These are people who I think deserve to die

[ajoe]

1) people who tYpE lIkE tHiS, aNd, UsInG tHiS mEtHoD, aCtUaLlY pRoDuCe A wHoLe PaRaGrApH... iF nOt MoRe...
2) people who send junk mails and other kinds of spam
3) whoever invented pop-ups
4) people who come to the public lounge and inconsiderately start making out in one of the sofas and don't stop just because the only other person there (who is attempting to study) does not complain out loud

[verybaddmom]

these are the people who deserve to die?
i was expecting more along the lines of people who beat their loved ones with hangers and parents who abandon their children. even then im skeptical. but people who make out in public? yikes. im glad i dont live near you.

[ajoe]

:D I'm simply trying to get my readings done and they won't stop!

[emily655321]

I'd like to add to the list, strangers who add your IM to their friends list before they've even talked to you. The only option they leave you is either to block a potentially nice person, add to your friends list and thereby encourage the advances of a potentially creepy/annoying person, or just let them add you without adding them, in which case a potential creep has your name and you can't tell when they're online.

Also, people who leave their profiles blank. I don't care if there's no pic or interests or bio, but when they don't put basic info like a/s/l it urks me.

Oh, and people who use the "BUZZ!" on Yahoo messenger. Gahh.

[ajoe]

lol, were you talking about me? :D You mean you know when someone adds you to your buddy list? But not AIM, huh?

[emily655321]

Haha. No, I didn't mean the buddy list on here. And besides, I know you already anyway. I mean when you've never met someone before, and you sign into messenger, and a message pops up saying, "[some guy you've never heard of] has added you as a Friend."

I'm gonna try to get AIM tonight, btw. I just got MSN today, but when I put my ID on the Forum profile it says, "you've entered an invalid MSN handle." :confused:

[verybaddmom]

for msn you need to use the whole hotmail or msn address, where yahoo only the first part of the address is your handle. try that. good luck, em, but if i had known that you were downloading msn, i would never have bothered with the whole yahoo thing. urg.

[simon]

I only got msn becuase I left my dorm room with my computer on and I came back and this guy was at my computer downloading it so he could talk to me (I didn't even know his name).

[verybaddmom]

ewww, simon. that's just disturbing!
can you say creepy!

[simon]

Yeah, I got rid of him on the list as soon as I knew how to work the thing, but I am glad I got it for all it's creepy origins. In the first year dorms there is an underground connecting some of the buildings and it was unlocked so during the first part of the year there were homeless people sleeping down there.

[verybaddmom]

ugh. that's like this apartment i lived in once. was a fourth floor walk up and the front door didnt have locks on it, so there were always homeless people sleeping in the hallway. and the laundry room was a fenced off area on the roof (yes on the roof) but there was a warmish spot behind the dryer i guess as this one guy used to try and live there; they would chuck out his stuff (blanket and garbage bags) and then he would find a new one and try it again. that was not a good place to live. in fact, when my son was about two, i was going to return a movie one time, and there was a guy laying on the floor bleeding, like in the landing of the stairwell. anyhow, turns out he was stabbed. it was suppertime, not like the middle of the night and here's me and my baby on our way out...ugh. i lived there six weeks. when they packed my landlord off in an ambulance and he never came back, we moved out. (he was beaten by a tenant) :confused:

[emily655321]

Oi! That's not good at all, at all.

I think it was when my dad worked in a nursing home in Gloucester, they had this elevator that went down to the street level. Sometimes it got left down at the lower level, and in the morning my dad would bring it up and there would be derelicts sleeping in it. He'd have to wake them up and say, "You guys have to leave now," then he'd send it back down and wait for them to get out, then bring it back up again.

[Koa]

If 'making out' means what I think it means, I'm with you on this war. If it thinks what I think it means, people doing that in public has been a huge cause of depression to me. Especially when I see it at the Uni library...I call it showing off.

If it doesn't mean what I think it means, then I'm wrong :D
(no I don't think I want an explanation, reading it in other words might hurt my delicate self who's managed to get out of that silly depression).

I don't think someone deserves to die, but they surely do all deserve some damn punishment. :mad:

Oh, let me add to the list:
- people who ask a/s/l before even saying Hi, and most of all those of them that stop talking after they discover you're not the age and sex they'd want you to be. Or those who get aaaaalll nice when they know you're a girl in her 20s. :mad:
- people who ask for a pic either before they say Hi, or after you exchanged 2 sentences. When tehy do, they get immediately blocked for life.
- ppl (kids) who wrt like dis all da time: c u l8r m8. They make me want to scream...what future will this planet have if it lies in those lazy illiterate hands???

Anyone feel free to add me to msn! ;)

[amuse]

i know just what you mean, koa! but not what the l in a/s/l is. ;)

i can't stand people who don't wash their hands after using the loo. or people who ask my nationality before my name.

[emily655321]

Oh, GRR, I hate all those too, Koa! :D The "a/s/l" thing drives me nuts -- especially since I always spend tons of time filling out my profiles in detail, and then someone says to me, "a/s/l?" or "pic/cam?" It's like, dammit, why did you even IM me? I check a person's profile before I even say "hello" to them! :rolleyes: Besides, I've never said "18/f" without getting a response of either "nice" or "you got a cam?" or the conversation just generally disintegrating into perverted attempts at sex chat.

Oh yeah, and I don't like it when Yahoo doesn't sign me out of the chat when I leave, and then I sign back into messenger the next day and there are 20 offline messages from perverted old men. It's just like an endless series of [bigstud63: cute pic] [ladiesman: hi sexy] and so on and so on. Sometimes I check profiles just to see who this audacious jerk is, and once a 45-y-o married man (whose hobbies were listed as "women women women," btw) left the message "oh god you're beautiful." MAKE ME MORE NAUSEATED, that's not gross enough. *shudder*

Okay, sorry, just venting. :p

Az -- I don't know why you're winking, but if you're serious a/s/l means age/sex/location

[kilted exile]

Not sure about death exactly, however, I do believe that everyone who drives an SUV - but does not leave the confines of suburbia - deserves to be hung by their bootlaces from a very high cliff.

With regards to not filling out profiles on Yahoo/MSN, I never filled out my Yahoo profile because I hardly ever use the thing (horrid format). My MSN profile however is completely filled out.

[emily655321]

Whoever invented the term "freedom fries."

And just off topic for a teensy weensy second -- with regards to MSN, how do you view someone's profile if they aren't on your list of contacts? I tried searching by the email addy, but I have yet to have a search yield any results.

[kilted exile]

And just off topic for a teensy weensy second -- with regards to MSN, how do you view someone's profile if they aren't on your list of contacts? I tried searching by the email addy, but I have yet to have a search yield any results.

you can search by their MSN nickname (not necessarilly the same as their screenname e.g my MSN nickname is andrew_macFarlane, whereas my screenname is kiltedexile)

[ajoe]

- ppl (kids) who wrt like dis all da time: c u l8r m8. They make me want to scream...what future will this planet have if it lies in those lazy illiterate hands???


Ohmigosh, Koa, that's also what I meant! Well, if they're kids you can't blame them, maybe, but ne1 oLd3r than 13 has 2 stOp d1z t3rR1bLy b4c| h4B1t n GROW UP!!!

[ajoe]

hm... I thought the term "freedom fries" is pretty hilarious... hi, may I help you? oh, yes, can I have a big mac, large coke, and jumbo freedom fries, please?

[scorpio36]

Do people actually say that?

[emily655321]

No one up my way. I just heard that some people started calling them that because they didn't even want to say the word "French" after France expressed its opposition to Bush's war. But so did almost every other country in the world! What the heck. Anyway...glad it didn't catch on.



you can search by their MSN nickname
Is that the only way, then? I can't get onto the MSN chat because I'm running OSX, so the only way I know someone's nickname is if they're on my contact list (or if they tell me, in which case they're probably someone I'd add anyway). That's a little messed up. Oh well.

Thanks for the info. :)

[amuse]

just to say, hey koa, some of us are ignorant here, enlighten us please dear? lol. making fun of self i guess.

[verybaddmom]

maybe im just a minority here, but i always smile at people who are making out, provided that they are being reasonably tasteful. i am fond of pda's and frankly, in my world, i encourage them.
i just figure that we all wait long enough for happiness that when you finally find it, (in whatever form it takes) it would be silly and wasteful to hide it all away. besides, i think it's contagious (happiness, that is)
or maybe im just a freak that deserves to die? ;)

[emily655321]

I imagine seeing people eating face in public is a nice contagious happy feeling if you have your own to go home to. But it has the opposite effect on us lonely spinsters. :p I kinda want to smack 'em. No, that's a lie... I REALLY want to smack them!

Think of an infertile woman seeing nothing but mothers and babies everywhere she goes.

[verybaddmom]

i guess that may be true for some Em, but bear in mind that i have only been with someone happily for the last six months or so and i dont go home to him but once a month; we live in separate cities, remember.
i have been divorced for twelve years and i still remember smiling at people who were showing affection in public. (my dating history is not good...i do know about emptiness).
that said...(*big pause*) that does NOT mean that i enjoy watching sixteen year olds playing tonsil hockey on a bus.
i just believe in hope, and seeing other people achieve what i yearn for has always been inspirational for me, as i then know it IS possible.
i'll make you a deal....
i wont kiss anyone in public if you come and visit me... :D

and what is a spinster if not the exact opposite of a bachelor? what exactly is the difference?
...damn double standard.

[emily655321]

LOL deal.

The opposite of a bachelor is a bachelorette. ;) Spinsters are the old maids who waited... and waited... and waited... then got old and gave up hope. Society has always seemed to assume that guys always will, and will be contented with, playing around with loose women until they feel it's high time to plant themself a family, and that girls just sit and wait :confused: But I'm assuming that assumption is more untrue on the guys' part, because I don't feel inclined to go grab someone off the street for the night, either.

[emily655321]

**** darn thing never posts my messages the first time, then it posts them both.

[Koa]

I imagine seeing people eating face in public is a nice contagious happy feeling if you have your own to go home to. But it has the opposite effect on us lonely spinsters. :p I kinda want to smack 'em. No, that's a lie... I REALLY want to smack them!

Think of an infertile woman seeing nothing but mothers and babies everywhere she goes.

Thanks Em, exactly my thoughts. It feels like they're screaming: 'we can, you can't cos you don't deserve this'. The younger they are, the more I hate them. But if they're old, they're hateful too cos they should have reached some maturity... In the short periods when I had a guy by my side, at first I hated him doing anything sweet in public...holding hand was all I could stand. For other things I already had in my head a map of hidden places to go to when my parents were at home.
Now I often think that if I ever find another guy, I'll choose the most crowded place and make some sort of porn movie there... Hoping that someone will feel as bad as I do. I like to take revenge in cruel ways. :rage: *evil* Sometimes I don't know what prevented me from separating them and shout at them how it feels to be lonely, especially if young as I said: they won't know how it feels to have to wait 20 years...

On a lighter note, I don't like to put many details in profiles... I dont think I have a profile on MSN... I did fill something on ICQ when I used to use it, but by the time it became emptier and emptier...I think I just left name and location. Maybe not even name, I don't like it to be known before I'm a bit familiar with someone. I hate to put age in profiles, cos i feel it might attract the kind of pervs that Em was talking about.
Some other people who deserve pain are those who put their phone number in profiles, or give it out in public chatrooms...I'm always so damn tempted of making prank calls of the evil kind and scare them to death, so they'll learn about privacy... :D

[emily655321]

LOL I think it says in the rules at most places that you'll get banned if you give out that kinda info, because the person might say the site gave it out and then they'll get in big trouble. Or maybe they just discourage it and I'm completely imagining things. :rolleyes: But I've never seen anyone actually do it. That's dumb and a half.

[ajoe]

holy schmolly, I think I have to add to the list cause I just had an encounter with one of those
- people who masturbate in public. gross, people.

[fayefaye]

omg! this is a great idea for a thread!!! i mentally compose my **** list on a daily basis!! secretly, every time I hear one of their songs on the radio, I always think 'WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY JUST KILL THEM' in relation to Britney spears, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, the lot. Then I feel really bad in case they actually DID die because they might be half-decent people... on the inside. Then I realise I'm an idiot and change stations.

[verybaddmom]

ewwwww.....i am so sorry you had to see that. are you scarred for life?
i had a neighbor once that used to do that under a big lamp, in a big easy chair right in front of a sliding glass door that faced my kitchen window. it was very disturbing. :eek: :eek2: :bawling:

[emily655321]

What do you mean "one of those people who masturbate in public"??? Are there many of them? Isn't that a federal offense?? Holy crap.

[Koa]

:eek: in public??? now that's something i've never seen and wish i'll never see...i mean, that's their damn business...

[amuse]

didn't know it was a felony em, it makes sense though; what if little kids saw.

[emily655321]

Well, if it isn't it should be. :p I should probably know offhand how to access my own country's Big Book of Don'ts, huh? (Not that I'd need it; I'm a good little girl. ;)) But isn't there one besides the Constitution? They wouldn't have "No ****ing Off in Public Places" written in the Constitution, would they?

Why have all my posts turned into a string of rhetorical questions?

[ajoe]

didn't know it was a felony em, it makes sense though; what if little kids saw.

Then they'd have to deal with it like the kids in Joyce's "An Encounter" do. ;)

[simon]

Why need anyone die, isn't everlasting, excruciating, and endless pain, suffering, and torture more satisfying?

[emily655321]

*stifled guffaw* :lol:

There's a double meaning in that.

[simon]

Alright you guys name off who you would like to see die and I will tell you how to torture them.

Torture for public masturbationist would be along the lines of cutting off his hands, or merely the fingers, cauterizing the wounds into barely discernable stumps so he can sit in a chair trying to wiggle his nonexistent fingers in agony.

[emily655321]

That's been done before. I say, the best way to torture a pervert is to fasten their hands away from their body and make them watch porn Ludovico-style (that's the Clockwork Orange thing, for those who don't know). Just put them on a glucose drip and they can stay there forever.

Unless their perversion is torture. Then what do you do? Give them a tea party and a crown?

[simon]

Hehe, have a parade of live taunters too, and their minds need to be kept agile, maybe provide them with novels on tape, only racy ones of course.

[emily655321]

LOL Superimpose their grandmother's face over the faces of all the people in the movie!

[Koa]

That's been done before. I say, the best way to torture a pervert is to fasten their hands away from their body and make them watch porn Ludovico-style (that's the Clockwork Orange thing, for those who don't know). Just put them on a glucose drip and they can stay there forever.

Unless their perversion is torture. Then what do you do? Give them a tea party and a crown?


My God, that scene from the clockowrk orange movie is probably the scene that makes me suffer more in the whole history of cinema. Maybe cos I'm oversensitive about eyes, and i just feel pain when they keep his eyes open that way...

These punishment-thing is too much Dante style...Anyway yes, I'd make the people who show off their love in public sit for eternity in total loneliness watching scenes of sweetness and affection and such. (ironically, this is daily life for me :goof: )

[emily655321]

My God, that scene from the clockowrk orange movie is probably the scene that makes me suffer more in the whole history of cinema. Maybe cos I'm oversensitive about eyes, and i just feel pain when they keep his eyes open that way...

I rented the movie again after I read the book, and was surprised and a bit disappointed -- after the book, it plays almost like Disney. :p The Ludovico scenes are a mere fraction of what they are in the book, which spends at least two chapters on them, and [the movie scenes] don't create nearly as much pathos. My only reaction is really just complete awe at Malcolm McDowell's superhuman ability to endure things touching his eyes. (And to hold his breath under water.)

But enough about that. LOL I was just hit by the irony of discussing Orange at the same time as devising torturous punishments for those of whom we disapprove. That being the moral of the story, and all. :rolleyes:

[Koa]

I read the book after I saw the movie, so I guess it was spoilt...I had the movie in mind. I don't even remember the book that well... I clearly remember the language, but not the essence. It's one of those books I really want to read again, this time in original language.

Btw, about that Mac Dowell guy... did he do any other famous films? And why did they take an actor that was like 30 (or at least looked very old!) to play a boy of 16 or so? (I'd never question the genius of Kubrick, but some things make me wonder...)

Wasn't it about time this thread went off topic??? :D

[ajoe]

Back to topic. More:
- whoever invented college (I'm only half serious)
- whoever first got me into using the Internet
- people who cuss too much because thanks to them I'm now one of them :(

[amuse]

you can choose not to curse, ajoe dear.

[Dr Cynic]

POLITICIANS!!

The whole f***ing lot of them. :rage: :rage:

[verybaddmom]

Ooohhh... i second that! good call, dr.

[ajoe]

lol

people who are done with their finals :p

[verybaddmom]

has anyone else tried the new add on to msn, the msn plus?? it is hysterically funny. i love it!!

[evulik]

Hi Ajoe,

you mean finals at school? I finished last week.... love the feeling to wake up during weekend and have NOTHING to do :) ups, sorry... I guess you still have some in front of you... (if you were talking about school)

:banana:

[emily655321]

I read the book after I saw the movie, so I guess it was spoilt...I had the movie in mind. I don't even remember the book that well... I clearly remember the language, but not the essence. It's one of those books I really want to read again, this time in original language.

I watched the movie 3 or 4 times at sleepovers and things when I was 14, 15, 16-ish, and I liked it all right, but it seemed just like random 60's psychadelia. Then last year I read the book and LOVED it, rented the movie again two days after I finished it, and understood it much better. I think they compliment each other well, because the humor in the book is so subtle and gets overwhelmed by the violence -- while the movie down-plays the violence and makes the humor much more slapstick, yet somehow manages to keep the spirit of the story perfectly.


Btw, about that Mac Dowell guy... did he do any other famous films? And why did they take an actor that was like 30 (or at least looked very old!) to play a boy of 16 or so? (I'd never question the genius of Kubrick, but some things make me wonder...)

He's worked continuously since the late 60's, but the majority of his film choices are just abysmal, like Star Trek! But he's a phenominal actor. Before Clockwork he was in "If..." about the British school system, which is now considered to be a groundbreaking film in Britain. He was also adorable as H.G. Wells (opposite David Warner as Jack the Ripper) in "Time After Time." A very different character than Alex! Um...most recently he's been in "Hidalgo," "Gangster No.1," "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"....he already has a couple lined up for next year I think.

[edit] I found a list of his movies: http://www.malcolmmcdowell.org/Films/index.php?

[papayahed]

He's worked continuously since the late 60's, but the majority of his film choices are just abysmal, like Star Trek!

Em - No reason to get nasty!!! :rage: ;)

[emily655321]

:lol: Sorry

[Koa]

I'm not into Star Trek nor I've heard of any other of the stuff you quoted... I actually thought he was a quite unknown actor... But my cinematographic culture tends to 0, I'm just a bit into Kubrick and some other stuff, but I generally don't watch many films at all.

Edit: I looked at the list, he was in a couple of Italian (unknown) films!

[ennison]

ok What is your nationality Amuse?

[thevintagepiper]

lol, a few days ago my (guy) friend came happily up to me saying "I had the best make-out ever with my girlfriend at the cinema yesterday....and we almost got kicked out, cause like...yadayadayada...." It was very amusing ;)