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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

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    4 hours ago, ignatius said:

    dude. holy shit. i feel your pain. so sorry you have to deal that level of bureaucracy all while being on crutches and in pain. jfc. it's crazy there's no type of triage and priority list for people. it's no wonder why people in USA just go to the emergency room for everything. i suspect that happens there as well. 

    it's absolutely no fun chasing people down on the phone and being a pain in the ass just so they'll do their god damned jobs. that's kind of where i'm at currently. i woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back to sleep because i was dreaming about conversations i'm inevitably going to have with various healthcare office workers. so now i'm staring at the clock and waiting for the 9am mark so i can call and ask them if they got my messages and if all is clear and to please fucking call me once you have some answers. they suck at following up. i'm going to use the "you catch more flys with honey" approach and be as nice as possible without being a pushover. and this is for surgery to remove my thyroid because cancer (of course it's cancer because it always is cancer w/me)

    as for tendons. fuck. i came a hair away from severing my right achilles when i was around 13.. and still to this day it's tight and weird and i get tightness, weakness and pain in it.. i have to wear an ankle brace sometimes and stretch it all the time. 

    fuck dude.. i hope you get things sorted out.. i firmly believe in the idea that stress reduces our life spans and a lot of stress is created with healthcare situations and the systems of healthcare failing us and forcing us to become advocates for ourselves in the worst times of our lives. 

    also, life would be meaningless w/o music and sex.

    Yeah mang, ur situation sounds if anything shittier than mine, stay strong bruh

    Yeah I had the achilles tendon go before in 2021, needed 4 weeks off work then too, that was actually the last time I went off sick. I never go off sick. Which at least affords me leeway with work, they know I won't be off unless I really need to be.

    Yeah I try not to get stressed about this crap, tis a killer indeed.

    exactly re: last point. I have been making use of my houseboundness:

    There's actually a pretty well known label around these parts interested in putting some of this stuff out :^)

    something for the FWS thread if the talks work out 

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    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

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    9 hours ago, ignatius said:

    new specialist. she's great. her office staff.. not so much. currently navigating the healthcare bureaucracy in USA because her office didn't fill out the forms for prior authorization for a procedure. calling their office, insurance, office, insurance.. all because someone can't do their fucking job right. 

    in USA.. incompetence is as big an epidemic as anything else. when you encounter someone who knows what they're doing and how to resolve issues.. make sure to let them know they're appreciated. jfc. people half assing their job in the healthcare industry is fucking annoying af. 

    I hear that.

    I've had ongoing tendonitis issues with my legs since the beginning of October (I've had sporadic flare ups for the last 10yrs). It was just my knees and I was still managing to get to work, sometimes with a stick, but it was manageable.
    Beginning of January my achilles tendon went and I was fucked. Pretty much relying on crutches to get to my bathroom and kitchen. Was stuck indoors for 12 days.

    So now I need to go to the doctor. I need pain meds, I need a note for work as I've had more than 7 days off, I also need a reevaluation. Some of my colleagues have mentioned arthritis.
    I moved here 2 summers back and I haven't yet registered with a doctor as I haven't needed to go to one.

    I call them and am brushed off and told I need to register online. I go online and do that. It's a very small practice so assume I will hear back in a day or two, despite the generic text about a maximum of 2 weeks. Nearly a week goes by so I call them. The woman I speak to seems confused as to why I wouldn't have heard back from them by now so she does some checks. "oh, I see your application in our inbox. It seems you aren't in our catchment area"

    This is strange to me as it's a 10min walk around the corner

    "you can still register with us, but you need to come in person and fill in a form here" I am now being told to come do the thing I was told I couldn't do the first time I called them.

    So I schlep myself to the Practice, on crutches, the 10min walk takes me 35mins. I arrive and explain my situation to the girl at reception. She asks for my postcode and puts it into the computer there.

    "that's weird, you are in our catchment area"

    ...

    but hey ho, I am there now. I fill in the paper form with all the information I already filled in on their website, which is presumably sitting in an inbox somewhere in the offices behind this receptionist. She then directs me to a janky touchscreen thing so I can give them a blood pressure reading.....and then answer all the questions I've answered both online and with pen and paper, but for a third time via touchscreen!

    I've been there half an hour now. I'm done with the touchscreen but there is a queue for reception, so I have to get in it, on my crutches. 10mins later I realise the girl I've been dealing with has gone and it's a different girl sitting there. She's like "yeah you're registered, that's it"

    "ok.....so......an appointment?"

    "oh we don't make appointments after X time. I'll text you a url and you follow that link tomorrow after 8am, or you can call after 8"

    I shlep myself back home on my crutches, which turns out to be one of the hardest things I have ever endured. I am low on energy and strength reserves now. My legs are screaming at me, and the temp has dropped to zero. The last 200 meters to my building I am having to stop and take a 5min rest for every 10 meters I travel.

    I get in around 6pm, pop a load of ibuprofen, prop my legs up and sleep until 3am

    In the morning I call the Practice. I am told about this URL once again by a woman who clearly doesn't want to talk on the phone to anyone. Fine I'll do it online, I fill in a triage form. They call me back a few hours later and offer me an appointment in 10 days time, this is the soonest available appointment. I ofc have no option but to take it. I'm still waiting to attend this appointment. I can actually walk unaided now.

    The bow on this dogshit cake would be for the doctor to dismiss my problem and refuse to give me a sign off sheet for work, as I appear to be fine.

    Anyway sorry WALL OF TEXT

     

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    Be Up A Hello [2020]

    in Squarepusher

    Posted

    don't care for Damogen either. Again, doesn't feel like an album at all. Feels like a bunch of tracks he chucked together. The fact that the order is reversed on the LP kinda gives evidence for that.

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    Be Up A Hello [2020]

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    On 9/16/2023 at 10:41 AM, d-a-m-o said:

    First Squarepusher I bought on release, with the mini poster, the mini CD, and the ultravisitor ep (that I've lost many moons ago, sadly).

    Only release of him that I don't like is Ufababoon , I HATE everything about this album, from the artwork to the stupid robot mask ( there's maybe one or two good tracks on it tho)

    oh, and that Z machine album, but let's say it's not a real Pusher album.

    Go Plastic was mine, but yeah Ultravisitor was the first where I was rabidly waiting for it to come out

    lol, Ufab is my fave of the 'meh era' squarepusher. I recognise that the sound is completely fucked up somehow, but that doesn't put me off. And I like it as a cohesive album. Which Damogen isn't. Be Up a Hello might be one but christ that album just slides off my brain every time I listen to it.

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    Dostrotime [2024]

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    44 minutes ago, xxx said:

    Yes, Tom plz. We need '20 redemption. As everyone made good on the "rescheduled" appearances across '21, '22 and '23 and there was no Tom, my heart sank.

    I say this because, honestly, if you do enough electronic shows, they can become boring in a way but not Squarepusher. Every time I've seen him, it was something new and explosive. 

    damn I didn't know he just upped and cancelled in NA

    I had tickets for the 2019 show in London and it eventually happened in October of 2021

    And yeah, despite him being in his 'eh, it's ok I guess' album era since 2006, he always fucking slays live

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    Dostrotime [2024]

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    4 minutes ago, psn said:

    Ooooh, sounds noice!

    agreed

    this sounds much rawer than Be Up a Hello. That one was far too polished for me. Every time I listen to it I've forgotten the whole album as soon as it ends.

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    Hello Spiral - Guitarded

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    Hihi, I have a CDr out on venerable noise label Chocolate Monk

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    http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.html

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    Hello Spiral - Guitarded  CDr £5

    choc.596

    This isn't a put on. This scruff really wants to put rock n roll in the ground. If you soak the ego in whisky long enough it becomes a dissonant crank. NO MORE MUSIC.

    Some points from the player.

    • Walking through strangely luminous walls of garbage, until then I will never believe in you so much.

    • 20 x 14 RAWSTOCK GDNS, half a chunk of my daily dose of being robbed. I actually just think this is a clowncore thing, unrelated to ice-cream care for the feet of the soft lady. We don’t have anywhere to store car doors. WANTED: Standing coat hunger, wardrobe, chest of drawers (Kentish Town). Enjoy your blood vinegar. The doors get slower every day, the doors get slower every day. Like sugar and mint on top, and then an undertow of dense breath smell. Functional head’s doubts entomb us like giant towers of pigs. Bruxism headache. Nice weather for xenophobes. Add insult to insult.

    • Snitchcraft, the end of life below the spiders as we’ve known it. Colonorectal fear. Gamer girl fart carts. Something else round and brown. Download more night. You’re telling me a ghost wrote this book? You can’t control the direction of the wind but you can adjust your balls. He brought him to the sweetie realm and uhm’d him to death. A problem too boring to share, like a kilo of rice and naming all the grains, aesthetical microaggressions are no laughing matter. Privately amused by the not-quite non sequitur. Sinking your teeth into the texture of now, that dread would disintegrate. Kinda looks like this guy looks like this guy looks like this guy looks like this guy embraced the bald. Forbidden gun emoji. Levitating window cleaners eating a big fucking skeleton-shaped pizza. Looked like nipple chafing from running but you’re full of asbestos. We are all evolving into crabs, laments of the garbled man. Convenient racist t-shirt. Pat the background object. If I didn’t have worms before, I definitely do now. Indulgence in moral turpitude, musta done a slid at least. Made dinner and ate it…you cannot replace the imposter. Photograph of a model modelling. “I’m not really bothered about that hole right now cos I know what it is and I know where it is” Probably hungover from the fireworks. I get all my shitting done before I leave the house. We will take the piss.

    Numbered edition of 50

     

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    AI Art

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    17 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

    Good one 👍

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    Yeah that wasn't even on purpose lol, someone pointed it out after the fact

    prompt was 'a cat made of glass, half of which is melting at a high temperature, shaking hands with a duck in a business suit'

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