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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Unforgiven said:
That I am still getting these at the end of March:mad:
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I heat the house with Amish electric heaters (highest electric bill this winter: $228.76). I remember my parents crying the blues from the heating oil bill in Newton, MA when I was a kid back in the 60s; when we moved to the South Shore of MA, we went to natural gas/forced hot air, and even during the Energy Crisis - natural gas was still pretty reasonable. Reading your propane bill, Unforgiven - I send you the best of luck, my friend. To anyone out there still stuck in winter's wrath - hang in there. We're officially into Spring, so easier times are on the way. LW

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Well here in the UK we had no cold weather at all over the winter. In fact, we didn't really have a winter. You can count the number of mornings there was ice on the car on one hand. It's been so mild, we had spring flowers coming out in January. And flourishing.

Last 2 or 3 years, winters here have been unusually harsh with quite a bit of snow (for us) - we only used to get snow maybe one year in 5. We've also had the longest drought in decades closely followed by quite a few places being hit with once-in-a-century floods two years on the trot.

I guess that is the unpredictability of Climate Change.

Year before last we had the worst summer in decades while the rest of Europe had the most intense heat wave in decades. I remember being by the lakes in northern Italy where temperatures were supposed max out at around 25 and seeing 35 at midnight!
 
SiempreTuna said:
Well here in the UK we had no cold weather at all over the winter. In fact, we didn't really have a winter. You can count the number of mornings there was ice on the car on one hand. It's been so mild, we had spring flowers coming out in January. And flourishing.

Last 2 or 3 years, winters here have been unusually harsh with quite a bit of snow (for us) - we only used to get snow maybe one year in 5. We've also had the longest drought in decades closely followed by quite a few places being hit with once-in-a-century floods two years on the trot.

I guess that is the unpredictability of Climate Change.

Year before last we had the worst summer in decades while the rest of Europe had the most intense heat wave in decades. I remember being by the lakes in northern Italy where temperatures were supposed to be around 25 and seeing 35 at midnight!
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Didn't you have rain, strong winds and now flooding? Trees were down around Epsom. (Kid works there)
 
Quite right: we did - the once-in-a-century flooding for the second year running I mentioned.

That was 'just' a lot of rain (Feb was the wettest since records began in the 1920s) and a couple of big (for us) storms, though: it didn't actually get cold so it never really felt like winter. Though, obviously it was totally miserable for the people affected.

Having said that, apparently this year the number of people who made insurance claims for flooding was in the low ten thousands while last year it was in the 100 thousand-ish, so although the flooding was over an extensive area this year, it was largely not in heavily populated areas - though some places on the Thames like Epsom and Windsor were affected for a couple of days.
 
That it's a hell of a wake-up...

I have to replace a wire that appears to have been the first thing they installed when the airplane was built.

Where is Kitty Pryde when I need her?
 
In Dickinson, North Dakota tonight... Blizzard conditions... Work tomorrow as long as the venue isn't closed... Then long drive home.. As long as they don't close the highway(s)
 
zuben el genub said:
GAF
Get a Ferret.

10 Fascinating Facts About Ferrets - Listverse
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I quit a band I played in back in the 80s over ferrets - three of them traveled with the drummer's girlfriend, and they crapped all over my garment bags in the band truck. It was in Cocoa Beach, FL, USA. I packed up all of my stage gear that day, and booked a flight home. I managed to get a one-nighter since I had to layover for four days - played with a The Guess Who tribute band that had their guitar player OD and go to rehab. Made some good money for that one. Wow. Ralphing cats and crapping ferrets... one never knows what to expect in this thread. I must say - the ferret experience definitely ground my gears.

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dontpanicbobby said:
Members who don;t fill out their complete user profile. especially leaving out the carrier information.
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And general area/location... ;)

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zuben el genub said:
Why do you care? I never fill it out. No one's business but my own.
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We've been through that. That's why I included the winkie and ducking smilie. I didn't really think it necessary to state but apparently it is: already been hashed around, I'm *not* trying to stir up the fiasco again. I'm really striving to continue my record of not having posts deleted. But it is a rant of mine and I figure I have just as much rights to my rants as others have to theirs.
 
LOveWerks said:
I quit a band I played in back in the 80s over ferrets - three of them traveled with the drummer's girlfriend, and they crapped all over my garment bags in the band truck. It was in Cocoa Beach, FL, USA. I packed up all of my stage gear that day, and booked a flight home. I managed to get a one-nighter since I had to layover for four days - played with a The Guess Who tribute band that had their guitar player OD and go to rehab. Made some good money for that one. Wow. Ralphing cats and crapping ferrets... one never knows what to expect in this thread. I must say - the ferret experience definitely ground my gears.

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I'll take the ralphing cats and snitching ferrets any day. There is no viciousness or devious behavior in those doings. They have a basic reason - fear, protect young, hunger, - not the fact that you don't have blue eyes or think differently than others.

BTW, you can train ferrets to use one area. I had ours trained to use the shower stall where I could clean it easily.

I don't let my pets take advantage of anyone else. The cats are indoor, and the ones that did go out were on a leash. They were trained to walk like dogs. The ferrets moved to England and I miss the buggers.

The Vulcan was in bands for years. I didn't care about that, but the fact that he snitched my truck to carry equipment and left me with his dumb "luxury" car.
I've had drum sets in the back seat of a '65 Mustang, and a lot of small junk or whatever would fit in the boot and trunk of a '69 Spitfire. I don't like bars and concerts where I HAVE to stick around so I'm ready to leave when HE is. He's got a cell phone - call me when done.
 
03bluecoupe said:
We've been through that. That's why I included the winkie and ducking smilie. I didn't really think it necessary to state but apparently it is: already been hashed around, I'm *not* trying to stir up the fiasco again. I'm really striving to continue my record of not having posts deleted. But it is a rant of mine and I figure I have just as much rights to my rants as others have to theirs.
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You do, and I have a right to mine. The ones that insist you do or don't post are the ones that need to cool it.

Like this:
" Lake Chargoggaggoggmanchoggagogg"
You fish on your side, I fish on my side, and no one fishes in the middle
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zuben, you forgot a couple goggamogs:p

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This is litterally minutes from my house. The point is well taken, my preference to disclose, yours isn't. To each their own. Carry on everyone.
 
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