Get it out. Get it off your chest.

[KJbushway]

This is a thread where you can rant about anything. If its something your just dieing to say, this is were you can say it.
It can be about politics, it can be about life, it can be about anything.
Please if its about a person, leave their name out of it.

I can't promise that if you say something like Glenn Beck is always factual, that you won't get feed back. You don't want to defend your post, you don't have to.
Have fun.

 

[Shatnertage]

This isn't a rant: I'm too low-energy for that today. It's just an observation.

I'm not a big fan of threads that don't have a topic, or any real content in the OP. They don't tend to really get much traction around here.

It would probably be better if the posters who posted them would come up with a provocative or at least novel insight or bit of news for others to react to.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't have that much going on in my life that I would publicly want to rant about.

However I did once win a local radio's station "What gets up your nose" contest. My answer - automatic hand dryers. Those thing really piss me off. They take too long to dry your hands, are fucking noisy and you often have to wait in line to use one. I would much rather prefer to use paper towels and I imagine most other people would too.

 

[Mr Silver]

What do I have to rant about?

Probably my complete misunderstanding of women in many circumstances, sure its not exactly an uncommon problem, but it means a lot to me, I've got quite a few female friends and even though I have no real problems there, when it comes to Women in a Romantic sense, I really do have this annoying habit of saying or doing the complete wrong things....

Theres gotta be some kind of "Magic Words" that the majority of Women want to hear... I mean theres only two words guys want to hear in most cases, those being "Sex" and "Ok"

 

[KJbushway]

I wouldn't use paper towels over hand dyers becuase the whole point of those automatic hand dryers is to eliminate the need for paper towels. To be more enviromentally friendly.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I wouldn't use paper towels over hand dyers becuase the whole point of those automatic hand dryers is to eliminate the need for paper towels. To be more enviromentally friendly.

If people aren't willing to give up their cars and clothes dryers (neither of which I have) to be more eco-friendly than why should I give up paper towels? My carbon footprint is currrent 1/3 of that of the average Australian.

 

[KJbushway]

Greed is going to ruin us. Humans can be so mean to each other over just simple things like money.
Its either safe the Earth or use cheaper more dangerous materials.
Its the rich not wanting to give just a small 4% of their 250,000 dollar paycheck, even though most don't work as hard as the common man.
Its lets run hate commercials during a midterm election or use that money to help lower the deficit. I didn't see the money being used to stabilize the economy like hiring more people, no it was used to run false ads a large percent of the times.

Hopefully we as humans can grow-up soon and fast, because we will cause or own destruction.
Surprisingly I am usually a hopeful person.

 

[KJbushway]

I wouldn't use paper towels over hand dyers becuase the whole point of those automatic hand dryers is to eliminate the need for paper towels. To be more enviromentally friendly.

If people aren't willing to give up their cars and clothes dryers (neither of which I have) to be more eco-friendly than why should I give up paper towels? My carbon footprint is currrent 1/3 of that of the average Australian.

OH you got me wrong I wasn't calling your way wrong I was describing why I use the hand dryers.
Good job though with your carbon footprint.

 

[FPAlpha]

I'm starting to really dislike my new job.. i'm past the honeymoon phase and am able to do most of the work on my own (except for a few details but that's normal) but it's so much work that i'm constantly on 100% during my 9 hours (actually 8 but if i really would go on my 1h break i'd even get later home than usual) and i'm constantly doing overtime.. for the past few weeks i've rarely had a day i could leave on time. I don't mind occasional overtime but it's become a habit (and all this for comparably low income).

2nd rant would be my parents.. i really love them and they've always helped me out but when i agreed to move into their old appartment when they retired and moved out to their house i was really excited. My parents still needed to come to Germany once in a while (my mom needs to come at least twice a year for medical checkups) but this once in a while has turned out pretty frequent.. so much that i pondered to let it come to breaking point and putting it out in the open that i'd like my privacy too and not have them here every other month.

 

[Robert D. Robot]

Too many misleading half-truths and outright lies by politicians that are not exposed or that supporters simply refuse to stop believing, because they can not see how they could trust anyone who has a different opinion than they do (Sorry- NOBODY is correct all the time!).

So I want some universally accepted and trusted force (Yoda? Gandalf? The Organians? Sweet Polly Purebred? The Swiss?) to integrate something akin to "Pop-Up Video" technology into any speech or other statement by a politician (same deal for journalists and commentators, too) so that when a lie is told, this would be indicated in a Pop-Up bubble on the screen and the actual information would be shown as a correction right then and there.

We would, however, need something/someone that we all could have some faith in as a truly honest arbiter. In this day and age, I can not think of anyone that most everyone does trust. I can't even think of someone that a simple majority of people trust.

I would be interested in seeing which of these folks are intentionally deceitful, and which ones are simply goofy enough to believe the lies that they are saying!

 

[F. King Daniel]

You misspelled "dying" in the OP, KJ.

I actually posted a rant in the RA lounge a few days ago, but I deleted it after a few hours and I don't think anyone read it. Posting in a fit of anger never ends well.

 

[Kirby]

The only thing I can rant about is my neighbor with WAY too many christmas lights outside. It wouldn't be so bad except we live in townhouses and he made a small area look like the Griswald's house.

 

[KJbushway]

Sorry, I did do spell check in the beginning.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

It really pisses me off when I try to reason with somebody who is so utterly convinced of their righteousness that they'll not listen to any piece of evidence that could possibly be offered.

Every day I have an argument with some generic left-wing idiot at school who just repeats mindless phrases like "Bush = bad, Obama = good", "Guns are evil" and "Heal the world" without offering any real meaning behind it! They just repeat it because it's the message that got to them first. If somebody can offer an intelligent argument with tangible evidence, I got no problem. But those mindless Obama fanbitches who have no idea what they're talking about... GRRR

 

[scotpens]

I wouldn't use paper towels over hand dyers becuase the whole point of those automatic hand dryers is to eliminate the need for paper towels. To be more enviromentally friendly.

And how much electricity do you think those hand dryers use? Devices that use electrical resistance to generate heat are among the most energy-gobbling of all electrical appliances. Paper, on the other hand, is made from trees which are a managed and renewable resource.

As for my personal rant: I have a bug up my ass about people who wear WAY too much cologne or perfume. Do these folks have an olfactory impairment? Do they not realize how overpowering the odor is? Or do they honestly think smelling like a pimp makes them more attractive?

I have another bug up my ass about college-educated native English speakers who routinely make basic mistakes in English. Like not knowing the difference between “affect” and “effect,” between “principle” and “principal,” or between “their,” “there” and “they’re.” People who put apostrophes where they don’t belong and don’t put apostrophes where they ought to be. Every time I see “should of,” “could of” or “would of,” I want to grab the person who wrote it by the collar and say, “Didn’t they teach you your auxiliary verbs in friggin’ grammar school?”

Come to think of it, I have a lot of bugs up my ass. Maybe I need a can of Rectal Raid.

 

[Miss Chicken]

As for my personal rant: I have a bug up my ass about people who wear WAY too much cologne or perfume. Do these folks have an olfactory impairment? Do they not realize how overpowering the odor is? Or do they honestly think smelling like a pimp makes them more attractive?

A woman once got on the bus and sat 4 seats in front of me. Her perfume was overpowering and caused me to have an asthma attack. My girlfriend and I had to get off the bus at the next stop. I was grasping for breath so I couldn't say anything but my friend told the woman off.

 

[Mr Silver]

Perfume and Cologne in ultra amounts is indeed extremely annoying, particulary when you pass someone and as you breath you can taste the foul acerbic flavour of their Perfume that has been splashed on so much its vaporises into the air

 

[Subcommander R.]

As for my personal rant: I have a bug up my ass about people who wear WAY too much cologne or perfume. Do these folks have an olfactory impairment? Do they not realize how overpowering the odor is? Or do they honestly think smelling like a pimp makes them more attractive?

A woman once got on the bus and sat 4 seats in front of me. Her perfume was overpowering and caused me to have an asthma attack. My girlfriend and I had to get off the bus at the next stop. I was grasping for breath so I could say anything but my friend told the woman off.

Last bus I was on had a pair of guys smoking pot in it. I LOATHE that smell and wanted to vomit. I bailed at the next stop and walked home.

People have no common courtesy nowadays.

 

[scotpens]

Last bus I was on had a pair of guys smoking pot in it. I LOATHE that smell and wanted to vomit. I bailed at the next stop and walked home.

Hey, marijuana smoke doesn’t smell that bad. I can think of LOTS of things that smell worse.

 

[auntiehill]

What's really been chapping my hide lately is people's complete inability to Google anything. And many of them are on the internet, in forums or groups, asking me to provide addresses for things like FanFiction.Net or Syfy. Um.....try Fanfiction.Net? SyFy.com? Really?

And I hate the "I'm not good with computers" excuse. I'm fairly computer illiterate myself, but I know how to type and read. That's really all you need to find a site, for God's sake.