Random Rants LXVI: NO, **YOUR** THREAD TITLES SUCK!!

[Takhisis]

So I'm basically stuck in hell; a hot, tiny room with my brother and mother stuck in it for the next 2-3 months. Frostbite at this point seems appealing.

Been snowed in?

 

[gay_Aleks]

Not exactly. More like only one room can be kept warm at a time so we gotta stick together in it.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Frostbite at this point seems appealing.

Sorry, can't oblige. It was above 0C here for a brief time, until the wind came up. It's actually been warm enough lately to ditch most of the blankets at night.

I used to have a .gif of someone throwing a large snowball at the computer screen, if that would help.

 

[Arakhor]

Not exactly. More like only one room can be kept warm at a time so we gotta stick together in it.

Why can you only heat one room at a time?

 

[Snerk]

Well electricity/gas/firewood can be rather costly.

 

[shadowplay]

2 years ago almost exactly to the day, the power went out due to an ice storm and wasn't restored for days, in -22C temperatures... I didn't have ANY heat in ANY room, and I had the flu at the time, to make it a little more fun.

/Canadian without fireplace problems

 

[Synobun]

More likely it's a furnace problem, and repairing those things can cost ungodly amounts of money.

 

[Flying Pig]

Moderator Action: Needless to say, this thread is designed to give people a place to vent when they're running short of their sense of humour. Please bear that in mind if you choose to respond to somebody's 'rant'. I have just deleted an exchange that failed to grasp this.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

So I've been playing this game that requires a joystick. Not "requires" really, it's just much better with than using keyboard controls. Anyway, I don't keep the stick connected when I'm not playing, because [valid reasons]. About one time in ten, or maybe closer to twenty, when I connect the stick it doesn't take.

That's not rant worthy, at all. For one thing, one time in twenty, or even ten, is hardly often enough to complain about. For another the fix, which is just unplug it and try again, is hardly even a bump in the road, much less a pothole. So what's the problem?

Well, there was this problem. If I plug in the stick and start the game I get all the way through splash screen, killing the intro video, another splash screen while loading the main menu, choosing continue, another splash screen while loading my saved game, possibly conducting assorted business from my docked ship, then launching my ship...before finding out the stick didn't take. And even unplugging and reconnecting doesn't help at that point since the program is already past checking and since there was no stick when it checked the fix now requires exiting the game.

I say that was a problem, and it may sometimes have been a rant worthy problem. But I fixed that. I have a simple joystick testing program. It loads and starts faster than I can move my hand from the mouse clicking on it to pushing the joystick to see that it works.

So what is the rant worthy problem here?

I forget to use the test program. Not very often. But it seems to almost EXACTLY coincide with the not very often that the stick doesn't connect. Technology advances, but Murphy's Law maintains its lead.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

While driving the Habitat for Humanity van (a converted U-Haul) back from the job site to the office today, I had to stop for gas. I had only gotten gas in a vehicle that size one before, and did not realize how careful I needed to be while pulling up to the pump. I ended up grazing a concrete protection pole, which after scraping the side of the van a little then got stuck between the rear wheel and the skirting of the vehicle. I tried for a good 10 to 15 minutes before I was able to get the van to move even an inch. Eventually I was able to work it loose, but not without doing more damage to the bottom of the side of the truck. I think the harm is only cosmetic though, as the actual bottom of the vehicle is about 8 inches higher than any of the damaged portion.

Normally I'm supposed to pay for gas using one of the rewards cards they they keep in the van's center console, but we ran out. I know there is a stack of more in the office somewhere, but only the executive director knows where he put them. He had knee surgery 2 weeks ago and so decided to start his Christmas break early. He has said in the past that if we end up buying the gas ourselves he could reimburse us only if given a receipt. I have one I could give him, but don't feel comfortable asking for funds while confessing to damaging company property. I just told him such in an email.

 

[Commodore]

I hate Christmas. I was under the impression that my wife and I were not exchanging gifts this year and we were only going to buy gifts for our daughters. I just found out that my wife bought a present for me and apparently it's going to be a pretty awesome one. So I only have a few days to find something awesome for her too. Again, I hate Christmas.

 

[Synobun]

I hate Christmas. I was under the impression that my wife and I were not exchanging gifts this year and we were only going to buy gifts for our daughters. I just found out that my wife bought a present for me and apparently it's going to be a pretty awesome one. So I only have a few days to find something awesome for her too. Again, I hate Christmas.

Is she the kind of person that likes receiving necessities as gifts? If so, it's pretty easy to get something.

Buying gifts for me is so exceptionally simple as you can just ask me what I need and pick a random item from the list and I'm sold on the idea right away.

Alternatively, has she mentioned something that's been bugging her or that's been interesting her in a conversation the past few months? Get something related to it! I mentioned to a friend that I had issues acknowledging written characters as actual personalities, and she remembered that conversation for months afterwards and got me a book on character development.

 

[Takhisis]

Not exactly. More like only one room can be kept warm at a time so we gotta stick together in it.

Ouchie.

I hate Christmas. I was under the impression that my wife and I were not exchanging gifts this year and we were only going to buy gifts for our daughters. I just found out that my wife bought a present for me and apparently it's going to be a pretty awesome one. So I only have a few days to find something awesome for her too. Again, I hate Christmas.

Flowers? Trip for two to some spa with massage and thermal waters and such?

 

[The_J]

I got my sister and my mother a voucher from an event ticket website, and put together a small flyer about things they could maybe like.
Maybe something like that?
Saves you the effort to think about *everything*, but still shows that you think about her (connect it with a dinner or general day out, or whatever).

 

[Timsup2nothin]

It's the thought that counts. I think I'll get you a gift card so I don't have to think about you.

 

[Takhisis]

And the flowers you get to pick yourself and might be her favourite.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Flat tires. Flat new tires. :-(

 

[GenMarshall]

Chkdsk takes ages to complete, oh and my Steam got corrupted (why I'm doing a Chkdsk in the first place)

 

[Lohrenswald]

I really don't like american christmas songs.

Not because they're american or like the commodification of christmas and stuff (I mean I don't like that either but besides that). For the most part it's got nothing to do with the lyrics either.

There's just something about how they sound that I can't pinpoint

 

[Synobun]

I really don't like american christmas songs.

Not because they're american or like the commodification of christmas and stuff (I mean I don't like that either but besides that). For the most part it's got nothing to do with the lyrics either.

There's just something about how they sound that I can't pinpoint

Do you mean the old-timey stereotypical Christmas songs or the modern pop versions of them?