SUB+AUX 'BE'+'always'+~ing VERB! (1st Wrld Annoyances)

[Ashley]

My roommate / person I am renting from keeps texting me about changing my rent for moving to a bigger room while I'm at school or work.  I keep telling her it is not a conversation I want to have via text but she keeps doing it.

It is wildly fucking annoying.

[elpollodiablo]

Boy I sure do never get tired of hearing about how much NPR sucks compared to the BBC. That is a really intelligent & cutting critique!

[Thermofusion]

Man people do that? NPR and BBC couldn't be any less alike on the most basic levels, differing wildly in scope, purpose and funding structure for starters.

[Good Intentions]

Man, people have an inflated opinion of the BBC. Anong other things, their science reporting is among the worst in the business.

[elpollodiablo]

Just spent 90 minutes trying and failing to find a parking space that would get me through until tomorrow. People must really hate themselves to own cars in this city. I just can't fathom spending a few hours a week looking for street parking.

[elpollodiablo]

Oh and because I failed I get to try again in an hour, but with the baby this time. Sweet

[peacocks]

WHINE TIME: My job is awesome right now. I take lots of pictures of cool plants and bugs and fungus all day, I get to learn about new plants, ride a 4 wheeler, and stomp around in the woods for money! But this project is supposed to be finished by tomorrow and we keep getting rained out so we are behind. I come home every day feeling disgusting and worn out, covered in bug bites and scrapes. It is totally worth it, but this week I've been having the hardest time. My baby kitty got sick earlier in the week and pooped several times in two separate clothes piles in my room - one dirty, one clean. The clothes situatuon in itself is disgusting, but having kitten poop stashed away and cleaning it up only to find more the next day is pretty gross and frustrating. I ran out of paper towels, I don't have a washer dryer or central AC here. There arent enough trash bags in the whole world. It's been super super hot and humid. I'm breaking out, I feel like a great big fat person, and I got stung by unknown insect and now my finger is all swollen and hurts. I wish I could burn everything and start over.

[elpollodiablo]

I feel kind of down for no discernable reason. Doesn't happen to me very often. It's a strange and unsettling sensation.

[jebreject]

Hope it passes soon.

[dieblucasdie]

Upstairs neighbors are really starting to get on my nerves.  We're engaged in this constant, low-level war over the front and back yards, wherein my wife and I do things to attempt to make them nicer, more pleasant places to be, and they putter around, half-assedly attempting various hippie gardening techniques (like their Rube-Goldberg contraption to collect rainwater, which has resulted in both a big ugly metal thing and bins of STANDING FUCKING RAINWATER in our yard), and generally starting a million different little projects and without ever finishing any of them.

Like, I get that you like your cats, and you would like to take them outside sometimes while the weather's nice, but... the grody carpeted cat tree/pen/post thing that you dumpster-dived that STILL HAS THE PREVIOUS OWNERS' ROTTING CAT FOOD CAKED ON IT that you've been promising to "fix up" for the past six weeks is not a solution. And when I do things like spend 2 days sanding and repainting the back porch, only to come back NOT TWO HOURS AFTER I'VE FINISHED to find footprints and bike-tire marks through it, despite having talked to you about it, AND having sent you a follow-up email asking you to stay off of it for a couple days while the paint dries and cures, I wanna just wait until you're gone, throw away all your junk, and set up the place the way I want it set up. Like, I know you heard me out there painting all day, and I know you saw the wet paint, you were just too fucking lazy to carry your bike back up the stairs and take it out the front.

[Thermofusion]

Haha, I do rainwater collection, you don't need a Rube Goldberg device. You can do it with a simple barrel with a mesh barrier on top (to keep mosquitos out/prevent breeding). Tell your landlord they're causing a public health hazard.

[dieblucasdie]

Oh, yeah, we did it at our old place; it's super-easy, which is why I'm not sure why they used a bunch of mis-matched pieces of metal to build a winding track that leads from the rain gutter to an old (open) washtub they buried in the ground. Like everything else they do, they clearly read about rainwater collection online, and cobbled together a crappy way to do it without having to buy anything. Which, if they were 22 or something, I might find it endearing and feel like I could just set them a-right, but they're easily 10 years older than me.

The blessing and the curse of this place is our absentee landlord who doesn't give a fuck what we do to the buliding one way or the other. His terrible English and my terrible Spanish might get us somewhere, if he weren't also an elderly gentleman on pain meds for his bad back, and generally on his 4th Modelo by 10 AM (Don't get me wrong, I like his style; he's just not much help in these matters).

[Thermofusion]

Hahaha, man. Yeah, all I did was remove a section of the drain leading down the side of the house from the gutter, loosened up one of the clamps that hold it the drain in place, then put my cheap plastic drum underneath it. Burying washtubs in the backyard, jesus...those hippies must be harboring some awesome bud upstairs.

[dieblucasdie]

Sadly no! I think they are only high on cat dander! They buried the washtub underneath the spigot for the hose, so I think the point is that it will also catch spray/waste from that. I should go out there when it's raining and see if a single drop of water actually makes it from the rain gutter to that thing though; the track they built is some serious Incredible Machine 2 shit

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The really insane thing about this is that our landlord pays the water bill! I'm not sure why they care!

[jebreject]

pix plz

[elpollodiablo]

I'm sure Thermo couldn't be happier, but I for one am pretty fucking bummed out that LPTJ has basically been reduced to the rap & baseball threads.

[Thermofusion]

Feel free to start a judging people for what they like thread!

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

hey man ain't no one gonna listen to me if i just start a bunch of emo threads in earbuds

[Thermofusion]

I don't really understand the complaint. You can skim, gloss over and filter static elsewhere on the internet, but here it sticks in your craw to see topics you're not interested in and/or have no interest in interfacing with personally?

[elpollodiablo]

No, not at all! My complaint is that it's been super slow around here lately, and those are the only two threads that seem to get much action these days. My comment was simply referencing your recent vow to stick only to those threads. I'm glad there's *something* going on around here, even if I'm not a part of it, but it bums me out that there aren't any other conversations going, really.

[Thermofusion]

I think the vacuum is brain drain from registrations being closed for so long. All it'd take would be a couple semi-prolific new posters and this place would be hopping again, and I'd probably contribute more as a result. Or maybe message boards are out of vogue?

[elpollodiablo]

That is probably true. I was considering inviting some friends of mine to join, but it seems sad that it doesn't happen organically any more.

[nonotyet]

A part time file clerk here likes to listen to headphones at such a volume that I am shocked she is not deaf, ie I can hear every fucking thing she is listening to. For the last three days, it has been dance remixes of "Call Me Maybe." On repeat. She is going to have to call an ambulance maybe.   
 

[elpollodiablo]

Closer I get to my exam date (7 weeks now) the less I find I'm capable of preparing for it each day. Need to put down three books a week for the next 7 weeks; start a full time job Monday after next lol

[The_Tourist]

stupid chickens wont stay in the stupid yard. they were only out for an hour before 3 of them were in the garden and the 4th was out in front of the house. yesterday i found them in the street 3 times.

they're now on time out in their coop.