big fella wants you to explain yourself here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=12008235#post12008235
i hope a mod sees this and bans your Charter Member ass or even tell you to think before you type. continue to inflate that post count of yours!!!
In some cases you can rotate through three or four color cartridges because the printer only tracks the last few installed.
Or in the print preferences there may be an option for B&W only which will make it ignore the condition of the color cartridge.
I’m sorry, but you have three too many exclamation points for me to take you seriously.
Goddamned stupid motherfuckers who think people want to read their political opinions on Facebook. Pretty soon I’m gonna have like 10 friends on FB.
I gotta start this out with WTF???
So we go on this big weekend vacation every year with a bunch of our friends. It’s reasonably affordable - never more than $150 per person for four days/three nights including food. My husband and I started this trip, and the number of attendees has been up to 15 and down to 4. Some years people can’t get off work, or can’t find a sitter, or don’t have the money. Whatever - they’re always welcome back next year.
So it’s all planned and paid for (on our credit card - had to pay up front this year), and it’s this weekend. WOO HOO! One of our friends lost his job in October, and we wondered how they were going to pay for their portion, but whatever - if they can’t come we’ll just re-evaluate the cost. I got a call last week from his girlfriend saying that his unemployment hadn’t come through yet, and his mom wasn’t able to help them out since it was just after Christmas, so they really couldn’t afford to pay us right now and could they pay us back over time? Sure! I understand.
So today I’m on Yahoo chat with the guy, and he tells me he went out and bought a new digital camera yesterday! WTF?? Seems he got his unemployment benefits and some cash from Mom and decided to replace the camera that was dying. But don’t worry - they’ll pay us back eventually. And it’s not like it was a $200 camera. :mad:
This TOTALLY chaps my ass. These are the two most financially fucked-up people that I know, and every time they bitch about money, I just want to slap them. Only got $50 in the bank account, and it’s not enough to pay a bill? Well, don’t worry about making partial payment - just go to the casino and blow it instead! Can’t get your hot tub fixed because you haven’t paid the guy from last time? Just drive three hours into Ohio to pick up a Tomb Raider slot machine you bought off eBay!
Dear CoWorker – will you PLEASE stop saying things like “I don’t know why I can’t lose any weight?” and “I guess I just have a slow metabolish” and so forth? At the very least, can you stop saying them within minutes of wolfing down a super sized McD lunch? With a huge cup of regular soda because, you know, the diet soda just don’t taste the same? And then following that with at least a third of a bag of Oreos? (And, no, I’m not referring to a 100 calorie pack, or even a single serving packet.)
I don’t want to say anything mean, but some day my self control is going to slip. 
Excellent post/username combo.
Wow. Since I’ve been tracking my calories, I can tell you offhand that you have described about two days’ worth of calories in that one meal, and almost zero nutritional value.
Well, let’s be fair: not offhand, I count maybe 2350 calories*, which is a huge meal, but not 2 days’ worth.
*Speculating on what constitutes a “super size” McDonald’s meal, we have
Dbl 1/4 pounder with cheese, 740 calories
Large fries, 500 calories
Large coke, 310 calories
Plus 1/3 bag of Oreos, 800 calories.
(source: calorieking.com)
As reflected in another thread , a lot of people like the one described are just woefully ignorant about the facts of nutrition, diet and exercise. Maybe this one is also willfully ignorant, but kindness will go further than snark in helping her figure out what is going on.
Sorry for the hijack, I don’t want to turn this into a fat debate; but I’ve been both fat and stupid (about nutrition) and I owe the lessening of one to the reduction of the other.
Roddy
If there is a Jesus, I think he should do something to help people in Haiti and Darfur and not give a shit that you mention him daily on your facebook status message!!
If there is a Jesus, he’d probably say to all those people mentioning him daily on their FB status:
“SHUT THAT TOMB DOOR! I’VE BEEN DEAD TWO THOUSAND YEARS, STOP BOTHERING ME!”
To be completely fair, the oreos weren’t part of her lunch. She kept the bag in her desk drawer, and every few minutes all afternoon I could hear the click then rustle-rustle as she dived for another couple cookie. So I guess they fell into the ‘snack’ category.
Anyway.
The thing is, I’ve been fat, too. Almost fifty pounds overweight, and I’m short. (My user name is in honor of the time I was getting control of my life.) So I honestly don’t believe she doesn’t know WHY she is fat and HOW she could stop being fat.
I didn’t know exactly how many calories I was eating at the time, but I was completely aware it had to be TOO MANY. I absolutely knew I WASN’T exercising. Without knowing shit about good nutrition I KNEW that my fat came more from the fritos and dip that I noshed on while I watched TV than what I ate at meals. And so forth.
You can’t live in our society without some amount of knowlege about what’s fattening seeping in through media exposure and your friends discussing diets and so forth.
And I would totally have resented it, and been insulted, if someone had said anything to me about what I was eating. I knew it was bad, shut up about it.
Which is why I’ve never said anything to this woman. She knows I lost a big amount of fat. She could ask me for tips if she wanted. (No, “I just can’t seem to to lose weight” is not asking for tips. It’s a way of saying “It’s not my fault, don’t blame me.”)
For that matter, we’re often part of the same group going out for lunch. She can see what I order, and what the other average weight people order, and compare it to what she and a couple other obese people order. Hell, we work in a medical facility! She could get a free consultation with a professional dietician any day she wants.
She’s just not at the point where she seriously wants to change.
And until she does, there’s no point in anyone else trying to help her change.
My friend probably didn’t have the best marriage and she more than likely should have done something about it sooner instead of just dropping it on her family three days before Christmas. I still understand. She wasn’t happy. However, I’m the babysitter and it’s killing me to watch that little girl have to say goodbye to her daddy again and again. It’s heartbreaking to watch a little two year old and her daddy in tears because they don’t live in the same house anymore.
There’s other crap, but it’s minor compared to that.
It’s almost two days’ worth for me (in ONE meal, no less), but I take your point.
I vote for, “Stop being such a fatty fat fat,” followed with copious poking of the folds while dancing around and singing, “How come you’re eating so much, fatty?”
well, for me the meal and soda alone are almost my entire days worth of food … I eat 1800 cal a day. Not that I actually do a supersize meal with a nondiet soda. Actually if I do have to do McDeath, which is grudgingly and only when I absolutely can not manage to avoid it, I will go for the Caesar salad with grilled chicken and either milk or water as I dislike soda in general. I have not liked their fried items since they changed to the veggie oil as it gives me the shits.
I don’t care how many nights a year you spend in a hotel, that stupid member card does not give you the right to be a self-serving, overprivileged, entitlement brat. Using your kids as pawns to try to get out of paying a surcharge just makes you lower than the lowest worm. Actually, I apologize to worms. They provide a useful service to this Earth. You do not. Enjoy your miserable life, you chose it.
For crying out loud, please do not quote an entire, very long post, immediately after it, and then add only a single line of your own content!
Edit the quote, or just post. It’s really not difficult!
Agreed! No, really, I agree, not just being silly. I saw someone do this the other day for the second post in the thread. You know what? We all just read the OP - you really don’t need to quote the whole thing in the second post.
I hate the way my local newspaper is laid out and i hate what most newspapers have done to their comics sections. The comics are a shade too small, there are more ads every week in the comics section, and there is always some ad from some bastard too cheap to buy a full page ad that is wrapped around the comics themselves.
I also hate that there are comic strips almost as old as my grandfather doing the same jokes over and over.
Mostly i read webcomics now, because i’m bored with it all.