Where the police are Not Nice: annoyance thread

[Bernard]

I am also bruxist, which sometimes makes me wonder if I'm more anxious than I think.

Is that tooth-grinding? I almost lost my front teeth because of it. Bite guard  4EVA.

[jm]

Yeah, bruxism = tooth grinding.  I've considered a bite guard in the past, and realized that, like many things, I would probably use it for a while and then stop.

[Bernard]

It cost me $8k to rebuild my teeth and correct my bite. No insurance. The bite guard alone was a couple hundred bucks. It's a powerful motivator to use it. I've still managed to crack a few spots and pop off/break some stuff, even with the bite guard. I can't believe I don't look like Lionel Richie. My dentist says I grind my teeth "like a 200 pound stevedore." Save your teeth now! Natural teeth rule, costly dental work sucks.

[Aglaya]

I've lost three back teeth to it.  On I was able to get capped, but the other two I'm just having to live with for now.  Even with insurance, dental work is insanely expensive.

[diesel_powered]

Could be worse, you could be Lil' Wayne.

[Aglaya]

Yes, I could be able to afford the dental work I need.  Must be awful.

In other news, one of my co-workers is also on vacation right now.  He's posting pictures every day of Quebec and dog-sledding and the ice hotel he stayed in.  Way to make me feel like I'm wasting my vacation dude.

[diesel_powered]

Now now, you're also not about to go to jail for a year.

[davy]

Yes, I could be able to afford the dental work I need.  Must be awful.

In other news, one of my co-workers is also on vacation right now.  He's posting pictures every day of Quebec and dog-sledding and the ice hotel he stayed in.  Way to make me feel like I'm wasting my vacation dude.

Huh WHAT. ONE OF YOUR CO-WORKERS IS ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS NAMED ANDY.

SERIOUSLY, WHAT?!

[YojimboMonkey]

It must be "6 degrees" week here on LPTJ or something

[diesel_powered]

My father has a certain number of quirks that frequently make me want to murder him in his sleep. Today's quirk is the the intersection of a few issues. First of all, he's queer for the freezer. Anything that he perceives to be more perishable than usual gets put in the freezer. This perception of the degree to which something is perishable has no basis in reality, but rather is entirely related to whether or not he feels it will be likely that he'll eat it within a vague future period. Consequently, this frequently results in whatever I'm planning on eating (sometimes that day) going in the freezer. In addition, this freezing fetish is pretty much entirely against my beliefs that the only things that should be in the freezer are vodka, ice, ice cream, and the occasional frozen fruit or vegetable. In general, I believe freezing ruins most things that weren't frozen to begin with and at the very least, a household with two individuals (one who eats two meals a day outside the house and the other who is vaguely trying to lose weight through portion control) should just be resigned to the fact that buying in bulk because you're cheap is not in the cards. Rather, my culinary philosophy is that you should never buy food for more than the next 10 days (most things for the next 2-3 days) because fresh food is always better and really, is it that hard to manage your groceries to minimize waste? BUY LESS FOOD! But this is the man who will only eat steak when it's been tanned to shoe leather (seriously, the restaurant definition of "well done" is still too raw for him) and refuses to cook with anything but already cooked shrimp which inevitably turn out like pencil erasers. Secondly, my dad is notoriously poor at getting out of his own head in which his warped perception confounds all logic and reality, which results in many interesting situations like the time he chastised me for keeping a broadcast monitor on my editing desk because he thought I was watching TV instead of working. Because lord knows I couldn't possibly be using it to monitor edits through the cables connecting it to my camera. And he certainly hadn't wandered past multiple times while I was using it.

So this brings me back to today's annoyance. As a household, we go through approximately a dozen bagels every week. I usually have one for breakfast and/or make a sandwich out of one every day and he usually eats one every few days. We got a dozen last Thursday and by today, we'd eaten 5. Generally, I separate the garlic ones into one plastic zip bag and the rest (particularly the few sweet bagels, in which he has no interest) into another zip bag and put everything in the fridge, where they could last for months with no ill effects, much like the untouched loaves of bread that have been sitting in there for the past two weeks. At approximately 6 pm today, there was one garlic bagel left and six non-garlic bagels in the fridge. Somewhere between then and now, he put the other bagels in the freezer. AS IF THEY WERE SOMEHOW ON THE VERGE OF GOING BAD. WITH ONE OTHER BAGEL LEFT TO BE EATEN BEFORE GETTING INTO THE SECONDARY BAG. THE SECONDARY BAG THAT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE BEEN OPENED AND EATEN OUT OF TO-FUCKING-MORROW. And the thing that's so irritating about it is that he couldn't pull his head out of his ass for long enough to realize that the bagels he froze would be my breakfast tomorrow. So now, instead of a perfectly good bagel that had no business being put in the freezer, I'll have to thaw a frosty one to soggy tomorrow morning. Or possibly pull a frozen one out and beat him with it. And this happens ALL THE TIME, usually with whatever I'm planning on eating in the next day. Because he can't pull his head out of his ass for long enough to realize that whatever he thinks he's least likely to eat is probably what I'm most likely to eat in the next day. Fucking roommates!

[diesel_powered]

This is also the man who frequently wanders downstairs and turns the lights off on me because apparently being able to see what I'm doing as I'm working is a waste of energy. Despite the fact that he leaves lights on while he sleeps and whenever he goes out because he'd hate to wake up/come home to a dark house.

[cold before sunrise]

You're lucky I don't have access to a riot control vehicle or I'd ram it thru your house just for the sake of it.

[diesel_powered]

A CBS, do us all a favor and go fuck yourself.

[andronicus]

sexy insults

[milesofsparks]

I got a flat tire on my bike (though luckily within a few blocks of home) and I stepped on Scout accidentally, so she is not speaking to me.  I'm sorry!  I didn't mean to do it!

[G.C.R]

Diesel! The saviour of my life when i had the dirtisest flatmates ever that drove me nuts was a small beer fridge that someone i knew was throwing out. I kept my food in my room, and away from the communal fridges that were mysteriously sticky to the touch and smelled like animals were living inside. I know it seems passive aggressive but it was worth bypassing the fury I felt whenever I wanted to do something like eat, which really should be something enjoyable.
It might take a while, but keep an ear to the ground for one! Beer fridges are pretty neat anyway.

My annoyance: I did some work before Christmas which I still haven't been paid for. I was made a definite promise that it would most definitely be in my account by the 20th. Today's the 22nd and I am about to explode with screams.

[diesel_powered]

Diesel! The saviour of my life when i had the dirtisest flatmates ever that drove me nuts was a small beer fridge that someone i knew was throwing out. I kept my food in my room, and away from the communal fridges that were mysteriously sticky to the touch and smelled like animals were living inside. I know it seems passive aggressive but it was worth bypassing the fury I felt whenever I wanted to do something like eat, which really should be something enjoyable.
It might take a while, but keep an ear to the ground for one! Beer fridges are pretty neat anyway.

F'reals! I'm going to keep my ear to the Craigslist on that. I need a fridge for the eventual studio space, anyway. And I mean, passive aggressive is just the way things kind of end up with roommates, whether you're related to them or not. There's always clashes of living styles made worse by them being up in your face all the time because it's just plain hard to avoid things in a shared living situation, but it's not like you can have a huge blowout about it because that'll just make the living situation all the more annoying.

My annoyance: I did some work before Christmas which I still haven't been paid for. I was made a definite promise that it would most definitely be in my account by the 20th. Today's the 22nd and I am about to explode with screams.

This is some serious bullshit. There is a special place in hell for those who take peoples paychecks lightly. All I can say is to keep calling and calling and calling and calling and calling until you're so annoying that they have to get you paid just for some peace. Either that or come over to the office with a baseball bat and "sort things out".

[cold before sunrise]

A CBS, do us all a favor and go fuck yourself.

Suck a big one you obnoxious, whiny bastard. Clearly not your own.

GCR: You do know his dad hates you for giving him advice on how to make living at home more tolerable, right? How about suggesting duder try paying rent for his own place or to knock it off with the diatribes of how haaard it is to have pops as a roomie?

[diesel_powered]

Someday, I honestly hope you get the help you need for whatever is in your life that causes you to have the emotional need to troll people on the internet.

[cold before sunrise]

Whatever, invalid! I'm just bored and calling you out on being impossibly lame and yet strangely outspoken about having a complete lack of gratitude. Are you okay? I honestly hope you get an attitude readjustment in the form of a stick of dynamite up the poom poom.

[milesofsparks]

this durn bob haircut I got is awesome, except that one sector of my hair (back-left) keeps stubbornly flipping out while everything else flips under.  am I gonna have to buy a curling iron?  I ain't owned a curling iron since about 7th grade...  I kind of suck atl stuff like hair-doing.

[morgan]

Ugh I am kind of in the same position, mos. I have a straightener that I have used approximately two times, maybe I will start using that. Kind of annoying -- I don't want to have to actually DO anything with my hair except wash and comb it every few days.

[Antero]

I woke up this morning and my car would not start!  Whee.

[FreddyKnuckles]

So I was roughing up some undergrads again tonight (on the intramural basketball court) and this dude lost his cool when I gave him the ol' elbow to the chest during blockout.  (come on, duder, its just what you do. toughen up or don't guard me).  Anyway, he goes screaming across the court and gives me a hard two handed shove to the back AND NO ONE SAW IT!!! NO ONE!  Not my team, their team, the refs!  Nobody!

Lucky fucking punk I was ready to murder his ass hard.

Anyway, he'd been having a really good game up till that point and then I was so pissed I shut his ass down.  Blocked four fucking threes. 

[Ignatius]

Why would you shoot from there with an eight foot dude in your face?