The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. Cave Troll

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    When about a trillion ton asteroid made of gold lands in the back yard? :p
    (Platinum would be better, but take what you can get.)
     
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    That would probably cause more inflation actually...
     
  3. Xoic

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    And I hope to god I'm not standing under it when it lands... :eek:
     
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    Well, money is no longer tied to the gold standard so really it would just make jewellery cheap.
     
  5. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    yeah you bet I’m inflated about it
     
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  6. Historical Science

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    My health insurance is charging anyone who cannot prove their vaccination a $250 fee. I'm vaccinated but that's absurd. The bullying to get vaccinated raises a new level each week.
     
  7. Xoic

    Xoic Prognosticator of Arcana Ridiculosum Contributor Blogerator

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    I just saw a video of a man in China who was caught not wearing a mask in public and the police were nailing his apartment door shut with him inside. If they have steel doors they weld them shut.
     
  8. Homer Potvin

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    I wonder which country gets shit done faster?
     
  9. Historical Science

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    What a weird take.
     
  10. big soft moose

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    The same is true if you travel to a country where typhoid, cholera etc are clear risks - your travel health insurance expects you to get the shots before you go.. if you don't they either won't cover you for getting those diseases, or they charge a lot more... its simple risk management not unlike giving higher house insurance premiums to people with insecure houses or who live in high crime areas, or higher car insurance to those with a higher chance of crashing.
     
  11. Xoic

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    It's easy to get shit done if you don't value human lives or rights.
     
  12. Catrin Lewis

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    Lord have mercy! Signore Montresor, call your office!
     
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    Yeah, and "shit" is exactly what they get done.
     
  14. Catrin Lewis

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    With a sink spray. The regular faucet stream doesn't do the job.
     
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    lol, I wonder which country gets shit done with more disregard for the lives and liberties of its citizens.

    Edit: ah, I see @Xoic beat me to it
     
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    We had really nice weather over the weekend. In an effort to take advantage of it, my wife and I loaded the kids up Saturday and headed out to a park/playground I had recently discovered. Unfortunately for us, when we got there two grown men were using the playground equipment to workout on.

    We opted for a different park that Saturday.
     
  17. Historical Science

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    Driving tests should include a Clockwork Orange-esque viewing of this sign in hundreds, no, thousands of angles and viewpoints.
    [​IMG]
     
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    My clothes dryer just crapped out, so now I’m spending my evening in a laundromat. I’m using two machines, put four quarters in each. One said I had 37 minutes, the other said 27 minutes. The place is otherwise empty, but there is nowhere to sit down in here. Not a single chair, and several signs declaring siting on the machines verboten.
     
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    Maybe you could sit in an empty drier? Or take one for a spin while you wait? Then write a short story about the experience?

    Sorry about your own dead appliances. That sucks.
     
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    I think I can fix the dryer- needs a new belt- but now the washer is having problems. It’s like it forgets to do that final spin. Clothes are coming out still dripping wet.
     
  21. SethLoki

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    My readers fell from my pocket and onto the road the other day, a whoosh and they were crushed under a passing car's wheels before I could retrieve them. My eyes aren't that bad so I've been making do...but curiously many more (belatedly spotted)* spelling errors have left their nest and into my keyboard dabblings. A full investigation's informed me the comp's auto-correct's been getting away with some cheeky mischief.

    ^ typed with screen zoom enabled.

    * not to be confused with the greater spotted species — terminated at hatch point.
     
  22. Xoic

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    Took me all the way to the end before I realized 'readers' means glasses... :ohno:
     
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  23. SethLoki

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    Possibly colloquialism, ah yes, but when you put them on...all became clear. :)
     
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    One of my dogs managed to get a lamp oil bottle out of the trash. Now she’s running around the house stinking of kerosene.
     
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    We’re slowly getting the house put back together. Now that I have most of the walls fixed, the wife wants to mess them up again. She wanted to hang some pictures today, but she couldn’t find any picture hangers. I bought her some, and told her I got more picture hangers than she’d know what to do with. That was a mistake. She took it as a personal challenge, and all my plaster work has been violated.
     
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