Rant V - The Drama Strikes Back

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Andromache

It was a cat.

"FUCK YOU HUMAN! FUCK YOU AND DIE! also hey, um, could you scratch the area right above my tail? FUCK YOU HUMAN! I AM A CAT! I WAS DECLARED A FUCKING GOD! HEY I WAS JUST ROLLING IN SOME SMELLY SHIT, LET ME WIPE IT OFF BY WINDING THROUGH YOUR LEGS! YOU'RE SO FUCKING STUPID."
 
Vytamindi

Vytamindi

Crone said:
It was a cat.

"FUCK YOU HUMAN! FUCK YOU AND DIE! also hey, um, could you scratch the area right above my tail? FUCK YOU HUMAN! I AM A CAT! I WAS DECLARED A FUCKING GOD! HEY I WAS JUST ROLLING IN SOME SMELLY SHIT, LET ME WIPE IT OFF BY WINDING THROUGH YOUR LEGS! YOU'RE SO FUCKING STUPID."
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OMFG

THIS IS SO TRUE
 
Jake

Jake

We're looking to relocate out of the city to get a bigger house and yard in a less busy area with better schools (and also bank some money, since my 401k is shit). The bars, restaurants, music, coffee houses, etc. within walking distance were great a few years ago, but our spawn are cramping our style. So getting a house ready to put on the market is stressful enough (how did all these little imperfections escape our notice till now?), but having little people about makes it a fair bit harder.

We like the areas to the north and west, but the schools are far superior in the county to the south. Which is, of course, more expensive overall and also farther from my job. Plus, the houses tend to be those cheap vinyl-clad suburban nightmares with no character whatsoever that give me the willies. And the yards seem to be smaller (but still larger than what we have now, at least). Bonus: it's apparently where all the conservatives in the metro area live.

So we'll probably find something that's okay and bite the bullet. Won't someone think of the children and all that. :humph:
 
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Wasabi Poptart

Gusto said:
Whenever I sleep with my girlfriend (read: actually sleep) I always get sore in the morning and wake up several times in the night. Am I just not used to sharing a bed?
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Yes. When my husband is gone, I get used to having the bed to myself and start sleeping spread out completely across our queen-sized bed. when he comes home, I have to get used to staying on my side only and for the first few days I am terribly uncomfortable. Add to it that he wants to hug and cuddle me during the night and I don't get much good sleep.
 
ZenMonkey

ZenMonkey

Gusto said:
I like to cuddle a bit too but not when I'm trying to SLEEP.
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Either you'll get used to it, or you won't, and if you don't, it's no big deal. There have been studies showing people can sleep worse when they sleep with a partner.

Mr. ZM is a big tank of a guy who gives off BTUs like a space heater and snores. I'm a chronically ill insomniac. It's not often that we sleep in the same bed, but we spend as much time cuddling and pillow-talking AND SO FORTH as if we did.
 
Enresshou

Enresshou

Cajungal said:
I'm sorry y'all can't sleep. :( Sometimes, no matter how weary and terrible you feel, illness does that. It's hard to get comfortable. Plus, I don't know about you, but for me, weird and disturbing dreams accompany a fever.
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Agreed. Pretty much the only time I ever take Nyquil is when I have a fever, because--if I don't--I end up sleeping fitfully, waking up, hallucinating that the dream's continuing, then falling back asleep into the dream and repeating it all night.

Last time, I had a dream I was in a junkyard in a dry, dusty wasteland; ghosts were telling me that I'd be here forever, and husks of cars and hunks of metal kept appearing. I'd wake up, and see all the husks of metal filling my room, then fall back asleep and keep wandering through the wasteland. Blegh.
 
strawman

strawman

The conversation was as follows:

Me: "Micah. Why did you swallow the penny?"

Micah: "Because when it was not in my mouth, my mouth felt funny."

:facepalm:

I expect little change tomorrow.

-Adam
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

So, I run a tinwhistle website. I get a bit over 2 million hits a year.

Some guy sends me spam about this tinwhistle tutorial book/cd he's published, and asks me to sell it "in my shops'. Clearly it's spam mail he's sent out to every irish music website he could find. I have no shops, so I delete the mail.

He sent it again today, so I asked him to take me off of his email list.

He replied back, all hurt and bitter, that he expected a "more friendly reaction from a fellow musician and whistler..."

This is my reply to him:
Jules,

When I first got the email, I considered a 'friendly response'. I often receive emails from fans of my web page (which gets around 2 million hits a year), or from tin whistle manufacturers seeking to have me review their whistles. I try to respond to every one of these emails.

As I read the email about your tinwhistle CD tutorial, I wondered if perhaps you wanted me to review it for my website. However, once I reached your plea of "I hope you are interested to sell these products in your shops.", I realized that you were sending me targeted advertising in a generic format. In reality, the email wasn't a personal plea or missive from the general public, but rather, generic targeted email, which you probably sent to as many musically related websites and stores as you could locate. No harm, no foul there. If I were selling a tutorial, I might do much of the same kind of thing.

You should know that I don't really sell anything on my website, and anyone who's been to my website for more than a cursory glance would probably have realized it. I have no "shops" to put anything into, so your plea of really doesn't apply to me or my site. So, I chalked your email up to well-targeted advertising and didn't bother to respond. I often receive targeted advertisements in my email box from firms in China and Pakistan trying to sell cheap instruments. I don't respond to these either.

Then, you sent the exact same message a few days later. This elevates your well-targeted advertising to the level of spam. Since it was the exact same email, and it seemed that it was a blanket effort, I felt that a simple request to be removed from the list would suffice. I never imagined that someone who was spamming me would take umbrage if I requested that they desist, especially when I asked politely. I even used the word "please". Twice. However, I do apologize if I tread on any sensitive feelings, or caused you any emotional discomfort. Likewise, I regret if my request for you to send me no more such emails caused you any feelings of hurt or rejection. It wasn't meant as a personal slight toward you, and I am sure that you are a very fine person.

That said, it would be gracious and kind of you if you could remove me from your marketing email list. I do not wish to receive any more advertisements from you concerning the tutorial book/CD, as I have no shop to sell it in. I apologize in advance if this request causes you emotional turmoil, but I really must insist. The fact that I play tinwhistle, and you are selling a tinwhistle product does not create enough of a bond between us for me to acquiesce to receiving further unwanted emails advertising a product that I cannot take advantage of, namely the resale of your whistle tutorial product. While I am sure it is a very fine product, I simply have no market to sell it to: My website has no shopping cart, and I sell no products. Nor do I have a physical storefront. I suppose I could open a street-side stand and sell your tutorial, and use my own years of tinwhistle playing to lure in paying customers, but perhaps this favor would be asking too much of me when our relationship is tenuous at best. I really don't feel obligated to perform such a favor as I might if you were perhaps my brother-in-law, or someone that I owed money to.

So, upon looking at the situation more closely, and reaffirming what I already knew: that that no sense of obligation or duty lies between us, I must be firm in requesting that you remove me from your email list for your product.

Best Regards,
Greg Mahan
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Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

so I am in classes that tend to attract good, hardworking students. The kind of students who are diligent enough to come to class, even when sick.

hey guys, I hope that one day of notes was worth it. I like the part where I had to miss two quizzes, an opportunity to ask a girl if she wanted to go to a movie or something, and the conclusion of a campaign in my gaming group because not knowing how to apply L'Hopital's Rule to indeterminate exponents was going to kill you, contagious summer cold be damned.
 
Espy

Espy

Just got back from Starbucks.
It's right across the street. I had to go out so they could show our apartment.
So I walk over and get a iced coffee.

This exact thing happens almost EVERY time I go to ANY Starbucks:
Me: "Hi there, can I get a large iced coffee, black, no sweetener"
Barista: "Venti coffee... would you like sweetener in that?"
Me: "..."
Completely Oblivious Barista: "..."
Me: "No..."
:facepalm:
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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I love that you say "large." I got tired of being corrected and just go along with it. Although at the highly superior coffee shop here :)smug:) they call a large a "Super Grande"... which is just stupid. It's embarrassing to say. But the coffee is soooo delicious. :drool:
 
Espy

Espy

Starbucks has fine espresso (in it's original form, it's what they do with it that causes problems). The problem is that they only give you 1 shot in a small drink and 2 in a medium and large. Which means you get a tiny bit of espresso in your giant cup of steamed milk. Also their machines don't allow them to easily change the grind on the espresso so if the shots aren't that great then unless the barista is feeling extra motivated you are stuck with what there machine gives you.

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Oh and CG? I always say Large. I also say Medium and Small. Cuz that's how I roll.
 
Rob King

Rob King

I always order "whatever medium is in starbucks talk." They say "grande?" and then I ask "is that medium?" Most of the time it ends there, but once a girl replied "it's grande."

I asked if I could see the three different sizes. I pointed to the 'tall' one and said, "that, I would describe as small. It isn't a very big cup, would you agree? This one over here on the other hand, the 'venti,' is quite large. Oh, here it is! Grande. It's not as small as the small cup, and not as big as the big cup. A kind of ... mid-size cup. A medium, if you will. Yes, I would like a grande."
 
Rob King

Rob King

I typically watch the assembly of my order, although I'm not quite eagle-eyed, so I'm never sure.

At any rate, what I don't know won't kill me. Unless it does. In which case, at least my family has a chance of a decent settlement from Starbucks.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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That's true; those coffee shops are totally open. You can see everything they're doing unless you drive through.

The worst they could do is maybe give you the wrong kind of milk or flavor (if you're into that).

I made him an almond whole milk latte instead of a vanilla 2% latte. MWAHAHAHAHAAA!
 
Espy

Espy

Rob King said:
I always order "whatever medium is in starbucks talk." They say "grande?" and then I ask "is that medium?" Most of the time it ends there, but once a girl replied "it's grande."

I asked if I could see the three different sizes. I pointed to the 'tall' one and said, "that, I would describe as small. It isn't a very big cup, would you agree? This one over here on the other hand, the 'venti,' is quite large. Oh, here it is! Grande. It's not as small as the small cup, and not as big as the big cup. A kind of ... mid-size cup. A medium, if you will. Yes, I would like a grande."
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To be fair the barista's didn't come up with the idea to name their cup sizes something really stupid.
 
Espy

Espy

No, Starbucks wants their employees to call their drinks what they have branded them. It might be stupid but it's part of their corporate image.

And lets be honest, it might be annoying (I think it is, thats why I say small, medium, etc) but it's not the end of the world or worth getting angry about.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Espy said:
No, Starbucks wants their employees to call their drinks what they have branded them. It might be stupid but it's part of their corporate image.

And lets be honest, it might be annoying (I think it is, thats why I say small, medium, etc) but it's not the end of the world or worth getting angry about.
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Just because the employee has to call the drinks by their branded names does not necessarily mean that the employee has to require the customer to call the drink by a special word.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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This is why I don't argue about it. Their jobs suck enough. Cafes attract horribly picky people who need half-soy, half-caf lattes with no foam, extra hot, with a sprinkling of shaved unicorn horn and whatnot.
 
Espy

Espy

figmentPez;254115][quote=Espy said:
No, Starbucks wants their employees to call their drinks what they have branded them. It might be stupid but it's part of their corporate image.

And lets be honest, it might be annoying (I think it is, thats why I say small, medium, etc) but it's not the end of the world or worth getting angry about.
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Just because the employee has to call the drinks by their branded names does not necessarily mean that the employee has to require the customer to call the drink by a special word.[/QUOTE]

I've never had any of them jump over the counter, hold me down, pry my mouth open and threaten to pour scorching hot lattes down my throat until I say Venti. ;)
They just repeat your order back to you like they are supposed to but using their corporate wording.
 
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