Feb 13, 2015, 1:13 AM
FUCKIT it is 2015, we can put probes on a comet and space stations in orbit. Why are we still testing blood sugar by stabbing fingers and dabbing blood on a stick?
RL peeves! >< @$!#
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FUCKIT it is 2015, we can put probes on a comet and space stations in orbit. Why are we still testing blood sugar by stabbing fingers and dabbing blood on a stick?
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I named mine Seymour, it needs to be fed.
Edit: Related peeve. Seriously? You need to contact the doctor to see if you can refill my insulin prescription?! I'm type 1, I'm not gonna magically get better. This isnt a few rounds of antibiotics or painkillers. Trust me, I'm still diabetic and i'm not 'abusing' the shit that helps me live. Fuck you. ?@!#$!#$!
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It's good to know I'm not the only one who chants that exact thing once every three fucking months. Solidarity!
Ugh, that reminds me I gotta bite the bullet and actually call to tell them my pick for a pump.
ES
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@BetterJudgment I am admittedly really hesitant to do this. Calling is a life ruining event for people who are not doing anything wrong. I just don't have enough information at this point.
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My dog. (Or is it my training skills?)
For years, I wanted to teach him a command that would put him on alert and/or drive off incursions to my property. (We live out in the woods, so there are a lot of critters and not-critters that wander through.) Jokingly, I tried to tie such behavior to the word 'kill'. It never worked.
However, I've come to discover that he has associated this behavior with the rather innocuous word 'look'. So now every time I'm talking at him and I want him to look at something, he switches on to full Alert/Police Dog/ INTRUDER mode. I guess the upside is that he does it on command? He's real intelligence, as he knows a lot of words and gestures I haven't taught him. Any times the keys jingle... oh boy.
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While we are Fuck This and Fuck that..
Fuck Valentine's Day. Seriously.
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Agreed. Fuck the holiday that reminds me how much I -don't- have someone to spend it with.
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@somasatori said:
but there's always been a serious issue with people bitching about transplants and how they're "ruining the state of the city." Mostly people from California. Oregonians appear to treat Californians like the entire state conspired to kill their parents or something.
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Dear nearly everyone in my town. We live in Atlantic Canada. This is not our first storm. Not even this year. Why are you running around acting like you've never even seen a weather warning before? Why does impending snow make you forget how to drive and act as if the snow is already here?
Also, no, I don't need a makeover for Valentine's Day. But I will take being pity IDed at the liquor store. Got to get my storm booze!
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The same thing happens in Tampa when it rains. Despite the fact that it rains half the year here, people still seem to lose their minds at the first drop.
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We lose our minds if it freezes. It doesn't that often but the level of crazy is hilarious. Also, when it floods (which is like every time it rains) not enough people lose their minds. And then they drive into water. Idiots. VW bugs really do float. This doesn't mean you should drive into 3 feet deep water.
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Yeah, I live in the Pacific Northwest, land of the rain. People here can't drive in the rain. They can't drive in the sunshine, either. Or at night. Or....yeah. The only time they can drive is when it's light and overcast.
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@Sunny said:
Yeah, I live in the Pacific Northwest, land of the rain. People here can't drive in the rain. They can't drive in the sunshine, either. Or at night. Or....yeah. The only time they can drive is when it's light and overcast.
Grrr. This is what makes me so mad about failing my drive test. I'm waaaaay more of a cautious and safe driver than the majority of other people I encounter on the roads (and I obey little laws like: if there is a pedestrian in the cross walk I don't try to be in the crosswalk at the same time).
Oh, but I didn't jerk my neck around like a chicken to check for pedestrians when inching out onto another road. And went 40 FOR ABOUT THIRTY SECONDS in a 35. SO NO LICENSE FOR ME.
grumble
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This same sort of thing happened to me when I tried for my driver's license in Iowa years back. I got docked points because I went over the speed limit to avoid being rear-ended by the jackass that was about an inch off my back bumper. I got docked points for not waiting on the pedestrian that was FIFTY FEET AWAY from the crosswalk before making a turn.
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I cheat on my eye test every time I get a new driver's license. They never test my driving or anything. I guess it's just something you have to do when you get a license for a new state?
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@Cobaltasaurus said:
@Sunny said:
Yeah, I live in the Pacific Northwest, land of the rain. People here can't drive in the rain. They can't drive in the sunshine, either. Or at night. Or....yeah. The only time they can drive is when it's light and overcast.
Grrr. This is what makes me so mad about failing my drive test. I'm waaaaay more of a cautious and safe driver than the majority of other people I encounter on the roads (and I obey little laws like: if there is a pedestrian in the cross walk I don't try to be in the crosswalk at the same time).
Oh, but I didn't jerk my neck around like a chicken to check for pedestrians when inching out onto another road. And went 40 FOR ABOUT THIRTY SECONDS in a 35. SO NO LICENSE FOR ME.
grumble
Traffic rules are more...guidelines, here. And I know at least two hicks (is that word offensive? I have a hard time keeping track) that genuinely believe that the only time pedestrians have the right of way is when people are stopped for a light and the little man is in the crosswalk sign. Like....sigh. /Sigh./
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I never had a driving test. You don't if you do drivers ed as a teenager. I think they changed the rules but a lot of us had been driving for awhile anyhow by the time we got a permit at 15.
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Yeah, I took a driving test for my very first license when I was 16 (MI), and have not had to take another one since, despite moving to 4 different states (VA, OK, MN, WA) in the following almost-quarter-century afterwards.
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@Admiral said:
I cheat on my eye test every time I get a new driver's license. They never test my driving or anything. I guess it's just something you have to do when you get a license for a new state?
I cheat, too. (I have amblyopia, so I close my right eye to force my left one to see the characters on the far left end of the line). I haven't had to take a driving test for nearly 40 years and ten changes of state.
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I learned to drive in a snowstorm. I was really lucky and the three guys in the car with me all had their licenses, so they were basically going to the lower insurance rate of taking driver's ed. So I got a lot of practice. Here you test in the month of your birthday, so April. There was a lot of snow, and the instructor even said I could re-schedule if I didn't feel comfortable. This was at 10:30 am. I figured if I could pass in a storm and it was safe enough to take the test, I could drive any time.
I passed. The test was an hour. They cancelled school at noon.
All the people who had birthdays in the summer? Ditches the next winter.
But everyone here is acting like it's their first snow. Even though we've already had nine storms roll through. But for some reason everyone was going bonkers over this one.
As if a meter of snow in one shot is a big thing.