The hugging/venting thread

[topitmunkeydog]

oh I would just break down if someone reminded me of the calvin cycle three years later... D:

Well just know that you don't have to tell us something you don't want but we will still be there for you Viper

[Pickslide1992]

Well, I had a nervous breakdown yesterday. My head hurt, I was laughing maniacally against my will, and I had voices telling me to do things I would never do. I'm on medication, but it makes me sleepy. I'm beginning to think the job choice I have would not work well for me (I'm studying on being a teacher, but if I'm mentally cracked, I don't think I'm fit for a classroom, if not civilized society). Should I stick with my current path or should I pursue another career, and thus all of my progress so far is for nothing? It's really between throwing away what I've achieved vs. risk being thrown in the looney bin later in life.

[itroitnyah]

Well, I had a nervous breakdown yesterday. My head hurt, I was laughing maniacally against my will, and I had voices telling me to do things I would never do. I'm on medication, but it makes me sleepy. I'm beginning to think the job choice I have would not work well for me (I'm studying on being a teacher, but if I'm mentally cracked, I don't think I'm fit for a classroom, if not civilized society). Should I stick with my current path or should I pursue another career, and thus all of my progress so far is for nothing? It's really between throwing away what I've achieved vs. risk being thrown in the looney bin later in life.

If teaching is what you love and like to do, stick with being a teacher.

[Ocular]

So there's a venting thread? I might as well get this off my chest.
So I recently came out to my parents as bisexual.
They refuse to believe me and the think its a phase, even though I have a boyfriend.
I understand I'm still young, but I'm not sexually confused. This is who I am and it works for me. It may not seem to be that big of a deal to some of you but if you were in the same situation, you wouldn't be too happy either.

[PX-n]

My parents are Christains (and so am I), we have no problem with people being T/G/L/Bi/whatever the heck you label yourself.
I don't like it when people throw it in your face though, and I also don't like it when people label themselves something weird just because they want pity/ they want to be different. That's kind of stupid.

[topitmunkeydog]

Ugh gosh I hate it when people are that way. Such a backwards way of looking at things. I hope things turn out well for (both of?) you eventually though! Please don't be afraid of yourself!

[Pickslide1992]

Not sure about you guys, but I've been raised to treat people with respect, no matter what differences they have (Race, sexual identity, gender, religion or lack thereof, etc.), and though I'm not gay/bi myself, I respect all kinds. It's a shame that other so-called "Christians" want to spread a word of hate as opposed to love, and as such believe that those who are gay/bi are pawns of Satan who must be quashed by any means.

I hope things get better for you guys. You have my support all the way.

[topitmunkeydog]

Yeah. I mean, I am an atheist, but I went to church with my grandmother once, and the blokes there were super nice. Of course not all Christians are (my cousins in Kansas... Ugh)
Not to say that this is only true for Christians. I know a lot of fellow atheists who are, frankly, little brats.

[Pickslide1992]

Yeah. I mean, I am an atheist, but I went to church with my grandmother once, and the blokes there were super nice. Of course not all Christians are (my cousins in Kansas... Ugh)
Not to say that this is only true for Christians. I know a lot of fellow atheists who are, frankly, little brats.

The way I see it, religious extremists of any kind are terrible, be it Christians or Muslims or atheists. They all have stereotypes (Fundamentalist Christians, terrorist Muslims, atheists who believe anyone into religion is stupid) but frankly I don't see many of these in real life. These examples are cartoonish exaggerations by any other name, but stereotypes are based partially on the truth.

[itroitnyah]

This week has been a frustrating as hell week and I'm just about ready to punch a wall as hard as I can. Anyways, I've ordered the majority of my computer parts, and all of them arrived either last week or this week. EXCEPT THE 2 MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF THE ENTIRE BUILD! So I ordered all the parts on the same day. Everything went as planned, we got the emails saying that our orders had been received. All except for one. An order from NCIX. They had asked us for our bank's phone number to confirm our address and billing information, since we don't live in Canada, where NCIX originated and ships from. It tells us that the phone number is on the back of our credit card, and there are 4 phone numbers on the back of the card, and they aren't really labeled very well. So the order was rejected. Not a big deal, we just had to reorder the parts. So we do that, and again, the order is rejected for the same reason. Alright, so we don't know what number to enter still. By now it's the weekend, and we have to send off an email upon request from the customer service explaining our situation. We send the email on Sunday. For the next few days, we wait for a response, and get none. I'm guessing they didn't see it, so oh well. Wednesday I wanted my dad to get in touch with customer service, but nope, it was his birthday and he didn't want to. Fine, I'll respect that. Happy birthday, dad. Thursday, I think he was gone somewhere or something and he couldn't. Today, he got home at the time he usually does but then went out to eat with my mom and didn't have time to contact NCIX and get our order back on track. Grrr, just fucking, ugh. This computer that I've been planning on building for a few weeks now is set back ANOTHER week, with EVERY SINGLE PART EXCEPT THE PROCESSOR AND HARDDRIVE SITTING IN MY ROOM! I don't know who the fuck to be the most mad at, NCIX for not noticing the email and responding or my dad for not doing much to get in contact with NCIX. God damn.

But anyways, this saturday I'm going to hopefully convince my dad to reorder the parts REGARDLESS of whether or not we got back in touch with ncix and just use the one foreign phone line number thingy that my dad found on the back of his credit card and I'm just going to put on one day super air travel shipping thing just so that I can fucking get my computer built, because I am sick and fucking tired of having this god damn bullshit get in the way and my build being pushed back day after fucking day. I just really want to fucking get my computer and finish up my WIP so that I can finally fucking submit something to R&R. I swear, if any more of this bullshit keeps coming up I'm going to miss the deadline for it. And I had 3-4 full months to be working on it too. couldn't finish it because I needed to record some vocal samples, and with the basement flooding I can't do this in the main room, too noisy and stuff

[Motivfs]

I can feel your pain of building a new computer and everything being delayed for it.

I ordered via Newegg with Paypal back in late October last year and ended up waiting until mid December to get my whole computer in. I have several issues with the order not going through, as well as I used my credit card to order it all which had a $500 limit at the time (The computer cost me $2,200, so you can see where that becomes an issue).

I had to get in contact with my bank, Paypal, and Newegg about 5 times each. Apparently, if I remember correctly, Paypal doesn't verify billing addresses via credit cards in Canada, which I found strange, this caused me to have to dig out a solution after several weeks of dealing with Newegg and Paypal saying "Go ask the other company".

That solution would be that I asked my bank, since I only had my credit card for about 6 months, to increase my limit, which, in all honesty, didn't look too likely, I mean, I was suppose to wait a year. So I asked this lady if she could kindly raise my limit to $1,000, not only did she do that, she raised it to $2,000 for 7 days with a bit of overage allowed (It means I can go $500 over)

So It all turned out good... So I thought.. Around late November, I had gotten a call from UPS that my monitor was broken, so I had to re-order it and wait ANOTHER month, reason being because I was already over my limit on my credit card, so it wouldn't let me make my purchase until I paid it off (Which I had to wait 2 weeks to do).

Long story short, I know your feels man, I KNOW YOUR FEELS *HUGS!!!* Even if it's a different situation. *HUGS AGAIN!#@%$*

[itroitnyah]

Yeah, I remember reading about that a long time ago. Is there a reason you did not use newegg canada?

[ExoBassTix]

So there's a venting thread? I might as well get this off my chest.
So I recently came out to my parents as bisexual.
They refuse to believe me and the think its a phase, even though I have a boyfriend.
I understand I'm still young, but I'm not sexually confused. This is who I am and it works for me. It may not seem to be that big of a deal to some of you but if you were in the same situation, you wouldn't be too happy either.

It took around 20 minutes for me to fully capture this. Not because of bad writing or bad eye-sight, but because I kind-of know what you feel. Only different thing with me is that I don't have a boyfriend. Not looking for one though...

Anyways, it's sad that your parents see it this way. I know it myself too well, and after a long time (around 2 months) they finally accepted it, because I kept on pushing it and my parents couldn't deny it any longer. Maybe they didn't want to believe it. Maybe it was because I am still 14. Maybe they don't believe it because I'm too young to be thinking of this kind of stuff (note that I don't believe I'm too young to know this stuff).

Ugh, I feel weird... It's always such an odd feeling reliving old memories like these. Not going into detail here (that would result in a ban maybe).

But just know I hope that you fix this problem, convince your parents. If there's one tip that I can give, it'd be you shouldn't be desperate. Just show your parents how you feel when they don't believe you when you tell them who you are. They're your parents for god's sake. Stay true to yourself, man.

[PX-n]

I'm peeved because I have no money and no place will hire me as a lifeguard >:(
It's probably because I live in the middle of nowhereville and people only hire people close to them.

[LoreRD]

*hugs everyone in the thread because there really isn't enough of that in here*

[Motivfs]

Yeah, I remember reading about that a long time ago. Is there a reason you did not use newegg canada?

I did use newegg Canada, it was mostly paypal that restricted me from using payment through a verified billing address or some crap like that if I remember, that THEY couldn't verify billing addresses from Canada YET. Either way, I figured it out

I hope you get your computer build soon though, I couldn't be more happier myself.

[Acsii]

This probably sounds like nothing compared to my other problems but its still a problem to me...
I just want someone to snuggle with.
Someone I can say "I love you" to
Someone I can kiss
Someone I can rest my head on their chest as I listen to their heart beat

[Ed Viper]

This probably sounds like nothing compared to my other problems but its still a problem to me...
I just want someone to snuggle with.
Someone I can say "I love you" to
Someone I can kiss
Someone I can rest my head on their chest as I listen to their heart beat

I understand that feel. It's a very lonely kind of feel, but don't think this doesn't stack up against your other problems. People have a very real need for companionship. I know it can seem really hard and pointless at times, but the thing to do in this case is to not give up hope.

*hugs*

Sending good vibes your way~

[Acsii]

Why do I always have to get attached to people on the other side of the country...
Like my ex was from America... And the current person I'm falling for is from Israel ><

[topitmunkeydog]

Israel

Living Tombstone!??

JK... I know that feel bro... Hugs all around

[Acsii]

Haha he's pretty sexy but nah it's one of his friends

[cyrricky]

Last Friday (the fifth) I saw somebody get shot a few feet away from me.

Copied from Tumblr:

Ok so I was on my way home from school and I was just walking and listening to music and I turned a corner and I saw these two guys fighting and there was another guy egging them on. I wasn’t sure what to do so I sort of walked past them and then one of the guys pulled a gun out of FUCKING NOWHERE and went to pistol whip the other guy but he dropped the gun and my brain went “GUN” and so I started getting out of there and as I was going I heard two gunshots and a guy was on the ground RIGHT FUCKING THERE and people were running so I ran too and some of my friends were farther down the road when it happened and they were like “what’s going on why are we running” and I sort of quickly spouted out the facts like “shots fired, two people were fighting, I saw a gun” and we kept running and then there were two more shots and we kept running and then one of my friends was like “oh shit I forgot my bag” and I was like “fuck I’ll go get it” so I just walked back and got it I don’t know what I was thinking I just went and picked it up and went back and holy shit just thinking about it makes me fucking scared

Even just typing this gives me a huge adrenaline rush and my senses get all sharp. The one thing I remember very clearly was how calm I was. I only started freaking out about five minutes later.

[Alycs]

^I know exactly what you mean man. I was working at the local soup kitchen once when I was 12 and I saw a guy get stabbed in the stomach only about 20 feet away. As the place was packed and there were guards all over the place, everything went to shit right afterwards, but it wasn't until I was thinking about it afterwards that I really started freaking out.

[Acsii]

holy fucking shit.... If I were you I'd talk to a counsellor or something... because stuff like that can be pretty traumatic

[cyrricky]

I'm talking to one tomorrow. Side note: Guns really don't sound like they do in movies and television. It's less of a bang and more of a low-pitched pop.

If anybody's interested here's the news story. Reading it kinda helped me to remember what happened.