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Random Rants 80: Computer Says No
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I hope you get better soon @aimeeandbeatles !
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this happens to me pretty regularly but usually when I take a big foul bong hit
Don't be afraid, there's fanfics (most of which are simply not that good, including my own) and then bad fanfiction or bad fiction.
Potatoes are good, though.
If you agree with potatoes then you're in.
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Long ago Sauron could take many forms, some pleasing indeed and fair to the Children of Illuvatar, but after he was sucked into the Abyss that claimed Andor he could take only the form of a potato ever after
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Looks like Mayonnaise & Potato political party is taking up form
Aimee for Vice President ! and we're sure to have an explosive start 
My laptop charger keeps randomly intermittently working and not working, deciding for seemingly no reason that it doesn't want to charge the battery, except now it is charging, and now it's not, and I can't figure out why the hell it's doing that.
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FWIW I have the same problem with my phone charger. Every time I get jacked up by a dead phone battery I think I should obviously get another one but before I do the one I have works just fine...and works just fine for several weeks...and then doesn't again.
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Sounds like a bad cord to me.
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Take your battery and put it back in again. That's what fixed mine.
So this guy ...
Well, I don't know how many of you remember, but I had this "consultant" (turns out he isn't one, he's just some analyst) bugging me a lot at work.
Well anyway, I met him here yesterday, and he gave me a hard time for not coming over to see him (I didn't recognize him) and he gives me a HUG. Maybe some people are huggers, but he didn't do that to anyone else, and again he wouldn't leave me alone.
He keeps coming over and asking me to do this thing, as if I'm supposed to drop all the important work I'm trying to do, and he just keeps asking if I've done it yet (I have no intention of doing it)
Then he tries to force himself in to girl's night, and makes us go to this awful Brazilian steak house, where I get this nasty non-potato fry appetizer. Oh and he sits down next to me, then leans over and whispers in my ear how he bought $10,000 of Google ar its ipo.
Like WTH? Does he think I'll be impressed? Does he think I'm going to believe he's sitting on like $15 million while working some low level job and living in some one-bedroom apartment?
At least we managed to ditch his sorry butt before happy hour, which was lots of fun. And thankfully he wasn't in today.
I don't know why this keeps happening to me, like I've got some magnet for pathetic creepers or something.
Well, I don't know how many of you remember, but I had this "consultant" (turns out he isn't one, he's just some analyst) bugging me a lot at work.
Well anyway, I met him here yesterday, and he gave me a hard time for not coming over to see him (I didn't recognize him) and he gives me a HUG. Maybe some people are huggers, but he didn't do that to anyone else, and again he wouldn't leave me alone.
He keeps coming over and asking me to do this thing, as if I'm supposed to drop all the important work I'm trying to do, and he just keeps asking if I've done it yet (I have no intention of doing it)
Then he tries to force himself in to girl's night, and makes us go to this awful Brazilian steak house, where I get this nasty non-potato fry appetizer. Oh and he sits down next to me, then leans over and whispers in my ear how he bought $10,000 of Google ar its ipo.
Like WTH? Does he think I'll be impressed? Does he think I'm going to believe he's sitting on like $15 million while working some low level job and living in some one-bedroom apartment?
At least we managed to ditch his sorry butt before happy hour, which was lots of fun. And thankfully he wasn't in today.
I don't know why this keeps happening to me, like I've got some magnet for pathetic creepers or something.
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I'll have you know some of us are pathetic and woefully degenerate.
Real talk though, that guy sounds like he missed at least a dozen context clues and just powered on through. I'd say ignorance, but he did the typical pick-up artist schpiel about being a moneyed man, so I'm guessing just disrespect.
The alternate universe version of this story is that he joins girls' night and then does all the things you were originally planning to do with innocent glee.
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I love me a hug to greet people, but rarely thr first time. Some people are not into it, and that's fine.
I wasn't able to upgrade my return flight seats to first class, and now I've got to ride in Comfort+ like an animal.
For some reason, on my first trip, Delta screwed up my known traveler status, and the TSA treated me like some common criminal ... I had to take off my shoes, pull everything out of my bag, and all that other nonsense. I got it fixed for my return flight, but I was stressed for days after my ordeal on Wednesday.
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When I cross the border, I always get treated like a terror threat. It's insanely stressful, so I relate.
My solution was to just stop crossing the border unless I'm accompanied by an attractive white woman.
The leading questions to me are replaced by awkward flirting (while holding an assault rifle, as Americans are wont to do) and then we're through in 5 minutes. 3 or 4 years of that tactic and I've never had a single issue again. Not sure how helpful that is to you, though, since you've already got that trick down pat.
I'm really thankful that when I had to cross the border and fly across the US five years ago that it was when TSA PreCheck was being piloted in Buffalo. It was eerie to be held for questioning at the land border and then have the TSA guys just look at my passport, say "OK," and then wave me through. I was expecting the airport to be the worst part of the trip. I didn't have to take my shoes off! No questioning! Just went right through. It was the best.
Try having an Irish accent, or holding an Irish passport (I carry both my Irish and Canadian passports when I travel) when traveling to the USA. You're automagically a member of the IRA.
I've been searched every time I go down there, I've been harassed with stupid questions, and was even detained once. I don't go anymore. Ever.
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