Random Rants LXIV: Who's Acting Like a Child Now?

[Takhisis]

Our friends in the Bureau of Land Management seem to be at it again. Let's hope the Texans turn them back.

Wait, you're not Texan then?

I'm a little disappointed in you guys. I've had my Steam profile in my sig for a while now and not one of you has added me. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go cry in a corner while clutching one of my daughter's stuffed animals...

I'll have to point out a few things then.
a) I haven't gone on Steam for several years.

b) This is the real reason for your earlier complaints. You complained about a 5-year-old little terror(-ist) who came in with stuffed animals… what you really wanted was for her to leave the stuffed animals there for you.

In other news, it's Ramadan, and for some odd reason I've been coughing real hard in my sleep. Fasting with a sore throat is !real fun! guys, nope no sarcasm here, why would you think that?

Aren't you allowed to drink tea, or water at the very least?

Well, it seems it's one of those days when it seems there's no way out.

Erm, the door…

 

[gay_Aleks]

It's a metaphor, goddamnit. About the hopelessness in life and how there seems to be no end of misery and strife.

Probably something about Judas Priest and/or Megadeth, too.

 

[Takhisis]

Well, listening to Гол, гол, гол! by Импулс might induce you to believe fervently in the second coming of Hristo Stoichkov, but I believe you need something more drastic than that.

I recommend that you start listening to Korpiklaani and that you try and make some RL friends.

 

[gay_Aleks]

I'm not very hot on waiting on 50-year old football players coming somehow back to fame, but yes, I do agree with you.

As for RL friends, well, I somehow doubt that happening, considering that 1) I'm poor B) I hate most people in our town. III) You only noticed now that I'm using Roman numerals.

 

[Takhisis]

You mean that IRL you're a sarcastic little tit who can't help throw a quip whenever he can? That description also fits me. And I have friends!
And what does being poor have to do with anything? Other people are poor as well.

btw if you use B for ‘2’ you're using Cyrillic/Greek numerals, and you are succumbing to my influence.

 

[gay_Aleks]

You mean that IRL you're a sarcastic little tit who can't help throw a quip whenever he can? That description also fits me. And I have friends!
And what does being poor have to do with anything? Other people are poor as well.

btw if you use B for ‘2’ you're using Cyrillic/Greek numerals, and you are succumbing to my influence.

No, I'm more like the dirty unwashed peasant who bathes only once in a week, has awful smell and stutters a lot. And I look at times like an upside-down hanger, with the about same agility. The first is related to being poor, while the latter is due to the fact I like spending time in closed spaces with little exercise to be done, because listening to metal beats that out of the water.

Not to mention that B is a letter, not a number.

 

[Arakhor]

B' is the number.

 

[Takhisis]

Erm, bathe more often, then. You have pointed out that your brother, who is presumably suffering the same handicaps, has made RL friends. Perhaps you could follow his example…

 

[Commodore]

Just added you.

And I just accepted.

 

[Snerk]

Dropped a 10kg weight disc on the tile flooring in my entrance room. Naturally one of the tiles shattered completely. If I can find an identical tile I should be able to replace it though. But still, goddammit.

 

[Arakhor]

Cheap games and me go together far too well.

 

[jackelgull]

Aren't you allowed to drink tea, or water at the very least?

Unfortunately God isn't that convenient.

 

[W|M]

Drink lime+honey tea at night

 

[Arakhor]

Presumably cough sweets and the like aren't banned? After all, they can't possibly be mentioned in the Qur'an.

 

[W|M]

Try going really far south, so that it's always night

 

[Arakhor]

I'm sure that God would frown upon those sorts of shenanigans far more than someone with a poorly throat having an unscheduled glass of water or two!

(Assuming of course that he does indeed frown upon this sort of thing and it isn't just a human conceit.)

 

[W|M]

Hey I don't make the rules, I just find logical conclusions to them

 

[Arakhor]

Unsurprisingly, since the whole point of Ramadan seems to be personal privation for the greater glory of God, logic doesn't really come into it.

 

[jackelgull]

Presumably cough sweets and the like aren't banned? After all, they can't possibly be mentioned in the Qur'an.

Who says the Quran is all there is to it? According to the school of Fiqh I and my parents follow, such a thing is banned. No eating or drinking means nothing goes down the throat voluntarily. If my throat gets bad enough, I can not fast to take cough drops and make it up the fast after Ramadan, but I can't make an intention to fast and have cough drops, that would break the fast. However, today's sore throat isn't as bad as yesterday, and I predict that by Monday all will be well, so I'm not overly concerned. It just sucks while it is happening.

 

[jackelgull]

Unsurprisingly, since the whole point of Ramadan seems to be personal privation for the greater glory of God, logic doesn't really come into it.

Eh, it's also about suffering bringing humility and sympathy for the plight of our fellow man.