The "Rant" Thread

[Kennyweird]

Right now I'm in 3rd period, sitting right next to a kid with the intelligence of a dust mite whose attempting to rap at the moment. HE'S SO STUPID!!! ARRRGGHH!!!

[terrancew_hod]

Most of the people in my company, including me, just lost 10 days of vacation for next year. So I went from having three weeks to one.

 

All of our development staff is from India and they used the three weeks to go home; I'm betting we lose a good chunk of the department by midyear.

 

Terry

[mcjaco]

EDIT:^TARGET! Woo!

 

 

I recently was looking at some video game websites and saw an article about how music games were getting hilariously crappy. I saw all these game and thought "Oh, well they're not good, but their not bad." Then I saw a game called Rock Revolution. After having one look at the drumset, I felt all warm inside because I had a rock band drum set and not this monstrosity . Think I'm exaggerating? Look at this sh*t:

God help us.

 

Except that's probably the most accurate "drum set" I've seen for these games. You have the snare (the middle round drum), the high hat (the triangle pad in red to the right), the crash cymbal (above it), a tom-tom to it's left, the ride cymbal, and a floor tom.

 

The game maybe crappy, but some one did some research on the drumset.

[onewheeled999]

CRAP!

 

Serj Tankian took down all his videos of his songs! They were apparently taken down because they "infringed a copyright with a third party" or something like that.

[XII]

Not enough people read directions. They're there for a reason jackass! Arrgh!

[onewheeled999]

mcjaco, the only problem with that set is that everything is too damn close together. Try remembering which is which and where each one is in the midst of a song in the game. Exactly.

[spacemtfan]

We just opened up our Christmas presents! I got Kingdom Hearts re:Chain of Memories, except that there was no game CD inside the box!

[onewheeled999]

My cool new watch is too small.

[Neogreeneyez]

^ it didn't come with more links?

 

*my rant*

 

I can't stand family portraits... they piss me off...

[mike541x]

We don't have a Sonic in Maryland.

[onewheeled999]

Ashley Tisdale made a cover of "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.

 

All my hope in Disney regaining my trust just went back down the crapper.

[spacemtfan]

^

 

Ehhh...the beat's pretty catchy , but...well...I just hate everything Ashley Tisdale does.

[Guest]

What is with the media's obsession with Tiger Woods being "the greatest athlete of 2008? Are you kidding me!? The fact that a freakin golfer is being billed the greatest athlete in the world is wrong in so many ways. Yeah he's a great golfer and maybe the best of all time, but trying to sell that Tiger Woods is a better "athlete" than Michael Phelps, any hockey or rugby player, Adrian Peterson, etc is flat out wrong. So he won a major with a bad knee, who cares he's golfing. People play football with broken bones all the time.

[emily>piers]

I had to go and get some new work shoes and trousers today and Plymouth was absolutely rammed.

 

What really boils my piss though is the stupid groups of people who stand blocking shop doorways so you can't get out the shop without a fight.

 

I was tempted to go ankle-kicking.

[BeemerBoy]

^^ Who's to say he couldn't play another sport at a professional level if he attempted to? I hear what you're saying (sort of), but mentioning Michael Phelps is along the same lines. The guy swims.... fast....period (sorry, Andrew). Does that make him a better athlete than Tiger Woods? See what I mean? In fact, I'd take Tiger in a fight between the two.

 

In all honesty, I actually agree that Tiger is, perhaps, the greatest athlete in the world right now. His mental focus is what puts him ahead of the pack. And just for comparison, between him and Phelps, Tiger has to perform on a yearly basis (in an ever-increasingly tougher field). Phelps has to be at the top of his game one week every 4 years. And even one of those Gold medals involved relying on teammates....something Tiger can't fall back on.

[Guest]

I do think that the mental aspect of sports are just as important as the physical, but golfing involves nothing physical other than walking around the course (and John Daley does that just fine). I see your point but you could also say that poker players are athletes with that arguement because they are mentally focused.

Ive done competetive swimming and played hockey, baseball, and football. Ive golfed recreationally and just think that sports like swimming and football push your body to its physical limits and golf is just not in that league. Im sure Tiger works just hard as all the athletes and woke up at 5am and played golf all day for years etc, but its not the same IMO.

 

What really pisses me off about the media coverage about the knee injury, in HS I played the rest of the football season (1 1/2 games) after I broke my foot and he finished one tournament with a bad knee playing golf. I like Tiger, but the media overblowing it is annoying.

[JFrombaugh]

Earlier today when I was playing WoW I unknowingly took some guy's kill. He came up to me and typed "mine" and then "d**chebag" and then challenged me to a duel.

 

My answer? I ended up beating him, and I then put him on my Ignore list.

 

Don't mess with Encendedor.

[terrancew_hod]

Yesterday I gave a entire family at a restaurant a lesson how to share items from the condiment table... much to their amazement and dropped jaws.

 

At this restaurant, in addition to the salsa, onions, etc. , they give you these neat little cups to put your condiments in. There is also a bottle of hot sauce and you should be using the same principles as getting the salsa: take a little cup and put what you need in it... not take the whole darn bottle to your table.

 

Please note: At the most there are only two small bottles at the table; so taking it back to your table does not work when there are 50 people inside.

 

Anyway, I went to get some hot sauce and saw an empty bottle. I looked around and a family took the whole FULL bottle to their table. So I grabbed a little cup and walked to their table, put the cup down and proceeded to give a demonstration of how to put hot sauce in a cup. I finished up with the following sentence:

 

"You see, when you take the whole bottle to your table instead of being courteous and taking what you need, no one else can get any. Then people will have to walk all around the restaurant looking for the it... and other people like me get an attitude when we have to hunt down the bottle from rude people. Don't do this again."

 

They just stood there, not know what to do. I then took the bottle back to the condiment table, took what I needed and left the restaurant.

 

Terry

[ebl]

^ That's right up there with people who fill their drinks at a self-serve soda bar and then stand in front of it drinking their soda. Meanwhile, there's a bunch of people waiting to get up there to fill their own cups.

 

Yeah, manners and consideration for others are quickly becoming a thing of the past.

 

Eric

[terrancew_hod]

My other rant is drunk or drugged up people getting way into your personal space trying to feel you up. I went out yesterday and while walking through the club a "tweeked" person tried to stop me and wanted to do things I shall not mention. I said "Thanks, but no thanks. I have a boyfriend." (that's about the extent of me being nice).

 

His response: "Well he ain't here now." Then he tried to make his move.

 

I hit him over the head with my water bottle and he scurried off.

 

Later he tried the same thing with my friend while he was hugging his boyfriend. I stood there watching while my friend politely tried to push him away. I said "That's not how you do it! Get OFF my friend." He ran off again. Another guy fell off the couch laughing at me.

 

After laughing my friend said "You're such a b&tch."

 

"You say it like it's a bad thing."

 

Terry

[BeemerBoy]

(CNN) -- German billionaire Adolf Merckle, one of the richest men in the world, committed suicide Monday after his business empire got into trouble in the wake of the international financial crisis, Merckle's family said Tuesday in a statement.

 

Merckle, 74, was hit by a train in the southwestern town of Ulm, police said.

 

His family said the economic crisis had "broken" Merckle.

 

He was number 94 on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, with a net worth estimated at $9.2 billion.

 

Merckle's business empire included interests as diverse as cement-maker HeidelbergCement and generic drug-maker Rationpharm. But he lost hundreds of millions of dollars, including company capital, betting against Volkswagen stock last year.

 

The state government of Baden-Wuerttemberg rejected his petition for financial assistance, and he entered bailout talks with several German banks.

 

"The financial troubles of his companies, induced by the international financial crisis and the uncertainty and powerlessness to act independently which the financial problems brought about, broke the passionate family business man, and he took his own life," his family wrote in the news release.

 

An employee of Germany's railroad company found the body on the tracks at about 7 p.m. Monday and notified authorities. Merckle's family had already reported him missing earlier in the day after he walked out of the house and did not return. Authorities are currently conducting DNA tests to confirm his identity.

 

Oh, you're worth 9.2 billion, lost hundreds of millions, and just couldn't cope with it? There's only one thing that comes to mind......

[mcjaco]

mcjaco, the only problem with that set is that everything is too damn close together. Try remembering which is which and where each one is in the midst of a song in the game. Exactly.

 

Um, that would be why good drummers are hard to find.

 

I do think that the mental aspect of sports are just as important as the physical, but golfing involves nothing physical other than walking around the course (and John Daley does that just fine). I see your point but you could also say that poker players are athletes with that arguement because they are mentally focused.

Ive done competetive swimming and played hockey, baseball, and football. Ive golfed recreationally and just think that sports like swimming and football push your body to its physical limits and golf is just not in that league. Im sure Tiger works just hard as all the athletes and woke up at 5am and played golf all day for years etc, but its not the same IMO.

 

I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted after 18 holes of golf. And I use a cart. PGA golfers don't get to use a cart. So I'd say it's a justifiable to make Tiger a sportsman of the year.

[bspellx5]

I hate how in P.E. class, when the teacher asks you to pick teams, all the jock-y guys cluster together and obviously win the game. And not only that, but the fact that my teacher takes points off your P.E. grade if you don't win, which seems completely unfair. Anyone else agree with me?

[spacemtfan]

^ Eh, most schools always look the other way when jocks are involved. It's total bullcrap, I know...but what can you do?

 

Right now, I hate all of these negative reviews for the new Criss Angel show at the Luxor Hotel in Vegas. People complain that there's no magic tricks in the show, but magic isn't the point of it!

 

Criss Angel is unleashing his artistic side. It's looking into one's vision of the world. Granted, I don't care much for Criss Angel, but I thought the show was well-done. I will easily see it again anytime!

[Jds03]

^ I can't stand the people who worship him like he's a supernatural being. He even calls himself and illusionist, meaning he performs ILLUSIONS, not miracles.

 

Yeah he does cool stuff, but if you aren’t plain stupid you have to realize he's a product of television, not heaven. Theres a catch, even if it is really amazingly executed and well thought out.