Random @#%& rants 5: Life is a female dog. [Archive]

LucyDuke

Apr 23, 2008, 03:13 PM

Rant A
gas for a trip

I'm taking a 1999 VW Bug turbo down to West Virginia next month. I'm coming from Providence, and I'm going to drive out I-84 to Scranton, then take I-81 down to Charles Town to avoid the NY/NJ traffic (I'm leaving at the peak of rush hour... because I've got no choice. :()

It's about a thousand (1020) miles round trip. (It'd be about 880 miles if I went straight through, but those extra 140 miles aren't going to take as long or burn as much gas as getting through that traffic would.) The EPA rating for the bug is 23mpg city, 30mpg highway. I have not yet experienced those lofty numbers while driving this car, it comes out closer to 20 city and 25 highway. Since the majority of this drive will be on relatively uncluttered highway, I can assume that my average will be closer to 25 than 20. This trip will burn about 40 gallons of gas.

Right now my gas stations have cheapo at $3.51. I can only assume this will go up over the course of the next month, and it's kind of hard to stockpile forty gallons of gas while the price is so.. er.. "cheap". If I can get $3.50/gallon gas the whole way through, and I do get 25mpg, I'm going to be shelling out $140 for gas. If it goes up to $4/gallon, which would not surprise me at all, I'm going to be shelling out $160 for gas. If I only get 20mpg, and gas goes up to $4/gallon, I'm gonna be spending $200 on gas.

My main reason for driving is flexibility. I'm bad at schedules and I don't want to make my friend in WV drive me where I need to go. My other reason for driving is that I figured it'd be cheaper than Amtrak. The lowest possible fare is $160. So if my mpg is at the low end, or if gas goes up, driving might end up costing more. I'd still rather drive - $40 is worth having a car available, being able to leave whenever I want, and being able to stop whereever I want. But it still sucks that it's gonna be that expensive.

Note that my math isn't going to work out perfectly because I rounded some but not all of my numbers. It's close enough.

Rant B
talking about gas

I distinctly remember thinking, as a child, how ridiculous the grown-ups were with their talking. That's all grown-ups ever wanted to do! Just talk, talk, talk. I didn't want to talk, I wanted to do. Play, or draw, or dance, or watch tv, or run around pointlessly. Those grown-ups were insane with all their talking.

And what's worse is what they talked about. It wouldn't've been so bad if they talked about puppies, or about legos, or crayons, or stickers, or sandcastles. But they talked about the dullest things! Politics was one of the worst. Always about the politics. Like it mattered! The 1992 presidential election is the first one I remember. I was six years old, and I didn't give a crap about it. Some of the grown-ups were talking about Ross Perot and Bill Clinton. I wished they would shut up. In my infinite six-year-old wisdom, I told them that George Bush had done just fine so far, and there was no reason to replace him. They laughed at me and sent me outside to play in the mud. I liked the mud.

They also talked about the weather. Now, I love interesting weather. Severe weather, that is. Normal quarter-inch-per-hour rain is not interesting. Inch per hour rain accompanied by tree-downing wind and apocalyptic thunder and lightning is interesting. But the boring old-grownups sat around saying "boy! Thursday was cloudy!". If I ever try to make conversation about the relative cloudiness of Thursday, please kill me on the spot, my life is no longer worth living.

The worst thing they talked about was car stuff. Air pressure in the tires, or changing wiper blades, or getting an oil change, or traffic. These are all stupid topics of conversation that should not interest anyone. I knew that when I grew up I would not have anything to say about the price of gas.

But I also knew I'd live on a farm with a strawberry patch, a creek, fifteen dogs, and a goat by the time I was twenty.

Kids know what's worth doing.

Rant C
stfu plz

My coworkers are so loud on the phone. Generally I like the quiet. I usually prefer silence to music or radio if I'm working by myself. If somebody's talking in the background at a reasonable volume, whatever. I admit that when I'm out, at a party or at the pub or in the park or whatever, I'm pretty loud too. But not when I'm in a room with someone who is talking on the phone. If you're yelling so effing loudly that I cannot hear the customer I am trying to talk to, and I need to put the customer on hold so that I can get you to shut up, you need to get your hearing checked. Everyone gets so offended when I ask them to be quiet, but I'm not going to feel bad about it when I can't even hear my effing customers.

No, my ears hurt. I'm not going to feel bad about it ever.

Rant D
on thread title

Dogs are awesome, male or female. Both of my dogs are female. My dogs rule. If life were a female dog, I would have nothing to rant about.

Rant E
there's a reason for this

I have made no children. I am not currently making any children. I do not plan to make any children in the near future. If on the off-chance I accidentally begin to make children in the near future, I do not intend to complete the procedure. Thus, much as a person without a car would not make regular visits to a gas station, my ovaries do not need to issue child blueprints monthly. It is unnecessary. It is unpleasant, tiring, painful, and irritating.

I don't like being bwitchy.

Trajan12

Apr 23, 2008, 03:33 PM

Lucy's a better ranter than me. :(

I am so effing weird. If I get too much attention I feel smothered and get aggravated and if I get too little then I'm thinking something is up.

Kids should not walk dogs! Not big mean limb-ripping ones at least. These three dogs got into a fight in the park today because kids were walking them who so obviously weren't strong enough to control them.

Maybe, just maybe it's not a very wise idea to pay your entire $1.50 bus fare in nickels, on a hot day...

A C on my keyboard stopped working, so now my money I was trying to save up is going to have to be spent on a new keyboard.

The most dumbfounding sight to me ever, is to see trash strewn around the trash bin. I say, wtf?

Nobody wants to hear about the fight at your school where one guy was spitting up blood.

+1 on inefficient shower knobs.

Over friendly people! I will be nice to any decent person, but breathing down my neck and telling the same joke incessantly until I laugh will only be bad.

raketooy

Apr 23, 2008, 03:52 PM

Damn my German teacher gave me a 9 although he said he'd give a 10. And we have these silly grades, 4 being the worst and 10 the best.

Trafalgar

Apr 23, 2008, 04:20 PM

I'm running out of wine and I'm too lazy to get off my ass and go to the Liquor store!

Why does life have to be so hard?

salty mud

Apr 23, 2008, 05:32 PM

Why do queers have to start 'console wars?' Just because some people like a certain console they are insulted and made to feel inferior because of personal preferance. Especially fools who will take it further and try to 'convert' others to see their point of view! How sad can these people possibly be? :shake:

D'Artagnan59

Apr 23, 2008, 06:44 PM

My rant:

I just went to get ice cream. I was gazing at the signboard when someone behind the counter said hi. I'm busy distracted by the signboard and seeing what ice cream they have. I can't hear her. Then, my dad says this: "SAY HI!"

I say hi, and then I turn to my dad and tell him to never do that again. I see out of the corner of my eye...

One of the popular kids at school. Yes, my dad babied me and made an ass out of me IN FRONT OF ONE OF MY FRIENDS. I'M NOT ONE. I AM THIRTEEN AND GOING TO TURN FOURTEEN IN TWO WEEKS. NOT 1. I AM ALMOST IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND HE'S TREATING ME LIKE I'M LEARNING TO TALK. IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG HERE?

Soon, he's going to tell it to one friend, which will make him tell it to a few more friends, then, the whole school will think I'm retarded. This will lead to me being made fun of at school, which leads to coming home from school nearly brought to tears from being called a all day, which leads to MY DAD.

My dad is the biggest assclown I have ever seen.

Trafalgar

Apr 23, 2008, 07:37 PM

Some days life (and dads) can suck, but then it gets better and you go to high school, then college, and end up graduating and joining some ritzy law office.

Pretty soon you're a partner and someone suggests you run for senator. You win. You are the youngest senator ever, and after a few years you run for President of the United States....and win.

Now you are the most powerful man in the world. With all the power of the US military behind you you can chase down those 'ba**ards' who called you retarded and hang them up by their testicles!

See, life isn't all bad.

Hang tough, and never let them see you sweat.

Chazumi

Apr 23, 2008, 07:44 PM

Damn, ANOTHER one of these threads?

holy king

Apr 23, 2008, 07:48 PM

Damn my German teacher gave me a 9 although he said he'd give a 10. And we have these silly grades, 4 being the worst and 10 the best.

is there any kind of reason behind this system?

Cutlass

Apr 23, 2008, 07:55 PM

Stupid 1000 post rule. It's just stupid, why start a completely new thread when there's a perfectly fine thread already.

I'm a Moderator on a forum that let a thread get to over 1000 pages (at 15 posts per page).

It broke the forum. :p

What happened was at some point (which i've forgotten) it corrupted the database and created a second copy of itself, then after a while it slowed the server way down. It took deleting both copies to restore performance.

I think the software this forum runs on is better than that one, but it's still a potential issue.

VRWCAgent

Apr 23, 2008, 08:26 PM

My rant:

<<< SNIP RANT ABOUT DAD >>>

At least you are not Prince Andrew, who in international television is seen being "reminded" by his dad to take his hat off before going inside during the wedding of the century. ;) Just for a bit of perspective in embarrassment.

D'Artagnan59

Apr 23, 2008, 09:21 PM

Dear God, if my dad did that, I'd take a shotgun to his head.

obliterate

Apr 23, 2008, 10:24 PM

I'm a Moderator on a forum that let a thread get to over 1000 pages (at 15 posts per page).

It broke the forum. :p

What happened was at some point (which i've forgotten) it corrupted the database and created a second copy of itself, then after a while it slowed the server way down. It took deleting both copies to restore performance.

I think the software this forum runs on is better than that one, but it's still a potential issue.Well, in Civ4 General Forums there is a thread at 191 pages, another at 239 and one at 436. Those threads are still going too. Not to mention all the ones in the NES forum.

EDIT: There's another one at 104 in Civ4 Beyond the Sword.

The Yankee

Apr 23, 2008, 10:59 PM

So I mailed the form to tell the management company that, no, I don't want to stay in this craptastic building and pay $925/month for the privilege. Yesterday, I had it come back to me for insufficient postage (apparently the spam cornucopia of forms in two languages made it cost more). Except, whoever was handling this decided to write all over the stamp AND took a black permanent marker to block out part of the address I was mailing it to!

If you want to steal the stamp, whatever, but for God's sake, what is the point in taking a marker and covering up half of the address!? It might be useful in case I decide that, yeah, maybe it's worth paying the USPS extra (three stamps on the new envelope just in case) to ensure that I can get my freedom.

Christ, I can't stand the local postal workers!

I'm just glad that the job they did on the package surrounding the book I got in the mail today didn't damage the book. They just decided to tear half of the packaging, instead.

Brighteye

Apr 24, 2008, 02:28 AM

I have to endure endless whining from Americans who think that getting petrol at half price is going to bankrupt them.
30mpg is not high. I get 35-40 in my sister's old Renault.

Sidhe

Apr 24, 2008, 03:07 AM

I have to endure endless whining from Americans who think that getting petrol at half price is going to bankrupt them.
30mpg is not high. I get 35-40 in my sister's old Renault.

High would be 40 or more, highest, Probably around 60 or so. Americans obviously don't have a clue about good MPG?

Peck of Arabia

Apr 24, 2008, 03:30 AM

The headphones I bought at the weekend are broken ALREADY and require blu-tac ap-lenty... Once, just once, I'd like to have a piece of hardware that works without being held together with string, sellotape, blu-tak or whatever else makes it look tacky

Also, everyone around me has become really nerdy about exams, it's all "Can't drink this weekend, I'm revising" "Don't visit anytime in the next 3 months" "if you call me during the day at any point from the end of May, I'll take it as a deliberate attempt to sabotage my exam"...

oh well, at least the lack of human contact ha meant I've had plenty of time to watch DVDs, and the Audio commmentaries that come with the DVDs, as well as the special features, deleted scenes, and even hidden Easter Eggs

VRWCAgent

Apr 24, 2008, 08:06 AM

Nylan

Apr 24, 2008, 08:10 AM

Environmentalists, get the ehf off my land. I'm going to build a refinery whether you like it or not. This country's economy revolves around oil, and until we have an alternate energy source that doesn't suck and can support the entire economy, we're going to use some freakin' oil. I'd rather kill a few animals than kill the families of a hundred truckers. You can't push progress along by stalling the economy, let it flow and then the increased productivity will help find us a better energy source.

Sidhe

Apr 24, 2008, 08:19 AM

Europeans who expect us to drive around in POS cars the size of a breadbox. This is America, dammit, and our CULTURE has a love affair with the automobile. We're always being told to respect other cultures, well big autos are a part of ours.

Is that a love affair as in marriage, kids and a small house. Or as in Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah, or that stalker that followed Madonna around?

nc-1701

Apr 24, 2008, 08:55 AM

Nobody wants to hear about the fight at your school where one guy was spitting up blood.
That's what CFC is for, in fact I even made a entire thread for describing you had been in/seen.

My rant:

I just went to get ice cream. I was gazing at the signboard when someone behind the counter said hi. I'm busy distracted by the signboard and seeing what ice cream they have. I can't hear her. Then, my dad says this: "SAY HI!"

I say hi, and then I turn to my dad and tell him to never do that again. I see out of the corner of my eye...

One of the popular kids at school. Yes, my dad babied me and made an ass out of me IN FRONT OF ONE OF MY FRIENDS. I'M NOT ONE. I AM THIRTEEN AND GOING TO TURN FOURTEEN IN TWO WEEKS. NOT 1. I AM ALMOST IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND HE'S TREATING ME LIKE I'M LEARNING TO TALK. IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG HERE?

Soon, he's going to tell it to one friend, which will make him tell it to a few more friends, then, the whole school will think I'm retarded. This will lead to me being made fun of at school, which leads to coming home from school nearly brought to tears from being called a all day, which leads to MY DAD.

My dad is the biggest assclown I have ever seen.

Well, I can't fix you Dad from being an assclown:lol: Sorry, but I can give you advice on what I know about being made fun of and bullied. When I was 12-14, I was a steroeotypical nerd who got ade fun of quite a bit and that's among homeschoolers! I would have probably been killed if I was in a public school, I still get all kinds of crap from kids I interact with, but I've learned how to dea with it. Here's my advice.
If they make fun of you at first just take it, say something like "yeah whatever...", it's important to be able to laugh at yourself or at least accept others laughing at you.
However if they don't let up after a minute or two of laughing at your expense it's gone to far and you need to be confrontational. Don't be mean or belligerent just firm and confident, the best choice of words is something simple like "stfu!" (Say each word though), or "WTF is your problem?", do this while smiling or cracking a grin (it makes them ucomfortable, I d martial arts and believe me when somebody smiles while they inflict pain on you it is freaky and scary), and make eye contact. Don't stare them down, but mae eye contact and don't flinch away from it, your confident and your telling them to screw off, but you are not being mean.
If they respond angrily just respond with something along the lines of "Lol effers" and walk off with a grin and your head held high.
Warning: Don't turn your back on them when you leave, I don't anything about these kids but your probably best off not letting them attack you from behind if they decide to be . .. .. .. .. .. .. .s and try to beat you up.

My rant is about my new retainer, it hurts my teeth:(

downtown

Apr 24, 2008, 09:04 AM

I've been doing a lot of running lately, doing a little over 20 miles a week, and taking a day off ever other day. Yesterday, a buddy invited me to go play Frisbee with him and some of his co-workers (who turned out to be very cute!) on my "off" day. I stupidly said yes, and sprinted up and down the national mall for 2 and a half hours.

Now, I am more stiff than I think I've ever been. Muscles in my leg that I was unaware were even there ache, and my knees make this weird snap clackle and pop sound when I bend them. I hope I loosen up before tonight, when I make my drumming debut in DC, or its going to be a baaaad show.

Darnit, I need a massage or something

Swedishguy

Apr 24, 2008, 09:05 AM

I really sucked at my National Test in Mathematics today. :shifty:

Gabryel Karolin

Apr 24, 2008, 09:14 AM

I'm supposed to be working, instead a couple of friends made me drunk. Now I have to do all that work some other time.

lord_joakim

Apr 24, 2008, 03:16 PM

w00t? WHY do i fukken lose to bots in civ?? xD

D'Artagnan59

Apr 24, 2008, 03:48 PM

Good news: I aced a math test.

Even better news: That was not my friend, as I thought. That was his brother, who is in 7th grade.

The best news: 1 day until vacation.

Even worse news: I have a doctor's appointment. THE FIRST THING I'M FORCED TO DO WHEN I GET OUT OF SCHOOL TO START VACATION IS SIT AROUND IN A FREAKIN' DOCTOR'S OFFICE, WHICH IS FULL OF SICK KIDS PICKING THEIR NOSES AND NICK JR. MAGAZINE! ALL THE MAGAZINES ARE KIDDY OR ABOUT PARENTING, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! I JUST WANT TO GO OUTSIDE AND ENJOY MY FIRST WAKING MOMENTS OF VACATION, BUT NO! MY MOM MAKES ME SIT ON MY BUTT AND HAVE TO DO NOTHING A DOCTOR'S OFFICE WHEN I COULD BE WITH MY FRIENDS OR PLAYING VIDEO GAMES! WHAT ABOUT THE TEENAGERS? WHAT WILL THEY DO WHEN THEY'RE BORED OUT OF THEIR SKULLS? WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH KIDDY MAGAZINES? WHAT WILL THEY DO WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO UNTIL THEY'RE CALLED INTO THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE? NOTHING! ABSO-FRICKIN-LUTELY NOTHING!

Excuse me, I must go check myself into an insane asylum before I kill someone.

Ekolite

Apr 24, 2008, 03:54 PM

GAAAAAAaaaaahh! I'm so ANGRY! I have my GCSE's in 25 days time. I have just had the easter holidays and have been back at school two days. TWO!!! And already I am crushed under mountains of homework! How do they expect me to revise for me stupid exams when they set me so much work to do! I mean, if the h/w was at least relevant to my exams it would be ok because then it'd be h/.w and revision, but its NOT! Especially my female dog of drama teacher. Why did i even take GCSE drama? WHY? God damn Blue remembered Hills and god damn the Crucible are driving me INSANE! I Hate them! Why can't we at least do some vaguely interesting plays for the exam? Like Blood brothers, maybe?

Also, a few weeks ago I lost my copies of the drama plays, so I told my drama teacher when I got to school in the morning. Then later on she set an essay on them, just out of spite. So I had to buy another copy of both plays for £15!! of of Amazon. But they delivered it late and so I didn't have the damn play to do the essay and she gave me detention! Me. How DARE she! Of course, it wasn't the detention that bothered me, it was that it was her, and I had to sit in the studio in silence for 45 minutes while she sat there and glared at me! What the hell's her problem! God she annoys me so much, and she has the face of a rat and she constantly looks down her nose at you even though she's only about 5 foot tall!

Oh yeah, and today she set me another essay to hand in tomorrow and I've spent all evening doing it when I need to be learning 2 years worth of business studies in ~2 weeks because my BS teacher is a complete moron! In the drama exam I have less then 2 hours to write 2 MASSIVE essays with each about 15 paragraphs on plays that I absolutely HATE! Why didn't they tell me there'd be so many essays BEFORE I chose to do GCSE drama! [/rant]

Sidhe

Apr 24, 2008, 03:56 PM

w00t? WHY do i fukken lose to bots in civ?? xD

Because you're not reading the strategy guides on CFC perhaps? :)

LucyDuke

Apr 24, 2008, 03:57 PM

Capslock has a place. It's great in its place. It is awful in body text.

Yes, D'Art, it's about you this time. But not exclusively.

Ekolite

Apr 24, 2008, 03:57 PM

salty mud

Apr 24, 2008, 04:14 PM

Jokeslayer

Apr 24, 2008, 07:05 PM

God she annoys me so much, and she has the face of a rat and she constantly looks down her nose at you even though she's only about 5 foot tall! [/rant]

That sounds like the woman that taught me GCSE drama. Well, she left at the end of year ten, so they made us redo that year's work, changed the plays we were studying. Doing the whole thing in one year was not fun.

demokratickid

Apr 24, 2008, 09:22 PM

I stubbed my toe and now its stating to swell up. It HURTZ!!!

azzaman333

Apr 24, 2008, 09:24 PM

I hate people.

Cheezy the Wiz

Apr 24, 2008, 09:39 PM

Capslock has a place. It's great in its place. It is awful in body text.

Yes, D'Art, it's about you this time. But not exclusively.

That place is here:

<Cheezy> {here}

Fifty

Apr 24, 2008, 09:41 PM

i Am Pretty Mad That I Took So Many Econ Classes And A Couple Other Random Pointless Electives When I Could Have Spent That Course Time Doing Something More Interesting Such As Getting A Double Major Or A Couple Minors Or Something In Disciplines That Dont Suck (like Math Or Linguistics)

Cheezy the Wiz

Apr 24, 2008, 09:44 PM

Oh, I'd like to mildly complain that Towson University doesn't have a Russian History professor, so I had to change my concentration from something I absolutely love (Russian History) to something only moderately interesting (Middle Eastern History).

Swedishguy

Apr 25, 2008, 12:16 AM

Today, I have to make a conversation in German based on a random scenario given to me by the teacher. Like, how's that going to work?!

Desmond Hawkins

Apr 25, 2008, 12:27 AM

I am annoyed and also relieved that the final exam I will ever write in school is a multiple choice econ thing that I have barely even read about.

Cu Chulainn

Apr 25, 2008, 01:13 AM

I can pick up a little slack at work so you can take care of your kids but don't you DARE act like you're entitled to it!

Abaddon

Apr 25, 2008, 01:17 AM

That the Babe thread rules have changed, apparently.

The Yankee

Apr 25, 2008, 01:19 AM

Thanks to only being able to order my cap and gown online in order to keep tickets for graduation, my sizes are all wrong. They only gave measurements in pounds for the gowns (in 50 pound blocs, even!), so I went with the one larger to ensure I didn't have one too small. But it's large and on the inside, it says it's made for someone that's 6'8" (four inches taller than I am). But...better to have a larger one than one that is too small.

The thing that really grinds my gears is that they only offered "one size fits all" caps. I know from tons of experience that "one size fits all" does not actually mean that one size fits all. It might have a chance to do that if the band at the bottom of the cap were elastic, but I can't stretch it out at all! You'd think with all the money they get off of graduation-related sales, they could afford a couple sizes or a more elastic band!

I'll have to wear it as a yarmulke, probably. Though I do need to cut my hair and that will probably help a bit.

Still, if I were the typical 6', 180-pound guy, life would be a lot easier. Life became a lot more difficult once I moved past retailers' visions for how large we can all be.

Christ....bad enough that seats on mass transit are usually made for people smaller than an average American.

Sidhe

Apr 25, 2008, 03:45 AM

That the Babe thread rules have changed, apparently.

You mean the cartoon babes? Well that's not a bad thing, real is better.

I have nothing to moan about this morning, strange? :D

Abaddon

Apr 25, 2008, 05:04 AM

True, but is there any need to Ban the pictures?

azzaman333

Apr 25, 2008, 05:08 AM

True, but is there any need to Ban the pictures?

They belong in the anime mange thread, so yes.

I'm always tired/exhausted these days, but never tired enough to want to sleep...

D'Artagnan59

Apr 25, 2008, 05:58 AM

Capslock has a place. It's great in its place. It is awful in body text.

Yes, D'Art, it's about you this time. But not exclusively.

OK. I'll try not to. I'll just post a calmer version.

Sidhe

Apr 25, 2008, 06:29 AM

OK. I'll try not to. I'll just post a calmer version.

Pers0na11y as l0ng as '/0(_) [)0|\|'7 (_)5e l33t I [)0|\|'7 [423

Or txt spl, tht is . .. .. .. . m8.

RedRalph

Apr 25, 2008, 06:32 AM

They belong in the anime mange thread, so yes.

I'm always tired/exhausted these days, but never tired enough to want to sleep...

Edit: In the intersts of not falling foul of PDMA, deleted

Sidhe

Apr 25, 2008, 06:35 AM

In the interests of not being a matter of interest for PDMA. Edited.

RedRalph

Apr 25, 2008, 06:38 AM

Pointful officiousness is not in the essential for modhood, it is merely desirable.

Isn't discussing mod actions a warnable offence in this playground?

Yes it is, please see my edit

Eran of Arcadia

Apr 25, 2008, 07:22 AM

Swedishguy

Apr 25, 2008, 07:43 AM

I'd like to kill my class mates for being such a bad example for the rest of the school. Or at least sue them.

Love

Apr 25, 2008, 08:40 AM

I'd like to kill my class mates for being such a bad example for the rest of the school. Or at least sue them.

Killing is much more fun.

aronnax

Apr 25, 2008, 09:17 AM

I fell on my knee!!! IT BRUISES!!!

Nylan

Apr 25, 2008, 12:17 PM

Achmed visited my house today. Now I have a checkpoint, instead of a house.

At least he wasn't on a stick.

raketooy

Apr 25, 2008, 04:08 PM

What the hell is wrong with my language teachers? I earlier got 9 out of 10 from German, though the teacher had said that he'd give me a 10. Well, now I also got a 9 from English, while I had the best exam and essay points of my group. Apparently my teacher thinks that when she makes ludicrous exams, it is the students' fault that everyone gets worse numbers than usual. I also should've got a 10 from Swedish, but my teacher is very anal about students being absent or late. I should get my average above 9,5 again on this fifth and final term (not that it really matters; it'd just be nice).

And also my right thumb is still a bit sore after I smashed it into a table a week ago. I'm starting to get worried about it.

Gabryel Karolin

Apr 25, 2008, 04:14 PM

The MMG2 Mod didn't release for EUIII today even though it was so advertized, and tomorrow I'm busy doing other things :mad: .

Sidhe

Apr 25, 2008, 04:14 PM

Okay, so apparently they have extracted collagen from T. rex bones, and that is cool. And they found it resembles bird proteins, which is no surprise but still cool. And the morning commuter paper ran an article on it, which is cool. And they kept calling it T-rex, which is annoying but everyone does it so I let it slide. But, not once but twice, they called chickens and other birds the "descendants" of T. rex!! Grrr! This really annoyed me! For some reason!

Oh well, it's not like I am entitled to accuracy from the media or anything.

I blame Jurassic Park (JP) For a start raptors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor) weren't that large so these are not the "birds" they are talking about, they were more turkey sized (excuse the bird reference but they are really that small) and they certainly weren't evolved form birds or into, birds came later, the raptors in JP are no more the progeny of dinosaurs than lemurs are of humans.

I had a geologist friend go off on one about this too, they just aren't anything like T-Rex.

D'Artagnan59

Apr 25, 2008, 04:27 PM

Sidhe

Apr 25, 2008, 04:32 PM

So, there were no interesting magazines, as I predicted. There was 30 issues of parenting magazines and the rest were kiddy. I had to do nothing for 10 minutes. Then, I went in.

You've never been creeped out before in a doctor's office until a doctor of the same sex has checked your genitals.

When you get older you get used to having women or men check out your genitals, whilst it becomes no less embarrassing, it's still not something they are going to rate as perfect even if they are getting some from the sword. I've had my nads fondled too many times to be embarrassed any more. :D

The fact is a female or male Dr has not only seen more balls than a professional tennis player, but they couldn't give a monkeys if you have one the size of a baseball and one the size of football, all they are looking for is abnormality. I'm sure women having Gynae exams from male doctors go through far worse, stop complaining. :p

Eran of Arcadia

Apr 25, 2008, 04:35 PM

but they couldn't give a monkeys if you have one the size of a baseball and one the size of football, all they are looking for is abnormality.

That's not an abnormality?

Sidhe

Apr 25, 2008, 04:37 PM

That's not an abnormality?

I think you just missed the point. But nm, I'm used to it, everyone does round here. :)

Ok if one was the size of a baseball and one of football, with no abnormality they couldn't care less? get it?

Trafalgar

Apr 25, 2008, 04:47 PM

Having my genitals checked by a female doctor would be one of the highlights of my week. I don't get out much.

Gilder

Apr 25, 2008, 05:17 PM

My dreams don't really provide me with much rest.

On a related note to the above, I'm none to happy with my mum at the moment.

On an unrelated, more random thought than rant, people in one of my classes keep saying how much they like that I find "everything spazzy only to just shrug it off."

Odd.

The Yankee

Apr 25, 2008, 10:11 PM

The MMG2 Mod didn't release for EUIII today even though it was so advertized, and tomorrow I'm busy doing other things :mad: .

It was delayed again? Ah, well, working on a game in 1.7whatever it is and don't want to change the rules mid-game. I should probably make an AAR out of it sometime.

My peeve for the day is actually the "it's Green Week this week!" droning a couple of stations. Because a) it's forgotten next week, b) a lot of it doesn't actually call on people to do anything, and c) they're still hyping corn-based ethanol, which has left me a sour taste in my mouth lately at this stage of the game.

But, it's the usual little meaningless inserts when there's a "special" time, so I should be used to the few seconds they devote to their pet cause of the week.

Nylan

Apr 25, 2008, 10:29 PM

There's nothing like unrealistic workload expectations to ruin your weekend.

Ekolite

Apr 26, 2008, 05:45 AM

When you get older you get used to having women or men check out your genitals, whilst it becomes no less embarrassing, it's still not something they are going to rate as perfect even if they are getting some from the sword. I've had my nads fondled too many times to be embarrassed any more. :D

The fact is a female or male Dr has not only seen more balls than a professional tennis player, but they couldn't give a monkeys if you have one the size of a baseball and one the size of football, all they are looking for is abnormality. I'm sure women having Gynae exams from male doctors go through far worse, stop complaining. :p

When I had mine checked I didn't really find it that embarassing and I wasn't particularly uncomfortable about the fact that it was a man. Afterall, he's just a doctor and all your doing is being checked over, also as a uricologist (or w/e the word was) he probably does it every day. Besides, it could be a lot more embarrasing if it was a woman, especially a really hot one :lol:. The main thing that annoyed me/freaked me out was the pervy letter I got from him afterwords saying something like:

I am pleased to say that the tiny lump in your testicle is just a varracus vein and absolutely fine. However if you have any more worries, come back and I'd be more then happy to look you over again.

It sounds so wrong lol.

Trafalgar

Apr 26, 2008, 11:50 AM

The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) went on strike at midnight. There are no buses, no subway and no LRT. The union said we would have 48 hrs. notice of a strike. We didn't. Bastards.

At least the beer and liquor stores are open.

azzaman333

Apr 26, 2008, 11:55 AM

I'm destroying my life deliberately for reasons that don't make sense, but subconsciously I'm convinced that my actions are helpful.

Catharsis

Apr 26, 2008, 11:58 AM

I should be revising for my A-Levels, but instead I'm spending my free time doing useless things like browsing CFC. Pretty much all the revision I've done has been done in school. :sad:

Ekolite

Apr 26, 2008, 12:07 PM

Right now I am absolutely furious with the bastards that invented the french language and even MORE furious at the person who decided it would be a good idea to learn it in english schools. Why do they have to have so many conjugations? Why so they say everything backwards? Why do they say ''Is it that'' (Est-ce que / Qu'est-ce) instead of ''What''. I hate the language so much I have become determined not to let it beat me, as soon as I'm finished with education I will become fluent in it, then I will go to France and prove how pointless it was to learn their stupid language when they all speak English!

And don't even get me started on German.

Cu Chulainn

Apr 27, 2008, 12:05 AM

Why is the Rum ALWAYS gone?

Red Door

Apr 27, 2008, 12:09 AM

There's nothing like unrealistic workload expectations to ruin your weekend.

Especially when you haven't started any of it yet.;)

Swedishguy

Apr 27, 2008, 08:14 AM

My birch allergy is getting to me. Also, I have been checking out Youtube videos all day instead of being on CFC all day. I'm starting to suspect CFC is pointless.

D'Artagnan59

Apr 27, 2008, 07:53 PM

Good News: I found a very good old game store. They have everything from Atari 2600 to Sega Dreamcast. They even have Colecovisions, Intellivisions, and one Atari Jaguar (that 64-bit console that flopped). They even have games for all of them.

Bad News: My birthday's coming up soon. So my parents are whining about it. "Birthday, birthday, birthday!" Who cares about birthdays, these are rare consoles we're talking about! I've even offered to buy a NES and a SNES with my own money. They still refuse, despite me saving some $120 from their wallets.

LucyDuke

Apr 27, 2008, 08:01 PM

NES ain't that rare, and SNES being newer, ain't that rare either.

Not that I don't prize mine more than my PS2. Just that it's not like you won't find any others. They're on eBay all the time.

Peck of Arabia

Apr 28, 2008, 03:51 AM

It's monday already and what I recall I spent most of my weekend; searching for some damned Pastel Pencils, making a huge mess of my room trying to tidy it up (it really is much, much worse than it was), realise that I miss out of the "Euphoria" stage of drinking and just head straight onto the sleepy and/or depressed stage, and finally proved to myself that i am now truly socially awkward and don't get along with my old friends as much as I used to...

That, I've ran out of Futurama Episodes to watch!

What a bad weekend

Nylan

Apr 28, 2008, 07:47 AM

I don't like Marty Turco.

Swedishguy

Apr 28, 2008, 08:04 AM

I don't like Marty Turco.
I don't even know who he is.

Nylan

Apr 28, 2008, 08:21 AM

I don't even know who he is.

That's because you won't watch the NHL ;)

VRWCAgent

Apr 29, 2008, 09:06 AM

Stupid *bleep bleep bleepity bleep* songs and commercials on the radio that have emergency vehicle sirens in them.

downtown

Apr 29, 2008, 09:38 AM

NES ain't that rare, and SNES being newer, ain't that rare either.

Not that I don't prize mine more than my PS2. Just that it's not like you won't find any others. They're on eBay all the time.

How much do you think SNES's go for these days? My new roomie already has a ps2, so I'm thinking of trading mine in for an older system....

SNES? n64? Sega? hmmm.

Chazumi

Apr 29, 2008, 09:44 AM

How much do you think SNES's go for these days? My new roomie already has a ps2, so I'm thinking of trading mine in for an older system....

SNES? n64? Sega? hmmm.

My buddy bought an SNES for his girlfriend 2006 xmas. Not only were they dang hard to come by but I think he ended up paying like 120 for the system and like 1 game....That may have been an Xmas thing though.

LucyDuke

Apr 29, 2008, 10:40 AM

How much do you think SNES's go for these days? My new roomie already has a ps2, so I'm thinking of trading mine in for an older system....

SNES? n64? Sega? hmmm.

NES on eBay (http://video-games.listings.ebay.com/_Systems_Nintendo-NES_W0QQa14Z24221QQalistZa14QQcurcatZtrueQQgcsZ113 4QQpfidZ1412QQreqtypeZ3QQsacatZ62054QQsocmdZListin gItemList)

SNES on eBay (http://listings.ebay.com/_W0QQsocmdZListingItemList?pfid=1412&gcs=1134&sacat=-100&reqtype=2&dfsp=1&socmd=ListingItemList&from=R2&pagetype=2&socdpfcat=-100&pfmode=2&a14=24222&alist=a14)

Not much!

And with everybody freaking out about the economy right now, I bet you could get one for less than I paid for my NES four years ago.

The pain would probably be hunting down the games you want individually, rather than buying several lots for one game and ending up with eighteen copies of Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

Eran of Arcadia

Apr 29, 2008, 02:23 PM

I am already ruining my new clothes - cut a hole in a shirt trying to get rid of a stray thread.

See, this is why I can't have nice things.

LucyDuke

Apr 29, 2008, 02:40 PM

Yeah, yeah, call it an accident.

Stop fighting it. The woman owns you now. Submit. It will be less painful.

:p

Eran of Arcadia

Apr 29, 2008, 02:44 PM

Heck, I like the shirt. Really, I do.

What's bad is now I am going to have to try and talk her into showing me how to fix it . . .

demokratickid

Apr 29, 2008, 08:35 PM

I hate allergies. Mine are acting up again now that I'm starting to mow the lawn. Thank goodness for Alavert!

Squarg

Apr 29, 2008, 09:02 PM

I'm kinda sad that my new girlfriend is an exchange student who is leaving in 2 months to go back to Norway.

Ansar

Apr 29, 2008, 09:08 PM

French I is boring the hell out of me.

Thankfully, I'm taking French III next year. :)

Elrohir

Apr 29, 2008, 10:50 PM

Cu Chulainn

Apr 29, 2008, 11:17 PM

My coworker rambles. Tonight I asked him a yes or no question and he talked for five minutes. And he didn't even answer the question!

The Yankee

Apr 29, 2008, 11:28 PM

My coworker rambles. Tonight I asked him a yes or no question and he talked for five minutes. And he didn't even answer the question!

I didn't know you were in Congress. Okay, I got this buddy of mine, see....:p

I could do a proper rant as usual, but I'm too worn and tired to do it. First, FedEx arrives two minutes after I hopped in the shower, so I missed them, again. They arrived about an hour earlier today than they did yesterday when they barely bothered to make an effort to get inside this craptastic building. So I suppose that's an improvement....

And these assignments are long, hard, and I keep coming up with several answers for the same exercises. Luckily, few people do these things by hand these days...but still...

Desmond Hawkins

Apr 30, 2008, 12:02 AM

I have horrendous gas today. :vomit:

Squarg

Apr 30, 2008, 07:09 AM

I have horrendous gas today. :vomit:

well thats fantastic.

D'Artagnan59

Apr 30, 2008, 09:39 AM

To All Foreigners:

We're sorry our president is mentally retarded. I would not have voted on him if my life depended on it.

Eran of Arcadia

Apr 30, 2008, 09:40 AM

To all Americans:

Don't insult the mentally retarded. Epically poor judgment is not the same thing.

Peck of Arabia

Apr 30, 2008, 09:57 AM

And besides, isn't it a little late for apologies...

LucyDuke

Apr 30, 2008, 10:15 AM

To All Mental Retards:

I voted for Nader.

What?

Brighteye

Apr 30, 2008, 10:20 AM

Heck, I like the shirt. Really, I do.

What's bad is now I am going to have to try and talk her into showing me how to fix it . . .

That's easy. Just put it on, go visit, and then get her to show you once you're there.
Of course, that'll mean taking it off (eventually), at which point you nonchalantly display your finely toned body and fine manual dexterity all at once.

Eran of Arcadia

Apr 30, 2008, 10:38 AM

Meh. I mentioned it to her, and she sort of implied that she doesn't know how to fix it either.

On the plus side, I got 3 other shirts like it that I plan NOT to ruin, so . . .

Also, as all my body fat is hidden when I have a shirt on, I am in no hurry to let her see it.

Rhymes

Apr 30, 2008, 10:50 AM

That the Babe thread rules have changed, apparently.

Wait, what... You also have 2 nuts??

Martacus

Apr 30, 2008, 10:46 PM

Financing the house my wife and I are buying is getting to be a hassle. We're getting a good deal, but the reams of paperwork these people require is unbelievable. Tax return forms and W-2s for both of us for the past three years? I'm lucky my father has been keeping my tax records; I might have misplaced them by now. My wife's parents and apparently also their accountant didn't keep hold of her W-2s, so we had to call the IRS to get copies. That's going to be 7-10 days. We were supposed to have all this stuff taken care of by now! Arrgh!

Abaddon

May 01, 2008, 04:23 AM

Wait, what... You also have 2 nuts??

Yes, full compliment goes to you. I STOLE it. Think its one of the funnier abuses of the "free" line.

I'm moaning my head hurts after drinking a friends leaving do last night...

LucyDuke

May 01, 2008, 10:58 AM

It's not funny on you, though. Just kind of sad.

Abaddon

May 01, 2008, 12:03 PM

It's not funny on you, though. Just kind of sad.

Any reason for this random and trollish attack?

demokratickid

May 01, 2008, 12:06 PM

I have a head ache caused by staring at a computer screen too long. I think I have CFC on the brain...:lol:

LucyDuke

May 01, 2008, 12:47 PM

Any reason for this random and trollish attack?

Not random - Rhymes brought it up. I don't mean to troll. It's just lame how you ripped him off. It's not funny twice. Sorry. :(

Abaddon

May 01, 2008, 12:54 PM

Can it not just be that I like it aswell?

D'Artagnan59

May 01, 2008, 02:55 PM

I hate it when people don't flush the toilet/urinal. Let me ask you: Would you like to use the bathroom, but when you get to the proper receptacle to use the bathroom in, you see a massive pile of human waste (be it #1 or #2)?

What's the worst part? I have to deal with this AT HOME. Yes, I have to deal with it at home. Why? MY DISGUSTING DAD DOESN'T FRIGGIN' FLUSH THE TOILET!

When waking up in the morning and having to piss badly and taking one, do you want to open the toilet to see the water is yellow? What's this pig's reason for not flushing the toilet?

His first was to save water. To save water? That's just disgusting. Human waste, be it liquid or solid, is still human waste. Pee is not water. It's WASTE. Now, we're having toilet problems. You can fix it manually. The problem is, now he's too much of a lazy ass to fix it. So I need to yell at him to flush the goddamn toilet.

lord_joakim

May 01, 2008, 03:01 PM

It's not funny on you, though. Just kind of sad.

It's not sad. It's possibly unfun, but not sad at all.

Please cease this.

Nevertheless, I'll post my rant.

Not concerning of how many girls I don't like, this is possibly the one I like the least. Catrine appearantly weren't the smartest girl in school. She has spent time dissing me significantly, though out of my sudden my female cousin (They're best friends with each other) chooses to put her next to me at her second baptizing. That moran. I don't like her, I don't like my cousin. It was terrible. The only solution was to become drunk, which I am right now. >_>

VRWCAgent

May 01, 2008, 03:01 PM

If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down!

(no, I don't subscribe to that. It's just always cracked me up as a saying)

Peck of Arabia

May 02, 2008, 03:06 AM

Aghh I have a horrible headache, and it has everything to do with being tired, (unless you count a glass and a half of wine as enough to cause a hangover...)

Went to bed last night too late, too much talking to people on MSN- that plus I'd rediscovered Civ 2

AND, why is time moving so slowly!- I have a calendar at work marking down the days before I leave the country and I'm still on the same day as last time I checked!

lord_joakim

May 02, 2008, 03:10 AM

Hey, Civ2 is nice! :(

Peck of Arabia

May 02, 2008, 03:15 AM

I know, but it's not so friendly when it's tricked you out of an entire evening... several evenings in a row (seiously, started playing it about 5pm, next thing I know it's about 1 am and all I had was a small break to eat something)

lord_joakim

May 02, 2008, 03:18 AM

Yea, the good ol' days of ICS :love:

But has that not happened to you with Civ4?

Peck of Arabia

May 02, 2008, 03:24 AM

Well it happens with quite few games actually (Paradox owes me about a lifetime in playing time, give or take) but while Civ 4 is a great game, it has lost a lot of it's charm
"Stop that exploit!"
"We'll put a stop to THAT loophole"
"HA! Now you have to declare war on the AI and face the diplomatic consequences!"

Plus, the music they gave Lincoln in BTS was scanalously un-nostalgic

lord_joakim

May 02, 2008, 03:30 AM

You really play Lincoln? Never tried him :p

Nevertheless, I find Civ4 annoying because of the AI who does not want to win themselves but want to hinder the player winning, as well as the stupid combat system.

Peck of Arabia

May 02, 2008, 03:49 AM

Well it's more the case I keep on meeting him- it got to me so much I had to try a little modding to make it play Battle Hymn of the Republic a la Civ 1

Still in all fairness to Civ 4, the AI tries harder to win than it ever did in Civ 2 where, as far as I can tell, they sat back and watched you found tons of cities, and then everyone declared war on you to try and balance it out...

Still, anything is better than Civ 3- what a shambles!

lord_joakim

May 02, 2008, 03:54 AM

I tried Civ3 and was disappointed with the game pace.

yea. But the only AI who actually attemps to win in Civ4 is Gandhi with his space race. >_>

D'Artagnan59

May 02, 2008, 03:24 PM

My dad has the weirdest, creepiest way he tucks in his shirt.

He drops his pants to tuck in his shirt. Yes, he DROPS HIS PANTS. I can't emphasize it enough. He divides his legs and does this weird half-squat too so his pants don't go below his knees. I mean, the locker room is one thing to drop your pants in because you're supposed to do it. Hell, even I change in public in the locker room. But in private? Dear God, that's wrong.

How do I know this? My father has done this in my presence. Just thank God he wears underwear. All of a sudden, I'm in front of him, and there the pants go. This generates into a scolding of him for pulling down his pants in front of me.

Hell, he even does it in front of the family. He did it in the mudroom (in the doorway leading outside, no less). He did it in front of my uncle. Despite being told that it's disgusting, weird, creepy, and embarrassing, HE STILL DOES IT.

VRWCAgent

May 03, 2008, 05:39 PM

I just lost 75 minutes of my life to Cloverfield. I really, really want that time back. Ugh, what a crappy movie.

obliterate

May 04, 2008, 02:41 AM

I hate umpires! They are so biased! I swear the free kick count today was 40 - 5 in favour of the opposition of course. One time I saw my teammate getting tackled off the ball and thought, yeah that's a free. The umpire blows his whistle and says 'holding the man'. I turn around and when I look back the opposition have ball AND A 50m PENALTY! WTF! And another time I clearly kick a goal, the whole crowd thought is was a goal at least 300 people. I start celebrating and go back to my mark and then the opposition are kicking out! ARRGGHHHH!!!!!

------- umpires, pieces of ----!!!
Offensive language removed. - The Yankee

philippe

May 04, 2008, 02:54 AM

I just lost 75 minutes of my life to Cloverfield. I really, really want that time back. Ugh, what a crappy movie.
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/3484/cloverct3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Where is your God now?

demokratickid

May 04, 2008, 03:05 AM

I stepped on a thumbtack and now have a small hole in my foot. Whopee!:crazyeye:

obliterate

May 04, 2008, 06:02 AM

OMG! ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! BINDY IRWIN JUST WON A LOGIE!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I the only one who hates watching her?

azzaman333

May 04, 2008, 09:03 AM

OMG! ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! BINDY IRWIN JUST WON A LOGIE!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Am I the only one who hates watching her?

I'm 98% sure some pedo with too much time on his hands repeatedly voted for her, because no one could honestly believe she won it legit.

EDIT; I somehow managed to waste my entire weekend playing Rome: Total War when I had English homework I should've been doing.

Ansar

May 04, 2008, 09:22 AM

I hate Virtual School.

Oh, and English class can go have sexual intercourse with itself.

downtown

May 04, 2008, 10:18 AM

I warned you about virtual school....

Sidhe

May 04, 2008, 03:29 PM

Hey, Civ2 is nice! :(

All Civs were nice in their day. :mad:;)

I never quite gelled with Call To Power, but that's a matter of preference.

VRWCAgent

May 04, 2008, 08:03 PM

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/3484/cloverct3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Where is your God now?

Laughing his butt off because I wasted time and money on such a crappy movie? ;)

Kan' Sharuminar

May 04, 2008, 08:19 PM

I just lost 75 minutes of my life to Cloverfield. I really, really want that time back. Ugh, what a crappy movie.

I quite liked the first half. Lots of confusion despite it being an obvious monster film made it interesting - it was only the second half when everyone started being really bloody stupid and whatever story there was made no sense that I got a bit bored :)

lord_joakim

May 05, 2008, 03:24 AM

was cloverfield bad?
oh bother.

Nylan

May 05, 2008, 08:01 AM

ugh...4x OT loss to end the series. 5 hours of my life I'll never get back, and I think I'm coming down with the flu :sad:

Ziggy Stardust

May 05, 2008, 08:09 AM

I quite liked the first half. Lots of confusion despite it being an obvious monster film made it interesting - it was only the second half when everyone started being really bloody stupid and whatever story there was made no sense that I got a bit bored :)Damn skippy. The main characters where irritating as heck. In the confusion of the beginning it doesn't show as much but when they have to 'act' you are hoping for monsters to enter the scene and stop this gutwrenching display of mediocre acting.

We watched on a big screen on some festival, and you can imagine the cheers, hoots and "thank god!"'s when the camera wielding douchbag finally gets what was comming to him all movie.

Nylan

May 05, 2008, 08:11 AM

At least a flaming homeless man didn't come running out of the dark...

downtown

May 05, 2008, 08:23 AM

I'm going to be homeless for the month of August! I have to sleep on different friend's couches or something.

GinandTonic

May 05, 2008, 02:50 PM

Cat just brought me a messed up bird. Had to finish it off. Considered same with cat.

D'Artagnan59

May 05, 2008, 02:55 PM

philippe

May 05, 2008, 02:59 PM

LucyDuke

May 05, 2008, 03:13 PM

I didn't even get a card for my birthday, forget presents or cake.

So why can't you make your own damn cake?

Catharsis

May 05, 2008, 03:25 PM

So why can't you make your own damn cake?

(can't bake a cake)

Mmm-hmm.

On-topic: De Moivre's theorem is flippin' hard and I hate it. :mad:

Bill3000

May 05, 2008, 03:28 PM

There's ants in my room. :(

Red Door

May 05, 2008, 03:32 PM

My mom is the laziest bum ever.

I played Portal, and I love it. I have had the portal cake in mind to have my mom make it (can't bake a cake). It happens to be my birthday on Friday. I have asked her to make it. She refuses. Why?

It's not because we don't have the supplies. It's not because it's too big. She says she's too lazy too.

I'm almost to a point of crying I'm so hurt. I mean, you don't get a Lamborghini when you ask for it. But this is a cake. This is one of the main components of a birthday. Cake, presents, and getting older (though we'd love to forget about this). And she's too goddamn lazy to make the cake I want? It's not that expensive to make, yet she won't because it takes too much time. Time is not a constraint you consider on a birthday. Shows how much she loves me.

Dude, get out in the world. Look at the people living on the streets. Then you'll appreciate that your mom has enough time to make you and your life you have, which sounds pretty damn good to most people. You're telling her she's lazy because she can't make you a birthday cake. Jesus christ, grow up. Time is always a constraint. People have things to do to make your life better, get used to it.

EDIT: BTW, the only component of your birthday is you are a year older than one year before, but that's only physical. Some people never progress mentally. Those who get more than that are lucky people. Count your blessings.

Ansar

May 05, 2008, 03:34 PM

LucyDuke

May 05, 2008, 04:07 PM

Mmm-hmm.

Did you miss the "Why?"? :confused:

D'Artagnan59

May 05, 2008, 04:22 PM

philippe

May 05, 2008, 04:35 PM

You know what? I should.

phillippe, would you like to speak to Whomp about what you just called me? He'd be really pissed to see. Now, sir, I see you have very low self-esteem, so let's just leave it at that and move on. Say one thing, you answer to him.

There are ants all over the computer room I'm in.

Do it.

you think you are having a hard life? You think your mother doesn't love you becuase she doesn't bake you a cake?

Jeesh, ok. hold on.

here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=715290&postcount=1
see that date? I was 15 and all alone on this world.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=856446&postcount=1

So, before you call me any names, take a long, very deep look to yourself.

And I beg you, take care of your mother. Love her, you never know how hard you'll miss her once she is away.

Sidhe

May 05, 2008, 04:40 PM

Cat just brought me a messed up bird. Had to finish it off. Considered same with cat.

It's just instinct though, all cats do that. To a cat, he'd be thinking, see what I did, and not only that before I ate it I presented it to you for first pickings. :)

D'Artagnan59

May 05, 2008, 05:05 PM

Do it.

you think you are having a hard life? You think your mother doesn't love you becuase she doesn't bake you a cake?

Jeesh, ok. hold on.

here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=715290&postcount=1
see that date? I was 15 and all alone on this world.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=856446&postcount=1

So, before you call me any names, take a long, very deep look to yourself.

And I beg you, take care of your mother. Love her, you never know how hard you'll miss her once she is away.

OK. I wasn't being mature. That can be certified.

I wasn't even planning on calling you any names. I only do when defended. Calling me a lazy twit was unnecessary and inappropriate. Lazy is not an insult. Twit is. It tarnishes your personal image as a nice person as well. So please don't do that. As long as you understand that, I forgive you.

Whoa. That must be a really hard life. I'm sorry for your loss.

Catharsis

May 05, 2008, 05:10 PM

Did you miss the "Why?"? :confused:

Ah, I see what you mean. I thought you meant 'why don't you make your own cake'. 'Scuses. :blush:

GinandTonic

May 05, 2008, 05:53 PM

Dam Phil, thats rough. Hope it's all working out as far as possible.

D'Artagnan59

May 05, 2008, 10:03 PM

Now, glad to see we resolved this like civilized men, so let's get on with the ranting.

azzaman333

May 06, 2008, 03:28 AM

Mmm-hmm.

On-topic: De Moivre's theorem is flippin' hard and I hate it. :mad:

Look on the bright side. You can just take the numbers, move them to the right spots and you get the right answer. Antidifferentiating various retarded equations is much harder...

The Yankee

May 06, 2008, 03:47 AM

Just to be sure, let's end the argument over the birthday cake.

VRWCAgent

May 06, 2008, 04:00 AM

I am awake right now only because my puppy seems to have a case of the runs... It is not pretty in her crate, on her doggie bed, etc. She's clean now, the cage is clean, her bed is being washed after a thorough hosing down outside, and I just pray she doesn't have another attack.

Kind of a crappy way to be awakened at 3am

The Yankee

May 06, 2008, 04:01 AM

I'm awake right now because I can't seem to sleep. And my teeth were hurting bad (I bet they're impacted wisdom teeth), so I downed some Excedrin for it...but since I didn't eat enough, my stomach is feeling quite funky.

Just what I need with a final exam tomorrow night.

VRWCAgent

May 06, 2008, 04:03 AM

Dealt with my wisdom teeth about 18 years ago. I honestly feel for ya, man, those bastards are painful.

Catharsis

May 06, 2008, 10:33 AM

Look on the bright side. You can just take the numbers, move them to the right spots and you get the right answer.

Never seems that way in an exam, though. :lol: Always seems to morph into roots of unity and 'given that z=cosθ+isinθ, find all values of θ for which (z-1)5=z5' or some such nonsense. You might find that easy, but for some reason I have a mental block on this subject.

D'Artagnan59

May 06, 2008, 07:19 PM

Rant A:

My English teacher is making me rip my hair out. Why? She always schedules her tests on days when we already have tests in other subjects. There was a substitute for the first half of the year, and I have amazing memory capabilities, so I've remembered back to third quarter.

And some of you might ask if I'm using hyperbole. I'm not. I've checked the Internet site for third and fourth-quarter tests. All tests in English occurred on days we had tests in other subjects. EVERY. SINGLE. TEST.

Rant B:

I was interrupted again during class by my support staff. If you'd like to see why I have a support staff, I have AS (which explains some of my immaturity). It wasn't in a moment where I needed utmost concentration, but still, I was interrupted to be given a location for standardized testing (we have our own test for determining course placement in math and English). I have a study hall with them, why don't they just give it to me there instead of wasting precious math time?

It's time to take matters in my own hands. If they interrupt me during my class again, I'm writing an e-mail to the support staff telling them to not interrupt me or anyone during class; they need time to learn and you're distracting them from it. Instead, just hand them out in study halls.

P.S. I'm doing a lot better at math and am actually reaching my potential.

Red Door

May 06, 2008, 07:47 PM

D'Artagnan59

May 06, 2008, 07:58 PM

The problem: We're already having 2-3 tests on a single day.

Red Door

May 06, 2008, 07:59 PM

The problem: We're already having 2-3 tests on a single day.

Not much of a problem, especially in middle school. Once you get to levels where you actually have to study, that becomes tiresome.

D'Artagnan59

May 06, 2008, 08:27 PM

Yep.

And there's no soda in the house that I'm crazy about. It's just those other-brand berry-flavored diet sodas my parents drink.

Which brings me to Point A:

Why the hell does my mom make me drink diet soda? I get exercise, I eat healthy, and I'm at a low BMI, so what's the point of making me drink diet? I don't need diet, therefore, I don't need diet soda.

Red Door

May 06, 2008, 08:34 PM

a_propagandist

May 06, 2008, 08:39 PM

All soda is bad for you.

Ansar

May 06, 2008, 08:40 PM

Not much of a problem, especially in middle school. Once you get to levels where you actually have to study, that becomes tiresome.
That's funny; I'm in high school and I still don't have to study. :mischief:

(I study too, but you make it sound like you need to study for hours.)

Cutlass

May 06, 2008, 08:48 PM

the stupid fat old ugly really cool guy who lives in the apartment below mine gave MY phone number to someone she stiffed on a bill

Offensive name removed. - The Yankee

D'Artagnan59

May 06, 2008, 08:54 PM

I'm lucky. Not only do I have to miss the test (Latin field trip), it's on Friday, which happens to be my birthday.

The Yankee

May 06, 2008, 10:40 PM

Dealt with my wisdom teeth about 18 years ago. I honestly feel for ya, man, those bastards are painful.

Can't afford to do anything about that, yet. But it was much worse about a month or so ago, so I'm thankful for that much. And I've been less stubborn about avoiding pain relievers.

azzaman333

May 07, 2008, 12:15 AM

Never seems that way in an exam, though. :lol: Always seems to morph into roots of unity and 'given that z=cosθ+isinθ, find all values of θ for which (z-1)5=z5' or some such nonsense. You might find that easy, but for some reason I have a mental block on this subject.

Oh, I hate converting cartesian form to polar form and vice versa, but de moivre's theorem itself is quite simple.

Peck of Arabia

May 07, 2008, 03:52 AM

I lost my copy of Catch-22- how I lost a book that thick I'm not sure, but I was halfway through and really starting to get into it!

Also, my friends who went to university while I took a gap year are really starting to appear smarmy and pompous- I mean, who starts an IM conversation with "you think you've got problems" before telling me what happened to him? (something about a TV license mix up)

Urgh! What right had he tell me that I thought I had problems, he hadn't even spoken to me for months, what could he possibly know what's going on in my life, but no, since he was out in the wide world of university (a whole 15 or so miles away!!) he assumes my little life at home with a proper job is like a "sandbox" life and the worst thing that can happen to me is a paper cut! Oh the pompousity!!

OK, nothing that bad is happening to me *touches wood* but it's the assumption that grated me

(I love complaining about people I know who I know arn't on these forums, it's such a release!)

D'Artagnan59

May 07, 2008, 02:42 PM

I have bus evacuation tomorrow. We know how to evacuate a goddamn bus. We did it all through elementary school. Do we really need it again in 8th grade?

Sidhe

May 07, 2008, 03:09 PM

I decided to cash in my coin jar today, had barely enough time to take my vast amount of copper to the bank so chose the nearest one. Got there and they told me their was a £5 fee for non customers. Ah! :mad: If I'd of known that I'd of gone to the further away bank and got there in time. Shazbat!

Gilder

May 07, 2008, 04:05 PM

I hate cockblockers.

Martacus

May 07, 2008, 05:42 PM

I slipped and fell and scraped up my right hand. It still stings three hours later.

a_propagandist

May 07, 2008, 07:57 PM

I'm in 11th grade, feel intensely old, regret my mistakes of the past, want to relive the past, want to move forward, want to go to college, do not want to lose my connections with friends, want to make new friends, am disillusioned with the world, do not want to have to regret my actions of today, am optimistic, feel dejected over my GPA etc.

I feel like Holden sans the violence.

Martacus

May 07, 2008, 08:12 PM

Nylan

May 08, 2008, 08:03 AM

My timing is horrible. AP Calc exam one day and a massive project due the next. I can't run on 1 hour of sleep :sad:

Okay, maybe I can. I don't have to like it though...

Ansar

May 08, 2008, 04:36 PM

I left six questions blank and got one wrong on my practice SAT II Math IC exam. :(

D'Artagnan59

May 08, 2008, 04:47 PM

Dear God, out of all the songs to play in the world, why do big corporate chains choose to play love songs?

I don't mind them, but they play the BAD ones. I mean REALLY bad.

Integral

May 08, 2008, 04:52 PM

I left six questions blank and got one wrong on my practice SAT II Math IC exam. :(

If you were doing the Math IIC, that would still be an 800! :D

Ansar

May 08, 2008, 07:10 PM

If you were doing the Math IIC, that would still be an 800! :D
Well, I'll be doing that one next year! :)

a_propagandist

May 08, 2008, 07:38 PM

Why are you even taking the IC?

LucyDuke

May 08, 2008, 09:37 PM

I forgot how to get stuff done at home. :(

I'm not going to get this done in time. :(

But I'm going to be up all night trying. :(

The Yankee

May 09, 2008, 12:35 AM

I could do a proper rant as usual, but I'm too worn and tired to do it. First, FedEx arrives two minutes after I hopped in the shower, so I missed them, again. They arrived about an hour earlier today than they did yesterday when they barely bothered to make an effort to get inside this craptastic building. So I suppose that's an improvement....

FedEx's incompetence and/or laziness after this ended up costing me about $50 as HP decided that they'd only refund a little less than half of the amount paid for the order.

I'm tired of being ripped off because of the sheer idiocy of most delivery services here and the absentee superintendent of the building.

Just a couple more weeks.....

mythmonster2

May 09, 2008, 10:39 AM

nc-1701

May 09, 2008, 10:50 AM

I fear I have an undiagnosed mental illness. From my pathetic medical view, I'd say the most likely suspect is a small degree of bipolar disorder. :(
Also, there's only a month left in school, I made it a new year's resolution to ask out the girl who I like before summer, and I don't know how to! :cry:

Just walk up to har say "Hi!" and then say "You want to go to a movie?", and do it all without stamnmering, stuttering, looking nervous, or pausing in bad places...:)

VRWCAgent

May 09, 2008, 11:00 AM

Naw. Be creative. Get yourself a deck screw or wood screw, walk up to her, hold up the screw and say "Hey baby, wanna screw?" and give her a playful wink.

Sidhe

May 09, 2008, 11:04 AM

People are idiots. I gave my new lawyer friends two bank accounts I wanted them to sue over. They sent one back as I didn't have the account number as the bank account was closed two years ago? Surely they could just ask the bank to look for all charges in the last six years under the name a.non? That's quite annoying. Still only three years and I get about £1300 back. Nice little bonus. :D Still I suppose I can't complain, they are helping me out, well at a cost of ~15% of the eventual return anyway. Pfft now I have to go ointo the bank and ask them for my old account number, you just know they are going to know why too. It's not like about 350,000 people haven't already had to do this whole thing, they probably get this sort of request all the time. Apparently they (as in banks in general) still have a few hundred thousand outstanding cases to pay out on too, but there appealing so they can keep the interest on the payments, ie for tax purposes. Only business could morally consider that abusing the spirit of the law as a monetary venture. Forget all the people who have had their lives turned upside down by such ridiculous practices, we want to make 10% of 60 million. :rolleyes:

What's really annoying though is without friends bailing me out I would have had to declare bankruptcy, and all that over a charge of £30 for going £1 overdrawn? Then another £30 because my account was over the overdraft limit. :lol: Banks are scum.

LucyDuke

May 09, 2008, 11:05 AM

FedEx's incompetence and/or laziness after this ended up costing me about $50 as HP decided that they'd only refund a little less than half of the amount paid for the order.

I'm tired of being ripped off because of the sheer idiocy of most delivery services here and the absentee superintendent of the building.

Just a couple more weeks.....

I wouldn't let up on HP if I were you. All their deliveries are fully insured, and if you didn't get your box, I'm pretty sure you're legally entitled to a full refund. Did you pay with a credit card? It's chargeback time.

Of course, I don't know the specifics of the story. But you shouldn't bend over and take it, if you can help it.

mythmonster2

May 09, 2008, 11:44 AM

Naw. Be creative. Get yourself a deck screw or wood screw, walk up to her, hold up the screw and say "Hey baby, wanna screw?" and give her a playful wink.
That'd be awkward, considering I'm in MIDDLE SCHOOL.

LucyDuke

May 09, 2008, 12:24 PM

I can't remember a single moment from when I was in middle school that wasn't awkward.

Just go for it, dude.

VRWCAgent

May 09, 2008, 12:28 PM

That'd be awkward, considering I'm in MIDDLE SCHOOL.

First and only time I did it was 7th grade. It resulted in a slap. A very painful slap.

D'Artagnan59

May 09, 2008, 04:10 PM

So, despite being VOTED the best speech (unofficial poll) by the students, I didn't make it in the school finals for persuasive speeches.

Mine was about school starting early. Everyone thinks that without a doubt, I am the best orator in the 8th grade. This is not a lie. So why didn't the best speech make it?

My speech was on how schools should start later. My English teacher was openly opposed to starting school later. She knew that I was a good orator. So good, that if I went to the finals, I could influence public opinion among everyone. Students, teachers, maybe even the administrators. Heck, the new superintendent of the entire school district was coming to the finals, I heard. His opinion could be influenced, and school could actually start later. Once that would happen, then she'd have to get up later than she will (she's a morning person), and she doesn't want that. Therefore, keeping me from the finals would be a benefit to her.

Basically, if you want to jump over the wall of text, I think she doesn't want me to influence public opinion about the opposition. It's why Suu Kyi was under house arrest: her speaking was too strong and could influence others to join the opposition.

Red Door

May 09, 2008, 04:29 PM

:lol: :lol: This is a new one, 8th grade persuasive essays influincing school opening times.

LucyDuke

May 09, 2008, 04:31 PM

Mmm. Conspiracy and censorship. Good stuff.

I was just gonna rant about how it rained today, and I got mud on my brand new white btch shoes. :(

Japanrocks12

May 09, 2008, 04:41 PM

I have ONE WEEK to do almost everything in preparation for prom.

Following that, I have exactly three school projects which will take up a lot of time.

Gogf

May 09, 2008, 05:21 PM

This is one of the main components of a birthday. Cake, presents, and getting older (though we'd love to forget about this).

Dude, you're 14, not 65.

Sidhe

May 09, 2008, 05:26 PM

My mom is the laziest bum ever.

I played Portal, and I love it. I have had the portal cake in mind to have my mom make it (can't bake a cake). It happens to be my birthday on Friday. I have asked her to make it. She refuses. Why?

It's not because we don't have the supplies. It's not because it's too big. She says she's too lazy too.

I'm almost to a point of crying I'm so hurt. I mean, you don't get a Lamborghini when you ask for it. But this is a cake. This is one of the main components of a birthday. Cake, presents, and getting older (though we'd love to forget about this). And she's too goddamn lazy to make the cake I want? It's not that expensive to make, yet she won't because it takes too much time. Time is not a constraint you consider on a birthday. Shows how much she loves me.

Man priorities change, my mother asked me what I wanted for my Birthday the other day, I said £20 to get drunk. She said alright, now that's love, honestly I was welling up. :cry:

I have forgotten it was even my birthday twice, I so don't care about them.

D'Artagnan59

May 09, 2008, 05:28 PM

It's today, she made the cake.

Sirs and ma'ams, my rants I made about ONE week ago do not fit my opinions one week later.

Gogf

May 09, 2008, 05:32 PM

Ansar

May 09, 2008, 06:14 PM

Have to study for my first Paper. :(

D'Artagnan59

May 09, 2008, 09:28 PM

Can you put up a video of you delivering said speech? :)

I will once I get a webcam. Then, you will see D'Artagnan59. In real life.

Firstlady

May 09, 2008, 09:38 PM

My sister and her friend threw a roach on me while I was playing Guitar Hero and it killed my chance of getting a perfect score on the song. :/

a_propagandist

May 10, 2008, 05:19 PM

My sister and her friend threw a roach on me while I was playing Guitar Hero and it killed my chance of getting a perfect score on the song. :/

Welcome to CFC.

I will once I get a webcam. Then, you will see D'Artagnan59. In real life.

You've already posted about the short you and your friends made. I'm guessing you're in it and that we've seen you before already.

D'Artagnan59

May 10, 2008, 06:11 PM

You've already posted about the short you and your friends made. I'm guessing you're in it and that we've seen you before already.

I'm not in it. My friends are.

That is not my account.

Also, I think my mom might be going through a phase of PMS. She's much, much, much pissier than normal. Might be just her being really pissed. Might be PMS. Who knows?

obliterate

May 10, 2008, 08:24 PM

Maybe your whining is pissing her off.

The Yankee

May 10, 2008, 09:36 PM

I wouldn't let up on HP if I were you. All their deliveries are fully insured, and if you didn't get your box, I'm pretty sure you're legally entitled to a full refund. Did you pay with a credit card? It's chargeback time.

Of course, I don't know the specifics of the story. But you shouldn't bend over and take it, if you can help it.

I spoke too soon. I did get the full refund. Apparently, they only did it in stages according to item.

So I'll take back that one. On HP, not on FedEx. The FedEx carriers in this area still earn my scorn.

Two quick ones:

I stayed up for about 23 hours, up all night, then went to the last final exam of my undergraduate career. I'm too sentimental for my own good, so that brought up a bunch of things. Including that I felt quite old as I was getting ready to leave for my last day. Then thinking of age had me thinking of my mortality. I've never been one of the youth that somehow thought they were invincible. Must be cool.

And at the post office after the exam (which thankfully only took 30 minutes to complete, even though I woke myself up with a nice iced coffee), the worker at the pick-up window looked around for a moment, then asked me how big the package was supposed to be. How would I know!? I haven't received it!

It's not like the carriers that like to just stick notices for me to come to the post office when I'm usually home as they arrive bother to put down where it came from or any other information on it. Hell, this time must've been special because the guy actually bothered to put a package number on the thing (not legibly, but E for Effort, I suppose).

Couple more weeks....

LucyDuke

May 10, 2008, 10:29 PM

Rrgh. There have been dead spots on my monitor for a while. A few of them have revived themselves, but now there's a dead line down the side. It's really weird. It's also totally lame.

D'Artagnan59

May 11, 2008, 02:57 PM

Maybe your whining is pissing her off.

Actually, it's not. It's because we're going through tough financial times. My dad's getting a new job (the annual one), my mom's pissed.

D'Artagnan59

May 12, 2008, 05:01 PM

And feeding you a rant with bump on top:

I'm getting really pissed with my Social Studies group. My teacher has taught us economics by making us bid on certain contracts. Low bid wins. One of these contracts happens to be a news contract. Get up there and share a current event. My friend copied my extra news story from me. You see, I have a problem with putting too small spaces in my handwriting. So, my friend accidentally combined two words and put them as a city. Then, I correct him. This other kid decides to say, "HAY, DON'T CRR3CT HIM! IT WAS JUST A MINER MISTAK3!"

Minor mistake my ass! I said it wasn't a city, not the are/is thing, dummy! And then, a kid NOT EVEN INVOLVED IN IT (he's a Smarter Than Thou guy, he thinks "OHH!!! I R SO SMRT! I R ALLWAEZ RITE!" He did get 2nd place in the math competition. And he's pretty smart in other areas. But 90% agree with me. I am the smartest kid in the 8th grade. We're equal in English, he surpasses me in Math, I surpass him in Social Studies and Science. Making me the smarter man.) starts getting involved on his side when he didn't hear my side of the story.

The kid who decided to bring this up to me also thinks McCain is against the Iraq War and for climate change. And this is the second time that he has brought the issue of my corrections to light with me. The first time was when he mispronounced nuclear (as nookyouler [phonetically]). I corrected him.

Dear God, I'm doing a dang good restraint in the body for no capslock. Only the quotes, but that's meant to show the things that I think are stupid.

If you pronounce something wrong on that colossal of a level, I'll goddamn correct you. If you botch some massive thing up, I'll goddamn correct you.

Also, I can't blame the guy for botching up the handwriting. But come on. I correct him, and now I get crap for it from two idiots with big egos?

Ansar

May 12, 2008, 05:11 PM

People can be such twits in the Mathematics.

choxorn

May 12, 2008, 07:58 PM

I have a headache. .

Yeah, I know that's not an actual rant, I just want to rant about something. :p

azzaman333

May 13, 2008, 02:30 AM

English teachers seem to hate me. Probably because I've never in my life actually put any effort what-so-ever into the subject.

Peck of Arabia

May 13, 2008, 03:02 AM

Time hasn't moved this slowly for me in yeeears (not since I was genuinely excited and/or sober for christmas...)

I've got two countdowns going on, one for when I leave work, and one for when I depart to America, and they're far enough away to warrant a good wait, yet close enough to start causing excitement, and with the combination of the two, time is moving really slowly, but has quite a while to go yet...

Sidhe

May 13, 2008, 06:02 AM

English teachers seem to hate me. Probably because I've never in my life actually put any effort what-so-ever into the subject.

God they loathed me. I was dyslexic and my hand writing was atrocious. Since it was all about appearance not content back then I was somewhat disliked for my sloppiness. That said I used to sit at the back of the class writing poetry and making people laugh, so at least the pupils liked me. :D

English: attainment E, effort E--: Sidhe is a capable student but his work is sloppy. his spelling poor and although he always turns in his work it's seldom of the required standard. Could do better.

Who cares? :lol: If I could spell and punctuate properly maybe it'd be of the required standard? Maybe it's not my fault it's yours? ;)

Nah just kidding, I was always in the top class for everything, so I was over scrutinised, and being as I was rubbish at English, I just seemed to get picked on by English teachers.

salty mud

May 13, 2008, 01:12 PM

English teachers seem to hate me. Probably because I've never in my life actually put any effort what-so-ever into the subject.

I have the exact same problem. What a waste of my time and effort that subject is. :ack:

I had a strange encounter today. Upon wandering around the school with my friend, I seen this girl I quite like. She asked for a high five (;)) so I obliged, and as I walked away I heard her friends saying to me 'she likes you, you know.' After hearing said remark, the girl in question said 'No I don't' quite sheepishly and proceded laughing. After giving a nice smile I left. We continued on our quest to find some food, as we were hungry. :)

Maybe I should go in for the kill. :D

Cheezy the Wiz

May 13, 2008, 01:16 PM

It appears that it's going to rain on Friday at the DC Meetup :(

It should be made a federal law that it can only be 85 and sunny in the National Mall and the areas immediately surrounding it. With a 5 mph wind off the Potomac to boot.

Eran of Arcadia

May 13, 2008, 01:17 PM

It's going to rain on Friday? That sucks (it will interfere with the activities that caused me to skip it in the first place . . . )

LucyDuke

May 13, 2008, 02:35 PM

It's going to rain on Friday? That sucks (it will interfere with the activities that caused me to skip it in the first place . . . )

Solution: Unskip it.

D'Artagnan59

May 13, 2008, 02:39 PM

Well, I just found out all of the finalists.

The only one that people contested was better than me didn't make it either. Hers was about how you should buy organic foods. Honestly, snubbing the top 2 speeches? Dear God, she must've been high on acid when she chose who made it!

I saw. She was in shock at BOTH of our names being excluded from the finalist list. Everyone thought we were going to be 1 and 2, even us. But BOTH OF US AREN'T EVEN IN THE GODDAMN FINALS!

Some kids just stood at the rostrum, got their papers, and just spoke. The two of us gesticulated constantly. The two of us didn't speak in monotone. The two of us looked at the audience 90% of the time. But when some kids didn't do what we did, they get in. We do the right things, yet she snubs us. What's wrong with this equation? Maybe it makes AS MUCH SENSE AS SAYING 2+2=5 (except in 1984)!!!!! :pissed:

I seriously want to walk up to my teacher, slap her upside the head, and scream, "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!" My respect for her has plummeted. Maybe irreparably plummeted.

BTW, she's smarter in Math, but she admits that she's not as smart as me (despite being very smart).