The ranting thinking thread

[Viper]

This week's mornings are just so... bleh. :dead:
Yesterday I accidentally raised a bit of a panic when asking about schedule and pointing out an oversight in it. Turns out it was unnecessary, things would have gone okay anyway.
This morning I figured I'll save some money on tram ride, cause ticket control is never there in the morning. They were there, should have known they'll appear after mayor elections. Refused to give my id, so the woman confiscated my tram card and told me I can pick it up after I pay the fine. Like hell I will, it would cost me more than I had on the card itself.
I wonder what awaits me tomorrow? The sky will fall on my head?

 

[EA9Sol]

Thanks to no one wanting to help me I had to factory reset my pc....and now I can access the Internet. Gee, when I ask for help it's not because I want to waste anyone's time....it's because I need so nothing would go wrong!!! :shifty:

 

[Shadow]

Oh, look, two more...two more Fable rape fics.... -screams into the Void-

Gods, I wanna punch someone.

 

[Angel]

Whoever is responsible for the US leaks needs a slap.

Five Eyes exists with the understanding that counter terrorism info be shared but not disseminated. Two leaks now, one after being warned to back off.

If this at all impedes the investigation then I can see trouble ahead for UK and USA relations regarding the sharing of information.

Have some sensitivity - children as young as 8 have been killed and some moron in the states is busy getting front page scoops off the back of it without a thought to how it could damage the investigation over here.

*Not intended to be a slur on Americans before anyone gets mad. Just profiteering idiots who can't follow basic rules.

 

[Dante's Stalker]

Some days I pull my head out of the sand just to take a peek at the world.
And nothing's changed.
Nope nope nope. I can't deal with it. My anxiety and paranoia go from 0 to 270 in a nanosecond and it takes me weeks to beat it back down to the level where I'm comfortable enough not to grab my bokken when there's a knock on the door.
I'm just really useless to the world right now.

 

[Shadow]

One of the most annoying things in the world is someone asking for suggestions from...anyone willing to reply and them:

1. answering all suggestions except yours
2. only accepting your suggestion after their friend suggests it in exactly the same wording
3. taking credit for your suggestion afterwards

If you only want your friends to suggest things, it takes all of two seconds to say "I only accept messages from my friends". It'd make a lot less people feel sh*tty if they didn't have to sit through that....

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

I'm tired of people bagging on "purple prose" flat-out. It's like as soon as there's even the slightest amount of poetry in a description, someone just has to turn into a whistle-blower. Okay, I get it--too much of it is like having too many sweets; what started out as delectable suddenly makes you nauseous. But surely a little bit of chocolate sprinkled here or there isn't such a bad thing?

I dunno, I just feel like everybody's become the biggest nit-pickers of late; like it's the in thing to be a literary snob, to pretend at being more learned in the literary world than they are. If you can't imagine what "tastes like midnight" means, maybe you shouldn't be reading Fantasy. Just sayin'. I mean, seriously; how hard is it to give a taste to a colour, a season, a time of day? Or am I one of a handful of people that, when they stop to consider what that means, doesn't do it because they're irritated, but because a specific flavour came to mind? Y'all lack imagination, which is insanely funny--because that's what reading is supposed to BROADEN.

In sum: tired of people thinking they're so smart and all-knowing just because they've racked up the Goodreads reviews, while completely missing the point of reading--enjoyment!

Oh, and that y'all isn't directed at anyone here. Just at the snobby reviewers, in general.

 

[Sparda's rejected son]

I want to rant about something that is bugging me in real life but, "say it and forget it. Write it and regret it." So I'll rant about something silly.

So how is it that superheroes like Batman, and Superman are respected yet any Power Ranger isn't? Let's break it down.

1. Goofy outfits: Check

2. Silly weapons and gear: Check

3. Posing: Check

So because Batman has numerous comics about "dark subject matter" that makes him acceptable? He's still a creepy dude who works out of a cave and wears a suit in the shape of a bat. If some dude in real life was hiding out in a cave full of bats and spying on folks, do you know what we would call that? The government!
I kid, but we would label him as a freak, a weirdo. Power Rangers does silly and goofy things. Their is no denying that. A giant colorful robot is just as outlandish as Bruce picking children to be his sidekick. (Seriously, is nobody going to question that?)
If we can "love and adore" Batman and American superheroes then Japanese superheroes like the Power Rangers should be put on that same pedestal.

Critic: "Your biased! You like those goofy Power punks."

Me: "Thank you for yelling out the facts. Now beat it!"

Rant over. :laugh:

 

[Lain]

Egyptian Jesus!

The construction crew have moved their operations from the fields all the way over to next to my house. Now I have a constant barrage of noise disrupting my precious sleep.

 

[DreadnoughtDT]

I am constantly assaulted by an internal struggle of guilt. My characters seem so similar to his, superficially so, but still similar. Like looking into a twisted mirror. My naga is an altruistic, good-natured soul who works for a shady company. His is a full of himself braggart who would kill anyone for a paycheck. I find myself getting angry, even though I shouldn't be.

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

Warning! Do not read rant if you have any interest in reading Heartless.

Spoiler: Heartless, stupid Goodreads reviewers

Phenex: Stop reading bad reviews. You know they just **** you off, so why do you do it?

Me: Because people are insipid little toadstools; the book is called Heartless! Anyone who picks it up knows it's intended to be an imagining of the Queen of Heart's origin story--and yet they're so ****ing shocked when it ends on a sour note.

Seriously, people are retarded; you don't give two stars to a book just because it didn't have a happy ending that--yes, the answer is right in the bloody title!--it never promised you.

Argh! I get it, okay? I am feeling all the heartache right now--but that does not make the book bad. If anything, it shows that for once, a book lived up to its freaking advertising. Gods, you people! You. PEOPLE! :banghead:

Additionally, unrelated to people giving stupid ratings is someone contradicting themselves; first they bitch that Marissa Meyer's Wonderland is nothing like Carroll's, then they criticize her when she makes use of canon dialogue--just, what? How can you be ****ed off one minute that she didn't portray Wonderland as you think it should be, then get mad when she makes use of things actually present in Carroll's work? I...I don't...

The hell's wrong with people?

 

[Dante's Stalker]

I know why I wasn't particularly freaked out at the haunted walkthrough last night.
1. I was exhausted. Going to bed after midnight, not sleeping much, and getting up early. No. Too little sleep.
2. Armageddon.

Spoiler: rant

Despite it being a family outing with my BFF's family as well, and bumping into my lovely care kids there, too, it was a bit too much. I practically ran through the whole thing. The cue for donuts was way too friggin long. I lost my friends and family three times. I saw Crowley but the queue. Man, the queues were mad. He looked very relaxed though - beard grown out a bit, hair a bit longer and sort of wavy-ish. Then I passed a cosplayer a minute later in the halls who looked exactly like Crowley - the features were so similar it was uncanny. I thought about hanging about and seeing the actors' reaction to giving his autograph with this cosplayer but it was a very fleeting thought. I just wanted to get some food. I got two Spanish donuts and one hot chip for myself out of all the crap we bought for the kids. Greedy little buggers, eh. And then I had to double back, twice, to find my fam. I didn't even get to check out the stands for the NZ writers. Didn't get to do half the stuff I wanted to. Wanted to browse the Steampunk stall but nope, can't do that with a two year old in tow. Wanted to have a look at the swords, and figurines and such, but saw nothing that jumped out at me in the speed-browsing I did. There was a setup where they took a fullbody scan of you and did a 3D printout of you into a figure of different heights but couldn't do that with kids that don't know how to follow instructions. I also walked out with a bag full of stuff. Last year I only got this monster bag of Skittles for hubby. This year I got some Minecraft toys for the kids. Next year, I am getting the VIP pass, and I'm going solo, so I can get myself something nice and hang out with whatever celebs will be there and actually EAT something. I'll claim it as my belated mother's day present.
Oh. And my two year old was also tired near the end. It was hubby's idea not to take the pram. I ended up alone with this kid. So every time he decided to drop to his knees or go limp, he would rip out of my grip and hit the floor because I have no strength in my hands or arms. Literally none.

3. Rushing to get back home in time after Armageddon.

Spoiler: more boring info

Had to wait for the bus because the train wasn't running. Grrrreat. Had to put in an order online for dinner while we were getting a few things from the house. Something which hubby couldn't understand for some reason. Went back into town and had to wait another 10 minutes before our pizzas were ready. Walked across the road with 7 boxes of pizza, like oh my soul, yeah everybody watch me. Got to my friends' place and basically just had enough time to settle the kids down for pizza before we had to get in the car and go to the museum.

At this point, I was so tired that my eyes kept tearing up. Friends kept asking if I'm okay.

And let's not forget the amount of pain I was actually in. Worsened, of course, by the lovely frigid weather.

 

[Shadow]

Why do guys think telling me my voice is "cute like a little girl" and they think it's sexy is a good way to flirt? I just...nope. Nope. NopenopenopenopeNOPE. Outta there. Gone.

 

[Angel]

Back off, Trump. Stop tweeting and sort your own affairs out.

#LondonBridgeAin'tFallingDown

 

[LordOfDarkness]

Outta there. Gone.

 

[Shadow]

Ugh, people. :banghead:

 

[EA9Sol]

I think I need to find a better job that pays better and y'know treat their employees with respect. Not just "useful tools" they can toss to the side when the don't meet their expectation... Which most of the other employees who work there don't even meet. *sigh* Wish I can get a nice job where I don't have to work with people....but Orlando sucks.

Welp, need to start job hunting while saving up. >.>

 

[Angel]

Probably going to offend Trump lovers here but the man is a cancer and needs to be banned from all forms of social media.

And my country.

Do not turn up in September. Everyone here hates you. And if you are as stupid as you appear and do turn up, don't be surprised if more than a few people raise merry hell.

Your visit is not welcome. You are not welcome. You are without a doubt a completely incompetent piece of crap and I hope for the sake of the American people there are no attacks on US soil like we've been having lately because you will utterly, utterly fail them. And then make it about you.

 

[LordOfDarkness]

I think people overall seem to love to complain about things more than they do appreciate them.

But it's like they don't really know WHAT they want. They'll be happy one minute that you're giving them a big hug, and then next they'll wonder why you're not stabbing them in the back. Seriously, what WOULD make some people happy? Because hell if I know.

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

*Comment made by random a-hole on the internet*

"Canada is only ALLOWED to exist because of United State's benevolence." "Canada has no military; there would be nothing stopping the U.S. from taking Canada over".

...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :laugh:

You...you do know there's such a thing as NATO, right? And that if your politicians attempted a takeover, they would blow your asses sky-high, right?

*snorts* And we don't have a military? *further fits of laughter* It may be true our equipment is abysmal, but I can promise you, we make up for your quantity of soldiers with quality; training is not a slap-dash affair--it's a constantly ongoing thing, keeping us in a constant state of readiness. Never, never mistake our peace-keeper role for weakness. But what would you know of strength? You're just a keyboard warrior, and that's the closest to being a soldier you'll ever be. Way to **** off not only every Canadian who saw your comment, but every American who's worked so hard to prove the nation doesn't solely consist of ignorant twats like you. *slow claps* Very impressive.

(And don't worry, American DMCers--I know y'all aren't stupid like the twat-waffle in question.)