No-Thanks Giving
 

So you're thankful for this, that, and the other. But what are you not thankful for this year? What are some of the things that have really pissed you off the most this year?
Rant about some of the things you really could have done without this year.


My major no-thanks:


This year, I give no-thanks to the following people for making my life barely tolerable:



1. Everyone on the road except me.
I don't know how many horrible drivers there are in the world, but I'm willing to bet that there's a Horrible Driver convention that happens every day, on every road, in every city I'm driving in. It doesn't matter what time of day it is. The convention is at full capacity and I will find myself trying to drive through it without getting side-swiped, rear-ended, bogged down, and pissed off.
I've noticed a general trend that dictates the people who speed past you on the interstate and flip you off because you're only going 5 miles OVER the speed limit, are the same jackasses who go 5 miles UNDER the speed limit in the city. I've seen it happen. I've watched these Jeckyl & Hydes transform. Both ways. It's unanimous. I end up behind these guys all the time and I'm brought to a state of pure confusion about it.
Some of these people SLOW DOWN while nearing a green light.
Some of them recklessly careen down a side street, then stop for a yellow light.
Some of them like to change lanes without ever thinking that it may be a great idea to um... make sure no one is along side them. I dunno... just a tip.
The rules in this alternate traffic universe have truly been conceived in the twilight zone, and every time I'm stuck behind, or in front of one of these assholes the end result is me getting annoyed.
Driving has turned me into a completely defensive, always paranoid, waiting for someone to smash into me or force me to veer off into the median just to not get hit by T-Floyd and his trailer trash girlfriend who apparently think they're just playing a Nintendo game of driving because they smoked far too much meth.

You drivers disgust me.



2. College Students
Out of all the ridiculous things I've had to witness, I think being in college and having a pair of eyeballs ranks up there in the tops.
I'm not talking about kids doing stupid stunts, or drinking themselves to death. No... I'm talking about the kids who are paying a lot of money to do absolutely nothing but surf the internet and play games ALL DAY and then fail a test, and then bitch and complain about their grades.
I sit here and hear these kids pissing and moaning about how they can't understand what's being taught, how they can't pass the tests, and how mad they are at me for getting 100% on my tests and screwing their chances of having a grade curve.
I even offered to help one kid study but told him he'd have to type the key points... He said "No that's too much work." and resumed watching Beyonce' music videos.
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
You dumb fuckers are here for a degree, and you cheat to pass tests... and can't even succeed at that 80 percent of the time, and you expect to get a good job huh? Well... fine. Get your foot in the door. Then when they start to suspect you're a fraud and fire you because you have absolutely no knowledge about the very field you have a fucking degree in? Well.. You're gonna be serving me chicken nuggets at McDonald's in 2 years, jackass.
Parents... don't send your kids to college until they've actually had their own apartment, worked for their own rent, food, and bills, and learned that they actually have to expend effort in order to survive and prosper. Let them learn how to be an adult before you spend money on their higher education. Seriously, if you do, you'll be investing your money in something that isn't going to embarrass you. Because your kids, most of them, they're fucking embarrassing.


3. Lack of stuff to bitch at
I know it's disappointing, but I really don't have that much to bitch at. Some of the things I've bitched at in the past just seem so trivial. I guess it's going to be like that every year. The previous year's bitching won't seem as important as I take on new priorities.
But at least I know that if there ever happens to be a point in time where I have absolutely nothing to bitch at...

I'll at least be able to bitch about that.




No Thank you, 2009.

in all honesty i think the worst parents are the ones who send their unrepentant fuckers off to school without so much as a whiff of what their snotty brats want to do with their lives.

it's how i go to a principally-technical school where more than 50% of the attending students are liberal arts majors and kids change into them just as soon as they realize that there's work involved in getting a legitimate degree.

I just don't understand how those type of kids think.
It's like going to a job, not doing any work at all, and expecting not to get fired.

Even kids know that doesn't work.
It's common sense. But why is it not common sense for kids to know that you have to put effort into a career choice?
I personally think it's because they're not ready for it. Some rare few are, but most just want to drink, have sex, party, and play games.
If you look at their priorities, those will be at the top of the list.

Speaking of drivers....

so I'm in the car with my mom today. We're waiting at an intersection for a guy to turn so we can go straight. As he's finishing turning the light goes yellow, but we still have enough time to make it through. Suddenly, when the light goes yellow the guy in front of us stops, in the middle of the street. We can't get around him so we honk, and then he actually starts backing up into us, expecting us to go backwards out of the middle of the intersection. He finally realizes that there are actually cars in the way, so he drives on ahead like he should have in the first place. FUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK......

But I've actually had a pretty good year. Some unthankful things but nothing too bad.

Shoot, Im thankful I havent gotten any broads pregnant this year. I think I'll go have a roast beef sandwich and some pie for thanksgiving.

Not thankful for investing the last 4 years of my life with a bitch thats been cheating the entire time.

Not thankful for a shit job with a shithead boss.

Not thankful for too much shit really, other than the original Twisted Metal game, drugs, and the guy that thought speakers that you can attach to your head was a good idea.

This.

:( That about sums me up right there. Though in fairness, I never once complained about not understanding the material or getting a bad grade. I just chose to participate in alternate recreation rather than go to class or take tests. And you know what? I expected to not be there for long. To be honest, as much of a **** up as I was/am, that pissed me off too. I couldn't comprehend why a few people in my dorm actually gave me **** for doing drugs all the time and never working while they were busy with "study groups" where they watched movies, played games, and talked for 4 hours. Then they would roll an L and smoke it because of course, "After working so hard, we deserve a break!" Actual quote right there.

No thanks, 2009, for taking my best friend.

No thanks, 2009, for spawning Twilight, which both my sister and Mom enjoy.

MAMP. I do not understand how to use this fucking thing at all. I have literally spent eight hours today just trying to view a preview of one of my PHP files and cannot for the life of me get this, the most basic of things you can do with a file, to work. I feel like I'm about to lose my marbles.

one month late yankees
get with the program!!!

I feel for ya.

Speaking of things partially related to SQL...

SQL pisses me off, because I'm at the end of my semester dealing with SQL Server, and I still don't see the point of ever wanting to use it in a business. It's too overly complicated for what it does.
Microsoft Access is easier, maybe less robust, but really... Who needs there to be the existence of both a cross-join between tables and a regular join, when it does pretty much the same thing? And even the PRINT command pisses me off. At what point in time will an SQL Server administrator want to create a query simply to PRINT "hey! I'm a douchebag! I made random words that aren't even data in a table appear in the query result window!"

Maybe it's because I haven't seen SQL implimented in a business environment yet, but I honestly don't think most of the features involved in SQL Server are ever needed in reality.
I could be wrong.
I just don't like the fact that I have to learn about it regardless.


No thanks, 2009.

I've been hating my friends instead of enjoying them, for the past 6 months maybe.

no-thanks to that.

I find all that stuff incredibly confusing, it's just not how my mind works at all. I guess it does have its uses but damned if I understand them.

On a positive note, I got the preview I was complaining about to show up (I used the PRINT command to test it so I suppose that does have its uses) but I still have no idea how to make my actual PHP work.

I imagine SQL Server is better for enterprise apps as I've heard that Access doesn't scale that well. To be honest, small scale DBMS like MySQL and Firebird SQL have been sufficient for my uni/personal DB meanderings although I did do some DB unit-testing last year for a company that uses SQL Server.

I think there's a bit of developer elitism towards Access which is foolish as it's perfectly suitable for many situations.

My year started off so horribly. Seems my last 1 week stand left me a little parting present which I unknowingly passed on to a friend of mine because I was so far gone and putting on a condom was just too much work. So I wake up New Years Day stumble around a room full of people trying to find my pants then head to the bus stop (which is like 30 minutes late). When I get home I find that my roommate had not left his half of the rent and our landlord had already threatened to kick us out if we were late on rent again. So all morning I'm nursing a hangover, fearing that I'm going to be evicted, and having to listen to the Vietnamese family downstairs do karaoke. Finally my landlord comes over but lets us stay because I gave him my half of the rent, but he did give us a warning for throwing our cigarette butts out the window. So finally I decide to take a nap and just prepare myself for work the next day, I wake up at around 8 PM to 16 text messages on my phone from friends, all asking me if I wore a condom when I slept with my one week stand. Yes, my friend who I slept with the night before decided to tell everyone but me that she was experiencing symptoms of Chlamydia. So I'm freaking out, I decide to call up a friend of mine who works as an escort because if anyone knows what to do she will and she takes me to a clinic, buys me dinner, and takes a drive with me telling me it's OK that I'm freaking out. This event was pretty much the thing that ****ed my entire year up, why I moved back to Reno, why I quit my well paying albeit boring job, and so many other things.

I eventually got over the embarrassment when a friend of mine took me out to a bar and told me "I don't know why you're so upset about it man, chlamydia is so easy to treat it's almost cool to have because it proves you're having sex". This was probably the best thing I've had said to me this entire year because it put me in a very chirpy mood and helped me get over the embarrassment.

Wow dude, are you looking to get AIDS? Who the fuck has unprotected sex nowadays?

youngsters who are stupid and need a good scare like what happened to me.

Well count your blessings, you fucking bonehead. Jesus, 2009 and people are still dumb fucks when it comes to protection...

Believe me man I'm thankful it was something easy to fix, and believe me there's not a day that goes by that I don't regret it. If I hadn't have done it I'd still be living somewhere I like, working a job I enjoyed that paid well, and being surrounded by friends. I ****ed up royally, I acted like a stupid young kid and had to deal with the consequences of my actions.

Hmmm, at least I'm not the only one who shares this sentiment...

That makes, for the most part, 3 of us. I have a few friends I still enjoy hanging out with, but most of them are just pissing me off.

I guess it's four of us now, it's always the same old **** with my friends, I'd honestly rather just stay at home listen to music and go out whenever.

Reminds me of the time I forgot to buy extra condoms so I had use a rubberglove with all the other fingers cut off except the thumb. When she asked me to spend the night I spent five extra minutes sewing up the cut fingers with the pipecleaners in my pocket.
So she had this fetish about cartoon themed furniture, so we were flopping it on a Mickey Mouse couch rodeo style. She was yelling "Oh, Julian" seeing as I told her I was Julian Cope at the bar. After that night I had two pinpricks on the sides of my **** from the ends of the pipecleaners, so I started telling broads my name was John Harker.

This went on for a weekend and half an afternoon.

+1

I'm not thankful for:

1. My stupid immune system and how it isn't very good at being immune. Being in hospital for weeks and weeks was not fun, and having a spinal tap was the most painful thing I have ever experienced.

2. My very empty bank account, which forced me to leave my most favourite place in the world and come back to Australia.

3. The grade 1 child who threw up on my shoes while I was student teaching.

Lolwut :laughing:

I am not thankful for having to work this weekend. And I am not thankful for my ADD which is keeping me from actually doing any work as I am sitting here in the office on a Sunday afternoon. A waste of time. And I am not thankful for having to figure out this damn MODx CMS that I've never used in order to build a site that is due by the end of the month (yes that's a week away). F this S. As Janszoon said regarding what he's working on, this isn't how my mind works! :p:

I am, however, thankful that I have a job.

No thanks to the shitty ex-roommate that put me in a fucked up situation, a father who insists on living his life through me, a job that leaves me smelling like feet and fucking guys who don't understand the concept of casual sex.

Ah man, I wish I had a roomate like you...

I don't know what that means, but thanks.

I once had a job that left me smelling like fries. I suppose that's better than feet.

I'm not thankful for was the kidney stone I had this summer. That was ****ing painful. Other than that, there isn't much else I can whine about.

Well I had a guy I slept with trying to tell me that I gave him an STI when infact he wore a condom with me, I had had a test before and after him which showed no STI's and he didn't believe me because the other girls he slept with at that time said it wasn't them. Eventually he did believe me though. I'm so careful about that kind of thing, I'm so glad I can say I've never had an STI!

The STD (or STI whichever it is now) wasn't even the worst part. I mean it sucked ass don't get me wrong, but the fact that I was the last person to know, that all my friends knew before me was the worst thing possible. It was really awkward having to call up the girl who gave me the STD and after I told her she was afraid because she had to tell her current boyfriend. I guess it's true what they say about STD's, they're the gift that keeps on giving :laughing:

Hun I totally feel for you, no one wants to be in this situation. I would have been so devestated if all my friends knew first. But I like that you rang that girl and told her. It's like people who have AIDs who keep sleeping with people without letting them know, so wrong!

Skipped a pretty crucial one in here before.

No thanks, 2009, for the broken neck. And the fact that it came less than 2 weeks before Lollapalooza and I had to sell my ticket for half of what I paid for it. At least I got something I guess... I missed a bunch of good concerts though :( Melt Banana and Dino Jr made up for all of those though.

Ouch!

Literally.

Still single. No thanks for that.

Other than that I don't have too much to bitch about. It's been a pretty good year.

Meh, being single is great.
The trick is to imagine that you've just been in a horribly taxing relationship (not far from reality most of the time) and have just been granted freedom.
As long as you can still score some booty when you need to, it's the ultimate in the many facets of the art of avoiding personal and social responsibilities.

A good motto to have is:

"Live life like you've just dumped your horribly obsessive significant other."
-or-
"Loneliness just means it's time to masturbate."


All wise perspectives to adhere to for a healthy, stress-free life without annoying kids, nagging wife, paycheck being spent by everyone but you, PTA conferences, etc...

Good advice. I was horribly, horribly shy until basically the last half of my senior year, so not being single was kind of one of my goals coming into freshman year of college. But I definitely see where you're coming from.

Can I get an amen?

No thanks to the heating system in my apartment that seems to have a mind of its own! It's been pretty chill the last week (just how I like it) and I haven't touched the setting, I get home from work today and it's warm! Uncomfortably warm at the moment.