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  • Scheiss Meister
    Scheiss Meister

    The day I retired I set an auto reply that said something like "As of EOB today I will be retired.  If you expect me to reply to an email after 10:00 am today, you will be disappointed."  At the 3:00

  • Ghost of NMAS
    Ghost of NMAS

    I hate the people that ignore it when they have the right of way and try to wave me through first, it just fucks up the system and delays everyone

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On 10/1/2025 at 2:14 PM, 52-80 said:

When you reverse into a spot, youre reversing into a spot. 
 

When you pull forward into a sport, youll later have to reverse into traffic. 

I'm on this side of the argument. When we are in my 4 door car, it doesn't really matter. But in my work van, it's a complete blind spot backing out in some cases, especially parking garages.

I don't even like backing it out of my driveway and I'm on a slight hill so I have a very good view of street traffic. 

On 9/30/2025 at 1:07 AM, Ignatius said:

This is the reason I drive in reverse at all times…

Tonight Show Thinking GIF by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

On 10/2/2025 at 10:13 AM, Js1 said:

 

looney tunes did it better 50 years earlier.

 

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On 9/29/2025 at 9:29 PM, Superhero said:

This nose-in / backing-in debate by itself could last longer than the Quinn Ewers thread.

What is the bigger sin, back in parking or not knowing how a 4 way stop works?

4 way would get my vote.

 

The airline entertain systems that make you watch their repetitive ads when you start watching any in-flight programming. 

Ladies and gentledudes, behold the expediency of sending a certified piece of mail via USPS to a location 10 miles away …could have just driven there I suppose IMG_4107.thumb.png.abc7d5a3db947ebfbbb15500f363bfe3.png

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Two times on yesterday's commute as I moved back out of the left lane after passing someone (as you are supposed to do), the driver I just passed moved into the left lane. Two times. 

 

2 hours ago, elfenix said:

Two times on yesterday's commute as I moved back out of the left lane after passing someone (as you are supposed to do), the driver I just passed moved into the left lane. Two times. 

 

Excellent avatar for that post.

Just now, Im_smarter_then_you said:

With Venmo these days there is no reason to slow pay anyone

I wish. Some people let those Venmo requests sit for weeks or months. I have one friend who is a very well paid attorney and has to be prodded 8-10 times to pay up on a $50 Venmo transaction 

When crypto bros get greedy and transfer control of bitcoin to China. 

I can't use Venmo, they don't like my cell number and won't let me sign up. Sorry.

On 10/8/2025 at 4:52 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

When something is snail mailed across town in my small town it gets sent to a distribution center in a city 200 hundred miles away 

Ironically is the most efficient way to deliver mail. 

Because if most local mail had to be transported in a roughly linear path end-to-end, it would require 50x as many mailmen, take 10x as long, and probably cost 20x as much. 

2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

With Venmo these days there is no reason to slow pay anyone

There is if you don't like the person

1 hour ago, Sam Lin said:

I can't use Venmo, they don't like my cell number and won't let me sign up. Sorry.

It took me like 2 years to get Venmo because my wife got it first and they wouldn't allow 2 venmo accounts to feed into the same bank account.  They finally updated it like a year ago.

1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

Ironically is the most efficient way to deliver mail. 

Because if most local mail had to be transported in a roughly linear path end-to-end, it would require 50x as many mailmen, take 10x as long, and probably cost 20x as much. 

Ok Newman

10 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

It took me like 2 years to get Venmo because my wife got it first and they wouldn't allow 2 venmo accounts to feed into the same bank account.  They finally updated it like a year ago.

Ok Newman

Yeah, the USPS evolved their distribution system to feign high transport costs in order to bilk you and your wife out of 78 cents for a letter.

On 10/1/2025 at 12:16 PM, Superhero said:

Will everyone just STFU about parking already.

Agreed. We’d way rather talk about your insurance bill. 

Ironically is the most efficient way to deliver mail. 
Because if most local mail had to be transported in a roughly linear path end-to-end, it would require 50x as many mailmen, take 10x as long, and probably cost 20x as much. 

No wonder my mail takes so long, I’ve been using sarcasm!
5 hours ago, 52-80 said:

Ironically is the most efficient way to deliver mail. 

Because if most local mail had to be transported in a roughly linear path end-to-end, it would require 50x as many mailmen, take 10x as long, and probably cost 20x as much. 

 

I remember about 10 or 15 years ago when they switched having a deposit box for "local" vs "out of town" to the current system. Before the switch, people could sometimes get their mail the same day it was dropped at the post office, or by the next day at the latest. Now it takes three to four days. 

 

3 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Agreed. We’d way rather talk about your insurance bill. 

Insurance bills, like property tax statements are legit grievances.

How people park is pretty trivial.

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And it's high beam season for these fucking morons as well. You do not need your high beams anywhere on 45 south of Willis, dumb shit. 

I don't know if it's still true, but I seem to remember FedEx routed most of its packages through memphis. 

So even if I shipped a box from Plano to Arlington it usually went to memphis first. Even it was like an overnight or 2 day package.

1 hour ago, Jameslaw121 said:

I don't know if it's still true, but I seem to remember FedEx routed most of its packages through memphis. 

So even if I shipped a box from Plano to Arlington it usually went to memphis first. Even it was like an overnight or 2 day package.

Still the case. My company ships everything FedEx. It's awesome during tornado season since tornado alley has basically shifted to right over that part of the country. 

On 10/3/2025 at 12:56 PM, ImNotMarkinson said:

when people pronounce forward as foe-ward

ImNotMilitary

16 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Still the case. My company ships everything FedEx. It's awesome during tornado season since tornado alley has basically shifted to right over that part of the country. 

So it's possible that you get it even quicker, with the wind velocity and everything?

On 10/9/2025 at 9:52 PM, elfenix said:

And it's high beam season for these fucking morons as well. You do not need your high beams anywhere on 45 south of Willis, dumb shit. 

I miss when flashing your brights used to mean police up ahead.

26 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

I miss when flashing your brights used to mean police up ahead.

I still do it. 

18 minutes ago, elfenix said:

"tuhddy"

 

 

Every time someone uses the term "tuddy" in my fantasy group chat, I send out a picture of goatse in retaliation for how annoying I find it. 

I'm pleased to say it's been a mostly successful campaign. 

12 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Every time someone uses the term "tuddy" in my fantasy group chat, I send out a picture of goatse in retaliation for how annoying I find it. 

I'm pleased to say it's been a mostly successful campaign. 

Maybe switch it up to LemonParty, just incase the one guy that keeps saying it is starting to enjoy goatse.

I'm trying to raise some peach trees so that I can enjoy fresh peaches, and hopefully have some to put up every year.  Two years ago I planted a couple of Rio Grande trees.  Last year a couple of Texstars and a Junegold.  I went out to water them a couple of days ago and found that a deer had used one of the Rio Grandes for a rub, taking off a lot of bark and shredding a lot of branches.  I doubt that it will survive, but I'll try to nurse it through.  Now I have to build a game fence around my orchard.  I might just end up with a load of venison sausage, too.

I still do it. 

Careful. There’s gang initiations going on where you flash someone with your brights and they come around and shoot you. Talk about Surly!

Take a hard look at this pic. It’s probably going to lead to a Nobel prize. I violated the laws of physics. 
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I put wax paper over a plate of pasta before heating it up. As I moved to put the plate in the microwave, the wax paper somehow wedged into a millimeter wide gap between the microwave cover and the rest of the microwave. 

Weird and unusual, but I’ll just pull the wax paper out.  Nope. The wax paper somehow wedged into that tiny gap so forcefully that it was impossible to pull out. And I do mean impossible. Pliers. Tweezers. Knives. Screwdrivers. Nothing worked. 

Think about that for a second. A millimeter thick piece of wax paper somehow flies thru the air in such a way as to perfectly wedge into a one mm gap so forcefully that it can’t be removed. 

I’ve  made my reservations to Norway.  

 

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If you are too short, or too fat, or your windows don't roll down, GTFO of the drive-thru. I can't stand seeing stupid fucks trying to calculate how far they need to pull forward but still being able to stretch their arm back and reach the window. Go park your car and waddle inside.

Drive thrus are for the poors. Join the 2020s and order you food on your phone and use curbside. 

4 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

$.50 microwavable pie filling approaching 160º on my tongue after 30 seconds.

Burning your upper lip with cheese because you were hungry and couldn't wait for the pizza to cool down.

And then when you jerk away, a big chunk of boiling hot cheese pulls off the pizza and glues itself to your chin causing third degree burns

Ain't the cheese that gets me, it's the pizza sauce near boiling that's insulated under the cheese.  

5 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

And then when you jerk away, a big chunk of boiling hot cheese pulls off the pizza and glues itself to your chin causing third degree burns

Not the only thing that winds up on your chin if you jerk away. <snickers>

Maybe not so trivial….. the continuing saga I posted about weeks ago:

In late January some asshole broke the main access lock on our neighborhood USPS communal mailbox. 
As a result, we and 24 other neighbors have had to drive 11 miles one way from our street over to our USPS office substation to pick up our mail. 
I believe most of us make that 22 mile round trip at least once per week.
Nine months later, after numerous inquiries, the postal service clerks say that the new lock to replace the broken one is still on back order.

Since the IRS allows a 70 cent deduction per mile for vehicle business milage, that expense for the 35 trips (770 miles total) I have personally made to pick up our mail. That comes to $539 worth of income tax deductions. 
Not to mention the 26 total hours of travel time there & back over the 9 months @ 45 minutes per round trip.

Now multiply those numbers by roughly 20 to estimate the total time lost, miles driven, gasoline burned, and $10,000+ in IRS deductions. 
All because the USPS cannot get a simple cheapass lock from wherever it was back ordered.

What a country, what a government.

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8 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Maybe not so trivial….. the continuing saga I posted about weeks ago:

In late January some asshole broke the main access lock on our neighborhood USPS communal mailbox. 
As a result, we and 24 other neighbors have had to drive 11 miles one way from our street over to our USPS office substation to pick up our mail. 
I believe most of us make that 22 mile round trip at least once per week.
Nine months later, after numerous inquiries, the postal service clerks say that the new lock to replace the broken one is still on back order.

Since the IRS allows a 70 cent deduction per mile for vehicle business milage, that expense for the 35 trips (770 miles total) I have personally made to pick up our mail. That comes to $539 worth of income tax deductions. 
Not to mention the 26 total hours of travel time there & back over the 9 months @ 45 minutes per round trip.

Now multiply those numbers by roughly 20 to estimate the total time lost, miles driven, gasoline burned, and $10,000+ in IRS deductions. 
All because the USPS cannot get a simple cheapass lock from wherever it was back ordered.

What a country, what a government.

Pretty sure I would just cancel the mail at this point. 

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