Random Rants LV: The Joy of Ranting

[bhsup]

These are not really rants so much as minor complaints that I just felt needed to be voiced. I had to run to walmart at lunch and I saw a couple of things that chapped my hide a smidge and have to vent.

1) It is a freaking beautiful day. It was low 70s (say 22C for you uncouth barbarians who cannot do the proper system) out, sunny with low humidity and a nice breeze. At least seven out of every ten vehicle I saw on the road had their windows rolled up. Roll down your windows and enjoy nature you cocooned morons!

2) In the Wal-Mart parking lot, I saw a stock boy gathering up carts. This is always a nostalgic thing for me to see as I used to do that when I was 16-17 years old. I was a darned good cart wrangler and could master a vast line of carts. Well anyway, this punk was using some mechanized thingy at the start of the carts that pushed them for him. All he had to do was guide it from the front. Wal-Mart is turning our nation's stock boys into Sheilas and I don't like it.

 

[cybrxkhan]

2) In the Wal-Mart parking lot, I saw a stock boy gathering up carts. This is always a nostalgic thing for me to see as I used to do that when I was 16-17 years old. I was a darned good cart wrangler and could master a vast line of carts. Well anyway, this punk was using some mechanized thingy at the start of the carts that pushed them for him. All he had to do was guide it from the front. Wal-Mart is turning our nation's stock boys into Sheilas and I don't like it.

But anyways, even though I'm not really that old myself, I'm already starting to think these sort of "when I was your age" kind of things about kids. I mean, seriously, when I was your age, young man, I didn't have the internet, I had to get my cleavage from clothing magazines

It makes me feel older.

 

[Takhisis]

These are not really rants so much as minor complaints that I just felt needed to be voiced. I had to run to walmart at lunch and I saw a couple of things that chapped my hide a smidge and have to vent.

1) It is a freaking beautiful day. It was low 70s (say 22C for you uncouth barbarians who cannot do the proper system) out, sunny with low humidity and a nice breeze. At least seven out of every ten vehicle I saw on the road had their windows rolled up. Roll down your windows and enjoy nature you cocooned morons!

2) In the Wal-Mart parking lot, I saw a stock boy gathering up carts. This is always a nostalgic thing for me to see as I used to do that when I was 16-17 years old. I was a darned good cart wrangler and could master a vast line of carts. Well anyway, this punk was using some mechanized thingy at the start of the carts that pushed them for him. All he had to do was guide it from the front. Wal-Mart is turning our nation's stock boys into Sheilas and I don't like it.

1) the definition of barbarian is someone who does not speak Greek.
2) Barbarians are weaklings.

 

[really]

I'm far too lazy and to brush off my schoolboy German and start the first [DE] thread.

 

[Tee Kay]

I'm far too lazy and to brush off my schoolboy German and start the first [DE] thread.

Google Translate is your friend.

 

[madviking]

no, the google dictionary add-on for chrome is your friend.

 

[gay_Aleks]

1) the definition of barbarian is someone who does not speak Greek.
2) Barbarians are weaklings.

At some point, however our dear Greek friends alongside their warlike imitators got so weak, even the Barbarian weaklings managed to defeat them. Sad.

 

[cybrxkhan]

At some point, however our dear Greek friends alongside their warlike imitators got so weak, even the Barbarian weaklings managed to defeat them. Sad.

The great Byzantine empire lives on in the hearts of noble, righteous men, forevermore!

 

[Tee Kay]

The great Byzantine empire lives on in the hearts of noble, righteous men, forevermore!

The rant thread is an appropriate place for this comment.

 

[Arakhor]

Fie on you, you Antipodean Hellenophobe!

 

[cybrxkhan]

Fie on you, you Antipodean Hellenophobe!

Yeah, I agree! Pie on thee!

 

[gay_Aleks]

The great Byzantine empire lives on in the hearts of noble, righteous men, forevermore!

Well, what if we shoot all the righteous and noble men that also happen to like Byzantium? Surely they can't be that many.

 

[Takhisis]

↑Κι όμος, είμαστε ακόμα εδώ…

At some point, however our dear Greek friends alongside their warlike imitators got so weak, even the Barbarian weaklings managed to defeat them. Sad.

The Tourks are a strange race of infidels. The faith wavered, but it still stands.

And anyway the Bulgars use a nearly-Greek alphabet, so they are entitled to some kudos.

 

[bhsup]

↑Κι όμος, είμαστε ακόμα εδώ…

Translation per Google for those, like me, who don't speak foreign: "And omos, we are still here"

 

[gay_Aleks]

Greek-inspired, but we switched to a naturally superior script.

 

[Takhisis]

Translation per Google for those, like me, who don't speak foreign: "And omos, we are still here"

omos: anyway, in spite of that
I.e. in spite of everything else, we still resist. And exist.

Greek-inspired, but we switched to a naturally superior script.

Greek-made, my good sir.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Well, the two Saint Brothers were Slavs, so not really. While your friendly emperor did give the order and the money, the Slavic alphabet was made from Slavs for Slavs.

 

[Arakhor]

Presumably because the Slavs were too dense to grasp the full majesty of the Greek alphabet?

 

[Hygro]

Denied two loans. I need $960 by yesterday and another 3 grand by the end of next week. And another 30k by the end of October. The past two weeks I've averaged 5 hrs of sleep a night. I thought I was going to have the weekend off. Nope.

 

[Takhisis]

Do we even want to know what you need all that money for?