Shoot the Wall (A.K.A. The Rant Thread)

[Artemis]

 

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Good god, such a emotional clingy ex.

 

 

You know those shirts with top buttons, and you are too lazy to unbutton some, confident that your huge head could fit through the neck hole, get stuck and frantically waving your hands NOW trying to unbutton and it's really not easy?

 

Yup, never happens to me.

... You're typing whilst half stuck in a shirt, aren't you?

Would she even admit to that?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Part of me wants to do that too. Just not to any human or animal.

[Artemis]

 

You know those shirts with top buttons, and you are too lazy to unbutton some, confident that your huge head could fit through the neck hole, get stuck and frantically waving your hands NOW trying to unbutton and it's really not easy?

 

Yup, never happens to me.

... You're typing whilst half stuck in a shirt, aren't you?

Would she even admit to that?

 

She never made it out...

 

 

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

 

You know those shirts with top buttons, and you are too lazy to unbutton some, confident that your huge head could fit through the neck hole, get stuck and frantically waving your hands NOW trying to unbutton and it's really not easy?

 

Yup, never happens to me.

... You're typing whilst half stuck in a shirt, aren't you?

Would she even admit to that?

She never made it out...

 

 

At least not yet.

[Pseudonym]

Poor VBS. Artemis, you didn't take out the urge to kill whilst she was trapped did you?

[Artemis]

Shhhh, don't tell, I want to see what John writes about it in his blog.

 

"Sherlock Holmes and the Belligerent Button-Down."

 

 

[Pseudonym]

Am I the only one who realises it was you? Does that mean I've bested Sherlock Holmes? :O

 

[Artemis]

 

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

I'm free! I'm free!

Wait, you guys are talking about my friend. Me, ehm, always free.

 

Anyway I was so fed up with a goldfish that I wrote super long post but then discard it because it's not good for my blood pressure. There are so many of them, can't fight them. Can't believe they need me to explain something simple five times and still don't get it. It's not fair they get by life easily and wasting people's time and sanity along the way. All hail goldfishes of the world, you make me feel like a genius.

 

 

Okay, back to 'that' friend. Well, I'd just use I for story purpose ok?

 

Yesterday was not my day, stuck in shirt, having horrible back pain yet climb and jump around on high places (work purposes) forgetting I'm not 25 when muscles were protesting and made me walk funny in the afternoon.

Then I was typing on my computer when something stang my arm, sometimes there are ants around so I just gave my arm a good smack and continue working. It stang (weird verb) again, so I lifted my arm and smacked harder, all the while my eyes were fixed on the screen. Repeated and I added fast brush through the messy table but still, it stang again. Pissed, I had to stop my train of thought and was ready to murder that ant. There was no ant, it was my charger cable head that fell from the hook onto my table where I rest my arm. So I had been electrocuted mildly every time and smacked myself, everytime.

 

In the evening, lazy for dinner, I cooked a ramen/noodle/whatever you call those quickserve thingy, and during cooking, the said goldfish messaged me. I was so engrossed with this person's @%@%#%#&^ I put the seasoning into big pot of water (it's supposed to be mixed directly with cooked noodle). And when I had cooked veggie and egg (to make it less plain) I put the noodle in the water, turned off the stove and sat down to answer the goldfish's questions.

And after awhile, turned to see if the noodle was cooked and of course, it sat there happily, soaking, fat and cold.

Top tier of worst dinner.

 

Yup. This friend is an idiot.

[T.o.b.y]

Awwww, VBS, what a horrible day! Forgive me for laughing, but your account of it was funny.

[Pseudonym]

Ahhhh, incompetence. When I ordered 20 boxes, it was because I needed 20 boxes, not the 11 that you've deigned to send. And now the company is closed for Christmas, which just makes me green with envy. 

[Artemis]

I hate how staticky my hair gets in the winter.    I can see sparks when I brush it.  Sometimes I just want to cut it all off.

 

 

[J.P.]

Are you using a conditioner? They usually help. The problem comes with dry air. I usually get more hits from metal things in the office. Since the new Apple keyboards are made of aluminium, I get also hit by my computer.

[Artemis]

Yes, but it only makes the slightest bit of difference.  :/

 

I have a humidifier, but it doesn't seem to be helping at all.  I'm getting shocked all the time.  I'm afraid to touch things, lol.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Eurgh, from one company to another company this email line is a bit grossly needy. 

 

'I see that you haven't placed an order with us in a while, have we done something wrong to upset you?'

 

Heaven forbid that you should do something *right* to upset them!  :P

 

 

Part of me wants to do that too. Just not to any human or animal.

 

So you've been struck by an overwhelming urge to murder a carrot?

 

 

Then I was typing on my computer when something stang my arm, sometimes there are ants around so I just gave my arm a good smack and continue working. It stang (weird verb) again....

 

I think most Americans say sting, stung, stung (for example, "Bees rarely sting me, but one stung me yesterday.  Fortunately very few of them have stung me in the past").

 

Can't speak for British English, though.  I believe they still say spat (for past tense of spit), whereas over here that's archaic.  I think we mostly say spit, spit, spit (example: "The baby spits things out a lot.  Yesterday he spit out a quarter of his breakfast, and he has spit out even more from time to time").

[Pseudonym]

Yup, stung. Also yup for spat. 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

Eurgh, from one company to another company this email line is a bit grossly needy.

 

'I see that you haven't placed an order with us in a while, have we done something wrong to upset you?'

Heaven forbid that you should do something *right* to upset them! :P

 

 

Part of me wants to do that too. Just not to any human or animal.

So you've been struck by an overwhelming urge to murder a carrot?

 

Not carrots more like annoying attitudes, wind that's too strong, the mess known as my house, other inane nouns that don't fall under the animal or insect kingdom.

[Artemis]

^ Electronics. I'm more than occasionally overcome with the urge to defenestrate my computer.

 

I interchange "spit" and "spat" for past tense, but I was taught an older and very formal style of English in school, so sometimes I do sound archaic, lol.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

^ Electronics. I'm more than occasionally overcome with the urge to defenestrate my computer.

 

I interchange "spit" and "spat" for past tense, but I was taught an older and very formal style of English in school, so sometimes I do sound archaic, lol.

On rare occasion I might use spat as the past tense of spit, but I'm more likely to use spat in reference to the old, usually white shoe coverings (think what Scrooge McDuck wears on his feet) mainly because I was in marching band for 3 years and we named our annual summer camp of learning the fall routine after the item.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Great that you had a laugh Toby. My principle is, as long as I can look back and laugh at my mishaps, it means it's not bad.

 

 

Yah, I was pondering about the stang. It sounds funny, never see it being used, but I rechecked the irregular verb and it's still there.

 

So how to decide whether we can subtitute them or when they are not commonly used. I also wonder why has/have+got is used like 'this has got to change'. Gotten is rarely used and it would sound weird? I suppose it has something to do with UK and US version? But mannnnnn, how are we supposed to know. :p

[Artemis]

So how to decide whether we can subtitute them or when they are not commonly used. I also wonder why has/have+got is used like 'this has got to change'. Gotten is rarely used and it would sound weird? I suppose it has something to do with UK and US version? But mannnnnn, how are we supposed to know. :p

In the US, both are used. "This has to change" and "This has got to change" mean the same thing, 'got' just adds more emphasis.

[Carol the Dabbler]

So how to decide whether we can subtitute them or when they are not commonly used. I also wonder why has/have+got is used like 'this has got to change'. Gotten is rarely used and it would sound weird? I suppose it has something to do with UK and US version? But mannnnnn, how are we supposed to know. :P

 

I think it helps to be born here!  Seriously, there are some differences in meaning that I can't offhand explain, other than to say this means one thing and that means another thing.

 

Take your example "This has got to change," meaning "This must change."  "Gotten" would not be used in this sentence, only "got."

 

Take another example:  "She has got to be head of her class" means "She must become head of her class."  "She has gotten to be head of her class," is a perfectly good sentence too, but it means something different, namely, "She has become head of her class," i.e., she has already accomplished it.

 

In most cases, Americans would typically use "gotten" as the past participle (but never as the past tense), while British, I believe, would use "got" (I don't think they ever use "gotten").  But  there are more exceptions.  For example, "I have gotten ten apples" would mean "I have acquired ten apples," whereas "I have got ten apples" would generally (in the US) mean simply "I have ten apples."

 

My recommendation, if you can't arrange to have been born in the US, is to pretend you're British and always say "got."

[Van Buren Supernova]

I would say it would tremendously difficult to arrange my US's birth now :p, so is that mean I have to drop stang, I hate it anyway, thought to just type sting or stung but I went ahead and googled it. Same thing, I always stop to think whether to use learned or learnt, or dived or dove. Geez guys.

 

 

Hey hey, remember last year??

A year ago you guys were going nuts with S4 prediction and I couldn't keep up and weary of spoiler, so I was just hanging around these misc threads (I wanted to say hung around then it feels weird so I changed the sentence, aiz)

 

Anyway, how nice was it, we were excited for new season. Wonder whether end of 2018 we will be waiting for something.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I doubt that we'll have any official news till at least 2019, for airing in 2020.  (But I wouldn't object to news that S5 is coming, whenever.)

 

As I recall, our teachers always told us to say "dived," but we usually said "dove" anyhow.  "Learned" is US, "learnt" is UK.