April showers may bring glowers (Mini rants)

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Last month’s eleven consecutive days of 40° heat was a record — the previous longest such stretch was just six days, set in April 1992.

But that recent record has itself been thoroughly shattered. As I write, the Nakhon Sawan weather station reports its 24th consecutive day of 40°+ heat. Moreover this was the 17th consecutive day of 42°+ heat, a record that will probably be bested tomorrow with its forecast for 43° (109.4° Fahrenheit). And that would make the tenth 43° day this month — normally we get only 1 or 2 days at that extreme heat per decade.

While neighboring countries are reporting the highest temperatures the countries have ever recorded, Thai officials point to a day back in 1958 that was slightly hotter than any of these. Unfortunately the on-line history doesn’t go back that far, but I doubt if 1958 had the Unrelenting Heat we see now. Twenty-four consecutive days (and still counting) of temperatures above 40° C (104° Fahrenheit).

Normally the monsoon season would have started by now, with rain giving some relief. But instead we’re also in the midst of one of the worst droughts ever.

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It was raining ice water today ! It was only 39 degree out and I heard some part
of my state was going to some snow. We really never had spring this year

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It is spring. Summer doesn’t start until June 20.

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Hey, THANKS AMAZON! Thanks even more USPS!

Last Friday my $65 package was showing as being delivered Monday. Ok fine, no worries.
Monday I get to work and it shows it was delivered at 8am Sunday.

“Left at mailbox”

I live in an apartment building with 152 fucking apartments in it. If you intentionally left my package at the mailboxes, IN THE FUCKING LOBBY, you effectively threw it away, because it sure as hell wasn’t there by the time I got home Monday and could check on it.

Asshat.

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Want to know what pisses me off? If not, you are reading the wrong thread. It’s right there in the title.

Anyway, my ass is chapped today because my husband seems to have forgotten that we’re supposed to be a team. Before the wreck, we each had the things we took care of - I cooked, he paid the bills, we both changed diapers, etc. If I was unable to manage something due to illness or injury, he managed. And vice versa.

Obviously, serious injuries changed things. He couldn’t very well handle the bills while he was gacked out on opiate pain medicine. No worries, I did it. And everything else, including serving his meals in bed and keeping track of his appointments and prescription schedule and taking care of the dogs and kids and finances and yards and remodeling a damned house with the help of my mom and 2 teenagers. And I haven’t really minded, until now.

I’ve been sick for 2 weeks. Tony can’t be bothered to supervise the kids while they pick up toys and dishes. He can’t seem to grasp that a wife who can’t even get out of bed to get a drink of water probably can’t cook supper, so maybe he could think about arranging for a pizza? This afternoon was the last straw - I asked him to take care of some bureaucratic nonsense, which basically consists of taking a handful of paperwork to an office 3 miles away. He just whined, and insisted that he couldn’t do that without me, and then threw in some gratuitous bitching about never seeing the mail - I guess that bit is accurate, but why would I show him the power bill or such before I pay it?

I’m just venting, I guess, but I’m so pisses off - not because I mind doing for him when he can’t, but because he won’t return the courtesy, and seems to find fault with everything I do, and don’t do.

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Just checked a credit card I paid off earlier this month and found a $219 charge that posted today. Yeah, nope. WTF did that come from?? Called the CC company, it’s from a state I haven’t been to in decades, and new card on the way. No idea how to figure out how the breach happened. Fuckers. Only Google and Amazon have the # for that card. It’s deleted as of 10 minutes ago.

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My day was much too peopley. I am peopled out for the day.

Anyone who wishes to argue with my mutations of English can bite me.

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Actually, I was hoping you don’t mind if I steal them. I get peopled out easily.

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I support the Pitting of Forbes.com. Its only utility is to tell us something about the people who post links to their site. Forbes citers try to demonstrate their sophistication (“See? I didn’t just get this from Alex Jones or Sean Hannity!”) but in fact can’t deal with the 2- and 3-syllable words encountered at the Koch Brothers-sponsored “think” tanks, so they spout the moronic droolings of Forbes.

I don’t click to Forbes often enough to have a good list of their nonsense, but here are two examples:

  • “The U.S. shouldn’t prosecute tax evaders, it should instead go after real criminals.”
  • Suppose the FedReserve loans a bank $1 billion and renews the loan every week for a year. How big a loan is that? $1 billion? No, Forbes calls it $52 billion in loans and ends up with a big scary number. We had a Forbes-citing, Illuminati-fearing moron show up in GD shrieking “Audit the Fed.” He didn’t stifle when the Forbes mischief was explained — I guess he’s waiting for Alex Jones’ answer.

Life is short. Next time I see “forbes.com” I’m clicking Ignore this Imbecile.

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You can add CNS “news” to the pile of burning shit.

And Yahoo . com.

Briefly explaining why:

Yahoo used to be my home page. It had a decent messenger service, a decent email service, and a home page which collected actual news stories in one convenient location. CNN or some other reputable news organization, if they had a decent messenger and email service, would be my home page instead, because I prefer to read NON-FICTION when I want to learn what’s happening in the world today.

And Yahoo even once had a nice feature where if I didn’t want to hear the latest diarrhea that fell out of cloud-cuckoolander Glenn Beck’s mouth today, I could click the menu next to the article and say what I didn’t want to see any more of. “Glenn Beck”, Westboro Baptist Church, Sarah Palin, you name it. If you’re a fucktard, and you open your mouth daily and say fucktard things, I can click and make you go away.** That feature no longer exists.**

Today’s Yahoo home page is full of Forbes . com articles, CNS “news” and Fox “news” articles, and tons and tons of shitty ads targeting the stupidest people.

Yahoo sold out. It’s a piece of trash website, and they keep fucking with my email. It used to work, now it takes minutes for the email toolbar to load, and the email thing is full of ads.

Go fuck yourself, Yahoo. And pretty much all the Nazi-wing political garbage stuff you put on your site, and the Cash 4 Gold, buy a bomb shelter, latest get-rich-quick scheme ads preying on dumb-dumbs. You’re a cesspool.

I want real news. I’m willing to put up with the garbage fluff pieces about celebrities and fashion and other nonsense that doesn’t belong in with the news, but I’m done. All your ads are designed for the single stupidest fuckwads on earth, and half of your “news” stories have nothing to do with the news.

Right now I’m looking at something labelled “news” which says “Big Bang theory blows atheism sky high, even Science may eventually catch up with God’s word”.

CNS “news”.

An article about the Bible being “banned” (hardly)

CNS “news”.

Forbes, Forbes, Forbes, Washington Post, Fox News, Fox News, Fox news.

Look, I go to Yahoo because I don’t want to go to Fox News . com

And Fox News will occasionally repost with some spin, some actual news stories, I am forced to admit, by comparison to whatever the fuck CNS news is. I googled it to find out who is responsible for this garbage and wouldn’t you know it, L. Brent Bozell III.

Some people have way too much money and it gives them way more platforms than one needs to make their point. The fact that one guy can make his viewpoints into “news” and put them on every media outlet in the world because he’s got money, and the fact that people mistake this for journalism or facts, is truly repugnant.

There aren’t enough shut the fuck ups in the world to fit this situation.

I have no more words for Yahoo . com and all the garbage that has infested it. Sell your yahoo stock if you have any. They’ve stopped giving all fucks.

Any links that exist in this post are not ones I put here. Trying to disable them.

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Dunno why you’re complaining about Yahoo . com as though their behavior is a surprise. They named themselves after their target market…

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No argument here, I’m actually planning on stealing this. :smiley: I get peopled out as well, which is why I’m spending some of my vacation time home alone with just the cat and my crochet project.

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Help yourself. The first one was lifted from a Facebook post anyway. :slight_smile:

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They keep showing “memories”, as if FB is some big repository of personal nostalgia. Here’s a fucking hint: if it’s less than ten years old, it’s too recent to be some tear-inducing memory. Even though I keep telling them that I want to see “fewer” of those sorts of reminders, there is no letup, and I don’t see any way to stop them from posting them.

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Go into the settings for “on this day” and create a filter for the dates you don’t want to be reminded of, running from the date you joined FB till yesterday. Update in a year as required :stuck_out_tongue:

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Now if they’d just change it to “Mammaries” and show me tit pics, there would be no complaint. :wink:

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Good idea, but I can’t find this under my Settings. I’ve checked every heading under Settings and don’t see anything addressing “on this day.”

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Try Log into Facebook | Facebook ?

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Forbes has gone from a decent source of business information to multi-screen clickbait crap. They also have some agency calling me every now and then about the subscription that I cancelled almost 10 years ago.

I am pissed about the lack of good fried chicken in walking distance of downtown San Jose, CA. I read a fun history of it, and now I want batter fried goodness damnit.

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So…waiting 3 months to get paid by a place I subcontract for.

Dropping off paperwork at his office for another call, mention the lack of payment.

He apologizes profusely, cuts me a check for my full back payments (about $600).

We chit chat about some other random BS, I leave.

He calls me 15 min later and asks if I can “hold off a few days on depositing that check or it will bounce.”

:mad:

I told him I already deposited it as my next stop was the bank.

He then proceeds to start yelling about what a mess this is gonna make for him…

I told him to go fuck himself and please not to call again.