Shit that annoys you

[Dantheman]

That it's 2024 and getting a MRI still feels like a scene from A Clockwork Orange. Such a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

[californiagrown]

That it's 2024 and getting a MRI still feels like a scene from A Clockwork Orange. Such a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

The last MRI i got was 2yrs ago when my son was about 6 months old. Im not gonna lie, being given headphones, a warm blanket and nothing to do for 40 minutes except lie still was glorious. Ive had upwards of 20 MRIs in my life so maybe the unpleasantness has just worn off for me?

[old goat]

The hard of mris and cts for me is keeping my arms above my head--fucked shoulders. The last time they let me leave my arms at my sides. Better.

[Brownski]

NYC traffic blows but it is predictable. By the UN? You're fucked. Id be biking. When I lived in Jersey City I would give the crew truck to the crew to travel back and forth from the job site to their hotel. I always had out of town crews from the mid west and metro Boston. I always took the early ferry to Pier 11 and biked to the site with my back pack of work clothes and changed up at the end of the day for the ride back to Pier 11. My wife had an office near Battery Park, and then World Financial Center, at the time so we would meet up and if we missed the boat (45 minute schedule) we would go to Ulysses' on Stone Street and drink beer until whenever. Those were good days.

That’s a good system. Luckily I don’t have to go in much but when I do it’s usually two trains to Penn station and then a nice walk across town.

[anotherVTskibum]

The Forest Service pretty much hates the Rainbow Family, and with some good reasons given the history, IMO. Issues are based on social, environmental, and sanitary factors. I found this article, which has some interesting quotes.
https://theashlandchronicle.com/the-...-freaking-out/

I worked on FS fire crews stationed at Antelope Lake on the Plumas back in the day. The nearest town is tiny Greenville, which was devastated by fire a couple years ago. Unless things have changed since I was there, the locals aren’t the type to welcome such a gathering.

Even in Vermont, which is about as hippie as you get, there was some concern and a pile of citations:
https://vtdigger.org/2016/06/29/60-r...4th-gathering/

[Boissal]

That it's 2024 and getting a MRI still feels like a scene from A Clockwork Orange. Such a thoroughly unpleasant experience.

Had a shoulder MRI recently and it was shockingly not unpleasant. Went the "direct to consumer route" at one of these places that advertise on billboards since I didn't have a referral from a provider. Made the appointment at noon, was in the box at 6pm, had a link to the images for the surgeon to review by 8am the next day. $400 out of pocket.
The noise isn't the most pleasant thing but I manage to consistently fall asleep in these machines so...

My dog annoys me. She's decided getting out of the yard was her thing and can't be confined. She walks herself to the neighbor's to play with her dog. Spent a whole day roasting in the sun upgrading our fence instead of packing for a trip. And now the formerly good looking fence looks like ass but I don't have the motivation to fix it any further...

[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).

[mcski]

That fence is hilarious

[Dantheman]

Had a shoulder MRI recently and it was shockingly not unpleasant. Went the "direct to consumer route" at one of these places that advertise on billboards since I didn't have a referral from a provider. Made the appointment at noon, was in the box at 6pm, had a link to the images for the surgeon to review by 8am the next day. $400 out of pocket.
The noise isn't the most pleasant thing but I manage to consistently fall asleep in these machines so...

I tried to get it done at Taylor, but I needed contrast and those places don't do contrast. Not too concerned about cost anyway since surgery alone will tap out my annual OOPM.

The noise is thing for me. Even with the headphones it was like being inside a steampunk jackhammer for 25 minutes.

[Foggy_Goggles]

It's basically bid rate ticket sales with Ticketmaster owning and profiting from both the primary and secondary markets at this point.



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[Boissal]

That fence is hilarious

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...

[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

[skaredshtles]

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

Have you heard of this modern invention called a phone?

[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...

[riser4]

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...

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

[toast2266]

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

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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[skaredshtles]

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

[gravitylover]

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.

[skaredshtles]

<snip> Chase

Ahhh... I think I see your problem.

[rideit]

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.

[gravitylover]

^ 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.

Ahhh... I think I see your problem.

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.

[Mustonen]

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...

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.

[halliday]

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).

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.

[spanky]

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

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

[spanky]

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).

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