Where in the World has the Forum Gremlin gone Now? Complaint Thread

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    kyoto kid said:
    McGyver said:

    I got a free coffee with star reward and also purchased a cookie.

    How was that cookie?

    It looked like one of those cookies that one accidentally purchases because they are really trying to buy a different cookie but the person behind the counter is directionally challenged... 

    Customer: I'd also like one of the cookies in the case... This one (pointing directly to it behind the glass)...

    Clerk: (now standing on a stool ten feet away) Uh... This one?

    Customer: No, sorry this chocolate one over here...

    Clerk: This eclair?

    Customer: No, I said over here, not eclair...

    Clerk: The eclairs are over here...

    Customers: No, I'd like a cookie... From this case...

    Clerk: Okay, good, because we are out of eclairs... Which cookie?

    Customer: (pointing directly to lone chocolate cookie in try in middle of case) This one...

    Clerk: The red one? (Reaching for blue cookie on bottom shelf, far right)

    Customer: No, this chocolate one, right here...

    Clerk: This is blueberry frosted, not chocolate...

    Customer: No, one shelf above, to your left...

    Clerk: This gingerbread elf?

    Customer: No, to the left...

    Clerk: There are two left, but if you wait they are making some more...

    Customer: I want this cookie here...

    Clerk: This green one too? (pointing to a red cookie shaped like Santa Squid or something)...

    Customer: No, the chocolate one...

    Clerk: Yes, it's our Cthulhu cookie, it's very popular...

    Customer: No, choco... did you say Cthulhu?

    Clerk: You'd like a chocolate cookie too? (Homes right in on the correct cookie, takes it out and drops it on the floor)... Oh my... That was the last one... Ever... Sorry...

    Customer: (Eyes bugging out)... Gasp....

    Clerk: So... One gingerbread elf and one Keg O' Latte... Anything else?

    Customer: No! For the love of God, no! Just give me the $&#€!!?% cookie and my $&?#^€£¥?!$ coffee, and let me leave!

    Clerk: Okay, thanks... That's $47.95... Is that a debit card?

     

    The cookie seemed like it didn't have a face, so I assumed you went through one of those scenarios... You always will end up with some horrible stale mutated baked good of some sort when that happens... That or you get arrested for assault... Possibly both if you hold onto the cookie and the cops give up trying to take it away.

    Anyway, I hope it was good. 

     

     

    ...I've had experiences like that.

    Walked into one of those chain operated corner coffee shops once.

    Me "I'd like a Medium Coffee"

    Barista: "Will that be a [insert a series of three different pseudo terms that are a fusion of French Italian and Swahili which were concocted by some overpaid flunkie in the company's marketing department]?"

    Me: "a Medium"

    Barista: "so you want either a [repeats the same three nonsensical words again]."

    Me: "Medium you know like in 'Small,  Medium, Large...' a M-e-d-i-u-m" [I accompany each word using my hands to indicate the difference].

    Barista: "Oh you want a [second nonsensical 'make-believe' size name].

    Me: "yes, a Medium".[nodding to emphasize what I said].

    Barista [goes gets coffee, returns to cash register] OK one [French-Italian-Swahili named size] house coffee, will that be all?  [I nod "yes"]. That will be 2.50$ please."

    Glad all I ordered was the coffee and nothing else.

    Feel sometimes like a need an "English to Cafe" dictionary.

    Well, I can't say I've had that involved of a conversation because I usually avoid places that sell overpriced bitter coffee sludge to people who've been brainwashed into thinking that it's what they should drink and that it's worth the money.  My problem with coffee came when I went to Europe and tried to find a drinkable cup of coffee for breakfast that was not 10% tar and 65% milk.  I desperately tried to explain what a plain unsweetened, unlactosed, simple cup of unbitter black coffee was and I could see the confusion and disbelief cross their face like a haboob across the desert.  Perhaps I'm naive and cafe' illiterate but Folger's Instant was my daily waker-upper for decades. smiley  The problem is moot now because I've had to quit coffee altogether.  crying

     

    ...we used to have a place down on Hawthorne Ave here called Noah's Bagels (they actually had several locations around town).  Excellent bagels, a wide variety of "schmeers", and some of the best coffee in town (bottomless cup and it didn't cost 3 - 5$).  They were taken over by another chain named Einstein's and the quality went downhill faster than a parked car without an emergency brake in San Francisco. Noah's was busy every day of the week.  After Einstien's took them over you were lucky to see maybe 3 people in the shop on days where there would normally be a line.  Their coffee was wretched, almost on par with Denny's.

    Needless to say they didn't last very long. and now the location is some kind of trendy boutique shop.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    Same cookie?  No new cookie that looks like yesterday's cookie.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    hexadecimel has 16 digits. 

  • MistyMist said:

    hexadecimel has 16 digits. 

    Four at the end of each appendage.

     

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,278
    kyoto kid said:
    McGyver said:
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:
    Chohole said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    MistyMist said:

    ahhhh scotchtape !!!  my kingdom for another piece of scotchtape!!  noooo 

    must finish wrapping !!!!

    Sorry I used up my scotchtape on my mum's birthday present.  I need to get some more tomorrow.

     

    how did people wrap christmas presents before scotchtape was invented?

     

    they used the force laugh

    http://howdidyoumakethis.com/gift-wrap-with-string-and-paper/

    Ribbon works as well as string

    click image to play

    whoa new tricksss, video I mean is that easy huh?

     

    eta OK I give up how do you do that? frown

     

    ribbons

    brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite things .. .. sing ittttt

    I sometimes use layers of duct tape... This is especially entertaining when used in conjunction with small children... Watching them trying to figure out how to get at the contents and then finding yet another layer below is what really makes the holidays for me.

    ...in one family of relatives each year they would give one family member the dreaded "unopenable" present..  The ingenuity involved was incredible as each year the type of "packaging" would be different. I remember one year when I visited for the holidays, my elder cousin was the one presented with the infernal gift.  In the end she gave up, went to the garage, and got the Sawzall to open it up.  Fortunately the actual item inside was not damaged as t was small and  there were several layers of "packaging".

    and give up wrapping my gifts with a nail gun? 

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:

    I just did a drawing :>

     

    Can't remember how long I spent on it though ><

    Cool!  The coloring makes it pop!

    Dana

    This is the full thing;  albeit by another aritst :>

    It's what you'd call an "adoptable", if the term is familiar. Can describe it more or less as paying for the rights to use,name,own,etc a design someone else made.  Like adopting a digital kitten ^^

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Have a Drink on Me  
    -By AC/DC

    Whiskey, gin and brandy
    With a glass I'm pretty handy
    I'm trying to walk a straight line
    On sour mash and cheap wine
    So join me for a drink boys
    We're gonna make a big noise
    So don't worry about tomorrow
    Take it today
    Forget about the cheque
    We'll get hell to pay
    Have a drink on me

    Dizzy, drunk and fightin'
    On tequila white lightnin'
    My glass is getting shorter
    On whiskey, ice and water
    So come on and have a good time

    Have a drink on me
    Have a drink on me
    On me

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097

    Same cookie?  No new cookie that looks like yesterday's cookie.

    I still find it very disturbing... Why doesn't it have a face?... Where's the face?... What are the red spots?... Is it bleeding?... This cookie is the beginning of a horror story...  At least make sure you eat it all... And in public... Nowhere where you might drop it and have it hide and find its way back home with you... Trust me... You don't want to wake up late at night and find that cookie wielding a pair of scissors... Evil stabby faceless cookies are always looking for revenge about something... Especially being half eaten.

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Feh. sad

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097
    TroutFace said:

    Feh. sad

    Eh? 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097

    Is anyone here getting themselves a drone anytime soon?  I went to Best Buy the other day and they now have, in store about ten different drones, at least two are professional level... I just went to CVS (a drug store chain) and apparently they are carrying drones now too... I feel that while they may hold the potential for some good old fashioned redneck fun, that's the exact reason most people should not be in possession of one... Well, now I have something to look forward to this summer... All the drone related stupidity and the eventual outcry against them. My property has a No-Fly Zone policy for SUAVs, so any that venture over here will end up stuffed and mounted.  I think drones and hover boards are this years dumb expensive gift.... Or are there more I'm missing?... The sad thing is they (drones) have the potential to be quite useful, for photography, maintenance or surveying... Even hiking or exploring out in nature... Going place you can't reach or shouldn't try to.  But the moment they became popular is the moment I lost interest... First off, very soon you are going to see every municipality slapping all sorts of restrictions on them because of all the idiots and the bad people will find bad things to do with them... Besides, unless I can strap a couple of hellfire missiles to them, what's the point?... I guess I could annoy squirrels with them, but that's what the missiles would be for in the first place. The hover boards are a hoot too, someone we know got one two months ago and the battery severely overheated, so they returned it and got a new one... Now I'm seeing news warning about many of them bursting into flames and even exploding... Which is cool if you intend for it work that way, but not you just want to rides around on it like a slightly more coordinated Paul Blart- Mall Cop.  Megh... I'm probably getting coal for Christmas anyway.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    kyoto kid said:
    kyoto kid said:
    McGyver said:

    I got a free coffee with star reward and also purchased a cookie.

    How was that cookie?

    It looked like one of those cookies that one accidentally purchases because they are really trying to buy a different cookie but the person behind the counter is directionally challenged... 

    Customer: I'd also like one of the cookies in the case... This one (pointing directly to it behind the glass)...

    Clerk: (now standing on a stool ten feet away) Uh... This one?

    Customer: No, sorry this chocolate one over here...

    Clerk: This eclair?

    Customer: No, I said over here, not eclair...

    Clerk: The eclairs are over here...

    Customers: No, I'd like a cookie... From this case...

    Clerk: Okay, good, because we are out of eclairs... Which cookie?

    Customer: (pointing directly to lone chocolate cookie in try in middle of case) This one...

    Clerk: The red one? (Reaching for blue cookie on bottom shelf, far right)

    Customer: No, this chocolate one, right here...

    Clerk: This is blueberry frosted, not chocolate...

    Customer: No, one shelf above, to your left...

    Clerk: This gingerbread elf?

    Customer: No, to the left...

    Clerk: There are two left, but if you wait they are making some more...

    Customer: I want this cookie here...

    Clerk: This green one too? (pointing to a red cookie shaped like Santa Squid or something)...

    Customer: No, the chocolate one...

    Clerk: Yes, it's our Cthulhu cookie, it's very popular...

    Customer: No, choco... did you say Cthulhu?

    Clerk: You'd like a chocolate cookie too? (Homes right in on the correct cookie, takes it out and drops it on the floor)... Oh my... That was the last one... Ever... Sorry...

    Customer: (Eyes bugging out)... Gasp....

    Clerk: So... One gingerbread elf and one Keg O' Latte... Anything else?

    Customer: No! For the love of God, no! Just give me the $&#€!!?% cookie and my $&?#^€£¥?!$ coffee, and let me leave!

    Clerk: Okay, thanks... That's $47.95... Is that a debit card?

     

    The cookie seemed like it didn't have a face, so I assumed you went through one of those scenarios... You always will end up with some horrible stale mutated baked good of some sort when that happens... That or you get arrested for assault... Possibly both if you hold onto the cookie and the cops give up trying to take it away.

    Anyway, I hope it was good. 

     

     

    ...I've had experiences like that.

    Walked into one of those chain operated corner coffee shops once.

    Me "I'd like a Medium Coffee"

    Barista: "Will that be a [insert a series of three different pseudo terms that are a fusion of French Italian and Swahili which were concocted by some overpaid flunkie in the company's marketing department]?"

    Me: "a Medium"

    Barista: "so you want either a [repeats the same three nonsensical words again]."

    Me: "Medium you know like in 'Small,  Medium, Large...' a M-e-d-i-u-m" [I accompany each word using my hands to indicate the difference].

    Barista: "Oh you want a [second nonsensical 'make-believe' size name].

    Me: "yes, a Medium".[nodding to emphasize what I said].

    Barista [goes gets coffee, returns to cash register] OK one [French-Italian-Swahili named size] house coffee, will that be all?  [I nod "yes"]. That will be 2.50$ please."

    Glad all I ordered was the coffee and nothing else.

    Feel sometimes like a need an "English to Cafe" dictionary.

    Well, I can't say I've had that involved of a conversation because I usually avoid places that sell overpriced bitter coffee sludge to people who've been brainwashed into thinking that it's what they should drink and that it's worth the money.  My problem with coffee came when I went to Europe and tried to find a drinkable cup of coffee for breakfast that was not 10% tar and 65% milk.  I desperately tried to explain what a plain unsweetened, unlactosed, simple cup of unbitter black coffee was and I could see the confusion and disbelief cross their face like a haboob across the desert.  Perhaps I'm naive and cafe' illiterate but Folger's Instant was my daily waker-upper for decades. smiley  The problem is moot now because I've had to quit coffee altogether.  crying

     

    ...we used to have a place down on Hawthorne Ave here called Noah's Bagels (they actually had several locations around town).  Excellent bagels, a wide variety of "schmeers", and some of the best coffee in town (bottomless cup and it didn't cost 3 - 5$).  They were taken over by another chain named Einstein's and the quality went downhill faster than a parked car without an emergency brake in San Francisco. Noah's was busy every day of the week.  After Einstien's took them over you were lucky to see maybe 3 people in the shop on days where there would normally be a line.  Their coffee was wretched, almost on par with Denny's.

    Needless to say they didn't last very long. and now the location is some kind of trendy boutique shop.

     

    There was an Einstein's bagel place by me 20 years ago. They had blueberry bagels.  they replaced by green cactus mexican place, claims msg free tacos.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    had a big feh moment today.  was tilting a 2 wheel dolly cart, trying to move a 45lb box.  box slipped off the lil dolly ledge, they really need to make those lil ledges bigger.  the suddeness of not having a counterbalance weight of 45 lbs made me fall backwards, didn't land on the floor, a wall caught me.  shift manager saw my lil altercation with the box on security camera.  feh feh feh 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i need a nap.  the hide from the world kindof nap.  2 hours 20 minutes to bus. 

    plugging my mp3 player in, some Tesla!

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    McGyver said:
    TroutFace said:

    Feh. sad

    Eh? 

    Disgust and unhappiness is settling in re: this company closing forever at the end of the day Friday.  My mood is going from bad to serious attitude problem..

    thus..

    ..feh. angry

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603

    According to the news feeds. Many types of drones (why are all little flying toys now called drones?) have to be registered with the FAA. That might (big might) slow things down a bit. Soon we'll hear all those yahoos screaming about their 99th Amendment - the right to bear and fly drones.... or was that the right to fly bare drones.... shrug

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. We got enough sunlight to share with everyone today, was the kind of sudden dawn that would light up Hades :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    TroutFace said:
    McGyver said:
    TroutFace said:

    Feh. sad

    Eh? 

    Disgust and unhappiness is settling in re: this company closing forever at the end of the day Friday.  My mood is going from bad to serious attitude problem..

    thus..

    ..feh. angry

    *hugz*

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    McGyver said:
    TroutFace said:

    Feh. sad

    Eh? 

    Disgust and unhappiness is settling in re: this company closing forever at the end of the day Friday.  My mood is going from bad to serious attitude problem..

    thus..

    ..feh. angry

    *hugz*

    Thanks.. a few beers tonight and some heavy metal will improve things.  Besides, there's some tiny hope they'll get bridge funding and I get broght back.. indecision

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    BEEEER

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    MistyMist said:

    BEEEER

    Everything goes better with beer!! Plus tonight is wodka shopping night, so some Polish tater vodka comes home! laughdevil

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,456

    Poser 11 pro goes on sale barely forty eight hours after I got it.   Ugggghhhh!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    there no such thing as a cheap hdri camera?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    McGyver said:

    Is anyone here getting themselves a drone anytime soon?  I went to Best Buy the other day and they now have, in store about ten different drones, at least two are professional level... I just went to CVS (a drug store chain) and apparently they are carrying drones now too... I feel that while they may hold the potential for some good old fashioned redneck fun, that's the exact reason most people should not be in possession of one... Well, now I have something to look forward to this summer... All the drone related stupidity and the eventual outcry against them. My property has a No-Fly Zone policy for SUAVs, so any that venture over here will end up stuffed and mounted.  I think drones and hover boards are this years dumb expensive gift.... Or are there more I'm missing?... The sad thing is they (drones) have the potential to be quite useful, for photography, maintenance or surveying... Even hiking or exploring out in nature... Going place you can't reach or shouldn't try to.  But the moment they became popular is the moment I lost interest... First off, very soon you are going to see every municipality slapping all sorts of restrictions on them because of all the idiots and the bad people will find bad things to do with them... Besides, unless I can strap a couple of hellfire missiles to them, what's the point?... I guess I could annoy squirrels with them, but that's what the missiles would be for in the first place. The hover boards are a hoot too, someone we know got one two months ago and the battery severely overheated, so they returned it and got a new one... Now I'm seeing news warning about many of them bursting into flames and even exploding... Which is cool if you intend for it work that way, but not you just want to rides around on it like a slightly more coordinated Paul Blart- Mall Cop.  Megh... I'm probably getting coal for Christmas anyway.

    ...then there was this fellow in Kentucky, who when he saw a drone with a camera hovering over the back yard where his daughter was sunbathing, got his rifle and shot it out of the sky.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    BEEEER

    Everything goes better with beer!! Plus tonight is wodka shopping night, so some Polish tater vodka comes home! laughdevil

    ...things are even better with Polish Potato Wodka as well.

    Hoping that the Bridge Funding comes through.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159

    ...another Megabucks draw, another "non winning" ticket.

    I thought when you became an old fart, your chances to win the Lotto are supposed to improve.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,252
    edited December 2015
    kyoto kid said:
    McGyver said:

    Is anyone here getting themselves a drone anytime soon?  I went to Best Buy the other day and they now have, in store about ten different drones, at least two are professional level... I just went to CVS (a drug store chain) and apparently they are carrying drones now too... I feel that while they may hold the potential for some good old fashioned redneck fun, that's the exact reason most people should not be in possession of one... Well, now I have something to look forward to this summer... All the drone related stupidity and the eventual outcry against them. My property has a No-Fly Zone policy for SUAVs, so any that venture over here will end up stuffed and mounted.  I think drones and hover boards are this years dumb expensive gift.... Or are there more I'm missing?... The sad thing is they (drones) have the potential to be quite useful, for photography, maintenance or surveying... Even hiking or exploring out in nature... Going place you can't reach or shouldn't try to.  But the moment they became popular is the moment I lost interest... First off, very soon you are going to see every municipality slapping all sorts of restrictions on them because of all the idiots and the bad people will find bad things to do with them... Besides, unless I can strap a couple of hellfire missiles to them, what's the point?... I guess I could annoy squirrels with them, but that's what the missiles would be for in the first place. The hover boards are a hoot too, someone we know got one two months ago and the battery severely overheated, so they returned it and got a new one... Now I'm seeing news warning about many of them bursting into flames and even exploding... Which is cool if you intend for it work that way, but not you just want to rides around on it like a slightly more coordinated Paul Blart- Mall Cop.  Megh... I'm probably getting coal for Christmas anyway.

    ...then there was this fellow in Kentucky, who when he saw a drone with a camera hovering over the back yard where his daughter was sunbathing, got his rifle and shot it out of the sky.

    If you shoot an unregistered drone out of the sky with an unregistered gun does it count?

    Along these same lines of dangerous technical marvels in the hands of unprincipled people I felt the same way about computers thirty years ago.  That's when I started turning grumpy.

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,159
    edited December 2015

    ...well, Wisconsin's basketball programme is about to become the doormat of the Big Ten again as head coach Bo Ryan called it quits after last night's game.  Tough enough most of the starting lineup that sook us to the NCAA final graduated.this past summer.  Ryan knew how to build a solid team in spite of Wisconsin not being one of the so called "elite" programmes and inspire his players to stay for the full 4 years rather than jump ship early for the NBA.

    He will be missed.

    If anyone was the personification of a Badger in RL, it was Ryan (see attachment)

    Even more now I wish they had beat Duke in the championship final. At least he would have left on a good note.

    [/sports]

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  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    BEEEER

    Everything goes better with beer!! Plus tonight is wodka shopping night, so some Polish tater vodka comes home! laughdevil

    ...things are even better with Polish Potato Wodka as well.

    Hoping that the Bridge Funding comes through.

    Amazingly, despite the season some places are hiring and already the vultures circle my body.. submitted for a firmware job in Redmond this morning!

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:

    ...another Megabucks draw, another "non winning" ticket.

    I thought when you became an old fart, your chances to win the Lotto are supposed to improve.

    I hope you win it!! yeslaugh

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