Random Rantii VIII: When will Latin DIE?

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I can't believe we are 22 pages into this Random 'Rantii' thread and girls haven't been discussed once! So, as per tradition, I will start.

I seem to have, rather worryingly, fallen for a girl years younger than me again. She goes to a different school to me, lives quite far away from me and I would probably look like a child predator for simply looking at her. The only time I see her is on my bus ride home. But I'll tell you now she is the cutest girl I have ever layed eyes upon. (Yes... again. :rolleyes:) Earlier today I was coming home with a friend and she sat behind us. To attract her attention, I did what I do best, act like a fool and try to make people laugh. :p It seemed to work... her and her friends were laughing and conversing with us, but we my friend ended up being called 'mop-head' and myself the extreemely sexy 'bucket-head.'

lolwtf?
 
salty mud said:
I can't believe we are 22 pages into this Random 'Rantii' thread and girls haven't been discussed once!
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You are incorrect good sir.
 
Why can't I speak better Irish, I just looked like a fool in front of that hot Connemara girl and her friends :(

I guess I will just have to stick to the English speaking part of Galway.

Edit: it is 1.45 am local time and I have been in the pub since 9.30ish.
 
I don't think I'm going to be able to do that well in my German 2 class this year, and I'm the teachers favorite, and he thinks I'm really smart, and I don't think I'm as smart as he thinks and I'm going crazy
 
I'm not sure... he might, as our first grade showed me... but then again... it also showed me his grading system is really screwed up

we worked in partners, and my partner and I turned in the same work, yet I got a 98 and he got a 90. The girls behind me pretty much cheated off me, writing down virtually the same thing I wrote down, yet the one girl got a 70 and the other a 90. Don't ask me how that all happened, but it did.

Not to mention, I'm torn. He likes me, so I want to like him, but he's kinda' ********. He pronounces everything wrong, and he hates like my two best friends (the person I worked with, and the girl who sat behind me and got a 70)
 
Taras Bulba said:
I'm not sure... he might, as our first grade showed me... but then again... it also showed me his grading system is really screwed up

we worked in partners, and my partner and I turned in the same work, yet I got a 98 and he got a 90. The girls behind me pretty much cheated off me, writing down virtually the same thing I wrote down, yet the one girl got a 70 and the other a 90. Don't ask me how that all happened, but it did.

Not to mention, I'm torn. He likes me, so I want to like him, but he's kinda' ********. He pronounces everything wrong, and he hates like my two best friends (the person I worked with, and the girl who sat behind me and got a 70)
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Well this is all a very good sign. I'd bet you five bucks that this guy's grading system is based pretty much entirely on whether or not he likes you. Since you're on his good list, you're probably in the clear. Just don't let him find out you called him ******** on the internet.

Meanwhile, I have a strange unpleasant taste in my mouth, for reasons unknown to myself.
 
What is with all this goddamned selfish individualism in the world today, where's it considered cool to flake on people and blow them off, and walk all over nice or innocent people just to stroke one's overly inflated ego? Peoples' "word of honor" means absolutely nothing anymore.
 
To continue the language problems- Good god is Russian hard. Those Rooskies sure do know how to make a language complicated as hell. I dont think Ive gotten an A in at least a year. Though at least partial blame can go to my study habits.
 
Arghhhhhhhh!

I rant against near everything it seems! ARGHHHHHHH! I rage against the machine and I rant against all those playing for backwards while I and others suffer working forwards!!!!! I'd like to meet all acting counter to a common good, in a mortal match. I think those willing to put ALL on the line for the common good will far outnumber those who skip through life with only themselves in mind! So in the end I think these death matches would be dull, fore only those with real heart would arrive. All with heart would be allied working for each other. And those with only themselves in mind would cower and not be present to account for themselves!!!!


I searched for our good ole CFC general rant threads and didnt find them... so I rant about that to!
So here is a thread with a specified title for all to vent your rants about whatever!!
 
What does my rant have to do with Latin??? That was people trying to be cute. Here is a DESCRIPTIVE thread title!
(AKA ONE THAT COMES UP IN SEARCHES!!!)

This rant thread is one of no restrictions (beyond forum rules). No need to judge/direct peoples rants here! It is what it is.

Forget the wannabe copper without a badge. Be free!

A new instance of an old rant in life and net....
I rant against wannabe enforcers who lay in anxious ambush to pounch on some rule breaker lol.
 
Sigh... I've done all my ranting for today.
Here it is. I haven't had a good rant like this in a while...
Spoiler :
DNK had to listen to Palin for 45 minutes. DNK went into mild shock so I took over. Some sort of overload, he can only handle so much at once. He'll be back in a few days.

Okay, so what critical thinking do you want from me? I'm trying to approach this from a "this person is possibly going to be president soon". I don't know what you're expecting from me. I try not to be too negative, but I mean, sometimes I really just feel nothing but negative about someone. Some politicians drive me nuts. She is one of them, she isn't presidential material, I cannot see it anywhere in her - this isn't the rhetoric getting to me, this is my genuine response to her "performance" (and it really was one). I don't even care that much about the mud that's been thrown on her, I suspect most of it is garbage. No, just looking at her, listening to her, her approach, what she was actually doing, rather than what she was saying. Anathema to what I think politics should be. This is my critical thinking being outraged by what it just saw, knowing full well it will win votes. My critical thinking saying it shouldn't.

The system drives me nuts sometimes. This is one such time. I watch decent politicians get thrown out of office because, despite being respectable and extremely moderate and intelligent, and following what their constituents want on important issues, they have the wrong letter by their name - that simple, and they don't bother polishing their image all the time so no one cares, "that other guy, he has an image I can relate with, I'll vote for him instead, whatever." People with experience (not Obama or Palin experience, mind you - the actual kind), people with decency, with respect for the office and power, at least relative to the rather low norm.

And then there are politicians like Palin, McCain, Obama, and I assume Biden is one but I haven't paid much attention to him. At least Obama gives lip service to ideals, even though I doubt he'll follow through on much. Obama and Biden make some effort, even if it is just a facade, to up the level of discourse compared to where it's been. For me, these are the primary issues: the culture, focus, and nature of discourse, attitudes towards politics, the media, etc. RvW, gun control, Iraq. The differences between the candidates don't bother me much. How they come into this does. There are other "platform issues" of mine, of course too.

So I watch this debate, and I hear it in every sentence Palin makes, it doesn't sound like she really understands anything, like she's repeating half-sentence arguments. Really, I've never heard someone talk like that before in such an important setting. I can't explain it that well, it's all subtleties. What's worse? So, so much of it is pure rhetoric. I understand there wasn't any real substance, no issues were really delved into, on either side. But there is a difference, to me, between trying to at least explain policies and discuss issues in whatever amount the format allows for and just "playing the soccer mom and stating generic things like, 'free market, yay'". I cannot, cannot, cannot stand that sort of politics because I know it works, and it is backwards, it's fake, faker at least.

In Palin, I saw the focus on her image, not on her policies, even though generally politicians' policies are just image, marketing covering up the garbage that runs through Congress on any given day. But that's the envelope, you know, where we are, and Palin was there just pushing back, not forward, to the other end of the thing. It's a popularity contest with her, a "see I can do it" not a "here's why I should seriously be VP". Or "why I want to be VP". Where in that entire "debate" did she say anything that struck you as passionate, denoting a sincere desire to help people? Canned rhetoric, to me, signifies someone that just wants more power, and doesn't really care about the people or laws she will serve. I want leaders with passion, who have some sort of reason for getting into that Office, or who at least fake like they have it. Palin showed neither, and yet so many people think she "won". The fact that this approach is not only acceptable but commendable...

I'm sick of this election. I took a few months off near the end of the primaries because of it, and I come back in and I'm just the worse for wear. I can't stand American politics. Every ounce of my reason is revolting from it. I'll just move on to some other thread, I'm not going to be able to make any serious contribution here I know. I think I've made my opinions about the contestants clear enough. But when I get pissed off about something or someone, I don't easily hold it back, especially when it's coming from a principled revulsion, and sometimes that takes a rather unprincipled form of attack.

I just normally don't get that pissed. But this month has been a ride... I just want to get things back on track, moving in some sort of forward direction, rather than the slow dismantling of any respect I had for this country's politics and government.
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choxorn said:
Dude, get a new computer. ;)
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I'd love to, but only if I was able to find a way to prevent my current abomonation from resurfacing.

I managed to get Spore to work... For 23 hours. Once again, my computer's kicked in, and I have to reinstall it AGAIN.
On a... Well... Heavier note, I want to downgrade (or upgrade...) from IE beta 8 to IE version 7; but to do that, I think I've got to uninstall version 8; will that destroy my favourites? I just can't stand this. I can't scroll through 'history' as I end up somewhere completely random and yesterday, during my writing of an email to EA telling them of a problem, I kept running into their net problems. Turns out it's not them, it's IE. I can only guess that Microsoft has some deal with Mozilla that makes them scare customers away from IE.
 
I'm ranting as is the stated purpose of both threads. Stop trolling! ;~)

But my point about descriptive thread titles is valid! I know because I wasted time searching for such.
 
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