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BessLane
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Just got my first FB post about the War on Christmas....(sound effects and scary graphics)...
So TICTH the folks who do this every year....I went off...
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JoannaP
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TICTH the proximity of my sinus and dental nerve. I have a head full of cold and, as usual, the worst bit is the really bad apparent toothache, caused by the swollen sinus. I know there is nothing wrong with my teeth (at least not more than usual) but that does not help. MrP is refusing to decapitate me, which is the only thing I can think if that might help.
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by BessLane:
Just got my first FB post about the War on Christmas....(sound effects and scary graphics)...
So TICTH the folks who do this every year....I went off...
Atta girl.
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Penny S
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My washing machine's water supply, which has taken to leaking somewhere, which has, without my seeing it, allowed the wet stuff to insinuate under the laminate floor (not my choice). Initial investigation suggests it is the spur my first plumber put on the pipe so I could cut the machine off rather than the machine hose, and I have applied self-amalgamating tape. If that sorts it, I shall have to get my current plumber in for a permanent fix, which involves moving the large cabinet freezer...
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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quote:
Originally posted by Penny S:
My washing machine's water supply, which has taken to leaking somewhere, which has, without my seeing it, allowed the wet stuff to insinuate under the laminate floor.
Took two repairmen to fix mine. The first blamed me for using too much soap and not cleaning the lint trap properly. The second (factory authorized repair) correctly diagnosed a faulty valve inside the machine and replaced it. No more leak!
TICTH repairmen who haven't a clue.
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Penny S
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Today's wash, closely observed, seems not to have run through its repertoire of 1) Puddle with no apparent connection to anywhere, 2) Wet carpet with no apparent connection - the floor under the adjacent freezer is perfectly dry, 3) Wet trail under moulding put along skirting to mask the edge of the laminate.
So, rubbish connection, and having to empty and move the freezer when the plumber comes. But the wonderful tape has worked.
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Penny S
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Whatever has put scratches on my nice new double glazed first floor kitchen window. A patch about as big as a hand, with a group of scratches roughly up and down, but with no consistent pattern as of demented cat with very hard claws, bird with very hard beak, a dirty sponge (though no-one has been up there on the garage roof to do anything). The sctatches criss cross each other in a higgledy piggledy way. It can't be the window cleaner's long arm squirter with brush, because it is in only one spot, and narrower than the device.
[ 28. October 2014, 20:13: Message edited by: Penny S ]
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orfeo
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In the past, we have had a Hell thread about the stupid self-serve supermarket checkout systems that talk about the "bagging area" and tell you to put items there after scanning, and tell you to take unexpected items out of the bagging area.
At the time I agreed with UK Shipmates that such a system was thoroughly stupid and celebrated the fact that Woolworths in Australia had a far more sensible and streamlined system.
I would just like register my utter horror at the fact that my last 2 attendances at a nearby Woolworths supermarket have involved being told to place items in the bagging area when I haven't moved fast enough for its liking (because I'm trying to move things around in the bag to make the packing work better, you stupid piece of silicon!).
Also, it now absolutely INSISTS that you acknowledge how many Jamie Oliver stickers you have earned even if you don't have the slightest interest in collecting the aforesaid Jamie Oliver stickers.
Just as well they sent me a survey on the weekend, then...
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orfeo
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Oh, and now... TICTH the revolting sense of entitlement of all the men who think it's perfectly okay to let a woman walking down the street know what they think of her appearance, because basically she's just there for their pleasure rather than walking past to get from A to B.
I won't link to the relevant Youtube video, because the comments section has made me both profoundly angry and somewhat ill. We live in a revolting world and frankly, right now I feel like it would be a satisfying career move to offer my services as a contract killer in order to help eradicate these kinds of sexist self-centred pigs from society.
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Penny S
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That's a bit hard on pigs, isn't it?
The really sad thing is that it is apparent that these subhuman characters are not thinking about anything interesting that can't be interrupted.
What on earth is going on in there between aggressive outbursts? Apart from the brain reorganisation which goes on in adolescence.
Not having seen the video, I don't know about joining you in the hit squad, but I would suggest substituting those little feathery things which carry medication, to have some suitable effect on them.
[ 29. October 2014, 18:17: Message edited by: Penny S ]
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RooK
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I think I saw that exact video. I'm not sure I agree with all the supposed harassment, as I'm willing to forgive saying "Have a nice day." to anybody - including attractive females. But the sheer volume of inappropriate and utterly unsolicited commentary made me quail with embarrassment for my gender.
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IngoB
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The version I googled does not have any comments (at least I don't see any in the UK at the time of writing): here. I was struck by on one hand the scary persistence of some of this (a guy walking next to her for five minutes?! sheesh), and on the other hand by the apparent politeness of much of it. I didn't exactly expect "God bless you." and "Have a nice day." as catcalls. As for the frequency, I'm not sure that I can correctly scale this. Apparently she had 10+ comments per hour, which sounds a lot. But then this is Manhattan, a very busy and fairly rough place - so I wonder if I as a man had walked the same streets for that long, how much verbal commentary would I have gotten? I seriously have no idea. It also would be cool to see this done in say London to get an idea how universal this is.
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Lamb Chopped
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What struck me (but did not surprise me) is that she has an urgent, almost desperate look on her face--the kind of face that says "I'm in a hurry, I'm going somewhere, don't want to chitchat"--which is why all the so-called polite stuff isn't appropriate either. A total stranger who's obviously moving fast on a crowded city street is NOT someone you ought to be chatting up.
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marzipan
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TICTH online security for my credit card which is more likely to prevent me from being able to buy things than to prevent a thief from using my card details!
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Originally posted by marzipan:
TICTH online security for my credit card which is more likely to prevent me from being able to buy things than to prevent a thief from using my card details!
This happened to me yesterday. My payment was refused and then (as always) the phone started ringing from the Co-op and the lady on the answer phone declared 'possible fraudulent activity'. I can't answer it as they won't speak to me anyway as they seem to have my husband as first holder with all the magic words ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Twilight
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Hardhearted as I am, Penny's problems actually made me tear-up. It's all so aggravating. Your home is supposed to be your sanctuary from problems and it becomes the problem!
TICTH hard pressure sales people who work you until you've forgotten all the details you came in for and send you away with whatever they feel like selling you. In this case, a mattress that arrived three hours after the scheduled time, is too big for all my bed linens, and has awakened me today with a backache. Cost $1000. Last week it was a new water heater, cost $1200 after flooding the under the bedroom carpet.
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Penny S
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And your problems are so much worse!
I now have a rat setting up home in the garden. I'm trying to persuade it to go elsewhere. But it's put so much work in to converting last year's courgette bed to a cosy set of tunnels, it's a shame to pur gallons of water down there and seal it up with mud. And after it had cultivated the unworkable clay for me, too. I really don't want to get into the process of causing unclotting bleeds.
The exercise of randomness in the universe will keep things clustering together, won't it?
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Sioni Sais
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TICTH isn't an 'Ask the Hellhosts' column, but you could do worse than borrow a Jack Russell terrier for a day.
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Penny S
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Next door has some sort of terrier - the subject has been mentioned.
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saysay
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Gamergate and the fact that it doesn't look like it's ever going to end (which makes me wonder what they're going to come up with next.
Computer programs that open themselves and won't close. Here's a hint, computer programers: this does not make more likely to use your program. It makes me more likely to give up and go ff grid.
And tech changes so fast and aggressive that I can barely keep up with them much less keep one step in front of them.
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I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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Kelly Alves
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Dear Blockbuster movie trailer makers-- must you Dolby the ever-loving crap out of every scrap of SFX that comes across your audio editing software? Less is more!
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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MrsBeaky
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TICTH lack of access to health care.
I just took a call from our field worker who was with a baby on the point of death.
How I hate being unable to do anything in these situations.
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Jemima the 9th
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I came to CTH the never-ending headache / migraine combo which is now entering its 7th day and is beginning to piss me right off.
Then I saw MrsBeaky's post, and, suitably chastened, I'm going to have my cheap neurofen, have a cup of chamomile tea, and stop bloody moaning.
How awful, MrsB. Poor baby, poor parents.
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MrsBeaky
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Thanks Jemima the 9th
Suffering comes in many guises and migraines are vile, my husband had a two day one at the beginning of the week so yours deserves to be CTH!
So I also CTH vile headaches at the same time as giving thanks for access to pain relief and brooding about my earlier post!
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Kelly Alves
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quote:
Originally posted by MrsBeaky:
TICTH lack of access to health care.
I just took a call from our field worker who was with a baby on the point of death.
How I hate being unable to do anything in these situations.
Fuck me. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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mousethief
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Bitchy, hair-trigger helicopter parents.
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Golden Key
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All frelling bureaucracies, everywhere.
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Penny S
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The people who are having a massive fireworks display that has gone on for about ten minutes at least, sounding like a mortar barrage, and doing it somewhere where I CAN'T SEE IT. (Which is quite hard, as I can see nearly 180 degrees out of the front, and nearly 180 degrees out of the back and for some distance when it comes to rockets.)
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Palimpsest
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Perhaps it's on your rooftop?
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Bene Gesserit
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TITCH the common cold. Soddit!!
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Jengie jon
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Seconded
Jengie
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Back to my blog
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Penny S
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quote:
Originally posted by Palimpsest:
Perhaps it's on your rooftop?
Nah. No room. And it would be much much noisier. And I would be able to see the light from it.
Mind you, I have come to realise how far that sort of sound can travel by watching the live lightning map during storms.
European lightning Thunder from over 10 miles away sounds as if it's almost on top of me.
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orfeo
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Just when you think you've run out of time-wasting websites of no practical use whatsoever, along comes another one.
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marzipan
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Orfeo: is that necessarily a bad thing?
TICTH going around in circles chasing my non existent tail
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Penny S
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Originally posted by orfeo:
Just when you think you've run out of time-wasting websites of no practical use whatsoever, along comes another one.
Actually, I found it quite useful when trying to photograph lightning - because I could see which way the storm was moving.
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Moo
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TICTH the blueberry seed which got lodged between two of my teeth. I worked away with dental floss until I had managed to dislodge two fillings.
I just spent an hour and a lot of money at the dentist's.
Moo
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by Moo:
I worked away with dental floss until I had managed to dislodge two fillings.
Dental floss is an invention of the devil.
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orfeo
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quote:
Originally posted by marzipan:
Orfeo: is that necessarily a bad thing?
The clue is in the term "time-wasting".
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Penny S
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What I fund fascinating about that site was the source of the data. Over Europe there are countless people who have constructed receiver aerials which are a metre in all three dimensions, and the attendant gizmos for dealing with the data and sending it off. Who are these people, and why are they? I looked at the possibility of having one on my roof, but I wouldn't get permission for it. also, the gizmos needeed skills I don't have.
And a lightning strike in Russia can be picked up in the UK. Extraordinary.
And lightning often seems to be coordinated over a distance, with simultaneous strikes quite a way apart. (Genuine effect, spotted, but not explained by professionals.)
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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TICTH people who don't respond to emails. You want your problem fixing, you either respond to my email or fuck off and stop your whining.
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Dark Knight
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TICTH chronic anxiety ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif) ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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TITCH adult acne. Really, fuck this shit. I just don't need it right now. Or anytime, for that matter.
Oh, and while I'm here, I may as well condemn to hell the monobrow*, the moustache, the sideburns, the whole goddamn lot of it. And the social expectation that I stay on top of it. At this rate I will be growing hairs on my eyeballs in ten years time...
*I would be quite the celebrity in Tajikistan.
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North East Quine
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Psychosomatic symptoms. I am not ill. I know I am not ill. These symptoms can fuck off.
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Did I mention that I hate going to the dentist?
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AmyBo
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TITCH my bitch boss who shows up twice a week and then starts an inquisition into a conversation I had where I got creamed so bad it left me in tears but apparently it's my fault because the cunt who complained about me failed to mention that she refuses to do the part of her job that allows me to do mine and then confronted me about it - her ineptness being something I have repeatedly asked for help for dealing with from both the cunt's physically threatening supervisor and my aforementioned bitch boss. But who the hell should listen to me? HR is psycho and the head honcho is sad he's closing the shop after Christmas (and the only motherfucker in this story getting laid off is me).
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Caissa
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TICTH USians who gave Republicans control of the Senate.
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Pigwidgeon
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TICTH Arizonans who gave Republicans control of just about everything in the state (but we didn't have a Senatorial election this year).
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ChastMastr
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quote:
Originally posted by Caissa:
TICTH USians who gave Republicans control of the Senate.
And of governorships and denying good initiatives and so many other things. ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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