just venting, airing out, talking shit, personal beefs, problems, anger management, and etc thread

[eastofeden]

I agree. ^^^^

Most of the common courtesy rules of the road are extinct. Like not living in the fast lane going whatever speed YOU want to. Get the frack over to the slower lanes and let people pass!!!

LOL...oh yeah...I usually drive 75-80 MPH and try to stay in the fast lane and you get the peeps driving 45-50...like WTF are the thinking? I call them the "It's All About Me" folks. Another one...a two lane part of the freeway with no cars in front of them and they drive slow perfectly side by side for miles...ARRRRGGHHHHHHHHH&^&$%^&^%$#^%&^%$#%#

 

[borg69unimatrix]

... or people not dimming their lights before they blind you.

I guess that function is automatic in some of the newer cars, but the sensors are off, IMO.

 

[Kulindahr]

Last summer as a volunteer I put up markers on the beach ends of all the hiking trails in a rather large county park. The beach ends need markers because the dunes change and sand drifts to cover footprints, making the end of a trail look just like any other gap in the dunes.

Then later in the summer, the Air Force did survival training in the dunes, and the fly-boys tore down every single trail marker! Grumbling about military "intelligence", I did the leg and shovel work to put up new markers.

Today I was on the beach looking for the marker to find my way back to where I'd locked up my mountain bike, but it wasn't there. I finally located it -- and some moron had chopped it down.

Maybe -- since these are official county park trails -- if I used extra large pressure treated posts, and marked them "county property", people would leave them alone?

 

[borg69unimatrix]

^^^
You put them up last year... not knowing the area, and hearing "beach", "dunes", and "sand", ... is it possible some winter weather/high tide might have got them between when you put them up and now? (excluding the chopped down one).

 

[Kulindahr]

^^^
You put them up last year... not knowing the area, and hearing "beach", "dunes", and "sand", ... is it possible some winter weather/high tide might have got them between when you put them up and now? (excluding the chopped down one).

LOL

I put them on the highest dune near the trail end -- like, fifteen or so feet above the trail itself, at a point where the rail is fifteen or twenty feet above the high tide line. That means they're behind the growing frontal dunes. Every now and then a storm surge will drop driftwood among those frontal dunes, but it would take a tsunami to put a wave at the base of the markers.

I'm thinking of putting the replacement for the chopped-down one out among the growing dunes -- build a pressure-treat X fastened to the bottom, with some braces to hold it up; then pour about ten gallons of concrete on each end of the X, and twenty on the base of the pole. To finish I can just fill in between the growing dunes, making one big dune with a post buried four to six feet deep.

Oh, yeah -- I'd better put on the sign that says "TRAIL" and use a router to carve the trail name on the pole, before putting it up.

 

[jdcnow]

Well, an interesting thing just happened.

So I just got back from the Wells Fargo across the street from my apartment complex. I put in for the personal banker position the website had, and went over to do an in-person follow-up visit. Now, keep in mind, I'm in my best 3-piece suit (red shirt, chrome tie, black sport coat, and charcoal grey slacks, brown belt and brown dress shoes) - basically, dressed to kill. Well, after I came back, I immediately went to my apartment complex's office to follow up on if my apartment was treated Monday, when the pest control people came, since a paper receipt was not left behind like usual when they come by. (I'd been having off and on trouble with those little tiny pharoah ants in my kitchen pantry, at my bedroom computer desk - where I never eat ever, etc.)

So I walk in and the leasing guy is talking with some other customers, so I have a seat and wait my turn. Btw, the leasing guy is this tall 6ft-3, gorgeous young Hispanic guy, most resembling kinda Diego Sans from Randy Blue...

He finishes up with the other customers, gets up and walks around his desk to me, and greets me, "Hey, Joseph! Wow, you (stumbling chuckle) look great!"

I was like, "Yeah, trying for a job at the bank across the street..."

I'm not gonna lie, it kinda rocked my world that he noticed.

Dammit, I wish I knew more Spanish!!! /facepalm...

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Chupa mi mono works well.


(Suck my Monkey)

 

[jdcnow]

Chupa mi mono works well.


(Suck my Monkey)

GASP! Borg, I'm surprised at you!

Meanwhile inside my head...

 

[The Fly]

Chupa mi mono works well.


(Suck my Monkey)

Why are you pimping for a monkey?
Let him find his own partners, there must be a monkey hook up app....

 

[maxpowr9]

... or people not dimming their lights before they blind you.

I guess that function is automatic in some of the newer cars, but the sensors are off, IMO.

I had a rental once when I wrecked my car and it was a Buick Lucerne and it had auto headlights. Things were HORRIBLE. If it was overcast, it would automatically put on the high beams even when it was 4pm.

On that note of driving pet peeves...

-Grandpa in a V8 sedan driving well below the speed limit. 35 in a 45 zone is ghastly considering MA speeding laws.

-Woman on her cellphone or just women drivers in general, particularly ones in SUVs. Coincidentally, minivan women drivers tend to be better.

-Not using turn signals. That rental car mentioned above I got when my car was wrecked was a free repair because I rear-ended someone on a "major route" and the only reason I won the case was because said person was stopped but was not using a turn signal to go left. If they had their turn signal on, I would have been at fault but well; their $2800 loss, not mine!

-Cyclists in general. I am extremely tempted to hit one that is breaking "the rules of the road" just to teach them a lesson. If you are not in single-file, you are breaking the fucking law! If you do not stop at a stop sign or a red light, you are breaking the law! If you ride your bike on a sidewalk or in a crosswalk, you are breaking the law! If you are riding against traffic, you are breaking the law! Arrogant fuckers.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Cyclists are hit here nearly daily, and I feel little remorse for them. They pick and choose if the want to follow road rules or pedestrian, which ever works in their favor. Dive through traffic, assume cars see them and will stop, run red lights, don't signal turns, assume the fog / emergency area is theirs, ride on blind winding hilly country roads with no shoulders, ... I could go on.

Should one feel sorry for someone who knowingly swam in shark infested waters? I think if you're dumb enough to ride a bike in traffic, you deserve to get hit. Survival of the fittest rules apply.

 

[maxpowr9]

^joggers too don't follow the rules. It is actually against the law to run against traffic. I have swerved a few times to give them a scare but they are the ones that are breaking the law, not me.

I know for a fact that my hometown neighbor got a ticket once in front of his own house because he parked his car against traffic overnight.

 

[treeri]

What's the deal with guys lacking respect for one another? It's funny how they expect respect but can't express it!

I've been dating a guy and we've been having a great time together. The amount of smiling he does while we kiss and have sex (not to mention his vocalness too) tells me I'm doing everything right.... but he throws me off while making himself available on jack'd/grindr/adam4adam despite making it clear we are dating 1 on 1. The thing is that I absolutely cannot build anything from this! My guard is up and I don't feel comfortable around him; now I don't feel the need to invest myself any further. It sucks... but I'm breaking it off this weekend and ask to maintain a platonic friendship.

 

[maxpowr9]

^It's funny because my current BF and me are both what I call "prude sluts": we talk a big game but won't put out usually. I had a mutual friend of ours text me congratulating us on our relationship and how we are such a cute couple and I tell me my BF: "I dunno how to take this fucking compliment". He concurred and "we" proceeded to fuck with his mind over the ordeal; suggesting blumpkins and double-headed dildos.

 

[JPGhost]

Well, an interesting thing just happened.

So I just got back from the Wells Fargo across the street from my apartment complex. I put in for the personal banker position the website had, and went over to do an in-person follow-up visit. Now, keep in mind, I'm in my best 3-piece suit (red shirt, chrome tie, black sport coat, and charcoal grey slacks, brown belt and brown dress shoes) - basically, dressed to kill. Well, after I came back, I immediately went to my apartment complex's office to follow up on if my apartment was treated Monday, when the pest control people came, since a paper receipt was not left behind like usual when they come by. (I'd been having off and on trouble with those little tiny pharoah ants in my kitchen pantry, at my bedroom computer desk - where I never eat ever, etc.)

So I walk in and the leasing guy is talking with some other customers, so I have a seat and wait my turn. Btw, the leasing guy is this tall 6ft-3, gorgeous young Hispanic guy, most resembling kinda Diego Sans from Randy Blue...

He finishes up with the other customers, gets up and walks around his desk to me, and greets me, "Hey, Joseph! Wow, you (stumbling chuckle) look great!"

I was like, "Yeah, trying for a job at the bank across the street..."

I'm not gonna lie, it kinda rocked my world that he noticed.

Dammit, I wish I knew more Spanish!!! /facepalm...

I like hearing good news

 

[JPGhost]

Like I promised few weeks ago about plant vandals in my town

I cant stand them. My bet that this is juvenile delinquency/ teen type behavior. Shame for adult (even a drunk one) to do such vandal..

There should be fine for things like that! When they got caught from camcorder etc..
I cant help to put back those poor limped/dried plants back in planter, dont know whether they will survive or not :~(

 

[The Fly]

Like I promised few weeks ago about plant vandals in my town
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I cant stand them. My bet that this is juvenile delinquency/ teen type behavior. Shame for adult (even a drunk one) to do such vandal..

There should be fine for things like that! When they got caught from camcorder etc..
I cant help to put back those poor limped/dried plants back in planter, dont know whether they will survive or not :~(

Replant them, they might come back. And it may not be teens or drunks or even people, it could be squirrels. I have tons of potted plants around my yard and garden and squirrels are constantly digging stuff out and leaving it setting on the ground/deck. I just replant, water , and they usually come back. (unfortunately so do the squirrels)

 

[refujiunderground]

surprisingly enough, i haven't been heated recently although i almost got into a road rage incident last week. plus the ocd is under control where i'm not acting nutjobish and shit. only thing that i need is a decent job and money and i'm good.

 

[JPGhost]

Replant them, they might come back. And it may not be teens or drunks or even people, it could be squirrels. I have tons of potted plants around my yard and garden and squirrels are constantly digging stuff out and leaving it setting on the ground/deck. I just replant, water , and they usually come back. (unfortunately so do the squirrels)

It might be forgivable if naughty squirrels did but I doubt since the planters are out in town square, far from their habitat. Squirrel usually avoid freeway/ area with busy human concentration. I bet drunk juveniles did them, not only that..I've seen groundcover and flowering plants stomped alot until they grow defectly- obviously human deeds.

 

[cgymike]

July in Texas. Hundred-degree heat, god-awful humidity. And so dry that the lakes run low, and there's talk of water restrictions because cities' water supply is so low. Right?

Ha, ha, ha, and No!

It's been actually almost cold here, along with being overcast around the clock. Don't get me wrong, the rain is needed badly, but the weather the so screwed up and such a departure from a stereotypical July summer in Texas that most people here don't exactly know what to think. I'm right there with them.

Seattle has probably had more sun than Dallas this month though it is foggy in the morning some days...