What's your pet peeve in RL?

[cidbahamut]

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At least when I say I want to get a dog to use as chick bait, I still see it has further applications like "someone to talk to, even if it doesn't really understand," "friend" or "house alarm."

Wait, are you talking about the dog or the chick?

[Feba]

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At least when I say I want to get a dog to use as chick bait, I still see it has further applications like "someone to talk to, even if it doesn't really understand," "friend"

You are a sad, lonely man.

[Murphie]

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I wasn't going to comment on the crazy level of misogyny in the post (and others, which incidentally explains the homophobia), but seriously, damn.

Also, girls can't enjoy FPS?

[Illuen]

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I wasn't going to comment on the crazy level of misogyny in the post (and others, which incidentally explains the homophobia), but seriously, damn.

Also, girls can't enjoy FPS?

Don't you know? Those silly wimmens can't possibly like CoD, it is a manly game! They're just doing it because they want a man. Oh, and they're sluts.

[Armando]

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I assumed he was talking about the dog.

[Murphie]

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I think assuming that you can "bait" a woman with a dog is ridiculous as well. Sure, you might get their attention, but then you have to actually have to interact with them as yourself.

[Armando]

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That's true, but I think breaking the ice is the hardest part. You need an excuse to talk to them without coming or too strong or coming off as creepy.

[Murphie]

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Hello usually works for me, but then again, I'm not going for women.

[KingOfZeal]

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I'm think I'm coming down with some kind of stress-related anxiety... or it could just be stress.

Primarily because of taxes (just like anybody else in the accounting field); while this season hasn't actually been that bad, a local financial service had us do about 200 returns for their clients in the last two days. Majority of the returns went off without a hitch, but we did go through about 4 thousand trees in about 7 hours of total work, and we still have a handful of "stuff" that can't be readily turned into anything meaningful and we'll have to work one-on-one with this service to get them done. We did this last year as well, but we had more than the one week we had this year, so it was all compacted into such a short time. It was actually far worse putting each person's return together once they were done than it was actually doing the return. Add to that various "adjustments" I need to make to certain people's hours (because of them wandering off and not coming back for 30-60 minutes during a session, or leaving a session early but not recorded as such), figuring out where we stand as far as statistics and the like before our end-of-season party Tuesday and handling all the problems are are bound to pop up between now and Monday, it's a lot of stuff to handle.

Then, on top of all THAT, add in my regular classwork which all seems to be coming to a head being the end of the semester (this week is our last full week of school, we have 9 days and then finals), and the fact that I'm actually graduating (or at least no longer a full-time student, I need one class over the summer to complete my degree) and still haven't really gotten very far in the job search...

Yeah, I wonder if anyone is surprised I seem to be loosing my hair at an exceedingly fast rate lately. I'm half surprised none of it is coming out gray. Best time of my life my ass. Give me my degree and a gun, I guarantee I'll have much more fun in the field

[Aksannyi]

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Did I mention having to work during the NHL playoffs? I don't think I mentioned it in this thread yet. Well, my pet peeve today is having to work during the motherfucking NHL playoffs. This is bullshit.

[Fliegar]

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Did I mention having to work during the NHL playoffs? I don't think I mentioned it in this thread yet. Well, my pet peeve today is having to work during the motherfucking NHL playoffs. This is bullshit.

Record the games?

[Aksannyi]

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Yeah, I did, but it's not the same. I already knew the outcome long before I got home. Well meaning friends and all. Lol.

At least I have Friday and Sunday off.

Working nights is already old though. I wish I could program my cable air everything eight hours later and just totally rearrange my schedule. No TiVO or DVR, I can't afford that stuff. But if I could be all like, "Hey, TV, pretend it's eight hours ago," and it would be all like "OK MAN" that would be super schweet.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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I wasn't going to comment on the crazy level of misogyny in the post (and others, which incidentally explains the homophobia), but seriously, damn.

I was actually paraphrasing what a co-worker commented regarding the transaction, turns out she really was getting it for "man bait" and was being quite upfront about it. So I don't really see what's misogynistic about what I said, but thanks for assuming other things about me all the same

Also, girls can't enjoy FPS?

Oh, they totally can, but the numbers are pretty low on that one, though perhaps they've grown in recent years. I haven't really been out there in the contemporary FPS world outside of Goldeneye last year - and there's no voice chat in that one, so who can say? But I know who my bread and butter is on the genre when I sell it. It wasn't women returning Homefront in droves.

That's true, but I think breaking the ice is the hardest part. You need an excuse to talk to them without coming or too strong or coming off as creepy.

See? Armando gets it. While I would actually argue having a dog is more about having another pal and security, icebreaker is something I would rank last, but put first in jest. When you're out in the park or going for a walk, ice breakers are better than awkwardly initiating conversation. I'm not a social butterfly, but I can pick up and talk with anyone with no inhibitions so long as we have a starting point, but when its someone I know I'm already/have become attracted to its a little more stressful.

When I did go out dancing in years past, I saw no problem in asking outright because that's what the women pretty much came for, isn't it? Men have developed certain inhibitions in this department, some citing it as "gay" or, the real truth, they're scared they'll have a boner for being in close proximity to an attractive female stranger. Dancing just happens to be a bit forward by nature, it doesn't work if people aren't willing to accept a certain comfort zone has to be crossed right away.

But without icebreakers or common objectives, everything feels like it comes out as a creepy come-on. At least it does to me.

If you take on a dog, you're adding a pet to your life. That's a relationship and There's responsibility - something women happen to look for even if you're not perfect at it. I'd rather be judged by that upon meeting than what hardware I keep around

[Aksannyi]

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Any woman who drops "I'm a gamer" or any variation thereof within the first ten minutes of meeting a guy is 99% of the time merely using it to be a total attention whore.

The only time I've ever met a guy and mentioned that I like video games upon meeting him would have to be those rare times I've actually struck up a conversation with a guy in a GameStop or while actually playing one in the Wal-Mart video game aisle. And the number of times that's happened are easily counted on one hand.

Most girls who would drop "Oh, yeah, well, I gotta rush home and get back to Halo," to a guy she just met is definitely baiting a hook. Then she'll nine times out of ten end up not really enjoying gaming at all and bitch at her gamer boyfriend when he plays games instead of spending time with her. Don't fall into that fucking trap, for serious.

And that's why I hate attention whore girl gamer types. Whether they actually game or not, if they're an attention whore about it, they're gaming for the wrong reasons and should probably hang themselves with an NES controller.

[Feba]

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I've been pricing a language school in Taipei, it's seriously pretty much the same cost as community college.

WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYBODY GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHEN THEY COULD GO TO SCHOOL IN ANOTHER FUCKING COUNTRY.

Asia, you sirry.