This, but doubled for friends posting on Facebook and whatnot. I don’t know if they realize there’s something a little sad about changing their relationship status from “single” to “in a relationship” as an April Fools Day joke.
“Hey look, I found someone! Haha, no I haven’t! I’m still alone!” (Not that there’s anything wrong w/ that)
I go even broader. I’m starting to hate sites like the Onion, the Daily Currant and The Borowitz Report because I have some very very stupid and very very liberal friends who haven’t an ounce of critical thought in their heads apparently and it’s embarrassing to have a political conversation on facebook when they burst in with some codswallop from a satire site.
** it’s embarrassing to have a political conversation on facebook**
Not sure why you needed to say anything other than this core statement.
I’ve never seen a Facebook political discussion that wasn’t embarrassing
Your facebook experience is borne almost entirely out of the friends you chose to friend on facebook.
Pretty much THIS. Add in that you choose to engage in those conversations rather than ignore them.
Seriously, if one of (generic you) your ‘friends’ is a gnat brained twit who can’t stop demonstrating their boundless ignorance, and this bothers you greatly, why aren’t you simply blocking their feed? Or de-friending them?
Damn it, I changed schedules (per rotation) and got up an hour and 10 minutes later this morning. Why do I feel like I got up an hour earlier instead? And why do I feel so much middling pain everywhere? I’ve spent so much of my life with chronic low level pain and have steadfastly refused to depend on pain relievers (having done it for stretches in the past and it not really solving anything). Then days like this come along when I’m just tired and sore and all sorts of meh.
In my case, it’s because while they are naive and credulous in political matters, they are otherwise lovely and charming people. I just want to put a sticker on their monitor that says, “Don’t believe anything in the Borowitz Report; I can only politely correct you so many times.”
Two separate mini-rant threads for April. Dire news indeed. This month is really going to ensucken dead donkey balls. Turdnadoes. Global worming. And that’s the upside! I’ll be in my bunker…
Fucking end of month! Gah! Dammit! And who gets to be on call? ME! And here I thought I was safe because we finally have a limited night crew - not that they do anything - but no. I get woken up just before midnight by one of the vice presidents telling me that our main #1 money maker program has crashed because one of our contractors in India was trying to run reports while the database was closed out doing end of month. And I get to spend an hour putting together an outage notification. A bunch of clinics won’t get their reports until tomorrow.
Couldn’t get back to sleep. When I finally did, I was too hot, then I was too cold, and then some damn mockingbird thirty yards away with lungs of like a matched pair of battering ram starts up with his “My territory! Fuck you! Clear off, you bastard!”
And I wake up with a quasi-migraine.
GAH!
I assumed this one was an April Fool joke since the title for the other one was being discussed in the March mini-rant thread.
I wonder if all this political shit on Facebook is an American thing? I think I’ll start a thread with a poll about that after my next meeting.
Continue.
I have a cold. At least I think it’s a cold - sore throat since Sunday morning, stuffy head, a bit of sneezing, and that general OMG I’m sick feeling. One of my cats is also sick, and my husband bonked his head last night, which is not a good thing as he had brain surgery last summer. And we’re almost out of toilet paper, Advil and coffee. I’m the only driver in the house and I’m too sick to drive. 
Someone broke into my house last night and replaced my back with one from a little old lady. I’m only 34, I shouldn’t be having this problem yet!
This weather sucks! It doesn’t feel anything like spring yet. And weather predictions are continually warmer and sunnier than the reality turns out to be. If I wake up to one more gray day in the 30s when I was promised it would be sunny and 50+, I’m going to choke a bitch!
^ this. Fucking hell.
Does your grocery store deliver?
I vote for this rant thread, because it has the best title.
For ranting purposes, allow me to offer the paranasal sinuses, a cranial structure whose only practical function is to provide living space for poor and desperate bacteria who have no where to live or shelter from the cold.
Something was up yesterday evening and overnight - Alternating between sweating and chills, nothing worked on my body aches. I felt like I got rolled downhill in a barrel or something. I finally managed to get to sleep at 230, and the relentless alarm went off at 500 as usual. FML. Someone has been pouring sand into my eyesockets. I haven’t been able to get a nap in all day, and if I nap now, I won’t be able to sleep tonight either.
You’ll know when the bucks start farting.
Noise complaint spoilered, for those who don’t like me complaining about noise.
Someone’s making a lot of noise with noisy tools outside! Cutting down a tree, it sounds like. Ah well, at least it’s not leaf-blower season yet, and those people who race around the neighbourhood at night in their cars at top speed don’t do it while there’s still ice on the road.
All the more excuse to play loud-ish rock music in my headphones.
Other than that, I don’t have much to complain about.