People who bitch about their girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband.

[blas87]

No no. Not both lids up like when a man goes pee, just the one lid.

I'm not the cleanest person alive but my toilet always stays sparkling white, and I find the bathroom airs out much easier if that lid stays open, instead of leaving the fumes from pee and poo to just sit in there and waft out all at once the next time it's opened.

It's not something I want to go on and on about, it's just something he does that pisses me off. Probably because of how loudly he slams that lid down.

I use one of those little buddies that you plop into the tank once a month or so, it makes the water pretty and blue and cleans with every flush.

[telecom_goddess]

I still say they both need to be shut, I never notice a smell wafting out when they get opened.....are you on a septic tank or something? where smells are more likely to BE trapped in there?

As for the threadjack I'm kinda grateful myself.

[blas87]

My toilet at home rarely has lingering wafting smells, because I credit it to always having the toilet open and I'm on city water.

Bf's house is a few miles out of town and on a septic tank, so that may be why their bathrooms seem to smell. It's not that they have a messy house or don't clean, because bf's mom either makes him do all the cleaning or gets really mad and goes on sprees herself, but it always seems like you can smell older piss and shit and I swear up and down it's because their entire family insists that the toilet lids stay down.

And yes, I agree, the threadjack was necessary and refreshing.

[Ladeeda]

I uh, clean my toilet once a week... that bad?

Sounds about normal to me. Unless it's like, got a lot of strange tushies sitting on it and you don't know where they've been.

Yeah, I tend to give the lavatory an extra scrubdown after company leaves.

[Buzzy]

I prefer the lid down, simply because if I'm brushing my hair or teeth, or styling my hair, I wouldn't want my toothbrush/flat iron/hairspray to slip outta my hands and fall in the crapper. Especially my flat iron... that'd be disgusting, AND an electrical hazard.

[DrFaroohk]

No, no. We can bitch about family and.... Oh, the weather!

We have no control over the weather, so we can bitch about that.

Oh, wait, unless it's weather typical to the place we live and since we can change where we live, then it's our own fault we have to put up with that sort of weather, so we can't bitch in that case.

But we can still bitch about family.

^-.-^

No no, you can't bitch about family either, because you can choose whether or not to associate with them.

[AdminAssistant]

It's not something I want to go on and on about, it's just something he does that pisses me off. Probably because of how loudly he slams that lid down.

I think the issue at the heart of this is that you were raised to always do things a certain way and he was raised to always do things a different way, and ne'er the twain shall meet. Fiance and I are starting to run into that. I have (finally) convinced him that towels should be hung up to dry before being put in the laundry. Now I just need to work on extolling the virtues of liquid fabric softener. (He uses the sheets, and I hate them.) He wasn't raised in a household where cleanliness was a priority. I was. Just differences in background to overcome.

[Plaidman]

No no, you can't bitch about family either, because you can choose whether or not to associate with them.

Here you go Sir. I kindly went back and reposted an earlier thread, making it so you do not have to go through thread to read points already made about that very line.

...I'm again going to try to calmly explain again, about what I meant, though I'm sure in the end I'm still going to get the awesome replies that despite what I say that it's fine to vent, I'm really saying it's not fine to vent ever.

You can say no to someone asking you out. Though I'm sure only a few select of you has heard that uttered to you, or even saying no to those that ask you out. That was a choice to say yes or no. As you keep dating, you keep saying yes. No-one put a gun to you and ordered you to keep dating, same with no-one put a gun to you to ask you out. No-one put a gun to you to move in. No-one put a gun to you to get married. All that was optional from day one. You never had to keep doing it, or even start.

However, the below you CAN VENT
Jobs? Yeah you can quit it if you want, but can you afford too? Not really a choice there if you have bills to pay and can't find a job. Very few find a job they can enjoy all the time anyway. So yeah, vent.

Weather? Somedays rock, somedays suck. Vent away. Yeah, move if you want. But do you want to get rid of all your friends? Family? Can you get a new job? Not a choice, not an option to do so.

Family? Yeah, some peoples family suck and want nothing to do with them. Doesn't mean they're not there. No matter what, they are there until they day. So they may one day come back in your life for good or bad. Your born with them. So vent away, family isn't a choice.

Neighbors? Same with weather. Sure you can move, but again, can you afford it? Not always. So again, vent.

Everything in this world you can vent about, because you have no choice if it effected you.

Being with another person? Flat out a choice. Flat out optional. Flat out a gift.

Do you understand that at all? Do you get the point in why you really shouldn't bitch?

Or do I still sound like some asshole who proclaims thou shall not vent about anything?

Likely you think that. Most of you think it's hilarious what I'm saying. A good chunk of you are laughing at me, even hoping I never get a SO because that be funny.

The email from whoever was awesome btw. What with the pictures of smiling couples, along with the line of Plaidman unobtainable goal, amoung other far harsher lines like people are right that I'd never get another, or there is currently a charity to save up money to buy me a fucking blow up doll so I'd have someone.

Awesome from you guys.

Enjoy the fact you found love. All I was saying, that it's an optional thing, that you didn't have to go with. You accepting their flaws. Roll with them. You shouldn't vent, because it's the only thing, that is ever optional. Nothing else in life is.
But yeah, I already hear you laughing, or rolling your eyes preparing to send more replies about how I'm saying that you can never vent about anything yet again.

[DrFaroohk]

Relax, Plaid. Honestly, given some serious thought and hindsight, in some ways I find myself agreeing with you.

Like I have this friend who told me he was gonna be a dad a while back. And I told him flat out that he wasn't ready to have a kid and he needed to seriously rethink his situation. Told him it wasn't a good idea because I knew him and how he is and how she is and it just wasn't gonna work for them.

As usual, DrFaroohk's advice was ignored, and now all I listen to any time I talk to them is "we never get any sleep! we never get to go out anymore! we never have any money!" and I just plain don't want to fucking hear it. I warned them, gave my advice, they didn't listen. They ignored me and now think I want to hear them whine and complain about something that they voluntarily chose?

I also used to get really pissed at the cool guys who would frequently swoop in and sweep up any girl who might have possibly shown any interest in me, only to abuse her, mistreat her and cheat on her and then dump her, mutating whatever semblence of humanity was in her before and turning her into this godawful man-hating she-devil who was still for some silly reason hung up on said asshole. Frequently they did it just because they had to be the alpha and couldn't handle that some girl might actually be willing to say hello to me.

It sucks being alone, but it passes eventually. Then you wish you were alone all the time!

[Mytical]

Sometimes I wonder if what is wrong with me, or if I am in fact just undateable. I've had two..count them two..people ever even show a small interest in me. Once they actually met me, they were no longer interested. As for rejection, if I had cash for each time I was told "Oh your sweet .. .but..." or similar..I could retire to my own private island with private sea plane, and a mansion that would make the Hollywood mansions look like hovels.

I do agree that sometimes hearing people complain about there special other does get a bit much. Nobody is perfect, and sometimes you just have to vent. Instead of getting the SO madder, they vent to where it is 'safer'. Hehe maybe if you stop being such an awesome person and listener they won't vent to you as much.