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Haifisch posted:I like dogs as a concept, but in practice most dogs are understimulated balls of energy and noise owned by people who view them more as decorations than as actual living creatures that want care, attention, and stuff to do. And then the predictable results of an untrained animal bored out of its mind(constant barking, destroying stuff, acting aggressive towards people) is handwaved as 'dogs being dogs'. Welcome brother Rabbit Hill posted:I live in an apartment building in the center of town. Every few days, a landscaping crew parks on the street below my window, men get out with leaf-blowers, and at sporadic intervals all day long, they pace up and down the block while pointing their leaf-blowers into the air. The noise started at 8:15 this morning, stopped for a while, and now it's started again. The noise is driving me crazy. Naturally, I left my noise-cancelling headphones in my desk in my workplace, where I can't enter. I have to work on spreadsheets all day with this horrible noise and I have ADHD and I cannot concentrate.  lucky for me it's only Mondays, and I still have to show up every other Monday. Last week it sucked a lot though.
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Just want to report that it’s 6:37 pm and the leaf-blowers are still going. 10 hours of leaf-blowing, on a rainy spring day. I just don’t understand.
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Apr 14, 2020 23:39
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growing up in the southwest gave me a permanent undying hatred for "lawns" there is beautiful unique flora of a shitload of different varieties down there, but no, let's waste god-knows-how-much water and energy planting well-manicured grass and trees and flowers and bushes from half a world away, and run loud-as-gently caress machinery every other goddam day to make sure it stays "pristine" god forbid a leaf be on the sidewalk or a blade of grass just over the curb, best use a diesel-powered machine to fight back. e: the city is loud as gently caress but it feels organic and beautiful compared to being a kid who liked the outdoors, sitting outside at like 6am and then hearing the chorus of a million mowers and weedwhackers and leafblowers whirring up in unison and not ceasing for the whole day. people who think "fresh cut grass" is a good smell are foreign as gently caress to me. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 23:53 on Apr 14, 2020 |
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Apr 14, 2020 23:48
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One of my neighbors gets up at 5 AM and mows his lawn every single day. Sometimes he mows it again in the evening, too. His yard is small but it still takes him multiple hours because he has to stop every few seconds to chug water from his giant insulated mug and there's barely enough room for him to maneuver his giant riding mower. All of the driving around on the small lawn wears tire tracks into it, so he has to spread seed all of the time. Then right back to mowing. Lawn people are weird poo poo. If he ever finds out about robot mowers, I'm sure he'll get one and run it 24/7.
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Apr 15, 2020 01:26
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I miss smoking at 6 am on a snowy morning in Kansas. It was so quiet the only thing I could hear was my cigarette
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Apr 15, 2020 01:34
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I had a neighbor in Tennessee who would leaf blow his empty lawn every day starting at 6 AM, no matter the season, and it was aggravating as hell. In retrospect he might have been developmentally challenged. I'm looking at home ownership here in Colorado in the not so distant future and I'm considering a full arid style low maintenance "lawn"
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Apr 15, 2020 18:21
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Dumb and petty, but people using "typo" for a word they turbofucked the spelling of all on their own. Don't try to tell me your fingers would ever accidentally slam out "inchouragment" or some poo poo on the keyboard, I'm not the stupid one.
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Apr 17, 2020 14:29
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Rabbit Hill posted:Just want to report that it’s 6:37 pm and the leaf-blowers are still going. Leaf blowers are pullstart and a pain to stop and restart constantly, so they start them at the top of the day and only shut them off for lunch and quitting time. Should they run them all day? Probably not, but they do.
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Apr 17, 2020 14:38
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Indolent Bastard posted:Leaf blowers are pullstart and a pain to stop and restart constantly, so they start them at the top of the day and only shut them off for lunch and quitting time. perhaps just don't loving use them? crazy idea i no
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Apr 17, 2020 15:38
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:perhaps just don't loving use them? crazy idea i no Then how are you going to blow your leaves, genius?
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Apr 17, 2020 17:10
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Nostradingus posted:Then how are you going to blow your leaves, genius? Well, there are these things called rakes.
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Apr 17, 2020 20:24
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MightyJoe36 posted:Well, there are these things called rakes. I don't understand how you blow leaves with this weird looking piece of poo poo: 
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Apr 17, 2020 20:32
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Neighbour's son has a new moped. He is driving back and forth, up and down the street, making the engine backfire on purpose every few minutes.
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Apr 17, 2020 21:32
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MightyJoe36 posted:Well, there are these things called rakes. Grab a rake and use it for hours and hours every day. For weeks and months and years. Let me know how you feel about blowers then. Blowers are noisy, but they make a poo poo job slightly less poo poo for unskilled labourers. Sorry dude. 🤷♂️
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Apr 18, 2020 02:21
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I just leave the leaves where they fall and it's always been fine.
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Apr 18, 2020 06:25
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You gotta have that perfectly manicured fake-rear end looking lawn.
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Apr 18, 2020 10:39
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I thought of a peeve, but by the time I located this thread, I forgot it, so I guess forgetting things is my peeve now
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Apr 21, 2020 20:10
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I'm working outside in a freezing windchill sanitizing carts at the grocery store and the cold is making my nose run and the snot is soaking my loving face mask. And an old man got mad at me and told me im ridiculous because this is just the flu. Go catch it then you abominable rear end
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Apr 22, 2020 16:33
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YouTube remembers the things you search for, which is handy because I often search for channels I like to see their new videos and I like not having to retype the whole name. But for some reason it absolutely refuses to remember "you suck at cooking". Just will not autocomplete it no matter how many times or how frequently I search for it. It's utterly perplexing and very irritating.
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Apr 22, 2020 16:55
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Indolent Bastard posted:Leaf blowers are pullstart and a pain to stop and restart constantly, so they start them at the top of the day and only shut them off for lunch and quitting time. What kind of leafblowers are these people using? I mean, yeah, sometimes the first pull-start of the day is rough (I've used the smaller hand-held ones and also the kind you wear like a backpack), but once you've ran it for a bit it's real easy to get going again. And if you're running it all day it's gonna run out of gas a few times anyway so that wouldn't actually prevent multiple pull-starts.
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Apr 22, 2020 22:33
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poo poo programs and phone apps that include recommendations or suggestions that you can not turn off and are not based on what you do in the app, like spotify has a big dumb TEDx banner at the top because it thinks i will like it, but i dont want to even remember that that poo poo exists related: the use of tedx in education. don't use ted talks in schools idiots it's literally brain poison
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Apr 22, 2020 22:57
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Tiggum posted:YouTube remembers the things you search for, which is handy because I often search for channels I like to see their new videos and I like not having to retype the whole name. But for some reason it absolutely refuses to remember "you suck at cooking". Just will not autocomplete it no matter how many times or how frequently I search for it. It's utterly perplexing and very irritating. It's almost certainly the word 'suck'. It always makes me smile when I type in something with a curse word and search suggestions just stops dead like it has no idea what strange mystical glyph I just put in. F... gently caress??? The F word?? SURELY you meant to type 'gently caress'... Here are results for gently caress because we are not allowed to show you suggestions for the bad word.
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Apr 22, 2020 23:43
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InediblePenguin posted:I'm working outside in a freezing windchill sanitizing carts at the grocery store and the cold is making my nose run and the snot is soaking my loving face mask. And an old man got mad at me and told me im ridiculous because this is just the flu. Go catch it then you abominable rear end It is sure as gently caress not just the flu. I have never been that sick in my entire life. If I lived alone I would have ended up in the hospital, I straight up was unable to take care of myself. Even walking ten feet to the bathroom had me winded.
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Apr 23, 2020 05:01
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CJacobs posted:It's almost certainly the word 'suck'. It always makes me smile when I type in something with a curse word and search suggestions just stops dead like it has no idea what strange mystical glyph I just put in. Weirdly, it will suggest things that start "you suck at cooking" it just won't suggest that phrase by itself or remember that I've searched it before:  So I can press the down arrow and then delete the word "chili" to get the actual channel name, but it won't offer even that suggestion until I get to the U of "suck".
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Apr 23, 2020 05:42
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CJacobs posted:It's almost certainly the word 'suck'. It always makes me smile when I type in something with a curse word and search suggestions just stops dead like it has no idea what strange mystical glyph I just put in. Try typing "Skeletons Having Sex On A Hot Tin Roof" on your phone, and see how far you get with YouTube's autofill.
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Apr 23, 2020 05:53
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Well it wasn't the word I was expecting I'll give you that (it was 'having'). Clearly youtube has a paranoid bias against skeletons claiming ownership of things.
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Apr 23, 2020 06:11
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CJacobs posted:Well it wasn't the word I was expecting I'll give you that (it was 'having'). Clearly youtube has a paranoid bias against skeletons claiming ownership of things. Poor Mr skeltal 
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Apr 23, 2020 06:59
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Tiggum posted:Weirdly, it will suggest things that start "you suck at cooking" it just won't suggest that phrase by itself or remember that I've searched it before: How often do you listen to the Murmurs to get that to pop up? I haven't listened to that song in ages. The video clip is painfully early/mid nineties. Missing some b+w street scenes shot at odd angles though, so could be worse.
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Apr 24, 2020 02:37
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Elissimpark posted:How often do you listen to the Murmurs to get that to pop up? I don't think I ever have. 
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Apr 24, 2020 05:44
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Huh, it doesn't show on my phone, but my PC YouTube search matches yours more or less. The video only has 300k views too. A mystery indeed.
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Apr 24, 2020 08:19
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You click a video on Facebook, watch a little bit and decide you're done with it, so you click it again to stop it playing because that's how literally every other internet video works but instead it just makes it bigger. 
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Apr 30, 2020 15:25
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Oookay, got a couple today. ONE. Just... motorcycles. Why are they so loud? Why are there always a thousand of them, roaring at top volume, within earshot? TWO. People who blast music on their bluetooth speaker loud enough to hear down the block. Not only do we get to hear your lovely music, but ALSO your CONSTANT TEXT MESSAGE DINGS and the S_NGS CU_TT_NG OU_ when you walk away! Thanks!
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May 3, 2020 01:44
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The good news is, someone who lives near you owning a motorcycle is a problem that eventually takes care of itself
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May 3, 2020 02:23
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CJacobs posted:The good news is, someone who lives near you owning a motorcycle is a problem that eventually takes care of itself Unfortunately at the end of my street there's a bar that's pretty popular with bikers. So it's kind of a renewing problem. I've absolutely seen what looked like wakes there, though, so that's... well, not sure where I'm going with that.Only time I've ever called the cops in my neighborhood was when I saw the people down the street put a 13-14yo girl on the motorcycle, she drove it a few houses' length, then fell over and lay still for a couple minutes. I happened to see this from the porch, couldn't believe my eyes. I've never seen anything so stupid in my life, besides the guy who drove with a dog in a pickup bed on the highway.
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work in a grocery store we finally have toilet paper but people are still fear-stocking canned goods to the point we can't keep them in stock we have a limit: no more than 4 cans of each type of item - you can get 4 cans of carrots and 4 cans of peas and 4 cans of sweet corn and 4 cans of a slightly different kind of carrot and 4 cans of potatoes and so on, it's not like "you can only get 4 cans, total" - i think this is loving generous but today was my first time working near the registers instead of out and around the shop so i got to hear the MULTIPLE PEOPLE demanding to speak to the manager about our DRACONIAN NONSENSE RATIONING they all argued that because our shelves are almost bare and we keep running out of stock, they NEED to buy all of it before somebody else does i have spent the last several years of my life trying to become a better, kinder, more forgiving person. to become more of a pacifist and stop getting so loving angry but holy poo poo i wished loving destruction upon all those people and i'm disappointed it didn't get visited upon them loving immediately
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May 3, 2020 02:57
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There is NOTHING I hate more than someone explaining why a policy/rule/law exists in their rationale for why it shouldn't
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May 3, 2020 03:03
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at least the store manager was pretty straightforward with saying "there are ten thousand other people in this town who also need to eat. i'll take your extra cans and put them back on the shelf for you." without brooking any further argument or trying to sweet-talk them at all, because he's been dealing with this poo poo every day for a month and a half and he's fuckin done with humoring these people. if i'd had to listen to somebody BE NICE TO THESE ASSHOLES i would've probably acted impulsively out of frustrated fury, and it would've been embarrassing rather than badass in any way lmbo
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May 3, 2020 03:09
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Brawnfire posted:There is NOTHING I hate more than someone explaining why a policy/rule/law exists in their rationale for why it shouldn't
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May 3, 2020 03:26
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Some one, probably my downstairs neighbour, has filled one of my green bins, which are for garden waste only, with bedding, probably because the black bins were full until this friday, so I'm going to have to sort that out before I can do any gardening. All they've done is waste my time.
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BioEnchanted posted:Some one, probably my downstairs neighbour, has filled one of my green bins, which are for garden waste only, with bedding, probably because the black bins were full until this friday, so I'm going to have to sort that out before I can do any gardening. All they've done is waste my time. My father-in-law helped with a lot of remodeling of our house (which I am grateful for), but doesn’t live in a city with the multi garbage can thing. So every other month I’d see the garbage men dump our stuff, then stop and get out of the truck with a clipboard to write something down and it’s like “Oh good, I guess the utility bill will be a bit higher this month”. And no, explaining the cans doesn’t work with him. I’ve been in the same career for a decade and he still has never internalized what my job is, no matter how many times I explain it.
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