Doesn't It Just Grind Your Gears When.....

[Darth Penguin]

All you women with boobs *shakes fist*

I'll gladly send you some of my spare tissue...

[Candini]

I'll gladly send you some of my spare tissue...

[wolfwoman]

When your DH comes home drunk as a skunk and you have to keep one eye open all night because he tries to pee in the locked gun cabinet, on the nightstand and tries to find his snowmobile helmet(in the bedroom closet) because apparently he needs to wear it to pee!!!

[GatineauGirl]

All you women with boobs *shakes fist*

[Shwa Girl]

... when you and your team works hard and don't get any recognition, for an event that your team was instrumental in putting together
... but they recognize every other team except yours
... and they recognize a team with less people than yours

Oh well -- we will have to find another way to shine.

[22hicks]

Leafs Extend Coach Carlyle Contract

Toronto Maple Leafs management extended the contract of head coach Randy Carlyle by two years. GM Dave Nonis announced at the same time that assistant coaches Dave Farrish, Scott Gordon and Greg Cronin would not return to the team next season.


Unbelievable

[Shwa Girl]

when you find out that they can make up different prices online
when Staples.com can charge you one price but charge somebody else a cheaper price

By Mary Godie

May 8, 2014 5:54pm
(ABC News)

Most people who walk into the same store on the same day, expect to pay the same price if they pick out the same item. But it’s a whole different story for online shoppers.
Many online marketers are changing the price in a flash to capitalize on how much they think you’re willing to pay. They’re gauging it by knowing where you live, what you buy, and estimating how much you make. All of this information is collected from your history on the Internet.
ABC News discovered that companies known as data brokers are putting online shoppers into consumer categories with names like “shopping addicts,” “frugal folks,” and “high spenders.”

Related: How to Win Online Shopping Price Game

Personal data such as your home location is then being used to offer prices they think you’ll pay.

We decided to put it to the test. Two ABC producers, both in our New York office, attempted to purchase one pack of pens from Staples.com at the same time. The price on one computer was $15.19 and on the other $13.79.

ABC News viewers from all over the country are getting a variety of different prices for the same pens. The pack was $14.49 when a Charlotte, North Carolina, viewer attempted to buy it and it was $13.79 in Los Angeles.

Related: Price Matching Brings Savings– And Headaches

If you’re in a city where prices are generally higher, you’re also likely to see higher prices online.

Staples tells us if you find a lower price, they’ll match it.

“People are saying, hey wait a minute, this is a problem. I don’t want companies discriminating against me and showing me different prices without my knowing,” said Maneesha Mithal, associate director of the Federal Trade Commission. “It’s a pretty wide web, and I think a lot of consumers will be fairly surprised to hear that this is going on.”

More: In-Store Buyers Beware: A Store’s Website May Be Much Better Bargain

What are consumers to do about this?

One way is to hide who you are when shopping by using free software like Tor. But make sure to check the price uncloaked in case it’s cheaper that way.

[Darth Penguin]

There's a meme going around FaceBook at the moment which says words to the effect of

Share this because only real mothers know that even when mothers are sick, you look after your children first..

It annoys me because

1) Mothers sometimes have to put themselves first because the sickness isn't trivial..cancer is worse than a tummy bug( True Fact!)
2) There are male parents who are "Real" parents too..
3) looking after yourself isn't selfish
4) Men can look after their children and thier wives so that both can recover in an approicate time scale
5) non parental carers exist..

[Shwa Girl]

... when you and your team works hard and don't get any recognition, for an event that your team was instrumental in putting together
... but they recognize every other team except yours
... and they recognize a team with less people than yours

Oh well -- we will have to find another way to shine.

update to the rant
it's now an unrant because after posting, found a way to get some money -- government grants, that my team can use to help some local people
win-win
sooooo, found a way to shine, this Fall

[Shwa Girl]

There's a meme going around FaceBook at the moment which says words to the effect of



It annoys me because

1) Mothers sometimes have to put themselves first because the sickness isn't trivial..cancer is worse than a tummy bug( True Fact!)
2) There are male parents who are "Real" parents too..
3) looking after yourself isn't selfish
4) Men can look after their children and thier wives so that both can recover in an approicate time scale
5) non parental carers exist..

sometimes Facebook is just annoying
we use it for free product coupons, mostly

[coupon girl]

-great it has to pour when I have a function 50th surprise birthday party in a hall -have to be there a 6.00 p.m
-i am wearing a summer dress -dress sandels -well I guess I am not curling my hair now
ugg all day it was nice and warm

[Molijoda]

When all your "new" perennials in the front of the house survive the brutal winter we had, and half of the ones in the back of the house don't

[seylz_gurl]

someone apologizes but doesn't fix the problem.!!??

[22hicks]

Having tickets to the Blue Jay game; inviting someone who says they'll let you know, & never do, in spite of me asking a number of times. End up having to go alone, 'cause no one was available last minute.

[Darth Penguin]

Some random person on the Interweb tells you that your opinion is worthless...

My Friend..Guess the track( music by popular band on unfamilar instrument).

several guesses before some-one gets the track and band name right.

Me..would have never have got that because I'm not a fan of Band X

Friend of a friend..Well HAters gonna hate!!

Me...what??

foaf..WELL YOU HAVE OBS NEVER LISTENED TO BAND x!!!!11!

Me..I have..I just don't like them.

foaf..Have you listened to Best selling albums1 ,2 first album..other albums covering nearly 30 years of international acclaim..

Me..Yes..and I heard them when most of those albums first came out and I can listen to thier songs but I just don't like them.

foaf..Then you should be forced to listen to them ...you have no taste I don't know why mutual fiend likes you..Listen to album X, Y, Z...etc..


sighs.. I'm guessing she/he is teliing hir friends about that person who doesn't get the greatness of Band X..