Random Rants 4: Keep Complaining

[downtown]

So, im back in DC, which is great...but ive also been *very very* sick (some kind of food poisoning). I havent been able to hold down food or water for 2 days (and I pretty much threw up at our first meeting, so now all the other fellows know me as "the sick kid"), and if I dont get better soon, its off to the hospital with me.

Great.

 

[Rossiya]

Hope you get better.

 

[LucyDuke]

Okay, let's clarify something here, jackass hillbillies from the uneducated side of Tennessee that want to buy stuff from me.

I am not an idiot. Just because I am a girl does not mean I don't know my business. I would be happy to transfer your call to a male technician if it would help us, but the thing is, he can't answer your question.

But I'm not going to fight with you. It's not my job to prove wrong your prejudice if you want to talk to me like I'm stupid.

So if you've already decided, upon hearing me answer the phone, that I am an idiot, I am not going to try to convince you otherwise. People tried to pull this crap on me back at the bar, too, and I'd milk it to entertain my regulars. If you want to talk to me like I'm stupid, you know, I think I'm just going to be stupid to you. I'll ask you how to spell "Kansas" and I sure as hell won't know the answer to any of your questions. And I'm sorry, you can't talk to my manager or anyone else, there's no one else here. Just dumb ol' me. What do I know? I'm just a girl. You'll have to call back another time.

Also, whoever you are, don't call me sweetie. I am not your sweetie.

 

[Gilder]

I have to read Hamlet for my literature class.

Shakesphere is boring.

 

[spikeyperson]

People who stand still on escalators really annoy me. You could actually walk up the escalator and get to your destination twice as fast. But no. Your perfectly able body is quite happy to be assisted to acsend the stairs at a snails pace whilst blocking my quicker path you lazy ass bastards!!! grrrrr

 

[salty mud]

I have to read Hamlet for my literature class.

Shakesphere is boring.

Tell me about it. Last year we did Much Ado about Nothing, this year Macbeth. What is going on in the world? Couldn't Shakespeare be a still born baby?

 

[aronnax]

I got food posioning yesterday....

 

[Tee Kay]

People who stand still on escalators really annoy me. You could actually walk up the escalator and get to your destination twice as fast. But no. Your perfectly able body is quite happy to be assisted to acsend the stairs at a snails pace whilst blocking my quicker path you lazy ass bastards!!! grrrrr

That's what escalators are for: so people can stand still while travelling up stairs.

But then again we already have elevators for that, so I guess the purpose of escalators would be: so people can stand still while travelling very slowly up stairs and looking down at the funny little people below while annoying those weird people who wants to actually use the stairs for what they are supposed to be used for.

 

[Tee Kay]

I have to read Hamlet for my literature class.

Shakesphere is boring.

Which is why I wisely chose not to do literature.

If in your case it's compulsory, then I feel for you.

(speaking of which that simile isn't used very often. Neither is which is strange considering all the fuss about getting it back. So here goes:

)

 

[Mirc]

omfg that is low low low low low low low low

I got to the lowest F today, still far from the C though... Can't sing there loudly no matter what I do, though. You pretty much NEED a microphone when you sing there.



That C is lower than the limit of the friggin' double bass!!! How can a human do that?

FYI, here's the lowest F, the one that I can get to, only in the morning and if I practiced the day before: Midi file.
Now, how a human can get a 4th eek below that is mindboggling to me.

 

[Abaddon]

I've been going through a bout of depression lately. Not a fun thing to have. I think it's why I've been sleeping so much lately, also.

I do the reverse, I dont sleep when im depressed.

 

[LucyDuke]

People who stand still on escalators really annoy me. You could actually walk up the escalator and get to your destination twice as fast. But no. Your perfectly able body is quite happy to be assisted to acsend the stairs at a snails pace whilst blocking my quicker path you lazy ass bastards!!! grrrrr

If I'm going to stand still on an escalator, I stay to the right. Those of you in a desperate ADHD rush to get to the next floor can pass on the left. I'm surprised to hear that people in other places haven't figured this out yet.

 

[Mirc]

People who stand still on escalators really annoy me. You could actually walk up the escalator and get to your destination twice as fast. But no. Your perfectly able body is quite happy to be assisted to acsend the stairs at a snails pace whilst blocking my quicker path you lazy ass bastards!!! grrrrr

Don't you have "please stand on the right" signs where you live?

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

On the Washington Metro, they have signs up telling people to stay on the right if they are going to stand, but a lot of people manage to ignore them and block the escalator. On occasion this has caused me to miss my train.

 

[Mirc]

On the Washington Metro, they have signs up telling people to stay on the right if they are going to stand, but a lot of people manage to ignore them and block the escalator. On occasion this has caused me to miss my train.

Yeah usually when I'm traveling with the Bucharest metro (which happens normally at least twice a day) I memorize in time the position of the stairs and escalators for every different station that I'm likely to use, so to position myself at the right door to be the first person that gets to the escalators. Because otherwise, I'm going to be stuck behind hundreds of people (yeah, I tend to use the busiest stations, several hundreds of people can easily get off a train at one of those, but it's not so easy to control the flow on the stairs/escalators) and you can spend up to 6-7 minutes just to get out of the station.

For example, for the station I need for my highschool, I have to go as far back as I can, since I first have to go through a corridor which starts at the back of the train, and only after that go up the escalators.

For the station nearest to where I live, I need to be at the first door of the third carriage, from the front.

To be at that door, from an important station in the center that I'm often likely to use, which has ornamental vertical bars all over, I need to be between the third and the fourth bar on the right from the place where the escalator down to the station left me.


That really saves a lot of time.

 

[downtown]

On the Washington Metro, they have signs up telling people to stay on the right if they are going to stand, but a lot of people manage to ignore them and block the escalator. On occasion this has caused me to miss my train.

When I am president, these people are going to jail

 

[Trajan12]

I've been going through a bout of depression lately. Not a fun thing to have. I think it's why I've been sleeping so much lately, also.

It's usually the opposite for me too. More about staying up to delay having to deal with the next crappy day.

Okay, let's clarify something here, jackass hillbillies from the uneducated side of Tennessee that want to buy stuff from me.

I am not an idiot. Just because I am a girl does not mean I don't know my business. I would be happy to transfer your call to a male technician if it would help us, but the thing is, he can't answer your question.

But I'm not going to fight with you. It's not my job to prove wrong your prejudice if you want to talk to me like I'm stupid.

So if you've already decided, upon hearing me answer the phone, that I am an idiot, I am not going to try to convince you otherwise. People tried to pull this crap on me back at the bar, too, and I'd milk it to entertain my regulars. If you want to talk to me like I'm stupid, you know, I think I'm just going to be stupid to you. I'll ask you how to spell "Kansas" and I sure as hell won't know the answer to any of your questions. And I'm sorry, you can't talk to my manager or anyone else, there's no one else here. Just dumb ol' me. What do I know? I'm just a girl. You'll have to call back another time.

Also, whoever you are, don't call me sweetie. I am not your sweetie.

I read up to 'Jackass Hillbillies from the uneducated side of Tennessee' and felt compelled to give this post my seal of approval.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

When I am president, these people are going to jail

That's one guaranteed vote.

 

[Martacus]

Better make that two.

Ah, staying late at work again to cover the security phones for all the people who can never get it through their heads that campus closes at 4:30 PM. Or those calling from regions west of here who can't be bothered to calculate the time difference.

On the upside, there's little else to do except sit and watch the phone, so I'm free to visit CFC at work and complain alongside the rest of you. Happy Day!

 

[Mirc]

I have to wake up in less than 5 hours (00:44 AM here), I've still got something to do and though I haven't been tired at all today, two days ago I was so tired that I could say I passed out in my room (no, without drinking anything ) and slept all night fully dressed, with shoes on and without brushing my teeth, waking up in the exact same position as I can remember from the evening before.

I hope it's not going to happen again tomorrow night.