The Mood From Hell - Rant here

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SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 1:48 PM

After a fine suggestion from Casualty. This is the place for the letting off of steam.

So, rant thee away...

SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 1:55 PM

GGGGGGGAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

Frickin' , I mean patronising ! Honestly! I could her!

Grrrrgh.

I feel like... well...

And David Attenborough! sadist!

Bagh!

explaination -> http://seryndippyt.blogspot.com

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

DAYVE

Monday, March 20, 2006 2:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
So, rant thee away...

this coffee is really bad...so why do i keep drinking it?
ok, so is this a contest...cause give me 52 pages and a no. 2 pencil and i'm good to go....

angst...oh baby, don't get me started. ... i am so upset (actually i let myself get upset), by the fools who are trying to run this country (into the ground), and just as upset by the fools who let them do it.... we all have our opinions of the corporate f**k up FOX...well truth be told...they are just an arm of Blue Sun..er ah, George Bush & Co....

Environmental protection...ha, what a joke...maybe all the science fiction writers who start their stories with a major apocalypse happening to the planet are not far off. At the rate that we are ruining the earth, i only hope we have have time to figure out how to get away from here before it's too late. Earth that was...? dosen't seem so far fetched to me....

****stepping aside...making room for the next rant....****

COZEN

Monday, March 20, 2006 2:40 PM

Is so totally in tune with Dayve on this score, well, it's eerie.

SAFEAT2ND

Monday, March 20, 2006 3:03 PM

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

ROB150185

Monday, March 20, 2006 3:42 PM

And I broke a nail...

I'll be in my bunk...

CASUALTY

Monday, March 20, 2006 6:29 PM

Meh

Pah

Grrr!!

I fracking well bloody hate Mondays, and Thursdays, and fridays. And I am soon to be unemployed and I am poor and S3 is too far away and I cryed today......

AhhhhhAAHHHHHHaaahhhhhAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!

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SLAYER730

Monday, March 20, 2006 6:52 PM

They fired me on Wednesday...two F*CKIN' weeks before I went to settlement on my first house...becuase I'm not "a team player"... and I won't lie to the state inspector...because my boss falsifies documents and thinks it's funny...and those 4 horsemen of the apocalypse at the end of the hall get away with everything...I bet they're laughing it up (after they tell everyone who's next!)...and that's the most the owner ever said to me, when she was firing me...and they lied to everyone about why I was fired...and they won't let me come and get my stuff until it's convenient for them (like they need a pic of my husband and niece)...and every time I need to call to tell her something she's all sugary sweet like we were EVER friends......

WHEW

It's ok though...got a higher paying job already. Still good to have a nice rant once in a while. Thanks.

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

DAYVE

Monday, March 20, 2006 6:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
So, rant thee away...

****jumps on soapbox***

mondays are so bad, i can't even get a decent rant going.... ok, let me qualify that....mondays at work are so bad...yada yada yada....

and where the hell is this four day work week i've heard about since 1995?? and where is my personal hover craft that i read about in Mechanics Illustrated in 1962..... and where is my house cleaning robot like on the Jetsons...and where are the condensed meals in a pill that you just add water to and eat like on Wylie Coyote...huh???

and why do i reference everything to old Meri Melodies cartoons??? and...and...***pauses to catch breath****...and please for the love of mike tell me why Firefly isn't still on the stupid idiot box???? (ok..so maybe it was too smart to be on the idiot box....)

***steps off of soapbox...temple throbbing madly****

1978

Monday, March 20, 2006 7:44 PM

I am just feeling rather mean, surly, disappointed, sad, upset, not wanting it to snow and !

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......................

and I have to go to knitting class tonight and it is going to snow tonight!

MAL4PREZ

Monday, March 20, 2006 7:58 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1978:
and I have to go to knitting class tonight and it is going to snow tonight!

*sings*
Knitting in the snow!
I'm knitting in the snow!
What a glorious feeling...

Oops... Sorry, goofiness messing up tone of thread... I'll try to be angsty...

*clears throat*

I just got back from the dentist. I'm bleaching my teeth and can't have coffee or red wine or anything colorful for TWO WEEKS!

And to anyone thinking of telling me they no have pity because it's all in the name of vanity I say...

Um... yeah, so?

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SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 8:04 PM

will your teeth glow in UV? how fun is that?

oh, sorry. Grrrr Arrgh!

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, March 20, 2006 8:29 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
will your teeth glow in UV? how fun is that?

oh, sorry. Grrrr Arrgh!

Wacky fun - I hadn't thought of that! I'll let you know... I have two fake teeth up front, could be a riot!

Um... my only serious rant today would involve it being the first day of spring and yet there will be no greenery or niceness in my local 'verse for at least a month. Why oh why do I keep moving north?

Some of you people that live in happy nature places go outside and pet a snowdrop or a crocus or something, okay? Appreciate that you have something more than mud and dead trees!

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I'm the president. I don't need to listen.

SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 8:41 PM

if it helps we don't have any snow drops or crocuses either. They maybe too pollution strangled. But we get our cherry blossoms starting in a few weeks, so I will wear some in my hair especcially for you!

ok, I started ranting in the Random thread, I think I need to move it here, and rub it out there. -

Yeah *shudder* having just spent the winter trying to avoid seeing (and failing miserably) rolls of fat splurging out over the tops of skinny fit jeans all winter, please PLEASE DONT make them take any more off. 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.

A trip on the underground was unbearable. Which is why some bright spark hit upon the idea of fainting at the start of it.

Its not that I have anything against nudists, but if I wanted to see a saggy patsy arse or a pair of jungle tits swinging free, i'd enrole in life drawing class again.

(and btw, I'm fat myself, the difference being that I have taste, so i'm not just on a fat bashing mission, i'm on a stupid style-deprived, intellectually-retarded spoon-fed tasteless chav bashing one)

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

MAL4PREZ

Monday, March 20, 2006 8:50 PM

This is my favorite - not a bad body story, just bad choice of outfits...

At Shakespeare in the Common a few summers ago, I was having a lovely time picnicing, and just as McBeth started (put yourself in a MacBeth frame of mind before you picture this), at that time of evening when the sky is glowing mellow and blue, this woman came and sat right in front of me. She was wearing black low ride pants and a black high rise top and a white thong that made this HUGE white T on her lower back. Something about the evening light made it GLOW. It was the funniest thing ever, I think people were guffawing for like 20 meters back.

Luckily she didn't stay long. Can't deal with that and "Out out damned spot" at the same time!

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SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 8:56 PM

yeah, we had one like that, this woman had too tight everything, too tight bra, to tight tights, too tight knickers,under too tight lycra. hell, she looked like a caterpillar, all segmented, that or the Michelin Man.

And I can see how day-glo thongs and the scottish play just don't go together.

But the absolute worst thing ever?

Camels Foot Syndrome.

bleurgh! oh gods, its awful.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

13

Monday, March 20, 2006 9:02 PM

Wow, where do I start...

I ordered a mushroom burger and got, like, three pounds of mushrooms.

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...

That's all I got.
But friend, who will be known as Eward, has something to rant about:
I came home after school.... it was some day of the week, and my Uncle Pat was there..the blender was on and I didn't know why..I had already been informed we would be consuming sloppy josephs, which is what caused my confusion at the presence of the blender. It was a mystery as well how the fridge was deprived of everything. Bare. That was when I noticed that the lasagna I had been saving since CHristmas was gone. I felt anger. That was when I saw what was in the blender. It also answered the question of why nothing was in the fridge. I asked my UNcle Pat: What happened to Sloppy Josephs? He answered: Oh, they're in there somewhere.

I have seen the devil, and it is inside of a blender.

I too have an uncle...come in...

ARAMINA

Monday, March 20, 2006 9:35 PM

Got to start an anti-boy rant.

I got dumped yesterday. Goddamn boys says they're commited to you but as soon as you tell them you are too they run for the hills because you feel more than they do and they're never going to feel as much as you do. And how the hell does he know how I feel. Then he gets to go on and on and on telling me how we can be friends and I'm like um no. I don't want to be your friend. Crap for brains. Stupid men! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

This post was brought to you by a men-hating hairy feminist wannabe.

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DESKTOPHIPPIE

Monday, March 20, 2006 9:58 PM

I kept moaning because we didn't get snow. We never get snow in Dublin any more. Everyone else had snow and we didn't. I wanted to see some snow, dammit! It didn't have to stick or anything, I just wanted to see pretty flakes falling from the sky, instead of the sleet or hail we usually get.

Last Thursday it snowed.

And our heating broke down.

And while I'm at it ... I've wanted to get this off my chest for ages. Why the hell are people here bashing Buffy???? That's the last thing I expected on this forum! I've seen more snide comments about it here than I've had to put up with from my soap opera reality show loving housemates! Have any of you even watched the show???

I don't even understand what the problem is! Is it because it's set in a high school? Because they graduated after three years the same way most other students do! Is it because it has vampires and demons? C'mon, we watch a show about cowboys in space! If a sci-fi show can give a scarily accurate portrayal of our moderm world, why can't a fantasy show do the same?

I mean, we're all agreed that Joss is a genius, right? And he created Buffy and Angel as well as Firefly, right? So ... what? He just left his brain at home for the first eight years he worked in TV and ~then~ decided he was going to pour all his creative brilliance into a TV show?

I truly don't understand how sci-fi fans can dismiss a show like Buffy as being no more worthy than drivel like Charmed or (and this one had me fuming for nearly a week!) Beverly Hills 90210. Do you really, honestly, truly think that anything written by Joss would be even remotely as mind numbingly mundane as those shows?

I'm not saying that every episode of the show was perfect - there were some stinkers in the seven years it ran. And I'm not saying everyone should be a fan - I know a show about vampires isn't everyone's cup of O negative. What I ~am~ saying is that if you're not into a show about teens or vampires or whatever, you shouldn't dismiss it as bad writing. It's just a genre that doesn't interest you. That doesn't always mean that it's awful. I really expected Firefly fans, of all people, to know that.

Okay, rant over. *puts on flame proof suit*

SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:11 PM

there are people dissing Buffy?

BUFFY?!?

where are they? Lemme at 'em, oooooh they're gonna pay!

Cripes, Buffy was the only thing worht watching some times. And In over two hundred episodes, yes there are going to be bad ones, Hell, If Firefly had run for two hundred eps (oh gods don't we wish?) we'd be saying 'such and such and episode wasn't so great' but come on, only compared to their own standards, even an absolute Buffy stinker would still be infinitly preferable to all the season there wver where of Charmed.

God don't even mention 90210.

bleurgh. seriously, where are the anti-buffy posts? i've not seen them. (mind you, not left talk for a little while)

um, you got another one of those suits?

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:17 PM

I don't want to point out particular posters because a) they're entitled to their opinion and b) I don't want to start a board war over it, but I have seen a fair few Buffy bashing posts. It's not all I've seen. I've seen loads of pro-Buffy posts, some very insightful debates as well as the usual Buffy fan rants (fans who wish the last two seasons never happened, who hated Seeing Red and the consequences, who didn't like season seven, the usual stuff that we argue about amoung ourselves!)

What shocked me was seeing posters here dismiss the whole show out of hand, even saying they were put off watching Firefly because of it! All I can say is ... what??? Even if you didn't like the genre, you must have realised the writing was good! I mean, unless the only episode you saw was Bad Eggs or something...

RIVER6213

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:22 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Aramina:
Got to start an anti-boy rant.

I got dumped yesterday. Goddamn boys says they're commited to you but as soon as you tell them you are too they run for the hills because you feel more than they do and they're never going to feel as much as you do. And how the hell does he know how I feel. Then he gets to go on and on and on telling me how we can be friends and I'm like um no. I don't want to be your friend. Crap for brains. Stupid men! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Be your friend? You should have laughed in his face. People like that should have their asses kicked. Sorry you got dumped, join the club, and get in line and take a number. The only good man is a humilated, defiled man.

River

SASSALICIOUS

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
She was wearing black low ride pants and a black high rise top and a white thong that made this HUGE white T on her lower back.

Something similar happened in one of my classes a few years ago, but since I'm incredibly tactless I somewhat loudly announced it to my friend. The girl tried to fix it. I then muttered "didn't work". So I can be a bit of a bitch . . . .

Enter rant(s):

1. WHY CAN'T MY ROOMMATE CLEAN ANYTHING? SHE'S A LAZY INCOMPETENT MORON AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO FUNCTION IN SOCIETY? JESUS! IF THE GARBAGE IS FULL, EMPTY IT. IF THE INTERNET DIES, CALL THE CABLE COMPANY, NOT YOUR SISTER. WHEN THE DISH RACK IS FULL, PUT THE DISHES AWAY!!!!!! She makes me furious and raises my blood pressure. At least my other roommate is totally awesome.

2. I'm not trying to rehash the South Dakota abortion ban debate, I just need to scream about a narrow-minded, self-righteous, a-hole named Bill Napoli. He's a Republican Senator for Rapid City and thinks abortion should only be allowed when: "A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life." I'M SORRY, BUT ALL RAPES, SEXUAL ASSAULTS, ETC ARE TRAUMATIZING TO THE VICTIM. NOT JUST THE SO-CALLED "VIOLENT" ONES. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THE GIRL IS A VIRGIN, RELIGIOUS, OR NOT. IT'S STILL A CRIME, IT'S STILL TRAUMATIC, AND IT WILL STILL HAVE LASTING PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS. But then again, I'm sure he gets raped all the time, so he must know how it is.

now I pass off the ranting torch . . .

RIVER6213

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:24 PM

I wish I had my own Terminator to control.

SERENITYPUNK

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:31 PM

pffffft

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DAYVE

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by DesktopHippie:
Why the hell are people here bashing Buffy????

not a BB (Buff basher)...that was the show that introduced me to mr. Whedon....i had to go back to find some of his other stuff (Roseanne), just to check out his writting skills....Buffy was great. Angel was just as good (for me)...but the guy got it all right with Firefly.

So, i get a little upset when people bash Buffy, too. I've had people tell me what a crappy show it was... people who haven't even seen it...

This brings me back to a previous rant. I just don't know anymore. You can buy the books, send them to school...but there are some people who are just hopelessly uninformed...misguided....apathetic...(i'm trying to be nice)...damn it...just plain stupid.... (i give you George Bush as a prime example)... "Shrub" as he is known here in Texas is so much not a leader...so much not presidential material...so much not the man of god that he pretends to be.... and the good citizens of this wacked out country keep trusting this guy..not to mention re-electing the bozo.... And what is sad (to the point of major depression) is the fact that in a few years there will be some other clown just as bad who will be chosen by the same god-fearing homophobes who put Shrub & his cronies in power....

So tell me, why is it that people refuse to learn from the mistakes of the past....? Are we doomed to repeat the same bloody history of warmongoring chicken-hawks and tyranical rulers.....

are we just circling the drain......

where are we going, and why am i in this hand-basket??

RIVER6213

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sassalicious:
Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
She was wearing black low ride pants and a black high rise top and a white thong that made this HUGE white T on her lower back.

Something similar happened in one of my classes a few years ago, but since I'm incredibly tactless I somewhat loudly announced it to my friend. The girl tried to fix it. I then muttered "didn't work". So I can be a bit of a bitch . . . .

Enter rant(s):

1. WHY CAN'T MY ROOMMATE CLEAN ANYTHING? SHE'S A LAZY INCOMPETENT MORON AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO FUNCTION IN SOCIETY? JESUS! IF THE GARBAGE IS FULL, EMPTY IT. IF THE INTERNET DIES, CALL THE CABLE COMPANY, NOT YOUR SISTER. WHEN THE DISH RACK IS FULL, PUT THE DISHES AWAY!!!!!! She makes me furious and raises my blood pressure. At least my other roommate is totally awesome.

2. I'm not trying to rehash the South Dakota abortion ban debate, I just need to scream about a narrow-minded, self-righteous, a-hole named Bill Napoli. He's a Republican Senator for Rapid City and thinks abortion should only be allowed when: "A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life." I'M SORRY, BUT ALL RAPES, SEXUAL ASSAULTS, ETC ARE TRAUMATIZING TO THE VICTIM. NOT JUST THE SO-CALLED "VIOLENT" ONES. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THE GIRL IS A VIRGIN, RELIGIOUS, OR NOT. IT'S STILL A CRIME, IT'S STILL TRAUMATIC, AND IT WILL STILL HAVE LASTING PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS. But then again, I'm sure he gets raped all the time, so he must know how it is.

now I pass off the ranting torch . . .

Men don't know what the fuck they are talking about, and 90% of them are complete idiots, and if I had my way that 90% would be castrated and then disemboweled in front of a pack of waiting, hungry, wolves who would feast on their innards, and I would rejoice to the sound of their lasts, muffled screams...but that's just me.

River

SASSALICIOUS

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sassalicious:
Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
She was wearing black low ride pants and a black high rise top and a white thong that made this HUGE white T on her lower back.

Something similar happened in one of my classes a few years ago, but since I'm incredibly tactless I somewhat loudly announced it to my friend. The girl tried to fix it. I then muttered "didn't work". So I can be a bit of a bitch . . . .

Enter rant(s):

1. WHY CAN'T MY ROOMMATE CLEAN ANYTHING? SHE'S A LAZY INCOMPETENT MORON AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO FUNCTION IN SOCIETY? JESUS! IF THE GARBAGE IS FULL, EMPTY IT. IF THE INTERNET DIES, CALL THE CABLE COMPANY, NOT YOUR SISTER. WHEN THE DISH RACK IS FULL, PUT THE DISHES AWAY!!!!!! She makes me furious and raises my blood pressure. At least my other roommate is totally awesome.

2. I'm not trying to rehash the South Dakota abortion ban debate, I just need to scream about a narrow-minded, self-righteous, a-hole named Bill Napoli. He's a Republican Senator for Rapid City and thinks abortion should only be allowed when: "A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged. The girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life." I'M SORRY, BUT ALL RAPES, SEXUAL ASSAULTS, ETC ARE TRAUMATIZING TO THE VICTIM. NOT JUST THE SO-CALLED "VIOLENT" ONES. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF THE GIRL IS A VIRGIN, RELIGIOUS, OR NOT. IT'S STILL A CRIME, IT'S STILL TRAUMATIC, AND IT WILL STILL HAVE LASTING PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS. But then again, I'm sure he gets raped all the time, so he must know how it is.

now I pass off the ranting torch . . .

Men don't know what the fuck they are talking about, and 90% of them are complete idiots, and if I had my way that 90% would be castrated and then disemboweled in front of a pack of waiting, hungry, wolves who would feast on their innards, and I would rejoice to the sound of their lasts, muffled screams...but that's just me.

River

i heart you. and yes, i realize "heart" isn't a verb.

DAYVE

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Men don't know what the fuck they are talking about......90%....are complete idiots...if I had my way that 90% would be castrated.....disemboweled in front of a pack of waiting, hungry, wolves......feast on their innards...but that's just me.]

yikes....

me thinks i will just mosey on over to a little different thread....

****holds hands over crotch.....runs for life......****

SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:42 PM

oh, i'm not going to start any wars, I just genuinly hadn't seen any of the bashing posts, generally FF fans a Whedon fans, they 'get' his work, and like it.

But like I said I haven't left talk for a while.

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I wish I had my own Terminator to control.

I'm with ya there sweetie.

My first ever "serious relationship" we danced around each other for months, I finally decided that if I didn't do anything, nothing would happen. So I started it, short while, we were happy, getting on fine he even talked to his mom about me, not having any hang-ups with the whole 'saving myself for my wedding night' guff, we did the dirty, and few days later? " I just don't think you are ready for the commitment, you're to young, this is moving to quickly, blah blah blah, yadda yadda etc,

Patronising git. Stupid idiot as well, he was getting a 'perfect' deal as well - I liked him enough to spend time with him, enjoyed having him in my life and all the stufff that come with, but had no intention of ever dragging him down an aisle.

So I think, 'it must be me, I must be completely unlovable, it was just pity...

I felt just great, took years and several bad flngs to work that one out and get over it.

Some men just don't know a good thing when they see it.

He has a divorce and a kid now. Oh well, for him.

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KAYNA

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
yeah, we had one like that, this woman had too tight everything, too tight bra, to tight tights, too tight knickers,under too tight lycra. hell, she looked like a caterpillar, all segmented, that or the Michelin Man.

I know what you mean. I can't stand it when girls dress like that, as if tight=sexy, especially if they are overwieght (shudder).
I, personally am a fat girl. I don't like it (am currently working on a diet) but I don't dress like I weigh 120 lbs either! I mean what the f

?!? Don't they realize that wearing a tupe top and low rise jeans just makes them look worse?

On another note, I can't stand beautiful, well sized girls complaining about how fat thay are!

I would kill to look like some of those girls. Like my cousin. She's 5ft 9 in, has had two kids and wears a size 10 and can't stop complaining about how fat she is. AAUUUUUUUUHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!

Oh yes. One more. The church signs in the BSR. GRRRRRRR

See my blog here http://www.fireflyfans.net/showblog.asp?b=3580 to see my rant on this topic.
They are really starting to annoy me, to put it mildly.

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SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 10:48 PM

And the other 10%?

Ah, you see to me only about 10% are bad. I just haven't met the other 90% (personally) yet.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

CHINDI

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:02 PM

DAMN YOU GUYS! I am LOVING this thread.. and it is supposed to be about being miserable and ranting.. hard to keep up the full steam when you all are so good at venting and making me laugh
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Kicking whomever OFF the soapbox and SHRIEKING in most unpleasant tones....

IT'S FRIGGIN' Monday! It is STILL RAINING and grey, I had to drive two hours in the rain for a meeting.... I have company at home I HAVE to leave work early to visit with and I have sooo much work I am having a nervous breakdown... but still I gotta leave...

My old CAR that I LOVE TO BITS finally died beyond redemption and I HAD TO BUY A NEW CAR (ok used but new to me) so I have payments AGAIN...

and on top of all that... Firefly is STILL not renewed somewhere....

grrrrr

ok.. do I feel better??? Nope.. but I DO feel surrounded by like minded "friends..." thanks for listening

Chindi

SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:04 PM

I don't know. What get my goat about the whole fat issue is this diet culture. I mean its all you ever hear some women talk about for f's sakes. Jeasus, I mean I'd rather look like jabba the hut and be able to converse animatedly about a hundred different subjects over a plate of pizze than sit picking over a salad and scowl my way through a dissection of the calorific values of a digestive buscuit. I mean hell, talking about dieting is about as sexy as talking about how you like to go out at night and fondle roadkill.

Plus theres this whole issue of, yeah, I could diet, loose weight, tone up, look like Kate sodding Moss, and I could get a great job, a cute boyfriend, be the belle of the ball. but hang on, wouldn't that mean that i'm not good enough if i'm not skinny? are only skinny people allowed to be happy? do fat people have to be punished? cause thats the impression I get from society.

I would rather achieve all those things now, exactly as I am, based on who I am. And by that I mean my mind, my personality, because hey, the way Kate Moss is going, she's going to be really really ugly, very soon, and then what has she got going for her.?

The only thing about my appearence I care about is my face - its how I communicate whats in my head, and hell, i'm pretty damn happy with it, even the imperfections, they make me different, and the thing I hate most is being lumped in with others for the stupidest of reasons.

I want to loose weight, but the ONLY reason for that is I have a hereditary weakness in my ankle, my mother has the same thing, and has damaged it irrevocably, so loosing any wieght may help avoid the same thing. But only may, it could, and probably will, make no difference whatsoever. So I'm not in any hurry to kill my self on a diet, and i'm not going to stop enjoying myself out of some enforced guilt.

Grrrgh.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

SASSALICIOUS

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:08 PM

my campus is crawling with drunken frat guys (and non-frat guys) that think they are hot stuff. these people annoy me.

i find all the other nice guys when i'm away from campus, but for the moment (as i'm stuck here for a bit), 90% suck.

i do however, really really really like the guys i meet when i'm backpacking. mmmmmmm. could be because they are usually foreign. or older.

GUENEVER

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 1978:
it is going to snow tonight!

I take it you live in the DC metro area 1978? My bit of angst: I drove to DC this morning, spent 2 hours in traffic listening to weird people rant on the metro. Get to the office (borrowed, I have none there, not even a phone), go to the 15 minute staff meeting and get told You can go home, we don't need you today.

Spent three hours in fricking traffic! And well sex... nothing more need be said on that topic right now.

As for fashion -- live in southern MD and go to Wal-Mart for a check on the what not to wear!

DOG13000

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:19 PM

I HAVE......

A HEADACHE!!!!

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RIVER6213

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
I don't know. What get my goat about the whole fat issue is this diet culture. I mean its all you ever hear some women talk about for f's sakes. Jeasus, I mean I'd rather look like jabba the hut and be able to converse animatedly about a hundred different subjects over a plate of pizze than sit picking over a salad and scowl my way through a dissection of the calorific values of a digestive buscuit. I mean hell, talking about dieting is about as sexy as talking about how you like to go out at night and fondle roadkill.

Plus theres this whole issue of, yeah, I could diet, loose weight, tone up, look like Kate sodding Moss, and I could get a great job, a cute boyfriend, be the belle of the ball. but hang on, wouldn't that mean that i'm not good enough if i'm not skinny? are only skinny people allowed to be happy? do fat people have to be punished? cause thats the impression I get from society.

I would rather achieve all those things now, exactly as I am, based on who I am. And by that I mean my mind, my personality, because hey, the way Kate Moss is going, she's going to be really really ugly, very soon, and then what has she got going for her.?

The only thing about my appearence I care about is my face - its how I communicate whats in my head, and hell, i'm pretty damn happy with it, even the imperfections, they make me different, and the thing I hate most is being lumped in with others for the stupidest of reasons.

I want to loose weight, but the ONLY reason for that is I have a hereditary weakness in my ankle, my mother has the same thing, and has damaged it irrevocably, so loosing any wieght may help avoid the same thing. But only may, it could, and probably will, make no difference whatsoever. So I'm not in any hurry to kill my self on a diet, and i'm not going to stop enjoying myself out of some enforced guilt.

Grrrgh.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

I've kept myself about the size of a tooth-pick all of my life because, like so many other women I was programmed with the idiotic notion that we should look like we are 16 years old regardless if we're 44. I look like I'm in perfect shape but I'm fucking hungry all the time because men only want women who look like children....how right is that?

It’s all up in the media. The images that are projected are small women that look 16 years old. You see it in the magazine racks. You see it in movies and on television. The unspoken message is clear as rain…If you are fat, no one will love you. If you are fat, no one will show you respect, but if you look like a 16 year old girl dressed in tight, sexy, bonded clothing, society as a whole will throw themselves at you. You are suddenly such a “sweet girl” men want to mate with you, kids love you…everyone wants to fuck you. I’m sick of it.

I think my mission for the rest of this year should be to grow fat. I’ve never been fat, but now I think its time. I’m going to order a pizza with everything on it!!!!

River

SERYN

Monday, March 20, 2006 11:56 PM

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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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:28 AM

interstingly, my mom had a theory about the 16 year old boy thing.

She reason that most of the big fashion housed are headed by gay men, and who do gay men fancy? other men, and what does the whole world find attractive? youth. So basically, all these designers are designing what they find sexy, young men. Even Jean Paul Gautier, the one who designs are most 'feminine' distorts and almost parodies the female form - Madonnas conical bar? your telling me that that was a celebration of tits?

Versace, Galliano, those two muppets with the bad hair, every single one of them. Only the Celebrity led fashions (i.e. J.Lo wears a waist cincher, everyone follows suit) are ever feminine.

The rest of the time, the spend all their efforts squishing boobs and lowering waist bands in an effort to distract away from the fact that woen go in at the waist. Which is why so many women nowadays seem seem so monstrously top heavy, wide shoulders down to tiny compressed hips, the waist abandonesd totally.

only feet are allowed to differ from mens shoes, but that is because high heels lengthen and dainty, pointy toes add to the male 'triangular' shape.

Only Donna Karan, Vera Wang, and primarily Vivienne Westwood allow their models to actually be female.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

PROSERPINE

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:30 AM

Today I returned to my dorm room to find POOP, yes, feces, ON MY DOORKNOB! For the second time this year!!! Worst part is - my roommates and I don't have any obvious enemies, so we have no idea who hates us this much or why! We are quiet chem-free NERDS! WHO HATES US?!?!?!?

Also, my school's chorus was supposed to be going on a trip to Europe during my senior year, but they're going NEXT year instead, so I can't go anymore!!!!! And they're going to ROME and I'm a freaking Classics major!!!

ARGH!

"Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Today we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever."

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:31 AM

Wow! I'm impressed! You really think these things through!

River

SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:33 AM

oh god thats horrible.

Who the hell thinks like that?

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:39 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
oh god thats horrible.

Who the hell thinks like that?

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

This Earth-That-IS has a lot of angry people on it.

River

NUCLEARDAY

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:43 AM

Can I say on behalf of a good many men everywhere: give me a girl with some meat on her bones, gorramit! 'Cause bones ain't all that sexy last time I checked. Where is all this stuff coming from in our culture that's making women complain about their thighs and how big their butts and such? Cause it ain't comin' from me... For frell's sake, good child-bearin' hips are what my inner caveman craves in the first place ;p

Isn't it all about being healthy? What's with all this diet stuff anyways? I figure you eat good wholesome meals and get some regular exercise and the rest sort of takes care of itself. I got some extra pounds on me myself, so I can hardly expect anyone else to do much better. But I also know the spare tire I'm hauling around is from not being all that disciplined about what I shove into my mouth.

(Edited, and edited, and edited down, 'cause the rest of my rant was going in a rather crude manner... :)

To tie it all in to a Firefly-related topic. When I heard that Jewel gained 20 pounds to play Kaylee in the series I kinda wondered how tiny she was before that. 'Cause well, Kaylee's just about right, and whatever the frell "zoftig" is supposed to mean... well I guess I'll take that with a side of yes please I guess. (And then I'll move on 'cause it ain't all that gentlemanly to be discussing a lady's weight and all.)

Whew... hadn't ranted in awhile. Good thread ;p

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SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:46 AM

oh thank you. I think everything through. I like to understand things. REALLY understand things.

Its probably a blessing and a curse, and probably the rout cause of that depression (though also, interestingly enough, the cure)

Oh blissful Ingnorance, why wouldst thou not be mine?

Also helps that i'm a student of fashion history. People will tell you that clothes are the way they are because they are pretty.

Nope, wrong.

Theres more politics going on in a corset than there is in the House of Commons. Well, Lords maybe.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

KAYNA

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:07 AM

Oh God! I'm not trying to be cray about dieting Seryn. I just mean getting a bit more in shape cause I feel like crap physically. I also have shin spints and a fondness for going barefoot. Put together with my wieght and it gets a little painful. Losing some weight would help with that some.
The image thing really bugs me too. It really pisses me off when I can't find any decent looking clothes (not ugly sacks or stuff for the over 40 crowd) in my size. Anything even remotely interesting ends at about size 12. And like I said I know some beautiful folks who think that they're fat. I get irritated with them but I get pissed at the culture that convinced them that they have to be a 90 lb waif to be attractive.

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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:18 AM

oh yeah, not getting at you.

this is the venting thread, and I was doing just that. And yeah, I know one female, the whole of my life, who didn't sooner of later go 'i'm watching my weight.

Like I said, i'm not against healthiness, I'm trying to loose it for the sake of that ankle (and to be honest just because I like the idea of treadmills (Run Forest! Run!) and rowing machines, they sound... distracting.

and at the base of it, humans shouldn't carry too much fat. Storing energy is a survival mechanism, and when you eat everyday its not really necessary, so the only fat you need is enough for the healthy functioning of your body (yup Cosmo, you listening? Fat exists because your body needs it! oooooh, scary) and no more.

But even healthy is to fat for the rags, so...

but good luck, I hope you loose what you want and your leg problems clear up. Just don't what ever you do, become a diet bore. Spend at least four hourse of every day talking with out saying the word 'diet' once.

Preserve your brain! For somereason, the personality always seems to be the first thing shed in any diet, with some people anyway.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

KAYNA

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:34 AM

The brain is key. I do agree with that. If I can't have an intelligent conversation with someone I lose interest in them. Stupid and/or vapid floks irritate the out of me. I like my brain how it is and I don't mean to let it drip out of myears for any reason.

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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:38 AM

thats the spirit.

Ok, if you want a good giggle, head over to here - http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=18972

I giggled so hard I almost choked, and now I don't have anyrant left in me.

Well, work tomorrow, will have then.

Love y'll my venting buddies.

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Hodgins: Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn it stops. You tell it to stop it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage it watches reruns of Firefly.

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:52 AM

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

WITCHOFTHEDOGS

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 1:56 AM

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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Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she keels.

Makes her a home.

ZAKNRFAMA

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:01 AM

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?

WITCHOFTHEDOGS

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:03 AM

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

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Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down... tells you she's hurting before she keels.

Makes her a home.

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:05 AM

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

ZAKNRFAMA

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:23 AM

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

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:28 AM

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

ZAKNRFAMA

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 2:31 AM

Oh, no I was commenting on what Witchofthedogs said.

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

LAUGHINGMUSE

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:00 AM

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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Mankind makes tools; we use them to augment our hands, arms and legs.
The computer augments the brain and this makes it very unpopular with totalitarians. - Charles J.C. Lyall

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:03 AM

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

KAYNA

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:16 AM

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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Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

CAUSAL

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:23 AM

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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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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

CRACKERS

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:54 AM

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!

CRACKERS

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:27 AM

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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Being CRACKERS provides sanity in an insane world!

"Damn, one day I'll come up with a qoute of my own, but it aint today!"

CRACKERS

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:52 AM

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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Being CRACKERS provides sanity in an insane world!

"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass and I'm all out of bubblegum." - Rowdy Roddy Piper (John Carpenter's 'They Live')

SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:28 AM

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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CITIZEN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:31 AM

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

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No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.

RIVER6213

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:19 PM

Hi! Citizen!

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

River

SERYN

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 5:52 PM

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

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:38 AM

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*

SINGATE

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:06 PM

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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SISTERBETTYX

Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:36 AM

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.”

RIVERGODDESS

Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:13 AM

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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SERYN

Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:34 PM

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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MAL4PREZ

Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:40 PM

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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SERYN

Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:20 PM

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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ARAMINA

Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:23 PM

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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SLAYER730

Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:45 PM

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***

COPILOT

Thursday, March 23, 2006 10:03 PM

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

SLAYER730

Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:09 PM

No problem, copilot. Thanks for listening.

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

MYSTRE

Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:33 PM

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.

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

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.

JADEHAND

Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:36 PM

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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SERYN

Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:58 PM

me? brilliant?

what?

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

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JADEHAND

Friday, March 24, 2006 1:32 AM

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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"Finding the answer It's a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion

COPILOT

Friday, March 24, 2006 3:22 AM

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

RIVER6213

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:07 AM

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

RIVER6213

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:14 AM

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.

Visit WWW.Marillion.Com for a better way to live
"Finding the answer It's a human obsession
But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion

What's a bollock?

JADEHAND

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:25 AM

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.

Visit WWW.Marillion.Com for a better way to live
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But you might as well talk to the stones and the trees and the sea
'Cause nobody knows And so few can see
There's only beauty and caring and truth beyond darkness." -Estonia(This Strange Engine) -Marillion

JADEHAND

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:27 AM

oops silly double post.

SERYN

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:57 AM

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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CITIZEN

Friday, March 24, 2006 10:18 AM

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.

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.

SLAYER730

Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:37 AM

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

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

SHEPARD

Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:32 AM

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.

COPILOT

Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:14 AM

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

KAYNA

Sunday, March 26, 2006 2:40 AM

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.
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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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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.

SERYN

Sunday, March 26, 2006 10:12 PM

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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SASSALICIOUS

Monday, March 27, 2006 8:22 PM

Copilot,

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

CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:15 PM

*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.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny
President of the Juggled Gosling Chatroom

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

SHEPARD

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:49 PM

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.

COPILOT

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 10:00 PM

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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