Grumpy Old Forumers

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

11 minutes ago, FearThoseWhoFearHim said:

It was a website like eBay, and they use the same system payment rules.

 

I got a refund, and he said to me to keep the products to not do future deals after many mistakes he did as delayed shipment, lack of another product, defective product, not knowing how to solve the problem and trying to waste more time in many ways, etc.

Glad you got your money back, nothing worse than people knowly sending defective products in hopes the buyer won’t balk about it

[Rhoda]

I think what's really annoying me today is people's reasoning as to why Garfield hates Monday. On the surface, Garfield is a cat and is therefore free of the shackles that bind many of the working class who are dragged kicking and screaming into the working week after a brief weekend respite. However, people are keen to point out that Garfield hates Mondays because he loves Jon but is too proud to admit it. This would work, but if you're at all interested in the lore of Garfield you'll know that Jon is a cartoonist and works from home. You'll see this in the very first strip of Garfield, where Jon's work station makes an appearance and has been visible many times subsequently. Garfield does not dislike Monday because Jon has to go to work. Garfield hates Monday because;

 

1. Terrible things tend to happen to him on that particularly day. Go to the Garfield comic archives and look for a few Monday strips. Things are always going wrong for him. Trivial, yes, but a pattern emerges and you can't fault a cat for putting two and two together. 

2. Garfield hates Monday because it is relatable. As said, a good number of the comic's audience works a standard week of Monday to Friday, and if they don't, they likely will have or will do at some point. Everybody has come to dread the day at least once is their life. Garfield is a cat, so this tenuous link is the only thing he has to relate to an ever watching audience. 

 

It annoys me because it's a clear display of people feeling the need to chime in when they don't know what they're talking about. Besides all of this, it's a cartoon about a lazy orange cat.

[Adrenalist]

I awoke to city alarms once again. 

They sound em every time an oilfield worker dies

3 times a week is average. 

What was once drudgery is now shrugery

bring it on motherf*ckers

bring it on

heart beats on...

 

[Rhoda]

Today I found myself scowling at my Alexa device. I woke up early with my wife and decided to tackle some odd jobs as she left for work. I was fortunate because it's bin collection day and I had forgotten to put it on the side of the street. I took this golden opportunity to throw some last minute trash out whilst most of my street was still sleeping. As I sipped my tea on the sofa, I noticed that many of the news bulletins provided by Alexa were borderline clickbait. Articles always ended with an ellipsis, no doubt in an attempt to tempt people to wake the device and insist that it tell them more about the story in question. More often than not, these articles were not surprising in the least and felt like a bit of a let down. It's like searching for the lost gold of El Dorado only to find a landfill packed with empty foil chocolate wrappers. I must admit I was a little cynical upon the purchase of this thing. It was on sale, I was told, and whilst it hasn't exactly changed my life in leaps and bounds it is pleasant to see temperature, weather and the occasional relevant piece of information. You can get it to spit facts out every now and again, it can play music on demand and yadda yadda yadda. It's neat. I'm not one of those people who deny such advancement because of all this government tracking stuff. If Amazon want to watch a man pushing 30 eat on his sofa naked, they're more than welcome to do so. I hope the agent tasked to track me cries at home to his wife because he spent the best part of eight hours watching a man trying and struggling to learn the theme song for Happy Days on a banjo.

 

Anyway, that's besides the point. I found myself in a unique position this morning and there's probably a word in German for it. I noticed that the bin men hadn't yet arrived, and I initially assumed I was too late because I usually take the bin to the street the night before. Because they were late, it gave me chance to take some bonus garbage out. However, even when presented with this, I felt vaguely irritated by their late arrival. I was actually cursing them because they usually come at half 6. It was now 8 at this point. Why are they late? They're never late. It was a bizarre moment of self sabotage. Them being late actually allowed me to get my rubbish collected on time... but I was somehow annoyed at the fact they hadn't been. I have tremendous respect for refuse collectors, because it's all to often a job that gets looked down upon by almost everybody. Even the homeless and jobless dislike them, mostly because they're responsible for throwing away the assembly of waste they call accommodation. It's a thankless job and most of it is done whilst people are at their own job. They come home from work and take their bins back to the sides or rears of the houses without so much as a second thought. It's an automatic process and anybody who's had to cart a smelly bin bag through the house knows that the aroma is quite something. I have so much respect for such a profession.

 

I'm going for another sit down.

[-l-]

I got another weirdo following /unfollowing me on Instagram, stupid.

[Spider-Vice]

On 9/16/2019 at 7:31 AM, Rhoda said:

I think what's really annoying me today is people's reasoning as to why Garfield hates Monday. On the surface, Garfield is a cat and is therefore free of the shackles that bind many of the working class who are dragged kicking and screaming into the working week after a brief weekend respite. However, people are keen to point out that Garfield hates Mondays because he loves Jon but is too proud to admit it. This would work, but if you're at all interested in the lore of Garfield you'll know that Jon is a cartoonist and works from home. You'll see this in the very first strip of Garfield, where Jon's work station makes an appearance and has been visible many times subsequently. Garfield does not dislike Monday because Jon has to go to work. Garfield hates Monday because;

 

1. Terrible things tend to happen to him on that particularly day. Go to the Garfield comic archives and look for a few Monday strips. Things are always going wrong for him. Trivial, yes, but a pattern emerges and you can't fault a cat for putting two and two together. 

2. Garfield hates Monday because it is relatable. As said, a good number of the comic's audience works a standard week of Monday to Friday, and if they don't, they likely will have or will do at some point. Everybody has come to dread the day at least once is their life. Garfield is a cat, so this tenuous link is the only thing he has to relate to an ever watching audience. 

 

It annoys me because it's a clear display of people feeling the need to chime in when they don't know what they're talking about. Besides all of this, it's a cartoon about a lazy orange cat.

I think this is a common theme with 80s/90s comics, especially those that began on newspapers like Calvin & Hobbes. There's a lot of specific jokes and situations that don't mean as much as they seem, other than "you're probably in your 20s or 30s, working and reading this, you likely relate to this and need a laugh". I've noticed it's pretty common for comics from the time to constantly be making jokes about how difficult it is to work/work and have a family/etc (even if from the perspective of someone else, there's always an adult figure with these issues). This seems far less frequent nowadays.

 

Though I'm sure fan speculation has always existed and undoubtedly inspired the writers to do something with that tho...

[-l-]

Too bad your mouth doesn't have a silent mode feature.

[DOUGL4S1]

On 9/16/2019 at 3:31 AM, Rhoda said:

I think what's really annoying me today is people's reasoning as to why Garfield hates Monday. On the surface, Garfield is a cat and is therefore free of the shackles that bind many of the working class who are dragged kicking and screaming into the working week after a brief weekend respite. However, people are keen to point out that Garfield hates Mondays because he loves Jon but is too proud to admit it. This would work, but if you're at all interested in the lore of Garfield you'll know that Jon is a cartoonist and works from home. You'll see this in the very first strip of Garfield, where Jon's work station makes an appearance and has been visible many times subsequently. Garfield does not dislike Monday because Jon has to go to work. Garfield hates Monday because;

 

1. Terrible things tend to happen to him on that particularly day. Go to the Garfield comic archives and look for a few Monday strips. Things are always going wrong for him. Trivial, yes, but a pattern emerges and you can't fault a cat for putting two and two together. 

2. Garfield hates Monday because it is relatable. As said, a good number of the comic's audience works a standard week of Monday to Friday, and if they don't, they likely will have or will do at some point. Everybody has come to dread the day at least once is their life. Garfield is a cat, so this tenuous link is the only thing he has to relate to an ever watching audience. 

 

It annoys me because it's a clear display of people feeling the need to chime in when they don't know what they're talking about. Besides all of this, it's a cartoon about a lazy orange cat.

When I was really into The Simpsons and used to browse the Simpsons Wiki, there were a TON of people introducing either fan-theories or stuff from Non-Canon episodes (Treehouses of Horror) into pages that had nothing to do with that. A fan-favorite to debate was The Principal and The Pauper, where Skinner is shown to be a fake. Matt Groening himself said that episode was a mistake, and thus is generally considered non-canon, but people love to mention that episode every half a page.

 

Like the hell? it's a sunday night cartoon, you're not really meant to overthink it (specially in recent seasons, but that's another story).

[Guest]

My backup failed yesterday.  Gutted.   I make back ups of back ups but for some reason I forget to back up my back up.  First time in 20 years I have lost data :**(

 

Lesson learned.   

[The Time Ranger]

I bought a rocky road, normally that's a good thing, but not today. It started off fine, the first bite was that delicious trifecta of biscuit, chocolate and marshmallow, real melt in the mouth stuff. Then it happened, I bit into a raisin, a f*cking raisin. Why would you put one of those brown wrinkly little cunts into this delicious treat, it can't be for flavour because they don't have flavour, and that soft squishy surprise makes my tastebuds wrinkle up like a cats arsehole. I don't like raisins (obviously) but I can stomach them if I know they're there, it's the surpsise factor that irks me. Anyway it's the last time I buy a rocky road from there, probably for the best anyway, i'm pushing 220 lbs, can't go much higher than that at my height.

[Rhoda]

I've been awake 15 hours now, and I'm almost certain I've spent 3 of those cleaning my glasses.

[-l-]

I tried to fix something for hours and is very modified and hard to make it like the original... frustating.

Edited September 26, 2019 by FearThoseWhoFearHim

[-l-]

So, I bought a new monitor today and is not easy to jump into... I feel uncomfortable and I have almost 2 hours adjusting bright, gamma, colors trying to enjoy it... f*cking piece of sh*t.  

Edited October 1, 2019 by FearThoseWhoFearHim

[ten-a-penny]

My father brought a little kitten, mistaking it for one of our own. Little one was playful, running around and playing with the rest of the clan like nothing. Full of spirit and joy..... same sh*te that Mrs. Sectonia, the witch-cat, hate. Piece of rotten turd didn't let this kitten alone. Kept fighting him (or her?) relentlessly for like an hour. It was so bad, Bravie (the new cat) was badly hurt in the right eye. Legit though it went blind because it refused to open its eyes.

 

I feel sorry for 'em, the cat's full of energy. Now it's crawling on my lap, hissing like mad if any cat dare gets close. I wonder how the night would go, I'm not allowed to let any cat stays inside our home. I fear that this waste of oxygen of a sh*te cat badly hurts Bravie or the kitten run away altogether. It's getting to the point where I'm legit thinking of a way to catch this vermin and throw her the f*ck out of the house, as far away as possible. Ugh! I hate you.

[-l-]

Seriously, some people needs to get the f*ck out of my instagram and following/unfollowing a lot of times... I never liked blocking people and I prefer having a minority appreciating what I am doing not because I want many followers 'cos is not my thing, I just follow people because I like the content and not waiting a follow back.

[B7R]

Trying to get Ubuntu onto an older disused laptop because why the hell not. Unfortunately the laptop wasn't playing nice with the USB in the BIOS and was excluding it from boot priority order and wouldn't allow me to change it, then I had to watch a video to figure out which keys to press to put it in the boot priority order list because the default keys in the BIOS menu weren't telling me how too and was just making beeping sounds when pressed. Then I get that out of the way and restart the laptop and boot via F12, select it and it says it can't find a file now on the USB when it's a freshly created bootable USB and to press any key which then just results in a blank screen that doesn't go any further from there. 

 

I'll give it a crack another time as it's not that important to get around too but would be nice to get it set up as a small hobby PC

 

Partly the other reason why I want some form of Linux on there is I'm tired of windows harassing me on that laptop about it being an unlicensed (non-genuine) version of windows. I get it, you don't have to tell me 500 times. 

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

I’m sick as can be still running a fever, blood pressure and blood count is still low but I’ve stopped vomiting blood but still receiving blood transfusions 
 

I got a new roommate last night and this dude is the roommate from f*cking he’ll, I’d rather room with Trump then this guy

He’s on ONE Vicodin pill every 6 hours he’s been paging the nursing staff every 15-20 minutes to ask them if it’s time yet despite them telling them countless times he’s not due yet and then when he’s finally due and they bring it in he starts whining and begging the nurse the call the doctor to ask if he can have some Hydromorphone or Fentanyl through IV even through he isn’t even hooked up to an IV

 

He originally came in for a dislocated shoulder that kept popping out after they put it back in so they put it back in without even putting him under just with a shot of hydromorophone and wrapped him up tight so it can’t pop out again without force until he can see orthopedic in the morning.

 

The way he’s acting and begging for those meds the story makes me think he was doing it on purpose in order to be admired and get hooked up to an IV and get heavy duty narcs

 

He was grilling me about my meds and what I’m on and how often I get them ect I just told him I’m on Vicodin’s as I was actually kind of worried he might try and take my meds if the nurse brought them in while I was in the bathroom or something because I’m on both of the meds he wants  the Fenty patches and hydro IV and Roxi pills

 

its 1am now and he’s been on his f*cking phone non-stop since they brought him up around 10 this morning and every other word is N****r this and that (the dude is white not to mention racist ascf*ck made the sweet elderly lady who was our attendance cry after telling our nurse to get the f*cking N***** Monkey out of OUR room then having the balls to look over at me and say AmIRite Brotha?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That f*cking MAGA hat should’ve been a clear warning for me to request a room transfer sooner than I did but I requested too late as the floor is full now I’m stuck with his racist drug seeking ass hopefully they kick him out tomorrow/today

 

Edited October 13, 2019 by AiraCobra

[WastedEngland]

f*ck me this place has changed.

 

I don't like it.

[-l-]

f*cking indecisive decisions.

[Ned Bingham]

On 9/27/2019 at 6:16 PM, Cameron Star said:

I have restless leg syndrome. Help!

Try kicking the dog. If nothing else it will give your leg something to do.

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

My asshole is so f*cking sore (Spare me the jokes my brother in law already used em all up), You’d think being very sick in a hospital that pulled in several billion in profits last year that they’d give their ailing and dying soft fluffy toilet paper instead of those huge 3 pound one-ply mock sandpaper to wipe your already sore from

chronic sh*tting

[Smith John]

My god, I can't stand the sound of Nicola Sturgeon's voice. The amount of hypocrisy she spouts from that f*cking trap makes it even worse...

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

Speaking of the most annoying voices on the planet browsing YouTube at 3am and was just letting YouTube play whatever was Next Up then I heard it the screeching voice of some chick called Miranda Sings.

 

I actually smacked my earbuds out of my ears because her OOOOKAY GUYS TODAY hurt my ears and I partially deaf with hearing aids so earbuds aren’t the loudest to began with but this chick blew out my ear drums

 

I looked at her comments expecting to find likeminded comments nope apparently she’s got a huge following on YouTube and Twitter

 

How could one you spend hours watching her videos with a voice like that and not go insane

 

Yes I know the voice is fake and probably sounds very sweet for real but oh my god

 

[Ned Bingham]

On 10/13/2019 at 6:09 AM, AiraCobra said:

I’m sick as can be still running a fever, blood pressure and blood count is still low but I’ve stopped vomiting blood but still receiving blood transfusions 

...

This has probably been said a dozen times already but...Dude, you make sure you get better soon.

[Zello]

On 10/13/2019 at 1:09 AM, AiraCobra said:

I’m sick as can be still running a fever, blood pressure and blood count is still low but I’ve stopped vomiting blood but still receiving blood transfusions 
 

I got a new roommate last night and this dude is the roommate from f*cking he’ll, I’d rather room with Trump then this guy

He’s on ONE Vicodin pill every 6 hours he’s been paging the nursing staff every 15-20 minutes to ask them if it’s time yet despite them telling them countless times he’s not due yet and then when he’s finally due and they bring it in he starts whining and begging the nurse the call the doctor to ask if he can have some Hydromorphone or Fentanyl through IV even through he isn’t even hooked up to an IV

 

He originally came in for a dislocated shoulder that kept popping out after they put it back in so they put it back in without even putting him under just with a shot of hydromorophone and wrapped him up tight so it can’t pop out again without force until he can see orthopedic in the morning.

 

The way he’s acting and begging for those meds the story makes me think he was doing it on purpose in order to be admired and get hooked up to an IV and get heavy duty narcs

 

He was grilling me about my meds and what I’m on and how often I get them ect I just told him I’m on Vicodin’s as I was actually kind of worried he might try and take my meds if the nurse brought them in while I was in the bathroom or something because I’m on both of the meds he wants  the Fenty patches and hydro IV and Roxi pills

 

its 1am now and he’s been on his f*cking phone non-stop since they brought him up around 10 this morning and every other word is N****r this and that (the dude is white not to mention racist ascf*ck made the sweet elderly lady who was our attendance cry after telling our nurse to get the f*cking N***** Monkey out of OUR room then having the balls to look over at me and say AmIRite Brotha?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That f*cking MAGA hat should’ve been a clear warning for me to request a room transfer sooner than I did but I requested too late as the floor is full now I’m stuck with his racist drug seeking ass hopefully they kick him out tomorrow/today

 

Sounds like Hell

[DOUGL4S1]

18 hours ago, AiraCobra said:

My asshole is so f*cking sore (Spare me the jokes my brother in law already used em all up), You’d think being very sick in a hospital that pulled in several billion in profits last year that they’d give their ailing and dying soft fluffy toilet paper instead of those huge 3 pound one-ply mock sandpaper to wipe your already sore from

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chronic sh*tting

 

I know this feel, about a month ago I spent a week in hospital with food poisoning (apparently eating a coxinha (look it up) from a shady bar is not a smart idea). Had to bring my own tp because the thing they give you has about the same texture as a tree bark.

[kobeni]

i hate millennials and theyre fancy little smartphones

[Bratva Assassin]

Things that I absolutely despise

My Little Pony

PowerPuff Girls

Steven Universe

Star vs. the Forces of Evil

The Loud House

Gravity Falls

Boy bands

Baby shows

The Real Housewives of whatever

Pop versions of punk, metal, rock, country, rap, and music in general!

Edited October 16, 2019 by Outlaw Biker Viking

[Guest]

People who think they know you from a theif, peodophile and a murderers invalid opinion (3 different people btw).  Apparently they are victims after being and caught red handed and serving time.  

 

What a time to be alive.  

 

/palmface  

[ṼirulenⱦEqừinox]

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On 10/15/2019 at 5:46 PM, Zello said:

Sounds like Hell

He finally shut up after he finally passed out around 7:30 that night and they did surgery on his shoulder the next morning so he slept much of Monday into Tuesday waking up around 4am Tuesday’s crying and whimpering in pain (which I do understand and believe was real as they’d just cut him open and anybody who’s had even minor surgery where they were cut open knows how bad it hurts)
 

But he finally got what he wanted Hydromorphone so he’s shut up on that part but every time he was given his meds it made him high and then he’d get on the phone calling everyone in his contacts and start yammering on about the stupidest sh*t

 

Then this morning walks in With our nurse with two uniformed hospital security guards and two Police Officers from neighboring city who proceeded to tell him he has a warrant and is under arrest for passing fraudulent prescriptions in attempts to obtain a dangerous substance and lying to a medical professional to obtain a dangerous substance, He’s now handcuffed to his bed rail, they took away his phone and hospital landline and have a uniformed cop sitting just inside the entrance to our room.

 

Hes just sitting there staring at the wall looking bored out of his mind and were not allowed to make conversation with them either.

 

The nurse and I just looked at each other when the cops told him he was under arrest like neither of us could believe it, I mean I know I wanted the dude to get the f*ck out but didn’t wish jail on him but sadly looks like my guess that he was hurting himself in an effort to drug seek were true.

 

 

20 hours ago, DOUGL4S1 said:

I know this feel, about a month ago I spent a week in hospital with food poisoning (apparently eating a coxinha (look it up) from a shady bar is not a smart idea). Had to bring my own tp because the thing they give you has about the same texture as a tree bark.

My wonderful daughters heard my butthole pleas for help and they came to the rescue with the with the softest fluffiest toilet paper I’ve ever felt when they came up for a visit last night and also brought me some lotion to help soothe the area.

 

But at least the chronic diarrhea has stopped (I don’t think my body has any left after no foods just IV Fluids & Water for over a week) but still having some vomiting but was able to keep my clear liquids diet down (Jello [bThey gave me LIME Ugh![/b], Lemon Ice, Apple Juice, Beef/Chicken Broth basically anything that’s liquid and see through)so if I can handle regular liquids tomorrow such as (Pudding, Youghurt, Cream Soups basically any foods that comes in liquids forms) finally got to have my coffee for first time since I’ve been in here and if I do alright with that and can eat three solid meals without vomiting or feeling so sick to where I start to retching and trying to vomit I can probably go home Sunday or Monday

Edited October 16, 2019 by AiraCobra