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[HK]

Tame your hair!


Oh that's right, fuck you vBulletin. I'll type in caps if I want, dammit.

 

[retro]

So I take it you think it's time for a haircut? :24:

 

[HK]

I think you should gel it down and comb it forwards.


I bet it'd look awesome.

 

[jassilem]

Tame your hair!


Oh that's right, fuck you vBulletin. I'll type in caps if I want, dammit.

hahaha it is so annoying.. isn't it.

 

[retro]

It's pretty sad that people choose to behave in a willfully ignorant manner rather than to read things and be enlightened. It's even more sad and pathetic when they choose to censor things.

For those that may or may not be interested... I will post my response to PD's PM in my own thread. This way she cannot ask for have it deleted, since they are my own words in my own thread. I'm certain that nobody really care, but it will serve to prove that I'm a very rational person and have no problems with people that choose to deal with me in a rational manner... or even if they don't.

I will not post the PM that preceded my response however, so some of the things said may or may not make sense without the exact context.

Huh?


I took a shot at your chosen profession when you decided to attack someone for their medical condition that they don't have any control over. That goes directly against every code of ethics that I'm aware of in the medical profession... for background, my dad is a physician, my mom was an R.N., my sister graduates nursing school this fall, my grandfather was a physician, and my ex-wife is in an LVN and in nursing school for her R.N. license. Now, if any one of those people read what you had to say, they would have had the same response as I did... that perhaps you've chosen a profession that is ill-suited for someone with your particular brand of prejudices.


If you don't want to read anything that I might say in response to you, then put me on ignore. How freaking difficult is that? I didn't even respond to you directly, I agreed with something that Darrell said about it. You're the one that responded to me... it would've been easy enough to not say anything, or to have me on ignore. But yet you felt it necessary to respond. That tells me a whole helluva lot about your motivations. You were trying to start shit with me, it didn't work, and so you've concocted this PM in order to try and rile me up. Guess what, it didn't work.


I am negative about plenty of things, I'm also positive about plenty of things. Once again though, you've jumped to yet another assumption... which seems to be about par for the course. I ridicule people that deserve to be ridiculed, and I comment positively towards people that I believe should be treated as such. I've made fun of you when you've said things that warranted it... other people have no problem with it, while you've chosen to react in a manner in which I can only equate to how my four and a half year old son would react to being scolded.


As far as me being supposedly, "hated".... I seriously doubt that anyone gives a shit enough to actually hate me. I know for a fact that I don't hate anyone here... there are plenty of people that I dislike, and plenty more that I like. I stick around here because of the people that I like, and I know there are plenty of people here that like or at least tolerate me. I butt heads with plenty of people, and there is a mutual respect or perhaps even like between a fair number of us that butt heads regularly or on occasion.


You've made another assumption that I supposedly "insult" people in order to boost my own ego. Honestly, I'm a very arrogant person in a number of different ways, especially in the area of technology. I have no reason to insult people in order to boost my ego, as it's self-sustaining. It doesn't make me feel better about myself to make negative comments about people, nor does it make me feel any worse. It is what it is, and like I've said... all of the things that I tell people here, I would tell to their face if they were standing in front of me. If they chose to try and physically attack me for those things, then it would simply prove just how small and petty a person they are. Just as people that choose to whine and complain about the things that I do or don't say around here prove themselves to be just as petty and small.


Like I said, if you have an issue with me and don't want to interact with me... that's what the ignore list is for. I highly suggest that you use it, because your dislike or hatred of me isn't going to prevent me from responding to things that you might have to say if I feel like commenting. You say that there are better "adult" ways of speaking with people... well I would submit that it's more adult of me to be direct with people and tell them what I think than to lie to them or be otherwise false in how I deal with them in a worthless attempt not to hurt their feelings or sensibilities.


I will also submit that perhaps you need to evaluate your own life if you've developed a hatred for someone online. It's pretty sad that you've let me so far into your head as to evoke hatred within you towards me. Dislike me all you want, but allowing yourself to hate me gives me a power over you that is pretty sad when you think about it.


I can be negative, but I can be just as positive if I feel like it. I dislike people here, and I like people here... there are people that dislike me, and people that like me; though you are the only person that seems to have admitted that they hate me. Given that you've implied that you hate me, I would suggest that you take stock of your own life and figure out why you've let someone online become the object of hatred and given them control over you and your feelings. You also state that you are a Christian, so I will quote a passage of scripture for you:

21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[c] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’[d] is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.


23 “Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.


25 “Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison. 26 Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.

I have my own "adult" ways of dealing with things and my opinions towards people. I believe that it is more "adult" to deal with people directly than to be false with them and pretend to be something that I am not. It is better to be true to oneself than to lie and pretend to be something or someone that they're not.


So, I'll say once again. If you hate me and don't want to interact with me, then use the ignore feature. As far as my opinion of you goes... I honestly didn't have a problem with you until you chose to attack me for my medical condition. That was wholly out of line, and it would appear that you still feel that you were justified in that. Because you seem to feel that way and there has been no effort to apologize for such an unjustified attack, then I will stand by my opinion that you are in the wrong line of work.


I bid you a good day, and a good life. I hope that you find a way to get past your hatred, because it can't be healthy.

 

[retro]

I think you should gel it down and comb it forwards.


I bet it'd look awesome.

That's actually what I normally do with it... though I wear a hat when I go out most of the time. :24: I'll have to post a picture later on tonight after I shower... oh, and do not be afraid fair citizens, I shower twice or even thrice daily, so I have already showered once today... lest you think I am unhygienic.

 

[HK]

How are you not a shriveled raisin of a man?

 

[retro]

How are you not a shriveled raisin of a man?

It's not like I shower for an hour at a time. :fing27

 

[retro]

bahahahaha!

 

[retro]

I love TMIMITW

He can't be bought, but his beard clippings occasionally come up at auction.

 

[retro]

or alternativesly...

 

[retro]

Why is it that everyone in my life feels it necessary to treat me like a worthless piece of shit? I mean, honestly? And why the fuck is it that I can't ever get a goddamn break in my life.

I honestly don't even fucking know why I bother hoping that life might actually work out for me.

 

[HK]

Life isn't going to work out for you, you have to make it work. You have no idea how many things have gone wrong for me recently! It's crazy. It's like we're cursed. Only I know we're not, everything that's happened is just the product of bad decisions or old problems returning or just bad luck.


Also - slicked forward, far better than afro hair

 

[retro]

Well I just had the State of California retroactively change their tax code somehow and now I owe $1,100 to them... by November.

 

[retro]

The other part of my rant about people treating me like shit had to do with a conversation I had with my mom last night.

My oldest cousin is getting married next Sunday... and the two of us haven't gotten along since we were like 14 years old. I don't remember what started it or anything, he just stopped talking to me and we stopped doing anything together (we lived about 30 minutes apart... still do actually). But anyway, I got an invite to his wedding, and it's a fairly exclusive thing and they could only invite x number of people, so I was actually shocked that I was even going to get invited. Well I checked my mail last night, and I discovered this piece of mail lodged in the back of the mailbox... I have one of those mailbox units where practically everyone on my street shares it. Well, it's rather deep as well, I can get over half my arm in it. Well, I generally only check my mail at night, and so I hadn't noticed this piece of mail stuck in the back of the mailbox until last night. It turns out that it was my cousin's wedding invitation, and it was supposed to have been sent back a week ago. So I called my mom to tell her that and to find out if there was anything I could do. Turns out there wasn't anything, and that they had already tried to add my great aunt and uncle who had never even received their invitation, but the place wouldn't let them. She then goes on a rant for like 5 minutes calling me selfish and irresponsible and all this other shit... and I'm like, what the fuck did I do? It was stuck in the back of my mailbox and I didn't notice it until last night. Then she turned it into a rant about how I'm going to be gone for my friend's wedding as well. For that one, I made plans to go to BlizzCon like 9 months ago, bought the ticket and everything, and then found out that his wedding was going to be that weekend... like a month ago. They didn't send out any save the dates, and the invitation just came in the mail late last week, and their wedding is the 22nd of October. So I'm selfish for not coming to his wedding either, even though I was told the date after I made plans, and they're expensive plans (ticket was $175, and then I told my step-uncle that I'd go in with them on a hotel room as well).

It just pissed me the fuck off... none of those things were my fucking fault, and yet I get shat on because of them. But that's par for the course, everyone takes a giant crap all over me whenever they're pissed or annoyed or anything else. I'm fucking sick of it. The same "friend" whose wedding I'm missing to go to BlizzCon regularly blows me off, goes for months without talking to me even when I try to call or text him at least once every other week. He's gone for years without talking to me before, and then will come back into my life when it's convenient for him. But I'm the selfish one for not cancelling my plans to go to his stupid fucking wedding? God I'm so sick of the bullshit in my life.

/rant

 

[retro]

Awesome... one of my Facebook friends posted this a few minutes ago.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things Facebook changes, the courage to change the settings I can, and the wisdom to know it won't make a difference.

:24:

 

[Darrell]

Awesome... one of my Facebook friends posted this a few minutes ago.



:24:

My buddy posted this in regard to the changes.



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[retro]

:24:

Nice. Though here's the thing... Facebook wouldn't exist if not for its users. Therefore, they are technically customers, whether they pay for the service or not. Look at what happened to MySpace, people ran away from it to Facebook, because Facebook offered things that MySpace didn't, and MySpace didn't change with the times. That's why basically nobody uses it, and everyone uses Facebook now. The same thing could happen with Facebook and Google+ as time goes on, depending on whether or not Facebook keeps rolling out changes and basically telling people to deal with it.

 

[Darrell]

:24:

Nice. Though here's the thing... Facebook wouldn't exist if not for its users. Therefore, they are technically customers, whether they pay for the service or not. Look at what happened to MySpace, people ran away from it to Facebook, because Facebook offered things that MySpace didn't, and MySpace didn't change with the times. That's why basically nobody uses it, and everyone uses Facebook now. The same thing could happen with Facebook and Google+ as time goes on, depending on whether or not Facebook keeps rolling out changes and basically telling people to deal with it.

I agree. I was just sharing the funny graphic.

 

[anathelia]

I'm going to either switch to G+ or quit with the social networking thing.

Facebook is getting too obnoxious, and I don't like the little mini news feed within a news feed.