Rant Thread II - Page 276

MissCheyenne · 01-23-2012, 03:19 AM

Ugh, I feel terrible all the time. I'm always cold, always tired and I'm constantly thirsty. I thought it was side effects from my medications but now I'm not so sure so I'm off to the doctors in a couple of days as it's the first appointment I could get. I hope he sorts me out, I'm fed up of feeling crap all the time.

in.the.moon · 01-23-2012, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Valhalla

I did the same thing yesterday.

& the worst thing is that they celebrate for at least 15 days, especially since it's the year of the dragon...

Renatus · 01-23-2012, 09:53 PM

Year of the snake is better... no I'm not biased in favor of snakes... sure in harry potter I favor slitherin.... and I would love to have a pet snake...I even have a giant carnival game snake prize... and I'm born in the year of the snake... But I'm not biased...*hissesss and bares fangs*

Saya · 01-25-2012, 09:32 PM

The war course I"m taking this semester is interesting and Im glad I'm taking it, but good god what I learn keeps pissing me off. I'm reading a chapter about Cambodia, and its horrific, but its things I knew before so its not hurting as bad as the Vietnam War stuff did. And then, BAM. Jimmy Carter supported Pol Pot? Really?

Alan · 01-25-2012, 10:15 PM

Can you tell me a little more about what you found about Cambodia? It's one of the few countries of whom I don't know the extent of American intervention.

Saya · 01-25-2012, 10:50 PM

I'd really recommend this book to you, dude. Its A People's History Of The Vietnam War by Jonathan Neale and has a whole chapter on what happened on Cambodia and Vietnam after the Americans left Vietnam.

Firstly, the American government was very bitter about losing the Vietnam War. It was very embarrassing that a powerful country couldn't defeat a country of rice farming peasants, and the American soldiers had rebelled and refused to fight, which made the powers that be afraid to fight a land war again for a long time. So America wanted to punish Vietnam for the humiliation. In the peace talks Americans promised to pay five billion dollars in reparations, but never did pay up. It claimed Hanoi was keeping American soldiers as prisoners of war, despite insistance from the Vietnamese that those MIA were dead. They were determined that Vietnam stayed poor and miserable. China allied itself with the US on that one, as it had developed a rivalry with the Soviet Union and the Vietnamese refused to side with China. It just goes to show how pissed the American government was, during the Vietnam War and during the uprising, they bombed the shit out of Cambodia to try and prevent another communist governement. According to Neale, "In six months in 1973, they dropped one and a half times the tonnage of all the bombs dropped on Japan in the whole of World War Two. Cambodia was a small country, with 4 or 5 million people...several hundred thousand people died in those six months, perhaps a tenth of the population, perhaps more. No country before or since has been subjected to bombing of that scale and intensity." So for them to suddenly side with the people they were so determined to wipe off the map just a few years before, its really telling of how much they hated Vietnam.

Pol Pot's reign of terror angered many Cambodians, but he was very racist against Vietnamese, and assumed it was all their fault, so he commited genocide against ethnic Vietnamese and would raid against the border. So when Vietnam invaded Cambodia, they expected stiff resistance, but Cambodians were so fed up with Pol Pot it was very easy for them to push back Pol Pot's group (Khmer Rouge) and they would have done away with them easily. But the Chinese, Thai and American government decided to back them. They were allowed to rest in Thailand and return to Cambodia under the guise of humanitarian aid, supplied with food, money and arms. The US fought to keep the UN seat for Pol Pot instead of the Vietnamese backed government. It wasn't until the Vietnamese had to withdraw that they seemed to feel embarrassed about supporting a mass murderer.

Victoria Lovecraft · 01-26-2012, 06:26 PM

A guy from my school found my e-mail address after I friended him on Facebook. He keeps sending me messages telling me how lovely I look, following me to my classes, and is now trying to turn himself Steampunk (and failing) and attempting to quote Poe in an English accent to impress me. It was flattering at first, but now it's just creepy.

If anyone actually reads this, and I doubt you will: Please don't think me to be some kind of conceited bitch or tell me "just enjoy the fact that someone likes you".
I always just accept the compliments with a courteous "Thank You!" and say nothing more. I'm not really sure how to tell him to knock it the fuck off, because he's a nice boy and all, but frankly he annoys me and has the intellect of a gnat. He also kind of doesn't have any friends (in our school, anyway) so I would kind of feel like a huge arse if I started avoiding him or blocked him.

God dammit. I need a cup of tea.

Solumina · 01-27-2012, 12:57 AM

I hate when people are more critical of my food than they are of their own, especially vegans who berate me for using honey in my tea while they sip away on coffee without a second thought to the slave labor and deforestation rampant within the coffee industry.

Acharis · 01-27-2012, 03:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Saya

Its flats though, right? You did make a comment to the woman but most likely other people in the flats aren't happy either, when someone reports it could be anyone. I had some problems with people living above me when I lived in an apartment building and they knew it was me complaining a lot (I used to hit the floor with my broom, like you would, and they'd just stamp their feet to piss me off.) They were violent types and I had to call the cops twice, but in the end they got evicted and they had no basis for knowing it was my complaints that did that. Everyone in the building complained about them, it turned out.

Plus, taking kids away tends to be a last resort.

Thanks Saya and Sol.

Don't you worry about me stopping due to risk to myself, in this mood I'm going to report until like clockwork until something changes.

Acharis · 01-27-2012, 04:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Victoria Lovecraft

A guy from my school found my e-mail address after I friended him on Facebook. He keeps sending me messages telling me how lovely I look, following me to my classes, and is now trying to turn himself Steampunk (and failing) and attempting to quote Poe in an English accent to impress me. It was flattering at first, but now it's just creepy.

If anyone actually reads this, and I doubt you will: Please don't think me to be some kind of conceited bitch or tell me "just enjoy the fact that someone likes you".

I wouldn't ever say that, you have every right to choose what you're comfortable with or who you're into. (Or not.)

I'm having the same problem with a young man I don't really know, he harasses me on the forum and follows me around the club. I wish he'd go away.

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Originally Posted by Victoria Lovecraft

I always just accept the compliments with a courteous "Thank You!" and say nothing more. I'm not really sure how to tell him to knock it the fuck off, because he's a nice boy and all, but frankly he annoys me and has the intellect of a gnat. He also kind of doesn't have any friends (in our school, anyway) so I would kind of feel like a huge arse if I started avoiding him or blocked him.

God dammit. I need a cup of tea.

Word to the wise: Facebook lists.

Put him into 'Restricted' list, which won't unfriend him but will hide from him anything you don't make public. Or if that's too harsh, put him into 'Acquaintances' - then where appropriate use the option to 'show this status to Friends but not Acquaintances'. (It'll be visible under the image of the lock when you're about to post.) Also do that for your contact info.

That way you aren't excluding him but you can still choose what information he can see.

Acharis · 01-27-2012, 04:37 AM

Damn 7 minute edit.

*Also tell him to stop actually following you. That is creepy, and not unreasonable for you to ask him to stop.

Victoria Lovecraft · 01-27-2012, 05:57 AM

Thank you, Acharis! I hadn't thought of the lists feature on Facebook....

MissCheyenne · 01-27-2012, 08:03 AM

Well, I'm sick of being ill now. I've got to have some blood taken next week for some tests. I'm tired, fed up and no one wants to employ me.

Solumina · 01-27-2012, 11:49 AM

It should not be 70* in January, it just isn't right. I don't understand how so many people can be thrilled about it, yeah I know ice and slush aren't exactly fun to drive in but clearly something is very, very wrong. This isn't a mild winter this is mild for spring or fall, and it is wreaking havoc on the wildlife and I'm honestly quite worried what is going to happen if this continues.

Xombie · 01-27-2012, 10:17 PM

The Farmer's Almanac predicts that, in addition to the weirdly mild temperatures this winter, the coming spring is going to be particularly cold and shitty. That's a bummer.

On a different note, Paul Anka is the fucking WORST.

in.the.moon · 01-28-2012, 11:44 AM

Fuck it! I don't care if I have to sacrifice some money saved for my boobs or my new wardrobe, I'm taking professional driving courses!

If it wasn't for that holding me back I could've already accomplished a lot

Valhalla · 01-31-2012, 09:00 AM

There's a snow storm outside. I call work "We're open and you have to come in for your three hour shift"
It's going to be dead there, because of the snow storm, but apparently they already cut hours and if they don't need me they'll call.

If I show up and for whatever reason partway though they tell me I can go home I'm going to put in my two weeks notice.

EDIT: Oh disregard that whole thing. Bus service just went off the road so I can stay home.

Solumina · 01-31-2012, 02:40 PM

You have a snowstorm? We haven't even been dipping below freezing at night, today we hit 70*(F). I'm pretty jealous of the snow (but not shitty driving conditions and all of the other lovely side effects).

Versus · 01-31-2012, 05:04 PM

The weather here hasn't been as stellar as it is for Sol, but I can't complain. I think it's only snowed twice since mid-December. Also, I'm afraid that talking about will jinx me.

So my Battlefield 3 rant.

I can't understand why people are so fucking stupid. Today, a co-worker told me that the 320 has smoke grenades available. I honestly didn't believe him at first because I have never, not once, seen anybody use them online. He had to google it on his phone, but sure as shit, they're there. Albeit, they're a hundred times more effective then their real life equivalent to point of actually being useful, but still.

What I want to fucking know is: WHY THE FUCK DOES NOBODY USE THEM?! Now I finally understand why I lose all the fucking time. My team is content to be drawn into indecisive firefights, lobbing rockets down corridors and sniping on the other side of no man's land like it's fucking world war 1.

Hey, guys and gals, here's a fucking thought: Maybe if we used smoke after establishing fire superiority to MANEUVER UNDER SOME FUCKING CONCEALMENT through the other team's flank or weakest positions, we could win this stupid shit instead of only spawning to charge into certain death again.

But what the fuck do I know? Go ahead and do you.

MissCheyenne · 02-01-2012, 03:57 AM

The woman who took my blood this morning wasn't exactly gentle and now I have a huge bruise forming. It's right in the elbow bend (is there a name for that spot?) and it's sore as fuck.

Apathy's_Child · 02-01-2012, 05:09 AM

What's up, MC? You sick brah?

MissCheyenne · 02-01-2012, 05:20 AM

Yeah, I'm sick and I don't know why so the doctor is running tests.

Apathy's_Child · 02-01-2012, 05:48 AM

Daaaamn. Hope it's nothing serious when they figure it out. Let us know what's up.

MissCheyenne · 02-01-2012, 06:00 AM

Thanks man. I'm sure it's nothing major, probably just my body reacting to all the stress of last year but it's best to get it all checked out.

Solumina · 02-01-2012, 12:42 PM

Stress can do some nasty things to you, throw countless systems out of whack, manifest itself into physical strain and whatnot. Take care of yourself and remember that even if it is just stress that it needs to be treated carefully.