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NOTHING but VENTS -- Vent all You Want Without Replies.

Posted by Shannara
ginny
member, 81 posts
Wed 20 Mar 2013
at 01:55
  • msg #351

Re: yay bosses

To the idiot who lives across the street:

SNOW BLOW YOUR DRIVEWAY IN THE MORNING!  ITS 10 PM AND PEOPLE ARE SLEEPING!
temperance
member, 26 posts
Wed 20 Mar 2013
at 12:29
  • msg #352

Vents

I live in the part of Canada that just got 30cm of snow.

I just finish shovelling my driveway - about an hour and fifteen minutes of work.

No sooner do I get inside for some water than the plow goes by and leaves a wall about 3/4 m high across my driveway of hard-packed snow and ice.

ARGH.

Back out I go.
facemaker329
member, 5387 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 21 Mar 2013
at 07:18
  • msg #353

Re: Vents

Man, I thought I was done with these mystery toothaches.  Not yet, apparently, because there's one on the right side of my mouth that seems to wander back and forth between four different teeth.  That would be bad enough in its own right, but it's also causing a reflexive tensing of the muscles on that side of my face, especially my jaw, which is causing me a doozy of a headache that's been going on for almost 30 hours, now.  Even that, I could live with, except it's interfering with my ability to sleep and it gets worse when I lay down.

I may end up reversing my decision to wait on getting that tooth worked on until after my birthday, and just get it over and done with, even if it screws up birthday plans.
AtomicGamer
member, 50 posts
Sat 23 Mar 2013
at 16:45
  • [deleted]
  • msg #354

Re: Vents

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 23:14, Sat 23 Mar 2013.
AtomicGamer
member, 51 posts
Sat 23 Mar 2013
at 18:30
  • [deleted]
  • msg #355

Re: Vents

This message was deleted by a moderator, as it was against the forum rules, at 18:35, Sat 23 Mar 2013.
arkrim
member, 725 posts
Professional Wiseguy
greyscalemail.com
Mon 25 Mar 2013
at 14:03
  • msg #356

Re: Vents

Anyone notice that most GMs that claim they want a "SANDBOX" game are really just saying that they are too lazy or incompetent to come up with an adventure arc? Does that not irk everyone else? Especially those of us who are actually ADEQUATE GMs and can write up a story and scenario description for players to work with instead of just sitting on our butts waiting for someone else to come up with an idea? This new breeds of "sandbox" GMs annoy me. The idea of sandboxing was supposed to give players more freedom within a game teeming with adventure possibilities, not lack adventure altogether while the GM does absolutely nothing to entice players.
This message was last edited by the user at 14:05, Mon 25 Mar 2013.
ZedZed77
member, 226 posts
Mon 25 Mar 2013
at 18:22
  • msg #357

Re: Vents

Bioshock Infinite has been out for like 12 whole hours and no one has posted a video of the ending as far as I can tell. Now I might have to buy it and play all the way through.
Silverlock
member, 53 posts
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 03:05
  • msg #358

Re: Vents

birthdays.

How can a parent forget the birthday of their only surviving child yet have the chutzpah to ask for a favour a day later that requires a great deal of personal time and effort from that same child ?  0H, not to mention this is the second year in a row this has happened.  And forget about apologising for forgetting the birthday...I didn't want anything but a simple "Happy birthday," btw.
Snowmantle
member, 393 posts
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 03:32
  • msg #359

Re: Vents

With the addition of a number of 4-way stop intersections around my town, I've been increasingly annoyed by people who don't know what to do at one.  I don't feel like I need to look this one up to know that if someone adjacent to you at the intersection stops and either flashes their lights or waves for you to go first... THEN GO.  Don't sit there like an ass and wave back for them to go first.

And if you intend to let someone else go before you do... TELL THEM SO... perhaps by flashing your lights or waving them on.  Sitting motionless at the corner staring at them DOES NOT tell them of you're waiting on them, so don't get annoyed when they don't dare move out in front of you because they DON'T KNOW YOUR INTENTION.
arkrim
member, 726 posts
Professional Wiseguy
greyscalemail.com
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 03:49
  • msg #360

Re: Vents

I hate people who aren't grateful when they receive free gifts and assistance. Even when I DON'T want help, I still thank people for their time and politely ask them to leave. But taking free food, free gifts, free help and then COMPLAINING that someone didn't give you enough or the exact right thing that you wanted is just beyond childish.

I sincerely hope there is such a thing as Hell, because I know for a fact people like that would end up permanent residents there (along with rapists, murderers, pedophiles and people who talk in the theater).
flakk
member, 463 posts
Dark Heresy!
Warhammer Fantasy RPG (2)
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 15:34
  • msg #361

Re: Vents

My mother has decided to have a 40th anniversary party this summer and my wife and I were invited along with all my family.  I have not had a chance to see many of my family members in a few years and was really looking forward to this and had planned on trying to get my daughter for the weekend so she can go as well.  I just found out that my mother has also invited my daughter's mother as well.  They hang out together, shop together, go on trips together etc. and I can't stand it!  I can bring my daughter to see her grandparents whenever they want so why does her apple sauce mother need to get an invite to this particular event?  My wife vowed to never interact with my daughter's mother when she had a lawyer threaten me for things she only needed to ask for so she's not going.  Now I don't want to go and participate in yet another example of how my wishes are ignored and my wife is ignored in favour of someone constantly bent on doing me harm.  The fruit salad has already used the good relationship with my mother to gain more leverage thanks to her grapefruit lawyer and I'm sure this will be another example she can use to get even more.  So I either anger my mother who already thinks I am the scum of the earth even more or go without my wife and be physically and mentally stressed out while condoning 10+ years of being marginalized in favour of mom's pet/best buddy.  Either way I am up strawberry creek without a paddle and I am sure this is gong to turn out badly either way it pans out.
Kyra25
member, 1281 posts
Tattooed Jesus Freak
From Indiana
Tue 26 Mar 2013
at 15:58
  • msg #362

Re: Vents

Ok....seriously...

When you ask my 15 year old daughter to go on a Florida trip with you (I live in IN) and you take on the responsibility of her and 4 other girls...I expect you to treat her well and to take care of her.

What I don't expect---

When she and your daughter get into a verbal argument, that you immediately take one side and not even listen to the other.  When you look at my daughter and call her immature and ungrateful.....I don't expect you to look at her and tell her she is ruining your vacation and your daughter's 16th birthday.  I don't expect you to tell her that you wished she hadn't come.  I do NOT expect you to threaten her saying you are going to call the police and have her escorted off the property.  I don't expect you to snoop through her things and know she has $350 for the week then tell her you know she has enough money for bus ticket or air fair.  I don't expect you to tell her you will gladly "dump" her off at the bus station so she can get home because she is no longer welcome there after being there merely TWO days.  I don't expect you to continue to be mean to her when she is crying and upset.  I don't expect you to tell her she is 'getting on your nerves' because her asthma is flared up and she can't stop coughing.  I don't expect you to wake her up long enough to tell her you are leaving then you ALL leave to go to the zoo, leaving her alone at the townhouse.   YES - all of this happened in the course of yesterday.

Seriously wish I had the money to go get her but I don't have $600 lying around like some people.  I am so upset and furious.  It breaks my heart to hear her crying over the phone because ADULTS are treating her like crap.  YOU asked her to come and took on the responsibility.  I thought I could trust you would treat her right and with respect.  I would NEVER do that.  I would have made the girls sit and talk it out and said get along or not but it's going to stop.  No...instead the beat my daughter down verbally.

I.Am.Going.To.Snap.
Dottie_V
member, 33 posts
A compilation of neuroses
And a bad temper too. ;D
Wed 27 Mar 2013
at 19:21
  • msg #363

Re: Vents

Today, I’m going to blueberry and not just because I’m naturally inclined to do so. No today I will blueberry because I am thoroughly angry. “Why?“ You ask, because I had to spend my day at the most inefficient government facility I have ever had the misfortune of setting foot in, the Mexican Consulate. You’d think that serving the 9th, NINTH mulberry fritter largest city in the US with a considerably large Hispanic population, this place would know how to run. WRONG. Good God, get your strawberries together!!! Dx
Twitcherly
member, 16 posts
Counter-Intellectual
Reformed Hedonist
Thu 28 Mar 2013
at 20:47
  • msg #364

Re: Vents

I'm currently enrolled in a mandatory graduate course on 'Emerging Web Technologies'. The fact I'm taking a class about how Twitter, Pinterest and TumblR are the future of the internet is frustrating in and of itself. The icing on the cake, however, is that the professor demonstrates virtually no knowledge about any of these technologies herself. Somehow this professor has lied into a position administering a course where she knows almost nothing about the subject matter. I pay for this class out of pocket and its extremely expensive. I feel robbed and there's nothing I can do about it besides file a complaint about it after the fact.

I'm sick of this trend in higher education. Even in undergrad, most of the professors have virtually stopped teaching. Instead they focus on lengthy assignments, student presentations and a constant bombardment of student content facilitated by web-based programs. When they do talk, its like they haven't prepared anything and just spend their time on these tangents. I thought that I would have escaped this in Graduate school, but nope. The teachers that work extremely hard don't seem to get any more recognition than the lazy professors who have decided to stop teaching almost entirely. Its disgusting to see this first hand and have to pay for the privilege.
TheWarriorPoet519
member, 1343 posts
Resident porch-squatting
stick-shaker
Sun 31 Mar 2013
at 17:06
  • msg #365

Re: Vents

A note to extraverts everywhere: if you see me quietly reading in a public place away from the crowd, it does not mean I am lonely and want someone to talk to. It means I am reading. Please, I'm fine, really. Leave me be.
Seanberry
member, 34 posts
Mon 1 Apr 2013
at 00:24
  • msg #366

Re: Vents

GRRRAAAAHHHHHH.  For some unknown reason my FRAGGING phone has decided today to update my id pic when text from being my blank information to for SOME reason to another of my contacts.  I can find sweet FRAG all nothing on my phone manufactorers website to help, so after 2 hours of looking I emailed them and get it'll be 24 hours.  Yes it's minor, but its REALLY annoying for me and I want my phone back the way it was.
habsin4
member, 612 posts
Putting old paper in new
boxes since 2005
Tue 2 Apr 2013
at 15:34
  • msg #367

Re: Vents

Leaving one of the office suites in my workplace, and a woman pushing a cart is ahead of me.  I work in a university library, and I guess she is a student by age and dress.  She holds the door for me, and as I walk out I say "Thanks.  I feel like I should have held the door for you....because you're pushing a cart."

Except "you're pushing a cart" is drowned out by her saying loudly "Times are a-changing, huh?"

Now, its all awkward and instead of say "No, no, I didn't mean that in a sexist, you're-a-woman way, I meant that you're pushing a cart" I just give a forced laugh and say "Yeah."

Now some student out there thinks one of the librarians is a sexist pig.  Great.
cero1
member, 304 posts
Wed 3 Apr 2013
at 02:25
  • msg #368

Re: Vents

So as I see the GMs of half the games I am in disappear, I'd like a game in the Players - Wanted forum to use a system I enjoy playing in and not another bloody D&D/Pathfinder game... or not be an Adult-Rated Sandbox University game for once.

Or a game where the GM has checked there would be interest before making a game for their niche idea so I'm not the only player.

And screw home-brew.

T_T'

Is that too much to ask of a game?
facemaker329
member, 5418 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Wed 3 Apr 2013
at 05:26
  • msg #369

Re: Vents

Man, I don't know whether it's worse enduring the tooth-ache now, or if I'd be more miserable sitting through orientation at work in a couple of days after having a wisdom tooth taken out.  I already rescheduled the dentist appointment for next week...I just hope I can hold out that long.

And it's not JUST the toothache.  I reflexively clench my jaw in response to pain...which creates pressure on the nerves running up the side of my head to my temples, so THOSE muscles tense up and I get a headache.  And the pressured nerves also react as though receiving pain stimuli from my mouth...so the toothache goes from being in the one tooth that I KNOW has a problem to all along my upper jaw, to the tooth in my lower jaw that I got the crown on last year, to half the teeth in my lower jaw, and then back to the joint...

I'm having a long, LONG evening tonight, can you tell?
Dottie_V
member, 34 posts
A compilation of neuroses
And a bad temper too. ;D
Wed 3 Apr 2013
at 06:04
  • msg #370

Re: Vents

Ear infections make me weep.
facemaker329
member, 5423 posts
Gaming for most of
30 years, and counting!
Thu 4 Apr 2013
at 07:50
  • msg #371

Re: Vents

As if the toothache wasn't enough...I don't know for sure what it is, but I think something I ate over the weekend has really disagreed with me.  I'll spare the more gruesome details, but the most uncomfortable one has been the continuous slight pressure in my abdomen...it's like someone's pushing on my solar plexus from the inside, not hard enough to be painful, just uncomfortable.  And nothing I've tried has done anything about it.

If I was an appliance, I'd swear I'd just passed the end of my warranty period...still having problems with tendonitis and bursitis, the toothache is causing a chronic headache, and now something is giving me pain in my mid-section (which would concern me more if it was accompanied by any other symptoms of note, especially a lack of appetite.  Nope...been hungry as usual all day...)

Can I please get back to a relatively pain-free state again?  (Okay, now I'm just whining.  The stomachache and toothache have only been a few days...I should really save that kind of grousing for when it's been weeks with no relief and no hope for relief.  Because I know people who have to live with that.)
Mustard Tiger
member, 428 posts
Thu 4 Apr 2013
at 19:15
  • msg #372

Re: Vents

I hate the following:

Wife beaters.

Drug dealers.

Drug users.

People who think suicide is the only way out.

People like me, who didn't do enough to help.
ginny
member, 90 posts
Thu 4 Apr 2013
at 20:33
  • msg #373

Re: Vents

Trying to help my 10 year old with her algebra homework :P
adrasteia1
member, 1190 posts
Even a small star
shines in the darkness
Fri 5 Apr 2013
at 15:45
  • msg #374

Re: Vents

*Grumbles*

I was just looking at some jobs available over here and found an online marketing job that sounded rather cool. That was until I learned it was an unpaid internship, but only applicants with a degree in marketing and experience with html and search engines need apply.

There are far too many internships over here where companies are looking for interns to work full time for nothing or for a small amount on top of benefits. A lot of these sorts of positions were once jobs in their own right. It's not just higher level jobs, either. There are internships for reception, shop jobs, IT jobs, etc. I even saw one advertised for an intern to work in a bakery.

It's just frustrating that just about every job I want to apply for is now classified as an internship.
KaiWriter
member, 30 posts
Fri 5 Apr 2013
at 16:47
  • msg #375

Re: Vents

Dear stupid blueberry in the apartment below me,

When you have a wild party on a Thursday night and have a bunch of screaming and shouting half-drunk people, please do not be surprised when I call the campus police on you. Just because you do not have anything to do tomorrow doesn't mean we all have the day off.
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