True Story of the Day

[accelafine]

Turns out last night expats attempting to teach me (*a pom) how to play pool USA style ends up with me kicking their arses


3 hrs until our team take on the serious side of a doooopid game where physics rules (*that's the bit atto under_stands with great admiration of the c*nt that runs it all - GOD)

Looking forward to it, last night tho, never ceases to amaze me how much I can handle my liquor - to the point of carrying me ol; mate from Adelaide out to a cab - without putting my back out..

About to make another Cosmopolitan B4 the game in few hrs.

I was in the small pool on the roof just now, sipping on a budweiser - and Gazza if yer reading with all that bollocks - iambiguous include yerself in this - i was overlooking in the distance, whilst floating happily in my pool with a brewsky in hand, contemplating - fuk me GOD is awesome - over there GIANT VOLCANOS etc...woteva, word from the wise - don't worry about it, embrace it, love it...this world is AMAZING if nothing else.

I will probably regret asking this but what country are you in?

Y regret

I am in SIN CITY - u might be able to work it out from that alone - hint, whilst in my rooftop pool, pretty certain I saw two F-? USA jets shooting across the vista...atto v happy, as life should be.

You mean Las Vegas? How do you afford that on a benefit? And how do you they even let you into the country?

Btw, your avatar has disappeared.

[attofishpi]

I will probably regret asking this but what country are you in?

Y regret

I am in SIN CITY - u might be able to work it out from that alone - hint, whilst in my rooftop pool, pretty certain I saw two F-? USA jets shooting across the vista...atto v happy, as life should be.

You mean Las Vegas? How do you afford that on a benefit? And how do you they even let you into the country?

Btw, your avatar has disappeared.

No. Angeles City - Philipines..

..benefits? He works in mysterious ways 4 those with enuff bollocks to be anuva Light Bearer :- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_bearer



PS: Ya I carry "His" torch.

[accelafine]

Y regret

I am in SIN CITY - u might be able to work it out from that alone - hint, whilst in my rooftop pool, pretty certain I saw two F-? USA jets shooting across the vista...atto v happy, as life should be.

You mean Las Vegas? How do you afford that on a benefit? And how do you they even let you into the country?

Btw, your avatar has disappeared.

No. Angeles City - Philipines..

..benefits? He works in mysterious ways 4 those with enuff bollocks to be anuva Light Bearer :- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_bearer



PS: Ya I carry "His" torch.

Hmm. I might have guessed.

[promethean75]

I'm watching my crypto wither away, but I'm not gonna cash out. I'm gonna sit on it and see what happens. In fact, i almost want to lose it all because then i can become even angrier at capitalism.

If i do indeed lose it all, all those indicted with crimes against me will now include the president. Parents, judges, prosecutors, cops, citizens, doctors, and now presidents are out to suck me dry.

Now remember, none of this would happen if they would just let me walk away into the forest. But they wouldn't. They'd follow me and try to catch me, then they'd bring me back to their prison cities so they could finish me.

[promethean75]

I had an awesome dream last night, but i only remember bits of it. I had gone on the run and kidnapped the prosecutor, cops and judge involved in my case. I had em out in the woods stripped down and chained together around a tree. I hit play on a boombox and handed one of the cops a cuíca, telling him that he had to play this part perfectly or I'd shoot em in the head. Well, he didn't, and i shot em. Neither did the next guy. I don't recall what happened next, but i do recall how utterly confused they all were and how funny this scene was; half naked guys chained together around a tree trying to play a cuíca in fear for their lives.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxu2lGSve5Au ... zkVJgpGTSa

[promethean75]

Adventures in Capitalism, promcast #529

https://youtube.com/shorts/SlUVddShoSs

[promethean75]

Promcast #362, when cat ladies are overwhelmed by incredibly minor financial risks that normal people don't freak out about: https://voca.ro/11WB1TYTg7ii

Synopsis. Prom slashes his own eye open with his finger nails and doesn't work for two weeks because I can't see goddamit! and i spent all my savings on drugs, crypto and starbucks. Upon healing (has level 5 healing factor), i went back to my beloved trade making use of the cat lady's credit card to buy materials, gas, more drugs, etc.

I am now returning the card and paying my balance, couple hundred... and she is waaaaay too relieved. Abnornally relieved. Like she just got the deed back for her house or something with such gravity.

This exchange begins at the point where she reminds me of how critically important it is that i put my $185 per month utilitites in her account ON THE THIRD FRIDAY of every month or the apocalypse will happen.

In reality: she has enough money in her account to cover my $185 indefintely, and certainly until (and if) i put the $185 in if even three weeks later.

If you have ten dollars in your account and somebody owes you a dollar, you could cover them them more times before that dollar they owed even mattered. If he gives you that dollar three days later when you now have only nine because you put a dollar up temporarily to cover him... did it matter that he was three days late?

Thank you, your honor. No further questions.

[promethean75]

Don't let me create the impression that I'm some slob late on his bills. The few times i have been - and only because I dragged it out and never swung by the atm to put the money in when i had it the whole time - were sufficient to debunk the argument that it is necessary to get the money in on day x and no later.

One important rule i have learned is that the cat lady is the kind of person who, if able to do you a favor or help you in some way, provide a resource, etc., you almost automatically decline any offer from on account of what you'd have to suffer by doing so; irrational fear, panic attacks, incessant reminders to hurry up and put seven dollars (for whatever) in or she'll go bankrupt, being followed around for days and heckled about the dangers of using her credit card or being a day late on making an insignificantly small deposit.

These things, paltry and abhorent as they are, are enough to purpose any rational man toward steering away from her entirely regardless of his circumstances.

No, thank you, one might say to the cat lady offering a branch as they were steadily sinking in quicksand. I'd rather take my chances.

[promethean75]

Eww here's a good one....

https://voca.ro/1l2FYLWN3GS7

[attofishpi]

There are some great billiards players here in Angeles City - this bar we were in last night had a guy that was a bloody good player - apparently that's his entire life - wears one of those gloves to stop the cue sticking, he beat me twice. Nobody could knock him off of the challenge table.

But I saw his weakness, and yes, atto knocked him off of the table. What did he do - packed his supersonic cue into its case and went home with his tail between his legs.

Boy was I popular in that bar!!

[promethean75]

Aren't you guys excited to see the new very very expensive so the medication has to cost even more to make up for it Wegovy commercial?

Remember those courageous people taking charge of their lives I told you about marching up the street? Well, they're back and marching up a street near you...

https://youtu.be/I7TUkRNMe3A

[promethean75]

It's nearly impossible to communicate to someone just how horrible someone is without listing the entire aggregate set of horrible things about the person. So, for example, if you say "x is a total piece of shit. They did y," the other person will usually reply that that doesn't make the person horrible in toto.

But if you were to add to y the a b, c, d, e, and f, it becomes easier for the person to consider them horrible.

Lesson: if you go ham on someone, you have to go all the way, or you waste your time. Explaining how someone is utterly deplorable to someone else is a difficult and tedious task.

Furthermore, unless someone is capable of knowing what is deplorable, they'd not be able to trust you when you say without explaining further, "x is a piece of shit." They would have had to know what it's like to know a piece of shit and that it is possible at all for people to be pieces of shit.

You'd be surprised how many people have never even been out of their house and think everyone out there is swell.

[promethean75]

I think I'm gonna go ahead and tone down the anarchy and nihilism a bit because the thought crossed my mind: there aren't many philosophy forums around, and I'd not want something i posted to be read by chance by one of these shooters that are turning up every month.

I keep forgetting these forums are wide open. I habitually only take into consideration the few posters i see every day who already know my gig and don't freak out when they read my posts. But to virgin eyes... jesus, man, i can't imagine what i might put into someone's head with all my brilliant critical analysis of how everything sucks.

My philosophy is not for gen z because they can't handle it, and i keep forgetting not everyone around here is older than thirty.

So we're gonna mellow out for a while, you guys, at least until this stuff blows over. One kid just killed his parents, plotting to assassinate the Don, and another person set the damn governor's house on fire.

You gotta look at it like this. These people are reading stuff somewhere that is fuckin with their heads... and since their activities are always political or psychopathic, it's not something you do without long nights spent reading manifestos 'n shit in a basement. You only become that unhinged through arduous study of someone like veggie's or VA's posts.

[promethean75]

What i don't like is when a reasonably aged person slides the wooden chair out without lifting up just a tad to keep the legs from dragging the tile loudly when it slides. There is no excuse for this after about 20ish because you have sat in enough wooden chairs on tile floors around the world to have experienced great regularity in the sound of the horrible mind curdling screech and therefore know to lift up a tad and slide it slowly.

[Phil8659]

Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand is where I was stationed at during the Vietnam war.

First landing there, getting of the transport, this guy was bitching that he did not want to be there, so, he decided to end it all there, on the tarmack, by walking into the propellers of the C130. Well, they stopped him, and introduced him to the real life there. Weed, girls and cheap liquour. He ended up, when his year was up, of putting in for another year.

I was there as a Sensor System Tech. I was not long showing the company rep things about his system he did not know, and did not believe till I showed him.
Well, one day he comes in with a radio that he had for his hooch, bitching that it was dead. So, I said I will show you how I fix things. I put my hands on it and started saying Heal, Heal, like O Roberts. He looked at me like I was crazy. Then I said, plug it in, try it. So he plugged it in and it worked. He was in disbelief, then I told him, next time something don't work, check the socket out you plugged it into.

One day, a full bird came to the shop and wanted to see how the system worked. Maynard, who outranked me by 1 day, I let him do it. So, Maynard tried and tried to get the system to work and it would not. I just did my job on the bench, watching, not saying a word. Finally the bird got pissed and left, and Maynard comes over and says, okay Clark, why don't it work.
I put my hands on his shoulder and say, Tell me what you see on the rack outside the door. It took him a moment, and then he said, Oh fuck!.
Yep that is right. A shop laser will not fire with the door open. Safety interlock. Thing was, Maynard checked the line voltage for the interlock and he said he had voltage across the line, I had to remind him, if he had voltage, it was because the line was open, not closed.