State government bureaucracy, just makes you shake your head and sigh.
I'm currently at odds with our financial services folks, they want me to cut them a check out of my own pocket for $21.67 for the bulk pack of Bounty I bought at Walmart last week. Apparently we are contracted with someone to provide all of our paper products.
Today is the third day in a row where my well-laid plans for the day have been completely derailed due to things happening that were totally outside of my control. Wednesday was the dentist debacle, Thursday was the garage door glitch, and today I get to drive around town to find the bus that my daughter left her coat on.
In reply to wae :
That is teh wae.
Also, I need to stop going to certain threads, assuming it'll be different.
It never ends up different, just different topics.
I was just considering the new year coming up, and the change of decades. So we will be into the twenties.
Got me thinking...a hundred years ago, it was the Roaring Twenties. Dirty Thirties was common around here, Swingin' Sixties, and so on. I presume these are generally named on retrospect.
Are we just coming out of the Whining Teens?
Streetwiseguy said:I was just considering the new year coming up, and the change of decades. So we will be into the twenties.
Got me thinking...a hundred years ago, it was the Roaring Twenties. Dirty Thirties was common around here, Swingin' Sixties, and so on. I presume these are generally named on retrospect.
Are we just coming out of the Whining Teens?
There was no more whinng or wimpy kids or lazy people over the past 10 years than in any decade. It just is in our recent memory.
Scotty Kilmer is a jagoff
mtn said:Streetwiseguy said:I was just considering the new year coming up, and the change of decades. So we will be into the twenties.
Got me thinking...a hundred years ago, it was the Roaring Twenties. Dirty Thirties was common around here, Swingin' Sixties, and so on. I presume these are generally named on retrospect.
Are we just coming out of the Whining Teens?
There was no more whinng or wimpy kids or lazy people over the past 10 years than in any decade. It just is in our recent memory.
My implication was not that teens are whining. Everyone has spent a decade whining. Left, right, gay, straight, young, old, environmentalist, climate denier...
bigdaddylee82 said:State government bureaucracy, just makes you shake your head and sigh.
I'm currently at odds with our financial services folks, they want me to cut them a check out of my own pocket for $21.67 for the bulk pack of Bounty I bought at Walmart last week. Apparently we are contracted with someone to provide all of our paper products.
Send them a bill for $21.67. Mark it as delivery charge for paper products necessary due to failure to supply required paper products necessary for the job. Make the invoice official looking and add a 2% discount for payment within 15 days and 1.8% interest compounded monthly for anything over 30 days. Make a Gmail address for biddaddy.delivery@gmail.com. There is probably zero chance they will pay it but it will certainly screw up their system and get you $25 worth of laughs.
mtn said:Streetwiseguy said:I was just considering the new year coming up, and the change of decades. So we will be into the twenties.
Got me thinking...a hundred years ago, it was the Roaring Twenties. Dirty Thirties was common around here, Swingin' Sixties, and so on. I presume these are generally named on retrospect.
Are we just coming out of the Whining Teens?
There was no more whinng or wimpy kids or lazy people over the past 10 years than in any decade. It just is in our recent memory.
Demonstrably false. There are more 2 legged parasites, err, "people" on the planet today than ever before. That means more whiners than ever before, they have all also gained the ability to get louder, which is where the real problem comes in, in part because they never have to shut up, and in larger part, because the loudest members of any group tend to be the dumbest.
I'm more curious if we're going to completely recreate the last century. Sure looks to be heading that way, almost down to the year numbers.
Mission: drive to the CVS five blocks away, buy tape, tape up the Christmas presents, drop them at the post office half a mile away.
It took me an hour and a half to even get near the post office.
I finally ended up at the most indifferent Office Depot ever, where shipping two of my three packages took the staff of the empty store half an hour to finish. I was not in a line. The store was nearly devoid of customers. The person "helping" me kept walking off and not returning for ten minutes at a time.
Why is shipping anything always such a E36 M3show? I stopped doing eBay because of this. If it doesn't go in a Priority Flat Rate box and weigh under a 14 ounces, it's going to be two hours of my time. Even if it does, it's going to be an hour just getting the damn box.
In reply to Mike :
Our local Post Office has had the same facility since I moved here 26 years ago. 3 customer windows, staffed like a bank (one at a time). In that 26 years, the town has tripled in population (15k to 50k+), and PO box rates have more than doubled. Same E36 M3ty service.
It doesn't help that they share a parking lot with an auto shop that routinely fills all of the close spaces with non-running customer cars, so you always have to hike from the far end of the lot.
As a result, I ship almost everything FedEx Ground. Bonus: it's usually cheaper than USPS.
fasted58 said:Scotty Kilmer is a jagoff
That man is not just a jackoff he is dangerously wrong a lot.
mtn said:Streetwiseguy said:I was just considering the new year coming up, and the change of decades. So we will be into the twenties.
Got me thinking...a hundred years ago, it was the Roaring Twenties. Dirty Thirties was common around here, Swingin' Sixties, and so on. I presume these are generally named on retrospect.
Are we just coming out of the Whining Teens?
There was no more whinng or wimpy kids or lazy people over the past 10 years than in any decade. It just is in our recent memory.
I don't think it is the kids who are whining, but the older folks who need somebody to poke fun at, I have a 19 year old niece living with me and most of my co-workers and friends have teenagers. They are all, on the whole, a hard working group of kids. It's just a shame they do not have the same sense of optimism that previous generations did
mad_machine said:I don't think it is the kids who are whining, but the older folks who need somebody to poke fun at, I have a 19 year old niece living with me and most of my co-workers and friends have teenagers. They are all, on the whole, a hard working group of kids. It's just a shame they do not have the same sense of optimism that previous generations did
And, I think, this is the result of the whining. Everything is wrong, stupid or criminal. Previous generations have taken all the value out of the planet, its going to die soon, and I might as well just shoot myself in the face.
After the first sentence, none of what I just typed is true, by the way.
wearymicrobe said:fasted58 said:Scotty Kilmer is a jagoff
That man is not just a jackoff he is dangerously wrong a lot.
Tech tip.
When will i learn that chinese exhaust never fits......
I am spending my Saturday trying to convince my mostly alcoholic friend/boss from going to the liquor store and getting shwasted on the clock because I don't want to deal with the fallout- on top of the normal Saturday diy E36 M3 show. I need a drink.
Dusterbd13-michael said:When will i learn that chinese exhaust never fits......
The 2.5 SER Sentra headers fit pretty well, but they have an awful lot of experience with them. My SR20 B13 header was only fair.
Don't tell me "it's up to you if you want to come" if you're going to tear up when I say I'm going to stay home.
It's 50f and sunny out, and I spent 3.5 hours driving one way to sit on a couch and watch football games (which I couldn't care less about). A 6 hour visit ends up costing me almost 2 days of my vacation.
I'm about to go get the emergency flask from the car.
in below freezing temps the drivers exterior door handle doesnt work on the N. seems to be a common issue on 19-20 velosters, going to have the dealer look at it on friday.
In regards to Mrs Recon’s family- you raised my wife in the hearing world, and now that her hearing loss has worsened you get upset when we use sign language? Berk off! How would you feel if you could no longer communicate with the people around you? If you woke up one day and the world was silent? Don’t you dare tell me it’s disrespectful to use a language you chose not to learn just because it makes you uncomfortable. I’m communicating with my wife! Motherberkeleyers...
Darth nader kucked my ass all day. The ONLY think i actually completed was the fuel line and velly plate. Cutting fenders? Nope. Power steering pump and lines? Nope. Exhaust? Hell no.
And the fumes from the plasma cutter gave me my first headache in weeks. At least ita not a migraine yet.
Mike said:wearymicrobe said:fasted58 said:Scotty Kilmer is a jagoff
That man is not just a jackoff he is dangerously wrong a lot.
Tech tip.
Already done. Seriously he is just bad info on top of bad info on top of E36 M3 safety.
I agree on Scotty. I dont know what he wants us to drive, but he hates everything
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