Thread "Rant, moan, rave and share - for all your chatter, natter, and wildebeest needs" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

But anyway, I'm hungry, so if you could pass some of dose' tater' chips, I reckon I'd love ya forever.

*momentarily stops stuffing face with chips*

GET YER OWN, SCAB!

om nom nom nom nom!

The title? 30,000 Leaks Under the Sea…

Oh the Huge Manatee!!

Posted at 7:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

@Onlyfools: Is there a wildlife rehabilitation centre you could take him to?

Posted at 8:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

@Hippie Van

There's WIRES, but they only take in native wildlife, they won't take a pigeon in because it's a pest. I was thinking about taking him to a piegon club, but I don't think they'll want him either because he's only a common pigeon. Australia is really strict about native and non-native animals. My aunt took an injured crow to WIRES once, and they wanted to kill it, thought she was bloody nuts for rescuing it in the first place, so I don't know how they will treat Fugly. :(

I'm going to ask the RSPCA, but once again, I don't know how eager they'll be about taking in a pigeon.

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

@Hippie Van

There's WIRES, but they only take in native wildlife, they won't take a pigeon in because it's a pest. I was thinking about taking him to a piegon club, but I don't think they'll want him either because he's only a common pigeon. Australia is really strict about native and non-native animals. My aunt took an injured crow to WIRES once, and they wanted to kill it, thought she was bloody nuts for rescuing it in the first place, so I don't know how they will treat Fugly. :(

I'm going to ask the RSPCA, but once again, I don't know how eager they'll be about taking in a pigeon.

Oh, that's really sad! I hope he does alright.

Which relates to today's rant…
A woman came in to our store looking for kitten milk replacer. Turns out she found a baby bunny that had been abandoned. It was a long weekend so I kind of figured she was just taking care of it until she could find someplace else to take it. So I recommended that she get the kitten milk for now, but take him to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre the next day. She responded, "Yeah, well, we'll see. The kids like it."

Uh…I don't think your kids will like it very much if the bunny dies, lady. It's not like bringing home a hamster or a fish, bunnies(and especially babies) are really fragile. It especially bothered me because our wildlife rehab place is awesome. I brought an injured bird there about a year ago and they even sent a postcard sometime later letting us know that he had been released back into the wild.

Posted at 10:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

they won't take a pigeon in because it's a pest

Wow… I guess sea gulls aren't the only birds people consider pests. Don't know if pigeons steal food from people at the beach by heckling them 'til they get their beaks around the food people have in their plates…

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Gotta love dreams sometimes. Especially the one I just woke from. Met a nice girl in the dream. Told me she's single and that she loved talking to me and that we had a great time (we were walking along the beach). Soon as she leaves and is out of sight I turn around… to see some beautiful rich woman and her two muscular male "friends"… who use me like some sort of punching bag before the woman tells me to stay away from "her girlfriend". I guess my belief that every woman is taken, no matter what. Oh, well… being alone sucks, but at least your heart doesn't end up shattering.

Posted at 11:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

Tonight I went out with friends and one of our stops was a restaurant where the service and food happened to be fantastic, but I was told that if you complain, a furious man kicks you out before you get to eat.

It isn't a gimmick or anything, he just owns the restaurant and gets really pissed off. I admire that man's fighting spirit.

Posted at 11:06PM, Jun. 2, 2011

Wow… I guess sea gulls aren't the only birds people consider pests. Don't know if pigeons steal food from people at the beach by heckling them 'til they get their beaks around the food people have in their plates…

haha, seagulls are little bastards the way they do that. I always end up giving my chips to the seagull with one leg. People consider pigeons a pest because they're everywhere, and they carry diseases (or suposedly, I don't know how truthful that is, but its what people think).

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Mum thinks Fugly might have some fungal infection in his crop (where the food goes) and has gone to the vet to get some drops for him. He seems to want some food now, he's been trying to eat my fingers, so I'm assuming he wants food, or wants to kill me, can't decide which.

He seems alright now, I hope he is anyway.

I'm still holding out on creating a Pigeon circus.

Posted at 12:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

Pigeons are weird. They pick the weirdest places to sleep around the condo I've been assigned to watch every night. Where do they sleep? On the top of door frames of the topmost floor. I guess the nice thing is that the Brown Tree Snake can't climb up to where they are in order to eat them. It probably helps that whenever I see one, my first reaction is to do everything I can to drag it out and stomp it to death. It may seem cruel on my part, but when you think about how thanks to its arrival nearly all our native birds are extinct (or on their way there)…

And they even sleep in pairs. And sometimes they fight. The tenants apparently don't mind their "guests" sleeping on top of their doors.

heh… killed 12 snakes one night while on a post in the middle of the jungle. The workers complained the next morning about all the dead snakes on the path, so I ended up throwing them into the jungle after destroying them. I guess the sight of the dead things rotting on the road was worse than the smell (which is pretty bad in itself). Too bad the snakes themselves are unappetizing. I've been told the meat from Brown Tree Snakes makes Rattlesnake Meat look like gourmet food. Not that I would know since I don't eat snake…

I wonder how that aspirin laced dead mouse bombing program is progressing, since when snakes eat the aspirin laced mice they end up dying (something about how chemicals in the aspirin prevent the snake from absorbing nutrients from their food)… I think the mice are stuffed with Tylenol…

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Youtube Video: The Chintendo Vii (version 2)

The only advantage of this console over the others (as I have commented)… your foot won't break if you happen to drop this thing on it…

Posted at 12:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

Seems like lots of people are having tablet problems(myself included).

I'm hanging out with my friend tomorrow(the one that 'embellishes' all his stories) I almost feel like it's a chore hanging out with people lately…

Posted at 4:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

Just found out I have a thing which explains all the other things and why I am the way I am.

Very unsettling.
Although if Ive had it the entire time id doesnt really make a difference. Just means a lot of people where right and that I have a thing.

Posted at 5:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

Too. Many. Dogs.

I can't imagine what people with kids go through in the morning.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

My friends and I were making a horror movie.

Fail #1: Jared studies the map, starts to write something. He turns around as a door creeks eerily… he presses too hard on the map (there's a keyboard under it, accidentaly left on) and suddenly a happy opera tune bursts out of the speakers.
Fail #2: I turn off the lights. I walk across the room, trip over the lego city and fall over, crushing all the lego.
Fail #3: 'Who are you??'
'I am the ghost of Ismah.'
'HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA'
'*trying to carry on* I am not joking, little girl. Would you like to die?'
'*still rolling around with laughter* I'd like to start again!'
I don't know why I found it that funny…
Fail #4: Jared's about to kill me. he spins the sword around menacingly. Then his head turns to follow it as he accidentally throws it across the room. We both collapse laughing.
Fail #5: 'Im gonna kill you!'
'he's a -it's a- Zom-butt!'
'What the hell is a Zom-Butt?'
Conclusion:
Me and my friends are terrible at making movies.

Posted at 7:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

So I'm getting babytalk from my speakers. At first it was annoying now I wish I had kids of my own. Maybe I'll go do some volunteer work in a daycare.

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I thought I had it beat. And the words "When you thought, you're wrong" come back to haunt me. The nightmares are getting worse, waking up all sweaty with just a feeling of pain from what I dreamt and no memory.

Whatever you do don't bother to read this wall of self-pity. I just need to bitch. Doesn't matter if anyone listens, that's not the point, I need to bitch. I am my own worst enemy and what a formidable one I am.

Been getting that wonderful feeling of total disconnect from what I say and do and my head. And the sounds when silence is supposed to be the only thing I'm hearing. Of course the brain often processes random noise of a certain timbre as voices. They're not and they're not saying anything just a low murmur. Now that is more annoying than baby talk. At least the babies are saying something intelligible. The murmur is always just on the verge of being understandable but never is.

Fear is getting worse too. Then there's the constant pain. It's not a physical ailment but an emotional one as if all the misery I've had or caused in my life comes to rest in the center of my chest and just throbs. Can't express it verbally as all skills and strategies I've learned are doing the job. I can cope, but I hurt. Of course I tell the wife and the first thing out of her mouth will be I need a change in meds. Not again. Rather feel miserable than be drugged into not feeling anything at all.

The wife asks if I'm all right and I haven't been able to bring myself to answer "yes" in some time.

At least I had a good cry this morning. Really needed that. Made the ache subside for a few minutes. My head was clear for a few moments. And the moment was gone. Thanks all that is sacred I don't drink because I'd really be on a bender right now but I know all the misery would be right where I left it when I sobered up. So I don't drink.

I wallow in self-pity. So woe is me in my melancholia.

Posted at 10:06AM, Jun. 3, 2011

everyone deserves a time of self pity. I don't think i've seen you actually rant your problems more than once a year, so go on ahead.
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I think i keep seeing an elusive Ryu.

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@hyena, the ones i wish i didn't know always request me. i never "see" it. ever.
Speaking of which, i sent a mass email out to my coworkers (who have never been known to turn down anything that ends with free food and alcohol) for help when i move. at the time i didn't realize the mistake i made, when it went to several of those people.

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do you ever wonder if your coworkers are on here, and know it's you….i'm paranoid.

Posted at 1:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

So I slept badly last night, for about 3 hours or so, after the late recording of the quackcast. When I got home from work I hopped right into bed, intending to have a biiiig catchup sleep, I even took two sleeping pills to make sure! But instead I woke after 4 hours as usual, wide awake with the added bonus of feeling mildly depressed and apathetic, so that was a waste of time.

Now for sleep attempt 2- unaided by stupid pills!

Posted at 2:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

Stuck in the heat. Thermometer read 106 so we moved it from the shade and into the sun. In the direct sun it spiked up to 114. I feel like my brain is cooking inside of my skull.

We had to move in with family for a few days because our A/C still isn't fixed. Eleven people, three dogs, and three babies in a three room trailer. I feel like I should be ranting right now about how we're going crazy, but we're still all in a really jovial mood (if not a a little on the warm side).

We decided to make the best of it and told the kids it was a block party. Neighbors showed up and now we're all sunburnt and squirting each other with the hose and such. BBQ time!

Ignoring the stress and making the best of it. :)

Posted at 2:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

All right I'm the bad one because I help people disassociate from things. Dis-association is what every psychologist uses to help people overcome pains from past traumas. Go look that up yourself if you dont believe me. Its a principle. A concept in psychology that is proven to work and is sometimes combined with hypnosis.

No. I shouldnt do that. I should get em to wallow in their pain and misery and just pour out my bleeding heart. Haha. That doesnt work. It only creates weakness and dependence.

Some people's minds are upside down. *sigh*

Posted at 2:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

Ah…. what a wonderful day this is going to be! I'm going to sleep it away though and I hope tonight is just like last night… rainless and so clear I can see all the stars! So far everything seems to be going right for me. However…

I keep having this weird feeling someone's got some sort of evil shrine that they use to secretly curse me every day so my day isn't so great near the end…

Posted at 3:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

i have a cold

not. exactly.

Pink Eye

My little nephew shared his pink eye with me. If my loving sister had told me that her son had pink eye, maybe

may be.

but no.

oh and it's not pink eye, really. it's pink eyes

and I hate it.

the ugly I can handle, but I hate not being able to see.

oh sure, it'll be cleared up in a couple of days. but i like living in the now. except for now

Posted at 3:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

ewwwwwwww, looks like it's ayesinred.
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Guess what i have in my Cultural something something focus on the middle east because that's all the air force cares about class!

i Said guess! no. you're wrong. WRONG. fine, it's 72. yeah. The middle two lessons i bombed, so it dropped my grade, then the instructor threw out some test questions. But all of the ones she threw out i got right.

But my current average is a 72. I need to work on keeping that.

Posted at 3:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

Don't you get pink eye after coming into close contact with human poo? IE. someone farts on your pillow and you sleep on it. O____O

what's your nephew doing coming into contact with poo??

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Fugly seems good this morning. :D

Oh and I went and saw Water for Elephants last night. It was surprisingly good, despite the fact that Pattinson was in it and once again, looked like a douchey Foot. But I came out of the movies with my mum, and out on the pavement there was a section of sidewalk all taped off with police tape. There were poliece everywhere, including a forensic team in their puffy black jackets, white gloves and cameras. I saw an ambulance earlier taking someone away.

I think someone fell… or jumped. And I'm saying that simply beacuse there was a really really big blood splatter on the pavement, along with other gory details which I won't describe. It was horrible. Mum was all: "Someone's been run over" and I was like, "You know the splatter is going out towards the road, and its on the pavement? Indicating someone falling on the concrete at an angle?!"

This is the second time I've seen a crime scene where somebody has been seriously injured or killed, first time was a car crash victim.

I'm too young for this shit.

Posted at 3:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

I'm too young for this shit.

Some things are unavoidable in life. All you can do is deal with it as it comes, I guess. Still… no one should have to go through witnessing that, young OR old…

As for that last statement I think…. I'll keep quiet about it.

Nice to hear your pigeon is doing okay. Still not sure why pigeons are considered pests. Sure they may have diseases, but what exactly are they doing to make themselves classified as such? Brown Tree Snakes here are considered pests because they love to eat local birds and small pets (such as mice, chicks, etc…) and seagulls because they attack people to steal their food…

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One of these days I'll figure out how this thing called "Hammerspace" works… and maybe invent the magical item known as the "Underpants of Holding" so we don't have to rush to have bathroom breaks…

Or maybe not… it's way too easy to abuse that sort of item…

Posted at 4:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

Still not sure why pigeons are considered pests. Sure they may have diseases…

I'm pretty sure you hit the nail on the head there.

Posted at 4:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

Still not sure why pigeons are considered pests. Sure they may have diseases…
I'm pretty sure you hit the nail on the head there.

Um… what are they doing to spread the disease? Besides breathing it out, that is…

Posted at 5:06PM, Jun. 3, 2011

I went out with my friend today and saw this amazing hate and shirt. Problem?
Hat: 37$
Shirt: 160$

-___- Why do I only like the expensive shit. I need like a sugar mamma to buy me crap.

@Pigeons
I thought they were pests because they pooped on people? I think they're a legit animal to keep as opposed to something truly destructive like raccoons and foxes.