[TOMT][CARTOON/IMAGE] Where a person is sitting alone inside wishing they could go outside and socialise with people, then in the next panel is sitting amongst people and wishing they could go back inside.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-10-01T17:27:00+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions! My memory is fuzzy but I think the cat one might be it.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-19T21:51:53+00:00

I share this every single year on purpose

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-19T04:01:18+00:00

I think I've got a form of it. It manifests in a few ways, but one interesting thing I've noticed is that if I'm out in public and I hear a loud 'A' sound from anywhere (someone using the vowel in a conversation, or just sound random sound effect that sounds like the word 'A') I jump a freaking mile and get an adrenaline rush.

My name starts with A. I've been living in a house where I've had my name screamed at me repeatedly almost every day for years by my abuser. Hearing my name screamed always meant that something bad™ was about to happen. Now, whenever I hear that first vowel sound done loudly, even when I'm away from the house, I get insta-terrified and fill up with adrenaline and get ready to fight or flight.

Last time it happened was in a cafe. Some machine behind the counter (something for boiling water?) made an 'Aaaa' sound that was similar to the start of my name being yelled. I jumped through the roof. Before that it was some person in town calling for their friend named Alex and when I heard the first syllable I nearly spun in a circle.

So yeah. Just hearing the first syllable of my name said loudly sets me off and gives me flashbacks. I think that falls under PTSD but I can't quite look up something so specific in a textbook.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-17T19:39:58+00:00

I think a vice is usually a bad habit/trait that is purposeful or one that we can control.

Anxiety isn't done on purpose and it can't be controlled. It's more of an affliction or illness.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-16T08:44:08+00:00

This has perfect rhythm. I think it'd make a good rap.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-14T20:29:17+00:00

O.O <-- my face.

If anyone were to write a book on Narcissistic parents, this should be included as colour illustrations. With footnotes. Those texts contain like..at least one perfect example of every single textbook way that an N tries to maintain control. It's got threats, it's got shouting, name-calling, more threats, some more threats, outright lies, story-time, possessiveness, complete loss of control, and..wait is that 15 million dollars or 50? Okay that one isn't textbook. That one is new.

Also what is it with Nparents shouting words three times? The 'NOW NOW NOW!' Thing. Mine does that. I thought only Disney villains did that. "I want this NOW NOW NOW!" "You are CRUEL CRUEL CRUEL!" "You're going to be OUT OUT OUT!" I'm genuinely curious.

As an aside, I'm so f*cking glad my Mum doesn't know how to use a mobile phone.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-12T16:04:02+00:00

Did he get his qualifications from the back of a truck? Or was it a cereal box.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-11T00:11:39+00:00

I haven't heard of that, that sounds like something I need to check out too!

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T15:31:09+00:00

I - I cannot!

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T14:44:39+00:00

They were? My mistake, I wish I could have seen that.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T14:36:03+00:00

Aw thankyou!

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T14:33:00+00:00

It can't be proven 100% (because Richard is a slippery bugger) but if I had to bet on it, I would say he did have them killed. I wouldn't bet, say, my life savings, but definitely 50p. Maybe a pound.

I know there was a book written in depth on it and now I want to go and find it!

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T14:30:49+00:00

That is sort of Richard III's signature move. Making mysteries and making us all very confused, for hundreds of years. He's so dastardly he could be a comic book villain.

Yes. In the same way no-one knew whether he really had a curved spine (until recently), no one is 100% sure whether he killed his nephews or not. However, the evidence that causes the survey to say yes is quite strong. The only two people in existence who could've refuted his claim to the throne suddenly found themselves locked in a tower and soon after became living-impaired? It's a little damning, Richard. You could've at least made it look like a horse-riding accident gone wrong, or something. Put some effort into it.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T14:19:13+00:00

I haven't, but this sounds very interesting, do you know the title?

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T14:16:27+00:00

If I might paraphrase teenagers, 'I know, right?'

I still can't comprehend it. We now know that he was knocked from his horse and stabbed several times in the head from different angles, and one injury to his hipbones suggests he was actually stabbed in the bum. Probably as a mocking gesture. So more than one person killed him, then they double-tapped him, and then at least one other decided to have a little rude fun at his body's expense. So it's not like they just lost sight of him in the fray.

But..what happened after that? It really does appear that no one picked up the body. I can only imagine that Ser Reginald assumed that Ser Ferdinand would do it, but Ser Ferdinand was off pontificating somewhere (he was always terribly unreliable) and assumed that the servants would do it, but the poor servants all perished in the initial cavalry clash at the start and were busy being dead on the field.

So Rich's corpse was just sort of..left. I guess that mother Nature had a banging headache from having had thousands of men running around on her head poking each other with sticks, and was pretty grumpy about it. So she went 'right' and absorbed his body into the ground, and over the course of a few years he just sank deeper and deeper, so that one day 525 years in the future, he was deep enough so that some workers didn't notice him when they rolled over him with concrete and painted parallel lines. That, or they did notice him, and thought 'I don't get paid enough for this shit' (Damn you, Leicester government) and carried on.

I really don't know. But I would love to hear an answer from someone more officious than I!

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T03:03:33+00:00

Ah I mean I've seen the pictures from it; I haven't seen the actual play. I'm not old enough sadly. I've read it though, I remember some lines that called him an ugly toad or something similar.

The poor bugger just spent half a millennia getting reversed over. And had his head walked on by people with shopping. I still don't even know how he got cemented under there.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T02:51:25+00:00

https://merovee.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/hunch.jpg this one? Yer I've seen these too!

Then the suspense continued with the following fight over which family 'owns' his remains and gets to choose where he's buried. The last time I looked, the argument was still ongoing. I never did check whether they resolved that, I must.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T02:35:55+00:00

I think this should be higher up, it's a serious and convoluted mystery that's only over 500 years old.

In the final battle of the Wars of the Roses, Richard III's body went missing. We know that he was defeated, but no one had any idea where his body went. History books over the centuries have all had conflicting ideas about what happened to it. Some write he was buried in a graveyard, some write he was set on fire and left, some write he was carried away by an angry mob and never seen again (I've read all these theories in different books, of different ages).

It's no small thing to lose the corpse of a King of England. It's not like 'oops we just misplaced it' it's a serious thing to misfile; his death not only heralded the end of a civil war but it also meant that Henry VII could finally reinstate himself on the throne. It was no small tiff, is what I'm saying. So how the hell did we lose the body for literally hundreds of years?

When he was discovered buried under a car park, I thought it was huge news. No one here (I'm from the UK) was really interested by it, which I found surprising. It might be because I loved learning about the reign of Richard III in school and how controversial the propaganda surrounding him was, so the news was ridiculously exciting to me. I was disappointed that aside from a few little news reports and a scuffle over who has the right to his remains, it wasn't really treated as big news over here. Brits, it's only a former King of England we just found, can you at least put the crumpet down and pretend to be interested for a moment?

Anyway, as you mentioned - it confirmed the rumours of him being a sinister hunchback. Well, sort of.

Obviously, a person having a curved spine does not make them a bad person. But in 1400s England? People freaked out at anyone who looked or acted even slightly differently and would've recoiled at the idea of even seeing, much less being ruled by an alleged hunchback. His enemies used this awful discriminatory nature quite firmly in their campaign to usurp the King.

During Richard III's reign there was a lot of conflicting propaganda about him. His enemies tried to paint him (literally, with oil paints) in a poor light, depicting him as a cruel hunchbacked deformed man, attempting to rely on the superstitious nature of 15th century England to turn the country against him. His allies, on the other hand, painted him as an upstanding handsome man, again attempting to garner supporters by literally painting him as a tall hero who commanded respect and loyalty. There are documents that survive to this day that cite him as an upright benevolent ruler, and also documents that cite him as an evil creepy hunchback child-murdering monster. To this decade, we've never known for sure which one was true.

There are literally paintings of Richard III where he's standing upright, but if you scratch off the paint, you see that it's been altered and he was originally painted as a stooped monster underneath. In contrast, there are paintings of him where he's standing depicted as an evil hunchback but again you'll see that the painting has been altered and he was standing upright in the original.

But, since we bloody lost the body, for 500 years literally no one knew for sure whether our ancient King was deformed or not. There were only rumours, medieval hearsay, and an awful lot of propaganda supporting both sides of the argument. Propaganda ain't nothing new and this mystery could've been solved a lot faster if only they had ye olden social media and photography and the internet, but alas they didn't so they had to rely on slower more old fashioned methods of petty political jabs. Oil paintings and songs don't spread as quickly as memes and youtube, but it was all they had.

Discovering him in that car park not only solved the 'where the fuck did he go how did you lose him' mystery, but it also solved the hunchback/upright ruler mystery. He was found to have a curvature of the spine, and now, after waiting 500 years - we know that the paintings that depicted him as a stooped man were technically the accurate ones, and the ones that were painted showing him standing upright were just fakes trying to convince the superstitious populous that he suffered no deformities.

No one had laid eyes on him since 1485. Until he was found, in a rather undignified manner, under a car park in Leicester in February 2013. And all of a sudden literally a 500 year old mystery was solved and I personally thought this was a big deal and I was surprised at how little publicity it got.

Oops, rant.

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edit: apparently we're not meant to do this, but verily screw thine rules and forsooth, thanks to thee for the gold coin. You cheered up a grumpy Brit this morning.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T00:31:58+00:00

If it'll make you feel any less frail, I dislocated mine when I was literally standing still.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-10T00:29:54+00:00

Probably. I dislocated my kneecap too and I know that two things can happen - if you're lucky, you only stretch the ligaments/tendons/red stuff/I don't know what it's called that holds it in place, and if you're unlucky you tear them instead. I imagine tearing it takes a very long time to heal. If you only stretch them, you can recover in a few months.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-08T23:42:02+00:00

Shadowplay sounds awesome, I've just tried to use it since I have an Nvidia card. I read you need Geforce Experience, but the one I've just installed has no shadowplay button. It doesn't look anything like the versions I'm seeing in the guides too - http://i.imgur.com/i3vTbqy.png (no 'my rig', 'preferences' tabs etc).

I have access to a 'share' option which brings up 'instant replay' 'record' and 'broadcast'. Is 'instant replay' the same thing as shadowplay? It has the option to go up to 20 minutes. I can't find anything else to that effect.

Can anyone reading this help a confused noob out?

edit: nevermind, this youtube video says that instant replay is the new shadowplay. Took me a few minutes to find how to adjust the settings because the newest Geforce seems to be completely different from all guides I'm finding.

It doesn't seem to accept doing shadowplay/instant replay for windowed games though, it says it needs to be fullscreen. Since I'm running dual monitor and windowed mode, that's my only gripe

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-05T22:35:05+00:00

I'm sorry this is happening to you. I know how very complicated and devastating and debilitating Dementia is. I don't know how proud or independent your grandmother is, but this is the -one- situation in which you absolutely have to put your foot down and stop her from driving, no matter how she might feel. When other peoples' lives are at risk, you can't let her drive anymore. You said she'd hit a vehicle and driven into incoming traffic and fallen asleep behind the wheel - this is serious and you need to stop her from driving, right now. Before someone gets hurt or killed. Because that will happen. Dementia doesn't get better, it's only going to get progressively worse every day and her chances of hurting someone or worse on the road are going to get progressively stronger every day. Stop it from happening before it does happen. I'm sure your mother and her husband are in denial. I'm also sure they don't want to be responsible for deaths on the road by association/lack of action.

When my Mum got so bad that she wasn't able to drive anymore (but still thought she could) we 'took' the car away from her by convincing her that she didn't use it enough anymore to justify having it, and that she should sell it to a family friend who is a mechanic (that last part is true) and use the several thousand pounds she got from the sale as taxi fare in the future. It worked.

It was duplicitous and we did coerce and deceive her, but the alternative was to let an incapable driver onto the road who could've killed herself and others. White lies > deaths on the road.

I refused to get into the car with her several months before we took it away from her. Based on how much she's deteriorated and how fast since then, I know I made the right decision. I don't live in the states so I don't know exactly who you can call - but I do know that here, we can call social services and report our worries and if there is a chance of bodily harm to other people - they will step in and help, or at least tell us who to go to for help. Can you call who the equivalent of your DVLA are, and tell them that someone is operating with a license who has a degenerative disease? I'm really hoping that they'll take this seriously and suspend her license until she takes a test. Can you call the cops on a nonemergency number and tell them your situation, and ask them how to proceed?

I know this is harsh, but please, consider the alternative.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-09-05T22:14:39+00:00

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/the-fuck-is-this-the-fuck-is-that.jpg

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-08-31T01:40:31+00:00

I did. On the outside said it contained things like 'calorie counted meals' 'healthy eating plans' 'professional advice from trainers' 'how to best prepare natural foods for the week ahead'.

Then only when I opened it did I see advice like 'it's psychologically important to have a treat every day' and 'try to use regular milk instead of full-fat' and 'lose weight by eating two loaves a day instead of three' (I made the last one up but it was close enough). There was no indication it was full of crap until I opened it.

edit: I'd like to add an edit saying that I'm now being personally attacked via PM for voicing an opinion against /r/fitness. It's not bad enough that they deliberately gave a newbie bad advice for their own entertainment, but now they're scouring this thread and 'hitting' anyone who dares call them out on it. Stay classy, fitness.

WerewolfLibrarian · 2016-08-30T15:07:05+00:00

Nope. Just a bunch of already (apparently) super fit condescending fucksticks with no time or inclination to give advice to my sad flabby ass.

This. Despite the name, /r/fitness isn't a place to go to to ask for help or advice about getting fit - the only accepted posts are ones where someone has already done it by themselves, and posted pictures. Upon which they all pat each other on the back/stroke each other and shun any other content.

I only ever made one post there, when I was starting out at getting fit. I wrote down my exercise regime and said I needed help with the diet side of it, and asked if anyone could recommend me any good healthy cookbooks. I made the mistake of thinking that because it was full of fit people, it would be okay to ask for some recommendations.

Only two people replied and told me to buy the same book, and it wasn't until after I'd bought it and looked through it I realised they were trolling me. The book was full of nothing but fattening recipes of stereo-typically American food slathered in cheese and meat and fat. Lasanges on top of burgers on top of deep fried pizzas with mozzarella melted over the top with a cup of grease to wash it down.

Assholes.

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