The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Complaint: Wisdom comes too late. I'm 74, I've been reading since I was 5, I'm pretty good with English, I understand what "prepositions" are (on, above, around, over, of, at, under, ahead, behind, etc...) but rarely use the word "prepositions" or think about them, they're just too obvious and automatic for native speakers. However, until this morning I never understood why they were called "prepositions". I thought the word was just a made up word like "verb" or "noun" or "clause", or "article", a word to describe a set of words. Then today while taking a whizz, I had an epiphony! Wheee.
The word "preposition" means; the word before another word that identifies the positional relationship between other words or clauses in the sentence. Duh! "Pre-position" the opposite of "post-position"(Yay for Greek).
And my problem was the way that I was taught to pronounce the word "preposition". I say "prep-o-zishun" with a short 'e' instead of a long 'e', like "pree-position". I guess that's normal for English, because we have words like "preference", "preternatural" and "prejudice" that use the short 'e' with accent on the 1st syllable. But if I had heard the word "preposition" pronounced with the long 'e' and accent on the end of the word when being taught about them I would have GROKed the significance of the word. I feel so dumb!
Maybe they told me in 2nd grade, but it flew right over my head.
Now, can someone explain to me why infinitives are called infinitives?
To Infinity and beyond!
pre nearly always means before as opposed to post afterwards
regardless of pronunciation
prepare cut up beforehand but you don't postpare
thats called eating
English honestly makes no sense
Complaint: I love the one most consistent feature of the forum software, which is to wait until you click on a thread that has a lot of comments since you last visited, wait a second, then sign you out... thus leaving you with no idea what the last thing you read was.
Complaint: Me.
I have no idea how one of my daughters is both a science and history honor student despite having me as a father and me throughout the course of her growing up continually aiding her with my Vicipedia* version of galactic trivia and information...
She left a paper behind this morning and asked me to take a picture of it and text it to her so she could read what she wrote and I felt the need to amend some of the facts...
"Number 8 for the history questions is technically not entirely correct… While Michelangelo did paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, most people don’t realize that the Vatican janitor, Luigi Del Puzzamutandae actually painted the rest… mostly the bathrooms, the cavernous closet where the Pope kept his spare Pope hat and the little room where they kept spare Saint parts (Saint relics were very collectible at the time, almost like Pokémon cards back then) are among the more notable areas painted by Del Puzzamutandae… in fact, the square footage of Vatican real estate painted by Del Puzzamutandae far surpassed Michelangelo’s piddly little ceiling painting which took him five years to paint…
Furthermore, Del Puzzamutandae actually (accidentally) painted over the original Sistine Chapel ceiling painting by Piermatteo de' Manfredi da Amelia*, (titled “Alcune stelle su un soffitto azzurro”) thus giving Michelangelo** the opportunity to repaint it with his own work.
* Piermatteo de' Manfredi da Amelia, in addition to having the distinction of having painted the original ceiling art, is also credited with having the longest name of anyone who painted anything in the Vatican, he is also credited with having the longest death date, from 1503-1508… some historians argue it was incorrectly documented, while others say it may have been because nobody was sure if he was actually dead and didn’t want to disturb him if he was just napping.
** Michelangelo was actually a notorious graffiti artist who was always tagging the Vatican walls with his nudie Bible art… eventually the Pope got tired of chasing him away and hired him to paint something on the ceiling hoping it take so long it would discourage him from further vandalism."
I also commend her with finally noticing that many of the surnames of the historical figures in my more correct, albeit, less well documented versions of history are often less than accurate approximations, cobbled together or meaning something entirely different in that particular language.
It's a good thing my wife and my late father-in-law were in charge of math stuff and I never got the girls to fully accept that the reason a lot of math answers don't work out is due to silent numbers.
*Vicipedia: Like Wikipedia, only my more accurate, less accepted version. (From Latin and Greek... Victor: Really smart guy who smells great, and Pedia meaning a really heavy book of facts you can smash rats to death with.)
who painted the room the Opus Dei self flaggellate in?
Ok, that's why they don't perform premortem...
I sat in front of a chicken bbq sandwich. It was wrapped in til foil. Now just the tin foil remains with some bbq sauce. Where did my sandwich go?
Check under the table... if it's not there it was probably Carnivorous Pigeons or the Southern Crested Sandwich Hawk... around here it would just be belligerent Seagulls... which are basically Sea-pigeons with an attitude... they steal your food if you eat outdoors and don't guard it diligently.
When making an apple pie you prepare the apples but bake them postpare.
"English honestly makes no sense." Does that imply that it makes sense fraudulently?
And then they laugh at you!
Dana
I painted it green because that was the only paint I had. - Mr. Non Sequitur
Huh?
Dana
Does it glow in the dark?
It's in the name.
Yeah, I should have worded that better, more like...
...The clapping stopped and the boxed move closer to the edge…
“Wha… Chimpanzee shaped what?… How hard did you hit your head?” The Box asked incredulously.
“Quite hard actually... I think I may have incurred some level of temporary brain injury as I can’t seem to remember anything from the years 1997 to 2002… every time I try to recall something I just see static and I hear the theme to “Friends” playing, but like by a polka band, and I smell fresh roasted chestnu…”
“Enough! Don’t you realize who I am?” Shouted the box.
“A talking chimpanzee shaped box… that….” Suddenly it dawned on me that this wasn’t a chimpanzee or even a macaque shaped box!
“Impossible!… Mister Sánchez?… the Murder Monkey!” I gasped in disbelief...
That would have probably come across as less offensive and seem less like I was implying the individual I was attempting to create a narrative for had some form of permanent brain problems, which was not the intended implication at all... I also forgot to include one of my standard disclaimers which often urge the reader not to believe any of what was written, not to infer anything from what was written, not to read any of what was written and at best the entirety of what was written was more than likely a random collection of words and characters haphazardly arranged in a fashion that coincidentally appears to form sentences and words and should in no way be construed deliberately being anything approximating a cohesive thoughts, ideas or language...
Furthermore Permanent Brain Problems (PBP) is a serious condition and a should not be used in a jocular fashion, while Temporary Brain Problems (TBP) can be used in a humorous manner if it's in reference to being hit in the head with a cartoon mallet, having a cartoon anvil dropped on one's cranium, other comically described forms of skull abuse or anything related to stuff I've done or intend to do resulting in my general mental demeanor.
That having been said, I did sort of try to include a disclaimer implying this was not necessary an accurate narrative of where you were going with that, but in fact the delusional rantings of a lunatic probably confusing their own recollections with a fictional scenario they were attempting to offer someone else...
I eventually found an opening in the fence at the rail yard and manage to lodge the car into the side of a train headed for the coast… I’m not sure which coast because I’ve never really mentioned where I live, thus making it harder for the lunatic writing this as me to figure out, but for argument’s sake it was bound for some coast, which technically you don’t really have to define exactly because if you think about it, most people just say “the coast” and everyone just assumes either the “west coast” or whichever one is closest to them…
I actually intended to revisit this later on in the story to expand on the probability that this was more about incidents that may or may not have occurred in the vicinity of the Union Pacific Railyard in Saint Louis some years back and why I owned a pair of florescent orange leopard print hot pants which I hardly ever wear (but are actually quite flattering in an 80s glam rocker sort of way), and less about where you may have been going with what you had written, but due to time constraints I ended up foreshortening the story and leaving out your pivotal lightsaber battle (technically a "plasma sword battle") atop the GenetiCorp building with the real Mister Sánchez (the one in the truck was a clone) and explaining his back story, including how he and Count Doctor Hernando Gomez Martínez-Lebowitz-Sánchez IV and Baron Ludwig Sánchez von Geithaven were entangled by a common fate...
But alas I left out describing a lot of the events of that day and saved you and others from further eye strain and Temporary Brain Stress (TBS).
Sorry for any misunderstandings this probably caused.
Wow! I can't remember much in between 1997 and 2002 either. I remember I had a horrible biology test on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 though. Not sure why I remembered how that I had to study for it but not then?
Apparently someone made a baboon out of Genesis 8?
...so no solving the cold fusion issue, whether the universe is indeed expanding or contracting, or whether the egg or chicken came first..
And speaking of non sequiturs, this relates how to the price of tea in China?
https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/china/black-tea/ ;
Reverse genetics.
...cats:
...TBS also known as Turner Broadcasting System which definitely gave me Temporary Brain Stress years ago every time they showed one of their "colourised" versions of some classic black & white film. The process was not really all that good and often made it hard to watch darker scenes.. They even did it to my favourite schmaltzy holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life. I always threatened woe to them if they ever so much as considered touching Dr. Strangelove as Kubrick purpously filmed it in black and white.
Todays complaint...
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Keyhole Slots.
Do all companies now let the biggest moron they have on hand design them?
Do people in the electronics industry even know why Keyhole Slots are on the back or bottom of devices or equipment anymore?... Or do people just see these weird little keyhole shaped openings and assume they are there for some superstitious or archaic reasons and just include them without ever using one ever?
A keyhole slot should be able to fit either a pan-head or round-head type screw (preferable) or a flush/flat head... Generally when designing stuff with a keyhole you should make it large enough for a #8 screw with a minimum hole size of 21/64" (8.33mm) and a 11/64" (4.365mm) slot the head clearance inside should at least 3/16" (4.76mm) So the head fits into the keyhole without binding... this was was pretty much a standard for mountable equipment for ages... unless you are dealing with some tiny piece of equipment, there should never be a need to use tiny keyholes which don't match any normal hardware (fine though if you include appropriate hardware)... yet every stinking time I go to mount something, Bobo the Intern Chimp designed the keyhole slot... too narrow a slot, too short clearance inside, facing the wrong way so that gravity or a tug of the cord pulls the device off the wall*, or a tiny hole with a wide slot... and my favorite... a molded keyhole shape with no undercut so the screw can't slide forward... I've seen that one dozens of times and I'm assuming it's all designed by Bobo the Intern Chimp as he goes from company to company... Clearly the person or simian responsible doesn't know what a keyhole slot is for... they just know there's a shape that looks like that on some equipment and they mimic it.
I'm complaining because I just installed a power strip that used tiny keyhole (like for #4 screws) for absolutely no reason... I had to open it up and route out a new keyhole, removing the molded stop detail and opening it up to fit real hardware... There was sooooo much room inside, there was no need for that... but Bobo strikes again... the screw that would fit would have too tiny a thread to hold anything that weight securely.
I get that most people just throw their power strips or surge protectors on the floor, but some folks like to make decent professional, if not neat installations.
So GDPFA** it's unbelievable.
*If the device has an "up" surface or top when mounted on a wall, the device should slide down (slot facing up, hole at bottom) or at least sideways, not the hole at the top and you push up to secure it... because if you jar it or it becomes loose, it falls off the wall.
**I'm not explaining that acronym/abbreviation as it violates TOS rules
all my powerpoints are the wrong way around for those air freshner plugins
the only one that isn't in the entire house (which has multiple power outlets in each room) is the loungeroom aircon 15amp one
they all have 2 outlets on each too, too close for 2 adaptor plugs and again the wrong way for an extension cord with a side connection
I have to say my solution to the same issue has been hot glue ,so far it has worked ....
my mind is so tired I can't even concentrate to create artwork in Daz Studio. Maybe the weather is too cold for me to think.
That is my nightmare... I keep having to fix things for people who've previously used hot glue.
Hahahahaha ,my son prefers me using the hot glue ,says it's easier to remove then the Weld Bond I use to use to secure things ...... like the book case to the wall ,and a dresser ,didn't want either one coming loose and falling on kids ,and they didn't ....... Weld Bond is some good stuff !! Hot glue works on the power strips nice and quick ,and I don't need to figure out where the drill was put or the screws .....
Ah, crap. I bought the wrong type of cat food. That's going to be the Tabby Terror's guts upset for a few days.
Argh! It's no wonder why I can't concentrate!
...well the "big freeze here in Portland is finally over as it got up to nearly 50° (F) today after being in the mid to high 30s with lows in the low 20s that last couple days.
The apartment has one of those "in the wall" heater units which are usually found in cheap motels and in the south (yay, government subsidised housing) that are barely sufficient to warm up main area when it's in the 40s even on the high setting.. Usually I put an extra layer on but it was so cold these last few days my hands were freezing and once that happens I feel cold all over (difficult to type or work on scenes in Daz while wearing gloves). so I had to leave it run for hours to get any semblance of heat by my desks. Why they never designed the building with a central boiler and steam heat, particularly in a building that is home to a fair number of seniors (who not just are more susceptible to temperature extremes, but also usually on a very tight fixed income) makes no sense as electric heating is probably the most cost inefficient way to heat the volume air in a room. This of course translates to ridiculously high power bills in winter
Baseboard heating is bad enough (and you can't have anything blocking the units ao so arranging furniture is an interesting challenge), but those in the wall ones like we have here are definitely not up to the task. On top of that even though this is a fairly new building I question just how good the insulation as it gets really cold inside this time of year (and conversely., very hot in mid summer)..
Fortunately it's going stay more seasonable in the low to mid 50s this weekend through next week.