Random Rants

[The Yankee]

Bleh...don't have enough money to join the trip to New Orleans to do some real hard cleanup work. Don't have the money to take a course in the summer that I'll need to take. My father might need surgery on his lower spine, meaning I'll have to take care of him even more in between the coursework and everything else, but I don't have control over the budget.

Frustrating...

 

[bhsup]

Phone call I received moments ago. Given I touched on this recently in one of Ram's threads and already had it on my mind, it just really sets me off. Unfortunately, I'm just too nice and didn't bite my brother's head off for it.

(it's all paraphrased, but pretty accurate)
Brother: Hey, I'm trying to run this phone sync software for my Palm Pilot and it seems to be taking a long time.

Me: I've never had a Palm Pilot and never run any of its software. I don't know anything about them.

Brother: But it's not about the Palm itself, it's about the software for it on the computer, so you should have an idea what's going on with it. It's really taking a long time.

Me: Can you still use the computer for other stuff just fine? Is your internet working? Can you move your mouse? Is anything frozen or slow?

Brother: No

Me: Then I'd say it's definitely just the Palm software, but whether it's normal to take a long time to run or not, I've no idea. I don't have one, remember?

Brother: Yeah, but what should I do? If I stop it, but it was doing fine and just naturally taking a long time, I might screw something up.

Me: Yeah, you might.

Brother: So what should I do?

Me: I'd either just let it keep running or call Palm tech support and ask them about it.

Brother: But then I'll have to wait online forever. You sure you don't know what's going on with it?

Me: Positive, sorry.

Brother: <muttered something I didn't quite catch>. Okay, thanks anyway.

 

[mitsho]

Well, if that's your biggest problem ... But I agree, if I learned something in the past weeks, is that ranting really is human, and we can't do without it ....

My rant or better big big big big problem is the Swiss Army... (They want me to continue my service, do the sub-officer, more exactly become Sergeant. I absolutely do not want it, since I would lose another year. But the constitution says they can make me do it... Now, well, I got the next few weeks to let them throw me out, ... somehow I only must be bad enough,....

mitsho

 

[Abaddon]

I have a crappy essay to right.. known ive had it for months.. it was due friday... 3500 words on "Fish and fisheries production and consumption patterns in the Tropics" what a load of balloany!

 

[Snow]

I have to write a memoir for 11th grade english. I hate these damn assignments. I've been writing memoirs since 4th grade, it's getting freakin redundant. When will I ever need to write a personal memoir as an adult, can somone answer me this? Why can't I write an essay of a book or some type of analytical piece? I'd be practicing a skill I will actually need in college and in a career. What's my teachers reply to this? "The state requires it." Well if that's the case then state requirments are crap!

 

[Abaddon]

Thought it would be interesting to see who rants the most

The Top Ranters:

Who Posted?

Total Posts: 285

silver 2039 18
Bozo Erectus 15
Perfection 14
The Yankee 12
Ultima Dragoon 11
Sophie 378 9
IglooDude 9
Turner 9
nonconformist 9
thetrooper 7
trada 7
VRWCAgent 7
The Last Conformist 7
Atlas14 6
CurtSibling 6

 

[BCLG100]

Thought it would be interesting to see who rants the most

The Top Ranters:

go post that in your dossing off thread

 

[bhsup]

The Top Ranters:

VRWCAgent 7

That seemed high, so I went through the thread and checked. You're absolutely right.

• One rant about the Aztecs in Civ IV and how I always seem to be placed near them.
• One rant about barber shops being closed on Mondays.
• Two rants about people who don't shovel their sidewalks after a snow fall.
• One rant about obscene dancing at high schools.
• One rant about European Starlings and English House Sparrows.
• One rant about family who call and assume I know everything about all things electronic just because I'm comfortable about computers.

All in all, they are all very minor things to rant about, and it reminds me how thankful I need to be everyday about my life.

 

[Abaddon]

go post that in your dossing off thread

will do

 

[Raisin Bran]

Did anyone here rant about ranting?

off topic but I had to ask!

 

[Phlegmak]

I'm so glad someone bumped this ancient thread. I could go on forever. Let me start by talking about New Jerseyans.

1. SHUT UP. No one loves your goddamned voice. You don't have to talk and talk and talk... and talk and talk and talk...and talk some more. No one wants to hear it. Your voice isn't beautiful.

2. Stop interrupting other people while they're talking. See #1.

3. EAT WITH YOUR MOUTH CLOSED. LEARN TO EAT WITH YOUR GODDAMNED MOUTH CLOSED. And for Satan's sake, don't stick your goddamned tongue entirely out of your mouth before putting food in your mouth.

4. Learn to drive like people who aren't raging morons. It's not important to weave in and out of traffic so you can get ahead by 3 meters. By the way, why aren't the cops giving tickets to the morons weaving in and out of traffic? Based on the number of lazily driving cops I see everyday in Middletown, there are plenty of them to catch idiot drivers.

5. Learn to pronounce the "a" in "call" correctly. Learn to pronounce the letter "r" correctly.

6. See #1 through #5.

That's all I have for now. I'm sure I'll think of something else later.

 

[Bluemofia]

I am annoyed at the stupid spammers of Civ III C&C.

So far, there are 2 notable spammers there that I am pissed at, pissed enough to put on my ignore list. (others piss me off, but post somethings useful, so I can't ignore them.) They just simply post "this is a good unit." or "good job on your unit". It doesn't help at all that Civ III C&C isn't exactly a high profile place for moderators to mod, so the spam goes unnoticed for a while before it is actually deleted.

Ah... If Civ IV had much more intensive computer requirements... Then Civ III would probably be more full, and be moderated better.

 

[downtown]

I have to take 3 final exams in two days, starting at 8:30 AM tomorrow....and turn in another paper, which might include citations from books I not only do not own, but apparently no longer exsist in all of Washington DC. (and that includes the library of freaking congress).

Crap.

 

[The Yankee]

I hear you on that. Two finals on Tuesday, Russian final on Wednesday, plus one for my online course due Wednesday. And I have to finish up my news journals for one class and write a paper on the assigned book and have it done by Thursday or Friday.

Why am I here at this moment, then? I take many mini-breaks...especially when I get little writer's block.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

K, so, this one is completely ridiculous. My lit teacher got pissed off at the class for not doing a homework assignment over the weekend ( 4 nights ) and assigned a hundred page essay on the differences and similarities of the Zefferelli and Fox versions of Romeo And Juliet. It has to be single spaced, 11 point font, 100 full pages ( not even paragraph spacing ), and it has to be electronically submitter tomorrow, before 7:30. And the worst part, is that about half of the class hasnt even seen the Zefferelli version of the movie. 100 page essay, im gonna fuggin murder the teacher.

The worst part is that i have a math final tomorrow, a bio final, and i have two other projects due! And they will all kill my grade if i dont turn them in.

 

[bhsup]

Guess you should have done that assignment over the weekend. Btw, was Zefferelli the 1969 movie adaptation?

Oh, and I have another rant as well. Adults who have no tolerance for the presence of children! if any of you here are like that, I have a word of advice. YOU should be the one to stay in your own home and only venture out when there is no chance you will run into a child at all. Don't go venting your dislike of youngsters to me because I really don't want to hear any such hateful bile.

 

[Urederra]

K, so, this one is completely ridiculous. My lit teacher got pissed off at the class for not doing a homework assignment over the weekend ( 4 nights ) and assigned a hundred page essay on the differences and similarities of the Zefferelli and Fox versions of Romeo And Juliet. It has to be single spaced, 11 point font, 100 full pages ( not even paragraph spacing ), and it has to be electronically submitter tomorrow, before 7:30. And the worst part, is that about half of the class hasnt even seen the Zefferelli version of the movie. 100 page essay, im gonna fuggin murder the teacher.

Don't do the assignment. and bring an iPod to class, then discuss with her saying that you are sorry for not finishing your homework on time but the punishment she/he assigned is out of proportion, and record the discussion in your iPod.

Then, post it over the internet and bring the attention of the world press, like the teacher who got suspended because he compared Bush with Hitler.

Anyway, my rant is that I hate don't like people who take the elevator to go one or two floors up. The stairs are just in front of the elevators and sometimes they have to wait for a minute to take the elevator, it is just plain laziness.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Where to start where to start

ok so this girl i was 'talking to' was for sure into me, and then she gets promoted to be my new manager. basically, she 'hints' at the fact that she doesnt want to be with me anymore, well, technically we were never together in the first place, but beside the point, now she doesnt want to really do anything with me. But, we had already planned this one trip to the National Mall, since she'd never been. AT the time we go, i dont know yet that shes not interested anymore, so im absolutely syked about this, because i knew shed been sitting on the fence about me and this other guy, not to metion her ex who shed been dating for three years, who is also my friend. NOw, i thought they were over, otherwiseid have never tried in the first place. anyways, after the DC trip, my friend (the ex, with who she is still very close, as they had talked about marriage before, and hand really stepped away from it, despite the fact theyd broken up like 3 months before) that she os not only not interested in me, and supposedly never was (yea sure) but she has a freakin boyfriend, and it happens to be this guy who as far as i knew she was sitting on the fence about (the guy i mentioned earlier)!
SO i see her at work that weekend, and she acts like nothing at all has happenned, and is still hanging off of my arm, rubbing my back, etc etc, and im absolutely crushed, because i had been totally caught by this girl for like 3 months, having never said anything because i thought she was still dating me friend the ex, and i am really bitter, i dont want to even be in the same room with her. So shes mad now because she for some reason cant seem to grasp why im so upset! SO now she wants to be my friend again, and do stuff, and i have to sit her down and explain to her what the concept of "turning the knife" is.
Women, eh?

IN other ranting news, i had to clean out and reorganize our walk-in freezer AND refigerator tonight, take inventory ( in the freezer/fridge), do pull-thaw, and some @$$hat from morning shift didnt double wrap the burgers, so i had to do all that and date them.. again.
Oh, and i have to write one of those stupid " tell me what you learned in this class" essay for my Sociology final, and i cant think of a d@mn thing to write about for the life of me
thats about it for how my life sucks right now

 

[CaptainF]

Guess you should have done that assignment over the weekend. Btw, was Zefferelli the 1969 movie adaptation?

Oh, and I have another rant as well. Adults who have no tolerance for the presence of children! if any of you here are like that, I have a word of advice. YOU should be the one to stay in your own home and only venture out when there is no chance you will run into a child at all. Don't go venting your dislike of youngsters to me because I really don't want to hear any such hateful bile.

Some children are charming/adorable. Some of them are petulant annoyances. I hope that IF I have children, they don't turn out to be the latter.

 

[CaptainF]

I'd like to go on a rant against teenagers.

Teenagers are a pathetic species, we are all either self deprecating insecure waffleheads, or so full of ourselves that we are at this moment digesting our own limbs. I'm sick and tired of it. We whine and moan about insecure things going on with out "boyfriends/girlfriends" that we met 2 weeks ago, what happened to our cellphones, how we can't go see greenday, how nobody likes us, how life sucks, etc.

On the flipside, we also like to brag about lame crap, because we all know that if we drive a nice beemer, shag our hair and talk all surfer like, raise hell and wear Ipods, or make out with an insecure skeezer, that Zarathustra must have spoken good of us.

Not to be arrogant, but I have never found myself drawn to these vices to the degree that others have. I still cannot pick apart why teenagers are so sheeplike, foolish, materialistic and whiny. Why don't they admire real wisdom? Why aren't their interests piqued by something they don't know about, instead of the typical reaction of "WTH is that? Lolz ask me if I give a hawt $h!t dawg." Why can't they all just chillout and grow some balls/ovaries?

Argh. I can't wait to be just a LITTLE older thank you.

Although I suppose there are idiots in every age demographic.

People suck. BOO HOO!!!