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Post by Incog Neato on Jul 20, 2008 9:17:37 GMT -5
Something that baffles me is ... why I have 4 boxes of Kleenex ready for use at my workdesk. I'm running out of room in my drawers to put them! What's even MORE strange is that, usually, they don't hand out tissues. :/ Oh, and here's something that will always haunt me: - Why do people become MONSTERS when they go out shopping!? Seriously, it's like they lose ALL common sense, etiquette, and courtesy and everyone just becomes selfish and that things should go THEIR way ONLY and blame poor store clerks for everything that goes wrong. >:( (Or maybe these sort of people are monsters to begin with?)
Sometimes, I regret not telling off customers during my last few days during my retail stint. I guess I was just conscious of the fact that future employers may need to call the supervisor and manager and stuff when doing reference checks. :P
Other baffling stuff: - Credit card customer service folks that INSIST you take the goddamn card insurance. All I want to do is ACTIVATE the bloody card. Stop forcing it on me. :((((((
It was sort of silly too cuz I kept resisting and then, soon, the guy curtly told me that it has been activated and promptly hung up. ^^; I suppose they work on commission? :O
- Really loud parties at night. No respect for neighbours much?
- The black hole next door. I find it EXTREMELY baffling that such selfish people can exist in this world.
- Public washrooms and even the washrooms at work AND the lunchroom at work can look like a tornado hit them. Why are people so inconsiderate? It may not be your home but OTHER people use the facilities too! >:(
- Urine on floor or toilet seats. I'd LIKE to think it's children that can't aim that are the cause of this but sometimes, I really wonder .... Oh. And SHOE PRINTS on the toilet seat. Do people really squat or STAND UP to do their stuff?!? I know some folks are deathly afraid of germs and crap on toilet seats but man, at least CLEAN off the dirty shoe marks afterward. >:(!
- How come it's okei for men to keep hair on their legs and underarms but not for women? Stupid society "rules"...
- Dumbass telemarketers that cause bizarre phone numbers to show up on call display like 012-345-6789. Like I'd pick up the phone if I see THAT. >_>
- Why we can't find an alterate for petroleum/oil yet. I figure if we reduce our reliance on oil then them dang nations that make moola off of the stuff will stop holding everyone hostage and gas prices won't be so bloody high .... I like looking at things in a simplistic way! :D
- Our need to keep shooting people and objects out into space. Is space exploration REALLY that freakin' important? I'd like to think that we have a crap ton of stuff to worry about on Earth already!
- How Canada doesn't have corporeal punishment. Well, it's really not THAT baffling but it's sort of annoying to know that PROVEN *repeat* offenders are sitting around in jail using up taxpayers' money. >_> Just off them already.
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Post by Kimimi on Jul 20, 2008 10:34:19 GMT -5
[/li][li]How Canada doesn't have corporeal punishment. Well, it's really not THAT baffling but it's sort of annoying to know that PROVEN *repeat* offenders are sitting around in jail using up taxpayers' money. >_> Just off them already. [/quote] Killing murderers makes you no better than them, and it also means they escape punishment. Death is an escape, because they don't ever have to live with the consequences of what they've done. Here's two examples - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman...However, the victims' families said they felt cheated[15] as his suicide meant that they would never have the satisfaction of Shipman's confession, and answers as to why he had committed his crimes.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_HuntleyThe first one had the last laugh, and the families will forever be tortured by unanswered questions. The latter is suffering for what he did. |
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Post by Incog Neato on Jul 20, 2008 10:59:04 GMT -5
Killing murderers makes you no better than them, and it also means they escape punishment. Death is an escape, because they don't ever have to live with the consequences of what they've done. Yes, but I noted REPEAT offenders. I figure that if you did it once or twice squatted in jail for whatever amount of time, and then, for some reason, came out and did it AGAIN, then something is wrong with the system. Granted, I have no idea how much of the jailed population are repeaters but I figure that there are some! |
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Post by Nieca on Jul 20, 2008 11:21:33 GMT -5
hmm....how can the owl get the the center of a tootsieroll tootsiepop (in 3 licks, mind you!) without breaking his beak? I'd break my teeth if I didn't that.  That baffles me |
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Post by Nieca on Jul 20, 2008 11:55:56 GMT -5
Actually...this one is easy. Survival. We are a planet of consumers...and eventually we are going to run out of the things we consume. Yes...we could wait until there is an absolute need for space exploration, but it doesn't hurt to dabble in it right now. Forward thinking.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jul 20, 2008 13:23:31 GMT -5
Why do so many people (mostly men) keep saying that all girls are whores who can't keep their legs closed until they're married? Because all men are vile abominations which can't keep their hands off of other women even after they're married! ;) Kidding, only some men are like that. No, what it is, is guys like me who have bad experiences and feel like we got the raw hands -- the one with no pairs or straights, nothing matches or works, while everyone else gets the deuces and the jokers. Basically, the world's out to shit on us, so we wanted to shit right back. We get angry, we retaliate, it becomes a fullblown war, because we simply like blowing everything out of proportion. That's just my view though, it doesn't always apply. Edit: Some girls really can't keep their legs closed, though. That baffles me, because I've dated some who couldn't. This led to many bad things, and ultimately, became the one factor that lead me to have so much difficulty trusting people. So much so, that I infact shun society and have abandoned the world. I admit that I am the type of guy who gets into these things with high expectations, but please -- whether or not I have high expectations, don't fuck around on me, don't cheat on me, just don't give me any reason to hate you when it's over. That's all I'd ask. |
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Jul 20, 2008 18:12:16 GMT -5
Not to mention that space travel is going to be hella important if we want long-term survival as a species. Earth, as it is, will inevitably be impacted by something that will render it uninhabitable to us. As such, we eventually need to get off the planet and into other worlds if we're going to survive that.
As for capital punishment, well, that's a lengthy debate indeed. But the short version is that eye for an eye is not justice.
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Post by Del Stimpson on Jul 21, 2008 9:44:34 GMT -5
Anyways, more baffling stuffs: - Soooo.... whenever there's a sale in a shop and there's a grand sign outside saying '75% OFF!', I always wonder, where on earth are these mysterious relics upon which these discounts apply?  (The last time I saw this, it was in a bookstore and the only item this applied to was a rained upon, stuck together copy of the grand bestseller 'Learn Microsoft Word and MS-DOS!' or something like so.) - Why on earth does the Pakistan Post never deliver my mails to me? (or in other words... where's my parcel?! I want midnight mail delivery now! D: Rargh!) -Infact, why doesn't the Post Office deliver anyone's mails? What do they do with the mails? I wonder if all the undelivered mails by now have gathered and developed life forces of their own and have just eaten up all the postmen..? - Why do one's cats never respond when you're calling them by their name sweetly, but when you start cursing and threaten to throw their dinner to the pigeons they come running? (I'm starting to think the cats think the curse/swear word is their name!) 75% off sale tends to translate to "For the love of god, please buy this thing that we can't sale!" It might depended on if you live in a large area or a small town. I often hear less complaints from people who live in small towns. I'm lucky enough live in a place where the mailman actually cares about getting the right mail to the right person. I think that cats just live to piss us off. |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jul 21, 2008 13:56:02 GMT -5
Something that's baffled me lately: Why am I dreaming about women all the time? I have a site where I'm hellbent on saying "to hell with you" and now I'm dreaming of all this cuddly, affectionate shit. Four days in a row. Does my subconscious hate me that much, or am I just not doing what I should? I mean... being hellbent and stuff, when my subconscious clearly wants to tell my conscious mind something about romance and women. Am I just running from (or burying) my real self or am I building who I am from experience? You know, I mean it's odd that I tell others it's okay to be who they really are, but I question if I'm really who I am, or if I'm just pretending to be who I am; running away from my dormant desires and telling the world to screw itself because I'm just flat-out scared of what may happen if I opened myself to the possibilities?
Damned philosophy, riddles and dreams.
Am I on the right path? Am I doing what's right for me? Is it okay to hide from the world because I'm afraid it'll serve as a means to torment and destroy my mind?
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Jul 21, 2008 22:36:12 GMT -5
I would say that you are trying a little to hard to convince yourself that people are as terrible as you tend to advocate. After all, you do seem to not hate us, and we're mostly people (Not so sure about rocket).
I believe in general, and I am not saying this is you or your case, being a hermit out of hatred of others isn't the right thing to do. Being a hermit because you love solitude, that's perfectly fine. But doing so because you're trying to avoid people will, I think, start to eat at one. Because you're not isolated because you enjoy it, but rather because you're avoiding something. So that thing your avoiding will eventually begin to stir in your subconscious. Especially if you know there are upsides to it.
This being said, I personally suspect your time of isolation won't be permenant; eventually you'll feel refreshed enough to go out again. I may be wrong, but that's the feeling I get.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jul 21, 2008 22:53:59 GMT -5
According to my card, that is what I'm supposed to do. Use this as a chance to grow, to improve, and move on to the next phase. Perhaps instead of avoiding people 100% my whole life, I'll strengthen my defenses and walk the world with as much guard as I can muster up. Perhaps it won't be the death of me as I have predicted.
I admit, I too notice that I have some slight care for this world -- even if not one that links directly myself to another, as more of a silent patriarch than a friend or lover. The next steps are hope and trust -- without being hopeful of the good things possible, I cannot be expected to trust in those around me, more than as a guide, a guard, or a paternal figure. It's more or less the difference between your friend and your co-worker. You may not get along, but s/he helps you get your proverbial ship going.
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Post by Justin on Jul 22, 2008 1:14:27 GMT -5
Killing murderers makes you no better than them, and it also means they escape punishment. Death is an escape, because they don't ever have to live with the consequences of what they've done. Yes, but I noted REPEAT offenders. I figure that if you did it once or twice squatted in jail for whatever amount of time, and then, for some reason, came out and did it AGAIN, then something is wrong with the system. Granted, I have no idea how much of the jailed population are repeaters but I figure that there are some! You need to watch the escape from LA/New York movies... Basically LA has been turned into a prison city, and you cant escape. You stay there and hope to god you don't die.... kinda like what Australia was 300 years ago ha ha |
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Post by Yakra on Jul 22, 2008 11:19:45 GMT -5
This'll be a very haphazard comment... :'D Something that baffles me is ... why I have 4 boxes of Kleenex ready for use at my workdesk. I'm running out of room in my drawers to put them! What's even MORE strange is that, usually, they don't hand out tissues. :/ Oh, and here's something that will always haunt me: - Why do people become MONSTERS when they go out shopping!? Seriously, it's like they lose ALL common sense, etiquette, and courtesy and everyone just becomes selfish and that things should go THEIR way ONLY and blame poor store clerks for everything that goes wrong. >:( (Or maybe these sort of people are monsters to begin with?)
Sometimes, I regret not telling off customers during my last few days during my retail stint. I guess I was just conscious of the fact that future employers may need to call the supervisor and manager and stuff when doing reference checks. :P
Tissues: Because World War III might break out at any moment and you might be stuck all alone, tissue-less, with a runny nose. Good to be prepared! Otherwise, I believe these tissue boxes are actually alive and when we're not looking, they pop out their legs and casually migrate to a place near us. XD For some inexplicable reason, I have 5 boxes in my studio which is not big at all! (I mean... the place is not THAT huge that it would be a pain to get up and reach out for that one single box?) Which brings me to my baffling tissue point: -Why on earth is it that when one needs a tissue most desperately, these 5 boxes just woosh off and are no where to be found?? ??? And the retail point brought this to my mind: - Why do normal, decent people suddenly turn into rabid, starving, uncouth monsters the moment the buffet table is laid out at a wedding? O_o One would think they've never seen food and have been starving for weeks! Wait for your turn people! (I don't know if this happens in you guys' places though! Happens here! Each time!) Killing murderers makes you no better than them, and it also means they escape punishment. Death is an escape, because they don't ever have to live with the consequences of what they've done. Yes, but I noted REPEAT offenders. I figure that if you did it once or twice squatted in jail for whatever amount of time, and then, for some reason, came out and did it AGAIN, then something is wrong with the system. Granted, I have no idea how much of the jailed population are repeaters but I figure that there are some! Well... corporeal punishment is one of those things I'm a bit divided about but it did bring this up in my mind (though this is also more of a peeve): -Why is it that people who stolen millions of er... money, killed people, ripped off the common masses, get one year of very comfy VIP jailing and then deported off to a cushy little country where they can live in their palaces, while those people who couldn't pay off a debt for a sewing machine get life imprisonment? :( -And... er... do soaps expire? What happens when they're past their expiry date?? (I was opening a new bar of soap this morning and noticed it expired in... May? But I can't see whats supposed to happen? Doesn't smell bad... No horns sprouting out....) It might depended on if you live in a large area or a small town. I often hear less complaints from people who live in small towns. I'm lucky enough live in a place where the mailman actually cares about getting the right mail to the right person. It used to be like so once upon a time... :( Pooh! And then nunuu's black hole shifted, divided and moved here into the Post Office... X'D |
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Post by Incog Neato on Jul 22, 2008 18:45:55 GMT -5
Sporks are baffling! I dunno, man. If there was little chunks of vegetables or noodles or something in my soup. I'd just use a damn spoon to eat them. :P
Getting MapQuest and Google Maps to load on my computer at work is baffling! The initial load up of the images and refreshing the maps (zooming in and out included) is SLOW as HELL. It's frustrating and annoying since I need to use them so much. >o<
Jaywalkers that walk slowly across the street even though you're zipping down the road toward them at 70+ km/h (cuz the speed limit is 70 km/h). >_> Baffling!
Cops with radar guns on busy roads during rush hour. Uh ... generally, drivers can't really speed at that time during the day even if they wanted to ... Baffling!
My endless amounts of ponders! Baffling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by rocket on Jul 23, 2008 0:26:19 GMT -5
[/li][li]Why we can't find an alterate for petroleum/oil yet. I figure if we reduce our reliance on oil then them dang nations that make moola off of the stuff will stop holding everyone hostage and gas prices won't be so bloody high .... I like looking at things in a simplistic way! :D [/quote] That is gold coming from a person living in Canada... Unlike what they would like you to pubically believe. the mideast is not the controlling force of oil. The united states has 3 major sources for oil that cycles between the 3 on who sells the US the most oil. the 3 major sources are 1. south america 2. canada... Justinzero can tell you all about what they did in his provence. 3. middle east |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jul 23, 2008 14:22:38 GMT -5
My subconscious made a more believable move. My latest dream, 5th in a row, featured all of my old friends who I haven't yet come to hate, just simply fell out of contact with for years. I don't envision myself hanging out with them or even talking to them again, but it was a nice change of pace from the typical "romantic interest" dreams. For once, I am not baffled.
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Post by Red Hairdo on Jul 23, 2008 14:49:01 GMT -5
[/li][li]Why we can't find an alterate for petroleum/oil yet. I figure if we reduce our reliance on oil then them dang nations that make moola off of the stuff will stop holding everyone hostage and gas prices won't be so bloody high .... I like looking at things in a simplistic way! :D [/quote] That is gold coming from a person living in Canada... Unlike what they would like you to pubically believe. the mideast is not the controlling force of oil. The united states has 3 major sources for oil that cycles between the 3 on who sells the US the most oil. the 3 major sources are 1. south america 2. canada... Justinzero can tell you all about what they did in his provence. 3. middle east[/quote] About your question nunuu, I can give you answers. There are alternatives to substitute petroleum/oil. But there are many things not known by most, and much is censored by the midia. I guess especially in the US. This is a wide subject. In Brazil, people here managed to develop the "BioOil" (not sure how it's called in english). These come from plants, I guess especially from sunflower's seeds. They don't yet completely substitue oil, but they have that potential. I guess kind of recently (last year?) Bush came to Brazil to discuss about a contract related to BioOil. Also here in Brazil part of most vehicles' fuel is now composed of BioOil as well. Just a bit, I forgot the quantities, but these will keep growing up as the years follow. They polute much, much, much less. Also there were other successful alternatives for oil also developed here in Brazil, but the researchers' house/ laboratory/ whatever got burned down (not only as an attempt to destroy the project, but also to kill them, so that oil-related market isn't put at risk). Luckily these scientists were away when that happened, but the project got lost. And I guess they stopped going further on it, since they were putting their lives (and everyone's that are related to them) at risk. And that kind of stuff didn't happen just once. Plus, it may have happened many times, since when that happens, it's censored by TV and newspapers. Oil is money. Oil is market. People who own oil-related companies... these kind of things... they don't want an alternative for Oil to be found. They make a living out of Oil (and are filthy rich). Some hire hitmen to stop the appearance of oil alternatives. The US, for example, buy lots of oil, but they also profit from it in many forms. And since their government rules the world, they don't want to lose that position. (That's also why in school in the US they teach many wrong things like "the Amazonia is owned by all the countries/ by us", among many other stuff. So that when/ if necessary, they would have a false reason to take it over and their people wouldn't prostest.) (For those who don't know, the Amazonic Forest has THE biggest oil accumulation in the world, more than the middle east. About 80% of that region is in Brazil's territories.) All of that is related to politics and it is a VERY wide and complicated subject to explain or talk about. Perhaps it would do good if I grabbed and checked my school notebook (the real, paper-made one :P) to get and write down more accurate information. A book could be written about this. (There ARE many books only focused on that subject.) Manipulation... just... be careful not to be fooled with "what is said around". =( On a more realistic note, I personally believe it will be too late when/if oil gets totally substituted. The ice at the poles will melt, and horrible changes in the world are likely to occur. Plus the Ozone "Hole" will become a "Cave". xDD And not to mention what meaning "water" will hold to us in the future... "Drinkable Water", for that matter. You can also find charges regarding this subject... like, try searching for "homo pollutions" or something. It's about what mankind would mutate into within time if we are/were to live on a "poluttion world". xD It's funny, but crostesque and it's something to seriously worry about. |
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Post by korzic on Jul 23, 2008 21:50:03 GMT -5
Hmm, there's not too much that baffles me in life. A lot of things I just don't care enough about to look into further, so they don't really bother me. In regards to people and why they do what they do, I can usually figure those things out by trying to place myself in their shoes. So, I try not to criticize people's actions too harshly, as I very well could have turned out like them (still can, God forbid). In most cases, I find that at one point or another, I was/am like them, although usually to a different degree (for better or worse).
Anyway, here is one thing that currently baffles me:
- Why does a new calendar day start in the middle of the night? Why not start it at 6:00 AM (or whenever the sun usually starts to come up - I'm generally not up at that time, so I don't know for certain =p), when the day actually starts? It just doesn't make sense to me to technically start a new day in the middle of the night.
Red Hairdo, about the oil alternative thing: I remember listening to a radio talk show host a while back talk about how some people in the U.S. (I think) were supposedly assassinated for researching alternatives to oil. Whether or not that actually happened I don't know (I don't care enough to look into it =p), but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. What you said about money and power I think is right on in this case.
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Post by rocket on Jul 23, 2008 22:01:01 GMT -5
About your question nunuu, I can give you answers. Ya sorry nunuu and red hairdo. I just thought it was a little funny that canada is one of the dang nations. Anyway there is a really cool company in canada called railpower. they are modifing old desel train engines to gauther power from running desel and converting it to power. it is then stored in batteries for later use. then later when the train is running it use the motor powered from the batteries instead of the desel engine. |
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Post by Red Hairdo on Jul 23, 2008 22:08:16 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't know why we're not using french fry grease yet. It's already been proven to be a 100% perfect substitute for gasoline, and works on all diesel car engines with no modifications whatsoever (just filtration)... so why haven't we started to mass-market this? It's not like we don't have enough grease to go around!  -Tom Haha xD I got totally amazed when I saw on TV a guy frying potatoes and tons of food in the back of his car to then use the used oil as fuel. XD Man, I want that car. The problem though is that it'd still polute lots, I think. Potatoes anytime = I approve!  |
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