RANDOM RANTS XXX: age-restricted

[_random_]

This scientifically-illiterate sentence was part of a comment that had 36 thumbs up.

Oh dear god...
And speaking of comments that piss me off:

"America is not, and never will be at war with Islam." Way to ruin the moment. I can't listen to any more of that.

 

[Kennigit]

Just bee happy the bee died after stinging you.

I don't have his body

 

[NovaKart]

New situation at work. The main office sent me to Mardin in the southeast of Turkey. I had to travel from Erzurum to Mardin on the bus for about 10 hours overnight. I got some sleep but not much. It took forever because part of the way the roads are terrible, barely paved in parts, like they were paved in the 90s maybe or earlier.

Then when I finally arrived in Mardin the bus just let me off on the side of the road, apparently there's no bus station here. It was raining too, I got in a taxi with all my stuff and fortunately the manager was up already and we were able to meet easily, it's a tiny town.

The weird thing is I am the only person in the entire office who speaks any English other than things like "What's your name", I spend the whole day speaking Turkish, which I really speak rather poorly. Lots of times they don't even speak Turkish, most people here speak Kurmanji (a Kurdish dialect) and Arabic. They usually speak Turkish at the office though, but for some people their pronunciation of Turkish sounds like Arabic and I think they're speaking Arabic for a minute.

Anyway, most of the city looks like this

It's pretty interesting looking but as you can imagine, easy to get lost in. I'm in the more modern part of the city though, which is really tiny, these photos are from the city center but the whole place is small. It's not that developed either, the electricity was out this morning. The internet goes in and out all the time. While I was walking around I saw sheep brains yesterday outside of a store.

Anyway it's not so much a rant yet but just a really odd situation.

 

[classical_hero]

Why am I getting killed so early in many mafia games? This is getting frustrating.

 

[Zack]

Me too!!

 

[W|M]

I never get killed in Mafia due to never playing it!

 

[SuperJay]

Anyway it's not so much a rant yet but just a really odd situation.

Sounds... interesting? Post more pics of the city and the surroundings somewhere!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I hate it when reviewers make stupid mistakes that reveal they didn't read the album credits.

 

[Takhisis]

I guess someone was never taught the birds and the BEEEEESSSS

edit: actually, after googling for a tiny bit, it appears the bee stinger was quite normal sized.

So it's the bee's knees then?

Just bee happy the bee died after stinging you.

That's puntastic!

Egad! The puns!!!

Don't worry, bee happy.

 

[PeteAtoms]

Got another presentation for business class I have to do today. Perfect opportunity to make a fool of myself again.

Some people tend to overuse smilies or commas. I'm noticing that I tend to overuse the ellipsis...

 

[SuperJay]

Some people tend to overuse smilies or commas. I'm noticing that I tend to overuse the ellipsis...

I overuse dashes to separate clauses within a sentence - like this - and am guilty of overdoing the semicolons too; it can be hard to resist.

The ellipsis is my pet-peeve. Especially people that END sentences with one, it creates this vague lack of resolution and you're wondering "and? AND??" When people do that in chat or texts, it makes them look needy IMO - like they're basically begging for a response. Ridiculous.

 

[Gamemaster77]

I am beyond pissed right now. I got a detention for listening to music in my study hall. I wasn't even doing anything else wrong. I had a lot of work to do and music helps me concentrate, so I just took it out for the period. Well, apparently the teacher saw it and took it away for the day, leaving me with the detention. The worst part about it is that I've never gotten a detention either. I only have one last ditched hope of getting the vice-principal to get rid of it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'm searching for articles and I keep getting boring stuff on Reagan.

 

[SuperJay]

I only have one last ditched hope of getting the vice-principal to get rid of it.

1. It's against the rules to listen to headphones (?) in study hall??

2. Is having a single detention a real big deal? Goes on your record or something?

3. The expression is "Last-ditch" (no "ed"), btw. No snark intended, just trying to help.

 

[Gamemaster77]

1. It's against the rules to listen to headphones (?) in study hall??

2. Is having a single detention a real big deal? Goes on your record or something?

3. The expression is "Last-ditch" (no "ed"), btw. No snark intended, just trying to help.

1. Yes it is, although barely any teacher enforces the rule, its basically at the teachers discretion.

2. Im not sure about it being on record or anything but my mom will probably freak.

3. Thanks

 

[SuperJay]

That's pretty lame that you can't listen to music in STUDY HALL. I can understand if it was a big distraction or people were just slacking off, but if you're studying, who cares if you've got Journey's Greatest Hits keeping you company??

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

My post in the science questions thread was at the bottom of the goddamn page yet again and was ignored.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

My post in the science questions thread was at the bottom of the goddamn page yet again and was ignored.

Perhaps it was ignored cos nobody here knows the answer?

 

[_random_]

So yesterday, we went to Big Boy for lunch, where the breakfast buffet lasted until 2:00. Perceiving "all you can eat" to be a challenge, I proceeded to pour low quality bacon, sausage, and chicken down my gullet. I'm typing this rant from the toilet.

 

[Ajidica]

Well, there is a reason gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins... It wasn't just for spiritual reasons it is a sin.