Romance

Solly has it right.

Eating human brains causes BSE-like symptoms. The rest of you is perfectly okay to cook. But of course, to eat another person is to basically repress one of the most basic human instincts ever.

What's BSE?

Well, in your country, I'm sure you'll find plenty of takers.

edited 31st Mar '15 3:14:16 PM by MidnightRambler

Oh, right. For all of you laypersons, BSE is colloquially known as "mad cow disease".

The only eating of humans I'm going to be doing is going to be in the sexual slang way.

So speaking of romance, I've written a lot of songs about being lonely lately.

*blows a noisemaker*

I'm currently working on plans for moving house. My parents want me out by the end of the year, I want out as soon as my mental health allows, and my girlfriend wants me in with her as soon as I possibly can, which is reason enough for me to haul arse. Sweden seems ideal for an aspiring indie game developer, considering how many creative minds this country is already harbouring.

Ogodei, I wanted to reply to this post of yours that got lost in the crossfire:

Did you actually send her that bold bit? Because that will pretty much guarantee you'll never get a reply. A very basic rule of romantic interaction is not to be too obvious too early on. (The only exception is when you met in a context where it's already obvious that you're both looking for romance, e.g. you're chatting on a dating site or you were set up on a blind date.)

If you really dropped such an explicit hint at "I WANT ROMANCE WITH YOU" in this (very) early stage of contact, you are now marked in her mind as A) a Stalker with a Crush, B) a really shallow person who's just looking for sex, or C) a bumbling idiot with misguided ideas about romance.

edited 31st Mar '15 4:28:00 PM by MidnightRambler

I miss public school.

No, no, I'm serious.

Like, when I was in public school, it was free and it was mandatory and you didn't really have to do anything to get signed up other than show up and tell 'em what classes you wanted to take.

Now it's like DO YOUR FAFSA THREE YEARS EARLY and MAKE SURE YOU TRANSFER ALL YOUR CREDITS FROM THAT OTHER SCHOOL and GO TO A NEW STUDENT ADVISING SESSION FOUR MONTHS EARLY and TAKE PLACEMENT TEST SCORES EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE TRANSCRIPTS SHOWING THAT YOU CAN DO CALCULUS and SPEND THREE HOURS DOING PAPERWORK FOR THE ARMY SO THAT SCHOOL DOESN'T COST YOU YOUR ENTIRE SALARY FOR THE YEAR oh and YOU HAVE TO TAKE TIME OFF WORK TO DO ALL THIS BECAUSE OUR OFFICES ONLY HAVE WEEKDAY HOURS

Like... it's a fucking community college. You'd think they would have evening and weekend hours, but no.

I understand why classes should be demanding, but why does school itself have to be such a pain just to get started?

As time goes on, dropping out of college just continues to feel like the best idea I ever had.

I just really want a job that doesn't involve fried food or the phrase "Thank you for calling _______, how may I help you?" And it seems like having a magical piece of paper that says I Am Smart is the surest way to achieve that.

I'm also insanely, screamingly, violently sick of being pigeonholed as an intelligence analyst in the Army because I fucking hate military intelligence and I've been trapped into it ever since the 18-year-old version of me thought it would be a good idea to just take my recruiter's advice and go MI because "Dude, you're, like, really smart, you should be an intel analyst." Maybe if I'm a CPA I can actually get people to take me seriously in finance and accounting and maybe, just maybe, transfer into a military position that doesn't involve maps or christfucking INTSUMs (intelligence summaries).

edited 31st Mar '15 3:45:04 PM by SolipSchism

The FAFSA being due in like February meant my father always got the family taxes done much earlier than he would have otherwise.

I usually try to get as much done as possible once I get my W-2s now, but he always leaves it until late March when he can.

But then, he itemizes everything and I take the standard.

edited 31st Mar '15 3:46:07 PM by TParadox

I never understood people who put off their taxes. I mean, maybe those people know they're going to owe taxes. But I deliberately don't claim myself throughout the year so that at the end of the year I can claim myself and get like $1000 back. So I'm always chomping at the bit to get all my documents in so I can do my taxes as early as possible and get dat money.

My goal is a small refund, because getting a refund doesn't mean free money from the government, but money they withheld from you they shouldn't have, amounting to a compulsory interest-free loan. But I also don't want to get hit with an extra bill.

No, i'm explaining to you folks why i'm going out of my way to jump on this apparently random girl. To her, i just listed a few of the things we'd have in common, said we'd probably enjoy hanging out (which is true, romantic or not. She could have no interest and hook me into her circle of friends and i'd be quite pleased with that outcome. I'm hardly alone here, but i'd like some fellow otaku to consort with as well), explained that it might seem awkward that i'm contacting her out of the blue and said that i was going to let the matter lie after this.

I get that i could easily throw out stalker vibes (hell, i've tended to in this thread), but how else do you dive in cold to somebody's facebook?

Ah, okay, you had me worried for a moment. Carry on, then.

Holy shit how did the conversation turn to cannibalism?!

edited 31st Mar '15 9:35:07 PM by Xopher001

Jesus is love. We eat Jesu body every Sunday. Cannibalism is love.

Meh, didn't work.

I think i'll try some dating sites over the summer. First summer without retail or school since 2010, it's time to have some fun.

Transsubstantiation? Filthy Papist lies!

*claims Defender of the Faith for Calvinism*

*declares Holy War on TAPETRVE*

Ahem. What I meant to say is, the issue of whether our not we actually eat the body of Jesus is a controversial one, which has led to some spirited intellectual debates in the past.

At least your messiah isn't a BEAR THAT HATES PEOPLE.

Tends to make the eating part a lot harder.

edited 1st Apr '15 8:44:33 AM by VolatileChills

...I want the last 11 seconds of my life back.

TParadox:

Well, that's one way to look at it. But I don't think of it as "compulsory" or as a "loan".

• Obviously taxes are compulsory, but you basically choose how much to pay throughout the year, with the understanding that you correct any discrepancies between what you paid and what you should have paid at the end of the year. So it's hardly compulsory to pay too much. I choose to do so because...
• I think of it, not as a loan, but as a terrible, interest-free savings account. Or a certificate of deposit, if you like, since you can't touch it for a certain period of time. Obviously it would be preferable to just actually put your money in savings, but dumbasses like me have a hard time saving effectively, so this is kind of my way of forcing myself to do so.

And also it's just nice to get a check from the government for $1,000 or more, even if it's just money that was shaved off my paychecks in the first place.

So this afternoon I overheard someone talking about how "some THOT" said she loved him and he had told her she loved him, and he apparently told her that he told the same thing to a lot of girls. How is it that guys like him have girls falling head over heels for them while I end up in "like a brother" territory? I mean, I know I'm far from desirable, but I would never do anything like that to somebody.