The Official Rant Thread

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:22 pm

The discussion on businesses wanting to take away 3 day weekends for Australia day celebrations annoy me... Its already roughly 260 days a year that people are scheduled to work and they'll be damned if they allow one extra day off.

It doesn't affect me...Yet. But what annoys me is that they want to take it away from Australia day, a holiday thats been celebrated for many years with some meaning behind it... I'm sure there are much less important public holidays...Queen's birthday is one of them. We have very little association with her over here...

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:14 am

My rant is that I currently don't have the patience to read from 300 on.

BLAST YOU HIBERNATION!!!! Got update everything... >_>

Update this... Update that... Yada Yada.

CES had a 150 Inch Screen (Because bigger is better, especially if you have to rip the roof open to put it in your home)

Apple...for once... made my jaw drop.

My rant for that is Holy Crap.

I have more...but I have to go "update" some more >_>

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:14 am

People who overuse the "

" emoticon in their posts piss me off.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:17 am

I know what you mean.

;P

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:20 am

AHHHhhhhh

/head explode

SHOUTrvb · Post by **SHOUTrvb** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:16 am

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:12 am

But

is the perfect expression of indifference.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:12 am

I invented =|, true story.

Ragdoll · Post by **Ragdoll** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:52 am

This isn't funny guys

. although

is the best way to express

.

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:14 pm

u guys arent helpping at all

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:28 pm

Psst..

Tural wrote:I find it rather pitiful when a situation like this happens:

Say I'm annoyed at something someone has done. I point this out to my friends. One of them proceeds to do whatever I am annoyed by, not realizing that it's not annoying when someone is trying to do it with the intent to annoy right after you say it. It just bothers me that people think it's really funny, when in reality it just makes them look like a babbling idiot.

It's annoying that they try to be annoying, but the thing they are doing isn't annoying. *** not being able to explain this.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:44 pm

Heh. lol.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:35 pm

[/:|]

So today I went down to my Honda dealer so they could fix something on my seat. They said it'd be a 2 hour job at most...so whatever, I go down there. About two hours later, I asked if it'd be ready soon. Guy comes back "Oh, your car isn't gonna be done today."

I have to drive my dad's old ass 300ZX to school. Fucking great.

Cryticfarm · Post by **Cryticfarm** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:11 pm

Thanks to junkfoodman when I try to type junk food theres no space :p

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:34 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:I have to drive my dad's old ass 300ZX to school. *** great.

Is it at least a twin turbo model?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:38 pm

shadowkhas wrote:Is it at least a twin turbo model?

No, but it gets the job done as far as acceleration goes. My problem with it is that it's a very low/small car, and I'm used to driving my car...so it's just awkward to drive. Also, the display is dead, so I can't see what radio station it's on...and my dad's presets all suck.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:11 pm

The $80 120 gig HD my dad bought for my mom's computer (her old one died) does not fit. Its pins do not match up. He said to pick out an ATA-6 HD, so I did, but I always wondered if her computer actually had a SATA interface or something, and now I see for whatever reason it has a different interface than ATA-6. So this means I won't be getting my computer back anytime soon, because my mom has to use mine (it being the only laptop in the house) until we fix hers. Stupid geek squad worker bees, they told us it was ATA.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:43 pm

My Rant:Our school is very old, and has no good planned out drainage system.
Satelite image of the quad.the two "S"s are Roses, lined by benches. that already makes a tricky situation. you fall back, you're getting thorns in the back. thats another rant for another day though.

Use this picture to follow along.

When it rains, we have a major issue. Underneath the quad is mud and hollow, and the flagpole is solid concrete. basically like a Leaning Tower of Pisa kind of deal. theres really nothing below it that prevents it from sinking. That being said, the surrounding concrete is also starting to cave, forming a funnel. so basically, surrounding the flagpole is a dip, not deep enough to pose enough of a risk to be redone and losing parts of the original concrete laid at our school, but enough to pool water deep enough to go through most vent holes on shoes. so this poses an issue. How do you get water out from the middle of this quad? This school, being the main school for long beach, and sustaining severe damage in an earthquake in the 30's that lasted for about 20 years, has all of the Cold War scare upgrades, namely fallout shelters that can hold an immense amount of people. So below the quad is a shelter. They cannot build a drain in the quad that leads to the sewers because of the shelter. Their answer to this problem? Bridges. We have 6 bridges made of plywood and 2X4s going across the water. but the bridges are only big enough to cover a small puddle. So the rain we've been having has stretched the bridges to the limit. not the puddle has formed around each of the bridges, and plus years of use without replacement and improper drying has left them warped and falling apart. Theres puddles within the bridges that protect the people from the puddles, that are, again deep enough to go into most side holes of shoes. Not to mention, this is school, so the supply is highly shadowed by demand for the bridges. so where the puddles are deep, there may be only one bridge, which has by now been surrounded by water. The other side has shallower, but longer puddles, not enough to go into your shoes, but enough to want to protect their nikes. so that one has one deep spot and four bridges. and they're all surrounded by water.

When it gets REALLY bad, when the bridges are COMPLETELY useless, they resort to the bilge pump. It consists of a small Honda Generator, s small pump that looks like it was stolen from a Jacuzzi, and 4 spliced 25 foot garden hoses. The pump itself has the strength of a Special Ed Student and a crazy straw and makes a barely noticeable difference, but sounds like it's boring a pit to Hell. There are plenty of other walkways around the quad, but those too have very bad drainage systems. these drains are pipes on the edges of the catwalks. this surface, being paint and gravel, (kinda like the synthetic flooring on a garage) and being resurfaced every so often has left these holes way deep, and theres no arch to the walkways, so they too pool in the middle. and even if they are functional, they are almost always conveniently placed under fruit and seed dropping shade trees. so Leaves, and bits of seeds clog these holes fairly quickly, making the water leak into the main buildings. The surrounding walkways below the catwalks are packed with people. So to walk about 30 feet from building to building requires zigzagging among cliques and clusters of people who tend to congregate in the middle of the walkways, Either conversing, fighting,(dancing, fists, and whose Krew/Hollister/American Eagle/A&F/LRG Jacket/Shirt/Pants look the best.) so walking this distance normally takes like 5 minutes to get end to end. 3 if you're an asshole. EVEN worse are the ones that decide to do these activities on the scare puddle-crossing bridges. which tempt you to push them into the water/mud below.

tl;dr: I need a giant Hypebeast-crushing robot that can cross deep puddles.

Munsie · Post by **Munsie** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:05 pm

That really sucks Cuda. O_o

They clearly weren't thinking.

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My rant: 980 Gamerscore on COD4 today... 1k will probably elude me though.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:09 pm

Mile High? You will get it eventually it isn't that hard.