House of Cards was basically a PS4 commercial sometimes.
Pet Peeve rants.
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Well excuuuuuuse me.
The scene: driving home from work on the bypass. Two lane highway (2 lanes, each direction). Full ass heavy traffic, and slow going.
I'm in the left lane. Traffic is stop and go, and left is going slightly faster than the right due to onramp traffic. Asshole behind me is RIGHT UP ON MY FUCKING ASS, visibly angry at me. Where the fuck do you want me to go? He finally finds a gap in the right lane as traffic picks up on that side, speeds past, flips me off, and cuts me off back into the left. He then gets right on the ass of the new car in front of him. This continues for a bit, until traffic starts to finally speed up, and I see him ahead weaving in and out to 'get ahead'.
Finally after 30 minutes of normal driving, bypass ends. Asshole is no longer on my mind. Light cycles at this point. Guess who I caught up to and get directly behind at the second light?
After all that stress and wreckless driving you got nowhere faster. Good job. WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT WHEN CARS DRIVING NORMALLY WITH THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC EVENTUALLY CATCH UP TO YOU?! STUPID FUCK!
He literally saved no time, and is probably too stupid to realize this, but will continue to be a complete jackass and danger on the road.
I'm in the left lane. Traffic is stop and go, and left is going slightly faster than the right due to onramp traffic. Asshole behind me is RIGHT UP ON MY FUCKING ASS, visibly angry at me. Where the fuck do you want me to go? He finally finds a gap in the right lane as traffic picks up on that side, speeds past, flips me off, and cuts me off back into the left. He then gets right on the ass of the new car in front of him. This continues for a bit, until traffic starts to finally speed up, and I see him ahead weaving in and out to 'get ahead'.
Finally after 30 minutes of normal driving, bypass ends. Asshole is no longer on my mind. Light cycles at this point. Guess who I caught up to and get directly behind at the second light?
After all that stress and wreckless driving you got nowhere faster. Good job. WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT WHEN CARS DRIVING NORMALLY WITH THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC EVENTUALLY CATCH UP TO YOU?! STUPID FUCK!
He literally saved no time, and is probably too stupid to realize this, but will continue to be a complete jackass and danger on the road.
Type A people. Whaddya gonna do?
Kati used to patient sit at the hospital. In the cardiac ward.
She still has stories...stories of people who were convinced that THE WORLD WILL STOP WORKING IF I AM STUCK HERE UNABLE TO MAINTAIN IT. I imagine these people to be ones who would drive the way you describe.
--Patrick
Kati used to patient sit at the hospital. In the cardiac ward.
She still has stories...stories of people who were convinced that THE WORLD WILL STOP WORKING IF I AM STUCK HERE UNABLE TO MAINTAIN IT. I imagine these people to be ones who would drive the way you describe.
--Patrick
I imagine that's what got them in the cardiac ward in the first place.
Did you ever get anyone to actually start training to let you take time off?
That's a sure-fire sign that she's going to leave for greener pastures come April...
GasBandit
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She's already pregnant. We know how this ends. This will be time #4. Fortunately she's not due until May.
Nope, she's definitely going into labor when you want to visit your family.
I don't think she has even been there long enough for that though. Unless this is someone else.
GasBandit
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Yeah, you're sharper than the last couple guys I tried to train how to do it, and the second guy of the two didn't even want to do it, to boot. You'd probably get the basics down in under a week, but it'd still take a month or two to get you up to speed on the innumerable "special cases" we have where something special has to be done - mostly because those special cases have to be taken care of in real time, so they come up when they come up.
Yeah, that's true - she hasn't been here 5 months, closer to 3.
And that means she was pregnant when they hired her.
They never learn.
Every time, I tell them, no young women. I train em, then they get pregnant, and when they're in the hospital holding that little bundle of joy in their arms suddenly they always experience a mammoth shift in priorities and decide to be stay at home moms instead of coming in here to get stressed and overworked and underpaid. Crazy, I know.
I think it's more of a sign that you are a masochist for still being there. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!
If one more person suggests I add cinnamon and turmeric to my diet to treat my pain I'm going to flip right out.
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Tumeric - Related to ginger and rich in curicumin, being investigated for potential anti-inflammatory and/or antimicrobial properties
Ginger - Relaxes smooth muscle, helping calm abdominal spasms
Cinnamon (Ceylon, not Cassia) - Helps regulate blood sugar
Tea - Contains caffeine and flavonoids
Nothing in there about pain relief.
--Patrick
Ginger - Relaxes smooth muscle, helping calm abdominal spasms
Cinnamon (Ceylon, not Cassia) - Helps regulate blood sugar
Tea - Contains caffeine and flavonoids
Nothing in there about pain relief.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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People who, in a professional capacity (in my case, naturally, this means in a commercial), pronounce the word "forward" as "foe-ward."
Look, I could even understand the common short slur, like most people say "ford" when they mean forward, and I can understand that. But if you're gonna pronounce both syllables, in a commercial that is going to go out over the air, "foe-ward" makes you sound like a squidbilly trying to use words you don't understand. There is an R in forward!
And now I've said the word "forward" over and over so much in my head and out loud while typing this that the word has now lost all meaning.
Ok, it's a two-fer! Saw this on imgur.
1) That's a chemistry lab.
2) There's no soldering left to do on that motherboard, it's done.
3) She'd be soldering the wrong side of it anyway
4) She's gripping the hot part of the soldering iron.
Sigh, well, at least she's using eye protection. I'm surprised it's not a scuba mask.
Look, I could even understand the common short slur, like most people say "ford" when they mean forward, and I can understand that. But if you're gonna pronounce both syllables, in a commercial that is going to go out over the air, "foe-ward" makes you sound like a squidbilly trying to use words you don't understand. There is an R in forward!
And now I've said the word "forward" over and over so much in my head and out loud while typing this that the word has now lost all meaning.
Ok, it's a two-fer! Saw this on imgur.
1) That's a chemistry lab.
2) There's no soldering left to do on that motherboard, it's done.
3) She'd be soldering the wrong side of it anyway
4) She's gripping the hot part of the soldering iron.
Sigh, well, at least she's using eye protection. I'm surprised it's not a scuba mask.
GasBandit
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We had a DJ once who actually said the dashes though. /facepalm
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2-3 I could forgive. Could be a repair (2) and it could be SMD components and not thru-hole. But yeah, definitely number 4. That looks painful.People who, in a professional capacity (in my case, naturally, this means in a commercial), pronounce the word "forward" as "foe-ward."
Look, I could even understand the common short slur, like most people say "ford" when they mean forward, and I can understand that. But if you're gonna pronounce both syllables, in a commercial that is going to go out over the air, "foe-ward" makes you sound like a squidbilly trying to use words you don't understand. There is an R in forward!
And now I've said the word "forward" over and over so much in my head and out loud while typing this that the word has now lost all meaning.
Ok, it's a two-fer! Saw this on imgur.
1) That's a chemistry lab.
2) There's no soldering left to do on that motherboard, it's done.
3) She'd be soldering the wrong side of it anyway
4) She's gripping the hot part of the soldering iron.
Sigh, well, at least she's using eye protection. I'm surprised it's not a scuba mask.
GasBandit
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I thought about that too, but it's a pretty tight shot and in portrait, it's plausible enough the spool/bulb could be just off the edge of the camera's field of view.
That would fill me with rage
GasBandit
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She was dumb as a box of rocks, but she had enormous fake boobs, and you could tell she was drop-dead gorgeous when she was younger... but decades of hard living and partying as a trophy wife and substance addict turned her into a leather bag in a blonde 80s wig, and when your looks were all you had and they're in the process of rapidly abandoning you, it has a psychological effect. She couldn't take criticism at all, pointing out anything she did wrong (and like I said, she was dumb, so she did a LOT of stuff wrong) would send her spiraling into a breakdown. I feel bad for her, but the boss did the right thing when they let her go. I was glad to hear another radio station picked her up as a sales exec - there, she can be incompetent in an environment that was built to withstand it.
If the tip of the gun is touching the motherboard, either the solder or bulb should be right there with it. Otherwise, why is she touching the gun to the motherboard?
That's what she said.