Room Ruddy-Aggravating 2.0

[ricardo shillyshally]

I don't understand Soaps! Or why they are so popular. Although I was aware that there was an adults version of Hollyoaks, and wondered what a late night version of TBBT would be like! I was addicted to those Scandanavian crime dramas. It's something to do with being contemporary, and aware. They link the highs and lows of characters personal lives, and weave it into the political/national zeitgeist, via the multi faceted plot. But they also have great soundtracks. It's amazing how soundtracks can create tension, and pace.

[ricardo shillyshally]

I know Liam Neeson has been in many films, incl: The Phantom Menace, but when he stars, do he or his family, ever just have a peaceful holiday!!!

[ricardo shillyshally]

There's tons of merch at cafepress.com I find it incredible that they even market, 'die sheldon die' bags,shirts,magnets. No I like the idea. I want them!

[ricardo shillyshally]

I think Katherine Ryan is brilliantly funny. What I find 'aggravating' is that no one tells the truth anymore, everyone is so concerned about their image/earnings, that they all put on the false front. What happens then is a slow decline as all the negativity builds up inside. It's got to the point that if someone in real life(or in a sitcom) tells the truth, the reaction is a slightly nervous laugh. Humans are weird!

[Wisp]

Meeting people at buildings you haven't been to before. I was supposed to meet a bunch of people from Uni at a club for "Film and Gaming Society" and I arrived 10 minutes after the stated time. The doors were locked and there was no sign of life. I hung around for 20 minutes and NOT A SOUL. Hence why I much prefer pissing about on message boards to organising shizzle.

[wellplayedpenny]

Granted this is a minor moan but nonetheless.... My gym is driving me crazy with their Sirius satellite radio station. It plays the same bloody songs no matter when I go whether it be 9 in the morning or 1:30 in the afternoon. And it's been like this for months with the addition of about three songs. What's the policy, one new song bi-monthly? Even worse, the music's on loud enough that I can't wear my mp3 player. Most tragic of all, it's a dance music station.

[queenoftheDales]

Granted this is a minor moan but nonetheless.... My gym is driving me crazy with their Sirius satellite radio station. It plays the same bloody songs no matter when I go whether it be 9 in the morning or 1:30 in the afternoon. And it's been like this for months with the addition of about three songs. What's the policy, one new song bi-monthly? Even worse, the music's on loud enough that I can't wear my mp3 player. Most tragic of all, it's a dance music station.

This happens at my gym too. I love EDM, but not for weightlifting and they play it at dance club decibels. It drives me nuts.

[Wisp]

I'm getting very sick of trying to socialise at Uni. There seems to be two distinct groups of people. Mousy anime/manga/comic book people who are already friends and WILL NOT talk to anyone else (Not that I see any friendship potential. Not a fan of japanese animation OR superhero blockbuster marathons, and when I talk to them I can tell they wish they were talking to someone who likes manga.) and then the party people who all live in housing together and get smashed every night. I'm a funny grey-blue area person, because I like a good film/box set marathon, but I'd also like to have a few drinks and banter with people, but the only sort of get-togethers that seem to be going on are purely designed to get everyone paraletic. I was so uncomfortable that I sat on the couch downing WKD until I was drunk enough to not care how awkward I felt trying to shout my name and the course I'm doing to very drunk people over the loud music, then some random fella snogged me and I went home. Rant, rant, rant. I'M TRYING. I'M REALLY TRYING. I've joined a film club, but all that seems to happen is

1. Enter club
2. Watch film in silence (all 7 of us)
3. Leave

I COULD DO THIS AT HOME. THEY SAID THERE WAS FREE FOOD. THERE WAS NOT. They even had a Wii out! Did anyone use it? NO! But Wiis are crap so that isn't suprising.

I'm also party annoyed by myself, because the last bunch of people I was vaguely mates with only became "mates" after I'd been around them for like 3 or 4 years. And now they are at different Unis far away, so I can only really talk to them the odd few times on Facebook. But I was never exactly best friends with them either... I'm strangely incapable of talking and behaving like myself until I've had regular interaction with a person or a party of persons for about a month. So it's not like people look at me and think "she looks like a laugh." I think my appearance might have something to do with it because although I have full hair and makeup done and usually make an effort, I'm horribly shy in person so the quieter people who ACTUALLY ARE like me might be put off because I don't look like them, but the party people will be put off by the fact that I'm much shyer than my appearance suggests. But I refuse to change how I look and how I am in person, because the only way you know who is real friend material is if they embrace or at least deal with what you've got going on, as it is and not as you're trying to make it seem. It's all horrible. I don't know what to do. I'm feeling very isolated and I think I've taken this rant too far, but there you go.

[Idle Miscreant]

I was on the cusp of buggering off, so apologies if I can't say anything useful at this precise moment. My feeble little "like" was meant as solidarity.
It all sounds both horrible and tragically hysterical. I'm delighted I'm not going through it.
You're an artist, so you'll always be an outsider in the allegorical sense. Lucky you. Once the idiocy of university is over, you'll run into other outsiders. I met my friends through drifting around Europe like a wanker for eight years. There's certainly an element of chance there! I am not shy however, which might indeed make a difference. Your confidence will pick up as your work improves, regardless, and eventually your work will probably occupy most of your brain anyway, like a horrendous artistic parasite. So look forward to that.
In the meantime I predict you'll stumble over some fellow oddball within the next month or so. Patience! What has it been, a month? Pshaw.
Don't drink WKD for fucksake! Remember Bernard? "It tastes like a choc-ice fell into a bottle of bleach."

DRINK WINE.

[ricardo shillyshally]

Love the 'artistic parasite', took me years to kill it! It's weird, because you find out later that loads of people thought you were cool, but were too intimidated to talk to you. Best to adopt a detached persona, then vet them. I just consummed the library, used the facilities, and even refused a tutor in third year.