Post here if you want to be a brat

[Kage]

Re: Driving stuff

 

Truth be told, I hate everyone on the road that isn't me.

 

Also, please. It fucking rains every year. Stop acting as if it's once in a lifetime.

[Ritual]

I uh, don't get annoyed at things all too easy, I guess one thing that gets to me if I had to choose would be slow people, if you're elderly or whatever I don't care, but if you're in your teens or a young adult moving in a group walking down a busy sidewalk slowly then you just stop dead for no other reason besides your phones or to talk WTH!?  Why!? Move! It's worse if you have a bus to catch or you're meeting someone, it doesn't sound like much but that gets to me.

[Ritual]

If my cat could rant she'd probably say how much she hates me for getting a laser pointer at Christmas, best thing ever watching your cat fly across the room after the mysterious red dot.

[Gegenji]

Don't even get me started when the weather gets bad. Yes, I get it, the weather is bad so we need to slow down and be more careful. Slowing down and being more careful does not mean doing 30 on the highway, its only a drizzle.

 

I am in the process of creating a mathematical proof on the relation on the correlation between how heavy the rainfall is and how fast people will drive.

 

Okay, not really, but this seems to be a thing. Light drizzle? 30mph. Torrential downfall? 80.

 

Seriously, I was an idiot and ventured through a vicious rainstorm to get to my college classes once. Rain coming down in sheets and kicking up a mist that made it horrendously difficult to see the car in front of you, let alone anything beyond that. I'm going 10-15 miles below the speed limit due to that and have my wipers going full tilt.

 

Some dude BLOWS past me going 80-90, I swear to God.

 

Meanwhile, late last year, there was a light misting of rain and the beltway backed up like an overused toilet. It boggles the mind.

 

Also, why do people insist on not TURNING THEIR HEADLIGHTS ON in this sort of weather? It's not a big problem, but I ALWAYS see at least two or three cars with their lights off in inclement weather. Or worse - I've had it be NIGHT out, as in NIGHT night... and I saw people with their headlights off. Are they just ASKING to get sideswiped when someone doesn't know they're freaking there?

[Kage]

Some people are just -bad- and they don't know how to turn their headlights on.

 

Seriously.

 

I know someone who drove miles AT NIGHT with their headlights not turned on.

 

Because they did not know.

[LiveVoltage]

Im stupid when it comes to math and do not understand common core mathematics. I need simple math.     

 

With that said, at least the media has calmed down recently about stupid internal BS. Right now they seem to be going through the terrorist phase again.

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I can finally rant about something.

 

College. Loans.

 

Dear banks, when you want 60% of my paycheck, and rent/utilities wants the next 35%, I can't afford to even eat $1 ramen every meal for the month, let alone anything else.

[Gegenji]

I can finally rant about something.

 

College. Loans.

 

Dear banks, when you want 60% of my paycheck, and rent/utilities wants the next 35%, I can't afford to even eat $1 ramen every meal for the month, let alone anything else.

 

Ouch, I really avoided a bullet by getting my college paid for by my time in the military... albeit in return for potentially taking a literal bullet.

 

Maybe it's my unflagging faith in humanity (Ha.)... but can you talk to whoever you got the loan from and see if you can get it at a lower amount for a longer period? See if there's SOME alternative so that you can at least afford groceries for the month.

[Kage]

I can finally rant about something.

 

College. Loans.

 

Dear banks, when you want 60% of my paycheck, and rent/utilities wants the next 35%, I can't afford to even eat $1 ramen every meal for the month, let alone anything else.

This is why you weren't supposed to buy so much stuff so frivolously. >.>

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I can finally rant about something.

 

College. Loans.

 

Dear banks, when you want 60% of my paycheck, and rent/utilities wants the next 35%, I can't afford to even eat $1 ramen every meal for the month, let alone anything else.

 

Ouch, I really avoided a bullet by getting my college paid for by my time in the military... albeit in return for potentially taking a literal bullet.

 

Maybe it's my unflagging faith in humanity (Ha.)... but can you talk to whoever you got the loan from and see if you can get it at a lower amount for a longer period? See if there's SOME alternative so that you can at least afford groceries for the month.

 

Yeah...

 

I think if I can get them consolidated at least, I can find something negotiable to fit my wages. ...at least then I'll have enough money for food, paying off other bills, and if lucky, some leisure money to go out here and there and maybe buy something nice from time to time. 

 

Or I could always sign away my soul to the military for a few years.

[Naunet]

You are right.

But this is still a math class.

In my day, what you wanted was the "Philosophy and Critical Thinking" course.

 

They are two different subjects.

 

No, this is the kind of thinking that we're trying to step away from. Critical Thinking is not its own, isolated course. In order to engender deep thought in people in a way that it becomes instinctive for that person, it MUST be embedded in everything.

 

Okay, not really, but this seems to be a thing. Light drizzle? 30mph. Torrential downfall? 80.

 

I love how Houstonians always without fail behave as though they've never seen rain in their entire life. YOU LIVE IN HOUSTON. You should know how to drive in rain by now.

[Gegenji]

Or I could always sign away my soul to the military for a few years.

 

That is always an option. However, it is not for everyone.

 

I'm from a military family, so when I was at a loss as to what to do out of High School, I enlisted. Scared my mother a bit too, what with the Iraqi War going on.

 

If I had to do it all again, I would. I learned a lot there, made friends (and got into WoW which, despite my raid gripes, I had fun enough in), and it helped give me skills along with the money for college to learn still more.

 

However, it's... also a stressful place. I was originally slated as a Linguist and washed out of that because of stress caused by inter-branch rivalries going too far (had some Army sergeants that were ACTIVELY trying to get us Air Force kids kicked out - fresh from Basic too, so I hadn't yet learned I could call them out on their BS). Dealt with Integrity First being replaced with "It's okay as long as you're not caught," and freshly promoted NCOs abusing their authority.

 

I'm not saying it's all going to be like that but... it's definitely something I wish I had known beforehand. Oh, and that Japanese was an officer-only language, since I had had totally weeaboo'd over the idea of learning Japanese in the military.

[Kage]

I WOULD LIKE TO PLAY MORE THAN JUST ONE GAME AT A TIME.

[Warren Castille]

I WOULD LIKE TO PLAY MORE THAN JUST ONE GAME AT A TIME.

 

I've been digging back into Diablo 3 lately. Adventure Mode is great for quick bursts of doing stuff.

[Unnamed Mercenary]

I WOULD LIKE TO PLAY MORE THAN JUST ONE GAME AT A TIME.

 

This is why I dual monitor. ...and controller. I can play FF13 and FF14 at the same time. ...waiting for DF? unpause 13 and finish a battle/run around/make Pink Cloud suffer.

[Kage]

You can't dual monitor Dragon Age

[C'kayah Polaali]

I can finally rant about something.

 

College. Loans.

 

Dear banks, when you want 60% of my paycheck, and rent/utilities wants the next 35%, I can't afford to even eat $1 ramen every meal for the month, let alone anything else.

 

That's rough, man. The collage loan industry is such a nasty scam.

[Kage]

It's so sad that I am ecstatic to have finished university before the recent years. When your 4th year's tuition costs 2x the amount you paid your 1st year.... ugh.

 

I started to only make close to minimum payments on my loans. It sucks to owe the cost of a brand new car. D: $24,000 o7 Two years and a few months... about $4000 paid off. Fuck. Interest.

[C'kayah Polaali]

Feel like getting even more pissed about it?

[Gegenji]

Feel like getting even more pissed about it?

 

Jesus CHRIST that's depressing.

[Kage]

And it's an old article to boot.

 

But I read one of the comments.

 

Fuck you sir. I put my money into a Bachelor's of Science in electrical engineering. I'm on salary but it's not that much. I'll be paying my loans off for years yet while I deal with rent, car loans, car insurance, and a cat I love.

[FreelanceWizard]

The only way I was able to support myself through college and graduate school was with the assistance of a lot of financial aid -- loans, scholarships, and either an assistantship or work-study (both of which pay less than minimum wage). Despite the income I have these days, I come from a working class background. I've been quite lucky to get where I am now.

 

So, yeah. People who think those getting student loans are leeches? Who think people getting screwed by private loan companies and servicers are whiners and deadbeats? Who have no sympathy when the rungs of the proverbial ladder have been greased by plutocratic policies?

 

They can, to put it bluntly, go fornicate themselves with a rusty iron pole.

 

*cough* Sorry. My inner socialist is coming out.

[Dravus]

There's a special place in hell for people who deliberately drive into a puddle with the intention of soaking pedestrians. Especially when it's freezing cold. Plus dirty water is a health risk. I managed to avoid getting hit myself but the people in front of me weren't so lucky.

[Ha'uruh Nunh]

College loans:  I'm "only" paying $550ish a month, while also self-funding my master's degree.  But I've been helped out significantly by my mom when I was getting my career underway.  Hell, she's still paying one of my loans, though I'm trying to take on all the rest.

 

I don't know how people who don't have that kind of family support do it.  I graduated with over $100k in debt - and that was 11 years ago now.  It's even worse for kids nowadays, and heaven help you if you're taking out loans for grad school.

 

If I had it to do over again, knowing what I know now?  I'd have applied to cheap in-state schools and tried to get a full ride somewhere.  The education I got, while nice, wasn't worth the crushing burden of 20-year-plus debt.

 

STEALTH EDIT: And another thing - I'd have considered the military/ROTC/whatever. Money for education plus early career experience? Yes please. I plan on nudging my niece/potential nephews into considering it at least. Seems too many young folks don't realize how much upside there is to going into the military young.

[Naunet]

Seems too many young folks don't realize how much upside there is to going into the military young.

 

There is a whole heck of a lot of downside, though. Downsides that can haunt you for the rest of your life. It's honestly not something I would wish on anyone.