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HiVolt
This thread's purpose is for people to come in and rant on anything they feel compelled to rant about, provided that it doesn't involve grudges against other users or anything that would break the rules. Real-life problems, however vague you wish to make them, are what should be discussed here.
I'll start:
Just a little bit ago, I walked to the store to pick up some cigarettes and some tea. The cute girl that works there was behind the counter so I started thinking "Awesome, a chance to chat a bit with this girl!" I'm wearing my Dragon Age t-shirt and she initiates the conversation by talking about the game, so I start to think "Oh, sweet! She's probably just as nerdy as I am, this is great!" Then, I pull out my card and try to pay- DECLINED.
I really think that the only thing that could have been worse is if I had shat my pants at that exact moment. This is the only time I've ever wanted to say "FML".
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Monday
Today, I had about four people walk past our concessions menu (I work at a movie theater, but we do mostly plays) to ask me about concession prices, while I'm doing important things (like trying to stop our sinks from leaking water into the carpet).
Post by
Patty
I hate people, just generally. People's company annoys me. :/
Post by
messoria
I personally think my life is up the @#$%ter at the moment...
Cheer up, at least you have a home to live in, which I won't in a month unless it starts snowing cash money.
Post by
Patty
Agreed. Internet is a far better way of communication...
Well, for me what annoys me most is habits that aren't present when talking online. Awareness of your personal space, panting instead of breathing, gestures sometimes, those types of things. But, also, I just hate ^&*!s, and most people my age are #$%^s.
@Messoria, that's awful. D:
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messoria
Could be worse, I managed to scrape by last month and not be homeless for Christmas, lol.
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Post by
Laihendi
I can't get any sexier than I already am. /QQ
Don't be so hard on yourself. You can always improve your appearance, you don't have to be stuck like that forever.
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Post by
tuckmuck203
I'm 15 and I hate going to sleep because whenever I try to go to sleep, I always start thinking how pointless life is, and how I have no legitimate reason to live besides the fact that I'm a pussy and can't bring myself ot commit suicide.
Hell, I skip lunch sometimes because I have nobody to sit with.
My best friend whom I've known since kindergarten got kicked out of his house by his mom for doing pot so much.
My brother is a stoner who works at honey farms, is 20 years old, and is going nowhere.
My grandfather is 88 years old and probably is going to last a couple years at most.
My father died when I was 7.
8th grade and before I was known as the school psycho, because I'm bipolar and I got into fights.
Edit: Oh, and my signature isn't my oppinion, it's lyrics form a song called paper dolls by marcy playground that I found humorous.
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tuckmuck203
I want to sleep but my dad is snoring louder than a.. loud.. thing. Pisses me off.
This may not help right now, but if this is a recurring problem, you can soundproof your room with egg cartons. It looks kinda cool; all you have to do is save your egg cartons and attach them to the wall with the spiky parts facing outward.
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tuckmuck203
I want to sleep but my dad is snoring louder than a.. loud.. thing. Pisses me off.
This may not help right now, but if this is a recurring problem, you can soundproof your room with egg cartons. It looks kinda cool; all you have to do is save your egg cartons and attach them to the wall with the spiky parts facing outward.
I prefer my room not to look like a dump... I usually make him sleep on another floor but I guess he thought I wasnt gonna sleep tonight.
What? Who doesn't like thier room looking like it's full of garbage and other waste? (The internet needs to invent a sarcasm button)
but it actually doesn't look messy, if you do it right it looks artsy.
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Post by
Skreeran
So... Any frustration? Does it have to be a specific incident, or can it be general?
I get frustrated about the small stuff, just like anyone else, but I'm going to start with a big frustration that I was reminded of by a documentary I just watched. Extraterrestrial life.
We know almost for certain that it's there. With 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars estimated in the universe (
Source
), it's tremendously unlikely that Earth is the only planet in our entire universe that was ever capable of sustaining life. With one intelligent species per galaxy (an extremely conservative estimate) at present time, there would be 100
billion
different intelligent intellient species, with their own art and culture and individuals wondering if they were alone. Trillions of religions, stories, heroes, and ideas. Most species might be (pardon the pun) alien to us, with mind that we would have a hard time understanding, but that still leave thousands or millions of species that are more similar to ourselves.
And yet... the vast majority of these people we will never even make contact with. Ever. Even if humans make contact with another species in my lifetime, we won't exactly be able to hold a conversation with them. At best, we might get a signal that tells us they're there, and then send a signal in return, hoping that the next generation might get a reply. If we're lucky, and we find life on one of the 1400 or so stars within 50 or so light years of earth (
Source
), then that could still be 100 years or so before we get any answer to out signal. And we could almost certainly not send any sort of rocket to meet them in person. And, assuming the one-intelligence-per-galaxy figure, we will almost certainly never make contact with any other intelligences.
It's frustrating to think of all the possibilities--all the philosophers, artists, songs, stories, and so on--that lie out there that we'll never know about. Maybe we could get lucky and imagine them ourselves, but it's unlikely.
And on the off chance that Earth is the only planet capable of sustaining life--at least in the present--I would be absolutely terrified to learn that that was the case, because that would mean that our tiny fragile world--one that is destined to die, one way or another, be it from nuclear war or from a loss of natural resources or from the death of our own sun--is the only place in the universe where there can be life, and that life is threatened immensely with death in the very near future, relatively speaking. Yes, ultimately all life is presumably doomed anyway, but the idea that we aren't the only ones is comforting. To learn that we were the only life in the universe would be as terrifying a prospect to me as to learn that I was suddenly the only person in existance.
I desperately wish to find extraterrestrial life, because that means that we're not alone. To find brothers in space, to share our thoughts and stories with would be the greatest achievement man had ever made. Just as a thought is worthless until it is transferred from one mind to another, so Humankind's achievements seem vain without someone to share it with. And imagine what we could learn from alien cultures with fresh new perspective and ideas. But even if life does exist elsewhere in the universe, chances are we will not be able to ever reach it. At best, we'll only be able to send the equivalent of e-mails with a 20-100 year delay each way. And I'll probably be dead by then.
That frustrates me.
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