Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
was going on a group ride last night, and the thunder made me think it was going to be cancelled. So I replaced the dead supernova headlight on my gravel bike, and as I'm getting done it appears that the storm has blown over. Get out to the start of the ride late, so I miss the few people that did show up. Headed up the mountain, and it starts pouring. Not really interested in dying on the side of a mountain, I ride back down the hill. Get home, and we didn't get a drop -- rain would be nice because I'm trying to regrow some grass killed by construction work. Two out of the last three wednesdays it has done the same thing.
Waiting for the mailman hoping they sent me a settlement check (that part would be a non-grump). They failed to ask me if I wanted direct deposit.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Read today that Chicago will have the largest real estate tax increase in recent years. We have a 500 Million hole in pension funding for Fire and Police. And CPS is broke as well. I don't mind getting them solvent again but all at once is going to hurt.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Originally Posted by xjoex
I know this is not a Thursday, but I have to share.
I am getting my floors done in the basement. There is no toilet there right now as they pulled it up to put in the floors.
The floor guys showed up 5 hours late. I went down this evening to take a look and I found....
That they took a shit in one of my dog's bowls and left it in the bathroom where the toilet would have been.
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?
-Joe
I sure as hell hope you haven't those clowns anything yet, because if that that happened to me, it would be the last time any of them ever set foot on my property.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Originally Posted by TMB
Just wait until Kanye runs for President. All Kardashian all the time.
My grump for today --- 1:00 meeting just got moved to 11:30. There goes my lunchtime ride.
And I've been helping plan a social ride for the company site. Was supposed to have some high-level participation. The top dog just backed out. Instantly, the other people who are planning it are thinking to just shut down the event. What? Shows who they were actually putting the event on for...
Some are born to move the world to live their fantasies...
"the fun outweighs the suck, and the suck hasn't killed me yet." -- chasea
"Sometimes, as good as it feels to speak out, silence is the only way to rise above the morass. The high road is generally a quiet route." -- echelon_john
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Originally Posted by TMB
I sure as hell hope you haven't those clowns anything yet, because if that that happened to me, it would be the last time any of them ever set foot on my property.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Originally Posted by Guillaume
This really makes me wonder : what the fuck is wrong with this world.
I cried and I'm still a little screwed right now.
Agreed. I saw that and everything else just kind of became meaningless. All the petty stuff we complain about and the rest of the world has a huge humanitarian and refugee crisis.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Originally Posted by XR2
War is the second lowest endeavor humans pursue. Politics is number one.
I don't know where that image came from but it is the most obscene thing I've ever seen.
Turkey. Little kid and his brother (who also drowned) were in boat with relatives (I know for sure the father was there, don't know about the mother), refugees from war in Syria.
Edit: One of the alternatives to seeing this sort of picture would have been a more aggressive US / EU intervention in that nasty war, in which case we would have seen pictures of US body bags coming home.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Religion, war, rape, torture, human suffering, poverty, hunger, access to clean water and education - how is it possible ......is it really 2015 - how far have we evolved or not.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Originally Posted by Mabouya
One of the alternatives to seeing this sort of picture would have been a more aggressive US / EU intervention in that nasty war, in which case we would have seen pictures of US body bags coming home.
this wouldn't have stopped a damn thing. You can't always bomb the crap out of people until it's unicorns and hugs all around. If we hadn't torn the ME to shreds, this may or may not be happening right now, who can know? But we kicked over the hornet's nest and left some really violent people out of power. That's not a stable situation that will resolve itself without refugees.
Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
Pardon my ignorance on this one, but listening to US and Canadian radio I have heard about the efforts (or lack thereof) that western nations are engaged in with regards to the ME and the refugee issues. What I haven't heard of is the efforts of China, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, Argentina, Mexico, Indonesia, etc.
Are other nations engaged in humanitarian causes, at least accepting refugee populations, the way "we" are?
Likes: Originally Posted by xjoex
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Re: Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)
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