The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 2236

Bookpossum · 03-10-2020, 01:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Was that Joh Bjelke? I nearly said "they don't make 'em like that anymore", then realised he would seem coldly rational compared to many prominent politicos these days.

It certainly was. Rational, and also a crook.

Uncle Robin · 03-10-2020, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Bookpossum

It certainly was. Rational, and also a crook.

I have family who live in New Zealand, in one of the two towns near where he was born. It amused me HUGELY to learn that both towns said of each other "he was born there, not here"

binaryhermit · 03-10-2020, 02:58 AM

Imagine a major politician not being a crook...

BetterRed · 03-10-2020, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bookpossum

When it was first mooted in Australia many years ago, the then Premier of Queensland said his state wouldn't go along with it because the extra hour of sunshine would fade the curtains. (I'm not making this up.)

If Joh did say it, then it's more likely that he said it when he scrapped DST in 1972. This was after his own government introduced it in 1971 along with the NSW, Vic, SA and ACT governments.

Added: It was probably Flo who said it

BR

badgoodDeb · 03-10-2020, 04:34 PM

Speaking of Flo .... though I'm changing the topic and moving to a different Flo .... Anybody else hear the radio ads for "Flotection" (some brand of insurance protection, where the ad speaker is Flo) and imediately think "All females in your audience are thinking of a different sort of monthly flow-tection, you idiots." I guess they have a boardroom of all males?

wodin · 03-10-2020, 05:14 PM

Flo is the spokeswoman for Progressive Auto Insurance.

issybird · 03-10-2020, 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by wodin

Flo is the spokeswoman for Progressive Auto Insurance.

Actually, Deb got that. Your not understanding her post is a case in point.

wodin · 03-10-2020, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by issybird

Actually, Deb got that. Your not understanding her post is a case in point.

Not being female, perhaps not.

DiapDealer · 03-10-2020, 07:29 PM

Yeah. Because males know nothing about them there lady-parts stuff.

badgoodDeb · 03-10-2020, 08:32 PM

You guys do know we habitually worry about a monthly flow???

DiapDealer · 03-10-2020, 09:03 PM

Sorry. I forgot the extreme sarcasm tags.

CWatkinsNash · 03-11-2020, 01:32 AM

I'm finally back in front of my computer after 8 days of fear, cold nights, and sharing a 20-amp generator with our next-door neighbors, who are the only other household on our block besides us able to stay in their houses after a tornado destroyed most of the homes in my immediate area.

I'm posting this vent here so that I don't do something stupid like posting it on social media. I don't even use social media but I was considering making an exception. This is something that's been nagging at me since some incidents this past Saturday and I just need to get it off my chest. I know I'm being irrational and unfair but I don't care. I need to say it anyway. There might be some mildly colorful language.

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Hey, you. Yeah, you with the phone and otherwise empty hands. Yes, YOU. I just heard you tell someone you're from Antioch. You're not here to help. You're here to gawk and then get useless social media sympathy points by posting a photo of MY neighborhood, or what's left of it, with your stupid hashtags, implying that this disaster had anything to do with you at all. I know because I saw you take the pics and heard you talking about it to your friend there. (Your friend at least had the grace to look uncomfortable.) Normally, I'd be more tolerant, but unlike the last round of looky-loos who at least offered compassion, you're not even trying. You tromped through my yard, you didn't even say "hi" or ask if we were okay as I stood there in my fuzzy bathrobe because I was cold and hadn't truly felt warm since I climbed back out of the basement at 1:55 am last Tuesday morning.

Maybe you looked at my house and realized we just had some broken windows. Maybe it didn't occur to you that there are a lot of other things you can lose in a tornado. Like your sense of security, your sanity, your ability to sleep at night. Neighbors that I won't see for months because, you know, THEIR HOUSES ARE GONE. You might have thought that since i was standing there, it couldn't have been that bad, right? In a sense, yes. We still had a house, unlike many others, and for that I am both grateful and astounded. But we didn't stay because the house was comfortable - because it wasn't. No heat is rough when you are missing some windows and the temps drop below freezing. We stayed because I couldn't leave. Because every minute of every day since that damned thing blew through here, I've had this horrible dread that if I turned my back, it would all be gone too. And dammit, this is home and I'm not leaving unless I have to. That probably makes me an idiot but I don't care. So we stayed, me and my roommate. We were able to stay and get by because of the endless, amazing volunteers that showed up to help my neighborhood. And the neighbors' generator, obviously, which helped us not lose all of our food in the fridge and let us make hot coffee in the mornings. (I think they stayed in their place for similar reasons and also because they have 4 dogs. The four of us all sort of held each other up through this.)

The volunteers gave us sleeping bags, food, water, toilet paper, anything we might possibly need, they managed to make it appear.

You? You gave me a pain in the ass that's been festering for days.

I mean, if you had asked how I was, I probably would have just said that I'm doing okay, holding up and all that crap, but we'll never know because you didn't ask.

And then. AND THEN. I saw you walk back by a little later, probably back toward the police checkpoint to go back to your cozy electrified domicile, and you did the thing that really pissed me off. You took a hot dog from the people who were handing them out in front of my house. They had asked me if they could set up there because I had cleared my curb the previous day after the debris trucks cleared the big stuff, and I said yes because that was a wonderful idea and it was out of the way of active work going on. They were lovely. They set up a grill and made food for the victims and volunteers and the police officers working 12 hour shifts. Get this - their area got hit too, but they came over here to help us! And YOU took a hot dog!! That wasn't for you!! What the hell is wrong with you?? It's not a street fair, you jackass!

I thought about hitting twitter to see if I could find you but I'm just too damned tired to bother. You suck. DO BETTER. Just freakin' do better.

But hey, who knows? Maybe me being fixated on your nonsense helped distract me on the last few days of what felt like the apocalypse.

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Thanks for tolerating that, guys. It got waaay longer than I intended because once I got going... Well, you know. LOL Anyway, I really do feel a LOT better after getting that out of my system. And now I'm going to crawl into my bed, which is actually warm for the first time in over a week. Yay!

trichobezoar · 03-11-2020, 11:49 AM

CWatkinsNash, I'm so sorry for your misfortune... I wish you the best.

4691mls · 03-11-2020, 11:57 AM

That's horrible that someone would come through a disaster area just to sightsee, and then top it off by eating food meant for the survivors and helpers.

issybird · 03-11-2020, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wodin

Not being female, perhaps not.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Yeah. Because males know nothing about them there lady-parts stuff.

Was there a point to mansplaining who Flo is, when it was obvious from Deb’s post that she knew, as would anyone else?

I’ll see those two eyerolls.

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03-10-2020, 02:58 AM	#33528
binaryhermit Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,732 Karma: 20469902 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Lockport, IL Device: Kindle PW4, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	Imagine a major politician not being a crook...

03-10-2020, 04:34 PM	#33530
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	Speaking of Flo .... though I'm changing the topic and moving to a different Flo .... Anybody else hear the radio ads for "Flotection" (some brand of insurance protection, where the ad speaker is Flo) and imediately think "All females in your audience are thinking of a different sort of monthly flow-tection, you idiots." I guess they have a boardroom of all males?

03-10-2020, 05:14 PM	#33531
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	Flo is the spokeswoman for Progressive Auto Insurance.

03-10-2020, 07:29 PM	#33534
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,700 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Yeah. Because males know nothing about them there lady-parts stuff.

03-10-2020, 08:32 PM	#33535
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,555 Karma: 64462893 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	You guys do know we habitually worry about a monthly flow???

03-10-2020, 09:03 PM	#33536
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,700 Karma: 205039118 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Sorry. I forgot the extreme sarcasm tags.

03-11-2020, 01:32 AM	#33537
CWatkinsNash IOC Chief Archivist Posts: 3,950 Karma: 53868218 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Fruitland Park, FL, USA Device: Meebook M7, Paperwhite 2021, Fire HD 8+, Fire HD 10+, Lenovo Tab P12	I'm finally back in front of my computer after 8 days of fear, cold nights, and sharing a 20-amp generator with our next-door neighbors, who are the only other household on our block besides us able to stay in their houses after a tornado destroyed most of the homes in my immediate area. I'm posting this vent here so that I don't do something stupid like posting it on social media. I don't even use social media but I was considering making an exception. This is something that's been nagging at me since some incidents this past Saturday and I just need to get it off my chest. I know I'm being irrational and unfair but I don't care. I need to say it anyway. There might be some mildly colorful language. --------------------------------- Hey, you. Yeah, you with the phone and otherwise empty hands. Yes, YOU. I just heard you tell someone you're from Antioch. You're not here to help. You're here to gawk and then get useless social media sympathy points by posting a photo of MY neighborhood, or what's left of it, with your stupid hashtags, implying that this disaster had anything to do with you at all. I know because I saw you take the pics and heard you talking about it to your friend there. (Your friend at least had the grace to look uncomfortable.) Normally, I'd be more tolerant, but unlike the last round of looky-loos who at least offered compassion, you're not even trying. You tromped through my yard, you didn't even say "hi" or ask if we were okay as I stood there in my fuzzy bathrobe because I was cold and hadn't truly felt warm since I climbed back out of the basement at 1:55 am last Tuesday morning. Maybe you looked at my house and realized we just had some broken windows. Maybe it didn't occur to you that there are a lot of other things you can lose in a tornado. Like your sense of security, your sanity, your ability to sleep at night. Neighbors that I won't see for months because, you know, THEIR HOUSES ARE GONE. You might have thought that since i was standing there, it couldn't have been that bad, right? In a sense, yes. We still had a house, unlike many others, and for that I am both grateful and astounded. But we didn't stay because the house was comfortable - because it wasn't. No heat is rough when you are missing some windows and the temps drop below freezing. We stayed because I couldn't leave. Because every minute of every day since that damned thing blew through here, I've had this horrible dread that if I turned my back, it would all be gone too. And dammit, this is home and I'm not leaving unless I have to. That probably makes me an idiot but I don't care. So we stayed, me and my roommate. We were able to stay and get by because of the endless, amazing volunteers that showed up to help my neighborhood. And the neighbors' generator, obviously, which helped us not lose all of our food in the fridge and let us make hot coffee in the mornings. (I think they stayed in their place for similar reasons and also because they have 4 dogs. The four of us all sort of held each other up through this.) The volunteers gave us sleeping bags, food, water, toilet paper, anything we might possibly need, they managed to make it appear. You? You gave me a pain in the ass that's been festering for days. I mean, if you had asked how I was, I probably would have just said that I'm doing okay, holding up and all that crap, but we'll never know because you didn't ask. And then. AND THEN. I saw you walk back by a little later, probably back toward the police checkpoint to go back to your cozy electrified domicile, and you did the thing that really pissed me off. You took a hot dog from the people who were handing them out in front of my house. They had asked me if they could set up there because I had cleared my curb the previous day after the debris trucks cleared the big stuff, and I said yes because that was a wonderful idea and it was out of the way of active work going on. They were lovely. They set up a grill and made food for the victims and volunteers and the police officers working 12 hour shifts. Get this - their area got hit too, but they came over here to help us! And YOU took a hot dog!! That wasn't for you!! What the hell is wrong with you?? It's not a street fair, you jackass! I thought about hitting twitter to see if I could find you but I'm just too damned tired to bother. You suck. DO BETTER. Just freakin' do better. But hey, who knows? Maybe me being fixated on your nonsense helped distract me on the last few days of what felt like the apocalypse. ------------------------ Thanks for tolerating that, guys. It got waaay longer than I intended because once I got going... Well, you know. LOL Anyway, I really do feel a LOT better after getting that out of my system. And now I'm going to crawl into my bed, which is actually warm for the first time in over a week. Yay!

03-11-2020, 11:49 AM	#33538
trichobezoar Riding Against the Wind Posts: 2,932 Karma: 43570696 Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Near Cacti, NM Device: Galaxy Note 10.1 & Kindle Touch	CWatkinsNash, I'm so sorry for your misfortune... I wish you the best.

03-11-2020, 11:57 AM	#33539
4691mls Wizard Posts: 2,776 Karma: 30081762 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: US Device: ALL DEVICES ARE STOCK: Kobo Clara, Tolino Shine 2, Sony PRS-T3, T1	That's horrible that someone would come through a disaster area just to sightsee, and then top it off by eating food meant for the survivors and helpers.