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Title: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Opsa on December 09, 2008, 04:01:48 PM
MY HANDS ARE FREEZING OFF!
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Pachyderm on December 09, 2008, 04:56:47 PM
I'm getting the Evil Eye for quoting Python and the Goons...
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Sibling Chatty on December 10, 2008, 02:40:43 AM
Six hours ago, it was 81 degrees outside. Now it's 41.

One or the other, NOT both...
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 10, 2008, 05:48:20 AM
COLD. FRICKIN COLD. Not bad in the morning, or in the evening. BUT ALL AFTERNOON LONG it's freezing. I need more layers. :P
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on December 10, 2008, 06:03:45 AM
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 10, 2008, 02:40:43 AM
Six hours ago, it was 81 degrees outside. Now it's 41.

One or the other, NOT both...

LOL!

That sounds like Oklahomer weather! 

You sure you're not close to our red state?   ;D
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Opsa on December 10, 2008, 07:34:40 PM
Yesterday was dry and cool, today it's warm and rainy. MY SINUSES ARE IMPLODING!
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: stellinacadente on December 10, 2008, 08:44:58 PM
My sister (27 yrs old) and my daughter (4 yrs old) are fighting and drving me insane....HELP!!!!
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Sibling Chatty on December 11, 2008, 12:27:20 AM
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 10, 2008, 02:40:43 AM
Six hours ago, it was 81 degrees outside. Now it's 41.

One or the other, NOT both...

And then in SNOWED. And STUCK. And snowed more DURING THE DAY.

This is South Central TEXAS, dammit. We don't HAVE snow.

And it's supposed to be in the high 60's tomorrow...

Me? I'm hibernating.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 11, 2008, 04:17:34 AM
Yeah, that was weird! One of my friends is at Rice, and I got a text from her crowing about it.


All my finals are all crammed together. As in, five finals in two days. I wish I had thought about this before I registered.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Opsa on December 11, 2008, 07:31:04 PM
Quote from: stellinacadente on December 10, 2008, 08:44:58 PM
My sister (27 yrs old) and my daughter (4 yrs old) are fighting and drving me insane....HELP!!!!

One of these people has to grow up. I'm betting on the 4-year-old.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: anthrobabe on December 12, 2008, 08:41:32 AM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on December 11, 2008, 07:31:04 PM
Quote from: stellinacadente on December 10, 2008, 08:44:58 PM
My sister (27 yrs old) and my daughter (4 yrs old) are fighting and drving me insane....HELP!!!!

One of these people has to grow up. I'm betting on the 4-year-old.

Hey Stellina--- you want an 18 year old girl to add to the mix???? She come complete with her own very mobile loud mouth and ceramic hair straightener.
SHE MADE FRIED CHICKEN IN MY KITCHEN YESTERDAY AND USED EVERY DISH AND PAN IN MY KITCHEN TO DO SO AND I THINK SHE KILLED THE FISH WITH THE GREASE IN THE AIR AND I ACTUALLY SLID ON THE FLOOR WHEN I GOT UP TO GO TO WORK AND SHE WAS ASLEEP ON MY COUCH (AS ALWAYS) WITH ALL THE LIGHTS ON AND THE DVD PLAYER ON THE MENU 'PAGE' OF LABYRINTH PROBABLY FOR LIKE HOURS BY THEN.
anyway-- I can have her packed in 10 minutes
any takers????

Or better yet--- you come and live with me  ;)
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Darlica on December 12, 2008, 12:01:54 PM
A-babe, honey you love your daughters... both of them :)
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: beagle on December 12, 2008, 04:28:32 PM
A strange curse has been visited upon me. I was definitely overdue divine retribution in some form or other, but the exact nature of it has taken me by surprise.

It seems I break heat exchangers.  My car coolant has gradually been going down for months, despite changing the radiator. Now my boiler matrix is breaking down and leaking too, and we're talking £1500 (US$2250) to replace it (with an evil new condensing boiler featuring computers and software and other dangerous stuff computer programmers like me don't believe in).

Am I wasting my time suspecting and changing boilers, heater matrixes, core plugs and head gaskets? Is the real problem bad karma, not bad engineering?
How big a sacrifice is it going to take (given my atheist track record) to get the gods back on side?


Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Opsa on December 12, 2008, 06:15:35 PM
Once I was really mad and pressed on a car window button and smoke came out of it and it never worked again! Maybe we've discovered an automotive equivalent to those spontaneous combustion people- maybe we're spontaneous automotive combustion people! Stay calm when in cars or ...BOOFAH!!!
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: The Meromorph on December 12, 2008, 08:39:41 PM
Quote from: beagle on December 12, 2008, 04:28:32 PM
A strange curse has been visited upon me. I was definitely overdue divine retribution in some form or other, but the exact nature of it has taken me by surprise.

It seems I break heat exchangers.  My car coolant has gradually been going down for months, despite changing the radiator. Now my boiler matrix is breaking down and leaking too, and we're talking £1500 (US$2250) to replace it (with an evil new condensing boiler featuring computers and software and other dangerous stuff computer programmers like me don't believe in).

Am I wasting my time suspecting and changing boilers, heater matrixes, core plugs and head gaskets? Is the real problem bad karma, not bad engineering?
How big a sacrifice is it going to take (given my atheist track record) to get the gods back on side?




Laddie, yer've got it upside down! The gods are the ones playin' the game! If yer gets involved wi' 'em, yer jist wun o' th' pieces!
Yer needs ter tell 'em ter piss off and put yez back in th' Atheist box an' stop play wit yez...
They're well in need o' a guid kickin'...
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: beagle on December 12, 2008, 09:58:06 PM
Quote from: The Meromorph on December 12, 2008, 08:39:41 PM
Laddie, yer've got it upside down! The gods are the ones playin' the game! If yer gets involved wi' 'em, yer jist wun o' th' pieces!

Think you're on to something there. That Greek idea that the gods slouch around Olympus playing with human lives for fun has always struck me as a more accurate looking model than anything the Abrahamic religions have come up with.

Perhaps the heat exchanger curse is left over vengeance from the Prometheus business.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: anthrobabe on December 14, 2008, 08:27:42 AM
Quote from: Darlica on December 12, 2008, 12:01:54 PM
A-babe, honey you love your daughters... both of them :)

I most certainly do--- but sometimes-- o I tell ya.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Griffin NoName on December 14, 2008, 08:27:44 PM
Quote from: beagle on December 12, 2008, 04:28:32 PM
A strange curse has been visited upon me. I was definitely overdue divine retribution in some form or other, but the exact nature of it has taken me by surprise.

It seems I break heat exchangers.  My car coolant has gradually been going down for months, despite changing the radiator. Now my boiler matrix is breaking down and leaking too, and we're talking £1500 (US$2250) to replace it (with an evil new condensing boiler featuring computers and software and other dangerous stuff computer programmers like me don't believe in).

Am I wasting my time suspecting and changing boilers, heater matrixes, core plugs and head gaskets? Is the real problem bad karma, not bad engineering?
How big a sacrifice is it going to take (given my atheist track record) to get the gods back on side?

There you go, barking up the wrong tree. Ye Gods! You've just been hit by the God of Credit Crunch. No coolant and a broken boiler ?  Go live in your nice over-heated car. Much cheaper all round.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: beagle on December 17, 2008, 07:36:32 AM
May come to that. Latest estimate around £2500 (~US$4000).

Freeze or starve?  Doesn't feel like a good time to be spending that much.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: DaveL on December 17, 2008, 09:11:59 AM
I though you meant Cap's tolerated. That'll be the day  ;D ;D
Sorry wrong forum.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Opsa on December 17, 2008, 04:39:45 PM
You're more than just tolerated, Cap'n... you're treasured!  :glommp:
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 18, 2008, 05:26:56 AM
All right, so I had to may up the one yoga class I missed. I call the place, listen to their stupid voice message detailing how to get there, how to spell the name of the street it's one, yadda yadda yadda.
He said class was at 5pm.
It turns out he had swapped the message over early, and it didn't start AT 5pm until three weeks from now. I wasn't about to drive all the way home again, so I spent half an hour in the cold, cold COLD It's not supposed to GET THAT COLD here! Where are my sunny beaches? in my car.
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Sibling Chatty on December 19, 2008, 02:37:12 AM
It's HOT, then it SNOWS, then it's hot, then it's cold, then it's hotter'n HELL, and soon it is to be COLD again. :o :o

WHASSUP wif dat?? ???

I'ma move to Puerto Rico, where it's 70-80 degrees, get me a 'lectric fan and STAY there.

Temps projected for Sunday AM? 20F. Dat iz BELOW freezin'. I DO NOT do below freezinz. :axe:

wharz mai blankie??
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: anthrobabe on December 19, 2008, 09:24:14 AM
Quote from: Sibling Chatty on December 19, 2008, 02:37:12 AM
It's HOT, then it SNOWS, then it's hot, then it's cold, then it's hotter'n HELL, and soon it is to be COLD again. :o :o

WHASSUP wif dat?? ???

I'ma move to Puerto Rico, where it's 70-80 degrees, get me a 'lectric fan and STAY there.

Temps projected for Sunday AM? 20F. Dat iz BELOW freezin'. I DO NOT do below freezinz. :axe:

wharz mai blankie??

The entire state of Texas is having hot flashes-- hot,cold,hot,cold,

etcetera
and snow in Vegas

Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Pachyderm on December 19, 2008, 09:49:41 AM
real snow, fake snow or the "snow" that you stick up a nostril?
Title: Re: Crabbeaux's Fast Complaints Department (Caps tolerated)
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 19, 2008, 06:58:46 PM
Quote from: Pachyderm on December 19, 2008, 09:49:41 AM
real snow, fake snow or the "snow" that you stick up a nostril?
All of the above (it IS Vegas).
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Work sucks. Labor cutbacks means nothing gets done and I was the only one on the floor for half an hour ---> NOT ok, NOT safe. The other girl was kind enough to stay (after she clocked off) and help me with the rush that came in. It used to be "Time worked, time paid."
Not the case anymore, clearly, because there's no other option. You can't have more than four, maybe five people come through and not need two people if speed is to be achieved.
Which they want, and the maintenance of store cleanliness, good service, FAST service, and they want you out on time. This will not work.
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I really need to get on that job search, because this is not ok.