The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Carpe Mortem]

My dad finally married his woman of 15 years yesterday, very happy for them. The ceremony was some bullshit though. They paid a lot of money for this arboretum- which you totally can rent for events, it's an advertised fact- and are told at the last minute that since it's a state ran facility they couldn't block off the area. So people coming to look at the plants for free were technically allowed to walk right through the ceremony space my dad paid for. Fucking bullshit. My brother also had his guitar and amp to strum some ambience and that wasn't allowed either. We stuck a sign up saying wedding in progress which did deter people, and snuck the music in under some coats, but my dad may as well have been a free guest with how little service we received for booking this shit and paying for it in advance. I'm glad we aren't a rule following family because that would have ruined their day.

 

[The Ozzman]

Battery fucking died in my car and had to get it replaced this morning. 139 dollars poorer now.

Got almost 5 years out of the battery though.

 

[Dak]

Battery fucking died in my car and had to get it replaced this morning. 139 dollars poorer now.

Got almost 5 years out of the battery though.

I just had to get new tires. Fuckmywallet.

 

[The Ozzman]

I just had to get new tires. Fuckmywallet.

I hate how necessary cars are for where I live. If I didn't need one I wouldn't own one tbh. The older I get the more irritated I get with them.

 

[Einherjar86]

They're a pain and a hazard. Wider coverage in public transport would be ideal, but the automotive industry definitely wouldn't like that.

#GMstreetcar_conspiracy

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'm about to start relearning to drive after bailing on it for financial reasons several years ago. public transport is widespread here but fuck if i never take a bus again for as long as i live it'll still be too soon.

 

[Einherjar86]

In the interest of full disclosure, I also hate riding the bus. But I hate driving around the city more.

I'll walk fifteen minutes to catch the train to avoid taking the bus, usually.

 

[CiG]

Driving in the city is terrible.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Try a German city with poor public transportation and infrastructure for cars. I never thought that showing up to work/school with soaking wet pants would be a socially acceptable thing to have happen weekly/sometimes every day of the week. Münster has taught me that there is an even lower low to commuting.

edit: I will say though, the stark contrast between normal weather and weather which occasionally includes the sun makes sunny days here unworldly beautiful.

 

[Dak]

Driving in a large city certainly isn't pleasant, but most if not all forms of commuting in a large city are not pleasant. I wouldn't want to live in a place where it was impractical to own a car.

 

[CiG]

I'm the total opposite, if I didn't have to drive I simply wouldn't own a car at all. As it stands, if I ever end up retiring from being a private contractor and go back to working with the plebs in retail (I'd like to work in a hobby store tbh) I'll immediately sell off my work car.

 

[Dak]

I'm the total opposite, if I didn't have to drive I simply wouldn't own a car at all. As it stands, if I ever end up retiring from being a private contractor and go back to working with the plebs in retail (I'd like to work in a hobby store tbh) I'll immediately sell off my work car.

Well it's not like I look for an excuse to drive all the time. I do as much walking as I can. Hobby shops are great but I wouldn't want to work around my hobbies. I like to keep my work and hobby worlds apart.

 

[CiG]

If I have to sell my irreplaceable time to a business for a wage, I'd prefer to be around things that give me some enjoyment and supplement in life. I've worked in a hobby store before as well as a few record stores and I always enjoyed it more than when I worked in random places that held no interest for me.

I probably wouldn't work in a literal Games Workshop store though, the shitty quality of customer would likely drive me insane eventually.

Well it's not like I look for an excuse to drive all the time. I do as much walking as I can.

My bad, I wasn't implying anything to do with laziness, I just mean I prefer to be able to sit on a bus or a train and do some reading or mess around on the Internet/handheld video games.

 

[Dak]

If I have to sell my irreplaceable time to a business for a wage, I'd prefer to be around things that give me some enjoyment and supplement in life. I've worked in a hobby store before as well as a few record stores and I always enjoyed it more than when I worked in random places that held no interest for me.

I probably wouldn't work in a literal Games Workshop store though, the shitty quality of customer would likely drive me insane eventually.

I'm curious as to your experience of GW store customers. You mean the smell or what? I'd imagine hobby stores and record stores to not be much better.

 

[Funerary_Doom]

I'm still learning how to drive, and I'm not bad. However, I like to space out a lot and my memory is a little fucked. I remember things like photos, so everything is still. Though I remember little small ridiculous details it's hard for me to take things in for the first time. This actually makes me pretty terrible with directions going to new places. I don't really like buses either. I like being able to take the train and just walk to where I need to be.

Though I like being in cars and even love the smell of cars, I can already tell it'd be a pain in the ass actually having to depend on one. Thankfully I don't need to. One less expense.

 

[CiG]

I'm curious as to your experience of GW store customers. You mean the smell or what? I'd imagine hobby stores and record stores to not be much better.

General hobby stores tend to attract a lot of conservative types and old people. Buying bits and bobs for their train sets, miniature cities, military replicas models, roleplaying games, big jigsaw puzzles etc. The place I worked at was in the same city area as a proper GW so even though we stocked some GW stuff we didn't get a lot of those customers, we had other tabletop gaming stuff though but it didn't draw a lot of people in.

GW customers are usually just autistic as fuck, annoying, demanding, impatient etc. Not really smelly in my experience, I guess because the store is so specific and niche that the customers are deep into the fandom to the point of just being total assholes about everything and also very entitled.

Record shops are the total opposite of smelly. Most smelly basement-dwelling nerd types just DL music, with those shops you mostly get old collectors, young hipsters and in my area a lot of hip hop culture types coming in to buy instrumental records for DJing.

The only thing that got really annoying in the record stores is having to answer the same question 100 times a day about some new album that is due out.

 

[Dak]

GW customers are usually just autistic as fuck, annoying, demanding, impatient etc. Not really smelly in my experience, I guess because the store is so specific and niche that the customers are deep into the fandom to the point of just being total assholes about everything and also very entitled.

lol. Yeah I spent around 20 mins in a GW store shortly after Xmas and the ratio of normal to smelly/odd was super skewed. TBF, it's not a GW exclusive issue. DnD and Magic have it too.

 

[CiG]

lol. Yeah I spent around 20 mins in a GW store shortly after Xmas and the ratio of normal to smelly/odd was super skewed. TBF, it's not a GW exclusive issue. DnD and Magic have it too.

I've definitely met stank ass tabletoppers don't get me wrong lmao. It could be a demographic thing here vs. there of course. Card gamers are always the absolute worst for BO in my experience.

Basements aren't really a thing in Australia.

 

[no country for old wainds]

I'm still learning how to drive, and I'm not bad. However, I like to space out a lot and my memory is a little fucked. I remember things like photos, so everything is still. Though I remember little small ridiculous details it's hard for me to take things in for the first time. This actually makes me pretty terrible with directions going to new places. I don't really like buses either. I like being able to take the train and just walk to where I need to be.

Though I like being in cars and even love the smell of cars, I can already tell it'd be a pain in the ass actually having to depend on one. Thankfully I don't need to. One less expense.

i have a dreadful sense of direction. i can live in a place for years and still struggle to find my way around. it's a problem for video games too lol

 

[Einherjar86]

That used to be a huge problem for me as well. Total 180 from my father and older brother, both of whom traveled a lot for sales calls. It took moving to a big city for me to develop a sense of (literal) direction.