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The History Channel.

Whats with those love story dramas (I'm looking at YOU, Sharpe), those unrelated miscellania, (Ice Road Truckers) and all that biased 'factual' diarrhea that ends up with the 'Good Guys' always 'winning?'

Oh and what BF-109 variant had two nose mounted machine guns?

NONE!

Solitude.
Please, that's all I want.
No dogs, no humans, no phone calls.

Just some peaceful alone time.

Just because I am sitting by myself does not mean I am lonely.
If I wanted company, then I would have sat at a table occupied by humans, rather than sitting at the empty table in the far corner away from all the human activity.

Me reading a book is NOT an invitation to conversation. I am reading, leave me alone. This does not mean that you should ask me what I am reading, sit next to me to "keep me company", and continue to chatter senselessly into my ear. If I wanted to talk, I would not be reading this book.

Just because I am "staring into space" does not mean I am bored or miserable. I enjoy analyzing the clouds, birds, trees, etc. Shouting at me, "Are you alright?" actually makes me NOT alright. I am perfectly fine, thank you, and I would be even better if only you would let me be!

Yes, I see that there is a baby on the premises. I apologize for not instantly running to it and moronically cooing and babbling in its face, grabbing its arms and manipulating its movements in an amusing manner.
Sorry for deciding that I am not yet ready to have children at the ripe old age of 18. You say that I am missing out. Well, I'll continue to "miss out" for a couple more decades, thank you.
Oh, and just because I happen to occasionally look at it and analyze its noises and its involuntary movements does not mean that I want one. Spending time with it will not make me want one, so don't expect it to wear off on me and "bring out my inborn motherly desires and instincts."
These supposed instincts are just not there.

My clock may indeed be ticking, but the alarm has yet to ring.

I hate this old house...I think it's a little over 100 years old. I admit thinking it was cool when my dad said that it was the first house to be built in our side of the town and that the owners used that land to farm (when I have the time I'm going to try to find out more if I can, maybe at the library or something), but I'm so tired of the cockroaches. I just killed one and they're nasty. We used to have an ant and mice problem, but I haven't seen either one in a while because we trapped and sprayed everywhere. And it's nothing to do with cleanliness, because my mom is a neat freak. She always says that I'm making a mess and I never know what she's talking about. And when we had the mice problem, they were chewing on cardboard boxes to try to get into our food. Yuck.

I also get the heebie jeebies because there have been a few times where I thought I was hearing or seeing things. So if you ever think of buying an old house, consider the likelihood that you'll have a pest problem. And I also feel like our insulation isn't that great. And our oven broke a few years ago and the company that made it closed a long time ago. I guess it's that old =P My mom has been planning on getting it replaced, but she hasn't found the time yet. She's been renovating the place little by little, but I wonder why she doesn't just sell it and get a new place. Though, I guess it's kind of nice that it's not like other houses. I get amused when I'm in a house and feel like I've already been in it because it has the same design as others.

That and I can't sleep.

i have a prepaid mobile phone.
if i dial a service from my mobile phone (which is charged by the minute), then i am placed on hold for so long that it eats $15 out of my credit before i get through. if i am on a normal land line (which does not charge by the minute) i am answered much quicker.

recently, i broke down in my other car (old LTD) and i had to call "NRMA road side assistance" which i am a member of (i paid for my membership), and they put me on hold saying that all their operators were busy.
i had $30 in my phone at the beginning of the call. after about 20 mins an operator answered and said "NRMA road side assistance. how can i help you?". then my credit ran out "telstra is sorry, but your credit limit has been reached. please recharge at......"

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! !! even SCREEEEEEEEE!! !! !!

i had to walk about 2 km to a gas station and buy a "recharge card" so i put another $50 in my phone and i walked back to my car and i rang them back. it took 25 mins (another $30) again and i was on a musical hold extolling the virtues of the NRMA, then a person answered and then my battery went dead.

i can not spell the thought that went through my head at that point.

so i went to a public telephone box (3 km away) but the smallest coin i had on me was a $2 coin, so i used it to make a 50 cent phone call. i got through to an operator after about 3 minutes on the public phone.

i think that there is some deal going between the NRMA and the telephone companies. i think that if the NRMA sucks $30 out of my credit (revenue for the phone companies) before i get through , then the telephone company may reward them for putting me on extended hold.
that is why i got through so fast on a non metered call. there is no gain in revenue because i can stay on the phone all night for just 50c.

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the local ATM charges $2 for each transaction, and $2 for a receipt. today, i wanted to get out $70. it was a choice on the screen. it says "20" or "40" or "50" or "70" or "100" or "200" or "500" or "other amount".

i chose $70, and the machine said i was going to be charged $2 for the transaction, and asked whether i wanted to proceed, and i pressed "yes" and then it said "cannot dispense this amount. please select multiples of $50" and that was that.

so i reinserted my card and i pressed $50, and it said it was going to charge me $2 and i pressed "yes" and it said "cannot dispense that amount. please enter multiples of $20".

i reinserted my card and pressed $60 and it said it was going to charge me $2 and i pressed "yes" and it said "cannot dispense that amount. please enter multiples of $50".

then i reinserted my card (dumb i guess) and pressed $100 (multiple of 20 and 50) and it said it was going to charge me $2 and i pressed "yes" and it said "a transaction error has occurred. please try again later. thankyou"

i was very annoyed at the waste of time, and the blatant theft of $8 for no result. i am not poor and $8 does not greatly affect me, but it is the thought of the obvious criminality of that scam that escapes the governments attention.

you are charged $2 just to use the machine, and it is billed before anything else, so if the machine is faulty or has no $20 notes in the cartridge or has no $50 notes in the other cartridge, you will be billed $2 and told to try the other options which it should know are futile.

i think that they put bogus machines in shopping centers just to get 8 free dollars from everyone who tries to use them.

i went to another machine and got charged another $2, but i got my money.
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there are scammers everywhere and i hate to live in the world with them.
parasites they are.

People that use 'lol' after everything they say on the internet.

The term internet. Interwebs sounds a lot better.

Something very pathetic and disgusting topic

My youngest daughter and her two friends are watching a video right now in her room of a boy with progeria making a utter ignoramus of himself.

One of my daughter's friends said it was the progeric boy's right to do it. But people are making fun of him. I told them he will no doubt not live beyond his teens.

Then the friend of my daughter shrugged and replied "He is happy doing what he is doing."

I thought NTs were so empathetic.

This anxiety sucks. Anxious or unanxious, I never get anything done (executive dysfunction, yay!), but at least when the anxiety is not there, I'm happy, and I can obsess over things that I like, rather than my mind being completely filled with "If I do one thing wrong, then everyone I care about will die.". (It's impossible to define perfection; which makes things worse. And realising the irrationality of this thinking doesn't help; because part of my brain is convinced that if I don't believe that the thoughts are true, that this means I don't care enough, which will somehow make bad things happen.)

It angers me how people say things which don't make sense to me.

People who are flaky or consistently laugh and joke about things which I don't find funny.

I need to think of some more later on...

it is a heinous state of affairs!! ! i bought some frozen party pies today from the supermarket.
they were my favorite brand ("herbert adams").
when i cooked some and started to eat one, i noticed a strange smell coming from it. then i tasted it and it tasted revolting.

i read the ingredients and i found that the "meat" part of the pies was now consisting of 20% MUTTON! !! !. it was always 100% cow meat that was in the pies before!! ! they tasted so nice before.
that brand of party pies (little meat pies) is now gone from my list of foods i eat. i am very displaced and annoyed.

only a few months ago, i noticed that the frozen party sausage rolls i bought smelled the same way, and i saw they had mutton in them and i struck them off my list. now the pies are gone too!! !! !! !! !! !!

obviously the australian government has allowed "mutton" to be classified as viable "meat" in those products, and the american owned businesses that produce them all rush to replace the expensive beef with mutton. it is disgusting and offensive meat.

how dare they!! ! i find mutton to be objectionable because it smells and tastes cheap (like dog biscuits or something).

but the thing that annoys me even more, is that all the idiots who have ret*d taste buds who buy these products never notice the difference in taste and the sales never suffer.

grrrrr!! ! seriously, that is the most annoying thing i experienced to day and i am still not over it.

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Damn idiots that spend five minutes looking at the overhead menu in the Chippers, and then order chips.

The margin in the book i'm reading now is pissing me off

The only dream I ever had, to become a doctor, is probably not going to happen, even though I'll have no problem learning everything I need

And I'm out of clean sock!! !! dagnabit!! !

Argh!! ! Fellow patient getting on my nerves by talking NON STOP! I'm overloaded.

I'm so f*****g tired with all this s**t

Why are you blaming me?It's not my fault.It's your fault!
I told you the answer but you've insisted yours so I won't really argue
But now,you're angry because you got a wrong answer and I got a correct one?
Then you're blaming me cuz I didn't tell you the right one?
If only I could curse..! !

my blood pressure was high today. i have an electric sphygmomanometer and my blood pressure was 210/115 this morning.
i freaked out because i started to feel funny after i saw the reading, and i phoned a medical center so i could go and be prescribed blood pressure medication.

i do not know why my blood pressure is so high. i excersize well and i do not smoke or drink. i am not very old (37).

anyway, i went to the medical center and i was told there would be a 1 hour wait.

so i sat down to wait and i was going into an anxiety attack. i thought i may have a stroke with such extreme blood pressure.

i looked through the magazines provided to read, and there were lots of magazines. they were all magazines that did not interest me. they were womens magazines like "vogue" and "new idea" etc. i flicked through the pages while i was almost panicking about my blood pressure.

i could not give a damn about celebrities and glitz and i was not comforted by the magazines at all.

there were some mens magazines but they were about "gyms" and sports and aftershave lotion and suits etc.

i went cross eyed in panic because i wanted my blood pressure to be relieved very soon.
i had my sphygmomanometer with me while i waited and i kept retesting my blood pressure over and over in case it went to an emergency level (260/140 for example).

a man with his wife and kids with him did not like the sound of the beeping and he told me to stop it.
i ignored him and kept testing myself.

he was watching the television that is provided for waiting people (it hangs from the roof) , and, of course it was tuned to a sports channel and there was a game of something going on.

he was very interested not to be interrupted from watching whatever sport it was.
his wife was reading a womans magazine and his kids were running around and coughing.

i was annoyed at his bossy nature, and i tested myself again and he said "mate!! !! it's gettin' old!! !".
he said it angrily and i assume it meant something aggressive, but thankfully he and his family were called into see the doctor before i got too annoyed.

then i realized that he had arrived at the medical center after me, and he was seen before me.
i went to the front desk and i asked whether i was still in the queue and i was told i was.

so i took a mental snapshot of everyone who was waiting, and i remembered them.
everyone who came in later, i also noticed, and i was interested to see whether they would be served before me.

everyone who was there was seen before me and some new people were also seen before me.


after about an hour and a half, there were no people left waiting but me, so i knew i would be next in line to see the doctor.

but then a woman comes in with a pram and 2 other toddlers. she makes a scene about the fact she wants to be seen next.

she said "these little ones can't sit around for long. they are soooo young. i've got to get them home and into the bath"
she was then slotted in in front of me.

i accepted it even though i was disgruntled slightly.
i mean, i had dangerous blood pressure and those kids only had a mild sniffle.

then when that lady came out of the doctors office and left, i thought "phew!! ! i am next", but at that point another lady came in with a pram and it happened again!! !.

while she was in consultation, 3 more families came in. they all had "toddlers", and they too were seen before me.

i am a single man and i have no children or relatives, so i seem to come last in the eyes of society.

i went back up to the desk and i said that i knew that i was being relegated to the rear whenever someone more "valuable" to the world than me comes in, and he said that he would call security if i did not sit back down.
so i sat back down because my prime goal was to see a doctor to help my blood pressure.
but the medical center closed at 7:00pm and i still was not seen, so i was asked to leave anyway because they were now closed!!.

i got there at 3:00 pm and i am surprised at the lack of concern that the world has for anything that goes wrong with me. children and families come first in every ones mind.

now i will have to wait until monday with this attrocious blood pressure until i can see a regular doctor.

i am quite annoyed.

medical centers know that if a child dies then they will be sued and also put on TV as failures.

medical centers know that if i die, no one will be interested because i am a 37year old single man with no children.

i had better try to be as healthy as i can, because i f i need the help of humanity, i will receive it only after every one else is helped.

i am still worried about my blood pressure and i went home without being seen because the "little ones" with sniffles were presented with a red carpet thoroughfare to the doctors office, and i was presented with "delays ahead" signs.

f*ck people.