Random Rants
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my wife is watching Bates Motel on netflix and one of the gang guys (? i dunnno - im only half paying attention) had on a pretty rockin' leather jacket.
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Thanks guys. Im being really careful it is just hell being immobile and stuck inside all the time. I can't wait for this to be fixed and rehab in time for summer.
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So angry and upset… Have just left a rental property cleaner than when I arrived and landlord is now trying to get us or at least our deposit for leaving a beautiful pot plant in the garden, putting up coat hooks and a lock on a door... WTF [emoji35]
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Thank you, looks like it may not be as bad as I first thought and won't cost that much is more the principle really and putting up with people's petty minded ways. Good luck with your move
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That might be illegal @Black Orchid
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Rental agreements in the UK are a weird thing, never totally standard. The landlord can hide a multitude of sins in the small print, some of my family have fallen foul of this in the past.
Hope thing work out for you guys.
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God damnit, America.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/02/18/little-caesars-fast-food-pizza-restaurants/23565411/Eat it with this http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2015/01/26/double-dog-down-kfc-fried-chicken-hot-dog-sandwich/22350739/ and you will need to see a cardiologist in no time.
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I was strongly encouraged by my former supervisor to apply for a newly created position in the department where I worked for 7 years. She intimated to me that due to my experience and qualifications my application would be viewed favourably. Due to the fact that my former supervisor is also the head of the recruitment team for this particular position, I was inclined to think that her opinion carried serious weight.
I spent most of the weekend preparing the extensive documentation required for this application and then, several weeks after submitting everything, received a perfunctory email saying I hadn't made the next stage of the recruitment process. After seven years working in that place they didn't even let me interview for the position. Thanks a bunch.
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Sounds totally misleading and downright rude..
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My oven is a horrible piece of crap. It unpredictably runs anywhere from 50°F-75°F (10°C-24°C) cold. I spend a solid half hour adjusting it to get the proper temperature each time I cook. It has a digital control panel on the front that shorts out if it gets wet. I've replaced it 3 times, because (duh) occasionally things get spilled on the front of a stove. The digital clock runs about 2 minutes per week slow, so I reset it every month or so, when it gets 5 minutes or more off. The burner control knobs catch on clothing, the glass top cracked when I clipped it with a pot, and there are other, lesser issues. I hate it intensely, but the damn thing refuses to die.
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I can understand not liking a writer but that sort of snobbery is bullshit. I don't like the romantic view many people have of him, there's nothing romantic about alcoholism- but he could write. Not always, but there's no denying his power. To paraphrase Duke Ellington, there's only two kinds of music- good and bad.
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@TrickHell:
Sorry for starting a new random rant, but I figured why the fuck not.
I registered for an online fiction writing course through the Gotham Writer's Workshop. I haven't taken a fiction writing course in over ten years. For one, I've been busy writing stuff that's going to put a roof over my head and food on my table. For two, my experience with creative writing workshops is that they're very New York literary fiction centric. I'd like to be able to write on that level, but I don't read any of that stuff. People who are in those workshops tend to be from more middle-class backgrounds than me and snort laugh if I say I like to read Bukowski.
If you think I'm advertising insecurity here, I probably am, but whatever. I really want to write fiction and I really want to be good at it, but I'm slightly anxious about my social betters spending ten weeks looking down their noses at me, even if it is just on the Internet.
Worst-case scenario: I hate it and get some good writing done.
And those asswipes are not your social betters. In this country it just means they have more money.
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And that's what it's all about. I bet the same people who scorn Bukowski worship Raymond Carver.
