Re: Reasons To Be Grumpy thread

[Biggus Dickus]

I  frequent another forum that is: Boatdesign.net. It is an international forum in which some of the worlds top marine engineers, architects, and sailors are contributors. Many newbies come to the site for advice or counsel from the professionals who are generous to a fault. ......Today some dip shit troll said he wanted advice about a certain boat type. He gave a reference website that turned out to be the entrance portal to numerous porn sites....... like bondage, Asian fuck scenes, and other kinky stuff. 

I am grumpy about that. Not that I am a prude, not likely, but I resent that someone can so easily defile a serious place with trashy stunts.  I'd be resentful if someone polluted our HAF site too.

Did your wife really buy that story Icarus? 

[Recusant]

I  frequent another forum that is: Boatdesign.net. It is an international forum in which some of the worlds top marine engineers, architects, and sailors are contributors. Many newbies come to the site for advice or counsel from the professionals who are generous to a fault. ......Today some dip shit troll said he wanted advice about a certain boat type. He gave a reference website that turned out to be the entrance portal to numerous porn sites....... like bondage, Asian fuck scenes, and other kinky stuff. 

I am grumpy about that. Not that I am a prude, not likely, but I resent that someone can so easily defile a serious place with trashy stunts.  I'd be resentful if someone polluted our HAF site too.

We used to get visits from porn spammers on occasion, mostly from Russia. We've tightened up security a bit and as you see, we haven't had much of a problem with that lately. However, the troll you describe sounds like he would probably be able to get past our security measures, not being a spammer so much as a capering shit-clown.

[Pasta Chick]

Subscription boxes are stupid and I'm annoyed they're so popular.

[Buddy]

Subscription boxes are stupid and I'm annoyed they're so popular.

They really are, but man Sephora's subscription box look so nice.

[Dragonia]

I just had to Google what a Subscription Box is.
Grumpy that I can't afford a makeup box, a workout clothing one, and a snack one. They look kind of fun!

[Dave]

I just had to Google what a Subscription Box is.
Grumpy that I can't afford a makeup box, a workout clothing one, and a snack one. They look kind of fun!

Ah, another ploy to separate you from your money and charge you a fee to do so! For decades there has been something like this in the wine industry, for a fixed monthly subscription charge you received 6 or 12 bottles (depending on the account) of wine of the seller's choosing. These could vary from superb to paint stripper, from known label to obscure.

[Pasta Chick]

Pretty much... $10 worth of crap for $35 a month. The odd thing that's actually nice is a "variable reward" to reinforce that you're actually getting something good and fun.

I can see it if you have a ton of money to burn and don't want to ever shop, I guess.

[xSilverPhinx]

It's gonna be a long day tomorrow. Still, probably better than staying at home with nothing to do.

[Arturo]

I sent the wage and income transcripts that my school requested, at which the time allowed was not reasonable to get and return to them before getting deregistered from classes. Then when I did turn them in, they took 2 months to go over them, which also took me calling and pestering them to do so. Now they are telling me the transcripts are incomplete when I know that they aren't because I sent for two copies, one of which I have.

So I've called to tell someone in the office this is all they gave me and he responded by saying to "send for it again and try to get the full report".

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

So now I'm going to get ahold of the fanancial aide counselor who looked over this and tell her this is all they gave me because that's all there is.

[Icarus]

Repeated pop ups wanted me to get/buy a fixer app for my computer. It would cure all my woes and all that stuff. Somehow, senility and all, I ended up inadvertently buying into the scam or not scam as the case may be. $29.95 for the year.  Clever bastards they are.

I was to call a toll free telephone number to activate the program. My money is gone so I called. A very pleasant and immensely helpful woman with an accent that I placed somewhere in southeast Asia was my contact person.  No shit an actual human being,( well I think that she was human), was directing my every move.  In a few minutes she had taken control of my  computer and she told me what she was doing. She could move the cursor on my screen, select option buttons, and all kinds of other scary stuff. I am thinking: Oh Shit my poor computer is being fucked up by an evil Russian hacker who sounds every bit like a really nice  Cambodian woman. 

All was going well, the program was installed. Now the upsell pitch began.  She was hustling me to buy additional service that would let me have access to super pro computer technicians for a whole year. They could fix anything that my poor machine needed. I mean what the hell she had demonstrated the ability to take control of my little machine.  WHOA! the price was going to be about $350 US dollars.  I blew a gasket. No way I am going to subscribe to such a scam.  I am thinking that this may cause me to have to shit can my present computer because it will be so severely sabotaged as to be worthless. Five or six hundred dollars to replace the wrecked one was not a happy prospect.

Well I'll be damned and then some. The" Slim Cleaner" thing was a resident on my hard drive. I'll See what happens.  I did the pretty simple scans of the various stuff that the program claimed that it could find and fix.  All kinds of stuff was corrupting my machine. The program fixed some of it. I had it defrag the hard drive and lo and behold the machine runs several times faster than before and it is presently not showing signs of shutting down when it damned well feels like it without my knowledge or consent.

I am annoyed by the considerable upsell scheme but the $29.95 that I spent is a helluva a bargain cause my machine is not making me angry and frustrated like before.

I expect that all knowing IT super wizards like the Asmo will smile at this tale of woe and eventual  satisfaction.

While I am at this, I wish to sincerely thank the Asmo and the several others who manage to keep this forum afloat.  Thank you Tank, Recusant, xSp, Tom, and the rest of you who do what you do.

[No one]

Melting wings.

[Arturo]

Melting wings.

Chicken wings?

[Bad Penny II]

Repeated pop ups wanted me to get/buy a fixer app for my computer. It would cure all my woes and all that stuff. Somehow, senility and all, I ended up inadvertently buying into the scam or not scam as the case may be. $29.95 for the year.  Clever bastards they are.

I was to call a toll free telephone number to activate the program. My money is gone so I called. A very pleasant and immensely helpful woman with an accent that I placed somewhere in southeast Asia was my contact person.  No shit an actual human being,( well I think that she was human), was directing my every move.  In a few minutes she had taken control of my  computer and she told me what she was doing. She could move the cursor on my screen, select option buttons, and all kinds of other scary stuff. I am thinking: Oh Shit my poor computer is being fucked up by an evil Russian hacker who sounds every bit like a really nice  Cambodian woman. 

All was going well, the program was installed. Now the upsell pitch began.  She was hustling me to buy additional service that would let me have access to super pro computer technicians for a whole year. They could fix anything that my poor machine needed. I mean what the hell she had demonstrated the ability to take control of my little machine.  WHOA! the price was going to be about $350 US dollars.  I blew a gasket. No way I am going to subscribe to such a scam.  I am thinking that this may cause me to have to shit can my present computer because it will be so severely sabotaged as to be worthless. Five or six hundred dollars to replace the wrecked one was not a happy prospect.

Well I'll be damned and then some. The" Slim Cleaner" thing was a resident on my hard drive. I'll See what happens.  I did the pretty simple scans of the various stuff that the program claimed that it could find and fix.  All kinds of stuff was corrupting my machine. The program fixed some of it. I had it defrag the hard drive and lo and behold the machine runs several times faster than before and it is presently not showing signs of shutting down when it damned well feels like it without my knowledge or consent.

I am annoyed by the considerable upsell scheme but the $29.95 that I spent is a helluva a bargain cause my machine is not making me angry and frustrated like before.

I expect that all knowing IT super wizards like the Asmo will smile at this tale of woe and eventual  satisfaction.

While I am at this, I wish to sincerely thank the Asmo and the several others who manage to keep this forum afloat.  Thank you Tank, Recusant, xSp, Tom, and the rest of you who do what you do.

I find that disturbing.
You shouldn't have to pay for anything.
Hard drives can and should be formatted,
Installation of operating systems isn't hard.
Mate, before you pay just ask us.

I did have words with a phone/computer scammer.
I called it all kinda scum, preying on the vulnerable.
I think non sociopathic sales people are vulnerable.
They have to maintain positivity, be creatively cruel.
Don't think of their rag picking children or you're lost.

[Harmonie]

It's 81 degrees outside, and I'm going to have to take my dog out in that, and then later walk to classes.

I used to love winter because even though it wasn't particularly cold most of the time, it was at least nice and cool. Now that ain't even true. Summer is sneaking into winter. *cries*

[Biggus Dickus]

It's 81 degrees outside, and I'm going to have to take my dog out in that, and then later walk to classes.

I used to love winter because even though it wasn't particularly cold most of the time, it was at least nice and cool. Now that ain't even true. Summer is sneaking into winter. *cries*

Here in Michigan it's spring sneaking into Winter...no snow at all, last weekend it was almost 70 degrees out! Can't ski or snowboard, can't ride the dirt trails on my bike, cuz they're all soft and gooey (I love riding my bicycle in the winter on the trails, the ground is hard, visibility is awesome, the air is fresh and cold)

Last weekend one of my neighbors was out raking his fucking lawn,...in February

We should be shoveling snow right now, building snow forts, having snowball fights and sledding, bitching about how long it takes to get into work because traffic is back up due to snow storms.

It's Trumps fault, dick-head.