Fuwanovel Confessions

[Soulless Watcher]

15 hours ago, Zenophilious said:

Confession: Holy shit, I think I met one of the dumbest people I've known in quite a long while.  They actually had me call a manger to complain to them that we didn't carry the color of sponge that they wanted.  Yep, that's right, she wanted a specific color of sponge and essentially threw a tantrum because we didn't have it (because the people that make them discontinued it, by the way).  Who even cares what color your sponge is?!  Ugh...just remembering that irritates me.

My sister used to work as a cashier part time, she told me all sorts of wonderful stories of people getting mad at her because THEY didn't have enough money in their bank account to make a purchase. 

People are insane, that is why I always take on jobs dealing with inventory in the backroom or night shifts. 

[Fred the Barber]

The jetlag of a 32-hour day really isn't so bad, except that I occasionally wobble severely enough that I'm likely very soon to fall out of my chair and crash onto the floor.

If I stay awake for five more hours, I give myself a 50-50 chance of waking up at a reasonable time tomorrow.

Confession: I'm getting too old for this shit.

[Darklord Rooke]

16 minutes ago, Fred the Barber said:

The jetlag of a 32-hour day really isn't so bad, except that I occasionally wobble severely enough that I'm likely very soon to fall out of my chair and crash onto the floor.

If I stay awake for five more hours, I give myself a 50-50 chance of waking up at a reasonable time tomorrow.

Confession: I'm getting too old for this shit.

Jetlag's a bitch.

Here listen to this, if you put it on repeat it should help you stay awake. Ignore the title, it's ... er, satirical.

 

[Fred the Barber]

6 minutes ago, Rooke said:

Jetlag's a bitch.

Here listen to this, if you put it on repeat it should help you stay awake. Ignore the title, it's ... er, satirical.

 

Let me just have a word with Admiral Ackbar before clicking that.

...

Ok, he's given his full support to me watching your video. I have, therefore, decided to play Huniepop instead.

[TexasDice]

Today I was once again reminded why I hate arguing. I effectively wasted 4 hours of my life with explaining my unchanging viewpoint to others with opposing unchanging viewpoints. 

 

So now I'm sitting here asking myself; What was the point? And why did I not just use my time for something that is actually worth it?

[Darklord Rooke]

13 minutes ago, TexasDice said:

Today I was once again reminded why I hate arguing. I effectively wasted 4 hours of my life with explaining my unchanging viewpoint to others with opposing unchanging viewpoints. 

 

So now I'm sitting here asking myself; What was the point? And why did I not just use my time for something that is actually worth it?

Blame @Flutterz for starting the thread ...

[Flutterz]

Just now, Rooke said:

Blame @Flutterz for starting the thread ...

Confession:  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

[TexasDice]

Fuck you, Flutterz. 

[Flutterz]

Just now, TexasDice said:

Fuck you, Flutterz. 

[TexasDice]

6 minutes ago, Flutterz said:

Confession: I completely forgot that existed.

[Eclipsed]

Sounds like you guys had a fun day

[arakura]

I'm taking a number theory course and it's amazing. I love this interesting somewhat high-level stuff. There's so much to be fascinated about, the least of which is how we often find very specific and deep answers to simple questions. One of my goals in life is to become someone who knows a ton about math. I've taken some physics and it's somewhat interesting, but there's something about the fundamental nature of math that's so cool. It's hard to explain. It's like, with physics you have things that "actually happen" to inform you and to tell you what's happening and why. But with math it just seems to happen and the why seems (to me) so heavenly or something.

I mean, if you felt the same way about physics, then you'd have to think that I'm ignorant or foolish, probably, because obviously the same things can be said about physics, but something about math is so glorious. "Here are these numbers, check out these absurd and relevant relationships."

Honestly while I was still doing calculus I never felt like that. Sometimes when we would talk about how some sum or another ended up being this way or that I would be wowed, but the higher level stuff that requires a lot of machinery is seriously interesting. It also has the benefit(?) of being very hard for the typical person to really grasp because of that machinery, so I feel like as I learn more of it I'm becoming a more special person or something. Like I know something my friends won't really understand even if they look it up.

Of course I'm just starting, so I want to learn a lot more. I'm not very knowledgeable yet.

[Nashetania]

Confession: I slept for 12 hours straight and I regret nothing.

[Kawasumi]

Confession: I need to turn my life around, I need to clean my apartment, I need to take my education and my music seriously, I need to begin working out, study more japanese and read more visual novels.

[Nashetania]

Confession: Girl told me that I have long fingers. Is that supposed to be good or bad?

4 hours ago, Kawasumi said:

Confession: I need to turn my life around, I need to clean my apartment, I need to take my education and my music seriously, I need to begin working out, study more japanese and read more visual novels.

Want some ice cream?  

[Kawasumi]

4 minutes ago, Nashetania said:

Want some ice cream?  

yes 

[AaronIsCrunchy]

17 minutes ago, Nashetania said:

Confession: Girl told me that I have long fingers. Is that supposed to be good or bad?

Means you should take up the piano

[Fred the Barber]

9 hours ago, Nashetania said:

Confession: I slept for 12 hours straight and I regret nothing.

I am so envious right now. If I'd managed that, I would've woken up at 8 AM and probably fixed my jetlag in one night. Instead, I woke up at 5 AM.

5 hours ago, Kawasumi said:

Confession: I need to turn my life around, I need to clean my apartment, I need to take my education and my music seriously, I need to begin working out, study more japanese and read more visual novels.

Make a list. Make specific goals. Make sure you're making progress on those goals. And do the cleaning within the next two days, because you can actually knock that out in a day and make your list shorter, which feels good.

[Funyarinpa]

1 hour ago, Nashetania said:

Confession: Girl told me that I have long fingers. Is that supposed to be good or bad?

 

Girl. 

Fingers. 

"Long"

Need I say more? 

[spoiler] I am kidding, not everything is an innuendo  [/spoiler] 

[Down]

22 minutes ago, Fred the Barber said:

Make a list. Make specific goals. Make sure you're making progress on those goals. And do the cleaning within the next two days, because you can actually knock that out in a day and make your list shorter, which feels good.

Yes, making lists of things to do is a great way to postpone other things you have to do while making you feel like you're actually doing something

[Nashetania]

5 hours ago, AaronIsCrunchy said:

Means you should take up the piano

I did when I was smaller. I quitted.

Now, when I am older and I would love to play piano for real... I have no money for it.

...That's another unfulfilled dream of mine...

4 hours ago, Funyarinpa said:

Girl. 

Fingers. 

"Long"

Need I say more? 

[spoiler] I am kidding, not everything is an innuendo  [/spoiler] 

But this might be  

[TexasDice]

6 hours ago, Fred the Barber said:

Make a list. Make specific goals. Make sure you're making progress on those goals. And do the cleaning within the next two days, because you can actually knock that out in a day and make your list shorter, which feels good.

6 hours ago, Down said:

Yes, making lists of things to do is a great way to postpone other things you have to do while making you feel like you're actually doing something

[Soulless Watcher]

On 4/12/2016 at 9:26 PM, TexasDice said:

Today I was once again reminded why I hate arguing. I effectively wasted 4 hours of my life with explaining my unchanging viewpoint to others with opposing unchanging viewpoints. 

 

So now I'm sitting here asking myself; What was the point? And why did I not just use my time for something that is actually worth it?

I have long given up trying to persuade people in arguments, due pretty much to being part of one of the most stubborn families in the history of forever. I still argue though because I find pleasure and entertainment in it. 

I actually read a very lengthy article on how humans are hardwired to "win" arguments and that our psyche is not designed for intelligent discussion. It went into detail that the only subjects that people were willing to change their stance on, were the subjects they cared the least about. 

[Fred the Barber]

When an argument reaches an apparent impasse, I do one of two things

1. If I don't care, I walk away and make sure to let the other person have the last word, so they can "win" the argument.
2. If I do care (rare, but it does happen, almost exclusively at work), I just keep explaining my position and I ask questions and try really hard to better understand their position and their reasons for holding it.

People (at least the ones I meet - your experience may be different, especially those of you working in retail ) are actually pretty rational. If you're having that serious an argument, and what they're saying just doesn't make sense given what you know, then one or both of you is almost certainly just doing a poor job of explaining either your facts or your reasoning. So, both of you need to listen better and explain better, and you can usually work through that. Compromising, even on a really ugly argument, can be done (I know; I've done it, many times). But everybody involved has to fix their brains first, because people don't start that way.

Practice by losing a lot of arguments. By that I mean actually admitting to yourself that you were incorrect, and further realize that it was a fact or rationale that the other person provided you that convinced you of your incorrectness. For that practice, I highly recommend philosophy - most of that shit hardly matters at all and is incredibly subtle. Find someone who knows more about it than you do and go to town.

[Down]

Arguing on forums is also different in the sense that you're being read by other people than the one(s) you're arguing with. People kinda outside the debate are more likely to be sensitive to arguments on both sides because they might not have committed to an opinion yet, and therefore are less likely to rationalize in favor of their opinion etc

Also, it's not common to see people changing their opinions in the course of a debate. Changing opinions happens on a much longer time scale, one of weeks or months or even years depending on how often you argue on the topic. It's still never a waste to argue because it forces you to put your arguments into coherent paragraphs, re-check your sources, take in opposing arguments & sources, etc...