuff, and we went to a few stores on the way. In one of our regular stops I was looking for posters for my dorm, and I was spending a bit too much time looking at the ones with girls. My friend is eagerly peering over my shoulder like a kid in a candy store, as he usually does with anything sexual, and I'm nodding along. Then, I hear a voice asking me if we're finding everything okay...

I turn around to realize that my high school crush has been watching me and my friend stare at a poster of two girls making out.

[Marokai Backbeat]

Just put two potatoes in the oven for over an hour and ahalf, and they barely feel cooked at all, so I've had to microwave them anyway.

I resolve, here on this day, to never put another potato in the oven again because it is a stupid fing waste of time.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

So, I have a more lighthearted story. A few weeks ago I was out with the guys and after our friend's grad party we all decided to go out for wings. After eating we decide to walk around because we needed some stuff, and we went to a few stores on the way. In one of our regular stops I was looking for posters for my dorm, and I was spending a bit too much time looking at the ones with girls. My friend is eagerly peering over my shoulder like a kid in a candy store, as he usually does with anything sexual, and I'm nodding along. Then, I hear a voice asking me if we're finding everything okay...

I turn around to realize that my high school crush has been watching me and my friend stare at a poster of two girls making out.

Not sure if that's good or bad (I'd assume bad, so sorry bro. ) but it's a pretty good story to retell at parties and stuff.

[Morning in Atlas]

So, I have a more lighthearted story. A few weeks ago I was out with the guys and after our friend's grad party we all decided to go out for wings. After eating we decide to walk around because we needed some stuff, and we went to a few stores on the way. In one of our regular stops I was looking for posters for my dorm, and I was spending a bit too much time looking at the ones with girls. My friend is eagerly peering over my shoulder like a kid in a candy store, as he usually does with anything sexual, and I'm nodding along. Then, I hear a voice asking me if we're finding everything okay...

I turn around to realize that my high school crush has been watching me and my friend stare at a poster of two girls making out.

Not sure if that's good or bad (I'd assume bad, so sorry bro. ) but it's a pretty good story to retell at parties and stuff.

It's still good. I just pokerfaced it and just played it off like nothing was happening. She was like OH MY GOD SAWX IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU and lit up like the old days. Then my fing friend didn't get the memo and made his move while she was talking to me.

[opebo]

Somebody I graduated with died of a heroin overdose. I didn't really know him too well, but these types of deaths are happening way often on Long Island these days, and it's been continuously increasing the past few years here. It worries me.

Yes I hear heroin is rife in the suburbs and exurbs of Missouri as well.  It sounds bizarre to me to talk to old acquaintances there via facialbook and they say 'you can't leave home for more than 2-3 days or those heroin addicts will burglarize your house' - this in an area we used to leave our doors unlocked and our keys in our car ignitions just 15-20 years ago.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Somebody I graduated with died of a heroin overdose. I didn't really know him too well, but these types of deaths are happening way often on Long Island these days, and it's been continuously increasing the past few years here. It worries me.

Yes I hear heroin is rife in the suburbs and exurbs of Missouri as well.  It sounds bizarre to me to talk to old acquaintances there via facialbook and they say 'you can't leave home for more than 2-3 days or those heroin addicts will burglarize your house' - this in an area we used to leave our doors unlocked and our keys in our car ignitions just 15-20 years ago.

You lived among the rubes in the Ozarks, opeob?

[opebo]

Somebody I graduated with died of a heroin overdose. I didn't really know him too well, but these types of deaths are happening way often on Long Island these days, and it's been continuously increasing the past few years here. It worries me.

Yes I hear heroin is rife in the suburbs and exurbs of Missouri as well.  It sounds bizarre to me to talk to old acquaintances there via facialbook and they say 'you can't leave home for more than 2-3 days or those heroin addicts will burglarize your house' - this in an area we used to leave our doors unlocked and our keys in our car ignitions just 15-20 years ago.

You lived among the rubes in the Ozarks, opeob?

Well, the family compound was in the exurbs, more like suburbs now, but we also had the weekend places ('farms') in the northern edge of the Ozarks.  Of course after 18 I never really lived there anymore, but spent a good deal of time there.  I never really even saw any sign of meth - seemed like that came along just around the very late 90s, increased for a few years, and then now after the Depression they're all just talking about heroin and nothing else.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Somebody I graduated with died of a heroin overdose. I didn't really know him too well, but these types of deaths are happening way often on Long Island these days, and it's been continuously increasing the past few years here. It worries me.

That sucks,  man. My cousin's best friend died too-happened yesterday.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

So, I have a more lighthearted story. A few weeks ago I was out with the guys and after our friend's grad party we all decided to go out for wings. After eating we decide to walk around because we needed some stuff, and we went to a few stores on the way. In one of our regular stops I was looking for posters for my dorm, and I was spending a bit too much time looking at the ones with girls. My friend is eagerly peering over my shoulder like a kid in a candy store, as he usually does with anything sexual, and I'm nodding along. Then, I hear a voice asking me if we're finding everything okay...

I turn around to realize that my high school crush has been watching me and my friend stare at a poster of two girls making out.

Not sure if that's good or bad (I'd assume bad, so sorry bro. ) but it's a pretty good story to retell at parties and stuff.

It's still good. I just pokerfaced it and just played it off like nothing was happening. She was like OH MY GOD SAWX IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU and lit up like the old days. Then my fing friend didn't get the memo and made his move while she was talking to me.

Friends are awful. That's why I made the conscious decision not to have any several years ago.

[Lief 🗽]

I had my first callback interview with a firm today. Met three associates of varying levels of seniority and a partner. It seemed like a really great place and does interesting work I'd like to do, so hopefully they hire me.

[afleitch]

Angry twitter types, stop trying to make 'cisgender' happen.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I have three more days left in Japan and I'll be going home into a moving-house situation, so that's going to be interesting.

Angry twitter types, stop trying to make 'cisgender' happen.

I have to admit that I really don't understand the supposed problem with this term. It's the neatest antonym for 'transgender' imaginable. What else ought one say to communicate the concept? Is the idea that the concept of 'the set of people who are not transgender or a member thereof' should not be or should not have to be communicated?

[afleitch]

I have three more days left in Japan and I'll be going home into a moving-house situation, so that's going to be interesting.

Angry twitter types, stop trying to make 'cisgender' happen.

I have to admit that I really don't understand the supposed problem with this term. It's the neatest antonym for 'transgender' imaginable. What else ought one say to communicate the concept? Is the idea that the concept of 'the set of people who are not transgender or a member thereof' should not be or should not have to be communicated?

It's more to do with the latest twitter tag #hatecis or something by angry trangenders which has even been thrown at LGB's. Causing a bit of queer strife.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I have to take the MPRE tomorrow, 2 days before I start class. This sucks.

[Kitteh]

I have three more days left in Japan and I'll be going home into a moving-house situation, so that's going to be interesting.

Angry twitter types, stop trying to make 'cisgender' happen.

I have to admit that I really don't understand the supposed problem with this term. It's the neatest antonym for 'transgender' imaginable. What else ought one say to communicate the concept? Is the idea that the concept of 'the set of people who are not transgender or a member thereof' should not be or should not have to be communicated?

It's more to do with the latest twitter tag #hatecis or something by angry trangenders which has even been thrown at LGB's. Causing a bit of queer strife.

You might want to look at why people are angry before you just dismiss them as such. Anger is a normal response to some situations.

[afleitch]

I have three more days left in Japan and I'll be going home into a moving-house situation, so that's going to be interesting.

Angry twitter types, stop trying to make 'cisgender' happen.

I have to admit that I really don't understand the supposed problem with this term. It's the neatest antonym for 'transgender' imaginable. What else ought one say to communicate the concept? Is the idea that the concept of 'the set of people who are not transgender or a member thereof' should not be or should not have to be communicated?

It's more to do with the latest twitter tag #hatecis or something by angry trangenders which has even been thrown at LGB's. Causing a bit of queer strife.

You might want to look at why people are angry before you just dismiss them as such. Anger is a normal response to some situations.

I'm going to be Memphised for this but anger at people for not being transgendered is misplaced.

[Kitteh]

That's exactly the reason I made that comment. If you think that this is about people being angry at others for being cis you clearly don't understand what's going on at all.

[afleitch]

My apologies. It's #f-ckcispeople. The idea that this is an acceptable tag regardless of what feeling is behind it isn't really excusable.

[Kitteh]

I can't imagine you being up in arms about a bunch of (cis) gays starting a #fckchristians tag even though that's equally generalizing and "angry".

[afleitch]

I can't imagine you being up in arms about a bunch of (cis) gays starting a #fckchristians tag even though that's equally generalizing and "angry".

Of course I would. It's both inaccurate and counter productive. Why on earth would you think I support something like that? I have Christian family and friends.

[Kitteh]

You'll notice that when a rhetorical question such as the one I posted above is asked the answer from the person being criticized is never to agree with it. Regardless, the point here isn't that I like that hashtag. It's just that I find it extremely annoying when people who obviously don't understand why there is so much anger here sit up high from a position of privilege and make snide comments about how people below them need to be more polite and less angry.

[Sopranos Republican]

Got a new laptop today, worked damn hard for that machine. Fast as hell, the old one was slow as sht, and it died on me. Fing piece of sht