Been to quite a few places and never had my asshole clench tighter more than being in a marshrutka in the Balkans/Eastern Europe.
I’m sure based on the number of car-related deaths per capita from Wikipedia that parts of Africa are worse. But I was sure I was gonna die on multiple occasions while in those regions on vacation.
Shockingly, I have found American drivers unusually courteous by comparison.
Buying pastries for breakfast.
Ordered two.
“For here?”
Yes please.
And she puts it on two plates. It’s too early to be judged lady.
New American colleague in my office talks non-stop in what I can only describe as TED Talk style, complete with the overconfidence and frequent lack of credibility.
TED Talks are the porn of public speaking. Predictable, formulaic, and the ending is exactly the same all the time.
Does “TED Talker” exist as a Seinfeldian term for someone who delivers even the most banal one-on-one small talk like it’s part of their one big chance at impressing a large audience?
If not I’m claiming it.
Elaine: Jerry, Ted is just crazy! He just drones on and on about some topic that I don’t really care about but no matter the topic or content, I feel happy about it when he’s done talking.
Jerry: He’s a Ted-Talker.
Why are car alarms a thing.
this is my ex-gf’s daughter, who i’m still and always will be step dad to. she is a, uhh, fully developed, large 12-year old who has been doing cross country practice after school from 330-530pm and then immediately going to soccer practice from 530-730pm. she has to eat a good lunch not getting home until just before 8pm 4 days a week.
this is literally what’s wrong with this country. schools won’t pay for a good enough lunch, so they make the parents pay (even though it’s literally the law that she has to be in school from 8-3pm every day). then, when the parents want to put money on the system, THEY WANT TO CHARGE YOU MOTHERFUCKING 33% EXTRA FOR A… wait for it…
INTERNET CONVENIENCE FEE.
i am seriously fucking livid. i seriously might call there tomorrow to bitch. don’t want to put $100 at a time on there (which would make the fee less stupid, but also means she’s gonna spend it all on her friends and be broke in a week), but literally CAN’T just post a couple bucks at a time…
i deleted my card off of there and didn’t deposit anything. i’ll have to figure something else out bc fuck the mother of whoever put that fee on there. fucking whore. bank’s gonna give me a couple stacks of ones tomorrow so i can give her $3 a day.
edit to add: took me 6 full minutes to figure out how to even deposit and have it NOT be a recurring deposit. like somebody somewhere definitely spent a day’s work programming the website to make it damn fucking near impossible to just send money once. on mobile it’s 100% impossible to do unless you figure out that turning your phone sideways to landscape is the only way to see the option to turn it off
May be who the school district payed to provide the billing service are charging them that much to run the site. Which just changes what kind of stupid it is…
That’s where the internet convenience fee comes in. They can’t just make it that obtuse for free, they have mouths to feed.
She’s spent the last ten minutes explaining to a Chinese colleague what an honorary degree is, complete with an anecdote about Hitler awarding Andrew Carnegie one.
The colleague had come across something like “honorum juris doctor”. Of course they didn’t need a deep dive into what an honorary degree is.
The level of discourse on this forum appears to has reached a new low.
I’m disappointed in all of you.
Garter Snake got stuck in my screened in porch. I removed him kindly and gently and he shat on me.
I remember being peed on by a snake, picking them up as a kid, but never had a snake poop on me. I didn’t care for it.
Also a buddy of me sent me this beer and I think it sucks. It’s like $4 probably, I’m so cheap I hate throwing it out, so I’ll probably drink it. I love Imperial Stouts, this is bad and the people who made it should feel bad.
I would never do this is a place with more guns than people.
A financial account that requires 2FA via text on every single login stopped being able to text me a couple of weeks ago. But if I “try another way”, it can call my phone, and have an automated voice slowly read the verification code out to me.
If there’s a silver lining it’s an account administered in the UK, so at least my call to the helpline was pleasant (although the issue was not resolved).
It’s 2023 and I don’t know why printer companies can’t fucking figure out how to get a printer to work reliably over wifi.
The latest problem: I can print things just fine from my laptop, but now it can’t seem to communicate with the scanner part of the printer. And of course, you can’t just press a “scan” button on the printer. That would be too easy. You have to use an HP scan app. But the app decided it doesn’t want to talk to the scanner anymore.
Download an HP fixit app, it says. Ok! That just tells me something is wrong, but doesn’t actually attempt to fix it. Every solution online is unplug the printer, check the cables, reboot the router, etc., all the same dumb shit. Drivers updated? Of course.
So I gave up and decided to uninstall the printer from my laptop and reinstall it. The incredibly awful HP Smart app that they want you to use can see the printer just fine, so I click on it to set it up, only for it to tell me that it is offline and I should turn it on. IT’S FUCKING ON. I’M LOOKING AT THE LIT UP PANEL! Fuck you.
EDIT: Yes, I’m going to just go into Windows settings and reinstall the printer manually. Just tried it and it now only detected the scanner and of course, even though it “installed” it, it still doesn’t work. For some reason, for the printer portion, it is only letting me install with a WPS PIN, which I can’t access at the moment.
This shit still amazes me. Like you can have a hundred people in a hundred locations on a Zoom call at the same time, but somehow the data that gets sent to the printer just can’t cut the mustard.
Thing is, it worked pretty darn well when I first bought the printer in 2021. I replaced a very good Brother printer because it didn’t have built-in wifi and it had started to get wonky with my “connect it directly to the router via ethernet” setup. Also, I wanted to print envelopes for my son’s bar mitzvah and the Brother printer mangled them.
Even though the HP Smart app didn’t work when installing the printer, I did it manually on all the PCs in the house, and everything worked swimmingly. But over time, things have gotten worse and worse.
People still use printers at home? What year is it, 2003?!
