The Bitching Thread

[Buffalobiian]

I've been watching some floor mats on "buy it now" status on eBay. I assumed they were some sort of permament listing, but then eBay tells me that they're Ending Soon. I was eventually going to buy them, but this forced my hand and I committed to a purchase right then and there. A few minutes later I check back and the listing was automatically relisted for another month or something.

Bitch. Just set it longer already.

Oh, and despite having a UAG case on my Galaxy S4 it still broke. I was lazy/risky and didn't zip up my bag when I jumped over this fence as a shortcut and the phone dropped from there onto the dirt. I found it glass-up with some cracks on the glass. My hypothesis is that even the ground was just soft enough that it moulded to the shape of my phone and also didn't allow it to bounce. That meant instead of some TPU on the corners taking some force, the shock went straight through the phone and cracked the fragile glass.

Some repairers are opting to repair just the glass by using a heat-gun to release the glue sticking the glass to the AMOLED/digitiser unit for around $99. Some research online suggested that problems with doing this (glue leakage, heat damage, layer separation) could happen months down the track, so I feel safer replacing the whole glass/AMOLED/digitiser unit entirely, the way Samsung intends it to be done. That's $200-$250 dollars that I wouldn't have otherwise needed spend. Expensive lessoned learned to always zip my bags .

[UChessmaster]

I`m getting desperate over not being able to move to USA, I`m getting paid 325 dollars a month as a physical therapist here, it feels insulting and downright depressing.

I`m actually pretending im straight and hitting on this girl so I can marry her and get a green card(and hating myself for it in the process) >.>

[enkoujin]

I`m getting desperate over not being able to move to USA, I`m getting paid 325 dollars a month as a physical therapist here, it feels insulting and downright depressing.

When you move to the US, will your education and/or license still be valid over there? If not, would you be able to work under the table with your occupation?

I`m actually pretending im straight and hitting on this girl so I can marry her and get a green card(and hating myself for it in the process) >.>

Shit, dude. That sucks. Is there any chance you could find a gay guy who you two could marry and bring you over?

[shinta|hikari]

I think that green card would be dependent on you staying married, so I would not recommend that route.

[UChessmaster]

When you move to the US, will your education and/or license still be valid over there? If not, would you be able to work under the table with your occupation?

I`d have to take one test and that`s it.

Shit, dude. That sucks. Is there any chance you could find a gay guy who you two could marry and bring you over?

If there is someone, haven`t found him

I think that green card would be dependent on you staying married, so I would not recommend that route.

Nah, I can divorce after np.

[Buffalobiian]

Locked myself out of dorms till 9am tomorrow. Just have phone and pajamas for the night.

[Kraco]

Surely there's a phone number you can call to have some grumpy man open the door for 25 dollars.

[Buffalobiian]

Surely there's a phone number you can call to have some grumpy man open the door for 25 dollars.

I didn't know they were that cheap. I could have considered that.

Given that my wallet was inside my room, I could have bargained that he'd only get his money if he got the lock open

[Kraco]

I didn't know they were that cheap. I could have considered that.

That was just a random number. Over here the property maintenance companies charge anything from 15 to 50 euros depending on the greediness of the company, the time of the day (weekday office hours being the cheapest and nighttime hours being the most expensive, weekend also adding to the cost). However, since you called your place "dorms", I imagine it would be on the cheaper side, as opposed to a regular apartment building.

Besides, you say you were locked out only until an exact morning hour, so I imagine letting you in would have been exceedingly easy. Electronic locks?

[Buffalobiian]

Besides, you say you were locked out only until an exact morning hour, so I imagine letting you in would have been exceedingly easy. Electronic locks?

That's the when the school office opens and the person in charge of the master key is around to give it to me. The locks aren't electronic and are built such that everybody's keys open the lock to the building, but the same keys only then unlock their own rooms.

The recovery process involved me borrowing pants from someone so I could walk to the hospital and back to get the keys. It's my fault for having such a good habit of locking my doors that I'll even do it when I'm not thinking (or not wanting) to. The shitty thing though is that this could be avoided if the locks were designed better. I frowned at these two aspects when I first came here:

1) doors were lockable by pressing a button on the inside doorknob
2) doors were only lockable in the above manner, you can not lock the doors outside by turning the key.

That means the only way to lock them is to pray (or check) that you have your keys on you before locking your door.

Requiring that you must have the key to both lock and unlock the doors would make it foolproof.

[Kraco]

I frowned at these two aspects when I first came here:

1) doors were lockable by pressing a button on the inside doorknob
2) doors were only lockable in the above manner, you can not lock the doors outside by turning the key.

That means the only way to lock them is to pray (or check) that you have your keys on you before locking your door.

Requiring that you must have the key to both lock and unlock the doors would make it foolproof.

Your description sounds like you can't lock the door when you leave your apartment. After all, you can't access the inside doorknob's button when you are standing on the outside side of the door! Well, I must be misunderstanding something because that would be too funny. I have my own door's lock set so that I can't even close, let alone lock, the thing without a key from the outside. So, there's absolutely no risk of forgetting the key when leaving. I also have a second, high security lock that only obeys a big, sturdy key from both sides, to keep thieves away from my precious electronics.

[shinta|hikari]

You press the button and it stays pressed by itself, then go out and close the door.

[Buffalobiian]

What shinta said, you press the button to "pre-lock" the door (press button, knob will be non-rotatable), then you just shut the door without turning the knob (because you can't, it's locked).

I also have a second, high security lock that only obeys a big, sturdy key from both sides, to keep thieves away from my precious electronics.

From both sides?

Right, I know what you mean now. I thought you meant it could only be unlocked by turning two big, sturdy keys simultaneously (but from both sides..), which didn't make sense. Then I thought of something else.

[Kraco]

I see. I have to confess I have never in my life seen a lock like that. It's pretty interesting how locks are so different in different parts of the world. The other mode of my lock is to simply push the door closed, which pretty much would be similar to yours, though even more accident prone. After hearing stories of friends and acquaintances locking themselves out, I opted to stick to the current mode, despite the fact you always need to use a key when leaving. But that's a small issue nowadays as I need a key anyway to use the high security lock (this second lock grants me a 5% discount on the home insurance, which is always nice).

[Ryllharu]

Your apartment is locked by what is basically a bathroom doorknob...just wow.

You should request they update to deadbolts with no lock on the knob itself. At least it would be more secure.

[Buffalobiian]

I rolled my ankle yet again (inversion sprain) by landing on it wrong, and I'm tired of this shit.

Fibularis strengthening and proprioception exercises, here I come. (Also probably arthroscopic debridement surgery)

[UChessmaster]

Be a man, do plyometric.

[DarthEnderX]

Your apartment is locked by what is basically a bathroom doorknob...just wow.

You should request they update to deadbolts with no lock on the knob itself. At least it would be more secure.

Would that make him unable to lock the door when he left the apartment?

[Ryllharu]

Would that make him unable to lock the door when he left the apartment?

You lock the door from the inside before you pull on the door to latch it (thus leaving it locked). It is a bathroom doorknob with a key instead of the tiny hole to release the push button.

What shinta said, you press the button to "pre-lock" the door (press button, knob will be non-rotatable), then you just shut the door without turning the knob (because you can't, it's locked).

It's pretty easy to have only a doorknob (like for closets) with no locking mechanism on the doorknob, but one that secures the door with a deadbolt right above it. I've seen that at a number of apartment complexes. The important part is that you engage the deadbolt with a key from the outside, not with a push button (and invariably forgetting your keys inside).

Then again, I have proper door locks and deadbolts, but I still have a combination device that holds my spare key. I cannot get locked out of my place.

[Buffalobiian]

I had a game crash on me, then the screen wouldn't turn on. One BIOS reset later, the PC won't post at all.

Hours of troubleshooting and headaches later it randomly decides to start working fine again.

April's Fools day for me