Rough day? Vent here . . .

Did you have a rough day? Talk about it here; you will most likely feel better, and others may have empathy/sympathy. I will start.

While spending time with a good friend, and one of her friends, who I had previously never met, her friend made a very cruel reference about a passer-by of a different race - a racist slur-term. If there exists any one thing that angers me, it is racism. I normally consider myself a very patient, kind, and opinionated person, but this comment he made instantly made me explode with insults that probably seemed unnecessary. Can you believe that he considers himself anti-racist, though he uses offensive racial slurs?! I very kindly asked a certain non-white person (I will not specify for fear of offending others) what he thought of it, in front of my "anti-racist" acquaintance, and he disapproved, and found the fact highly offensive. I eventually became so angry, I merely left without saying one word more; I feel there exists no justification for using racial-profiling labels, as it keeps racism alive, even when used by someone who claims anti-racism. What do you all think? And feel free, in the future, to share your bad days - I created the thread for that reason.

can i feel free to openly mock those who are having bad days?

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Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill

can i feel free to openly mock those who are having bad days?

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Of course. I welcome all opinions.

All RIGHT!!! i'm gonna like this thread.

You must be very popular, fool.

i congratulate you ajoe... please feel free to curse, scream, yell and insult all rascists... and nationalists too, their a pain in the butt as well.... (i hate supiority complexes)

oh i bet if you do that..this thread will be closed very soon..no insults, swearing or cursing allow in the forum..

I have a very bad flu. My nose itch and i got a bad headache. I keep sneezing and almost runnin out of tissue..The worst part is my nose becomes red..and really hate when that happen!!. Plus, the air conditioner in my office is so damn cold..I think i'm going to have a day off tomorrow..
If you dont see any of my post tomorrow..you know where i'll be!

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Originally Posted by Jester

i congratulate you ajoe... please feel free to curse, scream, yell and insult all rascists... and nationalists too, their a pain in the butt as well.... (i hate supiority complexes)

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For once I can't read the subtlety.

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Originally Posted by Jester

i congratulate you ajoe... please feel free to curse, scream, yell and insult all rascists... and nationalists too, their a pain in the butt as well.... (i hate supiority complexes)

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...confused... is there racism in this forum? Why do you hate people who love their country? Some people are just crazy.

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Originally Posted by subterranean

I have a very bad flu. My nose itch and i got a bad headache.

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Hope you feel better soon.

I´m home from work.
I want to move south. It´s dark here. And we have something called "vinterkräk sjukan "- the winter vomit disease. It comes evry year, during winter . Why didn´t our ancestors stay somewhere else? A place with sun.

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Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill

Why do you hate people who love their country? Some people are just crazy.

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I think the problem is not the people who love their country, as I am sure everyone loves their own country to some extent, but those who discriminate against others in the name of that love. Like discrimination against immigrants which is, unfortunately, becoming quite common and widespread in Europe...

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

I think the problem is not the people who love their country, as I am sure everyone loves their own country to some extent, but those who discriminate against others in the name of that love.

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Totally agree with you. Those kind of people who think you are a traitor because you do some critic to your own country government. I think they lack criticism.

Constructive criticism is a good way to improve things you care of (not just talking about nationalisms)

Good point scheherazade :nod:

I had a ****ty day, I got into a huge fight with my parents, our familly is repeating the mistakes that my dads familly did. I just hate it, it seems that all of the love has escaped our family and that we just can't live together.

Can't post the rest of my day here, too inapropriate, and I'll probably just get more depressed, pm if you wish.

hey fool, Scheherazade said what I meant.... I got that alot even from my freinds for being american when I was younger... really pissed me off and introduced me to this idea of nationalist supiority... I have no porblem with people loving thier country... i wonder about them though, I've got no country to love (thats because i grew up in many and my home country is just as strange to me as other places the I've lived...) I don't think there's rascism but what I meant was congratulations to ajoe for speaking up against it... not on the forum cursing and swearing and what not... didn't mean that... anyway sorry fo rthe conclusion

My alarm clock didn't go off and i feel unbearably lonely. Ohter than that this is just another day in treasure valley (i love the irony of that name)

treasure valley? I live in the treasure valley, in Idaho... so.. uh.. are we close by?

thanks peeps...
some of my co-workers are out of office and i have to replace them..


oooooooohhhh i hate doing other people's jobs

I express the greatest sympathy to all others with a bad day, though I feel oddly comforted knowing I was not alone in having a rough time, but I hope things get better with you all.

Rough days come and go...

Finals are nearing, essays need to be turned in, and I discovered the longisland ice tea.

just now....??? shame on you ;)
it's only long island tea..for heaven's sake..

one of my fav teas of all time :D :D

i got a b- on a paper the other day. nearly passed out when i saw the grade. no more writing in the wee hours before the darned thing's due...(don't read this scher! :p)

Nearly passed out because you were glad or disappointed?? *sends a teacherly glance at amuse's direction*

oh, very disappointed. i mean, a b is just a few rounded pen strokes away from an f. (made a friend do this to :rolleyes: me, but it's true; i thought i might faint, actually!

has that ever happened to you? not the grade, but have you seen a student fall over in disbelief?

Hey, B- isn't bad at all!
*offers you a KitKat to cheer you up*
If you are not happy with it this time, next time you will try harder. That's what I always think :nod:

Occasionally there will be students who do not agree with my grading but the things I teach are pretty much clear cut so we settle our disagreements quickly (me being the absolute right! :D ) Last month, a student of mine failed the same course for the second time due to his nerves during the exam. Although I was heartbroken, there was nothing I could do :( I do hope he will come back and take the course again.

My turn.
My University says that they want "well rounded students", but it feels like all their doing is rounding down our wallets. I hate taking required classes that are no good to me! I took French because I wanted to learn the language and it was required for me to take two semesters. Well, now at the end I still can barely choke out a sentence. They move you so fast that you can't absorb the last chapter. What a complete waste of time and money. If it wasn't for that, I could have graduated a semester earlier!!!!

I want to do what my aunt is doing. She quit college here and is going to finish in England when she moves there next summer with her husband. They wanted her to take a year of biology which has nothing to do with her degree in computer graphics. All it did was bring down her GPA. In England she'll be done after two classes. I went to that same school she quit from and I could extend the complaints.( I couldn't graduate from there either without forking out tons more dough)

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Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill

treasure valley? I live in the treasure valley, in Idaho... so.. uh.. are we close by?

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well depends... I'm a half hour from boise, you?

yeah i get annoyed with that to shea but some of the courses that i have to take are a lot of fun... i jsut wish it were all cheaper

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Originally Posted by amuse

has that ever happened to you? not the grade, but have you seen a student fall over in disbelief?

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happened to my self..almost faint when i got B for this class (South East Asian community)..The most shocking thing was some who I didnt expect to get higher grades, actually did get A..

I didnt deserve to get B.. :flare: :flare:

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Originally Posted by Shea

My turn.
My University says that they want "well rounded students", but it feels like all their doing is rounding down our wallets. I hate taking required classes that are no good to me! I took French because I wanted to learn the language and it was required for me to take two semesters. Well, now at the end I still can barely choke out a sentence. They move you so fast that you can't absorb the last chapter. What a complete waste of time and money. If it wasn't for that, I could have graduated a semester earlier!!!!

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True Shea..i feel that educational institution becoming more and more commercial these days

indeed, at my university, there is a chapel, that runs everyday, and they sell school products at the end of mass.

well if the students were the organizer and they used the money to fund student's activites, i think it's ok..

I think if anyone has had a rough few days, that title would belong to both poor Logos and Admin; so I offer my sympathy, and may we all post in peace.

I second that Mono!

Why does technology let you down when you need it the most? I have to finish writing my Shakespeare essays, but my disk won't work. It wants me to reformat it. It worked last night. Does my computer just get a kick out of making me drive all the way to campus to spend the next two days in a rather uncomfortable computer lab, instead of working in my comfy house with a nice cup of tea and a bowl of popcorn? (I love popcorn) I hear my computer's evil cackle as I drive off.

Anyone got any ideas what's wrong with the stupid thing?

Sometimes you can do a scandisk on the disk, like you do on your computer. If it´s a minor error it might work. Is the disk old? Sometimes they start to go bad. I do not know why, though.

Good luck!

Today was a rough day for me. I lost half of everything about me because I retired my super-hero alter-ego, Flambouyantman. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

awww.... nice name

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Originally Posted by Bongitybongbong

Today was a rough day for me. I lost half of everything about me because I retired my super-hero alter-ego, Flambouyantman. :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

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Keep a stiff upper lip, don't be too upset about flambouyantmans etirement...ever see the Kryptonite music video?

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Originally Posted by Isagel

Sometimes you can do a scandisk on the disk, like you do on your computer. If it´s a minor error it might work. Is the disk old? Sometimes they start to go bad. I do not know why, though.

Good luck!

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Is that where you look for viruses? I'm a dunce with computers. If you explain it, maybe it's something my husband hasn't thought of yet. Though he's pretty good with computers, it's his job after all. I doubt though that I'll be able to fix all that before my paper is due anyway.

It's so frustrating! :rage: :rage: Not only did I just lose every paper on there, but also the first two well constructed pages of one of my final Shakespeare papers. I literally spent the entire day rewriting them. I can't beleive I've been at this computer for over twelve hours and I'm not even halfway done! I hate rewriting from scratch! :rage: :rage: :rage:

My only consolation is that I don't have to take that math final after all. I really surprised myself on that last test. It kicked my butt, but I only got one answer wrong! :D :D I was sure that I had failed it!

Cool, it is always awesome when little surprises like that occur! :thumbs_up

A thought on your compy troubles... sometimes disks if transferred from one comp with a different OS than another have trouble reading the other Comps disk format, as was the case with win 95.

Also comp disks over time do start to degrade, especially if they have been formatted over and over again, also if the disk was near something magnetic, ex magnets. speakers? it will degrade and often become inoperable...

Best of luck with your paper, it really burns me up whenever I have to retyp something. One thing I learned the hard way is always to save my work to atleast to floppy disks, and a master copy on the compy's hard drive.

Good luck and Seasonal wishes!

how i hate buses. i get up at 6 am in order not to be late to the university, then i freeze at the bus stop for something like 20 minutes just to learn that my bus is out (of course i have only one bus that goes where it should but still it's not a direct connection). so i take a tram and then a bus and another bus and still have to walk for about 15 minutes (and remember that it's cold) and when i finally DO reach my university and am ON TIME it turns out that the first lecture has been cancelled :(

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Originally Posted by Shea

Is that where you look for viruses? I'm a dunce with computers. If you explain it, maybe it's something my husband hasn't thought of yet. Though he's pretty good with computers, it's his job after all. I doubt though that I'll be able to fix all that before my paper is due anyway.

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It´s a small program that fixes minor errors on discs, usually you use it on the computers. It is not a virus program. Try and use the search function on your computer and search for the program "scandisk" or scandisc ? I´m not sure of the spelling. When you use the program it will ask you what disk you want it to scan. You just have to choose the floppydisk . That should be drive A:, I think. The program will now scan, and fix minor errors. You might loose some information. I hope it works. If it´s a big error , it will not work.

I hope this is readable. I´ll try and write an english description on how to do it - all the programs on this computer are in swedish , but my pc at home has the english names. It´s a handy thing to know.

I'm feelin' ya Monica. I have about 3 hours left to finish my paper but I got to vent one more time about computers! I put off finishing Shakespeare to get some French journals and compositions done (they're due in 4 hours). So now I'm at school in the computer lab because Leo won't buy a printer and I can't log on to the internet because we're too close to our peak minute limit. Yes, our internet access is through the cell phone, thank USF they're squeezing every nickle from us on useless classes. Anyway, I get here only to find that as careful as I was to save to a new disk AND the hard drive, all my French stuff didn't save. I've either got to go aaaaalllllllllll the way home which will waste an hour, or hope that my French teacher is kind enough to take my assignments later (when they're already late)! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

OK, I'm ready to finish Shakespeare.

GRRR, I just realized that I forgot to copy my other Shakespeare paper to a disk. It's at home too. I hope she's just as forgiving.

I HATE COMPUTERS!!