Random Rants XLVII: I don't like food anymore!

[Gamemaster77]

Ugh, Verizon ... For some reason I cannot access YouTube reliably. It freezes on 240p and attempts to go 144p for every video it can. At first I thought they were just throttling my internet but it gets weirder. At about 1am YouTube starts to work completely fine. Then I wake up and its slow again.

 

[Phrossack]

Black and white? Sounds like an adopted pair.

He's the adopted black one. To be fair, he's explained that some of his incredible selfishness and misbehavior stems from feelings of abandonment, isolation, and frustration of never knowing his birth family in Haiti. But that's an explanation, not an excuse, and he's no less unbearable for it.

 

[azzaman333]

Why did I not start watching Game of Thrones until 2 weeks ago? Absolute numpty...

 

[Optical]

He's the adopted black one. To be fair, he's explained that some of his incredible selfishness and misbehavior stems from feelings of abandonment, isolation, and frustration of never knowing his birth family in Haiti. But that's an explanation, not an excuse, and he's no less unbearable for it.

Try talking to him (one on one). You might be surprised how much good it could do.

 

[classical_hero]

I finished my first year of grad school and took off running (literally) road trip across the entire continent. Ended with me dropping a grand at a strip club in Vegas... That's about how much money I make in a month with my assistantship and goes on top of close to another grand I spent on gas/lodging/food/etc.

Now I'm home, about to start summer school and broke as <expletive of choice>. I'm going to have to ask my parents for money to get through the summer, which given the reason for my predicament leaves me more than a little ashamed. This isn't what I do, I'm usually very careful with money. Grad school has just been too much and left me in some screwed up place where this all seemed reasonable.

Ugfh

Sounds like you need a financial panther.

 

[Yeekim]

Great. There's ONE thread in the Tavern about something non-US specific where I could actually take part in discussion and it gets closed before I get a chance to write my second post.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Sounds like you need a financial panther.

A fat cat?

 

[Phrossack]

Well, the computer's totally dead, taking with it all my data. Fortunately I didn't have anything valuable on it, I don't think, but I'll have to reinstall everything.

 

[Takhisis]

The lack of public works since before th last flood means I got soaked and had to wade through several blocks of a nice, handy, foot-deep river.

 

[shadowplay]

Rogers Cable removed BBC World News from my cable package and now I have to pay extra for it.

 

[Tee Kay]

But BBC World News is like the only reason you'd get cable anyway...

 

[JohannaK]

What about HBO? And AMC...

 

[sophie]

What about HBO? And AMC...

Those (HBO, Showtime) aren't included in standard cable packages. If you aren't getting BBC (shame you don't live in the US; PBS runs the BBC as its primary news program) then you certainly aren't getting HBO. I'm pretty sure BBC.com can get you what you need though.

 

[JohannaK]

Every day you learn new things.

 

[_random_]

AMC is awesome though. Not sure how or when their stuff gets played in Canada.

Oh, and if anything on the BBC website doesn't work because your queen hates her North American subjects, get Media Hint.

 

[shadowplay]

(shame you don't live in the US; PBS runs the BBC as its primary news program)

I totally forgot about that! I actually do get PBS, I'm within range of US signals banana, but it's the full 24/7 channel I really want. Other than sports it was one of the few things I'd ever actually watch.

Oh, and if anything on the BBC website doesn't work because your queen hates her North American subjects, get Media Hint.

Cool, thanks. I actually use "Hola! unblocker" to get around that sort of stuff, works all the same.

 

[_random_]

Tomorrow's my last day of high school and I have a bigass project due. Who the foxtrot uniform charlie kilo does that?

 

[madviking]

Tomorrow's my last day of high school and I have a bigass project due. Who the foxtrot uniform charlie kilo does that?

 

[SamSniped]

My girlfriend broke up with me. Because of a reason we talked about and I had been trying to fix.
Today's been juuuust great

 

[GenMarshall]

My girlfriend broke up with me. Because of a reason we talked about and I had been trying to fix.
Today's been juuuust great