What's wrong with the world today?

[Mhurron]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

the woman went *apeshit* because the rounders were a little 'too close' and BAAAAAAWWWW

That might piss me off too if I knew what you were talking about.

[Telera]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

The rounders the clothing hang on. She thought they were too close together for her to move, even though the 5 other people in the store were just fine. As well as everyone else who's been in the store *all fucking year.* She decided to bitch and bitch and then finally explode.

Made Carol cry. Made our customers uncomfortable and not really wanting to shop. Made me want to kill her.

Are we clear now?

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

@YellowMage: ?

The fading of religion in life...
The replacement of religion with crap... (i.e. TV/Video Games/DVDs?/CDs/Movies/Drugs/etc...)

[Akashimo]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Ouchies >.<
People working directly with customers have the hardest job ever. Resisting to hit or phyically/verbally harm the idiots/rude ones.

[Telera]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Ouchies >.<
People working directly with customers have the hardest job ever. Resisting to hit or phyically/verbally harm the idiots/rude ones.

I vent my anger in my writing, usually. Just channel my frustration into my work and get a chapter done, or just one scene, or something like that. Games sometimes help, if I find something really difficult to just wail on for a while. Music is usually best, though. A good song and some good long writing does wonders for me.

Though... there was no salvaging my holiday spirit this year. I haven't felt excited about it once. Which kinda makes me sad, but after 5 years in retail, I guess that's what happens.

[Feba]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

The fading of religion in life...
The replacement of religion with crap... (i.e. TV/Video Games/Music/Movies/Drugs/etc...)

I'd rather live in a country full of pot heads than one full of fundies.
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also, telera, clientcopia. google it.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

https://www.clientcopia.com

LMAO!!!

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

:-( People suck. My mom does too, sometimes. Here I am, on vacation, and she keeps calling the house.

First calls my cell phone. Says something intelligable. I go back to sleep. Then calls the house. No one picks up. I was dead asleep, so it didn't bother me. Calls my cell phone again.

"Sweetie, can you see if your dad is downstairs, he's not picking up."

AHHH!!! Mom! I'm on holiday, damnit!

So now I was awake and downstairs standing there as my mom is talking on the phone with my dad discussing whether she should bring a whole pizza pie home or just pay for slices.

-_-

Also, we need wi-fi operated appliances, or just appliances that connect to the internet and can be monitored/adjusted. That way, we wouldn't have to drive home from the airport to check to see if my mom left the stove on..
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http://www.wiredhome-weblog.com/50226711/outrageous_refrigerated_internet_oven.php

Found it. Kinda. You put your food in it during the day, and it refrigerates it and such over the course of the day. Then when you're close to home, you can call it or access it from the internet and turn it on to start cooking the food.

I like my idea better. GE better be working on it, damnit.

[Mhurron]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Also, we need wi-fi operated appliances, or just appliances that connect to the internet and can be monitored/adjusted. That way, we wouldn't have to drive home from the airport to check to see if my mom left the stove on..

IPv6 would have to come first.

[Feba]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

IPv6 would have to come first.

This is why they created routers.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

If the worst problems of your world consist of having to answer the phone to help you mom decide whether to buy a whole pizza or just slices, then you should probably live a little longer before posting on this thread. IMHO...

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Obviously it wasn't a big deal Evion, but I dramatized it up.

One of my concerns is why a rapper like Lupe Fiasco isn't as influential as a rapper like Lil Wayne. Both are talented, both rap about different things. But that's a side rant.

[Evion]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Its probably because Lil' Wayne has been featured in Multiple #1 hits and Lupe? whoever hasn't...

[WishMaster3K]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Listen to the lyrical content of Lupe and compare it to Lil Wayne. Then you'll understand why I said what I did.

Or it could just be that Lupe goes over everyone's head.

GDI Evion, your Avatar still distracts me.

[Yellow Mage]

Re: What's wrong with the world today?

Comic books and rap music!

FTFY.

God I love the pythons have all the DVD's, met Micheal Palin and Neil innes (the idiot song on hollywood bowl and also co-rote a few songs) and another thing they were british! i still stand by my argument that we gave the best comedy shows and comedians during 1960-2000 period (then it went down hill)

Meh, pretty much everything went downhill come turn of the millenium (sp?).

Now for something completely different.

Let's see, what to rant about . . . China? No, Malacite pretty much covered that . . . cars? No, I think I would be a minority in my opinion of them (maybe I'll save them for later) . . .

Ah, I know! Pride. That's going to be my main peeve of this post.

So, yeah, what's with people and their pride nowadays? It never leads anywhere except dillusion and conflict. Yet, why does society look upon it as a virtue? Just because rampant gluttony was socially acceptable in in the Greco-Roman times (vomitoriums, et al), doesn't make it any more right. And I have the same to say with pride in society today.

(And before anybody pulls any bull about "the sin is different!" I want somebody to grab a Webster's Dictionary and show where there are two clearly distinct and different meanings of the word. Otherwise, shut up.)

Nationalism has to be the worst of it all, as well. It's how a select few justify the mass killing of the peoples of which they are supposed to be protecting, all throughout history. (Though, as a vice, I find it kind of ironic that, even with all that, Human population is just way too dang large, but, I digress, and world population is a rant for another time.)

Why are people "proud" to be a part of a concept that's just entirely made-up, anyways? I'd blame the Old World European school of thought, what with the "conquering" of lands, justification of crimes against humanity through racial myths (two times off the top of my head: the enslavement of the Africans, et al, and the Holocaust), and so on, but there was obviously at least one European mind that thought differently, and that mind, as silly as it may sound, was King Arthur of England. Fact or myth, the point still stands, and let me pull out a story which emphasizes my point:

Arthur was taught about life by Merlin, usually by changing Arthur in to different animals, or so the story goes. The final lesson involved Arthur becoming a hawk, flying up in to the sky, and reporting what he saw. After flying around for a while, looking as hard as he could, he just couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. When he said "he saw nothing," Merlin left Arthur to make it in England by himself.

Fast forward to after he became the King of England. He and his knights (not just yet of the Round Table) were at war, and Arthur was questioning the concept of "Might is Right," as in, to the stronger side recieves what land they were fighting for, to expand their boundaries, et cetera. This is where Arthur recalled that last lesson with Merlin, and how he saw "nothing." It dawned on him then: that was exactly what he was supposed to see. The wars they were fighting: all for some land that ultimately wasn't even "theirs" anyway? So why bother fighting at all? Of course, after conversing with Guiniviere about it, he decides that the end justifying the means, or "Might is Right" isn't what he'll fight for, but he'll be then dedicated to the cause of "Might for Right," and from then on put his power to good use to help create a better world for all of mankind, instead of just for Britain. To assist him in this cause, he decided to create an order of knights, and to symbolize the egalitarian cause, he wanted a table which had no head, to show that they were ultimately all peers and equals. Thus began the Knights of the Round Table, as best as I recall.

Unfortunately, we are living, nay, trapped in a nationalistic fallacy that we are so deeply in to, that if we were a boot shoved in to someone's butt, that someone could easily taste leather. What reason has humanity to be "proud," even by its own twisted double-standards? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Neit. Zero. Diddly. Jack. X minus X. One over infinity. Actually, better make that last one "zero" over infinity, just in case.

Every time someone mentions the term "pride," especially on a nationalistic scale, I just get so peeved. But, I'll end my rant here. This one's dedicated to 2.