8,000 have welfare pay slashed over their failure to look for work - Independent.ie

Took all of five minutes for the smarmy gits to show up and start cheering. Probably never even been stuck on the dole.

I've done it. For four years.

For the first few months it's easy. You fire out the job applications, convinced that it'll be over and done with and that soon you'll get some sort of gainful work.

Silence replies.

Maybe the odd one or two dangling strings will come back, rubber stamp rejections and one single interview that ends in a we'll call you.

That never comes.

But you still try.

Tailing off over the months as things start to drag and it gets harder and harder to motivate yourself. The silent treatment cripples. The rejections pile up, eroding your sense of self worth. Constantly being told you're just not good enough to do anything steadily beats you down.

After about 8 months you're starting to wonder if it's worth it, if you're worth it.... You're life's lost it's rhythm - you're sleeping later and staying up longer, making the time pass.

It's harder and harder to bring yourself to bother to even apply. You start second guessing if it's worth the effort, since you know you're just going to get another bloody rejection anyway. Opportunities sail by. Shit piles up. Your sense of ability burns off.

It's harder and harder to keep trying and easier and easier to just burn the day and get it over with, scrabbling for morsels of self worth that comes from actually being sucessful at something.

Even if it is just Counter Strike.

Making it worse are the smarmy fucks who take pride in looking down their noses, like getting lucky makes them some sort of Jesus. I dealt with those fuckers alright. Borrowed a brand new car and wore a suit to a job interview. Got home, signed on, and some oul cow went out of her way to sneer at me. Or how about the time when I finally did get a job? - I drove to the dole office to sign-off in my new car - and another prick took time out of his day to sneer at the taxpayers money paying for such a sports car. I trolled the fuck out of that cunt alright. I hate cunts like that.

Otherwise, you're powerless, helpless. You might just about get an application in once a month or so, just bairly managing to struggle, limping on, but finally, you just run out of steam and drop where you are.

And then some smarmy fuck comes along and decides that because you're unable to try hard enough, they're just going to fuck you over.

That isn't going to motivate anyone. It's just going to make it worse. The spiral deepens further and further. It's just beating them back down into the hole and they're going to get to the point where they're never coming out. It makes the underlying problem worse, rather than helping.

Once someone goes down that hole, beating them over the head about it isn't going to make them come out, it just makes the beater feel better about themselves.

Eventually, I managed to find a job. But 4 years squatting on me hole has has made it very, very hard for me to believe I'll ever suceed at anything. And that's still having a negative effect on my work to this day because I know I'm dropping important tasks because I'm afraid of fucking them up and it's so much easier to just leave them undone. It's not even conscious, it just happens. I'm a ball of nerves afraid to fuck up, say or do the wrong thing and end up right back where I started because I'm terrified I'll never get moving again.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

I just got back from a matinee showing of the new Ghostbusters movie, and... I enjoyed it.  I think it's worth going to see.  It's different -- it is in no way a line-for-line remake, and it doesn't have the same ratio of comedy to action/horror than the original, being a bit lighter on the comedy.  And the four main characters are different in many ways -- none of them is a Venkman-style con artist, for example.  But it's good film, driven as strongly by character and backstory as by the events they find themselves in.  There are plenty of winks and nods to the original, including a great set of cameos, but is its own thing, unbeholden to the first film.  If it has a fault, I would say that the comic writing is weaker at the beginning than it should be; but by the end every funny bit rang perfectly.
Oh, and is mandatory these days, you have to sit through the credits. There are multiple scenes interspersed among them, plus a final post-credits scene that is either a callback or a sequel hook.

Anyway, I spent just under $10 and didn't feel like I'd wasted it.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Awake and Alive by Skillet?



BTW the video has the cliche villain hanging from a cliff routine, but it didn't have a good guy trying to pull him up.
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Tom Mathews aka Disruptor

With the exception of the few snippets I have posted here in the forums, I have lost the entirety of Chapter 11 of Dear Sweet Kani-sama.  
The reason this happened was due to a glitch in FocusWriter that prevents it from properly saving to the original file - for the last two or three months, FocusWriter has been using only the cached copies of the files in my personal AppData folder.  I was not able to recover it due to an undocumented feature of FocusWriter: it only maintains cached copies of the last five sessions.  And once I discovered the discrepancy, I went on a spree trying to find the lost data, inadvertently burying it.

I've already tried an undelete, but it's too late.  There have already been far too many rewrites to that part of the hard disk.

The one good thing is that the new version of FocusWriter is safe to use - I was in direct email-communication with Graeme Gott, the creator of FocusWriter, who was very helpful in at least figuring out what happened.

Quote:Oh no! That's awful!
FocusWriter saves to regular files, not temporary files. It also keepscopies of the files for the last five times it was opened, so--unlessyou have opened it repeatedly after this issue arose--there should bebackup copies located here:
%APPLOCALDATA%GottCodeFocusWriterCache
Second, you should upgrade as soon as possible. There was a data lossbug fixed in 1.5.5 that might be related to your issue.
Also, are the files themselves empty? Or did they just open that way?
Regards,Graeme Gott

Quote:No, the files were not empty. It was simply as though it had stopped saving to the files at a certain point.
I just checked the folder in question. No luck - I went in a spree trying to find the missing data. I'm going to have to try for a file recovery and see if it can't be undeleted.  Even if I only get part of what I'm missing, it's better than nothing. Thanks for the clue, though.
And I'll definitely get that newer version.
Sincerely,Benjamin Rhodes

Quote:I'm sorry to hear that. Unfortunately, I can't think of anything else tosuggest. I hope you have luck with the file recovery!
Regards,Graeme Gott

"Okay," I said after swallowing.  "Enough about me, then.  Let'stalk about you."
"Ooookay," Sailor Moon mumbled dubiously around her spoon.  Luna
looked at me suspiciously over her sandwich.  
I held up a french fry and gestured with it like it was a
pointer.  "Sailor V.  Sailor Moon.  What's the connection betweenyou two?  Some kind of franchise deal?"
Sailor Moon opened her mouth to answer, then closed it.  Then sheturned to her ... pet?  partner?  companion?  "You know, Luna,that's a really good question," she said.  "You just showed up
tonight and told me I was Sailor Moon, and then I transformed and
I heard Naru calling for help, and then everything else all
happened, and this is the first chance I've had to think about it
all.  Do you know Sailor V?  Am I supposed to be her partner or
something?"
I was pretty sure the black cat was Luna's native form, but itwas a very *human* expression of panic and uncertainty that swept
across her face for a fraction of a second before she schooled
her features into something more confident -- even arrogant.  "That is not something I should be revealing to a random strangerin a cheap restaurant," she declared haughtily.  "When we returnto your home, Sailor Moon, I shall explain everything."
Translation for those who don't speak Cat:  "That will give me
enough time to get my story straight."
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ninte ... -1.3678865]Nintendo announces compact NES with 30 classic retro games

The unit comes with an HDMI cable and 30 vintage games ... but no Duck Hunt.

We're going to need All The Tropes pages (or redirects) for Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong Jr., Double Dragon II: The Revenge, Excitebike, Kirby's Adventure, Mario Bros. (no "Super"), ?Ninja Gaiden, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, and Super C...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

...the annual family trip to Long Beach Island starts on Saturday.  With the nephews both college age and over 6 feet tall, and the niece in her terrible twos, we've finally outgrown the beach house we've been renting for almost a decade, and have found a new place right by one of our favorite beaches on the island.
Sadly, if the contract is correct, there's no wifi at the new place, but we have some workarounds for that, so hopefully yours truly won't entirely disappear for a week.  But in case I do, rest assured I am doing so in a pleasant sea breeze, with my kindle in my hands.
EDIT:  Oh, and BA?  You were worried a year ago that my brother and sister-in-law teaching our niece Vivi Ameslan would impede her verbal skills.  No such luck.  She's been forming full sentences for the last few months now.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Since the last thread hit 300 posts, here's a new one.

Just made an executive decision. On Essential Anime, there was a link to a TVTropes discussion thread where changes to the page were to be discussed before being made. I've changed that to asking that changed to the page be discussed on the Talk Page. (Yes, this is because I had a list of proposed additions...)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Folks, the new UK PM is named Theresa May. Teresa May (without the H) is somebody completely different - and search results for her will be NSFW.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11 ... tter_fail/]Apparently, Twitter doesn't know this. Oops.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012