Random Rants ': No, YOUR thread titles suck!

[Takhisis]

Now we can sanely build a drakkar with GPS, a decently stocked kitchen and minibar belowdeck, sail it into the high seas and take the European nightlife by storm.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I just contracted a cold. Timing is pretty lame. :/

Particularly if you were thinking of running for President of the United States.

 

[Takhisis]

I thought you had to be cold for that.

 

[Lohrenswald]

It's been a thousand years it's time to move on.

your lazy jokes can't mend my broken heart

 

[The_J]

That was my impression, too.

I don't even get to that point .


Unrelated rant: Had to look a bit deeper into one of my datasets, and found a potential problem. So I contacted the person at another university, who dealt with this part, to tell them, and asked if they could have a few checks on that.
The guy just denied that there is a problem.
Which means I'll probably end up looking into it deeper. This might take like 2 weeks or so.
...I've already not done any work on my own projects for the last 4 weeks. I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME . Goddamnit .

 

[Takhisis]

Truly, you are Dilbert incarnate, The_J.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

My mom and I were planning to go out for lunch at a local Thai restaurant (the better of the two in my home town) before getting groceries today, but when we arrived we found it was closed because the owner/chef was murdered right there on Saturday in an armed robbery gone wrong.

 

[Arakhor]

Wow. That's almost literally incredible.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Earlier today I sort of wanted to make a huge rant about all kinds of things, but the moment's passed and I can't do it

I kinda hate how I can't bloody explain myself

As I was commuting homewords I was struck by how disgusting I am, but also how disgusting everything else is. Like Everything I do and am is terrible, extraordinarily so, by realitiy's standards, but It's not like embetterment is worth it, because everything that isn't me is terrible in of itself as well

I can't quite explain it, and I find it pathetic that I'm not even trying

On the subway there was a ticket control, which is rare. As the train had stopped at the station I was going to leave at, and the doors having been opened, the guy wanted me to show him my ticket, but my ticket card and both bank cards I carry had slipped out of my wallet, so I coldn't find it at first. I was standing up and kinda moving towards the door at the same time, since I wanted to go off, but the guy held me back. I said "I have to go off here" and he said something along the lines of "no, not without showing your ticket". I was able to fish it out at that moment, and ran off the subway train.

Am I really that pathetic that all this is because I felt like a fool or something?
I think I felt pretty disgusted for like being a bloody trite mundane being in bloody traffic and complaining I had to go off here and whatnot.
I don't know, it felt like in a way a betrayal towards everything I imagine I stand for.
Also the ticket control guy was african, so I'm also a tad woried I'm racist

Then afterwards on the train I had all these thoughts I can't quite describe, of how how like deplorable I am, and also how rotten human activity is. Being on a train felt very horrible just then.

I also had in the seat in front of me a girl with like those jeans with holes on the knees, which made me think she was quite a sheep or something (of course that applies to me too), and three middle aged ladies with like too much neck fat. I forgot what my point was. It felt like a sad sight to me at least, but I'm pretty terrible.

Also lately I feel like I've gotten pretty annoyed at how several women speak, moreso than men now, so I'm also afraid I'm turning into a mysoginist or what have you.

I had also like a class about Aristoteles today, and I wanted to say something about that, but I don't think I really can say anything of value.
I was distracted by something and now I've completely lost the shadow of a train of thought I had on that, so just forget it.
Just one anecdote or something is that it seems people make him and Platon into tyrants of the past, so to say.

Also all this might just be a pity bait which is pathetic on it's own.

Oh yea there was something about like what makes people happy, and I was thinking something about like attention hoggers (moreso than me) that will even make themselves look bad just for attention. I need to like look into that someday. Which I've said about dozens of things and then not done, so there's anoter thing pathetic by me

 

[Arakhor]

Well, think what you want to say about Aristotle/Aristoteles and then get back to us. It could well be interesting.

 

[NovaKart]

I was out with 2 people a couple nights ago. One of them could speak Kurdish and Arabic but no English. The other could speak English and Arabic but no Kurdish. Then I can speak English and Kurdish but not Arabic. So we could all talk to each other but we didn't have a common language all 3 of us could speak.

 

[jackelgull]

My insulin pump hasn't been working since lunch and my blood sugar is over 600. I'm finding hard to breath and feel like vomiting. Plus, I might have over reacted wth the insulin a little bit and given too much, meaning I can expect to be low later on.

 

[Takhisis]

Am I really that pathetic

Nope.

 

[Kyriakos]

Ah, the famed tyrants Aristocrates and Plato ^^

 

[NovaKart]

A friend of mine is getting divorced. His ex-wife won't let him see their child. He's really depressed about this a lot and talks to me about it sometimes and showed me photos of his son on his phone. I can tell he's genuinely very upset about it.

A couple nights ago I was talking to a mutual friend of ours. I mentioned he was so depressed because he can't see his son and this person said - he doesn't have any children. He knows this guy and his family and ex wife and has known them for many years. So, it's very likely this is accurate, that he was lying. But he seems genuinely very upset. I'm thinking he wished he and his ex wife had a child and is indulging in some fantasy about it.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Sounds like a sad story
Maybe he feared you would not think much of his plight if he didn't make up the child?

 

[thecrazyscot]

Driving my wife to work this morning and there's a long line of cars stuck at a light on a road with a single lane going either way. This orange jeep drives on the WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD bypassing about 10 cars to cut in front of our entire line waiting at the light. Still mad.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Ah, the famed tyrants Aristocrates and Plato ^^

Aristoteles. Aristokrates is some other guy I haven't heard about.

My point wasn't so much that they were tyrants (although their political views weren't quite progressive lol), but more that people living after them can't quite free themselves from what they have said, if that makes any sense

 

[Kyriakos]

Aristoteles was an aristocrates anyway His father, Nikomachos (of the eponymous ethics) was the royal physician to Phillip B's father.

Although Plato was from even more of an aristocratic family. His mother was related to Solon the legislator, and his father possibly was tied to the line of early athenian kings...

 

[Phrossack]

Aristoteles. Aristokrates is some other guy I haven't heard about.

My point wasn't so much that they were tyrants (although their political views weren't quite progressive lol), but more that people living after them can't quite free themselves from what they have said, if that makes any sense

Do you mean that we have a lot of people convinced that the ancient Greeks invented thinking and that Plato and Aristotle must have been brilliant and right because that's what we're taught? Because that's certainly the case.