My Lease Is Nearly Up On The Complaint Thread

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    MistyMist said:

    ice cream sundae?!

    what toppings?

    Today surely it should have been an Ice Cream Mondae

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,303
    edited September 2016
    MistyMist said:

    ice cream sundae?!

    what toppings?

    Chocolate ice cream (real ice cream not that soft muck), Hershey's chocolate sauce (not hot fudge), Spanish peanuts (not ground up peanut scraps), whipped cream (cream, not whipped oil), and a marachino cherry on top (hopefully not colored with a carcinogenic dye). Yum!

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    say yes to ice cream mondae 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    where theres a top, theres a bottom  tee hee

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,220
    McGyver said:

    ... ... People forget so quickly... 

    And the older we get the forgetfuller we get. :-(  I spy with my little eye, senility creeping up on me.  I've taken to keeping a daily updated spreadsheet of exactly everything I spend. Cash, credit cards, checks & automatic deductions.  Accurate to the penny.  And I freak out when the pennies don't match what I have in my pocket or bank accounts.  Most days I'm OK but once in a while it's freak out time.  I spend hours going through receipts and daily activities trying to remember what I forgot. (I need a "Rememberall").  Today was a freak out day.   Two days ago I had $5.05 more cash than my spreadsheet said I had.  I couldn't find my mistake so I finally put in a $5.05 entry labled "Unknown" in my "Cash Income" field.  Everything balanced and I was a happy camper for 48 hours.  Yesterday I don't remember going out of the house at all.  Today I went out and had breakfast at McDonalds and then later went for a short drive and bought an ice cream sundae, and bought groceries.  I made entries in the appropriate fields and now my spreadsheet says I have $15.08 more cash than I actually have.  ARGHHHH.....

    Perhaps math doesn't work on holidays?

    ...wish my bank account would do that, however it always seems to go the other way, and faster than I anticipate.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,220
    edited September 2016

    ...kind of grey "meh"  labour day here. Holiday has messed up my support cheque so been cashless all weekend.

    Lotto back to the default after the big jackpot was won. Wouldn't be any more per year on the 30 year annuity after taxes than what my last job paid.  Need to wait a few draws for it to build up enough so I can afford a place of my own again.

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  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    MistyMist said:
    McGyver said:

    Did we have a hurricane yet? 

    They evacuated nearby Fire Island... But so far the worst I've seen is a little breeze and a few loose leaves on the ground... Actually, it's rather pleasant out.

    The other day there was a miscommunication and FEMA issued an evacuation order for my county... Technically impossible because there really is no way to safely evacuate that many people from this big of an island... The only way out is NYC bridges or boats and only the handful of ferries to Connecticut that would not be of much use... Literally, it's logistically impossible... Anyway, it was only for a short while, maybe minutes until they fixed that, and corrected that it was only a non-mandatory evacuation for Fire Island...

    The bad part about this is, a lot of businesses had to shut down because of the hurricane... But since it fizzled, I doubt that next time they will bother, despite what they should have learned from Sandy... People forget so quickly... 

    Oh well.

     

     

    lovely breeze out, the carressing kind they write about in lonely romance stories

    My goodness, Mac, are you channeling lonely romance stories now?  After the bulldozer post, I guess I can see why. devil

    Well, like the man said, "fantasy will set you free."  (Steppenwolf)

     

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Jan19 said:
    MistyMist said:
    McGyver said:

    Did we have a hurricane yet? 

    They evacuated nearby Fire Island... But so far the worst I've seen is a little breeze and a few loose leaves on the ground... Actually, it's rather pleasant out.

    The other day there was a miscommunication and FEMA issued an evacuation order for my county... Technically impossible because there really is no way to safely evacuate that many people from this big of an island... The only way out is NYC bridges or boats and only the handful of ferries to Connecticut that would not be of much use... Literally, it's logistically impossible... Anyway, it was only for a short while, maybe minutes until they fixed that, and corrected that it was only a non-mandatory evacuation for Fire Island...

    The bad part about this is, a lot of businesses had to shut down because of the hurricane... But since it fizzled, I doubt that next time they will bother, despite what they should have learned from Sandy... People forget so quickly... 

    Oh well.

     

     

    lovely breeze out, the carressing kind they write about in lonely romance stories

    My goodness, Mac, are you channeling lonely romance stories now?  After the bulldozer post, I guess I can see why. devil

    Well, like the man said, "fantasy will set you free."  (Steppenwolf)

     

    i fantasize about gianni 6 , lol, and geralt of rivia.  hmm, puts in mind more sammiches, mondaes

  • Jan19Jan19 Posts: 1,109
    edited September 2016
    MistyMist said:
    Jan19 said:
    MistyMist said:
    McGyver said:

    Did we have a hurricane yet? 

    They evacuated nearby Fire Island... But so far the worst I've seen is a little breeze and a few loose leaves on the ground... Actually, it's rather pleasant out.

    The other day there was a miscommunication and FEMA issued an evacuation order for my county... Technically impossible because there really is no way to safely evacuate that many people from this big of an island... The only way out is NYC bridges or boats and only the handful of ferries to Connecticut that would not be of much use... Literally, it's logistically impossible... Anyway, it was only for a short while, maybe minutes until they fixed that, and corrected that it was only a non-mandatory evacuation for Fire Island...

    The bad part about this is, a lot of businesses had to shut down because of the hurricane... But since it fizzled, I doubt that next time they will bother, despite what they should have learned from Sandy... People forget so quickly... 

    Oh well.

     

     

    lovely breeze out, the carressing kind they write about in lonely romance stories

    My goodness, Mac, are you channeling lonely romance stories now?  After the bulldozer post, I guess I can see why. devil

    Well, like the man said, "fantasy will set you free."  (Steppenwolf)

     

    i fantasize about gianni 6 , lol, and geralt of rivia.  hmm, puts in mind more sammiches, mondaes

    I fantasize about target practice.

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,220

    ...I fantasise about having enough to afford my own place in the city and living on my own again. 

    Unfortunately that apparently takes matching six randomly drawn numbers.

  • kyoto kid said:

    ...I fantasise about having enough to afford my own place in the city and living on my own again. 

    Unfortunately that apparently takes matching six randomly drawn numbers.

    As I tell the ticket seller at my local store when she asks me "how many", I say "One.  It only takes one. ..... Over, and over and over, and over, and over, ...."

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,220
    edited September 2016

    ...I only play a single ticket per draw as well. it would take an extremely huge buy in to have even the smallest positive effect on the odds. 

    To guarantee winning, it would take having to buy 6,135,756$ worth of tickets (two lines per 1$ ticket) to cover every possible 6 number combination.  For the last big jackpot (9.4$ million), that would have given me a net profit on the investment of 3,264,244$ paid out over 30 years for an annual amount of  70,725.28$ per year after taxes. 

    Needless to say it would take more years than I probably have left just to fill out all those playslips at 5 games per slip (1,227,152 in total) after which they would need to be inserted manually into one of the self service Lotto machines along with the wager (the largest bill the machines accept is a Twenty so I would need to tote around 3,068 packs of 20$ bills strapped in 100s, that's certainly one big shopping trolly full of "lettuce").  As no single machine would be able to handle over 6$ million in receipts, it would also involve travelling around to numerous locations. Not accounting for travel time and based on roughly an average of 15 seconds for the machine to scan each five game play slip and print out each 10 line ticket, it would take a total of 213 days with no breaks to play every conceivable number combination.  The longest stretch of time in which to purchase tickets is the three days between the Wednesday night and Saturday night draws (71 hours due to blackouts).

    ...yeah, pretty bored today.

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  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,243
    kyoto kid said:

    To guarantee winning, it would take having to buy 6,135,756$ worth of tickets (two lines per 1$ ticket) to cover every possible 6 number combination.  For the last big jackpot (9.4$ million), that would have given me a net profit on the investment of 3,264,244$ paid out over 30 years for an annual amount of  70,725.28$ per year after taxes. 

    Needless to say it would take more years than I probably have left just to fill out all those playslips at 5 games per slip (1,227,152 in total) after which they would need to be inserted manually into one of the self service Lotto machines.  As no single machine will be able to handle over 6$ million in receipts, it would also involve travelling around to numerous locations. Not accounting for travel time and based on roughly an average of 15 seconds for the machine to scan each five game play slip and print out each 10 line ticket, it would take a total of 213 days with no breaks to play every conceivable number combination.  The longest stretch of time in which to purchase tickets is the three days between the Wednesday night and Saturday night draws (71 hours due to blackouts).

     

    Reminds me of the movie "Real Genius"... that guy printing lottery entries in the basement.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    excellent movie.  val kilmer!

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378
    Chohole said:

    Random fact of the day

    Why is it most likely that the item I misplaced will be in the last place I look? 

    It's the law...Murphy's Law, I believe.

    Dana

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,713

    Why is it most likely that the item I misplaced will be in the last place I look? 

    You should keep looking in a few more places after you find it, then it won't be in the last place.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,713
    McGyver said:

    Did we have a hurricane yet? 

    They evacuated nearby Fire Island... But so far the worst I've seen is a little breeze and a few loose leaves on the ground... Actually, it's rather pleasant out.

    The other day there was a miscommunication and FEMA issued an evacuation order for my county... Technically impossible because there really is no way to safely evacuate that many people from this big of an island... The only way out is NYC bridges or boats and only the handful of ferries to Connecticut that would not be of much use... Literally, it's logistically impossible... Anyway, it was only for a short while, maybe minutes until they fixed that, and corrected that it was only a non-mandatory evacuation for Fire Island...

    The bad part about this is, a lot of businesses had to shut down because of the hurricane... But since it fizzled, I doubt that next time they will bother, despite what they should have learned from Sandy... People forget so quickly... 

    Oh well.

    I used my magical powers to sasve my community -- for Hurricane Irene we evacuated and nothing happened back home.  For Sandy we stayed and got flooded.  So yesterday we evacuated for a day, thereby guaranteeing that nothing would happen back home.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    windy wind and wet rain, feels refreshing 

  • Yeah, wind and clouds.  No rain though.  I'm too far west from the hurricane.  I should buy a new hard drive soon.  I can only afford a $45 1 TB drive.  2 TB costs too much for me.

  • XyetztXyetzt Posts: 27,491

    My nephew likes Ironman because he is cool, but I like Ironman because he is hot! 

    That's air friction from flying through the air so fast.  And besides with his uniform on he's not very soft and cuddly.

     

    I was going to say that I do not fantasize him in his "uniform" when I say he is hot.  then I thought about it and thought that might be taken wrong.  He does wear civilian clothing from time to time.  (but then it might be thought I want him without anything on.  oops I just said it Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf!!!!)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    My nephew likes Ironman because he is cool, but I like Ironman because he is hot! 

    That's air friction from flying through the air so fast.  And besides with his uniform on he's not very soft and cuddly.

     

    I was going to say that I do not fantasize him in his "uniform" when I say he is hot.  then I thought about it and thought that might be taken wrong.  He does wear civilian clothing from time to time.  (but then it might be thought I want him without anything on.  oops I just said it Bad Wolf! Bad Wolf!!!!)

     

    robert downey jr!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    stayed home today, feelin meh

    cant decide if coffee or tea morning

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,355

    Meh must be going around. I got it too. Took a walk up and down the road but still pretty much meh. Need breakfast and much caffeine.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    garfield, lil buddy.  bunny slippers!

    meh meh meh

    thinking of modeling a humbug, dunno what it looks like, something grumpy

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,098
    edited September 2016

    I'm so aggravated right now... I'm one of those annoying people who can't stand seeing people do lazy s_ _t that puts other people's lives at risk... Even throwing a bag of fast food litter out the window of a car makes my blood boil and that's just littering... but it totally pisses me off when I see people driving on the highway at 70 mph with their living room tied to the roof of their car and just bakery twine and god's love sorta holding it down... But when a-holes like that drop their mattress, sofa, or washing machine on the highway and keep going instead of pulling over and calling the authorities, it kills me...  It's like... "Ooops! Oh well, it'll work itself out... I better keep going, wouldn't want anyone to know where that came from!" ...  

    I was just driving on the service road along the highway near me and someone, I didn't see who, but some idiot dropped a huge sofa on the roadway... Oddly, the only place it could of come from was one of four small cars ahead... This was no ordinary sofa either... This was one of those big honkin mamas that can sleep a family of six... Bam, right on the main highway, it causes pandemonium and a small school bus partly hits it... One, it was good the bus was empty, two it ended up in the exit lane (which unfortunately the bus was in) and three everyone stopped in time... The bus driver and another motorist dragged/flipped it over to the side (Never do that, but in this case traffic was completely stopped, so it was sort of okay). 

    It just makes me so mad that the person who dropped that just kept going, like a dog that accidentally took a dump on the carpet... What if that bus had kids on it and it flipped? Because that's what happens in more than half the cases of vehicles, especially SUVs hitting furniture and mattresses. Most people probably think the car just obliterates the object... Well, because it's a car and rock, paper, station wagon, station wagon wins... Right?

    No... Not even close... Assuming the object does not hit the windshield, and the vehicle hits it full on, in most cases the steering gear is destroyed and the vehicle has NO control, and mostly of that, at least one wheel completely collapses when the front suspension or A-arm deforms and or detaches, causing the vehicle to flip...  

    Well, it's your fault for following a jerk with a sofa or mattress?

    Is it you fault when it lands in front of you from the oncoming lane and you never even had a moment to react?...

    Yeah I had a beautiful oak dining table land right in front of me once... Cartwheeled into the side of a pickup next to me and I full on ran it over at speed with my '72 Pontiac... Even then (with that tank) I had to fix the front suspension and replace both rear shocks and the entire exhaust system which got ripped out... Scared the piss out of me because the thing was sailing airborne from out of nowhere.  Or how about when you are two lanes over and another vehicle is blocking your view of the moron... Last year, a convertible sofa (fold out bed) came flying out from in front of a big rig which hit it, sending it skittering into my lane... Six people in my vehicle, two nanoseconds to fit it between the overpass wall and the twisted steel and wood frame... Never saw who dropped it, but I bet they were happy they didn't have to pay a fine... Oh yeah... It's a fine... Littering actually... So, hey... It's win-win... Save on delivery fees or a set of real ratchet tie down straps and at worst you are out of a sofa or have to pay a $300 fine... Sucks for the other guy... But that's what insurance is for right?... No biggie... Oh he die Down? Oooooh... Didn't see that coming... Well, learn how to drive, right... Not my fault... It was an accident.  Yeah...

    This drives me nuts, because several times a week I either see furniture or some horrible obstruction laying on the road or some fool doing a remake of the Beverly Hillbillies with all his possessions and grandma in her rocker tied to the roof... And NooooooooBODY cares... I come across a tree... An 8 ft maple saplings with a 700-800 lb root ball lying in the middle lane of the highway and I call it in... And the operator gets pissy with me... "Yeah, yeah... We know about it, we are working on it... " and hangs up... Nice. Funny though, because the clay dirt spilled on the road is bone dry and from my experience that takes at least 45 min to 1hr at that temperature, but yeah, I'll take your word... Especially after following a drunk with one wheel missing, sending off a shower of sparks, for about twenty miles and despite numerous calls nobody ever showed up... But yeah, I'll have faith... After all, it was gone by the next day....

    Incidentally... Just to tweak my nerves more, just now this page dropped out for no reason and the DSON Importer page opened... Luckily it didn't erase my post... Well, for me... Not for the people listening to me b_ _ch about flying mattresses.

    I can't tell you how many times I've narrowly avoided crap on the road or have seen bad accidents that were caused by it, but I'm so sick of it and it just seems to be getting worse.

    Two years back, a friend's niece had a brand new mattress come falling out of the sky, from the overpass above as she drove through... She partly ran it over and it flipped her old GMC Jimmy over... Only once, and she only sustained minor injuries because she was already slowing down to exit... Attached to it was that crap white nylon rope that they give away "for your convenience" at furniture stores or DIY centers...

    So what's the solution?   Well, one... Better UNIVERSAL education... More people die each year for crashes resulting from a collision with road obstructions, most of which are dropped by motorists, then from texting and driving... Yet, most driver education manuals only devote a few sentences to properly securing a load, or a most a brief paragraph, and none that I've ever seen that stressed the severity of the consequences to other motorists. 

    Other ideas, in addition to public awareness would probably not sit well with most people, because it would quash their groove, and nobody likes having to be responsible... Its just such a drag, ya know... 

    Okay, I'm done b_ _ching here...

    Yeah... I can be serious sometimes.

    Laterz, all 

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited September 2016

    is a worthy rant, specially on the mehest of days.

    paragraph breaks

     

    bakin fresh bread, tomato bisque and homemade bread, anti-meh!!

     

    windeeee

    fast yeast, still gonna be few hours.

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    meh  -  megagrabs lame today.  dont wanna wasre buying a new release without any megagrabs i want

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,303
    edited September 2016

    I had a comment about highway morons but decided to bite my tongue. 

    I almost ran in to a 20 foot aluminum ladder on Interstate 4 near Disney World while riding my motorcycle 70 miles an hour in 6 lane, near max capacity, traffic.  Freak out time!  Pulled off at next exit and immediately saw a cop parked along side the road.  Pulled up next to him and reported the chaos I'd just left.  Hope they got it fixed before someone wasn't so lucky.

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,378

    When I see a mattress on a roof, I tend to speed up and pass and keep my distance.  I've seen things fly off of cars.  Another thing is simple trash flying out of a pickup truck bed.  Or out of one of those huge long dump trucks.  I've seen them with a full load of trash, and they have that canvas cover that rolls up...still rolled up!

    Dana

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,587

    A friend of mine had a rock through the windscreen of her car a week or two ago. Kids on a bridge. She wasn't hurt, fortunately. It was late at night and there was no other traffic on the road, but it could have been so much worse. And the kids? They just ran off.

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