Then why not suggest it?
We've kind of talked about it before whenever a few of us had schedule conflicts before. I understand that people want to have both nights, and board game night USED to be really fun with lots of different games and everyone participating. This is more of my own "calling it like I see it" when I say that it's basically dead. But I mean really, the last few times I've shown up late but still been the first one there. We sit around for a while talking until we have enough people to play Dominion. We do that a few times and maybe do a game of Space Team or something until we all leave.
Absolutely irate.
My asshole of a neighbor, his dog just broke through my fence and just about destroyed myself and my dog.
I just...what the hell man?? I'm so frustrated because he knows his dog is aggressive, you'd have to be blind not to see it, but just plain refuses to keep him leashed or in their fenced backyard.
Things just seem to keep escalating, with his dog now breaking in. And I don't know what to do.
I am so angry.
If this happens again, if he crosses me, I will obliterate him.
My asshole of a neighbor, his dog just broke through my fence and just about destroyed myself and my dog.
I just...what the hell man?? I'm so frustrated because he knows his dog is aggressive, you'd have to be blind not to see it, but just plain refuses to keep him leashed or in their fenced backyard.
Things just seem to keep escalating, with his dog now breaking in. And I don't know what to do.
I am so angry.
If this happens again, if he crosses me, I will obliterate him.
Are you ok? Did his dog hurt you or your dog? If so, you might have legal recourse as your neighbor clearly doesn't have control of his animal. I'd also document this particular incident with photos as well.
Call the non-emergency police number and report the assault.
Then buy a large pocket knife...
Then buy a large pocket knife...
Luckily we're fine - no injuries. As soon as he broke through the fence I hulked out, hurling my dog back into the house through the back door. And I don't even know what sort of sound I made but man, I made a visceral growl and the dog turned tail and ran. I feel like I've reached crazy person status now. 0.O
If his dog comes at me again though, I will be making notes and taking legal action for sure. I don't think I can at the moment, which sucks because I feel like this situation is just a time bomb. And I'm the only one trying to extend the fuse.
I would at least report it, just so it's on record.
Well, you said he broke through the fence? What kind of fence is it? How did he get through? Is there visible damage? If so, at least try to get a photo of that so if something happens later on down the line the neighbor can't make the claim that it was the first instance of something like this happening. That's just plain scary. I'm sorry something like that happened to you.
It's a chainlink fence, he broke through the gate part, stripped the bolts right out of the latch. I'll take a picture, for sure, but other than that, there's pretty much nothing else I can really do.
I don't know who to report it to really. And sadly I don't trust our animal control officers here - they have a terrible track record with messing things up and I'm afraid of sending any information to them.
But thanks guys, I'll do my best to keep a record of things.
Seconding this. Document the incident, and report to local PD/animal control. At the VERY least, it will give you leverage to ensure that your neighbor pays for the repairs to the fence.
Also, get you some OC spray. Trust me on this, it won't stop a charge, but once it hits, the dog WILL stop what it's doing to deal with the sensation in it's sinuses.
It's why I don't worry about touching my gun when I deal with aggressive animals.
Also, get you some OC spray. Trust me on this, it won't stop a charge, but once it hits, the dog WILL stop what it's doing to deal with the sensation in it's sinuses.
It's why I don't worry about touching my gun when I deal with aggressive animals.
I was in the habit of leaving about a 1.5" diameter cudgel-length stick propped up against the corner of the ramp leading to the back of the house. That way one end of it was accessible from below the ramp and it was long enough that even if the neighbor's dog (a doberman) became interested in the stick, its mouth and front paws were still too far enough away to cause trouble. We never had to use it, but nobody complained about its presence what with our toddler running around the back yard.
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Hey! That's MY line!
I have a Playstation Vita where the serial number sticker has fallen off (a very common problem). I wanted to trade it into Gamestop today because they were doing a promotion where you get $50 extra for selling them one. No biggie; I've worked for them before, I know they need a serial number (theft prevention), so I pull the number off the Vita through its software.
Manager: "Sorry, we can't take that in. It doesn't have a serial number."
Me: "...I have the serial number from its software. Look, I can validate it right here (I pull the number up through its software)."
Manager: "Well, it has to have a sticker with the serial number on it."
Me: "No it doesn't. I worked for the company several years ago and can confirm that's not the case. And check official policy (note: I can't because it's all internal)--I was informed by another manager they changed it six months ago in light of this issue. "
Manager: "We can't accept it. We can only do that for DS Lites because we can access the serial through the system's software. We don't do it for any other system."
Me: "...can you please, at least, check the policy? It was changed for all handhelds, not just the DS Lite, because I can pull the serial number off the software."
Manager: "No. We can't accept it and that's final."
I called the corporate help line; forty-five minutes later, no one would tell me what official company policy was and they promised to contact me within 48 hours to try and get the situation resolved. So even if I can trade it in now it cost me $50 because a grunt couldn't be assed to actually double-check the rules.
Manager: "Sorry, we can't take that in. It doesn't have a serial number."
Me: "...I have the serial number from its software. Look, I can validate it right here (I pull the number up through its software)."
Manager: "Well, it has to have a sticker with the serial number on it."
Me: "No it doesn't. I worked for the company several years ago and can confirm that's not the case. And check official policy (note: I can't because it's all internal)--I was informed by another manager they changed it six months ago in light of this issue. "
Manager: "We can't accept it. We can only do that for DS Lites because we can access the serial through the system's software. We don't do it for any other system."
Me: "...can you please, at least, check the policy? It was changed for all handhelds, not just the DS Lite, because I can pull the serial number off the software."
Manager: "No. We can't accept it and that's final."
I called the corporate help line; forty-five minutes later, no one would tell me what official company policy was and they promised to contact me within 48 hours to try and get the situation resolved. So even if I can trade it in now it cost me $50 because a grunt couldn't be assed to actually double-check the rules.
I taped mine to the back of my tv b/c I am always losing that stuff.
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I may give it a try. It was a discontinued close-out item from wal-mart, but who knows?
Facebook won't load correctly. I don't want to complain because I am at work and everything... The internet is supposed to be wide open here, because of all the research that happens here and Facebook is one of the websites that we use for most of our research. But I don't work in that department.
This is the minor rant thread. The minor victory thread is over here.
Is the password macrame?
I think macrame left this forum ages ago.
Welp...
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In my family, that would be the Allergy Apocalypse.Aw shit. Winter's coming early you guys, you seen this forecast radar?
Gotcha.
I've always wondered why hurricanes hated weekends.
They're just angry because they don't get weekends off.
Update to this. We wrote an email to the translator, politely going, "Hey, we noticed some problems with your translation this time, and some of it sounded like it was machine translated. Did you run into any problems during this translation that you'd like to talk about?"
Basically, we wanted to say "we're on to you" without the translator losing face.
She wrote back saying, and I paraphrase, "HOW DARE YOU IMPUGN MY HONOR GOOD SIR! I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I SLAVED LONG AND HARD ON THAT TRANSLATION! I ABSOLUTELY DENY EVER USING ANY MACHINE TRANSLATION TOOLS! I RESENT YOUR ACCUSATIONS VERY MUCH!"
And we're all like, "Okay, bitch be crazy, let's never talk to her again."
You work for a translating company, right? Did this person work for you guys or someone else? Why would they be sending you a completed translation?