Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: Did I mention this is a rant?
Okay, we have our bragging topic, now we need a rant topic!
I'll go first.
In my town our teachers get paid crap, so now they are like: Give us our raises or we'll rebel... that so wasn't word for word.
So, the teachers went to contract hours which means no tutoring or AP study sessions which makes our scores look like crap. I'm not in AP cause I'm lazy, so I really don't care. Except I am failing a class that I need to pass in order to go to college. Algebra II. I'd rather have dinner with Caleb then go to that class. Honestly... well, okay, the teacher called the class flirt a slut the other day which was great, but besides that... I'm currently failing the class and I so wouldn't be if I could get tutoring... so, now I'm screwed. _________________ "I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones."
ok i'll have a go.
whats been really pissing me off lately is the fact that suddenly in the last few months (in mycountry anyway) everybody (people, media, policy makers and governments) are all in a mad flap about global warming climate change and the general destruction of the planet by human and industrial overconsumption.
?? hello where have they been???
did they only just out that these things are imiminent?
did they forget that we knew a decade ago, even more, that the future looked grim.
WHY NOW?
some say its kinda too late, the rivers are drying up, the ice is melting, the fires are burning, the floods are flooding.
others say better late than never, change of consciousness is a good thing.
I really dont know. but thats my rant. _________________ mmm
Following too close. This is just plain stupid. If you are less than 2 seconds behind the person in front of you, you are too close. What are you trying to do? Get there 1.5 seconds sooner?
Inproper use of turn signal. Initiate your turn signal a few seconds BEFORE you turn, or change lanes. Turning on your signal an instant before, or after you start turning is USELESS. I can see you are turning, I don't need a signal then. Remember, your turn signal is for the people you don't see, not for the guy in your mirror, you can tell you are clear of him. Also if you change lanes too quickly, especially without an adequate warning the guy you don't see doesn't have time to avoid you. Of course, if you are one of the people who never make a mistake just keep on changing lanes at your will. DumbA$$'s
MERGE you idiots. Merge - To become as one, It is difficult to merge with 60mph traffic when you are traveling at 35mph. Also it's hard to merge when everyone is following too close. #1 cause of traffic conjestion you idiots!
Whew!!!!!!! _________________
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Eircom are taking FOREVER (so far 2 months) to set up a phone line and broadband at my house, so I can't access my lovely websites very much (unless I sneakily do it at work - like now). I've just found out it'll be at least 9th November before I get a phone line too.
Deep calming breaths!
And Beags - I sold my car in July after having the pants scared off me by crap drivers. I've walked, cycled and taken buses since. It makes me feel very smug! _________________
You go, Jess and Beags! I have to agree with everything Beags said too. Following too closely and improper use of turn signals really burns me. As a former professional driver of semi trucks, I've seen more than my share of bad driving. Another thing that burns me is when cars change lanes right in front of semis. Don't they know that an 80,000 lb. vehicle outweighs them? Don't they realize that if they had to stop suddenly they'd be squished flat? Just because there's an opening in traffic in front of a big truck doesn't mean someone should fill it. Grrrr!
An unrelated vent: Last week I told my client about an error I found in the textbook. It was a very glaring error and I KNOW that the company whose textbook it was would fix it if they only knew about it. However, when I brought it to the attention of my client, they totally blew me off. They told me it was okay the way it was (which it totally ISN'T) and they weren't going to pass on my comment to the textbook company. Hello! I've worked directly for the textbook company for the last 15 years. I only recently started doing work through this client.... Aw, screw it. This is the sentence in the textbook. Decide for yourselves if it is correct or incorrect:
A snowflake has 6 sides.
Duh! A snowflake does not have 6 sides! Yes, a symmetrical snowflake could fit inside a regular hexagon and it would have 6 lines of symmetry, but the snowflake itself has many, many sides. The sentence above is totally false. I know what the writer was trying to say, but the way it was written is WRONG! And they blew me off! Idiots! How can we educate the children in this country when the adults can't even get it right?
Okay. I'm done now. _________________ Occasionally I am callous and strange.
About the driving thing... okay, I don't drive. Part of it has to do with the fact that I have short legs and I feel like the steering wheel is molesting me every time I attempt to drive. But, people are just stupid. I swear, this weekend I saw someone use thier left turn signal and then turn right... W.T.F? _________________ "I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones."
As for a rant, I feel that I must gripe about this new anti-gambling law that has been slithered through Congress and has now become a law. The law makes further restrictions to the (already illegal) act on playing poker online (among doing other things online), and has caused most poker sites to stop allowing U.S. players. What bothers me about this bill, besides that it makes it harder to deposit and withdraw money from a site and that it makes it harder to play poker online, is two things. First, it was attached to a port security bill to avoid debate on the matter. Second, lotteries (which are run by states and make them gobs of money) and horse racing were exempt, so I guess that the crooks in Washington got some back scratching from them. Furthermore, it is not the place of the government to legislate values and to disallow people from doing things that do not hurt others. They claim that it protects people by preventing them from getting themselves into gambling troubles, but that is bogus. In a democracy (which is what the U.S. prides itself on, or at least used to), shouldn't the people be able to make decisions such as this for themselves. This seems like a law that would exist in a totalitarian system, and not in America.
Sorry for the length of the rant, but I feel strongly about this. _________________
I'll make a sig soon. Or I'll forget about it. Or I'll forget about it and then remember and make it. Or I'll forget about it, then remember, then forget again before I make it.
I'm with you, 22Go-Grave. It's like prohibition for gambling. It's not going to work and it's only going to make people sneak around and do it. Yes, compulsive gambling is a problem, but so is alcoholism, which is far more rampant. That's no reason to enact such a stupid law.
Just wondering though, who profits from the poker tournaments you enter? Is it a company or a person? What do you know about them? Maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm just curious. Why do you choose to play online instead of in person with your friends or in a poker club? There's nothing wrong with that, again, I'm just wondering what the draw is. _________________ Occasionally I am callous and strange.
...but so is alcoholism, which is far more rampant...
And is also harmful to other people besides the alcoholic.
_________________ "I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones."
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