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so we’re supposed to think of what we think is flamablamablous in the Nov/Dec issue? Okay well the Gamers article was definately flamablamablous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Speaking of which, to the RPG!!!!!!!!!
flamable? uh, pants?
No, no–not necessarily in the issue. Just flamablamablous in general.
OK, what is flamablamablous?
I heart Silk!!!!!
It means awesome, wonderful, and totally fabulous.
When in doubt, consult the Muse Glossary. But note that this thread has changed direction (see revised title, above).
I destest it when people don’t listen to me!!!!!! There’s this one kid I know that is so annoying!!! I’ll be talking about Dramatic Interpretations, and he’s throwing out comments about what a value could be for a balance negative!!!! He’ll interupt me when I’m saying how hard DI’s are to do to say, “you probably shouldn’t have equality as your value,” and then he’ll bust up laughing!!! Or he’ll say, “you could do equality,” and then laugh about that for the rest of the conversation, no matter what I’m talking about!!! I saw him at the conference, and he was riding back with me, so I asked him if he wanted to sit in the back or the front seat. He did eenie-meenie-minie-mo, and then said, “I don’t know.” He thought this was hilarious and kept on doing it, no matter how much I asked him to stop!!! Finally I just got inot the front seat, and then he was all upset and said he wanted it!!! I told him he had had his chance, and that since he wouldn’t tell me it was mine. My friend’s mom, who I was riding with, turned ot me and said, “you go girl!!” and then we all laughed. Anyway, the point is that that kid really gets on my nerves.
It bugs me when the skool computers block random websites so you can’t get on. I mean, i understand they want to block inappropriate stuff but some of it is just like 1 swear word or something and they block it off!!! that bugs me.
It also bugs me when i get little dry spots on my skin like right now. IT ITCHES!!! grr..
and it bugs me when we’re outside marching and i get thirsty and my throat hurts and i’m supposed to be playing my instrument.
While we’re on the band thing, it bugs me when we play the SAME THREE SONGS OVER AND OVER AND OVER patriotic songs too. ugh. we’re doing a veterans day parade, and apparently the veterans are judging which band is the best. left right left right ARRGH!!!
It bugs me when libraries have every book except the one i want.
Loose teeth bug me too. I only have one left but it BUGS ME!!!
that’s enough for today. I’m making myself depressed. Off to fun stuff now.
it bugs me when people walk right in front of you and step on your toes and don’t say sorry.
It bugs me when there is a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gaboomba, even thought it has been closed for four months, and no hitchiker’s guide to the blog! errrg…
once the school computers filtered out dictionary.com b/c it had a bad word in it’s archives…
It bugs me when you’re walking through the incredibly crowded halls and somebody in front of you is walking reeeally slowly and you can’t get past them. either that or when they’re walking and then suddenly they absolutely have to stop and have a nice little chat even though they’re in the middle of the hallway and poor little ebeth behind them has to walk up to the third floor and across the skool in 3 minutes to get to her science class.
and it bugs me when teacher’s think that their class is the most important thing and that what you get in other classes doesn’t matter as long as you do well in their’s and get all their hw done. *coughlamuthandfeatherstonecough* they give waaaaay too much hw! you can’t get it all done. especially if you have a loyalty to the museblog to keep up.
The thing that really bugs me is when people slurp, smack, make ugly noises when they eat, wet socks, stepping in a puddle once they finally began to dry out, teachers that like to give homework on Friday’s and more that have to do with noises and habits that peole shuoldn’t have
What really bugs me is this 15yr old computer I have to use right now and its slow internet!!!!!!!!!!! *grumblegrumblearrrrggghhgrumblegrumble* I want my new Dell computer
now!!!!!!!!!grrrrrr…Potatoes. I don’t want to appear snobbish, but they’re so – well, common. It’s impossible to hold a conversation with one. I’ve tried. If you do say something erudite, it’s generally beyond their comprehension, and they they just sulk and go all silent. Not a peep. They just look at you in that potato-ish way. If you try to come down to their level, they go all huffy. You’d think they’d be pretty thick-skinned, given the time it takes to peel one, but oh no. Most of the itme, I just give up and talk to the carrots. Now they’re a great bunch.
Oh, boy. Things I hate.
Ok, for one, my spanish teacher. SHE IS HORRIBLE. We’ve got this Advanced Spanish kid in our class, and whenever she goes by, Chika tells her stuff like, “They’ve all done this before, they just don’ t think so, and now they’re complaining. First off, none of us had said anything, much less a complaint, for the past five minutes. Second, SHE SAID IT STRAIGHT TO OUR FACES. It’s like, since we’re all idiots when it comes to spanish, she can talk about how bad we are to our faces!
The really obnoxious kids in my class. So, a few weeks ago, our classroom got a lovebird. I really hate to say this, because there are quite a few children with good intentions towards it, but some don’t. It got out a few days ago. I told everyone to just be quiet and stand perfectly still. THEY DIDN”T LISTEN TO A WORD OF IT. They ran after the poor spooked bird who will never be hand-trained at this rate and frightened it! The thing is, they don’t really care about the bird! THey just want to be the hero! Like in the Daily Show, they pretended to have a fight over who got to rescue the Katrina victims. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Hey! Potatoes are yummy, especially in stew!
ohohohohohoh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The thing I hate is really dumb jokes!!!!!! Here’s one- Women shouldn’t have children over 35. Really, 35 children is enough!!!! Okay that wasn’t that stupid…
As for dumb jokes (please, don’t ask me to explain if you haven’t learned about net charges in science yet, sorry…):
A hydrogen atom walks into a bar.
“Bartender,” he moans, “I think I’ve lost an electron.”
“Are you sure? You’ve said this before, and it was still there,” says the bartender.
“Am I sure? Am I SURE?”, the atom cries, outraged. “I’m POSITIVE!”
*collective groans*
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. The funny thing is, when somebody tells it right, it’s impossible NOT to laugh!
You do not want to know about all the things I hate.
Not having high-speed internet, never being taken seriously because I’m only thirteen, people who try and write LOTR fanfictions without having read the books and getting all their facts wrong, this kid in orchestra who thinks he’s so much better at cell than me and shows off at every turn, way-below-freezing Chicago winters and no snow, being short, not having enough online time to post on MuseBlog every three seconds, sharing a bedroom with my slob of a sister, having nobody read the novel I’m writing because I’m 13, being in the worst school orchestra on the face of the planet, having the most boring cello parts on the face of the planet even though I’ve done parts of the Bach Cello Suites, never being able to find the clothes I want, people who won’t listen to the opinions of others, etc etc etc…
Potatoes are really annoying, Mister Baker, your Bakerness, whatever, unless mashed with spices. Mmm.
You’re right, randomrohanfreak. Now that we’ve seen your list and the fact that it ends with etc etc etc, we’ve decided we really DIDN’T want to know… sigh…
I told you so. But there’s more…
Not getting magazinges on time, (I STILL don’t have the November Cricket), *deafening screams of horror from other readers spare you from reading the rest*
On the subject of bad jokes, does anybody else read viola jokes?
What’s the difference between a violin and a viola?
The viola burns longer.
What’s the difference between a viola and an onion?
Nobody cries when you cut up a viola.
I second that. My October Muse and Crickets still haven’t come yet. Maybe mom forgot 2 renew.
My little brother annoys me. And so do preps and egoists.
my nov/dec muse isn’t here yet…
PB&J!!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!!!! Potatoes ROCK!!!!!!!! They are SO not dumb!!!
get your taters!!! mashed, baked, boiled, fried…
ok sry inside joke there. we said that our teacher was really a tater seller…
BUT POTATOES ROCK!!!!!!!! DOWN WITH CARROTS!!!!!!!!
uh oh. I think you might have started another war…get ready to do another elizabethan muse history lesson…
ok ok so not many people care about potatoes. but still.
chintsu preps annoy me too. they’re always so full of themselves. and…happy which isn’t really a bad thing…but perpetual happiness can be really annoying…i mean like LOUD happiness. preppy happiness. if anybody has a clue what i’m talking about…
it bugs me when crazee brits diss potatoes and favor carrots. oooh burn!
Oh, I like EATING potatoes. It’s just talking to them that’s a waste of time. Most veg are OK, although broccoli can be a bit stand-offish. They seem to think they’re superior, although I can’t imagine why.
erm…what exactly is in those veggies you’re eating?
Ever tried talking to brussel sprouts? They’re so pessimistic. Not to mention celery sticks with peanut butter. Never wants to talk. So discouraging.
And carrots aren’t snobbish? I have never met a carrot who would talk to a being without phloem and xylem. (I’m a mangrove, so I know this.)
I know a few preps that are nice if you don’t stick around them too long. What really bugs me is when they won’t acknowledge that they’re preps. They’re so… so… conformist. That’s another thing that annoys me. Conformity. And not just to fashion. People who dress stereotypical Goth (modern, not the ones who ruined Rome) just because they wan’t people to say that they’re Goth are just as bad. Preps who pretend to be punk annoy me too. You know, the ones who wear all the pink and miniskirts but don’t listen to ANY punk rock. And I hate people who think they’re so much better than everybody else and can get away with anything jsut because they’re rich and connected. Thre’s this kid in my class who once pulled down a light fixture in the hall. His parents pulled their strings, and he didn’t get punished at all. Grr.
Wouldn’t it be more fun to dress like the kind of Goth who sacked Rome? Hm, that sounds like something our friend Paul Baker might actually have done. In fact, he might even have been a Goth in one of his many improbable lifetimes.
How do Musers dress to enhance their sense of group identity? Or is that a contradiction in terms?
whee! let’s go sack rome!!!!
it bugs me when i do something stupid like forget my book the night before we have a 25 pt project thing due and i can’t get to the online textbooks cuz i don’t know the stupid password. arrgh.
musers don’t need to enhance their sense of group identity. we have sooo many inside jokes! whenever we feel the need to belong we’ll just say something about hot pink bunnies and enjoy the confused stares of the rest of the room!
I’m going to be a bit biased right now because my water isn’t working. Ok, things I hate:
1. Utilities not working and incompetent people getting in the way of them in the way of the repairs.
2. Purposefully stupid people.
3. Sports jocks.
4. Stupid people who think they just insulted me very well and I can’t come up with a good comeback when really their insult sucked and they didn’t understand mine.
5. People calling me racist. I am not racist. There is no basis for them to call me racist.
6. People calling me white. So what??!?? I can’t help it if I’m a WASP!! I am who I am!
7. Stupid mistakes by myself.
This would take years, but I’m going to stop now.
another thing that bugs me-when you’re complaining about your math hw and then you get to it and find out that it’s so easy and you actually get it for once and you’re done in 10 minutes. it’s so anticlimactic! i spent all that time worrying about it!! ok so i know i shouldn’t be complaining if i understand the homework but my sense of dramatic effect is protesting strongly.
oh and bad fanfics bug me. yes that’s what i’m doing now. nobody on the museblog, i go read bad fanfics. all those grammar mistakes bug me!! it’s like ok. no. if you’re gonna pretend you can write you can at least spell things right!!
so why am i reading bad fanfics then? why don’t i go find some good ones? that is a very good question, and one i can’t answer. there’s something very addicting about reading bad fanfics and shouting at people about grammar mistakes.
oh yeah and wikepidia bugs me. you go to an entry it’s like pages and pages! Who has this much time? I’d really like to know because if they’re that bored I’ll let them do my hw for me. But really, they think you can read all that??? and then if you find something that hasn’t been done and want to feel special by writing something so you look at what other people did for formatting stuff and you’re like “forget it. No way am i doing that”
People who have information that I need bug me. Mostly because they usually refuse to share it when I’m in dire need. (I’ve been going around random skool websites looking for the prentice hall password because i hadn’t done my hw (i never did get on there which means it’s gonna suck but oh vell) and asking random people that happened to be online. no. they refuse. They won’t tell me the password. Why not? How does it hurt you by not telling me? I would tell you if I knew!!! Nope, sorry, no way. arrgh. if you understood any of that then become a translator immidiately. you have the Gift!!! The Gift I say, the Gift!!! anyhoo)
ok this is reeeelly long if you haven’t noticed i like to rant on about things that bug me instead of calmly listing them like the USECGO. sry!
Mr. Green apologizes (or if he wants to be cool and british he could apologise) for the inconvenience. 
hang on what time zone are these times in? it’s not 11:21! unless my clock is way wrong…
am I an hour earlier than everybody else? is that why i’m on here and nobody else seems to be? except maybe a GAPA. who might’ve just left.
i say get rid of time completely. why bother having time zones? why bother having organization and order to our lives? screw it all. i say it’s whatever time it feels like. Right now it feels like about 1 in the morning but that’s just cuz it’s winter (almost) and pitch black outside. except for the lights across the street. and the lovely streetlights too. one of those out the window there. what else? a tree…the edge of one anyway. sidewalk..couple houses. stupid reflections messing everything up. I need a lampshade. I think we had one downstairs. maybe. possibly. the mirror isn’t helping either. it’s reflecting the reflection of the reflection of the street. hoom.
ok i’m going to stop rambling now because although I just know you love my Thoughts About Nothing In Particular (TANIP) this would actually be the things that get on our nerves thread and i can’t really say my window gets on my nerves. actually i like it. so later then
I maintain the belief that nothing exists. Sounds gloomy, but think on it.
I am severly irked be people who claim to know everything of a subject but in reality know very little. I’ll use Naruto as an example. Yes, not everyone liikes it. Bah.
I get people who are like “Hahahahahaha I loff that show, it’s like, so , Omg LOLS!”
No. You don’t love it because you don’t know what it is becaue you’ve seen one. stupid.episode.
Also, chatspeak. More specifically sticky caps. LiKe tHis! It’s terrible to read.
Most of the people who attend my middle school.It’s ridculous how full of themselves they are. They all seem to think they’re older than they really are, which isn’t really that old.
Teachers who think yelling at you will somehow help. My Geomerty teacher said there’s not stupid question, etc. I asked a questioned. He was annoyed. BAH!
And family gatherings. I dislike talking to people, even family, I’d rather be in the computer. XD
naruto??? erm…nod smile.
“I loff that show” ???? loff??? erm????
hey it bugs me when i know i should be going to bed now but i don’t really feel like it so i’m not but it’s 11:30 already and i’m gonna be soo tired if i don’t go to bed what are you talking about i’m gonna be tired anyway might as well enjoy it you’ll never get anywhere with that attitude i like it fine where i am thanks you’re an absolute procrastinating slacker you know that yeah so what’s you’re point you know if you took the time to add punctuation this would be way easier to understand yeah probably but i’m leaving now anyway bye peoples!
if you understood that you get 56 bunny points and a 5 lb slab of virtual choklit.
Well, I’m going to bed, so anybody who posts comments after this won’t see them on the blog until Thursday.
hello everybody! welcome to thursday!!!
The U.S. version of Naruto sucks anyway. It’s rated TV G. Oh please……..
I gets on my nerves when Phoenix rants about how Inheritence is a copy of the Belgriad.
I also hate anime fan girls. I mean ed is hot and all, but Winrey is cool too. And so is Sakura. Especiall in #6……..n_n
Woohoo! Virtual choklit! Yum!
guess what! It’s Thursday!!!!!!!!!!! I really don’t like chocolate ice cream. I mean normal chocolate is fine . but chocolate ice cream… blech!!!!
Heh, excuse my phrasings, my friends and I have odd seaking patterns.
I hate VIZ for all eternity. They did the dub well, but the manga translation is shameful. :blathers on for several hours:
There’s some excellent manga out there, and there’s some terrible anime out there too. Usually, they’re supposed to be the same thing.
It confuses me. That means it gets on my nerves.
I hate people who say “like” every two words. And you know what the worst part is?
It’s contagious. Effing contagious, at that!
How am I supposed to retain a sane, optimistic mental outlook when I am in mortal peril of contracting the virus? At least it hasn’t spread to digital. Though if you have a Dictaphone, or a Dax keyboard or something it might very well.
Holy Zarquon singing fish, I have just made myself hyperventilate. What if it spreads? What happens then? Do I become a hermit in the woody outcroppings of the Applachian Way? Make a box for myself and stay inside it? Become one of those Douglas Adams monks that take vows to stay locked in small metal boxes for the rest of their (painfully short) lives?
I have a better idea-if everyone does their absolute best, puts in some effort, then maybe, just maybe, I can stay sane. OK? Good.
Don’t break my plastic hamster bubble!
I know what you mean. I live in mortal fear that I’ll start using the double-is, as in, “The problem is is that this sentence only needs one verb.” You hear it everywhere. Chilling.
I hate being biracial and having people call me either white or Chinese. I AM BOTH. Ooh. Shocker. You’ll never recover, will you? You’ll just keep on asking me why I don’t look more Chinese until I get sick of you and strangle you, won’t you?
I hate reading bad fanfics, like Ebeth. Especially Mary Sues and Legomances. (I read mostly LOTR fics.)
I hate my Student Council. I had a meeting today (I’m the president) and it is impossible to keep anyone from being stupid and yelling out insults, even with a teacher in the room. And the fourth and seventh graders keep acting like the know more about what we’re doing than the officers and the teachers. Please.
I also hate people who act like they know so much more than you when they don’t and most of what you know is just way above thier pea-sized heads.
I hate when people ask me why I am so religious even though my grandmother converted from Christianity. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING! my converted grandmother is Jewish! period! end of discussion!
heh, I’m also biracial. I am a bit American Indian, a bit Italian, and more than a bit White and Middle Eastern (duh). I don’t really have the defining charecteristics of any of those nations, but at least a hint of all except Italian, which hardly shows at all.
wow. I’m Christian!! I really don’t see the difference between Christians and Jews! That’s what gets on my nerves! I hate it when Jewish people come up to me and say something like, Hey, you’re a Christian. or something stupid like that!!!! Who really freakin cares!!! I really don’t care at all!!!!!! Why can’t we be friends!!!!! My BFF is Jewish and she is my BFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What’s the difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know what I reeeaaaaly hate is?
Well its when people waste there time posting complaints on the internet while they could be doing something good like doing homework or read a book or play video games. (weeeee!)
I am running for class prez next year! My slogan is “Don’t be ignorant, vote for Grant!”
yeah grant! you should add something about being an experienced chairman of the intelligent fan base of a distinguished magazine. that should count for something.
wow sheep now you hate yourself??
i’m half brit! go me!
i’m also irish and french canadian and i think german and something else that i forgot.
OH, GOD, I hate Mary Sues!
I hate it when people come up to me and and ask me what religion I am. I say none. They say do you celebrate Christmas? I say yes. Than you’re Christian, they say. NO, I’M NOT! I’M NOTHING! LEAVE ME ALONE! Except for maybe a little Buddist (Respect every living thing – I try to not eat a lot of meat) and some Quaker, which is sort of a Christian religion, BUT SO WHAT!
I’m a wasp, through and through. ENGLAND ENGLAND ENGLAND. Maybe a little Wales.
We are all WIERD. When we’re wierd like this, religion, race, age, gender, etc. don’t matter– we stand united by wierdness!
I know, I’m REALLY wierd.
mousie, belive me, there’s a differance. however, there is no reason why two people of differant religions can’t be friends!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! Hear, hear!
i think it’s cool having friends w/diff religions and stuff. i know a whole bunch of jews, a whole bunch of christians, an atheist, and a deist. I learn a lot. whee!!!
you’re right we are the WEIRD ONES!! rock on!!!
hang on isn’t this supposed to be stuff that gets on our nerves? how did we get around to talking about this??
People were annoyed about everyone making a big deal out of it.
Rock on, Phoebe!
DEATH TO SUES!!
I celebrate Christmas, and I’m an atheist. Hey, I needed something to do when everyone else is getting presents and celebrating. I celebrate it as totally secular, though.
I am not blasting religion or anything. I realise that it’s an important part of some people’s lives, and they’re entitled to their opinions, just like I’m entitled to mine. I hate it when people get all huffy when I say I’m atheist and act like I’m insulting religion. And it’s even more annoying when they start praying for my sould IN FRONT OF ME. First they act like they’re all offended, and they never seem to consider that they might be offending me. If they want to pray for me in private, that’s fine. It’s not fine when people act like I’m someone to be pitied and prayed for when I’m right there.
Mary Sue. I know her well. Has anyone read the Sparkelypoo story? Sparkleypoo, the Hogwarts house for all the Mary Sues. No? Nevermind.
My two best frineds are complete opposite with religion, and yet they get on great. The first is pretty religous, Christian, etc. The other is atheist. Does it make a difference? No.
My dying computer bothers me.
anyways if there is a difference WHO FREAKIN’ CARES!!!!!!!!!!!!
nobody. which i think was the point of our discussion. I’m not reallly sure.
Exactly. That’s the was it should be. And such. Ans now I deviated from the original topic. XD I hate homework on three day weekends.
feel free to be an athiest. I really couldn’t care less. (seriously, people PRAY for you? just as long as your a good person, I don’t think it should matter…)
I know. Who cares? I have a friend who’s fundamentalist Christian and I have a friend who’s Wiccan, one who’s mixed Jewish and Catholic, several nonsectarian Christians or Jews, a couple Catholics and agnostics, and a bunch I don’t even know the religious affiliation of. I don’t think it matters to any of us what the others are. I’m glad I know people like this. (Even if we’re only supposed to post things we hate on here.) I really hate any kind of prejudice, be it religious, racist, sexist, or anything else. People should be free to live their lives without others telling them that they don’t deserve it.
Maybe we should start a separate religion thread so people who want to discuss religion can, but people who don’t want to hear about it don’t have to… I mean, religion is important, but it’s not really something you should have shoved in your face if you don’t want to…
I really think we should stop talking about this. Don’t take it the wrong way, but it’s getting on my nerves. You guys are saying a lot of things I don’t agree with, and while it’s fine for you to say them, I don’t necessarily want to hear it. I think religion is very important because it determines how you live your life. That’s not to say people of different religions can’t be friends, but it is important. And my faith is very vital to who I am, and I feel uncomfortable talking about it to people I know don’t believe it, so I would prefer it if we dropped this subject.
we’s sry montgomerygurl. at least i am. i’m guessing everybody else is too. at least minutely. deep deep down you’re all sry. right? right? *ahem*
These pants get on my nerves. I have a dress rehearsal today, so we’re supposed to wear all black (goth! woohoo!) like as in all black, so I’m wearing these old black jeans that my mom had. wow. they go up reeeeeally high. i mean it’s not like i usually wear really low cut pants or anything but these things are like messed. ugh.
Speaking as a GAPA, I have to say that I’m impressed with the way you have dealt with your differences. I’ll be happy to start a separate “religion” topic header if people want one, but it is a touchy and very personal subject, and not everybody feels comfortable discussing it. For now, maybe it’s better to talk about other things for a little while.
Speaking as someone who has been involved with Muse since before the beginning, I’m amazed to see the variety of readers who like the magazine. Muse Mail gets letters from kids from every imaginable background, all over the country and overseas. I don’t know any other magazine (except Shonen Jump, maybe) that appeals to both 8-year-olds and 16-year-olds. One big reason, I suspect, is that Muselike 16-year-olds have had the experience of being Muselike 8-year-olds and know how different and special that makes them.
Anyway, well done, and keep on blogging!
–Robert
Ok. So what gets on your nerves aside from annoying religion – bringing – up people?
Yeah, it was good that no one insulted anyone else, and no one insulted any religions. You can start a religion thread, but be forewarned that I will probably end up explaining Christianity in detail, and I will most likely end up giving all the reasons why Christianity is logical. I know no one wants to hear all that, and I don’t really want to give it, except that religion is so close to me, and I always want to defend it.
Now, moving on. I hate stupid characters in books. Nancy Drew made me so mad I had to stop reading it. She behaved like such an idiot!!!!!!! I always knew what was going to happen, and Nancy ignored the obvious clues. It was so frustrting!!!!!!!!
I hate it when my little brother tells me what to do. I’ll be about to stop something when he’ll come into the room. He’ll then tell me in very superior tone of voice to stop whatever I’m doing. Now, I had been about to stop, but I can’t stop now because he said it in avery ingratiating manner, and I don’t want him to think I did it because he told me to. So I tell him that I will not stop. He then goes and gets my mom, who sides with him and tells me to stop doing whatever it is I’m doing. Then my little brother gives me a triumphant look that makes me want to slap him. Words can not adequately express how much I hate this.
okay, someone’s on here that’s 8 yrs old? WHO IS IT!!!!!! oh and sry ’bout the religion thing MG… They forced me!!!!!!!!
rrf- I’m half Japanese, half caucasian/Jewish and a lot of people, especially where I live, don’t even realize that I’m Asian. On the other hand, at summer camp, in the bay area, I walk in the door, start hanging out with a group of asian girls by the door, and one of them says to me “Hey, are you Asian? You look Asian,” and another girl says “Are you Japanese? You look Japanese”…
And I’m sorry, I know we promised to drop this, but I wasn’t here when the main discussion was going on, so: I’m an atheist, and while I don’t really mind when people try to convert me and stuff- I just ignore them- what really bugs me is when we’re working in group projects, the teacher has assigned the groups, somehow some of the other people start talking about religion, they ask me what I am, and then they refuse to work any more once they find out I’m an atheist. And it ticks me off. Okay. End of talking about religion.
There’s also a kid at school who, for some reason, hates me. I don’t know why. Of course, I think he hates everyone, and everyone hates him, but he just goes out of his way to be particularily nasty to him. I mean, he’s in orchestra also, but he’s not that good, and in 7th grade he kept telling me that the only reason I was getting first chair, making all-region, etc was because my mom was all friendly with the orchestra director. Lately he’s stopped telling me that I’m no good at violin (I think my making all-state convinced him to stop) he’s been bugging me about this pin I have on my backpack (“I read banned books”- it’s from banned book week, my friend gave it to me a few years ago) and he’s just really annoying.
The weather around here also gets on my nerves.
Ooooooooooh!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know what you mean about the weather. When I’m wearing a T-shirt in November, I get ticked off.
I hate it when people on the news say I’m a racist because I’m a white republican. Hellooooo??!?!! Isn’t it a little bit racist to say I’m a racist just because of my race and political offiliation? I get so mad.
Politics also infuriate me. I get really mad at people on T.V. I disagree with, and the coverage of election 2004 had me ready to throw a shoe at the T.V.
I also hate it when people are unreasonable and won’t listen to/use logic. I hate it when people make huge jumps and then try to make what they just said sound smart by saying that if anyone disagrees with them, he or she is a racist. I want to debate the issue, not hurl insults back and forth!!!!!!
Excuse me!! Boxty is made of potatoes! YOu jus thaven’t tried hard enough to have a conversation. If you talked about something interesting, like, tater tots perhaps, then you would have a response. Golly-gee people. Give some effort!
It is 2:02 pm in the mid-west
I should prbably read everything before I write incase the problem or disussion topic is done but I want to add something.
I am:
Irish, Italian, German, French, and Scottish. If I pull up my pant leg and compare my skin tone with another person, it looks like my skin glows. I burn very easily and I get very very red. I don’t like to go in the woods because I am afraid of ticks and I even get burned sitting in a car. Sun screen wears off too easy and the sun is too hot in july. Especially when I’m in the softball field when we’re being creamed. It annoys me when it takes me forever to get my room cleaned, when my mom keeps telling to get ready for bed and I try to make it clear I’m not tired, when my cat stands right in front of the computer screen so I can’t see while I’m typing, when she pukes in the car, when she hides under my bed and I can’t get her out, when I don’t like what we’re having for dinner, when books don’t come out fast enough, when I get hurt the year we were going to California to visit family, when I can’t focus on my homework, when I leave a huge assignment until the last minute, when I finish a story and I want more, run-on sentances, my drawing skills, stupid math quizes, I didn’t get to see my favorite cartoon this morning, they don’t show the classic cartoons on Cartoon Network anymore, you have to get Boomerang to see those, I don’t have any sort of cable, when all there is on tv is football, substitute teachers, cold feet, my cold room, my sister, the fact that there is no snow yet, that I wasn’t allowed to go trick-or-treating, when I have to wake up early, people that ask stupid and what-if questions, when we argue about the what-if questions, when I know I’m right and the other person won’t see that, when my friend thinks that pencils are made out of diamonds, when I tell her they’re made out of graphite, when she doesn’t believe me, when gross people try to flirt with me, when people don’t see my way, when I see something wrong and I don’t do anything about it, people who repeat themselves over and over, people who speak too loud, people who talk when they are not supposed to, people who pass notes when the teacher is standing right in front of them, when everybody in my age group is older than I am, people who talk too much, when people ignore me, when people ask me a question when I’m talking on the phone, that my little sister gets more calls than I do, I’m too shy, that I don’t have alot of friends, that I get annoyed so easily, that it’s hard to make new friends, when nobody from my middle scholl is going to the same highschool as me, when I didn’t know anybody, if I get lost in the school, and when things are so hard. *sigh*
Tom Lehrer: “I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I HATE people like that.”
From the intro to “National Brotherhood Week”. Great song. That Was the Year That Was is a great album
longest one yet. please don’t argue, I counted the lines of type already, includin the little ones.
Did the MAP adjust for daylight savings time? It ended a long time ago, so your program should really be told about it.
More things that get on my nerves:
1. When my Best Friend in the Whole Wide World might like some guy, if he likes her. and even if he does like her, she’s not sure if she likes him, but she thinks she does. My BF in the WWW doesn’t talk about him all the time, but it’s annoying when she does.
2. When I can’t stand the guy my BF in the WWW might like. He gets on my nerves, and it bothers me to see her wondering if he likes her when I think she shouldn’t care either way. He’s full of himself and arrogant, and I think she’s a lot smarter, nicer, humbler, sweeter, a better friend, and just all around more fun to be around. I feel like she would be throwing herself away on him, and then I feel stupid because she’s only thirteen and I shouldn’t be this worried about it. I know she wouldn’t have him as a boy-friend even if she could, but it bugs me none the less. And I think he’s flirting with her some times when he really shouldn’t.
oh, I LOVE National Brotherhood Week, it’s hysterical! I do NOT support a religion thread!
No religion thread. It just bothers me when people try and convert me. So I posted it here.
It gets on my nerves when my friends fight. Like right now. My one friend (I’ll call her Jane, which is not her real name) is mad at my other friend (henceforth known as Mark). They used to be really good friends. And now they hate each other, and I don’t know why. Mark thinks two of my other friends (Lisa and Alexis) are stupid and immature (they’re not), Jane thinks he’s stupid and immature (he’s not). To make matters worse, Jane and Anne are tearing at each other’s throats. They’re always trying to put each other down behind their backs. I want to scream at both of them that they should just say it to each other’s faces, but I don’t want a full-blown war, so I don’t. Lisa just ignores the whole thing, but Alexis (I think) and I really hate it. I’m friends with all these people, and I want to stay friends with all of them, not choose sides. Sometimes it seems like choosing sides is all I can do.
Sorry for that. If you’ve been through something like this and have advice, please let me know. And not the kind that says “find better friends who don’t fight.” As if. When we live in a perfect world, let me know. These people are important to me, and I hate to see them attacking each other. I had to get that off my chest, and nobody here knows who I’m talking about, especially with all the fake names I used.
Oy vey…..
Do not get me started about the things I hate.
Homework, Ms. Recor (SS teacher) (ANYBODY HERE FROM WOOD OAKS JR HIGH?), Mrs. Rosemarin (reading/LA teacher), detention, tardies, getting caught for skipping recess or reading during class, being on the bus thats always the last one there, tony hawk video games, cheats that dont work, people who think I’m fat and stupid even though i’m in all advanced/honors classes that there are, overcooked veggies, carrots, jello that isnt orange, chef boyardee food, getting food stuck in the vending machine so that mr.grebe cant get it out, jack karis, harry/hermione & ron/luna & anything-other-than-Harry/Ginny-Ron/hermione-Neville/Luna shippers, Otter Snow, Hillary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, weight obsessed celebrities, insects, my brother, and… erm… puking. But doesn’t everyone hate puking?
I hate it when my BF in the WWW talks about the guy she might like, and then asks me what I think about him. I can’t stand the guy, but I know she’s good friends with him, if she doesn’t like him, and I wouldn’t say something that might hurt her feelings for the world. I’m forced to say something mediocre about said guy, and then she either doesn’t notice, thinks something is wrong, or thinks I like him. It’s hard to know what to say to her. I’ve also noticed that the things he does to me that are annoying he doesn’t do to her. Like, when she’s giving a speech he leans forward with a smile on his face and hangs on every word. With me, he couldn’t act less interested. It bugs me that he’s so ultra friendly with my BF in the WWW sometimes, and then wohter times he doesn’t even notice her. I feel sorry for my BF in the WWW, because how is she supposed to know what to do? She can’t figure out if he likes her or not, and it’s driving her insane!!! I wish I coud tell her what I really think and have her listen.
MG just tell her!!!! If she’s your BF then she’ll understand!!!!! I have the same probablem as your BF does!!!!! *grumble* boys are soooo confoosing…
I hate it when people make me participate in idiotic things just to make me participate. I hate it when people make me work in a group. I don’t need a group!!!!!! I work best on my own, and I don’t need to be encumbered with a bunch of stupid kids who don’t even understand what we’re doing. I also hate it when I finally start figuring out how to get the thing done with the group, and I stat delegating tasks and telling people exactly what they need to do, and an adult walks up to me and say,”the whole point of this activity is to get you working in a group, you can’t just take over, you need to learn how to work together,” and then my whole plan is shot. Work together?!!!?? These kids are unmotivated idiots, how am I supposed to work with them?!?!! I can get this thing you want us to do done, but only if I’m the leader, because I happen to be the only one who understands what on earth we’re doing, much less how to get there!!!! Then the adult will tell me, “you’re taking it too seriously, the point isn’t how well you do it but how you get there, I’m sure the other kids in this group have great ideas if you would just listen, blah, blah, blah.” It makes me really mad, because it would be a lot better for everyone involved if we did it my way. Especially for the kids in my group who don’t care what happens and don’t care who is running the show, they just want to get the dumb thing over with.
I hate the bully.
I don’t think she would be amd at me, but I think it would hurt her feelings that I don’t like him, because even if he doesn’t like her, they are good friends. I haven’t known her as long as she’s known him, and I don’t want to break up their friendship, even if I don’t like him. I also don’t like to talk about what I don’t like about people specifically, because that is gossiping. I’ve tried explaining why I don’t like to him to a different girl, and she didn’t understand at all. It’s really hard to explain what bothers me about him. And he isn’t exactly mean to me, he’s just jerky under the surface, so I think it would be percieved as my being jerky for me not to like him. All in all, I think this is something I just have to live with for a while longer. Probably someday I’ll tell her, but I’m afraid that it would just be one more thing for her to put up with and deal with. I will tell her someday, though, when her life settles down.
I have a feeling that that “I hate the bully” comment was directed at me. If it was, I don’t think you understand, I take the leadership position and outline a plan (after having asked everyone if they have any ideas), and the adults have a problem with that. I really try hard to include everyone. I try not to be too bossy. When I said that the kids were unmotivated idiots, you have to understand that it is literally true. I mean, they have tiny I.Q.s and would literally sit there forever if I didn’t do something. If someone has a problem with what I want to do, I try to listen and see if it’s something we need to adjust. I don’t know what the adults want me to do, because I try as hard as I can. And I wish the adults would ask the kids in my group if they had problems withthe way I was doing stuff, because I’m almost sure that most of those kids didn’t even realize we were supposed to be getting something done. I know this may be hard to believe, but I have never been told by someone in one of my groups that I was too bossy. When I called them unmotivated idiots it was just frustration boiling out, in real life I’m a lot nicer to them and try to respect them. And when I said I delegate tasks and told people exactly what to do I mean that I tried to find specific jobs and explain what they need to do there. I really try hard to be nice to them, even though I detest groups.
MontgomoryGurl, that comment was NOT directed at you, heaven forbid! listen, The Bully is smeone in my school who no one (well, except Zyviva, who anyway dosn’t post) on here knows! every once in a while I get on here and rant about how The Bully was mean to me, MontgomoryGurl, and it isn’t you. It’s just this boy who hates me and thinks his purpose in life is to make miserable.
Yeah, I hate group projects, mostly because I’m grade-obsessed and OMG IT”S GOING TO WRECK MY GPA OMG!!!! and I’m also kind of anti-social.. See, I like it when you get to choose your own group (especially if it’s on labs and stuff like that where you really can’t do it all yourself) because then I get all of the people who actually work and are reletively competent, etc, in my group and the people who don’t do anything and just wreck your grade just go and work with each other and everyone is happy except maybe the teacher.. but when the teacher assigns groups.. ugh.
I agree Lizzie. I am totally grade obsessed. I mean I… no I will not talk about this!!!!!! I will not freak out!!!!
This reminds me of a shirt I want to make. I would say “I hate.” People will ask me “WHat do you hate?” And I’ll say: “No.I just do.”
I dislike in a extreme way reasearch papaers.And taking classes that you won’t even take next year, so why even do it? Group work is annyoing! I don’t like to talk to /work withothers most of the time, if I don’t know them.
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This reminds me of a shirt I want to make. I would say “I hate.” People will ask me “WHat do you hate?” And I’ll say: “No.I just do.”
I dislike in a extreme way reasearch papaers.And taking classes that you won’t even take next year, so why even do it? Group work is annyoing! I don’t like to talk to /work withothers most of the time, if I don’t know them.
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Wow, that got messed up. Excuse my posting inabilities.
it’s ok! join the club!
group work is fine when you know the people but I’m not one of those people that is best buddys with every kid in the class on the third day of skool. i just don’t talk to people.i say “how do you become friends so fast?” and people say “i talk to them” and i’m like “what am i supposed to say? i don’t get it!”
so most of the time i get put with people i don’t know because i can’t pretend that it really matters that they went shopping last friday or whatever. actually most of my conversations with my friends are random insanity/philosophy, geekiness, and inside jokes.
but we have fun with it!
i really don’t care about my hw right now, which bugs me, because i’m supposed to care about my grades, which i usually do, at least minutely. but right now i just don’t care and i don’t know why. i’m considering not doing it but i would probably care tomorrow. and my parents would definitely care if i didn’t even try. *sigh* on to the torture then.
oh you know what else bugs me? this is about my english teacher-she has a format, and you will use the format no matter how stupid it is (which it is…stupid i mean…) and if you make one tiny mistake on the format she won’t even look at the paper until you fix it. seriously the first paper i was like freaking out cuz i couldn’t figure out what was wrong and then i figured out that it was the comma between the month and the year. a comma. a tiny little comma and she won’t even read the paper. it’s insane. so i gotta go look up the stupid insane format now and write my stupid insane intro to the stupid insane paper that we’re doing sometime next week.
you know what i could be on here forever complaining cuz i’m really grumpy right now but i’m gonna go do my stupid hw now so i’ll see you guys next week sometime unless i have more hw to do at 11 at night. tech rehearsals, dress rehearsals, shows, strike, and then go find out how badly your grade went down. what a fun week. i wonder why more people don’t do theater. that was sarcasm btw.
I hate group work. Apparently, my teachers have decided that I have “natural leadership capabilities” and “motivational skills.” Read: If they put me in a group with dumb kids who don’t do any work, said dumb kids will mooch off me and not fail. And I get a C (or the occasional B) because the project sucked because I did the whole thing in one night when nobody else did their parts. Joy.
I hate group work too. Especially when all my teamates are lazy, dumb, and incapable.
naturally. such is life.
I’m just gald I don’t go to school where I would be put in tons of groups in a situation where it really mattered!! As it is, I only get put in groups for activities where I don’t get graded, or if I do it doesn’t affect my GPA. I think I would go nuts if I was forced to rely on other people for my grades.
It bugs me that there aren’t any guys on the costume crew cuz in the male show there are two guys that have to change really fast and we have to help them. ickyick. i mean they’ve still got clothes on and all but still. ugh. not something i really want to do!
hey GAPA sry if this is like inappropriate or something.
oh it gets on my nerves when i have to use netscape too.
Agh. Groups. My unique personaliity is totally incompatable with most of my classmates’, so I end up developing slight anger management issues. That may be an understatement. But I never get ANYTHING done in a group. If the group consisted of fellow Musers, however, that could be VERY different. Maybe I’d get something done without biting anybody’s head off. Nobody I get landed with has even HEARD of Muse. It’s really quite sad.
Muse school project groups! YAY! We must bond together against the forces of pigheaded classmates! FORTH EORLINGAS! err… FORTH MUSELINGAS! YEAH!
Forgive me for the positivity.
I am listening to classical music called “December” right now. Not really the Phoenix “spirit” music, but very pretty
I really, really, really hate my pitiful NaNoWriMo word count.
Who else is doing NaNo? Are you as behind as me? Not likely. But I can hope I have a few companions…
I haven’t had recess for almost three years
ARRGHRADEBOBALOODAREDSHADMECGRADGEAHGHAKDHALD RIGHKHSHRHYKHDKHHWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
I have allergies SO I CAN’T HAVE CHOCKLATE ANY MORE!!!!!!
I really really really hate Heather!
Poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor KitKat.
I feel so sorry for you, KitKat!
Anything I can do to ease your pain, let me know. Virtual chocolate? Or will that just rub it in?
My friend who is also allergic to chocolate says that there is a chocolate allergy shot in the works. Hang in there!
I am not doing the NaNo thing, but a few people at my school are. Of course, they would a cool person. Not one of those super-skinny stick girls. Of course everyone here “cool” they just wouldn’t be considered it at school. If you know what I mean.
They would be considered one of Us.
Last year in social studies (I swear, the whole breed of SS teachers hate me) I was in the most awful group. The first group: sat next to a really scary person. She wsa vrey depressed. her arms were covered in huge scars and she had weird piercings. That group did nothing. The last group was horrible too. There was a person who got Saturday detention almost everytime, a person who chased after preps and a prep/skater. I remember a project where evrey one except me got “D’s”. Oh!!! Tehn there was one time the kid in front of me was being really, extemely annoying! He had a really high pitched voice like a squeak and he did really annoying things. So I finally couldn’t take anymore and I told the teacher. No I am not a tattle tale. So she got all huffy and said,” Boxty, you’re not in trouble, but I;m moving you.” That made me mad. I wasn’t the problem. It was the person in front of me. She got angry at me. That was when she paired me with another horrible group. In sixth grade, we were selling candy bars for our trip. My SS teacher accused me of stealing 40 bars! She never told my parents or returned their calls.
Oh by the way, I didn’t get one
I can’t really help with the friend thing. I sure wish I could. I’m just not that good with those kinds of problems.
I am… I have a pretty bad word count, too. 7000, at the most. Foo.
No Chocolate! Poor KitKat! Not even milk? Or white? Or dark?
what exactly causes the allergy, do u know? cuz they make all sorts of different choklits or choklit-tasting type things. is it the milk you can’t have??
I feel sooo sry for you!!! I would like die or something. seriously.
Poor KitKat!!! I never eat chocolate. I, unfortunately, am on a diet. No sweets, snacks, or big portions. This diet is completely self imposed, because I aspire to one day being able to where a size that’s a single digit. I’ve been on the diet since May, and I’ve lost about 35 pounds and 2-3 sizes, but I still want to lose more. Sorry if this is boring to you nice and thin Musers who never worry about your weight, but I want to vent. I am about to go into something else I detest. I hate it when people offer me food, or tell me there’s something good to eat and then won’t let up when I tell them I don’t want it. If they don’t know I’m watching my weight, they go on and on about how good it is and how I should eat some and why won’t I eat some which leads to me having to say I’m on a diet, which is embarrassing sometimes. If they do know I’m on a diet, it’s “come on, one little bite won’t hurt!!! You don’t need to lose anymore weight, you’re not fat, come on and eat a brownie,” and I always end up having to be rude to them to get away. Probably this is totally exclusive to me, but I really hate it and find it incredibly inconsiderate.
I am donating all my delicous KitKats (goodbye, angelic thinks
)
to a charity called my sister. Alas, sadness strikes once in one’s life…
wAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
My weight problem is the opposite of MG’s. I’m too skinny. I don’t have an eating disorder or anything, but people always think I do. They constantly badger me to eat more and say, “You’re not fat, you know.” I know. If I could, I’d be about five pounds heavier. Even with all the chocolate and sugar and fat I eat, I don’t gain any weight. (I suspect a very fast metabolism is the culprit.) Aargh.
Sorry for the pointless rant about something very boring. I need to vent.
You know what’s annoying? My teacher in Language Arts was talking about how in Germany he had milk that was right from the cow, fresh eggs,bacon, etc. All these kids were like “Ewwww!!!”
I fail to see what’s disgusting about that. What is disgusting is that people think that that was disgusting, and yet they do that every day.
I mean, really.
I love fresh food!
my health problems are genetic. Everyone in my family except one unbroken line of females has some sort of serious disease. My Aunt has a crippling disease that is unidentified, another Aunt (I have no birth uncles) has a growing disorder and is only 4″5 at 25, another another aunt has Authritis and Diabetes and the remaining Aunt has Diabetes, as well. My Savta has diabetes, as does my father, and my Ziedy can’t walk because his inner ear dosn’t work. Only one as yet unbroken line of women on my mom’s side (including my mom) has nothing genetic, and have a great constitution. My great-grandmother had been smoking for sixty years before she quit at her present age of eighty, my Bubby is deaf in one ear but otherwise is fine, and my mom has no problems whatsoever.
Vanessa gets on my nerves.
Vanessa is a girl in the play who joined prop crew and costume crew, and whenever we try to get her to help with costumes, she always has to be down at props, and sydney says whenever they need her for props she always has to be at costumes. so she never does any work, but she still acts like she’s in charge of everybody and orders everybody around! We spent all of lunch today exchanging stories about what a b she is! Yes, there were enough stories to last all of lunchtime and leave some untold.
She was always like this, but it wasn’t as much of a problem until Dani got kicked out. which was incredibly stupid of hellsclaw, cuz she was really sick and she called sarah w. and told her that she wouldn’t be there but hellsclaw has a rather overlarge ego and also happens to be a control freak so he kicked her out because she didn’t call him instead of sarah even though sarah was her boss. so they’re trying to get her back in, but meanwhile vanessa’s doing hair, and managing to mess everything up (she turned the guy’s hair purple!! Using dark brown hairspray!! Talk about major overspraying) which isn’t an issue but then she says it wasn’t her fault. (“Sarah must have bought the wrong stuff!”)
I could go on for hours but I’ll leave it there. I really hate people like that though.
fresh food rocks! especially apples, strawberries, and cherries. My friend had strawberries in a garden and we ate those and they were sooo good! And my neighbors had like 3 cherry trees and we could climb up and eat cherries all day! and apples. hey I lived in MI. Where couldn’t you get fresh apples??
Now I’m in OH and eating fresh buckeyes. oh vell.
I HATE PINK BUNNIES SO MUCH AND THERE’S THIS CREEPY KID IN MY CLASS WHO KEEPS THINKING I LIKE HIM OR SOMETHING AND SOME DAY HE SHALL DIE FROM ME CHOKING HIM TO DEATH!
I like fresh food. I really really hate my student council and espacially the seventh grade representatives. They constantly talk, and they’re so loud nobody can get a word in edgewise.
I also hate how I didn’t get to eat lunch today because of a stupid student council meeting.
This thread is fun. I like complaining about stuff to people who I don’t know and willl probably never meet. (Except for A-C, and she doesn’t go to my school or know half the people I do.)
whoah! major plot reverse!
the Bully was nice to me today.
yes, folks, you heard that right: HE WAS NICE TO ME.
And he was trying to FLIRT with me.
There is somthing seriously wrong with his brain. I am totaly confoozled bamboozled.
(the idiot kid is probably faking to make me make a fool of myself, but it is still el-bizzaro.)
Complaint of the day: My dog Duncan chewed up our sprinkler system for the 3rd time so now our basil and oregano are dying and browning ever so slowly.
I dislike cliques that dress in pink and speak like
“OMG so i wuzlik an she wuz lik and i wuz lik noooo0Oo0o0o way”
It annoys me. However, I have “ugly, nerdy” stuff that repels them.
I love the ARTEMIS FOWL series by Eoin Colfer.
I also dislike shirts that say rude things, such as “It is cute how stupid you are”
PS: Run! Evil squids are taking over the world!!!!!
I dislike people who glare at me when I read something other than a steryotipical magazine. It is like reading is a crime.
PS:Even though I am female, you may call me BobTheSquid.
PS: I never read steriotipical magazines. They are evilllllllll. KitKAt: sorry about your chocolate.)-:
I hate being cut off.
Of course, it’s not like progress is going to stop behind my back and wait for me, but it’s overwhelming coming back to the Blog and finding such a vast population. Makes a girl nervous, y’know? Here I am, barely able to contain myself at getting back to Abbi and Juliette and having Chintsu try out new ways to kill me with alchemy. But here’s me wondering who people like Ritzu and KitKat are (quick note- KitKat, it probably isn’t, but is your name a Cabaret reference).
I think it’s a candy-bar reference.
I love giant squids! yaaay!
Go sqiuds!Yayyy
What gender do you think pwt is? In “The attack of the smart pies”, pwt was called “he”, but I think “he” looks like a girl.
Has anyone read the “Artemis Fowl” series? I love those books.
I shall now add something that I dislike (for this is what the blog is all about): I dislike calamari; it is an insult to all squidkind.
It tastes pretty good, though. Crunchy. Mmmmmmmmmm.
I think i mispelled calamari. Oops.
: eek : Gasp! Squids are attacking me (for that last comment) as I type! I am locked in my bathroom, and they are burning a hole in the door with their evil!!!!!!!!!!! Noooooooo!!
Help! Save me, muse bloggers, and Mr. Baker, with your adult Bakerfullishness! They are coming foooooorrr meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.*Fades into the distance*
PS: Someday the world will remember the name off Artemis Fowl II. Thehehehehehehahahahhahamooo!
Hello. I still need saving.
Helloooooo? Remember, the squids.
It reeeaaaly gets on my nerves when some people ignore others who are in squidtastic pain.*wink wing nudge nudge*(-:
I know what you’re saying, Morbid- I mean, I can’t keep up with all these people, especially when we start using aliases and fake names and etc and I come here a lot more than you.. Now, at the Gaboomba, we had the opposite problem- no one was there a fair amount of the time.. [and in the good old days we had to walk five miles in the snow every day uphill both ways etc etc etc]
By the way, where has Juliette been lately?
Sorry if I annoyed you. I shall stop blogging now.
Permantly?
You’re OK!!! Don’t leave!!
Oh yes, you spelling nominies know perfectly well how “permently” should actually be spelled/ spelt/
Ooh, Artemis Fowl, you like Monty Python??? The wink, wink, nudge nudge skit is funny!!!
Talking about Monty Python, I was wondering all you administrators if we could please have a thread on Monty Python?
Pretty please with a cherry on top??
MONTY PYTHON THREAD RIGHT NOW!!!
I once wrote a radio play about giant squids (and some music for it, too) that was performed at my music school. I’ll see if I can find it for Artemis or Bob or whatever you want to be called and post it somewhere.
I’m a vegetarian. I barely ate meat when I wasn’t, but now I have these intense cravings for bacon and chard sauce, which is on my list of favorite foods in the whole world. WaaH!
Yay. I am glad I do not have to leave. I don’t know where I got the wink, wink, nudge nudge thing, but I reaalllllyyy like Monty Python.
I agree; a thread on Monty Python would be really cool.
I love weirdness and squids!Yay.
Ooooh! A squid play! Sorry you have new cravings for bacon, randomrohanfreak. Well, I’m going to dream some dreams for the dream thread. Goodnight.
Definitely monty python thread.
actually it’s nudge nudge wink wink but whatever.
Now I shall click on Artemis Fowl II’s cool little green name and see where it takes me. If I die, my ghost had better see you all at my funeral!!!!
heh. can’t find the server. AAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!
well at least i didn’t die! so….i can’t haunt you guys for not coming to my funeral because you don’t know where it is…darn i was looking forward to that!
bacon. my friend’s a vegetarian, and she does crew w/ me, and somebody brought in real bacon for a real sandwich somebody has to eat and she was like NOO! RUN AWAY!!! and i was like “it’s just bacon” and she’s like “yeah but i can’t eat it” and i was like “neither can i, it’s a prop”
something along those lines. this was ages ago. (a whole week! *gasp*) but yeah. another bout of randomness.
I clicked on A-Fowl 2’s green name and got a sight about milk.
WEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIRED
I don’t like George Bush. No offense MG, but I disagree with his ideas.
Hi! I clicked on my name, and couldn’t find the server. I wonder why ChinTSu found a sight about milk. SUUUUPPPPEEERRR WEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIRED. It was probably a dairy website for “fowl”. If anyone dies, can I inherit the “J” key on their computor? Mine was bitten off by my cat, so now it does not work, unless i press it reeeeaaalllyyy hard. If any word that begins with a j is missing its first letter, blame it on my Kitty kitty, Callie.
Oooh! It is almost Thanksgiving. May large pumpkin pis be smashed into your faces. What is the plural of pi? Yay I love pi ;
3.14159 blahblahblahblah blah.
PS:Does anyone know if Pwt is male or female?
Pwt=Male.
George Bush=bad.
Pi=3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375etc.
Could you please explain to me why you hate George Bush? I’ve never heard people on here actually explain why they feel like they do about politics. Could you please tell me what leads you to feel that George Busk is bad?
It’s called Iraq.
MuseBlog is apolitical (that means “not political”) and makes no rules about whether or not people here may discuss politics. Still, now that the subject has come up, Your Humble GAPA feels compelled to make a few points:
1. Technically, Musers under 18 have no political affiliation, because they can’t join political parties or vote.
2. Statistically, people’s opinions depend largely on where they live and how they’ve been brought up. If you’re in the South or the Midwest and don’t live in a university town, chances are that people you know and respect like to hunt and own guns and oppose restrictions on gun ownership. If you live in a big city on one of the coasts, people you know and respect probably don’t care much about any of those things and encounter guns mostly in connection with armed robberies. Different experiences make for different opinions. Because MuseBloggers come from all over, differences of opinion are pretty much inevitable. When you disagree, it might be interesting to figure out where the disagreements really come from.
3. Super-intelligent people like you don’t need to be told this, but I’m going to say it anyway: when people disagree about something–even something basic and important–it usually doesn’t mean that one side is good and the other side is evil. Please avoid black-and-white rhetoric. Most liberals aren’t unpatriotic. Most conservatives aren’t heartless. Very few Musers, whatever their political persuasions, are stupid.
Okay, you’re free to opine away. Just remember: we’re all Musers here.
sry GAPA! it’s not that republicans are bad. and maybe somehow somebody could find some possible excuse for us being in iraq and all.
maybe we should all just take the Koko Way-Vote for Koko and rid the world of anything resembling sanity!!!
We want koko to run again! or i do anyway.
ok i’m out of time to discuss politics. I want to go type up some more monty python because i have no life. whee!!!!! plus i have to be back at skool in half an hour.
Sometimes I think Kokopelli is already in charge. It would explain a lot of things.
Yay, Kokopelli in 2008!!!
The only problem is that by the time that most of us are old enough to vote, we’ll have come to our senses and realize that.. Urania.. or somemuse would make a better candidate…
Now we just need the campaign posters, websites, money, voters, etc…
Ebeth- why do you have to be at school on a Saturday?
Weren’t there actually links to sites Morbid and Juliette had made way back when and Morbid’s posters and stuff?
I do not like it when things people tell you don’t make sense.For example, I went to this field trip to this university, and the guy was giving us a lecture about planets. He said there was a lot of volcanic activity on Mars. And then later on in the lecture he said that there were no plates on Mars. Well how can there be volcanoes if there are no plates? I just recently learned that volcanoes are caused by subduction which is the ocean plate going under the continental plate. Please explain how there can be volcanoes w/o plates, Mr. Coontz.
That was my sister.
I finally got her on here.
Bem is cool. How knows what Bem is?
This is HTML. I’m explaining it to my sister.
And not to mention, I am KitKat’s older sister.
Volcanoes can happen without plates. Volcanoes can happen anywhere there’s a crack or thin bit in the Earth’s crust. I assume it’s the same on Mars.
I don’t like George Bush because I disagree with most of what he believes in and think he wasn’t elected fairly the first time around. I like talking to people I don’t agree with, though, because it makes me think about why I have the views I do.
Do you want to have a political debate? I can keep it civil if you do, and if you don’t I’ll shut up.
Well, could you tell me exactly what you disagree with Bush about? I like to know exactly where everyone is before I begin talking.
Bush was elected fairly. Every single recount had him as the winner, even ones that threw out military ballots and didn’t count absentee. Katherine Harris said they needed to stop accepting new ballots, and that’s what led to the belief that he was unfairly elected. Well, Florida law actually said that after a certain amount of days, ballots coming in from new counties had to be thrown out. That’s the number of days Katherine Harris waited, so she honestly had no other choice but to do that. She may have wanted to, but that doesn’t matter. SCOFLA threw out her decision, but some of the judges had contributed money to the Clinton/Gore campains, so they weren’t exactly unbiased. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Katherine Harris was right.
If you didn’t want to talk about this, just ignore the entire post. And if anyone brings up Iraq I’m totally game for it. We can keep this civil, can’t we? If we can’t, then we shouldn’t do this, but if we can I really want to discuss it and find out why you believe what you believe.
Actually, Florida was a whole mess. There’s a bumper sticker that pretty much sums it up: “It ain’t over until your brother counts the votes”.
The first time- Many many many minorities, mostly blacks, were prevented from voting- they were told their names weren’t on the voting list, and then were refused absentee ballots, they were told they were on the list of criminals, people refused to allow them into the polilng places,etc etc etc. The second time- one example (this was a while ago so I’m not sure if I have the numbers exactly right and I’m too lazy to look it up, but this is close) – in a county in Ohio (Gallaha? started with a G) there were 600 votes for Kerry and 1200 votes for Bush. And only 900 registered voters. In other places, if you forgot to fill out the last vote thingy, the machines didn’t accept it and returned the ballot to be completed, but the first vote, the vote for president, was changed to Republican. Additionally, the president of one of the companies that made the voting machines, located in Ohio, told Bush he’d win the election for him. Maybe he did. Maybe it was just boasting. I don’t know. But who knows what goes on inside those machines? They refused to release the code, which is suspicious in itself..
Yes, and I think that we can keep this civil. And it would be interesting to find out, and if we can manage to keep from attacking each other personally it should be fine.
Robert/Roseanne, should we have a seperate thread for this so everyone who doesn’t want to get involved can just not go there?
Lizzie,
Good idea.
–Robert
*sighs*
*cries*
*dies* (okay, not the last one. *sighs again*)
What are we talking about?????
Hi! Sorry if I did not mention anything in the short debate on politics, but that topic really annoys/ depresses me. There are always crimes/ impeachments/unfair decisions going on somewhere in the goverment. The news always depresses me too, with natural disasters, arguements, diseases, and crimes always being broadcasted. Sometimes I think it is the end of the world.
Sorry. Did that last comment belong in the “Hot Topics” section? Oops.
Actually, Lizzie, there were, but they were taken off becuase of a flaming issue I had (which seems to be over).
Although, I miss having the links there, because I got a lot of my webstraffic that way. It has gone down, recently….
By the way, I currently have 4,339 hits.
who would want to flame koko’s campaign? that’s sad
oh look, hello
I dislike french people who can’t be bothered to learn english (I go to a french school) and people who have to have the last word (like my neighbour. No I like my neighbour, I just don’t like it when she’s like that.)
anyone on here? please say hello (I’m bored and my teachers are on strike tomorrow so I can stay up late)
koko rocks
but i vote for mimi
never mind. I’ll come back when there are people. I’ve got hw, anyway. :S
your teacher’s are on strike? wow. what’s up with that?
MIMI??!!??!! ALSIETEAGHOKLSDJFGHJLkd
*ahem*
well that’s quite interesting katie. I happen to disagree, but I’m sure we can discuss this calmly and peacefully…
JUST LET ME AT HER!! ONE SHOT!!!! @#T)OE*(IGHALSIDKJFGL!!!!!!!!
excuse me, I’m really sorry about that. My inner self gets quite uncontrollable sometimes. Let me get you a cup of tea…
Mimi?
…okaay..
Aeiou all the way!
hi. I ask again: does anyone do NationStates?
what’s NationStates?
Indeed. What is NationStates?
I very much dislike when I go back to a thread I visited yesterday, only to find that NO ONE HAS POSTED! GHASP!
well…all i have to say is “what’s nationstates?” and i already said that…
it’s a place where you make your own country, and control its politics and laws and people. go to http://www.nationstates.net. My countries are Gillieth and Euania.
Heh, I just made on on there, very interesting. I misspelled my county’s name by accident though. :sigh:
Heehee Phoenix u’ve read Gaurdian of Ga’hoole
No I have not. What is it, ChinTsu?
Oh yeah, and Axa: what’s your country’s name? I want to see it…
It’s this awsome series about owls. Then why is Euania’s national animal the dire wolf? My country which I just made is called Carazan. Maybe we can get together and create a new region.
sure! love to. message Jresnada, too. My animal is the dire wolf because wolves are cool and giant, intelligent wolves with retractable claws are even cooler. I’ll visit your nation, and maybe we could get a forum to discuss polotics and whatnot on invisionfree.
Oh, yes: anyone on Museblog may join my region, Land of the Muse. just make a nation and message Euania for the password.
Onrtho.
I’ve heard of that book a lot, I should read that. I’m stil; reading the Martian Chronicles though. :sigh:
you’ll probably hang me or something for saying this, but the ratio of really bad fantasy to good/semi Ok fantasy is extremely heavy on the former side. i wonder if anyone could compile a list of good ones so i dont have to go around sifting through books like a threshing machine or something? and Artemis fowl is six or more times better than Harry potter, so there.
i know im annoying, bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha..
I know, it’s really hard to find some good fantasy but…
(you all see this coming, right?)
THE BEL–GA–RI–AD! (David Eddings)
Tamora Pierce
Mercedes Lackey (careful; a lot of her books should be rated R)
Sisters of the Raven by I-forget-who, but it’s a really good book for feminists. Boys probably wouldn’t like it so much
Reddddwaaaaaaaallll!
and a really great book: Watership Down. It looks stupid, because it is about, well, bunnies, but it has some really deep political and social and humanistic and religious and moral themes. There are Nazi bunnies, Soviet bunnies, bunny sacrifice bunnies, patriotic-die-for-your-freedom-and-country-and-cause bunnies, slave trader bunnies, and Krypton (like from Superman) bunnies, but they aren’t literally from Krypton. It is a great book, and there are lots of copies of it, including Warriors (gasp!) and the popular Firebringer books.
:sob sob: The Warriors series is perfecttttttttttt :hisssss:
No, just kidding. But I still really like it. The New Prophecy is a bit boring though. Anyway. I wish I could contribute, but the last thing I read was by Ray Bradbury. I love his stuff, it’s freakish and poetic at the same time.But it is science fiction, so I’m not sure about that.
hey, I like the New Prophecy books!!!!!!
I do not like Redwall. The first few are good, but then it turned into this huge popular thing and Mr. Jacques just started turning out book after book with the EXACT SAME PLOT. Moral to monday: If you are going to read Redwall, read the ones set before the Abbey is built. They’re better.
The plot just seems too typical. I liked the forest life plot better. But
Tigerstar’s death was cheap. And stupid. Thye built up all this stuff for six books nad then he’s suddenly dead. Cherith Baldry signed my Midnight copy though, so I’m happy.
I understand about Redwall. I read all of them, but I don’t think I’ll read any new ones, and I will never re-read them. Yeah, the first few were good, but then, as RRF said, the plots all became exactly the same. Also, he used the same devices to provide comic relief. The hairs are always sensitive aobut beign called rabits and they eat too much and talk with that annoying accent, the moles have that dialect, the hedgehogs are always the cellar keepers, it just got incredibly repetitive.
And don’t forget that in every other book the Dibbuns get lost.
I like The Naming, by Alison Croggon. Sort of ripped off from LOTR, but it’s so good it doesn’t really matter. Go LOTR!
Oh, yeah, the Dibbuns. You would have thought that eventually someone would have caught on and realized that they needed to watch the Dibbuns like a hawk. But no, they were all the time goign to get water, or help defend the abbey from invading attackers, and they would leave the Dibbuns alone and say, “Now you stay here, Dibbuns! Don’t go running off anywhere.” And then they were always so shocked when the Dibbuns did run away. Apparently the animals fo Redwall Abbey have really short memories.
Montgomery, you make me laugh so hard the milk comes out of my nose. My personal stance on the Brian Jacques issue is this: OK, the Dibbuns are weedy and the man’s running out of inspiration, but a few of them are really good, especially the first few ones. And the ones were the vermin attack, and Martin comes, and they’re like “K.O. the invaders!” etc. I like the accents, actually.
About my likes? I heart the Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey series by Dorothy L. Sayers. Sure, everyone hates Harriet Vane, and it’s really 1930s, but the similies and plots are fabulous, well done, and the stories are superb, and clear for mystery stories. Also receiving a commendation in that category are the P.D. James books, but be forewarned-they are super intense. My absolute fave in this category are John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey series, which is also a wonderful TV show.
It is my opinion that fantasy and fiction are categories we have coming out of our ears. So, for the Best Book That Musers Would Never Ever Have Read If My Luminous Self Hadn’t Recommended It (the BBTMWNEHRIMLSHRT award, for those of us on first name terms), the BBTMWNEHRIMLSHRT goes to William Echikson’s Burgundy Stars, a glorious book about the life of La Cote D’Or, a pretentious French restaurant and its head chef, Bernard Loiseau, who really really wants the third Michelin stars.
Of course. The memory span of a mouse is something like five minutes. At least in Redwall…
Read Holly Black (Tithe and Valiant.) NOW!
How do I join your region, Land of Muse? I searched and searched for it, and I still can’t find it. I don’t like it when websites are confusing.
I don’t like it that I’m typing in “Euania” for the password to LAnd of Muse and my computer says it’s wrong. Phoenix, someone, help?
The pasword is “kokopelli”.
I know. Thaks, though. I figured it out out of sheer dumb luck… So Thirelnadorith is Land of The Muse. YAY!! I created Ruunawai so that I could oppress people and not worry about making decisions that could negatively affect the country. And they’re virtual people, so I don’t feel guilty.
haha my people are soo oppressed…
I’m a psychotic dictator go me!
Redwall…I liked the first few i read and then foom. ick. bleh. that should only have been maybe a 3-5 book series, not the millions (ok exaggeration)
i liked taggarung though.
the dibbuns bugged me. they were so…i don’t know…typical. corny. cliche. whatever you want to call it. the standard picture of the cute little kid. hear me barf.
and they were always such spoiled little brats. i was always like “yeah this is a great picture of a happy life at redwall huh?” they got whatever they wanted!! It made me sooo mad.
I liked taggarung though. I said that already didn’t i? decent book. not great, but ok.
Things that really get on my nerves????
um….
Weetabix. definitely Weetabix. Yes.
Ode to Weetabix
Chunks of sawdust, we despise thee
soaking in the breakfast bowl
turning slimy, gushy, nasty
tastes like a deceas-ed mole.
Why it’s so adored in Britain
i don’t have a single clue Be-
cause that vile breakfast cereal
looks much like pureed bamboo.
In case you haven’t noticed, I hate Weetabix. Even though I live in Michigan and you can only get it in like 2 places. Consequently, I give Ebeth Weetabix upon the slightest excuse.
In case you haven’t noticed this yet, I’m also really bad at writing poems.
I also hate it when my STUPID computer gets stuck on British English and it types ” when you try to type @ and vice versa.
That’s it.
we still have a box of weetabix that somehow missed the huge moving-time-throwing-away-of-all-the-boxes-of-weetabix-that-harriet-gave-us trash tossing. actually i think dad+james might’ve eaten some of it. ick. blech.
BUT STILL HOW DARE YOU!!!!! WEETABIX ROCKS!!!!!!! EVERYBODY EAT YOUR LOVELY BRITISH SAWDUST NOW
guuuuuuys…i finished my hw but i don’t want to print it cuz that means bringing the comp downstairs and basically returning it to the custody of my mom who thinks that the internet is a waste of time unless you’re using it for work, which is totally NOT true and anyway i think the comp likes it here in my room.
OH!!! something that gets on my nerves-MY PEN!!!!!!!!!!!! ok i have one pen (i suffer from an extreme allergy to knowing where my writing utensils are for more then 2 days) so anyway the pen that i have right now all the ink comes out sooo fast! and in science i was trying to color in all the little white spaces on my periodic table and it was reeeeally hard cuz it kept coming out so fast! (don’t ask why i was coloring in my periodic table during science). anyhoo. yes.
OH YEAH and we drew for our project due dates today and i got jan. 3rd-THE FIRST DAY OF SKOOL AFTER BREAK!!! THE AGONY!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!! I wanted that friday but noooo somebody ahead of me got it. grrr. plus i’m going to FLORIDA over break (which is lotsa fun and all but we’re DRIVING there-all that time stuck in a car w/james…i shudder at the thought. I am most definitely bringing my awesomely cool big headphones that block everything out but the music. when i find them that is…) so my procrastinating calculations are all messed up which means that if i can’t figure it out i’ll have to do it all IN ADVANCE!!!! oh the horror!!!
and we have no snow…
and i don’t know if anybody’s on here…i really hope so…i don’t want to bring the comp downstairs…
OK, so Weetabix is an acquired taste. Have any of you sampled Marmite?
I manage very well with my computer set to British English. It helps if you have a British keyboard, of course, so that the symbols are in the right places.
I like Weetabix. I practically lived off it (them?) one summer while taking a geological field course in Scotland and Wales.
A thought has just popped into my head. Weetabix coated with Marmite, in warm milk, with a liberal sprinkling of caster sugar. And a side dish of gherkins. I feel Ill. I’m going to lie down.
ah! scary…
ideas for weetabix-spamabix (spam flavored weetabix), choklit covered weetabix, weetabix and shrooms of doom, camaspamaweetabixalot (an overdose of monty python while eating spamabix).
Also-taste testing (see if you can tell the difference between weetabix and sawdust), randomly confusing people in the hallways (doesn’t work in britain-walk up to people and say “did you eat your weetabix today?” in a british accent), interrogation (tell me or i’ll feed you….WEETABIX! bum bum buuuum), and generally making fun of it to people who have no clue what you’re talking about. (again works best in america)
no offense to weetabix eaters (GAPA and pb&j). weetabix holds a special place in my heart (aawwww) it’s given me hours of fun (and other poor people hours of confusion)
hey pb&j what are gherkins?
I always thought that gherkins were kind of like onions or beets or something.. I don’t know why..
Good grief! They don’t have gherkins! I KNEW America was uncivilised.
A gherkin, my dears, is a small cucumber. You do have cucumbers, don’t you? A number of them are placed in a jar with some herbs and spices – there are various recipes, but dill must be incuded – and they are then pickled in vinegar. So much for the basic method. Now you need to know your gherkins.
Most commercially available gherkins taste like crisp sacks full of sulphuric acid. They are truly horrid. The good ones, however, are pickled in a MILD vinegar, and a little sugar is added. They are very pleasant indeed. Alas, the only firms producing these commercially are German. There is always a frisson of shame in plucking these from the supermarket shelves, but the English ones really are dire. I would pickle my own, but the nearest cucumber ranch is many miles away.
Anyway, you can now see why I felt ill at the prospect of gherkins and Marmite. If you know what Marmite is.
ugh…
somehow not having those doesn’t make me feel uncivilised at all. heh. uncivilised. ok done laughing at weird brit splelings (for now…)
i like PRETZELS!!!!!! yaaaay!
and choklit. (not pretzels with choklit. those are ok, but i like them seperately)
hey we should have a food thread! GAPA?
Ahem, the Brit accuses us of being uncivilized! (and misspells the word)
I knew a gherkin was a pickled cucumber.
But what a strange place England must be if cucumbers are raised on ranches. Do you hop aboard horses and leap over hedges to chase them down when you want pickles? (Oh wait, that’s foxes).
You don’t even need a farm. A few seeds, a trellis, and a warm summer and you’ll have more cukes than you could pickle. (You need the trellis so the fruits will grow straight – otherwise it’s too hard to pack them into jars).
I have a funny story!!!!! Okay, of you look at some of the earliest comments on the thread, you will see that I complained about a boy I know who won’t listen to me. Well, my BF can’t stand him either. The poor girl feels pretty guilty about it, because she thinks she’s supposed to like everyone. Thursday he was gone from debate. My BF and another girl were getting ready to debate each other, when I mentioned something about the boy I can’t stand. My BF looked up and said “oh, why did you have to go and ruin my day?” I said, “well, just thinking about him ruined mine. so I figured I’d spread the misery around.” She kind of laughed/gasped, and then she jumped out of her chair, ran over to me, hugged me, and said, “thank you!!!” Then she sat back down again and said, “that just made my day!!!” I think she was glad to know that she wasn’t the only one who can’t stand him.