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Post by Paul on Nov 10, 2021 2:23:12 GMT -5
The yearly mice invasion began over a week ago. Idiot brother drags his feet every f***ing year in taking care of the problem before they make it up out of the basement, and this year was no exception. Idiot nephew ended up being the one to do something about it, I suspect because sister-in-law told him to. Going to be awash in traps for at least a few more days 'til the solution takes effect. Silver lining is that Walmart sells sturdy plastic black traps that're far easier to use than the wooden ones. Well I'm glad it will at least get taken care of. I am sure you know this already but bait the traps with a dab of peanut butter. Mice love peanut butter.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Nov 10, 2021 6:56:44 GMT -5
Work decided this week we were going to extend one of our shows and it just so happens the week I have to fill in for someone is the time we start doing this, so I've legit have been doing more than twice the work and I was denied a raise. I like the job and all but it might be getting to the point to start looking at other opportunities.
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Post by bibboid on Nov 10, 2021 14:36:04 GMT -5
The story behind my cousin and her missing son is getting more infuriating every day. She and her husband adopted four kids and one of them ran away two months ago on his fourteenth birthday. Cousin has been putting daily pleas out on Facebook asking Jesus to help the boy find his way home. My other cousin (her brother) has been flying down to visit her to help look for him on weekends and then posting pictures “to prove he went home again”. (?) There was just a report on their local television station where they implied that they know where he is and suggested that drugs and sex trafficking was involved.
And then we did some digging.
The boy was adopted in an open adoption. Birth mother was a drug addict who was an unfit mother and gave him up. She got clean and after five years of sobriety, reached out to see the boy again. Cousin made it very difficult to do so. (Such as, birth mother had to join their church and could only see him at church). Bio mom now has cancer and will not survive it. Cousin still will not let boy see Bio mom. The boy started arguing with his parents and they sent him off to a “program” to “help him deal with his issues”. This “program” has been investigated for being more of a Re-education Camp that brainwashes kids into being subservient to their parents and the church. Probably physical and mental abuse. Boy’s 14th birthday had no presents, no cake or treats, and nobody allowed to wish him happy birthday. That is why he ran. Most likely hiding out with Bio mom’s family. If he comes home, cousin plans to send him back to the program. She has never once shown any remorse for what they have done to him. Other cousin has come down and followed Bio mom’s family members around town in hopes of finding the boy and grabbing him. Bio mom’s family considers this stalking and is close to getting a restraining order against him. I saw the news story that cousin and her husband did and the whole thing struck me as pandering and insincere.
*deep breath*
What the hell is wrong with these people?
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Nov 11, 2021 15:01:11 GMT -5
The story behind my cousin and her missing son is getting more infuriating every day. She and her husband adopted four kids and one of them ran away two months ago on his fourteenth birthday. Cousin has been putting daily pleas out on Facebook asking Jesus to help the boy find his way home. My other cousin (her brother) has been flying down to visit her to help look for him on weekends and then posting pictures “to prove he went home again”. (?) There was just a report on their local television station where they implied that they know where he is and suggested that drugs and sex trafficking was involved. And then we did some digging. The boy was adopted in an open adoption. Birth mother was a drug addict who was an unfit mother and gave him up. She got clean and after five years of sobriety, reached out to see the boy again. Cousin made it very difficult to do so. (Such as, birth mother had to join their church and could only see him at church). Bio mom now has cancer and will not survive it. Cousin still will not let boy see Bio mom. The boy started arguing with his parents and they sent him off to a “program” to “help him deal with his issues”. This “program” has been investigated for being more of a Re-education Camp that brainwashes kids into being subservient to their parents and the church. Probably physical and mental abuse. Boy’s 14th birthday had no presents, no cake or treats, and nobody allowed to wish him happy birthday. That is why he ran. Most likely hiding out with Bio mom’s family. If he comes home, cousin plans to send him back to the program. She has never once shown any remorse for what they have done to him. Other cousin has come down and followed Bio mom’s family members around town in hopes of finding the boy and grabbing him. Bio mom’s family considers this stalking and is close to getting a restraining order against him. I saw the news story that cousin and her husband did and the whole thing struck me as pandering and insincere. *deep breath* What the hell is wrong with these people? Oof, and I thought my in-laws had the potential to be toxic (specifically, one of my wife's uncles raped my mother-in-law many years ago and when her husband's entire family took his side that ended the marriage REALLY quickly. That same uncle also abused young girls in the family, though after losing his wife over the creep my FIL at least was wary enough to keep my wife safe from him growing up).
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Nov 16, 2021 0:56:06 GMT -5
My work decided that my 10-6 on weekdays now will be 10-6:30. I'm putting that extra time on the time card.
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Post by Rave on Nov 16, 2021 6:44:53 GMT -5
The yearly mice invasion began over a week ago. Idiot brother drags his feet every f***ing year in taking care of the problem before they make it up out of the basement, and this year was no exception. Idiot nephew ended up being the one to do something about it, I suspect because sister-in-law told him to. Going to be awash in traps for at least a few more days 'til the solution takes effect. Silver lining is that Walmart sells sturdy plastic black traps that're far easier to use than the wooden ones. Well I'm glad it will at least get taken care of. I am sure you know this already but bait the traps with a dab of peanut butter. Mice love peanut butter. Cheese and peanut butter together did the trick before, but a good ol' slice of Kraft cheese is working now. The mice are back. Suspect that idiot nephew once again halfassed putting anything down in the basement to take care of them, he's pulled that lazy crap before. Starting to get really annoyed.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Nov 16, 2021 10:47:44 GMT -5
COVID exposure at my sons daycare means I have to blow 3 days of leave staying home with him
Yayyyy
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Post by Rave on Nov 16, 2021 11:16:09 GMT -5
Well I'm glad it will at least get taken care of. I am sure you know this already but bait the traps with a dab of peanut butter. Mice love peanut butter. Cheese and peanut butter together did the trick before, but a good ol' slice of Kraft cheese is working now. The mice are back. Suspect that idiot nephew once again halfassed putting anything down in the basement to take care of them, he's pulled that lazy crap before. Starting to get really annoyed. Have been to the basement. Idiot nephew did indeed halfass it. There was one dinky bait trap. Like that's gonna do anything. So now there's $30 worth of mouse bait blocks down there as well. Also bought more traps for where I believe is their point of entry. Going to bring this stupid saga to a close one way or another.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Nov 18, 2021 16:57:11 GMT -5
Bought some new portable headphones for work only to find out they are only for iphone (I have an android). I did not see the "for iphone" text since it was small and it was behind a glass case at Wal-Mart. Going back tomorrow to see if I can get my money back and get the right pair.
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Post by Rave on Nov 19, 2021 23:41:21 GMT -5
Publisher's Clearing House, or as I like to call it, Publisher's Clearing Scam. Been trying to get my mom to give up on that crap for years.
Anyways, we both had to deal with them today. She accidentally ordered the wrong thing, so she was getting annoyed at their automated phone system while trying to get that canceled, while I braved their nightmare of a website to try to find what she had wanted. She hopefully succeeded, while I failed. Ended up going to Amazon and ordering something similar. If I'd known about it less than an hour beforehand when I was placing another Amazon order, I'd have bundled everything together into one.
I remember years ago when neither of us knew how awful their website really is that she tried to get me to go there regularly to enter her in their contests. I did it once, then firmly told her I wasn't going to do it again. Ads, popups, and flat-out begging for people to buy stuff everywhere. She's seen since then what it's like and I don't have to hear about it anymore.
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Post by bibboid on Nov 23, 2021 22:55:11 GMT -5
An update on my cousin and her missing son…from two perspectives.
My cousin’s version- They have heard from the boy. He called to say that he is safe and being well cared for but he is not ready to come home. In my cousin’s words, “Jesus will tell him when to return to his family.”
The boy’s version (filtered through several intermediaries) - The boy wanted to talk to his dad so he kept calling the house. His mom kept answering and he would just hang up. He finally got his dad on the phone and told him he was okay. The boy said he would consider coming home if they promised not to send him back to the camp. His dad would not make that promise. Cousin then grabbed the phone and started yelling at the boy and he hung up. The boy continues to call but cousin is the only one answering now. The boy is willing to come home as long as he is actually allowed to come home and not get immediately sent away.
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Post by Matt on Nov 23, 2021 23:10:24 GMT -5
One of my coworkers has covid and tried to show up to work today. What a selfish idiot to do that after it going through my office last year leaving 22 sick, some still having long haul and causing the death of one of my coworker and two more taking it home and killing relatives.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Nov 27, 2021 11:08:05 GMT -5
Someone at work called me out for being too paranoid for checking on things and now it's screwed with me self-consciousness. Half of the time if I don't check then it won't get done and I'm at the point to just let the ship sink. I can't do my job if others don't. Have me being in charge of multiple things then get upset when I try to keep track of said multiple things. Makes sense to me!
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Nov 27, 2021 12:16:16 GMT -5
People who treat "I want to talk to your supervisor" or "I'm going to get a lawyer" like those phrases are cheat codes to force me to do what they want.
Go ahead and talk to my supervisor. That isn't going to change the fact that there are issues with your claim that have to be addressed before we'll pay it.
And even the saddest Lionel Hutz type is not going to litigate your minor traffic accident with no injuries. You want to waste your money trying to pursue that, knock yourself out.
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Post by ayumidah on Nov 27, 2021 13:15:37 GMT -5
Thought groceries today would be easier because my grandmother's list wasn't so bad. Then I go to get my mother's list and she informs me "Your grandmother told me her list wasn't so bad, so I added extra on to mine." Cool, great, thanks. So much for easier.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Nov 27, 2021 15:32:45 GMT -5
The recent phenomenon of some people posting clips of episodes of TV shows I watch that I haven't yet gotten around to and which get added to my recommendations with the people titling the videos by giving away spoilers like "So-and-so's parents are DIVORCED?!" etc. has me like (language warning):
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Post by dablueboy on Nov 27, 2021 17:15:49 GMT -5
Train companies. Got up at 7am/left at 7.30 as I had an 8.30 train ticket pre booked to go to Manchester (England) for the day to do some Christmas shopping. Was on the platform at 8.15 with said train docked when the conductor decided to tell everyone waiting that they realised said train (a 3 carriage one) was too small for the number of passengers on the journey and thus had called for a replacement 4 carriage train meaning a delay
Said replacement takes 25 minutes to arrive meaning it was a full half hour (once everyone boarded) after scheduled that it set off, train manages one stop and it’s held up by the train in front of it for 20 minutes. The rest of the journey goes on without any further issues and I finally arrive in Manchester one hour later than supposed to at 10.30, 10.45 once I left the station and got to the shops, losing me over an hour of my planned day. Thankfully the ticket company is offering me a 50% refund on my ticket by way of apology for the day but it’s gonna make me a bit wary of booking early in future
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Nov 27, 2021 20:34:44 GMT -5
Just trying to eat some pizza, have some beers and watch the OU game, and some guy who’s been drinking since noon has decided me being here by myself means I need company.
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Post by Rave on Nov 29, 2021 23:10:12 GMT -5
Idiot brother and sister-in-law put yet another network connection on the already overtaxed router specifically for entitled nephew to use, resulting in the already trash internet becoming even more trash. I spent a solid five hours attempting to use the internet, only to be repeatedly lagged out and disconnected. Thing wouldn't even hold a connection.
There's going to be a reckoning, and it isn't going to be pretty.
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Post by ayumidah on Nov 30, 2021 16:24:20 GMT -5
My mother equated pink with "Being a sissy" again today and ugh. I was glad to put a Cold CD in and scream/sing with Scooter Ward for awhile afterwards.
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