Things I can't stand right now

Nonsense! I have a vagina, and I loved 300!

(:

Frank: He sees your vagina.

I can and seriously, some of you need to keep that thing better maintained.

i dont like my job, in fact, i hate it

also, so many spiders around where i work, im constantly being scared and yelping a these big hairy fuckers and their many scary legs

i also dont like colors i dont understand. like, i dont know, salmon or things that are different shades of real colors. maybe its just because when i was a kid i always wanted to be a cartoonist and then realized i cant tell colors apart. fucking crayola and their millions of different crayons.

i dont think ive seen any of the olympics this year. i mostly wish it had been boycotted.

1. Fishing Lures. Oh yeah, you heard me. You ever try to build a website for a fishing lure company? You have to enter their entire catalog, one at a time, these little similar looking bait divers and wobblers, and wigglers...every product sounds vaguely pornographic. How exciting is it? Slightly less than reading this post. JOIN ME! HELP ME BUILD FISHING LURE HEAVEN!

2. Not selling my car. I have two people coming to look at it tomorrow, but if I could just sell the damn thing, I'd be in motorcycle heaven right now.

3. Douchebags who are trying to convince me that Kelley Blue Book has somehow overvalued my car by 200%.

Hey now. I LOVE war movies. I grew up watching them. We weren't really encouraged to watch kid's shows, especially Disney movies, so my dad used to bring home shit like "Hamburger Hill" every weekend. I also adore Frank Miller and everything he touches/looks at/sneezes on.

But I don't like using androgyny/femininity as a way of making a character seem weak.

I don't like revisionist history.

And I don't like Gerard Butler's stupid pharaoh beard.

I don't like his beard either, but look at him without it! Hey hey (;

I'm also not fond of his inability to pronounce consonants in that movie.
"This. Is. Schwhparta!" Life Daffy Duck.

Also. The wife, walking down the street in slow motion. FOR TWO FUCKING MINUTES. Seriously. Slow motion. Walking.

i thought the strangest part of that movie was the gratuitous sex scene

the lobster guy cutting people's heads off was pretty strange.

Yeah, and why didn't that ever come back up!?!? That was just nonsensical.

I wanted to see a fight out between lobster guy and that Ephialtes guy!

The inept horribly dump incompetent stupidass judges for women's gymnastics in Olympics. They throw medals at the Chinese girls who fuck up horribly and want to screw girls like Alicia Sacramone and Nastia Liukin out of their deserved medals. Alicia should have gotten that vault bronze, or maybe even silver... and Nastia should have gotten the fucking gold in underhand bars. Nastia and the Chinese girl got a TIE on the underhand bars even though the Chinese girl fucked up and Nastia didn't. Then the tie-breaker automatically generated by the computer gave the gold away and Nastia's stuck with silver? It's not even me, I don't even know her, but I'm totally pissed.

Tom, Smart(Frank), you guys see/mad about this?

wanna know what really pisses me off right now? I mean REALLY?

First is that I posted a response in the wrong thread, but that doesn't really piss me off THAT much. Mostly, I'm pissed because I just spent my third or fourth night in Chicago by myself. The nights spent alone in the first week were for reasons that I won't go into. I was supposed to leave today and I was told by my friend Johnny that we would hang out if i stayed. I wanted to stay because I was quite disappointed in the last few days and hate ending any trip on a bad note. SO, I spent $170 to stay and when he got home from work he told me that he couldn't hang out tonight or tomorrow night.

Before I came here I had plans to look at the art college for grad school, I was considering moving here. I can only assume that the reason this trip has sucked so much is because there is some reason I shouldn't move here.

I could go into a lot more detail, but I won't. I've been trying not to be pissed off, but I just can't help it. I'm pissedoff and thats just the way it is.

-Pronouncing "VP" like "Veep." Is it really that hard to say the extra syllable, you lazy bastards?

-Overuse, or misguided deployment of, quotation marks. Case in point:

Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir discussed "Darfur" at a meeting in the Turkish largest city of Istanbul on Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.

Why is Darfur in quotes? Darfur is a real place. It's not the name of a movie or something. You don't have to quote it because it's not like someone said it. It is a geographic location. You're not going to get in trouble for plagarising an atlas.

- Guam Education Board.
- My high school admins.
- Guam.

I think you mean "Guam" Education Board.

-the Olympics and it's inherent lack of terrorism. i'm losing fifty bucks here, people
-Sydney Winter. it's giving me headfucks. i need some fucking sunshine before i go mad
-my housemate's refusal to get a maid, due to privacy issues. now i have to clean my own fucking room. adulthood used to have so much promise

Or maybe I should have put Guam "Education" Board.

Ugh. I'm so irritated.
You have no idea.

I agree especially with the part about Darfur. My senior english project was on Darfur, which was kind of weird because everyone else did something on a drought or rising house prices. My project was the only one that, in my opinion, made people think.

Also, "You're not going to get in trouble for plagarising an atlas." made me giggle. (:

I'm very upset about Darfur, but frankly, that's neither here nor there in the face of CARELESSLY DEPLOYED QUOTATION MARKS.

Also I like how they qualified their news service as "semi-official." What's the subtext there, I wonder?

I'm very upset about Darfur as well. And although it is 'too easy' to mock, Fall Out Boy has actually done a lot for Darfur through the organization Invisible Children. I actually found out about it all through them seeing as I have no television and do not read the paper.

I guess it means that it runs on private funds but strangely always trumpets on the side of the government.

Ugh. Yes. I was furious about this. Total bullshit. I don't understand why they would take the old rules that made sense and worked so well for so many years and suddenly change them this time around so they're completely absurd and moronic.

If two people tie, they tie...they both did their routine and were scored by the judges and arrived at the same score. Why resort to an illogical use of a mathematical tie-breaker? I don't think there should be a tie-breaker, period, but if there is one, it should be a tie-breaker in which they have to compete further to break the tie...not one in which they just keep throwing out judges' scores until they're not tied anymore.

Because of this ridiculous system, only three judges' scores counted, even though six judges scored each gymnast. Unbelievable. And the Chinese deserved to win why? Because when you get rid of the highest, the lowest and the second lowest scores, the Chinese gymnast had the higher average of the remaining scores? How does this make any sense? It is so arbitrary. I understand tossing the highest and lowest scores. But then tossing the second lowest as a tie-breaker? Why not the second-highest?

The Chinese gymnast had at least three deductible errors. Nastia had at most two, and they were less serious than that of the Chinese gymnast. This was obvious to everyone. So Nastia had a clearly superior performance and ended up in second because of a bullshit new rule that allows the winner to be determined by half of a panel that is already made up of incompetent judges from countries that (literally) have never produced an Olympic medalist.

And all that is completely aside from the fact that the chick who won can't be any older than 12.

American or Sudanese?

There's something for everyone on the internets
http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

I'm bored lets bitch about crap i don't like. That will make things entertaining.

It does, actually.

...except that there were two terrorist attacks within a week of the start of the games - one of them just two or three days before. So there goes that theory.

I still think Synnove is the sexiest Jew I have ever seen!

I need counsuling...

Im sick of my roommates. All of them.
Theyre a bunch of back-stabbing, lying, look-out-for-no-one-but-themselves, change the meaning to suit their purpose, selective hearing bitches.

I guess what I mean to say is I cannot stand women.

I can't stand whiny ass americans bitching about the olympics and how we're getting screwed...I think we are really showing our ass by not being able to lose with class...

Yeah, if your only excuse is that you got beaten by CHILDREN, then you should probably just go back to the locker room and shut the fuck up. Fuck the olympics. That shit would've been boycotted if China wasn't the emerging global economic leviathan.

Also, fuck all Republicans,
high school students,
my godawful job and cunt of a boss,
anybody dumb enough to think there's no difference between McCain and Obama,
and anybody who talks about patriotism or that waving the flag bullshit, but doesn't bother to research the brutal and oppressive history of this country.

Sigh. Why do people feel the need to say silly things?

You'll have to be more specific.

There is no lack of class in discussing the overwhelming flaws of the brand new scoring/judging system and how it cheated a deserving athlete out of a gold. It is not just Americans who disagree with it. The head of the International Gymnastics Federation even disagrees with it and went on record as doing so today...it was forced upon the sport by the IOC. It's not as if Americans are bitching about every competition we lose in every sport. This is one incident and the complaint is 100% legitimate.

...not to mention, these are still sports, and part of being a fan is being defensive of your team, even when it's irrational. So why should fans remain silent when there is an actual error with which to take issue? I'd really be more concerned if people didn't speak up when they felt a questionable call went the wrong way.

Blanket statements...I don't understand why people make them so frequently. They tend to make even the smartest people sound ignorant. Like...I know you're a smart dude...and if you disagree with Republicans, cool...but to say "fuck all Republicans" just sounds silly. A person's political affiliation, in my experience, does not tend to be the sum of his or her character.

It wasn't specifically directed at you, because I'm guilty of making such statements on occasion too. But I don't understand why people do. I just happened to say it in response to what you said because of the particular subject matter.

You're right (sorta) about those types of blanket statements. It is certainly not the most nuanced way of carrying on a conversation. Although they are a lot of fun to make, if only for the sheer provocation factor. And I'm not particularly concerned about whether or not I seem ignorant or silly. (Anyone who has read any of my posts would readily concede that. haha.) I guess I should've said: "Fuck the misguided and destructive political views of all republicans, even though I know that in many instances, there is still a worthwhile person behind the skewed, selfish worldview."

It's bad form!! We won silver in team, our girls went gold/silver in the all around, and due to an unfortunate deal from a tiebreak rule, instead of sharing gold, we got a silver...BOO FUCKING HOO!!!! Relatively speaking this has been a GREAT olympics for the US gymnasts, and no one will ever hear about it because we're going to obsess over how we were wronged, about how the chinese girls were too young, about how a fall is scored...You know what I thought was the classiest moment for the US?! When the men won Bronze! They were practically as excited as the Chinese were for winning gold! They did a hell of a good job, they were in best form they could possibly be, and were geeked as hell about third place...and I am sure no one will talk about ever again...

Lets be real though, all this pissing and moaning is about one thing, US vs. China, and how no matter what we do, we have to spin it so we come out on top...god forbid we just look at somebody and say, "You know what, you beat us, good job, and we'll see your ass in London..."

I've been real. I was thrilled for the men when they won the bronze. But I can't pretend the Chinese girl deserved the gold on the uneven bars. People will remember what the women did this year, just like they remember what the men did during the last Olympics, despite Korea's legitimate bitching which most people don't remember. I never considered them sore losers, and they actually filed a formal protest. Sometimes, this "pissing and moaning" or bitching or whatever you want to call it is part of sport and not the antithesis of it.

Under nearly any other circumstances I'd understand and probably agree with you, Angie. But I really think your gripe here is misplaced. And I'm not dismissing your point...I just disagree with it

That is fair enough Tom, I just do not like to see so much of this attitude. What ticked me off was this article I read today where some writer had devised a 'new' medal count, rulling out any golds from judged sports, and I just thought, "You have got to be shitting me, this is ridiculous..." And, as I am driving to work this morning, the fucking morning zoo-crew whatever the hell is bitching about the vault scores, you've got Bela fucking Karoli bitching about the ages, which has spread everywhere, with now the news talking about one of the girls lost a baby tooth, and I am just sick of it! I think it's in very VERY bad form, and it just smarts of horrible insecurity and arrogance. The Chinese are good, they are REALLY fucking good!! I don't understand why we can't be more thrilled at how good these girls did against them!! That little shit on the uneven bars is fucking unbelieveable...she doesn't deserve silver anymore than Luiken did, it's just a bad break...But really, we need to get over this, because we are truly going to come off as the biggest whiny asses at the games...we certainly are living up to every Stereotype of the typical ugly-american, way to go!

Um, yeah what Tom said. No one is bitching or just getting pissed off because the team or someone from here lost. It's because they were screwed out of it. The Chinese girl is lying about her age for one, then she fucked up her performance and was still a given a high score. Then Nastia Liukin goes and does a better performance, and they give her the same fucking score and let the computer do their jobs because they're incompetent. It's ridiculous, and they totally fucked her. No one has whined just because the Americans lost... they've lost many things and no one has complained. This is different. It's fucking stupid to tell other people you're not allowed to be irritated when you see someone get cheated out of a deserved medal or first place or whatever. It's not ugly American bullshit. The girl didn't even file a protest or complain publicly.

Meh, personally I think it's dumb to tell people they should't be mad when someone is legitimately cheated like that. But whatever.

Look, we're talking about China, the county which, at the last soccer match vs Japan (I think it was soccer--NPR, somewhen), booed whenever the opposing team made a goal. I'm not saying that losing gracefully isn't, or rather, shouldn't be, part of sports, it's just that I don't really feel bad for the Chinese.

Speaking of. They have factories of children, isolated from their parents for all but two days a year, doing nothing but training for their event. They're blatantly forging birth documents and taking advantage of their huge population to enter underage competitors into gymnastics. And while I can't really talk like an authority on the issue, what I saw of the Chinese men's parallel bars looked sloppier than their scores. I don't think this is an "ugly American" issue, at all. I congratulate the Chinese on their achievements this year, but I don't think people should pretend not to notice when East Germany enters obviously hormone-treated female swimmers, when China enters underage girls, or when any other country breaks the rules. That's more unsporting than any challenging of the validity of their medals could ever be.

However. Those snowboarders and boxers who've lost their medals for THC? Fuck that shit. If you can box high, you deserve another medal. And really, the snowboarders who DIDN'T test positive are just the ones who got around to buying a cleanser at the head shop.

Uh, did no one see this kind of cheating COMING when we decided to have the Olympics in China?

I don't think it's right, but like I said. We should have boycotted. Anyone who's surprised by this is being silly.

Not surprised. Just irritated by the reaction that it's and Ugly American thing, when it's really quite the opposite.

I feel compelled to say I'm not pissed off for Nastia just because she's from the USA or my future-wife. I don't like to see anyone at all to be screwed of their medals. I would react this way despite the country. In fact years ago in the late nineties I felt the same way for a girl from Ukraine.

Also, the judges in gymnastics in the Olympics are not all Chinese. It's the other countries who are inept and have never produced an Olympics contender for the sport (not just never won a medal as was previously suggested, some have never had an athlete qualify for the Olympics games at all.) Some people in that situation might not really care or know what they're doing... add that to the ridiculous tie-breaking system and new scoring they put in and the fact China is blatantly untrustworthy here with their sports, and I think any normal person should be mad. No matter what country.

i think it should have been boycotted, too. i was hoping one of those protesters was going to just steal the torch and throw it in an ocean.