[mornington]

cob: fresh veg costing more than frozen pizza. When I can buy three pizzas for the price of a bag of carrots and some spinach, there is something wrong with the world.

cob: bus drivers who drive too fast (around corners too) so can't stop at the actual bus stop.

cob: people who can't spell feminist.

[girltrouble]

cob:people who think it's cool to hate people because of what's between their legs, who they love, the color of their skin, or a life lived differently. it's just stupidness. but SOME people are so blinded by hate, they can't figure it out.

...speaking of dis-ease, i've said it before: stupid is contagious. a certain FN, it seems, has a terminal case.

[Queen Bull]

wow. moron indeed. though im sure troll cant be far off mark.

[girltrouble]

wow. getting attacked for compassion and contempt of hatred. that's a new one.

that's not a troll. that's an moron.

[pollystyrene]

TROLL ALERT!! I've reported it.

[mornington]

olivarria - you should check with your student housing people (lodge a complaint when you do) and check your contract. In my halls (in the uk, mind) they had to give 24 hours notice before entering, or gain your permission (ie knock and wait for you to answer the door).

[hoosierman78]

Warning I am in a really pissy mood and going on a rant.

My cob: Okay, this is my first time living in a college dorm, so I'm not sure if this is normal protocol or not, maybe some of you can tell me. I'm living in an apartment-style dorm, there are two bedrooms. We have a living area, kitchenette, and bathroom. Lately I have had a problem with people (not my roommate) just walking into the dorm, no knocking or anything. Like contracters, people doing repairs, RA's to do health inspections or whatever. Sometimes they have walked straight into my bedroom and woken me up for an inspection.

Now I know this is not technically an apartment, it is a dorm, but we each pay over $500 a month to live here. This is our private living space. Why the fuck are they just walking in like they live here? What if I was having wild sex on the living room floor? Or in my bed for that matter, since they have walked in there too? Do they think that because it's a dorm and not an apartment, we don't require privacy? When I pay my monthly rent I am paying for the living space AND the privilege of privacy. I don't mind letting in a contracter, or plummer, or RA to do an inspection, but next time you better fucking KNOCK! I don't give a shit if you're an RA. Two campus police officers came not long ago to question my roommate about something, and even they had the courtesy to knock (or beat loudly on the door). I've thought about just lounging around naked, so next time they walk in they can get treated to a full frontal view, or another really embarassing situation so they can learn to respect my goddamn privacy!

You'll have to check your student housing agreement for definitive answers, but in my experience in the dorms, people always knocked. Of course, that could be because if I was in there, the door was either open or locked. I don't believe you have the same rights (legally speaking) as you would if you were renting from a standard landlord, but at the same time, I would think it highly unacceptable for a contractor/RA to just waltz into your private living space without knocking first. I'm sure a few 'embarrassing' entrances would quash that shit pretty fast, but you shouldn't have to do that in order to be given common courtesy. My two cents anyway.

[olivarria]

Warning I am in a really pissy mood and going on a rant.

My cob: Okay, this is my first time living in a college dorm, so I'm not sure if this is normal protocol or not, maybe some of you can tell me. I'm living in an apartment-style dorm, there are two bedrooms. We have a living area, kitchenette, and bathroom. Lately I have had a problem with people (not my roommate) just walking into the dorm, no knocking or anything. Like contracters, people doing repairs, RA's to do health inspections or whatever. Sometimes they have walked straight into my bedroom and woken me up for an inspection.

Now I know this is not technically an apartment, it is a dorm, but we each pay over $500 a month to live here. This is our private living space. Why the fuck are they just walking in like they live here? What if I was having wild sex on the living room floor? Or in my bed for that matter, since they have walked in there too? Do they think that because it's a dorm and not an apartment, we don't require privacy? When I pay my monthly rent I am paying for the living space AND the privilege of privacy. I don't mind letting in a contracter, or plummer, or RA to do an inspection, but next time you better fucking KNOCK! I don't give a shit if you're an RA. Two campus police officers came not long ago to question my roommate about something, and even they had the courtesy to knock (or beat loudly on the door). I've thought about just lounging around naked, so next time they walk in they can get treated to a full frontal view, or another really embarassing situation so they can learn to respect my goddamn privacy!

[girltrouble]

cob:listening to evangelist rick warren and his wife talking about how good they are for being concerned with aids in africa, while they keep aids in america at arms length, all the while talking about how aids is a disease "they didn't care about." because "it meant that you were gay" and "it's a sexually transmitted disease, hello!" how very fucking christian of you, assholes. you talk about how "when we die we will have to give account to jesus about what we did" and i hope he fucking sends you to the hottest parts of hell for trying to hold up your halo while people die around you, and you do nothing because of your prejudice and homophobia. oh, and seriously---FUCK YOU.

[geekchickknits]

One girl in particular has done this for two weeks in a row. I don't want to get snitty with a customer, but I'm starting to feel like charging her for the time I spend waiting for her to show up. I'm not your friend, I'm not your family, I'm a business person, and the time I spend on you isn't free.

The next time she calls to make an appointment, inform here that if she doesn't give you 24 hours notice before cancelling you will charge her for the fitting anyway. Make a note that you gave her this warning, and see if she shows up or not.

I used to tutor privately, and had one student who cancelled twice, once by calling, once by not showing up. After that, I said that I would be happy to tutor him privately, but that he would have to pay in advance. He always balked after that, but at least he didn't waste my time!

[bustygirl]

Okay, my peeve today is people who make appointments with me for fittings; which I clean my house for, spend time on that I could be working or spending with my family or friends, and otherwise waste my exceptionally small amount of free time on--only to have them cancel at the last minute or not do me the courtesy of cancelling at all.

One girl in particular has done this for two weeks in a row. I don't want to get snitty with a customer, but I'm starting to feel like charging her for the time I spend waiting for her to show up. I'm not your friend, I'm not your family, I'm a business person, and the time I spend on you isn't free.

Grrrr.

[bustygirl]

Maybe he's screaming at the crazy man who used to live next door to us in our old apartment.

My peeve is buttermints. Homemade buttermints. Too damn delicious, can't stop eating.

[mornington]

The crazy man in the flats next door. At least, I think he's crazy. Why else would he be screaming "fuck you motherfucker..." etc etc etc for at least 20 minutes at four in the morning. Or eleven at night. Or any time of day. I still haven't worked out who or what he's shouting at, or why. Maybe it's the same reason he locks himself out at least twice a week and sits on the road (he has a garden, he doesn't need to sit in the road) for several hours mumbling and swearing at everyone. Maybe it's the same reason he harasses his neighbours out of the window when he hasn't locked himself out. Also, he's creepy, not just crazy.

My landlady, who is lovely but rings me at 11am to ask me why I haven't forwarded her post yet, when I only got the email about it on thursday (uh, because the mail can take a day or two to get there). In response, I've sent her everything that wasn't addressed to me (none of which is addressed to her, either).

[Queen Bull]

bare feet. in parking lots and walmarts. on small children. and methheads.
so gross.

just wear shoes in public.. thats all that i ask.

[deschatsrouge]

Small children picking their noses.

[sybarite]

Accounts. Accounting software. Hating it.

[culturehandy]

Oh Tes, WORD on adolescent boys. Actually, adolescent youth in general irritate me.

[missladyj]

cob: people who don't know their lap swimming ettiquete

If I am faster than you which you already know because I have passed you once and you get to the wall before I do, get out of my way.

We are all swimming circles, you do not have to try and interrupt my work out in the middle of a set to ask me if you can swim circles in the lane with me.


If you tap me on my foot, you better be able to pass me if you can't pass me, them back the fuck up.

[tesao]

cob: adolescent boys
cob: arrogant expats
cob: ATVs on a paved road
cob: loud noise at 6 am on a week-end morning

COB: Arrogant Expat Adolescent Boys On ATVs On A Paved Road Making A Horrid Loud Noise at 6 am on Saturday Morning

GRRRRRRR

[anarch]

Men Who Explain Things: "the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant"

Fuck yeah.

from How Not To Be That Guy