Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[thunderlounge 8318]

10 hours ago, Brothahorn said:

Taking a shit in a port a potty. 

Sometimes you have no choice. But it does suck. 
 

 

3 hours ago, nnm said:

Without getting too CR, younger folks have no recollection of the horrific nature of totalitarian communism. It’s cool again.  

 

Is that along the lines of “those who fail to acknowledge/learn from history are doomed to repeat it” kinda thing?

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 hours ago, nnm said:

Without getting too CR, younger folks have no recollection of the horrific nature of totalitarian communism. It’s cool again.  

C'mon man, who doesn't want a Che' t-shirt to show just how fucking cool, and hip they are ?

[deadshank 24654]

34 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

 

 

Add 25 degree temps in a snow storm........

I see your 25 degrees and snow. 
 

I raise you 102 degrees with 95% relative humidity on a treeless asphalt parking lot just off the Gulf Freeway in Houston the day after Mexican Independence Day. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 minutes ago, deadshank said:

I see your 25 degrees and snow. 
 

I raise you 102 degrees with 95% relative humidity on a treeless asphalt parking lot just off the Gulf Freeway in Houston the day after Mexican Independence Day. 

I give I give....... my ass sticking to a toilet seat doesn't seem sop bad now.

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

10 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

I’ll stop when they stop being so easy and cheap. 

damnit, support your local businesses 

like Best Buy

[thunderlounge 8318]

2 hours ago, deadshank said:

I see your 25 degrees and snow. 
 

I raise you 102 degrees with 95% relative humidity on a treeless asphalt parking lot just off the Gulf Freeway in Houston the day after Mexican Independence Day. 

70 last Monday, Tuesday was 35 with 3” of snow. Thankfully ground temps didn’t let it hang around long.

This Monday, 1 week later, 84. Tuesday? 86. Wed down to 70, then mid to upper 70’s through next weekend.

Last Wed was almost 60, and been mid 60’s pushing 70 since. Tomorrow is allegedly going to be 72.

That shit sucks ass. Pick a fucking season already. It has the feel of going from heat on, then straight to ac on. No real time to have the windows open for a few weeks at least to air it all out and let the pollen in. 🙄

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

3 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I give I give....... my ass sticking to a toilet seat doesn't seem so bad now.  You roofers... always gotta come out on top.....

 

[markstanco 12773]

Fast food people wanting $15 an hour.

Got damn how hard is this job? Kiddo wanted a dry grilled chicken sandwich from sonic, thats it. We get home and it is a double cheese burger with japs. Go back, politely tell them the order is wrong. They fix it.

Get the next one out and before we leave we check it. Another hamburger. Third time was a charm though. But yea, they deserve $31k a year.

[thunderlounge 8318]

12 minutes ago, markstanco said:

Fast food people wanting $15 an hour.

Got damn how hard is this job? Kiddo wanted a dry grilled chicken sandwich from sonic, thats it. We get home and it is a double cheese burger with japs. Go back, politely tell them the order is wrong. They fix it.

Get the next one out and before we leave we check it. Another hamburger. Third time was a charm though. But yea, they deserve $31k a year.

Also not meant to be a career cooking fries. Move up and better yourself. Not to mention nobody wants to pay $15 for a shit cheeseburger. 

[Superhero 8991]

Gas grill that won't light, won't light, won't light, FIREBALL!

Singed the hair right off my arm. 

Edited April 26, 2021 by Superhero

[closetohumping 17781]

People that don't return their carts. Thanks @Trey3216

[BonzoMontreaux 1137]

2 hours ago, Superhero said:

Gas grill that won't light, won't light, won't light, FIREBALL!

Singed the hair right off my arm. 

Propane tank went empty on me few months back while I was cooking.  Swapped the tank out opened the valve on the tank... lifted the lid and for some reason hit the ignitor.... FWOOOOM.  Had left the valves open from when the tank ran out previously.   Lost a little bit of facial hair.  

[BonzoMontreaux 1137]

On 4/24/2021 at 6:57 AM, Brothahorn said:

Taking a shit in a port a potty. 

It's all about perspective...

Obviously, if I prefer my own fortress of solitude and TBH...  I still cringe about taking a crap in a bowling alley around 20 years ago(shudder).  But given your choices of crapping in 5 gallon bucket, or a toilet seat chair over a hole in the ground for all mother nature to see, or a porta-potty... that porta-potty is gonna be like taking a dump at the Ritz.  

Just saying.

[Colonel Sanders 1392]

The price of kegs being more expensive than purchasing the same amount in bottles.  Give me some discount for purchasing 15.5 gallons of your product you cunts.

[Biff Tannen 46061]

24 minutes ago, Colonel Sanders said:

The price of kegs being more expensive than purchasing the same amount in bottles.  Give me some discount for purchasing 15.5 gallons of your product you cunts.

Party at the moon tower?

[Guest Lobo]

Does he say full kegs or four kegs?

[Biff Tannen 46061]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Does he say full kegs or four kegs?

I’ve always thought full. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

[High Plains Drifter 11162]

On 4/23/2021 at 2:58 PM, dingleberryswitzer said:

I ended up buying some on Amazon.  And eventually returned them because returning things to Amazon is way easier.  These dumb fucks basically taking away the only reason to buy cloths in the store.  
i have to get some shoes here in a month or so.  Do they at least let you try on shoes?

 

Order three pairs in three different sizes, return the two that don't fit.

Covid + amazon taking over the world =  no reason to leave the house.

 

[markstanco 12773]

Gas grill that won't light, won't light, won't light, FIREBALL!
Singed the hair right off my arm. 

[markstanco 12773]

Few will get that

[elfenix 34658]

Whenever anyone refers to their parents as "the 'rents"
Stupid. 

I used to call mine "the government" back in college

[NeverMarryAStripper 22241]

The day my kids call me a “rent” is the day I start charging it

[52-80 19378]

you never know if a tomato or strawberry is going to be sweet, or just watery and flavorless.  buying that shit is like a lottery drawing

Edited April 27, 2021 by 52-80

[52-80 19378]

8 hours ago, elfenix said:

On 4/24/2021 at 1:00 PM, TornACL said:

Whenever anyone refers to their parents as "the 'rents"
Stupid. 

I used to call mine "the government" back in college

PTU...the parental unit

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

8 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

you never know if a tomato or strawberry is going to be sweet, or just watery and flavorless.  buying that shit is like a lottery drawing

I cant honestly say I've ever had a really good strawberry. We have a tomato around here that is or used to be amazing for tomato sammiches. Hanover tomatoes, but I haven't had a good one of those in a long time. I think the soil may be depleted from over farming the variety.

Edited April 27, 2021 by Onboard 2.0

[52-80 19378]

1 minute ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I cant honestly say I've ever had a really good strawberry. We have a tomato around there that is or used to be amazing for tomato sammiches. Hanover tomatoes, but I haven't had a good one of those in a long time. I think the soil may be depleted from over farming the variety.

its about 1/5 batches that i find strawberries with nice aroma and a dense sweet punch.  i buy them at the grocery stores, so never keep track of varietals or farms or anything like that - just whatevers available.  and definitely the color and size does NOT inform the taste.

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

31 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

PTU...the parental unit

Dyslexics Untie!

[Sam Lin 3591]

50 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

I cant honestly say I've ever had a really good strawberry.

This place in SC (near Charlotte NC) had the BEST strawberries I've ever had. Little farm that grew them in hothouses in winter and only yielded so many buckets a day. Many days if you didn't call and reserve ahead you didn't get any. The colder the winter, the better the strawberries were, and the season only lasted a month or two. I even carried a bucket of them on a plane across the country to share with family. No idea what variety they were, and they were often ugly and misshapen. But holy hell they were good.

https://www.bushnvinefarm.com/

https://g.page/bushnvinefarm?share

[High Plains Drifter 11162]

3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

you never know if a tomato or strawberry is going to be sweet, or just watery and flavorless.  buying that shit is like a lottery drawing

 

that's why I grow my own. Tomatoes are pretty easy, but the strawberries aren't much of a return for the effort, but the relatively short, small harvest is out of site.

 

[thunderlounge 8318]

37 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

that's why I grow my own. Tomatoes are pretty easy, but the strawberries aren't much of a return for the effort, but the relatively short, small harvest is out of site.

This is how you do it right here.

I keep two 4x4 spots with strawberries going, with a third spot that I rotate with. 
 

Strawberries are an interesting grow. Plant them in spring, and pinch the blossoms that first year so they can focus on building out runners. Next year, bam!

I plant the third spot the year before one of the other two will be ready to come out. That leaves me 2 plots for picking every year. Half gets turned into jam, the other half gets shortcaked.

Tomatoes right off the vine is the only way to do it. Maybe if there is a good farmers market, but even then not all are good. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Why is Central Market putting 'Treasures from the Tropics' stickers on Korean BBQ flavored chicken?

[Scheiss Meister 8450]

1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:

Why is Central Market putting 'Treasures from the Tropics' stickers on Korean BBQ flavored chicken?

Because there are some ignorant fools who need to be relieved of the burden of their money.

[Bash Riprock 1695]

Co-workers that still want to work from home even though they are vaccinated.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

24 minutes ago, Bash Riprock said:

Co-workers that still want to work from home even though they are vaccinated.

Maybe they just don't like you....

[Cheeseweasel 26439]

Or maybe they just hate work

[NWBuck 8621]

2 hours ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Or maybe they just hate pants

FIFM

[Bash Riprock 1695]

2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Maybe they just don't like you....

Probably.

[DigglerontheHoof 21516]

I've worked from home for most of the last 19 years.  I'd fucking hate to have to go to an office on a daily basis.  I am ready to get in front of customers and prospects again, though. 

[mininghorn88 2330]

49 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I've worked from home for most of the last 19 years.  I'd fucking hate to have to go to an office on a daily basis.  I am ready to get in front of customers and prospects again, though. 

In 2019 I spent 100 days on the road (domestically and internationally) mostly in front of customers and prospects.  I really miss that aspect of my job.  I have not been on a plane since March 5, 2020.  All of my customer interface has been through Teams.  I did make one driving trip to visit a mine just outside of Mesa, AZ late last summer.

I have been working from home since March 2020.  I have no intentions on going back to the office on a permanent basis.  One of the major reasons is that we are building a new office complex that will predominately feature cubicles and doing away with offices.  I have had a office with a door for 30 years!  Few are happy about the new building. 

[thunderlounge 8318]

Fuck cubicles, and the people who think they are an acceptable idea.

 

[mininghorn88 2330]

15 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Fuck cubicles, and the people who think they are an acceptable idea.

 

But, but, but, they "promote" communication and collaboration!!!!!! (as everyone wears headphones for privacy and/or locks themselves into the "buzzword" meeting spaces alone).

There are going to be a lot of empty spaces in the new building since moving forward many people will opt to work from home.

[SHOOTER12 8883]

3 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I've worked from home for most of the last 19 years.  I'd fucking hate to have to go to an office on a daily basis.  I am ready to get in front of customers and prospects again, though. 

Narrator: customers and prospects aren't though, they've enjoyed your absence.

[thunderlounge 8318]

2 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

But, but, but, they "promote" communication and collaboration!!!!!! (as everyone wears headphones for privacy and/or locks themselves into the "buzzword" meeting spaces alone).

There are going to be a lot of empty spaces in the new building since moving forward many people will opt to work from home.

I wonder how many companies will realize the cost savings and productivity increase,  and encourage more people to work from home now that they know it works?

[Sam Lin 3591]

8 hours ago, Bash Riprock said:

Co-workers that still want to work from home even though they are vaccinated.

Uh, who the hell would want to go back to the office? I've met exactly zero people who think going back in is an improvement.

[Prepuce of Doom 21260]

25 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

Uh, who the hell would want to go back to the office? I've met exactly zero people who think going back in is an improvement.

All I miss is being able to walk to hundreds of different places to eat lunch in downtown Chicago. 

[Sam Lin 3591]

Pro Tip: You don't need to go in to the office for that.

[Prepuce of Doom 21260]

13 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

Pro Tip: You don't need to go in to the office for that.

I guess I thought it was implied within the context of the discussion that perhaps my office building downtown isn't also my home, but thanks for the wisdom, Sam. 

Edited April 29, 2021 by Prepuce of Doom

[Sam Lin 3591]

I get it. But whatever transport you would use get to your office, you can still use, and then walk to lunch. Office hasn't increased or decreased your lunch options at all.

[Prepuce of Doom 21260]

27 minutes ago, Sam Lin said:

I get it. But whatever transport you would use get to your office, you can still use, and then walk to lunch. Office hasn't increased or decreased your lunch options at all.

I'm not sure you do.