Random Rants XLIX - IT CHAFES MY ARSE!!!

[GoodSarmatian]

I just caught a major spoiler for a book I'm halfway into (Matter by Iain M. Banks) that makes it kind of pointless to keep reading...

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Sorry for the doublepost, but I just had to scrub the floor after I discovered the origin of a very distinctive smell that had plagued my appartment for an hour and started when I went to the mail box in my slippers.

I've yet to decide whether I'm going to strangle or poison the neighbours' dog. Poisoning is sneakier and I have a better chance of getting away with it, but there's always the risk of collateral damage.
Strangulation would be more precise and satisfying, but I don't think I can do it without being seen.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Did I ever tell you about the guy I know who shot himself in the face by firing point-blank at a steel helmet?

Did he live? If not, then he's a good candidate for a Darwin Award...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah he did. His ear and cheek caught the buckshot but didn't cause serious injury. It took a few hours to dig it all out though.

 

[bhsup]

ARGH!! What the hell? How did some stupid game about stealing cars and stabbing hookers beat Mass Effect?! *sigh* Oh well, at least the Dovahkin will kick its butt for the final round and the championship.

 

[SouthernKing]

Okay, let's get this teenage rant out of the way.

It's barely been two weeks of school, but homecoming season has begun. I don't have, and have never had, plans of actually going, or asking anyone for that matter, but the whole thing just never fails to drill into my head how incredibly socially awkward I feel, all the damned time, even when I'm with friends. This makes me feel even more depressed than I already do. The worst part is that there's a part of my subconscious somewhere that keeps telling me it's my fault.

 

[choxorn]

Okay, let's get this teenage rant out of the way.

It's barely been two weeks of school, but homecoming season has begun. I don't have, and have never had, plans of actually going, or asking anyone for that matter, but the whole thing just never fails to drill into my head how incredibly socially awkward I feel, all the damned time, even when I'm with friends. This makes me feel even more depressed than I already do. The worst part is that there's a part of my subconscious somewhere that keeps telling me it's my fault.

Are you me?

 

[Kennigit]

high school? college/adult life is the time to get angry/depressed!

kids these days, so competitive and getting earlier and earlier starts to everything!

and having those "smart" phones

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Rant: Too much dissing against the younger generation these days.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Okay, let's get this teenage rant out of the way.

It's barely been two weeks of school, but homecoming season has begun. I don't have, and have never had, plans of actually going, or asking anyone for that matter, but the whole thing just never fails to drill into my head how incredibly socially awkward I feel, all the damned time, even when I'm with friends. This makes me feel even more depressed than I already do. The worst part is that there's a part of my subconscious somewhere that keeps telling me it's my fault.

Relax. Be confident in what you know, be comfortable with yourself. I was a late bloomer, myself, but I did things to help build my confidence
-- joined the theater, did sports (poorly at first, lost all but 2 wrestling matches), found friends who were like me, studied hard.

I didn't go to homecoming until my senior year.

FYI: in my junior year, got a wicked nosebleed at the Valentine's Dance and ruined my jacket. BUT I learned how to jitterbug!

Moods are just moods. They will pass.

high school? college/adult life is the time to get angry/depressed!

kids these days, so competitive and getting earlier and earlier starts to everything!

and having those "smart" phones

I had a mobile phone in college -- looked and sounded like a walkie-talkie.

Kids today also have to contend with higher incidences of incurable but treatable illnesses. I know under twenty people Turner's syndrome, Blackfan Diamond and Ehler-Danlos. It's a rough effin' world out there. I do everything I can.

Rant: Too much dissing against the younger generation these days.

Tru Dat.

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[Borachio]

Sorry for the doublepost, but I just had to scrub the floor after I discovered the origin of a very distinctive smell that had plagued my appartment for an hour and started when I went to the mail box in my slippers.

I've yet to decide whether I'm going to strangle or poison the neighbours' dog. Poisoning is sneakier and I have a better chance of getting away with it, but there's always the risk of collateral damage.
Strangulation would be more precise and satisfying, but I don't think I can do it without being seen.

Oh no! You have my sympathy.

But can you really blame the dog? Or perhaps you know that the dog has a grudge against you?

Do responsible owners pick up after their dogs in your neighbourhood? There was a massive campaign here a few years ago. And it has made a big and noticeable difference. Though of course I still come across a little pile from time to time.

In the end though the only real solution is to never wear outside shoes around the house, or indoor ones outside.

Even if there's no noticeable muck on the soles of outside shoes, there must still be some (or a considerable amount) of fecal matter on them.

But even this isn't going to help, I feel. E-coli is practically everywhere.

(If I don't watch out I'm going to develop OCD.)

 

[ReindeerThistle]

^^^Haha.

Love the dog, hate the owner.

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[Farm Boy]

Okay, let's get this teenage rant out of the way.

It's barely been two weeks of school, but homecoming season has begun. I don't have, and have never had, plans of actually going, or asking anyone for that matter, but the whole thing just never fails to drill into my head how incredibly socially awkward I feel, all the damned time, even when I'm with friends. This makes me feel even more depressed than I already do. The worst part is that there's a part of my subconscious somewhere that keeps telling me it's my fault.

I didn't start feeling better about my social skills until I was almost all the way out of high school. At which point I realized I wasn't going to be seeing these same people everyday for the rest of my life. And I really stopped caring what most of them thought. It's one of the cruel ironies of life that not giving a crap about what people think tends to make, at least some, people think better of you. But I hear ya. I'd think you were unusual or lying if you didn't feel this way at least a bunch of the time in HS.

It got way better in college. Fresh start. Totally socially acceptable to geek the hell out on life. Only hard part is remembering that while you can sit down and play games all day, you really will be happier if you do that alongside actually going to class and also making sure you hang the heck out with just the neat freaking people that exist to hang out with at college. You can always play games when you're done, the university social atmosphere is harder to replicate.

 

[Takhisis]

Rant: it's winter, shouldn't be +30ºC here.

So apparently the Scandinavian mountain range actually lacks a name, and there is now a campaign to have the public vote on one. The final seven candidates are:

The Fairytale Mountains
The Troll Mountains
The Jutul Ridge
The Midgard Mountains
The Skandes (The Andes... Skandes, get it?)
The North Ridge
The Viking Mountains



All seemingly pulled out of the publics collective national romantic asses. Lord knows we don't name enough stuff after trolls and vikings for no reason. And there is even a nice name that has been used historically, "Kjølen", meaning "The Keel", which describes their character quite well and is definitely vikingy enough for me and it's not even an option. I just hope this won't actually succeed in having any sort of usage.

But if it does, I hope the Troll Mountains wins, at least then I can pretend it's just a huge trolling of the worlds maps.

I know that the range in the middle of Norway is the Dovrefjel… how would all those sound in Norwegian?

Did I ever tell you about the guy I know who shot himself in the face by firing point-blank at a steel helmet?

Was his name Marvin?

ARGH!! What the hell? How did some stupid game about stealing cars and stabbing hookers beat Mass Effect?!

By being better? Duh.

*sigh* Oh well, at least the Dovahkin will kick its butt for the final round and the championship.

Another prediction of yours?

Okay, let's get this teenage rant out of the way.

It's barely been two weeks of school, but homecoming season has begun. I don't have, and have never had, plans of actually going, or asking anyone for that matter, but the whole thing just never fails to drill into my head how incredibly socially awkward I feel, all the damned time, even when I'm with friends. This makes me feel even more depressed than I already do. The worst part is that there's a part of my subconscious somewhere that keeps telling me it's my fault.

I know that Amerika is wunderbar, but what's homecoming? I'm missing something here.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Rant: it's winter, shouldn't be +30ºC here.

Dude, what is spring gonna be like? 42°C? Welcome to global warming southern hemisphere.

I know that Amerika is wunderbar, but what's homecoming? I'm missing something here.

It is originally for college, when the alumni come back to school to write big fat endowment checks.

They celebrate it in high school with two shy peoples' worst nightmares: American Football and a dance.

The US is wunderbar, yes, but mercilessly so.


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[trader/warrior]

I know that the range in the middle of Norway is the Dovrefjel… how would all those sound in Norwegian?

Dovre is an awesome name. Enig og tro til Dovre faller!

However it refers to the mountains approxiamtely between Oslo and Trondheim, and so applying it to them all would be a bit weird and beat out other ranges like Hardanger, Jotunheimen and Rondane.

Kjølen.

 

[Takhisis]

Dude, what is spring gonna be like? 42°C? Welcome to global warming southern hemisphere.

No, it'll just end up in a few storms

It is originally for college, when the alumni come back to school to write big fat endowment checks.

They celebrate it in high school with two shy peoples' worst nightmares: American Football and a dance.

The US is wunderbar, yes, but mercilessly so.

Dovre is an awesome name. Enig og tro til Dovre faller!

However it refers to the mountains approxiamtely between Oslo and Trondheim, and so applying it to them all would be a bit weird and beat out other ranges like Hardanger, Jotunheimen and Rondane.

Kjølen.

I already know what the Dovrefjell is, but how would all those seven options of yours read in Norwegian?

The Fairytale Mountains
The Troll Mountains
The Jutul Ridge
The Midgard Mountains
The Skandes (The Andes... Skandes, get it?)
The North Ridge
The Viking Mountains

(please specify if it's Nynorsk or Bokmål)

IMHO Fairytale Mountains sounds too MLP-like, Troll Mountains might do (Trolljeggeren is a brilliant piece of Nordic documentary films ), Jutul, maybe, Midgard, not quite, Skandes, erm, that might be interpreted as Norway having anything to do with Sweden, North Ridge would imply the supremacy of the Northmen (good!), and Viking Mountains… well, going a-viking was a maritime activity mostly, but, still…

 

[trader/warrior]

I already know what the Dovrefjell is, but how would all those seven options of yours read in Norwegian?

(please specify if it's Nynorsk or Bokmål)

IMHO Fairytale Mountains sounds too MLP-like, Troll Mountains might do (Trolljeggeren is a brilliant piece of Nordic documentary films ), Jutul, maybe, Midgard, not quite, Skandes, erm, that might be interpreted as Norway having anything to do with Sweden, North Ridge would imply the supremacy of the Northmen (good!), and Viking Mountains… well, going a-viking was a maritime activity mostly, but, still…

Ah, sorry. That would be

Eventyrfjella
Trollfjella
Jutulryggen
Midgardsfjella
Skandesfjella
Nordryggen
Vikingfjella

"fjella" could be changed to "fjellene" in Bokmål, but "fjella" works in both Bokmål and Nynorsk.

IMO only Jutulryggen and Nordryggen even sound remotely nice.

 

[Takhisis]

Trollfjellenne or Jutulryggen, hands down.

You could ask the Swedes and Danes to chip in, or ask the Icelanders (with their more old-fashioned spelling) to contribute a few epic-sounding names.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Today was one of those days where my self-loathing reaches one of its peaks.

Because I think I managed to unintentionally creep out a girl, a former co-worker, when she was walking past the bus stop just as my bus stopped to let me off, and I waved at her out of excited nostalgia through the window, completely forgetting the windows were tinted enough to prevent her from recognizing me.

Of course, she waved back, but I saw the confusion on her face, but didn't realize that until I got home. She waved back again after recognizing my voice when I was talking to the driver, but I still feel bad about it, 'cuz I can't help but feel like I seriously creeped her out.

Of course, being me, I unintentionally creep women out anyway by second nature no matter how hard I try not to. :suicide: