The $%*! frustration thread

[Thought]

Politically oriented emails from one's parents (or parent-in-laws, grandmothers, etc).

I can ignore them (which is rude) or respond properly to them (which will offend), or I can give a non-committal response (which would be wrong).

gorram no-win scenarios

[Temporal Knight]

Gah....lost a member of the Re-Temporal Odyssey. Luckily, it's early on so it shouldn't mess up anything.

And I thought nobody would leave this time (or at least, this early). So, who was it?

Zephira, due to the fact that she now has a job. A very good, legitimate reason to have to leave. I do wish her luck.

[Zephira]

I didn't really want to leave the RP, but I talked about it with Captain B first, and thought he would be able to do my character more justice since he has more time.

Frustration: The Unreal level editor. I have to set up a level streaming system for my Unreal II team, yet I can't get it to work. Lucky we're using Unreal3's editor this quarter as opposed to UT2K4. We've only had one crash so far! Though once we get into multiple terrain layers I expect there to be many more.

[x_XTacTX_x]

http://patriotsandliberty.com/?p=5653

Not that I'm transgendered, or would ever want to change genders, but this pisses me off to no end.

[Truthordeal]

It pisses you off that people are trying to make transgenderism morally acceptable through the means of law, or that this idiotic blogger seems to dislike it and even goes off tangent as calling transgenderism a mental disorder?

I honestly couldn't care less about the issue of transgendered people. It doesn't seem right to me that you should be able to/would have to force people to accept it through law though.

I just wish people would quit bringing children into it. Let them have their childhoods, for God's sake.

[Zephira]

The part that irks me is that broad, loosely defined fine they have. If you see someone walking down the street and say "Hey, there's a man in a dress!" or anything to that effect, you get fined $250,000 and sentenced to a year in prison. Here they're really broadening the definition of a hate crime.
Personally, I wouldn't want men - even a man who thinks he's a woman - in a woman's restroom. It's just.. awkward. Although, what direction will the bathrooms and locker rooms go in the movement for sexual equality? I don't really like the idea of unisex, so how about separate restrooms for men, women, gays, lesbians, men who want to be/think they are/sex changed to women, and women who want to be/think they are/sex changed to men. I think that covers all of them...

[Truthordeal]

you get fined $250,000 and sentenced to a year in prison.

I think it was $2,500, Zephira. Just nitpicking here.

[IAmSerge]

I don't really like the idea of unisex, so how about separate restrooms for men, women, gays, lesbians, men who want to be/think they are/sex changed to women, and women who want to be/think they are/sex changed to men. I think that covers all of them...

I think that bathrooms should stick the way they are:
penises go with penises, and vaginas go with vaginas.  No matter their sexual orientation.

[ZeaLitY]

I honestly couldn't care less about the issue of transgendered people. It doesn't seem right to me that you should be able to/would have to force people to accept it through law though.

Yes, we already know you don't give a damn about the human condition.

[Truthordeal]

I honestly couldn't care less about the issue of transgendered people. It doesn't seem right to me that you should be able to/would have to force people to accept it through law though.

Yes, we already know you don't give a damn about the human condition.

  Ignored.

[IAmSerge]

I honestly couldn't care less about the issue of transgendered people. It doesn't seem right to me that you should be able to/would have to force people to accept it through law though.

Yes, we already know you don't give a damn about the human condition.

  Ignored.

It might be the best way to go about doing that, yes, but perhaps it isn't the best way to state it.

[ZaichikArky]

nevermind then. *didn't read properly*

[Truthordeal]

The law is to make making fun of transgendered people a hate crime. Also, if you don't hire one or whatnot, you get fined and thrown in jail too for a hate crime.

[Radical_Dreamer]

Personally, I wouldn't want men - even a man who thinks he's a woman - in a woman's restroom. It's just.. awkward. Although, what direction will the bathrooms and locker rooms go in the movement for sexual equality? I don't really like the idea of unisex, so how about separate restrooms for men, women, gays, lesbians, men who want to be/think they are/sex changed to women, and women who want to be/think they are/sex changed to men. I think that covers all of them...

Beyond the social sense of either modesty or an ick factor, can you think of any reason you are opposed to unisex bathrooms? My emotional response is for segregated restrooms, but I'm not sure if I can think of any practical reasons to back that up.

[Lord J Esq]

Truthordeal, you honestly have no clue how hard life is for transfolk. In addition to working through the upheaval in their sexual identity, they get even worse treatment by society than the queer community at large. And, since they're smaller in numbers, their plight is all the harder to see. I believe you when you say that you couldn't care less about their wellbeing, because you evidently do not even begin to understand the injustice at work here.

Ignorance is the source of all evil.