The Gripe Center

[Chewblaha]

Post your censored gripes here. This isn't rage-fest after all.

 

Or New Vegas.

 

The point of this thread is to create a team-building group in which we work to help out others deal with their gripes. For instance: You all can help me react less when gripes #1 and #2 are put into effect. I normally react with a fucking exasperated tone, though I think I can fix that. Gripe 3 is something I just complained about.

 

Gripe # 4 is irreparable, I think. D:

 

Also: You're all supposed to list some gripes of your own.

 

Gripe # 1:

 

Wookiee. It has two e's. Not one.

Two.

Not one.

 

Gripe #2: If you play Warcraft II, you'll hear that Kil'Jaeden's name was pronounced "Kill-Zha-Deen," but in Warcraft III it is pronounced "Kill-Jay-Den." I stick with the former.

DEAL WITH IT.

 

Gripe #3: I think Uncharted 2 has some awful combat controls. Deal wif it.

 

Gripe #4: I'm afraid I am too clingy with women. D:

Edited September 13, 2011 by Chewblaha

[MasterDex]

Gripe #4: I'm afraid I am too clingy with women. D:

 

I used to be like that. Contrary to what you'd think, it was being single for a long time that helped me get over it. What I found helped is thinking of the fact that in the majority of the world, there are more women than men so inevitably, there's more variations of women than men and more women similar to other women so if that's the case then the women I'm with, as much as I may love them, isn't the only woman out there that I could love. When I think of it like that, it makes me less inclined to be overly protective/clingy. I also found myself getting less and less clingy as I had more relationships.

[Mr W Phallus]

Gripe # 1:

 

Wookiee. It has two e's. Not one.

Two.

Not one.

Look, don't blame normal, intelligent people who haven't ever seen the word written down, just because George Lucas is an idiot who never learnt to spell properly and adds superfluous vowels to made up words.

It's not pronounced Wookie-ee, it should be spelt Wookie.

Deal. With. It.

[Yantelope]

Gripe #3: I think Uncharted 2 has some awful combat controls. Deal wif it.

 

Can we please start up the Uncharted is overrated rants again! I miss those days.

[Chewblaha]

Gripe # 1:

 

Wookiee. It has two e's. Not one.

Two.

Not one.

Look, don't blame normal, intelligent people who haven't ever seen the word written down, just because George Lucas is an idiot who never learnt to spell properly and adds superfluous vowels to made up words.

It's not pronounced Wookie-ee, it should be spelt Wookie.

Deal. With. It.

 

Dang. That's...

 

That's a straight up awesome post.

 

I completely disagree with it, but it's awesome.

 

Edit: Completely disagree with it, sans the Lucas being an idiot part. I just seriously liked that style there.

Edited September 13, 2011 by Chewblaha

[Yantelope]

The word Ewok is never mentioned in Return of the Jedi. That's how over publicized the movie was.

Edited September 13, 2011 by Yantelope

[Chewblaha]

Shut up! D:

[Hot Heart]

Gripe 1: These pretzels are making me THIRSTY.

[Chewblaha]

I'm gonna need some water here.

[Yantelope]

Gripe 1: HH won't share his pretzels.

[TheRevanchist]

Here is my gripe right now. I'll cite the source as recordnet.com (but don't go there as the place is one big pop-up ad).

 

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Federal regulators shut down a Central California slaughterhouse Monday after receiving undercover video showing dairy cows — some unable to walk — being repeatedly shocked and shot before being slaughtered.

Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which inspects meat facilities, suspended operations at Central Valley Meat Co. in Hanford, Calif., which slaughters cows when they lose their value as milk producers.

The USDA received hours of videotape Friday from Compassion Over Killing, an animal welfare group, which said its undercover investigator was employed by the slaughterhouse and made the video over a two-week period in June.

"USDA considers inhumane treatment of animals at slaughter facilities to be unacceptable and is conducting a thorough investigation into these allegations," said Justin DeJong, spokesman for the Food Safety Inspection Service.

Four minutes of excerpts the animal welfare group provided to The Associated Press showed cows being prepared for slaughter. One worker appears to be suffocating a cow by standing on its muzzle after a gun that injects a bolt into the animal's head had failed to render it unconscious. In another clip, a cow is still conscious and flailing as a conveyor lifts it by one leg for transport to an area where the animals' throats are slit for blood draining.

"The horror caught on camera is sickening," said Erica Meier, executive director of Compassion Over Killing, based in Washington, D.C. "It's alarming that this is not only a USDA-inspected facility but a supplier to the USDA."

Online USDA records show the company has contracted to sell ground beef to USDA food programs.

Within hours of seeing the video, the USDA's Office of Inspector General sent investigators who found evidence of "egregious inhumane handling and treatment of livestock."

"FSIS suspended operations at the facility and is prepared to take further action as warranted by the investigation," DeJong said.

The USDA had at least two inspectors stationed at the site, and federal officials, when asked whether there was evidence the inspectors had neglected their duties, said the investigation is ongoing.

The USDA probe will include whether sick "downer" cows entered the food supply. That information would be used to determine whether a recall of the company's meat products is warranted.

"That's the main issue right now," DeJong said.

Just because a cow is down doesn't mean it's sick, officials said. The video clips showed some cows with udders swollen so large they could not keep their legs underneath them. One was on the ground twitching, and another tried to walk but kept falling.

Central Valley Meat Co., owned by Brian and Lawrence Coelho, declined to comment on the video, saying company officials had not seen it.

"We were extremely disturbed to be informed by the USDA that ... our plant could not operate based upon a videotape that was provided to the Department by a third party group that alleged inhumane treatment of animals on our property," said a company statement.

Brian Coelho added, "Our company seeks not just to meet federal humane handling regulations, but exceed them."

Meier said pay stubs confirm the undercover operative's stint working at the slaughterhouse.

The videos show workers pulling downed cows by their tails and kicking them in an apparent attempt to get them to stand and walk to slaughter. Others shoot downed cows in the head over and over as the cows thrash on the ground. In one instance, the video shows workers trying to get cattle to back out of a chute while repeatedly spraying them with water and shocking them.

The case is reminiscent of a 2008 undercover operation by the Humane Society of the United States at the Hallmark slaughter plant in Chino, Calif., that led to the largest-ever recall of beef and the conviction of two people found to have treated the cows cruelly. In that case, video showed downed cows being prodded with a folk lift.

The prosecutor in that case, San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Debbie Ploghaus, said that even if animals are headed to slaughter, California law says they must not be subject to "needless suffering."

"I would argue that whoever this person is, is causing needless suffering or inflecting unnecessary suffering," she said after listening to a description of the video.

Standard humane slaughter involves the cow being rendered unconscious by a single shot to the head from a pneumatic gun that fires a bolt through the skull to pierce the brain, according to federal regulations.

Veterinarians specializing in humane handling were a part of the USDA's rapid initial inspection that led to the shutdown at Central Valley Meat Co. The USDA told plant officials Sunday that it was withholding inspection marks and "immediately suspending the assignment of inspectors at the facility."

"It's a good sign that the USDA is taking this seriously, but I want to see what comes next," said Meier, adding the video will be posted on the organization's website Tuesday. "The footage clearly speaks for itself, but this is not an isolated incident. Investigation after investigation of these places is revealing cruelty."

Earlier this year, USDA tests on a dairy cow carcass at a Hanford rendering plant transfer facility showed it was infected with mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

Hanford is in the heart of the Central Valley dairy region where there are 1.6 million dairy cows.

 

 

Fucking assholes! Treat the animals with some damn respect, like most cowboys do (the ones that don't wind up not having a job for long). This is happening in my town, and it's fucking insufferable. Find the dickheads responsible and let them experience some "legitimate rape" in prison for a while.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

For a second I thought this was the grope thread and got excited.

[Cyber Rat]

Gripe #1: Borderlands is boring, unimaginative bullshit which uses multiplayer sandbox as a crutch to justify fun.

[VicariousShaner]

Gripe 1: Surrealist comedy is hard, and so many people instead make it the same thing as random humor. They look similar, but the main difference is that the former tends to be actually funny.

 

Gripe 2: Egorapter is very much random humor, and does not deserve any amount of the praise he gets. He doesn't seem like a terrible person in real life, at least.

[MasterDex]

Gripe College fees are messed up. They only affect the lower-middle classes, who can benefit the most from college. Where's the pompous heir with daddy's money charge? That should be a charge.

 

Gripe 2: Thanks to Revanchist, I won't be eating beef today, lest I think of the horrible torture my food has gone through before reaching my plate. I like playing with my food as much as the next cat but that shit's just wrong!

[Hot Heart]

Gripe College fees are messed up. They only affect the lower-middle classes, who can benefit the most from college. Where's the pompous heir with daddy's money charge? That should be a charge.

 

I'm a little ignorant on the whole fee thing nowadays, but isn't there supposed to be some sort of scheme for that, and a means-tested one at that? There should be, at any rate...

[TheRevanchist]

Gripe 2: Thanks to Revanchist, I won't be eating beef today, lest I think of the horrible torture my food has gone through before reaching my plate. I like playing with my food as much as the next cat but that shit's just wrong!

Sorry, Dex.

 

Gripe: Fundraising sucks balls. "Will you please buy this raffle ticket for a prize you will never win?"

[Thursday Next]

Gripe 2: Thanks to Revanchist, I won't be eating beef today, lest I think of the horrible torture my food has gone through before reaching my plate. I like playing with my food as much as the next cat but that shit's just wrong!

Sorry, Dex.

 

Gripe: Fundraising sucks balls. "Will you please buy this raffle ticket for a prize you will never win?"

 

Especially when suffixed with "It's just a bit of fun!"

 

Buying a slip of paper with a three digit number on it is not fun. If I got off on having numbered pieces of paper and hearing my number called out I'd go hang out at the local deli counter where they give them out for free and I am guaranteed to have my number called out eventually.

[Mal]

Videojuejo-related gripe uno: Shoots an arrow and have it stuck in the air by a rock. In the year 2012. Oh, okay.

[Mister Jack]

My power has been out for two days now and I'm so bored I feel like I'm about to lose my fucking mind.

[Mercurial]

Fap. 

[BrainHurtBoy...2]

Neutral Milk Hotel is doing their reunion tour, and have said that they're announcing more dates than the five they've currently announced, but I'm really tempted to just buy tickets for the Asheville, NC show on October 25th and drive down from Pittsburgh (where I don't live now, but where I'm moving later this year), which is, like, nine or ten hours, or something. I'm just afraid they'll announce they're touring the Northeast, later, and I'll have wasted money, effort, and time. I also worry, however, that the additional dates they're going to announce will be, like, Europe, or more of the South, or some shit like that, in which case I would miss them completely. I'm really considering just buying tickets to the NC show and then seeing them again if they go to the Northeast.

[Faiblesse Des Sens]

Buy tickets in every city and sell what you don't need later.

[Chewblaha]

See I want to see Iron Maiden this September when they hit Austin. So I saved up for that and realized I won't be able to go to Vegas next week for the Modern Masters (MTG) Grand Prix. This also means that my first trip to Austin to see Black Sabbath won't go through either.

[Strangelove]

Im drunk, so Im reviving really old threads.
Anyways, I hate when people hold parties at the bar or come from somewhere else to the bar and leave their fucking trash. Theyll leave boxes with pieces of cake inside and 20 or 30 paper plates on the tables and not bother to throw them away in a trash can. Theyll just leave their shit on our tables. Is that ok? Do you guys think thats ok? I would never do that. I would never think of it. If I brought something foreign into a business, I would dispose it once Im done. if anything, Id be grateful they let me bring it in in the first place.