Best posts made by Miss Demeanor

@Lithium Oh don't even get me started on the price checks.

'Oh, I found this in the X aisle for 19.98!'
Sir, it rings up as 52.97.
'But the price on the shelf said 19.98! I demand a price check/manager!'
... <several minutes and a redundant price check later>
Sir, the item was misplaced on the shelf, the UPC numbers don't match. This item is 52.97. THIS item is 19.98.
'But you're supposed to price match!'
...not to mis-shelved items, sir.
'But its not MY fault it was there, I should get the reduced price!'
I'm sorry, sir, its not Walmart's policy to give customers a 50% discount because an item was misplaced.
'I'm calling the corporate office and telling them you won't price match!'
<sighs> Very well, sir. Have a great day and thank you for shopping at Walmart.

@mietze There are certain markers you can look for for age, but the 'ID if customer appears under X' is SO arbitrary that it makes the job impossible. When the age was 40, that seemed like a reasonable marker. There are certain facial aspects that you can expect for most people that are 40+ (crow's feet at the eyes, brackets around the mouth, the start of crepey skin at the neck and hands).

But at Walmart, the age was arbitrarily set to 35, because apparently if the law says card anyone under 40, setting Walmart's policy to 35 makes Walmart 'better'. I'm 33 and I get carded for EVERYTHING. I'm told I have a youthful face. Which is great, I'm enjoying it, and I don't mind being carded.

But for all the people out there that are purposely seeking to look younger than their age? Don't get pissed at me when I ask to see your ID. You get face lifts and chin tucks and botox injections, and you dye your hair regularly so that you can appear 30 instead of 45, you lose your right to get huffy when I can't tell that you're 45.

Does that mean I can point and laugh at all since I've seen everything but an earthquake and a tsunami? XD Blizzards, torrential rains, hurricanes, tornadoes, below freezing temps, crazy high heat and humidity indexes... the US is a scary place to live for weather.

I currently have two cats, one is definitely older than the other and by all rights should be terrified of absolutely everything. Male orange tabby, he was a stray we took in during hurricane season about 7 years ago. He has right hip damage that suggests he was either kicked or hit by something as a young cat and it was never properly set so healed 'off'. He is afraid of shoes, shirts, feet, noises (laughter has been known to send him running), his own body noises (he once farted in his sleep, loud enough that it won't him up and sent him tearing through the house, crashing into things, before finally hiding under the bed for about 6 hours), rain, people, etc. This is a cat that for the first three years we had him, would pee in the closet if strange people came into the house just so that he wouldn't have to go downstairs to use his litter box.

Then we ended up getting a calico female from the shelter. She's probably 3-4 years younger than him, has asthma, and is very loving and active. She makes strange noises often (wheezing from her asthma) that by all right SHOULD send the older cat into flee mode. However, instead, she has slowly but surely helped to socialize him. He's still skittish (probably always will be), but he no longer jumps at shadows or his own noises, and he'll even sit with us and purr these days. I can change my shirt and not have him act like the world is ending. He's even joining the morning cacophony for breakfast and lets us know when the food dish is less than full!

Sometimes a scared cat is a scared cat... but sometimes having another cat can help them mellow out.

@Bobotron said:

Be aware, every outfit Drisella and Anastasia wear will make your eyes bleed, however.

Which is also pretty much canon for the story. XD

@Insomnia I'd take her either way. Hot is hot, no matter how you dress it.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

@Miss-Demeanor http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/22721/how-to-play-your-favorite-retro-video-games-on-your-windows-pc/

I've yet to get an emulator to function properly, and in looking at that link, nearly HALF the games on there (and all but one of the games I would want to play) don't even work for the emulators. Also, doesn't fix the problem for people that want a retro system for their kids to play on.

From what I've gathered from previous threads about this hot mess of a game... it essentially means that Nymeria wants to have sole and complete ownership of everything that happens in and on the game so that she can turn around and use it for her collaborations with GRRM and claim it all as her personal intellectual property. Basically, so she can take your character and claim all credit for it.

@enoch Would this person claim to call themselves 'Jill' by chance?

@Misadventure said in Dealing with Staff:

The hammer is his penis.

We're mostly English and Dutch with a touch of Portugese on my grandmother's side. My father's side CLAIMS Irish, but I disbelieve.

Skin color is fishbelly, burn ratio is OHGODITBURNS.

I see your Hasselhoff and raise you a Selleck! IN SHORT-SHORTS!

And this is why I stick to SimpleMU. It gives you a text box that lets you add multiples of specific text that you want to spawn into a single window from the same spawn setup. >.>

@auspice I may try to con my man into buying it for me. XD I made some chorizo fundido that I can use for bribery.

I don't need wrist locks, I need people to respect my right to not be touched when I don't want to be.

Specify a little? I'm not sure what you want to know about it.

@Hexagon There's a world of difference between 'allows an occasional respec that doesn't result in anything actually being lost, only shifted around' and 'mandatory taxation on already purchased dots that will absolutely result in loss of earned dots if you don't make sure you have enough xp to cover the cost of their upkeep'. And its not even something that would only happen once or twice a year. You would have to keep a constant running tally of what everything will 'cost' just to ensure that you have enough xp saved up come 'tax time' to pay for it. Which means at the very least, trying to remember once a month to sit down and math out what you have versus what it will cost. That's a lot more effort than most people are going to want to put into simply maintaining the stats they already purchased. Especially when no other game will take away the stuff they already bought if they don't pay for it again.

@Insomnia YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! OMG, being able to finally kill Marcy. SO WORTH IT.

1. I am finally starting to see some return for my efforts in career searching. I have three interviews lined up with good companies that pay well, one of them is even a salaried position and comes with government benefits!

2. We recently adopted a pair of Tonkinese cats, siblings. One boy (long hair), one girl (short hair).
   Kitty Pics!
   (We did not name them)

3. We are getting a new second car! Well, used-new. New to us! An '07 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo that only has about 10K more miles on it than my '09 Forester.

/start2CENTS!

I think its less of a technology thing and more of a people thing. Some folk just cannot handle multitasking, and especially cannot handle too much 'input' at one time. Me? My job is multitasking. I constantly have multiple things occurring simultaneously and I need to be able to keep track of them all. So for me, having a MU client up, a browser with Facebook and MSB running, a movie playing on VLC... none of that is really any different than I do all day already. Some people couldn't handle having all that distraction and extraneous input coming at them. Its not wrong its just how they're built.

/end2CENTS