The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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I lost count of the number of times as a kid I got sent over to a neighbor's to ask for some ingredient or another. The neighbors were just as likely to come knocking at our door, and if a parent wasn't home, we knew to go let them in and fetch the sugar or egg or whatever. Two separate neighbors had a key to our house, so I knew if I got home from school and had forgotten to bring mine with, all I had to do was go over and asked to borrow their copy. We had theirs, too. Everyone was always trading back and forth on fetching mail or watering plants or taking care of cats or some such whenever someone was on vacation. It seemed super normal back then, but I couldn't imagine doing it now.
Complaints: 1. Pay hasn't direct deposited yet today. Mine is usually there by now, but a coworker says hers drops later, so giving it more time. 2. Yeah I do have a cold for my birthday.
@ArtAngel: hope your hand is getting better
@LeatherGryphon: I use cornmeal (or corneal mix) for my salmon patties and a friend uses crushed Ritz crackers.
Interesting idea. But neither of those are things that* I keep on hand regularly. In fact, I don't think that* I've ever bought cornmeal.
Non-complaint: While grocery shopping during laundry day I discovered to my delight that the store had a small stock of Carnation Evaporated Milk in the small 5 oz. cans. I live alone, and like the small cans instead of the big 12 oz. cans because it's just the right amount to be used in a casserole and not be wasted or forced to be otherwise used once opened. I don't know what the problem was, but for a while the small cans were like Unobtainium. Neither in groceries big or small, nor even at Amazon or WalMart. But it looks as if they're back, even at Amazon (although overpriced and not supported by PRIME free shipping). But there they were, on the shelf in my grocery store. So, I picked up a few. Yay, life is good!
*Musings: I hesitated for a moment while writing the first sentence of this post. I got hung up on the use of the word "that". So, I looked it up and added yet another long overlooked tidbit to my store of English vagaries and beautiful ideosyncracies. The older I get, the more I appreciate the importance of reading and writing well constructed English(or whatever one's native language is). And one piece of advice I can suggest to young people is to learn at least one other language. Perhaps not to be fluent or even conversant, but to learn the alphabets, basic pronunciation, nature and structure of languages in general. It opens one's eyes to other cultures and ways of thinking. A good thing.
I am in no way good at languages, I struggle beyond the basics. I've had one year of Spanish in high school, 10 weeks of German in college and self taught myself the rudiments of Russian at age 70. But armed with that, and a long inquisitive life, I've noticed that I now can read and grasp foreign signs, movie credits & short headlines in Spanish, Italian, Portugese, French, German, and even Russian, Ukrainian & Greek as well as scientific Latin & Greek nomenclature almost unthinkingly. Wow, cool.
I fully agree 100% +/-0%.
I don't know. I think some people make an effort to present themselves as people who always have things go well. Like when I only post pictures of our cats while they're getting along fine.
Also, I have a tendency to appear very lighthearted most of the time, at least in person. I almost never display negative emotions. So it leads to people thinking I'm happy all the time, and consequently leads to people thinking I have no real problems. Then there are people who take more time to get to know me and know that I am both lighthearted and very odd. And online, I think I just let my weird side show without a lot of real life context so maybe people will see me the way I want them to, or maybe they'll just think I'm very odd. I should stop trying to make sense.
Also keep in mind that ASL (or one's regional equivalent) is also a language. I don't regret the French I took in junior/senior high, but the sign language courses I took in college have been useful far more often, and in ways I never anticipated.
I asked my therapist a direct question about the location of some particular items. She gave me an answer about why some items were thrown out. I asked if I should assume the particular items were thrown out not for the reason.
i felt like being reiterated basically thst my failure to accomplish tasks in time was the reason things had to be thrown out.
I said I rather have a definitive answer. I was trying to say her answer to my question did not seem to answer my specific question
She said she gave that answer but I don't like it. I felt that my opinion of the answer was immaterial. It was about how well the question I asked was answered.
Thank you for such kind thoughts. I really do appreciate what each of you has said and shared.
Sometimes I wonder why how much, and why so much. You have been sharing and generous and kind in the forums so I assume that is who you are in part. Si I do question why some good people seem so burdened by adversity while others are shunned adversity. Maybe some of us were horrific in a past life or maybe some of us have stronger broader shoulders and we get what others cannot bear. Sometimes it seems unfair but then those thoughts bring guilt because I think of others that are unfortunately far worse off, and laden with a greater load than us. I have survived adversity by brainwashing myself to believe these adversities are blessings that teach us to be more resilient and cope better. But a heavy load, year after year does occasionally get very trying and does challenge the core of my beliefs. But life is a sandwich. That sandwich, for me asnd others seems to be moldy bread with a great delicious filling. I have learned to toss the bread, but sometimes fresh bread with a great filling would be a welcome change.
I think you are very real. We are all perfectly flawed. We have strong points and weak points and it should be okay to say today I am not okay without appearing weak. It takes a strong person to say I screwed up or I'm not okay, and know those who judge them as weak do not matter.
I like that sandwich analogy a lot. It resonates.
I think I've come to the decision that I will never know why some of the sweetest people I know have (and have often always had) the heaviest loads dumped on them while some of the worst sorts just dance through life with their every wish granted. (Of course, I also know a lot of awful people having a time of it, but it's hard to feel sorry for them.) But I'm a fan of that Gandalf quote about how all people can do is decide what they're going to do with the time they're given. I figure that's pretty practical, and I like practical things. And slowly I'm getting comfortable with the idea that "do good where I can" includes doing good for myself as well as others.
"Life is a sandwich" makes me think of the old vulgar joke about life being a s**t sandwich.
Which appears to be more true as I've entered my seventh decade.
That cat looks a bit inbread...
* bows *
Not originally mine though
Non-complaint: A plague doctor plush for my birthday. Appropriate considering my cold.
Have a few trumpet tunes (I an't claim to have caught a majority of them - the full YouTube page does have a list)
I forgot that I need to put the clothes from the washer into the dryer.
Apparently not knowing the correct order of the CVC of my debit card isn't helpful. I knew the right digits but not the order.
That shouldn't be a problem. Just look on the back of your debit card.
Non-complaint: my dad is coming over tomorrow to convert/teach me how to convert my kitchen flourescent feature to LED bulbs. This is good as the current bulbs are taking linger and longer to warm up. They probably won't last much longer. Also, he's going to show me how to replace the caulking in my shower, though that might be the following day or two.
complaint: so of course one of my pipes in the laundry room decides to start leaking. (Though at least at the moment it's a very small leak and not a very large leak.)
Yes true. I wasnt looking at my card at that time.
I've been rewatching old episodes of "Vera" on BritBox. I'd said it before, but those stories are so tragic. It seems like every death she investigates involves tragic situations for multiple families. Complicated family disputes. Complex interactions with old friends. Unsuspected people popping out of the woodwork stirring the pot of clues and opening old wounds. Never gets boring. I stay glued to the TV for the full 90 minutes. It's such a well written series.
Non-complaint: More tiny cans: Yay, whatever was going on with the short supply of small cans seems to be over.
Now I notice that DelMonte Mandarin Oranges are again available at Amazon in the smaller 8.5oz cans instead of the 15 oz cans. I kvetched a few months ago about the big cans being a waste because a full can in a standard Jello mix is too much and causes the mix to not set properly, and if I leave out half the can, the yummy, pricey slices get gobbled down faster than peanuts.
Complaint: I'm running short of things to complain about this month. Which means that shortly, the wind will shift and will bring some bad luck like an anti-MaryPoppins into my life.
Query: How many of you knew how to say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" backwards when you were a kid?
And still can.
There is an actress named Peggy. I think she is typecast as a dog. I don't think she can be a good James Bobd actress. Maybe if they need a dog?
I've never tried to do that. I think I've said it forward before. But I don't know if I was actually saying it or just thinking it.
I could and still can except that I'd lost the end of a syllable in the middle somewhere during the last 60 years. According to the magic umbrella passenger herself, it's something like: dotious-ali-expistic-fragi-cali-rupes (at 1:50)
Yes, my nerd is showing.
Although "Wingardium Leviosa" is easier.
Are we really sure that Ms Poppins wasn't a Hogwarts alumnus?
There's a fan theory that she's a Time Lord. Makes sense to me.
(Add me to the "can say it backwards" club - I had a compilation of Disney classic songs on a vinyl when I was a kid, and that one was on there. Listened to that thing so often it's a wonder I didn't wear it out. That and Disco Mickey Mouse, but my BFF liked that one better than I did.)
Complaint: Right in the middle of a tornado watch. [Bother].
...saw that on the news just a short while ago, a massive outbreak in the midwest and south.
Do you have a place to take shelter?
Is it weather related? or is it the plague? or is it Zombies? or is it the jails?