Random Rants : Pissed tae th' gills

[hobbsyoyo]

Until the icecaps melt, we have the Gulf Stream, folks. That means lots of rain and very little cold for our latitude.

Yes, I am aware you survive off the good graces of our warm Caribbean waters.

Keep it up and we'll ruin that too.

 

[Arakhor]

For long enough, it was our Caribbean and don't you forget it!

 

[Cutlass]

For long enough, it was our Caribbean and don't you forget it!

And now you barely have a serious navy. Deal with it.

 

[Arakhor]

We're past such petty things as colonial imperialism. We've passed that duty onto our recalcitrant children.

 

[Phrossack]

Rant: For whatever reason I've recently gotten the urge to acquire a 12- or 20-gauge shotgun, just for target practice and skeet/trap/clay pigeon/whatever shooting. But I'd have nowhere to keep it (not allowed to have guns), ammo's expensive, and I refuse to do anything involving the NRA.

 

[choxorn]

Why aren't you allowed to have guns?

 

[Phrossack]

Why aren't you allowed to have guns?

Cawledge. Also, I'm rather young and still live with my parents when not at school, and they do not care for guns. Oh, well. I'm not exactly flush with cash right now, so I'm really just dreaming.

Anyway, a better rant: I imported some music from some CDs to my iPod for the first time, only to discover that it doesn't work. For a start, the iPod skips the songs in the playlist, and when I try to play the albums I imported, it'll play about a minute of the first song and skip all the others.

 

[Takhisis]

You fell all depressed and such and want a gun. Hmmm.

 

[Phrossack]

You fell all depressed and such and want a gun. Hmmm.

It's bloody inconvenient to kill oneself with a shotgun, Takh, if that's what you're thinking.

Unless it's a Kel-Tec KSG, which really should not be at all legal but which is very nice.

 

[GamezRule]

Cawledge. Also, I'm rather young and still live with my parents when not at school, and they do not care for guns. Oh, well. I'm not exactly flush with cash right now, so I'm really just dreaming.

Transfer to a different school. I know of a few schools with student gun lockers and an indoor shooting range.

 

[Phrossack]

Transfer to a different school. I know of a few schools with student gun lockers and an indoor shooting range.

I don't want a shotgun that badly, and gun nuts often (but not always) disturb me. It'd just be something nice to do on my own, is all.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Until the icecaps melt, we have the Gulf Stream, folks. That means lots of rain and very little cold for our latitude.

Like you said, until the ice caps melt.

When that happens, instead of sharknadoes, you'll get Snowwicanes!!!

 

[The_J]

EDIT: Rant on my own: Thought today that I finally sorted out my damn crowded working schedule for the next weeks, and then somebody comes into the office, pulls something from the bottom of the work stack and says "urgent!". (not literally, but more or less).
Aaaaaaaaaaah .

I really feel damn tired, don't want to go to work, and considered taking a half day off for sleeping, but then I calculated the work time left, and it turned out that I'll not get all my crap sorted out for this week if I do that.
I hate it .

 

[azzaman333]

What I should be doing: working on my thesis.

What I'm not doing: working on my thesis.

 

[Verarde]

Good friend of mine was given this (paraphrased) response...AFTER WAITING FOR A RESPONSE FOR FOUR DAYS:
"Well, I'm waiting for a specific person to ask me to the dance, but if he doesn't, you're my backup plan."



First of all, how are you so sure that this mystery person will ask you? Not to mention that you noted that he's a senior, so what's the likelihood of him even noticing you?!

Second of all, you flat out told a really nice guy that he is your "backup plan?!" How would you feel if a guy told you that you were his backup plan if he didn't ask someone else?

Worst part is, this girl is my friend, but she's one of those people that it's difficult to talk to and convince of things.

 

[PhroX]

What I should be doing: working on my thesis.

What I'm not doing: working on my thesis.

Remove the "on my thesis" bits, and that's me....

 

[Takhisis]

It's bloody inconvenient to kill oneself with a shotgun, Takh, if that's what you're thinking.

I didn't say whom you were going to shoot.

What I should be doing: working on my thesis.

What I'm not doing: working on my thesis.

Ask Cami to kill you on NSP and then ban you so you can get back to work.

 

[madviking]

Good friend of mine was given this (paraphrased) response...AFTER WAITING FOR A RESPONSE FOR FOUR DAYS:
"Well, I'm waiting for a specific person to ask me to the dance, but if he doesn't, you're my backup plan."



First of all, how are you so sure that this mystery person will ask you? Not to mention that you noted that he's a senior, so what's the likelihood of him even noticing you?!

Second of all, you flat out told a really nice guy that he is your "backup plan?!" How would you feel if a guy told you that you were his backup plan if he didn't ask someone else?

Worst part is, this girl is my friend, but she's one of those people that it's difficult to talk to and convince of things.

18-20 year old girls are catty bitties.

 

[Farm Boy]

18-20 year old girls are catty bitties.

That's much nicer than I usually phrase it. Most of them get more reasonable after another decade.

Rant: For whatever reason I've recently gotten the urge to acquire a 12- or 20-gauge shotgun, just for target practice and skeet/trap/clay pigeon/whatever shooting. But I'd have nowhere to keep it (not allowed to have guns), ammo's expensive, and I refuse to do anything involving the NRA.

Well, I have a 12 gauge and don't have anything to do with the NRA. It's fun to target shoot once in a blue moon. I'd give it a go a couple times before you actually buy one for yourself though. It's not that they're super duper expensive, you can probably get a reasonable 12 gauge and enough ammo for $200-$300 if you look around, but they are really cumbersome to store if you don't have a good location already. If you have decent transportation I would really see if you can go out to a sportsmans club that has days the public can buy in for instead of just members. See if they'll let you rent a gun and buy some ammo for use while you're there. They'll have range masters that'll get you acclimated with the myriad of redundant safety behaviors/tics that really should be ingrained enough to be second nature before you own your own and have easy access to it. Plus, that way you'll learn if you like the activity itself and the social structure around it enough before you jump in with a significant amount of cash. Most of the friends that enjoy going out and shooting with me every year or two find that's enough exposure for them to be fun. It's enough for me, but I can see how some competitive sportsman clay competitions would be a whole lot of fun if I got into it. Plus then you could get a slug barrel and become an active participant in husbanding our domestic deer population(which generally needs it), which is delicious.

 

[W|M]

Like you said, until the ice caps melt.

When that happens, instead of sharknadoes, you'll get Snowwicanes!!!

Spoiler :

Firenados, too