The Not Happy Thread

Yeah, it was the news of Debbie Reynolds also passing that prompted my post. I'm feeling gutted, man.

 

Agreed. This and the specter of the next four years of you-know-what over this side of things.

 

@big soft moose you're a Brit? Why did I think you were a USian?

 

He is american special forces - like Union Jack Jackson if you read Warlord in '78 @TE?

John Nike died on Christmas Day. He was 91. I'll find some more to cry for - and also on the ITV News they called Watership Down, 'a children's book.' That was bad. I really like Watership Down. Then, one point it looked like Queenie was on the way [out] - she missed the annual roast swan lobster banquet according to reports.

 

Do you think Charles will be king, or will he abdicate to William straight away?

I feel like the upsurge in popularity for the monarch will reverse itself if he gets in. I think he knows that, but I also think he's been waiting a long time for that crown...

It'll be interesting.

 

He's the official heir, the only question is whether he'll abdicate or not.

Mind you, I think the Queen Mother was technically dead for about 23 years before she admitted it.

 

So, the guys installing the new AC's have gotten to the last bedroom. We're installing the mini-split style AC's. We had the old, loud, window unit kind previously. We have jalousie windows, as is de rigueur in the tropics. See picture below. Anywho... to install the old window unit they had to remove the slats for that area, which is normal and understood, but these slats, which we bought replacements for last week, have a mechanism on each side of the window into which they install. Whoever installed the old AC we're removing, completely and unnecessarily stripped the mechanisms out of both sides of the window, so there's no place for the new slats I bought to install. This could not be seen until now because of a cowl that filled in the area to the left and right of the old AC.

tl:dr

The last owner of this house fucked me and didn't even buy me dinner.

I'm putting a piece of cardboard over the now gaping hole until I can devise something more permanent. And no, the windows are not made to just re-install replacement mechanisms. The mechanisms were removed by force in a way that was never meant to happen.

 

When I was eleven and went to secondary school my best friend decided they weren't going to be my friend anymore because I was too weird (found this out two years later, at the time she just avoided me).
Today she came in the shop after not seeing me for five years and not speaking to me properly for many more and she glides in smiling at me and asks 'do I get a discount?'

 

If only it were so simply, dear Moosie. It's a condo, first of all, so I've got to deal with the administration, and that's the easy part. The hard part is that, it's the tropics, hurricane alley, so construction here is done WWII pillbox style. The window frame is imbedded into the cement wall. Removal of the frame entails minor demolition to get it out. I've got to destroy part of the wall and then repair it. Like I said, fucked.

 

Fuck it. Just scrap the whole place and move. This all sounds very complicated.

 

Aside from the fact that...

#1- Celebrities are dropping dead left, right and center.
#2- A friend in another forum ignored me when I mentioned that Debbie Reynolds died and she was tired of hearing about dead celebrities.
#3- A certain man with orange hair is gonna be our president in 22 days.


I feel just great.

 

Nah, I already know the solution but my gay little self hates the idea. The outside part of the mini-split nearly covers - visually - the area in question. I'm just going to have to close the area off with a piece of heavyweight plywood that I'll get tomorrow at the H.D. Ugly as fuck from the inside, but it's the usual solution embraced by my local brethren who have become inured to the abject idiocy of some of their fellows. It boils down to this, and there's no pretty way to say it: My people are not a people who give much concern to details or foresight. Those are the cultural traits of industrialized cultures and Spanish culture is not part of that cultural tradition. The very word for detail in Spanish, detalle, has the same definition, but doesn't have the same connotation in Spanish as in English. In Spanish it means minor thing that no one is concerned over. It's perfectly common to hear someone say: 'Chacho, olvídalo. Eso es un detalle. Dude, forget about it. That's just a detail.

 

Ookie for US President, 2020!
Make America....um....hairy and cute again!!!

 

Thanks, man. I needed a laugh.

 

Here's a funny for you: Know what that gets called in Puerto Rico? Chippy Hammy.

I'll let you back-engineer the origin.