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14 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Idk. I don't think Scottish teenagers are hitting the McCallan 12 that hard. 

Well, if they're drinking the same way I was at that age....perhaps they down a bottle of "Angus's discount scotch and brake fluid" from time to time.  Back in college, I drank some bourbon brands that would make a trailer park denizen blanche.

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, if they're drinking the same way I was at that age....perhaps they down a bottle of "Angus's discount scotch and brake fluid" from time to time.  Back in college, I drank some bourbon brands that would make a trailer park denizen blanche.

I thought that I hated bourbon and scotch when I was in college -- after I graduated I figured out that our frat treasurer only bought cheap and shitty bootleg liquor for our parties.

Edit -- that stuff came from here on North Lamar -- their store brand -- the worst.

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47 minutes ago, markstanco said:

That is interesting, I guess I was misinformed.  I thought there was a cap on the max APR.  

And speaking of payday loans, I have a friend who has a slew of them in East Dallas all the way over to Commerce.  If you ask him what he does for a living he tells you "I provide money for people who cant do math". 

there is a cap on interest.  just not in south dakota.  which governs every credit card agreement. 

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, if they're drinking the same way I was at that age....perhaps they down a bottle of "Angus's discount scotch and brake fluid" from time to time.  Back in college, I drank some bourbon brands that would make a trailer park denizen blanche.

You can't be dissing the stuff that help us kill all those brain cells......

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1 hour ago, Brothahorn said:

If you have free-loading friends/relatives KD is still the shit. Throw some Paul Masson VSOP in for the cheap bougie ones.

I'm never buying a shitty bottle of whiskey for the rest of my life. $10 5ths of vodka do just fine for me.

Not that I'm judging anyone. 

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Following some clown car going down 360 yesterday, every five seconds ashing her cigarette out the window. Right about the time we get to 2222 and 360, cigarette butt gets tossed out the window.  Bitch then flips me off for flashing my lights at her.  Like listen here, cunt, this place is one spark away from another 100 acre brush fire before the fire department even gets a call.  Luckily, she looks beyond the age that would allow her to procreate any further.
Was at the beach this past week. Saw cigarette butts on the sand. People who dispose of their butts that's not in a proper way are disgusting pieces of shit
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1 hour ago, ztejas said:

Jeremiah Weed y'all must've had money. 

Quite the opposite. We thought it was high class stuff. This is why I didn’t get whisky. I thought it was something to slam to get drunk. It wasn’t until I spent a work weekend in Edinburgh that I understood that it’s something to be savored, enjoyed. 

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i have an OCD about uncleared notification icons on apps on my phone.  and theres a few apps i have where they bury the source of the notification and you dont know exactly what you need to read or browse or confirm within the app to clear it up.  drives me nuts

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1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

i have an OCD about uncleared notification icons on apps on my phone.  and theres a few apps i have where they bury the source of the notification and you dont know exactly what you need to read or browse or confirm within the app to clear it up.  drives me nuts

Short drive. 

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Just left the dentist after a cleaning. When it was time to pay she told me todays visit was covered. I lost my dental insurance when my wife retired, so I ask how that was possible. She said that when I had a crown put on 4 months ago I overpaid and had a $400 credit on my account. "Do you want us to send you a check?" No just keep the money in your bank account and use it for operating capital.

It's the 3rd time it's happened in the last 5 years. My PT had overcharged me almost $800 and kept it quiet for 4 months until a office person told me about it and an MRI office kept $350 for almost 11 months before sending me a check. 

Now I just ask when they'll settle with insurance so I can call and get my overpayment back. 

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Hold music. Especially the looped electronica kind. 
Recently I’ve been on hold a lot with USAA processing my hail damage claim. It’s the same music looped over and over, concluding with a “USAA” chant. 

Now I’m on hold with Avis trying to rent an after-hours car at Colorado Springs airport. They’re only open from 06:00 to 00:00. Our flight arrives at 23:50 on a Thursday and departs at 06:09 on the following Monday. The website says to call to arrange after-hours rentals. I’m on hold. Same electronica loop over and over. 

Makes my ears bleed. 

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27 minutes ago, nnm said:

Hold music. Especially the looped electronica kind. 
Recently I’ve been on hold a lot with USAA processing my hail damage claim. It’s the same music looped over and over, concluding with a “USAA” chant. 

Now I’m on hold with Avis trying to rent an after-hours car at Colorado Springs airport. They’re only open from 06:00 to 00:00. Our flight arrives at 23:50 on a Thursday and departs at 06:09 on the following Monday. The website says to call to arrange after-hours rentals. I’m on hold. Same electronica loop over and over. 

Makes my ears bleed. 

Was it this?

 

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13 hours ago, Tylerocks said:

Overly aggressive or overly speedy, assholish drivers.  zipping from lane to lane, tailgating etc..

I wish every single one would get into a bad single car accident.

I feel like an old when I say this but I agree.  Some of these guys are going 100 when traffic is flowing at 30. 

16 hours ago, nnm said:

Hold music. Especially the looped electronica kind. 
Recently I’ve been on hold a lot with USAA processing my hail damage claim. It’s the same music looped over and over, concluding with a “USAA” chant. 

Now I’m on hold with Avis trying to rent an after-hours car at Colorado Springs airport. They’re only open from 06:00 to 00:00. Our flight arrives at 23:50 on a Thursday and departs at 06:09 on the following Monday. The website says to call to arrange after-hours rentals. I’m on hold. Same electronica loop over and over. 

Makes my ears bleed. 

Not trivial.  But landing in Seattle at 11 pm and finding out they don’t have your reservation.  Awful feeling. Made worse by the fact we booked on Expedia 

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20 hours ago, Superhero said:

Was it this?

 

I deal with these on a weekly basis, and definitely have my favorites.  This one is a banger (compared to most).  

 

I find the worst products / support departments have the best / calmest on-hold music, their way of de-escalating pissed off customers.  I still loved my buddy's setup, where he just had an old boombox in the back room with KVET plugged into the MOH port on his phone system, worked like a charm.

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6 hours ago, Native Horn said:

Also, "physicality."  Cheese grater on my brain.

“Gotta get untracked!”  No, when a train gets untracked, it’s a disaster. Kinda like the “furk” moment of the aggy rollercoaster. 

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On 5/11/2023 at 12:53 PM, Vic Mackey said:
On 5/11/2023 at 9:23 AM, Steamboat1874 said:
That would never be me.
When I am first in line at a light, my preferred spot, I treat that light like a drag racer. I will be gone and up to the speed limit within 4 seconds even if it 55MPH.

I used to be like this but there's a ton of red light runners in the DFW. Not just barely but blatantly running it. There's always a little delay from when it turns red for one side and green for the other for this reason. But I've seen people barrel through with no disregard well after the fact. Especially people who are turning left and do it well after red.

I like the 10 second delay now while they let pedestrians get a head start before the light actually changes. Let those people on foot get hit by the red light runners..

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4 hours ago, McCroskey said:

I didn’t even notice this until after we left the restaurant.

Look at these suggested fucking tip amounts.

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My OCD would have made me tip $34.92 to make the total $188.  If the waitress is hot I would go up to $35.92 because I'm a baller that way.

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3 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Did they charge a mandatory 18% tip?  seems those would be the additional optional tip amounts.

No service fee or mandatory tip on the receipt.  As I think about it I think they are just missing the trailing 0 in the % field.  IE, they probably meant to say 20, 25, and 27%.   At least, that's what I'm sticking with.

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Amazon emailing me about their new pharmacy bullshit.

I click the "manage your communication preferences" link on the email.

Scroll down the list of bazillion Amazon departments of who I want emails from.

All of them are deselected, including ... that's right ... the Amazon pharmacy.

Who can I sue?

Class action time. Deep pockets and whatnot.

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