Things you are not stoked on

[mynameisnotjeff]

Lizzie Armanto is in Detroit rn. Can't wait to creep her out

Get on that Tinder grind lol

[gringo_viejo]

TLDR: I’m old, my body is busted, and I’m afraid I’ve pushed my last push.

Six months ago I was still skating five times a week. I had a fun little low-impact bag of tricks.

Five months ago, my foot started to hurt so bad I could barely stand or walk, let alone skate. I put the board away for awhile, but figured that a couple weeks rest and I’d be right back out there. I was mad to miss the nice fall skating weather.

Four months ago I started aggressively doing physical therapy, icing, and taking painkillers every day.

Today I still can’t walk more than a block without pain, even with thick orthopedic insoles in my shoes. I haven’t touched my board since last summer. I’m having to think about the possibility that even if I ever feel good enough to push again, my balance and board feel could be completely gone.

My dudes: fuck this bullshit. Has anybody come back from a bad ball-of-the-foot injury? (Capsulitis/synovitis, they tell me) After 50? Or is it time to put my stack of decks on events/classifieds and learn to knit?

[TheLurper]

TLDR: I’m old, my body is busted, and I’m afraid I’ve pushed my last push.

Six months ago I was still skating five times a week. I had a fun little low-impact bag of tricks.

Five months ago, my foot started to hurt so bad I could barely stand or walk, let alone skate. I put the board away for awhile, but figured that a couple weeks rest and I’d be right back out there. I was mad to miss the nice fall skating weather.

Four months ago I started aggressively doing physical therapy, icing, and taking painkillers every day.

Today I still can’t walk more than a block without pain, even with thick orthopedic insoles in my shoes. I haven’t touched my board since last summer. I’m having to think about the possibility that even if I ever feel good enough to push again, my balance and board feel could be completely gone.

My dudes: fuck this bullshit. Has anybody come back from a bad ball-of-the-foot injury? (Capsulitis/synovitis, they tell me) After 50? Or is it time to put my stack of decks on events/classifieds and learn to knit?

Sorry you are going through this.

Are you doing physical therapy with someone or just doing your own routine? What does the therapist say? What did the doctor say?

[gringo_viejo]

TLDR: talked to several pros, but it will be a long recovery at best.

I did Sept-Dec with one physical therapist who was good but we went all through his bag of tricks. Recently checked in with a second PT who has some other ideas. Pinning lots if hope on that right now.

Meanwhile, the podiatry nurse says that this is a thing that can often take a year or more to heal. His main thing is footwear. He says shoes have to be wide, flat, cushioned, and stiff. (since flexing the foot aggravates the compomised joint, and since heel-toe drop and narrow toe box cause (or at least contribute to) the injury in the first place.

That leaves me caught in the uncomfy valley between traditional shoes (padded and rigid, but waay to narrow even in 6E width) and barefoot shoes (softstars are wide enough, but intentionally built thin for ground feel) I’ve been looking into custom built shoes. Anyone out there had boots made bespoke for them?

I’ve been putting all the energy into PT that I used to put into skating, but it’s not nearly as fun.

Haven’t let myself think about the s- word much. They could shorten my second toe, or flip it upside down (heheh, picture that. Might do it just for the sick toenail-on-the-bottom aesthetic. And being able to flip the bird with my foot) …but that seems like a last resort type thing.

[ToySanta]

Shit has hit the fan with my living situation. Broke up with my girlfriend today but she moved in to my place last summer. She doesn’t have anywhere to go for a month and I’m not evil so I’m not gonna kick her out or anything like that.

At the same time tensions with my other roommate are hitting a breaking point. He is a 40 year old man child who lives off microwaved pot pies and doordashed chic fil a. Literally. The only other thing I’ve seen him eat is velveeta cheese, Doesn’t clean up after himself at all and is the loudest most annoying person ive ever met in my life. He works from home and has no social life so he’s home 24/7 screaming in to his phone for work and playing videogames on the highest volume. Im a bit of pacifist with roommates after a kinda traumatic past roommate experience in college, so I just ignored it for the first year he lived here.

But over the last year I’ve gotten so fed up with his antics. Tonight I finally got sick of him stuffing his chic fil a bags in to our trash can because I’m the only one who takes the trash out every other day since they’re always stuffed to the brim with his fast food trash and empty frozen food boxes. So tonight I very politely asked him to immediately take his fast food bags to the dumpster outside instead of stuffing it to the brim of our indoor trashcan like he always does. He took it very bad and it was quite awkward. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Dude doesn’t believe in dishwashers either so all of the cutlery and plates I provided when I moved in, are always trashed when I go to use them.

Fuck I just want to live alone again

Oof! Roommates are hard. I currently live just me and my cat after a breakup awhile back and I can get by financially without anxiety attacks every month and it is a real blessing. Very rarely have I been able to afford living on my own. I hope that for you soon. And for the tensions to ease. And some new boundaries with the man child.

Dunno if your roommate would go for it, but I knew a guy who had two roommates so they only kept three of each dish and utensil. Three forks, three bowls, three cups, etc. It definitely eliminated a lot of arguments around dishes. Maybe they were color-coded too? I don’t recall. When they had a guest, there was a stash in a closet they could dip into but all those dishes were cleaned that night.

Doordashing chicfila gave me a laugh but also that is not a meal, it is a cry for help!

[gringo_viejo]

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Shit has hit the fan with my living situation. Broke up with my girlfriend today but she moved in to my place last summer. She doesn’t have anywhere to go for a month and I’m not evil so I’m not gonna kick her out or anything like that.

At the same time tensions with my other roommate are hitting a breaking point. He is a 40 year old man child who lives off microwaved pot pies and doordashed chic fil a. Literally. The only other thing I’ve seen him eat is velveeta cheese, Doesn’t clean up after himself at all and is the loudest most annoying person ive ever met in my life. He works from home and has no social life so he’s home 24/7 screaming in to his phone for work and playing videogames on the highest volume. Im a bit of pacifist with roommates after a kinda traumatic past roommate experience in college, so I just ignored it for the first year he lived here.

But over the last year I’ve gotten so fed up with his antics. Tonight I finally got sick of him stuffing his chic fil a bags in to our trash can because I’m the only one who takes the trash out every other day since they’re always stuffed to the brim with his fast food trash and empty frozen food boxes. So tonight I very politely asked him to immediately take his fast food bags to the dumpster outside instead of stuffing it to the brim of our indoor trashcan like he always does. He took it very bad and it was quite awkward. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Dude doesn’t believe in dishwashers either so all of the cutlery and plates I provided when I moved in, are always trashed when I go to use them.

Fuck I just want to live alone again

[close]

Oof! Roommates are hard. I currently live just me and my cat after a breakup awhile back and I can get by financially without anxiety attacks every month and it is a real blessing. Very rarely have I been able to afford living on my own. I hope that for you soon. And for the tensions to ease. And some new boundaries with the man child.

Dunno if your roommate would go for it, but I knew a guy who had two roommates so they only kept three of each dish and utensil. Three forks, three bowls, three cups, etc. It definitely eliminated a lot of arguments around dishes. Maybe they were color-coded too? I don’t recall. When they had a guest, there was a stash in a closet they could dip into but all those dishes were cleaned that night.

Doordashing chicfila gave me a laugh but also that is not a meal, it is a cry for help!

The color coded plate thing is pretty brilliant. (But now you need color coded pans too. The worst thing about left dishes is the used crusty pan sitting there all greeezy.)


The (possibly) good thing: if you are a chill roommate, in a city where rent is high, other chill people are out there actively searching for you.

[PAWL]

TLDR: talked to several pros, but it will be a long recovery at best.

I did Sept-Dec with one physical therapist who was good but we went all through his bag of tricks. Recently checked in with a second PT who has some other ideas. Pinning lots if hope on that right now.

Meanwhile, the podiatry nurse says that this is a thing that can often take a year or more to heal. His main thing is footwear. He says shoes have to be wide, flat, cushioned, and stiff. (since flexing the foot aggravates the compomised joint, and since heel-toe drop and narrow toe box cause (or at least contribute to) the injury in the first place.

That leaves me caught in the uncomfy valley between traditional shoes (padded and rigid, but waay to narrow even in 6E width) and barefoot shoes (softstars are wide enough, but intentionally built thin for ground feel) I’ve been looking into custom built shoes. Anyone out there had boots made bespoke for them?

I’ve been putting all the energy into PT that I used to put into skating, but it’s not nearly as fun.

Haven’t let myself think about the s- word much. They could shorten my second toe, or flip it upside down (heheh, picture that. Might do it just for the sick toenail-on-the-bottom aesthetic. And being able to flip the bird with my foot) …but that seems like a last resort type thing.

been dealing with a big toe joint issue for months now from basketball.
makes skating completely unfun. it will seem to get better and then just reoccur after skating, balling, etc.

[propaganda]

team chemistry at work declining fast, just weeks ago it felt like 85%. Racial nepotism is going to far, money not as good. Just had to walk to work in the snow.

[somethingmustbreaknow]

whoah, what happened with this thread? how come the top-post of this most recent page 270 is from September 05, 2016?
10 years passed and nobody was not stoked on something? i doubt it. did someone delete their account who was primarily not stoked on anything?

[PAWL]

whoah, what happened with this thread? how come the top-post of this most recent page 270 is from September 05, 2016?
10 years passed and nobody was not stoked on something? i doubt it. did someone delete their account who was primarily not stoked on anything?

woah. weird. and appropriately the 2016 comment is off color in a very non 2026 way.

edit - solved, there are two not stoked on threads. this one, and one that has 860 pages.

[lamfordie]

I got an emotional depressing wall this week. I've been on paid leave again since early December and still haven't heard from them. I have been applying to different jobs and went in to do a test on Monday and realized how shitty the job market is. There was like 20 people there doing the test for 1 job opening. I haven't heard back from any jobs and things are looking bleak.