*shrug*

TFW you reference the Koch brothers and your coworker asks what Coca Cola has to do with the discussion....

Surprise surprise he's a climate change denier.

At work I had, all at once, at least three people who denied flu vaccines because they supposedly only became sick when they got vaccines. I tried to tell them about herd immunity, they ignored me, and I guarantee you they weren't even educated enough to know about basic vaccine denial dogma. Try dealing with ignoramuses who aren't even educated enough on the nonsense they spout for you to even refute their nonsense.

I get enough of that here.

The term "Dunning-Kruger Effect" is constantly going through my head at times while talking to these people, but there's no possible way I could even utter the phrase out loud without twenty retards taking offense after it takes me twenty minutes to explain the concept to them.

I swear to god I actually like these people for the most part when they aren't flailing at intellectual discussion.

Oh Jesus Christ today they were talking about some pedophile case in the media and I was hearing some ideas about consent that were making me question our species. Like, basic **** that any human being should get on an instinctual level. No, a six-year-old can not consent to a blowjob and is therefore not a slut.

Tfw you're overcome by the urge to just make out with your bestie and she's married and I might as well be but all those nights we spent joking about how we would be perfect together as a couple suddenly feel less silly and more like a missed opportunity :(

You're never too old to have a secret lesbian lover.

Oops drunk post lol

Tfw no magnet fishing kit for your birthday :c (I kept meaning to just buy myself one on Amazon but I ran out of money this week due to the moving and whatnot)

It was your birthday?


Do you mean something like this?

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Lelin-Wooden...AAAOSw7rdagtHB

or this?
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/Childrens-ma...4AAOSwc6pZ9uPF

Herd immunity does **** all for flu vaccines (this is hyperbolic). Youre both derps. Flu shots are not like other immunity shots as it's largely a guessing game, there can be an outbreak of any of the 100+ strains on any given year and the most common shots(trivalent vaccines) target H1N1 and a couple other strains.

So....not exactly a case against herd immunity is it

How does herd immunity protect against simultaneous outbreaks of different strains none of which were actually vaccinated for? I know youre all gungho about vaccines, but I'd expect you to understand the science behind this. It's pretty widely accepted that flu vaccines are not that effective, and they are constantly working to keep up with the viruses evolution.

The herd immunity thing is good at protecting against 3-4 strains.. out of 100+.

Edit: The CDC even reported that the vaccine this year was not effective against the most prevalent strain.. soo?

Bleh, I cant find the article to support this, so I'll just retract it.

I just don't see how that's an argument against herd immunity if it's still effective for some strains.

So if we all get small pox vaccines that gives us herd immunity vs the flu. Got it.

Pretty sure I already admitted herd immunity is good against the 3 strains the vaccine targeted. Selective reading much? :D


Doesn't the vaccine have to actually be effective for herd immunity to work?

Flu shots slow the spread of a disease. Sure it doesn't always quite reach herd immunity rates of immunity, but that doesn't mean that flu shots don't serve a similar purpose.

I've never read anywhere that flu strains not targeted by the vaccine are hindered by it. If you'd like to point me to some reading, i'd be happy to check it out.

Selective reading much?

Well, if you read the posts in chronological order I thought that was in response to the last question I asked, considering I already established that I agree herd immunity is effective for some strains.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/...18_634x470.jpg

It doesn't entirely fulfill herd immunity but the concept of herd immunity is still a goal of the flu vaccine and reaches that goal when successful so apologize to batcuck.

I'll apologize when it's successful, and based on his post, I don't think he was aware of the subtleties we are discussing. Batlord can go suck a fuck.

So if everyone who lives in the same house as an infant gets a vaccine, what would you say that demonstrates?

Yes, unfortunately (yesterday) Time to join the crone colony.

Welllll, yeah, I probably ought to be given a childrens' toy instead seeing as I was whining on the internet about not receiving the present I wanted.

True, but suck a **** anyway.

IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG!!!

I was actually on the no I'm not team.

Tfw you've been endlessly berating yourself all morning for having allowed yourself to be drunk in public (something you're staunchly against) only to find the nicest email in your inbox-- from one of your new friends from last night-- saying that you were "delightful" and "intoxicating" and thanking you for the evening. (I'm honestly baffled; I dragged them--these nice, very well-dressed people-- to Waffle House and a muddy cemetery. I loathe drunk me and would 100% fight her)

TFW you're at work quietly having the latest in series of increasingly more common episodes of incandescent rage at the entire world, and right when you need stress the least the customers decide they all want ****ing Burger King and now the hate is just building up and up and up and you're not saying a word to anyone because you're not about to make yourself look crazy in front of nearly everyone you currently know in real life, nor are you going to betray your own emotions by pretending that everything is fine, so you just stew for two hours.

And it wasn't even about the reprimand I'd just had from my boss over some dumb thing I'd done, it was about one more emerging **** day on top of 31 years of absolute garbage days and the knowledge that you must live the rest of your life in a world you will never understand or relate to with 7 billion people who will never understand you or even care to, but who expect you to be just like them regardless of what it does to your very sense of identity.

Sooner or later, days or weeks or months or years, I think I'm going to have a nervous breakdown and make an unhinged scene in public that destroys whatever is left of my shattered life, and I won't even feel sad. I'll just feel liberated and blessedly defeated. **** all of this I'm getting drunk...

Write trashy novels for middle aged women to get the vapors over.

Face it, it's your destiny.

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I'm sure you already considered this, but would you be at all willing to find an online job at this point? I ask because I know of at least two companies that people I know IRL have worked for online; one of them was able to save money to move to a better city thanks to it. (even I qualify for most of these jobs, and I'm basically useless. I just don't have the needed equipment yet is all) Based on how they described it, it seemed fairly low-stress for an online customer support type job. I figure it'd at least be better than having to deal with customers face to face. I'm currently having an awful time finding a job that has little to no customer interaction (due to the fact that I'll spontaneously start sobbing about my brother while muttering about wanting to die which always goes over super well with people) if it's any consolation.
You need to get out of Virginia though. I imagine it's even worse than Louisiana. Tbh the only real solution to all of this is arson (probably.)

edit: also-- do you ever have actual rages? Like the unpredictable explosive sort?

Honestly, that sort of thing can be quite lucrative if you can find a weird enough (and not already over-saturated) niche. I remember reading about this one lady who made a decent amount of extra income with dinosaur erotica of all things. Personally I'd go with lesbian-werewolf-cult erotica.

Lesbian werewolf cults are cool and all, but lesbian weredino book clubs are what my heart really sings for.

Tbh, I have way more fun writing romantic comedies than horror and action anyway. Famous authors love to talk shit about erotica, but it's probably insanely fun to write.

It really is, based on my experience writing Buffy/Gargoyles/Bram Stoker's Dracula (I had an intense fixation with Gary Oldman at the time; it made my mother really uncomfortable) crossover erotica when I was 13-15. It was.. .. a lot. I wish I could remember the exact plots. I can remember that it involved a Buffy/Giles/Elisa love triangle as well as a Buffy/Goliath/Gary Oldman love triangle. Oh, and Faith and Cordelia were married for some reason. I also brought back the insect lady from season 1 (because lesbian monster sex)

Love triangle? Sounds more like a love trapezoid.

I will not disclose which of that is weird and which is intriguing to me.

Well, Elisa (before being erotically killed by Demona) was basically my self-insert, so the plots often became rather convoluted.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's the lesbian monster sex.

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Nothing disclosed. Nothing. But seriously BuffyxFaith is underrated.

Buffybot x Buffy >

https://i.giphy.com/media/OK27wINdQS5YQ/giphy.webp

Seriously though I'm sure there's at least one 100,000 word+ story about that on fanfiction.net. I swear I'm not interested.

Oh no I completely agree. They just oozed chemistry in their scenes together. They would have balanced each other out nicely as a couple (or at least, they'd have been slightly less horribly dysfunctional than Angel/Buffy or Spike/Buffy, as much as I love Spike)



Omg the audio is so terrible