Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

PatrThom

PatrThom

I was speaking more to the motivation. In Dickens' case, for instance, organized larceny was actually Fagin's chosen career. I presume stuff like what Fade mentions is more often a crime of opportunity, done because the perpetrator somehow feels they are "owed" this indulgence.

--Patrick
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

PatrThom said:
I was speaking more to the motivation. In Dickens' case, for instance, organized larceny was actually Fagin's chosen career. I presume stuff like what Fade mentions is more often a crime of opportunity, done because the perpetrator somehow feels they are "owed" this indulgence.

--Patrick
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Generally speaking, this sort of thing happens around this time because intend to flip them on eBay for cash. It's not an issue of "owed", it's just a crime of opportunity.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

AshburnerX said:
Generally speaking, this sort of thing happens around this time because intend to flip them on eBay for cash. It's not an issue of "owed", it's just a crime of opportunity.
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The idea that this would be "That thing we do every December in order to raise a little spending cash" is actually something that makes me have less faith in Humanity.

--Patrick
 
fade

fade

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Where's the line between organized and opportunity? These guys are clearly organizing their routes around the neighborhood and sending out their child agents specifically to look for the packages.

Another tactic they're using in our neighborhood is banging on doors and asking for directions to some random place. The point being to see if anyone is actually home because everyone around here is pretty good about light timers and leaving cars in the driveway, etc. when going out of town.[DOUBLEPOST=1450026591,1450026348][/DOUBLEPOST]To explain, our neighborhood is a relatively high income neighborhood, but it backs up to several large sets of low income apartments. You have to drive through our neighborhood to get to the apartments. I've no doubt the people who come cruising through this neighborhood rationalize the crap out of stealing from us as a Robin Hood type of redistribution of wealth. Part of me feels there's some truth to this, to be honest. I grew up poor, and sure felt the urge to take because it didn't seem fair. But then, I worked hard to get where I am, and there's nothing right about walking up to a house and just taking something.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

My Ethernet over powerline converter has broken, after three years. I guess that's not too bad, considering I got it for free, but until I get a new PLC, I have to stretch an Ethernet cable all the way across the apartment to connect to the router.
 
Dei

Dei

There is nothing more soul crushing than trying to clean my house while my daughter stares at the T.V. and does nothing, until she yells at me for yelling at her to clean.

(Hint: I am not looking for advice, I'm just whining. ;) )
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Dei said:
There is nothing more soul crushing than trying to clean my house while my daughter stares at the T.V. and does nothing, until she yells at me for yelling at her to clean.

(Hint: I am not looking for advice, I'm just whining. ;) )
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What's that? Looking for advice you say?

Well, I don't know anything about parenting, and a similar amount about cleaning, but I do remember when I was a kid... something to the effect of mom turning off the TV and saying "it stays off until this is all clean."

:p
 
HCGLNS

HCGLNS

GasBandit said:
What's that? Looking for advice you say?

Well, I don't know anything about parenting, and a similar amount about cleaning, but I do remember when I was a kid... something to the effect of mom turning off the TV and saying "it stays off until this is all clean."

:p
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Whoops Daddy just blocked every channel.
 
Dei

Dei

The TV was on because I can't do one thing at a time, I need a distraction. Sadly, my daughter is 9, and didn't want to help me clean in the first place, so drama, drama, drama.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

HCGLNS said:
Whoops Daddy just blocked every channel.
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I can't sleep again and this is a pain....

But seriously, our kids are some spoiled...that could be a whole other post.[DOUBLEPOST=1450078632,1450078509][/DOUBLEPOST]
Dei said:
The TV was on because I can't do one thing at a time, I need a distraction. Sadly, my daughter is 9, and didn't want to help me clean in the first place, so drama, drama, drama.
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We're facing the same battle here. We honestly don't ask that much of our kids, but we need them to help a bit. So much drama.

I had quite a few responsibilities around the house at this age and I sure as shit didn't complain.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Who's got two thumbs and got up at 4am to catch a red-eye flight in order to give a business presentation/tech talk, but only found out about it on Thursday so I'm not prepared at all?

grumble grumble
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Dei said:
I hate cleaning with the fiery heat of 1000 suns, so she's not getting out of helping me that easily. [emoji14]
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Aww, man. That's how much I hate shopping!
Not because I don't like shopping, but because shopping probably takes an extra 5-10 hours out of every week because people can't just have me get stuff all at once. No, it has to be split up into 18 individual trips, sometimes less than an hour apart.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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There's just something really fucky with the fact that I can't open any gif thread on my work PC without locking it up, but my phone handles it just fine.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

My mum sends me a Facebook message tonight asking if everything is ok. I'm like sure why? Evidently her news feed is full of super inappropriate picture pages that I have supposedly liked. Niiiiice.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

GasBandit said:
What's that? Looking for advice you say?

Well, I don't know anything about parenting, and a similar amount about cleaning, but I do remember when I was a kid... something to the effect of mom turning off the TV and saying "it stays off until this is all clean."

:p
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I was going to rate that "you're doing the thing again", then I realized you were doing my thing again. Dammit. :p
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I actually slept some last night which is awesome for me.

I am taking the morning off to shop which is my whine. I have to Walmart the week before Christmas. Save me!
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I'm home alone, I've done pretty much all of the chores I needed to be doing yesterday and the day before; I've even played a bit of computer games. Frankly, for the first time in a long time, there's nothing or no-one I need to take into account or mind or have to do but am pushing ahead or whatever. I should be free to do whatever I like. I'm not particularly sick or ill at the moment (a bit of sniffles but nothing serious). This should be a good day.

Instead, I've been sitting at my desk, starting up and closing down computer games, reading facebook and all kinds of media, and I just. don't. care. about. any. of. it. The most positive thing I've done today is stare at the wall for about half an hour. I hate my mind and the way it works. I'm just sitting here feeling guilty for not doing something useful (though, short of "big" things there's nothing that really needs doing right now), feeling sorry for myself for not enjoying my free time, being angry at myself for not enjoying myself now because of course tomorrow I have to work again, and in general just feeling crappy. Blegh.
 
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