Thumbs-up for the first part, thumbs-down for the second part. (The schmucks, not you.) I guess you could stuff their mailboxes with flyers for all the local low-cost clinics?
I am very, very glad for you that you’re able to find peace, and I wish you and your daughter the best.
Huh. According to a report from a friend closer to the action, those jackass westboro trolls showed up in my little town today. We had our first soldier killed in action recently and his funeral is being held today. Evidently there was some flag burning earlier, and now they’re up town doing their thing. A bunch of townspeople turned out to block them, and I’ve heard it’s a madhouse up there. I won’t go because I know I don’t have the self control, but I’m ok with anybody else going and I don’t care if they don’t have any self control.
Yucaipa? Really you idiots?
Hey Verizon, if the picture/sound problem is on 2 TVs with separate cable boxes, the odds are that the issue is NOT with the cable box! Or it would be only affecting one TV! I humored you and did all the unscrewing coax cables and unplugging power cords, but surprise, that didn’t work! Duuuuhhh.
Then he finally got around to having me do a diagnostic which showed bad SNR, so we’re thinking the splitter has failed. I appreciate them sending someone out tomorrow, but an 8am-9pm window is not very helpful.
Yucapia, CA? Really? Well, we caught a couple of those idiots in Gila Bend a couple of years ago. I ride with the Patriot Guard, and we agree to never engage them. We ignore them, while blocking them from bothering the families from the bother.
I’m a terrible singer. I can make my cats hide under the bed if I start to sing. I sang my lungs out while they were being a bother. It was so bad that they haven’t come back to AZ since. Looks very proud and happy.
OK, maybe it was all the pissed off bikers carrying chains and guns and knives that scared them off…but I like to think that it was my singing.
Tonite I am saving water by drinking vodka, even tho we are not on rationing. Had to mow the lawn today - ruined my back - to hell with my diet and sobriety! 
Westborough showed up in my town recently to protest Billy Graham. Rev. Billy Graham. :smack::smack::smack:
Look lady, you have a rearview and side mirrors - will you fucking use them? This is a grocery store parking lot. As such, you may notice that many patrons are walking to and from their cars, some of them behind your car. Why in the ever loving hell you didn’t bother to take advantage of said mirrors is beyond me. But you almost hit me and my son as my husband and small daughter watched from the car where they were waiting for us.
I shouldn’t have to bodily protect my son in a fucking parking lot and drag him out of harm’s way because you’re too stupid and clueless to glance behind you and determine whether there are people behind your car. Then you didn’t even bother to stop and make sure we were ok. No, you left that to the passersby who came running when they saw you almost run us over. Stupid bitch. Pay some fucking attention next time.
Everytime I’m in Houston, I am overcome with awe at Houston Dopers. You actually DRIVE every day and you act like its nothing. The freeways are 12 lanes, going at least 150 mph, with at least a million cars and trucks going bumper to bumper. Of course, it didn’t help when Bill noticed that I was frozen with fear and *took his eyes off the road *to grin at me and tell me that people in Texas don’t actually drive their trucks, they just aim them.
Well, howdaya like this? Seems those punks never showed up. The report I got from my friend, (to whom I gave a stern lecture about mass hysteria and spreading rumors) was rife with untruths. The truth is that a massive turnout of locals complete with menacing bikers (shoutout to flatlined!) lined the streets and made it impossible to get near the area even if they had shown up.
One of the things I like about my burg is that the people here tend to really band together when needed. It used to be like that all the time, but the last ten years of ruthless and unnecessary expansion have taken the wind out of those sails a bit. My city council can suck it.
Not so much a rant, but a good grief moment.
On another message board (about racing), someone posted this gem:
“Amazing the public are imbesilic (idiots for the uneducated) parasites.”
He is calling others uneducated?
I’m tired of putting up with other people’s bullshit. I’m tired of always playing the mediator in an attempt to resolve every conflict. I’m tired of respecting everyone’s POV. Some POVs are just stupid. Some people are just terminally horrible. I want permission to tell people what I think of them. I have so much shit in my own life to take care of that I don’t want to take on anybody else’s. I once wanted to save the world and now I’ll settle for just keeping my head above water. I’m becoming a more assertive person, which is good I guess, but I don’t want to lose my humanity either.
QFT
No, it is not “hard to say,” you moron.
My lighting fixture was cracked, and well, ugly, so I took it down. While at IKEA, I bought a new one. When I brought it home, I looked at the IKEA instructions for installing the new fixture - the picture in the instructions was entirely different than the hardware in my ceiling.
So, I took a picture of the ceiling, a picture picture of the instructions, and I went to a large, big box hardware store to ask “Do you have anything that will allow me to fit this (showed the instructions) into this (showed the ceiling)? If not, do you have any fixtures that will fit into the ceiling?”
I got halfway through question one, and Big Box worker went off on a rant on IKEA. Then, he eventually calmed down enough to for me to finish the question, he showed me a piece of metal. I asked “I can attach this piece of metal to this” showing again, the picture of my ceiling. He answered that it was “hard to say” and ranted again about IKEA.
“Then, I can’t attach it.”
“That’s hard to say.”
“Then I don’t need this”
“That’s hard to say.”
At this point, I have no idea why he showed this particular piece of metal. So, I moved on to question 2 “Do you sell anything that will fit into my ceiling.”
“That’s hard to say” and he points back to the same piece of metal. “None of our fixtures use this” and started another rant about IKEA.
“Forget IKEA. I’m asking do any of the fixtures in your store work with my ceiling hardware.” I point at the fixtures to be as clear as possible that I’m not talking about the IKEA fixture. “If I buy that, will I be able to attach it to the ceiling.”
“That’s hard to say. Ours don’t come with this.” and he points back to the piece of metal that I’ve long since abandoned.
“I don’t have one of those. I have this” and I pointed at the picture of the ceiling. AGAIN. “Could I screw that fixture” pointing at one hanging on the wall “into this” pointing at the picture of the ceiling.
“That’s hard to say. See, IKEA…”
At which point I walked away mid-sentence. I was perfectly prepared to just buy a new fixture. I was not prepared for that. It’s a yes or no question - do your lights work with that set up. Yes. No. Not hard and nothing to do with what IKEA is doing.
… next they’re going to start protesting their own funerals…
Maybe it’s because I was mostly in Deer Park, but people there seemed to aim at the holes. It was actually nowhere near as bad as driving in Miami. Then again, the age spread seemed to be more closely related to a standard age pyramid than the one in Miami, where 2/3 of the drivers are half-blind little old ladies and another 1/4 are college students… the rest are in very good cardiac health.
I think I may be headed for the hospital again. Daily panic attacks, all I can think about is killing myself… all I want to do is sleep and I feel sick all the time. Like 24/7. The smallest things (though I guess some aren’t SO small, but not huge… running out of money and having the dogs get into the cupboards and eat about half of my very carefully planned last shopping trip that was supposed to hold me over until I could figure something else out. Having one of them chew on my phone juuuust a little so that it no longer works, being completely out of money with an empty gas tank and no dog food left… and then stupid shit like ripping my pants.) send me into sobbing crisis mode… not okay.
I HAVE to get my meds regulated and my doctor isn’t answering my calls or responding to messages or anything. And I have to just… find someplace where I’m safe and not alone. I was pretty isolated before… no phone and limited driving capacity makes it that much worse.
Oh, and my little foster dog (the really cute and really bad little beagle, who is really perfectly behaved about 85% of the time, but goes right for the valuables that 15% that he’s not.) came to me super skinny and won’t eat his dog food. He’ll eat people food just fine, but turns his nose up at dog food, even when there’s wet food involved. So he’s not gaining any weight. And he keeps doing this coughing/wheezing/heaving thing and I’m going to call the vet tomorrow, but the vet is pretty far away and I have no gas and no money, all of which just makes me wish I could jump off a bridge.
So fucking mad right now.
My mom’s funeral is today. My mom was Jewish but not Orthodox. My brother and father ignored her written wishes, decided cremation wasn’t Jewish enough and buried her.
I argued with my father for about five minutes, posted how irked I was about this on facebook a few days ago and moved on. Idiot Brother was banned from my facebook page because I can’t stand him. He’s 37, has no job and sponges off my parents. He would show up on facebook and make stupid posts like telling me not to read the New York Times or vote for Obama because they’re both not pro-Israel enough. I told him I wasn’t interested in discussing international geo-politics with a brainwashed nitwit who had not held down a job in over a year.
Do you know what Idiot Brother did yesterday? Idiot Brother hacked into my mom’s facebook account and saw what I wrote about his decision. Idiot Brother then told my father about it. The two of them then made two posts condemning me on facebook using my mom’s name! I nearly fainted when I saw it.
Since yesterday my father and Idiot Brother have sent me five nasty emails calling me everything from a Nazi to a cunt for daring to disagree with them! I can’t believe I’m related to such assholes. They won’t let it go and they’ve ignored my pleas to leave me alone.
So this is what they’re doing on the day they hold my mom’s funeral: calling me names because I dared write that her written wishes should be honored and she should been cremated as requested. I cannot believe these are my blood relatives. They’re such assholes. I understand they are angry and hurt. But calling me vile names is not an acceptable coping mechanism.
This is pretty stupid, compared to the previous two posts {{{{hugs}}}}, but this is the thread for mini-rants, so here goes.
There’s this website I discovered a month or so ago, www.toptenz.net, which is full of user-generated top-10 lists and the like. Good for some momentary diversion, especially for me who has always enjoyed lists.
Because of a debate regarding a posted list, I felt inspired to try my hand at making a list, settling on an old favorite “Top 10 People in History.” So I spent about 2+ hours working on this, doing write-ups for each of my entries, and email it to the admin using the list submission form.
Yesterday I received the following email:
(More stuff followed regarding editorial changes.)
I had The Jesus at 8, Mohammed at 7, btw.
My response:
:rolleyes:
Look guy, it’s your site, run it as you see fit. But don’t be a damn hypocrite and ask me to lie as to not offend your tender sensibilities!
Why do you hate Jesus?
Obviously he should be at #1, right? :dubious: Otherwise you’re just some heathen commie Christian basher. 
SurrenderDorothy, I hope you can hang in there. I’ll be thinking about you.
There was the line where I called Jesus the “world’s most influential hippie”, but it was meant as a compliment. Really! 
In defense of the admin who wrote me the email, they didn’t want The Jesus moved to the top, just above Mohammed.
I would hate to see the wrath inflicted on the poor website by a vengeful God - to really fuck with it, God will have people start submitting top-8 lists.
Makes me wonder if our very own Qin is running that site. 