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[+Slowswift]

They're chucking the local classical station.

I'm... pissed, actually.  

[Shqueeves]

7 minutes ago, Slowswift said:

They're chucking the local classical station.

I'm... pissed, actually.  

But the classical station is the best! What has possessed them? You should start a petition for them to keep the station.

[+Slowswift]

Just now, Shqueeves said:

But the classical station is the best! What has possessed them? You should start a petition for them to keep the station.

There are several already, actually.  

[Mestiv he/him]

@Penumbra can you afford to live there without any source of income? Half a year is not that long, your relationship wouldn't be at risk IMO. The main problem here is the financial side of this all. If you have financial support of your partner and/or parents, then I say go for it. If you'd have to take a loan just to go on an internship, then it's too much. You're gonna practically give this company couple thousand dollars by working for them for free, don't add debts to it.

[Penumbra]

25 minutes ago, Mestiv said:

@Penumbra can you afford to live there without any source of income? Half a year is not that long, your relationship wouldn't be at risk IMO. The main problem here is the financial side of this all. If you have financial support of your partner and/or parents, then I say go for it. If you'd have to take a loan just to go on an internship, then it's too much. You're gonna practically give this company couple thousand dollars by working for them for free, don't add debts to it.

If we can find my partner someone to room with I could do it financially, but it would be a close call. I'm already running on a student loan, and if I can get relief from the rent up here I could pay for a room or something in the other place. My best friend (who really thinks I should do it) offered to move in in the room I leave behind but were not entirely sure it'd work out. I'm a little mad that the company wouldn't show me outright what projects I'd be on even though I went all the way down ... So much secrecy in this business.

I think the living part will sort itself out somehow if I go. I'm mostly worried about being without my friends or contacts for 7 months ... I'm not super social, exactly. The travel down and back costs $100 roughly, so going back over weekends might be difficult.

[Caesura she/her]

My neighbours have been partying almost every night for the past 2 weeks. I'm impressed at how well their livers are holding up, but thoroughly sick of their loud, bassy music. I'm trying to study, and I was planning on an early night for once 

[Delightful]

11 hours ago, Caesura said:

My neighbours have been partying almost every night for the past 2 weeks. I'm impressed at how well their livers are holding up, but thoroughly sick of their loud, bassy music. I'm trying to study, and I was planning on an early night for once 

Usually you can call the cops on them after a certain time. And or knock on the door and ask politely? Leave passive aggressive notes taped to the door? Hire an alien army to kidnap them? 

[Sunbird she/her]

@Caesura @Delightful I would recommend talking to the neighbors first and only calling the cops if they continue the obnoxious behavior. Depending on the neighbors, calling the cops as a first resort rather than a last resort can create resentment, but the neighbors, if they're decent people, might be more receptive to your complaints and requests if you come to them first.

[Caesura she/her]

Drunk students, in the middle of the student flatting area - it's unsurprising, just a bit annoying. They usually don't go toooooo late, but it was a Saturday night...

4 hours ago, Delightful said:

Hire an alien army to kidnap them? 

This is tempting, I'll keep it in mind 

[Knghtstlker he/him]

Hello everyone Total Nub here, < see left. Just popping by to collect my hug, is that a one time offer? Or is it like a hug soup kitchen? Also, FML and I can't wait to get out of this country. Currently in Iraq. Maybe be home around Christmas time, but probably after if I know my luck. Excited for Nov 14th, Equally excited for 18 for 4th Wax and Wayne "Proposed".

[Delightful]

1 hour ago, Knghtstlker said:

Hello everyone Total Nub here, < see left. Just popping by to collect my hug, is that a one time offer? Or is it like a hug soup kitchen? Also, FML and I can't wait to get out of this country. Currently in Iraq. Maybe be home around Christmas time, but probably after if I know my luck. Excited for Nov 14th, Equally excited for 18 for 4th Wax and Wayne "Proposed".

More like a hug soup kitchen. 

*huuugs*. 

There you go. Come back anytime. 

Are you Iraqi? 

[Knghtstlker he/him]

1 minute ago, Delightful said:

More like a hug soup kitchen. 

*huuugs*. 

There you go. Come back anytime. 

Are you Iraqi? 

No, American soldier currently deployed. Side note, when I tried to use a prepaid card here in Iraq on Amazon I could not purchase some Brandon Sanderson novels on Audible because it "wasn't available in this country".

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 hour ago, Knghtstlker said:

No, American soldier currently deployed. Side note, when I tried to use a prepaid card here in Iraq on Amazon I could not purchase some Brandon Sanderson novels on Audible because it "wasn't available in this country".

Interesting, sucks that you can't purchase them on Audible. How is it in Iraq?

*hugs as well.

May I inquire as to why you want one? Not that you can't want one for the sake of it.

[Knghtstlker he/him]

1 hour ago, Darkness_ said:

Interesting, sucks that you can't purchase them on Audible. How is it in Iraq?

*hugs as well.

May I inquire as to why you want one? Not that you can't want one for the sake of it.

Hugs were offered. I like hugs, Also Iraq is terrible. Pretty hefty sand storm came through last night, Also I stubbed my toe walking to my shower. The coils I built for my Vape "I quit smoking two months ago", have too low of a resistance but they're the best hitting coils I've ever built "When they get warmed up". Just imagine I've been filling my Chromium Metal Mind for this entire deployment, and I stored too much of it, so I lost my Chromium Metal mind before I could tap it...

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

1 minute ago, Knghtstlker said:

Hugs were offered. I like hugs, Also Iraq is terrible. Pretty hefty sand storm came through last night, Also I stubbed my toe walking to my shower. The coils I built for my Vape "I quit smoking two months ago", have too low of a resistance but they're the best hitting coils I've ever built "When they get warmed up". Just imagine I've been filling my Chromium Metal Mind for this entire deployment, and I stored too much of it, so I lost my Chromium Metal mind before I could tap it...

Ah good, I was just making sure. Hugs are great, and sand storms and toe stubbing aren't.

I don't know anything about vapes, but to my knowledge its just the lesser of two evils? Something like 30% less carcinogenic substances.

[Knghtstlker he/him]

On 10/30/2017 at 3:09 AM, Darkness_ said:

Interesting, sucks that you can't purchase them on Audible.

I was able to purchase the books on Audible, I just had to swap to an American Card, not a prepaid Iraqi one. "Even though they're only for use in the US". And they sell them in the PX, for some reason they are geo tagged to Iraq so the Zip code is Iraqi, and the numbers are US, so I can't use it on anything region specific, like youknow, books on amazon that aren't the Quran. HAHA. I think it was Elantris, I imagine because often times Brandon Sanderson books include at least two new religions in his books. That's not something Iraqi's are very fond of I think.

 

On 10/30/2017 at 4:48 AM, Darkness_ said:

Ah good, I was just making sure. Hugs are great, and sand storms and toe stubbing aren't.

I don't know anything about vapes, but to my knowledge its just the lesser of two evils? Something like 30% less carcinogenic substances.

100% less Carcinogenic. There is no Cancer causing products at all, Even California can only label it was a pregnancy warning because it has Nicotene. If you've ever been to an Asian grill restaurant, the stuff they use to "Fry" meat on the big flat hot piece of Metal, is 70% of what vape juice is made of (VG). The other 30% is a flavor suspension fluid that has been proven to be "Safe for human consumtion" by the CDC for the last 40 years minimum called Propylene Glycol (PG), With whatever concentration by % of Nicotene you prefer "Which in the state of California says nicotine can have a possibility of causing birth defects in pregnant women,". But zero cancerous risk.

It's staggering when you look at what you vape compared to what you smoke in a cigarette.. No wonder my lungs feel amazing now. I can vape like a steam engine and still feel better than smoking one single cigarette.

 

The only associated health risks that fall outside of faulty mechanical devices with poor battery safety, is a very, very, very small percentage of vapers have been associated with something called "Popcorn Lung". Associated with the name popcorn lung because the factory workers that handle bulk butter flavored products "Consumer Popcorn companies", have had a very small number of people develop something called Bronchiolitis Obliterans, It has tenuously been attached to vaping communities. However, if you can match working in a Butter Based Propylene Glycol saturated environment for 40+ Hours a week for 10+ Years "This isn't something that happens over night", Maybe you were hitting the stuff a little hard.

However, that connection is tenuous at best. So as long as you practice battery safety, my health risks will drop continuously every day I'm not smoking for the rest of my life.. Thank god for Vaping. I was hesitant when it came out upwards of 10 years ago, I wanted to make sure that there would be no staggeringly terrible results worse than smoking. I waited, did my research and have arrived at the conclusion, that I'm never smoking again.
 

[Darkness Ascendant he/him]

@Knghtstlker Thanks for clearing all that up, but in the future it is advisable not to multipost (That is to post one thing, after another in succession).
You can use the multiquote feature, or highlight something and chose to "quote this".

[Knghtstlker he/him]

Sorry, I'm not "UP" on Forum etiquette, I'm sure I'll figure it out soon though Thank you :D:D.

[Delightful]

3 hours ago, Knghtstlker said:

I was able to purchase the books on Audible, I just had to swap to an American Card, not a prepaid Iraqi one. "Even though they're only for use in the US". And they sell them in the PX, for some reason they are geo tagged to Iraq so the Zip code is Iraqi, and the numbers are US, so I can't use it on anything region specific, like youknow, books on amazon that aren't the Quran. HAHA. I think it was Elantris, I imagine because often times Brandon Sanderson books include at least two new religions in his books. That's not something Iraqi's are very fond of I think.

Specific books aren't digitally allowed in Iraq, or Audible in general is blocked?

[Why_Do_You_Do_This_To_Me]

Mistborn will be the death of me. I am working on the storyboard for a Kelsier PMV and so the only son I listen to is the song it's playing to. And all I think about while listening to it is pure sadness when it gets to the part where Kell's dying. Why do I do this to myself! XD

[+Slowswift]

11 hours ago, Why_Do_You_Do_This_To_Me said:

Mistborn will be the death of me. I am working on the storyboard for a Kelsier PMV and so the only son I listen to is the song it's playing to. And all I think about while listening to it is pure sadness when it gets to the part where Kell's dying. Why do I do this to myself! XD

...PMV?

[Why_Do_You_Do_This_To_Me]

1 hour ago, Slowswift said:

...PMV?

Picture Motion Video. Like a comic but in video form.

[Knghtstlker he/him]

13 hours ago, Delightful said:

Specific books aren't digitally allowed in Iraq, or Audible in general is blocked?

Specific books aren't allowed digitally, I purchased Warbreaker on the same card, but was not allowed to purchase Elantris. "I think it's been a month or so", I can't quote book titles with 100% accuracy, but I'm fairly certain I had trouble getting Elantris. I got it. Just had to change back to my Bank card for it.

[Calderis he/him]

So was anyone aware that your eye can blister? It's called conjunctival cyst, and it's super uncomfortable. 

Got something in my eye, couldn't get it out, and now the lower half of my white in my right eye is a bubble. 

Ow. 

[A Budgie she/her]

3 hours ago, Calderis said:

So was anyone aware that your eye can blister? It's called conjunctival cyst, and it's super uncomfortable. 

Got something in my eye, couldn't get it out, and now the lower half of my white in my right eye is a bubble. 

Ow. 

*winces* sounds painful. How long til it heals?