Rant Thread

[emeraldlonewoulf]

Yes, our country has lots and lots of problems. Yes, we need to fix a lot of shit. But hey, considering we basically started as a bunch of criminals sent over seas for debts, cast offs, immigrants from every country on the planet, imported slaves, indentured servants, miscellaneous "adventurers", and a huge host of others, managed to put together one of the greatest financial, political, and military powers in world, not to mention routing the best military power in the world (at the time) with a mismatched, underfed, barely trained militia, then bailing said country out of two world wars 150 years later, discovering electricity, developing nuclear power, cajun food, and rock and roll, all in a little more than two hundred years, I don't think we are doing half bad. Can anyone point to a newer country that has done so well? Our land throws together so many different cultures and political views, educational and economic extremes, ethnicities, and handicaps, it is a wonder we have survived as a nation at all. We have survived because each generation has had to overcome some hardship, and because we can draw from our varied background to combine ideas for new solutions.

Only in America can you throw so much diversity together, encourage everyone to be proud of their individuality, AND STILL GET AWAY WITH LETTING EVERYONE ON THE PLANET BITCH ABOUT IT ALL. And we still bail out anyone who asks for aid, and a great many who don't.

So, yes, our country is all fucked up. Yes, our freedoms grow smaller every day. Many of us are poor, overworked, undereducated, or other wise encumbered from what we might think we deserve. But we are allowed and encouraged to believe we do deserve it. We still have more opportunity than anyone else it the world. We still have more freedom than most of it. We are relatively safe, from outside powers and each other, at least in comparison to a lot of the world.

i thank GOD I live here, and can do pretty much whatever I damn well please. I hope and am willing to fight for it to stay that way.

So, in closing, to anyone who keeps up with the political threads,

AMERICA KNOWS ITS' FUCKED UP. BUT WE'RE THE BEST THE WORLD'S COME UP WITH SO FAR. IF YOU CAN MAKE IT BETTER, WELCOME. IF NOT, FUCK OFF. WE'RE DOING THE BEST WE CAN.

Its kind of like bitching about your siblings. You can do it, but nobody else can. We're allowed. If you're not here, or from here (and proud of it!) either by choice or by happenstance, SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!

That's my rant for today.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Thank God, thought I was the only one.

[Panther]

Originally Posted by WolfMoon

Jade and Panther are BACK!!!!

*HAPPY-DANCE*

Shaka-shaka-woogawooga-woo



ED, I didn't respond to your post earlier because it's hitting a little too close to home for me. I feel you, though.

*hugz*

edit: I'll be posting in this size from now on for the olde people.

You know, sadly, I need posts in that font size.

*happy dances as well*

[ExistentialDisorder]

Thanks EPS and Twisted. It took a while for me to realize that you'd responded. I appreciate your sincerity.

The whole situation is just completely fucked up. Last night he asked me how much i trusted him yet, because he'd been "envited" to Myrtle Beach by (supposedly) his friend Amy. A woman he works with, who supposedly has some kind of thing for him. He's always giving her rides to and from work, taking her shopping, picking her up from church, having lunch or dinner, etc etc. She has no clue about me because she doesn't "know" about him, and he wants to keep it that way. He's afraid of people at work finding out, which has never made sense to me because the store manager is a very out lesbian whose girlfriend is also the manager of another store. Anyway, though I'm sure some of it is true about amy, i think mostly he uses her as a scapegoat. he knows i can't verify any of it anyway. But whatever. It pisses me off mostly because Just two weeks ago I wanted him to go to myrtle beach with me and he didn't want to. now suddenly he wants to go, but with 'amy'. So whatever. let the fucker go. i hope he has fun soaking up the scum and disease. he can fuck everybody in myrtle beach for all i care. i hope his dick falls off. i'm done with all of it.

and as for the cleanliness issue, as far as i know i'm clean. I don't think i've "caught" anything from him. or anybody else. but i really don't want to know. don't think i haven't spent my time obsessing over that too, especially since i found out about those 3 instances. as tho they're the only 3. yeah right. but i don't want to know. if i found out i was poz my life would truly be over that instant. i know some people can live with it, i can't. it wouldn't surprise me tho, not in the least. i seem to be fate's punching bag.

[Blushing Heliophobe]

It's only fair to future partners that you find out whether or not you run positive for something. You do NOT want to be starting a relationship, or already in one, and TEHN find out you're pos. There are people out there that will love you just the same and can look past it but you'd only be doing yourself and whomever you hook up with a favor by testing yourself.

I'm not comfortable enough speaking about details and I won't share them - but a situation like this has come up in my own life before - and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of pain I can tell you that.

Be smart.

[Morrigan_Dubh]

Originally Posted by winged_dreams

My stepdad is a big fucking idiot. He has a bunch of teenagers over and they are drinking. They drive, drunk, to the liquior store to buy more and they hit a woman. Luckily she was ok. My stepdad, who was with them, gets out of the car and runs. The woman whom they hit is able to give a pretty good description of him. Could you be any more stupid Leo?

Oh woah... Did this turn out ok?

[WolfMoon]

Emerald, right the fuck on!

Winged, could your stepdad be a bigger moron? I only say this because I care. Are you living with this freak?

ED, the responsible thing to do would be to get tested. Kick that fucker to the curb! You don't deserve to be treated like his bitch.

[horrorgirl]

For the first time in the year and a half that I have lived here I forgot to take the laundry out of the dryer. I live in an apartment complex, so I had to walk next door to get to it. I go in there to find that somebody had taken my laundry out of the dryer. No big deal, but then the lady who did it comes in.

Her: I waited a HALF HOUR for you to take out your laundry. *said snooty*

Me: I have lived here for a year and a half and this is the first time I have forgetten. Sorry, busy morning. * said rather nicely*

Her: Well I watch the TIME when I do laundry! *said very snooty* I have things to do!

Me: Oh get over it already! * I left the room*

HA!!!!!!! Some people in this complex are so snotty it's hysterical! Especially since these apartments are pretty thrashed. She is probably going to go to the apartment manager and tell her what a bad person I am. May her clothes burn in hell!!!! WORD. HA!

[bjork_freak]

What a bitch! You should replace her laundry detergent with something more interesting, like cooking oil.

[Sobeh]

Even more fun (and legal!), swap her clothes from one to another when she's gone. Of course, this can only lead to an escalation of war tactics leading inevitably to Rit dye in the laundry and Nair in the shampoo, so tread softly. >:P

[roserougesang]

Another good idea is to find out her least favourite colour and slip said coloured dye into the washing machine when she's not looking XD

[disorder]

Hahaha genius, Xng!

[Sobeh]

Originally Posted by Xnguela

Or just pee in the dryer.

This is good, but I'd expect women to have a harder time at this than men, so it found a lower place on my list.

[A Simple Poet]

Was she older than the moon? Did she have blue hair? The reason I ask is because I believe the same kind of lady accosted me for the same reason once upon a time with almost the same dialogue. Uncanny...

[roserougesang]

That would most likely be deja vu, Simple Poet. ^^

[A Simple Poet]

Yeah ... I seem to get that quite a bit ... about extremely droll and unimportant things. Though I can say with some certainty that I have never had an online deja vu before. Chilling.

[Sobeh]

Originally Posted by Xnguela

Not really. Just pull your pants down & stick your butt into the dryer. Assuming, of course, it's not one of those you load from the top. If you load from the top, just open the lid & sit on the edge. You'll have plenty of nice clean clothes to wipe with.

Fascinating... I'm so used to being able to aim, and in fact to expose only a bit of self to get the job done, that the whole idea of the Ninja Pee seemed a guys-only kind of thing. Kind of a shitty tradeoff though, what with that whole 'multiple orgasm' thing as the alternative.

[roserougesang]

I second that! I'm not too sure about the peeing part though..

[Blushing Heliophobe]

When I was a kid, I used to wish that I could pee standing up. I practiced (which didn't turn out so well) and all I wanted in the whole world was to pee standing up.

[horrorgirl]

All of you crack me up! :-)

[Blushing Heliophobe]

Originally Posted by Sobeh

Fascinating... I'm so used to being able to aim, and in fact to expose only a bit of self to get the job done, that the whole idea of the Ninja Pee seemed a guys-only kind of thing. Kind of a shitty tradeoff though, what with that whole 'multiple orgasm' thing as the alternative.

Right - but do you know how hard it is to find someone who can deliver said multiple-orgasm?!?

[roserougesang]

How is possible to have a multiple-orgasm? *innocence*

[Morrigan_Dubh]

Go read "Vogue" - it's another one of their lies, concocted to sell more magazines.
I hate gender-specific magazines. I stopped reading "women's" magazines years ago as they just made me feel inadequate. I was rarely interested in or excited by anything they had to show and tell me, so when I was younger I thought that meant I wasn't a real woman. They made me feel bad about just being myself. I hate them for making me feel like that.

[Wise Child]

I bought a magazine the other week for the first time in years, and I was absolutely disgusted. Never again will I waste my money on that tripe. For a start it was about 60% adverts, and the rest was utter crap - basically telling women their only interest is, and should be, their appearance. Oh, sure, there were a couple of little articles about how to succeed at work - most of which mentioned the importance of a groomed appearance to "give confidence" *raises eyebrow* - but the main thing missing was the assumption that any woman has ever read a book that isn't chick-lit or an insider's look at the modelling industry. Honestly, it's no wonder guys idly pick up women's magazines, flick through them and form the impression that women are vapid and boring. Hell, I was starting to fucking think it.

[Morrigan_Dubh]

Originally Posted by Wise Child

I bought a magazine the other week for the first time in years, and I was absolutely disgusted. Never again will I waste my money on that tripe. For a start it was about 60% adverts, and the rest was utter crap - basically telling women their only interest is, and should be, their appearance. Oh, sure, there were a couple of little articles about how to succeed at work - most of which mentioned the importance of a groomed appearance to "give confidence" *raises eyebrow* - but the main thing missing was the assumption that any woman has ever read a book that isn't chick-lit or an insider's look at the modelling industry. Honestly, it's no wonder guys idly pick up women's magazines, flick through them and form the impression that women are vapid and boring. Hell, I was starting to fucking think it.

Can I get an AMEN!?!