Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

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Dear Canada Post:

Thank you for delivering Very Important Envelope #1 last week. I would also appreciate it if you would deliver Very Important Envelope #2, which was mailed by the same person at the same time (June 26). (To everyone who is wondering why the sender didn't just use one envelope in the first place: I don't know.)

Oh, and Oversensitive Smoke Alarm? You're not helping. "Toast on the Lowest Setting! Toast on the Lowest Setting!" and "The Oven Is On! The Oven Is On!" sound very different to my ear from "Fire! Fire!" but you don't seem to make that distinction. If you weren't wired into the building, I'd replace you or at least remove your battery.
 
My oversensitive smoke alarm also seems to have a setting for, "Someone took a shower! Alert! Alert!"
 
Chef Troy said:
When my son comes in my office YET AGAIN to talk about Bionicles for twenty uninterrupted minutes YET AGAIN, it's all I can do not to either start talking about Broadway musicals for twenty uninterrupted minutes or just look him in the eye and say, "Son, what in the world makes you think I will find this subject interesting? Have you NOT noticed me tuning you out and mumbling "mmm-hmmm" over and over again without so much as looking at you the last thirty times you've done this?"

I mean, REALLY. You're SIXTEEN. Start obsessing about GIRLS, for god's sake -- now THAT I'll talk about for as long as you want!
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Sixteen?! Wow.....you may need to have a talk with him, methinks.
 
Yesterday, we had a visit from the president of a medium-sized company who's interested in working co-operatively with us on a particular project. We may or may not be interested in working with him, but you never know until you sit down and talk, you know?

A colleague of mine set up this meeting, and was going to give this person a 45-minute tour before sitting down and discussing this particular project with my boss and a couple other people. I know something about this project, but not as much as my colleague. That's fine, he's handling it.

Well, Mr. medium-company president rolls in on schedule at 1:30, and my colleague is nowhere to be found. Our quick-thinking security guard finds the only person around who a) knows a little something about the project, and b) is available. That's me.

I can't find my colleague either. Since it would be awfully rude to keep someone cooling their heels in the lobby for 45 minutes after inviting them in for a meeting, I take Mr. medium-company president on a tour, literally at a moment's notice. I don't really mind giving a tour, but scrambling to do it at the last minute and covering for someone else looks a little unprofessional, you know?

My colleague shows up near the end of the tour. Turns out he was out of the office, giving his son a ride across town.

Hos son is a sophomore in college.
 
Fuck you 'Die Tradition Des Gregorianischen Chorals'.
You started out life as a four CD set, but when you moved to HD/iTunes, you became 6 or 8 or some ungodly number of albums, all with the same none-too-beautiful cover.
You know, just in general, fuck classical music CD's.
Your naming conventions suck.

While I'm at it, Fuck you iTunes album definition, and iTunes technical manual[sup]*[/sup]. Why must I intuit your album definition, and why must I edit multiple pages, auf Deutsch, via your single snivelling editing window? You are a pain in the ass!





[sup]*[/sup] As if there were such a thing.
 
olivesmarch4th said:
Actually, it was my husband who told me I looked like a beekeeper. I think it more looks like I'm about to go on safari. Today I safaried to... West Philadelphia.
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Actually, the first thing that sprang to mind for some reason was italian monk. From way back when, something about the hat.

But a *cute* italian from centuries ago.
 
Shot From Guns said:
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Wikipedia says you're being needlessly pedantic and it's perfectly acceptable for me to call it either the Union Jack or the Union Flag, regardless of where it's flying. Neener neener.

Honestly, if anything, I expected somebody to complain that it's the flag of the U.K., not the flag of England.
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Wikipedia is wrong though being needlessly pedantic is a hobby of mine so I'll take is as a compliment.
 
Ouch! Sorry to hear that, Time Stranger.

As for women pulling the seniority card, I think it stems from the same insecurity that makes some women feel threatened any time someone younger/thinner/fitter/prettier/more experienced/more competent is anywhere near them.
 
Why does someone throw their life away by gunning down police officers when whatever crime they committed isn't likely to have earned them the death penalty? Now they'll be lucky to even get taken into custody alive. Stupid!
 
melodyharmonius said:
I have no idea. I respect people who have more knowledge about how a certain event works, but I don't understand why, in a volunteer community situation, someone would want to point a finger to someone who is making worthwhile contributions of their time and energy and say, "they don't count because they aren't xyz."
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Oh good lord, in a Volunteer position? Princess Highandmighty needs either a wakeup call or to be shuffled out the door rather than being left in place to drive out future volunteers.
 
rockle said:
It's stupid for you to even own your current iPhone because YOU DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER...
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Huh?

I think iPhones are bit overrated myself, but why is it stupid to own one when you don't have a computer?

In fact, if you don't need a full-sized computer, but do need a phone, and would also like to be able to get email and look stuff up once in a while, it seems to me that a web-capable smartphone might actually be a pretty good choice.
 
Jolly Roger said:
Do I have to mention the entire "rediculous" thing again?
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Rediculous is reserved for circumstances that are so diculous, they're diculous all over again.

Also, as someone else pointed out, you'll probably be wanting to call a glass repair company.
 
Ah, one of the White Brothers? One of my Sunday school kids had that allergy; when the Spring sprang and she mentioned it, the other kids (they were in 4th grade) asked for confirmation, obtained it, went silent, and then one of them very concisely expressed their collective feelings: "that SUCKS!"

Dorothy, I'm another one who thinks those are not friends; acquaintance, yes, friends no. And overly, I hope your sister gets better and can hug her own bundle of joy soon (well, in about a year).


Mini, right. So I've rented an unfurnished apartment, and as it is my custom when doing so, I'm getting minimal furniture and Not Making Holes In The Walls; that means that I'm not buying "package rooms" from stores, but one piece here and one there, as the package rooms are both overcrowded for my taste and overpriced for furniture that's sort of throwaway. Well, I'm making holes to hang the curtains, but I fully intend to leave the rods behind (and, if they want them, the curtains too), so that's that. I've specifically found rods which are the same wood pattern as the parquet. Why does everybody who comes in: the owner, coming to see what was wrong with the heater, his gf? coming with him, the guys bringing in furniture, feel the need to remark "oh, it's so empty, are you getting the furniture slowly?" No, actually I'm waiting for the lot I purchased off when the French turned Versailles into a mall, see, I'm totally into Baroque furniture. The gf? took the cake with "Is that your computer?" Well, I don't think it's yours... it's in my house, I live alone, whose computer do you think it will be? I could have hugged the maintenance guy the owner called to look at the heater, just on grounds of Not Asking Stupid Questions.

I realize it's friendly chitchat, but for some reason it makes my brain hurt.
 
Southern Yankee said:
I know this is not uncommon practice for the airlines (at least here in the U.S.,) but how the fuck does this make sense? I am trying to book a flight from Charlotte, NC to Harrisburg, PA. on short notice (next week.) The non-stop round trip price is about $950 (because of the lead time, I assume) when normally it runs about $300 - $350. So, in the course of searching for better fares I see that there is a 1-stop fare from Greensboro, NC (about 85 miles from me) to Harrisburg for $350.

Where's the 1 stop? Yep, Charlotte! As a matter of fact the 2nd leg of the flight is the same one I'd be taking if I went non-stop.

So essentially, I could save $600 by driving to Greensboro, flying back to my home town of Charlotte, and then on to Harrisburg.

This is all on US Air, and Charlotte is their hub, blah blah blah. It's still ridiculous.
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Can you buy the Greensboro ticket and just get on at Charlotte? Or are the airlines hip to that? (I guess you'd have to carry on your bag instead of checking it, but heck, that'll save you another vigorous humping from the airline in the form of baggage fees.)
 
I just realized those are not actually the words, but the words my friends and I sang to mock Alanis Morrissette (followed by "It's a free ride in the commuter lane"), which have been ingrained into my memory of the song so deeply it didn't even look wrong to me.
 
In my opinion, she values being in "the inner circle" but the only way to make that valuable is to make sure there are others in "the outer circle." She's nice enough - she just takes things way too personally.

I guess I'm just at a point in my life where I don't need to get all the glory on something, I just want the job to get done . . .
 
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