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

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Lady of the Lake said:
We discussed cancer treatments. She doesn't believe that chemotherapy and our modern medical treatments for cancer are helpful. They are...'toxic'.
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They are toxic. But the idea is that they kill the cancer faster than they kill the rest of you.

Would it help or hurt if I mention that she is trying to breed? :D
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Well, at this rate, her kids probably won't make it to reproductive maturity, anyway, so with any luck the gene pool will self-police.
 
melodyharmonius said:
When I went to college, the seminary students were all required to take special speech classes, including a special section on how to write out things phonetically just so they could avoid mispronouncing names during these things.
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Even that doesn't always help. My surname is a slight variation on a much more common one: the first syllable is identical, though. So people see the first half and just go on autopilot for the rest. At my undergrade commencement, depite writing out my name phonetically on the little card they provide for the purpose (with the second, accented syllable in large, block caps--the more common name has the accent on the first syllable), the person announcing the graduates STILL fucked it up. He's probably the only person in the entire university who would, too--just about everybody knows my mom (who works there and has the same surname), and a lot of the professors either knew me or knew of me.
 
The dean who handed out the diplomas at my college had everybody speak their name into a tape recorder a few days before graduation and practices using the graduate's own pronounciation of his name.

Smart guy, he was.
 
woodstockbirdybird said:
Saying "sammich" does not make you seem charming and witty, it makes you sound like a grade-A retard.
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I enjoy playing with language. This includes saying "sammich." You are entitled to think I'm a retard; I, in turn, will think you're boring and pendatic. Everybody wins!
 
Shot From Guns said:
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Looks like you answered your own question there.
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Becoming a cop killer in a death penalty state is a whole 'nother level of stupid. Stupid is just not a good enough description of the suicidal fucking stupidity this idiotic dumb fuck has displayed.
 
My mailman told me yesterday that Pelosi is going to take over all of the government employees' 401(k)s and they won't be able to access their money and they only get 3% of it at a time.

It's pointless to try to tell him what the facts are. From Bloomberg:

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration is weighing how the government can encourage workers to turn their savings into guaranteed income streams following a collapse in retiree accounts when the stock market plunged.
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Key words being "encourage" and "option". There is no plan to take over your 401(k), sir.

What's worse? Then he went on to bitch about how his retirement accounts are down $25,000 because the market is in the toilet :rolleyes:

Next time, instead of turning and intently finding something, anything, to work on on my computer (hint- shut up!) I'm just going to tell him I don't want to talk politics and how's your daughter? :smack:
 
It's quite the opposite problem here - for some reason, Columbia is incredibly expensive to fly out of. Everybody drives to Charlotte to fly out of there because it's so much cheaper. :)
 
There was mustard on my sandwich.
It wasn't listed as one of the ingredients. Mustard doesn't enhance flavors, it overpowers them. Once you put mustard on something, it tastes like mustard. Maybe textured mustard, but still just mustard. And mustard is nasty tasting.
But I was hungry - so my lunch was a mustard sandwich.
I'm annoyed.
 
The HVAC is out in my office's building today. They sent around an email - y'know, I didn't need to be told that it's hot and stuffy. I knew the moment I walked in the main door: "WTF? I can't breathe!"
 
Cat Whisperer said:
So we have presumably the same Do Not Call legislation as the US, and yours is working wonderfully and ours is not (judging from the endless calls I'm still getting) - I guess we have different values for "works great." :)
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From whom are you getting these "endless calls"?

Personally, I have no problems regardless, because I don't have a landline--just a cellphone. Your own fault for living in the 20th century. :D
 
Can't we all just get along? I can't believe the personal attacks going on in a volunteer community. What are we, 12?

The good news is that I finally seem to have the ear of the leader and have convinced him that a sit down is in order before the cancer goes much further.
 
What the fucking fuck, people. I get it that plumbing work has to be done during the daytime when the plumber actually works. But for the love of god, some of us work from home. Being without any water at all for four hours (and counting) is a little excessive, don't you think? Especially when the word is that they turned the fucking water off before getting the new water heater delivered. Seriously? It didn't occur to you to wait until you had all the materials you needed before shutting the water off?

I even stockpiled some water, thinking it would only be a couple hours, so a couple gallons extra would do. Four hours later, I've run out of my stockpile, and can't even wash my hands after going to the bathroom. I have time to go for a run now, but have no idea if I'd be able to shower before I have to leave at 5. It's warm and I stink as it is.

You stupid fuckers. Why'd you turn the water off if you can't fix the plumbing yet?
 
Fucking bastard ass gardeners. Yes, this is a first world problem, deal with it.

I live in a place with an HOA where the gardeners cut all the shared grass, as well as my little plot of grass in front of my house (seriously little-- like, I dunno, 14x4 or something). In addition to the grass, the gardeners will randomly trim the bushes in front of my house (but with no regularity) and murder my rose bushes by taking a slicey trimmer thing to them and cutting them all super low, often slicing off all the goddamn buds.

All that I can deal with, though. What I can't deal with is these cock suckers rolling it at fucking 7 AM. I'm pretty sure my little corner is where they start, because without fail on Thursdays AND Fridays, right about 7 AM, all the fucking machinery starts. I get it, there's a lot of grass, but do you REALLY need to use a riding lawn mower that sounds like a mother fucking jet engine RIGHT OUTSIDE MY BEDROOM WINDOW AT 7 AM? Then, the fucking leaf blower! I'm not kidding when I say these idiots are literally using a leaf blower six inches from my open window (and my bed is right by the window). Argh. Fucking idiots. Why can't they come later in the day? Rage!
 
I am so tired. Please, God, just let me make it through tomorrow and then I'm off for a week.

I'm exhausted from the six week trials and tribulations of my No Good Very Bad Project at work. I'm on a new medication that, blessedly, knocks me out within an hour of taking it. But I wake up seven hours later feeling like I've only been asleep for 15 minutes. Besides which, the new med has made me plugged in to my circadian rhythm and I am BING! awake at 5:00AM every day. Who knew birds and they're chirping were so damn loud? Not me, for the first 41 years of my life when I was "just" severely depressed and sleeping like a stone at 5:00AM.

Finally, now starts the really bad allergy time, when no amount of sleep resolves my fatigue, when I feel sedated all the time.

My boss asked me if I was going to go somewhere for my vacation. Hell no. I'll probably be asleep for seven days straight.

I'm cranky from the exhaustion. I need a binky and a nap.
 
This is around 20-25 years old but is only appropriate for a mini-rant thread.

Yes, you are about the third person to tell me about this awesome role playing game where you play cartoon characters and you perform actions using cartoon logic, such as pulling a mallet from behind your back, with your success modified by how "cool" you described the skill + your characters skill points.

When I ask the three of you in turn if there are set rules for running across thin air and not noticing (like wile e coyote), don't come back with "That's pretty hackneyed, the gamemaster wouldn't give you lots of bonuses for that." Ummm, I KNOW it's hackneyed. THAT'S WHY I ASKED IF THERE WERE SET RULES FOR IT ALREADY. It's probably the action that most deserves its own table aside from combat!

I still don't know if there are set rules for running into thin air and not noticing because you don't look down.

But now that I've ranted, I feel better now.
 
descamisado said:
The dean who handed out the diplomas at my college had everybody speak their name into a tape recorder a few days before graduation and practices using the graduate's own pronounciation of his name.
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1.) We had two people trade off doing the announcing.

2.) How big was your college? My university was probably about 11k students total, and my college was the largest one, so I'm sure there were hundreds of us graduating.

Still, a good idea if you're in a situation where that's feasible.
 
HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS

SOMEBODY NAMED KAREN FROM TEXAS THINKS THAT KASPERSKY IS "AWESOME SOFTWARE"!!! THAT'S A DIRECT QUOTE!!!

I'm'a go buy it right the fuck now.
 
Aaaaand it's official. Instead of happily announcing her pregnancy, my sister has to take plan B over the weekend to flush her uterus of the empty gestational sac. And as a side bonus, it's supposed to hurt. And they don't want to visit this weekend because seeing my children, particularly my seven-month old, would be too painful for them, which I totally understand. I wish there were something I could do. I talked to her yesterday and her husband - she's resigned, but he's doing pretty badly. They're planning on trying again when she's got her cycle back. I hope to hell things work out for them. I know the odds are in their favor, but nothing for them has been easy.
 
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