Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore
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Gotta get the hair right.
Broken_Erika
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And now my browser is back to randomly redirecting me to various advertising sites, and yet not one of the antivirus, antimalware and rootkit scans i've run has detected anything.
Snerk
Smeghead
Hm, mebbe just reinstall the OS then?
Broken_Erika
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Oddly enough, Internet explorer hasn't had any redirects.....yet. Of course now that I've said that it will probably redirect me to some super spatula world discount savings site.
CP/M won't run properly on this machine..
My across-the-hall neighbor's kid(s) - not sure how many she has - are driving me up the wall.
I HATE TODDLERS!!!
I just absolutely HATE them! There's something to be said for the way the Borg do it - maturation chambers, and when they emerge as young adults, they're both housebroken and know how to use their indoor voices.
Screaming, crying brats... I know this is one of the family floors so I have to put up with some noise, but kids running around the hallways (against the rules), incessantly screaming and their parents don't do anything to shut them up (or at least they're not successful with whatever they're trying)...
I might take up the accordion again. Since I never got to be very good at it, it should be a nice bit of noise to annoy the neighbors with.
I HATE TODDLERS!!!
I just absolutely HATE them! There's something to be said for the way the Borg do it - maturation chambers, and when they emerge as young adults, they're both housebroken and know how to use their indoor voices.
Screaming, crying brats... I know this is one of the family floors so I have to put up with some noise, but kids running around the hallways (against the rules), incessantly screaming and their parents don't do anything to shut them up (or at least they're not successful with whatever they're trying)...
I might take up the accordion again. Since I never got to be very good at it, it should be a nice bit of noise to annoy the neighbors with.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Bagpipes work too...
I like bagpipe music, provided it's played well.
A cheaper alternative would be to get a recorder and play it badly - full of shrill squeals that are every bit as nerve-wracking as fingernails on a blackboard. One of the kids in the building was doing this earlier in the year. If I could have been within arm-reach of that thing, I'd have grabbed it and broken it over my knee.
Recorder music is great to listen to if the musician knows how to do it, but if you don't control your breathing, it's awful.
Broken_Erika
Play with me.
My cousin used to use his bagpipes to clear out his house the day after a party. Usually people would crash there overnight and he would get up in the morning and play the bagpipes on his back porch. Eventually his friends learned to get a ride home after the party.
I was going to post a funny joke about simulating bagpipes using a cat, but I think Valka would be pissed with me if I did. 
You're right about that. I have no sense of humor when it comes to abusing cats, whether serious or joking.I was going to post a funny joke about simulating bagpipes using a cat, but I think Valka would be pissed with me if I did.
Broken_Erika
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Malwarebytes finally finished it's scan. It only took just under 14 hours..
That is a long time. Do you have a big drive? Haven't done one in while? I run Malwarebytes 3.2.2 and the scans take only a few minutes. The last one (earlier today) scanned 300k files in 3:22
Broken_Erika
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About 355GB worth of crap, 573,666 files in 13 hours 47 minutes and 14 seconds. I did the most thorough scan i could but it didn't find anything, it slowed to a crawl when it hit the windows folders. I figure Firefox got "modified" by whatever i had so i uninstalled it and deleted all mozilla folders from my HD and reinstalled it. Seems okay, so far.......
I like MB and run the premium version.My across-the-hall neighbor's kid(s) - not sure how many she has - are driving me up the wall.
I HATE TODDLERS!!!
I just absolutely HATE them! There's something to be said for the way the Borg do it - maturation chambers, and when they emerge as young adults, they're both housebroken and know how to use their indoor voices.
Screaming, crying brats... I know this is one of the family floors so I have to put up with some noise, but kids running around the hallways (against the rules), incessantly screaming and their parents don't do anything to shut them up (or at least they're not successful with whatever they're trying)...
I might take up the accordion again. Since I never got to be very good at it, it should be a nice bit of noise to annoy the neighbors with.
So you are mad at kids for...being kids? Kids are loud, deal with it. If you don't like it, then move somewhere without kids or buy a house so you don't have to live with others.
If I seem a little snippy with this post it's because I'm getting a little sick and tired of people who have never raised children saying this kind of crap. You can't keep kids quiet all the time no matter what you do because they are little balls of energy that like to play. Normally, I also wouldn't have said anything about your rant since I get that kids can be annoying and sometimes adults need to vent about that. However, it's the fact that you are considering actually doing something to "fight back" and annoy them too is what prompted me to say something.
And you're lucky I don't live in your building. Because if you pulled that accordion stunt, I'd get with the other parents and conspire to file a bunch of noise complaints against you to get you evicted. You said you live on a family floor, which means you are minority. That means you have to conform to the other residents' lifestyles, not the other way around.
Yeah, i disagree.
I concede that occasionally... rarely... kids that are inately "high energy" do in fact exist.
However roughly 98% of the time kids go on other people's nerves (Valka's in this case), either the parents are inconsiderate situationally or the kids are just generally misraised in the first place.
Parents get catered to at every turn; and most of them summarily suck at what they're doing.
So unless Valka volunteers evidence contradicting her position i am presuming she is correct and her neighbors are entitled fecals who annoy the heck out of everyone in their errant quasi-sexual bid to semi-cheat death.
Screw them.
Annecdotal evidence: Me.
My mom took me to the opera when i was four. She knew she could.
Around that age i would start to rearrange merchandise in stores because reckless, impudent, morally dubious adults would leave it in disarray.
Point being:
Nobody is entitled to have children. You're supposed to know what you're doing and get it right. Preferably on the first try.
That's a meany tough challenge? Yeah, that's the way it goes with the big things in life...
Btw: This is the one thing where conservatives think and feel and argue like liberals:
"Oh, everybody has to have ze entitlement! Oh, everybody has to be allowed to fail! Oh, snowflake, snowflake, snowflake!"
Nonsense
Sorry for being contrarian like that but...
a) it's the rant thread
b) my neighbors are bloody hipsters with too much money and too little class and their kids aren't even that loud per se* but they themselves (the parents) are just full of feces and consequently insist that getting the kids in the car on a sunday at 8 has to be a 20 minute affair rivalling the noise level of WWF Raw.
Because that's how bloody hipsters gonna live.
*I'm sure they'll be better than their parents...
Akka
Moody old mage.
Two points here :
1) There is a VAST difference between "kids being kids" and "shrieking monsters". A bit of noise is expected, being left to shout at full volume and run in the corridors isn't. The difference can be a full order of magnitude.
2) It's the responsability of parents to make so their children aren't an annoyance, not the responsability of neighbours to move elsewhere if children are too loud. I don't know from where come this common idea that the person disturbing the others is in the right and the person disturbed is the one to get out, but it's a weird reasoning - and I remember you live into a neighbourhood which is specifically about kicking out people who are an annoyance, so I'm wondering why you suddendly switch side in this.
As said above, there is a HUGE gap between the amount and regularity of noise made by kids "not being quiet all the time" and brats "being incredibly loud and without limit most of the time".
I've lived around people who had children and managed them (so yeah, sometimes they shout and play and speak loudly, and if they shout for too long, you hear one of the parent telling them to lower their tone), and while I hate all form of noise I thought "okay, that's tolerable".
I've also lived around people who had children who just had no limit, and where shouting and bawling was simply their usual way of speaking, and the parents just let them do all that without providing guidance. And these ones, yeah they were absolutely unbearable.
It's like with TV set or pet or whatever. There are the people who have a bit of sense of responsability and will have some consideration for others and try to keep it under control, and those who don't care and think they are alone on Earth and do what they want.
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