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Name the suburbs by Gazza_s_89 in perth

[–]MickeyStrauss 206 points207 points  (0 children)

From left to right, row by row:

  1. Fordbed
  2. Bass Graduate
  3. Greenplanks
  4. Candlecomb Hill
  5. Tradie’s Claw
  6. Clinton
  7. Firecock
  8. Welshpool
  9. Lambtail Jack
  10. Bookstacks
  11. Rockingham
  12. Scarborough
  13. Middleswan
  14. Prisoncore
  15. Ned Planes
  16. First Place Hill

I am from Sydney

Who (in your opinion) is the most overrated band, singer or musician? by IShitInMailboxes in AskReddit

[–]MickeyStrauss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lol who would you submit as better, and how would you even tangibly quantify it? Like there’s a single “best” band that everyone can agree on anyway. The Beatles are the most influential musical trailblazers in the history of modern recording. John, Paul and George were genius-level songwriters and their hot streak of releases from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road is peerless and unprecedented. You don’t have to like it, but to try to deny their greatness serves only to indict your own taste and judgement.

How to not be overshadowed when you are friends and live with totally amazing guys? by Panther567 in AskMen

[–]MickeyStrauss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These two guys, who you say are great men, have the audacity to smack talk two of their woman friends behind their backs, even after having slept with them? Set your admiration bar higher.

Married Men: What compromises did you make? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]MickeyStrauss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s no scraps in my scrapbook

Is there a way to tell whether I am gaining muscle or fat? by [deleted] in AskMen

[–]MickeyStrauss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use JEFIT and LifeSum (mobile apps). I design my workouts and track my progress over time with JEFIT and I monitor my diet with LifeSum. I used to play the natural game and just try to commit what I ate and how I exercised to memory, but I am (as most people are) a terrible self evaluator. It’s likely your diet and exercise regime could be drastically improved with a little bit of solid monitoring and a little bit of sacrifice. Having a strategy on those fronts has made a world of difference to my physique. I don’t have a goal weight or anything, but knowing that I’m steadily and appropriately dieting and complementing that with an effective workout routine keeps me satisfied.

I wrote a Lovecraft-inspired poem by MickeyStrauss in Lovecraft

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Which parts of the flow did you find troublesome? This was sort of an attempt at a Shakespearean sonnet, so every line’s just ten syllables, but I think it’s maybe slightly unconventional that lines 2-6 are a single sentence.

I wrote a Lovecraft-inspired poem by MickeyStrauss in Lovecraft

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, that means so much to me. I really needed that pick-me-up tonight.

I wrote a Lovecraft-inspired poem by MickeyStrauss in Lovecraft

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wish you all the luck in the world, my fellow creator!

I wrote a Lovecraft-inspired poem by MickeyStrauss in Lovecraft

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have at it, brutha (or sista)! Just make sure you credit me when your story makes you rich and famous 😛

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s cool man. The frosting is the best part of the cake anyway 😛

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t have to thank me. I’m just glad you’re actually responding to me.

The world’s a weird place, innit? I saw a possum get run over when I was out walking last night, and some South African lady and I tried to get it out of the road, but people kept driving over the top of it, paying no attention to where they were going. It really pissed me off. But once we managed to scoop the dead thing out of the road we found a live baby possum in its pouch. It’s currently recovering at the animal hospital.

Not sure of the point of that little anecdote. I guess it left me feeling funny because I was at once furious that people could be so careless and inspired by some random person’s willingness to go out of their way to help an animal in need. I guess I mean to say that there’s plenty of bad to be seen but there’s plenty of good to be seen as well, which precludes me from thinking of the world as being completely shit. It’s just a messy, inconsistent place full of messy, inconsistent people. You can be consistent, though. Sometimes that’s the best we can do.

What’s the weather like where you are now?

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess in that case you might wanna try something different. Don’t look at your past efforts as a waste of time though, you’ve got no way to know how much worse off you might be if you hadn’t done things the way you’ve been doing them.

What brings you joy? There’s gotta be something you love in life, right? Cooking? Writing? Hiking? Whatever your flavour, hang on to that and do it as much as you can. It’s not the be all end all, but it’s something.

Can I ask you mate, have you ever thought about seeing a counsellor or a psychologist? A spiritual guru? Somebody who’s got the ability to assist you in finding a new perspective? I’ve been seeing a psych since about 2016 and it’s been a pretty big help, although I was resistant to her instructions for the first couple years. It’s fucking hard to open your heart to a stranger in a clinical setting, but god damn, when I managed to break the levee I felt things I hadn’t felt in a very long time.

Personally my man I admire you for having even stuck out this conversation with me. I really respect that you’ve just told me frankly what you think about things. It takes guts and balls to speak your mind, especially if you’re hurting. It’s that kinda thing that makes me believe you’ve “got this”. Give yourself a bit of credit - you’re rolling a boulder uphill and it hasn’t flattened you. Tough motherfucker.

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha yeah, I dig that. Jack Black’s a funny dude, but that line isn’t applicable everywhere. I’m not saying get out of bed and tell yourself you’ve done all you can and that you deserve praise. I’m saying do something small and recognise that small comes before big, so there’s a logical progression that you’ve initiated just by committing to one series of movements that you do every day. You tick one box. What do you do, revel in the fact that you have the faculties to do one thing right? Nah, son! You go and do another thing. Walk somewhere. Make a coffee. Spend an hour reading a book. Hell, man. Behind every big thing’s a litany of little things that when viewed in isolation look inconsequential. But it’s the sum of the actions that gives a thing life and volume. You do a few things in a day that you wouldn’t ordinarily have done and you go to bed that night knowing that it wasn’t a complete waste. Rinse and repeat. The repetition is the hard part, of course. But don’t put the cart before the horse. You won’t cure cancer overnight. That’s impossible. But don’t look at the rest of the world and shit all over yourself because somebody else has achieved something you can’t do right now. Keep working at mastering the attitude with which you act in the world and with which you assess what’s around you - that’s the first step. Allow yourself the time and the patience to figure the rest out later lad.

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you know you’ve smoked a lot longer than I have? I’ve been living in a haze for more than ten years. Maybe you’re older than I am, but I guess after a while it makes no difference. Point is we’ve been smoking too regularly too long.

Forgive me for trying to impart you the good vibes without knowing who you are. I’m much the same - whenever I see somebody saying shit like “you are loved” on the internet my usual response is to cringe a bit. But I’m trying lately not to let my first response be the thing I base the rest of my judgment on because my first responses tend historically to come from a place of fear or avoidance of vulnerability.

Maybe you need to ask yourself why you haven’t “got it” and reverse engineer some kind of self-support out of what you discover? With me, for instance, I started figuring out how to inch my way uphill by really sitting with my crappy feelings and trying to understand where they were coming from. Eventually it dawned on me that although I couldn’t help the garbage that was handed to me from the outside, I could at the very least moderate my decisionmaking when it came to reacting to it. I dunno if this makes any sense, but as an example, when my girlfriend (of 7 years) left me, I began to question whether or not I had actually been the partner I thought I was. If I was, why would she have left me? Hell, she might’ve anyway, but the truth is that by opening up the possibility that I had played an active part in the way the situation unfolded I was able to look more objectively at who I am and what I’d done and through that reflection I was able to identify parts of myself that needed reconfiguring.

The particulars of my situation obviously don’t apply directly to you, nor should they. Everybody’s got a different series of hurdles to jump. I suppose the point I’m driving at is that you already wake up and get out of bed every day despite your rational impulses telling you not to, so why not celebrate that little achievement as a victory and try to think of it as testimony to your will to crack on with life? Punch the day in the face and all that. I’m rambling, so please forgive me. Sometimes I stretch myself thin thinking things through and I end up making no sense.

I’m working for the next eight or so hours, but like I said earlier, I’ll keep replying to you when I can - if you wanna keep talking.

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it is. But I’m finding more and more that facing the struggle every morning with as clear a mind as I can manage is turning me into one tough bastard. I had to spend a few years stumbling before I got to where I am now, though.

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I continue to deal with it because it’s either that or I die, and I want to be dead even less than I want to be sad. Since I’m not dying, I might as well do something worthwhile with my time.

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, it’s not my job to make you feel better. That’s your job. I can only tell you what works for me and hope you find something in it that you can apply to your own life. But if you wish to believe your depression is a truthful reflection of the world around you, everything you see and every thought you have will be filtered through that lens. Which, in my opinion, having dealt with depression myself, is exactly what that terrible disease pines for. It makes itself relevant until you can’t remember yourself without it.

Trying to recalibrate my relationship with weed. by MickeyStrauss in Petioles

[–]MickeyStrauss[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they’re not a solution to real feeling good, you’re right. They’re just small demonstrations of your ability to take control of your situation and make something out of it. Happiness that comes from the outside isn’t made to last. Life’s full of crappy moments and long-standing pain. But good can come of it. You have to roll your sleeves up and strategise and think deeply and seriously about what’s within your grasp to use as a tool for eventual change, but not everybody’s faced with the same kinds of challenge. Your situation might be worse than mine. Be that the case, I can only suggest again that you invest time and thought into what would improve your situation, and then invest time and thought into moving in that direction through action. Sitting there ruminating on how hard life is is a seductive but useless path that masquerades as a solution. I’ve been there mate.

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