The Letting Off Steam Thread

by **The Other Kevin** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:04 am

That sounds like a fucking poem. :lol:

That sucks, how is a power surge not under the warantee?

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:51 am

Poem? You're translating too much garbage in the NLSC. :lol:

I have no idea why it's not under the warranty. They're bastards

by **cyanide** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:07 am

dramacydal wrote:I'm not ready for that yet. You know, I'm just through with a long relationship and need some time for myself at the moment. So for now I'm only looking for a strong shoulder to lean on.

Good for you, and it'll be for the better! Enjoy the single life until you're ready to completely move on (y)

shadowgrin wrote:Shite them technicians.
Modem got fried by lightning so it was brought to the internet provider for repairs. No hope for the old modem so a new one needs to be bought. Then they say that the warranty doesn't cover lightning.
WTF? Lightning is a natural occurrence, why isn't covered by the warranty?
Screw buying a new one, I'll settle with a second-hand modem that's cheaper.

I would have to agree with The Other Kevin.
When you type like this, it almost flows naturally
Like a poem.
A freestyle poem.

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:37 am

That's it, I'm officially weirded out.

I didn't mean for the post to be like that, seriously. I just typed what I felt.
Stuff is currently happening in my life and comments by cyanide and The Other Kevin have some relation to it.

*Twilight Zone music is playing*

by **Joe'** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:11 am

Don't worry, Shadow,
I don't think,
it sounds like a poem.

:lol:

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:14 am

If you all remember that douche of a roommate i had in the spring, my girlfriend saw him at the mall complaining on his cell phone. So she looked up his facebook when we got back.

He has dropped out of the pre-med track cause he didnt understand algebra and is now a Japanese major. He's broke and bought an Accord for 18 grand....he didnt have enough $$$ to buy plates so he's been driving around on the expired dealer plates.

And on a bad note, I guess he has been storing stuff at my old roommate's house (the good kid) which is really too bad for him, this shithead will only bring him down.

by **Jing** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:26 am

I thought he was in the ROTC or something.

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 5:28 am

...people in ROTC still take a major...

by **Jing** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 7:37 am

I know, I'm just saying he'll at least have something to fall back onto if he totally gets fucked in everything. How the hell did he even get in Pre-Med the first place without even knowing simple math.

YouTube · by **JaoSming** on Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:57 am

its amazing to me that he isnt a beggar near the DCs right now nevermind how he graduated HS (no offense to anyone from Tulsa)

by **Oznogrd** on Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:08 am

OK, so the news is in the other thread about my grandpa dying...and i find out all sorts of nice tidbits when i get home that no one told me about. This is why i wanted to be home a week ago. I'm 21 fucking years old: can someone please treat me like a fucking adult instead of me finding out heavy stuff from a website?....This is spurred by the fact that in lieu of flowers, for my grandfather we want memorials to be made to Shriners Children's Hospital....I went there for 18 years of my life and the idea is purely because of me and NO ONE told me? what the fuck?...i'm perfectly fine with the idea, just tell me whats happening for gods sake.

by **Pera** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:40 am

I hate school work, its a bitch .

I was studying all night I didn't even sleep for this biology grade I had to get today and then when I come to school the bitch says she totally forgot about it and she will do it next time, thats Thursday. She always does this and thats what annoys me, I know she doesn't like me as a person and the part I'm Croatian, but hell she could at least be fair to me once in a while . The point is I need to study extra hard for her classes since she wont give me an A as easily as she does to the other students.

by **Joe'** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:19 am

^Happens every time here... I always get more points in tests than other people and almost every time, they get a higher grade than me.

It also annoys the fuck out of me when they ask me from where I'm from. This is an example (actually this is what actually happened today at school):

Teacher: "Davide Caldara"
Davide Caldara: "Here..."
Teacher: "........... Alessandro Rossi"
Alessandro Rossi: "Here!"
Teacher: "Uhm... Juan Zara?"
Me: *yawn* "Here..."
Teacher: "Where are you from?"
Me: "What?"
Teacher: "I said, WHERE ARE YOU FROM"
Me: "You yelling doesn't really help... However, I was born in Buenos Aires from a Venetian family. I am Italian, though..."
Teacher: "Oh... your name is really confusing..."
Me: "Thank you very much"
Teacher: "So, Buenos Aires huh? Is that in....Brazil?"
Me: *bangs head on desk three times* "No, that's in Argentina..."
Teacher: "Oh..." (Right now, from her face, you realize she doesn't even know where or what Argentina is)
Me: *bangs head four-hundred times on desk*

Then there's always the classic question: "Bello?" which is the Italian for "pretty, beautiful" and can translate as "Is it a good place to live?" or something along those lines. And I'm all thinking "I HAVE to end this conversation..." and go with a "Yah..." but I'm thinking "DO YOU THINK I'D BE HERE IF IT WAS, YOU IGNORANT OLD BITCH?".

Then there's the fact that going to high school is actually the same as going to elementary school here in Italy (except obviously for the subjects you study).
I mean, the brains of your classmates are as big as they were in elementary school, every class is had in the same classroom, you can't skip a particular class (you have to skip the whole school-day).

Basically, the only fucking difference is that there's a snack and coffee machine and that at the end of the day your mom doesn't pick you up.

So yeah, the school-system really sucks here... (Yep, for a change, I'm complaining about my country)

by **Pera** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:08 am

I know what you mean man . I'm tired of telling everybody about my roots myself. Its like every second person I met makes a joke about me being Croatian. Its annoying as hell. I know it shows when I talk that I'm from another country... still they could cut me some slack. My only problem is that I have a Croatian accent ... its not like I don't try to pronounce words in proper Slovene. I do, but still there is always a wise crack about it . Hopefully high school will be better next year than elementary school .

What subject does that teacher teach anyway ? Kinda stupid she doesn't know where Buenos Aires is.

by **Jackal** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:10 am

Ya'll are dorks. Make it in to a positive. Play the stereotype, it'll get people to laugh and it shows you have the ability to poke fun at yourself.

It warms people up to you.

How many times haven't I made my Dutch sound uber Antillian just for kicks. Or my English sound all Indian to get a few laughs.

by **Joe'** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:04 am

^Maybe it's because I'm only fifteen and I'm surrounded by people my age but they don't get that kind of humor here.

Pera wrote: I know what you mean man . I'm tired of telling everybody about my roots myself. Its like every second person I met makes a joke about me being Croatian. Its annoying as hell. I know it shows when I talk that I'm from another country... still they could cut me some slack. My only problem is that I have a Croatian accent ... its not like I don't try to pronounce words in proper Slovene. I do, but still there is always a wise crack about it . Hopefully high school will be better next year than elementary school .

What subject does that teacher teach anyway ? Kinda stupid she doesn't know where Buenos Aires is.

The funny thing is, I actually am Italian, I just happened to be born in a different country, hence the foreign name.
I speak correctly, actually better than most people here, who tend to use regional accents and words a lot.

I mean, it's just a fucking name, do you have to make such a big deal about it?

That teacher is my new History teacher. Anyway, this is not the first time it's happened, well it's the first it's happened with a teacher, but several other people, including a dude from the Italian parliament (that I met where my mom works), didn't know where Buenos Aires is.
That's how ignorant people are... Makes me sick.

by **[Q]** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:36 am

Jackal wrote:Ya'll are dorks. Make it in to a positive. Play the stereotype, it'll get people to laugh and it shows you have the ability to poke fun at yourself.

It warms people up to you.

How many times haven't I made my Dutch sound uber Antillian just for kicks. Or my English sound all Indian to get a few laughs.

you don't know how many times i've talked shit about fob asians that come into work to get a few laughs. throw in a couple "chinks" here and there and it's all good.

but i know exactly how you guys (Joe & Pera) feel. feeling like foreigners in your own country. hell, i was born in the us, but the problem is i don't feel that i'm exactly asian, and yet not exactly american either. just stuck the the middle

by **Christopherson** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:50 am

i don't feel that i'm exactly asian, and yet not exactly american either

Maybe that is the problem. There shouldn't be any question. If you want to live in this country I think you should look at yourself as an American, period.

by **[Q]** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:58 am

i do though. every day of my life i have. the problem is that other people don't see it the same way. they take one look at my face and they think they already haave me figured out.

by **Its_asdf** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 9:00 am

I'm busting a nut over my physics homework right now. Sad thing is, we're still doing review and I'm getting butt fucked by this course.

by **Christopherson** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:02 pm

I'm busting a nut over my physics homework right now. Sad thing is, we're still doing review and I'm getting butt fucked by this course.

What kind of physics are you doing? Is it just engineering physics or is it more advanced than that?

I do though. every day of my life i have. the problem is that other people don't see it the same way. they take one look at my face and they think they already haave me figured out.

I think that by admitting that others see us differently, we ourselves are admitting there are differnces. You yourself said that you don't see yourself as Aisan or American, so you obviously see a difference?

by **Pera** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:13 pm

I wouldn't make a big deal about it, its just Croatians or Serbians for that matter aren't really liked over here. The whole war thing that was happening and all made some major impacts on how people treat each other. I do joke around my friends... I'm only pissed when people who meet me for the first time say things like " Oh, he is from down there, he can't be that good of a person that he seems to be ." People are so ignorant over here and judge by the stereotypes .

by **[Q]** on Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:47 pm

Christopherson wrote:
I do though. every day of my life i have. the problem is that other people don't see it the same way. they take one look at my face and they think they already haave me figured out.

I think that by admitting that others see us differently, we ourselves are admitting there are differnces. You yourself said that you don't see yourself as Aisan or American, so you obviously see a difference?

I don't think there's much of a difference in who we are, but there's a difference in how we get treated.

by **Indy** on Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:06 am

Its_asdf wrote:I'm busting a nut over my physics homework right now. Sad thing is, we're still doing review and I'm getting butt fucked by this course.

Every time you post I imagine Zoidberg saying it.

by **el badman** on Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:08 am

Maybe that is the problem. There shouldn't be any question. If you want to live in this country I think you should look at yourself as an American, period.

Huh? Is that mandatory?
I live here and I don't wanna consider myself as an American, I'm pretty sure there's quite a lot of people who feel like that, nothing wrong with that.

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