What first world problem did you have today?

[lxskllr]

I just spent the last 10 minutes looking for my knife. I had something on my teeth, and wanted to use the toothpick. I finally got that off, and I did my routine pat down to check for my stuff, and my knife was missing. I haven't moved, so it had to be here. I looked and looked and looked. No knife. Starting to contemplate whether I may have actually gotten up or not(99.9999999% chance I didn't), and look again... It was on my lap with my shirt over it :^S

Bonus problem...

I can't give money away. I have $22.22 remaining balance on a prepaid card, and I've tried giving it to InternetArchive, and a local classical music station. It either silently fails, or gets declined. Maybe one of the transactions went through, and the site hasn't updated yet? Who the fuck knows?! :^S

 

[highland145]

I just spent the last 10 minutes looking for my knife. I had something on my teeth, and wanted to use the toothpick. I finally got that off, and I did my routine pat down to check for my stuff, and my knife was missing. I haven't moved, so it had to be here. I looked and looked and looked. No knife. Starting to contemplate whether I may have actually gotten up or not(99.9999999% chance I didn't), and look again... It was on my lap with my shirt over it :^S

Should have looked in the bathroom 1st.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Want to mount a tv on a rail so I can slide it left and right on the wall, but nobody locally carries the stuff I want. So I have to wait for Amazon/eBay shipping.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The local public tv station that used to have the pixelated radar maps with the gross robot voice reading the National Weather Service feed has been replaced by a slick HD version with really nice maps, traffic cameras, a BBC news feed and a light classical music background.

I miss the old robot voice.

 

[lxskllr]

Went to a family jul party yesterday. I was talking to a second cousin I'm not particularly familiar with, and she asked what "I did"; both occupationally, and recreationally. Went through the usual crap, then asked her what she liked to do... She likes communing with Jesus in the morning...

Me - Deer in headlights.... Think quick...

Ah, yea. It's good to have some quiet reflection time...

I award myself 8/10 points. Decent punt...

Talk a little more, and I foolishly reveal my Catholic upbringing, implying I quit due to thinking it's bullshit. 1/10 points awarded...

Overall, I award 5/10 points. No blood was spilled, but it was uncomfortable for all involved.

Usually I can talk about all kinds of inane topics. I probe with technical questions that are somewhat interesting to me, and the recipient will enthusiastically reply, with little more from me than the occasional springboard response getting them to talk more. NASCAR, sports, economics... I can find something to get someone else happily making noise, and it all works out. Christianity? The stories suck, the philosophy is logically bankrupt, and they take it way too seriously. Hard to find common ground, but I'm primed to viscerally hate it, so I'm starting from a deficit.

 

[IronWing]

“Well bless your heart” is the all purpose response to any occasion. Practice it until you sound sincere.

 

[Chaotic42]

Having weird problems getting my USB wi-fi adapter on my Ubuntu machine to connect to my network. Don't really feel like messing with it because it's suspiciously like work.

 

[Charmonium]

Went to a family jul party yesterday. I was talking to a second cousin I'm not particularly familiar with, and she asked what "I did"; both occupationally, and recreationally. Went through the usual crap, then asked her what she liked to do... She likes communing with Jesus in the morning...

Me - Deer in headlights.... Think quick...

Ah, yea. It's good to have some quiet reflection time...

I award myself 8/10 points. Decent punt...

Talk a little more, and I foolishly reveal my Catholic upbringing, implying I quit due to thinking it's bullshit. 1/10 points awarded...

Overall, I award 5/10 points. No blood was spilled, but it was uncomfortable for all involved.

Usually I can talk about all kinds of inane topics. I probe with technical questions that are somewhat interesting to me, and the recipient will enthusiastically reply, with little more from me than the occasional springboard response getting them to talk more. NASCAR, sports, economics... I can find something to get someone else happily making noise, and it all works out. Christianity? The stories suck, the philosophy is logically bankrupt, and they take it way too seriously. Hard to find common ground, but I'm primed to viscerally hate it, so I'm starting from a deficit.

I love talking to people about religion. I'm agnostic but I've studied both the Judaeo-Christian and Mahayana Buddhist traditions from a historical and philosophical perspective. When you talk to people about what they believe you realize just how little understanding they have of the history behind their own beliefs. Take the bible for example. How many people who are devout Christians realize that there were hundreds of gospels and epistles floating around before the council of Nicea created the canon around 325AD. Or realize that the sole purpose for doing that was so that Constantine would have a unified belief system so that it could be used to unify his empire. So basically Christianity existed for more than 3 centuries w/o any defined religious text.

I love telling people those things so they can realize that things aren't nearly as simple or straight forward as they generally assume.

 

[lxskllr]

I love talking to people about religion. I'm agnostic but I've studied both the Judaeo-Christian and Mahayana Buddhist traditions from a historical and philosophical perspective. When you talk to people about what they believe you realize just how little understanding they have of the history behind their own beliefs. Take the bible for example. How many people who are devout Christians realize that there were hundreds of gospels and epistles floating around before the council of Nicea created the canon around 325AD. Or realize that the sole purpose for doing that was so that Constantine would have a unified belief system so that it could be used to unify his empire. So basically Christianity existed for more than 3 centuries w/o any defined religious text.

I love telling people those things so they can realize that things aren't nearly as simple or straight forward as they generally assume.

I like that in theory. That's a good internet approach, but in real life with oldsters, I don't see it ending to anyone's satisfaction. Someone's gonna be pissed, and you'll end up with with a session ban, or permaban. At the very least, you'll get some evil eyes cast your way.

I think I already got one second cousin pissed by not attending her wedding on short notice. Hey! I sent $100 with the rsvp... That doesn't excuse all, but it helps mitigate it, and I had a decent excuse...

 

[Zanovar]

I took pure mdma yesterday.twice.Not used to it,it was embarrassing(i take e every now and then) but this shit was something else,apart from showing me how shit the e i have been taking these past 15 years was I need to slow down a bit.I have been drinkiing strong drink and smoking strong dope to counteract its effect.Yes im getting old.

 

[Zanovar]

also expensive pillows are a waste of money.buy cheap and often.

 

[Kaido]

“Well bless your heart” is the all purpose response to any occasion. Practice it until you sound sincere.

http://www.bravotv.com/southern-cha...ng-southern-sayings-that-are-actually-insults

 

[IBMJunkman]

My Lazy-Boy broke. Hopefully I can find the screw I need at the DIY store. And buy a broken stud remover tool.

Luckily I had a spare Lazy-Boy in the garage. Couch potato forever!

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

My Lazy-Boy broke. Hopefully I can find the screw I need at the DIY store. And buy a broken stud remover tool.

Luckily I had a spare Lazy-Boy in the garage. Couch potato forever!

Why would you want a broken tool?

 

[sdifox]

Why would you want a broken tool?

I think he means broken screw removal bit.

 

[IronWing]

My router manufacturer finally released a new firmware version in the wake of the KRACK exploit. It installed fine but nowhere in the release notes does the manufacturer state explicitly that the update addresses the KRACK exploit. It did give me the option of turning off WPS which I did.

 

[IronWing]

I think he means broken screw removal bit.

You're a glutton.

 

[Svnla]

Holiday shopping season is in full speed and housewives with vehicles stocked up with screaming kids = scary situations on the roads. Goodness some of them were so reckless.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

That's what happens when you let the kids drive.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Had a guy pass me on the shoulder doing at least 80 in a white SUV today. Made me wish I had a dash cam since I would have sent that video straight to the cops. I'm no snitch but when I see someone driving that unsafely it's a matter of time till they get someone killed. Good thing the traffic light at the other end was green because there's no way he was stopping on time if it was not, and doubt he had any intention to.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Well, the broken stud remover failed. So I unstapled some fabric and, using vice grips on the back side, continued to screw the broken stud in which really screwed it all the way thru the nut and out. 2 new 1/4x20 countersunk flat head screws and some staples the chair is good as new.

Sorry, Laz-Y-Boy, no new chair needed.

 

[slowsociopath]

Went to Ace Hardware to get a new snow brush for my wife's car. They had only one in stock with no scraper, wtf?

Do what I do live where it doesn't do those nasty things

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[shortylickens]

Actually needed Bed Bath & Beyond for the first time in years.
The fuckers closed. I'd have to take a day trip just find the next one.
Do you guys know if Target or Walmart keep those aloe vera socks?

 

[slowsociopath]

When I was doing radio, we were part of a commercial voice sharing network - you send your commercials off to another station so you get different voices. I had one that was so Germanic/Scandinavian that none of the locals in Indiana could pronounce it (I'm from Louisiana, I didn't have a prayer). I called up the number in the commercial and asked "How the hell do you pronounce your name?". I hooked the phone up to a recorder so I could record her saying it.

Ended up with my easily mangled last name due to the forefathers of ICE Ellis island transposed my great grandfathers last name with town of origin,I just tell people he was in witsec

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[slowsociopath]

I had to use the pissant new paper cutter today, pissed me off all over again.

Also tried to print a map on tabloid size so I set the paper size to tabloid and it printed letter. Went back and checked the settings, checked the paper supply, everything said it was set to print tabloid. I sent the print job and the printer responded, "Which part of f-off did you not understand?" and printed letter size again.

Use it tothe behead the Secretary as a warning to others,Worked in a hospital had federal levelof inspections every 2 years our department was housed in old patient rooms and had minimal storage space ended up with thousands of dollars of surplus cardiac equipment inthe my garage

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