Random Rants 80: Computer Says No

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Thanks. It just absolutely boggles my mind how a school in this day and age can still not take bullying seriously.
Massive collective societal self-deceit, of the same type that allows a lot of people to say that sexual abuse victims looks OK so they must be OK or PTSD is something war veterans make up to justify their drinking or whatever else. It's easier not to take responsibility as a society and blame the victim.
Another rant: my Steam is broken. I played some Civilization a couple days ago, and Steam says I'm still playing, and won't let me close or do anything!

A solution that works with Steam even on Linux.
 
Not sure what's changed but it seems I can't eat Beyond Meat anymore.

Trying to figure out what could possibly be the culprit suddenly but the ingredients are pretty bare bones. Maybe the canola oil. The reaction is way too severe and immediate for a new oil intolerance, though...

Sucks. Beyond Meat was the best of the alternative meats. :(
 
Burger King will have it eventually. They may already have it, I'm not sure. I haven't had BK since I was 7 or 8. Whenever we had fast food, my dad always went to McD's. I was okay with that, though, as the one time I had Burger King it tasted like I was eating a big block of charcoal instead of anything resembling meat. :lol: Never bothered trying it again.
 
I'm pretty disappointed in my daughter right now. We talked to my daughter's school today and it turns out she gave them a different story about a specific incident regarding this bully. When we talked to my daughter about it, she admitted that she made the story up to avoid having to tell us she accidentally ripped the pocket on her backpack.

Luckily this came out before I actually went through with threatening the school with legal action. As corrective action, I'm having my daughter write me an essay on lying, why it is wrong, and how lying can hurt others and make problems worse. I'm also having her write apology letters to her teacher and the kid she almost got in trouble for nothing.
 
That's pretty common. Not that it changes anything, but it's possible she lied because she thought it would get the bigger problem resolved faster. Doesn't excuse the act itself, of course. Feeling powerless can make you want to expedite corrective actions by any means necessary.
 
Small rant: I was editing the middle of a paragraph and accidentally hit the Insert key. It ended up eating the rest of my paragraph.
 
I can't tell if I'm going to make the hours-worked cutoff for seasonal unemployment or if I need to be looking for another job soon. I also don't have my own place, which I need to have by November or at worst Dec 1. So we're in a similar stress boat, hobbs.
 
:twitch: Uganda has a new law to apply the death penalty to homosexuals.
:twitch: This is wrong on so many levels.
 
I get a sale notice from GoG at least twice a week, just about all of which fall into the "oh, man, I can barely resist" category. They are like the Borg.

I tried logging into GOG today. It wouldn't let me because it claimed to have no one with my user name. So I tried opening up a new account. It wouldn't let me because it claimed to already have someone with my user name. :dubious: I should probably mention that the Internet hates me. :backstab:

I got Steam to agree to honor my credit card. :rockon:

Out of the Park Baseball XX is still on sale. :whew: However, the other three games are not. :sad: Mhh, I'd already lost interest in the two 80-cent games. Further investigation into "Blood and Gold" revealed it to be something other than what I thought. It's more a straight pirate game. I'm looking for something more like Anno 1602. However, Anno is mad at Steam and has restricted its business to GOG.
 
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Small rant: I was editing the middle of a paragraph and accidentally hit the Insert key. It ended up eating the rest of my paragraph.

Slightly bigger rant: The insert key is now my mortal enemy.
 
I tried logging into GOG today. It wouldn't let me because it claimed to have no one with my user name. So I tried opening up a new account. It wouldn't let me because it claimed to already have someone with my user name. :dubious: I should probably mention that the Internet hates me. :backstab:
New user name, new password, new email address and hope it doesn't remember your IP address. :)
 
Rant: I was trying to cut my toenail a little earlier. I messed up and ended up cutting off a piece of skin as well. I put alcohol swab on it. It stopped bleeding but it hurts pretty bad.

That wasn't very smart of me.
 
Ordered a turkey bacon sandwich, got an egg sausage muffin. Pointed it out to the employee and got "That sucks. Have a good night." as response.

:dunno:
This is why the phrase "I want to talk to your supervisor" was invented. :trouble:

There have been numerous times when McDonalds or some other restaurant has mucked up my orders via Skip the Dishes. The first thing I do is check the order to make sure everything is correct. If something isn't correct, I get right on the customer service chat line, and (if lucky) the matter is straightened out right away (in the form of Skip credits). If unlucky, I end up arguing with them for 20 minutes, pointing out that they do so owe me the GST I paid for the items that were either missing or improperly substituted (yes, it matters if they substitute bacon for sausages).
It was their idea! One thing that hurts me too, is that they are also both good friends of each other, and I have this fear that they're still friends and I've been cut out :(
Yeah, it hurts to be cut out of a group and not told until you try to get in contact. The mother of one friend was very surprised when she picked up the phone; she asked why I wasn't out to supper with the rest of them. Turns out they'd been having monthly get-togethers for over a year and nobody mentioned it to me. Then later one of them said, "A lot has been happening here that you've been missing out on. You should phone me sometime and I'll tell you about it."

Um, no. If it's something they really wanted me to know, I'd have been in on it from the get-go. This was years ago, I haven't heard one syllable since, so that's that. I don't have patience for playground crap anymore, especially from someone who's five years older than I am.

Another rant: my Steam is broken. I played some Civilization a couple days ago, and Steam says I'm still playing, and won't let me close or do anything!
That happens with my games too, sometimes. It's not just Steam; it's happened with Big Fish Games and iWin as well.
 
I tried logging into GOG today. It wouldn't let me because it claimed to have no one with my user name. So I tried opening up a new account. It wouldn't let me because it claimed to already have someone with my user name. :dubious: I should probably mention that the Internet hates me. :backstab:

This is the part where you tell them that you've forgotten your password and have them email you with a new one.
 
Rant: I don't know what happened, but I got "Tubthumping" stuck in my head. I don't think I've heard that song in fifteen years or more.
 
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