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If I'm late to eat a meal or if I skip a meal, I get the shakes. I'm not particularly famished or hungry when this happens, but I get the shakes and feel really wobbly and agitated until I'm halfway through my next meal. Some people are lucky to get one meal a day... I get the shakes if I miss one meal. Does this make me a pansy?
Yes it does ;[.
I think people just get used to it. I know people who eat regularly and feel hungry whenever they're 3 hours without food. They never told me, but my guess is that they probably trained themselves into that pattern and their body simply because adapted to it and expects food at that time.
My brother also sucks at dealing with hunger. We were 1 hour late or something driving around trying to find this restaurant and he was complaining about wanting to vomit and stuff. For a high-hunger-tolerance person such as myself, my first thought back then was indeed "suck it up you pansy".
Now, I'm more tolerant of other people's differences.
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My mum and aunt have had a bit of a run in with various groups in the social circle of my area and shit. I don't get why she's trying so hard to derive meaning from all this spam mail that she's getting.
It's FUCKING SPAM. IT HAS NO MEANING. STOP MAKING ME TRANSLATE USELESS, MEANINGLESS, WORTHLESS PILES OF CRAP.
Some of the shit she's made me sit through and translate include:
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From: xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Fwd: Chinese Courier Service
To:
Received: Tuesday, 28 June, 2011, 11:05 PM
Just got this from a Chinese, Tai Chi lady, so it's even more interesting... All the BEST
Subject: Fw: Chinese Courier Service
Another reason why Chinese are successful,they never miss any opportunity!
Chinese courier service -
Forget about DHL,UPS, or FEDEX!!
This beats them all!
A family in the Southern Province of China were puzzledwhen the coffin oftheir dead grandmother arrived from the States.
It was sent by one of the daughters.The dead body was so tightly squeezed inside the coffin.
When they opened the lid, they found a letter on top of the corpse which read as follows:
"Dear Cousins, I am sending Ah-po's (grandma) body to you
since it was her wish that she should be crematedin the compound of our ancestral home in Tung Shin.Sorry, I could not come along as all of my paid leaves are consumed.
You will find inside the coffin, under Ah-po's body,12 bottles of Yomeitsu tonic, 10 boxes of American Ginsengand 10 packets of Chinatown Chinese sausageLap Cheong.Please divide these among all of you.
On Ah-po's feet you will find a new pair of Nike Air shoes (size 10) for Ah boy.Also there are 2 pairs of shoes for Ah Mei's and Ah Lien's sons.Hope the sizes are correct. Ah-po is wearing 6 Calvin Klein T-shirts.Thelarge size is for Ah Bak and the others are for my nephews.Just distribute them among yourselves.The 2 new Armani Jeans that Ah-po is wearing are for 2nd uncle boys.The Rolex watch that Har Cheong wanted is on Ah po's left wrist.
Aunty Pei Pei, Ah po is wearing the Tiffany necklace, earrings and ring that you asked for. The 6 white Polo cotton socks that Ah po is wearingare to be divided among my teenage cousins.
P.S. Let me know what else you need, as Ah Gung (Grandpa)also not feeling well nowadays. I can send all required things when Ah Gung goes back, too."
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The answer to this question (too long to put into this post)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...3094801AAk8sC5
My dad is involved with the same shit... Asian mailing groups that circulate nonsense spam email. He forwards on all of these ridiculous email to me and my sister, which we promptly delete. I've told him several times they are 99.99999999999999% false and should not be heeded, but in some cases he's actually made lifestyle/product choice changes based on these spam email. Old people will never learn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Oh, mine's a little worse than that. But run in, I mean dramas, rumours and bitching. She's trying to decrypt these emails for any underlying meaning. For example regarding the Ice Age link, she was saying that the sender meant that the world is messed up today because of little shits ("small people", meaning people with little {narrow} hearts in Chinese) like them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
You know what I think? "Oh, look! This is funny, take a look at this! /forward."
Oh, and the sender is white.
But yeah, your dad's just like mine, my aunt and my other aunt. They don't seem to understand that useless emails are just that. Useless.
It's only on the rare occasion that they ask me to read/translate something useful, like this email about identifying signs of a stroke.
my mom has two facebook accounts she uses to converse with her middle-school friends, one with her current name and one with the maiden name. she anonnces to the whole world that she's having a conversation with herself, no matter how many times we tell her we don't care about her high-school 'gang'.
also, my father think that I'm internet magician. asking me to find a phone number or private mail address of someone. it doesn't matter that he sees that all I do is google, he still insists on me doing it.
My mum also thinks that I can just yell out a question to the internet and they will all answer my problems for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
"How can I lift my legs higher?"..
Damn, glad my family is more adept at computers than me.
Maybe just try to sit down and really really simply explain the general concepts of the Internet to them? And show them the Nightline NBC shows about Internet scammer... like the spinoff of To Catch A Predator show is To Catch A Con Man. And those NBC Nightline shows are designed for old people anyway so that might help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--RfZoqOHDo
Stretch. Hehehe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
She probably just wants to be able to kiss her knees. It's fun.
So you have a sister. Your feelings have now betrayed her too. Obi Wan was wise to hide her from the forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
My roommates are exactly the same. They have this running joke that I can answer any question, but a lot of the time when they ask me stuff they watch me google it and I read out the answer from Wikipedia or wherever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
They probably just want to hang out with you.
My hilarious Internet story is having to tell my roommate who is a Mac user that her browser's download list and and Download folder weren't the same thing...
I've never owned a Mac. She's been a Mac user for years.
It's a self-imposed mental problem. This used to happen to me to when I was obsessed with putting on weight and would actually get dizzy or feel sick when I missed a meal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Animeniax
Then I learned to stop panicking and it doesn't happen anymore. It's amazing how your body reacts to mental stimuli.
This made me laugh. I want to be facebook friends with your moms.Quote:
Originally Posted by DBZ
Nah, my mum's been doing Tai Chi for the last few months. She's trying be able to raise her leg vertically to maybe at least 45-degrees above the horizontal. Stretching works, sure, but I also believe she needs to improve on all her leg muscles as well as her core. As for what exercises will get her there specifically, I don't know. Just because I did a pharmacy degree, she expects me to an internal medicine specialist in everything - as well as her personal trainer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapphire
That's when you throw the question at the Internet.
And lie about the answer to your mother.
Believe me, it works.
Have fun with it.
I guess it's like when you need to poop real bad. You can keep it in until you're about 5 seconds from the toilet, then it just has to come out.Quote:
Originally Posted by XanBcoo
Essentially mind over matter. I need to work on that.
Dunno about that. Sometimes if I don't eat, I get a huge headache. I pretty much have no concept of an eating schedule.
When I start dieting, I get headaches when I skip meals. But after 1 or 2 days into the diet, it all fades away.
If she continues stretching and doing tai chi alone, she'll get there. She'll need to be dedicated though and overcome the desire to stop or not push to her physical limits though. That's true for any set of exercises though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
When someone asks "Do you drink?", what do they mean?
-Do you regularly drink? (and if so, how regular is regular?)
-Do you voluntarily choose to drink disregarding special occasions etc?
-Do you compulsively drink?
They probably mean "Do you ever drink for fun with your friends?". But if you want to say you drink but add a disclaimer you can say "Not really, only on special occasions" or something.
But when people say the latter it usually eliminates them as a viable "get drunk and spontaneously have fun one day" friend.