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Title: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Cez on March 11, 2004, 03:25:20 AM
LOL, WTF?

*B.I.T.C.H.S.L.A.P.S.*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 14, 2004, 04:03:20 PM
THE BI.TCH OF THE WEEK MY FUKING PC


STUPID WH.ORE CRASHES EVERY 5 MINUTE I FREAKING HATE IT WTFWTF *STABS*

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 14, 2004, 04:06:07 PM
I love it, new update the bi.tch of the week lol, kq9 has always brand new kick ass stuff for the everyone :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on March 14, 2004, 04:07:30 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!  XD

B.itch of the Week!! <3

I'd have to say my personal b.itch right now is SCHOOL!  >:(  The b.itchiness never quits!!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 14, 2004, 04:12:41 PM
that's like a constant bi.tch with pms, I say once you graduate I'll help you burn it down, deal? :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on March 14, 2004, 04:54:19 PM
LOL!  Well I'm ready to burn it down now, but ok, deal!  XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on March 14, 2004, 04:57:20 PM
The b**** of the week is me!

...wait, I'm not sure that came out right.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 15, 2004, 02:03:36 AM
Quote from: copycat on March 14, 2004, 02:09:15 PM
racx_00, would you like my assault cats to come and help you (please consider carefully, because this is a one-time offer, and only applicable in this instance)?
I dont know if i need your cats seeing that im in your asylum XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 22, 2004, 01:23:51 PM
did I announce the bi.tch of the week yet?! OMFG SHAME ON ME, we did the updates and I so forgotz this important thread...

the bi.tch of tha fuking weekz is MY THESIS PARTNER
FOR BEING THE BIGGETS COCKSUCKER MOTHERFUCKER MORON FAGGOT STUPID a****** ON THE GODDAMN f***ing PLANET! I hope he chokez on a peanut and die <3 omg Say ebil! :o


hey nice, just testing the filter... ya know...


remember kiddies, do not do this at home or the boogieman will tickle ya while you sleep :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Oldbushie on March 22, 2004, 08:09:14 PM
:o

Eep...

*runs and hides*  :-[
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 27, 2004, 09:57:42 AM
OH MY GOD, updates are coming and we will see who is the bi.tch of next week :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 28, 2004, 12:12:40 AM
YAY more updates !!!

BTW i hope im the bi.tch of the week ;D

J/K
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on March 28, 2004, 12:18:39 AM
Why would you like to be a female dog?? ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 28, 2004, 12:19:53 AM
i was only joking so :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 28, 2004, 11:52:31 AM
yah, Im not announcing who the bi.tch of the week is though :P

OMG HOLD ON TO YOUR PANTIES LADIES (and gentlemen) :P lol ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 28, 2004, 08:44:12 PM
When will you release info on bi.tch of the week ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 28, 2004, 09:18:28 PM
hahaha Im so tired I forgot who I had in mind hahaha, I'll announce it tomorrow with the updates :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 28, 2004, 09:20:24 PM
i wish everyone lived in Australia :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 28, 2004, 09:23:03 PM
why, are the days there 36 hours long?! ;D hahaha thats the only way I would consider move so far :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 28, 2004, 09:26:19 PM
Its Monday here so if you lived here then all the Forum updates and bi.tch stuff would have been released by now ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 29, 2004, 07:59:42 AM
HEY, THIS IS THE BI.TCH THREAD YA READ?!


YOU CANT BE FUKING NICE HERE, K?!?! GOOD :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on March 29, 2004, 09:16:25 AM
...y...yes miss Salazar ; /

...but you wasn't here and there wasn't announced a ...ehh, 'you know what' yet ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on March 29, 2004, 11:49:14 AM
I hate my job and where I live.
:'(
* b.tches*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 29, 2004, 09:17:05 PM
OH YAH FINALLY.. the updates are done so I get to announce the bi.tch of tha week

and the bi.tch of tha week is...

*drums roll*

JAMES!! FOR SHOWING THAT STUPID HORRIBLE GODDAMN FUGLY CAT ALL THE WAY HERE :D <3
congrats you bi.tch :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 30, 2004, 04:57:07 AM
I wanted to be the bi.tch though :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on March 30, 2004, 05:00:17 AM
well perhaps if you nag/disturb/tease/whatever Say enough, perhaps you'll be it next week ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 30, 2004, 08:05:34 AM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on March 30, 2004, 08:06:29 AM
Yes, it's terribly easy.  If you haven't been able to do it yet, I suggest you try harder! :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on March 30, 2004, 10:34:56 AM
I would also like to b.itch and complain and whine about the fact that there are so many "What the's" out there.

I do find the polls rather amusing and enjoyable...but I'm slooow, folks.  I can't keep up with all the numbers.  I know where I've posted and where I haven't and what topics were what...
Agh!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on March 30, 2004, 06:20:40 PM
I'd just like to b**** about being depressed lately. That's all. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 31, 2004, 04:44:31 AM
Quote from: J-ROC on March 30, 2004, 10:34:56 AM
I would also like to b.itch and complain and whine about the fact that there are so many "What the's" out there.

I do find the polls rather amusing and enjoyable...but I'm slooow, folks.  I can't keep up with all the numbers.  I know where I've posted and where I haven't and what topics were what...
Agh!
You should have posted at the polls when i made the first one ;P
J/K
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 31, 2004, 08:42:21 AM
you know, james has been around more than he claims to be, its just that after 90457806546 times nagging him per day about kq9 he eventually signed up :P

We talk a lot and 90% of the info he recieves from me  sometimes its kq9 related hahaha, see guys?! I talk about you a lot :P cuz I <3 u all ;D... so James is jealous and he came here cuz he wants to steal the attention from you :o :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on March 31, 2004, 08:51:02 AM
Under the usual circumstances, I would dispute such an outrageous claim...



...but in this case, if I were to do so, it would make me a liar.

Hrrrm...I haven't stalked anyone this much since high school. :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on March 31, 2004, 08:53:00 AM
you cant even stalk your friends! didnt you get lost in the mexico desert? :P <3  *pokes* ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on March 31, 2004, 09:03:33 AM
We didn't get lost, per se...we got stranded in the desert.

Our rental car ran out of gas.

Reaaaally, that's what happened. :P


For those of you who are interested in more of my Mexican misadventures, you can read my 19 day journal here:
http://is2.dal.ca/~jingram/mexico.html

PS: There's some cussin' in it, so you are now formally warned of the mature subject matter and coarse language. :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on March 31, 2004, 11:53:43 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on March 29, 2004, 04:43:57 AMI can understand the bath thing... sure, a genie can just snap themselves clean in a hurry, but there's nothing as luxuriating and relaxing as sitting in some nice, warm, soapy water. :)

We're quite luxurious in these bottles/lamps, don't you agree? ;B

Oh yeah, I seriously need to B.itch a bit more at Say. It's been a bit too long since my past effort. :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on March 31, 2004, 07:59:42 PM
I bi.tch at her all the time ;D, dont i Say ;B
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 01, 2004, 07:46:27 AM
Quote from: copycat on March 31, 2004, 11:53:43 AM
Oh yeah, I seriously need to B.itch a bit more at Say. It's been a bit too long since my past effort. :suffer:

omg, bob plz dont... plz
you are tha bi.tch, the few times that you've tried you've been mean and cruel, and I dont like those things.

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 01, 2004, 09:52:53 AM
My b.itch of the week finally is over!!  The stupid exam is done!!!  XD I think I did ok on it, but I'll wait until I get the marks back before celebrating.  ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 01, 2004, 11:14:59 AM
Let us know how you did, Yonkey. If you did well, we'll party to celebrate. If you didn't do so well, we'll party to cheer you up. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 01, 2004, 01:56:01 PM
lol, yeahh... we party anyway ; ) hahaha.... serious, hope you did well Neil!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 01, 2004, 02:45:58 PM
Quote from: Say on April 01, 2004, 07:46:27 AMomg, bob plz dont... plz
you are tha bi.tch, the few times that you've tried you've been mean and cruel, and I dont like those things.
Thank you for confirming my bi.tch-qualities. I'll try and be good from now on. ;]

As for exams, I usually expected the worst, so when the results came it was always good. ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 02, 2004, 04:09:34 AM
Quote from: Yonkey on April 01, 2004, 09:52:53 AM
My b.itch of the week finally is over!!  The stupid exam is done!!!  XD I think I did ok on it, but I'll wait until I get the marks back before celebrating.  ;P
Hope your marks are good ;B
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 02, 2004, 07:37:46 AM
Quote from: copycat on April 01, 2004, 02:45:58 PM
As for exams, I usually expected the worst, so when the results came it was always good. ;D
That's what I do as well.  Unfortunately, it sucks when you get even worse than what you're expecting. :S

Thanks again guys!  I'll probably know the marks on Monday or Thursday (the last day of classes, so I'll have to know by then).  
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 02, 2004, 07:40:35 AM
I usually think of the worst and get the worst :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 03, 2004, 10:41:47 PM
well one way or another life gets even (I hope)

you do really good at something and in some other you just simply dont I guess, its a matter of... survive ? I dont know dont mind me lets whine together :(  :-[


I feel my life sucks my existance is freaking meaningless and I wanna jump in front of the subway in movement :(


oh yeah, happy post alright

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 04, 2004, 05:06:27 AM
I want to jump off a cliff :(, thats how crap i feel at the moment :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 04, 2004, 09:27:39 AM
I have a blood blister in my left heel. Yech.

I've been feeling crappy, too. I've got problems with not fitting in, and feeling like I can't do anything right, and being envious of other people, and not being happy with myself. :P

I used to have sucky jobs, so I could just focus on how crappy the job was, and ignore the rest. Now that I have a job that's OK, it makes me realize how much I suck. :P

Is there anything in specific making you unhappy that you want to talk about Say, and Racx, or are you just feeling miserable in general?

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 04, 2004, 11:07:02 AM
yeahhh... <sigh> life sucks and so do I ; (

...but there is no need for any cliffs or subways  :'(

*cast a spell that gives Racx wingz*

*holdz say, so she can't jump*

*gives a bandage to Jeysie*

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2004, 12:09:30 PM
let me put it this way

you focus your life in one track, and when you realize its just never enough for you and no matter how hard you try you just wont have it all, its depressing to work so hard and always have... nothing? you know?

I mean, dont get me wrong, I feel very please I've appeared in magazines, press, I was even on tv lol (when I won the contest), I have awards and degrees and all that bullshit, Im in honor list and even the dean at campus loves me, its all... good, in fact its great, but its not enough, its like... I have it all and to my own, kq9 is a beautiful place where I happen to share my things with the nice people around, but even so... lol I think you guys are the only ones I do get to talk with, Im always busy, Im always working, Im always like.. too busy to live at least a little or something, I dont know its very hard to say or explain, I just feel extremely unhappy even so I have things to be thankful and to feel great for, all I have is work and sadly every single achievements I have noone to share them with sometimes, it feels lonely to be me.

It's just sad, my life turned out to be just freaking hell in a miserably week, while work is all... doing just wow, great, its all coming out together, thesis its going on great, my life just plain sucks, problems at home, problems with myself, problems with the few ones I freaking care about, its like, I need to tear myself in two, but I rather hide at work rather than to give a s*** about the rest, at least is easier, but then again when work fails or when work is done for the day (I cant work 24/7 no matter how hard I try) there is always that moment of my day that I get to think how much I want what I cant have, and how much I need what I never find, its just plain sad, and I hate myself for not being as perfect as everyone think I am or everything, not that it matters, but the fact is Im my worst judge and I just wish I had the answers to at least give myself peace of mind.

wow, a serious long depressing post... looks like my journal... :(

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 04, 2004, 02:39:32 PM
It seems to me like you need to simplify a little bit, Say.

There's not much you can do while you're finishing your studies, but after that... take some time to figure out what you want to do, and what makes you happy. Then focus as best you can on that and let the rest go hang.

You can't "have it all"... it's just physically impossible. So concentrate on just having the things that are important to you. Maybe you consider friends important. Maybe it's creative expression. Maybe it's being respected. Maybe it's just having free time to sit and veg. Whatever it is, go after those things, and don't sweat the other stuff.

Yeah, you have to compromise in some spots... a person needs to eat and stay sheltered, after all, and sometimes you have to do a few things you don't like to manage that. But for the most part... it just sounds to me like you're trying to do too much, and most of it isn't really stuff that matters to you. All the awards and such don't mean much if it's not things that really make you happy.

Blow off other people's comments a little bit for the time being, too. Everybody's always got some idea of what you should be, and what you should do, and sometimes that can be useful to listen to and consider. But in the end, you're the one living your life, not them.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2004, 03:42:52 PM
I totally understand and I guess you're right, the problem is not that I try to do too much, the problem is one is the scapegoat of another? I mean, I do love my job dont get me wrong but there is no possible way I could have been where I am with just 21 years old anyways if I didnt do what I did, yet its like.. seriously I have nothing of my own my own you know? these goes go away, achievements always look good in a CV, no denial in that but that's all that is, and no I cant slow down, in fact, this is one of the phases of my life (again) when I just cant stop, for example, when I finished highschool I entered right away to the university, I almost did a 5 year career in 4 with excellent grades I couldnt actually make it because of administrative problems at campus that the whole university shut down for like 3 months :s, anyhow, now I havent even ended university and I do have things to look foward but also I look at what it is right now, and I have uncompleted pieces of a life, its like... what is it to have a good chocolate if you cant share it?! you know? well I dont know, probably it's just me, my family plays a different role on this because I cant continue living their life I need my own and instead of being a load I rather be a help, I may have a lot of my head but at the same time I have noone there for me either, it feels really ackward, its just a really bad moment I guess. I'll shut up now and go back to my lame ass jokes, I dont even like me like this lol :(


hey its weekend, I should announce the bi.tch of the week...


Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 04, 2004, 03:47:24 PM
Apart from the people in this forum, and my work-colleagues, I don't have any real friends either. :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2004, 03:49:40 PM
I totally relate to that :( (and co-workers here at kq9 I personally even dislike some of my clients lol :()
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 04, 2004, 04:26:59 PM
Well, if you feel like you can't slow down right now, Say, that's fine. Just remember... assuming the average female lifespan, you've got at least 60 years left to go... better to look and see if you can let some things take a little bit longer to do, then to try to do it all at once and get burned out.

Plus... you *do* have a lot of life to live... if it seems like some things are missing right now, or you feel things are crappy right now, that's OK. For the former, there's plenty of time to figure out what you need and go get it. For the latter, there's a saying that has helped me keep my sanity many a time... "This too shall pass." And then there's the Serenity Prayer (http://www.sca-recovery.org/Serenity.html)... something that even an agnostic can recognize the value of. (An online friend mailed me a coin with the text embedded on it, and I carry it around with me, since I need to remind myself of it a lot. :P )

As for friends... the only offline friend I have is Harrison... if it wasn't for him I really would have lost my sanity a long time ago. :P I don't fit in very well with my co-workers (they're nice people, they're just not the kind of people I can relate to), and I seldom go anywhere else. I enjoy talking to my online friends very much <3, although it's not entirely the same.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 04, 2004, 04:41:24 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on April 04, 2004, 04:26:59 PMI don't fit in very well with my co-workers (they're nice people, they're just not the kind of people I can relate to), and I seldom go anywhere else. I enjoy talking to my online friends very much <3, although it's not entirely the same.
Well, that's something I was lucky with, and that's my (male) co-workers, there's one slightly older than me, and another a bit younger, but we're all ICT and game-minded, amongst other things, so at regular times you can hear a laugh resounding on our cosy office container. There's also a woman I can relate to, she's also somewhat younger than me IIRC, but she's at another 'desk-island' a bit farther away (not our fault, we had one space left at out four-space island, but she wanted to sit at the other one.)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 04, 2004, 04:44:51 PM
Quote from: Say on April 04, 2004, 03:42:52 PM
hey its weekend, I should announce the bi.tch of the week...

*waiting* ; (

..heyy, wouldn't it be a good idea to skipp that??
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2004, 04:46:19 PM
my whole life switched off since end of last year... but... in 360º and ever since I havent had a single moment of peace that I can even sit down and watch tv for like at least 5 mins in calm, the only thing I have is to listen to music while I work, and go hug my puppies every now and then to take off the stress, but really... I had to become a new better version of me, It was simply like a downward spiral, I think I want the rollercaster to end, I want to settle, to me happyness is overrated but to at least to know that I will have something that will always be there? for good or bad you know? of my own... oh well, thanks for that prayer its absolutly beautiful, I will keep it with me too <3

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2004, 04:48:27 PM
no, no waiting, in fact

I am the bi.tch of the week, let me wear my crown of shi.t in my fuked up throne...

*wears crown and sits on throne*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 04, 2004, 04:49:08 PM
Quote from: copycat on April 04, 2004, 04:41:24 PMWell, that's something I was lucky with, and that's my (male) co-workers, there's one slightly older than me, and another a bit younger, but we're all ICT and game-minded, amongst other things, so at regular times you can hear a laugh resounding on our cosy office container. There's also a woman I can relate to, she's also somewhat younger than me IIRC, but she's at another 'desk-island' a bit farther away (not our fault, we had one space left at out four-space island, but she wanted to sit at the other one.)

Heh. My co-workers, it's like... they all seem fairly conservative, they spend their free time at sports bars, and flea markets, and shooting ranges, and fishing and hunting, and car races, and stuff like that. There's nothing wrong with any of that at all, it's just none of the sort of stuff that interests me, or that I feel I can relate to or talk about.

I've never really fit in anywhere, so I'm pretty used to being in the background and keeping to myself, for the most part. The problem is that it's a small company (there's only about 15 employees), so it's hard to keep to myself without coming off as aloof or rude, especially since most of my co-workers are fairly gregarious. (Also something I can't really relate to.)

Quote from: Say on April 04, 2004, 04:46:19 PMoh well, thanks for that prayer its absolutly beautiful, I will keep it with me too <3

I'm glad you like it. :) Unfortunately the coin I was sent is pretty old, so I don't know where to find another... but maybe I can cross-stitch it for you or something. (Of course, by time I get to actually do it, we'll all be looking back on this from our rockers and laughing... (sigh) ;P )

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 04, 2004, 04:51:55 PM
Quote from: Say on April 04, 2004, 04:46:19 PMmy whole life switched off since end of last year... but... in 360º
*confused*
Isn't 360° full circle, so you end up where you started?

EDIT: Yep, you guess right, quote-fix again.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2004, 04:55:38 PM
correct
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 05, 2004, 08:42:59 AM
Argh. I decided to give some depliatory cream a try yesterday... what a bad move. Bad enough my skin is always disgusting-looking to begin with... now my legs and underarms are all owie and even more icky. :P Now I know why I keep slipping and accidentally calling the stuff "skin remover".

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 05, 2004, 10:39:51 AM
lol, you used hot wax? cuz you can use nowday many many cold creams which wont harm your skin that way, besides you need a pre waxing moisture and afterwards body cream afterwards to make it look good (or heal better in some cases :P)

if you didnt use a cream afterwards use it, lol ouch, to think about it hurts me lol :P I FEEL YOUR PAIN SIS :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 05, 2004, 12:20:57 PM
Eep, no, miscommunication, I didn't use wax. I'm not that nuts. :P

No, I used that cream stuff, where you put it on, let it sit for a while, then wipe it off and it takes the hair with it. Nair brand, to be exact. It took the hair off, all right, except that now my hair follicles have all gone from being their usual ugly purply selves to being uber-ugly red and bumpy and owie. Yech. I should taken the time to find the Sally Hanson brand my friend mentioned was really good, but I was lazy.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 05, 2004, 05:15:48 PM
Heh.  I just need someone to do that to my back!   :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 05, 2004, 05:32:41 PM
ewww  :-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 05, 2004, 06:37:05 PM
We finally finished demonstrating one b.itch of a project to our prof a little while ago.  Ugh, that was torture but I'm so glad it's over with... well, there's still a huge-report to do for it, but we're not gonna start that for at least 5 days from now.  ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 06, 2004, 03:45:11 AM
/me is a lame-ass n00b techie, so does not know what SOAP protocol is. :P

I gotta learn how to program one day, to finally gain some of my desired geekiness.

Anyhoo. I would like to b**** about New England weather. It cannot make up its freakin' mind. One day it's warn enough to wear a windbreaker, so you do. Next day it's freezing and windy and you're cold all day. So the next day after that you go back to your winter jacket, except it's warm again. So you wear the windbreaker again the day after that, but it's cold again! AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!

Now that I've gotten that out of my system...

/me parties for Yonkey.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 07, 2004, 05:11:43 AM
Quote from: Say on April 04, 2004, 04:48:27 PM
I am the bi.tch of the week, let me wear my crown of shi.t in my fuked up throne...

*wears crown and sits on throne*
I hope im bi.tch next week ;D, and to make sure i am ill start being mean to ppl !!! :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 07, 2004, 11:46:40 AM
I'd like to b**** about my new found lack of job.

Stupid employers, firing my sorry arse. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 07, 2004, 12:37:42 PM
 :-\ ...hmmm, sorry to hear that James, hope you'll find something else soon ; /
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 07, 2004, 02:14:21 PM
that so pisses me off James :( *hugz*, I cant believe that a****** fired you, I am seriously seriously pissed off because it was so out of the blue and so sudden and it pisses me off now you're not around anymore, they should have freaking told you 1 week notice not like that, he's lucky Im not around cuz I'll freaking set his stupid car on fire.

and how I found out! by an email!! I mean wtf :(

he's one stupid bi.tch  >:(


Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 07, 2004, 02:19:40 PM
That sucks, James.  :S  And WTF?  It was by e-mail too??  What a b.itch!  >:(  The guy didn't even have the decency to tell you in person?!  >:(

Anyway, don't worry about it James.  You'll find something soon.  :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 07, 2004, 02:50:43 PM
No, I didn't find out by e-mail.   Say did, unfortunately.  I didn't have an appropriate means of telling anyone, nor did I really feel like talking to anyone yesterday.  Kind of a kick in the crotch, it is.

Everyone found out electronically except for me and people I work with.

I'm not overly worried...but it's basically the first time in my life I don't have any clue what's going to happen to me.  I mean first, I was in school...then university right after that, and then a job right out of university...now...nothing.  

I think a drive accross Canada might be in order to get back to Halifax (and mooch of the parents, you know. :D).  A stop in Ottawa is in order, and yes Neil, you can give me a hug and kiss then. :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 07, 2004, 03:49:05 PM
Oops, I think I misread something in Say's post there.  That still sucks though, but it will get better.

I'll actually only be Ottawa till the end of this month, then I'll be back in Toronto.  If you ever pass by there, let me know!  ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 07, 2004, 06:51:27 PM
I got family in TO, so yeah, I will be going through there depending how everything else goes.

Then you can spank me like the naughty little girl I've always wanted to be.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 07, 2004, 06:57:57 PM
/me finds that mental image somewhat disturbing, even for her tastes.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 07, 2004, 07:03:47 PM
/me has second thoughts about meeting J-ROC.  :o

Hahah j/k ;) ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 07, 2004, 07:09:11 PM
I have that effect on people.

Say won't meet me unless I'm wrapped up like Hannibal Lector as seen in Silence of the Lambs.

"Hello Saydmell.....thlthlththlthltthtlp!"

:D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Drunken Chinchilla on April 07, 2004, 07:27:14 PM
Gahhh! Hope you get work soon mate :/ you'd only just started stalking me too, sooo dissapointed  :(

oh and:

Quote"Hello Saydmell.....thlthlththlthltthtlp!"

HA!  XB
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Drunken Chinchilla on April 07, 2004, 07:36:45 PM
I've just remembered something to b.iatch about!!

Boyfriends. Not mine obviously, I dont butter my bread that way, but female friends boyfriends. Why the f*** do they always have to go super insecure whenever their GF has a close friend who is male (ME!). FFS I just dont get it, 2 of my friends I've known for about 5 years both end up practically ignoring me cus their dickhead boyfriends seem to think anything male is a threat to them! Meh, very meh indeed... :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 07, 2004, 07:59:51 PM
Not sure if this helps any, but personally as soon as I notice a girl has a boyfriend, I lose all interest in em.  A lot of the times I'm like:  :X Eww WTF does a secsay thing like her see in that fugly dude?!  (heh, well I'd use a bit more colourful language, but you get the picture ;)) So yeah, it's a major turn-off.  ;P

I have a few female friends with boyfriends, but usually they don't bring them along if we're all gonna hang out somewhere.  It does kind of kill the mood, unless we know the guy & he's cool to be around with.  8)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 07, 2004, 09:05:46 PM
If it makes you feel better, Alex... I've had my male friends' girlfriends get jealous over me before... despite the fact that I never seriously flirt with a "taken" guy. Bad for one's karma and all that.

And if it makes you feel better, Yonkey, I have wondered exactly what a few of my male friends saw in their girlfriends...

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 07, 2004, 10:30:48 PM
I am the worst ever to even consider jump into this conversation because

1.- I've been the jealous gf of his friends lol

2.- I've been also that friend that the gf wants to kill

3.- I personally done all the no's here and the horrible coments lol :P...  well, Im in no place to comment (even though I'd like to) cuz I've heard that before myself "WTF YOU DOING WITH THAT *addhorriblecursinghere* MORON", as well as I do tend to gather it all up even if they dont like from each to each side... lol, you can ask Neil and Alex about it, lol my poor boys :P

Anyhow, I had better just... go away on this topic :P cuz I think Im the most horrible friend, horrible gf, horrible everything, I believe I always do things wrong no matter how right my intentions are and well... I shut up now lol ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 08, 2004, 06:08:15 AM
Heh. Truth be told, I'd probably have a hard time not being jealous myself... the only guy who'd pick me is someone who can't get anyone else, so I'd always be paranoid that eventually some other girl would be interested in him. :-X

And my gal pals did wonder what I saw in my ex-boyfriend... although it was less that he was a jerk or anything, and more that he was just a bit of a dork.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 08, 2004, 06:17:24 AM
hmmmm.... my first girlfriend left me with for her 'just a friend' ; / ...still I'm not jealous (well, till a certain level ; )

...if someone likes me a lot, i trust her, and it is only a token of her affection if she prefer me as her boyfriend above her other (male)friends. If she decides to leave me for another friend (like my first gf did) it is only better for me (even if it still hurts)

I never get intrested in woman who already has a boyfriend (that i know of ; ) and the moments i did have a gf i lost intrest in other females at all...
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 08, 2004, 07:01:08 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on April 08, 2004, 06:08:15 AM
Heh. Truth be told, I'd probably have a hard time not being jealous myself... the only guy who'd pick me is someone who can't get anyone else, so I'd always be paranoid that eventually some other girl would be interested in him. :-X

omg, I did use to think that all the time... now I believe NOONE wants me :) lol

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 08, 2004, 09:22:02 AM
Jeysie:

I'm the same way.  I always figured if a girl liked me, she would just end up liking someone else instead.
I've spent most of my life being a "special guy"...but just not special enough for anyone to date.  So it's hard for me to believe that anyone would feel that way about me.  So if said girl has some other boy in their life, I get all retarded jealous like.  And if anything, it pushes them away instead of bringing them closer.
But I'm a fool and I'm bound to die alone.
That's alright though...I can't afford to maintain a girlfriend, anywho. :D
 
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 08, 2004, 09:34:10 AM
That sounds so much like me, J-R. I've always been the "best friend"... the guy would tell me everything, and cry on my shoulder, and all that... and then just be friends with me and lust after some other girl. :P The only time they'd get lovey-dovey is if the other girl didn't want them, or they had a girlfriend but they were really having problems... and it's like, "Hey, you didn't want me before you got/went after that other girl, don't come to me now and try to take advantage of the fact that I'm affectionate and sympathetic and everything." :P

It's kind of frustrating... I'm boy-crazy (ha, like you all couldn't tell by this point), but it's a pretty one-sided affair, so to speak... plus I have to admit I don't have anything offer a guy better than another girl could. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Drunken Chinchilla on April 08, 2004, 09:45:34 AM
I'm one of those people who always become the friend rather than the  <3friend <3 Most the time I don't really care as theres only ever been two girls I could imagine going out with and both of them were taken :'( boohoo. Heh anyway about this boyfriends thing I wouldn't really mind if they were just casual friends who I'd known for a year or so but one of them I've known my whole life (no kidding) and the other for nearly 7 years and its like all that seems to dissapear when their boyfriends are on the scene (who are both stupid btw and do nothing for them blah blah :D)

I'm sure that I'll meet my soulmate one day and we'll grow old together and buy a house in cornwall when we retire hahaha.  
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 08, 2004, 09:58:10 AM
Jeysie:

:(  Don't say that about yourself...because you couldn't be more wrong.  You're a unique person, as if everyone else.  No one else has your personality, no one else has your smile, no one else has your laugh, no one else has your eyes (unless you sold them on the black market, silly girl!).  

Point is, that EVEN IF someone did have some similar traits, they don't have your complete package.  No one will have all the exact same combination of traits.  Just cuz you've met some retards along the way that are too blind to see that, it does NOT mean that there's anything wrong with you.

I know there's a perfect woman out there for me...they just don't live within a 6000 km radius. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 08, 2004, 02:14:52 PM
Quote from: J-ROC on April 08, 2004, 09:58:10 AM

I know there's a perfect woman out there for me...they just don't live within a 6000 km radius. :P


LOL let me steal it

I know there could be a perfect man out there for me, I just may never met him :D hahahaha... :(

sad but true :(


note: I dont believe in perfect girl or perfect boy btw :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 08, 2004, 04:24:07 PM
J-R: (thinks to her geography a bit) So you're claiming your perfect woman is on another planet? ;) Yeah, that sounds about right for me and men at this point.

And... I know I'm unique... I just have a hard time believing that I could be the right woman for some guy over someone else, seeing as how I'm plain-looking, don't have much of a social life, think stuff like website coding and reading tech manuals is fun, and my sole talents are being efficient and organized. Oh, and I'm intelligent, strong-willed (read:stubborn), bluntly honest, and independent, too. Any guy who likes me the best is either really boring or a masochist, IMHO. (Or both.)

I do believe in the concept of soulmates... but I feel I already met mine, and he's not interested in me romantically, so I'm busy looking for second-best. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on April 08, 2004, 05:02:24 PM
I don't believe there's such a thing as soulmates... the thought that there's only one single person in the entire world who fits you perfectly is downright scary :-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 08, 2004, 05:08:04 PM
You find the one you love and you live happily ever after :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on April 08, 2004, 05:11:07 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 08, 2004, 05:15:57 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on April 08, 2004, 05:18:51 PM
Depands on who you marry  :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 08, 2004, 05:21:06 PM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 08, 2004, 05:40:31 PM
so we agree love sucks? :)

lol, truth is I agree with Storm, I do not believe in a perfect anyone neither soulmates, I believe in the truth of commited and honest comunication, faithful standarts, and bonding, if you are not perfect you cant expect anyone else to be, and even if that someone may not be the perfect a couple can build a relationship that would last, now that would be a good match but even so, the lasting of it lays on responsability, care, respect, comunication and a lot of will :P lol cuz s*** always happens, the problem is to move on.

so yeah, I dont think I'll ever marry or even have kids or anything, OMGIRGONNADIEALONEEE :( *cries* lol
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 08, 2004, 05:41:53 PM
I'm so upset that you've already doomed our relationship, racx!!   :'(


And I honestly don't believe in a "perfect" match, either....or a soulmate.  I guess moreso what I was trying to say while still being lazy and soemone inexplicative is that there is someone who will be happy with me and I will be happy with.  Just not anywhere near me.  

And I of course, was referring to on the planet...as if the surface was stretched out be flat.

PS: Say...move to Canada.  Die alone with me. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 08, 2004, 05:45:09 PM
Quote from: J-ROC on April 08, 2004, 05:41:53 PM
PS: Say...move to Canada.  Die alone with me. :P

LOL !! <3
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 08, 2004, 05:47:35 PM
i will stick to dying alone :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 08, 2004, 05:58:23 PM
jason, dont say that!! lol you silly thing, you know, let me explain this a bit to you :P

you are a lovely boy who still has a lot to be thankful for before turning an adult who happens to pay bills and support yourself or you will die :P so, when this happens that you start to take serious actions and responsability of them, you start to move on and grow up as a person, when you do you get silly and start thinking about future goals :P, everyone sort of tries to settle at some level, so relationships are a social ebilness that you try to achieve just for the sake to have a significant other... sadly it ever turns out to be good :P

I'll stop biasing you with my ebil and horrible thoughts the fact is, dont even worry about that now, enjoy it as much as you can, enjoy your studies, your free time and such, because once gone... it is gone alright ;P

we (the old geezers from around here :P) happen to have thought these things cuz we've someway or another reached to the important fact to at least try to get it (even if we miserably failed to do so lol) so, at this point I think sort of like... I wish I would have enjoyed more my childhood I guess, I grew up too fast :( and that sucks, cuz now I cant go back :P

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 08, 2004, 06:01:15 PM
All that means is that you have to make the appropriate adjustments such that you can enjoy your adulthood without being irresponsible.

Yeah, responsibility sucks...but that doesn't mean you have to be bitter and crusty like me.  Fufil your responsibilities...but one of them that should get ignored is yourself.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 13, 2004, 02:16:52 AM
hmmmm.... a week has passed, a new one has begun.... you are not the BotW anymore Say!! *hugz*  <3 ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 13, 2004, 09:33:34 AM
hey right ! I forgot to announce the bi.tch of the week

and you know what? to support newcomers...

Q CONGRATS YOU ARE OUR NEWEST BI.TCH OF THE WEEK :P lol ;-D


Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 13, 2004, 10:56:23 AM
*applauds Q*

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 13, 2004, 02:52:47 PM
*gives cookie*

*gives crown*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 14, 2004, 09:05:40 PM
I would officially like to B.itch about drunk drivers.

I went into Edmonton yesterday with a friend of mine to watch a movie and just hang out.  It's about two hours of highway driving to get there.  While we were driving back, some a$$hole was driving on the wrong side of the road.  We had to go to the other side of the road and then into the ditch.  Needless to say, I was scared out of my mind.  
We turned around, got the liscene plate number and called the cops.

Drunk driver almost killed me last night.
I hate 'em.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 15, 2004, 12:08:01 AM
hmmmm.... that's a good reason to B. ...glad you are alright!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 15, 2004, 01:18:26 AM
I wanna bi.tch cuz I dont feel lubt this week, OMG :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 15, 2004, 02:00:54 AM
*lubz*

no B. for you this week Say ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 15, 2004, 10:25:59 AM
im gonna bi.tch cos i wanna be bi.tch of the week :suffer:, so firstly to start the bi.tching i will start with listing my problems :suffer:

My problems are:
Neck Pains, Back Pains, Head Aches and Miagrains (probably spelt it wrong but you know what i mean), ISP isnt working efficiently :'(

I wont go on cos i probably caused the appropriate effect that i was aiming for ;B
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 15, 2004, 12:32:15 PM
Yeah.. I really hate this week myself since I can barely come online.  Stupid exams.  >:(  Well, tomorrow's my last one for this week, then I'll be online this weekend at least!  :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 15, 2004, 12:47:18 PM
im glad i have holidays now !!!, but i have strained a muscle in my bottom and i cant sit for long times :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 17, 2004, 09:07:26 PM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 17, 2004, 09:10:03 PM
Awww, my lettuce missed him.  :-\

;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 17, 2004, 09:11:08 PM
OMG FEEL HONORED Q <3
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 17, 2004, 09:13:52 PM
>From behind the curtain< Oh, and I'd also like to thank everyone who ever had the opportunity to teach Yonkey how to throw and didn't!! :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 17, 2004, 09:14:58 PM
/me tosses a squash at Q's face and makes contact.

!!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 17, 2004, 09:15:10 PM
Good one Yonkey :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 17, 2004, 09:18:28 PM
At least it was a vegetable I can stand eating......>rubs face< Happy now??

Here's a B for y'all: Yonkey hit me!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 17, 2004, 09:52:25 PM
*throws pumpkim at Q, but misses and hits someone else*

*runs for life*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 18, 2004, 02:20:12 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on April 17, 2004, 09:52:25 PM*throws pumpkim at Q, but misses and hits someone else*

*runs for life*
Wtf? Did you just hit me with a pumpkin? >:( You better be running for your life.
*sends a squad of black panthers in pursuit*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 18, 2004, 10:25:29 PM
THE BI.TCH OF THE WEEK IS NOW....

JASON!!.!!1



congratz you bi.tch :P
you've been annoying enough to get on my nerves this week and earn this fuking honor <3
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 18, 2004, 10:31:23 PM
Jason is my inspiration! :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 18, 2004, 11:15:23 PM
Well firstly i would like to thank Say for giving me this honour ;]

Secondly i would like to thank my friends for helping me irritate and annoy Say, the friends that encouraged me to help annoy Say were Q, Rob, and others but they dont wanna be mentioned  ;P

Thirdly why did it take so long to get elected bi.tch ???

Fourthly i now feel complete !!!

Fithly i apologize to Say for being a bi.tch :), sorryz <3

Sixthly i apologize to copycat for hitting him with a pumpkin, sorry boss will never happen again ;B

And lastly i thought you were my inspiration James :S ???

LOL!

PS. this is all true, and this is also one of the longest posts i have ever given ;B
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 18, 2004, 11:27:54 PM
Nay....I thought I was, but then I realized that it was the other way around.   That you are indeed my inspiration.

You're an inspiration to be care free and young again!  Not bitter, old, and crusty like moi!
:)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 18, 2004, 11:31:46 PM
Im young, senile, blind and crusty :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 19, 2004, 12:34:19 AM
*hugz jason*
*taps on the head* :P <3


OMFG CONGRATZ YA BI.TCHZ, keep it up but not with me please hahahaha :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 19, 2004, 12:59:03 AM
Quote from: racx_00 on April 18, 2004, 11:15:23 PM
Secondly i would like to thank my friends for helping me irritate and annoy Say, the friends that encouraged me to help annoy Say were Q, Rob, and others but they dont wanna be mentioned  ;P

whaaa.... :o I helped you?? *shocked*  :o
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 19, 2004, 01:08:13 AM
you helped plot an evil scheme and helped annoy Say with me on that one :suffer:, mwhahaha :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on April 19, 2004, 01:24:35 AM
ehh.... well.... it was.... aww forget it ; (
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 20, 2004, 03:08:20 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on April 18, 2004, 11:15:23 PMSixthly i apologize to copycat for hitting him with a pumpkin, sorry boss will never happen again ;B
Who are you calling boss? Has your relapse of insane-ness subsided once more?
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 20, 2004, 04:24:44 PM
I'm innocent!!  I had nothing to do with any of it!!  I plead the fifth!
:-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 21, 2004, 02:28:52 AM
Quote from: Say on April 19, 2004, 12:34:19 AM
*hugz jason*
*taps on the head* :P <3


OMFG CONGRATZ YA BI.TCHZ, keep it up but not with me please hahahaha :D
*hugz Say*
*pokez Say in the stomach*

OMFG I FEEL LUBT, btw i will keep it up !!!

Quote from: copycat on April 20, 2004, 03:08:20 PM
Who are you calling boss? Has your relapse of insane-ness subsided once more?
Im calling you boss ;B, i am officially only acting insane to scare people ;) :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 25, 2004, 01:19:36 AM
I bi.tchz cuz I have no freaking clue where James is and I have no idea where he might be and I feel like the worst friend in the world :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on April 25, 2004, 01:55:52 AM
I think im gonna be the bi.tch of the week again cos of what i did to Storm :-\ :'(

Sorry Storm
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 25, 2004, 07:12:00 AM
What did you do to Storm??
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 25, 2004, 07:18:55 AM
He was heaping praises upon Connor and MOE, remember? ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 25, 2004, 07:21:47 AM
Yeah, but I thought he might have done something else.  I was hoping there would be a good story coming!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on April 28, 2004, 03:22:51 PM
I'd like to b.itch about bogus job offers.

Get my hopes up, those scammin' sons of ...*refrains*

*shakes fist in angry gesture* >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 01, 2004, 01:26:25 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on April 25, 2004, 01:55:52 AM
I think im gonna be the bi.tch of the week again cos of what i did to Storm :-\ :'(

Sorry Storm

After all that whacking you apologize? I thought you were going to nominate me b.itch of the week just for that  ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on May 01, 2004, 03:52:59 PM
AND ITS OFFICIAL THE BI.TCH OF THIS WEEK IS...



STOOOOOOOOOOOOORM!


that's what ya get for wacking Jason all week :P
you can say your cheesy speak or just wait for everyone to throw vegetables at you ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 01, 2004, 03:54:51 PM
Heeeeey... Cesar was worse... he wanted to put Racx on trial and execute him! ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on May 01, 2004, 03:56:02 PM
Quote from: Say on May 01, 2004, 03:52:59 PMyou can say your cheesy speak or just wait for everyone to throw vegetables at you ;P
*equips all cat-teams with oranges to throw at Storm* :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 01, 2004, 06:50:04 PM
Hey! wait for the speech, CC! you'll have a better aim once I'm on the podium :P

Jeysie -
Are you trying to rob me of this honour? :o I'll nominate you for next week ;P

Thank you very much, all you wonderful people (Say) for choosing me to be your b.itch of the week! Let me just add that no one is more worthy of this title than I. All those who know me agree that I'm a high-riding b.itch (except for my mother, but that's just because it reflects badly on her). Not only do I deserve to be the b.itch of the week, I should be named this forum's ultimate b.itch for life, as I am a far worse b.itch than any of you would care to know (as hard as you might find it to believe, THIS IS MY NICE SIDE). If I started to REALLY b.itch here, this entire forum would grind to a halt with owe and this thread would crash and be locked forever, for no one would be able to compete with my b.itchieness. Thank you very much for this title (and all the oranges) 8)

*Squeezes oranges into orange juice*

Mmmm, vitamin C  ;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on May 01, 2004, 07:09:45 PM
*throws watermellons*

:)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 01, 2004, 07:20:00 PM
You can nominate me any time you like, Storm. ;)

(throws Rotten Tomatoes)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 01, 2004, 07:21:20 PM
Congratz Storm!  !!!  :)

*tosses bowl of fruit salad*  ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 01, 2004, 07:36:56 PM
*Storm ducks*

*J-ROC and Jeysie get hit by each other's projectiles*

*Storm stands up, laughing*

*Yonkey gets her in the face with the fruit salad*

Ick, fruit salad :X

Cutting fruit into salad is so... unnatural  ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on May 01, 2004, 10:13:13 PM
I like rotten tomatoes.  Pass the salt?
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 01, 2004, 10:14:20 PM
/me passes the salt and eats the watermelons.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on May 02, 2004, 12:15:50 AM
*Hands more Watermelons to everyone*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 02, 2004, 06:35:47 AM
>is standing in the back of the room waving a "GO STORM" sign<
>sings<WE LOVE YOU STORM, OH YES WE DOOOO
>windows shatter< Okay, no more singing...uhm...
>worships Storm<
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 02, 2004, 06:44:44 AM
Now you worship? where were you when I needed a human shield for all the fruit & veggies they were hurling at me?  :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 02, 2004, 06:47:09 AM
He was the one tossing the celery.  :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 02, 2004, 06:49:49 AM
 ;D I can be that helpful any the time, just ask
As for where I was......uhm......>looks around for a scapegoat<....uhm.....
Jason made me do it!!  He's omnipotent, its his fault! Blame him!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 02, 2004, 06:59:23 AM
I believe you, Q... there was just no way you could resist the omnipotent Jason. But HEY!! what is this basket of celery still doing behind your back? are you just waiting for me to turn around again??  :o >:( ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 02, 2004, 07:33:33 AM
WHAT?? NO! I'm saving this for next week...look, the celery is fresh! >shows the fresh celery to everyone<
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 02, 2004, 07:38:00 AM
So, when I win the title again next week you'll be throwing celery at me AGAIN??  :o
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 02, 2004, 08:06:20 AM
.....what do you mean again?  I didn't throw anything (this week)!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 02, 2004, 08:09:12 AM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 02, 2004, 08:09:22 AM
Yes you did! Yonkey saw you, and you practically admitted it earlier  :o
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 02, 2004, 08:21:36 AM
No, no, no, no!  Jason made me be not here serving as Storm's human shield!  I didn't throw any vegetables!  Honest!
I probably would've thrown fruit anyhow.....I mean..uhm..>shifty eyes<
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 02, 2004, 10:14:19 AM
Don't even bother trying to make excuses, Q... I'm on to you now >:( ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on May 02, 2004, 02:42:48 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on May 02, 2004, 03:06:52 PM
Quote from: Storm on May 01, 2004, 06:50:04 PMHey! wait for the speech, CC! you'll have a better aim once I'm on the podium :P

*Squeezes oranges into orange juice*

Mmmm, vitamin C  ;)
I was just equipping them, they weren't firing yet!

Aha, I've caught Storm on an unsuspected moment now... ::)
/me order his cats to fire! ;B

Quote from: racx_00 on May 02, 2004, 12:15:50 AM*Hands more Watermelons to everyone*
They're too big for my cats to hold in their claws. :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Storm on May 03, 2004, 11:57:51 AM
Quote from: copycat on May 02, 2004, 03:06:52 PM
Quote from: Storm on May 01, 2004, 06:50:04 PMHey! wait for the speech, CC! you'll have a better aim once I'm on the podium :P

*Squeezes oranges into orange juice*

Mmmm, vitamin C  ;)
I was just equipping them, they weren't firing yet!

Aha, I've caught Storm on an unsuspected moment now... ::)
/me order his cats to fire! ;B

A sneak attack? that is so low of you, CC  ;P

Well, more juice for me !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on May 04, 2004, 03:24:58 AM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 04, 2004, 05:08:32 AM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on May 04, 2004, 05:14:18 AM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 04, 2004, 05:24:27 AM
Then we need to elect someone else to do it....
And I'm NOT volunteering!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 04, 2004, 08:41:37 AM
just make a poll to decide who is next... no need for volunteers ; ) ...o... and i can't ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on May 04, 2004, 09:44:21 AM
Yeah, that's a responsibility I'm also not willing to undertake. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 04, 2004, 11:09:13 AM
I'd do it, but I can never tell when people are busy and when they're actually free to talk.

How about Koko or Alex?

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on May 04, 2004, 12:18:52 PM
Nice way to pass the buck, Liz. :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 06, 2004, 01:41:42 PM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 06, 2004, 02:56:58 PM
But...but....but...you're never on AIM either!  :'( We never get to see our Jeysie!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 06, 2004, 04:13:29 PM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on May 06, 2004, 04:44:40 PM
But I'm on AIM!  Does Jeysie not want to talk to me?? :'( Am I not a part of everyone?  I feel so unwanted!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 06, 2004, 04:59:27 PM
Yeah, but you're on MSN too, and everyone else isn't on AIM yet. ;)

As for right now, right now... I promised myself I'd spend an hour online, then I'd get some work done. There's always the weekend!

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Oldbushie on May 06, 2004, 09:41:58 PM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 07, 2004, 01:51:24 AM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on May 07, 2004, 02:45:57 AM
Well i will definitely be there ;), but unfortunately that will be 6am on Sunday for me :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 07, 2004, 04:51:53 AM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on May 07, 2004, 05:45:31 AM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on May 07, 2004, 05:47:06 AM
AND THE b**** OF THIS WEEK IS.... NEIL'S PC!!.! !! !!.!

<3 congratz you piece of junk :D <3
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 07, 2004, 06:44:14 AM
lol, but it is only for a few days ; ( ..cuz it is almost sunday ; ) ...your pc needs to be elected too ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 07, 2004, 12:00:21 PM
Quote from: Say on May 07, 2004, 05:47:06 AM
AND THE b***h OF THIS WEEK IS.... NEIL'S PC!!.! !! !!.!

<3 congratz you piece of junk :D <3

HAHAHAHAH!! <3
Yeah, the hard drive died, a memory chip is dead (that might be why it won't start up, and possibly the motherboard is dead.  So I'm using my mom's PC, but the lame thing is Win98 so it can't handle both Dreamweaver MX 2004 and any other Macromedia program open at the same time (for more than 5 minutes) or it freezes and crashes...

Not to mention, I usually have tons of stuff open when doing updates: MSN, several IE windows, FTP, Outlook, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks and Windows Explorer windows...  Of course not all at once, but if this was my previous PC I could and have done that before with no problems.  ;D  
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 29, 2004, 06:34:02 AM
wheee!! i like it that there haven't been announed any BotW for a long time, that means everyone is nice  :lovegoggles: :lovegoggles: ;-D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 29, 2004, 10:35:31 AM
Hmm. I have plenty of things I could b**** about, but not necessarily any people to name who have been b****es, well, except maybe myself. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 29, 2004, 10:42:33 AM
well, plz don't start now ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 29, 2004, 11:45:28 AM
Quote from: B'rrr on May 29, 2004, 10:42:33 AMwell, plz don't start now ; )

Why do you think I haven't been posting here? ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 29, 2004, 04:19:37 PM
you are posting now ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on May 29, 2004, 07:03:26 PM
Otay, fine. ;)

Why do you think I haven't been posting here b****ing about things? ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 29, 2004, 07:57:17 PM
well, actually ...i don't know  ;-D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on May 30, 2004, 12:34:34 AM
I'd like to b.itch about people who leave you in a crowd, tell you "NOT TO MOVE" until they come back, and then they never come back. :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 30, 2004, 02:28:25 PM
I always move when people ask me that. :suffer: It gets way too boring otherwise!  XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on May 30, 2004, 02:49:02 PM
well, it depends on who's asking, if I stay or not ;-D  ...and for how long
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 03, 2004, 06:37:22 AM
ok i will announce the Unofficial B.itch of the week ;D

And the Unofficial B.itch of this week is Jeysie :D, dont ask me why because i wouldnt have clue why :S, but she is so there :P

Put your hands together for Jeysie ;D, the first Unofficial B.itch of the week ever !!!

*hands Jeysie lots of cookies* ;)

its an honour Jeysie ;D, please dont be sad ;) <3
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 03, 2004, 10:15:35 AM
Quote from: Burrhizen on June 03, 2004, 06:37:22 AM
Put your hands together for Jeysie ;D, the first Unofficial B.itch of the week ever !!!
Jeysie wasn't the first!  *looks in thread* The first b.itch was school, and it looks like it's still a b.itch for a lot of people. ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 03, 2004, 10:34:08 AM
Yes but that was in Say's Unofficial B.itch of the week ;D :P, the first winner of Jason's Unofficial B.itch of the week is Jeysie :P :suffer:

J/K :suffer: :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 03, 2004, 10:40:41 AM
Ahhh I see.  What an honour!  !!!  ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 03, 2004, 11:01:19 AM
Oh yes a great honour ;-D :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 03, 2004, 01:37:34 PM
Lemme guess, Racx, Harrison e-mailed you guys behind my back or something and nominated me. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 03, 2004, 02:41:32 PM
 :o :o how did you know?? (j/k ;-D)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 04, 2004, 02:17:55 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on June 03, 2004, 01:37:34 PM
Lemme guess, Racx, Harrison e-mailed you guys behind my back or something and nominated me. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz

No i chose you because you were the first one to come back in here and say b.itch ;P :suffer:

thats the truth, plus you need to win atleast once ;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on June 06, 2004, 02:52:52 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on June 04, 2004, 02:17:55 AMplus you need to win atleast once ;)
Why ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 06, 2004, 03:19:40 PM
yeah, never figured that out either ; (
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on June 07, 2004, 06:58:53 PM
Because Jason said so, that's why!! ::)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 07, 2004, 09:00:30 PM
yeah, but why did he said that?  ;-D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on June 07, 2004, 11:55:00 PM
I would like to b.itch about a team from a city that doesn't get any snow year round winning the Stanley Cup...

....even if there are 19 Canadians on that team.

>:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on June 10, 2004, 03:54:55 PM
Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on June 10, 2004, 04:20:27 PM
I was rolling my eyes for a reason... :P
I would be very afraid if you were blindly listening to Jason said--you're supposed to be his boss!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 12, 2004, 09:20:27 AM
Just to set the record firmly crooked...

The question is not whether or not I am a b****, because I most obviously am. (Unless you've been snoozing through all my long rants, which is probably a good choice.) The bit that surprised me was why Racx was the one to comment on it. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 12, 2004, 09:37:22 AM
Yeah, that took me by surprise as well!  :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 12, 2004, 12:44:46 PM
What did i comment on that suprised you ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 12, 2004, 12:47:53 PM
The fact that you were the person to name me B**** of the Week. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 12, 2004, 12:54:53 PM
LOL!

Well i will be doing that from now on so :P, and remember i will have weird nominations for B.itch of the week and there is nothing you can do about it ;P :suffer:

MWHAHAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 12, 2004, 01:20:53 PM
that's correct, Jason is picking it up now, so watch out everyone :P


now literally... anything can happen lol ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 12, 2004, 02:09:24 PM
Hey :(, just cos im insane doesnt mean this will become insane ;P :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on June 12, 2004, 07:54:48 PM
Hey, Jason, does this mean that if I annoy you enough I can be b.itch of the week again?? XB
Bwahahahahaha!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 12, 2004, 09:44:14 PM
Anyone that pisses me off will be considered as B.itch of the week :P, then i shall make a list and work out which one is the b.itchiest :P :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 13, 2004, 10:52:01 AM
Ok the B.itch of this week is James ;D, because i felt like it :P

Actually he is the only one that has really b.itched this week so there wasnt many options :-\, maybe everyone will start to B.itch again now cos this has re-opened :P

So put your hands together for James :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on June 15, 2004, 03:26:05 PM
ok, fine.
id' like to b.itch about non-telepatic keyborads, death, caneer, school, exams, my idgestive system, hot weather, the pirce ofmedical treatment, my health insuracne company, and lastly...

...the fact that i didnt get b.itch of the week again ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 16, 2004, 04:08:33 AM
Well then start b.itching :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 21, 2004, 01:24:38 AM
Well i cant announce B.itch of the week if no one will b.itch :-\

*starts singing and screaming at forum members* :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 21, 2004, 05:59:24 PM
hmmmm, you sing nice ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Oldbushie on June 21, 2004, 06:06:55 PM
Methinks racx is acting as the b.itch until someone else steps up. ;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 21, 2004, 06:07:52 PM
Does that mean we can nominate Racx as the b.itch of the week?  !!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 21, 2004, 06:40:42 PM
methinks he will nominate himself ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 22, 2004, 07:15:10 AM
I want people to b.itch dammit >:(

I cant do b.itch of the week if people wont co-operate >:(

LOL!

Please someone b.itch :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 22, 2004, 08:35:22 AM
Well, OK, if you like I'll live up to my title and b****. But just remember, you asked for it. ;)

Work stuff:

My stupid, slow, Win95, IE5 running work station. It's slow doing everything, and chokes and dies on such complicated things as rendering webpages, opening Word documents, and copying files from floppy disks.

My co-worker, who has the most utterly tasteless sense of humor. And this criticism is coming from me, the proud perv, mind you.

The invoices printer, which mangles as many invoices as it prints.

The copier, which mangles one out of every three copies.

The database, which is so lacking in basic functionality it's not funny.

Bus stuff:

People who wear headphones and then have the music so loud you can hear it anyway. What's the damn point? At least be an honest inconsiderate jerk, and just blare the stuff straight out. And why is it always rap or heavy metal?

People who have loud conversations that consist of nothing but cursing. I'm not offended by profanity as a general rule, but even I don't want to spend 30 minutes listening to people screaming swear words at each other.

Bus drivers who are 15 minutes late... and then go off and get coffee! Um, hello? When I'm late for work (which I will be since you're late, Bus Driver Person), I think my boss would get cranky if I went off to get coffee!

The fact that it is utterly impossible to find a place to stand and wait at the bus station that is not near someone smoking. I think I need to learn to be like Guybrush Threepwood and hold my breath for ten minutes.

The reduced summer schedule. Why? I find it hard to believe that any route time outside of the 6-8AM and 2-3PM range is less travelled during the summer, yet they reduce the whole day.

People who have conversations about their drug rehab or jail probation... and *complain* about it! You were expecting a cakewalk, maybe?

Random stuff:

Grocery baggers who do things like put Gatorade bottles on top of bread and eggs.

Rude or incompetent retail clerks. I worked in retail, I know it blows, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't still do your job right.

Stupid drivers. I could write an entire essay about this one.

There. A nice short list to keep Racx happy. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 22, 2004, 09:11:52 AM
awwww, isn't it nice of Jeysie to do that for Jason ; )
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 22, 2004, 10:48:53 AM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on June 22, 2004, 03:49:30 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 22, 2004, 04:01:23 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on June 22, 2004, 04:11:11 PM
Well, *I* likes heavy metal.  *rocks out*  8)

:D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 22, 2004, 04:37:27 PM
*pokes james* :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 22, 2004, 10:42:41 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on June 22, 2004, 11:39:30 PM
My Cell phone has "Supernaut" by Black Sabbath as a ring, thank you very much. :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on June 26, 2004, 02:45:37 PM
I want to b.itch about:

1. This pc who keeps rebooting when I'm playing a game, and even manages to shutdown completely and remain unuseable for a few minutes.
2. The mosquito that woke me up in the middle of my sleep cycle last night, and thus is the cause of my current headache.
3. The garage owner where I bought my (new) second hand car, which is still not ready yet, althought it's been almost a month since I ordered it. >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 26, 2004, 10:27:29 PM
I wanna b.itchz cuz:

I AM FREAKING SICK I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it I freaking hate it!  :(

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yeah, whatever :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 27, 2004, 04:52:05 AM
Ok and for this week we have back to back b.itch :D, seeing no one won last week we have two winners this week :o :D

The winners are: Copycat and Say ;D

Congratulations to both of you ;)

*hands out cookiez to Say and Copycat*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on June 27, 2004, 04:59:16 AM
'now there are two of them!!'

-Nute-  ;-D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 27, 2004, 07:36:57 AM
copycat and I, now that's a weird mix

But thank you thank you, my speach of acceptance award is like... ewroiuwer9udsg sgjfdgjpoueg oiasu yeah, thank you.



I should be the b.itch -of this week- cuz Im sick and Im going to be whining about it till the end of it, or the end of this stupid cold... lol, go me go!


I AM SICK DAMNIT *grabs tissue and blanket and goes away* :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on June 27, 2004, 02:52:23 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on June 27, 2004, 04:52:05 AMThe winners are: Copycat and Say ;D

Congratulations to both of you ;)

*hands out cookiez to Say and Copycat*
Thank you, thank you very much.

I agree with Say, we're rather un-mixable.

It's strange though, to achieve this title, seeing as how I'd rather have nothing to b.itch about. :-\

Say, you can keep the trophy. XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 27, 2004, 03:32:54 PM
you're a natural b.itch darling, don't fight it, embrace it

and dont worry I am b.itch enough to keep the trophy, gladly would keep so.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 28, 2004, 04:40:32 AM
I would like to b.itch about life, but i cant be bothered typing :-\ :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 28, 2004, 08:17:37 AM
You can b.itch about being too lazy to type!  ;-D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 28, 2004, 09:59:09 AM
I'm going to gripe again. :P

For some reason, when I try to print invoices, it prints one invoice on the correct printer, then it prints the rest on the wrong printer. If we reboot, we can print one on the correct printer again, but then again it switches to the wrong printer again. And I think our IT person is on vacation. Lovely. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 28, 2004, 10:47:03 AM
When you send the print command, do you first do a test invoice, and then send the rest to print?  Or do you print all invoices at once?  ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 28, 2004, 12:04:23 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 28, 2004, 02:32:51 PM
It sounds like crappy software that reverts to the "default" printer instead of the one set from the first invoice.  Let me guess, it's DOS-based too?  XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 28, 2004, 02:44:56 PM
Quote from: Yonkey on June 28, 2004, 02:32:51 PMLet me guess, it's DOS-based too?  XD

Yep, it is. And you wonder why it makes me pull my hair out. ;P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on June 29, 2004, 06:41:37 AM
Quote from: Yonkey on June 28, 2004, 08:17:37 AM
You can b.itch about being too lazy to type!  ;-D
but i cant be bothered b.itching about how lazy i am ;) :P :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on June 29, 2004, 03:14:31 PM
More b.itching, this time about:
a) Opera crashing on my Win95-comp. >:(
b) VPN connection to work is unable to 'tunnel' its way through due to problems with the policy server. :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on June 29, 2004, 03:38:34 PM
(insert extremely long, indecent, angry, and vitrolic rant about the utter uselessness of the equipment at my job here)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on June 30, 2004, 02:06:20 PM
 The A.sshole/B.itch test!  (http://www.postudios.com/blog/forum/index.php?board=37;action=display;threadid=1227;start=msg56547#msg56547)

find out much much of a b.itch or an a.sshole you are! :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on July 01, 2004, 02:53:53 PM
What's also a b.itch is political games. >:(
Yesterday was the top day until now: first we had a 'no', then we had a 'yes', then a 'no', then a 'yes', another 'yes', and finally a 'no'. Today we had a partial 'yes'. To what question am I giving the answers? Do we fuse (with that which was an administration until now)? The prelude to this game is also a b.itch. First we had June 15, 2004, then we had January 1, 2005, then July 10, 2004, and finally it has become June 30, 2004, July 1, ... Who knows what's next  and when (there's still a part missing)!
I'll post the answer to the Quiz in the quiz-thread.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on July 02, 2004, 07:16:47 PM
I want to win b.itch of the week again.  So I am going to b.itch every day this week!  I am going to insert a random rant into a post in this thread every day.  Todays topic: Star Wars
First of all, they shoot lasers and fly spaceships in Star Wars.  Secondly, the people shooting the lasers, and flying the spaceships, and using the high-tech stuff are definitely humans.  So how the hell can it take place "a long time ago"?  I mean, honestly!! If humans could've done that a long time ago, do you think we'd be sending thingies to MARS??? NO!!!!!  Can't you at least make the introduction to your movies, I dunno...REALISTIC?  Most authors try to do that, but I guess George Lucas is above that?
Speaking of which, what makes him a good writer anyways?  Can one person name one virtue of his writing other than, I dunno, the cult it's created?
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on July 04, 2004, 10:24:20 AM
Indiana Jones was Good ;D, anyway B.itch of the week is going to be announced soon :D, Q you have to b.itch abit more ;) :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on July 06, 2004, 06:15:27 AM
The b.itch of this week is Q :o

Congratulations you B.itch ;), try not to be a b.itch again next week :P :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on July 06, 2004, 01:49:19 PM
 :o I only b.itched once!!  What happened to competition?  Everyone else is slacking!!  SLACKERS! PROCRASTINATORS!  It's amazing you get anything done in life!
>closes heavy, old, dusty book< Thus ends the b.itch.  I must return to avoiding doing anything now. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on July 10, 2004, 05:01:01 AM
I need to see some b.itching otherwise there will be no b.itch of the week :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on July 10, 2004, 03:41:07 PM
You people expect me to do all the work, don't you?  Well, you know what?  I was b.itch last week--and I'll be b.itch this week again too it looks like.  Do you know how stressful it is to be b.itch of the week?  I'll b.itch about it to you!
FIRST, you have to be irritated, which above all else is the MOST irritating part of the job.  I mean, honestly, we b.itches need to find something to b.itch about--and that is NO PICNIC!!
As if that weren't enough, then you have to relive the irritation of being irritated!  You have to talk/type about it eloquently enough to call it a successful b.itch.  This, for example, is a b.itch I am proud of!

But I'm not going to carry the weight of being b.itch all on my own!  You all have to start PULLING YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on July 10, 2004, 03:44:03 PM
You know... I do have a lot of stuff I could b**** about, but quite frankly, listening to Questie b**** is f***ing hilarious. ;)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on July 10, 2004, 03:52:37 PM
-_-
Don't make me do a b.itch about people who don't come on ANY IM programs that I've got when they're posting Jeysie, 'cause I will!  Either b.itch or sign on! :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on July 10, 2004, 04:00:30 PM
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Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on July 10, 2004, 04:42:53 PM
I wanna b.itch about the fact that Jeysie never goes on MSN anymore >:(, but i cant be buggered typing :-\ :P :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Kimmie on July 30, 2004, 05:00:10 AM
I wanna b**** because my friend threw away her photo negatives and i wanted some prom pictures, but to get them copied they are gonna coz £3.50 each! and i want 15 photos...so thats like around 50 quid, HA NO!  >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on July 30, 2004, 07:21:02 AM
Can't you just scan them in?  I know, they're not the same but it'll save ya some money.  :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Kimmie on July 30, 2004, 07:26:28 AM
I have scanned them, but i wanted proper photos in my photo album, i dont wanna print them (plus printer is being really dodgy lately) sigh  :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 12:23:03 PM
Random rant:

Why do my co-workers have to be so friendly? Before I sound demented, it's not that I want them to be mean or anything, just less chatty. It leaves me in the rather annoying situation where I have to figure out the quickest way to end the attempted conversation (because I'm, you know, trying to concentrate on WORKING! :P ) without seeming like a b****. A few situations that come to mind:

* One co-worker insists on always bugging me about the fact that my monitor is dusty. It's like, I can see the damn display just fine, the damn monitor is going to fry my eyes anyway because it's too old to have a decent refresh rate, so why waste my time cleaning it every day?

Of course, I once came in to find that somebody (gee, I wonder who?) had written "WASH ME" in the dust, and I then had to waste time cleaning it because the letters were too distracting to see through. Thanks a lot.

(Note: I'm hardly a slob, I just prefer not to bother cleaning something when there isn't a practical need for it.)

* One day I was busy separating invoices to be mailed, and the same co-worker came by and asked, "Do you ever miss?" In hind-sight, I wish I had thought to say, "Only when people distract me by talking to me!"

* Today, the same co-worker (can you tell I just love this guy? Not.) asked me in a suggestive voice, "So, where is Harrison taking you for the weekend?" (Seems like everybody *else* is going somewhere fancy for the weekend, yay sucky me.) I offered, "Well, actually, he's working all weekend because of what's going on in Florida. Oh, but we are going to the Berkshires on Sunday night. For a party for him and his family members. The attendence of which will consist solely of him and his family members." The co-worker then noted, "Wow, going to the Berkshires for the weekend sounds about as exciting as going to Palmer for the weekend." I noted, "Yep, more or less." (Palmer is a very dinky town set in the middle of Booniesville, MA, so in other words, going to the Berkshires for a weekend is mostly boring.)

Of course, he's always making stupid suggestive (and inappropriate) comments about Harrison and I anyway. It's like, "If anything were going to happen, I'm reasonably sure it would have by this point, so could you maybe SHUT UP ABOUT IT?! Thanks."

Gripe, gripe, gripe, must kill co-worker.

Plus, they always pick on me when I leave early. Well, maybe if I had enough WORK to stay the whole shift, I would. I could just sit around with my thumbs up my butt doing nothing the rest of the shift and wasting my pay, if it makes you feel better. LEAVE ME ALONE!

Of course, on the rare days I do have enough work to stay later, another co-worker invariable comments... "Busy today, isn't it?" Me: "Yep." Co-worker: "Do you like it when it's busy?" Me: "Sometimes." (I dunno, what am I supposed to say? Since it is busy, I'm trying to get work done, so how about leaving me alone to do it? Thanks.)

BLAAAAAARGH!

(end rant)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on August 13, 2004, 05:26:08 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 12:23:03 PMWhy do my co-workers have to be so friendly? Before I sound demented, it's not that I want them to be mean or anything, just less chatty. It leaves me in the rather annoying situation where I have to figure out the quickest way to end the attempted conversation (because I'm, you know, trying to concentrate on WORKING! :P ) without seeming like a b****.
Have you tried ignoring the remarks they make yet? :)
BTW, there's a difference between being friendly and being annoying. My co-workers are friendly, but they don't annoy me with stupid remarks.
I have too much work I want to do these days:
a) trying to keep koko behind me in posting position as long as I can
b) importing mails from OE4 to OE6
c) work stuff because the programmer that's supposed to develop a script to make my life easier is not replying to my reminders. :-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 05:29:28 PM
Quote from: copycat on August 13, 2004, 05:26:08 PMHave you tried ignoring the remarks they make yet? :)

I have tried ignoring the co-worker I don't like. It does provide the immediate benefits of not having to bother interacting with him, but seems to do nothing for clueing him in that I don't want to be bothered.

Unfortunately the "Busy today, isn't it?" co-worker is slightly higher-up, and therefore ignoring her is not a wise idea.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on August 13, 2004, 09:43:02 PM
I haven't had many annoying co-workers like that before.  The times I did, I usually just say something like "Wow.  You're funny."  or "A-HAA-HAAA" (in more of a mocking laugh than a real one).

But if they ever made rude comments (most likely as a joke) I'd just give them a dirty looks, or say "Excuse me?!" in a pissed off sort of way :suffer:.  Usually they learn, and if not, just start walking towards them while you say it, as if you're ready to beat them to a pulp.  8)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 09:48:27 PM
People tend to avoid me. I've been told I look/act like an English sentry(I think they're reffering to no emotion detected, and the way I normally stand around in a room).  XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 09:54:19 PM
Quote from: Yonkey on August 13, 2004, 09:43:02 PMUsually they learn, and if not, just start walking towards them while you say it, as if you're ready to beat them to a pulp.  8)

That would work if:

1. I was scary/intimidating-looking. (Harrison says I'm funny-looking in the literal sense when I'm angry. Bah.)

2. The co-worker in question wasn't a 50-something guy, who, while not tough-looking per se, isn't a push-over either.

3. It was a bigger office. The main reason I haven't complained or been pushy is because everyone else has been there for several years and are all used to each other's quirks. I have a feeling that the ribbing I'd get after I got cranky about some of the jokes would be worse than the current ribbing.

Note to self: Stop getting jobs in small offices. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 09:59:03 PM
You could always act like Q does on the forums.  XD

or you could look at them(with a serious look), and tell them(in a serious tone)...

I'm a Fire Breathing Pumpkin.

Then walk away.

*wonders what the results would be*
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on August 13, 2004, 10:04:10 PM
Quote from: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 09:59:03 PM
You could always act like Q does on the forums.  XD
LOL!  What do you mean by that?  ;P

Quote from: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 09:59:03 PM
or you could look at them(with a serious look), and tell them(in a serious tone)...

I'm a Fire Breathing Pumpkin.

Then walk away.
Hahah, I am SO gonna do that to someone. :suffer:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 10:15:32 PM
Quote from: Yonkey on August 13, 2004, 10:04:10 PM
Quote from: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 09:59:03 PM
You could always act like Q does on the forums.  XD
LOL!  What do you mean by that?  ;P

Clicking clicky pens, hitting himself with a metal bucket, tackling people, making KQ robots, eating Connor pie, trying to eat newbies, claiming the Asylum is a living being, letting penguins fly into his head, galloping without a horse.....
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on August 13, 2004, 10:20:30 PM
Ahh... insane is the word you were looking for.  ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 13, 2004, 10:23:21 PM
perhaps
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:26:44 PM
I prefer to be subtle with my insanity. ;P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jael on August 14, 2004, 03:29:01 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:26:44 PM
I prefer to be subtle with my insanity. ;P

Peace & Luv, Liz

*psst* I don't think it's working :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 14, 2004, 12:02:23 PM
Quote from: Jael on August 14, 2004, 03:29:01 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:26:44 PMI prefer to be subtle with my insanity. ;P
*psst* I don't think it's working :P

What, the being subtle part, or the being insane part? ;P

And good to see you back, Jael! Saw you on MSN a few times, but you were always busy. :-\

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on August 14, 2004, 06:56:29 PM
I don't remember galloping without a horse....:-\

Anyways, try to be a subtle twerp.  It works at school.  Say things like "I like that shirt/tie!  Maybe I should get one for my four year old cousin."  If they get offended, you can always say "I'm so sorry!  I never meant to hurt your feelings!"  But you have to say it seriously.
Ok, so I only do that at school once in a while.  Most of the time I'm not a subtle twerp--just a jerk if you're annoying. XB
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 14, 2004, 07:29:39 PM
QuoteI don't remember galloping without a horse....:-\

Don't you remember? You galloped around on your imaginary horse. Cat told you to get off her back, and you said you couldn't wait for J-ROC/Jeysie to get a hold of what she said.  :-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on August 14, 2004, 08:11:00 PM
OMG!!! I DO remember that!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jael on August 15, 2004, 12:35:30 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on August 14, 2004, 12:02:23 PM
Quote from: Jael on August 14, 2004, 03:29:01 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on August 13, 2004, 10:26:44 PMI prefer to be subtle with my insanity. ;P
*psst* I don't think it's working :P

What, the being subtle part, or the being insane part? ;P


Both, I suspect. Though I was referring to the subtle part ;B

Quote from: Jeysie on August 14, 2004, 12:02:23 PM
And good to see you back, Jael! Saw you on MSN a few times, but you were always busy. :-\

Peace & Luv, Liz

Generally, the only time you and I are on MSN together, it's 5:30am and I'm just checking my e-mail before getting ready for work. That might explain it.

But you know, if you would get on MSN at a reasonable hour of the day, I wouldn't have that problem. Americans *shakes head* ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 15, 2004, 12:52:25 AM
Luckily, I'm " Livin' on Tulsa time".  ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 15, 2004, 10:31:39 AM
Quote from: Jael on August 15, 2004, 12:35:30 AMBut you know, if you would get on MSN at a reasonable hour of the day, I wouldn't have that problem. Americans *shakes head* ;P

(chuckle) Yeah, I have an online pal in Adelaide, and trying to catch him in IMs is a somewhat rare event... usually only happens if I get up very early, or stay up very late.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on August 17, 2004, 08:31:03 AM
And the B.itch for this week is Doom 3 ;D, its a great game, biggest game out, best graphics ;D

BUT WHY DONT U TRY TO GET IT RUNNING ON YOUR COMPUTER :P, You need an Athlon XP1600+ or higher, with XP and 512 RAM >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 17, 2004, 09:40:57 PM
You could get it working on lower specs, but it wouldn't run smoothly(I'm used to doing that sort of thing, and I'm going to have to start doing it again soon).  :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on August 18, 2004, 12:28:56 AM
XP wont run on my system so its not possible to get it running :-\, XP crashes :-\, i now officially hate XP ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on August 18, 2004, 12:43:57 AM
Quote from: racx_00 on August 18, 2004, 12:28:56 AM
XP wont run on my system so its not possible to get it running :-\, XP crashes :-\, i now officially hate XP ;D

It requires XP?

I shouldn't be surprised, but I'd rather it worked on 9x systems also.  :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on August 18, 2004, 04:56:40 AM
its for XP and 2000 :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on August 30, 2004, 12:32:46 PM
Rant #1:

I've come to the conclusion that all cars need a "back horn". This is essentially the same as a regular car horn, except that the "speakers" and sound are directed from the back of the car at the people behind you. This would serve several purposes, with the two main ones being:

A. When you're stopped in your car and unable to move because someone's crossing the street, or you're turning and there's no opening available, and people behind you are honking at you to move. You can then use your back horn to honk back at them, essentially saying "F*** off, buddy, I can't go anywhere without causing an accident, and then you'll be even more stuck."

There's been a few times where I was walking by such a spectacle, and was tempted to walk up to one of the cars honking and point out that the person they're honking at can't move, but things always cleared up before I got the chance.

B. When you're trying to back up and there's someone in your way... pedestrians or cars that are just "standing around" for no reason. You can then use your back horn to say, "Hi, move your ass, would you?!"

Rant #2: I was crossing an intersection today where the light was green for me and the cars moving in the same direction as me. I checked behind me, saw that none of the cars had their turn signals on, and started to cross the road. As I was halfway across, it ends up that one of the cars I had checked was indeed turning where I was after all, and leaned out of his window to yell at me for crossing. Well, buddy, if you had used your TURN SIGNAL and thus had let me known you were TURNING, I would have been happy to wait. As it is, you are free to pull over, get out of your car, and kiss my ass. This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened, and it annoys the hell out of me. TURN SIGNALS, people, they put them on the cars for a reason!

Rant #2.5: This reminds me of the time a while back I was crossing an intersection where they were doing construction, and there was a police officer directing traffic. As I got to the curb, the officer was waving the cars going in the same direction as me, so I started to cross. Then, without bothering to look behind himself to check the area where I was, he starts waving through the cars that would be going through where I was crossing! It was only when he saw the cars weren't moving that he turned and saw me, and yelled at me that I should be paying attention, even though it was him that wasn't paying attention. Jerk. Nice to know we taxpayers are paying officers to let pedestrians get run over. :P

Rant #2.9: I think I'm just going to buy an airhorn and carry it with me. Then when some jerk claims I don't have the right of way when I do, or almost hits me because he ran a red light, or some crap like that, I can honk at him.

Me: BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!  :furious: :furious:

Rant Summary: People who DON'T USE THEIR BRAINS piss me off. Especially when said people are riding around in 1+ ton metal contraptions and I'm 180 pounds of squishy stuff.

As my mom used to be fond of saying: "Use your brain for something other than a hat rack!"

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 01, 2004, 07:10:10 AM
fine fine Jeysie is b.itch of the week because she puts effort into her complaints :D

very nice complaint by the way Jeysie ;) ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 01, 2004, 07:50:42 AM
Heh, thanks.

Let's just say that almost running me over, then having the audacity to claim it's my fault, is a pretty good way to annoy the hell out of me. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 03, 2004, 01:07:54 PM
You know... after mulling over those experiences, as well as a multitude of experiences with Harrison and with my co-workers, I can't help but think that the reason my self-esteem and self-confidence are so lousy is because nobody ever EVER takes me seriously.

I've lost count of the number of times I've had this sort of conversation with Harrison:

Me: (makes some kind of commentary (usually negative) about something)

Harrison: You're just saying that because you haven't tried it/don't know about it.

Me: Actually, I have tried it/do know about it. (tells story of exactly how I tried it/know about it.)

Harrison: Oh.

Me thinking: Thanks for being condescending.

You'd think after 7 years he'd get a clue, but I guess not.

Then of course, there's my co-workers:

Co-worker: (tells me something I already know)
Me: Um, thanks.
Me thinking: Why the hell are you wasting my time telling me something I already know?

Is there just something about the way I look that screams "Clueless Idiot" or something? I gotta know. I mean, how am I supposed to feel good about myself when people keep treating me like I'm a kindergarderner?

Edit: Actually, now that I mull it over even more, yeah, I must have "Clueless Idiot" tattooed on my forehead. My ex-boyfriend used to also tell me stuff I already knew like he was doing me a big favor.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 03, 2004, 05:26:51 PM
Quote from: DeAtH <([||])> CaRnAgE on August 18, 2004, 12:28:56 AMXP wont run on my system so its not possible to get it running :-\, XP crashes :-\, i now officially hate XP ;D
Another member of the 'I hate XP'-club, :yes: !
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on September 03, 2004, 05:30:51 PM
It's not that bad. It might make me want to reformat my hardrive, and put another OS in it's place sometimes...

but it's not that bad. :-\

So much for taking up for XP. XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 04, 2004, 07:10:13 AM
Well this month im upgrading my computer so i will install XP but after installing XP im gonna install 98se :D

I could dual boot with XP and 3.11, lol :D, actually im going to buy a copy of 3.11 off of Ebay ;), its my favourite OS ;)

But seriously with XP if you reinstall it you have to ring up and get another activation code or get them to send an email >:(, its so annoying i mean with all the crap you can get off of the internet you would be ringing up for a new activation key every year >:(, and safe mode is really crap in XP >:(, my friend was trying to fix something through safe mode but it wasnt working cos safe mode was acting basically exactly the same as normal mode >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 04, 2004, 07:25:33 AM
Hey! And I thought you guys all said I didn't know what I was talking about when I complained about the idea of the activation code bit in XP. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 04, 2004, 07:27:59 AM
I never said that cos i have always hated the activation key along with XP ;), im on your side Jeysie ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on September 04, 2004, 09:03:55 AM
I know a way around it, but I can't post it(I couldn't stand it either). :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 04, 2004, 09:09:26 AM
you like XP ??? :evil:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on September 04, 2004, 09:15:43 AM
Quote from: DeAtH <([||])> CaRnAgE on September 04, 2004, 09:09:26 AM
you like XP ??? :evil:

I don't like any Microsoft OS, compared to OSs like Linux. I mainly use Windows for compatibility.

proof=Windows hardrive=6gig

I need to upgrade the hardrive. :(

Compared to other versions of Windows, I think XP's okay(2000, and 98SE dualboot is better).
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 08, 2004, 12:28:24 PM
1. Why is it that I can spend 6 hours standing and walking all over an amusement park and not feel the least bit hungry, but when I spend a 6 hour shift doing nothing but sitting on my ass, I get hungry every 2 hours? So apparently, more work=less hungry & less work=more hungry. Uh, WTF?

2. Why is it that I can spend 3-4 days out of the week with almost nothing to do, yet the 1-2 days a week I have extra "regular" work to do (like more invoices), everyone *then* dumps a ton of projects onto my lap? Um, hello, why not give them to me to do on the days I'm sitting around with my thumbs up my ass?

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on September 08, 2004, 01:07:34 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on September 08, 2004, 12:28:24 PM
1. Why is it that I can spend 6 hours standing and walking all over an amusement park and not feel the least bit hungry, but when I spend a 6 hour shift doing nothing but sitting on my ass, I get hungry every 2 hours? So apparently, more work=less hungry & less work=more hungry. Uh, WTF?

Easy.  When you're doing more, your mind is distracted by other things, such as the tiredness from your legs, feet, etc.  It's normal to not feel hungry when you're very busy, particularly when it's physical work.


Quote from: Jeysie on September 08, 2004, 12:28:24 PM
2. Why is it that I can spend 3-4 days out of the week with almost nothing to do, yet the 1-2 days a week I have extra "regular" work to do (like more invoices), everyone *then* dumps a ton of projects onto my lap? Um, hello, why not give them to me to do on the days I'm sitting around with my thumbs up my ass?

Easy. Murphy's Law. :D  Seriously, things like that happen later in the week because they're being developed or planned early in the week.  It's not like people go home on the weekend and do their plans then.  So that's why it usually ends up ad the end of the week.


Dr. Jimmy Boi sez so. :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 08, 2004, 01:15:34 PM
I guess I can buy #1 answer, although I don't see why I didn't get hungry later while in the car. Actually, I don't see why my tummy can't just behave itself all the time. :(

As for #2... actually, my busy day is always Tuesday. XD Monday and Friday are usually slow, and Wednesday and Thursday are semi-slow. I hate Tuesdays... everything always gets dumped into my lap. Of course, with the holiday, today is virtual Tuesday.

Edit: Speaking of, my boss just poked her head in and asked if I have time to log and mail checks. Let's see... I still have 80+ invoices and 150+ statements to mail, and the office is only open for another hour. NO, I DON'T HAVE TIME!! :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: J-ROC on September 08, 2004, 03:06:19 PM
Well, #2 WAS complete bollocks. :)  Except the Murphy's Law bit.  Where I used to work, we would be quiet all week, and then when the weekends hit, we wouldn't have enough pepole for the work we had. :S

As for the continuation of #1, it could be your body still dealing with the exercise. I dunno.  My tummy doesn't behave.  But as they said to me at bootcamp manyt imes over:  "Mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it don't matter." XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 08, 2004, 03:09:18 PM
Quote from: DeAtH <([||])> CaRnAgE on September 04, 2004, 07:10:13 AMWell this month im upgrading my computer so i will install XP but after installing XP im gonna install 98se :D
You might want to reverse those two OS's, as I think Win98 doesn't have a boot-manager, whereas XP does, that is, as long as the other OS is a Windows-OS, 'cos it can't see squat of my Linux-partition. I just keep XP because some things just don't run that well in Linux (like certain games), including certain Javascript-online-games, like this (http://www.popcap.com/gamepopup.php?theGame=insaniquarium) one.

Quote from: Jeysie on September 04, 2004, 07:25:33 AMHey! And I thought you guys all said I didn't know what I was talking about when I complained about the idea of the activation code bit in XP. :P
Actually, the activation keycode is not what bothers me the most. It's just the fact it reboots far too much, or I have to reboot it (now I turned off the automatic rebooting so I could finally see what the BSOD's were about). It's also managed to shutdown FireFox (in Windows), without any explanation whatsoever. And it's hell trying to get to your own documents when you re-install, whilst in SuSe Linux 9.1 it's kid's play. 8)

Last weekend the ICT department at work moved the main switch to our new office building. We're in an office container and won't move to that same office building for another two weeks. I've had the last two days off, but my colleagues have been telling me they've been having trouble with network connections from Monday. I pinged a few servers today: It went something like this:
Quote
Answer from 10.101.100.23...
Answer from 10.101.100.23...
Time-out
Time-out
Answer from 10.101.100.23...
and so on...
So, M$-Outlook crashed several times, at one time I couldn't exit another application on a server, we got kicked out of our bookkeeping program (client/server based), and  when that happens someone has to manually 'kill' the connection because otherwise your connection remains active for a while. Other than that, at times it's also veeeeeery slow. And we probably wil have to endure that kind of behavior until we move the 21st, because ICT can't find the source of the disturbance. :furious:

Quote from: Jeysie on September 08, 2004, 12:28:24 PM1. Why is it that I can spend 6 hours standing and walking all over an amusement park and not feel the least bit hungry, but when I spend a 6 hour shift doing nothing but sitting on my ass, I get hungry every 2 hours? So apparently, more work=less hungry & less work=more hungry. Uh, WTF?
Maybe intellectual labour requires more energy than manual labour? :angel:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 10, 2004, 05:01:11 PM
Part 2:
Today (actually yesterday, technically speaking, since it's past midnight) our network printers were offline most of the day We were also kicked out of the bookkeeping system twice, and we found out a report that was being corrected and was located on a network drive, suddenly lost all its make-up (?). Actually, it wasn't lost, but changed into (something like) 'Standard-indented'. We lost at least a whole hour trying to rectify that alteration as best as we could.. :furious:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 11, 2004, 03:09:25 AM
Ok peoples calm down :P, actually dont ;), Yell scream and shout :P
I will announce the b.itch soon ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 12, 2004, 05:16:33 AM
Come on we need b.itching >:(, or i will not announce b.itch for this week :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 12, 2004, 11:02:51 AM
It's only Sunday, dearie... most people don't have b****-worthy stuff until they get to their jobs. Well, I don't anyway. ::) You could always announce the BOTW for last week! :D

Anyhoo. I do want to b**** about the forum. I'm having major problems with it taking forever to connect to pages again. :bomb: :stabs:

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 12, 2004, 04:18:27 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on September 12, 2004, 11:02:51 AMAnyhoo. I do want to b**** about the forum. I'm having major problems with it taking forever to connect to pages again. :bomb: :stabs:
Yes, during the night from Saturday to Sunday my browser also had time-outs in abundance when trying to load certain pages of the Quiz-thread. :furious:
More work-related b.itching will probably resume tomorrow. (and tomorrow=Tuesday overhere now).
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 12, 2004, 04:24:42 PM
ok ok :-\

Last weeks b.itch was CC :D

Congratulations you b.itch :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 12, 2004, 04:51:41 PM
Quote from: Bürrhîzen on September 12, 2004, 04:24:42 PMok ok :-\

Last weeks b.itch was CC :D

Congratulations you b.itch :P
Yay, thank you!
*holds out the b.itch trophy*
I would like to thank the ICT staff at work for this achievement. :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on September 14, 2004, 04:48:04 PM
Ok, I have a multi-part b.itch today....

Part I.
People who ignore you.  Say, for example, somebody comes back from being away on AIM.  You send them an IM all "Hi!" and they say "hi" and then you ask "What's up?" and then an hour and 10 minutes later THEY STILL HAVEN'T ANSWERED!!!!  RAH!

Part II.
People who treat you like a moron.  Thank you mother.  I had forgotten what I do every damn night.
That is all.

Part III.
People who are a*******.  Especially 31 year old a******* who, in the majority of their "romantic relationships", never met their "girlfriend" because it was over the Internet, and then they proceed to pass judgement over me because I haven't had any romantic relationships at all (at age 17--and he knows how old I am).

Part IV.
GUIDANCE!  Yesterday, I filled out a freaking card saying I wanted to meet with my guidance counsellor, because--as usual--he wasn't available when I had time to go to the guidance office.  The usual, proper response to one of those cards is to call someone out of class to see them.  Did I get called down? NO.  RAH!

There was a Part V, but I forgot it. ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 15, 2004, 10:27:18 AM
AAAAARRRGGGHHH!! Why won't you work, you stupid useless shipping website that I would call lots of foul, nasty insults and curses if I wasn't in public, SO I CAN GET MY WORK DONE!!

Peace & Luv, Liz :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 16, 2004, 04:37:50 AM
Im MAD because Windows 3.1 and 3.11 went for $51 and Windows 3.11+Publisher 2.0+DOS 6.22 is already at $29 and still has 4 days to go >:( :evil:

I will never get a copy now >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 16, 2004, 09:51:11 AM
I can't seem to talk to anybody any more without them misinterpreting what I say and having them get mad at me.

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on September 17, 2004, 02:20:07 PM
I have another b.itch!!

I'm b.itching about myself.  I'm a FREAKING MORON!  I can't talk to the girl I like, *STILL*.  I set aside ALL of yesterday for it.  Our "conversation" was me walking near her, meekly and softly saying hi and not being heard because she was talking to somebody else. ::) Yeah, I rock.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 17, 2004, 04:36:49 PM
The network connection was fairly stable from Monday-Thursday but today...
- Bookkeeping program crashed
- M$ Outlook crashed
- Network shares were unavailable

In fact, thet nwetwork was completely down, and this time, it wasn't only in our office container, but another financial colleague, who was located in the' old' office-building. suffered the same fate. Then, many monutes later (at least half on hour), the network was back on-line, but we still couldn't get into our bookkeeping program. Pinged server(s), got answer, tried direct access to database, that worked too, rebooted, still nothing...Bear in mind there's some kind of service running on another pc that serves as an in-between between the clients and the server. The department head called the ICT-guy who's actually not that bright on ICT matters, who asked if I had tried rebooting. :furious: What does he think, I'm an ICT-moron? So, a little while later I got a call from another ICT-guy, who's somewhat brighter, and I explained to him he should try re-starting the service. However, he said he was going to re-boot the pc, to be sure, and another few minutes later everything was fixed. There was one good side to this black-out, at least we had time to prepare for our upcoming move next TUesday to the new office building.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 18, 2004, 02:40:01 AM
Quote from: Questing Character on September 17, 2004, 02:20:07 PM
I have another b.itch!!

I'm b.itching about myself.  I'm a FREAKING MORON!  I can't talk to the girl I like, *STILL*.  I set aside ALL of yesterday for it.  Our "conversation" was me walking near her, meekly and softly saying hi and not being heard because she was talking to somebody else. ::) Yeah, I rock.
Calm down :), it happens to me all the time :-\ :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on September 18, 2004, 05:13:18 PM
How often do you spend half a day preparing first, Jason?

CC, for the first two weeks of school no one could log onto the network at all.  Now we can all log on--but we can't use any programs because none of them work!  YAY MY SCHOOL! :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 18, 2004, 10:29:54 PM
Quote from: Questing Character on September 18, 2004, 05:13:18 PM
How often do you spend half a day preparing first, Jason?
This doesnt really answer the question, but if i really liked a girl it wouldnt matter how long i prepared for it because i would stuff it up anyway :-\, i have done it before :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on September 19, 2004, 07:04:12 AM
You fellows have this odd tendency to treat women like they're mysterious and magical objects.

Treat a girl that you like just as you would any person you were going to talk to for the first time to befriend them, and you'll do fine. Your goal isn't to get her to fall all over you in worship from the first glance (yes, I know you'd all love that to happen), it's just simply to let her know you exist and you'd be interested in being able to hang out with her. If you're caught up in wanting to badly impress her, and worried that she'll hate you forever from first glance, then no wonder you're all nervous!

I know you have lady friends, Questie... just talk to that girl the way you did to your pals when you first met them. The time to move towards romance is *after* you're already comfortable talking to her, so don't sweat it. :)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on September 20, 2004, 02:55:15 AM
B.itch of this week is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q :D

I believe that he had the best b.itch this week ;) ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on September 23, 2004, 06:50:48 PM
OMG, why was mine so good? I'll need to b.itch like that more!  I'm so honored!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 24, 2004, 06:13:07 PM
More b.itching from me:
On moving day this week we had to wait half a day before we could get to work in our new offices, due to the slowness of the movers. Then, since we moved in, we've had a painter painting while we worked and we've had  a visit from people removing some foil from the climate-control outlets. There's a door missing to the department head's office. At least his pyhsical distance to our office has now become an obstacle to bother us by standing behind your back looking at what you're doing too much. :P More on moving day, the network cables took ages to arrive, luckily I took mine with my in my laptop carrying bag. I didn't take the network cable for the printers though, which took even longer than the pc's (dekstops). The fax that moved with us is located on the other side of the floor, which means if we want to fax something, we have to walk. And yet, the copying machine is on our side of the floor, which means the people from the HRM-deparment will have to take a walk when they want to copy something. ::)

And the biggest b.b**** of them all is the fact someone is playing political games far above my head and I do not like what they're concocting. :stabs: bomb: :furious:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on September 30, 2004, 01:25:55 PM
Yesterday was clearly not a good day at this house. You see, I had internet connectivity problems, no matter what I tried, Linux refused to come up with anything useful. My brother installed a router yesterday afternoon, and told me to delete the previous gateway (the fileserver's IP-address). However, I never configured any gateway whilst setting up Linux, at least not that I can remember, so I figured I'd just start it up and see what IP-number it came up with. ANd lo, behold, there was an IP-number, in the updated range, messengers connected, mail came in, all seemed OK.... :pleased:
But then, I tried to send an e-mail. TB tried and kept trying, but eventually told me it wouldn't connect to my smtp-server, and asked if I could take a look at the settings. So, I told my brotherI had problems, and after a while he suggested I updated my IP-adress to another range. I don't know how to update an IP-address in Linux yet, so I just rebooted. And whilst booting, I saw it acquired a new IP-address, this time in the right adjusted range, so I though my problems would be over.  :stop: No such luck though, messenger couldn't connect and took ages to maximize, mail still couldn't be sent. So I went re-configuring. Try this, try that, try something else, yet another setting, but to no avail. So I thought, let's try Windows! It got an IP-address in the updated range too, but slightly different from the one Linux had, and more importantly, it worked. So, I thought, since it just worked in Windows, maybe that will somehow seep through to the Linux-partition and so when I reboot that it will come out fine. :furious: This time I didn't even get an IP-address!, and when I finally gave up I noticed I seemed to have changed my profile somehow so I couldn't shutdown anymore. So, cancel that, and re-reconfigure again. Ofcourse a profile is loaded at startup, so I still had to logout first. And then, when I tried to login again, the connection between my keyboard and pc seemed to have vanished again. (something I've encountered before) Luckily, there were options available on the login-window, and one of them was to shut down, so I just did that. :zzz:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 05, 2004, 02:39:14 PM
I had a nice little laptop from work, and I was given enough clearance to do just that little bit more normal users can't do (such as installaing new codecs for my media player, browser plugins, and moving sound files of my own into the media-folder within c:\winnt. Life was sweet and quiet. ;)
Due to several people asking me for a pdf-version of a certain financial document I could only print on paper, the ICT department was asked if they could install a pdf-printer. At that point, I also still had a VPN-client but had already been warned it would be deleted at the next occasion. So, they asked if I could bring in the laptop to the ICT-department, to 'verify its functionalities'. When I read that, I knew that was going to happen when I brought it in, so I alerted my two closest colleagues, that the VPN-end was near. So, I expected that. What I did not expect, was that he would also downgrade my profile to that of a normal user! :furious:  And the best/worst part of all this is: a) he didn't fix the windowed splash startup-screen and b) he didn't do anything about the battery. The problem about the battery is a) it's worn down and b) it goes into suspend mode without the least bit of auditive warning, at most a small visual warning, the LED-battery status indicator. However, I don't look at that LED, I look at the screen, where there's absolutely no warning whatsoever. When I then plug it into the electricity, I can get the message warning me of low battery level twice, and a few seconds afterwards, I get the 'beep' that should have been there at least together with the warning message. In short, my laptop is completely going down the deep end and what does the ICT-department do about that? Nothing! :furious:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Shadowfax on October 05, 2004, 02:42:03 PM
Ohhh, that sounds nasty

It looks like someone is going to "cop an unfortunate one" via CopyCat!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 07, 2004, 10:22:35 AM
Hard decision, I wonder who will win this week :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on October 07, 2004, 06:29:31 PM
I think CC will win!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 08, 2004, 04:51:40 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 07, 2004, 10:22:35 AMHard decision, I wonder who will win this week :-\
Yes, with 3 b.itch-posts from yours truly and none from anyone else, it's going to be a tough choice. :sweating:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 09, 2004, 11:09:15 AM
I also take b.itches outside of this thread :P, there is a lot in "The Bad" sometimes :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 17, 2004, 06:47:16 AM
The b.itch of this week is GravityMX :D, because i said so :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 17, 2004, 03:06:42 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 09, 2004, 11:09:15 AMI also take b.itches outside of this thread :P, there is a lot in "The Bad" sometimes :P
I see, and all this time I was  carefully putting the b.itch parts of my posts in this thread. Oh well. ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 20, 2004, 07:02:22 AM
The b.itches in this thread are notcied more than the ones in other threads ;D, so if you really wanna get noticed post in here ;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 21, 2004, 04:59:27 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 20, 2004, 07:02:22 AMThe b.itches in this thread are notcied more than the ones in other threads ;D, so if you really wanna get noticed post in here ;)
But then again, the only one who really needs to notice a b.itch-post is the one giving out the title andf since that person scours the complete forum... :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 22, 2004, 06:49:40 AM
I dont look over the whole forum anymore :-\, so if you dont post your b.itch post in here then it will definitely go un-noticed :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 22, 2004, 03:32:44 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 22, 2004, 06:49:40 AMI dont look over the whole forum anymore :-\, so if you dont post your b.itch post in here then it will definitely go un-noticed :P
I could b.itch about the fact my future property isn't wide enough to 'accomodate' for the house I'd have preferred to be built on it, but I'm afraid that'd not be easy reading so I'll refrain. Other than that, there's nothing new to b.itch about, some of the old b.itches just keep on getting worse. :-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 24, 2004, 07:54:12 AM
I have something to b.itch about, but i dont know how to b.itch well :-\, which means I wouldnt win :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Shadowfax on October 24, 2004, 04:05:51 PM
My life at the moment; now that really is a b***h!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on October 26, 2004, 03:27:24 PM
That was a terrible b.itch, Shadow.  You're supposed to write a rant. Duh. ::) :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 27, 2004, 06:07:37 AM
ohwell he will win :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 27, 2004, 02:41:40 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 27, 2004, 06:07:37 AMohwell he will win :D
Will you be picking a winner at random times(lots) now? XB
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 29, 2004, 06:21:12 AM
No, its just that hes the only one that has b.itched recently :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 29, 2004, 05:12:59 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 29, 2004, 06:21:12 AMNo, its just that hes the only one that has b.itched recently :P
Okay, In that case I'll b.itch about the fact I needed Adobe Reader 6 for something work-related and sinceI can't install antying (anymore) I had to use private machinery and time. Since the highest Acrobat Reader for Linux is version 5 I had to resort to WinXP. :-X But because I don't do e-mail there, I had to switch back to Linux, to send the mail to work. Yes, I informed ICT of the problem do do ya think i've had a reply from them? Nope. :furious:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on October 30, 2004, 08:04:15 AM
Okay, I'll b.itch...
I am in a Journalistic Writing class.  We are supposed to be putting out the school newspaper but because various people did not finish their articles in time, we are delaying it.  So now, I, who have finished my article, have *nothing* to do but relearn (again) how to do layout for the newspaper.  This was supposed to be a fun class, but now I am nothing but bored in it!  RAH!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 30, 2004, 09:37:08 PM
Sounds annoying Bob :-\, having to switch between XP and Linux :-\

And Q if you aint havin fun in that class can ya leave it ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on October 31, 2004, 05:00:25 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 30, 2004, 09:37:08 PMSounds annoying Bob :-\, having to switch between XP and Linux :-\
It wouldn't have been a problem for me had Adobe Reader 6 been installed on my work laptop. AFAIK it fulfills the requirements, but I could not install it before, and since they (ICT) fiddled with it, I can do even less, so I had little choice. And yes, the switching is annoying, because when I want to run XP, I have to wait for the boot manager to appear, because XP is second, (Linux is first ofcourse), and when I try to do something internet-related, XP (home) takes ages to start that part up, even after it's finished all else. :furious: When was the last time I mentioned my attitude towards XP Home? :stabs:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on October 31, 2004, 07:55:11 PM
Ok the winner is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .  .  .  .  . . . . . . . . . . . going to be announced in an hour :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 02, 2004, 01:34:34 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on October 31, 2004, 07:55:11 PMOk the winner is. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .  .  .  .  . . . . . . . . . . . going to be announced in an hour :P
*looks at time*
Long hours you've got in Australia. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: B'rrr on November 03, 2004, 12:57:46 AM
...must have felt asleep  ::) :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 03, 2004, 03:15:02 AM
Yeah I just forgot :P

The winner is Bob because he had the most b.itches in one week XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on November 04, 2004, 05:35:44 PM
Most of the time, the class is fun.  Plus, I already dropped one class this year.  I can't drop two.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 05, 2004, 08:06:57 AM
Quote from: Questing Character on November 04, 2004, 05:35:44 PM
Most of the time, the class is fun.  Plus, I already dropped one class this year.  I can't drop two.
I dropped two, but then I didn't give the school much of a choice  ;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on November 05, 2004, 08:27:57 AM
Stuff to b**** about...

(lots of stuff that violates a few forum rules)

Racx doing badly in school. I can speak from personal experience that not getting good grades and a diploma in school is a guaranteed way to have crappy low-pay no-benefit jobs for the rest of your life.

Speaking of crappy jobs... OK. Last month when we did the monthly statements to our customers, I concentrated on getting them mailed out as soon as I got them. By doing this, all my usual weekly work got backed up. I then got griped at because the weekly work didn't get done timely enough.

So this month I worked on getting the weekly stuff done first. I then came in today and got griped at because I didn't get the statements mailed out soon enough. (Never mind that every other month the statements weren't even *printed* yet on the 5th, let alone mailed.)

MAKE UP YOUR @$#%#^!! MINDS PEOPLE!!

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 07, 2004, 03:04:12 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on November 05, 2004, 08:27:57 AMSpeaking of crappy jobs... OK. Last month when we did the monthly statements to our customers, I concentrated on getting them mailed out as soon as I got them. By doing this, all my usual weekly work got backed up. I then got griped at because the weekly work didn't get done timely enough.

So this month I worked on getting the weekly stuff done first. I then came in today and got griped at because I didn't get the statements mailed out soon enough. (Never mind that every other month the statements weren't even *printed* yet on the 5th, let alone mailed.)

MAKE UP YOUR @$#%#^!! MINDS PEOPLE!!

Peace & Luv, Liz
I sympathise. Some people just don't seem to be able to realize you can only do so much in a certain amount of time. :-\ And yes, in that case it's soon forgotten that it has been even worse.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 10, 2004, 05:19:47 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on November 05, 2004, 08:27:57 AM
Speaking of crappy jobs... OK. Last month when we did the monthly statements to our customers, I concentrated on getting them mailed out as soon as I got them. By doing this, all my usual weekly work got backed up. I then got griped at because the weekly work didn't get done timely enough.

So this month I worked on getting the weekly stuff done first. I then came in today and got griped at because I didn't get the statements mailed out soon enough. (Never mind that every other month the statements weren't even *printed* yet on the 5th, let alone mailed.)

MAKE UP YOUR @$#%#^!! MINDS PEOPLE!!

Peace & Luv, Liz
I know what you mean. Some people are so friigin annoying because they can't make up their friggin minds. Then they jump down your friggin throat and start blaming everything on you. >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on November 10, 2004, 09:14:14 AM
I'd like to b**** at myself today.

At my job we often do price quotes for people on various products, and part of my job is to type up quotes into e-mails to send to customers.

In an attempt to make things go a little clearer, my boss had me make a worksheet that she could fill out with all the pertinent info. So I dutifully mocked one up and printed it out for her to use.

Today I get a bunch of quotes with the worksheets all nice and filled out, and realized that in the part where all the product info goes I FORGOT TO PUT A "PRICE" INPUT COLUMN. FOR A PRICE QUOTE WORKSHEET.

(paints the word LOSER on her forehead)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on November 10, 2004, 05:47:35 PM
OMFGIHATEBEINGSICK  :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 11, 2004, 05:57:07 AM
I friggin hate school, and I don't wanna friggin go anymore damnit
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on November 11, 2004, 08:39:51 AM
Look at it this way Racx... no matter how much you hate school, going to school and doing well now means it'll be far, far less likely that you'll get stuck with a job you hate later. Going to school lasts ~12 years at the minimum... but you'll need to work for ~40 years.

So far I've spent 8 years regretting dropping out of school, and have, by current life expectancy calculations, another 50 years to go. (At the rate we're going, Social Security will be useless by time I'm old enough to retire, so I'll have to work until I drop.)

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on November 12, 2004, 02:40:49 PM
Sorry Jeysie.  I have to agree with Jason.  School sucks.  I hate it.  It's boring, it's repetitive and I'm NOT learning anything I'll need later in life!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 12, 2004, 04:22:38 PM
Quote from: Questing Character on November 12, 2004, 02:40:49 PMSorry Jeysie.  I have to agree with Jason.  School sucks.  I hate it.  It's boring, it's repetitive and I'm NOT learning anything I'll need later in life!!
When I look back at school, I can only think of how easy I had it back then. ::)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 13, 2004, 07:11:29 AM
I mean when are you gonna use half of the crap from Maths in life >:(, and English is just a repeat every year, always doing the same crap over and over again >:(

I have to repeat year 11 English for failing because it was all the same crap and I didnt wanna do it, and I cant even do any of the IT lessons I need to do because they are firing the friggin teachers that teach those lessons >:(, wtf is the point in continuing :-\

I'll go to TAFE or something cos im sick of the school bullshit :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on November 13, 2004, 09:11:23 AM
The whole point of high school is to get good grades and a base foundation of learning so you can get into college. Then in college the real learning begins, so you can train in a field that interests you and have a better chance get a real job that pays real money, real benefits, and real work. I find I can't get a lot of jobs because they all require degrees.

I'd love to be able to go back to school, so I can finally get a job that doesn't suck. Unfortunately I'd need to take remedial courses just to qualify for basic stuff at a community college, then I'd have to do really good there to qualify for a "real" college so I could then finally work on a degree. That's assuming I could pay for all of that, which I can't, because all the jobs I currently can get pay near-minimum wage, which isn't even enough to afford to live on my own without a generous roommate, let alone pay for college.

Once you get down the road of dropping out of school, it's hard to get back on track once you realize it was a bad idea, unless you're really lucky or you don't mind spending twice as long and twice as much as you would have if you'd done it right the first time.

Math is more important than you think. I use a fair amount of math in my job, and I have just a simple, sucky paperwork-processing job. Math is *especially* important if you want to get into IT stuff, Racx... computer science involves some *crazy* math stuff.

English is also very important. Knowing how to express yourself in a formal and accurate manner in speech and writing is an absolute must for the working world. I once got a job literally because I was the person who wrote the most coherent and well-written resume, even though I wasn't necessarily the one with the best skills.

But I guess some people just have to learn that certain decisions are a bad idea on their own, even when someone who's already gone through it tries to save them the anguish. I hope you have better luck than I did...

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on November 13, 2004, 08:17:06 PM
I'm not advocating dropping out, but unfortunately, the useless crap doesn't stop after high school, it continues into college/university.  There were so many courses I had to take that did not relate to my field whatsoever and accordingly I did horribly in them. :P  I actually still don't even see why there are so many ridiculous math courses in Computer Science when in reality, the only math you do is basic arithmetic.  I can understand having to know high school math, since basic algebra is important for programming.  But as far as really complex things go, the majority of the time it's a computer doing all the complex calculations, not you.  

I guess school tries to give you a basic foundation for everything, and then once you know what you want to do, you specialize from that basic foundation.  Still, getting to that point is definitely not easy, and once you do get there, finding a decent job that makes use of what you've learned is a whole different problem altogether.  :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 14, 2004, 05:08:36 PM
Quote from: Yonkey on November 13, 2004, 08:17:06 PMI'm not advocating dropping out, but unfortunately, the useless crap doesn't stop after high school, it continues into college/university.  There were so many courses I had to take that did not relate to my field whatsoever and accordingly I did horribly in them. :P
The first year of college was a mish-mash of different courses, because they only split it up into specialized courses the 2nd year, so yes, that year there were a lot of courses I didn't really excel at, but were not exactly required in the specialisation I was going to flollow.

Quote from: Yonkey on November 13, 2004, 08:17:06 PMI guess school tries to give you a basic foundation for everything, and then once you know what you want to do, you specialize from that basic foundation.  Still, getting to that point is definitely not easy, and once you do get there, finding a decent job that makes use of what you've learned is a whole different problem altogether.  :-\
The only reason why I can't put some stuff I learnt there into practise, is because our company is a big one, so we have to specialize. But if I were to have the same occupation in a small company, I'd have to have to know about most of the courses I had in those last 2 years of college (it was a 3-year degree). 8)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on November 14, 2004, 05:31:03 PM
I agree with that statement.  The last two years of my degree (it's a 4 year program) contain courses that I'd be most likely use in industry.  As for the rest of them...  ::)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 15, 2004, 06:19:43 AM
Meh we dont have college here :P

And I dont need Maths for my career choices :P

Also why continue the highschool crap when I could go to TAFE and get all my degrees now ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on November 15, 2004, 08:59:20 AM
Oops, sorry, I forgot that the terms college and university aren't interchangable outside the US. :P

And that depends... what is TAFE? Is it some sort of vocational school? ???

And all of the IT jobs/degrees I've personally looked into around here need(ed) advanced math courses (which is why I'll never be able to get into them... was never good at much beyond advanced algebra and geometry, and I don't even remember most of that any more...)... the only ones that don't are the repair job-type ones. I guess it's different then outside the US?

I guess I should say that around here you can only get degrees from high school and college/university. There are some high schools that focus more on training for specific careers, like business and vocational high schools, but it's still high school. Even then, you're still at a disadvantage here unless you get college degree. Almost every job outside of retail work in the US needs a degree... even things like factory labor jobs need at least certs from college-esque training programs. At the very least, the person with the degree is more likely to get the nod. :P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 15, 2004, 04:02:31 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on November 15, 2004, 08:59:20 AMOops, sorry, I forgot that the terms college and university aren't interchangable outside the US. :P
When I use 'college' it's probably not the same as the US's college either. I consider it as not being a university but 'catering'' the same age group (18-21/24). And nowadays, with all of this Bachelor and Master talk it looks as if they're going to give the same courses too.

Quote from: Jeysie on November 15, 2004, 08:59:20 AMAnd that depends... what is TAFE? Is it some sort of vocational school? ???
Flash-back! Yes, I believe that question has been asked before, but I'm not good at information finding, so if you want to see, you'll have to find it yourself.

Quote from: Jeysie on November 15, 2004, 08:59:20 AMAlmost every job outside of retail work in the US needs a degree... even things like factory labor jobs need at least certs from college-esque training programs. At the very least, the person with the degree is more likely to get the nod. :P
If you've got a high-school (12-18 years) degree, there's still quite a lot of jobs you can apply for here. Ofcourse, if you don't even have that... :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 15, 2004, 10:41:06 PM
I dont really know how to explain TAFE but it gets me all the degrees that I need XD

And I suck at Maths so all the IT stuff I am looking into I have made sure that I dont need Maths :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: GravityMX on November 16, 2004, 01:44:37 AM
Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 15, 2004, 06:19:43 AM

Also why continue the highschool crap when I could go to TAFE and get all my degrees now ???

For the yr12 formal  ;D  :D

Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 15, 2004, 06:19:43 AM
Meh we dont have college here :P

I thought that we had it  ???

Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 15, 2004, 06:19:43 AM
I dont need Maths for my career choices :P

You havent told me what u were going to do yet  :-\. As for me its probably networking admin.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 16, 2004, 03:58:39 AM
I'm going into Graphic Modelling/Design and Animation, or maybe even web :D

If we do have college Josh then I have never heard of it and it must be crap :P ;)

And who would I take to the Year12 formal :-\, I'm friggin ugly :-\

Also I will fail all the year 12 exams :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 16, 2004, 02:40:23 PM
TAFE = Technical And Further Education, and I don't think we (here in Flanders) have anything of the sorts.
BTW, I got this from Google, so Google away if you want to find out more. :scholar:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 04:25:33 AM
Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 16, 2004, 03:58:39 AM
If we do have college Josh then I have never heard of it and it must be crap :P ;)

Arent' collages private schools owned by christians and churches?

Wasn't our skool going to be called "mid coast collage" or something?  :-\

Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 16, 2004, 03:58:39 AM
And who would I take to the Year12 formal :-\, I'm friggin ugly :-\

Cat.........obviously
Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 16, 2004, 03:58:39 AM
I'm friggin ugly :-\

Then why do u have a webcam?

Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 16, 2004, 03:58:39 AM
Also I will fail all the year 12 exams :'(

Choose the subjects with no exams, there are some in there u know.........
go for the 'HessR' subjects cos their easier then 'HessG'!  8)

Jeysie is right about not leaving school    :scholar:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 17, 2004, 05:57:39 AM
Quote from: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 04:25:33 AM
Arent' collages private schools owned by christians and churches?

Wasn't our skool going to be called "mid coast collage" or something?  :-\
Thats right colleges are snooby private schools XD

Quote from: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 04:25:33 AM
Cat.........obviously
LOL!  :P

Quote from: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 04:25:33 AM
Then why do u have a webcam?
I have a webcam because it was built into my digital camera

Quote from: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 04:25:33 AM
Choose the subjects with no exams, there are some in there u know.........
go for the 'HessR' subjects cos their easier then 'HessG'!  8)

Jeysie is right about not leaving school Smarty Pants     :scholar:
Well I chose HessG subjects cos Mr. R made me :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on November 17, 2004, 11:30:07 AM
The meanings of college you'd hear in the US.

Quote
1. An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.

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2. An undergraduate division or school of a university offering courses and granting degrees in a particular field.

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3. A school, sometimes but not always a university, offering special instruction in professional or technical subjects.

In other words, after getting thru highschool in the US, going to college is considered the next step in education. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 05:51:07 PM
Over here u have two types of schools.......

Public schools are for kids who's parents arent rich (majority go here)

rivate schools are for the rich people and the students have more options and freedom than public schools.  >:( Makes uni life a whole lot easier.....
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jael on November 17, 2004, 06:37:28 PM
QuoteOver here u have two types of schools.......

Public schools are for kids who's parents arent rich (majority go here)

Private schools are for the rich people and the students have more options and freedom than public schools.   Makes uni life a whole lot easier.....

Speaking as someone who went to a private school, that's not entirely true. Although, mine was a comparatively cheap one.

It depends on what kind you go to. Mine was conservative Christian, and I definately did not have more freedom than I did when I went to a public school. And it doesn't always mean you parents are rich, it depends on just how expensive and elite the school is. But I do agree that in a lot of ways it much harder for public school students.


As for university . . . there is some correlation. If your parents are rich enough to send you to an elite school, they're probably rich enough to buy your way into uni, especially now admission is leaning toward your ability to pay up-front fees rather than your academic merit. However, it doesn't have a *lot* to do with public/private school. As I've said, I went to private school, and couldn't get in based on wealth. I got in on academic merit and am going to be graduating with one heck of a HECS debt >:(.

Just MHO  :scholar:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: GravityMX on November 17, 2004, 09:24:44 PM
By freedom I kinda meant resources. Students having access to more subjects.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 21, 2004, 03:24:21 PM
Quote from: Louisiana Night on November 17, 2004, 11:30:07 AMThe meanings of college you'd hear in the US.

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1. An institution of higher learning that grants the bachelor's degree in liberal arts or science or both.
/me chooses  door number 1. At least I'm a bachelor.
Anyway, we have just the college and the university overhere. No private schools (I know of).
:zzz:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 25, 2004, 07:18:22 AM
I forgot to choose a b.itch :o, there shall be two b.itches this coming weekend :D :evil:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 25, 2004, 03:59:38 PM
There's a b.itch of mine in the 'Posting Positions'-thread I believe, about the end of last week. 8)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 26, 2004, 03:42:55 PM
Thanks for warning me :D

*Goes to check post* ;D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 26, 2004, 05:34:25 PM
Quote from: Bürrhîzen on November 26, 2004, 03:42:55 PMThanks for warning me :D

*Goes to check post* ;D
Let' see if this 'linking to a post' still works:
Post (http://www.postudios.com/blog/forum/index.php?action=display;board=37;threadid=1478;start=1020#msg88978)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 28, 2004, 12:46:49 AM
Nice linking :D

*reads posts*

Interesting, sounds like you had a bad few days :P

*starts processing b.itches for this week* XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 28, 2004, 04:14:14 PM
Quote from: racx_00 on November 28, 2004, 12:46:49 AMNice linking :D
Luckily I had the procedure written down in a text file, although that meant I had to remember how the textfile was named. :P

Quote from: racx_00 on November 28, 2004, 12:46:49 AMInteresting, sounds like you had a bad few days :P
Luckily, all's better now. 8)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on November 30, 2004, 08:43:14 AM
Ok the b.itches of the week are *coughcough*

1. GravityMX (Chamber reasons XD)
2. Bob because hes a big b.itch :P

Congratulations both and keep up your useless wonderful b.itching ::) :D
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on November 30, 2004, 02:02:10 PM
*holds his second congratulatory (?sp) speech*
Oh, and I hope Murphy has had its share of frolicks with me and has now departed for other persons. :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: GravityMX on December 01, 2004, 03:46:18 AM
Quote from: racx on November 30, 2004, 08:43:14 AM
1. GravityMX
>:(
Quote from: racx on November 30, 2004, 08:43:14 AM
Chamber reasons XD
Fair Enough

Bob is the big b.itch, with recovering extinct threads  :P. I'm a b.itch im the forums too (sometimes)  ;)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 01, 2004, 02:38:19 PM
Quote from: GravityMX on December 01, 2004, 03:46:18 AMBob is the big b.itch, with recovering extinct threads  :P. I'm a b.itch im the forums too (sometimes)  ;)
Extinct threads are those I've completely read and to which nothing has been added since. However, if I come across a thread, that has not been closed, and has new content (for me), it is not extinct. :scholar:

EDIT my LAME B.itch refused to turn an MP3 into a wave, so I had to scour the net, and plough through many pages, and manuals, to find one that did, leaving me with little time left to post.. >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 05, 2004, 08:28:06 AM
Quote from: Louisiana Night on December 04, 2004, 05:40:01 PMIf you want better graphics, get a better PC. 8)
Which brings me to yet another b.itch. I go to the site of ATI, to get a new driver for my videocard (Radeon9800XT). I choose the correct type, download a file, and I look at the version info:
QuoteDisplay driver files for the ATI Radeon 8500, 9700, Mobility M9 and the
FireGL 8700/8800, E1, Z1/X1 graphics accelerators.
Where'd the 9800 go? :stabs:
PS: The  (http://www.postudios.com/blog/forum/index.php?action=display;board=37;threadid=1127;start=480#msg91169) post in the Lost&found-thread can also be considered a semi-b.itch post.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 17, 2004, 03:20:22 PM
THe company head is also a control freak b.itch. :furious: Because I was already late, as in the last moment, I decided to mail an answer to a parliamentary question directly to the one that was gathering all the different answers and then synthesizing a global answer from those). No five minutes after I had sent the mail (and ofcourse, had put the company head in cc) my direct superior (the head of the financial department) got a phone from the company head that such an answer should've passed by him first, before it got sent out. And a few moments later, a company-wide mail was sent stating that same thing. Guess who initiated the whole thing. :-\
Also, this forum is becoming quite a b.itch, with all of its outages. :-X
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 22, 2004, 02:36:16 PM
YaST is currently b.itching like hell. Yesterday some Linux-processes were caught in a loop so I couldn't shut down in any other way but cut the power to the pc itself. And today even KDE is b.itching by restarting every few minutes so I can't even properly do anything besides re-start FF and try to post before everything feeezes again. :-X :furious:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 24, 2004, 06:28:50 PM
Due to the b.itch in my previous post, I decided to re-install, because there's nothing worse than a freezing OS. Or so I thought... :-\ I fetch the SuSe 9.1 Personal CD I've used so many times to re-install in the past (with success), and start a new installation (I can't update with that), without formatting ofcourse (just like before). However, this time not everything goes according to plan, the install program (yes, YaST) freezes near the end, at about 98%. :-X :furious: I tried the CD in both my CD/RW-drive and my DVD/Reader-drive, but to no avail. Everything stalls near the end. There's also the option to install SuSe Linux via FTP, so I thought: let's try that. First I try to repair my Linux-partition, but that freezes when looking up the packages. So, I thought, let's try Updating my partition. The first try there were a few dependancy issues, but they could be resolves by downgrading to a previous version, So I checked that. However, that froze too at a certain package (some Berkeley Database, probably something to do with my Seti@home/BOINC). So I unchecked that update. Next try, another file froze, so I unchecked that too. In the end, I unchecked everything that hadn't already been installed during my previous update, except the downgrading-packages. D**n! Even those two freeze my system! :furious: Okay, in that case: risk the inconsistencies. No more packages to download, YaST moves straight on to the Finishing (install-)touch, and that's the one that creates the init-file. 63%... and then, yet another freeze. Where does the grudge this pc now has against (SuSe) Linux (and in particular YaST) come from? It worked so fine all these months, and now, suddenly, freezing everywhere.
Just to make matters complete: Thursday I got my VPN client on my work-laptop. I tried everyting at home (that was before I tried re-installing (not the repairing or upgrading, that's the following evening/night) Linux that same night BTW)): VPN connects, I can ping, I can send and receive e-mail, but there's one difference between now and the previous time I had a VPN-client, the bookkeeping-program can't connect itself. The b.itch here is the fact that I only needed the VPN to work in the bookkeeping program during the Christmas holiday. So, Friday before noon, when the person who installed that came by in our office to fix something elese and asked how my VPN worked, I told him, even though I'd already sent him a detailed mail the previous evening, after exhaustive testing. I had the afternoon off, but since I only come to work late, my work-shift ended at 13:15. At 11:30-ish, two ICT-men came by to solve my problem. They fiddled around a bit, changed some settings, and I'll probably test again on Saturday. Due to all of everything I'm b.itching about, I've not been able to come onto the forum, and the chat I''m going to let pass too. :-X
All I want is a clean Linux-install, you stupid :furious: pc!
Note: This post has been made with XP/FireFox. I might hate this OS, but at least it doesn't freeze my pc. :-\
At least I have one consolation: it can hardly get any worse than it already is. :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 26, 2004, 05:47:17 PM
A small triumph, but not for me: VPN is now fully operational. ;]
PS: It's nice to have a vent where you can release your frustration(s) (see previous post(s)). 8)
:zzz:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on December 29, 2004, 07:00:30 AM
Why is it that no one else b.itches :-\, did they all give up because they feel threatened by you Bob? :P

Anyway the b.itch for this week is......
Undecided because I dont know who to choose :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 29, 2004, 03:19:19 PM
Quote from: racx on December 29, 2004, 07:00:30 AMWhy is it that no one else b.itches :-\, did they all give up because they feel threatened by you Bob? :P
It's not my fault Murphy seems to feel rather at home with me. With Murphy being here, ofcourse he can't be anywhere elese. I wouldn't like anyone being scared of me though, I'm a far too nice person for that (except when I'm venting).

Quote from: racx on December 29, 2004, 07:00:30 AMAnyway the b.itch for this week is......
Undecided because I dont know who to choose :P
Take your time (and wait for more input so you can choose between at least two users. An election with just one candidate is no fun either. 8)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on December 30, 2004, 09:56:16 AM
Well its not that there is one candidate, its the fact that its always the same candidates ::) :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on December 30, 2004, 05:12:01 PM
I think this thread is under-appreciated and under-used. We need to find a way to raise awareness of this thread somehow. However, I'm not good at forming ideas. :-\
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: racx_00 on January 01, 2005, 05:20:09 AM
I will try adding an advertisement to my sig XD

[sig]Got a problem, well complain in the b.itch thread[/sig]

Thats a crappy one, so if anyone comes up with better let me know XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on January 25, 2005, 03:47:41 PM
Not so much a b**** really, as it is a resigned lament of sorts...

You know, some drivers are nice people. Because of this, they want to be nice and stop so you can cross the road. Usually this is a very good thing.

But there are some days like today, where I'm once again crossing a two-lane street from the bus stop, which is a lengthy distance in either direction from a crosswalk, to my house. And there is a very nice person who decides to stop for me on my side of the road. The slight problem is that there was still a steady stream of cars going on the far side of the road. I eventually had to wave the person on to get them to go.

I find myself wishing I had a microphone I could use to talk to drivers. I then could say, "Sir/Ma'am, you are very nice for stopping for me. But given a choice between standing on the sidewalk waiting and standing in the middle of the road waiting, I'd rather stand here on the sidewalk."

It's a break-even brownie points matter for the driver, really. Like, +100 for being nice, but -100 for being a little deficient in logical reasoning. What's a grateful but stymied pedestrian to do? ;P

Peace & Luv, Liz
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosedragon on March 16, 2005, 02:58:00 PM
I have a problem of being apedestrian but I live so far in the boonies that the nearest store is miles away, I cannot walk to anything important. I supose I could walk to the corner store but that involves crossing several busy streets, and is more than a mile away.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 01, 2005, 04:21:47 PM
Quote from: Jeysie on January 25, 2005, 03:47:41 PMI find myself wishing I had a microphone I could use to talk to drivers. I then could say, "Sir/Ma'am, you are very nice for stopping for me. But given a choice between standing on the sidewalk waiting and standing in the middle of the road waiting, I'd rather stand here on the sidewalk."
You don't need a microphone, there are megaphones available who can do that just as well, otherwise, you're going to have to hand out a receiver to any car driver who's driving along your designated road which is a highly unpractical thing. :scholar:
When I drive my car, my view is fixed on the road and the road signs that are alongside it. That view does not, or too late, register pedestrians that are waiting alongside the road wanting to cross. However, once they're on the road, I have no problem and can see them fast enough so I can slow down and let them pass on my side too. Maybe there are other car drivers suffering from what I'm having?

@Rosedragon: no traffic lights then, I gather? :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Warlock on April 04, 2005, 05:06:27 AM
Quote from: Jeysie on April 03, 2005, 04:37:11 PM
Warlock:

Uh, before you decide to go and be a complete ass,


First of all, I was not trying to be rude to him. And we already settled this issue. Do not go about insulting other people Jeysie, I certainly don't appreciate it, and the next time direct anything personal to me through PM, instead of doing it in a thread that wasn't intended for it. Thank you.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jeysie on April 04, 2005, 09:26:22 AM
Quote from: Warlock on April 04, 2005, 05:06:27 AMFirst of all, I was not trying to be rude to him.

QuoteLook, I already explained what you should do, it's not very hard.

<snip>

But since you can't seem to do that,

I dunno, sounds kind of rude/snippy to me...

QuoteDo not go about insulting other people Jeysie, I certainly don't appreciate it

So essentially, when you're rude it's OK, but when I'm rude it's not OK. (No, I don't think two wrongs make a right, just that you're the pot calling the kettle black here.)

As for saying things in public, I was pointing out the rudeness in your *public* post... not to mention I also wanted to point out why he might have been having trouble, just in case anyone else might have had trouble seeing the link too.

I'm bluntly honest. I thought you were being a jerk with your comment, so I said so. I don't sugar-coat things.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 04, 2005, 08:15:07 PM

I wanna b**** about the heat lately, it's been so freaking hot sometimes I feel like I melt, it makes everything so much more annoying, from just taking a bus to even walking on the freaking street, doing normal activities to just even sitting on a place and doing nothing! I think it's reached almost like 35ºC or something lately :(

I also would like to complain for not having enough coffee lately, omgwhatswrongwithme :(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 04, 2005, 09:21:12 PM
I want to b***h about this out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality my RL friends seem to have developed.  But I'm too tired right now, so maybe later?
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Vipt on April 04, 2005, 11:04:58 PM
I wanna b***h about Say: she's not around enough. ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on April 05, 2005, 12:04:01 AM
I agree, he won't let me leave chats due to how lonely he is. ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Say on April 05, 2005, 09:19:05 AM
HAHAHA :D,  aww.. :)


It's good to know that at least someone misses me :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 05, 2005, 09:45:08 PM
LN, when did I not let you leave a chat?  I have no memory of this whatsoever... ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Louisiana Night on April 05, 2005, 10:01:04 PM
I was referring to Goerge. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 06, 2005, 07:39:31 PM
Ohhh.  Yeah, well...I guess everyone is lonely on the KQ9 forums.  I stopped being subtle with my friends.  I'm now directly telling them to come see me.

And you know what?  All they say is "lol"!  WHY DO YOU NOT TAKE HINTS?!?! And why is "You should bring the movie to my house" still a hint?!?!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosedragon on April 07, 2005, 04:08:04 PM
Reminds me of something, I need to give my real life friends a call. I have a bad habbit of not calling my friends, I just sort of expect them to call me first. I wait till, 'on the weekends" so they will have more free time, but when the weekends comes I'm busy.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Vipt on April 07, 2005, 10:59:15 PM
Quote from: Questing Character on April 06, 2005, 07:39:31 PM
Ohhh.  Yeah, well...I guess everyone is lonely on the KQ9 forums.  I stopped being subtle with my friends.  I'm now directly telling them to come see me.

And you know what?  All they say is "lol"!  WHY DO YOU NOT TAKE HINTS?!?! And why is "You should bring the movie to my house" still a hint?!?!

I hope they didn't say "lol" in real life, as in aloud, and not over a text messager. That would be uber dorky. ;P

As for myself, I'd like to b***h about my cable internet provider, Comcast. I want to burn their souls and feast upon the flesh of their children!! Okay, that might be a little extreme. But yeah, their service sucks; it's been down nearly all day (meaning yesterday, at this point) and it only just came back up about an hour ago. When I called this morning, around 9:30, all I got was an automated message that said they were having "technical difficulties" and that service would be restored "shortly". Hmmm.... apparently "shortly" is a very relative word. For me it would mean maybe a couple hours tops, but for them it evidently means fifteen hours!!  >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on April 08, 2005, 02:05:01 PM
I had a similar problem with mine.  Some internet backbone called "scnet.net" went down, and I couldn't access anything from kq9.org.  I could access everything else on the Internet, and everyone else could access kq9.org but me!  >:(

Anyway, it finally fixed today just a couple hours ago.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jump In Well on April 08, 2005, 02:37:51 PM
I'd like to b**** about not figuring out what i want for my b-day this coming tuesday, but its not worth bitching about :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Questing Character on April 12, 2005, 09:43:47 PM
Okay, so now one of the people I was B.itching about before?  THEY OWN A FRIGGIN' CAR AND THEIR HOUSE IS LITERALLY A TWO MINUTE DRIVE AWAY!!  WTF!?!?!?!  I have been considering these people my "best friends" since freshman year, have I been wasting my high school years on a bunch of random people when I could maybe have been hanging out with other people who would have been more supportive of me when I needed it?  RAH! RAH! RAH!

On the other hand, friends of mine from another school have started being really good about checking up on me and stuff. :)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on April 15, 2005, 06:23:26 PM
Quote from: Questing Character on April 12, 2005, 09:43:47 PMOkay, so now one of the people I was B.itching about before?  THEY OWN A FRIGGIN' CAR AND THEIR HOUSE IS LITERALLY A TWO MINUTE DRIVE AWAY!!
If it's only a two minute drive by car they could as easily take a bike. 8) :pleased:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Kimmie on May 03, 2005, 07:02:08 AM
I just wanna say...the new guy in work annoyed me. Thank you.
:stabs:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: copycat on May 03, 2005, 03:04:39 PM
That reminds me: I would like to comment on the department head at work was once again doing his best at work today to be as annoying as possible. :stabs:
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosedragon on May 11, 2005, 02:28:08 PM
I wanna complain about pharmacies. My dad said that in the old days the pharmacy was open late when everything else closed, but now the pharmacy closes early while other stores remain open. People always need their medicines to be available to them any time of day, what good is a pharmacy that closes at 6:00? While I was in Tennessee and my mom was sick we had trouble finding pharmacy that was open late, we finally found a CVS pharmacy that was open to take prescriptions.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: dark-daventry on May 09, 2006, 07:10:13 PM
This thread is basically for people to talk about problems that they have from people they find annoying... Such as people at school that make you feel emotionally unstable or anything of the sort...

And Rosella, this would be the better thread for you to post your school issue... (I'm very sorry for you!) There is a girl at my school who calls me a b*****d and doesn't give a single reason, because she thinks I don't deserve one... She also made me cry on the bus ride home two days in a row, by saying that I should be nicer to people and that sort of thing...

Is this thread one to be allowed to stay open, or will I have to delete it?
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 09, 2006, 07:21:09 PM
And you know what? The girl even insulted Nicole's and my music! "There's more out there than that alternative crap."

I'm not even sure I know what alternative is! XD I listen to pop punk, which I know a lot of people don't like, but I do, so she has no right to insult me. Of course she's insulting my "alternative" music that she's never listened to when she listens to metal! My very confused definition of alternative includes metal! It's just like...Erg. Don't mess with my music. ;P

EDIT: No! Not this thread! XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: awesomeasapossum on May 11, 2006, 03:41:59 PM
Uh....don't really know who annoys me.....a lot....um....I am annoyed with friends constantly talking about South Park.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 11, 2006, 07:52:04 PM
Today, I shall rant about the evil, terrible, ominous death trap that is French class.

I'll start with the board. It absolutely STINKS. I'm not sure how, or why,  but it makes me gag. Whenever someone has to clean it, they have the touch the filthy rags that wipe the stench all over. Mr. Kouame doesn't seem to realize why we need to go to the bathroom and wash our hands after touching those rags. Also, whenever you clean the board, your hand gets COVERED with the reminants of past board cleanings. Purpleish-black markings are everywhere. It's unsanitary, and it really makes me gag. While Mr. Kouame watches us suffer, he sits behind his desk, as always.

Now, this brings me to the REAL point of my rant, Mr. Kouame himself. At the beginning of the year, he tried teaching us. He gave 14 second explainations, and then gave us a quiz. Every section of the quiz counted as a grade! That makes a small quiz 4 or 5 grades! A normal quiz is only two! When asked as question about a simple concept that someone didn't understand, he typically replied by continuing with a totally different topic (and ignoring the person, even though he called on the person to ask the question,) by going over something on the same topic, but not the actual question (and then, once the question is repeated, asking the person to explain what he just said,) or by saying "It has to rhyme!" and declaring that sufficent. I was a straight A French student for 2 years, but with Mr. Kouame teaching us, no one can learn. I REALLY tried to find the answer to my question, but Mr. Kouame just WON'T help us. :(

Now, he's decided to just give us the book and let us teach ourselves. He sits behind his desk, assigns us sections, and sets us loose. One student has said many times that she really can't learn that way, but he personally attacked her saying that she didn't pay attention and didn't work and was basically stupid. I tried to defend her, and I get yelled at as well. Mr. Kouame keeps sugar packets behind his desk for some reason too. o_O And once, he went to the back and said "No one look or you get 20 point off." He stole soda that someone brought in for a party, and drank straight from it. We have an entire chapter about missing things and how things used to be, and he declined to mention a HUGE grammatical thing about how you literally say "This is missing to me," when you say "I miss this." We've been writing it wrong the entire time, and he says NOTHING. It's no wonder only 3 French students had all A's and B's on their report cards...

It's also no wonder that students flick him off when he's not looking and drop obscene comments in his suggestions box, but I'm not included in that. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Jafar on May 11, 2006, 07:58:47 PM
QuoteIt's also no wonder that students flick him off when he's not looking and drop obscene comments in his suggestions box, but I'm not included in that. :P
Yeah, you just stick your tounge out and write "MEANIEH!". :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 12, 2006, 01:17:51 PM
I may be VERY annoyed at him, but I'm not about to risk getting a referral. ;P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: awesomeasapossum on May 12, 2006, 04:11:18 PM
Good job! (Tell the principal/ your parents about his "teaching" methods.)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 12, 2006, 08:17:28 PM
Heh. We tried that. I told my specialty program-type-thing teacher and a really cool dude who taught us "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" in French, and we ended up getting yelled at. They KNOW I'm not some student who wants to make trouble, but the assistant principal came into our class and yelled at us for not being accepting of Mr. Kouame's teaching styles. I don't handle being yelled at very well either, so I was like crying, and I think the assistant principal thought I wanted pity, so she was more angry. ;P

And the sad thing is, Mr. Kouame replaced the coolest teacher I've ever had. Everyone misses her so much... :'(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: awesomeasapossum on May 14, 2006, 02:58:56 PM
I hated it when the cool teachers left.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 15, 2006, 02:02:01 PM
The assistant principal came into our class today to "see if we were prepared for our final." :P She was SOOOO trying to see if we were still bering rude to Mr. Kouame. XD

Today we had a quiz even though I wasn't there on Friday. Sherie was teaching us for one day (since, like I said, Mr. Kouame doesn't teach us,) and then we had a quiz. Mr. Kouame said that it was fair for me to take it because he "gave us time to study." Five minutes is not enough to learn a whole chapter! I CAN'T be held accountable for this!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 19, 2006, 03:19:58 PM
Whee! More ranting about school!

In first period (world history,) we had a worksheet about percentages (yeah, I don't get it either.) One of the questions was "The bank charges 40% interest rate per 6 months on money borrowed. Francesco Petrarch borrowed $250 to finance his book. How much would he have to pay the bank back after one year? Two years?" My answer was 450 dollars for 1 year, and 650 for 2. To find the interest, you multiply the principal (250, in this case) by the rate (40%, or .4) and multiply by the amount of time you have to pay, oui? Since 12 months is twice 6, I put 2. 250*.4*2=200. For 2 years, I just added another 200 for another year of interest.  I was asked to write the answer to the problem on the board, so I did, work and all. My teacher said I did well, but the answers were $350 and $450. I explained what I did, but she said that it was 250*.4*.5 for six months interest, because you have to put the months (6) over 12. Then she multiplied by 2 to get one year, and ended up with 100 dollars of interest instead of 200. The rate is in TERMS of 6 months, so one year is twice the rate. When another Geometry student (all of them agreed with me, :D) tried to explain that you'd have to put the rate in terms of a year if the time is in terms of one year (making the problem 250*.8*1 for one year,) she said that we weren't doing compound interest. Compound interest is something totally different! Eventually, they asked a math teacher, who backed up my world history teacher. I know that with typical interest, it's in terms of a year, so if you only borrow money for a couple months, you don't have to pay as much, but this ISN'T in terms of a year! Eventually, the entire class was just saying "Ok, admit it, you're wrong." I probably should've dropped it, but I WASN'T wrong. When I refused, they started saying that I was being egotistical and that I should just admit it. I'm not the kind of person that won't admit she's wrong when she is, but I'm not going to say I'm wrong when I'm not! Just...now everyone thinks I'm a brat and I don't want people thinking that!

I'm sorry if it sounds like I think whoever reads this is an idiot and doesn't understand simple interest. I'm just trying to explain everything so you don't side with the other students in my class. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: awesomeasapossum on May 19, 2006, 05:23:04 PM
Interesting.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 19, 2006, 05:23:59 PM
"The bank charges 40% interest rate per 6 months on money borrowed. Francesco Petrarch borrowed $250 to finance his book. How much would he have to pay the bank back after one year? Two years?"

Here's how I would answer it.  0.4 is for 6 months, so 0.8 is for 12

Total = Principle + Interest per year

Year 1 = $250 + $250 x 0.8
         = $250 + 200
         = $450 after one year

Year 2 = $450 + $250 x 0.8
         = $450 + 200
         = $650

It says interest is only on the money borrowed (i.e. the principle), and not compounded.  If compounded anually (which is usually the case), it would be:

= $450 + $450 x 0.8
= $450 + $360
= $810 in Year 2

And if interest was compounded bi-anually, it would be a lot more than that.  So, you're right and your teacher's wrong. :P  She only calculated interest for 6 months, not 12. XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Deloria on May 28, 2006, 03:54:36 AM
I can't believe someone alienated Lady Jane Grey before I got the chance!! XD (http://www.spookbot.com/jane.htm)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 28, 2006, 05:57:43 AM
QuoteI'm doing this for two reasons, the first of which is that pointing out inaccuracies is really, really fun.

XD Finally! Someone who understands me! :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: icarus on May 28, 2006, 07:24:23 AM
Quote from: Yonkey on May 19, 2006, 05:23:59 PM
"The bank charges 40% interest rate per 6 months on money borrowed. Francesco Petrarch borrowed $250 to finance his book. How much would he have to pay the bank back after one year? Two years?"

Here's how I would answer it.  0.4 is for 6 months, so 0.8 is for 12


I believe you made a calculation error
40%/halfe year makes  96% a full year

you must also calculate interst over intrest:


Total = Principle + Interest per year

halve year 1 = $250 + $250 x 0.4
                  = $250 + 100
                  = $350 after one halve year

Year 1 = $350 + $350 x 0.4
          = $350 + 140
          = $490 after one year

year 1.5 = $490 + $490 x 0.4
             = $490 + 196
             = $686 after one and a halveyear

Year 2 = $686 + $686 x 0.8
          = $686 + 274.40
          = $960.40
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 28, 2006, 07:27:57 AM
No! XD We WEREN'T doing compound interest. All we were doing was simple interest. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: icarus on May 28, 2006, 07:31:44 AM
this one is simple and you can't  stack those intrests (40%+40%=80%)
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 28, 2006, 07:36:18 AM
I don't quite understand what you're saying. XD
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: icarus on May 28, 2006, 07:37:44 AM
simple 40%+40% will never be 80% but becomes 96%
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on May 28, 2006, 08:08:34 AM
Quote from: icarus on May 28, 2006, 07:24:23 AM
                  = $350 after one halve year

Year 1 = $350 + $350 x 0.4
You're compounding interest there and the question doesn't say the interest is compounded. :P

But if it did, then you're correct and that's why I said:
Quote from: Yonkey on May 19, 2006, 05:23:59 PM
And if interest was compounded bi-anually, it would be a lot more than that.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Deloria on May 28, 2006, 08:15:27 AM
Quote from: Rosella on May 28, 2006, 05:57:43 AM
QuoteI'm doing this for two reasons, the first of which is that pointing out inaccuracies is really, really fun.

XD Finally! Someone who understands me! :P
XD

But...he alienated Lady Jane Grey before I got to :'( This means war!! :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Rosella on May 28, 2006, 09:15:54 AM
Quote from: icarus on May 28, 2006, 07:37:44 AM
simple 40%+40% will never be 80% but becomes 96%

But it's not compound interest. :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Zelly on May 29, 2006, 03:07:28 PM
 ??? ??? ???

And here I though Math was my best subject.  :P

??? ??? ???
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Deloria on May 30, 2006, 01:58:38 PM
How could someone alienate a monarch before I did?! :P
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Zelly on June 01, 2006, 05:02:14 AM
Because they were bored?????

How can the doctors be so incompetent that my grandma now has t go into surgery for the third time in around two weeks, for the EXACT SAME THING!!!!!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Deloria on June 02, 2006, 11:08:20 AM
I'm sorry to hear that Zelly.  :-[

Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Zelly on June 03, 2006, 03:33:24 AM
Tis alright, they say third times the charm right?
Besides when we found out that they were going to have to do it a second time my mom had a dream about it not working that time either and they had to do it for a third....
I think it all went well in the dream, hopefully it does in realiy as well.

*takes a few minutes to ponder the meaning of reality...*

On a similar note, but a bit more on topic. One of the stupid orderlies(sp) decided right before my grandma went into surgery last time to tell her all about some man they did the same surgery on that all kinds of things went wrong with and then proceeded to tell her about the awful infection he had because of it.

Now is it just me, or is that the most absolutely WRONG thing to tell someone about just before they go in for surgery?!?!?!?!?!?
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Deloria on June 03, 2006, 04:19:02 AM
It is. That's just tactless and wrong. Why make an old lady more scared than she already is because it's quite possible nothing's going to happen!!  >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Zelly on June 03, 2006, 04:24:15 AM
Of course she'll never say anything to anyone at the hospital, but that *censored* orderly is LUCKY I wasn't there!  >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Deloria on June 03, 2006, 04:27:47 AM
That's just awful!
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Yonkey on June 03, 2006, 06:49:39 AM
Quote from: Zelly on June 03, 2006, 04:24:15 AM
Of course she'll never say anything to anyone at the hospital, but that *censored* orderly is LUCKY I wasn't there!  >:( >:( >:(
If I were you, I'd report that nurse to the hospital administration and insist she receives some sort of disciplinary action.  That is definitely unprofessional, and a nurse should know better than to stress a patient out like that right before major surgery.
Title: Re: The Rant Thread !!!
Post by: Zelly on June 03, 2006, 06:51:50 AM
Believe me I'm seriously considering it. >:(