The I Miss the Old Days Complaint Thread

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Um, hello?   WendyLuvsCatz, hello?  Did we lose you?  Have you gone down a rabbit hole of musing? surprise

    And besides, leaving this place is hard.  I tried to get rid of myself from here once.  Didn't work.  I could hear empty echos in my head and had to come back to fill it up with complainish nonsense again.indecision

    nah. DAZ just got my last dollar yesterday 

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Smart moose!  Apparently not Bullwinkle.smiley

     

    Complaint:  When watching TV, and a chart or diagram or something comes onto the screen, and you're interested, and you grab the remote to pause the image so that you can peruse the frozen information for a moment, but one of Murphy's Laws apparently applies, because one quarter second before you press the pause button, the image goes back to the talking head and then you end up rewinding or backspacing or otherwise jockying around, fumbling & grumbling at the air in the room.frown  It seems like time is never on your side.indecision

    ...part of the reason I dislike video tutorials. When I want to stop on a specific frame to look at the results or see what the settings/options used are, it never stops right at that point butseveral frames afterwards,and sometimes it is blurry,

    Then there is the retention issue I have with video lessons which makes me have to keep rewinding and replaying segments over and over. repeatedly  So much easier to have a PDF on the other display open to the pages that detail what I am trying to learn.

    This is why my modelling skill pretty much sucks. as everything today for Blender is on video so its usually a case of trial and error (heavy on the latter).

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036

    ...finally actually bought something, a Daz+ item for 3.50$ by Merlin that would work grat for my stories. So 35% of a token earned.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,258

    I don't understand why I keep dreaming of aquarium size whales.  They are still not small but about a yard or so long.  They require a very big aquarium!

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited March 2023

    Sfariah D said:

    I don't understand why I keep dreaming of aquarium size whales.  They are still not small but about a yard or so long.  They require a very big aquarium!

    But you could take them for a walk, in a big toy dumptruck.enlightened 

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  • tsroemitsroemi Posts: 2,742

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Um, hello?   WendyLuvsCatz, hello?  Did we lose you?  Have you gone down a rabbit hole of musing? surprise

    And besides, leaving this place is hard.  I tried to get rid of myself from here once.  Didn't work.  I could hear empty echos in my head and had to come back to fill it up with complainish nonsense again.indecision

    nah. DAZ just got my last dollar yesterday 

    I think I'm gonna call my next band Complainish Nonsense  enlightened

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505

    tsroemi said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Um, hello?   WendyLuvsCatz, hello?  Did we lose you?  Have you gone down a rabbit hole of musing? surprise

    And besides, leaving this place is hard.  I tried to get rid of myself from here once.  Didn't work.  I could hear empty echos in my head and had to come back to fill it up with complainish nonsense again.indecision

    nah. DAZ just got my last dollar yesterday 

    I think I'm gonna call my next band Complainish Nonsense  enlightened

    I knew I should have copywrited that phrase.frown 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited March 2023

    Scam Warning:  Ancient people beware.  Actually, anybody with an American Social Security Number.(SSN).  I got this email tonight.  Lots of clues*, so It's obviously scareware and bogus.  But there are enough naive people out there who would fall for it,  Don't click on the PDF document, don't call, don't respond.  The Social Security Administration would never contact you by email.  If you feel like you have to check, then look up the phone number for the SSA yourself through safe sources.

     

    *Clues: 

    1) Return email address:  Government wouldn't use "gmail".

    2) "Immediate" response needed.  (Nothing in government operations is immediate, especially if the right thing to do is obvious.)

    3)  A PDF "bomb" attachment to click on.  Don't.  Just don't!

    (*sigh*) I'll vote for anyone with a proper plan to rid us of these scams.indecision

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,258

    Reminds me of this!  My acct access has been placed on h0ld for recent billing.  WTF does that mean!   No legit bank would put anything on h0ld.  Also WTF does recent billing mean?

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  • Also a Social Security number cannot be "terminated". They only get put out of use when the Social Security Administration is notified that a person is dead. And you have to have proof of death.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited March 2023

    I ran across this recent clip, which seems relative to this current topic.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095

    Sfariah D said:

    I don't understand why I keep dreaming of aquarium size whales.  They are still not small but about a yard or so long.  They require a very big aquarium!

    Sounds like the rare tea-cup whale.  Although they could safely live up to 70 years in captivity, it would be highly illegal to keep them as pets. But it's okay to dream about them - they can't arrest you for dreaming - yet.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Scam Warning:  Ancient people beware.  Actually, anybody with an American Social Security Number.(SSN).  I got this email tonight.  Lots of clues*, so It's obviously scareware and bogus.  But there are enough naive people out there who would fall for it,  Don't click on the PDF document, don't call, don't respond.  The Social Security Administration would never contact you by email.  If you feel like you have to check, then look up the phone number for the SSA yourself through safe sources.

     

    *Clues: 

    1) Return email address:  Government wouldn't use "gmail".

    2) "Immediate" response needed.

    3)  A PDF "bomb" attachment to click on.  Don't.  Just don't!

    (*sigh*) I'll vote for anyone with a proper plan to rid us of these scams.indecision

    ...I get a lot of them for places I don't even do business at. 

    More clues:  If the return emial address is a bunch of "gobbldy gook", has a typo in the sender company name, or ends with ",edu" .

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,047

    I get a text telling me that my Paypal and/or Amazon account is locked nearly every day.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505

    hacsart said:

    one of the best railroad tales was when I was at one of the major diesel shops installing a new CBT system.. of course one was given and had to wear full safety gear.  Was watching as an overhead gantry crane lifted a 200 ton loco.. Shop foreman said - 'that's why the hardhat son, if that ever fell on you there might be enough left in the hat to figure out who you were" all followed by a slap on the back and a hearty chuckle...

    I saw a video on YouTube a while ago, that showed a locomotive being lifted on (or off) a ship, and it fell about 30 feet to the ground .  Oopsy.surprise 

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,807

    LeatherGryphon said:

    I saw a video on YouTube a while ago, that showed a locomotive being lifted on (or off) a ship, and it fell about 30 feet to the ground .  Oopsy.surprise 

    It won't be long before that locomotive is all polished up and sitting in the lot at the local TrainMax, where they always do a 120 point inspection and provide a TrainFax report that has no record of this engine ever being in an accident. For an added degree of confidence, the salesperson will point to a picture of a wrecked train on the wall and assure you, "we would never sell you that train". 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,258

    I want to go to bed?  Why do I need a reason to get cool whip?  Can't just getting be enough?

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,047

    FYI Talenti chocolate peanut butter cup gelato is among the very best things.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    Sfariah D said:

    I don't understand why I keep dreaming of aquarium size whales.  They are still not small but about a yard or so long.  They require a very big aquarium!

    According to Freud it seems you are suffering from "Pancreas Envy"... Essentially, at some point in your life someone (most likely a whale or other large cetacean whose opinion you held in high regard or deeply respected) probably belittled your pancreas and since then you've subconsciously harbored a resentment towards all those who you've felt had larger pancreases... naturally since whales have the largest pancreases out of all vertebrates (Not counting the long extinct Pancreasaurus Rex), you held a deep resentment towards their marvelous huge pancreases and wished to see them put in their place by shrinking them down to the size of a very large herring so you can lord over them with your normal human sized pancreas.

    I recommend ice cream therapy, particularly a strong dose of Häagen-Dazs, at least 473 cc (a pint)... you can substitute chocolate chip cookies or gummy bears, but there is a greater chance you may keep dreaming of whales, particularly Orcas on bicycles.

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    McGyver said:

    According to Freud it seems you are suffering from "Pancreas Envy"...

     "Pancreas Envy" - I'd be happy just to have one that works.....

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048

    zombietaggerung said:

    Also a Social Security number cannot be "terminated". They only get put out of use when the Social Security Administration is notified that a person is dead. And you have to have proof of death.

    You can get a new number but only in a couple of very specific circumstances and you have to back thoughts claims with an obscene amount of documentation for the change. It is not an easy task to do.

  • NylonGirlNylonGirl Posts: 1,807

    I refuse to believe a porpoise is real. I think that's something that was made up today. Only tortoises are real, and they're probably just turtles.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202

    NylonGirl said:

    I refuse to believe a porpoise is real. I think that's something that was made up today. Only tortoises are real, and they're probably just turtles.

    I raise you

    Narwhal

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095

    NylonGirl said:

    I refuse to believe a porpoise is real. I think that's something that was made up today. Only tortoises are real, and they're probably just turtles.

    I believe that every one of us has a porpoise in life. 

    Only some of us have a tortoise. 

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited March 2023

    Complaint: Today I go to the kidney doctor for lab work. 

    Non-complaint: It's easier than the lab work I used to do at my job.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    NylonGirl said:

    I refuse to believe a porpoise is real. I think that's something that was made up today. Only tortoises are real, and they're probably just turtles.

    I raise you

    Narwhal

    I thought you were going to say "Platypus". 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    TJohn said:

    Complaint: Today I go to the kidney doctor for lab work. 

    Non-complaint: It's easier than the lab work I used to do at my job.

    You don't have to sell your kidney today, one gets double tokens all day long wink 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,258

    I got a new pair of glasses today!

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  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050

    I really gotta stop writing long replies to people. I'm starting to think half of them are hallucinations that I didn't even have the fun of having the pleasure of doing something that would cause them... granted, all the head injuries add up, but I keep thinking threads should be at least a page longer but when I go back it was all a sweaty dream... 

    Megh... it wouldn't be so bad if it didn't suck so much fighting with the getting logged out constantly.

    Thbbpthpbt!!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202

    I had an awful dream about a pineapple apparently

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