Right wing morons have talk radio and Fox News. Left wing morons have facebook and upworthy and all those stupid spammy viral bullshit websites.
I gave up Facebook for Lent and I think I’m going to give it up for good. I didn’t realize how annoyed and frustrated it made me.
We have a very unfunny satirical news radio program here in Canada. Many of my friends, who are normally intelligent people, have been fooled by it.
It sounds like you can relate to this video. 
ETA: And you too, Rachel.
That is hilarious! Thank you for sharing this. 
Hrmph. Watkins no longer makes my laundry detergent. I’ll have to find a new one, which makes me less than happy. Yes, they still make laundry detergent, but it’s for high efficiency machines, and mine is not.
Anti-rant: Hubby is improving! He will not need surgery and is on clear liquids!
I wonder what would happen if you used HE detergent in a regular machine. As far as I can tell the only difference is the HE stuff doesn’t make as much suds, but he suds are not what cleans your clothes, so maybe it would work just fine. Might be worth a try.
I actually asked them about this several years ago, and this was the response from customer service.
I took this to mean that it was a bad idea to use HE detergent. Is HE still more expensive than regular detergent?
Effing AT&T - they deserve a whole rant thread of their own but I don’t have the energy.
Monday I come home to find our landline is out. I try swapping out a different phone, and a different cable, still nothing. So I call them on my cell. They will be out the next day between 8am-6pm (what, no window at all? Oh well, I can work from home one day I guess).
3pm they’re not here and I’m getting suspicious so I call back. Oh no, the appt is for tomorrow and I don’t see any notes saying it was changed. 48 hours to fix a landline? I indicate I am pissed and I don’t like it and they say they will expedite a call from a manager who will call me within 2 hours. I’m not sure how much good that’s going to do, but clearly the flunky I’m dealing with can’t do anything.
3 hours later and no call. I call again, wondering out loud where my promised call from the manager could be. Lo and behold, I can be transferred immediately to a supervisor. He’s clearly one flunky level above the other one, but he does promise they will come in the morning. At the end of the conversation, he mumbled about how they appreciate having me as a customer.
When this phone is fixed I am going to take great pleasure in switching to Vonage and cancelling AT&T for-fucking-ever.
Funny side story: back in 1985 I temped for 3 months at the San Francisco office of AT&T. That was just after they had been gutted by Uncle Sam - lost their monopoly on long distance and all the baby Bells. It was kind of funny to watch the panic and stress, since I didn’t have to share it. Weekly addresses from the CEO saying not to worry, we have our strategy in place and we’ll be back on top in no time. Interesting to see how that has played out. Interesting how corporate culture apparently hasn’t changed much in the 30 years since then - they still act like a monopoly. Hell, Comcast gives you a 2-hour window now, don’t they? Fucking Comcast! How does AT&T even expect to compete?
The response seems to be missing an “use”, but I interpret it to mean “well, HE soap is more expensive, so it’s a bit silly to use it with a non-HE machine which can take both HE and cheaper non-HE soaps”.
So, you can use it, but there may be cheaper brands that work as well.
It’s the fucking cruelest month.
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I’ve merged the two mini rant threads.
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Well, I like this title less. It’s okay, I guess, as far as Olde Englishe mini-rant titles go. 
Years ago, I learned that if you’re born on April Fool’s Day, it’s just better to take the day off. Because, no, that joke isn’t funny. Not that one either. Yes, heard that joke before; it’s not funny. Enough of that and I want to punch people. Ha ha.
However, after 12 years of this, I expected someone (maybe?) to realize that I took the day off. I got emails expecting urgent replies, panicked phone calls (yes, out of office messages were on). Wouldn’t be so bad, if it wasn’t all about the same process problem I’d been nagging them about all month, which they didn’t want to deal with because the fix was too onerous. They finally fixed it Monday… and panicked when one month’s worth of problems didn’t go away in a few hours. Hence, yesterday’s calls.
Today? Everything’s fine. Thank Og Lightray is around. People were trying to hug* me. Great. But I’m still thinking: if you’d actually listened to me a month ago, I could have had a day off, numbskulls.
Whan in Aprille with its shoures soote
The taxmanne comen to taken youre loote . . .
Lood sing “Goddam!”
Middle English. You can mostly understand it.
I have to go to the DMV to get a new picture taken for my driver’s license. Here in Arizona, your license doesn’t expire until you’re 65, but they still want you to update your picture once a decade or so. I can see why they want a recent picture, and I’m OK with the necessity of it, but dang…I have to go to the DMV. And get my picture taken. But at least I won’t have to step foot into the place again this decade.
Actually, I have until June to get it done, but I’m going to suck it up and do it this week.
Can you get an appointment that soon? Maybe California is a special case, on account of our humongous population, but the fact that you say
suggests that going in without an appointment is madness.
I brought my daughter to DMV yesterday (WITH an appointment). The line to CHECK IN for appointments took about fifteen minutes. And it was 1/4 to 1/4 the length of the line for people who had no appointments.
All in all, we were in there for about an hour to get her a state ID (she’s about to graduate high school; a school ID isn’t going to cut it any more).
Apropos of nothing, Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog!
Doo-dah, doo-dah!