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Eagle Rants: October 27-8, 2012

• OHHHHH LI'L BRUDDER I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY LIFE I'M THINKING OF GOING INTO MALE MODELING OR MAYBE HIGH FINANCE

• @Redhead/Ginger Defender??? Okay. Wow. As a fellow redhead (I'm assuming? Otherwise, please please stop), I have to disagree with your rant up to a point. Your "Euro-wannabee" and anti-Founding Fathers/American arguments against ‘ginger’ don't really make sense to me? The real problem with the word 'ginger' is that it has derogatory connotations. However, there’s not really an ‘anti-redhead’ sentiment existing in the US--try Britain instead. Sorry, but I think you're trolling. If not, chin up--people will always find superficial things to dislike about you.

• The way I ended my night with you the other day was beyond great. We need to find a way to be alone with each other more. I haven't felt that good in a very long time.

• Remember William Hung? Pepperidge Farm doesn't.

• I actually think Patrick Carney from The Black Keys goes to AU. I see him all the time.

• I just want to go home.

• @person looking for a website to find compatible friends after having good luck finding a compatible boyfriend on okcupid: You can also use okcupid to find friends. Just adjust your settings. I kept my profile active after I found a gf and I ended up making some great friends.

• How many back to back episodes on netflix does one have to watch before it's considered binge watching? I just watched 2 entire seasons back to back all day. #lonelylonelylonely

• When thanksgiving comes around and my grandma asks us to go around and say what we are thankful for, I am going to say eagle rants (and the eagle rants editor). You make my life a little bit happier each day. Thank you!

• I see sexy costumes!!!

• I'm not a smart man either, but I know I could be better. I'm burning the midnight oil, just trying to be good enough.

• My life currently sits on the borderline of satisfaction and depression. yay emotions.

• CLOUD ATLAS WAS AMAZING.

• Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

• SO EXCITED FOR NEW JAMES BOND!!!

• @ "I’m pretty sure I know who “Liberals R. Tools” is…" I highly doubt it. If you did, it would blow your freaking mind.

• I'm a straight guy, a senior, looking to date and meet a beautiful, smart girl. I'm not necessarily looking for a relationship right away, just to enjoy time with her and get to know her, see if things click. I don't date girls unless I think it could develop into a real relationship. Am I crazy for not wanting to hookup? All my guy friends tell me I should do that to "move on" from my ex girlfriend. I'm kind of repulsed by the idea of using someone for sex. . Am I crazy?!?

• i'm the same way about the tampon but if you type in how to put a tampon in on youtube there's some great advice hahaha

• ew why would a college or grad student use ashleymadison? gross

• @flaming toilet: +1,000,000 respect points for the Dead Like Me Reference. One of the best and most underappreciated shows ever!

• telling me to smile disrespects my bodily autonomy and reinforces public as a man's space. I don't have to look good for anyone if I don't want to. I am not here to make you feel good. I am my own person.

• sorry can I get some stats on men are as likely to be raped as women? right now I can find the 1 in 4 for women and 1 in 6 for men. or are you saying it would be higher if people reported more? honestly I think all numbers would be higher if we took into account the fact that people (of all genders) don't understand that consent is not the absence of a no but the presence of a yes

• I think I did a whip it too long

• @ AP ranters, it has nothing to do with smarts. My family like many others knew in order to game college credits that I would have to take accelerated courses. Like you, they made sure I was sat for the accelerated tests. And NO it is a selection process not everyone sits."So I could go abroad or get more majors" is exactly what gaming is, seriously. I do not like the original poster, but lets be honest and admit we did it to game the system.

• @AP arguments... yeah it was due to you being smart. Do not be so smug, I earned 20 before coming in, but understood it was more do to my parents understanding the system of how college credits translate. I am positive families with less knowledgeable parents kids were not "stupid" but rather their parents did not push them when they were 8 or 10 to do well on a test, which full impact they did not understand.

• AP people, came into AU with the max. Got to essentially skip gen eds. Yeah the system is pretty flawed in favor of people who understand how schooling works. Thank jebus I got it!

• @ #AUKids. I found that guys rant pretty funny also, but I see his point. Allot of girls lead guys on here whining about not being able to find someone. Then the pussy out when it comes calling their bluffs. #Weak

• I have a couple good friends now but I still feel as alone as ever.

• Yeah, I actually hate my life now.

• As a straight guy, I've always wondered if scissoring was actually a thing in the lesbian community, or just something the porn industry uses to get us off.

• Hee hee you said duty

• @Khal drogo ranters: I don't know what you're talking about, he's sexy as f*ck still, ponytail or no.

• Where's Kevin?

• With all the protest, flyers and banners all around and the fact that every time I see one of them they start talking to me about their fight for the tuition freeze, I'd really enjoy CAUS shutting the f**k up on eagle rants so that there is one medium they haven't infested

• Unfortunately got 2 texts from 2 very drunk female friends at the movies for booty calls, my best friend now has my all floor and all his friends calling me Booty Call. Never check your texts during the movies..

• We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.

• In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.

• @using okcupid to meet friends: I know there is a setting to find friends but I feel like since most people are on there to find a significant other, people would assume looking for "friends" is just a cover for looking for a relationship while already being in a relationship. And I don't want to give the impression that I would cheat on my boyfriend. I just want friend friends, not friends with benefits. But thanks for the reply. Anybody have any other suggestions for sites to find compatible friends?

• Where are all my Assassin's at?

• NON-judgmental question to the editors: how long does it take for a rant to be published? Oh and one more: do you publish all of them? [Editor’s Note: I post rants at the end of every day (except when I forget), and I delete rants that don’t follow our policies which can be found on the main rants page.]

• Dear RA, Let's cuddle this halloweekend! I know you're straight, but that doesn't mean you can't experiment ;) Your resident

• whoever is the idiot in anderson or centennial who screams loud grunts spontaneously out the window at various times during the day stfu..seriously if you want to relieve stress or anger, you have a 2-inch shaft and a hand..use them.

• Does anyone else find it a little weird/homoerotic/hot the way the guys at the gym stare at each other lifting weights/doing pull ups.

• Reading the date rape account of that girl from Amherst College in the New York Times brought up some bad memories. Does AU have an on campus rape victim support group?

• What's a good excuse for not going to a friend's birthday party one night? I love my friend but she is inviting someone who I just cannot be around.

• guys, i'm here on a merit scholarship but i'm also paying my way since my parents have zero dollars. we were always poor, but i graduated with over a semester of AP credits that i paid for myself. then i paid for 2 years at a CC by myself, working while studying. i also paid for my own abroad experiences. and my gpa is pretty awesome. please cut the crap about how hard it is to be a rich kid. i'm sorry, nothing in your life will ever compare to the pressure of 50k loans. NOTHING.

• Thar moment when you're playing a perfectly normal card game and then a guy you don't really know brings up RPGs. :) Sorry everyone else-- my nerdy side just got really happy. Maybe I didn't bring my dice bag for nothing? ^^ A girl can always dream, right?

• That moment when you are on Omegle and you get another AU student out of the 30,000 online users.

• dear dav girl who I met on saturday while working at SIS, you're beautiful.

• Mr. Editor forgot again... it's Halloween weekend though so if you're writing a rant complaining about it or saying how much he sucks-- just remember that suggests that you have nothing better to do than sit writing eagle rants about how the eagle rants aren't up yet... wait...

• 4 am and still no rants. Editor you are screwing with my mental sanity here

• I spent my saturday night talking on omegle to a 15 year old boy, a 17 year old boy, and a 16 year old girl. fml

• guys: How important is swallowing? My bf prefers it but i think semen tastes like toxic bleach and i refuse. How can i make it easier. Besides getting drunk.

• I'm so lonely i think I may get loneliness cancer. I wish i had a robot friend.

• As a former child sex abuse victim, I cry every time I read anything about Amanda Todd. There were so many times I came close to doing what she did, and I always felt I was an idiot for not being strong enough to just do it.

• I have no respect for other history majors who prefer Thycidides to Herodotus.

• Wait a second. I come home from a party and expect the rants to be up but they aren't! Editor, I hope you also had a great night ;)

• Did I make it that obvious I had a thing for you? Are you just trying to string me along? Please, I don't like being in this weird in between stage with you. You either like me or you don't. If you don't, let me move on.

• Obviously the rants aren't up because the editor was going hard on Halloweekend. Good for you man, good for you.

• let the sluttification commence.

• To the girls who blame the fact they are single because most guys at AU are gay: has it ever occurred to you that you're just not attractive?

• Students here ruin voting

• SOO... the hurricane is headed for us and AU keeps classes while NY,NJ, and CT have already canceled... huh?

• So... it's 11am on the 28th and the Rants for the 27th are still not up... You editor have gone from aspiring to be Obi Wan Kenobi to barely reaching Jar Jar Binks... I'd hide if my head in shame if I were you

• Things that are unacceptable: having class on Monday and Tuesday and no eagle rants from the 27th

• Time to get rid of my standards, I just want to have fun

• Anyone got any good break-up song suggestions? I have listened to New Found Glory, and some blink, but don't want to fall back into listening to MCR.

• i keep breaking my own heart over the cute foreigners at my abroad place. makes me wish i was back at au where the boys are terrible xoxo

• Really Editor, it's 1:45 PM on the 28th and no 27th rants?

• @ "At any moment a flaming toilet seat from the International Space Station could hit you in the head and kill you." Dead Like Me reference? :o

• I feel like crying every time I go to my job...

• CAUS is officially the biggest collection of tools I have ever seen.

• @KEEP CALM AND PROOFREAD are you my JLS professor?..

• YOU SUCK EDITOR

• It's 4 pm on the 28th and there are still no rants for the 27th. Fire this editor now

• I love stalking people's costume pics on facebook. It makes me feel like I celebated Halloween even though I stayed in my room and smoked weed all weekend.

• Commute, work, commute, sleep . . .

• I miss my family :(

• the girl on girl kiss in guys and dolls last night was hot. just saying.

• Girl who asked me on Saturday about the Red Line bus, you're one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen, and you have no idea how hard it was to act like I wasn't interested. I sincerely wish we had met at another time and place.

• I don't understand how my roommate's nose works. He always does this weird thing with it where he takes his hand and wipes it a few times, but very loudly. Your nose CANNOT itch that much! He's also messy as f***, goes to sleep at ridiculous times, and is premed like me. Get your life together!

• Is it shady to call my bf's best friend for advice on how to resolve a fight with my bf? Or should i not involve his friends?

• PLEASE POST RANTS!!!!!! OTHERWISE I WILL BE FORCED TO DO DRUGS TO DEAL WITH THE PAIN

• My econ professor is a c**t.

• Dear God, how the hell did that ugly roach get a boyfriend???? Brb, throwing up.

• YOU SUCK EDITOR!!

• 9 pm on the 28th. still no 27th rants. is the editor going on strike??

• @damn proudBBG strength & dignity are our clothing!

• Billy Joel Rants- if you were doing "River of Dreams" with me, I had fun too. Someone's taking credit for what we created.

• I remember when rock was young.

• Don't wish it away, don't look at it like it's forever.

• I'm really sorry I couldn't control the volume of my voice. And also that I fell asleep.


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