The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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In the past, when car engines had carburators and manual chokes it was a real problem as 'people' were pulling the choke lever out to hang their handbags on.
IMHO driving should be a privilege, not a right. Oh, wait, it is!
Well, OK then, let's make driving only for delivery people, no private autos.
It would probably spark a lot of taxi & Uber jobs.
And the high cost would keep people in their cel... um... homes.
Are you all trying to say that's not where you put the shopping bags?
Being overwhelmed or being helpless to be able to help others is really very stressful and disappointing... I get that too... I wish I could help everyone that needs help.
I joke about alcohol, but it's definitely never a solution to anything.
One half of my genetics have a long history with the substance and most of it is not good... in fact I'd say the majority of it led to less than desirable outcomes for those participating in the long term consumption program.
I never actually had much interest in it aside from occasionally dabbling in it... apparently that half of the family imbued me with a rather high tolerance and the general concensus is I'm not much different drunk as I am sober except I dance a lot better and apparently have better aim.
I mean what's the point if you don't need to tango and throw knives?... Booze is expensive too.
But basically it's never been a good thing for my relatives.
It was the recreational method of choice for my maternal grandfather and what probably did him in eventually... it's definitely what ruined his marriage.
For one of my uncles, a decorated Vietnam veteran, it was one of the contributing factors to his early demise... and two years ago one of my cousins died directly because of it and it was ultimately what lead to my mother's death.
Though, I'd say the horrors that she experienced during the Second World War and then the depression she experienced when she came to the US, mostly from being an intelligent, creative female in a society that didn't yet think much about creativity or intelligence in relation to femaleness probably both had more to do with her opting to follow that path then just a predilection.
For some reason I never actually enjoyed alcohol... probably because it's expensive or I never got anything out of it besides better aim and crazy dance moves and since I hate dancing I didn't see a point.
For some reason through all the bad times in my life my reaction has been to see the absurdity and stupidity of the situations and make fun of it... turning depressing situations into something amusing or at least something I found amusing was the only way to maintain that tiny frayed thread of sanity... which probably wasn't so much "sanity" as a somewhat lifelike simulation of sanity counterfeited by someone who'd only once heard of it in a noisy room and hadn't given it much thought before trying to pass off their interpretation of it as a finished work.
I hate seeing people going through tough times too... That's probably why I like writing dumb stories and absurd complaints about stuff... Sometimes reading something bizarre and confusing is distracting and hopefully sometimes one might find something to chuckle about in it and if something I write can be distracting and chuckle worthy then maybe I've contributed something to this world besides a depressingly large carbon footprint.
Seriously, it's pretty big.
But anyway... here's to coping mechanisms and contraptions, nakedness and alleys... be they back, pee scented or both... may we all find inner peace and happiness in the least destructive and expensive way.
(PS sorry for the lack of line breaks and paragraph structure, but I didn't have time to fix this from being copied from Notes)
I did not want to imagine that! Thank you!
Hope he'll heal up nicely!
Dana
Wonder if my iPad's battery will last until I get home?
It will if you turn the ipad off and don't use it.
Okay
Complaint: Several years ago I took advantage of my phone company's offer to provide my phone and DSL Internet service for a "permanent" price. But every year it goes up.
It used to be around $80, today it's $120. My calling and Internet activities haven't changed. I'm afraid to go looking for a different plan or even a different provider, for fear I'll shoot my foot.
Taxes & fees, they nickel and dime you to death. They're slow boiling me, the frog.
My DSL service isn't bad. 75Mbps down, 25Mbps up, measured. Handles my data downloads and 1080P TV viewing needs without problems. Although I probably do need to dig out the paperwork and see just what I signed up for. Maybe it would be better to rethink my data needs. I hardly use the telephone at all but DSL comes through the phoneline. And I am loathe to give up my landline. (clinging to the past).
The cost has gone up due to Covid related supply chain issues... you see, because of fewer people being outdoors during the pandemic less air was being moved around and breathed by people, while squirrels and sparrows did take up some of the slack, despite their efforts, most of the oxygen dried out and began to stick together in clumps making it more difficult to deliver to people and animal's lungs... this slowing down of the oxygen supply chain made it harder for the phone company to force the phone call particles through the thicker atmosphere resulting in a displacement of the fabric of time space in the vicinity of your payment plan altering the permanency of your permanent plan... the phone company actually wants to charge you less but their hands are tied... all these fees and taxes actually really do make themselves up and the phone company is helpless in this matter, they'd love nothing less than to not have to nickel and dime you for every fee they randomly make up, but they have starving CEOs to think about who are teetering on the edge of double digit billionairedom... you can't expect them to live happily under such horrific conditions... that's inhuman.
Remember, nothing is forever and nothing permanent is permanent in the grand scheme of scheming.
Ouch... Sorry to hear this... many years ago I lost two fingernails to a crushing injury (a steel hatch)... they actually fell off after a few days and it wasn't pretty... and it takes an incredibly long time for the nails to grow back... I think it took a year plus to get normalish looking fingers... and to this day my left pointer finger still grows the nail with a dent in it, though it's not as noticeable as it was twenty years ago.
Slicing it off must be infinitely worse because all that sensitive flesh underneath is even more traumatized and exposed...
I also once abraded a slot into two fingernails on the edge of a disk sander... one went deep enough to draw blood but it was horribly raw... after a few days I glued an artificial nail over the hole to prevent further damage and protect it... it was initially a good idea, but it became harder to maintain after a while because it's hard to remove the glue build up and artificial nails don't seem to be designed for wide fingers.
I wish your brother a speedy recovery and hope he has something adequate protecting that sensitive flesh... it's really maddening to deal with even after it seems healed.
I am hot. Not in the way my sweetheart would think, but warm. I am wearing pink sweat pants and a black and white tshirt.
See, that's the problem... if you were wearing black and white sweat pants and a pink t-shirt, you'd be comfortable.
I'm not expanding on that... honestly... if anyone was expecting some fantastic explanation of why that would be, it's not happening today... I started thinking of great reasons involving thermal reflection rates for materials containing red pigment and long wave radiation exchange between a black material zone and a white one and how depending on the pattern of the fabric, the skin surface below could dissipate heat effectively throughout the circulatory system, but today I'm going to avoid making outlandish statements involving fragmented pseudoscience and mad ramblings.
Instead I'm just going to make outlandish statements involving fragmented fashion trend information and rambling style suggestions, such as the following point where I suggest your ensemble include a Phrygian cap... that's actually pronounced more like "fridgeeian" as opposed to "Friggin" (as in "Yo gimmee back my friggin' cap, yah theevin bastid" as one may say if they were from Brooklyn and speaking of their pilfered baseball cap).
Phrygian caps were once all the rage in the ancient world and they are due for a comeback.
Originally they were very popular with the ancient peoples of Iran, such as the Scythians, the Medes and Persians... but most people are familiar with them as the kind of hat Santa Claus wears or Ebeneezer Scrooge wore to bed while being haunted by time traveling ghosts... technically though, those are variations of the Phrygian cap and the most accurate depiction of a traditional one is the kind worn by Smurfs...
Little known fact: Smurfs (Smurf is actually a surname meaning "sock hat") are actually Iranian refugees that immigrated from Belgium in the 1950s seeking a cure for a combination of a growth disorder and methemoglobinemia, a condition that causes the skin to turn blue... in the late 70s, Peyo Gargamel, a doctor at NYU medical center theorized that the condition they were suffering from was actually caused by their diet which consisted solely of sarsaparilla berries (Smilax ornata, aka "Smurfberries"), which they had been using to treat their chronic syphilis... once they adopted a broader and more diverse diet, the condition cleared up and now a generation later, Smurfs are living a relatively normal life in Hoboken, NJ... Well except for the part where Gargamel went mad because he was never given credit for curing them and he killed a janitor at NYU while trying to create a "Philosopher's Stone" using human blood, and then swore revenge on the Smurfs and murdered several of them before vanishing into a swamp in the Meadowlands. The case was never closed and it's believed Gargamel is still at large and probably responsible for the mysterious deaths of more Smurfs decades later.
Today the Smurf family owns a hat factory in New Jersey and have been selling their stylish caps to the broader public for decades and hopes to turn the world on to their trendy fashion accessory.
Historically the Phrygian cap has also been associated with freedom... back in Ancient Rome, freed slaves were given these hats as a stylish symbol of their newfound personal liberties and after everyone stabbed the hell out of Julius Caesar, the hat became a symbol of Rome's return to a republic... and also a weird "secret mystery" cult, but that's a long story that I don't care to work in here... in 1675 the "red caps" became a symbol of the Stamp-Paper revolt in France and their general dissatisfaction with the fancy rich people running things at the time... this symbol continued to colonial America were many of the revolutionary militias adopted it as part of their simple uniforms and it became known as a "Liberty Cap"... in fact the US Department of the Army's official seal depicts one in the center of the seal under the banner "This We'll Defend", which confuses many people into believing the sole purpose of the Army was originally to defend headwear, which is only partly true, but still an important duty now mostly assigned to an experimental group of robotic milliners tasked with strategic hat defense.
Today the names "Phrygian Cap" and "Liberty Cap" probably wouldn't catch on as well, being considered either too difficult to pronounce or too divisively named, so the Smurfs have been selling them as Fridgee Caps and promoting them on their social media...
Danm... I did go off on a tangent...
Well... it was more history related than science nonsense... but now at least some folks might know that Smurf hats are actually descended from ancient Iranian headwear, sarsaparilla was once used to treat syphilis, methemoglobinemia is a medical condition that turns the skin blue, Gargamel is still out there murdering Smurfs, The US Army wasn't formed solely to defend hats and Santa Claus was actually a French revolutionary... and if you want to buy a really stylish hat that'll make you look like poor colonial soldier, the term to look up is "Phrygian Cap"... which by the way, run anywhere from $10 to $40 for a decent quality one... or $70-$80 if you want to go full authentic Les Misérables barricade crooner.
Good luck with your outfit and if you sweatpants are still making you hot and you can't go pantless, remember to hydrate... replacing the water you sweat out is very important.
I should go before I start elaborating on drinking recycled sweat...
Cheers.
Papa Smurf
Yes, just like him... only he turned himself permanently blue(technically blue-violet) by repeatedly drinking a homemade concoction of silver chloride colloid for his allergies.
He died back in 2013... a physician who examined Papa Smurf (aka Paul Karason) at one point claimed his internal organs were probably blue as well.
Apparently, once you turn blue that's pretty much it... it seems irreversible, or in the very least may take decades to dissipate.
There are actually a number of folks who have this condition called Argyria which is cause by ingesting excessive amounts of silver solutions or silver dust... most appear blue grey, having an undead zombie-like pallor, but in a few exceptional cases the individual becomes thoroughly blue to blue-violet as did Paul Karason.
Some researchers have speculated whether some of the ancient depictions of blue skined deities and demons may have been based on real individuals with medical conditions or who perhaps ingested quantities of silver for some reason, though most historians believe these were metaphorical or fanciful depictions indicating auras or implying supernatural origins.
Apparently the actress who played Iron Man's love interest and who is also a purveyor of New Age cures and elixirs (and very specially scented candles) is a big fan of Silver Chloride Colloids... because "why not?" I suppose.
...you can get a red Phrygian cap at Amazon for 38$.(not to be confused with a "slouch beanie" that curls backwards instead of forwards)
can't you just turn it around?
Dana
I wish PCs and PC parts weren't so dang blasted expensive. or that I had about a million dollars.
..."Phrygian's in the hood".
Being cool is a big part of it, but wearing a baseball cap backwards has a couple of legitimate reasons.
1) It helps keep the back of your neck from getting sunburned in those situations.
2) The bill (intended to keep the sun out of your eyes when worn forward) sometimes gets in your way so you turn it around so that you can see action around you unobstructedly in those situations. But turning it to the side when not playing sports is just a silly, juvenile, fashion statement.
Who ever said blue-collar men don't follow fashion trends?
Growing up, I never wore hats. But my partner loved hats and hooked me into getting some during my middle age years. And after I lost my hair (oh my beautiful lost hair
) I began to wear hats more often. Now in the winter it's a black wool, knit watchcap(image below). In the summer it's a baseball cap (worn forward or backward as necessary). I also wear a black leather cowboy hat when I have to go out in the rain during summer, spring, or fall.
And I wear a light, airy, cowboy hat made of straw or other fibers on hot summer days in the sun to provide full head shade.
My baseball cap is from Universal Studios, Florida. I got it at least 12 years ago. I arrived at the park on a bright, sunny, hot day without a hat, as a pasty white, northern tourist who was going to fry his naked head in the Florida sun if he didn't have a hat. There's a souvenier & hat shop in the Universal Studios parking garage, just before you walk the final-mile (it's a big parking garage
) into the park. I needed a hat, so I picked out a nice simple baseball cap that said "UNIVERSAL STUDIOS" on it and paid an ungodly price of $28 for it.
Heck, I'm a walking advertisement for them, and have been for 12 years. They should pay me for advertising for them.
I wear it out of spite, I've got to get my money out if it.
Baseball caps for me, always forward. I don't think I've ever worn one backwards. Here in my part of Tennessee you don't see that many people wearing caps that way, not even kids. I've got a wool cap I wear in really cold weather. When I was in college and for many years after I kept my hair long, never wore anything on my head unless it was raining. Then my hair turned gray and then it turned loose.
I've seen several variations on the "baseball cap" style, but the most amusing was the one I spotted in the Monty Python-ish movie "Jabberwocky". The hunter at the beginning of the movie is wandering through the woods catching rabbits & other critters, and is wearing a furry baseball type hat with a ridiculously long floppy bill(image below). But thankfully, the Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through the tulgy wood and burbled as it came, if flew and chewed and took his head and went galumphing back.
Jabberwocky(1977) trailer: (yes, keep watching) I was able to find a free version of the full movie on my TV via YouTube using my Amazon PRIME account, but I can't find a URL for it on my computer. However, it's out there somewhere. And it's so old, it's probably cheap to rent if you have to. Funny, funny, Python-ish movie.
And yes of course, "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll is the one English poem I know by heart. My only recognizable skill for people under 7 years old.
Image of long billed floppy fur hat:
I think that was the first movie directed by Terry Gilliam.
I found a Jabberwock at Daz store. oh wait, I think I already got it.
Non-complaint: Wheee... it's cold and snowing again after a week or so of misplaced Spring weather. So, I turned on the oven to heat the house up a bit and took advantage of the hot oven to bake a batch of homemade cookies. Mmmm..., chocolate chips, oatmeal, walnuts, sugar, brown sugar, soda, salt, egg, flour, vanilla, heat & love. The house smelled wonderful for a few hours, the cookies all 4.5 dozen of them turned out perfect.
I've already given a dozen away, and bundled most of the others into bags of a dozen. It remains to be seen how many of them survive to be given away.
Unfortunately, there is no room in my freezer for them, so they'll have to be eaten by <somebody>, soon.
Diet? What diet?
Edited to add: And I have enough ingredients for another batch, should another moment of temptation strike me, sans-guilt.
I was eyeing a pair of scissors at Walmart. I was going to buy them today, but decided against it. I had them voided off my order.
Guess what I found in my Walmart bag when I got home!
I only wear my old patrol style camo cap and expensive name-brand baseball style caps I find floating in the ocean... you'd be surprised how many rich people lose their hats while boating which end up washing ashore... unless they have things living in them or they are seriously trashed or rotted out, usually you can just throw them in the wash and you got yourself a nice $60-$80 designer cap, with superb weathering and wavebeaten softness...
Also canvas shoes seem to be a thing too... but never in pairs or the right size... I don't collect those, and I'm fully expecting to find one with half a foot in it one day.
And similar to TJohn I only ever wear my caps forward and generally only in the rain.
Caps... not random shoes found in the dunes.
ah found clothing
I acquired a nice footy scarf discarded at a stadium once and as it was cold I wore it only to discover later the reason it was discarded was because it had vomit on it