The Unhappy Thread

[Froggy]

Could you stop using the word prostitute now?

Plus the words escort, call-girl, hooker, whatever synonyms exist out there, even foreign ones, do not use any of them.

God why am I having to spell this out so brutally, it's like having to break the rules yourself to get people to stop. :/

But yes, you ar free to talk about whatever ailments you may have, but if it's an STD, don't go into detail.

Well not going into detail kind of defeats the whole point. I'll leave anything sexual out of this, but please understand that I might be dieing. And while I recognize that this is my fault and I brought this on myself, this is the only place I have to talk about it and it's one of the few things keeping me at least somewhat functional. Please be understanding with me on this issue.

 

[Teran]

Well HIV tests won't give you a positive until 6 months or so the date of possible contraction.

So really taking the test now and getting a negative would pretty much be pointless and misleading. Plus HIV isn't so much of the death sentence it once was, honestly I wouldn't even rule out a cure in our lifetimes.

 

[Froggy]

Wait, I can't get a positive until 6 months? I thought it was that I couldn't get a negative until 6 months? You sure about this?

 

[Teran]

Yes I'm sure. The HIV test doesn't detect the virus but rather determines whether you have it or not by looking for the secondary effects.

If the virus hasn't had time to significantly multiply, then it won't show up in the test.

If you actually have HIV, you won't be getting a negative after 6 months brother, I can assure you of that, in fact, you will never be free from the virus ever, it will slowly dismantle your immune system until you die.

 

[Rubyiris]

I'm unhappy at how much more difficult it is for me to redownload the obscure music I listen to now that I can't just add -mediafire to my google searches.

 

[SuperBowser]

3 months is the standard window period for HIV tests + ruling the infection out.

Chances are, you're fine. Just get tested in 3 months and be careful from now on.

 

[z00ted]

Rubyiris, I can probably help.
I know you enjoy maudlin of the Well, we have similar taste in music.

 

[Necrotic]

This thread is brutal....damn

 

[Holder of the Heel]

Yes, if you think hard about you having a disease, you will really get it.
It goes the other way too, if we all think you don't have it, you don't.

Gave me a chuckle to see someone talking about that here as to why they are unhappy, then someone says they can't find their hipster music so they are unhappy.

 

[z00ted]

Music is really important to some people.

 

[Teran]

I'd rather have have HIV than be deaf, so that's a testament to that!

 

[Rubyiris]

My music isn't hipster, haha. I actually ENJOY my music! :D

But yeah, Music has, and most likely always be the most significant force in my entire life.

@Illmatic: I'd like to hit you up on that.

@Teran: Pretty much. I'd take a shorter lifespan, over being deaf. My ears are most definitely my most treasured body part.

 

[Holder of the Heel]

I'd rather not be able to listen to my favorite music than be deaf, because you know, being deaf would mean I couldn't hear them and more.

@Ruby Haha I was just messing with ya. XD Would you really prefer your ears over, say, your eyes?

 

[Rubyiris]

Absolutely. There's no contest.

 

[Holder of the Heel]

That is interesting. Not that I don't treasure my hearing rather highly, but my eyes.. I'd be so dependent on other things in comparison without my sight. Would absolutely be terrifying.

 

[z00ted]

Yeah, I'd choose ears over eyes also.

 

[Rubyiris]

I'd have to give up competitive gaming if I was blind, but to be honest, I've actually never been good at gaming. Most of my hobbies, however, are perfectly feasible without sight.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

As I was leaving work yesterday, it started to ****ing pour. Like a torrent. It's monsoon season after all. So I left to go home on my bike and I came to the big intersection. The light turned green so, naturally, I couldn't cross. So I decided to just turn right and cross further down the road.

I start riding and not even a yard away, I almost get hit by this jerk pulling out of a gas station. I had to Salam on the breaks and almost flipped over. The ******* didn't even acknowledge me. All while it down poured.

So I went around him and, then I got stuck. I had forgotten that gas stations here have a small bike tire sized trench around the entire station. I have no ideas why but, of course, my bike got stuck. I was yanking it by the handle bars to get it up when the unthinkable happened. My bike suddenly lurched and fell over. I look up and some ***** hit my bike. She hawas decked out in make up, fake eyelashes, orange hair, and a black and pink shirt. Her car had more dashboard ornaments that should be legally allowed. For those who don't live in Japan, this is the Japanese version of ghetto or white trash. They are usually high school drop outs, three or four accidental kids, and drag thier kids to bars until 6 am.

Anyways, she bent the wheel of my back tire. I was yelling at her "You just hit my bike!!". So she yelled something back at me but it was raining too hard to get it but her tone was just as mad as mine.

So she backed out and sped off past me. I was too much in shock to get her license plate number. My bike was still rideable but it wobbled a lot and felt unsafe.

I took it to a bike repair shop but they said "we cant fix it. Sorry.". I took it to another place and said it would be $200 and take a month. So I have a bent up bike that wobbles eveywhere.

So I can either: 1) pay $200 to get fixed, 2) buy a new bike for less than that or 3) since I just got my Japanese drivers license, just buy a car. The only problem is that it's a month long process so I'll have to hoof it to my school and that's a hour one way :/. ****......

 

[Jasou]

I accidently really hurt a friends feelings over skype, I didn't know what I was saying about someone was hurting her. She's fine now after apologies and understanding, but I still feel really bad.

 

[Venus of the Desert Bloom]

Well, I got it all fixed...actually both bikes fixed under $100 and the guy said he'd have my bike done by Thursday. So I have my trash bike to ride to work with.

Problem is.....it's monsoon season so biking there on a trash bike is gonna suck.

And on another note; this thread really depresses me....hurrah.

I'm unhappy at how much more difficult it is for me to redownload the obscure music I listen to now that I can't just add -mediafire to my google searches.

I personally use SoulSeek. But yeah it's hard to find some of the music I like as well.

 

[Froggy]

it's strange, I don't know anyone on these boards and I know whatever I'm going through has no effect on anyone here, but it feels comforting to know that at least some people are aware of what I am going through.

 

[z00ted]

Yeah, it's called venting.

This thread actually makes a lot more happy than sad.
It's nice to know that things could always be way worse, and this thread is a clear example of that.

It's also nice to know that despite everything that's going on, most people will at least have the luxury of sympathy from others.

 

[Zook]

I'm still crushing over that girl I work with. I wish I could tell someone, but I've learned that there are no such things as secrets amongst my co-workers, and I'm too proud to tell my friends/afraid that they would tell my girlfriend. Actually, I wish I could tell her, too.

I've had feelings towards her for a few months now, but today I was in a ****ty mood and just wallowed in the situation all day. Very antisocial at work. I usually talk to her on one of my breaks, but I ended up just making an effort to avoid her all day.

The ****ty thing is is that I suspect that she also has feelings for me, but we're both in other relationships right now, and I'm still in love with my girlfriend, though, so I don't want break up with her. It's a situation I'll never be totally happy with.

Absolutely. There's no contest.

Yeah, I'd choose ears over eyes also.

I'm calling bull****. Life would be waaaaay ****tier as a whole without vision than it would be without hearing. I can understand that music is really important to some people, but does it really out way the freedom that you couldn't have without vision?

 

[z00ted]

Ye s

 

[Zook]

I doubt that, but okay.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Beethoven seemed to be able to enjoy music while being deaf

Edit: Apple has the stupidest security questions ever

 

[Froggy]

I could be wrong but I think the people who say that they'd rather be blind than deaf aren't taking all of the parameters into account. Honestly, what job could you really have while being blind? You'd be totally dependent on other people for the rest of your life. At least being deaf, you could still form some kind of career, play videogames, learn to lip read, etc.

I sincerely apologize to any blind people who may somehow find out I wrote this, but I'm not sure being blind is a better fate than dieing.

 

[Rubyiris]

Im studying to become a registered dietician. That's a career choice that can be done whilst blind.

I've never been truly independent in my life, either, so it wouldn't bother me dtilt need help.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

I'd rather be deaf
Art school would be difficult while blind

 

[Reizilla]

Being a musician would be pretty difficult while deaf. Being blind would probably just make my ears better.

 

[Grandeza]

Got a 66 on my English Regents which i thought were really easy and everyone else did really well on so I'm pretty upset. Don't know how I'm gonna tell my mom about this =\

 

[Froggy]

It's nice to feel upset about something other than my possible health status.

I'm upset that my mom gave 400$ of money she owed me to my brother. I don't even like my brother, and sadly I'm pretty sure I don't love him either. The guy's an ******* and I don't see why it's my responsibility to help me out of his mess. I suppose even this is my fault though, I should have told her to give me the money and then i would discuss with my brother how much money I should or should not give him instead of just agreeing to lend him the money.

Life has been really challenging lately.

 

[Holder of the Heel]

It's nice to know things could always be worse? So you're saying it is nice to come in here and go, "Wow, glad I'm not that guy! " Okay. >_>

Have to agree with Zook, I don't think you guys are really thinking about the consequences of losing vision versus hearing. All of you guys would be bored and scared out of your mind, and useless by yourself.

 

[Reizilla]

How would I ever be bored? I would stop wasting time on the internet and I would put all of my time into something like piano where I didn't need to see and could never get bored with.

 

[Froggy]

You honestly think you could never get bored with a piano?

 

[Reizilla]

Honestly... frustrated, maybe, but never bored if I was applying myself.

 

[SuperBowser]

I'm so spineless.

Broke up with my gf on sunday. We talked for 2 hours today on the phone. Dunno what I'm doing or thinking.

 

[Teran]

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself in that situation. If you've just broken up, the feelings are still pretty raw. Just ease through it imo.

 

[SuperBowser]

You're probably right.

I care for her but I don't see this relationship working. She's high maintenance and I'm the total opposite. I like my own space. I want to ignore the problems it makes, but I can't.

 

[Teran]

Hm, I suppose if it's not something you can juggle then you should look to find more self reliant and reserved girls. They do exist, you just have to pick up on the personality signs.