Random Rants 4: Keep Complaining

[D'Artagnan59]

God, I hate the Coke Zero products.

First part of my rant: My mom apparently thinks I'm fat because she keeps buying me diet soda, despite me standing at a height of 5'9" and 110 pounds. I don't have an eating disorder, if you're wondering (yes, guys can get it).

Second part: One of my favorite sodas is Vanilla Coke. If there's one, then I'll get it. But there's a problem: There is no Diet Vanilla Coke. There's only Vanilla Coke Zero.

Now, I've tried Coke Zero. I fell into the trap of the "tastes more like regular coke" because my mom insisted to split a diet soda because she thinks we're piss-poor (once again, another delusion, we're middle class). I was about 11 and did not grow into the selfish young man known as Middle School D'Art. So I was receptive.

Little did I know that it tastes like a mixture of soap, laundry detergent, and a tiny drop of Coke.

Diet Coke tasted better than Coke Zero Good Taste.

Also, Sprite is a favorite lemon-lime soda of mine. I think they discontinued Diet Sprite in favor of Sprite Zero. Once again, my dad had some, I had a sip.

The taste of salt, soap, and laundry detergent came back. I was disgusted and spat it out the window.

Any Coca-Cola product ending with Zero tastes bad. Diet is the way to go.

 

[Ansar]

I think that's why it has a Zero at the end.

Zero flavor.

 

[Nylan]

No, there's plenty of flavor. Suck is a flavor.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

That's awesome

XKCD got me

I really liked the XKCD/Dinosaur Comics/Questionable Content thing, mostly because I read all 3 and check them first thing in the morning, so I barely noticed.

 

[West 36]

I really liked the XKCD/Dinosaur Comics/Questionable Content thing, mostly because I read all 3 and check them first thing in the morning, so I barely noticed.

AH so thats what that was! Weird, I look at both XKCD and Qwantz, only checked XKCD and was confused. Cool stuff, didn't know anyone else read the dino ones. I actually really wanna get one of those shirts... Anyway, has there ever been a connection between them before?

 

[The Yankee]

Actually, after a while it does get kind of funny.

And given that there are about 25 independent tenants here and 50 or so numbers, on occasion I will get a chain of either the same person or different people from the same company calling over and over again and never realizing it's the same person answering.

I've had that happen. Wasn't trying to sell stuff, but did want people to complete surveys, which somehow equals the same thing. Not so much when working with voter rolls on the campaign, but I did end up calling two people that already passed away.

First part of my rant: My mom apparently thinks I'm fat because she keeps buying me diet soda, despite me standing at a height of 5'9" and 110 pounds. I don't have an eating disorder, if you're wondering (yes, guys can get it).

5'9" and 110 sounds like anything but fat to me.

 

[Integral]

I really liked the XKCD/Dinosaur Comics/Questionable Content thing, mostly because I read all 3 and check them first thing in the morning, so I barely noticed.

I'm glad someone else noticed that too.

 

[Leonel]

God, I hate the Coke Zero products.

First part of my rant: My mom apparently thinks I'm fat because she keeps buying me diet soda, despite me standing at a height of 5'9" and 110 pounds. I don't have an eating disorder, if you're wondering (yes, guys can get it).

Second part: One of my favorite sodas is Vanilla Coke. If there's one, then I'll get it. But there's a problem: There is no Diet Vanilla Coke. There's only Vanilla Coke Zero.

Now, I've tried Coke Zero. I fell into the trap of the "tastes more like regular coke" because my mom insisted to split a diet soda because she thinks we're piss-poor (once again, another delusion, we're middle class). I was about 11 and did not grow into the selfish young man known as Middle School D'Art. So I was receptive.

Little did I know that it tastes like a mixture of soap, laundry detergent, and a tiny drop of Coke.

Diet Coke tasted better than Coke Zero Good Taste.

Also, Sprite is a favorite lemon-lime soda of mine. I think they discontinued Diet Sprite in favor of Sprite Zero. Once again, my dad had some, I had a sip.

The taste of salt, soap, and laundry detergent came back. I was disgusted and spat it out the window.

Any Coca-Cola product ending with Zero tastes bad. Diet is the way to go.

According to your BMI, you aren't fat at all. As a matter of fact, you're 2 BMI points underweight!

 

[jeps]

diet soda ≠ fat.

diet soda = no sugar

maybe she thinks you have ADD?

 

[azzaman333]

You have bad parents.

 

[Love]

My parents don't care what i drink, as long it doesent contain alcohol

 

[Swedishguy]

The expressionist piece of art I did in Art Class today sucked.

 

[LucyDuke]

Second part: One of my favorite sodas is Vanilla Coke. If there's one, then I'll get it. But there's a problem: There is no Diet Vanilla Coke. There's only Vanilla Coke Zero.

Hm. I like Coke Zero better than Diet Coke. It tastes more like Coke than aspartame. And neither has the goddamned demon high fructose corn syrup.

When is Passover, again?

And to your whining about the vanilla Coke: get some vanilla extract. The real stuff, not "imitation vanilla extract". The real stuff is a few bucks more than the fake stuff, but the difference is worth it. Put a few drops in your Coke until you get the taste you want. It's not exactly the same as vanilla Coke, but it's a good imitation. I do it with vodka all the time, because I can't find Svedka Vanilla around here. I don't like vanilla Coke.

My parents don't care what i drink, as long it doesent contain alcohol

Funny, my family doesn't care what I drink as long as it does contain alcohol. Holidays with functional alcoholics are fun!

 

[LucyDuke]

the horrid beast shat
at the bottom of the stairs
jerk take back your cat

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Thanks, Lucy.

She thinks that sugar makes you fat.

Now, for this:

Our school's recycling campaign is stupid propaganda.

According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary says that propaganda's first definition has a religious connotation (Roman Catholic). The second, more common, non-religious connotation is: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.

It spreads information for purpose of helping a cause, recycling. It may not be usually used in a positive manner, but it's still propaganda (I support recycling).

What's the stupid part? Their slogan. "Keeping it green is keeping it real."

First of all, my state is about 98% white. If you're going to try to connect with kids, ACT YOUR FRIGGIN' RACE. YOU'RE WHITE. ACT IT AND USE WHITE EXPRESSIONS.

Another thing that brings my blood to a boil: it's a 90s expression. WAKE UP! The decade's almost over. And you're using outdated 90s expressions? :suicide:

Please, the decade's almost over. And you're using an expression from the last one?

The image above is the only way to describe it.

 

[nc-1701]

Thanks, Lucy.

She thinks that sugar makes you fat.

Now, for this:

Our school's recycling campaign is stupid propaganda.

According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary says that propaganda's first definition has a religious connotation (Roman Catholic). The second, more common, non-religious connotation is: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.

It spreads information for purpose of helping a cause, recycling. It may not be usually used in a positive manner, but it's still propaganda (I support recycling).

What's the stupid part? Their slogan. "Keeping it green is keeping it real."

First of all, my state is about 98% white. If you're going to try to connect with kids, ACT YOUR FRIGGIN' RACE. YOU'RE WHITE. ACT IT AND USE WHITE EXPRESSIONS.

Another thing that brings my blood to a boil: it's a 90s expression. WAKE UP! The decade's almost over. And you're using outdated 90s expressions? :suicide:

Please, the decade's almost over. And you're using an expression from the last one?

The image above is the only way to describe it.

Yeah, but isn't TNG even older

 

[jeps]

When is Passover, again?

Pesach is the 15th of Nissan, of course. (for you SOLAR calendar people... thats april 19th-27th [26th in Israel])

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Yes.

But Picard never ages.

Picard>Kirk.

 

[The Yankee]

The lease is ending May 31st, so I must be out by then, right after graduation. It wouldn't give me proper time or funds to search for work and a better apartment here (since I held open staying in NY if I could land some decent work), so I shall definitely move.

Taking a new lease at this building is out of the question. Not only do they have this ridiculous policy of submitting a written notice that I will break the lease, six months in advance. What could they really do, take my security deposit? Even so, I don't want a fight here. Not after the lawsuit against this place seems to still be open following my father's fall 13 months ago. And this place seems to have some more unsavory types hanging around in front overnight. It used to be some happy, drunken youngsters, but now they're just as drunk and more likely to be aggressive. The rest of the neighborhood is pretty darn good, but there's something about the people in this building....

And from past experiences, I certainly wouldn't trust the police of this precinct to be of use. So out I will go, thankfully leaving this building behind.

 

[D'Artagnan59]

God, I hate the English standards for my school.

Why? They teach grammar. It's not like "what's a comma splice?" or "what's a predicate nominative?"

It's SUBJECT AND PREDICATE STUFF. COME ON. WE'RE IN 8TH GRADE. WE KNOW SENTENCE PARTS.

This mostly stems from having heterogeneous classes. I'm the smartest kid in my grade, so I'd be annoyed. What's really pissing me off is that for some ******** reason, ALL THE SMART KIDS THAT GET GOOD GRADES ARE IN MY CLASS AND THERE ARE ABOUT 5 PEOPLE IN THE THIRD TIER OF SMARTNESS!!!

Let's see: Tier 1=Smart. Tier 2=Average. Tier 3=Stupid.

Heterogeneous classrooms leave teachers teaching to the second tier of the class. The problem? THERE ARE NO SECOND-TIER PEOPLE IN MY CLASS!!! So, most of the room will feel bored out of their minds, and the other will feel too challenged.

We know what a subject is. We know what a predicate is. We know what a run-on sentence is. We know how to capitalize. We know what punctuation we use. SO WHY DO YOU TEACH US THIS!!!