The "Complaints 'R' Us, complaint thread"

Mistara · March 2018

DanaTA said:

Mistara said:

waitin for the deliveryman/person

garlic knots, penne pesto rosso, and a mini canoli

yup held back on the full size canoli

work to do, modeling a skooma bottle

Who delivers on a Sunday? Groceries?

And what's a skooma bottle?

Dana

Sputino delivered nomms pasta in pesto sauce.

Skooma a skyrim thing. i mebbe spelling it wrong.

LeatherGryphon · March 2018

Mistara said:

Chohole said:

Complaint
Pen y Fan is the highest mountain in the Brecon Beacons range. I live in what is poetically called "The foothills of the Brecon Beacons"

Pen y fan yesterday (taken from the ski centre)

and today

must be an incredible downhill sleigh ride

wouldnt fancy the uphill return trip tho lol

What happened to all the trees?

DanaTA · March 2018

Mistara said:

DanaTA said:

Mistara said:

waitin for the deliveryman/person

garlic knots, penne pesto rosso, and a mini canoli

yup held back on the full size canoli

work to do, modeling a skooma bottle

Who delivers on a Sunday? Groceries?

And what's a skooma bottle?

Dana

Sputino delivered nomms pasta in pesto sauce.

Skooma a skyrim thing. i mebbe spelling it wrong.

Oh, it's from a game, then?

Dana

kyoto kid · March 2018

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

...could this have been it?

kyoto kid · March 2018

Mistara said:

kyoto kid said:

...hey hey hey kids it's that day again.

orange peel on hid nose?

...actually it was red, but yeah, has that texture. I remember Albert "the character's name" who was not only featured in a Saturday morning kid's show but also co-anchored the weather forecasts on one of our local television stations for many years .

..oh here's a colour picture I found...

kyoto kid · March 2018

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

...actually Miller Lite™ was introduced nationally in 1975, followed by Bud Light™ seven years later.

kyoto kid · March 2018

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

...we just mashed the names of the three major fortified wines together and called them all Thunder Train 20/20.

kyoto kid · March 2018

DanaTA said:

Tjohn said:

DanaTA said:

Tjohn said:

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

ALLIEKATBLUE said:

Another nor'easter on Tuesday. This makes 3 in about 2 weeks. First one knocked out power for 5 days and came on just in time for the 2nd one. I'm so over winter already.

Someon has ticked off Mother Nature... :-/

it not nice to fool mother nature.

heard a mourning dove this morning, was a mournful complaint about the cold.

Mourning doves are very successful birds around here. There's a large tree outside my window that is a favorite location, right before dawn I get 3-4 of them cooing away. Very pretty birds, as well. :-)

...I miss the sound of their cooing, very comforting. Heard only one in all the time I've lived here and it was near the business park where I used to work on the far west side of the metro area.

Awww. :-( Right now (8:05am) I hear mourning doves, a hawk in the distance, and a few crabby grackles. The grackles ruin everything... :-/

They're kind of cool looking, with that irridecent blue, green or purple...but they swarm and eat all the seed in my bird feeder. They seem to go away for the winter, but they're back now.

Dana

Ours here in Austin make odd noises, like shorting elecrical transformers. Very alarming! Bzzzzt crackle CAW! :-O

Yes, sort of a metallic kind of klink. Very odd. They scare away nicer looking and smaller birds from the feeder. But they scare easily themselves. I just go to the kitchen window and wave an arm, off they go. Once I saved one that was caught in my neighbor's stockade fence. He apparently slipped off his perch on top of one of the pickets ans down between two of them. His leg was caught. I tried to reach for him to lift him up, but it pecked at me and tried to scratch me with the loose foot. So I came back, got a table knife and a piece of cardboard (as a blinder) and slid his foot up and out from between the pickets. Off he went, withough even a thank you!

Dana

Dana

Here we just shoot grackles with a BB gun.

Dana

Please understand when you grow up on a farm like I did, the family relies on a vegetable garden for much of the food we ate year-round. We canned and froze much of our summer crops. Some birds such as crows, starlings and grackles are garden pests and have to be controlled or they can cause great damage to crops. My brother and I still make a garden in the summer.

I can understand that.

Dana

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

Ripple was big when I was in high school...and Boone's Farm Apple!

Dana

...another was Annie Green Springs™.

Then there were those Bartles & Jaymes™ Wine Coolers.

Mistara · March 2018

having trouble with the ik terminator booties

might cry myself to sleep with all the troubles contenrt giving me

TSasha Smith · March 2018

I do not want to take my medicine as I want to sleep.

TJohn · March 2018

Yep.

NVIATWAS · March 2018

kyoto kid said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

...could this have been it?

I threw up in my mouth a little... :-/

NVIATWAS · March 2018

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

...actually Miller Lite™ was introduced nationally in 1975, followed by Bud Light™ seven years later.

I must have missed it, then. No loss, not a light beer fan. :-|

NVIATWAS · March 2018

kyoto kid said:

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

...we just mashed the names of the three major fortified wines together and called them all Thunder Train 20/20.

LOLOLOLOL *barf*

NVIATWAS · March 2018

kyoto kid said:

DanaTA said:

Tjohn said:

DanaTA said:

Tjohn said:

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

Mistara said:

NVIATWAS said:

ALLIEKATBLUE said:

Another nor'easter on Tuesday. This makes 3 in about 2 weeks. First one knocked out power for 5 days and came on just in time for the 2nd one. I'm so over winter already.

Someon has ticked off Mother Nature... :-/

it not nice to fool mother nature.

heard a mourning dove this morning, was a mournful complaint about the cold.

Mourning doves are very successful birds around here. There's a large tree outside my window that is a favorite location, right before dawn I get 3-4 of them cooing away. Very pretty birds, as well. :-)

...I miss the sound of their cooing, very comforting. Heard only one in all the time I've lived here and it was near the business park where I used to work on the far west side of the metro area.

Awww. :-( Right now (8:05am) I hear mourning doves, a hawk in the distance, and a few crabby grackles. The grackles ruin everything... :-/

They're kind of cool looking, with that irridecent blue, green or purple...but they swarm and eat all the seed in my bird feeder. They seem to go away for the winter, but they're back now.

Dana

Ours here in Austin make odd noises, like shorting elecrical transformers. Very alarming! Bzzzzt crackle CAW! :-O

Yes, sort of a metallic kind of klink. Very odd. They scare away nicer looking and smaller birds from the feeder. But they scare easily themselves. I just go to the kitchen window and wave an arm, off they go. Once I saved one that was caught in my neighbor's stockade fence. He apparently slipped off his perch on top of one of the pickets ans down between two of them. His leg was caught. I tried to reach for him to lift him up, but it pecked at me and tried to scratch me with the loose foot. So I came back, got a table knife and a piece of cardboard (as a blinder) and slid his foot up and out from between the pickets. Off he went, withough even a thank you!

Dana

Dana

Here we just shoot grackles with a BB gun.

Dana

Please understand when you grow up on a farm like I did, the family relies on a vegetable garden for much of the food we ate year-round. We canned and froze much of our summer crops. Some birds such as crows, starlings and grackles are garden pests and have to be controlled or they can cause great damage to crops. My brother and I still make a garden in the summer.

I can understand that.

Dana

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

Ripple was big when I was in high school...and Boone's Farm Apple!

Dana

...another was Annie Green Springs™.

Then there were those Bartles & Jaymes™ Wine Coolers.

Ah, unfond memories of hangovers past... :-|

NVIATWAS · March 2018

Monday morning, bright and sunny, 62f heading towards 80f. All the birds have left and the only sound is commuter traffic and cursing drivers. Sounds like a bunch of irritated grackles in cars. I wonder if there's a relationship somewhere? :-/

Coffee and hot soup for brekkie! BBQ hot dogs later.

LeatherGryphon · March 2018

Complaint: Arghhhh..., my secondary computer is convulsing again today. I keep hoping that it's just going to heal itself but all it does is appear to get better until I really start using the machine and then start spasming again. Arghhhh.....

I suppose that I should expect this, the machine was originally Vista, upgraded to Win7, then upgraded to Win8, then Win8.1 then Win10. It's had its video card replaced, its LAN card replaced, its hard drive replaced, it's monitor, keyboard & mouse replaced, it's power supply replaced, and its modem card replaced. It should be like a new machine but I just think the motherboard or its 8G of memory are going bad. I've reinstalled Win10 several times straight from boot disk so its not upgrade errors. Sigh! I hate intermittant problems. Perhaps its the fans and a heat problem? Currently on my list of suspects is the video card (it's a cheap one) the memory, the motherboard, the hard drive, and the fans. Sounds like I have some work ahead of me. Either that, or spring for a new primary machine, demote my current primary machine to secondary, and euthanize the current secondary and scavange its organs. (*mua-ha-ha*).

TSasha Smith · March 2018

Almost time to get off train. Soon to be home again.

DanaTA · March 2018

NVIATWAS said:

Monday morning, bright and sunny, 62f heading towards 80f. All the birds have left and the only sound is commuter traffic and cursing drivers. Sounds like a bunch of irritated grackles in cars. I wonder if there's a relationship somewhere? :-/

Coffee and hot soup for brekkie! BBQ hot dogs later.

Monday morning, bright and sunny...27f.

Dana

LeatherGryphon · March 2018

Non-complaint: Only two days to go before I get my monthly SS payment, and I have $16 cash and $100.48 in my checking account left over this month! Yea! Admittedly I've cancelled two doctor's appointments this month but I'll survive without knowing exactly how fast my pee flows, or that my heart is behaving normally weird.

If this trend keeps up and I can continue to save at the current rate I'll be a rich man again in 150 years.

TJohn · March 2018

kyoto kid said:

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

...we just mashed the names of the three major fortified wines together and called them all Thunder Train 20/20.

Gives you Locomotive Breath.

Mistara · March 2018

the sun is shining. did they cancel the snow for tomorrow??

night train was a guns n roses song.

NVIATWAS · March 2018

LeatherGryphon said:

Complaint: Arghhhh..., my secondary computer is convulsing again today. I keep hoping that it's just going to heal itself but all it does is appear to get better until I really start using the machine and then start spasming again. Arghhhh.....

I suppose that I should expect this, the machine was originally Vista, upgraded to Win7, then upgraded to Win8, then Win8.1 then Win10. It's had its video card replaced, its LAN card replaced, its hard drive replaced, it's monitor, keyboard & mouse replaced, it's power supply replaced, and its modem card replaced. It should be like a new machine but I just think the motherboard or its 8G of memory are going bad. I've reinstalled Win10 several times straight from boot disk so its not upgrade errors. Sigh! I hate intermittant problems. Perhaps its the fans and a heat problem? Currently on my list of suspects is the video card (it's a cheap one) the memory, the motherboard, the hard drive, and the fans. Sounds like I have some work ahead of me. Either that, or spring for a new primary machine, demote my current primary machine to secondary, and euthanize the current secondary and scavange its organs. (*mua-ha-ha*).

Ugh, computer issues are as complaint-worthy as they come!:-(

NVIATWAS · March 2018

DanaTA said:

NVIATWAS said:

Monday morning, bright and sunny, 62f heading towards 80f. All the birds have left and the only sound is commuter traffic and cursing drivers. Sounds like a bunch of irritated grackles in cars. I wonder if there's a relationship somewhere? :-/

Coffee and hot soup for brekkie! BBQ hot dogs later.

Monday morning, bright and sunny...27f.

Dana

:-|

:-O

:-(

NVIATWAS · March 2018

Tjohn said:

kyoto kid said:

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

...we just mashed the names of the three major fortified wines together and called them all Thunder Train 20/20.

Gives you Locomotive Breath.

argh lol groan... :-P

carrie58 · March 2018

Use to laugh at my dad falling asleep in his chair during the news ...... now I do it during DR Phil ......what's up with that?

kyoto kid · March 2018

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

...actually Miller Lite™ was introduced nationally in 1975, followed by Bud Light™ seven years later.

I must have missed it, then. No loss, not a light beer fan. :-|

...you didn't miss anything. Many years ago someone bought me a bottle of Coors Light and well, while it was paid for, after one sip felt like all I had little more than a bottle of just their "Rocky Mountain Water" in my hand as there literally was no beer taste to it at all.

To me a "light" beer is a good Czech Pilsner, German Kölsch, or British Pale Ale.

kyoto kid · March 2018

Tjohn said:

kyoto kid said:

Tjohn said:

LeatherGryphon said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

My experience was not with beer, but wine. Went to a Thanksgiving Day party during my hippie era when none of us had much money, and the hosts were so happy to have gotten enough wine to have a party. I don't know what it was but it came in a gallon jug with a screw top and tasted like oily kerosene or bitter cooking oil. I did not finish the glass. It was so bad that despite not remembering much from the late '60s and early '70s I remember that so-called wine. (*blech, yuk, ptoo*). --- Then I vaguely remember that officer Obie came to the door askin' us 'bout a piece of paper found under a pile of garbage ...

Maybe Thunderbird™, Ripple™ or Night Train™.

...we just mashed the names of the three major fortified wines together and called them all Thunder Train 20/20.

Gives you Locomotive Breath.

...yep, and gets the "boiler" down below rumbling as well.

NVIATWAS · March 2018

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

NVIATWAS said:

kyoto kid said:

..there was also LIGHT BEER

My experience was in the mid-80s, I don't think we had LIGHT BEER, no loss though. :-/ Yecch, barf, puke, chunder...

...actually Miller Lite™ was introduced nationally in 1975, followed by Bud Light™ seven years later.

I must have missed it, then. No loss, not a light beer fan. :-|

...you didn't miss anything. Many years ago someone bought me a bottle of Coors Light and well, while it was paid for, after one sip felt like all I had little more than a bottle of just their "Rocky Mountain Water" in my hand as there literally was no beer taste to it at all.

To me a "light" beer is a good Czech Pilsner, German Kölsch, or British Pale Ale.

Amen, brother!

LeatherGryphon · March 2018

carrie58 said:

Use to laugh at my dad falling asleep in his chair during the news ...... now I do it during DR Phil ......what's up with that?

Quite acceptable unless you're not alone and you snore. But if you are alone and you snore, how would you know???? I'm still wondering if that light in the refrigerator really is off when the door is closed. And I haven't quite decided the fate of Shrodinger's cat.

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