The Bitching Thread

[The Heretic Azazel]

Anyways, I'm going to bitch about my truck today. I don't know what happened but somehow, somewhere in the wiring there is a short thats pulling a 12v draw from the battery and causing me to have to jumpstart the damn thing when I need to drive somewhere.

If locating the short wasn't such a damn chore I'd have it fixed by now, but I've gone all through the damn thing and it's either the power seat, or something inside the door, but I can't pinpoint it any further. It's driving me insane.
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@ BoC below Ok then I'm taking the pic out. Either way he'd probably be at a loss for a real answer.

My fucking alternator went out on my way to work yesterday, and I couldn't even jump it off because it's flooded. Sometimes car maintenance can go easy, but sometimes it's a fucking bitch to deal with.

And to get it towed out they wanted 100 dollars. 100 fucking dollars! To tow something 15 miles!

[AlterEgox5]

I hate Illinois. Okay, so maybe I don't hate it, but there are times when I come pretty damn close. Why?

*looks out the window*

I want to move to Colorado into the mountains because A.) I love the mountains anyway, B.) there are more friggin' trees around C.) because of A and B I'm not surrounded by farmland and people who think they're cowboys when you know for a fact only a certain percentage of them could actually ride a mechanical bull without getting killed.

But that's beside the point. Why did I look out the window? Because a huge freaking thunderstorm is rolling my way. No, I do not have a problem with thunderstorms. Hell, I've been at 12,000 feet while hiking and got to our campsite and slept through a loud storm in a small tent that had metal poles. In fact, I enjoy them for the most part.

What I do not enjoy is the fact that because I live in the land of no trees where the farmland gets used so much there aren't any real nutrients left in it, these kinds of storms at this point in the season have a tendency to say to themselves, "Hey, I'm feelin' kinda twisty - maybe I'll draw some doodles in the ground below...la de da..." Thus the alarms go off, I freak out, and don't know where to go aside from the hallway because they told me on Sunday when the last tornado decided to skip past my town to stay in my room even though this room has some pretty big fucking windows.

I don't mind tornadoes in a way, I mean it's not like I have a grudge against mother nature or something, she's pretty cool and I enjoy her work. I just do not enjoy being in the path of her paintbrush, or in this case, airbrush. If I had my chance, I'd move, unlike those people who live right next to the Mississippi River who refuse to budge even though they've been flooded over about 10 times and want to stay because it's "pretty here."

So my rant in short? If those sirens go off again, I'm gonna be fucking pissed. (not to mention how a fire alarm went off on Monday at 10am).

Yeah, I know this was longer than it probably needed to be, but I tend to ramble when I get into something. Hope ya enjoyed my bitching.

NT

[Kraco]

It'll keep your bookmarks and stuff if you uninstall I believe. I could be wrong though, but I could have sworn it'll ask you if you want to keep them.

Well, it's always possible to go to the bookmarks editor (whatever it's called in English - I have a localised version), and export the bookmarks. Save them in a safe place, uninstall the whole thing, install anew, and import the bookmarks if they disappeared. It should work.

[Knives122]

well I fixed my gay ass problem that I had with firefox, decided to start a new profile which gives me a clean slate. the bad part is that it gives me a fucking clean slate.

now I have to get every fucking extension that didn't fuck firefox up for me and all my themes that probably won't work with version 1.5.0.2

at least I can see my sig now

[Deadfire]

*sigh* is it really me that has this type of people or is it that people these days really like to hate me

So I'm at my Tech bench where I work and I get a phone call. the person cames to have a problem with their computer (Surprise, surprise) This is the conversion

Me: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?"
Customer: "A computer."
Me: "Yes I know that, What operating system are you running? Windows 95?"
Customer: (a little too excited) "95, 97, 98, I've got them all!"
Me: "Do you know what operating system you're on?"
Customer: "Hmmm...what would be a good answer?"
Me: "Ok what does your computer look like"
Customer: I don't know it's White, and stuff, the box it came in said it was a Mac,
Me: "what kind of Mac do you have?"
Customer ( in a indignant voice) "Duh, Intosh."

.....

you fail!

Also some of the questions i have gotten from Customers and Staff

"Does Windows 98 support Linux?"

"How much do Windows cost?"
"Windows costs about $100."
"Oh, that's kind of expensive. Can I buy just one window?"

"You said I would get 98 windows with this computer. Where are they?"

"Where can I get internet?"

"Do you have a extra keyboard I broke mine"

"Can I help you do anything?"
"Do you know what I'm doing?"
"no, but i can help you with other stuff"

"I keep getting this error when I click this program"
"What does it say"
"'C:\WINDOWS>'."

"Well...ok...but if it doesn't work, will you come over and fix it for me?"

....

In the words of Terra "Humanity fucking blows."

[AlterEgox5]

I say just shoot them next time.

Man I so hate stupid people...someone please punch me if I'm ever that dumb...

[Kraco]

@DF: No matter how painful it must be for you sometimes to try to answer idiotic questions, it does make funny read for the rest of us...

[The Heretic Azazel]

Hahahaha, that's the funniest shit in the world if you don't work there!

[AlterEgox5]

*gives you a cookie*

[Board of Command]

Deadfire, did that conversation start with the phrase "My computer doesn't work" by any chance?

The level of stupidity among the current population is simply absurd. If Hitler was fighting in today's age and said he's killing Jews because they're all idiots, I bet a lot more people would support him. In the next election, if one of the candidates' platform contains something along the lines of "exterminate idiots from our country" I'd vote for that.

[Kraco]

In the next election, if one of the candidates' platform contains something along the lines of "exterminate idiots from our country"

That's a theoretically interesting, and twisted, concept, as it would result in idiots voting for their own extermination. As we all know, idiots rarely consider themselves idiots.

[Board of Command]

Ooh cheap shot man, cheap shot!

[AlterEgox5]

Still, Kraco does have a point - those people making their comments concerning the computers...how much you wanna bet they think they're making intelligent comments?

[Board of Command]

Ok I think we're being a bit too subtle here. By "those people" you're talking about the customers and not the people on the forum right?

[masamuneehs]

i have a ridiculous hangover. that's about all i need to bitch about now.
going back to bed.

[Kraco]

Ok I think we're being a bit too subtle here. By "those people" you're talking about the customers and not the people on the forum right?

I think it's pretty safe to say nobody here meant any offense. I realise my post had a slight chance of being interpreted as such, and thus I took the precaution of removing your last words from the quote so that it wouldn't be read in a negative manner. For my own part, it was just a play with the thought and words.

[DB_Hunter]

Well for my two cents I would side with Kraco's argument. It seems for whatever reason the masses in any country seem unable to grasp the key points of anything that is political, let alone politicians in the middle of an election. It may be because it does take some effort to follow what is going on in the world of politics and there will only be a certain number of people in any society that can put in that effort and since the rest can't, they remain ignorant and hence are liable to be labelled 'idiots'.

[AlterEgox5]

Ok I think we're being a bit too subtle here. By "those people" you're talking about the customers and not the people on the forum right?

Yeah, I meant the people making the comments about computers in Deadfire's post. Besides, I haven't been here long enough to even start making assumptions about stupid people posting in this forum.

I'm not stupid. Hehe.

[Deadfire]

Yeah, I meant the people making the comments about computers in Deadfire's post. Besides, I haven't been here long enough to even start making assumptions about stupid people posting in this forum.

I'm not stupid. Hehe.

What is more interesting is that people have stepped off-topic to relate about my work and post about it. Many of those quotes are not really from those that came off (to me ) that they simply didn't know what it was they were relating to. More that they thought that they did, thats not saying all the stupid questions (to me) are easy for people to understand. I do know of many nice folk that have asked for my help and argreed with my answers as they trusted my experiance in these matters. More to my point I"m "bitching" about those that do not think of me that highly in these matters and question what I say because it seems to them that they know it already and that I am going to profit from it. Now I've gone a little to far from my topic going into another thing that annoys me to no end

Those that ask for your advice and not take it, either but thinking that they can do it some other way, or by taking instead the advice of someone they really shouldn't. Then after everything is said and done they come back to you and complain that everything went wrong and how it sucks.

You know why it sucks? Because you didn't listen to me the first time you ass! Maybe I know shit you or your friends don't.!!

God I love this thread saves me money on anger management

[ChaosK]

Allergies make me want to claw my eyes out.