The Rant thread!

**Dodongo** · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject:

Not sure if this is a rant but I want to post it here anyways.

So about a month ago, I went to the pub (yay for being 18) and proceeded to get rather drunk. I'm probably a bit of a lightweight, so after 5 pints of lager I decided to call it a day before things got messy. Went home, slept, got up, showered, and decided to make some toast to try and ease the horrendous hangover I had.

So, halfway through the toast, just as I was getting ready to eat those badboys (four rounds, I had peanut butter on one, bovril on another, pickle on the third and jam on the last, they looked fucking divine), I had a seizure. Yeah, a full blow epileptic seizure. I had been jittery all morning, having brief clonus movements causing me to drop things occasionally, but I thought nothing of it - happens after I get drunk. So anyway, I'm seizing and apparently I fell back and cut my head open. I don't remember, all I remember is dropping the knife (just a regular eating one, not a carving knive or anything thankfully) and seizing up.

When I come around, I'm lying on the floor looking at my mum in a small pool of blood. I wasn't in any excruciating pain, and I wasn't scared. That's what shocks me most. I feel so detatched about it all, like it's happening to someone else. I don't really care. In fact, I was so confused I remember hugging my mum because I didn't know what was going on. So yeah, the EMT's came, went to hospital, got my head glued and got a scan scheduled for this Friday on my head. Quick thing, fucking love the NHS.

Anyways, this obviously means I can't drink, because I could die if I have another seizure - obviously, not likely, but what's the point in risking it, don't know what it is yet. Which is a bit odd, because, well, being an 18 year old kid that's kinda what you do (in Britain anyway, the alcoholic nation). At first it was a bit annoying but now I sort of wonder why I did it so much. Yeah, it's useful and I can pretty much strike up a conversation with anyone, but FUCK do I hate myself drunk, I just sound like a prick (in my eyes, luckily everyone else doesn't think so). What's more is the next day I feel fine, a little tired but that's it.

More than that, I used to think I was massively socially awkward - and I guess I was, but I think I may have outgrown it - yeah, I'm still a bit shy but for the most part I can talk to people reasonably naturally. So I guess I'm wondering what will I do if I can drink after? Will I? Hmmmm.
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**Yewb** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 3020 Location: Plymouth, UK

That really sucks. I had juvenile epilepsy between 11 and 15, and was on sodium valproate for it until I was 18; so I couldn't drink. Kind of the reverse of your situation, I guess. Hope everything pans out alright, chances are pretty good that it was a one-off and you're fine

Unrelated: fuck train prices. My girlfriend (I have one now, apparently; check that shit out) lives literally the other side of the country in East Anglia - I'm in the Westcountry - and neither of us will be able to afford to see each other for weeks; if not months. This is unpleasant in a whole different way to not having a girlfriend at all, and it's rubbish

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ShadoWolf wrote:

expertwin wrote:

I just want to, you know, get my name out there. BTW, it updates every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Was just the first two, decided to do Saturdays as well.

Serious advice now: No-one likes indecision in their work, so find what you like that you're even remotely good at, and stick with it. Don't flit from one thing to another, because that just smacks of a large lack of determination and drive. And people don't like you for that, and won't remember you for it. I mean, I get that you have a plucky spirit and a willingness to try new things, but there's a limit, man.

I might knock it down to just Thursday and Friday.

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Leave me alone, I have been drinking and your made up words mean nothing to me.

**SlasherManEXE** · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 2634 Location: NY

Just got let go from my side job, because I'm working my ass off, doing everything I can and more, just to get told I'm not doing enough. Apparently the asshole manager has been claiming my work as his, and since I was the "new guy", I got blamed for complaints. Not even putting up a fight, hated the job anyways. But it just really pisses me off that people can be so shallow.
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**youhas** · Joined: 21 Jul 2006 Posts: 3015 Location: Santa Clara, CA

Dodongo: Holy shit, dude. You make my complaints seem petty and lame in comparison.

Glad everything is OK for the time being, and hope the scan further confirms as much. (In unrelated international news: I had to look up what the hell Bovril was. I am enlightened.)

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**Davers** · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 6:45 am Post subject:

Hippies are retarded. They are against the government and anti-war and even anti-military, but can't lift a finger to even try to help our economy in a sensible way. Their solution is to sit around and not be a part of it all and watch it all fall apart and just smoke, yet they are always ready to verbally express their disbelief in America. Oh, and live in your parent's basement too. Apparently, you're not a real hippie until you move down there.

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Fuck airplane security. I know it's important, but goddamn is it annoying.

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**Fug** · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 2188 Location: Grand Rapids, MI

So I was told today that my cousin is having trouble with something on her truck (can't remember what it was) so she brought it in to get it checked. The mechanic said he won't bother to fix whatever it is because the engine is so shitty that the truck will probably only last another 6 months or so. A new engine would be $1,700 according to her. So what do you think her plan is to fix this?

She's going to try to sell it online for $7,100; $2,000 MORE than what she paid for it, without disclosing the fact that it's pretty much dead, so she can afford to buy herself another truck. When called out on how completely shady and just flat-out evil this is, my aunt defended her by saying, "well, it's buyer beware!"

In addition to this, they are trying to get my cousin to be listed as living with her older brother (who JUST bought himself a house like a month ago) so she can get more money back on her tax returns next year (she actually lives with her parents).

These are the same people that bitched incessantly when the government bailed out the auto industry, saying "they're stealing and cheating money out of all of us!" and the same people that think it's ridiculous that people can live off of unemployment for so long by "cheating the system" by just picking up job apps or whatever ridiculous method they've built into their heads. All my aunt does is bitch about how evil the democrats are by taking our tax money and putting it towards "useless causes", and now here she is doing EXACTLY what she complains about every day; cheating the system and taking tax money.

Why, dear god WHY, do I have to be related to this?
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