Random Rants

[RoboPig]

people who call soccer football!

or english people who make fun of people who call soccer soccer, even though the word originated in england

it is called football. soccer is so american.....

god, today i tried getting my dog to come in but he sat there and ate snow! i wis he was more obeidient

 

[blackheart]

i hate it when people say they'll call you right back but then never do or call back 298572983928358932 hours later

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

You rather defeated your own rant there, didn't you?

11 people of about 750 people care about me. That is nowhere near defeating my own rant.

Also about my flu; now I can't hear properly out of my left ear. I have a history of ear infections, so i'm scared.

Maths test; I botched it but i passed.

And FLIES! I HATE these fetchers.... My mouth is not a piece of rotting meat, you stupid insects. I really hate flies.....

 

[JohnRM]

I hate it when people complain about trivial things such as insects, not getting phone calls, and disobediant dogs while there are people on this Earth with real problems, such as fatal illnesses, abusive parents, or the United States bombing them back into the stoneage.

 

[Babbler]

Why people like the follow: Star Trek, Degrassi, The OC, Coronation Street, Medium, etc? It is the same boring junk; repeated over and over, weak after weak. Within 5 minutes of the intro, you can predict the ending. The characters are not 1-D -- they are 0-D, like mathematical points. True, there are other shows like those, but these spring in my mind first.

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Also, did any one catch the latest CSI: Miami? It was about a bunch of gamers decided to play out the game in real life, to the T. Included was a head gamer who play 80 hours straight and died, the female gamer who just wants to be accepted and the evil game developers -- who set up the whole affair to generate more sales. I bet the deleted scenes included a "Thomas Jackson", a tireless prusier trying to bring to justice the vile creatures to the fullest extent of his law firm; and how video games also promote gay love, evolution and terrorism.

Best line: "Hey! I ain't no gamer!"

I hate to find if the CSI teams take on people enjoying world domination simulations and acting upon it...

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Speaking of Medium, during a book fair at my college, I was browsing around when I encounter this real gem. We Are Eternal: What the Spirits Tell Me About Life After Death written Robert Brown, a "medium's medium" who "read" for such luminaries as John Edwards (of Crossing Over fame), the late Princess Diana, and members of the Royal Family of India.

Here a review, with this wonderfully hilariously section (unintentional, I hope):

Institutional religions are not the only naysayers. Psychic phenomenon are likewise rejected by the two dominant intellectualisms of the Western Grain, scientific method and the rationalist view of truth founded on the principle of methodical doubt.

Let's take the first. Certainly psychic phenomenon are "unscientific", based on the term's self-definition. But in the unsolved mystery department the sciences have plenty of skeletons in their own closet. Cosmologists haven't a clue what makes up the 75 percent of the universe called "dark energy," and are still pretty clueless about an additional 20 percent called "dark matter" (though they are confident they will one day quantify it). Yes, those numbers are correct: All the ordinary matter -- electrons, neutrons, protons, and so on -- that comprise our bodies, the earth, the stars, and the entire universe totals to less than five percent of all that is there. Anthropologists tell us all about the survival of the fittest, but go silent on the issue of why it exists and for what reason it was put here. Physics? What keeps electrons in atoms flying around at specific distances from the nuclei of atoms? It isn't gravity, because their infinitesimal mass would fly off in all directions at the velocities at which they orbit. The answer is: light. The constant exchange of light between the electron and its nucleus keeps the electron bound in its orbit. Give it enough extra energy from outside, e.g. heat, and it bounces up to a higher orbit and ejects a ray of light that is so characteristic in its properties that we have the word "spectrum" to define its energy state. Our eyes interpret this as red-hot versus white-hot.

Going this one further, cosmologists have learned a lot about the properties of the universe but still can't say why it was made in such a way as to proceed from its original state of infinite density to a state of utter nothingness. Physicists have very clear ideas about the various laws that govern the behavior of matter, but haven't a clue why these laws came into being or for what reason. Hence it is arbitrary to single out psychics and mediums and say they're nothing but speculative dreamers or overly gullible.

Your logic is bulletproof, Spock.

 

[silver 2039]

11 people of about 750 people care about me. That is nowhere near defeating my own rant.

Yeah so? Do you honestly expect anyone expect friends or family to give a damn about you? I don't.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

Yeah so? Do you honestly expect anyone expect friends or family to give a damn about you? I don't.

Thats just me, my girlfriend and my family.

I don't care if you don't give a damn about me; But I do expect people who know me to care about me if something bad happens to me. I don't expect them to laugh their fricken face off at me for just being who i am.

 

[silver 2039]

Thats just me, my girlfriend and my family.

I don't care if you don't give a damn about me; But I do expect people who know me to care about me if something bad happens to me. I don't expect them to laugh their fricken face off at me for just being who i am.

Why do you expect that? Its a stupid thing to expect. People are naturally self-centered and sadistic (I am at least) and they enjoy other people's suffering. So there are very few people I expect to care about me proably only 3 or so people. Unless your aquaintances are unusally emphtaic don't be expecting any sympathy from them.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

1. Why are asteroids always 'potato shaped'?

2. Why is everything either the size of Rhode Island or the size of a football field?

 

[Grisu]

1. Why are asteroids always 'potato shaped'?

2. Why is everything either the size of Rhode Island or the size of a football field?

don't forget Texas, many things are the size of Texas. Like the potato shaped asteroid in Armageddon, or was it Deep Impact, or both?

 

[classical_hero]

Oh mock me would you! j/k But im genuinely bigboned so noone say any diffferent lalalalaalalalahaahahH what did you say? I can't hear you.

You sound like Eric Cartman.

 

[silver 2039]

1. Why are asteroids always 'potato shaped'?

2. Why is everything either the size of Rhode Island or the size of a football field?

Because Americans say they are.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

don't forget Texas, many things are the size of Texas. Like the potato shaped asteroid in Armageddon, or was it Deep Impact, or both?

Yeah youre right, there are three classes of objects: Texas sized, Rhode Island sized, and football field sized.

Because Americans say they are.

One of the fringe benefits of empire is being able to decide how big things are

 

[silver 2039]

Yeah youre right, there are three classes of objects: Texas sized, Rhode Island sized, and football field sized.

Obiviously who uses those classifications? Americans. There's your answer.

 

[classical_hero]

And FLIES! I HATE these fetchers.... My mouth is not a piece of rotting meat, you stupid insects. I really hate flies.....

Yes. Flies are one of the most annoying animals ever. Most people do not realise what trouble they in Australia.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Obiviously who uses those classifications? Americans. There's your answer.

I know but saying things are Punjab sized, Bangalore sized, and cricketfield sized, just wouldnt catch on I think

 

[silver 2039]

I know but saying things are Punjab sized, Bangalore sized, and cricketfield sized, just wouldnt catch on I think

Yeah but I don't think many people outside of Americans classify things in those cateogories.

 

[classical_hero]

I hate it when a nations calls a sport football when they hardly use their feet. I mean, come on. Use your feet and then you can call it football, not when you basically use your hand.

Also, I hate is when men wear so much padding that they look like they are scarded of being hit. Real men do not need to wear that sort of padding. Watch a game of RU, RL or AFL and you will see what real men are like.

I hate it when a Nation wins one Cricket series and then they proclam themselves as being the best in the world. Wake up and smell the coffee, because you need to wake up from this dream and face the reality that one series does not make a great team.

That is all I can think of about my rants about sport.

 

[classical_hero]

Yeah youre right, there are three classes of objects: Texas sized, Rhode Island sized, and football field sized.

Well one could say that they are referring to a proper football field.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Real men dont run around a field in shorts, with knee high socks and long hair