I recorded the Fargo (TV-series) marathon yesterday on FXM (no commercials! nice!). While watching the first episode, the cable company’s crappy DVR started spontaneously rebooting itself, like once every two minutes. If I call them to get a replacement I’ll lose my recorded shows. I’ll try to muddle through.
You know who I pit?
I pit the motherfucker who designed Lucario in the new Smash game. An uncharged, relatively fast smash attack should not kill at 40% from midscreen. I don’t give two shits that you have to be at 140% for it to kill that fast; it killing at 60% when you’re at 100% is equally dumb. Yes, I get it, you’re proud of your new rage mechanic, and aura is Lucario’s thing, but this is just retarded.
May I offer you Carolina Furniture Concepts?
Everyone in western NC will be singing that jingle six years after we’re all dead.
800-588 2threehundred, Empire!
Right there with you.
no rants so far.
i’ve even gotten the date right every time so far.
Unlike the priest yesterday at Mass, you mean? Mom said “I’m feeling unborn…”
No, he didn’t just say 2014. He said 1915.
Minirant, oh yeah. My cellphone has decided it don’t wanna make noises. It will vibrate, if I answer the call it makes person-voice noises, but no tones, rings, bells, alarms… the store has suggested a Total Reset, but that will have to wait until I’ve taken that flight whose boarding pass is already in the phone :smack:
And the heater has crapped out. I already had to fix it a year ago; this same week it was working, today it was not. Methinks it’s not going to get fixed, it’s just going to wait until I get a new one… (this is in Barcelona; this particular week it’s being cold by local standards, but most of the year and since I’m only here when I’m on vacation/working from home, I can shower at noonish when the temps are above 20ºC).
Your calendar needs adjusting.
Posts about painting chops should go into Cafe Society. However, I doubt it will fix them no matter how badly you underseasoned them.
WTF is WX?
… today.
I think it’s shorthand for “weather.” It’s used a lot in aviation. It originated as an abbreviation in Morse Code.
Does the Science Channel only have 5 commercials to run???
I’m watching the Mythbusters marathon and I haven’t seen a new commercial in a week!
sigh
This might come in handy, if you’re the type to risk debunking FB crap;
I like my cellphone alarm clock most of the time. But I still cannot get it to not go off when I can sleep in. A real smartphone wouldn’t have tried waking me at 6 am NewYears day, ninety minutes after we went to bed.
damn you!!!
Seriously. I’ve been lumping any organization that runs so many commercials that I have them memorized in the same category as the HSUS - professional fund raisers and nothing else. I’m looking at YOU St Jude Hospital!
I forgot my wallet today. I had a slice of leftover pizza and a cup of coffee on the way out the door at 3:00am and nothing else until I made it home around 5:30pm. I really should stash a spare credit card in my backpack, as this happened one day last week, too.
The Mrs had a big pot of potato soup simmering when I walked through the door. The kids mostly cooperated and we had a nice dinner. She’s a decent cook, but I especially appreciated it today.
St Jude does a lot of good work and it costs $1,000,000.00 per day to keep their doors open. They don’t turn anyone away that needs treatment beccasue they don’t have funds and also work to provide the families of the sick children a place to live while the kids are undergoing treatment. They are making amazing breakthroughs.
I find the constant commercials annoying but give them somewhat of a pass because I know what they do.
Hey, they changed it. She used to say “just two korters”. It drove me even crazier than I normally am.
:smack:
I pit the Del Prado DIY dollhouse kit for making the furniture bits nearly impossible to remove from their sheets of plywood without breaking them. And the instructions that either are incomplete, don’t match the photos (or vice versa), or are just completely wrong and I have to figure out a different way to do things than they say to do them. I can’t believe I actually got the structure put together, though I had to put a lot of extra materials into it to make it sturdy enough to stay together.
I also pit the virus with sore throat and chesty cough that has ruined the second week of my winter holiday. Any other kind of annual leave, and I could have got it back by treating this week as sick days, but since the office is closed this week anyway, I don’t know if I’ll be able to do that. Even if I could, it’ll wreak havoc on my Bradford Factor.
I am so tired of the damned animal commercials, I swear I am feeling like I should get a case of prestamped postcards, and timestamp every commercial that makes me change channels to avoid the fucking things and email them off with the message that this commercial made me change my channel … and disinclines me to donate time or funding.
I have enough issues cleaning up what little corpses I find when people dump kittens at my farm and we can not manage to trap and deal with them in time. Fuckwads who dump need to die in a fire as painfully as possible, and if I get a SD mod warning, so be it.
I’m sorry. 
Joy to the World: the programme director in my department just released our second semester class registers, and I am thrilled beyond words (except for the ones ‘Oh, for fuck’s sake’) on discovering that the three annoying bozos who made one of my autumn modules so much fun are in two of my spring modules.
One of these modules has 15 people on it; the other 11. As they’re final year modules, much of the work is based on class discussion and presentations. These knobends do absolutely zero class prep and if they aren’t sleeping through class, then they’re sat watching videos on the one guy’s tablet.
Personally, I don’t care if they want to wank off and waste £9000 a year tuition fees on the third class degrees they’re currently on track for (the US equivalent to graduating with a sub 2.0 GPA), but gah are they a total drag to have in the classroom.