The Official Rants and Trolls Thread

I agree completely. I've had some pretty rotten relationships and barely kept my sanity intact.

When you consider the divorce rate, and how many UNHAPPY marriages there are out there, the odds are really against ANY relationship working

But we are slaves to our programming, our need to reproduce at any cost. Once you get past the fun part - the act of reproduction - you are left with this reality: two distinct and unique human beings, with their own wants, needs, desires, and usually those wants, needs, and desires are mutually exclusive

Try looking for a Friend With Benefits, and do what I did a long time ago - refuse emotional attachments

 

Tsk, Daniel, violating your own rule right out of the box with a very pointed and succinctly reasoned rant, far from pointless.

I predict this thread will become the opposite of its title: a place where thoughtful mini-essays will outnumber tirades from any trolls that happen to blunder in. No troll is going to deliberately visit someplace he's been officially invited!

 

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Oh boy .....

 

Don't you have emotional attachments with your friends? And I don't mean just your fwb... I mean bona-fide love in your heart for other non-romantic relationships?

Too many rules.
Can't be a rant thread with so many rules.

I have to run off to a study group or I'd let you have it in response to your rant Daniel... It will have to wait until I get back. I really do love to disagree with you it seems!

I belonged to a forum once where everyone kept erupting into arguments over personal attacks so we created a "fight club" thread. Anything and everything could be said there as long as people agreed to keep their differences out of the main threads. It offered a place for the feisty to fight, a place for the spectators to watch, and peace and tranquility for the rest of us.

 

Of COURSE I do. But I also know they won't emotionally hurt me. When you specifically enter into a long-term relationship and end up getting emotionally hurt, you tend to view ALL such relationships with suspicion

 

NO! You can't make me!!

Quit telling everyone what to do!

 

Sorry double post, see below

 

There may be no benefits but the "talking love doll" seems to work for some people as that thread indicated. I myself is a die hard romantic and have been thrown and dragged around endlessly by the emotional rollercoaster women have taken me for a ride in.

Oh, the rant: I hate lane-hoggers. Please get out of the way if you're going slower than the prevailing traffic.

and: Hey NBC, why don't you show the Olympics in real time. Who watches your other programs anyway.

 

Rant on > Why the hell are we wasting time with this kinda BS? It's hard enogh to wade through the real troll posts as it is. <rant off

 

I understand. I'm just starting to gel with the idea that expectations might have something to do with my lack of success romantically. With my friends, I expect less and forgive sooner. Maybe this is why people who have "friends first" relationships keep reporting such success...

As you wish. I will respond to your rant and try to do it making as little sense, using as much energy and emotion as I can muster:

YOU ARE WRONG. I AM RIGHT!

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OK ok... I'll be semi-serious.


I agree with your logic. I only contend that love is not logical.

I also know that we have a hormonal thing that happens that brings two people together initially, that last about 3 months. After the first three months you start to see them through the non-hormonal lens and that is when you can start to rationally evaluate if you could spend significant time with this person or if the stuff that makes you feel good about them is long term stuff.

Relationships boil down to feel good moments and feel bad moments.

All relationships have both. When two people create more feel good moments than feel bad moments, the odds are, they will continue to seek each other out and Viola! A relationship is born.

Lots of stuff gets in the way of this happening of course but the bottom line is the same even for non-romantic relationships.

As a parent, my job is to create more feel goods than not feel goods. When parents don't do this, kids grow up to become adults who had sucky childhoods.

PS. A feel good moment is not always comfortable and all about disney land.. .One of my biggest feel good moments in life was with my best friend on her deathbed. It is a moment I will cherish for the rest of my life.

I do not understand why people are going on and on about the brake issue in our cars!! It was very clearly and succinctly explained to us. LET IT GO ALREADY!!!!!!

 

I don`t have a rant, but I`ll add something.
Romeo wasn`t in his 30s, and Juliet was originally 16. Romeo and Juliet wasn`t something Shakespeare came up with - it was based pretty much entirely on a specific poem from a some years earlier. Shakespeare never mentions Romeo`s age in the play, and in the poem he is too young to have real facial hair... So I think being in his 30s is kind of out.
Shakespeare changed Juliet`s age, but never implied Romeo was any older, so the 30s figure is a mystery to me.

So chances are, they were both in their teens.

 

I'm sorry, Daniel, but I'm going to have to agree with you. Except for Romeo's age. I agree with Tamyu there.

 

Let's Talk About Morons Equipped with Cell Phones

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To the idiot woman who insisted on talking to her friend during open lab hours this afternoon:

I know you think every detail about what you are doing is extremely important, but I don't give a flying f*ck about any of it and I shouldn't be forced to listen to any of it. Simple common courtesy would have meant that you would have gotten up and gone outside to complete your call, but apparently the dirty looks that I kept shooting toward you were not enough to dissuade you. I wasn't sure about the lab policy (partially because you were so blatant in your disregard for others) but I later confirmed that it is against lab rules to use a cell phone in the lab. So if you do it again when I'm trying to get my assignment done in the last hour available, I will scream at you to hang up or get out. And if you don't do it immediately, I will take that phone and smash it into several pieces.

Furthermore, if you are one of those people that try to talk and drive, you are lucky that I'm not in charge of enforcing that law (yes, it is against the law in California). Because I would use the patrol cruiser push bar to force you off the road. If you were trying to text while driving, I would force you off the road and then I would tazer you.

One last thing, if you are one of those people that wear one of the Bluetooth receivers on your ear, you look like a dork. I can understand if you need it for your work, but you still look like a dork. If you are just wearing it for fun, you are a huge dork. If you walk down the street talking to someone who isn't there, you are either insane, or a dork who could be insane.

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After 30+ years, my wife and I look at each other and silently think,
"Ok, when does this death thing do us part?"


Bob Wilson