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Postby Jillers » 03 Nov 2008, 19:15

Dear people from New Jersey
Please learn how to fucking drive.
Yellow light = slow the fuck down
red light = fucking stop
You goddamn douche.
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Dear Extreme Right
I really fucking hate you.

Dear Electoral College
You are an antiquated system, please don't fuck up my election again.
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Dear NaNoWriMo Story
WHY AREN'T YOU WRITING YOURSELF!?
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Postby Corax » 03 Nov 2008, 19:21

i hate this, whenever i join a TF2 server theres always a mini-politics conversation and its always the same bullshit:

"You know your vote doesnt count right?"
(followed by various responses)
"All i know is Obama is going to get assassinated"

seriously, shut the fuck up and play TF2, fuckers.
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Postby Evil Jim » 03 Nov 2008, 19:31

Over 8 1/2 years ago I bought my Indiana Jones fedora from a stand outside the Indiana Jones stunt show in Disney World. It quickly became one of my favourite articles of clothing & has been with me many hundreds of thousands of miles. I've worn it to Japan, Germany, all across the US, to funerals, to birthdays & many celebrations. It has been formal wear, it has been part of a costume & it has a lot of sentimental value to me. Otherwise I wouldn't be paying $60 for work on a hat that would cost $40 to replace.

It's supposed to be firm & hold its shape but a felt fedora like that will grow floppy over time with much wear. I recently took it to a local hat shop to have it reblocked to give it back some of its youthful firmness & extend the life of the old hat. I also asked them to replace the disintegrating sweat band, liner & give it a good overall cleaning. The hat shop doesn't do this itself, they send it to a specialty shop for work like that.

Last weekend I get the call that its ready so I drop by today for a pick-up. The girl brings it out & it looks nothing like the hat I gave them two weeks ago! The brim is horribly wrong, the crown itself has been completely reshaped to a center crease rather than a teardrop crown & they even removed the trademark Indiana Jones logo pin from the bow. Sure it was clean & refurbished but I would not have recognized that as my hat at all. I was shocked. I felt like they had dropped my baby off a building. How the hell did this get screwed up? It went out as a battered Indiana Jones fedora & came back as a corny Grandpa's hat.

I'm still upset. The girl assured me that it isn't permanently wrecked & that it can be reshaped back into what it's supposed to look like but that should never have been an issue. All this reshaping will add to the 8+ years of wear & tear & tho' the hat itself is replaceable, the memories attached to it are non-transferable. The boss is supposed to call me this week to discuss the issue. I hope that will also include a renegotiation of the cost of this service.
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Postby Unlucky » 03 Nov 2008, 20:00

"So, this term is only a month long. By the way, we're going to give you a massive ITP sac, a Maths sac that we haven't explained how to do, TWO Classics (Greek History) sacs, your final theory and practical exams for CISCO, with which if you fail you fail CISCO entirely, a HUGE media production and....well, for Literature we're not gonna burden you too much, but have an analytical piece on Hamlet just 'cos. By the way, you're exams are in two weeks. Good luck!"

Hrmph. One of those sacs is a PRODUCTION, as in I'm the main character and I gotta learn 10 pages of freakin' lines from Oedipus. My GF shortened it down from 60 pages to 10, I was really impressed but it's still a lot to remember in two freakin' weeks. URG.

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Postby allison » 03 Nov 2008, 20:22

*sceam*
*run*
*kick*
*flail*
*fall*
*sob*
i'll jsut sit in the corner, watch you people with more problems then me and try not to be careless with peoples feelings any more

and eat halloween candy
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Postby Jillers » 03 Nov 2008, 20:34

Dear Time Warner/Revver

Fuck. You.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 03 Nov 2008, 20:53

WHAT THE FUCK
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Postby King Kool » 03 Nov 2008, 20:57

I was gonna make a separate topic, but I'll do it here.

I'm so damn sick of seeing my friends put up "Make sure you vote tomorrow!" on their Facebook statuses. Some have even "donated" their statuses to Obama. As if the problem with voting is that people don't KNOW they can vote. This is the same thing with people wanting larger warnings on cigarettes; we already KNOW that cigarettes kill. You just can't make people care. In fact, flooding the world with so much pandering is more likely to discourage people and make them feel manipulated.

And how can you donate something that's free? The status isn't worth anything, and aat the end of the day, it's not going to make any difference. It's just prickwaving; they want to feel like their doing something. It's more important to feel like you're doing something than to actually DO something.

Now, I'm a liberal, but I'm apparently not nearly liberal enough. You know how you can own two articles of clothing that are black, and you put them next to one another and one looks purple? Around Rhode Island and my theatre friends, I look red. What I hate more than anything is bad liberalism. I detest Michael Moore and his ilk, and I detest anyone who can't make a good liberal argument because they make the ideas I feel strongly about look bad.

Mainly, I hate the oft-believed myth that McCain will be easily defeated and Obama will be swept into office on a chariot of gold led by unicorns. Underestimating the opposition is what doomed Gore and Kerry and it's possible it will defeat Obama. There's a tiny dark part of me that almost wants him to lose to see how my friends deal with it. It can be illuminating (just as it was in 2004).

Do I think the world is going to change if we have McCain or Obama? It's going to be whatever it is. I don't have the perspective to change the entire world. But I might be able to change one person at a time, like my friends who have fallen hook, line, and sinker to any number of liberal crapola. Being liberal is fine, and I think it's better than the alternative, but I think it's imperative that it's for the right reason. And when you hear people talking about it, it's not the right reason.

This is just like when my boss will criticize me for being 'immature.' This is the guy who hates the Red Sox and the Patriots, and actually text-messaged a bunch of his Pats-loving friends after Tom Brady blew his knee. What possible right does this guy have to call ME immature? None of my jokes hurt people like that. He's a hypocrite.

I remember someone I knew online, when it looked like the Red Sox might beat the Yankees, put as his away message: "Fuck redneck Boston and the redneck fucking Red Sox." This was in Inning 4, and as it turns out, the Sox lost and blew a 3 game lead and the Yankees won. But what this showed was how mature he really was. Once his tem, was losing, he turned into a complete blubbering vagina. He was an asshole, and that's all the proof I needed to confirm my suspicions.

Even the guy who drew Sinfest put a nasty rant in 2004 about the election, where he said, "I don't believe half my country are idiots. I don't believe that anyone could honestly think we're doing good things as we are." or something like that. This is someone who could not FATHOM the idea of being a conserative. How could someone ever get so lost down the liberal path where they can't even see how someone could believe that? How can you have a side when you can't see the other side? You can't be a coin with only one side.

I watched a newscast where it talked about California's Prop 8 (to ban gay marriage) and how one house had been vandalized because they had a sign that said "Yes on 8," even spraypainting 'yes to 8' on their garage. Isn't that going too far, no matter what the issue is? Don't we have the right to disagree? Isn't using intimidation and terrorism completely against what any decent human should do?

Then again, this guy proved himself to be a douchebag and said, "I can't change the word 'marriage' to mean something other than what it is, just the way I can't make 'hererosexual' mean someone who loves plants." That's why they put the word 'gay' in front of it, so it meant "marriage, but gay." Semantics are one of the least persuasive tactics in politics.

Then again, I really don't like how people immediately assume that gays should marry just because they feel they should. I say let them do whatever they want, but I don't think you should assume anything as given, especially when lots of people have some sort of problem with it.

For instance, we know what makes someone a different race. It's genes. And since someone's not responsible for their genes, it's not fair to discriminate because of race. But for homosexuality, we don't know what the cause it. COULD it be that it's something not related to genes, and thus COULD it be that it actually is NOT the same as discriminating for gender or race?

Now, I don't believe that one bit. But I formulated it because I wanted to see if I could come up with a reason to be against gay marriage. The problem we have is that there are some people who just can't see the other side of any issue. They are right, absolutely so, and the people who oppose them are agents of evil who only want to cause chaos and nastiness to fill the land. It's preposterous, and it's not healthy for American discourse.

Far too often, they have what an ethics blogger I read called, "the vociferous uninformed opinion." In other words, they know how they feel and couldn't care less about the how and why. One of the people I knew in the theatre department was a poly-sci major and he really knew his stuff. But he wasn't passionate about anything, because he knew that all the answers are complex, not simple.

That "vociferous uninformed opinion" came from talking about people who think 9/11 was a conspiracy. I used to believe in conspiracies like JFK and the moon landing, but once the 9/11 started, I realized it's all bunk. I'm not even saying the government wasn't compicit in 9/11 (who knows?), but when people said 9/11 couldn't physically happen, I just thought, "Are you guys crazy or what?" Loose Change is a total load, and lots of the stuff in it were said by people within the first few days of the tragedy, and then retracted later. They're being quoted totally out of context, and the men who those quotes are being assigned to have recanted those positions. The men who made Loose Change are scoundrels and liars.

I also hate the status of modern political cartoons. So many of them are just ignorant. After Michael Richards made his rant, there was a cartoon that had a KKK member walking out on stage and said it was him. No joke, just a drawing of a KKK member. Some of these turds aren't even trying, and lots of them suffer from the same lack of political perspective that seems to afflict many of my friends. How is it so hard to draw a cartoon that expresses an idea instead of supports some kind of dogmatism or fundamentalism.

Once, I did a monologue for a play that dealt with abortion, and when I was talking about it in front of the class, it started turning into a debate about whether or not abortion was right. I finally said,"look, we're not going to crack this nut here. We're not going to looks back and think, 'hey, that's when we solved it.' " Some times, we just need to relax. It's not worth getting worked up over.

The Family Guy i'm watching is really lame (The Road To Germany). When did Family Guy start wasting so much time with musical numbers and jokes that go on forever. They just did a "Nazi/McCain-Palin" joke that was a bit off-sides, but worse, it's just not funny. It's getting as bad as the Disaster Movies that Family Guy is inevitably responsible for spawning. Family Guy can be funnier, and deserves to be funnier.

And I just realized I didn't update the quote game.

...

Man, I needed that. My brother thought I was playing a typing game, I was writing so fast. I feel much better.
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Postby meisbored » 03 Nov 2008, 20:58

Fuck. FUCK!
fuuuuck.
wah.
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Postby kkief02 » 03 Nov 2008, 21:32

Ugh! Why do I put up these stupid high expectations of people. I know they're completely unreasonable and that all I'm doing is hurting myself and letting myself down. I know it's unreasonable and I know that I shouldn't have these expectations about what I think people should do and be like yet I still feel hurt when reality crashes down and they do something or are someone completely different then what I think they should do or be.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 03 Nov 2008, 21:39

When are the Americans going to learn that liberal does not mean socialist and figure out they have the political colours backward.

(Yeah I know that the Republicans and Democrats have reversed their ideologies more than once.)
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Postby Tim » 03 Nov 2008, 21:39

Nice and peaceful in here.

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Postby King Kool » 03 Nov 2008, 21:41

Tim wrote:Nice and peaceful in here.

:)

I think it'll stay that way as long as nobody dropquotes anyone and starts saying things like, "Well, you're wrong because of this."

This topic was EXTREMELY cathartic, let me tell you. So long as we don't argue with one another, I think this is great.

Of course, I made another bitter Facebook status once more people started putting up "make sure you vote" and stuff.

Sigh. It was fleeting.
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Postby AeroCmdr » 03 Nov 2008, 21:52

Can I bring some drums in this nice room?
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Postby CyberTractor » 03 Nov 2008, 22:02

I know binary. I'm tired of taking a class that completely deals with binary numbers, how to multiply and divide and subtract and blah blah blah.

I get them. They're not hard to work with.



I know Java. I don't need to take a 101 class that I completely aced the placement test on and the head of the department said, "You can help the other kids in the class." so I didn't get to move on. Bullshit.

I play 40,000 bucks a year, and this school doesn't give a crap.



On the brighter side, vote me for president of the Association for Computing Machinery. Yay.
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Postby Lavos » 03 Nov 2008, 22:21

Kawaii is cute when she's angry.


grr i have a life now grr
i dont know what's happening anymore
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Postby Annchan » 03 Nov 2008, 22:59

Grrr
I didn't have a life before?
I don't understand.....

Man I hate gossipers! Why do people have to gossip? it pisses me off.
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Postby the amativeness » 03 Nov 2008, 23:01

Lavos wrote:grr i have a life now grr


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grr haruhi/lavos stare grr.
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Postby Fuzzyfreaker » 03 Nov 2008, 23:05

WHY THE HELL DOES THIS BUILDING RUN THEIR INTERNET THROUGH THEIR PHONE LINE!?

You'd think that for some goddamn reason they could have just installed some Ethernet ports and we'd be done. But no. We have to use that. And the fucking modem they give us. I swear, if I have to keep waiting a damn 4 minutes just for a Google search to load, I'm going to go downstairs and choke a bitch.

So what do I get to do? Bring the motherfucking laptop as close to the window as possible in order to steal Wi-Fi from the Panara Bread across the street.

We're COLLEGE STUDENTS. Internet is a tad crucial in these days and ages. Nope. FUCK YOU. We're going to give you THIS. Oh, for the love of God....

Yeah, it's wonderful when I have to run a 100 foot cable through the ceiling and into the study room (Only port on this entire level mind you) just in case I need a fast connection for something.

Oh. And Key Cards. Here's a hint, if you want to make something secure, i'm all for it. But give us key cards that WORK. Yeah, i'm a BIG fan of swiping the card an average of 30 times on the elevator just to get the damn thing to move. Really awkward when somebody opens the doors to find a 6' 4" man standing there with a key card cursing the thing to high heaven.

Though I did meet a rather nice girl that way.

Because the elevator broke.

And we were stuck in it for half an hour.

Failed a test like that.

But we went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Fun.

BUT FIX IT!

FIIIIIXXXXX IT!

That is all.
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Postby the amativeness » 03 Nov 2008, 23:08

Anyone want one?

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Postby Annchan » 03 Nov 2008, 23:12

I don't want to chill. I want action!
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Postby Lavos » 03 Nov 2008, 23:15

Annchan wrote:Grrr
I didn't have a life before?
I don't understand.....

Man I hate gossipers! Why do people have to gossip? it pisses me off.
Having a life is actually my anger.
But hey, I have a girlfriend who watches anime with me.

Score.

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Postby masamune » 03 Nov 2008, 23:15

i want to kill every last one of you.
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Postby Annchan » 03 Nov 2008, 23:16

Oh I see... you were making multiple statements in one post.

just like I also did.

And will do again

grr arr
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Postby Fuzzyfreaker » 03 Nov 2008, 23:21

Ah... all better now.

I deem this the greatest thread ever.

Sudden rampage of hatred for my living quarters when I spent 2 hours uploading my art project to my professor.

Which then crashed, and deleted.... well... most everything.

Guess I'll go upload it tomorrow at the comp lab.

Though I have to be out of there by 3 or they'll think I'm up to nefarious misdeeds.

Freaking Obama thing. Making us clear buildings....

But no class! All better.

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