Random Rants 61

[bhavv]

Rant: I'm better off on benefits than I am working.

I'm going to enjoy having a real life double rant next week at both the jobcentre and my agency about this.

 

[The_J]

I'm in England, it almost never stops raining in November and what on earth were you buying that costs £100 in Scotland?

Souvenirs.

Yeah, also .
A tour, the castle, some food, etc., and soon the money is gone :/.

I place a lot of value in hugs, yes. Even messages from you guys offering a hug warms me inside a bit.

I'm a feely sort of person and I'm terrible with words and I don't often play games or whatever friends usually do so hugging is the main way for me to express affection/appreciation. More so if I like like someone.

The problem is it's not a "guy thing" to hug. And when someone who are usually okay with hugs one day isn't okay with it, even if he has a good reason... well, I feel down. It shouldn't affect me this much, but it does.

Go to mediterranean countries, more of a thing there .
I regularly hug people around me, but that has sort of become my trademark now, isn't awkward for most people anymore .

 

[Ice_Tyrant]

My best friend asked me if I'd move in with him and his girlfriend at a place down an hour from where I live near the place I went to college at. What should have been a simple "Nah, can't afford it" turned into a total breakdown of me whining about how stressed out I am due to money, being in a limbo temp status at my job, and the failures of me graduating from college and having nothing to show for it.

I guess this really is just going to shut me down every day. I need to try at least start feeling like I have some control over my life.

 

[bhavv]

I wish I had a best friend to move in with.

 

[Snerk]

Selfie.Spoon.Is.a.Thing.

Does it only come in spoon form or are there any other selfie compatible cutleries?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Rant: Mailed the application on the 4th, and USPS tracking only updated on the 5th with the my envelope having left Iowa. I paid for priority two-day shipping, so it should have arrived by Friday last week, but nothing has updated since. Either it hasn't moved, or it has and they just aren't telling me.

It's making me really anxious, I want this thing to make it there before the deadline, which was extended to the 20th. I just emailed the postal service, so maybe they can help. It's still killing me though. I wish I could turn it in in person, I hate having to rely on mail.

 

[jackelgull]

My blood sugar is 452 and I feel like crap

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Rant: Mailed the application on the 4th, and USPS tracking only updated on the 5th with the my envelope having left Iowa. I paid for priority two-day shipping, so it should have arrived by Friday last week, but nothing has updated since. Either it hasn't moved, or it has and they just aren't telling me.

It's making me really anxious, I want this thing to make it there before the deadline, which was extended to the 20th. I just emailed the postal service, so maybe they can help. It's still killing me though. I wish I could turn it in in person, I hate having to rely on mail.

Usually any applications that have to be mailed in are accepted if they come in late but are postmarked before the due date to account for just this scenario. I doubt you'd be disqualified if the application arrives after the due date but is postmarked well before it - that's out of your control.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I was walking into a building on campus through a revolving door. The sun was glaring off of the glass so I couldn't see into the revolving door as I entered. There was a ton of resistance so I thought the door was stuck, so being a big guy, I threw my weight into it and pushed through.

Halfway round the entrance, I saw that there was a man with his coat jammed in the door that I was pushing through. He had been standing half-in, half-out of the revolving door talking to colleagues inside the building and got pushed through by me on the other side.

I did not (and could not due to the glare) see him and his colleagues didn't tell him to move out of the door as I approached. So I feel like the whole incident was his fault - he shouldn't have been yakking away half-in, half-out of a busy revolving door.

But the guy I shoved through was the head of my department. So now he'll recognize me as that big asshat who got him jammed up inside a revolving door when I go to get him to sign a waiver I need.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Usually any applications that have to be mailed in are accepted if they come in late but are postmarked before the due date to account for just this scenario. I doubt you'd be disqualified if the application arrives after the due date but is postmarked well before it - that's out of your control.

What's a postmark?

All I know is on the online application, it said the due date was not a postmark date, and it would disqualify late applications. So I didn't postmark it and sent it on two day delivery a week (now two weeks) early.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

A postmark is when the USPS takes an envelope that you have given them and they mark over the stamp to indicate that the stamp is no longer valid and also the date/place they received it.

Spoiler :

It is not something you do, it is done automatically by the post office.

Every single application that I have ever had to send through the mail say they won't accept things postmarked after the due date. But if yours is postmarked before the due date, even if they received it after the due date, chances are you will be fine even they don't explicitly say this in their rules. The postmark is proof that you met the deadline and you can't be held responsible for the USPS messing up - particularly if you mailed it extra early rather than on the actual due date.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I've had this wound on my lip for like over two bloody years now

 

[Joecoolyo]

A postmark is when the USPS takes an envelope that you have given them and they mark over the stamp to indicate that the stamp is no longer valid and also the date/place they received it.

Spoiler :

It is not something you do, it is done automatically by the post office.

Every single application that I have ever had to send through the mail say they won't accept things postmarked after the due date. But if yours is postmarked before the due date, even if they received it after the due date, chances are you will be fine even they don't explicitly say this in their rules. The postmark is proof that you met the deadline and you can't be held responsible for the USPS messing up - particularly if you mailed it extra early rather than on the actual due date.

Oh, well, that is a bit heartening!

 

[Arakhor]

I've had this wound on my lip for like over two bloody years now

A cold sore, perhaps?

I've had a floater in my left eye for over two years now, which frequently distracts me from reading stuff. It can be really quite annoying sometimes.

 

[Synobun]

Fallout 4 crashes on startup or is in an endless menu loop. Great.

 

[Phrossack]

Fallout 4 crashes on startup or is in an endless menu loop. Great.

Never get a brand-new game. These days they sell games first and complete them later.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

People have been making threats to shoot up my college today. Not sure if it's related to what's going on at Mizzou or not.

 

[Arakhor]

Sounds like a good time to report them to the police and/or the FBI. I'm sure that's extremely illegal to do.

 

[cardgame]

USPS is making me rant as well. I ordered something on the 4th, promised delivery date no later than yesterday and it still isn't here. Somebody screwed up - it left Kansas City to go to Kansas, then it came back to Kansas City to go to Missouri (destination)

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I've been so busy lately that it's been 5 days since I sold something on EBay and I haven't mailed it out yet.