Am I getting healthy or flirting with a "Falling Down" breakdown?

peter berger

peter berger

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Unclebaldrick said:
Here in the City of Big Shoulders, we still have mom n pop gas companies that you can just drive up to and get a 50# fill for about $30. The larger gas companies hate this so they made some "donations" to a few people. The result is that it is now illegal to carry a filled CO2 tank in your car. Very, very dangerous stuff. I hear they compress it. I never heeded that fucking law - let the insipid little beer hipsters worry about the fucking law.
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Wow I havnt heard it called the city of big shoulders in many years.
I live in this city as well nice to know there are still real people around who are tired of all this bullshit to.
 
mr sunshine

mr sunshine

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I low ball all grow equipment ... ALL OF IT. I'm like a vulture just waiting for people to fail or die so I can swoop in. "OH you only want 40 dollars for that inline fan?How about I give you 60 and you throw in that 4x4tray and a couple timers?" I hate those Craigslist guys that are not whiling to part out equipment . I don't need all of the mistakes you bought I just need your lights and fans... Fucken Craigslist pisses me off.
 
Michael Huntherz

Michael Huntherz

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Unclebaldrick said:
Yeah, I won't criticize what gets you off. But it is something I don't respond well to. I have relationships with people who treat me right. I have done transactions with people who are constantly wheedling to their own advantage. There is a very big difference. That sort of behavior always struck me as pareto-optimal and possibly a sign of unaddressed latent homosexual feelings.

I have to admit that I feel sad for those people and the fact that they are motivated by such things. I watched some of these folks exercise their bliss at a friend of mine's shop when he hadda close down due to terminal cancer. "Will you take $5 for this $50 worth of records?". Good for you. Big man. Got one over on a cancer patient. Hope your Joanie Mitchell sounds extra sweet.
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I think you misunderstood me, but I see what you're getting at. I assure you I'm not a predator, but I do lowball people on cl. I'm also exceedingly generous in ways that I haven't divulged. I love getting great guitars for a good price, and I do wait people out until they come back to me. I have a huge number of long-term relationships compared to most folks I know. I've been faithful to the same woman for 15 years and still have friends from kindergarten. I know you read my post to mean that I'm a horrible person, but I just know how to get a good deal on cl. I also sell things for low prices when I'm selling stuff and give away ounces of weed to people I care about, including a Viet Nam Veteran with MS and not enough money. He's a family friend, and nobody asked me to do this. I just really don't want you wonderful people to think I'm some kind of monster. See: proof you're not an unreasonable asshole, you're compassionate enough to call me out because you're concerned I'm victimizing people; I respect that. But I don't like Joanie Mitchell.
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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Michael Huntherz said:
I think you misunderstood me, but I see what you're getting at. I assure you I'm not a predator, but I do lowball people on cl. I'm also exceedingly generous in ways that I haven't divulged. I love getting great guitars for a good price, and I do wait people out until they come back to me. I have a huge number of long-term relationships compared to most folks I know. I've been faithful to the same woman for 15 years and still have friends from kindergarten. I know you read my post to mean that I'm a horrible person, but I just know how to get a good deal on cl. I also sell things for low prices when I'm selling stuff and give away ounces of weed to people I care about, including a Viet Nam Veteran with MS and not enough money. He's a family friend, and nobody asked me to do this. I just really don't want you wonderful people to think I'm some kind of monster. See: proof you're not an unreasonable asshole, you're compassionate enough to call me out because you're concerned I'm victimizing people; I respect that. But I don't like Joanie Mitchell.
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I wasn't really referring to you. Was more hoping to illustrate the point for less thoughtful
people. I understand buy low - sell high. I just have problems with people who treat their fellow citizens with contempt. And by this I do not mean you. When it comes down to it, those people calling you back are happy to do it at the time. You might be their only option. They might be too ugly for porn. Is that possible?

I briefly had a small partnership with a couple of guys... One was a total asshole and terrible businessman. We resold stuff. The dimwitted, mean-spirited guy came up with a great idea. Call everybody in the free section that had anything to offer of any value and tell them we could really use (whatever it was). Lie to them about our intentions and Then we would sell it to somebody else! Leaving aside the obvious issue that moving couches across town for a $20 sale was not profitable, I had real problems with his willingness to negate and privatize every charitable act on CL. It was a kind of a "Take it forward" policy that really seems to be the mode in our narcissistic society.

(I watched this ass-clown spend most of a day looking up and listing some guy's used porn; a stack of Cheri and Oui. I bailed the next week.)
 
Unclebaldrick

Unclebaldrick

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neosapien said:
Yeah, I think ever since having the baby a few years back I've asserted myself more and my tolerance for bullshit has drastically dropped. Could be the baby, could be just getting older. Either way Falling Down was fucking badass when I saw it at age 8 or so lol.
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I think it is the baby in large part. I didn't want to be the first to mention it. It has something to do with the kind of world you want them to grow up in. Not all hostility is negative.
 
dandyrandy

dandyrandy

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Unclebaldrick said:
I am pretty sick of assholes lately. So I have been telling people what I think of them. This has meant a lot of low-grade relationships coming to an end and some pretty terse moments between me and society.

Today is a good example... I put some CO2 tanks up for sale on CL (which I consider a nexus of assholes). Two 50# tanks - the big, four foot high suckers. Asking $125 for the pair. A steal.

So I get a response this morning...

"What wrong wtih them. Why u selling them?" (sic)

I explained that there is nothing wrong with them and that I am not using them anymore.

A while later he replies:

"give me your address and phone number. I want time look at them" (sic again)

Suddenly it dawns on me that I would pay $125 not to interact with this piece of shit let alone give him my address and phone number. So I wrote back.

"If you are interested in buying the pictured and described tanks for the asking price, let me know. But if it is your intention to waste my time and jack me around I have another suggestion for you.

I am guessing that a smart guy like you figured out that recent technological developments in gas compression have made my used tanks obsolete. Here is a link to some new Hydrofarm tanks in the same size. They are $475 each but you will make that up in the first year in electricity savings alone."



I'm not putting this out there to show how I put this idiot off. It is truly indicitive of my behavior lately. I am so up to here (hand above head) with hucksters, cheaters, liars, and just plain jag-offs that it seems that some sort of filter inside me has become disabled.

Is it permanent? Is it healthy? Will I survive?

I don't have any thoughts about any homicidal spree just in case it need be said. I just feel like I am mostly surrounded by assholes and am not willing to spend the rest of my life humoring them or choking back bile. When I tell them (either diplomatically or not) to fuck off, I feel better about my life - even if it might not be in my best short-term interests.

Is my career with the State Department in jeopardy?
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I think the older we get the more we realize we have less time left, especially for buttholes.
 
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