Abaddon
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Random Rants 4: Keep Complaining
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Arcadefire
the weather SUCKS.
as does back/neck pain.
as does back/neck pain.
LendMeYourTeeth
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Folk that spit in the street. Grrr.
AluminumKnight
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Rant 1: Laundry
So about 2 months ago the washing machine in our basement (I live in a college house) broke, but we haven't gotten it fixed because we have a cat living illegally in our house and if the landlady finds out, we'd obviously be in trouble. So, you'd think it would be easy enough to call them, take the cat next door for a day, and they'll fix it, but it's not. Last time our washing machine broke (yup, it's already broken once and we haven't been here a year yet), we called and they said it would be fixed by the end of the week. Long story short, they finally fixed it 2 WEEKS LATER, so we can't rely on when they say they're going to do it. Not to mention the other stuff that's broken, like our back door and our deadbolt on the front.
Well, anyway, the moral of that story is I've been doing my laundry at the laundromat a couple blocks away, and yesterday was dollar wash day, so I decided to go. I got all of my clothes in my car in the morning so that I could just stop on my way home from work and not have to waste my time running home and back. However, I forgot my quarters. No big deal, I thought, they have change machines there. Well, both change machines were out of order, and the people working there apparently didn't have any change, so I had to run home with all of my clothes just sitting there in open washing machines to get my quarters. Now, I go to Marquette University, which is right next to the worst part of the city, and the laundromat was filled with non-students, so I really didn't feel comfortable leaving all of my clothes there, but due to them somehow running out of change on the day they KNOW everyone does their laundry, I had to. Thankfully nothing happened, but I was not happy.
Oh and then, I was so frustrated I almost walked into the women's bathroom on accident
Rant 2: Freeloaders/Stupid People
This past Saturday night (Sunday morning I guess), a couple of freshman were out drunk on the streets at like 3am, which is not unusual at all on a college campus. They were only a block away from the well-lit campus housing and fast food places, but despite that, 2 black guys came up to them in a van, jumped out and grabbed them, with one guy holding a gun, and forced them inside the van. They drove up north off of campus right into the heart of the worst crime area in Milwaukee, took the guys to an ATM, and demanded they take cash out. I don't know if they actually got cash or not, but afterward they beat the crap out of both guys, then dropped one guy off in an alley and told him that he better wait there for them to come back or they'd kill his friend. The guy apparently waited there, outside, with no jacket, for 3 hours before he finally left (I'm guessing the robbers took his phone). I still don't know what happened to the other guy, but he made it back to campus as well.
I don't get how people can rationalize stuff like this. Why should you get money for nothing? Same thing with the beggars all over campus. I understand that people can really fall into hard times and get reduced to begging, and I'm fine with giving a dollar, or my change or whatever, but every time I do (which isn't often), they always ask for more. Every time. I had a guy come up to me in the parking lot of Walgreens a couple of months ago as I was leaving and ask if I had a dollar I could spare. I gave him a dollar, but he continued to follow me and kept asking if I had a couple more to spare, even when I said I didn't, and then even accused me of lying! I don't mean to sound condescending, but I gave you a dollar. Go get a job if you want more money. Oh, and then there was the guy that approached my girlfriend and I while we were walking downtown that asked if we could look at his job application, so we did. I have no clue what kind of job it was for, but he definitely either had no intentions of turning it in or had zero chance of getting the job because he basically just scribbled all over the paper illegibly, not even attempting to check or write in boxes. Immediately when my girlfriend looked at it, he asked if we had $12 for the application fee
. We said "We're sorry, we can't help you" and walked away.
Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but it seems like a lot of people in this country expect to just get handed a lot of things, and then if they don't, think they're justified in stealing. That's just not how life should work, IMO.
So about 2 months ago the washing machine in our basement (I live in a college house) broke, but we haven't gotten it fixed because we have a cat living illegally in our house and if the landlady finds out, we'd obviously be in trouble. So, you'd think it would be easy enough to call them, take the cat next door for a day, and they'll fix it, but it's not. Last time our washing machine broke (yup, it's already broken once and we haven't been here a year yet), we called and they said it would be fixed by the end of the week. Long story short, they finally fixed it 2 WEEKS LATER, so we can't rely on when they say they're going to do it. Not to mention the other stuff that's broken, like our back door and our deadbolt on the front.
Well, anyway, the moral of that story is I've been doing my laundry at the laundromat a couple blocks away, and yesterday was dollar wash day, so I decided to go. I got all of my clothes in my car in the morning so that I could just stop on my way home from work and not have to waste my time running home and back. However, I forgot my quarters. No big deal, I thought, they have change machines there. Well, both change machines were out of order, and the people working there apparently didn't have any change, so I had to run home with all of my clothes just sitting there in open washing machines to get my quarters. Now, I go to Marquette University, which is right next to the worst part of the city, and the laundromat was filled with non-students, so I really didn't feel comfortable leaving all of my clothes there, but due to them somehow running out of change on the day they KNOW everyone does their laundry, I had to. Thankfully nothing happened, but I was not happy.
Oh and then, I was so frustrated I almost walked into the women's bathroom on accident
Rant 2: Freeloaders/Stupid People
This past Saturday night (Sunday morning I guess), a couple of freshman were out drunk on the streets at like 3am, which is not unusual at all on a college campus. They were only a block away from the well-lit campus housing and fast food places, but despite that, 2 black guys came up to them in a van, jumped out and grabbed them, with one guy holding a gun, and forced them inside the van. They drove up north off of campus right into the heart of the worst crime area in Milwaukee, took the guys to an ATM, and demanded they take cash out. I don't know if they actually got cash or not, but afterward they beat the crap out of both guys, then dropped one guy off in an alley and told him that he better wait there for them to come back or they'd kill his friend. The guy apparently waited there, outside, with no jacket, for 3 hours before he finally left (I'm guessing the robbers took his phone). I still don't know what happened to the other guy, but he made it back to campus as well.
I don't get how people can rationalize stuff like this. Why should you get money for nothing? Same thing with the beggars all over campus. I understand that people can really fall into hard times and get reduced to begging, and I'm fine with giving a dollar, or my change or whatever, but every time I do (which isn't often), they always ask for more. Every time. I had a guy come up to me in the parking lot of Walgreens a couple of months ago as I was leaving and ask if I had a dollar I could spare. I gave him a dollar, but he continued to follow me and kept asking if I had a couple more to spare, even when I said I didn't, and then even accused me of lying! I don't mean to sound condescending, but I gave you a dollar. Go get a job if you want more money. Oh, and then there was the guy that approached my girlfriend and I while we were walking downtown that asked if we could look at his job application, so we did. I have no clue what kind of job it was for, but he definitely either had no intentions of turning it in or had zero chance of getting the job because he basically just scribbled all over the paper illegibly, not even attempting to check or write in boxes. Immediately when my girlfriend looked at it, he asked if we had $12 for the application fee
. We said "We're sorry, we can't help you" and walked away.Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but it seems like a lot of people in this country expect to just get handed a lot of things, and then if they don't, think they're justified in stealing. That's just not how life should work, IMO.
Swedishguy
Deity
Seconded. Totally seconded. Grrrrr...
![[pissed]](/images/smilies/pissed.gif "Pissed [pissed]")
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
High school placement recommendations came today. There are four levels (ranked from most advanced to least): Honors, College Placement, Regular, and Foundational (remedial).
As I moved down, I saw the recommendations. English: Honors. Well, I won my Regional Spelling Bee and am on my way to the State bee and have straight A's in vocab (this is important, read on) (even with the sub's corrupt grading system).
Social Studies: Honors. I knew this. I get straight A's and 1's every quarter. History has been my strong subject. Be US or World, I'll be there to answer it. Also, my teacher likes me a lot.
Physics: This is the one I get mad about. College placement. I get straight A's and a "shows great understanding in the subject" on my report card, so you'd think I'd get Honors. Heck, if you think I was mad (so mad I felt like crapping fire), my mom was even worse. Swearing was prevalent, and the phrase bleeping idiot was uttered by her many times. Why?
TANGENTAL RANT: She gives us juvenile assignments. These assignments are "make a picture book that shows us the understanding of clouds with cotton ball clouds" or "cut and paste recyclable materials in the shape of a cell's organelles with each of them associated to a city". Come on, I know you're trying to teach to the middle or lower of the class. But we're teenagers, not first graders making PICTURE BOOKS WITH COTTON BALL CLOUDS!!!
Also, a role-playing assignment. She calls it a RAFT assignment. It's basically another juvenile assignment, stands for an acronym. Because it's so immature, I call it a FART assignment. Fart jokes are immature, ergo, FART. We've had two, and we had to role-play an electron writing a letter to an 8th grader about static electricity. The other was us writing a paragraph to a 5-year-old sibling (since I have no brothers or sisters at home [a half-brother and half-sister in Philly], I wrote to my 5-year-old cousin in Philly who worships me) about how seasons work.
I'm sorry, but if she actually THINKS I should be in CP Physics (called Physical Science, but isn't it physics?), she should be shot.
If you're wondering how I did in Math: CP Geometry. I might deserve this, but I prefer Honors. I won't be mad if I'm in CP Geometry, but I'm mad at CP Physics. Look at the reasons above.
PS: Yes, the CP Physics looks very wrong at first.
PPS: This is a rant by Crapping Fire Productions. For more information, PM me or AIM me.
As I moved down, I saw the recommendations. English: Honors. Well, I won my Regional Spelling Bee and am on my way to the State bee and have straight A's in vocab (this is important, read on) (even with the sub's corrupt grading system).
Social Studies: Honors. I knew this. I get straight A's and 1's every quarter. History has been my strong subject. Be US or World, I'll be there to answer it. Also, my teacher likes me a lot.
Physics: This is the one I get mad about. College placement. I get straight A's and a "shows great understanding in the subject" on my report card, so you'd think I'd get Honors. Heck, if you think I was mad (so mad I felt like crapping fire), my mom was even worse. Swearing was prevalent, and the phrase bleeping idiot was uttered by her many times. Why?
TANGENTAL RANT: She gives us juvenile assignments. These assignments are "make a picture book that shows us the understanding of clouds with cotton ball clouds" or "cut and paste recyclable materials in the shape of a cell's organelles with each of them associated to a city". Come on, I know you're trying to teach to the middle or lower of the class. But we're teenagers, not first graders making PICTURE BOOKS WITH COTTON BALL CLOUDS!!!
Also, a role-playing assignment. She calls it a RAFT assignment. It's basically another juvenile assignment, stands for an acronym. Because it's so immature, I call it a FART assignment. Fart jokes are immature, ergo, FART. We've had two, and we had to role-play an electron writing a letter to an 8th grader about static electricity. The other was us writing a paragraph to a 5-year-old sibling (since I have no brothers or sisters at home [a half-brother and half-sister in Philly], I wrote to my 5-year-old cousin in Philly who worships me) about how seasons work.
I'm sorry, but if she actually THINKS I should be in CP Physics (called Physical Science, but isn't it physics?), she should be shot.
If you're wondering how I did in Math: CP Geometry. I might deserve this, but I prefer Honors. I won't be mad if I'm in CP Geometry, but I'm mad at CP Physics. Look at the reasons above.
PS: Yes, the CP Physics looks very wrong at first.
PPS: This is a rant by Crapping Fire Productions. For more information, PM me or AIM me.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
I don't understand...isn't College Placement more advanced than Honors? 
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
For some dumb reason, Honors is better than College Placement.
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Arcadefire
weird. the canadian way is easier to understand.
For 9 and 10, there is (highest to lowest), Academic, Applied, Locally Developed (and also, some have gifted, others have remedial, etc. then there are open courses such as drama that are neither here nor there).
For 11 and 12, aside from open courses, there are University Prep, University/College Prep, College Prep, Workplace Prep
For 9 and 10, there is (highest to lowest), Academic, Applied, Locally Developed (and also, some have gifted, others have remedial, etc. then there are open courses such as drama that are neither here nor there).
For 11 and 12, aside from open courses, there are University Prep, University/College Prep, College Prep, Workplace Prep
Swedishguy
Deity
I'm still sick... and both of my parents are at home. It feels so meaningless. I think I'll go watch History Channel or something.
Abaddon
Deity
Noone answered my avatar competition.. so i had to make my own 
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
I like it, though, Abaddon! 
Rant: A lot of homework...still.
Rant: A lot of homework...still.
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
We have a one week break in March, but my teachers find it some incomprehensible need to bring me back to schoo. Holiday start on saturday. I have to come back to school on Monday from 8am-12pm for remedial. I have a Bio Project on Tuesday and the next three days is the Sec 3 Camp! Why on earth do they even try to give us a holiday?
Also, In the past two weeks only 2 people realise its my birthday on the ninth. All my friends are going out on the 8th but no one seems to know my birthday is the next day!
So depress...
Also, In the past two weeks only 2 people realise its my birthday on the ninth. All my friends are going out on the 8th but no one seems to know my birthday is the next day!
So depress...
Swedishguy
Deity
Whoever thought that "The Food Lovers with a fat man that has a lot of annoying children and he prepares gulasch soup and the music is terrible and he starts to dance at one point and there's a video of dancing Russians in it" commercial was a good idea deserves to be shot.
Angst
Rambling and inconsistent
Don't you love lag?
Gilder
Deity
I hate commericals with annoying songs.
Those free credit report commericals come to mind, first.
Those free credit report commericals come to mind, first.
Martacus
World's Greatest Warrior
Nothing is worse than auto dealership ads on the radio. The ones for a specific local dealership in my area happen to be the worst known to man. The background music for the over-enthusiastic announcer is the official soundtrack of Hell.
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
Yeah, the rap makes me want to shoot the TV Elvis-style. The tourist thing just makes me want to do the same thing.
I resolved the Science issue. It's to lessen my workload so I can have a life. It's a good reason. She should not be shot.
Also, the juvenile assignments are annoying. We have to do another frickin' role-playing assignment. This time, it's in the form of being a leaf applying to a job as photosynthesis. JESUS FRICKIN' CHRIST, WE ARE TEENAGERS. TREAT US LIKE TEENAGERS.
On the subject of crappy music, we used to run to oldies in gym. I have nothing against oldies, but they're not that easy to get a good "jogging beat" to them. Wanting to get music that I can get into a beat easier, I wished to have good running music. It came.
Be careful what you wish for. I just jogged yesterday to a god-awful song. So bad, I wanted to rip my eardrums out of my ears and eat them off the skin holding them. It's new, and it sucks.
azzaman333
meh
Year 12 Specialist Maths is the hardest subject I have ever done in my life. 
jeps
Arcadefire
SNOW!!!!!!! GAH!
2 feet of snow. ONE night. Had to walk through that. and then drive home in it too...
2 feet of snow. ONE night. Had to walk through that. and then drive home in it too...
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