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- PonyBoy11
Went to bed at around 4:30am as I'm buried in a time sensitive project. Mrs. PB leaves @ about 6:15am for work... at 6:35 she calls me to tell me the keys she grabbed won't unlock the car (she grabbed mine which only work manually) and demands I grab her set and run them out to her (I'm in bed... pair of shorts on and nothing else). Mind you - it's freezing out (a tick just above 0°C) and it's pouring rain.
She's in a panicked mood which usually means she's impatient and demanding (we are very much the same when either of us gets in this mood)... more importantly we both stop paying attention to what's we're doing when we start to trip out so of course I threw on jeans and hauled ass downstairs while still on the phone with her... while doing so I begged her to relax and stand in our little garage area out of the rain, that I'd be down in 30 seconds.
15 seconds go by - I'm in the stairwell and I hear the wretched awful sound of our car alarm going off along w/the loud shrill of a 5'4" blond whom is late for work... I begin to run while squeezing the shit out of the 'unlock' button (this will shut off the car alarm)... *squeeze *squeeze *squuuuuueeeeeeeze *shrilllllll *squeeeze SHRILLLLLLNESS (and her punching the driver's side window once I could see her)... *Beep *Beep... alarm off... shrillness subsides. She then looks at me w/exhausted eyes and gently says "Thank you".
I smile, give her a big hug... smack her on the ass and point north as that's the direction she needs to start driving... she giggles... allllll is well again.
Nope.
20 mins go by... I'm back in bed... CPAP on, pup cuddled in on one side - kitty on the other and out of nowhere the front door SLAMS open. Both animals panic as my name is shouted at the top of my wife's lungs.
I of course spring up and rip the CPAP nonsense off my head and run to her... "It's gone... I can't find it... there's no way it survived... it's gone... it's just gone... IT'S GONE!!!"
"What's gone, Babe?!!!"
"My phone... it was on top of the car when I left. I was so late for work and angry that I must have left it on top of the car."
I'm dizzy and standing in my underwear @ 7am wondering how to fix this... the phone could be anywhere. So, I said "fuck it... let's go retrace the path you just drove and see what we find".
It only took 5 minutes but we found it!! We drove slowly in rush hour traffic (raining / foggy... ugly out). It was sitting in the middle of the main road right in the turning lane about 1/3 a meter from actual traffic... 100% undamaged. When I bought the phones I was sure to get lexan screen guards and to wrap these fuckers in otterboxes as my wife and I are complete dicks to our phones.
She was 35 minutes late for work this morning... but all is well... I just wanted you all to know. <3
- This is why I work from home. And prefer to be single.shapesalad
- You deserve a PonyHusband of the Year award! respect!uan
- Cool story Kevin. But, shame on you for marrying a blonde ;)OBBTKN
- Thankful I don't have to deal with shit like that.robthelad
- I'm dying at the very familiar thought of "Ah, it's morning. I can finally sleep" compounded with you locking in Vader-style with your pets.garbage
- I love my girlfriend for not being this way ever with me.cannonball1978
- To be clear—this was just a bad morning for her. My Wife is a stable badass who spends 12+ hours a day, 5+ days a week working with schizophrenia patients.PonyBoy
- I need a drink after this poststoplying
- It's not a bad thing to live with another's foibles. They, after all, have to live with yours. +1 PonyBoy, this sounds like a page out of my life :)Nairn
- jagara0
For unknown reasons, US snack products are a thing in Denmark (maybe just Copenhagen), and because of import taxes on things like sugar, they sell for ridiculous prices.
1 regular bag of Cheetos: $8,50
1 regular bag of Funyuns: $6,50
1 small bag of Takis: $5,00
1 can of US soda: $3,50And yes, people buy them for some reason.
I very, very occasionally buy the soda flavors we don't get here, I admit. Cream soda, Vanilla Coke and Fanta variants like grape are favorites.
- tariff taxutopian
- Are you seriously telling us that you're paying three and half dollars for a can containing dirty water with sugar?OBBTKN
- Haha, yes. Very occasionally :)
A can of Danish soda costs around 2,25
We're in the top 10 most expensive countries.jagara - it's 0.20 euros in Turkey. Should we start cheetos smuggling business into Denmark?Beeswax
- He means US Imports - the same has become popular here in London with cornershops selling poorer-quality US shit at vastly higher rates.Nairn
- The only reason I've paid attention to this is I keep an eye out for sodas that don't have fucking artificial sweeteners, BUT US stuff is HFCS-laden shite.Nairn
- @Beeswax the candy/soda smuggling was an actual thing like 10 years ago. There was a huge crackdown. It is no more. You're too late ;Djagara
- isn't US soda allowed to use corn syrup instead of regular sugar. which is like really really bad?uan
- @jagara "candy/soda smuggling was an actual thing" We are definitely doing this. Escobar way.Beeswax
- @uan yup. It's garbage. I consume garbage. Occasionally.jagara
- OBBTKN0
I have to confess one thing to you, before the wind blows me away:
Women with beautiful legs drive me crazy, especially when they wear a miniskirt.
C r a z y ;)
- yes we get it. you're getting laid.
and by wind i think you meant quiffpango - don't go to taiwan or japan then. skirt heaven over there... but then, wonky short legs too, at least in japan.shapesalad
- Haha pango, but no, just seen a beauty with her long legs passing near me, and I could not avoid the comment ;)OBBTKN
- @shape, a Thai friend of me, years ago, used to go out every day with shorts, she was a beautifull woman... Now, no shorts, no beauty... But yes, short legsOBBTKN
- don't go to taiwan or japan, it's very hard to find black women with nice legs who walk around in miniskirts, especially ones with glasses and curly hair :)sted
- https://www.youtube.…drgs
- yes we get it. you're getting laid.
- Nairn10
"You are so nice" says the young Chinese student I just had in who can barely speak English and who has no idea what a horrid wretch of a human being I typically am.
- Sounds like witnessing a confession in hindsightspl33nidoru
- No worries. She escaped.Nairn
- For the first time on your life try to keep her in that belief and who knows maybe one day you actually become a nice guy :D:Dsted
- Did you get his phone number?utopian
- "Yu So Ni", sounds like 'you are so nice', but in mandarin it means you are as ugly as the abalone's ass.shapesalad
- Por que no los dos?Nairn
- *porque, sorry :\Nairn
- @Nairn
Por qué is right, used for questions.
Porque is used for giving a reason.palimpsest - Por qué = why
Porque = becausepalimpsest - Oh yeah, haha, what a moron.
You wouldn't believe that I lived in Spain for ten+ years, would you? Thick as shit.
lolNairn - I'm so bad at languages. I coasted all my teenage years on two years of Latin I did from 8-10, that provided the fundamentals over different schools afterNairn
- Shes just being politepango
- pork no trey?Nairn
- pork no turkey?sted
- Maybe she saying "Yah Suh Nice"? https://www.youtube.…PioneerDJ303
- porky!Continuity
- ********-2
My cute coworker smells good every day and I'm not sure if it's perfume or not.
- ask herpango
- Fucking hell, another hormone-driven adolescent like NBQ.Continuity
- they could be transmonospaced
- Maybe she does that modern trend, you know, of spreading her vag fluid over herself.shapesalad
- When i ask it’s always shampooscarabin
- stoplying6
We're almost finished converting our attached garage into a fully functioning, heated home office/hang room. Our 890 sq foot home was reaching capacity and the old garage was basically a storage unit. Bikes, clothes, skateboards, food, and stuff that we weren't quite ready to throw out yet. We needed to make the most of an unused space. We have a small 6' x 10' shed which we're going to upgrade to a 12' x 16'.
We hired a general contractor to demo, insulate, sheetrock, and frame a wall in front of the garage door. So from the street it still looks like a garage, but once inside it's hard to tell. We added 6 wafer recessed lights on dimmers, two big closets, LVT flooring over the cement and a nice mini-split heat/ac unit which was installed yesterday as I finished painting the trim and closets. We also got a new smart tv which is the first new tv I've bought in over 15 years. What an upgrade! This is such a nice update for our home and my boys are so excited, it's great to see. Now back to my side work so i can pay for this.- hopefully local council don't do you for breaking planning laws.shapesalad
- Home upgrades are the bestscarabin
- Yeah we built all of this knowing that if/when we sell, we can knock down the framed wall and restore to a functioning "garage".stoplying
- scarabin2
Someone on IG offered me $500 to use one of my photos for a mural. Odd line breaks set my bullshit detector off and i googled “instagram art scam” and found this article with screenshots of conversations identical to mine https://geekmamas.com/2022/09/25…
I wonder how successful these guys are?
- Squiddy1
Was reading the trivia for the movie, Real Genius. Do college kids still do technical pranks or is that a lost art?
(also on IMDB, on my search Stacy Peralta is displayed as “Top Billed”?!? Animal Chin ftw lol)
- Animal chin! I member those guys growing up. The Powell peralta crew were my neighborhood growing up.monospaced
- sausages6
My 78yo father in-law fell down some stairs and is knocked out in hospital with skull fractures and a bleed on the brain. Need to drive half a day south tomorrow with my wife and 2 kids to be there just in case things head south.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
- Hope it works out Sausages.PhanLo
- Wishing you folks the bestscarabin
- I'm hoping he recovers quickly and good on you for heading down to be support.capn_ron
- All the bestSimonFFM
- Get well father in-law and good luck to you all.Longcopylover
- imbecile1
my boosted board got too wet in the fog a few days ago and it doesn't work anymore. while i investigate repair or replace options, to continue exercising my dog, i've been longboarding manually like some kind of hippy. now, my legs hurt so much.
- drgs0
Just learned that Conneticut is spelled Connecticut
- I just learned that Connetica is spelled Connecticut.palimpsest
- I just learned that Calcutta is spelled Kolkata.futurefood
- I just learned that Romania is definitely part of the Balkansmonospaced
- OBBTKN0
I heat my studio with a cylinder and there are no gas cylinders at any of the nearby gas stations, fantastic!
- OBBTKN, wanna touch tips?drgs
- use candles with terracotta pots over themshapesalad
- I've got electric heating too, but was trying to mantain the bill low as possible. Thanks god I've finished the closureOBBTKN
- shellie2
My new job starts a full 2 hours after my last one. But after year's of taking 7am morning meetings (meaning I need to wake up at least an hour before to be functional) I cannot sleep in.
I try so hard to stay up, even trying to not watch tv in bed which will sure-fire put me to sleep in minutes. Still totally passed out by 10 at the latest. How do I break this cycle? I don't even have to open my eyes until 8am now. But I find myself wide awake at 5am every goddamn day. Maybe coffee at night?
- just stay up later. maybe go out for dinner at 9pm, have some wine and coffee, dance till 1am..shapesalad
- yes, stay up until 2AM or do a reset like a full night and day up, until 6PM then sleep at 10PM and wake up 6-7AM next daygrafician
- Sex. More of it :)monospaced
- Pull a 24h completely kick yourself out, no coffee after 12h, coke is alright, sometimes i smoke a cig or two to avoid caffeine but get that kick.sted
- Get to bed at the time you think its ideal and you can get enough sleep (6-8h) and wake up at the time you would you like to in the next months/years :)sted
- Maybe you could keep your schedule and find something good to do in the mornings.pusherbot
- No coffee after noon. We're all getting oldermisterhow
- Explore the dorvay concept. Go to sleep early, wake up at 1am, do shit. Go back to sleep and then wake up to start your day.stoplying
- BusterBoy4
I don't need to travel enywhere...living vicariously through my daughter who is currently with 3 friends winding her way through Europe. She's spent time in Iceland, Finland, the UK, France, Germany and travelling to Amsterdam shortly. It's fantastic! ;)
- Amsterdam... what could go wrong...shapesalad
- enter shapesalad.
but yeah you should join her in Amsterdamsted - https://www.youtube.…pango
- Nice!! Our youngest daugther is going to travel through northern Eu this summer, before starting his Uni career...OBBTKN
- robotinc-2
That new avatar movie sure is purdy
- Is it a worthwile use of my time though?jagara
- Purdy and all...jagara
- Id say its totally worth seeing on a huge screen, but pass if you want to watch it home.robotinc
- @robotinc, what if your home setup is better than a theater?monospaced
- If you have an imax at home, surerobotinc
- OBBTKN2
Parents coming to dinner in xmas night.
Can't sip wines with my friends and my father before dinner, cos he's going to drive back home (no taxis, no public transport this night).
Years ago, it used to be fun to watch my father tease my friends.
Rip for this fun times... Too
- stoplying1
I heard a story on the radio this morning about Chat GPT bot. It can generate written content - very decent content - by typing in a request into a prompt. The radio host told it to generate a paragraph about frogs for an NPR radio segment. The generated content was spot on. Then it was told to generate it poem form, again...rhymes were on time. Kids are using it to cheat on school assignments, but this is some seriously crazy stuff. What a fucked up world we're starting to untangle
- Was this post generated with it?Nairn
- It's free for the moment but it uses x10 the energy as a google search, if the whole world uses it, data centres can't cope.shapesalad
- Expect it to be for the elite only soon enough.shapesalad
- I need to check, but I think only the training of the model is energy intense. once it's tested and running, it doesn't cost a lot energy.uan
- I think I read the rendered model could be burnt into a single micro-chip and used in virtually anything.uan
- an elite group of people who can pay 2 cents per chatkingsteven
- That Cold Fusion video nicely explains just how mental things are going to getIanbolton
- doggydoggdog0
Do you know how much your coworkers earn?
Do you think everyone at your level of seniority earns the same?- No + No. Don't think about it. Focus on you, your work, your career, and what value you bring. If you think you earn too much, offer to have a pay cut...shapesalad
- You can just ask them, but that shouldn't be your concern anywaygrafician
- You should not ask them. That would be awkward, inappropriate and rude.monospaced
- I have an idea but I don’t think everyone is equal value at the same level. That being said you have every right to be concerned if you feel underpaid unfairly.monospaced
- Ah right, this is in the US where indeed is rude to ask people delicate personal info like the fucking salary so the company can undercut them...grafician
- You never know if don't ask.
And you'd never organize a revolt if you don't know.pango
- stoplying9
Just went to go grab some beer for the weekend at the liquor store and bumped into an old friend and band mate. We played together back in 1990-91 and recorded a little demo together. Great seeing and talking with him and it turns out he's posted it to a free music archive site. Awesome to hear these old jams again!
https://freemusicarchive.org/mus…- "Recorded in the basement of a correctional high school" is punk af.garbage