The "Complaints 'R' Us, complaint thread"

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    If it is caffeine that makes me want to go, why does caffeine free tea still makes me want to go?

     

    decaff??!! tea?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited May 2018
    Mistara said:

     

    Mistara said:

    why do we spell an 'e' ("e"smiley) in 'heart' ?

    led to a lot of confusion pronouncing Neil Peart's name

    Because without the "e" it is a "hart" a ruminant mammal of the family cervidae like deer and elk.  It's not my problem that half the English speaking world pronounces "heart" incorrectly.  If English speakers could agree on a common spelling and a consistent pronunciation of a great number of words like this in the language would it still be English? frown

     

    must remember hart fot scrabble smiley

    Perhaps "heart" is the past tense of "hear"?  e.g. I hear a buzz today.  But yesterday I heart a whine. cheeky

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited May 2018
    ...I "❤" wine, particularly if it is a good French rose or Italian abuzzo.
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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,246
    Mistara said:

    If it is caffeine that makes me want to go, why does caffeine free tea still makes me want to go?

     

    decaff??!! tea?

    most herbal tea is decaf.  There is even tea that is meant to help one sleep or relax (unless too much of it, then it will indeed make you want to pee in the middle of the night)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited May 2018
    Mistara said:

    If it is caffeine that makes me want to go, why does caffeine free tea still makes me want to go?

     

    decaff??!! tea?

    Yep!  Hard to find in cheap restaurants and even small grocery stores but if you find a big enough grocery store they'll have decaf tea.  I got pretty sensitive to caffeine for a while and would drink decaf tea or decaf coffee. Unfortunately, I've recently come to the conclusion that most decaf tea and decaf coffee makes me sick to my stomach. sad Must be the chemicals they treat it with to suck out the caffeine.  But on the subject of instant regular coffee.  Most instant regular coffee that I've tried tastes just awful too, no and gives me a headache or stomach ache.   However, I LOVE Folgers Instant Coffee.  It doesn't have that chemical taste, is not bitter, and one rounded teaspoon in a 10 oz mug of piping hot water in the morning doesn't give me heart palpitations.  But if I stray to two cups, I regret it at night.  Yeah, it costs a bit more but I don't have to deal with expensive brewing machines or even cheap brewing machines.  Microwave a cup of water, plop in a spoon of Folgers "Flavor Crystals" and my morning is started without complaints.yes  (It's the other things that happen during the day that draws out the complaints.)

    Side Note:  Before Folgers changed their jar a couple years ago, the jar was shorter, straight sided and clear plastic with a red screw on lid instead of a pop up lid.  I saved my empty jars and have a set of several that I use for kitchen containers for salt, sugar, green tea bags, black tea bags, "Quality" teas,  matches, rice, flour, etc.  They stack very nicely on my kitchen window sill.  The new jar isn't nearly as convenient for that purpose because the lid could pop open if the jar fell from the widow sill.  Rice all over the floor. frown

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    folgers in yooour cup smiley

     

    hairbands heart is it just me, or is he adorable

     

  • BadKittehCoBadKittehCo Posts: 224

    I have to pee!

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited May 2018

    Exported that Constrictor out to render real quick for funs.  Didn't spend long on the scene nor the materials though (Ten, maybe fifteen minutes at most?)

     

    Still a shame I can't really use this properly;  at best I can move it around a bit in DS then export it out as a static mesh, but that's got its own issues like if I needed to move it again, and it being static means no more morphs, and of course its cumbersome. At least there's still the Morphing Python, and it's cuter too~ 

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    I have to pee!

    ...+1.  and welcome back.

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393

    Put the sea dragon globe pic up into my gallery now :)

    https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/576761

     

    Thanks for the opinions on it~

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,246

    I have to pee!

    I probably have to as soon as I clock into work.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Is nearly Friday again, think I slept for a week not complaint. Complaint: nearly midnight and not sleepy at all :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Rezca said:

    Put the sea dragon globe pic up into my gallery now :)

    https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/576761

     

    Thanks for the opinions on it~

    Haz clix :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:

    seeing a desktop stand for the Rode. but it doesnt look adjustable height.

    or one of those swinging arm mic thingees

     

    just figured out DIY means do it yourself?

    Gooseneck mounts work well for speaking into :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...probably would be more like German.

     

    guten tock?

    Stuff would take twice as long to say Oscar mike golf :)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited May 2018

    Complaint of too many choices and too little money:  Arghhh... I've been reviewing the symphonic offerings in the Chautauqua Amphitheater this summer.  How can they pack so many great pieces into 8 weeks of summer?

    Among the choices are:

    Brahms:  Violin Concerto

    Verdi:  Requeim

    Brahms: Piano Concerto #1

    Shostakovich:  Symphony #7

    Beethoven:  Violin Concerto

    Beethoven:  Symphony #5

    Beethoven:  Symphony #4

    Elgar:  The Enigma Variations

    Bizet:  L'arlesienne Suite #1

    Debussy:  Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

    Mendelssohn:  The Hebridies Overture ("Fingal's Cave")

    Schubert:  Symphony #5

    Rossini:  William Tell Overture

    Meldelssohn:  Symphony #4 ("The Italian")

    Chabrier:  España

    de Falla:  Three Cornered Hat Suite #1

    Rimsky-Korsakov:  Cappriccio Espagnol

    An evening with Harry Potter music,

    An evening with music from operas,

    An evening with as yet unspecified Beethoven piano music

    An evening with as yet unspecified Beethoven symphonic music

    And that's not even the exhaustive list.  The orchestra also performs in the opera house and other theaters on the Chautauqua campus during the summer.  Busy people, the musicians at Chautauqua they are. surprise

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:

    seeing a desktop stand for the Rode. but it doesnt look adjustable height.

    or one of those swinging arm mic thingees

     

    just figured out DIY means do it yourself?

    Gooseneck mounts work well for speaking into :)

     

    sounds good!

    really have my heart set on the podcastersmiley

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...probably would be more like German.

     

    guten tock?

    Stuff would take twice as long to say Oscar mike golf :)

    You realize that takes more sylables than just saying OMG?  wink 

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...probably would be more like German.

     

    guten tock?

    Stuff would take twice as long to say Oscar mike golf :)

    You realize that takes more sylables than just saying OMG?  wink 

    Dana

    What's wrong with "Wow"?  Just one syllable and you get to re-use the "w" vizeme.  Much more efficient.  enlightened  And there's the even better "Huh!".  And that has the added advantage of requiring less lip movement. yes

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i see the shockmount type and an arm.  no gooseneck so far.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    we in a decline of customer service?  western civilization?

    at my day job, ups dropped off a box of something i didn't order, addressed to me, but the packing slip ship to/bill to is to someone else.  i called the company's number on the packing slip.  she tells mee to call UPS and have them return to sender.  didn't even ask me for my phone.

    so this poor customer of their's doesn't have the thing he prepaid for,
    shouldn't the company be calling UPS?

     

    the doctor's office i went to Monday, the receptionist told me they didnt take my insurance.
    after a few phone calls, turns out that the doctor does take my insurance. 
    so that receptionist turned me away in error.  

     

     

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    Mistara said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...probably would be more like German.

     

    guten tock?

    Stuff would take twice as long to say Oscar mike golf :)

    You realize that takes more sylables than just saying OMG?  wink 

    Dana

    What's wrong with "Wow"?  Just one syllable and you get to re-use the "w" vizeme.  Much more efficient.  enlightened  And there's the even better "Huh!".  And that has the added advantage of requiring less lip movement. yes

    laugh

     

    Dana

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    woes.  FAA's ADS-B mandate for 2020 directly effects my dayjob.  layoff might effect me sooner.

    leaves me a few years short to retirement and ss and medicare.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited May 2018

    his new thing supposed to replace radar

    sigh

    mac n cheese nite cheeky

     

    The Cake Overbaked Complaint Thread

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    Complaint of too many choices and too little money:  Arghhh... I've been reviewing the symphonic offerings in the Chautauqua Amphitheater this summer.  How can they pack so many great pieces into 8 weeks of summer?

    Among the choices are:

    Brahms:  Violin Concerto

    Verdi:  Requeim

    Brahms: Piano Concerto #1

    Shostakovich:  Symphony #7

    Beethoven:  Violin Concerto

    Beethoven:  Symphony #5

    Beethoven:  Symphony #4

    Elgar:  The Enigma Variations

    Bizet:  L'arlesienne Suite #1

    Debussy:  Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

    Mendelssohn:  The Hebridies Overture ("Fingal's Cave")

    Schubert:  Symphony #5

    Rossini:  William Tell Overture

    Meldelssohn:  Symphony #4 ("The Italian")

    Chabrier:  España

    de Falla:  Three Cornered Hat Suite #1

    Rimsky-Korsakov:  Cappriccio Espagnol

    An evening with Harry Potter music,

    An evening with music from operas,

    An evening with as yet unspecified Beethoven piano music

    An evening with as yet unspecified Beethoven symphonic music

    And that's not even the exhaustive list.  The orchestra also performs in the opera house and other theaters on the Chautauqua campus during the summer.  Busy people, the musicians at Chatauqua they are. surprise

    ..I would say so looking at that list.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...The Too Much Music, Too Little Time and Money Complaint Thread.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited May 2018

    Speaking of "Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun", there have been a couple of interesting animations attached to it over the last 100 years.  The only one I can find at the moment is from "Allegro non-Troppo" a parody of Disney's original Fantasia.  The live action parts of the movie suck royal swamp water but the 6 imbedded cartoons are all entertaining.  The "Afternoon of a Faun" section starts at 9:10 and ends at 18:56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVJVwG4CKw

    (If, like me, you identify with the old letch in the 1st cartoon, raise your hand. devil)

    Other cartoons begin at

    22:22  Dvorak: "Slavonic Dance #7"

    30:15  Ravel's "Bolero"

    47:40 Sibelius: "Valse Trieste"

    57:27 Vivaldi: "Concerto in C Major for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, & strings"

    1:05:28 Stravinski: "Firebird"

     

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...I like the Bolero one as well.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,084
    edited May 2018
    kyoto kid said:

    ...I like the Bolero one as well.

    Yeah, I like the Bolero too.  And the Valse Trieste with the cat in the burned out house makes me cry.  Actually they're all pretty good and are not just for fun.  Each has a serious message. (Except perhaps the one with the bees.)

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...ah yes, didn't you link to that one recently?

     

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