Random Rants 80: Computer Says No

[Synobun]

What did the grocery store staff say when you complained? (you did make a complaint, right?)

No reason to complain. They asked during the hand-off if I was okay with the switch and I said yes, assuming it'd be fine. As my post mentioned, I learned then that prosciutto isn't good. It was my first time eating it. So there's really only myself to blame.

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It would be terrible in the bigger picture, but there's a part of me that really wishes "no friends over" was an enforceable thing in leases. Of all the roommates I've had, none of them clean up after their friends, and their friends have all been universally destructive. The sheer audacity and disrespect it takes to just make a ruinous mess of someone else's home. I always hope that one of their friends will prove to me that people aren't inherently garbage but they seem to revel in proving me wrong.

If I visit someone's home, I make sure to leave it better than how it was when I arrived. That seems courteous, and basic. Of course this is something you should do. At the very least, you make sure it's not any different from how it was. Yet these people care little for maintaining the status quo, and indeed seem to receive some semblance of joy of making sure any place they stay is left worse than before. Just an immense lack of awareness, or, if they're aware, drive of low-level malice.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: My legs hurt so badly that I can't sleep.

Rant: I slept badly.

 

[Synobun]

You guys are bad for productivity. I keep refreshing CFC after every few hundred words.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Turn on Moving Art and tune us out!

 

[Synobun]

Turn on Moving Art and tune us out!

But I'm listening to the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack

 

[AmazonQueen]

Just saw a piece titled Never drain pasta in the sink and thought who does that anyway, haven't these people heard of colanders? Turned out it was an article about not chucking away your pasta in the sink. Weird, but slightly less weird.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

You guys are bad for productivity. I keep refreshing CFC after every few hundred words.

https://writeordie.com/

 

[Synobun]

Ah, I'm not writing. I'm editing.

That UI is a disaster!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I know!

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Rant: I hate it when I have to talk to my mother. She plays the TV so loud I can barely hear myself think and then refuses to turn it down even though she knows I physically can't talk very loud. Then she ignores me half the time and then gets mad when I ask if she even heard me.

Then she wonders why I don't like talking to her.

Don't your neighbors ever complain about the noise?

One thing I did when my grandmother couldn't hear me was to write notes. I told her I was tired of screaming at her, and if she wanted me to talk to her she could either read it or go to the doctor and get her ears checked (it was an easy fix; the hard part was getting her to go, and finally I told my dad to get her into her coat, because I'd called a taxi and we were going to the clinic, no more arguments).

 

[The_J]

Screaming is actually not effective.
When you get bad hearing, you are not losing sensitivity for volume, but rather sensitivity for clarity. Slower and more clearly pronouncing words should in most cases work better.
(Or the hearing aid, obviously)

 

[Synobun]

Ads and such are really pushing the "get your flu shot" agenda this past week. I'm probably in a position where I really should get it. Alas, no pharmacy here has it available.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Screaming is actually not effective.
When you get bad hearing, you are not losing sensitivity for volume, but rather sensitivity for clarity. Slower and more clearly pronouncing words should in most cases work better.
(Or the hearing aid, obviously)

When it's someone with a wax problem, no hearing aid, and more stubborn than a dozen mules, trust me - you will scream. I started writing notes because A. I was hurting my own ears, and B. My voice was going. Oh, and C. ... I was yelling loud enough that the neighbors could hear, and I didn't want them calling the cops.

Ads and such are really pushing the "get your flu shot" agenda this past week. I'm probably in a position where I really should get it. Alas, no pharmacy here has it available.

The pharmacist at my local Walmart told me it should be available around the 20th or 21st. So if you can make it to a Walmart, check the pharmacy. The current people running the local place are so good at giving shots, I don't even feel it.

Are there any seniors' facilities near you? They're geared for seniors but they should take other people as well. I used to go there even before my dad turned 65 and became eligible for free shots (Alberta used to charge adults for the shots if they were under 65, unless they were in high-risk categories; I think they're free for everyone now).

Suggestion: phone your local health line or clinic and ask them where the nearest place is that offers the shots.

 

[JohannaK]

I found a book on cinematography translated by my lecturer. He's so vexed that it was a rush job he had to do in 30 days in the midst of a shoot and the publisher didnt bother editing or correcting, so it's pretty sketchy.

 

[MaryKB]

I was staying with my cousin this weekend, and I helped prepare thanksgiving dinner on Saturday (and I made dinner on Sunday). Well, they have an electric stove ... I forgot how much I hate electric stoves.

 

[JohannaK]

The adjective electric makes anything sounds cool. That is why it is so often used to hide the terribleness of something.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The adjective electric makes anything sounds cool. That is why it is so often used to hide the terribleness of something.

Electric typewriters are easier to use than manual typewriters.

 

[AdamCrock]

Electric typewriters are easier to use than manual typewriters.

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meow !

I think that's a legitimate post btw. You type into typewriter , instead of computer ? why ?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I had the misfortune of using a paper straw earlier. It started disintregrating halfway through my drink and then I ended up choking on it.

But hey, disabled people survived before plastic straws!

 

[cardgame]

So many lyrics websites, so many wrong lyrics posted. It's blatantly obvious that some of them are just copy-pasting from each other, with dumb identical mistakes across multiple listings.