The Rant Thread...

[Lucy]

Ok, not a rant, just general ramblings and wonderings...
Does anyone, or has anyone, ever felt a bit lost? You know, as though you don't really have that much direction or drive in life? I mean, I'm at uni at the moment and really like the people I'm living with and having the huge library there to read whatever I like, but it seems something is lacking. I'm sat facing half an essay that has to be finished by 12.30pm tomorrow but I feel no panic about not having it done and no real drive to finish it. I don't find uni work as fulfilling as when I used to work "properly" (in an office), but at the time I didn't really find that satisfying either.

I just feel as though I'm aimlessly wandering at the moment...a bit out of sync. *sigh* That's it really...just thought I'd share!

[Roland]

yep. Been there, bought that t-shirt. *huggles*

Sometimes we just have to soldier through the nonesense, in the hopes that there will be something good at the other end. But, make sure that you are taking care of yourself. Sounds like you need a break, even a night out, or better yet a holiday!

[Lucy]

Aww, I'd go against several of my major principles for a holiday!! Unfortunately studentdom means no cash reserves But your huggles are much appreciated. Thankies ;D

[Arctic Firefox]

Hehe - I have the exact feeling now, though I NEVER felt at a loss whilst in uni or school - I loved (sponsored) learning too much!

[Dark One]

Rant update:

Well, i got rid of my VW Golf at the weekend. I went to a nearby carlot and the guy offered me £3250 cash, so i sold it to him. Im so glad to be rid of that car!

My other car started up first time. (Ok, i had to charge the battery for a day to get it to do so, but its not bad considering its been sittin untouched on my drive since last september!) Now all i have to do is get a new battery and tax it and its back on the road!

[Lucy]

Ooo, that's good news, DO! What kind of car is it this time? Any previous history we should know about before you embark on many travelling adventures in it?

[Squirt]

Does anyone, or has anyone, ever felt a bit lost? You know, as though you don't really have that much direction or drive in life?

I feel exactly the same Lucy, although when I was at uni I atleast felt as though I was going somewhere, since finishing last October it's been one long blegh! I have no idea what I want to do (continue studying, find a job that doesn't really interest me, stay in the job I have at the moment that's boring me to tears... definately know how you feel *grugs*

Congrats on getting rid of the car DO! my old car is still sitting in my parents driveway because I don't want to sell it privately because it has so much wrong with it, and I doubt a dealer would take it. Congrats again!

[Dark One]

Many thanks!

I've got a to a few bits of work on it over the next few months, but nothing major.

Lucy: Its a J-reg Vauxhall Cavalier GLi 2.0

[Siryn]

yep, coz that means something to me.

[Squirt]

That's why he wrote Lucy in front of it with a little : Siryn (insert Sarcasm here)

[Siryn]

i know that Squirt and shouldnt you be in bed, its half 12.

[Dark One]

Well, the weekend isn't too far off, so im sure she can stay up late

[catwhisperer]

I HATE IT THAT I TOPPED THE CLASS IN HISTORY WHICH I DONT EVEN LIKE!!!! ARRGH!!
(And I got a B for Drama which is my lifelong passion)

[Siryn]

thats good though... in a way...

it means you NEED to spend more time on the subjects you like instead of forcing yourself to do the ones you hate.

nah. your right. thats just plain annoying.

and DO, it was tuesday here, what was it there?

[danni]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Sorry just needed to let that out. I'm sick of stupid inconsiderate non-vegetarian people. Don't get me wrong, if you'Re not vegetarian that's fine by me - your choice, but let me deal with my own eating habits. I grew up in a basically all vegetarian family, and now I'm living for a year with a basically all-meatatarian family, who I love heaps and are great to me except for their damn friggin' hangup over what I eat! I swear every single time we eat a meal the father and brothers are just like 'Danni wouldn't you like a sausage? Mmmm, that tastes so good...blah blah blah!' And then they expect me to laugh - like, maybe it was mildly amusing the first time, but not the 600th! Does anyone else have this problem, or do i just attract people who don't understand not liking meat?

That feels better

And sympathy to Catwhisper - I hate it when that happens.

[Squirt]

and DO, it was tuesday here, what was it there?

Tuesday is only two days away from Thursday which is when my weekend technically starts so nah! and your post was made five minutes later than mine! What were you doing up Miss I-need-to-work-in-the-morning?!

~ Just tried to make that sound a little rantish so that it would fit in with the whole rant thread idea

[Siryn]

um EXCUUUUUSE me!!! but. nah your right. lol

i have vegetarian friends and sometimes (by accident -i SWEAR) i ask "want some?" forgetting it has meat in it. TO ME, this is really embarrasing, i cant believe everytime i do it how STUPID i sound. if they do it as a joke maybe they have a twisted or boring sense of humour but in this day an age you think they would all just....i dunno, GET OVER IT.

[Fuil Dearg]

i'm a vegetarian. i used to be a vegan, for about five years. then i decided to eat some milk chocolate, for two reasons. it bothered me the way i felt like it was expected of me by other family members not to eat anything dairy. it felt like i was under some kind of pressure, simply because they had come to think of me as a vegan. second reason is because i like chocolate, but mostly i did it for the first reason, kind of like rebelling so i could feel free to do as i wished. now i switch between being vegan and lacto. i would be vegan if i didn't like soft cheese so much. i don't eat choclate much, but i'll be eating lots of it at easter. u can get plain vegan chocolate easter eggs that are nice, i did other yrs, but this year i'll be eating milk chocolate. btw easter egg choc tastes different to bar choc. when i stopped being vegan i occasionly ate muffins, which have eggs in them. i might eat eggs sometimes but ill only eat free range eggs not battery eggs.
i have a friend who offers me meat sometimes, while he's having his dinner, just to annoy me. my brother used to offer me non vegan food saying that i should have the choice and that someday i might accept (meaning thats why he kept doing it even tho i refused). ppl who aren't used to vegetarian/vegan diets often accidentally offer me food that i don't eat. my sister lives on the isle of man and one time when she came over to visit she made something with eggs in it, she didn't even realise. most sweets aren't vegetarian because the contain gelatine (made from the bone marrow and skin of cows and pigs). marshmallows contain gelatine. jelly too.
my brother said that he believes in the vegetarian thing but he likes meat too much.
some ppl, epecially older ppl, in this country believe that you need meat to be healthy, you don't.
one time i was in a hotel getting a carvery lunch and the guy there found it very strange that i didn't eat milk, after i asked him if there was milk in it. he was genuinely dumbfounded, he didnt understand it at all, he wasnt just being prejudiced the way some ppl are.

[Squirt]

Wow, I could never be a vegan! I love my choccie and jelly way too much, very impressed that you can be as vegetarian as you are, I think it takes control that I just don't have. A lot of my friends are vegetarians, some just because they don't like the taste of meat. I figure that if I can not like Avacados, tomatos and pineapple and get away without people bugging me about it then why should people who are vego's be bugged

[Arctic Firefox]

I could tell you things about the chocolate you eat that would make your toes curl, but I won't unless you want me to. Needless to say, I've switched to carob.

I'm a vegetarian since birth. My parents are still vegetarians, though my younger brother started eating meat a year or so ago. I've found (and my apologies for the generalisation) that people in the Netherlands are far more at ease with vegetarians than those in Australia. In the Netherlands, I was never teased about my vegetarianism, nor was I given the whole "hey, want some meat?" treatment, while in Australia I used to get it all the time - at school, from my friends, even some of my relatives.

I've often interpreted this attitude as a form of guilt or fear - people seem to expect that I'll launch into a sermon and tell them all the gruesome details of how animals end up on their dinner plates, but I don't intend to do that (unless they want to hear it, of course). Others probably think that I'm damaging the meat industry (yeah, like I care about that).

Oh, and I really hate it when people criticise my parents, implying that it was wrong of them to raise me as a vegetarian without me knowing. I don't see how that works - everyone else was raised as a meat-eater without them knowing, so it's two sides of the same coin.

Plus, there's the problem with people who think they're vegetarians, but aren't. For the record, I am an ovo-lacto vegetarian, which means that I eat most milk-based dairy products (lacto), and eggs (ovo). I don't each any form of meat, or gelatine, or rennet. Actually, I drink soy milk instead of cow's milk, but that's a personal choice more than anything else. Anyway, just thought I should mention the following:

PESCA-POLLOARIAN: someone who eats fish and chicken but not red meat
PESCARIAN: someone who eats fish, but not chicken or red meat
POLLOARIAN: someone who eats chicken, but not fish or red meat

Obviously, these three are not vegetarians (I'm not sure about the spelling of the names, either.)

OVO-LACTO VEGETARIAN: eats eggs, daily products, not any meats
VEGAN: no animal products at all, including honey
RAW / LIVING FOODIST: only eats raw fruit and vegetables and nuts
FRUITARIAN: only eats fruits and fruit-like vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.)

The only difference between the last two is that fruitarians won't each vegetables, though I think they eat some nuts and seeds.

Oh, and last bit to this semi-rant: that "Red Meat" advertisement with Sam Neill claiming that we were "meant to eat" it is quite ridiculous. As is the claim that we should be eating it 3-4 times a week. I have not done so all my life and I am a completely healthy person *touch wood*. Additionally, we do not have to eat it, a fact of which I, and many others, are living proof. So the meat industry should stop misrepresenting these things. Plus, I think quite a few scientists would challenge the 3-4 times a week.

[Squirt]

I could tell you things about the chocolate you eat that would make your toes curl, but I won't unless you want me to. Needless to say, I've switched to carob.

I'd prefer that you didnt AF, thanks anyway though!

[catwhisperer]

You know, I would love to be a vegetarian but im not allowed to! That annoys me too... and so does any violence to animals and racism as well!! (BTW, that B became a B+ with a bit of gentle coaxing) he he he

[Squirt]

You're not allowed to?

Well done on the gentle coaxing! hehe

[catwhisperer]

No, *whinges in a high pitched voice* mummy says: youre a young lady and girls need to eat meat.
Meh!
Thanks, Squirt... it was funny. You may have heard me sending up one of my teachers on another thread... think it's in susrid somewhere!
Edit: sorry mum!

[danni]

Wow that started a big reaction! Anyway, I just thought I'd say that after a big debate/arguement the day after I wrote this it's only happened once in about four days which is a good record. :-) So maybe it is worth fighting over...

I think controlling teachers is a skill that should be taught in primary school...dunno who by...but it's one of the most useful things i ever learned ;-)