Rant Thread - Page 55

Wise Child · 12-16-2005, 10:52 AM

A pikey ... I guess the American equivalent would be trailer trash. It's the people who live in shitty areas and are really poor. Y'know, the kind of rough areas that're just alive with crime. Kind of the trailer park crossed with the ghetto ... I don't really know how else to explain it. It can also mean tight with your money, or your cigarettes - someone who's always on the lash. Like, "stop piking cigarettes off me" would be an example of usage in that context. It's a noun AND a verb, see? Language is an amazing thing.

Wise Child · 12-16-2005, 11:06 AM

*claps hands delightedly* Yeah, I am! Check me out, Goth. As. FUCK! Cheers luv.

Yeah I guess us Limeys have the advantage over you Yanks - we get a lot of your shows and stuff, so we usually know what you're chatting. Do you guys get much British stuff?

Wise Child · 12-16-2005, 11:59 AM

Never heard of Louise Rannison. To get an idea of Britishness, I recommend watching the film Sexy Beast starring Ray Winstone, who looks and sounds EXACTLY like one of my many, many uncles. Spooky. It's not goth though - maybe I should relocate to Guilty Pleasures. It sucks, in most of the stuff that goes global - like the HP films - the Brits are sooooooo posh. And no one, but no one, talks like that round where I come from. Or in most of the country. For British authors, I cannot recommend Angela Carter highly enough.

Wise Child · 12-16-2005, 12:02 PM

I heard that in the British film The Full Monty (bad, bad film), they had to give out leaflets in AMerican cinemas. Not that's a lotta colloquialisms.

tekajo · 12-16-2005, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Xnguela

God, all the britishisms! What's a pikey? I love learning all this.

You never seen "Snatch"?

Gorgeous George: "...ah fooking 'ate pikeys..."

After seeing Snatch, though i took the word to mean "gypsies". Trailor trash eh? i'd be a pikey if i were british.

xXambivalenceXx · 12-16-2005, 07:56 PM

God, I love Snatch so fuckin' much.... My favorite people are either Turkish or the Russian... Although, Bullet-Tooth Tony comes in a close third.

xXambivalenceXx · 12-16-2005, 08:04 PM

I really fucking hate this 5-minute edit time span. I was going to edit my post to add my rant for the night, and when I clicked submit, it said I waited too long. So I hit back to get my rant and repost it... I'd done it before, but is it there? No.

>.<

In a nutshell, my friend is a fucking flake who blew me off without so much as a phonecall. So I sat around waiting for 3 hours, alone, because my parents made plans. We WERE going to have a family night, but my friend is moving in 4 days, so they planned around it.

tenet_2012 · 12-16-2005, 09:01 PM

I don't like snatch.

But the movie was good.

xXambivalenceXx · 12-16-2005, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tenet_2012

I don't like snatch.

But the movie was good.

Oh, you clever little fuck...

sensuous0mar · 12-16-2005, 09:45 PM

I have a rant. Bear with me for I am drunk out of my mind. I was just at my cousin's graduation party. Open bar. 'Nuff said.

Anyway...my boyfriend is being a little cunt. Everything I do he criticizes me for, everytime we're together he starts an argument, today I drove him home from college (a 2 hour drive) and got no thank you. He "just wanted to go home" even though his mom had called and told him to just chill at my house until later because they weren't leaving their house unlocked. He demanded I drive him 10 miles out of town (out of my way) on the off handed chance that his parents just might one chance in a million have left the house open. I told him no and he got pissy. I told him he could call his mom from my house and he did and then he immediately demanded I take him home so I did. When we got there he revealed that the house was not unlocked, he was going to look for the hidden keys. "i know exactly where they are" he said to me. I sat in the car and watched for 20 minutes while he tried ever key in the side garage on ever door to his house and failed every time and then he decided he'd sit in the garage in 10 degree weather and wait 2 hours for his parents to get home. He was willing to go through all of that to what? Avoid me? he said "I just wanted to be at home." That is the most foolish, stupid thing i have ever heard of. he'd rather freeze to death than spend time at my house with me. Fucking A I am MAD AT HIM! EXPLETIVE!!!!!!!!

Well anyway, tonight at that party I met a super cute guy. We danced. It was nice. Aaron (my bf) would be pissed and at this point.....that makes me even happier.

tiffany_the_writer · 12-16-2005, 10:34 PM

I have a rant about a Boy.

Named Tyler.

We were bored. We lead eachother on. It was more his fault though. I wanted the friendship thing. Anyways, he won't forget what happend because secretly he likes me, and secretly I like him. We both have an ego and can't accept it. And God is sort of in the way of things. Long story.

Anyways. He told Nick about what happend between us. How he lead me on. Made Me sound like a Victim.

So Nick PUNCHED him in the jaw.

And that makes me feel so much better. Which is scary.

Wise Child · 12-17-2005, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by tekajo

After seeing Snatch, though i took the word to mean "gypsies". Trailor trash eh? i'd be a pikey if i were british.

No offence to folks who live in trailers. My nana used to live in one. (In Britain we call them caravans, or mobile homes, if you'll allow me to return briefly to the cultural divide). But pikey is a similar kind of derogatory term to "trailer trash".

Hey, I was raised on a council estate. Theoretically I am one. But we tend to save it as a term of derision for the kind of people who find out their kids are shoplifting and do nothing more than put in an order, who don't read anything except a TV guide, and who shout "what the fuck you lookin' at?" should you happen to glance in their direction for more than half a second.

Wise Child · 12-17-2005, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by tiffany_the_writer

Anyways. He told Nick about what happend between us. How he lead me on. Made Me sound like a Victim.

So Nick PUNCHED him in the jaw.

And that makes me feel so much better. Which is scary.

Tiff - the answer is clear. Run away with Nick! He's hard as nails (shouldn't be a turn-on, but just is sometimes), ready and willing to defend your honour and could make a valuable tool of intimidation to point in the direction of your enemies. "A boy"? Pah! Nick is the MAN!!

Tall One In Black · 12-17-2005, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Wise Child

Yeah I guess us Limeys have the advantage over you Yanks - we get a lot of your shows and stuff, so we usually know what you're chatting. Do you guys get much British stuff?

I don't think we get much British TV here. I rarely watch TV, though, so I could easily be wrong. I think Americans are too arrogant to believe that another country could have any culture worth importing.

People who live in the southeastern U.S. refer to those who live in the northern states as "Yankees." Perhaps they haven't realized that, in the eyes of the British, they're Yankees themselves. Ha ha ha!

Wise Child · 12-17-2005, 12:43 PM

Aah, derision is a double-edged sword...

Probably about 85% of the films we get here are American, so we're pretty familiar with Americanisms. Even the way I type is quite American, some of the time. Like, I'll say y'all, which in speech just doesn't work with a cockney accent.

Tall One In Black · 12-17-2005, 12:51 PM

Perhaps I'm a bit twisted, but I like being "old" and out of school. I enjoyed college, and having a winter break was nice... but $60K wins over a winter break every time.

I actually feel less stress from my responsibilities now than I did when I was in college.

tenet_2012 · 12-17-2005, 02:17 PM

Everyone I love is dead.

Wise Child · 12-17-2005, 02:26 PM

Oh. Um ... fuck?

Suddenly the pikeys seem kinda warm and fuzzy.

Are you serious?? 'Cause I don't wanna be frivolous if you are.

tenet_2012 · 12-17-2005, 03:10 PM

Vodka...

Vodka I love.

I still have vodka.

edible_eye · 12-17-2005, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tenet_2012

Everyone I love is dead.

type o negative. world coming down.

great album.

tenet_2012 · 12-17-2005, 05:56 PM

Yeah... I love you e_e!

butterflyfearie · 12-17-2005, 06:06 PM

To add yet more misery to your life, I've spoken with your vodka. It loves me more than you and you should hand it over.
I HAVE NO MONEY, I WORK FULL TIME HOW CAN IT BE THAT I HAVE NO MONEY!!!!

tenet_2012 · 12-17-2005, 06:09 PM

The bass next my ear is soooo loud.

I love it!

Whoa.... making it hard to breathe correctly.

ohthefuckwell · 12-17-2005, 10:48 PM

to the poofy-haired chick in the pink fuzzy sweat suit:

common fucking sense should tell you that you do not - i repeat: DO. NOT. - take a two-year-old child to a three-hour-fucking-long movie! ESPECIALLY one that is showing late in the day and goes past what is most likely (and damned well SHOULD be) his bedtime. and i swear on all that i hold dear, and even some things that i don't, if i ever see you again, i will snatch you by your outdated, trailer trash 'do, and smack you into next fucking month for putting your hand over that baby's mouth because he wouldn't "hush up" and your fat ass was too lazy to take him home.

edible_eye · 12-17-2005, 11:56 PM

sometimes, otfw...

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