Random Rants LV: The Joy of Ranting

[Takhisis]

It's not God's fault.

 

[Old Hippy]

OK. I feel better now. I hope God isn't pissed at me now...

with so many athiests about he probaly just happy that your thinking of him.

 

[Borachio]

I think most atheists spend a great deal of time thinking of God. And wondering whether she exists or not.

And generally, if they're good atheists, coming down on the side of she doesn't. But that's atheists for you. And God. Elusive creature that she is.

 

[Cutlass]

I still have not had much luck with my job search. Soon it will be four years since graduation, with only two job interviews and no offers.

Can I suggest, if you haven't been working since graduation, you need to get back into school. Pursue another degree.

 

[SamSniped]

It's not God's fault.

That's what He wants you to believe, Takh

 

[gay_Aleks]

My personal rant is toward God.

Why on Earth did you, God, make THQ go out of business? Now who is going to do Dawn of War III? Huh? Did you think of that before you put THQ out of business? No. I suspect you didn't. Therefore you do not exist!

OK. I feel better now. I hope God isn't pissed at me now...

Theoretically, THQ and Runic games exist in some kind of weird and bizarre form under Sony's command.

Just a tip, though. Install a copper roof; gods really hate these things.

 

[Borachio]

Poor old Angela! Been through colon cancer treatment that has been successful, only to hear today that she's got some kind of widespread lymphoma (or something, I don't know the details) and is now contemplating letting nature take its course. I feel very sorry for her. She's a worn-out, and fed up with life, 76 year old.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

So I was pulling bookmarks from my old outdated version of Firefox Portable. That doesn't cooperate with newer versions of Flash. So on one page the Flash plugin crashed about 6 times in a row.

 

[Kennigit]

Tired bored & disinterested

Real fulfilling and exciting times im living

 

[Civ'ed]

Why must all the important pagan organisations be folkish? Why can't they ever accept that non-Germanics have every right to believe in the Allfather as we do?
Also, there's of course the important "I can't talk to anyone because I don't want to be brought into connection with a certain ideology that caused reasonable unpleasantness in the 20th century".
Gods damnit folkish movement.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Had terrible migraine last night. Thought I was going to die. Needless to say, didn't get much sleep.

 

[Borachio]

MIgraines are awful. First you think you're going to die, then you wish you would.

They can leave you feeling really knackered the next day, too.

I haven't had one for ten years though. They're something to do with stress, imo.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I think most atheists spend a great deal of time thinking of God. And wondering whether she exists or not.

And generally, if they're good atheists, coming down on the side of she doesn't. But that's atheists for you. And God. Elusive creature that she is.

There was a bizarre news report on CBC last week about a woman who wanted to work for a Norwegian wilderness adventure company that operates in Canada. She was upset because they told her they wouldn't hire her because (a) she didn't have any of the qualifications they listed on their website, and (b) the fact that she graduated from a Christian university that expects its students to condemn gays and lesbians and spread the Gospel meant she wouldn't be a good fit for the company whose major clientele are gay men, and the guys who run the company are pagans who follow the old Norse religion. So she hired a lawyer and plans to sue them for violating her Charter rights that prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion. Further investigation reveals the company may not legally exist in the first place.

The comment boards were rather lively, and I did spend some time reiterating that atheism isn't a religion, and pagans are not atheists.

 

[Phrossack]

It's a little disturbing to come across something that probably helped inspire the thought processes of some of the nastiest people you've had to deal with. You get to see their minds laid bare, and it's creepy and irritating.

Moreover, the work has been ceaseless this semester, and my crippling procrastination is making it much worse.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I had a moment last week.

I'd ordered some stuff from London Drugs and was expecting it to be delivered. Instead, I found a couple of delivery notices in my mailbox (the kind that claims that they really tried to deliver the parcel but nobody answered the door/nobody was home/whatever other excuse they can think of).

I was home at the time the Canada Post truck would have come, and no attempt was made to contact me - no buzz on the intercom, no knock on the door. This is not the first time this happened, so I took the usual steps of phoning the postal outlet the card told me to go to, and informed them that as I had been home at the time when the carrier didn't bother trying to let me know he was there, I'd be phoning the supervisor to complain, and could I please have the current phone number.

I explained the situation to the supervisor (was pleasantly surprised to speak to a human on the first attempt) and after being treated to a litany of woes that they didn't have many carriers on duty (could it be because Canada Post has started to phase out home delivery to houses and so doesn't need as many carriers?) and she was amazed that any letters got through at all. Since this was about a parcel and not a letter, I told her I expected them to deliver the things I should have had the day before.

When the guy finally turned up with the stuff, his excuse as to why he hadn't bothered to contact me the first time? "I didn't know I was supposed to."

Hello, WTH? What did he expect he was supposed to do - just drive around all day with a truckload of parcels and leave notes in mailboxes for people to go pick them up themselves somewhere else? What did he think he was supposed to do with all those parcels, if not actually deliver the damn things?

What an idiot.

 

[classical_hero]

It does see like they only hire idiots at the Postal service. I've had many similar situations where a simple press of the door bell would alert me to them, but they never press it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Some of the times when they do let me know they're there, they still don't want to actually deliver the thing. I live on the second floor of a large building, but it has an elevator. It's not like they have to carry anything up or down stairs. So I don't like to hear some prissy voice say, "We prefer that you come down and get it."

No. I paid for delivery to my door. I prefer that they do their jobs and bring it here. I don't do run-and-fetch for the post office.

 

[Old Hippy]

Some of the times when they do let me know they're there, they still don't want to actually deliver the thing. I live on the second floor of a large building, but it has an elevator. It's not like they have to carry anything up or down stairs. So I don't like to hear some prissy voice say, "We prefer that you come down and get it."

No. I paid for delivery to my door. I prefer that they do their jobs and bring it here. I don't do run-and-fetch for the post office.

I noticed today some large advertising sign for Australia post, saying how you can now get large post boxes for your parcels, conviently avalible to you 24 hours a day, I am convienced they just do not want to have contact with the public, the cause of most of their problems.

 

[Borachio]

I have a parcel box outside my house. It could do with being a bit bigger, but it's absolutely wonderful for amazon book deliveries. It's even got a code for deliverers who must insist on proof of delivery.

Those cards they used to leave saying "We tried to deliver your parcel but you were out" are a thing of the past for me, pretty much.

Before, I used to have to wait behind the front door and not leave for a minute, otherwise someone would immediately slip a card through my letter box. I was beginning to suspect they had a video camera inside my house.

 

[Old Hippy]

I have a parcel box outside my house. It could do with being a bit bigger, but it's absolutely wonderful for amazon book deliveries. It's even got a code for deliverers who must insist on proof of delivery.

thats actually a good idea, the ones I saw are outside the post office