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VF5SS wrote:i don't want to be my mother's caretaker

i really don't

Is she that far gone? I feel dirty suggesting it, but there are facilities for that.

her problems are her back and her knee

she's been dragging her feet for years on getting these things fixed

she constantly wears an icepack on her back

doctors and others constantly told her to exercise, eat right, and lose weight

and to stop working two jobs for no reason

she's a slob who does whatever she wants and my father and myself have to pick up after her

and listen to her scream in the night because of the pain she's feeling

guess i got

first world problems

she also flipped out when me and my father wanted to buy a coat rack

she started tearing through clothes in the closet

i brought bags to put stuff in

i think that old dress was her wedding gown

in the end after filling up two bags the closet was still too full to put our coats in

So does that mean she is a hoarder?

man i am really getting sick of the idiots in my apartment building treating the courtyard like a frathouse

when it's 1:30 in the morning I want to get to sleep you stupid shits

we have notices about making noise in the courtyard up but nobody fucking pays attention to them

timmy wrote:So does that mean she is a hoarder?

my father's friend tried to suggest that once and she flipped out. i wasn't there though

she does have a lot of clothes she never wears and tons of shoes and makeup

and she constantly buys more when she can

also she wanted us to put our shoes in the closet but in the end she let the shoe rack slide

we can't let others know people live in this house

VF5SS wrote: guess i got

first world problems

fwp is an acceptable phrase to sling at, say, someone angrily announcing that if their parents had the audacity to buy them a new car with an automatic transmission, they would refuse to ever drive it. that's a fwp.

dreading the thought of having to take care of a person who seemingly wants to destroy themselves and is apparently completely self-centered is not a "oh, first world problems" thing. besides the fact that that's the sort of thing that can cause completely legitimate anguish and grief, i guarantee that there are people in second- and yes, third-world countries facing similar issues of "oh jeez i have to take care of a family member who is pretty unpleasant to deal with"


basically i'm sick of shitheads who fling "first world problems" at anyone who dares to complain about anything more trivial than "starving to death" or "being genocided". let's run this shit into the ground!!

uraniun235 wrote:fwp is an acceptable phrase to sling at, say, someone angrily announcing that if their parents had the audacity to buy them a new car with an automatic transmission, they would refuse to ever drive it. that's a fwp.

i remember actually hearing a guy complain about this, too. it was so fucking ridiculous.

hahaha wat the christ

He was living with his parents, and wasn't going to be moving out soon as he was going to college and his job wasn't enough to pay for tuition and rent at the same time. (Same situation I was in, actually.) The idea was that his parents would buy him a new car, and while he was living with them his mom would be able to use the car sometimes, but she doesn't drive stick (or didn't want to) so it was going to be an automatic. He ranted about this for like two weeks.

The hilarious thing? He was already driving an automatic.


I dunno, the dude could be a total dumbass at times. He was the sort of person who would proclaim that he hated drama and had no time for it... which, to me, always raises red flags when someone feels the need to say that sort of thing.

so like, why did he complain about it

was it because his mum could drive it every so often

or he just didn't like automatics

or both?

uraniun235 wrote:

VF5SS wrote: guess i got

first world problems

fwp is an acceptable phrase to sling at, say, someone angrily announcing that if their parents had the audacity to buy them a new car with an automatic transmission, they would refuse to ever drive it. that's a fwp.

dreading the thought of having to take care of a person who seemingly wants to destroy themselves and is apparently completely self-centered is not a "oh, first world problems" thing. besides the fact that that's the sort of thing that can cause completely legitimate anguish and grief, i guarantee that there are people in second- and yes, third-world countries facing similar issues of "oh jeez i have to take care of a family member who is pretty unpleasant to deal with"


basically i'm sick of shitheads who fling "first world problems" at anyone who dares to complain about anything more trivial than "starving to death" or "being genocided". let's run this shit into the ground!!

well if you're not broomstick you're obviously not allowed to complain about something

Stofsk wrote:so like, why did he complain about it

was it because his mum could drive it every so often

or he just didn't like automatics

or both?

he just really, really wanted a stick-shift

yeah sorry U235

i think it was just conflating this conversation i had with a friend about him not liking the sale price of the one VF-1A toy nobody ever wants to buy because he could be spending that on a new TV :c

this morning wasn't graet

i repeatedly went outside with the dogs on long walks to avoid being in the house

i was kind of upset at the thought of going back inside

uraniun235 wrote:He was living with his parents, and wasn't going to be moving out soon as he was going to college and his job wasn't enough to pay for tuition and rent at the same time. (Same situation I was in, actually.) The idea was that his parents would buy him a new car, and while he was living with them his mom would be able to use the car sometimes, but she doesn't drive stick (or didn't want to) so it was going to be an automatic. He ranted about this for like two weeks.

The hilarious thing? He was already driving an automatic.


I dunno, the dude could be a total dumbass at times. He was the sort of person who would proclaim that he hated drama and had no time for it... which, to me, always raises red flags when someone feels the need to say that sort of thing.

You aren't driving a car unless it's a manual.

I bet boys at that age want a manual transmission because it makes them look "cool".

Lol, car finds its own way to the store?

VF5SS wrote:this morning wasn't graet

i repeatedly went outside with the dogs on long walks to avoid being in the house

i was kind of upset at the thought of going back inside

I am back at work after a week off and I am feeling tired emotionally fragile because my friend, bandmate, and confidant is going back to Victoria tomorrow and I don't know when I might get a chance to make music with her again.

Does this count as first world problems?

Or are we going to have to invent a new term because the other one's been overused?

neither of you are billionaries

so i think you're ok

Unless I have a megarich eccentric relative I didn't know about who died in the last few hours, not a billionaire, no.

My maternal grandfather might have been pretty well off

he was an

engineer

I got Portal a few days ago.

Is this what all the fuss was about?

Just remember fat people sniggering at their hilarious injokes

Gands wrote:I got Portal a few days ago.

Is this what all the fuss was about?

portal 2 was slightly better but unfortunately yes

I still think it's a clever use of an engine that people seemed to want to exploit the shit out of.

too bad it's a 2-hour puzzle game i guess :V