Random Rants 79: [Impassionating Intensifies]

[Snerk]

See, I didn't even touch that one.

 

[Lexicus]

Coincidentally, my knees are beat to **** from the pedals on my bike.

That's wack yo. I feel like you were talking about this not that long ago, but why is it exactly? Do your feet keep slipping off?

 

[MaryKB]

I don't understand ... do you think I'm exaggerating?

Here's a picture I took from last summer when they were really bad .. I need to use a lot of creams (and sometimes makeup) to hide my perma-bruises. Kneeling a lot totally destroys your knees.

 

[Synobun]

Oh, Mary.



While we're on the subject though, does anyone else get the heebie-jeebies when they feel their own knees and elbows? Something about how they move just drives me crazy.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

That's wack yo. I feel like you were talking about this not that long ago, but why is it exactly? Do your feet keep slipping off?

I am a heavily stop and go rider. Each start/stop cycle is a point where the pedal can slip off and fling around and hit me mid-push.

 

[Lexicus]

I am a heavily stop and go rider. Each start/stop cycle is a point where the pedal can slip off and fling around and hit me mid-push.

When you say stop you mean, like, stop and put your foot on the ground? I'm sorry I'm just trying to wrap my head around this, I haven't had the pedals hit me in the legs in a really long time

 

[Synobun]

Completely obliterated my body yesterday trying to do some plumbing at an inconvenient angle. It was an unwanted reminder of just how physically limited I am. I'm going to be barely functional for at least a week.

Now forced to pay for a plumber to do what I cannot. I'm getting a discount, but it's still a cost I don't want to have to deal with.

 

[choxorn]

I don't understand ... do you think I'm exaggerating?

Here's a picture I took from last summer when they were really bad .. I need to use a lot of creams (and sometimes makeup) to hide my perma-bruises. Kneeling a lot totally destroys your knees.

Methinks Syn needs to get his mind out of the gutter a bit, and you might need to get yours in the gutter a little more.

Or maybe you're still kneeling down too much and being lower makes the joke go over your head?

 

[Synobun]

Or maybe you're still kneeling down too much and being lower makes the joke go over your head?

*snickers*

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Not sure why you have to pay for plumbing work at all as a renter

When you say stop you mean, like, stop and put your foot on the ground? I'm sorry I'm just trying to wrap my head around this, I haven't had the pedals hit me in the legs in a really long time

Yes I fully come to a stop and feet come off the pedals. It's not that I whack my legs every time I get on the bike but when I am stopping 4 or 5 times in as many minutes to hit all the good pokestops, even an occasional slip happens too frequently. It's not a huge deal, just sharing my own ragged-knee story

 

[Takhisis]

Not sure why you have to pay for plumbing work at all as a renter

Hadn't the owners sold the house off anyway?

 

[Synobun]

Not sure why you have to pay for plumbing work at all as a renter

Optional stuff. I needed a bidet, but the wall plate, valve, and hose were a mess. Idea was to install it myself but I couldn't. The hose was too rigid and the valve too loose. Took me two hours or so to finally give up on it.

I had a plumber come by today to fix the wall plate and valve, and then replace the hose and install the bidet. Got an eco-friendly discount, but still a sizable chunk.

RE: Renting and owners, my landlord is dead. Probably won't be getting anything repair-related covered anytime soon.

 

[Zkribbler]

Last night a sound truck came through making an announcement in Visayan. Turns out, it was an official announcement that this morning the gavernment would be "cleaning the beach."

I woke up to find my house filled with smoke. Piles of coconut fronds, seaweed, and driftwood were set alight just upwind of me.

 

[Takhisis]

RE: Renting and owners, my landlord is dead. Probably won't be getting anything repair-related covered anytime soon.

What will the heirs do with the house?

Also, whom are you paying the rent to? The undivided estate of the landlord?

 

[Ajidica]

RE: Renting and owners, my landlord is dead. Probably won't be getting anything repair-related covered anytime soon.

Vancouver must have weird renting laws. Minneapolis (could be a Minnesota thing) allows the renter to put the rent into escrow until the landlord makes formally requested repairs. In my place if want to do anything bigger than replacing a lightbulb the rental company insists it be carried out by the handyman - including things as simple as snaking the drain.

 

[Takhisis]

‘Rental company’?

 

[Ajidica]

‘Rental company’?

Not sure what else you would call it. The company owns a bunch of buildings throughout the city and manages them.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I have less than a month to return my lease vehicle and overnight a (nearly) top to bottom crack appeared with a nice little pit accompanying it. I don't know what to do. The repair company wants a full grand, I'm sure the dealer will want more. If I return it as-is, they'll ding me for it as well but I have no idea how much more or less they will charge. Also, I'm going to be out of town so I don't have a lot of time to deal with this.

 

[CKS]

Yes I fully come to a stop and feet come off the pedals. It's not that I whack my legs every time I get on the bike but when I am stopping 4 or 5 times in as many minutes to hit all the good pokestops, even an occasional slip happens too frequently. It's not a huge deal, just sharing my own ragged-knee story

If you get tired of it, wear shin guards. Every so often I get out my unicycle and work on learning to ride it, and I put on two pairs of them, one in front and one in back. It makes things much more comfortable. (At my current rate of progress, I expect to be able to ride the unicycle in a few years.)

 

[Takhisis]

Not sure what else you would call it. The company owns a bunch of buildings throughout the city and manages them.

Oh, I know what they are: they exist in freebooting predatory societies such as SE Asia and the UK after Thatcher's buy-to-let reforms. But I didn't know that the efforts in the US to deregulate and roll back antitrust laws had gotten that far.

I should've suspected it, but I didn't actually know it.