The Rant Thread...

[mouseofcards89]

People who argue about malapropisms.

[Mel Carriere]

Nice quote by the Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings. My rant right now is with people who oversimplify all of our economic woes by blaming everything on the "Corporations," and think that by taxing the hell out of said entities this will somehow cure all of our job creation problems, even though the evil corporations won't have any money left over after this massive taxation to create any new jobs.

[laci_baby]

My better half and myself have recently moved out of country, so i'm not in my comfortable zone of friends. I heard about this local womens only book club and joined a couple of weeks ago. I'm the youngest in the group, which has never bothered me because personally i have more in common with the older generation. Everyone in the group has pretty quickly attached themselves to me and we've become quick friends, but there's one bat of a woman that keeps making snobby remarks about my age and about my being somewhere i dont belong. Everytime myself and the group will talk about anything ( music, movies, actors, books) mrs. snobby-britches will say "Oh i doubt you would know anything about that ." And i'll make a remark about whatever it is to prove that i do know what the h is going on and she'll just throw up her nose and not talk for the rest of the meeting unless theres something else she can slam me with, which always backfires. Plus she likes to make remarks about how i should be doing "mindless childish things in cancun or or getting a tattoo or something? Surely you have other things to do other than wasting your time with a bunch of mature ladies." It ticks me off. I dont understand why people have to judge people on their age/looks. Yes my hairs pink, and yes if anyone counts back i've been pregnant longer than i've been married, and yes i have tattoo's, but when did any of that equal me as a bad and/or typical twenty year old person? You can ask anyone, even Dee, and they'll tell you i'm more granny than 20yr old. I read jane austen. I listen to every type of music you can think of, especially the oldies. I have manners, and use them. I even crochet. I smile at everyone, i help everyone, in highschool i spent more time helping out at the homeless shelter than i did at parties. I've only ever went to one kegger in my life and i spent the night alone in someone's bedroom reading The Diary of Anne Frank. Do you know how many canes i've received for my birthdays from friends as a joke? I never went to prom, or any other school dance, because i was busy volunteering. I'm not trying to float my own boat, but i'm a damn good person. My best not-online friend is a sixty year old woman i met at work four years ago. She is my best friend and i call her yiayia, because she is a greek grandmother, and she calls me mummo (Finnish for grandmother) because she swears i'm a sixty year old traped in a 20yr old body, and i'm part Finnish. I talk to her every single day, she is one of the greatest connections i've felt with anyone, i love her. Dee is the only person i speak to that is anywhere near my age (other than my husband) and both of them have such old souls about them, that that makes sense to me for me to connect to them as well. It bothers me that this snobby woman would bar me so low on her list because of my age. If i was her age, hated reading, and a flat out B-word she would be more accepting of my being there than she is now. I just dont understand.

[StephenKingman]

^ Try not to worry about it Laci, I do understand exactly why you would be annoyed at that, she sounds like just an old bitch jealous of you clicking and getting on with her friends, but try and put her to the back of your mind. You have already proven you are capable of mixing with all age groups and certainly I have never spoken to you on this forum any different to people closer my own age, and thats a sign of your maturity. And does anyone really care these days if you had a kid out of marriage, it happens all the time and is definitely not unusual in 2012.

Hold your head up high and be yourself Laci.

[Fran]

@laci
Maybe she thinks you're a Spy sent undercover to check out what these subversive oldies are planning

Seriously though it just shows that people can be rude and insensitive at any age ... why don't you ask her straight out why she is being so horrid to you, maybe she doesn't realise how unwelcoming she is behaving.

[Geneen Karstens]

@laci. Consider the source...speaking for the older generation I love visiting with younger people and all of my friends do too. She's the loser in this situation... she's missing out on some good companionship. I think she's jealous.

[laci_baby]

^^^ Thanks Guys. I'm really trying not to let it get to me, hopefully she'll realize i'm not going anywhere and back off after a while. If not, i guess i'll just have to suck it up and handle it anyway. Ranting made me feel a little better, and all of your kind words made it more so. So thanks again.

[StephenKingman]

^^^ Thanks Guys. I'm really trying not to let it get to me, hopefully she'll realize i'm not going anywhere and back off after a while. If not, i guess i'll just have to suck it up and handle it anyway. Ranting made me feel a little better, and all of your kind words made it more so. So thanks again.

If that dont work, I can have a quiet word.

[Bighuey]

Dont worry about it, Lacy. Just keep thinking that you are a much better person than that old crow and you will realise that she is nothing, just someone to be pitied. And I would bet that the other members of your club think she is an idiot, too. It sounds like she needs to be told off. Usually people like that if you tell them which way the wind blows they will shut up.

[laci_baby]

Thanks Bighuey, i'll keep that in mind.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

Politics in America...The Primaries aren't even over and I am so sick of all of them I could scream. Okay...sometimes I do scream. Both Parties behave like two year olds...whose only vocablary is NO. Not one of them from either side gives a damn what is good for the Country or the people anymore...their only concern is perpetuating their election/re-election. One side wants to pass laws regulating every move. The other side wants to pass laws regulating all the stuff they find morally objectionable and give enormous tax breaks to the very wealthy and corporations...The independents and Tea Partiers think that taxes should be completely abolished...which is ludicrous since we have kind of gotten used to policemen and firefighters and parks and sidewalks and roads...madness...where does it end...@@

Oh right. November.

Thankfully.

[Geneen Karstens]

@Carla. I think all Americans who give a darn feel the same way..I sure do. I've always voted but I dom't know if I will this time. It's gotten to be voting not for who you want but the lesser of the two evils. Only one statement I disagree with. It won't end in November..it will continue on for four years and then intensify again. However I guess we should be thankful we do have choices in America because some countries don't.

[Carla Hurst-Chandler]

I have never missed an election and won't start now...but it is so discouraging sometimes. As a country we seem to be de-evolving, at times. ~sigh~

[Geneen Karstens]

I understand how you feel..know you are not alone...and I always threaten not to vote but always do and will again this time.

[laci_baby]

Me and my mum have a really rocky relationship. One minute she's yelling that she's not happy with my life choices, hates who i'm married to because she liked my ex more, that i'm the bad kid and she doesnt want me in her life anymore. Then the next minute she calls me crying telling me everything thats wrong with her life and how unhappy she is, and i'm a horrible daughter for neglecting her. Then after an hour of her crying and screaming over the phone and all i'm saying is "uhhuh" because i'm so use to these conversations, she asks how i am and before i even get a "oh i'm.." she starts back in again. Doesnt even ask about her grandkid or anything. Then after i tell her i'm not interested in hearing what she has to say because it's always the same and she just wants me around as her mental punching bag she starts talking about how she saw my ex and they talked for a while and starts in on how great he is and how i'm with a horrible man that doesnt love me and so on (the reason she doesnt like matt isnt because he's a bad guy, because he really isnt. His family has money, lots of it. And she immediately judges him on that aspect that he thinks he's better than everyone else and that when he leaves me (which in her eyes is inevitable) he'll leave me with nothing. But matts the complete mirror image of me. He donates money. He helps at homeless shelters. More than once i've seen him just hand a roll of money to someone on the streets and not even care how much he gave them. What i find kindness and greatness in a person, she finds as pride and snobbish). So i hung up on her. I realize i'm not daughter of the year but come on. Its not that i dont care about her but theres just so much a person can take. I've dealt with this crap since i was a kid. She doesnt understand why i'm closer to my step dad that she divorced years ago than i am to her. My stepdad talks to me almost daily to ask about me and matt and, more than anything, his grandkid. If we ever needed anything, he would be there no questions asked. She may help, depending on what it is, but she would say it was my own fault and bitch the entire time. I will never understand, especially now that i'm going to be a mom, how a parent can treat their kids like that. They're suppose to be supportive and understanding. Not discouraging and making you feel like utter crap all the time. Its annoying. I didnt really have to grow up with it since i was raised by my grandpa (love you papa rip) BECAUSE of the way she acted and how selfish she is. It just aggravates me. I'll never understand how parents can put their kids through half of the crap they pull them through. Its disgusting. I need to just learn how to not answer the phone. Ugh.
So yea. theres my rant. I feel a little better..