Will someone please teach our local news people the difference between “bring” and “take”?
The child didn’t bring the toys to the hospital… YOU AREN’T AT THE HOSPITAL, you’re at the TV station.
Also, could they stop discribing unapprehended criminals as “on the loose” How about “at large”?
Umm, smokers at work. Didn’t you read the email? Move away from the front of the building. It is a law in Fort Worth.
If you want to change the law, then run for elected office.
Dear Starbuck’s baristas,
I see you at least twice a week. I don’t expect you to remember me, but when I say I’d like a tall gingerbread latte with no whip…that’s what I want. Don’t ask me what type of milk I want. Don’t ask me if I want sugar-free gingerbread syrup. Just make it the way I asked.
And why are you asking me? You didn’t ask the other 3 people in front of me what friggen milk they wanted! Yes, I’m skinny. You may think I don’t want whip cream because I’m on a diet, but you’d be wrong. Whipped cream is gross. It has nothing to do with my calorie consumption.
Just make it like you would for anyone else!
Does your facility have any form of smokers’ shed in the vicinity of the front of the building?
My dentist uses the topical anesthetic before the injections. It only helps a bit. In the last year, I have had 2 abscesses, a molar removed, a root canal, and 2 crowns. The worst part of every procedure, including the root canal where he had to drill to the nerve and directly inject anesthetic on it because it wouldn’t numb, was the freaking injections into my jaw! My dentist knows that it bothers me and is painful, but there is not much he can do about it. 
They can’t! You said no whip! Make up your mind!
The streets of my village are covered in ice. I asked someone why they don’t salt the roads.
“Because it would ruin the cars’ paint.” Yeah, it’s totally more important that a thirty old LADA have a nice paint job than the streets be, you know, SAFE. About a third of the students at my school didn’t come in today, the first day back, because the busses wouldn’t go out to their villages on all that ice.
Dear 50 year Old Neighbour,
Will you grow up? Turning your back to me or speaking to everyone but me in a group of five doesn’t reflect well on YOU. The loss of your friendship or goodwill for that matter means nothing to me anymore. I will be civil to you no matter what even though you are a crazy bitch.
I just spent nearly an hour working on a fucking computer project that’s way beyond my comfort zone - trying to create a bootable XP disc with SP2 slipstreamed in, so that I will be able to use it with BootCamp on my brand-new Macbook, which will be delivered within a week.
So I spend an hour fucking around with scary things like the command line and, you know, creating a bootable CD. A problem occurs so I spend some time Googling until I find a workaround that seems to work. Finally, all that remains is to hunt up a blank CD and…
The motherfucking, 7-year-old piece of shit Dell I’m working on does not having a fucking CD burner. I’m using what must be the shittiest computer in the universe (it’s a real speed demon copying those files, with it’s 256mb of ram and I don’t know, a fucking 486 processor or something), which is better than my other laptop with a LCD screen that doesn’t light up. I’ve never tried to burn a CD in the month or so I’ve been using this machine because I don’t have a CD player and have an external HD for my backup needs. So now I need to wait until my father is home to ask if he doesn’t mind if I spend another hour fucking around with one of his computers (which are also both impossibly slow) to repeat the whole goddamn process, because I can’t burn the damn CD.
And I was so proud of myself for managing to get there without blowing up the computer… :smack:
If the computer has USB, you might be able to make yourself a bootable flash drive: SolutionBase: Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
I’ve told her that. It doesn’t help. She still bitches every time.
For my purposes I’m not sure if that would work. Plus, my flash drive is currently about 1500 miles away from me. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
At this point, not wanting to go through the whole process again, I might just start scouring ebay for a retail copy of XP so I’m sure it’ll work. Grumble grumble.
Something is wrong with my dog and they can’t figure out what. She’s got some back-end problem, trouble getting up and sitting down, won’t chase a ball, bunny-hops up and down the stairs, is lethargic and I assume in some discomfort. (Hard to tell; she’s a stoic dog.) In short, she acts like a 15 year old dog, and she’s 2.
So: Today, fourth trip to the vet in the last two months. X-rays of upper and lower spine, but no gross abnormalities noted. Better than that at scan diagnostics, this vet office cannot do. I leave with the dog, three prescriptions, a referral to the veterinary hospital 30 miles away. I leave without the $285 they charged me, putting my outlay on this dog at over $600 in two months, with no better idea of what’s wrong than when we started.
I’m not mad at the vets; they’re doing the best they can and are entitled to charge for their services. I’m certainly not mad at the dog – I’m worried about her and I’m afraid she’s suffering. Add to that my budgetary concerns – they’re now throwing around terms like “MRI” and “CAT scan” – and my guilt over caring about money when the dog is hurting . . . It wasn’t a good day.
Salt does more than ruin paint. It’ll rust out a car in no time. I’m just guessing, but LADAs probably don’t come with the whole rustproofing option. So the only way you’re going to get a 30 year old LADA is by not salting the roads.
I cannot eat 5 pitas in a day.
I just can’t. I’m only one person, and even if I’m having a stretch of time where I really like pitas and want to put all sorts of foodstuffs inside the pitas, that’s at most two/day. Maybe 2.5.
Of course, pitas go bad in approximately 24 hours. Even if you freeze them, you only get 36 or so and so I have to waste food - because I wanted a damn pita and they won’t sell them in realistic eating sizes.
Thanks.
In other news, my ear hurts. And it’s stuffed and it keeps “popping”, if that makes sense.
I’m willing to spend a lot on the health of my pets, but I still care about the money. Everyone can’t go down with the ship.
Of course, I believe that about human care, too.
Goddamn national anthem. Why must it be so hard to sing correctly? And the fact that it’s a difficult song and requires someone with skills doesn’t mean said person has to insert a billion ululations into the goddamned thing. It’s the national anthem, not a fucking jam session or a Christina Aguilera impersonator contest.
And while we’re at it, would someone fucking change it to “America the Beautiful” already?
Dear Microsoft,
When connecting to a password-protected wireless network, don’t you think it would be a good idea to, you know, actually send the password? Every time one of my roommates has a problem connecting to our wireless network I have to manually configure your POS wireless device manager to do so.
Sincerely,
Rysto
Attn: Shady Chinese Export Company-- So you finally ship my order after waiting a month for it to be complete, only to send me an email saying that you’re refunding me $2.00 because you are, in fact, going ahead and sending me the damn thing incomplete?
Well, the problem is moot anyway, as our oblast has shut down schools for the rest of the week because of the weather. They call this, for some reason, wood vacation.
Also: it’s called CHANGE, people. Sometimes someone doesn’t have exact change, because they just went to the ATM or something and then you have to BE PREPARED for that situation! WHY can I not pay for a .70 lev bottle of water with a 2 leva note? Is it really TOO FUCKING MUCH for me to expect you to have 1.30 on hand? Apparently so!
I’m not even going to get into the problem with my house’s piping. That isn’t a mini rant, anyway.