Random thing you loathe right now.

b12n11w00t wrote:

The content of the entertainment is plenty open to debate in terms of good or bad. I also don't think the bachelor is good. But the main issue I have is looking down on other people. You don't like the thing but they do and that somehow makes you better? Obviously you probably didnt quite mean it that way but that is the way it comes off in this black and white internet world.

I definitely don't think of myself as "better". But I do have sincere beliefs that some things are damaging enough to people that they shouldn't exist or shouldn't exist in their current form and therefore I have a strong opinion on the market that keeps them financially viable as entertainment products.

DSGamer wrote:
b12n11w00t wrote:

The content of the entertainment is plenty open to debate in terms of good or bad. I also don't think the bachelor is good. But the main issue I have is looking down on other people. You don't like the thing but they do and that somehow makes you better? Obviously you probably didnt quite mean it that way but that is the way it comes off in this black and white internet world.

I definitely don't think of myself as "better". But I do have sincere beliefs that some things are damaging enough to people that they shouldn't exist or shouldn't exist in their current form and therefore I have a strong opinion on the market that keeps them financially viable as entertainment products.

I believe that's fair. My sticking point was in the 'looked-down' terminology and has a lot to do with my own experiences of being treated "less than". Judging content for the its merit and wishing it wouldn't exist because of the harm it can cause is very different than thinking Joe Smith is 'beneath you' because he likes X,Y, or Zedd. (Lord Zedd, power rangers for life!)

I also believe we're on the same page here so no point in me belaboring the point anymore.

“Love what you love. And love loving stuff.”

I learned this amazing mantra through the Goodjer community. It’s a liberating experience when done to the fullest. I love being an atheist and I love the church that I belong to, (they are accepting of everyone, including atheists.) I love punk, thrash, and gangsta’ rap... and I also love mainstream girl-pop and feel good electronica. (Check out LSD and the newest Chemical Brothers albums.)

It’s cool if people love “sports-entertainment”. I call it fake-wrestling only to differentiate between that and MMA or other forms of competitive combat sports. I can’t help it if it turns my stomach to hear people that I respect talk about WWE enthusiastically. But I do try to stay out of it and not piss on their happiness.

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I look down at those of us that still use aol.com as their primary email.

Wait... my wife is one of them.

I consider the original loath to be a lot like I loath Rick and Morty fans.

Some media definitely inspire more people to be like... that. To be really vocal, stubborn and downright obsessive about their thing and to bring it up a lot. Though it can be anything, from video games to sports to freaking deodorant brands, some things seem to have more of those types of fans than others. And I don't look down on people for liking those things, I look down on the assholes who like those things for being assholes. But when most of my interactions with that thing are with assholes, well, it poisons it for me a bit.

I don't actually loath all people who enjoy Rick and Morty, but I might say I loath the uptick in Rick and Morty talk as shorthand for all... that.

I loathe consumer cultural identification

boogle wrote:

I loathe consumer cultural identification

As a Star Wars fan and gamer, I concur!

boogle wrote:

I loathe consumer cultural identification

I struggle with this myself. Star Wars defined a huge part of my childhood. As a kid I coveted 3 inch plastic idols in the images of the characters. As an adult I have those characters’ images tattooed on my body. The crass commercialism and marketing onslaught of the 70s and 80s has grown to be as big as a moon sized space station.

Though I don’t love the commercialism, I still love the stories and characters. In a small way the whole thing still defines who I am. But so does The Beatles and Vincent Van Gogh. I guess that’s just who I am.

boogle wrote:

I loathe consumer cultural identification

Backs slowly out of the thread

It’s always rich when libertarian solutions to cultural issues is that we should stop acting like humans and more like machines.

That’s why they show up to recreate every problem humans have solved. From fire departments to safety regulations, you can count on a libertarian to scoff at why they are necessary when all we have to do is act logical and emotionless at all times.

I loathe chigger bites. $#%@&! it they itch so bad. Only relief is when I sit absolutely still, but as soon as I get up and walk around it's unbearable. Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

Jayhawker wrote:

That’s why they show up to recreate every problem humans have solved. From fire departments to safety regulations, you can count on a libertarian to scoff at why they are necessary when all we have to do is act logical and emotionless at all times.

I gotta admit though that I find this e-coin craze extremely entertaining as you watch everyone involved discover over a period of 5 years why all the regulations and policies of fiat currency that they think is a hindrance came to be in the first place.

kuddles wrote:

I gotta admit though that I find this e-coin craze extremely entertaining as you watch everyone involved discover over a period of 5 years why all the regulations and policies of fiat currency that they think is a hindrance came to be in the first place.

There's a reason bitcoins et al get called "Dunning-Krugerrands".

Boudreaux wrote:

I loathe chigger bites. $#%@&! it they itch so bad. Only relief is when I sit absolutely still, but as soon as I get up and walk around it's unbearable. Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

My dad would take me hunting and fishing with him when I was a little girl and one of the consequences was often chiggers. So when we would get home, my mom would plant me into the bathtub to soak since it smothered the chiggers and then they would be gone and the itch soaked out.

So I guess that is a more lengthy way of making a suggestion to take a long bath. Dump some baking soda into the bath for extra effect!

Put clear fingernail polish over them and you kill them immediately and get relief.

I loathe this day. Today.

I woke up this morning like every morning (and every night) and turned our sprinklers on. We've been watering new grass seed to try and fix our lawn after some moss killed it off. It's been going fairly well and the lawn is looking much better. I turn the water on in back and string a hose to the front, so I assumed everything was normal.

I turned off the sprinkler, got in my car and headed out. As I backed out of the driveway I noticed that someone had randomly moved the sprinkler. They didn't move it further into our lawn because it accidentally hit their lawn or because it hit them on the sidewalk. They moved it closer to the street, so this morning I'd essentially been watering the sidewalk / street without knowing it.

Then on the way to work a car ran a yield and almost hit me. After dodging that I got to my parking garage and while I was entering the parking garage a driver slammed on the brakes right before hitting me as he was cutting back through the entrance of the parking garage.

Finally, as I was walking to the office a cyclist slammed on his brakes before hitting me as I crossed at the crosswalk.

So this morning has been a "glitch in the Matrix" type of morning. People randomly moving sprinklers in ways that don't make sense. Completely ignoring stop lights and stop signs. Cutting across parking garage entrances.

I'll be glad when the day is over.

bekkilyn wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

I loathe chigger bites. $#%@&! it they itch so bad. Only relief is when I sit absolutely still, but as soon as I get up and walk around it's unbearable. Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

My dad would take me hunting and fishing with him when I was a little girl and one of the consequences was often chiggers. So when we would get home, my mom would plant me into the bathtub to soak since it smothered the chiggers and then they would be gone and the itch soaked out.

So I guess that is a more lengthy way of making a suggestion to take a long bath. Dump some baking soda into the bath for extra effect!

Have you tried drinking bleach? I hear that is a great cure for lots of stuff.

Boudreaux wrote:

Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

Heard. I spend an apparently unhealthy amount of time crawling around in outdoors trying to take dumb pictures of animals. Well now I have a rash that has started to come and go on my neck, I'm very tired, and my knees hurt more than usual.

So I have an appt with a Dermatologist on Saturday. I probably got lyme disease or something. Sweet.

r013nt0 wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

Heard. I spend an apparently unhealthy amount of time crawling around in outdoors trying to take dumb pictures of animals. Well now I have a rash that has started to come and go on my neck, I'm very tired, and my knees hurt more than usual.

So I have an appt with a Dermatologist on Saturday. I probably got lyme disease or something. Sweet.

It's probably Lupus.

Jayhawker wrote:

It's probably Lupus.

Huh, yeah, I guess it could be that, too. No face rash though, it's on the back of my neck / scalp.

Guess I'll find out sometime during/after Saturday.

DSGamer wrote:

I loathe this day. Today.

I woke up this morning like every morning (and every night) and turned our sprinklers on. We've been watering new grass seed to try and fix our lawn after some moss killed it off. It's been going fairly well and the lawn is looking much better. I turn the water on in back and string a hose to the front, so I assumed everything was normal.

I turned off the sprinkler, got in my car and headed out. As I backed out of the driveway I noticed that someone had randomly moved the sprinkler. They didn't move it further into our lawn because it accidentally hit their lawn or because it hit them on the sidewalk. They moved it closer to the street, so this morning I'd essentially been watering the sidewalk / street without knowing it.

Then on the way to work a car ran a yield and almost hit me. After dodging that I got to my parking garage and while I was entering the parking garage a driver slammed on the brakes right before hitting me as he was cutting back through the entrance of the parking garage.

Finally, as I was walking to the office a cyclist slammed on his brakes before hitting me as I crossed at the crosswalk.

So this morning has been a "glitch in the Matrix" type of morning. People randomly moving sprinklers in ways that don't make sense. Completely ignoring stop lights and stop signs. Cutting across parking garage entrances.

I'll be glad when the day is over.

Damn! That sucks! Tomorrow had better be better.

Jayhawker wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

I loathe chigger bites. $#%@&! it they itch so bad. Only relief is when I sit absolutely still, but as soon as I get up and walk around it's unbearable. Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

My dad would take me hunting and fishing with him when I was a little girl and one of the consequences was often chiggers. So when we would get home, my mom would plant me into the bathtub to soak since it smothered the chiggers and then they would be gone and the itch soaked out.

So I guess that is a more lengthy way of making a suggestion to take a long bath. Dump some baking soda into the bath for extra effect!

Have you tried drinking bleach? I hear that is a great cure for lots of stuff.

That only works on cancer. Duh!

Jayhawker wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:
Boudreaux wrote:

I loathe chigger bites. $#%@&! it they itch so bad. Only relief is when I sit absolutely still, but as soon as I get up and walk around it's unbearable. Why are there so many bad consequences to enjoying the outdoors?

My dad would take me hunting and fishing with him when I was a little girl and one of the consequences was often chiggers. So when we would get home, my mom would plant me into the bathtub to soak since it smothered the chiggers and then they would be gone and the itch soaked out.

So I guess that is a more lengthy way of making a suggestion to take a long bath. Dump some baking soda into the bath for extra effect!

Have you tried drinking bleach? I hear that is a great cure for lots of stuff.

No...? Am I just missing a joke here? Even if chiggers aren't really still there, taking a bath (and using baking soda) does take out the itching, and will still kill any chiggers that do happen to still be around. Helps with other kinds of insect bites as well for that matter.

bekkilyn wrote:

No...? Am I just missing a joke here? Even if chiggers aren't really still there, taking a bath (and using baking soda) does take out the itching, and will still kill any chiggers that do happen to still be around. Helps with other kinds of insect bites as well for that matter.

It's a reference to the bad medical thread IIRC, where that was the supposed cure for autism some deranged parents were forcing on their children.

Jayhawker wrote:

It’s always rich when libertarian solutions to cultural issues is that we should stop acting like humans and more like machines.

And spend 95% of our free time researching every monetary decision we intend to make. Who has time for that?

I loathe looking up what F chiggers were.

A friend is staying with us while getting some medical stuff taken care of. They had joint replacement surgery on Tuesday and the hospital sent them home yesterday. Apparently the doctor is part of a pilot plan to cut costs with ortho surgery. Words cannot express my fury at how badly it was handled AND that my friend was not informed of this PRIOR to surgery.

Multiple commercials before a video. f*ck, YouTube, you're turning into broadcast TV. Screw that.

garion333 wrote:

Multiple commercials before a video. f*ck, YouTube, you're turning into broadcast TV. Screw that.

Every time I bring up YouTube on my phone or console or whatever and actually see an ad I get very confused for a moment. You really get used to them being blocked by AdBlock.

RIP everyone when Google makes those API changes soon.