Random Rants
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He's just come back to me and said, "I may just buy from you again because the jeans are awesome". That was it, nothing else.
Iron Heart- quality so good even dipshits can't resist!
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…monitors Iron Heart "Introduce yourself" thread for dickheads, bellends, morons, twats, wankers, tossers, etc.
I have a trusted tailor who usually does great work. I asked for my IH-634SII pocket to be patched (the canvas on those has been unusually fragile) and they instead replaced the pocket. All fine and good except that the side seam is kind of a mess now and lacks the heavy gauge yellow thread. Of course I didn't notice this until I got home. As much as I'd like to take them back, I may just try my hand at a home repair--the work was otherwise pretty good and I don't want someone who doesn't "get" it to fuck it up further.
I also had a cobbler black the natural soles of my Lofgrens. I really didn't want that, I was very specific about just wanting the rubber heels replaced.
It is difficult to find folks who understand and deliver what our weird little culture values. I guess I'm just going to have to learn to send boots to Fukurokuju and ship jeans off to specialists. My impatience is the biggest challenge for something like that.
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Giles, you did the right thing, even if he is a bit dim.
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I'm really tired of how damp my apartment is. -
I know, it doesn't seem like it should even be possible, right?
Unfortunately, it is very real. This building is always humid. I think the lowest I've seen it get in the past 18 months is around 60%. That said, it's rained at least every couple of days for the last two months, and the humidity has been steadily climbing. We're supposed to have a week or so of warm, sunny weather, so hopefully, the place will dry out. Cold and damp is not how things are supposed to be. I live in San Antonio, not Gosport, dammit!
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Man, I’d buy a small Dehumidifier if I were you
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Really surprising to read that. Texas & humidity…surprising cocktail...difficult to imagine that...
The general perception of Texas is that it's all a godforsaken desert, but that's not entirely true. The eastern part of the state is wooded lowland and there are lots of marshy areas- it borders Louisiana, so picture that, if it helps, hajduk. Houston was literally built on reclaimed swampland and has a subtropical climate. People there regularly get jungle-type diseases like malaria. It's not pleasant…
That said, San Antonio is in (or near; people quibble about it) what's called the "Hill Country", because it's one of the few areas in the state that isn't flat. The weather is a bit drier, temperatures are a degree or two cooler, and it's generally a nicer place to be than Houston. Still not what I would consider ideal.
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$$ Thy will be done.
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Jody's going to be there all month, I'm coming in for a long weekend.
Sweet! Let me know when you've decided which weekend. Pretty sure our schedule is wide open at this point.
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I found out about the shooting at a synagogue near where I live last night. I am heartbroken. I can't stop crying when I think about it because I feel so sad. 11 elderly people that man killed. It's so senseless.
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@Filthy:
I found out about the shooting at a synagogue near where I live last night. I am heartbroken. I can't stop crying when I think about it because I feel so sad. 11 elderly people that man killed. It's so senseless.
God help us.@Filthy keep strong brother. Humanity prevails. I recall watching a TV documentary where a historian stated that we often think that history is an upward trajectory, and when things go wrong we take it very badly, because that shouldn't happen if our species is in a constant state of evolutionary ascent.
History is a sign wave of peaks and troughs, and we seem to be in a trough. It will pass. Who knows when? but it will pass.
I'm thinking of you and those that needlessly died.
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Thank you. I hope somehow love, tolerate, and kindness will prevail.
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A while back my alma mater killed a football player via a combination of utterly pointless humiliation/bullying culture and gross negligence. It was announced today that the coach and athletic director are keeping their jobs. President is resigning at the end of the year. It’s clear he wanted coach out, but the (unnamed) board of regents wanted to keep them, as they are in love with the idea of “becoming a football school.” They had a losing record this past year fwiw.
This is probably the only human behavior I’m puzzled by: the seemingly overwhelming desire by the people in charge to cover for subordinates that make completely indefensible transgressions. These bullies and predators only succeed because they operate under the shelter of impunity provided by their superiors or colleagues. Just look at that gymnastics trainer recently, or the Penn state Sandusky scandal a few years back.
If I were the president of a university or ceo or head coach, and I found out that my employee had killed someone or was a diddler, I’d call the police, the press, and when they took the photo of him being arrested I’d be in the background yelling and pointing angrily. Why is it so difficult to condemn actions that are so obviously deserving of condemnation? Clearly a CEO can’t possibly be asked to never hire a bad person, but it’s totally their job to take appropriate action when transgressions come to light. Even looked at from a pragmatic standpoint, how the hell is this guy going to recruit? “I know we had a losing record last year, and had a death, but hey nowhere to go but up, right?!”
If I had a UMD sticker on my car I’d be scraping it off. Still surprised by how many nittany lions stickers I see on cars, as opposed to hastily scraped off oval smears of adhesive.
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@tvenuto it's a culture of managed incompetence and accountability. If you don't protect your management line there's a chance you'll be exposed and therefore held personally to account.
I can't go in to detail for legal reasons but it's happening at the local authority I work for. Fewer and fewer people can competently do the job they are employed to do, but they need to protect themselves by closing rank. It's shitty.
