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Sound levels for left ear are very quiet for FDR 953 http://feeds.feedburner.com/FreedomainRadioVolume4Shows898 I only checked the mp3 file. I don't know if youtube video has same problem. Here is normalized mp3 file that I made: http://www.filedropper.com/fdr953freedomainradiotheanarchistroundtable1ronpaul It's twice as big as the original file. I'm not sure why. #EDIT: I wasn't able to fix it. at around 30-40 minutes the audio will change again aka.my fix didn't work very well. Can someone fix the audio in the original file? Thanks.
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Please help! How to deal with difficult roommates
suomipoi replied to suomipoi's topic in Self Knowledge
I'm using silicone ear kits currently as they can be re-used quite easily. I'm usually sleeping on my side, I almost never sleep on my back. I'll have to try the Melatonin thing by eating Pineapples Bananas Oranges Rice I thought that is out of the question given how he acted on that day. I talked with him today however. I let him finish his call and then suggested the kitchen thing. He said the stuff that goes on in video and in sound is private and he would not like to share that with others. We did however agree that we would stop using voice chat at 21.00. That will be in effect for about one week as he will be moving out soon. I guess I wont need to send anything to my landlord after all. -
Please help! How to deal with difficult roommates
suomipoi replied to suomipoi's topic in Self Knowledge
Thanks for the suggestions. Comments on your replys: - I tried the white noise. I wasn't able to fall asleep at all unfortunately. I doubt the south park thing would work even less since the volume is not constant and jumps up and down thus making it harder to sleep. - If I sleep 6-7 hours I get very tired during the day. Once I've slept 9 hours I feel actually alot better. I applied many of your suggestions in Bold and also added some additional info of my own. I'm planning to send it out within a week. I removed the word anti-social and the rental agreement quotes. ====================================================================================== (Names have been changed in this text) Landlord: StevenDifficult roommate: BobPrevious roommate: Peter Hi Steven,I'm tired and frustrated at the moment. The first week that Bob moved in I told him that I will use voice chat and if he is going to bed he should tell me so I can stop the voice chat. So far he hasn't requested this. I used to have noise problems with our neighbours on the opposite side of the wall. I sent them a letter that they would have their renovating done by 8pm. I haven't heard loud noises from their house since. I got 2 problems:1. I can't rest well due to noise from Bob's room (Chatter / Videos)2. I'm feel threatened around Bob when I make a reasonable request since quite often he starts to yell at me.I need around 8-9 hours of sleep each night in order to feel refreshed in the morning. This would mean that I need to go to bed around 8pm on normal week (wake up at 5am) but the noise I head from Bob's room prevents this. My body clock stays pretty much in the same rhyth on the weekends as during weekdays (on weekends I usually go to bed around 10pm or so). Sleeping is not easy at the moment because Bob is using voice chat during 8pm-10pm. I usually tell him 10 min in advance before going to bed so he can prepare to end the call. Today for instance I notified him at 8 pm that I'm going to bed. 30 minutes later he starts to use voice chat. I had to use earplugs and pull the bed cover on my ear. I can't fall to sleep when someone is talking right behind the wall. I tried it again tonight (11.2.2014), it wasn't possible. At this point I'm pretty frustrated and tell Bob calmly that he could use the text chat option instead of voice chat.Most of the time when I request this he starts yelling at me and continues the chatter as if nothing happened, this was the case today (11.2.2014) also. When we did it face to face one time, I saw rage in his eyes. I usually get shaky feeling in my body after that (I'm currently shaking while writing this). I'm afraid his behaviour will start to affect me in work (and rental payments when I oversleep due to exhaustion) since I can't sleep enough. I slept 3-4 hours on this night. On the next day (12.2.2014) I used white noise machine that would make it easier to sleep. Unfortunately I wasn't able to fall asleep while using this. I'm trying to stay calm when I request that he use text chat instead of voice chat, but It's getting very hard to do so as he isn't doing any effort to stay calm himself. I'm fearing that I'm not able to act in a reasonable way for very long into the future if he continues to yell at me. I never had these problems with Peter. Can you get Peter to move back here or do something about this? I'dd rather not have someone yell at me on weekly basis. I got a few suggestions that would eliviate the situation: A. Bob could have his voice chats done by 8.30pm B. Voice chat could be used in kitchen since it won't bother anyone if one talks there. C. Text chat option is available in most chat programs. That won't disturb others. -
Hello all. I'm hoping to find some good answers on how to deal with my situation. I've considered turning into anti-social behaviour against my roommate, but I think it might be counter productive in the long run and thus haven't done so. My problem is my roommate on the other side of the wall who prevents me from falling asleep in the evening. He goes to work 1-2 hours later than me and thus goes to sleep later. I often request that he would use text chat option instead of voice chat, then he resorts to yelling most of the time. On weekdays I wake up at either 5am or 4am. In bed at 8pm. Here is my message to my landlord that I'm planning to send out. I welcome constructive feedback (doesn't have to relate to the message below). ======================================================================================================================================= ======================================================================================================================================= ======================================================================================================================================= (Names have been changed in this text) Landlord: StevenDifficult roommate: BobPrevious roommate: Peter Hi Steven,I'm tired and frustrated at the moment. If something doesn't change with Bob then something will change in me.I got 2 problems:1. I can't rest well due to noise from Bob's room (Chatter / Videos)2. I'm feel threatened around Bob when I make a reasonable request since quite often he starts to yell at me.I need around 8-9 hours of sleep each night in order to feel refreshed in the morning. This would mean that I need to go to bed around 8pm on normal week (wake up at 5am) but his anti-social behaviour prevents this. My body clock stays pretty much in the same rhyth on the weekends as during weekdays (on weekends I usually go to bed around 10pm or so). However it's not easy at the moment because Bob is using voice chat during 8pm-10pm. I usually tell him 10 min in advance before going to bed so he can prepare to end the call. Today for instance I notified him at 8 pm that I'm going to bed. 30 minutes later he starts to use voice chat. I had to use earplugs and pull the bed cover on my ear. I can't fall to sleep when someone is talking right behind the wall. I tried it again tonight, it wasn't possible. At this point I'm pretty frustrated and tell Bob calmly that he could use the text chat option instead of voice chat.Most of the time when I request this he starts yelling at me and continues the chatter as if nothing happened, this was the case today also. When we did it face to face once, I saw rage in his eyes. I usually get shaky feeling in my body after that (I'm currently shaking while writing this). I'm afraid his behaviour will start to affect me in work (and rental payments when I oversleep due to exhaustion) since I can't sleep enough.I'm trying to stay calm when I request that he use text chat instead of voice chat, but It's getting very hard to do so as he isn't doing any effort to stay calm himself. I'm fearing that I'm not able to act in a reasonable way for very long into the future if he continues to yell at me. I checked the rental agreement and it says this:5. That landlord may terminate the tenancy in accordance with the Residential Tendencies Act 2004 due to anti-social behaviour by the tenant, or behaviour permittedby the tenant withing the property.I also checked the Residential Tendencies Act 2004:h) not behave within the dwelling, or in the vicinity of it, in away that is anti-social or allow other occupiers of, or visit-ors to, the dwelling to behave within it, or in the vicinityof it, in such a way,17.—(1) Insection 16—‘‘behave in a way that is anti-social'' means—(a) engage in behaviour that constitutes the commission of anoffence, being an offence the commission of which isreasonably likely to affect directly the well-being or wel-fare of others,(b) engage in behaviour that causes or could cause fear, danger,injury, damage or loss to any person living, working orotherwise lawfully in the dwelling concerned or its vicin-ity and, without prejudice to the generality of the forego-ing, includes violence, intimidation, coercion(1.), harassment (1.)or obstruction of, or threats to, any such person, or( c ) engage, persistently, in behaviour that prevents or interfereswith the peaceful occupation— I never had these problems with Peter. Can you get Peter to move back here or do something about this? I'dd rather not have someone yell at me on weekly basis. ======================================================================================================================================= ======================================================================================================================================= ======================================================================================================================================= Thanks in Advance!
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Watched a few movies on this week that were action movies. I felt those movies were missing something fundamental. There was no feeling involved and they felt superficial. Cloud atlast was the complete opposite for me. Epic ending with so many good moral convictions at the end. I can't recommend this enough. What I noticed was that none of the characters made their moral choices based on logic but they were rathed shocked about something emotionally and that made them change their path. The movie trailer was very bad since it was missleading in my opinion. Watch the full version and you will be much better off.
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I'm thinking the same way. That kind of questions would get me easily stuck. I don't like how the question is built. When I'm stuck with Yes or No questions I will often choose a third optiom: explain on the paper how I think about this. I know that they are expecting Yes or No answer but I don't agree that you should just answer Yes or No if the question doesn't make sense.
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I find it remarkable how well bitch shield/shit test as I read it in PUA community resembles so much of passive aggression. Perhaps bitch shield is just misslabeled passive aggression. It would be easier to be with passive aggressive person if you re-label her behaviour it as bitch shield and tell that all women have this. Rather than have to accept that you accept seconds class behaviour from others. This resembles alot of idealizing your own parents. "They did they best they can. It's not my mom who is like this. It's all women." VS "It's not this girl. It's all of them." The following stuff I found in wiki relates to both passive aggressions and shit tests. 1. Ambiguity and cryptic speech: *Just get it!..* What's wrong? *Nothing* 2. Intentional inefficiency, e.g. being late or forgetting things, as a way to exert control or to punish; *Late from date* 3. Convenient forgetfulness: to win any argument with a dishonest denial of actual events; 4. Cold shoulder response: withdrawing into long silences to avoid either confronting or connecting with others. 10. Obstructionism; deliberately delaying or preventing a process or change *Girl: My problem is A. Guy: Solve this by doing B. Girl doesn't do B. Girl: My problem is A.* 11. Sulking; * Too many examples *
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In my mind the bitch shield thinking gives me an image of a woman as a helpless victim to her impulses that arise from her brain - unable to control what comes out of her mouth and later on never admitting that she could ever have acted in an inconsistent / abusive / passive aggressive way. Why would anyone want to deal with that crap just get some pussy?
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Also check this if you liked.
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I watched this video: Remote control that is very much related to what you are describing there. Basicly if you put people in control of other people with no change of being caught it's likely that it will end badly. A related movie to that: Das experiment. Pretty sick stuff gotta admit.
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If by purchasing power you mean more benjamins then you are right. On the other if purchasing power is measured by the amount your bejamins can buy stuff then stocks values are not increasing in the long run as a whole. If you look the price of Dow compared to gold from 1900's to 2000's you can notice long cycles there. The stock prices don't go up forever, but there is a saturation point. Once that is reached then the price (measured in goods) returns down. The misconception that stocks in general appreciate in purchasing power is the result of inflation. But then again you could pick good stocks which provide good returns on a certain timeframe. e.g. 1980-2000.
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Nope, atheism is NOT having the belief that accepting theism IS merited (more precise: that there is a god). One word in a different place, huge implications. Atheism is not a belief, it is the lack thereof. In order to be an atheist you don't have to believe anything about any theistic belief having any merits or not. You don't have to have any even remotely connected belief about theism at all and still be an atheist (without knowing it). An atheist just doesn't hold that belief himself. A-theism means not being a theist. Being a theist means believing in a deity. It is literally that simple. Check these videos out: The Atheist experience with Matt Dillahunty: Shifting The Burden Of Proof - The Atheist Experience 438 Burden of Proof - Atheist Experience Response to: "Atheists have faith, just like theists." Take My Burden of Proof Please! - The Atheist Experience #747 That cleared things up quite a bit. Thanks.