NEW rant thread!

[Emi267]

One acronym: BATBYGOBSTOPL

[Rilla]

Gah, LJ is down. I am most vexed at it.

And that is the extent of my rant

(except now I've got the BATBYGOBSTOPL song stuck in my head)

[DragonMornir]

Please please please, tell me if this is unreasonable!!!! Im aboutt o march over there and throttle these people!!!


A friend called Adam came up to my place. he brought his Nintendo DS and his gameboys, with 2 games for the gameboy. he left them here so if i wanted to play it then i could. i havent. He asked for them back and i said remind me when im coming over and ill get them for you.

His brother, the day of me going over, demands i bring them. Im in the middle of packing to go home and studying for exams as well as doing uni work and stressing out over money. so i tell him i will look.

Cant find them so dont go with them. Get a lecture on how they are desperately needed for a tournement of some descriptionin about a month. I go ok i will look again, i might of packed them while trying to organise my room.

I had 2 giant boxes, but i pulled them apart to try and find them. didnt find them. It took me 4 hours. boxes got sent to sydney this morning.

Today i get told that i have to give them back, and i tell the oldest one that i cant find them, i think they are packed, but am not sure. I get told " who packs someone elses stuff??" and other rubbish and then he gets sick of it and gets offline even though i barely said a word. Apparently its worth over $300..... but i doubt it.

So i go off and do wahtever, have some dinner and get a call from a mutual friend. The 2 sons, and the father, were getting so worked up about this they were going to call the cops. So the mother called the mutual friend Lonney to see if she could come up here to get them ( its over an hours drive for lonney) . I went to my suitcase and looked thru it for the 4th time, found the gold game , which is the one they REALLY need for the tounement ( in 2 weeks mind you) , as i had already found the game boy and the red game.

My friend is driving up, at 9pm at night, to get these games. The two guys involved, are 18 and 22. long life friends of mine. ive known them for 14yrs.
Oh and did i mention the gameboy doesnt have a battery cover, and its about 6 yrs old?? and the games are pokemon games........ * shakes head* I really want to peg the games at them or something equally as childish but its just not worth it.....

[Dameon]

Calling the police? That sounds a little drastic!

I think they're being unreasonable, DM. Have they never moved? Sometimes, things get misplaced, even things that aren't yours, and it isn't like you didn't look.

It's nice that you have a friend willing to help out, though, even if it isn't her problem.

[Cat-Eyes]

That's stupid, just wait till you unpack! As if they need gameboy games!

[Schis]

And pokemon...who plays pokemon anymore...especially at 18 and 22...

[Dark One]

Some people just never grow up! Its shown by the pokemon games and their attitude towards the whole situation!

Lets hope they apologise and realise how stupid they've been!

[Min]

snowy said:

and the games are pokemon games........ * shakes head*

Um...what?
The mind boggles, DM. Their father got involved? This is all over a pokemon tournament? They're 18 + 22?!
They shouldn't have gotten so worked up over it, that's just ridiculous...hope it all gets sorted out.

[DragonMornir]

Bah its gets worse.

I got a phone call from the older the two boys. Starts telling me how the screen of the gameboy is scratched beyond recognition and it doesnt work and i obviously didnt look after it. Its been in a desk drawer since he left here!!! *sigh* so hes all angry and cranky and whatever. I get sick of being attacked, and try to explain to him the sheer amount of stuff ive been trying to organise - couriers to take my stuff to sydney, studying for exams, packing,etc etc, and he turns around and says how dare i tell him how stressed ive been, and that he never wants to speak to me ever again. so i told him where to go and hung the phone up.
Its just so stupid and petty . He cant get bent as far as i care. Atleast now i dont have to deal with his stupidity anymore.

[gehdrabrilane]

first up pokemon gold + red are worth like 5 bucks now a days it's nowhere neare $300 and secondly, its pokemon boohoo!!! you lose a stupid little tournament, go get a life u losers!!! I totally agree DM, you should've just kicked their collective immature asses

[Dark One]

Gah! My rant is about a particular member of staff at the college where i work!

He's always coming down here and complaining about stuff not working (and its usualy cos he doesn't know how to use something). He's always shouting at us and he's sworn at some of my colleagues in the past, and he had a go at our temp today (which is unacceptable). He then proceeds to storm into our office and demand to see the boss.

I've had enough at this point and completely lost it with him. It probably would've come to blows if my boss hadn't apperead and dragged this bloke outside, where he camly told him that if he ever spoke to any of the IT staff like that again, he'd report him, and that we wouldn't be supporting him till his attitude changed.

It takes a hell of a lot to make me lose my rag, but this guy is really infuriating! He's upset a lot of people in this department, so we're gonna put a complaint forward about him

[alwayslove]

Good on your boss, and good on you!

I hate those type of people, who think the world revolves around them and their needs. He sounds like a spoilt child whose can't get his toys to work.

What an idiot.

[Dark One]

You've got it in one! He refuses to listen when we try and give him instructions on how to use stuff, saying that its not his job. He's in for one hell of a shock!

[Dameon]

Dear Kayt,

Thankyou for having life-threatening cancer.
Please continue paying for it for the rest of your life.

Yours Sincerely,
a bunch of expensive Doctors.

[/rant]

[MajiKat]

ehhh?

i am assuming that your treatments were incredibly expensive and they want paying???

that totally bites.

*sigh* i hate debt. hate it hate it hate it! i worked out how much money i owe the government the other day, and its not fair! all i wanted was an education! grrrrr that'll show me for wanting to use my brain and challenge my intellectual capacity...

[Hannai]

IM back afgter 3 monts coz moving (AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH)
Internet ppl stuffed up (AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH)
and then the phoneline drops dead

Telstra ppl: are you sure its not your equipment?

Me: yes it was working yesterday

Telstra ppl: but are you sure its not your equipment?
unplug it all and go and test it on someone elses line

Me: Done that its not my equipment

Telstra ppl: But are you sure its not your equipment?
Our system says its working fine
oh hang on the test call didnt work
are you absoloutley sure its not your equipment?
because if i send someone out there and its your equipmebt thats faulty its a $99 call out fee

Me: Yes send them out

Telstra: are you sure?...

Anyway it took 2 weeks and four phonecalls (all on my mobile) to get them out to look
it was a loose wire at the exchange or something

meanwhile the phoneline had been dropping in and out for two weeks and completley dead for 2 weeks
and i still had to pay the $60 fee for my broadband (not with telstra) which i couldnt even use at the time coz Telstra are so stupid

They also charge $100 to change a broadband account from one address to another- even if they dont have to change any of the wiring at the exchage.

[MajiKat]

that sucks!

i had a similiar occurance not that long ago, with the whole moving and reconnection thing. but it was Optus that stuffed up my account not Telstra.

grrrrrrrrrrr it made me so mad having to use my mobile for three weeks and spend heaps of cash because i had no landline phone! or internet!

i hate phone companies *mutters darkly about optus only giving $25 off last phone bill for the inconvience, even though i wanted $50!*

[Hannai]

PLUS it made me miss the whole of moonfair!!!

[Cat-Eyes]

That just sucks even more!!

[alwayslove]

I have something to rant about today.

My father... in short, he's a tyrant. I am 18 years old, I have a job, I'm studying at tafe, and I'm mostly independent apart from one thing, I live at home. and for some reason, to him this means that he has some form of control over me, and that I'm still answerable to him, with every little thing.

He comes home from work and I'll be on the computer, doing my a$signments, mucking around on here, or on myspace, and his first question is "what are you doing on there?" OR he'll just come and stand behind me and watch over my shoulder.

another thing is that I'll be in my room reading or doing whatever with my bedroom door closed, and he'll just walk in, no knock, or anything.

now I can cope with these things, but.. the thing is... he's verbally, emotionally and sometimes physically abusive, only towards us kids though... he never laid a hand on mum.

again, I can cope with that, as long as it's me he's picking on and not one of my five younger siblings. I am blessed with three extremely supportive friends who help me out no end.

but it's later, when he tells me how lucky we are to have him. If there is ever anything about domestic violence or anything like that on tv. he turns to me and smirks and goes "Aren't you glad you don't have a father like that. You don't know how lucky you are."

and that seriously sh!ts me. Me and my younger siblings have been belted, kicked, punched, choked, shoved, pushed, sworn at, verbally abused and generally knocked around for our entire lives, and that pretentious prick has the audacity to sit there and tell us how lucky we are.

Phew. Rant over. Sorry guys, Just had to get that off my chest.

[Dark One]

oh alwayslove! Thats terrible! *grugs*

No-one should have a right to treat people like that! Not even a father to their children! a smack if you've done something wrong is ok (up to a certain age), but he's bullying you and your siblings.

You really need to talk to someone in confidence about this. Does your mum know whats going on? Maybe you could talk to her, or a counseler or close family friend?

Please keep us updated on how things go

[Squirt]

Yeah, thats horrible, you should definitely talk to someone about that. He obviously doesn't even realise there's anything wrong with what he's doing. Your TAFE would probably have counselors who might be able to give you some advice.

[MajiKat]

Alwayslove *grugs*

I cannot imagine what it would be like to in your shoes - i was blessed with a very tolerant and amazing father. no control issues - he was always a firm believer in letting us make our own mistakes and learn from them that way.

I do not know how you have coped with the situation so far - you must be very strong to be able to live through it time and time again.

DO and Squirt are right - you should maybe try and see a counsellor, just so you can talk it through with someone disconnected from the issue. I'm glad you have supportive friends to help you deal with it.

*big grugs* no one should have to suffer abuse of any kind.

Let us know how you get on. We are always here to listen.

MK

[alwayslove]

Thanks for being so supportive and so nice. My Mum does know what's going on, but isn't the most assertive person in the world. I suppose I could (and probably should) go see a counsellor of some kind.

To be completely honest, I'm scared. I don't want to lose my siblings. I have a pretty good life right about now, apart from him. I'm coping. I'm scared of how much worse it could be, what would happen if I wasn't there. I don't know. I'm a bit lost.

Thanks again guys.

[MajiKat]

It must be a terrible position to be in Alwayslove, not wanting to remove yourself from the situation for fear of what will happen if you are gone. i really feel for you.