Trajan12
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You know that "Congratulastions, you have one a free blah blah blah" ad? They've LENGTHENED IT! It lasts like 30 seconds now! I'm reinstalling flashblock...
Random Rants VII: Why do they ALWAYS do that?!
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Bigfoot3814
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It's that WALMART ONE! 
Trajan12
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And it's so ANNOYING when I have my sound system's volume mid way up, my computer's volume all the way, and winamp's volume low. Then out of nowhere this loud "Congratulations!" wakes me and the person in the adjacent room.
CCRunner
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It's not all that bad. We make things like caramel apples, rice krispy treats, and popcorn pretty much every day. Plus, it's and easy A (And my only easy A I might add)
Firstlady
Sunlight's Breaking
I hate having to do all of my math stuff online.
It's frustrating beyond belief and I either want to hit the screen or scream by the time it's all over.
It's frustrating beyond belief and I either want to hit the screen or scream by the time it's all over.
Mise
isle of lucy
I used to do it a lot at uni, and then again when I was unemployed after uni. Either via what Abaddon said, or from playing World of Warcraft all night with other nocturnal uni folks (or foreigners).Other people do this?
Seems like it would require some sort of planning, which is hard enough without having to evade the attention of my family, who would just give me funny looks if I told them (and my mum would probably try feeding me soup with Nytol tablets in it).
Skipping a day's sleep is a worthy activity, but not one worth making a timetable for.
It helps if your parents aren't around, I guess.
Doing schoolwork is just about the easiest way to put me to sleep.It's not really that hard, you just have to be doing something important. Like writing a five page essay the day/morning it's due
Getting drunk is the second easiest way to put me to sleep. The staying up til dawn part's alright, but the rest of the day... blech. Lager mouth, stinging eyes, hungry-but-can't-put-anything-down-ness... not nice
azzaman333
meh
In my experience, the classes easiest to get high marks in are the Commerce subjects.
Although, that may just be because my school has an incredible teacher as the head of the Commerce department.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Not so much a random rant but a "WTH???" something that just happened to me 10 minutes ago while I was on the Internet.
So basically this person invites me to a TV show on Sunday, good, I'm happy because I don't have anything to do so I'll be able to come. Then we exchange a lot of text messages on the phone as she wants many details about what I'm going to play, and so on. She asks me once something like 5 questions in a message, and I answer 3 of them, simply because I forgot about the other 2. So she asks me again about those two (which were rather stupid questions, but I've had to deal with a lot stupider and I realize that she couldn't have known the answers, so she was just worried about this), so I answer nice and polite saying "no, there's no need for that because of that and that, and I'm not sure what you mean by that, do you mean "that"? In that case, there's no need for that either, because of that", and I put an "
" at the end.
Then she calls me 10 seconds after I sent it and she says: "I'm so sorry, I always make things so complicated, I'm sorry about that, I'm terrible, sorry to bother you, I didn't want to be annoying to you" and then she almost started crying...
I could hear her... I don't know how to explain, you know when people cry, you can hear them swallowing their saliva harder, and their nose sounds different, etc. And her voice got higher and higher and she continued to apologize and to cry. 
I was completely lost, I had no idea what to say. I was saying stuff like "you didn't bother me, there's no need to be sorry", etc., but that didn't seem to convince her. What the hell? 
My best guess is that she was on a lot of stress because the show is coming up very soon and probably she's still got a million things to solve... but still... that was WEIRD. And I just found out she's not much older than me.
So basically this person invites me to a TV show on Sunday, good, I'm happy because I don't have anything to do so I'll be able to come. Then we exchange a lot of text messages on the phone as she wants many details about what I'm going to play, and so on. She asks me once something like 5 questions in a message, and I answer 3 of them, simply because I forgot about the other 2. So she asks me again about those two (which were rather stupid questions, but I've had to deal with a lot stupider and I realize that she couldn't have known the answers, so she was just worried about this), so I answer nice and polite saying "no, there's no need for that because of that and that, and I'm not sure what you mean by that, do you mean "that"? In that case, there's no need for that either, because of that", and I put an "
" at the end.Then she calls me 10 seconds after I sent it and she says: "I'm so sorry, I always make things so complicated, I'm sorry about that, I'm terrible, sorry to bother you, I didn't want to be annoying to you" and then she almost started crying...
I could hear her... I don't know how to explain, you know when people cry, you can hear them swallowing their saliva harder, and their nose sounds different, etc. And her voice got higher and higher and she continued to apologize and to cry. I was completely lost, I had no idea what to say. I was saying stuff like "you didn't bother me, there's no need to be sorry", etc., but that didn't seem to convince her. What the hell? My best guess is that she was on a lot of stress because the show is coming up very soon and probably she's still got a million things to solve... but still... that was WEIRD. And I just found out she's not much older than me.
Mise
isle of lucy
Is she fit?
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
I have no idea. I haven't seen her in person yet.
Bigfoot3814
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Maybe she doesn't speak to celebrities very often.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Maybe, but I wouldn't know, since I'm not a celebrity in almost any way I can think of. The only celebrity status I get is that I'm often stopped by 60-70 year old women on the street asking me if I'm the guy who plays the guitar that they've seen [...]. Not exactly what one would wish for. 
Bartleby
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She might have been upset that you declined her offer of "that".
salty mud
Deity
Invaluble advice. Follow it, everyone.
Ha! Easy A!? Are you serious? The amount of things we have to learn (here at least) is gargantuan. We do cooking it seems about 30% of the time, with the rest being spent on 'theory.' Yeh... 'Cos that's important if I would like to be a chef. How often do chefs analyze and write reports on the food they make for customers?
Pardon me if I'm displaying extreme ignorance.
You should have ended that sentence there. Then he could afford to buy one on his own.
Bigfoot3814
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In the US, cooking is often part of the ciriculum of what's known as "home economics", and includes other skills like sewing and child care. I don't know if it involves any gourmet stuff.
Gilder
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Not so much a random rant but a "WTH???" something that just happened to me 10 minutes ago while I was on the Internet.
So basically this person invites me to a TV show on Sunday, good, I'm happy because I don't have anything to do so I'll be able to come. Then we exchange a lot of text messages on the phone as she wants many details about what I'm going to play, and so on. She asks me once something like 5 questions in a message, and I answer 3 of them, simply because I forgot about the other 2. So she asks me again about those two (which were rather stupid questions, but I've had to deal with a lot stupider and I realize that she couldn't have known the answers, so she was just worried about this), so I answer nice and polite saying "no, there's no need for that because of that and that, and I'm not sure what you mean by that, do you mean "that"? In that case, there's no need for that either, because of that", and I put an "
Then she calls me 10 seconds after I sent it and she says: "I'm so sorry, I always make things so complicated, I'm sorry about that, I'm terrible, sorry to bother you, I didn't want to be annoying to you" and then she almost started crying...
My best guess is that she was on a lot of stress because the show is coming up very soon and probably she's still got a million things to solve... but still... that was WEIRD. And I just found out she's not much older than me.
Heh, you always seem to have the oddest stories.
salty mud
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The course I took was apparantly purely food preparation. Little did I know so much of the damned thing would involve so much writing.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Heh, you always seem to have the oddest stories.
Yeah, I don't know how it happens.
Maybe I just have an artistic mind that functions like a magnet for those. Maybe!
("that" was not an offer though, it was just a precaution of hers to ask me if I need "that")
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
Anything that makes noise without me asking it to is unforgivable. Some websites do that, and I always write angry emails to the webmaster about it. That's why I was so upset about the mouseover noise ads on this site. I had to turn adblock back on on this site because of it. Simply unforgivable.
Okay, rant.
I don't mind my job. I don't love it, but whatever, I don't mind doing my job. But when my boss would rather do other things, and I have to bill out jobs outside of my department, and hunt down the customers' vehicles that have been hidden away in the back yard, and incessantly apologize about not knowing what I'm doing because it's not my job (although I don't actually say that to the customer, just that my boss is busy and he's the one that usually does these things, I think it comes off better that way)... I get angry. I wouldn't mind doing it if they bothered to explain their convoluted system to me, and made sure that the information needed to do it was available somewhere other than their scattered brains. Simply write these things down, show me where they're written, and you can watch YouTube all damn day and I won't bother you.
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