SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
I was sleeping in my girlfriend's living room during Spring Break. Her neighbor's back porch light kept coming on in the middle of the night. The first time the light lit up the room I thought Aliens were there for me.
https://images.pond5.com/gray-aliens-bedroom-footage-161078873_prevstill.jpeg

I wasn't worried about it being police. They would have stormed the place and killed her dog without turning the lights on first.
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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
Do wild animals not exist where you live?
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Jersey has plenty of those
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unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

They've all been eaten by the rats.
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6686|Riva, MD
Stuck in Jury Dury today.  At least my work gives me a paid PTO day for it without deducting from my regular allotment.  Jury Duty in this county sucks though, they have you on-call the whole week and you don’t know when you have to come in until the day before.  You also may even be called back in later that week if you weren’t already assigned to a docket when you came in earlier in the week.  In PG County, you just got your day, showed up and then you were good for 3 years after that.
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

I hate that jury duty notifications come in a letter laced with a preponderance of your standard, threatening government language. If for whatever reason you don't get to letter in time, all sorts of Bad Things could happen in your life. It's the 21st century. Send a text if you want people's immediate attention.

Being sequestered in a hotel somewhere for a high profile case sounds like a nightmare.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
I know one guy who said he just throws them out when he gets them. The government wisely doesn't follow through with the threat.
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Cybargs
Moderated
+2,285|6686

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

It's the 21st century. Send a text if you want people's immediate attention.
too many scam messages that people won't believe. people do check their mail tho.
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unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

Mail gets stolen though and you still have to sort through all the junk mail and paper scams (your taxes are late, send $100 or go to jail!). Send me a text, city. Save the trees.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
I want to fist fight whoever came up with May the 4th Be With You.

I am so sick of Star Wars.
https://www.newportacademy.com/wp-content/uploads/pexelx_3755761_web.jpg
Ronnie DeSantis should ban Star Wars.
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unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

Just thinking about that the other day. The meme has grown more obnoxious (sites today are unusable), and the marketing has crept into April. By 2060, it will be second Christmas. I say this as there aren't many Star Wars games I haven't already picked up at like -80% on Steam over various May 4 sales, so maybe hypocritical of me to complain.

I don't have Disney+, so am only peripherally aware of all the show spam going on right now. It's a lot of comic book stuff for people to keep up with, but at least it gives people jobs. It's funny that one of the excuses for the old book lore being tossed in the dumpster is that Disney thought it was too convoluted, so instead they create their own convoluted lore. During yesteryear, there was no way Star Wars would be so tacky as to absorb Kyle Katarn from dark forces. Now the guy from Fallen Order is in a show? lmao. It's actually a relief though that they're so uninterested in adapting the Dark Forces series.

To say nothing of the harry potter mess that is the movies.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2023-05-04 17:55:36)

SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
Dark Forces was great.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Dark_Forces_box_cover.jpg
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Dilbert_X
The X stands for
+1,810|6075|eXtreme to the maX

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Just thinking about that the other day. The meme has grown more obnoxious (sites today are unusable), and the marketing has crept into April. By 2060, it will be second Christmas. I say this as there aren't many Star Wars games I haven't already picked up at like -80% on Steam over various May 4 sales, so maybe hypocritical of me to complain.

I don't have Disney+, so am only peripherally aware of all the show spam going on right now. It's a lot of comic book stuff for people to keep up with, but at least it gives people jobs. It's funny that one of the excuses for the old book lore being tossed in the dumpster is that Disney thought it was too convoluted, so instead they create their own convoluted lore. During yesteryear, there was no way Star Wars would be so tacky as to absorb Kyle Katarn from dark forces. Now the guy from Fallen Order is in a show? lmao. It's actually a relief though that they're so uninterested in adapting the Dark Forces series.

To say nothing of the harry potter mess that is the movies.
Still better than any of the christian holidays.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

Picked some steak up at a fancy corner market to drop off by my parents. Bagging stuff was all behind-counter. Before I could say anything, the clerk dropped the nicely wrapped steak in the first bag and immediately tossed in like 20 pounds of other stuff on top of it. Transferred to other bag when I got back to the car. Small leakage and some scrubbing of some of the other items over the kitchen sink. I'll recommend that the cucumber be stir fried or something.

This is why I bag my own groceries.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
At least you get bags. They banned plastic bags in NJ. Google "NJ Bag of Bags"
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unnamednewbie13
Moderator
+2,053|6741|PNW

I can get Hefty 13 gallon bags at $0.14/bag. 42 gallon contractor bags, 3 mils, at 1.20/bag. A plastic grocery bag (I suppose ~2 gallons) in Washington now costs a shopper $0.08.

It's funny to me that a larger, plastickier garbage bag is more cost effective than the multipurpose grocery bags I was using as wastebin liners all this time. It's also really funny to me that it's called a "bag ban," but you can still bypass it with money. How violently American is that?

The biggest group of people I've heard actually grumbling about the bag cost are boomers still "fresh" from a bygone era where a dime could actually afford you things, but I think they're largely resigned or over it by now. Biggest group this hurt are probably the scrounging coupon clippers of the pandemic, during which this went into effect, as stores passed the cost to consumers. But that there are people that poor is another can of worms.

I have reusables, it's just a matter of remembering to bring a bunch in case a spontaneous grocery trip happens. Those plastic file crates would work nicely, but a little more awkward to carry in anything smaller than a platform truck.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2023-06-01 01:35:45)

DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+794|6654|United States of America
I'll send you some of mine, Mac. I still have a bag of bags in my closet from moving in two years ago before getting my reusable ones.
SuperJail Warden
Gone Forever
+634|3689
Thanks BagFox

Reddit is a shit show today. A lot of communities went private to oppose changes to Reddit's API policy. I am more annoyed at the communities than reddit.
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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
I'm not the reddit app sucked and new reddit also sucks to use.
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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
Reddit is a terrible place. Lets shut it down for good. People need to go back to spending time outside with neighbors having bbq's or inviting friends over to watch television with beer
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
Friends don't have people over and only go to bars idk why it's annoying.
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KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,973|6601|949

Tell them they need to touch grass, as the kids say
RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
I just want to disconnect and spend a month in the French Riviera next year
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RTHKI
mmmf mmmf mmmf
+1,736|6707|Oxferd Ohire
I started planning it out while watching Monaco GP
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pirana6
Go Cougs!
+682|6260|Washington St.
A few months ago I was slicing onions and I put my knife into my thumb. Nothing crazy, but after an hour of holding a paper towel on it the bleeding hadn't stopped so I figured I should stop watching Picard and go to the ER. I told them it wasn't an 'emergency' so much as a 'very soon'. I sat in the waiting room for a few hours until they had time to give me TWO STITCHES. Just two.


3 months later I'm paying my second bill. This one is only $35 but my first was $700. 735 US dollars for two stitches and I have insurance.

Is this even a first-world problem when in the US we run on 3rd world healthcare policies?

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