I post a thread and it sinks like a stone. 
Dude, maybe it’s because the content of your thread OP, so far from being a pit, is the very epitome of MPSIMS. 
My rant is somewhat seasonal. I feel like I’m stuck at home because if I go anywhere on a Saturday afternoon in mid-December I will become stuck, immured if you will, in the stinking bog that is Christmas shopping.
Roddy
This sort of idiocy really isn’t that rare. At adoptions, we are always having to tell people that they can’t put their toddler in the puppy pen. Puppies have sharp teeth and claws and haven’t learned manners yet. The child has beautiful, new, unworn skin. It never works out well.
I thought that your Lovecraft references were very good, but being one of the distaff sex…one of those who dust in worship of the elder god of entropy…I’ll try to thing of a good pithy response.
Try telling the dispatcher it’s the second time you’ve called it in (and their incoming call log must be faulty to not be showing the first). 
Either that or they aren’t going at all. My money is on the latter.
We had four inches of snow yesterday. So naturally I get awakened by stupid fucking assholes who run snow blowers at 7 in the morning on a Sunday. What the fucking fuckity fuck is it with some people? Sleep in, assholes. If it’s not snowblowers it’s leaf blowers. The season changes but the same fucking assholish behavior continues.
If only there was some moderately light weight, easily available substance under which you could bury the bodies… 
My cats are shitting on clothes and elsewhere now because the litter boxes are full because I didn’t have time to clean them and I’m the only one who cleans them because everyone else is too lazy and always makes excuses not to clean them and/or throws a fit when asked. And now if I clean them today, I’ll have to do it with my sliced-open, bandaged-up finger. Damn me.
It is not classy to take up a laundry cart when you don’t need it. It is even less classy to do so when the laundromat is especially busy. Take your hamper/bags/whatever you lugged your clothes in with out of the cart and leave it for people who need them to move their wet clothes to the dryer or their dry clothes to the folding table. You’re lucky I’m classy and won’t dump all your shit on the floor like I should, you cart hog.
Fuck eczema. Again.
It was going- my skin was back to looking like skin again, and had stopped hurting almost everywhere… then it flared up again last night. No idea why, I’ve never had an attack of it like this before.
Watching the X-Factor final online while knitting…someone needs to tell Katy Perry that she.cannot.sing. Holy crap.
She was the opening act for the Grammys, I think it was - she wasn’t bad, she just wasn’t particularly good. She was nowhere near “opening act for the Grammys” good.
Checked on the derelict car yesterday - still there, still not ticketed. I spent about half an hour on hold to the Parking Authority and gave up. If it doesn’t get ticketed today, I AM going to be nasty tweeting!
Anti-rant, but not worth its own thread in MPS. There is a kitty tree in my comp room. Its in the corner between 2 windows. The windows have blinds that I closed because I was killing monsters. The light was streaming up the wall, an as usual there was a at in the crow’s nest. It just happened to be our simple cat.
When he sat up to give his face a wash, he caused a shadow to move on the wall. Being an alpha predator, he sat there with his paw in the air while he figured it out. Then he realized that he should kill the shadow and pounced the wall. After he spent several minutes pawing the wall and looking for the shadow, he sat down and started to wash his face again.
Oh, shadow!!!
I just spent 20 happy minutes watching him.
I would start being nasty with it - get the largest can of international distress orange you can get, and go to town on it. Paint a huge ‘This Is It!!!’ on the drivers side, big stars and 'x’s all over the rest. Then call the police and report it again. Point out that some kids or whomever has been doing graffiti all over it so it should be plain which one you are reporting. I would even go and get one of the cheap burn phones and use that to report it and when setting up the sim card, use the address the car is at and that way when it pops on the caller ID with the police, it populates the form field with the right address.
I really like the way you think.
Hey Em,
My girls got your cards and the little notebooks. The eldest was thrilled to get mail all the way from Canada. Thank you!
I would really like temps to get above freezing. We’ve only gotten a little snow and ice and only need a day’s worth of temps in the 40’s to see it disappear but while it’s above freezing now, things dip to sub-freezing again tomorrow and barely break that mark again on Tuesday.
Yeah, I know, that’s why it’s called ‘Winter.’ Except that technically doesn’t start for another week. Plus the weather service said that this year we had a 50-50 shot of things being above or below normal - typical meteorologist weasel speak if you ask me. It’s really because there are no overarching weather patterns this year so they don’t have an advantage for seasonal predictions, but come on. At least make some shit up.
Oh, thanks for the good news, LavenderBlue. 
Glad your daughters liked the cards and notebooks.
I like the way you think!
This is the tweet I just sent -
(copy sent to my mayor and my alderman as well)
- complete with picture I just took of the truck (which has no plates now - now it’s REALLY illegal to be on the street!). I think I should take some of your advice - put a big sign on any derelict cars I report in the future saying, “YOOHOO! CALGARY PARKING AUTHORITY! THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE DERELICT CAR!”, because God knows, my previous method of giving them the description, plate number, and address of the vehicle isn’t working. :rolleyes:
psst! It’s Councillor now.
Oh, you got Sean Chu? This is the pit, right? That fucker!
After it was pointed out that the 7th AVE cycle track is making trips easier and quicker for both cars and bicycles that asshole calls plans for a second track “madness”. Uh, okay dipshit.
Oh, he’s a former police officer. I’m sure he’s doing the best he can to clean up your streets, Cat. Witness his efforts with your derelict vehicles.
Yes, I commute by bicycle. Not downtown, but still. And, fuck snow!
Dear Greyhound:
Up yours. $40 for a bus from Boston to Portland, ME is insane. I can go to NYC for $13 and that trip is over twice as long.