The vent

Honestly, I couldn't have predicted this nightmare in a million years. Normally if I think about whether I would go back and change anything in my life I say I wouldn't, but things change. If I knew then what I know now, I would have become an au pair for a family with no pets. While they're off playing badminton on the beaches of Mauritius I'm left with the damn dogs basically under house arrest because the poor babies can't be left alone for more than a couple hours at a time. It wouldn't be so bad if the damn things would learn to shut. the. fuck. up. They don't stop barking.

Oh, and you know what else is great? Perhaps I'm right about how obnoxious they are and you're just deluding yourself about how well-behaved they are because, wait, what's that? You're not allowed to renew your rental contract on the house because the neighbors are fed up with the dogs?! Wow, I did not see that one coming.

The worst part of it is that I'm worried after this I'll be a, *gulp*, cat person.

Someone please take them away. Please.

ok this is going to make no sense to anyone most likely but i need an outlet

the backstory: been hopelessly in love with a good friend for almost the last 2 years. maybe 6 weeks ago had a big open conversation with her about it all and told her exactly how i felt. Very emotional converstation and at times she was glowing and at times looked like she was gonna cry. But she comes from a background that requires ppl to date amongst their own (which I am not), and she has this ultra-long distance boyfriend who fits that description (and I mean as far away as you can get see each other once a year type of thing). so anyhow she said we couldn't be friends anymore cos she had to protect her relationship. so i was devastated. i mean really really a mess since, thinking about quitting my job and fucking off abroad just to get away from it kind of upset (which would be major career suicide but i didn't care). Anyhow, since then we had bumped into each other occasionally and things she had been everything from ice cold to warm and bubbly - once going out of her way to talk to me and being all needy when she did. that was a about 3 weeks ago and haven't seen nor heard from her since.

anyhow i knew she had guy friend coming to stay for a while (no idea if BF or not). as happens i was abroad the last week as well coinciding with that. anyhow i was sick on my trip and sleeping on a couch and got back yesterday totally fucked and miserable. now she lives above me, and last night heard someone above me having sex - could have been her, could have been her flatmate, less likely it could have been someone else. This should be fucking with my head totally - I mean i've been fearing this since we had the big talk - I mean to the point where i was afraid it would make me self-destructive (hmmmm not just on account of this - straw breaking the donkey's back so to say).

Instead I'm feeling nothing. well not nothing - there are several threads in my head, but overall I'm very calm. i had a moment this morning where raw emotion threatened to pour out, but it just went away. And i have thoughts bouncing in my head like a) good for her if she's happy and getting some, b ) good for me - difficult to explain....sometimes u have to let someone fully go before they come back kind of thought process (stupid but yet its there) c) wow - I'm completely unthreatened by the standard of sex i heard (totally irrelevant no doubt but yet its there) d) I don't even know if it was her or not so maybe my mind is living in the uncertainty to protect itsefl. Strangely, the most overarching thing i'm feeling is relief. I'm not sure why - maybe cos it didn't break my poor suffering little mind like i thought it would. I don't expect anything to be any different when next i see her - she chose to go down this road of not talking awkwardness, i'm just did what she asked me.

hmmmm thats about all the coherence i can get out of this. on balance thinking about it it probably was her all right. i don't understand why i'm not all broken up thou. i know i'm still in love with her.

Gawd dammit... the book price was 17.99 euros when I placed it in my shopping cart a few days ago. Now that I'm ready to finalise the order, you're telling me the price has changed to 25.99! And the other book that was supposedly 15.40 euros is now suddenly 22.99?! And a few other books have also gone up. No way is currency fluctuating that wildly in just a few days, and the other two major online German bookstores haven't changed their prices at all. Not a penny! They were only a few euros more before, but now are more than 20 euros cheaper. Fuck you Amazon.de ... this order is going to Libri.

Defensiveness only ever makes me think that the person being defensive has more than your average person to be defensive about, which in turn makes me feel offensive.

It's a problem.

My bigger problem is that I'm in Salzburg, I'm using the hotel's own shitty computers because I can't get wireless working, the little room I'm sitting in smells strongly of stale smoke, the guy at the desk has an enormous stitched-up hole in his head that I can't stop staring at in case I can see his thoughts through it, it's so enormous, and it's only his second day so he can't answer any of my damned questions.

However, a French guy is just checking in, and he actually made the noise that people make when they're pretending to be a stereotypical French person, sort of nasal Nwoohooohooo only not at all, and I'm so amused by it that it renders my rant sort of pointless.

Except I've typed it and so I'm posting it. It's a free country and I have the right, after all. Ahem.

I am not a photocopier repair guy, so if the bloody thing is not working don't f****** come running to me, try it yourself ffs you useless blockhead!

So my old co-worker joined your company?

At the ratass who stole Al Stewart's tour bus: May spanners grow out of your ears and mutant porpoises play "Seasons on the Sun" on Jew's harps every time you try to make love.

Oh my Gawd! They need non-senile voting workers! When I went to put the ballot in the lock box, told me that they "knew" who I was and would be reporting me, since I'd been registered twice, and I was "attempting to vote" in person. (They ask you if you had a ballot sent to your house, and I said yes.) How did they "know" who I was??? Well, they cleared up that they didn't know, but would note any double registered voters who had voted in person.

(I'd had an absentee ballot and reregistered to vote in person but didn't realize that I'd signed my name differently.) I called elections HQ, and they said that they saw I hadn't sent in the vote by mail ballot, and would count the poll ballot that I filled in today.

But "knowing" who I am? Unbelievable they'd say that.

That kind of took off the gloss of my pleasure of voting today! GRRRRR.

Motherfucker leave me alone. I'm not in Munich, and it doesn't matter how many emails you send me I'm still not going back there tonight to take care of something you should have taken care of.

I'll be in the office on Thursday. If it can't wait till then that's not my fucking problem.

I feel a bit too intense today. Too much coffee. Agita voting. Just want to hear the results of the election and move on to tomorrow.

So the elections are finally over, so can we now please have a break from it, do we really need another 10 fnucking threads of variations of the same bloody topic. Please Ed Bob can you create a new section for all this stuff as I am sure we will have many more threads until the inaugaration in January, yes I know I don't have to read them, but still have to sort through all the new stuff..aaargh.

I think I have said this before however I would like to never have to see another used MVV ticket for sale!

It's bad enough dreaming that Scogs is alive still/again; I don't need to dream of our old frigging refrigerator as well! It has a good home with Hutcho and should learn to let go. The Shelf was never as clingy!

FUCK im so thirsty for a soft drink!!! Now I'm 70 cents down and without an ice cold drink!!

1. went to the vending machine at work with 70 cents in my hand planning on a Cola Light

2. drinks now cost 75 cent (I'm angry)

3. trying to get money back from the machine, it didn't return my change (I got angrier)

4. walk ALL the way back to my office (6 floors up and other side of the building)

5. pray that no one has used the 70 cents I left in the machine

6. walk ALL the way back to the vender with 5 cents in my hand

7. THE 70 CENTS HAD BEEN USED BY SOMEONE IN THE SPACE OF LIKE 5 MINUTES!!! RRRRRRAAAAAAGGGEEE

8. walk ALL the way back to my office

9. vent on TT

you will not let me work remotely for a few months and now around when I'm thinking of trying to get time off that's not acceptable either!
WTF!!! oh and I'm doing more work then the people with the same job title, but of course i make even less than what they make- who cares they've been here for ages and I've only been here 1.5 years! I'm doing more and the extra stuff i'm doing requires more brain power so either let me work remotely, give me time off when i want it, or pay me more!

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. Have you ever been discussing politics with someone when all of a sudden you have the urge to scream "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT!!!"? ...yeah that happened today.

Who the hell do you think you are anyway, you people with a little bit of power sat behind your tatty desks with the only working ceiling fan in a thousand m2 office?

If it takes me a decade, I'll find out why you refuse to grant the request of this legal document that so rightfully is my son's. I sincerely hope that your electricity is cut off for the next few days and that your UPS fails to work altogether and then you'll know for sure that the smell you think comes from the hundreds of people waiting hours and hours to see you, is actually because your nose is so far up your backside, it's all we can do but stop ourselves from dry retching whilst we wait for the 30 second interview.

fucks sake, I'm slacking at work and keep getting caught... just let me slack!!

Fucking mosquitos arrrrgh!

Not had any bother all summer when others were getting bit but now the bastards are eating me alive every night.

Thought the little sods were supposed to be all dead now?

Argh, give me the admin rights for F%&/§* sake!

If you call with 24hr notice do not get mad if I tell you I don't know if I can help. When you pry and i tell you that i'm supposed to be somewhere in the middle of the time you would like me to help, but due to car problems I'm not sure if i'll be able to make it or not and if it looks like i will be around i'll help- do not get annoyed and push to find out when I'll know. Your bet is as good as mine. As I stated I am waiting to hear what's going on with my car and I won't know that until the mechanic has a chance to look at it! I don't mind helping you, but start planning a bit!

why can't you just be a fucking man and tell me the truth when i ask you?! why do you have to lie about it and when i catch you, make up tons of excuses in the manner of a 10-year old boy about to get grounded? is it that fucking hard to look me in the eyes and tell me the truth, especially when our relationship depends on it? i am so angry, so betrayed and so fucking fed-up with your bullshit!! guess it is finally time to tell you to pack your bags and get the hell out, but it is just so hard to do...

TTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYTTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Right now, I really f****** hate you. So you're all tough and fearless and 'direct', say it how it is bla bla, what utter BS. Who is the only one around here who's saying anything like it is!??? Oh that would be me. Well, there you go 'biggest p**sy 2008' award winner - you've got it, I'll be the one with the spine, Noooooo...don't react, of course not...that would take guts which we both know you don't have. So hurry along now, go to hell - the big bad and extremely horny horses are waiting to tear your tender little bottom to shreds

oh yes, that feels better already.

sorry, not the place for raw emotion then?

Look, when I say the system you're responsible for is not working consistently, it's based on weeks, months, years of cold hard research on where the problem is occurring, including investigating my own systems. If it was happening there I wouldn't be coming to you. It's not a personal attack, I just want the system fixed, or at least troubleshot.

Complaining to management that I am personally attacking you, when I am doing no such thing, makes it personal. How do you expect us to work together if you are continually sniping behind my back? Fix your system and you'll never hear from me again.

That was too nice. Fuckers, I hope your systems blow up in your faces. Maybe then you'd notice.

Microsoft. Stop pissing around with Hotmail. I really don't want this new large font and I don't want to have to faff around trying to find how to change it.

Damned, useless, painless but annoying ophthalmic migraine, go a-WAY! I can't to anything reasonable because I'M half blind undtil you stop!

You are if course right, the info I asked for is not needed. I only asked for the extra info as I have nothing better to do than play info ping pong all day..

It does not make the difference between the connection working and the connection not working and you will find that even without this info, the internet fairies will just make it work.

They will send a little internet gnome praktikant along the wire to personally carry each little data packet to its destination. This however may decrease system performance to the point where, you may think the connection is not working.

Just gives the little guy some time - its a long trek through cyberspace on a cyberscooter...

bah!

Stupid Germans!!! LEARN ENGLISH IF ENGLISH IS THE BUSINESS LANGUAGE!!!1

I'm a freaking grammar janitor here at work. "ein und derselben" does not translate into "one and the same", THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE IN ENGLISH!!!!!!111111111111111111111one

It makes sense to me.

I really do have more important things to do than filling out interminable forms.

Like figuring out how to travel forward in time and hear the three talks that I have to present my thoughts on immediately after they finish. Based upon not having read them beforehand because they aren't yet available.

I'm going to look like an idiot.

Maybe you should learn english as it makes sense to me as well.

Shush, it's "No chat, just raw emotion" and it didn't make sense in the context, but since it is a vent and not "explain to Toytown readers how something doesn't make sense" I did not care to put the whole sentence.

Another example would be use of the word "backtranslation"

p.s. I love how there was, in great TT manner, a flame in that reply.

I fucking hate having to read such shite on this forum..

Learn to fucking speak English!

agreed , fcukin dutch

What a roll of fail.

Sorry to say, my dear customer, it seems the internet gnome was french and as such may be on strike.

The error message you see is just the catch all for this kind of 'YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME THE INFO I NEEDED' kind of error.

Please feel free to sit and do nothing so we can once again play info ping pong. I used to work in tech support - Not only am I an expert at Info ping pong and I can split hairs down the subatomic level.

UPS are a bunch of fucking arse. I pay top dollar for EXPRESS delivery, and 2 times out of fucking 3, they fuck it up because they cannot find my address. EVERY time they take it to another place, that just so happens to have 4 letters in common with the name of my road. My road has been around for 60 years, the place they take it to is a brand new business park that has been open 18 fucking months. My GPS can find my house. Googlemaps can find my house. VirtualErath can find my house UPS are a fucking parcel delivery company, and they, it seem cannot.

I want to fucking scream.

Because I want to take a bit stick with nails in it to my ex-boyfriends head who thinks it's ok to accuse me of seeing someone else (a year after we finished) and text me at 2am!! Tw*t !!
Rant over, feel so much better now!!

Contacts at English companies talk to me like I'm a foreigner...I am...but they do it with that patronising, aloof, faux-superior tone that makes me so happy that they live in a shithole and I don't. A connection to the lottery thread...if I won I would buy advertising time and billboards and begin a campaign in Britain that shows them all the things that are better everywhere else in the world...it is my theory they are only the way they are because they are ignorant of how backward their society is.

I'm so sexy am I? I'm gorgeous and cute am I? I tick all the right boxes do I? You miss me desperately do you? You had such a great time with me. You want me to be the only one for you do you?

WELL WHY THE FUCK HAVEN'T YOU CONTACTED MY SINCE SATURDAY THEN YOU FUCKING PRICK.

You better be dead or seriously incapacitated if you expect me to give you the time of day in future coz I know when you're feeling lonely you'll come running back to me.

YOU FUCKING TWAT. I THOUGHT YOU WERE 'THE ONE'.

BOLLOCKS TO YOU YOU BLOODY BASTARD.

Hates the feckin "restaurant" he lives above... now they even crank the freakin system when they clean up the place during daytime! Not that I can't get sleep till at least 1am every bloody single night and the police, KVR or the fuckin landlady don't care - now I basically get free "sound" 24/7!!! And all because that bastard-cunt who rented out the place is some sweet tongued "von - aristocratic" fuck people buy any shit of!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Because some moderators here are clueless and merge my new threads with something totally unrelated.
Can be moved to the vent if so desired.

Stop abusing your dog! There's no need to yell at the poor thing and jerk him around on the leash like that. And hitting your dog is not acceptable punishment either. Shit... I don't care if that's what your "trainer" told you to do. You're on some dominant power trip and have no clue just how much damage you're causing. Don't come running to me when you get bitten.

Are you really that f-ing oblivious? You don't know notice when things happen? If it is pointed out to you can't even apologize!?!? Argh! I'm so sick of this. In the beginning it was like oh well let it go. Now it's like seriously you think you're so much more responsible and mature than I am since you're older and have been working more etc etc, but I've yet to believe it and since i'm super immature and childish that's saying a lot. Get with the program and own up to things, and apologize! GRR

Just because the napkins weren't immediatly in the vicinity of your hand, do you suppose that really means that "they don't have any"? Really? So it's a completely normal assumption that a small cafe inside a shopping center which sells ice cream cones to go wouldn't have such things, and that 2 small children obviously wouldn't need them enough that you might 1) ASK the person working there or 2) LOOK 10 feet down the counter?? No, as usual it is up to ME to go out of my way because you have some OCD-like inability to get them or inquire about them yourself. Maybe when you have to clean up as a result of your laziness, you'll change your mind.

AND, maybe when I just start throwing away all of your papers and clutter that you leave around the house, and you find that something important got tossed, MAYBE THEN picking up after yourself will become a bigger priority. I am a housewife, not a fucking maid.

How long can a fucking contract take to sign?

I made arrangements weeks ago for a dogsitter for this one week I will be away and I went this morning to drop Tobi off and no one is there and no one is answering the phone and I am supposed to be leaving NOW for the airport for a non-refundable, non-transferable flight.