The Vent and Rant Thread

[nana77]

Originally Posted by tsgreer

I recently retired. I was looking forward to the first snow this year; thinking that it'd finally be my friend. Pictured myself sipping cheap coffee, staring out the window like some wise old mountain hermit while a storm raged. Raising my eyebrows at the people driving way too fast on slick roads.

No commute. No ice. No white-knuckled death drive to work. That was part of the dream.

Then today drops the first big snow of my retirement. I should be celebrating! I should be dancing in my slippers! Instead I’m looking out at my driveway, straight at my giant rented dumpster like it’s some doomed ship taking on water. I ordered it because the weather has been freakishly warm. I got tricked into thinking I should clean up my garage and fix my yard like a responsible youngish old guy.

But here’s the punchline. The dumpster charges by weight. They pick it up tomorrow. And every inch of this storm is stuffing itself into every nook and cranny of my dumpster like it’s trying to qualify for world’s heaviest frozen sponge.

Mother Nature coulda waited one more day. Just one. But nah, she clocked out early and dumped a wet blanket straight into my retirement budget.

This is why I shoulda been writing crappy pulp stories instead of being responsible. Ugh! I guess the universe really likes its jokes cold.

Nice reading (thanks ), but pardon: aren't there some places like "Solid waste and materials management sites and facilities", where it's possible to go for large garbage, whitout paying per kg? (https://cdphe.colorado.gov/hm/swfacilities)

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by nana77

Nice reading (thanks ), but pardon: aren't there some places like "Solid waste and materials management sites and facilities", where it's possible to go for large garbage, whitout paying per kg? (https://cdphe.colorado.gov/hm/swfacilities)

I would suspect that the company supplying the dumpster are the one charging by weight. Unless you happen to have your own dumpster and truck for hauling it around, you will have to rent a dumpster and most of the rentals in this area have a base fee and then add per kilogram and type of waste (as an example, disposing of drywall to a dumpster is expensive).

[nana77]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I would suspect that the company supplying the dumpster are the one charging by weight. Unless you happen to have your own dumpster and truck for hauling it around, you will have to rent a dumpster and most of the rentals in this area have a base fee and then add per kilogram and type of waste (as an example, disposing of drywall to a dumpster is expensive).

Ah, pardon for the OT, also. I was to think there were (other than the default standard ones) central places like :

Spoiler:

we have those areas on each municipality.
Pardon again, too OT.

[Quoth]

The recycling centre charges €7 per car, but larger vehicles by weight (weigh twice). Also they take rubble but not plasterboard (drywall?) because it's composite.

You used to be able to dump anything in a skip (dumpster?) but now there is a list of what they won't take.

Mattresses were a problem for a while and you do pay per mattress at the 3 places that take them.

Anyone selling a fridge, cooker, washing machine etc is liable for the packing and taking the old one.

[John F]

Whinging on and on because a company doesn't release what you want (*cough* *cough* Libra 3 BW *cough* *cough*).

[tsgreer]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Set fire to it?

Good plan, but I lucked out! The snow was a big one, so roads were crazy and the big truck that picks up the dumpsters couldn't come until after sun came out and melted most of the snow. So yay!

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by tsgreer

Good plan, but I lucked out! The snow was a big one, so roads were crazy and the big truck that picks up the dumpsters couldn't come until after sun came out and melted most of the snow. So yay!

Good drainage in the dumpster?

[tsgreer]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Good drainage in the dumpster?

Seemed like it, yeah. The weird part was this older “metal bug” guy who kept hopping into the dumpster and grabbing anything made of metal. I didn’t mind. I respect a side hustle. I just worried he’d slip on a broken chair or cut himself on some junk, so I started stacking the metal on one side so he could reach it easier.

He was a nice enough guy with a really nice truck. One morning I asked, casual and friendly, how much he made doing taking the metal things. He shut down right away and got sort of distant. I wasn’t trying to muscle in on his gig. I was just curious, since he took parts of an old gate I had, broken metal lam, pieces of a weight bench, etc. I even offered to help him load the stuff, but he turned me down.

I overthink stuff, so I kept worrying he’d hurt himself. In the end nothing happened and everything was fine.

[Rumpelteazer]

Why do anesthetics often hit me weird. I just got back from the dentist for a filling and he hit me really good with the anesthetic, so good my ear feels numb and not in a good way. It feels like the beginnings of an ear infection.

It also takes a long while to wear off for me. So I'm going to take some painkillers (he also got my gums good), put something fun on the TV and cross stitch for a while.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Why do anesthetics often hit me weird. I just got back from the dentist for a filling and he hit me really good with the anesthetic, so good my ear feels numb and not in a good way. It feels like the beginnings of an ear infection.

It also takes a long while to wear off for me. So I'm going to take some painkillers (he also got my gums good), put something fun on the TV and cross stitch for a while.

I suggest that you require the dentist to use the kind of local anesthetics that do NOT contain epinephrine. They have far fewer side effects and they wear off much faster. Dentists prefer to use the kind with epinephrine just because they don't wear off as fast. My chart at the dentist has a big read flag on it NO EPI, and always tell them as soon as I sit down in the chair - "no epi".

[Rumpelteazer]

I'm not sure what type of anesthetic they use in the Netherlands/at my dentist's office. I'm just glad they always ask whether I want anesthetics or not; my first dentist didn't believe in them, like the pain was punishment for daring to get a cavity.

This time the anesthetics wore off pretty quickly for me, it was gone in 2-3 hours. Last time it took over twice as long. My gums are doing better, though the ones on the outside of my jaw still feel raw.

[ownedbycats]

AI-generated art on gift bags at dollar store. Santa has one white glove and one red glove (either that, or a badly burned hand).

I'm tired.

[abbynormal52]

I think this could end up being an important thread for me, after my shopping experience trying to pick out the "right" new, e-reader for me personally I sure hope Tad is still around, I want his books if he writes them, which

Originally Posted by TadW

Feeling particularly curmudgeonly today, I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who need to vent, complain, rant, and otherwise be miserable. So I'll start with my pent-up frustrations from the last week, and if this thread goes nowhere, oh well, I've just embarrassed myself again (as I do everyday anyway).


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Whew, that felt great to get off my chest!




There's also The Technology Vent and Rant Thread because there's so much to vent and rant about technology that it was completely swamping this thread!

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

AI-generated art on gift bags at dollar store. Santa has one white glove and one red glove (either that, or a badly burned hand).

I'm tired.

I'm getting fed up with IA. In colouring books on Amazon there's a lot of AI stuff. But also there are a lot of cross stitch patterns on Etsy which are AI. With a bit of paying attention you can weed most of them out (small projects which use way too many colours, wrong art work, etc). But it's getting tedious that you have to do that.

Granted I've got enough patterns and kits to last me a decade or more, but then (window)shopping for supplies for your hobby is a hobby in itself.

[abbynormal52]

I guess I'll share my rant for the last couple times on Youtube looking up reviews. Most of the ones I've found, the people talk like there's something big and ugly chasing them. That and the fact I have to slow the "speed of playback" down a couple notches, and that only help some of the time.

Then some, have to tell about how their life is going but voila, halfway through the 59 minute video (why did I stay with it ??) I cheated and skipped ahead to where I couldn't see their lips moving any longer. I started the video again and their lips were moving, but I got through it.

Is the fact I'm missing some brain-cells becoming noticeable? I'm tired too now. I'll probably have the same nightmare where these big, talking hands with fake fingernails are after me.