No.17890
>>17889>14th of JuneHey now, you're not a China traveller, you're a time traveller!
No.17892
I slept around 4 hours after cramming the entire fucking night. Before bed I blew off some steam by reading some Tarot cards and while I do not necessarily believe in it wholeheartedly, it looked good. Wheel of fortune, Hermit etc.
I put on a tie and a suit and left for the exams. I packed everything into my bag so I could check my notes and stuff between the exams. Got there in an orderly fashion, some 30 minutes early. The lecturer arrived 10 minutes later and as he greeted me I did a kneejerk reaction and slightly bowed and he said “Don’t act Japanese now” (which in Hungarian is kind of like this odd insult in a sense but in this context it was just meant as “don’t be so rigid no”) I joked it off that “Amidtst all my suffering I can’t help it.”
He handed me a Chinese book he said he would give me. It’s some random novel but he has no need for it. “The author signed it to me personally, so no matter which one of us gets a nobel, it will be worth a lot someday.”
He decided to start the exams early and but I was too much of a bitch to jump right in. I waited for timetable to be posted. Also got to check out my written exam in the meantime, what I noticed is that my reading comprehension was really good and my essays had 1-2 mistakes each at best.
Anyway, I started with the Chinese language component of the oral exam. Which I learned about the night before but I decided that “WE’LL DO IT LIVE! FUCK IT!”. Didn’t know the person conducting the examination. We were threatened that it’d be the infamously strict Liu conducting it, but we got off easy.
It was routine. I got asked to introduce myself, I of course told her my Chinese name, and then I went onto how I have been studying Chinese for 4 years and I went on a tangent as to why, which made a good impression.
Afterwards she just asked me two more questions and that was it. She didn’t tell me the results. Not that I asked.
I then went onto the literature component. I knew the lecturer who was going to do the examination and she has a habit of asking nasty questions so I took my time to prepare. I was reading my notes and the lecturer doing history walked by and asked my “What are you so dressed out for? Isn’t it a bit hot? I mean, sure, you don’t need to take it as easy as I do, but still.” because I was the only one wearing a suit coat and a tie and the like. He himself was wearing cargo short and some band T-shirt. I told him that his Taoist mindset was admirable.
He conducted the exam in a waiting room in front of the offices, while laying on a couch. Whick kind of sounds a bit insulting but then and there it was amusing and I think it actually helped with stress a bit.
I actually got in an hour late. The topic I managed to get was the Yuan drama. (Idk how is it in other places, here before taking the exam you are presented with strips of paper, usually all of them having a number and then the number you draw is the topic you will have to talk about.)
I spent 10 minutes writing notes from memory and then I sat down and talked for another 10 about the social background and the characteristics of it and then she just asked some questions like “What story is the Western Chamber an adaptation of?” or “What is the “Injustice to Dou E about?” and I failed utterly on the last one because I read it like 5 years ago in HS the last time. She still gave me an A.
No.17893
>>17892Next up was history. I waited a bit, looked through my notes one last time and then I walked up to the table and said I’m ready. He asked me to pick one of the 10 pieces of paper. I drew a lot, and it was number 3. “The Qin and the Han dynasties.” I looked at him and I had this overly smug, “555-555-COME-ON” look like this was the Holy Grail lmao. For a split second he was skeptical that I got number three but then conceded. I wrote out the topic and passed no issues, save for some minor cockups like Xianyang not being a new city.
Actually didn’t have to say anything, he just read my notes, asked 1-2 technical questions and then let me go.
I had to wait two hours for the philosophy exam. I looked through my notes carefully. One of my friends somehow managed to pull this insanely dishonest thing where she drew a lot, got one she doesn’t know and then immediately excused herself to go to the toilet and then asked if anyone got “Notes for topic no.6” and I gave her mine because I’m a nice guy. Netted her a B in the end. Saved her ass.
As I was waiting, someone came out and he told someone else that “Topic number 3 is the leftmost one. It’s Legalism and Mohism.” and like, that’s my topic. There was also this rumour that you can actually see the topics even when the cards were face down, because the printing was too strong. I guess this was a sort of ethical dilemma in a sense.
I went in and looked at the lots, all of them were nicely laid out. The system was that so long as someone is working on a topic, that topic is unavailable until after they finished their exam. So you had 4 out of 10 topics unavailable at any given time. But I was in luck. I look to the left, see that indeed, the paper is slightly see-through and that number three is available. It’s there. I was slightly conflicted, but I thought to myself: Fortune favours the bold, so I took it. I took the easiest topic in the fucking world. I grabbed Fortuna by the neck.
I was the last to take the exam. But for the last to people before me he felt a bit lax and whenever they didn’t know a question, he’d curbveball the question to me as this joking exercise so I talked some about buddhism and the like too before my own exam.
He didn’t ask me at all about Legalism, because why. He immediately wrote my A in and then just asked some token questions about Mohism afterwards based on what my notes were missing.
I had roughly 30 minutes after this so I went and grabbed a pizza to eat lest I fucking faint because I only had a single croissant throughout the entire day because I could barely fucking eat.
Had pizza, ruined my tie while eating (I guess I need a tie-clip for this thing) and then I went back to the university. I was 5 minutes late and I got back right in the middle of them announcing the exam results. I entered the room and the lecturer talking said “Well, Ernst has a good sense of time and knows he’s pretty far behind on the list.”
Got a B on the Chinese oral part by the looks, so that, with the three As gets rolled into an A for the entire oral exam.
That, coupled with my thesis result basically guarantees that my degree will be an A. It probably doesn’t matter but it feels at least a bit good.
No.17894
>>17893After this I went over to the college because a lecturer there sent me a mail like two days ago that “I have left a package under your name at the night watchman’s office.” and it felt like the most turn of the century literary thing ever to get a letter like this. I picked it up and it had a note, addressing me with the Hungarian equivalent of “Esquire” on it and that too felt pleasantly anachronistic. In it was a volume I contributed a footnote to and also the manuscript of my translation of the Master of Go.
Also had my German C1 mock exam results. “Insgesamt 70%” which means I should actually cram some during the summer and then attempt a C1 German exam in August.
Also picked up another book at the bookstore on the way home, plus I went to the bank to put some money on my card because I wanted to buy one game that’s on sale and I wanted to play with friends online.
I think I almost fainted from the heat while wearing the suit on the way home. I literally tore everything off after I got home and then I just drank a cold glass of tonic and then two glasses of icy water.
Then I slept for 5 hours. Woke up slightly refreshed, but a bit anxious because now that the exams are over I’m thinking about money again for some reason. At least now I had no illusion that this thing would result in some grand, Wagnerian catharsis after I’m done with it. I mean, people speculated what it will feel like and my first reaction was “It will not feel any good. Or different, really. You will go to bed tonight just the same, wake up tomorrow like any other day.”
I guess now that the constant pressure is off, there is no longer a grand outside necessity to pull myself together. After Stalin comes the thaw.
Had a ramen and some ice cream, more tonic and icy water and that seems to have helped.
Turned on the PC and installed Yakuza 0. Listening to Wagner. Writing into my notebook titled 新平明记which I want to use as a summer diary. I’m mixing German, Chinese and Hungarian in it.
>>17875Long Live the Endless Summer!
No.17895 KONTRA
>>17890That's the date when I bought the tickets, not the travel date.
No.17898
>>17876This day raped me.
I shouldn't have worn that dress.
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing (Official Music Video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhu-OyHqZM>>17892>>17893>>17894A Double-length season finale that tied-up loose ends and didn't disappoint. Nice.
No.17906 KONTRA
>>17905Today.
t. 16c, rainy, foggy
No.17910
>>17905Tonight, with thunderstorms and <20C tomorrow.
No.17912 KONTRA
>>17905Honestly now that I'm not wearing a [expletive] suit I am enjoying the weather.
No.17915
>>17882I already did interrail two years ago (the tickets weee half priced). I lost two or three friends due to this trip, it’s harder than it seems to spend two or three relatively sleep deprived weeks with the same people sitting in front of each other for hours and hours. Still, it’s the best vacations I ever had.
I have a few plans besides the classical Swiss summer festivals. I want to backpack travel by foot somewhere in Europe with a few friends, without itinerary, wandering. Prolly not far from Switzerland in eastern France.
>>17892>>17893>>17894Congrats!
No.17921
>>17915Why not travel alone
and get to know another celestial vampire girl abroad? Especially if vacationing with friends take its toll.
No.17926
>>17915> it’s harder than it seems to spend two or three relatively sleep deprived weeks with the same people sitting in front of each other for hours and hours.Did you ever hitchhike?
You only get to know nice people while traveling that way
, because only those are going to stop for you :DDDBut I agree, generally. Some people are really chill, even if you sit on top of each other for a prolonged time, while others are fine to be around for a short while, but can get rly annoying and stressful, if you are constantly around each other.
Especially annoying and stressful I find people who, as soon as something doesn't work out
exactly as planned, complain constantly and try to put the blame on any and everyone else but themselves.
> Could you just.> Shut. The. Fuck. Up.> hmmkay?If they don't and you simply walk away, dem gonna put the blame on you; because in their mind it is your responsibility to give em a good time and via walking away you neglected this responsibility.
> Srsly? You are blaming me, while I wasn't even around? I've had a great time as soon as we parted ways. It's not my fault that you're miserable on your own....
btw, the film-thingy: does it have multiple films showing in parallel? or single stage/theater and everyone attending is watching the exact same selection?
No.17941
>>17921Yes I did think about it, I may do it this time. I already did a few days interrail trip, slept in a barn with a middle aged working class Schwabenmann who talked to me in German about all his life, it was cool. But otherwise I didn’t managed to get a lot of human interactions, felt so lonely that I had to cut my trip short. Another time I went for a camping trip and got diarrhea the exact moment I stepped outside, walked a day and a half until the pain was unbearable.
Not sure I could pull up anything similar as my French girl, everything that brought me to her was random>>17926I may have been the cunt in this story. Thought about it for a while, but in the end it was long going tensions I had with one guy that exalted during that trip.
>does it have multiple films showing in parallel? or single stage/theater and everyone attending is watching the exact same selection?It’s a full on festival with 4 or 5 different projection spots/theaters and organized parties that go on until dawn.
No.17948 KONTRA
I did literally nothing the whole day. Put away most of my papers and the like. It was way too humid to go outside, so I just stayed inside. Checked the plants once.
Cleaned up the room a bit. Getting along nicely. Tomorrow I'll need to catalogue the books I got plus start working on some passion projects if I can.
Though on the other hand I want to just simply do nothing in a sense. I'm sick of Chinese a bit. Probably sounds kind of dickish but I really feel like vomiting when I think about it.
Played Project Zomboid with friends. I was a useless piece of shit for like 6 hours but damn it feels fucking liberating.
No.17950
Work week over. 53 hours. Exhausted. Paycheck should be good. Worth the long days. Easy to say that now. Everything is easy looking backward.
>>17939I cannot say the same.
No.17956
How do you treat your body hair? I'm thinking of going to wax or laser hair removal.
No.17957
>>17956I shave the face and trim the pubes.
Everything else would be too much because I am very hairy.
The question is, why do you want to do it? Because you yourself don't like it or because you are subscribing to some kind of metrosexual agenda?
No.17958 KONTRA
>>17956I'm straight.
General trim once a year>>17949Noice
No.17959 KONTRA
Btw I didn’t say it but I saw the girl I went out with for a week at the exams and boy I dodged a bullett because she was talking about taking tranquilizers for her “mental illness” and had unshaven legs.
Do nothing. Win. Total victory for the Dao!
Congrats to everyone. Congrats to the swiss Ernsts. Ernstchan has the best examinees believe me. Nobody takes exams better than us. There are many people taking exams but most of them are not so good, let me tell you that much.
No.17961
>>17957I once tried to shave muh dick and it felt great. I like when there is no hair. Also if you shave armpits, sweat smell doesn't stay on hair. And if you shave your ass, you need less toilet paper and in general feel cleaner.
From the style perspective - probably hair looks better and more masculine. But I don't care about my appearance, so it's more important to ask gf what she prefers.
No.17963
>>17961>But I don't care about my appearance, so it's more important to ask gf what she prefers.Then why ask on EC in the first place if it doesn't matter?
No.17966
>>17963It's important to get an international perspective on these issues.
>>17959I regret to inform you that unshaved and empowered legs are the remedy to all of your ills. Let's hope I can also show excellence in the academic venue.
I've taken to preparing already for another round, I don't feel so cocky. No.17967
Have two nearly identical charging cables.
Samsung. One for phone, one for tablet. One type C connector, the other mini-USB. I leave my cables loose in a drawer. As God intended. Problem. Attempting to grab the correct cable was a crap shoot. Pulled the wrong one 90% of the time. Don't ask me how. I honor the Gods and They test me. Anyway. Decided to mark both ends of the C cable with a black line. Life gets better. Starting now.
>>17956Trim the hair on my arms. Shaved them once. A step too far.
No.17973
>>17963I don't care about my appearance per se but I care how other people perceive me. Also treating body hair is not just about appearance.
No.17974
>>17973>I don't care about my appearance per se but I care how other people perceive me. My, that's not the sigma grindset, more like the npc gayset lolololol
>Also treating body hair is not just about appearance.True though, as the great prophet (pbuh) was told by Allah, we should remove all hair below the neck because in our desert home where we don't have running water and soap and deodorants it is advantageous, inshallah.
On a serious note: many years ago my then-gf convinced me to de-hair my back. We bought "cold wax strips", no idea what the proper english term is, to use on my back. Mind, those things are made for women's legs, not for Harry Manback. We used the whole package until my back was clean. It didn't hurt by far not as much as I expected. But I had pimples and zits for six to eight weeks afterwards. It's just not worth it beyond a certain hairiness. No.17975
A man on a subway escalator started asking me questions about the book I was reading.
-- You were reading it so enthusiastically!
The book was "Pnin" by Nabokov.
Shieeeet, with my Pijin-English I don't understand half of the words there. Thankfully, they are usually found in epithets, while keywords are understandable, so it's readable anyway. Plus I listened to philological lectures about it, so I know in general about plot, characters and possible interpretations.
No.17976
I woke up rather early after 5 hours of sleep. I had a pudding as I waited for my mother to return with the groceries. I worked out a bit and then I had breakfast. Then I went out into the garden and I removed that big branch I cut to pieces a few days ago that a storm broke down. I wasn’t thinking much so I was just wearing boxers and flip flops and I managed to scratch the shit out of my leg with a twig.
Then I wasted a lot of time on the internet and helped out with making lunch a bit. After lunch I continued chatting with a friend over facebook.
In the afternoon I went out to the garden again and cleaned the pool a bit and then took a dip. Tried my best to get my Japanese studies off the ground Hiragana is deeply unmotivating.
I got bitten by like 20 mosquitoes because I was a lazy ass who didn’t light the anti-bug spiral and then I came in and played multiplayer games for a few hours and now I will just go to bed early.
Tomorrow will be even better. I already wrote my to-do list.
No.17977
Put a new taillight on my car. Process was smooth with my brother providing an extra set of hands. Saved $300+ in labor charges. Should pass NYS inspection now. Unless the garage finds some previously unnoted problem. Unlikely, but I'll still sweat until they hand me the 2025 sticker.
No.17986
>>17905Same here.
Drinking cold bubble-tea with tapioca, lychee and dragonfruit 😎
No.17993
>>17992Melon good
Coco pieces not so much
it was ok but I would not buy it again No.17995 KONTRA
>>17992Good for you. Now fuck off and kill yourself for posting soijak shit.
KONTRAKONTRAKONTRAKONTRA
No.17996
Woke up very early. Did a treadmill session. Felt bad the entire day. Not because of the heat, rather, I just felt generally weak and a muscle in my face just kept twitching. Which made me incredibly paranoid.
I spent most of the day asleep, honestly.
I updated my catalogue with the books I got recently and then I just slept for 5 hours.
I didn't have the usual coffee after lunch. It's probably not the caffeine withdrawal I feel from that, but rather the iron deficiency. This "new fancy" supplement has 1/7th the iron the previous one had. My mother blames video games.
No.17997 KONTRA
>>17995I mean I was just making an obvious joke but of course Herr Wachtmeister had to open the window and yell into the street that my behavior is un
deutschernst
No.17998 KONTRA
>>17997>JUST JOKING BROYeah you probably also yell NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER and think it's peak comedy.
No.17999
>>17995People like you are the reason why Le Pen is now winning elections
No.18004
Got drunk and started claiming in confusion that 1984 was funded by the cia and that brave new world was secretly Huxley’s utopia. Couldn’t back those claims with any facts, partly because I was really drunk but also because they were untrue because too deformed. I made a fool of myself.
No.18006
>>18004In the biopic about your life, I'll arrange for this scene to be rewritten so it takes place in Paris and all the lettered women laugh at your peasant like bafoonery.
No.18007
Well, today was complete fucking ass. I woke up early again and had a run after breakfast. Afterwards I felt short of breath and tired the whole day, even after two coffees and a breakfast.
I spent most of the day pretty hazy. Went outside after the weather cleaned up a bit. I wrote in my diary and watered the plants. Then something in my heart moved and even though I felt very tired, I decided to remove a big branch my father cut off last year and just left in the middle of the garden. I grabbed an axe and chopped it up and then threw it on the pile, and I cleaned up under it because under it was a green, outdoor mat. I broke the broomstick, and since it was metal I figured that it's the material that got tired around the joint. I disassembled it, grabbed a saw and cut down the tired material and it worked reasonably well after my modifications. Removed some more weeds with the machete.
Friend texted me asking "What did the others wear to the MA talk" and I told her "Same as the final exam". Apparently the other university's just having the interviews. I asked her how it feels to have a degree and she said it's great. The only thing in my mind was that having a degree doesn't change how much it sucks to cut down these weeds.
As I said: You go to bed the same, you rise the next morning the same. It's not a Wagner-epic with an ending.
My mother got home with my father from the doctor afterwards. She broke the bad news that she will need surgery and it'll take a long time to recover. I felt pretty bummed about it but I tried to reassure her that things will be fine. My father acted like an absolute dickhead when in the middle of "the talk" he walked up to us to show some stupid facebook comment he received and we got into a shouting match after he said that it's never his turn for anything and that "I shouldn't try to exert my will at all costs" and "belittle him" and I said "Fine then show her the fucking meme." at which point he stormed off and my mother continued the talk.
I reassured her that things will be fine, she just needs to be relentless so that the bureaucracy doesn't crush her. Now's the time.
Honestly pretty bummed about it but I also know I cannot do anything about it right now besides being emotionally reassuring.
(Of course when the time comes, I need to step up and actually help. )
Got some actual iron pills and they seem to have helped. Far from world-class but I can finally breathe and think normally. It was honestly fucked up. Can't wait to work on a passion project tomorrow.
Assembled a basic CV. It put me in despair. I wouldn't hire myself.
Wrote a letter thanking the Chinese teacher and she wrote back that "she hopes that I manage to find a job that I like."
I guess I should start looking. In my mind working part time in a bookstore would probably be enough rn. Welp no, they don't hire part-timers. At least the store I checked. It's over.
I should just go to bed and sleep whatever this is off and rise with new strength tomorrow.
No.18008 KONTRA
>>180041984 was actually an instruction manual. Every single trick in the book works, it's just that the anglo fagit Eric Blair wants you to refrain from using these tools on "moral grounds" (Anglo nonsense that never worked in governance.)
No.18010
>>18009I have no idea who this is, but am I correct in assuming she
a) has an onlyfans or
b) has a rich family?
No, it doesn't really matter. And it shouldn't for you, either.
No.18011
>>18010Do people make $20.000.000 annually with an onlyfans?
No.18013
>>18011I asked first, no counter-questions.
No.18015 KONTRA
>>18009>What are your excuses for not having achieved this?Mine is a single excuse - that I was not born in the greatest country on earth, those United States.
No.18016
I quickly glanced over the Wikipedia of her and I like how these people are called (brand) ambassadors.
>>18015There is nothing special about the US, it is like any other country on earth.
No.18018
>>18017What did you dislike about them?
No.18020
>>18018Their work culture and entire way of doing business.
No.18021
>>18006This same night a guy said I had the same vibe as a guy who’s probably the most socially awkward guy I know. He has long doubtfully kept hair a coat and a hat, his hands are shaking all the time, very bad beard stutters, loves animes.
I thought I had kinda beaten my awkwardness and was able to pass as relatively normal. It makes me doubt everything. Had teenage levels of anxiety the day after.
No.18022
>>18020And to be more precise? My stereotype is that they are workaholics compared to lazy social-democratic Europe.
No.18023
>>18022That's a great question, thank you for asking.
No.18024 KONTRA
>>18022No idea if they're workaholics, but they certainly work less efficient, so maybe they have to compensate by longer hours.
Way more bureaucratic, and remember this comes from a german. It's solely about checking boxes, not doing what's sensible.
Quarters and revenue is what counts, and all that counts. Eternal growth. All while talking about "we care about you and our customers".
More compliance bullshit and documenting of superfluous bullshit that takes up time I could use to actually do my job.
inb4 some smartass going BuT ThiS IS how It IS iN GeRMan ComPANieS ToO - yeah, exactly BECAUSE they adopted the american way of doing business, you IDIOT!
The american worker is a brute beast that needs the leash, sure, but we are not americans, so their approach doesn't quite work as well here as it does at home.
See also: The story of Wal Mart in Germany.
Lots of talk, lots of ideas and perspectives and "values", but no action, no sensible approach, no preparation and research. All show, no subtance.
Trying to quantify unquantifiable things.
Agile is fucking retarded, prove me wrong.
Protip: You can't.Basically they act like we were some multibillion dollar company and need the same shitty structures. If you want to see what happens when a german company gets americanized, look up what happened to Porsche after the VW takeover.
There's probably some more, but these are some unstructured examples of my sentiment towards them. Kill all american managers.
No.18026 KONTRA
>>18024>More compliance bullshit and documenting of superfluous bullshit that takes up time I could use to actually do my job.Well if you do something stupid with a lot of consequences you don't want to get the shit, do you?
t. compliance pro
No.18027
>>18026How about not doing something stupid in the first place?
No.18030 KONTRA
>>18022In my mind, a lot of Americans just want to get by, but there’s a sufficiently large stratum of workers and managers who happen to have made corporate bullshit their religion and are keen on enforcing this religion. The “Is this job really just a paycheck to you???” crowd.
Which is very tiresome if you just want the paycheck and don’t want the company to be your life.
No.18031
Coworker yells loudly at workplace "DEMOCRACY IS SHIT AND DOESN'T WORK!", he often makes claims like this and always overly emotional and loudly. I think, he's an American spy who is trying to avert suspicions.
(his conversation partner is apologizing opensource developers who write in their licenses that it's forbidden to use their project in Russia)
>>18030https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOkQJm_UGM4 No.18032
>>18027Oh no, Mr. "I'm perfect" entered the workplace here to make it all right.
>>18030Americans are practical people. The corporate bullshit is taken in but also held at a distance. Americans are sympathetic to capitalism even though they know how hard it can be. They have a great story for you and smile
or a gun shot that you cannot resist.
Americans are charismatic because they are free.
And people who hate Americans are usually very unfree people, burdened by pessimism and depression that sucks energy from you once you are in the vicinity of such a eurocaucasian goul. You get by: McMansion, a car, WalMart. It's a special kind of American Existentialism that is in every one of those American people. And just like with the Japanese, something a Euro will never really understand. And they will be jealous of that freedom.
>>18031>he often makes claims like this and always overly emotional and loudly. I think, he's an American spy Maybe he is just a schizcel?
No.18033
>>18032Uhm....Ernst, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead lurk here tomorrow. So if you could post here around 9 CET that would be great, mmmkay.....
Oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and post on Sunday too, kay.
We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up, you know?
No.18034 KONTRA
>>18032America is not the middle class. And the working class is no longer the Simpsons or Family Guy.
No.18037
>>18032I don't hate you (only your government) but American dream where you're practically handicapped without a car and where you can be laid off one day is certainly not for everyone. People who move to New World are OK with that because they're ambitious and risky, but their descendants never subscribed to it. Thus Prozac.
European dream where self-checkouts are forbidden to work on Sundays is another extreme, ofc.
> Maybe he is just a schizcel?I don't know him good, seriously speaking, he seems to be extrovert without a sense of moderation.
No.18038
>>18034Sure, you can strike out the McMansion. Poor Americans still live in houses often enough and owning a car or going to Walmart or Target is a very American experience.
>>18037What is the middle ground? Russia?
No.18039 KONTRA
>>18034> Simpsons > Working class> a nuclear safety engineer and a stay-at-home momIn Homer Simpson's job, it would be hard to not make six-figures. Sure, he wouldn't earn like a tit-enhancement-doctor for the rich and famous. But still, he's hardly what people imagine when they say working class.
No.18040
>>18039Listen, the point is that life in America is no longer Coca cola rivers in Mickey Mouse land.
No.18042 KONTRA
>>18040Never has been.
teutonic 'tism is strong No.18043
>>18038> What is the middle ground?Don't know, maybe England?
> Russia?In a sense that it's a bad place both for ambitious and cautious people - yes. :D
On a positive notes, it has safe walkable cities with convenient public transport (minority of all cities) and good universities (minority of all universities) in which you can study for free if you pass exams good enough.
No.18044
>>18042Wrong! In 1950-1980, a high-school drop-out could walk into any factory, no matter which, give the floor boss a good firm hand-shake and walk out with an entry-level job. In three months, he'd make enough to buy a car, in six month, he'd downpay a Levittown-home, and he'd make enough to pay the mortgage and raise a family, with two vacations a year. Come taste like coke and Winston tasted good like a cigarette should. Ten year down the road, he's be floor boss, and he'd have it made with a big house in the hills and a brand new Cadillac. And all this was possible due to racism because black were exploited and America was made die white people only. So if you don't want to poor af, that's racist and you are racist capisce? Fucking white fascist. You will own nothing and you will be happy.
No.18046 KONTRA
I felt despodent the entire day. Ran again. The usual stuff. Went outside. I wrote a letter to my college telling them that even during my MA I intend to remain the member of the college.
Got a call from the usual place asking me if I’m up for some data entry work and I said yes and they also congratulated me on getting my degree (I didn’t bring it up, they knew it.)
Talking with my mother about her future really sours my mood. I just feel like I’m not up to the task of saying the “correct thing” in a situation like this but she says it doesn’t matter. Told her that if I managed to become more educated than anyone in the family done before she should also set a new record and try and outlive my great grandmother. She seemed to like that. Gonna talk with the surgeon tomorrow and we’ll see from there. I’m hoping for the best.
Played an hour of Yakuza 0 because I thought video games might help with my mood and it kind of worked. Tried using a PS5 controller on PC and I was astonished how it DIDN’T FUCKING WORK BECAUSE IT MISMAPPED EVERY SINGLE BUTTON until I went into the steam whatever settings and just used that like wew lad.
Got a print of this image
>>17894 and put it on the side of my shelf and it looks nice. I like it. “The endless summer.”
I felt a lot better today, though at points I was still short of breath. In fact, right now I’m still short of breath and feel generally unpleasant, but I don’t know what I could do to help it. I just hope it passes.
No.18048
>>18047The interesting thing is that both leftists and right-wingers believe in it. Former blame it on "neoliberalism" and the latter on "neomarxism".
So I hear fairy tales about west's golden era from radicals of both sides.
No.18049 KONTRA
>>18048>Former blame it on "neoliberalism" and the latter on "neomarxism".Students of the dialectical science will find no contradiction in this. The spectrum of opinion is wider in healthier societies. I am the last sane EU citizen
,on EC. No.18050
>>18049Psychoanalysis is 20-th century's New Age, and dialectics is 20-th century's Red Pill.
No.18051
>>18030>a sufficiently large stratum of workers and managers who happen to have made corporate bullshit their religion and are keen on enforcing this religion.I'm just trying to do my job, but my manager is
all in on the company line. Wants constant updates, numbers, has ideas to improve this and that. Pretending to care about whatever he's talking about is exhausting.
>>18036>$genericMiddleManagerWhoHasChangedThreeTimesInTheLastTwoYearsI miss my old manager. She cared even less than I do.
No.18053
>>18052Christopher Columbus of our times
No.18054
>>18051Yeah, so, uhm... About those TPS reports, Ernst... uhm... if you could just finish those TPS reports, that'd be just great, thanks.
Oh and remember, uhm... that your weekly posting performance assessment is due next Tuesday, uhm.... yeah.
No.18056
>>18049Silence, reformist.
t. last sane German.
No.18057
Happy Birthday, America.
I will honor this day by laboring. But it's going to cost you.
>>18055It's true. All of it.
No.18058
>>18055Hopefully one day I can go there and be a far east soyjack. Will you bost more photos for us?
No.18059
So I went to the book store to get GS 2-24 all greasy looking and sweaty because I have to pick up a passport directly afterwards and thus had no time to shower after work and instead of some random old leftist geezer today the salesperson was a cute woman with a cool piercing and in a nice Santa Cruz screaming hand hoodie along with tasteful sneakers. So now she thinks I'm one of those guys infa 100. It was absolutley EC tier.
No.18060
>>18059>cool piercing and in a >nice Santa Cruz screaming hand hoodie along with >tasteful sneakers.Does "one of those guys" mean "really gay"?
No.18061
>>18059I chuckled. At least you still have hair unlike some specific GSler :DDD
I bought mine a week ago but I have not read anything since I still have to read the last chunk of
Peace. A Critique. such an edgy title tbh fam No.18062
>>18059The sweaty look should be a babe magnet. Literally an outer manifestation of a strong work ethic and ability to perform physical tasks when called upon. Want a couch moved? Your tire changed? Your home defended? Who does all that? Exactly. Sweaty guys.
No.18063
>>18062This. They (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSKizLRFbTo ) dress up like this exactly because they lack daddy figure
No.18064
Where did the time go?
Ten years ago the IS proclaimed a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.
No.18065
>>18064> moderate rebels proclaiming caliphate on 4th of JulyCIA has sense of humor
No.18066
>>18065The proclamation was on June 29.
No.18069 KONTRA
>>18068
>they are dumb losers who can't get laid and try to compensate
Actually, that is just sexual latency.
No.18072
Any time I read up on some math paradoxon/thought experiment/anecdote I can't help but find mathematicians increasingly silly.
They're like /int/ with their politics discussions. Just for the sake of it without regard for reality.
t. just read about Hilbert's Hotel
No.18073
I still feel like I'm not functioning at 100% for some reason. I skipped running this morning. Just generally wasted time online.
Afterwards I went to Ikea. It felt odd and for a second I thought it was the first time I visited the place alone but I actually visited it before when I bought my current alarm clock. I wandered around a bit, looking at stuff. The lighting makes everything look very cozy there. Basically whenever I looked at something I sort if imagined putting it in my own, independent household.
Also spent a lot of time checking out where they try to cut corners on a product to save on material and labour costs. What's the bare minimum you can do to make a lamp that still looks "serviceable".
Afterwards I decided to do a small grocery run. Honestly the giant image of a hotdog at the Ikea cantina got me hungry and I wanted to buy some wieners and breadrolls. I spent some time wandering the store and also picked out a cheap bottle of wine because I felt like I just can't deal with living. Ended up buying a lot more shit but when the line "I never lost control" part came on in "The man who sold the world" I decided to man up and put back the wine bottle.
Mom called me and said that the surgeon was very reassuring and that it might not be that bad in the end. I could hear my father shouting expletives at a driver so I guess he took the news really well. She'll have surgery sometime next month, so not much can be done until then.
Before she phoned me I genuinely felt like I was about to have a mental breakdown in the middle of a grocery store.
Got home. I didn't end up making the hot-dogs because my sister left most of her own lunch and I just ate that. Then I went outside and read a few chapters from that book I'm desperately trying to finish. Didn't make much progress and I'm not enjoying it but I feel like I'm stuck with it.
My only achievement for today was that I managed to sort of edit that short story I translated a few months ago. I will run through the text tomorrow to make some stylistic changes to the language and sentence structure and then I will send it off to the presses. (And then do the interview next week sometime hopefully.)
>>18067For me it's "Language shapes thought".
Never really argued or told anyone this, but it's a belief I seem to hold. (Though I consider it benign.)
No.18074
>>18072Is this "reality" in room with us now?
No.18075
>>18074I will tell you when you have counted to infinity.
No.18076
>>18075I count up to 1 in one second. And every next number - half the time as previous.
Write me back in two seconds.
No.18077
>>18073>I decided to man up and put back the wine bottleWise choice.
What happened to counselling btw?
>Never really argued or told anyone this, but it's a belief I seem to hold.I exclusively think in pictures, case dismissed :DDD
No.18078
Could see five distinct fireworks displays on my commute home. People had set up lawn chairs in the grass at the end of my street. From that vantage point, could see some to the east and more to the west. Minor explosions still heard in the distance. Only neighbors setting stuff off now. For another couple of hours.
>>18067Biblically accurate Angels.
No.18079
>>18073> For me it's "Language shapes thought". > Never really argued or told anyone this, but it's a belief I seem to hold.i spammed the early internetz with that idea. I always thought it was my original idea and i was the first person who came up with it in my teens :DD
i also do believe, that we should change our international education norm to teach 3 foreign languages from the 3 most common languages families. Indo-european speakers learning another indo-european language and calling themselves "multi- or bi-lingual" is kinda a joke. No, you speak 1 language with two or more different vocabulary implementations.
>>18072now read up on
non-integer dimensions dragon scales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc8sWN_jNF4 [~8min]
Vihart is btw the only real online crush Ernst ever had. lovin' her ramblings. could watch her staring at a micro wave timer all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaiZyzcfE4 No.18080 KONTRA
>>18079> Indo-european speakers learning another indo-european language and calling themselves "multi- or bi-lingual" is kinda a joke. No, you speak 1 language with two or more different vocabulary implementations.Yeah because French and Persian are literally the same.
No.18081 KONTRA
>>18077Nothing. They told me to fuck off basically because the registration period was over.
And after that when I finished Persona 5 I felt like a fucking god because of the narrative and it was all really fucking good for like half a year.
No.18082
>>18079What do you mean by "international education norms"? Who will have to learn these languages, foreign relationships majors? Or linguists? Or everyone in high school?
Anyway, I disagree. Language shapes thought not that much. All languages can express same set of thoughts, the only difference is how easy it would be. From this perspective knowing European languages, first of English, is better because all educated people speak it, majority of worthy (and unworthy) thoughts and art were expressed on European languages or at least translated to them.
Languages like Turkish are indeed interesting from linguistic perspective. But what is actually expressed on them? Chauvinism, conspiracy theories and/or rehash of western thought. And you can study general linguistics without studying thousands of words on some irrelevant language. Meanwhile if you study French, you get into francophone world, a great new universe for you.
No.18083 KONTRA
>>18081They probably did not tell you to fuck off but that they are full
which btw is very common across universities that people have to wait. It has been months so is there nothing new open within that period?
Doing body exercises surely helps with the overall feeling and such but I my advice would still be to give it a chance.
No.18087 KONTRA
>>18083When there was another sign-up period I didn't even think about it because I was feeling really fucking good and I expected to ride this high until the day I die if I just do things right.
No.18098
We got a huge container to put stuff into, so we are going to do a large round of cleaning tomorrow and Sunday. Mostly removing rubble and the like which my father seems to be utterly unable to remove on his own. Gonna be fun.
My mother seemed to be in a better mood today. We mostly talked about what needs to be thrown out tomorrow.
I was in a much better mood too, to the point where a friend online asked if I was drunk because I wrote so many messages on important topics.
I seem to have a lot of thoughts and observations again.
I spent some time outside, reading and writing. When I came in I spent some time chatting and then I played more of Yakuza and I absolutely got demolished playing on easy and I feel borderline embarassed that I suck at a videogame. A friend said that “This is divine punishment for playing autism simulators”. Literally need to get used to playing a game with a controller. Or maybe I’m just coping and stupid.
Baked a pizza for lunch and it honestly turned out really good.
I only felt physically bad like once the entire day, don’t exactly know why.
No.18099
I like tiddies
I like vag
Now excuse me
I'll go fap
No.18100
>>18087A classic mistake I have been guilty of doing myself. Though in hindsight I never really felt that great. Basically, all I had were my academic successes
wörk to carry me through.
As of now I at least know what to look after and steer a little bit better and have a better clue why I feel fluctuations of 'shit and great'.
But yeah after having left counselling everything went a bit more downhill again but it's better overall and I manage to move in better directions slowly but steadily I'd say.
No.18101
Spent the week in a drunken stupor with friends, weed and football. That’s not for me, it’s hard to think in those conditions and I tend to sleep until too late for my own taste afterwards. Not worth it.
No.18102
Have you ever asked yourself if you can make wudu in a bathroom with a toilet and say bismillah?
The answer might surprise you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS06tS9W6YM No.18111 KONTRA
For some reason lifting is better for my emotional health than running.
Woke up with a runny nose. It slowly subsided as the day went on. Helped with the groceries and then spent some time in the garden reading and writing down my thoughts after I have finished the book. I might write an actual review of it and try to get it published. Sounds reasonable I think.
Then I helped clean up shit and put it in the container.
What makes me and my mother go mad is how my father constantly starts home improvement projects but literally never fucking finishes them, constantly resulting in huge amounts of rubble and trash that he never makes any attempt to get rid off. Sometimes he'd help others and take home the trash.
I suspect he gets a perverted sense of enjoyment from tearing down shit with the promise of making something new and then not delivering it.
Mom had a nervous break in the middle of it and said that "Okay, I guess I will just die then" which I think everyone took really badly, especially my father.
Whenever death as a topic comes up IRL even as a remote possibility, it's remarkable how I immediately regress to this borderline Egyptian magical thinking where I feel like that if I do not use the word, do not mention it, do not even try to refer to it in a roundabout way then I can avoid "summoning it".
Lifting some of the heavier stuff left me pretty winded and dizzy. But otherwise I felt very fine throughout the day.
We made good progress I think but there's still a lot of stuff we need to get rid off. The most irritating part is how there's piles of wood he won't get rid of because "I will just call up a friend to take it away" and never does and it's jut rotting there, taking up space and the more I think about it the more it's making me mad.
The other thing that we noticed is how most of the deck I spend my time sitting outside on is basically falling apart after like 3 years. Parts of it basically just rotted away, strangely not the ones I have my table and chair on. I guess it's the elements. But basically that's going to get torn up sooner or later and I can only hope that it gets actually rebuilt. But I mean, I used to read outside even before the deck was built, so it doesn't really matter so long as there's space.
Finally finished reading that book, will write a short post on it in the literature thread tomorrow probably because it's interesting even if I didn't have much fun with it by the end.
I'm contemplating what to read next. I am a bit afraid to re-read Dazai's No Longer Human but I kind of want to do it. Well, there's plenty of books here, I will surely find something that's both interesting, good and doesn't make me want to kill myself even if my mood's been a lot better in the past two days.
Found 3 more tomato plants next to the staircase. They just keep fucking popping up randomly and I don't know how they even got there.
>>18110Do not redeem it saar?
>>18100No I unironically feel fucking great from time to time it's not a cope.
I just need an exercise routine, a manageable workload, something to spend my free time researching also keeping autoerectile violence to a minimum. Talking with people.
No.18117
>>18112Do people really google things in form of a question instead of just the word and adequate identifiers or are you taking the piss?
No.18119 KONTRA
>>18117Some people want to humanise search engines. It’s why a lot of people got off on the wrong footing with AI when they first blew up: They wanted “Google with a human face”.
No.18121
>>18117Me on the left.
Searching with natural language is more likely to return random(and actually useful) forum posts instead of the same SEO garbage. Bonus points for adding "bullshit" or "wtf".
>>18111Rented a dumpster once for cleanup. Landlord left a bunch of stuff in the house and shed which needed to be tossed. Was nice not having to break down and bag everything. Just throw it in. Consumer culture. Too many things. Rent storage units to people want to keep their garbage. The ones who don't call 1-800-TRASH-BE-GONE or whatever.
No.18122
>>18121> instead of the same SEO garbage.Interesting, didn't consider that. God how I hate SEO bullshit.
No.18124
>>18122I have seen job postings for SEO optimizer sort of positions.
No.18125
>>18124Yeah, in our company it's one of the many very highly important responsibilities of the marketing department .
No.18126
Continued cleaning. Made an attempt at hiragana again and failed because nothing was in order today.
The deck somehow gets worse day by day.
Found another patch of tomato plants growing. Altogether I counted 18 or so. I spent some time replanting them but I'm honestly baffled how these still keep sprouting in random locations.
Also got told that I can use the bookshelf in the dining room so I spent considerable time re-ordering parts of the collection though by the end of it I lost all hope that this would make any sort of sense or look good at all.
I really need a fucking book. I need to put pins on an evidence board and tie them together with string. I need that.
>>18121Here it's a mixture of trash my father creates regularly and the stuff of the previous owners.
A treasure-trove of socialist ingenuity like building a lawnmower out of washing machine parts. But mostly just tying a lot of things together with wires.
Though the nicest thing I found during this session was just a really cool looking old-school wrench. It's symmetrical. Looks very authoritarian. Works perfectly fine too.
No.18134
>>18126>Works perfectly fine too.What have you used a Soviet fixed size wrench for?
No.18136 KONTRA
>>18134It's not fixed size, if you twist the bottom it adjust the size of the wrench. Tried it on a random nut and it worked.
No.18137 KONTRA
>>18136>if you twist the bottom it adjust the size of the wrenchAh so. Nice.
No.18138
>>18134Quintessential intelligentsija post
No.18139 KONTRA
>>18138What can I say - On the right side of the iron curtain, adjustable wrenches look different.
No.18140
>>18139The disrepancy in width between head piece and handle strongly indicates some kind of non-rigid connection though.
No.18147
My brain is so cooked and lazy today
No.18148
>>18139Wrong.
>>18126 is called "a Frenchman" in German, because it is from France.
No.18151
>>18150Cute photos, thanks.
1. What about prices or rent, food, transport, etc?
2. What is depicted on the last pic?
No.18153
>>18152Looks cozy. I'd like to have a beer at a film festival right now, too.
What are you watching today?
No.18154
>>18152I see a lonely grill with a yellow backpack wondering which movie to watch, you may help her choose and watch a movie together.
No.18155
>>18152Wow, cool. I want to go to such events too if they are held here. From initial googling - no, only some movie industry circlejerks which take place in late autumn and winter.
Just like I start reading a lot of books when I started to use public transport regularly, I'm going to get into cinema too as we're now watching it with gf every weekend.
No.18156
>>18153I saw
things will be different anmerican independent film about time travels and paradox
https://nifff.ch/prog/2024/film/things-will-be-different/. The annoying thing with time travels and movies is that, since time travels stories rely on
speculative logic (time travel doesn’t exist, we have to invent rules that the spectator will not be acquainted with from the start) the movie thus has either to expose their time travel logic and threads during long tens of minutes or be an obtuse mess. And if that obtuse mess feels mediocre to the screen you won’t want to ponder over it for the next few days. Often leads to an autistic linking of dots that isn’t that interesting.
And
splash with young Tom Hanks, a love story between a man and a mermaid. Good slapstick humor but crypto-pedo love story. Though it was shown in the context of a selection made by a mtf Swiss public figure, he gave an trans interpretation of the love story that made the movie more interesting.
>>18154I look like shit lately, will stick to friends.
and I’m not used to be that blunt socially>>18155>couple movie watchingLucky son of a bitch
No.18157
>>18155You can't talk to women you don't know, it's not socially acceptable, but creepy, sexist and rapey. Unless you are extremely good-looking, do not do it, ever.
No.18158 KONTRA
>>18156>but crypto-pedo love story. >Though it was shown in the context of a >selection made by a mtf Swiss public figure, >he gave an trans interpretation of the love story Fuck's sake, it's a mindless 80s comedy about a dude falling in love with a mermaid, how I hate this kind of pseudointellectual bullshit by obvious attention whores interpreting their insane bullshit into everything. This is literally "The Shining (film) is about the holocaust" tier bullshit.
No.18159
>>18157I'm a good-looking man it seems. Thank dog for winning the lottery.
>>18156>will stick to friendsDo that, I was joking anyway, highly likely I would not do it either.
I'm geolocating a bit at the moment. Just curious if this is the J. A. in N.? There is no street view.
No.18160 KONTRA
>>18156>I look like shit latelyWorse than that, you're a queer. At least strike rapport with some of the womenfolk.
No.18161
>>18156Oh, time travelling is such a cheap trick. What is worse is abuse of flashbacks and in general non-chronological presentation. It is usually employed to turn the lamest and most boring story ever into an intriguing puzzle. Prime example of that would be "Brothers in arms. Hell's highway".
>>18158Have you watched "Cuties" btw? I watched it after Streisand effect induced by /pol/ hysteria. Surprisingly good movie. Or maybe I'm just oversensitive to the topic of migrants for several reasons.
No.18163
>>18158The romance is a bit like in the fifth element. A girl, is kinda born as an adult and has to learn a lot from a man. It can be fun but I think it’s also some kind of kink of daddy dom. I’m not overinterpreting, any movie can be kinky and this one certainly is.
The trans was probably no intellectual btw.
>>18159Yes it is, have some nice memories here. Though it’s no secret, I gave the festival name.
>>18160I’m with my younger brother. Ha! Bet you didn’t expect that. I have to be exemplar and chaste while he’s here No.18164
>>18163>I’m not overinterpretingLappi pls. You probably also think Sam and Frodo have the gays for each other.
BOTTOM TEXT
No.18165 KONTRA
>>18156> Lucky son of a bitchImagine you have gf and she only likes crap movies.
No.18166
>>18163>exemplar and chasteI don't think these go hand in hand.
No.18167
>>18164Your dwarf-opera is practically woman-less and they are all homos. Also, it's only princess fantaghiro with higher production value. And hc Andersen was a sexually frustrated incel/homo/pedo.
No.18168
Went to the doctor. Same as usual, except for some extra antibody screening to see if the current treatment plan will continue working. (And I was told I better pray it does.)
Asked what is to be done if I were to travel to China for a year or two and he basically just told me I should arrange to get treated there then.
The waiting time was oddly long, but if I spied it right with my ears he basically slipped out to do a procedure on someone in the middle of seeing patients.
Translated a bit of a classical Chinese essay into Hungarian while waiting before literally falling asleep.
I had lunch at home and then I spent some time in the garden. Also wasted a lot of time chatting. Helped my father wheelbarrow in some stones he intends to use to replace the deck that's literally falling apart. I am bit sad the replacement won't be wood but I understand not wanting to rebuild the fucking thing every 3-5 years depending on material quality and the stones aren't gray so it's not going to look like a Stalinist planned city's marching square when it's done.
Also took a dip in the pool. Like the treadmill, I seem to be the only one using it in the family right now. Feels pretty good. Then again, I seem to be the only one cleaning it every day.
First tomatoes are beginning to ripen.
Wasted most of my night listening to music and adding stuff to my music library.
Actually a lot of that was just spent reconstructing a single lofi hiphop mix from like 2017 that's still on youtube but for some fucking reason the timestamps on it are fucked and it has tracks missing, so I had to use the original tracklist, the available youtube audio + the available bandcamp/soundcloud uploads to make a sort of critical edition of the thing, but in Chinese fashion I removed that one track from it I fucking hated even in 2017 while listening the shit out of this while working on that novel translation in HS. (Which was read by someone with connections to a publisher last month and we are set to talk about it when we meet next. Everything's coming up Milhouse!)
But if you think about it this is actually kind of like remaking a lost text based on multiple incomplete manuscripts, which was kind of a common thing in China actually.
Arranged to do the interview for the magazine I was taked with. Going to visit the editor next week to do it.
I never did journalistic work but I guess I just prepare the questions, I ask them, record the conversation, transcribe it into a suitable text and that's it.
I really need to start ramping up my productivity. Not in a work sense, but rather in a hobby sense.
Though after today I strangely feel like I'm back in the saddle again now that we're done with the cleaning shit and the like so I can actually just sit and do shit during the day.
No.18169
>>18167Kek, I remember essay where The Ring of Power is described to symbolize anus, a forbidden temptation. But can't find it :(
Seriously speaking, it shouldn't be many girls in a book about war and adventure. Otherwise you get nonsense like TLOU2 with pregnant women soldiers jumping and shooting.
No.18172
Thought about my ex again.
After almost 15 years.
Don't get me wrong, I don't miss her or anything.
It's just from the way it ended; I still get bitter from time to time.
The thousand injuries and injustices from her and her family left deep scars.
No.18174
Spent most of the day just trying to survive the heat. Tried to read outside but I unironically felt like I was going to boil alive even in the shade so I abandoned the project.
Managed to finish editing that short story translation I did before the exams. Sent it in. Hopefully they publish it.
Want to do some shopping tomorrow. Pick up a book etc.
No.18180 KONTRA
The heat prevents me from getting anything intellectual done. Not much reading, not much learning.
I occupy myself with menial tasks like keeping the pool clean, looking at the plants, trying to keep cool and just wasting time with music.
My mother gave me like 60 bucks so I went on a small shopping tour and bought a new vial of eyedrops, some ant poison, tonic and stationery. Ended up spending like half the money on groceries and stuff like that.
I went out during the afternoon but the heat was still unbearable and I wasn't even overdressed or anything.
Honestly the only thing ruining my mood otherwise is just the money. Even when I have money, the uncertainty of it is souring my mood. It should come in regularly so that I can "feel safe".
Needed the ant poison because one morning I noticed a group of ants in a glass that had a few drops of milk left over at the bottom, so I decided to act and utilize the blessings of the chemical revolution and just try and exterminate the fuckers by poisoning their foodchain. Idk if it will work but let's hope for the best.
I wonder if I'm just overreacting.
Vacuumed the room too. Idk if it helped anything. Probably made the heat situation worse. The issue is that inside it's like 27 degrees and even at night it's basically the same, so it's not like I can just open the window to keep cool.
I plan to just get up very early tomorrow and try to rush into town to pick up a book and then get home before like 11 and survive the heat. I really want to have that Aristotle volume I really fucking want it.
No.18183
My father is now the "dynasty" head. My grandmother gave her the plate with our coat of arms, every family has one in Switzerland. I am the next in line for the coat of arms and being dynasty head.
>>18172That scares me
No.18184
Tornados touched down today. Rare in Western New York. Storms brought to us by the Hurricane which hit Texas. Was at work. Lost power for an hour or so.
>>18180Regular money is nice. Makes up for all the other bad things about employment. I have no time but feel freer than when every day was mine.
No.18185
>>18184> regular moneyIrregular money is preferable.
No.18186
>>18185Why? When money are regular you can be sure in your tomorrow.
No.18188
>>18187>List_of_Aesthetics>CTRL-F "anus fetish">0 resultsThis list is incomplete!
No.18190 KONTRA
Have you ever written horny poems?
No.18191
>>18190Yeah, check this out:
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Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Dann runter von der Bühne!
Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du
Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du, Hast du
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Arsch und Titten. Arsch und Titten
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Arsch und Titten. Arsch und Titten
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Hast du keinen Booty, dann runter von der Bühne
Techno-Bass rockt das Haus
Alle Fotzen ziehn sich aus
Mit den dicke prallen Hintern wackeln sie zum Bass
Ficken in der Disco ja das macht Spaß
Techno-Bass rockt das Haus
Alle Fotzen ziehn sich aus
Mit den dicke prallen Hintern wackeln sie zum Bass
Ficken in der Disco ja das macht Spaß
Techno-Bass rockt das Haus
Alle Fotzen ziehn sich aus
Mit den dicke prallen Hintern wackeln sie zum Bass
Ficken in der Disco ja das macht Spaß
Techno-Bass rockt das Haus
Alle Fotzen ziehn sich aus
Mit den dicke prallen Hintern wackeln sie zum Bass
Ficken in der Disco ja das macht Spaß
No.18192
>>18190Last gf I woo'd with a poem. The poem was written with a horny motivation, but not really sexual in content. Is it still a horny poem?
No.18193
>>18192Heh, I did something like that too, once. In fact, the first letter of each line spelled out "I love you" in german.
No.18194
>>18192Lol same, I even sent it on Valentine’s Day. Though it was a pretty bad.
I think the best poem I wrote is about a guy sending an unsolicited dickpic (I never did that, the poem was a Gedankenexperiment)
No.18196
Sitting in a boring meeting that runs for two and a half hours.
Glad I wfh so I can turn off the camera and do some actual work on the side, plus shitpost.
And it's so hot and humid here and I can already smell myself. Good there's nobody else here.
No.18198 KONTRA
I’ve past my exams successfully!
No.18199
>>18194>I think the best poem I wrote is about a guy sending an unsolicited dickpicApproved for original contemporary literary poesis.
>>18195Will you study supply chain management later this year? I need your curriculum. If you chose humanities instead:
fool!! No.18201
I woke up with a back ache for some odd reason. I had breakfast and then went to the bookstore for opening time. I was actually a bit early and I didn't want to be there exactly at opening time so I circled around the place once checking stuff out but when I entered like 5 minutes after opening there was already an assembly of fat HR women drinking coffee there.
I picked up the book and I examined it on the way home and for a split second I got worried that they actually used an English version as a basis instead of a Greek one. So I spent some time checking out the translator's biography and also tracking down the edition they cited they used and turns out they just cited it retardedly because it was actually the Oxford Classical Texts series which is wholly in Greek.
Had lunch and then I accidentally took a three hour nap which felt really good. Had a coffee and then ordered some notes around on my computer and also talked about home improvement with my mother and she also said that my father's antics make her with she could just stab him which is understandable I guess but I still told her that it's probably for the best if she doesn't stress herself out right now.
I recommended "taking small steps" so we wrote down "four things for the weekend", all minor tasks relatively that need to be done in order to make a big difference in the garden/yard. Whatever. I just wanted to reassure her.
She also asked about tranquilizers and I guess because of some friends I know a bit too much about how you can get a prescription but she didn't seem to find it any odd I guess.
I didn't feel anything but the wind and her agitation made me think there was a storm coming so when I stepped outside, indeed it smelled like it was about to rain.
I wonder if it will rain or if it passed by us. It probably just passed by. Still like 26 degrees outside so it's literally not worth it to open the window. Absolutely unbearable at times.
Wasted some time watching anime and baking. I shouldn't have baked. My stomach's killing me honestly. I only have myself to blame.
Probably the only thing keeping me alive in this fucked up heatwave is the pool. I think this year I'm managing it rather well. It's clean, it's cool. It's a pleasure to use really.
>>18198Congratulations!
No.18202
Do you listen to podcasts? Which ones?
No.18203
>>18198Noice. Will you celebrate?
>>18202I only regularly listen to national podcasts of no interest to the international audience of Ernstchan. Transcribing the discussions of the representatives of two different strands of radical Portuguese radical thought is too much work.
Although, I am now out of work now. It still feels normal, it's just Friday.
No.18205
I learned that "arse" is a legit word and not a distorted "ass", as with "noice" or "ebin".
No.18207
>>18202I sometimes listen to episodes and never follow a podcast very religiously as some ppl do.
No.18209 KONTRA
>>18208Looks like that one captain of that one ship.
I don't follow retard news, so that's all I can say.
No.18210
>>18208Yes, I know who that is, though not by name.
No.18211 KONTRA
>>18208>Are you old enough?Of course not. I'm five, the right age to frequent imageboards.
Pls no ban, just kidding No.18214 KONTRA
>>18213> Had a massage because my mother called a masseur and booked two timeslots. It was very painful. Honestly I'm a bit paranoid that it might make my digestion turn forI suggest you read 'A Confederacy of Dunces'. It is a novel about a young man of quite some intellectual achievement, his mother, and his digestion.
No.18216
>>18212I remember the chad De Falco vs the virgin Schettino.
>Va a bordo! Commandante, va a bordo della nave! Subito! Chiaro? No.18217
There is a house on a high traffic intersection. Also near railroad tracks. With such a location, I was curious about its market value. $300,000+. Damn. Wait. Okay, the property isn't a single lot, but sits on 16 acres. That makes more sense.
Still, imagine the noise. Must get used to it. Never lived on, or adjacent to, a busy road.
>>18202Comics Are Great! and
Make It Then Tell Everybody were my two favorites. On comics and the creative process. Both discontinued. I have most episodes archived and still listen.
No.18218
>>18217>Still, imagine the noise. Must get used to it. Never lived on, or adjacent to, a busy road.Depending how close the street or rail is you really don't get used to it I'd say.
I have lived near tram route in the past and you tend to overhear it. Busy roads: you tend to overhear it, your brain I guess ignores it for awhile. But every so often you become aware of the noise you are actually exposed to. Not so great.
No.18219
>>18218Trams are the worst. But the greens want to put them everywhere, so no one can have it quiet.
No.18220
>>18219A tram every five minutes is better than the constant flow of cars and trucks. You wouldn't know since you don't live in a city I guess.
No.18221
>>18220> every five minutesPeople who are too poor for cars could just walk or wait longer than five minutes?
No.18223
>>18222I don't, I have a car, lol.
No.18224 KONTRA
>>18202Some friends have podcasts. One of the podcasts is really good and a lot of work is put behind it and the other one is absolute garbage, we barely hear them.
But beyond friend podcasts I don’t listen to any.
>>18203>will you celebrateNo, except maybe a drink with my close family. I am ashamed, it was a shit year and a half I’d like to put behind me regarding the lack of achievements, but I feel relief. I’ll be proud of my next years.
No.18225 KONTRA
>>18223You must be very rich then. My apologies.
No.18226
>>18224>Friends' podcastWhat about, uh, just talking to them?
No.18227
>>18190>>18191>>18192I once wrote three love poems to a girl I liked. I wrote letters, didn't include my name, and sent them from different locations, so they couldn't be traced back to my location. I saw her regularly during and after that procedure, and I never told her that I sent those letters. She never found out. Poems were shit by the way, and no, I don't have them any longer.
t. social awkwardness pro
No.18228
>>18226There is plus-value! One of the podcast is about the broad topic of music. The runner mainly uses this podcast to train his radio speaking skills and his sound mixing abilities. They invite friends, sometimes ones that actually make music for each new podcast to talk about a broad topic regarding music. The podcast mostly shines in its bretty good mixing, it almost sounds like a “youth radio” and the part at the start where each participant has to prepare a small text to present another participant. It has me laughing nearly each time.
Romandy lately has exported a lot of great comedic talents and has experienced a boom in comedy, improv and radio comedy for the last 10 or so years. A style of oral expression particular to this scene has also surfaced and it can be heard in their podcast. I thinking about guys like Yann Margret a giant guy who ran three or four radio show on the local state sponsored youth radio station and was so successful and creative in doing so that he got hired by
Quotidien in Paris, a very popular left leaning upper middle class tv show in France. It’s fun because he is a big guy and they are small urbanites, they look confused while looking at him :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Au4zIKltk74&pp=ygUXeWFubiBtYXJndWV0IHF1b3RpZGllbiA%3D No.18232 KONTRA
Conducted anti-German operations today and instead of digging a hole I filled one up with dirt.
Apparently the small dog has been hard at work and dug like a two meter deep tunnel under the deck under the cover of a bush.
The new deck's coming along nicely I think. Though I still can't seem to concentrate on anything or enjoy myself at all.
No.18234
Shut my index finger in the screen door a few weeks back. Didn't hurt but left a broad white streak. Like, immediately. Normal. Slam. White. And no pain. Today I grabbed something, and it bent back. I can now feel a distinct ridge between the healthy and damaged nail. Probably 1/4 of the former, and 3/4 the latter. Really hoping this thing doesn't break off.
No.18255
>>18233Doing that would make me guilty of it I suppose. That said: If you are happy with it, and can keep it up for your whole life, why not? There is no universally accepted way of life that suits everyone, and no one is keeping your score or checking boxes to calculate if you qualify for heaven entry.
>>18234Thought you broke your whole finger at first, and not just he nail. Imagine my horror when reading:
>Today I grabbed something, and it bent back No.18257
>>18255I should proofread for clarity.
No.18263 KONTRA
I woke up, chatted a bit and then went to the store to buy some stuff for breakfast. I was in a rather pleasant mood. Actually had the hoop on my bag fixed too I went to the leatherworks store and they had one for sale. Should have done that a long time ago.
I wasted a lot of time today too. Read a single chapter of Aristotle outside and then when I was getting under the balcony into the sunbed I hit by head in the roofing really fucking hard and that sorta ruined the rest of the day.
I'm staying up to prepare the questions for the interview. I am actually watching anime and furiously writing down my thoughts about random, tangentially related stuff why sweating like hell because it's still like 30 degrees here. I will call the interviewee tomorrow before setting off if today is fine with her, considering we postponed last week so it's not 40 degrees but tomorrow will be the hottest day of the year most likely and I would rather not do a Lord of the Rings tier public transport trip.
I'm probably in a Hell of my own making.
No.18266
Woke in a daze, sunburned from yesterday. Turns out the exams came out yesterday and today was the last date to signup for phase 2 if I had failed.
I needed a 17/20, but instead got a 19/20 THANK YOU AMERICAN JESUS
No.18267
How many countries can YOU name, Ernst.
Failed epically because my mind just blanked out and I couldn't remember stuff like Angola, Georgia, Luxembourg etc.
I will admit though that I know SHIT about oceania, and while I recognize all the names in Africa, I would have a hard time naming them all by heart.
https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-name No.18268
>>18267>How many countries can YOU name, Ernst.Like, 20. I'm not even going to try.
No.18272
>>18271I actually had to look up how "Argentine" is written in english because I tried "Argentina" and "Argentinia" and it wouldn't check out.
No.18274 KONTRA
>>18271Guyana. Fuck. Jonestown.
>>18272Anglocentrism. Should at least allow for countries names in their own
mine :DD language!
No.18277
>>18276>Why is ironing a shirt such a pain? >Will it get better or should I just pay somebody to iron itThere are huge differences in how hard shirts are to iron. It's not always about prize, but if a shirt says that it doesn't need ironing, you can expect that it at least needs significant less ironing than others. With some of them, the remaining crinkles disappear as soon as you put them on your body for a few minutes. As soon as I realized this, I slowly switched out all my shirts until all that was left was either very easy to iron or not necessary to do it at all.
Not sure how what's available where you live, but I can for example recommend Olymp, Seidensticker or Eterna.
No.18278
>>18277I don't have to wear shirts all the time. But some nice shirts are necessary and since I'm a fashion person I look for quality garments, shape etc. and I don't know how well those "no iron" shirts will check those.
I need to look at what steamers can do to shirts.
No.18279 KONTRA
>>18278>I need to look at what steamers can do to shirts.Probably not what I want. Looks like I will get them ironed. I do this with dress pants as well. You can wear those for 4 weeks in rotation if they don't get stained. For shirts I imagine they get smelly too fast and thus cost more money to iron after washing.
No.18280
Fucking hell, ironing is not witchcraft.
Don't you have a mother or grandmother who can show you? Or will you be beaten for being a huge pidor?
No.18281 KONTRA
>>18280My mum showed me plenty of times how to iron things. I can iron a t-shirt but since I hardly wear a shirt when I still lived with my parents she probably showed me just once or twice - I never made the experience myself, though.
Also with my pants, I want a crisp crease and that's not as easy as it seems.
No.18282 KONTRA
>>18280I'm not the Russian btw. *which I thought would be obvious from my postings and their attached pictures in the last days/weeks**
No.18283
>>18278>I look for quality garments, shape etc. and I don't know how well those "no iron" shirts will check those.For what it's worth they are no different than other business shirts. But then, they are just that: Business shirts. That doesn't mean they don't look good, but they usually aren't fancy.
>>18279>For shirts I imagine they get smelly too fastYeah, I used to change them every day in my old job where I needed them, but then I tend to be sweaty as fuck, maybe you can get away with less.
No.18284
>>18282>which I thought would be obviousOmskbird (russian) gives me enough of a schizoid vibe that I wouldn't be surprised if he were to post that kind of stuff and then turning around and posting the other kind of stuff.
No.18285
My mother went to the hospital today. I knew something was up when half awake I noticed her enter my room as I was sleeping and leave a kiss on the forehead. Then of course later she called me that she went in because she wasn't feeling well.
I wish I could say I was immediately anxious but the severity of the situation dawned on me only in waves and slowly as the day progressed, awaiting the next call or text.
Before I set off to conduct the interview I called the lady out of consideration and asked her if she was still up for it or if she would like to postpone it so we don't do it on the hottest day of the year. (I mean, she's very, very old so I was being considerate.)
She said she'd much prefer not doing this thing in 40 degrees so we pushed it back a couple of days.
I had lunch and then I fell asleep, dreaming about Mauser pistols. I had a very long sleep.
After that I decided to have some tea. My mother's boss sent my way a very small packet of tea he got as a gift for one of his orders so I decided to try that. I dropped my fucking gaiwan but it miraculously didn't break, not even a chip.
The tea itself was pretty good I think.
Mom called me and she said she was "fine" and there's no "immediate emergency" as the medical professionals would put it. They will try to bump her up on the waiting list for the surgery instead of waiting until next month but otherwise even after a thorough checkup her state hasn't deteriorated any, so they just sent her home ultimately which I guess is a relief.
I waited so ling for that call I thought for a bit that they surely must have rushed her into surgery or something.
I made pasta for dinner. I recycled the pizza sauce I made as the sauce for the pasta and it turned out okay-ish. I kind of fucked up the pasta to sauce ratio a bit but it was otherwise fine. The penne was a bit too small too.
Can't be helped.
Wasted some time watching anime still but later in the evening I have set up the back of the room to be a kind of office like it was during high school. I have two small tables on the ground, a rug to sit on and I put the jug of tea on the stepladder I have for the shelves. Just like the old days!
I'm drinking this freshly hot, cheap tea and I'm sweating like a pig but I sort of feel alive in an absolutely retarded way I think. The vanilla candle adds a lot to it.
>>18276Most household tasks are simple and require only minimal initial instructions.
People have been doing household chores as long as houses existed, it's not that fucking hard.
No.18286
>>18267Got 'em all.
>>18276>now that I have joined the salaried masses for goodF.
Ironing gets easier with practice. And faster. As long as you have a board. Don't be afraid to jump in. Just a hot piece of metal. Learned from my sister.
No.18288
>>18279>For shirts I imagine they get smelly too fast and thus cost more money to iron after washing.If you live in a decent sized city where such services are available, have them ironed. Spending ten minutes each day on ironing gets annoying really fast.
No.18289 KONTRA
>>18288With my skills it takes a lot more time right now. I will have to seek out prices first. Given that I don't need them everyday it might be an option.
>>18286>Ironing gets easier with practice.Yeah but while I can iron my t-shirts or pullovers just fine, shirts and dress pants pose a challenge. I don't want to show up to work in iron-wrinkled clothing when it comes to these.
>>18284A quintessential libertarian in my book.
No.18290
>>18285All the best for your mother.
My dad once dodged a severe sepsis when they found some kind of fermented piece of a french frie in his gut or something like that which was eating a hole through the colon or duodenum iirc.
Bottom line was that it could have burst at any moment and cause a bad peritonitis.
Now I wanted to add some snark, but nothing you say really provides any proper attacking point. Probably because YOU ARE SO BORING!
No.18291 KONTRA
>>18290Such a disgusting dad-ailment. Maybe chew your food? No, too much to ask for the average boomer-male, that's just as bad as shaving your ballsack or washing your ears.
No.18308
>>18082> Who will have to learn these languages, foreign relationships majors? Or linguists? Or everyone in high school?Changing enforcing it in that order sounds reasonable
;3I do believe every human should be capable of such. Not everyone should/needs to be forced to do so, though.
Humanities students should. Fucking what are they studying?! Only imaginary, social construct stuff like gender studies or economics. First learn the basics of social construct stuff, which is communication, before claiming you are expert in some niche, you fucker! The only imaginary things a sane mind would seriously dedicate some time to is math and philosophy anyway. Yes. Am pissed at the flood of pseudo-intellectual academia types. fucking [multiple times rewritten rant]
> Anyway, I disagree. Language shapes thought not that much. All languages can express same set of thoughts, the only difference is how easy it would be.The main idea behind it is to enable international communication moar easily.
While the effect of this "language shapes thought" may not be significant looking at an individual, I think this effect is more pronounced looking at the whole speaking population. Though, here it might be hard to draw a line between culture's and language's influence. In some cases language might be the barrier to said culture. Not all cultures export their values (with or without force :3).
Anyway, even if you disagree with my reasoning for proposing, what you think about the idea itself? Multilingual world population; if we go with my crude definition of all indo-european languages being the same with different vocab, we europeans can't even diss amüricans ^-^
>>18150> 4.jpgwat dat?
>>18167>>18169I've heard from everyone, who read the books on top of watching the movies, that there 100% is a very gay undertone. Plus, that the dwarf is veeeery into stones, like multiple pages pseudo jerking/love poem.
had this somehow still open, unposted... just wanted to post picture :DD > pic
>>18267 No.18310
>>18308>Humanities students shouldSome of them should. Linguists, historians and foreign relationships majors. Others (state management, lawyers, artists, economists, gender scholars and other theologians, etc) shouldn't.
> The only imaginary things a sane mind would seriously dedicate some time to is math and philosophy Much better idea then learning a third language.
> The main idea behind it is to enable international communication moar easily.We are currently internationally communicating. Alternatively, I could spend this time learning Dutch and you - learning Hindi, which would distract us from international communication.
> Multilingual world population;No, bilingual world would be enough. Local prevalent language and global international language (which is English on our planet). That's the most convenient and natural way.
After all, humans are not immortal. And it takes years to learn a language on a decent level. Not worth it usually.
No.18312 KONTRA
>>18310Quitter talk from a thoroughly americanized existence.
Many such cases, SAD! Or, as the dutch would say, VERDRIETIG!
No.18314
>>18310It's German silliness. People talk about the French, but the Germans are stranger in their relationship with the English language. They'll speak broken English, say how limited it is and proclaim the world would improve if stopped using English as lingua franca. Petty little race!
No.18317
>>18314You're right, at least we don't speak portuguese
No.18322 KONTRA
>>18310> better idea then learning a third language.the actual idea was to learn 3 languages outside of your mother tongue[0].
No.18331
Working long hours. The cat is alone most of the day. Neither of us is happy about the situation.
>>18329Noice.
University gave us a dummy diploma at our ceremony. It was held before final grades were in, and everything had to be double-checked. Got the real deal by mail some weeks after.
>apathetic about the whole ceremonySame. For different reasons. Classes and tests were over. School was simply a task, and I considered my job finished. Only went because of my mother. Who insisted.
No.18332
>>18331>Only went because of my mother. Who insisted.Do you regret it? As in, consider it a waste?
What would you have done had you had the free choice?
No.18335
>>18329Congratulations. I hope you have some feeling of achievement or something.
> but I would like if I said I hadn't almost shed a tear when I looked at the diploma itself. Ok, good for you.
>>18331I picked up my Master's degree at the examinations-office two or three years after I had started my job. They had begun to sent angry emails, demanding I come and pick it up.
I had to take a day off, it was a 600 km round trip. When I was there, the nice young zoomer-girl (unironically named Lisa-Lenchen or something like it) told me she could have just mailed it to me.
I used the occasion to buy wine, but still.
No.18342
>>18332>Do you regret it?No. The ceremony went well. Social anxiety and sperg moments were kept to a minimum. Dinner afterwards was better.
>What would you have done had you had the free choice?Stayed home. My default position for 99% of all life situations.
No.18345
>>18342Ahhhhhhhhhhhnow I understand.
I thought you meant going to school.
No.18354 KONTRA
They did not have Kaltschale in the grocery store I frequent after work now.
>>18335I received all my uni certs via mail. What kind of traditional uni is that? I cannot remember what I did after I had my oral exam / defending of the thesis. Which was when it really hit me that uni is over when I went outside the administration office handing in my exmatriculation and seeing all the students walking over campus.
No.18357 KONTRA
I still miss her ffffffffffff…
No.18358 KONTRA
I'm feeling down like I used to. There's a storm coming and I'm going crazy.
I did basically nothing today, save for translating half a page of Chinese.
Actually I kind of love it that whenever I feel like this, my mother feels the need to have the talk with me about "getting a job" and how "Our economic situation is about to take a turn for the worse" and that just stressed me out extra. Took a valerian pill to take off the edge but I think it just gave me a headache instead.
Work will probably make things better honestly. I literally don't know what got fucked up right now besides the weather.
Apparently the Apple™ Weather app has been lying to me and it was like 4-5 degrees warmer than what it said. Didn't even know, I was just assuming I was getting weaker that I couldn't bear with 33 degrees.
Looking at airsoft guns since my mind keeps returning to the C96. Every single one costs twice as much as I'd like to pay for one. I guess I shouldn't be thinking about buying pointless toys like these. I should probably just read a book about it.
Been watching a lot of firearms content on youtube recently for some reason. I don't know. The autistic data just pleases me even though I never really knew much about firearms.
I should just drink some milk and sleep.
>>18331Honestly the main reason I was a bit apathetic about it is because I have seen like a dozen similar events where "someone important" delivers a speech on something. Of course after you attend 2-3 events that are organized by the Chinese in State capacity no Hungarian event will bore you in comparison even if sometimes you think we ought to check Brezhnev's coffin to make sure he isn't dancing on the streets somewhere as he gathers our precious life-force that we waste on really long-winded ceremonies with speeches and clapping.
(Yes, Brezhnevism is when people hold speeches and the more and longer speeches there are the Brezhnevier it is.)
No.18361
>>18360Looks and sounds like Baumstriezel.
Usually sold here on fairs as a hungarian specialty.
No.18362
What if your own body inflicts anorectal terror upon yourself? Waking up 15+ times in the night to run to bathroom and letting out long and repeated ass squirts. Who will answer for these crimes? I'm sleep deprived and out of toilet paper. We must address these issues.
No.18363
>>183621. Basic food hygiene
2. Don't eat spoiled food
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
Aren't you glad to have someone from a civilized society tell you third-worlder how to do things?
No.18367
>>18362Eat some nice, dark chocolate, that always stiffens up the stool for me.
No.18368
>>18363I don't know about the global alignment difference, but I always defer to Germans when topic is bowel movements.
No.18369
>>18368>le german shit jokeOk, that was to be expected. I concede.
No.18370 KONTRA
>>18357>I still miss her ffffffffffff…From my distant layman's perspective, your level of ongoing infatuation with an ex-girlfriend of a few months does not even look that healthy.
No.18371
>>18370Was Petrarch's infatuation with Laura unhealthy too? You don't understand what is true love.
No.18372
>>18354>What kind of traditional uni is that? Typical German uni with the typical bureaucracy, just as typically founded in the 15th century, when having your own uni became en vogue for the minor princes of Germany.
> I cannot remember what I did after I had my oral exam / defending of the thesis.I cannot remember that, either. Everything after such tense events seems to happen in a blur.
> Which was when it really hit me that uni is over when I went outside the administration office handing in my exmatriculation and seeing all the students walking over campus.A student goes into a room. A ritual is performed. The student comes out of the room, and he is no longer a student. What tied him to the other students is gone, and his nature is changed. The professor and advisor might as well be a shamans.
No.18374
Today I am purchasing a piano.
No.18375
*ominous graduate chanting in the distance*
No.18376
>>18375Can barely hear it no more, I have coworkers and an office chair, what's the matter?
>>18372
>Typical German uni I'm afraid the 1960s Bildungsreform unis are far more typical for Germany.
No.18377
>>18376>are far more typical I assume it was supposed to be a humblebrag.
"Oh, oh, I studied in Heidelberg/Tübingen/München/Greifswald/(nothing more here because there's nothing more of note from that time), look at me!"
No.18380
Did you know universities in Estonia and Latvia practiced academic fencing? It must have been predominantly German universities, I wonder what’s the history of baltic universities…
>>18370I don’t know if you’ve written out what you meant, your phrasing is weird. I may have overused EC for venting though.
No.18381
>>18380Was academic fencing such a particularly german thing?
But yeah, at least Riga was prussian until the 20th century, so I'd assume any unis from that time had a strong german influence.
No.18384 KONTRA
>>18383You know, ever since I know Omskbird is not necessarily Omskbird, I perceive posts like this with tiktok videos like in a very different way.
No.18385
>>18384Is it that hard to distungish between the russian and me?
No.18386
>>18385For me, yes. At least at the moment.
No.18387
>>18386I'll try to imitate his posts to make it even harder.
No.18389
>>18388Because he is a russian. Mysterious soul etc pp.
No.18395
Woke up. I think my alarm clock's going bad again because it wasn't as loud as usual and it can't be the battery. Had breakfast and then just prepared a bit for the interview.
My father offered to give me a lift and I took him up on it. Got there in a third of the time. I recorded around 30 minutes of the interviewee talking. Had a nice chat with her, asked her to sign my copy etc. She's supposedly over 90 but I wouldn't say she looks a day over 70 honestly.
Offered me coffee. It was that good, old style stuff. Anyway, I think I will be able to write a nice article using the materials.
The ride back home was pleasant. I had to use something called a "Railway of Local Interest" which I only heard bad things about. Walked like 15 minutes in the small town in the scortching Sun and I enjoyed it immensely. Lots of people around for such a small city, lots of tradesmen.
The train station was clean and newly renovated. A bloke asked me when the next one's coming and I replied, then we had small talk about the weather. Was confused which of the platforms my train would depart from but the loudspeakers handily announced it just as it was coming in. The ride was very pleasant, quite unlike the memes. Read like 50 pages of Aristotle while occasionally checking out the window.
Budapest transport was a mess but I eventually made my way home using a different route I didn't plan for.
I don't know. The entire thing felt very idyllic and in the end I felt like I had a weight off my shoulders that I finally did this thing I was tasked fucking weeks ago. Feel like this little excursion cured me of whatever was ailing me for the past week or so.
You know, green flora, blue skies, a train gently rolling down the tracks through pleasant townships once inhabited by jovial Germans.
Actually kind of a nice contrast with going to the Eastern part of the country by train where townships alternated between looking like Half-life 2, Stalker and Fallout.
Baked some pizza. Drank a lot of tea. Harvested the first batch of tomatoes.
Tomorrow I will dig a hole and help finish that deck. On Monday I'm starting work.
No.18396
>>18360>>18361My first thought when I see this is the beach and sure they sell it there but I have more memories of eating it during winter I think.
It's usually pretty good, mainly because it's just sugary. Especially good with vanilla sugar. Though I prefer the smooth insides to the crispy outside. Don't really know why I just do.
I remember having one on the way home from university when I bought one at a metro station for some spare change I had. I think it was 600.
That was a good day. Idk it's just nice when you nonchalantly eat something while walking somewhere.
No.18397
Staying up late to let some cool air into the apartment.
Though I am actually getting tired now.
No.18402
>>18398No. Yes. No.
I will study it daily, still.
No.18403 KONTRA
>>18402(It's a small virtual piano)
No.18405
>>18403I applaud your decision to abandon this respectable intellectual life for a free electric band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izbz38A1Vd8 No.18406
I watched this while having lunch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR486zloao0Made me think of that little info sheet pinned to the wall over the gas stove at my grandparents house warning about gas leaks and what to do in case of suspectible smell when I was in elementary school or so. It just occured to me that a gas explosion prematurely ending my live was a fear in my childhood. Not in a life influencing way but still somewhere in the back of my head so that it could pop up into consciousness every then and now.
No.18412 KONTRA
>>18411wat?
lemme guess: no need to register; it just wörks.
now i feel old, because apple's faceID failing in asia seems like yesterday No.18413
>>18406God, what a disgustingly ugly country they have made out of Germany. It was rebuilt ugly on purpose as a punishment for Germans after WWII. This is not a Christian church, it is a church of the leftist anti-German guilt-cult. This country is so over. I hope Russia will actually follow through with their threats and actually nuke us for having American cruise missiles stationed in this pathetic colony.
The collapse of civilization in decades due to catastrophic climate change and the primate of economy over politics is a certainly, either way, and I prefer a quick and painless death by being blown to pieces with a nuclear bomb.
No.18414 KONTRA
>>18412Another proof of how technologically backwards Germany is. In Asia, they pay with facial recognition. Germans refuse to pay with cards and refuse to use AC.
This country is so completely finished, but Germans are too retarded to even realize and continue to go "nein nein ich will bargeld keine karte" "nein nein keine Klimaanlage es zieht".
Deutschland verrecke.
No.18415
>>18406I also have this fear. Yet I like and miss gas stoves. Except for the risk of explosion, they're more convenient than electric stoves. No need to warm up and very visual.
>>18411SODA SHKA
LEMON BZUH
PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KalK7DHfuW4>>18413The pinnacles of modern architecture are buildings which looks like Holocaust monuments.
No.18416
>The pinnacles of modern architecture are buildings which looks like Holocaust monuments.
That's because modern architects are shit.
No.18418
>>18417>and closer to proper christian asceticismYeah, I need a sauce on that opinion