Even 10 has annoying popups all the time. And they added AI to the bottom right hand corner where I’ve accidentally clicked on it twice now.

Then they tried to sell their (9ish year old?) daughter for drugs

Holy fuck! That’s insane! I would leave and never come back too.

Oh, gotcha.

Thank you, and I swear it isn’t.

In fact, I can offer some proof from some posts I made on another forum, although it also shows that I got the order and details of stuff happening all screwed up in lots of ways. Like I thought I stopped eating for 6 weeks in March. Apparently it was 21 days. Oops. It’s been a long year. I’m glad my wife has all this stuff written down or I’d be fucked.

So I’m not eating again. Haven’t eaten since Tuesday morning. Going to the gastro doc on Monday. It’s going to be a long weekend.

https://forums.mst3k.com/t/whats-your-problem-a-thread-for-griping-part-2/28111/889?u=flyingsquid

So I went to the gastro doc today. Same doc that did my scope and found my ulcer. He didn’t remember, but I’m sure he does a lot of them. However, he didn’t seem to care that I wasn’t eating. He told me to keep taking my medication with food, even though I told him more than once that I wasn’t eating and add 15 ml of Mylanta every morning, then call him in 2 weeks if I’m not better.

2 weeks more not eating will tie my last record I guess.

https://forums.mst3k.com/t/whats-your-problem-a-thread-for-griping-part-2/28111/989?u=flyingsquid

So… day 20 of me not eating. 21 was the length last time. I’m surviving on ensure and gatorade. I get to call my doctor today to tell them nothing has changed and I’d really like a solution before I starve to death.

https://forums.mst3k.com/t/whats-your-problem-a-thread-for-griping-part-2/28111/1344?u=flyingsquid

Etc.

He is gay, but I don’t think that has anything to do with why he’s doing meth. I think he just found his rock bottom drug. He had tried everything else to fill that hole he could never fill and ended up a meth-head. This is Indiana, which has a huge meth problem, so it wouldn’t be hard for him to get.

It’s tragic, and I’m sorry he ended up that way, but I have run out of my ability to sympathize at this point. I wish that wasn’t true because I don’t like that about myself, but I’m just beyond caring about his self-destruction.

One of the old friends I talked to about this today said this isn’t the first time he’s been in prison. I’m not going to say he isn’t worth redemption, because everyone deserves a decent life, but I do think he is so beyond help that he’s just not going to get it. He’ll get out again and go right back to drugs and forgery and whatever else until he kills himself doing it.

He’s 47. Honestly, if I hear that he’s dead by 50, I will not be surprised. Again, it would be tragic, but just not surprising at this point.

That doesn’t actually apply in this case. His parents were rich. They were just also negligent and his father was a major alcoholic.

Even if you grow up with privilege, if you grow up without much love, that will fuck you up.

I don’t think he’s wrong about that necessarily, but I also think that there are smart ways to break the law and stupid ways to break the law. Even with illegal substances. I’ve used weed since I was in high school in the 90s. It hasn’t been legal in most of the places I’ve lived in that time. That hasn’t stopped me from using it, I’m just not stupid about it. I transport it when I buy it in an airtight container and I only use it in my office in my garage which has a lock on the door in the extremely unlikely chance of a cop coming over.

I certainly feel broken by this system, and I certainly am not “successful” in it. This doesn’t mean that lies and theft are justified, they are assuredly not, but I feel like our system practically pushes people in desperate situations to pursue that, especially when you see the rich getting proverbial slaps on the wrist for far worse than the average criminal.

I totally get how you feel, but I think in his case it’s because his dad was an alcoholic who drank a case of beer a day, but despite that, he was rich and so my ex-friend grew up with a lot of privilege that totally ended when he was an adult and his parents divorced. It was sort of inevitable. I just didn’t expect it to get this bad.

Possibly, considering I was doing (most of) the same drugs he was in college and I’m down to weed, an occasional glass of port and a bloody Mary once in a while.

That’s how I felt about my former friend too. He felt like he was very generous and was always kind to me… until he tried to fuck me over. I talked about it to another friend today. She knew he was in prison and said she felt he still had a good heart. I told her about the con thing and she said he was in an even worse place back than and wasn’t surprised, but she didn’t blame me for cutting him off. Another friend told me that they cut him off a few years before I did due to all the drugs and hadn’t seen him in 25 years.

Even though he did that to me, I still have a lot of pity for him, because my ex-friend also moved down to Mexico for a few years and came back with a boyfriend who seemed to really love him and it seemed like he had finally gotten his shit together. This was before Obergefell legalized gay marriage, but they were planning to get married as soon as it was legalized and everything was looking up. He even changed his last name to his partner’s last name before it was legal. But they must have had a bad breakup or something because between him staying at my apartment with his boyfriend for a couple of weeks and my daughter being born about five years later, he was single and trying to con me.

On the other hand, the con was a big lie, so who knows what other lies he told me over the years, including about his ex-partner (who spoke very little English when they stayed over, so we have no idea now if things were being honestly translated.)

So I have this weird image of him as being, as my first friend said, a guy with a good heart and a guy who tried to fuck me over when I had a new baby.

But I still don’t feel bad about him being in prison.

I know so many really smart people who peaked in high school and are now in similar situations. Although most of my punk and goth friends didn’t do all that well in their lives either. Maybe we all gut stuck in a Gen X rut by trying and failing not to disappoint our parents for not being as successful as they were.

That really sucks. I’m really sorry to hear that. I have a feeling one of the guys who bullied me for a long time is really successful at this point, but I don’t even want to know, so I totally understand. I couldn’t deal with having to learn about how successful he is, especially at doing something violent, after being bullied.

That’s hard when there are kids involved for sure. And wow, I don’t know how I would even be able to process someone I was once friends with who became a murderer. Sounds like you escaped a bad situation at least.

Oh, sorry, that was totally rude of me. I forgot to say that I hope you find your friend soon. Apologies.

Like I said, I’m over it and have been for a long time. Honestly, I’m kind of glad he’s in prison even if I hate the drug war. Feels like a little bit of karma.

I’ve had bad luck with best friends though. My elementary school best friend died when he was in his 20s- however, he was autistic with symptoms severe enough that he could probably have never lived on his own, so in that sense, I’m glad his parents outlived him, and he died after a very short illness, so he wasn’t in a lot of pain. Now I do miss him. He was always happy and smiling. He was obviously bullied in high school like any weird kid would be, but surprisingly little because it’s pretty hard to bully a guy who’s happy all the time.

I am the king of shitty luck though, so this actually feels good for a change.

Edit: I would love to see his mugshots, but that’s not in public records. So instead, I’m spreading gossip amongst my friend group.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Then another person I know somehow had the ability to vomit removed?? (Instead of vomiting they are now just nauseous all the time and can’t vomit)

That sounds absolutely horrible. I don’t know how I could live with that.

As far as a crazy doctor like that? Sure. Why not? I’d rather have a guy like that than the GI surgeon I had who basically threw up his hands and said “I don’t know what the issue is!” He didn’t seem to give a shit that I wasn’t eating either. Like over and over again I’d leave a message saying “I can’t eat” and I’d get a response telling me to eat small, healthy meals and not smoke weed.

Thanks!

Thanks. I hope you find something to help you with your own GI issues.