I think most people are allergic to Chick tracts. We give out glowing necklaces and glow-sticks on lanyards. Some of the neighbors hit our place first so that their children glow for the rest of the evening.
McDonalds food tastes like clinical depression. They do have the best sweet tea of any fast food chain, though.
Chefguy, big mac meal is $5.95 according to McDonalds. Where did you pay $10? Admittedly it’s a lousy meal but it’s not usually ten bucks.
So I’m resigned to finding ads for item X on every feed (Facebook, other pages that have ads, etc.) essentially forever whenever I search for something on, say, Amazon. I still see ads for a specific jacket that I looked at, and decided not to buy, 2 years ago. Ditto a specific purse.
Hell, one time I did a Mechanical Turk hit, had to watch an ad for St Jude’s or whatever - and saw ads for St. Jude’s everywhere for a week.
Here’s a hint for advertisers: this does NOT make people want to buy the product. Far from it - it creeps me the hell out and I will deliberately NOT purchase the product.
nI was watching something on TV. Along came an ad for Depends. Dunno what I was watching; I’m sure it was a channel on Verizon.
2 hours later, I started up the alarm clock app on my phone. It’s a third party app that has some pretty useful features. It’s supported by ads. No problem.
EXCEPT… the ad was for Depends. I’ve never before or since seen ads for Depends on mobile. Pretty sure it was the same as the one I’d just seen on TV. In other words, the Veridiots are selling the info on my TV viewing habits, based on commercials I’ve ignored. Egad.
And completely unrelated:
In July, I slipped on the stairs at home. Foot just went right out from under me and wham on my ass. I’ve done this before. This time though, I’m pretty sure I broke my tailbone, since it still hurts if I sit on a firm surface for too long. I bought one of those cushions that has a cutout to relieve pressure on the ass-bone, which helps, except if I use it in the car my head is practically pushing the roof up. And 2 weeks ago I stubbed my toe. A rather common occurrence. Usually I just cuss, and that’s the end. But it still hurts - it is quite pissed at me right now for wearing closed-toe shoes all day.
I don’t think this one deserves its own thread, and there isn’t a thread whose title quite captures it, so… willful, mind-numbing ignorance from otherwise intelligent people on the topic of Trump. Two specific examples:
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someone stating on Facebook, right after the election, that he voted for Trump because Hillary put up with her husband cheating on her - and he didn’t want his daughters to think they should let a man treat them like that. So instead, apparently, he thinks they should let rich men grab them because they’re rich, and cheat on them and dump them when they pass their 40th birthday. That’s much better, right?? (all of those were known at the time of the election; I assume when the pay-the-mistress thing came to light this fellow stuck his fingers in his ears and went “LALALALAL I CAN’T HEAR YOU”.
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Refusal to acknowledge facts, and accusing others of throwing a tantrum and leaving the conversation, then doing the same.
I posted my incredulity about Trump saying “never heard of a Cat 5 hurricane” a few weeks ago.
Several people jumped on the bandwagon and it devolved a bit, including one person saying “he’s a racist”. OK… I’m not arguing, but that honestly wasn’t relevant.
A relative posted a bit huffily that “Well - we’ve only ever had 3 Cat 5 hurricanes!” - and posted a 2 year old link that, yes, did say that only 3 had ever still been cat 5 at landfall. Then a few minutes later, this person posted “Well, since none of you will let the facts get in the way of your beliefs, I’m bowing out!”
a) the article was true at the time. It’s outdated (there have been 4 now).
b) Some of the most devastating damage has been done by storms that were below cat 5 when they made landfall. Katrina… Agnes and Eloise in the 70s (in Pennsylvania - she was around for the flooding) and several more recent ones that devastated the area. Lots of others. So her response was disingenuous at best.
c) She was BLATANTLY ignoring the facts because the facts contradicted her opinion that God is deferential to El Cheeto
d) And he’d made identical remarks about hurricanes… 2 years earlier.
This is a person I really liked; she’s a relative by marriage. And she’s highly successful in a challenging field. But oh my gawd…
I actually private-messaged her saying something like “normally would let it go, but given what you said, I had to set things straight” and told her about the 4+ and Katrina etc. She said nothing of any substance.
It was a small town on a Native reservation in New York. $20 for the two of us.
I have a significant amount of student loans. I have been faithfully chipping away for years, making little to no progress but also trying to not let that keep me down. I am finally at the point that, next month, I would be paying off the first of my many student loans. I was excited. Except I logged on today and the system tells me that I have $0 due and there’s no due date but the loan is still in repayment status. Looking at the history, there is an adjustment with no other information they made shortly after my last payment. Other than that, there is no information.
I want to rejoice and be happy that I have one less month to pay and that I’m done with this loan but, I’ve been bitten by this dog too many times to trust it. Instead, I shall obsessively check it, maybe make a call closer to when the last payment would have happened, just to make sure I’m not missing something.
I’d call already, simply because otherwise I’d be gnawing on my nails so badly that by the time that final payment would have been due, I’d already be gnawing elbow stump. What can you lose by giving them a call and asking now?
Hours of my time, honestly. Navient isn’t exactly known for their stellar customer service. I also really hate calling people on the phone.
Who needs nails anyway?
Hope you can find a time where you can be on hold for half an hour (or repeating the reason for your call to twelve people, then holding again).
I save those calls for dog-walking time.
Putting this rant here because no one on my FB account actually knows I’m moving back to Canada. I’ll tell them when I get there. Because of Brexit it took 3 bloody years to sell my house. We were supposed to downsize when the kids went to university…they are now halfway through fourth year The house is sold and they both want to take a gap year before grad school. Looks like they might be gapping it at the cottage because we will have no place else to live.
To the rant…the house closes in 9 days. 9 DAYS. A week ago, the 20 year boiler went belly up and we’e had no heat since. Luckily London doesn’t actually get cold so we’re good on that front but now I have to buy a shiny new boiler for the new owners who really don’t deserve it. As tempting as it is to pretend we didn’t know it was broken, because we’re Canadian and we don’t turn the heat on until January, we don’t have a choice. And we only have 9 days to make it happen sigh
Plus my 80 year old mom is looking after my dog and she’s worn out. Tempting to go bail her out and leave the moving and cleaning to hubby! ugh
Dear cousin,
You are teaching a group of children that the planet is only 6,000 years old and that the theory of evolution is the work of Satan. Please stop calling yourself a STEM teacher.
Sick of all the crap going on on both sides of the Impeachment stuff.
Trump ought to stop criming then. But there are plenty of threads available for that complaint, I believe…
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24 % vote neo-nazi in Thuringia. Scared indeed. (Results not yet in wiki; updated soon.)
Mini rant #1: my wife took me to a popular barbecue place in Kansas City for lunch yesterday for my birthday. This place usually has a line out the door with a 20-30 minute wait just to get to the counter to order. When we got in line, there were two college-age guys in front of us, and in front of them, a couple with two young girls in soccer uniforms. Over the course of the next five minutes, the rest of the soccer team (and parents) trickled in and joined the group, until the original party of four was now about a party of about 20. My wife and I just stood there fuming as more and more people jumped the line. I was going to go up and say something to them, but my wife said “Don’t bother – they’re self-entitled assholes. They don’t give a fuck what anyone else thinks.”
Mini rant #2: the BBQ was delicious but then I had heartburn the rest of the day and night.
I got pulled over today because my brake light wasn’t working. I had my usual reaction to being told one of my indicator lights isn’t working, which is to thank the person who told me and agree that it needed to be fixed right away. (I am very sincere about that, I like people to be able to see me when I’m riding.)
For some reason, Officer Friendly didn’t seem to think I was showing proper concern so gave my bike a good going over and wrote a fine ticket instead of a fix-it ticket. Asshole also wrote me up for not having a speedo, but my bike is old enough that speedo’s are optional equipment. We live in Texas, why the heck was this jerk so worried about a useless piece of equipment nobody uses?
I stopped at a parts place on the way home and replaced the burnt out bulb. I will fight the speedo issue in court. Bullshit ticket written by an asshole who was having a bad day.
I’m guessing either Joe’s KC or Bryant’s (I don’t usually find lines of that length at other places)? And I don’t think Bryant’s is where someone would take their kid soccer team.
Yep, Joe’s KC. The one in Olathe, not the Mission Rd gas station.