The Bitching Thread

[Buffalobiian]

What the?

Did you finally overdose on preservatives?

No Preservatives - the beauty of the canning process.

Most of the above is due to physical exertion.

My jaws hurt because I decided to take up Haku's suggestion to chew stuff in order to build up head muscles (a preparation for when/if I have to go bald). I chewed gum vigorously for like.. 8 hours yesterday.

Not sure why my head hurts - probably from lacking sleep a little?

No idea regarding the cough either.. my brother's got a cold, but cough's usually the last thing to happen. I did sleep in too hot an environment though - that always makes me feel like crap, as if I just had a fever. Might have enhanced all of the above.

God Bless Painkillers. And a strong liver to break them down with.

[Archangel]

What you bitches need is some real exercise, especially Bill

Join a gym, you wont regret it

[rockmanj]

Gah! I think I will either have to confront that woman I work with or go to her boss about her communication with clients. She actually asked a client to answer the phone today! Besides being annoying and non-self aware, this seems to be a pretty serious issue. I don't think today will end well...

[The Heretic Azazel]

I just sat in court for three hours because the dumbass cuntface bitch who works up front told me to be there at 9am. The judge tells me my time to come is 1. Life is fucking stupid.

[Ryllharu]

I have no idea what I did, but my back goes on fire every time I take a full breath. I hope I just slept funny. Strangest thing is it started just randomly after lunch, felt perfectly fine before that.

[Assertn]

I just sat in court for three hours because the dumbass cuntface bitch who works up front told me to be there at 9am. The judge tells me my time to come is 1. Life is fucking stupid.

So didn't you sit in court for four hours then?

[Animeniax]

So didn't you sit in court for four hours then?

No, look at his posting time. It had only been 3 hours before he decided to bitch.

[rockmanj]

Gah...my former roommate keeps harassing me about a gas bill that was in his name that he did not cancel. He ended up getting charged for it and keeps telling me to pay him ASAP. I am going to pay him, but I can;y just hand over the money all at once (it was over a number of months). I mean, legally and otherwise it is his fault and we are helping him out. I don't feel like I am wrong here (or am I?)

[Animeniax]

Your former roommate sounds like your typical ahole who goes through life not taking care of little things, then puts that shit on other people when it hits him. I wouldn't pay him.

I hate doing the dishes. I try and try to clean as I go, but I always end up with a sink full of dishes. It doesn't help that most stuff I cook requires I use 10 different pots/pans/utensils each time.

[David75]

Your former roommate sounds like your typical ahole who goes through life not taking care of little things, then puts that shit on other people when it hits him. I wouldn't pay him.

I hate doing the dishes. I try and try to clean as I go, but I always end up with a sink full of dishes. It doesn't help that most stuff I cook requires I use 10 different pots/pans/utensils each time.

Get yourself a wife
or
Get yourself a dishwasher
or
Get yourself a decent job and stop cooking

[Animeniax]

Get yourself a wife
or
Get yourself a dishwasher
or
Get yourself a decent job and stop cooking

Decent job = eating out or paying someone else to cook for me? I'd hate that. I love cooking, I hate cleaning up afterwards. I have a dishwasher but I prefer hand-washing, I just don't have time for it. Same with the car, I could pay $6 at the local gas station for an auto car wash, but I'd rather hand-wash, just don't have time for it.

Latest bitch: got pissed playing BC2 so I hulk-slammed my keyboard so now it doesn't work. Add in that it's wireless, so I can't get the system to recognize it until Windows loads, but I can't get past the BIOS password without a keyboard.

[enkoujin]

Wash dishes as you wait while your food is cooking.

[Buffalobiian]

@rockmanj: it depends on how that whole situation came about. Did he move out, forgot to cancel his account, and you guys have been getting free gas in the meantime? If so, I think its only fair that you paid it. Sure, legally it's his fault and you don't owe him a dime, but looking at it from a moral perspective whoever used it should pay it.

I'll assume that the former agreement was that the bill went under his name, but you paid half while you two were still living together? There's a shared understanding that even though he's legally liable for the costs, in actuality you both have agreed to pay for what you used (and assumed a 50/50 split for simplicity's sake). This is just an extension of that since he forgot to terminante your agreement.

I don't think you should be pressured into a lump sum payment though. Try to make repaying him back as high a priority as possible without starving yourself or something.

[rockmanj]

@rockmanj: it depends on how that whole situation came about. Did he move out, forgot to cancel his account, and you guys have been getting free gas in the meantime? If so, I think its only fair that you paid it. Sure, legally it's his fault and you don't owe him a dime, but looking at it from a moral perspective whoever used it should pay it.

I'll assume that the former agreement was that the bill went under his name, but you paid half while you two were still living together? There's a shared understanding that even though he's legally liable for the costs, in actuality you both have agreed to pay for what you used (and assumed a 50/50 split for simplicity's sake). This is just an extension of that since he forgot to terminante your agreement.

I don't think you should be pressured into a lump sum payment though. Try to make repaying him back as high a priority as possible without starving yourself or something.

One of my current roommates and I told him we would pay him back, since we were using the gas at the time. The former one said he wants it all at once, and I told him that to demand that is unfair and not going to happen, since my other roommate and i have other bills & responsibilities. He does not think it is his fault at all, even though I constantly told him to terminate the gas bill so we could start a new one, and he did not. We are resolving the problem, just not as fast as he wants us to (I believe I tied the payments to my paycheck, so it automatically sends him money when I am paid). There were other problems with that bill for some reason before...I would ask him how much i owed him and he would say "I will let you know later" then demand money on whatever day he wished to tell me so that it isn't late.

[Animeniax]

Wash dishes as you wait while your food is cooking.

For me, the meals I cook are usually complex and multi-part, so it demands my attention throughout. I've tried cleaning between stages, but I always have to stop, wash off valuable suds, and get back to cooking.

Even cooking ramen, you only have 3 minutes. But that's actually 2 minutes since you have to add the meat and sauce pack at the 2 minute point. Then you let it cook 1 more minute and it's done. Then you have to eat it right away or the noodles get too soggy. No time to clean dishes during all of that. And after eating all that ramen, you're too sleepy to wash dishes.

[Kraco]

Today I read from my morning newspaper that the holding company that had earlier acquired the computer hardware store from where I have for years bought almost all of my computer stuff also acquired one old and bloated store from the other side of the city. That in itself wouldn't have mattered much to me, but I got an impression from the article they intend to move all the business in this city to the overly large store of the older company with its needlessly many employees who have very little interest to actually serve people unless you represent some big buyer (that is, a company or institution). Otherwise they only take your money but if you ask them something they can't answer from the top of their empty heads, they literally tell you to find the answer on your own time and go away. Which is the main reason I haven't visited them for a long time now, in addition to their ridiculous prices they still think are great.

As opposed to that, the small store I frequent has great prices (or as great as they ever are in Finland), has really cool guys working there who know much more of hardware and have always been willing to find the answers if they couldn't produce them immediately. And their shop apparently will be shut down in favour of the stupid oversized store with the idiot staff more interested in their suits than computers.

Tells volumes of why holding companies with no practical knowledge of anything they stick their rotten noses into should all go to hell.

[Buffalobiian]

They're still going to be open for a little while, right? Visit them and see where all current staff are going to be. If they move to the store further away, then at least you have some people who you know are reliable there. If not, then see if you can shop with them online in the future, or ask them to recommend a different retailer.

[Animeniax]

Easier solution is to open your own store and become that reliable shop that everyone goes to, until you sell it to a large conglomerate that closes it when they merge it with their other location.

[rockmanj]

Gah! Why are most of the people I have to deal with flakes? I have been getting blown off or not responded to a lot lately, and it's really getting my goat. I may just start cutting people off left and right (again).

[Kraco]

They're still going to be open for a little while, right? Visit them and see where all current staff are going to be. If they move to the store further away, then at least you have some people who you know are reliable there. If not, then see if you can shop with them online in the future, or ask them to recommend a different retailer.

I read the holding company's own web news bulletin, and now I get why the newspaper article was so hard to decipher; the company bulletin itself both said all the functions in this city will be consolidated, yet a little later they said that all the customers are still able to visit their usual stores... I guess I'll visit my usual store on monday and ask if they are any more enlightened of their own circumstances.