Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

3 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Or maybe fat is because of handicap that you can't directly observe, doctor. 

OK

[SHOOTER12 8775]

1 hour ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Or maybe fat is because of handicap that you can't directly observe, doctor. 

Wonder what percentage though?

Wonder if I could fake an official survey at Walmart?

Edited November 2, 2022 by SHOOTER12

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

4 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Wonder what percentage though?

Knee injuries / hip injuries because you are fat? High.

Knee injuries / hip injuries that resulted in you being fat? Not so high

[HRSchenker 2248]

21 hours ago, Gene Parmesan said:

I don't mind if parents want to go to other areas of town to trick or treat, but for god's sake park your car and get out and walk.  Don't follow your kids down the street driving at 1 mph.

I used to live in a neighborhood where a couple would follow their daughter around the hood in their vehicle while she ran in the morning. It wasn't like we were in a dangerous part of town. Worst thing that ever happened was the HOA president getting their flowerbed torn up by an armadillo but they were acting like this was Fallujah, Iraq or something. We only knew about this because the mom posted it on the neighborhood Facebook group....

[elfenix 34161]

some dude has his car parked outside with his drums and bass blaring.  probably a delivery driver.  tempted to go out there and throw the keys in the bushes.  see, also: UPS trucks beeping while parked. 

[Scheiss Meister 8387]

23 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

I used to live in a neighborhood where a couple would follow their daughter around the hood in their vehicle while she ran in the morning. It wasn't like we were in a dangerous part of town. Worst thing that ever happened was the HOA president getting their flowerbed torn up by an armadillo but they were acting like this was Fallujah, Iraq or something. We only knew about this because the mom posted it on the neighborhood Facebook group....

Did no one call the police about the suspicious car following a female jogger?

[HRSchenker 2248]

5 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Did no one call the police about the suspicious car following a female jogger?

Her post was done so no one would call the police. Not like they'd show up anyway 

[Biff Tannen 45432]

22 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

Not sure where to put this.  I just got back from the liquor store.  As I was leaving, a school bus with a decent amount of kids on it pulled into the parking lot and an adult got out of the bus and went into the liquor store.

Sorry for partying.

[luke duke 6364]

piece of shit work Dell laptop had its bluetooth function spazz out, so i cant use my wireless mouse.
sometimes im doing light work and dont intend to use a mouse, and using just the trackpad is okay. 
right now i dont need the mouse, but just the simple fact that it doesnt work, pisses me the hell off

Your laptop is probably under warranty if it’s leased from Dell.
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us?app=warranty

Or you can get a USB Bluetooth adapter.
https://a.co/d/fLPqmz7

Or you can just bitch about it.

[Fudbelty 2784]

Been coming to the local Sport Clips since it opened. Never expected an absolutely perfect haircut but always enjoyed watching sports on the TVs. Come in today and they’re watching Pawn Stars.

[52-80 19043]

54 minutes ago, luke duke said:

Your laptop is probably under warranty if it’s leased from Dell.
https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us?app=warranty

Or you can get a USB Bluetooth adapter.
https://a.co/d/fLPqmz7

Or you can just bitch about it.

laptop recently had its battery replaced under warranty by the corporate IT dudes, because it started to swell, because dell sucks ass

better yet, i shut down the dell/windows laptop today and stashed it away.  starting 6 months of fully paid leave to hang out with my infant boy.  this makes me most unsurly.

[Underdog 28381]

5 hours ago, HRSchenker said:

Her post was done so no one would call the police. Not like they'd show up anyway 

What if they were told they were black AND had a dog? 

[Sam Lin 3539]

3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

 battery replaced because it started to swell

Battery swell failures are not trivial and make me absolutely enraged. Charge logic is completely controlled by the mfg, yet they cannot keep batteries from getting into conditions where they swell? It's not a Dell thing, I've swelled more batteries than I can count across all sorts of devices.

Without fail, my devices get retired/unusable due to battery swell. Not due to other hardware failure, not due to performance getting outdated, just due to fucking battery failure.

At least many newer devices allow you to limit battery charge. Aggravating that most of them don't allow you to set your own desired charge threshold, only allowing you to use their preset (Samsung is 85%, Lenovo tablet is 60%, Surface is 50%). But much better than being stuck with 100%.

Recently I learned of Chargie, an inline USB charge limiter that works with an app on the device to allow any device to limit charge. It also works with 'dumb' devices that can't run the app, by sensing charge current and cutting off at some user-settable threshold of charge. I bought a few of them to try, and am pleasantly surprised with how easy they are to set up and use, and yet how much micro-control you can do in detail if you want to nerd out as a power user. I use one for my iPhone as iPhone does not provide a built-in way to limit charge at all. Chargie.org

Note that with modern battery tech, the longest battery lifespan will come at 50% charge.

Warning, lots of pics in spoiler. These are all my own photos of my own failed devices. Fuck this stupidity.

Spoiler

 

[Superhero 8695]

19 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

A college buddy of mine had the expectation that walking is a right and driving is a privilege.  Therefore in his mind he had the right-away.  He was hit crossing 21st Street between Gregory Gym and Jester and was hit by a motocyclist.  It only broke his wrist and skinned him up a bit.

Right-away?

[Superhero 8695]

Come out of a 1.5 hour work session and seeing 25 new emails in my inbox.

[nnm 35873]

6 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

Battery swell failures are not trivial and make me absolutely enraged. Charge logic is completely controlled by the mfg, yet they cannot keep batteries from getting into conditions where they swell? It's not a Dell thing, I've swelled more batteries than I can count across all sorts of devices.

Without fail, my devices get retired/unusable due to battery swell. Not due to other hardware failure, not due to performance getting outdated, just due to fucking battery failure.

At least many newer devices allow you to limit battery charge. Aggravating that most of them don't allow you to set your own desired charge threshold, only allowing you to use their preset (Samsung is 85%, Lenovo tablet is 60%, Surface is 50%). But much better than being stuck with 100%.

Recently I learned of Chargie, an inline USB charge limiter that works with an app on the device to allow any device to limit charge. It also works with 'dumb' devices that can't run the app, by sensing charge current and cutting off at some user-settable threshold of charge. I bought a few of them to try, and am pleasantly surprised with how easy they are to set up and use, and yet how much micro-control you can do in detail if you want to nerd out as a power user. I use one for my iPhone as iPhone does not provide a built-in way to limit charge at all. Chargie.org

Note that with modern battery tech, the longest battery lifespan will come at 50% charge.

Warning, lots of pics in spoiler. These are all my own photos of my own failed devices. Fuck this stupidity.

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You’re going to LOVE the electric cars you’re going to be forced to buy in the next few years. 

[ABSR 5285]

3 hours ago, nnm said:

You’re going to LOVE the electric cars you’re going to be forced to buy in the next few years. 

He'll think they're swell!

[General Specific 3202]

Electric cars are just dehydrated fire packs for camping. Just add water!

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

9 hours ago, Superhero said:

Come out of a 1.5 hour work session and seeing 25 new emails in my inbox.

Were 24 of them replies to the original one?

[WhatTheBuck 28696]

On 11/2/2022 at 1:19 PM, HRSchenker said:

I used to live in a neighborhood where a couple would follow their daughter around the hood in their vehicle while she ran in the morning.

 

They were doing it wrong.

[WhatTheBuck 28696]

Back to the subject of dumb people on game shows. This isn’t really even surly-making so much as it is just mind bogglingly stupid.

On Family Feud last night. Family A won the first two rounds then got a third strike on round 3. Family B has a chance to steal and force sudden death if they can name one of the two answers left. The whole family gets to debate their answer together.

The question: “Other than the bouquet, name something a bride who was left standing at the altar might throw.”

Their answer: “The bouquet.”

[Biff Tannen 45432]

8 hours ago, nnm said:

You’re going to LOVE the electric cars you’re going to be forced to buy in the next few years. 

Well that's just dumb

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

When you are going to eat a Reese’s peanut butter cup and half the damn chocolate comes off with the wrapper.

[Sandman 3401]

29 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

When you are going to eat a Reese’s peanut butter cup and half the damn chocolate comes off with the wrapper.

Or all of those tiny, jagged tips come flying off onto your shirt when you peel the wrapper off.

[52-80 19043]

17 hours ago, Sam Lin said:

Battery swell failures are not trivial and make me absolutely enraged. Charge logic is completely controlled by the mfg, yet they cannot keep batteries from getting into conditions where they swell? It's not a Dell thing, I've swelled more batteries than I can count across all sorts of devices.

Without fail, my devices get retired/unusable due to battery swell. Not due to other hardware failure, not due to performance getting outdated, just due to fucking battery failure.

At least many newer devices allow you to limit battery charge. Aggravating that most of them don't allow you to set your own desired charge threshold, only allowing you to use their preset (Samsung is 85%, Lenovo tablet is 60%, Surface is 50%). But much better than being stuck with 100%.

Recently I learned of Chargie, an inline USB charge limiter that works with an app on the device to allow any device to limit charge. It also works with 'dumb' devices that can't run the app, by sensing charge current and cutting off at some user-settable threshold of charge. I bought a few of them to try, and am pleasantly surprised with how easy they are to set up and use, and yet how much micro-control you can do in detail if you want to nerd out as a power user. I use one for my iPhone as iPhone does not provide a built-in way to limit charge at all. Chargie.org

Note that with modern battery tech, the longest battery lifespan will come at 50% charge.

Warning, lots of pics in spoiler. These are all my own photos of my own failed devices. Fuck this stupidity.

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that's pretty serious. my laptop bulged but not that bad.  battery performance WAS abysmal though.  part of it is windows' power drain on suspend, which burns through battery cycle.  ive had this on personal lenovos, huaweis, and generations of corporate dell where the software *should* be locked down tight -- damn thing will blast full fan with the lid closed like its mining cryptocurrency.  (powercfg shows all sorts of shit waking itself from standby)

 

the iphone is supposed to have a smart charge routine that limits itself to 80% until used, but mine always runs to 100%

[elfenix 34161]

Recently I learned of Chargie, an inline USB charge limiter that works with an app on the device to allow any device to limit charge. It also works with 'dumb' devices that can't run the app, by sensing charge current and cutting off at some user-settable threshold of charge. I bought a few of them to try, and am pleasantly surprised with how easy they are to set up and use, and yet how much micro-control you can do in detail if you want to nerd out as a power user. I use one for my iPhone as iPhone does not provide a built-in way to limit charge at all. Chargie.org

I've been using a charge alarm on Android for years to limit my charging to whatever percent I set (I have to manually unplug but whatever). Similar programs are available for iPhone, but iPhone's aggressive program management kills the app all the time so, at minimum, you need to enable it each time you plug in in my experience.

[Sam Lin 3539]

3 hours ago, 52-80 said:

the iphone is supposed to have a smart charge routine that limits itself to 80% until used, but mine always runs to 100%

The charge protect function on iPhone aims only to minimize time at 100%. It learns your charge/usage patterns, and will hold the phone at 80% charge for most of the charging period, and then run it to 100 only when it expects you to unplug it.

[Superhero 8695]

The chart says there are 3853 KFCs to 2757 Popeyes in the country. 

So riddle me this. Why have I seen a shit ton of KFCs and only 3 Popeyes?

Do I live in the wrong neighborhood? Where the Popeyes at? 

[nnm 35873]

My guess is you live, work, and recreate in parts of town that Popeyes doesn’t target for their demographic. 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

6 hours ago, Superhero said:

Do I live in the wrong neighborhood?

For good chicken? Yes.

For everything else? No.

[Incredulity 11418]

11 hours ago, Superhero said:

The chart says there are 3853 KFCs to 2757 Popeyes in the country. 

So riddle me this. Why have I seen a shit ton of KFCs and only 3 Popeyes?

Do I live in the wrong neighborhood? Where the Popeyes at? 

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

Colorado hates good chicken.

[UnivTex34 1760]

2 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Colorado hates good chicken.

You didn't pay much attention in Geography did you?

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

1 minute ago, UnivTex34 said:

You didn't pay much attention in Geography did you?

My son lives in Wyoming. It was a shitty joke. 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Incredulity said:

Fuck you Vermont…and Wyoming. 

[elfenix 34161]

when a cold front is blowing thru but i've still got the a/c going because it's raining out

[52-80 19043]

The fact that currency symbol goes ahead of the number, but currency abbreviation behind

 

$69 vs 69 USD

[Vic Mackey 46839]

My guess is you live, work, and recreate in parts of town that Popeyes doesn’t target for their demographic. 

Yep. KFC is the Chick Fil A of the fried chicken world.

Popeyes, Churchs and Williams are going to be found much more in the lesser income areas.

[Prepuce of Doom 20954]

12 minutes ago, Vic Mackey said:

Yep. KFC is the Chick Fil A of the fried chicken world.

Popeyes, Churchs and Williams are going to be found much more in the lesser income areas.

I beg your pardon? 

[Vic Mackey 46839]

26 minutes ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

I beg your pardon? 

Caters to the same demographic. Flavorless chicken. 

[Tom 2959]

Popeye's is overrated on this board.  

If I'm eating fast food chicken, I'm probably not going to either place, but original recipe > anything Popeye's does.  

[Superhero 8695]

11 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

Yep. KFC is the Chick Fil A of the fried chicken world.

Popeyes, Churchs and Williams are going to be found much more in the lesser income areas.

KFC used to be somewhat good, but the last few times I've had it has been really, really bad. The meat is overcooked and the bones turn into some mush. The workers at KFC don't give a shit about their work and their customers. You can't say the same about the people at Chick-Fil-A.

There are a few Filipino and Korean fried chicken restaurants near me. Their chicken is >>>>>> KFC.

 

[Native Horn 3474]

On a related note, when did Church's Chicken become Church's Texas Chicken?  They're based in Atlanta fer gosh sakes.

[Underdog 28381]

We noticed that on an ad we saw recently on tv.  

[Underdog 28381]

Doing a rcp for dinner tonight I found on this site, gather the needed ingredients and while bagging groceries realize I forgot a key ingredient.  

[SHOOTER12 8775]

On 11/5/2022 at 2:23 PM, Tom said:

Popeye's is overrated on this board.  

If I'm eating fast food chicken, I'm probably not going to either place, but original recipe > anything Popeye's does.  

I like Popeyes but screw them, I'll never spend another dime at that over priced shithole.

2 weeks ago Mrs. Shooter asked me to bringer a 3 piece chicken strip meal with mashed potatoes and Cole slaw, $19.48! Yes I'll say it again Fuckem!

[tbone_ 14016]

I like Popeyes but screw them, I'll never spend another dime at that over priced shithole.
2 weeks ago Mrs. Shooter asked me to bringer a 3 piece chicken strip meal with mashed potatoes and Cole slaw, $19.48! Yes I'll say it again Fuckem!

You thinking other places are different?

[SHOOTER12 8775]

16 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

You thinking other places are different?

Admittedly,  it's been a long time since I've eaten out or had carryout.  Going to be even longer now...

Edited November 6, 2022 by SHOOTER12

[NeverMarryAStripper 21780]

For fried chicken you can’t beat the $8.99 eight piece mixed from the Randall’s deli.  Add some some fried okra from the deli and some Bob Evans mashed taters and you have a great Sunday lunch for the gang.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Please tell me there is a way to turn off the default setting in the ESPN app for closed captioned. It is so annoying that I have to turn it off every damn time I want to watch something on my phone.