Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[MaryKB]

Rant: I forgot to charge my wireless earpiece for work on Tuesday before I left. Now it's drained, and I have to use this big, clunky, ugly headset on meetings (two of which are video calls)

Rant: Video calls for work in general. It's nice when you don't have to worry about makeup.

 

[The_J]

I analyzed yesterday for the whole day the wrong data. Today I fixed that, but figured out in the afternoon that the whole underlying data was wrong.
Brilliant waste of time >.<

 

[Takhisis]

Rant: Video calls for work in general. It's nice when you don't have to worry about makeup.

Can't you just do voice calls? I found out in this pandemic -because I didn't have a camera on this computer and couldn't get one because every shop was closed- that not having a camera meant that students would look at the materials I sent them instead of wasting time looking at my face.

 

[Tee Kay]

reading my private messages and profile posts on here and getting hit with massive nostalgia

 

[Ajidica]

First World Problems: I got dinner from Popeye's tonight and they didn't include a packet of honey to go on my biscuit.
And then I discovered my jar of honey has solidified.

 

[amadeus]

Can’t we put Jim Bakker back in prison for something?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: Video calls for work in general. It's nice when you don't have to worry about makeup.

It would be a shame if your webcam were to suffer a malfunction.

 

[Takhisis]

It would be a shame if your webcam were to suffer a malfunction.

All that makeup wasted!

btw I don't think Mary'd look that bad without makeup.

 

[thecrazyscot]

First World Problems: I got dinner from Popeye's tonight and they didn't include a packet of honey to go on my biscuit.
And then I discovered my jar of honey has solidified.

A bath of hot water should resolve that.

 

[MaryKB]

Can't you just do voice calls? I found out in this pandemic -because I didn't have a camera on this computer and couldn't get one because every shop was closed- that not having a camera meant that students would look at the materials I sent them instead of wasting time looking at my face.

That's not an option, I can't be the only one on the call not participating in video. And it's a company-provided laptop, so it's not like I can pretend I don't have a working camera.

All that makeup wasted!

I've had mornings where I did my full makeup routine, online to get a cancelation notice 5 minutes before the meeting.

 

[Phrossack]

reading my private messages and profile posts on here and getting hit with massive nostalgia

I just did the same. Oof, I miss my life from five years ago.

 

[Synobun]

reading my private messages and profile posts on here and getting hit with massive nostalgia

I purge all evidence that I even existed regularly. Too bad I can't get rid of the evidence others still have.

Or my posts...

 

[MaryKB]

I purge all evidence that I even existed regularly. Too bad I can't get rid of the evidence others still have.

Or my posts...

You will never be able to erase yourself from our hearts.

 

[thecrazyscot]

I purge all evidence that I even existed regularly. Too bad I can't get rid of the evidence others still have.

Or my posts...

Ah yes, almost time for your regularly scheduled purge every 15 years...

 

[Synobun]

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Ah yes, almost time for your regularly scheduled purge every 15 years...

If there were a button to immediately erase every single one of those posts, I'd press it in a heartbeat.

Since XenForo, I've probably deleted 400+ of my own posts. In most threads these days I'll make a post and reconsider within seconds and then delete it. Sometimes I get burned and someone's already quoted it in a reply.

ETA: By purge all evidence, I meant profile posts and PMs. I don't have a single PM from before 2019. And I'll probably clear that out again soon. It wigs me out that there are people here who probably still have PMs from me pre-2016. Possibly even pre-2010.

 

[thecrazyscot]

If there were a button to immediately erase every single one of those posts, I'd press it in a heartbeat.

Since XenForo, I've probably deleted 400+ of my own posts. In most threads these days I'll make a post and reconsider within seconds and then delete it. Sometimes I get burned and someone's already quoted it in a reply.

ETA: By purge all evidence, I meant profile posts and PMs. I don't have a single PM from before 2019. And I'll probably clear that out again soon. It wigs me out that there are people here who probably still have PMs from me pre-2016. Possibly even pre-2010.

The secret is to not PM in the first place I have no friends...

 

[Synobun]

The secret is to not PM in the first place I have no friends...

I keep trying to make people hate me but it never works.

 

[MaryKB]

I keep trying to make people hate me but it never works.

You could not get people to hate you. Become incredibly vexed by you sometimes, yes, but not hate.

 

[Synobun]

My roommate has been watching Trump rallies and interviews extremely loudly all morning.

I was going to post a rave that my roommate, for the first time out of all my roommates over the past six years, has bought common-use items for the apartment. But this overrules that by a significant margin.

 

[thecrazyscot]

My roommate has been watching Trump rallies and interviews extremely loudly all morning.

I was going to post a rave that my roommate, for the first time out of all my roommates over the past six years, has bought common-use items for the apartment. But this overrules that by a significant margin.