stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 9/15/2017 at 1:16 AM, luke viia said:

i just searched a bunch of stores near me to find a decent price on cat6 ethernet cable but knew deep down that if i just got home and used amazon i'd be paying less. sure enough: 1/3 the price for the same product. there really will be no department stores soon. part of me cares, part of me doesnt. if these stores actually had good customer service they'd stand a chance, but the best help i got was from a neckbeard who led me to the cables and hawked over me, filling the tedious aeons before his lunch break with questions about my intentions for the cable and my budget. just about stuck a dongle in his mouth gnome sane

 

 

the "what do you need it for?" question makes me want to smash a face. 

  On 9/15/2017 at 4:31 AM, ignatius said:

the "what do you need it for?" question makes me want to smash a face.

I even get that shit at the grocery store. I'll buy a random smattering of things like cough drops and tomatoes and lunchmeat and they'll be like WHOA you must be having some crazy party! No, fuckwit, I'm shopping for more than the next 3 hours.

can i buy my dr. oetker pizza, psoriasis cream and $4.99 dvd of herbie fully loaded without engaging in FUCKING conversation with this CUNT cashier 

I mean if I was buying a gallon of lube, 5 cans of redi whip, and a bottle of Aunt Jemima it'd be understandable

Well this is fun. 99% sure a pipe burst under the house I'm renting. If my LL wasn't such a douchebag I'd say oh well, he'll help pay the utilities, but based on prior experience, I have a feeling he'll fight tooth and nail to avoid helping me at all.

Edited September 15, 2017 by luke viia

  On 9/15/2017 at 5:49 PM, luke viia said:

Well this is fun. 99% sure a pipe burst under the house I'm renting. If my LL wasn't such a douchebag I'd say oh well, he'll help pay the utilities, but based on prior experience, I have a feeling he'll fight tooth and nail to avoid helping me at all.

 

If you're renting the house then why should you have to pay for anything like that? That should he his problem since he's the owner.

Yeah, I shouldn't have to pay (and I won't) but if he tries to flounder or put off helping with the utilities - which are in my name - the utility company won't care and they'll shut my water off until it's paid. Eventually the landlord will have to pay the bill (or see me in small claims) but in the meantime this is just a headache.

And that's not including the very real possibility that this leak could pose a serious electrical hazard, since the leak - visible as a 2' wide wet path through the front yard - goes right under the electrical panel. That said, I'm no electrician and it may not be a risk at all, but given the history I have of dealing with this death trap of a house, I dunno... I've got my sights on a new place to live, but I'm waiting to get the new draft of the lease and until then I'm kinda stuck. Don't really have the money to move again anyway. If I do, I set back my finances enough to where I can't afford the schooling I need to change career paths, further locking me into relative poverty. And I'm reeeaaall sick of my current job.

 

I'd just like to say: ugh

Edited September 15, 2017 by luke viia

^ had that happen once, we had no idea the water was leaking until I got a huge bill - city came out and showed me how to turn it off but since it was on the property (ended up under the lawn) they didn't compensate any of the bill

 

sucks your LL is a dick - ours eventually paid but we were out hundreds more than usual while we waited

forgot to check if my cat came in last night and now he's gone. he's been outside before but he's an indoor cat - he likes to hang out in the backyard but he doesn't wander off much ever

 

never had to deal with this before, it's quite upsetting- flyers out, posting on various sites and checking the city's database

 

really wracked with guilt along with the fact that the little booger is a really good cat 

ugh... Our kitty got out once and it was a nightmare, same kind of situation. I hope he turns up soon. It's really stressful.

 

Not sure what kind of area you live in but we have eagles, hawks, and coyotes in our community as well as a really busy intersection, made it SUPER stressful.

 

Sending good vibes your way, go home kitty!

 

edit: guess I shouldn't have said that about the birdos and stuff, don't want to stress you out more. 

Edited September 15, 2017 by Bulk VanderHooj

Praying for your cat josh :^(

City of Minneapolis can't seem to get my fucking address right to send my paystubs to, despite having worked there since May... I've had them correct it TWICE already, even emailing the correct fucking address to the department directly. It's 382 South, 3 8 2 SOUTH... not 328 North, not 382 North, not 328 South... I'd rather not have my personal finances being forwarded all over town. FFS, at least I'm paid via direct deposit or I'd be fucking broke waiting for my money.

 

Let me tell you firsthand, there are some incompetent motherfuckers working in government.

Update: found the little bastard! He was hanging out in the cul-de-sac storm sewer intlet all day. I think he was napping way down the pipeline earlier when we looked.

 

Also sporatic onion cutting has ceased. ;__; >>> :D

 

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phew.

whew!

Glad Felix is OK

Whew indeed.  My mom's cat, also indoor, ran off just over a month ago.  I put up posters all around the area and dropped off fliers in ~100 mail boxes.  He has a kidney condition and took medication daily.  Anyway, after over a month of roaming wild he found his way into some guy's basement suite earlier this week.  That guy put up a "found cat" poster.  Someone saw that, along with one of my lost cat posters and put 2 and 2 together, contacted the guy, guy contacted my mom...  By some miracle he's still alive, despite having virtually no survival skills that I've ever witnessed, and being extremely slow, old and frail.  But... I saw him tonight at the vet clinic for the first time since his reappearance, and it's not looking good.  His kidneys have calcified and there's not much they can do about that.  He just sat perfectly still the whole time facing the wall.  I could feel every vertebrae of his spine as I pet him.  Had one of those lamp shade deals on his head, and a tube for fluids in his nostril.  Pretty goddamn sad.  I'd be surprised if he survives to the end of the month.  

 

On a more FWP note... I left my Mr. Coffee on while visiting the aforementioned kitty and am lucky my studio didn't burn down.  That thing gets hot!

cats are hardcore survivalists. I had one in an apartment in my uni days who fell off a balcony 5 storeys up, survived, wandered off, was picked up by a kind stranger two suburbs away about 6-8 months later, brought in to the local vet, and I got a call one afternoon six months after his initial disappearance to come pick him up.

 

unfortunately it wasn't a happy ending, one of his front legs had gotten stuck in his leather collar because of the fall and it had worn and worn away at him all that time until he had a deep open wound under there at the point where the leg joins the body, which we were told by the vet would never heal. he said we should just put him down, and my dad who hates animals and is a useless cunt generally decided to seal the deal by insisting he wasn't going to have an injured cat at home.

 

that whole experience contributed not insigificantly to my general embitteredness. I would've tried my hardest to nurse him back to a good life and I think he would've been amenable to it himself, he was still happy to see us in spite of all the suffering he had endured. since then I never put any kind of collar on pets, not even the tearaway kind.

Fucking brutal.  Sorry to hear it.  One thing I learned from this experience, is that the general public is surprisingly invested in finding lost cats.  My mom was getting phone calls multiple times almost every day for weeks from people who either thought they may have seen him, or general inquiries about him, whether he'd been found yet, etc.  Humanity definitely earned a few extra points.

yeah, that is nice at least. I always feel bad for strays.

cats are cunts, not y'alls cats of course, but species wide.....

 

they commit genocide on local bird life populations with the casual aplomb of a Nazi concentration camp commandant, so much so that A) i suspect they have Nazi regalia stashed away somewhere, & B) i've had to rearrange all me own bird feeders away from a boundary wall where the fascist cats would mug the wee flying creatures from

 

then they have the nerve to sunbathe on my patio despite regular visits from my Ma's jack russell

 

where will it end, cos the bells on collars plots is a complete misnomer, i bet cats were @ Charlottesville in those ranks of Nazis with their spectacular shield wall, if you watch the footage again & listen v closely you can hear the meowwing

 

red pil cat facts

 

*disclaimer - cats have rights just like all the creatures of the earth, just, the slaughter can not continue unchecked even if they are cute

  On 9/16/2017 at 11:33 PM, cwmbrancity said:

they commit genocide on local bird life populations with the casual aplomb of a Nazi concentration camp commandant

 

 

^best witty retort, images only category 2017

Edited September 17, 2017 by auxien

We already knew Lovecraft was a racist cunt though.