Basically I've always had bad earwax issues, but now it's completely blocked my left ear. I'm using drops which are slowly, slowly giving my hearing back, but it is also leaving me with a slow discharge of viscous gunk.
Ok, I just have to rant. My friends are pissing me off and I can't say anything where they'll see it or they'll all go on their fucking periods.
Why is it that whenever someone insists on hating on any form of elected official, their first order of business is how said elected official never kept his promises? That would be like me getting pissed off at my toaster for making toast, just because someone told me it was a sandwich maker, and not just the first time, either, I'd get progressively more and more pissed off that this stupid fucking toaster keeps making toast when I want a sandwich maker. You want a sandwich? Make it yourself, or go get one when you go shopping again. You want to change the way things work? Do it yourself or vote to change it. Anything in between is just pointless anger.
The second order of business is to liberally use the buzzword of their choice, i.e. fascist for republicans, socialist for democrats. I'm pretty sure going to war isn't fascism, and setting up universal healthcare with the option to keep whatever private insurance you want isn't socialism. Whenever they say things like that it just makes me wish I didn't know them.
I ask them why they're surprised that a politician lied to them, and they just respond with shit like "Your snarkiness is really starting to get on my nerves" or "You know, if we don't say anything, it's just going to keep happening". I'd say that it would keep happening either way, but I guess some people would still like to think that the system isn't complete shit by this point.
The worst part about it? If you just switch the political affiliation of anyone, but keep their platform exactly the same, most people would still blindly defend or hate that person, just in reverse.
And before anyone says it, yes, I know I'm just as stupid about all this as everyone else. Please feel free to disregard all of this.
American politics are bizarre. I do not get all the hate toward universal healthcare. Should we hate on universal education too? Start charging for K-12 schooling?
This is why I don't politick anymore. Now I just focus on special interests and the track records of the specific candidates. What worries me is how things like "protection of First Amendment rights" are quickly becoming a special interest.
I think news networks need to stop putting (D) or (R) next to all the politicians' names. I just know there are people out there who immediately decide "oh, he's the one I'm disagreeing with" just from seeing that.
I've given up on organised politics. I was a Tory supporter, but seeing and being affected by the way their austerity cuts are hitting the worst off in society and their attempts to created a societal untermensch has put me off. While Labour are basically just as bad, they've given up working for the rights of the working class, they just bring it out that old card whenever it will win them votes.
Uuuuuuuurgh. I hate having to use a different OS for development purposes. Having to use linux for some android dev work, which is fine, but why the fuck, in the apps I use on both windows and mac, are the commands not the same? Why can't I use backspace to go back in Chrome? How do I swap between different windows of the same app via a keyboard command (It has neither cmd+\ of OS X, nor does alt+tab of windows go through them).
Throw me a fricking bone here!
EDIT: Also, empathy, let me log into MSN more than just 5% of the time you fuck!
My cat is sick. She's not sick enough to feel bad for her, she's just sick enough to be inconvenient. I've spent over $1000 on vet trips, medication, and tests in the last few weeks and now I have to give her an anti-nausea pill, a liquid antibiotic, and a transdermal thyroid medication in her ear twice a day. And I've had to wash my blanket 4 times this week because she keeps puking on my bed.
Because I understand. Completely. We'd hold ours down and shoot things in her mouth twice a day and/or put things in her ears, give pills, etc. For four years.
It's hard to say no to the vet, and little by little you spend a fortune. Then they die. UGH CATS
I suggest your next cat be a human infant instead. They last longer, and you don't have to care for them in their old age.
She's 13 now. As soon as all this other crap clears up, I should just be able to drop $1500 on a procedure to kill some of her thyroid and i won't have to deal with any more pills and vomit for a couple of years.
After this creature is gone I'm not replacing her with anything. Human infants are way too noisy. My cat almost never meows, if i did replace her, I'd go for an even quieter model.
How do your state laws handle those kinds of shifts? In California a 12 hour shift comes with a second 30 minute lunch break and four hours of overtime, and anything over 12 hours is double time. Here's hoping you have similar perks!
This time, since I'm not quite salaried, I get time and a half. Next week, however, I become a salaried employee, and get no extra perks from overtime.
Luckily for me, they decided that we can only get a maximum of 12 hours of overtime, so I'm only working 6 hours today.
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Why is it that whenever someone insists on hating on any form of elected official, their first order of business is how said elected official never kept his promises? That would be like me getting pissed off at my toaster for making toast, just because someone told me it was a sandwich maker, and not just the first time, either, I'd get progressively more and more pissed off that this stupid fucking toaster keeps making toast when I want a sandwich maker. You want a sandwich? Make it yourself, or go get one when you go shopping again. You want to change the way things work? Do it yourself or vote to change it. Anything in between is just pointless anger.
The second order of business is to liberally use the buzzword of their choice, i.e. fascist for republicans, socialist for democrats. I'm pretty sure going to war isn't fascism, and setting up universal healthcare with the option to keep whatever private insurance you want isn't socialism. Whenever they say things like that it just makes me wish I didn't know them.
I ask them why they're surprised that a politician lied to them, and they just respond with shit like "Your snarkiness is really starting to get on my nerves" or "You know, if we don't say anything, it's just going to keep happening". I'd say that it would keep happening either way, but I guess some people would still like to think that the system isn't complete shit by this point.
The worst part about it? If you just switch the political affiliation of anyone, but keep their platform exactly the same, most people would still blindly defend or hate that person, just in reverse.
And before anyone says it, yes, I know I'm just as stupid about all this as everyone else. Please feel free to disregard all of this.
Throw me a fricking bone here!
EDIT: Also, empathy, let me log into MSN more than just 5% of the time you fuck!
Because I understand. Completely. We'd hold ours down and shoot things in her mouth twice a day and/or put things in her ears, give pills, etc. For four years.
It's hard to say no to the vet, and little by little you spend a fortune. Then they die. UGH CATS
I suggest your next cat be a human infant instead. They last longer, and you don't have to care for them in their old age.
After this creature is gone I'm not replacing her with anything. Human infants are way too noisy. My cat almost never meows, if i did replace her, I'd go for an even quieter model.
Ack.
I'm in a similar boat, working 11 hour days most days and 12+ hours on Fridays. But at least on Saturdays I only have to work 7 hours!
Luckily for me, they decided that we can only get a maximum of 12 hours of overtime, so I'm only working 6 hours today.