The Scream-Into-A-Pillow Thread

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Apparently this year is some football world cup again. Just like two years ago... wait no. That was the European championship? Four years then.
I don't like football. In fact. I rather dislike it.
Now, normally I'm perfectly fine with others enjoying something I find boring. I mean, that's just how it is. I can't like everything everyone else does. That's just impossible. Then there's the world cup. Apparently a big event. I happen to live in a football obsessed country. I don't get it, but okay. Have fun.

The fun, however, stops when you're a drunk yelling motherfucker wielding a klaxon that sounds like an old senile wrinkly dude who gets blown by his just as old senile and wrinkly wife. No human who does not fit that description can produce such a horrible sound ALL. FUCKING. DAY. LONG. That's why you need an instrument to do that. I can't quite think of a reason to create such an abomination. But hey. It's what they call nightmare fuel, and... well, I was trying to sleep. I couldn't.
Then there's that random stranger trying to strike up a conversation.
"Watched the game or twelve yesterday?"
"Nope. No I didn't"
"Oh, so you were busy? That sucks!"
"No, it's not like that, I'm just not interested in football"
"WHAT!? The concept of not being gay for football is unknown to me. I yearn to learn more about this, but the next game's on in a few minutes. Maybe next time, bye"
"Nice meeting you too."

Then there's that thing with drinking. Y'know alcohol.
I don't do it. Well, sometimes I do, but that's usually the case when fuckers don't have the decency to offer plain and simple water, even if it's straight from the sink and I just have to get ANYTHING wet and cold down my throat. So it's not like I never ever drink. I just prefer not to do it.
I sometimes do it willingly in very rare cases. Like my cousins wedding which was horrible in so many ways. You had to be there.

Anyway, people just don't seem to get that I do not want to drink
"Want a beer [IG]
"Nah, I'm good"
"Come on, [IG] have a drink with us, enjoy yourself."
"No, really, I don't need to get wasted for that."
"But [IG] everyone needs to get drunk to have fun around other people! There can't possibly be a way to do that without drinking"
"How about being around people you... like?"
"Oh [IG] you naive little kid. People aren't worth shit when they're sober, besides you'll feel better when you drink."
"Hey, I'm the anticyclical, slightly misanthropic guy with a raging inferiority complex here!"
"DrrrRRrriiiiiink WIIITTTHHhhhh meeEEeEEeEEe /iG] BoOZ>E is luV"

Okay, now you can tell everyone about those small things in life that just piss you off and make you reach for the pillow.
Or you can post nice things as well, I don't mind. People express their emotions in the weirdest of ways.

[bluestarultor]

My mom buying technology. She is, simply put, out of her league. She wanted something to scan in photos because she heard you could do that from a friend at work. She took me out to Staples to buy a printer-scanner-copier-fax. Then she couldn't believe how expensive they were. All she wanted it for was to scan in pictures. I told her we could just get a flatbed scanner and she gave me this blank look.

"There is such a thing?"
"Yes, mom. Right over here."

She then completely ignored my suggestion of a good unit for a great price in favor of a shitty unit that was more expensive. The whole point of getting it was so I could try to fix up some photos for her. The unit's "photo fixing" completely ruins any hope of that. It also drops any line from my sketches that doesn't have roughly 80% contrast and is buggy as all Hell, constantly cutting out.

Did I mention that you can't adjust any of the scan settings for contrast or to turn the "photo fixing" off?



This wouldn't be all that terrible if she didn't do this with every piece of technology we buy. She drags me along because I know about this stuff, then totally ignores me because she thinks she knows better.

[Amake]

Watching sports and drinking just happen the two biggest social activities known to man. Disliking them specifically doesn't make you asocial, it just looks that way to the vast majority who're into them.

Well, small things that piss me off. Yesterday I caught an Internet discussion about how much Fox sucks for cancelling Firefly. I contributed an excellent speech about the particular reasons it was cancelled. (It was too popular, it makes the studio look bad to investors.) It was completely ignored. I hate when people don't talk to each other but just carry on their own monologues. Even if I do it all the time, especially in real life, it sucks when other people do it and it happens all the time on the Internet.

[MuMu]

The same thing with football and alcohol for me, but not as dramatic. I do drink alcoholic drinks once in a while, but apparently not with the same purpose as everyone else.


I do hate Politics. Most likely because I grew up in an awfully corrupt place, but I don't believe any system of government can function without being highly inefficient, specially in a big country. I do try to be somewhat apathetic to it, but everytime somebody praises our freedom of choice(Given that we can, at best, chose the least of the evils) or how discussing politics is an art, I have an urge to kill everyone wearing a suit.

[BitVyper]

The Scream-Into-A-Pillow Thread

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Did I win?

Anyway, people just don't seem to get that I do not want to drink

You give wishy washy-sounding answers and try to provide reasons, which all just turns it into a negotiation. I don't drink period, and I've never had someone ask me to more than twice before everyone in earshot got it. I've had people get grumpy about the way I respond, but they usually forget about it, and more often, I've had people apologise later on. Which is funny, because it doesn't even bother me to be asked a lot.

Honestly though, I'm usually too busy roaming around and talking to everybody at parties for anyone to pin me down for that long.

It was too popular, it makes the studio look bad to investors.

Explain. Not that I think hiding from greatness because you make more money with mediocrity is a good reason, but I'd like to know how a popular show makes a studio look bad from an investment standpoint.

[DFM]

My solution to becoming popular was to pound liquor until I loved sports.

[BitVyper]

My solution to becoming popular was to pound liquor until I loved sports.

I thought your solution was to screw up your computer so you could stop updating your LP.

[Amake]

I'll just import that speech from the original board:

Firefly was cancelled because it was too successful. It's not that the studio is stupid, you just have to understand what their job actually is. A good show makes money, you'd think that's all they care about. But in order to reliably bring in money in the long term, a production company has to prove to its investors - and this is important - that they know what the audience wants.

Firefly breaks a lot of norms and defies genres. By virtue of being different from the average show, it becomes politically important that it does not succeed. If such an unorthodox show can bring in a lot of money, it shows that there's a lot of untapped potential in the viewing market. It means the producers can't point at a formula and say, this will work, this is what people are going to watch the most. This makes investors very nervous. They don't want to hear that no one actually knows how to make the most successful TV, that the audience can't be relied on buying a specific product.

Here's some further reading:
http://thehathorlegacy.com/women-viewers-need-not-apply/

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I don't drink period.
Sadly, this doesn't work very well either.

It's not like any of the stuff is a major issue. I just wanted to let off some steam over that freaking football klaxon thing that robbed me of my sleep and sort of went there.

[phil_]

Here's some further reading:
http://thehathorlegacy.com/women-viewers-need-not-apply/Before I read this, would you let me know in what way, if at all, these authors are related to Hathor the Cow Goddess a.k.a. Ms. "Let's set women's rights back a couple years by wearing a cow helmet and defecating in public?" Because sometimes she makes me want to scream into a pillow.

[Amake]

I haven't looked into it but from your description I'd say they're related to Hathor in the same way the Jews are related to Hitler.

[phil_]

Ah, that's good. I've been reading various posts there since I asked, and I'd hate to have been mistaken in doing so.

[Aldurin]

Okay, now you can tell everyone about those small things in life that just piss you off and make you reach for the pillow.

Other people. End of story.

[Odjn]

I thought your solution was to screw up your computer so you could stop updating your LP.

My solution is to screw your mother.

[Bard The 5th LW]

Other people. End of story.

This. No, I don't mean other people, I mean people like this. People who are all Nihilistic about everything. Like seriously? Just fucking deal with it and enjoy life.

In other words, I can't stand people who constantly have a beef with everything that happens, no matter how harmless, petty, or irrational it may be.

[BitVyper]

My solution is to screw your mother.

My solution is to screw your face.

[Krylo]

My solution is to screw your mother.

My solution is to screw your face.

Looks like this thread just took a turn for the sexy.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Some of my friends are really trying to push me into going to church even though I keep telling them that I don't really have any interest in it. Sure, I'm a Christian but I just have no interest in going somewhere where the people are so set in their beliefs that they can't even begin to understand why people would want to figure things out on their own.

The other day I lost it on some people when they tried to explain to me how "our God is a jealous one who wants all our love to himself" and this just bugged me. I resolved to let it go but I reached the breaking point when someone, I think he was a pastor, delved into how "our God" does not love indiscriminately and that his love is not unconditional. What had been said to me was just so contradictory to what they themselves believe that I just told them "screw your god, I'll find my own."

[BitVyper]

Looks like this thread just took a turn for the sexy.

This thread got sexy as soon as I started posting.

[Doc ock rokc]

at times my family just drives me nuts. My brother can be such a dick at times but thankfully that comes in predictable periods where he is already tired and been in shit all day. the best thing to deal with his is to get him to do something to release stress preferably with alcohol like Bowling.
My Mother is nagging but only when I really am being lazy. however she does tend to over react to little things and trying to cool here down is much much harder then actually doing what she wants in the first place. like we have a Patch of poison ivy that the dogs (for some reason) think is a nice place to play in. Needless to say they come in being itchy and can make anyone they brush up with itchy. My mother instantly thinks it's ticks or fleas. trying to reason with her will only lead to frustration and thrown objects so it's just best to Bomb the house, wash all the wardrobes and wash the dogs in expensive anti pest shampoo (that i have to buy myself) while i sneak out at some point to poison the patch. she is also one of those people that can make anything stressful. When I have a exam I just try not to tell her for she stresses me out to the point that i can't think during the exam. She is rather nice though and very intelligent and understanding but she also has a very negative viewpoint on everything including herself making one of her favorite things to do (shopping) a constant need for a pep talk.
Then we have my Bitch sister. God i hate her. She is the most spoiled person in the family. She constantly puts down anyone within eyesight and constantly calls everyone lazy. She is a star athlete that swallows up every god damn weekend with her soccer (football) games. Seriously For a Year I couldn't spend time with ether of my parents due to her sucking them in to watching every god damn game. She also gets every god damn thing she wants from them and hasn't payed for anything she owns. Lord helps that she doesn't get her hands on any pictures, sketches, or books because she cuts them to ribbons and makes scrapbooks with them. the worst part is that She doesn't act anything like herself if anyone outside the family is near. she instead pretends to be nice and kind.
The one thing i hate about my family on a whole is that I am Always VOLUNTEERED AGAINST MY WILL TO HELP SOMEONE! Usually when I am not there to say i am busy or otherwise. Don't get me Wrong I like Helping people. but If i have to help in a INTERVENTION of someone i haven't seen in 13 years I would like to know! If I have to go across town to a show I don't want to see because they bought a ticket for me to see it I would like to Know the day they are booking instead of 3 hours before the show!!

[akaSM]

My brother tends to ask me to teach him to do things, so that he doesn't have to ask me to do everytime (stuff like video/music converting, DVD ripping, getting apps in his phone and other techy stuff), which is a nice idea; the problem is that he forgets most stuff in a week or less. Even more, I've been telling him to read his phone and stuff manuals, not because I don't want to explain a thing or two, but because I don't want to explain every single thing that could've been found in the manual. You know, things like moving stuff around the phone's menu, or even changing themes. Also, I don't like it when people get angry because I don't talk a lot, so I start talking only to get interrupted every minute, followed by a "and then?" (I'm looking at you Diana :P). Also, getting a lot of "whys"...when I've already said why

[Odjn]

My solution is to screw your face.

My solution is to screw your dad's face.

[Doc ock rokc]

...I want to break something. I have to go to two collages for reasons that are personal. but in order to Register for classes at one I apparently have to go to a mandatory 15 minute group advisement class THAT THEY NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT! Because i didn't They are Withholding me From Getting the classes i need to fit my Dual campus schedule till they open the class back up...IN A WEEK!

[7days]

My friends all just signed up for Amway, and are now trying to recruit me. Now, I don't know if any of you have dealt with this cult before, but apparently they believe in the date rapist philosophy that "no" means "yes, please continue".
What's worse is that it's that time of year in my town when the magazine drives are happening. This has resulted in a bajillion teen girls coming to my door, and fake flirting with me to get me to buy subscriptions to magazines. I'm not assertive enough to just slam the door in they're faces, so it's all added up to the fact that I spend about 2 hours of my day, every day trying to tell people that, "No, you can't have my money." I hate aggressive salesmanship.