The Rant Thread

[Kessari]

I need this thread right now - a LOT!

There is this girl (we work together and go to school together). She is 18 and thinks (!), that she is the mooooooost beautiful girl/woman in the whole wide world. I mean, sure she looks good (not my type though) and stuff, but she is so...ARGH! Looks can be absolutely deceiving.
You see, I live alone for over 3 years now and had to leave home in a really rough time, because I wanted to get my life together. So I know exactly what money is worth and stuff. There now comes this little girl (yes, she is just a little girl, even though she's 18) and wants to explain LIFE to me? She lives at home with her parents, has 3 rooms of her own (one is just for clothes with 4 closets full of clothes. Oh, and one for her shoe collection!) and has to pay for like NOTHING. Now here I am in my 1-room apartment and loving it, paying for almost everything myself. You probably think, what's the problem about it?! I am getting there, I promise...
She spends her whole money on clothes, her bloody nails and stuff no one needs, while I have to kinda "survive" with that money. I save as much as I can - you never know when you might need it - and do not spend a lot for pleasure.
Now, you see I'm proud where I stand with my life right now. I have a job (that I hate, but who cares), the most amazing best friends, loving and caring parents and my very own home. I'm really really proud and this girl has the ability to make me feel....worthless and makes fun of me. Normally I would not even listen to things like that, but she just makes me feel like I want to wring her neck all the time. She does not even notice, that she hurts me, with the way she is treating me.
She calls me one of "those ppl" (refering to disabled people..) and makes fun of the auxiliary tools I need (meaning my three different kind of glasses, the looking glass and monocular-y thing-y I need to read what the teacher wrote on the board)... Damn it. Without those things I would not be where I am. I did not chose any of this. I did not want to be blind for 2 years and god damn it I AM FREAKING PROUD of myself for never giving up and being where I am - Leading my very own life.

She just pisses me off in such an extent. Why are most people just so damn shallow and only care for the way what kind of impression they make to others?!

Thanks for listening to me ramble. I needed this a lot. Someday she will learn that not the money and the "beauty" she owns are the most important things in life, but the health and people who love you no matter what.

My love to all !
Kat

[jay/wt4evr]

Sometimes I just wish to disappear. Like that, poof. Maybe not even a puff of smoke or anything, be gone in silence without anyone noticing. That's all I ever wanted. To be nobody, nothing to care about, nothing to worry about, no one that screams at you. Everything I ever cared about, just...gone. No regrets, no fears. Sometimes it's simply too much.

[Kessari]

Ok, I need this thread again.

The girl I wrote about yesterday just mailed me. You know what she wrote?! No. I gonna tell ya. She said "Get well soon. We miss you!" ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?
Now this is really pissing me off. She's such a two-faced sneaky bitch. Damn it. One day she is all about insulting me about the scars on my leg and about my disability and now she wishes me well? This really has to be some bloody bad joke. How can one ignore something like that? Believe me, I'm a master of ignoring people like that, but she just pushes my buttons...
Someone help me please. I don't know what to do.

Kat

[JustSkipIt]

Wow. This thread has fallen to the second page and I don't think I've written in a long time. I am PMSing as I can tell by just how irritated I feel by just about every little thing.

So my wife loves, loves, loves making things. She does not like plans, patterns, or advice. She just likes to make whatever she wants. Sometimes that works out absolutely brilliantly like the Halloween costume she freehand crocheted a few years ago in a day or other crochet items like hats she has designed. But other times she is just out of her depth in her projects.

A few years ago we had a deck put on the back of the house (28' x 10'). It has 2 openings/stairs. One goes to the big yard and other to the side yard (dog yard). The plan was that we would shut the gates to the big yard and the dogs would go poop in the side yard. But the gates would have been like $450 so my wife decided to make them herself. Now she has no carpentry experience and we don't own a saw or many tools. We have a power drill and an antique branch saw. No really, it was her father's a million years ago and is very dull and rusted but it makes her think of him (he's alive so I don't know why she needs a memento). So she went to Home Depot and bought some 2x1 wood and some screen and basically made squares and stapled the mesh onto the middles and hung them. Oh wait, I forgot to say that first she made gates from solid wood 2x1 and plywood and they were so heavy that they wouldn't hang at all. So after that, she made these and they are still too heavy so she's put bumper things on bottom to keep them from scratching the deck. And also, the dogs just lean against them and the minuscule latch comes undone and they go poop wherever they want. So I suggested putting some sort of guide on the doors and putting a dowel through it. Instead she bought a 1X2 that is 8 feet long and used the rusted saw to shorten it so that there are splinters everywhere and put the guides on the deck and the board warped so you have to stand there leaning over the gate to try and thread it through the guides to hold it. Most of the time I just open the gates and try to climb over the board (which is quite a challenge holding the baby and a hamper of laundry).

And yesterday the weather turned cooler. So she opened the windows and I was reminded about the back screen door. We wanted a screen door but she didn't want a regular door. She wanted this kind that rolls up into the thing so that it doesn't open and close normally. Well, she read the instructions and they clearly said that we didn't have the right kind of door but she said, "I bet I can make it work." And set too. Well, once she'd cut up a $100 screen door she had to make it work. So the thing is all uneven and you have to like pull it closed and then lean back into the house and try to close it with the magnet. And the dogs run into it because they don't get the concept and the whole thing unravels and goes off track and it's hard to put back. And our son can't close it either.

And some days I look at all this shit and can't understand why with the amount of money I make and how hard I work and everything why things in my house always have to look like shit. And every once in a while she wants to sell the house and go buy a new one and I'm thinking, "we'll have to fix all the shit she fucked up around here to put it on the market."

Thanks for reading.

[whatmakesyouhappy]

I HATE my roomates boyfriend he's like 30 years old still lives with his parents can't hold down a job and drinks ALOT every night I just don't know what the attraction is even if I was straight I would still think he was a worthless piece if crap! and when he stays over if I leave my cigarettes out and goes to bed if he runs out he takes mine and I wouldn't even care if the next day he said hey I had to bum some cigarettes from you I'll owe you but he never says anything so it's as good as stealing I'm most dissapointed thou that she lets him steal from me and she says nothing either.

[JustSkipIt]

So my wife has an irrational hatred of Christians. Irrational and quite outspoken. She believes that all Christians are hypocrites and that being a Christian is a basic qualification of being a bad person. She says things to people that they find offensive and then we find ourselves not invited places and stuff. I would understand it better if she had ever been discriminated against but mostly it seems to be a. she believes Christians are all hypocrites and b. throughout history Christians have done terrible things always. You get the idea.

Now I don't like her attitude about it but what I really don't like is her exposing our children to it. Honestly, I think that they will have a hard enough social life without also vocally espousing bigotry (and yes, that's what it is!) here in the Bible belt. So we were coming home from dinner and she was telling me that the baby got woken up by someone ringing the doorbell and I said who and she said Christians and I said Mormons or Christians? (not that I care, just I was curious) and she said no Christians (sneering of course). Then she said that she told the woman that she had woken the baby and the woman was sorry and R said she wasn't interested and the woman said ok, have a good day. And Asher said could they come in and Rachel said no (to him) and he said why and she said, "Because they're Christians." So I said I wish she wouldn't say stuff like that to him and she said why and I said that I think it will make his life harder if he says stuff that will offend and ostracize him without even realizing what he's saying. And she said that if I was worried about that I should have married a man and had babies with him.

Ouch.

Just because I don't want my child to go around sounding like a bigot doesn't mean that I want to be straight nor do I think she needs to be such an asshole to me about it. I mean imagine that her issue was with African Americans or Jews or Puerto Ricans? We'd all agree that it's bigotry right? I know what her argument would be because I've heard it before: it's not prejudice because it's true. Since all Christians are really bad people, it's not prejudice.

Arggghhh!

Oh, then I put him to bed and came in the computer room to give her a kiss (I knew she had a shit day) and I said did she need anything and she said, "Just not to be lectured or talked down to or told how I'm a bad person or a bad mother or judged. Just stop judging me."

Ok. I went to meditate.

[LesbianJedi87]

I fucking hate weekends. Who plays drums at 8 am? People are sleeping. Letting kids run around all willy nilly is retarded. Fucking pick up your house. Stop making me promises all week you can't keep just cause spoiling your children seems better then letting me get out of the house once a week. Gosh.

[willntarra4eva]

So my boss is constantly changing my shifts around I get that her and I are pretty much the only people who work there (jay jays - clothing line) but its really annoying me cause if I have plans I have to change them around or cancel them.

[Willowtree252]

I have a very dangerous gang on my bus they carry weapons I am skirting a very fine line of dont get killed and must be tough. I am doing everything I can to get the leader off the bus but because he plays foot ball the school is resiting can you believe those fuckers even though he carry weapons and has used them. FUCK FOOTBALL protect my other students and me. My boss is doing all she can another driver said he would take them if the school did not do something soon. He knows this is worrying Sandi sick ............ Bubba said the only thing I can do is act a mean ass tough bitch and that is what I am doing I took a weapon away from him Monday we will see what happens from here.

[willntarra4eva]

I am doing everything I can to get the leader off the bus but because he plays foot ball the school is resiting can you believe those fuckers even though he carry weapons and has used them. FUCK FOOTBALL protect my other students and me.

Gosh that sucks so bad! Just because he plays a role in the schools rep does not give him the right to bring weapons into a school! Its a place of learning for hecks sake! You need to show your authority over him and say what they are doing isnt right but be careful and make sure you do it with others around to back you. You are doing the right thing.

[Willowtree252]

Done it went in yesterday and blew my cool asked if the inmates are running the asylum over at the Jr high ranted to my boss she called told them I thought they we leaving me hanging in the wind and that I feared for all of our safety they said they are waiting for police reports and are trying let me break it down for you they are dragging there feet till football season is over then they dont have to worry about it grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[taraslove]

Seriously. I just need a cute girl to come up to me downtown and say, "You're, what? A Libra? Let's cut the bullshit and hit that couch."

[Dorothy]

What's with the "bad wardrobe"??? I like the wardrobe! very much!

[Dorothy]

oh, much with the ranting today...

It's just WRONG, STUPID AND TERRIBLE that Joss first makes Tara face her worst fear and she still doesn't tell Glory who the key is, she's so strong at that moment... and then at the end of the episode he makes her tell anyway not nice!
She was a hero for not telling een though she was facing the worst thing she could emagine... and then he destroys that by making her spill it anyway and not even in a convincing way, what, she suddenly starts seeing the beautifull green light when Glory is around??? It should have been way more obvious in the darkened room they were in before Glory ruined the walls with the cool curtains and all.

The Jossman really started losing it towards the end of season 5, someone should have bitchslapped him back to his genius self back then so we'd have more goodness and less useless anoying angst, terror and destruction of beautiful, fictional lifes.

*rant rant rant*

[JujuDeRoussie]

My BOS 3 is stuck at the homeland security thing. They want me to give them the bills and stuff, and then to pay 25% of the price it is. They say it is considered as importation, what don't they get in "gift"? It is not importation, I didn't pay for it, so it has not touched our GDP, so it has nothing to do with fucking importations. They're just trying to get money where they can.
What bothers me is not that they want me to pay 25% of its value once it'll get there, or that they're asking for my friend's bills, it's the principle. They know it is a gift, they know it actually is not an importation, yet they keep finding excuses. And the worst is that it is a random pick, they randomly pick a package, and ask for taxes.
Plus the woman was not at all kind. And I forgot the paper at home with her email address and all. Crap.

[HC]

I've recently been hit buy customs 3 times in a row, and I really can't tell the difference between it and old fashioned piracy, complete with ransom note. All three marked as gifts, and the third one was even opened and resealed by them, so they could see exactly what it was and thbey still charged for it.
To add further insult, anything getting slammed by customs gets handed over to a courier called Parcel Force, who whack a "handling fee" on top which is double the original customs chrage....

Avast Lubber,
We have hijacked yer treasure, and have it held hostage on Skull Island. You must pay us apile of loot in dubloons, precious jewels and peices-of-eight or you'll never see it again! Bwahahahaha!
You obedient servant,
Cap'n Bloodbeard of Her Majesty's Customs and Extortion.


Actually come to think of it, it's not strictly piracy since it's authorised by the government. The correct term is privateering.

[hondos]

I am sick and tired of bad news.It has been a week from hell.One of my dearest friends is not taking care of herself and is sick now,my very dearest friend has so much badness going on that it just seems wrong that more should come her way yet it keeps coming.Hell is just living up to its nickname very nicely.I had to go in yesterday for an "emergency" for one of the managers .(I think he was hungover personally.Maybe i'm just bitter cause he can be hungover.)and now I am being told I have to go to another one of these worthless three day meetings.I have grown to hate my telephone.I dont want to answer it anymore.On top of this,I forsee many long days in December coming due to this remodel . Maybe I can't do this job.Maybe I really don't want to anymore.Maybe i'm just tired.I only know I need to eat so I will do as they tell me.And Spook says I have too so I will do as told.He is the boss of me.

[JujuDeRoussie]

I am sick and tired of bad news.It has been a week from hell.One of my dearest friends is not taking care of herself and is sick now,my very dearest friend has so much badness going on that it just seems wrong that more should come her way yet it keeps coming.Hell is just living up to its nickname very nicely.I had to go in yesterday for an "emergency" for one of the managers .(I think he was hungover personally.Maybe i'm just bitter cause he can be hungover.)and now I am being told I have to go to another one of these worthless three day meetings.I have grown to hate my telephone.I dont want to answer it anymore.On top of this,I forsee many long days in December coming due to this remodel . Maybe I can't do this job.Maybe I really don't want to anymore.Maybe i'm just tired.I only know I need to eat so I will do as they tell me.And Spook says I have too so I will do as told.He is the boss of me.

*tight hugs sweeite

OT: this flat is even worse than I thought it was. People has put wall paper over wall paper, there're about 6 layers of wall paper in the living room, the worker has a hard time with his professional material! money will be a big issue the next few months, even more than usual. I can't sleep well at night, I have nightmares.
And I'm about to go on some time without internet, so without my escape to this world. Yes I love to live in a fantasy land, were I can forgetabotu the shit here. And I love to talk to my friends on MSN, and I will not be able to for too long in my opinion.

And did I mention this flat was worse than I thought it was? 'Cause I did thought it was the worst flat possible...

[Dorothy]

aw poor juju!
6 layers of wallpaper, why do you have to clean up other peoples mess? That's not fair!
[Anya ep. flooded style] you could always start charging for the fic you write [/Anya ep. flooded style]

[Psy]

Why the hell did I agree to do this? >_>

[Dorothy]

I've payed far more than a months rent for my house costs for my Hallowhedon gold ticket and now there are NO GUESTS I am really pissed off because it seems like Robia was never even comming ion the first place so I feel lied to, betrayed. They probably won't get any good guests now and I'll be stuck with people I wouldn't have paid more than 30 quid for if I had the choice.
Not that Robia by herself was worth hundreds, but it feels like a bad omen for the whole event :( I'm guessing we'll just have like the people that played Jonathan and Andrew or something. They're nice, but not pay-hundreds-plus-planetocket-plus-hotel nice.

[thiswomanswork]

I think this is as much a ramble as it is a rant, but such is life.

So, one thing about me: I'm particularly in touch with my heart. More, I think, than most people. This can be a blessing, but just as often it's a curse.

Sometimes I wish that being so in touch with my heart would give me some sort of control over it. Silly, right? The heart's not about control, and won't be controlled. But I can't help but wish sometimes that I could choose who I am and am not in love with.

Wouldn't that be great? So much of human suffering comes from the lack of that very ability. True, if we could choose to flip the switch on or off for each person we'd lose a lot of the adventure and wonder of the human experience. But there are times, lots of times, when it seems like the trade would be worth it. I could save myself so much pain that way.

But on the other hand, I'm actually pretty glad I don't have that ability. Because, when I really think about it I realise that I wouldn't use it. And wouldn't I feel pathetic then? Having the power to turn off the connection that hurts just like flipping a switch, but not willing to do so. Essentially, choosing to hurt. And all because it feels right. Not the hurting, in particular. The connection. The love. The feelings. My heart very firmly asserts that this person is still the one for me, and although I find myself unable to believe it in the face of the direction life has taken, I find myself nevertheless trusting it, following it.

It is something of an eye-opener to find in the midst of my pain that I would not take the path out of it even if it were offered. Maybe that's foolishness; it certainly isn't common sense.

But you know what? Fuck common sense. Fuck it right in the ear. Common sense may have saved me from hurt a few times, but it's never, ever brought me joy. Following my heart has brought me more joy than I can relate. So I guess on balance joy is more important to me than is pain. I think I'm good with that.

So, as much as I may bitch and whine about my pain when it gets bad, and as much as I do wish the universe would just get on with making things right, I suppose I need to remember that in a way, this is the path I'm choosing. Perhaps with that outlook, things won't be so hard.

Either things will work out or they won't. Either way, I guess my current motto is 'fuck common sense'. Just fuck it.

[Taralover]

I wish when I scratched itchy skin it would stay scratched and not start itching again five seconds later.

And sometimes I wish that my princess was a UK girl or at least from Europe. Then I could be with her 24/7, but she is in the USA.

[Dorothy]

I can't believe that one of my best friends still doesn't care one bit about prop8!
she does care about me, and about me going... but she really doesn't care what happens to prop8 and she even says that out loud... but not when the lesbian she wants to be admired by is around (she's straight, but anyway, she has a thing for singers, in a non sexual way)

I explained prop 8 to her until my blood was boiling with anger about h8, and it's due to people like her that the thing passed... they didn't vote so they didn't count.

if everyone who's ok with gay marriage would have voted instead of being too "don't care, I'm straight, you marry if you like, but I ain't getting off my ass unless an artist tells me to" things would have been very different

[love_2003]

I can't seem to get above an 80 on my Psychology of Aging tests. I have taken 3 so far and have got an 80 on all 3.
This last one I took though I had some questions about the answers she gave to us so I sent her an e-mail and hopefully I will somehow get some extra points.

[LesbianJedi87]

I have a loooooow tolerance for other people's kids. Especially when they're 3 and not potty trained, follow me around saying my name constantly, yelling, getting in to things....waking up my neice. I have high standards as my sister's kids are kinda perfect in the sense that they're so well behaved and nice, even really helpful if needed. They don't run around the house at 8 am screaming up and down the stairs just cause. Hum. I need to get paid more to do this..... I used to want to have kids, but the more time I spend with other peoples children makes me not want to have em at all. I'd be an awesome parent though.....or well, my kids would be hella clean all the time ha.

[jay/wt4evr]

I can't stand when my mother not-so-subtley hints that I should get a boyfriend, fully knowing I'm gay.
Us talking about a book that has a chapter about soulmates
My mother: Don't you understand how it works between soulmates? A man and a woman....heterosexual... or wathever, meet, they fit perfectly and they lived happly ever after.
Heterosexual... or whatever? Hello rude much? Plus let's not think about how your daughter might feel knowing that she isn't accepted by her own mother, who btw tells her she loves her how she is!
I wish I wasn't so pensive and thoughtful, so I could at least answer her 'hints' like they deserve.

[jay/wt4evr]

I was having dinner, and we {me and my father} were watching the news as usual and what happened? I was taking a bite and oooh news 'From the Vatican came two NO that will make discuss' One no was about abort, but everyone thinks what they like to think so no arguing here. The other one was about homosexuality, I chocked on what Iwas eating, took the glass to drink and swallow and whoops broke the glass putting it down. I was too caught up in the explanation of this no to notice it though. The cardinal said that ttaking off prejudice about homosexuality couldn't be done because after the countries that wouldn't allow gay marriage would be cornered and put under pressure. Ok that made sense...in a twisted way! If countries expressed the will to be friedlier and more open about homosexuality it doesn't mean that they'll oblige others to do the same. Example? England didn't change money even though they are in the UE {just example, no offence meant}. We're not a bunch of stupid beasts that follow the bigger beast around. Everyone can think what they want! Above all, nobody has ever said anything about 'let's get happy and be gay-everyone' they just said let's tell people the truth about homosexuals, they're humans like everyone 'normal' they feel they live and so on! Maybe I'm not making sense, maybe I'm doing the opposite I just said, but sometimes I think the Church wants to have power over people, power that nobody has the right to have. I don't want to offend anyone, and I'm not saying anything against any religion or whatever, this is just what I think.

[thiswomanswork]

So furious. I got pissed when I learned about this last night, and it's just been building since.

So. Back when I was married, my wives and I co-wrote a book. It was a good book, about communication and problem-solving, and it was exciting because we knew it could help a lot of people.

We'd done the writing and moved on to our initial editing stage. I was excited and kept trying to get us together for editing sessions, but Pace was burned out, so we never got very far with that.

Then came the big drama, and the big divorce.

A couple of months after, they were like, 'ok, we're gonna start editing the book again. You can do your own edit, by yourself.' I tried that, but honestly, couldn't get the enthusiasm up for doing my own seperate edits on what had been a collaborative effort. So I bowed out, decided I'd wait until that phase was done and do a later go-through of the whole book.

Well, the two of them got into the editing, heavily, putting in lots of hours on it. And one day they were like, 'Hey Sera, we feel like we've been doing so much work on this, and you haven't, it doesn't feel right you should be having a share in the profits.'

And I was like, 'WTF, no.' And we argued a lot.

And finally they were like, 'We're giving you two choices. You can let us buy out your rights to the book for $1000, or we'll just go through, remove every word you wrote, and write stuff in ourselves to fill the gaps.'

And I was SO upset and unhappy and angry... but I took the choice that would give me money and not have my words, the hours I spent in a labour of love on that book, all erased. I was pretty bitter for awhile, but other stuff came up that made me practically forget about it. So much so that when I spoke with one of them a couple of months back and the subject came up, I was like, 'Eh. I was pissed about it, but I'm over that.' And it was true.

Until last night. See, publishing is finally happening, and I was all, 'yay!' and eager to read the final form, recommend it to all my friends, all that good stuff. Then, last night, they posted a picture of the cover art. http://usualerror.com/images/usual-erro ... -cover.png

It's a great cover, I love it. The art is done by Martin Whitmore, a comic artist, friend, and all around awesome guy. But as I was admiring it I noticed one little thing missing.

My name.

Seriously, I yelled. I spontaneously yelled, and scared my cat. What the fuck? I mean, I expected to be relegated to the status of collaborator, figured I'd get a lower mention, like, 'Pace and Kyeli Smith, with Serafina Smith' or something. I was prepared for that. But not being listed as an authour AT ALL?

It's unethical and it's dishonest and it's wrong and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Hell, I'm still gonna recommend it to all my friends, because I really do think it's more than worth reading, that it can really really help make people's lives better.

But goddamnit. Sometimes I really don't know how they can continue to feel good about what they're doing. There's got to be a lot of self-deception going on there.

Grrrr.

[JujuDeRoussie]

Wow our system is becoming so efficient!

Soon we'll be able to say, at age of 3, that a kid will be a trouble maker or more, so we will be able to put a label on him/her to watch them... And soon, we'll be able to lock them up at 12 if they do anything that deserves Jail for a grown up... How cool is that? Plus our prison are so nice, 6 persons per cell, cell made for 2 or 3 prisonners....
But no worries because with the current rate of suicide in French jails, the kid will be dead by 14...

Welcome in France, you know the country that has "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" as mojo...

(Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood)...



I'm so ashamed, and I so hate Sarkozy and Dati. Lol Dati who is pregnant, I wonder in what her child will turn...