When you need to rant...

[charlietheowl]

Does anyone else here have Comcast/xfinity? Have you seen the Music Choice overhaul? It's terrible! What, did we suddenly jump back into the early 90s-era Prevue Channel technology or something? They must have gotten really lazy or something.

They screwed with music choice again? No! Hopefully they got rid of that Text2Talk thing that just took up half the screen on half the channels.

Unrelated, I love putting on a weird music choice channel and then leaving the room and seeing how long it takes for everyone to notice.

 

[Drtooth]

I just got a couple little bugaboos here...

How come they still merchandise Stewie from Family Guy as the angry, matricidal maniac when he hasn't been like that since like 2005 or so? Sure, like once a season they'll reference that he used to be like that. But he doesn't even speak in antiquated terms anymore. Where's the T-shirts of him over-emphasizing the "WH" sound in Cool Fwhip?"

And for that matter, where the heck is ANY American Dad stuff? It's not like the show was canceled in a year. It's been on for seven seasons and has at least one more to go. Where the heck is a Roger Plush toy? Even one made by those awful Carnival prize companies? All I got is a button and a sticker.

 

[RedPiggy]

I wish chemists would come up with an anti-drug-addiction vaccine...were such a thing even vaguely possible. Take it, and if you then take coke or heroin or meth you immediately become so gut-exploding sick you will never, ever want to even smell the stuff again...man, that'd end the demand for dangerous drugs, period.

It depends on the drug, but there are "antidotes", particularly with alcohol. We give you some of (can't remember the name of it, though, sorry) and you won't want to be within miles of a vodka.

 

[newsmanfan]

It depends on the drug, but there are "antidotes", particularly with alcohol. We give you some of (can't remember the name of it, though, sorry) and you won't want to be within miles of a vodka.

Heh...having an alcoholic relative has already put me permanently off the smell of gin.
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[fuzzygobo]

I've never been a big fan of shopping at Wal-Mart, but my biggest pet peeve with them is being in there on a Saturday afternoon, their busiest time of the week, they have 15 registers, but only three are open. Meanwhile the lines are a mile long, everyone's getting cranky, kids are crying (some of them need a nap as much as I do), and then, if circumstances dictate, you get to go to Home Depot next and perform this ritual one more time.

Given the chance, I'll still go to the Mom-and-Pop stores (if you can still find them), rather than deal with the mega-chains.

 

[D'Snowth]

they have 15 registers, but only three are open. Meanwhile the lines are a mile long, everyone's getting cranky, kids are crying (some of them need a nap as much as I do)

It's like that EVERYWHERE! Not just Walmart, it's really a major annoyance (and I can't help but wonder if they do it intentionally just to tick us off)... I mean seriously, have you ever been to a store where ALL the registers were open?

And what I hate too is when you're standing in a line that seems to be moving slow, and you see another line that appears to be moving a little quicker, so you decide to get in that line instead, but once you do, then THAT line slows down, and the line you were in suddenly moves a lot quicker, but there's now like three or four people behind the person you were behind.

 

[mr3urious]

and then, if circumstances dictate, you get to go to Home Depot next and perform this ritual one more time.

I was lucky a couple of years ago. All I needed was a box fan, and we were in and out just like that.

And what I hate too is when you're standing in a line that seems to be moving slow, and you see another line that appears to be moving a little quicker, so you decide to get in that line instead, but once you do, then THAT line slows down, and the line you were in suddenly moves a lot quicker, but there's now like three or four people behind the person you were behind.

Reminds me of Office Space with Peter stuck in traffic. One lane begins moving quickly, so he merges there, only for it to completely stop. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Misskermie]

You know what? I really don't like it when people try to tell you what you did, when you know you didn't. Or when they tell you what you like when you do not like it. It's so irritating!

 

[fuzzygobo]

Superstitions. Old wive's tales. It still amazes me how some people let them affect their lives, when you're dealing with unfounded rumors and exaggerated claims.

There was a video on youtube of a couple with an outdoor wedding, and as the bride is walking down the aisle, someone let a black cat walk in front of her. Some people thought it was a harmless prank, others were seriously freaking out, feeling now the marriage is doomed.

Broken mirrors, opening umbrellas indoors... hey, for years I've stepped on cracks in the sidewalk, and my mother's back is none the worse for wear.

About ten or twelve years ago, when I got my first Hotmail account, my mailbox used to get stuffed with the email equivalent of chain letters. Send this email to ten friends within 24 hours and you will enjoy untold riches. Break the chain, and suffer the consequences. Well, I never responded to any chain, but for some unknown reason, for several days, my belly button wouldn't produce any lint. Spooky, ain't it?

 

[Misskermie]

This is like my 100th rant. I need to Anti-Rant. Anyway...


My teacher is totally neglecting me now. I swear it.


She put me in the back of the room. And our desks are in twos. And I have a desk next to me, with no one there. She tells me she's sorry, and that she ran out of people. So, ok. At first, I'm like, it's cool.

So, lately, she's been calling a lot of partner assignments, that I gotta do alone.

That's not fair.

She said, if someone is absent, I can sit where they'd sit, so I can work with their partner.

Ok.

Cool.


Yesterday, My boyfriend's partner was absent. She doesn't know he's my boyfriend.

Anyway, I ask to sit there, and she says NO.

Not fair.

At all.

Nope.