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Social retard reporting in, I know it's dumb to ask questions concerning social interaction but I'd like some "pointers" anyway.

>How do you strike a good balance between asking questions/making statements ? I don't want to seem like I'm interrogating others but I also don't want to come off as an overly-opinionated narcissist.
>How do you take the initiative (that is to say, begin a conversation) with someone you've talked to before without seeming clingy or desperate ?

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/adv/ How much g of Caffeine can kill you?

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Is there any way to recover faster?? I get very bad mind fog and feel spaced out. English is not the best sorry

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>me and ex GF broke up 2 months ago exactly
>feeling worse and more anxious about things now than in the first week or two after the breakup

Is this normal? I thought things would get better with time but my feels have only gotten worse. Doesn't help that we both have flats on the same area (both in our 20s), it means we often see each other despite not talking once since ending and removing her from all social media. Oh yeah and she got a new guy 3 days after we ended so anytime I see her I see them both together 90% of the time.

The feels are shitty, man. Really damn shitty.

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In need of some dental advice.
This is my tooth.
It's been hurting me sometimes for a few times. Not a huge pain, and just sometimes. Today it started to hurt more. I took some pills and now I'm fine, I still feel a pain but it's like a 1/10 lingering pain. A few hours ago it was maybe a 3.

Obviously this is some decay. I just want to know if it's going to need a root canal or just a filling. Does it looke like a tooth rotten to the root to you ?

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So basically I fucked up my O-levels and got pretty okay results ( all Bs). My dad kinda stopped me from trying to improve them by telling me to focus on my A-levels instead which I did and got pretty good results on my first year. But now considering that most people and sites claim that a good O-level result (5A's minimum) is necessary for determining acceptance into good university, really concerns me. Considering the fact that my peers have much better grades than me isn't very helpful either. So /adv/ my question is whether or not I can get into a good university based solely on my SATS and A- levels?

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So I'm an Mech Eng

I was a Welder before that
I hoped around some jobs while in college and I recently graduated in my late 30's
now I'm looking for something to pass the time until I can grab a engineering position
I have a strong back ground in Turbines-Boilers- Millwright - Iron work

I went and took an Exam for meter reader and failed it
I mean WTF

The Exam was on charts and data recognition
I am not sure how I could pass 50 min exams on Thermodynamics and Calculus based Statistics
but be to retarded to pass an exam on data collection

Anyone else find easy exams hard ?

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me after the exam

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So I just got back from college about a month ago. I attend a school that is a whole day's drive from home, so I lived an entire different life at college. None of my friends at college live near my home, so we just text here and there. They're pretty normie, so no gaming or chatting online. Meanwhile, my close friend group at home has gone to absolute shit. I knew about this beforehand, but TWO of them came out as transgirls while I was gone. One of them has become a cringey, autistic anime girl. I have no desire to hang out with them anymore. They're not the same person I befriended years back. The other is pretty alright, but they insist on presenting female, and get upset if they have to wear even unisex clothing like T-shirts and shorts. As a result, I can't invite them over or family will know (they knew who they were before they came out, also they havent started HRT). In addition, two big sperglords in the group have sealed themselves off from the outside world, and we never can establish contact. Last person in the group is nice, but she has ADHD and can never stick with anything for longer than 15 minutes. She bought a Switch and Mario Kart, and we played three races before she got bored and went to play WoW on her pc. We own a lot of the same games, but she's never in the mood to play. We mostly just mess around and watch Youtube videos. It's a good time filled with laughter. We're close, and I enjoy her company.

So here's my dilemma: I need some non-normie friends. Where do I meet gamers? For online gaming and couch multiplayer. Preferably a mix of male and female. I need people who I can swap memes with, talk about/play games, both tabletop and digital. I have a lot of online friends on Discord, but it's not the same. We just play League and Overwatch cause those are the only games we have in common. I've tried going to MtG, Smash and, god forbid, Yugioh tourneys to meet people, and everyone there is just so... weird. And unfriendly.

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hi /adv/. i graduated from mechanical engineer in dec 2015, and just until jan 2016 i got a job in an internship in a telecom company. the things they're teaching me there are boring, i dont like it. but the pay is really good. then, i would also like to learn other stuff, more in line with my prefession, and from what i know about my future activities on this company, it is certain that i will not ever put my knowledge in ME into practice.

should i leave this job and pursue another one that is more in line with what i studied? (i like design, project management, materials, construction..) or should i wait until the 1 year telecom internship ends this december and then leave? how much do you think waiting would affect my future employability? i dont know what to do right now. advice would be appreciated, and sorry for my bad english.

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I don't even really know what to write. my parents say I'm a narcissist and everybody thinks I'm arrogant, despite the fact I was the golden child of my family, fellow arrogant people say I'm hilarious, or that I need to settle down because I'm always getting into trouble, but I only get into trouble because the idea of getting myself out of trouble makes me feel something. I constantly long for what I don't have, I finally get what I want and then reminisce on the past despite how much I hated it at the time, I really want to be happy, kind and good but I just can't be, it's too much effort and makes me feel weird. im with a girl who has all my interests, would move the earth for me, she's beautiful, a few years older yet I still constantly think about other women. I can't seem to hold a single relationship, they all crash and burn, they start the same way, I say the same shit to them and we eventually drift. i don't really hold onto friends, I feel lost, with no aim or direction, I fuck over everyone and I cannot see a happy future. I had a different girlfriend a year ago, we were horrible to each other, argued everyday, didn't really like each other, hated each other's views and interests yet I honestly miss her. I don't even think I feel unhappy, just numb.

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I verbally accepted a job offer today from company X, and now I'm waiting to do the background check when they send me an application. I still have my final interview for job Y on Wednesday, but it doesn't have a start date until August 28th. If I get the job Y, Is it shitty of me to use job X as financial buffer until job Y starts? Both jobs seem like they would suit me, but I like job Y more, and it pays $3-5 more depending on my shift.

I have not signed any official job offer for job X by the way.

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I was written up at my job today. I've been working there a couple years so I know my stuff. I constantly see people making mistakes around me. I kind of feel like I'm surrounded by idiots, I don't think it's hard to do your job right. I try to coach them so they know the correct way to do it but sometimes the conversations don't go too well. Apparently people find me condescending, saying I don't respect them enough. In the moment I think that I do alright when I talk to them about what they did wrong. How am I supposed to know that I'm doing something wrong if I'm not told? Anyways I don't want to correct people anymore. It makes me v unhappy when people ignore what I tell them and when people do things wrong. I don't want to care about the company policies anymore. How do I stop caring and stop correcting others? I'm tired of hearing that I've "come a long way". I want to just keep my head down and do my job. It makes me cringe when people do things incorrectly but I don't want people thinking I'm a bitch or that I'm mean. I'm so tired of it but I don't want to have to find another job. Advice?

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I've had depression for a long time and recently started taking medicine for it. Friday night I forgot to take my pill. Was kind of sleepy/dizzy while working Saturday, but not that much worse than usual. Around the 24 hour mark I began having problems with my coordination, I became clumsy and had a hard time controlling my hands. Then my speech started to become slurred, it was hard to get words out. I felt disoriented and I panicked and started crying. I went to my manager and told her as vaguely as possible "I forgot to take my medicine last night, it's getting bad".
Another cashier who kinda knew what I was going through helped me, and another cashier was willing to switch with me so I could leave an hour early. CSM came up to me and told me to go fold clothes til 11 (the other cashier left at 11, my shift was til 12), essentially I didn't need to be around customers in my condition. I don't remember super well, but I feel she said she'd talk to the night manager there and ask and it'd be ok?

My thoughts started getting bad so I called my bf to come pick me up before I couldn't think straight enough and did something stupid. A little before 11 I clocked out and left because I thought it had been approved. (I'll be honest, my current train of thought was shame and embarrassment, I was too scared to go make sure and I couldn't think rationally) The next day the CSM is talking to me like it didn't happen, noone's mentioned it. I go to tell the cashier thanks for switching with me when she informs me it wasn't approved. I'm at 8.5 points before this. I asked my manager (who wasn't there) and he said he'd check. He told me to just come in today. Am I fucked?

tl:dr I thought I was approved to leave early, had bad withdrawls from medicine, already at 8.5 points, won't know til tonight

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Hey /adv/ kind of a weird question but not sure where else to post that. I'm sort of worried about my gums right now, the upper part of my top gums and lower part of my bottom gums is really red and gross looking. I've been smoking for less then a year and have cut back significantly but I just recently noticed this, so I'm not sure how long its been like this. Is it exclusively from the smoking? I remember the last time I was at my dentist he told me I basically had gingivitis but that it was early on so as long as I flossed he wouldn't do anything at that appointment. I also don't take care of my teeth super well, but have started to more recently. Pic related

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anyone else ever had excessive sneezing and a runny nose after getting novicane injections? It seems to be getting worse although the numbness has faded.