The rant thread.

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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Absentia » Thu Mar 08, 2018 3:08 am

Posting this from my phone because the brand new laptop I spent $900 on in January has eaten shit. It blue-screened on me while I was in a game and now it won't boot up. Tried to do a factory reset and got an error with no explanation.

So now I get to go through the hell that is customer service, and if all goes well I'll win the right to mail them my only working computer and get it back at some point before I die of old age and without any new problems caused by careless technicians or truck drivers. Fuck me.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby iMURDAu » Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:14 pm

I'm going to have to decline the sloppy seconds, seems like you got plowed pretty hard as it is.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby jbobsully11 » Wed Mar 14, 2018 5:21 pm

I would love to work for the company that couldn’t be bothered to show up to their own phone interview.

I had a phone interview scheduled for about twenty minutes ago. I checked my e-mail to make sure I had the right time, called the number a little early, entered the secret codes for the right conference call, and waited... and waited... and it kicked me off after 15 minutes.

I’m thinking this won’t end well.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby octoberpumpkin » Fri Mar 16, 2018 11:52 pm

It's my birthday weekend. We were supposed to celebrate this weekend because of course I have school on my birthday. But I have an awful cold and feel like absolute crap. I feel like something goes wrong every year on my birthday and its just a bummer. I just want a happy birthday. Plus my boyfriend is also sick so we're both just here being miserable. My birthday present isn't even available until the 27th either. I've been so stressed with school, I hate this semester, I wanted a fun weekend and a nice break but instead I am sick and need to balance resting with responsibilities and homework.

To top it off, I've dedicated a lot of my time recently to some friends going through some stuff, which is fine, its what friends do, but when I'm miserable and sick, they're still too self-focused to even try and talk to me about how I'm feeling. One of them is just off in his own little world and the other one is just being so self-involved like "hey I'm really sick and frustrated right now" and he will just respond like "man, I am so tired after work today."

I'm just sick and miserable and I can't deal with things well right now because I'm sick and miserable. Happy birthday to me
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Ladki96 » Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:34 am

{{{Pumpkin}}} happy birthday <3 I'm sorry to hear that, here's hoping you get well soon

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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Absentia » Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:32 am

I swear to God, there's nothing stupider than caring about college sports. A bunch of 19-21 year old dudes I've never met choke in one game and now I'm going to be miserable about it for months. Years, probably. Fuck everything.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby iMURDAu » Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:37 pm

More fun at a different doctors office than the last one I bitched about but it still applies in general. I want to work at one of them so bad I can't stand it. I can outlazy those lazy fuckers.

Them: If you cancel your appointment with less than 24 hours notice you will be billed for your appointment.

You: Yeah, hi, I had an appointment at 9:10 with the doctor.

Them: Your appointment was cancelled, would you like to reschedule?

You: When was it cancelled?

Them: December.

You: Why and how?

Them: [employee name] is who cancelled it.

You: Any reason why? Shouldn't I have been notified?

Them: It doesn't show a reason. Sorry.

I'm seriously considering bringing them my co-pay in pennies.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby jbobsully11 » Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:53 pm

iMURDAu wrote:I'm seriously considering bringing them my co-pay in pennies.

Have you tried charging them a fee for not giving you enough notice? (Not that it worked on Seinfeld...)
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby LaoWai » Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:13 pm

So, I'm writing this thing that part of which, rhythmically, is based on the first few bars of Miley Cyrus's "Wrecking Ball," not because I'm a huge Miley fan or anything, but just because that's the pace the character happens to talk at. (Don't ask me about how I get into characters, because weird musical connections are usually part of it.)

Originally I was just humming those first few bars over and over to myself as I wrote (always an entertaining sight for locals seeing their first real foreigner in the wild--the crazy guy humming and scribbling in his little notebook). No problems.

Now, I've been trying to type the stuff up, and the only way I can get the right "background" is by playing the actual song. Because I'm limited Internet-wise, though, I've got to put on the video and consistently back-click it. Ergo, I get to see Miley Cyrus at the beginning of the video over and over. That in and of itself is not a big problem. I've got no issues against Miley or any of her videos. She seems like a talented young girl who maybe got talked into some silly stuff for a while, but who wasn't in that position at some point, except those of us who were boys?

No, the problem is that a major image in this chapter is crying hazel eyes--the eyes have to be hazel for reasons. I mean, the crying hazel eyes are really pretty significant later. But in the video, Miley is all weepy blue eyes. I have to keep clicking and re-clicking once the "I came in like..." line comes in, and then I'm, like, "Damn, lost my place, and what's wrong with that chick's eyes?" Her weirdly super-blue eyes keep messing with my hazel-eye-thing, and it just throws me out of character. And, yeah, I have to type in character, because even though everything is written out on note-paper, the muses have cursed me to only type with the correct character dictating--freaking muses!
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby JamishT » Tue Mar 20, 2018 2:38 am

May I suggest this version for the same-ish rhythm, but no visuals of hazel eyes or tighty-whiteys:

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Re: The rant thread.

Postby jbobsully11 » Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:25 pm

I spent basically all of yesterday helping my sister and her husband move into their new house, and now I’m all sore.

At least their place looks nice.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby cmsellers » Sun Mar 25, 2018 5:28 pm

jbobsully11 wrote:I spent basically all of yesterday helping my sister and her husband move into their new house, and now I’m all sore.

Because your sister has an SO or because she has a house?
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby Marcuse » Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:43 pm

cmsellers wrote:
jbobsully11 wrote:I spent basically all of yesterday helping my sister and her husband move into their new house, and now I’m all sore.

Because your sister has an SO or because she has a house?


Probably because lifting heavy things is tiring.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby iMURDAu » Tue Mar 27, 2018 3:32 am

Marcuse wrote:
cmsellers wrote:
jbobsully11 wrote:I spent basically all of yesterday helping my sister and her husband move into their new house, and now I’m all sore.

Because your sister has an SO or because she has a house?


Probably because lifting heavy things is tiring.


Idk man, idk that seems like sellers might have been joking.

Disclaimer: idk.
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Re: The rant thread.

Postby iMURDAu » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:57 pm

cmsellers wrote:
jbobsully11 wrote:I spent basically all of yesterday helping my sister and her husband move into their new house, and now I’m all sore.

Because your sister has an SO or because she has a house?


Oh, how vague was that thumbs up when I say you were probably joking? No response to any of it so far. Bra-fucking-vo! I think all the internets were already awarded. Since nobody does that anymore I assume the stock was depleted and nobody is giving them up. So I will just hold up my hand and say "high five" in my best Borat.

I was reading that and it came across as Marcuse explaining a joke, not pointing out that you missed the obvious and I was like holly shite cmsellers murdered that and left the corpse looking alive.
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