The 'Eat Your Food and Like It' Complaint Thread

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    Sfariah D said:

    Oops it is my assigned bed time.  I want to stay up longer, maybe half an hour to an hour.

     

    who made up my assigned bed time?  Well basically me.  Maybe I should have a discussion with me.  Can I win against me?

    Yes. But you'll also be losing against yourself. 

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    Right!  Guess I need to go to bed now.

  • SilverGirl said:

    miladyderyni_173d399f47 said:

    Complaint: Work is more annoying than usual lately & I frequently wonder whether certain guests or certain co-workers would be  skewered first if I had a lightsaber or elven sword handy.    

     Easy solution: get an elven sword with an AoE magic effect. Something really spectacular to make up for the lost satisfaction of hands-on skewering.

     

    Oh thanks! Excellent idea.

    *****

    Non-complaints: Going to see Fantastic Four tomorrow (if I get through the workday). Was able to get playtest rulebook for the latest version of Mutants & Masterminds (superhero RPG I love). My 2 dogs wanted lots & lots of love tonight, so I had 2 sizeable (60 & 75 pound) puppers snuggling me. I guess they really loved the French fries I shared with them.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838
    edited August 6

    SilverGirl said:

    complaint: I ate the entire box of mac-and-cheese

    non-complaint: I ate the entire box of mac-and-cheese.

    ...the box probably had more dietary fibre than the contents.

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    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  Defrosted my refrigerator:  Yes, I don't have a self-defrosting refrigerator.sad  Hey, it's a small single door (i.e. not doublewide) refrigerator, but it came with the apartment,​ at least I have one.cheeky  Decided that defrosting was necessary when I couldn't wrench my frozen chicken breast from the back of the freezer compartment.frown  Judicious application of spoons, spatulas, hot water, sponges, and time did the trick.  Although, I had planned for this event a year ago when I picked up a nice foam ice chest for free and kept it for just this occasion.enlightened  Moved the extractable frozen stuff into the ice chest along with some frozen gel-packs in lieu of ice cubes.  It took most of the afternoon, on & off, but the stuff in the foam chest stayed completely frozen.  And nothing appeared to grow in the lower part of the refrigerator.  Milk, cheese, & salad AOK.  And now that odious task is done for another decade.yes  And my chicken breast is free again.smiley

    Useless story on the origin of the free ice chest:  I picked up that ice chest in Buffalo from my eye surgeon's waiting room.surprise  While waiting, I noticed a couple of medical grade ice chests sitting to the side with a note on top that said "Free, take one".  So I took the biggest one (about 1 cubic foot interior space).  It contained six freezer gel-packs too.  (Cool!cool  Pun intended)

    ...when i gtew up we had one of these

    :

     ..Yeah, defrosting was an every two to three month ritual.

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    NylonGirl said:

    Now I remember. It's this stupid Chrome web browser on the Android phones. If you haven't used it for a day then it automatically opens a new tab the next time you open it, even though your old tab is still there. Because apparently you want to open a new tab. So there are two options. You can take the time to close the absolutely unnecessary tab that it opened and start browsing normally, or you can use the new tab and just ignore your slowly growing list of open tabs. I am currently up to 8 open tabs and probably 7 of them have some version of the DAZ forums from the last seven days. I'm just going to let it keep going until it explodes because I found the limit of how many tabs you can have on Chrome on a Pixel phone.

    ...had an update to my phone's software the other day which turned on a lot of the "crapware" I spent time disabling while it overwrote a number of my preferences, returning them to factory default..

    I wish it would give you the choice to update or not

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    Ugh, another heat wave on the way, worst of the summer so far which will last several days with highs in the mid to upper 90s and possibly even above 100°   

    At least no wildfires....yet. 

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    It is raining but I don't have a clue where my umbrella is.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075

    Sfariah D said:

    It is raining but I don't have a clue where my umbrella is.

    Idea:  Sew a pocket into the umbrella and keep a smartphone in it.  Then when you lose your umbrella, you can just dial the phone or look up its location with an app.enlighteneddevil 

    That idea could work for yourself too.  When you get lost, you can just dial the phone and ask it where it is, and there you are.yes

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited August 7

    Non-complaint:  I think the roof work is almost done.yes

    'Nother non-complaint:  I didn't make it to the symphony at Chautauqua last week, so I have a few dollars to spend on a mini-adventure uptown this week.  Morning bus to the decrepit old strip mall where my favorite breakfast cafe' is.  Then pick up a Subway sub-sandwich from the same area, then a short Uber to a proper grocery store, then a toddle across the street to the post office for stamps, and finally an Uber back home.  Wheee... an adventure!smiley

    And yet another non-complaint:  My BFF from high school (six decades agosurprise) is coming into town from NYC again.  Will do a lunch with him, in a week or so, and catch up on his life in the Big Apple.smiley

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Sfariah D said:

    It is raining but I don't have a clue where my umbrella is.

    Idea:  Sew a pocket into the umbrella and keep a smartphone in it.  Then when you lose your umbrella, you can just dial the phone or look up its location with an app.enlighteneddevil 

    That idea could work for yourself too.  When you get lost, you can just dial the phone and ask it where it is, and there you are.yes

    I rather use an AirTag.  They are cheaper than a phone. 

  • @Kyoto Kid, I am pretty sure that somewhere I still have the Official branded Frigidaire ice scraper (c. 50s or 60s) for my childhood home's refrigerator. 

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,577

    Non-Compliant Finger is healing quite nicely.

    I am filled with apprehension as I prepare for tomorrow, when a group of individuals who refer to themselves as "doctors" will use a needle to extract some of my bone marrow. The thought of this medical procedure, often associated with alien abductions in popular culture, has left me feeling anxious and vulnerable.

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    I am playing RuneScape 3.  I'm working on mining.  One player said "your kind don't belong here."  Who was that player to say that?  They know nothIng about me.

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    @AgitatedRiot - Wishing you some zen as you face down your procedure. Let your providers know you're nervous, and if they're worth the paper their license is printed on, they'll do their best to help with that. I think often medical professionals forget that while the procedure is just a day that ends in -y to them, it can be scary for the person going through it.

    @SfariahD - Every MMORPG has folk like that, unfortunately. Little people who try to make themselves feel big in spaces where they feel like they're invulnerable. I don't know anything about that game in particular, but often you can report people like that to their guild/kinship/whatever, or there's some in-game way to flag it for bullying in a way that the People In Charge can enact some consequences. Your call on if it's worth your spoons to do it or not.

    @LeatherGryphon - Yay roof!! 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited August 7

    Non-complaint:  My favorite breakfast cafe' now serves Sausage Gravy on Biscuits.  Yay!smiley  Previously, I had to wait for rare opportunities to get to one of the few places that serve it around here.  And it was done right too.  Hot, thermally and spiceally, on soft baking soda biscuits.  Mmmm... savory comfort food.  I even asked the long time server if "Gravy & Biscuits" had been on the menu all the time and I was just unobservant.  But she said, yeah, they had just added it.  Yay, I'm not totally senile yet.yes

    Complaint:  The bus was too quick this morning and I was done with breakfast before the "Subway"  was open, so no sub-sandwich today.indecision

    Non-complaint:  But the rest of the trip was as planned, got to the postoffice for stamps, got to the drugstore, and got to the grocery store.  Picked up a big bag of cherries.  Mmmm..., cherries.heart  And all was done before the Uber rates skyrocketed for lunchtime.yes

    Complaint:  When did postal stamps get so expensive?  $19.50 for 20.surprise

    Non-complaint:  I got a half-dollar coin as change for the stamps.yes  I hadn't had a half-dollar coin in my pocket for decades.cool

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    Last night someone was trying to give them money in promise of money.  I was messaging them while focusing on the game I was playing.  They accused me of saying they are a bad person.  I didn't say anything about what I think about them.

    I replied this morning about them needing to get help. Don't worry.  I was not going to give them any money or screenshots of my cashapp balance as it is not their business.

     

    on other notes, I think I want a pet rock.  I lost my old one after his eyes fell off.

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    Got a used tv and it won't turn on.  I also didn't get the remote.

  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,239

    Sfariah D said:

    Got a used tv and it won't turn on.  I also didn't get the remote.

    Take it back and ask for a full refund. It is probably not worth paying to get  it fixed. 

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    non-complaint: Thunderstorms are making a lovely light show out my window and giving the world a watering it could very much use after a lot of hot and rainless days. Hoping it takes down the temperature, and maybe even the wildfire smoke. 

    complaint: The bike trail along the main busy street was supposed to be completed this week, but "private utility work continues to delay the progress." There's no new ETA. I am displeased.  Walking on the shoulder of that street isn't safe, especially with a wagon-stroller; there's no way to dodge a careless driver, and way too many people go over the speed limit and don't pay proper attention on that road. The trail's there for a reason. It's been more than a month that it's been all torn up, and a lot of that time there was clearly no actual work being done on any part of it. Argh.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ....road construction signs should read "Road Destruction Ahead"..

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    Non complaint: I found this cup on sale while job hunting at my favorite mall.  And it is affordable with cas and my PayPal balance for tax.

    Complaint the information paper is too small to read.

    Non complaint my iPad has a camera and Chick-fil-A in the food court has free WiFi.

    complaint:  that thing says something about room temperature water.  I understand the hot water part but why can I not use room temperature water.  I don't own an ice tray and I keep my water filters on the counter.

     

    non complaint,  a guy came up to me.  He apparently ordered a burrito at the taco Hispanic restaurant.  He ate one half and gave me the other half.  It wasn't touched by time I got it but I took a few bites before taking a picture of it.

    complaint, I was having issues with my left shoe's laces coming undone.  I apparently tied it too tight and it is starting to hurt,

     

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333

    kyoto kid said:

    ....road construction signs should read "Road Destruction Ahead"..

    My friend used to say that exact thing...Road destruction! 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,838

    ..they also need "Rough Road Ahead" signs with all the potholes we have here.  There is one stretch of a fairly major  street where it is so bad it almost feels like you're "off-roading". as the sirgace is so pitted.

    We don't get the harsh winters like in the upper Midwest and back east (where it gets below 0° F and requires for use of road salt) however the state here allows studded tyres which grind up the road surface (particularly by heavy SUVs and those muster extended cab pickup trucks)  On the average we get about three days a year where in the city where streets are actually snow covered (at most a couple inches that melts by afternoon) or icy.  Most of the winter the streets are just wet. 

    Interstingly, two states, MInnesota and Wisconoisn which get several months of "real winter" (with subzero temperatures) ban studded tyres.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    I heard that Minisota have Vikings and those Vikings are the only Vikings who have horns on their helmets.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,235

    I was thinking of Forgotten Baby syndrome.  I just saw a PSA on tv about it.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075

    Minisota:  Tiny soft drink indecision

  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    kyoto kid said:

    Interstingly, two states, MInnesota and Wisconoisn which get several months of "real winter" (with subzero temperatures) ban studded tyres.

    We're just expected to know how to drive on it. cheeky 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,075
    edited August 10

    Complaint:  My porch light went catatonic.  I've had a motion detection porch light for at least 10 years.  A few days ago it came on and won't go out even in the daytime.frown  So I ordered a new one.  Looks very similar to the old one, but might be a newer model.  The new one is doing the same thing.angry

    Complaint:  My porch security camera went mute:  My cheap security camera that I bought a few weeks ago, has decided that it won't connect to my network anymore.frown  Yes, I admit, I had a new WiFi tranceiver installed recently when the phone company switched me from DSL to Fiber, but I've configured the security camera with the new network info & key, and it still doesn't work.angry

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  • SilverGirlSilverGirl Posts: 2,780

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Minisota:  Tiny soft drink indecision

     Mni Sota Makoce - Dakota for "land where the waters reflect the clouds" (often translated to "land of sky blue waters")

    They finally put it on our state seal, which I'm happy about. (We got a new flag, too, which a lot of people complained about and I think is lovely. The old one was awful, for numerous reasons.)

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 2,198

    kyoto kid said:

    ....road construction signs should read "Road Destruction Ahead"..

    I recently saw a news report about how some people had stolen the cones and barriers from a construction site. The construction workers went on about how this is very unsafe. But I felt like I could understand why those things would be stolen.

    I don’t think they were planning on adding the construction cones to their collection of stolen artifacts from around the world. I might do that but I don’t think they did.

    Rather, I think it was done out of frustration. It seems like the construction workers just put the barriers in place and leave. Then you don’t see them again for years. And people have to choose an alternate route while driving around this road that remains blocked for years with no apparent progress. At least stealing the cones made the construction workers appear again. By now, they’ve probably put down new cones and disappeared again. For years. 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339

    Still breathing. And wondering what happened to my pet rock.

    Mine didn't have eyes. It was an official pet rock, it came in a box with a care manual.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,078
    edited August 10
    Our road has had roadworks continuously for 5 years, at one end, the other or somewhere along it. At the moment one end is closed for 8 weeks. I think we've had a huge 5-6 weeks in those 5 years with no roadworks. At the height of COVID, the roadworks were there, but noone was allowed to go anywhere, so that was the only time we weren't bothered. Regards, Richard
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