start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

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Huh, I missed that episode.

The cable office was a VERY VERY LOUD PLACE but the two young women who helped me were super nice and very pleasant to talk to. Even when I turned really dumb and misunderstand clear and simple statements (e.g., when one said, "Patty is getting your new the converter. Be sure to send back your old one so you don't get billed for it," I turned to leave.) one of them said, "It's OK! You've got a lot going on!"

Plus I got to see lots of ducks and geese, including a Canada Goose sitting on eggs in its ginormous nest.

Je55e, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link

i hate when people call them canadian geese

computer champion (harbl), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link

what would you rather call them2

mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link

I guess they're technically "canada geese," huh! I've never heard anyone actually say "canada goose" when referring to the birds, just "canadian geese"

pardon my ignorance

mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link

you're excused this one time on this thread

computer champion (harbl), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link

I saw a goose drinking a Canadian Dry one time.

pplains, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link

the Canada goose makes me extremely angry at least once a day

mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link

Do you work at a golf course?

pplains, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link

office campus just outside the city with retaining ponds and a creek

mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link

i kinda like them for their brazenness but they shit everywhere and are mean

computer champion (harbl), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link

^ poops all over the sidewalk, chases small children, hisses angrily

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link

"Who me?"

http://i.imgur.com/AWHeeUS.jpg

"Take off, eh?"

pplains, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link

This goose was cool. It was sitting on a huge nest built amid the biggest heap of empty 40s you've ever seen. Big fucking birds.

Je55e, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link

Under all the empties were the bones of park drunks gone missing. Those remaining tell each other that their comrades sobered up and are living the straight life, or packed up and moved somewhere warm but they give the geese a wide berth.

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link

is a Godspeed You Black Emperor quote?

brimstead, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link

it's like the "in bed" fortune cookie thing but you say "i open my wallet and it is full of blood" instead

brimstead, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link

The way some later episodes of the Simpsons and futurama do this thing where they have a line that they think is so amazingly funny that they play it again after the credits

I'm not even watching those shows (right now or in general) but it just popped into my head that they would do this & I got a little bit annoyed

Dainger! High Doltage (wins), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link

I was thinking today about the Cadbury Crème Egg and how a) it used to be way bigger/better and b) the New Zealand 80s-era TV ad for it, which came on only around Easter, was always my favourite ad ever, and then when I was about 15 they stopped running it and put up some other bullshit ad. It used to be that this would just make me kind of sad to think about, but today it made me SO angry. How dare anyone change something I like.

I guess I can be thankful for YouTube though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olF-KP4J4ew

franny glasshole (franny glass), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link

FYI once they get home, Canadian geese are lovely and polite and clean up after themselves

she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link

lol

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Thursday, 9 April 2015 14:52 (nine years ago) link

prepackaged salad containers that are so full you can't mix in dressing without it going everywhere

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 April 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link

Ha those Apple Cabin ads remind me of the Didldidi ads from Mitchell and Webb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jVLp-n9ww

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link

BTW
The way some later episodes of the Simpsons and futurama do this thing where they have a line that they think is so amazingly funny that they play it again after the credits

Ive seen every Futurama episode and you've lost me on this, I dont think Ive ever seen them do any post-credits stuff. you sure its not just your TV station replaying a bit?

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link

some networks that are showing syndicated cartoons do that but yr right in that it wasn't necessarily part of the orig episode

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:59 (nine years ago) link

i remember Comedy Central doing that a lot with their run of Futurama, but they did that with all of their shows

Nhex, Friday, 10 April 2015 05:28 (nine years ago) link

Can't work out why my main cold water tap is dry, not turning on.
NObody's been in the flat apart from me as far as I know,Certainly shouldn't have been.
There were workmen in the square during the day but I don't think they were doing anything with water, just road surfacing as far as I could see.
& other taps are running. Though not sure if every other tap is going to be based on storage water of some kind.
& from what I'd understand a faulty washer would only mean a tap was more likely to drip, not seal up the water through a tap.

I haven't had any warning about water being turned off.
First reaction was is this something to do with the water charges but I haven't heard about this happening with anybody else or seen any warning about it.

Puzzling and hoping it is something that gets sorted out by tomorrow.
Assuming that would mean I can't do a clothes wash until it's sorted either.

Not sure where the water stop would be for the flat. Would assume that one would have to switch it off in order for water to stop running in a flat. & would also have assumed that this flat wouldn't have a large storage unit I wasn't aware of. though it does have a boiler, not sure how much water would be in that.
Water was working earlier, I took a shower before I went out. Filled a kettle a couple of times etc.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link

I pay the rent each month and my brother pays cable and utilities. whenever there's an appliance breakdown I'm always expected to notify the super/landlord, which ok, fine. but when there's an issue with cable/utilities, my brother, either because he hates talking on the phone or is just lazy, outright refuses to call to fix it. and Bright House will only talk to the account holder. we had one month where he let the cable box sit broken for a month without calling, until I finally called pretending to be him because I couldn't stand to keep reminding him.

no matter how many times I bitch him out it just seems to make him want to help less. eventually I'm just gonna refuse to pay cable one month.

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link

I thought your brother already paid cable and utilities

sorry by paid I mean 'takes responsibility for making the actual payment'. we all (me and the other roommate) reimburse him and he makes the payment.

Hammer Smashed Bagels, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link

ah gotcha

Coworker is sniffing every 2 min & I am going to murder him

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link

*checks watch*

Hey everyone. Just here to say I hate company retreats.

pplains, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link

yeeeeep

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link

sniffing every 2 min

me irl :(

example (crüt), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link

those of us with sinus problems have the right to employment

example (crüt), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link

debatable imo

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link

:)

difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link

Sinus probs are fine, but for the sanity of those of us with silly neuroses, pls blow nose!!! Sniffing makes me postal (I know, its my problem).

I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link

I have to email with this guy for a nonprofit I work with and his personal email has a signature that says, in part:

"architect, designer, urbanist, environmentalist, cyclist"

This makes me quite IA, I think because he feels the need to announce these things, but also because he's rather officious and tactless.

dan m, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link

those attitudes go along with his listed credentials imo

I have one coworker who has all his degrees and titles listed in his email signature and he is insufferable

mh, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link

I know it's totally customary for lawyers to frame and hang their diplomas and whatever other certificates they got for good behavior during law school, and people I like a lot do this, but I don't like it and think its unnecessary.

I mean, we know you graduated or you wouldn't be sitting in this office. Anything else I can find on the intranet.

I mostly don't want to spend $200 to frame my damn diploma.

from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link

this guy is basically a project lead and he has "PhD, PMP, CSPO" after his name, on the line before his actual title

mh, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link

I edit an architecture supplement each year, and oh how I do not look forward to those acronyms.

pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link

see my guy doesn't have any credentials beyond (I'm guessing) a bachelor's, so all those 'ist's must just be placeholders

dan m, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link

We have a wall of framed awards at my office. I'm proud of what we've accomplished and everything, but you see, they're all from the same organization. If we had Peabodies and Pulitzers up there, that'd be one thing. Instead, passerby are all "Well, it certainly seems like you've made an impression on the Parenting Media Association!"

pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:02 (nine years ago) link

And God love the Parenting Media Association. I want to make it very clear that they are very important and yes, we'd like some more framed awards next year if possible, thank you.

pplains, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link

My boss is "liaising" with the Br!t!sh C0mputer S0ciety abt getting some sort of organisational membership for some reason, but as far as I can tell they exist solely for people who hope the letters BSC after their name might trick dyslexics and people with poor attention to detail

(on the other hand I am basically the only person in the entire universe not to have a degree, so I'm the only person that would be any good for, and I'm not getting my wallet out)

undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link

BSC

Look, I am one of those people!

(The other way round, innit.)

undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link

lol pplains, if I ever need a good word in with the Parenting Media Association, I know where I'm coming

mh, Wednesday, 15 April 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link


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