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

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Were you able to ask her to point out where in the emails it said what she thought it said? I'm wondering if she just thinks differently than other people, or if she truly can't understand an English sentence.
 
Shot From Guns said:
Some fights just need to happen.
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Yeah, they do. At least, husband does plenty of the work. The downside is he goes around in a shit-tastic mood nearly all the time.
Time Stranger said:
Dung Beetle, from all I've read about your trials with your step kids, you must be the most patient person on earth. I think I would have strangled them all years ago. Hang in there.
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And here I thought I’d been keeping it all in! :)
 
Shot From Guns said:
Assuming that you're talking about your own home here... just fucking chuck them? If you're the one doing the work, and other people can't be bothered to mark expiry dates, they don't get to complain when you toss what could be a rapidly evolving new civilization that will enslave us all.
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I am tossing stuff ... but i also think that it's a bit of a waste. My problem is more with manufacturers and not other people.
 
I asked you if you had a more recent bio for someone you support than the one I have on file. You said your version was from June of last year. I said, great, that's more recent than mine. You said you'd send it.

You didn't send it. Then you logged off and went home.

I fucking loathe you.

Boggette said:
They want you to have to feed the printer one page at a time!
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We have no A4 paper. Either the printer would refuse to print it, or it would just come out all fucked up.
 
Moonlitherial said:
Does she attend sessions to teach her how to live a more present life too? A friend of mine is in a royal battle with her ex because his new wife refuses to put sunscreen on her 7 yr old when he is with them. Her pale as milk red headed 7 yr old. Also no sunscreen for the yr old toddler but apparently its okay for dad to wear. New stepmom teaches at some wacked out cult like life coaching institute and apparently this is one of their beliefs.
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Hmmm... she does believe in 'living in the present' - she gave me 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle for Christmas - I wonder if that's related?

The retreats she attends are all raw-food related. (As I understand) You do a lot of meditation and only live on liquids for a few days. And talk with hippies.

Oh gosh - yeah, she's gonna do that to her kids. The thing is, we're of germanic/english decent. She's a natural blond. As far as I can tell, she is trying to train her skin to only derive benefits from the sun by prolonged exposure without sunscreen.

...is the life coaching thing in Hawaii? *feeling of dread*
 
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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People like that suck.

Been there and done that.

Just keep repeating to yourself (as I believe Samuel Johnson wrote) you cannot reason someone out of a position they have not reasoned themselves into. There's always going to be a significant segment of very stupid people. Fortunately the rest of us can vaccinate ourselves and protect our community against their idiotic desire to play nice-nice with really dangerous diseases.

Here's a really good resource to help fight them off:

http://www.dangeroustalk.net/a-team/Vaccines

You may not be able to reason with the crazy but you may be able to convince bystanders that the crazy is indeed crazy.
 
Vinyl Turnip said:
And as long as they're not fish hooks.
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I hate you so much right now. I'll be in the corner, rocking myself in the fetal position.

But first - it's going to be 101 tomorrow. The temperature. I shudder to think what the heat index will be.
 
Shot From Guns said:
Just months? You can pluck that shit for years and it will keep coming back. Always and forever, if mine are any indication. (Sounds like they don't grow as far to the middle as yours, but the parts I do pluck have never stopped growing.)
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I have a somewhat sparse part of the side of one of my brows due to over-zealous plucking when I was a teenager. Yet those encroaching hairs between the brows and moving down the soft it-still-stings-when-I-pluck-there ridge above my eye? Oh, those don't stop growing back in...
 
Chimera said:
Shot From Guns said:
Am I allowed to wish cancer on your sister?
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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.
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That thought process is so...offensive. :( I'm sorry he did that.

...my sister has similar views. We're 'destined'. It's all fate, and we're supposed to learn from it or we're only suffering because of bad things we did in a past life.

That means a child born in poverty, who dies at the age of five is destined, is supposed to learn something by living a short, horrible, heart breaking life. Fuck this.
 
Zsofia said:
After close examination my boyfriend thinks somebody stabbed my tire. I'd be spitting mad, but I'm too tired.
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No, you're three-tired, unless they got another tire on the car as well.

(Sorry, sorry... /slinks away)
 
Well, of course; see Hair 101 - Growing Where Not Wanted and Not Growing Where Wanted. :)
 
Oh, and not to mention: "stomach" is at least as inaccurate as "belly" is infantile. Call it an abdomen, if you're going to get serious about that shit. Unless you're referring to the sac that digests stuff, in which case, go ahead and say stomach. But I'm guessing you're not.
 
Rilchiam said:
Please stop saying "Golf" of Mexico. And in advance, don't say Persian "Golf" either.
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Wha? Persians love golf! And hummus sammiches!

Unauthorized Cinnamon said:
I hate you so much right now. I'll be in the corner, rocking myself in the fetal position.

But first - it's going to be 101 tomorrow. The temperature. I shudder to think what the heat index will be.
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Its 88 with a heat index of 96 here right now, and humid as hell. Its 7:30pm EST. Its too hot. Al Gore was right...the internet he invented is not only the source of global warming but evil incarnate!
 
mhendo said:
Well, i got it right in my previous post, but fuck Apple and their retarded corporate naming policy, and a hearty "Up yours" to the Jobs asslickers who insist on spelling the name of their overpriced crap with the stupid fucking lower-case i.
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I don't like it either. But 1) I know that's the name, and 2) I'm not going to mistype the name of stuff I talk about. It'd be just as bad as writing about "Hanalulu" or "gymnaztics."

All those posters who start threads bitching about "ITunes" or asking questions about their "Iphone"? I can't take their posts seriously. If you can't get the name right, why should I think you got anything else right?
 
Cat Whisperer said:
Were you able to ask her to point out where in the emails it said what she thought it said? I'm wondering if she just thinks differently than other people, or if she truly can't understand an English sentence.
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I dearly hope it's not the latter, because she's supposed to be an English transcriptionist. My best guess is she gets frustrated easily and her reading comprehension goes out the window. This particular person has a habit of sending us off-kilter questions that make both me and my boss stare at the computer screen with our heads tilted like confused dogs. It's not so much that the questions themselves are odd, but the assumptions and thought processes that had to lead to the questions being asked in the first place are nearly incomprehensible. I have to think at a 90 degree angle to reality to make sense of them.
 
If you're going to sell your fucking CDs at a blues festival, then they should contain, you know, BLUES MUSIC. Unrecognizable C&W tunes are not blues, but perhaps being Australian you didn't know that. Or perhaps you were just pushing crap that wouldn't sell anywhere else. Bitch.
 
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