Watercooler/Slowchat 2: Son of Watercooler

[Super Aggro Crag]

i want to die pretty much every day

[ThanatosRa]

I have a bean bag chair if you want to start small.

On the other hand fuck the cost of living over there.

[Timbrewolf]

i want to die pretty much every day

Someone watched a season of Bojack twice

[ColonicAcid]

Birthday tommorow.

Going to get spognoglded again. Last time I'll taste good beer/cider for around a month so rip that. Got my flight on the sunday.

[Malkevin]

Today I had a donut
I also had a coffee

I dunked my donut in the coffee, it was horrible.

And there's a franchise from this?

[DemonFiren]

Today I had a donut
I also had a coffee

I dunked my donut in the coffee, it was horrible.

And there's a franchise from this?

Neither you, your donut or the beverage are American enough for this.

[420weedscopes]

i might buy a top of the line smartphone
purely for recording videos with
give me thoughts do it

[Remie Richards]

That job application got back to me, got an interview tomorrow.
Yaaay.

[DrPillzRedux]

Second time I've lost a friend to suicide now, but the feeling of wondering if you could've done more always comes.

[Wyzack]

Congrats on the interview Remie, you may have skipped the crippling anxiety and self loathing phase of jobhunting and gone right to the fuck everything i hate my job phase.

Also that is goddamn rough pillz, i cannot imagine going through that even once

[ColonicAcid]

i might buy a top of the line smartphone
purely for recording videos with
give me thoughts do it

my samsungs camera is prudddy gud

[Wyzack]

Hbd colonic

[ColonicAcid]

tanks

[ThanatosRa]

Started closing shift due to being all but forced to take it.


Here's to hope that the queue doesn't get overloaded last thing at night so I don't get stuck after the clock. Ther'es going to be a lot of involuntary overtime.

[Timbrewolf]

Second time I've lost a friend to suicide now, but the feeling of wondering if you could've done more always comes.

Shit. Sorry to hear.

[nsos]

Hbd colonic

[420weedscopes]

my samsungs camera is prudddy gud

on-screen recording

[Remie Richards]

Had my first ever job interview today.
I think it went well.

They got back to me just now (so like, 6 hours after the interview which is really good) just to tell me that they've not made a decision yet
(some more people to interview) and they'll get back to me by Wednesday.

Was sat next to the phone for 2 hours playing FFIV, when it finally rang I jumped haha.

[Ricotez]

Contacting you specifically to tell you they haven't made a decision yet sounds like good news, yeah. They probably want to make sure you don't accept something else while they're thinking of hiring you.

[Remie Richards]

That's... a really good point. The lady on the phone did actually say "don't think we've forgotten you" (twice haha)

[EndgamerAzari]

Hoping to make this the next piece of my collection:

Spoiler:

Hoping STRONGLY for this:

Spoiler:

[420weedscopes]

THAT FUCKERS ONE IS SO GOOD

[EndgamerAzari]

I'm gonna go balls to the fucking wall on that one.

[ThanatosRa]

I wish I had the resources, time and intelligence to make neon signs and milk azari for every last dime.

[Timbrewolf]

Speaking of money anyone want to contribute to gettin' Ol An0n3 a birthday present?

I'm stuffing cash away to buy one of these big boys this year, it's a bit pricey at $2000.

[Malkevin]

Whats the job Remi?

Supermarkets don't count as a job.

[Remie Richards]

Whats the job Remi?

Supermarkets don't count as a job.

Business administration, office-y type stuff.

[nsos]

when the interviewer asks for a portfolio of your work and you go to get your work and one of the sites a good chunk of it was on has been wiped of all stuff before like 2016

[Wyzack]

Some nights i just spiral into these weird pseudo panic attacks thinking about all the shitty things that happen in this world. My brain decides to go into excruciating detail about the fresh exciting ways people can reach new heights of suffering and like a trainwreck i just cant seem to look away no matter how hard i try

[Timbrewolf]

A sometimes fear of mine is that by conceptualizing worse and worse states of mind you slowly slip into them.

It's hard to articulate. Imagine the worst you've ever felt. Now try to imagine feeling even worse then that.
Now imagine what it would feel like to feel like that all the time.
Now try not to feel like that.

We have a really powerful and subtle way of bending our perceptions of reality in slight ways that are just far enough out of our control that there's a danger to that. Imagining what it would be like if everything you ever ate tasted like actual shit because your brain just interpreted it that way. And then suddenly getting stuck like that.

It's hard to articulate fully, and probably just sounds like some maybe edgy or low-tier introspective teenager shit but after too many nights of bad trips or drinking yourself out of your own mind you're put face to face with the reality that your own mind isn't under your own control and a vivid imagination or powerful thought process is actually more inclined to slip away from you and go nuts than it is to stay reigned in.

[Wyzack]

I guess it is something like that. Can't stop it. Just fucking sucks. Babies starve to death in the arms of thier crying mothers and a thousand children literally diarrhea themselves to death every single day and here I sit getting drunk and playing video games and even knowing all this I am just too apathetic to do a god damn thing about any of it

[Malkevin]

I guess it is something like that. Can't stop it. Just fucking sucks. Babies starve to death in the arms of thier crying mothers and a thousand children literally diarrhea themselves to death every single day and here I sit getting drunk and playing video games and even knowing all this I am just too apathetic to do a god damn thing about any of it

I find it easier to put it into perspective. It doesn't affect me directly or even indirectly, therefore I cold heartedly ignore it. Although I may have a concerning lack of emotional attachment, an inability to feel awestruck or surprised and normally drained of enthusiasm, maybe due to a lot of bullying by students and teachers. I guess I feel too small to care, even about myself unless it's under threat of pain or health excluding eating veggies, I hate veggies, they taste horrible. Carrots? Far too pungent and I can rarely stomach much of the ones that are slightly bland. Lettuce? Wastes the flavour of anything it's eaten with. Tomatoes? Rancid. Cauliflower? Yeuch. I don't have many fruits and veggies I enjoy. I even tried switching to white rice with its case still on and it's just horrible to eat. I don't want to not eat a varied diet but nature makes it hard to enjoy everything that has a horrid taste, texture or compatibility to my other foods. I guess I haven't tried much at all but it's hard to want to when 90% of what your mum is offering to put on your plate is what you know you hate and you're not the one buying from the supermarket or big into cooking your own meals.

Throw your veg in a stew pot along with beef chunks, then everything tastes of beef.

Some nights i just spiral into these weird pseudo panic attacks thinking about all the shitty things that happen in this world. My brain decides to go into excruciating detail about the fresh exciting ways people can reach new heights of suffering and like a trainwreck i just cant seem to look away no matter how hard i try

Stop watching LiveLeak before bed.

[XSI]

We have a really powerful and subtle way of bending our perceptions of reality in slight ways that are just far enough out of our control that there's a danger to that. Imagining what it would be like if everything you ever ate tasted like actual shit because your brain just interpreted it that way. And then suddenly getting stuck like that.

This is actually a thing that happens to people. Rarely, used to happen much more often.
It's how the old curse of "May all the food you eat turn to ash in your mouth" works even. If you truly and honestly believe you are cursed into never tasting anything but ashes, then your brain will make it happen.

The good news, it's easy enough to fix, and in fact most religions have ways to 'lift curses' which is basically fixing that sort of problem. Prayer, meditation, tribal rituals, a concoction of nice smelling herbs and everything else like it will also set your brain back on the right track if you truly believe it will. (Note that some things also double up for other uses. It's a complicated thing)

You know why we don't see curses anymore today while medieval peasants were scared of a witch in the woods? Because people stopped believing in them, so they no longer inflict these things on themselves. Even a curse for 'bad luck' is just something your brain makes real. All the simple things that are a bit annoying but no big deal and you would have shrugged off suddenly become signs of 'the curse' if you believe you are cursed.

Psychology ahoy!
Seriously though, brains are powerful. Handle with care

[DrPillzRedux]

[420weedscopes]

>childhood cat died this year
>younger cat has now not been seen in days

please.

[Screemonster]

Contacting you specifically to tell you they haven't made a decision yet sounds like good news, yeah. They probably want to make sure you don't accept something else while they're thinking of hiring you.

that's how I wound up in the job I'm in. Interviewed for a place, didn't hear anything for ages, applied for different job, went to the interview, got offered the job, then the first place called me back saying they wanted to hire me.
Too slow, buckaroos.

[ColonicAcid]

holy shit i just drunk the most i have ever drank in one night and ive got another night of getting absolutely spagandlged tommorow wtff.

fucking korea alcohol is SHITTTT

[Timbrewolf]

Get some snake wine you pussy

[captain sawrge]

Iw ant t o murder all woman

[captain sawrge]

Sorry @ the FBI if u r reading htis it was a joke i have a virus i cnat dlete it

[Timbrewolf]

I spent the day splitting logs and chopping up a tree. Feels real fucking good. Had a beer and a cigarette afterward. First of either since February. Only one of each.

[Timbrewolf]

Society tells me I need to wash my hands after I take a piss but I have jammed this thing directly into enough peoples' mouths to know that nothing bad is going to happen.

Explain that to me Bill Nye.

[Wyzack]

Wait how do you cope if not alcohol.

Wat is this

[Timbrewolf]

I fully embrace the shit rather than try to unburden it these days.

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I spent seriously all afternoon today just splitting a ton of wood. It puts me in a zen-like state of just bliss. The body working in concert, accomplishing something physical. It gets all the stress right out of me.

[Timbrewolf]

If you don't own one of these or have never used one you don't know what you're missing and I feel bad for you.



>inb4 "That's just an axe"

[nsos]

its just an axe

[EndgamerAzari]

I dropped a pepperoni roll on the sidewalk today and ate it anyway

In case you're wondering how my day's been

[Timbrewolf]

its just an axe

I'm disappointed in you

I thought one tool might recognize the other

Spoiler:

It's a splitting maul. It's like someone took a sledgehammer and put an axe head on one side of it. Doesn't cut the wood so much as smash it in half using a sharp edge. Can be swung like a sledgehammer if you have a wedge. Can be swung like ten kinds of hell if you just want to break something.

[DemonFiren]

I dropped a pepperoni roll on the sidewalk today and ate it anyway

In case you're wondering how my day's been

Who cares, you have an immune system.

Right?

[XSI]

My dad had an axe like that, and several more laying around the shed.
Used one like it to chop some firewood for the wood burner. A few times.

Also used large cutting knives to decapitate chickens. They truly do keep struggling for a minute or so