Whew it's hot out here! Summer Mini-Rants

I believe the term is “marinate.”

My very weak addition to this mini-rant thread: I hate it when hotels have TV remotes that only have UP/DOWN channel selectors. Sub-rant: these same hotels invariably lack a TV Guide-type channel in their line-up, or a channel listing available anywhere in the room.

I once complained about the non-functioning TV in a small town in which I had no clue what would be done late at night, and frankly, no interest in being out and about. The desk clerk just sneered at me and asked “Who watches TV in a hotel room?”. I do, you jackass. If for nothing else, to get a weather report for the area so I know what I can do tomorrow.

The Axe commercials also say that bathing in it will make women throw themselves at you. Clearly, missred didn’t get the memo.

I mean, stuff always works like commercials say it will, right?

Axe smells like Concentrated Fratboy Douche.

Old Spice on the other hand, that’s a smell I can get behind. And all over the guy wearing it. Old Spice on a young guy…mmm…I need a minute.

We’re almost in our mid-20s, can we cut out the fucking high school girl drama here? Two people in the friend group who aren’t getting along will get along just fine at a birthday party, since they are both adults who know the party isn’t about them. But no, you choose to invite one over the other, and when I tell you that’s taking sides, you say you tried to advocate for the uninvited one. Fine, but when you also tell me you feel she isn’t trying to be part of the group, that’s also like taking sides.

All this started because I assumed we were all cooperative adults getting together to celebrate a friend’s birthday and mentioned the party to the woman not invited.

I hate it when the power goes out. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I especially hate it when the power goes off for half a second, comes back on, and I reset all the clocks and whatever else…and the power goes out AGAIN.

It doesn’t even work on fat, middle aged chicks! :stuck_out_tongue:

Sadly, he isn’t me. But he could smell like he’s me.

monocle smile!

HEY! Outta your bunk!

Apparently I’m the only person in my team who documents the work she does (and which other people will need to reproduce) as she’s doing it for the first time, rather than trying to remember how the fuck she did it two-three months after the fact.

I’m not sure whether I should pit my coworkers for being wasteful idiots, my college teachers for being so keen on the principle that “if it ain’t documented, it didn’t happen”, or who. But damn, I sure wish I could use all this time I just found to go for a walk :stuck_out_tongue:
Orgo Professor: Why did Columbus discover America?
Students: … blahblah… (by the way, we hope you’ll explain the relationship between this and carbon-based chemistry)… blablah…
Orgo: No, no. That’s not why Columbus discovered America. As a matter of fact, many other people went to America before he did. The Vikings did, the ancestors of the people who were living there when Columbus and his crew arrived did. But it was Columbus who discovered America. Why was it Columbus who discovered America?
Students: :confused:
Orgo: Because he documented it! If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen!
ETA: Man, he died in 1995, but that guy would have loved his first encounter with “screenie or it didn’t happen!”

But…but…the tickets are now diamonds!

Dear Idiot Co-worker:

Yes, icy cold soda is delicious. Sure. But for the love of all that’s not holy, quit putting your Dr. Pepper cans in the freezer.

Forgot about it, didn’t ya? Over the entire fucking weekend, maybe?

Buy some crazy hot hot sauce, and wipe a little on their can (before it explodes of course). Make sure you’re in the vicinity when they put their lips to the can. That’s some funny shit, right there! :slight_smile:

I’ve only ever been a victim of this - but it was pretty funny.

Now I’ve been told that the person who is angry at me really isn’t that mad anymore, but she is being stubborn and waiting for me to make the first move.

Christ, do I have to show up at her door with pizza and a movie? She’s not my girlfriend, for fuck’s sake. Making the first move means being in grade 2 and deciding to give your friend your Vi-Co to make up.

Get the hell away from my boyfriend.

Soooooooo… Tons of structures and domesticated plants plus your own physical presence doesn’t count as “documentation”? Take that, Indians!

I’m pretty sure Columbus “discovered” America because he was a white dude from western Europe, and most of the people writing the books that give him credit for it are also descended from… white dudes from western Europe. But maybe that’s just me.

Mnnnnnnn, sodasicles. Lick that freezer clean!

Ah, Vi-Co; that takes me back. Vi-Co and Beep. And wearing a bunnyhug in cool weather.

Another half-hearted rant at people scamming the unemployed. Don’t we have enough problems without you assholes inserting your fake jobs into our job searches?

Good bye, plants. I hardly knew ye this summer. Temperatures are supposed to drop below freezing this week, with a chance of snow. Sob.

Split the difference? The temperature here is only just beginning to come down under 100F. I’m impatient for things to get cooler, because I have a snake I don’t really want to care for waiting to be shipped, but shipping in weather over 88 degrees is dangerous. I don’t particularly care about the snake, but neither do I want to kill it in transit, so I’m stuck waiting for things to cool down. At this rate it’ll be November before it’s safe to ship.

Do they ship them in a tube? :stuck_out_tongue: