The niece I mentioned in post #249 is staying with the “fiance” (whom she has “known” for all of four months, online only) for a couple more weeks. He bought her a car and also bought her the plane tix.
All I can say is that if she elopes and ruins her life, I’m not flying out there to rescue her.
Sorry, didn’t read. Came in here to say this:
It is fucking hot out there. I hate heat. I hate the way it makes me feel (grungy, sweaty, sticky, nasty, CRABBY), I hate the car being a goddamn oven when I get in it; I hate drinking so much liquid in a vain attempt to cool off that I slosh when I walk. I hate the sinus headache I get from going in and out of AC; I hate the fans running all damned day, pitifully trying to cool off the house. I hate having to wet my hair down every morning in order to stay even somewhat cool; I hate sweat stinging my eyes and the wrung out feeling I have at the end of every day. I hate summer, I hate heat, I hate it, hate it, hate it.
Had this conversation with my sister the other day, who is a building inspector and thus is in a position to write citations for violations.
If you do something wrong, and get caught an punished, and your first reaction is to get indignant about it and scream about how you are a CHRISTIAN, then as far as I am concerned, your fine/penalty/jail sentence should be immediately doubled. Because if, as you claim, you are a Christian, then you should have known up front that what you were doing was WRONG and you should not have done it. Then, after the fact, to claim that you should not be punished because you are a Christian makes you not only a complete dumbass, but a hypocrite as well.
I’ve always wondered about this, because i’ve been in quite a few cities where the regular rules of parking and road use seem to be waived for churches and other religious properties.
Anyone who has tried to get parking in San Francisco knows what a nightmare it can be, and yet on a few occasions when my wife and i have been in the city (we visit regularly) i’ve seen churchgoers parked in the middle lane of the road (the turning lane). My wife, who is from SF, says it’s quite common practice. I’m not sure if there’s a city ordinance allowing them to park there during services, or if the authorities simply turn a blind eye because they’re going to church.
Similarly, in New York a few weeks ago, i noticed that most churches and synagogues in Manhattan have large swaths of “no parking” area out the front, on streets where parking is allowed everywhere else. I don’t think we should make these sorts of exceptions to our civic codes for religious institutions.
Stupid health insurance taking money out of my account, sending it into overdraft, incurring overdraft fees!!!
I barely use insurance anyway. I have paid thousands of dollars into you and only got hundreds of dollars back in cover.
I should’ve just opened a separate account and paid into that instead.
Your summer- our winter:
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
for Widespread Damaging Winds with Locally Destructive Gusts.
For people in areas southwest of a line Lancelin to Bremer Bay, including the
Perth metropolitan area, Mandurah, Bunbury, Busselton and Albany.
Issued at 1:10 pm on Sunday 11 July 2010
A deepening low pressure system to the south of the state combined with the
passage of a cold front is likely to cause widespread damaging winds to 100
kilometres per hour that could result in damage to property. In isolated areas
locally destructive gusts in excess of 125 kilometres per hour may cause
significant damage or destruction of property. Severe winds are forecast to
develop in the Southwest district this afternoon and extend to other parts later
this afternoon and tonight. Thunderstorms, hail and local flooding are also
possible.
As someone who is entering day 9 of a heat wave, all I can say is:
STOP GLOATING
:mad:
Dear Comcast;
A hearty fuck you for losing my internet last night. For some dumb reason it suddenly dropped to slower than dial-up speeds, then I lost the whole thing. Being a tech support person myself, I immediately set out to figure out if the problem was on my end. At that point, the modem decided to stop working. I unplugged it and let it sit overnight. Got up this morning, reconnected everything and had working cable, but no internet.
Called you folks. Your automated system reset the modem again. Still no internet. Advised to power cycle the modem for about the 50th time, did so, still no internet. Tech guy looks at my connection, says everything is fine, but suspiciously, at that exact moment, my internet came flooding back at full speed.
I’m not blaming him. I’m a tech, I know how it goes. He probably noticed something mucked up and fixed it. Or maybe it’s just a coincidence, because god knows I’ve seen enough of those on my job.
But this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. You bastards seem to have a history of my internet connections blowing out or down to telegraph morse code speeds ON SATURDAY NIGHTS. Fucking knock it off. Do your maintenance bullshit some other night.
There’s a church that moved in the building across the street from me about three years ago that thinks just because their asses are parked in pews for God their cars don’t have parked in spaces for others. They put parking cones in spots to hold, double park and park in the bus stop (to the point the bus could barely pick up and drop off passsengers), all of which no one else can do. They also hold some kind of service at least twice a week. if not more.
Once, when I called the cops about the double parking (they were blocking me in), one of them actually said to the cop that it should be okay because they were having a youth ministry program and were at least keeping the kids off the street. Really? My neighbor has a curfew for his teenagers of 10:00pm weekdays, so should he be able to park in the bus stop?
But it’s all just an excuse for rude, selfish behavior. "The rules don’t apply to me because I’m special!
A few years back when I did security for a small university, one of the baseball players left his car in the middle of the (one way) road right in front of the building with their locker room in it. Completely blocking the road. One of the female security officers went over and told him to move it. He got in her face, yelled about how she had no authority over him, and retreated to the locker room where she could (or would) not follow. So I wandered over, walked into the locker room and tracked him down. Much different attitude toward me, but still refused to move car. My response; “Ok, no problem. I’ll just have it towed” and walked out without arguing it.
I walked outside and called it in for dispatch to call the tow truck. The female officer wanted a little bit of comeupance on the guy, so she said that she would stay there and wait for the tow, while I moved on to other tasks.
I got about 200 yards away when the guy came flying out of the door and moved the car.
We still reported it to the head of the athletics department, and they had a little chat with the guy about 1> respecting the authority of the security officers, and 2> not blocking public streets while he was nowhere near his car. No issues with the guy the rest of the year.
Oh go fuck yourself, Danielle, you stupid birdbrained moron. Those “strange chemicals” will help make sure your poor little baby doesn’t have a one in a hundred chance of dropping dead from a horrible and contagious disease. If whooping cough goes into your daughter because you are too stupid to understand why you should vaccinate her you are not going to like the results.
:rolleyes:
My son’s father’s cat had kittens at some point. When he came to pick Alex up a few days ago I was like “Hey, how are the kittens?”
Him: “Meh, I dunno.”
Me: “??? Well, how many are there?”
Him: “I heard four at one point. Last I heard, they were down to three.”
Me: “You don’t check on them?”
Him: “Nah, I threw them in the house out back.”
So he has this little house on his property, I assume what used to be a guest house for the previous owners, except that it’s all run down and full of shit (literally from, I assume, the wild life) and assorted junk and rusty nails and rotten floor boards and, apparently, dead kittens and mostly it should have been torn down about 5 years ago when I suggested it but it never was and now he has CATS living in there, ffs.
And guess which dickhead, stupid motherfucker in this post let my seven year old go rooting around that house this weekend to find the fucking cats? Does that sound like a good idea to anybody?
And I just want to back over his head 75 fucking times but I CAN’T because that is frowned upon by authorities.
Also, if you don’t want kittens, FIX YOUR FUCKING CATS YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH.
That was the whiff I was getting from the tv show. I didn’t bother pitting all the other losers on the show who were also all, “You can’t boot me! These are not the $1000 in unpaid parking tickets you’re looking for!” because they weren’t holding themselves up as some kind of higher moral example. I think “hypocrite” is the right word - say one thing and do another.
Flies and mosquitoes ugh!!!
Hey Lady -
I’m not trying to step on your toes. I’m not trying to rain on your parade. I’m not trying to exclude you from this meeting. I merely, simply, unexplicably forgot that you said you couldn’t come on Sunday, okay? It was bound to happen - at current record we have had over 57 replies to the email discussing this meeting. I was trying to accomodate one person and accidentally excluded another. It was not a personal slight against you!
And I resent that you have to make this a pissing contest rather than an opportunity for all of us to work together to make something better. You are so eager to be miss center of our universe that you have to insinuate that i don’t count because i’ve not been around as long as you. That’s fine. I have better things to concentrate on than areas you feel fall under your jurisdiction.
So here’s the hours of work I put in to making the event better. You can use them or delete them - that’s up to you.
I’ve got a real life, I’m going to go concentrate on that now. Have fun filling your life with unnecessary drama. To plagarize Miss Underwood slightly, “I might have saved a little trouble for the next girl. Cause the next time that you bleat, you know it won’t be at me.”
I have to ask;
Why is it almost always women that pull that “I’ve been here longer” crap? The only time I’ve seen men do it is in positions where Seniority is a recognized and major part of the food chain.
When I worked at the small U, a woman I worked with pulled the “I’ve been here longer than you!” card so frequently and so hard that they finally did away with all references in our policies to seniority just because she was mis-using it so often. Even then, about six months later, right before she quit in a huff because her bullshit stopped being tolerated, she tried to claim that because she had been there two whole fucking weeks longer than one of the supervisors, that he had no power over her and she didn’t have to do what he said. Obviously, that didn’t work out for her.
Back in my IT days, I saw the same things from women who had been there longer, but were in lower positions. If you are a Programmer and the Project Manager assigns you work, you can’t blow it off because “I’ve been here longer than him”. Likewise trying to shout down the ideas of a Systems Analyst because he (in that case, me) has only been there a month is really not cool and isn’t going to work out for you in the long run.
Again, I guess I’ve heard the occasional man do it, but by and large, it is women who do this most often.
I have no idea. I respect people who have more knowledge about how a certain event works, but I don’t understand why, in a volunteer community situation, someone would want to point a finger to someone who is making worthwhile contributions of their time and energy and say, “they don’t count because they aren’t xyz.”
Oh, it gets worse. She decided that there were too many sick kids at the pediatrician’s office, so she stopped taking her kid there.
Now the kid sees a chiropractor instead. :smack:
I am supposed to leave for Costa Rica in four days for a long backpacking/camping trip with my sweetie & some friends who I haven’t seen in two months because he’s doing research there.
So of course I have someone managed to injure both of my legs to the point where I cannot walk and the simple act of laying in bed is painful. The doctor thinks it’s a severe strain from trapeze (or, even better, nerve damage!) and could be weeks before they are fully healed. :smack: No sweet lovin’ in the rain forest for me!
Ouch! Sorry to hear that, Time Stranger.
As for women pulling the seniority card, I think it stems from the same insecurity that makes some women feel threatened any time someone younger/thinner/fitter/prettier/more experienced/more competent is anywhere near them.