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Vaquero de Alta California
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Don't sell yourself short. You're far more than just a bit of a conundrum. You're the whole shebang!So I’m a bit of a conundrum.
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Don't sell yourself short. You're far more than just a bit of a conundrum. You're the whole shebang!So I’m a bit of a conundrum.
I've been having a rough go of it lately at my job. I handle two stores for my work and one of them is great to work with and the other since a management change a couple months ago has gotten to the point where I don't want to go in there anymore. I sell and merchandise for my job as a background, so last week I was putting up some seasonal product in the store and a couple days later the manager comes over and tells me that it was too much and that i was basically stupid. I immediately contacted my supervisor and she said she would talk to him. Then today I go in there and I check out with another manager and he said that it seems that he hadn't talked to me in months, even though he's the one I talked to initially when I put out the seasonal merchandise. Again, just a while ago, I contacted my supervisor and told her what happened (she hadn't even talked to them about the first incident yet). She is going in there tomorrow. I honestly don't know what to do at this point. I was insulted by one manager and lied to by another. I think the relationship is not salvageable for me at this point. I had no problems in this store a couple months ago. Years ago, people would tell you to just suck it up, but I'm done sucking it up. I'm a sensitive person about stuff like that and I'm not taking it.
You can see the contrast across cultures. Indonesia still has much more community focus in the society than the UK (at least any part of the commuter belt around London). Neighbours will come around and talk shite, their children will play with yours and friends will just hang out more. England - crickets. And don't get me started on people's social calendars in this country. You have to book everything months in advance.The death of communities is something I've noticed acutely in my lifetime as well, even in the suburbs I largely grew up in.
Don't move out of the house!So....
I have a friend who is rapidly heading for a nasty divorce.
Husband is definitely mentally and emotionally abusive. She has also discovered evidence of multiple ongoing affairs and other inappropriate behavior.
He controls ask the finances. Everything in his name.
They have a child. She is about 4.
Husband is threatening to take their child and have my friend deported. She is undocumented ( Canada).
He has refused to help her with her citizenship process in any way since she arrived here.
She is broke, frightened and alone. She has a child and dogs. Her husband is angry and has a history of drug use and instability.
This sucks.
If anyone has any suggestions...
So....
I have a friend who is rapidly heading for a nasty divorce.
Husband is definitely mentally and emotionally abusive. She has also discovered evidence of multiple ongoing affairs and other inappropriate behavior.
He controls ask the finances. Everything in his name.
They have a child. She is about 4.
Husband is threatening to take their child and have my friend deported. She is undocumented ( Canada).
He has refused to help her with her citizenship process in any way since she arrived here.
She is broke, frightened and alone. She has a child and dogs. Her husband is angry and has a history of drug use and instability.
This sucks.
If anyone has any suggestions...
I liked the Hellboy films with Perlman and cast. I'm not even a huge fan of the comics, but those movies were enjoyable.
Say what you really feel about this film, don't hold back !!!Finally saw the 2019 Hellboy movie, expecting to like it based on a few reviews.
As a huge fan of the comics (like, they've my favorite comics ever), I absolutely detested it and shut it off before the ending.
F-Bombs every 30 seconds, extreme and sometimes horrific gore, and an asshole, manipulative version of Professor Bruttenholm... those are only a FEW of the reasons that I hated this film.
Like, it's pure fucking garbage with a few glimmers of goodness. Neat character designs. One or two funny jokes. That's about it.
Fuck that movie and fuck the Producer-Committee who completely misunderstood not only Mignola's works but why other R-Rated comic book movies were a success (hint, it wasn't just because they were gory and had naughty words in them, you revolting imbecilic troglodytes!!!!).
I liked the Hellboy films with Perlman and cast. I'm not even a huge fan of the comics, but those movies were enjoyable.
Finally saw the 2019 Hellboy movie, expecting to like it based on a few reviews.
As a huge fan of the comics (like, they've my favorite comics ever), I absolutely detested it and shut it off before the ending.
F-Bombs every 30 seconds, extreme and sometimes horrific gore, and an asshole, manipulative version of Professor Bruttenholm... those are only a FEW of the reasons that I hated this film.
Like, it's pure fucking garbage with a few glimmers of goodness. Neat character designs. One or two funny jokes. That's about it.
Fuck that movie and fuck the Producer-Committee who completely misunderstood not only Mignola's works but why other R-Rated comic book movies were a success (hint, it wasn't just because they were gory and had naughty words in them, you revolting imbecilic troglodytes!!!!).
I am very pleased that you felt the same way as me. I mean, I’m not happy ANYONE was mad about this shit movie in the first place, but that I’m not alone.I made the conscious decision not to see it in the theatre after the first trailer dropped.
When it turned up on Prime I decided to give it a shot. Turned it off about 15 minutes in, about the moment "Alice Monoghan" (my favourite character from the comics) showed up. Not only was it unenjoyable up to that point, it was actively making me angry.
Plus, I mean, if you're going to follow up a film almost 20 years later, shouldn't your makeup on the main character be better, not look like a shitty Star Trek TNG villain of the week?
I am very pleased that you felt the same way as me. I mean, I’m not happy ANYONE was mad about this shit movie in the first place, but that I’m not alone.
Argh I’m getting mad just thinking about it!!
...one of those made-up American holidays like Tax Day in April...
I left retail before that happened.As many of you know, I’ve worked in retail for 30 years and I think it’s a travesty stores are open on Thanksgiving and were thinking about Christmas before the backlash started.
As many of you know, I’ve worked in retail for 30 years and I think it’s a travesty stores are open on Thanksgiving and were thinking about Christmas before the backlash started.
This month has just been the worst and I need to vent
TLDR: My neighbor's a nightmare and I haven't had a proper sleep in a month.So I moved into my current apartment back in August. It's a dump but it's cheap and centrally located to everything I need. I didn't meet any of the neighbors with the exception of the people to my left, a guy who I only ever talked to while he was pulling the hard-drive out of a laptop on a picnic table in the common patio area, and a woman who would walk around said patio area talking to herself about mind control and smoking about 3 cigarettes in 10 minutes. They were mostly quiet as with all my other neighbors and I didn't really have a problem with them.
About a month ago I was doing my normal get ready for bed routine when all of the sudden the woman starts shouting and yelling at teh top of her lungs while running in and out of their apartment slamming the door so hard that my (full) bookshelf shakes. It's about 9:30pm and I figure that she'll probably quiet down. Midnight rolls around and she's still shouting and screaming about mind control and cigarettes and a whole bunch of other nonsense. I'm worried that she's having some kind of mental health crisis so I call the cops, who promptly show up, knock on her door, are told by her to go away because she's fine, and leave. She continues shouting and throwing stuff in her apartment until around 2:30am and I get about 2-3 hours of sleep that night. To give you an idea of how loud she was, I could hear what she was saying in her own apartment with my earplugs in. Since that day they've been making all sorts of racket next door well into the morning, I was once awoken by them running a vacuum at 3 in the morning. Every week or so the guy is not in the apartment for the night and the woman has another one of her shouting matches with herself. On top of this the woman is also smoking in both the laundry room and in their apartment so my apartment and clothes are beginning to smell like an ash tray.
I've been communicating with the management company that owns the building and fourtunatly they've been very helpful and have begun the process of evicting them for the noise during quiet hours and smoking indoors.
The only thing that has really been keeping me going this month has been school and weekly D&D sessions. These past 4 days have been a blessing too as I'm visiting family for Thanksgiving and am not at my apartment.
Please, Mr. Ramone was my father. Call me Dee Dee.Somebody called me on the phone
They said, "Hey, is Dee Dee home?
Do you wanna take a walk?
You wanna go cop?
You wanna go get some Chinese rocks?"
I'm living on a Chinese rock
All my best things are in hock
I'm living on a Chinese rock
Everything is in the pawn shop
The plaster's falling off the wall
My girlfriend's crying in the shower stall
It's hot as a bitch
I shoulda been rich
Now I'm just digging a Chinese ditch
I'm living on a Chinese rock
All my best things are in hock
I'm living on a Chinese rock
Everything is in the pawn shop
...do you prefer to addressed as Dee Dee or Mr. Ramone?