Update XV: Stuck Inside of Tulsa with the Oklahoma City Blues Again

[King]

I want Bushie to drink 44 oz of Red Bull and report back.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I want Bushie to drink 44 oz of Red Bull and report back.

That's one I thing I do not drink - energy drinks.  I've seen too many people on the news dying of heart attacks from those things.

[King]

I want Bushie to drink 44 oz of Red Bull and report back.

That's one I thing I do not drink - energy drinks.  I've seen too many people on the news dying of heart attacks from those things.

C'mon. Risk of heart disease hasn't stopped you before.

[Potus]

So, I'm not an Update person but I read from time to time. I'm just gonna go ahead and chime in here.

First of all, I'm just going to address one of the fundamental problems. Bushie, I'm real godd[inks]n skinny. Like, when you look at me the first thing you think is, "Christ, he's skinny." And it's honestly my worst trait. I've been dissatisfied with it for years. While "society" screamed and yelled about how skinny people are Satan because the morbidly obese aren't on magazines, I was catching flak both sides for being skinny and being an abnormal weight.

The message with that is two-part. You can't let your perception of your weight be rationalized by the enablers and you can't let your perception be demeaned to a point beyond self-help. You need to assert that you do, completely and entirely, have a problem. That's gonna be step one. Second, you are not beyond saving if you try. That's gotta happen too.

I was repulsively skinny and I did the two things above. Then I adjusted my eating habits and I've been gradually putting on weight ever since. I took up a form of very mild exercise and just did it a lot. I could do it with friends, or while I listened to music, or while I talked on the phone, or anything really. I just made some little changes to my life and I've been yielding results ever since.

Trust me, Bushie, the urge to stop eating because you're way-way-way too full is much stronger than the urge to eat. If I could work against my "Really Tall and Anorexic Looking" genes to start achieving normal weight, you can work against whatever issue you think you have. You actually have to want it. And "I'm doing the best I can" is not a valid answer. You have to actually do it, whether that's better than your best or not. It doesn't matter. You have to do it and there is no way around it.


I also fail to comprehend your inability to find even part-time employment. Now, this might be the effect of me not being a very close reader of the Update but, finding part-time employment is actually really easy. Even if it is a minimum wage, 10 hours a week thing, that is definitely better than nothing. I think you, someone who I believe has had some kind of post-secondary training, could at a bare minimum find a minimum wage job for 20 hours a week. Bushie, that's $147 gross weekly pay. That is sure as hell better than nothing.

Finding any sort of work, Bushie, is better than nothing. Not just from a financial perspective. From a moral and psychological perspective. You will not be happy, you will not be successful, and you will die a pathetic, miserable, lonely death if you do not find some sort of spiritual sustenance. That spiritual sustenance comes from work, comes from pride, and comes from making something yourself. When you stop saying you're doing your best so it's okay, then you'll start becoming someone who deserves the help of others.


Bushie, the student loan thing is a wreck and it's, honestly, a moral hazard. I think you're finally realizing that your current existence is not just financially, physically, and socially pathetic and worthless, I think you're beginning to understand the sheer immorality of your way of life. That's why you "faith" seems to be coming up more recently. You're trying to cover up the moral hazard that you're becoming more cleanly aware of.

A new set of excuses isn't going to save you, Bushie. It's not going to make your life better. It's not going to get you the money to actually get married. It's not gonna build the house for you to live in with your new wife. It's not going to do anything but enable a self-destructive, morally repulsive, pathetic lifestyle.


I've been nice with this one. I'm just hoping that you'll adopt some of the ideas I proposed and try to help yourself. Honest-to-god help yourself. I don't want any human life to go to waste so I want you to succeed Bushie. I've been nice this time. But if you don't get your act together and make yourself count, I'm not going to be nearly as kind and supportive next time.

[Simfan34]

I applaud your post, Riley, but it is, as all of our posts are, absolutely futile.

[Mr. Morden]

I don't want any human life to go to waste so I want you to succeed Bushie. I've been nice this time. But if you don't get your act together and make yourself count, I'm not going to be nearly as kind and supportive next time.

This is the same cycle that hundreds of Update followers have gone through over the past four years.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Yes, I wrote a post like this almost a year ago, and of course it was ignored. We all do it though. Well done, Riley.

[Mr. Morden]

Yes, I wrote a post like this almost a year ago, and of course it was ignored. We all do it though. Well done, Riley.

Someone should compile a best of "Tough Love for Bushie" posts anthology.

[Simfan34]

I think I wrote one so acerbic it was actually moderated, this was nearly two years ago. I expressed a desire for his house to be burnt down, or something. He lost it anyway, what about that.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

Mine should be in the good post gallery thread, wherever that is now

[Mr. Morden]

Yes, both Duke and Simfan had good ones.  But there may have been better ones in years past, I don't remember.  We've definitely had quite a few.

[Mr. Morden]

Here are the famous Simfan and Duke Update essays:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=151760.msg3372674#msg3372674

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=174552.msg3791104#msg3791104

[Simfan34]

BTW, how's the weight?

[memphis]

I want Bushie to drink 44 oz of Red Bull and report back.

That's one I thing I do not drink - energy drinks.  I've seen too many people on the news dying of heart attacks from those things.

Were these the same people you knew who died from exposure to marijuana?

[Simfan34]

Ladies and gentleman, we have a new restaurant to add to the all time greatest list along with Braum's, The Golden Corral and Eskimo Joe's:

http://www.steerinnrestaurant.com/

Why did you pull this off my Facebook?  I specifically asked everybody not to do that, and you go off and violate that request?  That's a cheap shot.

Your facebook is responsible for the content of www.steerinnrestaurant.com?

That's where my date and I went for dinner tonight and those are all the places we've gone in the past.  I don't know what his intent was, so perhaps I shouldn't be so quick to jump on it, but I specifically told everybody not to post content from my Facebook.

Whatever happened to this date, by the way?

[King]

Yes, both Duke and Simfan had good ones.  But there may have been better ones in years past, I don't remember.  We've definitely had quite a few.

I remember jmfcst's tearing into Bushie's God defense being quite good.

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm trying to stay silent, but I wanted to give a quick update on my final grades for CADD school this past school year.  Averaging all the courses together, I will come out of the program with a 78%.  The lowest was 76% and the highest was 80%.  That's not too awfully bad.  I felt I could have done better, but I am pleased with where I ended the school year 3 months ago.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

BUSHIE: 78% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

[Simfan34]

How's the weight, how's the date? How's the weight, how's the date? How's the weight, how's the date?

[WalterMitty]

I'm trying to stay silent, but I wanted to give a quick update on my final grades for CADD school this past school year.  Averaging all the courses together, I will come out of the program with a 78%.  The lowest was 76% and the highest was 80%.  That's not too awfully bad.  I felt I could have done better, but I am pleased with where I ended the school year 3 months ago.

when you left the program, you said you would graduate with 'high honors.'

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm trying to stay silent, but I wanted to give a quick update on my final grades for CADD school this past school year.  Averaging all the courses together, I will come out of the program with a 78%.  The lowest was 76% and the highest was 80%.  That's not too awfully bad.  I felt I could have done better, but I am pleased with where I ended the school year 3 months ago.

when you left the program, you said you would graduate with 'high honors.'

I didn't do as well as I had hoped,  but I still have a lot of which to be proud.

[Simfan34]

Can you please answer my question? What is your weight?

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

That's a tight range! 4% separated everyone? From the worst to the best?

[Joe Biden 2020]

That's a tight range! 4% separated everyone? From the worst to the best?

No,  4% separated all my courses.   Remember,  I took several different courses in the class.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Can you please answer my question? What is your weight?

I weigh 286.  I've had a horrible few weeks,  in all honesty.  That's the only question I'm going to answer on that because I know everyone is going to bash me over the head for that.   Some of it deserved,  but I don't wish to subject myself to torture tonight,   I'm having a bad enough day as it is and I don't want to blow up on anyone.