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no prophet's flag is set so...

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When things go wretched and wrong, and you don't want a whole thread for it, but you'd like to curse a bit, and attract some disinterested comment, false pity, etc. That's why I started this thread.

My winge: this was the lousiest Xmas since 1975. My father is going blind, and we're seeing specialists weekly. A friend's husband (early 50s) entered palliative care on Boxing Day (does he get a month?). And then I had to travel on Boxing Day to where my sister fled after her husband walked out just a week before Xmas. Spent until yesterday sorting out with her. Where fled was lovely and tropical but it's just awful travelling to such a place at the last minute, at great expense and 4 airplanes and 22 hours of travel. And then to crown it all after the diarrhoea, I left prescription glasses in a rental car which cost the bloody earth to hire The only saving grace is that they'll ship them back, though for $200 is 'where's my chainsaw, I need to cut my head off'.

[Fixed title per Hellhost decision to temporarily permit.]

[ 08. January 2018, 23:29: Message edited by: RooK ]

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Doc Tor
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Is this a "Today I Consign to Hell" thread I see before me?

Well now. Well well well well.

Considering we're jumping ship very shortly - this month in fact - I'm going to let this stay open, but only for as long as we're on the old board. TICTH threads ain't happening on the shiny new ship, mind - they fill up the bilges and the crew have to pump faster.

DT
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Thanks, Doc-Tor. I had forgotten what those initials meant, and could happily have consigned the thread to hell, were it not here already, as I didn't understand the title!

Things with me are fine at the moment but I would like to consign to this department arrangements which worked when I made them, but are now double bookings because things change, dammit. [Mad]

(Not one of nature's Buddhists. Nothing is forever.)

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Because it's here:

Having now spent 5 weeks dealing with this situation without a break, TICTH:
  • the designers of the student flats my daughter has just left for deciding to connect the extractor fans between the studios on the floors, among other shortcuts, including flat front doors that were not functioning fire doors. Fire doors do not have inch gaps between the floor and door to allow fire/smoke to spread under the door.
  • the student on the same floor who was both heavily using and dealing cannabis by smoking in his bathroom (and allowing the buyers to do same), so filling the whole floor with cannabis smoke;
  • the management of said studio flats for not dealing with said student - allowing this situation to continue for two months (probably longer, but we've removed my daughter from the situation*);
  • the effectiveness and persistence of cannabis fumes in cloth, bedding, stuffing, paper, rubber coatings of cables, handles, and its ability to transfer that smell to anything else it touches or can absorb the smell.
  • the genetic condition that makes both my daughter and me allergic to lots of things (apparently it affects both collagen and mast cells);
  • anaphylaxis and angioedema;
  • the necessity to give away new things with the labels still on them.

* Although moving stuff home with her brought the problem here. It would have been quicker and cheaper to just bring her and the laptops home (Windows for work and her personal Mac), donating everything else to the charity shops there, not bag by painful bag here. Everything has been cleaned and put away, the smell and allergic reactions persist, she continues to react, so we track down the source, wash/clean the drawerful again (or for the first time for most of my stuff and the stuff she left behind, give up and throw out 50% of anything in that drawer.

Decluttering is not decluttering if the stuff needs replacing.

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TICTH

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TICTH this decision:
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
TICTH threads ain't happening on the shiny new ship, mind

[Two face]

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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
TICTH

Mud

You and me both.

I drove up to Santa Barbara just hours before the rain in the area scarred by California's largest wildfire led to mudslides. 30 miles of Highway 101 between Santa Barbara and Ventura will be closed till Thursday night due to mud and debris. So now my two-hour drive home will instead take at minimum 5 1/2 hours.

Yeah, I know, I'm alive, I'm not one of the poor bastards who ignored the evacuation orders and died in the mudslides. But still. I'll take my mother to the doctor late this morning, then run some errands with her, and then get on the road. And God knows when I'll get home.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sipech:
TICTH this decision:
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
TICTH threads ain't happening on the shiny new ship, mind

[Two face]
Ooh, is someone looking for an early outing for the shiny new banhammer?

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quote:
Originally posted by RuthW:
quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
TICTH

Mud

You and me both.

I drove up to Santa Barbara just hours before the rain in the area scarred by California's largest wildfire led to mudslides. 30 miles of Highway 101 between Santa Barbara and Ventura will be closed till Thursday night due to mud and debris. So now my two-hour drive home will instead take at minimum 5 1/2 hours.

Yeah, I know, I'm alive, I'm not one of the poor bastards who ignored the evacuation orders and died in the mudslides. But still. I'll take my mother to the doctor late this morning, then run some errands with her, and then get on the road. And God knows when I'll get home.

[Mad]

Daughter-unit got caught in that mess yesterday in the other direction-- driving her infant to appt at Children's Hospital LA, gets redirected off 101 in Carpenteria and finds herself caught in the mess of flooded streets, harrowing drive around trying to find the way out before hwy patrol helpfully told her to return home to Santa Barbara. They offered if the appt was an emergency to get a boat to take our grand baby to CHLA, but fortunately it was a routine appt. But yeah, it was wicked crazy-scary there yesterday. Glad both you and them are safe.

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TICTH Migraine

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TICTH was one of my favourite threads..
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quote:
Originally posted by Zacchaeus:
TICTH was one of my favourite threads..

Likewise!

TICTH overcrowded, late-running buses with loud rap being played by antisocial youths who pushed to the front of the queue to be on the bus in the first place. [Mad] TICTH the potty-mouthed individual arguing with the owner of said rap... Not for demanding that it be stopped (though asking nicely might have done the trick) but for his extreme language and belligerence which inflamed the situation.

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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The general life dysfunction became specific this morning. I started to dump last evening's tea leaves into the compost bucket but instead dumped the compost all over the kitchen floor. Mucked it all up, mopped the floor, then I re-set and started to make tea and porridge at the same time. Then I cleaned the porridge out of the teapot.
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[Killing me]

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I love this thread [Two face]

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TICTH time-wasters who keep you answering their questions thinking they're interested, but who have their own agenda.

And I second the TICTH to the decision to have no more TICHT!

[Mad]

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cliffdweller: Driving from Santa Barbara to Long Beach yesterday took me about 300 miles and 6 hours: up to Santa Maria, out SR 166 for hours and hours on the one lane with a lot of slow trucks, then down I-5 over the Grapevine in fog. [Ultra confused]

ETA because I'm not completely a self-centered asshole, just partially: glad to hear your daughter and grandchild found their way home safely. Dear God, what a mess it was in SB County.

[ 11. January 2018, 14:49: Message edited by: RuthW ]

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quote:
Originally posted by jacobsen:
I love this thread [Two face]

So do I and I'll never quite understand what's wrong with having a thread to complain about odd things and possibly share a bit of sympathy over it. (((No Prophet)))

We can do page after page after page of consigning Russ to hell, but we can't do a single post consigning our doctor's receptionist and her permanent power trip to hell? Why the hell not? [Confused]

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quote:
Originally posted by Twilight:

We can do page after page after page of consigning Russ to hell, but we can't do a single post consigning our doctor's receptionist and her permanent power trip to hell? Why the hell not? [Confused]

What's more, the Hosts have to keep track of every post in a dialogue (or a dogpile), neither of which happens much in TICTH as said receptionist is not here to get involved.

We've got to rant and get our passive-aggressive tendencies out somewhere. How about something that autodeletes after 24 hours?

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Thank you for showing exactly why any TICTH thread is doomed to failure.

Firstly, hostly decisions are discussed in Styx and nowhere else. But you just can't help yourselves, can you?

Secondly, TICTH posts are supposed to be pithy rants on the moment's annoyances. It's not a general discussion thread. It's not for answers or observations or smilies or anything other of your crap, just the thing that you want consigned to Hell. But you just can't help yourselves, can you?

You (all, collectively, but specifically you, and you, and you too) are why we can't have nice things. Or even horrible things. You get the Hell you deserve.

DT
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Can't hostly decisions be confined to hell? [Big Grin]
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TICTH 120 fucking seconds!

The Hokey, mother fucking Cokey/Pokey is sometimes too bloody long! It ruins the flow of one's thoughts.

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TICTH hot weather after a morning storm, raising the humidity and discomfort levels of an otherwise bearable day.
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TICTH "the disturbing trend of teenagers eating Tide detergent pods", per ABC's "World News Now".

WTH????

(PS Very glad to have TICTH back! [Smile] )

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quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
Thank you for showing exactly why any TICTH thread is doomed to failure.

Firstly, hostly decisions are discussed in Styx and nowhere else. But you just can't help yourselves, can you?

Secondly, TICTH posts are supposed to be pithy rants on the moment's annoyances. It's not a general discussion thread. It's not for answers or observations or smilies or anything other of your crap, just the thing that you want consigned to Hell. But you just can't help yourselves, can you?

You (all, collectively, but specifically you, and you, and you too) are why we can't have nice things. Or even horrible things. You get the Hell you deserve.

DT
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Forgive me, I was being a smartarse [Hot and Hormonal]

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TICTH Repetitious and concurrent threads and the people who cross-comment on the damn things.

And double down Condemnation of the fucking 120 second rule


And my bloody coding.

[ 12. January 2018, 15:59: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]

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Well, brace yourself for your 300-second future.
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TICTH infected wounds, cellulitis and itching

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TICTH the medical condition of an elderly patron of my library that, due to his physical and mental incapacity to adequately care for himself causes him to reek of feces and urine, and occasionally have accidents. (Please note I do not CTH the man himself, who is rather a decent sort, but his medical condition.)

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TICTH allergic reactions to drugs and all the drugs used to treat the reaction not to mention the expense of procuring four more prescriptions to treat it. The alternative may be worse but this is no picnic.

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Doublethink.
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TICTH Passive aggressive chain Facebook statii e.g.

"I'm going to say goodbye to some of you...... now I'm watching the ones who will have the time to read this post until the end. This is a little test, just to see who reads and who shares without reading! If you have read everything, select 'like' so I can put a thank you on your profile! Cancer is very invasive and destructive to your body. After you have finished your treatment, then, your body wants to go to war with yourself trying to reconstruct all the damage caused by radiation. It's a very long process.
Please, in honour of someone who died, or is fighting cancer, or even had cancer, copy and paste.
They all say: 'if you need anything, do not hesitate, I'm gonna be there for you'... so I'm going to make a bet that less than 1/2 of my friends will put this on their walls. You just have to copy (not share)!!!
I want to know who I can count on.... Write 'done' in the comment when you do.
To all those who are fighting... I am with you always!"


We trained everybody out of chain letters, then out of chain emails and the same pathology shows up again !

And while we're at it, sermonising Facebook and twitter posts. "Just your gentle reminder that ..."

And also faux supportive bollocks addressed to the entire world: remember you are loved, "the work you're doing is worthwhile, you got through today and that's an achievement *hugs*"

You don't fucking know me, I could be a bitter isolated serial killer slaughtering three year olds by night and writing gerrymandered benefit-denying pip assessments by day - fuck off.

[ 15. January 2018, 08:32: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]

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Talking of PIP assessors, TICTH those who not only don't take the trouble to actually listen to what you've told them, but write that you've said the opposite of what you did.

If the whole thing is just a sham, don't waste people's time by inviting them for an interview.

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TICTH Stevia. Honestly, a big middle finger to that stuff, and to all the wise-asses who actually think it forms some sort of reasonable substitute for sugar. YES, it's sweet. YES, it's 'natural', in the sense that it's isolated from a plant, rather than created in a lab. NO, it doesn't taste like sugar, or honey, or anything remotely pleasant. It tastes like Stevia, and I can taste it in anything.

To all the makers of everything out there, if you're looking to offer a low sugar product as part of your line, just put less fucking sugar in it! I'll buy it, and enjoy it a whole lot more than anything containing Stevia, which instantly goes on my [deleted product] list.

[Anoesis, whose herbal tea has been messed with, suffering the very definition of a first world problem.]

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Bipolar medications.

When they work, they work wonderfully.

When they don't...I find I'm missing days out of my life, and have made decisions and provided information at work that I have no recollection of. In some cases wrong decisions. This shit frightens me.

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the teenage boy who has for some reason taken to throwing things into the library and yelling and screaming to be deliberately disruptive. The worst thing he's done was a raw egg. Today nothing so bad, he found a traffic cone and threw that around, hit it with a stick, and made obscene hand motions on it while yelling. We called the police but he was gone before they got here.

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Cyclists who have ridiculously bright lights where they aren't actually necessary but they make it impossible for others to see where they are going.

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my fellow pedestrians who wander around like lost sheep and, faced with "footpath closed" signs, go through all sorts of milling around because they are too fucking lazy to walk around the roadworks.

Stupid fucking lazy fucks. Steamrollers are the only answer.

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Cyclists who have ridiculously bright lights where they aren't actually necessary but they make it impossible for others to see where they are going.

Even when they are travelling on the wrong side of the road? You need all the help you can get to avoid these.
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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
Cyclists who have ridiculously bright lights where they aren't actually necessary but they make it impossible for others to see where they are going.

As a cyclist I am with you on that. Lights designed for off road tracks are too bright for the road. At least it is better than the suicyclists who wear black and ride at night without lights.

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Car drivers who do not give 1 metre (1 yard) of space when passing, and who grow impatient when a cyclist must take up a full lane to maintain safety. And impatient people generally. They are Bad.

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The shops are selling Easter Eggs already! It isn't even Ash Wednesday - in fact we haven't had Candlemas yet. I fear Western civilization is doomed.

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The shops are selling Easter Eggs already! It isn't even Ash Wednesday - in fact we haven't had Candlemas yet. I fear Western civilization is doomed.

If by civilisation you mean we aren't eating each other yet, then it is doomed. If you have greater constraints on the definition then it is dead, cold and beginning to decompose.

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Civilisation is a myth.

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Guy is talking in the public toilet at hospital. He says just a minute and flushes it. All I can think of is him dropping the phone into the potty. And did he say just a minute as he laid his egg.

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np--


FYI: people were doing that back in the 90s. Always wondered if they thought about what they were doing.

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quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
Car drivers who do not give 1 metre (1 yard) of space when passing, and who grow impatient when a cyclist must take up a full lane to maintain safety. And impatient people generally. They are Bad.

Had a twat try to overtake me today while we were both turning left (UK, drive on left remember). Another day, another wanker who shouldn't have passed his test.

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TICTH

Everyone who thinks they own the road or deserve to be on it more than everyone else.

Drivers who ignore cyclists, cyclists who think they have a right to slow down the rest of the fucking world, drivers whose hurry makes everyone more late,drivers who think their SUV is a lorry and swing wide on the turns, etc.

Be fucking considerate and everyone will get where they are going faster and safer.

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TICTH knowing that the man in the Barney suit is a tantric sex healer. And a bit of a creepy one.
To prevent the hosts needing to read the article, I’m not linking it. Just go to Huffpo or Vice if you feel the need.

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Eww. And Tinky Winky's dead.

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I hate the fact that I've been hoping to bump into Ursula K. LeGuin for years (my wife has), and now I never will.

Poignantly and coincidentally, my son was in the midst of reading the first Earthsea novel as she was breathing her last.

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