The Ranting Room

I'm watching stand-up on Comedy Central the other day when the sound cuts out so the networks can alert me that some child got kidnapped. Why is that my problem? I finally get to watch a decent program in the summer, and then it gets ripped away because little Timmy wanted some candy? When we were little we were told not to talk to strangers or to go near them. If you're reading this, congratulations, you passed. Why should everything stop on a dime because the kid didn't have the attention span not to follow the shiny object into the van? Then we have to listen to the family say they want him back. OF COURSE YOU WANT HIM BACK. It would be very suspicious if you didn't. If he comes back, hug him then whack him for being a moron. If he doesn't, make another and teach it better. The only time it is acceptable to interrupt my regularly scheduled broadcast is if a child, safe in his home, is suddenly abducted by ninjas who rip of the roof and descend from a helicopter. I hope they interrupt because that's WAY more interesting than whatever crap I'm watching.

stonebeard wrote: The media are whores for abductions, and they avoid accusations of such by being in the interest of finding the child. It's not that more kids are being abducted, just that with 24 hours nesw all the time, they've gotta fill the time somehow, and what better way with a kid that's not turning up anytime soon? It's sad, but we probably owe it to the child to make it big news. Their kidnapping will serve to highten our vigilence about abductions, which is a lot more than they might have accomplished for society in a normal life.

If it was on CNN or Fox News I wouldn't mind. It's when they interrupt the audio of cable channels to broadcast an amber alert. We don't owe it to the kid unless the child is too young to have received the "don't talk to strangers" talk. Infants deserve a manhunt. 4 and up should know better. I did, and it shows cause I never got abducted.

Why the  is Billy Ray Cyrus still alive? Even worse, how does he have enough   -ing clout to get his daughter a   tty show? You'd think someone would have   -ing shot that man in his achy breaky   -ing heart years ago. If I was God Billy Ray Cyrus would be a pile of   -ing ash with shoes. When I first he heard his daughter got a show, I didn't know what pissed me off more: he has   -ing pull, or that he   -ing spawned. What do you call the child of hellspawn? I suppose you name it Hannah   -ing Montana. My little sister loves that   -ing show, but then again she's a   -ing moron. And that tour? What the   ? You'd think they resurrected the   -ing dead Beatles and all four went back on tour. 300 clams to see a   -ing gimmick? How do I get in on this? For $300 that girl should wrestle a   -ing bear, or at least fence with someone. With lightsabers. I'd shell out money for that. I'm keeping my eye on that girl. As the child of Lucifer's minstrel she'll probably grow up to be a   -ing lieutenant in hell.

(This isn't an angry rant, but whatever.)  I wish I wasn't so lazy in college.  I haven't kept up with the reading in most of my classes (those that require it anyway) in three semesters thus far.  It's really hurt me in three classes so far.  I had to drop a class before a midterm second semester last year because I was vastly unprepared for it.  And for some reason I was stupid enough not to drop the other two classes, both in which I ended up getting a D.  I meant to correct these bad habits this year, although I don't have a lot of classes that have substantial reading requirements.  I have calculus III (I don't know why I'm taking this anymore, but that's a different rant), physics (with a lab), and genetics (which doesn't even require a textbook), and a European history course, which does have reading requirements.  But I just end up putting off the reading for my European history class, and now it could potentially hurt a lot since I have an exam on Friday morning.  I feel like an idiot for doing this, and I know there is no one else to blame but myself.  I just need to find a way to kick this bad habit.  I really didn't want this to happen this year, I wanted to get away from this laziness.  At the moment though it's just making me feel depressed.  But thankfully, I still have time to rectify this problem, I just have to take action.  

stonebeard wrote: ^ I've been slacking too, but so far my grades have been excellent. We'll see how long that lasts. Good thing I won't take as many math/science courses as you!

I have a 2.5 GPA right now, which I'm not too happy about because I know I can do better (in high school, my GPA was 93.86 out of 100, don't ask me why it was measured out of 100 points).  I enjoy science courses though (I'm a biology major), and I've always been good at math.  I really shouldn't be taking Calc III though, since I only needed I and II, that's just poor class selection on my part (and another rant of it's own, but I won't get into that right now).

As a side note, a lot of my friends seem to hate chemistry with a passion, but I don't have too much trouble with it (although I placed out of chemistry with AP Chem in high school, so I don't know what it's like here at Rutgers).


Edited by darkmatter - October 17 2007 at 23:10

If you want to be patronised, press 1
If you want to be cut off for no apparent reason, press 2
If you are obsessive compulsive, press 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3,
If you want to relax, hang up now, followed by hash


etc

Same problem here - the service you subscribe to in the UK only blocks UK call centres. It doesn't affect those in a certain sub-continent

Except it would sound like:

"H*mumble* this is Pra*mumble*, from India, I am *mumble* on *mumble* of the *mumble* next door to *mumble*, because *mumble* are not allowed to *mumble* you directly..."

Me: pardon?

*repeat above*

Oh right... (still clueless)

I do have a rant though...

Why do the Dutch speak better English than I?


Edited by Geck0 - October 19 2007 at 07:23

That too.

But why?

Don't forget, I had a two week residential course with The Master in July.