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My sister just returned from a (business) trip that took her through Italy, Greece and Turkey. (We should all be so lucky) She gave me two Austrian steins for my birthday, one of which is a limited edition.

So we’re at our parent’s table and I’m unwrapping the first one, holding it up and looking it over. My 15 year old otherwise-intelligent nephew asks “what does it do?” :smack: My sister explains what it is. I’m holding it up and moving it around, so it’s really freaking obvious that it is simply a big painted pottery mug with a pewter cap on it.

And he asks again “But what does it do?” (where’s the ‘look down, shaking head’ simile?)

So then I opened the next package, which was the second of the two. I set it on the table, looked at my nephew with a smirk and said “Hey (name), let’s watch and see what it does!”

So if anyone knows what it is exactly that they do, please let me know and I’ll pass it on to my nephew. :stuck_out_tongue:

And Oh Good Fucking Grief. Military Gaming Buddy’s wife is off the reservation again. A couple of years ago she was so big into posting serious anti-Obama, anti-Muslim diatribes and flat out FALSE and malicious bullshit that I believe she ended up harming his career. She finally went completely silent on the subject after some kind of blowout about it. I broached the subject with him and asked WTF was going on with this crap. His reaction was an angry silence and a quick departure. She had been fairly silent until recently, when the anti-Obamacare rants started to get squeezed into other topics. She just posted a complaint about how their co-pay for their ONE prescription went up a WHOLE TWO DOLLARS and how this is all Obamacare’s fault and how they were promised FREE MEDICAL CARE because he’s in the military and WOE IS ME!!! :rolleyes:

I just posted a response saying it has nothing to do with Obamacare and everything to do with the insurance companies not wanting to pay for drugs anymore, and Big Pharma wanting to make as much as they can. Pointed out that my Januvia costs $290 a month and my co-pay is $30, so the insurance company is paying $260 a month for it. That my two prescriptions that are generics are costing me $10 each for a 90 day supply from Walmart, but there won’t be a generic Januvia until 2017.

Seriously, just shut the fuck up, bitch. You’re a hateful moron who needs to stop showing the world how stupid, misinformed and nasty you are.

And I will never say that out lout to you or your husband, out of respect for him.

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So, what are you going to put on the mantel this Christmas where the card from her you’re not going to get now would have gone?

:smiley:

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Tell her to shut the fuck up and get the prescriptions on base like the military intends and the scrips will be free. If you get them mailed to the house, then you get a co-pay, or if you get them at the local Rite-Aid.

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She doesn’t buy it either. Her child has medical issues. There is no ‘woo’ involved in their attitude or treatment, so I don’t think she understood what the hell the other mothers were talking about.

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I just find it infuriating that someone who gets free health care and insurance from the Federal Government has such a hateful attitude about the very idea that other people might be able to get healthcare. The rankest hypocrisy.

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Yeah, but, she deserves it, and they don’t.

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That’s part of it, I think.

Her husband has served 20 years in the Military, so he has earned a lifetime of paid healthcare.

But if you asked her about union members getting lifetime health insurance, she’d call them greedy bastards. (The subject of union members destroying the auto industry was mentioned in the thread.)

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Anyone play League of Legends here? Anyway, this rant will only make sense to those who do (but I will try to make this comprehensive to everyone). So I started playing a few weeks ago. I am summoner level 6 and one of my friends has been playing this for many months and is pro. Anyway, I play bot-lane ADC (attack-damage-carry), using characters like Miss Fortune, Corki, etc. My mini-rant is basically the shitty-ass support I have been getting. You know how as an ADC, you are supposed to get as many enemy kills as possible and advance towards the enemy nexus. ADC characters are usually good at dealing lots of damage but they do not get that much health. That is what bot-lane support helps out with. Basically, their job is to heal us ADC’s and take all the hits from enemies and say in front of the ADC because they usually have very high health and healing powers. That is why ADC’s are usually also very ranged, so I can attack from a distance but have my support take most of the hits due to their high health-capacity. One the other hand, bot-lane support should also not get all the kills because it is not as necessary for them to level up and get gold as much as it is for the ADC. Yes, they can help, but the ADC should in a perfect world be getting all the last hits because that is what gives them gold which you can spend on items to make you stronger and levels them up. All of this is very important for the ADC but not much for support.

And really, ADC’s should be getting all the last hits on minions too. Now I know I am at a fairly noob-level right now. All the matches I play these days are basically noob-fights. And I know that bot-lane support is hard as hell to play just due to how many restrictions you have and how much perfection it takes. But come on; I wasnt expecting that at all. However, I thought at least they would do the bear-minimum. My bot-lane support has never even (except for maybe once or twice) been remotely good. I don’t think I as the ADC have ever been healed once by my support in the last few days. I understand that it is hard to play support, like I said, and it can be hard to remember that you are supposed to let the ADC get the last hits, but it is different when you do not even heal us even once the whole match and not even try to do the right things. Today, I was playing a match - I didn’t even have support for 70% of the time. Yes, it was that bad. That is why I got killed so much. And even when occasionally someone did come over to help, they weren’t really support characters either. The other team actually had a good bot-lane ADC and support (they were using some pretty overpowered characters too). Meanwhile, already not being the best ADC, I didn’t even have support for most of the time. Though, I was able to get far in their side one time, that was when the bot-lane enemies temporarily left to do something else. And when they came back, they totally kicked my ass and really, no other lanes were doing that great either, so our team lost about 40 minutes into the match.

All these arbitrary guidelines about who does what in each lane is called the meta-game. And sadly, at my level, no one really follows it no matter how hard I try to get them to (through team-chat) without being overbearing (because remember, I am a noob too, but at least I try and follow the meta-game and do the right things).

And I apologize for any writing mistakes in the composition of this post; it was done on my phone.

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Anonymous User, for all the sense I could make of that, you might as well have been typing in Mongolian.

Sorry!

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That is so funny. Like seriously funny :slight_smile:

There was a duck of some kind swimming in our pool when we got home. Bill opened the door and gave Buttercup permission to chase the duck. Our sweet but not too smart girl has been afraid to get in the pool, we expected her to just run to the pool and bark.

Nope, she was so focused on catching the duck that she tried to run on water. The look on her face when she learned that she couldn’t was priceless. Buttercup doesn’t really dog paddle, she dog flails.

The reason that this is in the rant thread? Because neither of us videoed it. She could have been famous!!!

No birds were harmed, Buttercup didn’t get close to the duck.

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My oldest barely had two little teeth poking through at his first birthday party. The younger one had all of his non-molar teeth before he was one and the rest before he was 18-20 months. Oldest lost his first tooth at 7. Younger will probably start losing at 4-5. :confused:

I got rid of my smartphone because I’m tired of paying for it but I’m still on a contract until Feb so I couldn’t go to those “straight talk” plans, or whatever they are. So, in the mean time, I got a basic flip phone and a bill that is reduced by more than half. Go me.

My first day with my dumb phone I had to go to “Minneapolis” (ALLEGEDLY) to a store I’ve never been to. I used Google to get the address before leaving because I’m passingly familiar with some areas down there and, lo and behold, the listed address sounds totally familiar and I think I know right where I’m going.

I’M DEAD FUCKING WRONG. I’m so wrong I wind up on I-94, something I would NEVER, EVER do on purpose, especially not at 4:30 in the afternoon, and it takes me about four and a half days to go 2.5 miles. Then, oh guess what? I had to TURN AROUND ANYWAY AND GO RIGHT BACK RIGHT I CAME FROM. I was on that road for so long, half of my party died from fucking DYSENTERY and I lost 5 oxen.

I called my dad practically in tears because I was so damn frustrated. Note: theoretically, it should have taken about an hour to get where I was going and, at this point, I’d been on the road for, like, two and a half hours with no end in sight. So he gets directions for me and starts blabbing and the things he was saying made no sense and it’s not even my fault; he sucks are reading directions. Then I remembered that my dumb phone, while not requiring a data plan, is still data capable so I got the one day subscription to VZ Navigator and even though fuck VZ Navigator (because, seriously, fuck VZ Navigator), I finally arrived at my destination about 20 minutes before closing time.

Here’s my actual rant, though: The place isn’t even in Minneapolis, it’s in Plymouth and, had I know that (having only ever been to Plymouth one time on purpose), I would have been more careful to get thorough directions before leaving. And then it turned out I could have gotten there with my damned eyes closed and without ever going anywhere near 94 if I had known it was right off a highway that actually goes RIGHT BY MY DAMN HOUSE. So then I was tired and angry and I felt really dumb on top of it. I got home really easy though! :rolleyes:

I need navigation. I can’t not have it.

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It’s a hundred degrees, we’ve got no air conditioning and our pram finally came in the post. My husband grunted and heaved and sweated bringing it into the flat (it’s a convertible 3-in-1 deal, so there’s a lot of pram).

He’s done nothing but send me messages all damn day asking if I’ve unpacked it all and assembled it yet. It’s goddamn heavy, I can barely make it to the store on the corner and he has the instructions.

Also, the little shit had a great big double dip cone when we were away this weekend and only afterwards said ‘I must have looked like a real dick buying myself a big ice cream and not getting my pregnant wife anything’.

You think?

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Well, may have stuck my foot in it. One of her friends put up a poorly spelled and badly written “fun facts” about Obamacare which was all doom and gloom predictions and not actual facts. So I responded by saying that ‘facts’ were things which were true, and given the accuracy (which was ZERO) of the dire predictions about what would happen to America if Obama was elected or if DADT was repealed*, I would be backing up a large truck of salt for these ‘facts’.

  • Both of which were the most rabid screaming hate filled topics this person could possibly post about and was completely 100% WRONG about. So pointing that out as such made me feel all :smiley:
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Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

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I just wanted to give you the proper admiration for this paragraph. :smiley:

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Is my I-phone map app retarded or what???

I took a brief car trip north of the city this morning for a service call. As I’m approaching my exit, I notice that the highway is basically a parking lot in the other direction.

I thought “If this job goes quickly I’ll need to find another route home.” It did. I was in, finished and back out in 20 minutes.

Now I know there is an almost parallel highway west of the one I took that will get me back home. So I open my phone and set my location and enter the name of the alternate highway.

I get instructions for a 12.3 mile jaunt with 14 turns, Part of that route involves the road I’m trying to avoid. The 2 alternates are even more ridiculous. I’m thinking it can’t be that far or that hard.

So I have a decent sense of direction and I used to be pretty good at finding alternate routes without electronics ( while I haven’t spent a lot of time in the area lately, about 10 years ago I had a job that took me to that area all the time.) So I decide to ignore the map app and wing it.

Sure enough, 3 turns, 2.5 miles and less than 5 minutes later I found myself at the entrance ramp of the alternate highway.

WTF, Map App ???

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One of the reasons I also have paper maps [and anybody else adore trip-tics? I love the damned things!]

Although when going from Ramstein to Amsterdam a few years back, for some unknown reason it routed us on the non-restricted access highway once we hit the Netherlands border. Somewhat baffling but we actually enjoyed the countryside and small villages we went through. Might have had something to do with the GPS being in German [it took my Romanian buddy a couple of tries to make it speak British English instead of American English, but I can manage kilometers. So at least on the trip back eastwards we had an English speaking GPS.]

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I may have had a rant, but now I’m chuckling about dysentery and oxen and I no longer know what I was cranky about.

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I had to stay an extra hour at work so someone on the next shift could get their ass handed to them.

I come home and someone’s parked in my spot.

I come up the steps and a fucking tree rat is running off with one of my tomatoes. I promptly shook half a can of red pepper flakes over the plants and I shall be getting some bird netting next payday.

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Hey, thanks. That’s what happens when I haven’t slept and it’s 5:30 am. I barely remember posting that. But, yeah, I-94 sucks.

Yay!