Gaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhh MK IV!

[Professor Phineas Brownsm]

another GAAAARGH!! from me!!

had managed to organise this weekend to see little man and his mum (little man is my 2 yr old cogling) bought Train ticket to where they are... (about 30miles away), and then get a message to say that little mans mum has double booked herself, and then I suggest a way to work around this so we all get what little time we have together as a family, the Final thing is little mans mum is trying to stop me seeing little man!!

(side note: have not seen in nearly a month)

*facepalm with a steam powered wrench*

Oh, how dreadful! I do hope you manage a way to see the dear cogling!

Good news everybody (your thinking of Futurama's Prof. Farnsworth voice now)... in about half an hour I am heading to the nearest train station and heading down to see little man!! This Professor has his ways!

[Lady Toadflinger]

Good for you!
My gaahh is that I just spent an hour TRYING to apply for jobs online..... Some of these job sites are horrible!

[MsKim]

Good news everybody (your thinking of Futurama's Prof. Farnsworth voice now)... in about half an hour I am heading to the nearest train station and heading down to see little man!! This Professor has his ways!

Well done, sir! I do hope you enjoy your visit!

[Voltin]

Lost my cell phone, planter facsiitis has returned in my left heel, and of course numerous issues with my vehicle which will cost me a pretty penny to fix.
Just waiting for my week long vacation to get away and try not to think about it all.

However I am thankful that I am still employeed and have a wonderful wife to help me through it all.

[Lady Ava]

Car broke down and now won't start but I have work tomorrow, got a throat infection and the doctors isn't open until Monday, work won't give me my holidays I'm entitled too and I keep having panic attacks.

[Xenos]

Car broke down and now won't start but I have work tomorrow, got a throat infection and the doctors isn't open until Monday, work won't give me my holidays I'm entitled too and I keep having panic attacks.

Breath, dearie.  Just breath.  Take a step back, inhale as deep as you can, and listen to "Jump Rope," by Blue October.  As far as the holiday thing goes, unfortunately, that's the way of the working world.  I could go into graphic detail about my experience with the company I'm about to cut ties with, but rather unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to discuss how bad they're actually ****ing me!  Remember, if ever you need to talk, vent, or just unload on, you know how to get hold of me.

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I could go into great detail, and I mean GREAT detail, about how my manager gave me the dressing down of the century for SOMEONE ELSE'S mistake (i.e. the idiot was on her phone while driving and very nearly plowed into the arse-end of my truck), or how my da chewed me out about how I've been treating my sister (except, I've not done ANYTHING to her-I treat her no different than anyone else-she just does not understand my...  particular... brand of humor), or the fact that a dear friend of my recently passed away...

But really, I think that quick bit there sums it up enough.  I'm drunker than I've been in a great while, I'm actually ON BG for a while (this is my third post tonight!), and that's all in the past.

My biggest GAAAAAAAAAAAH right now is my health.  My heart keeps freezing up on me.  Not in a good way.  Couple that with the fact I've Borked my knee right proper, and the lawyer what's got the settlement papers and severance documents for my (former night) job won't call me back, and it's all manner of HELLISH in my life right now.

In FACT, the worker's comp bullsh*te is one of the major things what's been keeping me from the forums!

HOWEVER, there IS a silver lining!

IF/WHEN I sign those gorram papers, I'll be able to pay my house up for a year, I will no longer have to deal with the Walmart of Home Improvement, I can afford to buy some AMAZING THINGS from a certain lovely young lady (That'd be you, Lady A), AND a new guitar.

NOT TO MENTION the things I can get my wife and daughter!

So yeah, there's me here lately.

Glad to be back (even if it's only for tonight!)

[EScoggin]

Gaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhh! I hate cleaning house, and my room, and I still have to make my bed! I really think sleeping on the floor is a good option right now. (I hate putting sheets on the bed)

[D.Oakes]

A day off...I need it.  Like a real day off, the sort where you can sleep all day and nobody bugs you or you can work on projects and nobody bugs you.  Essentially I just need a break from people.  With the heat this past week, I have not been able to get the stuff with moving done that needs done by the end of the month and that said, when I come home I am too exhausted to do anything on my own.  I would love to have two days in a row.  I do not remember the last time I had that.  A single day off once in awhile consists of playing catch-up on chores or in the case of Fourth of July, cooking for everyone.  Yeah, it was fun and nice, but I would much rather be reading up on the latest historical/archaeological finds, or better yet doing my art...whether it be music, painting, costuming, prop-making, photography, writing I really don't care at this point, just something.  The thing that frustrates me probably the most is the pain on my ego when a coworker says, "Wow, you graduated from a major university in the top 10 percentile of your class...amazing!  What are you doing here?"  Or worse, when I boss who either conveniently forgets or doesn't know my background talks down to me in such a way that I feel like an idiot.  Like the sort of thing where the boss is giving a blanket statement to all employees and you stand there and take it knowing full well that a total idiot made the mistake that led to the blanket statement.  Or worse is when your boss is younger than you and probably could not even spell "intellectual."  There is so much I wish I could be doing.  That said there was so much I was doing before I graduated, the economy went to hell, and my best friend died.  But here I am in a 2 room apartment working two part time jobs just above minimum wage dealing with a bit of a legal crisis because my "trusted adviser" never settled the estate and my new adviser is freaking out at how many things were either done improperly or flat-out wrong.  With any luck I will walk away from this a little more in debt, but without white collar crime hanging over my head at every future job interview.  Sorry for the rant, it has been building up for awhile. 

[rovingjack]

I wanna set some people on fire.

I know it's stupid. But twice tonight I've encountered folks of the fluffy variety who are hell bent on making the world run on their particular delusion.

I've been vegetarian, I've family that's vegan. Alls good there. Prophets of the vegetable preaching the evils of meat and demanding social change and that all heathens convert away from temptations of the flesh (see what I did there). Seriously, just shut up. Nobody cares if you only eat veg, maybe that's why you got your knickers in a twist, you want to feel praised for it and be acknowledged as superior because of it in some way.
I start by telling you that it may be better to acknowledge that there are other ways of being and that none are less than yours. Then they start talking about 'proof' that it's not natural for humans to eat meat...
Omnivore! Look it up. Incisors, canines, molars. Short intestines in carnivores long in herbivores, medium in humans. Gut flora adapted for saturated fat and animal proteins. Don't use shoddy science babble to mask ignorance and use it to excuse disrespecting others lifestyles and traditions. I don't tell you to eat meat. Stop trying to tell others they are wrong for eating meat.

Daft prat 2 was trying to pick a fight with a local gov rep about suppressing the truth about a great medical conspiracy. again believe it if you want. Don't tell others they are wrong for not buying your belief and don't expect to get government support from a state rep you are calling out in public as being corrupt because you didn't get your floor time to talk about your cure that big medicine is trying to cover up.

It might also help if you knew some actual science and when asked for verified and repeatable data you didn't acuse others of being in on the conspiracy. And worse "Hahahaha, multiple studies, scientifically verifiable evidence? Who told you to say those words? Cured kids don't need a study done by anyone to know they're cured. Neither do their parents."

Sell your faith healing elsewhere, stop trying to get laws enacted to give you recognition you can't get on your own, and preventing real medicine from being used because it conflicts with your view of how the body works. And for the love of little green apples stop preying on those who don't know enough to see you're full of BS, and tricking them into your quackery.

[Unsubtle Pete]

I wanna set some people on fire.

I know it's stupid. But twice tonight I've encountered folks of the fluffy variety who are hell bent on making the world run on their particular delusion.

I've been vegetarian, I've family that's vegan. Alls good there. Prophets of the vegetable preaching the evils of meat and demanding social change and that all heathens convert away from temptations of the flesh (see what I did there). Seriously, just shut up. Nobody cares if you only eat veg, maybe that's why you got your knickers in a twist, you want to feel praised for it and be acknowledged as superior because of it in some way.
I start by telling you that it may be better to acknowledge that there are other ways of being and that none are less than yours. Then they start talking about 'proof' that it's not natural for humans to eat meat...
Omnivore! Look it up. Incisors, canines, molars. Short intestines in carnivores long in herbivores, medium in humans. Gut flora adapted for saturated fat and animal proteins. Don't use shoddy science babble to mask ignorance and use it to excuse disrespecting others lifestyles and traditions. I don't tell you to eat meat. Stop trying to tell others they are wrong for eating meat.

Daft prat 2 was trying to pick a fight with a local gov rep about suppressing the truth about a great medical conspiracy. again believe it if you want. Don't tell others they are wrong for not buying your belief and don't expect to get government support from a state rep you are calling out in public as being corrupt because you didn't get your floor time to talk about your cure that big medicine is trying to cover up.

It might also help if you knew some actual science and when asked for verified and repeatable data you didn't acuse others of being in on the conspiracy. And worse "Hahahaha, multiple studies, scientifically verifiable evidence? Who told you to say those words? Cured kids don't need a study done by anyone to know they're cured. Neither do their parents."

Sell your faith healing elsewhere, stop trying to get laws enacted to give you recognition you can't get on your own, and preventing real medicine from being used because it conflicts with your view of how the body works. And for the love of little green apples stop preying on those who don't know enough to see you're full of BS, and tricking them into your quackery.

While setting people on fire is generally frowned upon, I can certainly see why the temptation is there.

[The Corsair]

While setting people on fire is generally frowned upon, I can certainly see why the temptation is there.

Never has the name 'Unsubtle Pete' been so appropriate.

[rovingjack]

Okaaaaay, I've got the giggles now, Daft prat 2 is online and is going on about how right he was and How he knows I'm a corporate shill for the medical companies. He's gone from being an ignorant quack to absolutely Dadaist. As in "Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition".

He's posting in the middle of a community of people I've been friends with and saw almost daily for months on end and who know my feelings about the magic pill solutions. So he's pretty much standing in a room full of people who have heard me discuss the problems of medical industrial complex and know me to be well informed, and he's yelling out that I'm ignorant and obviously working for corrupt politicians and getting paid by Big medical to spread disinformation. Lol.

Oh man he just accused the astrologer and aromatherapy expert and part time hippy activist of being indoctrinated into a brainwashed and obedient servant of the system.

"Nobody disagrees with me. The people who are trying to cover this up know the same things I know. They're foolish enough to think they can lie to the whole world and get away with it." "The medical industry takes me seriously too. That's why politicians on their payrolls hide from me like weasels. They know they can't lie with me in the room." 'Rockefeller owns the Medical schools... Why are you supporting Rockefeller's plan to dumb down the population with chemicals and falsified medical practice?' "EMP from cell phones/towers and other electrosmog also "eat" holes in the [blood brain barrier]" "My data is perfect" ‎"Then we have shills like you who want to defend the industry."
My final response to him.
You sir are a delusional lunatic, wrapped in your own psychosis. You neither know me, nor what I stand for and your assumptions are so far off the mark as to make you laughable. The fact that you don't see your own lashing out at people as detrimental to any goal you may support is perhaps fortunate because it prevents those who might otherwise pay credence to your quackery from being tricked into think you know what you are talking about, because the people here do know me and they do know where I stand on the medical industry and they know you clearly do not by your own statements. Good Day sir.

I wish I'd just said

Billy Madison - Insanely Idiotic (Academic Decathlon)

[D.Oakes]

I love dealing with lunatics who believe themselves to be right even though they are dealing with utter delusions.  I love getting under their skin.  I usually agree with everything they say about me and then turn it right back.  It's a fun trick.  I must confess that I have done some trolling before on topics that attract those kind of individuals.  Although is it trolling if you do it in a way that gets Nazis and Communists to agree and end up trying to friend you....  

That said, if you are going to set them on fire....at least enjoy the well cooked meat.     That would be such a waste. 

[Xenos]

<SNIP>

This is perhaps the single biggest reason I resigned from my moderator/admin position over on another site.  I was getting tired of dealing with ignorant conspiracy theorists, explaining to them (with science and logic) why their stance, while entertaining, and they were more than welcome to KEEP it, was in no way superior to any other presented, and that dear GOD, they need to just STOP TALKING.

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My gaaaaaaaaaah for the day?  I've a massive headache.  As in, REALLY bad.  And the Percogesic ain't workin' this time...

[Jedediah Solomon]

My Gaaah....... Some TWAT kind person is letting thier dog crap on my motorcycle covers on a regular basis. I am getting some-what fed up with having to scrape the crap off before removal.

My options are either set up a camera, then "have a word" or do a constant vigil, catch them in the act, then "have a word", Im getting so fed up with this the word will be the antique police truncheon I keep by the front door for "just in case" (only had to use it once so far, but that is another story) What the hell is wrong with people and thier dogs!!.........GAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!

~SeVeN~

I would be too much of a gentleman to suggest doing this, but my neighbour once was irritated by a dog watering their rose-bush so frequently that it was beginning to damage the plant. He wrapped the plant loosely with bared copper wire still attached to the plug, wrapped the other wire to a steel rod embedded in the ground, and kept the area very wet. All of this was plugged into an extension cord which he ran in to house. Being retired and bored, he was able to keep a vigil on the yard, and when the dog came to "do his thing", he simply plugged the cord into the outlet and was never bothered by the dog again. Mind you, the dog probably had trouble peeing after that.
Not that I recommend doing such, but .... Bwahahaha
(sorry...wasthat out loud?)

But over here the owner of the dog can then report you to the police for 'animal cruelty'. You cannot wire up anything (door handles..car doors..motor bike covers) to give some one trying to break in or defecating on it a shock. It's 'assault' regardless of what the perpetrator was doing in order to receive the shock.

Oh, Absolutely... and, yes, It was meant for the humorous "Bugs Bunny-esque" mental imagery.  Not to be taken as a serious way to prevent canine defecation, there are spraycans full of  repellant that will (While probably smelling just as bad as the feces) discourage the animal from using the cover as a toilet. Please, folks "DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!"

[Xenos]

Defense of the Labels.

Look, I know that they are needed, right?  I get that.  Without them, musicians would never have a chance to share their genius with the world.

I get that, OK?  But let's face it-they DO tend to mess up the image/sound of a musician. 

Take Feist, for example.  Listen to "Monarch (LYJHD)," and "Let it Die."  TOTALLY different than "The Reminder" (Her major commercial success).  Now listen to "Metals."  Back to what she was before.  After getting burned out for nearly 2 years, because she was "played out and bored of it."

I make a comment in passing about how the only songs this particular person knew were from radio, and therefore, what the record execs had decided she should hear.

She flew off the BLOODY RADAR AT ME.

Basically, what it is is, she's now involved with a small-time label/studio.  And I suppose she took my words as an attack on ALL labels.  NOT THE CASE.

I mean, yeah, labels being ****s have done GREAT things for music (just look at the Beatles, BEFORE they were famous).  By the same token, they are notorious for screwing over musicians who are not as "marketable" as they think they maybe should be.

Same thing with Game Development.  It took a site like Kickstarter to get Wasteland 2 made.  Why?  Because industry brass wanted it to be another FPS.

Like I said, I know they are needed, and I respect what they do.  But for the love of Merlin's Beard, man, DO NOT blast me for calling out some facts, aye?

IN A NUTSHELL, I'm right the **** pissed right off.

[Inflatable Friend]

A teeny, tiny percentage of customers... The things I wish I could say to you without getting fired...

"No, the reason I'm not giving you another beer isn't because I'm, as you so politely put it, a fucking faggot. It's because you're very drunk."

"No, sir wearing this uniform does not mean I'm gay, even if I did decide on introducing another penis into my sex life I can guarantee you it would belong to someone who doesn't have a face like a badly bruised potato."

"I don't care what you saw on CSI, this plane does not have a secret bedroom on it."

"No sir, we cannot open the back door of the aircraft to allow you to have a cheeky smoke."

"Miss, I don't care how many Hen Points it will win you, you can't take this man into the toilet with you."

"Miss, will you and your friends please get out of the engine cowling."

"Sir, get out of the overhead locker."

"Sir, wifi or not I think you'll find that the laptop is still an electronic device and must be switched off. That is unless you've a special kind of laptop that runs of wishes and elastic bands."

"Yes miss, when I said off I meant all the way off. Airplane Mode doesn't stop it being an electronic device."

"No, I do not love doing the safety demo. No, I do not get off on having a plane load of people staring at me. No, it is not some silly dance I enjoy. I do it because to many people have died in aircraft fires for simple reasons like not knowing how to undo their seatbelts, because in decompression at high altitude you have a pathetically small amount of useful consciousness and the crew aren't going to be there to show you how to stick a mask on."

"You don't inflate it in the aircraft unless you particularly want to drown while pinned to the aircraft ceiling."

"No sir, I don't want to see your cock and balls, I want to see your seatbelt is on and the right way around. As funny as it might be to see the look on your face if we had a rejected take off, I doubt it would be for the person in the seat in front when you hit them at 100mph."

"That's right sir, sticking your hand up my colleagues skirt is classed as sexual assault and is treated seriously. No sir, it 'Just being a laugh' doesn't get you off, nor does the fact you're part of a stag group. No, I think you'll find there are no exceptions just because she's Cabin Crew" (Arrested on board on arrival by armed police. Priceless.)

It's been a long few weeks - Condoms, soiled nappies, bra's, underpants and a lot more stuffed into the seat pockets, having my ass grabbed by leery hen parties or stag groups who seem to be deluded into thinking that A: Every man who works on an airline is gay and B: Every gay man is out to bed them. Worst part is it's not proper summer yet so it'll get a hell of a lot worse!

(I should be clear that 99.5% of our customers are lovely people who it's a pleasure to work with. But that little niggly .05%. Ooooh, you stick out.)

[Ulysses Reynolds]

A teeny, tiny percentage of customers... The things I wish I could say to you without getting fired...

"No, the reason I'm not giving you another beer isn't because I'm, as you so politely put it, a fucking faggot. It's because you're very drunk."

"No, sir wearing this uniform does not mean I'm gay, even if I did decide on introducing another penis into my sex life I can guarantee you it would belong to someone who doesn't have a face like a badly bruised potato."

"I don't care what you saw on CSI, this plane does not have a secret bedroom on it."

"No sir, we cannot open the back door of the aircraft to allow you to have a cheeky smoke."

"Miss, I don't care how many Hen Points it will win you, you can't take this man into the toilet with you."

"Miss, will you and your friends please get out of the engine cowling."

"Sir, get out of the overhead locker."

"Sir, wifi or not I think you'll find that the laptop is still an electronic device and must be switched off. That is unless you've a special kind of laptop that runs of wishes and elastic bands."

"Yes miss, when I said off I meant all the way off. Airplane Mode doesn't stop it being an electronic device."

"No, I do not love doing the safety demo. No, I do not get off on having a plane load of people staring at me. No, it is not some silly dance I enjoy. I do it because to many people have died in aircraft fires for simple reasons like not knowing how to undo their seatbelts, because in decompression at high altitude you have a pathetically small amount of useful consciousness and the crew aren't going to be there to show you how to stick a mask on."

"You don't inflate it in the aircraft unless you particularly want to drown while pinned to the aircraft ceiling."

"No sir, I don't want to see your cock and balls, I want to see your seatbelt is on and the right way around. As funny as it might be to see the look on your face if we had a rejected take off, I doubt it would be for the person in the seat in front when you hit them at 100mph."

"That's right sir, sticking your hand up my colleagues skirt is classed as sexual assault and is treated seriously. No sir, it 'Just being a laugh' doesn't get you off, nor does the fact you're part of a stag group. No, I think you'll find there are no exceptions just because she's Cabin Crew" (Arrested on board on arrival by armed police. Priceless.)

It's been a long few weeks - Condoms, soiled nappies, bra's, underpants and a lot more stuffed into the seat pockets, having my ass grabbed by leery hen parties or stag groups who seem to be deluded into thinking that A: Every man who works on an airline is gay and B: Every gay man is out to bed them. Worst part is it's not proper summer yet so it'll get a hell of a lot worse!

(I should be clear that 99.5% of our customers are lovely people who it's a pleasure to work with. But that little niggly .05%. Ooooh, you stick out.)

I find that most situations like this can be solved through copious amounts of blackmail. Probably not the best advice for the situation, but you can never ditch the classics.

[Unsubtle Pete]

Inflatable Friend, I assume it would be frowned upon if you made them get out and thenceforth make their own way?

[LukeHogbin]

I had an L-band-type bleep on VLF the other day. I can't [beep]ing figure it out. o.o It annoys me! GRAAAAAAAARGH!

[Inflatable Friend]

Inflatable Friend, I assume it would be frowned upon if you made them get out and thenceforth make their own way?

Depends on what they do! If people are really disruptive/rude/aggressive/drunk then they're removed from the plane or met by security.
As I say though, it's a teeny, tiny number of people out of millions a year who fly, normally having a flight full of stags and hens is a bit of a laugh: Everyone's out for a good time and it makes the day pass quicker when you're entertained.

What galls me about that tiny percentage is how they don't seem to think they're doing anything wrong - The guy who got arrested for sexual assault for example, he was genuinely confused by the situation, he just couldn't comprehend how it wasn't alright for him to do that to someone. Same with the guy who wanted to smoke out the back door, he took it as such a personal insult, as if we'd normally let anyone pop a door for a crafty fag but had said no to him just to piss him off.

[Lady Ava]

Work are being a ballache about me taking time off to trade, even though I did warn them of it at the interview. At this rate, I'll be trading whether they've given me a shift that day or not. I hate having to have a proper job as well as my making, and I'm definitely not letting the business suffer for a minimum wage job doing something I hate.

[Banfili]

Two 'blue screens of death' in quick succession this afternoon - words cannot describe how much I HATE Microsoft!!!

[citizen_erased]

My brother. He keeps complaining how he`s been trying so hard to lose weight but never quite manages, he`s tried loads of diets, goes to the gym about every other day, if not more often, and is still "lucky" to lose a kilo or two every once in a while.

And then he keeps posting on Facebook that he`s having a cheeseburger, cola "and a salad!" for lunch. He`s had McDonalds about 5 times in 2,5 week. If not McDonalds, he`ll get fries or chinese or something somewhere else.

I am not surprised he`s not losing any weight.

It`s like watching a real life Supersize Me, except that this isn`t for testing or proving a point or anything. I mean, it`s his life, his body, but it still annoys me because he keeps complaining about being overweight but he keeps going back for more cheeseburgers as well.

The rest of my family is equally bad, really.

[MsKim]

I have a cousin who is pretty much doing the same. She is getting married in 1.5 years, and is trying 'very hard' to get fit before the big day, but she drinks like a bloody fish! She can't quite understand why she isn't making any progress, despite scarfing down a large margarita, or copious amounts of chips and salsa while out with her friends. I am growing weary of listening to her complain about not losing any weight, but seeing her sabotage herself! And you can't say anything to her without her flying off the handle and biting your head off. *le sigh*

I'm also slightly peeved that, when asked to contribute a small amount toward a memorial donation for a co-worker's deceased relative, only one individual has offered any amount of money. No one, even after being reminded gently 3 times in the last few days, has even batted an eyelash at the thought. This co-worker has done so much for our team - any time she goes away on holiday, she always brings us a little something back. She's constantly trying to improve morale on the team, and is a source of great joy for me to work with. It makes me sad, really...because I know if it were one of the other teammates, they'd be quite miffed if no one even thought to donate anything to their loved one's memorial. Pfft. Whatever.