BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people

Subject: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:53 PM

Pissed off? Need to rant and rave? Here's your thread. One rule: don't pick others to piss on. Get pissed all ya want at situations, things, whatever. NOT people.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: jimmyt
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:56 PM

I hate litter, black olives in the can, and that damn Shick QUatro piece of crap razor I just bought. Otherwise, I am happy as a clam

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: jimmyt
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:56 PM

Also, I forgot to mention I can't stand mean people

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 03:59 PM

Man, what a fantastic idea!

Ok...

Now i can't find anything to rant about...cheers, i am now at peace with the world! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Zelda_K
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:14 PM

I hate people who smile at me and then later tell something bad about me in my absence. Happened just last week again and I still feel frustrated.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:16 PM

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Whew....I feel bettah!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: pdq
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:24 PM

AT&T sucks.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Amos
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:42 PM

I abhor warmongers and those who kill others in my name. I am really pissed off that the corridors of power are so riddled with grabbery and underhandedness. I am seriously annoyed at the free-wheeling indifference people have to our exploding populations, accelerating ignorance per capita, and indifference to our impact on the environment on which we depend. I am deeply pissed off that a renewable-energy system of transportation has not been developed and widely implemented. And I am pissed about the unidirectional and entropic character of apparent time, and how compelling it is. Grrrrrr!!!

Thanks, Bruce!



A

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:42 PM

So do Hoovers.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:46 PM

Anything for a friend, Amos.

I hate those friggin' labels that those stoopid shirt companies put near the collars. F#ck 'em and the horses they rode in on.

I hate those friggin' jars that ya have to be Arnie to open.

I really hate crabs. I had 'em once and I still hate the f#ckin' things.

And I hate cockroaches. All of them. Every f###in' last one of 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:50 PM

i still feel so fed up about the trainsin sydney that despite the fact that I travelled to and from work free on monday c/o a very embarassed state rail minister, as some sort of compensation for waiting an hour and a half here and there for trains that never came, but were advertised as coming, because they never bothered to announce things like, oh, you have to go to central to get that train, or things like, all trains after 9.30 pm have been cancelled, you have to get a bus, or things like the train on platform 19 will not come, no matter how long you wait, and we dont even know why it will not come, except that we know it wont come, however we're not going to let you knoiw that it wont come because, well, then you'd stop waiting on the platform or something wouldnt you and maybe even get a cab or something that would actually get you home.

and it felt like an empty gesture because i know that they thought theyd lose the election and let everything run down so as they could blame the new govt in opposition, but oops they got elected for a fourth term and now the trains are truly stuffed and there's no money to do anything about it, and so the same thing will keep happening for months, possibly years, and in the meantimetheyre raking in the money from the casino and where's it all going? oh, theyve contracted it out, havent they, private enterprise and people dying in the waiting rooms of hospitals or on trains stations, waiting three weeks for trains that have been cancelled.

and when michael costa says theyre going to buy a whole lot of new trains that are half as big as the old ones, i think of myself crammed in like sardines in a cattle truck rattling along and waiting in 40 degree heat on a bad day with the air conditioning not adequete never is and tryng to read the newspaper of the person standing next to me who is holding it in a deliberately mutant way so that i cant see it and i cant read it, and its the sports page anyway but i'm so bored and fed up with being late for work that i dont care, and then someone "accidently" moves too close and i tread on thier foot as hard as i can and wish i had stilettos but who wants to cripple your feet for the sake of an occasional good weapon?

yes, monday i travelled free on the trains, as compensation for all of that.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:54 PM

I hate getting my car fixed...damn thing cost an arm and a leg and should run forever as far as I'm concerned!

I hate cleaning the catbox!

I hate when the dog barfs.

I hate seeing dead animals on the side of the road.

I hate sitting in a hospital and not being told what the hell is going on.

I hate mindless busy work.

I hate that there are people in this world who have children and have NO idea what a special gift they have been given.

I hate picking bush beans when it's hot and humid. For that matter, I hate chasing pigs out of my neighbor's field when it's hot and humid.

I hate watching my husband go off to work everyday when I know he'd be much more happy to stay home and live off the land.

Did I mention I strongly dislike my mother-in-law?

HMPH.

I need to vent more often! ;)

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 04:56 PM

Go for it. Get it all out. Do NOT take no for an answer unless that's the answer you want. Let's END this s#it right now.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 05:03 PM

I'm so happy now i've run out of things to rant about and acheived nirvana....wait...Nirvana? Yes! Nirvana....i smell teen spirit...i ...i...i..am rediscovering my angst ...grrr. ..grrr..gr...ARRRRAAARRGHGHGHGHG!

I HATE IT AAAALLLL! ARGH! ARGH! ARGH!

God, that felt good...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: fat B****rd
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 05:06 PM

I HATE NOT BEING ABLE TO THINK OF ALL THE THINGS I HATE.....I'll be back. ah !! I hate people who say that or who make the Twilight Zone dooodleoodle noise...I hate people who on finding out I've been married three times ask me if I like wedding cake.
More later
PS Luke's doing fine Brucie et al and back at the gym.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: pdq
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 05:11 PM

Yep, crabs suck.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: PoppaGator
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:06 PM

I can't stand my common-law son-in-law.

We'll never be rid of him, since he is our beautiful baby granddaughter's shiftless lazy lying thieving can't-keep-a-job pill addict sperm donor father.

Maybe later I'll tell you how I *really* feel!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: PoppaGator
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:07 PM

Ooops, supposed to be "not at people"...

Oh hell, piss on 'im anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: pdq
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:11 PM

Fleas suck.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Bobert
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 06:16 PM

What everybody else has said, especially Amos... And womenz who hold up the checkout line, but we won't revisit that one...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 07:25 PM

Today, whilst looking for dried fruit to put in my Christmas pudding (I'm allowed, they need at least 3 weeks to mature), I found.....

Strawberry flavoured apple pieces....

And then.... further along the shelf....

Raspberry flavoured cranberries.

If you want strawberry and raspberry flavours ~ EAT A F&%$ING STRAWBERRY OR A B"£*%"£G RASPBERRY!
















And calm.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 08:00 PM

I hate crowded stores. I feel all cringy around my spine even when, because I have to be there, I try to ignore the fact that it's crowded.

Today I went out for lunch with a friend and on the way home we stopped at the supermarket so I could pick up some milk. The store was CROWDED. In the checkout line there was a man in front of me and there was a man behind me. The checker was a man. Guess how long it took? The man in front of me and the checker were talking... The man behind me got restive.

(Not that I'm keeping track, Bobert)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:04 PM

I Hate my Job,
I Hate my Life,
And if it Weren't for my Two Kids,
I'd Hate my Ex-wife.

I also hate George Strait and his insipid, moronic country music lyrics.
And that I can never remember the fingerings for Augmented and Diminished chords and that after 38 years of playing the damn guitar I still have to look them up, and even then I buzz them most of the time, and that my waist keeps getting bigger while my IQ and retirement funds seem to get smaller and that while I try to love Jesus, by December I'll hate all the baggage (emotional, financial and otherwise) associated with this freaking merchandising event that I used to know as a joyful Holiday when I was a kid.

And I hate that I still miss my Dad even tho I'm damn near an old man myself

Thanks Bruce-it's better, for now

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Auggie (cookieless, I guess)
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:05 PM

And I hate that the last post was mine but that my damn cookie is gone again

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Boab
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:12 PM

A tool kit for dealing with plastic-wrap would be a best seller. For access to new C.Ds, shrinkwrapped red-stuff from the meat counter, chocolate cookies,etc., etc.. You'd think we weren't SUPPOSED to get into the damn' things-----

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: pdq
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:18 PM

Aphids suck.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bert
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:30 PM

Boab, it's called a knife! AND I HATE kives that aren't sharp.

And Ebbie, always choose the line with a female checker and male customers. Choose any other combination and you'll still be waiting in line.

I HATE buying a frozen turkey (or any other fowl) and finding that the the body cavity is half full of ice which I've paid full price for. One day I'm going to save it all and take it back to the store and demand a refund.

The same with ham which on the label says 10% water added. I think we should have dollars that say 10% value deducted with which to pay for this crap.

And Squeaks, I completely agree with you. Over here in the good old USA they have ranch flavoured chips. Sheesh! have you ever SMELLED a ranch?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Gypsy
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 10:31 PM

bigotry, narrowmindedness, and the fact that i cannot find the feminine version of the word misogynist!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Nov 04 - 11:33 PM

Oh, but Gypsy, women do not hate ALL men so you're not going to find such a word. Surely not.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: dianavan
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 12:09 AM

I hate the sticky, little labels that are attached to apples. What do you do with them? They're worse than boogers.

I hate white noise.

I'm sick and tired of litter on my street.

I hate blister packs.

...and why is it when someone speaks of compromise, its always me that has to do the compromising?

I hate people who won't move to the back of the bus to make room for others.

I hate people who say hate all the time.

d

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 12:21 AM

Lotta pent up rage here finally being let out. Good on yer, all of yer.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:12 AM

Paid my car insurance toady so I can have the privilege of driving the roads. Clean driving record of 26 years with never a claim made and the sonofabitching premiums still increase every six months. Hate forking over that cash. I almost want to drive the vehicle into a rockcut to get some of the money back except the book value is low enough they'd write it off for scratched hood. Fuckin' insurance!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Mudlark
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:18 AM

How DARE they put labels on fruit and vegetables, labels that stick so tight they peel the skin right off the bell pepper or whtever when I remove them, so when washing to get all the friggin pesticide off, I end up scrubbing soap right into the flesh.

I hate lane changers that cut in right on my bumper when there is no need, or the people who speed down the lane clearly posted as being closed ahead, then impatiently cut in at the last minute.

Big box stores. Arrogant, no-nothing clerks, who, when asked a question about an item, proceed to read me the box.

Bass turned up until my eardrums are thrumming...stuck in traffic next to one of these boombox cars is torture.

Yappy dogs (all except my own).

Ingredient labels in tiny print, printed in beige, on a slightly darker beige background.

I'm beginning to run down. This has really cleared the air for me. Now I can start my Thankful list tomorrow with a free heart.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:58 AM

I'm going to watch for that, Bert. You may be on to something there. Wonder if the bobert has taken note of that and entered it into his equations?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Boab
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 02:23 AM

Try the HEDGEHOG-FLAVOURED chips in the UK if you get a chance----

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 02:26 AM

Heard about the new Jones Soda flavours?

Even their "regular" flavoured sodas taste like vomit. What the hell will this new dreck taste like? I'm not gonna be part of the experiment!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 03:37 AM

People who don't signal at roundabouts
People who park inconsiderately (pavements, yellow lines, double parking)causing danger to pedestrians and other road users
Pub owners who replace pictorial signs with dull nameboards or corporate chain names
People who come last to gigs and go down the front to stand thus blocking the view of others
People who, having got their drink, block the way to the bar for others
People who hold shouted conversations over the band at gigs, (usually ladies, I'm afraid)
People who use mobile phones while the band is playing (usually men)
People who complain things ain't what they used to be (usually me)

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 03:43 AM

Boab - I have a handy little credit card sized 'Swiss Army' pocket toolkit. It's got a multi screwdriver, a ruler, a pen, a toothpick, tweezers, a nail file and a very VERY sharp penknife, all in a credit card sized thing that acts as a keyring too..... great for slicing open those plastic wrapped suckers......

I hate when I go to a store and the sales people don't know what I'm talking about. I asked one for cellophane the other day... she didn't know what it WAS let alone WHERE!

And last night, I purchased a DVD for a friend for her birthday.... the two desk clerks couldn't get the security case off.. Neither could the manager. They finally managed it, slipped it into the bag, charged me for it and off I went. I got home to find that to open the security case, they've scratched the box and taken a chunk out of the label. It's not horribly mangled, but it is mutilated and I feel embarassed about giving it to my friend. The only good thing is, they've managed to break the seal on the plastic wrapping, so I should be able to get into it without breaking a finger or resorting to the Swiss Army credit card.

I hate giving things that I wouldn't like to receive.

And I hate getting presents still in carrier bags/shop wrapping.... a carefully wrapped and nicely presented parcel says 'I've taken the time to make it look lovely, so even though it's really a crappy present, I still thought hard about how it looks.'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: harpgirl
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 08:50 AM

I hate spending hours and hours each week trying to get insurance companies to pay my invoices.
I hate the wrapping on DVDs.
I hate housework.
I hate my hair.
I hate the wrapping on gadgets.
I hate the price of gasoline.
I hate people who scam old ladies.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Davetnova
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 10:47 AM

I mildly dislike using the word Hate and also the phrase "I don't like". Since I concsiously gave up using them Life seems much better.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Raedwulf
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:12 PM

I needed more Pearl Barley than I had (somewhat less than half-a-pound; look don't ask me, it's all Tig's fault!!). So I did the 10 minute walk to Sainsbury's. Up that aisle, down that one, up that o...

Really, the last aisle I got to (& I don't mean last as in "last place, cos then I stopped looking"; I mean "last place cos there was nowhere left to bloody well look") - beans ("Aha!", I thought), beans, beans, lentils, *gap*, lentils, beans, beans... {From the bottom shelf up...} Beans, beans, lentils, *gap*, lentils, beans, beans, beans....

*Gap*

Label...

"Pearl Barley"

{Find trainee muppett shelf-stacker} "Got any Pearl Barley out the back?"

"Eh? Wassat? Pull burly?"

"Pearl Barley"

"Pull what, mate?"

"Pearl, as in oyster, baaaar-ley..."

"Oh right, 'Ang on.."

Five minutes later he tells me "No." {Surprise, surprise...}

Walks home, walks to Safeway's (15 minutes, opposite direction). Finds right aisle first time (note: Safeway's aisle signs much better than Sainsbury's)...

Beans, beans, beans, lentils {You just know what's coming, don't you?}, *gap*, lentils, beans, beans... {From the bottom shelf up...} Beans, beans, lentils, *gap* (You're not surprised?}, lentils, beans, beans, beans....

*Gap*

Label... {I wonder why you're not surprised...)

"Pearl Barley"

{Don't bother finding trainee muppett shelf-stacker, walks home, 15 minutes; 1 wasted fruitless (& grainless) hour later... Grrrrrr...}

Next day, stops off at Tesco's & finds a shelf *full* of Pearl Barley! So...

{Rant}Stuff bloody Sainsbury's, & stuff bloody Safeway's; just don't bother tryin' to stuff 'em with pearl barley cos they're out of stock!!!"{/rant}

And it's all Tig's fault (although my neck definitely does feel a bit better now...)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Raedwulf
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:14 PM

P.S. I didn't use either "hate" or "I don't like" once, but I definitely feel the better for that!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 04:17 PM

I hate whingers.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 05:05 PM

If it's for what I think it's for, popping corn would have done just as well.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 06:47 PM

I found the weather today to be not entirely to my taste. It was a bit less than perfect. I am thinking of writing a mild letter of protest to someone about it if I can get worked up enough about it to bother.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 07:09 PM

I'd hate people who were apathetic, but I just can't be bothered....

I really dislike people who slag off other people for slagging people off......

I'm not very fond of people who steal and eat my special chocolate that I'd been saving for months for someone else either.....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 07:48 PM

I have great difficulty tolerating the intolerant...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: pdq
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 08:01 PM

Bed bugs suck.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: PoppaGator
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:37 AM

I can't get enough of Pearl Bailey. Louie Bellson got her for keeps.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:44 AM

Great and much needed thread!

I'll have to come back when I get a full head of steam up.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:52 AM

I'm really quite upset, because I can't think of anything to rant about! That sucks!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: sue exhull
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 03:05 AM

I really dislike it when Ive just ranted and raved to someone about something, to find they are amongst the group of people Ive just ranted about ...Example, Yesterday at work, I ranted on about a house near me having Christmas decorations up already, saying how sad it is,only to find the person I was ranting to, had her entire house decorated, and had done since 2nd week of November, why didnt she stop me mid flow to tell me this???why wait til Im exhausted with talking before she says something, I dont think she likes me much now :(

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 03:33 AM

'one more small addition, when a customer says, "Thank you", upon the completion of a transaction, the standard reply from a sales clerk will now be, "You're welcome", instead of "Uh huh."'

Metchosin posted this on another thread, but it is something I want--no, need--to rant about. It really pisses me off when salespeople say, "No problem" after I say thank you. Like, I do NOT give a shit if it was a problem. It is your friggin' job. Don't f##kin' tell me it's NO PROBLEM like I give a rat's ass.

I also don't like arseholes who dial a wrong number, wake people up, and don't excuse themselves. Bas##rds!

Thank you.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 09:13 AM

Even worse are the people who dial a wrong number, wake people up, and then swear at the person they just woke up because THEY dialed a wrong number! Those idiots should have their own phone rammed up their ass.

And I agree about the "no problem" response. It's stupid. Why would there be a problem anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 12:53 PM

I dislike telesales people who won't stop talking when you say you don't want to buy XYZ.
    But as I don't really hate them I put the phone down in front of the speakers, and let them listen to whatever folk CD happens to be on...
And I get annoyed at people talking on a subject, whilst assuming prior knowledge of vital facts, realising you don't know said facts, and then saying " I thought you knew that" and still not expaining it.

And to those people who complain about gas prices. Come to Britan, $6 a gallon, learn to hate!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Chris Green
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 01:04 PM

I hate reality TV. The new series of "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" has just started and I found myself reaching for my DVD of Apocalypse Now, fast forwarding to the bit where the planes napalm the rainforest and imagining they were all in it.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:13 PM

. . . and while I'm at it, Microsoft doesn't Work. Take that, Billy.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 02:15 PM

Well, it sort of works. Kind of. Not very well, that is.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 03:04 PM

Yeah, like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: PoppaGator
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 10:19 PM

I have no problem with people saying "no problem."

While it may not be the most elegant use of language, these underpaid sales clerks just trying to accept thanks in a self-effacing colloquial manner. They may not be all that bright or well-spoken, but they're harmless at worst.

That stupid so-called "reality" television is a discouraging trend, I agree, but I avoid losing my temper over it by just not watching any, ever. There's always a half-decent old movie on TCM, if nothing else, plus of course radio and CDs.

Those telemarketer phone calls, though! #*#&$@#%&(^#*^$#$$!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Gypsy
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 10:26 PM

Advertising shoved under my windshield wiper blade. I throw it in the dumpster, but i see an AWFUL lot of them on the ground, and i can only pick up so many.........that form of advertising is immoral, should be illegal

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 10:28 PM

what really pisses me off? you know, i'm too pissed off to RANT. it would be too revealing. and THAT really pisses me off.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 11:09 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE




EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

etc



thank you

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 11:24 PM

I have a close friend who i have known all my life. i have not once seen him lose his cool.   ever.   ever.

i always feel a lesser being when i'm with him. and i know he wouldnt want me to do that. which MAKES IT EVEN WORSE.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Scoville
Date: 26 Nov 04 - 11:46 PM

I hate Spam emails. I hate that Spam emails apparently cannot be outlawed because it might impinge on the sender's freedom of speech, even though they invade my privacy and hog my mailbox space.

I hate Styrofoam packing peanuts.

I hate cherubs. Again, I'm not sure why but I've always found them revolting.

I hate it when people don't take care of their animals. I hate it when my bosses don't stand up for their employees when clients are rude because "people get emotional about their pets--don't take it personally". Even if it's not personal, I shouldn't be the whipping girl for every person who thinks their pet should be fixed at bargain price and with no inconvenience to themselves.

I hate it that little girls' activewear these days always has something slightly suggestive printed across the seat. I'm well into my 20's and my mother wouldn't let me out the door with "Brat" or "Angel" or "Sweet" or whatever stamped on my butt.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 12:26 AM

While I was supposed to be waiting for a call from someone special and the fire department got toned out. Why can't people have motor vehicle collisions when it is convenient for emergency response people? ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 12:31 AM

Hmmm. That's an interesting problem, freda. Is he very, very serene or is he just good at controlling his outer reactions to things?

I don't lose my cool easily either, but that doesn't mean I'm not bouncing around on the inside, often as not. I almost never get outwardly angry at people. Annoyed, perhaps, but not angry. They have to really work at it to elicit outright anger from me.

I'm also the farthest thing from an "angry drunk". The only effect alcohol has ever had on me was:

1. I get more relaxed than usual
2. I get more easily amused by things and laugh more
3. I get quite jolly
4. I get kind of sleepy
5. I then stop drinking...having suffered no real damage whatsoever from the rather minimal amount of alcohol I've consumed.

That's it.    :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:37 AM

he's just incredibly....

balanced.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 12:19 PM

I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. Well, I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.





Yes, I stole it from Eric Idle.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 03:42 PM

I hate that the wash cycle on the washing machine always takes 7 times longer when I am waiting for that last load to finish so I can get on with my life....ARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Ok...it's a minimal frustration....but frustrating nonetheless! ;P

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 06:42 PM

Little Hawk - we have a little thing here where you can dial a code and get the number of the last person to ring you.. When we get rude people with wrong numbers, I just get the number, wait 30 mins and then phone them back.

I had one bloke late one night (well, early next morning really) insist that I was his cousin Dave and should come and pick him up. I asked him where he was and told him it would take about 6 months and 4 hours. 4 hours to drive to York, where he was, and the other 6 months to learn now to drive first!

I have a little 'rantette' that I launch into now... when I pick up the phone and there is a delay in them answering my 'hello', I know it's a telemarketer. The delay is the satelite linkup to Mumbay or wherever... I just say 'I have double glazing, I don't want a mortgage or a loan, we don't need a new kitchen, or to change our phone/utilities tarif. Did I miss anything?' They get very confused then and say sorry!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 06:56 PM

Story I heard years back. Neighbour told me he got a call one morning--near three AM--and the fellow said words to the effect of "Will you shut you're fu#kin' dog the h#ll up. I am trying to sleep you SOB." Whereupon the phone was slammed down. My buddy woke up at 3:00 AM the next morning and called the angry neighbour. When the neighbour answered, he calmly said, "I don't own a dog." He cradled the phone gently.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 06:57 PM

That's probably an 'urban legend', but neat, nevertheless.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 07:48 PM

......highway planners who cannot figure out how and where to put up signs which REALLY explain where this road goes, what you are likely to encounter on it, and how to easily get OFF of it when the time comes. (I have to drive the 'beltway' encircling Washington, DC.regularly, and it is monumentally tedious to try to get somwhere you are not familar with!)

oh, I have more...like the quality of magazines in waiting rooms at doctor's offices..I do NOT read "House Beautiful"....

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Nov 04 - 09:36 PM

Bill, don't get me started on highway signs; I swear sometimes that no one with detectable brain waves is allowed to arrange road signs.
Ever drive Through Boston on the Interstate? At least as many lanes as I've ever seen anywhere; every single ###%$$$^*&&&@ lane marked as the lane to a given exit in Boston; not one *&^%$# lane marked as a lane to stay in to go on through town. Strokes of genius like that all over the country...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 01:36 AM

Okay, the guy at the register tells me $59.60 and in my head I'm thinking, that's too much, but I give him three twenties, in cash, and he hands me 40 cents and my receipt. I look at the receipt and see that he's charged me twice for one fifteen dollar item. I show him the receipt - I have not even moved my feet one inch, mind you - and point out the overcharge. Without saying a word, he starts punching numbers on his cash register, and then says to me, "I need to see your drivers license." I say, "What for?" He says "I can't refund your money unless I see an ID." I hand him my ID, he looks at it, and hands it back to me. All this is without looking at me, mind you. Then he hands me the money.

It wasn't the sullenness which bothered me - it was having to provide identification. Pure and utter rubbish. I paid in cash, and never left the store. What the hell was the ID for?

Absolutely infuriating.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 12:25 PM

The I.D. was so that he could cover his own ass from the tyrannical idiots who employ him and demand such documentation, I suspect! Have pity on these poor sods who work retail counters. I have had such jobs, and it's amazing what one has to put up with sometimes from the buying public. The worst part is people's bloody-minded impatience. They're all in a perishing hurry...but they have no idea why or for what! When they finally get to wherever they're hurrying to, nothing has changed. :-)

Regarding jerks who swear at you at 3 AM when they have dialed your number in error...I had a friend whose phone number was one digit different from a local pizza delivery outfit. He would get several calls a week or even several a night on Fridays and Saturdays, various drunken yahoos ordering an after-midnight pizza, and they would swear at him upon finding out they had a wrong number! Well, after a few weeks of it he started fighting back. He would pretend to BE the pizza place, and take their order, advising them of all the possible toppings and combinations. He would then say, "Thank you sir! And if it's not there in 15 minutes or less, call us back and...you will get a supersized FREE PIZZA delivered with our apologies and a FREE movie pass for two at the local cinema of your choice!!!"

This no doubt led to some highly amusing and rankerous conversations between the aforesaid drunken yahoos and the real pizza place! Not one of them ever succeeded in dialing my friend's number twice in a row, but if they had I'm sure he would have worked up another trick to play on them. He was like that.

He once left a 3-minute recording of "Bird Is The Word" on my voice mail. Very annoying!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 03:44 PM

Ha ha!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 03:53 PM

I hate it when a sales clerk or receptionist leaves me to answer the phone and then deals with the person on the phone while I am, standing around waiting. Most of them are decent and smart and will ask the person on the phone to wait while they deal with the customer in front of them, but every now and then...

"Hey, tell the one on the phone to wait! I actually got up off my arse to come down here!"

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 04:22 PM

Yes, that is a real pain! Learning to ignore a ringing telephone is one of the key steps to personal freedom and liberation as far as I'm concerned, and I very much doubt that I will ever own a cellphone.

I also detest the concept of call waiting. It's very rude and essentially pointless most of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 05:23 PM

Communication is the key.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 05:57 PM

Highly forwardable, Cluin! (Should that be a new 'Net acronym: HF?)

Here's a driving-(2 hours)-to-the-gig-having-started-an-hour-later-than-intended, and driving-home-from-the-gig-in-the-wee-hours rant:

If you're not passing anyone and going at or below the speed limit, get out of the frigging left lane!!! If you're not awake enough to maintain a consistent speed, get off the frigging road!!! Buy a car with cruise control!!! No, wait, you're driving a $30K frigging Toyota Sequoia, what's the matter? You think cruise control will let you fall asleep, so you're going to go down the highway varying your speed by 20 miles per hour, accelerating if I try to pass you, decelerating after you pass me?? Get off the frigging road and take a nap!!! (Oh, and thanks, you did actually help me keep awake by making me nervous about what the hell you were going to do next.)

Whew. Thanks for the opportunity. Should I have posted this to the F-word thread instead?

~ Becky in Tucson, day after the gig in Phoenix

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 06:01 PM

Oh, and one more thing:

You assholes in such a big hurry (a bigger hurry than me, apparently), how can the slowpokes get the hell out of the left lane if you keep passing them on the right???

~ B in T

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 06:10 PM

Good rant. Excellent, IMO.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 07:11 PM

Hear, hear!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 07:34 PM

George Carlin said: "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot and anyone driving faster than you is a maniac?"

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 07:36 PM

But I agree with you whole-heartedly, Becky!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 08:15 PM

So do I, except it's the other way round.. we get idiots sitting in the centre lane and not moving over INTO the left hand lane....

Then there are people like my dad who drove at 45mph, in the middle lane, regardless of traffic buildup, present speed limitations and frustrated yells from people overtaking him on pushbikes.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 08:29 PM

I had a girlfriend who always drove at 50 mph! Always. In town, on the highway, anywhere. In town she was terrifying. On the highway she was aggravating (specially to truckers stuck behind her on 2 lane roads).

She got in a fight with me one day about MY driving, saying, "You obey traffic signs!" Well, yeah! I figure they were put there for a good reason. To save lives.

She was a total nutbar. I thank God she is somewhere else right now, and not here with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 08:44 PM

Okay, I mighta mentioned this one a time 'er two but the waitress who asks "Are you doing okay" about every 5 minutes... Like what does she know that I don't know?...

An' all them "Hot enuff?" folks when it gets up into the 90's... No, can ya throw another friggin' log on the fire, big guy!...

'Er a bunch of redecks sayin' they vote for Repubs because they believe in family values... Yeah, then quit beatin' up yer danged ol' ladies, will ya's?...

'Er TV... It sucks and from most of what I see on it leads me to the conclusion that most of the folks who watch it suck as well...

But what really gets me, an I ain't getting personal here 'cause there's so many of 'um... but... folks callin' themselves Christians who never made it to the New Testament.

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 09:41 PM

Buncha great examples there, Bobert!

TV...the ugly little hpnotist that sits in your living room saying, "Give up all thoughts of doing anything real with your time. Surrender your creative gifts and your imagination to my programming. Forget about health and exercise. Turn me on. Tune in and drop out. Buy, buy, buy...all the crap that I tell you to buy. Let me lobotomize your kids into being good little consumers. Let me tell them what to eat and what they want for Christmas. Believe all the lies I program you with dialy. Cease living, except through me. I will turn you slowly into oatmeal. Resistance is futile, futile, futile....."

Kill it, man. Gut the idiot box with an ax and turn it into a fish tank. Your brain and heart will thank you one day, and so will the fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 28 Nov 04 - 09:52 PM

I absolutely hate that I think I am ready to handle things that I am in no way shape or form even close to being ready to handle. I started to clean out Veronica's room tonight...started to pack up a box or two of her all time favorite toys. She's been gone now for 3 months and I thought I could start to clean out that room....to make it usable...to make it part of our home again. Who the fuck was I kidding?   :( I hate that.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:08 PM

I hate that I just opened the refrigerator and took a big drink of what I thought was plain apple juice that turned out to be apple-mango-passion fruit blend. It sucked. Mangoes suck. Fuckers taste like somebody already ate 'em once and puked 'em back up. Passion fruit doesn't suck. It only blows.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:12 PM

police who abuse their position. bastards. bullies. and the system that fertilises them.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:33 PM

Damn annotated bibliographies!!!!!! )(**&%^%#%^#&^(_*&)*&%%^##%_(&*&%&*^$^%#@#^%@(&%)*&%^(&^$*^%#*^%$(&*^(*&%^!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Amos
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 07:55 PM

Senators and Justices who desire to reduce the rights of individuals and States reall y piss me off.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: frogprince
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:02 PM

Somebody give me the home address of any @#$%&* who writes a radio ad that hits you cold, as you're driving in heavy traffic, with the sound of a blaring horn, or, my very favorite, the sudden sound of screaming brakes. I'll collect every pair of drawers that they've caused people to s**t from fear in, and stuff them down their f***ing throat. (It felt so good to say that...)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:07 PM

TV commercials that are three times as loud as the program you are watching.

By the way, is it my imagination, or have TV commercial breaks gotten a lot longer recently? I counted 22 commercials in one break a few nights ago. The program sort of came back on halfway through the break, but it was only a sort of splash screen for a few seconds to remind you what it was you were watching. And a few of those commercials were the same ones repeated in the same break.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:26 PM

It's another boiling hot day here - 37.8C degrees (100F), and I will have to go out in it shortly -

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Nov 04 - 09:32 PM

100th post too *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:08 AM

Of course TV commercial breaks have gotten longer! What do you think TV is for? It's to sell you stuff you don't need and regiment you into total conformity and drooling idiocy by slow and steady indoctrination.

Read 1984 again and pay attention carefully to the details.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:10 AM

The commercials on TV don't affect me, Little Hawk. But then, I don't turn the thing on.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:24 AM

I don't even own one of the little electronic bastards. My mother does, though, and she watches CNN about 8 hours a day. She's a politics junkie.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:43 AM

Neither do I, LH. That's WHY I don't turn it on.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:44 AM

I recently learned that my ex-wife has moved to Crawford, Texas. She says she gets a warm fuzzy every time Bush's helicopter flies over while taking him to and from his ranch.

It's not really anything to rant about, but it is a source of consternation to me that I once thought I had so much in common with the woman and, now, she has devolved into my exact ideological opposite.

But, for what it's worth, both of the children she and I created are very active in the anti-war movement. I'm sure it pisses her off to no end.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Amos
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:41 AM

That's where it counts, BWL!\


A

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 06:18 AM

Congrats, BWL - they have given you the greatest compliment ever, by following in your footsteps.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 08:39 AM

When you notice a typo in your post to Mudcat only AFTER you've hit the Submit button, in the 2 seconds before it's gone, speeding its way to the Mudcat forum to announce your sloppy fingeredness to the world.

Gone, gone, out there and living a deformed life of its own...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 08:48 AM

aaaaaaaaggghhhhhpvhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 08:51 AM

I tried pronouncing your syllable, freda, and I hurt my tongue. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:01 AM

srory aobut that, Cliun!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:03 AM

Ah well, not the first time I've... never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:22 AM

you know, there's nothing worse than a rant thread when people get humourous. if you're feeling angry, and you go to the rant thread and see people being witty, IT IS VERY AGGRAVATING because its hard to feel witty when you're angry.

this is the RANT thread. AND ITS FOR RANTING. RAAAAAAANNNNNPVT.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JennyO
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 09:50 AM

Not long after I last posted, I went out in the heat, and a few blocks from my destination, my brakes failed. Not only that, but my car bonnet was jammed and wouldn't open, my mobile battery was flat, and when I finally rang the NRMA from somebody else's phone, I found I was lapsed because they had sent the renewal notice to my old address (despite my telling them the new address when I renewed last year), so I had to pay up with my card on the phone before they would do anything.

They took an hour to come, told me the master cylinder had failed (serious and expensive) and that I would need it towed. Then I had to wait another hour and a half for a tow truck to come. When it finally did, I had to go with them, while they took it to the garage where I usually get my car fixed. It took more than another hour through the heat and peak-hour traffic to get there, $15.40 for extra kilometres, and then I had to get a cab home - another $20. The whole exercise took nearly 5 hours from start to finish, and I arrived home about quarter to 8.

There was my SO, cooking birthday dinner for his daughter, not expecting me (I was supposed to be going to a session tonight), looking grumpy, and before I even had a chance to finish telling him what happened, she arrived, and he disappeared into the kitchen, so I couldn't even rant properly when I got home.

They tell me they should be able to fix it in the morning, so I will have it back in the afternoon, but it's not a cheap fix. And of course there will be another $20 taxi fare to go and pick it up. Bugger bugger bugger!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:33 AM

I keep coming back to thread to read it, hoping that I'll be inspired to rant about something. This is really getting irritating! I can't think of ANYTHING I want to rant about!

GRRRRRRRRR

;-(

..xx..e

(You said no people, so I can't even rant about the UK Home Secretary David Blunkett, but I do hope they nail him to the wall and stick a hot poker up his...oops...that just slipped out, sorry.)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 10:41 AM

It really gets on my nips when some rant purist objects to a bit of humour infused into one of these Rant threads. I like my rants seasoned with a dash of sarcasm and a sprinkle of hyperbole and a dollop of facetiousness. If you don't like it, get off my planet!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:34 PM

I'll see you outside, Cluin.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 12:56 PM

what is this? a designer rant?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 01:34 PM

You're ALL wrong! Bunch of idiots! You make me sick! I hope you get assaulted by crazed wombats!

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:05 PM

don't get too close to that wombat, it may be a tasmanian devil

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 30 Nov 04 - 05:11 PM

and if you listen to that sound bite, you'll get a really good RAAAAAANNNNNNTTT

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:02 AM

STICKERS ON FRUIT!!

Who is the son-of-a-bitch who decided I need these annoying little lables on my apples and tomatoes??

If I catch him, I'll break his fingers!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:23 AM

My car is STILL not fixed, it needs the expensive repair unfortunately (at least $250) - a lot to keep a car I am going to ditch in a few weeks, just so I'll have a car to drive (it's very old and I'll be lucky to get that much selling it for parts). Unfortunately circumstances are such that I can't get another one yet, but I need a car every day.

GGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yes, and it's currently 42C degrees - which is 107.6F - I'm hanging out for the cool change and thunderstorm which is supposed to be coming.

PHEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:47 AM

yes, its hot here in sydney. when i went to the sandwich shop today, they had samples of salad n cheese rolls behind the glass. it was so hot that the cheese on the rolls was melting and sweating, covered with little bubbles of moisture, and had gone crisping hard around the edges, grilling naturally in the heat.

BLLEECCCHHH.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:48 AM

Sounds gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodddddd. So, when's it gonna warm up down there?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 12:50 AM

This is ranting?????

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:23 AM

irony, mr nbird, irony..

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:31 AM

The grenade exploded near my leg and now it's very irony.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:32 AM

AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: chris nightbird childs
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 02:38 AM

And I ran, I ran so far awaaaaaaaay... oh, wrong thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 08:32 AM

Fuggin' banks!

The last remnant of my money at the Royal Bank was moved yesterday. I had closed out my accounts there several years ago and moved the money to the TD Bank because of some business practices the Royal had adopted locally. But I kept a Money Market fund going at the Royal which was set up as an RSP. So I finally decided to moved the RSP over to the TD too, as it was not paying much in the fund the Royal had it in.

The financial officer at the TD told me there would be a 25 dollar charge that the Royal would take off my investment for transferring it over to the TD investment group. But that the TD would reimburse me the 25 dollars. Great!

So I get a bill in the mail telling me the Royal Bank has jacked their transferral fee up to 50 bucks. Scooped it right off the top before they let the money go. They obviously found out about the 25 dollar reimbursment and decided to gouge their (former) customer a little more. Hey, who's stopping them. right? I'm amazed they didn't take more. The financial officer at the TD agreed it was an excessive charge, but what could we do? The maximum reimbursement the TD could provide was 25 dollars. All for hitting a couple of keys on a computer keyboard, a keyboard purchased with profits made from my and your money.

Fuggin' banks!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 08:50 AM

Yes. There is nothing so rotten one can say about the banks that it is not probably true. They are thieves.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 04:59 PM

Window envelopes! I hate friggin' window envelopes!

Specifically, I hate companies that send you a window envelope in which to send your remittance. I hate them because you have to make sure that the little remittance cards that they also send you are correctly oriented in the envelopes or the address doesn't show.

I could understand it if they were trying to save a few bucks by using generic envelopes, but they're not. They've gone to the expense of having envelopes printed, so why not just have regular envelopes printed with their addresses on them? After all, it's not like my payment is going to one address and my neighbor's is going someplace else. They're all going to the same friggin' place!

I think it's all just a conspiracy to cause customers to incur late charges. There are four possible ways you can put the remittance card in the envelope, and only one of them is the correct way. If you put it the wrong way, you'll receive the thing back from the post office as undeliverable in about a week. By then, your payment will be past due.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 01 Dec 04 - 05:10 PM

Send it in a plain envelope. F#ck their little windows, which don't work any better than Bill Gates' windows.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 02:19 AM

I'm not going to be popular about this one, but it really got me going GRRRRRRR

There was an interview with some guy who had gone over to Norway to help cut down the traditional yearly Norwegian Pine the citizens of Norway give to the citizens of the UK as thanks for their help during WW2.

Ok, the sentiments are nice, granted, but this guy was holding up a piece of the tree which they had given him as a souvenir and saying that it showed the tree was ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY YEARS OLD!

He said this gleefully, and all I could think was, "What's so wonderful about being one of the people responsible for killing this beautiful tree so people can admire it for a month and then toss it???!!"

I just hate the idea that we can't leave these great giants alone. Aren't there enough "tree farms" out there to satisfy the Christmas Tree-Lust of the Ho ho ho'ers in this country??

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 02:25 AM

Ronald Reagan said, "If you've seen one tree you've seen 'em all."

He was looking at the California redwoods when he coined that little gem.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Maija
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 05:12 AM

Sheesh, it annoys me when the others take this piss out of me only because I have a big, fluffy plush rat as a pillow. Ok, so I talk to it. (It still has not answered, though.) I say goodnight to it (btw, it's name is Rattus) and sometimes I even say good morn to it too. I take it with me when I travel (hey, stop eyeing me like that, you moron, we'll be stuck on this bus together driving through the pampas the next 12-20 hours and I'LL be the one who will not get neck pains from falling asleep with my head dangling to all sides), it's been to concerts with me (so what if you've never seen a plush rat attend one of your concerts before, it is after all a lot better looking than some of yer groupies - bugger off and leave us alone if you're not going to give me more alcohol - oh, thanks a lot, champagne is nice) and I've even found pictures of it online, and not on any of my sites, either - so my rat is more famous than you are - bloody intolerant nitwits!

SO THERE! Guess that told them all. At least it was a nice start.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 07:17 AM

I HATE putting marks on report cards for five year olds!

j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Sweetfia
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 07:32 AM

Exams! Why is there so many of the bloody things! All they do is stress me out and half of them don't count towards anything!

Oh, and what is the point in having a 'Parents Evening' in the second year of college! I can understand having one a few months into your first year because college is so much different to school etc. but not in the second year! It makes me feel like i'm at school again. I can take responsibility for my own learning thankyou very much!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 08:36 AM

I hate having to get out of bed early, when my partner doesn't. I hate her having to get out of bed early when I don't even more.

    Here in Scotland, early means you're out the door before dawn. I hate the lack of daylight as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 10:59 AM

And damn keyboards, and a total inability to type or spell!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:12 AM

Snow! Too damn early!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 11:52 AM

Snow is just another four-letter word to me. It could be used in my bad-word lexicon to replace f#ck. Snow you. Snow off.
What the snow is goin' on? Snow it! Yeah, snow snow.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 02:33 PM

Snow you!!! :-)

42 - Got that right. It's ridiculous to grade 5 year olds. I didn't even go to school till I was 7 years old! I would rather have waited till I was, oh, maybe 15 or 16, given the choice...

I didn't actually like school till I was 27!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 02 Dec 04 - 03:20 PM

I hated it until I got to university. What a snowing waste of time. If it hadn't been for a quartet of gals I sat in the midst of in Grade 9, I would have left. Then Grade 10, when the option was repeat the year or go to summer school, I had to go to summer school. And a boon it was. Lots of young ladies reaching that stage of physical development that so captures a young man's fancy. Then Grade 11 and dating on of the girls from the Grade 9 class I mentioned eariier. And the guitar and . . . .

Snow school at that age. I failed Grade 11 and that was it for me and snowing high school.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 07:35 AM

you know, I really hate condescending sales staff in music stores (substitute hardware stores, car parts stores etc) who either can't believe a woman can actually know what she's looking for...or totally ignore her - thinking she's just hanging around waiting for her guy to buy something.

gggrrrrrrrr!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 03 Dec 04 - 11:47 AM

Mirror the above for men in fabric and cookware shops! "Are you sure you're in the right place?" is almost as bad as "You know want/were told to get?" ARRGH
   Thankfully, I'm in a big enough town that I can go 'snow you' to them and find a better one without the stupid staff.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Blind DRimkl in Blind River
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 09:57 AM

Well yeah, 42. Whaddya think! Why else would ya be in there anyway?

What if I was hangin' around in a drapery store, eh?

- BDiBR

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 10:01 AM

And that reminds me! I hate cops!!! I really hate cops! They are alwasy messing in other people's business and screwing theings up. I would prefer a place whre there weren't no cops at all if I couldfind one. I would ban cops if I was elected.

I would also ban poodles, not pit bulls, eh? Poodles are the most flippin useless canines what ever got bread and they all should be sent to China and eat3en!

You don't see Don Cherry goin' around with a poodle, eh? I rest my flippin case.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 10:10 AM

i'm not partial to raving, drunken lunatics who don't even check to see if their flies are open before going off half-cocked!

ps. if B.D. in B.R. was hanging around in a drapery store he'd be venetian blind drunk in blind river.

j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Maija
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 11:41 AM

I fekking hate 'ü' (ue).

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 12:10 PM

People who block their caller IDs on the phone. We pay good money every month for call display so we can see who is calling before we pick it up or we can use the call return feature, and then some snotty people block their IDs on the display. Friggin' snobs! Private name, Private number, indeed! If you're so damn private, what business do you have with me then?

Oh, and I also hate it when Little Hawk pretends to be some drunken skid from Blind River just so he can portray all North Ontarians as drunken losers. I live in the north and only about 75% of us are like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 06:01 PM

LOL! Well, I'm glad it's eliciting the desired response...

I've been in Blind River. It's like hell on ice. They ought to give out free bumper stickers to tourists, saying "I got blind drunk in Blind River!" There sure isn't much else to do there. Sudbury is nothing to rave about either, but it's improved a lot since the old days when it looked like the aftermath of the Battle of Verdun. I once spent a year living in a cabin about 15 miles south of North Bay. The forest was nice, but North Bay itself was a dead loss as far as I was concerned. It was downright depressing in fact.

North Ontario? (shudder!)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 06:09 PM

Spent three years in Sudbury one night. Different. Definitely different.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 06:40 PM

Was there a folk festival in North Bay? Sudbury? I played one there in the 1970s, but I don't recall which place. Or when in the 1970s. I just remember there were lots of trees. And lakes. And mosquitoes. And black flies. And miles. LOTS of miles.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Dec 04 - 07:40 PM

There are bears too. If you die from black fly bites the bears will help dispose of your remains.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 05:14 PM

this rant seems to have digressed into a travelog. I HATE traveloges. I also absolutely abhore whatever they call this font (ah yes, Times New Roman) and wonder who's paying who to have it spread its filty letters all over our planet!
j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 05:27 PM

I abhor travelogues too. Ecxept ones about Sudbury and North Bay.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 05 Dec 04 - 10:29 PM

i especially hate making spelling errors in public!

thanks
j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:00 AM

pedants.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:05 AM

pederasts

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:27 AM

pompous pedagogues.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Deda
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:39 AM

I haven't read this whole thread, enough to recognize that I need it. So I hate that my only daughter's wedding was so orthodox that I wasn't allowed under the Chuppa because I'm not Jewish. I hate Religious intolerance and exclusivity. I hate that some people's religious self-righteousness has done a LOT of damage to my own family of origin, including my nephews & nieces (Barky excluded), and even my own kids.

I also really hate the outcome of the recent election -- except for the Colorado state legislature, which was good.

I hate that I no longer trust the central, essential pillars of US government, like our electoral system, which I think is riddled with holes and unfairnesses, and our Justice system, which seems to be listing very badly to starboard, imho. I no longer trust our democracy, and I hate that.

I hate being broke all the time.

I hate that what money I got from my late parents I've managed to dissipate, even though I got a decent education and a BA out of it. I just hate that it's gone and that there isn't going to be any more easy money.

I hate that so many people think that SUVs are an acceptable solution to the problem of needing transportation, and that as a society we have no constraints on that kind of waste and destruction -- or on any other waste or destruction, either.

I hate that the environmental protection laws are going up in smoke.

There's more but that's enough. If I keep going I won't be able to sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:39 AM

precariously positioned prodigious piles of poopoo

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Cluin
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 12:43 AM

I hate it when a post magically appears between mine and the one I'm answering so it looks like I'm answering the one that appears magically between mine and the one I'm answering.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 03:24 AM

paranoid pernickity people. pigs. power obsessed parsimonious posters.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 06:16 AM

People who litter!! I HATE people who litter! They should all be given on the spot fines by ANYBODY who sees them litter. Then they should be made to EAT whatever they threw on the ground!

And that goes for big corportations who STILL figure out ways of getting rid of their wastes illegally. I think they need to be made to drink and eat their own waste products for a year. And then be buried underneath it for another year.

Then be SHOT.




Peace..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 06 Dec 04 - 07:04 AM

i feel like ranting at myself for being such a suck! great job, fair amount of talent, friends who care when they think about it, kids to be proud of...and i can't even summon the energy to get mad at myself. I hope it's SADD!

j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: kindaloupehackenweez
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 06:56 AM

Ellen polly Your too cool to.
    you got everything right except where you pour gas on them first and set them on fire..Way cool far out solid and right on. I myself for the most part still put my cigerette butts in my coin pocket. Be free be happy and make sure the world is good to ya.kindaloupehackenweez...PEACE...
P.S. the towns folk havent ever seen a hangin before. Perhaps that will eliminate some of the trash and of course litter bugs...Give a hoot dont pollute...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 07:43 PM

I barfed all over the kitchen floor last night. And I have a headache.

When I was in high school, I watched someone I knew pick up a piece of trash that someone else had dropped on the ground. He then followed the person who dropped it and handed the trash back to them. The look on the litterer's face was priceless.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 07 Dec 04 - 10:21 PM

From: Gypsy: 24 Nov 04 - 10:31 PM

"… and the fact that i cannot find the feminine version of the word misogynist!

misandrist (misandry = hatred of males)

Liz the Squeak - 27 Nov 04 - 06:42 PM

"Little Hawk - we have a little thing here where you can dial a code and get the number of the last person to ring you.. When we get rude people with wrong numbers, I just get the number, wait 30 mins and then phone them back."

Tried that once here.

Phone book tells you "enter ***" to get the phone number of the last person calling."

Plugged in "***" and was informed that "the number has been recorded, we cannot give you the number without a court order. If you feel you are being harassed, please call your local police departement and request an investigation.

Called the police to ask about this, they informed me that they will only investigate if I have received at least 3 calls within 24 hours, or 20 call within one week, from the same number.

How the $%^!@ do I know if they're all from the same number if they won't tell me what the number is?


A minor annoyance:

I just attempted to look up some identification on a public institution, found their web site quite easily, and even a .pdf map giving me the street names in their vicinity; but a thorough search of their website failed to reveal

        WHAT %$^*! CITY they are in.

(OK, so there IS ONLY ONE city in the UK …. How was I supposed to know? But why do they call it the "Birmingham" if it's in Hull?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JennieG
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 06:48 AM

I hate daylight saving. And hot weather. My comfort point is 27 degrees Celsius. Any hotter than that, and I am like a wilted lettuce leaf without salad dressing. I hate January and February for that reason.

And I dislike teenage girls who give you the "who-died-and-made-you-queen" look.

Thank you for listening, I feel much better already!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Crystal
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 06:56 AM

I really HATE the attitude of staff and kids in the Games Workshop shops.
"Can I help you?"
"I'm just looking thanks"
"Are you buying for somone in particular?"
"YES, ME!!!"

Grrrr. Just because I'm female!

And the kids giggle and point and ask if you can play! OF COURSE I CAN, I WAS PLAYING THIS GAME BEFORE YOU WERE BORN!!!!!!

*ahem* Bad experience yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:35 PM

There, there dear, no need to get all emotional on us....




Yes, I know I'll pay dearly for that one on saturday!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 12:54 PM

EDINBORO!!!!!
It's Edinburgh you stupid people! It's been a burgh* since before anbody capable of spelling their own name found your country! That's with a gh. Not an o in it anywhere. It's not that complex. And I know lots of Americans^ who can say it, so everybody can manage.

* except for the highlanders, yetis etc that called it Dunedin. See above qualification for counting as proper people...

^I'm not picking on any one country, even though the US does supply most of the worst offenders.

I'd almost forgotton about this rant, it being out of tourist season. People seem to be convinced Scotland in the winter is cold and dark.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 08 Dec 04 - 02:58 PM

Scotland in the winter, Scotland in the summer... what's the difference?

Weather-wise, I mean...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Crystal
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 04:24 AM

It snows more in winter,
Although we had a heavy shower of hail in Dundee this June.
So actually you were right, no difference!

Scotland in the winter IS cold and dark. I go home at 5pm and it is pitch black outside.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 04:40 AM

And broken PHONE BOXES! I don't even know who to direct this rant TO! I mean, I guess I'm angry at those idiots who break the phones, but I'm also really pissed off at the phone companies who are phasing out all the phone boxes from London. The ASSUMPTION that everyone now has a mobile (cell to Yanks) really does my head in! Not only are they removing the VIDEO RECORDERS from the stores, forcing us all to buy new CD RECORDERS, but then if you go to make a phone call (yeah I'm all over the place this morning) you have to find one that even TAKES coins, and you know how much they're charging now? 30p!! It's a RIP OFF and I'm really fed up with the lot of them!


(What an interesting way to start off my day...love..xx..e)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: GUEST,Ellenpoly
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 05:29 AM

I MEANT DVD PLAYERS!!!

Sorry, still on a high from my last post.

Tee hee..;-D

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 08:00 AM

Can I rant about it being pointless to rant about the weather? Or is that a meta-rant?
Anyway, as it's now a beautiful warm and sunny day, I have nothing to rant about...
And there is a diffrence in the weather with the seasons. In the summer it rains midges and tourists, in the winter it just rains...

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Crystal
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 08:51 AM

>it's now a beautiful warm and sunny day<

It's cold, very, very cold!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Dec 04 - 11:41 AM

Bunnahabhain: (re Scotland) "Anyway, as it's now a beautiful warm and sunny day..."


So the rain's not quite horizontal yet?   ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 12:30 AM

You're right, it's probably pointless to rave about the weather, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:10 AM

I'd bet most of the people who have posted here are not habitual complainers—and that's good. So you'll understand, I hope, that when I complain about complainers, I'm not trying to discourage you from posting your complaints here.

People who go somewhere (shopping, for instance) and then complain that it's too crowded, the lines are too long, whatever. They're mad at everyone else for getting in their way. Hello! If you're there, and it's too crowded, then you're part of the problem. You might as well complain about yourself. Or do you think you have a right to be there and no one else does? When everybody else is putting up with the same conditions, trying to be cheerful, trying to make the best of a bad situation, it's really annoying to hear someone complain, as if they're the only one being inconvenienced. If you hate the crowdedness so much, stay home and help alleviate it!

Same goes for people who complain about traffic. Who do you think creates traffic? Just more people like you. If you're in it, you're helping to create it. If you complain about traffic, you're complaining about yourself. If you hate traffic, stay out of it. You'll be doing everyone a favor.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: freda underhill
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 06:11 AM

does any rantn haVE A POINT? only the relief of the rant. the weather is bloody awful here this evening. i just came home through sheets of rain, my poncho had holes in it so im wet to the skin.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 07:00 AM

from humble beginnings as a serious RANT thread, this seems to have diminished into a series of snivelling, whining, moaning complaints.

I HATE THAT!

j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 10:26 AM

Who gave you the right to pass comment on our rants? We all have our off days....
I hate the judgemental. And pity who can't see a joke, even when it's as clear as day.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 10:30 AM

Well I hate it when people can't resist the impulse to comment on what some people comment on regarding things that others have commented on before them. Gets me so steamed that I won't even comment on it.

*fume*

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Dec 04 - 09:16 PM

Sorry, Cluin, I'd like to comment on your comments. However I'm not sure what you're commenting about so, if you don't mind, I'll just continue to comment on what other comments have been commented.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 07:04 AM

as Edith Ann would have said "and that's the truth...phuttttttt!"

j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: LilyFestre
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 09:07 AM

I hate people who play games with my head and my heart, people who manipulate and lie....I hate being set up and I hate even more that I fall for it. I try to do things the right way and have a good heart about most things and I continue to get kicked in the face and it's getting so very old and I'm tired of it all. I don't understand...I just don't understand. I try very hard to have faith in people....I must be the laughing stock of the entire fucking universe. I wish I were more jaded and negative because then I wouldn't get hurt the way I do.

)(&)(**^%#$@&%$(&^)(*^)*^$#&^%()*^(*^$#&%$$(*&^)(*^_()*_^*&$#'

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:11 PM

I hate recursive loops
"Sorry, Cluin, I'd like to comment on your comments. However I'm not sure what you're commenting about so, if you don't mind, I'll just continue to comment on what other comments have been commented."

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:23 PM

I am so proud to be associated with people who have not taken this thread off course. It kinda ticks me a little--well, no, it really pisses me off, because if people friggin' cared about it they'd have tried by now. Bah, HUMBUG!

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:28 PM

Hey brucie, wanna get high?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:32 PM

Oh, man, you have NO idea. I haven't had a toke in twenty years. The strongest grass I recall was Panama Red. Does that answer your question?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:35 PM

I'll meet you in the treehouse. You bring the National Lampoons.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:40 PM

OK. You got MY attention. Is Sara Lee sold in Canada?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: dianavan
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:46 PM

I am really pissed off at both management and the union but I think it is all working its way through the process. I happen to be caught in between and believe it or not everyone is on my side. Unfortunately, no matter what anyone says, it seems the two sides prefer to keep the conflict alive. I'm beginning to realize that their jobs depend on it.

In the meantime, I have a cold/flu I can't seem to shake. I need to find a new tennant. I have to pack. I need to clean the house. My daughter and her boyfriend want to meet me for coffee and I need to do something with my hair. I feel very scattered and just want to sit by the fire with a hot toddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:49 PM

I need to do something with my hair, too, Dianavan:

1) find it
2) dye it
3) glue it back on

I hope you feel better soon. Really soon.

BM

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 03:57 PM

It really grates my 'cookies' when people post just to take the two hundredth spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: HuwG
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:44 PM

144-pint steel beer barrels, without slots cut in the rim to make lifting handles !

Getting them down into the cellar is a doddle. 1 - The brewery's delivery men do it, and 2 - They lower them down sloping beams using ropes round the middle.

Getting them back up again, however is my job. How am I supposed to do it ? Grip the thing in a bear hug ? I'd need arms like an orang-utan's to do it. Hoist it onto my shoulders ? The cellar ceiling is too low, and the stairs too narrow to allow it. So, I have to somehow pinch the rim between finger and thumb and carry it up the cellar steps that way. Those over-sized barrels weigh over 40 pounds when abolutely empty, and there's usually five or six pints sloshing around in the bottom which the lines can't quite suck up (or are too cloudy to serve).



I've ranted before about pub customers who eagerly try and attract your attention, flapping ten-pound notes in front of your face as you try and serve someone else, and only when when you rush back to them do they look for the first time at the list of ales and spirits on offer and turn to their friends to ask what they all want.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 07:39 AM

I absolutely abhore when the power goes out at the most crucial moment of a sappy TV movie you know will never see the light of day again.
j

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:41 AM

The phrase: "It's been an emotional roller-coaster" should be BANNED from all media interviews for at least ten years.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:43 PM

I seriously object to 'some folks' who think in terms of decades instaed of centuries when it come to that friggin' expression. Like we have a Coney Island of the Bloody Mind or somethin'. That really gets on my nerves. Present company excepted, of coures.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:58 PM

How about "These guys really give 110%!"

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 07:23 PM

In my humble opinion....



enough said

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:32 PM

Work gloves. Why is it so hard to find extra-large men's work gloves? I'm not a small guy, but I ain't huge and my hands aren't huge either. They're probably slightly larger than average for a man. There must be zillions of guys with hands my size or larger out there. So where in the hell are they hiding all the zillions of extra-large work gloves we need?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:39 PM

Same for me with T-shirts.

I like loose clothing and I'm 44" around the chest. Not a big guy, but I like loose T-shirts. Where the hell ARE they. And in cotton. Not polyester crap--cotton. They're prob'ly with the work gloves, hiding out.
Dang.