Revenge of Grumpy Bear

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Wow, I feel bad, I just have a general sense of malaise... and not a real problem.
I hope everyones lives just get better.

Fishie, hang in there...

oh and Oldielocks try numbing it with ice...

[Shrain]

Fish, sometimes when the walls come down, all you can do is .... Well, I don't know; for me, I feel like scrunching myself up in the fetal position, locking myself up in my apt, and praying for a interdimensional portal to swallow me up. Then I won't have to admit to everyone here that I need help moving again after just 3 months because I can't afford my new place.

Also, I basically want to drop out of school at Emerson because I have so little faith with the program. Plus I can hardly stand knowing that I've let myself "go," developing what I half-jokingly call The Boston Bulge. I try to laugh about it and all the other stuff but it's not working so great. Ranting, though, is probably better than stuffing my face more.  

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So I taught a stress management class on the fly today. Take three big breaths, being sure to expand your stomach. Trust me it makes you feel a little better.

It worked for me this evening after leaving my social work class feeling completely traumatized. We watched a video on adoption, then my instructor shared her stories from her years of working at an adoption agency entitled "Tales from the Crypt". Just needed to throw some clips from some Romanian orphanages to make it truly cheerful.  

People are scum that is all I can say.

I'm going to take some more deep breaths and shoot some bad-guys in some sort of virtual world.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I'm grumpy because we have a mouse.

[MsFish]

Ew.  That's a good reason to be grumpy.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Reason #1: It's too hot. I hate the summer.

Reason #2: It's time to throw away the contacts and boil the contact case: I managed to get pink eye. In both my eyes. Ow and yuck.

Reason #3: My 6-year-old woke me up at 4am because he was playing Nintendo. I shooed him back to bed, and to make sure that he wouldn't just sneak out and do it again, I tried to take the power supply. But I couldn't get it out of the mass of controller cords and adapters, so I just picked up the whole mess and tossed it into my closet.

Reason #4: When Comcast was at my house on Saturday to fix the poor signal on my cable service, they disconnected my Internet service. The word "incompetent" comes to mind. Or maybe "clueless."

[The Lost One]

My wife has been hogging the TV lately so she can watch "Pimp My Ride" on MTV. This just strikes me as wrong.

[fuzzyoctopus]

It's a good show.
I wanted to register for a message board online but "the administrator has banned the use of free email addresses (hotmail, yahoo, etc.). Please use your work, school, or website email and rest assured that your information will be kept private."

Newsflash! Not everyone HAS a job where they get email!!  Or is in school for the rest of their lives.  GRRR.  Now I have to get my husband to set me up a useless alias I won't use??  (And I dont' get a school email address until after the quarter begins).

[Spriggan]

I can get you one if you really want.

[stacer]

This is the second DirecTV receiver I've had in three weeks, and now it won't receive *at all*, let alone record anything. I haven't been able to watch TV at home for about a month. It wouldn't be so bad--I'm not much at home anyway--but I am paying for the Tivo thing, so I ought to be able to use it. Now they're sending me yet another receiver, and hopefully this one will work, but this is just making me mad.

Not to mention, I was really looking forward to watching those old episodes of Simon and Simon I'd Tivoed. Simple pleasures, I know, but it's been very nostalgic for me since I discovered they were on TV.

[Oldie Black Witch]

After looking at European legislation all morning, I have come to the conclusion that British legislators are the most pompous law-writers in the world.

The German law was very straightforward. The French law was a little less-so, but it was still clear.

The British law, however, is a maze of references. For example:

17. - (1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, personal data must not be processed unless an entry in respect of the data controller is included in the register maintained by the Commissioner under section 19 (or is treated by notification regulations made by virtue of section 19(3) as being so included).

           (2) Except where the processing is assessable processing for the purposes of section 22, subsection (1) does not apply in relation to personal data consisting of information which falls neither within paragraph (a) of the definition of "data" in section 1(1) nor within paragraph (b) of that definition.

I feel pity for people who decide to become solicitors.

[The Lost One]

The problem with Brittish law is that they have a very strong oral tradition and thus, what is written isn't as important as in other countries (and thus the legislature doesn't care about how things are written down).

However, I'm sure the Brittish solicitor learns how to interpret and navigate such confusion. Besides, if normal people could understand the law, then there would be no need for lawyers.
Lost One cringes at the thought of lawyers being useless

The world needs lawyers!

[Harbinger]

The world needs lawyers!

That's right! Atlantis ain't gonna rebuild itself, people!

[Rak-O-Latern]

Don't diss the british. I am english, and all I can say is at least we don't eat 500000000000 hamburgers a day!
lol only kidding.

But also if you think we have stupid laws,
then get a load of this

In alaska it is illegal to push a moose out of an aeroplane. I mean whats the moose doing in the aeroplane to begin with.

And in Iowa, . Kisses may last for as much as, but no more than, five minutes.

And finally in Kentucky, you cannot put an ice cream in your pocket. If you don't believe me then look at this.

http://www.eldar.org/~ben/funny/html/180.html

[The Bot]

Oooh, someone really is a grumpy bear today!

Seriously, I'm British, and I agree that the law is passed on verbally more than in writing. And besides, everyone's got a solicitor to interpret the..ya know...stuff.

Bye, everyone, and don't go puttin any ice cream in your pockets!

P.S: Be kind to mooses, they're not good flyers.