NationStates Jolt Archive

What really irks you? Is it racism, social injustice, violence, or perhaps freedom (I mean, if thats what your into...)?

For me, it's freedoms being trampled upon. Yeah, I might be an underaged student, but I still think I should be able to hold a banner up advocating drug use to support an importaint religious figure.

I hate lies.


I don't want to steer the topic ridiculously far off course, so I'll end it there.

What really irks you? Is it racism, social injustice, violence, or perhaps freedom (I mean, if thats what your into...).

For me, it's freedoms being trampled upon. Yeah, I might be an underaged student, but I still think I should be able to hold a banner up advocating drug use to support an importaint religious figure.

People hating me for unjust or petty reasons, anything involving cults and brainwash, women abusing men and men abusing women, witnessing/hearing about dehumanizing and sick crimes (ie rape, oing mad and killing your own daughter) and mentioning drugs has a red flag/bull effect on me. When I get going as many NSGers know it has a Dr. Jeykll Mr. Hyde effect on me, I turn from moderate and reasonable to hardcore, nazi, gun toting vigilantes, out to destroy those who piss me off.

Bullies. Seriously, when I was working as a cashier in Macy's I nearly vaulted over the counter when I saw a man kick a toddler in the butt so hard the kid fell. As it was, there were cops there to drag the moron off pretty fast because I went ballistic and forced my boss to call.

Delusion, be it political, religious or whatever.

Inequality.

Rich white people.

Discrimination against the mentally disabled, especially children.

What really irks you? Is it racism, social injustice, violence, or perhaps freedom (I mean, if thats what your into...)?

For me, it's freedoms being trampled upon. Yeah, I might be an underaged student, but I still think I should be able to hold a banner up advocating drug use to support an importaint religious figure.

Actually, everything you mentioned. *bows*
*notes posting history*

Delusion, be it political, religious or whatever.

*again notes posting history*

abuse. *abuses abusers*

Rich white people.

In which case you would love my town, because we're rich Filipino people.

What pisses me off the kids in my school and across the country too stupid to take advantage of the education given to them. Harassing random people, doing drugs, joining gangs, and on the fast track to either jail or death.

Also assholes who start messing with me because I'm mixed. I hate that shit.

Deliberate ignorance. People who don't know, don't want to know, and are happy not knowing.

I also really hate it when someone disagrees with me, ever. I mean, I'm always right. So why are you disagreeing with me?
:p

In which case you would love my town, because we're rich Filipino people.

What pisses me off the kids in my school and across the country too stupid to take advantage of the education given to them. Harassing random people, doing drugs, joining gangs, and on the fast track to either jail or death.

Also assholes who start messing with me because I'm mixed. I hate that shit.

Jesus Christ. I wikipedia'd your location and you guys are rolling in dough.

As far as the rich white people comment goes I simply despise the inequality I see around me. For example Detroit is one of the poorest cities (mostly African-American) in the US but surrounded by one of the wealthiest counties (mostly white) in the US. I don't see the justice in that

Jesus Christ. I wikipedia'd your location and you guys are rolling in dough.

As far as the rich white people comment goes I simply despise the inequality I see around me. For example Detroit is one of the poorest cities (mostly African-American) in the US but surrounded by one of the wealthiest counties (mostly white) in the US. I don't the justice in that

Tell that to the fools who keep voting against the school budget every year so they can save $10 in taxes to buy a used PS2 game...

Deliberate ignorance. People who don't know, don't want to know, and are happy not knowing.

And for the addendum - the same people who love to post on NS, or the ones that you know are out there lurking and living vicariously while *not* actually posting (although they're probably voting republican or something along the lines)?

When politicians lie to me.

So I'm pissed off pretty much all the time.

Tell that to the fools who keep voting against the school budget every year so they can save $10 in taxes to buy a used PS2 game...

I know what your saying, Connecticut is rife with school budget referendums because of that kind of stuff. It's the old people with no kids mostly.

Godmodding

Homophobia infuriates the hell out of me.

What really irks you? Is it racism, social injustice, violence, or perhaps freedom (I mean, if thats what your into...)?

For me, it's freedoms being trampled upon. Yeah, I might be an underaged student, but I still think I should be able to hold a banner up advocating drug use to support an importaint religious figure.

People attacking my friends.

People attacking people based on any sort of idiotic bigotry.

People having bigoted views in general.

People who espouse bigoted views.

The fact that it can be hard for me to keep myself from wanting to despise people with bigoted views rather than despise their actions alone.

People who think some people can't change.

People who think rehabilitation is not worthy.

People who take an opinion and presume that it MUST BE VALID AND UNIVERSAL and then try to force it on others. (Example: Linus and Lucy.)

People who lack compassion.

Hypocrites.

People who are willfully ignorant.

Ignorance in general.

Educational difficulties.

Violence.

People who like violence.

Homophobia.

And so on and so forth...

Multies.

Multies.

As in, multiple personality disorder? Multi-ethnicity? Multiple nations? Multiple UN Nations?

I don't know what's the top on my list, but homophobia is definitely way up there, along with racism, sexism and other bigotries.

The general lack of real compassion by many self-described Christians irks the hell out of me too, as does anyone who tries to manipulate or control other people.

When politicians lie to me.

So I'm pissed off pretty much all the time.

I'll add to that. Politicians who tell young unemployed people to get a job even if they live in a shithole of a little town with a youth unemployment rate pushing 35-40%

"The jobs are there, and even if they aren't, you should still get off your arse and get one"

As in, multiple personality disorder? Multi-ethnicity? Multiple nations? Multiple UN Nations?

Multiple UN nations in the game of NationStates.

:sniper::gundge::mp5: and:upyours: all irk me.

I know what your saying, Connecticut is rife with school budget referendums because of that kind of stuff. It's the old people with no kids mostly.

ugh...tell me about it. My town is relatively wealthy, with a good school system, yet somehow, the school budget got so bad that every EC was dropped save 3 or 4.

My irks:
denying rights to people
people who do not take care of their bodies/selves in general
ignorance
people who can't take a joke
people who can't drive
People who don't tip well or are poor customers when they go out.
lying
being hung up on
being called stupid

People who operate under inconsistent frameworks. Be it a scientific, ethical, religious, philosophic, whathaveyou framework, if a person isn't operating under one consistently any worthwhile or intellectually honest debate is impossible. How can you argue with someone who'll go, "Yea...I see your point and that's probably true, but I'm sticking with this and that because it just feels right to me." When your fucking intuition tells you North is actually South, do the god damned poles suddenly switch? If so...well...ok, you have me there and my understanding of the world has been flipped all topsyturvy ('the hell does that expression even actually mean?).

Put Kyronea and Sarkaan's together and you have what irks me. Excellent.

I don't know what's the top on my list, but homophobia is definitely way up there, along with racism, sexism and other bigotries.

The general lack of real compassion by many self-described Christians irks the hell out of me too, as does anyone who tries to manipulate or control other people.

That pisses me off too, Christians are commanded to have true compassion, and plus in my opinion manipulating and controlling people is one of the most unchristian things someone can do. Those who commit these atrocities and claim they are Christians are nothing more than delusional, neurotic phychos.

Multiple UN nations in the game of NationStates.

Ah ... thought it might be a slang for "mullets" ;)

ugh...tell me about it. My town is relatively wealthy, with a good school system, yet somehow, the school budget got so bad that every EC was dropped save 3 or 4.

My irks:
denying rights to people
people who do not take care of their bodies/selves in general
ignorance
people who can't take a joke
people who can't drive
People who don't tip well or are poor customers when they go out.
lying
being hung up on
being called stupidSark!
*dances weasel dance*

Sark!
*dances weasel dance*

*tackles down stairs*

*molests*

*tackles down stairs*

*molests*

Still in town? You haven't hit the yellow brick road yet?
:)

I'm headin' to Cozumel in a month. WooT!

Still in town? You haven't hit the yellow brick road yet?
:)

I'm headin' to Cozumel in a month. WooT!

twas invited to Costa Rica today by a friend. Sadly, I have to take my MTEL's (mass. teacher licensure).

Add real life onto my list of irks

What really irks you?

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twas invited to Costa Rica today by a friend. Sadly, I have to take my MTEL's (mass. teacher licensure). I'd totally. I still may, don't know when though. Costa Rica that is.

Add real life onto my list of irks*insert Ifreann's WoT link*

I'd totally. I still may, don't know when though. Costa Rica that is.
*insert Ifreann's WoT link*

I've been before, but this would be more the style I plan to do over the summer.

Would it be really bad to blow off the exam and flee the country untill Thanksgiving?

Would it be really bad to blow off the exam and flee the country untill Thanksgiving?
Not as far as i'm concerned, no.
I have a weekly debate about quitting and moving ... every week ... with myself and wifey.
I think the vacation is gonna do a few things to our state of mind in that regard ....

Not as far as i'm concerned, no.
I have a weekly debate about quitting and moving ... every week ... with myself and wifey.
I think the vacation is gonna do a few things to our state of mind in that regard ....

I know very few things to be fact. I love to travel in unconventional ways. I am in no way prepared to "settle down".

This translates to me potentially ditching my exams and fleeing family responsibility to Costa with a friend.

good times :)

I know very few things to be fact. I love to travel in unconventional ways. I am in no way prepared to "settle down".

This translates to me potentially ditching my exams and fleeing family responsibility to Costa with a friend.

good times :)
That would work just fine. :)
Remember ... convictions lead to convicts :p

That would work just fine. :)
Remember ... convictions lead to convicts :p

seems as if I am quite safe in that regard :p

seems as if I am quite safe in that regard :p

Woohoo!
I, alas, have to maintain a semblance of responsibility .... :p

Woohoo!
I, alas, have to maintain a semblance of responsibility .... :p

And that, my friend, is precisely why I am fleeing to many different nations this summer...one last moment of spontaneous lack of respobsibility :cool:

And that, my friend, is precisely why I am fleeing to many different nations this summer...one last moment of spontaneous lack of respobsibility :cool:

Pix! Pix!

Wifey says she's concerned about how bonkers i'm liable to be with a bunch of other people on a remote, somewhat contained environment like a cruise ship.
I tend to have fun in those circumstances. And she says i should relax :rolleyes:
But i'm taking pix too!

Pix! Pix!

Wifey says she's concerned about how bonkers i'm liable to be with a bunch of other people on a remote, somewhat contained environment like a cruise ship.
I tend to have fun in those circumstances. And she says i should relax :rolleyes:
But i'm taking pix too!

I'll be on my cruise over Christmas to New Years...far too structured for my personal tastes, but a great family vacation.
There shall be pix of all trips I go on. One thing you can count on from me.

People who think that since you are working you cease to have feelings.

The willfully illiterate.

People that think calling a 16 year old girl a prostitute is going to get them better service.

I'll be on my cruise over Christmas to New Years...far too structured for my personal tastes, but a great family vacation.
There shall be pix of all trips I go on. One thing you can count on from me.Hittin' WYTYG's thread with 'em? I swear i'm gonna get to that someday. I have *loads* of new pix i need to post somewhere ... LaDame mentioned Facebook, but i haven't gotten there n-either.

Hittin' WYTYG's thread with 'em? I swear i'm gonna get to that someday. I have *loads* of new pix i need to post somewhere ... LaDame mentioned Facebook, but i haven't gotten there n-either.

we shall see...no real clue where they'll be going

we shall see...no real clue where they'll be going

I need to get the mentality that the pros apparently have, to just basically scattershot my pix and throw everything out there. I instead possess the mentality of only taking obscure, one-of-a-kind shots that i don't really want other people copying (or something like that) but i want people to see in the right context.

everything makes me angry if i dont agree with it. especially ignorance. i can be very violent when provoked.:sniper:

i can be very violent when provoked.:sniper:

Why?

People who are too serious/angry. I don't like being around people like that.

People who are too serious/angry. I don't like being around people like that.

Even here, where you can mercilessly mock them in a purely optional text adventure?

People who are too serious/angry. I don't like being around people like that.

Shit! :upyours:

jk :)

Coffee usually gets me going.


And now for a more serious answer. Nothing. Lately I've found myself fairly disillusioned from anything that actually matters outside of my own little world. I just don't give a shit.

I have a rather huge list...

*ahem*

Bullies. Unlike in Kats situation, I was the one being bullied and I beat the guy back in the middle of an english class. Dumb teacher refused to kick the kid out because she thought it didn't make sense for her to keep on making him leave the class every day... He nor anyone else layed a finger on me after that and were down right scared when I merely say "you're starting to annoy me" :D

Bush Administration- I'm a democrat, so I have an semi-auto bias opinion here. I can't name one democrat who likes the Administration.

Terrorists- 'nuff said. God forum banned for it too...

Religious fanatics- be it terrorists, Jehova Witnesses (sorry, personal family grudge), edit: People who impose thier religious beliefes on you when it's against the constitution, ect

Racist Groups (KKK, Nazi, ect)- Self explanitory

Iraq

Hypocrites

Teachers who/will force me to write instead of type. Hell, I had to have one of my own teachers decifer my notes Junior year HS. Not my fault my family history consists of bad handwriting...

My Family- Probably would make (if there is such a list) America's top 100 messed up family histories

North Korea

Putin

People who say PC's are better than Mac based upon no real opinion or from using an older modle predating the G4 processor. If it's because you're used to it, fine. You like the software, fine. You like the difficulty of dealing with viruses because it makes you feel like you accomplish something, fine. Both computers have their own uses. PC's are better for business and gaming where as Mac is for artistic stuff. So if you like PC's because of their business programs, or video game availability I'm cool (the only reason I hate macs too...). But if you say macs suck because you have only used the outdated macs (G3 and prior)...

People who say "this was ripped off of this" when it was the other way around. I've heard people say Lord of the Rings were coppies of Harry Potter and Narnia. I've also heard ST is a copy of SW. Warhammer 40k coppied StarCraft. Warhammer Fantasy coppied WoW. C'mon! How can something which was created in the early 80's (predating even the first mac) be a copy of something which was created nearly a decade later (same for 40k and Star Craft).

People who complain about writing one page essays. Seriously, what's the big fus? I have it worse than you lot for being a script writer. A short story has to be between 5-60 pages total, and a feature script has to be 90-120 pages (following the one page a minute rule). You got nothin' to complain about.

Tau- An alien race in Warhammer 40k who rely on high technology and long range weaponery to win, and retreats. Bunch o' pansies.

WWII/Holocaust deniers- it happened. We have documented accounts, recorded videos, and people who have lived the war. I don't see how people can be so blind...

I guess that's enough of my rant of the day

on a serious note - injustice & apathy

:mad:i find it bizarre that most of the world lives in abject poverty, there are shocking human rites abuses, the child sex-slave industry is making billions of dollars every year and it just seems to be par for the course in today's world
[and yes, i am doing my part :) not just an armchair critic]

on a lighter note.....

i hate, hate, hate it when I am eating out with friends or family and they eat off my plate!!!!! If they were starving, fine, but they're NOT!!! They have their own food! Why touch mine??? I don't mind sharing food but just leaning over and helping yourself off someone else's plate? :sniper:I am a generally mild mannered person but when that happens, it feels like it's about to be Incredible Hulk time.

on a serious note - injustice & apathy

:mad:i find it bizarre that most of the world lives in abject poverty, there are shocking human rites abuses, the child sex-slave industry is making billions of dollars every year and it just seems to be par for the course in today's world
[and yes, i am doing my part :) not just an armchair critic]

on a lighter note.....

i hate, hate, hate it when I am eating out with friends or family and they eat off my plate!!!!! If they were starving, fine, but they're NOT!!! They have their own food! Why touch mine??? I don't mind sharing food but just leaning over and helping yourself off someone else's plate? :sniper:I am a generally mild mannered person but when that happens, it feels like it's about to be Incredible Hulk time.

What if someone in abject poverty ate off your plate? Would you feel conflicted? :D

Hypocrites, particularly the ones who feel entitled to tell other people how to live while they themselves aren't even following their own rules.

I'd totally. I still may, don't know when though. Costa Rica that is.
*insert Ifreann's WoT link*

Woot!

uh the following:
drug dealers
pedophiles
rapists
bush
arab haters
stupid movies

Alcoholics.

More specifically the violent, angry ones who want to fight everyone for no logical reason. Even more specifically, ones who threaten people's pets with murderous intent just because they are feeling sorry for themselves and want to take it out on any living thing. That's my most current one. I've got others... too many to list.

What if someone in abject poverty ate off your plate? Would you feel conflicted? :D

:p Not in the least. I'd be quite ok with that. The funny thing, a really hungry person would probably make eye contact with me and maybe even ask. No, instead I get other well-fed people with perfectly good meals in front of them, reaching over and eating off my plate like I'm not there! :headbang:Ah well, if that's the least of my problems, I guess I'm doing pretty well.;)

bunny rabbits, they are so evil.

I don't know.

hmmm i dislike most of the things that people have mentioned so far but only a few things put me into insta-rant.

1) political tools. those (radio talk show hosts) who support their party and everyone in it no matter how utterly wrong it is. who make stupid excuses for their side and then rant against the other side for doing exactly the same thing.

2) nanny state laws. and as a corollary, funding progressive programs with taxes on vice (cigarettes). and the "isnt it a crying shame" laws that seek to address an unaddressable problem by legislation (ohmygod this family's house burned down because the chimney sweep left rags in their chimneys. did you know that there is NO federal licensing for chimney sweeps? we must pass chimney sweep regulations and set up a national chimney sweep registry!)

there are some things that the feds should just leave alone no matter how many people think its a crying shame.

I hate nihilism.

uh the following:
drug dealers
pedophiles
rapists
bush
arab haters
stupid movies

What harm does selling drugs do to you?

I hate intolerance, and I'll bloody slap anybody who shows it:D

I just saw the movie: American Zeitgeist.

I hate everyone and everything now. Go to hell.

1. Stupid people. And I don't mean mentally handicapped. I am aiming more for the people who choose not to use their brain because it is to much work or something.

2. Criminals who harm others. I honestly couldn't care less if someone wants to smoke up. But people who harm others for no particular other than to benefit themselves......

3. Things that are made many more times complicated than is necessary. Under this falls things like but not limited to: politics, bureaucracy, driving, ect.

free trade gets me going. I am a big protectionist.

I hate socialism.
I hate dictatorships.
I REALLY HATE socialist dictatorships.
I hate it when stupid people say Bush is bad and America is evil. Those idiots need to take a good look at their own country. You know, we're not perfect, but we're a hell of a lot better than any Middle East country, African country, or European Socialist countries. I mean, come on, we're not the ones dissolving into civil war or having riots every few months, are we?

-All glory to the Republican Party.

Here's another thing that gets me going. In my close circle of friends, we're all pretty left of center. We usually get together a lot and play dungeons and dragons, hang out and BS.

What's bugging me is that everyone, when it comes to sharing, decides that it's my stuff that needs to be shared. If there's not enough dice, everyone always reaches to my dice, even if someone else is closer. Everyone mooches off my stuff first.

When I ask people about this, there excuse is "Well, you're the communist." That really doesn't cut, since there are two anarcho-communists in the group. Two others are self described socialists, and two others are democrats. So, why does my stuff the only stuff being redistributed?

I really don't get it. Something is amiss here. Another thing that kinda bugs me is that I'm the one who everyone makes a big deal over me being an anarchist. There's another anarchist in the group, and he doesn't get ribbed over it. I don't see why they think it is more shocking for me to be an anarchist then my other buddy.

When I ask people about this, there excuse is "Well, you're the communist."

That's not much of an excuse....

Next time, try stealing their dice, and call it "expropriation." ;)

Another thing that kinda bugs me is that I'm the one who everyone makes a big deal over me being an anarchist. There's another anarchist in the group, and he doesn't get ribbed over it.

Are you loud about it?

What gets me going to the point of losing control?

AI
nanotechnology
transhumanism
cyborgs
environmental destruction (number 1)

That's not much of an excuse....

Next time, try stealing their dice, and call it "expropriation." ;)

I'll try that. :p

Are you loud about it?

Not any louder than Nick is (the other anarchist). I talked to him about it, and we reached the tenative conclusion that people expect it more from him because he's bisexual, and people don't expect anarchy from me because I'm straight.

That's really the only substantive difference between the two of us. We both have fairly similar personalities, and very similar intellectual levels. He graduated magna cum laude from his rather large high school, and I was the valedictorian of my much smaller high school. We really aren't that much different. I'm still kinda at a loss.

Stupid people; never underestimate their power in large groups.

Not any louder than Nick is (the other anarchist). I talked to him about it, and we reached the tenative conclusion that people expect it more from him because he's bisexual, and people don't expect anarchy from me because I'm straight.



Dude...that's like...way...

The cultural assumptions and values implicit in the actions and opinions of your friends...are like...wow. Wow.

Dude...that's like...way...

The cultural assumptions and values implicit in the actions and opinions of your friends...are like...wow. Wow.

Tell me about it. The process of change is slow, but I think that they'll behave sometime before we die.

Not any louder than Nick is (the other anarchist). I talked to him about it, and we reached the tenative conclusion that people expect it more from him because he's bisexual, and people don't expect anarchy from me because I'm straight.

I don't think that's the reason... I'm a bisexual anarchist who's loud about his political views, and people call me crazy for it all the time.

I don't think that's the reason... I'm a bisexual anarchist who's loud about his political views, and people call me crazy for it all the time.

I understand what you're saying, but what we were thinking is that since he was already openly bisexual, people kinda just wrote it off as "that's Nick being Nick". I don't know if perhaps I put off the air of being a "straight laced person", (I'm anything but), or what. That was the only conclusion we could reach with the available data.

I hate lazy homeless people that ask me for things.

Here's another thing that gets me going. In my close circle of friends, we're all pretty left of center. We usually get together a lot and play dungeons and dragons, hang out and BS.

What's bugging me is that everyone, when it comes to sharing, decides that it's my stuff that needs to be shared. If there's not enough dice, everyone always reaches to my dice, even if someone else is closer. Everyone mooches off my stuff first.

When I ask people about this, there excuse is "Well, you're the communist." That really doesn't cut, since there are two anarcho-communists in the group. Two others are self described socialists, and two others are democrats. So, why does my stuff the only stuff being redistributed?

I really don't get it. Something is amiss here. Another thing that kinda bugs me is that I'm the one who everyone makes a big deal over me being an anarchist. There's another anarchist in the group, and he doesn't get ribbed over it. I don't see why they think it is more shocking for me to be an anarchist then my other buddy.

lol thats funny. :D

Conspiracy theorists. They really, really set my blood boiling.

Water...it's very wet.

I hate lazy homeless people that ask me for things.

Please don't tell me you drew that conclusion from this clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4teq7aKTNJ4&mode=related&search=

And even if you did, how do you know they are lazy.

I hate it when stupid people say Bush is bad and America is evil. Those idiots need to take a good look at their own country. You know, we're not perfect, but we're a hell of a lot better than any Middle East country, African country, or European Socialist countries. I mean, come on, we're not the ones dissolving into civil war or having riots every few months, are we?

Thus we are stupid for having dissenting opinions, where have I heard that before.

Yes, do look at those 'European Socialists', marvel at their infrastructure, and weep at how the United States has just been placed 21st in internet infrastructure (Luxembourg just passed us to 20th I believe, and, yes, all countries higher on the scale are first world "socialist" countries, by your [assumed] definition)