My last rinse is with white vinegar to get residue out
Oh I’m so sorry. That totally sucks. I hope you get at least some things back and that the process of cancelling everything and filling out endless forms is not too tedious. And I hope the thieves find karma biting their asses every single day for the rest of their miserable lives. Fuck, indeed.
Damn, kambuckta, that just sucks. Good luck recovering what you can, and dealing with all the shit you’ll be going through cancelling things.
I assume you’ve notified the police, so that’ll cover you as far as charges on your cards goes, but it’s still terrible that this happened to you.
That appears to be pretty much it, although most guirlaches I’ve seen were less nut-dense than the pics I get, which are all thicker than homemade guirlache usually is and look like they’re all industrial (the large surfaces are cut waaaay too neat to be from a home pan).
Any nut works. And thank you for giving me the English word for guirlache 
That sucks enormously 
Waitaholdit right there. You DO NOT have to buy anything for your kids’ teachers. You know what school teachers would really like? A note of appreciation from their students. Any time - the end of that school year, after they graduate high school, when they’ve gone on to college - really any time.
We’ve gotten a crapload of useless stuff (and food - the last damn thing we need is more sugar-laden stuff at this time of year) over the years, but you know what my 8th-grade teacher husband keeps and will always treasure? The notes from his students saying how much they enjoyed his class, or how he made learning the subject fun for them, or how his class led them to studying more of the subject as they go on in school.
That’s what teachers want. Otherwise you really needn’t bother to waste your time or money. If you really feel you must do something, find out if your school has a fund for school supplies for needy kids or something and donate to that instead.
I sent an email to a good friend with whom I communicate regularly. We often just chat, but this particular email happened to be important. It came back with this:
Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.
<[address redacted]>:
550: The sending IP xxx is listed on https://spamrl.com as a source of viruses.
Now, the sending IP listed is not my IP. It is not even close to being my IP. Know who owns that IP? Yahoo, which my ISP is stupid enough to use as their outsourced email service.
So Yahoo refused to send my email because they apparently classified themselves as a source of viruses! They were in effect saying, “we refuse to send this email because it’s coming from a disreputable organization, namely, us”. 
It only happened the one time and other emails are now going through, but this has to be a new low in the legendary incompetence of that totally useless organization. I do use Gmail (which always works) but I still use my ISP address for certain functions, which goes through those fuckers at Yahoo. Sometimes it fails to connect, and one time mobile access was totally down for nearly two days. The highlight of it all is that Gmail is free, while this piece of shit is bundled into my paid ISP service.
Cops were called at 5am, full report done, cards cancelled by 6am, nobody had used them by that point, which I thought was weird.
In total, we’ve only lost around $220 AUD and about $80 in IDR, a Samsung (cheap) phone, a cheapish tablet, 2 nice handbags and two crappy ones, my passport (bugger) and a lovely, hand-carved wooden walking stick. Oh, and the car, but the hire place (BIG SHOUT OUT TO MINI CAR RENTALS in CAIRNS if you’re ever there, absolute champions) have given us another car at no extra charge.
The rest of the stuff will just be a PITA to fix (licences, Medicare, and other random shit). And all happening while we try to find a permanent place to live here, and to deal with the stupid removalists from Port Hedland who promised us 4 weeks ago that our stuff would be here in 4 weeks, and now predicting the 21st Dec if we’re lucky, otherwise the new year. Goddammit.
Last night, I go to the largish supermarket in my neighborhood. Turns out they’re touting a new line of skincare products. Here are the particulars.
Name of line: Adolph
Price per bottle: 88元
Wow.
Is this for people who make their own lamp shades? :eek:
What does that translate to in USD?
12.51. But that’s not the point. Think about “Adolph” and “88”.
I had never heard of the 88 association until just now. I had to Google to find out what it meant.
Overnight, as in while you were in there, asleep? Are you changing your accommodations?
There is a reason it is called ‘the herpes of the craft world’
NIce, especially if accompanied with a gift card to an office supply store so they can buy supplies =)
There is a particular item that I have been looking for–it is a “holy grail” in my hobby.
I lost an auction for one some months back, and the winning bid was $850, so it’s pretty certain the going rate is about $900 for a good one in working condition, with another hundred for shipping.
Today I saw another one pop up, in good working condition, with the bidding at around $250.
I was already looking at the photos and planning my sniping strategy for several days down the road.
I have some questions about a couple of parts, so I considered sending a note to the seller with my questions.
Then I looked at the seller’s name and saw, for example, “joebloe (1)” with 100% positive feedback.
This seller has had one single sale, for $10, in his eBay lifetime, but at least he has 100% positive feedback!
Darn. So tantalizing, but I wouldn’t touch that auction with a ten-foot pole.
Speaking of seller reviews.
I once left a 4 star review for an item purchased on Amazon. A few days later I received a PM from the seller asking if I would change it to a 5 star review if they refunded about 10% of the purchase price.
I declined. But I did update my review to include our conversation.
I never did check back to see how many new 4 star reviews they had collected.
I hope you aren’t obliged to provide a hemoccult specimen any time soon…
Can’t see the point of submitting a review on the rare occasion I purchase from a private party. Unless the merch didn’t show up (even then, I’d probably just get the hosting site to process a refund). If it showed up, all is well; please don’t ask me to elaborate. It’s not worth my time or effort.
People who do not know how to shop. The concept is simple: You bring the items you wish to purchase to the register, the cashier scans and bags them, and you pay for them. You do not decide what you want to buy at the register, thus delaying your purchase, holding up the line, and having a bunch of items that someone has to return to the shelf. If you put something in your cart that you decide not to buy, put it back.
As for going back to get “one more thing” while ringing up your purchases, do not do it. And there is no excuse whatsoever for dumping stuff at the register. Or leaving a shopping cart full of items at the register.
Ugh, I’ve complained about this here before, but my local grocery stores require that the cashier ask, “Did you find everything you’re looking for today?” Which I see as an invitation for people to bolt from the line and waste everybody’s time. I always reply, “It’s a little late for that.”
Yeah, it is really unbelievable how many people are unable to conduct a grocery store transaction without undo drama. Then there are the jerks who don’t bag their own groceries, and it goes on.
That said, the industry is at fault for almost never properly staffing the lanes. I’ve never once seen a grocery store with every lane manned by a cashier, no matter how busy.