I hate when you get something free but it’s pretty much useless.
Anyone else sign up for that free Uni-ball pen offer last month? They had TV ads for it any everything. Apparently it’s some kind of special ink that is better to use for signing checks and whatnot. Anyway I got mine today and it’s red ink! WTF!? You can’t sign checks or do anything in red ink besides grade school papers! It was free so it’s not like I’m out anything, but I’m annoyed this was explicitly promoted as a pen to sign documents with and then they send out red ones.
Way to not make me want to buy your product Uni-ball!
My God but I’m sick of American politics - what is it, five, six threads on this crap in the Pit right now? Why oh why can’t we have a political forum so I can never go there?
Yeah. Remember how they said they didn’t want to create a politics forum because all the threads were due to the upcoming presidential election and then it would all die down and there’d be no need for a politics forum?
Hmmmmm.
Huh? When did this change? I’ve signed my checks in any number of colors, and never had any problems with most of them. They (you know, THEM) don’t like checks signed in silver ink, because it looks too much like pencil, and they don’t like checks signed in smeary ink, but I sign checks in blue, purple, red, and green all the time. Sometimes I get this: :dubious::rolleyes: , but most of the time my check is accepted, even at the bank. I don’t use the yellow or orange or pink pens to sign checks with, because I feel that the color is too light.
I’m not especially proud of it, but about 16 years ago, this dim bulb woman in front of me stopped near the bottom of the on-ramp to the freeway during rush hour, and proceeded to spend 8 full minutes parked there waiting for a suitable opening into traffic. One that wasn’t going to come for another couple of hours. Unfortunately, this was an older, inner city two lane state highway with very narrow, tight turn on-ramps with high curbs. No way to get around her without risking damage to my vehicle.
All the honking and swearing by me and everyone else behind us did nothing. She’d just wave her arms toward the on-coming traffic and act frustrated.
Finally, I yelled in my loudest possible voice: IF YOU DON’T START DRIVING RIGHT NOW, I’M GOING TO GET MY BASEBALL BAT OUT OF MY TRUNK AND BEAT YOU INTO A PILE OF BLOODY GOO.
Off she went.
For the record, I do not and did not have a baseball bat in my trunk.
But seriously, EIGHT MINUTES parked at the bottom of a ramp in rush hour. Lethal injection is too kind for that kind of stupidity.
Really? I was always under the impression that checks & other things like taxes, etc. had to be in either blue or black ink. Hmmm. I do think that writing a whole document in red ink is an eyesore though.
You might get attention from the IRS if you write your tax returns in red ink. In accounting, red ink is reserved for negatives, and black is reserved for positives, and the IRS is very persnickety about accounting. And yeah, a whole document in red ink is an eyesore. But I usually use purple ink to write stuff (when I can be bothered to hand write anything) and very few people blink an eye at it.
Now, I have signed a will and some other legal documents in blue ink, and the pen was provided by the attorney. The reason for the blue ink was to distinguish the original from the copy or copies of the document. My husband makes a lot of copies during the course of his work, and he uses blue ink pens for the originals, for the same reason.
If there’s a complaint about my writing, it’s usually that nobody can read it. I never really got into that junior high habit of practicing my penmanship, and nowadays my handwriting is even worse because I tend to print out everything.
I can tell you from working in a payment processing centre for a huge corporation that we would cash any cheque that we could read enough to see what the hell they were trying to pay, but we would not cash cheques written in pencil (because they could be altered) and we would not cash cheques without the bank transit codes on the bottom of them. I felt terrible sometimes for having to send cheques back to what was obviously an old person who couldn’t write legibly any longer, but if we can’t read it, we can’t cash it (you probably don’t even want to know how much time we spent looking at cheques, trying to figure out what the person was aiming for). Red ink was not a problem at all. People getting the dates wrong was a much bigger problem (the cheques have date formats stamped right on them, and people still insisted on screwing up the dates - how hard to figure out is DD/MM/YYYY?).
There is no fucking reason not to vaccinate a baby who should get vaccinated.
I am not a goddamned bully for pointing this out.
Research does not consist of reading bad websites and parroting bad material that indicates you barely passed seventh grade. Stop reading shit and spreading it around the damned internet. People a hundred fucking years ago weren’t healthier. Babies who aren’t vaccinated aren’t healthier you stupid fuck. The reason they had so many children back then is because quite a few of them would drop dead from the diseases we vaccinate against today.
Measles is not a minor illness that can be easily cured with lots of vitamins. Chicken pox is not a pleasant little walk in the park with no consequences. The reason we see so few cases of such illness is not because the illnesses aren’t a threat but because the non-stupid people of the world vaccinate their children you stupid fuck.
People were not magically more hygenic before the introduction of the polio vaccine or the goddamned HiB vaccines. Vaccines are not money makers. Your local pediatrician isn’t in league with Satan to poison your baby. No, I don’t fucking work for the pharmaceutical companies. Yes, the Amish vaccinate their kids. And when they don’t their kids get sick.
If you can’t understand why the fuck you should vaccinate your baby hand over your uterus and don’t ever have any more kids because you’re clearly too fucking stupid to be a parent.
In the meantime just STFU because you’re nothing but a pile of heaping ignorance and half truths and bad information. Your baby’s minor bout of fussiness after the MMR is not a fucking reason to spend the rest of your life advocating loudly against basic public health measures, you stupid pathetic, dimwitted, birdbrained cunt.
Fuck Microsoft Excel, for sorting the last name “May” as first alphabetically in pivot tables, in front of “Adams” and every other last name. Click on the spoiler tab to see why, and for your brain to explode Scanners-style:
Excel, in its infinite wisdom, thinks “May” actually stands for the month of May. And since dates precede strings in pivot tables, it ranks May at the top of the list. There are no words.
But… but… Microsoft just wants to help you!!! It’s like an overly solicitous co-dependent girlfriend that just wants to fix everything! Why won’t you just accept it’s help! It helps because it luuuuuuvs you!
Heh heh heh. I knew what I’d see before I clicked the spoiler. In a more helpful vein, have you tried putting a ’ in front of the name May to force Excel to take it verbatim?