El Pollo Guerrera
Grimlock
His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
Status: Runner
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 26, 2023 9:04:47 GMT -5
Something in Canadian politics...
What is the absolute dumbest thing an official could do during a visit from a foreign dignitary?
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Post by dirtyoldman on Sept 26, 2023 9:07:52 GMT -5
*MOD ALARM* *MOD ALARM*!!!!!!
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
Surviving
Posts: 29,314
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 26, 2023 9:13:36 GMT -5
Tomorrow is my day off but I have a ton of shit to do. It just keeps coming.
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El Pollo Guerrera
Grimlock
His name has chicken in it, and he is good at makin' .gifs, so that's cool.
Status: Runner
Posts: 14,896
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Sept 26, 2023 9:51:33 GMT -5
*MOD ALARM* *MOD ALARM*!!!!!! Yeah, I understand... politics bad... but holy crap this wasn't just a 'difference of political opinions', this was failing to remember BASIC WORLD HISTORY and turning it into a diplomatic nightmare... Everyone up here is united in calling for the person to quit from their post, but dammit the damage has been done.
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Sept 26, 2023 11:44:25 GMT -5
This morning I spend over four hours travelling from London to Bristol to see the final England international match of the season. It shouldn’t take that long, but that’s how long it took from my house to the ground.
They played 31 overs of a scheduled 100 before it started raining, and the groundsmen took so long getting the covers on that the whole match was abandoned twenty minutes after they went off because there was too much water. I’ve been going to cricket grounds regularly for 13 years, everything from England test matches at Lord’s to matches at club grounds attended by a man and his dog, and I’ve never seen anything that shambolic.
I’ve just had to pay £20 to have my train ticket rebooked so that I don’t have to spend five hours in Bristol waiting for my train. The cutoff for refunds is 30 overs, so I saw approximately three minutes too many to get any money back at all, and am now over £100 out of pocket.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Sept 30, 2023 8:23:47 GMT -5
Went out to my truck to head to the gym this morning, and found that the catalytic converter had been stolen off it for the second time in as many years.
What's more, having a bitch of a time finding a tow company that can actually move it since the company that owns my apartments installed an "anti-theft" gate, and now the clearance is only 7'.
It's cool, thieves. Definitely don't mind throwing tons of money at this so you guys can piss it away on meth.
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Post by edgestar on Sept 30, 2023 9:22:51 GMT -5
I got water in my shoes, but I'm not that mad lol
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schma
El Dandy
Who are you to doubt me?
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Post by schma on Sept 30, 2023 10:31:16 GMT -5
Had to buy some compression socks recently. They feel fine but two of them started to get a hole in the two the second time I wore them and they are not cheap. I think it was my work shoe. I have an alternate pair of work shoes but they're nowhere near as comfortable.
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Post by bibboid on Oct 27, 2023 23:32:50 GMT -5
My wife picked up a multipack of the monster cereals. Normally that would make me very happy but THEY GOT RID OF FRUIT BRUTE!!!!! What the hell is wrong with you people? That was my favorite flavor. That freaking Carmella Creeper better be freaking delicious.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 27, 2023 23:47:34 GMT -5
Despised Icon didn't play Fainted Blue Ornaments when I saw them tonight.
Three times I've seen this band since they "broke up" and they still haven't!
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schma
El Dandy
Who are you to doubt me?
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Post by schma on Oct 28, 2023 0:36:04 GMT -5
I had to lay some people off this week and there's a solid chance that at least some of them won't be called back. This includes someone I have been trying to secure a position for over the past several months.
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schma
El Dandy
Who are you to doubt me?
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Post by schma on Oct 28, 2023 0:45:06 GMT -5
Sorry for the double post. Virginia supplies my internet. They've been calling me almost daily, today I finally answered. They were trying to convince me to switch to their mobile service (I'm with a different company for a few reasons). They kept trying to pressure me to sign up for a deal over the phone. I told them to email me the proposed deal so I could compare it to what I have because they had woken me up and I didn't really remember off hand what my current deal is.
Their response to this was to tell me this was a very limited time offer and to instruct me to grab a pen and paper to write the details down. I told them I did not appreciate their high pressure sales tactics and was not going to agree to a new phone plan based on a verbal offer without a chance to compare with what I have now, no matter what price they quote me.
The whole conversation went on longer than it should have and I should have just hung up. It was frustrating.
At one point when I said I had just woke up, they say oh should I call you back in an hour?
No, don't call me at all. You have a deal for me? Send it to my email where I can look at it properly.
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ayumidah
Patti Mayonnaise
DOOM TIME!!!!!
Posts: 30,943
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Post by ayumidah on Oct 31, 2023 11:36:18 GMT -5
People interrupting my writing time repeatedly, then just standing there and staring, asking further questions even when I tell them, "I'm trying to focus". Can they not take a hint?
NaNoWriMo is going to be a joy.
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Post by bibboid on Dec 18, 2023 20:26:50 GMT -5
I am off work this week. Not going anywhere but just hanging around getting stuff ready for Christmas. This afternoon, I got SIX phone calls from work because they need me to fix stuff that they have screwed up. And the fact that they aren’t leaving any messages other than “Call me” from two people means that they can’t even explain what they broke.
I am on vacation = Not my circus. Not my monkeys.
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No Longer a Produceman
Dennis Stamp
Will Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse
Evolving into Geckoman
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Post by No Longer a Produceman on Dec 19, 2023 0:50:21 GMT -5
I am off work this week. Not going anywhere but just hanging around getting stuff ready for Christmas. This afternoon, I got SIX phone calls from work because they need me to fix stuff that they have screwed up. And the fact that they aren’t leaving any messages other than “Call me” from two people means that they can’t even explain what they broke. I am on vacation = Not my circus. Not my monkeys. Had that happen to me once. Was on vacation and store manager calls me asking why 2 full trailers of produce showed up to the store. Turns out one person wrote the order, scanned and sent it; second person saw the order pre-written, then scanned and sent it again. Told my store manager, “How the hell would I know? I’m on vacation!”
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chrom
Backup Wench
Master of the rare undecuple post
Posts: 87,132
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Post by chrom on Dec 19, 2023 14:50:54 GMT -5
Nutrisystem has been screwing up my orders
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bob
Backup Wench
The "other" Bob. FOC COURSE!
started the Madness Wars, Proudly the #1 Nana Hater on FAN
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Post by bob on Dec 19, 2023 18:14:52 GMT -5
my lunch got delayed by 30 minutes because a student, not one in my class, was acting nuts and people trying to control him literally would not left me squeak past behind them a good safe distance away from them in a hall would not let me go in the hall literally like 10 steps from where I would be entering the floor
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Post by bibboid on Dec 19, 2023 19:52:22 GMT -5
I am off work this week. Not going anywhere but just hanging around getting stuff ready for Christmas. This afternoon, I got SIX phone calls from work because they need me to fix stuff that they have screwed up. And the fact that they aren’t leaving any messages other than “Call me” from two people means that they can’t even explain what they broke. I am on vacation = Not my circus. Not my monkeys. Three more phone calls, a voicemail and a text today about the same issue. Turns out it is a problem that they knew about six weeks ago but they didn’t deem it urgent until three days ago. Someone finally explained what they needed and it took me all of ten minutes to fix. I only did it because the person who finally asked knew that he had screwed up and apologized for having to interrupt my vacation. When I get back to work next week, I am still going to give them all a ration of s**t.
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ayumidah
Patti Mayonnaise
DOOM TIME!!!!!
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 20, 2023 4:01:39 GMT -5
I messed up my friend's address when I tried to mail her Christmas gift to her (by one letter) so now I just have to wait and see if they figure it out and send it along anyway, or return it to me. And it was kinda expensive to mail originally so grrr.
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Malcolm
Grimlock
Wanted something done about the color of his ring.
May contain ADHD
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Post by Malcolm on Dec 26, 2023 2:12:20 GMT -5
I'm weary about everything. Discourse on the internet just feels straight up miserable, nowadays. Everything just feels so negative, angry, combative. Looking at things I like doesn't help because I always without fail run into some jackoff taking a crap on it while everyone else just claps on. Opening my mouth just makes me look like a clown, no matter what kind of argument I make, I either get taken out of context or a point I make gets ignored in favor of a boring never ending discussion about semantics until I just remove myself from the conversation entirely(only for someone else to make the exact same point I made and get praised). Real life is just non stop work. My hobbies are starting to feel like work. Navigating the internet is starting to feel like work. I just find myself just sitting and staring at the ceiling for half an hour every morning because existence is just starting to feel like work. I really don't want to do anything anymore.
Something keeps me going, though, and it's really starting to piss me off.
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