Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[Arakhor]

Probably not, Mary, but I'm sure that it's as good at passing on blood-borne diseases as, say, finger blood.

 

[Zkribbler]

Hey! I know! with a little effort, we could change the subject to something less icky.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Hey! I know! with a little effort, we could change the subject to something less icky.

Are you saying that icky things aren't worth ranting about?

 

[Zkribbler]

Wallowing in ickyness is something worth ranting about.

 

[MaryKB]

Hey! I know! with a little effort, we could change the subject to something less icky.

No, I think this is a topic I feel needs more discussion.

Rant: no one except @hobbsyoyo seems to care about me being blonde now *cries*

 

[Takhisis]

Hold your horses. What's with this craving for attention? And how are we supposed to know your hair colour?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

She probably posted a picture somewhere.

 

[Takhisis]

Please don't remind people about posting pictures of oneself.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You should post a picture of yourself.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I missed a train by about 30 seconds today and had to cool my heels for an hour at Union Station. I've been craving NY style pizza and I found a shop there that sold it!

But it was the worst slice of pizza I've ever had.

the humiliations have no end

 

[MaryKB]

I missed a train by about 30 seconds today and had to cool my heels for an hour at Union Station. I've been craving NY style pizza and I found a shop there that sold it!

But it was the worst slice of pizza I've ever had.

the humiliations have no end

Awwww, I'm so sorry

Stop by here on your way home, I'll make you a delightful pizza

 

[Zkribbler]

I missed a train by about 30 seconds today and had to cool my heels for an hour at Union Station.

Union Station, Los Angeles?! Geez, you're right across the street from Olvera Street. The right-most restaurant Las Anitas, has the best Mexican food in the galaxy. FACT!

 

[The_J]

Worse rant: My ex is texting me again.
The now ex-BF is texting her again. He blocked her yesterday, but now reversed that. He's bothering her like every second night. Because he's then drunk. This time apparently on cocaine.
I'm just happy that lives like 40 km by car away. So if he gets drunk every night, he will at least not show up on her doorstep. And if so, there's at least a good reason to call the police. And with some luck he kills himself while in the car.
Oh boy...

Now trying to contact a lawyer, but I didn't get a confirmation from their online form, and they've not got back to me yet .



EDIT: Minor rant: The CNRS library also hasn't indexed the latest issues of Science and Nature, means I can't read the articles which I want to read right now .

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I don't have problems with a blocked throat, rather with a dry mouth, so that probably wouldn't help :/.

I've heard there's this thing called water...

Rant: Sometimes I find good fanfics that were abandoned years ago. That's sad.

Last year I went on a binge of fanfics based on the Showtime TV series called The Borgias (the one with Jeremy Irons as the Pope and Francois Arnaud as Cesare). There are some really good ones, both on fanfiction.net and AO3... and on AO3 there was a long one that included Rodrigo Borgia's other children - the older ones he had before Vanozza bore Cesare, Juan, Lucrezia, and whatever the hell the youngest boy's name was (each series uses a different name for the kid).

This story didn't shy away from addressing the incest angle between Cesare and Lucrezia (a centuries-long idea that makes for steamy TV shows and fiction, but was more likely the result of malicious gossip spread by the Borgias' enemies).

The story had some different takes on the historical events that are known, and some of the events of the TV series, and I remember being completely absorbed... until the story just stopped. No more chapters. It's not that the author wasn't around anymore; she posted other Borgia-themed stories. But the regular commenters were highly annoyed, and told the author that if she had hit a dry spell with the story, lost interest in it, or whatever reason there was for stopping, she should have just said so instead of letting people check back every week/month/year to see if just maybe there might be a new chapter. At the very least, she could have left a note saying that for personal reasons (translation: don't ask), there would be no more chapters, thanks for reading and commenting all this time.

I haven't posted any fanfic of my own on either of these sites, but plan to at some point. I would prefer to wait until the whole thing is finished and I'm satisfied with it, so there wouldn't be a case of leaving the reader to wonder, when the chapters stop appearing.

(mind you, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and my characters keep reminding me that there are other aspects of the story that should be written about, so this will take more time)

I have posted snippets here and there, however, that are not on fanfic sites. A chance conversation on TrekBBS resulted in a short vignette that's a crossover between Dune and the Peanuts comic strip. A little editing and it would probably be ready to post on a fanfic site.

I missed a train by about 30 seconds today and had to cool my heels for an hour at Union Station.

Try being a Canadian these days, attempting to use Via to get anywhere. Because of a particular native group in BC protesting a natural gas pipeline, train service has basically come to a standstill all across Canada (other native groups and non-native environmentalists engaging in sympathy protests). These people haven't only blocked the railroad, but ports on both east and west coasts, they've occupied some politicians' offices, and tried to prevent people from entering the BC Legislature (it was only the day the Throne Speech was supposed to be read, no big deal... ).

The Prime Minister himself is off somewhere in Africa (for diplomatic reasons), and so far hasn't done much other than to lecture the BC politicians and native groups to "find a solution"... when people who are being prevented from getting to work and no cargo is moving by rail is causing chaos.

This is an un-PC thing for me to say, but while I have so far not been personally affected by this, I'm frankly disgusted. I'm sick and tired of all this "sacred-this" and "sacred-that" and how dare the federal government not kiss the ground the "hereditary chiefs" walk on. Ever since I was old enough to vote, I tried to vote in favor of candidates and parties that had pro-native planks in their platform - things like self-government, more opportunities, and so on.

Not gonna do it anymore. I won't go out of my way to vote against them, and there are horrible things that they've had to endure over the past 150+ years since Canada became a country. But calling ordinary Canadians - and recent immigrants who couldn't possibly have had anything to do with those things - "colonizers" and "invaders" is just reverse racism, in my view (and let's not turn this thread into an argument about that).

 

[JohannaK]

No, I think this is a topic I feel needs more discussion.

Rant: no one except @hobbsyoyo seems to care about me being blonde now *cries*

You are blonde now? :O

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I dont always pee whilst standing, but when I do I lift the seating ring to prevent absolutely any spilling over it at all. It is not that hard. There are no excuses. When I go into a public toilet and the sesting ring is full of yellow-greenish droplets, I am disgusted at the slovenliness and the poor disposition that people seem to have.

I'd be more worried about what the green droplets were.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I feel kind of bad whenever I hear about the blood donation drives. I'm unable to donate because of anemia.

 

[The_J]

You shouldn't. You're more likely to be a recipient than a donor in this case.

I think there's also a blood donation drive here soon, but I'll probably be again to sick to donate, and they anyways don't want my blood, so doesn't really matter at the end.

I've heard there's this thing called water...

I drink so much (and also pee so much) that I was really relieved when my diabetes test came back negative.
So that's not the issue .



Rant: Texted my ex, like I did every evening this week, just to see how it is.
She doesn't answer. Her housemate doesn't answer either.
I seriously hope that they're out doing something nice, but I rather expect the worst.

EDIT: Seems she's out for dinner, so nothing to worry about.
The ex-bf seems to be texting though. It's Valentine's day, no surprise. I hope this weekend goes over without any issues.
And yeah, I'm getting paranoid.

 

[Birdjaguar]

If it's so easy, how do you explain the messes I've been cleaning up for the last decade when I've had a man living in my house?

many/most men don't notice messes at the same level women do. And they don't change much over time. What you got is what you got. And the ability to aim doesn't mean a man will use it or pay any attention.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

many/most men don't notice messes at the same level women do. And they don't change much over time. What you got is what you got. And the ability to aim doesn't mean a man will use it or pay any attention.

Brilliant quote from my mom: I know you saw that, because you stepped over it. How is it that you still don't know it's there?

Of course, as a teenage boy all I could do was ask what she was talking about because I had no idea that I had seen, or stepped over, anything.