Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[taz]

i <heart> mainemike

[davids]

We're about to tell our neighbors that they're parking on our property, something that we asked the old owners to do before they sold.

I have no idea how this conversation is going to go. I am very much not looking forward to it.

[ron l edmiston]

We're about to tell our neighbors that they're parking on our property, something that we asked the old owners to do before they sold.

I have no idea how this conversation is going to go. I am very much not looking forward to it.

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just insert a "donald trump, we support" placard in your yard ---- they will delete any closeness to your property..

ronnie with a smile

[devlin]

Great post Mike. I use full words and punctuation in my texts. Except I use lol, I am now ashamed enough to vow to never use it again.


My rant since I haven't had a good rant for quite some time.

My ex. Gone 14 months since we separated. Complicated and incredibly heart breaking. This woman lives in an absolute fantasy world and is almost completely revising our history to justify her failings. She does not have the capacity to look at herself in the mirror and accept any of the responsibility for her part to play. I've had no say in where my kids live and she still tries to dictate to me how I am supposed to live my life. To top if off she is now buying a house and talking marriage with a guy she only met 4 months ago and until two months ago was supposedly taking it very slow. All with my kids in tow. Rant done.

[roseyscot]

Great post Mike. I use full words and punctuation in my texts. Except I use lol, I am now ashamed enough to vow to never use it again.


My rant since I haven't had a good rant for quite some time.

My ex. Gone 14 months since we separated. Complicated and incredibly heart breaking. This woman lives in an absolute fantasy world and is almost completely revising our history to justify her failings. She does not have the capacity to look at herself in the mirror and accept any of the responsibility for her part to play. I've had no say in where my kids live and she still tries to dictate to me how I am supposed to live my life. To top if off she is now buying a house and talking marriage with a guy she only met 4 months ago and until two months ago was supposedly taking it very slow. All with my kids in tow. Rant done.

For tomorrow, the new marriage = no more alimony, right?

My rant? It's not even mid March and the New England ski season is effectively over. Questionable whether it ever really started.

[bigbill]

I leave for AZ on Sunday morning. I plan on riding 220-250 miles in the 7 days I'm there. My back is largely untested at anything past about 90 minutes and I'm sitting on a heating pad tonight. I guess I'll make sure my low back is cleanly shaven so the Salonpas patches will come off easily. I guess the upside is most of the other riders in the group are from the NE and Canada, they're probably worse off than me.

[Shinomaster]

Ok Cupid sucks.

[Derek Raymond]

^ I met my future wife on ok cupid.

[Derek Raymond]

People, supposedly professionals, that email like they're texting, ie: purposely shortened/misspelled words, zero punctuation, text acronyms - ex: IDK, for I don't know, and worst of all: grown men that use lol. It's insane. Technology has done nothing to further the English language, nothing. It's exhausting. While I'm at it: I dated a girl this Summer that used the word exquisite far too often. Given how she looked in a bikini, I was able to let it slide. That said: she used it too much so one day I said: a word used too much, loses it's meaning, if you know what I mean? She said something to the effect of: well, I like nice things. I let it go. However, it speaks to a larger problem, namely the Internet. Everything is !!!!!! Powerful, jaw-dropping, sobering, breathtaking, amazing, etc...it's like the entire Internet has become click-bait. Yes I know there are civilized corners, VS for example!, but the masses are being fed and fed and fed, until nothing means anything, let alone the meaning of common words. And it's not just fodder-slinging click-mongers, it's everyday folks exclaiming on FaceBook about the amazing burger they had in the quaintest eatery, w/requisite photo. All is superlative, all. Yes, I know: it's Facebook, and that is where the masses mass, if you will, myself included. (FB is an Ocean, filled w/every type of fish, and I, I am a Fisherman.! ahhhha, don't get me started.) My point is: Our language is being diluted by technology and access, and sometimes it just plain irksome, though for many I feel it's downright harmful.

Language is always evolving. If someone says lol, I'll roll my eyes. If someone types it out for non-business purposes, whatever. That said, amazeballs, chillax and totes can GTFO.

[devlin]

For tomorrow, the new marriage = no more alimony, right?

Don't pay alimony but I do pay child support. I'm not req'd to do so because I'm out of work but am paying $100/week because they are my kids. I'm not sure what happens when they become a defacto relationship and then married.

I received a trauma cover payout for the Lymphoma diagnosis back last October. I've paid out all our debts since then and also paid for a fair all the kids school costs and a vet bill. Nearly $5k. Because I was left with nothing I've had to buy a small amount of furniture and a car plus pay rent out of it and eat till I can return to work when treatment finishes in about 6 or 7 weeks. If I can find work. Because I've received the money before we have officially financially separated she is entitled to some of it as if it was money we received together. I have managed to keep a cash settlement to a minimum but it means I really only have enough left to survive until end of June. Unless I miraculously get a rash or frame orders and can build one every week or so..........unlikely.

[dashDustin]

My ex. Gone 14 months since we separated. Complicated and incredibly heart breaking. This woman lives in an absolute fantasy world and is almost completely revising our history to justify her failings. She does not have the capacity to look at herself in the mirror and accept any of the responsibility for her part to play. I've had no say in where my kids live and she still tries to dictate to me how I am supposed to live my life. To top if off she is now buying a house and talking marriage with a guy she only met 4 months ago and until two months ago was supposedly taking it very slow. All with my kids in tow. Rant done.

i leave the stuff between my wife and her ex off of here for the most part, but i can say that i completely get what you're going through. and we're in the process of changing things as of monday. it has been a massive stress on our marriage. last argument we had, pretty sure i said "why don't you finalize you divorce from him. it's been 4yrs." that didn't go over well.

[lumpy]

I guess the upside is most of the other riders in the group are from the NE and Canada, they're probably worse off than me.

Don't be so sure. I've had summers where I've ridden less than I have this winter. That's my grump.

[EightySixer]

I live in one of those cities (every city?) in which you can go from the middle of the hood with corner boys hollering at you to an affluent area with yoga pants and purebred dogs aplenty in the matter of a few minutes. I live in the latter of those two and it is quite nice to be away from the former which is where I spent many years.

Anyhow. Three floor enormous home converted to three- three bedroom apartments. I'm on the top floor. Bottom and middle have been vacant until 11:30pm this past Saturday when our new neighbors below decided that was a good time to move in. There has been nobody in the building for awhile so hearing ten foot tall wooden doors slamming late on a Saturday night prompted an instinctual urge to investigate what I assumed were intruders of some sort. A clenched fist a suspicious glare is not a great way to meet the new neighbors.

Now that it has been a few days, the warning my gut was issuing me upon that initial first contact is proving true.
They must smoke 150 cigarettes a day in their apartment, which is the middle floor right below mine.
They have set off the fire alarm on average twice a day.
They get into Worldstar HipHop/YouTube style arguments on a daily basis.

This is just what spills over into my awareness due to their belligerence, God knows what goes on behind those doors.
What a shit show.

On a Grumps Can Suck It/Postman side of things - I just got a Macaco Slackline and I can't wait to play with it at the park.

[Len J]

Pox on business buyers that are in over their head.

Inexperienced Buyer holding up a sale at the nth hour requesting a change in terms that will cost Seller 3% of purchase price in additional taxes. Change is necessary for Buyer to get financing (because they have totally hosed the application and review process). Buyer is resisting finding a solution as (because they mismanaged their attorney) they feel they have already absorbed additional expense themselves. (WTF????). My seller is willing to split the difference to get the deal done and the Buyer is throwing a tantrum.

Grow the F up.

/Rant

[mnoble485]

All winter I have dodged the flu, my wife not so much. Came home today an took my temp. 101.4. Sitting here shivering like a dog shitting a peach seed. Fark me.

Mike

[mmoore]

I don't have the lungs I had last summer. what a struggle this morning.

[nahtnoj]

Amie is having a major neck surgery this coming Tuesday. We should be preparing for that. Instead we have three foster kittens that are about 10 days old. She hasn't slept for more than an hour or so at a time all week. The kittens are all sick with respiratory infections. Got up at 3:30 to take one to the emergency vet Pneumonia, prognosis is not good. I dropped the other two off at the regular vet on my way to work. I hope Amie is sleeping.

[Lionel]

Eating oysters in Val Thorens was not a good idea.

[oldmuthariley]

Was driving along keeping to the speed limit (roadworks ahead too) when a van drives up close behind then overtakes way over the speed limit. I accelerate a tad to make a point then allow him to pull in before he has a head on with someone else.
At the red light light he got out his van screaming and shouting f'ing this and that.
I respond by sitting motionless and staring at him - not flinching at all - he then got back in his van and roared off.
I had fantasies driving back to work of pummelling him with a baseball bat which wasn't in the car and I don't own.
W***er.

[nahtnoj]

If you're going to keep a bat in your car, as your attorney, I advise you to keep a glove, too.