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Post by whiskeybrewer on Jan 14, 2020 13:13:10 GMT
To be fair there's a flipside, you can't ask someone a question about an item that's past it's delivery estimate without "opening a case" which seems a bit much, especially with post over Christmas where things are going to take longer. I also hate ebays policy of finding against you if the other person has tracking. What's to stop them tracking an empty envelope? Thats true. I do chuckle when the package arrives and the person forgot to mark it as dispatched until after its arrived lol
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Post by tuigirl on Jan 31, 2020 8:16:00 GMT
I know I should avoid reading comments. Especially on certain topics. Came across (again) a troll claiming that the Nazis were "socialists". Well, the Nationalist Socialist Party was "socialist" in the same way the Democratic Republic of North Korea is "democratic". Then he went on a rant on how right wing nationalists are actually freedom fighters. Why am I doing this to myself? Some people are lost causes.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on Jan 31, 2020 9:58:35 GMT
I know I should avoid reading comments. Especially on certain topics. Came across (again) a troll claiming that the Nazis were "socialists". Well, the Nationalist Socialist Party was "socialist" in the same way the Democratic Republic of North Korea is "democratic". Then he went on a rant on how right wing nationalists are actually freedom fighters. Why am I doing this to myself? Some people are lost causes. I see you came across of those self-styled 'critical thinkers'.
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lidar2
Castellan
You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 20, 2020 12:56:47 GMT
Pet peeves - people who park at the pumps at a filling station when they are not getting fuel. Means people who actually want fuel can't get to a pump and what's wrong with parking in one of the parking spaces anyway?
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Post by timegirl on Feb 25, 2020 18:54:51 GMT
I do like company with friends and family and making conversation, but I am someone who values having regular alone time when I am not at my job, to work on creative projects, as well as read, listen and watch things that I normally wouldn’t be able to when other people are around (I love fantasy/sci-fi/ suspense/ and bit of horror, which are all things my family don’t have nearly as much love for that I do). I am admittedly a bit of a hermit, I get very very focused on a project (like to mad scientist, or in this case mad artist levels sometimes 😄) so I get really irritated, cranky and frustrated if the alone gets interrupted prematurely😒😤 Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?🤔
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 25, 2020 20:11:41 GMT
I do like company with friends and family and making conversation, but I am someone who values having regular alone time when I am not at my job, to work on creative projects, as well as read, listen and watch things that I normally wouldn’t be able to when other people are around (I love fantasy/sci-fi/ suspense/ and bit of horror, which are all things my family don’t have nearly as much love for that I do). I am admittedly a bit of a hermit, I get very very focused on a project (like to mad scientist, or in this case mad artist levels sometimes 😄) so I get really irritated, cranky and frustrated if the alone gets interrupted prematurely😒😤 Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?🤔 Oh god, yes. I was born that way. I had a VERY hard time as a kid because my parents did not understand me at all and told me off and punished me for being "antisocial", "unpolite", "unfriendly" and "abnormal".
And then, years later, in therapy, my therapist opens my eyes when telling me that I was just a completely normal hypersensitive introvert and that was how about 10% of the human population feel and behave. And we are talking about roughly 700 million people on this planet- that is a hell of a minority! I also learned that this personality trait was very valued in Asian countries and it was only in Western countries that "normal" people reacted to us in such a way.
So please do not feel bad about it.
You are in good company.
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Post by timegirl on Feb 25, 2020 20:29:46 GMT
I do like company with friends and family and making conversation, but I am someone who values having regular alone time when I am not at my job, to work on creative projects, as well as read, listen and watch things that I normally wouldn’t be able to when other people are around (I love fantasy/sci-fi/ suspense/ and bit of horror, which are all things my family don’t have nearly as much love for that I do). I am admittedly a bit of a hermit, I get very very focused on a project (like to mad scientist, or in this case mad artist levels sometimes 😄) so I get really irritated, cranky and frustrated if the alone gets interrupted prematurely😒😤 Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?🤔 Oh god, yes. I was born that way. I had a VERY hard time as a kid because my parents did not understand me at all and told me off and punished me for being "antisocial", "unpolite", "unfriendly" and "abnormal".
And then, years later, in therapy, my therapist opens my eyes when telling me that I was just a completely normal hypersensitive introvert and that was how about 10% of the human population feel and behave. And we are talking about roughly 700 million people on this planet- that is a hell of a minority! I also learned that this personality trait was very valued in Asian countries and it was only in Western countries that "normal" people reacted to us in such a way.
So please do not feel bad about it.
You are in good company. I am glad I am not alone in this!🙂 My mom is kind of an introvert too to a slightly lesser extent than me, but it still can be frustrating to me trying to get other relatives and people to understand 😕For example I have an aunt who lives near by, I love her dearly, but she often insists on coming over and then won’t leave even if I tell her I am in the middle of working on something, and then will use guilt and burst into tears or grill me because she thinks something is wrong if I even if I even politely tell her I want to be by myself🙄😒interesting that our personalities are more valued in Asia! 🤔😊
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 25, 2020 20:54:40 GMT
Oh god, yes. I was born that way. I had a VERY hard time as a kid because my parents did not understand me at all and told me off and punished me for being "antisocial", "unpolite", "unfriendly" and "abnormal".
And then, years later, in therapy, my therapist opens my eyes when telling me that I was just a completely normal hypersensitive introvert and that was how about 10% of the human population feel and behave. And we are talking about roughly 700 million people on this planet- that is a hell of a minority! I also learned that this personality trait was very valued in Asian countries and it was only in Western countries that "normal" people reacted to us in such a way.
So please do not feel bad about it.
You are in good company. I am glad I am not alone in this!🙂 My mom is kind of an introvert too to a slightly lesser extent than me, but it still can be frustrating to me trying to get other relatives and people to understand 😕For example I have an aunt who lives near by, I love her dearly, but she often insists on coming over and then won’t leave even if I tell her I am in the middle of working on something, and then will use guilt and burst into tears or grill me because she thinks something is wrong if I even if I even politely tell her I want to be by myself🙄😒interesting that our personalities are more valued in Asia! 🤔😊 Ah, yes. I have parents who are VERY clingy and as soon as I had moved back close to home (60km away from my parents place) they started calling every day and wanting to visit EVERY. BL**DY. WEEKEND. After 14 days of this, I had enough and exploded and shouted at my dad on the phone for about 10 minutes. Since then, this has improved and now they want to visit only every second weekend. Sigh.
There is also not much one can say, because as you say, people often feel rejected or insulted or whatever or they think there is something wrong with you. And I have tried explaining how I felt for decades now... which honestly is not too dissimilar to pulling teeth.
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Post by timegirl on Feb 25, 2020 21:17:45 GMT
I am glad I am not alone in this!🙂 My mom is kind of an introvert too to a slightly lesser extent than me, but it still can be frustrating to me trying to get other relatives and people to understand 😕For example I have an aunt who lives near by, I love her dearly, but she often insists on coming over and then won’t leave even if I tell her I am in the middle of working on something, and then will use guilt and burst into tears or grill me because she thinks something is wrong if I even if I even politely tell her I want to be by myself🙄😒interesting that our personalities are more valued in Asia! 🤔😊 Ah, yes. I have parents who are VERY clingy and as soon as I had moved back close to home (60km away from my parents place) they started calling every day and wanting to visit EVERY. BL**DY. WEEKEND. After 14 days of this, I had enough and exploded and shouted at my dad on the phone for about 10 minutes. Since then, this has improved and now they want to visit only every second weekend. Sigh.
There is also not much one can say, because as you say, people often feel rejected or insulted or whatever or they think there is something wrong with you. And I have tried explaining how I felt for decades now... which honestly is not too dissimilar to pulling teeth.
It is frustrating isn’t it?!🤔😒Again glad I am not alone on this!🙂
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 26, 2020 8:07:21 GMT
I do like company with friends and family and making conversation, but I am someone who values having regular alone time when I am not at my job, to work on creative projects, as well as read, listen and watch things that I normally wouldn’t be able to when other people are around (I love fantasy/sci-fi/ suspense/ and bit of horror, which are all things my family don’t have nearly as much love for that I do). I am admittedly a bit of a hermit, I get very very focused on a project (like to mad scientist, or in this case mad artist levels sometimes 😄) so I get really irritated, cranky and frustrated if the alone gets interrupted prematurely😒😤 Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?🤔 Wow you just described me, yeah moving back in with parents after breakdown was bad choice because now it seems i become my dad's underappreciated carer, i like to chill gaming or watching a movie but my parent's enjoy arguing with each other to the point it zaps the fun out of it because i can't concentrate because of there continued arguing. I lost it big time last week & taken a step back sometimes you gotta put your needs first which is something i haven't done in a while.
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 26, 2020 8:10:16 GMT
I do like company with friends and family and making conversation, but I am someone who values having regular alone time when I am not at my job, to work on creative projects, as well as read, listen and watch things that I normally wouldn’t be able to when other people are around (I love fantasy/sci-fi/ suspense/ and bit of horror, which are all things my family don’t have nearly as much love for that I do). I am admittedly a bit of a hermit, I get very very focused on a project (like to mad scientist, or in this case mad artist levels sometimes 😄) so I get really irritated, cranky and frustrated if the alone gets interrupted prematurely😒😤 Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?🤔 Oh god, yes. I was born that way. I had a VERY hard time as a kid because my parents did not understand me at all and told me off and punished me for being "antisocial", "unpolite", "unfriendly" and "abnormal".
And then, years later, in therapy, my therapist opens my eyes when telling me that I was just a completely normal hypersensitive introvert and that was how about 10% of the human population feel and behave. And we are talking about roughly 700 million people on this planet- that is a hell of a minority! I also learned that this personality trait was very valued in Asian countries and it was only in Western countries that "normal" people reacted to us in such a way.
So please do not feel bad about it.
You are in good company. Blimey now you have just described me, the same thing happened to me & my therapist said exactly the same, she said do you like yourself i said barring the bipolar & depression & OCD i do she said then that's all that matters. I'm from a family of so-called "social status" so imagine there horror when a manic depressive bipolar abnormal antisocial eccentric person joins the family, i rebelled against everything they stand for.
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 26, 2020 8:16:04 GMT
Oh god, yes. I was born that way. I had a VERY hard time as a kid because my parents did not understand me at all and told me off and punished me for being "antisocial", "unpolite", "unfriendly" and "abnormal".
And then, years later, in therapy, my therapist opens my eyes when telling me that I was just a completely normal hypersensitive introvert and that was how about 10% of the human population feel and behave. And we are talking about roughly 700 million people on this planet- that is a hell of a minority! I also learned that this personality trait was very valued in Asian countries and it was only in Western countries that "normal" people reacted to us in such a way.
So please do not feel bad about it.
You are in good company. Blimey now you have just described me, the same thing happened to me & my therapist said exactly the same, she said do you like yourself i said barring the bipolar & depression & OCD i do she said then that's all that matters. I'm from a family of so-called "social status" so imagine there horror when a manic depressive bipolar abnormal antisocial eccentric person joins the family, i rebelled against everything they stand for. Well, as I said, there is 700 million of us on the planet. We are bound to run into each other.
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Post by Timelord007 on Feb 26, 2020 12:49:52 GMT
Blimey now you have just described me, the same thing happened to me & my therapist said exactly the same, she said do you like yourself i said barring the bipolar & depression & OCD i do she said then that's all that matters. I'm from a family of so-called "social status" so imagine there horror when a manic depressive bipolar abnormal antisocial eccentric person joins the family, i rebelled against everything they stand for. Well, as I said, there is 700 million of us on the planet. We are bound to run into each other. Family get togethers were hilarious, they'd all be dressed up eating posh finger food and in walks this jeans & leather jacket guy with fuzzy stubble asking got any chips the looks on there faces aghast with horror probably thinking how did this happen he can't be related to us he looks like a hobo.
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Post by timegirl on Feb 26, 2020 12:53:02 GMT
Well, as I said, there is 700 million of us on the planet. We are bound to run into each other. Family get togethers were hilarious, they'd all be dressed up eating posh finger food and in walks this jeans & leather jacket guy with fuzzy stubble asking got any chips the looks on there faces aghast with horror probably thinking how did this happen he can't be related to us he looks like a hobo. Your a free spirit 😊 Nothing wrong with that😉
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 26, 2020 19:25:00 GMT
Well, as I said, there is 700 million of us on the planet. We are bound to run into each other. Family get togethers were hilarious, they'd all be dressed up eating posh finger food and in walks this jeans & leather jacket guy with fuzzy stubble asking got any chips the looks on there faces aghast with horror probably thinking how did this happen he can't be related to us he looks like a hobo. Well, you can see in my avatar how I appeared to the family get together yesterday. And I feared someone would throw a fit (but at least I can see progress in the fact they did not).
But I know what you mean, in my family, for me, it also always felt as if a colour TV was forced into a monochrome meeting.
Dare to be different. You are an individual.
There is a wonderful meme for this which might as well be my new life motto:
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Post by timegirl on Feb 26, 2020 20:16:59 GMT
Family get togethers were hilarious, they'd all be dressed up eating posh finger food and in walks this jeans & leather jacket guy with fuzzy stubble asking got any chips the looks on there faces aghast with horror probably thinking how did this happen he can't be related to us he looks like a hobo. Well, you can see in my avatar how I appeared to the family get together yesterday. And I feared someone would throw a fit (but at least I can see progress in the fact they did not).
But I know what you mean, in my family, for me, it also always felt as if a colour TV was forced into a monochrome meeting.
Dare to be different. You are an individual.
There is a wonderful meme for this which might as well be my new life motto:
That meme is amazing!😀
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Feb 29, 2020 20:46:15 GMT
I do like company with friends and family and making conversation, but I am someone who values having regular alone time when I am not at my job, to work on creative projects, as well as read, listen and watch things that I normally wouldn’t be able to when other people are around (I love fantasy/sci-fi/ suspense/ and bit of horror, which are all things my family don’t have nearly as much love for that I do). I am admittedly a bit of a hermit, I get very very focused on a project (like to mad scientist, or in this case mad artist levels sometimes 😄) so I get really irritated, cranky and frustrated if the alone gets interrupted prematurely😒😤 Does anyone else have this or a similar problem?🤔 me too I've always liked to have time to myself - mainly for reading. Unfortunately, I have an old brother who developed a tendency of standing in the doorway of my room doing nothing just to irritate me (fortunately I no longer live in the same house a him, and when we both visit my mother, he spends his time on his tablet instead)
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Post by timegirl on Jul 18, 2020 4:33:43 GMT
This is a bit of an oddly specific pet peeve but this is one of mine: Trying to figure out what to watch when my parents are around. I love my parents(I do), but sometimes it can get very frustrating when we decide to watch something at night we often spend ages looking for something to watch because we all have wildly different tastes. We do have the occasional overlap but it can a bit frustrating sometimes. My dad only likes light comedy with a few exceptions, if it doesn’t make him laugh it’s not worth watching, this can get very annoying at times. He also (there are some exceptions, like if Terry Gilliam directed it) can’t (for the most part) stand sci-fi and fantasy ( genres that I adore above all else). This limits options quite a bit. My mom is a bit more flexible, she can watch things that are serious as well as comedic and enjoys some sci-fi and fantasy but doesn’t like most animation, mystery or anything scary. I sometimes feel like a black sheep in regards to entertainment choices, me with my love of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, cult, and animation. Also I am the least squeamish person out of me and my parents (although compared to other people I am probably pretty squeamish though) and I also have a bit of a dark sense of humor, and I feel bad because sometimes I accidentally miscalculate if something will be too dark or gruesome for my parents when it’s my turn to pick what to watch. I also really love comedy but equally love drama so I am not always bothered if something makes me laugh or not as long as it has interesting ideas or performances. It’s only a small, tiny thing to be frustrated about but I think lockdown has made it even more apparent to me. Sometimes it just gets annoying because I often know exactly what I want to watch but it becomes difficult when it’s all three of us. I enjoy it when we find something all three of us like(especially if I actually manage to find a sci-fi or fantasy movie my dad actually enjoys). Anyone have a similar issue when watching tv with family (or room mates,etc) where it’s extremely difficult to find something that will please everyone?
Side note: On the bright side, we all love classic movies 😊Also my parents aren’t prudes so I never have to worry about if what we watch has bad language, nudity, or sex😉
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 22, 2020 6:07:02 GMT
The DUP driver honking his horn because i decided reverse park in my driveway, i got out asked him what his problem was he said blocking road, i said what all but a minute why i revese backwards?
I then said you don't own the road I'm entitled reverse park on to my driveway if you don't like it then tough sh.t either wait a minute or turn around & pi.s. off.
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Post by Timelord007 on Jul 23, 2020 6:54:08 GMT
Those bulky jewel cases Big Finish use for the Third Doctor Adbentures i purchased 2 & both came damaged with discs rattling inside due to broken clips.
It really irks me because I'm paying £35 for a damaged product.
Why noy just release them like the previous Fourth Doctor box sets 2 individual audio dramas each in a 2CD jewel case.
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