What is it with Boston and bombs?

holy shit what

if this is another one of those homegrown white male terrorists i swear to god

>>376304

Does it really matter who he is or where he's from? Outside of finding the perpetrators, that is.

Putting my money on a Ted Kazinski.

>>376305
Obviously we need to know his background and motivations to sling blame around, start a furor of public outcry, receive the token political promises, make a memorial or two, and then forget anything happened as things return to the status quo.

>>376305
Well yeah. If it's a foreigner we need to know who to retaliate against.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck. My father works near the Marathon path. Just sent him a text message asking if he was okay.

>>376305
If he's anything but white, the media will only focus on his racial background.

If he's white, the media will focus on anything but his racial background.

If he's a she, hahahahaha it's never a she.

>>376310
>If he's anything but white, the media will only focus on his racial background.

Only Fox does that.

The only way that would actually happen is if he's Arab. And in that situation, there is reason to focus on his racial background.

My father texted back that he's safe.
Also, a third blast has occurred at the JFK Library. No one was injured.

>>376309

Keep us posted. I heard people there were told to turn their phones off to search for another bomb.

>>376311

Eh, no. There's a reason to focus on whatever his motives may be, but racial background? Nah.

http://boards.4chan.org/mu/res/35150163#p35150270

>>376313
>Eh, no. There's a reason to focus on whatever his motives may be, but racial background? Nah.
If he's Arab, we already know his motive.

>>376315

Untrue! Also, I suspect that this post is bait. Not today!

>>376314
Spooky.

>>376312
I've heard conflicting stories about the JFK library - apparently it could also be a completely unrelated fire from a technical malfunction.

>>376317
To be blunt, I'm not sure how motives and nationality/background can be separated. But yeah, we should at least wait until they find the guy before getting all political.

I was at work when I heard about Boston. It's usually a really fun, jokey environment, and to have everyone being so dead serious and afraid was unreal. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that none of my Boston friends were hurt. :( I hope everyone there gets all the help they need.

And now for something completely different. (because I haven't had a chance to post this yet)

>used to be the costumer of the "eat food in your costume and I'll go Left 4 Dead witch on you" variety for a theater group at my college
>have to leave because of academic obligations
>find what I assume is a competent replacement
>go to see this semester's show
>LOOSE THREADS EVERYWHERE
>UNFINISHED EDGES EVERYWHERE
>dress visibly held together with fucking safety pins
>every person in the women's chorus wearing a dress from a different time period for no reason at all
>policemen characters wearing navy blue jackets with black pants
>later find out most costumes weren't put together until OPENING NIGHT

SHE HAD ALL SEMESTER TO WORK ON THIS
SHE HAD TWO ASSISTANTS WHO SHE COULD HAVE TASKED WITH CUTTING THE LOOSE GODDAMN THREADS
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. I consider it a personal failure if I don't have everything fit and finished at least a week early. Is it just me? Am I too anal about this? It's like I'm taking crazy pills.

>>376320
They can't. Only social justice losers think that.

And keep your political bullshit to the political bullshit thread if we're going to do this.

>>376320

It's not hard. Being Arabic doesn't mean you're Muslim (which is what I know you were thinking).

> Only social justice losers think that.

What a wonderfully stupid thought.

Welp, I've never had more near-heart attacks in a single day in my life.

Dad had the day off, went into the city to watch, was close enough that he his ears hurt from the sound.

One of the parents dropped of his kids early, to go vollenterr handing out drink at the finish line.

No one was able to get in touch with him all day after we heard, and he normally picks up his kids before 4pm.

5pm rolls around as we are all getting beyond freak, but he walks in, with a fake, putting on a brave act for the kids, and we just all pretend everything is normal.

Oh, and I wasn't suppose to be in today, got called in last minute, otherwise I would have gone in with my Dad . . .

I need vodka.

>>376323
>(which is what I know you were thinking)
>I'm totally not projecting

pls

I never said anything about Arabs or whatever in this thread at all. I'm just saying nationality/backgrounds can be linked with motives. They do that in investigations for a reason.

>>376321
>>I consider it a personal failure if I don't have everything fit and finished at least a week early. Is it just me?

That's a professional attitude, but just be careful about getting ulcers from stress.
I work at a Haunted House and help with clothes, sets, and props. Making a zombie outfit consists of shredding clothes up, but those are done at least a week before opening day.

>>376325

>I'm totally not projecting

Really? So why did this hypothetical Arab even come up in the first place?

>>376327
Because some random anon brought it up?

>>376328

And why did he bring it up in relation to a bomb? Are all Arabs Mulsim? Are all Muslims terrorists?

>>376330
Don't try to bait me. Like I said before, keep your political bullshit in the political bullshit thread.

I'm frustrated over how unorganized my college is. None of the shuttle drivers can figure out who has what route, one teacher still hasn't graded a single paper three weeks after it was turned in (she couldn't even tell us whether she'd received it or not), and at least one other keeps fluctuating on what the requirements for another paper are (and won't specify what he wants changed when he turns stuff back).

I don't have friends or family in Boston, but I hope everyone's alright.

>>376331

I'm not baiting anyone. Answer the question.

>>376332

You guys got professor evaluations?

>>376333
We do.

And I spoke too soon, someone who lives far enough away from Boston to not be anywhere near the marathon is trying to get me to freak out. The same guy from last thread who was constantly trying to get me to pity him. I can't deal with this.

>>376314
Love is over

>>376333
You kinda are, and the answer is no, unless you're this guy >>376315

>>376333
>I'm not baiting anyone.
Except you are.
>Answer the question.
And if I don't?

>>376336
Well that's the thing. I wasn't trying to bait him. I wanted him to realize what he said was silly. If he knew that the (hypothetical) guy being Arabic had nothing to do with the bomb, he should have just said so.

>>376337

Then quit commenting on the situation if you aren't going to join discussion.

>>376334
This guy sounds like a narcissistic/manipulative asshole. Whatever bad things he told you happened to him in the past, he's likely outright lying if not exaggerating. You need to straight-up block this douche.

>>376334

Fill out an evaluation that gets the point across. If they leave a comment space, make it so that it's a finely-tuned response. Try to be tactful while letting them know changes should be made.

I've always assumed they throw out all the "0/10 SHIT TEACHER" evaluations, not that I'm accusing you of doing that.

>>376340
He was 45 minutes away. I don't know if that's actually more close than it seems and I'm being a cold-hearted dick. I have seen people, though, who were not near a disaster, nor were their families or friends, and they wanted to be pitied and cried over as if they were among the dead. And that is the lowest form of scum, at least to me. They should not want this kind of attention.

I will tell him to back off.

>>376342
>I don't know if that's actually more close
It's not. Maybe if he had been within a few blocks he might have something worthwhile to be pitied for, maybe.

>>376280
tl;dr version?

>someone bombs a library
>no one gets hurt

haha geddit

because

no one goes to libraries

anymore

haah

too soon?

>"well if he's arab we already know his motives"
>"yeah, motives and race are so the same thing"

>"how is that? not all arabs are muslim terrorists."

>"DON'T TRY TO B8 ME YOU SOCIAL JUSTICE LOSER!"
man this thread went to shit fast
i'm just gonna go back to sleep

>>376351
I'm sorry things escalated, maybe we could've avoided this mess if I worded my post better, though it's not the best opener for a SYM thread regardless.

Whenever I see people claim there's no connection between motives and a person's background it just seems like a knee-jerk reaction to stereotyping, which is fine but cuts out some important, if difficult, discussions. Motives don't appear out of nowhere and I'd wager the circumstances people experience throughout life, including those related to their gender, nationality, and many other things factor into their motivations, from the day to day to the long term.

This leads into finding why people do things like this and trying to minimise them in the future. Whatever the reasons, mental, political, national, no way of addressing them will be quick or easy, just as the issues themselves are rarely simple.

>>376350
The incident at the library was apparently a fire and unrelated to the bombings.

>>376350
it's true . _.

>>376351
Thank god.

You take over every damn thread.

worst sym prompt ever
thanks, freehaven

worst sym prompt ever
thanks, freehaven

>>376351
The amount of strawmanning in this post is just baffling.

>>376356
>>376357

Hey, I could’ve posted about my personal problems again. :P

I live south of Boston and it's some scary shit alright. But I guess that's the point. Attention whores with bombs generally want us to feel fear, so I'm just going to go to work and try not to be bothered by the mass panic.

What really concerns me isn't so much the danger of the actual bomber as the people who may try to profit off of this. Redditors are already spinning up fake "motivational stories" and piling extra tragedy on the incident, it's disgusting. Not to mention for a few days the BPD are going to be on a wild goose chase for bombers, so the actual criminal elements of the city can probably do whatever the hell they want for the next few days with no consequence.

My girlfriend was about to go into town for an interview when it happened. . . She hates crowds so she probably wouldn't have been hurt, but I thank the interview gods that she didn't get stuck in the city when the panic hit.

Fucking Boston, man. This city'll kill you.

>>376355
I don't really post nearly enough for that to be the case. I guess when I do, it's usually treating SYM as my personal diary, but that's true for most people here, and is also basically why SYM exists, I'm fairly sure.
>>376359
Okay then.

>Advisor wants me to be her teaching assistant
>Okay sure
>Apply, interview, become TA
>Get mass email from the dean of students who I guess organizes stuff for TAs
>We're having a meeting today
>Okay yeah that's expected
>"You also have to attend a social event for all the leaders on campus tonight!"

I swear if the event is doing those shitty leadership building activities I will be pissed.

>>376363
He's just jealous that you're the Slowking of our hearts.

So where do I go if I want to donate some money for the Boston Marathon bombing?

I'm going to do some research myself, but I also wanted to drum up some discussion on good places to donate money

>>376371
I don't know any specific places, but like you said, it's a good idea to do your research before you decide who to give it to. Apparently a bunch of charities supposedly meant to support Haiti Relief and also breast cancer charities have come under fire recently for pocketing a bunch of the money

Government-endorsed charities are probably the best bet, if you can find any.

>>376371
http://onefundboston.com/

Brand new, and still rough around the edges, but seems to be legit.

The debate tonight is not only whether or not getting out of bed is worth it, but whether it's worth it for a walk through a light thunderstorm to get cheap vodka. My life grows more complex by the day.

>>376402
Going back at 9, no one sells booze after midnight.

Turns out I am allergic to rapeseed.

>take a shit
>out of toilet paper
>check for more
>out of more
>check the other bathrooms
>they're out too
>...use hand to clean
>hand smells like ass all day no matter how much I run it under hot water and soap
On the plus side, it's the cleanest poop I've had in a while.

>>376406
>...use hand to clean

What the fuck. At least use a towel. Jesus.

http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2013/04/gun-background-check-bill-fails-in-senate/?ModPagespeed=noscript

might as well put this here

>>376411
Belongs in the politics thread.

FUCKIN PAPARAZI

>>376406
This also belongs in the politics thread.

Got a (paying) summer job at my college's library!

What if Kentaro Miura and GRRM died in a plane crash?

>>376418
I already suspect their stories won't be finished within their natural lifespan anyway.

So!

Dude wants to do a casual project. Just got "sacked" off my old artjob, and I kinda want to get back on my feet with the aforementioned Dude's project.

Guh.

>>376422
Well, not "guh" per se.
Just, kinda weighing the pro's and cons. And I'm wondering if I'm good enough to satisfy said Dude's expecations and mental pictures... That stuff.

Friend was telling me she was being stalked and changed her name on Facebook to something fake as a result, so she'd been banned from Facebook and was switching to an alt account.

She's a really nice person, and I don't think she actually has it in her to do anything vicious or mean, but I'm still hesitant on believing her.

gf visited mit over the weekend last week
and now the shooting
if it had been a week later
scared

>>376406
>>376407
>not using the cat

Fucking disgusting.

So my sister's cat died suddenly Tuesday, the family dog has Cushing's, and her cat tested positive for FIV today.

If anything happens to this puppy...

Today I had to go in for an ultrasound.
The waiting room was full of happy moms-to-be.
A couple of them asked me if I was hoping for a boy or a girl.
I told them I hope it isn't gallstones.



I'm very sick and no one can figure out what's wrong with me.

>>376464
I had to go into the hospital for gall stones a year or so ago. I hope you don't have them, and that you feel better soon, Junk. I wouldn't wish them on anyone, they suck.

I hate the implication that when women go into the hospital, everyone assumes we either have cancer or we're pregnant. Like we have no other reason to possibly go to the hospital.

>>376464
>I'm very sick and no one can figure out what's wrong with me.
This feel. I know it.

>say something really amusing to other people i really really want to impress
>get acknowledged for it publicly
>don't say anything again for the rest of the night because i don't want to blow newly found social cachet
yup. friday nights. not bad.

My dad got sick again, he has bleeding ulcers but this was worse. He had been having stomach pains, was sleeping on the couch then suddenly sat up, started convulsing and throwing up a lot (blood--he lost a lot). I freaked out, mom was calling 911 and I was still freaking out when the dispatch office called back and was talking to me. EMS came and got him, stabilized him in the ambulance and took him to an emergency room. Mom and I went to the emergency room, got in and saw him and he was looking a lot better, talking coherently but he was weak and cold. They transferred him to a bigger hospital for care.

I can't get the image of him convulsing and throwing up out of my mind. I seriously thought I was going to lose him, I thought it was the end. I was holding his hand and saying "I love you dad, I love you so much, please stay with me" and he opened his eyes wide and stared right at me and all I could think was "this is it, this is the end and I have to accept it." He says he doesn't remember anything. I'm still so scared that something is going to happen. It feels so unreal, like something you see happen on TV

God damn it. If only I could speak as well as I type people might not think of me as such an insecure creep.

>Golden Corgi's exist
HELP.

>>376478
Ugh.. what a rotten predicament you're in. At least he's where he needs to be right now.

>>376464
>>376470
At 17 I went in to get an X-ray and sonargram to check for stones, hernea, and other problems. They couldn't find a damned thing, but that didn't stop the pain from continuing.
I think not being able to figure out what's wrong with you and the cost of finding out is the worst thing. Because you're still suffering from whatever you hoped they'd find, but unless it's substantiated, everybody thinks you're a hypochondriac or exaggerating.

But the last two times I went to the hospital, it cost 1,300 for an x-ray, and then two years ago my esophagus started fucking up. Couldn't swallow properly for two months. Turned out it was just incrediibly bad acid reflux. That was $1,500 for the emergency room visit.

>>376482
I share your pain.

>>376492
>everybody thinks you're a hypochondriac or exaggerating

And this is why I don't go to the doctor even if I think there might be something wrong with me. I don't like the disapproving looks or the complete lack of concern, so I'll just pretend I don't feel pain instead.

>>376485
I CAN'T.
I'M BEING SUCKED IN BY SOME KIND OF CUTENESS VORTEX.

>>376485
I... is that blood on its front paws?

>>376492
Yeah, last summer it was searching for a tumor in my chest.

I managed to figure out what my problem was better than my doctor.

>>376482
>>376493
Generally it's not just how you talk, it's some sort of weird aura you put off.
I don't really know how to fix it, sorry.
>>376497
What'd it end up being?

>>376493
I've had a dry cough for 6 years. I thought it must be dust or dog allergies, but my dog died last year and I've taken notes on where I cough and it's literally everywhere and at any time. I don't think my lung volume is what it should be. If I lift my arms horizontally and rotate my torso, I hear a noise that sounds like wood being sawed when I'm not breathing in or out, and I don't know if that's a normal thing everyone can do, but I don't think I used to hear it. Then again, it's really difficult to remember what it was life was like before I got this. No other symptoms. I'm not a smoker and I'm not around people who smoke. It's not bad enough to complain to the doctor about--"dry cough" is such a broad symptom and the one time I did mention it to a doctor (while I was in there for bursitis on my elbow, completely unrelated) he didn't seem to think it was a real issue and kind of gave the impression that he thought I was faking it/a hypochondriac. He did give me a referral for a chest x-ray, but I never went for some reason. Now I'm just kind of ashamed to go back because I did not follow up like I should have back then. Also afraid that although it's a pretty benign thing on the surface, it might be representative of something A LOT WORSE or something that I'll never be able to get rid of... a fear that does hit some hypochondriac alarm bells, so maybe I don't really have a problem at all and it's just in my head. It's not even painful, just annoying, and people around me notice it more often than I do.

Is there something wrong with my lungs. Is there not something wrong with my lungs. Can everybody do the sawing noise and I just don't know because you look hella stupid making those movements so nobody does it while anyone is around? I just don't know anymore

>>376492
>>376493
>>376501

Perfect examples of how our health care system sucks.

I myself suffer from a number of mild to moderately bad chronic health problems, and even when I've been tempted to go to the doctor for something the last couple years, I still haven't. I have no job or insurance, nor am I covered by my family, and they're always having financial troubles, so I'd hate to ask them unless it was for something really important. I know this is bad and I may end up suffering for it later, but I don't have a whole lot of options. And the worst part is, I know I'm not the only one in a situation like this.

>>376470
They got back to me and said my blood and ultra came out clean. I'm still in tons of pain for at least an hour a day. They said they were thinking it might be ulcers, but they didn't test for it, and tell me to come back if it's an "emergency" since I just moved and don't have primary care provider. I also don't have insurance so idk I'm just going to live w/ it for another month while I raise money to go it again.

Being sick blows.

I am going to listen to Abba all night long and no one can stop me

Someone help me pick out a good beer. I'm done bumming off of my roommates because Coors sucks ass.

>>376511

I wouldn't think of trying.

>>376510
>>ulcers
Ulck.....I know that feel JUNK. That feel of the pain being so bad that instinctively curl up into a ball for what feels like forever. Tears coming out your eyes, not because your actually crying, but due to the pain your going though. Well, that's what I went though.

Anyway, I recommend ONLY EAT steamed white rice and ONLY DRINK organic apple juice. Baby food is another thing I recommend if you get bored of rice.
You need something lite and easy to digest without pissing off your ulcers so they can heal.

AHA after 40,000 seconds i'm free
it's time to conquer earth it's time to eat these cookies

>Relieves: Upset stomach due to overindulgence
I don't remember Pepto-Bismol's instructions being so fucking condescending.

>>376512
Somewhere out there is a variety of Leinenkugel's you'll like. You'll just have to try them all until you find it.

ALRIGHT

THAT'S IT

TIME TO GET THIS FUCKING PERSONAL PROJECT DONE

>>376517
>Eight Hours Later

>>376511
Why would I stop you?

>>376510
:c
Hope you can get well soon Junko-sama.

Hi guys.
Don't mind me.

Just a bit of a venting post.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That will be all.
Thank you.

>two years ago
>briefly in abusive relationship with guy who used me for sex and threatened to kill himself when he didn't get his way
>hasn't faced any consequences since despite me trying to warn people about him
>learn from a dear friend that he's moving in with his girlfriend soon

>guy who thought it was OK to use suicide as a bargaining chip
>moving in
>with his girlfriend

I had to have that same dear friend reassure me that it's not my fault if he does something horrible to her. I feel like it would be, though, because maybe I didn't try hard enough to stop him or maybe I should have spoken to her directly even though she's only a friend of a friend. I want to think that he's changed and that he's not the toxic, manipulative person I knew, but even after I extended an olive branch he has made no move to atone. I'm lightyears better than I was—I've written a thesis, I'm in a great relationship, I'm going to grad school, I love my life and I don't hate myself anymore—but this thing of darkness still bothers me. I just don't want him to do to anyone else what he did to me.