I think I don’t give a shit about the A’s and D’s. Life is frustrating, sure. But I remember the times of not having stupendously challenging jobs involving getting on a plane every other week and the boredom was equally as frustrating.
When I look at normal folk, in their polished shoes talking about the weather and their favourite sports team, I’m actually glad I’m pointing skateboards at pubs and potholes, and bikes at rocks and hills rather than going for a round of golf and climaxing the day by watching television.
I’m going for a ride while I wait for some glue to cure in my window sashes.
This thread is usually a place of negativity, ranting and/or condolence, so here’s an positive mental health post.
After the fire, I really didn’t know what to do with myself. I had to seemingly start all over. Thankfully, fate graced me with some scraps of esk8, which I took with gusto and made lemonade out of those lemons.
Building an esk8 has been a great motivator to accomplish other things in my life. It’s also revealed to me that with ADHD I require something this stimulating to keep me on my toes.
I really could never have made it this far in life if it weren’t for the awesome people on this forum, you guys freaking rock. Thanks esk8.news!
Gentle men ( and lady?) if you’re in America, or not, this seems like it might be a challenging year. I went from making 70$ an hr to 18 a back to 61( I live in SF I’m still poor) the stock market just crashed and my retirement is at risk from a neonatzi.
I call on everyone who is of sound mind or at least fooling most people your sane, to step up and be an example of how you would be treated. This is an embarrassing time for America, but it’s an opportunity to pull together, rise above and overcome. Reach out to people, make a difference and if you need help, swallow your pride, as for help. It’s not how we fail ( we all do) the measures of people and society is how we pull together and get up from a defeat.
I got a new job recently, they asked how good are you? I said I can’t tell you, I can only show you. Walk the walk, brothers keeper, bull Durham clenches etc . Be well
in regards to the everyone seems to have it thing:
even though it’s a spectrum of severity, imo
it’s overdiagnosed,
it’s much more than inattentiveness, constant fidgeting, memory, etc. things that people would use to say they have it, even if in reality they don’t. like OCD (that one is a worse offender. like, no becky, just cause you don’t like that my socks aren’t matching today that doesn’t mean you have it.)
not to say that there can be a lot of us here that have it though
as an individual?
i think it’s worth it to try for a diagnosis if you think your case is severe enough that it affects your everyday life, it never hurts. i’ve gone back i think 4 times for different screenings so i can hopefully get a better idea of what i’m dealing with, it never hurts, except my wallet
i don’t really go around saying what i have, i think it’s better people like me for who i am not what i have.
ask me how i feel as a canadian, lot of peoples struggle both side of the frontier and we have very sad moments , this is very political and don’t want start something here,
but i can say my mental health is not very good in theses time , here my advice : never trust only one person in your life, ask you self if any better or is is it the right information , here a example , some peoples , can enter a store and believe what the vendor tell them is the best deal , so they bough it but after that they realized they were fooled.
i hope my english is not to bad i use a translator
Hey canada, just wanted to say most Americans still love you, our Canadian neighbors, and our Mexican border brothers too. The US is struggling against this hostile takeover of our country by apathy and oligarchy. Currently most Americans are losing so many things we thought we had fought for and won like liberty and the unmolested pursuit of happiness.
We see yall pushing back against our governments reckless selfish actions and it helps to keep our spirits up.
Having friends that only ever give you good news and smiles is ok, but a friend that will tell you when you’re acting like an asshole is a million times more valuable.
Life is so much better when we all just try to be nicer and more helpful to each other. Nothing worth building gets done when one kid just wants to knock down all the blocks, and we don’t have any precedent for fixing this… in a first world appropriate way.
Canada and America have a bond that will out last this insanity. You have my personal apologies for the entire idea of making Canada a state, it’s insulting, we are embarrassed. My car only has 2 stickers, one identifying my union affiliation, it helps find me if my car is in the way, and a new addition.
I’m coming to grips with the fact he will steal my social security benefits, oh well, I’ll retire when I die
Yeas it’s political, flag it if you voted to end democracy
Btw, I just found out my paint color for my car is “ attitude black “ I think it’s an Axe body spray variant, but appropriate, for me, I drive it to a union job where people have stickers that say shit like “ blue collar as fuck” and more offensive racial charged stickers. Funny, no one says shit, because you know cowards are only safe and brave in their cars, never in person. Don’t do something to anyone that you’re not comfortable doing face to face. If it gives you pause in person, it’s probably not ok to do in a car, just my .0002 cents
Boy howdy! I can relate, I’m grumpy as hell, I snapped on my apprentice the other day, I was excited to teach someone, I swore if I was ever in a position to teach, I would, because I learned the hard way. The direction I got was “ your doing it wrong dumb fuck” I started before we became more civilized. I’m a middle of the road liberal, and a hard ass, I don’t care about your feelings, I’m trying to help your career, I don’t care how you feel
Love that speech, really helps bring perspective, thanks for dragging us back on topic. As far as trading, i recognized early that i THINK im good at gambling, which means im not but money in the market does better than money not in the market. I just keep all mine in broad no fee funds and only look at it every couple years. Took some really good advice in my 20s and started early. Steady growth and boring shit - market always goes up… eventually
It’s know i skate for the thrill, and the dopamine hit from a good run or the exertion of a nice little carve session. Don’t do motorcycles because i cant stay out of the throttle. Get most of that thrill at lower speeds closer to the ground on eskate. EUC looks fun but it’s just a one wheeled motorcycle so pass. One wheel is fun but no thrill, pass. Eskate is that Goldilocks balance for me. Just scratches the itch
I think if your reply is the next comment it doesn’t put the little reply icon automatically… which kinda sucks as I don’t think it does the notification either ¯_(ツ)_/¯ not perfect but good enough
Like we did for my mate. He did the fabrication, mechanical and fiberglass, I did the 20s12p battery and it still looks like a standard mobility scooter except it does 70kmh.
This is true. My most two used boards are a pair of 1kwh evolve GT’s I built. <55kmh on 85mm thanes round the hills is just a lot more fun, especially after the pub, than my two LaCroix’s that don’t slip and slide a bit. I’ve never ridden a proper race board, but what I don’t know wont hurt me. No more new boards anyway until I get this new garage built.
I don’t know what it would be like to live in such a big country like USA, but from NZ it looks like a shit show at the moment and I think that even despite the expensive costs to ship parts here, I’m overall grateful for having the distance at the moment.
Part of it i think is exactly that its so big. So big that seeing where its going and changing that is a long slow process and is hard to understand. It makes us vulnerable to malicious propaganda and manipulation by thos with huge resources.
Just have to keep focused on local and regional issues and hope that we can make the positive changes to our local communities needed to keep people safe and bring accountability to those in power. Generally speaking things are good and safe. In my town, talking to my neighbors and friends, people are good and want to do good. Most are nice and kind and i try to do what it takes to keep that going.
It can look so big and make you feel powerless and afraid and angry if you spend too much time on the news and politics, when the reality is the real problems like homelessness and suffering can be combated successfully at a local level.
And when that works, as long as people are actually informed with the facts of the situation, they will see and follow that example. Fighting propaganda and disinformation is such a big scary problem that if we could solve, even just a little bit, would go a long way towards making everyone happier.
I was just dropping my 16 year old kid off to my ex-wife’s house as her new husband was getting out of the car yet again leaving the airport with his adopted kid who lives across the country not having gotten off the plane to see him. Poor guys in tears and pretty much so am I cause I feel so bad for him. Don’t play games with kids. Don’t use them as a tool against your ex. It’s not cool.
Also edi: my divorce was written by Steven King,a horror story. If I’d married pennwise the clown,it would have been smoother.
BUT I forgave that bitch,an partnered with her to raise my kids,best fucking revenge was being god damed genuine super dad(I know I could have done better but my kids said when I said I’m just missing the cape,she said I see it in your shadow like super man, cape and all.I’m not crying,there’s something in my eye,both of them) kids rock,best thing I’ve ever done with my time
but money in the market does better than money not in the market. I just keep all mine in broad no fee funds and only look at it every couple years. Took some really good advice in my 20s and started early. Steady growth and boring shit - market always goes up… eventually
I’m not crying,there’s something in my eye,both of them) kids rock,best thing I’ve ever done with my time