That Itch You Can't Rant About (The Rant Thread)

[theresaL 408]

2 hours ago, yuna628 said:

A weekend rant:

 

We have a landline. It is terrible. Being in a rural area doesn't improve this. That means the internet is down the copper, and that copper is bad. It's so bad now I can't even use the internet and it's terrible speeds without the phone being off the hook (a delightful problem called 'high-open'), there's also times when the phone just stops working. Of course when you need to call someone or someone needs to call in, well the phone is off the hook. The constant spam calls sometimes repeating once every fifteen minutes make having the phone off the hook a delightful prospect anyway.

 

My husband said enough is enough - let us go to the cable competition and see what they offer. The salesman is a bit of a young dope, rather disinterested in his job and offers a price at one figure which of course will go up much higher after a year + the cost of router rental. Husband grows annoyed at salesman and leaves store saying he'll think about it. After doing research he finds the quoted price wasn't just for internet but a bunch of stuff we said we didn't want and finds we can just buy our own router. He finds a cheaper price. Then he asked me to check if we had fios yet. I laughed and said we do not, because we don't live among civilization, but he insisted so I humored him.

 

Inputting my address reveals that not only is fios not available but apparently no internet at all is available.. which is weird considering I'm using it to type right now. I open up a support webchat with some noob who tells me ''I'm sorry we don't provide internet service in your area but we'd love to have you as a customer some day!"

 

I said ''gee that's strange considering I'm using your internet service to talk to you right now and have for years!"

 

Gobsmacked the chatnoob stumbles to say that perhaps the website is broken and perhaps I do have internet afterall, after poking in my account. ''Oh you have copper dsl, we don't offer this anymore''.

 

''So you don't offer copper dsl, but I have copper dsl and pay an extortionist amount for it, but you won't offer anything else. So what you're really saying is you don't want me as a customer some day because you're unwilling to keep me as a customer now?"

Bravo !!! Did he hang up on you??? Once I realize they are total dopes, I love to mess with them to the point they hang up on me.

Edited September 9, 2019 by theresaL

[theresaL 408]

14 hours ago, N-o-l-a said:

 

I did that to a roommate once with his pans. He must just pile them up and never clean them.

 

Now there are almost always dishes in our sink because we run the dishwasher multiple times per day.

We run ours about every 2-3 days, so the dishwasher is full is never an excuse. She's just lazy.

 

She did it again last night. I had cleaned-up the kitchen around 9pm not one dirty thing unwashed anywhere in the house. Frenchy and I went to bed at 12. Get up this am and there's a plate, fork, knife and glass in the sink next to the dishwasher. She made an after mid-night raid on the chocolate cake that she's not supposed to eat because she's diabetic.

[Ontarkie 14,143]

22 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Do not irk, irritate, or enrage the fearsome Niki-B. ma'am, no man!

 

Speaking of fearsome, where is the fearsome Ontarklar, huh man?

Need a chicken et al. report, cluck cluck man.

Chicken report - we got more chicks yes yes we did. i no longer have a clue how many chickens we have. 

 

 

Edited September 10, 2019 by Ontarkie

[SAT 9,609]

What's in the fish tank? A spider? 

[Ontarkie 14,143]

6 minutes ago, SAT said:

What's in the fish tank? A spider? 

A beta fish and plants. 

[TBoneTX 44,787]

3 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

we got more chicks yes yes we did

When these are full-grown, they'll be delicious, slurrrrrrp D ma'am.

3 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

i no longer have a clue how many chickens we have. 

What kind of businesschica are you anyway, huh huh huh D ma'am?  

3 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

A beta fish

What happened to the alpha fish, huh D ma'am?

[TBoneTX 44,787]

11 hours ago, theresaL said:

not one dirty thing unwashed anywhere in the house.  Get up this am and there's a plate, fork, knife and glass in the sink next to the dishwasher.

Sounds like us with Mrs. T-B., sigh TL ma'am.

We can't get her to use disposable plates*, no and sigh man.

     *copious supplies of which we've put atop all stacks of warshable plates, hint not taken man

[TBoneTX 44,787]

12 hours ago, cdneh said:

I have a wall. I'm off to paint.

Michaelangeloic Eh ma'am!  Michaelangeloic, MICHAELANGELOIC Eh ma'am!

Fotos of finished graffiti now, see Eh ma'am.

[TBoneTX 44,787]

13 hours ago, SAT said:

Last night, view from top of empire state bldg.

LPoP and unread, no see man.

Couldn't see anything anyway because of the smog, typical Nueva York evening man.

[TBoneTX 44,787]

13 hours ago, SAT said:

It's hard to find a bale of hay in NYC for Halloween...

Anyone living in a civilized locale could find one without any problem, si and  man.

Incidentally, "bale of straw" is a colloquial synonym for rubia, education man.

[TBoneTX 44,787]

De-dish cat prep (incl. HSM) zzz man.

Mornin', Commie- and other babes with refulgent, allocatable "Like" inventories!

[Asia 2,494]

On my last trip to the US I visited Bath & Body Works outlet. Got myself a couple of body creams and I just started using the first one. Gingham. I absolutely LOVE its scent!  I wish I knew this line contained different products too (candles, perfumes), cause I'd definitely get some!

[SAT 9,609]

Back....ache...

Aleve...take...

[TBoneTX 44,787]

23 hours ago, Asia said:

On my last trip to the US I visited Bath & Body Works outlet. Got myself a couple of body creams and I just started using the first one. Gingham. I absolutely LOVE its scent!  I wish I knew this line contained different products too (candles, perfumes), cause I'd definitely get some!

Extravagant fragrant Asia!  Extravagant, EXTRAVAGANT fragrant FRAGRANT Asia!

[TBoneTX 44,787]

13 hours ago, SAT said:

Back....ache...

Aleve...take...

Put....up...

Our....back...

Against...Yours...

Anytime...Si and Ouch Man