Life - official thread

[bigb]

So you had them drilled without being numbed? I mean I've always gotten numbed so I just imagine it can be extremely painful, but having never tried to go commando I don't know. You have something against being numbed or you're just that much of a badass?

Truth be told, I don't think I realized numbing was an option. I was in my teens and didn't know any better. But it didn't really hurt though, either.

 

[NAOS]

starts with:

Somebody is a little sensitive. Apparently it's only okay for you to make jokes around here?

then, apparently without a spec of irony, goes on to say:

Talk about being an absolute ****ing douche nugget. I've never once taken anything other Aleve, Ibuprofen, or Tylenol. That includes when I've broken multiple bones. Dental work? Never been numbed. Toenail ripped out by a Honduran "doctor"? Nothing. Prozac or anything like that? Never a thought or a need. So you can shut the **** up about being able to "nut up" while you sit there and brag about not smoking pot for a few days. ****ing *****.

See, I knew you -- specifically you -- were too humorless to take a dry, cutting joke. I knew it'd light your fuse and you get all bullyboy. I knew you'd be unable to see I was merely performing some "menopausal" temper tantrum for fun. In a way, my performance was kind of for you, if you weren't so dumb.


So cool that you're straightedge, braugh. :fistbump:

 

[NAOS]

Aleve is for total *******, btw. TOTAL.

 

[b_line]

One love mentioned something about an ignore feature. Sounds nice.

 

[NAOS]

The goal in life is to feel the appropriate emotion at the appropriate time. Not feeling (on meds) or feeling too much (not on meds) makes it hard for the anxious person to figure out a happy medium. Don't know if that is actually what Naos feels with MJ as I haven't tried it, but neither end of the emotional scale feels normal.

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Sorry, but this is over-reductive and not even close.

That "goal of life" is also pretty sad. Any understanding of sensation/experience that puts things through "appropriateness" is either theocratic or fascist. Yick.

Yeah.. I was too lazy to rephrase after noticing how poorly worded it was.

What I was asking is while smoking you were paranoid about some mood behavior so you took a break.
During the break you stated that your mood is fluttery.

Just curious how the two differ.

Before the break I said that MJ had ceased to be helpful/instructive (@JazzGal, drugs have a pedagogy); instead it had become merely mildly palliative. More specifically, it wasn't helping me focus or feel emotional complexity; it was just sort of chilling me out and slowing me down (without any value added via the slow down).

I can see now, though, how the drug had impacted the forces that regulate my mood.

 

[Gameface]

As for "life"

back to the Brew Off today. Judging should end pretty early. Was able to watch most of my beers get edged out yesterday, so it's been a pretty disappointing result as far as awards are concerned, but that's not to say I feel bad about the beer I entered. Did watch a few judges get pretty heated over one of my beers with one feeling like it was excellent and the other pretty much hating it with a passion. I think those judges clashed through the whole flight (judging of that category) and they pulled a second bottle of 4 beers to try again so they could come to an agreement on the winner. Pretty sure mine was the one that didn't make the cut even though one of the judges clearly thought it was the best of the bunch. That's just how it goes. If that one very opinionated judge wasn't knocking it the guy who liked it would have talked the table into making it the winner. To the judge's credit who didn't like it, he detected an ingredient that was there and he didn't think it should be there. Fair enough.

They split up and combined categories differently than they did last year and it hurt my chances. My English IPA that is in the British Commonwealth category got split off and combined with the IPA category, which is a huge category. There were 2 English IPAs and they liked mine better, but I can't imagine an English IPA winning in the IPA category against the 30+ entries of American IPA. So if it scored high and got positive comments I'll be happy with that.

Kind of bummed but that's okay. I have been planning to go to Reverse Osmosis water and was waiting until I got all my entries done this year before I have to re-learn all my recipes and how to create water profiles. But the end result should be very good.

So... I had assumed certain beers were being judged on a table that it turns out they were not judged on, so beers I thought hadn't placed in their category actually did.

I'll give an update after the awards ceremony.

 

[JazzGal]

Sorry, but this is over-reductive and not even close.

That "goal of life" is also pretty sad. Any understanding of sensation/experience that puts things through "appropriateness" is either theocratic or fascist. Yick.

My language was imprecise. I should have said one of my goals in life. I used the word appropriate because that is how I define it for myself, not how others define appropriate emotions. I should have made that more clear.

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[Gameface]

It's pretty hard to say what an appropriate emotion is for a given situation.

I learned at a pretty young age that you can decide for something to make you happy, even if it isn't normal for most people. You can also decide to feel sad or down about something that absolutely doesn't need to make you feel that way. It's a choice.

 

[JazzGal]

I know what is appropriate for me, when I feel and react the way I am most comfortable. Maybe no one else sees it that way. That's cool.

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[Gameface]

I know what is appropriate for me, when I feel and react the way I am most comfortable. Maybe no one else sees it that way. That's cool.

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I'm not trying to judge what you said and I don't mean to sound like I'm some badass master of my own emotions, because I'm not. Not even close. But there are a few things I made a conscious choice to be happy about that most people typically aren't and you can check the pet peeve thread for the thousands of things I've decided to let make me angry and/or frustrated.

 

[bigb]

starts with:


then, apparently without a spec of irony, goes on to say:


See, I knew you -- specifically you -- were too humorless to take a dry, cutting joke. I knew it'd light your fuse and you get all bullyboy. I knew you'd be unable to see I was merely performing some "menopausal" temper tantrum for fun. In a way, my performance was kind of for you, if you weren't so dumb.


So cool that you're straightedge, braugh. :fistbump:

Cool story bro. It was almost worth a lulz. Almost.

 

[NAOS]

Cool story bro. It was almost worth a lulz. Almost.

...says the guy who has 6 kids and has somehow managed to remain stuck with the sense of humor of a wet towel. Thumbs-up, bro.