"Temporary" Venting Thread - Page 29

Lief Erikson · 12-23-2005, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littleadanel

Now that can be really frustrating...

When I first read about it here, my first thought was 'what?' No such issue here (yet?

), thankfully. I mean, we too have an expression like "happy holidays", (literally "pleasant holidays") and yes, it can serve the purpose you use it for, but... again, thankfully, no artillery fire, no dutiful and awkward politeness, wondering if you hurt someone's feelings if you utter the word "Christmas"... It's a short greeting, and at least to me means both merry Christmas and happy New Year. And it really warms your heart when you hear it even from shop assistants.

Well, I'm glad that I have never yet offended anyone by saying "merry Christmas." I like both expressions, "happy holidays" and "merry Christmas." It's sad to think of the controversy on hearing them. I expect that I'll soon get over that, though, and just take the expressions again in holiday cheer

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Curubethion · 12-23-2005, 10:17 PM

NOOOOOOO!!! JOHNNY DAMON, WHY, WHY WHY????

Lotesse · 12-23-2005, 10:18 PM

What's your problem now?

Who's Johnny Damon, preciousss, eh?

Spock · 12-23-2005, 11:04 PM

No one important that's for sure. Is he a member of the MOOT? NO! Nuf said.

trolls' bane · 12-24-2005, 12:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spock

No one important that's for sure. Is he a member of the MOOT? NO! Nuf said.

Is he? Never heard of him. Is he a newbie?

I'll search the members list.

trolls' bane · 12-24-2005, 12:06 AM

Doesn't appear to be anyone by that name here. He a friend of yours?

Curubethion · 12-25-2005, 05:58 PM

It's a Red Sox thing...he signed with the YANKEES!!

Insidious Rex · 12-25-2005, 10:18 PM

And say goodbye to all that long hair and facial scruff once hes under Steinbrenner's control.

Mercutio · 12-26-2005, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

It's a Red Sox thing...he signed with the YANKEES!!

You're kidding! After the World Series last year?

the Yankees annoy me, along with all the super-rich sun-belt sports teams.

***Rían*** · 12-30-2005, 01:07 AM

Vent - über-sensitive/defensive people

wait - I'm one of them!

Lady Marion Magdalena · 12-30-2005, 04:02 PM

There are times when I think I have an anti-large gathering forcefield around me. I swear, whenever other people organize parties people come and it's happy and much fun.

Human Pi and I try to have a party and what happens?

Half our friends don't respond as to whether they can come or not, Tano goes to canada and Klatukatt has relatives to visit with.

*glowers unhappily*

trolls' bane · 12-30-2005, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Marion Magdalena

There are times when I think I have an anti-large gathering forcefield around me. I swear, whenever other people organize parties people come and it's happy and much fun.

Human Pi and I try to have a party and what happens?

Half our friends don't respond as to whether they can come or not, Tano goes to canada and Klatukatt has relatives to visit with.

*glowers unhappily*

Welcome to the club. If I had a party, it would be on the moot, because who else is around here that is interested in my kind of parties.
But of course, there's always Zeak (Long live His Imperial Majesty, Zeak, Lord of the Tortilla People Imperium!), Esteban ('nuf said

), and Alden (who was briefly a member who never posted named SkaterFrodo, perhaps with different spelling and type case) and Taylor.

Lady Marion Magdalena · 12-30-2005, 07:12 PM

Well it isn't as if our parties are drastically different from the type of parties that our friends throw, it's just we always have crazily bad luck with the timing. That and more limited communication.

***Earniel*** · 12-30-2005, 07:24 PM

That's why I don't throw parties, my friends have too bloody busy lives!

You should see the planning that goes into just trying to have a dinner together in town every month or two...

VENT: I DON'T want to become sick! Not now. Well, not ever, really, but just not now. Still need to finish book database...

Only have one more day. Fne!

***Earniel*** · 01-02-2006, 06:05 PM

What a way to start the new year.... Spending 5 hours of mopping and drying the carpet of the 200 liters of water that leaked out of the big aquarium in the living room... *moans*

I'm sore all over...

trolls' bane · 01-02-2006, 06:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eärniel

What a way to start the new year.... Spending 5 hours of mopping and drying the carpet of the 200 liters of water that leaked out of the big aquarium in the living room... *moans*

I'm sore all over...

What!? Is the aquarium new? How did it just start leaking?

(at aquarium)

***Earniel*** · 01-02-2006, 06:22 PM

The aquarium is old, older than me even, but one of the valves on the filter came lose and 3/4 of the bloody thing bled dry on the ground before we noticed.

trolls' bane · 01-02-2006, 06:25 PM

That's never fun... I love hardwood floors!

VENT: Can't find the custom title suggestion thread. It's NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! I can't even remember what forum it's in. When I did a board-wide search, nothing! Where is it?

EDIT: Never mind...It's "User Titles," not "Custom Titles."

Grey_Wolf · 01-03-2006, 05:40 AM

VENT: my sister who doesn't visit Sweden all that often (she lives with her family in Australia) has a thoroughly volatile temper and today when she was going to use our old (for the moment only) internetcapable computor to go check out something on the net, it all of sudden didn't work (it had worked perfectly yesterday) and she exploded and began yanking the mouse and keyboard-connections out of the computor and putting them in again several times in the mistaken notion that it would make it work.

Repeatedly I tried to tell that the comp had froze and needed only to be shut off and put on again (this being the emergency only option, not to be used otherwise) and carefully activated, letting it slowly open the entire system and then, with patience, letting the internet-connection activate itself and yet again,then, with patience let the computor load up the site she was interested (that is her emailsite) . But being her she wouldn't listen of course.

So now I'm home at my apartment in peace and quite for the duration of the day.

littleadanel · 01-03-2006, 06:24 AM

Oh. Computers going crazy. :/

My vent: my phone is going crazy. It says I have a message, but according to the service center I don't. I'm trying to figure out from the manual what else that little symbol could mean... not much success. Ack.

12-23-2005, 10:17 PM	#562
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	NOOOOOOO!!! JOHNNY DAMON, WHY, WHY WHY???? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-23-2005, 10:18 PM	#563
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	What's your problem now? Who's Johnny Damon, preciousss, eh? __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

12-23-2005, 11:04 PM	#564
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	No one important that's for sure. Is he a member of the MOOT? NO! Nuf said. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

12-24-2005, 12:06 AM	#566
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	Doesn't appear to be anyone by that name here. He a friend of yours? __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

12-25-2005, 05:58 PM	#567
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	It's a Red Sox thing...he signed with the YANKEES!! __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-25-2005, 10:18 PM	#568
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	And say goodbye to all that long hair and facial scruff once hes under Steinbrenner's control. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

12-30-2005, 01:07 AM	#570
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Vent - über-sensitive/defensive people wait - I'm one of them! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

12-30-2005, 04:02 PM	#571
Lady Marion Magdalena Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In a Field of Giant Daisies. Posts: 821	There are times when I think I have an anti-large gathering forcefield around me. I swear, whenever other people organize parties people come and it's happy and much fun. Human Pi and I try to have a party and what happens? Half our friends don't respond as to whether they can come or not, Tano goes to canada and Klatukatt has relatives to visit with. glowers unhappily __________________ "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; Leave me my name!" - The Crucible "nolite hippopotamum vexare!"

12-30-2005, 07:12 PM	#573
Lady Marion Magdalena Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: In a Field of Giant Daisies. Posts: 821	Well it isn't as if our parties are drastically different from the type of parties that our friends throw, it's just we always have crazily bad luck with the timing. That and more limited communication. __________________ "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; Leave me my name!" - The Crucible "nolite hippopotamum vexare!"

12-30-2005, 07:24 PM	#574
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	That's why I don't throw parties, my friends have too bloody busy lives! You should see the planning that goes into just trying to have a dinner together in town every month or two... VENT: I DON'T want to become sick! Not now. Well, not ever, really, but just not now. Still need to finish book database... Only have one more day. Fne! __________________ We are not things.

01-02-2006, 06:05 PM	#575
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	What a way to start the new year.... Spending 5 hours of mopping and drying the carpet of the 200 liters of water that leaked out of the big aquarium in the living room... moans I'm sore all over... __________________ We are not things.

01-02-2006, 06:22 PM	#577
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	The aquarium is old, older than me even, but one of the valves on the filter came lose and 3/4 of the bloody thing bled dry on the ground before we noticed. __________________ We are not things.

01-02-2006, 06:25 PM	#578
trolls' bane Entmoot Secretary of the Treasury Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Campsite-by-Giraffe Posts: 5,408	That's never fun... I love hardwood floors! VENT: Can't find the custom title suggestion thread. It's NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! I can't even remember what forum it's in. When I did a board-wide search, nothing! Where is it? EDIT: Never mind...It's "User Titles," not "Custom Titles." __________________ KI6PFA Amateur Radio Operator

01-03-2006, 05:40 AM	#579
Grey_Wolf Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mirkwood, well actually I live in North-west Scania, Sweden Posts: 9,481	VENT: my sister who doesn't visit Sweden all that often (she lives with her family in Australia) has a thoroughly volatile temper and today when she was going to use our old (for the moment only) internetcapable computor to go check out something on the net, it all of sudden didn't work (it had worked perfectly yesterday) and she exploded and began yanking the mouse and keyboard-connections out of the computor and putting them in again several times in the mistaken notion that it would make it work. Repeatedly I tried to tell that the comp had froze and needed only to be shut off and put on again (this being the emergency only option, not to be used otherwise) and carefully activated, letting it slowly open the entire system and then, with patience, letting the internet-connection activate itself and yet again,then, with patience let the computor load up the site she was interested (that is her emailsite) . But being her she wouldn't listen of course. So now I'm home at my apartment in peace and quite for the duration of the day. Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 01-03-2006 at 05:41 AM.

01-03-2006, 06:24 AM	#580
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	Oh. Computers going crazy. :/ My vent: my phone is going crazy. It says I have a message, but according to the service center I don't. I'm trying to figure out from the manual what else that little symbol could mean... not much success. Ack. __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days