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Roger (who is on vacation, holidaying in Portugal) can listen in... [Little Brother is watching...]
Roger wrote: "Roger (who is on vacation, holidaying in Portugal) can listen in... [Little Brother is watching...]"I hope Roger(who is on vacation, holidaying in Portugal) is having a good time. I loathe the fact I am not on vacation in Portugal ;)
Boyd wrote: "My mother warned me about guys like you.>smiling<"
Your mother? Oh yes, wonderful woman. Delightful.
I loathe, hate, detest and despise with an undying passion: cliff-hanger endings.They're merely annoying on television series (West Wing and NCIS come to mind for those of you here in the States). But they're (somewhat) tolerable because you're only waiting a few months to find out what happened next.
I find them infuriating, and in a way a betrayal of readers, to have them happen in a series of books.
The first time it happened was in Jordan's Wheel of Time series. (FYI, each book in this remarkable, complex fantasy series is roughly a foot thick and uses .8 font. >s<) I'd heard that book 6 (7?) was supposed to be an unusually long one, but then it came out and it was significantly thinner and with larger font. I had re-read the first 5, started #6, got curious and went to check the ending.
Weird, I know, but while I usually read a book straight through, sometimes there is something about it that bugs me, so I read the ending. If I like it, I go back to where I left off, and read to find out how the author got to that ending. If I dislike, I stop reading.
Up to that point each Time book was complete. It was obvious there was going to be more, but the "story" of that book was done. #6 ended in a cliff-hanger. Which meant waiting 2-4 [expletives deleted] years to find out what happened next.
My solution? I decided to just buy the rest of the books as they came out and then read the series. I now have all 14 books, occupying literally a couple of feet on the bookshelf, waiting patiently.
The most recent betrayal was by Abigail Roux in the Cut & Run series. She's an incredible writer. I've enjoyed every one of her books. I eagerly awaited each new book in the series. Each novel was "complete" but you knew there were more "adventures" to be had.
Then came the last scene of the most recent book. A proverbial gut-punch moment. And totally unnecessary. That scene could have been a brilliant opening for the next book. Now we sit around and wait who knows how long to find out what happened next.
My "solution" doesn't "punish" the authors, of course, since the Jordan Estate made money, and Ms. Roux will make money, off my purchases. So I'll just buy the C&R series as they come out, store them in a pixel closet, and eventually when the series ends, treat myself, without having to wait months or years to find out what happens next with the cliff-hangers.
End of rant
Eric-the-weird
Eric-the-weird (I like),What a lovely rant and dead on accurate. How frustrating.
Great rant Eric! I love series but learned years ago not to read them until all of them were out, with very few exceptions I've been able to do that, my exceptions are the books I just can't wait to get my hands on. My reason for doing that is more because I read so much that by the time the next book in a series is out I've forgotten what was going on then would have to re-read them to refresh my memory. With so many books to read I don't like to do that.
It's frustrating now that I'm on GR and all my friends read the books as they come out and discuss them and I can't because I haven't read them yet and I don't want to hear anything that may ruin my read. Huh, I just realized as far as a series goes it's a no win situation I'm da@# if I do and da@# if I don't. Now that's depressing!
I loathe, detest, abhor and can't stand... Spoilers! :(
Rick wrote: "I loathe, detest, abhor and can't stand... Spoilers! :("Thus I have avoided all Who sites since the end of series 7 ...
eric wrote: "I don't like that thing for taking staples out, when I staple I like to think it's forever, but that thing sitting there in the little organiser on the desk, it ruins it, it makes stapling into an ..."Staples = Marriage
Remover = Divorce
Sometimes things just aren't meant to be forever.
I detest that when people ask me if I would like coffee or alcohol and I say I don't drink either that they then look at me like I am an insectoid alien bent on the destruction of all they hold dear. I never developed a taste for either! I don't like apple pie either! Or marshmallows!
Wow! For an American, definitely an alien :-)
Take me to your leader!I also loathe football and hockey. Maybe I should emigrate to Mars.
Jennifer wrote: "Take me to your leader!I also loathe football and hockey. Maybe I should emigrate to Mars."
I understand that Mars needs moms, and it's an immigration policy. Do you qualify?
>snicker<
Eric Alan wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Take me to your leader!I also loathe football and hockey. Maybe I should emigrate to Mars."
I understand that Mars needs moms, and it's an immigration policy. Do you qualify?..."
The immigration
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-env...
Mars you say? I want to be on that first one-way ticket flight. In a class last year we had an ice-breaker question that went something like: If you could have any job, ANY job, what would it be?
My response: Leader of the Martian Independence Movement.
The classes response: Dead silence.
My follow-up: Fist pump into the air and shout FREE MARS!
Their response: scattered, uncomfortable laughter.
That's my life. So I might as well be on a one-way trip to Mars.
That's so saad… their reaction, I mean. I bet you'd make a great leader of M.I.M.
Rick wrote: "Mars you say? I want to be on that first one-way ticket flight. In a class last year we had an ice-breaker question that went something like: If you could have any job, ANY job, what would it be?..."
>snicker<
You got stuck with a bunch of mundanes. (B-5 Rules!)
Roger wrote: "That's so saad… their reaction, I mean. I bet you'd make a great leader of M.I.M."Thank you.
The class was Script Analysis so pretty much everyone was into theater, literature or movies. I would have thought it would have gone over better. Oh well.
Lori wrote: ">snicker< You got stuck with a bunch of mundanes. (B-5 Rules!)">snicker<
You have no idea. ;)
Mars would be an amazing trip of a lifetime but not a one way ticket. Earth and humans may suck at times but I would miss it. I need trees and snow and blue skies.You know what I loathe and detest? What just made me cranky? I was just at Yahoo and saw that Toni Basil ( Oh Mickey you're so fine) turned 70 today. 70!! I hate that Yahoo and Toni Basil just made me feel very very old.
I loathe, detest, abhor and can't stand fox news and canned beets.
I loathe, detest, abhor and can't stand that the Olympic Committee, participating nations, athletes and the public just gave up on Putin enforcing his anti-gay laws at the Winter Olympics on tourists, participants and everyone.
Not canned beets. Fresh beets are good though.
Hate that Russia will pretend to be equitable with anti gay policy just long enough to make money and gain prestige.Then the party will be over.
Cube the Soul Thief ~With my bag of souls!~ wrote: "So... Is Russia letting gay people in? Or are they still being ignorant homophobes?"They let gay people in but if they say one word about gayness or even have a rainbow flag they can (and have been) arrested for promoting homosexuality. It is explained well in this article in The New York Times at this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/opi...
Inspector Cucumber Cube wrote: "One person was to create the power point, each person type their own slide, that person is done, they're not allowed to correspond or talk to their group member."That kind of repression of creativity and working together as a group is sad. Really sad. I hate that you have to put up with it. You got a crummy deal with this class.
Good heavens! This sounds like 19th century teaching methods! Personally I blame NCLB (No Child Left Behind) which forces teachers to adhere to one single narrow-minded methodology that is suppose to help students get high test scores, but completely fails to either instill an actual education process or an ability to think critically.
So let's say: I loathe, detest, abhor and can't stand... G. W. Bush's non-education policy, NCLB, that profits only "educational" corporations at the expense of the students.
Cube of Nothing wrote: "Mrs Old Lady Teacher Person came over and demanded what we were doing and to remove the pictures. What was her reasoning? Printing in color costed money. "
Is she still going have you print out the Powerpoint presentations? >laughing<
Rick wrote: "Personally I blame NCLB (No Child Left Behind) which forces teachers to adhere to one single narrow-minded methodology that is suppose to help students get high test scores, but completely fails to either instill an actual education process or an ability to think critically..."How comforting – or is it? – to hear that our American cousins suffer the same damnable teaching dogma as we do in Britain. I note that in recently published findings, the UK came close to the bottom of basic numeracy and literary skills of 24 countries. The US was a bit worse:
"The figures show that, in England and Northern Ireland (the two parts of the UK to take part in the tests), 16 to 24-year-old scored 266 on average in the literacy test - putting them third from bottom in the 24 nation league table with only Spain and Italy behind them. Japan topped the table with a score of 299.
In numeracy, the UK 16 to 24-year-olds scored 257 - putting them fourth from the bottom with Spain, Italy and the United States behind them. The US was last."
Fortunately, there are some news schools, or old ones with refreshed thinking, coming along under Michael Gove's relentless policies which are returning to streamed teaching.
There's more detail in the Independent
I loathe, detest and abhor people who type your for you're, to instead of too and write peaked when they mean piqued.And guys who claim 8" in their profiles and then when they show up it turns out to be more like 6" and also those who overuse Photoshop.
B.D. wrote: "I loathe, detest and abhor people who type your for you're, to instead of too and write peaked when they mean piqued.And guys who claim 8" in their profiles and then when they show up it turns out..."
I loathe, detest and abhor people who type "their" for "they're" (or versa vicey) and "discrete" for "discrete" and "defiantly" for "definitely." And then there's that peel/peal, peak/peek bit. I also loathe, etc., that I never have the opportunity to be disappointed in eight inches I might have difficulty...er...handling, as opposed to six that I could. >snicker<
Although there was this wonderful nine-incher, in the adult bookstore... Uh. Hmmm. >g<
Mem'ries...of the way we were.
Eric
Barbra would be proud of you, Eric. And Jason, too.I'd rather have a live 9" than a 10" dildo though usually have to settle for... oh, I better not go there.
Have we gotten to measuring penis size now.I once gave a partner 9 inches and left them hurtin'.
Did em three times then hit em with a hammer.
Rich wrote: "Have we gotten to measuring penis size now.I once gave a partner 9 inches and left them hurtin'.
Did em three times then hit em with a hammer."
Hmmm, Rich, do you really think it's a good idea to admit a felony in public like this? Of course, I don't have enough criminal law knowledge to know whether hurtin' someone with nine inches (yours, a dildo, someone else's) is a crime, but gee, maybe you oughta retract that admission against interest. What with the NSA monitoring all of our emails and postings, they could be getting in touch with the cops in your neck of the woods right now.
Of course, if you're sure the applicable statute of limitations has run on either the 9 inches or the assault by hammer, well, then, you're probably home free.
>s<
Eric
NCLB is a worthless policy. I have a friend who is a teacher and she tells me there is no time for teachers to make sure that the kids are getting the material for the unit before they have to move on to the next thing. It's not good for kids at either end of the spectrum (whether they're good or in desperate need of help).
I loathe detest and abhor that any queen would choose that overly-steroided boy, Manganiello, over a real hunk of a man like Ryan.
B.D. wrote: "I loathe detest and abhor that any queen would choose that overly-steroided boy, Manganiello, over a real hunk of a man like Ryan."I am generally nothing loathe to weigh in with my USD .02 on a subject whether I know anything about it or not...as you all know...but, uh...who are Manganiello and Ryan?
A (too lazy to Google) inquiring mind wants to know.
(Are any of you actually old enough to remember that commercial? >g<)
Eric
Hi Eric,Ya just gotta go to:
This or that: answer one/ask one.
Where did that line come from? Never knew it was a commercial but don't watch much TV.
Cheers,
Brad
B.D. wrote: "Hi Eric,Ya just gotta go to:
This or that: answer one/ask one.
Where did that line come from? Never knew it was a commercial but don't watch much TV.
Cheers,
Brad"
In the long, long, long ago days before you were born, throughout the American land there was a National Enquirer television commercial (1984ish), which naturally phrased it as "Enquiring minds want to know."
I'm sure the phrase was around before then, but that and "inquiring" version became more prominent afterwards.
End of history lesson for the youngsters among us.
Eric
I'm sure
i cannot stand anti-gay/anti-equality idiots.
I loathe, detest, abhor and can't stand those books that left me hanging.
HOMEWORK! I can't stop thinking about it and I also don't want to do it! It prevents me from thinking about things, like other things I detest and abhor.
Housework. It's gets in the way of reading. Also, why should I have to clean up other people's stuff?
Roger wrote: "Total agreement. Dust Rules, I say!"It sure does. I sneeze (endlessly) every time I dust! :(
Having had the utility area rebuilt and re-roofed, there is an inch of dust over everything. I gave up dusting after the second day :-)
...other depressed people 'cause I'm a bit depressed myself
And here I always thought misery loved company. ;)Personally, I loathe, detest and can't stand people who try and cheer me up. :)
Or should I say. :(
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