The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 143

yo, fuck that bitch!

Should be mad cuz u got rekt by sentinel, rmbr dat? ur ruining t3h whole thread

Omg, I am so fucking sick of online grading done by programs. Fucking business class has a course on excel that requires us to do things in exactly the right way (even though there are multiple ways of doing it) otherwise you're wrong. The most infuriating part is writing functions inside cells. You can follow what the directions ask TO THE LETTER, and still get marked wrong. It's fucking ridiculous that we have such a garbage class here. I had to write an if-statement to display various things depending on what was in a different cell. In the instructions, it said "if cell B12 is blank, don't display anything in cell F12 (the one we're typing the function into)." So, of course, I went ahead and wrote this function using a nested ISBLANK function to check to see if the cell was empty (along with some other things it had to check within the cell). I submit it, get marked incorrect, and then try changing the parenthesis or something (I don't remember) else only to be marked wrong again. It really fucking pisses me off how idiotic this grading is. We get 3 chances to submit it, making corrections and such after the automatic grading report comes out a minute later. After that, I texted my friend and asked what he did. He used something like, "=IF(B12 = "","")" which was marked correct. Of course, you're not supposed to get help on these assignments, but fuck that.

12 year olds who think they know everything about politics. You're obnoxious, unreasonable, and uncompromising. You're literally everything you hate about the "fat cats" in government/wallstreet/illuminati/wherever the fuck your anger is directed at. I wish more places had strict moderation like TL just so I could find a good general discussion that isn't tainted by your sorry asses derailing everything into an argument about the sheeple who take it hard from the government. There's a whole wide world out there beyond the liberal propaganda put out by 17-year-olds with a Guy Fawkes mask and a webcam. Save ourselves the trouble and realize that you're an idiot.

Whiteknights on the internet. You will never, ever, come close to getting a modicum of respect by doing what you're doing. Please stop being an embarassment to humanity and either fix your behavior, or find a hilarious way to render yourself sterile. You want to fantasize about it? Let me google that for you. (<- NSFW-ish) Boom. Done. Go spend a weekend with your right hand. I'll wait. Better? Good. Now stop wasting your life watching Tara Babcock's stream or blindly defending the hypocritical nature of Anita Sarkeesian, and stop writing sycophantic posts in reply to every single confirmed girl on Team Liquid.

One day I'm going to pretend to be a girl in the LR thread and observe the results just so I have a shortlist of people I can be disappointed in.

People who love to argue on the internet, and especially people who love to argue on the internet for the sake of arguing and thinking they're being productive. That's not how it works. They think, much like the 12-year-olds whose Youtube favorites list is comprised completely of Call of Duty montages, Minecraft LP's, and 17-year-old pseudoradicals, that if you yell at a person long enough with your various beliefs and stances, that the other person will magically say "Oh, how silly of me! Of course you're right!" This is why arguing on the internet is stupid. The whole point of debate is not to convince the opposition, but to sway a neutral audience in your favor. On the internet, the audience is already in the argument and have picked a side. Think you're doing something by stating your opinion? Fuck you. The solution to gun violence is fuck you. Putin is sending troops to Crimea because fuck you. The optimal system of healthcare for the US is fuck you.

Fuck the Tea Party. You make the Republicans look bad.

Fuck the Republicans. I thought Republicans had the support of most old people, why are you the bigger baby of the two parties? The term "RINO" shouldn't exist.

Why can't there be a consistent political party in this country that doesn't piss me off everytime I try to interact with it?

CNN isn't neutral or unbiased. It's a news network of liberal shills. Have you seen their coverage of Trayvon Martin? They're just able to do it subtly. Fox, take notes.

Why the fuck is there so much shilling in politics? I don't even know who to vote for this November. Both the potential Republican candidates are gimps to big business and are going to be carbon copies of what we already have in Washington. Booker (and Hillary as well) only support affirmative action because it gets black people to vote for them. The only politician from my state that I like is Christie. He may have his own skeletons, and he's definitely hiding something about the bridge, but at least the guy's got an actual backbone.

I have nothing against gay people or same-sex marriage. My belief is that you can stick it wherever you want, or get stuck by whomever you want, as long as it's 100% consensual between everyone involved. But I have a problem with those beliefs being shoved in my face. It's fine to be proud of being gay, but it doesn't mean you should go tell everyone on the street how gay you are. I'm not saying hide it - you can be openly gay, just don't make it your main defining feature in society. Ellen Page came out? Good for her. I personally don't give a shit, I'll still watch Inception the same way I do now. I shouldn't be expected to care, and hopefully someday in the future nobody will think it's a big deal, just acknowledge it with some mild interest. Homophobia obviously needs to be dealt with in the best way possible, but I think the number one obstacle in eliminating homophobia is gay pride itself. For example, if I'm not too keen on same-sex marriage and come from an environment where the existing gay people aren't exactly open about it, and then I see a gay pride rally where men in assless chaps and women clad in nothing but rainbow underwear/bra and facepaint are all dancing suggestively (which was actually the highlight of a parade I saw in New York once), I'm probably going to be more homophobic because everything about this confirms my preconceived notions. The message needs to be less "Look, I'm gay, let me show you how gay I am!" and more "Look, we're just like you, we just have different romantic partners!". The best way to promote equality is to show how we're all, you know, equal.

As an immigrant of the US myself, fuck immigrants who refuse to put any effort into speaking the language of the land. The US has no official language, but really it's English. You'll have a hard time getting by only knowing Spanish and an even harder time with any other language.

Enough politics. I hate politics.

Fuck my state and all the people who live in it. I shouldn't have to spend 20 minutes driving less than 2 miles across town.

Fuck me for being unable to rant hard enough. Even when I'm mad as hell about something my first thought is always to structure my various arguments soundly, and then speak what's on my mind.