That Moment...

That moment you have to finally admit it: It's the worst time ever to build a PC. Not happening. Impossible. I quit! It's the third time in a single week, from the third eshop they called me to say that "we're sorry, but it seems that this fucking thing you need and which you've made us promise we got in store before you made any monetary transaction seems to... well, we ain't got it and we don't know when (if) we're gonna have it. Wanna cancel?" No motherfucker, I was thinking about donating you my money, but since you mention it, I'd like them back asap!

 

The correct answer is "No @$$%&**^$^!!!, I want the part you promised me, and failing that I'll take the soul of your firstborn! And yours to boot!"

 

Is this in response to any particular previous post, or just general life advice?

 

I took him to mean the latter, and it's served me well so far this morning.

 

My bad! It was in response to what @Malisky said just above me:

But of course it works as general life advice too!

 

I know, I'm just being weird again

 

They didn't even offer me lemons! The audacity of those people.

 

Tmw facebook starts showing you ads for stuff you incognito searched for your story

 

I don't think incognito exists anymore.

 

It's called an adblocker and a VPN.

 

Yeah, I was in the room a while back (and this was many years back) with a friend who had a VPN and he had called his ISP provider for some reason. The girl at the other end of the phone said "Oh, I see you're currently downloading (name of movie here)". He almost swallowed his tongue and told her he's in the habit of downloading digital copies of movies he's bought on DVD in case the DVD stops functioning. And afterwards he kept repeating "Oh my god, I didn't think they could see what I was doing!"

And of course, they always say the ISP providers don't reveal their records etc, but how many times have we seen that these little fact aren't actually facts at all? I mean, look at the joke of a hearing Zuckerberg got in front of Congress! He lied left and right, very obviously, and nobody blinked an eye. Is it curated? Or a platform for free expression? Well, he did so much flip-flopping and fast talking and clumsy finagling there was never an answer, but Congress acted like there was and endorsed him and his enterprise. An unholy alliance.

 

PUT THEM ALL IN THE SONG. Or make 3 songs and multi-reference each one.

On the song thing, it's happened to me more times than I care to admit. But that's where the fun is, in stitching random parts together to make one, almighty Frankenstein song. All my best ones have come from that. For some reason the unconnected bits just happen to fit seamlessly together??

That moment when you write a classic and you bloody know it too.

 

If you're using Chrome:

1) Go to your settings.

2)Under "Privacy and Security" click on your "Cookies and Other site Data"

3) Check the "Block Third Party Cookies in Incognito"
a) Additionally you can also check on "Block Third Party Cookies"
b) Additionally check on "Clear Cookies and site data when you quit Chrome"
c) Additionally switch on the 'Send a Do-Not-Track request with your browsing traffic".

4) Absolutely, get a ccleaner. I got a free one that works just fine. Use it daily. Clean your cache and fix any issues with your registry.

 

You're aware Chrome is a Google product, right? I mean, I use it too, but I don't believe there's anything like a true incognito mode that actually works the way they claim it does. Secrecy and anonymity online are shams the companies propagate to let us believe in the comforting lies as they buy and sell our information.

 

And google is one of the worst when it comes to privacy, I think.

 

All browsers in any mode are equally useless if you don't set up your privacy settings to your preference and if you don't clean your cache. Google was just the first of the rest. You can always use a proxy or even a VPN (I use one for specific reasons, rarely) for more privacy when sites seem to blackmail you when you try to open their content.

 

That moment when there isn't actually a fire; it's just dad making toast.

 

When I was in grade school the entire school was evacuated because someone burnt popcorn in the teacher's lounge.

 

The smell probably still lingers there too. It never goes away.

 

I've ruined a couple microwaves before; it's really hard to get the smell out. If you want to know what hot tamale candies smell like after being burnt to hell in a microwave, then at least make sure you use someone else's microwave to find out. And that smoke gets everywhere so don't wear any wool because getting the smell out of that is way more trouble than it's worth.

 

Everytime the fire alarm went off in my college freshmen dorm building.... It was because a guy was trying to microwave noodles (without water) or popcorn.

....the building was coed, and it was almost ALWAYS the guys floor that caused it (with the exception of the girl whose pepper spray exploded in her bag and the whole building was evacuated)

 

Same happened for us, too. Although when I lived there, I had a driving lesson back home each week, and each week I would mysteriously avoid another fire alarm at 2am in our dorms. It always happened when I was away.

A similar thing happened in high school. I literally had one day off school, and that was the day that a herd of bees decided to infest our English classroom, and the teacher for some goddamn reason made the whole class write about the bees as an exercise. I was not there. I still had to write about the bees.

 

That moment when you don't even have an excuse not to work on your novel, you're just too tired to get out the document and type.

 

Lol! Our one, random free day in HS was because of this big earthquake. DC doesnt get earthquakes much, especially that big. It cracked the ceiling of my school.
Oddly enough, it happened first day of senior year.
In 2012.
My classmates were flipping out saying the movie was coming true!