Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

I was watching some old 70's pop nostalgia on the TV last night just before the GF came round. It was quite interesting seeing the psychedelic type graphic effects and the art/pop imagery - good stuff! (It was when hair was hair!)
They had Black Sabbath and AC/DC on, amongst others, etc. My GF didn't recognise Ozzy as I had to tell her. He looked a bit 'wide-eyed' even then. Seeing Angus Young strutting around in his schoolies was great too. (He looked like he was playing truant. Lol!)
Then we watched this 'Pop'-umentary just after about Ray Davies and the Kinks. It was an quite interesting program and insight, especially when they showed some of the '60's imagey of semi-naked/naked ladies. Nothing bad, I hasten to add.
It is quite funny because usually in those situations when that type of thing comes on (and the GF is round) then she usually looks at me, knowing full well that I have this 'rabbit in the headlights' look where my eyes glaze over, and I have this sort of semi-suppressed grin on my face, where part of my mouth turns upwards.
This time however I was in the middle of the room so she couldn't see my face directly, however I quickly made some small talk, type 'off the cuff remark' where I say "The graphics were interesting in those days, weren't they love?"
Oh the joys of having your first COLOUR TV set back in 1971, (yes '71) and watching all the late Friday night Hammer horror films. Memories, sigh!

Rant: No CGI 'B*ll*cks back then!

Anti: Well at least Captain Paracetamol and his Analgesic crew did their trick last night.

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

My own younger sister has a steady boyfriend and she stays over at his place a lot. And I'm still a single virgin. How much more pathetic can it get than that? My YOUNGER SIBLING has had sex before I've ever had a boyfriend. Her guy is hot and awesome, too. All I can seem to find, whether online or in real life are ugly, plain or deformed looking creeps. Yet I keep being told that I'm very pretty and attractive.

You are. And if I ever felt the need to go to America I would gladly take your virginity. If you'd like.

I know how you feel though. My younger sister had 3 bf by the time she was 16 or so.
I've never had a gf. Well, shit I just forgot I have, technically. But it was like for 2 weeks or something and I saw her twice outside of school, and obviously I don't even recall it easily which tells you how serious it was lol

It's not sad though. We improve ourselves because we're alone all the time.
This will make us attractive to future potential mates.

Originally Posted by ThePreserver

Do you ever find that breathing is a tiresome business? Right now, I feel too tired to breathe.

I'm not exactly depressed and in no way suicidal... I'm just too tired to breathe properly.

hahahaha, I been feeling like this too in the last couple of days.
It's definitely anxiety. My anxiety came back for me in the last week or so, and I've experienced this before too when I'm anxious (over a long period).
I breathe more shallow than most people I think, and when I get anxious, it's even worse. And when I realise it feels like I can't be bothered/don't want to breathe in deeply.
The "don't want to" part is, I think, because it's strangely comfortable/comforting to just retreat. And breathing in deeply is sort of fighting the anxiety? Sounds weird.... but makes sense.

Anyway, my rave. I took xanax 2 days ago for the first time in over a year. To call my boss. Didn't end up calling anyway coz I remembered she's doing something.
Then took some again on Friday when going in to work, still didn't get a chance because it was busy as fuck.
Didn't take any today coz I only have one left. And I didn't get a chance either, but I got to the car and just sat there and said "Fuck it." went back in and told the guy (girl was busy) the I'm leaving.
FUCK YES! This is probably one of my most irrational anxiety things I've had, I mean public speaking etc. is sort of reasonable, you might fuck up etc. but this was just dumb. And I beat that shit!
Fuck you, scumbag brain!

I'm low on Xanax though and I feel bad for wasting it the other two days, at least I got a break from that anxiety I've been having the last week or so though.
Now I'm drinking some good beer and chilling. No more of this shit work in 2 weeks! DDDDD:D

Way to go Tommo!

I don't think I have ever experienced being "too tired to breathe". When my anxiety kicks in though I find it annoying to breathe because I always have to yawn. Like Tommo, I usually breathe pretty shallowly so all those yawns make me hyper-oxygenated pretty quickly, which makes me have to yawn more because thereafter I feel like I'm not getting enough oxygen lol Going to sleep is about the only thing that "resets" my breathing back to normal.

My rant is that I laid down for a nap last night at 8PM. I didn't wake up until 7:30AM What the friggin heck?
Yesterday, I went to sleep at 3AM and I woke at Noon which is 9 hours of sleep. I took a caffeine pill at 1PM, 2:30 and 5 (possibly doubled because I couldn't recall if I took it or not/might have taken a second) and then I was sound asleep by 8:30PM? So I got an additional 11 friggin hours.
I also drank 4 entire cans of Coke throughout yesterday which is VERY rare for me. I might OPEN 4 cans but I'd only drink half before they got too nasty and I'd get another one. I typically drink THAT slowly

I did wake up several times last night because I was freezing. I turned my AC on before sleeping, thinking I would sleep for just a little while. I turned it off at some point but have no memory of doing so.

And then it hit me as it always does. No, I'm not sick (the first thing I consider when sleeping THIS much), I'm anxious. I have a trip with hubby next Thursday-Sunday. Why the heck do I get such severe Travel-anxiety? It's ridiculous!
What's more ridiculous is it always takes me THIS long to realize I'm suffering travel-anxiety. You guys would find rant after rant throughout these pages of me complaining about this EXACT thing

That's how my anxiety works. I'm very rarely ever consciously aware of being anxious. I don't have anxious thoughts. My body simply starts attacking me and I have to put the pieces together to figure out why

**EDIT**
And now I'm going to go BACK to friggin sleep after 2 cans of Coke and 2 caffeine pills Hubby told me, just now, to lay off the stimulants because they can have a reverse effect if you take too much. What the heck >

Stupid double post wouldn't let me erase it....

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

My own younger sister has a steady boyfriend and she stays over at his place a lot. And I'm still a single virgin. How much more pathetic can it get than that? My YOUNGER SIBLING has had sex before I've ever had a boyfriend. Her guy is hot and awesome, too. All I can seem to find, whether online or in real life are ugly, plain or deformed looking creeps. Yet I keep being told that I'm very pretty and attractive.

You're not alone. I just realized I'm going to turn 20 next month, and will have therefore been single for 20 years (although technically the first 13+ years that would be expected, but still... 20 years of being a line item.) But Tommo is right; being single for long stretches lets you grow and understand yourself, which (hopefully) will make you not just "another one" to someone, but "the one worth keeping."

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

Her guy is hot and awesome, too. All I can seem to find, whether online or in real life are ugly, plain or deformed looking creeps. Yet I keep being told that I'm very pretty and attractive.

What if her hot guy is a jerk and you meet an ugly guy that's awesome? I hope you're not that worried about what they look like. I'm not saying you are, but that's what most of your post looks like.

And don't worry about sex. That's the easy part....the tough part is compatibility.

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

All I can seem to find, whether online or in real life are ugly, plain or deformed looking creeps. Yet I keep being told that I'm very pretty and attractive.

Glad I didn't post in pics in the "post pictures of yourself" thread.....oh wait. =(

Originally Posted by Alyzarin

That doesn't sound good. o.O I don't know about being too tired to breath, but I do find that breathing in general is a chore lol. I think we'd all be much happier if we didn't have to worry about it.

Yes and I wouldn't get allergies every other day because the weather is too cold, it has been raining, dust, pollen and smoke are everywhere and I sneeze like crazy almost as though I'm going to get flu. The worst case for my allergies was when I need to eat flu medicine to make it go away.

Originally Posted by Carrot

Yes and I wouldn't get allergies every other day because the weather is too cold, it has been raining, dust, pollen and smoke are everywhere and I sneeze like crazy almost as though I'm going to get flu.

Yeah, you wouldn't have to worry about any of that if you were dead.
(jk, know what you meant)

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

My own younger sister has a steady boyfriend and she stays over at his place a lot. And I'm still a single virgin. How much more pathetic can it get than that? My YOUNGER SIBLING has had sex before I've ever had a boyfriend. Her guy is hot and awesome, too. All I can seem to find, whether online or in real life are ugly, plain or deformed looking creeps. Yet I keep being told that I'm very pretty and attractive.

Until I was 21 not a single guy ever asked me out or even attempted to befriend me. I'd also been told I'm attractive all my life so it really confused me too. I'm still not sure why it's like that.

Someone stole 3 bikes out of our garage last night. Thank goodness they didn't get mine, which was the most expensive one. But they got the one I just bought for my son's birthday, with little skulls all over it. Chris was asleep when we realized it, but I just couldn't bear the thought of having to tell him it was stolen. Well I got a $50 gift card from my brother for MY birthday, so we ran to walmart last night while the kids were asleep, and replaced it with a new one.

Me n my dad saw a UFO swear on my life I know what I saw(Or don't know it's a UFO....)but we saw it twice I try to tell my family and they call me crazy and immediately dismiss me then go on a religious rant.. I just had to get this off my chest I live
Close enough to an airport I know wtf planes n copters look like and this sure as fuck was not One Of those

So tired, just finished a nine hour shift >.<
My fellow staff members pretty much all annoy me, I swear I'm the only teenager around who doesn't drink and do drugs.
I can't seem to relate to anyone's conversation. There's honestly about three people at work I'll talk to these days

So I really don't know where to start. Not sure if it's a rant or anti-rant. Last night I went to a party and me and my friends had an agreement that we weren't gonna drink more then 6 beers. Ofcourse that agreement got fucked up. We ended up drinking like 30 beers. We were so drunk omg. I quit smoking for 5 months, I used to do that sometimes at parties with my friends until last night.. My friend told me it was a normal cigarette and apperently it was weed, I didn't know. I never did drugs before so I felt like shit after that. Then my friend steals my 5 euro and he ripped it apart .-. After that I got laid without even wanting to. I don't remember much about it. I just know I gave this cute girl some free drinks and the next thing we're leaving the party and went into a field and you know .. I hope she was 16 + though and that we did it 'safe' cause I have no idea D: And apperently my friend fell into a river and got rescued by some guys passing by. So that was my story from last night, not sure if that's a rant or not xD. Ooh and here's a cool wrist band I got at the party, it's the blue one (:

I need to filter my words better. I don't even talk heaps or say everything that pops in to my head, but sometimes I think of something that I know won't go over well but I say it anyway. I don't know why.

It's usually something that pushes the limits of conversation etiquette. Like, for example, when someone tells you the potential name of their baby, you would just say "oh, that's a nice name" instead of telling them it sounds like a hillbilly name. Stuff like that.

Ophelia, What a incredibly sweet thing for you to do! It sucks that you were robbed and had to spend you birthday money on someone else :/

I'm so sorry if this is common knowledge but my hubby told me an "inside joke" the other day. A decade ago or so, he and a fellow Dr. would occasionally say "How nice." in an almost sing-songy sort of way. I knew it was an inside joke so I never asked.
The Doctor was a crook and we've had nothing to do with him for a very long time, so when hubby brought it up the other day, I told him "Oh, I figured it [the saying] was an inside joke. I've never been aware of its origin."
So he told me.

Apparently there's a movie or book where 2 middle aged women attend a class reunion and start talking to one another. The one goes on and on about how perfect her life is, and the other one continuously replies "How nice."
"I have a wonderful husband."
"How nice"
"He's wealthy" ..... "We've traveled the world"... yaddad yadda. And then she finally asks the other woman what she did after school.
"I was sent to finishing school." She replied.
"Oh? What did you do there?"
"The taught me to say "How nice" instead of "fuck you""


Your rant on etiquette made me think of that Tommo lol But I do know what you mean. When I feel that way, I say "I'm feeling snarky". I don't know WHY either

I managed to stay awake until 3AM thanks to 5-hour energy. I woke at 9 because it felt like I had a friggin flea in my ear. So I hopped into the shower to flush him out.
I had a LOT of dreams- everything from a kitten being attacked by another cat to me walking around doubled over in pain to some guy rigging ropes for some forgotten reason, to talking to people about the crawfish in our yard.
They were mostly humdrum dreams. THe one that interests me most is the one with pain. I think it was probably triggered by one of the dogs pouncing on me in my sleep lol

My rant has been nagging at me for a few days. But it's a silly rant:
My voice. When I talk on the phone, I sound like a 12 year old girl. When I'm trying to sound authoritative, my voice lowers (octave not volume) a great deal. WTH? I think it's retarded and even when I catch myself doing it, I can't seem to stop myself.
The kicker is: It does ABSOLUTELY nothing. I think- if it works at all- it's because there's a male presence. The dogs or kids know "When dad speaks, we better listen" (Speaking stereotypically, of course, in which the male is the traditional disciplinarian). So when mom uses a version of his voice, the kids pay attention more.

My youngest son even looked at me once and said "Lower your voice as much as you want but I'm not going to ...."

Cool... I was actually just diagnosed with OCD. Makes my day every time.
EDIT: Visits to the doctor and medications are expensive... Guess I'm gonna have to go back to the cheap tea for a while

Anti-rant: My kitty had kittens!

Originally Posted by SnowyCat

Cool... I was actually just diagnosed with OCD. Makes my day every time.
EDIT: Visits to the doctor and medications are expensive... Guess I'm gonna have to go back to the cheap tea for a while

I don't know how much different the price would be, but I know you can get medical marijuana for OCD. Definitely a lot safer than the pills the doctor would give you that would probably just make you worse.

Anti-rant: My kitty had kittens!

I LOVE KITTIES!!!!!!11

Originally Posted by Woodstock

I don't know how much different the price would be, but I know you can get medical marijuana for OCD. Definitely a lot safer than the pills the doctor would give you that would probably just make you worse.

I LOVE KITTIES!!!!!!11

Yeah, but here in Illinois I don't believe medical marijuana is legal...

What should I name the kittens? (There are 4)

Originally Posted by SnowyCat

Yeah, but here in Illinois I don't believe medical marijuana is legal...

Dumb politions!!

What should I name the kittens? (There are 4)

John, George, Paul, and Ringo!

Originally Posted by Woodstock

Dumb politions!!

John, George, Paul, and Ringo!

Deal! Unfortunately, I'll have to break up the Beatles as I'll only be keeping one of the kittens... The other 3 I'm giving to a few interested friends and relatives

And yeah. politicians suck, especially in Illinois (our last two governors have both ended up in jail... )

Originally Posted by SnowyCat

Deal! Unfortunately, I'll have to break up the Beatles as I'll only be keeping one of the kittens... The other 3 I'm giving to a few interested friends and relatives

Keep George, he's my favorite Beatle!

And yeah. politicians suck, especially in Illinois (our last two governors have both ended up in jail... )

Have you noticed that a lot politicians are actors, criminals, or Mitt Romney?

Originally Posted by Crashyy

We ended up drinking like 30 beers...My friend told me it was a normal cigarette and apperently it was weed, I didn't know. I never did drugs before so I felt like shit after that.

Unless that was your first time drinking and you never eat or drink anything with caffeine, you have done drugs. It's strange how you talk about beer like it's not that bad, but somehow the weed was what made you "feel like shit"...

Originally Posted by Crashyy

We ended up drinking like 30 beers.

...

I never did drugs before so I felt like shit after that.

Ahaha.... Alcohol is a drug dude, and a far more addictive and destructive one than weed could ever be. 30 beers constitutes a drug binge.

Originally Posted by Woodstock

Unless that was your first time drinking and you never eat or drink anything with caffeine, you have done drugs. It's strange how you talk about beer like it's not that bad, but somehow the weed was what made you "feel like shit"...

^^ This.

I'm pretty sure your paragraph was a rant crashyy, cause believe me on this one, there is no point in partying if you aint gonna remember it. I really don't understand why people have such a hard time controlling themselves, my friends are the same. The last time I went partying with my friends they got so drunk I actually had to hide the drink, I was basically taking care of them. Alot of people asked me why I didn't just get pissed like them so I wouldn't have to care of them the whole evening but two things prevented me from doing it, 1) I definetely don't want to take the risk of being pissed with other people who are all potentially at danger of running into the campfire etc
and 2) I know how to drink properly, people actually call me "The chef" because I'm always the cook at parties. Eat alot of food and keep drinking water imbetween other drinks and offcourse timing matters. Mix these and you won't too drunk or a hangover.