Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Pifanjr]

One of the malls where I live has a slot for you to put a credit card to go to the toilet. So not only do I have to get hosed by a thousand different ways malls suck my wallet dry, I also have to pay for taking a dump? Nah, I don't think so.

The restrooms at most malls and train stations here cost €0,70, but they're also manned by a cleaner for most of the day, so they're always clean.

 

[ZedClampet]

If you like urban photography, llittlepig, a photographer from China, is a great follow on Instagram. I would post a couple of my favorites, but you can't post pictures from Instagram without some effort, and I'm too tired for effort this morning

 

[ZedClampet]

The whole purpose of everything I've done since age 10 has been to impress a girl. If I do something and no girl is impressed, I feel I've wasted my time.

 

[January's Ghost]

The whole purpose of everything I've done since age 10 has been to impress a girl. If I do something and no girl is impressed, I feel I've wasted my time.

Since I read this post, about 10 minutes ago, I have been scratching my head trying to remember if I ever did anything to try to impress a girl. Nothing comes to mind. However, it must be noted that up until I was 14 girls were trying to impress me for some reason.

I have no idea what happen at 14 to change that.

 

[ZedClampet]

Since I read this post, about 10 minutes ago, I have been scratching my head trying to remember if I ever did anything to try to impress a girl. Nothing comes to mind. However, it must be noted that up until I was 14 girls were trying to impress me for some reason.

I have no idea what happen at 14 to change that.

I was a notorious womanizer from an early age until I got married at 28. Got me into a lot of trouble (not to mention trips to the doctor). The biggest surprise of my life was that I was able to turn it off and stay faithful to my wife. I can easily remember anxiety in the months before the wedding because I absolutely knew for a fact that I was doomed to failure.

I'm a little concerned about my son at college. He is one of the calmest yet charismatic persons I've ever met. Girls are the moths, and he is the flame. But he doesn't seem to have the overwhelming obsession that I had. By all accounts he is perfectly faithful to his girlfriend and never goes looking for trouble. His sister keeps me updated

 

[Pifanjr]

My family was all convinced I'd be single forever since I didn't show any interest in girls (or boys, for that matter). Nor did any of them show any interest in me.

It wasn't until I was about 20 that I decided that it might be nice to have a relationship. I got married at 22.

 

[Frag Maniac]

It wasn't until I was about 20 that I decided that it might be nice to have a relationship. I got married at 22.

That's probably a better way to go about it. It gives you a chance to study hard and get good grades in planning for a career, but also time to have fun with school friends and sports or whatever. Too many kids I think fall into pier pressure traps regarding relationships at a young age, then bad habits, or worse yet, conception accidents can happen. Life happens badly if you let it.

 

[ZedClampet]

There's actually a better than 50/50 chance that I was habitually abused by a babysitter the first 2 1/2 years of my life, which caused me to be obsessed with women and sexuality long before reaching puberty. At least, I had more than one psychologist tell me this was likely.

 

[Pifanjr]

My job is going to give us a €1000 budget to buy equipment to help us work from home. It's going to be a limited selection of course, but I'm thinking of getting a monitor, keyboard, mouse and office chair and then buying a budget PC from my own money this spring when I get my vacation money.

Also, I didn't realise that office chairs are so insanely expensive. The cheapest is €350 and they quickly go to €500+. I could buy an entire new budget PC for that money.

 

[isleepinabed]

My job is going to give us a €1000 budget to buy equipment to help us work from home. It's going to be a limited selection of course, but I'm thinking of getting a monitor, keyboard, mouse and office chair and then buying a budget PC from my own money this spring when I get my vacation money.

Also, I didn't realise that office chairs are so insanely expensive. The cheapest is €350 and they quickly go to €500+. I could buy an entire new budget PC for that money.

I had this issue two years ago. I needed a new chair because my old one broke after 25 years of sitting on it (tsk) and I also wanted it to play the guitar on which implied more requirements than an office chair (so no arms and no wheels).

I got a fantastic, solid, very comfortable swedish (not IKEA) made dining chair for €200 at a home design store. I've since found others, perhaps not as nice but even cheaper, elsewhere.

If you're not dead set on regular office chairs, I recommend you shop around for something different.

 

[Pifanjr]

I had this issue two years ago. I needed a new chair because my old one broke after 25 years of sitting on it (tsk) and I also wanted it to play the guitar on which implied more requirements than an office chair (so no arms and no wheels).

I got a fantastic, solid, very comfortable swedish (not IKEA) made dining chair for €200 at a home design store. I've since found others, perhaps not as nice but even cheaper, elsewhere.

If you're not dead set on regular office chairs, I recommend you shop around for something different.

The budget from my job is going to be restricted to a specific subset of a particular webstore, so I won't be able to shop around.

 

[Frag Maniac]

My job is going to give us a €1000 budget to buy equipment to help us work from home. It's going to be a limited selection of course, but I'm thinking of getting a monitor, keyboard, mouse and office chair and then buying a budget PC from my own money this spring when I get my vacation money.

Also, I didn't realise that office chairs are so insanely expensive. The cheapest is €350 and they quickly go to €500+. I could buy an entire new budget PC for that money.

I would seriously advise prioritizing speed on everything from CPU, to drives, to internet before picking out those other items. This is because whenever I hear someone getting a "budget PC" for work, I imagine such problems might occur. Anything that slows your work down in the slightest way can accumulate into major time management problems with your personal life.

As for decent task chairs, yes, they've gotten quite expensive. If you have access to Amazon where you live they have some good options in mesh task chairs, and good return policies if they don't fit well enough.

 

[Pifanjr]

I would seriously advise prioritizing speed on everything from CPU, to drives, to internet before picking out those other items. This is because whenever I hear someone getting a "budget PC" for work, I imagine such problems might occur. Anything that slows your work down in the slightest way can accumulate into major time management problems with your personal life.

As for decent task chairs, yes, they've gotten quite expensive. If you have access to Amazon where you live they have some good options in mesh task chairs, and good return policies if they don't fit well enough.

Note that I already have a laptop I do my work on. I highly doubt I'll be able to buy any computer parts with the budget, only peripherals. The idea is to hook those up to a new budget PC for when I'm not working, since my company doesn't allow me to use my laptop for games.

The budget has to be used at one particular store though, so I can't go shopping for anything cheaper, but €1000 should still be plenty for a chair and some peripherals.