Mini rants

I say keep it too. I don’t have any kids, but if I did, they could be Sigmoids. And if I took pictures of them, they could be Sigmoidoscopes. AHAHAHAH.

Sorry.

Is it just me, or is anyone else hearing this in a Marlin Perkins wildlife documentary kind of voice?

Or maybe seeing it as a cartoon with a sewer drain with a whole bunch of slanty cat eyes peeking out?

Dante, how about once it starts raining, and everyone puts their umbrella up and then forgets that they have a large pointy thing above their heads and bump everyone with it?

It’s funny when two obliviots approach each other and bang umbrellas, especially if they snag each other. It’s like they’ve been caught by surprise. “Oh my heavens, what’s all this then? Good lord, an umbrella!”

I would have gotten it. I love your user name, and I love reading your posts because you’ve interesting things to say and you say them well!

My mini rant: Mister, if you’d have removed that stupid-assed cell phone from your ear and paid attention, you’d have probably figured out that your right-hand turn on the red light was not a good idea. Oncoming traffic had the green light - including the folks in the left turn lane. Yes, dear, I, and the car in front of me, had a left turn arrow when you executed that turn.

Fucking goofball decided to make the right-hand turn after the car in front of me was almost through the intersection - in other words, it was pretty damned obvious what was going on.

Schmuck.

If I have to format a table from Excel into Word again, I’m going to fucking strangle somebody.

goes back to formating tables from Excel into Word

Another kitty rant and sory but I do not have any pictures loaded up to the internet to share. :frowning: I’ve been meaning to fix this transgression but I’m a lazy bastard.

My kitty, Puddins, decided she needs to be my alarm clock within the last half-year or so. During the wintery months it was not that big a deal because I was getting up before the sun did so she only tried to meow me awake every once in awhile.

Now though is a different story. The sun starts to comes out about 45 minutes before I need to get up and she has decided that something is wrong with me because the sun is coming out and I should be awake but I am not so she must meow her head off at the foot of my bed until I get up.

The only way I can get her to stop is to halfway get out of bed and try to pick her up because she hates getting picked up and so then she will run off into the living room.

I’ve had some luck resetting my furry alarm clocks by not feeding them until I’ve been up for at least an hour. If that fails, I can always shut them in the laundry room.

Well, I do now.
There are some people on our block who try to look after the ferals. (I did at first, but don’t have the time to devote to the project). Maybe I will go talk to them and see if I can help.

That is a good suggestion but it will not work in my situation. The first couple of times I got out of bed thinking, “kitty needs food” but then when I checked her bowl there is dry food still in there.

I should probably explain a little. I got her when she was 6 from a friend of my mom’s who was moving and couldn’t take her with her so I offered to take her in and love her and pet her. The lady I got her from said that ever since kitty was a kitten the lady just left dry food in the bowl all day and kitty would nibble when she was hungry so I do the same. I put a handful in and that usually tides her over for a day.

I just started the “trying to pick her” up method and I’m hoping she’ll learn that meowing in the wee morning = “big pink thing that pets me will try to pick me up” and she’ll eventually stop.

A political rant: Next time someone mentions how race is the elephant in the room with this elections, I am going to do some serious slapping. All I’m hearing in every single discussion that veers even close to politics is how big the fuckin’ elephant is.

I am so fucking sick of stupid, petty office politics. I mean, little people, how much fun do you really have because you ignore people and try to make them feel “excluded?” Honestly, if I were interested in you as a person, I would have tried to cultivate a friendship with you sorry ass dumb fucks eight years ago. Get over yourselves.

It is because of your superior/entitled attitude that no one likes our department. YOU. Dividing and conquering with your half-truths. OH, and you, you TWO FACED, HAVE A SPINE OF JELLO IDIOT, you have just lost the last person that defended you when you went crazy a year ago and drank so much you had to be fucking committed! Who looked after you? I did! Well, no more.

And I have to say this: Hey, you, custodian! Stop fucking your girlfriend outside behind the mobile classrooms! We all are sick of hearing about your various positions and modes of undress. Don’t come to me and tell me you can’t move a full file cabinet because it is too heavy. I know what you did twice outside in this motherfucking heat today…If you have the stamina to boom chick a wow-wow…then you sure as hell can move my file cabinet on a dolly!

Dammit. I am ready for summer.

Have a nice day. :slight_smile:

Damn you, Lurky, I understand that the friend who was staying with you had trouble finding a new place to live when you sold the house, and you agreed to pay for having her stuff put in storage for a while. I understand that you felt you owed her for all the help she had been while your wife was dying.

But, dammit, it’s been a year and a half now, and you’re still paying rent on that storage locker. You’ve just bought a new house, and you can’t afford to spend any more susbidizing her. She calls you and gives you a sob story about how much trouble she’s having finding a place because she can’t find a steady job. This is no longer your problem! Stop enabling her.

Who should I be pissed at?

Yahoo mail for making me fill out a captcha just to send an email
OR
The spammers who made this necessary

I think you should do it, but only if you call your kids “those little shits.” :smiley:

Yahoo, because the spammers have already solved their captchas, yet they keep using the same ones.

Gosh, I hate going outside on rainy days for EXACTLY this reason. I’m stabbed in the eyeball, every time :mad:

Mine did this too! Randomly smells of stinky, stinky cheese. I think something rotted in the windshield wiper fluid. The smell always returns when I use it. Time to bust out the hose.

I should have thought of that myself. :smack:

That’s OK. While kitty pic posting is absolutely mandatory elsewhere, this is the Pit, where the rules are somewhat relaxed - here it is only really, really, really strongly recommended. :smiley:

Trying to export Outlook Contacts to an Excel file. Get error message that says “File cannot be saved. It is read-only”. Spend 45 minutes searching Outlook Help (my ass) and the internet and Microsoft.com for the answer to a simple question.

How do I turn read-only off?

Tell me again why I quit smoking???

I saw a woman yesterday pushing her baby stroller through busy traffic against the light. The crosswalk was no more than 15 feet away. WTF?