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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9718079 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39105 on: October 28, 2011, 08:15:25 pm »
Saying she's deceptive is one thing.  Saying she's a slut is an entirely different thing.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39106 on: October 28, 2011, 08:29:46 pm »
Quote from: Vector on October 28, 2011, 08:15:25 pm
Saying she's deceptive is one thing.  Saying she's a slut is an entirely different thing.
It's a rash and harsh choice of words, but at the same time

Quote from: Virex on October 28, 2011, 06:36:29 pm
She doesn't need YOUR approval to use HER body.

 This feels a little off-point. Somebody doesn't find a certain lifestyle attractive. Within the context of wanting to form a relationship with a person lifestyle choices are a legit reason for being put off. It's an unfortunate use of the term though.
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Quote from: Aqizzar on October 13, 2010, 04:19:47 am
Buck up friendo, we're all on the level here.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39107 on: October 28, 2011, 08:36:47 pm »
Slut-shaming is a standard tenet of policing female sexuality.

Seriously, it's one thing to say "I thought she loved me but she just wanted a quick fuck" (speaking to a deceptive behavior in a person) and there's another thing to, as usual, apply the moniker of slut (relegating the person in question behind a safe label for People Like Her).
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39108 on: October 28, 2011, 08:47:01 pm »
 Still a separate issue than what Virex was implying, unless I'm misunderstanding your explanation.

 A lot of context is missing to pass this judgement though. And while slut is a very low-context accusation his story lacks whatever act she did/he was told about/he got the impression of.

 I fully understand the problem with policing somebodies sexuality, but this seems a very personal situation here. The only consequence of his change in perception of her is his ability to date her and possibly self-destructive drinking. Nothing seems forced on her(Although as I said, we don't know much about the situation).

 Although your original complaint seems more towards his word choice and less towards his actions, so I want to back off here. I'm sorta forming an argument over nothing.
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Quote from: Aqizzar on October 13, 2010, 04:19:47 am
Buck up friendo, we're all on the level here.
Quote from: Jim Groovester on August 08, 2010, 08:18:09 pm
I would bet money Andrew has edited things retroactively, except I can't prove anything because it was edited retroactively.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39109 on: October 28, 2011, 09:23:00 pm »
Every situation is a "very personal situation."  Most people don't mean anything by the words they use, but they use them anyway.  They're... satisfying.

And yes, I'll leave off here as well.
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« Reply #39110 on: October 28, 2011, 11:19:29 pm »
Ok, this is really annoying me now.
I keep getting the paranoid feeling that I'm being attacked by mosquitoes, but seeing as I can't actually see any, I'm pretty damn sure it's all in my head.
I keep hearing the characteristic buzz, and find myself swatting at the sensation of one landing on my skin (which frankly I'm unlikely to feel if it actually happens).

This might be related to my med change a while back.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39111 on: October 28, 2011, 11:27:45 pm »
Working in a place that's going to require me to get used to things like "You are trying to access a deceased patient's records." Hurgh, fear of mortality, bleh, empathy, urgle, details I probably can't mention without technically violating the privacy policy.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39112 on: October 28, 2011, 11:29:24 pm »
Burnout.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39113 on: October 29, 2011, 12:28:41 am »
Posts per day, why are you going down? Nobody gave you permission to go down.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39114 on: October 29, 2011, 05:48:41 am »
reading Ten, chapter 137 onwards


oh god, why must this be so sad.




anyone who read Akagi, huge spoilers ahead
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edit2: http://www.mangafox.com/manga/ten_tenna_toori_no_kaidanji/v17/c145/26.html


oh god...that's it...I don't want to read this any further ;_;
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« Reply #39115 on: October 29, 2011, 07:14:09 am »
was doing wheelies on my bike today. lost control and scraped myself.
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« Reply #39116 on: October 29, 2011, 03:59:53 pm »
Quote from: Akroma on October 29, 2011, 05:48:41 am
edit2: http://www.mangafox.com/manga/ten_tenna_toori_no_kaidanji/v17/c145/26.html


oh god...that's it...I don't want to read this any further ;_;
Maybe I shouldn't have, but I laughed so hard at this.
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« Reply #39117 on: October 29, 2011, 05:23:17 pm »
I read an xkcd today, the one about fitocracy.

I didn't laugh.  I think "I didn't laugh" is the wrong way to put it though.  What I did was actually less laughing than "not laughing."  It's hard to explain.  There was less than zero laughter going on.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39118 on: October 29, 2011, 05:52:32 pm »
I don't know what's worse, the flatmates loudly singing or them mangling the song horribly.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #39119 on: October 29, 2011, 05:55:53 pm »
Got blood in my eye.
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