Well, I wish you a happy birthday anyway, and you can’t stop me! Ahhahahahahahahahaha!
Actually, I just checked on one thing: we have a pair of heavy aluminum ramps that Tony uses to put the ATV on the back of the truck. Those can easily be used as a wheelchair ramp.
I don’t think Nell can walk into the house - when I saw her Saturday, she was telling me that she can’t get knee replacement surgery due to her weight, and her completely sedentary lifestyle (along with a host of other issues) doesn’t really encourage weight loss. I can’t really begin to estimate her weight… In high school, at about 5’10" or 11", she was above 300 pounds, maybe 350. My best guess now is 500-600 pounds. (Past a certain point, how do I even begin to estimate? Looking at pictures from the weekend - 25th class reunion, woohoo and all that - her leg at the knee is about the circumference of my waist. She’s Discovery Health documentary big. 
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I’ll find out for sure whether her chair will fit through the front door - I think that isn’t a question that would be terribly embarrassing - and I can make everything else work… except for a restroom. I really don’t think that her chair will fit through a standard interior door.
Oh, and Happy Birthday, bouv! Whether you like it or not:
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes,
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes,
Hippo Birdie dear bouv,
Hippo Birdie Two Ewes!
Happy birthday Bouv.
Sam thing happened to me. Got my 1st govt job, which entailed training for a couple months way out of town. Didn’t know anyone, had a tight budget. Second rate hotel.
Bought a birthday cake and ate it, singing Happy Birthday to Me. Got really maudlin.
It got better. It will for you too. Buy that cake.
Not Safe For Viewing in the Wee Hours, sheesh!
WTF, Adobe? You install the newest version of Flashplayer on my computer, and now I can’t view any Flash content in Firefox. The bloody player (but luckily not Firefox) keeps crashing. It works in Chrome, but Chrome is my backup browser, not the one I use regularly.
Stupid Adobe. Stupid Flashplayer.
Goddamit FB friend - just because you are feeling guilt for stringing unemployment benefits out as far as you could before getting a job doesn’t mean you can come off all high and mighty about some woman you don’t even know whining about being judged for being on food stamps.
ummm, I’m having a difficult time parsing this; could you assist?
FB friend spent a very long time on unemployment, until she could no longer get any more extensions, then announced (yup right there on Facebook) that she’d better start looking for a job. Which she was able to get quickly. Like two weeks later.
After that, everything is “assistance”, everyone is “doing their best” and no matter how obviously someone is gaming the system, she now turns a blind eye and insists they are innocent.
Makes me think she is feeling guilt about gaming the unemployment system.
Current rant sparked by her posting some blurg from a stranger about how she shouldn’t be judged by her nice nails, clothes and phone when she is paying for groceries with food stamps.
I think that’s it…
So, you’re ranting that she isn’t being judgmental enough?
Or is it because she’s scolding people for being what you think of as the exact right amount of judgmental?
It isn’t judgmental to be aware of what is going on around you and being able to accept facts. She has apparently decided that since she could somehow justify to herself that not looking for work for 2+ years was OK, anyone else getting “assistance” must really need it and no one cheats.
Looked at an apartment last week- the first and only ones in town that meets my needs. The “property manager” said to return my application and then with a 200-300 deposit, he’d hold the place 30 days til I could get all my money together for all the moving expenses. He said he’d call me later that day or the next to get everything handled.
I finally called today, and a lady informs me, “Oh yeah, well that guy has been fired and that’s not really how we do things here. Your application has been approved, but someone else is also looking at the apartment. If you want the place, we need the deposit and first month’s rent by today or tomorrow”
Now, I am by no means a spendthrift. But I don’t have $1300.00 just floating around. Dammit! I told her I could get the money in a week, but not a day. She said there might another unit available for me, even then. Now I’m concerned about the management style of the place, but it’s really my only feasible option. Plus I already paid the $35 application fee. But I was counting on that 30 days, and now I have to somehow learn to shit fifty dollar bills, not to mention giving my family close to zero notice about moving out. Very inconvenient!!
It’s not that no one cheats, it’s that, since she did it, that cheating doesn’t count. You know, sort of like the “oral sex isn’t sex unless it’s among gays” crowd.
Steve. On a plane.
Oh, I want to see video of THAT
If I hear of disaster at Sky Harbor, I’ll know why…
Oh. So you’re ranting because she’s judging people for being discerning. Right?
I can get behind that. Judging people is kind of a hazardous practice. It’s real easy to make an unattractive habit out of it.
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[li]You fell off an obstacle on the PT course during basic training and were medically discharged before you even saw permanent duty. You are not a disabled vet! Seems like every single person I know who washed out of the military calls him or herself a “veteran”.[/li][li]When did saying “excuse me” after bumping into someone fall out of fashion? Is doing so some kind of sign of weakness?[/li][li]Hang up the goddamn cell phone when you’re at a cashier. It annoys the cashier and holds up everyone else in line.[/li][/ul]
Use the actual November mini-rant thread for mini-ranting.
I didn’t see it, so I created a new one. Got a link?
I don’t know how you could have missed it, it’s right on the front page and it’s up to 6 pages now:
You thought we made it two weeks into the month without starting a new one? Oka-a-a-y.
Just for future reference, the title usually has the word “rant” somewhere in it. So if one searches the forum title page for the character string “r-a-n-t,” it should find it rather readily.