What's mildly irritating you today? - Page 280

jimhelm · 03-07-2012, 02:08 PM

Its balmy out. I have an extra hour to kill.

Someone parked a fucking truck 10 inches from the doors of the shed where I park my motorcycle. The doors open outward. I cannot ride. This is more than mildly irritating.

wolf · 03-07-2012, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

I overcooked my challah.
Still, at least it was only the practice loaf.

Knock the burnt bits off with a bread knife, cut into chunks, make bread pudding. Teh awesome.

wolf · 03-07-2012, 05:11 PM

I made a terrible mistake last week. I went shopping at the supermarket I don't usually go to. The one where I nearly always run into a crazy person I know, and the one that I know better than to buy fruit in. So what did I do? I bought fruit. Bananas from a banana conglomerate that I never heard of before, and they were all pretty uniformly green on the display, and I never buy bananas that green, but I really wanted bananas, so I bought them anyway. They are finally and nearly edible stage ... six days later. They are usually banana bread fodder at six days, people. But anyway, I'm finally ready to eat one of these things and it's like a damn wrestling match trying to extract the banana from the peel, top wouldn't snap off like they're supposed to, just rotated around and around making the top end of the banana all mushy. Was about to resort to using a knife when the peel split near the top. I now have banana goo under my fingernails from trying to enlarge the itty bitty split. I should have gone for the knife. Or I should have bought these Peruvian bananas.

Spexxvet · 03-07-2012, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

I told you she had brain damage.

Now we're going to have to operate.

We'll go in straight through the retina and down the optic nerve.

Naw, just amputate at the neck.

Blueflare · 03-07-2012, 06:43 PM

My neighbours. Their contract elapsed in early February, but they won't leave. They have nowhere else to go, which is their own fault for making themselves unhousable by shouting and playing loud music all the time, revving motorbikes in the back garden for no reason, and all manner of other things I won't begin to list. The landlord is taking them to court, but such things take time.
I'm really well past irritation... if there were a "What are you grimly resigned to but no longer have enough energy to get angry about and just want to be over?" thread, this would fit in better.

infinite monkey · 03-07-2012, 06:48 PM

Loud people drive me crazy. Occasional loudness is fine: people who think that making big annoying noises all the time is an endearing quality or a recreational activity...they must go.

Clodfobble · 03-07-2012, 06:50 PM

WTF?

Landlord has a key, yes? Landlord can go in and change the locks during the day. Problem solved. Maybe evictions are more commonplace here, but from what I've witnessed it is a very efficient process.

infinite monkey · 03-07-2012, 06:52 PM

Oh HALE no. 30 day notice. First a letter giving them three days or something, then the actual eviction filing...then thirty days.

Or so it is here. Even if they're not on the lease...if they 'get their mail there' you have to do all that. This is why HG had me on the spot of contacting an attorney before he finally left. What. A. Hassle.

edit: Well, don't know about their contract or 'lease' being up but I bet they still get thirty days.

footfootfoot · 03-07-2012, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae

I overcooked my challah.

Shiksas cooking Challah? Thank god the old testament doesn't have a book of revelations, this would surely be one of the four horsemen.

Clodfobble · 03-07-2012, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Oh HALE no. 30 day notice. First a letter giving them three days or something, then the actual eviction filing...then thirty days.

Or so it is here. Even if they're not on the lease...if they 'get their mail there' you have to do all that. This is why HG had me on the spot of contacting an attorney before he finally left. What. A. Hassle.

edit: Well, don't know about their contract or 'lease' being up but I bet they still get thirty days.

In retrospect, I think all of the neighbor evictions I witnessed were probably illegal aliens. So maybe they had a bigger motivation to move quickly.

footfootfoot · 03-07-2012, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

WTF?

Landlord has a key, yes? Landlord can go in and change the locks during the day. Problem solved. Maybe evictions are more commonplace here, but from what I've witnessed it is a very efficient process.

OMG you are SOOOO in Texas it isn't funny. In NY, it would cost a landlord over 5 grand to evict a tenant and take at least three months. More, if it is winter.

I have a friend who routinely offers miserable tenants $1,000. cash if they are out by the 15th. He then has two weeks to clean and paint the place. Without exception, they all take the money and leave, find some other hole to live in.

He looks at it as a cost of doing business and it saves him several months of no rent AND lawyer's fees to evict the jerks.

infinite monkey · 03-07-2012, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

In retrospect, I think all of the neighbor evictions I witnessed were probably illegal aliens. So maybe they had a bigger motivation to move quickly.

heeheee...that'd be a different incentive to get the hell out!

HungLikeJesus · 03-07-2012, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Blueflare

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I'm really well past irritation... if there were a "What are you grimly resigned to but no longer have enough energy to get angry about and just want to be over?" thread, this would fit in better.

Blueflare · 03-07-2012, 07:38 PM

Yeah, she can't just go in and throw them out, even though they have no contract anymore.
The issue is compounded by the fact that two kids are living there, and there's some sort of court order demanding that the kids are kept housed. In my opinion it would be worth considering taking the kids into care seeing as their mother can't even provide a home for them... but that's totally not my call. I'm biased by just wanting them gone.
But yeah, they have to find someplace else to go before they can be thrown out, for the kids at least.

infinite monkey · 03-07-2012, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

Maybe one of these will do:
Edit: Just noticed there's a duplicate. But I'm going to leave it.

Bollocks!

I totally clicked on every single one. I was laughing so hard my stomach hurt. Thanks HLJ!

03-07-2012, 02:08 PM	#4186
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Its balmy out. I have an extra hour to kill. Someone parked a fucking truck 10 inches from the doors of the shed where I park my motorcycle. The doors open outward. I cannot ride. This is more than mildly irritating. __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

03-07-2012, 05:11 PM	#4188
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I made a terrible mistake last week. I went shopping at the supermarket I don't usually go to. The one where I nearly always run into a crazy person I know, and the one that I know better than to buy fruit in. So what did I do? I bought fruit. Bananas from a banana conglomerate that I never heard of before, and they were all pretty uniformly green on the display, and I never buy bananas that green, but I really wanted bananas, so I bought them anyway. They are finally and nearly edible stage ... six days later. They are usually banana bread fodder at six days, people. But anyway, I'm finally ready to eat one of these things and it's like a damn wrestling match trying to extract the banana from the peel, top wouldn't snap off like they're supposed to, just rotated around and around making the top end of the banana all mushy. Was about to resort to using a knife when the peel split near the top. I now have banana goo under my fingernails from trying to enlarge the itty bitty split. I should have gone for the knife. Or I should have bought these Peruvian bananas. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-07-2012, 06:43 PM	#4190
Blueflare Hand-of-Kindness Extender Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 130	My neighbours. Their contract elapsed in early February, but they won't leave. They have nowhere else to go, which is their own fault for making themselves unhousable by shouting and playing loud music all the time, revving motorbikes in the back garden for no reason, and all manner of other things I won't begin to list. The landlord is taking them to court, but such things take time. I'm really well past irritation... if there were a "What are you grimly resigned to but no longer have enough energy to get angry about and just want to be over?" thread, this would fit in better. __________________ "Never trust quotes you find on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

03-07-2012, 06:50 PM	#4192
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	WTF? Landlord has a key, yes? Landlord can go in and change the locks during the day. Problem solved. Maybe evictions are more commonplace here, but from what I've witnessed it is a very efficient process. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

03-07-2012, 07:38 PM	#4199
Blueflare Hand-of-Kindness Extender Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 130	Yeah, she can't just go in and throw them out, even though they have no contract anymore. The issue is compounded by the fact that two kids are living there, and there's some sort of court order demanding that the kids are kept housed. In my opinion it would be worth considering taking the kids into care seeing as their mother can't even provide a home for them... but that's totally not my call. I'm biased by just wanting them gone. But yeah, they have to find someplace else to go before they can be thrown out, for the kids at least. __________________ "Never trust quotes you find on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

03-07-2012, 06:48 PM	#4191
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Loud people drive me crazy. Occasional loudness is fine: people who think that making big annoying noises all the time is an endearing quality or a recreational activity...they must go.

03-07-2012, 06:52 PM	#4193
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Oh HALE no. 30 day notice. First a letter giving them three days or something, then the actual eviction filing...then thirty days. Or so it is here. Even if they're not on the lease...if they 'get their mail there' you have to do all that. This is why HG had me on the spot of contacting an attorney before he finally left. What. A. Hassle. edit: Well, don't know about their contract or 'lease' being up but I bet they still get thirty days.

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