The spite, hate, rage, apathy and mild irritation thread...

[Invisible Man]

OK since typing that last post I've been on a walk with one of the people in question (his request). Topics of 'conversation'

--Asking his dad for money from his recently-deceased mother's life insurance payout so he can buy a fifth income property.
--Said property was foreclosed-on after the woman had her boyfriend evicted as a matter of the restraining order she took out against him
--She couldn't afford the place after her abusive boyfriend left, and has been paying for services by giving people appliances, which irks the person I spoke with to no end (he would have to replace them)
--We walked through the hall of a particularly nervous department chair as a 'joke,' because--get this--with all of the layoffs and program cancellations, wouldn't it be funny if their bosses silently walked through their lab spaces pretending to assess everything? Ha! Ha!
--Listeria causing congenital birth problems. It was suggested that I take hot dogs home to my super-pregnant wife
--Him taking a loan from me to buy said income property (little does he know, I have $11 to my name).

Ha! Ha!

[$harkToootth]

^^^Needless to say, I feel for you. Hit me up if you want to chat brother!

[Disarm D'arcy]

IM,

[Invisible Man]

tl;dr: People are terrible and cause me to feel rage and anxiety. Insane mom is back in the picture, too...stalking me IRL and online. Just in time for baby #3's arrival. Wheeeeeeeeee

[ziltoid]

THIS IS NOT MAKING ME NERVOUS AT ALL ABOUT BEING AN ABD GOING ON THE MARKET SOON.

NO NO NO NO

[multi_s]

THIS IS NOT MAKING ME NERVOUS AT ALL ABOUT BEING AN ABD GOING ON THE MARKET SOON.

NO NO NO NO

Don't worry, clowns are always in high demand in Quebec.

[Invisible Man]

THIS IS NOT MAKING ME NERVOUS AT ALL ABOUT BEING AN ABD GOING ON THE MARKET SOON.

NO NO NO NO

Don't listen to me. This place is a fake-anti college, which is probably why they hired me fresh out of grad school to run their shit.

Get a faculty gig at a good place (if that's what you want) and it'll take you ten years to develop an ulcer like mine.

I mean that as encouragement.

[ziltoid]

THIS IS NOT MAKING ME NERVOUS AT ALL ABOUT BEING AN ABD GOING ON THE MARKET SOON.

NO NO NO NO

Don't worry, clowns are always in high demand in Quebec.

There's some mildly appeasing truth to that.

[multi_s]

There's some mildly appeasing truth to that.

haha. exactly. good luck for real though.

[nshuman]

THIS IS NOT MAKING ME NERVOUS AT ALL ABOUT BEING AN ABD GOING ON THE MARKET SOON.

NO NO NO NO

Don't worry, clowns are always in high demand in Quebec.

There's some mildly appeasing truth to that.

Too bad we could not make LaFroïd work. That could have been our retirement. We gave it our best shot though.

[ziltoid]

THIS IS NOT MAKING ME NERVOUS AT ALL ABOUT BEING AN ABD GOING ON THE MARKET SOON.

NO NO NO NO

Don't worry, clowns are always in high demand in Quebec.

There's some mildly appeasing truth to that.

Too bad we could not make LaFroïd work. That could have been our retirement. We gave it our best shot though.

RIP LaFroïd, the best single malts that never existed.

[snipelfritz]

I've had this cold for a week.

[chuckjaywalk]

Going home to an empty house is hard. Real hard. I know she will be better when she gets home. I have to hold onto that.

[comesect2.0]

....was outside drinking coffee having a smoke enjoying this mornings breeze thinking what if there was no such thing as fences...its probably just jealousy and I recognize the game threw and threw and what it takes tho not everyones born under a lucky star, I wish we lived in a world where everyones education, support, livelihood ect. was the same, "well you could pay 1700 a month for a quick built new house where the walls are thinner than an apt, or pay twice that for a well built 5 star grand home castle" living in this subdivision is an illusion and just as bad as where my par'mach'kai lives where the walls crumble from mold and insects for 700 a month and she works her ass off...people are more real in that area cuz theres nothing to hide, end segregation/hope for utopia. will the human race have a chance to start again on another planet? and would the first construct be territorial squares like how you see the world from a airplane?one big circuit board that only seems to function as a whole when the suns away and the lights of a city show a grand achievement...im just sick of this cookie cutter homogenized introverted subsurface personality that seems to happen when you work forever towards a #picketfencelife the farther we crawl away from the animal kingdom the more shadowed/camouflaged human behavior will try to be, yet obvious to the one outside looking in ...instead of being part of this metaverse(earth) I guess our natural fate is to become the hyperverse(essence of information which allows all to "function") and have no individuality and then I suppose well just be like the borg. im just a babe in the woods....

[Invisible Man]

Despite the near-total incoherence of this, I think I kinda get ya.

The thing you keep referencing is this human-animal idea that we're moving away from (or something?)--is that right? Like accepting social norms makes us less honest, and that we shouldn't do that. I don't get what you mean.

I can only speak anecdotally, but people aren't better or worse in shit areas than in rich ones, dude. People on either side of that equation just look at one another and think 'fuck the rich/poor; they're the cause of my/the world's problems.' It's not that binary, though I think there are lots of people who benefit from having you believe that. I've lived in a car; I've lived the #picketfencelife. I've been a rat-killer in a factory; I've had good jobs. My experience isn't really important, but combining that with close observation, studying history, and having access to both super rich people and ultra poor people at the same time means that you get a better lay of the land. Perseverating on it doesn't do anything but make you feel crazy; there's no logic to any of it except gross accumulation of resources.