The "Complaints 'R' Us, complaint thread"
This discussion has been closed.
Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
7533 S Center View Ct #4664
West Jordan, UT 84084
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2026 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
OK, 2nd mini-adventure of the week is done. Up the east side of the lake, lunch, then down the west side of the lake to the mall where at Sears I found a $60 heavy flannel shirt for $14.99
. My old one is beginning to show it's age. Good deal! 
I suspect that our local Sears is on it's way out. Lots and lots of stuff on 60% and 70% sales, half their checkout counters are closed, half of their parking lot entrances are locked. Only about four employees working the whole floor, and hiding from customers.
I remember when Sears was THE place to go. When you had salespeople fighting to get your attention. When they sold the best TVs and appliances and had a super quality service department. Now they don't even sell TVs in the store at all. Sears is now just a dimly lit subsidiary of K-Mart. And K-Mart is on shaky ground themselves. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. 
It's been raining ever since I left lunch. It will probably turn to freezing rain about 5:00 then snow after sundown. 5 inches of wet gloppy stuff predicted tonight and more tomorrow.
Leaky roof syndrome. Can't fix it when it's needed.
I agree, get so frustrated at the outsiders who insist on jabbering away at me and expect me to understand. Those darn Canadians.
Indeed. Knock wood! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
What's that aboot, eh? :-p
...more of that white frozen water from the sky forecast for tonight and tomorrow morning. it's bleedn' March 1st, it should be nearing 60° and tulips should be coming up by now here.
...besides keeping insect populations in check, bats are also pollinators as well.
Have you tried the ELP version?
..."Not Available In [My] Country"
...I still remember Gimbels, Boston. Store, Schuster's and The Grand In Milwaukee, all gone now. So the Blue Light Special may do a red shift and fade from the scene as well. Looks like all we'll have left is Target and Wallyworld. K-mart grew out the old SS Kresge variety stores (there was one at the old Southgate Shopping Centre)
We had a couple "home grown" discount department stores in Wisconsin as well, Milway, More-Way and Treasure Island (the latter which was an outgrowth of Sears that was HQ'd in Milwaukee and known by their iconic "zig zag" roofs [below]), that are no longer around either.
..."Not Available In [My] Country"
A quick web search for "Youtube ELP Great Gates of Kiev" will work wonders, with at least one, I'd hope, being available to you.
they leavin some pears for the lorakeets?
transmits hot cuppa
weather issted a high winds warning, somethin about a nor'easter. easter bunny?
I moved to Washington, DC in 1984, and was there long enough to become familiar with two major downtown department stores that are now gone, Garfinkle's and Hecht's.
When I was a kid in the '50s my mother used to take me to the big store in Jamestown, NY. "Bigelow's". It had seven floors, wooden escalators, human operated elevators. Very much like the store that the Bobsey Twins got locked in in one of their books. (Yes, I read the Bobsey Twins books and the Hardy Boys too.)
But upon reflection I think the entire floor space of Bigelow's would fit in one quarter of our local WalMart.
complainy they expct me to fast fot a bloodworg appt. they made an appt for me to go for a ek-toh-cardy-o-gram
non co,plaint mid afternoon nap
Morning. Gloomy grey overcast giving way to pale blue sky a while after dawn ;)
Bats are into the Olive tree now, pears all long gone :)
...The Gimbel's in downtown Milwaukee was the ultimate in class, seven floors, a real "Bargain Basement", and a cafe on the first floor with a real soda fountain. Much of the interior was deco inspired particularly on the upper floors, with high ceilings (see below). The coolest part was they still had a bank of several manually operated lifts with large art deco styled brass glass doors (fun to watch the inner workings moving while waiting) a rotating arrow indicator above that pointed to which floor a car was on, and of course, uniformed lift operators who would announce each floor (yep, actually heard "Third Floor: Women's Clothing, Nylons, and Lingerie"). Every holiday shopping season, one lift was designated as the "Toyland Express" which went straight to the 7th floor with no stops. During that time of year, several the street level large display windows were decorated with all sorts of anamatronic characters train sets and other things. It literally was like living the film, A Christmas Story.
The Boston Store a few blocks west tended to be more "modern" in its approach though still a favourite during the holidays. They didn't have the elaborate holiday window displays or classy lifts that Gimbels did, but there was a monorail kids could ride in which was suspended from the ceiling that circled their Toyland floor.
Here's the imposing exterior (now a downtown hotel)
I lost my glasses, aka they are not on my face and I have no clue where they are.
I predict really bad weather for Sunday because Austin's Kite Festival is scheduled for then. It's been cancelled alot due to weather.
NVIATWAS: Sorry it's been getting warm in your room. My cheap HVAC guy is still down from his hip replacement last week. I don't know if I'll have enough $$$ for someone else to check before I turn on the AC.
...
I liked ELP 50 years ago, back when I had access to interesting intoxicants, and I still have some of their albums. But I had to struggle to find GGOK amongst all the noise in this version. Which is not what I like to do. This GGOK is certainly different, but not my cup of tea. And I would have liked it more without the screaming vocals.
..I always thought this was a fun version. (Great Gate of Kiev starts at the 3:35 mark).
Yes, that was fun. I really liked the gongs rising out of the floor at the end.
...Leela would love a contraption like this complete with the canonophone.
8:30 PM The wet gloppy snow has begun. It's coming down at a 45 degree angle and there's an inch of slush on my porch already. No travels planned for tomorrow. Popcorn, brandy, chocolate, TV, computers and music. A quiet day at home.
Errrrggg, cabin fever starting already.....
right.. the fires. how could i forget that, i've just recently been talking to someone from there on smackjeeves... earthquakes too? charming. at least no tornados.. :( we have mudslides here too.
yeah but silicon valley? you picked a place where people make fortunes in a blink from some software or other cyber idea... no wonder it was ruinous..
those are great childhood memories :). did you keep some of the chinese you learned? also, lmao @ the part with the asian ladies ;)
i love asian food too, sadly i had to increasingly refrain to eat a lot of things due to my intolerances. still use my wok to cook what i'm still allowed to though.
i wonder if it's not a common thing in super-touristic places that the locals are sometimes aloof with strangers (i can understand it too).. happened to me in greece on a small island too, they really didn't appreciate us being there - still knowing some of their jobs depended on tourism...
was in paris 2 times i think, just in passing, and the only place i felt ok was... in the tube/underground, because it reminded me of london, a city i love. same as in other french cities, i didn't feel at ease nor welcome at all - and i speak current french, my first language. funny enough, where i live now is not too far from france, and i have a few french friends i appreciate a lot.. :shrug: - maybe you just have to know the people first, like be presented/have something in common/meet for a particular reason before the ice breaks?
i don't know but i can guess that if someone behaves decently and makes an effort towards people and culture in a country they visit, they won't make such a bad impression, at least not on sensible people. you have haters everywhere of course. many of the tourists accused of being ignorant obnoxious jerks usually behave like the cliché they illustrate perfectly..
haha, not ranting, this is called human interaction, right? ^^
Really? I didn't know that! Well, I learned a new thing today, thanks! :-)
Probably not as bad as New York and New England but we (NC Outer Banks) also have coastal flood warnings (3 to 5 feet) and high wind warnings (30 to 40 mph with gusts to 60) with probable power outages. So I may miss March Madness for a day or two.
Being such a large country, the US has a built-in disadvantage in the language department. Only in the big cities and along the borders do you find many people who even experience hearing more than one language. Much less practice one. Things have changed a bit in the last 30 years with the introduction of Spanish in large numbers. But there is a great deal of language momentum and unwillingness to learn or even accept the presence of anything but English. There is a smattering of French in the northeast near Montreal and in the south in Louisiana. Some oriental languages in small areas around the country. But for the most part I find that many Americans are smugly and blissfully ignorant of the rest of the world cultures and languages simply because most of them can't travel far enough to have had a foreign experience. (Canada doesn't count.)
I have traveled the world a bit and I am interested in other languages but I'm not much good at languages. I know a smattering of Spanish, Italian, German and Russian but not enough to be comfortably conversant. But for most Americans there is still no need or even desire to learn another language. English is too pervasive around them their whole lives. And if truth be told, I notice a great many Americans who casually slaughter English too.