Random Rants Eighty-Four: Rants Gone Wild!!!!

[MaryKB]

I am officially fat

 

[RRRaskolnikov]

You like what is good? not worth ranting about imo

 

[Zkribbler]

I am officially fat

For saying such a silly thing. you deserved to be slapped by a fish!

 

[Takhisis]

You're welcome. Your appreciation will be noted and passed on to President Trump himself.

I see that you still stand by your position that everyone should be treated by the US as either vassals or enemies.

I always love it when expired domains redirect me to porn.

:/ Can't you block it?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I suppose, but I should have guessed the domain was dead.

Also another Sims 2 site is biting the dust

 

[Zkribbler]

NEVER PUT CAT LITTER IN THE TOILET. IT IS NOT FLUSHABLE AND YOU WILL END UP WITH PLUMBING PROBLEMS.

Thank you. Lot of good info here esp. this part 'cause I was planning on doing this.

 

[Commodore]

I see that you still stand by your position that everyone should be treated by the US as either vassals or enemies

One day you will stop repressing your inner American and embrace all that is the USA.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Rant: Photobucket

Their site was down for ages, and yeah, every site I own, whether forum or blog, and no doubt many forum posts, were ruined. I did write and point out that I pay for 3rd party hosting, and have been a Photobucket subscriber for many years, and wanted prompt answers.

They told me about the outage, and asked for patience... well, I finally got some of my images back. Some are mysteriously nuked.

And in the middle of this, they had the gall to nag me to renew my subscription (it's not up until May). I plan to point out that I was grandfathered under my old subscription plan, and due to this outage, I expect them to honor it (more space for less money than the most current economical option for 3rd party hosting).

I've started investigating other options. Fotki (based in Europe) was saying something about "welcoming ex-Photobucket subscribers".

This is the first pandemic scare I've lived through as a grown adult and I'm deeply unimpressed. It's agitating to see people in total safety panic and walk around with masks and buying out supplies.

I need rubbing alcohol but it's been up-charged everywhere. $22 for a bottle. Nah. And my landlord tried selling surgical masks to me because he "has a baby and doesn't want to bring home the corona." The masks won't even do anything! You're being stupid! He actually has a reason to be cautious since we have the virus here and his wife's family is Chinese, unlike all the other people wearing masks in the US thousands of kilometers away from the nearest case, but his method of prevention is useless! Stop it.

Anyways, $22 for like 510 ml of rubbing alcohol. No thanks.

Is there any way to order it online? I just found a listing on walmart.ca for $7.49 for 500 mL.

Thank you. Lot of good info here esp. this part 'cause I was planning on doing this.

You're welcome.

 

[Synobun]

Does Walmart still use Canmar (or whatever they're called, Can-something) for shipping? They are incapable of delivering to me. Or, at least, I never seem to get the packages shipped by them.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Does Walmart still use Canmar (or whatever they're called, Can-something) for shipping? They are incapable of delivering to me. Or, at least, I never seem to get the packages shipped by them.

It's Canpar. I don't remember that happening lately. Mind you, I haven't used Walmart lately. Somehow my account got screwed up to the extent that I can't get into it to change my password (the temporary password expired in about half a nanosecond so many times that I contacted them to find out how to delete my account and start over, so they just froze it and I have to do online orders from them as a guest).

As for Canpar not being able to find you, I've long suspected that some delivery/courier companies give prospective employees a literacy test and hire the ones who fail. Or so it's been with most of the UPS drivers I've ever had to deal with. They either don't understand the concept of buzzing the suite number, or if they do buzz, they don't understand that they're actually supposed to identify themselves instead of standing there, breathing into the intercom, saying nothing.

Apparently you can order stuff online and have it shipped to a nearby store for pickup.

Here's their "help center" information. It might be out of date, so I would suggest calling a store and asking them: https://www.walmart.ca/en/help/shipping-and-delivery

I'm not sure about that $25 minimum for free delivery. Things have changed a bit since they added grocery delivery services at some stores.

However, that is the cheapest rubbing alcohol I could find. London Drugs costs more for a smaller bottle, and Amazon has obviously decided to cash in on the panic, as their prices are insane.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I had the misfortune of visiting Wal-Mart earlier today. They replaced most of the cashiers with terrible self-checkouts that barely worked and creepily recorded you too (and also asked for the postal code). And there were barely any employees to be found at all. I guess that's what cost-cutting is.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I had the misfortune of visiting Wal-Mart earlier today. They replaced most of the cashiers with terrible self-checkouts that barely worked and creepily recorded you too. And there were barely any employees to be found at all. I guess that's what cost-cutting is.

They want to make sure people don't steal or do price-switching. Of course that doesn't solve the issue of employee theft.

I don't use self-checkouts, and told my local Walmart that if they ever did away with the full-service checkouts, I would no longer shop there.

It's a royal pain, since so many others don't like self-checkout either. The lines at the regular checkouts get extremely long sometimes.

I remember the days of Woolco, in the '70s. They had signs up that promised if there were ever more than four people in line, they would open another checkout.

 

[Kyriakos]

Passenger opposite me in the train looks and sounds like he will die/choke any minute. Sound reminds of the elephant man film...
It will be a long four hours to Athens...

At least he isn't next to me, though...

 

[JohannaK]

IIRC that's an improvement over the original suspicion, where it was stated to incubate for up to two weeks before rearing its head. So "up to a week" is better with that in mind.

People who circumvent quarantine are an obvious danger. Luckily, if you pinpoint ground zero quickly enough, the risk of quarantine breach overseas is minimal so long as the host country is doing what it should (and it seems like China is, despite the censorship).

That all flies out the window with an opportunistic mutation and another outbreak. As it stands, though, we don't have much to worry about here. Certainly not to the point of clearing out entire warehouses of their supplies to the point that hospitals are now unable to restock should the worst come to pass.

Edit: To keep with the ranting spirit, I just find it really aggravating that people "expressing their worry" are really just acting like conduits for increasing panic. Their anxiety makes them think they're in imminent danger and then they broadcast it to thousands of people online, who in turn start thinking they're in imminent danger too. And it's immensely difficult to "set the record straight" once that happens.

I do think incubation is 14 days. It's probably that you are not infectious for the first week.

 

[Zardnaar]

4:26 an woke up and it's 20 odd degrees centigrade. Stinking hot. Raining as well which is kinda peaceful.

 

[MaryKB]

It's frustrating how some days (like today) my necklace just doesn't seem to want to clasp.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It's frustrating how some days (like today) my necklace just doesn't seem to want to clasp.

Your husband needs training. My skill with clasps is part of why my gf keeps me around.

 

[Ajidica]

I had the misfortune of visiting Wal-Mart earlier today. They replaced most of the cashiers with terrible self-checkouts that barely worked and creepily recorded you too (and also asked for the postal code). And there were barely any employees to be found at all. I guess that's what cost-cutting is.

I always try and use the staffed checkout lines. The self-checkouts don't have a way for me to get a 15 cent credit for bringing my own grocery bags!
(Also, fighting automation one checkout line at a time.)

 

[MaryKB]

Your husband needs training. My skill with clasps is part of why my gf keeps me around.

I thought she keeps you around for your expertise with foot massages?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I thought she keeps you around for your expertise with foot massages?

There's a list, but skill with clasps is on it. She calls on me more for bracelets though. Necklaces she usually gets by herself.