"Temporary" Venting Thread - Page 31

littleadanel · 01-18-2006, 03:57 PM

*sends soothing thoughts towards Nerdanel and everybody with difficult parents*

minor vent: i wish this crazy time of grade-signing, meaning desperate search for teachers whose signing hours i've missed, were over.

littleadanel · 01-18-2006, 04:01 PM

I said UPDATE!

Hrr.

*sorry*

Lief Erikson · 01-19-2006, 11:42 AM

Vent: France.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4627862.stm

Arien the Maia · 01-19-2006, 01:59 PM

I HATE HATE HATE looking for jobs! I am NEVER gonna get out of the hole I've dug my self into

Spock · 01-19-2006, 02:09 PM

I can empathise with that.

Arien the Maia · 01-19-2006, 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spock

I can empathise with that.

at least I know that someone else out there is in the same boat

the best of luck to both of us eh?

Spock · 01-19-2006, 02:16 PM

Indeed!

Lief Erikson · 01-19-2006, 05:31 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4627862.stm

Seriously, this is mad. It is also heinous. It smudges the face of all the West and lends justification to those who call us terrorists. It would be an atrocity beyond belief if France followed through on these words. Such comments belong more in the mouth of an extremist Islamic fundamentalist than in the mouth of a president of a civilized Western country.

brownjenkins · 01-19-2006, 05:55 PM

the U.S. has said that they would not be afraid to use nuclear weapons in certain situtations... as has israel... it is unfortunate, but nothing new

Menelvagor · 01-19-2006, 06:19 PM

Someone just stole my bike. <insert many words I'm not supposed to say on Entmoot> Before I left for the holidays someone stole the front wheel off of it. In the middle of finals. I could have dealt with that, fortunately I hadn't yet gotten around to buying a new one. Then, my boyfriend's bike was stolen while we were gone. That was really bad. He just got that replaced yesterday. And today, I walk home from class, and someone has stolen what was left of my bike. Grrrr! Now I have to spend money on a new bike, and it seems like some chronic bike thief has picked our apartment complex (another bike here is missing wheels as of today, too) to stock up from, so there's a pretty good chance that the bike I buy will have to be replaced again in another six months. GRRRRR!

Mercutio · 01-19-2006, 07:08 PM

scheduling

Lief Erikson · 01-19-2006, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brownjenkins

the U.S. has said that they would not be afraid to use nuclear weapons in certain situtations... as has israel... it is unfortunate, but nothing new

In certain situations. This is not yet World War 3. If France dropped nuclear bombs on Iranian or Syrian cities, it would be wiping out tens of thousands of innocents. We're not talking about a situation where millions of lives on both sides might be saved by dropping the bombs, like we were in World War 2. Neither would France be doing this as a last resort or because it is necessary. This French declaration is doubtless intended to serve as a deterrent.

We probably would deter a lot of people in the US from murder if we tortured to death everyone who commits a murder, along with every member of that murderer's family. But we would be fiends to use this as a deterrent punishment. Deterrents can go way too far, and this French one goes way, way, way too far. I find it horrifying that France dares to voice threats of unspeakably barbaric butchery in this international community.

***Rían*** · 01-19-2006, 09:33 PM

ugh - time to hop in the car again and pick up son #1 at soccer and son #2 at a friend's house.

At least I have my nice iPod with the wonderful car adapter now

but I'm tired - I better play something lively!

The last sane person · 01-19-2006, 10:27 PM

Bleh, workshifts suck. And I had to quit to keep up with school, but that is alright, I dont mind much, more time to myself. Docs say (hate going to the doctors. Or at least mine) I gotta leave off the stress factors a bit. Its really been messing with me.

brownjenkins · 01-20-2006, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

Deterrents can go way too far, and this French one goes way, way, way too far. I find it horrifying that France dares to voice threats of unspeakably barbaric butchery in this international community.

maybe you are reading too much into his comments because of general feelings you have about the french

Spock · 01-20-2006, 12:11 PM

nah, the French are........................French, they make great food but little else.

littleadanel · 01-20-2006, 04:03 PM

Oh my. Earlier this day I was floating happily, but now I'm sad and confused. My best friend at uni wrote a very upsetting message to me - I felt I had to call her. And I was right, she was crying - what I could get out of her was that her dad had their dog shot (!!

), and when I asked why - was the dog ill? was he attacking people? but then why not just have a vet put him to sleep? - she said no all to that. Seems the dog has escaped. And that's all; no attacks. But then why? NO other alternatives AT ALL?

My friend is really very depressed and frustrated now; something I can understand.

She is at home (she doesn't live in my town, we're together only at uni) and we have an exam due on Monday; I persuaded her to come here on Sunday to share a talk in the afternoon. Maybe I can help her get out of this.

brownjenkins · 01-20-2006, 04:21 PM

that's so sad... best wishes to you with your friend littleadanel

Lief Erikson · 01-20-2006, 04:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brownjenkins

maybe you are reading too much into his comments because of general feelings you have about the french

I would be just as shocked if the Bush Administration said it would respond to terrorist conventional bombs with US nuclear bombs. Or if it said it might respond to them with nuclear bombs.

Spock · 01-20-2006, 04:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lief Erikson

I would be just as shocked if the Bush Administration said it would respond to terrorist conventional bombs with US nuclear bombs. Or if it said it might respond to them with nuclear bombs.

starts humming

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when
But I'm sure we'll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through, just the way you used to do
Till the blue skies chase the dark clouds far away

01-18-2006, 03:57 PM	#601
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	sends soothing thoughts towards Nerdanel and everybody with difficult parents minor vent: i wish this crazy time of grade-signing, meaning desperate search for teachers whose signing hours i've missed, were over. __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

01-18-2006, 04:01 PM	#602
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	I said UPDATE! Hrr. sorry __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

01-19-2006, 11:42 AM	#603
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	Vent: France. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4627862.stm __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do."

01-19-2006, 02:09 PM	#605
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	I can empathise with that. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

01-19-2006, 05:31 PM	#608
Lief Erikson Elf Lord Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Fountain Valley, CA Posts: 6,343	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4627862.stm Seriously, this is mad. It is also heinous. It smudges the face of all the West and lends justification to those who call us terrorists. It would be an atrocity beyond belief if France followed through on these words. Such comments belong more in the mouth of an extremist Islamic fundamentalist than in the mouth of a president of a civilized Western country. __________________ If the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. ~Oscar Wilde, written from prison Oscar Wilde's last words: "Either the wallpaper goes, or I do." Last edited by Lief Erikson : 01-19-2006 at 05:35 PM.

01-19-2006, 01:59 PM	#604
Arien the Maia Fëanáro's Fire Mistress Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Indiana, USA Posts: 1,423	I HATE HATE HATE looking for jobs! I am NEVER gonna get out of the hole I've dug my self into

01-19-2006, 02:16 PM	#607
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	Indeed!

01-19-2006, 05:55 PM	#609
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	the U.S. has said that they would not be afraid to use nuclear weapons in certain situtations... as has israel... it is unfortunate, but nothing new __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

01-19-2006, 06:19 PM	#610
Menelvagor Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: lurking on the edge of conversations Posts: 924	Someone just stole my bike. <insert many words I'm not supposed to say on Entmoot> Before I left for the holidays someone stole the front wheel off of it. In the middle of finals. I could have dealt with that, fortunately I hadn't yet gotten around to buying a new one. Then, my boyfriend's bike was stolen while we were gone. That was really bad. He just got that replaced yesterday. And today, I walk home from class, and someone has stolen what was left of my bike. Grrrr! Now I have to spend money on a new bike, and it seems like some chronic bike thief has picked our apartment complex (another bike here is missing wheels as of today, too) to stock up from, so there's a pretty good chance that the bike I buy will have to be replaced again in another six months. GRRRRR!

01-19-2006, 07:08 PM	#611
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	scheduling __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

01-19-2006, 09:33 PM	#613
*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	ugh - time to hop in the car again and pick up son #1 at soccer and son #2 at a friend's house. At least I have my nice iPod with the wonderful car adapter now but I'm tired - I better play something lively! __________________ . 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!

01-19-2006, 10:27 PM	#614
The last sane person The Black Númenórean Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 6,773	Bleh, workshifts suck. And I had to quit to keep up with school, but that is alright, I dont mind much, more time to myself. Docs say (hate going to the doctors. Or at least mine) I gotta leave off the stress factors a bit. Its really been messing with me. __________________ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

01-20-2006, 12:11 PM	#616
Spock An enigma in a conundrum Join Date: Oct 1999 Posts: 6,476	nah, the French are........................French, they make great food but little else. __________________ Vizzini: "HE DIDN'T FALL?! INCONCEIVABLE!!" Inigo: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

01-20-2006, 04:03 PM	#617
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	Oh my. Earlier this day I was floating happily, but now I'm sad and confused. My best friend at uni wrote a very upsetting message to me - I felt I had to call her. And I was right, she was crying - what I could get out of her was that her dad had their dog shot (!! ), and when I asked why - was the dog ill? was he attacking people? but then why not just have a vet put him to sleep? - she said no all to that. Seems the dog has escaped. And that's all; no attacks. But then why? NO other alternatives AT ALL? My friend is really very depressed and frustrated now; something I can understand. She is at home (she doesn't live in my town, we're together only at uni) and we have an exam due on Monday; I persuaded her to come here on Sunday to share a talk in the afternoon. Maybe I can help her get out of this. __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

01-20-2006, 04:21 PM	#618
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	that's so sad... best wishes to you with your friend littleadanel __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.