RicOlie_2

I know I haven’t been here much lately, but I need whatever emotional support I can get right now. A close friend of mine passed away very suddenly yesterday afternoon. They suspect it was an aneurysm, or maybe even a heart attack of some sort. She was an amazing person with such a beautiful personality…I really connected with her, especially in the past few months. She was selfless, always putting others before herself, and nearly always cheerful and positive. Nobody ever saw this coming. She was too young to die–we were born on the same day.

This is the first time I’ve lost someone close to me. I’m not quite sure how to handle it emotionally. I’m just grateful that I was able to spend meaninful time with her the evening before I left to go on holidays.

I wish they did every commercial like those ones…they’re a lot better than most annoying crap you see.

Not if you’re in Canada…that’s about the only time it rains. Rest of the time it just snows.

I’ve decided to join the club:

TV’s Frink said:

I was really into math in high school and I also took a drafting class with a really great teacher, so I decided to become an Engineer. I’ve been doing it for 22 years now (gulp).

Cool, I’ve often wondered what you do.

And you haven’t been doing it that long. Only four years longer than I’ve been alive. 😉

Haha, that about sums it up! There’s a lot more that could be added to eastern Canada, but it’s pretty accurate (although isn’t Bigfoot a BC thing, not a Nunavut thing…?)

It’s not a requirement for pictures to be NSFW… 😛

Wow, that’s impressive. I guess they can stack like that…

You married your long-distance relationship? How does your wife feel about that?

Yeah, pretty sure those things don’t stack that easily, LOL. 😃

JEDIT:

oojason said:

^ likely photoshipped…

Haha, just saw what you did there…

Well that escalated quickly.

It probably suggests things to him based on his browsing history. Is there any way to wipe your browsing history on a phone?

You’re wrong.
😉

JEDIT: Huh, I didn’t realize you could bold emojis.

Well that’s blasphemy if I’ve ever seen it. It’s a good thing (for whoever made those) that it’s Christian’s beliefs being trivialized and disrespected and not Muslims, or there’d be hell to pay. 😛

That’s something, I guess. But be aware that marijuana can be addictive, and it certainly won’t help you overcome your problems in the longterm.

It’s tough not having anyone you feel you can confide in, but it’s good that you’re getting it off your chest here.

Whatever you do, don’t do drugs, or start any sort of addiction. That could seriously screw up your life. While it might feel like your world is collapsing because you’ve hit a rough patch, it’s not over yet. I’ve been there, and I know it can feel pretty hopeless sometimes, but it isn’t. Keep fighting.

You want to be able to look back years from now, and feel relieved that you didn’t get addicted to drugs. You don’t want to look back with regret on the decision that ruined your life. If you’re depressed, that’s really not a good time to be experimenting with things that could harm your health, because your judgement isn’t what it would otherwise be.

Don’t give up yet. Focus on the positives, even if there don’t seem to be many. It can be painful to keep a secret about not believing the same thing as your parents, but remember that you only have to hide it a few more years (I know, it seems long, but when you look back on it, it won’t seem so bad) and then you can finally be true to yourself. Just don’t destroy yourself in the meantime or you really won’t be able to face yourself.

There’s no way God could create someone who is attracted to the opposite sex, and them send them to hell for it. It just doesn’t make sense, and it’d be incredibly sadistic. It certainly sounds to me like you’re bi, so at least you can still have a romantic relationship with a girl, and not have to just pretend to like girls for your parents’ sake or get in a fight with them over liking guys (unless, of course, you do want them to know at some point, which is fine too)…

oojason said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I quite like the sound of Middle English.

Black Country or Brummie mate?

Black Country - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdotLN6e4rQ

Brummie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IGckWsXvJ8

Don’t ever get them mixed up mate - they’ll go on for hours about what an insult it is, how the other is shite, and how their’s is great (or grayte mayte 😉)

😃

I love the Brummie accent…heck, I love almost every accent, lol.

I think Duracell was referring to the actual language, though. The one good ol’ Chaucer spoke and wrote in.

Yeah, I used to have an mp3 player with a few audiobooks and some music on it. It allowed me no Internet access whatsoever…(not to mention that you can’t type with it, so the Internet would be useless on it anyway).

There’s Hard Rock, Punk Rock, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Soft Rock, Pop Rock, Country Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative… Rock is a bit of an umbrella term.

Maybe they aren’t rock? 😛

Indeed. We don’t get as much snow as the east, but it just keeps coming at us.

I love how the typo somehow got repeated near the bottom of the sign, and it still didn’t get caught.

I spent 45 minutes shovelling the driveway this morning, and now it’s snowing again, with snow forecasted for four different days next week. Gotta love Canada.

If you ever want to talk about the whole God/religion thing, shoot me a PM. I also went through a period of extreme doubt, including a few months of (secretly) identifying as agnostic. During that time I really dug into the meatier questions, which eventually convinced me to become fully Catholic again.

I wish I could give you a quick run-down in one forum post, but I’m afraid there’s too much to talk about for that to really help…