Rant Thread

[cowmuflage]

My cats don't like me when I'm drunk D: Why? I still love them. :S *stumbles away*

[GormanGhaste]

When people drink, alcohol ends up in their breath and sweat. Cats probably just don't like the smell.

[Senna-Umbreon]

Ffffff.... Why must my mouth STILL hurt so much from that dentist's appointment on Tuesday?! It's so annoying... It's hard to TALK because it hurts so much to do so. (Which is beyond annoying, since I am a bit of a chatterbox sometimes. I've figured out that the longer I keep quiet, the less pain I have to deal with.. But it's HARD to not talk for so long!) And don't even get me STARTED on eating. I can hardly eat ANYTHING right now. Only thing I can "easily" eat is like, mac n' cheese and instant noodles. And those I can only eat so much of and I can only eat it REALLY slowly.

THIS. SUCKS.

[starkittens]

the stupid idiot people....

[Bonita]

Told my parents I needed stamps to mail something to my college so they would have it by Monday and I could finally register for classes (delayed because the power outage we had somehow magically made them lose all of my records -_-). I even wrote them bot reminders and put them in their chairs and on their bedroom door so they wouldn't forget to leave the stamps out for me when they left for work. I come downstairs to see one of them put my stuff in an envelope, put the information on the envelope, but didnt leave me stamps to mail it. Apparently my mother took them with her to work and the mail mans already come and gone.
Ugh I wish my parents would start listening to me.

[Miacoda]

I really really really hate long car rides. -_- WTB the Tides of War book.

[Crotalus Horridus]

Why don't most people believe that Lazarus Taxons and Paleogene Dinosaurs exist/existed? People should be at least open to the idea that somewhere in a deep, dark corner of Earth, a Dinosaur may have lived the KT Event and had adapted to the major changes of Earth. I'm not saying BELIEVE IN THE MOKELE MBEMBE, BELIEVE!!!!!11!1!!!, I just want people to be open to the idea that a species of dinosaur may have existed and if we find it, could be a major change in our understanding of a huge chunk in history and science.
But the Dinosaurian Dynasty never really ended. Dinosaurs that survived the KT Event would have probably evolved into the Terror Birds, which are sadly extinct. So, we can probably leave it at that. The End of the Dinosaurian Dynasty truely ended when the last Terror Bird died.

Well, really, the Terror Birds never died out. There is in fact, one left. It's Seriema. It doesn't look very frighting, but it is indeed a Terror Bird.

So, in conclusion, people don't believe Dinosaurs exist anymore even though some of them probably lived the KT Event.

Oh, and sorry for that little off topic run on about Dinosawrs.

[Samskeyti]

I like your reptilian stories Crotalus. You should start a thread where you post them, or a blog, if you don't have one yet. I'd like to learn more.

Hmm rant... I don't have one at the moment... apart from the fact that time goes by too quickly, I can't paint mammals and I wish we'll get a bit of summer here in Europe, not just a couple of days of sun inbetween weeks of rain...

[Snowy]

We're going on a mini-holiday tomorrow just to a small Pinewood Lodge or something. Basically a cheaper, few day holiday to somewhere not too far away in the UK. I don't know much about it, accept that my sister's friend is coming along, which will keep her busy. That means me and my mum will get a lot of time together, which is good because I'm about to go off to university starting in September and from then on I'll not be properly living with my mum again. I've already decided that this holiday though is the best time for me to tell my mum about me and my boyfriend's engagement. We're not engaged yet, but it's planned, I actually found out by accident but I don't know when he'll ask me, only that it's this summer sometime.

But let's get to the main point - my mum has never been completely fond of my boyfriend. I have no idea why, though. He's charming and lovely and it's obvious to her how much he loves me and how much I love him, yet she's told me to my face before that she doesn't like him. Sure, he's got a bit of a different dress sense and he's no George Clooney, but to me he's perfect and I can't understand why my mum can't just accept that. This really upsets me and, till now, has prevented me from mentioning our engagement to her at all. So far I've been too scared to tell her because I don't know what she'll say. I still am scared, but I want her to know before it actually happens. I don't want her to find out via text or over a phone call or when I change my Facebook relationship status. I want her to find out from me, but... What if she's not okay with it? What do I do? I know that it's my relationship, not hers, and normally I have never gone to seek anyone else's approval about my relationship, but she's my mother and I've lived with her and bonded with her for the last 20 years of my life. I *want* her to approve. I want her to be happy for me, but she's never seemed interested in our relationship. Heck, he is always buying my family Christmas presents but she has never done anything for him. It upsets me, it really does, and I have talked to her about this multiple times but she never listens or understands. I don't know what to do, but somehow I need to tell her about this. I need to tell her it's my decision and not hers. Why can't she be happy for me and realise that this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with?

TL;DR - I somehow need to tell my mum that me and my boyfriend are getting engaged but she's not too fond of him. Wtf do I do.

[Wain]

We're going on a mini-holiday tomorrow just to a small Pinewood Lodge or something. Basically a cheaper, few day holiday to somewhere not too far away in the UK. I don't know much about it, accept that my sister's friend is coming along, which will keep her busy. That means me and my mum will get a lot of time together, which is good because I'm about to go off to university starting in September and from then on I'll not be properly living with my mum again. I've already decided that this holiday though is the best time for me to tell my mum about me and my boyfriend's engagement. We're not engaged yet, but it's planned, I actually found out by accident but I don't know when he'll ask me, only that it's this summer sometime.
But let's get to the main point - my mum has never been completely fond of my boyfriend. I have no idea why, though. He's charming and lovely and it's obvious to her how much he loves me and how much I love him, yet she's told me to my face before that she doesn't like him. Sure, he's got a bit of a different dress sense and he's no George Clooney, but to me he's perfect and I can't understand why my mum can't just accept that. This really upsets me and, till now, has prevented me from mentioning our engagement to her at all. So far I've been too scared to tell her because I don't know what she'll say. I still am scared, but I want her to know before it actually happens. I don't want her to find out via text or over a phone call or when I change my Facebook relationship status. I want her to find out from me, but... What if she's not okay with it? What do I do? I know that it's my relationship, not hers, and normally I have never gone to seek anyone else's approval about my relationship, but she's my mother and I've lived with her and bonded with her for the last 20 years of my life. I *want* her to approve. I want her to be happy for me, but she's never seemed interested in our relationship. Heck, he is always buying my family Christmas presents but she has never done anything for him. It upsets me, it really does, and I have talked to her about this multiple times but she never listens or understands. I don't know what to do, but somehow I need to tell her about this. I need to tell her it's my decision and not hers. Why can't she be happy for me and realise that this is the man I want to spend the rest of my life with?
TL;DR - I somehow need to tell my mum that me and my boyfriend are getting engaged but she's not too fond of him. Wtf do I do.

I think one of the first times it really hits home that we're adults is when we find our parents acting more childishly than ourselves.

Personally, I think you're just going to have to tell her plainly. And if she does react badly then you'll have to find the strength to steel yourself, as would a parent dealing with a child, and be firm with the truth: If she loves you then she's going to have to be happy that you're happy and she has to deal with her own petty issues. And she has a choice of keeping her resentment bottled up for the rest of her life or giving him a chance and maybe finding he's not so bad, since you love him and he's not going away. Maybe she'll snap out of it.

Unless she has a concrete reason for disliking him then it's horrible it's come to that. She *should* just be happy that you're happy and have someone to love, and who loves you.

[Snowy]

I know that in the end, all I can do is tell her and brace myself for the worst. She doesn't *hate* him. She just sometimes tells me I could 'do better' or that she 'doesn't like him'. And it hurts me each time she does, because he's been nothing but kind to her. Frankly, all she's being is selfish. But there's nothing I can do about that. I just have to hope she doesn't react badly and learns to be happy for me. She trusts him and all, I mean, she's always letting us stay in her house by ourselves. Sometimes he'll come over and stay a whole week while she's elsewhere. She doesn't mind him being over or anything, which is weird. It's just when it comes to actual relationship talk she starts acting so selfish about it and just seems to ignore the fact that I'm happy.

Since I'm only 20 years old and heading into a no doubt busy life in university, it does seem odd to get engaged now of all times, and to some I might seem a bit young. But I've had my share of relationships and I've never been this sure, it's just... that feeling, you know? We've been in a relationship for two and a half years now and have known each other much longer. In fact, we met on WoW, and I refused to be in a long distance relationship while I lived in Belgium and he lived in Scotland. But then I moved to the north-east UK and things didn't seem so bad. Anyway, I'm not going to go all soppy and stuff. We don't actually plan on getting married for some time, that hasn't even been thought about properly. It'll only happen when I'm out of university and we can both afford it, so it won't be for at least four to five years. I am worried that's what my mum will think as well when I tell her what's going on, she'll think that I'm far too young. When I bring it up, there will be a huge discussion, no doubt about it. I just hope it's more of a positive one than a negative one. But she's my mum, there's almost never a point in any daughter's life where their mother is 100% happy with their relationship.

[Samskeyti]

I can completely understand you. My whole family doesn't approve of my current boyfriend. He doesn't have a job, we live in different countries, he isn't doing anything with his life... They really don't like him, even though they've met him and he's the sweetest guy. But it's coming between our relationship. I agree with them and I tried my best but... I don't know... it's hard.

I hope you have a positive talk with your mum

[Snowy]

That as well, Sam! My current boyfriend wants to be an accountant and he'll be doing one year of uni for that while I'll be doing four for my Computer Games Art course. But, for some bizarre reason, my mum thinks his future career isn't 'good enough' and thinks that if we stay together and live together we'll be scraping through our rent or some silly shit. o____O Does she have any idea of how much money an accountant can make?! Not only that but I'll end up in one of the current biggest industries if this course goes well, so then we'll both have fantastic jobs.

Urg. Wtf mum. Even my dad, who I don't even live with, seems totally cool about my boyfriend. He doesn't see him much but when he does, they're like pals. I think it might also be down to the fact that he's really into gaming though. He plays a lot of WoW like me, but he's also into loads of other consoles and games, so he spends a lot of time playing games. And apparently playing games = no life.

[cowmuflage]

Ugh I got Skyrim a few days back in our insurance (I was meant to get Super smash bros but JBHi-Fi did not have it so I got Skyrim and No more heroes 2 instead.

So okay back to the rant. In Skyrim I seem to have this urge to kill every animal I come across and the only things lucky enough to get away are the bunnies and foxes mostly. I must be making Wolves go extinct in SKyrim!

[Lupis]

Huifhauifhae insomnia you suck.

[Miacoda]

My mom does not understand the concept of copyrighted artwork. Just because "things weren't like that back in the day" doesn't mean it's okay to take pictures of modern day art and post it on Facebook when specifically told not to. It's called respecting the artists wishes, ffs.

[Chimera]

i just wish all this crap to go away. But wishes never really come true for me, least, they have yet to.

*lies head down on desk and sighs*

[Bulletdance]

I was called a unicorn today... I laugh get insulted and then laugh again. To be honest I'm not sure quite how to take that one. I mean...wtf...

[Azunara]

SDAFDSHGFKRYFHJHRSHTDGJETD AUGH

MY SOUL SILVER GAME FROZE

I HADN'T SAVED FOR HOURS

SO MUCH TIME WASTED

ASFDGDSXHTGJFT

[Snowy]

Well I told my mum about us getting engaged. She wasn't happy. Nothing I can do, though.

Also, fuck you Blizzard for releasing MoP exactly a day after my university begins. Right as I have no spare time and no spare money. Fuck yoooooooooooooou.