I have to get a new birth certificate and the fucking website is making it way too complicated and asking for lots of information that I don’t have. I guess I could call tthe number they provided but I really don’t have the time to spend the entire bloody afternoon on the fucking phone.
Fuck it all to hell.
There is a friend of mine from high school who is gay and will redirect most intelligent discussions to discussing how gay marriage needs to be nationally legalized. He’s extremely vocal about this and oftentimes becomes the “face” of the position.
Discussing taxes? He’ll talk about how same-sex couples need to have their marriage recognized for filing purposes. Healthcare? He will get into a debate about visitation rights and insurance coverage. Now, I agree with him, but he’s derailed / hijacked many conversations where there was very little, if any, connection. Oftentimes, more conservative friends will argue with him, using the typical talking points. He got married a few years ago, and they had a kid shortly thereafter.
Well, last month they announced they were getting divorced. One week later, both partners announced they were in new relationships, with each now cohabiting with their new partners. This is just going to give the “anti same-sex marriage” people fuel to talk about how gays don’t treat marriage with the same respect / sanctity that straights do. (I know that such behavior isn’t limited to “same-sex couples”)
Additionally, I hate it for the kid. I’ve only met him once and he seems like a pretty good child. Cute, intelligent, funny, friendly, etc. The fact that they are both rushing into serious new relationships so soon… I dunno. It’s obviously not my business, but this is not the first time my friend has rushed into something like this. In fact, it’s how he and his partner ended up getting together. Friend breaks up with his ex and two weeks later, my friend is engaged to his (now) ex-husband. Five months after that, they announce that they are going to have a kid via surrogate. It’s fine to rush into things and make rash decisions when it just involves consenting adults, but I just hope that their kid won’t be affected by such spontaneous behavior. (Yes, this could have been a long time in the works, but given their track record of behavior, I seriously doubt it.)
It’s just another example of how much they are like straight couples. More often than not, I hear of parents getting into cohabitation situations right off the get go. Love is love. And love is stupid.
(Currently separated for ten months and wouldn’t consider getting into such a relationship let alone sucking my kids into it.)
Well, crapola.
Signed the fiancee and myself up for a 10k run at a winery. Free wine glass, samples on the course! Sweet right? And only 45 minutes away!
Uhhhh wrong. Just pulled up the map to show her, and it’s actually 3.5 hours away. We’ve been looking forward to this for a couple months. And, 80 bucks down the drain.
The good news is, she’s thinking we create a make-up wine run at a local trail with our own wine 
I went to the doctor to have my bp checked because it was sky high a month ago. It’s still sky high. He put me on a third bp med in hopes of finally driving it down.
This one is more on me than anything. Found an app this weekend called “Secret.”
It allows a person to post anonymous messages, and others can comment on / “like” the post. You are assigned an “icon” at random for each “secret” in which you participate, so as threads manageable. It searches your contacts and will allow you to see messages that your friends have posted, but all posts / comments remain anonymous.
So, I told a co-worker w/ whom I am pretty close - we talk about risque things and whatnot - about the app yesterday. This morning, I made a post that I wish more of my friends were using the app, but I’d be afraid that they could tell what posts were mine. A few people commented on it, and I made a comment that I like the app because it lets me discuss certain matters that I’d feel weird discussing in polite company - giving examples of categories / types.
Today, I mentioned the same thought to the co-worker, almost verbatim. A few minutes later, he sent me a text of the screenshot of the comment I’d posted. He’d downloaded the app and saw the whole thread.
Now I’m slightly embarrassed. Nothing bad, but he won’t let me live it down for a day or two.
The fucking 40-50 year old assholes with small penises and apparently no jobs were at it in the neighbourhood again late last night. Rushinng around really fast in their fucking car and making a lot of noise and being dangerous and keeping me awake. They’ve been doing this for years. The wintry road conditions made them stop for a few months, but now that the snow and ice have melted, they’re at it again.
Maybe next time they annoy me, I’ll call public security. I have a phone number for that. I don’t know if the regular 911 police can do anything.
How fast is the response time w/ your security? I had a similar issue w/ people who would go and swim at the pool immediately outside my bedroom window in my apartment complex. They’d go out around 3 am on a Wednesday night / Thursday morning, drink, scream, play music, etc. I’d always call security, but by the time officials would get there, the people would be gone.
When I saw it was a pattern, I let my complex’s management know about the issue and gave them “pre-warning” so that security would show up around the “usual time.” Security “caught” them this time, and while they only got a warning, they never came back.
I’m not sure this is really a rant, but…
My daughter is in preschool. Her best friend’s dad is now a woman. No biggie - I have no idea what it may feel like to be born one gender and feel like I should’ve been born another. Here’s the problem I have:
Apparently when he got a sex change, the little girl was told her dad died in a car crash. She was told that dad was dead, but her new mom, “Mimi” took his place. The parents are now divorced, in part because the girl’s mom in whose uterus she was carried disagreed with the notion of telling her daughter that her dad was dead.
But Mimi looks almost exactly like dad, but with boobs, a vagina and slightly more feminine features. Same voice, same mannerisms, etc.
How the fuck is this not confusing as hell? I’m kind of mad for the little girl, but I have no idea how I would’ve handled something like that. Maybe, “Daddy wasn’t comfortable with the way he looked, so he changed it?” Definitely non, “Dad’s dead. Here’s a new mom. Wow, she looks a hell of a lot like dad, doesn’t she?”
Not only that, but the little girl is probably going to be pissed off when she gets older and finds out the truth. Lying is going to cause more problems in the long run than telling the truth.
A high school buddy of mine became a woman recently. She and the kid’s mom were honest with their children about it and while I’m sure it’s not easy for any of them, they all get along a lot better without lies and half-truths lurking beneath the surface.
Yeah, I don’t know how fast security’d respond. And then there’s the problem that the daredevil drivers drive so fast that they’d be hard to catch (duh.) That’s the thing - they know they’re not going to get caught, so they continue this behaviour.
I could try the pre-warning thing. I never know exactly when the asshole drivers will be out, but it’s usually around 10 on some weekdays.
Holy shit. That’s utterly horrible. Never mind confusing as hell - that’s *traumatic *as hell. For a preschooler, a parent dying is basically the ultimate trauma. Then you throw in the fact that she’s suddenly got a new mother, which is another trauma, and the fact that she has to have a pretty strong sense that her new mother is the same as her old father but no one will admit it… It’s like something out of Hitchcock. That poor kid’s head has to be melted.
Whereas I’m willing to bet that most preschoolers wouldn’t have all that much trouble coming to terms with the idea that Daddy realised he really belonged being a woman. In their world, stuff transforms all the time: princes turn into frogs and back again, beautiful queens turn into ugly old women… The idea that Daddy turned into his true form of Mimi would be several orders of magnitude less headwrecking than this shite.
Some of these assholes like to race on the highway that goes by my neighborhood. I think they’re much younger though! Judging by the debris littering the neighborhood entryway, one of these guys had a tire blow out on Sunday night. His pimped-out ride is still blocking the turning lane; it’s perched on a jack, and the rim is missing. (As previously mentioned, the tire appears to be all over the road.)
I wish something like that would happen to my assholes.
I can think of several people who in these same boards went from waxing poetic about how their spouse was the love of their lives to being with the next love of their lives while still mid-proceedings with “that (sona)bitch”. Hetero in all cases.
I’d like a “sad like” button, please.
In the name of giving us greater freedom, Mozilla just removed a bunch of options in Firefox, like moveable forward/back buttons and a Chrome-copycat hamburger menu. And they fucked up the status bar. Again. It’s useful so they totally have to kill it.
For those fellow sufferers out they - try Classic Theme Restorer, although Mozilla’s servers appear to have buckled beneath the hordes trying to download it. I got it earlier and it helps.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/
I knew there was a reason I stuck with IE10, despite t’s many faults.
IE11 <shudder>
Lucky me, I saw BigT’s thread on this in MPSIMS yesterday and turned all my auto-updates off. I still have Firefox 28.
At least IE10 does not ram tabbed browsing down my desktop, if I wanted the dammed things, I would enable them. Do not think for a moment that removing the option is going to fly with me, I will stick with what I have. You can keep the abject horror that is Win8.whatever too.