Random Rants #88: [incoherent screaming]

[hobbsyoyo]

I completely stopped the ants coming through the front door but there are a ton of them in my bathroom and I don't know where they are getting in.

 

[Synobun]

I completely stopped the ants coming through the front door but there are a ton of them in my bathroom and I don't know where they are getting in.

Check the plugs.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Check the plugs.

As in electrical sockets?

 

[amadeus]

As in electrical sockets?

I thought of the drains. The pipes.

I think we used to call them plugs, but maybe I just imagined the whole thing and I should be asleep since it’s 1:30am here.

 

[Synobun]

As in electrical sockets?

Yes.

 

[amadeus]

Well I was wrong.

Nothing new here!

 

[Synobun]

Well I was wrong.

Nothing new here!

For now, household ants aren't trained Navy SEALs.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I'd hate to see ants trained in gorilla warfare.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I dropped a heavy mug on my foot. Thankfully neither of them seem to be broken. I think my foot is going to bruise though.

My foot bruised.

 

[Synobun]

My foot bruised.

Like an apple.

 

[JohannaK]

This reminds me of a great song about a guy who finds ants coming into his house and seals them out, but thry repeatedly find new spots to come in through, until they eventually swarm him in his sleep. 10/10 would have nightmares again.

 

[Synobun]

@MaryKB made me want to re-watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

This reminds me of a great song about a guy who finds ants coming into his house and seals them out, but thry repeatedly find new spots to come in through, until they eventually swarm him in his sleep. 10/10 would have nightmares again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

In the Full Game, the player begins with an ant colony in an overhead view, much like the Quick Game. The region of this overhead view is a single square of a map containing a yard and house. The player spreads to other areas by producing young queens and drones to mate with each other. The full game is lost when the black colonies are eliminated and won when the red colonies are eliminated and the humans are driven out of the house.

 

[MaryKB]

@MaryKB made me want to re-watch My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Great movie.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

There's also this which is newer. I don't know if any good though. And I'm not sure if you get to take over a house.

 

[Synobun]

I just saw the fees for the UCP and Telus's very cool and radical private health insurance scheme in Alberta and it is hilariously, cruelly, evilly expensive. And they still bill from the provincial insurance during it too.

 

[JohannaK]

This is the song.

 

[Takhisis]

11 hours in bed last night.

Sounds like a good time.

Once again… @Snerk!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I just saw the fees for the UCP and Telus's very cool and radical private health insurance scheme in Alberta and it is hilariously, cruelly, evilly expensive. And they still bill from the provincial insurance during it too.

I'm fairly sure at this point the UCP in Alberta just wants to kill off poor people.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Rant: I tried to unsubscribe to a newsletter that I didn't want to be subscribed to in the first place because it was mixed in with the privacy policy accept checkbox. (WTH?) "We'll send you a confirmation message." No confirmation message. I tried several times over several days and never received a confirmation message. I'm still receiving the stupid newsletter.

I just set up a Thunderbird filter to send it to the spam folder.