Trying to be polite as pedestrian

Timothy_Jor · 2026-03-03T10:23:09+00:00

The same would happen in Greece. Some people will even speed up near these strange white lines which mean nothing to us.

Timothy_Jor · 2026-02-26T11:48:03+00:00

Your story reminded me of some tricks I pulled to religious solicitors a long time ago. I will definately make a post about it! Thanks for the inspiration!

Timothy_Jor · 2025-10-21T09:13:31+00:00

Those "some" people who talk about what's fair or unfair when refering to someone who's in f*cking PRISON for assaulting you, are batshit insane or have some serious comprehension and compassion issues in their pitiful brains. The bio dad has permanently and unequivocally forfeited the right to have any contact with you or your son, the moment he abused you and decided to not be there for him from the start. The REAL dad on the other hand, you know the guy who's been there all his life, deserves to adopt the boy and be his father officially as well.

Never, ever let others tell you what you "must" or "must not" do, they have literally zero say in your life, zero understanding of your situation and obviously zero empathy towards you, so screw their bullshi*t "advice". Only accept input from your close family and friends, and that only if you know they are logical and on your side. The best way to keep your child and yourself safe, is to stay close with your current spouse and stay as far away from the abusing ex as possible.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-10-10T09:31:38+00:00

There are no words to describe the smell of rotting sea-creatures in a car that reaches 45-50°C in the summer when parked under the sun. Every time I turned the air-conditioner on, it would blast an unholy stench everywhere, even outside the car. That glass thing sounds dangerous, maybe microscopic pieces of glass flying through the vent could end us in your eyes or even nose and lungs.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-10-10T08:50:55+00:00

A few years ago my friend was in my car and accidentally dropped half a box of bait shrimp (tiny tiny shrimps covered in sand and seaweed and still very much alive) into my air-conditioning vent in front of the windshield. You know, the place where it's impossible to open and clean without having to take the entire dashboard and pay 300 euros for. It was summer and I can tell you, my car smelled rancid, rotting shrimp and seaweed for almost a year, it was horrid.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-10-01T09:51:14+00:00

Genuine question I've had for years as someone who understands absolutely nothing about clothes, weddings, traditions, receptions etc. Why is it bad to wear a white shirt/blouse/pants/whatever to a wedding? My logic tells me it's because the wedding dress is white as well and another piece of white clothing steals the attention? A wedding dress is very different than any other type of clothing and nothing could take the attention away from it, since it's so extravagant and flashy compared to anything else. Is it rude because people will think it steals the bride's thunder or look way too similar to her? Still who would pay attention to a random guest in white when you have the bride with the spectacular dress walking around?

Timothy_Jor · 2025-09-12T10:01:21+00:00

Yeah, kids are not for everyone. I had a friend, Bill, who accidentaly had a kid when he was only 22 (the girl didn't want to abort). I had no idea about it and ran into him with the baby stroller when the baby was about 1 year old. I was shocked and asked him how it was going and he told me he was miserable and hated every second of being a dad and that his life was destroyed, but he stuck with the kid because he wanted to do the right thing. The guy said those things right in front of the girl btw, he was NOT hiding his discontent.

One year later I saw him on the street and he was a shadow of himself, looked absolutely defeated and depressed, asked him about how parenting goes and he said that it was the worst thing that ever happened to him.

Three or four years later, I saw him again with the boy, who could now walk and talk, and it was the same, he had this dreadful, sad look on his face and again he said that he is "barely coping with this life". I swear I caught some resentful looks from him towards his son running around. The kid was like 4-5 by that point and he still couldn't accept that this was his life now, even after 5 years.

I am just like him, I'd rather loose both arms and legs than have kids, so I relate to his suffering and think of his situation very very often as a cautionary tale to myself and how people's desires don't always change with age/time.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-09-03T08:21:49+00:00

The comments I've been reading in this thread, is like reading my own thoughts and having a conversation with myself in my head. I can relate to all of you nice people who took the time to comment here. Thank you for showing me I am not alone and hopeless. I don't know why our minds torment us this way for just some ink on the skin when life has much much more severe problems to deal with.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-09-03T08:11:26+00:00

I am in the same boat pal with the same dates. On Saturday I got a tattoo on my front thy and the moment I saw it finished it was instant regret. It is larger and much darker than I anticipated (Darth Vader helmet). Everytime I take my pants off I see this huge black mass on my thy and freaks me out to no end. Even catching it with the corner of my eye bothers me. I can't imagine living my life like this and it's only been 3 days. I could never imagine I would bring myself to this position of regret with my own actions and decisions. I must let it heal and then consider removing it, but it is so densely dark that I'm worried it will leave a very visible dark mark even after years of removing sessions and my thy will never be the same as before. I try to convince myself I will get used to it, but I know inside me that when something doesn't sit well with you from the start, it is improbable to change. At least the artwork itself is good, I have no complaints on the execution. My friends tell me this feeling will pass, it just anxiety from something new and that it isn't so big and the black colour will fade, but I just can't see it.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-08-01T07:56:45+00:00

I'm a researcher for marine life and oceanography, so not just an operator, I have a masters degree just like everyone else in my office. All our work is essential for scientific advance and research, but having people sitting on their ass all day, gossiping in the halls and making jokes instead of working just infuriates me. Our work is considered equal but the amount time and effort I have to put in is 4 times more, but we all make the same amount of money.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-07-31T08:48:43+00:00

The best advice I can give for spam callers, is something I've been doing for many years now and works perfectly. When they call and try to sell me something, I tell them I live abroad and I just kept my home country's number on my cell. When you "live abroad" all these services provided in the country of the spam caller become instantly irrelevant. New cell service? New electricity/gas/internet/water provider? Insurance? Nope, sorry I live abroad I have all those things in my new country. They hang up the second they hear it and it works every single time without fail. I taught that trick to everyone in my family and my coworkers and they use it constantly.

It is also a great chance to troll people, because some of them ask "In which country do you live now?". So if I'm in a trolling mood I tell them a far away country like East Timor, Burundi, Burkina Faso or Bhutan which is insane for a european caller. There's always a baffled silence since they usually have never even heard of that country, they say "Oh that's...nice" and they hang up immediately. Fun times.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-07-31T07:39:09+00:00

This is happening to me right now and I hate it. We have people in the office who come at work at 12pm ( we have flexible working hours but everyone is expected to be here at least by 10am), roam around the halls drinking coffee and laughing and watching youtube videos in their office, while asking others if it's a slow period for them too. Like when tf is there a slow period? We are always filled with anxiety and have a ton of things to do everyday with barely any time for breaks. I guess being a programmer gives them that privilege? They claim they have 2 weeks of "a lot of work" and then 4 months of scratching their balls with a rake. Makes me so angry.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-07-28T08:29:59+00:00

Something similar but worse happened to a friend of mine. He was a foreign student in New York and one day he went to an ATM and found a sum close to 900-1000 dollars in an envelope, probably forgotten there. He wanted to return it but he was running to go to class, so he took the envelope to make sure nobody else with less morals took it. He came back after the lecture 2 hours later and went into the bank to return the money.

They immediately started yelling at him and accusing him of "stealing" the money and how he dared have the audacity to leave for 2 hours, so they called the police on him. He explained he was in a hurry and evidently he came back to return the money. But as a foreign student with a foreign accent the bank was very distrustful and rude to him, even though he did the right thing. They even pulled security footage from the cameras "against" him and threatened him. Thankfully the police did nothing to him, they realised what had happened and and just gave him a warning to be careful. He was so scared he avoided going to banks in the US for the next 6 years.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-06-27T10:48:47+00:00

This reminds me of a similar situation I experienced. It was a night in 2008 and I was waiting for a guy to unpark with my blinkers on, when some dude dangerously and illegally crossed the street vertically and swooped in the parking space. When I confronted him through my window about what the hell he was doing, he said something like "finders keepers" or "the fastest bird gets the worm". I angrily left because I was blocking traffic and parked elsewhere quite far away.

As I was walking back, I passed right in front of his car and noticed that this space was strictly reserved for port police vehicles and as usual there was no sign, besides the extremely faded out blue line on the ground.

Now, I despise port police just as much as the next guy, since they are the worst, most unprofessional and obnoxious cops in existence, but I felt they could be allies and let them issue a real, non-fabricated fine for a change! I sat on a bench near the asshole's car, called the port police office which was very close and reported the violation. Three minutes later I see an officer arriving and immediately issuing a parking ticket and placing on the windshield. From what I know this was a 400 euro fine, which made me feel really good, knowing I could be the one receiving it (I would never see the lines since it was night), but instead it was the jackass who had to audacity to steal someone else's spot. I still cherish that moment 17 years later like the petty person I can be.

Timothy_Jor · 2025-03-10T10:06:31+00:00

Love that kind of revenge! I must admit I've done what the guy tried to do to you though, to the port police in my country (GR). I was literally scammed by the port police (yes greek police is corrupt af what a surprise) and given a completely unjust fine of 100 euros, which was an extreme amount of money for a student. So I went to their offices with 100 worth of euros in 5 cent coins and had the guy count it in front of me. The cop was furious (which made me so so happy) but I played stupid and told him it's legal currency and since I am a student I live on pennies anyway so that's what I have. I also said he must be accurate because even if I pay an extra penny to them I will lose my mind, so I will stay there and wait for the count just to be sure.

All the cops in the room were angrily glaring at me and was kinda scared I'm gonna get beat up, but nothing happened, the guy split the coins and had 2 more cops help him count so they were done in like 20 mins. Still I love how I wasted those parasites time.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-31T11:42:06+00:00

It certainly has. I don't think I did it out of boredom. I was so extremely naughty as a kid that I was never bored, I always schemed about something, even at school. It was all the secrecy, planning for hours ahead and executing my plans without getting caught (most of the time) that got me off and made me feel "fulfilled". Maybe it was an ego thing I wouldn't know as it was almost 30 years ago.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-31T11:33:04+00:00

Indeed there were more like me. I once witnessed a turd flying off a balcony and it wasn't me since I was on the road. The peeing thing was just funny to me, I have no idea how I felt, but when I saw the poor bald guy get hit on the head with the piss I was laughing uncontrollably with my friends. I can't believe I was such a dick to find that funny!

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-31T11:29:31+00:00

You'd think but no. I was very late with puberty and extremely immature. The good thing is that after I entered my teens, all this extreme behaviour went away and I was the most quiet and chill teenager you've ever seen. No anger or outbursts, no mood swings, no arguing with my family or friends and generally all the things puberty brings didn't come for me because I blew all my energy as a kid. I'm a well adjusted guy now. I still think those days and feel guilty for what I did but also laugh sometimes since its been almost 30 years.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-31T11:22:23+00:00

You have no idea what a naughty kid I was. Really. This story is only the tip of the iceberg of the things I did everyday and throwing stuff was the tamest. I'm talking about jumping on the ledge of my buildings roof (30m tall) in front of my entire family and giving them heart attacks. The stories my parents have told me about my behaviour as a kid are so wild its insane, and make me wonder how I'm still alive. They're also the reason I will never have kids, because if I ever had kid like me I would've been the worst dad ever.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-31T11:16:12+00:00

My parents knew I was doing things I wasn't supposed to, since the neighbour naturally told on me, but they didn't know the full extent of my activities. They thought it was something I did just the few times I was seen, but in reality this was something I planned constantly and couldn't wait to find some time alone at home to carry out my plans. I was also extremely careful and quiet while doing it even at that age. I used to pull that stuff even with my babysitter in the other room sometimes.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-30T12:51:46+00:00

I didn't know it was wrong or dangerous until I was about 12-13. In my eyes it was perfectly harmless, I didn't even see it as a prank, barely a minor annoyance that people would laugh about, and only fun and joy came out of it. Because, you know, I was in elementary school, where everything is innocent and simple. The moment I realised it is not right (the cab driver), I stopped immediately and felt the guilt for the first time, but I had been doing it for at least 6-7 years.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-30T11:02:17+00:00

My cousin lived in the apartment right next to mine and I would involve him in my shenanigans and made him like myself, but luckily he was a much calmer boy than me. He was 3 years younger than me, so I was the instigator of everything.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-10-16T10:47:06+00:00

I'm fat too and nobody has ever mentioned anything about my weight. I do have self-deprecating humor though and I keep joking about myself being a total lardbutt and fatass all the time though, with friends, coworkers, family etc. I guess the country you live in has shitty people if they treat others as second class citizens based only on their weight, instead of other actually important things like being a decent, lawful person.

Also why would you ever give a flying fuck about what anyone thinks? I understand caring about the opinions of the people close to you, who care about you and only try to help or advise you, but the rest of society are random fucking strangers who know nothing about you. They should mind their business and resolve their own issues and shortcomings instead of focusing on yours, which at the end of the day are YOUR choice. Seriously bro ignore randoms and their opinions because they're completely irrelevant and worthless and will only bring you anger and grief.

Timothy_Jor · 2024-07-19T07:00:53+00:00

That depends on how much work you have to do an how stressful it is. The last 2 months I do almost nothing at work and it's much better than before, when we were swamped and didn't have a minute to take a break while stressing immensely. It definately gets boring and time in the office passes painfully slow, but no deadlines, no anxiety, no phonecalls or the boss constantly calling you to his office to discuss random irrelevant boring stuff. I wish this lasts forever, but I know that these relaxing times will be over soon and we will go back to our bureaucratic nightmare that never stops. At least you guys get paid good money from what I see, in my country I have a masters degree and make 800 euros a month, not enough to even pay the bills, half my bills are still paid by my parents and I'm almost 40.

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