The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread
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Where is my phone? I could use the find my phone function on my iPad. For some reason it doesn't with with Android phones?
There's on in the Daz store:
https://www.daz3d.com/unicycle
...I despise those reception bots with a passion. One way I found that works to get around some of them is to just keep pressing "0" until it relents and actually connects me. Even the ones that force you to speak (I have a minor impediment and I find talking to an algorithm instead of a real person somewhat ridiculous and stupid) so I will often respond by pressing the corresponding numbers on the keypad like "1" for "yes" "2" for "no", and whatever number corresponds to the options they give choice they give.
One of the worst is XFinitty/Comcast as they actually have a recorded sound effect of someone typing on a keyboard after the bot says "Let me check". Totally bogus, but I'm sure some people fall for it.
With AI, it's only bound to get worse.
...well here in Portland we have a fellow who dresses in a Darth Vader costume and plays the bagpipes (with flames coming out of the drones) while riding a unicycle.
For some that could be a very odd vision..
I grew up in that little smear between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls, Idaho (until 1982). At 14, 15, and 16 years old, I spent the summers outside of Seattle in Tulalip working on a fishing boat with my brother-in-law. Lots of interesting memories of Puget Sound. Now, I've traveled the world and don't look back much, but everybody's gotta be from somewhere. ;)
Not sure if it is connected or something else? One of my housemates had a bloody nose. The staff told the resident to put her head back which is an outdated method of dealing with a bloody nose.
shortly after that I started feeling nauseous.
Complaint: The bills have started rolling in.
Non-complaint: My Medicare: "Advantage Plan", insurance seems to have taken care of 90% of the surgery center(hospital) bills, which brings the remainder down to manageability. yay.
Surgeon bills still to come.
But there will be no anethesiologist bill, because I watched the whole thing live. Mwa-ha-ha
Now if I could just avoid multi-hour UBER trips to & from Buffalo I might be all caught up budget-wise by the end of the year. (wheee...)
Certainly better than going through the rest of my life with only one working eye, and never knowing when the other one might wonk up.
At least I now have a spare one again.
Appointment with local eye doctor next Tuesday. Then a few more weeks later, after the eyeball finishes filling with liquid, there will be one more trip to Buffalo for the Surgeon to inspect his handiwork, at which time I hope he'll remove my green medical warning band from my wrist. It's gettin' kinda grotty.
is better than my suggested solution of a mini tampon to a workmate
complaint - its raining (yay!) but the temp is 7C....(44f).. Yesterday it was 29C (84F)..
Wow! A 40 degree drop in one day?!
Dana
yep. the forecast low for last night was 10, and we never got any better.. TOmorrow is supposed to be back up to 20C (68F0 and then into the mnid 20C range for the rest of the week... Granted I have seen snow fall fromthe sky here in July.. Not a common ocurrance but it has happened (ok,. so it didn't stick, but it was a shock.)
...going to return to April like conditions here in Portland this weekend and early next week (mid 50s, rain, and wind). Time to hunkerdown inside again.
Complaint
...today on the way home from the market had another near miss with a total idiot on one of those rental scooters riding on the sidewalk who came up from behind at top speed with absolutely no warning. The situation nearly became much worse as moments after hs shot by me, he almost blindsided another pedestrian who stepped out from behind a corner of a building and couldn't see him (made me catch my breath as it was really, really close)
The real irritating part of this was after I reminded the rider he was supposed to be on the street (city ordinance particularly in the city centre) he had the audacity to blame the person he nearly collided with even though again, that fellow had no way to know this fool was coming.. After that, the errant scooter rider continued on speeding down the sidewalk as if nothing happened.
There are even notices on all rental scooters that inform people they are not to be ridden on the sidewalk, but obviously some like this lamebrain have a reading comprehension issue.
Some cities in Europe have already banned these things due to careless behaviour of riders. I would love to see that here.
Imagine a city full of Segways operated by such people. In two months they'd kill off three pedestrians before they ram into a parked bus or down a set of stairs and kill themselves. So, maybe it would balance out in the end?
If the owner of the company was able to run himself off the edge of a cliff, imagine what a "normal" person could do.
...I remember that about the owner.
A few days ago another careless rider on a scooter blew through a red light at a rather busy intersection and swerved sharply to avoid me while I was in the middle of a crosswalk (with the green and walk light). That numbskull was lucky a FedEx or UPS truck wasn't barrelling down the same street I was on (lots of those in my area of town on weekdays).
Besides being prohibited on sidewalks riders are also required to wear a helmet and not have "passengers" with them, Both of those latter two rules are frequently ignored, even though they are on the scooter rental apps and Net sites.
"King of the world" syndrome I guess.
Oh, and Portland actually has a company that offers Segway tours of the city centre and one security service in my part of town also uses them.
Same, we've even been discussing the shifting conditions of LG's eye in my household (are also terrorizing each other with MacG's Tales from a Twisted Mind, a favorite past-time). And I don't even really post here all that much. It makes me feel quite weird, but well, nothing wrong with that, right? Right?? Ermm ... (shuffles back into lurker's corner) ....
I'm here to entertain.
And speaking of daily eyeball updates... Today, the level is up a bit more and now I'm getting reflections off both the top and bottom of the liquid surface, and some light rays are coming in at just the right angle to deflect the light so as to leave the bottom 1/3 of my field of view, quite dark. At first it scared me that I was going blind again, but a quick test by tilting my head up and down showed that the effect is just optical, not biological.
I have to think about the physics of this situation or I'd probably freak out. (*sigh*) Another effect is that the image in the bad eye is not as bright as it was a few days ago. Probably because I've stopped taking my eyedrops and the pupil has shrunk back to normal size again. Yay, I don't look like I have one odd eyeball anymore, and I can go outside without sunglasses.
I'm here to confuse, confound and conspire... the classic "Three Cs", a public service I happily contribute.
It just occurred to me that my earlier comment may have sounded like I was only ever interested in posts by these two and taking all the rest of you wonderfully weird people as background noise. That's really not the case at all.
We're keeping tabs on everyone. Mwahahaha ...
Definitely... by the way, I'm getting a low signal from the chip installed in subject SD041583... I'm thinking we should dispatch a micro-drone to do a diagnostic and see if we need to reinstall a new chip.
So I'm not paranoid, you really are watching me!
Apparently one has to thread the sewing machine before sewing. It won't work unless there is thread from top and thread from bobbin. Also sewing by machine can also be supplemented with sewing my hand.
I needed a needle cushion, but I don't want to fill the tomato cushion with needles. I also made a pin cushion ring. And a random small pillow?
edit when I said small I meant Barbie doll size. Wonder how I can make a bed and blanket for Barbie?
Denis decided to attack my Singer and made off with the cotton reel leaving a trail of thread
Cats and sewing rooms don't mix.
My cats live my sewing room, however. But then, I don't sew. So...
Don't sew your hand...unless you cut it and it needs stitches!
Barbie doesn't need a bed because Barbie never sleeps...
Which can be a terrifying thought, depending on how you look at it.
When my daughters were little I used to reposition their dolls and stuffed animals when they left them unattended... I thought it would be like Toy Story for them, making their imaginary lives more realistic... I'd have them doing stuff, hugging each other or reading a book... cute things...
Apparently for one that was more or less how she felt, that they played and went about their toy lives when she wasn't home or when she was asleep, they watched over her and kept monsters away (we had a monster problem back then and apparently Terminix doesn't spray for monsters)... Apparently the other daughter, who has been an avid reader since a very early age had at a much earlier than appropriate age, started reading the Goosebumps series, which if anyone is unfamiliar, is a scary anthology series like the Twilight Zone, but for kids...
At first she enjoyed that, but at some point she discovered Goosebumps and started collecting them at the school book fairs... I guess I knew that she was reading those books, but because they were not a thing when I was a kid, I never read them and assumed they were were a lot more benign (they aren't bad, it's just she was a lot younger than it was probably appropriate)... apparently there are a lot of stories about possessed or mischievously evil toys and my moving the toys around creeped the living hell out of her... she never said anything and I thought that her putting her dolls and stuffed animals in the closet was just her being neat... not taking precautions they didn't rise up against mankind in the middle of the night.
Who knew.
Complaints...
Actually I have a couple...
One... we have to get the word out about those lines in parking lots... you park between them, not on top of them... not diagonally or lining it up with the center of the car...
Two... I've said it before and I'll say it thousand times more, people need to stop taking their freaking stupid dogs to stores... I really don't care how much it comforts you, or make for a good conversation starter, 90% of the dogs I see in stores, A- Don't want to be there, or B- Absolutely don't belong there... and it's effing it up for people who legit need a trained service or support animal...
Perfect example: I just went into a very crowded Dollar Tree to pick up some glues sticks and delicious coconut milk and I see this smallish dog about the size and basic structural composition of a Corgi (but likely a knockoff imitation brand) standing nervously behind the owner... actually I only noticed it after almost tripping over it's leash... it was hiding/concealed behind some boxes on the floor, clearly praying for the sweet release of death...
No hard feelings against the dog, but for the owner I've got lots... what kind of clueless, selfish and uncaring buttnugget doesn't notice their dear pet is about to die from anxiety... this dog was having major full body tremors... but the owner couldn't care less... this is a common sight post Covid, I don't know why, but apparently once shops opened up during the lockdown, people started bringing their Covid pets everywhere, restaurants, stores, parks that specifically say "Keep Your F_ _ _ing Dog Out Of Here, Its Dangerous For The Dog And The Wildlife... I was in an urgent care a couple of months ago and some idiot tried to bring a big unruly dog in with them... What the eff is going on in your stupid head besides carnival music?
But yeah... and from what I understand most employees don't like it either because of various issues it causes...
Such as...
Remember that nervous dog I mentioned previously... Well, I'm on the checkout line and I start to smell something horrible... awful horrible... like death took a poop on corruption and decay... So shame on me, I figured it was the adorable little toddler in the cart ahead of me... some people feed babies the craziest nastiness thinking it's fine, they survived eating fermented octopus entrails as an infant, so it's what their child will eat too... regardless if they live in perpetual bowel distress.
I thought the poor kid had a full diaper or something, but the look on the mom's face didn't match up to full diaper face... then I hear people at the register next to me making sounds of disgust... and saying "look out, it's everywhere...".
I see Knockoff Corgi lady walking out and apparently didn't do the math, because when I got to the register I could see a sea of dog diarrhea all over... worse yet, some poor little kid stepped in it... this was no ordinary bowel movement... it was what I consider a legendary event in poop history.
How the hell so much diarrhea was compressed into one animal that size is beyond me... I would say maybe four or five other larger dogs joined in and maybe a medium sized feral hippopotamus that had been dining out of the Taco Bell dumpster for several days, but apparently from eyewitness accounts, it was just that one dog, who continued evacuating it's contents on the way out, leaving a dense trail out the door and all over the entry carpet... a trail that incoming customers, unaware of the horrors ahead walked right into and through...
The people working there don't get paid enough for that s_ _t... literally... nobody does... that was a lot of really, really horrible fear based s_ _t... which I'm sure even professional s_ _t removers would refuse...
The poor lady who was just going to open another register had to clean it up... she was retching from the smell.
I'd have offered to help because I felt so bad for her, but that's a really weird thing to offer, but honestly as bad as it was, I've smelled far worse decayed dead things, but regardless, I felt bad for her.
I hope that dog found it in itself to continue to crap profusely in that woman's car... like a part 2, but worse, and after she was driving... for full effect.
So yeah... 45 minutes later and I can still smell it... my nose hairs must have absorbed it.
Gah.
So yeah... Stop taking non-professional dogs in stores!!!
I think my pillow is too small, unless it is a throw pillow. Bummer can't upload proof!
@McGyver,
...ugh that sounds like one terrifying experience.
Hopefully no hack Hollywood producer reads that or it might become the next horrific summer release at the local cinema.
I also still wonder how those little "micro dogs" always seem louder than an F-15 on full afterburner passing 50' overhead at Mach 1.1.