The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

John

SebtheBum wrote:

Sh*t, I'm going to Berlin in July, and I've suddenly - a propos of nothing - realised that I'm really out of practice and ill-prepared for such a journey.

Balls.

I go to Berlin all the time and I speak no German at all apart from "Bitte" and pointing to a menu. You'll be fine.

arbeitsscheuer

John2 wrote:

I go to Berlin all the time and I speak no German at all apart from "Bitte" and pointing to a menu. You'll be fine.

/furiously taking note

"Bitte", eh? Hmmm... Makes sense!

Yeah, should be alright. Still... 6 years of trying to learn the bloomin' language for the Leaving, you'd think in all that time I might've learnt something of practical use!

John

Considering you'll meet about 2 Germans for every 10 people (6 of those 10 will be Turkish) I think you'll be more than capable of communicating as most people will speak English. But yeah, it sucks when you learn a language and can't communicate in it. My French is very rusty. I wish they taught stainless languages in school.

Pet

As with Irish, I can understand it pretty well (much better than Irish though, sadly), but can't string a sentence together for ****. The best I can manage right now is "Ich studiere Biologie im Universitat, und ich finde es sehr interessant, aber meine Prufungen sind sehr schwierig". And that took a few seconds to process.

John

what's "schwierig"?

arbeitsscheuer

difficult.

EDIT: Yaaay, I know something!!! :rolleyes:

John

****'s sake, I should be in bed. And my thumb is really sore, it's hard to write. I knew this would happen, I've been getting cramps and stiffness (steady on!) in my thumb from constant note taking, exam preparation and exams after months of purely computer work.

fookchooknooris

and doing thumb jobs i'm sure.

John

lolzez

ApeXaviour

John2 wrote:

Jayzus... what did the poor shopping trolley ever to him?

John

The important thing is it sounds great. There's a video on youtube of him playing the trolleys, I'll find it later. Time to have a look over some stuff before my exam. See yis all later.

Nietzschean

sounds great? whoa to each their own, i wouldn't rate the sound of an angle grinder on a shopping trolly as must listen to music though.be a bit much like work

arbeitsscheuer

[Club. Interior. Night]

RandomDrunkenFemale(RDF): So, what do you do?
TrolleyMaestro(TM): I'm in a band
RDF: Wow, that's hot - what instrument do you play?
TM: Trollies. Get a great sound outta those things.

Pause

RDF: Sorry, I think I've just seen someone I know... Exit stage left

Nietzschean

lol classic

Pet

Curse you, overactive immune system. Throat infection for 3 weeks that you couldn't budge, but yet you get set off by ****ing pollen. Pfffh.

John

One way to play trollies

Stargal

ARGH

Had my interview for my Journalism Masters this afternoon. Most of it went well. Was happy. Until they started implying that I'd written too much stuff already, and that I wouldn't really get anything out of the programme. Cue vaguely frantic assurances from me that no, I want this Masters a lot and that that shouldn't be a reason not to give it to me.

I just want to go and drink myself into oblivion, instead of having to study for my Povery and Income Redistribution exam on Thursday.

I'm very blue

Time Magazine

Sorry Stargal .

Fingers crossed.

europerson

I've just spent over three hours of my day watching Gone with the Wind. My mother always speaks of it as the best thing since not just sliced bread, but bread in general, and I was heavily disappointed. OK, it's a good film (for 1939), but I definitely wasn't swept out of my armchair by it. So, basically, my rant is about hyperbole that turns out to be unfounded.

John

Why oh why don't I ever go to bed at a reasonable hour?

gilroyb

europerson wrote:

I've just spent over three hours of my day watching Gone with the Wind. My mother always speaks of it as the best thing since not just sliced bread, but bread in general, and I was heavily disappointed. OK, it's a good film (for 1939), but I definitely wasn't swept out of my armchair by it. So, basically, my rant is about hyperbole that turns out to be unfounded.

Gone with the wind?

I wasn't blown away by it either.

Pet

Why oh why don't I ever go to bed at a reasonable hour?

Heh..for most of January-March, 5am was my usual bedtime. It was not healthy.


A pox upon you, Firefux...I had about 12 tabs open, all full of various pages of information on geography waffle, and the bloody thing decided to crash. I can't even think about looking at a page with Java, or it'll have a spaz attack and bring my computer to a crawl. Pfffh.

John

I should be in bed resting for my final final tomorrow but no, I'm up making a mix CD for John Ryder. It's quite good so far though. It'll bake his noodle.

ApeXaviour

gilroyb wrote:

Gone with the wind?

I wasn't blown away by it either.

(*cringes)

Do you want to be banned?


^_^ : P

John

ApeXaviour wrote:

(*cringes)

Do you want to be banned?


^_^ : P

Puns are great and should be celebrated, not punished.

John

I don't know if my lastfm thingimy is working or not. It doesn't look like it but it might not have updated yet. Darnsarnit.

Agent Smith

Rant: i've work in 3 hours....

John

John2 wrote:

I don't know if my lastfm thingimy is working or not. It doesn't look like it but it might not have updated yet. Darnsarnit.

Fixed it. Apparently lastfm doesn't like wav files nor does it like mp3s without ID tags. ****ing emo saps.

Crash

ffs, been in since 7.30 - want to take a nap in the library for a bit...

Nietzschean

Awwww in since then too....2hrs later than normal...what a great lie in eh? you not feeling all refreshed with such a late start?


^^ not sure if thats a rant a bitch or a moan, but its some combination.....roll on the 10th already!!!!