The First World Whinging Thread

He tried, but his medical school professor said, "Why you be doctor? You go work restaurants!"

 

You could tell them it stands for "Maitre D'hotel."

 

When you do, can I come get a weed script from you.

(That's also my addition to the whinge thread: why can't we just be allowed to buy weed already?)

 

Tell them you did, and now your are the proud practitioner of prescribing a decent Bourbon,
which makes your patients feel good and stop worrying about their problems.

 

Well, sign me up. The weed policy in my country is still under the thumb of a woman who, in an interview, answered the question as to why cannabis is still prohibited with "Because it's an illegal drug." Go figure.

 

Of course, this is a First World Problem only because we a) have central heat, and b) (presumably) have the money to pay to fuel it. If not, it'd be Seriously Third World.

But I can out-whinge you. It's only 32 degrees F here, and is supposed to get down to 26 tonight. I want to turn the furnace off!

 

Technically you can...though if you're used to heating you won't want to. Living in L.A., I use my furnace so seldom, I had the gas company turn off the pilot light because it's a vintage furnace and was just silly to have to monitor it to make sure it was on. Unfortunately, that means that for maybe ten to fourteen days per year when I need it most, on the 32-23 degree nights, I have no heat! It can be done. My friends in the Midwest think it's hilarious that even though I live in L.A., I have the coldest apartment (usually around 50-56 degrees in the dead of winter. I own a lot of sweaters). And I'm so used to the chill that when I visit someone whose home is a well heated 68-70 degrees I usually have to step outside for air at some point. Definitely a first world problem!


edited because I missed typing a hyphen

 

I ate too much pizza and the grease has given me a stomach ache, which happens every time I eat at this one pizza place, but how can I be expected to stop or just eat somewhere else when that pizza is so good?

 

Oh fine(!) Make fun of the dyslexic(!)

FML.

Thanks, Ash, Going back to correct that.

 

Show off.

 

I had mine off for a week and a half. It was broken. Saved me over half the gas bill from the previous month. Now I'm going to get a winter-sized bill to pay in May. Not happy.

That said, can't you get one of those grill-lighting thingies and light it yourself?

 

I only have heating/air con in the bedroom. Gets down below freezing in the winter nights, but that's just an excuse for lots of down comforters and someone to get close to. We also have the kotatsu table in the living room, according to the Energy Star analog, it costs four cents an hour to run.

However, it does mean that "room temperature" in my apartment goes from about 2C to 28C, depending on the season. Makes some recipes hard to follow.

 

The restaurant name was changed and the owners are no longer there. Teenagers are running the place, you know the 18 year old manager.

"You young, you work faster..." that is so claasic

 

Sorry, I wasn't clear. No, it would require the gas company to come out to do it, because I had them turn off the gas to it. The risk of the pilot light going out, or the risk of the cat accidentally pawing a toy into the pilot light or the risk of a gas leak outweighed the need for the heat since it was so few days per year. I see it as an interesting challenge. On the cold nights I make something in the oven that requires either high heat or a long bake time, so that part is kinda worth it. ;-)

 

I live in Canada and I cannot wait to be able legally buy weed at a store.

I bet my writing improves... just throwing that out there...

 

You can come to my house, the furnace likes to turn it self off, oh wait we had it repaired 2 days ago.

 

Only if you read it while smoking. I'm not anti-drugs, I actually enjoy quite a few, but in personal experience, and the experiences of friends, anything that negatively affects cognition pretty much does the same for writing skills.

 

He be story doctor. Gives helpful critique.

 

Indeed. I read that Kevin Smith was introduced to weed by Seth Rogen, supposedly it's what put his movies into a severe slump. Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy were all drug-free, but bombs like Tusk were after he got heavily into the stuff.

 

I'm ugly, so nothing else matters.

 

I honestly didn't know this movie existed, but I'm not really very keen on giving it a shot.

By the by, not that I am, but if I was to recommend a drug to help with writing, I'd suggest a psychedelic. Coming down off of that and trying to describe what happened has got to be an insane way to improve your writing. Not because it's any kind of magic bullet for inspiration, but because you have to use some sort of vorpal stylus on your lexicon in order to properly communicate the experience.