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

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woodstockbirdybird said:
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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I think we can all find common ground here.
 
Thank you, random person, for entering my car and pulling out everything in my glove box and middle console. Why you thought my 1993 hoopty would contain anything of value is a mystery to me - but glad you confirmed it.

Oh, and thanks for not closing my door all the way when you were done. You'll be happy to know that in spite of your best efforts my battery did not die.
 
I swear to god, it's like my mother is TRYING to turn us into the next-generation version of her mother and her younger sister... who moved 2,000 miles away and never looked back.

Rysto said:
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.
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If you don't need all four numbers, why don't you cancel some of them? And if you need all four, why are you bitching about getting four times as much crap? It would seem to me to be par for the course.
 
Cat Whisperer said:
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?
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Depends on how the website is created. The proper practice is to set up web pages to automatically resize to accomodate the window size. Some websites, however, are set up assuming a minimum window size and won't resize below that. Very annoying.
 
So... Did these posted signs give a duration of time to expect the water to be turned off, which they have now exceeded? Or are you really just mad at yourself for estimating wrong instead of asking?
 
I'd love to know exactly what the low bid was when my office building was built, because the fucking HVAC system has never worked correctly. On the hottest day last week, the AC was going in and out, and never quite got fixed properly. Thank Og I have a little fan, else me and my office-mate, Jen, would have both melted.
 
Dear Teenaged Daughter -

I realize that you are largely unmotivated, and how at the start of the summer you thought it would be cool to have one more summer "off" instead of finding a job, which is what we wanted you to do. I realize that family issues have prevented you from going out job hunting as such, and now you have 6 weeks until school starts, making you a less attractive employee.

However, if you don't SHUT UP about being "stuck" in the house every day, when you didn't listen to Stepdad & I and find a job BEFORE school let out, I'm going to smack you one of these times. Get a job walking dogs, or babysitting, or something. Or volunteer at a homeless shelter, or a hospital, or something else. Good Grief - clean your fucking room while you're there, since you're tired of us bitching at you about it.

Find some fucking motivation and DO SOMETHING instead of whining at me about it on a daily basis. I'M not keeping you trapped in the house, locked away from everything. If you showed some fucking motivation, maybe I'D be more motivated to help you finish getting your driver's license (even though we both volunteered to drive you to jobs if necessary).

Sooner or later you're going to have to wake up and realize that people aren't always going to do everything for you, and that sometimes you have to work at a job you don't want to, and that demonstrating some motivation in general, not just about stuff that you like, will get you much farther in life than whining.

But what do I know? I'm only your mother. :rolleyes:
 
Dear Comcast: You're one of the largest cable/internet providers in the country. I think you can afford an "edit credit card information" button on your website. Your online help got it completely botched up, and the person on the phone told me that it will now take 30-45 days for the whole thing to cycle back into effect. Meantime, I have to watch for a bill that may or may not arrive and make sure it gets paid so you don't cut my service off and charge me for a reconnection. And all I wanted to do was change the fucking expiration date!
 
There's no way to add it as a new card on the account? That would indeed be retarded.
 
Shot From Guns said:
Am I allowed to wish cancer on your sister?
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You're allowed to wish Cancer on people if having it would disuade them from horribly misguided opinions involving it.

Like one of my former bosses. I had a couple of minor bad things happen to me, nothing really horrible at all. But he was mad at me for something goddamned stupid and decided to call me into the office to put me on probation and tell me (without ever looking me in the face) that I had to be a bad human being, because bad things only happen to people who deserve it. It's been something like 16 years, and I still pray that this motherfucker did or will get cancer, if only to force an internal confrontation with that whole stupid idea in his head.
 
Actual lines from an HOA's meeting minutes:


"Our garage sell is scheduled for ..."

"The issue of house colors was raised again as there appears to be two pallets in ..."


My head and my heart both hurt now - the fact that I have to handle documents like this makes my job suck even more than it already does.


Plus, the A/C in our building went out this week, and after two days of warm, stale, muggy, dog-breath air, they got it fixed. Now it's FREEZING in here.
 
Why is it that every single fucking company in the world uses the same template for ordering product, and the template has the same fucking flaw in it: when you miss an item that is required, you get a repeat of the necessary screen and a note about what was missing. You fill it in, hit submit......and get bounced back again because you didn't id your state from the pull-down menu. But you did, 15 seconds ago! Why the hell can't the state freeze just like everything else on the form? Find the person who coded this in the first place and beat them soundly about the head and shoulders!
 
Don't take the one next to the office! There's a hole drilled in the wall and they can watch you shower!
 
Jeebus, overly--have a drink on me.

I am going to take a nap. Although I am not quite 48, apparently working in the yard in 90+ heat for the past 2 days has done me in. I am tired, crabby and so emotionally exhausted due to Other Things that I am only good for a nap.
 
Every so often when i want to clean out the pantry and the fridge, there are always several packages of assorted foodstuffs that have NO clearly marked expiration dates and i FUCKING HATE IT.
 
Indyellen said:
now you have 6 weeks until school starts
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Look, I support everything else you're saying, but I gotta ask about this. Her school starts the third week of August? When did it let out? Not to excuse her attitude and such, but knowing you'll be going back to school when it's still (presumably; I missed seeing your location; where are you at?) ungodly hot/humid is kind of a demotivator. (But then so is not getting out until the last week of June, which has also happened to me.)
 
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