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

So let me try to understand this.

If sorry excuse for a skidmark stands in his yard and screams at the neighbors all day, it's harassment. But if he buys a rooster that stands in the yard and screams all day, with the sole intention of pissing everyone that lives around him off, it's perfectly fine?

And if I shut the rooster up, I'm looking at actual time behind bars, while sorry excuse for a skidmark can shove a gun in a neighbors face and get probation and an article in the paper that makes him out to be the good guy?

Yea, that makes perfect berkeleying sense.

We need to bring back dualing.

In reply to RevRico :

I had an acquaintance that had a similar noisy neighbor issue. He took the grown up approach of taking the muffler off his lawnmower and running it wide open with the exhaust facing said neighbor during all hours that would allow it (noise ordinances had a quite time after a certain time). After a few weeks the problem went away. 

I'm not necessarily promoting this solution but it may beat the alternative you have listed.

In reply to NY Nick :

No, I like my other neighbors. We just got lucky enough to get someone who aspires to be white trash to buy a house that should have been condemned to move in.

I should have fought harder to buy that house, it was for sale when we bought ours, but after walking through it I would have felt bad using it as a chicken coop. The $5000 asking price was too high for me, that was a mistake.  So he bought it, moved in babies and dogs, then went full shiny happy person when the county came and took his kids and dogs for living in a house with a massive black mold problem, no running water, and a fridge sized hole in the only bathrooms outside wall. 

Yet, magically, no charges were ever filed in regards to the kids or animals living in such terrible conditions.

I just have to play the long game and wait for it to go up on a tax sale. Or pull resources with the neighbors, and give him a cash offer and a GTFO notice. 

I just berkeleying despise roosters.

One of our neighbors apparently just bought a straight-piped Cummins...  he starts it at 4AM and leaves for work between 4:30 and 4:45...

I'm thinking about picking up a muffler at the local U-pick-it, and leaving it next to his driver's door.

In reply to Rodan :

A full can of expanding insulation foam in said pipe works wonders. Allegedly.

Appleseed said:

In reply to Rodan :

A full can of expanding insulation foam in said pipe works wonders. Allegedly.

 

That sounds like a solution to the rooster problem too.

If this were a manga, I'd have lightning bolts in my eyes and a giant ... floating over my head.

Spent two hours in a meeting with an architect about door specs for an upcoming project.  He listened. Like actually listened to recommendations and took notes. 

How am I supposed to complain about architects if they are going to listen?

Now to get to know some hardware engineers. The last one I talked to was pissed when I told him a million cycle test under clean room conditions was useless. He needed to do the test in the employee parking lot and make every employee push a shopping cart through the door coming to work and leaving. 

RevRico said:

So let me try to understand this.

If sorry excuse for a skidmark stands in his yard and screams at the neighbors all day, it's harassment. But if he buys a rooster that stands in the yard and screams all day, with the sole intention of pissing everyone that lives around him off, it's perfectly fine?

And if I shut the rooster up, I'm looking at actual time behind bars, while sorry excuse for a skidmark can shove a gun in a neighbors face and get probation and an article in the paper that makes him out to be the good guy?

Yea, that makes perfect berkeleying sense.

We need to bring back dualing.

There's a rooster that lives two doors down from me. My Border Collie wants a piece of that rooster really bad. Every morning I let the dogs out. The rooster crows and the Border Collie goes to the fence and barks her head off. The husky just looks and walks on, but the Border Collie really wants a piece of that bird. So far, none of the neighbors have complained about all the crowing and barking going on.

What happens if my dog gets out of the yard and has rooster for breakfast one morning? Roosters are actually illegal where I live so that bird isn't even supposed to be there.

Toyman! said:

Spent two hours in a meeting with an architect about door specs for an upcoming project.  He listened. Like actually listened to recommendations and took notes. 

How am I supposed to complain about architects if they are going to listen?

 

Now to get to know some hardware engineers. The last one I talked to was pissed when I told him a million cycle test under clean room conditions was useless. He needed to do the test in the employee parking lot and make every employee push a shopping cart through the door coming to work and leaving. 

You're assuming that just because he took notes that he'll actually follow your recommendations.  ;^)

Rodan said:

One of our neighbors apparently just bought a straight-piped Cummins...  he starts it at 4AM and leaves for work between 4:30 and 4:45...

I'm thinking about picking up a muffler at the local U-pick-it, and leaving it next to his driver's door.

This week I’ve “noticed” that someone must have gotten a custom exhaust for their (I’m assuming) 6 cylinder German car for Christmas.   Not sure on the exact time but pretty darn early, we’ll say 4:00 AM for this conversation.  It’s wake up the neighborhood loud heading up the street.  

Then again if they’re on the road that early they probably go to bed early.  It’d be a shame if I were to figure out where they live and let the Coyote clear it’s throat at 10:00 PM a couple of times.    

CAinCA said:

Toyman! said:

and took notes. 

You're assuming that just because he took notes that he'll actually follow your recommendations.  ;^)

Once I met with a heavy equipment mechanical engineer (me = sales) and I took notes on what he was asking for from me and my company. 

When we were done he made me read my notes back to him.  I was annoyed but impressed he did that.  

In reply to 11GTCS :

That might also be kind of like, when you yell at your dog for barking, he might think you are barking with him.

I always felt kinda bad about coming home late at night with a loud ish rotary, soft pedaling and short shifting in town and cutting the engine a half block from home and deadsticking it in.  OTOH my next door neighbor (retired Old Guy) bought a new Harley that his wife would not let him ride, so Sunday mornings he would wax it in the garage, then wheel it outside (20 feet from my bedroom window) and idle it for a while.  I thought it was kinda soothing actually 

Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:' ...I let the dogs out...

Finally!  Ive been waiting on that answer for over 20 years!!

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

The few times I’ve driven mine to work I start it with the garage door closed until the idle drops and then soft pedal it down the road.  And that’s at 6:00 not 4:00.   Mr. Roush’s “mufflers” were not the most mature purchase I’ve made but I’m not going to punish the neighbors early in the morning.

You’re probably right, it’d be “the sound of my people!” Give me my Mitty moment man!  I’m usually hugging my pillow by 10:00 any way, Lol. 

Mr_Asa said:

Mr_Asa said:

30 minutes into the day and Old-Man-River (who is managing the engineering dept, yet somehow still doesn't know our product line) has made me consider taking today as a mental health day.

berkeleyer took my parking spot this morning as well. 

Today in a meeting I popped a stress ball.
I felt bad cause it wasn't my stress ball, it belonged to the one co-worker I actually get along with as more than a co-worker.  She saw I was having a bad morning and dropped it off at my desk.

Now I gotta get her a new one.

Snowdoggie (Forum Supporter) said:

What happens if my dog gets out of the yard and has rooster for breakfast one morning? 

You'll probably be paying a vet bill as roosters use their spurs pretty effectively most of the time

Datsun310Guy said:

CAinCA said:

Toyman! said:

and took notes. 

You're assuming that just because he took notes that he'll actually follow your recommendations.  ;^)

Once I met with a heavy equipment mechanical engineer (me = sales) and I took notes on what he was asking for from me and my company. 

When we were done he made me read my notes back to him.  I was annoyed but impressed he did that.  

This is a retrofit of an entire hospital building to automate and add electrified locking and access control to doors throughout the building. Doors that were cost engineered out when the building was built. He's a good guy but is way out of his league when it comes to making the existing hardware and doors work with the automatic operators and access control without replacing everything. He knows it. I can honestly say my team is one of the best in the business when it comes to making systems like that play nicely together.

The hospital in question knows we are the best so my company is the sole source for this project. No matter what he specs I'll be installing what will give my customer a working finished product. There will just be a bunch of expensive change orders involved and he will end up looking the fool for not listening. 

So, we can work together to provide a smoothly integrated product that works and make everyone look brilliant, or we can work at odds with each other and I will still look brilliant by making it all work anyways. 

I can't remind her to do something or she'll feel worse about not doing it or get quietly defiant and even be less likely to do it.  I can't do it myself or it'll make her feel bad about not doing it.  I already do most of the work around the house, and don't want to add to the things I end up doing a few times in a row and suddenly it's my job now.

eastsideTim said:

I can't remind her to do something or she'll feel worse about not doing it or get quietly defiant and even be less likely to do it.  I can't do it myself or it'll make her feel bad about not doing it.  I already do most of the work around the house, and don't want to add to the things I end up doing a few times in a row and suddenly it's my job now.

Exactly what happens at my house as well. You're not alone. 

Holy E36 M3! $4.99 for a 10oz container of strawberries from Publix? That is highway robbery! There was really a dozen single layered strawberries in the container. Worst part is my wife actually bought them. I would have said berkeley  that and gotten some from Costco. Granted I have no idea how much they are at Costco now since it has been 2 weeks since I went inside there. 

In order to keep them safe from the two year old, I moved my stash of hot wheels somewhere safe and yet obvious so that I could put some in the NYG box. Slightly too safe, it seems.

Sine_Qua_Non said:

Holy E36 M3! $4.99 for a 10oz container of strawberries from Publix? That is highway robbery! There was really a dozen single layered strawberries in the container. Worst part is my wife actually bought them. I would have said berkeley  that and gotten some from Costco. Granted I have no idea how much they are at Costco now since it has been 2 weeks since I went inside there. 

I've told my eldest that she can't take a work shift at 1600 on Mondays because her sister has JCL that day and those meetings go until 1600.  Which means I have to drive from home to the school, pick up the eldest at 1530, drive her to work - which is basically all the way back home - then turn around and drive back to school to get her sisters.  And then drive back home again.  I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she forgot about that when she scheduled since the last JCL meeting was nearly a month ago thanks to Christmas break.  I told her that for the cab fare today, instead of asking for the standard IRS reimbursement rate of $14, she is to research the term "externality" and be prepared to discuss during our drive.

Why do cubicle walls always seem to be getting shorter?  We moved into a new office, and the walls are way shorter than before, which were already too short.  Now I see the tops of everyone's head when at my desk, which is weirdly frustrating.