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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Sam Elliott in his character "Wade Jarrett" in the movie "Roadhouse" (with the late Patrick Swayze) summed it up to P. in the film, describing his bouncer gig:
"Don't eat the big white mint."

Marines are among the bravest, most gung-ho military men in the US Armed Forces, but they put up with a lot of crap from other branches of the military, like the Navy; I was playing a gig on an aircraft carrier, going out on a cruise that invited all of the servicemen's families to come along. The Master Chief got on the ship's PA, announcing that "...food would be served on deck at 1600 hours! For any Marines on board, that means the big hand on the clock is on twelve, and the little hand is on four..." Kind of mean, since the Marines are so Semper Fi. Hoo-rah!
 
LOveWerks said:
Sam Elliott in his character "Wade Jarrett" in the movie "Roadhouse" (with the late Patrick Swayze) summed it up to P. in the film, describing his bouncer gig:
"Don't eat the big white mint."

Marines are among the bravest, most gung-ho military men in the US Armed Forces, but they put up with a lot of crap from other branches of the military, like the Navy; I was playing a gig on an aircraft carrier, going out on a cruise that invited all of the servicemen's families to come along. The Master Chief got on the ship's PA, announcing that "...food would be served on deck at 1600 hours! For any Marines on board, that means the big hand on the clock is on twelve, and the little hand is on four..." Kind of mean, since the Marines are so Semper Fi. Hoo-rah!
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Nowadays, it's mostly done in jest. We (Navy) would mess around with the Marines, they would mess around with us... Frankly, as a supervisor, I preferred having Marines around, because I only had say something needed to be done once, and it would get done.
 
Dngrsone said:
Nowadays, it's mostly done in jest. We (Navy) would mess around with the Marines, they would mess around with us... Frankly, as a supervisor, I preferred having Marines around, because I only had say something needed to be done once, and it would get done.
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^^^That. As former Army we ranked on the other branches. Mostly teased the stereotypes, teased the Marines as dumb muscleheads, Air Force as club med, etc. I can tell you we had the utmost respect for anyone that put the uniform on.
 
LOveWerks said:
Who do you think would make a good replacement?

I vote for Ryan Stiles.
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I was thinking about this, if takes someone who knows politics, is funny with a bit of a mean streak, but still likable. A lot of people might have two out of three, but the complete package will be hard to find. Then it popped in my head: Tina Fey would be perfect. I doubt she would want the job, but I think she would be great.
 
Pretty sure it's just good locker-room ribbing.

Although I did once have a roomate who was in the Army and another one at the same time who's dream was to be a Marine. They did NOT like each other.
 
Gmash said:
I was thinking about this, if takes someone who knows politics, is funny with a bit of a mean streak, but still likable. A lot of people might have two out of three, but the complete package will be hard to find. Then it popped in my head: Tina Fey would be perfect. I doubt she would want the job, but I think she would be great.
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I agree with you. Tina Fey was completely political in much of her humor during her SNL days.

I only mentioned Ryan Stiles because of his ability to be funny, and direct; with deadpan face, like the late Jack Benny, he could deliver - when he was on "Who's Line Is It, Anyway" - but Tina Fey would be hard to beat, and with the political winds blowing toward a female President, she could be like Jane Curtin, Lorraine Newman, and Gilda Radner combined - LW
 
I don't think Fey would take the job because she's already launched into the mainstream with movies and such.

My guess is it's somebody from the existing Comedy Central pool. Maybe one of the 'correspondents' on the show.
 
well it looks like hiding the remains of my food supply and not buying anymore forced my roommate to actually go buy some food for the kid to eat. I'm imagining he was woken up much earlier than he wanted to get up so the kid could have breakfast.

He's going to be in a pinch soon, as my other roommate and I are seriously talking about moving out. That's going to cut a significant part of his income out, and without me here to support the kid, who knows what he'll do.
 
bjacks12 said:
well it looks like hiding the remains of my food supply and not buying anymore forced my roommate to actually go buy some food for the kid to eat. I'm imagining he was woken up much earlier than he wanted to get up so the kid could have breakfast.

He's going to be in a pinch soon, as my other roommate and I are seriously talking about moving out. That's going to cut a significant part of his income out, and without me here to support the kid, who knows what he'll do.
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Wow, bjacks12. I certainly understand your side of it, but, I have pity for your disabled roommate.

Even so, you and your other roommate have got living arrangements to work out.

I hope everyone gets through this melee, without any undue suffering.

Good luck - LW
 
bjacks12 said:
well it looks like hiding the remains of my food supply and not buying anymore forced my roommate to actually go buy some food for the kid to eat. I'm imagining he was woken up much earlier than he wanted to get up so the kid could have breakfast.

He's going to be in a pinch soon, as my other roommate and I are seriously talking about moving out. That's going to cut a significant part of his income out, and without me here to support the kid, who knows what he'll do.
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I can, in a way, relate to your frustrations at a poor living situation. For the last ten months, me and my best friend have each been renting our own room in a house from a woman that has 23 cats and 3 dogs. It was more when we moved in. Together, the two of us have been paying her entire mortgage for almost a year. Meanwhile, there's a seriously unhealthy level of ammonia in the air from the urine and feces. Forget the fact that she cleans constantly, it's embedded in the wood of the house. The cays go everywhere except our rooms and outside, which means the kitchen is disgusting too. There have been a myriad of other little issues that finally compounded and my friend had to move out for her own health and well being. Now the cat Lady, being upset at this, is taking it out on me. She gave me three days to leave, which is up tomorrow and I still don't know what I'm going to do..
 
LOveWerks said:
Well, later today, my TV experience is changing to HD.

FOR FREE, and at
the same monthly rate. Dish Network's The Hopper will be arriving between 12-5pm today.

I'm stoked. LW
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Enjoy! The switch is beautiful. We don't have live tv, we just rely on streaming. I have my Samsung TV in my bedroom with my chromecast for video.

In the living room is my roommate's LG HD tv with a Roku hooked up. It took me a while of being here before I realized he had it hooked up via the old Red, White, Yellow A/V cables. I grabbed a spare HDMI cable and hooked it up. Much better, lol.


CrimsonToker said:
I can, in a way, relate to your frustrations at a poor living situation. For the last ten months, me and my best friend have each been renting our own room in a house from a woman that has 23 cats and 3 dogs. It was more when we moved in. Together, the two of us have been paying her entire mortgage for almost a year. Meanwhile, there's a seriously unhealthy level of ammonia in the air from the urine and feces. Forget the fact that she cleans constantly, it's embedded in the wood of the house. The cays go everywhere except our rooms and outside, which means the kitchen is disgusting too. There have been a myriad of other little issues that finally compounded and my friend had to move out for her own health and well being. Now the cat Lady, being upset at this, is taking it out on me. She gave me three days to leave, which is up tomorrow and I still don't know what I'm going to do..
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That sucks man. My roommate adopted a dog almost a year ago, but other than a few annoyances like barking at the door or getting in your face for the first 30 minutes when you get home, she's a good dog.

Also....who the hell needs 23 cats? Crazy crazy people. I guess it could be worse, she could be a serial killer.
 
A crazy agoraphobic woman who rejects human interaction until it's forced, that's the kind of person that has 23 cats. Lol she literally just spends every day talking care of the animals, talking to the animals, but never actually loving on the animals. She even keeps THEM at an emotional distance. If I start petting one cat, within seconds I will be swarmed by animals that need and want love. Sometimes it's almost heartbreaking...
 
bjacks12 said:
Enjoy! The switch is beautiful. We don't have live tv, we just rely on streaming. I have my Samsung TV in my bedroom with my chromecast for video.

In the living room is my roommate's LG HD tv with a Roku hooked up. It took me a while of being here before I realized he had it hooked up via the old Red, White, Yellow A/V cables. I grabbed a spare HDMI cable and hooked it up. Much better, lol.




That sucks man. My roommate adopted a dog almost a year ago, but other than a few annoyances like barking at the door or getting in your face for the first 30 minutes when you get home, she's a good dog.

Also....who the hell needs 23 cats? Crazy crazy people. I guess it could be worse, she could be a serial killer.
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People who have more than two or three cats suffer from a form of hoarding. It's been proven in many medical/psych journals.

There's a difference between being a cat lover, and becoming an unknown recipient of chlamydia (cats can carry the bacteria).

I have a good friend here who is a cat lover, and that person really loves and cares for cats.

I'm just not into indoor cats - back when I was married and raising kids with horses and dogs, we fed and cared for 'barn kitties'.

Yet, indoor feline fecal matter, spraying males, and ammonia makes my eyes swell shut. Still, cat lovers are cool.
LW
 
Kaat72 said:
Do you want to grind someone elses gears for once? It's the first Friday13 of the year, ergo... Blame Someone Else Day!
https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/blame-someone-else-day/
Enjoy :p
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I moved in with my now-fiancée Friday, July 13, 2012.

I've had black cats cross my path, and, when I was young, I fell on top of a full length door mirror, breaking it.

My luck sometimes hasn't been the greatest, but, Friday the 13 brought me this wonderful woman, and we're going on three years being together. She comes home this Sunday! LW
 
zuben el genub said:
I prefer cats. I'm cat derived. Think I'll change my name to C'Zuben. I usually only have three cats at a time.
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C'Zuben, three cats are cool, and many of my greatest friends were 'cat derived'.

Cats are loving, yet independent. As much as I love dogs (I have two, a Border Collie male, and an Irish Setter-mix female). The male has been recently neutered, and the female is spayed. The male is a handful, even now. He had to be locked away from the satellite TV tech today. If I ever decide to own a cat again, it'd be a spayed female Siamese. LW
 
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I'm want to be lazy today and don't want to move a conversation to PCA.;)
 
Boy, oh boy. With the cold front dipping down into the South, the winds are gusting up to gale strength, and I fear losing power.

Damn this weather. The folks from my old
neck o' the woods are
looking at high winds,
near whiteout
conditions, and at least
a foot more of snow.

North of there, they're looking at 18-24 inches.



Still, when I hear the wind blowing outside, it makes me nervous. It's going down into the teens overnight.

Wish me and everyone North of me good luck.
LW
 
bjacks12 said:
My one year old laptop is giving me BSOD every 10-15 minutes.

SCREW YOU BILL GATES
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bjacks12, happy Sunday. I've got a Toshiba C875 series laptop running Winblows 8.1, and even though it's got an AMD A6 Vision 64-bit CPU, & plenty of RAM - the entire OS and programs are 32-bit, and, I can't run my recording software without running into glitches, audio latency, and high blood pressure... while you're correct in attacking Bill Gates, since the warm brown stuff runs downhill from the top - I also have an issue with their R&D, and Software Development people, because they must've sold Bill Gates on Windows 8/8.1, and it looks like Vista revisited. When I can afford it, it's time for a RAM-eating Mac, for what I need.

To echo you, bjacks:

"Screw you, Microsoft!"
LW
 
I've shaved my head, and facial areas that need to be devoid of hair. I've showered, which is an Act of Congress, due to my spinal problems.

I took the last of my pain meds, and some anti-anxiety medication, to put me in a good place, so I can rest before going to the airport tonight.

My baby's coming home.

Please send prayers and positivity for Southwest Flight 569, flying from Denver to Raleigh. I just got off the phone with her, and she's heading to the airport in a half an hour.

I'm going to rest. The dogs have been fed and outside... today's high was 31°F. Chilly. I'll leave here at 10:50 pm, EST. She's coming back to me.

Gosh, I can't wait. I'm like a weak-kneed junior high school kid, going to the sock hop.

Thank you for chatting with me these last fourteen days, and keeping me sane. You're all a great bunch. LW
 
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