Go stick your head in a pig: Annoyed complaints

[elpollodiablo]

Hint: he didn't think it was very funny

[lastclearchance]

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/olddogs/

WHO THE FUCK ALLOWED THIS TO COME TO FRUITION I DEMAND ANSWERS.  OH BOY ROBIN WILLIAMS IN BLACKFACE AND GROTESQUE RICTUS BOTOX SHENANIGANS FOR TRAVOLTA AND HEY CHILDREN LETS RENT CAMERAS AND PURCHASE FILMSTOCK.  CHRIST ALFUCKINGMIGHTY HOLLYWOOD, KINDLY GO FUCK YOURSELVES.

http://facesofolddogs.tumblr.com/

[diesel_powered]

You know... if the right gallery came along...

[G.C.R]

they should contact whoever represents John Waters art career

[hannah]

WHY DOES THIS FAMILY [NOTE: NOT MY OWN] NOT EAT UNTIL LIKE 8 PM? I AM HUNGRY.

[hannah]

I AM STILL HUNGRY.

[diesel_powered]

they should contact whoever represents John Waters art career

Totes. Freakishly enough, I totally wrote off his photos when I heard the concept, but they were astonishingly excellent when I saw them.

[bethany_m]

blah, I just called time warner to try to get them to lower my cable bill and I TOTALLY FAILED.  I am terrible at negotiating.

[kadiekatRN]

F and I stepped out for a smoke. When we were done we tried to turn the knob only to find it most totally locked.

All the windows were locked. The other door was locked.

No one else has a key.  We don't know our neighbors, and all lights in the neighborhood were off.  Our phones were locked inside w/ our keys.

We walked to the police station around the corner.  They tried two locksmiths (both closed).  They advised us to break a window.

And we did--F and his BB Gun.  The glass shards did some damage to our new laminate floors.  Not horrible, but enough to make me sad.

Now we're in, but we need a new window and start work early (F at 5:15, me at 7).

Lame.

[jebreject]

[clare]

Oh no! That's one of my nightmare scenarios - locked out of my house, and unable to prove to anyone it's my house. Fortunately I've been here long enough to know my neighbours and there are spare keys scattered around the city. Sorry about your window and your floors. 

[donblood]

Does F bring a bb gun out for smoke breaks?  Makes sense, I guess, you never know

[YojimboMonkey]

God knows I bring a Nerf N-Strike out for mine, those neighborhood kids don't fuck around

[kadiekatRN]

Does F bring a bb gun out for smoke breaks?  Makes sense, I guess, you never know

Our garage was open, and he had a BB Gun in the garage.

Also you never know when you'll need to shoot a critter.

[hannah]

I am so burned out. This is the longest semester on record. I haven't accomplished anything this evening. Argh.

[clare]

So yesterday the 9 year old's school rang at lunch time to say "he's just cut his knee on a nail in the carpet, but it's OK, and he's gone back to class with a band-aid". When he got home, the wound was covered with bandaids and I couldn't see anything, which was fine until blood started pouring out of it again. So we went to the emergency clinic, where they took one look at it and said "this'll need stitching. What time did it happen? Why didn't they ring you and tell you to pick him up and get it looked at?" The nurse mentioned the 8 hour window for stitching wounds (of which I wasn't previously aware - 6 hours had passed between it happening and him being seen by the nurse, so she was rushing around trying to find a doctor to do the honours. He also wasn't vaccinated as his dad is an idiot, and I lost that argument, so he got a tetanus shot and 9 (!!!) stitches in his knee.

When I rang the school to say he wouldn't be in today, I mentioned the surprise of the ER clinic that it took us so long to get there, and the receptionist was really defensive about the care he'd received at school and that "nobody thought it looked that bad" that included a trained nurse, and several people trained in first aid. Anyway. Grrr. Idiots.

[Ignatius]

Man, leaving aside their assessment of the wound itself, don't schools keep all those vaccination records so that when a kid, say, cuts himself on a nail, they can look that up? I hope for his quick and full recovery, and that he can turn this nightmarish incompetence to his benefit on the schoolyard. Because stitches are tough, and suffering stoically for hours before receiving proper treatment is even tougher.

[clare]

Oh yeah, they've got them, but not vaccinating your child turns you into a leper who doesn't care whether a child lives or dies in the eyes of some (and I know, this is a touchy one, and I've been on both sides of it) so they feel like it's their job to give me a hard time about it. At least now I can say "my abusive and emotionally manpulative ex-husband wouldn't let me vax". Having said that, the ex agreed to the tetanus shot pretty quickly. It was a nasty wound - about 3 cm long, in a kind of T with a 1cm stem, and really big flaps that were really deep. It still alarms me to think about it.

I think I've managed to convince him that scars are cool, and he's slightly disappointed that it's not in a more visible place (like on his face!)

[girl]

Jeepers, clare! I'm glad you got him fixed up! I also have a disappointing childhood scar from stitches, but mine's on my toe. I guess I was maybe five or six and I thought that the doctor sewing up my toe with that curved needle was the coolest thing ever!

[Good Intentions]

I've got a childhood scar on my knee which was from something that was a huge wound at the time (at least 10cm long) but which is now barely noticable. Even I have to search for it. And then I have a totally rakish scar from when I was 21 on my one eyebrow (5 stitches) that is fading by the year.

[bethany_m]

I have a pretty gnarly mark on my knee from this summer.  We were camping and there was drinking and I fell over.  Good times.

[elpollodiablo]

I don't get zits often, but when I do get one nowadays it's a deep, throbbing red mass that seems to radiate heat and makes me feel like something is trying to burrow out of my face. D's magic zit cream from Sephora has a limited effect on these things. Ugh.

[Anne the Man]

I have a scar on my head from ripping it open while swinging round a pole with a low bus stop sign. It's badass but generally unseen.

OT, I hate my job and feel generally aimless and pointless, and my best friend is insecure that I don't really like her no matter how many times I indicate that yes I DO. Jesus. I hope I end the year on a higher note than this.

[Greg Nog]

When I was cleaning my old apartment recently, I accidentally set fire to the kitchen.  At some point during the putting-out of said fire, I got a burn on one shoulder.  It's had about a week to heal, and it looks like a red archipelago.

[elpollodiablo]

---what?