The Not Happy Thread

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  1. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    Get a Shih-Tzu, warmer than you think and like a teddy bear. :)
    Though small in comparison, they can take up a large portion
    of the bed despite their small size. :p
     
  2. GingerCoffee

    GingerCoffee Web Surfer Girl Contributor

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    That's just wrong! :mad:
     
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  3. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Yeah, that's some Mickey mouse bullshit. You could die where I live if they tried that.
     
  4. NobodySpecial

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    The tech from the gas company showed up this morning about 9 and changed out the meter and split. I was kind of puzzled, wondering if someone else was coming out to turn the gas back on. I called customer service again and talked to an insipid redneck sounding woman who insisted her system indicated my service was active. It took almost ten minutes to convince her my furnace and water heater indicated my service was not.

    She finally said she would direct the tech to come back, before he got too far from my house, have him verify that everything was hunkydory. Yeah. Service was shut off at the street.

    His explanation was that he could only do what was on the work order, which was swap out the meter. He didn’t know the gas was off at the street and he hadn’t been given a ticket to turn it back on.

    At any rate, gas is on, furnace is working, expected low tonight is 36 and I no longer have to choke the shit out of anyone.
     
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    Shih-Tzu nothing, I have Boxers.
     
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  6. Cave Troll

    Cave Troll It's Coffee O'clock everywhere. Contributor

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    So you put boxers on Boxers? You have a strange hobby there. :p

    They must take up quite a bit of the bed, unless you have a Cali King, then you might
    have a bit of room. :)
     
  7. NobodySpecial

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    They leave me enough room to sleep, not much more.
     
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  8. LostThePlot

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    There is just not enough coffee in the goddamn world for today.

    *yawns*

    I had to be up this morning, because for unknowable reasons I've been told to show up extra early to watch my cameramen set up the studio. There's nothing for me to do when I get there, just supervise generally. Since I have to be in London before it gets light I got an early night yesterday (when the forums aren't working I actually go to bed when I mean to :p) which... I guess that sort of worked out. I went to bed at about 8, planning to get up at 4. Trouble was that I woke up at about half past midnight and then struggled for a couple of hours to get back to sleep. So I did manage the early night, I just didn't manage to get all that much sleep. Plus by the time the clients show up to be filmed I'll have already been up for nine hours. Also, I'd like to mention that "at 4am when the kitchen is full of smoke" is not a great time to discover your extractor hood doesn't work. I now smell like a bonfire. Oh and I've run out of milk so it's black coffee or nothing.

    Not a great start to the day. And today is shaping up to be one where I do almost literally nothing at all. I might have to volunteer to demo a product today, which normally I wouldn't care about, but I'm not an ideal model for an EEG, what with my long hair and deviant brain waves. Fingers crossed I'll get one of the cameramen to do it, but I guess watch this space. And maybe we'll find out that my brain is provably, medically special ;)

    *sighs*
     
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    I had something similar with my stupid phone. After two trips out by repair service didn't fix the problem they wanted to check all my phone connections in the house. The thing was some of those connections were behind furniture that was not going to be easy to move. And, my business line worked fine, meaning it was outside the house.

    Turns out it was just easier to check inside the house, rule it out first before they had to work harder on the lines coming in.

    I refused, told them to check outside first. Their inconvenience was not my problem.

    Turned out it was outside somewhere a few blocks away in the line.
     
  10. GingerCoffee

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    Found out a woman I'd worked with for more than 25 years died over the weekend. I'm really sad.
     
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  11. Shenanigator

    Shenanigator Has the Vocabulary of a Well-Educated Sailor. Contributor

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    My condolences, @GingerCoffee , and a hug if you like them.
     
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  12. minstrel

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    Pissle fuckle.

    The Canadian women's hockey team lost to the USA in the Olympic gold medal game. It was close - a shootout - but still. Grr. :supercry:

    Oh well. Canada OWNS hockey. It's just that they occasionally rent it to other nations for a while. :superwink:
     
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  13. The Dapper Hooligan

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    I like this, especially considering roughly 50% of NHL players come from Canada (though I'm not sure about women's hockey). Which means that even if a Canadian team doesn't take home the cup, that doesn't mean that Canada didn't actually win it.
     
  14. Iain Aschendale

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    How did you think you'd beat America once guns got involved?

    Or does that mean something else in ice sportsball?
     
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    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    I thought in the Olympics, you had to play for the side your citizenship was on. Not that athletes won't do whatever it takes to get into the competition, but....
     
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    Consider it Canada’s penance. You have a lot to answer for; namely KD Lang, Justin Bieber, Nickleback, and Loverboy.

    Rush, Voivod, Kataklysm and Skinny Puppy can earn you only so much good will.
     
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    Put my back out earlier this week and the Chiro tells me it'll take 2 weeks to come right. Not happy as lying down is agony and we lie down to sleep. Hmpff!
     
  18. SethLoki

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    Yowser. Did something similar half a decade back, bearhug of nearest and dearest made disc jelly pop from its housing. I dropped pills for amelioration, they made me sleep. Slept in the foetal way—unnafforded respite as I dreamt unhappy dreams of being at war. Repeatedly. Always taking hot shrapnel in the lower back or 'buttocks' as Gump would say (and in the way he said it).

    Take the two weeks to right yourself and write your pain scenes!
     
  19. minstrel

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    You got me on Bieber and Nickleback. But don't forget

     
  20. NobodySpecial

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    Sudders. Just absolute sudders.
     
  21. The Dapper Hooligan

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    You do, but this also allows for dual citizenship. A couple of years ago in Rio there was a bit of a kerfuffle about Belarus "buying" a couple of American competitors by giving them citizenship even though they had no heritage or family connection and apparently had never even been to the country. And while I don't have facts on this, it would seem prudent for a Canadian working professionally for in , I dunno, Pittsburgh or L.A. to already have that sorted out.
     
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    Huh? What are sudders?
     
  23. NobodySpecial

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    When it’s spelled correctly a shudder is an involuntary tremble, in this case one inspired by The Tragically Hip.
     
  24. The Dapper Hooligan

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    Welp, that's it. You're out of the Cool Kids Club. Please turn in your badge and gun.
     
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    Thanks, good suggestion. That and angry scenes too.
     
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