Random Rants XIX: Failure Tactics

[SS-18 ICBM]

Have to dole out money for textbooks. Again...

 

[Harvin87]

yesterday pucked 5 times... couldn't slept ... still destroyed ..

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Have to dole out money for textbooks. Again...

No kidding. The college bookstore was closed over the break, so I couldnt get the ISBN's for my textbooks and order them online. Now I have to buy them at the bookstore at their horribly inflated prices (The books cost 120$ new, they sell them for 115$ used) since I need them by the end of this week. The only consolation is that they offer a decent price for them when you sell them back (up to like 60% of the original cost) unless they get a new edition in.

 

[choxorn]

Crazy chain of coincidences. SIX events happened over the course of 7 days... and if ANY of those hadn't happened, or had simply happened at a different freaking time, everything would be alright now. I can't believe it. Ten wasted days!! Ten damned wasted days!! And yesterday I had the chance to make it all good, and I unknowingly passed it up! If only I would have taken a damn taxi and went out to the center of my city at 2 AM, like someone asked me to, it would have been all good now. Unbelievable. My mere presence would have fixed it all. And I almost did it! It just made more sense at the time not to do it, I couldn't have possibly known what it would lead to... I have myself to blame for the first event... and the fact that I could have done something to prevent the last one from happening (although I had absolutely no way of knowing) makes it all so terribly worse! Six unrelated events that caused all this...... I am so disappointed about so many things and so many people.

The Random Rant-God demandeth you be more specific.

Anyway, as to rant: I feel sick.

 

[civ_king]

That's nothing I once slept from 6 pm till 6 pm. Yeah thats right.

once I slept 12AM-3PM, yeah 39 hours! course that was after 50 hour civathon

 

[choxorn]

Did you know you'd slept for two days, or think you'd only slept for 13 hours?

 

[nonconformist]

and the sign said "long haired freaky people need not apply"

 

[Rashiminos]

The christmas skin of this forum is an eyesore, thanks to having not been logged in at the time of its viewing. ARRGGGHHHH.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

I bet they painted it red with all the bleeding from various posters' eyes.

 

[West 36]

60 days no license, 6 months probation (at least), $2500. This year is gonna be awesome.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

once I slept 12AM-3PM, yeah 39 hours! course that was after 50 hour civathon

I stayed up for 5 days straight in junior year of HS working on a project. After that, I still had class for a week. Come last day of finals (thursday) I went home at about 1pm, fell asleep at 2 and didnt wake up till saturday evening. Im pretty sure I got up to go to the bathroom but I wasnt even close to conscious.

Ended up staying up for 2 days after that, and sleeping for another 17 hours. Ah to be that stupid again.

Oh yes, that project I was working on? I got it done at 7:35 am Monday, with it being due at 7:50 am.

Now, on topic:

My physics textbook that I bought for last quarter cost me 70$, with the average price then being something like 65$. The average price now is 15$

 

[Love]

I will today rant on the freaking -30ºC.

 

[Sashie VII]

My heart is breaking. And I'm torn. It's hard to want both.

 

[Harvin87]

My heart is breaking. And I'm torn. It's hard to want both.

pick one

 

[CheeseWalrus]

Frigging sporcle... I am trying to create an account and apparently their "human check" is broken. It shows, for example, "9+3=", I type in 12, and it says "human check failed. please try again."
gaaaaahhhhhhh...

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I burned my damn bacon!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

My heart is breaking. And I'm torn. It's hard to want both.

Find out if they like threesomes. If they do, then you win big. If they don't and get all offended, then you've lost them both and your problem is solved anyway.

 

[cardgame]

My Queen Greatest Hits CD apparently never existed. Although I can find the album cover pic, I can't find a digital version with the songs in the same order!
Copyright is 1992, oldest song, '84
Songs are, in order;

1. We Will Rock You
2. We Are The Champions
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Killer Queen
5. Somebody To Love
6. Fat Bottomed Girls
7. Bicycle Race
8. You're My Best Friend
9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10. Now I'm Here
11. Play The Game
12. Seven Seas Of Rhye
13. Body Language
14. Save Me
15. Don't Stop Me Now
16. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
17. I Want To Break Free

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Why is my mother trying to make me drink diet soda? It's even worse for you than regular soda. Aspartame contains methanol, which dissolves into formaldehyde in the body. It also causes fatigue and an increased appetite, defeating the purpose of the loss of calories eaten. Diet soda is also packed with more sodium than regular soda, which causes thirst. When you eat food with an excess amount of soy sauce, you feel very thirsty because of the sodium.

I'm watchful of my diet. I eat well, I get all my food groups, and I drink one soda a day for most days. I'm at a healthy weight. Hell, diet soda has made me gain weight, not lose it. It even made me go farther up in BMI in a year than I have in four.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Perhaps you should point this out to your mother?