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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
People that do doggy sing-a-longs. They're not singing along with you or your kazoo or your slide whistle, they are crying. You sound 5x as awful to their sensitive ears than you do to your fellow humans. May you all find a fetid, steaming pile on your pillow each morning next to a chewed up pair of your favorite shoes. Prepare to be greeted at the Rainbow Bridge with LRAD.
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People dragging there dogs around on a leash when it is 100 degrees outside and their fat ass is on a beach cruiser
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Yesterday on my commute home I turned a corner and came face to face with a large dog, what looked to be a German shepherd/lab mix. No owner in sight. It barked at me, I yelled, it strolled away. Awesome. Lock up your effing dog.
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
I lost an election earlier this month.
By ten votes.
Or 0.14%
My opponent's campaign got ~$30k in the last three weeks of the campaign
from one rich tea-party nutjob way outside the district.
(That's about 50% of what we'd each raised otherwise --
and enough to totally saturate TV and direct mail for two weeks)
The "donor" started two PACs last month
and dropped something like a quarter mil into them.
Made national news.
I did everything short of beg local media to cover it.
Did the research, provided all the documentation.
They didn't much cover it, except to repeat the (false) claims
made in one of the PAC's direct mail pieces.
Today, the newspaper reported that the guy is being hauled
before the state Registry of Election Finance
because the PACs were an illegal "conduit"
that allowed him to circumvent campaign finance laws.
He potentially faces some fines.
Which really worries a guy with enough money
to drop a quarter mil in a fortnight.
He changed the outcome of multiple races throughout the state.
The local reporter -- the one I begged to cover this story prior to the election --
sent me a "heads-up" email about today's story.
Like I was supposed to be grateful that he finally got around to covering it
three weeks after it made any difference.
I genuinely don't mind losing.
If you take on a two-term incumbent in a primary,
you'd better accept it as a possibility.
But I'm heartbroken that our system is so broken.
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The coffee in my office is absolute shite! My office is on the wrong side of downtown... no one runs a good coffee shop within 6 blocks. Too far to go for a quick coffee break.
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Originally Posted by
Jayme
People who don't know how to use four-way stop intersections.
Every time I get a test team over here, we hand out a driving sheet with US rules and road situations, etc - and then they each have to do a driving test before we hit the road for two weeks. Four-way stops are always a point of emphasis, and nervousness. And these guys are all trained drivers, development engineers, etc. I asked one of the engineers once about the rule for four-way stops in japan...his response -"there is no rule".
There used to be a four-way stop up by my neighborhood in Ann Arbor, which is highly international - especially on this side of town (NE). You could setp up some lawn chairs, pull up a cooler, and make a drinking game out of predicting behaviors at the four-way.
1. Stop and wait for everyone else to go person (I mean everyone - these people wait till there is ZERO traffic there).
2. Stop and go person. First one there? Last one there? Doesn't matter. I came to a complete stop, I'm going.
3. Indecisive person. My turn? Ok. No, your turn - ok, I'll just stop here and wait in the middle of the intersection. Let's dance.
4. Slow down but don't stop person.
5. The right way.
They put in a single lane roundabout two years ago. I'm not always a fan of these, but in this case, in our neighborhood, it has fixed most of the issues.
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Originally Posted by
Ben
I lost an election earlier this month.
By ten votes.
Or 0.14%
My opponent's campaign got ~$30k in the last three weeks of the campaign
from one rich tea-party nutjob way outside the district.
(That's about 50% of what we'd each raised otherwise --
and enough to totally saturate TV and direct mail for two weeks)
The "donor" started two PACs last month
and dropped something like a quarter mil into them.
Made national news.
I did everything short of beg local media to cover it.
Did the research, provided all the documentation.
They didn't much cover it, except to repeat the (false) claims
made in one of the PAC's direct mail pieces.
Today, the newspaper reported that the guy is being hauled
before the state Registry of Election Finance
because the PACs were an illegal "conduit"
that allowed him to circumvent campaign finance laws.
He potentially faces some fines.
Which really worries a guy with enough money
to drop a quarter mil in a fortnight.
He changed the outcome of multiple races throughout the state.
The local reporter -- the one I begged to cover this story prior to the election --
sent me a "heads-up" email about today's story.
Like I was supposed to be grateful that he finally got around to covering it
three weeks after it made any difference.
I genuinely don't mind losing.
If you take on a two-term incumbent in a primary,
you'd better accept it as a possibility.
But I'm heartbroken that our system is so broken.
That reporter wouldn't still be working for me. Either that or his ass would have been in a major sling.
And while we're at it, I fukcing hate politics. As I told a state operative for a major political campaign the other day, "you get paid to tell me this [stuff], but I don't get paid to listen." <click>
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
Sinus pressure
the road rash from Sunday's 1st race is oozing and i cant get comfortable
and everyone took the stupid morning pill today
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
Atmospheric mold counts.
50,000 is a "very high" reading.
Last week in Chicago it was 125,000, and has not been below the 50K line in about 2 weeks.
I don't normally get allergies but lately I have felt like sh1t.
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"The meeting has been sparsed down to groups A, B and C so you are no longer required to attend."
Oh, no, it has been exiguoused. I'll be there.
Sometimes I think that all some people do is turn every word into a verb. They don't actually do any verbs, they just make them.
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-ables: Adding -able to the end of words. Infuriating.
Lunchables, Grillables, packables, snortables, drinkable, fuckupables. etc.
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I would like to kick the blockheads at the CTDEEP right in the a$$ sometimes.
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Been staying away from grump on Thursday as I've got a bunch to thankful for and be happy about.
Though I've cracked today. I'm really running out of steam from not being able to get to sleep or once there, stay asleep.
Shingles nerve stuff can take a hike any time. The unwelcome guest has overstayed.
Whine-o-meter OFF.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent.
Back to smiling.
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Ben
I lost an election earlier this month.
By ten votes.
Or 0.14%
My opponent's campaign got ~$30k in the last three weeks of the campaign
from one rich tea-party nutjob way outside the district.
(That's about 50% of what we'd each raised otherwise --
and enough to totally saturate TV and direct mail for two weeks)
The "donor" started two PACs last month
and dropped something like a quarter mil into them.
Made national news.
I did everything short of beg local media to cover it.
Did the research, provided all the documentation.
They didn't much cover it, except to repeat the (false) claims
made in one of the PAC's direct mail pieces.
Today, the newspaper reported that the guy is being hauled
before the state Registry of Election Finance
because the PACs were an illegal "conduit"
that allowed him to circumvent campaign finance laws.
He potentially faces some fines.
Which really worries a guy with enough money
to drop a quarter mil in a fortnight.
He changed the outcome of multiple races throughout the state.
The local reporter -- the one I begged to cover this story prior to the election --
sent me a "heads-up" email about today's story.
Like I was supposed to be grateful that he finally got around to covering it
three weeks after it made any difference.
I genuinely don't mind losing.
If you take on a two-term incumbent in a primary,
you'd better accept it as a possibility.
But I'm heartbroken that our system is so broken.
$250,000 is a deal compared to what Karl Rove, the Kochs and Adelson are going to pour into the RR campaign. This isn't even about Democrats and Republicans any more. It is just about money.
The voters don't seem able to sort it all out either. As my wife says, people who make less than $40,000/year keep voting to lower our taxes and increase their cost of living. And when their cost of living increases, they vote to lower our taxes again.
More blood letting, the patient is dying!
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Absolutely nothing.
Which is exactly what's got me in a dither.
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J44ke and anyone else who quoted or gave meaningful "feedback" - drop and give me 20
Thursday is a wrap. Open for business again in one week.
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
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Originally Posted by
Too Tall
J44ke and anyone else who quoted or gave meaningful "feedback" - drop and give me 20
Thursday is a wrap. Open for business again in one week.
1 and 2 and 3 ... and ... f o u r . . . a n d . . .
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Sorry TT, but I need to get this in. Mine started Wednesday
1. Wednesday morning, rain in the forecast, so of course the car won't start. Got 2/3 of the way to work before the heavens opened. Sat under cover for 35 minutes before just getting soaked for the last 1/3.
2. Had to put my wet cycling clothes and shoes back on to race home to get my car towed to the mechanic by 5:30. Called at 3, tow truck there at 4:30, slow ride, just got to mechanic at 5:15.
3. Thursday morning, since I had no car, I had to take the train for 45 minutes to meet my coworker to drive to Cape Cod for a business meeting. Back in Boston around 6:30, then another 45 minutes on the T, walk in the door around 7:15 to an exhausted wife, hyper kid, and 30 minutes to pack him up to go visit grandma and grandpa.
4. Thursday night, 8pm, driving my wife's car to meet grandma and grandpa half way for the hand off, which goes well. On the way back, night construction on the Mass Pike so we're crawling at 5mph for ~3 miles. Finally home around 11pm, and I need to repair the flat tire I got on Monday evening so I can ride to work this morning.
5. Friday morning, riding to work, and I get pulled over by a traffic cop in Newton Center for riding through the intersection while all directions were stopped and the white pedestrian walk sign was on. $20 fine and an obnoxious tongue lashing from the fatass cop who probably couldn't climb up two flights of stairs, let alone chase someone on foot.
The silver lining? I spent 17 hours on the Zank cx and road bikes so far this week! That helps me forget about all the drama in between.
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Drove 45 mins last night to the trailhead only to realize i'd forgotten my helmet... grumpiness ensued.
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People who hold up the entire line at the coffee shop/takeout joint/hot dog truck, etc.. by endlessly interrogating the waitstaff; "Is that good?" "Is that really hot?" "What's that taste like?" etc. etc. etc. Jesus H. Crikey...how risk-averse can some shlub be? It's a goddam coffee flavor, you mook. Live a little and try something new. Take a effin' flyer for once in your pampered, overfed, intellectually lackluster, banal little life.
Hack Kaff....suddenly I feel a little better.
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University of South Carolina. PITA. Pretty sure it would be easier to call NASA and get a parts diagram of Curiosity's power system than it is to talk to someone in admissions at USC who actually knows something.
My wife is in grad school. This is her 4th sememester. We paid for summer semester back in May, summer semester is over, she has her grades, and now there's $2,000 worth of summer fees showing on her bill still! Fees are due FRIDAY for Fall semester. This is a PITA.
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Dgaddis. First offense 20 pushups. Thurs. is just around the corner.
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Internet forum mods that place arbitrary and capricious limits on discussion threads.
Kidding...
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Originally Posted by
jscott
Internet forum mods that place arbitrary and capricious limits on discussion threads.
Kidding...
(Yeah THOSE guys, hate em)
OH Dark thirty bicycle riders with NO farking lights. I'm extra grumpy after eating $h!t on a bad cx bike dismount this tue. and am sucking coffee outside my coffee shop. The birds are chirping, sunrise is inevitable, cars are humming by on the busy road I'm working on a pleasant peaceful feeling.......and here comes a rider with no lights headed for a piece of 3 lane that has almost no street lights and ZERO apron. He is lean, riding a BA bike and it churns my stomach, the guy KNOW better. I want to go knock his a$$ into a ditch (gently of course) and cut his spokes with a wire cutter, toss him $20 and tell him to go buy a light. Stupidity should be painful. What really gripes my @ss are two things, he casts a dim view of cyclists and ,g-d forbid, the idiot gets hit will cause incredible suffering for himself AND the person who hits him. Riders owe drivers some measure of responsibility to be visible and predictable. At the very least, dewd, wear a helmet. Eff me. thursdays sheesh.
Fire it up
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
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Originally Posted by
Too Tall
Dgaddis. First offense 20 pushups. Thurs. is just around the corner.
I was too pissed to wait. Turns out they only charged us for one of her classes last summer. So we still owe $1600 for summer, plus the $6k for fall. Grrrrrrr....
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in sticking w/the words i hate theme, i hate the word: unfortunately. its stupid. it has no meaning and its over-used. its a go-to response for every kind of bullshit under the sun. just say no for chrissake. it may have meant something in the past, but it most certainly doesn't mean a freaking thing nowadays and every time i hear it i wince just before i get some degree of irked/pissed off.
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Originally Posted by
mainemike
in sticking w/the words i hate theme, i hate the word: unfortunately. its stupid. it has no meaning and its over-used. its a go-to response for every kind of bullshit under the sun. just say no for chrissake. it may have meant something in the past, but it most certainly doesn't mean a freaking thing nowadays and every time i hear it i wince just before i get some degree of irked/pissed off.
..And the phrase; "It is what it is". Candy-ass Fatalism used as a blanket excuse for lassitude/incompetence/dishonesty/apathy. During my time at GE, the phrase was a mantra for every do-nothing jackass.
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"On a going forward basis, my road map is to get on the same page and be proactive with my team members and do the due diligence."
A long way of saying "I'm a moron."
"Basis" makes me cringe. "On a monthly basis", for example. What's wrong with saying "every month"?
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Originally Posted by
Tom
"On a going forward basis, my road map is to get on the same page and be proactive with my team members and do the due diligence."
A long way of saying "I'm a moron."
"Basis" makes me cringe. "On a monthly basis", for example. What's wrong with saying "every month"?
"Impactful". WTF??!!!!?????!!!!!!??? Some people just need a good smack.
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Originally Posted by
chancerider
"Impactful". WTF??!!!!?????!!!!!!??? Some people just need a good smack.
Oh, yeah! I forgot! I was sent a note saying I didn't need to attend a meeting because they had "sparsed down the audience".
I responded that I agreed, it had not been exiguoused.
"Happy camper". Just used on a loud phone meeting two cubes down. I get most of my stuff from Captain Volume there.
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Me: "This is going to need revision before I can present it to the board."
Him: "Yeah, I thought it might. So allowance for a fair amount of wind-tunnelling has been baked into the timeline."
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
After my morning group ride consisting of me, some turkeys and the waking firmament, I have absolutely nothing today to be chapped about. And that has me highly suspicious... and slightly miffed.
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Re: What's chapping my @ss today?
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Originally Posted by
Tom
"On a going forward basis, my road map is to get on the same page and be proactive with my team members and do the due diligence."
A long way of saying "I'm a moron."
"Basis" makes me cringe. "On a monthly basis", for example. What's wrong with saying "every month"?
All uses of "utilize" can be replaced with use. Clarity increases and pomposity decreases.
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Can I vent? OK good.
So I interview with this company, talk to two CxOs. They offer me a sr blah blah position, and everything else I want. I move across the country. Thats not bad, I wanted to move here.
But total radio silence for 3 months now. I don't do anything, nothing.... I am good at what I do, not to toot my own horn, but toot toot; in my specialized field I am one of the best in the world. Emails go unanswered, phone calls not returned. Not sure what they are paying me for.
Kinda feel like I am wasting my time.
-Joe
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My kid had an amazing year. Though money's tight, we scrimped & saved, used some mileage, and sent her to France for a few weeks to stay with some dear friends. She's having the time of her life, her French has improved, she's made a couple friends. We could not be happier....
Until she sent me a picture of herself standing atop Mont Ventoux saying "ha ha. Got here before you did."
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Originally Posted by
xjoex
Can I vent? OK good.
So I interview with this company, talk to two CxOs. They offer me a sr blah blah position, and everything else I want. I move across the country. Thats not bad, I wanted to move here.
But total radio silence for 3 months now. I don't do anything, nothing.... I am good at what I do, not to toot my own horn, but toot toot; in my specialized field I am one of the best in the world. Emails go unanswered, phone calls not returned. Not sure what they are paying me for.
Kinda feel like I am wasting my time.
-Joe
Just so we're clear, you're complaining about all that extra ride time?
On the flipside, my gripe is the never ending stream of work email, most of which is completely f-ing unnecessary. I'm not talking about a shit ton of email from 8 - 6. I'm talking about a deluge of email from 5am to 10pm during the week and a few dozen that come in over the weekends.
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Originally Posted by
burgess1108
Just so we're clear, you're complaining about all that extra ride time?
On the flipside, my gripe is the never ending stream of work email, most of which is completely f-ing unnecessary. I'm not talking about a shit ton of email from 8 - 6. I'm talking about a deluge of email from 5am to 10pm during the week and a few dozen that come in over the weekends.
You want to hear about the time last year when someone in DoDEA sent out a mass email to basically 90% of the dodea.edu domain? And about 90% of those sent an Email back asking to be taken off the list...by "reply all"? This went on for about 3 weeks.
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Originally Posted by
burgess1108
Just so we're clear, you're complaining about all that extra ride time?
On the flipside, my gripe is the never ending stream of work email, most of which is completely f-ing unnecessary. I'm not talking about a shit ton of email from 8 - 6. I'm talking about a deluge of email from 5am to 10pm during the week and a few dozen that come in over the weekends.
I just quit reading. Right now there are 6401 unread messages in my inbox. IT will eventually archive them and I'll start over.
The head of my department has one dedicated secretary to screen all of his communication and three other support staff that exist primarily to help him do his job. Even with all of this help, he spends 2+ hours a day responding to emails that require his personal attention.
I'll start reading my email when I have a dedicated secretary. Until then I'll just keep assuming the phone will ring if my attention is actually required.
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Originally Posted by
burgess1108
Just so we're clear, you're complaining about all that extra ride time?
On the flipside, my gripe is the never ending stream of work email, most of which is completely f-ing unnecessary. I'm not talking about a shit ton of email from 8 - 6. I'm talking about a deluge of email from 5am to 10pm during the week and a few dozen that come in over the weekends.
I can't think of shit to pretend to do for 8 hours a day!
-Joe