Title: The Bitching about Whatever thread
Description: Rated R thread, you are warned
Rialt Erydinan - March 5, 2007 04:36 AM (GMT)
Ok so here's the idea. If you need to bitch about something, even if its the most retarded thing in the world, you can come here and do it.
So, I have this paper due on Tuesday for my Religious Motifs in Literature class. It's got TWO teachers who are both extremely well read. It's ten pages. It has to do with something thats religious motifs related, but it can be almost anything. it has to be about Moby Dick or Chariots of Fire. I chose Moby Dick because of all the research done on it, and the fact that I hate Chariots of Fire with the burning passion of a thousand suns. I'm really upset about this because I feel like my grade in that class doesn't reflect the manner in which I hold it, and do my work. And as usual with this stupid ass teacher, she wants something specific but says she wants something else. >.< BLAH, why am I an English major?
Rialt Erydinan - March 6, 2007 10:12 AM (GMT)
so Ive deffinately been working my ass off on this paper. It's due tomorrow night at 6:00 pm. But I've got to get it in at 5:00 so I can make it to S.A in time for the Red hot chili peppers concert. Anyway, im just tired and such. mildly bitching at this point. :P
Mirazhe Tomai - March 6, 2007 12:35 PM (GMT)
*makes use of handy thread*
I hate work. Usually, work is just fine, but yesterday sucked. We had a whopping total of four people yesterday, which is not good. One of them was a cake decorator, so she was off in her corner trying finish off the humungous pile of cakes she had (and there were a lot). One of them is a girl who is still new by my standards, so she's still learning how to do everything. One of them was a guy who doesn't work (meaning he just stands around and does nothing), and the last was me.
Guess who ended up doing everything? That's right, me! I did all the floors, put away the soup and sandwich stuff, took out the trash, put away the dishes, helped people up front, counted two of the three cash registers, closed up ffront, and did a million and one other little things that needed to be done.
Guess when we got out? 6:30. Guess when we usually get out? 5:45. I was not a happy camper.
Grrrrrrr. <_<
Have fun at the concert!
Lyla - March 6, 2007 02:23 PM (GMT)
oooh, a muchly needed thread....
ok, time for me to start bitching. I work in the afternoon in this place called The Warm House, for girls whose houses are not such nice places for them to be in in the afternoon... it's me and one other girl (Rona) from my Komuna there (meaning she's in the year of service thing with me, living with me, and working with me)
she's... well... very irresponsible. not that I"m such a responsible thing, but really... today, the social worker (Hila) who works there (and we actually work under her or something like that) calls me and asks me if I know what we're doing tomorrow afternoon. I didn't, of course, since vacations tend to do that for me, and while I know this is very irresponsible of me, it appears that the social worker told Rona that she won't be tomorrow and that we're supposed to do something alone LAST WEEK. don't remember if it was monday or wednesday last week, but it's still a whole week for her to tell me and for us to plan something.
but she didn't, so we have nothing plan, and we're alone tomorrow, and I have no idea what we're going to do... in the end we'll probably show them a movie or something, but it really annoys me...
and that's not the only thing, too. on thursdays we take the girls to Hip-Hop class. we have a ride there and a ride back and we're supposed to be with them, dance with them, make sure they're all having fun and so on. I've been ill for the past few weeks and I didn't go with Rona and the girls to the hip-hop classes. since it's on thursdays and we go home on thursdays for the weekend, we usually take our things with us and after we drop the girls off we take a bus to the train station so we could go home.
last thursday was the first one I went to the class in a long while, and it appears that when I was gone Rona would ask the driver on the way back to stop near the train station so that she could get off and take the 18:30 train instead of the 19:30 train... leaving the girls alone with the driver.
and when I tried to tell her that I think this is the wrong thing to do and very dangerous, she didn't even understand what I'm talking about!!!
does this seem wrong just for me?
I hope it wasn't too confuzzling, but I really don't know how to explain it all >.<
just needed to get it out
Resolute al'Therin - March 7, 2007 09:06 PM (GMT)
*snuggles Lyla*
I should prolly stop listening to hate music....and heavy stuff....i think it makes me generally angry....>.>
Freyja Annolyn - March 8, 2007 12:13 PM (GMT)
Yay! What a nice and useful and also depressing thread.
I hate being sick. I mean, I've been sick lots of times like all of us, but this time it just sucked. A few weeks ago I got a cough and a runny nose, but that didn't really bother me much because it just gave me an excuse to stay indoors. But now... It actually came at a good time, I had a great time with my friends this weekend, one of which I see like four times a year. Then on Monday morning I'm feeling a bit iffy, and around 4 pm I'm pretty much dead. It was so awful. I haven't had such a high fever... ever, I think. On Tuesday I was really unable to do anything but lie on the bed or sleep. Luckily it didn't last long and I can actually walk and sit and eat today. But I have a horrible cough and a runny nose and my voice is really down and my head hurts and my back aches and ARGH! And what really bugs me is that my matriculation exam on math is next Friday, and I actually had this nice study plan which of course is totally useless now that I have spent three days sleeping and I'm not feeling too bright today either so I can probably start really studying on Sunday maybe, and that means that I have to study twice as much per day as I had planned. Which really sucks.
Lyla - March 12, 2007 04:37 PM (GMT)
aaarrg, I have so much to rant about! (growls*
I woke up sick, for a start. I HATE being sick, and it's even worse when half the people you live with are sick aswell. so, after waking up at 6 am cuz I couldn't breath (stupid nose!) and it taking forever to be able to go to sleep again, I find out that my partner (Omer) is sick as well, and much sicker than I was, which meant that I had to go to school *alone*
I *hate* going to school alone..... really, really hate it!! grr.
did I mention that Omer is leaving the Year of Service in the middle and leaving me alone for the rest of the year next week?
cuz he is. which is another depression source.
so I went alone, had a talk with the class's home teacher (is that what you americans call it?) and then there was math class.
math class was pretty good, I sat with one of the boys and helped him solve the equations they were working on, and he did really good. so good, that in the end of the class I went to the teacher and told him that the boy was great today and everything, with the boy still there. it was SUPPOSED to be a reward for his good work, and SUPPOSED to make him want to work good in all classes. it failed. but I'm getting ahead of myself.
after math was english class. now english class, it's horrid on it's own. it's probably the hardest subject for these kids, many of them are having way too much trouble with hebrew to study ANOTHER language, and at most homes they don't even speak hebrew! and of course, school isn't making things better.... about 3-4monthes ago, their english teacher had to leave on a pragnancy absence (donno how you call it, but you get the idea)
now the first substitute teacher (which, just so you'll know, came after about a MONTH of them not having a teacher) ran away as if the devil itself was after her after a week or two. after another month or so of NOT having a teacher, they got a new substitute teacher. now, she wasn't a teacher at all, but an engeneering student or soemthing like that, who only came cuz no one else would. she didn't know a thing about teaching, and those kids are especially hard. it was a whole big mess....
so, a week ago, their teacher got back from her absence, when tragedy struck - yesterday, her husband and her two 3 year old twins were involved in a car accident. the twins are badly injured, and her husband died.
now, let me remind you that she has a 3months old baby in the house.... I feel so sorry for her, but all I can think of are the kids - who, once again, are left with a substitute teacher. a different one, as well. who, like any other substitute teacher, cannot even begin to have control of the class. so htey acted like monkeys today in class, fun fun! stupid kids. grr.
THEN, as if that's not enough, came history. the teacher and us wanted to try a new way of studying with them - five groups of 3-4 kids, and having them work together, with us (me and Omer) working each with one of the groups.
it was terrible... no one in the group i worked with even TRIED to study, (well, one of the girls did, but she made as much noise as any other, if not more.) and the boy who worked so well in math that I complimented him in front of the teacher and everything, just sat there without doing anything, as if doing well in one class was enough for one day.
grr, I was soooooo mad! and it all made me feel so incompetent in front of the teacher... :(
so ,those were two periods of pure hell.
and THEN, on the way home when I'm angry and just want my music to relax to, I take out my newly fixed Creative Zen Micro Photo, and guess what I found?
oh yeah, it wasn't working again.
and it had the SAME FUCKING PROBLEM as the last time. and the time before that. and the time before that.
I actually went to fix it about 3 times, and each time it has the SAME problem about a week later!!
now, I paid 250$ to buy that thing, and that's a lot of money. I had it bought in the US, so apparently, the Israeli company that sells it here won't fix it for free (something with the warranty and all)
so I paid them 70$ to fix it for me, and a week later I had to give it back to them. they fixed it again, and it was broken again.
NOW they want me to pay them additional 50$ so they could fix it in a different way. (put a new harddisk there instead of just fixing the old one)
but, who do they think I am? Rothschild?? I'm a poor girl who has no money to pay for the stupid thing! I spent all my money on it anyway!!
why can't they fix it so it'll fucking work? and why can't they hire a fucking technician who knows what he's fucking doing?!?!
ugh. that was really the worst thing in my day - I kinda expected the kids to act like beasts, it's not something new to me. but... my Creative!!
stupid, stupid technician!!
damn, even my compi isn't working like it should :(
Rialt Erydinan - March 13, 2007 12:19 AM (GMT)
well shit, i dont even feel like i should complain after that rant Lyla. Shit.
Anyway,
So my computer stopped fucking working. Completely. will not even turn the fuck on. >.< So I bring it home for my computer technition dad to look at it and he tells me that i need a new motherboard. For my comp, thats 500$. So on top of that, that since it has special shit inside, that i need to replace the processor etc etc.... Soooo, my birthday comes up on monday after this one we're on. And for my birthday i wanted my dad to buy me a dress for Ruby Ball for my Sorority. Well, since the god-damned comp broke, he's like....well do you want new computer or do you want the dress... Of course I'm going to choose the fucking computer, I need it to do my work!!! AMNSAYMARSYHMKAERMYKAREYAEMJNRAJNM
So then he tells me that he's been thinking, and he has a mac and doesnt really use his desktop anymore, which is much better than my comp, right? Well... He says he's just gonna give me his computer. So I'm like ,ok thats fine. (and i was a bit taken aback cuz its his) at which point he tells me that thats my gift for my b-day. I'm so upset because while it is a wonderful gift, and god knows I shouldnt be complaining, I wanted that dress so badly. Man... MUH. So I'll wear the same yellow dress I've been wearing forever. :(
I know its so petty....but my dad promised me the damn dress for my birthday over two months ago and now everything's all changed. muh. Petty stupid childish things.
Lyla - March 13, 2007 07:19 AM (GMT)
lol, Rialt. I deliberately took out the good parts of the day (which mostly happened later, on the train and once I got home)
you can complain about everything :P
just don't forget that I am the Queen of complaining. I complain about *everything* :P
so, the Creative Technician guy called me this morning (AND woke me up) and told me that I had two options:
a) I bring them the thing and they fix it - replace the harddisk - and I pay 50$ for it, which I DON'T HAVE
B) they GIVE me 50$, and I can do with the Creative whatever I want - as in "throw it away, we don't care" - but if I want to fix it AFTER that, I have to pay 120$ (which means, really, that I'm losing 20$)
I COULD just throw it and buy one of the simple MP3s, (which are sure to cost less than 100NIS, which is around 20$, and an amount I can manage - especially if they give me those 50$)
but.... i really love my creative, when it works, it's so much fun! and, lets not forget the money already invested in it... I don't want it all to go ot waste!
Rialt Erydinan - March 13, 2007 12:45 PM (GMT)
Let em fix it again, if it craps out, buy and ipod. I love my ipod, and the warranty on it has saved my ass through 8 ipods. Yes, 8. But it wasn't my fault.
Lyla - March 13, 2007 03:13 PM (GMT)
lol. if I had the money to buy an iPod, I would've done it already :P
and... 8?! woah.
Resolute al'Therin - March 13, 2007 04:20 PM (GMT)
You can get na ipod off of ebay for like $100.
My iPods almost lasted me a year now, and i havn't had any problems with it.
8?? Holy sh*t!
Lyla - March 13, 2007 07:11 PM (GMT)
a) sending it to Israel though will probably cost just as much >.<
B) I'm on a limited budget - very limited one. 100NIS (a bit more than 20$) might be affordable, but even 50$ is pushing it...
don't forget, I'm volunteering this year - meaning I have no money, no job, and no time to get a job... my bank account holds around 400NIS (approximately 95$) and with no income, I really don't want to waste it all. *sigh*or any of it, for that matter >.<
the organization I volunteer in has some serious budgeting problems, and while they do try to make sure we don't starve, everything else is considered a luxury, especially the measly 100NIS a month we are supposed to get for personal things (and I'm talking about hygiene stuff and other necessities, not fixing MP3 players or something like that)
and don't let me start on all the refunds they're supposed to give us for traveling costs. and those times when they wanted to shut our gas, or electricity because the organization hadn't paid in time... (though, once we told our superiors that they're gonna shut us they paid. but still!)
money just doesn't come when you're working for this organization....
not as if this year of service is profitable money-wise in any other place, but here it's smiply nonexistent.
Rialt Erydinan - March 17, 2007 12:04 AM (GMT)
I have an upset stomach.....really really bad. and i cant figure out if im hungry or what... >.<
Lyla - March 18, 2007 12:03 PM (GMT)
O.O
omfg, it's a miracle!
I opened this thread to bitch about something, cuz I always have *something* to bitch about and it has been a while, and I realized...
I have nothing to bitch about!! O.O
so now I"m gonna bitch about not having anything to bitch about :look
I mean, serisouly. i'm in school, I slept for 2 hours and that's it, and today my plans are cleaning and cleaning - and I don't feel like bitching at anything.
woah.
I'm kinda proud of myself right now. those things don't usually happen to me :P
Freyja Annolyn - March 18, 2007 06:57 PM (GMT)
I hate how my inspiration died. I have no more school, and apart from the matriculation exams I try to read to I have absolutely nothing to do all day. And I could use that time creatively by rping, but when I read a thread and try to reply, I just don't feel like it. It's very frustrating, because there are some plots I would like to get moving, but can't since I have no inspiration.
And I don't feel like studying either, so I just do nothing all day, which is not very ideal.
Lyla - March 19, 2007 10:37 AM (GMT)
ugh.
I can't tell you how much I miss yesterday's mood >.<
so, let me tell you exactly what a lovely day I"ve had today:
morning started out not so good, when we woke up especially early (7:30 :look) so that we can have this meeting with our counceler thingy, something we wanted to talk about and that was the only time we could. so, I wake up, get ready, my roomate still asleep so I"m being extra quiet, and then one of the other girls that work with me comes in and starts yelling (well, not yelling, just talking very loudly in a very irritated tone) about how she only heard about the meeting at 1am so she called our counceler to cancel it.
so, I woke up for nothing, AND she really pissed me off. I mean, we were tlaking about this meeting all day yesterady, how come 'it was told to her' only at 1am?!?!?!
what annoys me most is that it sounds like we're all at fault - and she's alright, cuz it was only TOLD TO HER at 1am. it wasn't her fault, not like we were talking about it the whole day and SHE WAS THERE.
and besides, she was already fucking AWAKE. what's the problem with getting ready and having the fucking meeting?
I would understand if she was asleep or something, but, serisouly.
and besides, what gives her the right to cancel a meeting 6 or 7 people just because she fuond out about it at 1am?!?!?!?!
does that make any sense to you?
but ok, I was still optimstic, and tried to make it ebtter and everything - so I sat with another girl (who'se one of my best friends in the Komuna, whichi s good) who works with me at the same school and we started thinking and planning, trying to find somethign that we can do at school that isn't really teaching and will make us closer to the kids. we thought of some ideas, started planning them, it was all pretty good.
then we went to school, both of us walking and bitching to eachother about the komuna (mostly she bitching to me, cuz she was telling me of things that happened in the weekend while I wasn't there) and we get to school, and my first thing - a meeting with their home teacher - was cancelled. but I didn't mind, cuz it gave me soem time off on the net. so ok, it happens and it wasn't her fault.
afterwards was math class, and the start of all the horrors.
see, after what had happened with their english teacher (see last week's post >.<) their math taecher's father passed away. so he's not teaching as well, and they're with substitute teachers in yet another class.
at least those teachers are actually quallified math teachers, but they're still substitutes.
so, I sat with one of the kids I love working with (Mor - he's the same one I worked withlast monday, really... but he's a really good boy, i love working with him), and tried to help him study to the Tech school entrance exams - a school he really wants to go to and that it infinitely better than this horrid place a work in, so I try my hardest to help him get there, really. the material of the exams is really difficult, material that is usually studied at the end of the 9th drage - and they're still in 8th, and not just that, they're also waaay behind anyone or anything else, it's erally sad.
so we started working, few of the other kids who are studying for the exams joining. and then 'the bullies' walked into class - those are the few kids who never study (duh!) and do their best to make others not study - whether it means to sit in front of me and sing in the loudest voice possible so I wouldn't be able to talk with those I work with, or threaten me and even say some things that i"m not gonna repeat cuz they're just too terrible.
so I got up, and told Mor that if he wants he can come with me to the library and we'll continue. anywya, he came, plus another one of the kids who study for that exam - and so did they. I tried to make 'em leave us alone and all, but they wouldn't go, so I just walked into the library, and, after forever, somehow, made one of them (the worst of them , really) laeve us and go to the computers. the other one stayed with the three of us and actually studied, and for a while it worked great, and I was so glad that he stayed and studying, really. and then the other one came back. now, he and I have a very bad relationship, I don't get along with him at all, and Omer, who used to work with me (notice the used to. yes, he left yesterday :() worked with him a lot. but unlike Mor who used to work with Omer and now I"m gonna work with him - I am so not fucking willing to work with that guy. no way in hell, not even if they pay me. the only way I'm willing to consider it is if he goes through MAJOR attitude changes, cuz he really, *really* needs all the help he can get. but I'm NOT going to work with a guy who calls me a whore - no, sorry, 'escort girl' or soemthing like that, and threatens me in every opportunity.
so he sat with us, and I did my best to ignore him, even while he put music through his cellphone in probably the loudest volume possible there (may I remind you that we were in a fucking library??) and made it very hard for use to study - so hard, that Mor decided he couldn't, asked me to stay with him after school, and went to look at a book he noticed yesterday and wanted to look at.
first of all, all my appriciation to him, cuz he's really interested in learning new things and, I mean, really - he actually opened a book that was not erlated to school in any way on his own free will!!
only, this book was the Kor'an (Muslim holy book - I'm sure I spelled it wrong...) and when the other kids noticed, they, like good jewish boys, started tlaking abotu how they should burn it and what not. I went crazy, then, yelling at them that it wasn't right and that burning a book is wrong at the principle and that this book was holy to some people and everything - and when they said that the Nazies did the same to 'our' books in ww2, I told them that it was wrong as well and should not haev been done and so on. so I took the book back and returned ti to the shelf, which caused Mor to get up and take another Kor'an book, only this time translated to hebrew. so that stupid, horrible kid asked Mor to see it for a minute, that he wanted to look at it, opened it, turned aroudn, and you know what he did?
he spat in it.
inside the book.
a huge spittle ewwie thing, inside a BOOK.
at that point, I just got up and left, I couldn't bear this anymore. I went and told his teacher what he had done, and asked her not to go in the next class... so now I"m sitting here writing this, and I serisouly don't know what i"m goign to do!
*sigh*
but it feels good to at least take it out...
Resolute al'Therin - March 19, 2007 09:50 PM (GMT)
See things like that just dont happen in Texas...for real.
Also, for the record; I prolly would not have had a problem with burning the Koran too, but I am an American, so go figure....and for the record, I've actually read the book.
=/ So i can kind of understand how they felt, but still spitting in a library book is retarded.
Robert Laurel - March 19, 2007 10:48 PM (GMT)
There aren't any administrators or security people around to keep the thugs and bullies under control???
Lyla - March 20, 2007 08:39 AM (GMT)
Ha! as if. seriously, there is NO ONE - not one single person - who has control over these kids. in most cases, not even their parents.
And burning books for any reason whatsoever is horrible, in my opinion, even more when the book is considered a holy book for someone, no matter how much you hate that person, no matter what he's done - the book did nothing, and definitely not deserving any treatment other than a loving treatment. just like any other book. Hell, I believe that even The Protocol of the Elders of Zion or whatever it's called doesn't deserve burning, even though it's a book that tells stupid lies about how jews murder good little christian kids and use their blood to make Maza's for passover and other inane things like that.
the one who wrote the book should be burned, proabbly. but as stupid and horrible as I find that book I still don't want it to be burned.
oh, and Res - I didn't believe there were kids like that too, before I went to my year of service. but now I"m pretty sure that if you went to the poorest neighbourhoods where you live - you'll find them. they're not bad kids - they are poor, miserable kids who's parents work too hard to just get food on the table and have no time to teach them how they should act and what they should or should not do... some of them because they don't know themselves, that their parents couldn't teach them... and it's not the parents fault, cuz most of the times they really do care about their children and only want the best for them - only money is hard at coming and they work so much just to make sure their kids have all they need...
I believe the blame is on the government who does not take care of those who can't take care of themselves, and I know the US government doesn't do that either, so I'm pretty sure you'll find them even in Texas. :(
Rialt Erydinan - March 20, 2007 06:44 PM (GMT)
Lyla, you are quite right, that kind of thing exists anywhere in the world, especially in texas. *pats Res on the back* There are just some things that you can't do anything about, no matter how much you wish to or want to. Do not let this one year of service ruin you for all the others my friend, there are people there who do get quite a bit out of your presence, you may never know exactly how, but your impact is lasting, trust me.
*gives a hug and sends a prayer for whatever religion you wish, your way.*
Robert Laurel - March 20, 2007 08:00 PM (GMT)
My superiors want me and a bunch of other people at my agency to volunteer to go to Iraq. I said no. I've already been through three wars, one close up and personal, and I don't care to get close to a battlefield again. Plus I still have health problems from when I was in the Balkans over ten years ago.
Robert Laurel - March 27, 2007 09:07 PM (GMT)
Gee, I didn't mean to shut everybody up...
Robert Laurel - March 28, 2007 09:47 PM (GMT)
One of my best friends in science fiction fandom dropped dead of a heart attack yesterday morning. He was only 48. There wasn't a clue that anything was wrong. The funeral is Friday...
Cayana Alhi - March 29, 2007 10:35 AM (GMT)
*hugs Robert* I'm so sorry to hear that :(
Rialt Erydinan - March 29, 2007 06:09 PM (GMT)
Thats so horrible Robert... *hugs much* If you need anything, that a group of internet friends can do, just let us know ok?
Again, I'm so sorry...It sounds like he didn't suffer, so thats one of the only bits of positive I can think of here.
Rialt Erydinan - March 29, 2007 06:26 PM (GMT)
My mom took me to Bennihana for my birthday dinner and it was great! However, I found out that when we parted ways she got in her car to find someone had broken in and smashed her cd player because they couldn't figure out how to steal it. <_<
on another note though, I'm really bored. I have the easiest job in the world. I sit in the lab and wait for people to look like they have questions about the comp, or they ask me if I don't notice and I help them. Most of the time I sit there and fiddle around on the net....but I hate my job.
I think it spoils me for the job I'm gonna have this summer, when I actually have to do something. I wish I could find a better job...I should've told starbucks yes when they offered me a job.
Mirazhe Tomai - April 7, 2007 02:01 AM (GMT)
Life sucks.
The yearly Physics trip to Great America is on the same day as my AP ENglish exam. And I really wanted to go on that trip I mean, a whole day of nothing but riding on roller coasters with 99% of the junior population at my school? Major fun. But no. Now I have to stay at school, be part of that 1% that doesn't go, just so I can take my stupid AP exam. If my parents hadn't already paid for that test, I would have said 'Screw my AP exam' but I love them too much to do that to them.
*sigh*
Galmath Corliss - April 7, 2007 04:26 AM (GMT)
Get revenge!! You're friends with those in the AP class taking the test with you that day, right? plan a day where all of YOU can go and do something fun, like another amusement park or something that with the number of prople you have you can get a discount on. Then tell the rest of the 99% that they're not invited and you guys have the REAL elite trip.
Okay... so maybe that last part is a little over board... BUT the idea of your AP class doing it's own trip might be fun...
Oh yeah... I'm supposed to Bitch here right... I have two days off this weekend... my first after 20 straigfht days of work... after Sunday I get to look forward to three weeks straight or no days off! Aren't I special??
Lyla - April 14, 2007 08:06 PM (GMT)
ooh, I wanna tear something apart!!!
I've been trying to teach myself Japanese from the internet for a while, but it's hard and not really working... so when I noticed today in one of the sites I take information from, that there is a Forum for penpals - which means I'll have someone who, if not teach me, at least could study with me and make the studying process nicer, and more interesting, as well.
so I registered at the Forums, posted, and waited... it didn't take me long to get my first response - straight to my email, a woman who is a Japanese teacher and was willing to teach me japanese...
I was so happy, I didn't really have to keep checking my post for replies, but I did, which I totally regret now...
and you wanna know why?
lemme tell you - no, better yet. I'll just let you read my second reply. it said (and I swear I just copy-pasted)
| QUOTE |
| this place has no penpals for jews, go play with your candles somewhere else |
....
yeah, that totally bummed me out.
I really am not exposed to acts of antisemitism usually, and it came as a total shock. I really can't believe people STILL act like that... just hate a whole race of people with NO FUCKING REASON.
this one sentence had burst my bubble of naivete - and I still can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing.... but even if it is "good" - I'm still horribly mad at mr. racist...
I considered just ignoring and not going back to that site again (after all, if they let guys like HIM lurk there, who knows what other 'pleasant' surprises I'll find there...) but then, that'll be just what he'd want me to do... so I wrote him a long reply (long in that forum's terms, not in Fusions though)
I really wanted to be scathing and give lots and lots of 'arguments' (though i can't really call it like that; this is not an argument. just him saying somehting stupid and me correcting him) but i was SO pissed I couldn't even think of anything! (my reply, btw, is
here if you're interested)
it's just so.. ARG!
AND! the most annoying thing: I NEVER FUCKING SAID I WAS JEWISH!
if you ask me, I am NOT jewish! I am Israeli, and there's a whole lot of a difference... so yeah, I wrote I was Israeli - but didn't it ever cross his tiny, narrow fucking mind that not all Israelis are Jewish?
there are Muslim Israelis, and there are (yes! there are!) Christian Israelis... and there are Atheist Israelis, as well! you don't have to be connected to a fucking religion to be considered 'human'!!
y'know, when the kids I'm working with do horrible things (like spit on the Kor'an, for example) I can understand where it's coming from (even if it comes from a stupid place) because our country continuously fights with Arabs (be them Palestinian or Syrian or whatever) and they were raised in a country who continuously tells them that all arabs want to kill us and so and so...
in what fucking environment did that guy grow up that made jewish people that horrible that he hates every jewish person so bad?!? (all I know about him is that he's from the US and his native language is Spanish)
I honestly never thought people could hate like that with no reason (even if it's just a stupid, horrible reason like 'my country told me and I don't know better than to question it')
aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrgggg!
... :look sorry about the language... I'm just really, really pissed.
Mirazhe Tomai - April 15, 2007 01:07 AM (GMT)
.....I can't believe he/she said that. That's....stupid. No, it's worse than stupid. There is no good word for it.
If I were you, I'd be doing a lot more than swearing right now. I think you have every right to be as angry as you are.
*gives many hugs* :hug :hug You deserve more than that, but it's all I can give right now.
Resolute al'Therin - April 15, 2007 03:25 AM (GMT)
If his native language is spanish, theres a "good" chance he is an illegal immigrant. Who gives a shit what they think anyway?
Also, fyi in America, when we say, Jew we generally arent referring to a religion, but to an ethnicity, FYI...the line between Jewish and Israeli is rather blurred to us. Just like Muslim and Arab...to many if not most Americans, its the same thing..
=/
Still....it saddens me that Americans talk that way....but he should know how it feels....we dont want the Mexican illegals anyway.
Lyla - April 16, 2007 06:59 AM (GMT)
Res, I have so much to say about that, but I"ll just settle with:
Just the fact that Americans do something doesn't make it right. there's a whole lot of Israelis who'd be really insulted at being called a 'Jew' (myself included.)
there are many jewish people who are not Israeli (and also some who'd be insulted at such insinuation) as well as Arabs who are not Muslims and Muslims who are not Arabs.
and if that's what Americans think - well, it's time to change America.
oh, and Mr. Racist replied to me... I really want you to see this, it's actually hilarious. I'm not even mad anymore, it's just too stupid to be mad at...
| QUOTE (Mr. Racist) |
first im not an admin second if you're a jew or/and israeli either way i still don't like you, and im not racist against other cultures, races, etc. just people like you, nothing good ever comes from israel
third there is no reason why you should be proud of been an Israeli without American support your country would be bitch slapped and owned by the rest of the world and im an American so kiss my ass (not literally of course) and shut the hell up. |
oh! and he also got a reply from someone else... it goes something like this: "you shut the hell up! you are a racist!!! and KISS MY ASS YOU BITCH!!!"
...
I seriously don't understand why they don't ban him >.<
Resolute al'Therin - April 16, 2007 12:49 PM (GMT)
I wasn't saying that it was right, I was just saying thats what he meant...i am far from believing in the infallibility of American's actions...
As for changing America....good luck...our Presidents cant even do that.
Lyla - April 16, 2007 03:49 PM (GMT)
do your presidents even try? o.O
and as for what he meant... didn't you read what I posted?
"if you're a jew or/and israeli either way i still don't like you"
and he's not a racist... yeah, right!
Resolute al'Therin - April 16, 2007 09:34 PM (GMT)
lol i never said he wasn't a racist...I was just saying that blanket profilings are common in America.
As for do our presidents try? If they try they generally dont get re-elected...so no...most dont.
Rialt Erydinan - April 17, 2007 05:55 AM (GMT)
That coming from someone who is not an elected president. *eyes Res*
I believe that most have good intentions, but good intentions are sometimes the worst catalysts.
Don't get the wrong idea of Americans, there are plenty out there who don't believe in that kind of bullshit Lyla, me being one of them. I tend to just let people like that talk, because they don't really understand the world we live in and why it is the way it is.
Resolute al'Therin - April 17, 2007 01:19 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Rialt Erydinan @ Apr 17 2007, 05:55 AM) |
That coming from someone who is not an elected president. *eyes Res* |
You never know, I could be George W.
*smiles* but no its true, I am not a president...and i dont think i could do much better..
Ildeus Sharshain - April 17, 2007 05:17 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Resolute al'Therin @ Apr 17 2007, 05:19 AM) |
| I am not a president...and i dont think i could do much better.. |
Well maybe not in a democracy.. Sir.
Resolute al'Therin - April 18, 2007 03:05 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Ildeus Sharshain @ Apr 17 2007, 05:17 PM) |
| QUOTE (Resolute al'Therin @ Apr 17 2007, 05:19 AM) | | I am not a president...and i dont think i could do much better.. |
Well maybe not in a democracy.. Sir.
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I love how you have to call me sir on this site...