I hardly think that NinjaChick is a nasty bitch. Snarky? Yes. But who doesn’t love a good snark-fest?
As a current inhabitant of a dorm room, I understand her position. I like my roommate. I’ve become good friends with my roommate over the past year. But when two people share a 12’x15’ space, and don’t share the same sleeping patterns or whatever, these things can start to piss you off and wear you down. And because you want to like you roommate and you don’t want to bitch her out, and you know her offenses are fairly small in the scheme of things, you (very occasionally) bitch about her to people. You let off steam, you feel better about the roommate, everyone’s still friends.
P.S. re: CanvasShoes’s post – If I had to classify my hair color, I’d say brown. But I look terrible in red. My hair is somewhere between brunette, red, and blonde, so it’s hard for me to wear lots of colors. But my skin absolutely glows when I wear pink and light blue.
Am I the only one who thinks back to the Dell commercial with the 2 college room mates, one of which wore pink and was perky?? And the other one played with a saw blade on a handle (Ninja weapon??).
Oh, puleeese! Since when does having a color preference make me an idiot? It’s not like I think any less of FairyChatMom for wearing pink (although, she could be lying about it, and I think I prefer to believe that, as she’s always seemed so sensible). Pink is just wrong…wrong on the bathroom tiles, wrong in my highlighter pen, wrong on the cassette insert on the desk in front of me.
Wearing pink is a decision NinjaRoommate made and spent money on. The bint can’t help her sleeping patterns. She may not want to change her musical tastes. There’s plenty of stuff wrong with NinjaRoommate, and I’m sure if I knew her I’d be more concerned about That guy? than the fact she wears pink and is chirpy.
Pink is fine to wear. Just don’t use it to decorate your house. Please!
I used to hate pink. It’s begun to grow on me in the past couple of years. It all started with a pair of pink underwear, just to see what it felt like to wear pink again. I now own several pieces of pink clothing—even clothing you can see without taking my pants off!
It’s not that you have a color preference that makes you an idiot. But when you decide for all and sundry that that same color preference, or dislike as it were, which you decide for yourself is what is “right” and “marture” (paraphrased) then it becomes, well not idiotic, but silly at best and petty and arrogant at worst.
There are colors I really don’t like such as, the use of body fluid paint colors like puke green and baby poop yellow in home decorating, but I know that other people are entitled to their opinions of those colors without being judged for their choices. I may not like their TASTE, but it’s wrong to judge their maturity level, intelligence and so on based on their color likes and dislikes.
And that is what you were doing by making a statement like “anyone above double digits age must not wear this color”. Which is kind of dumb. And surprising really, I’ve always seen you be much more open-minded and not judgmental.
I’m guessing that mostly you were being sarcastic and smarting off for smarting off’s sake?
errr Marture=mature, I kin spell, rilly!!! Just a really lousy typist, compounded by the fact that my reading glasses make me nauseated when I try to use them to post.
I just want to say that this is one of the bitchiest threads I’ve seen in a while. Does everybody need a cookie or something?
Oh, and I’m a chocolate-brown-haired brunette with chocolate brown eyes, and I can only wear blue-toned reds. Anything orange-toned looks terrible on me. I think brunettes own dark purples and blues, myself. Or maybe it’s more the skin tone than the hair colour that dictates the colours.
In the interest of fighting ignorance, comparing a Wilderness First Responder to someone who took a high school first aid course is foolish (as Monstro noted). A WFR and an EMT are on pretty much equal footing in a wilderness setting. Indeed, the WFR will have many skills that the EMT will not (traction splinting fractured femurs using ski poles, reducing dislocations, clearing spinal injuries, etc.).
Granted, there’s no sense complaining about something you voluntarily chose to do, but the curriculum and classes can be pretty intense. We’re talking about 80 hours of training, that’s often as much training as an EMT-basic gets.
I’ve got the outer room, so she needs to walk through. I so wish it were different. (I might be in suites next year - keep your fingers crossed that one of our numbers comes up reeeaaaal early in the lottery!)
I admit I do sound bitchy about some of those things. We do have headphones, which I pretty much always use, just because I don’t have external speakers and laptop speakers are lousy. The entire OP was just me blowing off steam in order to avoid being a bitch to my roommate. We really do get along quite well, but sometimes, no matter how nice your roommate is, living in a dorm sucks.
No, sorry. I hate pink that much and really do wish it would disappear. I’m willing to make allowances for small children, as some little kids do look cute in it. But I don’t think it’s a color adults should wear, much in the same way I don’t think adults should use cute nicknames in a business setting.
But, as I pointed out, my wishes are less than zero in this world. If I had my way ponies (whose upkeep required no actual work, and whose expenses were minimal) would magically appear for everyone who wished them. Cat boxes would be truly self-cleaning. There would be food, decent tasting diet root beer and chocolate in everybody’s fridge. PMS, sinus infections and acne would disappear, along with my mother’s cancer.
Can I be an asshole about this one topic that affects no-one in real life?
No. I’m going to visit you one day, and I’m going to wear only pink, and every day you will have to tell me that I look magnificent and you adore my clothes, or else I will steal all your worldly possessions.
NinjaChick, I don’t know if you’re a fan of Buffy or not, but you might want to check out the second?third? episode of season 4. Turns out Buffy’s room-mate was a demon. Just sayin’.
If she’s listening to Disney music, then I think this is a fairly good bet.
(And no, music from children’s movies is not as legitimate as other forms of expression. What, has relativism progressed to the point that we can’t acknowledge the reality of aesthetic quality?)
Well of course everyone’s entitled, I just think the attitude of “no one over 9 would/should wear pink” is kinda beyond “assholish” it’s silly. It’s a color. To let it have the ability to denote maturity or not is…I can’t think of the right word.
Sorry, I usually agree with many of your posts, I wasn’t intending to be bitchy back, I just, like a few others, took slight offense at being told I’m childish for wearing a mere color.
I never did like that either. You have no real privacy.
The first semester I was in…heck, I can’t remember the name of the dorm…something beginning with M. Anyway, I had the room the others had to walk through. One of my roommates never hesitated to criticize the condition of my room; she even objected to my writing on my mirror with lipstick. And then there was the time her study partner came to the room. He knocked, and I called out “It’s open.” He walked into the room, and she came out of her room, and there I was on my bed, wearing a t-shirt and panties. God was she pissed.
Sorry, nothing helpful to add! But I’m amazed that anyone who regularly watches chick flicks would even want to attend SJC. Assuming you mean really frivolous chick flicks, like Pretty Woman and Bridget Jones’ Diary. Blaugh.
