Rant Thread II

[Jackson Cutler]

Originally Posted by AshleyO

A friend of mine's wife just left him. They've been married for like.... seven years or whatever. Had kids too.

Here's where it gets fucked up. She came out of the closet (finally). She's homosexual. Where we grew up, being queer would have certainly given someone an excuse to kick the shit out of you or have some church try to Hell shame you to being straight. She wanted so much to be normal that she thought she could be if she got married and had kids and all that. And you know... this is fucked up... you know. I feel REALLY bad for these two people right now.

It's just... FUCK. Homophobia, hetero-normative expectations, this culture of ours... it fucking HURTS people. It hurts good and decent people.

Russell Springs... what a white trash town.

That shit sucks ass. Fuck people making it difficult for other people to be happy.

[Versus]

There are two caragories for the things in my life;

1. Those that make me worried

2. Those that make me angry

[BourbonBoy]

So while rocking my register at work, some dude comes in buzzed out of his head on something that made him hostile for no reason. I get his smokes, he flicks off an old man in the parking lot before following him into the store. After the old man grabs his tire iron, junkie calmly gets into his POS Toyota, pulls up behind the old man in broad daylight with plenty of witnesses mind you, and shoots the old man's car, hitting the bumper before hauling ass down the street.

Good thing the dumbass only had a .22 and the bullet ricocheted. He wasn't too bright, the cops pulled him over and have him in custody. Now I have to go to the police station and be interviewed about what I saw sometime in the next week.

[HumanePain]

FUCK YOU AMERICAN DISTRESS!!!
I knew I should have stuck to one card instead of two.

[HumanePain]

Originally Posted by Solumina

My friend Wil has a detached retina. He's at Hopkins, if anyone can help him they can, but he has a 50/50 chance of losing sight in that eye

They can use photo-coagulation laser treatment to "spot weld" the retina back to the rear of the eyeball. It requires periodic treatment because it only lasts a few years but it is better than going blind.

I wish Wil the best of luck.

[Lilyth Von Gore]

My Grandparents officially no longer have the right to bitch and moan at me for not answering my phone.
I tried to reach both of them today, but my Grandad left his phone at home, and my Gran isn't answering hers. All four times I phoned her.
GAH!

[Miss Absynthe]

Fuck you, Australia.

[BourbonBoy]

Originally Posted by Miss Absynthe

Fuck you, Australia.

What's wrong darling?

[Acharis]

We've only gone and voted Tony Abbott in, haven't we? Well not me. I didn't vote for him.

[Miss Absynthe]

Not only is Tony Abbott Prime Minister, but Pauline Hanson, Bob Katter and Clive Palmer have senate seats.

[BourbonBoy]

Just read Abbott's wiki article. I don't blame you for getting pissed that he's been elected. He sounds like Australia's version of W.

My rant:
I feel bad for waltzing in and out of a young woman's life, but I think it was in our better interests. I haven't spoken to her in days and I'm trying to think of a way to tell her without hurting her feelings.

[Miss Absynthe]

BB.. you can't tell someone something like that without hurting their feelings. And, hurting feelings isn't a reason not to be honest. It sucks that you're both in this position, but the best thing to do is to be honest.

[Lilyth Von Gore]

Wow. I just read quotes from this Tony Abbott guy. He sounds like a dick.
More fool him if his daughters get Cervical Cancer I say.

[Saya]

So Richard Dawkins says mild pedophilia is okay and I don't even want to post it on my facebook because I know so many who will defend whatever he says and does and I don't want to hate everyone right now.

[Solumina]

He basically said you can't judge things done a while ago by today's standard, like the shit does that even mean? He isn't talking about something done centuries ago he is talking about things done in his lifetime, and things that society did not think was acceptable even at that time. It really is just a big ball of "what the fucking shit?".


So...like a month ago (maybe a little more) I cracked my nail and guess what? Now that it is kind of sort of growing out I managed to catch it (on my other hand while closing a ziplock bag) and tear it a good bit farther across. It hurts, the nail is still kind of attached a bit so I can't even really get at the tear to clean it out or put neosporin on it, and it is my right index finger and not being able to use my right index finger is a massive pain in the ass.

On the plus side I can still type pretty damn well without using it.

[ape descendant]

Everything's broken, super glue and duct tape can only do so much.

[Acharis]

Ouchh Solumina. Is it possible to soak it in diluted Dettol so the liquid gets in there? And clip off as much long/loose nail as possible then patch to prevent deeper tearing? She mentions specific products but before I kept my nails super short, I successfully did it by laying tissue/teabag on wet nail hardener then applying more coats to reinforce.


Aww, Ape Maybe superglue and duct tape don't work, but I can fix you with green stuff.


My rant: Share Ken Lay's article > immediately get derailed by 'what about the menz' and 101 statements about false reports.

[Acharis]

Stupid edit. Come to think of it, if it's actually torn into the quick then clipping and covering with bandaid/liquid bandaid might be better.

Also WTF at Dawkins.

[ape descendant]

Wow, Acharis, that sort of thing is pretty infuriating. Especially when you get all the "what about the menz" crap. Stupid gender crap hurts everyone.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm gonna have to go under the drill to fix my ills. Hooray for modern medicine.

[Acharis]

It's ok, I summoned some spoons and righteously schooled both comments. Just pisses me off because when you're constantly having 101 discussions and fielding derails you don't get to have the more complex discussions.

I can still do you a discount deal with a hobby drill and putty? *trololol*


Rant: Feeling ok, going out to eat (excellent) food then getting slightly triggered and becoming a panicky mess. Square one anybody?

[Miss Absynthe]

I usually just link them to articles and tell them to go and educate themselves, and if they want to engage in further discussion that isn't peppered by ignorance, derailing and logical fallacy that I'll be interested in chatting with them then.. and then I go on with what I was saying.

I actually have lists of links in an email I've sent to myself so that I have access to it wherever I am.

I also have a list of about 10 research papers that I can recite the citations to by heart now... this is the sign of arguing about ****-culture TOO MANY FUCKING TIMES.

[Fruitbat]

Originally Posted by ape descendant

Wow, Acharis, that sort of thing is pretty infuriating. Especially when you get all the "what about the menz" crap. Stupid gender crap hurts everyone.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm gonna have to go under the drill to fix my ills. Hooray for modern medicine.

Hugs and love hun. You can drop me an email if you ever need to vent.

Miss A - yeah who the fuck voted for Abbott? Someone did, sure as heck wasn't me!

[BourbonBoy]

I mentioned moving out to SoCal where a childhood friend recently relocated to as a possible place to move out to after finishing my schooling and she basically said, "Don't move out here, since you're a tobacco smoker and we view tobacco smokers as the equivalent as crackheads." In other words, "Don't bother moving out here, because you're too much of my past and I don't want to be reminded of that"

WTF? Over? After nearly 20 years of friendship, she's going to pull this? When she was suicidal and placed into hospital treatment, I was there for her. Even when she revealed to me the self destruction she did to herself, I was there for her when her wrists were covered in half assed razor cuts I supported her. Even after she married an alcoholic schmuck who abused her and she decided to raise her daughters on her own, I've been there for her and her girls, she suddenly decides I shouldn't be in her life aside from the occasional E-mail?

In one of the few times in my life, I'm at a loss for words in my fury at someone else. I've given away relationships for sticking up for her as the little sister I've never had. I've put guys in hospitals for treating her like crap, while also showing her what a real guy will do for a woman he respects.

But after all this time and the blood, sweat and tears we've done for each other, "Don't come around, I'm making a new life and fuck off."

Seriously, what the shit? I don't want to call her a sociopath, but only sociopaths act like this. Only people who've been treated like shit since they were born decide to treat the people closest to them like this act like this doesn't mean anything.

I don't know what else to say, I'm at a loss for words other than sad, furious, betrayed and confused.

I can't help but mention how sad it is to lose someone you thought you knew, but in the end you never truly knew them...

[Acharis]

..um. I'm not good with words. I will pat you awkwardly


I'm awake in the night and I don't like it.
Also is anyone else noticing that posts containing a few links go into a moderation queue?

[Fruitbat]

Oh bollocks!

This morning I cried, while brushing my teeth. the other day, I cried when driving alone in my car. This sucks. I don't cry. the only thing crying gets you is a headache, and red blotchy eyes.

Mr Bat and the specialist are reducing his anti-rejection meds in the hope that it stops being toxic to his kidney. Two outcomes: one his kidney function improves; two, his body rejects his kidney. Wait time: 3-4mths.

oh and the control he thought he had over the situation, well that went out the window, when we found out his bro isn't compatible. So now I'm stepping up to the plate.

Also discovered he has avascular necrosis of the ankles - fucking wonderful. the same thing he had in his hips.

Word of warning to those who take steroids for a reason other than medicinal? Don't. It fucks up your beautiful, precious body.

Oh and we find out next week how much damage has been done to his heart.

Where am I going to find the strength?