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- sarahfailin2
I got an amazon prime account just so I could get 30 pound bags of cat litter delivered to my apartment. I don't have a car and they're a pain to retrieve. Every other month now they seem to be discontinuing it and then restocking it. My cat needs to shit!
- Chewy.comfooler
- Wait. Amazon Prime means all deliveries for free, even big ones? if so I might have to renege on my anti-Amazon stance. I could seriously abuse free deliveries.Nairn
- Huh. It would appear so, at least sometimes/mostly. Well well well - I can order through 3rd parties and pay Bezos £8 p/m for £100s of delivery?Nairn
- Bezos still gets paid. They just outsource the delivery work to increasingly dodgy contractors.Fax_Benson
- all the deliveries here are now branded electric vans which has made me rethink my anti-amazon, best is to use one of the bots on ebay - free prime deliverykingsteven
- (im guessing by feeding your address through their prime account as a gift or whatever) i've had things arrive in a matter of hours, free postage, carbon freekingsteven
- The Co-op just went into partnership with Amazon Prime for food deliveries. Nothing is safe.Fax_Benson
- I first read it as ‘... I don’t have a cat...”Gnash
- somebody just likes to shit in the litterpango
- PonyBoy2
My eyelashes are too long... they swipe the inside of the lenses of my glasses and leave literal brushstrokes... I can't see!!!
- YUPnudes
- SameFax_Benson
- self cleaningmoldero
- Less mascara always helps.Morning_star
- Lol, morning_starPonyBoy
- you got a lighter right? matches will do too.pango
- drgs1
The girl I have been seeing has plucked out all my eyebrows and now I'm trying to come up with an explanation for colleagues at work
- cancerGnash
- not all eyesbrows entirely, but they are visibly shaped nowdrgs
- tell them you recently found out you're Puerto Rican or Dominican. that's normal grooming for men there...robotron3k
- when you say, "all my eyebrows,' how many did you start with?Gnash
- one, according to the girlfrienddrgs
- 1) say you lost a bet 2) tell the truth
3) you were making a cool gadget when it blew up burning your brows 4) or cooking with alcohol flambe.yurimon - 5) migrants.yurimon
- she is born in the country, but not native... go ondrgs
- 6) you tried this new shampoo that dissolves your hair type. lol 7) you were waxing your girl when you fell face first on the wax paper.yurimon
- 8) you did for an art project film. 9) you did it for charity.yurimon
- yurimon -- he's gooddrgs
- i like #7sarahfailin
- Just tell them you're a fag. Easy, problem solved.drake-von-drake
- eyebrows grow pretty fastdrgs
- Lol great string. Funny stuff.Hayoth
- YakuZoku1
My landlord wants to move back into his house that I've been living in for the past 5 years, now I have to find another house to move into. Currently paying less than $500/mo for a 3 bedroom Beach house
Problem is Covid jacked up all the prices since people are getting hip to the idea that they don't have to live in the city they work in so all the prices I'm looking at are at-least double what I'm paying now.
Moving sucks & Fuck you Covid
- this may be a 'first world' problem but it's one of those that could make shit very 'third world' for you really quick...PonyBoy
- ...and fuck your LL for doing this during an insanely inflated economy. My wife and I had to move / lose our sweet deal too—our options were all overpriced :/PonyBoy
- fuck you $500! im paying 2k for 2 bedrooms...pango
- in US dollars you're paying $1500 which is cheap for two bedrooms. 2500 US in west Hollywood for a studio.hotroddy
- I'm considering a year of 1 suitcase + laptop, spending 2 months in a country, cheap long term hotels/airbnbs.shapesalad
- well i dont live in US or west hollywoodpango
- I much prefer to pay $500pango
- come down pango!YakuZoku
- $500/mo holy shit, I hope you put away some fat stacks while you were paying so little, I pay almost that per week.BuddhaHat
- GeorgesII4
lol,
- He's waiting for the new iPoolfadein11
- http://cdn.themetapi…detritus
- why is this funny to you?monospaced
- why is this not true?ORAZAL
- how can she slap?monospaced
- It's called the Apple Pool, @fadein11, not the iPool. C'mon, get with the times!monospaced
- haha truefadein11
- mg330
Wow - a twofer: the contents of the post I tried to enter, and not knowing what could possibly cause this to be denied.
- half w aydetritus
- Why? That is ridiculous.mg33
- Competition. It's been like that forever on qbn.albums
- What competition has that name?mg33
- It's probably candida albicans - a yeast, try an medicated ointment that ends in -zole, or even atheletes' foot meds..mikotondria3
- Mike, I read that 3 times thinking you we're answering the question about "half way."mg33
- qbn is just trying to save you the embarrassment of posting ridiculous nonsense...sine
- haha. Yes.
To that. About that thing.
It's true. And both.mikotondria3 - Not being allowed to post on QBN = first world problem :)NonEntity
- the QBN censoring competition thing is pretty embarrassingmoldero
- b3hancealbums
- yup anything with beh is probably denied because of b3hancedbloc
- Al_dizzle0
- that is the worst. toss them in the garbage.CanHasQBN
- Turn the crust bit over so it's in the middle...mikotondria3
- Then broil/grill it - surprisingly robust. Learn to love the heel. Sounds like someone's never been properly poor. Tut tut. :)mikotondria3
- never waste food mangscarabin
- what scarabin said. toast it with some cheese... nice and crispy.sine
- toss that shit. you don't need to put yourself through the dreadful experience of eating that.CanHasQBN
- cheap fillali
- i filet the end part so it ends up being pretty much a regular piecelocustsloth
- they should invent free 2day mail to a random adress in Africa envelopes for these.moldero
- Are you crazy?? The endies are the best fuckin part!pig
- imbecile1
I had my motorcycle repainted to match my car, but I don't think it matches. I think it's darker. I haven't seen them together in person but the photos seem dark.
- now you need the matching alligator skin loafers! :)capn_ron
- Repaint your car to match.face_melter
- as long as they're dyed to match the paint capn_ron. :D
that could be a vicious cycle i get myself into face_melter.imbecile - repaint house to match car and motorcycle, then bleach your hairdrgs
- what color is it btwdrgs
- Metallic space grayimbecile
- Look at it in the evening, it will match perfectlyrobotron3k
- only ride and drive them together at night. problem solvedkona
- follow up, it's a perfect match in daylight :Dimbecile
- chukkaphob2
I've tried to follow so many recipes for preparing asparagus and it NEVER turns out the way it is prepared in restaurants.
WTF?! This should be super easy to prepare. I don't get it.
- Grilled. With a bit of char.BusterBoy
- Grilled on high high heat with a lot of char/butter/garlic and saltlvl_13
- And a squeeze of lemon. Don't forget the lemon. Also you can sub butter for olive oil if you want.lvl_13
- http://g01.a.alicdn.…Fax_Benson
- http://az723720.vo.m…Fax_Benson
- make sure you blanch them first -- and not for too long. This is what restaurants do differently than most home cooks.ridg0026
- Hard to fuck it up. Put it in a hot pan with his bit of olive oil and grill it up. Add water and cover to steam it for a couple minutes. Shouldn't be a big dealmonospaced
- Salt and pepper makes it.monospaced
- GeorgesII3
my ipad is too heavy...
- scarabin2
this "chipotle aoli" is clearly just hot sauce stirred into mayonnaise
- lolmonospaced
- hahaKrassy
- hehePonyBoy
- E. Coli Alert!
E. Coli Alert!
E. Coli Alert!
E. Coli Alert!utopian - It's flavoured mayonnaise. Aioli - in which garlic is the only addition - is just an attempt to make things sound fancier.MrT
- Actually, aioli is not a fancy name for mayonanaise as it has garlic in it as a default.monospaced
- it literally translates to garlic and oilmonospaced
- We're saying the same thing, I just said it not very best : )MrT
- omg, you're rightmonospaced
- SimonFFM1
What I really hate about this pandemic is that I can't buy dumbbells.
Shitty ones for high prices are easily available, but I want ones that are good looking as they will be lying around in my living room.
And if I order them now, they will get delivered end of July. What is this?
- You must live in Germany.dasohr
- Yes, unfortunately.SimonFFM
- I want some too and...damn...living in Germany.oey_oey
- Resistance bands are better.shapesalad
- there are a few laying around here on QBN that nobody wants_niko
- GuyFawkes3
The electric skateboard i ordered last week was supposed to arrive today, this morning checked the status and its being held at customs, fuck you customs!
- I order bongs n shit to Mexico with no issues, those fuckin skateboards though, gotta keep an eye on those.GuyFawkes
- Customs officers probably want to keep it a few days to shred around the warehouse a bitnb
- iWoodGuyFawkes
- What kind did you get?lemmy_k
- Backfire G2 first thing im doing is replacing that grip tapeGuyFawkes
- The plain black?lemmy_k
- I got that galaxy looking one but want all black so im just gonna re grip itGuyFawkes
- I read that you can paint it, too. We just redid our deck. Sanded, varnished and clear grip additive. I'm partial to the wood look.lemmy_k
- Let me know how you like it, once it shows.lemmy_k
- That does sound nice, yeah i wanna ride it a couple times then take her apart to see what i have to work with, i like the clear grip ideaGuyFawkes
- finally got it yesterday, I like it, a little stiff carving wise & the decks kinda stiff too, but overall I dig it for the price. might pickup a boosted by summGuyFawkes
- nb4
global pandemic, mass death, rampant unemployment, insane delusional president...
Meanwhile, I’m told a bunch of people are very mad and having lengthy arguments about a video game being released with bugs
- It's just proof that we have never been this safe.palimpsest
- lol that's not how proof works, dummynb
- dkoblesky2
I stupidly bought Tropical Trail mix from Wal Mart. Way too many dried bananas in there
- haha, i was never a fan of mixes with too much dried banana or coconutNairn
- the clue was in tropical??hans_glib
- No...its not that. What they do is put cheapest thing in the most. So very little pineapple and mango, but LOTS of banana. Balance is way off...dkoblesky
- great first world problemdkoblesky
- Banana is the best partscarabin
- futurefood2
Plasma TV burnt out. Fuuuuuuuuck
I’m actually fine with this as I spent the night without some display light in my face. I noticed it shut down some hours earlier and when troubleshooting I heard that vsst-pop! sound with the trailing burnt smell of a blown capacitor.
It's been running great for more than 10 years so it has served its purpose, but the image is so beautiful and displays everything with an interesting film-look I feel like I just need to open it up and inspect the boards. I’m pretty decent with a soldering iron and I'm sure I could find parts, the real problem is the fucker weighs over 75lbs and is so awkward to hold it can take up to 3 people to lift it off the wall.
The gf has convinced me to find a new tv. With so many options now, 4k..8k..QLED..OLED...it should be an easy pick, right?
Any recommendssss?
- If it's just a blown cap, fix it or get someone who's comfortable doing so to?Nairn
- Jesus, spot who entriely skimmed over the latter half of your second paragraph :\Nairn
- Wait for a saleformed
- @Narin haha, sorry, I meant it was having a shutdown issue and then the cap blew. So now it's two problems for sure.futurefood
- But maybe the cap blew on the same sc board, if I'm lucky, which I'm not :(
A holiday sale is coming up. We'll seefuturefood - I’ve replaced entire boards on TVs before. Check ebay for your modelscarabin
- Khurram3
FML!
Just got an email from my Canadian phone company (Fido) 6 days after arriving in Japan that they are cancelling all roaming talk, text & data charges to customers travelling abroad until April 30th.
That's after I shelled out $115 (canadian dollars) on an unlimited data plan SIM card with Japanese company Sakura Mobile. What a rip off!
Serious, FML FML FML!!!
- Softened the pill by cancelling all my Airbnb thanks to their corona virus full refund policy and rebooked bargains with Booking.com *sigh*Khurram
- digital quarantinehotroddy
- Fucking fido. I remember being with them when I lived in Hfx ... fucking gougers.Continuity
- I'm going to swap out my Japanese SIM and fucking RAPE their free international roaming data. I know it's petty of me but I'm very cross!Khurram
- Khurram1
So things went from bad to worse. I arrived at the airport on the 31st and tried to checkin for my flight to Taiwan and I was denied a boarding pass.
Turns out, and I sort of knew this, that my passport needs to be valid 6 months for entry into Taiwan the day I arrive. My passport WOULD have been valid, as I had timed to arrive there on 31 January. Unfortunately, because of the corona virus situation, I was now arriving on Feb 2nd - which meant my passport would now only be valid 5 months from date of arrival.
And so I was refused at the airport. The edibles I had taken just hit me as I stood at the checkout counter, mouth aghast, wondering what the fuck i do now - my apartment rented out to someone else, my stuff in storage, big suitcases by my side - nowhere to go.
In the end, i managed to get the last flight from Montreal to Manchester, at the cost of over $1,000 - add to that the 1000s i'd blown on my ticket to Taiwan, no longer valid, and the acomodation I'd booked there i couldn't refund.
So now I'm staying at my mum's house in England for a couple of weeks until I regroup. Which I guess saves me $1000 in terms of what i would have spent in Taiwan on fun and entertainment.
I have onward tickets from Taipei to Philippines then to Tokyo and accomodation already booked - so i need to get to Manila on Feb 13th - and shell out for another flight - but now i'm reading corona just killed someone in Philippines and i don't know what's going to happen with that.
But i'm going to persevere with the 3 months of travelling I had planned no matter what. Even though I'm out $2000+ now for nothing. Thankfully im' prettty affluent and have a thriving business so i can take the hit.
Anyway, FML right now.
- I'm going to hire a car and drive around Japan and see the cherry blossoms blooming and possibly spend a week at a Zen retreat. Planning itinerary now.Khurram
- Whoa.
Intense @Khurram, BUT consider you're alive AND living life in a non -traditional way. #Godspeed
: )ideaist - Thanks ideaist! Definitely a first world problems situation. But like my Murphy's, i'm not bitter :))Khurram
- Was really excited about Taiwan though. Been watching new Taiwanese cinema for months in excitement. Next year after I renew my passport!Khurram
- And I just been reading how racist Japanese society is - people don't even sit next to you on the bus if you're black/brown. Probably more to come in this storyKhurram
- Sounds like you’re your own worst enemy. Earlier passport renewal. And ingesting local drugs after you land. May be a better move next time. ;)BH26
- Yeah I was a bit blase about the whole situation. Esp regarding passport. But the edibles, my plan was to go "clean" for 3 months so i took them for the plane..Khurram
- so to be sober when i land. Then i don't do any drugs (even alcohol) for the duration of the trip. Not that being high made any difference in this situation.Khurram
- Where you plan to go in Philippines? Manila is kind of a polluted mess but some of the smaller islands are amazing.yuekit
- Japan > Taiwan all day.stoplying
- @yuekit - Siargao - small surfer island in the south. Those islands look amazing for sure. 4 weeks there, signed up to an MMA gym and plans to surfKhurram
- @stoplying! ;) I was waaay more excited to go to Taiwan. And now i'm determined to do it next winter. From the traveller forum i've been on Taiwan is an...Khurram
- extremely liveable and affordable developed country. Plus it has none of the racism Japan, S Korea and CHina have. Very tolerant society. And, as mentioned..Khurram
- I've been obsessed with Taiwanese new wave cinema for the last two months so i was looking forward to it the most. Plus they have better beaches/surfingKhurram
- And it's not an either or situation, right? I spent time in Singapore, Hong Kong winter 2019 so Tokyo was a bucket list thing that was going to happen anyway.Khurram
- Ah nice...that's actually where I went last time I was in Philippines (Siargao). Amazing place, really breathtaking.yuekit
- I'm not a surfer but it's a great island to ride around on a motorbike and explore. The landscape is mind-blowing, like you were dropped into a simulationyuekit
- where someone cloned too many palm trees :) You'll see what I mean when you get there.yuekit
- yeah man, so pumped. Was deciding between that or Boracay. I should have been there in beginning of January but seems like everything was against meKhurram
- set6
I don't have enough time to pursue the vast array of things I'm talented at.
- mugwart4
Tech just fixed my 3rd monitor. Worked for 3 days on only two... productivity was at an all time low!