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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9703839 times)

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87885 on: February 04, 2015, 06:25:49 pm »

It's obviously his clone. :P

Though it does seem weird that there's no one above him? Does his "superior" have a superior?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87886 on: February 04, 2015, 06:32:29 pm »

It's obviously his clone. :P

Though it does seem weird that there's no one above him? Does his "superior" have a superior?
Yes, himself. It's superiors all the way up....
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87887 on: February 04, 2015, 06:33:55 pm »

Bleaugh I'm tired. Can't tell if I'm in a lousy mood because I'm tired or I'm tired because I'm in a lousy mood. I napped for 6 hours the other day on top of a 6 hour night sleep, you think that'd be enough to catch up on sleep

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87888 on: February 04, 2015, 07:10:06 pm »

AAAH! AAAAH!

Apparently, in class on Monday, the one I'd accidentally slept through, a 3-page paper was assigned, due Thursday morning (which isn't a class day for that class,) which is TOMORROW. This is on top of the other school work I have to recreate from the loss of my laptop.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87889 on: February 05, 2015, 12:05:48 am »

Feeling irritable and emotional and existential and lonely and arglblargl. I blame the impending Valentines Day.

Emotions why you do this.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87890 on: February 05, 2015, 12:47:54 am »

The towers for the computers at this library are locked away, and thus I am unable to plug in my headphones. :-\ I was planning on checking out some of the new music I've been missing out on lately, but I forgot about this.
The library in the CBD doesn't have this problem, but that would require a bus ride there, and I don't have money to spend on city-stuff like... comics.

That reminds me, it's New Comic Day and I am broke. There's a sad for ya.
At least my favourite series doesn't start up again 'til next week, and I'll have money by then...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87891 on: February 05, 2015, 12:52:25 am »

martial arts lessons to battered women. I am not joking.
I've tried to volunteer to teach self defense at several womens' shelters. I get turned down every time.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87892 on: February 05, 2015, 12:58:45 am »

martial arts lessons to battered women. I am not joking.
I've tried to volunteer to teach self defense at several womens' shelters. I get turned down every time.
why?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87893 on: February 05, 2015, 01:08:04 am »

martial arts lessons to battered women. I am not joking.
I've tried to volunteer to teach self defense at several womens' shelters. I get turned down every time.
why?
You know why.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87894 on: February 05, 2015, 01:08:33 am »

martial arts lessons to battered women. I am not joking.
I've tried to volunteer to teach self defense at several womens' shelters. I get turned down every time.
why?
Probably the thing between my legs.
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« Reply #87895 on: February 05, 2015, 01:11:59 am »

I want to say "that doesn't make sense" but I guess it kinda does :<
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87896 on: February 05, 2015, 01:20:54 am »

Self defense classes involve putting people into vulnerable positions for purposes of demonstration, I can see how women who need to go to a shelter would not be comfortable with that.
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« Reply #87897 on: February 05, 2015, 01:23:55 am »

I would assume that any woman who signed up for such classes would know about that possibility and thus be at least willing to put up with the discomfort. After all, she would also get to smack and toss around the demonstrator which would probably get to make up for it.
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« Reply #87898 on: February 05, 2015, 01:25:48 am »

Unfortunately, everything I've seen about women's shelters suggest that they tend to be operated by people who foster an atmosphere of ongoing paranoia and neurosis. The situation is a sympathetic one, but the administration of a shelter should really not be coming from a mindset of fear and exclusion.

General shelters also tend to be biased heavily against men, I'm afraid. There was an incident with a Salvation Army one in which they took in a family of four, only to turn their teenaged son away because he was "too old to be trustworthy in the women's section, but too young to be allowed in the men's". The vast majority of American homeless are male, and it shows in the lack of resources.

Of course, religious shelters bring in even more failures to care for people as well.
Self defense classes involve putting people into vulnerable positions for purposes of demonstration, I can see how women who need to go to a shelter would not be comfortable with that.
Now, certainly there are going to be women who don't want to be in close quarters with a weapon of mass destruction like MZ, but I think the rational thing to do there would just be to direct them to a female instructor or towards counseling instead of self-defense courses. Turning away a potential resource like that deprives women who may well want to learn to dissemble other humans in a way that few people actually teach. It isn't really fair to not include voluntary programs because some of the potential candidates would find it detrimental instead of helpful.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #87899 on: February 05, 2015, 01:30:15 am »

Not saying it's entirely rational, I'm just saying I can see how it would be uncomfortable.
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