Shit I fukken HATE.

[lisarea]

1. I hate digital clocks. Well, overall, I just like analog better. I understand that there is a certain utility to digital clocks in certain contexts, like for alarm clocks where you want to be able to reset it for 7AM right after it goes off without making it go off again at 7PM or whatever, and for the clock on your VCR or coffeemaker or whatever, where it serves some function. But I mean shit like why do I have to have a clock on my stove and my microwave and my coffeemaker and my telephone and my Caller ID box and my VCR, and then, if the power flicks off for, like, TWO SECONDS, they all start flashing 12:00!?!?! Fuck that noise! I don't want to have to drag my ass all over the house every time and reset all those fucking clocks. I don't even USE most of those clocks! At least if they were analog, I'd just have to update them two seconds or whatever. Or if they were radio-controlled, they could fix themselves. But NO. I'm supposed to scroll all the way through one-thousand hours in order to update every single blinking stupidassed clock I never look at. So, to put a finer point on it: I FUKKEN HATE NON-RADIO CONTROLLED CLOCKS STUCK ONTO NON-TIMEKEEPING-RELATED TECHNOLOGY, IN CASES WHERE IT DOES NOT PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNCTION RELATED TO THE PRIMARY FUNCTION. AND ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT BLINK UNTIL YOU SET THEM.

2. I hate that can of garbanzo beans that has a picture of a tomato on it, which caused me to think I have tomato paste WHEN I DO NOT.

3. I hate quotemining. It's stupid and it's bad for America. Because of quotemining, nobody can explain anything, ever, without first considering how any one little snippet of what they're saying might be taken out of context and used to make them look like they're saying something else. Also, it's fucking STUPID. STUPID STUPID STUPID.

4. I hate turnips.

5. I hate list threads, especially when they contain list posts artificially inflated to be multiples of five!

[LadyShea]

I hate that everything in the world now has to be individually and expensively packaged and boxed and additionally safety sealed and throw in some shrink wrap or a vaccum pack while you're at it oh and don't forget the useless instructions in 20 languages.

It takes me 20 minutes and a razor blade to get into a new DVD or CD, and 10 minutes just to open all the sterile packaging and dig through individual little alcohol pads and extra syringes and 400 page FDA insert and crap on my medicines for A SINGLE FUCKING DOSE.

[Godless Dave]

Is "fukken" a Dutch word?

[Dingfod]

I hate .. America. .. it's fucking STUPID.You communist!

[seebs]

The problem isn't digital clocks; it's digital clocks without $0.25 worth of NiCD battery backup.

[Dingfod]

The problem isn't digital clocks; it's digital clocks without $0.25 worth of NiCD battery backup.My clock radio by my bed has a 9V battery backup. If the power is out, it still works. I put a new battery in it twice a year, just like the smoke alarms.

[livius drusus]

Monstera Deliciosas. Never have I seen such a vomitously evil fruit. I fucking hate those fuckers.

[Dingfod]

I fukken hate people that drive busted-ass vehicles with no turn signals because they've wrecked that corner of their vehicle and then don't drive them like they're driving a busted-ass vehicle, changing lanes without concern for anyone else but themselves. Sometimes I wish I still had my 1975 Toyota Landcruiser with the big 1/4" steel front bumper that stuck out a foot in front of the 2-1/2 ton vehicle, "Pull out in front of me, wouldja?" I don't think so, not more than once anyway. But no, they do it in front of my motorcycle, so I just let them get away with that shit.

[LadyXoc]

1. I hate that the batteries in the damn cordless mouse die pretty much every fucking hour. Or it seems that way.
2. I hate that I always forget to put the batteries in the right way and then for a second I think I broke something, because it doesn't work.
3. I hate the shrinkwrap on the CDs even more than LadyShea does. I would like to shrinkwrap the idiot who first suggested that idea and toss him or her off a bridge.
4. I hate that the dryer eats only one sock. Why just one? What, are the appliances on a fucking diet?
5. I also hate rutabagas. I don't even like the sound of them.
6. I hate that lisarea is so neat and tidy that she numbers her hates so I have to number mine so no one knows what a slob I am.

[livius drusus]

Other people's music as filtered through my shivering floorboards.

[Socratoad]

Toad and all his amphibian friends hates pretty well everything about North American homo consumens culture. I guess that s why I have pretty well withdrawn from it.

Oh yes, before I forget, I hate people who insist on telling me that rap is actually music, when I know its just obnoxious noise.

Geez this is fun ......hate is not a word I normally use, but it sure is stress relieving just to say it. HATE HATE HATE

[livius drusus]

Rap is music, hater. There. I've said it. What are you gonna do about it, huh? :boxing:

PS - Check out this (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249).

[godfry n. glad]

Oooooo....

I hate fuckin' microcephalic automobile drivers who think that their vehicle is some kind of telephone booth or office. When attempting to legally manuever 2+ tons of steel, aluminium, glass and overpriced plastic auto parts on a public roadway, it's not appropriate to engage in cellphone conversations about whether that bitch from accounting is really humping the black guy in marketing or what kind of buttwipe to pick up at the store...or any other topic. Hang up and drive, so we can ALL get home alive!

I hate dog owners who take their animals to the local public park and allow them to run off-leash DESPITE multiple clearly placed and understandable (including international symbols) directives to NOT do so at every entrance and various location within the park. Then their dogs piss on the children's play equipment and crap on the playfield. Some leave even that. They also menace small children. I pity the animals that have such frikken self-involved and stupid human "masters". I've taken to carrying a baseball bat when I go to the park, because I like to talk to them about their behavior....the humans, that is.

I hate dipshits who decide that it's a-okay to carry on an inane conversation in the midst of a film that I paid $8 just to get in the door to see.

godfry

[Scotty]

Well shit, I hope nobody hates fukken, cause I enjoy that.

I may be lysdexic.

-Scott

[xorbie]

I hate when people say rap isn't music.

[Adora]

Ummm... since I'm over my PMT, not much. Heh heh heh.

[dave_a]

Right about now I am hating my fuken job.

This RAC cluster won't start, so we shut everything down and I can start it on one node, but not both, it just hangs on the second node.

So I get the system admin to bounce the server it won't start on and everything hangs on the good node.

Clearly we have a shared disk issue. I mean clearly.

Still, here I am awake and expected in the office at 7am on Friday (yeah right) while dealing with this.

If I am lucky we will resolve this by 2am and like I am really going to get up to drive an hour to the office and start work at 7am. Gimme a fuken break already.

Once this issue is resolved my pager will go off and some other issue will require attention.

Sometimes I hate my job. The fact that Fox News is blathering in the background isn't helping. The Daily Show was lame tonite so that didn't help either.

[Megatron]

I fukken HATE...

...people who call me and say "Who is this?" ... if you don't know who I am then why the FUCK are you calling me? :angrynana:

...those FUCKING COCKSUCKERS on the highway that drive 100 fucking kph right up until I'm passing them, then they suddenly want to go as fast as I'm going. GRRRRRRRRR... :madrant:

...when fucking Dubya says "nookyular" and I complain about his inability to properly pronounce a SIMPLE THREE FUCKING SYLLABLE WORD, and someone actually says to me (YES, this has happened!!) "you can pronounce it that way too" NO YOU FUCKING CAN'T, READ A GODDAMN DICTIONARY YOU STUPID FUCK!! :soapbox:

whew, ok, this could go on a while but I think I'll take a break before everyone thinks I'm totally :kookoo: (oh wait, too late...)

[Ex-zombie]

Other people's music as filtered through my shivering floorboards.

Other people's music on the highway as filtered through their creaking, vibrating, shaking car.

[Godless Dave]

Other people's music coming from across the damn street, up the hill, across my yard, and through the walls of my house. Avoiding that shit is why I bought a house!

The fact that the parents of the dipshit kids with the loud music seem unwilling to discipline their kids, only complain about them. They're the kids, you're the adults, it's your house, do something, you ignorant urban hicks!

The fact that CDs are plastic wrapped and taped shut. Pick one.

The fact that every cheap piece of Chinese-made furniture and exercise equipment is put together with a different size Allen wrench, and if one needs to be repaired that one wrench is the one that's missing from my huge pile of Allen wrenches.

The fact that it's more legally risky to grow your own cannabis than to buy it from sleazeball dealers.

The fact that metal hallide light fixtures are so hard to fi- damn, I've said too much.

People who don't use their turn signals. And for the small minority who don't signal because they're signals are broken, that's not an excuse, fuckwits. The law requires you to use hand signals if your car's signals are broken.

That most of our nation's economy is based on selling people crap they don't need for money they don't have, and few people seem to care.

That I fall victim to the above.

People who accept the greater freedoms we have now than 40 years ago, without taking on the greater responsibilities this entails. You can't have it both ways, fuckwits. And I'm not going to give up personal liberties just because you idiots can't handle them.

[Ex-zombie]

People who accept the greater freedoms we have now than 40 years ago, without taking on the greater responsibilities this entails. You can't have it both ways, fuckwits. And I'm not going to give up personal liberties just because you idiots can't handle them.

:bow:

So good I added it to the quote list.

[Socratoad]

I fukken HATE...

...people who call me and say "Who is this?" ... if you don't know who I am then why the FUCK are you calling me? :angrynana:


Is this the person to whom I am speaking?


Toad :toad: ducks and rapidly hops away :bottle:

[godfry n. glad]

Telephone solicitors.

godfry

[Socratoad]

Other people's music coming from across the damn street, up the hill, across my yard, and through the walls of my house. Avoiding that shit is why I bought a house!

The fact that the parents of the dipshit kids with the loud music seem unwilling to discipline their kids, only complain about them. They're the kids, you're the adults, it's your house, do something, you ignorant urban hicks!

The fact that CDs are plastic wrapped and taped shut. Pick one.

The fact that every cheap piece of Chinese-made furniture and exercise equipment is put together with a different size Allen wrench, and if one needs to be repaired that one wrench is the one that's missing from my huge pile of Allen wrenches.

The fact that it's more legally risky to grow your own cannabis than to buy it from sleazeball dealers.

The fact that metal hallide light fixtures are so hard to fi- damn, I've said too much.

People who don't use their turn signals. And for the small minority who don't signal because they're signals are broken, that's not an excuse, fuckwits. The law requires you to use hand signals if your car's signals are broken.

That most of our nation's economy is based on selling people crap they don't need for money they don't have, and few people seem to care.

That I fall victim to the above.

People who accept the greater freedoms we have now than 40 years ago, without taking on the greater responsibilities this entails. You can't have it both ways, fuckwits. And I'm not going to give up personal liberties just because you idiots can't handle them.

Hot Damn, Godless Dave, that whole post quite simply oozes profound insight.

:appl: :bowing: :bowing: :bowing:

[LadyXoc]

*steals Godless Dave's entire list, especially last paragraph*

[Shake]

Is "fukken" a Dutch word?
The Fukkens are actually a group that split off from the Fokkers in the 17th century. Due to some poor handwriting when some of them emigrated to the US, Fokker was changed to Fukken, and now the Fukken Fokkers are everywhere! :P

Fokk! I hate it when my post ends up being on another page!

[godfry n. glad]

Streetcorner preachers whose fire'n'brimstone drivel can be heard for blocks.

godfry

[Ronin]

My perpetual and circuitous top two:

1. Inaction

2. Action with good intentions that go awry due to ambiguous circumstances that are beyond my control.

[godfry n. glad]

That the most benign of mind-altering recreational substances is the easiest to detect in drug testing, and long after ingestion...unlike much more dangerous substances, like alcohol, crack and meth.

That too many prison cells are filled with poor schmucks whose only crime is being cannabis smokers, while thieves and thugs are released onto the streets because of inadequate prison space.

godfry

[lisarea]

The bastardization of decadence.

Serious. I want to pound the meat off people's faces when they use the term decadent to mean fucking CHOCOLATE. It's NOT CUTE, it's NOT FUNNY, and it only serves to render the whole concept of decadence as a sort of silly, fluffy little minor digression. It's not. Decadence is a horrible, vile injustice. It's not something you jokingly chastise someone over. It's something you put them up against the fucking wall for.

Some day, I want to have the guts to call people on it. I want to be shocked and horrified the next time I see 'decadent' on a dessert menu. I want to make my eyes real big and throw my chair across the room and scream "HOW COULD YOU? MY GOD, WHAT IS THIS CAKE MADE OUT OF? YOU FUCKING MONSTERS!!!!" Then, I want to lead my posse of ragtag peasants in chasing them out of the village with our torches and pitchforks.

Maybe that would make them stop doing it.

And I just now realized that this could be accurately described as the decadence of decadence. Yay for that part, anyway.

[freemonkey]

I fukken hate it when other people feel it is their special right and duty to hold other people - namely, me - up. This includes, but is not limited to:

People who, when walking into a building, must STOP right in the doorway, especially effective when there is a group of them. And the ultimate is when there is one group going in while another is coming out, and both groups stop to greet each other and have a conversation. Right fukken there! In the fukken doorway!!

People who park their shopping carts crosswise in an aisle.

People who must put their money back into their wallets "just so", then put their wallets back into their purses "just so", while also arranging everyotherfukkenthing in that bag. "Just so". While I'm waiting to move forward so I can pay for my stuff because the checkout person has finished ringing me up.

I also fukken hate it when people park their cars in the opposite direction in a diagonal space. Its supposed to be like this: \\\\ but asshole parks like this: /. Fukker.

Also, in parking lots, I fukken hate it when someone drives the wrong way in a one way lane. Those are the people who are also driving way faster than they should be in a parking lot.

Oh, and also? In a parking lot? I hate it when those people who are driving too fast also don't stop or even slow down when they see someone backing out of a space. Fukken jerks.

I know I hate a bunch of other fukken shit, but this is all I can think of today.

[Dingfod]

I fukken hate people that should be taking valium, but don't.

I fukken hate people that should be taking barbiturates, but don't.

I fukken hate people that should be taking cyanide, but don't.

[wade-w]

I fukken hate people that should be taking cyanide, but don't.

I'll tell ya what. Lend me the money to get some cyanide, and you can quit hating me.

[freemonkey]

I fukken hate people that should be taking valium, but don't.

Uh.... that would probably be me. Now get outta my fukken way! :bgirl:

[xorbie]

I fukken hate people that should be taking cyanide, but don't.

I'll tell ya what. Lend me the money to get some cyanide, and you can quit hating me.

:(

[LadyShea]

wade, was that a joke?

[wade-w]

While I won't say that I was 100% serious, no, it wasn't a joke.

[Gawen]

I was cheerfully prepared to list a few of my 'hates'...but it suddenly doesn't seem so cheerful any more.

Why would you post such a thing wade?

[Dingfod]

I was just joking. Not trying to excuse what I wrote, I was also posting while intoxicated. So, no, Wade, I will not lend you the money for cyanide or even a dull nail file. Stay the hell with us Wade. Dammit. I don't hate you at all. I had a very specific person in mind, my daughter's ex.

[pescifish]

I was cheerfully prepared to list a few of my 'hates'...but it suddenly doesn't seem so cheerful any more.

Why would you post such a thing wade?Seriously, Gawen, are you saying that you cheerfully thought warren's statement of deadly hate was lighthearted and A-OK? It was wade's comment that ruined your bulletin board experience, not warren's? Isn't the better question "Why would warren think its funny to post that there are people he thinks should kill themselves?"

warren, let me ask you this: If it had been someone else who posted that line and you were in a depressed mood, how would you have reacted to it?

[wade-w]

I was cheerfully prepared to list a few of my 'hates'...but it suddenly doesn't seem so cheerful any more.


Sorry I brought you down, Gawen.


Why would you post such a thing wade?

Because that's how I feel? Sometimes the mask slips and I say things like that. FWIW, I did think better of making that post, but when I came back to change it someone else had already quoted it, so there was no point to removing it.

[Farren]

warren, let me ask you this: If it had been someone else who posted that line and you were in a depressed mood, how would you have reacted to it?

I know I'm not Warren but I feel compelled to reply. If I was in a depressed mood (as I have been ocassionaly while reading here) it would not have had any negative impact on me, since it was clearly intended to be absurd.

[pescifish]

I know I'm not Warren but I feel compelled to reply. If I was in a depressed mood (as I have been ocassionaly while reading here) it would not have had any negative impact on me, since it was clearly intended to be absurd. Would wade's response have thrown off your whole bulletin board experience either? I thought both warren's and wade's posts were well within my expected bulletin board experience. I thought wade's response was pretty tit-for-tat clever, really. However, I'm just trying to figure out why wade is the one being challenged for posting his comment but warren is not.

Actually, while I do appreciate your answer**, my question was directed to warren in particular. This is because in the past, I have posted general opinons about people or situations that, on more than one occasion, warren has responded as if I meant him specifically. Considering how he has tended to take general comments as personally directed to him, it seems reasonable for him to consider someone might do the same when he posts such things.


** and, FWIW, your answer is close to how I think I would react if in a depressed mood.

[wade-w]

To clarify, I did not take Warrenly's post personally, nor did it really have a negative impact. I simply took it as an opportunity to express what I was feeling.

[viscousmemories]

Would wade's response have thrown off your whole bulletin board experience either? I thought both warren's and wade's posts were well within my expected bulletin board experience. I thought wade's response was pretty tit-for-tat clever, really. However, I'm just trying to figure out why wade is the one being challenged for posting his comment but warren is not.
It doesn't surprise me that Gawen (or anyone, really) would be more taken aback by wade's comment than by warrenly's. The difference between "I think some people should kill themselves" and "I'd like to kill myself" seems pretty obvious to me. The former is empty rhetoric and the latter is frequently a very serious statement of emotional desperation. So I can see how someone might dismiss the first as inane and be really bummed out by the second.

Actually, while I do appreciate your answer**, my question was directed to warren in particular. This is because in the past, I have posted general opinons about people or situations that, on more than one occasion, warren has responded as if I meant him specifically. Considering how he has tended to take general comments as personally directed to him, it seems reasonable for him to consider someone might do the same when he posts such things.
I respect that and hope my answering the above point doesn't interfere with your desire to address this subject to warrenly. I don't mean to butt in, really.

[wade-w]

What's really amusing about all of this is that this post was not the first one I've made here expressing the same sentiment.

[wade-w]

The former is empty rhetoric and the latter is frequently a very serious statement of emotional desperation. So I can see how someone might dismiss the first as inane and be really bummed out by the second.


Sorry if I caused anyone else distress. I'll try to keep to to myself in the future. You can all quit moaning and bitching about my post bringing you down. I've already conceded I shouldn't have said it.

[JoeP]

The former is empty rhetoric and the latter is frequently a very serious statement of emotional desperation. So I can see how someone might dismiss the first as inane and be really bummed out by the second.


Sorry if I caused anyone else distress. I'll try to keep to to myself in the future. You can all quit moaning and bitching about my post bringing you down. I've already conceded I shouldn't have said it.
I think the only distress was worry out of concern (that sense of bummed out). Sure you should have said it. I don't think there was any moaning or bitching at you (nor challenging, Pesci).

joe

[Farren]

Well I fukken hate it when people are feeling down so I hope you didn't think I was obliquely criticising with my post to pesci. I was just concerned she would bring Warren down when his intentions were pure :)

I'm having another tot of Jack Daniels right now just for you, Wade. Anything I can do to make ya feel better, just say it. How about the cock song?

Haaaaaas
anyone seen my cock?
My big Rhode Island Red?
He's flushed deep purple from his feet
up to his bright red head
He wakes me up in the morning
and gives my wife a shock (squaaaaaark)
Has anybody seen, anybody seen, anybody,
anybody seen my cock?

http://home.icon.co.za/~farren/rooster3smokin2.gif

[freemonkey]

What's really amusing about all of this is that this post was not the first one I've made here expressing the same sentiment.
I'm sorry you are so unhappy, and I'm sorry I haven't noticed until now, and I'm sorry for what appears to be your feeling that no one cares. :(

Maybe we should split this thread?

[Gawen]

Good grief peoples...

Wade, your post didn't bring me down. But it DID take me back a bit. After all, there was no quaint smilie or some other form of emotive, so naturally I took it for face value.
Now wade, I know where you're coming from. A few years ago I went through severe depression. Thought about suicide a few times and nearly ran me and my van into a bridge abuttment or pylon...or whatever you call the things that hold up a bridge. I remember once at work, someone asked me how I was doing. I answered that I was contemplating how to kill myself.

To make a very long and sordid story short...On advice of a special friend I went to the doc. Took Zoloft for a year and pulled myself out of a funk. During that year I moved to Texas for a better life, for me and my kids. Things still aren't the way I'd like them. But I'm working on it. Get to a doc and work on it. It's the only advice I'm cacpable of giving you, having been there, done that. Oh, and for me, Zoloft had the most wonderful sexual side effects... :D
And believe me. I know all about masks. I still miss the one I wore all my life until the year 2000.

pescifish: I came into the thread thinking about some cheeky things I hate and make a few intended comical comments. I think the above answers your questions.
I thought both warren's and wade's posts were well within my expected bulletin board experience. I thought wade's response was pretty tit-for-tat clever, really.Obviously, I am not used to such tit-for-tat clever sayings. It may be wade's way of doing things. But I took it quite seriously, in the way he meant it, whereas other took it for comic relief or just absurdity. I think this is a way of showing all of us how little we know each other?

Warrenly posted about people in general and I can sympathise with him in every case. wade posted about himself and that concerned me. VM is right in what he says.

I've already conceded I shouldn't have said it.Actually, when you're feeling this way, I'd rather you say SOMEthing. We might not be able to interact with you directly, but good grief, we can try to make you feel better here.

[Dingfod]

Bugger off, I was drunk, dammit. I've got to watch every little offhand coment I write because someone might take it personally? C'mon. Really.

Whether someone finds it funny or not, I do think there are certain people that would make the world a better place if they did exactly what I suggested. Nobody here, of course.

[viscousmemories]

The former is empty rhetoric and the latter is frequently a very serious statement of emotional desperation. So I can see how someone might dismiss the first as inane and be really bummed out by the second.

Sorry if I caused anyone else distress. I'll try to keep to to myself in the future. You can all quit moaning and bitching about my post bringing you down. I've already conceded I shouldn't have said it.
Pesci said she didn't know why Gawen would've responded to your comment the way he did and not warrenly's. I explained why, in my opinion, that might be. I am not "moaning and bitching" about anything, nor did I even express my opinion of your post. Frankly I don't gather that you care whether your comments might "bring me down", so I wouldn't likely tell you if they did.

[JoeP]

I fukken hate potatoes with eyes. Especially when they've gone all soft in the cupboard.

And I know no one will take this offhand comment personally. :shutmou:

[Dingfod]

I fukken hate potatoes with eyes. Especially when they've gone all soft in the cupboard.

And I know no one will take this offhand comment personally. :shutmou: It is pretty hard to take me serious with that avatar, isn't it?

[wade-w]

The former is empty rhetoric and the latter is frequently a very serious statement of emotional desperation. So I can see how someone might dismiss the first as inane and be really bummed out by the second.

Sorry if I caused anyone else distress. I'll try to keep to to myself in the future. You can all quit moaning and bitching about my post bringing you down. I've already conceded I shouldn't have said it.
Pesci said she didn't know why Gawen would've responded to your comment the way he did and not warrenly's. I explained why, in my opinion, that might be. I am not "moaning and bitching" about anything, nor did I even express my opinion of your post. Frankly I don't gather that you care whether your comments might "bring me down", so I wouldn't likely tell you if they did.

/me sighs

I used that quote as what I saw as a good summary of what had been said about my earlier post. As far as I could see the main focus was on people complaining about what I said. That was a general directive, thus the "you can all." This was not in any way directed at you personally.

You have no idea how many posts I've aborted by hitting the back button, or how many I've edited to tone down what I really wanted to say. For example, I don't think you really want to know what my knee jerk reaction almost caused me to post in response to you. So, if you want me gone, vm, just say the word and I'm outta here.

[Dingfod]

You have no idea how many posts I've aborted by hitting the back button, or how many I've edited to tone down what I really wanted to say. For example, I don't think you really want to know what my knee jerk reaction almost caused me to post in response to you. So, if you want me gone, vm, just say the word and I'm outta here.That ain't gonna happen. Stick around and let 'er rip, dude. Let it flow. Let us have it. We're grownups here, well, mostly. If you leave because of me, I'll leave too, so let's stick around here and make everyone really annoyed with us. I think I'm already on the right track in that regard. You with me?

[beyelzu]

The former is empty rhetoric and the latter is frequently a very serious statement of emotional desperation. So I can see how someone might dismiss the first as inane and be really bummed out by the second.


Sorry if I caused anyone else distress. I'll try to keep to to myself in the future. You can all quit moaning and bitching about my post bringing you down. I've already conceded I shouldn't have said it.
I am not particularly good at offering comfort, nor irl or online, but for what it's worth, I am sorry that you feel like shit and wish that there was something I could do to help. I know what it's like to be depressed, I am often depressed myself.


I fukken hate feeling powerless.

[wade-w]

If you leave because of me, I'll leave too, so let's stick around here and make everyone really annoyed with us. I think I'm already on the right track in that regard. You with me?

For me, none of this ever had anything to do with you, warrenly. What you posted just struck a chord with the way I've been feeling for a while now. I've made several posts in the last week or two along the same lines, though admittedly they weren't quite as blunt.

[Dingfod]

For me, none of this ever had anything to do with you, warrenly. What you posted just struck a chord with the way I've been feeling for a while now. I've made several posts in the last week or two along the same lines, though admittedly they weren't quite as blunt.I figured as much, but pescifish is right, I alway internalize everything, so bear with me. I mean it. Let 'er rip.

[Corona688]

People who ask me for help out of sheer laziness -- people that COULD figure it out themselves with a little work, but would much rather have me do their work for them.

Midterms that gauge my ability to rapidly accomplish busywork, rather than testing my knowledge of relevant concepts and their application.

Stupidly long assignments composed of massive amounts of unchallenging busywork.

Source code examples in textbooks that fail to work.

Computer languages that remove features as time goes on(*cough*JAVA*cough*), causing source-code examples to not work.

Computer languages that define their own private little network protocols instead of using pre-existing ones(*cough*JAVA*cough*)

Courses that use computer languages that every other course in the university has spurned like the plague(*cough*JAVA*cough*). Seriously, they at least had the courtesy to teach me lisp before they expected me to use it, but after 3 years of courses devoted to C++ and a sprinkling of other languages, I'm supposed to instinctively know java?

Professors who feel compelled to increase the difficulty of their tests soley to fail more students, because their higher-ups feel that if 1/3 of the class isn't failing, then obviously the prof's slacking off.

Did I mention that it's midterm season? Yes, yes it is.

[lisarea]

I am not particularly good at offering comfort, nor irl or online, but for what it's worth, I am sorry that you feel like shit and wish that there was something I could do to help. I know what it's like to be depressed, I am often depressed myself.

I fukken hate feeling powerless.

What he said. Plus add, I am not particularly good at picking up on social signals, either, so I don't notice things much until someone comes right out and says it.

I also fukken hate that you're depressed and feeling like people don't like you. Not that I'd pick up on it if people didn't like you, but, for what it's worth, I like you.

[viscousmemories]

* wade-w sighs

I used that quote as what I saw as a good summary of what had been said about my earlier post. As far as I could see the main focus was on people complaining about what I said. That was a general directive, thus the "you can all." This was not in any way directed at you personally.
Okay, cool. Thanks for clarifying.

You have no idea how many posts I've aborted by hitting the back button, or how many I've edited to tone down what I really wanted to say. For example, I don't think you really want to know what my knee jerk reaction almost caused me to post in response to you. So, if you want me gone, vm, just say the word and I'm outta here.
I'm sure I have some idea, as most people who have even a remote interest in civility tone down what they say before they say it. Who ever posts (or says) the first thing that comes to their mind in response to others? Nobody who values relationships with other humans. But at any rate I don't know what I said that gave you the impression that I want you gone, or why you would go even if I did. I'm just another poster here for the most part, and not the most widely adored myself.

If you're interested I wasn't bothered by your post. You're not going to shock or impress me by stating that you want to be dead. Not many days have gone by in the last 20 years that I haven't had the same thought myself. But I would be pretty surprised if nobody blinked were I to express that sentiment in a random thread. I'm sure it is a bit shocking to people who can't relate to the feeling. Still, I've never said (nor do I think) you shouldn't have said it.

I have noticed every time you've made a related statement, including at least once where you immediately deleted it, and have not commented. This isn't because I am inattentive or unconcerned, but because you haven't given me any reason to believe it's something you genuinely want to discuss, so I've just assumed you were just venting. For what it's worth you can rest assured that I can relate, even if I don't say as much.

[pescifish]

Warrenly posted about people in general and I can sympathise with him in every case. wade posted about himself and that concerned me. VM is right in what he says.I'm going to respond both your comments and vm's which you've essentially repeated here. I agree with the "general vs. specific" aspect of the two posts. Gawen, based on your response here, it's apparent that I misunderstood your first post to wade-w, because I did not interpret it as being concern for wade personally. I really appreciate your willingness to help me understand. Thank you. :blush:
I think the only distress was worry out of concern (that sense of bummed out). Sure you should have said it. I don't think there was any moaning or bitching at you (nor challenging, Pesci). It's apparent by Gawen's subsequent remarks that I was mistaken in reading his first post:I was cheerfully prepared to list a few of my 'hates'...but it suddenly doesn't seem so cheerful any more.

Why would you post such a thing wade? To beat the dead horse, to me the first line says "I was all ready to have fun but now I can't" and the second line says "Why would you do such a thing?" It's at least a little bit reasonable to think "Why would you post such a thing?" is a bit of a challenge. However, now that I know better, I sincerely apologize for thinking that. I stand by my post, nonetheless, because if it had been a challenge, damned if I wasn't gonna support wade. I hope I won't be villified here for my misunderstanding. I honestly think mine was an honest mistake.

I am sure one of the reasons that I thought wade's post was rather wry and clever is that, as wade says, he's posted several such comments lately. At least a few of which I did respond. I didn't find either warren's or wade's posts as particularly out of line but I could see how others might be taken aback if it appeared like it came out of the blue.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

1. People who pull out in front of you then drive twenty or more mph below the speed limit and you can't pass them because of the double yellow lines.
2. Creationists trying and succeeding at getting the christian creation myth taught in schools.
3. Stem Cell research being held up because an idiot from Texas listens to an ancient man who lives in Rome.
4. The Pope saying condoms don't stop HIV.
5. Raping Priests
6. Almost all the shows on the Travel Channel because they are shows about "haunted" places. :fuming:
7. The "Sci-fi" Channel. It should be called the Occult Channel because they play so much of that crap. Cold Read this John Edward; you con!! :whup:

[livius drusus]

Landlords who lurk in the driveway waiting to jump you the minute you get back from work to spring a surprise apartment walk-through on your ass and then blather endlessly about weird legislation that requires him to measure this and that in order to avoid confrontation on the total lack of advance warning.

[viscousmemories]

5. Raping Priests
I hate raping priests, too. I've been trying to cut back.

[Ex-zombie]

5. Raping Priests
I hate raping priests, too. I've been trying to cut back.


:rofl: :LMAO:

[lisarea]

Ashley Taylor brand underpants! They are just like some cheapo cotton underwear that comes in packs like Hanes and Fruit of the Loom, but somehow they manage to suck just extra bad. Suckingest EVER kind of underwear pants! The elastic totally falls apart the first time you put it in the washer. And before some wise guy says it, NO, there is no way just regular cotton underwear like that needs handwashing, and if they do, they just suck intentionally. Because that would be stupid.

I am so totally serious: Worst. Underwear. Ever.

[Farren]

When you spend all day Sunday thinking its Saturday then find out it's Sunday just before you go to sleep.

When you eagerly anticipate your friend's birthday party all week then get asked why you never came to the party, which was a week ago.

[Goliath]

Landlords who lurk in the driveway waiting to jump you the minute you get back from work to spring a surprise apartment walk-through on your ass and then blather endlessly about weird legislation that requires him to measure this and that in order to avoid confrontation on the total lack of advance warning.

Hey, panty sniffers have to live, too. :D

[Shake]

1. Good threads getting derailed
2. When people post what they think are decent jokes and get no responses
3. Tailgaters
4. People who need to be tailgated to get the fuck out of the fast lane
5. Shitty drivers in general (don't get me started)
6. <insert newest reality TV show here>

[Dingfod]

Opening caveat: Parody can sometimes be taken seriously. Don't go there with me.

I fukken hate little baby ducks quacking up a storm right outside my bedroom window when I'm trying to sleep, old pick-up trucks when they won't start, slow movin trains in my way, and rain when it pours.

I fukken hate little country streams that strew rocks and sand across the road, sleeplessness without dreams, Sunday school any fukken time, and hay I have to haul.

I fukken hate leaves in the wind piled up against the house, accidently discovered porno pictures of my friends, birds of the world squawking to beat the band, and squirrels, yeah, fukken squirrels.

I fukken hate coffee in a cup or anywhere else, little fuzzy pups when they leave puddles on the rug, old tv shows that suck, and snow when it's deep.

I fukken hate those pretentious honest open smiles from lying backstabbing people, kisses from a child I don't know with faces all sticky with popsicle juice and candy, worm eaten green tomatoes on a vine, and onions, especially onions.

I fukken hate winners when they lie, losers when they cry, music when its bad, and life in general.


Credit: Tom T. Hall, whose song lyrics I have totally mangled practically beyond recognition.

[beyelzu]

Landlords who lurk in the driveway waiting to jump you the minute you get back from work to spring a surprise apartment walk-through on your ass and then blather endlessly about weird legislation that requires him to measure this and that in order to avoid confrontation on the total lack of advance warning.
this actually happen to you?


I have never had anything remotely like this happen to me.

[beyelzu]

When you spend all day Sunday thinking its Saturday then find out it's Sunday just before you go to sleep.

When you eagerly anticipate your friend's birthday party all week then get asked why you never came to the party, which was a week ago.
:bow:

that is just badass.

you should have used the :doh: however.

[beyelzu]

5. Raping Priests
I hate raping priests, too. I've been trying to cut back.


:rofl: :LMAO:
seconded

[Nil Desperandum]

I do not hate anything... it simply isn't within my capacity.

However, I intensely dislike the idea that things exist in this world that can cause people to hate said things, hate other people, hate other people's beliefs, or use the word hate in a serious manner.

Consider me a dreamer, but I really, really, really wish, that in Humanity v1.2, we learn to get alone.
:rainy:

[godfry n. glad]

Consider me a dreamer, but I really, really, really wish, that in Humanity v1.2, we learn to get alone.
:rainy:

Um... We can't learn to "get alone" in the current version?

godfry :giggle:

[Dingfod]

I do not hate anything... it simply isn't within my capacity.

However, I intensely dislike the idea that things exist in this world that can cause people to hate said things, hate other people, hate other people's beliefs, or use the word hate in a serious manner.

Consider me a dreamer, but I really, really, really wish, that in Humanity v1.2, we learn to get alone.
:rainy:I've been getting alone for some time, thanks very much. For the most part, these things I say I hate, I don't really hate, more like hold in an extremely low regard.

[Nil Desperandum]

Consider me a dreamer, but I really, really, really wish, that in Humanity v1.2, we learn to get alone.
:rainy:

Um... We can't learn to "get alone" in the current version?

godfry :giggle:
Well, poo.

We get alone just fine...

I meant, here we are. Cro Magnon. Homo Erectus. And then, Homo Sapien comes along. Now, Homo Sapien Sapiens (if there ever was a distinction). What is next, godfry?

Homo Sapien Sapiens v2?

That's what I mean. When do we "evolve"? Do we?

I think that if we don't learn to get along, then perhaps it will be time to be born from the ashes again.

Chris

[Nil Desperandum]

I've been getting alone for some time, thanks very much. For the most part, these things I say I hate, I don't really hate, more like hold in an extremely low regard.
It is for these reasons that I wonder if anyone really hates anything, because anytime I tell someone my reasoning on hate, they always retract their hatred with "Dislike alot." or any variant thereof. I know not one person who literally possesses hatred of anything, yet they say it at least 5 times every day.

Just curious.

[Dingfod]

I've been getting alone for some time, thanks very much. For the most part, these things I say I hate, I don't really hate, more like hold in an extremely low regard.
It is for these reasons that I wonder if anyone really hates anything, because anytime I tell someone my reasoning on hate, they always retract their hatred with "Dislike alot." or any variant thereof. I know not one person who literally possesses hatred of anything, yet they say it at least 5 times every day.

Just curious.For most people the word has about as much value as the word "love". They love that diamond necklace, they love old pickup trucks and furry little pups, they love hairy chests, they love big boobs, they love their new berber carpet, they love their new nylon pancake turner, they love their new car, etc...

[lisarea]

2. When people post what they think are decent jokes and get no responses

When people post what I think are good jokes, and I can't think of a good response.

[Dingfod]

2. When people post what they think are decent jokes and get no responses

When people post what I think are good jokes, and I can't think of a good response.When people post what I think are good responses and I can't even think of a good joke.

[Ex-zombie]

I've been getting alone for some time, thanks very much. For the most part, these things I say I hate, I don't really hate, more like hold in an extremely low regard.
It is for these reasons that I wonder if anyone really hates anything, because anytime I tell someone my reasoning on hate, they always retract their hatred with "Dislike alot." or any variant thereof. I know not one person who literally possesses hatred of anything, yet they say it at least 5 times every day.

Just curious.

I hate coffee. And I don't mean dislike intensely. I mean HATE! I would annihilate all the coffee in the world.

[Dingfod]

I hate coffee. And I don't mean dislike intensely. I mean HATE! I would annihilate all the coffee in the world.Well, I would not deprive anyone else of their coffee, but I doubt if you actually dislike coffee any more than I do. I can't even stand the smell of it. If I can avoid it, I won't even go down the coffee aisle at the supermarket. I don't even like coffee candy...

... or even coffee cake. :D

[Nil Desperandum]

2. When people post what they think are decent jokes and get no responses

When people post what I think are good jokes, and I can't think of a good response.When people post what I think are good responses and I can't even think of a good joke.
The fact I spent 5 minutes trying to come up with some clever quip to add to this merry witticism, and to fail.

So:

:wave:

[lisarea]

I hate coffee. And I don't mean dislike intensely. I mean HATE! I would annihilate all the coffee in the world.Well, I would not deprive anyone else of their coffee, but I doubt if you actually dislike coffee any more than I do. I can't even stand the smell of it. If I can avoid it, I won't even go down the coffee aisle at the supermarket. I don't even like coffee candy...

... or even coffee cake. :D

I fukken hate that I have to hunt the both of you down and kill you, lest you interrupt my coffee supply.

I mean, I like you guys! This is a very uncomfortable position you've put me in. I resent the fact that I have to squeeze the life out of you and all. In fact, my resentment approaches homicidal rage! So, yeah. I guess I could get into it, so I can't really be too mad about that. GAR!

It is totally like that time Oscar the Grouch was all mad because he was happy, so then he was happy because he was so mad, and then mad because he was happy.

I fukken HATE that.

[Dingfod]

I fukken hate that I have to hunt the both of you down and kill you, lest you interrupt my coffee supply.HEY! I was defending your right to drink that vile bitter malodorous brew.

It is totally like that time Oscar the Grouch was all mad because he was happy, so then he was happy because he was so mad, and then mad because he was happy.I'm kind of like that. Fukken Zoloft is making me happy, dammit.

[Corona688]

I fukken hate that I have to hunt the both of you down and kill you, lest you interrupt my coffee supply. http://exterminatusnow.keenspace.com/d/20040903.html

[godfry n. glad]

As must be obvious by now, I hate

the Bush administration in general,

and John Ashcroft in particular. :puke:

godfry

[Godless Dave]

I fuckin' hate that OS X constantly prompts me to update software I don't even have installed. I don't even own a fucking iPod, so I don't need updated iPod software, you reliable but overpriced piece of shit! Is my removing the check mark every fucking time not a big enough hint for you?

[Socratoad]

I was going to post that I hate people who hate, but then I thought, hell thats just too lame so I did not post it :(

[Dingfod]

I fukken hate the term passive-aggressive. Ok, maybe not so much hate, hate is too strong a word, more like strongly dislike. OK, maybe using strongly sounds a bit too aggressive. So, let's just say I have a dislike for the term. Well, maybe dislike is too harsh, so make it "I have a slight distaste for the term. I hope I didn't offend anyone with this. Really. Sorry.

Grrrrrr, why didn't I just stick with fukken hate? Goddammit!!!

[Godless Dave]

I fuckin' hate that I have almost nothing to do all day at work, but they won't lay me off (ideal) or put me on 3rd shift (where there's actual work to do).

[freemonkey]

I fuckin' hate that OS X constantly prompts me to update software I don't even have installed. I don't even own a fucking iPod, so I don't need updated iPod software, you reliable but overpriced piece of shit! Is my removing the check mark every fucking time not a big enough hint for you?

* emphasis mine *

I fukken hate when people can't stick to a fukken theme!!! :wink:

[beyelzu]

I fukken hate the term passive-aggressive. Ok, maybe not so much hate, hate is too strong a word, more like strongly dislike. OK, maybe using strongly sounds a bit too aggressive. So, let's just say I have a dislike for the term. Well, maybe dislike is too harsh, so make it "I have a slight distaste for the term. I hope I didn't offend anyone with this. Really. Sorry.

Grrrrrr, why didn't I just stick with fukken hate? Goddammit!!!
by the way, I love the use of sizes in this post.


badass.


:D

[Dingfod]

:austin: Yeah, baby, yeah!

[Adora]

I hate Myers-Briggs personality tests.

I hate having 3 2000 word research assignments due all in a row next week (ie- one on monday, one on tuesday, one on wednesday) 2 of which cannot be late otherwise I get a 0. T___T I am going to be soooooo dead/mentally breaking down soon.

[beyelzu]

I hate Myers-Briggs personality tests.

I hate having 3 2000 word research assignments due all in a row next week (ie- one on monday, one on tuesday, one on wednesday) 2 of which cannot be late otherwise I get a 0. T___T I am going to be soooooo dead/mentally breaking down soon.
I fukken hate not being able to tell the difference between a poster that is dead/mentally breaking down and how she is normally. :D

[Adora]

Oh, well, I'll give you a hand there. When I have a breakdown, it's tears and angst. When I chuck a general diva hissy fit on a board, it's spitfire and/or trolling/childish flames. Think of it as an introverted/extroverted difference. Breakdowns are usually accompanied by severe lacks of sleep as well, since there's something wrong with my body that causes me to become ridiculously depressed (and I mean suicidal) if I don't get enough sleep over a few days. Like kids needing naptime or something.

Oh, and now I fucking hate the fact there's a limit to how many library books I can get out at Uni, especially when I have said 3 assignments due soon.

[Godless Dave]

I fuckin' hate proto-zits that are deep under the skin and not ready to pop but are just painful enough that you are always aware of them and swell up so much they look like they are poppable (even though you can tell by feel they aren't) and you resist and resist and resist and resist but finally you give it a squeeze and nothing happens so you squeeze harder and some pus breaks through the skin and then it swells more and scabs over and you look like you have a big throbbing locomotive headlamp on your forehead and it still won't pop or heal and it still hurts and Clearasil doesn't do jack shit and you can only find tea trea oil in obscure girly beauty shops and you've got this fuckin' thing on your forehead for like two weeks.

I hate that.

[Dingfod]

I've had a couple of them this week that I swear were horns trying to break out of my forehead. Well, I suppose they might go well with the goatee that I'm sporting now.

[lisarea]

and you can only find tea trea oil in obscure girly beauty shops

Oh, man, you are either such a girl or such a hippy!

Either way: Ha ha!

But what I really hit reply to say is that you can get tea tree oil in pet supply stores. I guess people use it on dogs or something. You get a much bigger bottle and it's way cheaper. It's the same stuff, and it's not even meat flavored or anything.