Vent thread
Lord WyrmSpawN 
Lingering Wyvern
If I have a problem that could reasonably be cited as my biggest, it could be that people become so assured that they know me, they accuse me of having feelings and beliefs that are pathetic, ignorant, or just counterproductive, normally qualities that I have never believed in, internalized, or have even hated for a significant portion of my life.
The same people whom think I am a genius for utilizing the ferocious field of common sense and decent logic, and only when that part of me benefits them or reflects well on them.
Because otherwise, I just don’t know shit.
It’s very hard to live with people who lie and belittle you constantly, and will swear and scream up and down when the time comes to be called out on them, and have terrible, adolescent fits should you disagree. Or even ask a question. Which I’d be pretty dumb to still hope for a light, fair conversation from.
Hope is most oft consumed by and wasted on the hopeless.
The same people whom think I am a genius for utilizing the ferocious field of common sense and decent logic, and only when that part of me benefits them or reflects well on them.
Because otherwise, I just don’t know shit.
It’s very hard to live with people who lie and belittle you constantly, and will swear and scream up and down when the time comes to be called out on them, and have terrible, adolescent fits should you disagree. Or even ask a question. Which I’d be pretty dumb to still hope for a light, fair conversation from.
Hope is most oft consumed by and wasted on the hopeless.
Zincy 
In Vino Veritas
Rise from your grave!
I’ve been ruminating on a particularly vexing pet peeve of mine recently. I’ve encountered it here once, awhile back, from someone who’s name currently escapes me, but that part is of no consequence anyway.
As I’ve said a few times on here, I’m in psychology. Getting my BS within the next few months, than going of to get my PSY-D. I take the field fairly seriously, and as such I get pretty pissed when some slack-jawed nimrod comes along and decides stir up trouble.
They come in two flavors, lets discuss flavor one. The guys that either think it’s useless, or seem to hate the field. They all assume that psychology is just a bunch of guys with clip-boards that listen to other people talk. Counseling is just one very time part of our profession. We have neuroscientists who study sensory and perception; evolutionary psychologists who explore the rise of behaviors; psychological anthropologists that study the evolution of art, culture and religion; clinical psychologists which are the guys that do the talking. Just because we’re a “soft science” doesn’t mean we aren’t scientists. They don’t just hand us little pieces of paper and move on. We have to take neurology classes, statistics, biology, chemistry, computer science, along with the massive wall of psychology classes of course. For a lot of schools, psychology is the densest major. Most of these guys took a pscy 101 course and highschool and thought that was the end of it. Try doing a lit review, or creating a research proposal, try facing down the IRB hoping they don’t rip months of work into a million shreds and tell you to start again. Anyone here want to try coding an 300 question survey in SPSS, then running that survey to group of about 90-200 people, then comb through that mountain of data to reach a final conclusion…of how to run the actual experiment. Congrats, you’ve finished step one.
Which brings me to my next, the arm-chair psychologist. It seems anyone who can type DSM into a google search bar suddenly thinks they’ve got their masters. I think that’s one of the reason we’re not taken seriously, because most peoples interaction with psychology comes from those idiots acting like they know something. Congrats, you can say “dissociative identity disorder” correctly and bought an abridged version of the DSM, you’re not a psychologist. Hell, I’m technically not a full one yet, all I’ve got is a tentative BS and my NIH certs.
Moral of the story is, don’t assume you understand the importance of an entire scientific field, and don’t assume you’re qualified to judge it’s value.
I’ve been ruminating on a particularly vexing pet peeve of mine recently. I’ve encountered it here once, awhile back, from someone who’s name currently escapes me, but that part is of no consequence anyway.
As I’ve said a few times on here, I’m in psychology. Getting my BS within the next few months, than going of to get my PSY-D. I take the field fairly seriously, and as such I get pretty pissed when some slack-jawed nimrod comes along and decides stir up trouble.
They come in two flavors, lets discuss flavor one. The guys that either think it’s useless, or seem to hate the field. They all assume that psychology is just a bunch of guys with clip-boards that listen to other people talk. Counseling is just one very time part of our profession. We have neuroscientists who study sensory and perception; evolutionary psychologists who explore the rise of behaviors; psychological anthropologists that study the evolution of art, culture and religion; clinical psychologists which are the guys that do the talking. Just because we’re a “soft science” doesn’t mean we aren’t scientists. They don’t just hand us little pieces of paper and move on. We have to take neurology classes, statistics, biology, chemistry, computer science, along with the massive wall of psychology classes of course. For a lot of schools, psychology is the densest major. Most of these guys took a pscy 101 course and highschool and thought that was the end of it. Try doing a lit review, or creating a research proposal, try facing down the IRB hoping they don’t rip months of work into a million shreds and tell you to start again. Anyone here want to try coding an 300 question survey in SPSS, then running that survey to group of about 90-200 people, then comb through that mountain of data to reach a final conclusion…of how to run the actual experiment. Congrats, you’ve finished step one.
Which brings me to my next, the arm-chair psychologist. It seems anyone who can type DSM into a google search bar suddenly thinks they’ve got their masters. I think that’s one of the reason we’re not taken seriously, because most peoples interaction with psychology comes from those idiots acting like they know something. Congrats, you can say “dissociative identity disorder” correctly and bought an abridged version of the DSM, you’re not a psychologist. Hell, I’m technically not a full one yet, all I’ve got is a tentative BS and my NIH certs.
Moral of the story is, don’t assume you understand the importance of an entire scientific field, and don’t assume you’re qualified to judge it’s value.
Itsthinking 
🅱
Undergrad speaking here, but a lot of people tend to say that you’re “wasting your time” if you try to get into any field that doesn’t say “money” to them.
Pretty good amount of people assume I’m just automatically going to be a high school history teacher.
Pretty good amount of people assume I’m just automatically going to be a high school history teacher.
OptimusPrimevil 
Ebola themed Halloween costumes are best sellers?! Really? REALLY?!! And the retailer is unapologetic about all the money he’s making?
OptimusPrimevil
@PonyPon
making money > being somewhat sympathetic to the victims(survivors,suffering and the deceased), the people taking care of them.
if the retailer said that they’re doing it for awareness or some of the profits are donated, it would be ok but apparently it’s all for the money (can you imagine if they sold ‘high school shooting’ costumes instead?).
making money > being somewhat sympathetic to the victims(survivors,suffering and the deceased), the people taking care of them.
if the retailer said that they’re doing it for awareness or some of the profits are donated, it would be ok but apparently it’s all for the money (can you imagine if they sold ‘high school shooting’ costumes instead?).
Lord WyrmSpawN
Lingering Wyvern
@OptimusPrimevil
Not really. What would that even look like?
But I get that it would be in similarly bad taste.
Not really. What would that even look like?
But I get that it would be in similarly bad taste.
OptimusPrimevil
@PonyPon
probably a bullet ridden zombie costume but without the decomposing or serious wear and tear on the suits
probably a bullet ridden zombie costume but without the decomposing or serious wear and tear on the suits
Marshal805
I work in the Hotel industry handling the Breakfast bar, and I have one simple request:
EMPTY YOUR CUP BEFORE YOU THROW IT AWAY!
Every single time someone does this, the cup leaks, which creates a puddle that I have to mop up.
And this isn’t just me being a lazy Millennial, either. This is a hotel with 200-plus rooms and a staff of maybe 8 people total sometimes working close to an almost nine/ten hour shift. Which means they need all the help they can get.
So please; “dump your drink in the sink”.
EMPTY YOUR CUP BEFORE YOU THROW IT AWAY!
Every single time someone does this, the cup leaks, which creates a puddle that I have to mop up.
And this isn’t just me being a lazy Millennial, either. This is a hotel with 200-plus rooms and a staff of maybe 8 people total sometimes working close to an almost nine/ten hour shift. Which means they need all the help they can get.
So please; “dump your drink in the sink”.
Ebalosus 
Build commie blocks!
@Crystalis
No, what I listed were the current boogeymen that fear-mongers use in their attempt to scare people.
No, what I listed were the current boogeymen that fear-mongers use in their attempt to scare people.
441TheSecond
Escapee from Alcatraz
Fuck Social Justice Warriors.
Fuck all of them.
I’m fucking sick of their fucking bullshit, I’m fucking sick of how they whine about privilege despise being some of the most privilegied motherfuckers on Earth, I’m fucking sick of how they preach bullshit about tolerance and respect, yet threaten to harm anybody that doesn’t march in lock step with their bullshit beliefs, I’m sick of them reducing gender identity into a fucking label so that they can feel more special about their shitty existences, I’m fucking sick of them pretending to be heroes when they’re some of the most psychotic people I have ever met in my entire fucking life, I’m fucking sick of them reducing culture and upbringing down to skin color, I’m fucking sick of them trying to egg people to kill themselves or feel miserable because they weren’t born with a vagina, I’m fucking sick of how they coddle people with serious mental issues and tell them that their illness is something that makes them special, because they’re so starved for a personal identity themselves, and I’m fucking sick of how they try to control, manipulate, and pressure fucking everybody into being silent and obeying THEIR system of morality and ideals, not because it’s what they think it’s better for mankind as a whole, but because they want to feel a bit better about themselves.
FUCK. THOSE. ASSHOLES. I hate a shitload of things, but let me tell you, SJWs rank in the top 5.
Fuck all of them.
I’m fucking sick of their fucking bullshit, I’m fucking sick of how they whine about privilege despise being some of the most privilegied motherfuckers on Earth, I’m fucking sick of how they preach bullshit about tolerance and respect, yet threaten to harm anybody that doesn’t march in lock step with their bullshit beliefs, I’m sick of them reducing gender identity into a fucking label so that they can feel more special about their shitty existences, I’m fucking sick of them pretending to be heroes when they’re some of the most psychotic people I have ever met in my entire fucking life, I’m fucking sick of them reducing culture and upbringing down to skin color, I’m fucking sick of them trying to egg people to kill themselves or feel miserable because they weren’t born with a vagina, I’m fucking sick of how they coddle people with serious mental issues and tell them that their illness is something that makes them special, because they’re so starved for a personal identity themselves, and I’m fucking sick of how they try to control, manipulate, and pressure fucking everybody into being silent and obeying THEIR system of morality and ideals, not because it’s what they think it’s better for mankind as a whole, but because they want to feel a bit better about themselves.
FUCK. THOSE. ASSHOLES. I hate a shitload of things, but let me tell you, SJWs rank in the top 5.
OptimusPrimevil
not really a base breaker but after doing a DA request that i’m not to keen on doing (hot chick showing the middle finger) but when i’m done, the request sender’s account is suspended (for what, i do not know)…
Gentlecolt
dog ate our new wallpapers that were still in their packages. I want to hammer that thing so bad
QueenChrysalisIsBestVillain
She is our Queen
Some of the vents posted here could launch me into a vent of my own.
Interested in advertising on Derpibooru? Click here for information!
Help fund the $15 daily operational cost of Derpibooru - support us financially!