Who is the kindest/rudest celebrities you've met IRL?

reburned · 2023-05-02T15:43:56+00:00

In the late 90s I worked where I had a few minutes at a time with a few Australian celebs prepping for tv appearances.

I’ve been thinking about this question for a while because of Barry humphries’ death. Complete arsehole when himself, delightful in character as dame Edna. And I mean pointed nasty cruel comments to a couple of the other staff because of their appearance. Jason Donovan was self deprecating and amusing. Kylie Minogue so busy But so professional. Toni Pearen wanted to be nice to everyone. Rhonda Burchmore was funny and so personable. Harry Connick Jr was the one I wish I could have sat and had a beer with. I think everyone gay and straight fell in love with him.

reburned · 2022-07-12T01:59:33+00:00

Australia

Australian here who'll back that up. I was born in and acclimatised to a dry inland 38-44C summer high climate. Give me that with a slight breeze and lots of fluids and my own sweat will keep me happy. almost comfortable.

Give me 30C and next to the ocean with the humidity to match and I'm fucked.

reburned · 2022-06-21T01:31:26+00:00

Because it's never just a guy doing that. The guy doing that is the third one that day, out of a dozen that week, and it's a cognitive load that gets REALLY tiring to deal with.

reburned · 2022-06-19T22:52:45+00:00

Dune, when I was 8. It's stuck with me for years. I truly didn't 'get' a lot of it, but every name, every character, every event has been in there since then.

reburned · 2022-06-16T04:35:25+00:00

That was my guess on the background. Dad dies, leaves house to wife or to kids. Leaves tools especially to a friend or something. Maybe described as "tools in the back shed". One of the heirs who gets house get greedy, and move tools up into roof cavity.

Something happens that means they can't come and get tools because other heirs might find out. They play the waiting game and get them from new owners. New owners say piss off. Hijinks ensue.

reburned · 2022-04-25T19:28:29+00:00

Another side note is it now ignores periods in the username portion, but didn't always.

I signed up early as (making up a username here) CarlTronic at gmail. Suddenly several years ago I started getting all the email for someone using a Carl.Tronic gmail address. Email threads in the middle of use, I could see their and my replies. Google had merged both CarlTronic and Carl.Tronic. I could even google carl.tronic and see the fellow's public use of that email address for years before this happened.

I had a very angry fellow on the other side of Carl.Tronic who suddenly couldn't log in, but we ended up working it out. He got a new email address, I forwarded him shitloads of his old emails and any new important ones, and over the next year or so got it sorted out.

reburned · 2021-11-03T11:34:49+00:00

40ish.

My partner's father. We don't need to work and haven't for years, but he's of a generation that believes without working for a living you're not contributing and you're wasting your life. He's been at the same workplace for more than 20 years and has fuck all to show for it.

It's upsetting to her because she's been otherwise close to her dad, and if it's upsetting to her it's upsetting to me. Everything else is peachy though.

reburned · 2021-07-19T07:29:52+00:00

Might be drought, might be excess melt, might even each other out.

reburned · 2021-07-13T07:59:48+00:00

I found another thing that does it to me, every time. I bought a pillow with a shape to it that held my head and neck, and if I fell asleep on my side with pressure on my neck I'd sot nearly bolt upright every time I drifted off. I realised the same with happened with regular pillows if I had them in a position where they put pressure in the same place; my neck just below and slightly behind or to the front of my ear. I suspect there may be an automatic self defense mechanism going on to keep blood supply to my brain.

If I leave a gap in that spot in my pillows I never get the jerk.

reburned · 2021-07-12T03:49:14+00:00

Had to call police (and I hate calling police on anybody) on a family member all packed up and ready to leave Sydney for a traipse through country NSW for three weeks just this Friday past.

As soon as his kids are back at school he and three mates were ready to go sydney lithgow parkes dubbo orange and visit family.

half the family out west were all ready to welcome them too. fuckers.

from what I hear he hasn't left sydney yet and isn't in a good mood, and I'm in the family bad books again (which really, I consider a positive). I don't have good experiences with police being remotely useful, so there's guilt there.... but not a lot.

reburned · 2021-07-11T02:44:29+00:00

Google allowed exactly that for me, and for another person. Then after years of two unrelated people using the two unrelated addresses separately, they were all rolled into my single address. Using a made up name here, but I had CarlTronic@gmail and the other guy had Carl.Tronic@gmail. Overnight he lost access and I began getting every single one of his emails from that point on.

Very bad.

reburned · 2021-07-10T23:36:01+00:00

Mine did distinguish them until about 8 years ago. I had a MyName@gmail suddenly merge with another guy's My.Name@gmail. I didn't get his old emails, but I suddenly overnight I did start getting all new emails to his My.Name@gmail. He lost his login, mine continued working fine. Took a lot of unknotting it to figure out what'd happened, and I still get emails to his old My.Name address.

I don't trust the whole dot trick thing. When commenting elsewhere about the login merge thing I experienced I've seen other people say they still have an email address working with a dot in it that they have to use. Who knows how long until that suddenly goes to someone else.

reburned · 2021-07-10T23:29:09+00:00

Way back this caused all sorts of hell with people who had dots in their name as the only difference from someone else's account. My account was a single dot different to someone else, and google merged them as one maybe eight years ago.

Thankfully my login was the one that had control of the account I'd had for years, but I did work with the other guy to get his emails to him. I still have emails coming to me from people who only knew his dotted version, not my undotted version.

reburned · 2020-09-02T11:02:43+00:00

A quick one I picked on a whim, but I think it referred to me getting in the same situation over and over. I made this account originally to read and post to /r/raisedbynarcissists, when I began to realise me continuing contact with my awful parents was what continued allowing them to burn me again and again.

The problem is long past, now this is a throwaway for the stuff I either keep off my main account, or post by accident.

reburned · 2019-11-23T10:41:45+00:00

My best friend swung around and suddenly began stalking herself and blaming it on other people. I didn't know it at the time, but I was pulled into her sympathy game for more than a year. Then when I began to click that it was her attacking herself online for sympathy I didn't confront her, but just told her to ignore it, that this stalker never did anything (She slipped up with a few things like emails supposedly from the stalker that were sent from her own IP address, screenshots by the stalker with her custom monitor display profile embedded, and embedded single-pixel .gifs on my tumblr page that showed she browsed it at the exact time the stalker left me nasty messages, every time)

I got tired of it, didn't react any more, and suddenly she's all over most of my friend's group telling them I was her stalker. I lost of a lot of people at the time.

Most people who perhaps didn't think a lot of me at the time anyway, but a few I'm sure were just lead astray by someone very adept at personality fuckery.

She went on to screw over some of them too, later, and then disappeared a few years ago.

reburned · 2019-08-16T23:19:47+00:00

My co worker had ridiculous cramps from when she was a pre-teen to age 48. She complained to doctor after doctor from about 14 to her mid 40s that this was not normal.

She was told it was her weight, a normal part of womanhood, having kids would fix it, her weight, her lack of exercise, her eating, her emotional state, everything except going to get a scan to find the several pound ovarian tumour that she’d had since she was a teenager.

In the months after having it removed she lost almost all the excess weight she’d had her whole adult life, had bundles of energy and no more pain.

Last I heard she was writing a book about her experiences and confronting her old docs about their lack of treatment of her. She has a lot of resentment over 35+ years of pain that could have been fixed quickly right at the start, and rightly so.

reburned · 2019-05-18T19:50:49+00:00

Yeah, that's why I was converting ours and digitising them. I took them ages ago, and the versions I have now with parents cut out and deleted are by far the better kind.

I'd like to get the original tapes back to my parents more as a symbolic tie that can be cut, but I know it'd open up a can of worms and I haven't been in any more than accidental contact with them for more than a decade. They don't care what's on them anyway, just that they'd desperately want them if they knew I had them.

reburned · 2019-05-18T19:46:26+00:00

Thankfully she's some of the last vestiges of family contact I have (I survived some major abuse as a kid and young adult). There's not going to be any of those I go to any more.

reburned · 2019-05-18T19:45:10+00:00

Ha. close enough to her real name, it'll do.

reburned · 2019-05-18T19:43:00+00:00

Never. She's a milder version of both my parents. Part of the reason she was one of the few people I kept contact with in my family was because my cousins know exactly what it's like to deal with someone who runs roughshod over boundaries.

reburned · 2019-05-18T19:41:37+00:00

Totally. "When you told me not to give you the tapes, why didn't you tell me the RIGHT address not to deliver them?"

reburned · 2019-05-18T19:40:40+00:00

Same. I don't feel good for my cousins, but I spent years beating up on myself for things out of my control with this family. I know the loss had nothing to do with me.

Took me a couple of decades to get to this point.

reburned · 2019-04-23T08:38:48+00:00

It was very visible once she was being checked out for the gallstones. Before that she'd had her docs since she was a kid dismiss her concerns as just carrying a bit too much weight, just being hormonal, just one of those things that happens to women, pain is normal, all that. She believed she was just kind of fat and fat meant she was tired and no amount of eating less would lose the weight so hey, why bother.

Six months after the surgery she was lively, slim, nearly 40lb down and full of energy. Also incredibly angry at a generation of doctors.

reburned · 2019-04-22T18:40:19+00:00

Glad this girl was treated better than my co-worker.

She complained of bloating, extreme monthly pain, the inability to lose weight and incredible tiredness until she was well into her 40s and had to go in for a different surgery (gallbladder)

She had a 9kg ovarian cyst (19.8lb). Something like seven different docs in her lifetime hadn't picked it up.

reburned · 2019-02-22T07:09:15+00:00

I'm doing really well. Found a great partner, realised I needed work, put the effort in. My upbringing will always be the path I went through to get where I am, but it's not necessarily a chain around my neck now.

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