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Author Topic: PET PEEVES FUCK  (Read 182048 times)

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2060 on: May 23, 2012, 02:16:00 PM »

Okay Google, the fact that you put a working Moog Synthesizer on the homepage today is really cool and all, but damned if it isn't making your page load slower than stink.

In general, anything like Google where someone or something achieves fame and fortune by providing a simple and sleek whatever, and then once they're on top of the pile starts forgetting why people liked them in the first place by piling a bunch of high-budget nonsense on it. Which is natural because they've grown and expanded and they have a million more projects to throw workers at now.

The Lucas Effect.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2061 on: May 23, 2012, 06:26:23 PM »

This isn't really surprising coming from Mongrel.

I am actually really curious about your logic here. Like how does that follow at all (I am not saying you're wrong... just, uh "Show your math").
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2062 on: June 02, 2012, 09:18:17 AM »

This is getting surreal. For two weeks now I've been trying to get my landlord to pick up his rent, but he keeps forgetting. He was supposed to come this morning (one day after this month's rent is due) but he's a no-show again. His phone goes to an answering machine. Man, you'd think, if a guy had two and a half grand's worth of checks for you, you'd just come running right quick.

I'd mail 'em to him but every time I ask him his address he changes the subject. (He technically isn't the owner, his mother is, I write the checks to her and I've got her contact information, but from what I gather she's in no condition to be any help due to her advanced age.) This is so absurd that I'm starting to get mildly suspicious about the whole situation.

EDIT: Whew, finally got hold of him, he should be here in half an hour. So, nearly four hours later than was originally decided. Iesus. I usually ain't a stickler for other people's timeliness, I'm an exceptionally patient guy, but dang I got shit to do today.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2063 on: June 02, 2012, 10:07:58 AM »

Wait... $2500? You live in the middle of nowhere (well, not really, but it's not like you're in downtown Vancouver). How much is your monthly rent?
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2064 on: June 02, 2012, 10:45:02 AM »

Oh, I've decided I was giving him six months in advance, at least in part because it's been such a hassle to get the money to him, but also because otherwise he's been pretty swift the couple times stuff broke down in here. It used to be 400 per month but it got raised to 404 this year; a 1% increase seems fairly reasonable, I think. So, 2424$. (In dated checks of course, there's no way I could just afford all that money up front.)

Well hey, he dropped by while I was typing this, another half hour after he was supposed to be here. Fineffingally.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2065 on: June 02, 2012, 11:05:26 AM »

And suddenly a reminder of how fucktarded rent is around here.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2066 on: June 02, 2012, 12:32:14 PM »

Be sure you tell your bank you've postdated a bunch of checks.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2067 on: June 02, 2012, 01:48:43 PM »

Sinister gods below, do I ever wish my rent was $404. :/
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2068 on: June 02, 2012, 01:51:53 PM »

BUT THEN

HOW WOULD YOUR LANDLORD

EVER FIND IT!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!!!

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2069 on: June 02, 2012, 01:59:32 PM »

Be sure you tell your bank you've postdated a bunch of checks.

I've been doing three and four month increments in the past year; that's common practice around here for rent, or at least it is if you're on good terms with the landlord. Plus, given that I'm such a model tenant that I'm actually the one making sure he gets his money on time, I'm fairly confident he has absolutely nothing to gain from screwing me over in any way.

Of course those are famous last words, so I suppose it can't hurt to make sure.

Sinister gods below, do I ever wish my rent was $404. :/

Oh I'm fully aware that I've basically won the lottery with this apartment, even in this area, and despite the lack of power outlet in the bathroom, the cigarette burns on the linoleum, the crooked floors, and other assorted gunshot victims.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2070 on: June 09, 2012, 10:24:44 AM »

When the entire world gets so bat-buggeringly ineffable that you can no longer tell whether there is something wrong with you or something wrong with the universe.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2071 on: June 09, 2012, 10:27:04 AM »

That's what I call waking up in the morning.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2072 on: June 10, 2012, 01:13:00 PM »

Battery powered any type of power tool. Honestly, they fucking suck.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2073 on: June 23, 2012, 04:14:12 PM »

The celebrations for Québec's equivalent of the 4th of July are going on a block away right now.

God this town is weaksauce. This sauce contains dangerously high levels of weakness. I'm not even going to try to attempt to describe what I'm hearing right now.

oh wow it just got worse

it's not just that the authorities are throwing a token "party" in a dang parking lot, but the very people are so boring

like the emcee chick went all "are you ready to have some fun tonight" and then silence

and then she went "i can't hear you, say it louder!"

crickets

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2074 on: June 23, 2012, 05:56:25 PM »

Isn't that not until tomorrow? Or are they doing St. Jean Baptiste all weekend?
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2075 on: June 23, 2012, 06:56:24 PM »

Yeah they're doing a weekend thing.

(For whatever reason.)

At least they had actual fireworks this year. Last year they were cancelled, then rescheduled a few days later, then cancelled again.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2076 on: June 24, 2012, 04:33:56 AM »

It's more entertaining (sad?) if you think of it as just a lone DJ who setup in a parking lot so she could rehearse her energetic live DJ act. Just out there, all alone, asking an empty crowd if they're "ready to have fun yet?" Going over that line 50 times, making sure she has the right note of enthusiasm.

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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2077 on: June 24, 2012, 07:00:02 AM »

Battery powered any type of power tool. Honestly, they fucking suck.

Battery powered tools can be pretty awesome if you need to be cord free or are doing something where you just don't have the room for a plug. I have an electric screwdriver that's so goddamn useful because it's cord free that I can forgive it the short battery life.

Having said that, I wish battery powered tools would have at least the option of plugging them in, because it takes three full charges to dismantle my fucking waterbed.
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2078 on: June 24, 2012, 07:38:06 AM »

Why not get the kind that comes with their own battery?
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Re: PET PEEVES FUCK
« Reply #2079 on: June 24, 2012, 07:41:41 AM »

Those batteries are so fucking easy to short out, you have no idea. And then once you short them out you might as well pay for a new drill because the replacements are so damn expensive.  :rage:
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