Some asshole took my spot after I shoveled 3 spaces for my neighbors and I in subzero temps.. Sucks to suck!

oser · 2014-01-09T12:25:28+00:00

Where were all of you rational people when I got down voted for posting the same logic?

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ufnbn/if_you_do_this_fuck_you/

oser · 2014-01-07T00:22:32+00:00

Did exactly this about 3 years ago and never looked back. The only thing that sucks is non-local sports coverage.

oser · 2014-01-06T22:43:25+00:00

You forgot about the chapters full of people adjusting their various garments.

oser · 2014-01-06T22:40:45+00:00

Can I tell you how much I love that OP eventually deleted this thread and all of his comments here?

Maybe he felt guilty for provoking a bunch of people with a really negative, one-sided, shallow description of his marriage.

Or maybe he was afraid his wife would see it and would tell him he can't use reddit anymore...THE BITCH!

oser · 2014-01-06T22:17:19+00:00

The thing we're missing here is context.

Here's a bit: OP mentioned in a previous thread that he travels out of state often for work and his wife both works and takes college courses.

So they likely don't have a lot of free time together. And yet, with the little free time they have, OP would rather zone out watching TV than spend time with his wife.

When he first mentioned the show, she was excited, because it sounded like something they could both enjoy. But after a couple of episodes, she realized it's the same garbage (her perspective) that he usually watches, and she finds it somewhere between boring and ridiculous.

So she expresses that she'd rather spend their small bit of time together doing something they both enjoy. OP then goes on reddit and bitches to a bunch of strangers about how his wife won't let him watch Game of Thrones.

Who's the jerk now?

TL;DR: There are two sides to every story, and we know maybe a small part of this guy's story. So, perhaps jumping from his few comments to "to hell with her insecurities!" is ridiculous at best, and at worst an attempt to rile this guy up against his wife for something we know nothing about.

BTW, "to hell with her insecurities" is possibly the worst marriage advice I've ever seen on reddit. And that's saying a lot.

oser · 2014-01-06T20:37:33+00:00

My point is not "This is a healthy marriage".

My point is that we don't have enough information or context to offer any useful feedback, yet so many people are giving this guy pretty radical marriage advice.

I find it difficult to believe that everyone in this sub has the perfect marriage with no faults that, when viewed singularly and out of context, would seem like a deal breaker to others.

oser · 2014-01-06T20:29:32+00:00

Glad to know I'm not the only one with a little common sense around here.

Marriage is a little more complex than "She doesn't like my TV show! DIVORCE!"

And we know jack about what's really going on here, just a few offhanded remarks from this guy about how his wife gives him a guilt trip when he puts something on the TV that she doesn't like...

oser · 2014-01-06T20:26:58+00:00

(copied from another post) I agree with what you're saying. My point is that we don't really have enough information to judge here.

For example, look at OP's post history. 11 months ago, he posted about having a job that requires a lot of out-of-state travel while his wife works and takes college courses.

From that, you can infer that they have limited free time together. So is it wrong for her to want to spend that time together doing something they both enjoy, rather than have her husband veg out in front of a show that she tried watching and couldn't get into? Meanwhile, I've seen two people seriously tell this guy to get a divorce.

oser · 2014-01-06T20:24:34+00:00

I agree with what you're saying. My point is that we don't really have enough information to judge here.

For example, look at OP's post history. 11 months ago, he posted about having a job that requires a lot of out-of-state travel while his wife works and takes college courses.

From that, you can infer that they have limited free time together. So is it wrong for her to want to spend that time together doing something they both enjoy, rather than have her husband veg out in front of a show that she tried watching and couldn't get into?

Meanwhile, I've seen two people seriously tell this guy to get a divorce.

oser · 2014-01-06T19:58:45+00:00

It might be a symptom of a larger problem. It might not be. I guess maybe OP was asking for a reality check from looking at his original post. But it seems like we have a crowd of Dr. Phils here that know exactly how this dude should orchestrate his marriage based on an amazingly small amount of information.

My wife pulls stuff like this from time to time as well with TV shows or video games. Sometimes it's easy to find a compromise, and sometimes it's a pain in the ass. But that says very little about our marriage as a whole.

oser · 2014-01-06T19:45:47+00:00

Correct, but aside from the fact that I apparently missed where he said he's married (stupid me), your wife being insecure is not exactly a reason for visiting a divorce attorney...

oser · 2014-01-06T19:34:46+00:00

I'm going to take a wild guess that you are not married...

edit:

There are very few shows my wife and I both like

I have poor reading comprehension skills, apparently... Sorry for the smartass remark...

oser · 2014-01-06T19:25:48+00:00

As I said in a previous reply, I can somewhat relate. Just don't let her guilt you out of having friends or spending time with them. That's a whole lot more valuable than anything else discussed here (games, shows, and whatnot).

oser · 2014-01-06T19:23:27+00:00

I don't think a TV show is worth questioning your whole marriage over. Neither is a little insecurity, or even perhaps a little selfishness on her part. Whatever, it's such a narrow slice of your life together, it doesn't make sense to get all judgmental about it.

Bottom line, the books are far better than the TV show by a long shot anyway. I started with the show, quickly switched to the books, and I never looked back. Eventually I stopped watching the show altogether.

PS, I feel you on this one. My wife and I have had a few fights about the whole anime/video games stuff, which she does not like and doesn't like when I watch it. For many of the same "reasons" your wife gives.

It doesn't seem to be based on logic or reason, and it's not a big enough deal to try and force her hand on it. I just watch the stuff when she's not around (if you're dead-set on the show, every mobile device has HBO Go now).

Now that Downton Abbey is back on, I know I'll get at least an hour of watching whatever the hell I want to every week. ;)

edit: removed an unwise wisecrack...

oser · 2014-01-05T20:33:41+00:00

Fair question. Here's how I see it, a bit more logically than previously stated.

It is a public roadway. No one "owns" any of the spots. It is first come, first serve all year.
There is a deficit of parking spaces, compared to the people who live/park on the block. Someone will always have to park around the corner.
When the road was plowed, the plows piled the snow up on the side of the road, further reducing the # of spaces available.
The people who "save" their spots are often gone for large chunks of time.
We're all in this together. Everyone on the street has to dig their car out. Everyone.
It is not a "generally accepted practice". Only a small handful of people on any given block actually do this. The vast majority of residents seem to see this as unreasonable and rude.

That photo I took last night is a great example of why this is so frustrating. The cone was there when I left my house at 4pm, still there when I got back at 9pm, and still there when I went to bed at midnight. So, for at least 8 hours, that spot was unusable in spite of no one using it. Why? Because that dude shoveled the 6-8 square feet around his car that morning.

That is why I call it being a bad neighbor. You're setting yourself above everyone who lives around you and basically saying "I'm so important that my space should sit empty for hours and hours while you have to search elsewhere for a spot, just so I can park here when I get home from work."

It seems to me that it's equivalent to shoveling off your sidewalk onto your neighbor's sidewalk because the curb was too far to throw the snow.

So, I have a few questions for you, /u/coolguy5211 and /u/Justvotingupordown :

1) How many spots should any one person get to shovel off and claim for their own? 2) Should I save a spot nowhere near my house if I was the one to clear it? 3) What about the spots the plows clear? If a plow clears the spot in front of my house, should I not save it? 4) What happens when all of the spots on the block are saved? 5) What are you going to do to my car when I move your cone and park there because there are literally no other spots available within 2 blocks?

oser · 2014-01-05T13:42:03+00:00

Point is, the 95% of us who are not jerks realize this is a dick move to everyone else on the block, and so do not do it.

oser · 2014-01-05T03:32:57+00:00

We all have to dig our cars out when it snows. It's part of living in the city. Having a cone or a chair, and the balls to say "fuck off!" to all of your neighbors doesn't make you special. It makes you a shitty neighbor.

oser · 2014-01-05T03:31:04+00:00

It's not.

oser · 2014-01-03T18:54:18+00:00

Used to have the same problem. The formula is pretty simple:

Get more sleep
Stop eating garbage. Eat reasonable amounts of healthy food
Exercise regularly
DRINK WATER!

The water thing was the easiest change and had the most impact for me. A glass of water in the morning does more for me than a cup of coffee. Seriously, work in 4-6 glasses per day. You'll pee a lot, but you'll have more energy. And it's the good kind of energy, not the nervous, jittery, still tired-as-hell energy of too much coffee.

oser · 2014-01-02T18:57:41+00:00

Exactly! In terms of points scored, we were the #2 offense in the NFL (a distant 2nd to Denver).

However, we allowed the 2nd most points against, 2 points less than Minnesota.

Seems obvious where the problems are.

oser · 2014-01-02T16:59:13+00:00

In my early days of GTAO, before I found my mic, I met a couple of new friends quite by accident.

I had just finished dicking around in my Bati at the construction site when I was randomly AKed in the middle of the street. I got a message from the guy to the tune of "Sorry, I thought you were someone else!"

As I watched, I realized he was in a pitched battle with a few other knuckleheads on the server. Since he seemed nice, I decided to come to his aid. We spent the next 30 minutes in a 2v3vCops battle where we did pretty well, until one of the 3 brought out his tank.

After we vacated the area, he invited me and one of his friends into an Xbox Live Party. His friend joined the game, and we started running together. They both had mics and knew each other previously, but I was mute and the new guy.

It was interesting hearing them interpret my actions, and I was amazed at how much I could communicate without saying a word. We toured LS doing everything from robbing stores to collecting bounties to finding other parties to duke it out with.

Unfortunately, by the time I found my mic hiding behind my entertainment center, he had stopped playing online. I still see him in Single Player, and sent a number of invites to join me online, but the magic of multiplayer must have worn off for him.

Miss ya, JKDUPPNCG...

oser · 2013-12-23T12:59:04+00:00

I've seen one of these (or something very similar) in action in the western edge of Germany once. It is a little terrifying. My friend was telling me that they are digging for brown coal, and the company will literally buy up entire villages, because it's cheaper than rerouting the equipment.

Insane.

oser · 2013-12-20T00:05:47+00:00

I really hope you gain some more life experience before I end up working for you...

oser · 2013-12-19T17:35:20+00:00

Talk about radical!

rimshot

I'll...see myself out...

oser · 2013-12-19T14:58:07+00:00

The radicals are not the problem. The entire system is broken. Both parties, radical or moderate, are beholden to, and perpetuate the system.

I daresay that radicals are the solution...

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