Shit that annoys you

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Originally Posted by Timberridge

And most of it is routine and boring, but also once you've heard about one compressor stall and an emergency landing, they're all the same.

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Boring is good. You can have fun on the layovers.

The goal for a pairing (while on duty) is no drama, not having to write any reports, and no "occurrences" that will land you in the chief pilot's office on your day off.

Probably told this story here before, but here's an example. When my friends and I were cocky young(ish) bucks, one of us - I'll call him FO Roger Murdock - was half way across the continent when this transpired. Two of the fight attendants who hadn't met prior to this pairing were chatting in one of the galleys. One mentions their boyfriend works for the company. The other says, "mine too". The first mentions that they and Roger have plans to (do something) and the second says, "hey my boyfriend is named Roger too" ..."not the one up front right now though, right?!!" Yep.

Cut to the flight deck, Roger and Capt Oveur are reading newspapers, drinking coffee, and engaging in light chit chat. "Got some days off?" "nope" "Hmm. Do you like... uh, stuff?"

♫ Bing bong ♪ "Yello" "I need to come up there now!" demands the flight attendant in charge. They open the door, and she comes in with "I have two girls in tears in the forward galley, and one of them is hyperventilating. If this isn't dealt with I'm reporting it as a medical emergency"

Capt Oveur to FO Murdock: "you need to go back and fix this, or you'll be busted all the way down to flying the overnight mail in a light twin" (when Murdock told me the story his exact words were "I saw my career flash before my eyes")

Miraculously, he managed to smooth it over, and now we just laugh about it. Well, all of us except him.

I don't think I'd want to fly in a plane captained by someone dumb enough to date two flight attendants from the same airline at the same time. Same applies to docs who date nurses in the same hospital.

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Originally Posted by MontuckyFried

You been hanging out with pilots lately? "Work work work work work..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNxz2hhSXuY

Ted Striker can confirm as to the accuracy of this video series. I think he'll especially appreciate part II that gets into dat hotel lyfe. LMAO!

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That’s kind of mild compared to the pilots that flew wildfire in Alaska. Those guys…

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Originally Posted by Ted Striker

Boring is good. You can have fun on the layovers.

The goal for a pairing (while on duty) is no drama, not having to write any reports, and no "occurrences" that will land you in the chief pilot's office on your day off.

Probably told this story here before, but here's an example. When my friends and I were cocky young(ish) bucks, one of us - I'll call him FO Roger Murdock - was half way across the continent when this transpired. Two of the fight attendants who hadn't met prior to this pairing were chatting in one of the galleys. One mentions their boyfriend works for the company. The other says, "mine too". The first mentions that they and Roger have plans to (do something) and the second says, "hey my boyfriend is named Roger too" ..."not the one up front right now though, right?!!" Yep.

Cut to the flight deck, Roger and Capt Oveur are reading newspapers, drinking coffee, and engaging in light chit chat. "Got some days off?" "nope" "Hmm. Do you like... uh, stuff?"

♫ Bing bong ♪ "Yello" "I need to come up there now!" demands the flight attendant in charge. They open the door, and she comes in with "I have two girls in tears in the forward galley, and one of them is hyperventilating. If this isn't dealt with I'm reporting it as a medical emergency"

Capt Oveur to FO Murdock: "you need to go back and fix this, or you'll be busted all the way down to flying the overnight mail in a light twin" (when Murdock told me the story his exact words were "I saw my career flash before my eyes")

Miraculously, he managed to smooth it over, and now we just laugh about it. Well, all of us except him.

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That Roger was a sly dog. Playuh fo sho!

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Originally Posted by muted reborn

The local interstate is already 70 - we don't need to push it to 80-85 which means people with radar detectors are gonna go 95.

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Sounds like you’re in my way muted, left lane is for passing m’fr!

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Originally Posted by mcski

Found a tick today…On. My. Balls. [emoji35]🤮🤬

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Originally Posted by Danno

what the hell have you been doing?

wait, don't answer that, don't want to know.

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My money is on naked pagan rituals around the solstice bonfire.

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Originally Posted by Danno

an old friend (and very occasional maggot) used to answer "what do you do" with "as little as possible." He was a ski bum in Crested Butte, so that checked out.

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I answer with I tell people where to go. It’s true and I get paid for it.

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Originally Posted by mcski

Found a tick today…On. My. Balls. [emoji35]🤮🤬

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I wish you luck trying to get to sleep any night the next month. The slightest itch or tingle will have you flipping on the light to make sure it's not another one.

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Originally Posted by BCMtnHound

My money is on naked pagan rituals around the solstice bonfire.

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A med student came in to work in a lot of discomfort. Apparently it's a good idea to check for poison ivy before having sex outdoors. She learned the hard way.

Trying to sell a car for under $5k is firmly in the silly zone of the market. Flakes abound.

Also annoying that a year ago it’d have gone for at least 50% more in the first weekend. Going on a month now and I keep lowering the price until I’ve hit the bottom of book, which is below the first few lowball offers I got. If it doesn’t go this weekend (have three people who will probably flake on me this weekend) I’m going to double the price and take the first lowball.

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Originally Posted by old goat

A med student came in to work in a lot of discomfort. Apparently it's a good idea to check for poison ivy before having sex outdoors. She learned the hard way.

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Happened to a couple I knew in HS.

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Originally Posted by Mustonen

If it doesn’t go this weekend (have three people who will probably flake on me this weekend) I’m going to double the price and take the first lowball.

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This.

People. People annoy me.

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Originally Posted by riser4

People. People annoy me.

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Yes. This x100. Entitled people even more...

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Originally Posted by riser4

This.

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Just sold. Some guy and his son who knew what they were doing and wanted to fix it up as a winter project. Nice to feel good about the whole thing. Better than the kid who didn’t know how to drive a stick and the single mom who wouldn’t have known what to do if it broke down in a month…. Which I don’t think it would have but…. Still glad both of those flaked.

Nice guys who knew they were getting a good but fair deal and knew exactly what it was and what it wasn’t.

Seems I just needed to bitch about it.

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Originally Posted by old goat

A med student came in to work in a lot of discomfort. Apparently it's a good idea to check for poison ivy before having sex outdoors. She learned the hard way.

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A former coworker (redhead, pale skin) and her husband bought a house and cleared the overgrowth and piled it up and burned it. It was all poison ivy. She had blisters on her lungs and was in the hospital for a couple weeks

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Originally Posted by half-fast

A former coworker (redhead, pale skin) and her husband bought a house and cleared the overgrowth and piled it up and burned it. It was all poison ivy. She had blisters on her lungs and was in the hospital for a couple weeks

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We love red heads…do u have a pic pre “poison Ivy” incident”?

I have some sort of nasty cold (not COVID), and I have mucusy shit leaking out of my eyes. WTF. I’ve never had that happen before.

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Originally Posted by Supermoon

I have some sort of nasty cold (not COVID), and I have mucusy shit leaking out of my eyes. WTF. I’ve never had that happen before.

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Sounds like you have pink eye, maybe from the same virus that’s making you sick. (IANADr)

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Originally Posted by Supermoon

I have some sort of nasty cold (not COVID), and I have mucusy shit leaking out of my eyes. WTF. I’ve never had that happen before.

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The shit that has been going around lately is some nasty crap/different than anything I’ve ever had…..and won’t go away….since October I’ve had stuff coming out of my sinuses/nose that is just wrong…..I’ve said in other threads I need to buy stock in tissues with the amount I’ve used the last 3 months….

Finally Teledoc gave me a 10 day prescription to try to kill whatever the hell is going on. (Doxycycline)

Yuck. That sounds terrible. I hope it’s not three months long for me

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Originally Posted by Supermoon

Yuck. That sounds terrible. I hope it’s not three months long for me

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It’s not bad enough to knock you out of commission/miss work, etc….but annoying/nasty enough to complain about.

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Originally Posted by riser4

Everyone wants to be fred, until they get sick of lugging the supplemental 02 around.

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I’ve got that in common with fred, my O2 is fuct. It is annoying.


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It truly sucks to be on oxygen or any other life sustaining medical equipment, but at least if you play it right you might be able to get a free electric generator out of it. My next door neighbor waited too long to have his narrow aortic valve fixed--when they tried to heart cath him he coded and never woke up. His wife kept him on a ventilator in a persistent vegatative state for 2 years before he finally died. I think she did it for the electric generator. Then she wound up on oxygen but she refused to move down to the lowlands. She had yards and yards of oxygen tubing--I wonder if any o2 made it to her lungs from the o2 generator.

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Originally Posted by evdog

I wish you luck trying to get to sleep any night the next month. The slightest itch or tingle will have you flipping on the light to make sure it's not another one.

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QFT

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Originally Posted by Supermoon

I have some sort of nasty cold (not COVID), and I have mucusy shit leaking out of my eyes. WTF. I’ve never had that happen before.

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Conjunctivitis. I got an unbelievable case of it with Covid, like my eyes being crusted shut after 3 hours of sleep where I had to open them with my fingers.

Got my shopping done early but forgot wrapping paper. Headed down to the trusty target and someone sneezed right in front of me .0002 seconds after walking in the door. So that's like 4 things that annoy me right there.

Niners-Ravens was supposed to be on ESPN, instead it was on NBC, and Directv Stream is currently in a war with the local NBC and not carrying it. Or maybe I was lucky not to watch it as it turned out.

As it turned out, indeed.

Hard drive in my laptop crashed a while back, so I got it replaced after recovering data and had to start over.

Now I'm getting a popup saying "Password will expire in 4 days". I've never had to reset passwords on any personal laptop before. I hate having to change passwords. Annoying.

Related annoyance, when online "help" functions are of no help because they never seem to have answers for the basic things you need help with. Like disabling password expiration. No combo of key words in Microsoft help will bring up any search results resembling the words I searched for.

So you turn to google, search the same words and Windows 11 Home. Follow the steps in the most relevant looking search results, but most don't even list the same menu items that I see when I access System settings. One that I am able to follow through to my Microsoft account supposedly requires a password reset to disable password expiration, but the box to require password change every 72 days is already unchecked. So, password is reset anyways. Guess I have 72 days til I'll have to deal with this again?

Only $19 a month......

Ignorance and arrogance. First of all yes, you are an idiot. Second thing is no, you're far from special and I don't value you or your opinion so shut the fuck up.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

Ignorance and arrogance. First of all yes, you are an idiot. Second thing is no, you're far from special and I don't value you or your opinion so shut the fuck up.

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Do tell. Making popcorn. I'll be right back.

^^ Nurses that are barely nurses doing what they do poorly, by choice. Then they say that they're too busy to read instructions and the state guidelines are all they need to follow rather than the doctors instructions for how the medication s supposed to be administered. If I could've reached through the phone...

Ah, it's just a random outburst? I thought he was pissed at Freeheel 'bout something.

Never know because stuff carries over into here from Polyass sometimes.

I don't do polyass. Nope not random. The "nurses" at my FIL's facility are mostly contract nurses, not RNs. They know that there aren't any penalties if they barely do their job so they are the least thorough medical personnel I've ever seen. They've nearly sent my fil into a diabetic coma a few times now and yesterday was borderline again. We've had two tell my wife "quiet down lady, I know what I'm doing" as they're telling her that they're doing the wrong thing because the rules allow them to. They say that they're too busy to pay attention to the details for every resident, they say "don't worry he'll be fine, these wouldn't be the rules if they were going to hurt anybody". I guess if you're barely a nurse you wouldn't understand time-sensitive or time-release medications and why it's important to give them correctly and when you're as stupid as they are you don't have to care or respect people's needs. Apparently they're also protected from legal recourse as individuals (to some extent) if a patient is damaged by their lack of attention to detail so they arrogantly ignore the details and then tell you that's what they do. The place doesn't have a nursing director so they know there's no immediate oversight. They also know that the residents have no idea what's going on, who they are, what day or even what year it is and that they won't ever complain. The corporate regional nursing director told my wife yesterday that the medical staff is afraid to talk to her so most of the time they won't answer the phone if they see her name. It's horrible.

I wish I could say it's different at other places but I can't. My dad is in a similar place run by a different company and it's the same shit. At least he's in hospice so there's another level of oversight beyond the regular on-property staff.

GL--I assume you've filed complaints with the state? Document every adverse episode as precisely as you can and keep sending them in. Although unfortunately if you do manage to get anyone's attention at the state the outcome could be closing the facility which would leave you scrambling for an alternative. But they could just be fined.

As far as nurses being protected--they aren't but they don't have enough money for a lawyer to bother suing them. Most don't have malpractice insurance. They'll only get fired if they do something that costs the facility money.

It has to go through the county health dept first. They're backed up on investigations so it's just documenting everything until they get to it. Staffing is non-existent in the NY Metro area and it's pretty much the same for a few hundred miles around so these types of facilities end up with the dregs but still charge through the fuckn nose (and every other orifice they can think of).

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

It has to go through the county health dept first. They're backed up on investigations so it's just documenting everything until they get to it. Staffing is non-existent in the NY Metro area and it's pretty much the same for a few hundred miles around so these types of facilities end up with the dregs but still charge through the fuckn nose (and every other orifice they can think of).

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Wristwatch; Crisco

@OG I should call them Agency not Contract nurses. That's where their personal liability falls off and lands on the agency.