Random Rants XLII: The Four-Part Plan

[Tee Kay]

Ketchup? Oh man, since when did it stop being tomato sauce mate?

I grew up in Thailand; we say ketchup.

 

[JohannaK]

Mein Gott. My sister is in an exchange program with students from south Netherlands. About a month ago came the Dutch student, and she had never eaten an omelette in her life before!

EDIT: TK: Just out of curiosity, when did you move to Aussieland?

 

[Borachio]

OK. OK. I speak from a position of total ignorance and prejudice. And why not?

Are you serious?

Yes. Why not? A bit of blind prejudice about a subject as trivial as food (provided you have enough of it and it is nutritious) can be fun.

So. Maybe no. Not serious.

 

[GenMarshall]

EDIT: I'M SURROUNDED BY KETCHUP-LOVERS! KETCHUP EVERYWHERE!!!

 

[JohannaK]

Never. I once accidentally put food with ketchup in my mouth and there was nausea. Never.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I grew up in Thailand; we say ketchup.

Nice save

 

[The_J]

Do you think the exact word "date" is necessary? Do more casual/laid back terms like "hang out" and "do something" "get together" not work or carry the same weight? Its just that the word date seems so heavy and stigma filled, and isn't really part of my lexicon. I don't want it to come off as being too forced or whatever, and possibly jeopardize things.

Guess Owen didn't see it.
But:

Ask yourself why "friend zoned" is something which you actually talk about in the net.

 

[Peck of Arabia]

Ketchup? I can take it or leave it- depends on how much I want to mask the food I'm eating, I guess.


Rant: I've missed my opportunity to have a morning stroll, I guess I could have an afternoon saunter instead, but it just doesn't sound as good

Related rant: When did society become so vulgar as to associate the term "Morning constitutional" with bowel movements first and invigorating morning walks second?

 

[sophie]

Guess Owen didn't see it.
But:

Ask yourself why "friend zoned" is something which you actually talk about in the net.

Oh I saw it. I took him up on his suggestion and took it to PM. But yes. This, more or less.

 

[GenMarshall]

Being "friend zoned" is something that I don't want to have happen to me, should the day come when and if I'm dating.

I know its been taken to the PM, but I wonder what an unemployed person should do if they are dating and are in a position to pay. I know unemployed people should hold off dating, but sometimes the need for romantic contact just pops up .

 

[Tee Kay]

I'd very much prefer to be friendzoned rather than be treated as if I don't exist, as happening to me now.

 

[JohannaK]

Feeling invisible is certainly the most undesirable of situations. Perhaps go and talk to your friends, grow closer to them, I don't know I've been a loner for most of my life. And I didn't like it.

 

[GenMarshall]

Feeling invisible is certainly the most undesirable of situations. Perhaps go and talk to your friends, grow closer to them, I don't know I've been a loner for most of my life. And I didn't like it.

I don't know how much I would agree with this. Especially on growing closer. I've just finished the chapter on making connection in Sean's book Get off your BUT and he even stressed making a connection to people and friends.

Don't say "But they would just ignore me", you won't know if you don't try TK . Trust me TK, I felt the same way you do, feeling as I don't exist. I'd like to give you a challenge for the day, talk to people that you see, make small talk with cashiers and clerks. Ask how their day is going. Don't feel that you're alone on this since I intend to do the same thing today .

 

[JohannaK]

It was something notable. I spent all the time alone in a corner of the playground, thinking things and imagining to pass time. And then one year I met some other kids who were a bit like me, and then when I moved onto the next stage of schooling I met the people who are now my friends.

But its terrible. Spend an hour and a half or maybe even two sitting on a bank doing absolutely nothing, or wander around the playground alone, watching the horde of children play and have fun... I don't think I'll ever forget, though I'm conscious that it is more present in my memory than it actually was.

Although actually I had the very same phase with my friends when, because reasons, I stopped having lunch at school. And I'd end being alone for the half an hour I had when I came back. And then I moved to another high school, and I met other people, and with distance I managed to regain contact with some of my old friends. I wonder how could it be, but it was.

 

[JohannaK]

Sorry for
a) double post and
b) insistence,
but now its public and official that I have failed one of the subjects, and I feel (to quote CivGeneral) like I am a waste of human resources. I just knew it, and I saw it coming, I saw it so clearly. I could glimpse the cliff at the end of the slope, and I just did nothing to stop my fall, actually I just climbed a bit to even get more impulse in the fall.

And I see this coming in at least another subject, perhaps even two or three. I see it, I can see the next fall ahead of me in the river, and I see a couple more, and I see that I'm gonna fall through a couple of them.

 

[GenMarshall]

What subjects were they in? Are you able to take the courses again?

I remember I was devastated when I failed my management and algebra classes, but looking back I had a really tough and rough professor. One day, I decided to take the course again, but with a different professor. Long story short, it was much easier, I can relate with the professor better, and actually passing the class. Though algebra was tougher since I haven't used it in a long time and failed it. Though I had to go through a road bump to take it again since the registrar were afraid that I'd fail it again.

 

[JohannaK]

It's maths. The teachers are all terrible except for one who only gave us a couple classes. BOOM. But the thing is that I didn't work enough. I barely worked at all, I didn't do anything, tho I knew I had to.

 

[madviking]

Fried Eggs are delicious. You probably just only have experience with overcooked fried eggs, or the yolk broke while frying, both of which are awful. The trick is getting the right pairing dish to sop up the yolk, like a nice piece of multi-grain toast with butter or a good breakfast sausage.

Oh god now I'm just making myself really hungry for fried eggs.

Naw man. Best breakfast (aside from eggs over easy with toast and bacon/sausage, or a breakfast burrito) is Eggs in a basket (also called eggs in a hole). When you butter the bread before hand and throw some diced tomato, onions, and cheese on top, oh lawd orgasm in your mouth.

Also don't diss the white bread. It may be bland but in my opinion it makes for the best untoasted PB&Js and it's also necessary for the incomparable Grilled Cheese.

Finally sourdough bread is best bread. Mmm...sourdough.

Seriously. Tomato is like, the greatest fregetable ever. Also you're going to learn to love onion when you start living on your own. It's just way too cheap and versatile as a cooking ingredient not to love.

We are gonna get a flat and we are going to live together and you are going to cook for me.

 

[JohannaK]

Also add, I know that most probably many more people in the class have failed. But I also know that I could have passed. That's why I'm a waste. My potential it's there, but it won't show up.

 

[azzaman333]

Also add, I know that most probably many more people in the class have failed. But I also know that I could have passed. That's why I'm a waste. My potential it's there, but it won't show up.

Don't dwell on your mistakes. Learn from them so you hopefully find a way to avoid making them again.