Minor rant thread. Post your rants o' the day here!

Wally said:

wae said:

Knurled. said:

I have a taste for an Arch Deluxe.

But it's McRib season.

That special time of year when snouts and anuses becomes cheap enough to dust off the rib molds and crank out some patties to a hero's welcome.

Corn syrup and vinegar and spices (aka BBQ sauce) is crack that makes anything tasty.

I just ate a sandwich that was stale bread and gray braunschweiger, but it had the last of my Open Pit on it, so I didn't care.

This is before you factor in the we-don't-discuss-it genetic disposition to find pork to be tasty, and just entirely by coincidence,  according to people who know, humans taste like pork....

In reply to Knurled. :

I'm not disagreeing, I put bbq sauce on everything.  I just find it odd that every time McDonalds rolls out the McRib it gets welcomed like Neil Armstrong returning from the moon.

In reply to Wally :

Manufactured scarcity is manufactured.

Not everyone realizes this and spazes out over the "Return of the McRib."

Appleseed said:

In reply to Wally :

Manufactured scarcity is manufactured.

Not everyone realizes this and spazes out over the "Return of the McRib."

I'm not saying that you're wrong.  I'm just saying I like me some McRib.

I found these to be almost indistinguishable from McRib patties. I found it uncanny.

https://www.kelloggsfamilyrewards.com/en_US/products/morningstar-farms-hickory-bbq-riblets-product.html

3yo has been fighting bed time for two hours. Persistent little bugger. I’m starting to lose patience. 

My blood sugar is 47 and dropping. I'm sweating, my heart hurts, and I'm laughing at nothing. 

Time to eat the kitchen and ride out this E36 M3ty rollercoaster.

LED accent strip on the passenger side headlight went out in the VW. Okay no big deal, CPO TDI warranty.

Go to dealer last week, they order the headlight assembly.

Go back Saturday, sit for 3 hours , only for them to tell me the ballast is toast and the harness is corroded. Okay, well why wouldn't you have taken the 3 seconds to inspect the plug the first time? Now I have to go back for the 3rd time. Ugh! Minor yes. Annoying? Yes

Georges1991 said:

LED accent strip on the passenger side headlight went out in the VW. Okay no big deal, CPO TDI warranty.

 

Go to dealer last week, they order the headlight assembly.

 

Go back Saturday, sit for 3 hours , only for them to tell me the ballast is toast and the harness is corroded. Okay, well why wouldn't you have taken the 3 seconds to inspect the plug the first time? Now I have to go back for the 3rd time. Ugh! Minor yes. Annoying? Yes

Sounds like our VW dealer.  My minor rant is related to VW, too.  Wife got a recall notice for the shifter assembly in the GTI (that has already been replaced twice).  It may fail to recognize it has been shifted out of park, which is the opposite of the problem it’s already had twice.  Also, VW doesn’t have a fix yet.

Damnit facebook stop suggesting crap about the new star wars. I don't care.

Maybe you should proofread things before you put them on TV

Whoever had this toolbox before used some sort of incredibly sticky lubricant on the drawer slides. Which of course attracted all manner of grit and crap, making the slides almost impossible to move. 

Its taken me an hour with solvent, wire brush, and sos pad to get tjem cleaned up. And the sticky stuff does NOT want to come off skin. Look like ive been painting with por15.....

wae said:

Maybe you should proofread things before you put them on TV

Statese? Finally an English equivalent of "Estadounidense?"

berkeleying cat!  First he started peeing on our living room carpet shortly after moving in 3 yrs ago. Added a litter box, kept it clean etc.  Seemed to get better but the room stank and every now and then the smell came back strong.  Finally had enough and ordered hardwood to match the rest of the first floor. ($1k...thanks cat).  Rip out the carpet and treat the subfloor staining with enzymatic cleaner. Found fresh pee so he didn't stop using it.  Last night I painted it with KILZ and blocked off the room. I mentioned to SWMBO that we should keep the cat locked in our room last night. She said "no, it's too smelly for him". Get up this morning and he walked all over the fresh paint and jumped up onto the couch to clean his feet off. Now I need to figure out how to get oil based paint off of it.  

In reply to PMRacing :

I look forward to having zero cats in my house.  They're adorable and sweet and all but they crap in a box (and general vicinity of the box), walk through it and then want to walk on me, my couch, my bed......  Disgusting creatures.  

Of course this means they will both live to be 23 years old to spite me.

In reply to Barefootskater:

My brother seems to be going through that as well right now, his monsters are almost 2 (twin boys) and he utterly refuses to listen to the parenting advise I give him (mine are all teenagers now).  Non-sleeping children got the " quiet room at the far end of the house".  Sleep, scream, play with your toes, whatever, when it's time to sleep that's where you go.  

In reply to PMRacing :

I seriously have no idea how we as modern humans have convinced ourselves to put up with these animals. Our cat drives me absolutely up the wall and we have spent thousands of dollars on vet bills and yet, here she is, purring and yowling for attention. I agree with KyAllroad, she's going to live another decade just to keep my blood pressure up.

dculberson said:

In reply to PMRacing :

I seriously have no idea how we as modern humans have convinced ourselves to put up with these animals. Our cat drives me absolutely up the wall and we have spent thousands of dollars on vet bills and yet, here she is, purring and yowling for attention. I agree with KyAllroad, she's going to live another decade just to keep my blood pressure up.

Every once in awhile I'll start thinking that cats are cool, then immediately remember that I am allergic. Reading these posts makes me glad that I am. 

I can't wait until my wife's cat dies in...10 years? If I'm lucky?

berkeleyer has destroyed the carpet everywhere we have lived. Has destroyed blinds and backpacks and clothing. Tracks cat litter everywhere he goes.

But the wife doesn't wanna declaw him because on occasion, she'll let him outside.

And we have two dogs....a pure bred Siberian Husky that's around 7-8 years old and a German Shepherd/Malamute mix that's less than a year old and nearing 80lbs...

I just can't wait till my house is animal-free.

We have cats (and dogs).  I'm allergic to both,  but meds are a wonderful thing.  We like our cats (and dogs).

As for carpet,  forget carpet with pets.  We put in hardwoods.

In reply to Wally :

Neil is a true hero, but we couldn't put BBQ sauce on him and eat him. Well, we could, but hopefully we won't.

$125 a wheel to have them straightened.  I can get new for $230, and they wouldn't be all gouged up.

Looks like it is 10lb sledge time.

After spending a fair bit of time on Saturday patching the roof and working on the gutters to hopefully keep water away from the area that was leaking as much as possible I was hopeful that I'd eliminated the problem. Yesterday when I got home in the rain I stuck my head into the attic and... the roof was still leaking from the exact same spot. REALLY don't need to be paying to have the roof fixed right now. 

In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :

Appleseed said:

In reply to Wally :

Manufactured scarcity is manufactured.

Not everyone realizes this and spazes out over the "Return of the McRib."

I'm also looking at you Nintendo.

The McRib doesn't even taste good.

Tastes like ass.