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[Kellach Woods]

the only thing I can be mad about my university years

 

is being stupid enough to believe in the "if you go to university you'll have A JOB guaranteed" mantra that was spouted to the youngins of my generation.

 

Yes, this was said regardless of degree.

 

arguably, actually going to university in the first place. it brought me absolutely nothing beyond more blows to an already abysmal self-esteem and lost years I could have done anything else and be somehow more productive. I graduated, but my grades were not good enough for grad school.

 

am I fortunate to not be in the US thus stuck with a debt I can't possibly repay with what meager salary (granted, a few of you would probably be like that shit ain't meager, but that is only recently that it got bumped up - I was doing minimum wage otherwise) I make off of whatever work I do that isn't related to my degree in the slightest? You bet I am.

 

However, that doesn't make me less angry at myself for being a gigantic tool nor does it make it the fault of humanity at large.

 

So carry on.

[C'kayah Polaali]

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.

 

Tricks from my days commuting by motorcycle. I will not acknowledge the use of these techniques, nor comment on their efficiency:

 

- Carry a couple of big ball bearings with you. Half inchers. As a motorcyclist, it's tough to deploy them. As a ped, you can have a couple in your hand and launch them at the car when they do this. "Sorry, I was playing with them in my hand! I must have dropped them when I leapt out of your way! You almost hit me, you know!"

 

- Use a hammer to roughly break up a piece of spark plug ceramic. Use like the ball bearings. It does a number on windshields and paint. Clearly when the car ran through the puddle, it kicked up some debris.

 

Another trick, from commuting by bicycle. I definitely have not tried this, but I've known people who have. Picture a spot about a foot and a half up from the bottom of the windshield, and perhaps two feet in. If you accidentally hit this spot with a U-lock, it will typically shatter the windshield.

[Delilah Scythewood]

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.

 

Tricks from my days commuting by motorcycle. I will not acknowledge the use of these techniques, nor comment on their efficiency:

 

- Carry a couple of big ball bearings with you. Half inchers. As a motorcyclist, it's touch to deploy them. As a ped, you can have a couple in your hand and launch them at the car when they do this. "Sorry, I was playing with them in my hand! I must have dropped them when I leapt out of your way! You almost hit me, you know!"

 

- Use a hammer to roughly break up a piece of spark plug ceramic. Use like the ball bearings. It does a number on windshields and paint. Clearly when the car ran through the puddle, it kicked up some debris.

 

Another trick, from commuting by bicycle. I definitely have not tried this, but I've known people who have. Picture a spot about a foot and a half up from the bottom of the windshield, and perhaps two feet in. If you accidentally hit this spot with a U-lock, it will typically shatter the windshield.

Ooooo!

[Gegenji]

We here at RPC do not condone the destruction of other people's property.

 

... even if we'll imagine it really hard.

[Du'lance Fiourtune]

Okay I don't typically play a badass on the internet, nor do I consider myself as the Chuck Norris of fighting, nor would I intentionally splash someone with water from a roadside puddle....

 

But if.......if.....if someone where to throw something at my truck for splashing them, potentially harming me or a passenger, the only thing getting shattered would be there face. (or at the least, I would try to)

 

That's how we would handle that where I'm from, and that's all I will say on the matter.

[Kage]

Yoooooo

 

We do not advocate the destruction of other peoples' property, even if your own was destroyed once as well.

 

 

I really, really hate how long it takes for places like -redacted memorial services and mortuaries- to get a loved one ready for cremation and such. Especially from nonviolent causes.

[Zhavi]

the cold. especially companies that market SUPER WARM THINGS but obviously what they really mean is that they measure cold as anything around freezing.

 

at -40 my current pair of gloves primarily functions to block air currents and keep my hands from sticking to metal. wtb proper mittens. My hands hurt.

[C'kayah Polaali]

We here at RPC do not condone the destruction of other people's property.

 

... even if we'll imagine it really hard.

 

Clearly some of us do...

[Edvyn]

shitlords loudly drive past my house at high speeds in their dumb cars on a regular basis. every couple of minutes a loud VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM interrupts whatever im doing, day or night. i hope birds shit on their windscreens.

[Warren Castille]

Pre-ordered Toon Link and Mega Man amiibos on Amazon in December. Suddenly they're not able to finish my transaction and they're unavailable, except for the scalpers selling them for 80 bucks, "mint in box and ships from the US."

 

Also Nintendo why did you only make like six of these fucking things

[Unnamed Mercenary]

Pre-ordered Toon Link and Mega Man amiibos on Amazon in December. Suddenly they're not able to finish my transaction and they're unavailable, except for the scalpers selling them for 80 bucks, "mint in box and ships from the US."

 

Also Nintendo why did you only make like six of these fucking things

 

I've heard they aren't region-locked. See if something like Playasia's got them? Buy a few and save on shipping?

[Warren Castille]

Pre-ordered Toon Link and Mega Man amiibos on Amazon in December. Suddenly they're not able to finish my transaction and they're unavailable, except for the scalpers selling them for 80 bucks, "mint in box and ships from the US."

 

Also Nintendo why did you only make like six of these fucking things

 

I've heard they aren't region-locked. See if something like Playasia's got them? Buy a few and save on shipping?

 

Will look into. It's still very stupid that I'm stuck being UNABLE to buy someone they are selling because Nintendo hates their customers.

[Unnamed Mercenary]

Pre-ordered Toon Link and Mega Man amiibos on Amazon in December. Suddenly they're not able to finish my transaction and they're unavailable, except for the scalpers selling them for 80 bucks, "mint in box and ships from the US."

 

Also Nintendo why did you only make like six of these fucking things

 

I've heard they aren't region-locked. See if something like Playasia's got them? Buy a few and save on shipping?

 

Will look into. It's still very stupid that I'm stuck being UNABLE to buy someone they are selling because Nintendo hates their customers.

 

But lots of Japanese companies hate money. Look at Bandai.

[Warren Castille]

Pre-ordered Toon Link and Mega Man amiibos on Amazon in December. Suddenly they're not able to finish my transaction and they're unavailable, except for the scalpers selling them for 80 bucks, "mint in box and ships from the US."

 

Also Nintendo why did you only make like six of these fucking things

 

I've heard they aren't region-locked. See if something like Playasia's got them? Buy a few and save on shipping?

 

Will look into. It's still very stupid that I'm stuck being UNABLE to buy someone they are selling because Nintendo hates their customers.

 

But lots of Japanese companies hate money. Look at Bandai.

 

AND ANOTHER THING. TALLGEESE 3 EW VERSION LIMITED PRE-ORDER ONLY WHY

[Zhavi]

People who cannot wait for me to turn, and instead have to jerk their lifted, dual wheel, kitted out pavement princess truck around me so they can continue speeding down the road, oftentimes endangering oncoming traffic (you choose to risk yourself, ain't none of my business, but seriously -- endangering other people is a jackass move). I mean, okay, when the road isn't on a turn and you can see that it's empty, that's fine. But seriously, I have seen way too many near collisions.

 

FIVE SECONDS OF BRAKING, THAT'S IT.

[LiveVoltage]

People who cannot wait for me to turn, and instead have to jerk their lifted, dual wheel, kitted out pavement princess truck around me so they can continue speeding down the road, oftentimes endangering oncoming traffic (you choose to risk yourself, ain't none of my business, but seriously -- endangering other people is a jackass move).  I mean, okay, when the road isn't on a turn and you can see that it's empty, that's fine.  But seriously, I have seen way too many near collisions.

 

FIVE SECONDS OF BRAKING, THAT'S IT.

People don't know how to fucking drive down here in the south. 

[Gegenji]

People who cannot wait for me to turn, and instead have to jerk their lifted, dual wheel, kitted out pavement princess truck around me so they can continue speeding down the road, oftentimes endangering oncoming traffic (you choose to risk yourself, ain't none of my business, but seriously -- endangering other people is a jackass move).  I mean, okay, when the road isn't on a turn and you can see that it's empty, that's fine.  But seriously, I have seen way too many near collisions.

 

FIVE SECONDS OF BRAKING, THAT'S IT.

People don't know how to fucking drive down here in the south. 

 

I think a lot of people don't know how to drive, period.

 

Or park. Seriously, aren't you supposed to at LEAST try to stay in the middle? Instead, I got on guy on my right who's ALL THE WAY UP ONS that left-hand side, and a guy on my left ALL THE WAY UP ONS the right-hand side. Leaving me worried I'm going to be too far to one side and take off a rear-view mirror.

 

And that's the nicer ones. The worse ones are on or even OVER the line. Thanks for effectively taking up two spots because you can't take the extra two minutes to straighten your ass out. Thanks for that.

 

I once saw a guy at a strip mall parking lot who parked SIDEWAYS through three parking spaces. SIDE-GODDAMN-WAYS. WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO PARK?

 

(Car rage. All the car rage. It consumes me now.)

[Zhavi]

 

(Car rage. All the car rage. It consumes me now.)

 

Yeah. I'm a pretty calm person in most things (my mother once told me it was unhealthy how calm I am in arguments, heh) -- I don't tend to rage in video games, and even when I do get angry it comes and goes pretty quickly.

 

Assholes on the road are the one thing that make me get unreasonably, vindictively wrathful. No matter how much I try to be understanding, once you start being unsafe YOU HAVE ALL THE RAGE.

 

Though too, there's the opposite to that -- when the roads aren't icy, and Super Leet Manly Truck is going 30-40mph on a 55mph road. The roads aren't icy! GO! GO! GO! GO! aghgghhhgahghghghg. Or when someone going 40-50 gets in the passing lane and doesn't pass or slow down next to the person going 40-50 in the slow lane. IT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT OF COMMON COURTESY, C'MON.

[Kage]

Drivers in southern california are all pretty horribad

[Zyrusticae]

I think poor drivers are something all of us (who drive at all) can relate to on some level. It's the second biggest reason I really do not enjoy driving, the first reason being, of course, the fact that I am driving a gigantic multi-ton DEATH MACHINE SERIOUSLY HOW DO YOU PEOPLE DEAL WITH THIS STUFF ARGH?!

 

*ahem*

 

In all seriousness, driving entails a level of personal responsibility that I am not very comfortable with. The one time I got into an accident where I bent the door on the driver's side I freaked the fuck out. I am NOT the kind of person who should be dealing with things that can kill human beings on a whim.

[chaoticsleepy]

I really just flippin' hate being sick.

 

In the past few years, I've never really gotten anything major during cold / flu / bad juju seasons. But I swear, in this one alone, I've gotten sick more often than in the last five combined. I just want to be able to breathe and sleep of a night and not have a throat that feels like someone took really rough sandpaper to it and oh god the migraines why. I'm sure my co-workers would really like to, you know.. actually see my face at work, too. Without the fear of 'Oh god what horrific death bug is she bringing in to the office now?'

 

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the corner. Waving my white flag of surrender. But if you bring any more germs over here, I swear I'll knife you. ;A;

[Kage]

More driving rants?

 

This guy... I might have taken a swing at if I was one of the drivers...

[Maril]

Last week I called my social worker to check if she needed any papers sent in, because I've recently been approved for a program where I can work on reduced hours, as I am disabled - something that took me about 4 years to get on. Anyways, she replies that she's not entirely sure but she doesn't think so, but is like "I'll ask my coworkers and call you back" And then 8 days pass, wherein I notice that the part of my income (I'm on something comparable to jobseekers allowance but it is split between two parts of the system, again because of my disability.) haven't ticked in and the more that becomes a problem the more i try to call her to no avail. 

So today I finally got through to her and she said that I didn't need to send anything in until the day I got work. So then I ask why my money hadn't gone in this month and she's like:

"Oh I assumed you got a job"

 

 

 

Mind you, in the system I know she has access to, she can look up my social number and see that I am listed as "Currently unemployed". Heck she could even check my CV and hire me as the assistant that she cleeeeeeeeeearly needs. 

But no, It's easier just assume that I have a job despite there being no indication for such. I just asked a question. Seriously. Why. 

 

._.

[C'kayah Polaali]

In retrospect, I'm removing this rant I wrote about my experiences commuting by bicycle and motorcycle.

 

Back to your currently scheduled ranting and raving.

[LiveVoltage]

Driving: One of the best and worst things humanity ever came up with.