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Ooh, ooh, another one.  People that have to have a conversation with you EVERY TIME you're on at the same time as them.  That drives me nuts.  There are two people that are constantly online right now and do it to me everytime, and it's getting so bad I'm actually avoiding going online sometimes.  Worse yet they're people I know IRL, so if I just ignore them, they call me.

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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

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This post does NOT belong here. It is being spoilered for those who want to read it, and I believe it needs to stay here for points I need to make. I suggest it not be deleted or edited by anyone.

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sorry neal -- please just give me 1 last response in the forum rather than in pm.  i TRIED so help me God to keep it out of the forum, but he didn't respect my request to move to PMs and thus i think i should have another chance in the forum myself.  if no, just erase this post.  sorry in advance.   Quote The Bible was never written in Greek, it was written in Hebrew and Latin. are you some kind of idiot?!?!?  i won't bother to justify this with a responce...at least tenshi/akuma knew what languages the Book was written in.  honestly.  and before you try to reply, yes, james' scholars translated from the original GREEK.  1604 i believe -- not that the year matters.  do you really think no one studied The Bible until they decided to translate it into english? Quote Considering the fact that homosexuality was not shunned in Rome or Greece, where the religions took off, I find it difficult to believe that the original texts ever actually included anything about homosexuality. you are quite welcome to view an original GREEK (not latin sry) version of The Bible on your own time.  can't speak it?  damn.  go see someone who does.  i know two people who do, my pastor and a friend dmitris.  both of them recognise that the apostle paul clearly and explicitly condemns homosexual acts, and only one of them is even christian (i'll give you a guess).  remember, this religion was PROSECUTED HEAVILY by the roman authority.  if anything, this evidences the exact opposite of what your insubstantial argument implies -- that the early christians were obviously angering the romans by SOME means -- the most probable being their espousal of a religious code that condemned many of the romans' daily activities such as gluttony, idolatry, witchcraft, and sexual immorality. Quote Again, considering that that "book" that the clergy has been studying is thousands of years old, the odds of them having the word for word original texts is slim to nil. perhaps not (at least for the new testament), but there was only one major greek edition of The Bible prior to the printing press, and it's mroe likely than not that this edition was not greatly altered. Quote I think I will argue this point, considering the fact that, once again, the original texts, which are probably lost, are thousands of years old, what the modern word means means nothing. The evolution of a word over time does not change it's meaning in the past. first, etymology and language evolution are excellent tools for interpretation of old texts.  don't assume that the word just changed meaning magically.  second, if you're talking about the original JEWISH texts, you, again, exhibit your complete, absolute, unmitigated lack of understanding about the points that you are attempting and failing to argue.  go to israel and tell them their original texts have been lost.  or really, any orthodox jewish community.  regardless of that, i believe i emphasised that the old testament code has very little bearing on modern CHRISTIAN beliefs since we are under a new testament (hence the collective name of the last 27 books of The Bible).  thus, you are arguing either a moot point or you are arguing against my other point, which is impossible to do.  "sleeping w/ another man" still means "sleeping w/another man."  in any language.  even latin. Quote Because when the words were translated to "modern" languages, not everyone was a reliable source, you can't trust the meaning of words completely. I believe it was the King of England who payed the men translating the Bible to mistranslate words on purpose, namely the portion on Witches. It was mistranslated as a means of controlling the people, so you never know. It might just be that there was never anything against homosexuality, but a simple mistranslation with purpose for a long lost king. no, the king of england did not ever do any such thing.  that is an old fable used by wiccans and other angsty, neo-goth teenagers in desperate need of attention or some weed to try to justify their cry-for-help lifestyle.  we have a torah.  it definitely talks about the occult.  and the new testament unarguably mentions the practice of witchcraft in many places (the most famous mentions are by john the beloved and paul).  don't throw out crap like this (and several other things you've tried to argue above) and expect people to take you seriously. Quote Also, again on the lines of mistranslation.. When the bible was translated, it was during a time of immense greed for the clergy, as well as corruption. The masses, who were unable to read or write in Latin, had no means of disproving the content of the modern language bible. This could be a big problem. luckily, we have those very means now!  or was, as you keep insisting, EVERY SINGLE PRE-TRANSLATION BIBLICAL TEXT LOST?  i certainly think not.  and you should certainly think MORE, i.e., before you speak. Quote The Bible says that the Christian God is infallable, or he cannot be wrong, in simpler words. Thus, many people would argue that the Bible must be correct. However, you fail to remember the Bible was written by man. And while God might be right all the time, man is subject to falter, and is capable of being wrong. and thus one final asinine statement that proves you are entirely unqualified to argue on this matter.  thanks though -- you've really helped me a lot more than you've helped the other side of the argument.

How about people that pretend to be your friends when your around them and will hang out with you etc. but then go and talk crap about you behind your back, just because other people are. Jeez, I barely know ANY loyal people in real life. Everyone talks crap about everyone it seems sometimes.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Next person to debate Christianity in this thread gets banned.

There's my vent for the moment.

Oh, and also, those little paper pads under the steaks you get at the market. Why are they paper? Don't they understand that paper will STICK to your meat? I want to grill sirloin, not a bloody notebook.



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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Quote (Rangers51 @ 18 Jun 2003, 17:41)

Next person to debate Christianity in this thread gets banned. There's my vent for the moment. Oh, and also, those little paper pads under the steaks you get at the market. Why are they paper? Don't they understand that paper will STICK to your meat? I want to grill sirloin, not a bloody notebook.

yeah.. similar thing with Fish 'N' Chips. why cant they put TWO bits of grease-proof paper down (or in the case of chippies, not use yesterdays Daily Record so that the batter, soaked in vinegar, does not get stuck to the paper?

ghaa. doesnt matter if yer after a good old american steak or best-of-british saturating fats in fish, theres still something made of cellulose spoiling it..

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

People who make false rumors. Examples: Ramza as a Dark Knight (FFT), reviving various dead characters, and various other things you can't do (off the top of my head: defeating Balio and Sunder in Cedar Woods (Breath of Fire III)).

Please, I created this topic to Vent... not debate.


My qualm this post:


People making fun of mentally or physically disabled persons.


Ok, I was hanging out with a couple friends of friends from Hartford. And we were walking down a street and we saw a little kid in a wheelchair being helped out of the van. And one of the guys I was with began yelling at him and berrating him. And everyone laughed at him and I couldn't understand why. Later, at a pizza place, we saw a mentally retarded girl helped eating pizza. And the same thing happened, they began making jokes about her and yelling prety nasty stuff her way.

I dont' understand what is "so cool" about doing that. What is it about making fun of someone who has a handicap that makes them feel big? Do they get a kick out of saying "Hey retard!"? I'm sorry, but I dont' see the fun of going up to someone with down-syndrome and saying something like "You'll never be able to drive or live on your own or anything... and I find that hilarious because it's not happening to ME!" or saying to a person who has lost feeling in his legs "I'm going to go play basketball and then I'm going on a two-mile jog... Want to join me? Oh wait... YOU CAN'T!" as good quality entertainment.
The entire time I was with those guys, I hardly said anything positive or anything to them. I kept dissing them hard and they never figured out why. It annoys me though. What do people get through degradation of people who aren't the same as them? I mean, you can kid and poke fun at people who are mentally and physically the same as you just as long as they know you're kidding. But for god's sake, why make a steak joke to a cow? (just an example)

I dunno, that's what annoys me right now

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Air force... if you ever join the militant wing, join the Air force

Army = jockos
Navy = seasick nerds
Marines = show offs
PeaceCorp = hippies

AF is the way to go

Quote (mookie99 @ 22 Jun 2003, 00:57)

People making fun of mentally or physically disabled persons.

Absolutely.  That makes my blood boil.  Especially since I spent 8 years in Special Ed. myself, I know how if feels to be made fun of just because of a disability.  Seriously, how low must your self-esteem be to be making fun of someone like that?

I also thought of a few new ones:

I absolutely hate the...... opinion of a good chunk of the gay community that insists that all gay people who are in the closet are hurting the gay rights movement.  If this were a perfect world where all gay men and lesbians could be out, that would be great.  But, seeing as we don't live in a world like that, that's rather difficult.  Many people who are in the closet have to be; if they come out, they could their job, children, etc., or they could even be attacked.  That, and people who say, "Hi, my name's __, I'm gay."  You dont' see straight people going around saying, "Hi, I'm straight."  I, for one, wait until someone get's to know me, and then tell them that I happen to be gay.  That way, if they have any preconceived notion about gay people, they won't let that get in the way, and I might even change their perception.  

It really annoys me when DVDs dont' come with anything, like behind the scenes stuff.  I hate it when all you get is the movie, a scene selection menu, and language options  Take advantage of the medium, please.

This might irk some people, but I hate RPG newbies who act like FFVII, VIII, and X are the  only FF's that are worth playing, and will look at you like you're crazy when you say that one of the other's is your favorite.  I was recently talking to a guy in a chat room, and FF happened to come up in the conversation.  I said FFVI is my favorite, and he literally said, "No... VII is better."

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"I sat alone and I didn't care,
I sat two years in the same old chair,
I saw three roads but didn't know,
Which way to go-go-go"
My Coco, stellastarr*

Quote (BGrugby @ 13 Jun 2003, 21:08)

Also, TODAYS MUSIC SUCKS, there are no good bands left and all the old good ones (i.e. Metallica, Aerosmith) have sold out. Sorry if this offends anyone but I can't stand music today it is all crap. Alot of people say rock n' roll died with John Lennon, I believe it died with Kurt Cobain. Since then there has not been one good band. End of story.

I have to only agree with 80% of that comment. Yes Nirvana is and was one of my favorite bands but I DO NOT believe it died with them. What about Pearl Jam? Or Rage Against The Machine who broke up and combined with Soundgarden to make Audioslave? The Vines, the White Stripes? Smashing Pumpkins didnt die with Cobain (they broke up in 2000) but they produced some of the best music. How about Radiohead? Jebus. And Green Day and Offspring.

Quote (tenshi/akuma @ 22 Jun 2003, 22:15)

This might irk some people, but I hate RPG newbies who act like FFVII, VIII, and X are the  only FF's that are worth playing, and will look at you like you're crazy when you say that one of the other's is your favorite.  I was recently talking to a guy in a chat room, and FF happened to come up in the conversation.  I said FFVI is my favorite, and he literally said, "No... VII is better."

I agree completely.

I often find I have the reverse problem, especially so working on a site which deals primarily with the older games.  Quite a few people come here with the opposite elitist attitude, that only FFs prior to 7 were any good, and you're some kind of graphics-tart newbie if you prefer something later (FF7 is my personal favourite).

In fact, it was on my own forums one time that a former CoN poster migrated over and told me I was wrong to prefer FF7 in a favourite FF topic.

I wish people would understand.  Different people like different things.  The older games are different from the newer ones, but they all have merits and appeal to a subtly different group.

Even FF8.

Well I'm amazed no one has mentioned their work place. So must be cool to work in a different country.

Well My workplace everyone gets along fine and I don't have any beef with anyone. One thing that did tick me off is when one supervisor had to go kiss up to the boss and get another supervisor in trouble big time just so he could get power. I work in a hospital kitchen and there's no power to be had. No one played power struggles until now. The supervisor that got in trouble had worked there for years and I mean decades, she won't retire. She works her but off and this other guy holds up everyone else with their jobs. Thats the only thing I got ticked off about ever. Ok my job is boring but we have to get money one way or another.

I agree with the disability thing, as well. As some of you know, I can't hear out of one ear, and when I was a kid a lot of other stupid kids thought this meant that I couldn't hear at the same range that they could. So they'd shout in my bad ear, expecting me somehow to not hear the shout in my other ear, and all sorts of stupid things. People are weird. Then as I got older, in high school, I'd notice my friends, who were defensive and protective towards me if anyone said anything about my hearing, making fun of others for mental disabilities or body deformations. It was just wrong, and odd that they couldn't see me in those other people.

Also, my other pet peeve are people who don't respect vegetarians and/or vegans. I personally don't care if you all eat meat, but I don't want any of it. Yet there are people out there who will make fun of me for it. Also, why don't grocery stores and restaurants have more vegetarian options? I know we're a minority, but it wouldn't kill them to at least offer cooked veggies and veggie burgers not done in the beef fat. And more veggie stuff in the grocery stores. If not just for the vegetarians, it's good, healthy food for those trying to lose weight, right?

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

Quote (Tiddles the Cat @ 22 Jun 2003, 18:23)

Quote (tenshi/akuma @ 22 Jun 2003, 22:15) This might irk some people, but I hate RPG newbies who act like FFVII, VIII, and X are the  only FF's that are worth playing, and will look at you like you're crazy when you say that one of the other's is your favorite.  I was recently talking to a guy in a chat room, and FF happened to come up in the conversation.  I said FFVI is my favorite, and he literally said, "No... VII is better." I agree completely. I often find I have the reverse problem, especially so working on a site which deals primarily with the older games.  Quite a few people come here with the opposite elitist attitude, that only FFs prior to 7 were any good, and you're some kind of graphics-tart newbie if you prefer something later (FF7 is my personal favourite).

You took the exact thought right out of my head after I read tenshi's post. I come across alot of "enlightened" people who think that only the "true, old school" ff's etc. are any good. And like Tiddles said, if you don't agree than your just another follower who's only into flashy graphics and eye candy. I mean, instead of just being the mediocre simpleton, maybe I actually believe FF7(or which ever) is the better game?

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Also, why don't grocery stores and restaurants have more vegetarian options? I know we're a minority, but it wouldn't kill them to at least offer cooked veggies and veggie burgers not done in the beef fat. And more veggie stuff in the grocery stores. If not just for the vegetarians, it's good, healthy food for those trying to lose weight, right?

Well my sister's a vegitarian and she doesn't have much trouble at all finding things and alternatives down here in Wisconsin. Most grocery stores around here have vegetarian sections and the like.

Also, this can be just a really general thing, but how about not being able to do something, or not having the capability to do something, and it's completely out of your control? There's nothing you can do about it. I HATE that. I hate knowing that I'm not in control of whatever I want to do.



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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

heres something annoying MILLIONS of people in Britain right now. Wimbledon. It puts Neighbours, the Weakest Link, Malcom in the Middle and The Simpsons off air. Its only on BBC1, and 2, and 3, and 4, and news 24, and CBBC, and Cebeebies, and BCC Parliament... okay, so im exxagerating a wee bit but trust me, the BBC would love it if it was true.
And what is tennis? two eejits in whiter than white clothes whacking a wee ball about for hours in the third most boring game to watch (after snooker if you dont know the rules and darts if you dont know the rules.)

on the plus side, no Ainsly Harriot, britains second most loathed daytime TV personality*

*After Tony 'we know they have WMD's cos we kept the invoices, and if they dont pay up they're not getting any more' Blair

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

I know one it's not annoying, and he's an administrator.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Thought of another one (I can't stop thinking of things that piss me off).  I HATE it when people refer to those of us who are Scottish as "Scotch"(even though I'm only Scottish through descent; that, and our name doesn't show up in any registers).  We are not a drink, we are a people; it's either Scottish or Scot.





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"I sat alone and I didn't care,
I sat two years in the same old chair,
I saw three roads but didn't know,
Which way to go-go-go"
My Coco, stellastarr*

s'funny, no one dares to call me scotch in the middle of Glasgow whilst the Argyle and Sutherland highlander regiment walk by in full BDU with rifles... and bayonets. they do not like it up em...

we show up on registers, unsurprisngly, in the UK. ho hum...
and.. thats all really. im not that angry right now.. ah, yes, the fact my server keeps disconnecting, that makes me angry.. stupid British Telecom! also, they wont install Broadband where i am...

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

I am not Scottish I'm 100% Irish. But it does kinda bother me when people refure to Scottish people as scotch...I agree there not a drink lol.

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Things have not changed
You have changed

Henery David Thoreau

And so here I am at 12:30 in the morning starting to vent.  Ohh jeezbus I need a vacation.  But from what is the question of the day...

But what really cooks my can of corn is my bad karma.  It's selective (thank you Lady Luck!!!) but it hits in the worst way.  I'm no James Dean, but I can not get a date!!!  Typical problem, but i don't think so anymore...  I'm currently 0 out of 8 at the end of my junior year at high school, and the trend'll probably keep going.  I'm no social nothing either, I know how to converse and mingle.

But the point (if I ever get to it, I can be kinda garrolous) is that I'm a lucky guy (hell, I win all sorts of crap for little reason...) But...it's like a conspiracy!!!  Lady Luck must be taking bribes from my fanatical man-hating-feminist mortal enemy and jinxin' me!  There's got to be some way to reverse this bad karma (and hopefully make sure my mortal enemy gets her just reward...I love it when karma works in my favor...Thank you lady Luck!!!)  This July I might get the chance to make it all right...

Maybe I'm unlucky

...or stupid

Wish me some luck (even though I got it coming out of my pores...don't think about that too much though.)

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Really Random Quote of the Day: "Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war." - Richard M. Nixon

So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

Quote (Elena99 @ 22 Jun 2003, 19:20)

Also, my other pet peeve are people who don't respect vegetarians and/or vegans. I personally don't care if you all eat meat, but I don't want any of it. Yet there are people out there who will make fun of me for it. Also, why don't grocery stores and restaurants have more vegetarian options? I know we're a minority, but it wouldn't kill them to at least offer cooked veggies and veggie burgers not done in the beef fat. And more veggie stuff in the grocery stores. If not just for the vegetarians, it's good, healthy food for those trying to lose weight, right?

Ha! I get the opposite as my pet peeve. I have a friend who's vegan and who hangs around other vegans. I've been told I'm "going to hell" for eating meat and even when I was vegetarian at the time been criticised for that (having animal based products you FIEND!). They're really not a friendly bunch, the overzealous militant vegans/tree huggers group.

And yes, I have also been criticised for being a vegetarian (sometimes). My dad told me, "You're not going to lose weight that way" or similar things from other people pertaining to my weight/size and being a vegetarian.

Can't win with people.

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kame, tortue, tortuga, schildkröte, tartaruga, turtle

"Arthur Dent?"
"Yes."
"Arthur Philip Dent?"
"Yes."
"You're a total knee biter."

My worst problem? Girls and all their image problems. I can't stand it! Girls just don't listen to guys, ever. "I'm too fat, just look at me." No, you are not fat whatsoever. "I can't eat that! It'll make me fat!" "I need to lose weight, I just lost 15 pounds in the past month but that's not good enough." Jeez, I just can't stand hearing about it anymore. If you lose anymore fricken weight your gonna turn into a pile of bones, and that is NOT attractive. "The only way I can be pretty is if I get skinnier!" No. You look great right now, just the way you are. Trust me! "You're just trying to make me feel better about myself!"

Do you have any idea how many times I have to deal with this EVERY day? And the worst thing is I have a naturally really high metabolism, so I can eat just about whatever I want whenever i want and I'll never gain a pound. The only weight I can gain is in muscle. So girls are all "Oh my God, I hate you! I wish I could be like you. I hate my life." Yeah, well it's not like I made the choice or something. And so let's go ahead and just not eat anything, maybe an apple is enough to go through to whole day. It just pisses me off. I can't stand it.

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Amen.

I mean, I'm all for a healthy diet that keeps you at a moderate weight, and I'm not suggesting people eat junk to get fat, or that people who have gained too much weight shouldn't lose it, BUT, I wish some people would just accept it when they're told they look great as they are, and clearly to most people who aren't them, have no weight problem whatsoever.

Starving isn't doing anyone any favours, least of all you.  Even if excessive weight loss somehow attracts some unbelievably shallow guy, he'll be out the door pretty fast if you go for meals with him and only eat a single radish or something.  (Not that I'm saying it's always done to "get guys" mind, but hey, there's no point pretending it's good for your health, now.)

I know it's not really someone's own fault that they would come to feel this way, and I'm not cross with anyone who does have this attitude, as there must be some reason for it to have come about.  It's just frustrating that it seems impossible to change it, when it really should be changed.

Cute Girls: you're all real pretty already.  Don't torture yourselves!  I love you all.

PS:
<------ Still available.  Please?

Quote (Tiddles the Cat @ 25 Jun 2003, 08:33)

Amen. I mean, I'm all for a healthy diet that keeps you at a moderate weight, and I'm not suggesting people eat junk to get fat, or that people who have gained too much weight shouldn't lose it, BUT, I wish some people would just accept it when they're told they look great as they are, and clearly to most people who aren't them, have no weight problem whatsoever. Starving isn't doing anyone any favours, least of all you.  Even if excessive weight loss somehow attracts some unbelievably shallow guy, he'll be out the door pretty fast if you go for meals with him and only eat a single radish or something.  (Not that I'm saying it's always done to "get guys" mind, but hey, there's no point pretending it's good for your health, now.) I know it's not really someone's own fault that they would come to feel this way, and I'm not cross with anyone who does have this attitude, as there must be some reason for it to have come about.  It's just frustrating that it seems impossible to change it, when it really should be changed. Cute Girls: you're all real pretty already.  Don't torture yourselves!  I love you all. PS: <------ Still available.  Please?

Well... see... just ask Ryan, I'm one of those people that always think they're fat. I know I should stop, but the sight of my body just makes me start to cry. Not all the time, there are definitely sometimes when I feel just fine with my body, but as a result of stress and other crap, I generally hate my body, and think I'm hideously fat. Now, anybody who has ever seen my mother, knows that if anybody in my family is fat, it is her. But that's something I'm scared about. Looking like her. So I'd rather get very skinny, than look like my mom. I can't help that.
Actually, something that does bother me slightly, is being told constantly that you look fine. If you feel you're fat, I think people should leave you alone with that idea. Usually being told that you're just fine makes the feeling oh-so-much worse.. That kind of bothers me.. After being told I'm fat my entire life by various people, why should I start believing people now?

Something else..
When people say they hate something, ANYTHING (within reason, people, not drugs) before they've tried them, and insist that they hate it, that really bothers me. It's like saying you hate warm sunshine just because you haven't gone outside since you were born, or saying you don't like a certain band just because. You haven't listened to them, you just hate them. That kind of goes with my foriegn music. EVERYONE in my family HATES my music. But has any of them listened to it? No. They have not. Does that irritate the heart out of me? Yes. Yes it does.
As of late, most things piss me off. The biggest thing pissing me off lately is myself. Me. Me myself and I. I get so touchy about stupid things, and I start crying over nothing. Honestly, I utterly hate myself as of lately. I've made other people feel bad for no particular reason. Blah. In short, I piss myself off. :P

Something else that bothers me.. is stupid people... the ones that just don't get it.. nomatter what... that are generally rude to everyone, and then wonder why nobody likes them.. blah.



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..DDR..Maine..
..Hikaroo-chan no Deviantart..

<Tiddles> And I love how people suggest "Why not call it my great name?????" when their name is clearly the worst thing ever.
<Tiddles> "How about ; Mozilla Xplorer & Mozilla Xpress."
<Tiddles> How about you die in a fire?

you know my only problem with humanity these days is that everyone thinks that DBZ is so very great...but the fact of the matter is dbz is old and repetive...thats really my only beef with the world...and black people, or any race for that matter, thinking that all white music sucks like blink 182 or sum 41...but we have good music to...Tool is a prime example...incredible band.  Dont you all think???

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Sir Regnar

::BUMP::

       And now I'll add another post to this thread...not really mad about it; in fact, I'm not really disturbed by it at all, I just feel like ranting (read: sharing my dull and irrelevant problems).

<rant>

       Okay then, first a little background:

       My car has been on the fritz for a while now.  It all started when the fluid ran out and it was filled again.  Two weeks later, it was out of fluid again.  That was a bit, well, odd.  20+ ounces gone in one week.  Anywho, we filled it up again.  The next week, out of fluid again.  My dad figured it had to be a leak.  We confirmed this weeks later when he looked under the car at the mall and saw fluid dripping from the bottom of it, leaving a loooong trail through the parking lot.

       He got under it one day, and figured that it was some distributor, so a couple weeks later the car went to the shop.  The rate that it was losing fluid, by the way, was such that a round trip of about 5 miles or so (whatever the length is from here to his house) totally emptied the reservoir.  It cost me $2 just to get from my apartment to his house in brake fluid alone.

       Well, we got it to the ship and here's what they found out:

       What we already knew about the system was that it is called HydraBoost or something.  This is some GM thing, maybe even an Oldsmobile-only thing (if you recall the latest car topic, mine is a '91 Olds Cutlass Supreme), and it has only been put on maybe as few as 10,000 or 100,000 cars.

       The thing about it is that most of the Power Brake system and the ABS system is built straight into the master cylinder.  The power steering system also assists the brake system (don't ask me how, that's just what this one mechanic back where I lived told me), and a bunch of other things are built into a single compact unit.

       One mechanic told me about two years ago that the system was backing up on itself and that it would need to be replaced.  He couldn't be sure on the time frame, but it would need to be replaced.

       He was right.

       The thing finally went on me, and it was causing the massive leak.  How?  You know that little fluid reservoir in most cars?  I guess, apparently, in most cars the fluid just goes straight to the wheels and the pistons there or whatever handles the power and boosting or whatever.  (I know nothing about cars)

       At any rate, in mine the booster is attached straight to the bottom of the reservoir, and attached to that is an electric motor.  The motor provides (apparently) a lot of extra power to the boosting/distributing.  I could hear the engine lose power and the A/C strain when I pressed the brakes, so it must have a pretty big power drain.

       Well, there is a seal somewhere inside this motor, wedged in-between the motor and the booster, that is broken.  The mechanic can't take the motor apart to get to the seal because, well, when you take a motor apart, you destroy it.  This seal is what is causing the leak.  When power is applied it ain't no trickle of a leak, like most cars would probably leak, the power from this motor makes that stuff spray out, losing large amounts of fluid when the power is applied.

       To work around this, the mechanic wanted to take the system off of the car and replace it with a standard booster.  It should have worked, no problem, but there are disc brakes on all four wheels.  With the standard booster, there is only power to the two front wheels, not the rear brakes.  If there were drums on the rear wheels and discs on the fronts, it would have worked, but not with these four discs.

       Also, the motor/booster assembly can't be bought separately from the reservoir; it must be bought as one unit.  In addition, the mechanics can't locate some tool kit to fix the brakes (it's a lot of electric components), and that was one reason why they wanted to try a standard booster.

       Why is this all such a problem?  That little 10lb. (maybe), cubic-foot-volume motor/booster/motor assembly (I'm guessing this is the master cylinder that the mechanics talk about when discussing my car) will cost me $3,000 + dollars.  One guy quoted me $3,800 or something when he first told me of this, and I kinda didn't want to believe him; everybody I knew certainly didn't believe me.

       I then got a second opinion.  $3,000-some.  This was the guy that told me it was called HydraBoost.  He took one look at it (5 seconds) and said, "Oh, yeah, it's gotta be replaced.  You got the crappy system."  This mechanic also said $3,000+.  We're thinking of just putting the brakes back on and trading it in.

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       Phew.  Wordy enough?  Well, there's my little rant.  I just felt like sharing the utter ridiculousness of the price tag on that baby.  And I guess it's odd that I'm not angry or anything; but then again, I've been waiting for this to happen for two years.



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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

Babies on airplanes.  Do not take a three month child on an airplane and think they're going to make it throughout the entire flight without a peep.  BECAUSE THE CHILD WILL NOT.

Also, in the same vein of airplanes/airports, dumbass airport workers who don't know what they're doing.  I am really pissed at air travel in general right now, so I should stop before I write as much as Zephir.



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Hey, put the cellphone down for a while
In the night there is something wild
Can you hear it breathing?
And hey, put the laptop down for a while
In the night there is something wild
I feel it, it's leaving me

Here's a couple that get me every time...

• Careless drivers.  You know the type.  Speed everywhere, run Stop signs, honk when they hit a red light, honk when you don't move when the light turns green ("It's only been two seconds, Jerk. ¬¬ "), etc.  Just bad drivers.  They get on my nerves.

• People who play the music way too loud in the car.  Personally, I don't want to hear your music while I'm standing 1,000 feet away.  It irks me every time someone blows by the house and the bass is rattling the windows and shaking the walls...and all this while the car is still half a mile down the steet.  *sigh*  Kids.  

• Babies at public functions and so forth...you know the type:  Cry, kick, and scream all through church, at the store, etc.  I keep talking to myself, "Pleeease, shut the kid up.  Quiet.  Silence.  Shut up...*drift off* "



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~Status Report~

* Completed... Dragon's Head
* Completed... Soldiers of the Empire: Disciples (release pending)
* In Progress/Undecided... Of Love and Betrayal
* Planning/Assembly... Where it all Began

This is a good topic.

Guess what? My computer is dead. Everything is gone. The whole hard drive is dead. I lost EVERYTHING. My gigabytes of music (aww..now i won't get a law suit filed against me  ), my school work from the past two years, a number of VERY important documents, all the rest of my files, all of it gone! Some worm somehow got in the computer (the last one on the computer was my sister who was in yahoo chat, but she claims it "couldn't have been her"). I just flipped on my computer the next morning and it's dead. Just a blue screen with some stop fault.

We called in a tech guy, who tried upgrading, then just downloading what was on the hard drive, but nothing worked. So son of a crap!

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The clouds ran away, opened up the sky
And one by one I watched every constellation die
And there I was frozen, standing in my backyard
Face to face, eye to eye, staring at the last star
I should've known, walked all the way home
To find that she wasn't here, I'm still all alone

-Atmosphere "Always Coming Back Home to You"

Right with you, Tidu. I really hate when technology fails to such a level that when you call in a professionnal, he says "This sort of thing cannot happen". Well, it happens %µ!§¤§! Last month, my VCR just stopped working, taking down a tape with its fall, and some of my father's friends, who work at maintenance in television, said there was nothing they could do. And the VCR wasn't even old : only two years...
Sorry about your files though, it happened to me once, due to a virus, I got in a crappy mood for a whole week.

Heres somethings that I am pissed about
1.  I ordered a Pentium III 1 GIG procesor from Dell and they sent me a Intel Celron with 697 MHZ.  Oh and they disguised it to under my computer information it said 1 GIG then one day it started sayin 697 and then I went to my "computers personal site" and it said 697.  So uhhhhh just wait till I get the benchmarkin software from friend.
2.  Now you have all seen how I make fun of people alot and stuff well anyways.  Sometimes I go more then to far.  Like sometimes if I find somebody thinks I go far to sometimes, I personally do whatever I can to piss them off further and I get a kick out of it to.  I never understand why I do that but there is this one chick at IS who wishes she could like rip my balls off seriously.
3.  Lvl 89 on that Chu Chu Rocket site.  It is impossible.
4.  They used 28 days later in the movie twice.  Once was cool but twice and also they put it in the wrong place.  *spoilers* The guy gets shot then the camera freezes when they hit the fence.  Then it says 28 days later then it goes to the hospital where the chick is going breathe damnit.
5.  My friend Aaron who like never dose anything and when we take him out to like Kipu Falls he just sits there and like he says he is afraid of jumping in the water because he might hit rocks right?  Well I had him swim there to check and viola no rocks.  But yet he still just sits there.
6.  People who start liking a team just beacuse there doing good but isn't there some poor sport in that to.  Because you only get pisse if it's your team thats winning or the team thats losing.  LOL.
7.  People who think that the White Album would have been better if they would have made cuts and made it one CD.  No I like to hear the other songs to that aren't as popular.
8.  Working.  Just in general.
9.  People who think I'm on drugs.  Everybody has thought I have been on drugs since like 7th grade.  The only drug I do is Caffene people.  But nooo they don't belive me.
10. Friends who drink, do drugs, get laid, and cheat don't understand why their parents are mad at them.  I mean sure the parents are at fault.  But only as much as you are.
 That's enough for now.  Oh and the conversation who had about religion was intersting.  I think you should let it back up.  PLZ ranger.  For me your best friend.  I mean we go way back man.  I mean we were potty-trained together man.

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aint superstitious Black cat crossed my trail
I aint superstitious But a Black cat crossed my trail
But Lord has got me so far and I wont let her stop me now
The dogs begin to bark all over my neighborhood
And that aint all
The dogs begin to bark all over my neighborhood
UMmHMm
This is a mean old world to live in and I cant face it by myself