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Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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My phone forced me to update to Android Pie and they changed a bunch of stuff for seemingly no reason, especially closing apps.
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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Some douche posted this on Imgur and now I'm hungry




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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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That does not look appetizing to me.
Yea, what is that anyway? Looks like olives, apples, and marshmallow?! Maybe egg?

My fwp... Bought a new bar for one of my little saws, and a reel of chain. The bar's a discount brand made in Taiwan, but it has a larger nose which is harder to find for consumer saws. While researching people's opinions of the chain, I ran across a Tsumura bar for the same price as my discount bar. One of the top makers, and made in Japan. I already don't like my new bar, and I haven't even installed it yet :^(

Oh, and my internet is now slow. Hotspot turned off in the night, and now my speed's throttled. I wish I understood how it all worked. That could be something I could work around if I were just a bit smarter :^/
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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For me, I got into work before everyone else today. I put the coffee maker on and then got involved in some work and waited about 20 minutes before coming back to the coffee and in that time everyone else had drunk it all and no one bothered to make more, so I had to make a second batch.
That happens to me about daily at my job. People are so f'ing lazy it's disgusting. Or think they're "too good" to make coffee and let the peons do it instead.

My FWP was when I took my lunch break today, about 1/8 cars had their lights off and it was really foggy out with wet and slushy roads. So many people are shit drivers. I don't get why people refuse to turn their lights on, as if it harms their car or something. That's just part of my routine, like buckling my seatbelt. No reason not to.
 

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
70,574
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All the lights in my mini outside Christmas tree burnt. There was a bunch of burnt ones that I was neglecting to change as it's just too cold to mess with that, and I guess another light must have burnt, sending too much voltage to the others and they all popped. Those mini lights do that. When a light burns there's a small shunt that completes the circuit so all the other bulbs get more voltage.

I wonder why they don't just make the shunt a resistor that matches the filament resistance.

Guess I'll remove the strands in spring and then next year I'll replace with LED.

Suppose I should unplug the outside Christmas lights but I find it's less depressing to leave them on during the dark months. Probably unplug them end of February. Starting to be light out just before 8am and stays light out past 5pm now.
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
60,043
10,530
126
I had to restake a house today. I don't like doing them in the first place, and I especially hate doing them more than once. Boring work, and waaaay too many stakes.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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126
got lots of snow and the snow blower is not starting. suspecting fouled carburetor. had to shovel by hand.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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33,921
136
I'm downloading a humongous giant zip file, not really that big but the tubes is slow, and the zip keeps getting corrupted in teleportation so I have to keep retrying. I started this early before my coworkers arrived to steal my internet. Now they are here and it is even slower.
 
Sep 29, 2004
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I'm downloading a humongous giant zip file, not really that big but the tubes is slow, and the zip keeps getting corrupted in teleportation so I have to keep retrying. I started this early before my coworkers arrived to steal my internet. Now they are here and it is even slower.
Mirrors?

Sometimes one mirror site will have a corrupted versi0on and you are pretty much screwed.
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,973
6,338
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Dropped tha cap on my coffee grinder and broke off the safety plastic piece that that ensures the lid is on before the grinder will start. Locked it in the on position with a piece of a paper clip. Guess I can cut my fingers off now.
 

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,973
6,338
136
8 y.o. heat pump, the compressor is shot. P.O.S. was a P.O.S. from the factory. Waiting on prices for a compressor vs new gas pack vs new heat pump plus the cost of changing out the old leaky hard pipe. eff. Just mailed $3K for the yearly insurance on the house/cars. eff.
1 used kidney, 17 years old. Guess I need a 3rd world vendor.
 

Zanovar

Diamond Member
Jan 21, 2011
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Dropped a bottle of nic 250ml 72mg.i freeze them.The fucker just slipped out of my hands
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
100,250
17,895
126
Just ordered a Vizio P65-F1 and tomorrow is a holiday so delivery will at least be one day later :colbert:
 

MtnMan

Diamond Member
Jul 27, 2004
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The microwave died while nuking some really good left over pizza.... cold pizza just doesn't cut it.
 
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clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
26,256
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The microwave died while nuking some really good left over pizza.... cold pizza just doesn't cut it.
Agreed. I don't know how so many heathens can eat cold pizza. Bleh. I'd rather clean someone's pooper of dingleberries. I like food that's supposed to be served warm, hot; and food that's supposed to be cold, cold. Pretty simple.

I guess my problem is that someone who has stolen my Amex credit card number (an old one; I've since been issued a couple new cards) is charging shit against it, AND THAT STUFF IS SHOWING UP ON MY BILL. From a fucking card that's old and I've since shredded. From a fucking card that they KNEW was compromised. Why in the SHIT are you fucking idiots allowing someone to charge shit on an old card, that shows up on my bill and it looks like legit charges to places (e.g. Netflix, Hulu, etc)? Just unbelieveable if you ask me. They say they allow that so when you get a new CC# any accounts you have setup with auto-pay still work with your old card. Pffft. Fucking idiotic IMO, if you don't deactivate old cards, especially ones that were compromised.

Anyway, I've spoken with Amex over the phone either three or four times to get this fucking bullshit straightened out and guess what, it's still happening. I've told them what the damn problem is but they just are refusing to block charges to that old credit card against my account, and instead insist on adding individual blocks against merchants. Sigh. I'm sure I'll have to call them again once I see my next statement, and if they don't take care of the problem at that time I'm closing my account with them. I'm f'ing sick of this silly bullshit.
 

UsandThem

Elite Member
May 4, 2000
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I was waiting on an Amazon package containing a NVMe drive for my new laptop, and around 6:30 PM the Amazon delivery van parked in my driveway. I went out to get it so I could get the OS off of the slow-ass spinner that's in there now, but they accidentally left my package at the local warehouse distribution center. Now it's not coming until tomorrow (hopefully).

I feel so..........unfulfilled. :p
 

Asmodeus

Member
Jun 26, 2017
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I got behind a gentleman driving 25 in a 40mph zone and looking at everything but the road. I was angry.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
72,862
33,921
136
I'm filling out a health questionnaire for a work physical. Some of the health conditions that they are inquiring about are 100% fatal. "Have you ever had an autopsy?"