Rants
I HATE IT when people call AS ass-burgers. THEY are the ones that come out looking stupid when they do that. Its sooooooooooooooooo STUPID!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!
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ford_prefects_kid
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Joined: 17 Feb 2008
Age: 37
Gender: Female
Posts: 594
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Warning: Very strong language...if you don't like it, or you're under 18, leave now.
My first rant has to do with work. Customers and people, stop f*****g complaining to the cashier!! !! "Oh your prices are too high; What do you mean I can't return this?; It's too hot outside; this economy sucks" Who the f*****g hell do you think we are? God? Listen, if our prices are too high, do you actually think we cashiers alone can change that? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We cashiers have no power over that! Listen people, if you have complaints, Talk to the managers!! They can do more than we cashiers can! Perhaps, they can change a price or match a price. Don't go to us measly cashiers. "Oh it's less at this store"....grrr....then shop at that f*****g store! Or tell a manager that with documentation to prove it (for you rednecks out there, that means an up to date advertisement from that store that you're comparising prices to - otherwise, that manager will not believe you).
Some of you customers think you have the right to be as*holes to us...I mean being rude - we are your slaves and since the customer is always right, you can spit on us and get away with it...WRONG! The customer is not always right. Neither is the cashier or the managers. We are human beings too. Customer, how would you feel if I walked up to you and yelled at you? Or I decide to take out my horrible day on you? Oh I can't, can I? You're not a cashier? Most of you bile malicious mean customers (not the nice ones) were cashiers or has a remedial job sometime in your life. How did you feel then when someone yelled at you?
Oh, we're nothing...we cashiers didn't go to college, therefore you customers are ABOVE us...Wrong again! Here is your counterexample - me. I have a BA in mathematics. I studied hard for it. So I'm not nothing. Second, we humans are equal in God's eyes. We go to the bathroom the same f*****g way, dickheads!! Please give us cashiers respect. I'm not rude nor would I ever be intentionally rude to my customers. I tell you, reader, every time I accost a customer I feel like it is a bear about to eat me alive! The economy sucks - that's not my fault - who voted for Bush anyways?
All I'm asking is to be nice. We are not therapists. We can't help you with your drama. All we can do is ring up the item, total it, and give you your receipt...and perhaps if we know about that product, inform you in the best way we can. If you're a mean person in general (especially you, you f*****g italian grandmothers or all grandmothers in general ! !! !! !! !! !) Get therapy and help for it. You are making this world a miserable place for others - just because you were tortured, or didn't get that teddy bear as a kid? Get help and get over it. Life sucks, and then you die; you mean people better hope that your "friends" aren't hovering over your will or fortune to steal it when you die. I would be the first one there. Bah to you meanies. I hope you choke on your own venomous bile. Being mean or rude to us cashiers is not going to get you what you want - I simply call up a manager - have fun with him or her!! ! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. If you're nice people and try to be helpful and respect us cashiers, then this doesn't pertain to you. Thank you for being nice and helpful. We cashiers highly appreciate it. Oh and a big HAVE A NICE DAY to you rude customers "Nowadays, that means 'f**k you' in my language".
Kajjie
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Joined: 12 Aug 2008
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 495
Location: Sometimes London, sometimes Coventry
My friend said she saw someone on the news say it like 'ass burgers', so she started laughing because it sounds so dumb, and her mum, who has never heard of AS to know the correct prononuciation was like "What are you laughing at? They're talking about a geninue condition"
My rant:
have horrible itchy-pain-discomfort-thing-feeling in my teeth and I want to bite things really hard. Chewing gum is not enough. It's starting to drive me mad

I totally agree about having to deal with rude people either as a cashier or as a sales floor associate. Those of us who are not managers have no idea what items are on the next truck, nor can we look in the back for something as that stuff hasn't been inventoried.
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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason,
and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
I feel trapped inside myself and always have. I'm so sick and tired of having people get their jollies for my inflexible use in language including here.
I'm not a drop-out nor mentally ret*d. I have struggled with this problem since I was a kid and it's never gotten easy. You have no idea what it's like to not be able and communicate in a lucid and eloquential way using proper grammar. I have tried and tried to get help for this problem. I took tons of classes to try and improve my vocabulary as well as the usage of grammar. It can get very frustrating when even those who are helping assume you aren't trying hard enough...What the hell is trying hard enough? I spent hours and nights trying to get myself prepared. Apparently all that work was for nothing and I failed.
This is probably why I am more compelled to visual and emotional aspects such as painting, drawing, and music. Yes, I know how unproductive that is...but it's the only thing I can talk to or feel compelled toward. There is no better way for me to communicate than to sound or write sloppily.
It has always boggled me that for those who are highly skilled and talent at this crap, seem to get on a power trip by belittling people such as myself that're not as gifted and eloquential sounding such as yourselves. Give me a break, you have no idea what you're talking about which somehow makes you look stupid......
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I live as I choose or I will not live at all.
~Delores O’Riordan
That's not unproductive at all. If that's the way that you communicate best, then screw everyone else.

^Thanks CelticGoddess.
I just wish society and some people were more accepting to the "creative types" who aren't all just lazy or spending leisure time for their useless pursuits. I know for me it compensates for most of the feelings and observations I have trouble in sharing. I'm almost convinced I fit into the criteria of a Semantic Pragmatic Disorder. I totally identify with the difficulties I have in the use of language.
BTW, love the username, very creative.
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I live as I choose or I will not live at all.
~Delores O’Riordan
ahh I'm so stressed. I cant sleep i keep hitting myself and now I have bruises on my head .
I keep wanting to hurt myself cause I'm so stressed and it helps calm me down.
AHHHHRG!! ! I feel like i cant complain. i'm worried that people will start ignoring me here cause I complain all the time.
I'm so sad and stressed though?!
Ah I'm so worried I will be ignored and be left compleatly alone because i'm so sad.
I've had a hard life though.
I need friends i dont have any at all.
The one person I know avoides me and uses me when she is board as a last resort. so i only see her a few times a year.
I feel so outcasted. no one cares wahhhhhhhhhhh!! !! !!
I miss my best friend casey.she left too. she toled me i wouldent do anything with my life and i havent yet. not for lack of trying.
she hated me and i dont know why. I still dont know what i did and that was 3 years ago.
I'm so lonely no friends and my boyfriend is in another country. all i want it a hug.
oh I'm sad alright very very sad and lonly .
but i dont want any attention from guys cause they always want to go out with me.
I have a boyfriend. why dont they get that!
I'm spoken for!
ahhh that frustrates me to no end.
for christ sake a gay guy even tried to kiss me! after i spent ten minuts talking about MY boyfriend.
Why cant people just want to hang out with me just to hang!
why do people only hang with me when they can take somthing from me!
I'm so frikken sick of being used!! !! !
Why do people keep on with explanations after you say "Yes, I get it."? Surely this should be understood to mean that you do not require any more information to understand what they are trying to tell you?
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Music Theory 101: Cadences.
Authentic cadence: V-I
Plagal cadence: IV-I
Deceptive cadence: V- ANYTHING BUT I ! !! !
Beethoven cadence: V-I-V-I-V-V-V-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I
-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I! I! I! I I I
The people who can really do better but don't bother.
PETA.
Feminists that are going for something more than equality.
Poser prettyboy guys who do things like checking their hair in the mirrored wall in the lift when I'm the only damn person there.
People who act like they're an authority on things when they don't know about them/can't be bothered to research them/have never done them.
People who think the internet should be policed.
Manufactured music producers and organisations.
CCTV advocates.
Religious people that belive no science can lead to any form of understanding
Scientific people who refuse to believe religion can lead to any form of wellbeing.
Iron Maiden.
People that talk unneccessarily loud, for no obvious reason.
Anyone who believes your security is more important than your liberty.
brb, killing spree.
My life is s**t right now.....
The depression is killing me. Sure I get a few good days here and there, but each time it leaves, it just comes back stronger. I don't know what to do with my life. I've been unemployed for almost 1 1/2 years, and have been living on next to nothing. Bill collectors are calling constantly. I'm forced to sell some of my meds each month, just to keep the utilities on. I haven't been able to drive for 8+ months because I cannot afford insurance(even liability), registration, etc....
I applied for SSD(disability) awhile back and was denied recently. I did appeal the case, but was recently notified that it will be 18 months before the next hearing, and it's not a sure thing that I will get approved. I can't wait that long anyhow. About 6 months after I applied, I started having severe chest problems which have continued to worsen. When I went to the doctor about it they treated me like I was making it up, because I'm only 34, because I applied for SSD, and because I was a junkie in the past. Now, I don't care anymore. I've given up on doctors, and if I die, I die. At least my family will get a nice settlement from the lawsuit.
Now, I know why homeless people are homeless. Once you get so far down, it is almost impossible to get back up. Everything in this world requires money, in one form or another. If it takes every resource that you have, just to survive, there is nothing left. Where do you go when you have nothing? Add in a couple mental/physical disabilities, and you're really screwed.
I've become so depressed that I don't know what to do, and don't know if it's even worth caring anymore. I've lost interest in everthing that used to give me enjoyment. I have no money to do anything. There are no jobs around if I were to consider taking one, and even if there were, I'm not physically able to do it right now. Doctors can go screw theirselves. SSD is going to take forever, and I don't know if it will ever happen. I feel like I'm just waiting around to die.
I'm not even going to start on my relationship problems, or lack of.
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Those who know, don't speak.