People like to talk, they really like making noises with their mouths. They talk talk talk all the fucking time, rarely saying anything of interest of value EVEN TO THEM, just fucking reading labels out loud or narrating the events around them "the dog is looking at me, oh man now he's going up the stairs, bye dog! I'm going to have a cup of coffee. There's a bird outside the window, oh nope he flew away. The sun is out today. Haha this bottle of syrup is funny! I think I'll read the ingredients..." on and on and on FOR NO FUCKING REASON other than that perhaps if they stop FUCKING TALKING their brains might switch on and they might have a moment of wondering what the hell all this is about, anyway, and what they're doing with their lives besides being another cog in the machine. Maybe if they stop talking the universe starts pressing in on them and they begin to become aware of how tiny, how meaningless, how insignificant, and above all how lonely they are.
Worse yet, their chatter infringes on any thinking anyone else might do, as well as triggering routine responses to complete fucking inane prattle that needn't have been said in the first place, more inane prattle, back and forth endlessly forever until they plunk their stupid vapid asses in front of some stupid fucking mind-wasting TV program, which they can then TALK ABOUT later.
Talking, talking, talking. I wish I could cut their fucking stupid tongues out of their hollow heads, but then you know what would happen; they would grunt and wave their arms around all the time, just to make a noise and get you to look at them, not caring that nobody understands. That's basically the same thing they're doing now.
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
If you try to tell them that you're not big on talking, that you like quiet, that you like being left alone, that you need peace so you can think, 99% of the time the fucking retard population that we call "humanity" will switch into autopilot and interpret that as the one possibility they're capable of understanding; that you need to be cheered up. So they amp up the painfully boring vapid narrative by trying to make it clever and funny, until you actually ARE in a bad mood and start fantasizing about hitting them with a hammer, over and over again, until there is only blood and pulp and fragments of bone. Because that's the only way you can make them stop. Even if you tell them, listen asshole, SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE, I HATE YOUR STUPID CHATTER, they will slink away all wounded for a couple of days, complain to all their friends about what a bastard you are, and then come back and try to make up. And as soon as you grant them any attention, any hint that you might not be about to punch them in their moronic flapping mouths, a smile or a bit of conversation or even just a moment of eye contact, they start again, talking talking without saying anything at all.
SHUT
THE
FUCK
UP
Stop talking.
Stop talking about some goddamn TV show
Stop talking about your cat
Stop talking about the weather
about what you're eating
what you see out the window
whatever
Stop... just stop.
OR KILL ME.
:mittens:
Quote from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyOne of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in “It’s a nice day,” or “You’re very tall,” or “Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?” At first, Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months’ consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don’t keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while, he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn’t know about.
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2009, 06:45:57 PM
:mittens:
Quote from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyOne of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "Oh dear, you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all right?" At first, Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandoned this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while, he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.
:lulz: I love those books.
THAT was a fucking rant. good shit nigel
*stating the obvious
Itteh bitteh mittehs. :mittens:
You summed up the main reason why I like to skip school to sit in front of the computer and ignore all those social activities where it's necessary to interfere with Normal People.
Or maybe I'm just a geek. ; _ ;
here's a tl;dr version of the OP:
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/nigel_mother_stfu.jpg)
:thanks:
Also, LOLCram!
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2009, 07:26:53 PM
here's a tl;dr version of the OP:
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/nigel_mother_stfu.jpg)
:lulz:
By the way, Nigel this is just gonna make more people talk to you about random shit just to piss you off you know
Quote from: Obecalp on January 24, 2009, 02:59:38 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2009, 07:26:53 PM
here's a tl;dr version of the OP:
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/nigel_mother_stfu.jpg)
:lulz:
By the way, Nigel this is just gonna make more people talk to you about random shit just to piss you off you know
No, it's not.
Guess why?
Quote from: Nigel on January 24, 2009, 03:02:57 AM
Quote from: Obecalp on January 24, 2009, 02:59:38 AM
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2009, 07:26:53 PM
here's a tl;dr version of the OP:
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/nigel_mother_stfu.jpg)
:lulz:
By the way, Nigel this is just gonna make more people talk to you about random shit just to piss you off you know
No, it's not.
Guess why?
Hmm Would you look at that! This box of Oreos has 7 grams of fat PER SERVING.
Wait what were you saying
Quote from: Nigel on January 24, 2009, 03:02:57 AM
No, it's not.
Guess why?
...
... :scared:
... prolapse?
... because none of you people have actual face-to-face access to me, and if you did and the first thing you did was yammer about pointless vapid bullshit, it wouldn't happen again.
Pointless vapid yammering just doesn't have the same "talking to hear yourself talk" effect on the internet. You can type just to watch yourself type, but it neither demands my attention nor interferes with my train of thought.
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 23, 2009, 06:57:16 PM
Itteh bitteh mittehs. :mittens:
You summed up the main reason why I like to skip school to sit in front of the computer and ignore all those social activities where it's necessary to interfere with Normal People.
Or maybe I'm just a geek. ; _ ;
Protip: Skipping school isn't all that great of an idea. Those same assholes you're trying to avoid now will be there after you're done with school ANYWAY. Grin it, bear it, get educated, get empowered. That's the best advice I can give you.
Quote from: Nigel on January 24, 2009, 03:14:48 AM
... because none of you people have actual face-to-face access to me, and if you did and the first thing you did was yammer about pointless vapid bullshit, it wouldn't happen again.
Pointless vapid yammering just doesn't have the same "talking to hear yourself talk" effect on the internet. You can type just to watch yourself type, but it neither demands my attention nor interferes with my train of thought.
I will track you down!
Then I'll talk about my Oreo nutritional facts!
Quote from: Suu on January 24, 2009, 03:19:52 AM
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 23, 2009, 06:57:16 PM
Itteh bitteh mittehs. :mittens:
You summed up the main reason why I like to skip school to sit in front of the computer and ignore all those social activities where it's necessary to interfere with Normal People.
Or maybe I'm just a geek. ; _ ;
Protip: Skipping school isn't all that great of an idea. Those same assholes you're trying to avoid now will be there after you're done with school ANYWAY. Grin it, bear it, get educated, get empowered. That's the best advice I can give you.
Suu's riding a very FINE motorcycle, there.
:mittens:
Lovely rant!
Quote from: Jenne on January 24, 2009, 05:46:05 AM
Quote from: Suu on January 24, 2009, 03:19:52 AM
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 23, 2009, 06:57:16 PM
Itteh bitteh mittehs. :mittens:
You summed up the main reason why I like to skip school to sit in front of the computer and ignore all those social activities where it's necessary to interfere with Normal People.
Or maybe I'm just a geek. ; _ ;
Protip: Skipping school isn't all that great of an idea. Those same assholes you're trying to avoid now will be there after you're done with school ANYWAY. Grin it, bear it, get educated, get empowered. That's the best advice I can give you.
Suu's riding a very FINE motorcycle, there.
Oh, it's not like I'm planning to end up as a drunk in a ditch with no education. The teachers don't care if I skip days, as I'd probably sleep through most of the lessons anyway - the thing is, there is nothing actually that they can teach me, and fortunately they know it. I learn stuff much better by myself, and taking days off doesn't affect my grades, the mean being 9,7 on a scale of 4-10.
This will probably change next autumn, when I'm not under compulsory education anymore. I might have to actually
do something to keep my grades up. About time. It's rather frustrating to sit there listening to the basics of Swedish, which I have spoken fluently since I was five, or math that we probably already were taught last year, or historical events which I just happen to know of because I have a) interest in stuff, and b) teh intardwebs.
/sounding like an arrogant fucktard who thinks she knows everything worth knowing about absolutely anything. Sorry for that. But in my opinion, the education system here kind of sucks.
:mittens: Suu wins, and also so do you by knowing the materials so well you don't have to put up with ignorant schoolmate prattle. If you're so inclined perhaps you be among the fortunate ones.
If I may threadjack for the moment, in order to give helpful advice (well, I am whether you like it or not, I just wanted to be polite about it)
Herbertina,
I can sympathize with that position. I basically didn't have to try until my final two years of University, through judicious topic choices and general annoying smart-arseness, a couple of topics aside.
What I would suggest is to use your time effectively to learn other things, while keep level on what you have to know. Its boring, jumping through the hoops, I know. Especially when only a couple of others at best see the hoops at all. But gaming the system gives you two of the greatest gifts ever: free time, and a pass from authority figures.
The former is of course highly useful. If you already know your topics inside out, as you seem to, then you can start stacking up on more useful skills. Whatever those skills may be. I spent most of my later high school years reading books like The Art of War and A Book of Five Rings, reaching what was probably my physical peak as a human being and practicing how to manipulate people and pull off some excellent pranks and sabotage. Of course, your interests may not run to such topics. But with time, an internet connection (a very useful thing to have, and something I sadly lacked) and enough practice, you can master far more useful skills instead of getting bored and having to waste your time.
Secondly, if you know the stuff, put in the appearance of just enough effort to keep people off your back. Don't go out of your way to antagonize them by ignoring them, stating what you really think of their class or by not doing the homework set. But don't actually add any real effort beyond the necessary to keep this apperance up and gain the grades you want. They'll know something is up, but their hands will be tied, especially by the disruptive students whose grades do suck, giving you more space from them to do as you please.
In short, if you have the drive, devise your own syllabus. Its totally worth it. Especially with the internet, you can get access to almost any sort of information. You can also use your spare time to ramp up the levels of weirdness in your local community, via Operation:Mindfuck style actions. As you probably know, we have a ton of material here, and if you have anything to add it will be recieved gratefully.
I hope this is of use.
My plan with my kids is to just send them to community college instead of high school. They can learn ALL FOUR YEARS of high school math in ONE FUCKING TERM, so why should they waste their time in high school spinning their wheels, only to be required to review everything relevant once they start college anyway? The teaching format in a small college like the local CC is a lot more conducive to actual learning, and not having to share a classroom with a bunch of twits who are only there because they have to be counts for a lot.
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 24, 2009, 10:46:08 AM
Quote from: Jenne on January 24, 2009, 05:46:05 AM
Quote from: Suu on January 24, 2009, 03:19:52 AM
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 23, 2009, 06:57:16 PM
Itteh bitteh mittehs. :mittens:
You summed up the main reason why I like to skip school to sit in front of the computer and ignore all those social activities where it's necessary to interfere with Normal People.
Or maybe I'm just a geek. ; _ ;
Protip: Skipping school isn't all that great of an idea. Those same assholes you're trying to avoid now will be there after you're done with school ANYWAY. Grin it, bear it, get educated, get empowered. That's the best advice I can give you.
Suu's riding a very FINE motorcycle, there.
Oh, it's not like I'm planning to end up as a drunk in a ditch with no education. The teachers don't care if I skip days, as I'd probably sleep through most of the lessons anyway - the thing is, there is nothing actually that they can teach me, and fortunately they know it. I learn stuff much better by myself, and taking days off doesn't affect my grades, the mean being 9,7 on a scale of 4-10.
This will probably change next autumn, when I'm not under compulsory education anymore. I might have to actually do something to keep my grades up. About time. It's rather frustrating to sit there listening to the basics of Swedish, which I have spoken fluently since I was five, or math that we probably already were taught last year, or historical events which I just happen to know of because I have a) interest in stuff, and b) teh intardwebs.
/sounding like an arrogant fucktard who thinks she knows everything worth knowing about absolutely anything. Sorry for that. But in my opinion, the education system here kind of sucks.
Please.
I went to school in
Florida.
Besides, if you do in fact know everything worth knowing, get a fucking teaching degree and do something about your shitty system. Get kids to be as informed and adamant about knowledge as you are. As soon as I get the money I'm going back to school for history and secondary education. I want to turn a shitload of degenerate teenagers into history nerds, even if it means dressing in costume for certain chapters and making them collect sales receipts with totals that actually equal historical dates or years. There's ways to make learning fun, I just think that a lot of teachers today either A: Aren't allowed to have fun, B: Don't want to.
Quote from: Suu on January 24, 2009, 08:45:54 PM
a lot of teachers today either A: Aren't allowed to have fun, B: Don't want to.
students will do that to you
Quote from: Nigel on January 24, 2009, 08:34:42 PM
My plan with my kids is to just send them to community college instead of high school. They can learn ALL FOUR YEARS of high school math in ONE FUCKING TERM, so why should they waste their time in high school spinning their wheels, only to be required to review everything relevant once they start college anyway? The teaching format in a small college like the local CC is a lot more conducive to actual learning, and not having to share a classroom with a bunch of twits who are only there because they have to be counts for a lot.
I halfway did that. My last 2 years of high school they sent me to the local college part time. Highly recommended, especially when you get the school to pay for it.
Plus, my older kids' dad says that if either of them makes it to college by 15 he'll buy them a car. :lulz:
Cain: thank you for the advice. That is mostly what I've been doing for a few years. Reading, writing, stealing my brother's math books, learning skills from martial arts to scuba diving, practising mindfuck and just funny pranks, studying clever psychological things, developing my worldview, testing out different polyphasic sleep schedules, climbing radio masts. But yeah, admittedly I still do waste a lot of time just being bored, though I could use in more creative ways.
The appearance, well. What the teachers see is that I laugh a lot, remember to say good morning to them, have many happy goth friends, seldom say a rude word, am a slightly bohemian and funny-looking art-lover, but always Do My Homeworks, usually before they are even given.
They know that sometimes I sleep or read my own books on the lessons, but they also know that if I do, I have already done what they told me to do, for I am such a nice and diligent girl. Skipping school, well, they don't want to complain as long as I keep getting these grades and not disturbing the lessons.
Quote from: Suu on January 24, 2009, 08:45:54 PM
Besides, if you do in fact know everything worth knowing, get a fucking teaching degree and do something about your shitty system. Get kids to be as informed and adamant about knowledge as you are. As soon as I get the money I'm going back to school for history and secondary education. I want to turn a shitload of degenerate teenagers into history nerds, even if it means dressing in costume for certain chapters and making them collect sales receipts with totals that actually equal historical dates or years. There's ways to make learning fun, I just think that a lot of teachers today either A: Aren't allowed to have fun, B: Don't want to.
But... I don't have any interest in teaching kids, on a long run.
It could be awesome for them to have a teacher who makes them LARP Communists and plan their own World Wars, but it's nothing I want to spend much of my life doing.
Right now I'm leading a club for Cristian kids every week. I was bored one day and decided to try and get the job so I could test if it's possible to plant little seeds of Thinking into them before their parents manage to completely Christ them up. The church folks hired me, and I even get paid for it. :p I've been feeding them not-so-Christian messages and common herecy for months and no one has complained yet. Funny, because my Atheism is widely known here and many know that I do Strange Stuff, like roleplaying. But then again I always smile and look normal when they come to get their kids home, so I couldn't possibly be a wicked witch or a Discordian or anything.
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 25, 2009, 03:33:18 PM
It could be awesome for them to have a teacher who makes them LARP Communists and plan their own World Wars, but it's nothing I want to spend much of my life doing.
I'm stealing that idea. Thanks!
You sound like you've got it all down pretty well. I thought you would do, you seemed to know what you were on about, but its always nice to make sure.
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 25, 2009, 03:33:18 PM
Right now I'm leading a club for Cristian kids every week. I was bored one day and decided to try and get the job so I could test if it's possible to plant little seeds of Thinking into them before their parents manage to completely Christ them up. The church folks hired me, and I even get paid for it. :p I've been feeding them not-so-Christian messages and common herecy for months and no one has complained yet. Funny, because my Atheism is widely known here and many know that I do Strange Stuff, like roleplaying. But then again I always smile and look normal when they come to get their kids home, so I couldn't possibly be a wicked witch or a Discordian or anything.
THIS.
I've been hollering here about operating under the radar for 7 years now. Glad to see someone else who sees the value in this.
Quote from: Herbertina Merrique V on January 25, 2009, 03:33:18 PMRight now I'm leading a club for Cristian kids every week. I was bored one day and decided to try and get the job so I could test if it's possible to plant little seeds of Thinking into them before their parents manage to completely Christ them up. The church folks hired me, and I even get paid for it. :p I've been feeding them not-so-Christian messages and common herecy for months and no one has complained yet. Funny, because my Atheism is widely known here and many know that I do Strange Stuff, like roleplaying. But then again I always smile and look normal when they come to get their kids home, so I couldn't possibly be a wicked witch or a Discordian or anything.
:mittens:
good job
Quote from: Cramulus on January 23, 2009, 07:26:53 PM
here's a tl;dr version of the OP:
(http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb163/wompcabal/forum/nigel_mother_stfu.jpg)
this is my background now btw, i thought i already said that here, but either my memory is faulty or i am blind atm.
:lulz:
Intermittens 7: Operation Mindfuck wants this. If anybody needs an OM, it's the people described in this rant.
Nigel: Please supply me with your name, rank, and cereal number. Actually, name you want to use for this (Nigel?) and is it kopyleft or what?
"Nigel" is fine. I keep meaning to come up with something more pompously Discordian-sounding, but nothing comes to mind so I guess I'll stay Nigel. Technically I'm a minister so it could be Rev. Nigel I guess. Kopyleft.
I posted this elsewhere, but not here. This was used in Itermittens 5. Fortunately, I got to use another great piece by Nigel.
lol I suck. Sorry about that.
:mittens: :mittens: :mittens: :mittens:
:cheers:
Nigel,
I love you more and more every day.
Awwe, thanks! :mrgreen:
Quote from: Nigel on January 24, 2009, 08:34:42 PM
My plan with my kids is to just send them to community college instead of high school. They can learn ALL FOUR YEARS of high school math in ONE FUCKING TERM, so why should they waste their time in high school spinning their wheels, only to be required to review everything relevant once they start college anyway? The teaching format in a small college like the local CC is a lot more conducive to actual learning, and not having to share a classroom with a bunch of twits who are only there because they have to be counts for a lot.
Clearly, I shoulda gone to school in Oregon (though I have to say my city has a neat high school program thing--I took bioengineering there, if that tells you about it). Three out of four years of high school were boring as shit and I would have enjoyed going to a JC more than tolerating bros and valley girls. You have to be 18 or have your GED/diploma here to go to a community college. :sad:
Also, happy to see I'm not the only one who wants to teach history. :D It's the best subject for convincing kids not to be morons, I think.
And Nigel--AWESOME and terribly true. :mittens:
To the OP:
SOMEBODY UNDERSTANDS ME!!!