Apparently not?
I appreciate that you signed up to lend this Kindle book out through this lender-borrower matching site, I really do. But, see, the thing is that you need to then actually SEND ME THE BOOK WHEN I FUCKING REQUEST IT. My other loan request from the same time yesterday (actually, a few seconds later) was *filled *24 hours ago. So what the fuck are *you *waiting for?
Ahhhh, sounds like they signed up to be a borrower, not a lender. Typical.
Update from the last thread: the smoking pervs stopped! Here’s the story, better hold onto your hats!
So our across the hall (next to the smoker’s) neighbor, we’ll call him Max, had been spending a lot of time with his ladyfriend and hadn’t realized the smoke was so pervasive. We saw he’d stuffed plastic underneath his door, so we knocked and offered our extra draft/smoke guard thing (it’s sold in a 2 pack). He is grateful and accepts, tells us he’s pretty pissed it’s going on and has emailed the landlord about it. Okay, good, so had the SO.
Fast forward a bit, and the smoking is gone for 2 days solid. So weird. The guy gives me dirty looks as we pass in the hallway as he goes outside to smoke.
Max knocks on the door one night and comes in and cannot stop giggling. This is a big, macho baseball player, nearly doubled over in girly giggles. He tells us how he got the smoking to stop, how it’s one of his greatest triumphs ever.
He called the landlord the last time the smoke started up and told him to come over. I’ve mentioned our landlord is stupid, but everyone has had a stupid landlord. Keep in mind that he’s real stupid, like low-IQ, gets caught in his own lies stupid. A Ron, if you will.
So landlord comes over to Max’s. Max proceeds to tell Landlord in his vast legal knowledge (he’s a law student) that what they’re doing next door is illegal. If the place were to catch on fire because of the smoking, Landlord would be liable and COULD GO TO JAIL!
Well, Landlord isn’t one to mess around with JAIL, so he leaves Max’s apartment and talks to the smokers, saying in NO UNCERTAIN TERMS smoking is prohibited and that he could get into TONS of trouble if “authorities” knew there was smoking in his building.
Stupid tenants agree and spend 90% of their time elsewhere now.
Win for us! Win for Max! Win for baldfaced lies to get your way!
That’s just the thing, though: lending is completely optional. You have to *manually enter *any book you have available to lend. So there’s literally no reason to sign up to lend a book unless you actually want to lend it; in which case, you should bother to actually *keep track *of when you’ve been assigned to lend that book out. Both of my other requests were filled in a matter of hours.
That’s… That’s just beautiful. :wipes a tear:
Some indication that you’re not going to throw red paint on her fur coat when she brings it over?
Dear douchebags: how clever you are to put up your little tea party stand outside of the post office. The poster with Obama in his Hitler moustache was a nice touch and is sure to inspire the civilized discourse that I’m sure you crave. In the meantime, I hope your dicks freeze in the 40 degree weather.
Ahh, the old “I would like to keep the illusion up that I care about others and am considerate”. Still pretty bizarre.
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None of my friends would be tacky enough to own a fur coat.
Pretty sure that sub-species is specially adapted with very small genitalia, which can then retract completely inside their bodies at cold temperatures.
Side note: Seriously, dude? You’re calling 40 degrees cold?
Cold-ish for Portland. Balmy for January in my former domicile.
Maybe we could work out some sort of exchange where we send you our teabaggers and you send us your 40-degree Januaries.
So this is the new mini-rants thread? We’re missing the opportunity to have a “mini-rape” thread.
So my mini-rant is against myself for pretty much just expecting my sinus headache last week to just go away so I didn’t do anything for it and ended up with a full blown sinus infection. I started antibiotics but I’ve now missed several days of work and will have to use some vacation hours in order to not have a crappy paycheck two weeks in a row. I probably could have prevented this with some Neti pot usage, mucinex and decongestants but I’m a wimp about using the Neti pot and swallowing horse pills.
Pass. In Anchorage we had both right-wing nutsos and sub-zero temps. Ten years of that was enough for me.
Well, being Pitted is apparently the equivalent of gang-rape, so presumably if you were to mildly Pit someone in this thread, that would be a mini-rape.
Hey, you could always ride the weather over this way! You’d have warmth and a teabagger-free zone. Bonus: our new Senator would be swept off with the other retards, so we’d get Feingold back, and he’s pretty much the best Senator anybody could possibly ask for.
I miss Feingold. 
I helped vote him into office that first election, and even though I’ve moved south since then, I still followed what he was up to. What a loss.
No no noooooo, I don’t want political rants. I hear enough of them from all sides.
Ooo, I have a good one. Last night I went to a nice place for happy hour. We’re sitting around discussing what’s good (those of us that are repeats). I love this place and I’m in a good mood (unusual!). Our waiter approaches and offers us water: tap or bottled. I make a joke about the article in the paper citing in the increase in cavities because of bottled and filtered water. Then I say “I’ll have tap, please!” and mild laughter ensues.
Our waiter takes a deep breath and says “Isn’t it SO messed up that we’re the only country that adds fluoride to our water?” Me: “And that we have fewer cavities as a result and since we added fluoride?” Him: “Umm, I don’t KNOW…who KNOWS what they’re trying to do to us looks nervously around”
Sure, it provided fodder for some anti-vaxx jokes afterwards, but Jesus. Fuck me for making a lighthearted joke and fuck HIM for being a crazy.
Fuck him for not only being retarded enough to buy into that kind of anti-science bullshit but also to not understand that his job as a waiter isn’t intended as a platform by which to bombard his customers with crazy.
My husband was just engaged in a long battle over fluoride with a former city Alderman of Calgary - Jim won. 
I was once waited on at a Steak & Ale by a guy who thought we should be dropping hams on Iraq…he seriously thought this would help the people somehow.
The State of North Carolina can go fuck itself. As if the state didn’t have enough of a redneck reputation already, the Wake County schoolboard’s antics have earned them a spot on the Colbert Report (which was actually really funny). Now the governor has decided to oppose privatized liquor sales because she doesn’t “want to be the governor who has to hold my granddaughter’s hand as we walk past the liquor bottles on our way to the toy aisle in WalMart”. :rolleyes: So she doesn’t want to see the booze, but she’ll gladly rake in that money from the ABC stores for the ‘disintegration’ of Wake County schools. Yeah.
SFG, what kills me is that I never engaged in conversation with waitstaff, even when they try. The ONE time I make a joke about a paper article is the time I get an earful of Crazy Town.
Seriously? That’s so awesome. I never hear of the intelligent “winning” sides. That’s very cool. You just made my night :D.