What Annoyed You Today? (7 Viewers)

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MIflyer said:
This annoyed me.

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I don't know the entire details, so I will refrain from complete judgement at this time. However, according to Frontier Airlines has responded saying that he was not told to remove it because of the American flag or that it might offend people. He was told to remove it because the type of mask did not comply with the airlines policies. Had it been a mask that complied with the policies, but had an American flag on it, he could have worn it. He was offered a mask that conformed.

So it sounds like there might be more to this story...
 
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My Mother-in-Law refused the help of her grandchildren, who spent most of the summer at her house to look after her as she is getting frail and has a heart condition. So instead, the week they came home to get ready for school, Ma-in-Law decides she's going to do her Fall cleaning. And fall she did. doing a header off the basement steps, breaking the bannister and ripping the pet gate off. She dragged herself back up the stairs, called her daughters, (NOT emergency medical help) and then had to wait 45 minutes for my wife and son to arrive. (In the meantime, she probably tidied up, too, since she was now expecting guests.) My wife called for an ambulance when she arrived and realized that Ma had NOT merely fallen a step or two, but more like six. Broken collar bone, severe head trauma, and several fractured vertebrae, dislocated hip. But she's a tough old bird. Doc says she can leave the hospital tomorrow. She can't go home again, so she's coming to our house. Now I have to convert our home into a handicapped accessible facility. Yay!
 
Interestingly, we sold our house last year because my wife was facing some health issues and we bought a house with an eye for handicapped accessibility. We'll need to put in a ramp outside, and make some handicapped friendly changes to the main floor bathroom. But the Ma-in-Law will not have to contend with stairs as there are two bedrooms on the main level as well as a full bath. The boys will have to share a bedroom again, but at least there are only two at home, and one is planning to go to college out of state next fall.
 
I sold some mountain bike hydraulic brakes on eBay. I marked them as for parts or not working. I said parts or not working in the title and said it in bold underlined in the description.

They sell for a lot more than I expected and I am a happy mongrel I posted them. Just got a request for a refund because. Drum rolling your never going to expect this drums still rolling. They don't work . No shot Sherlock didn't you read the description. Err yes but I thought they would be working.

I don't think the population needs any more geniuses like this twit.
 
When the old CRT monitor I used with the PC in my hangar went belly up I devised a clever plan to replace it. I would buy a new flat screen TV to replace the old one in the den, which suffers from a green line down one side, an unstable tuner (got around that by using the HDMI output from the cable box) and an audio output so low and tinny that it would embarrass a 1959 pocket AM radio. Those problems do not hurt its use as a monitor, and I ordered a 32 inch RCA flat screen LED TV from Walmart to put in the den.

The new RCA set arrived today and I eagerly set it up. After hooking it up and turning it on, I found that the Menu screen was not very readable. And that proved to be the high point in the ownership of the device, because the screen dissolved into a random array of horizontal and vertical lines before going black....

I have notified the manufacturer; the first e-mail address they provided bounced. The reply I received said they were going to have to form a special team to address this inexplicable turn of events.
 
MIflyer said:
I found that the Menu screen was not very readable. And that proved to be the high point in the ownership of the device, because the screen dissolved into a random array of horizontal and vertical lines before going black....
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Sic semper wallyworld.
 
vikingBerserker said:
That's the problem, in the old days the idiots would have been eaten by wolves. Now, we've removed their natural preditor and they're breeding like rabbits and becoming politicians.
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The trouble with idiots of this type is they're not a genetic problem; they're a social problem. If we had a slower paced, less stressful society and fewer institutional barriers to equitable education, they'd be less prevalent.
 
XBe02Drvr said:
The trouble with idiots of this type is they're not a genetic problem; they're a social problem. If we had a slower paced, less stressful society and fewer institutional barriers to equitable education, they'd be less prevalent.
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I agree but there's no going back. It seems that discussion of anything of importance is reduced to "sound bites". Nuance or insight is lost.
 
Greg:

I understand your problem all too well. After my Mom had her heart attack in 1999, she came to live with either me or my brother. She liked my place much better, so it eventually became full time. Falls were a problem even before she developed dementia. I recommend that you have a way to configure your house so that she cannot get outside, such as with double cylinder deadbolts on the doors or sliding bolt latches that are too high for her to reach. Also install some sensor lights that will come on automatically at night in case she gets up to go to the bathroom. Eventually I had to leave the bathroom light on all night to make sure my Mom could figure out where it was.

Good luck!
 
Ma in Law is still sharp as a tack. It's just that her body can't keep up with her brain anymore. One thing we've discovered is she has sleep apnea (untreated) so she doesn't sleep more that an hour at a time before she wakes up and has to use the bathroom. It's like having a newborn in the house agian.
 
Not annoyed, but a bit sad an shocked. A colleague of mine, who is also a good friend (played with her in a band for years) told me that she had cancer of the bladder. It was discovered back in May and she has spend the summer having chemotherapy etc. Now if everything goes well, they'll remove the bladder. I hadn't heard of this before because of the Covid situation which forces me to work from home so I can't be in touch with everybody. This made me miss this news. I guess that's the part that annoys me. Her situation made me think of Charles and Neil, both members of this forum who attracted the same disease years ago. Neil died about year after discovery and Charles some years later. I hope my friend's situation will be better and she'll be around for many years. Stay healthy folks!
 
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