Shit that annoys you

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Originally Posted by mcski

That fence is hilarious

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2" extension on each slat. The annoying part is that the ground slopes down and when I built it I wanted everything to look aligned so there are 3 degree angle cuts everywhere. Made it more of a PITA.
The though of extending the 4x4s stresses me out. Especially with the cost of cedar...

Speaking of dogs, on the last day of our trip to France the neighbor texts me that her dog managed to get into our yard and killed 5 out of 10 chickens. Apparently a big branch came down, hitting a rotten fence slat and knocking it down. Her dog has serious pray drive and managed to worm her way through the opening, straight into the chicken run. She went wild and killed the best layers. Then recruited our dog to roll into the carnage. The backyard looks like someone ripped a pile of down comforters to pieces...

When you go to a half dozen places that have a notary on staff and they're not available until the week after July 4th. Time to widen the net:mad:

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

When you go to a half dozen places that have a notary on staff and they're not available until the week after July 4th. Time to widen the net:mad:

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Have you heard of this modern invention called a phone? :confused:

Call the banks and get a call center, yes that branch has a notary. No I'm sorry we don't have their schedule. Can you connect me to the branch? No sir I can't do that...

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

Call the banks and get a call center, yes that branch has a notary. No I'm sorry we don't have their schedule. Can you connect me to the branch? No sir I can't do that...

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Exactly. Phone is becoming useless. Seems like a trend. Everything; s becoming useless.

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Originally Posted by riser4

Exactly. Phone is becoming useless. Seems like a trend. Everything; s becoming useless.

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Call a small-ish lawyer's office that does family law stuff. They're not chains so you can get them on the phone, and there's an 90% chance that there's a notary in the office on any given day. Just have to talk them into giving you 3 minutes of their time.

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Strange - the bank branches of my local all list their direct numbers.

After it rings a set number of times without being answered it transfers to the call center. Sure, you can hang up and keep trying but when they're close enough I just go in. The next one after I posted had one and she was working. Apparently she goes to 3.local Chase branches and today she was at the one I went to. The phone was ringing and not being picked up for the 15 minutes I was in the bank.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

<snip> Chase

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Ahhh... I think I see your problem.

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Originally Posted by toast2266

Call a small-ish lawyer's office that does family law stuff. They're not chains so you can get them on the phone, and there's an 90% chance that there's a notary in the office on any given day. Just have to talk them into giving you 3 minutes of their time.

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Most CPA firms have a notary, I bet if you brought them donuts it would all be good.

^ My accountant was out fishing today. His secretary chuckled when she said it but I really can't blame him, 75° and not a cloud around. We haven't had much of that lately.

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Originally Posted by skaredshtles

Ahhh... I think I see your problem.

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To be fair I did go into another across the street too. No luck. It was just one of those days where simple shit wasn't, this is just the one I chose to be annoyed (whine) about.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

Call the banks and get a call center, yes that branch has a notary. No I'm sorry we don't have their schedule. Can you connect me to the branch? No sir I can't do that...

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Wild that nobody is making it easy to take their staff’s time for free to perform a service that creates personal and business liability.

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Originally Posted by Danno

Fuck Ticketmaster. My kid wanted me to get tickets to Sabrina Carpenter and I told her I would at least consider it, look and see how much it costs. Non-presale tix went on sale today, I get in the queue, and the only tickets available are "verified resale" and there are a lot of them. Today at 10:40am, they went on sale today at 10am. So lots of scalpers bought tix and instantly turn around and sell them on the same fucking platform minutes later for many multiples of the original price and TM allows it (or rather, actually facilitates it).

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they make money at every turn and are basically fucking their customers in the ass. Look at ticket prices and you see the ticket price, say $100.00, and then all of the fees. Everybody has their hands in the pie. I remember waiting in line at TicketTron all day for tickets or waiting on the phone all afternoon for tickets. I was slammed against a police cruiser in Boston for trying to sell tickets outside the Orpheum for either The Alarm or INXS as scalping was illegal and enforced at the time. We got into the show but the cops were strong arming people big time. The assholes let me go but took my weed and tossed it into a storm drain on Tremont street for the rats to enjoy. Those were the days.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

When you go to a half dozen places that have a notary on staff and they're not available until the week after July 4th. Time to widen the net:mad:

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Try your library. Alternatively, my local UPS Store usually has a notary on staff.

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Originally Posted by Danno

Fuck Ticketmaster. My kid wanted me to get tickets to Sabrina Carpenter and I told her I would at least consider it, look and see how much it costs. Non-presale tix went on sale today, I get in the queue, and the only tickets available are "verified resale" and there are a lot of them. Today at 10:40am, they went on sale today at 10am. So lots of scalpers bought tix and instantly turn around and sell them on the same fucking platform minutes later for many multiples of the original price and TM allows it (or rather, actually facilitates it).

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I suspect ticketbastard is the “reseller” for a lot of the tickets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGY7eKk8X18

That's one reason I don't go to concerts.

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Originally Posted by spanky

Try your library. Alternatively, my local UPS Store usually has a notary on staff.

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Ooh, I forgot the local UPS store has one. Good call. @mustonen how does it create liability? A notarized signature is necessary for all sorts of things.

It's annoying when people don't move into the empty left lane to allow you to enter the highway easily and safely. It sucks when you have to come to a complete stop to wait while cars behind you damn near take you out.

Glad you finally figured out the notary thing. The mort reliable notary I know is an immigrant who owns a little dirtbag mail and package business. Always there, nof fuss no bother.

Now wait until you need a medallion signature guarantee. That one is tough because whoever gives it you is on the hook for the amount of the transaction if you turn out not to be the person you told them you were. That one you usually have to get from YOUR bank or YOUR stock broker and have enough in your account to cover the liability. And leave your first born as collateral.

Glad you finally figured out the notary thing. The mort reliable notary I know is an immigrant who owns a little dirtbag mail and package business. Always there, nof fuss no bother.

Now wait until you need a medallion signature guarantee. That one is tough because whoever gives it you is on the hook for the amount of the transaction if you turn out not to be the person you told them you were. That one you usually have to get from YOUR bank or YOUR stock broker and have enough in your account to cover the liability. And leave your first born as collateral.

That's the last time I actually wait the 45 seconds and try again to post.

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Originally Posted by old goat

That's the last time I actually wait the 45 seconds and try again to post.

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Noob.

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

Ooh, I forgot the local UPS store has one. Good call. @mustonen how does it create liability? A notarized signature is necessary for all sorts of things.

It's annoying when people don't move into the empty left lane to allow you to enter the highway easily and safely. It sucks when you have to come to a complete stop to wait while cars behind you damn near take you out.

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Notaries can and do get sued for both whether they’re doing a good job good and for the conduct or misconduct of the transaction they’ve notarized. If the notary is fulfilling their function at a financial institution, that financial institution is a nice juicy target for same. It’s a risk, is all. They should be cool and help you out because that’s cool. But nobody thanks them for providing the service for free or for a nominal charge. Case in point: if Chase simply told you they don’t provide notary services you’d have been far less annoyed with them.

That espn, fox sports and upstart sports networks cw and usa won't show CFL games. they'll show ufc, obscure womens pro softball and 30 for 30s but you can't put on CFL games which are all prime time games. i'd watch CFL games before even a lot of MLB games, especially the AL west.
Supposedly the usa is a football nation the CFL is football !

A turkey vulture decided to projectile vomit across my side yard (my guess would be cuz my dog was probably harassing it). Made quite the gooey mess of my nice gravel and hoooooooly crap it was one of the most godawful things I've ever smelled in my life. Had to spend a while taking out all that rock and bagging it since it wouldn't wash off. Blech!

Of course there's SOME lingering smell in the rock left behind, and the doggo thought it would be lovely to roll around in it a bit this AM. Now he needs a bath too. Dogs are so disgusting sometimes. Haha.

I'm trying to get my ducks in a row to leave on a road trip, but we keep getting these torrential downpours that are very literally putting a damper on my progress.

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Squash bugs. Those fuckers annoy the shit out of me.

Turkey coming onto my back deck and taking a shit almost every night annoys me. Never comes around in the daytime or I'd pop him with my pellet gun (lightly). Well tonight he's got a surprise waiting for him--motion activated light and siren alarm that I happened to find in my storeroom. Curious to see if it scares him. And I'll have the pellet gun ready to shoot him in the ass as he runs away.

Meh, those problems are for the birds :D Try having to be a passenger when your wife is driving twice in the same day :eek:

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Originally Posted by SkiCougar

That espn, fox sports and upstart sports networks cw and usa won't show CFL games.

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What's a "CFL game"?

remember the average size of a turkey brain and adjust your expectations of them learning anything accordingly...


fact.

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Originally Posted by Viva

What's a "CFL game"?

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https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/br...nie-glieberman

Socks that are marked left/right. 50/50 chance of getting it right, I am like 20/80. WTF?!?!

Before I go on vacation last week my boss and I discuss a much needed/deserved raise and "agree" on a number. I come back from vacation and it's become a slightly lower number, he didn't say anything and I found out by checking my paycheck. First day back he comes up to me a tells me that there's a bunch of stuff to do to catch up. No shit, I wasn't here and my assistant (that he chose) doesn't do that shit because he's a trust funder that doesn't need to work. Efficient concretejungle is no more and "work my wage" concretejungle is more than a bit angry.

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Originally Posted by concretejungle

Before I go on vacation last week my boss and I discuss a much needed/deserved raise and "agree" on a number. I come back from vacation and it's become a slightly lower number, he didn't say anything and I found out by checking my paycheck. First day back he comes up to me a tells me that there's a bunch of stuff to do to catch up. No shit, I wasn't here and my assistant (that he chose) doesn't do that shit because he's a trust funder that doesn't need to work. Efficient concretejungle is no more and "work my wage" concretejungle is more than a bit angry.

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Welcome to the club! Remember - retirement is not too far away. :D

My wife insists on buying cheapo printer cartridges that don't work. The latest--I pull off the plastic shield and ink pours out on me and the rug. At least she cleaned the rug, If Trump promises to ban cheap Chinese fake shit on Amazon, Walmart, etc I might vote for him.

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Originally Posted by Name Redacted

Socks that are marked left/right. 50/50 chance of getting it right, I am like 20/80. WTF?!?!

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it's like the USB port, should be 50/50 but somehow it's not.

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Originally Posted by Danno

it's like the USB port, should be 50/50 but somehow it's not.

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I believe the inventor said that, in retrospect, he fucked that up.

Concur expense reporting.

Freaking deer flies have been awful this year. Bought one of those battery powered bug zapper tennis rackets, but it freaks the dog out so no go. Record kill of five in one back of the neck slap last night. Daughters wedding in a month in the field should be interesting.