In the latest installment of dumb ways I’ve hurt myself… I jammed my thumb last week at work and it’s still sore. I somehow managed to hit the tip of my right thumb square on my desk. I heard a pop (loud enough that the guy at the next desk looked up to see what I had done to myself this time) and I developed a technicolor bruise around the base of my thumb.
The bruise has mostly faded but my thumb still hurts. Trying to function without an opposable thumb has been challenging to say the least.
I have no idea why this annoys me so much, but there is a weird phenomenon regarding the English city I just moved out from, Bristol. In 1974 the city and surrounding counties were redesignated as being in the ceremonial county of Avon.
This was rather unpopular, and 22 years later, in 1996, the area was rearranged again, the city was returned to being a city and county in its own right, as it has been since 1373, surrounding areas were split up between several other local counties, and the name ‘Avon’ was dropped.
All of this happened long before I moved there. That is mere background for my rant. My rant is due to the fact that now, in 2017, half the times I have to fill in online forms that include my now former address, the county- Bristol- is not on the drop down list, but Avon, which hasn’t existed since the smegging '90s is there, and that’s the option I have to select. But it is no longer a county. It doesn’t exist any more. In one more year, it will be as long since the county was scrapped as it existed for in the first place.
Why has this fossilised scrap of irrelevance been included in databases created long after its demise? Websites that were just a gleam in a nerd’s eye back in 1996, when Avon met its miserable end, nevertheless insist on honouring this 22 year blip of a failed county. I don’t understand why.
Because nerds are likely fans of Blakes 7?
Thanks, DrFidelius and digs, for making mole checks and removal sound boring. 
I find dr’s appointments needlessly stressful but maybe I’ll be able to sleep tonight.
Because you are the sweetest member of your household? Seriously, I get mosquito bites all the time and my husband never gets any. In my whole life I’ve had one, ONE friend who was tastier to mosquitoes than me. I miss her.
I have been growing my hair out for several years. It grows painfully slow. It’s taken years, but it’s finally getting to a nice length.
I just went to light a candle. When I struck the match, the sulfur tip ignited and flew off the end of the match into my hair on the right side. Stupid freak accident. I didn’t get hurt, but it burned up a chunk of my hair and now it will need to be cut. It’s now several inches shorter in the area than the rest of my hair.
I’m just really, really sad about this.
Jeez, Rhiannon8404, that sucks. I’m glad you didn’t get burned as well but I’m sorry you lost some hair. Maybe you could go to a really good beautician to get it cut in a way that loses the least amount of length.
Yeah, I’m grateful I wasn’t burned and it definitely could have been worse. I’m going to call my girl and see what she can do. In the meantime, a ponytail pretty much hides it.
The laundry detergent brand that permeates everything is ‘Gain’ or their dryer sheets or scents sprinkles. They are horrible! It is the most sickenly sweet smell ever invented. I hate it!
Let me guess. Labradors? Mine has done in five pairs of bifocals, close to ten pairs of shoes, the safety shroud on my weedwhacker, an outdoor extension cord, the power adapter for kaylasmom’s Life Alert base unit, numerous wall warts, and a two-gallon night-blooming jasmine plant the day after I brought it home from the nursery.
That’s for starters.
at least you don’t have the problem we do …apparently there’s a soap/fabric softener that’s sold in Hispanic countries and has been imported for a while through the ethnic supermarkets
All the newer arrivals buy it because its what everyone at home uses and its dirt cheap …and it can be smelled from several feet away that’s not the problem
What is the problem is the genius that decided that a dryer sheet with that brand and scent was needed… and since every group seems to do laundry on one specific day … we have that smell coming out of various dryer vents for hours every other day and it can be smelled through every window …
When there was a sale on tide and everyone bought it we rejoiced … not that it smells bad just strong enough to upset my stomach
We have a refinery in our area which makes various scents for various products.
I stopped used fabric softener when it was revealed in our local paper that the refinery uses beef fat as the scent carrier. The fat is stored on the barges which dot the inlet where the refinery is. In the summertime the smell, according to the area residents, is godawful.
kaylasdad99: Dobes. The last one didn’t act like this!
adhemar: What happened about your car?
I think I previously complained about this in the Workplace Rants thread, but some asshat where I work thought it would be a great idea to stock the restrooms with cans of Gain air freshener. XP The quantity most people spray in one sitting is enough to set your sinuses on fire.
The scent that drives me nuts is antiperspirant. If my pits stay dry, there is no odor problem. So I want an effective antiperspirant, that is unscented. Why is that so hard to find? I do not want to smell like my antiperspirant.
I have an appointment next week to take it to their repair place so they can evaluate the damage.
I have printed out the CarMax listings for the same make and model, year that shows the replacement cost and will contact the places that have done work on my car for the records. I plan, if they try to total out my car, to tell them since their client was at fault for the wreck they need to make my car back to where it was or give me the cost to replace it plus title change and taxes. Car Max is on the high end so it gives me a place to negotiate from.
My stomach drops every time I look at my car. I just bought it a couple of years ago and I hate the process of looking for a new car that suits my needs and lifestyle. I spent two years looking last time before I finally decided to pull the trigger. won’t have the luxury this time to spend a lot of time looking. 
Deodorants and antiperspirants are my pet peeve. (One if them)! Most perfume and cologne brands make a antiperspirant in their flavor. I usually find them too strong, though. My girls swear by them. If you have a signature scent you like, look for an antiperspirant in that brand, cosmetic counters and drug stores usually have the whole line.
I use Dove’s Sensitive Skin deodorant. They have a scentless version, which suits me right down to the ground.
Today, I almost wrote the phrase “… our increasingly global world.”
I want your forgiveness. I deserve your scorn.
Speedo discontinued their wonderful Sengar swim goggles a few years back. They were great: sturdy, comfortable but with a gasket that didn’t leak, and reasonably priced. When I found out they were being discontinued, I stockpiled (hoarded, really) a bunch. Because all their alternative models were crap (“popular” Vanquisher, especially so). But, alas, I’m down to my last pair. So I’ve been buying samples of available goggles, which are usually so crap (F*ing Vanquisher) that it’s $12-18 for a couple swims. I’m now on to the competition-level models; the Speed Socket runs $18-25, so it had better work out…