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

Damn young men and their flexible prostates!

I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Karacticus wrote: Damn young men and their flexible prostates! I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Me too... Couldn't bear to tell the wife that was the reason I started sitting down on the toilet to pee in the mornings, got tired of having to clean off the toilet seat/floor/whatever else was nearby

alfadriver wrote:

spitfirebill wrote:

alfadriver wrote: BTW, you can go blow that "act your age" out of your ass.

I see you missed the whole tongue in cheek thing.

With no tongue or cheek around, it's easy to miss.

I see your point. Some days it works...some days it doesn't.

Karacticus wrote: Damn young men and their flexible prostates! I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Damn you men with any prostate!

Missed an important call on Monday night, it was buried in a flurry of calls from a friend who was probably looking for a lift or some bullE36 M3 like that

spitfirebill wrote:

Karacticus wrote: Damn young men and their flexible prostates! I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Damn you men with any prostate!

Now we just need to tie this back to the "act your age" comments!

Karacticus wrote:

spitfirebill wrote:

Karacticus wrote: Damn young men and their flexible prostates! I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Damn you men with any prostate!

Now we just need to tie this back to the "act your age" comments!

... or start an over 50 rant thread

Don't get mad at me for leaving nail clippers open (but in a safe place) or not picking up coins that fall from my pocket in my recliner (which I do, just only about every 2 weeks). But if you're going to get mad at me, do NOT ask me what we're going to do when we have kids. Obviously I will be more careful then. Just like I'd assume you'd be more careful about where you leave your curling iron, or where we leave our cleaning supplies, or not leaving plates with forks on them on the coffee table, or (etc.). That is a completely pointless argument considering that a 1 bedroom 800 sqft apartment is simply not child friendly, and we're not considering having a baby in the next year.

Furious_E wrote:

Flight Service wrote: ripped the crotch in my jeans....I guess I started that diet one week too late.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm a fairly skinny guy and I still manage to kill 95% of my jeans in this fashion. Usually getting into or out of a low car.

IF it makes you feel worse.. I have -never- ripped the crotch out of any of my jeans..

In reply to mtn:

Welcome to marriage

fasted58 wrote:

Karacticus wrote:

spitfirebill wrote:

Karacticus wrote: Damn young men and their flexible prostates! I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Damn you men with any prostate!

Now we just need to tie this back to the "act your age" comments!

... or start an over 50 rant thread

How about an over 60 rant page?

Karacticus wrote:

spitfirebill wrote:

Karacticus wrote: Damn young men and their flexible prostates! I remember a time when I could piss past the ends of my shoes.

Damn you men with any prostate!

Now we just need to tie this back to the "act your age" comments!

If I still had it, I would not be acting my age either.

Furious_E wrote:

Flight Service wrote: ripped the crotch in my jeans....I guess I started that diet one week too late.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm a fairly skinny guy and I still manage to kill 95% of my jeans in this fashion. Usually getting into or out of a low car.

Yep it's a crouchability problem. Most guys can kill most jeans just by crouching, everyday modern jeans aren't designed for it. Duluth makes Ballroom Jeans to address this specific problem.

GameboyRMH wrote:

Furious_E wrote:

Flight Service wrote: ripped the crotch in my jeans....I guess I started that diet one week too late.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm a fairly skinny guy and I still manage to kill 95% of my jeans in this fashion. Usually getting into or out of a low car.

Yep it's a crouchability problem. Most guys can kill most jeans just by crouching, everyday modern jeans aren't designed for it. Duluth makes Ballroom Jeans to address this specific problem.

I ripped the crotch in my jeans once when I was stocking shelves at Krogers. I didn't notice it until my shift ended... Fortunately I was on the midnight crew and the store was mostly empty.

Rant: motion sickness when reading in a moving car I felt queasy after looking at my phone to send a few long-ish text messages. (I wasn't the one driving, just so we're clear)

That sucks. I remember reading "A Wrinkle in Time " on a 3 hour car trip.

Mike wrote:

paranoid_android74 wrote:

alfadriver wrote:

KyAllroad wrote:

Beer Baron wrote:

alfadriver wrote: In reply to Beer Baron: I know you know this- it gets worse. I'm closing on 50. I honestly have NO idea why my ankle got swollen. It didn't even hurt. But it looked like someone with a heart/kidney condition in one localized area.

Yeah. I know it's not going to get any easier. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop myself from doing aggressive/extreme hobbies. Just means I need to be a bit more methodical and careful as far as how I do them. I was having this conversation with someone the other day: teens - you are rubbermade 20's - you can do all the stupid things you want and not feel it. 30's - you can do all the stupid things you used to, but you will pay for it the next day. 40's - you can't do all the stupid things. When you do something even halfway stupid, you'll really feel it. 50's - you don't even need to do stupid stuff anymore. You feel all the stupid things you did back when you were younger.

Speaking as someone who did really stupid stuff in his teens and 20's and is now in his 40's. Yup, this is all truth. Just getting out of bed some mornings hurts.

At some point, the penguin walk goes from one or two steps of stiffness to all the time. Ugh. I'm up to half the room after a run. Not going to stop, me, too. I fully admit feeling my best when I was able to "race" a half marathon. But the aches and pains are minor rant worthy, that's for sure.

This does not give me much hope. I used to be a runner, just recently started walking regularly. If I slow down too much around the house now my body makes me pay for it!

Good lord, I need to slow down then. I keep trying to get into running, and I keep hurting myself. I'm still fighting an achilles injury from about a year ago, when I gingerly jogged about a hundred yards and hurt it. The podiatrist told me to stretch it regularly, but that hasn't done much. Every time I look at it, the lump on my heel seems larger. I don't look forward to my forties.

This is precisely why I am walking first! The reason I fell out of running was an injury. I believe it was from trying to wear a pair of shoes longer than I should have.

For now though walking has only left me with sore muscles, which is good. In all fairness too I have been off of work for a couple months. I haven't been on my rear end this much in many years. Hopefully when I go back everything will even out. Including my gut

Driving home yesterday I almost got clipped by a car when making a left turn- he laid on the horn and yelled at me to signal, which confused me as I HAD signaled and could still hear the relay clicking. Get home and check- and none of the left-hand turn signals on the PAU work (including the dash light, which I'd thought was just burned out). Try and troubleshoot it and find that the problem, and very quickly find that the lemon-yellow wire that is the LHS turn signal wire has perfect continuity to ground. Yeaaaah, it's not supposed to do that. And digging into it, it's not even grounding out someplace easy to get to toward the end of the harnesses, it's someplace in the cabin harnesses or under the dash. And remember- this is the car where I can't roll the driver's side window down, meaning I can't use hand signals effectively either.

Thankfully SWMBO gets it- I came in grumbling after figuring all of this out and explained the problem and she says, "Don't spend any more time or money on that piece of crap- pull the engine, find someone to buy the car or haul it to the scrapyard, and get another car."

Today's rant is on myself, as I get upset on such small and ridiculous matters. Political debating on facebook, I shouldn't even engage in it, because it just becomes a pissing match. I just get tired of seeing the same XYZ share of your political figure....yes we get you like them, they are better then the turd sandwich.

This is more of a "How stupid can you be, mtn?" than a rant, but it has been a while since I bid on anything on ebay that wasn't a Buy It Now auction or make an offer. Well, I've learned through selling items, buying in the past, as well as the game theory behind auctions, that the best time to put in a bid is at the very last second, called sniping. Quite commonly known, no big secret.

Well, since it had been a while I couldn't remember how the process worked for actually placing a bid, and wanted to be sure to bid at the very last second. So I placed a bid on a guitar (with 6 days left) that I have always liked, and thought "no way it will sell for $150, and even if I'm wrong and I win this auction, I get the guitar!"

Well, dumbass mtn here didn't look at the ad closely enough. It really might sell for only $150 (including shipping). And if it does, I'm on the hook for it. And this one is a lot rougher than the initial picture indicated. Stupid is as stupid does. EDIT: Woo! I've been outbid. All is well, and I won that other auction.

mtn wrote: Don't get mad at me for leaving nail clippers open (but in a safe place) or not picking up coins that fall from my pocket in my recliner (which I do, just only about every 2 weeks). But if you're going to get mad at me, do NOT ask me what we're going to do when we have kids. Obviously I will be more careful then. Just like I'd assume you'd be more careful about where you leave your curling iron, or where we leave our cleaning supplies, or not leaving plates with forks on them on the coffee table, or (etc.). That is a completely pointless argument considering that a 1 bedroom 800 sqft apartment is simply not child friendly, and we're not considering having a baby in the next year.

Also - have a few kids here, and those things don't matter at all. Put-stuff-in-their-mouth-babies are not digging through cushions, and nail clippers are like the fifth least dangerous thing in your house, open or closed.

GameboyRMH wrote: Duluth makes Ballroom Jeans to address this specific problem.

These pants are AWESOME! I love my firehose ballroom pants from Duluth.

tuna55 wrote:

mtn wrote: Don't get mad at me for leaving nail clippers open (but in a safe place) or not picking up coins that fall from my pocket in my recliner (which I do, just only about every 2 weeks). But if you're going to get mad at me, do NOT ask me what we're going to do when we have kids. Obviously I will be more careful then. Just like I'd assume you'd be more careful about where you leave your curling iron, or where we leave our cleaning supplies, or not leaving plates with forks on them on the coffee table, or (etc.). That is a completely pointless argument considering that a 1 bedroom 800 sqft apartment is simply not child friendly, and we're not considering having a baby in the next year.

Also - have a few kids here, and those things don't matter at all. Put-stuff-in-their-mouth-babies are not digging through cushions, and nail clippers are like the fifth least dangerous thing in your house, open or closed.

You want to tell that to my wife?

mtn wrote:

tuna55 wrote:

mtn wrote: Don't get mad at me for leaving nail clippers open (but in a safe place) or not picking up coins that fall from my pocket in my recliner (which I do, just only about every 2 weeks). But if you're going to get mad at me, do NOT ask me what we're going to do when we have kids. Obviously I will be more careful then. Just like I'd assume you'd be more careful about where you leave your curling iron, or where we leave our cleaning supplies, or not leaving plates with forks on them on the coffee table, or (etc.). That is a completely pointless argument considering that a 1 bedroom 800 sqft apartment is simply not child friendly, and we're not considering having a baby in the next year.

Also - have a few kids here, and those things don't matter at all. Put-stuff-in-their-mouth-babies are not digging through cushions, and nail clippers are like the fifth least dangerous thing in your house, open or closed.

You want to tell that to my wife?

Dude I can't tell things to my own wife.

Dumbass highway construction crews. They are demolishing all the great high speed, sweeping turn merge ramps on the interstate. You guys got something against banked turns?

I don't feel great and have been putting off going to the doctor all week. Finally call today only to be told that she's on vacation today and I can come in on Monday afternoon. I'm an idiot.