The Rant Thread...

[Dark One]

kaylanr said:

My boyfriend's ex thinks i am a witch.

lol! Maybe try and put a Hex on her next time you meet

[Raineth]

Why does she think you're a Witch?

[Swallow]

This is not as much of a rant as a "I am feeling really really sick...."

I just saw how much my text books are gonna cost this term...

why does politics have to be so expensive.... here goes hoping i can get them second hand...

just in case others out there are feeling as sick as i am, go here: www.textbookexchange.com.au it's a really good set up for second hand textbooks, the best in the country....

still doesn't make me stop feeling so sick...

[Deleted]

I HEARTILY second your subdued 'rant' Flit. As a science student who has to buy huge weapon like textbooks every year that I hardly use [especially since I'm a first year!], I think the prices are ludicrous! Do they really think I'm that rich? And didn't we use to have a subsidy scheme for students? Where's that gone now Howard government? *glares*
Ok, ok, I'm not going to get into politics here, mainly because I'm far too uninformed to make any comments.

In any case, hope you feel less sick soon, although a small hunch tells me that you'll be feeling much better by 9:01am tomorrow morn!

[Rushton]

galligaskins said:

As a science student who has to buy huge weapon like textbooks every year that I hardly use

lmao!

I have HUGE sympathies for you guys - speaking as a been there done that science student. I remember after forking out a fortune for several tomes - and I mean break your back lugging aroundesque masterpieces that wax loquacious on such edifying topics as only organic chemistry can dish out. PS, we opened these books maybe twice in the whole year $450.00 worth on one subject alone!!!
Anyway back to my topic...
I lugged them home, and being very proud decided to stack them all in a row on the accessible middle shelf of my bookshelf...
needless to say *crack, groan, shudder, splintering of wood*
these books should be classified as lethal weapons ;D ;D

good luck to you! copious amounts of alcohol will get you through first year!

[~Dani~]

On wednesday night we had to debate the topic "textbooks should be free" in a short preperation debate. We won because our opposition never showed up We were negative, and basically we were saying that nothing in life is free, bla bla bla. But still it would have been easier to debate affirmitive, but I reckon textbooks should be free!!

[Lauren]

well im sorry but i cant feel for/with you guys! im a highschool kiddy and my mum buys mine. but im sure ill have to buy my uni ones, big science ones...aarrgghh!!! i wanna be a forensic archaeologist. so im gonna need lotsa money....

[Roland]

huh. try being a med student *grumbles*

On the other hand, my shelf did stay up *hugs Rigel p/s-I loove your sig!* and they do look awfully pretty all sitting in a row....

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rigel said:

good luck to you! copious amounts of alcohol will get you through first year!

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Hehe! Well, drinking does seem to be the science student's sport of choice over here at Melbourne! I think out science students society offers barbecues with free beer ever second week.

crazedturkey said:

huh. try being a med student *grumbles*

Ah but you med students have the comforting knowledge that you'll all be disgustingly rich and successful after the mind numbingly hard work you have to do for 10 years.

[Dameon]

Well, quite. Pity, if you will, the arts student in your midst. Arts in nothing but reading, with little to no job prospects.

So why do an arts degree? Good question.

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ksl said:

So why do an arts degree? Good question.

Well med is too hard and who wants to be burdened by the problems of other people who probably have nothing wrong with them in the first place?
Ditto Dentistry and Vet.
Commerce=no soul, so that one's a bust.
Science means having to live with a degenerative liver condition in the later stages of your life from the activities discussed before.
And why do Engineering when you can learn similar properties with a Lego construction kit? Besides you'd get sick of all that bridge building.
Law? Phffft! And wear those stupid wigs? Not likely!

*Ducks as everyone who isn't an arts student starts pelting rotten fruit*

Nope, the only thing to do is arts I'm afraid...or skip higher education entirely and start plotting your way to becoming a trophy widow. Ooooh! Or become a HOBO!
And besides, as an arts student, you'll become so proficient with thinking abstractly that you'll convince yourself of the relative unimportance of a comfortable material existence, and devote your time to living out your ideals, blissfully shopping from op shops and drinking tea!

...yes, it's fun to work with stereotypes!

[Rushton]

You forgot to mention the lowly fine arts student!!
You know the one starving in a garret, trying to sell her derivative homages on canvas, Standing around on the steps outside the college, chain smoking with a cup of black coffee in her hand trying to outdo her peers on the 'most alternative' dress sense ;D
Having experienced the fullness of life that Science offered me *cough cough* I've now moved on to painting and drawing.

*hugs crazedowl back* hehehe I keep changing them so often...

[Talmina]

so im just gonna be a trophy widow huh? ;P

[avra]

crazedturkey said:

huh. try being a med student *grumbles*

*palpates your pain* ;D

[Elspeth]

This is rather OT, but - Galligaskins, you be a Melbourne student? Why, I work there, running in out of various libraries. I shall start waving randomly at people now, in case they are your good self.

I might as well rant about something, so I shall point my finger threateningly at the weather and ask it to stop. Nobody likes being cold.

[Dameon]

Can I take a moment to rant about my Grandmother's dog?

All: No.

Kayt: Tough, cos I'm going too!

The little brat barks! All the time! Whenever anyone comes to the door, it starts barking and continues to bark for up to half an hour. Non-stop. Just BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK! But it's also a stupid dog and easily confused, so it doesn't always know when someone is at the door. It barks when I come home. I live there and it barks! It barks when my Grandma comes home!
IT BARKS WHEN I COME OUT OF MY BEDROOM!!!
It's the smallest dog in the world, and it has 4 teeth, but it's vicious. It's always growling and snapping at my dogs. My dog was just walking, JUST WALKING, and the nasty little rat-dog bit him! And he yelped and was sad. Horrid creature!!!

AND I'm not allowed to complain! I can't shout at it, or whinge or say "YOU LITTLE BRAT, GET AWAY FROM MY PUPPY!" because it's my Grandmother's baby and she won't hear a word against it, and gets cross if I tell it like it is and call the little squirt a "rat" or "midget-dog"

Horrid thing.

[Unykorn]

I would like to rant about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, but I will not, so I don't ruin it (even though it's already ruined! )

[~Dani~]

I love your sig Unykorn!! I haven't read HP6 yet, but heard about it heaps. It doesn't sound very good at all. But I might get around to reading it soon

[Lauren]

yeh same here dani, although i havent even read the 4th one. i will get around to it sometime soon....probably very soon. oh, yeah, about the dogs, that sounds sucky!!

[Rilla]

I actually quite loved the 6th book, but i can understand why Unykorn didn't

I'm going to have a quick rant about school shoes. They give you blisters, and they're incredibly uncomfortable. They fall appart (unless you get $200 ones) and i hate them. So there.
*adds school shoes to 'List of Things to Destroy'*

[Lauren]

ha, we dont have school shoes coz we go to a stupid public school. ahhh, they annoy me sooo much! theres all the druggies (im not one of them), the popular group and then theres us. were not the nerdy group just the "not-popular-not-nerdy" group. and it sucks!!! *mumbles*
*then hits leader of the popular group who happens to be a stuck-up-b**ch*

wow. that was a rant. my first one! i feel special....*goes and feels special*

[~Dani~]

My school shoes are my cousins, and are really great (and expensive) except for the fact that they are like 2 sizes too big!!

[Unykorn]

Thanks Dani! I'm starting to feel better about the book tho ... perhaps I liked it after all

My school shoes are brown... Erk! Why can't we have black one's like normal people?

[Never Undressing Sneer]

i feel slightly better about the book now. not much though....

poor you. we get black shoes. *grugs*

[Deleted]

Ah poor Unykorn. I too had to bear the weighty burden that is the brown school shoes, which are 20 times harder to find than black ones and usually more expensive. *hugs you*
*presents you with a miniature chocolate Johnny Depp as consolation*