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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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Twitch Boy said:
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Someone from my home town has made it a game to post something controversial, generally one of those ignorant pictures with statistics that are made up, and then when he gets called out on it, he brings up something about PC culture, or how he didn't mean to start a debate but if they want to discuss it they can meet in person for a beer. It's so repetitive at this point I would think he's trolling, but he's consistent with the topics he does it with, so I'm guessing it's his true beliefs. He's also the type of guy who shares his diet and lifting routine everyday. I would defriend him, but the guy is so much of a stereotype it's like having a rare Pokemon, you just can't let it go.
 
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The Punjab Party at Comcast. Connectivity probs. Call in, explain. Ok, need a tech to come out. Would Monday work? No. Sat the 21st is the next one for me.

Support says fine, but calendar doesn't go out that far. I'm okay with that, make a note to schedule later. They offer to credit my billing for the past couple of days. Then transfer me to a closed office. Um, no. I call back. Find that Punjab scheduled a Monday appt anyways. AUGH.

HOWEVER, good ending to this:

Get some dude from Seattle, obviously American. "I'll credit you right now for you not being able to internet." (sidenote: Awesome syntax/wording! Obviously a gamer/internetter, and yes, he later on mentioned he gamed/"internetted").

Solved that problem, got me to a wireless specialist. He did some things with the stuff, and boom, prob fixed, PLUS shipping me a newer model modem/router, free of charge, and I can UPS back my current one, free of charge, and made sure I was credited for the past couple of days of intermittent connectivity. Everything is A-OK now.
 
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"More money is coming your way this week. Type Amen and share."

yeah. A financial breakthrough IS coming your way this week. You see, you get this thing called a JOB, and your employer has agreed to pay you at set intervals. But you gotta keep showing up and doing the dirty work. Sometimes, you can even leave your current employer and get a better job, leading to MORE money.

Face it: you probably aren't winning the lottery, and the Brinks truck isn't backing up to your front porch. Neither will you marry into a rich family. You could also rob a bank, but the financial windfall isn't worth spending the next 35 years of your life in prison for.
 
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I hate people who look to religion for monetary success. It's totally antithetical to the teachings of Christianity, for example.
 
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I hate people who look to religion for monetary success. It's totally antithetical to the teachings of Christianity, for example.
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Or any of the major religions. Or as a meme stated, "God is not your fairy godmother and that's not how it works."

The astrological memes kill me too. "Oh your sign is this, therefore you are THIS." The position of the stars do not affect your life in any way. And if I believed those memes, I'd be even more miserable and lonely.
 
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ShirtlessBob said:
"More money is coming your way this week. Type Amen and share."

yeah. A financial breakthrough IS coming your way this week. You see, you get this thing called a JOB, and your employer has agreed to pay you at set intervals. But you gotta keep showing up and doing the dirty work. Sometimes, you can even leave your current employer and get a better job, leading to MORE money.

Face it: you probably aren't winning the lottery, and the Brinks truck isn't backing up to your front porch. Neither will you marry into a rich family. You could also rob a bank, but the financial windfall isn't worth spending the next 35 years of your life in prison for.
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To be fair, I've never shared one of those and I am still not independently wealthy...;)

Yeah, people are stupid.
 
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This is not a new complaint, it happens every year, earlier and earlier. I don't go to the malls much, but I had to today. They're playing Christmas music:mad: . I asked the sales clerk when it started, and she said sometime last week. So the Christmas season starts on Veterans Day?

On a related note, it now appears that the entire month of November is one big Black Friday:mad:. If I see one more "Black Friday" commercial, I think I'll start looking forward to Fan Duel/Draft Kings commercials.
 
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CLS said:
This is not a new complaint, it happens every year, earlier and earlier. I don't go to the malls much, but I had to today. They're playing Christmas music:mad: . I asked the sales clerk when it started, and she said sometime last week. So the Christmas season starts on Veterans Day?

On a related note, it now appears that the entire month of November is one big Black Friday:mad:. If I see one more "Black Friday" commercial, I think I'll start looking forward to Fan Duel/Draft Kings commercials.
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A station here in Denver went to all-Christmas music on October 30. Yes, before Halloween.

I've already been pah-rum-pah-pum-pummed out of the Little Drummer Boy Challenge* and it's not even Thanksgiving.

*Go the entire holiday season without hearing Little Drummer Boy. Any version counts. You're DQ'd as soon as you hear enough of the song to recognize it. Harder than it looks.
 
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CLS said:
This is not a new complaint, it happens every year, earlier and earlier. I don't go to the malls much, but I had to today. They're playing Christmas music:mad: . I asked the sales clerk when it started, and she said sometime last week. So the Christmas season starts on Veterans Day?

On a related note, it now appears that the entire month of November is one big Black Friday:mad:. If I see one more "Black Friday" commercial, I think I'll start looking forward to Fan Duel/Draft Kings commercials.
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If I had Christmas shopping to do, I'd like the Black Friday portion as I have no interest in going out for the door buster sales that day. Also, I normally work that Friday, so that puts a cramp in it, too.

Shopping at Target for my groceries, their seasonal display is right next to the dairy case. The change over to Christmas started just a couple days after Halloween ended, just long enough for the Halloween closeout sale to happen.

I do what I can to avoid Christmas music for as much of the season as possible. My father would listen to that stuff in the middle of July some years.
 
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My Spotify discover weekly playlist. It makes me think I might have terrible taste in music. :D
 
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I never understood why someone would mount the roll under till I met someone who claimed they had gotten a roll undone by a toddler and a cat.
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i'm totally late to this party, but if you tuck the loose end into the cardboard tube, you can hang the tp over and it will not unroll.
 
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My doctor sent me to a weight management class. As it turns out, the induction meeting was a 45 minute sales pitch for meal replacement shakes, entrees, and bars.

I'm upset that I took time off work for what amounted to a sales pitch, and for the fact that my doctor KNEW I am a long-distance runner, knew I led a pro-ana lifestyle at one point, and still thought I needed to practice extreme calorie restriction.

If you're going to offer me a shake, please make it a milkshake with whipped cream and sprinkles on top.
 
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One thing that really grinds my gears is when people shove garbage down into the kitchen garbage container when it is full in order to fit more in on top. That can make it difficult to pull the bag out to change it. From time to time, I've even had to get a larger bag, drape it over the top, and then turn the whole container upside down, either the bag holding the shoved-down garbage broke or it was filled too tightly to pull out. If it is full, empty it!

On a related but less annoying note, please also do not put empty cereal boxes, etc. into the bag; we now flatten them and put them in the recycling instead. It's really easy to slide a finger along the seam at the bottom, flip up the tabs, and slide a flat piece of cardboard in.
 
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FreshFish said:
One thing that really grinds my gears is when people shove garbage down into the kitchen garbage container when it is full in order to fit more in on top. That can make it difficult to pull the bag out to change it. From time to time, I've even had to get a larger bag, drape it over the top, and then turn the whole container upside down, either the bag holding the shoved-down garbage broke or it was filled too tightly to pull out. If it is full, empty it!

On a related but less annoying note, please also do not put empty cereal boxes, etc. into the bag; we now flatten them and put them in the recycling instead. It's really easy to slide a finger along the seam at the bottom, flip up the tabs, and slide a flat piece of cardboard in.
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Why do you care about how I handle my garbage?
 
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