What's your pet peeve in RL?

[Firewind]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

They all die and dragons will rule the world. The end.

You forgot to add that three specific characters are Martin's pet characters, and you should always expect some kind of deus ex machina to bail them out of their latest stupid decision.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

The person who runs our Sharepoint site is a fucking idiot and has no idea how to develop anything.

It's gotten to the point where I have volunteered to take it on as an additional task and without any real scripting knowledge (other than HTML) because I'm sure I could do a better job than this daft woman.

And yeah, it doesn't work in this version of IE that came with my new computer.

[Jarre]

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One of my older brothers died on the 4th. We think it was suicide. My younger brother has had myofascial pain syndrome for a few years, received cortisone shots in his back, and this resulted in steroid psychosis. That led to bipolar disorder. Now his life is upside down, and he talks every day about suicide. We're working on finding the right medications, but his back is still a problem, and he seems incapable of seeing past it all. It's been an emotional few months, and I'm starting to feel apathetic. Once I realize I'm feeling apathetic, I feel guilty, because I should care. I don't know what to do.

You do care mate but sometimes that care overwhelms you and you have to step back a little to look after your own mental health so don't feel guilty if you have to step back a bit now and then. He should be getting some form of physcological help to deal if he is feeling that way inclined, pills are only a small part to improving his health, CBT and other talking therapies would help. Is he on any meds for his back at all? In May I will be put on gabapentine for mine, its a nerve block drug and that along with amatriptyline will help keep my mental state and pain balanced as I am a long depression sufferer with 3 degenerated disks in my spine and have had cortizone injections, a tens machine, epidural and accupuncture all to no avail.

[Mezlo]

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I'm sorry to hear that Dak... Your family will be in my prayers.

[Aksannyi]

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Oh jeez how did I miss that Dak? I'm so sorry for your loss.

[cidbahamut]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

The person who runs our Sharepoint site is a fucking idiot and has no idea how to develop anything.

It's gotten to the point where I have volunteered to take it on as an additional task and without any real scripting knowledge (other than HTML) because I'm sure I could do a better job than this daft woman.

And yeah, it doesn't work in this version of IE that came with my new computer.

To be fair, Sharepoint is an enormous pile of misery and sadness.

[Aksannyi]

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It really is - but I just found out that it now works in Firefox, so I've made the switch and things are functioning a lot better.

[cidbahamut]

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Don't count on that lasting. Last time I had to deal with Sharepoint it was still prone to throwing fits about Firefox from time to time.

[Aksannyi]

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Damn.

Well thanks for the head's up.

[Caspian]

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Very sorry to hear that, Dak. And I agree with Jarre, I think distancing yourself mentally from it helps a lot with keeping yourself out of the same places. Hoping and praying that things start going better for you and your family soon.

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your Pet Peeve in RL?

56 degrees out and bright and sunny. So not a day for studying...

[Caspian]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

How I Met Your Mother ended last night. It definitely wasn't as good in the more recent seasons as it was in the first 3 or four, but truthfully how many 9 season shows are? Still really enjoyed the finale and it will definitely be missed. Hell, I've been watching it virtually all of my adult life.

[Malacite]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Being poor, miserable, hungry and listening to Mom cry...

[Ketaru]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

I can't even say that I like her so much as I like her slightly more than I did earlier in the series. I don't think she's going to ever be a good person, especially the more she gets stuck hanging around Kings Landing, but she matured some from the first season to the third (I'm still on the first book though lol), and I appreciated that.

I also really just love Hodor, that guy is a hoot.

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Oh, and the red wedding left me in a huge state of shock, even though my coworker and my boyfriend both warned me about it. They just told me, "Wait until you see the red wedding!" without telling me what I was going to see and I was just like ... what the fuck ...

Y'know, like I've said, I've never seen the show. So while I was reading, I had ideas in my head about what all the characters look and sound like.

Eddard Stark- I know he's the guy who played 006 in Goldeneye. But everytime he had a speaking part, I kept hearing his voice as Liam Neeson.
Catelyn Tully- As you guys know, I often play Tabletop games. I usually pictured Catelyn as the lady on the cover of "The Resistance: Avalon"
Robb Stark- Tiz Arrior from Bravely Default (would say I'm way off for this one, but I believe they aged Robb in the TV show). Not with such a grainy voice though.
Bran Stark- Following up with that, I imagined Bran as Til Arrior, who actually is NOT far off from the TV show portrayal.
Sansa Stark- A generic Disney pop princess.
Jon Snow- I still don't really have an image in my mind of what he looks like, but it wouldn't be like his TV portrayal so he's actually supposed to be only 1 year older than Joffrey...I think.
Lysa Tully- In an old episode of Law and Order: SVU, there was a semi-famous actress that plays a lady stalking a little girl she believes to be her child.
Robert Baratheon- That guy who plays Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask.
Loras Tyrell- Speaking of The Man in the Iron Mask, The "Knight of Flower" probably looks as dainty as Leonardo diCaprio did back in he 90s.
Cersei Lannister- The "Morgana" card in "The Resistance: Avalon", except blonde.
Jaime Lannister- Generic, attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed "Aryan-Race" sort of man.
Joffrey Baratheon- For better or worse, his picture is pretty much on every meme I could immediately recognize as A Game of Thrones, so I knew what he looked like long before reading. Same goes for...
...Tyrion Lannister. His image is even on the novel boxset's cover. So there was no imagination necessary there.
Daenerys Targaryen- I actually envisioned her exactly as she appears in the show.
Varys- Exactly as he appeared in the show.

[Aksannyi]

Re: What's your pet peeve in RL?

Quite a bit of that is fairly accurate. The Sansa assessment is more accurate earlier in the book but as more and more things happen she becomes kind of repressed, for lack of a better term.