The Scream-Into-A-Pillow Thread

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Apparently this year is some football world cup again. Just like two years ago... wait no. That was the European championship? Four years then.
I don't like football. In fact. I rather dislike it.
Now, normally I'm perfectly fine with others enjoying something I find boring. I mean, that's just how it is. I can't like everything everyone else does. That's just impossible. Then there's the world cup. Apparently a big event. I happen to live in a football obsessed country. I don't get it, but okay. Have fun.

The fun, however, stops when you're a drunk yelling motherfucker wielding a klaxon that sounds like an old senile wrinkly dude who gets blown by his just as old senile and wrinkly wife. No human who does not fit that description can produce such a horrible sound ALL. FUCKING. DAY. LONG. That's why you need an instrument to do that. I can't quite think of a reason to create such an abomination. But hey. It's what they call nightmare fuel, and... well, I was trying to sleep. I couldn't.
Then there's that random stranger trying to strike up a conversation.
"Watched the game or twelve yesterday?"
"Nope. No I didn't"
"Oh, so you were busy? That sucks!"
"No, it's not like that, I'm just not interested in football"
"WHAT!? The concept of not being gay for football is unknown to me. I yearn to learn more about this, but the next game's on in a few minutes. Maybe next time, bye"
"Nice meeting you too."

Then there's that thing with drinking. Y'know alcohol.
I don't do it. Well, sometimes I do, but that's usually the case when fuckers don't have the decency to offer plain and simple water, even if it's straight from the sink and I just have to get ANYTHING wet and cold down my throat. So it's not like I never ever drink. I just prefer not to do it.
I sometimes do it willingly in very rare cases. Like my cousins wedding which was horrible in so many ways. You had to be there.

Anyway, people just don't seem to get that I do not want to drink
"Want a beer [IG]
"Nah, I'm good"
"Come on, [IG] have a drink with us, enjoy yourself."
"No, really, I don't need to get wasted for that."
"But [IG] everyone needs to get drunk to have fun around other people! There can't possibly be a way to do that without drinking"
"How about being around people you... like?"
"Oh [IG] you naive little kid. People aren't worth shit when they're sober, besides you'll feel better when you drink."
"Hey, I'm the anticyclical, slightly misanthropic guy with a raging inferiority complex here!"
"DrrrRRrriiiiiink WIIITTTHHhhhh meeEEeEEeEEe /iG] BoOZ>E is luV"

Okay, now you can tell everyone about those small things in life that just piss you off and make you reach for the pillow.
Or you can post nice things as well, I don't mind. People express their emotions in the weirdest of ways.

[bluestarultor]

My mom buying technology. She is, simply put, out of her league. She wanted something to scan in photos because she heard you could do that from a friend at work. She took me out to Staples to buy a printer-scanner-copier-fax. Then she couldn't believe how expensive they were. All she wanted it for was to scan in pictures. I told her we could just get a flatbed scanner and she gave me this blank look.

"There is such a thing?"
"Yes, mom. Right over here."

She then completely ignored my suggestion of a good unit for a great price in favor of a shitty unit that was more expensive. The whole point of getting it was so I could try to fix up some photos for her. The unit's "photo fixing" completely ruins any hope of that. It also drops any line from my sketches that doesn't have roughly 80% contrast and is buggy as all Hell, constantly cutting out.

Did I mention that you can't adjust any of the scan settings for contrast or to turn the "photo fixing" off?



This wouldn't be all that terrible if she didn't do this with every piece of technology we buy. She drags me along because I know about this stuff, then totally ignores me because she thinks she knows better.

[Amake]

Watching sports and drinking just happen the two biggest social activities known to man. Disliking them specifically doesn't make you asocial, it just looks that way to the vast majority who're into them.

Well, small things that piss me off. Yesterday I caught an Internet discussion about how much Fox sucks for cancelling Firefly. I contributed an excellent speech about the particular reasons it was cancelled. (It was too popular, it makes the studio look bad to investors.) It was completely ignored. I hate when people don't talk to each other but just carry on their own monologues. Even if I do it all the time, especially in real life, it sucks when other people do it and it happens all the time on the Internet.

[MuMu]

The same thing with football and alcohol for me, but not as dramatic. I do drink alcoholic drinks once in a while, but apparently not with the same purpose as everyone else.


I do hate Politics. Most likely because I grew up in an awfully corrupt place, but I don't believe any system of government can function without being highly inefficient, specially in a big country. I do try to be somewhat apathetic to it, but everytime somebody praises our freedom of choice(Given that we can, at best, chose the least of the evils) or how discussing politics is an art, I have an urge to kill everyone wearing a suit.

[BitVyper]

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Anyway, people just don't seem to get that I do not want to drink

You give wishy washy-sounding answers and try to provide reasons, which all just turns it into a negotiation. I don't drink period, and I've never had someone ask me to more than twice before everyone in earshot got it. I've had people get grumpy about the way I respond, but they usually forget about it, and more often, I've had people apologise later on. Which is funny, because it doesn't even bother me to be asked a lot.

Honestly though, I'm usually too busy roaming around and talking to everybody at parties for anyone to pin me down for that long.

It was too popular, it makes the studio look bad to investors.

Explain. Not that I think hiding from greatness because you make more money with mediocrity is a good reason, but I'd like to know how a popular show makes a studio look bad from an investment standpoint.

[DFM]

My solution to becoming popular was to pound liquor until I loved sports.

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by DFM

My solution to becoming popular was to pound liquor until I loved sports.

I thought your solution was to screw up your computer so you could stop updating your LP.

[Amake]

I'll just import that speech from the original board:

Firefly was cancelled because it was too successful. It's not that the studio is stupid, you just have to understand what their job actually is. A good show makes money, you'd think that's all they care about. But in order to reliably bring in money in the long term, a production company has to prove to its investors - and this is important - that they know what the audience wants.

Firefly breaks a lot of norms and defies genres. By virtue of being different from the average show, it becomes politically important that it does not succeed. If such an unorthodox show can bring in a lot of money, it shows that there's a lot of untapped potential in the viewing market. It means the producers can't point at a formula and say, this will work, this is what people are going to watch the most. This makes investors very nervous. They don't want to hear that no one actually knows how to make the most successful TV, that the audience can't be relied on buying a specific product.

Here's some further reading:
http://thehathorlegacy.com/women-vie...eed-not-apply/

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

I don't drink period.

Sadly, this doesn't work very well either.

It's not like any of the stuff is a major issue. I just wanted to let off some steam over that freaking football klaxon thing that robbed me of my sleep and sort of went there.

[phil_]

Originally Posted by Invisible Queen

Here's some further reading:
http://thehathorlegacy.com/women-vie...eed-not-apply/

Before I read this, would you let me know in what way, if at all, these authors are related to Hathor the Cow Goddess a.k.a. Ms. "Let's set women's rights back a couple years by wearing a cow helmet and defecating in public?" Because sometimes she makes me want to scream into a pillow.