Random Rants 0x52: [Obligatory rant about title]

[aimeeandbeatles]

But I like my title.

 

[JohannaK]

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/random-rants-ΠΑ-thats-a-paddlin.650795/page-50#post-15587311

Brother, you speak for me.

 

[Takhisis]

I had to go to the post office to deal with the official yearly sending of bureaucratic filings.
The usual experience of having to spend a lot of time doing nothing while other people also do nothing and employees apparently do nothing has now been upgraded.
In the ‘old days’ one just tore off a little paper with a number off a little ticket dispenser device that stood on a wannabe microphone stand, sat down on a back-destroying chair and waited for one's number to be called, trying to stay awake in a room designed to be more soporipherous than double History of Magic with Professor Binns. Now it has been compounded with first having to deal with a sort of ATM-wannabe device that prints out little tickets with numbers and and letters on them and the old dreadful waiting is worsened by having to keep track of what category of sender one has been assigned. AA12 can be followed by AB 13 and then CC 54 and so on.

*sigh*

 

[AdamCrock]

Rant: nobody is ranting about my creative numbering system

hexadecimal is the worst !

But I like my title.

You've also ranted about it at the same time , it's like a higher lever or ranting meta-ranting !! xD

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: Somebody is ranting about my creative numbering system!

 

[Birdjaguar]

I had to go to the post office to deal with the official yearly sending of bureaucratic filings.
The usual experience of having to spend a lot of time doing nothing while other people also do nothing and employees apparently do nothing has now been upgraded.
In the ‘old days’ one just tore off a little paper with a number off a little ticket dispenser device that stood on a wannabe microphone stand, sat down on a back-destroying chair and waited for one's number to be called, trying to stay awake in a room designed to be more soporipherous than double History of Magic with Professor Binns. Now it has been compounded with first having to deal with a sort of ATM-wannabe device that prints out little tickets with numbers and and letters on them and the old dreadful waiting is worsened by having to keep track of what category of sender one has been assigned. AA12 can be followed by AB 13 and then CC 54 and so on.

*sigh*

Welcome to the digital age! Next time bring a book to read.

 

[AdamCrock]

I had to go to the post office to deal with the official yearly sending of bureaucratic filings.
The usual experience of having to spend a lot of time doing nothing while other people also do nothing and employees apparently do nothing has now been upgraded.
In the ‘old days’ one just tore off a little paper with a number off a little ticket dispenser device that stood on a wannabe microphone stand, sat down on a back-destroying chair and waited for one's number to be called, trying to stay awake in a room designed to be more soporipherous than double History of Magic with Professor Binns. Now it has been compounded with first having to deal with a sort of ATM-wannabe device that prints out little tickets with numbers and and letters on them and the old dreadful waiting is worsened by having to keep track of what category of sender one has been assigned. AA12 can be followed by AB 13 and then CC 54 and so on.

*sigh*

At least they honestly make a statement that You're just a number to them

 

[MaryKB]

I've had too many meetings lately ... sometimes I sort of miss the days when I only worked a couple hours a day, and only had to join maybe two meetings a week (and where I was a silent participant rather than a presenter)

 

[Farm Boy]

Syn: Sex isn't a conquest outside of diseased worldview. A worldview presumed upon other people selectively, as the case is here, as a rhetorical weapon. It's a type of crappy dialogue bullying.

 

[AdamCrock]

I've had too many meetings lately ... sometimes I sort of miss the days when I only worked a couple hours a day, and only had to join maybe two meetings a week (and where I was a silent participant rather than a presenter)

That means You're good at Your job and higher ups took notice of it , so they're giving You new tasks because You're the person they can depend upon.

 

[Takhisis]

C'mon, Mary, a combination of the Peter principle and the Dilbert principle will eventually kick in and deposit you in a safe haven.

 

[Synobun]

I checked my message totals in all the serial threads and I'm hovering between 8-12% of each.

Although surprisingly I post about as much in the raves thread as I do in the rants thread.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I am afraid to check my message totals.

I don't know how to do it anyways.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I am afraid to check my message totals.

I don't know how to do it anyways.

Mouse over your small avarar next to the avatar of the thread starter. You will see you post count for that thread. Compare it to the total post count of the thread.

 

[The_J]

You even above mention that your friends would be disgusted with what you post here, but in your mind it's okay because of your anonymity. Wow. So it seems you know you shouldn't be posting those things, but do so because you feel reasonably secure you can get away with it.

Then why say it anywhere, exactly, if you know it would make the person you're talking about uncomfortable?

Oh, you both show me anyone, who has never said something about a person, which shouldn't be said to that person's face. Including you both.
Everyone has at some point said something about their spouse, ther GF/BF, their friends, parents, sister, brother, high school teacher, whatever, which they'd be uncomfortable saying in their face.
And most of the time you love these people (maybe not your high school teacher, but well).

Again, my point isn't that it's weird that you write about this, it's that you write about it a lot and rarely write about anything else, like it's seemingly the only thing you ever have on your mind.

That's definitely biased perception.
I'll need to think hard to get the 5 last ocassions together, where I said something sexual, because that's not not happening to me that often .

Your flex doesn't even parse. Mary has made sexual posts. I have. Lexicus has. Being sexual, having hopes of sexual satisfaction, isn't what's bad. You were clever in reducing the complaint to "bad thoughts," but it doesn't really work. It's a noticing of a pattern of behaviour. J hasn't made one post and now he's being "cancelled" (reeeeeeee). There's been multiple posts over a lengthy period of time that all express the same sentiment.

It might also be that you're not reading me right .

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Great, now I'm procrastinating by checking all my post ****s!

 

[Birdjaguar]

Great, now I'm procrastinating by checking all my post ****s!

Did you misspell count?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Did you misspell count?

...yes. I missed the "o."

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

I've had too many meetings lately ... sometimes I sort of miss the days when I only worked a couple hours a day, and only had to join maybe two meetings a week (and where I was a silent participant rather than a presenter)

I am wondering: did you feel usefull in more than half of them? (I used to spend 6 to 8 hours in meeting a day, receiving like 50 mails a day, etc... to the point that it all felt nonsense to me The only time I was actually "producing" stuff was when I isolated myself in front of a salad at lunch time... salad being eaten infront of my laptop ofc )

on topic: why people are ranting here instead of lynching themselves in NOTW forum?

 

[Birdjaguar]

on topic: why people are ranting here instead of lynching themselves in NOTW forum?

Perhaps I've been here too long; what is NOTW? Related to total War?