The vent

you are the Juan who upset her!!!

If she's a german, just hold a knife to her throat and threaten her. They are so lame at confrontation it makes Singaporeans look quite tough by comparison.

Lame at confrontation? That might explain my ex-gf, who mostly kept all the *real* problems to herself. But she claimed I did every other little thing, that no one cares about, wrong -- like how i should use a German toothpaste and not get my favorite Tom's of Maine from home. Who the f*ck cares what kind of toothpaste I use, how does that affect anyone?

Not all German women are lame at confrontation. Here's today's rant: my team assistant at work isn't always so nice to everyone. If you ever disagree with her, forget it, you will get all your plane tix late (and expensive) and all your reimbursements will come so late you get your company amex shut off. She will glare at you and be rude every time she sees you, and come up with a snappy retort to anything. In fact she is the one person in my whole company that hasn't asked "oh what happened to your knee? i'm so sorry!" She pretended not to even notice that I am on crutches.

I made the horrendous mistake of not inviting her to a party a few months ago (b/c i had already invited 2 ppl she doesn't play nice with). Then when she didn't make my travel arrangements I complained that "I need this NOW otherwise the price will jump next week!" Apparently that was mistake #2. Now I'm gonna have to use a different team assistant if I want to ever get anything on time.

time to get a new one...or pull her up on it. She needs to know that she can't behave in this way!

Having to work with club promoters who spend thousands of euros promoting an event, only to realise the day before they didn't get an approved genehmigung from the KVR. DUH!!! And then expect me to run around trying to make sure everyone knows that they've moved the location from one side of munich to the other within 24 hours!!

My neighbors are putting a 2nd floor on their house. While it is kind of interesting to see a whole new floor added to a house and see the development every day, the noise every day is so fucking annoying. They start really early and even when I could sleep in, I cannot enjoy the sleep anymore after 8 or 9am because of the fucking hammering and whatever else they are doing. They better be done with that damn work soon!

I put on a dark wash this evening and just went hang it up...Arrrghhh...Can someone please explain how one tiny tissue can break up in to so many pieces?
It looks like somebody emptied a paper shredder into my washing machine.

f*****g estate agents. Bloody thieves!!! Another deposit war. I hate this sh*t.

im all by myself, ... dont know if thats exciting though

How many dogs am I going to have to almost run over on my bike before these stupid goddamn owners get it through their thick skull that they belong on a leash? A path is for point to point transport of people, not a fucking playground for your foo-foo rat dogs. Oh, and to the lady that thought it was oh so funny to watch her dog run sideways and backwards right in front of me on my way home: next time, if your dog is so eager to bite my front tire, I going to let it have a taste at speed.

Fucking wanker Italian Lorry drivers...Use your Fucking Mirrors, Twats..

<sub>it was a very very close one...nearly didnt come home today..

Edit...two and a half hours later, I am still shaking...</sub>

Visiting lawyer in the office next door sounds like he's dying by inches. Clear your throat once and for all, suck a cough lozenge or die, just stop making those disgusting sounds!

Does anyone else get this (if you ever go there, don't judge, its good hangover food! )

Me: I'll have the Hamburger Royal
McGuy: TS?

NO... XP! How about Server Edition?! Seriously, there only is TS, do I have to clarify?

EDIT: There is also a Royal Cheese. (mod)

what can I say that I haven't said already? Effing SAS again! Stuck in Copenhagen when i should be home!

why do neighbours need to have all their windows open after midnight and talk so LOUD? does it not cross your mind that you are not the only one in the world?
my solution: i put some loud music on in the room next door, opened my windows, used my earplugs.. i can only remember the first 2 songs. i hope my other neighbours did get some sleep.

stupid effing customers. Why od the alway bollick things up on a friday before a long weekend. Every time they hang on to a problem and then call us out at 15:00 on a Friday! Wankers!

Frigging Wiesn-tent! Pay attention to your job and don't send me vouchers for different days with identical dates and number of places but different amounts! You just make life hard for everyone concerned. Coz I have to send the incorrect one back and go to the unspeakable Postagenturstelle (not even the real post office!) again to pick up your certi-frigging-fied letter with the correct voucher.
Mit unfreundlichen Grüßen!

My work blocked TT!!! argh!!! how could they?!?!

Sneak off to the restroom with your mobile.

The Inquirer: Workers Admit to Online Toilet Habit

It's pissing with rain and blowing a gale, and I have to leave my nice warm office and go for walkies with a dog and a half (one won't go far - unfortunately the other one makes up for it). Yip yippety f*ing yip to you too, you four-legged sadist.

My "best friend" here in Germany is a compulsive liar. We´ve been good friends for about three years now and I have asked her not to tell me the (what she considers to be) "white lies" that she tells others. She makes plans and forgets and then says her husband won´t let her go (I used to think he was a tyrant, and when I confronted her with my suspicions, she laughed and admitted she uses him and her kids as an excuse not to go out as she is actually a bit of a homebody). She has this heavy sigh and then the "I can´t, Ruthie, I know I said we would, but...blah blah blah". I know she loves me, and she behaves like this with everyone, even her husband. She´s just spacey and socially lazy and forgetful, and often agrees to plans even though she never plans on following through because she doesn´t want to disappoint someone. She thinks a spontaneous, last minute cancellation is more believable or something. But I don´t find it okay, and now I never know when she is telling me the truth or not. I have had my new puppy now for 9 days, and she has yet to see him! This is such a major step in my life, and I want my best friend to take part in this. The little guy is twice as big now as he was when I got him, and she hasn´t seen him. We were supposed to see each other on Saturday and she never even called to cancel, I just got an SMS in the evening. Today we were supposed to go out to lunch together in my neighborhood, and when I called her she said she wouldn´t come because it is "pissing it down". I then said I could bring Tobi in the car to the Italian restaurant right next to our office building, and she then said she has too much to do at work to go to lunch. Hahaha. She would never in a million years skip lunch to work. So obviously she has a more interesting appointment today, and doesn´t want to tell me for fear of hurting my feelings. Another really good friend of ours just broke up with her boyfriend, so it is possible she is meeting her instead to comfort her. But why not tell me? The woman is 45 years old! You´d think she would have learned better than this by now.

People reading this probably wonder what makes her a good friend. We do get along really well, we can laugh a lot together, travel together, tell each other our most personal secrets, and she knows without even asking how I am doing because she can see it in my face. She showers me with gifts, and she invites me to her home to eat nearly gourmet meals with her family. I think she really does depend on me. She even admitted to being jealous of my puppy, that I might love him more than I love her...I reminded her that she has a husband and two kids, and I have a puppy.

Most times I don´t let it bother me, I just make a plan B when she and I make plans since two out of three times they fall through. But it is really important to me that she see my dog, and she is making no effort. And I really really really really hate being lied to (and with her I never know what is a lie and what not). I also really really hate making plans with someone and their then not being dependable. I had a phase (I think I was 18) where I also over-booked my social calendar and was afraid to tell people when I didn´t feel like doing something. But I grew out of it! I am an easy-going person who isn´t mad when someone has to cancel -- but when it is two out of three times cosntantly over three years, that annoys me very much. I feel like some pathetic girl stalking a boy who doesn´t like her -- and this woman is supposed to be my best friend! I laughed and told her I knew she was lying today, that I knew she would never skip lunch to work, and she got all flustered and didn´t know what to say. We kind of coldly and hastily said good-bye. I hope I am not doing her an injustice in thinking she is lying. I also hope this doesn´t cause a rift in our friendship. But it seriously pisses me off.

Give her a bit of her own medicine!

very stupid threads!

Which ones!

any of mine

sorry but i am too busy

arshoo: no, your threads are .

Why is it so hard to get your big doo doo head around elevator buttons? You retard. Seriously. The down arrow, doesn't call the lift down, it signals your intention to take the lift down from this current floor. I'm sick of people on the ground floor hitting "down" then getting in the elevator and hitting floor 3.

Oh this is common here - and not just the cleaning lady. Many hit both the UP & DOWN buttons in the touching belief it will get the lift/elevator faster. It does of course - and 50% of time they are somehow suprised it continues in the other direction...

fucking asshole who told me to go back to German classes as my grammar is not perfect. Lets hear you pronounce a 'V' as a 'V' and not as a 'W' and properly say the 'TH' and not 'T'.

The idiots who measured my kitchen benchtop did not do it properly and now its causing me all kinds of hassles. Sure they will have to replace it, however its a headache I didn´t need, and then to the 60 year man who tried to pick me up in Hertie this evening, F-the-hell-off, you only reminded me of my father (who I love) and made me sad.

Just realised that my Passport runs out in November and that I need to get it renewed. No problem methinks and logs onto the Düsseldorf Consular site. 185 F*cking euros plus 5 Euros Admin charge - Robbing B*stards - No way round it I´m afraid but I will ask for a valid receipt that is acceptable to the German Taxman - Is this how Blair & his cronies finance their retirement??

I'm still seething over this ... a week ago, we had a birthday party for the 6 yr old boy I look after (I'm an Au Pair, and live in the family’s house) and one of the mothers dropping off her son, decided to stay for the entirety of the party, flirting with the birthday boys father, in front of his wife, and got so drunk she couldn't drive home - and her and her kid had to stay the night (in the guest room) because it was too far away for a taxi. This woman had never met the parents before, she'd only dealt with me, and was the only parent to stay, everyone else left their kids to play and then picked them up later, it was definitely not a 'drinking' party. The next morning I made her and her son breakfast, his school lunch, and dropped him off at school while she went home to get changed. Last night she came around again to discuss 'business' and got drunk and stayed the night - again. She made me get her kid ready for bed, and again ready in the morning, I made him breakfast and lunch, and dropped him at school... and here is what pisses me off the most... she barely ever acknowledges my presence unless to give me orders, she has never once said thank you to me, or made her child say it, acts like I'm the scum of the earth or just the hired help, and that I would be lucky to be able to look after her child (he's a little shit by the way)! How I would love to let loose and tell her straight, but its not my place, and my bosses are just to nice.

The assholic internet police at my workplace just implemented new internet software that has much stronger internet content filtering. An announcment was made that employees would no longer be able to access any site that was classified as pornography, gambling or streaming media (no big surprise). However, I can no longer access one of my favorite sites that does not fall into the 3 aforementioned categories. (Toytowngermany is still accessible tho.)

There's a girl/woman at work that is making it almost impossible to work for our entire team cos she's basically a spy and a snitch for our customer and really is the nastiest little bitch that i have ever had the displeasure to meet!

Question is, do i cut her brake hoses on the car, leave superglue on the seat or what?

Answers on a postcard please to :- Pissed off Twat @ munich.com

i'm stressed over various things- a test i'm taking in a week, trying to decide between my current job and another (grad school/teaching combo. get certified to teach while i'm teaching and also earning all but 3 classes towards a Masters of Art in Teaching), some events in the next month or two and the return of someone who i thought was out of my life and has been for the past 2 years (still technically is out of my life, but a call that he's moved back to town).
on top of it today my landlord stopped by and was a rude, condescending, jerk (my roommate who heard the entire conversation thought he was worse than i did) made me read a letter aloud (who does that?!?!) After a few sentences i just paraphrased and he made me go and read it word for word. i finally said no i wrote it 24 hours prior i know what it says. so he took it and read it to me! (the letter asked that we get proper screens for the windows and i stated it's city code that each window must have a screen, asked about cleaning the outside of the building and said if he didn't want to we would, but if damages occured we're not responsible, questioned the dire need of a new coat of paint on the front porch, and asked for warning next time they were to have the nasty chemical/pesticide people spray the lawn since advance notice is appreciated, and i think under law required, esp. since i didn't enjoy a sick dog for a few days after!) then he went off on me, kicked a neighbor of mine out of the yard telling him the dogs can't play now because he's talking to me and in the end made me cry (i was proud and held back until i went inside to grab my cell phone since he wanted my roommates numbers and then forced myself to stop when i went back outside by him until he left and i went back inside). the crying made me feel like a stupid little child, which i might be (but i think many would agree i'm also just as much a massive bitch).
seriously! who makes someone read a letter aloud? fine you're old enough to be my parent, prob older than my parents, but i'm 25 not 12. don't lecture me, landlord-renter is a business transaction that's it. listen to what i say please since i'm listening to you. after you've made me late to meet up for dinner with friends and they call and i answer telling them i'll call them back don't pound your fist and insist i hang up (when i literally said, "hey, i'll call you back in a sec" and hung up).
ugh i could go on and on about any of those subjects!!! (test, job decision, the landlord thing, etc.)
and to top it all off tomo i have to be pleasant and at the boathouse for 5 hours teaching rowing (a thing i love, but is currently over shadowed) to people i don't know and there's a chance of rain.
and one of the few people who'd be great to have around right now of course isn't

I pulled my road bike out of the basement for the first time this year and 1) flat tires (to be expected, no problem), 2) no brakes (???) and 3) I could not shift the thing onto the big chain ring from the middle chain ring at all and the top three gears in the middle were rubbing against the derailleur! So, took it for a ride anyway (after fixing the brakes) and could not pedal faster than 25kph!

It was running perfectly when I put it down there last fall. What the hell happened to it?

Two out of three of those happened to me this morning as well. Back tire is flat and the back brakes have been cut. I was forced to ride to work on this piece of shit purple kiddy bike with a many hard seat. I feel pain in places I forgot existed

I paid way too much for a web site creation - and they still won't finish it... and it makes me really really sad that I trusted them to finish it. Going out for pizza

There's a Police chopper hovering about somewhere over Au or the Wies.n somewhere and i wish he'd piss off the noisy bastard !

Edit : He must be logged on to TT cos he's just buggered off.

For the second time in 3 days, I've not just dropped and broken, but dropped and totally shattered a glass plate in the kitchen. The worst part? This time there was a big beef silverside roast on it, which had just finished slow-cooking overnight. It was instantly rendered almost totally inedible. A half kilo of beef, thrown out.

I am sick of going home and hearing "so are you fluent yet?"
no, I NOT fluent in German.
And guess what?
I probably never WILL be! And that is aaayyyyyyyyy ok with me!

I am running on empty, not alot of sleep, show up at the office for 6:30, only to have my first patient not show up- he forgot, even though we call a day in advance and confirm/remind them.

How difficult is it to install a light fixture? I am stuck with this horrible modernish looking thing with specialized light bulbs that keep blowing out and leaving it too dark to work properly. Why do they invent such things? And whatever possesses people to buy them?

Girl from Dachau, I know that your Piaggo so-called motorcycle does up to 80 kph, but that is just not enough when you pull out to pass a truck doing 75 kph and I am doing 100 kph and you end up about 10m in front of me. People get killed that way! Of course I honk at you, no need to make a rude gesture. Next time I will throw a copy of the Darwin Awards at you.

when somebody says they have a bad headache so they really are not keen for hanging out take their word on it and realize if you go to their place to not expect much!
ugh!
last night i was hanging out playing cards and chilling in the front lawn with one of my roommates and her friends i was supposed to go with them on a booze cruise (drink and hang out on one of the bigger river boats as it cruises to the inner harbor and along the river), but i was getting a migraine so staid home. Once they left a friend called and i said no i wasn't doing anything and even was trying to muster the will to go walk my dog one last time. He decided to come over, that's fine, and ended up (in the beginning) being so sweet! He said he'd take Bren for a walk if i go take a shower to relax and see if it helps with my headache (i think he just thought i smelled ). Anyway, after we were just hanging out laying around my place then he starts in on how having sex helps headaches. i said perhaps, but not when it hurts to even see and you feel as if you're going to throw up! I thought we were just having the conversation for fun...ended up he thought otherwise. So the vent here is don't go to someone's house when they say they're not even really interested in hanging out at the moment then be all sweet and walk their dog and such then become obnoxious about having sex! ugh!!! grrr
(this was sparked by when is the best time to have sex. this is definately not it)

In-Laws... I could go on but it is better I do not

when someone isn't necessarily the most pleased with their relationsihp you don't need to go on and on about the wonderful news in yours. don't get me wrong i'm happy for my friends, but today i didn't need 3 of them springing their enthusiasm for love on me! grrr

oh and bipolar cats! my roommate's cat is definately biploar and it's getting old one minute nice little girl then a milisecond later nothing has changed but she decides to attack (even when she's the one who approached you) i don't need more cat bites and scratches, i have enough cat wounds! if she were a dog she'd have a record with the police and possibly need to be put down. the double standard is beyound unfair! hmmph! i used to really like cats, but the past few months are definately changing my opinion!!! pity, they could be decent creatures.

ahh! the stupid cat just attacked me for no reason! stupid thing.

To the world in general: Don't let your frustration out on me. When I politely ask you if you are getting out at Lehel don't bark "Nah!" and not budge. Because what happens is that I have to push by you, causing you spill your coffee down your front and then I say, "'tschuldigung!" with an angelic expression to the great amusement of the schoolgirls next to you.

Funny, Sarabyrd, I am guilty of similar. I get bothered by people bumping into me. So when I need to get past someone, I say "Entschuldigung" and when they don't move, I just push unceremoniously past. I know I can't change the world, but at least I've annoyed a few people.

Why do people call and ask for help. She called me twice today and only complained about the software but I see nothing wrong from my end (I have a super user account, can log on at the same time). So, I suggested as the "last straw" that she restart her computer. She said she won't do it, just the bloody software. I have enough of my own problems, and I have enough of German-accent-laced-English. ENOUGH!! I feel like packing and go home!