Grumpy Old Forumers

[Dottie]

My driver's side door handle is broken...and now I have to enter my car from the passenger side

 

Haven't had time to fix it until this weekend, so two weeks of scooting myself over the center console to get in. GTA sure does make it look easy....

[universetwisters]

My driver's side door handle is broken...and now I have to enter my car from the passenger side

 

Haven't had time to fix it until this weekend, so two weeks of scooting myself over the center console to get in. GTA sure does make it look easy....

That happened to me before, and I deliver pizzas so imagine doing that at least 20 times a day!

 

I don't know what you drive, but I just kept my driver side window down and opened the door from the inside. Presto

[make total destroy]

i somehow managed to chip my 2 botttom front teeth last night and i have no idea how.

 

i thought this sort of thing wasn't supposed to happen after you quit drinking tbh

[Smith John]

I'm perplexed. How the hell do you manage to chip your teeth and not remember how without being intoxicated

[make total destroy]

Yeah, I don't know. I was at a very crowded show last night and took a couple of hits to the face at different points in the night, but I never felt it so I can't really pinpoint when it happened. I didn't notice it until this morning.

[B7R]

Chuggers (Charity Company beggars) were in full force at my local shopping centre today.

First one tried to get my attention by speaking to me but I waved him on and shook my head (in a no way) at him with a stern I'm not interested look on my face.

Across the traffic lights. Same f*cking company, but another guy bothering me so this time I say to this guy - "Well last time I donated to charity I got bombarded with harassment calls" and kept walking on and didn't turn my head back to look at him.

That stopped them trying to talk to me real quick. Felt good!

I don't need people telling me I should donate to them. It should be the other way around. It should be me telling myself whether I want to donate or not. Also if your plan is to send me or others into a guilt trip for not giving into your cause then go f*ck yourself, you deserve nothing.

I'm sure my post will be met with hostility here saying I shouldn't be saying what I've just said but hey it is my opinion on the matter and I took my own action against these people and besides I have no time for their antics and give no sh*ts about them.

[sreyazsec]

I feel the same.

 

It makes me very uncomfortable to be approached by strangers. A lot of people probably donate in their own time, people are more likely to do that than stand for 15 minutes in a shopping centre or in the middle of the street signing up for something out of pure guilt.

 

I think it's possibly the worst way to try and get people to give to charity. Or the f*ckers that come to your door. It just doesn't seem appropriate, if anything that's turning people AWAY from giving to charity.

 

I'm less annoyed with them than I am the religious pushers that try and corner you but that's a whole different mess.

[Finn 7 five 11]

Purchased flights from Helsinki through Sydney, usually do it through a travel agent because It's easier, but this time had a few hours so hopped online.
Found a good deal with Qatar airlines, only 24 hours of total travel time, good luggage allowance, legroom etc, happy enough.

Go through all the inputting info etc, then press "confirm payment" It begins loading, then my computer decides to Blue screen, "Collecting information for crash" and then turns off.
I go back on, can't open the page without resending information and risk being double charged, so I have a look at my email, no flight confirmation, great. Look on my bank, I have been charged.
What a pain in the ass. Qatar better get back to me soon. I emailed them with the flight I booked, Numbers, name, leaving times etc. Pretty much double input everything now.

[Smith John]

BBC: "Bill Clinton is still one of the most popular presidents around the world"

 

Give me a gun or a noose or something.

[Megumi]

I just lost two subscribers in one hour. Motherf*ckers.

[B7R]

I feel the same.

 

It makes me very uncomfortable to be approached by strangers. A lot of people probably donate in their own time, people are more likely to do that than stand for 15 minutes in a shopping centre or in the middle of the street signing up for something out of pure guilt.

 

I think it's possibly the worst way to try and get people to give to charity. Or the f*ckers that come to your door. It just doesn't seem appropriate, if anything that's turning people AWAY from giving to charity.

 

I'm less annoyed with them than I am the religious pushers that try and corner you but that's a whole different mess.

 

For instance every Mcdonalds I've been too has the Ronald Mcdonald box. If I have lose change on me I'll be glad to put it to some use rather than it gathering dust in my wallet. Most of my transactions are through EFTPOS ( Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale) now days and the only reason I keep some coins is in case my card screws up at the register for whatever reason and I've got to pay with coins instead or I need to use the Payphone because making a call on my phone to certain numbers is expensive. Because of this that means a majority of my transactions I make now days are electronic so these street buggers would get zilch from me.

 

I remember back in the day my old man had a religious nutter come to he's door. Dad asked him to leave but he wouldn't (So that meant he was trespassing now). It was funny looking out the window and seeing my dad chase the nutter up the driveway away from the house. I've never seen nutters since around here.

 

Yep even had the cold calling sales reps come to the door here. I wasn't interested in their cold marketing spill so I told them to f*ck off and slammed the door. You can imagine when I told people that one they got p*ssed off at me because "this person was only doing their job". Maybe it's not the employees fault who came to my door but still it is cold calling regardless and my home is my home and I don't want any of your marketing BS at the end of the day. And again since then... Nothing. Get the occasional telemarketer now and again. I pretend I'm the head of Telstra and when these f*cks call I say "I'm part of the Telstra Abuse & Fraud calls department, your number has been logged as a spam number and an technician will be out shortly to disconnect your line. Get's em running off real quick and never gets them calling you again. I should really get my own VoIP number and just find all these scam numbers and f*ck with them. Ah that'll be great I mean they aren't doing themselves or anyone else any favours.

[livejoker]

Need the forum's input on this.

Driving at night, coming back home. It's pitch black out. While nearing where I live there's this stop sign and on the left of it is a small field that isn't lit up so it's impossible to see anything in there. In front of me there's a car that stops at the stop sign and these kids, can't be older than 12-15, run out of the field and onto the side of the street to scare the driver. They're dressed in black with the white skeleton outline as costumes. I'm sort of laughing cause Halloween is pretty dead around here and it's nice that these kids are getting into the spirits of things. Get home, drop some stuff off and head back out to pick up some late night supper. Quickest way back towards the city is this road with the stop sign so I know I'll see those kids again as it hasn't been 5 minute since I first saw them.

Sure enough, do my stop (opposite side of the intersection where they scare cars BUT on the same side of where they run out of) and when I reach the other side of the intersection they run out at me. Out of the blue I decide to slam the brakes hard and I stare down one of the runners (there's about 3-4 of them) and hope that he can see me inside the dark interior of my car. This stare down was in hopes he realizes that I'm not happy about this whole thing and the sudden braking is that he'll see it's dangerous to just run out into the street. Then I peel out, rubber screaming in hopes that I can scare them back cause I'm not a bitter old man and I like my fun too. All I did was probably waste gas instead.

So I'm asking this:

1 - Is this the classic case of "kids of today are bad!" and I'm growing old and bitter and that this was a lame attempt to scare people and they're putting themselves and the drivers in harms way by running into the street...

Or

2 - Let kids be kids, let them enjoy stuff. Everything is so anti-fun so it's good that they're getting into the spirit of what is around here a dead holiday. Long live Halloween!

[Rafae]

^ The first one. There's one thing to be getting in the spirit of Halloween and all, it's another thing entirely to be a dick and put others' lives in danger, especially in pitch black darkness. I'm surprised you were amused rather than scared lol I would have shat myself seeing something come out of a pitch black field so suddenly.

[sreyazsec]

I think if kids did that where I live, the kids would get a slap.

 

It's dangerous not just for drivers but for the kids themselves. That sh*t isn't cute or harmless. 'Kids being kids' is a sh*tty excuse to let kids be idiots whenever they please, whether or not they're genuinely causing trouble.

[chronic lumbago]

Reminds me of the time when I was very, very young and we were throwing small stones at passing cars until one driver stopped and started yelling at us and we all sh*t our pants. Yes, we were that stupid back then.

 

That doesn't really compare to your situation because the "kids" that scared you are a bit older than I was back then, we were 8 years old or so. Point is, there's a line between fun pranks and dangerous, damaging pranks. Fun should be kept off the streets.

 

You never know how a driver reacts when being scared behind the wheel. This kind of crap could end up badly.

Edited October 18, 2017 by fashion

[Sombra]

i put my trainers in the washer and one of them dried quickly and the others still mildly wet

[Spaghetti Cat]

Keep us up-to-date on how all that works out, ok?

[deadx23]

 

Need the forum's input on this.

 

Driving at night, coming back home. It's pitch black out. While nearing where I live there's this stop sign and on the left of it is a small field that isn't lit up so it's impossible to see anything in there. In front of me there's a car that stops at the stop sign and these kids, can't be older than 12-15, run out of the field and onto the side of the street to scare the driver. They're dressed in black with the white skeleton outline as costumes. I'm sort of laughing cause Halloween is pretty dead around here and it's nice that these kids are getting into the spirits of things. Get home, drop some stuff off and head back out to pick up some late night supper. Quickest way back towards the city is this road with the stop sign so I know I'll see those kids again as it hasn't been 5 minute since I first saw them.

 

Sure enough, do my stop (opposite side of the intersection where they scare cars BUT on the same side of where they run out of) and when I reach the other side of the intersection they run out at me. Out of the blue I decide to slam the brakes hard and I stare down one of the runners (there's about 3-4 of them) and hope that he can see me inside the dark interior of my car. This stare down was in hopes he realizes that I'm not happy about this whole thing and the sudden braking is that he'll see it's dangerous to just run out into the street. Then I peel out, rubber screaming in hopes that I can scare them back cause I'm not a bitter old man and I like my fun too. All I did was probably waste gas instead.

 

So I'm asking this:

 

1 - Is this the classic case of "kids of today are bad!" and I'm growing old and bitter and that this was a lame attempt to scare people and they're putting themselves and the drivers in harms way by running into the street...

 

Or

 

2 - Let kids be kids, let them enjoy stuff. Everything is so anti-fun so it's good that they're getting into the spirit of what is around here a dead holiday. Long live Halloween!

 

#2 (hashtag)

You should of turn your lights off and do Donut's blasting this song

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[Sombra]

Keep us up-to-date on how all that works out, ok?

 

i wanted to wear them so i took a hairdryer to them and my f*cking hairdryer exploded

[Spaghetti Cat]

Oh, this is getting interesting...and then what happened?

[Sombra]

i threw the hairdryer away

 

also today i bought a two pack of lightbulbs and it only came with one

[sreyazsec]

You might aswell just end it all now.

[Sombra]

turns out the bulb fell out of the box into my pocket

 

gives me a reason to live

[AlienTwo]

Those better be eco-friendly bulbs, bub.

[feckyerlife]

turns out the bulb fell out of the box into my pocket

 

gives me a reason to live

you must got some deep ass pockets

[B7R]

My Computer thought it would decide to try and make my Friday a living hell by giving me a nasty shock that when I press the power on button it turns on, beeps, goes to the motherboard logo screen and then picture goes black only to start the reboot process all over again. My keyboard (Which is a Logitech K200) light's would flash (The Caps log, Num lock lights etc) but the computer wouldn't respond to to take me to my BIOS when I pressed the BIOS key, on some attempts to boot it up it would freeze when I pressed the BIOS key.

 

I spent 5 minuets seeing what the issue was, powered it off using the power button and turn it back on using the Power button. Nope still decides to get stuck in a boot loop. So I pull the power cable out and take the side cover off my case and check for loose cables but can't feel any but I just push some in just in case that's the cause for some reason, I've also taken pulled all the external plugs out except for the video cable. I ended up putting the PC side case cover back on and powered my PC up again with just the video cable plugged in (Which is plugged into my Graphics card) and..... It booted.... and didn't get stuck in a boot loop and it booted to Windows / my desktop. F*cking A!

 

I still have no clue or idea what the case of it was, I did notice that it was installing Keyboard and mouse drivers again when I got back onto the desktop so whether it was a driver issue with my mouse or Keyboard I don't know.

 

Was working 100% fine last night before shutting down so I'm not too sure what could of happened in the time I was sleeping for it to decide it wants to boot loop when I woke up to next use it.

 

My Computer, I love you but boot looping on me on a Friday (Or any other day) when I've just woken up and still am half-asleep - half awake isn't a good idea.

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

>get money taken out of account because I paid for gas with a card and apparently didn't check for skimmers or if I did, they were put on very well

>go to bank, get old card deactivated and new card coming in mail

>check bank account online, 0.36 cents stolen and sent to a """homeowner's association"""

 

Not only it annoys me that it's still happening and I gotta go to the bank again but also why would they funnel only 0.36 cents? I swear these are the most boring thieves ever. If this were 1804 they would've pulled off the heist of the century but not today.

The $0.36 is them probably just testing to make sure that the transfer will go though

 

The news here has been dominated with stories of skimmers, I got into the habit a long time ago of checking the card slot before i swipe my card because i had a simlar issue except they manage to go to the store and rack up $7,500 in merch before it was caught.

 

I partly blame the banks for allowing such big transaction without checking with the account holder to make sure the purchase is legit.

 

After my dad died and we settled his estate and my sister and i divied up the rest between us. I sent a transfer of $12,500 to my sister and the bank didn't even bother to call me and check, But they don't care as the money is insured so they don't loose anything

Edited October 19, 2017 by Ai®aCob®a

[chronic lumbago]

Why can't I find one barber in the world who doesn't play guess games regarding my nationality? I get it, you want to start a conversation but the second thing they ask me after asking about my hair is where I'm originally from and how long I'm here.

 

Been living behind the border all my life and mastered the foreign language so it's beyond me how they guess I'm not from here in the first place.

 

Today I've been to a barber outside of my town after work and it's the same question routine every time I visit a new barber shop. They even asked me if I know some of my countrymen living in the neighbourhood, as if my only "friends" can be people from my country.

 

I'm not easily offended by racism, can laugh at dark humor but these type of conversations get on my nerves so f*cking bad. Can't ask me how my day was, what I do for a living, no f*ck you gestapo wants to know where I'm from.

 

I know I make it sound like a big deal but why is it like this every single time? Why does it piss me off so much?

Edited October 20, 2017 by fashion

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

 

turns out the bulb fell out of the box into my pocket

 

gives me a reason to live

you must got some deep ass pockets

That reminds me of something that happened over the summer, Apparently i had a small hole in the pocket of my shorts and not knowing i put the change in the pocket and when i got to the store i realized the change had fallen into the lining so i'm trying to fish the coins out all the while it looks like i'm playing stroke the chicken while waiting in line to pay.

 

-snip-

One way to get around this is, You need to find a barber that cuts your hair the way you like it and then make them Your Barber and whenever you need a haircut always go back to him, You know him and he'll get to know you on a regular basis and you won't have to worry about that awkward conversation anymore.

 

I've been going to the same Barber since i was 10, Gonna be sad when he retires though as i'll have to find a new barber myself.

 

I like the one i have now he's old school barber he still does the shave with straight razor and everything

[chronic lumbago]

I've been moving around a lot and haven't found the barber in years. It just gets too akward each time, I simply hate how they start the conversation even if they don't mean it. It's not offensive racism, but still. I think I've been grumpy about it before here on the forum, think I've posted this complain months ago already. Had that deja vu feeling typing this. It's the same sh*t every time.

Guess I just need to go to a local barber I've been to before and not let it get into my head.