The Bitching Thread

[Augury]

"Fucking is not harmful."

LOL. That guy doesn't get it at all... it's incredible enough that the video was subbed in two languages

[naruto=pwnage]

I fucking want a job and my parents won't let me. goddamnit all to hell...

[Yukimura]

I hate dogs! Specifically the dog whose shit i've been cleaning up the last two weeks. I also hate middle-aged people (35-50) with children, specifically people one child that has grown up who act like my mother and decide they need some new thing to nurture once their child is gone. Case in point, Kadera, a half Poodle, half Terrier, all cute, annoying little shit factory.

When you think about it most domesticated dogs don't even have lives, they just eat, sleep, shit, and generally sit around all day bored and dejected...kinda like me. But at least I have stuff to do to entertain myself, my new sister (yes my mom called her that) just sits in different places and sleeps. Maybe she's content with her life, idk but I also don't give a fuck. What I do care about is how my mom spoils the dog and how our particular dog is unable to learn the association between I'm taking you outside and SHIT YOU STUPID WASTE OF LIFE ENERGY! The dog seems to shit and pee as soon as everyone leaves the house, no matter when this is, but if I take her outside she either just runs around and smells everything or stares at me.

I realize she is a dog and thus is potentially comperable to a comatose retarded person in intelligence, however there are some smart dogs who learn to go outside and use the bathroom instead of chasing cars and staring at people who want to donate them to the nice Chinese restauraunt down the street. This brings me to my next bitching point...Middle aged people with empty nest syndrome! STOP GETTING DOGS AND MAKING YOUR CHILDREN TAKE CARE OF THEM!

It's amazing how fast parents can become kids again when their own children are gone. Taking responsibility for your possesions is part of having posessions, but it has dawned on me that having one posession take care of another might still metaphysically count as taking responsibility. Great, now I don't even have the sliver of moral highground I had when I started this rant..FUCK YOU quick reply this is all your fault. And you too inexplicably jittering laptop screen, wtf is this shit!

One more thing, being a chauffer without a shutter is the most irritating feeling i've ever experianced. The idea that i'm literally just a part of a mechanical beast of burden smashes against my individual ego like a tidal wave. I find myself thinking more and more like a chauffer every day. Arrive, get out, help mom out of car, get her bag, remember when she tells me when to pick her up, wonder how the fuck i'm going to find my way out of wherever she's asked to be taken, and finally get back in the car and marvel at my situation.

To wrap it up, don't get dogs! They probobly don't want to be alive anyway since they have crappy lives in captivity so why not put them down? Definately keep the more goal oriented breeds like Bloodhounds, Beagles and other go get em types though, the create their own purposes. But the ones that are just for show and don't have any usefullness other than to sit'n'shit...well we could use the biomatter for lots of other stuff, like fertalizer, low cost food for more helpful meat eaters, bacteria cultures, stem cell research, whatever. In conclusion, I don't hate dogs, just usless dogs and dogs attached directly attached to my family.

[masamuneehs]

lol at Yuk, I think that's a pretty silly thing too... However I have something different about dogs to bitch about, something almost exclusive to Bologna (and maybe other Italian cities).

Now Bologna is an old city, very little green spaces in the old center, with parks being far away and almost no random little patches of grass or dirt or what have you.

Bologna is also a center of punkabestias (literallly translated as a 'punkbeast'), a bunch of lazy self-proclaimed anarchists who live out on the street, wear the same leather outfits and dirty piercings everyday and beg for handouts or sell bunk drugs in order to buy beer or whatever. Oh, they also have at least one dog each (hence the term 'bestia') and these dogs also live out on the street with them.

Finally, Italians, at least the Bolognese, seem to think that it is absolutely disgusting and totally filthy to touch feces.

Add these things and, well you can imagine, there will be randomn turds all over the place.

You guys conquered half the world, gave us the movie Gladiator, revolutionized architercture, gave us Michelangeo and Da Vinci as well as countless other legendery people and feats: LEARN TO CURB YOUR FUCKING DOGS

That's right folks, the people of Bologna do not pick up after their pooch. In fact I have seen only one, I repeat ONE, woman bending her little butt over to remove a piece of Fido's Alpo aftermath from a major sidewalk.

The Bolognese have come up with all these little superstitions (the italians are big on insanely weird superstitions) to make the plethora of poop clogging the streets into a joke or some kind of acceptable phenomenon:

"If you're about to meet up with a girl for the first date and you step in dog poop on the way there it means the date will go well."

"If you step in poop while holding something you just bought it means you will never lose it."

"If you go a year without stepping in poop you will start to become French."

I've even overheard the Bolognese talking about the subject. Here's how the exchange went.

"Alcune sono troppo maleducate!" Some (people) are so unrefined!
"Che cazzo dici?" What (the fuck) are you saying?" (obviously younger kids)
"Ieri andavo a via Castiglione e visto un tipo raccogliendo la merda del suo cane!" (Yesterday I was going down Castiglione street and saw a guy picking up the shit from his dog!)
"Che volgore! La merda?" How gross! The shit?
"La merda! Credi?" The shit. (Can) you believe?
"Toccare la merda e nausente, ma la merda di cane di piu!" (Touching shit is disgusting/nauseating, but the shit of dog even more.

I want to be able to walk down just one street and not need to watch out for Lassie's landmines. The person who starts the 'curb your dog' movement in Bologna will be my hero (though probably hated by the Bolognese)...

[Winged Dancer]

At least the dogs don't aim for the walls. A friend of mine lives in a very small town within the city (there are hundreds of small towns within Mexico city, but you'd swear you're in the middle of nothing as soon as you walk in) and the stray dogs there somehow manage to get lumps of shit all over the walls.

Also,

"If you go a year without stepping in poop you will start to become French."

LOL

[kooshi]

After almost a whole year of a crappy Internet connection, I finally snapped today. After a lot of cursing and punching my desk, I ended up with a big headache, very sore hands, and a crappy Internet connection. Since I'm not living at home, I can't fiddle around with the router at all, especially since this is a wireless connection and the router is upstairs. I can't complain since my landlord will most likely claim that nothing's wrong and/or would get mad at me.
How crappy can my Internet connection be? For starters, we all know that anime torrents are usually around 20 - 30 kB. Well, this morning, it took me a whole minute just to download one. Just one fucking 20 kB torrent! In World of Warcraft, my latency would be at an average of 2000 ms (how shitty is that). Usually, I can bear with it, even though my commands would be slower than usual, but what really pisses me off is that from time to time, my Internet would disconnect me from the server for about 30 - 60 seconds, resulting in my death about 90% of the time.
My Internet connection isn't always like this (thank goodness!!!), but when it does get crappy, damn, it becomes so fucking crappy that 56k modems (or whatever they're called) seem like a blessing. I think that this happens about once every 1 - 2 weeks.

[Edort4]

In some earlier post here I stated that I hate people. Now I have to point that I really hate ungrateful people (I dont lack hatred at all).

Is the world filled with ungrateful people or is it just that all of them appear in my way to make my life miserable? Im not a very kind person but even I sometimes do some "good" things. Today on the urderground I was getting my tickey and a girl was trying to take hers, but seemed that she only had 1 coin and the machine kept giving it back. So I told her to take one of mines, she accepted, looking at me as if I was a delincuent or something. She took her ticket and left without even saying thanks. If im not worthy of gratitude why is my money different?

Also today I connected to the msn and an old friend without saying hello or long time no seen asked me if I could help her with her internet conection. She wanted to do a network of 3 pcs with a hub. I stayed connected like 1 hour explaining how to do it step by step. Then I told her that I had a date and I was already late. She told me to explain one part again so I did it (I already was a bit angry, but this girl is one of my weakness, even if she does this kind of things I have to adore her). In the middle of the explanation she sais: I have to leave, tomorrow I will call a technique to make the network, bye. And disconnects just like that.

And this was just today. If I help those people I always end feeling cheated and if I dont help them (wich happens very often) I feel guilty. Not with strangers, but aquitances and "friends" are the worst ones by far.

@Kooshi: That sucks how much do you pay for that "great" connection? Here I pay 45€/month for a connection of 1mb/300kbs when other companies give 20mb/2mb for 29€/month but they dont give coberture in my area (and thats now, until 2006 it was 512/128 for the same price) and this company is still the biggest one by far, f..king timofonica.

[mage]

This clip might be a little old, but it made a big stir in Hong Kong where it happened. A guy tapped an old uncle on his shoulder as he was talking too loudly on his mobile phone on the bus. See what happens to him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM

Take note: this is a rare case and Hong Kong Chinese are definately not uncivilised. Well maybe some of the older generation are, but most Hong Kongers are educated enough not to talk like this man in public.

This man got so famous he got on the front page of a top HK tabloid magazine.

http://zonaeuropa.com/20060531_1.htm

Holy shit this guy is hilarious. He should write a book.

[Psyke]

Poor guy just got beaten up last month in Hong Kong. His bruised face even appeared in my country's prime time news. That's how famous he is now, though it may not be a good thing for him.

[Kraco]

Damn that man just kept on talking. But the dude made a mistake when he "warned" him. It looked like the weirdo would have finally shut up otherwise.

[Assertn]

ni**a stole my bike

[Knives122]

You're serious? a black person actually took your bike? How do you know he wasn't mexican?

[woofcat]

I lost the ability to change my title.

[RedX1z]

so.. you're stuck with chevaller forever? that blows..

You're serious? a black person actually took your bike? How do you know he wasn't mexican?

because he wasn't wearing a funny hat?

edit: anyways, life sucks when you have no choice, but to show your cousin around. luckily, one of my friends tagged along to suffer along with me. seriously, a good waste of a beautiful night that could be spent in the city, grabbed a bite to eat, then she wanted to check out the mall, killed a few hours there, then we all went home. this wouldn't have been a problem, if she wasn't such a.. what's the word that i'm looking for.. bitch? she's done nothing, but criticize and bitch about everything about myself, when she really doesn't know me at all. hopefully, this is the last time i'll ever see her.

[XanBcoo]

I'm so sick and tired of shitty horror movies today. Fuck "The Omen" fuck "The Hills Have Eyes" fuck "Final Destination" and every other corny-ass "scary movie" with a piss-poor plot and terrible acting that relies only on shock tactics and gore. It wouldn't be so bad if these movies didn't take themselves so seriously.

[masamuneehs]

my parents are in town for the next few days (and have been, one of the reasons I've not been around. Did you all miss me? No? Didn't think so... anyway...) so of course being the only person who speaks even a lick of Italian I have to show them around and all that jazz.

Now I can't complain about everything. I get to stay in a nice hotel rather than my rented room (where about a month ago it dawned on me that we don't have AC) and I get some seriously awesome dinners paid for by the 'rents.

But on the other hand, I get sick of them doing the big American tourist thing. I've spent six months in this town proving to myself and to the people here that not all Americans are tourists, that we can actually try to understand different cultures and customs. Now my parents come into town and I'm forced to use my Italian to ask people to take a family picture of us in front of all the tourist sights. How embarrassing, I'm just a big tourist after all...

And then there's them relying on me as translator. The ridiculous things they make me ask, even after I explain to them that things work differently here (and Bologna isn't a real tourist town so they're not always in the mood to oblige your foreign taste) is downright embarassing for me to say.

But if I don't act as a translator then they (my dad especially) will just try to do it on his own. Speaking mostly in English with pointed hand gestures like he's talking to some dog, mispronouncing and misusing any and every italian word i've taught him.

Why are most Americans just woefully unable to deal with the outside world?

[Kraco]

Come on, man. You are just in a special situation, having lived there for half a year, and having tried to integrate a bit. Your parents, however, what else could they be than ordinary tourists when they come to visit another country, especially one like Italy? Tourists do what tourists do for a reason. And there will always be natives who don't like tourists, no matter how well they behaved (what ever well behaving means for tourists), but also there are always citizens who are pleased that people from other countries come all the way to have a look around (and bring some hard cash with them).

[Carnage]

Woops. Sorry for the double post

[Carnage]

Fuck. Fuckity Fuckity Fuck. Just a few days ago I learned that unless you have corperate edition, theres a limit to how many times I'm allowed to reformat my computer. Well, I just hit the limit and now Windows is telling me my copy is nolonger genuine and that I have to activate windows with a new key. So I downloaded something off newnova.org that came with like 6 keygens, a bunch of`read-me files with lists of keys (though alot of them probably have been already used), two programs to change my key, and like 5 cracks. I try using the key gens and putting in new keys when I activate windows, but Windows finds that they are not genuine either. So then I tried a patch to get rid of "You must Activate Windows within the next _ days". It turns out that the patch doesnt really get rid of it, but whenever I double click on "activate windows" the entire thing fills itself out with a bunch of X's then closes itself. Thats fine and dandy but the problem for me is that the "Activate Windows" still reappears everytime I log on on. And now my trial has ended and windows wont let me log back onto my user unless I activate windows, and because of the patch, I cant even do that because when I click on "yes, activate windows" the entire thing just freezes and I have to close out of it leaving me back to the log-on screen. Now all I can do is go into safe-mode. Now I have to get a friend to help me get rid of the patch. This is all very annoying . (I've been typing all this on my dad's laptop). I just hope this is all fixed before the next GWS event (It probably will be).

[Yukimura]

@ masa: To answer your question, it's because we aren't used to needing special skils when we travel. America is comperable to all of europe in size, so most types of vacation spot can be found within our borders. You wann ski go to Colorado, you want a tan go to Hawaii or Florida. After a life of vacationing within your own country, you get conditioned into a tourist mentality that doesn't include foriegn languages or special customs, just don't talk about the Yankees in Boston, is pretty much all you need to know. Then you plop some American down in Europe, and they'll usually fall into 'vacation mode', not 'European vacation mode' their bound to act like just flew in to St. Louis. One the one hand we are conditioned to behave as we do, on the other the solution would be to go outside the country more for vacation...which is expensive.