1. Phone scammers. "The VISA and Mastercard Company" my ass.
2. The jackasses who broke into cars on my street the other night. (Not ours, but a couple of our neighbours.)
3. Anyone whose solution for me to "improve" anything in my life boils down to "just be someone else entirely! :D :D" No. ,,|,,

People with booze, chocolate, or chocolate booze, may approach ( Read more... )

Really, just...think before you speak. Unless you know someplace that just started hiring and you want to tell me about it, I've probably heard it before.
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If you call for tech support, and you ask what time the office closes, and your call takes forever because you don't know the basics of how to do sweet fucking ANYTHING? When you finally get your resolution ten minutes after the closing time, you may safely assume that the person you're talking to, on a Friday, after closing time, does not want to ( Read more... )

Before you call for information/tech support, you have to prove you can do at least three out of the following four things:

1. Give a reasonably cohesive statement of who you are and why you're calling, instead of rambling off a vague statement with no way for me to identify who you are and what you want.
2. Have some idea - even the vaguest! - of how to ( Read more... )

Look, mosquitoes. This is how it works: I put on insect repellent and go outside; you are insects and you are repelled. You don't buzz me, you don't hover around trying to find a way through to get at (apparently tasty) me. You. Go. Away ( Read more... )

The local transit service has been talking about going on strike since March. They promised to give ten day's notice before striking. This morning, the city locked them out 'indefinitely', but were promising to pick up the cab fare of anyone 'stranded at a bus stop'. Of course, you had to read either their Twitter or the news entry on CBC (possibly ( Read more... )

Dr. Seuss book banned from class for being too 'political'

A BC school board had the Dr. Seuss book Yertle the Turtle banned after a teacher displayed a quote from the book. The horrible, political, divisive quote in question?

"I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we, too, should have rights."

One, I doubt kids ( Read more... )

Look, it's the 21st century. Has been for a nice chunk of time now.

Can you please address generic questions about purchases to both of us when you have them, instead of to just my husband? Especially when I'm standing in front of you, and he's three feet to the side. Doing something else.

JFC. >:(

A Conservative majority government. What the hell were people thinking? I need a stronger curse word than fuck.

Canada, did we just reward a party that was held in contempt of Parliament with a majority?! What the hell is this? OK, the final tally isn't in (the polls in BC close 30 min from now) and the numbers are from CBC not Elections Canada, but it isn't looking too good. Argh!