The Rant Thread

[Uber Gruber]

Hi, welcome to "The Rant" thread.

Please feel free to pop in and vent yer spleen, as and when the mood takes you, without fear of recrimination, condescension and gramatical correction.

All welcome :yeah:

UG

[Dowly]

Well, I just received a 90€ electric bill today, something went wrong somewhere on their end as it's 2x as big as it usually is. Idiots. :nope:

[Pappy55]

SH 5 just arrived and its installed and patched..

But i have to go out and meet the missus and its my only day off this week..

war is hell :damn:

[Fincuan]

Well, I just received a 90€ electric bill today, something went wrong somewhere on their end as it's 2x as big as it usually is. Idiots. :nope:

You don't think the 1x patrol has anything to do with that? :D

[Pappy55]

You don't think the 1x patrol has anything to do with that? :D

Kill all un nessary lights and equipment..

[sofie_59]

If i have a Electric-bill of 90 e i will be glad, mine for this quater was 1028 euro (3000+4000+3000 sek) :yeah:

[robbo180265]

Why is I can never find a PAIR of socks in the morning? :stare:

[Dowly]

You don't think the 1x patrol has anything to do with that? :D

I highly doubt it would double my electric consumption. And it's not like I keep my PC off most of the time anyways. :O:

[jwilliams]

Hi, welcome to "The Rant" thread.

Please feel free to pop in and vent yer spleen, as and when the mood takes you, without fear of recrimination, condescension and gramatical correction.

All welcome :yeah:

UG


Woot !!! an official complaints thread....

Damn :damn:

i'll try again....

Everything sux. :D

[mikeydredd]

I'd just like to complain about . . .

EVERYTHING.

I feel better now.

Thanx U G.

:arrgh!:

[Decoman]

This morning I ate a banana, two cookies and 2 carrots. And I am starving. Somehow, eating vegetables seem to make me more hungry. :hmmm:

I have some Dolmio sauce, minced beef and pasta in the kitchen, but I can't be bothered to make food just yet.

[Dowly]

This morning I ate a banana, two cookies and 2 carrots. And I am starving. Somehow, eating vegetables seem to make me more hungry. :hmmm:

I have some Dolmio sauce, minced beef and pasta in the kitchen, but I can't be bothered to make food just yet.

Ow ffs, now I'm hungry! Darn you! :stare:

[BlackSpot]

Well I'm not ranting until Ubisoft removes the DRM !!! :damn:
I'm NOT going down to my local games shop to rant about SHV before I buy it!
You lot can carry on ranting as much as you like. Rant fanboys!

[SteamWake]

Can I rant about pepole ranting?

[Bilge_Rat]

Can I vent instead of ranting? I'm more of a vent type of person..:ping:

[BlackSpot]

Can I vent instead of ranting? I'm more of a vent type of person..:ping:

Aren't we posh? :o

[SteamWake]

Can I vent instead of ranting? I'm more of a vent type of person..:ping:

No you will have to start a seperate thread for venting. This one is relegated to ranting.

Have a nice day. :salute:

[BlackSpot]

Does venting leave an odour?

[LtCmdrMaverick]

Why why why why why why why why why why why do threads always seem to be about the negative???....why not have a 'Having a great Day post it here' thread.

There..that's my rant over.....good job there was rant thread for me to put it in!!!

:damn::damn::damn:

Maverick

[BlackSpot]

Why why why why why why why why why why why do threads always seem to be about the negative???....why not have a 'Having a great Day post it here' thread.

There..that's my rant over.....good job there was rant thread for me to put it in!!!

:damn::damn::damn:

Maverick

:spammm:
Moved to "GET OVER IT!" thread

[IanC]

Those two white hairs that I plucked a few days ago, grew back. Mercilessly reminding me that I'm getting older and there's nothing I can do to stop it. Time just flies and as each day goes by, I'm literally dying a little more. Wasting my life in front of my computer...
Besides that everything is good! :D

[robbo180265]

Why are more people not ranting in this thread? :nope:

[Armistead]

Ya know, lately my wife is getting on my nerves more. She doesn't appreciate me. Why are women so different today than the women of my mothers generation..

My Mom worked a full time job, came home cooked a full course meal, cleaned house to bedtime. In the morning we had a decent breakfast. Our clothes were ironed, not pulled out of the dryer.

[frau kaleun]

Ya know, lately my wife is getting on my nerves more. She doesn't appreciate me. Why are women so different today than the women of my mothers generation..

My Mom worked a full time job, came home cooked a full course meal, cleaned house to bedtime. In the morning we had a decent breakfast. Our clothes were ironed, not pulled out of the dryer.

http://www.freewebby.com/action-smilies/ironshirt.gif

[rededge]

My boss is a ****:shifty:

My road tax has gone up AGAIN! wHY EVERY YEAR wtf? Do they mend the roads? do they ----.

cOUNCIL Tax up again. CAPS LOCK ON, Ive noticed. Dammit.

PETROL - (caps intentional this time) - £1.20 a litre by Easter and crude half the price it was this time last year...:nope:

New Labour :down: Don't get me started.

Oh, and TV licence demand through the post this morning.

Meh, is this a true rant, or does it only qualify as a moan?

Jolly nice thread BTW! :)

[Steeltrap]

No grammar correction?

Bugger that!

Why can't people learn the difference between:

it's and its
their and there (and they're while we're about it)
your and you're

etc. etc.

If English isn't your first language, fine. (As an aside, many people taught English as a second language often have a greater understanding of it than those 'native speakers', especially if they are Western European)

If it is your native language, stop polluting this forum with your rank ignorance. Go read a book or three until you understand. Seems to me students in the USA should be shooting their English teachers, not each other. I'm sick of it (and it's by no means confined to the USA, but the rest of us realised many years ago that guns + population was a stupid combination, so most other nations' students don't have the means to shoot their teachers). It's like getting a fresh slap in the face every time I open a thread, or like lifting a succession of rocks with a 90% chance of finding a funnel-web (think a Tarantula on steroids with anger management issues to boot) under each one. Makes me want to puke.

Ah, that's better! Great thread idea.

:D

[IanC]

Steeltrap :haha:
Your so write.

[Steeltrap]

Steeltrap :haha:
Your so write.

Hey, this is the rant thread. :timeout:

Sarcasm, mockery or baiting belong elsewhere. :O:

[CCIP]

I pay about $425 a month and all I get is a room shaped like a cube. But with Kriegsmarine charts on the wall of course.

Oh wait, rant, not rent thread. My bad. :O:

[razark]

I saw this thread and looked at it to see what people were ranting about SH5. Now all I see are people ranting about other things, and people ranting about people ranting, and now I'm ranting about people ranting about people ranting! This thread is awful. Where's all the good ranting at?

</rant>

[frau kaleun]

No grammar correction?

Bugger that!

Herr Hitler would like to rant about your rant about no grammar correction, however he is unavailable to reply in person. Please allow me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fbrUjjivw

[Sailor Steve]

I don't mind not having enough money for a place to live, but I sure do wish I could play SH3 and SH4, and have an excuse to rant about SH5!

@ Steeltrap: Bravo! But I really hate people who steal my favorite rant before I get a chance to post it myself! Don' do dat no mo'!


And while you're at it, add people putting apostrophes where they don't belong (torpedo's, wave's) and not putting where they do belong (Steeltraps rant), and sometimes in the same sentence (SH3s torpedo's).:damn:




http://www.freewebby.com/action-smilies/ironshirt.gif
:rotfl2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wO_6wMRS7A

[Uber Gruber]

You lot can carry on ranting as much as you like. Rant fanboys!

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:Rant Fanboys indeed.....sheer genius that one! :up:

As for the difference between its and it's.....I suggest you have a chat with Naom Chomski - its about communication not pedantication. Ministry of Defence is still the Ministry of War no matter what you call it etc. Language evolves, thats why the French use "le parking" and "le weekend".

Fowlers Dictionary will become Pauline Fowler's Dictionary, and youth text culture will kill the POFs.

There, thats my spleen fully vented on the subject.:doh:

[robbo180265]

wHY is It I CaN NevEr CoNTRol MY CapS lOck BuTToN PrOpERly?

[Sailor Steve]

wHY is It I CaN NevEr CoNTRol MY CapS lOck BuTToN PrOpERly?
Do you want the answer, or would you rather I lie to you?
:rotfl2:

[robbo180265]

Do you want the answer, or would you rather I lie to you?
:rotfl2:


:oops: I'll get my oilskin:DL

[Sailor Steve]

:oops: I'll get my oilskin:DL
LOL. I'll tell you my favorite saying: Some people are born stupid. I've had to work hard my whole life to get this way. And I'm proud of the job I've done.:88)

[robbo180265]

LOL. I'll tell you my favorite saying: Some people are born stupid. I've had to work hard my whole life to get this way. And I'm proud of the job I've done.:88)

Yep - that would sum me up pretty well actually:D

[Hanomag]

UBI still refuses to put in an unlockable "Flying Sub" !!! :damn:

I have been asking for years.. sigh. :nope:

maybe SH 6

[Nisgeis]

And while you're at it, add people putting apostrophes where they don't belong

To true. Its about thyme people new were there apostrophe's should go. Eye say chute the lot off them's. Buy ewe no its about communication. Ass' long as thing's our clear and easy too reed then witch off us is too say that its' bad. Four ewe, it may bee wired but four other's its not grate but ass' long ass' its red OK, its understandable. Ewe no watt eye mean, sow watt is the problem?

[sergei]

Eye say chute the lot off them's.

:DL

[frau kaleun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wO_6wMRS7A

I think I've found the perfect girl for him. :up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvKBfevVpkk

[Piggy]

Stupid daylight savings.. I hate it! :down:

Kids go to bed later but still wake up too early, for 5 days I've been a zombie. Every year it gets worse and to top it off they moved it up by 3 damn weeks here this year.

:zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz:

[frau kaleun]

Stupid daylight savings.. I hate it! :down:

Kids go to bed later but still wake up too early, for 5 days I've been a zombie. Every year it gets worse and to top it off they moved it up by 3 damn weeks here this year.

:zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz::zzz:

I agree, I hate it as well.

At this point it seems like we're on DST 3/4 of the year anyway, why not move the damn clocks up an hour and just LEAVE THEM THERE FOREVER. That way I could get used to the change ONCE and be done with it.

[kylania]

UBI still refuses to put in an unlockable "Flying Sub" !!! :damn:

I have been asking for years.. sigh. :nope:

maybe SH 6

I guess I'll rant about my complete inability to find the SH3 "Dolphin" mod videos where the sub was jumping over ships beautifully.

[BlackSpot]

... and while we're on the subject of Easter. Why is it on a different date every year? Why can't they decide once and for all?

[Piggy]

I guess I'll rant about my complete inability to find the SH3 "Dolphin" mod videos where the sub was jumping over ships beautifully.

This one?... hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDiEXRMB-u8

Here it is... no more audio though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CZNMtrhoM

[SteamWake]

I know the one he is talking about it was called "Roll them over" an avi file I lost it in a HD crash.... rant...

[the_belgian]

i recently broke a kneecap while playing airsoft so i bought SHV to kill the time while recovering(i would have bought it anyway:03:).
now my computer is broken(i'm using my wifes laptop to keep in touch)...

so why should i place anything here?...
i have nothing to complain about:har:...

[KL-alfman]

I like this thread!

I'm really sorry to cannot post because atm I have no rant left ......

wait! :hmmm::D:damn:

[Takeda Shingen]

Sure, because there is no ranting anywhere else on the SH5 forum. :doh: C'mon, guys.

[Zander]

Ha! There be geniuses here.LMAO.:DL

[Vorkapitan]

Why is I can never find a PAIR of socks in the morning? :stare:

It should be "Why is I can never find MY WIFE in the morning...but I can find my socks? :rotfl2:

[Steeltrap]

To true. Its about thyme people new were there apostrophe's should go. Eye say chute the lot off them's. Buy ewe no its about communication. Ass' long as thing's our clear and easy too reed then witch off us is too say that its' bad. Four ewe, it may bee wired but four other's its not grate but ass' long ass' its red OK, its understandable. Ewe no watt eye mean, sow watt is the problem?

Yes, that is a commonly used argument. I'll leave it to Geroge Orwell, a far greater exponent of the English language than I can ever expect to be, to reply (I changed some font to bold type for emphasis):

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly.....: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.

.......

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose


George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language', 1946

There you go....

Cheers

[Juliano]

This one?... hehe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CZNMtrhoM

Got the supercharger upgraded, hm? :hmmm:

Who needs the LW when you have THAT
I NEED to have one of those! :o

[Nisgeis]

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose

I hoped my post was suitably jarring to make the point that it did matter:DL. I had trouble reading it back when I 'proof read' it.

Sometimes I wonder if by boss really did want me to 'insure' that something happened, rather than ensuring it happened, as I assumed he meant.

[jwilliams]

Ggggrrrraaahhhhh !!!!!! i just died in SH5.

Had TC at 256, and crashed into a ship....

i heard a gun sound, then "we're taking damage" cut to death screen. didnt have time to do anything.

:damn:

My first death.... and it was only my 3rd patrol. :dead:

[Steeltrap]

I hoped my post was suitably jarring to make the point that it did matter:DL. I had trouble reading it back when I 'proof read' it.

Sometimes I wonder if by boss really did want me to 'insure' that something happened, rather than ensuring it happened, as I assumed he meant.

I know what you mean.....

I received a 'report' from a large law firm today.....it's circulated to subscribers......it pointed out words to the effect that xyz committee had made a bunch of recommendations. Apparently the government adopted some but disguarded others.

Disguarded. I kid you not. From a large commercial law firm in a publication circulated throughout business communities. :wah: :damn:

I nearly called them. I might on Monday.

Sheesh

You'll find this everywhere. Sometimes I burst out laughing at work because of some of the things people have written where they clearly have no idea that what they really wrote is completely different from what they think they wrote. Journalists do it, too.

So for everyone who says it doesn't matter, I send them those bits of Orwell's essay. I have it saved at work for exactly that reason.

OK, I'm a fanatic, I confess! :D

[Sailor Steve]

I realize that language does change over time, and the purpose of the dictionary is to record the current usage, not enforce it. That said, the losing battle I still fight is against the use of the word "impact" as a verb. Hearing that something "impacted" the economy will always make me wince, even though I realize the change has already taken place. This also makes me wonder which words I commonly use as verbs that made my parents' generation grind their teeth. Should I research it? Of course google is an instant classic.

In the wake of the last big San Francisco earthquake (1992?) I was watching a newscaster describe the scene. I'll assume that she was rattled, but I still laughed when she said "We are efforting to make contact with the rescue teams."

Anyway, here is a 1789 letter from Benjamin Franklin to Noah Webster, asking him to use is new dictionary to stop the insidious creeping usage of advocate as a verb.
http://founders-blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/benjamin-franklin-to-noah-webster-jr.html

Speaking of apostrophes, I notice that in Franklin's day it was common to use one in the possesive "your's". Either that, or Franklin wasn't as good a writer as he thought he was. But then the dictionary was a brand new thing as well.

[Bilge_Rat]

what I hate are people who use overly complicated language to make themselves sound more serious and important, when simple and straightforward language is always the best strategy.


for example a politician who announces that:

"My office will interface with our constituants to determine their primary requirements."

instead of:

"I will meet my voters to find out what they want".

[robbo180265]

On the subject of language....


I hate it when youngsters murder it. I'll give you an example of what I mean, taken from my 16year old neice's facebook page:


"Well We All Know Why Yuu Had The Giggles ;) .. It Was Jokes Tho :L Courtz And Zoe Makin Ryt Goons Of Derselfs :L x"

:damn:

Oooohh - page 5!

[SteamWake]

Yea kids gramma is de suxxors... :O:

[Sailor Steve]

Gld u lrnd btr b4 it 2 l8

[SabreHawk]

Gld u lrnd btr b4 it 2 l8

Yeah who needs an enigma, when we got chat'ese.:hmmm:

[Uber Gruber]

Yes, that is a commonly used argument. I'll leave it to Geroge Orwell, a far greater exponent of the English language than I can ever expect to be, to reply (I changed some font to bold type for emphasis):

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly.....: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional writers.

.......

The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he inadvertently says something else, or he is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not. This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose


George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language', 1946

There you go....

Cheers

There's no doubt old Georgie Boy was a great writer. But even his own words use the expression 'Modern English', as apart from Old English or Essex English. I'm sure the lads and lasses in Essex are well able to articulate their thoughts sufficiently enough to communicate, as indeed did the medieval users of Old English.

Language is a serial form of communication, used to decompose a thought or an idea with a vain hope the reader/listener will recompose the same image. At best its the noise a modem makes between two computers.

Language evolves as i'm sure Mr Orwell well appreciated.

UG

PS: I apologise in advance if my post comes across as all slovenly like. :yep:

[Uber Gruber]

I realize that language does change over time, and the purpose of the dictionary is to record the current usage, not enforce it. That said, the losing battle I still fight is against the use of the word "impact" as a verb. Hearing that something "impacted" the economy will always make me wince, even though I realize the change has already taken place. This also makes me wonder which words I commonly use as verbs that made my parents' generation grind their teeth. Should I research it? Of course google is an instant classic.

In the wake of the last big San Francisco earthquake (1992?) I was watching a newscaster describe the scene. I'll assume that she was rattled, but I still laughed when she said "We are efforting to make contact with the rescue teams."

Anyway, here is a 1789 letter from Benjamin Franklin to Noah Webster, asking him to use is new dictionary to stop the insidious creeping usage of advocate as a verb.
http://founders-blog.blogspot.com/2009/12/benjamin-franklin-to-noah-webster-jr.html

Speaking of apostrophes, I notice that in Franklin's day it was common to use one in the possesive "your's". Either that, or Franklin wasn't as good a writer as he thought he was. But then the dictionary was a brand new thing as well.

Verb usage is indeed a dilema, more so when used across languages. There are many 'faux amis' in French for sure. But i'm particularly charmed by the Swedish use of 'Pratter' as their first choice of verb to mean 'talk'. i can still hear my dad saying "What are you prattering on about boy?", it isn't normally an Englishman's first choice of verb yet he achieved his goal of communicating with me.

And whilst we're on the subject, lets not forget the bastardisation of adjectives over the years. Prior to 1066 the english used the word CWIC; the Normans, being an aesthetic bunch, dropped a C and added Q, U and K to give birth to our much loved QUICK.

I tell yer, its a jungle out there!

UG

[Nisgeis]

Nouns will always be used as verbs and that's pretty normal. It's not right at the time, but it happens and becomes accepted. At one point it wasn't proper to say that you would 'video' something, as then video was a noun or adjective and not yet a verb. Usage made it become a verb. When I said this at the time that video was not a verb, I was asked what the correct verb to use was, as if what I was saying was nonesense, but when I said 'record' it was accepted immediately.

Bin it,
Xerox it,
Video it,
Sky+ it (Tivo it).

An old form, which has long since passes was 'Flask it' where the noun 'flask' became a verb, which meant 'to put into a flask'. So yeah, language changes.

Of course, some people don't know what a noun, verb or adjective are, which makes things hard to explain. I hate saying 'doing word'.

[mikeydredd]

I do security in a nightclub ("do security"?)

Why is it always MY fault when someone loses their coat, wallet, purse, drink, girlfriend, gets thrown out for being legless, etc.

What about the concept of personal responsablity? What's wrong with these mugs?

Oh and the best one is -

"No, of course she isn't drunk. She's only had 18 vodka redbulls. Someone must have spiked her drink."!!!

Also - is a rant fanboy actually a rantboy?

Or am I thinking of something else?

Good thread guys - keep it up.

Mike :arrgh!:

[Sailor Steve]

From the introduction to the best book on punctuation ever (best being most enjoyable):

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda', he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'

http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592400876

[Nisgeis]

From the introduction to the best book on punctuation ever (best being most enjoyable):



http://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation/dp/1592400876

Oh my word! Have you read that book? The title and explanation of the title implies that it's a light hearted look at the correct usage of grammar and how humourous mis-understandings can occur. The reality is horrendously different. It's an assault on anyone who dares to use an apostrophe and past the explanation on the first page as to the title joke, there is absolutely nothing humourous about the book. It's just a tiresome read about some mad woman who is obsessed with apostrophes. She writes about how she goes round sticking on apostrophes onto signs, which you know, is borderline criminal damage...

At one point, she recounts the story of how she stormed into a greengrocer's (shop) to rant about how he was detroying the 'endangered' apostrohpe and complained that his sign that read 'Carrot's prices' was utter rubbish, only to be told by the greengrocer, Mr. Carrot that it was his shop and they were indeed his prices. No word of an apology. She is demented! Unless I missed the point of the book and it was all meant to an ironic look into the mind of a fictitious person who had been driven mad by incorrect use of punctuation? In that case... it's just worrying.

[Sailor Steve]

Yes, I read it, and came away with a different impression altogether. But we get out of things what we put into them, and I'm a bit demented myself. I don't quite go that far, being a coward and all, but I thought it was fun for what it was.

[Steeltrap]

I got a different impression, too. She is a bit of a loon, but that book has some stunning examples of 'unintended meanings' and some genuinely hilarious stories. I think the Panda joke is very funny!

There's a great book in Australia called "Death Sentence" (written by a journalist/ex speech writer). If it were up to me, I'd make it compulsory reading for the entire population, at least for students and anyone in Government (including public service), teachers, and anyone responsible for producing the written/spoken word intended for distribution to an audience greater than 5 people. :D

I'm a bit like Steve: something of a nut on this subject.