What you did today

[Woldan]

I'd be careful with dumpster diving, last time I did that to retrieve something very important I cut myself pretty bad with an old razor, even though I was pretty careful,  nearly cut through my artery and tendons.
 

Hey, it's what we grow our crops out of: no surprise it similarly sustains lesser(?) lifeforms.

Aha! Its been your fault all along! FEEL MY RAGE!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2015 by Woldan

[Bartimaeus]

I just wanted my garbage top back, man.

 

(e): But on a more serious note, I was wearing long pants, work boots, work gloves, and a sweatshirt - didn't want to take any chances. Only thing that didn't have something covering it was my face/head...which I would've done if I could've, but I didn't really have anything.

Edited August 4, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[Woldan]

I just wanted my garbage top back, man.

 

But on a more serious note, I was wearing long pants, work boots, work gloves, and a sweatshirt. Only thing that didn't have something covered was my face.

 

Wait, you don't have facehuggers lurking in the garbage where you live? You lucky bastard! 

Edited August 4, 2015 by Woldan

[Bartimaeus]

No, I didn't. It SMELLED like I did, but I didn't. Also, I edited my previous post slightly for more context.

[Woldan]

Right now I'm working with stuff so poisonous I'm wearing a full face gas mask and three pairs of gloves. Wish me luck! 

[Bartimaeus]

I've always wanted a gas mask. Best of luck.

 

(e): And a hazmat suit, while we're at it.

Edited August 4, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[Woldan]

If you want a mask, get the German Dräger M2000, its by far the best you can get and it takes 40mm military filters (which is an absolutely essential feature, never by a mask that can't take 40mm's).

With it you can drink water without taking it off too, which comes in handy when you have to wear it for a couple of hours. 

 

Edited August 4, 2015 by Woldan

[Bartimaeus]

It looks appropriately post-apocalyptic, too.

 

(edit): Although I'm having difficulty even finding prices...

Edited August 4, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[Woldan]

They run for about 150 bucks I believe. You can always go cheap and buy an army surplus gas mask. If you want to use it stay away from the Russian ones, they're garbage, the only surplus mask I can recommend is the Swiss SM-67. They're still in good shape and great value (They run for 30 bucks as far as I can remember), and they take 40mm's. But as always, before use check that it seals correctly, check the filter threats, inspect the rubber for cracks and rough spots and NEVER use the original decades-old filters that come with the mask, especially those form the 50's-70's. 

But remember, if your life depends on it the quality can't be high enough, buy a new one if you're planning to crawl around in nuclear fallout. 

 

Edited August 4, 2015 by Woldan

[ManifestedISO]

Taking off for a couple weeks

 

Toodles

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSMfVafyO8w

[Bartimaeus]

Well, one of the two people being a major problem in my family died today, but the hospital was able to resuscitate them after they flat-lined. It's a terrible, horrible thing to say/realize, but when it comes to the lives of small children and the ones who're abusing and neglecting them, and then not having any power (particularly legal) to fix the situation, ya' kinda just wish these people could somehow stay out of the picture entirely. These people are lost causes...their children might not be, if only you could put an end to the madness of their parents.

 

I took care of my niece today. She's a huge pain in the butt, but she's a manageable huge pain in the butt. If only I could say the same for her lunatic parents...and if only, at the end of the day, you didn't have to hand children back to their crazy parents or risk becoming a lunatic yourself (in the eyes of the law, at the very least...). Life's so grand.

[Blarghagh]

No child services or police intervention possible?

[Bartimaeus]

We've tried. They've (the parents) been both in and out of the hospital multiple times over the past 60 days, for both psychotic breakdowns as well as serious injuries. Hospitals won't lock them down even for a few days because the two of them are both semi-sociopathic and can smooth-talk their way out by sounding perfectly rational and healthy by the time it actually comes to proper mental evaluation. The hospitals around here don't seem want to keep most people who don't want to be kept. Police can't do anything unless something is actively happening that shouldn't be (i.e. DUI, violence, child neglect, other psychotic behavior), and the rest of us (the family) can't keep an eye on them 24/7 waiting for that type of stuff to happen, and they won't communicate with us until after the fact...at which point, it's just hearsay and, again, the police can't do anything about it. For goodness' sakes, one of them poured whiskey into their toddler's sippy cup and tried to make them drink it...but both of them claim the other did it, and both of them are perfectly capable of it, and again, we have no physical lasting proof with which to accuse them with. We cannot get child protective services to intervene for mostly the same reasons...at this point, both CPS and the police probably think the rest of us are crazy, because we cannot ever properly pin either them down whenever we try to get either CPS/the police to check up on them. It's a nightmare that never ends, and there still doesn't look to be one in sight.

 

(edit): Oh, and they're both full-out psychotic when drunk...and both of them are alcoholics. We can't ever get them when they're actually full out drunk, though...we've got them a few times while they're in the PROCESS, but "having one or two drinks before bed" - this is what they claim, but it hardly ever actually is - is not illegal, according to the police. What a grand life this is.

 

(e): Like, seriously, the parent that died...is already out of the hospital. How do you DIE...and of self-inflicted complications, I might add...and get out of the hospital after being resuscitated in the same day? How does that happen? What in the world is going on?

 

Everyone in that family is going to end up dead at this rate.

 

Edited August 5, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[Blarghagh]

That sucks. My SO grew up in an environment like that and it's been a long road to get her back to a state even close to mental health. I hope those kids end up okay. I totally feel for you, and your emotions about wanting them to die but feeling bad about wanting them to die. I think that's a pretty normal thought in such a situation. I once told my girlfriend's father, an alchoholic manic depressive with a history of abusing his family but also suicide attempts, that he should man up already and do it right this time because it would be better for everyone. I still stand by that being true, but it still feels awful that I said such a thing to another human being, even one that I consider despicable.

[Gorgon]

 

 

Does anybody know a good remedy for callous skin on the palm? With remedy I don't mean removing them as I need their protection when lifting weights, however, lately they have started to hurt and now they're getting bloodier every training session. Doing deadlifts with more than 200kg is becoming increasingly difficult because of the pain which is quite distracting. 

 

It does not look that bad on the pic, but as I said, they start to bleed during heavy lifting sessions. 

 

 

It needs time. If you lift every day it's never going to get that. File them down with sandpaper or one of those files for skin and tape it. 

 

Or give it time. 

 

Free medical advice straight from the internet from someone who once filed off a lumpy scar with sandpaper. You're welcome. 

[Bartimaeus]

That sucks. My SO grew up in an environment like that and it's been a long road to get her back to a state even close to mental health. I hope those kids end up okay. I totally feel for you, and your emotions about wanting them to die but feeling bad about wanting them to die. I think that's a pretty normal thought in such a situation. I once told my girlfriend's father, an alchoholic manic depressive with a history of abusing his family but also suicide attempts, that he should man up already and do it right this time because it would be better for everyone. I still stand by that being true, but it still feels awful that I said such a thing to another human being, even one that I consider despicable.

 

Yeah, my siblings and I grew up in a situation like that. Decent mother (though not without her flaws, obviously)...sociopathic, depressed, abusive, neglectful, autistic, alcoholic (and then violent and psychotic) father. We all consequently have mental issues... My younger sister and I are probably the least affected of the worst of all of it, though...with the oldest (one of the two parents I've been talking about) being the worst affected, with basically everything my dad had passing down to them. The worst I got out of all that (...that I know of so far) was chronic depression that started when I was about 12 or 13 as well as pretty extreme autism. However, as bad as the autism started out (no talking of any sort whatsoever - not even gibberish - until I was about 3 and a half, being unable to cope with being outside, being unable to cope with foods touching each other - like...the pepperoni on the cheese of a pizza, as an example - being unable to eat most food in general or handle a lot of textures like satin or fuzzy stuff or chalk or...etc.), I've actually turned out...okay. I mean, I did just go dumpster diving yesterday - something I don't think I would've ever seriously considered for any reason whatsoever at any point before yesterday - after realizing I would have to to fix something stupid I did, so that says something, right?

 

(edit): And yeah, the concept of wanting someone...anyone...dead - particularly someone I'm actually related to! - is a frightening one to me, especially since, as I've said on these forums before, death is my sum of all fears, and I'm generally a fairly extreme pacifist. But...I'm only human, and there's only so much I can take before realizing there needs to be a change, y'know?

Edited August 5, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[Blarghagh]

Little awkward liking that post with some of the bad stuff in it but you do seem pretty well-adjusted to me considering what you've been through, so kudos on that.

 

I do want to point out that people who don't have abusive parents can still have those issues. I've been dealing with chronic depression, chemical imbalance, high sensitivity, low self-esteem and extreme social anxiety for as far back as my memory stretches and my parents were supportive. And I've known people with abusive parents who turned out completely fine. Go figure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Gfted1]

You should take in your siblings kids.

[Bartimaeus]

Little awkward liking that post with some of the bad stuff in it but you do seem pretty well-adjusted to me considering what you've been through, so kudos on that.

 

I do want to point out that people who don't have abusive parents can still have those issues. I've been dealing with chronic depression, chemical imbalance, high sensitivity, low self-esteem and extreme social anxiety for as far back as my memory stretches and my parents were supportive. And I've known people with abusive parents who turned out completely fine. Go figure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Hah, yeah...though I wouldn't say well-adjusted, exactly...maybe "just barely enough-adjusted".

 

Yep, children are a complete crapshoot. There is definitely some stuff on the parents' parts that has a tendency to really screw up kids, though, regardless of how many exceptions there may be to the rule. But yeah, it's really hard to say why people turn out the way they do...some unpredictable mix of genetics and development. It'd be neat if life had a reload button so parents could always go back and see where they went so, so wrong when their kids turn out horrible, and could change their decisions...oh, and uh, all the other neat things that reloading in life would give you too, I guess. ...On the other hand, I've never kept more than quick and auto saves (much to my many regrets), so it probably wouldn't matter for me too much anyways, I suppose.

 

You should take in your siblings kids.

 

Unfortunately, laws being what they are, you're not allowed to kidnap other people's children just because you personally deem them to be unfit to be parents.

Edited August 5, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[BruceVC]

Little awkward liking that post with some of the bad stuff in it but you do seem pretty well-adjusted to me considering what you've been through, so kudos on that.

 

I do want to point out that people who don't have abusive parents can still have those issues. I've been dealing with chronic depression, chemical imbalance, high sensitivity, low self-esteem and extreme social anxiety for as far back as my memory stretches and my parents were supportive. And I've known people with abusive parents who turned out completely fine. Go figure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

 

 

That sucks. My SO grew up in an environment like that and it's been a long road to get her back to a state even close to mental health. I hope those kids end up okay. I totally feel for you, and your emotions about wanting them to die but feeling bad about wanting them to die. I think that's a pretty normal thought in such a situation. I once told my girlfriend's father, an alchoholic manic depressive with a history of abusing his family but also suicide attempts, that he should man up already and do it right this time because it would be better for everyone. I still stand by that being true, but it still feels awful that I said such a thing to another human being, even one that I consider despicable.

 

Yeah, my siblings and I grew up in a situation like that. Decent mother (though not without her flaws, obviously)...sociopathic, depressed, abusive, neglectful, autistic, alcoholic (and then violent and psychotic) father. We all consequently have mental issues... My younger sister and I are probably the least affected of the worst of all of it, though...with the oldest (one of the two parents I've been talking about) being the worst affected, with basically everything my dad had passing down to them. The worst I got out of all that (...that I know of so far) was chronic depression that started when I was about 12 or 13 as well as pretty extreme autism. However, as bad as the autism started out (no talking of any sort whatsoever - not even gibberish - until I was about 3 and a half, being unable to cope with being outside, being unable to cope with foods touching each other - like...the pepperoni on the cheese of a pizza, as an example - being unable to eat most food in general or handle a lot of textures like satin or fuzzy stuff or chalk or...etc.), I've actually turned out...okay. I mean, I did just go dumpster diving yesterday - something I don't think I would've ever seriously considered for any reason whatsoever at any point before yesterday - after realizing I would have to to fix something stupid I did, so that says something, right?

 

(edit): And yeah, the concept of wanting someone...anyone...dead - particularly someone I'm actually related to! - is a frightening one to me, especially since, as I've said on these forums before, death is my sum of all fears, and I'm generally a fairly extreme pacifist. But...I'm only human, and there's only so much I can take before realizing there needs to be a change, y'know?

 

 

Geez Boys, your comments aren't exactly " feel good about myself " ...aren't  you guys  forgetting to add how you are the life of any party 

Edited August 5, 2015 by BruceVC

[Gfted1]

Unfortunately, laws being what they are, you're not allowed to kidnap other people's children just because you personally deem them to be unfit to be parents.

Sure. But from your description it sounds like they cant really be arsed to raise the children properly. Maybe they don't want the children "taken away" by the state but they would be okay with family taking the children in?

[Blarghagh]

Geez Boys, your comments aren't exactly " feel good about myself " ...aren't  you guys  forgetting to add how you are the life of any party 

 

Useful advice.

 

 

 

Unfortunately, laws being what they are, you're not allowed to kidnap other people's children just because you personally deem them to be unfit to be parents.

Sure. But from your description it sounds like they cant really be arsed to raise the children properly. Maybe they don't want the children "taken away" by the state but they would be okay with family taking the children in?

 

 

I have never met a psychotic parent who did not consider themselves to be an expert parent.

Edited August 5, 2015 by TrueNeutral

[Bartimaeus]

Sure. But from your description it sounds like they cant really be arsed to raise the children properly. Maybe they don't want the children "taken away" by the state but they would be okay with family taking the children in?

I wish...I really wish. As luck would (not) have it, they're also extremely jealous parents, and hate seeing their kids bonding with other people besides themselves...INCLUDING EACH OTHER: they use their children to trash each other, and want the children all for themselves. It is like pulling teeth to get them to allow other people to take care of their children. They have some of the worst combination of traits for parents I can imagine. Truly terrifying stuff.

 

(e): Also, what TrueNeutral said.

 

(e): more context

Edited August 5, 2015 by Bartimaeus

[Namutree]

This conversation is reminding me of my crazy older brother.

[Blarghagh]

Every family has their black sheep. Actually, my immediate family (mother, father, brother, me) are by far the most normal in my extended family. On my mother's side, we currently have six generations because they breed like rabbits. Rabbits who live in trailer parks. On my father's side, I have sixteen aunts and uncles because the previous generation bred like rabbits. Two years ago, it was fifteen but then we found another one - my dad's brothers and sisters grew up in the system because they were taken away from their parents. We're kind of the lone white sheep in a horde of black sheep and the occassional goat.

Edited August 5, 2015 by TrueNeutral
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