Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 66

vivaldirules · 10-26-2008, 02:04 PM

RickyMaveety · 10-26-2008, 02:10 PM

Paramedics ... good idea, I'm working with my miter saw again ... and on teensy pieces, so I'll probably cut one of my hands off.

GeoffC · 10-26-2008, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Ah yes ... been there and done that. There are times I have started conversations with so-called tech support by telling them to keep their mouths shut for the next three minutes and LISTEN. I then tell give them a summary of the answers to all the questions I have been asked 40 or 50 times, and explain to them that if they ask me any of those questions again during our conversation, I will reach through the phone line, down their throat, and yank their freaking lungs out.

I also tell them that I am taping the entire conversation (which is true) and that, if they have any problem with that, they'd better get someone competent on the line pronto.

I am not a fun person to be around when the people who are supposed to be providing support for a product don't know any more (and sometimes less) about the product than I do.

Scrach that .... I'm just not a fun person to be around generally.

Ah - but RM, try doing all that via textphone ..... although a textphone does automatically save the conversation - plus all the spelling mistakes .....

RWood · 10-26-2008, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Just put a pound of bacon on the griddle....its sizzling and filling my house with that good bacon smell on a cool fall morning in Arizona........

Look around the outside of the house, once that smell gets around I'm sure that VR will be there wagging his tail (and perhaps dragging his pet human along.) He does love his bacon.

RickyMaveety · 10-26-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Ah - but RM, try doing all that via textphone ..... although a textphone does automatically save the conversation - plus all the spelling mistakes .....

I've done that. However, I really hate doing it on my cell phone because my thumbs get sore. I have typed some rather vitriolic verbiage via textphone to customer support on the computer. Tech support tends to be moronic in any communication medium.

desertgrandma · 10-26-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by RWood

Look around the outside of the house, once that smell gets around I'm sure that VR will be there wagging his tail (and perhaps dragging his pet human along.) He does love his bacon.

Never turn your back on a plate of bacon when there is a cat around..........

yvanleterrible · 10-26-2008, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Never turn your back on a plate of bacon when there is a cat around..........

Or your husband!

desertgrandma · 10-26-2008, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Or your husband!

Ya know, he was standing right there, and so was the cat. Mr. Innocence blamed the cat, who just looked at me......MEN!

DMcCunney · 10-26-2008, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Ya know, he was standing right there, and so was the cat. Mr. Innocence blamed the cat, who just looked at me......MEN!

I didn't worry about bacon that much. I did have a cat that tried to mug me for a chicken liver sauteed in garlic. Dizzy was ordinarily very polite and well behaved, but I guess the aroma was too much for him. My SO still breaks out in giggles when she remembers the look on my face when it happened.

And my late cat Kvetch had a thing for raw garlic. She had a chronic sinus condition medication reduced but didn't cure, and I suspect raw garlic was one of the few things she could actually smell.
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Dennis

ShortNCuddlyAm · 10-26-2008, 06:31 PM

One of my late cats had a thing for tea, which we discovered when she was still a kitten, with her head buried in a visitor's cup! The other didn't like the stuff, but would always go and see what she was getting that he wasn't, then look huffy because he didn't like it.

They did both love cheese though, and I'd often find myself with a cat on each shoulder (when they were both still small enough to climb me) if I was doing anything with cheese. Thankfully the boy gave the climbing up after a while - he grew into a huge cat (big, not fat).

RickyMaveety · 10-26-2008, 07:19 PM

OOoo ... caffeine ... very very bad for kittehs.

ShortNCuddlyAm · 10-26-2008, 07:59 PM

Apart from her first taste, where I have no idea how much she'd drank before we noticed, I don't think she would have had more than a tablespoon of tea in total in the 11 years we had her! After that first instance, she only ever managed to get the odd small drop here and there.

desertgrandma · 10-26-2008, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

OOoo ... caffeine ... very very bad for kittehs.

Ricky, do any of your cats 'suckle'? Mine was a stray, found him when he was 1 1/2 lbs, wandering. Pretty sure mom was feral. He growls at strangers. Seriously growls. We humanized him by holding him a LOT, and now when he's in a cuddly mood, likes to just curl up and 'suckle' t-shirts. He used to like to nuzzle the neck area, but that got irritating. I figure he's just got separated from mama to soon.........

Patricia · 10-26-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by DMcCunney

I didn't worry about bacon that much. I did have a cat that tried to mug me for a chicken liver sauteed in garlic. Dizzy was ordinarily very polite and well behaved, but I guess the aroma was too much for him. My SO still breaks out in giggles when she remembers the look on my face when it happened.

And my late cat Kvetch had a thing for raw garlic. She had a chronic sinus condition medication reduced but didn't cure, and I suspect raw garlic was one of the few things she could actually smell.
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Dennis

I had a cat who taught himself how to open the fridge door one Christmas, when it was full of goodies. He was 7 years old at the time, so I wasn't expecting innovative behaviour from him. I fitted a child-proof lock. That confused him.

Patricia · 10-26-2008, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

speaking of simple, happy moments, just came back from having tea with patricia before she took the train home and am now having my stomach warmed by my purry little cat, who is still delirious with joy about my return. the paris meetup last night was brilliant, i think we all had a really great evening (i know i did !!). can't wait to do it again !

Yes, and here I am, home again. Lunch in Montmartre, tea with Zelda in the 10ème, dinner in London, and now back near Cardiff.
Amazingly, the trains were on time; even First Great Western (known locally as Worst Great Western). I too am looking forward to the next Parisian meet-up (or, in fact any pretext to return to Paris, which is one of my favourite cities, not only because Zelda lives there).

10-26-2008, 02:04 PM	#976
vivaldirules When's Doughnut Day? Posts: 10,059 Karma: 13675475 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Houston, TX, US Device: Sony PRS-505, iPad

10-26-2008, 02:10 PM	#977
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	Paramedics ... good idea, I'm working with my miter saw again ... and on teensy pieces, so I'll probably cut one of my hands off.

10-26-2008, 06:31 PM	#985
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	One of my late cats had a thing for tea, which we discovered when she was still a kitten, with her head buried in a visitor's cup! The other didn't like the stuff, but would always go and see what she was getting that he wasn't, then look huffy because he didn't like it. They did both love cheese though, and I'd often find myself with a cat on each shoulder (when they were both still small enough to climb me) if I was doing anything with cheese. Thankfully the boy gave the climbing up after a while - he grew into a huge cat (big, not fat).

10-26-2008, 07:19 PM	#986
RickyMaveety Holy S**T!!! Posts: 5,213 Karma: 108401 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: San Diego, California!! Device: Kindle and iPad	OOoo ... caffeine ... very very bad for kittehs.

10-26-2008, 07:59 PM	#987
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	Apart from her first taste, where I have no idea how much she'd drank before we noticed, I don't think she would have had more than a tablespoon of tea in total in the 11 years we had her! After that first instance, she only ever managed to get the odd small drop here and there.