Confession is good for the Hype. - - - - - - Part 15

[ComicChick]

oh duh! i might have a couple of rolls with that on it but the ones i was using do not.

i'll just roll with it

 

[InCali]

I think department stores should have couches, TVs, and bars. It would encourage me to go shopping with my wife.

I find shopping incredibly dull. I buy maybe 3 pair of pants and a few shirts per year. It takes me about 15 minutes to pick everything out. I find watching my wife shop an alien experience. She files through an interminable number of racks, picks something out, looks at it in a mirror, maybe tries it on, maybe walks away with it, and then puts it back on the rack.....Live Die Repeat.

I need a drink just thinking about it.

I think I get to skip shopping this year. My wife asked me what I wanted and my response was "I dunno. I hadn't really thought about it. Maybe some Levi's?"

EDIT: Weird thing is that I really like getting stuff for other people. I just hate shopping for it.

 

[Lily Adler]

oh duh! i might have a couple of rolls with that on it but the ones i was using do not.

i'll just roll with it

Ew. Careful with the puns don't want ya to get a bad wrap.

 

[Schlosser85]

I get so, so sick of playing fake nice.

 

[Hobgoblin]

The pandemic has been making me think what a strange century it has been. When I graduated high school in 99 the world was so peaceful and stable. No civil unrest, an excellent economy and no serious outside threats. People were actually optimistic. It made me wonder what it was like to live in more tumultuous decades.

Then we had the 2000 election and to a much greater degree, 9/11. I remember the shock of it, the unrealness. Everything changed in ways I can’t describe but fear of terrorism and war permeated everything we did for years. The debates here on the Hype were constant and intense.

The election of Obama and passing of ACA didn’t seem to have the same transformative aspect but no one can deny it was a huge event. I don’t remember much fear, to be honest.

Then Trump got elected and there was fear again but in an odd, abstract way. He was erratic and unethical but it didn’t reach a fever pitch until Covid. It felt like 9/11 again. There was a real, physical danger threatening the country and there has been so much bickering about what to do. It really does feel like the aftermath of September 11. It’s a strange feeling to feel deja vu of something from 20 years ago.

Then you think “God, has it really been 20 years?” What happened to the panic about terrorism or the terror threat chart? No one even thinks about Iraq anymore. Fifteen years ago I was sick to death of hearing about it. At that time a worldwide pandemic was unthinkable...unless it was caused by terrorism.

So to my younger self, living in “interesting times” is exhausting. The constant drama of the past four years has been exhausting. At the same time it will pass and seem like a distant memory and you’ll think it was a fluke, that the next challenge won’t be until forever. It may be decades but the next event will come and consume our actions again.

Sorry for the long winded post but I needed to get that out.

 

[Schlosser85]

Unpopular opinion: I think everyone on every side of this GameStop story is a clown and I’m not rooting for anyone.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Ditto that. I do enjoy seeing the ultra rich squirm but manipulating stocks can backfire.

 

[Schlosser85]

It doesn't directly affect anything in my portfolio....though I kind of wish I'd had some GameStop stock in there.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I was once told to invest in Marvel stock after they went bankrupt and I thought that was a dumb idea. As if comic book stock would ever be worth anything.

 

[Schlosser85]

I was once told to invest in Marvel stock after they went bankrupt and I thought that was a dumb idea. As if comic book stock would ever be worth anything.

I feel your pain. I wish I'd bought Google when it was penny stock.

 

[Donner]

Ditto that. I do enjoy seeing the ultra rich squirm but manipulating stocks can backfire.

Happens all the time. At least regular people are getting some of that wealth now instead of it all going to hedge funds.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I feel your pain. I wish I'd bought Google when it was penny stock.

Ouch. That hurts.

 

[InCali]

Back in the 90s and before the internet was a big deal, I had a small computer consulting/building/repair company. You wanna know what the domain I selected was? "cloudcomputing.com". After I got heavily involved in doing union work, I didn't really have time to put into my company anymore, so I gave up the name......

So.....out "ouch" that....

 

[Hobgoblin]

Back in the 90s and before the internet was a big deal, I had a small computer consulting/building/repair company. You wanna know what the domain I selected was? "cloudcomputing.com". After I got heavily involved in doing union work, I didn't really have time to put into my company anymore, so I gave up the name......

So.....out "ouch" that....

 

[InCali]

Yeah.....I hate unions and have never forgiven them for making me do that....

 

[ComicChick]

It doesn't directly affect anything in my portfolio....though I kind of wish I'd had some GameStop stock in there.

a coworker quit because he made over 50k from Gamestop

 

[Lily Adler]

I confess I consider the Season 8 finale of Everybody Loves Raymond to be the true finale. It tied everything up in a nice and hopeful bow for the Barones. Robert and Amy get a new home, Maree and Frank retire somewhere they love, and Debra and Ray don't have to live across from them easing tensions between them.

 

[Schlosser85]

There's a few things that have happened that make me not want to be here anymore, but I don't really have anywhere else to go.

 

[Lily Adler]

I confess I actually really enjoyed the Roseanne reboot. Damn you woman killing the show.

 

[Flash525]

There's a few things that have happened that make me not want to be here anymore, but I don't really have anywhere else to go.

When you say here, do you mean here (on the forums) or there, as in your life (or more specifically, location?)

 

[MissMarvelous]

I confess that I'm the one who's been secretly feeding the stray cat that shows up my parents' house at night.

They really don't want her around but she just keeps showing

 

[Schlosser85]

When you say here, do you mean here (on the forums) or there, as in your life (or more specifically, location?)

Here. Not talking suicidal.

 

[Flash525]

Here. Not talking suicidal.

Ah, glad to hear it, and I can relate a little I think. I mean, I've always lived in my home town, never escaped to the great beyond.

Sometimes I feel like there's more opportunities out there, but I wouldn't know where to even begin, and home is safe and secure, if not a little uninteresting and boring at times.

 

[MissMarvelous]

Ah, glad to hear it, and I can relate a little I think. I mean, I've always lived in my home town, never escaped to the great beyond.

Sometimes I feel like there's more opportunities out there, but I wouldn't know where to even begin, and home is safe and secure, if not a little uninteresting and boring at times.

Oh, my! I thought he was referring to the forum.

My bad!

 

[Schlosser85]

Oh, my! I thought he was referring to the forum.

My bad!

I was. Sorry if I was vague and cryptic, but I don't want to talk about it further.