Rant Thread II

[Renatus]

almost run out of hope, after that's gone, there's nothing. Thus far it seems like there's more hope of winning the lottery, than hope for anything. What will be left then but a corpse?

[Valhalla]

This is a somewhat ridiculous thing to rant about.

I use the word slut and/or whore to describe someone who leads someone on, possibly in order to get sex, and then later hurts them, or someone who is a frequent cheater.

When I see someone use them to describe a women who has frequent sex, I cringe. That never made sense to me when I was a preteen first getting a handle on what these curse words actually meant so I guess I just made up my own meaning. As far as I can remember, the definition above is what I considered a 'slut' to be.

Now, it's causing a big problem in my vocabulary. I don't agree with slut-shaming, because I know that refers to a women having casual sex and using her body how she pleases. However, I don't agree with being a 'slut' as I always saw it, which is apparently not what it really is.

So I have to either keep adding in what I mean anytime I say the word so I can be sure the world knows I am pro-free sex life, or I can come up with a new word.

[Saya]

Originally Posted by Valhalla

This is a somewhat ridiculous thing to rant about.

I use the word slut and/or whore to describe someone who leads someone on, possibly in order to get sex, and then later hurts them, or someone who is a frequent cheater.

When I see someone use them to describe a women who has frequent sex, I cringe. That never made sense to me when I was a preteen first getting a handle on what these curse words actually meant so I guess I just made up my own meaning. As far as I can remember, the definition above is what I considered a 'slut' to be.

Now, it's causing a big problem in my vocabulary. I don't agree with slut-shaming, because I know that refers to a women having casual sex and using her body how she pleases. However, I don't agree with being a 'slut' as I always saw it, which is apparently not what it really is.

So I have to either keep adding in what I mean anytime I say the word so I can be sure the world knows I am pro-free sex life, or I can come up with a new word.

Heh, after a friend of mine found out an ex had cheated on her and the girl he left her for started messaging her on facebook rubbing it in her face, she, very much a feminist she is, called her a slut. And then felt bad, but I think that goes to show its not something we can reclaim. We're always going to think of a negative meaning.

Honestly for what you mean it to mean, I usually say dickweed. Or douchenozzle. I try to get creative, basically.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by Renatus

almost run out of hope, after that's gone, there's nothing. Thus far it seems like there's more hope of winning the lottery, than hope for anything. What will be left then but a corpse?

Keep hanging in there for tomorrow. It will get better, I promise you, but it make take a few tomorrow to get there.

[Valhalla]

Originally Posted by Saya

Heh, after a friend of mine found out an ex had cheated on her and the girl he left her for started messaging her on facebook rubbing it in her face, she, very much a feminist she is, called her a slut. And then felt bad, but I think that goes to show its not something we can reclaim. We're always going to think of a negative meaning.

Honestly for what you mean it to mean, I usually say dickweed. Or douchenozzle. I try to get creative, basically.

I don't think I'd feel bad for anything I said to someone who did that to me. Seriously, it's one thing to be the 'other woman', but to feel good about it to the point of rubbing it in is just... [word I can't even come up with. Insert colorful swear words instead].

Anyway, now I'm back with a new rant.

When it comes to buying supportive bras I have no idea what I'm doing. I know my size, that's all fine and good, but the problem is I'm cheap and so I always end up with a drawer of those cheap-ish and pretty bras (and a couple of somewhat okay sports bras). Now that I'm getting irritated with boob movement, and am trying to create a closet of ridiculously supportive bras, I am realizing wtf, why are good sports bras so expensive?

Those under armor ones from the commercials are 70 bucks a pop! That's 35 dollars a boob!

And this is why I'm going to end up stocking up on cheap bras from winners/la senza/whatever and just wearing two at a time.

[Saya]

The trick is to go to Sears on a sale weekend.

[Versus]

Under armor is amazing if you can afford it. And they support the wounded warrior project!

[Solumina]

The under armor sports bras are awesome, they are just about the only sports bra that I can really work out in. They are pricy but thankfully there is an under armor outlet not to far from me and their prices aren't bad.


Almost forgot my little rant, I get easily distracted talking about boobies. Anyway my issue is that the harmonic balancer in my car crapped out, meaning that my car is very much not drivable at the moment and it managed to tear up the timing belt covers (which had to be ordered but they overnighted them) so I had to get a rental for today. Naturally this would happen less than 48 hours after Jake sold his car.

[Solumina]

I stubbed my pinky toe and it hurts like fuck

[MissCheyenne]

My boyfriend's gone to America for two and a half weeks and I'm stuck all alone because I have no money to go out and do anything and I'm already bored out of my mind.

[Saya]

I went to register for the spring semester but they're telling me I owe them money and can't register. Its supposed to come out automatically from my student loans so I never really check up on it, its supposed to come out first then I get whatever is left over. As soon as I got what was left over I gave it to my sister for rent for a few months, so its gone now and I don't have the money they want -_-*

[Renatus]

Originally Posted by MissCheyenne

My boyfriend's gone to America for two and a half weeks and I'm stuck all alone because I have no money to go out and do anything and I'm already bored out of my mind.

Where is he here?

[Versus]

Fucking tanks keep setting off my car alarm.

[Versus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkarR...e_gdata_player

I really hope it doesn't kill the battery.

[Solumina]

Can you just disarm the alarm? I know that with some cars the alarm is always on as long as all of the doors are locked (or in some cases as long as the driver's door is locked) but in mine the alarm does not engage if I lock the doors using the key, it only engages if I use the button or if the lock is already on when I close the door.

[Solumina]

I just looked at the clock and I have no idea how it got this late, what the fuck happened to the last couple of hours?

[Versus]

Originally Posted by Solumina

Can you just disarm the alarm? I know that with some cars the alarm is always on as long as all of the doors are locked (or in some cases as long as the driver's door is locked) but in mine the alarm does not engage if I lock the doors using the key, it only engages if I use the button or if the lock is already on when I close the door.

Not at the time, no. The army really frowns upon stopping training for personal issues. Case in point, when my wife tried to kill herself when I was in the field for a month a few years ago, they wouldn't let me leave to see her. I think the only time I've actually done it was when I was point man during the movement up to an objective. I stepped on a cactus that went through my boot and into my heel that was so painful words cannot convey it. I sucked it up until we were at a short halt and asked a buddy to watch my sector while I tried to pull it out, but I needed help getting my boot off because of all the shit I was wearing. Pretty embarrassing, that.

[MissCheyenne]

Originally Posted by Renatus

Where is he here?

He's gone to Florida.

[CuckooTuli]

I've been trying to live by the Buddhist tenet of speech lately that goes "Before you speak, ask yourself: is it true, is it kind, and is it necessary?", and have really been struggling with the part about being kind; there's so much that makes me angry when I look around. And while it always feels righteous, every arsehole in the world thinks their bullshit is justified, right? I'm starting to worry that I'm just becoming embittered, and that a combination of a rough patch in the personal life, and the genuinely fucked-up nature of this world we live in, is slowly turning what I always considered my bullshit detector into nothing more than plain bad temper and hair-trigger aggression.

And on a not-improbably related note, I need to sleep so bad. I'm about two more sleepless nights away from caving and either going back to being a useless lifestyle-stoner, or hitting up the doctor to beg for the pills I've been trying so hard to avoid.

[MissCheyenne]

Most doctors only give a short course of sleeping pills Cuckoo, it's rare they prescribe for over a month. I can understand why you wouldn't want to go on sleeping pills though, those little bastards are addictive.

[CuckooTuli]

Yeah, this is it... having learned the hard way about my bullshit tendencies towards addiction, I really don't want to start a new one. After years of recreational drug use, I have enough contacts that an officially prescribed course coming to an end wouldn't stop me getting hold of more if I was desperate/determined enough. Besides which, it seems pointless - I'd only end up having the exact same problem when the course ended, but with an extra side of self-created craving in the mix.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I'm becoming very unpleasant to be around. :s

[MissCheyenne]

I take short courses of sleeping pills when my normal tablets don't work and my insomnia gets out of hand. If I haven't slept in four or five days, I start hallucinating and have no idea what's real. It gets pretty rough, especially when I think I can see cats everywhere.

[CuckooTuli]

Shit man, that's... wayyyy more extreme than mine! I just get cranky, mess up my sentences when I try to talk to people and generally become a giant bitchy chore of a bundle of nerves who can't hold coffee and nod at the same time without fucking it up. (Also become caught in that sweet spot midway between self-pity & self-loathing... although you probably figured that part out already!)

Still - cats and uncertain reality? Freaky shit, looks like I got off light!

[MissCheyenne]

It freaks me the fuck out when everywhere I go I see cats. Always slinky black cats as well. Seriously messes with my ability to determine what's real or not.

[CuckooTuli]

Damn. I'm not surprised - that's some pretty heavy shit.