What's annoying you today?

off-topic conversation unrelated to Jane's Addiction
Message
Author
User avatar
Artemis
Posts: 10344
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:44 pm
Location: Toronto

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5326 Post by Artemis » Tue Aug 23, 2022 4:03 pm

Avril Lavigne's song "Complicated" has been stuck in my head all day since I heard it on the radio this morning.

"Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?"

clickie
Posts: 4019
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:15 am

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5327 Post by clickie » Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:45 am

Avril hasn't changed much through the years. She was battling lyme disease for a while that's why she kind of disappeared.



Image

Juan%
Posts: 108
Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2022 4:30 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5328 Post by Juan% » Thu Aug 25, 2022 3:57 pm

Cans.

User avatar
Pandemonium
Posts: 5720
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:18 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5329 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Aug 26, 2022 11:01 am

Food poisoning. I stupidly made an omelet for breakfast yesterday with sausage that was likely expired. About 2 hours after I ate, I could feel it wasn't going to stay down. Spent all afternoon and overnight blowing chunks with the shakes and hot/cold sweats. At one point, my Labrador was saddled up next to me as I was bent over the sink licking her chops like she'd be happy with 2nd hand people-processed leftovers and wouldn't leave me alone. I'll take another round of Covid over this kinda shit any day of the week.

clickie
Posts: 4019
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:15 am

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5330 Post by clickie » Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:10 pm

Aww that sucks, I only had real food poisoning once and I can pinpoint it was salad with chicken from one of the fast food chains.

User avatar
Artemis
Posts: 10344
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:44 pm
Location: Toronto

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5331 Post by Artemis » Mon Nov 14, 2022 4:08 pm

The price of fruits and vegetables! Groceries in general...

I just went to a little grocer in my neighbourhood and they were charging $7.99 for a head of imported lettuce! $3.99/lb for tomatoes! :yikes: I didn't buy.

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5332 Post by thoreau » Mon Nov 14, 2022 7:06 pm

Yeah, groceries are brutal at the moment.

We've been price-comparing almost every grocery item we purchase now, trying to save anything we can.

User avatar
SR
Posts: 7838
Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:56 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5333 Post by SR » Thu Nov 17, 2022 7:43 am

3 weeks ago a case of romaine and iceberg were appx 35. We’re paying 102 now. Many in the biz are ditching menu items altogether in response

User avatar
jptm
Posts: 287
Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:15 pm
Location: location, location!
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5334 Post by jptm » Thu Nov 17, 2022 5:43 pm

SR wrote:
Thu Nov 17, 2022 7:43 am
3 weeks ago a case of romaine and iceberg were appx 35. We’re paying 102 now. Many in the biz are ditching menu items altogether in response
Here in Quebec, a case if iceberg/romaine is at $130... we've ditched our lettuce & making slaw with store bought napa & other cabbage--switched to spinach on burgers & paninis for the moment...

Yes, it is rough right now...

User avatar
Tyler Durden
Posts: 1384
Joined: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:15 pm
Location: Toronto

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5335 Post by Tyler Durden » Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:44 am

The “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” people are about to crawl out of their basements.

User avatar
kv
Posts: 8743
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:08 pm
Location: South Bay, SoCal

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5336 Post by kv » Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:28 pm

I mean even if you didn't think it was back when it came out it certainly is by now...it gets tv air play every single year...am I watching it? nope, but it's a Xmas movie now

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5337 Post by thoreau » Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:44 am

Who would've ever thought that Yippee Ki-yay, Motherfucker would be a phrase so synonymous with Xmas

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5338 Post by thoreau » Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:29 am

I'm sitting in a surgical center right now while my wife is having her foot repaired from 4 tendon and ligament tears.

While lucky we haven't had to deal with that much surgery this far into life, I'm always low-key scared shitless everytime she's fully put under.

Part of it is due to her having emergency surgery when we were relatively early into our relationship back in high school. They tried to bring her out of anesthesia but couldn't get her to start breathing, so they had to emergency resuscitate with me standing there. Obviously all turned out fine 21 years later, but it's always in the back of my mind.

User avatar
Artemis
Posts: 10344
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:44 pm
Location: Toronto

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5339 Post by Artemis » Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:44 pm

I hope your wife's surgery went well, thoreau. :gh:

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5340 Post by thoreau » Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:35 pm

Thanks a bunch. All went well, she's back at home resting, and I'm my best nurse impersonation.

Image

User avatar
kv
Posts: 8743
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:08 pm
Location: South Bay, SoCal

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5341 Post by kv » Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:37 pm

good deal, stress levels returning to normal eh?

User avatar
SR
Posts: 7838
Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:56 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5342 Post by SR » Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:27 am

thoreau wrote:
Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:29 am
I'm sitting in a surgical center right now while my wife is having her foot repaired from 4 tendon and ligament tears.

While lucky we haven't had to deal with that much surgery this far into life, I'm always low-key scared shitless everytime she's fully put under.

Part of it is due to her having emergency surgery when we were relatively early into our relationship back in high school. They tried to bring her out of anesthesia but couldn't get her to start breathing, so they had to emergency resuscitate with me standing there. Obviously all turned out fine 21 years later, but it's always in the back of my mind.
Yes, good she's on the mend. May I ask....what the f was the injury? Next, was she under a general anesthetic while you were in the room 21 years ago? And finally, sweet you're with your 1st love (or close to your 1st). :tiphat:

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5343 Post by thoreau » Thu Nov 24, 2022 6:29 am

kv wrote:
Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:37 pm
good deal, stress levels returning to normal eh?
Back to normal levels! Healthy balance of nursing and running interference with our six-year old to make sure he doesn't accidentally collide with her foot for at least the first week.

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5344 Post by thoreau » Thu Nov 24, 2022 7:16 am

SR wrote:
Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:27 am
thoreau wrote:
Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:29 am
I'm sitting in a surgical center right now while my wife is having her foot repaired from 4 tendon and ligament tears.

While lucky we haven't had to deal with that much surgery this far into life, I'm always low-key scared shitless everytime she's fully put under.

Part of it is due to her having emergency surgery when we were relatively early into our relationship back in high school. They tried to bring her out of anesthesia but couldn't get her to start breathing, so they had to emergency resuscitate with me standing there. Obviously all turned out fine 21 years later, but it's always in the back of my mind.
Yes, good she's on the mend. May I ask....what the f was the injury? Next, was she under a general anesthetic while you were in the room 21 years ago? And finally, sweet you're with your 1st love (or close to your 1st). :tiphat:
Thanks much!

To bring everything together, first injury was 21 years ago (this month actually!). She was in a high school theater production of The Crucible, and due to shitty set construction safety and set management, she fell off the top of a twelve foot riser head first. Luckily no head injury, but she shattered her left arm and right ankle.

She was under full general anesthesia during surgery to fix those injuries. Her mom and I got brought into the recovery room as they were bringing her out of anesthesia, and she let out this long moan which was followed by silence. The nurse realized she had stopped breathing, so they starting rubbing and moving her to wake up and start breathing, if memory serves correct. That was successful, so it went into full recesitating to get her to breath again. It was scary as shit.

I was in my first semester of college and ended up dropping it to nurse her so her mom was still able to work (single income at that point), because she was pretty immobilized with both injuries having the full fixator setup.

So since then, she's always favored her left foot as a result. She got back into theater productions full bore in 2019 after fully giving it up about 15 years ago, which has been awesome. About a year ago, she had a stage dancing injury where she fell and rolled her left ankle really bad. She ended up tearing two ligaments and almost fully tore her Brevis tendon (outside of her foot). She tried to rehab it for the last year without surgery, but it became obvious she had to have it fully repaired since the next injury phase was a full tendon rupture. So, fast forward to yesterday's surgery, she's on the mend again.

Thanks, SR. I just got really really lucky with my first long-term relationship way back when. :bigrin:

User avatar
SR
Posts: 7838
Joined: Wed Aug 03, 2011 12:56 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5345 Post by SR » Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:24 pm

Yeah, it sounded like a pretty severe injury. Growing up my dad would never let anyone get a general in the dentist chair. He said they didn't have the capacity to bring you out should anything go south.

Good on all. And very cool she's back on stage

User avatar
thoreau
Posts: 1031
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:51 pm
Location: Florida
Contact:

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5346 Post by thoreau » Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:36 am

Yikes, good rule of thumb to go by!

JessieJim
Posts: 8
Joined: Sun Dec 25, 2022 9:26 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5347 Post by JessieJim » Tue Dec 27, 2022 9:12 pm

Huge traffic jams due to the holidays are wildly annoying

User avatar
Tyler Durden
Posts: 1384
Joined: Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:15 pm
Location: Toronto

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5348 Post by Tyler Durden » Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:04 pm

People who act like their pets are their children or as if they are parents because they own a pet. Or when they compare the experience of owning a pet to raising a child.

User avatar
Artemis
Posts: 10344
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:44 pm
Location: Toronto

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5349 Post by Artemis » Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:36 am

This is a general annoyance not just today...

So, for the last week I've had tradespeople in doing a bathroom renovation and anytime I ask a question they get annoyed and dismiss me by saying, "Don't vorry".

All the guys are Serbian and speak decent English. I understand Serbian -which they don't know- but have chosen to communicate in English only. Before the tile guys started I asked them to explain their process and one of the guys, Milan, said ,"Process? My Process is to poot tiles!" I answered that I knew that but I wanted to know the steps. Then in a condescending tone he explained it and made a gesture at his head to suggest, 'Duh, dummy!". I then reminded him that I'm one the one paying and have every right to ask questions. When someone tells me not to "vorry" all the time, I "vorry".

I think the stereotype about Serbian men being hotheads is true. I guess they are not used to women questioning them. :lol:

User avatar
Hype
Posts: 7028
Joined: Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:44 pm

Re: What's annoying you today?

#5350 Post by Hype » Sat Apr 08, 2023 5:01 am

Artemis wrote:
Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:36 am
This is a general annoyance not just today...

So, for the last week I've had tradespeople in doing a bathroom renovation and anytime I ask a question they get annoyed and dismiss me by saying, "Don't vorry".

All the guys are Serbian and speak decent English. I understand Serbian -which they don't know- but have chosen to communicate in English only. Before the tile guys started I asked them to explain their process and one of the guys, Milan, said ,"Process? My Process is to poot tiles!" I answered that I knew that but I wanted to know the steps. Then in a condescending tone he explained it and made a gesture at his head to suggest, 'Duh, dummy!". I then reminded him that I'm one the one paying and have every right to ask questions. When someone tells me not to "vorry" all the time, I "vorry".

I think the stereotype about Serbian men being hotheads is true. I guess they are not used to women questioning them. :lol:
You could really mess with them by putting up pictures of NATO jet fighters all over the house... :wiggle:

Seriously though, that sucks. And I know exactly what you mean about the stereotype.

We've been trying to get a floor done, and it took three tries to get someone to actually get back to us because of how crazy it's been since the pandemic. But finally we've got a guy who is clearly a professional, and actually cares about how he's perceived by his customers. It's ... frankly kind of astonishing. Every step has been timely, accomodating, etc... Then again, he charges a bit more than the local handimen/women. :noclue:

We've got some tiles that need to be fixed at some point, too... When that happens, I'll report back on whether my Serbian is dismissive of my questions. :bday:

Post Reply