Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

Rant: Too much swearing/obscenities.

Rave: Bought some really cheap Apple juice today.

I agree I swear way too much, especially when it's late. Funny enough I never swear when I hurt myself, my dad always swears and blames other people when he hurts himself and it annoys me, I try not to do that. What's even more annoying is that I got feck loads of homework, I've been doing chemistry for 4 hours and I'm not even half way and I'm a genius at this chemistry I feel sympathy for people that have to this that don't understand it.
rant 2: I tried going to sleep this morning at 9 but I kept getting a dream of being pushed out of bed so I got up which was followed with doing nothing for 3 hours, thanks for the signal brain

Oh sorry, just saw all that about Xei. Mel pretty much said it all. He had just gotten a final infraction in an entirely separate thread that led to the one month ban, which was by the book. It was just shitty timing that I PMed Xei about that member in meta right before all that.

I'm really not the type of admin to ban someone just because they didn't agree with something I said in meta for crying out loud

Originally Posted by NecropheliaBlue

Oh sorry, just saw all that about Xei. Mel pretty much said it all. He had just gotten a final infraction in an entirely separate thread that led to the one month ban, which was by the book. It was just shitty timing that I PMed Xei about that member in meta right before all that.

I'm really not the type of admin to ban someone just because they didn't agree with something I said in meta for crying out loud

Wow that guy's first post on DV managed to get Xei banned. I find that pretty hilarious.

Love the name changes Melanie and Ophelia

My rants are:
I had a p-doc appointment today. I got all the snow off my car, was halfway in the vehicle then noticed a Coke can. I just tossed it in the yard to be retrieved when I returned. I was still halfway in the car and when I started to go the rest of the way I clocked my head/eye socket on the door. I now have a nasty goose egged bruise at the edge of my eye
The p-doc's office was closed because of no power. HALF of the town is without electricity and it was a ZOO out on the streets. There were massive lines at every gas station I passed.

But I got some hotdogs and onion rings from Sheetz then went to Walmart for soda and bunny food. The lines in there were ridiculous as well, but I went to Electronics and was checked out immediately

My lights are flickering, going to post this...

Wow... it sounded like thunder rumbling outside but I'm pretty sure it was just a mountain of snow falling off of the garage roof. I'll go check in a moment.

I'm still in a terrific mood
Too bad the snow will all melt way too quickly.

Rant; I'm so jealous of an old friend. He's on a picture with danny from Asking Alexandria. Omgg



Anti Rant; Green Day is coming to Belgium on the 4th of july 2013 yaaaaaay!!@#@#

Rave: I bought some Apple Cider, set a bowl for it, and added some Dish Soap to break surfance tension, and ALREADY, those fruit flies are swarmining... MUAHAHAHAH, I can't wait for them to DIE.

Rant: Organic Chemistry Exam tomorrow. The Professor...I don't know...she seems like a really awesome person, but last night at the review session, when she said that she'll get this review quick and easy so she can get drink some tea and have a good night's rest...it just....feels....so cruel lol.

Especially since students who were REALLY good on the last two exams felt this practice exam (before they came to the review) was hard, and will be staying up late at night fapping to Catalysts needed to complete these mechanisms.

She makes it look like we shouldn't panic at all, which I'm kind of glad she implied that, especially since we have to find Catalysts that help sever or combine compounds together (which is a shitload of memorization unfortunately). But still man, when she said that she predicts the test average to be a 70 rather than an 80, ugh. Hopefully, the SI Session will help, since I'm starting to see that the girl hosting the tutoring service funded by the university is picking up on concepts pretty quickly.

Another thing that bothers me is how we're graded over drawing a bunch of lines and arrows. Ugh, whatever.

Another Rave: Despite the worrying over how well I'll do on the exam tomorrow, at least I'll have some company over late afternoon, and I'll have a good time eating some Asian food with them. ^.^

Crab Ragon is SO tasty, oh my god, I might have to order it every time I decide to reward myself with Asian Food occasionally now...it's just....soo..sweet, creamy, delicious!!!

It's kind of hard getting sick of Asian food for some reason, especially since after a while, I'm hungry as hell with time management with other classes and stuff.

I don't want tomorrow to come so soon, but at the same time, getting to hang out with someone makes it worth trying my best for the exam at least. Not that I need external drives to do well, but still, I'll take whatever I can get.

Minor rant: Today is the third anniversary of my second arrest. At least it didn't become a Halloween tradition.

Anti-rant: I've officially been registered on DV for a year.

I should have gotten a costume for tonight...but now I will probably just end up drinking beer as I walk around.

You could still get one real quick Mel, then you can walk around in a costume whilst drinking beer.

Yes, I said whilst

Pro-tip from a former* tea connoisseur: If something is labeled "green tea" or whatever, but doesn't specify what KIND, it probably contains the cheapest variety of tea of that type available. It drives me slightly insane when people tell me "Oh, I don't like x variety of tea" based on their opinion of the "Arizona Iced Tea" (or whatever faux tea-flavored beverage that appeals to Americans) they happen to be drinking.

*I say "former" because... well... I don't really have very much money right now to be spending on exotic, expensive teas...

Originally Posted by NecropheliaBlue

Oh sorry, just saw all that about Xei. Mel pretty much said it all. He had just gotten a final infraction in an entirely separate thread that led to the one month ban, which was by the book. It was just shitty timing that I PMed Xei about that member in meta right before all that.

I'm really not the type of admin to ban someone just because they didn't agree with something I said in meta for crying out loud

I guess that was just really bad timing. I'd just read the thread and felt bad for Xei for being 'ganged up on' and was about to PM him which I've never really even felt the need to do before. Then I realized it said 'banned' below his name so it only made sense that it had been that thread. Just a REALLY unfortunate coincidence.

Originally Posted by NecropheliaBlue

Oh sorry, just saw all that about Xei. Mel pretty much said it all. He had just gotten a final infraction in an entirely separate thread that led to the one month ban, which was by the book. It was just shitty timing that I PMed Xei about that member in meta right before all that.

I'm really not the type of admin to ban someone just because they didn't agree with something I said in meta for crying out loud

My apologies. I shouldn't have made assumptions. It's just that when I've been banned the same thing happened.
Carry on then
And your username is hilarious haha

Originally Posted by SnowyCat

Pro-tip from a former* tea connoisseur: If something is labeled "green tea" or whatever, but doesn't specify what KIND, it probably contains the cheapest variety of tea of that type available. It drives me slightly insane when people tell me "Oh, I don't like x variety of tea" based on their opinion of the "Arizona Iced Tea" (or whatever faux tea-flavored beverage that appeals to Americans) they happen to be drinking.

*I say "former" because... well... I don't really have very much money right now to be spending on exotic, expensive teas...

This annoys me that they never tell you on supermarket varieties. Some of the fair trade organic stuff is pretty good nevertheless. Lipton etc. are just shite.
If you can find any Asian markets you can get tea pretty cheap (according to my boss, I haven't been there myself yet).

I forgot a story from last night....
So I was lucky I didn't take my bike, as I don't have GPS (I bought some cables two days ago but haven't hooked it up to the battery yet) and I would've probably missed the concert.
As soon as I get in to the city my brain just goes full retard. I had no idea what the fuck was going on. They have signs up now saying "Trams only" or something, but I had come down a street where there was NOWHERE TO GO!!!!
I started getting all self-conscious coz the people on the footpath were looking at me, it was a crossroad and I'd come down a street and all the other 3 streets were tram only.
I just fucking went for it, fuck it.
Then some guy yells something from the path, not sure if he was yelling at me, but it felt like it. Then I went to turn on to a normal road and there was a cross walk there and I had to brake pretty hard so I didn't run a girl over lol
She just looks at me and I start getting more red.
The city is a clusterfuck. I promised I'd never drive there again after last time when I just couldn't find parking anywhere and had to go home, wasting 3 hours.
This time I will not break that promise to myself.
I made like 50 wrong turns and went all these places I didn't know if I was allowed to go or not and I'm just driving along going "fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck...."
This was me, and it was the only thing I could think of while driving



So I just pulled over and was like

Originally Posted by Crashyy

Rant; I'm so jealous of an old friend. He's on a picture with danny from Asking Alexandria. Omgg

I met Danny.. He's A Prick. AA's Good Love Their Music But He's still a Prick, Mostly from his cockiness, which Is Idiotic because Ben is the Real Brain in the band, and he really can't handle his alcohol very Well.

*Ashamed confession post*

I'd prefer some people not to read this but I kind of feel disappointed that Xei wasn't perma-banned. Because that would be unacceptable and I'd have to do something about it, maybe come up with a group plan with the other regular DV members who want him unbanned. I even had this big intricate plot to get him unbanned (which was brilliant and might have even worked), but since it's only a month and turned out to be an organized decision that made more sense than I thought originally, it just wouldn't be worth it. It's like I want the staff to be corrupt, for Ophi and other staff members to be power-crazy bitches, for there to be big problems that need to be fixed to preserve the sanctity of my beloved internet home. But the admins make thoughtful and sensible decisions, most are really nice people and everything is swell, nothing to be changed.

It's because it feels good to have something to fight against. The best time on DV for me was probably that Russian-hacker event. I didn't realize it at the time and sincerely wanted DV to be back to normal, but going to the fake-DV and warning people made me feel like I was doing something important.

*Oh I do have one problem. Why the hell do the admins get to change their names for Halloween without spending points and no one else does? This is an outrage....*

Maybe you should find something to fight for IRL.

I understand completely. It's okay.

We will have more to rally against, you can be certain of that. Give it time.

Originally Posted by tommo

Maybe you should find something to fight for IRL.

lol yeah, I was thinking about that while writing the post. There are corrupt governments and stuff in the 'real world' that are a lot important I should be focusing on......
....I guess I don't feel they're as important because I don't pay attention to them and barely feel like they affect me at all. Or just that it's so big and involves so many people and things I'm ignorant of there's no way I could change anything if I did care so there's no point. While DV is a relatively small place, easier to understand and smaller groups of people could make differences.

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

Rant: Organic Chemistry Exam tomorrow. The Professor...I don't know...she seems like a really awesome person, but last night at the review session, when she said that she'll get this review quick and easy so she can get drink some tea and have a good night's rest...it just....feels....so cruel lol.

Don't forget that while a student may have a lot to do beofre a test, a teacher has a lot to do afterwards.

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

Minor rant: Today is the third anniversary of my second arrest. At least it didn't become a Halloween tradition.

Oh, what were you arrested for? My guess would be public intoxication

Originally Posted by NecropheliaBlue

Oh sorry, just saw all that about Xei. Mel pretty much said it all. He had just gotten a final infraction in an entirely separate thread that led to the one month ban, which was by the book. It was just shitty timing that I PMed Xei about that member in meta right before all that.

How about infractions, are they mostly left to the discretion of a single person, or do you review those as well?

Originally Posted by Dianeva

Or just that it's so big and involves so many people and things I'm ignorant of there's no way I could change anything if I did care so there's no point. While DV is a relatively small place, easier to understand and smaller groups of people could make differences.

I put a stick on a camel's back once, its back broke.

Originally Posted by khh

Don't forget that while a student may have a lot to do beofre a test, a teacher has a lot to do afterwards.

I can't imagine it's anywhere near as difficult though. Marking tests just involves spending time doing something she already knows how to do. At the worst it will waste time. While studying requires trying to get new info into your brain, which is a lot more difficult and stressful.

For this reason it irritated me when I was in high school and my parents would tell me that 'real work' is so much harder than school. If I already knew how to do something and just had to utilize that information all day to solve problems I'd find it fun. Perhaps it might get a bit boring or even stressful if you can't solve the problems.... but it would be nothing in comparison to the pressure of having to memorize and learn so much new stuff routinely.

Plus, unless it's a final exam teachers will often take their precious time marking tests. I've had teachers who don't give them back until like a month later. While the amount of work I usually had to do to study for a test would probably be equivalent to a teacher having to mark like 5 tests from 30 students in one night. I'm a procrastinator though...

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*I wrote a long as fuck post which I just deleted 80% of because it was pointless, left with this now.*

My last relationship was very exclusive to befriending anyone outside of the relationship. And I've never really had any close friends whom I'd actually discuss personal things with besides a significant other. It seemed to work out fine that way, except for the minor problem that I couldn't have any close friends. Now that I'm in a relationship in which I'm not really being controlled and am 'allowed' to have friends, I'm finding I have no idea how to handle it. Sharing personal information with a significant other exclusively makes me feel really close to the person. Intentionally withholding any relevant information from him feels wrong.

But what happens when friends want any sort of non-superficial relationship? Those friends are going to share things with me, and make comments on my sharings, which obviously shouldn't be shared with anyone else without their permission. But what if, while talking to my boyfriend, a time comes at which something the friend said is relevant to say? It would be wrong to give him that information which was told to me in private. But it would also be wrong to withhold that information, especially if it applies to him. It feels like that closeness with him is decreased and increased a little with the 'friend'. Then, it sounds crazy but I almost feel like I'm cheating on him, emotionally or something, especially if the person is male (but even a bit when they're female, or when they're forums...). It feels like the only way it would work is if I had no close friends. And let it be noted that this is all in my head. He has no problem with me talking to anyone else, I just have this serious unease with it. I don't know how to handle it. I don't know whether this issue makes sense, or it's just been ingrained in me throughout the years I was in a relationship in which everything was shared between one another and no one else that there's something wrong with it. My old boyfriend would pretty much have considered me typing personal information on this forum even to be cheating.

EDIT: Just forgot to mention that the same problem arises with telling the friend things a bout my boyfriend I know he wouldn't want me to tell. And with telling friends things things involving other friends. It can be nice when there's one person who has a sort of "tell me anything we can be completely open" inviting persona but I obviously can't tell them everything, or much of anything, when issues involving other people are the main things that are concerning me and which I 'need' to talk about. The whole thing is just a mess.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I can't imagine it's anywhere near as difficult though. Marking tests just involves spending time doing something she already knows how to do. At the worst it will waste time. While studying requires trying to get new info into your brain, which is a lot more difficult and stressful.

Originally Posted by khh

Don't forget that while a student may have a lot to do beofre a test, a teacher has a lot to do afterwards.

You're both right. My professor in this case still does research I believe, but Dianeva is kind of right in saying it's less tedious and difficult for them though, especially in this case for an Organic Chemistry professor like herself.

-Even though she teaches two 75 minute hour classes, and occasionally does extensive 3 hour lab research, she's been doing that stuff for at least a decade, a decade.
-She has teacher assistants, which makes grading A LOT easier. I mean, she's actually one of those who is a trooper, and I mean a REAL trooper and grades EVERYONE's exams. But she has those assistance to double her accuracy, since she admits that she soars through those test gradings fairly quick.

I don't know if the conditions on what a teacher does is the same for khh's region though, Dianeva. Maybe there's some professors that have to grade a lot of papers, but most of the time, at least here, they're just young people who probably have shitty TAs lol.

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Spoiler for Spoiler:

For this reason it irritated me when I was in high school and my parents would tell me that 'real work' is so much harder than school. If I already knew how to do something and just had to utilize that information all day to solve problems I'd find it fun. Perhaps it might get a bit boring or even stressful if you can't solve the problems.... but it would be nothing in comparison to the pressure of having to memorize and learn so much new stuff routinely.

Yeah, I agree, I think the same fundamental with that explains why most students would go into fields of Applied Science, because they're sure that as long as they're aware of the guidelines, rules, formulas, etc., things will be consistent. Which is funny, because most students, at least in my area, get this weird "high" of "Oh my good0zer I wantzz 2 find curEs 4 cancer," and realize there's too much money on the line for such ambitions.

So, somewhat ironically, the more time and thought you put into writing a post, the less likely people are to read it. Someone might thoughtlessly write a little sentence and get 10 likes, while someone else might devote a lot toward a really long post that deserves to be read and liked, and like two people will read it.

Yeah, that's generally true, but it's kind of varied, but I'm sure you already knew that.

I agree, something comical to the general audience is always going to more likes, and those tl;dr most likely get less, but it depends on certain situations (not that I would know that *whistles innocently*).

Moving along, but yeah, when I read guides on lucid dreaming that gave long, but very thoughtful associations to understand what they're saying, I generally like them.

THEN, I see the person who asks right after that long guide saying, "Likzes cAnz jO0 give a shorter summary?" <--------(Obviously read at most a paragraph even if they had a lot of free time)

Then when the person who made a guide gives them an explanation, and then the person is like "Can you explain to me a bit more?"

Well FUCK, WHY THE FUCK can't they read the whole guide, even if it's bit by bit, to get a general idea of what it is? It's so annoying lol.

The same goes for Extended Discussion. Well, it depends, but I always see laconic responses --------->followed by "can you explain more?"------->laconic response------>"Well fuck you" (put in euphemistically)" I think this"-----> *special add-on Someone actually makes a thought-out post /special add-on*

-----------Possibilities----------->1. Someone avoids the post completely (99.9%).

2. Reads only part of it, assumes they're stupid, but didn't see how they would explain it in the end to make sense.

3. Same condition for #2, except if a person has been around for a while, and basically posts the same ideology as the other who is not known as much, and everyone just suddenly goes "OH MY GOD, I GET IT NOW!" when that one was just....just...oh my ****ing god, you cannot even believe it, it's like the same shit, just with different words--------------------------->

4. Then add in the other factor of them being friends for a while, and they just like the post either way, meaning they have less doubt on their posts, which is in most cases, might see innocent, but sometimes, it just makes the person endorsing their post through a like have an ego boost.

ESPECIALLY, A==>B convo:

A: "Well, if you put the thingamajigger there, and add some other stuff that will "eventually" come in, presto!"

B: "Hehehehe blah blah blah extensive utilization of gargantuan vocabulary and syntax to make the person look stupid"
(20 bajilion peopleliked this)

A: *looks at number of likes* Shit, how am I suppose to counter that! It's basically bullet-proof!! Hnnnnnggg!

*Actually makes a retaliation that makes sense, but usually is focused on attacking the person rather than the concept they're providing*
(19.9 bajillion retard liked this too)

A: Poop, not enough!

Ugh.

Not that I would know any complex situations that can be manipulated under the right conditions to trigger a certain emotion that would then trigger that same person to spend 0.004 seconds to click the mouse button on that feature that seems to remind everyone of school in general and popularity all over again in some vague way.

Not that I would know anything about that.

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Doubt anyone read that, which augments Dianeva's presumption.

Rant: Organic Chemistry Exam today. Mechanisms, cleavages, hydrocarasbfkjsbhgksdahSCREWYOUation, and all other shit.

I don't care if I make 45, as long as I have the 4th exam, and final exam to look forward to, I'm just going to think about the thought of finishing this exam with whatever I know.

This should be kept in my mind-Rave: I think I might tulpaforce during this exam to see if she's going to help me remember things like ozonolysis, E/Z designations (that's actually easy), and other halo-*insert long word herE*tions.

Cry: I hate that I can't have a general reaction to this exam. If I'm too happy, test grade gets low, my hopes shattered.

Too serious, make stupid mistakes on exam, even more gloomy than the first situation I could've taken.

Edit: Also realized I forgot what dreams I had last night.

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I can't imagine it's anywhere near as difficult though. Marking tests just involves spending time doing something she already knows how to do. At the worst it will waste time. While studying requires trying to get new info into your brain, which is a lot more difficult and stressful.

It is probably easier if you've taught for a while, but I think students have a tendency to underestimate the amount of work that goes into planning lessons and making and correcting tests. That's totally understandable, I used to think the same way, but then my sister became a teacher and I was better able to appreciate how much effort she actually puts into it. Since she's a teacher at secondary school (that'd roughly be what you call high school), that isn't directly applicable to collage/university, but my father is a professor at a collage, and I've seen how much energy, thought and time he also has to expend when he's got to teach. My point is just that work is work for everybody.

So, somewhat ironically, the more time and thought you put into writing a post, the less likely people are to read it. Someone might thoughtlessly write a little sentence and get 10 likes, while someone else might devote a lot toward a really long post that deserves to be read and liked, and like two people will read it.

Not sure who said this (That's why I always take great care to preserve the original quote tag, with the name and link to the post), but I'll comment on it anyhow.

Actually, I think the most important factor in deciding to read a long post is who wrote it. You get a feeling for whose post you care to read, and whose posts you'll skip if they seem boring. Also, most people will glance at the very top of the post, so the first few lines are important.
Another important factor is if the post is comfortable to read. Many things makes posts hard work to get through, such as cramping them (no space), bad language, or endless sentences. Of course, it can also be the opposite way; f.eks linkzelda uses about 80 - 90 % too many line-breaks, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

Doubt anyone read that, which augments Dianeva's presumption.

False

Don't you love when you have a dream about a nice girl who writes a goofy haiku for YOU (I love broken gender roles so much), and then you hang out and go out on the town to get dinner and walk around in the park. You do nothing but just hang out and enjoy her sarcastic/satirical jokes, and actually mature sense of humor...

And then you wake up...

And then you lay there and stare at the wall...

And then you go to the "Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain" thread...