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

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Wile E said:
He was a passenger in a car on a routine traffic stop. AFAIK, he gunned them down before they could even react.
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More info. The car was pulled over because it didn't have a license plate. They checked the ID on both of them, a woman was driving. There was an outstanding warrant on the guy for check fraud. They went back to arrest him and he pulled the gun before they could frisk him. Check fraud. He killed two police officers for check fraud.
 
The good news is my HVAC is still working.

The bad news is I'm lazy about maintenance unless there's an emergency, so the condensation line is completely clogged and backed up. The indoor HVAC unit is ceiling-mounted, so the access panel has been dripping water onto the stairwell for a couple weeks now. I think it's poured more water out than we've gotten in rainfall all year. It'll still be some time before someone can get out here to look at it.
 
woodstockbirdybird said:
It's called mini-rants, bitches! I don't need to quote fucking linguistics textbooks and the Chicago Manual of Style to back up my argument! I don't like the shit-ass word - it doesn't have to be rational. How's this: In my opinion, you sound like a pillow-licking retard when you say sammich.
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Ahem. If I may direct you back to my first post on the subject:

Shot From Guns said:
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!
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You're the one who decided that you needed to defend your opinion.
 
Cat Whisperer said:
I don't know - various and sundry people who want to chat me up (or just call my line and not answer).
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Bell very helpfully gave me four telephone numbers. That means four times the number of telemarketer calls, four times the number of wrong numbers, and a four times greater chance of getting a phone number previously used by somebody who hasn't paid his bills.
 
Fuck my fucking eyebrows for still trying to meet across the bridge of my nose after many moths of plucking them. Fuck you little worthless bastards.

Fuck that the hair on my scalp can't be bothered to grow in at the same rate.
 
crazyjoe said:
Olives, some companies will allow a retroactive auth....I would call the insurance company, see if you can file a petition in writing and what the process is.
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Thanks. They told me on the phone they only do retroactive authorizations two weeks back, which means only one of my seven sessions will be covered. Sr. Olives is going to tackle it later... my blood pressure is too high right now to even think about calling them back.

I called before I even went for services, and now, three months later, there are all these rules they forgot to mention... like I am only authorized for seven sessions at a time and then I have to submit a Services Request Form 2 weeks before the date of my last authorized session and all this bullshit that nobody EVER told me when I called specifically to find out.

Anyone know any good deep breathing exercises?
 
wolf-alice said:
OH GOD I am getting into it with an anti-vaxer. I say getting into it, she's stomped off after linking to VRAN and calling me a "fucking zombie" but still, OH GOD.

I really just want to call her a child abuser in 72pt blinking lime Comic Sans. I won't. It's not helpful and it's not true and I'd only be doing it because it's one of her buttons (she got into a huge slapfight after calling a fellow mommyblogger a child abuser for letting her kid cry, once, for fives minutes (in 1960!). She's one of THOSE parents. I digress), but anti-vaxers make me absolutely CAPSLOCK FUCKING FURIOUS. Self-serving goddamn back-patting pox-bringers. "I'm too SPECIAL for peer reviewed science! Facts are a tool of the PATRIARCHY! Science is made from CHEMICALS! My self-righteousness is certified ORGANIC! I'm accessing the internet with CRYSTALS! MOMMY-INSTINCT! BIG PHARMA! AUTISM! AUTIIIIIIISM!"

She even made the point that children could be adequately protected with homoeopathy. I nearly exploded.
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Out of curiosity, does she happen to have a bottle of Purell or other hand sanitizer in her purse? One of my husband's friend's wives is rabidly anti-vax, yet carries all kinds of cleansers with her and keeps different varieties of them at home. There's the purell in her purse, the toilet wipes in her diaper bag (which she still carries for a 3-year-old kid), the clorox wipes in the bathroom next to the antibacterial soap and the special, germ-killing butt wipes on top of the toilet tank. Then in the kitchen, there are several varieties of antibacterial, antimicrobial, anti-anything-else-that-may-make-you-sick cleansers. She gets really snippy anytime she talks about how vaccines are evil and I comment that researchers are finding that kids actually get sicker when houses are disinfected to within an inch of their lives.
 
Okay, so we both are covering the subpoena desk this week. You covered Wednesday, I covered on Thursday. Because I was originally told I'd also be covering Friday, I left my water bottle there, full of water (a Poland Springs bottle that I refill).

Why would you come through on Friday morning and throw it out? You say it's because when you check the desk, you clean it. Fair enough. But if the only other person using the desk is me and a full bottle of non-messy water was left there on the day I covered and you didn't, why wouldn't you at least ask if it's mine before you throw it out?

God, people are stupid.
 
Finagle said:
Hoses -- I hate them. It's been a dry, dry couple of weeks so even though my newly seeded grass is dead, i still have to water the garden. And the damned hoses are always getting tangled in something (requiring me to walk back and untangle them) or getting kinked and cutting off the water flow (requiring me to walk back and unkink them). And not a single connection or fitting manages to be leak free no matter how many times I change the gaskets and clean the rims. So I've spent most of the spring and early summer standing out in the yard while water drips down my arm or sprays unexpectedly over my shorts, shoes and shirt.

And this rant wouldn't be complete without a call out to my expensive metal oscillating sprinkler that fails to oscillate and my cheaper plastic sprinklers that just disintegrate after a season's use.
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Soaker hoses, dude. Then you just get soaked trying to adjust them to the right place. :)

Techy types, I have a question for you - I like to keep two browser windows open on my Mac side-by side. Most websites come up properly sized for this, but the odd one (like one I'm trying to look at right now) comes up with stuff all cut off on the sides until I make my browser window larger, thereby negating my ability to look at two at the same time. Any idea why this happens?
 
Damn. Damn damn damn. I applied for a part-time job that seemed fairly ideal. I got a call today for pre-screening - they informed me that they are actually looking for twice as many hours per month as the ad said. That's the thing with people looking for part-time work - we want limited hours. The lady I spoke to seemed enthusiastic about my chances of being called in for an interview, but they have drastically changed the parameters, and I don't know if it is a good fit any longer. Damn.

And half of my new plants just got shredded by hail. :(
 
You know, your economy with words just a) pisses me off ("What the hell are you talking about?") and b) ultimately causes you to use even more words ("No, I mean this."). Explain completely and fully what you want in your first email, and you save us both a lot of time and frustration.
 
You're a hotel - why isn't anyone answering the phone? This isn't filling me with great feelings for booking there. When we check in, will we just walk around the desk and grab a key and take whatever room we like?
 
Same thing happened down here in Mesa not too long ago. Cop made a routine stop on a truck, ran the driver's license. Smelled something fishy, went to talk to the passenger who, knowing he had a warrant out for his arrest, panicked and shot the officer.

Unfortunately for him, the officer still had the driver's license in his hand as he died and the truck peeled out.
 
So, what, he got a permanent vacation from being a contributing member of the family? I.e., was he required to do any of the stuff I suggested before his mom died?
 
Bosstone said:
Is a Nobel Prize winner any less of one because he finds fart jokes funny?
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Shirley knot. But let's get real: everybody finds fart jokes funny. Only charlatans and self-hating homosexuals say "sammich". MY POST IS MY CITE!

Also, Shot, I agree there is nothing wrong with shiny objects. As long as they're attached to boobs in some way.
 
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