James and Rei's Rant Party v. No Advice Allowed

[Mounds]

Originally Posted by Zach Matley

Weird Al concert in 9 days, and there is very little hope of finding a date in time for it. My ex-GF loved Weird Al.

If it's any consolation Zach, I would've been your man-date. Unfortunately, I'm attending Weird Al in Winnipeg on August 5th... with my little brother

[Mounds]

/rant on

Blu-Ray

This is a rant that's been dying to come out. Where to begin?

When I first heard of Blu-Ray, I thought, "Rubbish". I had similar thoughts of DVD. What was wrong with VHS? DVD players were expensive, the discs scratched, ect. I was eventually won over because DVD was... well... sexy! We went from bulky cases to slim, better picture, better sound, no more rewinding, extra features for your favourite movies... the only problem was price. And soon enough, even that changed! I remember picking up my copy of Predator for $9 two years after DVD came out. Now that was a steal!
So back to Blu-Ray... where was the leap in awesomeness? Smaller cases but no slimmer. Graphics and sound supposedly better. Big, big price increase. You had to update your player? What kind of crap is that? I didn't even have an internet connection when I was looking into buying a player. What was the plan for me? Bring it into Future Shop everytime I needed an update?
Next, many of my favourite movies lost their special features. I'm sorry... but if a company is going to re-release a movie in BR and slap on a higher price tag, those features better come with it. For some bizarro reason, those features were lost. Bare-bones BR's for $40. Wow.
In the end, I did buy a PS3 for the Blu-Ray. I figured at least that if the BR sucked then I still had a system. I bought a single BR, "Friday the 13th" 2009. That was also the last BR I bought.

[Johnny Skosnik]

You. Yeah, you. The one that just remotely locked your car, causing it to chirp its horns. WHY? What other appliances or gadgets do you own that sound off when they've done their job? When your electric can opener opens a can, does it say "grind grind, I've just opened a can for you!"? When your battery-powered toothbrush cleans your teeth does it say "whirl whirl, I've just cleaned your teeth!"? When your contraceptive prevents unwanted pregnancy and you're cuddling your partner in post-coital bliss does it loudly say "spooge spooge, I've prevented you from becoming an unintentional parent, you're welcome!" No? Then why does your horn need to go off every time you lock or unlock your doors, annoying everyone in hearing range? Either you have a crappy car alarm requiring audio confirmation every time it works correctly, in which case get a better alarm, or you have this need to periodically spew noise pollution, in which case get some therapy to discover the cause of this desire to constantly call attention to yourself.

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by Mounds

/rant on

Blu-Ray

This is a rant that's been dying to come out. Where to begin?

When I first heard of Blu-Ray, I thought, "Rubbish". I had similar thoughts of DVD. What was wrong with VHS? DVD players were expensive, the discs scratched, ect. I was eventually won over because DVD was... well... sexy! We went from bulky cases to slim, better picture, better sound, no more rewinding, extra features for your favourite movies... the only problem was price. And soon enough, even that changed! I remember picking up my copy of Predator for $9 two years after DVD came out. Now that was a steal!
So back to Blu-Ray... where was the leap in awesomeness? Smaller cases but no slimmer. Graphics and sound supposedly better. Big, big price increase. You had to update your player? What kind of crap is that? I didn't even have an internet connection when I was looking into buying a player. What was the plan for me? Bring it into Future Shop everytime I needed an update?
Next, many of my favourite movies lost their special features. I'm sorry... but if a company is going to re-release a movie in BR and slap on a higher price tag, those features better come with it. For some bizarro reason, those features were lost. Bare-bones BR's for $40. Wow.
In the end, I did buy a PS3 for the Blu-Ray. I figured at least that if the BR sucked then I still had a system. I bought a single BR, "Friday the 13th" 2009. That was also the last BR I bought.

I feel the same way -but I bought the kids a ps3 anyway -blue ray is overrated though

[codenamesmiley]

You want a rant?? Ok, here it goes!

(well maybe more like several small rants..lol)

I am sick and tired of other people letting their tiny little rat sized dogs crap on my front lawn. This is rude. How would they like it if I parked my doberman's crap on theirs? ********!!

The way television stations play movies at whisper quiet levels forcing you to turn the volume WAY up to hear it..only to be soundblasted right off the couch when the commercials come on!! Bastages!!

I'm sick of watching the phoney look of concern on the newscasters faces, when they know they just want to stand up, point, laugh and tell them that's what they get for building that house on the side of that slippery slope in the first fricken place!!

My neighbor across the street not only did the "why bother" half way up and stop tree decoration wrap this past christmas...the idiot needs to take it down. HELLO! IT'S JULY LADY!!! (and now that I think of it..the ice cream truck playing "rudolph the rednosed reindeer" is pretty moronic too...HELLO IT'S JULY LADY!!

I'm tired of hearing people with heart problems ♥♥♥♥♥ about how their loved ones treat them like crap and they are always broke....HELLO!!! YOUR THINKING is why you have heart problems..while you are at it put down that KFC and cigarette and have yourself a fricken health smoothie and stop whining for cryin' out loud! (chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench~The Tao)

SOMEBODY FIGURE OUT WHY this fricken dog is incessantly whining at the side of my face, when I know for a FACT he has been out, has fresh water, a full bowl of food and already had his damn "good boy treat"!!

Whew...that was fun.
can I do it again at a later date, or is this really just for James and Rei's rants? If so, I apologize. I got ahead of myself and posted before reading any of these. I seen the word "rant" and got all excited and stuff.

Much love,
Rebecca

[Piercetheveil]

Originally Posted by Johnny Skosnik

You. Yeah, you. The one that just remotely locked your car, causing it to chirp its horns. WHY? What other appliances or gadgets do you own that sound off when they've done their job? When your electric can opener opens a can, does it say "grind grind, I've just opened a can for you!"? When your battery-powered toothbrush cleans your teeth does it say "whirl whirl, I've just cleaned your teeth!"? When your contraceptive prevents unwanted pregnancy and you're cuddling your partner in post-coital bliss does it loudly say "spooge spooge, I've prevented you from becoming an unintentional parent, you're welcome!" No? Then why does your horn need to go off every time you lock or unlock your doors, annoying everyone in hearing range? Either you have a crappy car alarm requiring audio confirmation every time it works correctly, in which case get a better alarm, or you have this need to periodically spew noise pollution, in which case get some therapy to discover the cause of this desire to constantly call attention to yourself.

That was rich!

[Johnny Skosnik]

Originally Posted by Zach Matley

Weird Al concert in 9 days, and there is very little hope of finding a date in time for it. My ex-GF loved Weird Al. .

Fellow Weird Al fan here. I saw him concert, t'was great. During an instrumental he ran out into the audience, shaking hands with people. At one point a lady waved her handkerchief at him, he took it, wiped his sweaty forehead with it and tossed it back to her with a smile and a wink. And when "The Saga Begins" played, the entire audience (over 10,000 people) were waving their hands in unison. It was awesome. Do consider attending the concert Zach, even if you have to go single.

Oops, this is supposed to be a rant thread, so Hey all of you in bloated ostentatious SUVs whose tires never left well-manicured asphalt? Please sell the dinosaur and flaunt your insecurities in ways that don't inconvenience those of us in normal-sized cars! Thanks in advance.

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by codenamesmiley

You want a rant?? Ok, here it goes!

(well maybe more like several small rants..lol)

I am sick and tired of other people letting their tiny little rat sized dogs crap on my front lawn. This is rude. How would they like it if I parked my doberman's crap on theirs? ********!!

The way television stations play movies at whisper quiet levels forcing you to turn the volume WAY up to hear it..only to be soundblasted right off the couch when the commercials come on!! Bastages!!

I'm sick of watching the phoney look of concern on the newscasters faces, when they know they just want to stand up, point, laugh and tell them that's what they get for building that house on the side of that slippery slope in the first fricken place!!

My neighbor across the street not only did the "why bother" half way up and stop tree decoration wrap this past christmas...the idiot needs to take it down. HELLO! IT'S JULY LADY!!! (and now that I think of it..the ice cream truck playing "rudolph the rednosed reindeer" is pretty moronic too...HELLO IT'S JULY LADY!!

I'm tired of hearing people with heart problems ♥♥♥♥♥ about how their loved ones treat them like crap and they are always broke....HELLO!!! YOUR THINKING is why you have heart problems..while you are at it put down that KFC and cigarette and have yourself a fricken health smoothie and stop whining for cryin' out loud! (chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench~The Tao)

SOMEBODY FIGURE OUT WHY this fricken dog is incessantly whining at the side of my face, when I know for a FACT he has been out, has fresh water, a full bowl of food and already had his damn "good boy treat"!!

Whew...that was fun.
can I do it again at a later date, or is this really just for James and Rei's rants? If so, I apologize. I got ahead of myself and posted before reading any of these. I seen the word "rant" and got all excited and stuff.

Much love,
Rebecca

that was good and funny

[Lucidism]

Originally Posted by Zach Matley

Weird Al concert in 9 days.

Funny you mention it. I'm going to see him over the weekend.

/rant-on -> my couch is so damn comfy I often fall asleep on it when I don't want to! (Oy the problems I face!)

[codenamesmiley]

And ANOTHER thing!

Why in the HELL does the fire alarm/smoke detector go off all on it's own..then continue to go off even after you have taken the battery out? Then...after you have torn it off the wall...THEN after you have smashed it with a hammer?

Is this programmed to do this to test us?

[codenamesmiley]

Originally Posted by AlmostGodess

And, yes, if you see someone in my office discussing something, could you please turn around and come later and not choose to stay and talk with us?

I know..Rei said "no advice" but I can't resist.

Try chucking a good sized paperweight at his head. I find this is effective and he gets the message the FIRST time. lol

[Mynder]

I hate when my boss tells me to fetch my ****ing ♥♥♥♥♥ colleague for a meeting that she is already late for. I especially hate it when she tosses a heavy paperweight at me. I also hate my boss bitching at me afterwards because I didn't get around to telling her about the meeting she was already late for. Particularly when my boss calls me on the phone because I'm lying in hospital with a head wound.

Next time, I'll bring a damn shotgun.

[marinik]

Originally Posted by Mynder

I hate when my boss tells me to fetch my ****ing ♥♥♥♥♥ colleague for a meeting that she is already late for. I especially hate it when she tosses a heavy paperweight at me. I also hate my boss bitching at me afterwards because I didn't get around to telling her about the meeting she was already late for. Particularly when my boss calls me on the phone because I'm lying in hospital with a head wound.

Next time, I'll bring a damn shotgun.

I hate when people do this to you!

[ssandra]

When I wake up at 8.30, because my husband asked me to wake him up at 9.00 (I like my 30 minutes of peace and quiet, otherwise it is easier to choose screaming over being nice ) and then when I wake him up at 9.00 he says.... "wake me up again at 10.00 please"!

He does that all the time. So much so that when he asks me to wake him up, I ask him "ok, and at what time do you really have to wake up?" I really really really dislike it when he says "Just 5 minutes more".
As if I have nothing better to do then waking him up every 5 or 10 minutes! (ok, I don't, but that's not the point!)


I also hate that just because 2 big corporations are fighting and cannot play nice, I cannot watch inception And I was so looking forward to it!

[rei]

Originally Posted by Piercetheveil

I watch conversations and wonder. I wonder why the rant thread makes so much sense in oh so many ways. Why sometimes it is more helpful (at least for me) to go on a good rant. To have other ranters involved encouraging all sorts of 'negative' emotions and volatile statements.

Sometimes, I just want to be heard without killing the atmosphere by having to state, "Look F'ng idiots. I do not want your pats on the back, encouragement, solutions, or any goody goody positive pop psych. I want to talk to you and when I am done I want you to STFU. Unless, of course, you want to rant along with."

But, that is not very respectable and conscious growth oriented, now is it? Or is it?

Here, have another glass of KoolAid... you must need it....

[codenamesmiley]

I really dislike that Ssandra is been turned into a human snooze button!!!

Duck Mynder!!!

[marinik]

I hate it when people use me as their cure for boredom! I am never board and have no time for people who do not have lives!

[codenamesmiley]

Originally Posted by marinik

I hate it when people use me as their cure for boredom! I am never board and have no time for people who do not have lives!

I have NO LIFE! Can you spare a minute of your time, anyway?

[marinik]

Originally Posted by codenamesmiley

I have NO LIFE! Can you spare a minute of your time, anyway?

For you yes!

[codenamesmiley]

Originally Posted by marinik

For you yes!

Wonderful! I'm mad that Marinik just destroyed my mood to RANT!!!

Much love,
Rebecca

[marinik]

Originally Posted by codenamesmiley

Wonderful! I'm mad that Marinik just destroyed my mood to RANT!!!

Much love,
Rebecca

Love m

[codenamesmiley]

Ok..short lived rant destruction!! LOL

I am PISSED that I have been coming to these forums for a couple of years now, and Mynder JUST NOW YESTERDAY showed me how to subscribe to a thread!!!!

I am angry with the Pavlina's for not making their buttons on the control panel BRIGHT ORANGE, so that I can see them!! LOL

[lifetimelearner]

why is that some people come to this forum and ruin things for other members !!

[codenamesmiley]

Originally Posted by lifetimelearner

why is that some people come to this forum and ruin things for other members !!

I'm sorry, I'll behave.

[marinik]

Originally Posted by codenamesmiley

I'm sorry, I'll behave.

Finally!

[butterflyeffect]

I hate that I have to put butter on bread. I hate that after three years I am still can't move on from the butter thing!!!!!!!!!

[lifetimelearner]

Originally Posted by codenamesmiley

I'm sorry, I'll behave.

not you silly

[codenamesmiley]

Originally Posted by butterflyeffect

I hate that I have to put butter on bread. I hate that after three years I am still can't move on from the butter thing!!!!!!!!!

This just made me feel all ranty about the cold hard butter on soft warm fresh bread..and how it tends to become a blob of butter in your palm and bread crumb confetti everywhere!

And ya know what else?

SMOKE in my EYES!! THIS REALLY TICKS ME OFF!!! (and how the campfire smoke only goes in whatever direction I AM SITTING from it!!!)

[ssandra]

Originally Posted by codenamesmiley

I really dislike that Ssandra is been turned into a human snooze button!!!

Duck Mynder!!!

I really really dislike people making comments about me, when I have no idea what they are talking about!!!!

[rei]

Originally Posted by ssandra

I really really dislike people making comments about me, when I have no idea what they are talking about!!!!

Argh! I think she was referring to helping hubbie wake up, which Sandra posted upthread.

I dislike how I butt into A-B conversations sometimes