Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

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Shot From Guns said:
I enjoy playing with language. This includes saying "sammich." You are entitled to think I'm a retard; I, in turn, will think you're boring and pendatic. Everybody wins!
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Pedantic. And you soooo shouldn't be throwing stones about pedantry anyway. ;)
 
Cat Whisperer said:
My oversensitive smoke alarm also seems to have a setting for, "Someone took a shower! Alert! Alert!"
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In my first residence at university, the smoke detector was in the kitchen, almost exactly over the stove. Boiling water was enough to set it off. :rolleyes:

We took to wrapping a dish towel around it and holding it in place with an elastic. The people running the residence really bitched about it if they caught you doing that, but boiling water still stood a good chance of setting off that smoke detector. Plus, there were another five smoke detectors in our unit that we didn't mess with at all.
 
woodstockbirdybird said:
That's not playing with language unless you originated the term; it's just copying some other retard's invention. Saying "sammich" hardly makes you James Joyce. But if finding "sammich" infantile is your idea of boring, have fun staring at shiny objects for amusement, I guess.
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"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned: 'WHAR'S MAH FUCKIN' SAMMICH?'"
 
Yeah, Jeebus, I went to UT Austin. (Hook 'em!) I musta graduated with the equivalent of the population of a mid-sized city. Still, nice idea for a smaller school.
 
woodstockbirdybird said:
Is it really contracting a word? I could see "san'ich" as a contraction, but AFAICT there's not a single "m" in the word, so there's a substitution, which is what makes it sound so infantile - it's the kind of word a child would use when they couldn't pronounce the real word properly.
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I suppose you never say "won't," then, since it's not "willn't"? Words shift constantly to make them easier to pronounce. (E.g., in English, the way the prefix in- has in many cases become im-.) If that kind of thing bothers you, promise me you'll never study Sanskrit--sandhi would drive you insane.

Sorry it hurts your pussy so much that I think it sounds utterly retarded, though.
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Couldn't care less what you think of it--all it influences is my opinion of you. But bless your heart for thinking well enough of yourself to assume I care. That kind of self-confidence is sure to benefit you.
 
Shot From Guns said:
Well, at this rate, her kids probably won't make it to reproductive maturity, anyway, so with any luck the gene pool will self-police.
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My husband agrees with you on this!


Projammer said:
There's a quote I find myself using far too often.

You can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
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Yes - her response has been to ignore the email entirely. The situation is rather frustrating as this is not a random wacko on a message board, but a family member. The crazy is rather new (or I am just now learning of the depth of the crazy.)
 
Wile E said:
Why does someone throw their life away by gunning down police officers when whatever crime they committed isn't likely to have earned them the death penalty? Now they'll be lucky to even get taken into custody alive. Stupid!
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Suicide by cop?
 
mhendo said:
I've always wondered about this, because i've been in quite a few cities where the regular rules of parking and road use seem to be waived for churches and other religious properties.

Anyone who has tried to get parking in San Francisco knows what a nightmare it can be, and yet on a few occasions when my wife and i have been in the city (we visit regularly) i've seen churchgoers parked in the middle lane of the road (the turning lane). My wife, who is from SF, says it's quite common practice. I'm not sure if there's a city ordinance allowing them to park there during services, or if the authorities simply turn a blind eye because they're going to church.

Similarly, in New York a few weeks ago, i noticed that most churches and synagogues in Manhattan have large swaths of "no parking" area out the front, on streets where parking is allowed everywhere else. I don't think we should make these sorts of exceptions to our civic codes for religious institutions.
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Oh, god, that drives me up a fucking wall. There's a church on a major road here in town (Devine, if anybody cares, and yes, Shandon Methodist, I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU. Sue my ass.) that's no parking on either side. Four lane road. On Sunday mornings, the goddamned Methodists are allowed to park all down that road, totally legally, which is a great shock when the godless are trying to get somewhere, I assure you. Because suddenly there's a parked car in your lane where no parked car should ever reasonably be.

The Catholic church down the street on the other side gave up some of its lawn so there could be street parking but not in everybody's way. The Methodist have even more lawn but they don't give a shit. Maybe one day God will bring out the lightening bolts and fry that fucking church.
 
overlyverbose said:
Aaaaand it's official. Instead of happily announcing her pregnancy, my sister has to take plan B over the weekend to flush her uterus of the empty gestational sac. And as a side bonus, it's supposed to hurt. And they don't want to visit this weekend because seeing my children, particularly my seven-month old, would be too painful for them, which I totally understand. I wish there were something I could do. I talked to her yesterday and her husband - she's resigned, but he's doing pretty badly. They're planning on trying again when she's got her cycle back. I hope to hell things work out for them. I know the odds are in their favor, but nothing for them has been easy.
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:( I'm so sorry. Thanks for being a good and supportive sis.
 
Shot From Guns said:
I enjoy playing with language. This includes saying "sammich." You are entitled to think I'm a retard; I, in turn, will think you're boring and pendatic. Everybody wins!
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That's not playing with language unless you originated the term; it's just copying some other retard's invention. Saying "sammich" hardly makes you James Joyce. But if finding "sammich" infantile is your idea of boring, have fun staring at shiny objects for amusement, I guess.
 
niblet_head said:
I am so tired. Please, God, just let me make it through tomorrow and then I'm off for a week.
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I hear you. My manager walked out on her job last week, one of my coworkers had vacation this week, and my typists have all apparently checked out mentally too. I was hoping this week would go by quickly because of the three-day weekend, but I was already desperate for the week to end yesterday.
 
Ferret Herder said:
I'm hoping that your responses included the last three sentences of this paragraph. :mad: Well, I guess the second sentence is optional.
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It sorta did - in a more diplomatic manner, of course.

And Shot From Guns, I considered the comment about the sex toy. The ostomy bag idea is inspired, though. I could've threatened to toss the contents at them.
 
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