OT: Election Destresser
For those feeling extra stress today, I found this to be an amazing way to spend 10 minutes. I was smiling at the end. Election Distractor.
Notes:
-It's various videos and notes that are some sort of zen/nice/funny
-It's nytimes, but you shouldn't need a subscription
-It starts by asking if you're 18. It's not because there's nsfw in it; if you say you're and haven't voted, it tells you how to vote.
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:03 AM ^
Mgoblog was supposed to be my election destressor but then Saturday happened and now there is no relief here.
November 3rd, 2020 at 12:18 PM ^
This.
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:25 PM ^
True. If I could upvote you 270 times I would.
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:30 PM ^
apparently 270 will do it! in 12 days my .270 will be called on to fill the freezer also.
November 4th, 2020 at 12:10 AM ^
My BAC was .270 after Michigan’s performance on Saturday.
November 3rd, 2020 at 6:46 PM ^
If the candidate I like loses, it is Harbaugh's fault. Do not question my logic.
November 4th, 2020 at 8:25 AM ^
I would have gone with Don Brown, but i can see that
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:04 AM ^
I should probably get into ASMR, but to be honest, I find this pretty de-stressing:
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:13 PM ^
Thank you, that was a great distraction. Especially the “one of us had a personal stylist and one of us shoplifts her shit from f’n fashion bug”
November 3rd, 2020 at 3:51 PM ^
That whole exchange, lol. "Honey, I love you, I think you're a terrific girl, but you've got clothes like an effing dickhead."
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:14 AM ^
I feel entirely no stress whatsoever.
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:03 PM ^
Vodka!
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:59 PM ^
Being president for life has it's perks
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:18 AM ^
Just stop eating chicken
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:34 AM ^
Idk what this has to do with the OP, but this morning I saw a dude in a big jacked-up F-250 with an enormous USA flag in the middle of two other equally enormous Trump flags flying off the back of the tailgate area (I'll give you 3 guesses what state I live in, 99% sure it'll be one of the first 3 that come to mind). In some way it was entertaining and somehow lightened my mood.
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:21 PM ^
I’ll bite. I live in Florida and you just described roughly 1 in 10 vehicles on the road here.
How’d I do?
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:07 PM ^
Ding ding ding! Florida it is!
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:17 PM ^
Sounds like Utah right now, too. Jacked up trucks are everywhere where I live, and it seems like the thing to do is to use the bed to mount a few too many flags.
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:47 PM ^
I live in Ohio. I've seen a few trucks like that ?♂️
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:08 PM ^
So close! It's Florida. I knew people would think Ohio, Texas, or Florida.
November 4th, 2020 at 9:06 PM ^
I live in North Carolina....
What are "cars"?
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:19 PM ^
Oh yeah! They are everywhere down here. There was a big Trump rally the other day at a Mall parking lot and it was mostly big 4 wheel drive trucks with the big ol' flags a flyin'. Thousands of people with red on their necks if you know what I mean. Then across the street there was one old lady holding a Biden sign. Bravest lady ever!
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:40 AM ^
Anyone else enter East Lansing for the "burn it" section?
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:43 AM ^
My de-stresser is watching the Wire all day.
On paternity leave now for the next couple of months and I’ve never seen the show, so this is as good a time as any. And I can sure as hell use the distraction.
November 3rd, 2020 at 12:05 PM ^
I go back to full-time next week (took a bit off full-time, and some half-time since my daughter's birth). The Wire is great, though the pacing of any show loses a little something when you're getting up to change diapers frequently; my wife's in charge of input, I'm in charge of output, and the baby does not like even short periods of a dirty diaper. Mazel Tov on the addition!
November 3rd, 2020 at 3:32 PM ^
Just finished my first re-watch. Damn is that show good. Good timing for you, and congrats on the new addition.
November 4th, 2020 at 5:22 AM ^
That show is super stressful....especially when Omar is coming for you.
November 3rd, 2020 at 11:45 AM ^
Or you can watch the Hunger Games marathon on some cable channel and contemplate our dystopian future because, clearly, whichever candidate you support, many people are convinced that the other candidate is sure to produce such a future,
November 3rd, 2020 at 12:38 PM ^
1. Yoga (done)
2. Rakes leaves this afternoon (it's a beautiful day in Michigan)
3. Long hike with my dog in a beautiful state park nearby
4. Tell myself that although I really dislike both candidates, I have a ton of things to be thankful for
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:24 PM ^
The de-stressor I am leaning on is this likely won’t be decided by the time I wake up tomorrow morning, so there’s no sense worrying about today.
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:28 PM ^
I've made it a tradition of voting and then grilling all day. I feel very destressed right now -- and that's with five kids home all day.
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:58 PM ^
If that's a never ending bottle of Johnny Walker blue label I'd like to buy it.
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:26 PM ^
Not I.... don't care for scotch at all..... prefer bourbon or rye.. That's a single barrel four roses in that giph.... which is a high rye bourbon and is a very nice drinking pour.
November 3rd, 2020 at 5:35 PM ^
Rye is my favorite sipping whiskey followed closely by bourbon. I didn't like scotch until my 40s maybe my taste buds changed to appreciate the flavor who knows.
November 4th, 2020 at 12:18 AM ^
Rye ftw
November 3rd, 2020 at 5:54 PM ^
One Bourbon - One Scotch - and One Beer
November 3rd, 2020 at 1:56 PM ^
I voted a few weeks ago absentee due to my work schedule at my local township clerk's office. Really not stressed about this election I don't pay much attention to politics...I didn't used to be this way but one of the great benefits of getting older is that that life gets more peaceful from learning perspective.
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:27 PM ^
I'm absolutely the same way and I'm so glad to read someone else actually say that, too (because the world just doesn't feel like that - i.e. you just have to be in a constant uproar about everything, or you're doing it wrong).
November 3rd, 2020 at 2:26 PM ^
" you say you're and haven't voted, it tells you how to vote."
LOL yeah, because we all need the New York Times to tell us how to vote. That'll be neutral and non-partisan, I'm sure...
November 3rd, 2020 at 3:19 PM ^
I honestly can't tell if you're joking, or if you really didn't know that they meant 'how to vote' as in the actual, physical act of going and voting (for whomever you want to vote for).
The internet is a tricky place to traverse sometimes. Now you have me wondering if there's a way to instruct somebody on the physical act of voting that could affect who they cast their vote for.
November 3rd, 2020 at 5:25 PM ^
In the directions to the polling station, they set it up so that you always end by taking a left turn. And remind you to have no part of your ballot left blank.
November 3rd, 2020 at 3:53 PM ^
Just confirming, it tells you where to vote, not who to vote for. 'How to vote' because before today it included absentee/early voting options depending on where you live.
Weirdly sardonic post considering what you posted just after (above) this.
November 3rd, 2020 at 3:29 PM ^
My wife and I took a half day to go for a long walk in a park and got a drink after. Helped buy some time before anxiety takes the wheel.
No matter your party affiliation, take care of yourselves everyone.
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:13 PM ^
If I wanted to destress I wouldn't come to this place.
November 3rd, 2020 at 4:28 PM ^
Getting out of the office at 5, driving 1 hour and 45 minutes to my polling location.... I'm certain to hit the 'after work' voting rush and i'll be there for some time, i'm sure. Polls in PA are supposed to close at 8, but they won't close if there are voters in line (at least they haven't in the past)
its our civic duty, participate!
November 3rd, 2020 at 6:47 PM ^
Why are you so far from your polling location?
November 4th, 2020 at 11:00 AM ^
I'm in the process of relocating, but have two residence at this time and haven't changed my registration yet. was waiting until after the election.
November 3rd, 2020 at 5:03 PM ^
Anyone else set BPONE on fire? Just me? Ok...
November 3rd, 2020 at 10:28 PM ^
Who else has been live-betting the election odds? Some very simple and large opportunities to take advantage of these last few hours. Ended of being arbitrage and guaranteed profit bracket plays due to the swings on the books.