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

[TBoneTX 44,934]

1 hour ago, N-o-l-a said:

Y'all better hope I don't break my interview/offer streak.

Do not break, un-interview, or de-offer the streaking Nola-B., no man!

[TBoneTX 44,934]

3 hours ago, fip & jim said:

So please explain.  What is P math?

P-math = Polish math, see F&J ma'am.

It began in Lower Silesia, is used in Poland, and is rapidly sweeping the rest of the planet, elegant system ma'am.

This mathematical system includes the numbers 0, 1, 2, and Many, specifically ma'am.

Unfortunately, most of this thread's participants fail at its use, re-education needed man.

Our thread's resident Polish Commie-babe, Asia, will confirm the above, oj tak.

3 hours ago, fip & jim said:

(I know what oj tak means. I'm not that flippin' naive). 

Not naive, oj nie ma'am.

 

For example, Tuesday was July Many'rd (2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2-1'rd), simple and elegant man.

Monday was July Many'nd, same principle ma'am.

Sunday was July Many'st, same principle ma'am.

Today -- Wednesday -- is July Many'th, same principle ma'am.

And, most of us in this thread are precisely Many years old, oj tak.

Edited July 24, 2019 by TBoneTX

[TBoneTX 44,934]

Scintillating repartee overnight, yawn man.

Everyone must be furiously reviewing their P-math, conclude we man.

 

Our back sucks, ouch man.

Many (2x2x2) days until promised relief, get ourself shot in the back man.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

Oh I'm not too sure that went well. 😫

 

 

[Ontarkie 14,175]

OMG I haven't been really paying attention to how many chickens we have. Well we have about 18 hens, 11 pullets, 7 cockerels, and 25 chicks. 

 

 

 

[Ontarkie 14,175]

[fip & jim 452]

10 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Scintillating repartee overnight, yawn man.

Everyone must be furiously reviewing their P-math, conclude we man.

Not reviewing math.

Wallowing in self-pity and annoyed at feeling self-pity. 

Thought new, shiny New World job was in the bag. 

Not so.

They want transcripts of my education.

No can do due to aforementioned unfortunate luck of being born in doomsday cult. 

Left home at 17 to be free of stupid doomsday cult and all certificates of education lost henceforth.

Parents shunned me.

Parents dead.

All paper records lost.

Not such a problem when back home as people knew this and knew I was a top-notch student that attended a top-notch school and did my best. 

Struggling to know how to explain this strangeness to strangers.

Worked over 10 years in my field and hope a reference from my last employer will show how qualified I am, but also being realistically pessimistic. 

 

 

[Ontarkie 14,175]

7 minutes ago, fip & jim said:

Not reviewing math.

Wallowing in self-pity and annoyed at feeling self-pity. 

Thought new, shiny New World job was in the bag. 

Not so.

They want transcripts of my education.

No can do due to aforementioned unfortunate luck of being born in doomsday cult. 

Left home at 17 to be free of stupid doomsday cult and all certificates of education lost henceforth.

Parents shunned me.

Parents dead.

All paper records lost.

Not such a problem when back home as people knew this and knew I was a top-notch student that attended a top-notch school and did my best. 

Struggling to know how to explain this strangeness to strangers.

Worked over 10 years in my field and hope a reference from my last employer will show how qualified I am, but also being realistically pessimistic. 

 

 

I'm so sorry. Can you not contact the school for transcripts? How long ago was school and are we talking about high school or college? 

Edited July 25, 2019 by Ontarkie

[fip & jim 452]

2 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

I'm so sorry. Can you not contact the school for transcripts? How long ago was school and are we talking about high school or college? 

I was in the last year to take these exams and the exam board no longer exists. This was 1987, when I was 16. It's the equivalent to at least 2 high school diplomas. Even if I had the darn certificates I wouldn't get them transcribed for hundreds of dollars because my job qualifications prove more than some exams I took as a 16 year old, as it pertains to this job anyway. I tried explaining that but I think they have boxes to tick. It's over 30 years ago. There were no electronic records back then. 

 

I'm thinking I may have to do the GED after all. Feeling very lowly. Sub-lowly. Even if I do the GED it won't get me employed in the immediate future and I have to contemplate another winter stuck at home, bored out of my skull and lonely. 

 

 

[Ontarkie 14,175]

10 minutes ago, fip & jim said:

I was in the last year to take these exams and the exam board no longer exists. This was 1987, when I was 16. It's the equivalent to at least 2 high school diplomas. Even if I had the darn certificates I wouldn't get them transcribed for hundreds of dollars because my job qualifications prove more than some exams I took as a 16 year old, as it pertains to this job anyway. I tried explaining that but I think they have boxes to tick. It's over 30 years ago. There were no electronic records back then. 

 

I'm thinking I may have to do the GED after all. Feeling very lowly. Sub-lowly. Even if I do the GED it won't get me employed in the immediate future and I have to contemplate another winter stuck at home, bored out of my skull and lonely. 

 

 

Personally I would not do the GED. You did go to school and complete school. Make your own transcripts as a homeschool student as accurate as you can remember. As a mother who homeschooled 4 kids two have already graduated from University and 1 still going and still homeschooling my youngest 2 . A homeschool transcript and diploma are looked at much better than a GED. Michigan has a decent homeschool population they should be more familiar with that. 

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

58 minutes ago, fip & jim said:

Not reviewing math.

Wallowing in self-pity and annoyed at feeling self-pity. 

Thought new, shiny New World job was in the bag. 

Not so.

They want transcripts of my education.

No can do due to aforementioned unfortunate luck of being born in doomsday cult. 

Left home at 17 to be free of stupid doomsday cult and all certificates of education lost henceforth.

Parents shunned me.

Parents dead.

All paper records lost.

Not such a problem when back home as people knew this and knew I was a top-notch student that attended a top-notch school and did my best. 

Struggling to know how to explain this strangeness to strangers.

Worked over 10 years in my field and hope a reference from my last employer will show how qualified I am, but also being realistically pessimistic. 

 

 

Why would any employer at your age care about high school? I haven't ever been asked about that. 

 

22 minutes ago, Ontarkie said:

Personally I would not do the GED. You did go to school and complete school. Make your own transcripts as a homeschool student as accurate as you can remember. As a mother who homeschooled 4 kids two have already graduated from University and 1 still going and still homeschooling my youngest 2 . A homeschool transcript and diploma are looked at much better than a GED. Michigan has a decent homeschool population they should be more familiar with that. 

 

The Dane did a GED when he moved here. No one has ever cared and it was just fine for admission to community college.

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

If it is A-levels or the equivalent we are talking about, my own father never did his, and has been employed stateside for a good long while. 

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

How did I not know until today how aggressive of a procedure declawing a cat is? Our cats had gotten declawed and I don't recall the vet mentioning it. Then again, we also willfully got a dog with cropped ears....

 

 

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

On the topic of cats. A disemboweled cat ended up on my mother's lawn this afternoon. Dead mouse nearby. Suspicious feather near some adipose tissue about 20 feet away.   I'm sure whatever happened was natural, but the questions is what it was. 

 

Cat was given a proper burial. 

[TBoneTX 44,934]

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

Oh I'm not too sure that went well. 😫

 

You doubted yourself before, see Nola-B. ma'am...