Happy Festivus!

REMOVE THE BLACK BARS FROM THE GIRLS GONE WILD COMMERCIALS, DAMMIT!!!

That's it. That's my only grievance.

My grievances:

1) I am sad that I can't spend any time with my family, because my job is awful and I live across the country from them.

2) This last year I realized that it is indeed true, there are far more people in this world that are hideously stupid. I don't believe that it has to do with actual intelligence, but instead with laziness and complacency.

2 thumbs way up for Nintendo for creating an Advanced handheld that gives me eye-strain in just under 20 minutes, neck problems from finding the proper light in 35 minutes, and for making games that make me want to play them for hours on end.

I am so scared right now. 2002 hasn't been a good year... 6 months of unemployment, long time gf breaks up with me...

and today, my mom's gone to the hospital... never been so worried in my life.

grievance - hanging out with people who really aren't the best friends I could have

Why not just a preview feature like the online shopping sites, that ask you are you sure all your information is correct before you hit the submit button a second time. They could make it configurable.

My grievance is simple. 2002 was the worst year of my life. Explanation in reply.

last night a girl I have a crush on told me to not talk to her.

That's my grievance. teccnicaly it happened at 12:30am this morning.

Big crush. life sucks.

I liked this year for 2 reasons:

i) My first year in college. And now I'm going to the 2nd! Yay ! :)
ii) This chick is teaching me some things I didnt know about my heart. That's cool! :)

My only Grievance is I have no Grievances!

My grievance is that you filthy humans have not yet learned to live together in peace and respect your ecosystem.

I'm giving you peeps 20 years to clean up yourselves and your act, or else I'm gonna come back and do the job myself. Gonna crack this planet open like an egg, for the sake of galactic peace and harmony. Animals!

Also, pls incorporate some sort of self-destruct device into all your planetary probes, so that when their jobs are done, they will disintegrate and not pollute interstellar space. While flying into work today, Pioneer 11 left a dent on my spaceship and that shit pisses me right off. Thx.

my only greivance is against myself for being a lazy dumbfuck.

i have so much potential but i just sit on my ass and let life slip away. if i don't get things in order i'll lose everything including the girl of my dreams :\

My grievance:

Not realizing how fortunate I am in friends and in family. They don't get any better than this, and it's taken me this long to realize it.

Also, actors that think they know more about the real world and politics than the average person.

My Grievances:

Being too old to ever win a major video game tournament. A 30 year old is never going to beat one of those 20 year old punks at a twitch game. What's the oldest guy who's ever won a major event like CPL or WCG? 20? 21? Wombat was 16 when he won, Fatal1ty was 17 or 18 when he started his career. Feh.

Oh, that and "Stuff that Sucks" went away. I like that post, even if it was only once a month. Made the page more... homey. This thread is sort of a decent substitute though.

Oh yeah, and not enough chicks who play video games (Everquest and the Sims do NOT count) At the CPL this week there were, uh, I talked to one of the volunteers there, he said that there were six girls there that brought their own rigs. Six. 800 BYOC spots and six girls brought their own. WTF. That's less than 1%. I guess I need to pick up some new hobbies like, I dunno, staring at horses or playing The Sims. :P I guess [competitive gaming + girls = !mix]

Festivus for the rest-of-us!

2002 has, for the most part, been a very good year for me. Although I went through a lot of problems this year, I have become a different and better person. I broke up with my girlfriend of two years and six months because I could just not take it anymore, I had reached the boiling point. So now I am back like before, being by myself, being like the person I was before I met her. And I enjoy this very much, because I love being by myself and going out with friends, doing things on my own judgement. Even throughout all these problems with the girlfriend, one thing has always been there for me, the Shack. So I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Shack for the advice it has given me and for simply being there for me. There is a reason I am still surfing this website, and it is because it brings me joy and comfort. This is a place where I feel at home and I feel I can connect with people. I hope this site stays up for many years to come. I am now more independent, mature, and strong than I ever was. My goal for 2003 is to become more enlightened, simple, and hopefully find a girl that I can connect with. I don't hold any grievances, I just learn from my mistakes and hopefully make each coming year better than the previous.

Grievance - Being too impatient that I go on a single date with someone who doesn't wow me, then having to back down gracefully, so I don't have to go out again(yeah, they end up liking me). New Year's resolution - ONLY go out with someone if they wow me physically to start with, then HOPE they can wow me with their personality as well. Want the best of both worlds...no more impatience when it comes to chicks.

Though my 2002 went far better than most of yours, I will share my grievances as well:

1) finally having a girl like me, but (at first) me not really liking her back. I was so shocked at the attention that I started going out with her, hoping I would develop feelings for her. I think I have, and it's only been about a month, but I still question whether or not I'm fully committed to this thing. I'm going to do my best when I get back to get involved though - I don't want this to end.

2) My first quarter grades in college (C+, B-, B-, B); my worst grades ever. This, coupled with the realization that my life will never be as easy as it was before this step.

3) Spending too much money while in college. I need a job. My college fund isn't worth shit anymore as the stock market took a dive.

4) People who can't argue about things logically. Maybe it's because I'm surrounded by superchristians in my dorm, but having a productive discussion about religion is hopeless with these people. I realize how powerful being told something from birth can be, but these people are utterly unable to take a step back and analyze things logically. I'm no athiest, and I don't try to make other people disbelievers, but some things should be questioned in my opinion. I find myself often yearning for an absolute truth that we can all grasp onto. If only life was a simple as fairy tales made it out to be.

5) Friends who only like you because of how you make them feel.

6) Both my grandparents are dying. It's to be expected, but my mom is going to be hit hard when they go.

I guess that's about it. Not even close to amount of shit some of you have gone through, but it still qualifies for stuff that sucks.

Happy festivus! 2002 has been a mixed bag. I made lots of money online, spent the summer in Europe, played lots of Battlefield 1942 and got laid.

The downside is I lost all my friends and failed some college classes which really hurt my already suffering GPA.

My Grievance: breaking up with the gf today. Happy festivus, me.

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FESTIVUS YES!
BAGELS NO!

grievance - There aren't enough Nethack players. And they aren't downloading my super cool tiles. *Single teardrop*

How about people in general and especially people on the road?

I mean, you're given your one life and existence, why waste it being such a shithead, seriously?

I guess when you're driving, it's just more apparent. I stopped at the store just to look at stuff. When I get out of my car, some short fat blonde lady wearing pajama pants comes barreling into the first handicapped spot in her oversized-and-then-some SUV. She of course had no handicapped plate, or even a mirror hanging thing. Then inside the store, I heard her asking an employee about returns. He was explaining how they can't accept things that are visibly smashed on the outside. I guess she wanted to return things her little bastard kids broke. Her actions in general kinda tipped me off that she's most likely a drain on society.

Then when heading home, there's an intersection after which the two lanes merge into one. Some dirty looking old lady, driving a beat old chrysler, with her large 20-something beer-swilling son in the passenger seat, just kind of drifts over and cuts in front of me. In the middle of the intersection. Then just after that, an old guy is driving along beside them and ends up in front of them. At this, they're clearly shouting expletives, taunting the guy, mocking and making fun of him, for like the next mile. In this case I thought to myself, the world would not miss them if I were to kill them.

Note that I'm not condemning people for one bad act. I am, however, drawing conclusions on what the rest of their life is like. It's not too hard to spot assholeness.

Grievance - that I let a bad relationship go way to far. I was engaged to a single mom for about a year. We just broke it off a couple months ago. There was to much drama happening during our relation ship to figure out that we were just not right for each other.... hard to tell what you like a bout a person while your taking care of them for 12 out of a posible 48 months of your relationship. The worst part is her son, which I cant see anymore. I was with him since he was one...so I was like his dad. She thought it was a good idea for him to call me "Dadda"... dont do that...very bad move.... now I cant see him because he thinks of me as his dad. I was hesitant to let him call me that at the beging...but she liked it, and I wanted to make her happy.... what a stupid male I am.... trying to make a woman happy....

New Years Res - get back in shape.... and stop trying to make women happy.... The first is posible, but not probable, the second is imposible anyways...so I should probaly just give it up!

He called the shit poop!

It's a festivus miracle!

My grievance is "Whereinthehellis DNF?"

This isn't a grievance, I apologize, but this thread is the reason I love the shack so much.

Thank you, Jack.

Festivus??? I'm missing out on something big I smell...

i thought this was a holiday made up by seinfeild, wtf.

no freelook while moving in metroid prime :(

My current grievance is falling head over heels for a girl and being totally amazed by every part of her being. Become really good friends with her and eventually give up on anything happening and move on and find another girl friend, only to be told she does actually really like me she was just waiting until after xmas and everything between her and her ex had blown over.

Which is just fucking great :/

I have a new pet peeve. Sounthern teenagers on X-Box live. Head sets can be an evil thing my friends. (I kinda like that stoners who hang out around 4:00AM though).

It's Festivus day!
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Here's one. Being Bi for a girl is trendy. HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU FOLLOW A TREND IN SEXUAL ORIENTATION?

My grievance is having strong feelings for girls when they don't feel shit back.....FUCK EM ALL!

Here' my grievance.

Sandor and Maarten:

Why can't we have an edit post feature so that when fucktards like myself make an error in tags or spelling, we can fix it?

My biggest gripe is that over UNEMPLOYMENT. That coupled with all the bastards who send their resume to every job posting such that looking for a job online is completely ineffective.

My Grievance: I went from making nearly 6 figures a year to making NOTHING for over a year now. I'd give anything to have known the true value of money then as I do now. I swear if I get a second change at it to be a REALLY, REALLY good boy this time. Promise. Really. I swear.

please God?