Random Rants

[Seul]

• packages up to 22 € are exempt of custom fees
• lad shipped something with a marked value of 30 $
• 30 $ = 21.9 €
• got hit with a 21 € fee

Gonna pick up the package at the PO somewhere next week (oh I'm not in a hurry), then send a friendly e-mail to Belgian customs…

[Seul]

https://hotfile.com/

God fucking damn it… There goes my Premium acct, and there I go uploading all that stuff to another host again... 

[Friday]

I really like my Type III Duck

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[Chris]

Somehow I managed to misplace not one, but two sets of leather boot laces.  Dammit.

[emceeQ]

I love winter and I love snow, but I've just been told the 20 or so inches accumulated in MI over the last day will likely impact my flight home in one way or another.  Feck…

[Snowy]

@Snowy:

Was down at the cafe to catch up with my closest mates today, not seen in a month or so. He tells me his Dad's back in hospital, been there all week (so not good), then he tells me the doctors have told him that he's got maximum of a week left to live.

To close this out, he died on Boxing Day with his entire family by his side. Far too young @ 61, but it could have happened in worse circumstances.

[Giles]

Shit, sorry Snowy…..

[Snowy]

I'd been waiting for the call since the 22nd. Still floating in/out of a daze about it nearly a week later. Very little positives to be found, but having family there for the end is really all that counts.

[davito]

Very Sorry snowy. my father died at 55 it sucks. All the best to your friends and keep strong

[mclaincausey]

Damn man. Thoughts, prayers, vibrations, and condolences to the senior snowman and family.

[Friday]

I hear you snowy.. Family matters.

UPS seems to love my package they take it round the same place twice.

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[seawolf]

Damn Snowy. Just seeing this. My condolences to you.

[RocknRoll]

I have an issue with people writing "just saying" after their comment. It seems to have become fairly popular.

[Giles]

IMO it's just a way of saying something dickish and then taking no responsibility for what was said.  Just sayin 

[RocknRoll]

Ha!

[seawolf]

@Giles:

IMO it's just a way of saying something dickish and then taking no responsibility for what was said.  Just sayin 

Exactly. Just say what you have to say and own it.

[RocknRoll]

I don't mind people saying something dickish…. I do it regularly. But that comment tacked on the end makes it dickish and arrogant, as if you're helping the ignorant masses by dishing out worldly advice.

[Snowy]

The other version of it that I dislike is sentences that start with "to be honest xxxx".

RockN, you may have noticed the MS advertising campaign on bus shelters in the CBD. They start with "Honestly". Adding the word as apposed to just saying whatever creates doubt in my mind. The fact it's advertising for Windows Metro/Surface junk, it's a scam, so stays true to my theory.

[madmonday]

well to be honest, i say it when i am trying to be honest as oppsed to my 99.5% of the time bullsh!ting & trolling. . . but I'm just saying it's sometimes akin to people who say like or that, like every 3 words when you are talking. like that is just like annoying to have so many words in a language & that you like use only 4 of them to get like that pointlessness across.

[adam_r]

@madmonday:

well to be honest, i say it when i am trying to be honest as oppsed to my 99.5% of the time bullsh!ting & trolling. . . but I'm just saying it's sometimes akin to people who say like or that, like every 3 words when you are talking. like that is just like annoying to have so many words in a language & that you like use only 4 of them to get like that pointlessness across.

A girl who, like, sits, like, near me at work, like, does that, like, all day. Just get to the fucking point!