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Rant & Rave Thread

Discussion in 'Permanent Threads' started by Joel Raymond, Oct 19, 2009.

  1. Roxanne

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    Rant: DUI.

    Fuck my entire stupid decision making process, and subsequently my life.
     
  2. katokoch

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    Rave: I'm having my best month on the job since February. I've cut my call-to-sale ratio to 25% of my September number and am one sale away from reaching a goal I've missed for months. I'm not there yet but damn it feels good to make progress and have some confidence back.

    Rant/Rave: My girlfriend is having some anxiety issues related to her family (i.e. her mom's health). She's had a few mild anxiety attacks in the past couple of weeks and has an appointment tomorrow morning with a therapist who specializes in family issues. I really hate seeing her in this condition and am doing the best I can to help* (while trying to not feel helpless along the way), but it brings me some relief that she is consulting a professional. I just hope both of them can get better (my girlfriend and her mom) and this is a step in the right direction. *If anyone has advice I'd appreciate it.
     
  3. kuhjäger

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    Rant: Houses.

    If it isn't one thing it is another. Chimney sweep was just here to charge us money to look down our chimney (and not sing one song in a cockney accent) and now copious a amount of water is seeping into the lower basement after constant rain.
     
  4. Winterbike

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    RAVE: BACK ON THE MATS!!! Screw you stupid broken nose

    Rave: I can try all the stuff I've been drilling the past month in live situations

    Rave: You know what? I might be a decent dancer some day***. Swing and salsa lessons are paying off.

    ***In like... 5 years

    Rave: This chick I met last UFC night is totally into me, she's great in bed and she's got perfect boobs (and not because she's fat! because she isn't!). Personality-wise we're not a match that great, but at this point complaining about it would be greedy.

    Rave: Facebook page and blog about paleo info for French-Canadians are slowly but steadily growing, this might go somewhere! Especially since most girls who eat paleo around here are into crossfit and have insane bodies

    Rave: Look all at those raves!
     
  5. bewildered

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    Rant: so depressingly out of shape. I went and ran for 10 minutes. Yeah, I ran it, but it sucked. Though my muscles aren't tired at all, my whole respiratory system is beat to a pulp.

    On the plus side, I know I am psychically capable. I was running 3-5miles 5x a week in college. If I could do it 4 years ago, I can do it now. I just have to keep working at it.
     
  6. PeruvianSoup

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    Rave: Nerdy, but fuck it. I gave a presentation to my class today about (medical) board examination basics and it was well received. Yes, I'm a student. Yes, I verified all of the facts. I wasn't even sure the administration was going to approve it based on the lack of confirmation, but it was awesome to know that my class benefited from it. Apparently, it was the "best administrative presentation ever given to our class."

    It was just great to be able to see a weakness and fix it. Haven't felt like I was able to do that for a while.
     
  7. Seeker

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    Rave: Bassnectar for New Year's.

    Rant: Everything else in my life between now and then.
     
  8. Jimmy James

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    Job interview tomorrow. Fucking nerves.
     
  9. sisterkathlouise

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    Rave: Walking home from trivia night at the bar (we won) I saw an AWESOME halo around the moon. It was huge (I'm assuming it was a 46* halo as opposed to the pretty common 22* halos) and super bright and well defined. I may or may not have called my parents and sister to tell them to go outside. I'm not entirely sure why I got so excited about it, but it was really impressive.
     
  10. E. Tuffmen

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    RAVE: Tried on a pair of size 38 jeans yesterday and they were too big. I'm down to a 36 inch waist. I haven't worn size 36 since I was in my mid 20s.

    RAVE: I've been very inspired to start writing again and I'm in the process of setting up my first blog. There are more writing opportunities out there for me than there are jobs in my current chosen profession, and it will take years for me to finish nursing school. I won't see the inside of an OR as a nurse until 2016 at minimum. I've fucked around and wasted enough time. Time to make the dream real. I've got pages and pages of ideas for articles and stories and everyone who has ever read anything I've written has had nothing but good to say about it; even my brother, and NOTHING I did was ever good enough for him.

    RAVE: There is an end in sight to the current situation with the unwanted guest. By the end of January or the beginning of February she will have enough saved to get the fuck out. I can tell you now, this shit will not be happening again. I've had quite about enough of my wife bringing fuck ups into our life. I love helping people but my home is my sanctuary and that is NOT negotiable. Not even for her.

    RANT: My stepson is getting picked on at school. He has Aspberger's and is very short and delayed for his age. He's 13 but he looks nine and acts like he's 6. When he is stressed or upset he instantly regresses to, I would say around 4-5, and he starts baby talking and trying to snuggle up for comfort. I knew this was going to happen once he hit junior high. We've even had problems with some of the teachers treating him disrespectfully and encouraging him make himself look foolish. High school is going to be a nightmare for that poor kid. It sucks, but realistically, there is not much we can do for him other than encourage and support him. In all of it I feel like our 8 year old, who couldn't be more unlike his brother, gets lost in the shuffle of his brother's problems all the time.

    RAVE/RANT: My whole life people have treated me like I'm a mental patient; family, friends, co-workers, even my wife. I've even questioned my own sanity numerous times and have always been ashamed of who I was because of it. I've spent my life hiding and holding back everything about myself because of other people's misperceptions, prejudice, and selfishness. Learning about my personality type, and connecting with others who share it, has been remarkable. I feel like I'm part of a brotherhood. It's the only personality type that psychologists actually specialize in and has entire websites devoted to explaining and understanding it. My life has come into crystal clear focus and nothing can possibly be the same.
     
  11. audreymonroe

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    Rant: So, this job was always meant to be just a temporary solution to unemployment. But, after two years of constantly job hunting thanks to freelancing, I decided to give myself a break for a while and just hang out for a bit because I like the job and it's still somewhat related to what I want to do in the long run. I've applied to other jobs here and there if I happened to find one, but wasn't in that constant job-hunting hellhole. Then, a couple months ago there were all these changes from the management end that immediately started to run the whole project into the ground and things are continuing to go downhill and everyone's really unhappy and the office politics are overwhelming any goodness that the job once had.

    So now, I'm back to that job-hunting hellhole. I'm going to wait until the holidays are over to start getting really frantic and desperate about it, but it's back to the applying-for-things-every-day mode and the constant why-the-fuck-did-I-not-even-get-an-interview mode and the what-the-hell-that-interview-went-so-well-why-didn't-they-call-me mode and the holy-shit-I-just-embarrassed-myself-so-much-in-that-interview mode and the I'd-rather-end-it-than-write-another-cover-letter mode. At least there is the silver lining of while I'm doing all this I still have a job that more or less pays me enough, but I fucking hate job-hunting.
     
  12. gamecocks

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    Rave: 1100 ticket reduced to 237. I shall be able to feed and cloth myself this month.

    Rave: He said/she said car accident and the guy admitted fault, hello rental and free repairs instead of walking and saving to actually fix my car.

    Rave: Might have been the best lunch hour ever.
     
  13. GTE

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    RANT: Fuck this housing market. In a job that is highly dependent on new construction and remodels and living in one of the top five hardest hit markets makes for some shitty ass paychecks. Might be time to switch careers. I'm making less now than I did when I started 14 years ago.
     
  14. dchavok

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    Rant: Almost through the first week of unemployment and I'm fucking bored. After applying for everything I can find in the morning, I have the rest of the day free and nothing to do because I don't/can't spend money. If you've been unemployed recently- what have you done to keep yourself busy? I've been working out, making elaborate/time consuming lunch and dinners, catching up on movies/book/tv shows/video games, but none of it is holding my attention like I expected it to.
     
  15. sisterkathlouise

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    Oops... First I was too sleepy to do homework, but now I think I'm too caffeinated. Ugh. That's what I get for trying to write an 8 page paper after spending 10 hours running after a 2 year old.
     
  16. NoMames

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    Rant: While I despise the NCAA, nothing pisses me off more than idiots who tell me universities should do away with college sports. I got into a fifteen minute argument tonight with someone who was telling me how college sports were a pointless waste of money. I got so fed up I finally just resorted to bullying him about his inability to play sports at all, much less in college, which has led to his idiotic position.

    Rant 2: Whenever I get into that argument, it just reminds me how badly college sports need reform, especially the bit about only allowing amateur athletes. The NCAA an incredibly hypocritical organization that is okay with making billions a year by pimping out 18-22 year-old athletes, many of whom are from bad economic backgrounds, but god forbid a player sell a jersey so he can help his mom pay her power bill.

    Rave: I never got caught taking money while I was in college.
     
  17. Bundy Bear

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    Rant: It's hitting 40+ degrees C tomorrow and we have a stupid fucking graduation parade on. They've held all the parades of the last month so they can do them all at once and have some big wig speaking not to mention parading the colours so it's going to take fucking ages. I can only hope it gets cancelled.
     
  18. VanillaGorilla

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    Rant/Meh- Finding dog puke. It happens.

    Rant- Dog puke in the bed. That sucks. Gotta wash the sheets.

    Motherfucking RANT- Used tampon dog puke in the bed.
     
  19. lust4life

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    Rant: One rant too many.
     
  20. Volo

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    RAVE: Added a third couple to the group a week ago and thus far there has been zero bullshit to deal with. I get laid nearly every night, and last night I got home to a wonderful threesome with my loving wife and a good friend of ours. Jesus, my stars have certainly changed in recent weeks.

    RANT: Frequent and sometimes painful STD checks. You play, you pay, I know, but does one out of every two doctors have to go out of their way to make my cry in agony? Is it always necessary to stick something in there? First world problems, eh? I have a fucking rotation of awesome women to bed, and I bitch and moan about free health-care.