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  • Xandyr78Xandyr78 Posts: 148
    dracorn said:
    The main problem with the Staff Picks Fantasy Bundle is that I already own half the stuff in it.

    Yeah...I own every product in it save 2.  And to have to buy that bundle to get the $20 freebie tomorrow kind of...stinks.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    the staff pick thing doesnt inspire me.

    and whats the hold up on dragon 4???

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    this is the kind of project follow thru i deeply admire

    someone somewhere sewed a costume for their hamster, dressed the hamster in it,

    put together a detailed city

    thought out hte photo angles and cinematography

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Cromwell was a real party pooper?

    no medieval ball rooms?

    was all of Europe effected by Cromwell's poor attitude?

    when did debutante balls get started?
    debutant a french word, were they parttying in the middle ages?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366

    My break is almost over I think.  Why do breaks not last too long?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_power

    i love the whole concept. i was too little at the time tp be aware of it

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178

    My break is almost over I think.  Why do breaks not last too long?

    It's the subjective nature of the perception of time.indecision

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178
    edited March 2020

    Non-complaint:  Yay!  I have finally been able to arrange for my prescriptions to be delivered to my home instead of having to pick them up at the drugstore.  I've been trying for 6 months.  Back in September I upgraded my first TracFone simple ($10) Android smart phone to a better one for $50.  Nice phone, and it handles the Uber app OK, but the drugstore app would flake out on me at the last step in arranging for home delivery.angry   Then a few days ago I read an article about how Android phones older than verision 8 of Android were very susceptible to hacking.  I checked and my cheap phone was a version 6 Android and hadn't been updated since 2018.frown  So I now had two excuses for getting another upgrade.devil

      So, I bit the bullet and ordered a better Android (again through TracFone) that of course cost more ($120).  It arrived yesterday and I was in geek heaven, playing with it all afternoon yesterday and this morning and finally got around to testing the drugstore app and it WORKED!  Yay!smiley  New phone is Android version 9 it's a Motorola "MotoG7".  Not state of the art, but it is very zippy, slightly bigger, keyboard is more responsive and accurate, it also has fingerprint recognition, face recognition, decent front & back cameras (even if you take photos of undecent things), Bluetooth, and I've installed a 128GB SD card that I had laying around, so I have LOTS of storage for music and photos.  And most importantly it isn't a fruit and didn't cost $500-$1500. yes  And the switchover from old phone to new phone was almost totally automated.  And I kept all my accumulated minutes and data subscriptions and installed apps.  And my per month cost for phone subscription is only $8. Wheee.yes  Now I need to look for a pair of affordable Bluetooth earbuds for those miserable rides on the morning rickety county bus and unavoidable periods of waiting for the bus when not using Uber.

    Slowly I'm adapting to life without a car. indecision

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited March 2020

     

    Mystiarra said:

    this is the kind of project follow thru i deeply admire

    someone somewhere sewed a costume for their hamster, dressed the hamster in it,

    put together a detailed city

    thought out hte photo angles and cinematography

    Also hamsters are real divas too... they demand their own trailers and dressing rooms, make all sorts of outrageous demands and its inevitable you'll have to bail them out of jail at 3 AM on a DWI charge.

    After I got partway into filming my all hamster remake of Sergei Bondarchuk's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, I realized hamsters were a bad choice... While they may be fine for re-enacting famous battles of the Civil War or even Major-General William Elphinstone's disastrous campaigns during the First Anglo-Afghan War, ultimately they prove to be terrible actors who can't take direction, won't learn the simplest lines and chew the hell out of everything... plus their pee smells weird and the pants on male hamsters never looks right due to the ridiculous proportions involved... 

    Mr. Nibbles one of my lead actors couldn't even command the least believable Russian accent and when I commented on it the little bastard bit me... at that point I decided to fire the entire cast and switch to chinchillas who are really great at accents and a real pleasure to work with if you don't mind fur everywhere.

    Ultimately the production was a disaster because hawks kept snatching my key actors during filming and eventually the pet store refused to sell me more chinchillas... they were keen on mice and ferrets, but by that point my financial backers refused to support the film any further citing "fraud" and that I never told them the movie would feature hamsters instead of human actors...

    But I digress... I too admire the determination of the individual who shot that hamster kaiju flick.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366

    If found a tortoise in my content folder so I decided to put him in my scene.  Probably should be watching out for my ride instead of playing with DS.

  • SnowbugSnowbug Posts: 72

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,934
    Mystiarra said:

    Cromwell was a real party pooper?

    no medieval ball rooms?

    was all of Europe effected by Cromwell's poor attitude?

    when did debutante balls get started?
    debutant a french word, were they parttying in the middle ages?

    Oliver, I assume? No, the Civil War and Commonwealth were just Britain - the other parts of Europe remained monarchical and not Puritan, at least in the same way.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366
    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    It is?  I thought it was a figment of my imagination or maybe I was just thinking of a bowl of figs?

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    HiYA  , it has been a long time.  wbsmiley

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366
    Mystiarra said:
    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    HiYA  , it has been a long time.  wbsmiley

    Oh yeah welcome back.  I think it was the bowl of figs that was a figment of my imagination.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Mystiarra said:

    Cromwell was a real party pooper?

    no medieval ball rooms?

    was all of Europe effected by Cromwell's poor attitude?

    when did debutante balls get started?
    debutant a french word, were they parttying in the middle ages?

    Oliver, I assume? No, the Civil War and Commonwealth were just Britain - the other parts of Europe remained monarchical and not Puritan, at least in the same way.

    how come the puritans didnt stay there?

    did you'all kick em out?

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    If found a tortoise in my content folder so I decided to put him in my scene.  Probably should be watching out for my ride instead of playing with DS.

    I found a lizard in my boot once... poor little dude... not someplace fit for any living thing.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    Well, it's about damned time... you said you'd "be right back"... now you just waltz back in after all these years and expect us to welcome you back with open arms... ?
    We do... we are really desperate for attention and acceptance... please stay... don't leave us again... it was really scary and lonely...

    We'll give you whatever you want... money... precious gems... pork chops... bald hamsters... 

    Okay, I won't lie, the money is from a old board game, the precious gems are candy and the pork chops I made last week... the bald hamsters are a long story, but they were involved in a miracle cure I was selling and now they need a home until their hair grows back.

    but stay, we'll find something you like... and since you've been away for so long you have to have something to complain about, the whole damn world is falling apart... you gotta have a complaint you wanna get off your chest.

    We'll listen... that's what we are here for.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,934
    Mystiarra said:
    Mystiarra said:

    Cromwell was a real party pooper?

    no medieval ball rooms?

    was all of Europe effected by Cromwell's poor attitude?

    when did debutante balls get started?
    debutant a french word, were they parttying in the middle ages?

    Oliver, I assume? No, the Civil War and Commonwealth were just Britain - the other parts of Europe remained monarchical and not Puritan, at least in the same way.

    how come the puritans didnt stay there?

    did you'all kick em out?

    Most of them died of apoplexy on viewing Restoration comedies, we packed the rest off on the Mayflower.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    Mystiarra said:
    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    HiYA  , it has been a long time.  wbsmiley

    Oh yeah welcome back.  I think it was the bowl of figs that was a figment of my imagination.

    You are thinking of those candies... FigMintz... "the only fig & mint candy with a juicy fig center that spurts fresh figgy goodness with every bite, causing your imagination to go wild!"

    I think they banned them because of the LSD...

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178
    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    That being your complaint, of course.devil

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,366

    I am looking at a site that has 3D models that is not Daz3D but not finding any figs.  I am finding other fruits and acorns.  not sure how acorns are fruit.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,178

    Complaint:  The world is indeed falling apart, but I have more important problems at the moment.  It seems that I have no hot water.sad  A shower is out of the question, the water is still colder than the air and the air's not all that warm consistently yet.  Landlord's voice mail has been informed.frown  I'm afraid that the cost of a new hot water heater will convince the landlord that it's time to unload this building that he is already over extended and unhappy with.  Perhaps if I offered to increase my rent off the books?  A new landlord will quite probably increase the rent anyway.indecision  I could swing the cost of a new hot water heater, but I'd have to take it with me when I move out.devil

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,646

    not sure how acorns are fruit.

    What makes anything fruit?

    In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) formed from the ovary after flowering.

    Acorns certainly meet that definition.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    watching sga season2again

    i like col shepherd. and he cute. 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is a tough decision deciding on a favorite space battle

     

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,339

    Complaint: March Madness just won't be the same this year without fans at the NCAA tournament games.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,353
    Mystiarra said:

    this is the kind of project follow thru i deeply admire

    someone somewhere sewed a costume for their hamster, dressed the hamster in it,

    put together a detailed city

    thought out hte photo angles and cinematography

    That person's theme song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XcKBmdfpWs

    Dana

  • Non-complaint:  Yay!  I have finally been able to arrange for my prescriptions to be delivered to my home instead of having to pick them up at the drugstore.  I've been trying for 6 months.  Back in September I upgraded my first TracFone simple ($10) Android smart phone to a better one for $50.  Nice phone, and it handles the Uber app OK, but the drugstore app would flake out on me at the last step in arranging for home delivery.angry   Then a few days ago I read an article about how Android phones older than verision 8 of Android were very susceptible to hacking.  I checked and my cheap phone was a version 6 Android and hadn't been updated since 2018.frown  So I now had two excuses for getting another upgrade.devil

    All that just to upgrade the OS?

      So, I bit the bullet and ordered a better Android (again through TracFone) that of course cost more ($120).  It arrived yesterday and I was in geek heaven, playing with it all afternoon yesterday and this morning and finally got around to testing the drugstore app and it WORKED!  Yay!smiley  New phone is Android version 9 it's a Motorola "MotoG7".  Not state of the art, but it is very zippy, slightly bigger, keyboard is more responsive and accurate, it also has fingerprint recognition, face recognition, decent front & back cameras (even if you take photos of undecent things), Bluetooth, and I've installed a 128GB SD card that I had laying around, so I have LOTS of storage for music and photos....

    Sounds nice!  I wonder if it's a fruit?

    ...and most importantly it isn't a fruit and didn't cost $500-$1500. yes 

    Great, but is it a potato?

     

    And the switchover from old phone to new phone was almost totally automated.  And I kept all my accumulated minutes and data subscriptions and installed apps.  And my per month cost for phone subscription is only $8. Wheee.yes  Now I need to look for a pair of affordable Bluetooth earbuds for those miserable rides on the morning rickety county bus and unavoidable periods of waiting for the bus when not using Uber.

    Okay, be careful with those earbuds and don't lose your situational awareness at the bus stop.  Predators, whether the 4-legged or 2-legged kinds, look for the weakest and least attentive in the pack.

    McGyver said:

     

    Mystiarra said:

    this is the kind of project follow thru i deeply admire

    someone somewhere sewed a costume for their hamster, dressed the hamster in it,

    put together a detailed city

    thought out hte photo angles and cinematography

    Also hamsters are real divas too... they demand their own trailers and dressing rooms, make all sorts of outrageous demands and its inevitable you'll have to bail them out of jail at 3 AM on a DWI charge.

    After I got partway into filming my all hamster remake of Sergei Bondarchuk's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, I realized hamsters were a bad choice... While they may be fine for re-enacting famous battles of the Civil War or even Major-General William Elphinstone's disastrous campaigns during the First Anglo-Afghan War, ultimately they prove to be terrible actors who can't take direction, won't learn the simplest lines and chew the hell out of everything... plus their pee smells weird and the pants on male hamsters never looks right due to the ridiculous proportions involved... 

    Mr. Nibbles one of my lead actors couldn't even command the least believable Russian accent and when I commented on it the little bastard bit me... at that point I decided to fire the entire cast and switch to chinchillas who are really great at accents and a real pleasure to work with if you don't mind fur everywhere.

    Ultimately the production was a disaster because hawks kept snatching my key actors during filming and eventually the pet store refused to sell me more chinchillas... they were keen on mice and ferrets, but by that point my financial backers refused to support the film any further citing "fraud" and that I never told them the movie would feature hamsters instead of human actors...

    But I digress... I too admire the determination of the individual who shot that hamster kaiju flick.

    Ospreys and bald eagles also like to kidnap your hamster actors too.  And the Bald Eagle is protected, so you can't shoot them down or anything.

    On the good side, if your cameras happen to be running when they get carried off on their way to breakfast with the eagle babies, it makes for great filmmaking.  Hamsters always get the dialog and accents wrong, but OMG, they're little acting geniuses if you can get a face-shot of your star as they disappear into the morning mist with this face:  surprise ...or this face... crying.

    That right there is an Oscar performance!

    Oh the humanity! ... er, "hamsteranity"!

    Snowbug said:

    I've been away for years, and I can't believe the complaint thread is still going.

    What kind of slackers do you think we are?  cheeky

    McGyver said:

    If found a tortoise in my content folder so I decided to put him in my scene.  Probably should be watching out for my ride instead of playing with DS.

    I found a lizard in my boot once... poor little dude... not someplace fit for any living thing.

    Funny story.  I once had to ask a business if I could use their restroom because I had a llizard in my pants.  blush  Uhhh, what?

    But it's not an euphamism for anything, and it's a true story.  I had been cleaning my pool, and I saw the little guy on the ground near the lip.  In Florida, our lizards look like little chameleons in pet stores in the north, but these little guys are usually green, tan, or brown and they don't change colors.  So instead of jumping or running away from me, he jumped on my jeans pantleg.  I thought I had shaken him off, but later when I was in the car, I felt something on my shin, beneath my blue jeans.  Oh, THAT is a freaky feeling.

    So yeah, I had to take my pants off in a business's employee restroom, catch the little bugger, and release him outside of the store.  The store owner almost died laughing when he saw the little guy.

    It's a wonder he wasn't crushed inside my jeans. Ewww, that would have been traumatic.  For both of us!

    This type of lizard is called an "anole", and they'll eat bugs bigger than themselves.  Yeah, they look like the Geico gecko, but they almost never walk on two legs.  For McGyver, I think they would be good actors if you're thinking of filming a Western.  Well, as long as you don't expect them to ride horses.  Or bale hay.  Or round up cattle.  But I digress.  I once saw one sneak up on and catch a butterfly, sideways on my pool screen!  And he swallowed it whole.  It must have taken him an hour to finish that meal, and during that whole time, I was hearing the theme music to "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly".  Oh, I can't imagine the pain he must have gone through passing that butterfly a few days later, yikes! 

    But drama?  Yeah, those little guys sure can act!

    Mystiarra said:
    Mystiarra said:

    Cromwell was a real party pooper?

    no medieval ball rooms?

    was all of Europe effected by Cromwell's poor attitude?

    when did debutante balls get started?
    debutant a french word, were they parttying in the middle ages?

    Oliver, I assume? No, the Civil War and Commonwealth were just Britain - the other parts of Europe remained monarchical and not Puritan, at least in the same way.

    how come the puritans didnt stay there?

    did you'all kick em out?

    Most of them died of apoplexy on viewing Restoration comedies, we packed the rest off on the Mayflower.

    Ooohhh, burn! 

    Well played sir, well played!

    Complaint:  The world is indeed falling apart, but I have more important problems at the moment.  It seems that I have no hot water.sad  A shower is out of the question, the water is still colder than the air and the air's not all that warm consistently yet.  Landlord's voice mail has been informed.frown  I'm afraid that the cost of a new hot water heater will convince the landlord that it's time to unload this building that he is already over extended and unhappy with.  Perhaps if I offered to increase my rent off the books?  A new landlord will quite probably increase the rent anyway.indecision 

    And this is why I'm doing all I can to be the LANDLORD one day, and not the tenant.  Hey, if I gotta pick sides...

    I could swing the cost of a new hot water heater, but I'd have to take it with me when I move out.devil

    Useless trivia for you:  Homeowner insurance companies will usually cancel your insurance if they find out your hot water heater is more than 10 years old.  So taking it from one apartment to another probably won't have much of a payback value after the first couple years.

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