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Convention Community => Off-Topic => Posting Games and Chat => Topic started by: Classy Viking on October 15, 2010, 04:14:43 pm
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That my life, (and by extension this forum), isn't a musical.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIJJxL9utow
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You know what grinds MY gears? The fact that wizards and dragons never have, don't, and most likely never will exsist.
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You know what grinds MY gears? The fact that wizards and dragons never have, don't, and most likely never will exsist.
Is that so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhamphorhynchus_%28animal%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon
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what grinds my gears, is the sole fact, that humans cannot fly. Jet pacts and airplanes and helicopters are just... cheating.
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Brb going to work on a forum musical right now.
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you know what grinds my gears?
That this thread isn't called; "you know what REALLY grinds my gears?"!
:)
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You know what really grinds my gears?
People who are unwilling to help themselves and want everyone else to bend over backwards for them.
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Brb going to work on a forum musical right now.
I must be a tenor.
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Cassi I don't know if you're serious or not but... I would totally help in making a forum musical. I LOVE MUSICAAALS, BU BU BU BU BABEHHH
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I want to see a silent film in full color sometime.
And 3D.
We should bring back silent films.
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You know what grinds MY gears? The fact that wizards and dragons never have, don't, and most likely never will exsist.
Is that so?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhamphorhynchus_%28animal%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteranodon
Show me a real wizard living/fighting/standing next to a dragon that's not a dinosaur and i'll take back what i said.
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Dragons were TOTALLY dinosaur bones that people found before they knew what dinosaurs were, and had to make a guess. And they guessed dragons. HOW ELSE YOU EXPLAIN THE DRAGON MYTH IN LIKE EVERY SINGLE SOCIETY
I do have a wand and full Gryffindor outfit though. Does that make me a wizard? I can go stand next to the T-Rex bones on display at OMSI right now and take a picture, that's kind of close.
But yes, I do definitely wish life were a musical. Life would be better. And showers would probably not have such godawful acoustics. Probably.
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That my life, (and by extension this forum), isn't a musical.
Be careful what you wish for... what if you got Les Miserables? Works out pretty well if you're Cosette, but otherwise you're just hosed. ;)
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Hey man, Jean Valjean is AWESOME and I don't care if I have to be in jail/die, he gets pretty much one of the coolest rivalries EVER.
COSETTE IS BORING ANYWAY
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You know what grinds my gears?
People who say that the U.S. is some kind of police state and that Democracy is some kind of evil Empire. There's nothing evil Empire-ish about an individual within a reasonable set of rules having the right to decide that they want to succeed or fail based on their own merits without any government or organization helping or hindering their efforts. America was built on dreamers, thinkers, and doers after all. I grant you this country isn't perfect we have done some bad stuff in the past but we've more than made amends and frankly I think especially in this day and age we're the best thing going.
ANd that's my patriotic rant.
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You know what grinds my gears?
People who say that the U.S.S.R is some kind of police state and that Communism is some kind of evil Empire. There's nothing evil Empire-ish about an collective within a reasonable set of rules having decided that they want to succeed with a government helping efforts. U.S.S.R was built on dreamers, thinkers, and doers after all. I grant you that country wasn't perfect they did some bad stuff, but we can more than make amends and frankly I think especially in this day and age, they were the best thing going.
And that's my unpatriotic rant.
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I LOVE CURB XD
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-Looks over Classsy Viking's response rolls eyes and sighs- Whatever Classy Viking.
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THAT'S BECAUSE CYE IS. EFFING. AWESOME.
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Hey man, Jean Valjean is AWESOME and I don't care if I have to be in jail/die, he gets pretty much one of the coolest rivalries EVER. COSETTE IS BORING ANYWAY
This is kinda off-topic, since it's not what grinds my gears, but a close friend absolutely HATES Cosette. You know how the musical has no clear villain, just "tyranny" itself? She says that Cosette is actually the villain: 1) Cosette causes the suffering of almost every major protagonist, and 2) her happiness typically comes at the expense of others.
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¿Sabe lo que muele mis engranajes?
Las personas que dicen que el México es alguna clase de policía indica y que Democracia es alguna clase de Imperio malo. No hay nada Imperio-ish malo acerca de un individuo dentro de un conjunto razonable de reglas que tienen el derecho de decidir que quieren tener éxito o para fallar basado en sus propios méritos sin cualquier gobierno o la organización que ayudan o dificultan sus esfuerzos. México fue construido en soñadores, en los pensadores, y en los hacedores después de todo. Le otorgo este país no es perfecto que hemos hecho algún material malo en el pasado pero tenemos más que reparamos y francamente pienso especialmente hoy en día nosotros somos lo mejor yendo.
Y eso es mi lenguaje declamatorio patriótico.
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Hey man, Jean Valjean is AWESOME and I don't care if I have to be in jail/die, he gets pretty much one of the coolest rivalries EVER. COSETTE IS BORING ANYWAY
This is kinda off-topic, since it's not what grinds my gears, but a close friend absolutely HATES Cosette. You know how the musical has no clear villain, just "tyranny" itself? She says that Cosette is actually the villain: 1) Cosette causes the suffering of almost every major protagonist, and 2) her happiness typically comes at the expense of others.
I would totally, 100% agree with your friend. If Cosette hadn't been in the story things would have gone so much differently, and for the better.
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): I liked Cosette. Eponine was crazy. And not in a good way.
BUT I STILL TOTALLY SHIP COURFEYRAC/MARIUS.
You know what grinds my gears? People who think Russia is still a communist country. And people who don't know the difference between monarchies and empires.
Also, people who deny that war crimes happened grind my gears. A lot.
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Re: Classy Viking. (Not personal, just a rebuttal of the topic.)
I visited the Soviet Union in 1982. I cannot describe what a grim, broken-spirited people I saw, and I fully came to understand the fatalistic / nihilistic thread underpinning classic "Russian Humor"
You know what grinds my gears? People who think state-enforced rule over what can and cannot be private property, grinding away under a state-planned command economy, being asked "Who are you and where are you going" by state police every 10 miles, or at anytime in the city - - - can somehow be a good or even a tolerable thing.
You have 0% unemployment, yes, but gov't picks your job and you will be arrested if you quit, fail to show up, or don't work hard enough. (http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/uk-trud-e.html) See - we have no unemployment, if a factory cannot produce because of no demand, then they make you produce anyways, and store the stuff in out back in the field because one day someone will buy it, we hope. (The audacity of hope!) Then when you run out of materials the police make all of you show up anyway and sweep the floors twice a day - and you haven't gotten paid in weeks. (Neither have the police, btw.) This was known as "the workers' paradise!"
Or that living under Article 58 (http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/uk58-e.html) (hyperlink) can somehow be a good thing.
Wikipedia summary here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_58_%28RSFSR_Penal_Code%29)
How about sending 20 million of your own citizens to die in gulags. Great fun.
1/4 of my wife's family (in Soviet Lithuania) were arrested and 'disappeared' in 1940 ~ 1944. This is no joke.
In other towns people who just happened to have that same last name were simply arrested.
Writing names down would be evidence of treason, so her elders would recite the names by memory every Christmas Eve dinner so they are not forgotten.
Family name lists can be found today in the archives of the Lithuanian Heritage Foundation in Chicago. We went there on our 5th anniversary.
If YOU ever get 'disappeared' by the government, know that it's not about you**. Their purpose is to terrify (and maintain government fear and control over) all the people still on the outside who knew you - family, classmates, club members, customers. What happened to the man who ran the little hobby train store in the strip mall? Don't ask, you might be next - the person you ask would be afraid of being arrested for 'failure to report a collaborator.'
Arresting one person can keep 25 ~ 50 people silent, obedient to their government, and under control.
Leningrad: A city-full of people and not ONE with a smile. I saw it myself. And you want to live like THAT?!?
** You are 'dead' from that moment on. Completely pwned by The State. The sooner you realize that the easier the rest of your life can be - in prison, in 'citizen re-education work camps,' etc.
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You know what grinds my gears?
When people dont seem to get a joke.
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You know what grinds my gears?
When people dont seem to get a joke.
D'oh, you're right. Mis-read it the first time...
Green eggs & moderate embarrassment for me, but I'll still leave the links & info up.
EDIT ADD:
It's like when someone says "I know, let's just kill everyone taller than 5ft 6in!" in a context where everyone knows it's a joke because the severity and outrageousness of the proposed solution is obvious to all. But given how easy it is to spot stuff like "Che" T-shirts around town, it's possible (for me) to imagine that there's a swath of people who don't realize the ultimate extent of the "obey and conform or die" horror they are proposing.
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Okay everyone sorry if I mistook the joke my bad entirely.
Still you know what grinds my gears, BULLIES!!!
In the information age cyberbullying has become an epidemic in this country. And it's not just happening to Gays and lesbians. it's happening to straight people who dress a certainw way, it's happening to the handicapped, it's happening to special needs students. And the recent suicides of those poor High Schoolers have shown us just how out of control it is. That's why on October 20th I'm asking that everyone here on the forums wear some kind of purple to show support for all those who have been the victims of all bullying.
Having been bullied myself in my past I understand the pain and suffering they're going through. So please everyone on October 20th wear something that's colored purple. And let's send a message that all bullying will not be tolerated, and all differences are to be celebrated.
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Hey man, Jean Valjean is AWESOME and I don't care if I have to be in jail/die, he gets pretty much one of the coolest rivalries EVER. COSETTE IS BORING ANYWAY
This is kinda off-topic, since it's not what grinds my gears, but a close friend absolutely HATES Cosette. You know how the musical has no clear villain, just "tyranny" itself? She says that Cosette is actually the villain: 1) Cosette causes the suffering of almost every major protagonist, and 2) her happiness typically comes at the expense of others.
I would totally, 100% agree with your friend. If Cosette hadn't been in the story things would have gone so much differently, and for the better.
): I liked Cosette. Eponine was crazy. And not in a good way.
BUT I STILL TOTALLY SHIP COURFEYRAC/MARIUS.
I don't want to drag the thread off topic, but I do want to respond to you guys. New thread here (http://www.kumoricon.org/forums/index.php?topic=14260.0).
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Okay everyone sorry if I mistook the joke my bad entirely.
Still you know what grinds my gears, BULLIES!!!
In the information age cyberbullying has become an epidemic in this country. And it's not just happening to Gays and lesbians. it's happening to straight people who dress a certainw way, it's happening to the handicapped, it's happening to special needs students. And the recent suicides of those poor High Schoolers have shown us just how out of control it is. That's why on October 20th I'm asking that everyone here on the foprums wear some kind of purple to show support for all those who have been the victims of all bullying.
Having been bullied myself in my past i understand the pain and suffering they're going through. So pleae everyone on October 20th wear something that's colored purp,le. And let's send a message that all bullying will not be tolerated, and all differences are to be celebrated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4&feature=feedlik
This video doesn't grind my gears. But you know what really grinds my gears? The fact that someone has to say this.
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LESS POLITICS, MORE FABULOUS
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Okay everyone sorry if I mistook the joke my bad entirely.
Still you know what grinds my gears, BULLIES!!!
In the information age cyberbullying has become an epidemic in this country. And it's not just happening to Gays and lesbians. it's happening to straight people who dress a certainw way, it's happening to the handicapped, it's happening to special needs students. And the recent suicides of those poor High Schoolers have shown us just how out of control it is. That's why on October 20th I'm asking that everyone here on the foprums wear some kind of purple to show support for all those who have been the victims of all bullying.
Having been bullied myself in my past i understand the pain and suffering they're going through. So pleae everyone on October 20th wear something that's colored purp,le. And let's send a message that all bullying will not be tolerated, and all differences are to be celebrated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax96cghOnY4&feature=feedlik
This video doesn't grind my gears. But you know what really grinds my gears? The fact that someone has to say this.
Thank you for posting this. (https://www.kumoricon.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fr15.imgfast.net%2Fusers%2F1512%2F11%2F78%2F18%2Fsmiles%2F781942.gif&hash=04c9af04343aa738d9dbdee8302daae7f0ebeba4)
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I'd be lyin' if I said it didn't make me tear up a good bit. ^^;
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Reppy after seeing that video it moved me too. So you're not alone in that boat dude.
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Still you know what grinds my gears, BULLIES!!!
In the information age cyberbullying has become an epidemic in this country. And it's not just happening to Gays and lesbians. it's happening to straight people who dress a certain way ...
... and it happens to people who try to vote for their own beliefs without fear of reprisals.
Let's also think about what we can do to stop the intimidation of, say Prop 8 donors in California:
http://christianexaminer.blogspot.com/2009/02/prop-8-google-maps-and-intimidation.html
http://www.eightmaps.com/
As terrible an example of cyberbullying as I can imagine...
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the fact that i only have an hour to get ready and be out the door in one hour.
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Still you know what grinds my gears, BULLIES!!!
In the information age cyberbullying has become an epidemic in this country. And it's not just happening to Gays and lesbians. it's happening to straight people who dress a certain way ...
... and it happens to people who try to vote for their own beliefs without fear of reprisals.
Let's also think about what we can do to stop the intimidation of, say Prop 8 donors in California:
http://christianexaminer.blogspot.com/2009/02/prop-8-google-maps-and-intimidation.html
http://www.eightmaps.com/
As terrible an example of cyberbullying as I can imagine...
Anyone who would anonymously post* such a map without regard for people's privacy has some severe -pathies. It doesn't matter which side they claim to be on, whether they're concern-trolling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29#Concern_troll) to "prove how awful the other side is", or whether they're griefing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-social_behaviour) and claim they want to "prove that the other side dishes it out but can't take it".
Trolls, griefers, and bullies aren't truly on anyone's side. The world would be better if they got some professional help, stopped worrying about how other people are living their lives, and started fixing their own.
* - Because I don't want to leave any room for misunderstanding: I'm talking only about the people who posted that map in the first place and didn't have the courage to put their names to it.
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You know what really grinds my gears? The rent is too DAMN high!
http://tv.gawker.com/5667182/crazy-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-steals-the-show-at-ny-gov-debate?ref=nf
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Anyone who would anonymously post* such a map without regard for people's privacy has some severe -pathies. [...]
Trolls, griefers, and bullies aren't truly on anyone's side. The world would be better if they got some professional help, stopped worrying about how other people are living their lives, and started fixing their own.
* - Because I don't want to leave any room for misunderstanding: I'm talking only about the people who posted that map in the first place and didn't have the courage to put their names to it.
Agreed - including asterisk comments!
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I find it ridiculous how bent out of shape people get about their beliefs. Don't get me wrong: I have very strongly held beliefs about things like religion, politics, love, morality, etc. But if someone disagrees with me? I really don't care. It doesn't bother me. I'm not going to slander them or get bent out of shape to the point that I'm trying to cause them emotional or physical harm!
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You know what really grinds my gears? The rent is too DAMN high!
http://tv.gawker.com/5667182/crazy-rent-is-too-damn-high-candidate-steals-the-show-at-ny-gov-debate?ref=nf
THIS.
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Forum musical? I'm in! I dream crossover crack fanfic filk musicals often! "Ouran High School Glee Club" with Nekozawa in the Sue role. "The S.O.S. Band" with Haruhi Suzimiya in the Mr. Shue role: Be careful what you sing about; you just might bring it into existence! Asthma waking me from awesome cosplay dreams no longer grinds my gears when I wake to so cool a concept and a chance to express them!
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Dragons were TOTALLY dinosaur bones that people found before they knew what dinosaurs were, and had to make a guess. And they guessed dragons. HOW ELSE YOU EXPLAIN THE DRAGON MYTH IN LIKE EVERY SINGLE SOCIETY
One theory behind that is that some types of dinosaurs were still alive when many of these civilizations were starting.
You know what grinds my gears?
THE NEW YORK FREAKIN' YANKEES!!!
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Prop. 8: Because I live here and can see day to day the couples who would be married if not for it. The possibility that I would have to go across the country to be legally "Married". Just that last jump between "Civil Union" and "Marriage" that the majority says, "You are a lesser citizen." with.
I have consolation in that I live in a rather open-minded county of the state. I attend a very politically-active school; a good portion of the student body wore purple today "Spirit Day" as to symbolize our support for the GLBTQ community among other things, and that no-one should give up just yet.
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You know what grinds my gears? The lack of respect I get. I be quiet for you when you try to sleep, can't you extend the same courtesy?
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I'm 100% pro equal access to marriage, and several of the longest-term, stablest relationships I know involve two men or two women (and two of them involve two women and one man).
I believe that those who are ordained in a given faith should have the right to decide between which people of which genders (and which number of those people, btw) they themselves specifically perform marriages, whether I happen to agree with them or not; the government should not be able to compel a priest/imam/rabbi/whatever to perform a ceremony to which they personally object. But at the same time I do not believe religion should be the frame through which the Constitution is presently legalistically interpreted, no matter how much religion may have been central to its initial framing. I do not believe a religious body should be able to declare any nonviolent element of anyone else's life invalid any more than any government body should be able to do so.
All that aside: I do not believe it to be an ethical tactic to reveal someone's home address against her or his will. However, donors to political causes are matters of public record, and if a business or other organization, church, etc., donates to a cause, the contact information for that corporate entity is already public domain. It is not uncommon to post lists of corporate contributors for purposes of boycotts, and I think that is legit.
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I'm 100% pro equal access to marriage, and several of the longest-term, stablest relationships I know involve two men or two women (and two of them involve two women and one man).
I believe that those who are ordained in a given faith should have the right to decide between which people of which genders (and which number of those people, btw) they themselves specifically perform marriages, whether I happen to agree with them or not; the government should not be able to compel a priest/imam/rabbi/whatever to perform a ceremony to which they personally object. But at the same time I do not believe religion should be the frame through which the Constitution is presently legalistically interpreted, no matter how much religion may have been central to its initial framing. I do not believe a religious body should be able to declare any nonviolent element of anyone else's life invalid any more than any government body should be able to do so.
Oh man, this totally reminds me what really grinds MY gears: people who say the United States is a Christian nation. That is so amazingly untrue that it's appalling. Many (not all, but a surprising number) of the founding fathers (including but not limited to Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine) weren't even particularly religious at all, labeling themselves Deists, which at the time was like saying you're an Atheist now. (Deism is the belief in a god-like being who created the world and the universe, but doesn't care what people do since they don't interfere with the affairs of man-- AKA, an impersonal god, which is pretty against the idea of the Christian god.) They were also pretty staunch about NOT having the US be based on any sort of religious dogma. So for an American to be against something based purely on their religious beliefs ("I'm against gay marriage because God says it's bad!") is so UN-American it's crazy.
Does this rant even make sense? I don't even know.
tl;dr I MAD.
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All that aside: I do not believe it to be an ethical tactic to reveal someone's home address against her or his will. However, donors to political causes are matters of public record, and if a business or other organization, church, etc., donates to a cause, the contact information for that corporate entity is already public domain. It is not uncommon to post lists of corporate contributors for purposes of boycotts, and I think that is legit.
(For the record, I unequivocally agree with the snipped portion that preceded this.)
I'm pretty sure we're on the same page and I'm just quibbling over wording, but strictly speaking, what I find to be reprehensible isn't the revelation of addresses. As you noted, they're part of the public domain and people could look it up themselves. What I find reprehensible is the unspoken inference that it's okay to use that information to harass people based on disagreement with their beliefs. What other purpose is it likely to serve?
To me, that exists on the same continuum (though not nearly as extreme) as the severely *-pathic individuals who post the home addresses of abortion doctors and then gleefully post their murders as though it were an accomplishment.
(* was being used in this instance as a wildcard character, rather than to indicate a footnote. Insert any Greek prefix and you're likely to be correct.)
So for an American to be against something based purely on their religious beliefs ("I'm against gay marriage because God says it's bad!") is so UN-American it's crazy.
Does this rant even make sense? I don't even know.
tl;dr I MAD.
It does.
But (once again) to quibble over wording, it's not un-American at all. Trying to impose your religious beliefs on others and come up with a rationalization for it flies in the face of the principles on which America was founded, but it's very American. What is true and what should be true are two very different animals.
And strictly speaking, simply being against something and trying to impose that belief on others are also very different animals. You can be against dying your hair pink based on your religious beliefs, and no one ought to care. It's only when you protect the sanctity of hair by banning others from dying theirs pink that you cross the line.
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xD Fair enough. I didn't word my thoughts correctly. Believing whatever the hell you want to believe is what being an American is all about, but the moment anyone says that ALL Americans should behave a certain way and hold certain beliefs based on dogma, personal opinion, superstition, et cetera, it's getting very un-American.
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YOU KNOW WHAT GRINDS MY GEARS?
Those idiots that say the PS MOVE is a rip off of the wii when it's totally different and how people say Kinect or Playstation is copying one or the other because they both require cameras.
WELL NO. THE PS MOVE HAS EXTREMELY MORE ADVANDED TECHNOLOGY AND GETS IT'S AFFECT DIFFERENTlY. But ofcourse the wii and PS MOVE both do the same thing, except PS Move just does it better.
THE KINECT USES 3 different types of lenses/ camera thing! A normal webcam camera and 2 infered ones. The PS Eye is just a webcam.
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I played the Kinect once. It was oh so mediocre.
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It's a cool thing but would probably get boring later. Plus gaming shouldn't require TO MUCH exercise. Still very cool.
I played the PS move at Frys Electronics, very nice accuracy. Fun also.
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As always, well said, Random. The abortion doctor extreme was on my mind when I wrote the post, but I had hoped to avoid opening the door to sidebar debates. A fun synchronicity: Deists were characterized by a belief in a "clock-maker G-d", who sets things in motion, then sits back and watches the story unfold. As I read your post, I was watching an anime with a character who had already reminded me of a clockmaker G-d: He writes a story to watch it come to life, which is actually propelled in part by clock gears (at least from the spoilers I read). Talk about grinding ones gears....
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O.o....
o.O....
Are you telling me that life is... just one big FAN-FIC???
OH NOES! My character is soooo gonna end up an evil and morally confused pawn of the main antagonist in order to save the lives of the ones I love!
THAT really grinds my gears...
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Prop. 8: Because I live here and can see day to day the couples who would be married if not for it. The possibility that I would have to go across the country to be legally "Married". Just that last jump between "Civil Union" and "Marriage" that the majority says, "You are a lesser citizen." with.
I have consolation in that I live in a rather open-minded county of the state. I attend a very politically-active school; a good portion of the student body wore purple today "Spirit Day" as to symbolize our support for the GLBTQ community among other things, and that no-one should give up just yet.
Okay, speaking as someone who disagrees with you, lemme explain why I feel the way that I do about it.
Marriage is a religiously based thing. Many religions are opposed to homosexuality, and the many that aren't have their marriage traditions deigned for a man and a woman.
Do I oppose two people of the same gender being "together"? No, not really. Just because I don't agree with these lifestyles, no matter what reasons the "practicioners" may have for living them, it doesn't mean that I believe that they should be denied being legally bound to one another.
An option that I personally favor is the idea that everyone gets a civil union; that'd be where everyone is equal. Once doing this, those that are religious can still uphold their belief systems while those that don't can still be together on a legal scale.
Another thing that really grinds my gears: lots of attention being focused on college football when it's completely B"C"S. ;D
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@ Ally......Heh. If it were, who would you want to have write it, and in what genre, and what fandom?
@ W_O: Er, no. Yegads no. Marriage is not a "religiously based thing". It may be that when you personally enter a marriage, if you do, you will conceive of it that way for yourself. Marriage is a love-based thing. Some people may attribute finding their soulmate to providence; I have no problem with that. Love is spiritual; heck, making love can be spiritual. But to reduce marriage to a religious exercise is just plain not accurate. Plenty of people other than ordained religious figures perform marriages (e.g., justices of the piece, ship captains). Plenty of people who are not religious exercise the right to get married. Oh and BTW, plenty of religions *do not* institutionalize heterocentrism. Pagan, Wiccan, Reconstructionist Jewish, Reform Jewish, Jewish Renewal, Unitarian Universalist, and the United Church of Christ (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/national/05church.html)
are among those supporting same-sex marriages or even actively performing them. This is not even to get into the pre-Western cultures amongst whom same-sex relationships are encouraged, especially prior to entering het marriages.
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@ W_O: Er, no. Yegads no. Marriage is not a "religiously based thing".
Yeah, it is Ellen. I'm not even sure how you could think that it's not. Just because various denominations of different religions are accepting gay marriages now, it doesn't mean that it was always this way. If it were, then there wouldn't be any arguments on the subject.
Plenty of people other than ordained religious figures perform marriages (e.g., justices of the piece, ship captains).
Justices were originally appointed by kings, such as Richard the Lionheart, who were seen as being ordained by God, in order to ensure that the laws were followed, only later to have the power to wed. As for the captains, that priviledge was given to them so that they could preside over funerals for their fallen soldiers. If I remember correctly, they also had to get approval from a king (or a queen too, I'd imagine).
plenty of religions *do not* institutionalize heterocentrism. Pagan, Wiccan, Reconstructionist Jewish, Reform Jewish, Jewish Renewal, Unitarian Universalist, and the United Church of Christ (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/05/national/05church.html)
are among those supporting same-sex marriages or even actively performing them
I never said that it was; there's also the Greeks, and various eastern beliefs, such as Hinduism, tolerate it, though they don't approve of it. What I did say was that none of these cultures or religions approved of gay marriages. Many of them were fine with gay relations, some even encouraged it for various reasons, such as practicing for when they get married. I've also heard that some of the pre-Islamic Arabs would use it as a form of mental relaxing when the men would go out on hunting or training expeditions, but I haven't seen any official sources on the subject, so I don't know if that's true or not.
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You are aware, of course, of the irony that if it weren't for gay liberationists, such as the drag queens who rioted against gaybashing and harrassment by police at Stonewall, we wouldn't have a culture embracing your own crossplay, right?
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I don't see it as being ironic, especially since crossdressing was already somewhat acceptable in mainstream America. Ten years prior, "Some Like It Hot" came out. Bob Hope would wear dresses on several occassions during his show in the 50's. I think "our culture" would still be okay with otaku crossplay, probably about as much as it does now (which I wouldn't call an embracing).
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I don't think the government should have anything to do with the word "marriage." Everyone should have equal rights under the law, call it whatever you want, but don't call it marriage. If you want to self-identify as "married" then go for it. But given the controversy surrounding the word and the fact that it does seem to have very strong religious connections, I don't think it's worth the trouble.
Would you rather have equal rights or a word? "Gay marriage" is a hard term for many people to accept. I know, I know, everyone should be accepting and so on .. but that's an ideal world.
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^ Which is why I think everyone ought to get civil unions.
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To those opposing gay marriage, I would like to point this out:
Section 1 of the 14th amendment to the US Constitution states that:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
I cannot find written proof on the internet that says this other than what my political issues teacher has shown us in class but denying gay marriage violates this amendment BECAUSE marriage is a protected RIGHT under the liberty portion of section one, there is also a right of EQUAL protection. Denying homosexuals the right to marry violates this as well.
REGARDLESS of your RELIGIOUS views OR otherwise, allowing laws like Oregon's Measure 36 and California's Proposition 8 are CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL as stated in Amendment 14 of the US Constitution.
I apologize if this offends anyone, it was not my intention, but I feel very strongly on this subject.
Also: Calling it anything other than what it is, MARRIAGE, makes it something different. We cannot claim to be country that is for equality and the people if we allow majority factions to smother the rights of others and treat people differently.
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You know what grinds my gears? - So much love for YAOI & Yuri, but none for the straight stuff.
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Just watch tv. There's straight 'love' plastered all over it. And I am in no way a yaoi or yuri fangirl, I must say. I don't know if you were aiming that at me or someone in this thread or in general, but I'm simply an avid fighter against any sort of discrimination.
You know what grinds my gears? The fact that we are all people on the earth, and everyone forgets that. Who are we to judge others? Who are we to tell them who to be with, to marry, or to love?
That was not directed at anyone specific, but the world in general. If we just accepted each other, a lot of the hate would stop.
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Well, my point is that if marriage truly is a religious institution, as so many claim, then the government has no job recognizing marriage and there needs to be a different term for the union of two people. I think it would be ridiculous to have "marriage" for straight couples and "civil unions" for gay couples.
Gay couples are going to have to fight a battle regardless. Why make it even more difficult by focusing on a word that stirs up so much strong emotion?
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As I said, marriage is defined as a constitutional right, not a religious one. Like I said, I cannot find the exact document we were shown in class where it is defined as such, but this document states that people are given certain rights under liberty.
These rights include marriage, reproduction, and child-rearing among others.
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I'd be curious to know how they defined "marriage" (i.e., strictly between a man and a woman or otherwise) in that case then.
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I don't think it was specifically stated like that at all. I think the rights were just listed but I'd have to look at it again.
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*cough*wearedescendingintoacompletelydifferenttopicandshouldprobablygetbacktowhatgrindsgearsnotgaymarriagedebate*cough*
Sorry, feels like I have a mod in my throat... hate that feeling, but it never seems to go away!
^_^
You know what really grinds my gears? When I get confident about something only to be made to feel insecure about it moments later! Sad!
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We were just grinding our gears without specifically stating it. 8)
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You know what grinds my gears? not being able to spell :(
P.S. DemonSpawn i agree 100% with what you said
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Just watch tv.
I meant when we're at cons or on these forums. YAOI is heard so much that I'm starting to think that it's an English word, not a Japanese acronym. Yuri is also popular, but nowhere near as much (at least it looks that way to me). Why aren't there more people declaring their love for straight stuff? I just don't get it.
Well, my point is that if marriage truly is a religious institution, as so many claim, then the government has no job recognizing marriage and there needs to be a different term for the union of two people.
Again, everyone should have to get a civil union, for legal matters. Marriages can preserved their religious ties.
You know what DOESN'T grind my gears? THE TEXAS RANGERS DEFEATED THE NEW YORK YANKEES!!!
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@ DemonSpawn: Agreed.
@ Ally: Kudos for the humorous redirect.
You know what grinds my gears atm? Not being able to afford a bike to have gears to grind. But! I just got my childhood roller skates out of storage!
Oh and another gear-grinder: Speckles of mold on white leather roller-skates. Anyone knowing how to fix such, please PM me!
Oh and not being able to afford to be at today's meeting. But! Skipping it makes Orycon more accessible....
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You know what grinds my gears atm? Not being able to afford a bike to have gears to grind.
HERE HERE!!!
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Jeez I have a bike... somewhere. It's prolly at my friend's house. XD
It grinds my gears when I have to bathe my cat. He gets so angry. :c
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That'd be awesome. My cat sometimes hops in the tub! Try clipping the nails on yours 1st. Today's gear-grinders: gardening clippers that have gone dull, morning glory vines that smothered corn I planted, and burrs hitching rides on my shirt.
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My kitty is declawed (wedidn't do it, he was a stray that showed up on our front porch and pretty much gradually moved in), that's not the problem. The problem is he's my baby and I feel terrible about his panic attack trying to hop out.
I just felt like such a horrible person 'cause he was shaking and trying to get out. :c
Monday mornings grind my gears!
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It grinds my gears when I get preached to at work, or really anywhere. I can understand you're trying to save me, but please.... don't. Not all who wander are lost; and if I am then this con and forms are awesome to get lost in. ;D
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^ You mean wander. ;D
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^ You mean wander. ;D
Fixed it, thank you!
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^ Thank you.
You know what grinds my gears?
I'm trying to find a copy of the lyrics to "Yeah, Toast!" and I have yet to find two that are worded the same way. People need to stop posting guesses and should go with what is actually being "sung" ya know?
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Aw, poor kitty.
Today's gear-grinder...I only have 3 loads left to move out of my storage unit, but there was this spontaneous hail/windstorm that stopped me in my tracks & made me not want to leave the house!
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^ YAY!!!
I may have found a solution to my problem...
I just recently found the MySpace of the guy who originally wrote the song; I may be able to ask him directly!
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It's the little things that grind my gears. Out of butter, just as I am about to start cooking. New and unique places to put dishes and utensils, where I have no clue. Telling me you miss me, but never call so I don't wake you up.
Remembering just as I'm about to leave for work, that the car really needs gas, but there isn't time to get some now. I just set my dog gone glasses down, now where are they! Realizing at step seven, that I forgot to do step three, and have to go back and redo it all.
Finding myself walking into no-win arguments, but was dumb enough to open my mouth anyway.
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Idiots on Modern Warfare that always get mad for no reason then probably rage quit.
If I had a microphone I would tell them to shuv it up there ***.
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People who use chopsticks to pretend to drum stuff at school and/or people who hold the sticks the wrong way. Head's up, you arent cool for druming on the floor or bus seats, anybody can do that. And its pizza style!! NOT french fry style.
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It grinds my gears when I get preached to at work, or really anywhere. I can understand you're trying to save me, but please.... don't. Not all who wander are lost; and if I am then this con and forms are awesome to get lost in. ;D
Jack Chick of Chick Tracts fame is enough to grind my gears, but turnabout is fair play... let's start printing Haruhi Tracts that you can hand out to them. (^_~)
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I prolly hold my chopsticks wrong. Not on purpose, just that I've never tried to learn the "proper" way. Plus I'm leftie, so I do things weird anyways. D:
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Oh I mean drumsticks, not chopsticks. I don't really care if people don't hold their chopsticks right. I don't think there is a right way xD But drumming on the other hand...
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You know what grinds my gears? That people still call Kilts "skirts"
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Ambiguity grinds my gears, especially if it's regarding whether a person is safe or well-intended or not. That can be unnerving.
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People that drive slow.
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It bothers me when people are laaaaattteee. :C
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Do you drink them when that happens?
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Do you drink them when that happens?
hehehehehe
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@Tofu only sometimes. o3o
There's this cop car just driving up and down my street with his lights on and one loud BEEEEEP every couple mins instead of a full siren. WHAT IS GOING ON??
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^ There Morris code.
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^Do you perhaps mean morse code?
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No. He means Morris Code. He's this dude. Totally wacky and zany. He drives around all hours of the day in a police car, doing single siren blasts and the such.
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Does he have a mustache?
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Yes, but it's on his chin.
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*yells 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO' dramatically*
It grinds my gears when my friend makes (what I think is) a big mistake and she won't listen to me. :c
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You know what grinds my gears? That people still call Kilts "skirts"
You know what grinds my gears? The basketball "world" calling the Boston Celtics the "Seltics" instead of the "Keltics."
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You know what really, really grinds my gears?
People who try to take over other people's ideas. If I plan something then it is my effing idea. I am the one in charge, not you. So don't come prancing in changing all my ideas because you think it would be better that way. I do things certain ways for an effing reason and it is usually a damn good reason so step off. If you want to do your ideas, make your own things. I know my plans for the whole thing and I don't really need your help in planning something that is already fully planned out.
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^ Agreed
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You know what grinds my gears? The basketball "world" calling the Boston Celtics the "Seltics" instead of the "Keltics."
Yes! FFFUUU-!
I can feel my inner Celtic blood raging.
You know what grinds my gears? When people are having a bad day and take it out on the associates at the store who have done nothing to them.Jerks...
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YKWGMG? That I am utterly useless the next day if I stay up past the tipping point, which seems to be around 2:30 am. I had a ton I wanted to do today, but silly me, went to an anime night & a party before Rocky Horror last night thus didn't start making dinner until 2 am thus was up til 4 am....Lesson learned...not a good idea.
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^ Sounds like something my GF would say...
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You know what grinds me gears? When I person makes plans with you months and months in advance, you talk about it all the time, and then suddenly less then a week before the big event they bail and leave you hanging, completely screwed, and without a ride.
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^ Been there, agree with that...
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You know what really grinds my gear???
People who make jokes about my last name being Griffin...
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You could tell them the Sorting Hat named you a Gryffin Dork?
...I was handfasted to someone with that last name for awhile. People teased him too. But griffons/gryphons actually look pretty cool & pretty fierce. http://urngarden.com/images/blog/griffin5.jpg
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You know what really grinds my gear???
People who make jokes about my last name being Griffin...
I think it's cute...
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What grinds my gears this morning, was that the stupid cheap modem supplied by my DSL provider, always seems to have trouble after my wife is in bed. Then I either have to troubleshoot the problem in the dark, or wait until morning. But it's still a cheap modem that is gonig to do this from now until forever.
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MONDAYYYYYy :<
It grinds my gears that my cats' vet isn't open on weekends. :C
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it grinds my gears when people ask for help, then turn on you and complain how you want it to be perfect...
Sorry, but I really don't care if its perfect or not. I was just answering your question to the best of my ability thankyouverymuch.
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What really grinds my gears is when ppl take to life seriously.
I Come on just loosen up and have some fun!
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^ Sometimes, you have to take life seriously, though. It's a balancing act.
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@Washougal_Otaku: I know it's a good Idea but it's just the ppl that can't relax ya know?
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YKWGMG? Getting passive aggressive mixed messages from someone who simply feels I haven't given him enough attention lately, messages which include the words "goodbye forever" followed immediately by "i love you".
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^ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....Yeah......that is da poopoo.
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YKWGMG? Getting passive aggressive mixed messages from someone who simply feels I haven't given him enough attention lately, messages which include the words "goodbye forever" followed immediately by "i love you".
Yikes. Sorry to hear that. D: I can be a bit of a butt when I feel like I haven't gotten enough attention from a significant other, but I've never said anything like that. I hope everything works out. =(
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YKWGMG? People who can't take a hint when they aren't wanted. Like seriously. It's PLAIN AND CLEAR. >.<
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Thanks, everyone! (I had actually called the person Friday. We are talking about only a two-day lag in contact, here!)
YKWGMG? Waking up with sore lower back/rear/hips from scrubbing moss off my pal's driveway.I really need the $ from my under-the-table gardening (etc.) job, but it renders my body so sore that I can't focus as comfortably on the other things I need to do.
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YKWGMG? When all you want to do is chill with your best-bro and have an amazingly planned HP themed night/weekend, yet stuff (like people or plans) get in the way of it. It just starts massive drama, beh >.>
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YKWGMG? That I haven't yet learned bilocation, so as to be both at home cuddling my beloved kitty & making sure she is safe, and, working at conventions.
(Can't bring her with; she gets carsick.)
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YKWGMG? Acronyms. I mean just type out what you really mean! Seriously! (heehee)
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YKWGMG? Lately, Apple.
I've been a Mac person for two decades because of my perception that the Mac OS is a lot less intrusive than Windows. (I suspect that's why most of us stick with it, despite the fact that the boxes are considerably more expensive.) So what did they start doing several months ago? Demanding that I re-install Safari, poxy ad-ridden crashprone piece of app that it is, otherwise they wouldn't let me use the iTunes store. Okay, fine, whatever. I didn't buy there for the most part anyway, because they rarely have the stuff I want.
So what do they do with the latest update? Start demanding that I re-install Safari every time I click a song. What the #3!!? It took most of an hour of experimenting to figure out how to make it stop. (It involved disabling the iTunes store entirely.) I would've had to switch music software and eventually needed to buy a new MP3 player if I hadn't found the setting, because it was pretty much unusable.
Is mandatory browser "market share" really worth pissing off your core customers, guys?
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@ random, wow, how horrible. Makes me glad I never accepted any of the "upgrades" iTunes (et. al) kept offering me. <--the word scares me after watching the Cybermen on Doctor Who ;)
You know what grinds my gears? <--spelled out to honor the acronymophobic ;)
Sniffles. They can be inconvenient and socially awkward, and make me sound like I'm about to weep, even when I'm happy albeit I did not get much sleep. On the plus side, they make me think of Snuffaluffagus, which when I was a kid was Big Bird saying "snuggle-up with us".
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... have an amazingly planned HP themed night/weekend,
Geez, I remember using an HP-41C calculator in engineering school in the 1980s, then the last HP calculator I remember using was an HP-32.
That got stolen by a coworker about 2 jobs ago.
I don't think I could spend a whole weekend getting excited over Hewlett-Packard, though.
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... have an amazingly planned HP themed night/weekend,
Geez, I remember using an HP-41C calculator in engineering school in the 1980s, then the last HP calculator I remember using was an HP-32.
That got stolen by a coworker about 2 jobs ago.
I don't think I could spend a whole weekend getting excited over Hewlett-Packard, though.
I play a shaman in my group's D&D game on the weekends, and I'm always having to replenish the party's HP. I wonder if it's anything like that?
(The games can get pretty exciting... at least until the rogue starts searching every square inch of the floor for traps. That kinda grinds my gears.)
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@ Prinz Eugene, I still remember coding BASIC to write simple math and Spanish quizzes on "Trash 80s" (TRS-80s). If-then and Gosub loops for the win!
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YKWGMG? Attempting at trying to do good on an English essay worth my entire grade still knowing I'm going to do bad because I still think my thesis is extremely weak, yet I continue to write when I have NO IDEA what I'm doing anymore...points for effort, I think not. That'd be cool, though T^T
(and my mistake in my last post... HP = Harry Potter *facepalm*)
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^ No, it's okay, we knew what you meant... just being a little silly. (^_^)
Good luck with the essay.
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@RokusasuKun - we were just having fun.
@ Prinz Eugene, <- Lose the 'e'
I still remember coding BASIC to write simple math and Spanish quizzes on "Trash 80s" (TRS-80s)
I learned programming (also in BASIC, then FORTRAN) on a DEC PDP-1170:
(https://www.kumoricon.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eecis.udel.edu%2F%7Emader%2Fdelta%2Fimages%2Fpdp1170.gif&hash=0d7fd809f5c050e710b3cfc3b7b929bf968088a3)
No screens - ASR 33 teletype consoles, bay-beee. Already old back then!
whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-BING
whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-BING
whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-whak-BING
BTW, that looks like a DECwriter console on the very left edge of the photo.
If-then and Gosub loops for the win!
YES - Structured Programming was way too confining. If I run out of line numbers, just GOSUB to some 40-acre backlot of memory, work things out over there, and come back when you're ready with your answer.
And ctrl-G {that's ASCII(7) } to ring the bell in the teletype on command!
Is was SO much better than CARD-READING computers our PARENTS had to use.
Who's up for an HK-themed party? :-D
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Somewhere there is a comedy sketch waiting to be written in which "4-Chan" is misheard as "FORTRAN" by a teen's parent, who then innocently waxes nostalgic about coding in terms that sound to the appalled teen like innuendo. ;-) As for old-school, I got through Honors termpapers on a Smith-Corona PWP-6. Basically an electric typewriter with a 1-line memory. So you could word-process via scrolling, but only for 1 line, and only if you hadn't hit enter to print that line yet. So YKWGMG? I'd still use it, but my over-cleaning ex threw out its power cord pack, and I have no clue whether / where I can find another.
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BACK ON TOPIC - Too Literally: YKWGMG: Old-style manual transmissions with no synchronizing rings. You have to know how to double-clutch. 25 years ago I could do it, but I'd probably GRIND GEARS today if I had to drive one of those 'legacy' beasts...
@Rem: hilarious about 4-chan/4/ or 4-chan/77/ maybe...
The last Smith Corona I saw was a .30cal M1 Garand style rifle at a collectors' event.
Smith Corona switched to making rifles in WW2.
Your story about the one-line memory reminds me of the Linotype machines (one 'line of type') using and recycling babbitt metal, or other low-temp bismuth-lead alloys to cast and print lines of newspaper copy...
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you know what grinds my gears? People who correct other people's grammar on the forums. Hey, typos happen, you don't have to correct every single mistake.
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^ Actually, I do. There's nothing wrong with making sure that your sentence is saying something that makes sense. It would be nice if people would make a better attempt at typing, ya know?
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YKWGMG? The freakin' Seahawks!!! Okay, it was obvious that they were going to lose this week, but fact that the defense didn't even try is upsetting!
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YKWGMG.... Not having A DAMNED THING TO DO!!!! I mean... I'm gonna look for other pictures to color [cause I really don't wanna color most of the ones I have at the moment... ><] Guess I COULD dust... again... bleh...
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^ There's always something to do, sometimes you just have to look harder...
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YKWGMG? Knowing that there is stuff to do, I'm just don't have the energy or willpower for it. (^_~)
(I tend to grind my own gears that way.)
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It grinds my gears when I forget I had homework. :c
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@ Prinz, fascinating as usual!
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YKWGMG? Trying to change gears on my rear derailleur while biking up Terwilliger. My freewheel cassette really takes a beating from that hill...and that's the easy route!
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YKWGMG? How much I miss when I am only online via my phone. Only just now did I see that epic old monster computer pic; thanks, Guy!
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YKWGMG? I'm hungry.
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^ Actually, I do. There's nothing wrong with making sure that your sentence is saying something that makes sense. It would be nice if people would make a better attempt at typing, ya know?
I think I type very well but everyone makes mistakes sometimes. It grinds my gears like crazy when someone corrects stupid things, it's like them just going "I'M BETTER THAN YOU HAHA".
(Removed inappropriate content per forum code of conduct (http://www.kumoricon.org/forums/index.php?topic=11025.0). ~randompvg)
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^ ...fair enough.
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YKWGMG?
People who post in a thread without really having anything to say. They post just to post!
They have comments like "Yay!" or "Yeah!" and that's it. They have no input or anything of real interest.
I understand if someone asked a question directed at that person but if not, every other post shouldn't be them throwing out one liners or sticking their noses in where they don't belong. Seriously. Your post count doesn't need to be that high and the spam is just annoying to a lot of people. Save your posts until you have something relevant to contribute.
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What grinds my gears? Setting up my DVR before I head to con, just to come home and find that they were all taken off to make room for a marathon of pawn stars.
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YKWGMG:
City streets that have such incredible pot-holes or other deep accumulations of water that when walking or pedaling by them, inevitably one gets drenched by spray from the puddles when a car drives by.
And
Those moments when so much water from the road is sprayed up behind the tires of a big truck driving in front of one that one is temporarily blinded on the highway.
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Alright, I'm finally ready to post this. I'm sorry, it's going to be TL;DR.
You know what really grinds my gears?
People Celebrating/Decorating/Advertising/Exploiting Christmas BEFORE Thanksgiving
This is Ally's #1 Biggest pet peeve, of all time, and could possibly be worse than forgetting her Birthday.
Background: I was born November 23rd 1987, which is a Monday, the Monday which precedes Thanksgiving in fact. As the first born of the youngest children in both my parents families, I was a special little baby and being born during an already instituted season of family togetherness meant my Birthday became a center of the family calendar. People I may not see for months at a time were always available for my Birthday. My 2nd Birthday was particularly special as it actually fell on the Thanksgiving Day. Every 6 years since then I get to have Thanksgiving for my Birthday. As I grew up I gained a very strong respect for Thanksgiving and what it mean to our Country and our society. As someone who has both Naitve American and Anglo-Saxon heritage it is a great memory for unity and for the establishment of civilized and prosperous nationalism. We give thanks for what we have and bless our friends, neighbors, family and strangers that they may have all they need.
Before I begin my rant; know that I LOVE Christmas with a firey passion that cannot be contained. I am not a humbug in the slightest! I just think everything has it's time... and Christmas shant come before Thanksgiving.
[begin:rant seq//22.9]
Chapter 1: "Christmas is TWO FRIGGEN MONTHS away!"
I am coming up on what some call a "Golden" Birthday. I will be 23 on the 23rd of this month. And that falls pretty close to my favorite holiday; THANKSGIVING. However, what I have seen around the Walmarts, the Safeways the Pier1Imports', FAOSchwartzs, the Macys (More on them later) is CHRISTMAS decor, CHRISTMAS sales, CHRISTMAS adverts!
CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS! CHRISTMAS! And it starts on November 1st! A whole 55 DAYS before Christmas even occurs! Does it really require 55 DAYS to remember Christmas? Is the Industry of consumerist prize and gift giving SO DESPERATE for funding that it needs 55 DAYS to propagate what was once a Pagan/Judeo-Christian Holiday? A RELIGIOUS EVENT? I think we, the masses and generation of 5 second attention spans should no better! We can't contemplate Christmas this early! It will drag on and be devoured before it ever begins! And yet, the stores are filled with CHRISTMAS carols and laughing Santa's and Candy Canes well before the TREES are even available! TWO FRIGGEN MONTHS? What in the name of all that is good and gracious makes us/marketing companies think that business model is more attractive than there normal business model of 2 week windows with a pre-week viral notion and a post-week recouperation advert?
Chapter 2: "We are NOT the Nation of Christmas, we are the United States of America"
School children can tell you; THANKSGIVING is a National Holiday, it is a statement of the unity we share with our brothers from other mothers - the tradition of camaraderie and thankfulness that transcends race, status or knowledge. We give THANKS for once in the year, as a nation, for our freedoms, for our families and for our food.
Yet this NATIONAL celebration, that requires no belief in GOD or JESUS or SANTA or a the GODS/GODDESS of THE SOLSTICE is underrated, disproportionate to a religious and consumerist holiday that happens well after it! A Holiday at the same level as the FOURTH OF JULY which we celebrate in drunken abundance, is under-written for an International Celebration.
We are the ONLY country that Celebrates THANKSGIVING on this day, for this reason. No one else celebrates the day that American Pilgrims were thoughtfully and selflessly invited into the open arms of the Natives and treated with the kindness and the familiarity we can only dream of achieving in ourselves. We look to those memories as HERITAGE. No one else does that. Other countries have similar events and Holidays, but this one is OURS. If we do not Celebrate it, who will?
Chapter 3: "There is room in the Calendar and Store Shelves for us ALL"
All I'm asking for is a little more respect for such a special Holiday. Your grocery stores attempt to bridge the gap with week long sales on Turkey and Canned Cranberry Sauce... but the BLACK FRIDAY ads get more respect than these!
The top Thanksgiving Day story this year? Not that people are raising money for the homeless and hungry to support our nation, Not that Republicans and Democrats will sit down and eat a meal to foster bi-partisanship in the government. No the top story about Thanksgiving? THE PRICE OF A TURKEY HAS GONE UP.
Really? REALLY? I mean REALLY? Is that what Thanksgiving has come down to? The price of your fowl??? Forgive me whilst I go cry this atrocity on the roof tops! Even Charlie Brown himself would be appalled!
It's simple;
Nov 1st - Thanksgiving morning is the Celebration of our Nations forerunners and the Natives who showed us that we have SO MUCH to be thankful for, and that we owe it to our neighbors to share that bounty and rejoice in the harvest. Unity, Thankfulness, Remembrance. Valuable traits for our children and us to remember.
Thanksgiving Day - December 25th is for The Celebration of the Christmas/Holiday season. Hang your stockings, trim the house with mistletoe and garland - buy a tree, sing Christmas carols, buy a yule log, get some dreidels and a Hanukkiya or just enjoy the solstice air.
Chapter 4: "It isn't Christmas Season until Macy's/Santa says so"
There was a time, when the largest department store in America, Macy's was on my side about this. They held of Christmas Lane and all the Decorations, ready and waiting to be put up Thanksgiving Eve. So that on Black Friday, when shoppers arrived the Magic of Macy's would instantly be coated with SugarPlums and CandyCanes. It was a perfect marketing scheme that tide in with one of the biggest events Macy's puts on; THE MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE.
Historically, you knew it was the CHRISTMAS Season once Santa appeared on his sleigh in your television, laughing on your radio, or right in front of you as he made his way down 34th Street. In fact, this is one of the hallmarks of the 2nd longest running parade in the history of America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's_Thanksgiving_Day_Parade
Yet Macy's has shewed away from their traditions. Now Christmas Corner and the Holiday decor start even BEFORE Halloween is over! And yet the tradition of Santa Clause remains... they still "say" its the official start of the Christmas/Holiday season... but they don't give Santa the satisfaction anymore. Like a puppet Monarch, he's only their for show. Destroying generations worth of traditions and memories in the process.
Chapter 5: "A Lengthy Conclusion"
I growl every time I have to enter a store that willingly participates in the desecration of Thanksgiving, by shunting it off to a back corner of the store or 2 shelves worth of Cornucopia. I boycott most stores outright from Nov 1st - the day of Thanksgiving. But I am by no means unreasonable. I'm willing to compromise with the mass market moguls of the world:
If we could go back to starting the "Holiday Season" Thanksgiving Day, and decorate the night before, and make the Thanksgiving weekend the official start of your holidays, I'd be okay with that! My family personally begins playing Christmas music in the house the MOMENT Santa appears on the screen! From then on till the big day my Car plays NOTHING ELSE. I decorate to the NINES and spend the season in a glitter gorgeous wonderland! And because it lasts just 1 month long, I never get tired of the songs, the imagery or the smell of cinnamon or chestnuts or candy canes wafting in my house! I LOVE IT that much more! I buy into the Christmas Eve madness and I participate in the sales...
BUT ONLY AFTER MY BELOVED THANKSGIVING!
[end: rant seq//22.9]
TL;DR - SONOFAKRISKRINGLE!!! GIVE ME BACK MY THANKSGIVING! STOP SHOVING CHRISTMAS DOWN MY THROAT BEFORE I'VE HAD SOME TURKEY!!!
Thanks... I'm really glad to get that off my chest...
-Ally
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SONOFAKRISKRINGLE!!! GIVE ME BACK MY THANKSGIVING! STOP SHOVING CHRISTMAS DOWN MY THROAT BEFORE I'VE HAD SOME TURKEY!!!
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What grinds my gears? Setting up my DVR before I head to con, just to come home and find that they were all taken off to make room for a marathon of pawn stars.
haha! owned. uhm but no that sounds terrible :(
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Ally, you're adorable. Hope you get all you wish for in attention for your bday.
I, too, lament "holiday" blitz beginning so early, albeit for different reasons.
I have worked as a crisis counselor in multiple clinics in multiple states.
"The holidays" are when the most domestic violence incidents and the most suicides occur.
I believe the advertising blitz and the inundation of Xmas music etc. feel inescapable to most and that for those who feel lonely, alienated, have lost family members by death/divorce/child protective services, who have addiction issues, who are homeless, and/or who are mentally ill and/or otherwise disabled, it is easily the very worst time of the year. Couple that with how many folks don't realize they have seasonal affective disorder and it's a very scary time when many become desperate and desolate. Especially in the middle of the economic recession when so many can't afford the things constant bombardment of advertising makes them feel guilty for not being able to afford....It's horrible. I can't wait for it to be over....which is not to say anything negative about the holidays themselves. Just about the constant inundation of the commercialization of them.
(BTW, this is not about growing up Jewish. We had "Chanukah stockings" and a "Chanukah bush" and my mom had an electric Santa--wearing a Yarmulkah--in the window next to an electric menorah. I have relatives by marriage who are Catholic and Unitarian, and 1 relative who converted to Quaker along with his wife who had been Southern Methodist. The Catholic relatives would have us over for Xmas dinner.)
BTW: What does "TL;DR" mean?
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YKWGMG? Washington is banning alcoholic energy drinks because 9 stupid college students, none of whom were 21 or older, died. They were morons, and those of us who know how to drink these things have to lose something we enjoy. grrrrrr.....
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I get bad Seasonal Affective Disorder if I don't get enough exercise, sleep (or I sleep bad hours of the day), if I don't get enough sunlight.. 2 jobs and school means I'm failing on all fronts right now O:
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I get bad Seasonal Affective Disorder if I don't get enough exercise, sleep (or I sleep bad hours of the day), if I don't get enough sunlight.. 2 jobs and school means I'm failing on all fronts right now O:
Sorry to hear that, hon. Remember to randomly chat support people if you see us up late, it's way better than being mopey :)
Have you tried those all-spectrum lights?
YKWGMG? That one of those light bulbs I got at an indoor gardening store, the kind that look like swirls (compact fluorescent), caught on fire at my house a few months ago.
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BTW: What does "TL;DR" mean?
it means To Long; Didn't Read
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I'm kinda miffed about Harry Potter releasing on my birthday. Every conversation I have about it goes like this:
Person: SO ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT HARRY POTTER?!
Me: That's my birthday, too! o3o
Person: LOL HARRY POTTER! I LOVE HARRY POTTER.
Me: .... *sniffle* Oh... well *sniffle* have fun... ;o;
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I'm kinda miffed about Harry Potter releasing on my birthday. Every conversation I have about it goes like this:
Person: SO ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT HARRY POTTER?!
Me: That's my birthday, too! o3o
Person: LOL HARRY POTTER! I LOVE HARRY POTTER.
Me: .... *sniffle* Oh... well *sniffle* have fun... ;o;
Well happy almost birfdayee
Happy birthday to you
Happy birfdayee to yew
Happy birfdaye to deeeeemmooon
Happy birfdayee to you! Yay hurray
I wish I could give you cake :)
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I'm kinda miffed about Harry Potter releasing on my birthday. Every conversation I have about it goes like this:
Person: SO ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT HARRY POTTER?!
Me: That's my birthday, too! o3o
Person: LOL HARRY POTTER! I LOVE HARRY POTTER.
Me: .... *sniffle* Oh... well *sniffle* have fun... ;o;
Tell them to choke on their popcorn.
My sister went to see "Due Date" with her friends on her birthday (because it came out on her BD). She told me that one of the few things she liked about the movie was how funny it was that the baby that was born in this movie was named "Rose," which is my sister's name.
YKWGMG? Hang on, lemme think of something...
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I get bad Seasonal Affective Disorder if I don't get enough exercise, sleep (or I sleep bad hours of the day), if I don't get enough sunlight.. 2 jobs and school means I'm failing on all fronts right now O:
Sorry to hear that, hon. Remember to randomly chat support people if you see us up late, it's way better than being mopey :)
Have you tried those all-spectrum lights?
No, but I know what you're talking about.I've looked into it, as well as Vit D supplementation but never gone beyond just sunlight and exercise.
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@Washougal Yeah hahaha
@Kiri thank you!
Lol I'm severely vitamin D deficient. XD I've had to take 500% the daily value every day for the last five months. I went up 14 points from where I was but my doctor's afraid it's gunna get a lot worse since it's Winter.
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YKWGMG? Inability to swallow pills...including the calcium / vit D they've been trying to get me to take for a year due to my own deficiency in D. So far instead I've been gardening (even in the cold/rain) and sometimes drink Emergen-C.
Good luck, all.
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I thought most vit. D pills were really small? And isn't there a liquid kind you can get? ^^
But I know what you mean .. I take these fish oil pills that are gigantic.
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#1(69) !!!
ahh i feel 12 ^^
but yeah >< ugh its like cant they just condense it some how?
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Gear grinder for today.... Age discrimination. I was told today by a coworker that I didn't know how to say things because I'm 24, and there or should go f-off. I'm sorry, but when you snap at a customer saying, "What do YOU want?"... that is unacceptable. And I told her hey; that was kinda snappy and everything is cool. And I got told off.
Maybe I'm just delusional with my "young age", but you shouldn't be a B to customers.
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OMG I KNOW! its like...ugh I hate it when im expected to know weird things just because im18 ><
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Gear grinder for today.... Age discrimination. I was told today by a coworker that I didn't know how to say things because I'm 24, and there or should go f-off. I'm sorry, but when you snap at a customer saying, "What do YOU want?"... that is unacceptable. And I told her hey; that was kinda snappy and everything is cool. And I got told off.
Maybe I'm just delusional with my "young age", but you shouldn't be a B to customers.
Insubordination
Rude to customers
Use of obscenities
Those could all be grounds for termination. I know it was when I used to work for Taco Bell, AM PM, & McDonald's; I think the first one is the only one that would most likely occur at my current job, thusly making it the one that would matter.
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If she wasn't on thin ice before, she is now. I called my manager and told him what happened, and down side for her is that he also is 24.
I understand that everyone is different, bit that is just... grrrrrrrrr...
At least I didn't hit her. Lord and Lady know I wanted to...
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^ He is? OMG!!! That's awesome!
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^ He is? OMG!!! That's awesome!
Oh you have no idea how awesome it is.
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Don't forget to recommend me as a new hire once he fires her, okay?
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Not a problem. Lol!!
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YAY!!!
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YKWGMG? Washington is banning alcoholic energy drinks because 9 stupid college students, none of whom were 21 or older, died. They were morons, and those of us who know how to drink these things have to lose something we enjoy. grrrrrr.....
Okay, slight misunderstanding; they didn't even die.
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YKWGMG? Washington is banning alcoholic energy drinks because 9 stupid college students, none of whom were 21 or older, died. They were morons, and those of us who know how to drink these things have to lose something we enjoy. grrrrrr.....
Okay, slight misunderstanding; they didn't even die.
They didn't? They where pulled almost imedately because it was said they died... hmmm... I blame the idiot's media. XD -last bit was scarcasim-
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I don't blame you; that's what I thought they said at first, too. I also blame our politicians! Stupid Gregoire...
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If I recall, alcoholic energy drinks can be dangerous because the caffeine/whatever else they put it in it is an upper, and the alcohol is a downer. Mixing uppers and downers can be bad. O:
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I'm a downer. Today anyway. Downers grind my gears.
Know what else does? Why is it that when someone starts doing nice things, small things, too, not even big things, everyone else just assumes they have an hidden agenda and they just want something out of it, it's super annoying.
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Well just keep on doing them and eventually they'll come to know it as how you always are.^^
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Being forced to wake up early >< I hate being forced to wake up early...on a day off QQ
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Early mornings are great, unless you've been depriving yourself of sleep, like I have been the past few days.
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:< gah I should t be awake right now! I usually don't wait up till like one or two when I have the next day off
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I'm a downer. Today anyway. Downers grind my gears.
Know what else does? Why is it that when someone starts doing nice things, small things, too, not even big things, everyone else just assumes they have an hidden agenda and they just want something out of it, it's super annoying.
It's not just you - here, have a WSU study (http://www.physorg.com/news201776943.html). YMMV on how this applies to a wide scope of human behavior, from politics to relationships.
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^That. Sad.
YKWE(else)GMG?
Some of my favorite-tasting, favorite-consistency foods leave me feeling not perfect afterwards. Today: Awesome Greek yogurt with figs. My mom has lactose intolerance, I wonder if I might have a mild form thereof or something. Never had this as a kid, can it come on later? (Also I was ok with peanut butter as a kid and now my tummy can't have that either.)
Please forgive if this is TMI.
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If I recall, alcoholic energy drinks can be dangerous because the caffeine/whatever else they put it in it is an upper, and the alcohol is a downer. Mixing uppers and downers can be bad. O:
Not really. What makes it dangerous, like with any energy drink, is TAKING TOO MANY!!! (Which the drinks have labelled on them, so, stupid people drinking, stupid people in office).
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Well, from what I've looked up, the main problem is that people who drink caffeinated alcoholic beverages think they're in much better condition than they actually are.
Alcohol functions in your body pretty much the same, whether you mix it with caffeine or not: you will be impaired. The problem is, you may not feel as impaired if caffeine is present. A 2006 study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research found that people who drank energy drinks with alcohol felt better than those who drank only alcohol — the former group had significantly less dry mouth and headache. They also perceived their motor coordination to be better, even though it wasn't.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1810802,00.html
The article also elaborates how several states feel the drinks are marketed specifically towards teens.
You know what grinds my gears? Marketing alcohol to kids. D:
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Well, from what I've looked up, the main problem is that people who drink caffeinated alcoholic beverages think they're in much better condition than they actually are.
Because they're STUPID!!!
...but they shouldn't be available for kids, though; I'll agreee with that.
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YKWE(else)GMG?
Some of my favorite-tasting, favorite-consistency foods leave me feeling not perfect afterwards. Today: Awesome Greek yogurt with figs. My mom has lactose intolerance, I wonder if I might have a mild form thereof or something. Never had this as a kid, can it come on later? (Also I was ok with peanut butter as a kid and now my tummy can't have that either.)
Please forgive if this is TMI.
I personally refuse to believe something a person would have to sit down and analyze at length could actually be TMI. But that could just be me.
This is a country, after all, where someone took the time to figure out how to play record after record backwards in search of alleged hidden Satanist messages ("backmasking") to be offended by. (^_~)
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The ironic thing is that if people hadn't already been looking at them, rock bands might not have sarcastically added backwards masking messages just for fun.
So the moment's YKWGMG: Self-fulfilling prophecies.
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I remember once my friend was telling me she was listening to a Marilyn Manson song backwards to unmask a hidden message. I said, "Why? All of his messages can be heard by playing the song forwards.."
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Not all of his songs are like that; in fact, my favorite songs that he did were: a remake of "Sweet Dreams are made of These," and a song about a doctor name Gunn. (Yeah, I actually researched it; that was his name, Dr. Gunn).
Oh, I forgot about "Beautiful People"! That's a great song!
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Speaking of "Sweet Dreams", I had a tshirt of the Eurythmics' Annie Lennox looking very butch with an orange crew cut, a bondage mask, making a fist, with the album title, "Touch" listed under her photo. I was told if I didn't turn it inside out I would have to leave school or be suspended. I refused. I said I would either go topless or proceed to band class. Needless to say I went to band class (this being freshman year of high school). Director Elton Eisele asked me why I was late to class. I informed the class. The cute senior fellow-clarinetist girl I had a crush on actually cheered for me. Highlight of that month for me.
So:
YKWGMG? Overly-protective censorship attempts upon kids' freedom of expression.
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Did you hear about all those kids that got in trouble for wearing Sex Pistols t-shirt? They did it in support of a kid that got in trouble for wearing a Sex Pistols t-shirt .. in high school. I dunno. I don't see the issue. Then again, I wear shirts that say "Goatwhore" (a band) on them and stuff. (Of course, having said that, I wouldn't wear a shirt like that to say, my nieces' school or something.. hehe..)
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Kids need limits, though. Some limits are ridiculous (such as high schoolers who can't wear Sex Pistol t-shirts), but I think some are essential, and missing.
YKWGMG? Hearing people say that the Jackie Chan version of The Karate Kid shouldn't have been called by that name since it isn't even karate, even though it keeps the same message and is part of the franchise.
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My friend's 5 year old, upon hearing the song with the chorus "Fly like a G-6" (referring to the private jet), kept singing:
"Fly like a cheese stick, like a cheese stick...."
So cute!
YKWGMG? Those last-minute pre-con jitters that turn tummies into pretzels.
And then having to drive a couple hours alone with those.
While missing my cat every minute.
If only my cat didn't get carsick!
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I hate feeling like Im under someones shadow all the time
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YKWGMG? When people are totally inconsiderate and make you wait around for them just to never show up and leave you all dressed up for no reason on a Friday night... and then decide to act like nothing happened, never call to explain themselves, but have the time to two days later send a generic Facebook event inviting you to their "oh man baller" party at the club coming up chock full of their friends who hate you for no reason.
YES this is very specific, but FFFFFFFFF I'm just so full of RAGE... I'm gonna go breathe fire in the corner now don't mind me.
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YKWGMG? Zero at the moment, I'm actually still full of bliss from the huge success of our Creation Station at Orycon!
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^ AWESOME!!!
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^ AWESOME!!!
Thanks, hon :)
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You're welcome!
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YKWGMG? People who take advantage of others' wounds.
I've known for years about the "God is the perfect man who will never run around and cheat on you" speakers, and how they make unholy amounts of money off their followers. But I'd mostly forgotten about them until I saw a flyer for one of their "inspirational" breakfasts (only $35, not that bad by comparison to many) today at work:
"Getting Intimate With God"
(No, I'm not kidding.)
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YKWGMG? People who pronounce things wrong on TV. Like once i heard an AD for a Mario game, and they said it like Mary-oh. And once i saw an AD for some Avatar: the last airbender product, and they pronounced the A's in Appa's name as you would say int he word "yak".
I don't know why but that bugs me like crazy.
Another things that grinds my gears is when teens (ages 13 to 16 or so) talk about "oh I totally had sex when i was 14(or younger)!" like it's a good thing. In my opinion, people should wait AT LEAST untill they're 18 or over to have sex. Teens now days just can't seem to tell the difference between love, lust, and being in love and that pisses me off because people tend to group me in with said teens.
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You know what grinds my gears? Friends who are inconsiderate and don't realize that when they are out shopping with someone who wants to hang with them, they brush them aside and spend practically half-an-hour on the phone trying to validate a FREAKIN temporary card... Oh, and making them feel neglected by leaving them out of the picture when talking to their bff about the shopping trip. =_=
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^ I think I'm guilty of that sometimes... :'(
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^ You are, mildly...
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^ Hold up, waitaminute... couples are not allowed to post about each other in this thread. Last time that happened, we had to call in Tohru Honda (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheMessiah) as a mediator. And it took us a week to get the blood off the walls. ;)
FTR, I'm absolutely kidding in this case. (Or in any other case where there's obviously no malice.) But it's true that people shouldn't post about each other here in anger.
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^ Um..., okay? (Which reminds me, I should hire Tohru to clean my room).
YKWGMG? The St. Louis Rams! We're gonna win the NFC West this year! Even if we have to wait until wk. 17 to beat you guys!
(Actually, as much as I hate the Rams, it makes me feel good that the Rams are doing okay; it gives relevance to the rivalry again).
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YKWGMG? The vet sold me a med for my cat that was (a)the wrong strength for her weight,
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YKWGMG? The vet sold me a med for my cat that was (a)the wrong strength for her weight,
Oh no! Is she okay??
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Thank you for asking.....She was as of when I left for work this morning *praying*
Apparently my phone from which I had been trying to post gave out while I was mid-message. These were the vet receptionist's errors (it wasn't the vet but the receptionist):
(1) Dispensed wrong size tube of product for pet's weight;
(2) Listed correct size tube on receipt/ charged me for the more expensive-sized product;
(3) SOLD ME A PRODUCT THAT HAD EXPIRED IN JUNE OF 2009.
A YEAR AND A HALF AGO!
So then when I left voicemails with those details what did they do? They left a replacement of the correct dose-- outside in a bag with no name on it on the back porch of the office.
(a) Anyone could've stolen it.
(b) Any random animal could have poisoned itself with it if it bit through the tube.
(c) I didn't get the message for about 32 hours, during which time the temperature might've dropped to the point the product became unusable.
I have to
(1) Find out how low the temp got Saturday night,
then (2) contact the manufacturer to find out if being out in the elements could have rendered the product inert or ineligible for use.
All in all (as Queen Victoria would say in the Doctor Who episode "Tooth & Claw"--best known as the origin of the Torchwood Institute--) "I am not amused."
Please pray (those of you inclined in that direction) or visualize as healthy or send good vibes to beloved KayleeKitty! Thanks!
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(3) SOLD ME A PRODUCT THAT HAD EXPIRED IN JUNE OF 2009.
A YEAR AND A HALF AGO!
So then when I left voicemails with those details what did they do? They left a replacement of the correct dose-- outside in a bag with no name on it on the back porch of the office.
(a) Anyone could've stolen it.
(b) Any random animal could have poisoned itself with it if it bit through the tube.
(c) I didn't get the message for about 32 hours, during which time the temperature might've dropped to the point the product became unusable.
I have to
(1) Find out how low the temp got Saturday night,
then (2) contact the manufacturer to find out if being out in the elements could have rendered the product inert or ineligible for use.
I think that could warrant a law suit...
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(3) SOLD ME A PRODUCT THAT HAD EXPIRED IN JUNE OF 2009.
A YEAR AND A HALF AGO!
So then when I left voicemails with those details what did they do? They left a replacement of the correct dose-- outside in a bag with no name on it on the back porch of the office.
(a) Anyone could've stolen it.
(b) Any random animal could have poisoned itself with it if it bit through the tube.
(c) I didn't get the message for about 32 hours, during which time the temperature might've dropped to the point the product became unusable.
I have to
(1) Find out how low the temp got Saturday night,
then (2) contact the manufacturer to find out if being out in the elements could have rendered the product inert or ineligible for use.
I think that could warrant a law suit...
I'm just going to pray my cat is okay. I got another clinic's receptionist to sell me the product...In fact, when I showed them the expired tube from the first clinic, it was this receptionist who caught that it was the wrong quantity for my cat's weight.
I can't afford a lawyer, nor an extra "get-acquainted" visit for my cat to a new vet.
But needless to say I. Was. Wiggin'.
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Corporate America.
I just got a call a few hours ago to let me know that there had been a flood at my storage unit. On Sunday. The employees started calling tenants immediately when it happened, but were told to stop by management because they were afraid it might make them liable somehow. The big important management of the company showed up the next day, got all their stories straight, and then left the one person per shift who normally works there to try to call and deal with hundreds of customers. Knowing that people were getting so angry about the delay that the employees were being threatened, no less. (After all, if one of them gets shot, that's why companies routinely buy life insurance on them. Nothing important is at stake, like money.)
So yeah, they finally got to me today, and now I've got books and drawings and papers and old letters spread out everywhere to dry... about a third of the paper keepsakes I've collected over a lifetime are somewhere between damaged and ruined. If they had let their employees keep calling (or maybe *gasp* brought in more people to help them) the first day, even the second day, virtually none of it would have been harmed.
I really, really don't get why society still considers religious epithets and synonyms for body parts and functions to be the most obscene, unspeakably vile concepts there are. 1) This is the 21st century, not 18th century Puritan New England. 2) We have much better words now to describe policyheads who should upsell themselves and go to retail.
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We have much better words now to describe policyheads who should upsell themselves and go to retail.
This put some lube all up in my gears. XD
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YKWGMG? People who judge baised off of looks. Its honestly the reason why I dress a bit more showy. That and I get awesome support for zeladies, but--
*cell call and then sighs*
I retract my previous to replace it with a new one... my real mom. No matter how awesome the day is, she's either drowning herself in how sick she is, how she has only 3years to live, or putting herself in the hospital. She's rarely a Positive person.
I love her still and worry, don't get me wrong, but when thats all you hear... for pretty much half of your life... it makes you tired of hearing it.
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^ I hear ya...
YKWGMG? When human stupidity turns an event that SHOULD be joyous into a stressful week.
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Try telling her to stop nesting???
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I'm referring to the upcoming birth of my nephew.
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I'll explain latter, love.
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Oh, the nesting thing was about you... ah...
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"Nesting" is to continously prepare for the oncoming of a child, normally a new baby. Ie, to prepare the home for children.
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Wait, WHAT? :o
;D Just kidding.
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That's devastating. And I know the feeling. I spent 14 years living in basement apartments. Never got too hot nor too cold and energy bills were reasonable. But each flooded multiple times- one even with sewage (which led to my immediately giving notice). As soon as I left the scumbag tore out a wall in which he'd known there was black mold but never bothered to tell me. Now I have INSANELY high heat bills even though I only heat my cat's room when I'm out and only to 64, and the living room to 60 when my coat, hat and gloves don't suffice to let me sleep.
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YKWGMG?
Homophobia or Anti-LGBTQ views.
Whatever happen to love and let love?
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YKWGMG?
Homophobia or Anti-LGBTQ views.
Whatever happen to love and let love?
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Just to be clear, my post war a reply to random's. I can't "quote" from my phone. Yesterday was so fun I have no new geargrinding to report, except the sound of lightcycles in Tron: Legacy!
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YKWGMG?
Homophobia or Anti-LGBTQ views.
Whatever happen to love and let love?
With that in mind, why not let those who are opposed to LGBTQ's have their opinion and stop labeling them as homophobes? That's what grinds my gears.
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That's devastating. And I know the feeling. I spent 14 years living in basement apartments. Never got too hot nor too cold and energy bills were reasonable. But each flooded multiple times- one even with sewage (which led to my immediately giving notice). As soon as I left the scumbag tore out a wall in which he'd known there was black mold but never bothered to tell me. Now I have INSANELY high heat bills even though I only heat my cat's room when I'm out and only to 64, and the living room to 60 when my coat, hat and gloves don't suffice to let me sleep.
Maybe we could combine our posts into "Jerk--- landlords"? ;)
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My landlords seem nice. I am praying they will let me proceed. Perhaps they are just waiting to see the papers come in the mail before they reply. I have texted, phoned, and emailed, so I am trying hard not to read into not hearing back....
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That's devastating. And I know the feeling. I spent 14 years living in basement apartments. Never got too hot nor too cold and energy bills were reasonable. But each flooded multiple times- one even with sewage (which led to my immediately giving notice). As soon as I left the scumbag tore out a wall in which he'd known there was black mold but never bothered to tell me. Now I have INSANELY high heat bills even though I only heat my cat's room when I'm out and only to 64, and the living room to 60 when my coat, hat and gloves don't suffice to let me sleep.
Maybe we could combine our posts into "Jerk--- landlords"? ;)
Sounds like you two should report these people...
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Well the 1 I called a scumbag, I moved out like 7 years ago.
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YKWGMG?
Homophobia or Anti-LGBTQ views.
Whatever happen to love and let love?
With that in mind, why not let those who are opposed to LGBTQ's have their opinion and stop labeling them as homophobes? That's what grinds my gears.
Granted that homophobia is a slang term that gets thrown around too frequently, I do not see how anyone in the world has the right to judge the relationship between two consenting adults. This grinds my gears.
Using the word 'gay' in place of 'bad' or 'stupid' grinds my gears.
And people who needlessly draw attention to themselves for negative reasons grind my gears.
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YKWGMG?
The lack of Santana DVX in my life.
He's the master of sugar and yeast mixed in a pot and my thirst will never be quenched until I get a bottle.
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YKWGMG?
It's five days 'til Christmas and somehow the only thing I can find to eat in this house is the makings for a freaking quesadilla.
Also that Chris Eccleston only got one series as the Doctor, but that's neither here nor there and he went out well.
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*gives loves for Eccleston* YKWGMG? Envisioning a dream cosplay, then finding out the mask for it would be almost impossible to get. (I'd tried to find an Ood mask to be Ood Sigma.)
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Rem, if you ever wanted to do an Ood cosplay, you would have to sculpt and cast a mask yourself. As far as I know the only Ood masks that exist are the ones made for BBC Wales by their proprietary creature workshop (and a few made by fans who have done what I've just said, made one themselves).
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Why is there this thread AS WELL as the "What Are You Mad At Right Now?" thread? Does anybody else think that this is funny?
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It kind of makes me angry while simultaneously grinds my gears that the two threads haven't been merged.
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@ Ritchie, yeah. Sigh. Anyone know anyone who could teach me how to do this?
@ Aaron, I think of them as different. I think of things that grind my gears as things that bring forward momentum to an unintended, unexpected, annoying, and possibly hazardous halt. But I can choose how I react to those things. Sometimes, I'm not able to stop myself from reacting with anger, but usually, I either am able to retract anger, to prevent it from happening, or that's just not the reaction that the pet peevy situation elicits. So, I've posted often in this thread, and never in the other thread.
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I think of it more like... this thread is for irritations, that one is for anger. :)
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Right, like, being pet peeved, vs. being "P.O."d.
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This thread is more of a "these long-term, persistent things grind my gears" whereas the other thread is more of a "this one-time event made me angry."
YKWGMG? When people have complaints or suggestions for the forums and don't bring them to the moderators and admins!
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^ And that was the answer I was looking for! Time!
YKWGMG? Waking up to a massive amount of back pains! (But seeing my cat curled up into a ball next to my leg makes me feel better).
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Hope you feel better, hon! & Seeing my cat curled up next to me is the cure-all for everything for me, too!
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^ Thanks, Ellen!
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^ Thanks, Ellen!
:D See, this is the other reason I like this thread & haven't gone to the "What are you angry about now" thread. Yay for mutual support!
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YKWGMG? My kitty, he's such a little brat. He'll knock (beat his paws against repeatedly) on the kitty door when he's not allowed outside (they're kept in at night) and wakes me up really early when he's hungry (every morning).
I mean I love him and he's super adorable, but man he's annoying. xD
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^ Sounds kind of like my fiancee's kitty, only he likes to nomnom on her ear some times.
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He keeps getting slugs on him. I don't even know how or where they come from but periodically he just has slugs on him. It's so gross and I have no idea why but it needs to stooooop. -.-
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OMG EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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T~T He just ruins it every time I try to defend him against people's 'fat' comments. They go 'Yeah well he's so lazy that slugs crawl on him.' I think it's a conspriracy. Maybe the slugs are getting faster!
In honor of this story: YKWGMG? SLUGS!
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YKWGMG? When people call renaissance clothes "gay" or "gay-looking" particularly when talking about the men's attire back then.
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Clearly they are using the word "gay" to mean "happy", in keeping with the renaissance era .. or something. I don't know. Screw those people!
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^ I agree, with both statements!
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It grinds my gears when no one went grocery shopping and we don't have food and my parents would rather play video games than provide for their children. Awesome. :D
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You know what really grinds my gears? Terrible customers. This woman at work almost had me in tears today because she was just SO UNBELIEVABLY RUDE AND DEMANDING WHEN THERE WERE FIFTY OTHER PEOPLE ALSO NEEDING MY ATTENTION AND I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WORKING THE FLOOR. She ruined my entire day. I was so upset. And I am a very, very difficult person to upset.
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^ THIS.
People can be such jerks. I deal with terrible customers a lot, they're not fun. Not fun at all.
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As someone who generally likes to see the best in people automatically and assumes everyone's cool and awesome, finding out some people are really absolutely unpleasant is so awful. ;_; Thankfully though, most of the people I talk to at work are generally pretty cool. You just get the occasional bad egg...
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You know what really grinds my gears? Terrible customers. This woman at work almost had me in tears today because she was just SO UNBELIEVABLY RUDE AND DEMANDING WHEN THERE WERE FIFTY OTHER PEOPLE ALSO NEEDING MY ATTENTION AND I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WORKING THE FLOOR. She ruined my entire day. I was so upset. And I am a very, very difficult person to upset.
/hugs
YKWGMG? When bros and buds have bad days and I'm not around to treat them to voodoo doughnuts to make them feel better.
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You know what really grinds my gears? Terrible customers. This woman at work almost had me in tears today because she was just SO UNBELIEVABLY RUDE AND DEMANDING WHEN THERE WERE FIFTY OTHER PEOPLE ALSO NEEDING MY ATTENTION AND I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WORKING THE FLOOR. She ruined my entire day. I was so upset. And I am a very, very difficult person to upset.
This is one of the two main reasons why I'm glad I'm no longer working for Taco Bell.
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You know what really grinds my gears? Terrible customers. This woman at work almost had me in tears today because she was just SO UNBELIEVABLY RUDE AND DEMANDING WHEN THERE WERE FIFTY OTHER PEOPLE ALSO NEEDING MY ATTENTION AND I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WORKING THE FLOOR. She ruined my entire day. I was so upset. And I am a very, very difficult person to upset.
I will open up this dangerous topic once again. My appologies.
But that is the reason why I miss working in Adult Novelty stores. People came as either: 1. Nervous humorous 2. Nervous quiet 3. Open or 4. Way too open.
YKWGMG? Employers who don't feel they have to work with a Student's schooling.
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YKWRGMG? one word: DRUNKS!
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YKWGMG? "Anti-bacterial soap". Not only is it likely doing more harm than good, but it is *so* harsh on my skin. Makes it crack and bleed (sorry if that is TMI). When con hotel bathrooms have it as the only option I end up having to wear gloves by the end of con. I literally have to start bringing my own soap to cons and to work because my hands just can't take the abuse anymore. I have to literally soak my hands in organic olive oil to recover. (You can imagine that this amuses my cat.) Well the dermatologist recommended solid Crisco (vegetable shortening) but I don't have any of that laying around. Anyway. Triclosan is the main ingredient. It is like Nonoxyl-9. With Nonoxyl-9, a harsh chemical spermicide, the drug trials with prostituted women in Africa showed that it actually *increased* transmission of HIV. Why? Because the chemical was so harsh that it was causing multiple microabrasians in delicate ladyparts, thereby providing an opening to the bloodstream through the skin. (I know about this stuff because I used to translate Spanish for an HIV Testing Clinic and I now work for an HIV Specialist MD.) Triclosan is the same. For those who react to it, it causes breaks in the skin, thereby *increasing* risk of exposure/contagion/infection.
<<EDIT>> It also is a sad statement of the racism and sexism of the medical industry that trials of products in life and death situation are often performed on women of color in 3rd World countries (or, like the Tuskegee Syphilis trials, on men of color in the U.S.). This also GMG, as does animal testing for cosmetic and cleansing products, when, factually, cosmetic and cleansing products can be and are also made with safe vegan ingredients. *steps off soap box* <--no pun intended
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Rem, you have just taught me something new. <3
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Rem, you have just taught me something new. <3
Awwwww. Hopefully in the future stuff I teach you will be of happier content!
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^ I bring my own soap, anyways.
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^ I bring my own soap, anyways.
See I tried to figure out a way to do that that wouldn't be messy and get soap all over my cosplays or fanfics......
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@Aaron; you're a dork. <3
@Rem; I'm huge on safe sex as someone in retail. So in my own twisted way,that's awesome news.
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@Aaron; you're a dork. <3
Duh! Oh, hey, you used the correct "you're." I'm so proud of you! ;D
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*listens for the slap that's coming*
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I've been ducking for cover since I made that last post...
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YKWGMG?
When people threaten me with irl violence and think I won't see it and do something about it. Tsk tsk.
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YKWRGMG? one word: DRUNKS!
Ugh; those are third least favourite enemy in Bubble Bobble.
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so i saw this while i was writing a speech for one of my classes and started it with You know what grinds my gears? Thanks for the intro to my speech when i had writers block. :]
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^ That is awesome! Hope the speech goes well!
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Generally it's a good idea to avoid asking questions in any sort of formal monologue (speech, paper, report) :P
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...depends on the writer.
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YKWGMG?
When people threaten me with irl violence and think I won't see it and do something about it. Tsk tsk.
As a survivor of domestic violence I have to ask if you are presently in danger and if so what safeguards you are taking, supports you have and if you need help identifying resources for your protection.
My gear grinder and tear inducer atm is that a dear best pal just lost his brother/godson to a heroin OD tonight. I have written earlier that I try very hard not to hate but atm I HATE drugs. So much. Such a pointless waste.... I am straightedge. May this person and all those lost to drugs (ODs, disease, suicide, violence, car wrecks, etc.) rest in peace.
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@ Rem Annnnndddd there's just one more reason to hate them, not like I needed one. Am sorry to hear about your friend's loss, not that any time is particularly 'good', but this is an awful time to lose someone. : /
YKWGMG? When people just can't seem to get over things that don't have any significance and then I have to hear about it constantly when I'm not even involved.
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@Rem; that's horrible, and I'm sorry for the loss. At this point of that topic, I hate them. If you cant do it responsibly, then don't do it.
Disclaimer: I personally do not condone illegal drug use at all. Sorry, I don't agree with it at all, personally for me. If you choose to use, then its your life you'll Fu** up, don't drag me into it.
@Washougal and k: -throws pillows at both- BELATED PILLOW ATTACK!!!!
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YKWGMG?
When people threaten me with irl violence and think I won't see it and do something about it. Tsk tsk.
As a survivor of domestic violence I have to ask if you are presently in danger and if so what safeguards you are taking, supports you have and if you need help identifying resources for your protection.
It's some internet tough guy trying to "get back at" my friends and I. I've got it under control, the guy is just an idiot.
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YKWGMG?
When people threaten me with irl violence and think I won't see it and do something about it. Tsk tsk.
As a survivor of domestic violence I have to ask if you are presently in danger and if so what safeguards you are taking, supports you have and if you need help identifying resources for your protection.
It's some internet tough guy trying to "get back at" my friends and I. I've got it under control, the guy is just an idiot.
It makes me giggle when they're that sad. It really does.
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YKWGMG?
When people threaten me with irl violence and think I won't see it and do something about it. Tsk tsk.
As a survivor of domestic violence I have to ask if you are presently in danger and if so what safeguards you are taking, supports you have and if you need help identifying resources for your protection.
It's some internet tough guy trying to "get back at" my friends and I. I've got it under control, the guy is just an idiot.
It makes me giggle when they're that sad. It really does.
Yeah it's incredibly obnoxious, especially because they use this forum and might be reading this right now.
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YKWGMG? When organizations like the FDA and DEA lump dangerous drugs like Opiates, Methaphetamines, and Stimulants into the same category as Serotonin and Dopamine enhancers, so when kids experiment with Marijuana and Mushrooms and don't experience any adverse effects, they think that things like Opium, PCP, Speed, and Heroin aren't going to hurt them either. Then they die from overdoses. It's also pretty messed up that three of the six most addictive and dangerous drugs out there (Nicotine, Alcohol, and Caffeine; the other three are Heroin, Meth, and Crack/Cocaine) are legal and fairly inexpensive. So kids grow up thinking that Cannabis--a plant used medicinally in controlled quantities to treat a plethora of diseases and which produces large amounts of tetrahydracannabinol, a dietary complement to naturally produced endocannabinol, with the effect of dopamine production regulation (I'll leave it up to you to look up any of those terms you might be unfamiliar with)--is dangerous and will lead them into an unhealthy and unproductive lifestyle, and that Nicotine and Alcohol--deadly, highly addictive poisons which the body naturally attempts to reject--are okay as long as you don't do it around kids and you're above a certain arbitrary age limit. Talk about a backwards society. :/
Whether you're a strait-edge or a wild raver kid who's willing to try anything, do yourself and the rest of the world a favour and read some legitimate medical material and properly educate yourself before you make a decision to take, condone, or condemn ANY drug. Legal, illegal, recreational, prescription, over-the-counter...ANY mind- or health-altering substance can have adverse effects if not taken intelligently and you should always be aware of every benefit and every detriment that anything you take or refuse to take represents. Stay safe and stay savvy folks.
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^ Unfortunately, learning and understanding what is beneficial, neutral, or genuinely dangerous takes time. So most people are content to trust "authority" (TV, magazines, newspapers, product labels, government agencies) and never read for themselves. Even though if you read carefully, you'll recognize that almost all of it comes from / is written by the same source - the corporations who run the show and who profit by you not reading.
That said, I fully agree with you about the fact that nicotine and alcohol are highly addictive and are responsible for FAR more deaths than illegal "drugs" - I've read the studies and done the math as well. But I wasn't aware that caffeine could be classified as being in the same league. Any good links I could peruse?
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@Rem; that's horrible, and I'm sorry for the loss. At this point of that topic, I hate them. If you cant do it responsibly, then don't do it.
Disclaimer: I personally do not condone illegal drug use at all. Sorry, I don't agree with it at all, personally for me. If you choose to use, then its your life you'll Fu** up, don't drag me into it.
@Washougal and k: -throws pillows at both- BELATED PILLOW ATTACK!!!!
Hey, kylite didn't deserve that!
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YKWGMG?
When people threaten me with irl violence and think I won't see it and do something about it. Tsk tsk.
As a survivor of domestic violence I have to ask if you are presently in danger and if so what safeguards you are taking, supports you have and if you need help identifying resources for your protection.
It's some internet tough guy trying to "get back at" my friends and I. I've got it under control, the guy is just an idiot.
It makes me giggle when they're that sad. It really does.
Yeah it's incredibly obnoxious, especially because they use this forum and might be reading this right now.
For reference, 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) states: "Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both." If that's not clear enough: You don't have to actually harm someone to get in trouble for making Internet threats. The threat itself is enough to go to jail for, and it's a federal crime.
If whoever it is genuinely is reading this forum, I'd strongly recommend that you back down and forget about whatever grievance you think you have. Posthaste.
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@ fleur, Glad you're safe.
@ Random, as always, you completely rock. J'taime.
@ Chan & DS, Thank you for the sympathy. Understandably, I have not yet been able to reach my friend to know how he is handling this, let alone his sweet 12-year-old daughter. I love them both.
@ Tofu: Well-said, I agree with most of what you said. However, I have seen people waste their lives away lazily on substances that maybe aren't harming them physically but are reducing their motivation to do things such as get legal work or finish school. Folks who "wake and bake", are, IMHO, just as addicted as folks who can't hold a civil conversation until their 2nd cup of coffee, even if the addiction is not neurochemical but psychological.
As a medical social worker and translator I saw many people die of sequelae to alcohol and/or tobacco addictions.
I do know of many folks addicted to caffeine and it does raise blood pressure.
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Yeah, I've had some friends get pretty lost to weed addiction. They usually come back (after running out of money, losing their apartment, and losing most of their friends), but it's still not pretty. Certainly beats alcoholism or a heroin overdose though.
Caffeine's not particularly dangerous but has some adverse effects from too frequent and too large of doses, including high blood pressure, stunted growth (if taken during growing periods), and pretty serious addiction. The withdrawl that addicts get from caffeine is ridiculous. The body's quick to build a dependency on that stuff.
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The TSA (http://www.crunchyroll.com/pulse/japanese-making-fun-of-the-tsa-80000) (PG-13 content)
I've only flown by absolute necessity for several years - even drove all the way from Seattle to LA for Anime Expo a few years ago.
When I was moving from NYC to Seattle, we had to fly out the day after the Northeast Blackout. LaGuardia, big as it is, was literally packed with stressed-out people whose flights had been cancelled. And apparently they were stressing out the TSA people too. So to punish us for being in a hurry and for having a carry-on pet, one of them took the time to frisk my hamster for weapons.
No, I'm not kidding.
(I'm lucky she was dazed from the unexpected jostling and chaotic environment. Otherwise, we'd have both ended up in Guantanamo when she bit him for being a stranger who was grabbing her. Rikka was a rescue, and no matter how much love she was shown, had a nasty temper from the abuse at her previous home... only hamster I've ever met that wasn't full of unconditional love.)
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Wow. That is just wrong on so many levels. Do you still have Rikka? And Tofu, granted that addictions that are primarily psychological *might* be easier *on the body* to quit (vs., e.g., barbituates, going cold turkey from which rather than tapering off of which can literally kill someone). But, to use the most extreme tragedies of pot use from my own life: My pal is no less dead from his single-car driving while intoxicated accident for it being pot not heroin on which he was wasted. My acquaintance is no less dead from being shot in the head during a gang drug deal gone wrong when I was 14 for it being pot not crack that he dealt. These are among the reasons I support only medical use and decriminalization, not legalization for recreational use. Also my own 7-year common-law marriage was no less destroyed by his addiction being pot than if it had been any other substance. Addictions to substances are needless strategies. Personally if I sip a toast on New Year's that'd be only my 2nd even sip since March.
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The TSA (http://www.crunchyroll.com/pulse/japanese-making-fun-of-the-tsa-80000) (PG-13 content)
I've only flown by absolute necessity for several years - even drove all the way from Seattle to LA for Anime Expo a few years ago.
When I was moving from NYC to Seattle, we had to fly out the day after the Northeast Blackout. LaGuardia, big as it is, was literally packed with stressed-out people whose flights had been cancelled. And apparently they were stressing out the TSA people too. So to punish us for being in a hurry and for having a carry-on pet, one of them took the time to frisk my hamster for weapons.
No, I'm not kidding.
(I'm lucky she was dazed from the unexpected jostling and chaotic environment. Otherwise, we'd have both ended up in Guantanamo when she bit him for being a stranger who was grabbing her. Rikka was a rescue, and no matter how much love she was shown, had a nasty temper from the abuse at her previous home... only hamster I've ever met that wasn't full of unconditional love.)
Omg, I want an attack hamster! They'd teach my ninja kitten to attack!!
Hahahaha, that sounds more of boredom, and punishment to the TSA officer.
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@Rem: Sadly, Rikka went over the rainbow bridge several years back. Wild hamsters can live for a few years, but after 80 years of inbreeding from the original few hamsters captured in 1930, most in North America now die within a year of cancer, weak immune systems, or cardiomyopathy.
@Chan: If any hamster would have known the secret arts of ninja attack, it would have been Rikka. She was a sneaky little devil, even if she didn't commit assault and bitery on this particular occasion.
But I'd respectfully disagree about the TSA officer being "punished", since it was his choice to frisk her. I do know of a lot of dumb government regulations... but I don't know of any regulations requiring that hamsters should be frisked (and X-rayed) to make sure they're not packing tiny little guns in their cheek pouches. Granted, the fact that they're from Syria does make them obvious terrorist suspects, but I've never heard of a hamster jihad. ;)
Just for you, the sign I keep on my rear-view dashboard (or whatever you call them):
(https://www.kumoricon.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi270.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fjj110%2Fdarkarima%2Fattackhamster.jpg&hash=6aeeb2daf4f62b6be7d0aaea629c437bc7355810)
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may she rest in peace
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Awww, sad to hear she passed. But that sign is awesome. <3
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This didn't grind my gears per se, but it seems to be bugging me still after half a day. Not sure why.
I was in a video store (Scarecrow) last night, trying to get from point A to point B through a narrow hallway... and a couple are standing in such a way that they're completely blocking it. No worries, I simply pause a moment. They keep standing there even though the husband can see I'm waiting, so I politely say "Excuse me". The wife notices me for the first time, and starts trying to move both her husband and their very large dog out of the way.
As she does so, the very large dog decides I'm interesting and walks up to within a couple of inches of me, sniffing me. I raise an eyebrow. The husband laughs and says, "Oh, don't worry, he's friendly." After a couple of moments with the dog staring up at me, I repeat a little more loudly, "Excuse me." Finally he realizes that maybe I don't want to play with it, pet it, or admire it, and in a huff he jerks its leash back a couple of feet toward him so I can get by.
Generally speaking, I love animals. I think that a lot of species make better "people" than humans do (though personally speaking, dogs aren't really high on the list). But a lot of why I feel that way is that they simply don't know any better, and when they do understand something they usually try to be as considerate as their faculties allow. Let alone mistreat their humans if they fail to win praise as an ego-extension of themselves. :P
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randompvg: That actually really bugs me too. I own two dogs currently, they're actually show dogs so I have to deal with a lot of dogs constantly when going to dog shows. But I don't let them be all over people, especially if that person really has no interest and I'm certainly not offended when they have no interest in the dog. I don't like it when people push their dogs on other people like, "pet my baby, she likes you." Maybe not everyone likes dogs, and maybe they have no interest in your "baby" so I always keep my dogs away from other people, unless that person does in fact want to pet and say hello to them. It always bugs me when you have no interest in someone else's dog and they act like you've hurt their pride or something. Haha
I also don't like it when couples refuse to move, even when they've seen you. I remember once I was behind this couple holding hands who were blocking the whole sidewalk and I was in a bit of a hurry. I politely asked them to move, they looked back for a moment, then turned forward again to continue talking affectionately to one another. Irritated, I asked again but a bit more loudly, I swear they gave such a hateful glare and finally moved aside. Another couple was holding hands walking towards me on the sidewalk and instead of moving to the side or letting go of each other's hands, they simply lifted their arms, still holding each other's hands, so that I could get by underneath. Really?
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Having worked in retail, I can relate to people blocking aisles and such. Most people don't give much gruff when I politely say "pardon me" though.
Also I can relate to the whole animal thing. When I was younger I was terrified by dogs coz I was attacked by our dog when I was like 3 or 4. I think I still have a scar under my eye from it. ^^
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... they simply lifted their arms, still holding each other's hands, so that I could get by underneath. Really?
I would have started singing:
"London Bridge is falling down, falling down..."
I tend to walk briskly and I also climb steps when riding escalators.
I made up a word - 'obsteculators' - to mean two people who stand side by side blocking my ascent on an escalator.
To those of you familiar with the latest incarnation of D&D, does the cluebat still do triple damage from behind?
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^ if flanking and flatfooted, I do believe so.
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I went to Rainbow Optics because my glasses were sliding too far down my nose. They put new nosepads on and now they are sitting too high *and* making my eyes draw into the middle, causing eyestrain headaches and leaving me barely able to work.
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... they simply lifted their arms, still holding each other's hands, so that I could get by underneath. Really?
I would have started singing:
"London Bridge is falling down, falling down..."
I tend to walk briskly and I also climb steps when riding escalators.
I made up a word - 'obsteculators' - to mean two people who stand side by side blocking my ascent on an escalator.
To those of you familiar with the latest incarnation of D&D, does the cluebat still do triple damage from behind?
It's like Parcheesi in real life. :P
Here's something that grinds my gears a LOT: Lemming mentality. It really irks me when someone gets some farfetched idea about the economy collapsing, the housing bubble "popping", the world ending, et cetera, a lot of the time as a joke/troll, and suddenly a bunch of people are freaking out and backing up poor decisions with false data and rumors, and you wind up with a self-fulfilling prophecy built on ignorance. People need to learn to think on their own. If you can't process information on your own, why have a brain? Might as well be a robot.
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But I'd respectfully disagree about the TSA officer being "punished", since it was his choice to frisk her.
The idea is that anything is possible. If they think of it, others must have too(this logic plagues me everywhere...), so it becomes a reasonable search priority. Lets say he frisked another guy's hamster and it somehow turned out to be a living IED or a plague weapon? What then? All this security crap is not secure! When I began to fully realize what I was dealing with I got out of TSA while I still could. If anyone here doing that trial has even half a brain they would do the same. It just wasn't worth the $12.74/hr and the heavily worded wall of benefits. O_o It convinced me to stop flying too. I'd rather take the train. It's the only peaceful commute these days but oh wait...There are now really really stupid instances where TSA will screen people coming OFF of the trains instead of boarding them. I'm glad that has never happened to me or I would be seriously pissed. It's bad enough I can feel my heart beating inside my eyelid while standing in line but all it would take is something sharp to knick me in the throat and then several people would be shot in the eye with boiling blood. People would fly into a screaming panic as their faces melt off and several people(including myself) would begin to have a very bad day.
Possibly including a random taser shot...
I really need some horse tranquilizer about now. :/
I've recently heard some fairly insightful stories from those screened in stations on the East coast and these checkpoints are always strategically timed and placed to put you in a very uncomfortable situation against your will, effectively violating your rights and protecting no one. In fact, it puts several people in serious danger. I guess treating people like cattle is the only kind of respect we have for citizens these days. Never mind safety anymore. Oh no that would make too much sense. You've had a taste of my world through the airlines on a side I've never been: the random SSSS(sucker!), though I'm amazed your heart hasn't been darkened to my level yet. I'll give you time... :)
We both know hamsters aren't the real problem here so much as what the human psyche is capable of doing to them. You simply have no idea how sick humans can really be and I hope you never find out. I'm sure you have enough crap plaguing you every other day and don't need to deal with more of it. I know I don't. There used to be a point before TSA where I was pretty close to normal. That was a time where human filth, greed and ignorance got to me pretty quickly because I wasn't used to so much of it. I reached a point where I no longer took anything seriously and that worked for a while. Then it became a chore to maintain that personality and I couldn't justify it anymore. It sickens me to think about how disgusting people can be to themselves, pets, children and others but even though I no longer care about any of them, I'm still tempted to sometimes fix this when I can. It bothers me and I have no idea why.
Lemming mentality.
Ahahahaha! I've learned to accept this. Darwin was right and my pocketbook grows fatter as these mindless maggots continue feeding into the machine of lies. I don't like how it traps people into a singular mindset because I genuinely like what some of these people do with their lives but I need something to separate the sheep from valuable people and I guess observing how they handle these lies is the best screening tool at my disposal. My friendships with weak minds have never lasted more than a few days so testing their mentality against severe levels of stupid works out pretty good. It earned me about 48 friends in PHX, 12 in SEA and recently 2 in PDX. I'd say I'm doing pretty good but this is against thousands of people. That's depressing.
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That's a whole lot of anger to be expressing. I can't say it's justified or unjustified, since I haven't had to walk in your shoes, but that's a whole lot of anger.
I'm a big fan of the saying "If you're not angry, then you're not paying attention [to what our society and governments have become]", but there comes a point at which it's too much to take. When I hit that point, I finally wised up and completely stopped following American corporate-owned media news... that one thing did wonders for my blood pressure and my sometimes-tenuous grip on sanity. (^_^) The BBC, Reuters, and the Daily Show are all pretty good ways to keep in touch with the world without wanting to do something terrible.
Or, like you wisely did, get away from any other situation that just keeps pushing your buttons. Life is for living, and anything that takes up that much of your energy without giving you a positive return can not be worth it.
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I don't know why my coworkers feel the need to constantly try and figure out my "personal life." It's one thing to joke around or talk about things with some of my coworkers who I'm actually kind of friends with, but lately people who I haven't even been working with for that long are taking it upon themselves to try and figure me out..... It's not just limited to my work place either. It seems like everyone and their mom is butting into my business.
I do not need people to try and tell me why I'm single
I do not need people to try and set me up with their random friends who are "really nice, but oh he's 35" or "he has some problems, but he's really a good guy."
Also according to my coworker who I've been working with for hardly a month I'm 'frigid.' Which makes sense because someone can totally understand everything about me by seeing how I act in an 8-hour a day fast food setting. YES I MAD. >=[
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That's messed up.
Maybe start trying to set them up? When they react in a horrified manner because they're in a relationship and like it that way, ask them why a person who's not in a relationship and likes it that way shouldn't be extended the same courtesy (of not having others trying to make those decisions for them).
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That's messed up.
Maybe start trying to set them up? When they react in a horrified manner because they're in a relationship and like it that way, ask them why a person who's not in a relationship and likes it that way shouldn't be extended the same courtesy (of not having others trying to make those decisions for them).
You. Are. A. Saint.
220% correct.
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That's messed up.
Maybe start trying to set them up? When they react in a horrified manner because they're in a relationship and like it that way, ask them why a person who's not in a relationship and likes it that way shouldn't be extended the same courtesy (of not having others trying to make those decisions for them).
I've tried this, and it worked for awhile.... people would try and set me up with every random guy that started at our work and I'd just counter with "Would you like to go on a date with them?" Pretty much every time the answer was "no" and people kind of started to get my point.
Recently though about half of our employees either left or went to other stores, and now all the new people who have come are starting the cycle all over again. It doesn't help that a lot of the people I work with are dating each other so they think everyone should be paired off all nicely....
Sorry I'm rambling.... It's just after 4 years of listening to people tell me who I "need to be dating" and having no one take into consideration how I'm feeling I've just kind of reached a point where I just don't even wanna make the effort anymore. UGH.
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If all else fails, start climbing the ladder of Comand. Just from that last post it could damn near be considered harassment. Damn near being key words. Take it to your boss, if they dont do anything, take it to the next level.
Be a b*tch if it means it.
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My work doesn't really take things like that very seriously.... in fact my actual boss has participated in it too, especially when it was around Valentine's Day. It's really not as big of a deal as I'm making out to be, but it's just been getting on my nerves a lot lately.
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That's messed up.
Maybe start trying to set them up? When they react in a horrified manner because they're in a relationship and like it that way, ask them why a person who's not in a relationship and likes it that way shouldn't be extended the same courtesy (of not having others trying to make those decisions for them).
I've tried this, and it worked for awhile.... people would try and set me up with every random guy that started at our work and I'd just counter with "Would you like to go on a date with them?" Pretty much every time the answer was "no" and people kind of started to get my point.
Recently though about half of our employees either left or went to other stores, and now all the new people who have come are starting the cycle all over again. It doesn't help that a lot of the people I work with are dating each other so they think everyone should be paired off all nicely....
Sorry I'm rambling.... It's just after 4 years of listening to people tell me who I "need to be dating" and having no one take into consideration how I'm feeling I've just kind of reached a point where I just don't even wanna make the effort anymore. UGH.
I definitely like your idea over mine - yours is more direct, and gets the point across a lot better.
This is mean, but you could always ramp it up to the next level... pretend to realize that it's a case of Matchmaker Syndrome (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MatchmakerCrush).
- "Awww, that's sweet! I didn't realize you had a crush on XYZ."
- "Oh, wait, you don't? I'm sorry, I thought it was one of those situations where a person tries to set someone up because they can't admit to themselves they have a crush on them."
- "So, just making sure I've got this straight - this is a person who you don't think is worth dating, but you think I should?"
If nothing else, I don't think it would take more than once for someone to get the hint. Sorry to hear that you're having to deal with it getting this old, though... :-\
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In 6th grade, there were a ton of girls that were constantly bugging me to date this one girl. I did not want to. I had zero in common with her. I was not interested in her. I finally got irritated enough that I pretended to have a crush on one of the girls that kept harassing me all the time just to get her to leave me alone.
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Hey, I'm married and all, but you could tell them I'm your boyfriend. Or whatever that gets them to mind their own P's and Q's. I'll lie for you. lol
And you thought 35 was bad, wait 'til you see how old I am! lol
I guess you must have that, so cute everyone must mess with, going on.
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This is mean, but you could always ramp it up to the next level... pretend to realize that it's a case of Matchmaker Syndrome (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MatchmakerCrush).
Ohhh, you might actually be on to something there. lol. If my coworkers weren't already all dating each other I'd be all over that.
I'm feeling a bit less irritated now after ranting on here, it's nice to hear that people don't think I'm being overly rude or anything. XD[/list]
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This is mean, but you could always ramp it up to the next level... pretend to realize that it's a case of Matchmaker Syndrome (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MatchmakerCrush).
Ohhh, you might actually be on to something there. lol. If my coworkers weren't already all dating each other I'd be all over that.
That's what makes it really mean, and makes it even less likely that they (or anyone else) will do it again. ;) Bonus points if you can do it in front of someone else, triple extra bonus points if it's their boyfriend.
I'll admit it, I am pretty thoroughly evil. Voltaire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0Uqq4Sdsk#t=42) (at the NY Anime Festival in the link) is my hero.
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You make a good point.... and that video just made my night. *brofist*
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That's a whole lot of anger to be expressing.
Minor compared to the rest of me really. I'm probably the result of some failed reincarnation or something.
Or, like you wisely did, get away from any other situation that just keeps pushing your buttons.
Oh don't worry. It has a way of finding, following and engaging me over and over until I snap back.
Life is for living, and anything that takes up that much of your energy without giving you a positive return can not be worth it.
This is what I want but...I don't do that.
I don't know why my coworkers feel the need to constantly try and figure out my "personal life."
Because they're stupid. I get this hell at work but at my latest job it's on a ladder that only scales downward.
First off, two problems: I dress nice and look attractive.
Like really really attractive. On a worksite no matter if it's clean or dirty or if I'm dressed like everyone else in the group, I look like "the new corporate/HR guy" that everybody immediately notices and with any luck, this impression makes them all immediately huddle into the farthest corner of the room out of fear that I might be what removes them. I get those kind of comments when I go shopping too. My style is clean but causes this problem of "inflated" popularity. It causes people to pry. I sometimes try and kill this effect by wearing something that completely clashes with the rest of my appearance but this only gives everyone an excuse/topic they use to open me. I'm never interested in anybody or what they're doing but when I greet them they really think I care. I don't believe any of them realize how much I really don't and they proceed to make it a point to somehow get me interested in EVERYTHING they say. x_X
Anyway, every third person on late shift asks me if I have a girlfriend and they all ask if I have any kids! I'm pretty sure I've told most of them a firm no by this point and trailed off with how horrible that would be but then they start prying as to why I don't want kids and they want to know if I think that sounds greedy of me. The last girl that brought this up somehow tried to convince me that it isn't my decision because I'm not really in control of whether that happens or not. Well what the hell is that supposed to mean?! :/
I do not need people to try and tell me why I'm single
I do not need people to try and set me up with their random friends
I don't believe in friends. :/
Also according to my coworker who I've been working with for hardly a month I'm 'frigid.'
That's kind of creepy...
because someone can totally understand everything about me by seeing how I act in an 8-hour a day fast food setting.
Oh God I'm so sorry! I know work sucks but fast food? I can't do it! (;ω;) I'm onboard the dominating force that gives all the little fast food chains pure unbridled hell for their incompetency and lack of drive in the global market. You're almost cute and it would be a shame to see you go crazy when my business finally makes your work environment REALLY suck. Oh well! <3
*puts on awesomeface and prepares for the next 10 hours of world domination...*
Sorry I'm rambling.... It's just after 4 years of listening to people tell me who I "need to be dating" and having no one take into consideration how I'm feeling I've just kind of reached a point where I just don't even wanna make the effort anymore. UGH.
9 years for me. Cute girls say date. Married ones say never date, period. No one asked them and I want nothing to do with either group.
I am pretty thoroughly evil.
DO want! :3
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Hahahaha, I got a lot of that from the middle schoolers I was directing recently. They all wanted to know if I had a boyfriend, and when I told them "No, but there's a guy I really like" they were all like "OH WHY AREN'T YOU DATING ARE YOU GOING TO DATE ARE YOU GOING TO GET MARRIED?!" Not quite as annoying or as grating as coworkers doing this kind of thing (thankfully a majority of my coworkers are younger women who are all more concerned with other things than dating), but it was still kind of annoying after a while. Then they all wanted to know my opinion on celebrities and how hot or otherwise they were. A popular choice was Justin Bieber. They all wanted to know my opinion of Justin Bieber for some reason.
To make this post relevant to anything other than me rambling to pass the time while I sit in the Portland airport for the next hour and a half, I'll say that the thing that really grinds my gears is when I'm the only creative person on a team of directors, and therefore get saddled with anything remotely artistic on an enormous project (like a musical). Ugh. Also, when people claim your hard work as their own. Not that I'm speaking from recent personal experience or anything.
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My asinine and racist ex-worker is back working for us again...... just when I thought things couldn't get more irritating around here. It's only a few hours into my shift and he's already said about a dozen offensive things, and he threw a lemon at me. Jokes on him though since I ended up eating it and it was delicious.
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My teacher (excuse any missspellings I chuggd a beer on and empty stomach and with my boyfringnd putting food into me and getting slapped I'm starting to sober up)
I worked by ass off on my part for this short flim, and she basically told me to redo a huge chunk of it. I'm exremly pissed off expecially because she thinks its these quick fixes when it's actually another 7 hours I have to put in the damn thingand she donesn't understand.
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Like really really attractive. On a worksite no matter if it's clean or dirty or if I'm dressed like everyone else in the group, I look like "the new corporate/HR guy" that everybody immediately notices and with any luck, this impression makes them all immediately huddle into the farthest corner of the room out of fear that I might be what removes them. I get those kind of comments when I go shopping too. My style is clean but causes this problem of "inflated" popularity. It causes people to pry. I sometimes try and kill this effect by wearing something that completely clashes with the rest of my appearance but this only gives everyone an excuse/topic they use to open me. I'm never interested in anybody or what they're doing but when I greet them they really think I care. I don't believe any of them realize how much I really don't and they proceed to make it a point to somehow get me interested in EVERYTHING they say. x_X
I have an entire collection of metal band t-shirts guaranteed to ensure that no random people will want to talk to you. Try this (http://dontclickme.info/newshirt.jpg) on and I doubt many people will try to talk to you! ;D
My asinine and racist ex-worker is back working for us again...... just when I thought things couldn't get more irritating around here. It's only a few hours into my shift and he's already said about a dozen offensive things, and he threw a lemon at me. Jokes on him though since I ended up eating it and it was delicious.
Wow. You took the whole "when life gives you lemons" thing pretty literally.
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I have an entire collection of metal band t-shirts guaranteed to ensure that no random people will want to talk to you. Try this (http://dontclickme.info/newshirt.jpg) on and I doubt many people will try to talk to you! ;D
See? This is exactly what I'm talking about. I keep my style plain as possible. Shirts like this will make me way too interesting to just look at so no. Not doing that anymore.
Oh, and I do realize the irony in that. o_O
My asinine and racist ex-worker is back working for us again...... just when I thought things couldn't get more irritating around here. It's only a few hours into my shift and he's already said about a dozen offensive things, and he threw a lemon at me. Jokes on him though since I ended up eating it and it was delicious.
I just have to know how someone can work that fast to set someone off. That's awesome. :3
I'm certain that everyone is a bit racist(especially the Japanese on my Skype that like to bang the call button all day) but it seems like only a handful of girls(and maybe two guys) ever realize that I'm not genuinely sexist. This is a problem. Opening jokes becomes really washy and makes everyone take my intended humor a little too seriously. I need a more sarcastic tone before I start to find offended people offensive.
Mainstream media is somehow getting to me these days. I like how every day is something better about Japan when yesterday it seemed like the end of the world. Seriously, I hate these people that blow everything out of proportion. By that I means Americans that are being stupid. I'm on the West Coast and I sware if I meet one of these idiots that ask about potassium iodide pills because they're terrified of radiation poisons, I will personally reach through space and time to slap the Big Mac out of your fat greasy face you morbidly obese mf. >.<'
Really? *poke* *insert really retarded news post (http://www.thestar.com/news/article/956778--health-canada-urges-against-stockpiling-potassium-iodide-pills) that now drags Canada into this argument...* Really?
Fine...Maybe I should start writing out contracts to make fallout shelters for these guys. Since people don't understand that nuclear plants aren't all the same design or danger let alone anything near that of a nuclear explosive, I should take this opportunity to get as rich as possible. Though I'm not going to lie about being a donation station to aid Japan. I don't know what amazes me more about this. When there's some disaster in a foreign country, there's always a scammer that gets rich off of this kind of massive death. I know a significant percentage of the world would hate that guy if anyone found out who they were but just the same I can't help but not feel bad for the people that get suckered into this crap.
I guess I don't have a whole lot to gripe about today. :/
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Well, you did a fine job of filling an entire page's worth of text. ;) Maybe tomorrow inspiration will strike -- but I hope not, because that would mean bad things! Try posting in the "what are you happy about right now" thread. xD
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Speaking of filling entire pages with text, it grinds my gears when people pass off contrived opinions as fact. Almost as much as it does when I'm reading cutlery reviews that aren't even using the knives properly. As for the entire pages filled with text...if you're friends with me on facebook, you can figure out what I mean there. Not gonna re-post here because it's not really relevant/necessary, but basically, I just spent the last 4 hours researching tempering, forging, folded steel, knife balance, handle ergonomics, sharpening techniques, and differences in various steel alloys and reading reviews on a variety of kitchen cutlery after spending about an hour at Williams-Sonoma earlier testing the weight, feel, edge, and balance of a variety of the best cutlery money can buy. :P
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Airheads, my good sirs, are indeed delicious.
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Airheads, my good sirs, are indeed delicious.
Airheads can be fun someti- oh you mean the candy. I'm sorry. :3
;D
A horrible lack of communication in times of critical importance really sets me off these days. I can't even begin to describe how much anxiety it causes me and this has been going on for a few weeks all month. I know people are busy but it shouldn't be this hard to get ahold of anyone. Grah! x_X'
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However, real airheads aggrivate me...
Especially those girls who act stupid to get a boys attention. D: Like almost all the pretty girls in horrror movies do that, and it gets annoying. xD
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I completely agree. But if you feel that way, you'd hate growing up in the South... women are expected to act that way, and to a greater or lesser degree they often do. I was never quite sure whether to be more sad or peeved when someone did it to me. :-[
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I have the wrong eyebrows to let girls act stupid near me. In other words, I do not have a poker face.
Day shift grinds my gears. At least the Monday through Friday day shift does. ARGGGHHHH! Spend an hour every day restoring what they do/don't do. That and just try to calm myself back down, from their miasma of the daily panic! OMG! OMG! OMG!
When in danger, fear or doubt
Run in circles
Scream and shout!
Can I get off the planet now?
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*** Note: potential Heavy Rain spoilers contained in here, select text below to read ***
I spent 8-10 hours yesterday playing Heavy Rain on PS3. I more or less succeeded with everything that would impact the story . . except in the final scene, when everything was coming together, I ended up getting 1 of the main characters arrested, and 2 of them killed. Ugh. I "beat" it, but my ending was less than satisfactory. ;<
*** Note: END OF POTENTIAL SPOILERS ***
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Continuously thinking that I'm hearing my name being called out at Gamestorm, only to see nobody looking at me.
Also, since I'm in the video game room, there's some games that have buzzers. At first, I thought it might have been the hotel's fire alarms going off. :P
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You';re mistaking Air head for Aaron? Better than Dave for Jay, I guess.
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It grinds my gears that I'm a dramatic nutcase. :) MY LIFE IS AWESOME. :D
.... I'm gunna go stress-bake some more.
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You need downtime. Stress has been killing me for the past two straight years up until late February. You don't need to go through the same crap that I did. x_X'
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It grinds my gears that I'm a dramatic nutcase. :) MY LIFE IS AWESOME. :D
.... I'm gunna go stress-bake some more.
Make me some more NO BAKE COOKIES PLZ. :D
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I dont have any oats but your birthday is really soon so I will!
I've already made two dozen cookies and brownies and my family thinks I am trying to make them fat. Stress-baking always makes me feel a little better.
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I wish I could tell you what grinds my gears. But mostly it would only sound like sour grapes. phhffft.
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I come to work and all the parking spots are full. And they have stupid bulldozers parked in good spots, and only leave me muddy holes to park in.
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The tennis club, the gymnastics gym, Papa Murphy's, Edible Arrangements, Rite Aid, and countless other businesses that are giving me interviews but won't hire me.
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For some reason I thought you said Eddie Murphy. >_> Also, that sounds like what my brother is going through right now. D: Good luck!
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Eddie Murphy won't hire me OR give me an interview.
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My CPU is randomly freaking out when I click Youtube pages. I know I've had problems with voltages before but this seems to be getting a little worse. I'll probably adjust something in a few hours or at the next hardlock. One of my friends keep giving me a bunch of **** for using a 32-Bit OS too. We get into really stupid arguments about a 32-Bit OS being incapable of utilizing more than 4GB of memory even though I've been doing exactly that for years. He needs to take his two year CS degree and shove it. While he keeps boasting his "64-Bit greatness" and how inferior I seem to be to his degree, they keep missing the mark and the fact that I don't care about their stupid nerdy garbage and that I'm the only one in our group that doesn't suffer from stupid software related problems and limitations.
The tennis club, the gymnastics gym, Papa Murphy's, Edible Arrangements, Rite Aid, and countless other businesses that are giving me interviews but won't hire me.
They won't hire you like that because they're scared of what they don't know. Go through the proper channels. It's crappy but it will land you a job with great places long enough to make a decent paycheck and to keep you from stressing all the time. >.>'
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The tennis club, the gymnastics gym, Papa Murphy's, Edible Arrangements, Rite Aid, and countless other businesses that are giving me interviews but won't hire me.
They won't hire you like that because they're scared of what they don't know. Go through the proper channels. It's crappy but it will land you a job with great places long enough to make a decent paycheck and to keep you from stressing all the time. >.>'
I'm curious, what would be a more proper channel than the interview process? =/ (For all that the interview process is a lame pain in the @#$)
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I'm curious, what would be a more proper channel than the interview process? =/ (For all that the interview process is a lame pain in the @#$)
I really don't like talking about it because these are parasitic in nature and pretty much the only option in crappy towns like mine but temp agencies are the only real way to get your foot in the door. They've worked for me too.
Interested in working at a certain large name company? Go through a temp agency. If you're the real deal, you'll get offered a full time position like I was at every other place. Only problem with that of course is that full time jobs are for suckers. >.>'
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I have a 32 bit Windows 7 OS. Works great. IN fact, the people who made it for me, advised me NOT to go to 64 bit, as there are not enough uses for it, and won't be for a LOOOOOOONGGGGG time. Go get yourself one made just for you, a nice NON-PROPRIETARY machine.
Proprietary computers grind my gears. You can't buy new parts off the rack for them. You have to buy THEIR crappy junk.
Some large outfits have their own temporary workforce. Oregon Cutting Systems, Division of Blount Inc. for example. Worked for me. Was a temp for only 6 weeks, and then I jumped up two paygrades when I did hire on permanent. I've worked with machinery before.
This was a pretty gear grinding free day for me. And it's overtime! And I got lots of stuff done around the house, for a change it seems like.
All the dust bunnies under the bed grind my gears. I have to move everything in the room to clean them. Blargle.
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awe well you go and get those dust bunnehs :D
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Having to find a job, place to live, and a place for ze kitten in a month in a half.
oh wait. That's about 21 days now. Fffff---
-head desk-
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Life! RAwR!
<3?
I'm kind of the same for now. Wondering if my next assignment will be any good let alone when it will be and how long it lasts. It seems to start at the one rare morning in the season where I wake up completely disgusted with everything around me and it usually ends a week or two before a local convention starts. This is becoming ridiculous and I deserve to go back to school rather than deal with this garbage. Still, I need to move. The crap I have to deal with lately is awful. I need something to do so that I keep my mind off of it. I'd rather live in Vancouver than deal with it. >.<'
Unfortunately, working and moving are mutually exclusive as long as I'm here.
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Coming to work after a week off to see something smeared into the floor where the chair will be, asking what's that? and getting dunno, then the guy I relieve, leaves. YOU PIG! My day has been shot since.sigh
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My sunburn itches!!! Wtf? Aren't they suppose to HURT?
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You know what really grinds my gears? Infomercials that are filled with people acting like they don't know how to use 'the opposing option' or that it's so difficult. I saw one for some bra and the people trying on 'ordinary bras' were 30 year old women getting caught in there own straps like they have never seen let alone put on a bra before.. really??? If you can't put on a bra by that age how do you function in society?
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eBay... and PayPal...
They're both full of incompetant morons whom are incapable of operating their own sites!
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You know what really grinds my gears? Infomercials that are filled with people acting like they don't know how to use 'the opposing option' or that it's so difficult. I saw one for some bra and the people trying on 'ordinary bras' were 30 year old women getting caught in there own straps like they have never seen let alone put on a bra before.. really??? If you can't put on a bra by that age how do you function in society?
Heck.. I can put one on! ;)
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You know what grinds my gears?
Girls who make out with each other for the sole purpose of attracting male attention.
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Ya know what really grinds my gears? The fact that there isnt a bullet train between bend oregon and vancouver washington.
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You know what really grinds my gears? When my sister takes my clothes and claims they're hers.Then they don't fit when I get them back weeks later(she's bigger around than me :()
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You know what really grinds my gears? when my brother lies to his friends about having an Iphone then they all come to me asking for his number and I have to tell them he never nor will ever have an iphone -_-
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Ya know what really grinds my gears? Girls whn think that dating someones ex means theyve won some sort of prize. Yea, you won. A 22 year old man that has never had a job and still cries when he doesnt get his way. What a prize! Im totally jealous.
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you all wannah know waht grinds my gears
When you are workign on something and ask someone for help and they get upset becuse its soposally so simular to theirs that they whine and try to make you put in something you dont want in there and then B word about it and you end up not doing it at all and they tell you how bad they feel adn then the following day butt into a phone call they are not part of and try to controle it and then post on face book and say its a pet peeve with other talk about other people when the person dose the same thing .... thats what grinds my gears
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What grinds my gears is I'm still having trouble finding work and I just found an '83 MKII Celica-Supra for $2500 OBO near me that would be absolutely perfect for an inspector gadget cosplay. It's white, in good body shape, and even has the rear window louvers, but of course I can't afford it :'(
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What grinds my gears is that I can't whistle...and that Hikaru will never be a real boy. Gawd, I hate mah life (jk).
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Well folks it's time this older anime fan to do his grouchy old self again. -Clears throat-
You want to know what grinds my gears. Sur-reality T.V. programs like Jersey Shore and mafiia wives. I mean here we have people who are already some of the worst of the worst, I'm talking the shallow end of the gene pool and they're being placed in these phoney-baloney conflict situation where they behave like complete and utter jackanapes. I meaan WTHSH (WHAT THE SAM HILL!?!?) is the matter with the these people. I knwo we're ina recessi0on but they could at least take time to hire some actors, crew, and writers to tell a good and genuine story. I mean really has it reached the point where T.V. has become so intent on the boottom line that they can only think of using some the most ascinine people on the planet in order to get ratings and profit. And what's worse when folks watch these people they're actually empowering and encouraging them to behave in a mean and dissrespectful way that's shows they have no respect for others or themselves. If you ask me they need to can all these sur-reality T.V., send these vile and vulgar individuals back to the cespools of obscurity they crawled out of, hire some real writers to tell some stories, get some real crew and actors. And from what I've seen more and more of the public are turning against these vulgar pseudo-shows which are an insult to humanity which is a relief. But still, whenever I see the slightest trace of one these things I imemadiately change the channel.And that how I think we can get rid of these shoows by suimply refusing to watch them.
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There's soemthing else that grinds my gears. I found out a few years ago that i have cat hair allergies. It's frustrating to me because well...I love kitties. they're pompous, they're arrogant, and they're furry and that's part of their charm. I haven't had a cat for many years. And only came to the conclusion that I was allergic when i visited my father and stepmother in D.C. years ago. Doesn't it seem kind of strange, I have cat hair allergies but I like cats.
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What grinds my gears is loud 6th graders in my K-12 school library making it impossible to focus on my online Latin and Economic classes.
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You know what (really) grinds my gears: People that think Vocaloid is an Anime. *drinks some Sake*
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That just makes me laugh when they do, because it kinda has become one. There is even Hatsune Mix out.
It grinds my gears when people think Touhou is an anime thoug
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You know what grinds my gears: The fact that my parents don't like to listen to me singing Karaoke on a daily basis. I mean, come on, how do you expect me to be ready for Kumoricon Karaoke? *curls up in a tight little ball and starts bawling, like a baby*
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REVIVAL!!!
These are from some of my favorite memes.
- When people use their cell phone as a personal stereo in public.
- People that say SWAG and Y.O.L.O.
- Fans referring to their team as "Us" when you're not part of the team. (I'll admit that I've done that before, too).
- When people call extra innings "Overtime."
- When you load a page and a video starts playing but you can never find the thing to stop it.
(Some of my own)
- Nobody in Family Guy seems bothered that so many women are into canine-oriented-bestiality.
- Iron Man fans saying that I have to read the entire comic book franchise before I am justified in not liking Iron Man.
- The insistence that Ocarina of Time or Pokemon are the keys to a true childhood.
- When you're looking for an image on Google and you get three pages of nothing close to your search.
- People fighting for "equal rights" while denying others the right to have an opinion contrary to their own.
(Back to the meme!)
- When I'm trying to watch a 30 second video on YouTube and I get a minute long advertisement.
- My inability to drive stick shift.
(A modified one)
- When annoying people think you hate them solely because of their sexual orientation.
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You know what grinds my gears: A long bus ride, without my iPhone.
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You Know What Grinds my Gears: Kumoricon 2016 is only three days. Stupid Rose City Comic Con.
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You know what grinds my gears? People who have no experience with kids pretending to know how I should be raising my child.
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You know what grinds my gears: Being out of Diet Dr. Pepper.
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You know what grinds my gears? The fact that today is International Men's Day and nobody in Washington or Oregon cares.
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YKWGMG? People who drive 4x4s or SUVs with high clearance and those extra-tough suspensions - and then slow down for speed bumps.
The whole purpose of that extra $4000-$6000 is so that you can just buzz-blast over them, like deflector shields so you can ignore piddling incoming fire.
(Ensign Worf: "No effect, Captain...")