The "Rant" Thread

[Freefallbestrideever]

My girlfriend dumped me . And then the next day I saw that my best friend was dating her! What a backstabbing.. not going to get in to this but it's not over yet!

Ahh the old best friend stabbed you in the back, get used to it, get over it.

Today at my p/t job (grocery store), we were dead, so I was just trying to stay away from bordom and asked the cashier I was working with, "put up your Christmas Tree yet". To which she turned around and said, "there is a reason I dont' talk to you..." and turned back around.

 

I don't hardly ever work this particular cashier and have no idea what I did if anything.

Funny stuff man, this is why i don't chit chat with people.

[terrancew_hod]

Today at my p/t job (grocery store), we were dead, so I was just trying to stay away from bordom and asked the cashier I was working with, "put up your Christmas Tree yet". To which she turned around and said, "there is a reason I dont' talk to you..." and turned back around.

 

I don't hardly ever work this particular cashier and have no idea what I did if anything.

 

Being rude when you're off the clock: Yes

 

Being rude to coworkers at work: Big no-no. This requires a talk to her supervisor for an attitude adjustment. You may not like someone, but at least be cordial when someone is trying to make small talk.

 

I would have told her "You know, I haven't done anything to you for this attitude and it's uncalled for. I think I'll talk to your supervisor to see if we can correct this..." (walk off to look for her supervisor for added effect... you'll leave her with her mouth dropped. That will teach her to open her fat mouth at work; it's obvious she forgot where she was! )

 

Seriously, if you haven't, go talk to her supervisor and don't wait.

 

Terry

[BeemerBoy]

I think TPR needs a weekly (or daily) Terrance Advice Column. He's like our own gay Dear Abby. Or maybe a podcast, or video responses to questions on TPR TV. Always good stuff, and always entertaining. I'd tune in.

[terrancew_hod]

^Actually I did it once under an assumed name... and it was very campy. But the kids ate it up! Got too busy for it though.

 

Terry "Anne Landers" Weaver

 

EDIT: Here's one of my old advice columns, "Ask Indie":

 

There's an advice column I've been reading on a regular basis and I came across a question that was asked and wondered what your advice would be for this person.

 

Here goes:

 

My ex and I have been broken up for almost a year. I have tried to remain friends with him and I call him every once in a while and try to make an effort to get together. He only returns my calls and emails when he needs something. He only calls whenever he gets drunk. He has come to my apartment when he was drunk on more than one occasion.

 

I really truly want him out of my life but I just can't seem to shake him. I've tried not calling him, I've tried dating other people, I even slept with one of his friends but nothing seems to work!! What should I do to get over him for once and for all??!! Or is it possible that we are meant to be together??

 

Hmmm, sounds like someone is being co-dependent here. If she truly believes that statement above, she need to seek professional counseling immediately. She is truly in denial.

 

There is no need to put up with someone that is always drunk in her presence or has such a low opinion of this girl than to bother her when he has no one else left to put up with him. To me is sounds like she's still trying to get to him through one way or another, especially by her sleeping with his friend.

 

I don't think she really wants to be done with him, otherwise she wouldn't do the things that she's doing. But this lady thinks she should.

 

If she truly wants to call it quits, that means she should stop calling, don't answer the door when he comes by drunk (and if he acts up, 911 always does the trick), and leave EVERYTHING associated with him alone and in the past. You can't move on if you insist on dealing with the past, especially all the negative things. And if that means changing your phone number, picking up and moving to another place, so be it. These things are done by action, not by wasting your time and others by constantly involving yourself in this high-powered drama. I'm sure this has caused a rift in her friendships; and I'm sure I'm telling this person the same thing they've told her, but she's not having it, and her friends are most likely over her for crying to them over problems SHE'S putting herself in.

 

Hopefully she'll get tired of that situation and truly ween herself from it.

 

Also, it's so sad that this girl has such a low opinion of herself that she feels this is the best she can do. No matter who you are EVERYONE deserves someone special in their life. They just have to be confident in themselves not to accept anything less and not put up with things that are undesirable to our well being. More times than not, people like this isn't shown the love and support necessary to be confident, loving individuals. So those with children, make sure they get what they need at home now before they go out in the world and accept anything less or try to fill that void with other things such as drugs.

 

Ms Indie

 

Here was the response:

 

This ladies and gentlemen is why you need to Ask Indie!

 

That response was outstanding and better than the one I saw posted to this person. Granted the message was the same (leave him alone) but Indie stated it quite well without making the person feel bad.

 

You're good Indie! (high five to ya)

 

Ooh! Don't make me start Lovin' myself...

 

Stand back, 'cause when I throw this weave, somebody might get hurt!

 

Thanks love!

 

Ms Indie

[Guest]

My girlfriend dumped me . And then the next day I saw that my best friend was dating her! What a backstabbing.. not going to get in to this but it's not over yet!

Does he have a sister? Thats always a fun way of going about it.

[nowaymang]

So it started as a badly strained muscle... Now I get diagnosed with mild arthritis. (And the muscle still hurts). But hey, at least it's not a slipped/herniated vertebrae.

 

~Brian "This Sucks" Teyssier

[socalMAN123]

I can't believe I'm missing The Aquabats show tonight. What a bummer...

---Brent

[thrillgeek]

I left my friends new camera on top of his car as we drove away. Came back an hour later and it was gone! I feel so bad about that.

[KnottsDisneyFarm]

I hate scene dudes!

[Kennyweird]

I HATE CALCULUS!!!

 

Make it stop!

[JFrombaugh]

I really hate companies that give personality assessments to applicants and then refuse to interview them if they answer a certain way. I like taking personality quizzes, but job applications are definitely NOT the place for them IMO, especially if the answers are made available to the employers.

 

I applied for a job at Wal-Mart, and at the end they gave me an assessment that was about 60 questions. Only the first 10 questions or so were regarding reactions to various job scenarios, the rest of it was a ranking scale of your qualities and how you felt about things. When I finally finished it, I got this message: “You have completed but did not pass the assessment.” If that’s not an attack against my personality, then what is?

 

I mean, I can understand the reasons for giving an assessment test based on things relevant to the job, but to say you failed an assessment that is mostly personality-based questions just screams “We don’t want you if you’re different from our managers, kindly leave!”

 

And while I know that rejection is an inevitable part of any job search, all of the other companies that I have applied for have at least been kind enough not to bluntly tell me why they chose not to Interview me. I have to do some Christmas shopping this week and I definitely will not be giving any of my money to Wal-Mart. From now on, I’ve sided with Target, all the way.

[Yankee cannonball]

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.

[jjeerr]

I saw the Rock Revolution at best buy, it's something I almost want to buy, because its just so crappy that maybe one day it will be a collectors item.

 

One day, when RB:EverySongEverMade comes out, I could bring out the Rock Revolution as say: "look at this piece of crap, something that we would have liked if Harmonx/Red Octane didn't exist"

[BlackHole2005]

When people steriotype me as a nerd. When I walk past some people they make comments like "What a spastic" or "What a goon". I absolutely hate it and it makes my have this sick feeling in my stomack. I find that thinking to myself, "I have friends, I hang around the park like you do, what's your right to judge me?" usually helps. They should have learned now after 2 people have commited suicide in our school due to bullying, but unfortunatley there will always be people like them. And that really makes me furious.

 

Cheers,

BlackHole2005

[bspellx5]

Today I got shoved in the hall cuz "fags don't belong in this hallway."

I'm pretty sure thats a new low in my book.

[astroworldfan1]

A couple kids are teasing me at school.

 

-Tatum

[spacemtfan]

^

^^

^^^ Teasing happens in all public schools, unfortunately. Just because you're coaster enthuisasts, or anime fans, or 'nerds', or whatever! To many you're weird, but I think we're the future leaders of the world!

 

So whose bugging you guys? Jocks? Egotisical cheerleaders?

 

---space "future owner of the Quinteros Gardens Theme Park" mtfan

[astroworldfan1]

^ You know what the bad thing about it is, I go to a Catholic High School.

 

They're people that are not smart at all, and never will be; AKA football teens. I'm not saying all football players are jerks and stupid.

 

-Tatum

[krosscoasters]

Why do people just assume that I'm a nerd?! I mean, yes, I wear glasses and yes, I'm short (there better not be a pedophile reading this) but I'm NOT a nerd. [/rant]

[jazzimm]

Alright, so I'm a photography student. I take pictures with an SLR and develop the film myself and print the pictures myself in a darkroom and everything. It's super fun.

Anyways, on to the rant. My mother loves pictures so I decided to print her some of myself and my two sibilings and frame them for a Christmas gift. It was a fantastic idea, and started out great! My sister's picture came out lovely, and my brother's is adorable. Then on my last roll of film, I took one of myself using the self-timer (my shutter release wasn't working). Now, the thing about taking film photos is you don't know how they're going to come out until you print them. So while I have two gorgeous pictures of my sister and brother, mine came out looking uncannily similar to a mug shot. It's truly upsetting, and so so terrible. My mother is going to open it and laugh. And she's always complaining about how she doesn't have enough pictures of us, so I can't just leave myself out... so there's really no other option right now than to just give it to her.

And THEN, to make matter a little worse, I couldn't find any black frames of the right size (anything else wouldn't be in uniform with all of her other frames, and she's pretty picky), so I bought natural frames and painted them black, but I haven't even wrapped them and they're already chipping off! I don't know what to do

I'm just going to go take a breather and get back to it, I guess.

Ugh.

[TheBannedKid]

You could give it to her, explain, and replace it with a new one. It's not like it's permanent.

[onewheeled999]

It seems like whenever we do a group project at school, I get stuck with the idiot that nobody understands when he talks, is totally uncreative, and would pay more attention to a fly than an airplane flying towards him in the middle of the apocalypse.

 

And even worse, this is in THEATRE.

[HEADCHEEZ]

^ ...You took the words right out of my mouth!

[onewheeled999]

How was I supposed to know that the Audiosurf demo on Steam would only last like 3 songs?! I knew it was too good to be true...

 

I guess I'll just download it again and see what happens.

[ebl]

Our outlet mall needs some sort of pedestrian control. It's almost impossible to get in or out because there's a constant stream of people crossing the entries/exits at all times---especially at this time of year.

 

I say put in some signals or get a crossing guard...something has to be better than what we have.

 

Eric