To Be Honest, you're the "noob"

Now don't get me wrong I've played my fair share of multi-player games in my days, not as much as I should have recently (thank you very much, university) but I still find it funny every time I hear someone call someone else a "noob".

Generally this happens after said someone has killed said someone else in a game, usually in a First Person Shooter. Now let's stop and think for a second. You are making your merry way around the game, and behold someone manages to kill you. Of course you insist on flaming the chat dialog with as many obscene words as you can and of course let us not forget the word "noob". Urban dictionary defines a "noob" to be

	A "noob" is a person who is new or inexperienced in a subject, usually an online game. Noobs are usually annoying and excessively stupid

Now that sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it, now who could it be. Oh, wait, its YOU. By my calculations, 90% of people that call someone a "noob" are "noobs" themselves. Doesn't it seem ironic enough that when you are killed by someone and you call them a "noob" then WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?

So next time you are playing a game and you think about calling someone a "noob" stop and think, am I the "noob"?

What a Stupid System!

At our school there are some pretty bad kids but that's every school.
There are druggie kids, bad behavior kids, kids that just don't give a shit.

Now if I were the principal I would want to get rid of the druggie kids, not to mention the idiots who think it's cool to smoke at lunch time, but no. Our principle wants to try and get rid of how people wag school. Now I have to admit that's a big issue in every school. But here is how they try to stop it. They tried to introduce the fingerprinting system.

This involves every student scanning their finger every morning and moving roll call to the end of the day. Isn't that invading a little TOO MUCH PRIVACY!!!??? Scanning your finger? Only the police should be able to have that on record not some dumb school, no?

Instead of kicking these dumb druggie and smoking kids out of the school they do this instead.

Well it failed miserably for the school as the majority of the parents refused to allow them to take our fingerprints so sucked in!!

Fuck this I'm going to a bar

Rebuild

Well as you can all tell, the site has gone through a bit of a rebuild, and after our monkeys worked and slaved away for many hours, most of which without pay (all of them... shhhh... ), Yet Another Rant Blog 1.0 is up. That's right, we've gone gold. Through our transition, we at the YARB team would like to thank you for being patient, and we hope that you'll bare with us as we work through the transition to getting everything up and working. We are aware that there are a few small graphical glitches, but the site as a whole is up and running. Hopefully by 6:00PM Thursday (AEST) absolutely everything will be up to date, and up to standard with 1.0.

We'd like to make a few thanks, first of all to you readers, but also to Panos Efstathiadis, for the tools used to create our new signatures, and Nadine Pau for the photostock we used for the new header.

With much glorified hate, the Yet Another Rant Blog team

School Kids with Bus Passes

I was catching the bus the other day and reading my buss pass when I noticed something very interesting...
"The user of this card must wait until all paying customers have boarded the bus before boarding"

Hmm...
Now how many times have you been at a bus stop and had HOARDS of small annoying school children run onto the bus in front of you? I personally catch a bus to TAFE every day, and I get on at the very first stop. I used to pay for my tickets, as my bus pass is fairly new, and I have NEVER ONCE gotten a seat on that bus.

First of all: Why do they only have one bus for such a large amount of school kids? And it’s one of those old school buses. A new bus or a bendy bus would suit all of us perfectly. I asked the driver about that and apparently "the proper funds are not available".
I smell bullshit!
Proper funds? You have a million of these buses empty every day going through useless routes. Just switch them over!
What I believe is that the people who drive the new buses simply do not like annoying school kids, I mean who does?
School kids are worse than babies. They shit more, swear more, smell worse, scream more, and seem to need their mummies there to stop them from turning into Satan-incarnate.

Secondly, why do transit officers NEVER enforce this rule? It would teach those kids a lesson in manners, which is much needed. I mean to anecdote for a second, on the radio there was this guy yesterday who was talking about his bus, every day these school kids would rush on and push him out of the way, well one day he counted it as self defense and hit one of them. He won the court case, apparently charging into him to get on the bus was assault. These kids need to learn that!

I don't like public transport very much and it is entirely due to school kids. My solution would be to travel at irregular hours, but that does not fit in to my schedule at all. So the simple solution is to educate the bloody school kids. Now lets stand up together and actually get something taught about manners in our schools.

42 Years Stupid

I love gaming. It's not as high up on my passion scale as music, but I think it's a blast. But I am sick of people bitching about nothing*! I love in-game humor, people joking about how much they suck, or people mocking 11 year olds who aren't actually old enough to own many of the MA games out there, yet still do, and bitch when everyone else is better than them.

However, today I was playing my favorite of the month, Team Fortress 2. I joined a server to see a message in the chatbox straight away saying "I don't care, I'm 42". I try to ignore it, but on and on the same player keeps making references to his(or I guess it could technically be a her... Who am I kidding, of course it's "his") age; "Someone tell me a good joke, I haven't smiled since I was a teenager" "English hasn't changed since I went to highscool" it goes on and on, and as it goes on and on, i realize more and more that this man is probably about 12. He keeps trying to call other players out on bad grammar, or using slang. Well sorry we don't have time to write an 800 word Essay on the movements of the opposing team because all of us will have been shot, set on fire, or exploded in that period of time.

Finally someone calls him out for using "y'all" and he says "y'all is a real word. Fuck the north. the north sucks big donkey dick" and I thought, What the fuck, well, Deep South? (is it alright if I call you Deep South? Of course it is, You're your brother's son and dang proud of it) You put so much effort into the illusion that you may have actually reached the age of reason and maturity, only to throw it all away in an utterly stupid comment. Stop being such a damn hypocrite. Your age really doesn't matter when you're playing games. It's funny when 11 year olds use the microphone, it's great when an adult takes part of what most people would consider a young-folk's activity, but there's no need to go around bragging that you hurtled around the god damn sun X times more than person Y!!!

*Yes I'm well aware that I am bitching about pretty much nothing. The big difference is I'm not ruining someone else's game experience by doing it.

Technophobia

Ok something that has been plaguing my mind for quite a while now. It's people who buy things to make life easier and then do not use them such as when a mother wont use a dryer to dry clothing in...HELLO?!, it's made for drying clothing and it does a pretty damn good job of it or when someone has a dishwasher and decides to wash their dishes by hand. And yes I do take into account that it uses electricity...well, so does the fucking fridge and you dont store your food in an esky because it uses less electricity.

Technology has been created so that a once difficult task is now, Hey presto! not difficult.

Stub post

Self-applied Window Tinting

Ok what are these people thinking. I cannot tell you how many people have this same problem. What makes them think they have the ability to apply window tinting by them selves? I mean if the industry has bothered to base an entire job on it why do you think you have the ability to do what they spent a life doing.

I bet these people are the ones that sat at home spending an hour attempting to apply contact to there school books but ultimately failing. If you wanted bubbles to appear all over your car I suggest you aim for the nearest river and just keep driving until you stop breathing.

I mean honestly does this not bother you readers. Shabby tinting that is half falling of a window or cars that look like they are a bottle of soft drink, someone already popped the top off the drivers head and drank the little intelligence they may have had, if any.

Say NO to tinting your own windows, nothing drops the price of a $20 000 machine then a half assed attempt at making there car “cool”. So lets think, $20 000 car a tint job can cost as little as $100 but you think you can make it worth the $20 extra it costs to fail at putting on window tinting instead of paying a professional (its called professional for a reason), and as a consequence, ruining the car for ever.

Television Ads

TV ads are another thing that bug the hell our of me but I cant do much about at all.

Ads have been around since TV began and are being shown more and more every year. Am I wrong here? How many of you readers believe that ads are so annoying? I bet a lot of you people just answered yes didn't you..

I understand that TV is one of the most powerful ways of getting ads across to the public but lately it has been ridiculous!!! Ads are taking over our TV. You're watching your favorite TV show that you never miss and you end up finding it hard to watch the episode through because the ads are too much..

I was watching my show, Supernatural last Monday, and I decided then I would write about TV ads for my next blog. I counted how many ads there were in that 1 hour period. There was a total of 5 ads in that hour and each ad spanned for about four minutes and around that mark. Now if I'm correct, 5 ads each lasting around 4 minutes equals up to 20 minutes of ads in one hour!!!

I think it's time that TV channels rethink how many ads they are showing because in my opinion it effects ratings....

Musical Elitsts

I've a bit of a musical "bent" and that means I'm constantly viewing various music and guitar forums, and I've noticed something. There are a lot of elitist fucks out there. Just because I can't afford a custom made guitar, and boutique amplifier*, it's simply not possible that I'm as good a guitar player, if not better than they are. They have this strange need to justify every purchase they make, by making people who buy different, or less expensive gear feel like crap, or like they made the wrong choice.

For some reason, no amplifier with a valve* pre-amp* can ever be good, EVER, and it's all just a marketting gimmick. Well i'm sorry you payed $5000 on your all valve amp, and effects chain* just for practice, and then played a Vox Valvetronix* amp and realized that IT'S BETTER!
Music is about personal taste. If I went and bought your gear because you told me to, then it wouldn't be my music anymore, it'd be a copy of yours.

Just try not to forget, there's room for everyone in this musical world, and it's a process of individuality, and if the whole world sounded, and acted like you, then the world would suck pretty bad.

*Footnote: I'm sorry about all the jargon involved. For those of you who don't know quite as much about music technology, here's a little lexicon
Boutique Amplifier: handmade, usually high quality amplifier
Valve: transistor technology used back before they created solid state transistors
Pre-Amp: The part of the amplifier that effects the sound (equalizer)
Effects chain: Set of pedals linked together to create sound effects
Vox Valvetronix: Vox made amplifier which has a valve pre-amp, and in-built effects

Give it some thought

Questions for discussion.

Hypothetically "IF" it were possible to move at the speed of light i.e. a car travelling at the speed of light, and you turned on the head lights, Where would the light go?

For this question we need to take into account how light works, how it travels, and that light cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

Please discuss and tell me your thoughts.

Artificial body parts maybe?

Has anyone really thought of how weak the human body is?

Think about it, we need to shut down for at least 8 hours a day (sleep),think of something that you own and think on how long you can run it for before it needs to be shutdown. We need to re-fuel our systems periodically (breakfast, lunch and dinner) think of how often you re-fuel your car, Im sure that you don't re-fuel three times day. We rely on an outside heat source (clothing) to keep our tempurature uniform in extreme environments, now think of any animal a lion, bear or dog, they all have fur and they can all adapt to different environments, what have we got, a bit of hair on our head and even then it only lasts around half of our life.

As a human we only live for a maximum of 90 years (not taking in to account the 8 hours a night we're shut down or sleeping), provided that we dont kill each other with weapons, or die from disease or natural disaster. Now 90 years may seem like a long time but if that was the case we wouldnt have all of these douche bags telling me how short my life is and that I should be doing something with it.

Bottom line mankind needs to find ways to extend and better these faults and increase our life span.

Why so much effort?

The other day i noticed something about my mum that i want to share. Whenever we are due to have guests over, she always go nuts and crazy over making the place look absolutely spotless.

Whether its people we have known for years who have been to our place many times before or not, its the same thing every time. Get up off your ass and help me tidy up.

Now my opinion on this matter is why spend all that time making the fake house? You're not fooling anyone by tidying up so why?

I was talking about this matter with my good mate, Shep and his opinion on this. He said that its just courtesy to make your house look nice for guests. He has a good point I have to admit, but come on, after a while it gets kind of annoying constantly making the house look nice for people.

I guess it is giving the guests good thoughts and all but if it's not fooling anyone then is it that much of priority to make the perfect house?

Some might not agree with me so comments are definitely welcome because as I say, there's nothing wrong with a little controversy on our blog.

Until next time!!

Production

Recently something was brought to my attention by a good friend of mine, and it's in relation to product downsizing.

Just in this month, or towards the end of last month, Cadbury decided to downsize it's Family Block from 250G to 200G. That's 20%, or 1/5th of the product gone, and while it is a little cheaper now, the price is going to creep back up slowly until we're paying premium price for only 80% of the product.

The worst is how difficult it is to notice the difference. When you pick up one of the new blocks you think "oh, they changed the wrapping to cardboard" and drop it in your cart, continuing your shopping. It's only when you put the old product beside the new one that you see the difference, and even then it's difficult. About 4mm off the side, 2mm off the top, and maybe 3mm thinner.

This kind of thing is happening everywhere, in all kinds of products we're slowly paying more and more for less and less, and we just keep right on buying it. If we showed some social responsibility and started boycotting the products, the manufacturers would learn to either drop the price, or increase the amount of product. The problem is we don't. The changes are so subtle, and we're usually so apathetic, that we keep right on buying it. We have the numbers advantage, but we never use it because it's just easier to shut up and do what we're told.

More and more jobs are being driven overseas to decrease manufacturing costs, our pay all stays the same, and yet things just keep getting more and more expensive, because there are people out there who have more money than anyone could possibly spend in a lifetime, and they keep demanding more. Noone deserves more money than what they could seriously spend in their entire life. Some people out there are so rich that they could spend a million dollars every few seconds, and yet the interest from their bank accounts would still be greater than what they spend, not even considering the money they continue raking in. But I digress;
It's about time we started standing up against corporate greed. Take some initiative for yourselves, and stop just taking the bullshit that the government, and large corporations are throwing at us by the bucketload.

Video games vs. Drinking & TV

I don't understand how people can judge me. Especially when it is my own family.
"you're always playing video games" Big whoop, you're always watching T.V.
What's the difference between watching T.V and sitting in front of my computer
playing games?

Well here it is...

1. When your sitting there watching T.V and doing nothing with your brain because "REALITY TV" has decided to think for you. WTF?! is the deal with reality TV anyway, I live it every day, I don't want to come home and watch other people do it.

When I'm at the computer or XBox 360 I am constantly challenging my mind to do better than before, solve puzzles and own whoever else I'm versing, compared to watching T.V I think playing video games is a goldmine of intellectual expansion.

2. People say " you are always cooped up in your room being anti-social" Hell yeah I am, have you seen other people...they suck....anyway, I'm not being anti-social as I am socializing with others over the internet, if I was to sit in my room doing nothing but staring at the ceiling then you can say I'm anti-social.

If anything you're the ones being anti-social, what is so social about sitting down on a couch (ruining your posture) and NOT talking with others while watching crap about how much weight someone lost. You aren't talking to anyone else....you're not expanding your mind (if anything your decreasing your mental capacity) and your certainly not sharing your point of view about anything relevant with anyone else.

3. I hate it when someone accuses me of having no life if I stay home on the weekend and spend time playing video games, watching movies with my girlfriend and NOT going out and getting
pissed as a newt. WTF kind of life is that to lead anyway. No-one in my age bracket has any clue about how to drink responsibly, and also will have no memory of what happened the night before. I don't mind a drink every now and then, but going to a bar spending all of my money and then not having any recollection of what I spent it on does not sound like a life to me.

So next time you think, OMG my son/daughter(in rare cases)/someone I barley know is so anti-social and wont ever spend time socializing with others, you should ask yourself what in god's name ( assuming He exists ) is so good about what you do and what gives you the right to push your lifestyle onto them.

What makes your lifestyle the right choice???? That's pretty much saying that one religion is right.

But that rant is for another day...

Special Days

I’m sure as most of you know now its mother’s day on Sunday. Yay what a joyous occasion. Well for the mother anyways. But there’s one thing I don’t get. What’s with mother’s day? I mean it’s completely pointless!!!
Once a year, every year we celebrate Mother’s Day. Not to mention Father’s day.

Where the hell is a kid’s day? And if there is a kid’s day I have never heard of it? And if I haven’t heard of it, it mustn’t be celebrated in this country. Who was the god damn genius who invented this pointless holiday?? It’s just another excuse for people to take a day off of their jobs and spend time sitting on the damn couch!!

Now I know it’s really not something to rant about as it does only come once a year. But whenever it DOES come around, you forget that it’s a once a year deal and you want it to end as soon as possible. You have to go out to the shops, buy your mother a present, then IF she likes it, your good for the time being. Unless it’s like in my family, where your sibling goes out and buys a gift that will own yours. Out with my present in with hers!!! Then your mother tells you “Why can’t you put as much thought in to your presents as your sister?” Its mother’s day!!! It’s not like it’s your birthday or Christmas. An ACTUAL holiday!!!

Now I would be completely fine about mother’s day and father’s day if we celebrated kid’s day. My parents say that idea is stupid. WTF???!!! Then what the hell do you call mother’s day and father’s day? Answer me that question!!!
If you don’t like my opinion on mother’s day well I don’t care. This is my rant and not yours. :)

Seeya next week folks!!!

Obesity

For the love of god Obesity!

WTF?? Why is it, there are stupid shows on television these days about people losing weight?

I'll tell you why, because everyone would rather sit there and watch others lose weight than
actually get up off their fat behinds that could take out a semi-trailer if they decided to turn around, and do something...anything...at all.

You see I have a solution to all of your weight problems! YAY.

It seems that the rest of the world (Not including America) takes a break in between meals, they stop eating at some point in the day, WOW!

Who would have thunk it?

I mean f**k at some point you should stop grazing and decide hey maybe I'll go for a walk.

Really easy solution for all of this is stop eating so much, there, easy, you don't even need to exercise just stop eating so much.

This will be cut short and probably continued.
'till next time

Take a Jump

"AN ambitious plan to build a world-class off-road motorbike track and complex with a 4500-seat stadium in a disused Somersby quarry has residents roaring 'no'." - News Source: Express Advocate, Denice Barnes.

What the fuck.

God forbid someone would want to do something with a disused quarry in the middle of NOWHERE and maybe, I don't know, build a structure in Somersby that isn't a shack or a hole in the ground.

I'd just like to clear some things up for people who don't know about this place. It's on the central coast of New South Wales in Australia, and when you're about halfway there from the nearest city centre, you can wind your windows down and you'll start hearing banjos! I wouldn't think that you could be close to something central and yet be so far from everything.

Not long ago, the six-toed capital of the coast fought off a sand mine. fair enough, the 50 people who live out there might get sick from the floating dust, but what is their problem with doing something worthwhile? It will make jobs, bring money, and all they have to do is put up with a bit of noise once or twice a week for a few hours.The hicks are scared of world class motorcross events occuring there. Don't flatter yourself, folks.

Then there's the problem with emissions. OH NO EMISSIONS. Step back everyone. I live beside a road, I'm not dead. Billions of people around the world live in massive cities, they aren't dead from monoxide poisoning. A few motorbikes aren't even going to cost you even a cough. Deal with it!

Their only legitimate concern should be that their kids are breaking in, and inhaling the petrol fumes, because there's NOTHING ELSE TO DO OUT THERE!!! Give the kids something productive to do! Let them ride motorbikes around a safe track, instead of in the middle of the damn forest where they crash their bikes and wind up being eaten alive by lizards (no loss on society there).

Though here's something I probably wont do too often in the future, and that is I am giving Somersby a Credit! You know why? Because they're actually doing something about SOMETHING!!! All too often I hear about people bitching to each-other, but they never, EVER try to do anything constructive. No picket lines, no riots, no protests. So credit to you! I'd give you a high five, but it wouldn't match up.

God Damn Telemarketers!!!

Now I’m sure from past experiences that everyone who is reading this right now has had this problem at least 3 times in their lives. Those God damn telemarketers are one of my worst enemies… And I have never even met them!!!

You’re chilling at your house. It’s 8 o’clock on a Sunday night and you are watching one of your Sunday night time programs when the phone rings... “Who the f**k could that be on a Sunday Night!?”

The answer my friends is quite obvious no? I mean a NORMAL person that has a basic form of common sense wouldn’t bother you on a Sunday night now would they?!?! It has to be a TELEMARKETER!!!

Sorry if you think I am being a little harsh here… I mean, it is their job… They don’t need to be reminded that they have sunk as low as to become a fucking telemarketer!!!

Now this rant happens to be different from other rants I myself have posted because this problem (Thank God!) has a solution. You can now get telemarketers blocked from calling you. Now I wonder how bored the telemarketers must be now, seeing as pretty much everyone with a brain would have signed up and blocked themselves from these annoying calls, am I right?

Well I guess that’s one big form of annoyance they have found a solution for and I, for one, am very delighted at that and I am sure most of you guys are too. Now to find solutions to my other problems and complete my dream of an annoyance-free life!! Muhahahahaha!!!!