Random Rants LXIX: Life is a Dismal Chore

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Cat litter is made from recycled paper
And cat food is made from products not fit for human consumption
Well, it's a good thing I don't plan to eat any of it, then, right? It's the same stuff my cat's been eating for most of the past 10 years and she's doing well enough; I checked it over quite thoroughly to make sure it wasn't the feline equivalent of potato chips (as some brands and products are, and after the poisoned pet food issue, I absolutely do not give Maddy any cat treats).

This still doesn't mean I'm going to feed my cat something that came out of the litter box.
 
I got a long cut right over my eye, just below the brow ridge, and I don't know how or why it happened, and it's really, really annoying.
 
Good news is that once that bad boy scars you'll be perfect for any villain role! :cowboy:
 
I got a long cut right over my eye, just below the brow ridge, and I don't know how or why it happened, and it's really, really annoying.
Stitch it up with horsehair and claim that you went to a Prussian military academy.
 
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You should try to apply for Blofeld in the next Bond film. Christoph Waltz is probably embarrassed he was in the last one, they'll need a replacement.
 
Thats photoshopped right ?

Probably not. I have driven in that - it's not fun. The sad thing is that the Bay Area is just as bad, with San Jose being arguably worse than LA now. It's a city without any kind of a competent public transit system, and a highway infrastructure originally designed to handle the city's population in the mid-50s when the population was under 100k. The city is now home to over a million.

101, the artery that connects San Francisco to San Jose to Salinas and into the Central Valley, is in a perpetual state of stop and go. It doesn't matter the time or day. I've been stuck immobile for an hour near Fremont at 1PM on a Sunday. The most amusing image is rush hour on Friday (which starts at like 2:30 and lasts until like 8), in which 101 is an unending snake of cars heading southbound, but the exit ramps are also unending immobile snakes of cars as drivers try to move onto back roads to dodge congestion, only to get trapped into an equally congested, equally immobile side road. The traffic is the one thing I really won't miss about the Bay.
 
Traffic has been a nightmare on the big cali cities for decades, it seems. Why hasn't anything been done?
 
Building highways (and public transit) is expensive and not politically sexy, so there's no incentive to do anything about it.
 
My cat is sick. I am worried.

I also hope 2017 ends soon.
 
Best wishes for you and for your cat.
 
Aimee's back! Where have you been, we haven't seen you in years! :hug::grouphug:
 
Late shift induced insomnia.
Not tired at all, bored, too late (and cold) to go out and do something night lifey.
 
Aimee's back! Where have you been, we haven't seen you in years! :hug::grouphug:

Hi. I actually just forgot this place existed after switching browsers. My memory's not so good these days.
 
Late shift induced insomnia.
Not tired at all, bored, too late (and cold) to go out and do something night lifey.
I can sympathise with this…

Also, rant: why do we have a hug smiley and a grouphug smiley but not a mindhug smiley?
 
Ever play Sim City? How often do you prioritize traffic?
My cities in that game get public transit ASAP. Any and all screams for roads are ignored. If they don't want to travel via public transit, they can damn well walk.


My cat is sick. I am worried.
:( I'm sorry to hear that. If you'd like to talk or vent about it, feel free to drop me a PM. We had some helpful cat discussions in the past, as I recall. I'm still a member of that cat website you told me about.


Also, rant: why do we have a hug smiley and a grouphug smiley but not a mindhug smiley?
If you have it saved you can ask Petek if he would be willing to add it, but you would have to have a good reason to ask. That's how we got the hug and grouphug; I explained that they would be beneficial to the forum as ways to express friendship and goodwill.
 
Australia, you're drunk, go home.

As i have previously noted Canadia and Australia are pathetic at soccer, nobody wants to see them play, they're stealing spots from countries that actually care about the sport and are a heck of a lot better at it.
And while pathetic Canadia has at least the decency to buy themselves into what they don't deserve (hello WC26), Australia is just freeriding on the mere alure of their ad market and their cheaterish continent switcheroo.
Usually this involves beating the feces out of Iraq - figuratively, after having helped doing so less figuratively.

Fine, i have gotten used to this nonsense.
But now suck-at-soccer-Australia has found a new low:

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Really Australia?
You're serious?

Anyway, i can only recommend - again - the option of qualifying as Europeans.
 

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pathetic at soccer? they only lost one game.
 
Probably not. I have driven in that - it's not fun. The sad thing is that the Bay Area is just as bad, with San Jose being arguably worse than LA now. It's a city without any kind of a competent public transit system, and a highway infrastructure originally designed to handle the city's population in the mid-50s when the population was under 100k. The city is now home to over a million.

Has America visited Japan recently ?
I guess you will visit it during the Olympics in Tokyo 2020, with its population nearing 10 Million maybe look at some of the nice magnetic hovering trains, the distributed city centers and new driverless buses.

That highway is insanity.
 
Probably not. I have driven in that - it's not fun. The sad thing is that the Bay Area is just as bad, with San Jose being arguably worse than LA now. It's a city without any kind of a competent public transit system, and a highway infrastructure originally designed to handle the city's population in the mid-50s when the population was under 100k. The city is now home to over a million.
Has America visited Japan recently ?
I guess you will visit it during the Olympics in Tokyo 2020, with its population nearing 10 Million maybe look at some of the nice magnetic hovering trains, the distributed city centers and new driverless buses.
The above is - hilariously - still kind of a low sell for Tokyo.
By any reasonable standard of inclusion Tokyo has... basically the population of California.

Also:
1 million, you said?


If my attempt to copy paste Japanese has not gone horribly wrong the above should be Saitama.
Ostensibly that's a city of 1.2 million people.
Of course it's not. It's a part of Tokyo with its own mascott.
I'd be willing to bet money that the above is their normal traffic and this is as bad as it gets.

But, hey, Muricans had that inspirational super diverse Super Bowl add where they claimed to have had Ze Autobahn before the Germans did, while they don't even have it today.
Which demonstrated that - while not having it - they don't even understand it.
So how would we expect them to be good at any other part of transportation, when they're allready too confused to understand roads.
But hey, they are making lots of progress with fining and arresting men of color for manspreading. Priorities.
 
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