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Non-complaint: Continuing to tidy up the wiring of my computer lab. Removed a power cord that had been snaking across half the room and rerouted it to a safer and more convenient location. And I've been tie-wrapping groups of wires together. I've reassigned battery protected vs spike protected devices in my TV/Audio entertainment section. Put my TV, landline digital phone, audio switch, USB switches and WiFi modem on battery. Also put a low wattage light on battery. (load on UPS is still only 30% with everything on, and 38 minutes of "on" time)
Complaint: I still have one mysterious audio problem that I've had for a few months. I've got a new remote control audio switch to select audio from TV or one of two computers to feed to my speaker/headphone system, but one of the computers damps out the volume when plugged into the switch. I think it has to do with the kludge of wires and adapters and audio splitters and amps that the signal goes through. I need to dig back into that forbidding corner and possibly order some longer or more specific cables with appropriate connectors.
Beautiful spring day out there. 55F, snow all gone, mud dried up, light breeze, sunny day. So, why am I inside? This folks, is what I call spring cleaning.
nothing motivatees me to go for a walk like the thought of food at the end of it >.<
jeez loo eez cant believe the convo i had with my neighbor.
she told me to stock up on can food cuz the corona virus is coming. nice enough to offer to take me food shopping with her, but seriously? told her the sodium in those cans gonna killer her before the corona virus.
it just blows my mind how vulnerable people are to media hysteria. i prolly just jinxed myself. ebil residence.
Pegasus is a Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy?
never heard of a dwarf galaxy before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Dwarf_Spheroidal_Galaxy
Went to the grocery store today to buy the usual stuff... so... uh... did people not use soap until recently?
Dingleberries are out panic buying random stuff... like Sriracha Hot Sauce... ? Dollars to donuts, some wellness guru probably concocted some miracle sriracha cure and people are buying it because that.
Some of the stuff that people are buying makes no damn sense and once again one of those is apparently ice cream.
Seriously... ice cream... in hurricanes and blizzards people around here panic buy ice cream... that's your priority... Haagen Dazs... I'm pretty sure in the event of a zombie apocalypse, that's what people are going to be fighting over... that last pint of Ben&Jerry's...
Which is fine with me because that leaves plenty of canned goods for me.
I'm also peeved because I found out the box of respirator cartridges in my garage has extension cords in it, so apparently I used them up a while ago...
And forget buying new ones for a while...
I have two unused new respirators in the packages, but they aren't the same brand... I can't stand them because they don't have clips or snaps on the lower straps, so they suck to put on or take off... I'll probably just cut the strap and add snap buttons if I can find the kit and tools...
It wouldn't be a problem if everyone hadn't freaked out and bought every thing out there remotely resembling a face mask... this sucks, because I use a respirator when I spray paint stuff or work with nasty solvents... I hope I have enough gloves too... or I'll have to start reusing them.
I'm tempted to go to Party City and see if all the Spider-Man and Batman masks are gone too... you know... cuz they are "masks"...
Nothing like a plague or hurricane or alien invasion to reveal how low the Think-O-Meter will go, just wave it around and be prepared to be amazed. Nobody thinks, they just react. And no matter how much one appeals to logic there's no connection, nobody at home. It's the people who don't know where Africa is, or the name of the last President, and all the 30 seconds of fame stars of the late-night shows streetwalk expose's whose knowlege sphere barely reaches their gonads. "Dingleberries" I like it.
So much easier to panic than wash your hands and refrain from picking your nose.
I'm trying to figure out the whole stock piling toilet paper thing is there alot of "back door"action going on from the beer virus?
did they make a run on the grown up carrots? need carrots and celery to make saltless stew
does edumacation have anything to do with it?
mebbe they just aint got no common sense. they do their best to share the panic.
i was telling my neighbor its media hype. she literally said, 'make no mistake it's coming'
was it impolite to laugh out loud?
mann she'll be laughing at me when it comes and i has no cans. but i'll have carrots
practicing with the win10 narrator, to speak screen to me.
it won't let me change the voice. or i can't find an apply button. or okay button.
i stuck with James english. snobby voice. he supposed to warn me when i accidentally hit caps lock.
haven't tried reading pdfs to me yet.
forgot to bring packet of instant grits. got no breakfast this morning.
have to wait another hour before i can go to statbucks. feelin too hungry. tuna melt and fries mebbe
, if someone wants to order deli delivery with me. http://cookysdeli.net/displaysection.php?sid=4
Yeah, about the toilet paper thing... that's funny... I think the percentage of people who get bowl distress due to the illness is around 4%, as it's more of a respiratory illness... but I read an article somewhere the other day pondering why people might be rushing to buy certain items...
Well, one, first and foremost is misinformation or rumors... "You know my cousin is a janitor at the hospital and he says he sees doctors buying a lot pomegranate juice, and one of the X-ray technicians said if you put garlic and hamster fur in pomegranate juice it'll cure the virus..."
And now the next thing you know there's no more pomegranate juice, pomegranates or garlic left and the pet stores are full of bald hamsters.
The other is the fact that people are herd animals and tend to mimic what other people do... especially if they themselves haven't a clue, but see someone else doing something and especially-especially someone they perceive to appear competent, they will often mimic that behavior...
That's one I have totally have seen many times...
I'm very tempted to dress up like a doctor and load up a shopping cart with Preparation-H, pineapples and pet chews and see if people clean out the store of those items.
The stores probably need higher turnover on those items anyway.
The other thing that knuckleheads are hoarding is bottled water... because as you know, viruses will cut off your tap water... or block up your pipes, or take over the reservoir...
Who the hell knows, but that's generally a thing you do in a flood, earthquake, hurricane, blizzard or Godzilla attack... generally, it's not an epidemic thing where you have treated water.
I could understand if it was an open pond or lake and there were sick people bathing in it frequently... but whatever.
Ars Technica has a nice sensible rundown on the topic...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/#h6
It's science... and in a crisis it's always best to remember your old friend science... it's a cranky hardass, that's usually really snarky and harsh, but it's always the most reliable one to count on.
hamsterzilla
Complaint: Clumsy me. Must learn to not move my arms and hands quickly or feel overconfident about familiar tasks. While reaching to open the little eye-level cabinet door on my computer cabinet to get to my neatly arranged office tools (stapler, tape, glue, paperclips, rubberbands, rolled coins and coin jar, etc.), as I swung the door open, my absentmindedly flailing finger caught my coin jar and moving quickly I thrust it into the open space between me and the cabinet, flinging dimes, pennies, nickels & quarters in a shower of glittering metal and tinkling cacophony that lasted for what seemed like a too long moment. When I recovered and dared to move again I saw a field of coins on me, the chair, the floor, under my chair wheels, and standing vertically within the precisely one coin width and one coin depth crack between the immovable filing cabinet, and my incredibly heavy, large, thick, wooden chair pad.
Not even being able to roll my chair to get to a position to get out of the chair comfortably I had to squirm my way out (dropping the coins that had gathered in my lap and the folds of my clothes) and walk in my bare feet on haphazardly arranged sharp edged metal objects to get to a position where I could survey the situation. On hands and knees for about 10 minutes I gathered the coins together from as far away as 4 or 5 feet. The coins in the crack were even eventually extracted with specialized, angled sharp pointy metal picks in my toolbox.
But I can think of better things to be doing on my hands and knees.
That alone caused a thousand people to rush out and buy huge piles of toilet paper.
Technically, that's two words...
I am getting stressed out. I fear I am coming down with a cold but the fear that it might be corona instead of a cold or allergies. I am afraid saying I feel like I am coming down with a cold but I am afraid it might be assumed to be the corona virus.
I stayed home today but expected to do anything productive other than rest.
my day job has decreed there will be no more incentive bonus
does that mean i can goof guilt free?
only a few days left to the rosty toon challenge. i need to goof so i can render, a prize is poser 11.
ii think my jefe read it on my face, he's called 5 times the last hour. i can do a pretty good sour puss
I was waiting in line to purchase my corned beef and noticed this on the coupon...
So I guess the meth, plutonium, stinger missiles and ivory I picked up there don't count towards my $25 purchase?
Damn... what a ripoff.
Also...
Damn... it's hard times... they're making cereal out of endangered baby animals...
But admittedly... peanut butter covered baby panda chunks does sound good... and their gluten free.
Look at the poor little things... they think they are taking a milk bath... they look so happy... little do they know...
Don't panic... if you get stressed out that lowers your resistance to illness... not only that it attracts wolves and hungry bears.
Read the parts of the article I linked to in previous post, about how to avoid exposure and what to do about minimizing chances of getting it.
Edit... never mind it's way up top... here it is again...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/dont-panic-the-comprehensive-ars-technica-guide-to-the-coronavirus/#h6
Aahhh choooo! I read that the need for toilet paper is because people were soiling themselves every time someone sneezes, but I thought that would increase sale of laundry detergent instead of toilet paper?
still trying to figure out about the strong desire for toilet paper when national disaster hits. I think NC is under a state of emergency but not sure if it is due to the toilet paper spree?
I think the North Carolina emergency is because of the squirrels... I believe they started a coordinated attack outside of Wilmington... it was adorable but deadly... actually more like fairly inconvenient, but was brief and involved acorns.
squirrel tacticle advantage. complacent the hoomns with adorbs, then wee wease the secret wrapons
Some woman actually went to have her eggs frozen because of the cornavirus just in case . Just in case what!!! The virus is mutateing us?? McGyver did you do this ?
Uh... no... I... uh... no... it was... noooo... I didn't... Ooh, someone is calling me, I gotta go...
Shhh! Don't tell him that, it'll ruin our conspiracy!
I'm pretty sure stinger missiles are still legal in Texas and Florida. Effective on flying alligators, but not so much on fire ant mounds.
Yeah, don't panic. Either you will get it or you will not. That makes things a lot simpler; no halvsies with this one.
If you get it, just think of it as an opportune time to start building up more antibodies in your blood. That's how I'm approaching it. Well I'd much rather build up my antibodies via a vaccine, but it could take 2 years for us to get a vaccine, and even then it would be just "version 1.0", and who wants THAT vaccine?. So hey I've gotta be positive.
Does anybody else have a craving for ice cream?
lol!
How about requiring big bundles that have similar issues?