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This forum is meant to vent furstration, anger, to move debates when they get whinny or annoying.
This is a place to speak your mind about stuff and not worry!
1. What is said and done here should stay here. Do not bring someone's personal rant into other forums, they posted it here for a reason.
2. No personal attacks. Do not 'call out' a member. In the previous incarnation of the forum this lead to many disputes and formed a division between people. Going on previous recommenedations we will NOT allow this. Please take up issues you have with a given member in private.
3. Definition
rant (r
nt) v. rant·ed, rant·ing, rants
v.intr. To speak or write in a angry or violent manner; rave.
v.tr. To utter or express with violence or extravagance: a dictator who ranted his vitriol onto a captive audience.
n. 1. Violent or extravagant speech or writing.
2. A speech or piece of writing that incites anger or violence: "The vast majority [of teenagers logged onto the Internet] did not encounter recipes for pipe bombs or deranged rants about white supremacy" Daniel Okrent.
3. Chiefly British Wild or uproarious merriment.
whine (hw
n, w
n)
v. whined,
whin·ing,
whines
v.intr. 1. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.
2. To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
3. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch:
jet engines whining.
v.tr. To utter with a whine.
n. 1. The act of whining.
2. A whining sound.
3. A complaint uttered in a plaintive tone.
com·plain (k
m-pl
n
)
intr.v. com·plained,
com·plain·ing,
com·plains 1. To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
2. To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
[Middle English
compleinen, from Old French
complaindre, complaign-, from Vulgar Latin
*complangere : Latin
com-,
intensive pref.; see
com- + Latin
plangere,
to lament; see
plk-2 in Indo-European roots.]
vent 1 (v
nt)
n. 1. A means of escape or release from confinement; an outlet:
give vent to one's anger.
2. An opening permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam.
3. The small hole at the breech of a gun through which the charge is ignited.
4. Zoology The excretory opening of the digestive tract in animals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
5. Geology a. The opening of a volcano in the earth's crust.
b. An opening on the ocean floor that emits hot water and dissolved minerals.
v. vent·ed,
vent·ing,
vents
v.tr. 1. To express (one's thoughts or feelings, for example), especially forcefully.
2. To release or discharge (steam, for example) through an opening.
3. To provide with a vent.
v.intr. 1. To vent one's feelings or opinions.
2. To be released or discharged through an opening.
3. To rise to the surface of water to breathe. Used of a marine mammal.
3. Have fun, keep it light hearted.
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