It's the letting off steam forum
We can post about anything here even if they seem to be first world problems
Is the message behind the thread to stop posting?
My mother has been on a family history blitz and while getting quite unexpectedly emotional over those family members lost to the famine and those who lived through harsh harsh times, a thought struck me: what if I invented a time machine and sat down with these ancestors and explained to them why my life was so awful because:
I'm sure I'd find a sympathtic ear.
- people are annoying on airplanes
- people are annoying in cinemas
- sometimes people don't say thank you or please
- even though I have a house, a house that has heating, a house that has plumbing, a house that is insulated, sometimes my HD digital tv subscription service sometimes goes wrong and I lose programmes I've recorded, or sometimes have to go for several hours with no access to tv at all
- etc
My mother has been on a family history blitz and while getting quite unexpectedly emotional over those family members lost to the famine and those who lived through harsh harsh times, a thought struck me: what if I invented a time machine and sat down with these ancestors and explained to them why my life was so awful because:
I'm sure I'd find a sympathtic ear.
- people are annoying on airplanes
- people are annoying in cinemas
- sometimes people don't say thank you or please
- even though I have a house, a house that has heating, a house that has plumbing, a house that is insulated, sometimes my HD digital tv subscription service sometimes goes wrong and I lose programmes I've recorded, or sometimes have to go for several hours with no access to tv at all
- etc
a thought struck me: what if I invented a time machine and sat down with these ancestors and explained to them why my life was so awful because:
.
Oh lighten up Latrade. We live in the age we live in and are obviously going to find things about our day to day life niggling. No one ever said the issues above are on a par with dying in the famine or whatever. We are just letting off steam because it's fun, cathartic, etc.
I would think you were pretty selfish for using your machine to go back in time to unload your problems onto them. They have enough to worry about without you moaning!
I would think you were pretty selfish for using your machine to go back in time to unload your problems onto them. They have enough to worry about without you moaning!
Every thing you just said, but instead relating to my post. Except perhaps with an irony sign about me being asked to lighten up given 12 pages of largely petty rants. It's fine, I get the joke, I just find a constant drive to find something to complain about niggling, s'all.
Especially cruel when I unload my woes about kids in a cinema who then go out and play football and then tell the ancestor that unfortunately time travel rules mean I can't intefer in their lives, but they should really, really enjoy the next few days and hours, almost as if it were their last.
Latrade is right. There are some people on here who would complain about the fluidity of water. I went back over some posts and one person was complaining about a dog barking at 8.30am on a Saturday morning, another was moaning about ongoing house alarms going off from time to time, others were complaining that they had no contact with their neighbours, some never knew their neighbours. Somebody else was objecting to children crying - Were you ever young yourselves? They all blamed their neighbours and not themselves.
No problems with people letting off steam, but when I offered some solutions e.g ask your neighbour who he/she is, ask around to who would have a mobile phone number for the landlord with the faulty alarm etc etc. Also, I offered ideas on how to get to know your neighbours. I got creamed by some of the MOANERS.
Latrade is right, please let him/her alone and look inwards.
The above is not meant to hurt anybody's feelings, I'm just calling the situations as they are.
So you are moaning about people moaning??
The above is not meant to hurt anybody's feelings, I'm just calling the situations as they are.
Simple solution - don't look in Letting Off Steam if these things annoy you.
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