Calling in sick for an accommodated day due to a physical disability I will always have should not require me to call my boss, apply for state pmla for the single day, call into the 'professional services' that have both sent me a letter I am eligible for accommodation days but also told me that I'm not approved for accommodation days, and also wait for a specialist to call me back in 2 business days to let me know if I missed any steps in the approval process. FFS, they make this whole process confusing to complete on a day I'm already missing due to my inability to function on a normal human level. UGH. Can I please just not get fired for a lifelong fucking illness...

Doublepost but....

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Today we have moved on to bandages because it is starting to scab over.

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Jim Steinman, songwriter for Meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler, and others, passes away at the age of 73

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If you're into stories about shitty people being shitty: Behind the Bastards
If you're into current events and misery: More News and also Worst Year Ever

Those three have a lot of overlap in hosts, but Robert Evans is a fantastic journalist and funny dude.

Right wingers need not apply, because I don't want to hear how these things pissed you off. Not that I care, cause righties are pieces of shit, but,

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Thank you so much to everyone who has filled this out!

Seconding the recommendation for the Charismatic Voice. This is one of my favourites when it comes to her reviews: Phil Collins, In The Air Tonight

I'm not a Phil Collins fan, but that song's an indelible part of my youth - and it turns out that no-one told her something quite important about Phil Collins. There's a moment of pure comedy gold, completely unintentional, that I'm not going to spoiler because it's just too perfect. If you know the secret, you'll be falling over laughing when it happens too. And if you don't, well, prepare for a surprise!

@tinuviel

Look. LOOK. Sometimes sacrifices have to be made. No one likes it. It's still necessary.

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@sunny said in Good TV:

I love Invincible SO MUCH. I can't really do gore so it gets rough at moments, but gosh, the characters and storytelling are so good it keeps me watching despite my hangups.

I'm really digging DC's Harley Quinn, if only because it is really gory. (Like when King Shark bites people in half.)

But it's so hilariously vulgar that it's hard to take too seriously, and all of the decapitation and uber-violence only adds to its absurdity.

Plus, like, Lake Bell is my totem Hollywood voice, so.

chloe cat

Arise and live again! Hey, the thread exists so why make a new one?

Anyway. I just discovered there this new(?) - newish - thing where these guys who are amazing singers sing soooooo looooooow.and the subharmonics are just amazing not to mention their overall octave range which is wonderfully displayed when they sing with themselves.

Here's one guy named Geoff Castellucci:
Sixteen Tons and Blackbird.

Also, this guy named Tomi P who is a giant geek.
@coin, you'll want to listen to Toss A Coin To Your Witcher.

@cobalt Phasmophobia. I've not tried the other one. I've crocheted voodoo dolls inspired by Phasmo as gifts for the guys who got me to play though.

Demotivational Posters has you covered!

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My husband swears up and down he doesn't love our old lady black cat, but then sends me pictures of old lady black cat who hangs out with him all day now that I'm back in the building.

I know the truth. He loves old lady black cat.

I am 20 minutes into the Zach Snyder's Directors Cut of The Justice League and it is already a million times better than the 2017 version.

Thank goodness.

THIS is the DC world. No stupid slapstick comedy, no out of character wittiness. This is the DC comics I loved as a child and would stay up at night reading from my father's collection. It wasn't always particularly hopeful, but the stories were something I craved.

@kanye-qwest said in Mercenary Entrepreneurship:

no one pays someone to write things that they can't read

You sure? We've got lawyers in this thread, too.

I work for a life insurance brokerage firm that used to have an enormous office that took up the entire floor of the building we used to be in. It was large enough to have separate wings connected via a large lobby, and you had to go through at least one door if not two in order to get from one to the other. This meant our sales people could blast loud music, talk loudly, and engage in the rowdiness that apparently serves as the formula for success.

However, we have since moved to a much smaller office as most of our workforce has gone to telecommuting, and now the sales people who do come in now have to share their space with others. You'd think they'd dial down the loud voices, the yelling, the loud music, but no. There's one particular manager who comes in once a week that I outright want to muzzle - it's like he learned how to project his voice and then just never learned to turn it off.

I am extremely sensitive to sound. It can often make me feel like something is pressing down on me, or cause me physical pain. Our new office has two different sound systems, one on each side, and since I sit in the middle, I pick up the music from both sides. I am constantly turning the music down on both - I don't shut it off, but I turn it down.

But mostly I want to throttle the entitlement out of the guys on the sales floor.

oh god

OH GOD WHY

I AM SO SORRY