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The Mood From Hell - Rant here

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Monday, March 20, 2006 3:52 PM

RIVER6213


When I got dumped by my evil husband 6 years ago, I weighed 120lbs, and in short order I went from that to 90lbs because I was so depressed. I now weigh 110lbs and there I stay. You are right about the personality change. When I dove to 90 pounds I was a strange person...stranger than I am now. Losing weight fast seriously puts a zap on your brain and personality.

Speaking of my evil husband. Because of that idiot I can't watch shows like Stargate SG-1, or the movie Day after Tomorrow, and a few others because his name is in the credits. Any movie he does I can't watch it because I don't want to give that prick any satisfaction...I don't want to give him any money...the bastard!

There we were, sitting on the beach in Hawaii, on the Kona Coast. The sun was sinking beautifully and dramatically on the horizon, and it was gearing up to be a very good sunset. The air was sweet and warm, and there I sat, with the love of my life, the man I had been married to for 7 years. Life was good, and we were both professionals and making a killing in our careers. I thought at that moment that it would be grand to have a child…the time was right. That moron pulled me out of my daydream with an “I love you, but I think I should be single” speech. I just looked at him, not knowing what to say, and wondering where the hell this came from. I started wondering what I did wrong. To make a long story short. I raped him good during the divorce and got half of everything…I spared no expense during this divorce, but in the process, I went crazy, and lost my mind. I still think I’m a little off. Men!! You give them your life and soul, and they use your heart like a piece of toilet paper and then dump you. Kill 'em all I say.

Umm…sorry for the rant…got carried away.

River





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Monday, March 20, 2006 3:56 PM

WITCHOFTHEDOGS


How many times can you walk into a shiny new fandom and find a thread like this?

Rant?

Let me tell you about my mother...

On second thought, if I do that, I'll never sleep tonight.





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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:01 PM

ZAKNRFAMA


I am not sad! Damnit! Why am I not sad? This sucks! Somebody fix this! Make a crack about my mom or something! I can't fit in here if I'm not sad.

Why must I be optimistic?

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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:03 PM

WITCHOFTHEDOGS


Come here and rub off on me... I need some sunshine.





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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:05 PM

RIVER6213


Quote:

Originally posted by Zaknrfama:
I am not sad! Damnit! Why am I not sad? This sucks! Somebody fix this! Make a crack about my mom or something! I can't fit in here if I'm not sad.

Why must I be optimistic?




I'm not sad in any way. I'm heated and mad as hell!!!!

River


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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:23 PM

ZAKNRFAMA


Oh, hey, how many wrong ways am I allowed to take that in without you hurting me?

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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:28 PM

RIVER6213


Quote:

Originally posted by Zaknrfama:
Oh, hey, how many wrong ways am I allowed to take that in without you hurting me?



I don't go about hurting people. This is the rant and rave room so rant your heart and soul out.

River



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Monday, March 20, 2006 4:31 PM

ZAKNRFAMA


Oh, no I was commenting on what Witchofthedogs said.

'Come here and rub off on me... I need some sunshine.'

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Monday, March 20, 2006 6:00 PM

LAUGHINGMUSE


My contract-boss micromanages.

Except when he refuses to give his opinion on something because he wants us to take initiative. Then when we do, he slices the idea to ribbons. Then about half the time, two or three months later, he proposes the idea as if he had it all by his sweet self. (The ideas that would let us work smarter never seem to get "suggested" again.)



My contract-boss wants us to interact with other co-workers and the engineers, sharing information.

Except when we're asking too many questions and not reading the handbook (which is about as easy to unerstand as your average VCR manual from the 80s). Then we're supposed to read the aforementioned poorly-written handbook, or come to the boss - who's also commented that he's got so much stuff to do, he's there twelve hours a day, he never sees his toddler or wife.



My contract-boss complains that people don't have enough information about the products they document, or our departmental procedures, or the tools we use.

Except when he turns down highly qualified candidates and hires people who have no experience with our primary tool or with the company's primary operating system...and asks them where all their documents are one week later.



My contract-boss wants us to handle the day-to-day operations, while he provides longer-term planning.

Except when he completely takes over a major document and stops giving us long-ranging information from the managers' staff meeting - then gets upset at us for not providing longer-term information to the entire group.



I'm not overly worried about getting dooced because I represent half of the knowledge in this group because half the team quit in the last six months. I haven't even been there a year, and I'm considered an "old timer".



Join me now in a primal scream of great proportions...

(...and thank you for letting me borrow the soapbox.)

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Monday, March 20, 2006 6:03 PM

RIVER6213


Another Rant.
I guess I don't fit in with the heavy hitters of this Firefly board, even though I never attempted to be a heavy hitter. I guess I'm not as serious, or rational, or logical, or as mature as these serious Firefly fans that are stomping around here.

My bad, I guess that even though I desire to be a wordy Citizen, or a plucky Seryn, I'll always just be River, with all the flaws that come with her. Sue me.
River

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Monday, March 20, 2006 7:16 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain


Quote:

Originally posted by Zaknrfama:
I am not sad! Damnit! Why am I not sad? This sucks! Somebody fix this! Make a crack about my mom or something! I can't fit in here if I'm not sad.

Why must I be optimistic?



Oh we're not sad. We're pi**ed. This is not the moping corner. It's for Ranting. Still. It's always good to laugh and your pst made me do that so you are welcome here.

And the rubbing off thing, you are very naughty.

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Monday, March 20, 2006 7:23 PM

CAUSAL


Quote:

Originally posted by safeat2nd:
At what age does one start disliking birthdays?

So I'm at my parents for my "birthday dinner". Don't get me wrong, I like my parents BUT I had a horrible revelation. I'm starting to see things through my dad's eyes.
What started it was, he's a big fan of tribute CD's. He has a tribute to Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dyan etc. all the stuff I didn't like growning up.

Here's the scary part... I found myself liking the music. So I leave there feeling... well.. old and with Johnny Cash stuck in my head. I get home and pop in Space Above and Beyond, and there he is again, Johnny Cash.

I don't want to get old. I'm still a Toys R Us kid at heart...

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny



The five horrible realizations of adulthood:

1) My parents were right all along (pick your subject: staying out too late, drinking too much, smoking, whatever).
2) When I am a parent, my children will pay no more attention to me than I did to my parents.
3) I never really appreciated the things my parents did for me.
4) Neither will my kids.
And the most recent for me, realized as I looked across the table at my 55-year-old father:
5) Someday, I will be that old.

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Monday, March 20, 2006 7:54 PM

CRACKERS


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
After a fine suggestion from Casualty. This is the place for the letting off of steam.

So, rant thee away...




AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

FRIZZIN…FRAKEN…FARKEN…FEGGIN…FUGGIN…FEEKEN…FUMMIN…FARKEN…FRAK!!!!!!

5 Days without a cigarette and I’m going LOONEY!!!
And I was carrying a gas bottle and the step gave out under the weight and my GORRUM foot went right through it! And yesterday I kicked the bucket which I couldn’t see it in the dark and my foot went right through that getting my bloody foot & ugg boot all bloody wet!!!
And where is that BLOODY Lottery win that stupid man on the TV said I would win if I entered. I’ll give him “gotta be in it to win it.”

Oh for a cigarette – My kingdom for a cigarette!!! AAAAARRRRGGGG!!!!!

"Sir knight, I've just pissed in my pants and theres nothing anyone can do about it." - Fort Hayes Commandant, 'Dances With Wolves'.

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Being CRACKERS provides sanity in an insane world!

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Monday, March 20, 2006 8:27 PM

CRACKERS


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:


Its bad enough seeing all the fat footie boozers proudly displaying their pasty hairy beer bellys at the first hint of sunshine peeking through the April clouds.

You know how you guys have signs saying shirts and shoes or we wont serve you? we don't have them, so trips anywhere become exercises in dodging the sweaty half naked bloke.




Half naked men with humungus Beer Guts
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Monday, March 20, 2006 8:52 PM

CRACKERS


If you love someone let them go. If they come back to you they are yours. If they don't...
THEN BLOODY WELL HUNT THEM DOWN AND SHOOT THEM!!!

And I also dislike Irritating, arrogant, egotistical , aggressive & manipulative people; Tele-marketers; Finance Companies; The South Australian Government; Car requiring desperate maintenance when you’ve got no money; OPEC & the world oil price; Injustice...


Oh - oops! Thats enough ranting for one day, Hehehe - Gives back the saopbox and the megaphone.

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Monday, March 20, 2006 10:28 PM

SERYN


As far as I was aware, the only heavy hitter on this board was Haken, the guy who made it.

And Citizen is just one of those super-intelligent blokes that you get on every sight like this, 'cept he also has a penchent for wading in and getting into arguments for the sheer entertainment value. Which is what I do as well, but with out the MegaBrain(tm) to back it all up.

Trust me, I feel like a clod around that lot on the RWED.

Aw, but thanks for calling me plucky! *hugs*

I've only just woken up, so i've nothing to rant about, so i'll get outta the way and let other people get on with business.

(p.s. The Day After Tomorrow is missable, but SG1? that sucks. *'nother hug if you want it*)

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:31 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
And Citizen is just one of those super-intelligent blokes that you get on every sight like this, 'cept he also has a penchent for wading in and getting into arguments for the sheer entertainment value. Which is what I do as well, but with out the MegaBrain(tm) to back it all up.


Super-intelligent? Naw, I have the Junior Encyclopedia of Intelligent things to say. I'd use the Adult version but it doesn't have pictures.

Likes smakin' 'em, CitizenIsArgumentative



More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:19 AM

RIVER6213


Hi! Citizen!

Hey! No one's ranting in here! Where are all the rants and raves?

River




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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:52 AM

SERYN


yeah, this is just one of those quiet raver reading parties.



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Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:38 PM

SASSALICIOUS


Quote:

Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Hey! No one's ranting in here! Where are all the rants and raves?



Well here's another one from me.

So I was at work tonight and this girl comes up to us and says "I have this meeting tonight, do you know what room it's in?" My only thought is: I work in the DELI, why the fuck would I know where your event is taking place?, but instead I say "well, there's a list of everything going on in the building over there next to the map." She walks away, looks at the list, comes back and goes "It says it's in room whatever. Do you know where room whatever is". I reply "I don't know. Why don't you go look at the map? I'm sure it's on there."

HONESTLY. SHE WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF THE MAP WHILE FINDING OUT WHERE HER EVENT WAS TAKING PLACE. THE MAP THAT CAN TELL AN INDIVIDUAL WHERE ROOMS IN A BUILDING ARE LOCATED!!!!! HAVE PEOPLE GONE COMPLETELY STUPID? FURTHERMORE, I WORK AT THE DELI. I AM NOT THE INFO DESK. I DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOUR EVENT IS TAKING PLACE, NOR DO I CARE. THE CLOCK IS ON THE WALL AND THE ATM IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR FUCKING FACE IF YOU'LL KEEP WALKING 3 MORE STEPS IN THE DIRECTION YOU ARE ALREADY GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never mind the fact that I can't get ahold of anyone and I want to out to the bars tonight and I don't want to go by myself because it's not as much fun to get trashed by yourself. It's actually kind of sad.

AND the first day of spring was YESTERDAY and it's STILL COLD OUT!!!!!! I HATE WISCONSIN.

AND I'm still worked up about Bill Napoli from yesterday's rant.

*puts soapbox away for now*

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:06 AM

SINGATE


Just got back from the post office. I know I really don't need to go any further but I'm feeling a bit peckish now. Anyway I walk in and there is a line already ten people deep. Only one guy running the counter, of course! The old woman he is helping is confused, again another shocker! So she steps aside to fill out whatever the hell she missed the first time. The next woman walks up with a stack of about twelve envelopes that need cerified delivery, signature confirmation, insurance etc. ad naseum. After the guy rings up the total she goes to pay with a credit card. Here's where things get interesting. The name on the card doesn't match her driver's license. She goes into this long winded explanation about how she recently got married but kept her maiden name on business credit cards. He can't take her word and leaves to find a supervisor. Now there is no one at the counter and the line is almost out the door. Somewhere between five and ten minutes pass until another guy comes out to open a second register. Remember the old woman from before? Well the people in front of me decide it would be okay for her to finish her business. The guy tells her to write the return address on the package. What the fuck was she doing for the last ten minutes!? Then he asks her if there are any hazardous/explosive contents in said package. Does he really think this confused seventy-something woman is a terrorist. Back to the other lady. A guy walks up to the counter saying very loudly that he has been called off lunch for this. He turns out to be the supervisor. He allows the transaction and hurries back out to lunch. As I am being waited on by the second teller the first guy is telling the women not to come back and try the same thing again because it won't be allowed. What!? His called his supervisor off of lunch and he approves but this assclown is now saying that it isn't allowed! He could have saved us all a lot of trouble and just told her no to begin with.

Am I the only one who thinks people have way too many options nowadays? I know a lot of people like paying with credit/debit cards but cash is quick and easy. And what the hell happened to sending mail? It used to be you went in, paid, and shipped it off. Today we've got insurance, first class, super express, confirmation and it turns the whole experience into a horrific ordeal. Keep it simple people!

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:36 PM

SISTERBETTYX


Leaving a department Store and having one of those sensors go off with that loud, annoying beep, and everyone looks at you like you just stole something.

Or walking into a department store and you find yourself being trailed by a security guard like you're going to steal something.

“I don’t know. This here’s a spectacle might warrant a moment’s consideration.”

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:13 PM

RIVERGODDESS


Actually, our school has oficially dubbed this week "Hell Week" due to the crapload of homework and tests. I have 6 tests and a paper on The Left Hand of Darkness due Friday. Track is beating me into the ground. I came home Monday so exhausted after doing repeat 800s in that insane wind we had, and crashed. I woke up even more tired than when I went to bed.
But 6 flipping tests!?!?!?!?! Where the hell did they come from? And they're not little quizzes, no, they're whopping "I think we'll throw in a final just for the hell of it" big damn tests. It's even sad that I'm plotting to ditch my first hour tomorrow so I can either get some sleep or work on my paper. My Chemistry teacher already thinks I'm a slacker (which I'm not, I'm just not very good at chem), so we'll see how that goes.
Me=

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:34 AM

SERYN


I signed up to this new thing from hotmail, live something, and they sent me a survey to fill in about how I like it, which at the time was quited a lot, it had been going fine,

then almost as soon as i complete the questions the whole thing just goes down the crapper, every time I try to sign in it stop and stall, I can't open half the emails cause it just stops dead ad tells me to try again later. Blody load of crap.

and the only message I get is some garbage in technobabble with big long words that I know for damned sure don't belong next to each other in a sentence.


Bagh!

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:40 AM

MAL4PREZ


Hey Seryn!

My hotmail has been a little screwy since the end of last week... I've had mails go missing.

What the heck is up???

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:20 AM

SERYN


god knows, Several people have tried to send me mail, and got 'could not deliver' notices.

Its just shoddy how they send out the surveys before the crap starts.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:23 AM

ARAMINA


In his post-dumping me letter my ex wrote:

"The difference between us is that you believe your life will be right when you find the right person to be with an then you will be fulfilled."

What a load of patronising, untrue crap! Am I wrong to be offended by that?

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:45 AM

SLAYER730


First of all, when I tried to reply to this the first time, my computer went all wonky for no reason (as it is quite prone to doing). I had to fiddle with it forever just to get it to start displaying web pages again. But this is not the true meat of my rant.

What it comes down to is this: My husband and I are skinheads. No, NOT Neo-Nazis. No, NOT racists. The problem with our culture, or at least the idiots in my town, is that all they choose to embrace is the sensational. To most people, all skinheads are racist, hateful Neo-Nazis or Aryan Nation/Brotherhood members. It's more shocking and interesting, so they believe it. Look at when the Neo-Nazis went on Geraldo Rivera's talk show and broke his nose. This is how the public came to believe all skinheads are and act. This is simply untrue. No one chose to do a follow up show with the other side of the story... peaceful skinheads?!? NON-racist skinheads?!? That simply doesn't enter into most people's imaginations.

My husband and I are what you call SHARP skins. (SHARP = SKINHEADS AGAINST RACIAL PREJUDICE). At its core, the skinhead movement in America isn't about who you love or hate, or what color, religion, or sexual orientation a person might be. It's a working class movement that says be a productive member of society, work for a living, fight hard, drink hard, well...you get the rest. All that with a dash of politics. :)

Sure, it splintered into hate groups that adopted the boots, braces, and shaved head because it looks tough. But there are other skinhead groups out there that are the exact opposite, like SHARP and ARA (ANTI-RACIST ACTION). My husband and I are not violent people, as most people believe skinheads to be. I am a 27 year old woman...why would I get in a fist fight? I haven't been in a fist fight since high school, and that was 10 years ago.

I'm tired of living in this redneck, racist town where SHARP skins are seen as a menace, but gangs are shooting each other every day. People don't take the time to ask you WHY you do things, or dress a certain way. My husband and I have been "seig-heiled" in parking lots, given dirty looks all over, been followed by security, been called all sorts of horrible names, and basically looked down upon because we're skinheads. People don't feel like they need to know any more about the situation.

And the ultimate irony is...THEY are the racist ones! They want to call us Neo-Nazis but they are the racists! My town has the highest population of KKK on the East Coast and also a huge group of Neo-Nazis called the KSS (Keystone Stars - guess what state I live in!) I rant because people make assumptions based on what you look like or what they believe you to be.

I never push my skinhead ideology on people. I'm just grateful for the few that will stop and listen, so I can tell just one more person that not all skinheads are violent racists. Besides, I'm proud of being a skinhead: epecially a SHARP skin who is vocal in fighting AGAINST all of this racist, ignorant nonsense.

Ok, I think I'm done... Oh wait. By the way? That abortion guy with the "definition"? He needs to be shot.

***Never judge a book by its movie***

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:03 PM

COPILOT


Wow that's really educaional I didn't know there were peaceful skinhead factions. That'll teach me and my broad generalizations. Thank you very much for sharing this.

An I carried such a torch

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:09 PM

SLAYER730


No problem, copilot. Thanks for listening.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:33 PM

MYSTRE


Quote:

Originally posted by slayer730:
First of all, when I tried to reply to this the first time, my computer went all wonky for no reason (as it is quite prone to doing). I had to fiddle with it forever just to get it to start displaying web pages again. But this is not the true meat of my rant.

What it comes down to is this: My husband and I are skinheads. No, NOT Neo-Nazis. No, NOT racists. The problem with our culture, or at least the idiots in my town, is that all they choose to embrace is the sensational. To most people, all skinheads are racist, hateful Neo-Nazis or Aryan Nation/Brotherhood members. It's more shocking and interesting, so they believe it. Look at when the Neo-Nazis went on Geraldo Rivera's talk show and broke his nose. This is how the public came to believe all skinheads are and act. This is simply untrue. No one chose to do a follow up show with the other side of the story... peaceful skinheads?!? NON-racist skinheads?!? That simply doesn't enter into most people's imaginations.

My husband and I are what you call SHARP skins. (SHARP = SKINHEADS AGAINST RACIAL PREJUDICE). At its core, the skinhead movement in America isn't about who you love or hate, or what color, religion, or sexual orientation a person might be. It's a working class movement that says be a productive member of society, work for a living, fight hard, drink hard, well...you get the rest. All that with a dash of politics. :)

Sure, it splintered into hate groups that adopted the boots, braces, and shaved head because it looks tough. But there are other skinhead groups out there that are the exact opposite, like SHARP and ARA (ANTI-RACIST ACTION). My husband and I are not violent people, as most people believe skinheads to be. I am a 27 year old woman...why would I get in a fist fight? I haven't been in a fist fight since high school, and that was 10 years ago.

I'm tired of living in this redneck, racist town where SHARP skins are seen as a menace, but gangs are shooting each other every day. People don't take the time to ask you WHY you do things, or dress a certain way. My husband and I have been "seig-heiled" in parking lots, given dirty looks all over, been followed by security, been called all sorts of horrible names, and basically looked down upon because we're skinheads. People don't feel like they need to know any more about the situation.

And the ultimate irony is...THEY are the racist ones! They want to call us Neo-Nazis but they are the racists! My town has the highest population of KKK on the East Coast and also a huge group of Neo-Nazis called the KSS (Keystone Stars - guess what state I live in!) I rant because people make assumptions based on what you look like or what they believe you to be.

I never push my skinhead ideology on people. I'm just grateful for the few that will stop and listen, so I can tell just one more person that not all skinheads are violent racists. Besides, I'm proud of being a skinhead: epecially a SHARP skin who is vocal in fighting AGAINST all of this racist, ignorant nonsense.

Ok, I think I'm done... Oh wait. By the way? That abortion guy with the "definition"? He needs to be shot.

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This is actually quite confusing to me...

How do you even define yourselves as skinhead if you say you don't embrace any of the traditional stereotypes of that moniker? What make you skinhead? Really I'd like to know...

Peaceful but advocating violence?? That just doesn't make sense.

I think some further explaining might be needed here.

Please don't take this as provocation but rather curiosity.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:36 PM

JADEHAND


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
don't try to get fat, just don't deny your self.

The words LIFE IS TOO FUCKING SHORT have never applied more.

Trying to get fat just triples your health issues, just eat when you want to. For god sake, its your body, no-one elses.

But what you said is true, no one respects you when you are fat - I get it all the time, and its not just retarded pikey brats calling you names in the street. Its everyone. I'm upset, everyone assumes its because i'm fat, i'm shy in social situation, its because i'm fat.

I'm not allowed to be a person, i'm not a fully functioning human being, I don't have a full range of emotions, thoughts, and desires, because to others I stop and start at my excess body tissue.

Even supposed medical professionals can't see it - starting when I was young, I went to see if I had allergies, I was given a nasal spray and told 'I would feel better if I lost a bit of weight'. In college I went for advice on counselling, I was having so many problems with debts and crap like that, i'd just found out I was dyslexic and was facing an uphill struggle to get any kind of help for it, I had all that unresolved crap I mentioned earlier, plus another two relationships worth and what does the doctor say? 'you might feel better if you lost a bit of weight'.

Even lately, i've been chronically tired, no balance and freguently dizzy and nauseous, so I went to ask about the tiredness, 'I'm sure you would feel better if you lost weight' and I end up in Fat Asses Anonymous. Which triggers, yup, you guessed it, the depression.

Aparently, allergies, depression and dizziness/vertigo and tiredness are all caused by, and only ever happen to people with, fat arses.

Years ago, fat people used to be venerated, they were 'jolly' happy go lucky, baccanalian, in love with life and all its splendours, wise and kind and human.

Now even Santa appears to be dieting.

Fat people have lost their PR team somewhere, now they are nothing but half people, shallow paintings greedily using more than their fair share of paint - 'if we credit them with minds of their own, then we can't feel superior to to them, and then we'll have to go back to bullying gay and black people'

So no-one respects fat people, because they are represented as one dimensional freaks devoid of the humanity of 'normal' people. (you want proof? Apainting of a nude, thin, it is interpreted in terms of personality and thought, a fat person? It is a study of the flesh)

And note that I will never use the words 'plus size' or 'fuller figured' how bloody patronising do you need to be. Lets stick to adjectives and facts, not stupid PC labels, designed solely to keep fat people in their place, separated from the good people trying to shop for their nice clothes without being bothered by the distressing sight of a body that doesn't hit the dictated norm.

Which is where my beef with women who wear badly fitting clothes come from. Its about self respect, and dressing to reflect yourself. These women in crap fitting clothes are invariably only wearing them because some womans rag has told them that to be found attractive they must wear this or that, and this and that can only be found in sizes to small, and they haven't got either the confidence or the imagination to say no, screw you, i'm going to wear what makes me feel good, and if it happens to co-incide with what you say is ok, then so be it, but until then, go play hopscotch across a motorway.


oh my god i'm on a roll...

(*disclaimer, I am of course, taliking from personal experience, generalising, and excepting present company etc, etc, I know full well that it not how all people think, but I am speaking mainly of the unwashed masses and certain members of the supposed 'intellectual' 'artistic' and 'cultural' societys.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:58 PM

SERYN


me? brilliant?


what?

(not that being told that doesn't make me cockles all warm an cosy like, but reasons?)

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:32 PM

JADEHAND


Reasons? You see through the bollocks, the lies, the intentional mis-representations that the chaff falls for. The 90% of the world (men&women) that we all rant about here. The world sells lies everyday to the masses. I like people that just aren't buying it.




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Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:22 PM

COPILOT


My turn
My car is dead! My beloved automobile has finally taken it's last sh*t. Oh well I'm also as fat as I've ever been and aparently still not fat enough to call myself fat without people looking at me like I'm crazy. Anyway summers coming and I can't even think about myself in a swimsuit. My fish died two days ago. I told my friend Matt he could borrow my own personal box set before I remember that the only other time I've loaned him anything it was a cd 3 years ago I still don't have it back. Oh and now I have to buy a new car which will eat almost all of my next pay check! So that was my rant. One more thing I'm tired to boot. Yes I relize I have an awsome life with a beautiful significant other and a job that allows me to play on the internet all day and pays well considering I have very little schooling and absolutly no skills. So ranting isn't really something I do often but now I have no car untill next friday. But I can walk to work and the weather has been really nice. But even the charmed have bad days.

An I carried such a torch

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:07 PM

RIVER6213


Your rant copilot is a good rant. Sorry about your car, but you'll get another one soon.

You have an awesome significant other so you are ahead of the game in ways you don't even know.

Hang in there


*Now watch the room go silent and dead since the crazy person had the nerve to speak*


The River that was

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:14 PM

RIVER6213


Quote:

Originally posted by Jadehand:
Reasons? You see through the bollocks, the lies, the intentional mis-representations that the chaff falls for. The 90% of the world (men&women) that we all rant about here. The world sells lies everyday to the masses. I like people that just aren't buying it.




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What's a bollock?

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:25 PM

JADEHAND


Sorry River, Bollocks, as best I can tell, is the polite british way of saying Bulls**t. As In "Nevermind the Bollocks" some even spell it "Bullocks". I was just saying Seryn can see through the BS that tends to fog so many up.


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Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:27 PM

JADEHAND


oops silly double post.

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Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:57 PM

SERYN


one of the veg in a mans meat and two...


ok, its slang for a testicle, but then again, its so much more than that.

Its risen to the status of F**K, in its general alpurpose greatness, but most often is used to mean bulls**t or lie's.

And thank you Jadehand, thats more of a compliment than you will ever know.

(mini sort of rant) Isn't it funny how people i've lived with most of my life, talk to everyday, don't get that one simple fact? but people who live half a world away, and who i've know for about three months, get me far more than I could ever hope a 'real life' person would.

*wonders why she's single* oh, yeah, thats why.

But yes, thank you JH!

I dunno, plucky one day, brilliant the next, i'm going to need help getting my head off the boards soon.

(edit: oh well, repeat post, but still..)
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Friday, March 24, 2006 12:18 AM

CITIZEN


Quote:

"Bollocks" is a swear word meaning testicles in British English. The word is often used figuratively, most commonly as a noun to mean "nonsense" or as an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, but also in a number of other ways; as an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless", and in various compound expressions (see below). Due to its versatility, bollocks has been called the Swiss Army Knife of andrological profanities.

Perhaps the best-known international use of the term in this sense is in the title of a Sex Pistols album. Testimony in a resulting lawsuit over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense" (see Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols for details).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollocks
(follow the link for the cockney rhyming slang "Jackson Pollocks" among others).

Bollocks is a very versatile and colourful word in the English language (though not in Americanese, you guys need to learn to talk proper likes what I does) and can be applied to numerous situations.

It can be used as a transitive verb "bollocks to the taxman" or as an intransitive verb "what a load of bollocks".

It can even be used as a adjective "my new car is the bollocks" or a conjunction "I ate the pizza, bollocks to the pasta".

Other uses for the word include:

Resignation: "Bollocks to that!"

Disbelief: "What a load of bollocks!"

Insults: "He's a bollock head"

Proposition: "would you like to touch my bollocks?"

Pride: "we were the dog’s bollocks!"

Happiness: "he's chuffed to his bollocks!"

Chastisement: "the boss gave me a right bollocking for that!"

Denial: "like bollocks I did!"

It can also be used to enhance the meaning of a common sentence, consider "he's a liar" could be enhanced thus "he's always talking bollocks" and can be further enhanced with the use of other versatile words of the English language such as fuck "he's always talking fucking bollocks".

It has also been said by many figures thoughout history:
"Bollocks to civil rights!"
George Bush Jnr

"Bollocks to this!"
George Armstrong Custer(at the battle of little Bighorn)

"Unsinkable? Bollocks!"
Captain of the Titanic

"Bollocks to the Argentineans!"
Margaret Thatcher

As you can see Bollocks is a very versatile and useful word, one may even say that bollocks is the dog’s bollocks and the mutt’s nuts of words.

Nonsense CitizenIsTalking Bollocks.



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Friday, March 24, 2006 2:37 PM

SLAYER730


MYSTRE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinheads_Against_Racial_Prejudice

If you seriously want more info, email me. It's a long and involved story.

slayer730@hotmail.com

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Friday, March 24, 2006 3:32 PM

SHEPARD


Well, I apologize to ya'll but I like my life, so I can't really rant. That and one of the advantages of getting older is by the time you get someplace where you can share how annoyed you are you've forgotten why you needed to rant.

Seryn, I've found the bliss of ignorance, it's called mental deterioration. I recommend it to everyone in moderation.

For all of the ladies whom society says are out of the "mainstream", blame your grandmothers. Or, for the younger half of the generation out there, your great-grandmothers. Find out who was alive during the 1920's and say "Thanks for supporting the Flapper lifestyle and destroying the idea of the Rubenesque figure as the female perfection." Unless they didn't support the Flapper lifestyle in which case you can commiserate with them about how unfair the fickle standards of society are to those of us who don't fit them, and how little really changes over the years. If speaking with the grandparentals isn't an option for you, then find someone else from that generation and speak with them. They'll enjoy it and you'll learn something (even if it doesn't strike you till later.)

Oh, Riv6xxxx & Seryn, I've seen pictures of each of you (either from another thread or another website) & don't worry, neither of you is suffering in the attractiveness department. It can take many years and several attempts to find a life partner, but it's worth the effort. And it may be the last person you ever expected. It was all that for me.

(Wow, I just reread that & it sounded really patronizing. I apologize, that wasn't how it was intended; I also can't figure out a better way to say it. Please take it in the spirit it was intended...)

For everyone else who is suffering a bad spot, remember this happy ray of joy: no matter how bad the moment may be, you've help create a family who will listen to you keen and whose love will help keep you in the air. It's nice to know there's a shoulder the size of the world to cry on.

Hell. It's full of old people who don't stop talking.

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 3:14 PM

COPILOT


Okay so me again.
I know I've already ranted but I have a new foe. Don't really want to go into why I hate myspace I just fracking do! Why do these damn kids have to check thier sp? myspace 50 billion times a day! And why do they need to be so loud when they do it? Who thought of this? It was a good idea but damn it this kids are getting on my nerves!

An I carried such a torch

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Saturday, March 25, 2006 4:40 PM

KAYNA

I love my captain


This is really an unimportant bit. Nothing that really affects my life but I feel the need to rant anyway.

I am a bit of a movie buff and I am Majorly in lust with Gerard Butler (The Phantom of the Opera, Timeline, and such). So naturally I try to watch as many of his movies as I can. There's one that is about to come out in Canada that I've been waiting for for about a year. I's called Beowulf and Grendel. It sound great, wonderful cast, a lead that I love , and it's based on one of my favorite stories (I'm also a mythology and ancient history buff).

Beowulf is an awesome tale and from what I've seen this movie should do it justice. Thay take the core story and build on it to make everyone a bit more human. It looks great.

There's just on problem. As I mentioned, it opens in Canada. I don't live in Canada.
...
...
...
Son of a with a flying bollocks!!!!

Here they get me all excited with articles and metioning it in interviews and It's not even showing in the same country as me. Bastards.

Hoo. Ok. I think I feel better. Maybe I can organize a road trip or something. Toronto isn't that far.


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Sunday, March 26, 2006 12:12 PM

SERYN


That is a really interesting point you made about the flappers. I'm ashamed to say that it never seriously occured to me.

ok, going to spend a few days reading up on that and working out its place in the evolution of fashion according to Helen.

To me the cause of this obsession with weight and the body started with the 70's and womens lib and the bra burning movement (if I'm saying the wrongs words sorry, I hope you know what I mean) - that getting rid of external corsets, waspies etc, but not ending the desire to change ('perfect' possibly?) the human form meant that now theres this huge pressure to achieve the small flat waisted corset shape but through exercise and dieting. But you are right, it goes back further than that.


ooooh, interesting.

And thank you for the compliment. Honestly, I start a thread to be a total bitch and three separate people say nice things to me. I gotta do this more often!

But where did you see the picture of River[numbers](i'm sorry sweetie, dyscalcula, -crapness with numbers - sadly not Duckula's cousin) I have this image in my head of perfect hair and a power suit and I want to see if i'm right.

yup, the right one will come along, despite all the overthinking and cynicism, I somehow still believe that. I'm hopin he just comes glowing and with a big neon sign.



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Monday, March 27, 2006 10:22 AM

SASSALICIOUS


Copilot,

It's more than OK to rant twice. I did and I'll probably rant again.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:15 AM

CALLMESERENITY


*deep breath*

I didn't think this would be this hard. I didn't realize it would hurt this much. It's so stupid and I know it, but it must be done.

Everything's so complicated and everything's messed up and now I've lost a friend. A friend I didn't realize how much I appreciated and counted on. And it hurts and it sucks and I'm unhappy.

*exhales.*

Thanks. That feels better.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 11:49 AM

SHEPARD


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
That is a really interesting point you made about the flappers. I'm ashamed to say that it never seriously occured to me.

ok, going to spend a few days reading up on that and working out its place in the evolution of fashion according to Helen.

To me the cause of this obsession with weight and the body started with the 70's and womens lib and the bra burning movement (if I'm saying the wrongs words sorry, I hope you know what I mean) - that getting rid of external corsets, waspies etc, but not ending the desire to change ('perfect' possibly?) the human form meant that now theres this huge pressure to achieve the small flat waisted corset shape but through exercise and dieting. But you are right, it goes back further than that.


ooooh, interesting.

And thank you for the compliment. Honestly, I start a thread to be a total bitch and three separate people say nice things to me. I gotta do this more often!

But where did you see the picture of River[numbers](i'm sorry sweetie, dyscalcula, -crapness with numbers - sadly not Duckula's cousin) I have this image in my head of perfect hair and a power suit and I want to see if i'm right.

yup, the right one will come along, despite all the overthinking and cynicism, I somehow still believe that. I'm hopin he just comes glowing and with a big neon sign.



Let's see, going in nothing resembling order:

All of my points are interesting. To me, at least. Life is too short to worry overmuch about anyone else's interest.

River's pic can be found at:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=18200

You have to go a way down the board to get to it, but trust me, you can't miss it.

The study of history offers a lot of insights into who we are and why; I'm glad you found it interesting. But who is this Helen you refer too?

Why wouldn't you deserve the compliments? Or more accurately, why are you surprised you received them? No thanks are necessary, but you're welcome.

Overthinking and cynicism are not necessarily bad traits, in moderation, but remember to think about and be cynical of your overthinking and cynicism, it keeps them in perspective. The neon sign is usually a flash in the brainpan telling your conscious mind something your subconscious figured out a long time ago. But if he's glowing, you may want to take a pass. That's not what they mean when they talk about the "nuclear" family.

Hell. It glows in the dark.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:00 PM

COPILOT


Okay I am a little angry. I changed everything about myself for significant other and now he goes and developes a crush on a girl who's almost EXACTLY LIKE I USED TO BE! The Bastard! So anyway back to me I've decided to scrap the new me and go back to just doing whatever the hell I want when I want and Dorkus be damned.
Oh well little yellow submaries of hope he came down to work and fixed the router for me cause he decided it needed to be password protected. Why must people keep changing things around as soon as I get used to them the way they are?

An I carried such a torch

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