Rant Thread II

[ape descendant]

Originally Posted by Nocturnal Logic

No, I totally agree. It's people acting like kids that cause shit like this to happen in the first place. But age and maturity are two different things entirely, and not inherently dependent on one another.

Simple fact is: I don't drink (I have a glass of wine now and then), I have no desire to cause trouble, and when I go to the club I pretty much want to be left alone and just dance. So how does it harm the 21+ crowd for me to be there?

I think I'm just going to find a place I can regularly set up my DJ equipment, and get a bunch of people together. If they're going to take Goth night from me, I'll make my own. Problem solved.

You'll be old enough, soon enough.

And I don't care how mature you may think you are, there's no substitute for being old, cynical and crochety.

*shakes her old lady cane*

[LetheanBlacklight]

I make a new thread last night, wake up today and it's 11 pages back. What the hell.

[Tam Li Hua]

I'm in a shitty mood.

I want to go home and hide under the covers for the rest of the day.

[Tam Li Hua]

Originally Posted by LetheanBlacklight

I make a new thread last night, wake up today and it's 11 pages back. What the hell.

What was the thread? [Yeah, the bots have taken over again. I wonder if the "mods"/"admins" have it out for Gnet, and are trying to destroy it..]

[LetheanBlacklight]

I had just finished a remix that I've had on the backburner for a while, I've bumped it up to the top, but I think it's been buried again.

[vindicatedxjin]

I have nothing to complain about today YAY!

[skoteinh]

I went to rent the 3rd DVD of True Blood but someone else beat me to it.

[on the other hand: this was my 666th post! ha!]

[Man In Room 5]

I had to reinstall Windows from the computer's restore files earlier today. It was like a trip in time back to 2005 when the computer was new. Then I had to reconfigure everything the way I like it; meaning that I removed nearly half the preinstalled software and had over 120 Windows updates waiting for me online. Money 2005, Microsoft Office 2003, Nero 6, Emachine's abortive Big Fix program, anything with the word Norton in it or the letters A, O and L were removed. Then the only browser I have is Internet Exploiter and I have to go online and get Firefox before I can download AVG and Spybot S&D. Now I'm running them. It's boring and I'm trying to readd all my bookmarks and find my passwords as I wait for it to finish.

[Ben Lahnger]

Sounds like a pain. Hope you're done soon.

[Still Jack]

I'm pissed off about something, but I don't know what about yet...

[DRM]

He keeps going back and forth on how he feels and what we are. One day he has his arms around me and we're planning to get together then BAM! he's doubting things and wants more time to think about it. And he spends the next 30 minutes telling me how I'm "such a cool girl because I understand his need to really think things through".
I'm not sure if he's confused or I'm getting played.
: |

[Nocturnal Logic]

Grrrr... I can't sleep... again.

I hate insomnia.

[gothicusmaximus]

Originally Posted by DRM

He keeps going back and forth on how he feels and what we are. One day he has his arms around me and we're planning to get together then BAM! he's doubting things and wants more time to think about it. And he spends the next 30 minutes telling me how I'm "such a cool girl because I understand his need to really think things through".
I'm not sure if he's confused or I'm getting played.
: |

Getting played.

[Mir]

Originally Posted by vindicatedxjin

I have nothing to complain about today YAY!

God, if I was you I'd be complaining about pretty much everything about myself.

[Naked Lunch]

I pulled an all-nighter, now I am paying the fucking price, to say
nothing about my brand new "thousand yard stare".

[DRM]

I just got into an arguement with my friend, who I have feelings for, because my step-dad is black and he was raised in a family that doesn't approve of interracial couples. I mean I'm so fucking sorry your family is racist and I was raised in a house that doesn't have racial issues! Damn, it's just stupid to be like that, there's no logical reasoning behind it.
: (
Blehhhh.

[sibyl vane.]

I fucking hate being fucking ill all the damn time.

[Solumina]

So last week the dress code at work got more strict, it had been a dress shirt of essentially any type and slacks or a nice skirt, it changed to only button up dress shirts (mainly because one person didn't know the difference between a dressy sweater and a casual sweater) so I had to go out and buy a couple of shirts as I'm not terribly fond of button ups. Well as of today I can't wear those either because we changed dress codes again, and by changed dress codes I mean we basically have a uniform only we have to buy it ourselves but we wont buy the shirts until Monday because we are all having a group meeting so that we can decide what white button-up we all have to go out and buy, because all of us wearing plain, white, cotton, long-sleeved button-up isn't similar enough. We also get to wear beige slacks *bleh*

As bad as this is going to look it is a job in hospitality and sometimes uniforms come with the territory, it just sicks that after spending money on clothes when I first got the job and when they changed the dress code last week I'm going to have to spend even more money and as of right now I'm pretty much just making minimum wage so I don't exactly have a ton of cash to blow.

[Ophelia's Snorkel]

That's absolutely ridiculous, Solumina. I'm sure the fickle people making all these changes never stop to consider how hard it is on you and your co-workers to take money away from your necessities to satisfy their whims. I'd start looking for another job, like one where you work with sane people.

[Solumina]

The problem is that the last change was on the property level and the latest has been handed down from corporate (who most likely have no idea that we just had a dress code change) so I can't even say that anyone is being especially stupid, other than my shift lead who hasn't exactly done a great job of keeping us informed and seems to be unable to accept any input that isn't fully supportive.


At least they may be providing the pants and once it warms up they will provide us with official company polos, so essentially I'm bitching about cool weather shirts and timing.


Thankfully my mother is nice enough to offer to pay for the shirts and any tailoring that they may need (which we are both sure will be plenty as I don't have a body shape similar to pretty much all of the women that I work with) since I need them for work. I *heart* my mom.

[Ophelia's Snorkel]

Aw, man, and here I was, gearing up to get righteously angry for you : )

[Solumina]

Awww thanks anyway, you did make me smile so it wasn't all for nothing

[the-nihilist]

I get to work two 12 hour graveshifts. I can't wait.

[Ben Lahnger]

I have relatives tearing up my real name facebook with partisan griping about the President's State of the Union address because he's being too positive and talking about his accomplishments of the last year. And they want to criticize the President for claiming these things when they think the last year was a disaster. And I so want to scream out that I felt the same fucking thing as we were fighting losing wars in two locations and President Bush made his SOU speeches as if nothing was wrong and he had accomplished all these great things.

I don't want to start a napalm fight in the family, so I'm biting my tongue. But it sucks.

[Solumina]

Dude just throw out the napalm and watch things go down in flames, then rebuild from the ashes. It really is a cathartic experience, most people just can't take that first step.