Gunmane Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Apparently the folks have decided that after the holidays they are going to have us live next door in grandparent's home (who will be in Texas for the rest of the winter), whilst they have someone tear up the carpet to put in wood flooring. This will surely go swimmingly... Link to post Share on other sites
scorch Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 What is it about retail customers that leads them to believe that first thing Monday morning is the best time to call? Monday morning is a *suitcase* time to call. Not only am I still half asleep, but I have loads of emails backed up from the weekend. And I haven't had my coffee yet. Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore1-6 Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Probably shouldn't have finished at midday Friday.Probably shouldn't be on Arnies right now.Stupid constantly filling inbox. Link to post Share on other sites
darkchild130 Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 No milk in the house when I got up. No coffee. RAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 I like coffee but never get coffee rage. Is it a made up thing just so you can be angry? Block nose, sore throat and a strange head feels like I'm under water. Paracetamol time. Link to post Share on other sites
darkchild130 Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Every thing is a made up thing so I can be angry. I'm practically dead inside, I need some excuse to make noise. Darkchild Link to post Share on other sites
amateurstuntman Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 Why do people automatically assume you are a miserable *bramston pickle* if you don't celebrate Christmas? I don't celebrate Christmas because I am not a Christian. It's the same reason I don't celebrate Ramadan, because I am not a Muslim. Does that make me a miserable *bramston pickle* too? Nope, I've never celebrated it, and I'm perfectly happy. Darkchild I celebrate it, in the sense that I celebrate getting ######, getting free stuff from relatives, and catching up with relatives. Edit: Oh, and the bank holidays It's not that I have xmas though - I do. No, the worst thing is that I hate it when people try to defend xmas. If I announced that I hate June the 15th nobody would care. Why do people try to change my mind when I say I hate xmas? Because they hate it, but they are so desperate to fit in that they pretend that they love it. They are so desperate that they convince themselves that they love it. They place so much importance on the fact that it has to go well that they become crazed. They want to be normal so much that when people don't like it they don't know what normal is any more. How can you pretend to be normal when you don't know what normal is any more? So you have to try to convince everyone to be the same so you have to know how to pretend to be? Anyway, *fruitcage* xmas. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted December 1, 2014 Report Share Posted December 1, 2014 I've just spent 15 minutes on my heavy bag. My cardio is truly *suitcase*. Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 How can you define normal when everyone is different? Hell, get ten airsofters together to agree on how the game should go and it's always going to end in tears. I hate birthdays, absolutely pointless. It encourages you to be extremely selfish. I've never cared for them and always shy away from celebrating. People would get annoyed and accuse me of being boring. I've never liked having people's attention on me, so they would read it as being ignorant or spoilt. I just don't like being made a fuss of. Today's rant:- cement mix. Link to post Share on other sites
Gunmane Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Habakure, agreed. Mine is this Sunday, and the folks are going ballistic because I refuse to say anything of desire. I've got finals week to worry about, not about that date of damnation. Link to post Share on other sites
darkchild130 Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 Don't do birthdays either, or any "date" other than my wedding anniversary, as this is the only one where I had any choice. Birthdays, Christmas, valentine's, all that is commercialised nonsense and I have no part in it. Darkchild Link to post Share on other sites
Mike_West Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 If there's software I need for work, it just took a massive runny *suitcase*. Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted December 2, 2014 Report Share Posted December 2, 2014 That moment when you've changed a barrel of ale at work, set it for dispense in the cellar and radio that it's ready to be pulled through. Only to hear a horrendous clicking noise followed by someone on the radio saying "stop line cleaning" and something about "a couple of pints". I thought I'd managed to flush a barrel, so instantly gas off and tap closed. Turns out I just forgot to replace the spile with a vent and they wanted me to clean another line at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Officer cleared of Eric Garner 'death' wtf? We may as just give them a licence to kill card. Link to post Share on other sites
darkchild130 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Glad I live in the UK, don't want to be randomly murdered by police for no reason. Oh wait... Link to post Share on other sites
hitmanNo2 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 You'll be alright over here as long as you're not a bit foreign looking heh. Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Don't do birthdays either, or any "date" other than my wedding anniversary, as this is the only one where I had any choice. Birthdays, Christmas, valentine's, all that ###### is commercialised nonsense and I have no part in it. Darkchild But that is commercialised, celebrating your wedding I mean. Unless you got married in a shed, with just the witnesses needed to make it legal, in the eyes of the law, and a person to register you. Link to post Share on other sites
Skarclaw Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 ha yeah I was going to say marriage is a patriarchal religious tradition whereby a woman as property is transferred to one man (father) to another (husband) then backed up by the authority of the state. christmas is way more fun! and yes hitman incredibly sad Link to post Share on other sites
darkchild130 Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 But that is commercialised, celebrating your wedding I mean. Unless you got married in a shed, with just the witnesses needed to make it legal, in the eyes of the law, and a person to register you. I did exactly that, except for the shed. Registry office, total wedding cost £140. £30 for the licence, £110 for use of the office (or vice versa, I don't care enough to remember) So nice try, but no. I celebrate my wedding day because I CHOSE to get married. I didn't choose to be born, or invent Christmas, or Mother's Day etc. I'm not celebrating things because I'm meant to, I'll celebrate whatever I feel like. Darkchild Link to post Share on other sites
Tw1tch Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 Customer at work suffered an epileptic fit, that was fine in itself. But every nosy *bramston pickle* who decided to crowd the fitting man can *fruitcage* jump off a cliff. "I know what I'm doing mate" Well clearly you don't if you're within an inch of the guy who's fitting and could cause injury. Link to post Share on other sites
shmook Posted December 4, 2014 Report Share Posted December 4, 2014 But how can they film it on their phones if they are made to stand far away? Nobs. Link to post Share on other sites
Habakure Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 I did exactly that, except for the shed. Registry office, total wedding cost £140. £30 for the licence, £110 for use of the office (or vice versa, I don't care enough to remember) So nice try, but no. I celebrate my wedding day because I CHOSE to get married. I didn't choose to be born, or invent Christmas, or Mother's Day etc. I'm not celebrating things because I'm meant to, I'll celebrate whatever I feel like. Darkchild The point is you still chose to do something that has become very commercialised. Some people celebrate Christmas by just having a nice meal. It's a bit hypocritical to say people are forced to celebrate Christmas and that's the sole reason for doing it. I don't, I like it. Not religious but I can understand why people are (empathy). You can still do something for a different reason to what is perceived as the norm. Swings and roundabouts at the end of the day. But saying people are forced to celebrate Christmas is very odd. You can have the day off but you're not forced to celebrate it or go to church. To be classed as married you have to abide by set rules. With christmas or even birthdays, you can celebrate it or not. The only thing forced in this instance, are the rules you have to follow so that you can say you're married. Link to post Share on other sites
Stormin Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Birthdays and anniversaries etc are arbitrary anyway. They are not exactly a year apart, just happen by chance to be called the same day so not an accurate measure of time (leap years, changes in planet's orbit and so on). I'd rather celebrate more realistic milestones such as married for 500 days or been out of the womb for 10,000. Where were you when you passed your ten millionth minute alive? I bet you completely missed that significant achievement. Or do you just marvel at how the calendar has ticked round again in a completely different section of the Earth's orbit from last year? *mathematical grumble* Link to post Share on other sites
darkchild130 Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 The point is you still chose to do something that has become very commercialised. Some people celebrate Christmas by just having a nice meal. It's a bit hypocritical to say people are forced to celebrate Christmas and that's the sole reason for doing it. I don't, I like it. Not religious but I can understand why people are (empathy). You can still do something for a different reason to what is perceived as the norm. Swings and roundabouts at the end of the day. But saying people are forced to celebrate Christmas is very odd. You can have the day off but you're not forced to celebrate it or go to church. To be classed as married you have to abide by set rules. With christmas or even birthdays, you can celebrate it or not. The only thing forced in this instance, are the rules you have to follow so that you can say you're married. Not as odd as misquoting someone. Didn't say forced, I said meant to, as in "socially established norms" and I got married because I was based in Northern Ireland and the Army being the backwards system that it is, won't give you a house unless you're married, so I played the system to be with my girlfriend. The original intention was to get divorced upon returning to the UK but it turned out that another backwards system (the British government) also favours married couples over singles. So I continue to play the system. I'm an atheist, I don't even believe in marriage in the religious sense (our wedding was completely devoid of religion) but I can still see it as a symbol of my wife and I's devotion to one another. We've been married for nearly eleven years, in that time I've seen many marriages fail where we remain strong. I feel that is worth celebrating. Unlike Christmas, which is nonsense, birthdays, which are meaningless, and all the other ways industries convince us to part with money. Like I said, I don't celebrate any of it, and I really don't care if anybody agrees with me (lack of empathy) Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore1-6 Posted December 5, 2014 Report Share Posted December 5, 2014 Well, it's nearly Christmas! A time to laugh and joke, to sing and... who am I trying to kid? I hate this time of year, it always makes me irritable and angry. And that tends to spill into other areas, so I vent my anger on *Phew* I feel better for getting that off me chest. Anyone else got a rant? So the thread has come full circle? Link to post Share on other sites
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