I read it. Ya done good. Except for the part where nobody got a fist in the face.
I suggest that next time you’re there when Butcher walks onstage, you walk off. If anyone else has something to say, just pointedly ask if they’d rather play with you or with him, 'cuz it ain’t gonna be both.
You’ve got to be prepared for the possibility they’re all such pitiful musicians, or such pitiful wusses, that they cave at this juncture and support the Butcher. But at least now you’ve smoked out all the losers you shouldn’t be wasting your sweat on. More likely they’re no happier about the Butcher than you are; let’s hope they’re brave enough to admit that in public.
Thank you. Really. That shit was eating at me. But I do sell it kind of hard. There are a lot of really good players there, - and a lot of players who are much, much better than me - and a lot of the time it’s really fun and really creative, but the 33% of the time that it’s torture just kills it for me. And there are some people there that just baffle me, but I don’t want to out and out tell them what I think of their playing because I don’t want to be that guy - and I don’t want to get into fights. So I puss out and blather about it here with added ire.
heh i dont know about the rest of the world but where I live for almost all of 23 a 10 lb bag of bog standard potatoes has been between 5 and 6 bucks in the cheap markets… 2 years ago you could get 2 bags for 5 bucks
When I first saw the price of potatoes and eggs I unintentionally yelled " holy fuck what happened? " … other people came over to where I was and looked and either were shocked themselves or were like " yeah that’s what I said last week"
We had a guy in my writers group we had to boot because he wasn’t that good. He wrote quality prose, so at first you think, oh, this guy is good, but the longer and longer he goes the more you realize he doesn’t know how to write a story or create conflict or do anything remotely interesting. After about five years of this guy being in our group and just sucking, he started hanging out with a literary fiction group, who, just as we did at the start, thought he was a good writer. So he started arguing with all of our feedback. He claimed we were thinking too much like genre writers. I mean I would literally read this guy’s favorite literary books and use examples from literary fiction to try to help him. He just… couldn’t write.
Anyway, after he started acting like an ass in response to our feedback, me a couple others got really pissed off and booted him.
It wasn’t the poor writing that bothered me so much as his inability to improve after five years of feedback. He was holding the rest of us back.
Sometimes you just have to cut the cord.
(He learned nothing. He tells everyone we booted him because he wasn’t “genre” enough for us. )
I feel I should explain better We Now Interrupt this rant to bring you breaking good news: Suntan went to her new job to fill out the W2 stuff and told her boss she was hungry. Some good ten minutes later, a woman who’d been sitting at the next table came up and handed her something, which turned out to be a 20$ gift card for said restaurant! Wo. Nice!
We now return you to the rant, in progress.
As I was saying, this man, maganut as I’ve referred to him, we’ve known each other 7 years. Hes always liked me, and waited through my being with two guys who didn’t treat me right. We did date 2 years ago, can’t quite recall why it fizzled. Now I realize what a catch he is; hes nice and kind, and actually likes me, instead of wanting to use me.
And because I made a decision I regret, he thinks I’m, well, toxic.
He had me look up a dr. McCulloughs page. Supplements can be helpful, curcumin is probably not bad. Bromelin. I am fraid of trying invermectin.
Nor can I afford to get a bunch of stuff at the moment. He used to live down the street, sadly moved to a different city in lake county. Last week he’d invited me to spend the weekend with him but ya know. Were he still down the street, I could walk by and see him.
He may or may not be thinking of taking ( if he had it) the ivermectin. I am just hoping he thinks I can “detox”, and gives me a chance.
I don’t think getting vaccinated prevents you from getting COVID. It prevents you from hospitalization and death.
I don’t think I’ve had COVID myself, ever, but you can never be sure. I’ve had like a billion colds in the last year, including a flu thing I think was RSV.
He believes most conspiracies, including Michelle Obama and the coins stick to your body.
I think maybe I would’ve been ok had I not been vaxxed, a former neighbor of mine wasn’t and she was a lunch lady at school.
Its moot now. I don’t feel toxic, no illnesses have occured.
He says he gets sick when he touches vaxxed people. I say, coincedence.
He’s fucking stupid. And deluded. He might be kind, but if he’s demanding you take random drugs and supplements off label, he’s trying to harm your body. Whether you or we agree with his ideas or don’t, either way he’s saying loud and clear that your health doesn’t matter but his does. That’s not a good message from a wannabe-BF.
Try this:
After a couple weeks tell him you did his stupid detox treatment. But don’t really do any of that stupid stuff he wants. Then when he’s not sickened by you, tell him the truth. He’ll either hit you, dump you, or come to his senses. If you tell him in a public place with people around, you’ll minimize the likelihood of getting hit. And no matter what he does, you come out ahead.
Do not, do Not, DO NOT take ivermectin. It can be used in humans, but in very specific doses. You will not get a prescription for it unless you have a parasite issue. If you take a wormer meant for animals you run a real risk of neurological issues. It’s not safe, truly.
And this man is not good for you. Leave him as a fond? memory and concentrate on your new job.
Get -you- under control and sorted out first.
Yes, he might be nice to you and you might have been used by shitbags in the past. But he’s not your only chance of being with a nice guy. There are others out there who don’t have literally dangerous beliefs.
If you want to know what happens when someone finds someone they like who has crazy beliefs, and decides this person is worth succumbing to those beliefs so that they’ll accept them, read up on Randy Quaid.
Randy was a very successful and much beloved big time movie star. Now he’s a fugitive, broke, and living Hell on Earth. Do not compromise no matter how great they seem.
I speak from experience. My first handful of relationships were with women who seemed wonderful and heaped affection on me, but they were twisted by problems and crazy beliefs, and dragged me down with them. I wasn’t really happy until I learned to pay attention to those red flags and stay away.
I am actually not stupid enough to take anything other than otc vitamins. He was implying he may or may not take that drug. I worry for his health, if he can get sick from touching a vaxxeds persons skin, his immune system may be shitty. Plus hes overweight, maybe obese. How come my ex, who has MS, didn’t get sick from me touching him?
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