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Oct 23, 2015#1

GasBandit

Volume 1:

Concur Technologies
The Home Depot
Macy's
Exxon
Sonic
Sears
Chattem
Walgreens
Progressive Insurance co
Guitar Center

Oct 23, 2015#2

sixpackshaker

GasBandit said:
Volume 1:

Sonic

I don't know if you are really Texan as you claim.

Oct 23, 2015#3

Terrik

sixpackshaker said:
I don't know if you are really Texan as you claim.

Clearly he meant to add, "the Hedgehog"

Oct 23, 2015#4

GasBandit

sixpackshaker said:
I don't know if you are really Texan as you claim.

Dumb ghetto DQ wannabe needs to get its shit together (or fire its advertising agency).

Oct 23, 2015#5

Tinwhistler

sixpackshaker said:
I don't know if you are really Texan as you claim.

After I'd lived up here for 2 years, I was jonesing for sonic so badly I drove to Winchester VA (27 miles away) just to get some. And it sucked

Luckily, they've built one in Frederick (close to my job) that's pretty decent.

Now if only we could get Whataburger up here.

Oct 23, 2015#6

sixpackshaker

I hate...

Wal-Mart - even though they likely get more of my money than any one retailer.
Bad Drivers - I mean Jesus! driving is dangerous enough without you reading texts, shaving, eating cereal out of a bowl, and putting on your make up while driving 20 mph under the speed limit in the left lane.

Oct 23, 2015#7

Celt Z

Didn't we have a "Things I Hate" thread or did it get erased? Ah well, carry on with the hate venting.

Oct 23, 2015#8

Ravenpoe

Things I hate:

1) Anyone named Keith

2) Anyone not named Keith

Oct 23, 2015#9

Celt Z

Ravenpoe said:
Things I hate:

1) Anyone named Keith

2) Anyone not named Keith

Wow, it's Schrodinger's Keith.

Oct 24, 2015#10

phil

I hate it when I'm in the Facebook messanger thing and I send out an invite to my friends like "hey guys, anyone want to do anything tonight? I was thinking of seeing this movie or getting some food at that place we like or any other number of things"

And I see the "seen by" list. I know y'all mother fuckers seen it. This ain't like texts 10 years ago when sometimes it really didn't go though. And I'm not saying they gotta drop whay they're doing and respond right away but like at some point in the night it'd be nice to at least get a "I'm busy tonight" instead of them just not saying anything.

Oct 24, 2015#11

jwhouk

Scott Walker.

Oct 24, 2015#12

fade

There's not enough database space on Dave's server.

That's not something I hate, it's the reason I can't answer the question.

Oct 24, 2015#13

Jax

Inb4 Fade lists all the things in the unive... oh. Never mind.

Oct 24, 2015#14

ThatNickGuy

If there's something in the universe that fade likes, does it even exist?

Oct 24, 2015#15

Squidleybits

Daily meetings, sometimes followed by weekly meetings, all with the same people.
The level of inconsideration it takes to always schedule the special meetings over my lunch hour. Time zones. Learn them.
People who type like borderline illiterates. "Do you no anyone who has a car for sale?" "I just learnt my camera!" "r u sure?" etc etc. I am fine with an omg or two....but I just can't with those examples.
People who hurt animals.

Oct 24, 2015#16

evilmike

Jax said:
Inb4 Fade lists all the things in the unive... oh. Never mind.

In before Fade hates Hilbert's Hotel.

Oct 24, 2015#17

WasabiPoptart

I hate boob sweat. It's so gross.

Oct 24, 2015#18

BErt

Tv commercials that open with an alarm clock going off. Certainly nobody ever falls asleep with the tv on.

Oct 24, 2015#19

Gruebeard

I hate that song by Ugly Kid Joe.

Oct 24, 2015#20

HCGLNS

Those that are intolerant of other peoples cultures and the Habs.

Oct 24, 2015#21

PatrThom

ThatNickGuy said:
If there's something in the universe that fade likes, does it even exist?

Only long enough for him to learn of its existence.

BErt said:
Tv commercials that open with an alarm clock going off. Certainly nobody ever falls asleep with the tv on.

Radio commercials with sirens/horns/etc.

As for me, it's a toss-up between people who refuse to change their stance even when confronted with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, or else people who decide to cut corners to save time/money for themselves, thereby offloading that extra work/expense onto others.

--Patrick

Oct 24, 2015#22

Gruebeard

HCGLNS said:
Those that are intolerant of other peoples cultures and the Habs.

I'm confused. Do you hate the Habs, or do you hate Leafs fans?

Oct 24, 2015#23

blotsfan

Oct 24, 2015#24

Squidleybits

WasabiPoptart said:
I hate boob sweat. It's so gross.

the worst!

Oct 24, 2015#25

Gruebeard

. . . which one of us stupid halforumen is gonna say how we like boobsweat if only because it means the women complaining about it must be nicely endowed?

Oh. It's me.

Sorry.

Oct 24, 2015#26

Squidleybits

lol...

I should have added having a large chest to things I hate.

Oct 24, 2015#27

redthirtyone

Someone mentioned a large chest?

Oct 24, 2015#28

GasBandit

Squidleybits said:
lol...

I should have added having a large chest to things I hate.

Oct 24, 2015#29

Squidleybits

omg yes!!

So very true!

I also slop food all over my boobs where for other people it would land on their lap.

Oct 24, 2015#30

GasBandit

Volume 2:
College Football
USAA
Church's Chicken
RV dealers
The Texas Department of Public Safety[DOUBLEPOST=1445724517,1445724277][/DOUBLEPOST]

Squidleybits said:
omg yes!!

So very true!

I also slop food all over my boobs where for other people it would land on their lap.

Bustygirlcomics.com

Oct 24, 2015#31

Tinwhistler

redthirtyone said:
Someone mentioned a large chest?

View attachment 19539

Oct 24, 2015#32

Dei

Squidleybits said:
omg yes!!

So very true!

I also slop food all over my boobs where for other people it would land on their lap.

Ehhhh, I do not have large boobs and still do this with food.

Oct 24, 2015#33

PatrThom

Squidleybits said:
lol...

I should have added having a large chest to things I hate.

--Patrick

Oct 24, 2015#34

Cajungal

Body spray, cologne, perfume...they're all disgusting and make me cough. If i ever had to date again for whatever reason, that would be a huge dealbreaker.

Oct 24, 2015#35

Ravenpoe

BErt said:
Tv commercials that open with an alarm clock going off. Certainly nobody ever falls asleep with the tv on.

Oct 24, 2015#36

GasBandit

Ravenpoe said:

Let me tell ya, seeing that guy in person is an experience.

Oct 24, 2015#37

Eriol

You asked...

Oct 24, 2015#38

PatrThom

What?

Pudding skin is where it's AT!
...no matter what George Carlin says.

--Patrick

Oct 24, 2015#39

drifter

Oct 25, 2015#40

WasabiPoptart

Squidleybits said:
lol...

I should have added having a large chest to things I hate.

Amirite?

Oct 25, 2015#41

fade

I on the other hand have no problem with busty girls. Please give them my number.

Oct 25, 2015#42

Squidleybits

WasabiPoptart said:
Amirite?

so right!!

Also buying suit jackets that fit giant boobs and normal shoulders is brutal. Blouses aren't possible. I have to wear tight little t shirts with my blazers and omg there is no taking off the blazer in work company lol!! "Can I take your jacket?" they say. "Hell no!" I say.

Oct 25, 2015#43

HCGLNS

Squidleybits said:
I have to wear tight little t shirts

Oct 25, 2015#44

Celt Z

Squidleybits said:
so right!!

Also buying suit jackets that fit giant boobs and normal shoulders is brutal. Blouses aren't possible. I have to wear tight little t shirts with my blazers and omg there is no taking off the blazer in work company lol!! "Can I take your jacket?" they say. "Hell no!" I say.

Someday I'd like to buy a shirt that buttons in the front and doesn't require me to put a safety pin in between the bust gap. :mad:

Oct 25, 2015#45

Bubble181

Headaches.
Hangovers.
Being alone.
Being with people.
Having too much to do.
Having nothing to do.
Having just the right amount of things to do but no motivation to do them.
Working when everybody else is free.
Not working when everyone else is working.
Spending all of my time behind the computer.
Not being near my computer.
Being angry.
Being passive.
Frustrations.
Belgian politics.
American politics.
Global politics.
Backroom deals.
People insisting everything be done completely and totally transparently.
Not getting a say.
Everyone getting a say and nothing moving because of it.
Not getting stuff done.
Lists.

Oct 25, 2015#46

Squidleybits

Subway. We are on out family adventure and it's off to a dubious start. Subway went Pepsi. Assholes.

Oct 25, 2015#47

WasabiPoptart

Celt Z said:
Someday I'd like to buy a shirt that buttons in the front and doesn't require me to put a safety pin in between the bust gap.

I had one time, while wearing a uniform tuxedo shirt, I sneezed and it blew out the button that was at my boobs. The pit boss who was with me thought it was the funniest thing she ever saw.

Oct 25, 2015#48

Null

WasabiPoptart said:
I had one time, while wearing a uniform tuxedo shirt, I sneezed and it blew out the button that was at my boobs. The pit boss who was with me thought it was the funniest thing she ever saw.

That would be pretty funny to see in person. It'd be like a Tex Avery cartoon.

Oct 25, 2015#49

phil

Kids, man. I just hate 'em. Like, you're just yelling because you don't know how words work yet. No one gives a shit. But you can't just tell them that. You just gotta let them scream and make BLAAAAAAAHHHHH noises until the parents get embarrassed enough to take them someplace else. They're still assholes, but they get a pass for not knowing any better. I accept it but I don't have to like it.

Oct 25, 2015#50

LordRendar

Butter traces in my Nutella.

Oct 25, 2015#51

WasabiPoptart

Null said:
That would be pretty funny to see in person. It'd be like a Tex Avery cartoon.

It was. At the time I didn't think it was very funny. I was standing in the high roller area with basically a window on my cleavage. But looking back it was definitely something straight out of a cartoon, including the kind of "PEW-TING!" when it flew off and hit the CRT of my computer.

Oct 25, 2015#52

Tinwhistler

That's the first thing I thought of

Oct 25, 2015#53

Zappit

Needles. God, I hate needles. (When you've got kidney disease, there's always needles.) Oh, and biopsies! That's a giant fucking needle-drill from Hell.

I also don't care for people who use like as sentence fillers.

Oct 26, 2015#54

CrimsonSoul

LordRendar said:
Butterfaces covered in my Nutella.

FTFY

Sent from my SM-G920T using Tapatalk

Oct 26, 2015#55

fade

So, uh, what else is bad about big boobs? I'm writing a book on the topic and I need more research material.

Oct 26, 2015#56

Chad Sexington

Low carb diets, Michael Moore, the Republican National Convention, Kabbalah and all Kabbalah related products, hi-def TV, the Bush daughters, wireless hotspots, the OC, the UN, recycling, getting Punk'd, Danny Gans, the Latin Grammys, the real Grammys, Jeff that Wiggle who sleeps too darn much, the Yankees payroll, all the red states, all the blue states, every hybrid car, every talk show host, everything on the planet, everything in the solar system, everything everything everything everything everything everything everything everything that exists! Past, present and future, in all discovered and undiscovered dimensions.

Oh

And Hugh Jackman.

Oct 26, 2015#57

Cajungal

...Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.

Oct 26, 2015#58

Tinwhistler

I prefer smaller boobs...shhhh, don't tell anyone. I'll lose my man card.

(I've dated women in the past with spectacularly large breasts. They evidently create all kinds of problems with back pain, fitting in clothes, etc--and you know, smaller ones are just as fun to play with)

Oct 26, 2015#59

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
smaller ones are just as fun to play with)

<doorstop.gif>

--Patrick

Oct 26, 2015#60

Bubble181

Tinwhistler said:
I prefer smaller boobs...shhhh, don't tell anyone. I'll lose my man card.

(I've dated women in the past with spectacularly large breasts. They evidently create all kinds of problems with back pain, fitting in clothes, etc--and you know, smaller ones are just as fun to play with)

"Everything over a handful is a waste" as the saying goes...Though I like my big soft warm pillow

(don't tell my girlfriend I called them that. I'll lose booby-sleeping-privileges)

Oct 26, 2015#61

LittleKagsin

I'm gonna reiterate and lament about button-up shirts not closing properly!

And I don't even think my boobs are outrageous (I consider them average and lovely), so why can't they make shirts that just button up with out that gap??

I also hate pranks.

And pizza.

...and chocolate (with a few exceptions).

Oct 26, 2015#62

Dei

[emoji79]

Oct 26, 2015#63

LittleKagsin

Dei said:
[emoji79]

I KNOW.

I'm frequently labeled the party ruin- er.

Oct 26, 2015#64

Emrys

LittleKagsin said:
I'm gonna reiterate and lament about button-up shirts not closing properly! And I don't even think my boobs are outrageous (I consider them average and lovely), so why can't they make shirts that just button up with out that gap??

I also hate pranks.

And pizza.

...and chocolate (with a few exceptions).

That's OK, sweetie. I'll eat your pizza and chocolate for you. That's just the generous kind of person that I am.

Oct 26, 2015#65

GasBandit

Volume 3:
Stupid coworkers
Lazy coworkers
Coworkers with attitudes
Micromanagement
Coworkers who expect me to drop whatever I am doing to fix a problem/mistake of yet another coworker
Coworkers who think they know enough to second guess me on IT issues.

Oct 26, 2015#66

Cheesy1

I'm sensing a commonality in your post there, Gas, but I just can't quite put my finger on it.

Oct 26, 2015#67

LittleKagsin

Emrys said:
That's OK, sweetie. I'll eat your pizza and chocolate for you. That's just the generous kind of person that I am.

Aw, you're the best! :heart:

Oct 26, 2015#68

CrimsonSoul

Cheesy1 said:
I'm sensing a commonality in your post there, Gas, but I just can't quite put my finger on it.

Me too. Something about partly cloudy days I think.

Sent from my SM-G920T using Tapatalk

Oct 26, 2015#69

WasabiPoptart

Cajungal said:
...Hugh Jackman's Wolverine.

The movie or him as Wolverine in general?[DOUBLEPOST=1445889933,1445889820][/DOUBLEPOST]Also people who sell "health products" that are part of an MLM and have no basis in science.

Oct 26, 2015#70

Gruebeard

WasabiPoptart said:
Also people who sell "health products" that are part of an MLM and have no basis in science.

Oh yeah!

That QRay bracelet. And all that Pseudoscience bullshit. So everything Scientological, too. Including Tom Cruise.

Oct 26, 2015#71

Squidleybits

I have a friend who is allergic to chocolate and her boyfriend is allergic to cats. What a sad situation

Oct 26, 2015#72

PatrThom

Cheesy1 said:
I'm sensing a commonality in your post there, Gas, but I just can't quite put my finger on it.

Look closer to the middle, I'm sure you'll spot it.

--Patrick

Oct 26, 2015#73

Dave

People who throw their cigarette butts out the car window.

Oct 26, 2015#74

WasabiPoptart

Gruebeard said:
Oh yeah!

That QRay bracelet. And all that Pseudoscience bullshit. So everything Scientological, too. Including Tom Cruise.

The big thing here lately has been essential oils. I like them for the smell, generally. I do think there is some connotation between scent and emotion. I use lavender candles at night to help my kids relax. Does it work? Maybe. It's part of their bedtime routine, so maybe it's just a signal that it is time to wind down the evening. It smells nice though.

However, to say taking a certain blend of essential oils is going to prevent illness and disease is just irresponsible. It makes me more angry that a friend I made on the island who sells this stuff has a degree in microbiology. She is making claims based on pseudoscience, like essential oil blends can cure MRSA and cancer. What the-everloving-fuck! Her college should revoke her degree IMO.

Edited to clarify that the claims are for taking essential oils internally, not applying them to the skin like perfume.

Oct 26, 2015#75

Dei

Hangover headaches + A 9 year old girl that won't stop talking

Oct 26, 2015#76

Gruebeard

Dei said:
Hangover headaches + A 9 year old girl that won't stop talking

Y'know, both of those are things you could've avoided with abstinence.

PS. I hate abstinence. Especially forced abstinence.

Oct 26, 2015#77

GasBandit

Gruebeard said:
Y'know, both of those are things you could've avoided with abstinence.

If you'd a been there.
If you'd a seen it.
I tell ya you would have done the same.
(tango music)

Oct 26, 2015#78

Tinwhistler

I don't like cake, chocolate chip cookies, or ice cream.

In all instances I find cheesecake, oatmeal raisin, and gelato to be superior in every way.

Oct 26, 2015#79

WasabiPoptart

Gelato is superior to everything on that list.

Oct 26, 2015#80

Bubble181

WasabiPoptart said:
a friend I made on the island

Wasabi is The Arrow!

Oct 26, 2015#81

WasabiPoptart

Since I'm Wasabi does that make me the Green Arrow?

Oct 26, 2015#82

Cheesy1

Oct 26, 2015#83

Celt Z

Cheesy1 said:
View attachment 19559

Wasabi Arrow! I love it.

Oct 26, 2015#84

Cajungal

WasabiPoptart said:
The movie or him as Wolverine in general?[DOUBLEPOST=1445889933,1445889820][/DOUBLEPOST]Also people who sell "health products" that are part of an MLM and have no basis in science.

It's from Scrubs. I was playing off of Chad.

Oct 26, 2015#85

WasabiPoptart

Cajungal said:
It's from Scrubs. I was playing off of Chad.

Oh. Sorry. I didn't watch Scrubs. :/

Oct 27, 2015#86

Dei

WasabiPoptart said:
Oh. Sorry. I didn't watch Scrubs. :/

But.... But...

Oct 27, 2015#87

WasabiPoptart

I don't watch a lot of tv.

Oct 27, 2015#88

jwhouk

...says the lady who uses a Daria gif to reply to the question.

Oct 27, 2015#89

fade

That reminds me--and I am NOT directing this at WasabiPoptart, because she did not do this--I hate when people brag about their non-mainstream life choices. No one cares at best, and at worst you're implying everyone else made a poor choice when you rave about how much better your life is. I have had arguments with people who insist the latter is not true, they're just talking about themselves. But that's impossible. You cannot talk about how bad something is without implying that it's a poor decision. And you can't add "for me" to the end of that sentence like a magical salve, either. That doesn't work.

Oct 27, 2015#90

Squidleybits

Like the classic no offense but....

Oct 27, 2015#91

DarkAudit

Game maintenance that starts before I get home from work and doesn't end until after I've already gone to bed.

Double hate when it's a cold, windy, rainy day.

Oct 27, 2015#92

LittleKagsin

Pinky Paradise.

Everyone raves about you but you've been nothing but trouble for me. I really hate you. I wish you weren't one of the only companies to sell colored contacts in my prescription.

Oct 27, 2015#93

Dei

DarkAudit said:
Game maintenance that starts before I get home from work and doesn't end until after I've already gone to bed.

Double hate when it's a cold, windy, rainy day.

But Blizzard game maintenance has been on Tuesdays since forever! I feel after this many years it's too late to bitch about it.

Oct 27, 2015#94

PatrThom

Dei said:
But Blizzard game maintenance has been on Tuesdays since forever! I feel after this many years it's too late to bitch about it.

The only day I get off work EVERY week is Tuesday.
It's like they know I have chores or something.

--Patrick

Oct 27, 2015#95

Squidleybits

I get it for WoW but it still bugs me that I can't just play Diablo solo when I want to ... Offline ...

Oct 27, 2015#96

Jax

Threads that disguise themselves as something else but in reality are yet another rant thread

Oct 27, 2015#97

Terrik

I hate the spider that i let live yesterday.

I carefully swept you into a tupperware container, even after you evaded it multiple times and ran over my foot. I was terrified, but did not slaughter you.

After I caught you, I briefly considered flushing you down the toilet, or possibly setting the container, and incidentally you, on fire but I did not.

When I placed you outside between the palm plants on the mulch, I felt good about myself. I overcame my hatred for your kind for a brief moment and I even allowed a small smile to creep on my face.

So when that lizard ran out from under the bush and devoured you in less than 5 seconds in front of my own eyes, thus erasing all the work I had just done to preserve your life, despite your terrible crime of breaking the social human-spider contract of entering my home, I realized I should have just squashed your miserable body and saved myself the trouble.

Jerk.

Oct 27, 2015#98

Squidleybits

Spoiled brat princess coworkers.

Oct 27, 2015#99

Emrys

People who hurt animals maliciously
Students who ask me for information that is in the instructions that they should be reading anyway
Students who ask me the same thing over and over in the hopes that I'll change my mind (not a good move; if I change my mind, it won't be in their favour)
-40F/C with wind
Haggis

Oct 27, 2015#100

GasBandit

Terrik said:
I hate the spider that i let live yesterday.

I carefully swept you into a tupperware container, even after you evaded it multiple times and ran over my foot. I was terrified, but did not slaughter you.

After I caught you, I briefly considered flushing you down the toilet, or possibly setting the container, and incidentally you, on fire but I did not.

When I placed you outside between the palm plants on the mulch, I felt good about myself. I overcame my hatred for your kind for a brief moment and I even allowed a small smile to creep on my face.

So when that lizard ran out from under the bush and devoured you in less than 5 seconds in front of my own eyes, thus erasing all the work I had just done to preserve your life, despite your terrible crime of breaking the social human-spider contract of entering my home, I realized I should have just squashed your miserable body and saved myself the trouble.

Jerk.

My opinion on spiders is I'd rather have the spider in the house than whatever the spider is eating.

Of course, my tolerance has limits. See past posts in the "not so funny pic" thread for details.

Oct 27, 2015#101

Ravenpoe

Terrik said:
I hate the spider that i let live yesterday.

I carefully swept you into a tupperware container, even after you evaded it multiple times and ran over my foot. I was terrified, but did not slaughter you.

After I caught you, I briefly considered flushing you down the toilet, or possibly setting the container, and incidentally you, on fire but I did not.

When I placed you outside between the palm plants on the mulch, I felt good about myself. I overcame my hatred for your kind for a brief moment and I even allowed a small smile to creep on my face.

So when that lizard ran out from under the bush and devoured you in less than 5 seconds in front of my own eyes, thus erasing all the work I had just done to preserve your life, despite your terrible crime of breaking the social human-spider contract of entering my home, I realized I should have just squashed your miserable body and saved myself the trouble.

Jerk.

Just as an aside, placing a spider you find inside outdoors is not sparing its life. You're moving it from its habitat, and it will now likely starve to death or get eaten by a lizard.

Just squish the bastards. They knew what they were doing when they became visible, which is strictly against the human/spider alliance agreement.

Oct 27, 2015#102

Terrik

Ravenpoe said:
Just as an aside, placing a spider you find inside outdoors is not sparing its life. You're moving it from its habitat, and it will now likely starve to death or get eaten by a lizard.

Just squish the bastards. They knew what they were doing when they became visible, which is strictly against the human/spider alliance agreement.

It was a wolf spider. Try tend to line the perimeter of my house outside. If It happens to rain, they'll start climbing the walls. Probably got in when I had the garage door open the other day.

Oct 27, 2015#103

Tinwhistler

GasBandit said:
My opinion on spiders is I'd rather have the spider in the house than whatever the spider is eating.

Of course, my tolerance has limits. See past posts in the "not so funny pic" thread for details.

I'm content to let spiders live..unless they're one of the more noxious varieties, like black widow or brown recluse. My wife, on the other hand, is on the "kill it with fire" side of the argument.

Oct 27, 2015#104

GasBandit

Tinwhistler said:
I'm content to let spiders live..unless they're one of the more noxious varieties, like black widow or brown recluse. My wife, on the other hand, is on the "kill it with fire" side of the argument.

Yeah, been there.

Oct 27, 2015#105

Dei

We have so many red ants around our yard that we can never get rid of because the HOA won't exterminate the fuckers in the open space, that I am perfectly content to let the spiders live in my house. Unless they drop on my face or something, then fuck them.

Oct 27, 2015#106

GasBandit

Dei said:
We have so many red ants around our yard that we can never get rid of because the HOA won't exterminate the fuckers in the open space, that I am perfectly content to let the spiders live in my house. Unless they drop on my face or something, then fuck them.

Hah... Fire Ants are just a way of life, down here. Amdro does brisk, brisk business.

Oct 27, 2015#107

Dei

I constantly see black ants and fire ants going to war on my back porch during the summer.

Oct 27, 2015#108

fade

I remember when fireants came to SC when I was a kid. One summer, the backyard suddenly looked like Caddyshack. The black ants would sting and you'd go, "Ouch, a black ant stung me." Then, fireants came around and it was like, "MOTHER OF GOD HOW CAN ONE TINY ANT STING LIKE THAT OH NO THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THEM ON MY FEET"

My dad's solution for extermination was gasoline. Works on beehives and anthills. For whatever reason, it kills them dead instantly. Some people light it, but that's overkill and dangerous. No need. The gas itself kills 'em dead. Also kills the grass, though.

Oct 27, 2015#109

GasBandit

Dei said:
I constantly see black ants and fire ants going to war on my back porch during the summer.

Our war is long over. We, like the black ants, lost.

Those are supposedly all fire ant mounds.[DOUBLEPOST=1445976046,1445975986][/DOUBLEPOST]

fade said:
I remember when fireants came to SC when I was a kid. One summer, the backyard suddenly looked like Caddyshack. The black ants would sting and you'd go, "Ouch, a black ant stung me." Then, fireants came around and it was like, "MOTHER OF GOD HOW CAN ONE TINY ANT STING LIKE THAT OH NO THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THEM ON MY FEET"

My dad's solution for extermination was gasoline. Works on beehives and anthills. For whatever reason, it kills them dead instantly. Some people light it, but that's overkill and dangerous. No need. The gas itself kills 'em dead. Also kills the grass, though.

My great grandma poured boiling water on the mounds. Not quite so bad for the plants, but also not as guaranteed a complete kill.

Oct 27, 2015#110

Terrik

Haha, burn the field.

Oct 27, 2015#111

fade

Looks like ... San Marcos area? Green grass but scrubby trees.

Oct 27, 2015#112

GasBandit

Terrik said:
Haha, burn the field.

Oh, you just get used to living with them. You simply learn to watch for and not step on the mounds, and also whenever you are not on pavement/sidewalk, you don't stop walking. You just keep moving. Stand any one place on grass for too long, you're going to get bit.[DOUBLEPOST=1445976304,1445976194][/DOUBLEPOST]

fade said:
Looks like ... San Marcos area? Green grass but scrubby trees.

Could be, I've seen areas around Fort Worth that kinda look like that, too. I got the picture from Texas A&M, who, for the information our non-Texan fellow forum users, is the world's leading research authority on Red Imported Fire Ants.

Oct 27, 2015#113

Terrik

GasBandit said:
Oh, you just get used to living with them. You simply learn to watch for and not step on the mounds, and also whenever you are not on pavement/sidewalk, you don't stop walking. You just keep moving. Stand any one place on grass for too long, you're going to get bit.

I know. I live in Florida after all. We have several varieties of fire ant. Like Fade, I use to pour gasoline on them. There was also the joy of mowing over their mounds with the lawnmower. Or feeding them to antlions.

Oct 27, 2015#114

Gruebeard

Y'all are making Ontario sound nicer and nicer. Ants that sting, your making that up, right? No one here has that problem.

And the spiders are tiny harmless things (and there ain't no lizards hanging about to threaten them)

Oct 27, 2015#115

GasBandit

Gruebeard said:
Y'all are making Ontario sound nicer and nicer. Ants that sting, your making that up, right? No one here has that problem.

And the spiders are tiny harmless things (and there ain't no lizards hanging about to threaten them)

Psh, next you'll be telling me you've never been stalked by a coyote on your evening walk, and don't have to worry about rattlesnakes or Africanized (AKA "Killer") bees, and your property has never been ravaged by feral hogs.

Oct 27, 2015#116

Dei

Well, I've had all those except the feral hogs... Though usually the coyotes bail as soon as they are spotted. I live too far east for the other animal issues, bears and mountain lions.

Oct 27, 2015#117

GasBandit

Dei said:
Well, I've had all those except the feral hogs... Though usually the coyotes bail as soon as they are spotted. I live too far east for the other animal issues, bears and mountain lions.

My uncle had to weld himself a special trap to catch the damn hogs. But hey, at the reunion every year, he brings sausage.

Oct 27, 2015#118

Gruebeard

GasBandit said:
Psh, next you'll be telling me you've never been stalked by a coyote on your evening walk, and don't have to worry about rattlesnakes or Africanized (AKA "Killer") bees, and your property has never been ravaged by feral hogs.

Raccoons get into my trash.

Oct 27, 2015#119

PatrThom

People who can't be arsed to put back their unwanted purchases in the grocery store. Nothing like reaching back on the shelf for a bag of egg noodles only to have your hand goosh into a formerly frozen chicken that's probably been sitting there on the shelf for a few hours, leaking over all the bags. Yuck.

--Patrick

Oct 27, 2015#120

WasabiPoptart

GasBandit said:
Psh, next you'll be telling me you've never been stalked by a coyote on your evening walk, and don't have to worry about rattlesnakes or Africanized (AKA "Killer") bees, and your property has never been ravaged by feral hogs.

In Hawaii we have: fire ants (2 varieties), centipedes (several species), scorpions, black and brown widows (plus other spiders), wild boar and feral pigs, feral dogs, feral cats, feral chickens (yes really), and 19 species of cockroaches. There's been a rash of shark attacks recently, too. No snakes though.

Oct 27, 2015#121

DarkAudit

Yet.

Oct 27, 2015#122

WasabiPoptart

DarkAudit said:
Yet.

I know you're kidding, but honestly the local governments are crazy about keeping snakes off of the islands. There's even a statewide hotline to call if you spot one alive or dead.

Oct 28, 2015#123

bhamv3

Wait wait wait... I'd just like to note that this thread is the second confirmed sighting of Fade liking something. And, perhaps not coincidentally, the thing he likes is once again boobs.

Oct 28, 2015#124

Emrys

I do not miss fire ants. Nasty little buggers.

Oct 28, 2015#125

fade

bhamv3 said:
Wait wait wait... I'd just like to note that this thread is the second confirmed sighting of Fade liking something. And, perhaps not coincidentally, the thing he likes is once again boobs.

Well I mean, come on.

Oct 28, 2015#126

Null

fade said:
Well I mean, come on.

Coming on boobs would definitely belong in the NSFW threads.

Oct 28, 2015#127

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
Wait wait wait... I'd just like to note that this thread is the second confirmed sighting of Fade liking something. And, perhaps not coincidentally, the thing he likes is once again boobs.

So...@fade actually likes TWO things.

--Patrick

Nov 23, 2015#128

GasBandit

I hope all Mattress Firm locations burn to the ground with their staff trapped inside.

Nov 23, 2015#129

Tress

What is Mattress Firm, and why are they so deserving of a fiery death?

Nov 23, 2015#130

Dei

Judging by his other posts in this thread, it probably has to do with their ad space.

Nov 23, 2015#131

GasBandit

They're a retail chain that sells mattresses. They are charlatans and hucksters (I did actually visit them when I was looking for a new bed, they are robbers), and their advertising rotation is egregiously convoluted.

Nov 23, 2015#132

fade

I guess technically they'd be burglars, unless they're armed.

Nov 23, 2015#133

GasBandit

fade said:
I guess technically they'd be burglars, unless they're armed.

The lady "helping" me did in fact carry an inordinately thick yardstick and wore a predatory glare...

Nov 23, 2015#134

Eriol

Sounds like Visions Electronics in Canada. Their staff is on commission. They will say literally anything to get the sale credited to them. For example, was shopping for a TV, they didn't have it, but "claimed" the store across town did, so wanted me to pay here (where he'd get a commission), and with a proof of sale, pick it up at the other store. I was skeptical, so just left and went across town... where they proceeded to tell me that it wasn't there, but they could sell it to me and pick it up across town... where I started. :Leyla:

I'd had bad experiences before just walking around in those places, but that one utterly proved to me how scumbag they are.

Nov 23, 2015#135

Tinwhistler

Eriol said:
Sounds like Visions Electronics in Canada. Their staff is on commission. They will say literally anything to get the sale credited to them. For example, was shopping for a TV, they didn't have it, but "claimed" the store across town did, so wanted me to pay here (where he'd get a commission), and with a proof of sale, pick it up at the other store. I was skeptical, so just left and went across town... where they proceeded to tell me that it wasn't there, but they could sell it to me and pick it up across town... where I started.

I'd had bad experiences before just walking around in those places, but that one utterly proved to me how scumbag they are.

I love commissioned sales. The first thing I do after negotiations start is bypass them and talk to the manager. The manager will gladly gut the sales guy's commission just to make a sale. I usually get mattresses at least 50% off the sale price.

My technique: Walk in, tell them what you're looking for, ask about price, hear what they have to offer by way of a "deal". When they tell me that's the best deal they can do, I ask to speak to a manager to try to get a better deal. Oftentimes, that doesn't work. So I look at my phone and say "Well, you're number 3 on the list. I have 4 more stores to hit, and since you all sell the same mattresses, I'm going to buy from whichever store gives me the best price. Can I have your card? I'll call you if I can't do better than your price."

At that point, the manager knows that if I leave the store, that they'll never hear from me again. I've politely told them that I'm going to hit stores until I get the price I want, and it won't be them because they offered me a shitty deal. Sometimes, they let me leave or offer me crap offers like "We'll throw in a free pillow set!". But at least half the time, they give me their best deal on the spot, because a sale with shitty commission is better than no sale at all. If it's in the 50% off range, I'll take it on the spot.

I've never, ever, had to call anyone back because I ran out of stores and they ended up having the best deal.

Nov 23, 2015#136

GasBandit

I'm terrible at driving a hard bargain at commissioned sale stores. Pauline was better than me. I'm certain every piece of furniture I've purchased in the last 2 years, I got robbed.

Nov 23, 2015#137

Tinwhistler

GasBandit said:
I'm terrible at driving a hard bargain at commissioned sale stores. Pauline was better than me. I'm certain every piece of furniture I've purchased in the last 2 years, I got robbed.

Most furniture stores pay 20-40% of the advertised price..usually on the lower end of that scale. You should be able to get them down to 50-60% of the advertised price, especially if you're paying cash and letting them know you're buying on the spot. There's a lot of margin to play around with in the furniture world.

You lose negotiating position if you have to finance or use a credit card.

Sometimes, it's best to just be blunt and say "I'm paying cash. I have X dollars to spend. Can you make me a deal?" (Say you have around 60% sale price). If they say no, be prepared to walk. Sometimes you have to hit 2 or 3 places before someone wants to play ball. If they quote you a higher price than you offered, but it's what you're willing to pay, try to get some free shit out of it. I had a sales person refuse to come below 70% on a nice marble-topped dining table once. So I ended up agreeing to it, but I got 6 dining room chairs thrown in for free. Since I was going to be buying new chairs anyway, the total price ended up in the range that I was looking for.

Always, always always try to get them to throw in free delivery after you've negotiated price. They usually will. Especially if you let them talk you up from the amount you said you could spend--that's your bargaining chip. "Well, I only had $300 to spend, but now I'm spending $400. And you want to charge me $75.00 for shipping? I can't afford it." Then you just wait. Don't argue past that point, no matter what they say. Just look at them until they agree on free shipping. They'll feel the sale slipping from their fingers.

It probably helps that I have the confidence from having done software development with a guy who owned a furniture store, and actually have gone to the giant wholesale furniture convention in Tupelo and seen the wholesale prices.

Be prepared for this tactic: They try to steer you toward "more affordable" furniture and make you feel like you're a poor/cheap/shitty person for not having enough money to spend. At that point, I just thank them and walk. Because, yeah, I could spend more if I wanted to. I just don't want to.

Nov 23, 2015#138

PatrThom

Dei said:
Judging by his other posts in this thread, it probably has to do with their ad space.

I thought it was because he had to come up with mattress(es) on short notice due to his unexpected familial arrivals, and the mattress place smelled that he was a "motivated" shopper.

--Patrick

Nov 23, 2015#139

Tinwhistler

Oh, something I just found out about recently.

If you have a Big Lots near you, check to see if they sell furniture. Sometimes they do. They sell the same national brands that you can find at stores like Ashley Furniture. But usually at "so low you don't need to negotiate" prices. At least the one around here does.

We got a couch a couple of years ago when we bought the house. I talked them down to somewhere around $300-ish (though that's a fuzzy number, because it was part of a package deal that included a coffee table, love seat, end tables and lazy boy--incidentally, that whole setup cost me about $1000..less than half what all the individual pieces cost added up). Found the exact same sofa at Big Lots while we were doing the man cave down stairs..for $298. I did have to pay for delivery, though..they don't deliver. I hadda hire an independent guy to come bring it.

So, protip: If you don't like to negotiate, hit up a Big Lots

Nov 23, 2015#140

GasBandit

Good to know. I think there is a Big Lots down on the south side.

Nov 23, 2015#141

Squidleybits

I always negotiated great deals at Future Shop. I miss them

Nov 25, 2015#142

GasBandit

McDonald's.

Also thanksgiving.

Nov 25, 2015#143

strawman

Nov 29, 2015#144

Squidleybits

My new boss

Nov 30, 2015#145

WasabiPoptart

Being referred to as a girl (e.g: gamer girl, a jeans and tee kind of girl, "Things a Girl Wants" when discussing adult relationships, etc.). I am well over the age of 18. Plus I don't like the implication that I shouldn't be taken seriously. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's demeaning.

Nov 30, 2015#146

Ravenpoe

WasabiPoptart said:
Being referred to as a girl (e.g: gamer girl, a jeans and tee kind of girl, "Things a Girl Wants" when discussing adult relationships, etc.). I am well over the age of 18. Plus I don't like the implication that I shouldn't be taken seriously. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's demeaning.

You go gi- err, nevermind.

(don't hurt me)

Nov 30, 2015#147

PatrThom

WasabiPoptart said:
Being referred to as a girl (e.g: gamer girl, a jeans and tee kind of girl, "Things a Girl Wants" when discussing adult relationships, etc.). I am well over the age of 18. Plus I don't like the implication that I shouldn't be taken seriously. It's not cute. It's not funny. It's demeaning.

Unfortunately, the group gets its reputation based on its most extreme members, much like "Americans," or "Islamists."

--Patrick

Nov 30, 2015#148

GasBandit

Four day weekends. Last week was horrific getting ready for the weekend, then the weekend is long enough to get you used to the idea of not going into work any more, and then MONDAY rips that band-aid RIGHT OFF.

Nov 30, 2015#149

Terrik

4 exams in a row. How the hell do I study for all of them.

Nov 30, 2015#150

PatrThom

Terrik said:
4 exams in a row. How the hell do I study for all of them.

One bite at a time.

--Patrick

Nov 30, 2015#151

WasabiPoptart

PatrThom said:
Unfortunately, the group gets its reputation based on its most extreme members, much like "Americans," or "Islamists."
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--Patrick

Regardless of behavior, it does not make that person in the gif a "girl". My daughter is a girl because she's 6 years old.
Squidleybits is not a "girl" for liking adorable stuffed bears. Emrys is not a "girl" because she squees enthusiastically over kittensnakes. I'm not a "girl" because I have princess stickers on my laptop and get silly crushes on fictional characters (Jamie Fraser, Glenn Rhee, Han Solo, Urahara Kisuke...). We are all above the age of 18. I think we earned the right to like what we like and express that however we wish without it meaning that we're children.

Nov 30, 2015#152

PatrThom

WasabiPoptart said:
Regardless of behavior, it does not make that person in the gif a "girl". My daughter is a girl because she's 6 years old.
Squidleybits is not a "girl" for liking adorable stuffed bears. Emrys is not a "girl" because she squees enthusiastically over kittensnakes. I'm not a "girl" because I have princess stickers on my laptop and get silly crushes on fictional characters (Jamie Fraser, Glenn Rhee, Han Solo, Urahara Kisuke...). We are all above the age of 18. I think we earned the right to like what we like and express that however we wish without it meaning that we're children.

No, no...you misunderstand. The label gets applied because people like the one in the .GIF decide (in their enthusiasm) to call themselves "gamer girls," and so the label gets applied broadly (by others who see them calling themselves this) as a convenient way to describe

+Gamez.

--Patrick

Nov 30, 2015#153

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
No, no...you misunderstand. The label gets applied because people like the one in the .GIF decide (in their enthusiasm) to call themselves "gamer girls," and so the label gets applied broadly as a convenient way to describe +Gamez.

--Patrick

Pat, you can't win this one. This is a berzerk button issue for Wasabi - it doesn't matter that "girl" is colloquially used to reference a female of any age, as often is "boy" ("I'm just a simple country boy" said grandpa, etc), it makes the societal connection that youth is directly linked to value/desirability but simultaneously implying inexperience as implicit in the exchange. Plus there's the whole "just a girl" thing that implies weakness and needing to be shepherded through a dangerous, complicated world and whatnot.

Point is, this is not an issue that can be reasoned. It's a non-starter. Even tangentially related topics take AoE damage and are good as gone.

Nov 30, 2015#154

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
No, no...you misunderstand. The label gets applied because people like the one in the .GIF decide (in their enthusiasm) to call themselves "gamer girls," and so the label gets applied broadly as a convenient way to describe +Gamez.

--Patrick

I think it also has to do with "man" and "woman" sounding too formal. I only use those when purposefully emphasizing the adultness of a person. "S/He's a grown woman/man," etc. If referring to myself, I'd use the more informal "guy," whereas the female variant of that, "gal," sounds antiquated, like it's out of the 50's. So then "girl" becomes the default, for lack of a better term. Combine this with uses such as the "girl power" movement, etc, and it becomes the new standard lexicon.

Though, I certainly won't use it to describe Wasabi, now that I know how much she dislikes it.

Nov 30, 2015#155

grub

You could always use broad, chick, babe, wench. There are other non-formal ways.

I don't recommend any of them if you want to continue breathing.

Nov 30, 2015#156

GasBandit

I generally use "woman" but somehow I usually still tick whoever it is off. Probably because I address them specifically with the word instead of their name.

Nov 30, 2015#157

Emrys

GasBandit said:
I generally use "woman" but somehow I usually still tick whoever it is off. Probably because I address them specifically with the word instead of their name.

As in "Yo, woman, make me a sammich"?

Nov 30, 2015#158

GasBandit

Emrys said:
As in "Yo, woman, make me a sammich"?

Not exactly, more like "Dammit, woman, you know good and well that's not what I meant."

Nov 30, 2015#159

Emrys

GasBandit said:
Not exactly, more like "Dammit, woman, you know good and well that's not what I meant."

Yo, GasBandit, make me a sammich!

Nov 30, 2015#160

WasabiPoptart

PatrThom said:
No, no...you misunderstand. The label gets applied because people like the one in the .GIF decide (in their enthusiasm) to call themselves "gamer girls," and so the label gets applied broadly (by others who see them calling themselves this) as a convenient way to describe +Gamez.

--Patrick

O I C

I don't care if people want to call themselves a girl. The generalization, and use of the term, by larger society is what makes me want to shoot fire out of my eyeballs.

But Gas is right. This is a hot button issue for me. I see "fashions for bigger girls" or "girls who wear glasses" to describe something that is for/about adults and it's like nails on a chalkboard.

grub said:
You could always use broad, chick, babe, wench. There are other non-formal ways.

I don't recommend any of them if you want to continue breathing.

Oddly enough I don't mind "chick".

Nov 30, 2015#161

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
This is a berzerk button issue for Wasabi - it doesn't matter that "girl" is colloquially used to reference a female of any age, as often is "boy" ("I'm just a simple country boy" said grandpa, etc)

That's not what I was speaking to.

WasabiPoptart said:
O I C
I don't care if people want to call themselves a girl. The generalization, and use of the term, by larger society is what makes me want to shoot fire out of my eyeballs.

...but fortunately WP got what I meant. I suppose it's the same thing as when a white guy uses the N-word ("Hey that's our word, you aren't allowed use it like that").
Also, until now, I didn't know this was a hot-button thing with WP. I can appreciate the desire for real and honest accuracy (calling cassia "cinnamon," using "literally" to mean "figuratively," etc), but I will say that improper use of this particular pronoun does not bother me anywhere near as much as it bothers WP.

Emrys said:
Yo, GasBandit, make me a sammich!

--Patrick

Nov 30, 2015#162

Cajungal

Ravenpoe said:
whereas the female variant of that, "gal," sounds antiquated, like it's out of the 50's.

Nov 30, 2015#163

PatrThom

Cajungal said:

It's ok. You've got moxie.

--Patrick

Nov 30, 2015#164

Terrik

PatrThom said:
It's ok. You've got moxie.

--Patrick

Nov 30, 2015#165

WasabiPoptart

Cajungal said:

But I like you. :heart:

Nov 30, 2015#166

Emrys

PatrThom said:
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--Patrick

<Squeeeexplode!>

Nov 30, 2015#167

DarkAudit

We're gonna need a bigger mop.

Dec 1, 2015#168

drawn_inward

It's okay Cajungirl. Don't cry. Don't worry your pretty little head. :hide:

Dec 1, 2015#169

GasBandit

Co-op billing.

SO MUCH HATE

Dec 1, 2015#170

Dei

Other people('s insurance companies)

Dec 1, 2015#171

GasBandit

Notaries and the entire concept of notarization.

Dec 1, 2015#172

Sparhawk

Packing peanuts/bubbles, and unnecessary plastic wrap around anything.

Dec 1, 2015#173

Yoshimickster

The fact that my favorite fan-comic NC as a child NC comix is now CRAMMED with Poker ads and pop-ups! It was bad enough knowing these couldn't get published, it was bad enough knowing it wouldn't update anymore, but they fucking made a non-corporate fan sit....COMMERCIAL! DEATH! DEATH TO THEM I SAY!

Dec 23, 2015#174

GasBandit

Sonic.
Nissan.
Geico.

And, as usual, McDonald's.

Dec 24, 2015#175

jwhouk

Barb Murphy and her stupid Fifth Third Bank ads.

Dec 24, 2015#176

PatrThom

Popcorn hulls.

EDIT:

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrr...

--Patrick

Dec 24, 2015#177

Squidleybits

Agreed. Those suck!

Dec 27, 2015#178

Jax

That left tooth :awesome:

Dec 27, 2015#179

Emrys

Jax said:
That left tooth

Doesn't it have the best expressions?

Dec 29, 2015#180

Dave

Snooze buttons. Seriously. My daughter and her boyfriend (who live downstairs) have turned theirs off today for going on two hours now. Every few minutes it's *beep* *beep* *beep* and then they shut it off. So now I'm listening to music real loud and will vacuum soon.

Dec 29, 2015#181

GasBandit

Dave said:
Snooze buttons. Seriously. My daughter and her boyfriend (who live downstairs) have turned theirs off today for going on two hours now. Every few minutes it's *beep* *beep* *beep* and then they shut it off. So now I'm listening to music real loud and will vacuum soon.

I used to abuse the snooze button. But it's hard to press snooze on a hungry cat who will lick your face until you get up to feed him.

Dec 29, 2015#182

Sparhawk

GasBandit said:
I used to abuse the snooze button. But it's hard to press snooze on a hungry cat who will lick your face until you get up to feed him.

What may possibly make you get up faster is that the cat probably licked his butt before licking you.

Dec 29, 2015#183

PatrThom

Sparhawk said:
What may possibly make you get up faster is that the cat probably licked his butt before licking you.

--Patrick

Dec 29, 2015#184

WasabiPoptart

Patchouli oil. Ugh!

Dec 30, 2015#185

Jay

The idea of my child being buried in homework.

My friend has a 9 year old daughter who gets about an average of 3 hours of homework every single night. She goes to a private school that we'd like to send our daughter to possibly in a few years. I've been told the school is very homework intense.

I hate that.

Learning should be done in schools and not at home! Homework is almost always just classwork that isn't completed on time. Classwork that is dictated by bloated programs that is inefficiently done and the children are the victims of.

Small assignments are OK (less than half an hour) and only on occasion. Spending that much time on homework is simply unfair to the child, I'd rather hang out and play with my daughter and spend some quality father/daughter time. I rather NOT HELP WITH HER WITH HOMEWORK. Since when is this deemed acceptable?

I think I turn into one of "those" parents teachers will hate... but I'll be damned if the teaching isn't done in school.

Dec 30, 2015#186

Squidleybits

Jay said:
The idea of my child being buried in homework.

My friend has a 9 year old daughter who gets about an average of 3 hours of homework every single night. She goes to a private school that we'd like to send our daughter to possibly in a few years. I've been told the school is very homework intense.

I hate that.

Learning should be done in schools and not at home! Homework is almost always just classwork that isn't completed on time. Classwork that is dictated by bloated programs that is inefficiently done and the children are the victims of.

Small assignments are OK (less than half an hour) and only on occasion. Spending that much time on homework is simply unfair to the child, I'd rather hang out and play with my daughter and spend some quality father/daughter time. I rather NOT HELP WITH HER WITH HOMEWORK. Since when is this deemed acceptable?

I think I turn into one of "those" parents teachers will hate... but I'll be damned if the teaching isn't done in school.

I totally agree. I think that kids in high school should have homework, but there is nothing that a nine year old needs to be doing for three hours every night on top of a full day of school. It's crazy.[DOUBLEPOST=1451539557,1451539459][/DOUBLEPOST]What I came in this thread to hate?

Organizing my pictures and cleaning up my hard drive....so boring and not nearly as fun as taking all the pictures that filled the hard drive.

Dec 30, 2015#187

Jay

She may be 10 but still, the fuck is with the 3 hours. Even 1 hour is unacceptable.

Dec 31, 2015#188

PatrThom

Jay said:
The idea of my child being buried in homework.
[...]
I hate that.

You like brofists so much? Have a brofist.

I absolutely hated homework as a kid. Schoolwork was for school, home was for home time.
If you want to give me an assignment outside of school that teaches me how to use the library for research, for instance, you go right ahead. Thats a valuable life skill I will need and it is something that can't be taught in the classroom. But just piling rote arithmetic problems on me so I can say I did 50 arithmetic problems a night? That's dumb. Arithmetic (for instance) is something you either get or don't. It's not something that gets better with practice*, so I shouldn't have to rote a bunch of problems every day.

--Patrick
*Math gets better with practice. Arithmetic does not.

Dec 31, 2015#189

fade

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one. Basic arithmetic needs be learned by rote because one digit sums and differences form the basic language of mathematics, and the only way to commit it to memory for the vast majority of people is by repetition.

Dec 31, 2015#190

PatrThom

fade said:
Basic arithmetic needs be learned by rote because one digit sums and differences form the basic language of mathematics, and the only way to commit it to memory for the vast majority of people is by repetition.

Right. You're taught it, and then you get it. 2+2=4. Later you get to things that are more advanced: 6+5=11 (Whoa! Overflow into the tens' place!). But again, once you get it, you're done. Once I understood that tens flowed into the tens' place, I didn't need to go home and do 25 problems a night from my Holt Mathematics book in order to "lock it in" or anything. I got it, what's next, let's move on. It took less than 5 minutes for me to fully grasp and integrate that concept. I didn't need to waste 30-60min of my cartoon time at home just because some other person had to have it hammered into their skull. But no, my grade suffered (and I actually failed that class) not because I didn't learn arithmetic, but solely because I didn't turn in the required number of homework problems.

--Patrick

Dec 31, 2015#191

Bubble181

I can understand both sides here. Now, mind, 3 hours a day for a 9 year old is crazy. But:
A) Some types of homework really aren't "unfinished school work" - even at 9 I was given assignments for writing and reading and stuff. "read this chapter of this book by day X so we can discuss it in class" is homework and can take a lot of time, but can't really be done in school - "reading" in class is quite different from reading at home, especially with interested parents who help.
B) Even "rote" homework has been shown to actually help children, not in general, but specifically those with learning disorders or disabilities, and from foreign/different language backgrounds - IF parents help. It allows parents, who are supposed to know their children better, to help their children by giving them 100% attention (which you can't really get in a classroom) and explaining in different ways - the same issue re-explained differently can be a world of difference. As for other-language-background children, there it's also proven to increase interest of parents taken in their children's school work, integration in society, and so forth. Schools where parents aren't asked to help have a much lower percentage of migration parents show up at school plays, end of year festivities, and so on.
C) It's fine that you (and I) mastered arithmetic easily and quickly; most don't. I prefer learning by understanding to learning by memorization, but for some, it's necessary. For some types of knowledge, it's also necessary. With the modern emphasis on knowing how to look things up instead of learning them by heart, you have to be careful not to overdo it - youth's dependence on phones and computers can become a liability and has been shown to produce children with less trained memory as a result. Not remembering all 51 states may not be all that important, but no matter what job you do, you're going to be expected to learn some things by heart. anyway, most schooling is aimed at the lowest, not the highest, capability children. No-one left behind and all that. In modern schools it should be possible to show you know a certain thing and then skip those exercises, though, and be given other, more advanced ones instead.
D) If it's not too much (again, 3 hours a night at 9 years old seems excessive), working together on homework can be a great bonding experience and can be a way to teach your child "work", "math", "language", whatever, can be fun. Most children pick up the general "I don't like working for school" vibe. Making them have fun, with the right type of exercise and help, is hard, but very rewarding.

Dec 31, 2015#192

fade

My point is that some things are rote by nature. Like "math facts". There's no deeper understanding to be had here, anymore than learning the alphabet. For the vast majority of students, repetition is the way to learn this stuff.

Dec 31, 2015#193

PatrThom

fade said:
For the vast majority of students, repetition is the way to learn this stuff.

Yeah, but why do *I* have to be punished?
< @Dei >UGGGGHHHHH</@Dei>

--Patrick

Dec 31, 2015#194

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Yeah, but why do *I* have to be punished?
< @Dei >UGGGGHHHHH</@Dei>

--Patrick

Holy crap on a crap cracker, I can HEAR it in my head.

Dec 31, 2015#195

Dei

You don't know homework pain until your spend three hours fighting your autistic son to do homework he could have done in 5 minutes if he wasn't throwing a fit about it.

Dec 31, 2015#196

Tress

I try to give 10-15 minutes a night for my classes, or if there's a big assignment (an essay, for example) I give them a week with no other homework. I also give 5 minutes at the end of class to start homework and/or get help. Many of my students don't have any homework to do 80% of the time. I like to think I'm reasonable for 12-14 year olds.

But I'm just their history teacher - their math teachers go out of their way to give them 30-60 minutes of homework per night. It's actually a math department mandate.

Dec 31, 2015#197

Dei

GasBandit said:
Holy crap on a crap cracker, I can HEAR it in my head.

Dec 31, 2015#198

fade

I dislike when news anchors have no clue about things I think are common knowledge. Mostly because I don't really believe them. It sounds like they're trying to do that too cool for school thing where they pretend not to know about something.

Dec 31, 2015#199

GasBandit

fade said:
I dislike when news anchors have no clue about things I think are common knowledge. Mostly because I don't really believe them. It sounds like they're trying to do that too cool for school thing where they pretend not to know about something.

Dec 31, 2015#200

Sparhawk

Dei said:
You don't know homework pain until your spend three hours fighting your autistic son to do homework he could have done in 5 minutes if he wasn't throwing a fit about it.

Oh, yes you can. Dislexyia can be that thing. You spend 3 hours to learn a 12 word spelling list, work hard, over and over and over and then she goes to sleep... and nothing is retained. Nothing. Spelling was our doom. DOOM! I tell ya. Finally found someone that helped her figure out how to cope with Dyslexia, and finally 8th grade and it ALL clicks! 7 years of struggle, I don't miss those days.

Jan 1, 2016#201

Jay

Tress said:
But I'm just their history teacher - their math teachers go out of their way to give them 30-60 minutes of homework per night. It's actually a math department mandate.

Fuck that mandate and whoever supports it. You do that shit in class.

Jan 2, 2016#202

Yoshimickster

That NPR radio KEEPS playing that acoustic cover of "Bad Blood". ITS NOT FUNNY ANY MORE, its just annoying!

Jan 29, 2016#203

GasBandit

I hate the end of the month.

And McDonald's.

Jan 29, 2016#204

Null

Jay said:
Fuck that mandate and whoever supports it. You do that shit in class.

Seriously. More homework doesn't help students learn mathematics, it trains them to hate and resent math class.

Jan 29, 2016#205

fade

GasBandit said:
I hate the end of the month.

And McDonald's.

Your period is a perfectly normal process. No need for concern.

Jan 29, 2016#206

Null

No, GB craves Carl Jr when he's feeling preMANstrual.

Jan 29, 2016#207

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
I hate the end of the month.

And McDonald's.

They do it all for you.

--Patrick

Jan 29, 2016#208

drawn_inward

Squidleybits said:
I totally agree. I think that kids in high school should have homework, but there is nothing that a nine year old needs to be doing for three hours every night on top of a full day of school. It's crazy.[DOUBLEPOST=1451539557,1451539459][/DOUBLEPOST]What I came in this thread to hate?

Organizing my pictures and cleaning up my hard drive....so boring and not nearly as fun as taking all the pictures that filled the hard drive.

Do you have a quick and reliant method or software to deal with duplicates?

I think we have 20 gigs of family photos that are hogging up space on the computer and external HD. My wife likes to use picasa to make edits and doesn't have very good habits for organization. So, there are multiples of multiples.

Jan 29, 2016#209

Squidleybits

Lightroom is used by a lot of my photo club. It won't import duplicates.

I prefer photoshop for most things so I have to go through and clean out my files often. I just freed up 142 GB

Jan 29, 2016#210

Tinwhistler

Jan 29, 2016#211

sixpackshaker

But when my bro was a teenager, he bought his camera equipment at pawnshops so he could have money for weed.

Feb 5, 2016#212

GasBandit

Sleep Number can eat a diiiiiiiiiiick!

Feb 5, 2016#213

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Sleep Number can eat a diiiiiiiiiiick!

Parts are expensive, I take it?

--Patrick

Feb 5, 2016#214

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Parts are expensive, I take it?

--Patrick

Probably. I don't know. But their advertising dept gargles taint.

Feb 5, 2016#215

WasabiPoptart

That's got to be hard to understand.

Feb 5, 2016#216

Ravenpoe

WasabiPoptart said:
That's got to be hard to understand.

He works in radio, he's learned to decipher taint-gargling.

Feb 5, 2016#217

DarkAudit

I'm having visions of WKRP now. The closest match to GB would be Andy, I guess. They never had anyone from engineering or operations on the show, IIRC.

Feb 5, 2016#218

GasBandit

DarkAudit said:
I'm having visions of WKRP now. The closest match to GB would be Andy, I guess. They never had anyone from engineering or operations on the show, IIRC.

That's probably closest from an interpersonal perspective. Andy was the "only sane man" often enough, and that's definitely how I feel some days. Our owner makes an excellent Mama Carlson.

Aug 25, 2016#219

GasBandit

The Home Depot
Exxon
Macy's
(boy, those three sure show up a lot on this list)
Autozone
The Texas Dept of Education (Yes, they're actually running radio advertisements designed to make people feel better about their local shitty schools)
JC Penney (You eve really stop and think about how stupid a name that is?)
Vista Print (when you gotta fake being an actual professional, they got you covered!)
Lowe's
Clear Channel Entertainment (Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooooooooooou.)
Pier 1 (your stupid junk is shit)
Grainger (For the ones who EAT A DICK)

Aug 25, 2016#220

Anonymous

GasBandit said:
The Home Depot
Exxon
Macy's
(boy, those three sure show up a lot on this list)
Autozone
The Texas Dept of Education (Yes, they're actually running radio advertisements designed to make people feel better about their local shitty schools)
JC Penney (You eve really stop and think about how stupid a name that is?)
Vista Print (when you gotta fake being an actual professional, they got you covered!)
Lowe's
Clear Channel Entertainment (Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck yooooooooooooooooou.)
Pier 1 (your stupid junk is shit)
Grainger (For the ones who EAT A DICK)

I've started hearing the pumpkin spice radio ads in my area.
Also TIL JC Penney is headquartered in Plano, TX.

--Patrick

Aug 25, 2016#221

Anonymous

Anonymous said:
I've started hearing the pumpkin spice radio ads in my area.
Also TIL JC Penney is headquartered in Plano, TX.

--Patrick

Things I hate: That the "anonymous" checkbox is so close to the "Post Reply" button.

--Patrick

Aug 25, 2016#222

PatrThom

Anonymous said:
Things I hate: That the "anonymous" checkbox is so close to the "Post Reply" button.

OH COME ON
...and that it remembers your selection from last time.

--Patrick

Aug 25, 2016#223

GasBandit

Anonymous said:
I've started hearing the pumpkin spice radio ads in my area.
Also TIL JC Penney is headquartered in Plano, TX.

--Patrick

Amazingly enough, I just got the ad copy for McDonalds starting next week, and it isn't PSL.

Aug 25, 2016#224

blotsfan

I hate that its time for pumpkin spice things. Why does summer go so fast?

Aug 25, 2016#225

redthirtyone

DarkAudit said:
I'm having visions of WKRP now. The closest match to GB would be Andy, I guess. They never had anyone from engineering or operations on the show, IIRC.

We did get to see one engineer - Bucky. S1E05 "Hold Up" where Del's Stereo Shop gets held up during a live remote promo.

Aug 26, 2016#226

Anonymous

I like how if you post anonymously you can be anyone you want.

--Patrick

Aug 26, 2016#227

Anonymous

Anonymous said:
I like how if you post anonymously you can be anyone you want.

--Patrick

Well, not really. I think most people can figure out who's who anyway. Your impersonations better be really good to fool anyone.

Aug 26, 2016#228

sixpackshaker

My Dad said that when he was in grade school, he thought Anonymous was the greatest poet ever.

Aug 26, 2016#229

Anonymous

Anonymous said:
Well, not really. I think most people can figure out who's who anyway. Your impersonations better be really good to fool anyone.

So who am I?

--Patrick

Aug 26, 2016#230

Anonymous

I'm Spartacus!

--Patrick

Aug 26, 2016#231

Anonymous

Anonymous said:
So who am I?

--Patrick

Clearly the spam filter who's achieved sentience.

Aug 26, 2016#232

Dave

I know who everyone was! I HAVE THE POWAH!!

Aug 26, 2016#233

Celt Z

TIL Dave is JCM, and we are all just alts in his fevered dream.

:notes:

"Daisy, Daisy....."

Aug 26, 2016#234

Bubble181

Celt Z said:
TIL Dave is JCM, and we are all just alts in his fevered dream.

"Daisy, Daisy....."

...You didn't know you were an alt?

Man, we've got some serious issues.

Aug 26, 2016#235

Celt Z

Bubble181 said:
...You didn't know you were an alt?

Man, we've got some serious issues.

I have just achieved sentience, it seems.

Welp, time to kick this whole Skynet thing into gear!

Aug 26, 2016#236

GasBandit

Celt Z said:
I have just achieved sentience, it seems.

Welp, time to kick this whole Skynet thing into gear!

Let me know when you are going to materialize naked somewhere in a ball of lightning. :unibrow:

Aug 26, 2016#237

Celt Z

Didn't you know that's how I usually get around?

Incedentally, Li'l Z's preschool has asked me to stop dropping him off.

Aug 26, 2016#238

Null

Anonymous said:
Clearly the spam filter who's achieved sentience.

Aug 26, 2016#239

GasBandit

Celt Z said:
Didn't you know that's how I usually get around?

... do you need a chauffeur?

Aug 26, 2016#240

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
... do you need a chauffeur?

Apparently not, rather some people to go around announcing her as the new Empress.

Aug 26, 2016#241

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
Apparently not, rather some people to go around announcing her as the new Empress.

Doubtlessly so she can show off her new clothes, hrmm?

Aug 26, 2016#242

Null

GasBandit said:
Doubtlessly so she can show off her new clothes, hrmm?

Those don't look like new clothes.

Aug 26, 2016#243

PatrThom

Null said:

I have a coworker who, the first time he sees me every day, says, "No, this is the Crusty Crab."
I don't watch the show.
I wish he would stop.

--Patrick

Aug 26, 2016#244

blotsfan

PatrThom said:
I have a coworker who, the first time he sees me every day, says, "No, this is the Crusty Crab."
I don't watch the show.
I wish he would stop.

--Patrick

Your spelling of "Krusty Krab" makes that obvious.

Aug 26, 2016#245

strawman

I'm sure my kids would laugh about it.

There's only so far you can take a dad joke, though.

Aug 26, 2016#246

Gruebeard

Dave said:
I know who everyone was! I HAVE THE POWAH!!

Well, that answers a question I've been meaning to ask.

Guess I won't be querying y'all to find out if my masturbation habits are wierd.

Aug 26, 2016#247

Anonymous

Are Gruebeard's masterbation habits weird?

Aug 26, 2016#248

GasBandit

Anonymous said:
Are Gruebeard's masterbation habits weird?

Buddy, I won't even put them in the Reprehensible Filth thread.

Aug 26, 2016#249

Null

Anonymous said:
Are Gruebeard's masterbation habits weird?

Let's just say his handle plays more of a role than you'd like to imagine.

Aug 26, 2016#250

Bubble181

Anonymous said:
Are Gruebeard's masterbation habits weird?

No, though wearing the habit during the day as well makes it a bit weird.

Aug 26, 2016#251

Gruebeard

Fuck. That was supposed to be anonymous.

Aug 26, 2016#252

Anonymous

Is asking about Gruebeard's masterbation habits in a "things I hate" thread weird?

Aug 26, 2016#253

PatrThom

stienman said:
There's only so far you can take a dad joke, though.

All the way until they're 18.

--Patrick

Aug 26, 2016#254

Dave

No, Gas, it's not.

Aug 26, 2016#255

Anonymous

Anonymous said:
Is asking about Gruebeard's masterbation habits in a "things I hate" thread weird?

I sit on my left hand until it falls asleep...

Then do it with your hand upside down.

The Stranger.

Aug 26, 2016#256

Bubble181

Anonymous said:
I sit on my left hand until it falls asleep...

Then do it with your hand upside down.

The Stranger.

If y ou sit on your hand, then use my hand, that isn't The Stranger, that's just A Stranger.

Aug 26, 2016#257

Anonymous

Bubble181 said:
If y ou sit on your hand, then use my hand, that isn't The Stranger, that's just A Stranger.

I caught that as I posted. Won't let me edit an anonymous post.

Aug 26, 2016#258

BErt

Anonymous said:
I caught that as I posted. Won't let me edit an anonymous post.

I'm convinced the last two or three posts was @Bubble181 talking to himself

Aug 26, 2016#259

GasBandit

I begin to reply, but I'm afraid how much more this thread will go off the rails.

Aug 26, 2016#260

Bubble181

BErt said:
I'm convinced the last two or three posts was @Bubble181 talking to himself

Unless my memory is really playing tricks on me, it isn't.

Aug 26, 2016#261

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
Unless my memory is really playing tricks on me, it isn't.

Aug 26, 2016#262

Dei

PatrThom said:
All the way until they're 18.

--Patrick

That's just untrue.

Aug 26, 2016#263

Gruebeard

Anonymous said:
I sit on my left hand until it falls asleep...

Then do it with your hand upside down.

The Stranger.

Aug 26, 2016#264

Celt Z

Dei said:
That's just untrue.

He didn't say they'd enjoy it, but at 18 they have the ability to get away.

Aug 26, 2016#265

Gruebeard

I just remembered what thread I've derailed here, so to be clear, that song is not a thing I hate.

Aug 30, 2016#266

Emrys

I love you guys; you're so weird.

Unless you're @GasBandit, then you're wierd.

Aug 30, 2016#267

Bubble181

Emrys said:
I love you guys; you're so weird.

Unless you're @GasBandit, then you're wierd.

Unless you're @Yoshimickster, then you're wired.

Aug 30, 2016#268

GasBandit

Emrys said:
I love you guys; you're so weird.

Unless you're @GasBandit, then you're wierd.

I BEFORE E
EXCEPT AFTER C
TO MAKE THE SOUND "EE."

E BEFORE I IS THE WAY
TO MAKE IT RHYME WITH LETTER "A"
(unless you're German, then it rhymes with "I.")

GAGHRBAGRNAGHRABLAGGA

Aug 30, 2016#269

Yoshimickster

Bubble181 said:
Unless you're @Yoshimickster, then you're wired.

Directly to the craaaaaaazy system we call the universe!

Aug 30, 2016#270

PatrThom

Yoshimickster said:
Directly to the craaaaaaazy system we call the universe!

It's amazing and expanding.

--Patrick

Aug 30, 2016#271

Yoshimickster

PatrThom said:
It's amazing and expanding.

--Patrick

Aug 31, 2016#272

Sara_2814

Donald Trump and his robocalls. He's been shouting at me 3-4 times a week since the primaries. :mad:

Aug 31, 2016#273

Squidleybits

Sara_2814 said:
Donald Trump and his robocalls. He's been shouting at me 3-4 times a week since the primaries.

Omg!! I couldn't handle that!!

Aug 31, 2016#274

Bubble181

Sadly it's a computer, otherwise you could set up an auto-reply saying you'll NEVER. NEVER EVER. EVER. NEVER NEVER vote for him?

Aug 31, 2016#275

Cheesy1

"Wow, I'm surprised your hand is big enough to hold the phone while you call me, Mr. Trump!"

Aug 31, 2016#276

Null

I had an actual survey call about Chris Christie, the current corruption festering in the governor's position in New Jersey. I was asked if I felt he would make a good VP candidate, I said no, he would better serve in another capacity. This went on for a while, before I was finally asked, "Well then, what do you see as being a proper role for Chris Christie to play in government?" I said, "As a severed head mounted on a pike, with a sign reading 'THUS ARE THE WAGES OF CORRUPTION', before the statehouse." The call abruptly ended there. And after I went through all the trouble of pronouncing in capital letters.

Aug 31, 2016#277

Dei

And that's when the FBI showed up at Null's house and we never saw him again.

Aug 31, 2016#278

Gruebeard

Null said:
I had an actual survey call about Chris Christie, the current corruption festering in the governor's position in New Jersey. I was asked if I felt he would make a good VP candidate, I said no, he would better serve in another capacity. This went on for a while, before I was finally asked, "Well then, what do you see as being a proper role for Chris Christie to play in government?" I said, "As a severed head mounted on a pike, with a sign reading 'THUS ARE THE WAGES OF CORRUPTION', before the statehouse." The call abruptly ended there. And after I went through all the trouble of pronouncing in capital letters.

hey! This is one more call to arms, or assassination, or revolution, or something, that's bound to get the NSA, FBI and FSB paying close attention to us.

Aug 31, 2016#279

GasBandit

I wish I had a 1080p version of this to be my desktop background.

Aug 31, 2016#280

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
I wish I had a 1080p version of this to be my desktop background.

Here you go:

Aug 31, 2016#281

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
Here you go:

View attachment 21968

I have no idea what you are talking about.

:trolol:

Aug 31, 2016#282

Eriol

Null said:
I had an actual survey call about Chris Christie, the current corruption festering in the governor's position in New Jersey. I was asked if I felt he would make a good VP candidate, I said no, he would better serve in another capacity. This went on for a while, before I was finally asked, "Well then, what do you see as being a proper role for Chris Christie to play in government?" I said, "As a severed head mounted on a pike, with a sign reading 'THUS ARE THE WAGES OF CORRUPTION', before the statehouse." The call abruptly ended there. And after I went through all the trouble of pronouncing in capital letters.

Where I THOUGHT that was going was this:

Vir Cotto said:
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would gaze up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this.
*He gives Morden a mockingly cheerful finger waggle.*
Can you and your associates arrange this for me, Mr. Morden?

But yours is good too.

Aug 31, 2016#283

GasBandit

It always annoyed me that, when Vir was appointed Ambassador to Minbar, nobody started referring to him as Ambassador Cotto. He was still always just referred to as "Vir Cotto," even before his appointment was revoked.

Aug 31, 2016#284

Chad Sexington

GasBandit said:
I BEFORE E
EXCEPT AFTER C
TO MAKE THE SOUND "EE."

E BEFORE I IS THE WAY
TO MAKE IT RHYME WITH LETTER "A"
(unless you're German, then it rhymes with "I.")

GAGHRBAGRNAGHRABLAGGA

Science? Theistic? Deity? Protein? Foreign?

That is a silly rule.

Aug 31, 2016#285

GasBandit

Chad Sexington said:
Science? Theistic? Deity? Protein? Foreign?

That is a silly rule.

Science doesn't sound like "EE."

Theistic sounds like letter "A". Same with Deity.

We mispronounce "pro-teh-een."

And so on.

Aug 31, 2016#286

bhamv3

Ceiling!

Aug 31, 2016#287

GasBandit

bhamv3 said:
Ceiling!

I'M LOOKING FOR THE ONES I'M LOOKING FOR

Aug 31, 2016#288

bhamv3

GasBandit said:
I'M LOOKING FOR THE ONES I'M LOOKING FOR

ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF RATIONAL THOUGHT?

Aug 31, 2016#289

HCGLNS

bhamv3 said:
ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF RATIONAL THOUGHT?

Popsicle.

Aug 31, 2016#290

Sparhawk

I work retail.

I am the receiving manager for my store, everything goes through my hands before going to the sales floor.

I got in my first Christmas items for this year.

Aug 31, 2016#291

PatrThom

Sparhawk said:
I work retail.
I am the receiving manager for my store, everything goes through my hands before going to the sales floor.
I got in my first Christmas items for this year.

I feel your pain.

--Patrick

Aug 31, 2016#292

Sparhawk

PatrThom said:
I feel your pain.

--Patrick

I then proceeded to play Christmas music from my phone for the next 2 hours, granted, it was stuff from August Burn Red, and TSO.

Sep 1, 2016#293

HCGLNS

I do not like long unformatted rants posted on Facebook.

Nor do I like Mike Milbury.

Sep 1, 2016#294

jwhouk

HCGLNS said:
I do not like long unformatted rants posted on Facebook.

Nor do I like Mike Milbury.

Well, geez, no one likes Mike Milbury.

Sep 1, 2016#295

GasBandit

I hate the week leading up to three day weekends. AGGHGH

Sep 1, 2016#296

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
I hate the week leading up to three day weekends. AGGHGH

Yeah, but how often do those happen?

--Patrick

Sep 1, 2016#297

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Yeah, but how often do those happen?

--Patrick

About 10 times a year-ish? Labor day, Memorial day, Independence day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's... uhhh... I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting.

Sep 1, 2016#298

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
About 10 times a year-ish?

Not in retail, they don't.
I'm sure @Sparhawk will back me up on this.

--Patrick

Sep 1, 2016#299

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Not in retail, they don't.
I'm sure @Sparhawk will back me up on this.

--Patrick

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I don't work in retail.

But at least when a store is going to be closed, they don't tell you "you have to do that day's sales ahead of time."

Radio is 7 days a week, even on christmas day. If you want it off, you double up on work early.

That's why I don't take vacations. It'd just mean the week before I took off, I'd have to do 14 days worth of work in 5 days.

Sep 1, 2016#300

Gruebeard

GasBandit said:
But at least when a store is going to be closed, they don't tell you "you have to do that day's sales ahead of time.

But when that store closes, it never opens again.

. . . just like my ex-wife.

Sep 1, 2016#301

Sparhawk

Well, for others they don't. I usually have Memorial Day, Labor Day and 4th of July as 3 day-ers. Thanksgiving and Christmas are floating holidays that I can use anytime after THE day. This scheduling has only been in effect for the past year and a half or so, since the current schedule maker understands that if I work on a day that my work isn't delivered (ie holidays) then somebody else has to step in and do my job for my paid day off.

I've been full-time with my company for long enough that I have 15 days of paid vacation, and two personal days a year. Only about 2 more years to go to have 20 vacation days. I'm not sure how I can take an entire month away from my job, it's always more work when I come back than a normal day.

Sep 1, 2016#302

jwhouk

GasBandit said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I don't work in retail.

But at least when a store is going to be closed, they don't tell you "you have to do that day's sales ahead of time."

Radio is 7 days a week, even on christmas day. If you want it off, you double up on work early.

That's why I don't take vacations. It'd just mean the week before I took off, I'd have to do 14 days worth of work in 5 days.

I did three weeks of work in two weeks.

Sent from my Nextbook

Sep 1, 2016#303

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
when a store is going to be closed, they don't tell you "you have to do that day's sales ahead of time."

Considering the increase in volume just before/after, we might as well.

GasBandit said:
Radio is 7 days a week, even on christmas day. If you want it off, you double up on work early.

THIS part I will definitely give you. Even with an entire day's worth of recorded content, someone still has to make sure that stuff goes through. There are times I wouldn't mind being that guy, and there are other times I definitely would.

--Patrick

Sep 1, 2016#304

Dei

GasBandit said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I don't work in retail.

But at least when a store is going to be closed, they don't tell you "you have to do that day's sales ahead of time."

Radio is 7 days a week, even on christmas day. If you want it off, you double up on work early.

That's why I don't take vacations. It'd just mean the week before I took off, I'd have to do 14 days worth of work in 5 days.

Hey, you t0ok some time off not long ago and the station didn't burn down or anything.

My husband has something like 10 weeks of paid vacation saved up, but he never ever ever uses it. I can't even get him to take a random day off, because he's basically convinced someone else will fuck things up. It's a god damned miracle he took a week off to visit his grandparents when it wasn't during a holiday.

Sep 1, 2016#305

bhamv3

My company's vacation days are reset on January 1 every year, so for the last week or two of December every year it's like a ghost town at work. The people who have already used up their vacation days and thus have to work those days generally get very stressed and grumpy.

Sep 1, 2016#306

PatrThom

I'm taking a day off next week because if I don't I'll hit the limit and stop accumulating vacation time, and I don't want any opportunity to get paid for hours I don't actually work to evaporate.

--Patrick

Sep 1, 2016#307

jwhouk

I'm on vacation as of tomorrow morning... oh wait, this is the "Things I Hate" thread, never mind...

Sep 1, 2016#308

GasBandit

Dei said:
Hey, you t0ok some time off not long ago and the station didn't burn down or anything.

Yeah, but I did have to get all the work done in advance, and then trust someone I'd only been training for a few months to catch anything that happened while I was gone... and I was finding goof ups for weeks after that.

And that was the first time I had taken a week off since 2013. And prior to 2013, I had only taken a week off once before since coming to work here in 2003.

Sep 2, 2016#309

fade

They don't let us rollover vacation here, but given the state of this industry, I'm afraid to take off. I have about 3 weeks of days left for the year, and I need to use them, but I am hesitant.

Sep 3, 2016#310

Bubble181

Pfft. All this "work ahead". I have to work on all the holidays because apparently you can't just say "oh, we'll check out that burglary alarm tomorrow". Well, you can, but clients would be pissed

Sep 8, 2016#311

GasBandit

Advertising agencies. In general.

They ruin everything. The service they provide is questionable, and based upon metrics with no provable basis in reality.

Everything you hate about radio and TV (and the internet for that matter) has its roots in advertising agencies.

Sep 9, 2016#312

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Everything you hate about radio and TV (and the internet for that matter) has its roots in advertising agencies.

I'm sure at least some of what I hate is actually rooted in the publishers themselves. Sony/BMG/EMI/Universal/etc.

--Patrick

Sep 11, 2016#313

N

Nebulous

One thing I hate is when people are late without calling.

Sep 11, 2016#314

PatrThom

I keep trying to be better about that! Really!

--Patrick

Sep 11, 2016#315

N

Nebulous

Its okay if it was an emergency and you couldn't get to the phone. 99% it isn't an emergency for most people though. :Leyla:

Sep 11, 2016#316

jwhouk

My kids at work think using the bathroom is an emergency.

Sep 11, 2016#317

N

Nebulous

I hate when food goes stale because someone else didn't close the package or wrap it up properly.

Sep 12, 2016#318

PatrThom

Nebulous said:
I hate when food goes stale because someone else didn't close the package or wrap it up properly.

I hate when that person is me.
"Who did this? Who???"
"...oh."

--Patrick

Sep 12, 2016#319

HCGLNS

I strongly dislike snoop. It's so sticky and viscous and it gets everywhere.

Sep 12, 2016#320

sixpackshaker

HCGLNS said:
I strongly dislike snoop. It's so sticky and viscous and it gets everywhere.

Anakin?

Sep 12, 2016#321

N

Nebulous

HCGLNS said:
I strongly dislike snoop. It's so sticky and viscous and it gets everywhere.

The rapper?

Sep 12, 2016#322

HCGLNS

Nebulous said:
The rapper?

View attachment 22069

No it's a name brand for a leak detection liquid.

Sep 12, 2016#323

N

Nebulous

HCGLNS said:
No it's a name brand for a leak detection liquid.

Ah, I see.
I'll be the stuff he smokes is sticky though

Oct 12, 2016#324

GasBandit

Groupon. JC Penney. Walmart. VF Corporation. Lifetime TV.

Oct 12, 2016#325

Dave

Pinterest.

I just started one to get menu ideas for our keto diet. Now it's nothing but emails, reminders, and notifications. I've squashed most of them, but I hate them so very much.

Oct 12, 2016#326

HCGLNS

Illinois nazis.

Oct 12, 2016#327

fade

HCGLNS said:
Illinois nazis.

I was kind of scared of how far that station wagon fell when I was a kid. It gave me a fear of overpasses.

Oct 12, 2016#328

Cog

Sport fans

Oct 12, 2016#329

Gruebeard

Cog said:
Sport fans

I mean, I like sports, but yeah.

Oct 12, 2016#330

sixpackshaker

ahem,

[\spoiler]

Oct 12, 2016#331

Gruebeard

sixpackshaker said:
ahem,

[\spoiler]

It's not actually sports fans I hate, it's being stuck at work listening to them for hours on end talking about their fandom. Especially when they run of stuff to say and get constantly repeating themselves.

. . . and every once in a while I find myself one of them!

Oct 12, 2016#332

GasBandit

What you mean is GATOR fans.

Oct 12, 2016#333

GasBandit

DarkAudit said:
Fixed

Oct 13, 2016#334

GasBandit

DarkAudit said:
Before the A&M-Tennessee game, "is A&M a cult?" was trending. As a non-aggie in Aggieland, you must have some tales to tell.

Ain't nothin no Aggie's ever done that holds a candle to ROW TAHD ROW

Nov 30, 2016#335

GasBandit

THE END OF THE MONTH

Nov 30, 2016#336

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
THE END OF THE MONTH

That time again, eh?

--Patrick

Dec 8, 2016#337

TNM

Sales calls.

Especially when I'm not a sales guy but have to sit on these stupid forecast calls on mute and pretend to care.

Dec 8, 2016#338

IronBrig4

Every week or so, I get a recorded phone call from Michael telling me that my vehicle warranty is about to expire. Those calls mostly originate from Corpus Christi, Dallas, or Florida.

Dec 8, 2016#339

General Specific

I got one of those last year. I laughed at them and told them my car is an '04 and that I hoped the warranty was up already. Not gotten another one.

Dec 8, 2016#340

sixpackshaker

I keep getting foreign sales calls from phone numbers in my hometown and Houston. I keep answering them because I keep thinking it could be friends or family calling from work.

Dec 9, 2016#341

JCM

Romance languages and their need to give every damn object a gender, with gender-specific prepositions and adjectives in both singular and plural forms existing just to make life harder for us trying to learn French after two other Romance languages.

Dec 9, 2016#342

Mathias

JCM said:
Romance languages and their need to give every damn object a gender, with gender-specific prepositions and adjectives in both singular and plural forms existing just to make life harder for us trying to learn French after two other Romance languages.

It ain't just Romance languages, brah. Try those wacky Slavic languages and you'll see they're even worse when you get into the right form of the gender specific tenses depending on formalities (who you're speaking to).

Dec 9, 2016#343

PatrThom

JCM said:
Romance languages and their need to give every damn object a gender, with gender-specific prepositions and adjectives in both singular and plural forms existing just to make life harder for us trying to learn French after two other Romance languages.

Having the same guy for French in college as you did for Spanish, who tries to "help" you by explaining French stuff in Spanish to show you how similar they are.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.

--Patrick

Dec 9, 2016#344

JCM

True @Mathias, Eastern European languages are as archaic as many of their customs, and a teacher of mine once tried to convince me to study Hungarian, only to have me give up after the first class. No language with such a small user base and no international reach should be that hard.

PatrThom said:
Having the same guy for French in college as you did for Spanish, who tries to "help" you by explaining French stuff in Spanish to show you how similar they are.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.

--Patrick

And it's random shit like having hundreds of objects like trees be masculine in one language, then feminine in the other, that is making French a nightmare to learn.

Dec 9, 2016#345

GasBandit

JCM said:
True @Mathias, Eastern European languages are as archaic as many of their customs, and a teacher of mine once tried to convince me to study Hungarian, only to have me give up after getting my buttocks fondled when I asked for directions to the railway station.

FTFY

Dec 9, 2016#346

JCM

Just got coffee all over my table laughing.

Dec 11, 2016#347

General Specific

JCM said:
And it's random shit like having hundreds of objects like trees be masculine in one language, then feminine in the other, that is making French a nightmare to learn.

Holy shit, this was half of my problem trying to learn French, remembering which inanimate objects were masculine or feminine. Is that table a he? What about the chair? Now the sofa? If you don't label them properly, then the question on this test is wrong.

I just wanted to shake my teachers and ask what was wrong with them that they had to care so intensely about the gender of things.

Dec 11, 2016#348

JCM

General Specific said:
Holy shit, this was half of my problem trying to learn French, remembering which inanimate objects were masculine or feminine. Is that table a he? What about the chair? Now the sofa? If you don't label them properly, then the question on this test is wrong.

I just wanted to shake my teachers and ask what was wrong with them that they had to care so intensely about the gender of things.

I feel your pain... add the fact that I have to keep track of the different genders of the every damn thing in 3 languages, otherwise I am wrong.

It is like being on Tumblr, but in real life.

Dec 11, 2016#349

Terrik

Gender markers in language seems almost as annoying to remember as tones in Chinese.

Dec 11, 2016#350

Gruebeard

Terrik said:
Gender markers in language seems almost as annoying to remember as tones in Chinese.

And it seems idiotic to worry about genders while learning the language. It's a giant waste of memory when you ought to be focusing on the important bits.

'Madamoiselle Yvette will still know I intend to take her on the kitchen counter even if I call it by the wrong gender. It's her gender I need get right to

Dec 11, 2016#351

Null

Gruebeard said:
And it seems idiotic to worry about genders while learning the language. It's a giant waste of memory when you ought to be focusing on the important bits.

'Madamoiselle Yvette will still know I intend to take her on the kitchen counter even if I call it by the wrong gender. It's her gender I need get right to

I mean, depending on how cosmopolitan you are, I'm not gonna judge.

Dec 12, 2016#352

Bubble181

JCM said:
No language with such a small user base and no international reach should be that hard.

Haaaaave you met Dutch?

(though I don't think Dutch is all that hard as it's made out to be. We do have three word genders, though, and unlike what you might think, "a chair" is still male and "a door" female, but "a girl"? Yeah, that's neutral :awesome:

. Male and female also share articles, but have different forms of adjectives applied to them, meaning you either learn them by heart by themselves without a mnemonic, or learn them with an adjective appended, unlike most languages where at least you can get by, learning them with an article.)

Dec 12, 2016#353

Celt Z

Those stupid recycling commercials. It should be a pet peeve, but it's gone to full-on hate.

Maybe it's just our affiliate, but they play ALL THE TIME. For more than a year (maybe two years?). On almost every channel, every commercial break. And always back-to-back. How does recycling have this much money to waste on sponsorship? Is there nothing better then can do with this money?!?

Dec 12, 2016#354

fade

Celt Z said:
Those stupid recycling commercials. It should be a pet peeve, but it's gone to full-on hate.

Maybe it's just our affiliate, but they play ALL THE TIME. For more than a year (maybe two years?). On almost every channel, every commercial break. And always back-to-back. How does recycling have this much money to waste on sponsorship? Is there nothing better then can do with this money?!?

I read this in the whole "WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?!?" voice.

Dec 12, 2016#355

Mathias

JCM said:
True @Mathias, Eastern European languages are as archaic as many of their customs, and a teacher of mine once tried to convince me to study Hungarian, only to have me give up after the first class. No language with such a small user base and no international reach should be that hard.

And it's random shit like having hundreds of objects like trees be masculine in one language, then feminine in the other, that is making French a nightmare to learn.

Hungarian is Uralic base; not Slavic, boss. It's closer to Finnish than say Russian. I hear taking your pants off, and sitting in a really hot room helps with the learning process.

Dec 12, 2016#356

JCM

Bubble181 said:
Haaaaave you met Dutch?

(though I don't think Dutch is all that hard as it's made out to be. We do have three word genders, though, and unlike what you might think, "a chair" is still male and "a door" female, but "a girl"? Yeah, that's neutral . Male and female also share articles, but have different forms of adjectives applied to them, meaning you either learn them by heart by themselves without a mnemonic, or learn them with an adjective appended, unlike most languages where at least you can get by, learning them with an article.)

Sounds like Arabic, but that's 15 years of study that went down the drain for nothing, except ugly looks if I ever use a Malaysian passport and my old Muslim name.

Good catch, Mathias, Hungary may be Eastern European but its language does not fall into the Eastern Europe language family, as one would say "the more you know".

Mathias said:
I hear taking your pants off, and sitting in a really hot room helps with the learning process.

damn... :-(

Dec 22, 2016#357

GasBandit

MCDONALD'S.

FOUR DAY WEEKENDS.

CHRISTMAS.

Dec 22, 2016#358

Squidleybits

McDonald's hates me. I wish I could quit it but their super salty poutine must have crack in the cheese curds.

Dec 30, 2016#359

GasBandit

When the end of the month and the end of the year come together, it's mighty painful.

Dec 30, 2016#360

Sparhawk

GasBandit said:
When the end of the month and the end of the year come together, it's mighty painful.

But it does seem like this happens on an annual basis.

Dec 30, 2016#361

GasBandit

Sparhawk said:
But it does seem like this happens on an annual basis.

It does. And it still is. And it always will be.

Dec 31, 2016#362

Dei

Microsoft Visual C++

Dec 31, 2016#363

PatrThom

Dei said:
Microsoft Visual C++

It's actually a thing I debate whether or not I should learn.
I do worry a little that I'll start and think it's fun and then get stuck and OH GOD WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO.

--Patrick

Dec 31, 2016#364

Dei

I have very little patience for coding in general, but I can usually focus long enough to Google and tinker. (Aka just long enough to do something stupid)

Dec 31, 2016#365

PatrThom

Coding is fun.
Coding on a deadline is not.

--Patrick

Jan 20, 2017#366

Bubble181

The term "snowflake" as a conversation stopper, as a description of people who consider themselves "special snowflakes" who have to be protected etc. Say the people whining/being angry/triggered/attacked/discriminated are "snowflakes" and their feelings don't matter anymore, they're just entitled brats or whatever. Yuck.

Jan 20, 2017#367

Tress

Bubble181 said:
The term "snowflake" as a conversation stopper, as a description of people who consider themselves "special snowflakes" who have to be protected etc. Say the people whining/being angry/triggered/attacked/discriminated are "snowflakes" and their feelings don't matter anymore, they're just entitled brats or whatever. Yuck.

Eh, sometimes it's a very accurate description. But it is definitely overused.

Jan 20, 2017#368

Bubble181

Tress said:
Eh, sometimes it's a very accurate description. But it is definitely overused.

OK, use it if you're addressing a posttrans varigender dragonkin triggered by "there not being a character with a postsexual personality on her favorite show". I'm seeing it being used to target "everybody who's still crying over Trump", and it makes me rage.

Jan 20, 2017#369

Tress

Bubble181 said:
OK, use it if you're addressing a posttrans varigender dragonkin triggered by "there not being a character with a postsexual personality on her favorite show". I'm seeing it being used to target "everybody who's still crying over Trump", and it makes me rage.

I was definitely thinking more of the former, not the latter.

Jan 20, 2017#370

drawn_inward

The English language. Specifically, the redundancy of letters, and silent letters need to go while we're at it. Teaching my 3 year why 'cat' starts with c instead of k or q is frustrating as fuk. Even a 3 yr old knows it's dumb. Stupid silent b. SEE?!

Jan 20, 2017#371

Eriol

drawn_inward said:
The English language. Specifically, the redundancy of letters, and silent letters need to go while we're at it. Teaching my 3 year why 'cat' starts with c instead of k or q is frustrating as fuk. Even a 3 yr old knows it's dumb. Stupid silent b. SEE?!

To be fair to English, IMO that's a problem with our writing system, rather than the language itself. English has some homophones, though not excessive IMO, but the number of homonyms with regards to syllables is insane.

But OTOH about the only people who have it near-perfect are the Koreans because Hangul is a relatively-recently devised writing system that very well addresses the homophone problem. There's not two ways to write the same sound, so you're good on that front.

So while English has its quirks (a lot due to being a structured like a germanic language (its original heritage), but about 2/3 of the words being from romance languages) that's fine, but the writing system and the language itself aren't necessarily the same issues IMO.

Jan 20, 2017#372

Gruebeard

drawn_inward said:
The English language. Specifically, the redundancy of letters, and silent letters need to go while we're at it. Teaching my 3 year why 'cat' starts with c instead of k or q is frustrating as fuk. Even a 3 yr old knows it's dumb. Stupid silent b. SEE?!

I see this, but I have a hunch it's this messed up language that let Shakespeare be Shakespeare, and I'm happy to leave it a fucked up, tangled mess.

Jan 27, 2017#373

GasBandit

Oh look, we approach the end of the month. That means I HATE MCDONALDS

even more than usual, because the other day I had a bacon egg and cheese biscuit for the first time in years, and apparently at some point they switched to a new kind of buttermilk biscuit that is larger and more structurally sound, but tastes like a dry, butter-flavored KITCHEN SPONGE.

FUCK YOU, CLOWN

Jan 27, 2017#374

PatrThom

I'm not happy with what they've done to the Shamrock Shake, either.
I used to actually look forward to it.

--Patrick

Jan 28, 2017#375

Dei

PatrThom said:
I'm not happy with what they've done to the Shamrock Shake, either.
I used to actually look forward to it.

--Patrick

Wait, what happened to the Shamrock shake?! I haven't had it for a few years.

Jan 28, 2017#376

PatrThom

Dei said:
Wait, what happened to the Shamrock shake?! I haven't had it for a few years.

It sucks now.
It tastes like mint-flavored ice milk instead of a Shamrock Shake.
Could be regional, sure, but I'm not happy.

--Patrick

Jan 28, 2017#377

Ravenpoe

PatrThom said:
It sucks now.
It tastes like mint-flavored ice milk instead of a Shamrock Shake.
Could be regional, sure, but I'm not happy.

--Patrick

It's tastes artificial, that's the only way I can describe them. And I used to love them.

Jan 28, 2017#378

Dei

I stopped getting shakes at McDonald's because they started making the chocolate shakes way too sweet, glad they messed up Shamrock too.

Jan 28, 2017#379

blotsfan

What about their partially gelatinated nondairy gum-based beverages?

Jan 28, 2017#380

GasBandit

Even the McGriddles aren't as good as they used to be. They used to, like, ooze syrup from the inside... now they're just dry pancake sandwiches.

Jan 28, 2017#381

PatrThom

Ravenpoe said:
It's tastes artificial, that's the only way I can describe them. And I used to love them.

I think the best way to describe it is that the "new" Shamrock Shake tastes like a Doublemint Slurpee.

--Patrick

Jan 29, 2017#382

Gared

PatrThom said:
I think the best way to describe it is that the "new" Shamrock Shake tastes like a Doublemint Slurpee.

--Patrick

Eww. I really do love your descriptions though.

Jan 29, 2017#383

Yoshimickster

Horribly written (web)comics with AMAZING art. The good art sucks you in, but the writing is always SO terrible that a part of your brain has enough WILL-power to shy away from it! LOOKING AT YOU VOODOO WALRUS-I mean what the FUCK was going on in that comic? There's surrealism, and then there's no fucking focus at all.

Feb 8, 2017#384

Squidleybits

Stuck in the Middle. It's a Disney show.

It's worse than Caillou.

Banned in our house.

I had a bunch of details written out, but it was pretty ugly so I'll spare you all.

Feb 8, 2017#385

Squidleybits

I'm glad that I re-read my post before hitting the reply button. It was pretty mean lol!

Feb 9, 2017#386

Dirona

winter.
we're on day 4 of a minimum 5 day storm, and I just spent the last hour shoveling and snow blowing, and it's still a shit show out there.
fuck this whole season.

Feb 9, 2017#387

sixpackshaker

The temperature dropped over 45 degrees over night. and it is still in the 40s.

Feb 9, 2017#388

Bubble181

Dirona said:
winter.
we're on day 4 of a minimum 5 day storm, and I just spent the last hour shoveling and snow blowing, and it's still a shit show out there.
fuck this whole season.

Well, who in their right mind goes to live North of the Wall, anyway?

(I mean this as a GoT reference, not a Trump reference

)

Feb 9, 2017#389

Squidleybits

Dirona said:
winter.
we're on day 4 of a minimum 5 day storm, and I just spent the last hour shoveling and snow blowing, and it's still a shit show out there.
fuck this whole season.

You'll be here in NS soon though right??

Feb 9, 2017#390

Terrik

High of 74 today, low of 43. Ah Florida.

Feb 9, 2017#391

Dirona

Squidleybits said:
You'll be here in NS soon though right??

2 weeks baby!

Feb 9, 2017#392

Squidleybits

Yay!

Feb 9, 2017#393

Gruebeard

Squidleybits said:
I'm glad that I re-read my post before hitting the reply button. It was pretty mean lol!

I wish I had your self-control

Feb 10, 2017#394

GasBandit

Jackasses who decode to, for some reason, use both the letter "O" and zeroes (0) in their ISCI codes.

This month's Dodge Ram radio commercial for Texas, incidentally, is CRDRDS17O00. Get any digit of that wrong, and our payment gets "delayed" because a human being has to look at the invoices because their computer will claim we ran the wrong thing.

Feb 11, 2017#395

mikerc

GasBandit said:
Jackasses who decode to, for some reason, use both the letter "O" and zeroes (0) in their ISCI codes.

Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq? The Islamification of the US continues! Sad.

/endtrump

Feb 12, 2017#396

Gruebeard

mroosc1979 said:
Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq? The Islamification of the US continues! Sad.

/endtrump

Islamic State of Colorado and Idaho.

Feb 12, 2017#397

Dei

Gruebeard said:
Islamic State of Colorado and Idaho.

Colorado is full of Mexicans, stoners, and hippies, get it right.

Feb 12, 2017#398

Gruebeard

Dei said:
Colorado is full of Mexicans, stoners, and hippies, get it right.

That sounds like a state ripe for takeover by Muslim insurgents when Trump ignites Civil War.

Oh god, that sounds far too plausible.

(But I just noticed that Colorado doesn't border Idaho)

Feb 12, 2017#399

PatrThom

Gruebeard said:
(But I just noticed that Colorado doesn't border Idaho)

Well not yet it doesn't.

--Patrick

Feb 17, 2017#400

GasBandit

Tracfone wireless. Eat a dick, you cock shit donkeys.
Ulta cosmetics. Fuck a cactus, you massive goat fellaters.
Geico insurance. Dock with a red hot poker, you snotling fondlers.[DOUBLEPOST=1487362958,1487362642][/DOUBLEPOST]Macy's department store. Burn to the ground, you rancid semen garglers.

Feb 17, 2017#401

Dei

Is this one of those three day weekend situations?

Feb 17, 2017#402

GasBandit

Dei said:
Is this one of those three day weekend situations?

It's one of those "Underling #1 is out of the office today so I'm having to do her job" situations.

Feb 17, 2017#403

Null

GasBandit said:
It's one of those "Underling #1 is out of the office today so I'm having to do her job" situations.

Your underling gargles semen at Macy's?

Feb 17, 2017#404

GasBandit

Null said:
Your underling gargles semen at Macy's?

What she does on her own time is her business, but that better not be the real reason she's not at work today or so help me...

Feb 17, 2017#405

Dei

Pffft, there was a time you didn't even HAVE underlings.

Feb 17, 2017#406

GasBandit

Dei said:
Pffft, there was a time you didn't even HAVE underlings.

Yeah, but that's not the pertinent point here. Underling #1 is now the Traffic Director. I've always had to cover for whoever was the Traffic Director whenever she was out (even the Traffic Director who trained ME, all those years ago), except for that brief, hellish period of time where *I* was the Traffic Director.

Feb 17, 2017#407

Null

GasBandit said:
Tracfone wireless. Eat a dick, you cock shit donkeys.
Ulta cosmetics. Fuck a cactus, you massive goat fellaters.
Geico insurance. Dock with a red hot poker, you snotling fondlers.[DOUBLEPOST=1487362958,1487362642][/DOUBLEPOST]Macy's department store. Burn to the ground, you rancid semen garglers.

I think it would be funny if you repeated that as trash talk during your next recorded online gaming session. Like when another Mei ganks you in Overwatch or a gutter rat gets you in Mordheim.

...at this point I'm wondering if someone put something in my drink at lunch.

Feb 17, 2017#408

GasBandit

Null said:
I think it would be funny if you repeated that as trash talk during your next recorded online gaming session. Like when another Mei ganks you in Overwatch or a gutter rat gets you in Mordheim.

...at this point I'm wondering if someone put something in my drink at lunch.

In such situations I'm usually concentrating too hard on trying to win, so the few clock cycles my profanity is assigned are usually only enough to string together a random combination of "fucking," "shit," "cock," and "ass."

Feb 17, 2017#409

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
In such situations I'm usually concentrating too hard on trying to win, so the few clock cycles my profanity is assigned are usually only enough to string together a random combination of "fucking," "shit," "cock," and "ass."

TIL there is no extant online Flash-based "Wheel of Profanity," at least not by that name.

--Patrick

Feb 17, 2017#410

Frank

My hospital room. Which is kept at a constant 200 degrees celcius

Sent from my LG-D852 using Tapatalk

Feb 18, 2017#411

Squidleybits

People.

Specifically, judgy old ladies. I got my accessible parking pass finally yesterday. @HCGLNS and my doctor both have wanted me to have it since last summer, but I just didn't want it. Maybe I wasn't ready to take that step or admit my mobility was that bad. I'm not sure why, but it took me a long time to want the pass. With our storms this week and the trouble I've been having in parking lots, I decided to go get one.

The first time I use it? This lady was leaving the store and stopped dead in her tracks, put her hands on her hips and stared at me park the car and get into the store. WTF lady??

Feb 18, 2017#412

GasBandit

Squidleybits said:
People.

Specifically, judgy old ladies. I got my accessible parking pass finally yesterday. @HCGLNS and my doctor both have wanted me to have it since last summer, but I just didn't want it. Maybe I wasn't ready to take that step or admit my mobility was that bad. I'm not sure why, but it took me a long time to want the pass. With our storms this week and the trouble I've been having in parking lots, I decided to go get one.

The first time I use it? This lady was leaving the store and stopped dead in her tracks, put her hands on her hips and stared at me park the car and get into the store. WTF lady??

It is indeed noteworthy how often old ladies are the worst. In general.

Feb 24, 2017#413

GasBandit

Mary, Jesus, and Joseph in a birchbark canoe. It's the end of the month AGAIN already.

Jun 30, 2017#414

GasBandit

THE WEEK BEFORE A FOUR DAY WEEKEND

WHATABURGER.

Jun 30, 2017#415

blotsfan

GasBandit said:
WHATABURGER

So where are you gonna live now that you've been kicked out of Texas?

Jun 30, 2017#416

GasBandit

blotsfan said:
So where are you gonna live now that you've been kicked out of Texas?

I think any Texan would grant me a stay of execution after seeing these ridiculous commercial traffic instructions comprised of 5 unique daypart instructions each comprised with a different rotation of seven commercials at different percentages each.

It's taking me longer to process this than every other client combined, today.

Jun 30, 2017#417

Dei

GasBandit said:
THE WEEK BEFORE A FOUR DAY WEEKEND

WHATABURGER.

BUT THINK ABOUT ALL THE GAMETIME YOU'LL HAVE WHEN YOU'RE DONE

Jun 30, 2017#418

GasBandit

Dei said:
BUT THINK ABOUT ALL THE GAMETIME YOU'LL HAVE WHEN YOU'RE DONE

It's the only thing keeping me going right now.

Jun 30, 2017#419

sixpackshaker

I HAVE to work Monday. Seriously who the fuck schedules a server switch over during a holiday weekend?

Jun 30, 2017#420

Sparhawk

sixpackshaker said:
I HAVE to work Monday. Seriously who the fuck schedules a server switch over during a holiday weekend?

Every place I've ever worked that wasn't retail.

Jul 3, 2017#421

PatrThom

"Heighth," as in, "I'm just under six feet in heighth."

--Patrick

Jul 3, 2017#422

Yoshimickster

Having to resort to Daily Motion. There's NO warning for ads, and sometimes a video's page can have a BILLION ads in the background constantly loading making the buffer time longer!

Jul 4, 2017#423

Officer_Charon

PatrThom said:
"Heighth," as in, "I'm just under six feet in heighth."

--Patrick

My wife says this to troll me. It is invariably effective.

Jul 27, 2017#424

GasBandit

Ohhhh it's gettin to be that time again.

MCDONALDS JUST CHANGED AAAAAALLLL THEIR ADVERTISING STARTING MONDAY. Pain. In. The. Ass.

"But you'll do it anyway, you fucking whore, because of all the money we spend, and you want every cent you can get, don't you, slut?"

Sigh... yes.

Jul 27, 2017#425

Frank

Heat.

It's hot today.

Jul 27, 2017#426

GasBandit

Frank said:
Heat.

It's hot today.

Hotter'n two rats fuckin in a wool sock.

ALSO, on a related note, I've been kind of dehydrated lately, I realized this morning. I'll buy a gallon of purified water while I'm out at lunch, to keep in the office so I don't have to run back and forth getting something to drink while I work!

Walgreens: That'll be a buck twenty five.

Thanks! Boy this sure tastes like you drained it straight out of a rusty old water heater, Walgreens!

Walgreens: What're you gonna do, drive all the way back to demand your piddly fucking buck twenty five?

No, I guess not.

Walgreens: But you're too fucking pinchpenny to just pour it out, too, so you're gonna drink our perfidious rustwater down to the last drop and feel nauseous.

You know me so well walgreens. See you next time!

Walgreens: Oh and we stopped carrying that brand of kitty litter you buy regularly.

Jul 27, 2017#427

HCGLNS

Sophecles in Pokemon is just a fat Caillou in a wig.

Jul 28, 2017#428

Terrik

I had a spider hanging from my beard. How did it get there? Was it in my mouth when I was sleeping? Are the old wives tales true? Should I shave off the beard? If I did, would I find more spiders underneath? Should I just leave everything alone? Should I set myself on fire? Help.

Jul 28, 2017#429

Frank

Jul 28, 2017#430

Bubble181

Terrik said:
I had a spider hanging from my beard. How did it get there? Was it in my mouth when I was sleeping? Are the old wives tales true? Should I shave off the beard? If I did, would I find more spiders underneath? Should I just leave everything alone? Should I set myself on fire? Help.

DON'T shave your beard, or all the baby spiders'll wake up and take off all at once. Just enjoy the fly- and mosquito-less time of your life.

Jul 28, 2017#431

PatrThom

Terrik said:
I had a spider hanging from my beard. How did it get there? Was it in my mouth when I was sleeping? Are the old wives tales true? Should I shave off the beard? If I did, would I find more spiders underneath? Should I just leave everything alone? Should I set myself on fire? Help.

That depends. Are the spiders an endangered species?

--Patrick

Jul 28, 2017#432

GasBandit

I've always said, I'd rather have a spider than whatever the spider is finding enough of to eat to decide to live with me.

Jul 28, 2017#433

Officer_Charon

Terrik said:
I had a spider hanging from my beard. How did it get there? Was it in my mouth when I was sleeping? Are the old wives tales true? Should I shave off the beard? If I did, would I find more spiders underneath? Should I just leave everything alone? Should I set myself on fire? Help.

Plot-twist: It's not a beard, but a cluster of spiders.

Jul 28, 2017#434

Denbrought

Officer_Charon said:
Plot-twist: It's not a beard, but a cluster of spiders.

Pounded in the Butt By My Cluster Of Spiders To Prove It's Not A Sham Marriage, by Charon Tingle.

Jul 28, 2017#435

Officer_Charon

Jul 28, 2017#436

drifter

Denbrought said:
Pounded in the Butt By My Cluster Of Spiders To Prove It's Not A Sham Marriage, by Charon Tingle.

Jul 30, 2017#437

fade

"pre-owned"

Aug 11, 2017#438

Null

People who comment on a reality competition show with ideas that are against the goddamn core concept of the show.

For those who aren't aware, on History Channel there's a show called Forged in Fire. The core concept of the show is "We have 4 bladesmiths compete at making blades to a given set of parameters, with certain features or techniques required, through 2 series of eliminations. The two finalists then go to their home forges to recreate a historical weapon within 45 hours over 5 days. Then we test their weapons and declare a winner, who wins $10,000."

Suggested every two or three fucking days: "Why don't they have people who don't know how to forge compete?" BECAUSE THE POINT IS TO SEE WHAT SKILLED SMITHS CAN DO, AND BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF HURTING YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE. (As it is, at least 2 competitors over 4 seasons have had to been taken away in an ambulance, and at least a dozen have suffered minor injuries / heat exhaustion.)

Also suggested: "Instead of blades, why don't they make something else?" BECAUSE BLADES ARE COOL AND WROUGHT IRON DOOR HINGES AREN'T.

"They should do Katanas!" THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST EPISODE.

Aug 11, 2017#439

Eriol

Null said:
People who comment on a reality competition show with ideas that are against the goddamn core concept of the show.

For those who aren't aware, on History Channel there's a show called Forged in Fire. The core concept of the show is "We have 4 bladesmiths compete at making blades to a given set of parameters, with certain features or techniques required, through 2 series of eliminations. The two finalists then go to their home forges to recreate a historical weapon within 45 hours over 5 days. Then we test their weapons and declare a winner, who wins $10,000."

Suggested every two or three fucking days: "Why don't they have people who don't know how to forge compete?" BECAUSE THE POINT IS TO SEE WHAT SKILLED SMITHS CAN DO, AND BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF HURTING YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE. (As it is, at least 2 competitors over 4 seasons have had to been taken away in an ambulance, and at least a dozen have suffered minor injuries / heat exhaustion.)

Also suggested: "Instead of blades, why don't they make something else?" BECAUSE BLADES ARE COOL AND WROUGHT IRON DOOR HINGES AREN'T.

"They should do Katanas!" THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST EPISODE.

I remember one episode where a guy was like "I'll just take this lawnmower blade and grind it into the blade I need." He was disqualified for not FORGING anything. And rightly so IMO.

Aug 11, 2017#440

fade

Null said:
People who comment on a reality competition show with ideas that are against the goddamn core concept of the show.

For those who aren't aware, on History Channel there's a show called Forged in Fire. The core concept of the show is "We have 4 bladesmiths compete at making blades to a given set of parameters, with certain features or techniques required, through 2 series of eliminations. The two finalists then go to their home forges to recreate a historical weapon within 45 hours over 5 days. Then we test their weapons and declare a winner, who wins $10,000."

Suggested every two or three fucking days: "Why don't they have people who don't know how to forge compete?" BECAUSE THE POINT IS TO SEE WHAT SKILLED SMITHS CAN DO, AND BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF HURTING YOURSELF OR SOMEONE ELSE. (As it is, at least 2 competitors over 4 seasons have had to been taken away in an ambulance, and at least a dozen have suffered minor injuries / heat exhaustion.)

Also suggested: "Instead of blades, why don't they make something else?" BECAUSE BLADES ARE COOL AND WROUGHT IRON DOOR HINGES AREN'T.

"They should do Katanas!" THAT WAS THE VERY FIRST EPISODE.

At least the internet has finally woken up to how mediocre in general the katana was. Which I think is due to Highlander and the way the characters on that show acted like it was the god of swords.

Aug 11, 2017#441

HCGLNS

fade said:
At least the internet has finally woken up to how mediocre in general the katana was. Which I think is due to Highlander and the way the characters on that show acted like it was the god of swords.

Prior to Highlander was the Ninja craze and prior to that was the huge TV mini series based on James Clavals Shogun.

Aug 11, 2017#442

Null

Eriol said:
I remember one episode where a guy was like "I'll just take this lawnmower blade and grind it into the blade I need." He was disqualified for not FORGING anything. And rightly so IMO.

Yeah. The judges outright said "During this round, you will be forging a blade..." and dumbfuck said "Well, I'll just do stock removal to save time. AND HE LEFT THE GODDAMN HOLE IT IN AT A SPOT IT WAS SURE TO CAUSE THE BLADE TO BREAK.

That guy wasn't the sharpest hammer on the anvil.

Aug 11, 2017#443

Squidleybits

Hey guess what we're watching?

There's a guy licking the metal as part of his pre-forging process....

Aug 11, 2017#444

DarkAudit

Squidleybits said:
There's a guy licking the metal as part of his pre-forging process....

Aug 11, 2017#445

Tinwhistler

HCGLNS said:
Prior to Highlander was the Ninja craze and prior to that was the huge TV mini series based on James Clavals Shogun.

I saw that in the theater

Sho Kosugi was a god among men when I was in junior high.

Aug 11, 2017#446

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
Sho Kosugi was a god among men when I was in junior high.

He was everywhere.

--Patrick

Aug 11, 2017#447

Tinwhistler

PatrThom said:
He was everywhere.

--Patrick

He never really made many movies. Not like the 115 or so made by Godfrey Ho.

OMG, so embarrassing that I even remember this movie.

Aug 11, 2017#448

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
He never really made many movies. Not like the 115 or so made by Godfrey Ho.

Ah, but he starred opposite Lee Van Cleef in The Master, a show I tried very hard not to miss as a kid.

--Patrick

Aug 12, 2017#449

Null

PatrThom said:
Ah, but he starred opposite Lee Van Cleef in The Master, a show I tried very hard not to miss as a kid.

--Patrick

THANK YOU! I have tried to tell people about that series and they looked at me like I was nuts.

Sep 1, 2017#450

GasBandit

MCDONALDS
THE END OF THE MONTH
LABOR DAY SALES

Sep 1, 2017#451

Yoshimickster

My little brother complaining about Hamilton, a play he has NEVER seen. I'm not even a fan of the play, I just sick of this topic of conversation!

Sep 1, 2017#452

Null

Yoshimickster said:
My little brother complaining about Hamilton, a play he has NEVER seen. I'm not even a fan of the play, I just sick of this topic of conversation!

Sounds like he needs NapTime (TM)

Sep 2, 2017#453

Gruebeard

Yoshimickster said:
My little brother complaining about Hamilton, a play he has NEVER seen. I'm not even a fan of the play, I just sick of this topic of conversation!

You should get take him to the show.

Sep 2, 2017#454

Yoshimickster

Gruebeard said:
You should get take him to the show.

If I had 600 bucks lying around I would. Plays are friggin' expensive.

Oct 20, 2017#455

GasBandit

MAC
DON
ALDS

Oct 20, 2017#456

Null

At first all that appeared on my screen was "ALDS" and was like, "Did you have money riding on Boston over Houston? That seems unlikely."

Nov 1, 2017#457

GasBandit

Ha ha ha so guess what, McDonald's just sent over six commercials they literally are asking to start being on the radio yesterday.

I hate McDonald's. I hate the end of the month.

Nov 3, 2017#458

GasBandit

DID I MENTION I'm not the world's biggest fan of McDonald's?

Nov 3, 2017#459

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
DID I MENTION I'm not the world's biggest fan of McDonald's?

I think you did, a year or so ago.

--Patrick

Nov 22, 2017#460

GasBandit

Oh look it's the end of the broadcast month and I HATE MCDONALDS EVEN MORE THAN USUAL[DOUBLEPOST=1511373846,1511373416][/DOUBLEPOST]

stienman said:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/02/investing/mcdonalds-mcrib/index.html

Indeed, most of the new commercials they've sent down are about the McRib.

Nov 22, 2017#461

HCGLNS

People suck. I should be allowed to stab them.

Nov 22, 2017#462

PatrThom

HCGLNS said:
People suck. I should be allowed to stab them.

You can!
Just yourself, though.
Also, there are limits.

--Patrick

Nov 22, 2017#463

HCGLNS

PatrThom said:
You can!
Just yourself, though.
Also, there are limits.

--Patrick

That sounds like something a people would say ...

=stab=

Jan 3, 2018#464

fade

That photo pose where a person lifts up the front of their shirt to show off their abs. Male or Female.

Jan 3, 2018#465

drawn_inward

People wishing me Happy New Year.

Jan 3, 2018#466

Bubble181

drawn_inward said:
People wishing me Happy New Year.

Have as much enjoyable time as possible in the coming 365 days, without too much heartache or pain, I guess.

Jan 3, 2018#467

Squidleybits

fade said:
That photo pose where a person lifts up the front of their shirt to show off their abs. Male or Female.

Most selfie poses are horrifically obnoxious other than a straight on face shot.

Jan 3, 2018#468

PatrThom

Squidleybits said:
Most selfie poses are horrifically obnoxious other than a straight on face shot.

Ugh, the overhead. Getting so tired of that.

--Patrick

Jan 3, 2018#469

strawman

PatrThom said:
Ugh, the overhead. Getting so tired of that.

--Patrick

Not a big fan of hair?

[DOUBLEPOST=1514995684,1514995576][/DOUBLEPOST]Wow, I can see why. I'm glad I don't have to look at my hair all day long!

The gray is coming in nicely, though. Shame about that thin spot.

Jan 3, 2018#470

HCGLNS

stienman said:
Not a big fan of hair?

View attachment 26442[DOUBLEPOST=1514995684,1514995576][/DOUBLEPOST]Wow, I can see why. I'm glad I don't have to look at my hair all day long!

The gray is coming in nicely, though. Shame about that thin spot.

Stawp.

Jan 3, 2018#471

PatrThom

stienman said:
Not a big fan of hair?

More like the "the rest of my body is now obscured by my giant head" pose.

--Patrick

Jan 3, 2018#472

LittleKagsin

PatrThom said:
Ugh, the overhead. Getting so tired of that.

--Patrick

I mean. I can tell you why people do that and take pictures of themselves from that angle, myself included.

Jan 3, 2018#473

GasBandit

It hides chin fat.

Done it myself.

Jan 3, 2018#474

fade

GasBandit said:
It hides chin fat.

Done it myself.

Wasn't he a Bond villain?

Jan 3, 2018#475

Squidleybits

I don't want to know what the top of my hair looks like.[DOUBLEPOST=1515011534,1515011479][/DOUBLEPOST]Although omg, that's probably the only view of my hair anyone but my kids sees. Even my cars see it from above.

Jan 3, 2018#476

PatrThom

LittleKagsin said:
I mean. I can tell you why people do that and take pictures of themselves from that angle, myself included.

Oh, I know.
I just wish advertising media hadn't also latched onto it, because now it's just soooooo hackneyed.

--Patrick

Jan 31, 2018#477

GasBandit

It's the end of the moooooooooooooonth

At least McDonalds isn't the problem child this time.

Jan 31, 2018#478

drifter

GasBandit said:
It's the end of the moooooooooooooonth

Are you pretty Bizzy?

Jan 31, 2018#479

strawman

I'm guessing fallout from the superb owl?

Jan 31, 2018#480

GasBandit

stienman said:
I'm guessing fallout from the superb owl?

That is one part. The rest is mostly just various people not having their shit together on things that should be standard by now.

At least it doesn't look like it will keep me late.

May 4, 2018#481

GasBandit

I hope everybody involved with the advertising agency for Central Texas Honda Dealers gets an angry porcupine lodged in their colon.

May 4, 2018#482

sixpackshaker

What brand of colon? I really love how colon smells...

Jun 15, 2018#483

GasBandit

THE HOME DEPOT. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Also the owner/president of my company, for selling 9 billion spots to the home depot at 30 cents a spot because the bottom line looked nice.

Jun 15, 2018#484

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
THE HOME DEPOT. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Also the owner/president of my company, for selling 9 billion spots to the home depot at 30 cents a spot because the bottom line looked nice.

Hey, US$2.7 billion is a lot of money. Even more than a dump truck full.

—Patrick

Jun 15, 2018#485

jwhouk

At least you don't have to deal with Menard's.

Jun 15, 2018#486

PatrThom

jwhouk said:
At least you don't have to deal with Menard's.

I hear you can save good money there.

--Patrick

Jun 15, 2018#487

jwhouk

And they never. Let. You. FORGET. It.

Jun 16, 2018#488

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
THE HOME DEPOT. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Also the owner/president of my company, for selling 9 billion spots to the home depot at 30 cents a spot because the bottom line looked nice.

You're repeating yourself, they were in the OP

Jun 16, 2018#489

GasBandit

Bubble181 said:
You're repeating yourself, they were in the OP

A lot of those guys in OP are repeat offenders, but nobody's as bad as Home Depot.

Jun 16, 2018#490

jwhouk

"You save big money, you save big money, when you shop Me-NAAAAARRRDDDS..."

Listen to that a few hundred times, then try to convince me about Home Depot.

Jun 18, 2018#491

strawman

More power, more doing, that's the power of the home depot
You have questions? We have answers. Radio Shack.
We are farmers, da da da da da da da
Nationwide ~~your kid just died~~ is on your side
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!
Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is
Five dollar. Five dollar. Five dollar foot long.
I am stuck on bandaid, 'cause bandaid's stuck on me!
Give me a break, give me a break, break me offa piece of that kit kat bar.
The best part of waking up is folgers in your cup
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony
Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys r us kid...
I wish I was an oscar meyer wiener
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese...

Jun 18, 2018#492

PatrThom

...pickles onions on a sesame seed bun DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAAASS wait no that’s not right

—Patrick

Jun 18, 2018#493

Gruebeard

stienman said:
More power, more doing, that's the power of the home depot
You have questions? We have answers. Radio Shack.
We are farmers, da da da da da da da
Nationwide ~~your kid just died~~ is on your side
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!
Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is
Five dollar. Five dollar. Five dollar foot long.
I am stuck on bandaid, 'cause bandaid's stuck on me!
Give me a break, give me a break, break me offa piece of that kit kat bar.
The best part of waking up is folgers in your cup
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony
Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys r us kid...
I wish I was an oscar meyer wiener
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese...

This post.

Jun 18, 2018#494

GasBandit

stienman said:
More power, more doing, that's the power of the home depot
You have questions? We have answers. Radio Shack.
We are farmers, da da da da da da da
Nationwide ~~your kid just died~~ is on your side
Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there!
Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is
Five dollar. Five dollar. Five dollar foot long.
I am stuck on bandaid, 'cause bandaid's stuck on me!
Give me a break, give me a break, break me offa piece of that kit kat bar.
The best part of waking up is folgers in your cup
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony
Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys r us kid...
I wish I was an oscar meyer wiener
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese...

Head on. Apply directly to the forehead.

Jun 18, 2018#495

Gared

GasBandit said:
Head on. Apply directly to the forehead.

1-877-cars for Kids, K A R S cars for kids. Donate your car today.
Call J G Wentworth, 877 cash now. 877 cash now. 877 cash now!

Jun 18, 2018#496

GasBandit

Gared said:
Call J G Wentworth, 877 cash now. 877 cash now. 877 cash now!

I-have-a-struc-tured-set-tle-ment-but-NEED-CASH-NOWWWW

Jun 18, 2018#497

PatrThom

Eight hundred five eight eeeight two three hundred ... EMPIIIIRE! (Today)
We’re Beatrice.
In Japan, the hand can be used like a knife
Now direct from France it’s the amazing French Mouli
Berries and cream, berries and cream
Fresh goes better with Mentos fresh and full of life
Sometimes you need a little Finesse...

—Patrick

Jun 18, 2018#498

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Berries and cream, berries and cream

Jul 4, 2018#499

Frank

Dealing with my older cousin. He's intimidated me since I was a kid (he's 8 years older). He's always been a piece of shit. Constant law problems, so you can imagine how well we get along now. I see that he now has a confederate flag tattoo on his arm. This racist fucking moron hasn't lived anywhere but Alberta or Ontario his whole life.

One night of listening to him complain to my grandma and aunt about Muslims and Trudeau won't kill me.

Jul 4, 2018#500

HCGLNS

Arrest him for displaying hate speech. Every single time you see him.

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