Has anything of interest happened to you recently?

After dinner and his evening walk is Bone Time for my dog. He's got this bone that he's had for years. He doesn't chew it, he just likes to have it. I don't let him have it during the day because he'll just spend the entire day up in my room guarding it. But at night he's allowed to have his bone. Hence: bone time.

Anyway, I keep the bone on a shelf in my closet. Over the past month, I've trained my dog into the following routine:

Jeff: What do we want?
Turner: BARK
Jeff: When do we want it?
Turner: BARK

at which point he gets his bone. It's pretty hilarious, though in a sort of you had to be there way.

I presume Bone Time for you is later?

Welp, this day is off to an awesome start. Flat tire on one of our cars and I just spilled coffee on my laptop LIKE A BAWSE.

FML.

That's a sympathy like, just so you know.

Not mine. Mine's a Schadenfraude Like. HA-HA!

(Do I need to say 'just kidding?' Because if so, just kidding. That sucks, Ryan.)

The handfasting went alright and the fallout wasn't quite so bad. I'm not all that chuffed but ah well. My sister is now adjusting to married life happily, and we got to see her and show support. A learning experience so huzzah for edumucation. Might write about it someday.

Oh um geez tho. Guys, that's heartwarmingly gooey. Like, please stop because legitimately blushing and you're only making it worse because I missed this community like the blazes. Soli is already coming for you with a barrage of hearts, you do not want to be flyingglomptackled (and usually that's bad enough) while she is smitten. There will be teeth involved.

Right, but like, I was gone for two months because I was reading. That is to say, I tripped into a couple new fandoms. But mostly reading because when the switch is flipped there's no coming up for breath and I kind of submerged myself into a cocoon reality where is was nothing but words and tea. I stumble out usually, though the time periods differ depending on various factors.

Currently however, I am coming down from the frenzy of attempting to read the LP of Jigsaw while maintaining a coherent running commentary. This is not going well. Also I am applying to being part cook although I'll probably go to sleep soon because m'mother's crashing at our place (here's to hoping both of these turns out better then the projected outcome).

i missed you for real soli.
it was like a part of my heart was missing and I...i just...i...

Guy (or gal) jumped in front of the train last night, just when I arrived to the station, so I got to see all the blankets covering various parts...

I had worked late and was going home and sad to say my first thought wasn't about what a tragedy it was that this person saw no other solution, or to feel sad for the poor driver. Just "Fuck, how am I going to get home now? I'm hungry and I want to see my children before they go to sleep". Felt kinda embarrassed afterwards.

That can't be the most pleasant thing to see at the end of the day. Sorry you had to experience that.
Condolence like.

Sounds like you are human to me. Also, very sorry to hear that you were in this situation.

Jumping in front of a train just strikes me as an incredibly inconsiderate way to off yourself. Not only are you causing no end of trouble for an already clogged transit system and a horrible cleanup job for the crews afterwards, but you're basically forcing another person to take part in the cause of your death. I can't imagine the kind of trauma it is to experience something like that.

I don't know if Anders Hallin has ever experienced it - I hope not - but I bet he knows people who have and can tell about the whole system set up to help the driver afterwards - I expect Sweden to have similar systems to what we have. But yes, it's a shitty thing to force another person to do/experience.

I'm on another board where one of the other members is a subway driver here in Oslo. Last year she had the same experience where some poor soul threw himself in front of her train and from what little she has said about it the system is very good.It needs to be, as there are far more suicides by train than most people think apparently.

Seems that the press and the subway has an understanding and unless they throw themselves in front of the train during rush hour they often do not report it out of consideration for the families.

The Oslo press not being ghouls who'll do anything for a headline? Will wonders never cease.

Second hand anecdotal knowledge, but I had a conversation with a friend a while ago who works for the governmental bureau supervising transport. Apparently any given train driver (in the system connecting cities, not subways) on average is forced to endure 3-4 suicides during his/her career. More if you drive a high speed train, less on the slower ones. And of course it is highly traumatizing.

Also, just what would be the mindset to throw yourself in the path of a speeding train? There are less brutal ways to leave the world.

...i'm fidgeting uncomfortably in my seat right now.

let me answer your question, Ozzo.
It's quick, there's a TINY chance you will survive, painless because it's usually instant.

You are incorrect on all counts, MulMizu.

It's also because there used to be a belief (now refuted, I think) that it would lead to more suicides or at least to more people inspired to use that method.

Note: I wasn't stating it was the truth.
He asked for the mindset. I gave it to him.

Source: /waves

Heh, today's just that kind of day, isn't it? Sorry, Mulz.

Allegedly there's a 10% chance of survival with serious injuries, not to say more about whether instantaneous death is painless. But I'm just left wondering, "Even if you didn't know this, how could you bring yourself to do it?"

Source: wham.

Oh man, is this shit about to get serious? A-YOOP.
I like to spoiler the serious things because I feel like people should have the chance to skip reading all of the depressing shit.

Sometimes, I feel like the best course of action for me is to just avoid getting into these discussions altogether because, in the end, I have terrible feelings and need to excuse myself from everything ever.

I think you misunderstand. I was saying you are incorrect in all of your suppositions because they are factually incorrect, not that your having them in the first place, or that even their being reasons for feeling suicidal, are wrong. I should have been more clear. I apologize.

On the other hand, don't lecture me about how it feels to be suicidal.

What I meant to say was that I was giving him a mindset.
Because he asked "what would be the mindset to throw yourself in the path of a speeding train". So I was giving him one. A somewhat old one, but I'd consider it valid since it was mine. There was no intent to lecture. If anything, your post happened to be posted directly before mine by chance. I was responding to Ozzo, not to you.

Ah, I should have noticed the timestamps. Even so, shouldn't have gotten offended by your post. Apologies.

Tonight I had a problem with my Xbox.



Spoiler: I drank more beer.

My only regret is that when I ended the conversation Austin was still typing me a message. Was he/she asking for my beer? Was it a message of love? I will never know.

Great news. My dad is doing much better. Having survived the ordeal he's now going through the entire post-op process of getting everything working again one more time so he'll likely be in the hospital for the rest of the week. Test results from surgery the previous week came back positive (as in great, nothing to worry about) so that's one thing less to worry about as well. He absolutely loved the get-well mails. He was totally stunned that a bunch of perfect strangers would trouble themselves to write to him and very touched too. I can't thank you guys enough for your support. Everyone's a bit worn out, but smiles all around.

I am at work at the library. I came out to the reference desk for my shift (4:30-8pm) to find that the person on the desk before me had managed to escalate an uncomfortable patron interaction to a downright emotional one (raised voice, tears, etc.) just in time for me to come out. le sigh. I've spent the last hour talking the patron down, and trying to help her do what she came to do. It seems to have worked, but my calm is significantly damaged. Ah well.

You know what calms me down?
Deep breaths and thinking about blue skies and puppies.
and cake.

At any time during that two hours did he give you permission to die?

<hugs> Go find a good book and do research while you're waiting?

And was there news on, in the background?

People shouldn't get a husky for their first dog, and then not take it to obedience / puppy classes. My wife's co-worker broke up with her boyfriend, they had the dog, he refuses to keep it, because he's moved on to another girl that doesn't like the dog. So the coworker has it, but she lives in an apartment, so she wanted to know if she could keep it here, with us. My wife couldn't say no, so we now have it for a week as a trial. It's a digger, so can't keep it in the yard, and it's also a chewer, and will chew on shoes, socks, and it's own leash. Oh, and it's not crate trained, and knows only the basic commands, Sit and it's name. It's also terrible at mouth control, so it nips and it practically takes your hand off when you hand it a treat. Going to be a long week.

I like huskies, but people should really do some basic research before getting a dog.

Was this guy involved??

It's going to be raining for the next five or so days.
Pros to this:
- Aw man, I like rain! It's so soothing sounding.
- The air smells fresh when it rains.
- YAY NATURE

Cons to this:
- Oh, did you want your hair to look nice? That's cute. You're cute.
- Dog refuses to use the restroom outside. He hates getting his paws wet. And we can't put anything on his paws to keep them dry because he will bite at them incessantly until they are off. So there's going to be a lot of "DOG GO PEE" "/whine" "DOG NO GO PEE" "/stare /whine" "oh my god if you don't go pee" "/crying that turns into baying".
- I can't do any laundry. The dryer broke recently, so I have to hang dry all of my clothes on this rusty little metal line that was here when we moved here. Not an option, since it'll be raining out. Guess I'll make do by hanging everything on the shower curtain rod? ...three articles of clothing at a time? Haha...

Maybe you shouldn't have spoiled him with a restroom.

I probably shouldn't post this but I'm so angry. My coworker's car died on him on the way home last night so he's not in today. My boss is bullshit, saying that what HE would have done is drop the car off, rent a car, and come into work. He asked me what I would have done and I said, "Absolutely not throw money away on a rental when I wasn't sure how much repairs would be."

So now he's even madder. But what the hell? How are you supposed to respond to that? He flips his shit when they're out because their kids are sick too.

Obviously he should have flown in on fairy wings made out of aggressive stupidity.