Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

[bjacks12]

I'm a big fan of classic rock from the 70's and 80's. Much more than my parents who were in high school in the 70's. I visited them over the weekend and we took an afternoon drive in my car.....my dad did not really care for the music. My mom did seem to enjoy the Foreigner album though.

 

[mikedt]

Micro$oft Office 2011 for Mac.

 

[CrimsonToker]

Micro$oft

FTFY

 

[mikedt]

Polo shirts that leak their colour.

Who likes mottled pink?

 

[LOveWerks]

MICROSOFT =
More
Insanity
Coming
Really
Often
Some
F*******
Technology

LW

Now that Google is dropping support for Java in Chrome for PCs, my poor wife-to-be had to install Firefox in order to get her Club Pogo fix. I installed Ghostery, and whitelisted Pogo. Everything else is getting tracked - tracking by advertisers, portals, et cetera - including tracking cookies.

The love of my life went with AVG (!) for virus protection. I suppose it's better than nothing, after I completely uninstalled every last vestige of Norton. What bloat!

Then, they have the nerve to collect your data during the uninstallation process.
Hello, third-party schmucks.

AVG is better, in the bloat department... the program itself is speedy on scans, and all seems well. At least there isn't several other programs within AVG to invade your privacy.

It took a half an hour to clear everything Norton out of the PC. Then, I searched C drive for any other Norton crap. That took a few hours.

Even Internet Exploder is dropping Java support. Flash is the up-and-comer, it seems. The Flash games in Pogo are definitely more pleasing to the eyes.

I hope my Microsoft anagram rant brings a few smiles.

 

[zuben el genub]

If you are using FX, get NoScript.

 

[LOveWerks]

I'm running the 64-bit Vision A6 processor in a Toshiba C875-8150 laptop (?)... would NoScript be effective in this scenario, zuben? LW

 

[mikedt]

Country toilets on hot days, swiping the flies away.

 

[zuben el genub]

I'm running 7 PRO 64 bit on a refurb HP laptop that doesn't have all HP bells and whistles. I use Pale Moon, which is an FX clone without Mozilla's ideas of nifty. (meaning Australis)I can control almost anything and NoScript will block. I have very few sites whitelisted.

You can also find flash blockers. These are good for the dratted sites that automatically play flash ads or placeholders.
There's an app called Tab Permissions that will turn off images on the fly on a site per site basis as the old Opera did. Turning off images can help with in your face GIFS that run with an IMG tag.
You can get one to unhide passwords. (I use that as I can't type)

I can whitelist by name, too. I've usually got Doubleclick, and other advertising stuff disabled. I only enable if I need to.
My offline XP box is also 64 bit. The other partition uses Linux Mint 17

I have all browsers (including phone) set to dump cookies, and flash LSOs on exit. So if I use Yahoo, I read it, then close the browser. My browser Pale Moon looks almost like the old Netscape, except I have an STS throbber that takes off. I like having all the menus. I use a tablet, and the keyboard drawer is usually closed.

I'm sort of a minimalist, so advertising to me is useless. I'm more apt to spot something interesting in independent reviews.

 

[zuben el genub]

Country toilets on hot days, swiping the flies away.

Sounds like some of the outhouses in the Parks. More flies than toilet paper.

BTW - there is a laundry additive that is supposed to set color so it doesn't run. Shout (brand name) color catcher is one.
We used salt, white vinegar and cold water to set.

 

[CrimsonToker]

People doing drugs in the bathroom of the gas station I work at.


1) Ew. F***in gross.

2) Its the middle of the night and the forest is a stones throw from here. You can't go smoke dope in the darkness??

 

[mikedt]

Gas station WC. No water, you bring your own paper, a brick shed above a pit, concrete floor with large slot in it, crouch and do your business, hold your nose if necessary. Pit is emptied about once a month. You DO NOT want to drop your phone down there.

Much worse during hot weather, because of the flies and stench.



BTW good night from here in Xanadu.

 

[LOveWerks]

Before I was disabled and working as a newspaper carrier (and a three-night-per-week musical gig), I was first diagnosed with IBS.

I ran a rural route between 3 am to 6 am seven days a week. Sometimes, I would have to stop, and 'cop a squat'...

It was then that I got my type 1 diabetes under control, stopped drinking and drugging, fought cancer and won (so far... I have an upcoming colonoscopy)... my, this thread has taken a decided biological turn.

Yet, there are rants that reside within. Happy Sunday - LW

 

[zuben el genub]

Gas station WC. No water, you bring your own paper, a brick shed above a pit, concrete floor with large slot in it, crouch and do your business, hold your nose if necessary. Pit is emptied about once a month. You DO NOT want to drop your phone down there.

Much worse during hot weather, because of the flies and stench.
BTW good night from here in Xanadu.

We had a dude get busted for hiding in one of the PortaPotties and taking pix of women. That must have been one heckuva bust when they caught him.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...d-portable-toilet-sentenced-article-1.1442306

 

[PattiCakeUS]

We had a dude get busted for hiding in one of the PortaPotties

That's messed up.

 

[olbriar]

It's far worse than that... sheesh!~

 

[bjacks12]

They should put him down like a sick animal

 

[kct1975]

I'm a big fan of classic rock from the 70's and 80's. Much more than my parents who were in high school in the 70's. I visited them over the weekend and we took an afternoon drive in my car.....my dad did not really care for the music. My mom did seem to enjoy the Foreigner album though.

I'm with Ya!

While I was born in 1975, I actually remember a lot of music from the '70's, both Disco and Pop. I also remember almost all of the music from the '80's. Everything from Hard Rock to Pop.

Most of my old cassette tapes are of hit songs from the '70's and '80's, and in my car, I listen to the Sirius XM 80's on 8 and 70's on 7 stations

 

[mikedt]

It's just gross. Throw him in a septic pit here, he won't do it again. Or feed him to the "toilet pigs".

 

[LOveWerks]

Wish me luck, fellow rant people. Tomorrow - street music, in downtown Raleigh, NC.

My ankle that I injured coming out of the shower last Thursday evening (can't feel pain there, anyway) looks more like the left one.

I broke toes, again - the two next to the great toe are slightly splayed, and bruising is still apparent. What a life.

The stress has been awful, between car trouble and non-existent finances. My lady needs her psych meds tomorrow, so, I'll be singing and playing - to be sure.

Tell anyone you know in Raleigh that I'll be there, with a wheelchair and rollator (to carry the guitars, and something for my lady to sit on) - with my Cube Street EX street amp/PA, headset mic, guitars, and backup music I produced on a field recorder.

Tips will be gratefully appreciated. LW

 

[bjacks12]

It's just gross. Throw him in a septic pit here, he won't do it again. Or feed him to the "toilet pigs".

Amen, praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

What I don't get.....let's ignore for the fact that his particular fetish is deviant as hell, it just seems like the benefit-cost ratio is out of whack. If it's pictures of girls doing their business that gets his jollies, I'd bet you dollars to donuts he can find all the pictures his heart desires on the internet....and without having to sit in a tank full of human waste.

 

[CrimsonToker]

Amen, praise the lord and pass the ammunition!

What I don't get.....let's ignore for the fact that his particular fetish is deviant as hell, it just seems like the benefit-cost ratio is out of whack. If it's pictures of girls doing their business that gets his jollies, I'd bet you dollars to donuts he can find all the pictures his heart desires on the internet....and without having to sit in a tank full of human waste.

Maybe that's part of it. I know a guy that gets turned on when his wife poops on him...

Crazy sexual desires like this are almost always linked to terrible abuse somewhere earlier in life. I've known a lot (A LOT) of abuse survivors, and strange guilt-inducing sexual desires are a common trait amongst them. That, or a complete lack of interest entirely (I'm on that end of the spectrum myself)

 

[Kaat72]

We should start a 'What's your fetish?' thread?

 

[CrimsonToker]

We should start a 'What's your fetish?' thread?

We should start a 'What's your fetish?' thread?

We should start a 'What's your fetish?' thread?

Lol behind it 100%

 

[no one]

We had a dude get busted for hiding in one of the PortaPotties and taking pix of women.

Where else would you find the pieces of crap?