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One of my college friends I'm out of touch with has a crappy job in food service, but they've turned down numerous offers for higher positions in the company (and maybe a track into corporate?). Maybe the benefits weren't worth the amount of additional responsibilities, I dunno, but they continued to complain about their day-to-day hassle in the low-level job they were apparently satisfied enough with to prefer.

people react differently to stress and challenges. and that isn’t necessarily racially coded or a matter of privilege, either.

some people can forebear untold suffering and others put that 1911 in their mouth after a small, final setback. something that barely even registers on the scale of grievance. it’s hard to measure or understand the internal pressures that another person may or may not be experiencing.

i personally don’t understand people who want to stop learning or experiencing new growth or new challenges. people who are not intellectually curious. people who ‘stop reading after college’ and just become all about the grind or ‘maximising their gains’ or whatever. ‘a sheep in a mercedes and a sheep without are all following the same flock to the abattoir’. but mental illness is something else.

Last edited by uziq (2022-09-19 16:16:03)

Uzique, how are you feeling? How are you reacting to the checks notes adversity, helplessness, and withdrawal brought on by the Queen's death? Would you like to talk to my therapist for a little while?

I am man enough to admit when I need help. You need help. You need to let the Queen go.

You are like Silvio driving the car ruminating about how disrespected the Queen is.

the queen. She sacrificed for the country. Did what was right

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Of course you like Silvio. He killed a woman.

Have you ever talked to someone about threatening to murder your exgirlfriend? Maybe you should have talked to someone before you threatened a double murder suicide.

Poor you!

You threatened to kill her. Detective Dilbert showed me the recordings. It's all on tape.

Your dad got you off on the charges like Tony saved AJ for trying to knife Uncle Jun.

I know your sins. God knows your sins. The Queen knows your sins.

I am a Catholic. You must explain your sins to a pedophile before you are free and clear...

That actually gave me a great idea. I will call up a priest and see what they say about my predicament.

uziq wrote:

whatever i said to dilberts in high or drunken PMs at the time was evidently a lot of colour and dramatization. i was taken into custody for a night ... if i committed even simple assault and threatened harm to someone, i would have a record, even a caution. ergo: no visa to an extremely tight and homogeneous country that has little need of foreigners, let alone foreigners with violent offences on their record. figure out what's more likely, dumkopf!

It was a public post, I could probably find it.

You probably benefitted from white privilege and got let off - the plod couldn't care less about drugged-up rich kids at a snooty college being stupid.

No record doesn't mean a thing, a police officer I knew said if he prosecuted everyone who threatened to kill someone he would do literally nothing else
"That guy looked at my bird, I'll fucking kill him" etc.

You didn't have a night in a cell for nothing, count yourself lucky.

You didn't say you took anyone hostage, this is new, what you said was you were high and rampaging around with a knife making threats, your housemates were so scared they called the police - who took you away.

You weren't cautioned or charged - big deal, happens all the time - so it won't show up on any record check.

So why did the police take you away in the first place? Because you had a bag of powder?
Thats what makes no sense.

IIRC It was reclassified as an illegal drug shortly after and you were lucky to get away with it.

Here we go, even this is confused, apparently you were making threats to others and yourself.
Maybe the truth will come out one day.

So why did the police take you away in the first place? Because you had a bag of powder?
Thats what makes no sense.

how are you so fucking dumb? lol. if the police get called out to a residential address with mention of drugs, they come and they find a bag of white powder, they're knicking you. it looks like cocaine and for all they know it is, until they get a reagent test or a lab analysis done on it. try concealing a bag of flour or sugar on your person and getting patted down by a cop. they will knick you. 'that's what makes no sense'? lol what the fuck are you talking about man? that was their entire probable cause for arresting me right there. 'possession of class A controlled substance'. hell, i had enough quantity for them to push for a 'with intent to distribute and supply', even. having class A's on you is more than a ticket-able offence, dilbert. you're going to the station.

'8 inch blade'. lol. it was a BUTTER knife on a kitchen plate, where i had the packet of powdered drugs and which i was using to crush up the powder into lines. drug paraphernalia. it was taken as evidence for that reason. they asked me why i had a knife and i said 'because i was just eating cake'. being a smart arse. there was never any insinuation i was going to commit a massacre with a fucking butter knife. drugs come in little paper wraps and the powder needs to be broken down. they seized everything in my room that had traces of powder on it.

as i said, i was handy at dramatizing my predicament because it all seemed much, much more serious then, to a 19 year old, than it really was. it sounds pretty exciting to say i was arrested with an 8 inch blade in my room. certainly better-sounding than admitting i was humiliated by a squadron of police because i was a lost little lamb going through a bad breakup, at any rate. but you do know what actually happens to people who make threats to others with a machete, right ... ? they don't get a finger wag and let out the next morning with no consequence. that's a straight-up prosecutable offence.

yes, i said in my post above that it was due for its first classification shortly after i was caught. but that's a bit of a null point because i wouldn't have had possession of it at all if it was illegal, duh. we were all partying with legal, cheap, and easily available drugs. none of us knew a drug dealer or had ever interacted with one. we were NINETEEN years old.

Cybargs wrote:

here's a reason why retrospective criminal law is a big no no

i remember being extremely cocky in my quick interview with the policeman who booked me into the station, because i knew the substances were then legal. he was asking where i got it from and i was explaining, in great detail, how easy it was to buy off the internet, how the entire local small town were flooded with moped delivery drivers, how the royal mail were posting it through letterboxes with regular post every morning, etc ... lel. i was still buzzing and high at the time but, yeah, the foolishness of a youth with a little pre-university law experience.

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