The Soapbox

[Inquartata]

I hate people who don't pay attention when they're driving at night and I'm trying to cross the road while dressed in black! They have TWO BIG SEARCHLIGHTS attached to the front of their cars, for goodness' sake! They should be able to see ink spots on a black cat at 500 paces! But do they focus on their driving? Nooooo! They clutch that all-important cellphone to their ear, fiddle with the CD player, drink coffee, chat with their passengers, fuss with their kids in the back seat, juggle a cigarrette, read papers, or...woolgather. Dunces!

Luckily for me I never stir outside when it's raining, so that's one hazard avoided.

[Fencergrl]

Gosh Inq... I thought for sure you would be one of those who would be wearing white!

[Zilverzmurfen]

Originally Posted by Inquartata

...inq spots on a black cat...

No no no, we do not want to know what you did to the poor cat!



And by the way, you should all be wearing reflectors if it's dark outside!

[rcmatthews]

I hate how I go to French class everyday and I am the only one that ever responds to any sort of question. Perhaps it is because there are a large number of underclassmen, but it really doesn't take that much effort to actively participate in class. Also, I hate it even more when, at the end of the semester these people will be wondering why the made Ds and Fs and then proceed to blame it on the professor.

[Aqua_volans]

harhar. when i am angry with something on this forum i would rather ping spam the server.

[Zasha]

i hate it when i win a close bout and the other girl tries to break my fingers in the handshake.

i hate when people claim that reading is stupid.

[sandworm]

i hate fencing epeeists who think that them inflicting pain on me will magically count as more points,

also i dont like fencers who keep fencing after halt , halt, HALT has been called three times.. hellooooo hearing aid.

i hate it when epeeists sit by the side of an important foil bout and then complain about the director just cause there precious little club member is isnt extending thier precious little arm, you are an EPEEist you dont know anything about directing FOIL and even if you do, still shut up cause you arnt directing!~!!!!

[Aqua_volans]

i hate it when people tell me what not to do. i usually do something mean after they try to.

[Dmitrivna]

ok, I know that the Show is opening on thursday, but that doesnt mean that the rest of us dont have lives outside of the damn thing - unlike our director. she wants us to be there practically 24/7 and her daughters (who both have leads) are f-ing obnoxious! They act like they rule the place, one of them was straightening her hair for like 3 hours while we were working/dancing/singing our asses off!!! The other just tells us to shut up all the time and is really rude. I had plans today and I mumbled the fact yesterday when the director kindly let us know that she wanted us there at one instead of six till ten - I didnt realise one of her daughters was in front of me. She turned around, made a face, and just said "well too bad, honey". Well screw her!

GAH.

I really dont want to go back there, dont make me... ugh.

[Aqua_volans]

GEEK HIERACHY! highest ranking --> lowest ranking

computer hackers. computer programmers. PC game hackers. Console game hackers. pro gamers. email junkies. pro board gamers. fun gamers(people who just play for fun and not to win) eg ppl who walk into LAN shops just to play and not to break records. arcade gamers. finally at the bottom of th ladder, those filthy half breed geeks who refuse to go geek all the way and stay half geeks, this breed is as bad as the noob apprentices who pretend to know everything.

so make some distinction! theres a caste system at work here.

[wrdbrn]

You are a secretary just like me. I just love a work environment where one holier than thou thinks they have more to do in a day than anyone else. I am truly a proponent of the old saw: a lack of planning on your part does not create an emergency for me. Now I am a team player – I have a list of references a mile or more long, if it’s got to be done, its got to be done and the best result is everyone rolling up their sleeves and getting the work out. HOWEVER - for the prima donnas of the world who think they don’t have to fill out a work order correctly, show coworkers the change in modus operandi, speak in a civil tone, etc... I AM GOING TO HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE AND you can look for whatever yourself until I get back.....

[mrbiggs]

I would just like to tell a story:

Thursday afternoon, I go into my piano teacher's house. He asks, "do you have a cold?" I say no, because I don't.


My nose has not stopped running since that word. Seriously, just an almost constant flow...my nose is all red and irritated now. And furthermore, I had to ask him for Kleenex later on, and I felt like an idiot.

P.S. Aquavolans, no one actually likes a computer hacker.

[DE_Strip_Tease]

know what I hate?

Cold weather. Who wants to bundle up in layers that take forever to get on and off?? Who wants to worry about warming up their cars in the morning?

Who wants to wear a jacket??? You have to put the stupid things on, then you get inside and you have to deal with them when you take them off!?!

As protest... my closet only has a very few things that are classified as winter clothes. I am a huge supporter of tank tops...

yeah. I am beyond ready to get to Florida.

[mrbiggs]

Also, valentine's day sucks more when you're sick.

[Moses]

NOTE: The below is a rant. Like most rants, it makes wild generalizations about people and the world (although less so than above-mentioned 'most rants'). It's not to be taken too seriously.

Though I am the 4th incarnation of the left testicle of God. Do not doubt that.

Oh, and as you probably know already, the language is strictly PG-13 and up.

Enjoy, you bastards!

~~~~~~~

I'm ****ed.

I usually find people who are angry all the time distasteful. They're all mouth and no message. Honestly, we all need to rant from time to time, but all need to fart from time to time, too, and we don't like people who are doing it constantly.

So, now is one of those times for me to be ****ed.

Prepare to get shot in the face with the flaregun of reason.

I hate anti-establishment ***holes. You know of whom I'm speaking. All those whiny, 'holier than thou' sons-of-*****es who love to complain to any open ear about how much the government, life and everything sucks. They're usually social liberals and fiscal conservatives. The former category usually stands out during their critiques, so after these silly limpbits are done complaining about how lame taxes are, how much the Republicans (because they happen to be in power at the moment) have ****ed on education, vomited on the environment, made the federal government too powerful and sent soldiers charging into places where they did not belong they must suffix their sentence with "And I don't like Democrats, either". They're watered down, weak versions of Libertarians.

Well **** me in the ear and call me Shirley, ***hat, whom did you vote for in the last election? Nobody, that's who, because you're too anti-establishment to do so.

Pick up a gun and start the revolution if you want, or get in line at the voting booth. In either case you're attempting a direct action, and not just sitting around crying like a infant. I might actually have some slim finger of respect for you in that case, and since I'm the 4th incarnation of God's left testicle, that's saying something.

Onto the next topic, which actually relates to the title of this little masturbational splurb (EDIT: this had a title when I originally wrote it and showed it to people).

I hate every one of you servile pigdogs which (that's right, which, because you lack to cognitive capacity necessary to be declared human) uses the phrase 'politically incorrect' to defend you irrational assertions, your racist beliefs, your sexism and your laziness.

I don't think Jews rule the world 'cause I'm a paranoid racist, I'm POLITICALLY INCORRECT.

I don't treat women like meatsacks with holes in them because I'm sloped-brow sexist beefstroker, I'm POLITICALLY INCORRECT.

I don't throw recyclable materials three inches to the left into the recyclables bin because I'm a lazy limp***, I'm POLITICALLY INCORRECT.

Please. You are not 'unique'. Your ideas are not counter to the mainstream. You're not an individualist. Hell, you're hardly an individual. You've been fed the exact same **** that millions of other vomit-brained dip****s have swallowed from Sean Hannity, Howard Stern, Trey Parker and Penn Jilette.

And people who watch/listen to these pundits' and ****lips' shows and broadcasts use their ****-stinky biased arguments to 'prove' how much more enlightened they are and 'above the crowd'. These servile cows are too lazy to use multiple sources as their intellectual resources. FOX and NPR don't Pandora's box in their ****ing Speedos, you androgynous un-intelligent blackholes of reason.

FOX and NPR are still better resources than the bull****tainment that the laziest of bastards use as their fountains of 'knowledge'. Trey Parker is not the 4th incarnation of the left testicle of God. Neither is Penn Jilette. So stop using them as your sole source of arguments, you bastards.

A friend of mine was in my room, finishing a drink in an aluminum can. The recycling bin was 3 feet away from him. He throws the can into the trash.

"You ***hole, recycle that."

"Didn't you watch "Bull****!"? It's barely worth it."

No, it's not 'barely worth it' ***hat. It costs 1/20 as much money and energy to recycle aluminum than to produce it raw. And even if it were 'barely worth it' (like paper and most plastics are), it would still be 'worth it'. Despite what "Bull****!" says, most recyclable resources are more profitable when recycled than tossed away.

That episode also argues that we're not really 'running out of space' for dumpsters. Well, whom do they ask about this? A ****ING MEMBER OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY. Gee, I guess I shoulda asked Nixon to explain everything involving Watergate, too, if I wanted perfectly straight answers.

In states like California, where land prices are astronomical and the majority of the middle class drinks bottled water, they're having problems with precious landfill space getting filled up by recyclable water bottles.

Stick that in your urethra and smoke it. And grow a frontal lobe and look for other sources of information than "Bull****!" and Southpark, you limp-***ted sons-of-*****es.

I want to live in a hole for the rest of my life, away from all the ****-don't-stink, Southpark-watching ***holes of the world.

God, I am awesome.

-Da Mose

[fencingfrog]

I hate the people who do stupid things that are sooooo dumb that they aren't even funny and everyone but that one @$$ gets totally screwed because of it.

and i hate the druggies who smoke/snort/whatever in school bathrooms. because as if the bathrooms aren't bad enough, now you can't use them at all becasue you're afraid of getting busted for stuff you didn't do.

I hat those preppy people (this is a group of people at my school that wouldn't argue with the label so it's not that bad to call them preps) who spend like, 24/7 shopping and gossiping and then complain when they don't understand what we are doing in class. and when they laugh at you behind your back because you don't wear thier type of clothes and you don't look like a slut.

actually, I hate cliques in general.

just to be a hypocrite, though, what really really annoys me is when everyone has found a place to sit at lunch - it's like, the 2nd semester- and there aren't extra seats, and the preps at the end of the table suddenly have 5 more people that visit every few days and my friends and i always end up moving because we pity them. and then some dumb ***** comes and invites himself to our spot on the table! he had somewhere to sit, obviously, but because he lives on my block (yes, i was there first) he feels that he can invade our group! if this was the beginging of the year, or there was room for him, he would be welcome. but its not!!!

[Zasha]

i hate adults who refuse to act like adults when the situation calls for it.

[bigdawg2121]

Hmmm, Froggie I'm gonna need you not to get on the soapbox about this one. It's high school. First thing is that the Prep clique kicks you off of your part of the table b/c they can. If you didn't get up and move and just looked like you didn't give a f*** they'd give it up. In fact you'd probably scare them b/c most Preps hate a non-prep that looks like they're a little mean. Secondly, that kid on your block that thinks it's cool to sit with you and that you don't mind sqeezing in (what HS are you at that people mind squeezing into tables anyway..but that's another topic) also does that b/c you let him. You seem like a nice enough person that he'd sit with you. If you want him gone give him the slightly disgusted everytime he goes to sit down and ignore him. Granted like you said, this would only make you a hypocrite. He would feel just like you do when the preps make fun and talk about you. Lastly don't just complain about the cliques do something to actively bridge them b/c at the end of the day life is short, HS is shorter, and if you can't look back at those days and say you truly enjoyed them and had fun you're missing out on something worthwhile.

[fencingfrog]

the "prep clique" wasn't the bunch at my table. they were good until we really ran out of seats for a lot of people and got yelled at. we don't have benches, we have these little circulare things, which are such a pain, because you really can't share! unless you're bf/gf or something. and we actually don't mind the kid who came to our table except that now it's a fight to get a seat. and that really sucks.
and the last time i tried to "bridge a gap" it turned out really bad. like, really bad.

who said I'm not having fun in hs? I'm just griping about the downside of things. where else can you sit in english class and talk about star wars, your teachers birthday presents and make up raps about spanish verb conjugations?

[fencergal33]

Why is it that when I'm not looking for a job, they are coming out of the woodwork, but when I need one no one wants to hire me? How come I get down to the final 2 or 3 candidates, and they hire one of the other finalists? I hate searching for a job.