What first world problem did you have today?

[nageov3t]

stuck in my bedroom because the cleaning people are here and I didn't want to be in their way.

I told the lady to knock on the door whenever she was ready to clean the bedroom and I'll relocate, but now I wonder if she's forgotten about me and just isn't going to clean the bedroom

 

[Atomic Playboy]

So, apparently, I've not been in full compliance with the European Union's law regarding cookies. Didn't even know this thing existed until today. I had detailed info on cookies but didn't "confirm" consent.

Not sure how they planned on expediting my non-European ass.

You're clearly not in compliance; part of the law mandates that cookies shall be referred to as "biscuits" to confuse foreigners. Better clear your browser cache and delete your biscuits before they find you.

 

[Drako]

You're clearly not in compliance; part of the law mandates that cookies shall be referred to as "biscuits" to confuse foreigners. Better clear your browser cache and delete your biscuits before they find you.

LOL

 

[IronWing]

I had a walk-in potential client this afternoon. Absolutely normal, abnormal. Barking-at-the-moon crazy is a fairly accurate description. Wanted me to put a map together showing where the treasure was buried. This is literally what the person wanted. Also, wanted to know if family members or a county government from back east had contacted me and did I already give them the treasure map? It took about an hour to carefully, gently, respectfully get the person out of my office and lock the door. There were spies living in the person's smartphone. I was tempted to point out that, at least on that point, the person was correctly correlating with reality.

 

[Kaido]

http://imgur.com/gallery/DwKZQ

 

[dave_the_nerd]

http://imgur.com/gallery/DwKZQ

So you work for Amazon customer service?

 

[CraKaJaX]

Flight from JFK to Tampa was delayed for some unknown reason. We just got on the plane and if the kid behind me doesn't stop kicking my seat he's landing in Tampa with two broken legs. So far my voice was loud enough for him to understand he should probably stop. I'll update in 3 hours unless we pull a Malaysian airline stunt.

The joys of traveling. :thumbsdown:

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Every fucking morning I have to contend with a handful of mouth-breathing half-wits who think that camping out in the left lane is perfectly acceptable if they're within 5 mph of the speed limit. Listen twat waffle, I understand that 55 mph is truly dizzying speed; downright unsafe even in perfect conditions, if you ask me. But if you happen to be puttering along, not passing anyone, with two lanes next to you COMPLETELY EMPTY OF TRAFFIC, and you see me in your rearview approaching at approximately Mach 7, maybe move the fuck over so that I don't have to be the asshole either tailgating your pokey ass or passing on the right with a friendly one-finger salute. The left lane is for PASSING. That's it. If you aren't passing anyone, what the fuck are you doing in that lane? I don't care if you're doing 90 mph; if some moron is doing 140, you move over and let Evil Knievel pass. Stop obstructing traffic you knuckle-dragging shit gibbon. It's time we started rounding these people up and pelting them with overripe rutabagas in the town square as a neighborly reminder to not be a fucking jackass.

 

[uclaLabrat]

Every fucking morning I have to contend with a handful of mouth-breathing half-wits who think that camping out in the left lane is perfectly acceptable if they're within 5 mph of the speed limit. Listen twat waffle, I understand that 55 mph is truly dizzying speed; downright unsafe even in perfect conditions, if you ask me. But if you happen to be puttering along, not passing anyone, with two lanes next to you COMPLETELY EMPTY OF TRAFFIC, and you see me in your rearview approaching at approximately Mach 7, maybe move the fuck over so that I don't have to be the asshole either tailgating your pokey ass or passing on the right with a friendly one-finger salute. The left lane is for PASSING. That's it. If you aren't passing anyone, what the fuck are you doing in that lane? I don't care if you're doing 90 mph; if some moron is doing 140, you move over and let Evil Knievel pass. Stop obstructing traffic you knuckle-dragging shit gibbon. It's time we started rounding these people up and pelting them with overripe rutabagas in the town square as a neighborly reminder to not be a fucking jackass.

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In all seriousness though, this was me going down the 5 on tues. Mile after mile of assfucking zombies going 73 in a 70 with 20 cars piled up behind them....compounded by the semis passing each other at the turtle fucking pace that requires ten minutes for them to eek by each other. My daughter's first words are going to make her sound like a sailor on leave.

 

[NoCreativity]

Landscapers cut my internet line. Comcast's first available appointment was tomorrow morning. No internet, no netflix; WTH am I going to do when I get home from work?

 

[IronWing]

Landscapers cut my internet line. Comcast's first available appointment was tomorrow morning. No internet, no netflix; WTH am I going to do when I get home from work?

Explore your home. Who knows, you might have a wife or kids there somewhere.


Just kidding. Play Nintendo.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Landscapers cut my internet line. Comcast's first available appointment was tomorrow morning. No internet, no netflix; WTH am I going to do when I get home from work?

This just happened to my in-laws. Well, not quite a literal cut, but similar. They're in the process of moving and they called their ISP to schedule an appointment to move the service to the new place; cut it off and set it up on the same day so there's no gap in coverage. But the second they got off the phone, the line went dead, because apparently "turn off my service in one week" is synonymous with "now's fine." And when they called back to complain, they were told the only way they could turn the service back on was activating a new account and running a credit check. After being told emphatically "don't you dare run a credit check on me," the ISP proceeded to... run a credit check. Because apparently customer service is doing the exact opposite of what the customer demands at every step of the process. So now they're thinking of suing and all that fun stuff, which never goes anywhere, but might get them a gift basket with some muffins. Knowing the ISP, they'd probably intentionally seek out ingredients they were allergic to.

Anyways, my mother-in-law passed the time by leeching Wi-Fi at Starbucks, which led to a very stilted Skype conversation that freaked my daughter out because Grammy kept freezing and warping like Vanellope von Schweetz. My father-in-law is, I'm assuming, hibernating like a very satisfied bear. If I had to make do without Internet for several consecutive hours? I'd probably just curl into the fetal position and sob myself to sleep.

 

[NoCreativity]

Explore your home. Who knows, you might have a wife or kids there somewhere.


Just kidding. Play Nintendo.

Will probably go for a walk or something after dinner. Maybe read a book or play with the kid.

In reality I'll probably just do this...

...curl into the fetal position and sob myself to sleep.

 

[Fire&Blood]

Spent quite some time trying to find and eliminate the cause for coil whine on my 970.
Turns out I'm just going through a tinnitus episode.

 

[KeithTalent]

I feel like dancing, but I think the assistant across from my office would look at me weird.

KT

 

[clamum]

Every fucking morning I have to contend with a handful of mouth-breathing half-wits who think that camping out in the left lane is perfectly acceptable if they're within 5 mph of the speed limit. Listen twat waffle, I understand that 55 mph is truly dizzying speed; downright unsafe even in perfect conditions, if you ask me. But if you happen to be puttering along, not passing anyone, with two lanes next to you COMPLETELY EMPTY OF TRAFFIC, and you see me in your rearview approaching at approximately Mach 7, maybe move the fuck over so that I don't have to be the asshole either tailgating your pokey ass or passing on the right with a friendly one-finger salute. The left lane is for PASSING. That's it. If you aren't passing anyone, what the fuck are you doing in that lane? I don't care if you're doing 90 mph; if some moron is doing 140, you move over and let Evil Knievel pass. Stop obstructing traffic you knuckle-dragging shit gibbon. It's time we started rounding these people up and pelting them with overripe rutabagas in the town square as a neighborly reminder to not be a fucking jackass.

I feel ya bruh. I deal with that bullshit every weekday, 40-45 minutes each to and from work. Today it was particularly bad. Fucking morons, just incredible.

 

[balloonshark]

So I had a Best Buy promo for $25. I've been patiently waiting for a Logitech G502 mouse to drop from $80 to something more acceptable. The price drop to $60 and I pull the trigger and it's under $40 shipped.

Best Buy ships it with one day shipping. This is my first experience getting something fast. Boom, freaking UPS delivers to the wrong address. I call UPS and they tell me I need to call Best Buy. I call Best Buy and they send another one out with 1 day shipping. This time they require a signature. So today I wait patiently and keep an eye on the tracking and BOOM, there is an exception. WTF

They will retry tomorrow but I'm not happy. About 20% of my packages via UPS get delivered to the wrong address. And if all that isn't bad enough Logitech is having a $20 off promo. I could've bought the G502 for $40 anyways so I burned a $25 Best Buy coupon for nothing :|

If you read all that here is the $20 logitech voucher page. http://www.bts2015.logitech.com/?WT.ac=HPB2-CTA3-bts

If you don't trust that link go to Logitech.com and the promo is showing on their scrolling ad.

 

[Imp]

My hands feel like sandpaper because I washed them like 10 times so far today... I've been doing a lot of cleaning. Oh, and I'm OCD -- not figurative.

That and I didn't bother to measure out a new piece of furniture. Turns out it's a lot taller than I thought and looks like ass. it works, but it looks like ass.

 

[shortylickens]

My hero and laugh-generator is a sick asshole.

 

[IronWing]

The gas company cut my phone/internet line and water line while repairing the gas line they wrecked last week. I'm quickly losing first world status.

 

[smackababy]

Had some Dorito's today that were supposed to be flavored 'Spicy Street Taco'; they were neither spicy nor tasted like a street or a taco. In fact, it tasted remarkably like a plain tortilla chip.

 

[Charmonium]

Went to take a pic of a fawn in my back yard but the sd card was still back in the card reader. It would be nice if Canon told me this while I was trying to take the pix. I assume there is some onboard memory but I have no idea how to access it and have no idea how many pix it can hold. Such a bummer.

 

[Svnla]

Freaking so hot today. It was the hottest day of this year (so far) and it was 104 and the heat index was 112 per the local weather guy.

Another month of this. Whaaaaaaaaa.

Also, called ATT because my Uverse special is expiring and I want to cancel it so I can switch to cable (same cost but 50 Mb instead of 10 Mb) and the CSR said she could cut the monthly rate in 1/2 to $22/month. I told her too late because the cable modem ($85) is here.

 

[Imp]

Someone's spamming all the AT forums in Chinese again, but I still can't read Chinese so can't be persuaded into buying what he's selling.

On the bright side, I realized that I can solve my office chair troubles -- and save $100 -- by just unscrewing the arm rests!

 

[Newell Steamer]

The lobster dinner I had was disappointing.