Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[shakahorn 1,625]

Depends on the pedestrian.  Relatively young, healthy looking dude, looks like he has a clue, make eye contact and go for it.  Little old lady, yeah, better to wait.  Theoretically you have more time to go, but let her go just out of courtesy to old folks.  Hot chick, let her pass, for all kinds of obvious reasons.

[Prepuce of Doom 20,965]

6 minutes ago, shakahorn said:

Depends on the pedestrian.  Relatively young, healthy looking dude, looks like he has a clue, make eye contact and go for it.  Little old lady, yeah, better to wait.  Theoretically you have more time to go, but let her go just out of courtesy to old folks.  Hot chick, let her pass, for all kinds of obvious reasons.

Same general calculus also applies to the apprehensive driver. Some people should be expected to quickly and safely go for it before the pedestrian gets close. Some shouldn't be expected to make a (relatively) tricky judgment call with a diminishing window of opportunity and a poor risk/reward ratio. 

Those people annoy me too, and I feel that it's way too easy to get (and keep, and retain) a drivers license in this country, but I can't get too pissed if it's just someone being careful. 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

2 hours ago, Underdog said:

Neighbors who leave grass trimmings out on the street....   clean that shit up, assholes! 

Fucking dangerous for bikers, and motorcycle riders.

[Hate 20,100]

[deadshank 24,651]

The ice shift when drinking your favorite beverage.  

[deadshank 24,651]

3 hours ago, Underdog said:

Neighbors who leave grass trimmings out on the street....   clean that shit up, assholes! 

I blow mine down the storm sewer.  
 

Fight me. 

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

11 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Fight me. 

Well... how big 'a boy are ya?

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

13 minutes ago, deadshank said:

Both sides?  Sheeeit... you gots the man boob sweat.

[Underdog 28,433]

14 minutes ago, deadshank said:

I blow mine down the storm sewer.  
 

Fight me. 

My daddy always told me to never fight a man whose tits leak.  

[deadshank 24,651]

2 minutes ago, ROFL BOX said:

Well... how big 'a boy are ya?

Big enough, short stack. 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

Big enough, short stack. 

Everything looks smaller from a roof. 

[Hate 20,100]

On 7/31/2021 at 11:30 PM, Moby Ric said:

Ok. This is the things that annoy me thread. Another thing that annoys me is the Dead, they are a hippie wash out band that sucks.

I'm going to ignore my initial desire to neg every single post you've ever made as a result of the most egregiously wrong post ever made on the internet.  I'm not even going to belittle the ability to play a show the exact same way every single time rather than making an effort to play a song differently every single time and to draw from a catalog of over 200 songs.  Just know that this was the worst post in the history of the internet and sleep well. 

[mininghorn88 2,260]

4 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Same general calculus also applies to the apprehensive driver. Some people should be expected to quickly and safely go for it before the pedestrian gets close. Some shouldn't be expected to make a (relatively) tricky judgment call with a diminishing window of opportunity and a poor risk/reward ratio. 

Those people annoy me too, and I feel that it's way too easy to get (and keep, and retain) a drivers license in this country, but I can't get too pissed if it's just someone being careful. 

This.  I am considering running for public office, probably president of the USA, so that I can sign some Executive Orders.  The first EO being one that you have to take an annual driving test to keep your Driver's License.  And it will not be one of these test where you have to identify road signs and petty stuff like that.  It will be an actual driving test where you will be put into multiple situations and you must navigate correctly.  It will require you to actually break the speed limit from time to time when passing, you must stay out of the left hand lane unless you are in the flow of traffic.  It will require situational awareness that if you are holding up traffic you must pull out of the way or run the risk of the roving Mad Max vehicle that will  move you out of the way.  No cars shall have auto-braking systems activated until EVERY car has that feature. Reflex/reaction test. I could go on but you get the idea.

I just went on a ~5000 mile road trip from Texas to NC, then back to Kentucky, then up to Vermont, down to Pennsylvania, back to NC and then finally back to Texas.  So many people should not be driving.

Edited August 9, 2021 by mininghorn88

[nnm 35,954]

2 minutes ago, mininghorn88 said:

This.  I am considering running for public office, probably president of the USA, so that I can sign some Executive Orders.  The first EO being one that you have to take an annual driving test to keep your Driver's License.  And it will not be one of these test where you have to identify road signs and petty stuff like that.  It will be an actual driving test where you will be put into multiple situations and you must navigate correctly.  It will require you to actually break the speed limit from time to time when passing, you must stay out of the left hand lane unless you are in the flow of traffic.  It will require situational awareness that if you are holding up traffic you must pull out of the way or run the risk of the roving Mad Max vehicle that will  move you out of the way.  No cars shall have auto-braking systems activated until EVERY car has that feature. Reflex/reaction test. I could go on but you get the idea.

I just went on a ~5000 mile road trip from Texas to NC, then back to Kentucky, then up to Vermont, down to Pennsylvania, back to NC and then finally back to Texas.  So many people should not be driving.

My late FIL had macular degeneration. One eye was functionally blind, and he couldn’t see much out of the other. The DMV folks had no problem renewing his license. My wife accompanied him on his subsequent visit to the ophthalmologist. She asked if he should be driving. Doc said no, but that there were lots of people worse than him on the roads. He saw it every day. 
I’m all for the auto-drive features like lane keep assist, etc., because I know how horrible at least 60% of the drivers out there are. 

[NWBuck 8,543]

10 hours ago, deadshank said:

The ice shift when drinking your favorite beverage.  

 

[Underdog 28,433]

Perhaps not trivial but that jolting ass weather/emergency alert you get on TV every so often during impending storms and shit...  GD, tone that shit down some, will ya? 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

1 hour ago, Underdog said:

Perhaps not trivial but that jolting ass weather/emergency alert you get on TV every so often during impending storms and shit...  GD, tone that shit down some, will ya? 

Just turn your hearing aid down you old coot.

[NorthLoop 14,065]

When you try to pull a sprayer/whatever out from the kitchen sink, and the hose gets caught on something under the sink. Happens to me every time no matter where I'm at. 

[Underdog 28,433]

30 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Just turn your hearing aid down you old coot.

Huh? 

[Biff Tannen 45,468]

On 8/8/2021 at 3:00 PM, Lobo said:

Not to Texas, they don't. 

That's weird.  How'd I get mine?

[Guest Lobo]

Nice humblebrag.  I thought it was still a thing with the TX Assoc. of Auto Dealers lobby.  Where you still had to pickup your Tesla in another state.  Or is the deal now you can get it delivered here, they just can't have showrooms or something like that?  I dunno, we did a deep dive into the dealership cartel a few years back and it was much more confiscatory.  Probably eased up a bit since then. This was when some boutique electric car brands were trying to break into Texas like Byton, Fisker, Faraday, et. al. 

[MIkeHoncho 1,894]

1 hour ago, Lobo said:

Nice humblebrag.  I thought it was still a thing with the TX Assoc. of Auto Dealers lobby.  Where you still had to pickup your Tesla in another state.  Or is the deal now you can get it delivered here, they just can't have showrooms or something like that?  I dunno, we did a deep dive into the dealership cartel a few years back and it was much more confiscatory.  Probably eased up a bit since then. This was when some boutique electric car brands were trying to break into Texas like Byton, Fisker, Faraday, et. al. 

My understanding was that to sell in TX you had to have a have a physical presence/showroom vs. 100% online.  That's why you saw Tesla initially open storefronts in places like the domain with maybe 1 or 2 cars.  

[deadshank 24,651]

At a decent or upscale restaurant and when you a order a drink (be it booze, beer, wine, iced tea, water, whatever) and the waiter / waitress comes back to the table with your quaff in their greasy paw. 
 

Have some class and put the drink on a serving tray (doesn’t have to be fancy) and then serve the drink to the customer instead of just handing someone a drink.  This isn’t the ballpark or frat party. 

[dingleberryswitzer 2,724]

So when I actively go out to fuck with the wasps living in my roof they don’t do shit to me.  But I’ve been stung 3 times in the last week when I just go outside for something else.  

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

At a decent or upscale restaurant and when you a order a drink (be it booze, beer, wine, iced tea, water, whatever) and the waiter / waitress comes back to the table with your quaff in their greasy paw. 
 
Have some class and put the drink on a serving tray (doesn’t have to be fancy) and then serve the drink to the customer instead of just handing someone a drink.  This isn’t the ballpark or frat party. 

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

[ROFL BOX 6,647]

I

l

One is a lower case "L", the other is a capital "i".

Guess which is which.

¡Times New Roman, PLEASE!!

Sent from my SM-G950U1 using Tapatalk

[Underdog 28,433]

2 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

So when I actively go out to fuck with the wasps living in my roof they don’t do shit to me.  But I’ve been stung 3 times in the last week when I just go outside for something else.  

Long game. 

[thunderlounge 7,732]

3 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

So when I actively go out to fuck with the wasps living in my roof they don’t do shit to me.  But I’ve been stung 3 times in the last week when I just go outside for something else.  

Potentially a difference in pheromones? You go out on a mission of death with a can of RAID in your hand, and you give off a completely different scent/vibe than walking out the door to run to the store, etc. 

See it with other animals and such, and there have been studies that suggest plants (at least some species) also have some type/level of sensing pheromones as well. 
 

Kind of a crazy rabbit hole to go down, but can also be interesting reading.

[dingleberryswitzer 2,724]

7 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Potentially a difference in pheromones? You go out on a mission of death with a can of RAID in your hand, and you give off a completely different scent/vibe than walking out the door to run to the store, etc. 

See it with other animals and such, and there have been studies that suggest plants (at least some species) also have some type/level of sensing pheromones as well. 
 

Kind of a crazy rabbit hole to go down, but can also be interesting reading.

Not sure about pheromones, but when i go out with the poison spray I open the door slowly and tip toe out because I don’t want to scare them away so i can spray them.  When I’m just going out for whatever I swing the door open and walk out like a boss.  

[thunderlounge 7,732]

1 minute ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

Not sure about pheromones, but when i go out with the poison spray I open the door slowly and tip toe out because I don’t want to scare them away so i can spray them.  When I’m just going out for whatever I swing the door open and walk out like a boss.  

That’s all part of it for sure. Combine that with bossing out the door, and there you go. 
 

Every couple of years some paper wasps try to build a big nest in a corner about 10ft to the left of the front door. (Cuts to the left 10ft, then that wall turns and comes forward 10ft, then turns back left.)

 

Before moving here, living where I was last stationed I had a little place just out in the sticks. Had all fucking kinds of wasps/hornets/bees. There was a batch of them that made a cross post a home. Bright fire engine red, and mean as hell. Had to get a pro for those. 
 

Those were the worst I’ve encountered. Others were general mud dobber types, mostly leave you alone unless you stir them up.

Mostly a pain in the ass just to keep the mud nests down. Those fucking things would be everywhere. Some were like blobs of mud, others were like intricate tubes. 
 

Saw lots of bees. Even spotted a killer bee once. (That one didn’t survive, fuck killer bees.)

Not a stinging insect, but also used to have an overly large garden spider that made a home outside the shed/pump house. Was pretty neat. 

[Superhero 8,723]

4 hours ago, deadshank said:

At a decent or upscale restaurant and when you a order a drink (be it booze, beer, wine, iced tea, water, whatever) and the waiter / waitress comes back to the table with your quaff in their greasy paw. 
 

Have some class and put the drink on a serving tray (doesn’t have to be fancy) and then serve the drink to the customer instead of just handing someone a drink.  This isn’t the ballpark or frat party. 

Reminds me of a joke...  A customer orders the soup. When the waiter brings it, the customer notices the waiter had his thumb in the soup.

Customer: "Excuse me, your thumb was in my soup".

Waiter: "It's okay, it wasn't that hot."

[nnm 35,954]

32 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

That’s all part of it for sure. Combine that with bossing out the door, and there you go. 
 

Every couple of years some paper wasps try to build a big nest in a corner about 10ft to the left of the front door. (Cuts to the left 10ft, then that wall turns and comes forward 10ft, then turns back left.)

 

Before moving here, living where I was last stationed I had a little place just out in the sticks. Had all fucking kinds of wasps/hornets/bees. There was a batch of them that made a cross post a home. Bright fire engine red, and mean as hell. Had to get a pro for those. 
 

Those were the worst I’ve encountered. Others were general mud dobber types, mostly leave you alone unless you stir them up.

Mostly a pain in the ass just to keep the mud nests down. Those fucking things would be everywhere. Some were like blobs of mud, others were like intricate tubes. 
 

Saw lots of bees. Even spotted a killer bee once. (That one didn’t survive, fuck killer bees.)

Not a stinging insect, but also used to have an overly large garden spider that made a home outside the shed/pump house. Was pretty neat. 

Staple a little packet of moth balls in gauze wherever the mud dauber like to make their nests. They’ll stay away. 

[deadshank 24,651]

35 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

That’s all part of it for sure. Combine that with bossing out the door, and there you go. 
 

Every couple of years some paper wasps try to build a big nest in a corner about 10ft to the left of the front door. (Cuts to the left 10ft, then that wall turns and comes forward 10ft, then turns back left.)

 

Before moving here, living where I was last stationed I had a little place just out in the sticks. Had all fucking kinds of wasps/hornets/bees. There was a batch of them that made a cross post a home. Bright fire engine red, and mean as hell. Had to get a pro for those. 
 

Those were the worst I’ve encountered. Others were general mud dobber types, mostly leave you alone unless you stir them up.

Mostly a pain in the ass just to keep the mud nests down. Those fucking things would be everywhere. Some were like blobs of mud, others were like intricate tubes. 
 

Saw lots of bees. Even spotted a killer bee once. (That one didn’t survive, fuck killer bees.)

Not a stinging insect, but also used to have an overly large garden spider that made a home outside the shed/pump house. Was pretty neat. 

Talk about mean…..shooting a hive of Africanized bees is not the thing to do. I had to call out the pros on this one after 20-gauge bird shot didn’t do the trick.

I asked them how much a removal would cost   They said $225.   I retorted that doesn’t seem like much money to drive WAY out in the brush and take apart a really big hive.  They said they’ve seen big ones before.  I emailed this video to the girl on the phone while we were talking.
 

Suddenly I heard “Henry, you need to see this one!!!”

Henry raised the price to $250.  
 

Two days later it was gone.  Tech said it weighed about 175 lbs and had about 20-30K bees in it.   

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by deadshank

[thunderlounge 7,732]

Video is awesome. Effective or not, hell yeah blow em up!

 

[thunderlounge 7,732]

10 minutes ago, nnm said:

Staple a little packet of moth balls in gauze wherever the mud dauber like to make their nests. They’ll stay away. 

Wish I’d have known that back then. 
 

I did use moth crystals every 2 months around the foundation of the house and shed. Old man plumber I met when first moving there said to do that for scorpions. Worked well, and I would know if I was late getting it out. 

[52-80 19,062]

Spastic ass motherfuckers on the freeway whose brake lights are constantly pulsing. 

Theyre not necessarily tailgating someone either - they simply dont know how to keep in the flow with the rest of traffic - and it creates accordian anxiety for all the cars behind. 

[ztejas 43,236]

On 8/11/2021 at 1:24 PM, Underdog said:

Perhaps not trivial but that jolting ass weather/emergency alert you get on TV every so often during impending storms and shit...  GD, tone that shit down some, will ya? 

Change the channel then change it back. 

Report back after your mind is blown.

[mininghorn88 2,260]

5 hours ago, 52-80 said:

Spastic ass motherfuckers on the freeway whose brake lights are constantly pulsing. 

Theyre not necessarily tailgating someone either - they simply dont know how to keep in the flow with the rest of traffic - and it creates accordian anxiety for all the cars behind. 

This right here. I mentioned in a different post about auto-braking systems on vehicles. I think that is part of the problem too.

[WhatTheBuck 28,700]

On 8/8/2021 at 10:55 AM, Moby Ric said:

Bicycle fags.  This morning a group of them peddling down the road not in single file, just bunched in a group on a small road with no bike lane.  Fuckers were just backing up traffic and not giving any fucks about it.  Everyone was yelling or honking at them when they got a chance to pass.

The 80’s called. They want their gay slur back.

[thunderlounge 7,732]

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The 80’s called. They want their gay slur back.

Tell those 80’s fags Mr. Brain wants his product name back. 
 

[WhatTheBuck 28,700]

4 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

Tell those 80’s fags Mr. Brain wants his product name back. 
 

The first could refer to a cigarette in England, the second to a bundle of sticks. So I guess that makes it okay, right?

It’s never too late to grow up.

 

[nnm 35,954]

A funny moment with a British colleague happened about 10 years ago. We were in all-day negotiations in Anchorage, and my colleague needed a break. He said “I’m going downstairs to catch a fag.”  

I said “OK, more information than I needed. Have fun.”

He did. 

[Moby Ric 2,058]

21 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

The 80’s called. They want their gay slur back.

I would ask you to stop being such a fag, but clearly you can't seem to help yourself.

[WhatTheBuck 28,700]

17 hours ago, Moby Ric said:

I would ask you to stop being such a fag, but clearly you can't seem to help yourself.

I’d ask you not to be a homophobe. But I can only open the door, I can’t make you walk through it.

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,780]

Especially if it's the door to the closet he's in

[Steamboat1874 4,029]

On 8/13/2021 at 5:22 PM, dingleberryswitzer said:

So when I actively go out to fuck with the wasps living in my roof they don’t do shit to me.  But I’ve been stung 3 times in the last week when I just go outside for something else.  

This is the way to go.

[Moby Ric 2,058]

3 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

I’d ask you not to be a homophobe. But I can only open the door, I can’t make you walk through it.

Typical response from a poster like you.  I will let the good folks from South Park explain it, and then put you on my ignore list.  Feel free to drop some acid, listen to some shitty music and put me on yours.

 

[Sandman 3,401]

My kid transferred to a new college (wife's alma mater, so I'm doubly supportive) and I had my eye on this particular t-shirt in the bookstore, but it's always sold out in my size. We were back on  campus this weekend and I checked again and I saw it folded in the stack in the little shirt-cube thing. The sticker had the correct size, the tag inside the collar was correct as well. I bought it, but when I got home and unfolded it, I discovered that it was long sleeve. Motherfucker. 

[Underdog 28,433]

4 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

This is the way to go.

Nice nail polish, bet it really goes well with your outfit. 

[nnm 35,954]

3 hours ago, Sandman said:

My kid transferred to a new college (wife's alma mater, so I'm doubly supportive) and I had my eye on this particular t-shirt in the bookstore, but it's always sold out in my size. We were back on  campus this weekend and I checked again and I saw it folded in the stack in the little shirt-cube thing. The sticker had the correct size, the tag inside the collar was correct as well. I bought it, but when I got home and unfolded it, I discovered that it was long sleeve. Motherfucker.