What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Aeni]

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Ya, I've been milking these kidneys along for 20 years now.

A new movie ... Milking Ms. Kidney.

[cidbahamut]

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So tl;dr Kidneys failing, won't put on transplant list unless both are removed, higher chance of dying a painful death if I do........wtf would you do?

Honestly? I'd panic. That's a terrifying situation to be in.

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Blargh. I do not enjoy it when my cpu fan gets noisy and tries to die on me. Finding a good quiet fan is such a pain, and the 70mm selection isn't looking too good so far. I really don't want to have to get a new heatsink just to get a decent fan -_-

[TheGrandMom]

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We used to call my pc O'Hare because it was so loud. I invested in some of these:

AcoustiFan Dust Proof 70mm Quiet Computer Fan

Pricey? Yes. Do they work? ABSOLUTELY!

[cidbahamut]

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Holy bajesus. What have I been doing wrong with my computer part shopping that I managed to miss something like that? This is awesome TGM! I'll need to double check, but if this can fit on my heatsink I am ordering one tonight.

[Ketaru]

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And that investigation is, quite frankly, more harassment than they'd probably get if they could just be straight up about it and just tell you. Personally, I want a close(ish) relationship with my unit. I want to know them well enough to trust them when we go into combat. You can't really have that when you have to keep such big secrets and when you can't just be open with each other. It's up to them if they want to be out, but for people who were very obviously out of the closet, it's fucking stupid that they just can't tell people.

It should be the intolerant fucks who can't work with someone who is gay (or black, or Jewish, or whatever) that should be kicked out.

The powers that be don't agree with you, if this week is anything to go by.

Like I said here, I'm having difficulty figuring out who I'm going to tell. I'm committed to telling my best friend of 10 years because, if I can't tell him, who can I tell? But I will confide in you guys that him not reacting positively to it is the thing I am most afraid of in the world. It's so easy for people to say "If he doesn't, he wasn't a real friend anyway", but gee, that doesn't exactly cheer me up to the prospect.

Certainly not my mother. When my father was still alive and kicking, he would hear about LGBT issues on the radio and make comments about how that kind of behavior was just something that rich attention whores do. He certainly believed it was a choice. And from a very young age, my mother always drilled into me her fantasies about playing with grandchildren in the future, which is not a dream of hers I wish to tell her may or may not happen. I actually had the perfect opportunity to tell her a few years ago, but I was in denial then.

I have a sneaking suspicion my aunt would understand because she has always been awesome and supportive of our family through everything, especially after my father passed away last year. My mother is close friends with somebody that I never realized was such a devout christian though. So devout in fact that, when my dad was sick with colon cancer, she actually said to him that if he does not submit himself to God, he will go to hell. He never forgave her for laying that on him and neither have I. But my mother clearly values their friendship so I don't want to come between that....I am certain that woman is a homophobe.

And I am not telling anybody at work, because as I'm sure all of you more world-weary have come to know, I have found that coworkers can be some of the most backstabbing of individuals who will use anything they can grasp to get you fired.

[Yellow Mage]

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I'm close friends with a bisexual guy myself (I'm actually well-acquainted with quite a few), so I'm told that things can be particularly difficult with the way bisexuals are perceived. But personally, though, I think you guys are actually pretty darn cool, and am almost jealous that you guys can totally enjoy one half of the world that I can't.

Anyway, at least know that, no matter what happens, there are plenty of people out there that will accept you as precisely who you are.

[Ketaru]

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Posting that however reminds me that I'm not really all downtrodden by the situation. It's something that has come up once again though with this midterm election and all the sudden attention to it, but somehow I'm responding to it differently.

What posting that just now really reminds me of is how much respect I lost for this family friend of ours (though, I assure you, she is no longer any friend of mine). My dad went to his grave knowing that a friend of his thinks he is going to hell. We can call it some sort of spiritually based kind of love where she just wanted my father to repent. But he's been a Buddhist all of his life. That cool aunt I talked about lost a lot of respect for her too. This is, after all, her brother we're talking about here.

This reminds me of a time, back in high school, when the subject of religion came up at our lunch table. So-called circle of friends. I said I wasn't a Christian and somebody immediately pipes up "Then you're going to hell cause you don't believe in Christ."

In college, I knew a very devout Christian whom I would consider a good friend in college. He used to pray before he eats, was very passionate about being against abortion, virginity until marriage yadda yadda, and I knew he carried a Bible in his backpack everywhere he went. He also did volunteer work with the mentally disabled, which I have a huge respect for. And he NEVER once said to me, "You're going to hell man." On the contrary, he was always very civil. He was just unashamed of being Christian.

People like him are actually why I equally dislike it when the media makes jokes at the expense of Christians. But other times some of them are just so damn unlikeable.

[Yellow Mage]

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Yeah, I'm definitely in the same camp as your college friend, though he definitely could teach me a few things on piety. Of the things listed that he did, I really just pray before each meal . . . well, and not say that everybody who doesn't follow my ideology is going to hell, because not only is that rather uncouth, quite frankly it's also rather silly. I believe in a God that loves us all and wants us to be happy (Benjamin Franklin once said that alcohol is proof thereof, and though I'm not a big fan of the stuff myself, God has been supportive of it historically), and while He did give some of us an answer through Christ, I can't imagine that implicitly meaning that He just turns His back on the rest of the world. "I will go tend to other sheep" and all that. At the very least, it would be 100% antithetical of Him to damn on the grounds of loving anybody. (And politically, separation of Church and State, anyway . . .)

Another way I'm not like your friend is that I cannot say that I am 100% unashamed . . . because, really, it's freaking hard to do so when, as you said:

some of them are just so damn unlikeable.

But yeah, embarrassments aside, I just keep my faith to myself most of the time and pray for a better world . . .



And before I forget this again (meant to post this initially ><; ), I just want to note that aforementioned friend actually lately indirectly (I'm so freaking addicted to adverbs, can't ya tell? >.<;;; ) complained that he was too happy. At least, in the sense of that he doesn't feel like he has very much to strive for, and he feels that sort of attitude is hurting his productivity. Either way, he's definitely a man living a charmed life. He's the sort of person that, not only is he attracted to darn-near everybody, darn-near everybody is attracted to him as well . . .

Also want I wanted to include in my previous post was something about people who think that sexuality is a choice. Their arguments imply that they are convincing themselves that they are "choosing" not to be gay . . . just something to think about.

[Aksannyi]

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There is a thread on BG where some idiots argued that sexuality was a choice. Not even a thread about sexuality, per se, but politics and religions (so it seems I'm swimming in it lately, between here and there) and I just got so disgusted with the people who honestly believe that A. God is stupid and so is the belief in such, and B. Homosexuality is a choice, that I unsubscribed from the thread and I won't revisit it.

Religion and/or political thread on the internet, though ... not sure what else I was expecting.

I do not believe that you'll go to hell if you don't believe in Christ. I believe that if you believe in God, in some form, in some way, and if you live your life by His general teachings, you'll be fine. You know the saying "All roads lead to Rome?" That's kind of how I feel about God. No matter how you find Him, it's just important that you find Him. Or Her.

[cidbahamut]

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There's also something to be said for actually finding religion for yourself. I can't stand the folks who run around trying to convert everyone. Converting because of social pressure or fear of damnation is not a basis for faith; Polictics perhaps, but not faith.

I was raised Catholic, but somewhere along the line I realized that I was only going along with it because it was what my folks did. I had a bit of a falling out with Christianity during high school. There's a lot of good in the religion itself, but there's also a lot that doesn't sit well with me, though I think a lot of that was the church rather than the religion.

It also struck home pretty hard that you need to find religion for yourself as I watched my friend dive into eastern religions. He studied like a madman learning just about everything you could get from religious texts written in sanskrit and his enthusiasm for it all put a lot of things into perspective for me. Faith is a very driving force, and that sort of thing does not come from casually going along with the social norm. It has to come from the individual and cannot be forced in any way if it is to be genuine.

I can't stand people who peddle religion.

[Yellow Mage]

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I can't stand the folks who run around trying to convert everyone.

You know what? Neither can I. For a wide variety of reasons, actually, but the biggest one being how a lot of people have said "treat others like you treat yourself." That perspective alone made me despise the act of conversion, as for a new viewpoint to be had, a previous one has to be seen as less valid - and I most certainly don't want to run around telling everybody that their viewpoints are less valid than my own, just as I don't want everybody telling me that my viewpoint is less valid than their own.

In the sense that I view the entire act of conversion as a sham, then maybe I'm Christian now simply from being raised that way and staying the course. Maybe if I was raised another faith I'd have kept it all the same. But even within a faith that is shared, I can still find room to find my own way; I'd like to think that I have.

The church does kinda suck, tho.

[Feba]

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Ketaru, adopt. Seriously, if you feel an obligation to provide kids, just adopt. If your mother bitches, ask if she'd be so upset if you'd married an infertile woman.

If she would, she's completely evil. If she wouldn't, continue on to explain that just because it's not biologically yours doesn't mean you'll love it any less, and neither should she.

Also, another thing I don't care to do in Japan again: Carry flowers down the street.

Jesus christ, and I thought I got looks for being a white guy with an afro.

[Murphie]

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I would totally have a biological child if I could find a willing lady tho. I'll be honest. Not that my neices and nephews aren't wonderful people. But my brother and I haven't contributed in any way to that number, and I'd like for my last name to carry on, for some reason. Also, I would like to be a father. ALAS! Maybe some day though.

Is it depressing that I already know what I'd name my child if it were a boy or a girl?

[Etra]

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Is it depressing that I already know what I'd name my child if it were a boy or a girl?

...No... Because I do it, too. -_-;;;

[Nandito]

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If it's a girl; Pashmina.

If it's a boy; Superfly.