People don't care by and large. If you're like me, you keep on forgetting this crucial fact, and keep getting burnt by rude, cold people who simply can't be bothered to give a fuck about anything but themselves

Yes, Alan, you've got it... A lot of people I've dealt with are really spacey, rude people, who ignore others, or who are just out for themselves. Locally, for example, I've genuinely tried to support all my friends, and their projects, I've built webpages for my friends's bands, set up shows for them, always been cool about paying them if I make money from the shows, etc., etc., etc. I don't expect anything in return, except just for people not to be a dick to me... but I think one person has ever thanked me, and the minute I stopped doing these things, people began talking shit about me or just stopped caring. People will usually be nice to you, so long as they can use you; so long as you can give them something. There's very few genuinely nice people out there. There's even less supportive people... And as a person who tries hard to be nice AND supportive, it's easy to be brought down by people who are dicks to you in return.... you always will think that it's something you did, but it's not. People will hate you just by the way you look, or just by what're interested in, it may not have a single thing to do with who you actually are. Y'know, just the fact that I make experimental films or drone music might make me "pretentious" or something, to someone who doesn't actually know me. But I also don't think that a person who has a problem with you today, will in 5 years from now either. People change all the time, hopefully for the better. And I'm not perfect -- but even this random sweaty nasty dude who was bear hugging me last night and breathing his mayonnaise breath on me at this Lightning Bolt show.. I still couldn't be a dick to him.. I dunno... Nice guys finish last, but I'd rather finish last than fuck someone over to get to first.

No, both were in their 40's. One was the type you find sitting at a bus stop all day, the other was maybe a doctor or a lawyer. Or if not, at least a member of that section of society.

I love you and all but you're complaining about rude people to a message board full of rude people...


...and you're breeding?


(I was just making a relevant joke, btw doll)

Satan, I'd be friendly to you. :)

aren't internet forums made for complaining? really?

i didn't breed on purpose.

i know, and likewise =D

You're missing my point. :)

Did you plant a house when you meant to build a tree?

;)

:cool:

i don't even care, we could have all three.

Speaking of hipsters...

from http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mis/1836717611.html
You god awful closed minded whores:
what did you expect, prince-hipster-charming to come waltzing into your midst? Nonsense. I’m a kind, caring guy with a huge heart and no friends within hundreds of miles and night after night when I say “hello” or “hi, how are you tonight?” or “have you ever inhaled a firefly while riding your bike and wondered if it illuminated the contents of your stomach?” you impolitely turn away and indicate that you are unable to make small talk with a person with such low micro-regional-social rank and that you prefer to choke down your shitty cocktail and home rolled cigarette in solace rather than socialize with the likes of me. Hear me now, sweet hipster honey: You aren’t so special either. You’re a human being just like I am. You are probably of average or slightly above average intelligence, you might even enjoy thought provoking films, and long walks on the beach as much as anyone else, though you hate to admit it. Get over yourself. And the next time some well meaning person says hello to you and he seems all alone and far away from his near and dear shoot this theoretical person a greeting back. It couldn’t hurt. Don’t worry. I won’t damage your “cool”. I am probably too un-cool to possess that power to begin with. With love....

Your hypothetical friend,
-Ambiguous dorky guy who's just looking for a few menial fragments of humanizing conversation

p.s.: I very well might be cooler than you are anyway. Don’t be afraid. Embrace it. Combined we could create a Super-Nova halo of rad-ness and encompass the city with untouchable nebulous fire-light. Just be kind and say hello. Engage. And sorry for calling you whores, it was for CL sensationalism more than anything and wasn't meant to be descriptive. In fact most of you are probably pretty nice to members of your own clique. The rest of us, though, get the down-town-run-around.

Hipsters are hipsters who call hipsters hipsters. Duh.

Triple d spekas truth. Let the debate end with his words

^^Hippie-ster.

Fight till the death. fuck peace!


Peace is a lie
There is only passion

viewtiful allen neg repped me for the very post he "faked" agreeing with. You slimey, backstabbing, scallywag!!!! Well played, you aren't a hippie...you're a republican!

cunt.

A message to you, Rudy.

Koreans aren't rude when they cut in front of you in line or come within an inch of hitting you with their car, it's just the Confucianisn... so saws the head foreign teacher. He may be a racist.

I hear ya there!!!! I have minimal friends outside of my family. Going to school made me a bit antisocial after being tortured daily for either being too fat, too poor or too wierd. I had NO TRUST in anyone and still don't. People will ALEAYS let you down.

Florida does suck in that aspect. People in this area cling to thier old southern views of who should belong in what group and I belong to none of them and am happy for it. You are DEFINITLY judged soley on appearance here.

I can see how those Columbine kids turned in that direction, though i do not think it was the right way to go. I can recall many times sitting on the bus and fantasizing about destroying all those who had wronged me. I realized though that God would not like that much so I obvipisly did'nt.

My point: this is what happens when social groups make teenagers feel isolated worthless and all alone.

I don't think many of us do:)

Looking back on my old high school notebooks (1987-1991) I am very glad to see that I was insane before the Columbine thing happened. My notebooks and books are filled with screeds and rants and pictures and drawings of killin and explosions and songs about throwing grenades into the teachers lounge and beheading teachers and such

it was all just teen aggression and pent up rage and shit, and I would never have done anything, but in this day and age I would have been locked up.

Oops I didn't mean to neg rep you! I did it from my phone, which lags.
I meant to give you positive rep.

disclaimer:
this is just a stupid joke, and I don't mean to be rude and I don't think you should give the baby to someone/something.

Ha.
HOW FUCKING DARE YOU CALLING ME A FAT QUEEN?? EH? EH??

I have been trying to get tix on ebay for the Lady gaga show in Houston to take my fiancee to on Sunday.
I followed many auctions and finally hit on one with decent tix. I won the auction for 2 tix for $152.00 No one else was on their PC's at the time, so I got lucky. even the shit seats are going for $300+ a pair on Ebay.

so all happy, I surprise my fiancee, who thought she was gonna miss the shw. she was very excited.

the next day (this past Friday) I got an email from the Seller which said this,

"Hey, so I did not make as much as I expected to on this auction. I have not yet figured out how to re-list the tickets. I wanted to at least make as much as I paid for them. Just letting you know."

I have used Ebay for yeears and years and never seen anythiong this stupid.
I replied with,

"You will honor your auction. Placing an item for auction is a legally binding contract, just as bidding on an auction is for a Buyer. I expect you to send me the tickets or I will take it up with Ebay to resolve this issue."

Having typed that and sent it I made sure to provide paypal payment ASAP so the fucker could not get me on anything. I then received this in reply,.

"You will get your tickets, You know you can get much farther in life with kind words than with hostility."

what the fuck?

The seller must have been like 14 years old or something. It is not my fault that the dumbfuyck does not know how to list items on ebay with a "reserve price".
too fucking bad for you bitch! MY TICKETS!

so the dumbfuck sent the tickets to my Flashseats account. end of story.

lol

Rob, you will go to a lady gaga concert AGAIN!?!
Or is it the one you talked about earlier?

it did end in a funny way. he was sitting there, the cops came in, they had heard the story on the phone... one of them took one look at the guy (he was rather big and tall) and one look at me behind my desk and just said 'oh come on dude, she' just a kid!' and the guy ran off.

apparently it was the worst case of violence the post office had seen in years (or ever since they decided to take the windows between customers and workers down)

same concert. finally here. she is playing 2 nights in Houston.

Last big arena show I went to was Def Leppard back in 1988 and shit.

sounds like hell.

I can't remember anything bad ever happening in the post office. Except once, in a post office in Bromley this woman started saying I AM TIRED
and laying on the floor and people shouting kids get away this could be a virus and she's like nooo i am tired leave me ALONE leave me alone, I just wanna lay here for a bit.

Then she started saying she was gonna barf and nobody brought her a bucket or anything, so they called an ambulance but she kept saying she just wanted to lay there for a while.

And this was the same day the post office woman told me: you gotta put some tape around this. And I said OK, can you do that please? And she says: NO, you gotta go back there and BUY some and do it yourself and go back to the end of the queue. So I had to go and buy tape just because she didn't think there was enough tape.

I kind of like going to the post office.

i've worked there for a month and you have no idea how often i've had to say 'no sir we don't sell single envelopes, you can't just walk in here with a piece of paper and expect us to just give you one, you can grab a pack of five over there and just come back to me immediately' (one guy refused to buy the five envelopes so he went home to make one himself and stood in line all over again)

or people who got a notice for a package or this letter you have to sign for... if you are not home you get a note saying you can pick it up the next day, and how long we keep it. (after two weeks it goes back to sender). some people came around all pissed 'i went on holiday and now i got this, you should keep those letters longer since it's summer and people go away sometimes!'

... yeah

Make a review please.
I've seen on tv that she cries at each concert (oh, the emotion..), and I've read that she's "one of the most exciting and innovative new artists in recent history".

the very best one was a lady who only spoke russian. she came in with a note with some numbers on it and pointed at the western union sign. it took me half an hour to find out wether she wanted to send or receive money!

Hahahaha!!

I'm in the category of people who are possibly too nice for their own good. Though a lot of people seem to think I'm ignorant due to my quiet nature (which is fair enough, I could come across negatively if I'm not too talkative to someone).

I've had someone shout and throw money at me because I accidentally shortchanged them by 30p. Dude was probably just trying to look big in front of his girl ("Yeah I showed that kid who's working for minimum wage who's BOSS!"). Thankfully, I make money by playing music now so there's no need for a shitty horrible lowly paid job.

yeah but in this case the post office is inside an independent shop.

and there was absolutely nothing wrong with the amount of tape, i taped ir properly like i usually do, but she was probably instructed to tell people to go buy tape just so they can profit more? because whos gonna go back home just to put some more tape?

i should have said i dont give a shit if you dont think theres enough tape just fucking post it.

also, i have to agree with the envelope guy.
why should i buy 5 envelopes when i only need one?
id give you shit for that lol.

ouch

that sucks.

the only time i was allowed to give a free envelope was when this very young cute girl came by with a tiny pink envelope full of fairy stickers. it was too small to send (or put a stamp on), there weren't too many people around and everyone was going 'aaaaw' anyway so we just popped it into a larger one, rewrote the adress and posted it.

you only get away with that shit as a kid :(

i know it's silly

but allw e sold at that small post office were packages of minimum five envelopes.

if you want to send something, you would put it in an envelope already, right? or at least tape your letter together in envelope-form. this guy didn't even write an adress yet.

did you open and read it?

did you know people still try to send money in envelopes?

someone stole my tea.

i hate it when they ask me
what's inside the box
why should you care?

if you must know, used underwear
what category is that?

i didn't read it, of course

but it could get lost easier

or maybe the sorting machine wouldn't be able to pick it up because it's a folded sheet of paper instead of a card)shaped envelope in one piece...

there are probably reasons for all this.

someone once tried to send living bees in a box. they found out when the package was buzzing.

it's illegal to send living things by mail.