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Jul 08, 2009 05:25PM
I second that Melodie,lol, I was just about to write that myself.
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Tonight I will rant about my inability to do anything the slightest bit challeging on the internet. There is a picture on my own website (www.brienjones.com) which I hate but don't have the faintest idea how to change. If it was a page on facebook I could make a slide show tonight and then change all the text to Korean or even Latin.
Why doesn't anyone else actually rant?
Its the Australian group 'Twilight Fanz'I agree melodie, I love my dogs. =D
thanks Ellen! I'll have to check it out.Brien, I'm not sure why nobody else rants. I think that they all just humor me and let me rant away on here.
Haha! we wouldnt do that!! we do rant than we talk about what that person was ranting about... I think??
Lol, Im not even sure.
It's another day at Jones Harvest Publishing and anything is possible!
Let's see. A rant. People who stop dead in the middle of a crowded sidewalk. Don't you know people are trying to get somewhere! Stop mucking up the pedestrian traffic flow. People who walk with their heads down, so engrossed in their phones that everyone must dive out of their oblivious paths. It's called peripheral vision people--use it. When the next bicyclist knocks you down, it'll serve you right.
And finally, people who are not "readers" acting as though I am a freak because I become invested in a story, a universe, its characters and don't want to put the book down. Guess what? I don't like sports. Not my cuppa. Do I think people who adore sports are weirdos without lives? No! (Not usually.) Leave my hobby alone and tend to your own oddities!
And so ends my rant for today, inspired by Brien, the number 3, and the letter F.
LOL, and a very good one Michelle, you forgot the one where people stop to chat in the Supermarket aisle and leave their trolly's right across everyone else's paths so they can't get through and then they won't move when you want something that's on the shelf behind them, how dare you interrupt their conversation, grrrrr, some people are just so thick.Oh and getting constantly interrupted when you are reading, I HATE that, that is why I stay up late at night and read when all other humans are in bed sleeping, lol.
Okay, I'll rant!! I HATE a**holes who drive while talking on their cell phones or, worse yet, texting!! I'll say it.......I think cell phones are quite possibly one of the worst things to come along in the last 20 years. I wouldn't have one if my husband didn't insist on it. And since when did everybody become so all-fired damn important that they MUST be reachable 24/7, especially all these damn kids?????? I swear, if I ever am involved in an accident that's caused by some jerk-wad on his cell phone, if I can get out of my car I will find something to kill him with!!! Okay....that's my rant for today! I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming!
Oh my GOD, Karen. The trolly people who abandon them in the middle of the freakin' aisle--the worst. I'd hate to see those same people driving. They probably park in the middle of intersections.Melodie, I view my cell phone as being for MY convenience. You called and I didn't answer? That's nice. I was busy reading, and I couldn't be arsed answering. I've become so anti-phone that I can't bear to talk on it. The only way to reach me is by text...since I can answer SMS at my leisure. And I'll be damned if anyone work-related has my mobile number. No! You may not contact me after 5!
As for driving and phoning, those are the same oblivious eejits that I'm dodging as pedestrians. You'd think the fact that they're operating heavy machinery would factor in.
Nope!
Sniff, maybe i do need to find that purple loving group to help me cope with the purple people haters. Naaaa.
lol! Our the purple team group. They'd support you in your love of purple! lol!
Oh and getting constantly interrupted when you are reading, I HATE that, that is why I stay up late at night and read when all other humans are in bed sleeping, lol. That is the worst!! Especially when you are at a really good part, or you're just about done and people TALK to me.. I'm reading! I'm obviously not listening. Stop talking!!! lol. I hate that.
AMEN! And it's always at the most important part. I get hateful too because it's NEVER important in my house. My husband is constantly disturbing me to look at something our dogs are doing! Kills me!
Lol I am right there with you on the readis interruptus. Makes me angry angry angry!
::stomps foot::
I have a very big rant, but I am tired so I will put it on later.It invloves family visiting, and leaving without saying goodbye and blaming it on me when I did nothing wrong or say anything and them not having an excuse.
I will rant later, im tired.Lol.
Oh, Ellen, I feel a good/bad one coming on!
Jess and Karen, I SO AGREE with people talking to you while you are reading. Especially while I am on break at work, and someone walks in and just starts a conversation or asks a question... You wouldn't interrupt someone on a phone call. Why interrupt me??
I think that the only people that would interrupt someone while reading are non-readers. They just don't understand that when you are reading a book, you don't want to stop! You don't want to be interrupted for no reason! I always feel bad for my mom with this. Whenever she sits down and tries to read, my dad picks that time to talk to her. Or else he'll start reading her articles out of the newspaper.
Lol I stopped sitting in the kitchen area at work during lunch because everyone seemed to presume I was only reading because I'd no one to talk to. Trials and tribulations.
Michelle M. wrote: I stopped sitting in the kitchen area at work during lunch because everyone seemed to presume I was only reading because I'd no one to talk to. Trials and tribulations."Me to!!! I now just sit in my car and read. It is really, really hot but at least people won't bug me while I'm reading. At one point while still sitting in the break room to at lunch, when people would talk to me I wouldn't even bother looking up at them, just kept reading, but they still didn't get the point.
Haha! Jessi, I've been sitting on a planter outside during lunch. Only drawback to that is you can't imagine how many people ask me for directions!I should hang a placard around my neck:
Directions/Neighborhood Info=$1.
LOL, that's what I meant when I said "when all other humans are asleep" you can't win no matter where you go, the non readers always seem to find you.
I wonder if I could lobby for readers-only benches, subway cars...Amtrak has a silent car! Oh, how I'd love that on the NYC subway!
Okay here is my rant:My parents are generally nice people, and they allow people to stay with us without any complant to them at all. And out of our family if anybody is going to say anything its usually me, but because i am only 14 and 'immature' ( =@ Grrr ) nobody cares what I say, and because of that I keep my mouth shut.
I put up with there rude comments, I help around the house picking up after them when my mum isn't, I even cook for them ever once on a blue moon.
My grandfather was visiting and he doesnt know me very well.
But for weeks (six weeks) I have put up with his comments, and him in general. One morning:
I had just woken up not getting much sleep and I was feeding my cat and he said:
'Oh so you're finally feeding the poor bugger'
And i said: 'can you please cut it'
'huh'
'please stop with all the skippy and rude remarkes I do do things around the house, and they annoy me when you say things like that'
'they annoy you?'
'yes'
'oh okay, i will stop'
'thank you'
I didnt use one ounce of attitude. 10:30am he says he is heading out [i am home alone:] and I said 'cya later'
him:'yep'
I didnt notice until it was dinner that he has packed up all of his stuff.
He doesn't say goodbye to ANYBODY, not even his own son of all people!
Next Day:
My mum ask me what happened that morning and I tell her everything. My dad comes home and asks me what happens I tell him everything as well.
At the end I said: 'I didnt use attitude and I said thankyou'
TRUTH
We got into an arguement and in summary he said: 'it was my fault he left because apparently I made him feel 'unwelcome' and 'unwanted' with what I said. I am incapable of manners (when I said thankyou) and that he was crying because of what happened, and dad has seen him cry twice. (funeral and today) and he didnt say goodbye because he didnt want to put up a fight, also that apparently I saw him packing up (I was on the internet [gr:] so I didnt see him leave)'
CATCH: I told dad what I said, but my grandfather wont say what happened he just says 'I said some mean things that hurt his feelings'!
CATCH 2: I spend every weekend with the guy, I couldnt have made him feel 'unwelcome' and 'unwanted'
CATCH 3: I have only said something about what he says once and that was that morning!!!
Needless to say, I felt guilty about the crying thing and asked him to stop with his rude comments. He said that was hurtful and he cries to my dad on the phone making him angry. I feel more guilty.
And my mum says its not my fault. And I am pissed because he stayed here for 6 sixs, and didnt even bother with a goodbye or thanks to my parents... not even his own son.
There I think I am done now.
That seems so terribly strange. But, I've learned from dealing with my own Mum that sometimes the most innocuous comment can make an emotional person say and do irrational things. Perhaps after six weeks, he did feel like a burden and just used your exchange as an excuse. Perhaps something your Mum or Dad said bothered him but he doesn't want to have it out with them, so he chose you as an excuse.
Who knows? But there's certainly more to his reaction than you asking him not to tease you!
The last time I was at my uncle's house, his wife took offense at me not taking their daughter to the store with me. As in a grocery store. And her daughter is my age. Apparently I so grossly offended her that she refused to exit her bedroom to say goodbye when I left for the States the next day.
::shrug::
Can't take it personally, dearie.
Wow. I get what you mean. My mum said not to take it personally either, and after thinking about it. I dont anymore.
There are just some things that dont make sense in the world.
*Sigh*
Unfortunately, there are lots of things in the world that don't make sense! It's a mad, mad world!
Yep I agree.So whose turn is it to rant?? Lol.
I think that one of my biggest pet peeves is that the book stores never have the same price for books on their website as in their store!!! That really bugs me!
Wow, Ellen that was very unfair of your granddad. Seems to me that you didn't do anything wrong.My rant: My personal irrational irritation is people who never shut doors after them when they leave a room. Worst offenders = my brothers. Every time they go out I have to scream "DOOR!" I also hate people who've never read a book in their lives, then suddenly they read Twilight and they're an expert on all forms of literature. It's even worse when they're also obsessed with High School Musical, another pet hate of mine. I used to love Twilight before all these girls in my class started going around talking about Edward Cullen as if he was a real person. One of them actually came up to me and said "You can't read Twilight, because Edward is mine". And she was dead serious. The ironic thing is, I can no longer really enjoy those books thanks to people like her.
Maeve wrote: "One of them actually came up to me and said "You can't read Twilight, because Edward is mine". And she was dead serious. The ironic thing is, I can no longer really enjoy those books thanks to people like her. .."
Holy crap! Delusional, much????? That poor child needs some serious help!
You're telling me! And I have to go to school with not only this girl but other people who are scarily like her :-( Of course that particular girl is a complete cow anyway. (Not that I'm judgmental lol)
Maeve wrote: "I also hate people who've never read a book in their lives, then suddenly they read Twilight and they're an expert on all forms of literature."Oh man, you've hit the nail right on the head with that one. Working in a bookstore only enforces this truth. I can't tell you how many people are just flabbergasted that I haven't read Twilight yet. They look at me like I've got three heads or something.
I was helping this girl in Romance the other day and she asked me about The Black Dagger Brotherhood books and I told her how great they were, etc. Then she's like, oh you like these books then you've obviously read the Twilight series, right? And I just looked at her and said, um, no. I was thinking, how does that even make sense? Just because I like a series with vampires doesn't mean I read the Twilight books. This drives me nuts, it really does.
I want to say, look, I've been reading vampire and paranormal romance books for the better part of 15 years, don't try convincing me what the pinnacle of the genre is. I know some people just want to share what they love but it gets to the point where it borders on fanaticism.
So many people try to force recommendations on me at work it gets really tiring. That's fine if The Kite Runner, My Sister's Keeper or whatever book is the current Oprah pick, is your favorite book, I don't want to read it! Quit telling me I really need to read it! No, I don't!
Love the rant, Shannon. I'm currently being bullied into moving the BDB up on the TBR list, but since my friend gave the Dark Hunters a try, I feel I owe her one! There are a few people whom I'll listen to if they're insistent about a book being great, and it's mostly turned out well. But no one could convince me to read Twilight, and that goes double for most Oprah books!
I know what you mean about unbidden suggestions. I had a coworker who saw me reading a mystery book and proceeded to drop off countless books at my desk. She had good intentions, but I had no interest in any of the books and they've just piled into a nice little heap that I never even took home. Makes me feel guilty and oddly angry!
I like suggestions, but make your pitch and then skeedaddle. You've made me aware...now let me make up my own darn mind!
I've read the TWILIGHT books, and I loved them, but I decided to read them on my own, before all the mania took hold. I also hate people who have JUST the book I need to read....something that I have absolutely zero interest in!! It's gotten to the point that I just tell all the well-meaning recommenders that I already have more books than I can read, but thanks for the suggestion. And I'd prefer stomach flu to one of Oprah's picks!!
I got sucked in once and bought one of Oprah's picks that was meant to be fabulous and it was crap, I have never finished it, what a waist of money it was.
I don't understand blanket recommendations. I only recommend certain things to certain people, based on my knowledge of books THEY'VE liked and their overall personality. In my head, I run more of a readalike catalog rather than an EVERYONE in the WORLD will like this book because I do! list.
I have a new rant! I love having lots of good reads friends....as long as I have somewhat the same interest in books. But today, I had 3 invitations to be friends with people. 2 of the people I only had a VERY small handfull of books in common with. And one of the invites was from a guy that I have 1 book in common with, and that's not even a book that I've read yet!!! It's just on my tbr list! Why would you want to be friends with someone that reads completely different books from you!?
I hate people that collect friends for no reason! But you're right, what exactly are you going to talk about if you like romance and the other person likes political books or whatever. Maybe that person wants to expand their horizons as far as genres go or something, but that doesn't seem likely. Did you get a friend request from someone names Mahlon? He sent me one today and we had maybe 10 books in common and most of them were just the classics that everyone reads in school, and our opinions on those books aren't even similar. He also has more "friends" than books read. Lame.
I completely agree about the saleswoman (I would have done worse, personally) and the blanket recommendations. I'm glad when my friends find books they enjoy, but it makes me think their recommendations are not very thoughtful when they send them out to every wildly diverging friend on their list. Call me spoiled, I like my recs personalized. I even posted it to my profile after receiving enough of those. Also, people interrupting my reading?! WTH? Just because you don't find it interesting, I can't either? LOL.
Ellen ♥ wrote: "Okay here is my rant:My parents are generally nice people, and they allow people to stay with us without any complant to them at all. And out of our family if anybody is going to say anything i..."
I've been there before. It's tough because you want to respect Grandfather, and some might say swallow your pride, but if he's constantly undermining you, you can't let that continue. At the end of the day, he'll get over it (eventually, LOL). The same problem that's causing him to drop those remarks as a form of affection is probably also the source behind his oversensitivity about your reaction. It doesn't sound like he knows how to express himself.
I know what you mean Kelley Anne, I've just recently had to set my profile to private because of the likes of men with no books in common with you, young girls that just seem to want to see there friend list grow etc etc..I'm a quality over quantity girl myself.lol.
Yeah, I will only friend people that have many books in common with me. Otherwise there is no point. I also hate when people try to friend me and they have more friends than books!! If you just want to talk to people, go use facebook or myspace, this is primarily a book website. It's strange lol.
Thanks! WARNING: This rant is about high school drama!
Okay, so my friend got a boyfriend a couple of months ago, and he is really nice. the nerdy kind of guy who is kind of cute?!? (If you dont understand thats okay) but lately they have been very public about their relationship. Basically going to second base in public! We have seriously tried talking to her but when we do she gets all angry at us! Ugh! It is disgusting I mean she is 15 (As of the other day) and we're in grade 9! Nobody wants to see this stuff!
With the whole friends rant: I AGREE! Does it annoy you when you accept somebodys friend request and all they do is give you group suggestions?! It annoys me. I havent been on here in a while because school is finishing and is starting to stress me out, i was off for about 2weeks. I come back and from 1 person i have about 25 group suggestions! And they are things like 'random people' or 'Chocolate fans'.
Completely irrelevant to GR and just plain annoying!
Hey Kelley Anne, I'm a bit late but still wanted to give you my support about the craptacular service you recieved. Definately think you did the right thing, I would have liked to wack her upside with one of my books!Sucks about the manager, sounds like he didnt have the balls to do anything about it or he just doesnt like his job, in which case he should get the hell out because im sure most of us would love the job :D
And i think you should tell us all the name of the bookstore so we never go there, personally i wouldnt want to after that.
but good on you!
Ellen ♥, wow that's innappropriate. Unfortunately, some people just do not understand that mauling each other in public is not attractive. If you really want them to stop, try pointing a sarcastic comment at him. Men tend to be more touchy about public displays of affection. And 9th grade is too young to be running bases, gosh darnnit!
As for the group invites, very annoying, I agree! I keep getting role-play ones. Zero interest.
*grumble* I've purchased a ton of used large print books on Amazon recently. I tend to buy them used because they're either out-of-print or too darn expensive (they usually would be around $30 new).Anyway, I had 5 different people send me the regular print edition of a book in the last three days.
:( The regular print edition (used) of those books is around $0.20 to purchase, so I am *very* miffed. For one of the books, I paid $18. ARRRRGH. I know I can file a compalint with Amazon, but I hate the idea that I'm going to have to pay $2.50 to ship the books back to these Yum-yums that posted them erroneously to begin with.
Rant over. :(
I'm going crazy, the boxes that you click on to in My Books that change a book from To-Read to Currently Reading on my page just don't seem to want to work anymore, I've tried all sorts of things but I just can't seem to get them to work, there was a change made a couple of weeks ago and I have been having problems ever since, has anyone else had these problems?
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