The Whining and Bitching Thread

[no country for old wainds]

my grandad had parkinson's which got pretty similar to dementia toward the end. not fun. he tried to get us all to convert to jehova's witnesses (because those fuckers ambushed him in the hospital, as is their wont) and then felt abandoned when we didn't

also a couple years before that he reapplied for his driving license just to see if they'd grant it, and they did, even though he straight up told them he'd lost control of his legs. no wonder there are so many shitty drivers in this country.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Picked up my wagon from my mechanic on Friday night after he had it for almost 2 months. I stupidly told him I wasn’t in a hurry to get it back because we needed the garage space for a week in January. I ended up having to hassle the shit out of him to get it back and not only has he not done the work he said he would (replacing ball joints, fixing the brakes, fixing some leaks), but now it blows big clouds of smoke out of the exhaust every few minutes. It’s never blown smoke before. The brakes were a bit spongey before and he was supposed to fix them but he hasn’t and now I can push the pedal all the way to the floor and the car doesn’t stop.
I’ve been going to this guy for about five years with all my other cars and he’s been the best mechanic I’ve ever had but this is the first time I’ve taken the wagon to him. I asked him before I took it to him if he was good to work on it as it’s and old V8 car and he assured me it’d be fine. I’m so fucking angry and I have no idea what move to make next apart from not paying him a cent and yelling at him a lot.

 

[Dak]

Yelling usually makes most things better.

 

[PrincessHades]

Someoene hit me with their keys. I pushed them. Apparently I'm wrong...

 

[Satanstoenail]

Yelling usually makes most things better.

I spoke to him and managed to not yell but found it extremely difficult to keep my cool. He claims to not know anything about the car blowing smoke even though he drove it to put gas in it the day I picked it up. He doesn’t understand why I’m upset and was completely unapologetic. He wants me to bring the car back in on Thursday but I’ll try to find a new mechanic in the meantime.

 

[The Ozzman]

Yelling usually makes most things better.

Ask anyone who has ever worked in customer service, amirite?!

 

[PrincessHades]

I'm sick and tired of virus notifications on my phone. I keep getting this one that starts speakimg in some foreign language. It starts with "vaga..." and I have no clue what the rest of it says. It scares the hell out of me and I started getting paranoid about it randomly happening while I was sleeping last night.

 

[no country for old wainds]

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[zabu of nΩd]

I'm sick and tired of virus notifications on my phone. I keep getting this one that starts speakimg in some foreign language. It starts with "vaga..." and I have no clue what the rest of it says. It scares the hell out of me and I started getting paranoid about it randomly happening while I was sleeping last night.

Disable notifications, uninstall a bad app, or just factory reset that shit

 

[PrincessHades]

I'm on my school band trip to NYC. This fucking sucks. Garbage, human and inanimate everywhere. Right now we are watching some bullshit Aladdin play at Broadway. Its three fucking hours of sitting in a crowd. Fuck this shit.

 

[Dak]

Garbage, human and inanimate everywhere. Right now we are watching some bullshit Aladdin play at Broadway.

The blights of urbanity.

 

[Onder]

This pube gets to go to New York with his school and complains. The edge on kids nowadays.

 

[Dak]

This pube gets to go to New York with his school and complains. The edge on kids nowadays.

I don't see the edge. Large urban centers are generally sores on the earth.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

I don't see the edge.

Story of your life.

 

[Dak]

Story of your life.

s1ck bU4n

 

[Einherjar86]

I don't see the edge. Large urban centers are generally sores on the earth.

I'll take the sores, thanks gramps.

 

[Dak]

I'll take the sores, thanks gramps.

http://www.newamericanagent.com/growth-of-the-urban-baby-boomer-how-cities

Does not compute. It's the elderly increasingly congregating in cities (partially demographically driven). Millennials are beginning to head for the 'burbs (partially age driven). Bottom line is no one needs the city like the infirm or soon to be. Also no surprise Boomers are keen on the large scale dirty Skinner boxes that cities are.

 

[Einherjar86]

Millennials are moving to suburban areas with easy access to urban centers--i.e. they're still living in greater metropolitan areas. I guarantee that most millennials will tell you they prefer living in or near urban centers. The fact that cities attract older people as well doesn't mean they repel young people.

I called you "gramps" because most able-bodied old people still stick to rural areas. And because you say things like "does not compute."

 

[PrincessHades]

Actually I quite enjoyed the play. It was funny as fuck and the actor who played the genie was great.

I don't like eating in public and I ended up not eating anything but protien bars and after dinner mints so my stomach was hurting the entire time. That's why I was whining and bitching about it. Social anxiety fucking sucks, I need to kick it.

I don't take back what I said about NYC though. Sure, there are some good aspects (some cool people, good food that we never got to try, and lots of cool stores) but you can't get around the garbage in the streets. Every fucking sidewalk has trash piles in it, and there are people walking around trying to sell stolen watches.

This pube gets to go to New York with his school and complains. The edge on kids nowadays.

Stop throwing around words like "edge" and "pube" just to start argumemts.

 

[Dak]

Millennials are moving to suburban areas with easy access to urban centers--i.e. they're still living in greater metropolitan areas. I guarantee that most millennials will tell you they prefer living in or near urban centers. The fact that cities attract older people as well doesn't mean they repel young people.

https://grist.org/cities/just-becau...moving-to-the-burbs-doesnt-mean-they-like-it/

A poll taken in 2014 by TransitCenter, a pro–public transit nonprofit, found that 32 percent of Americans younger than 30 say their ideal neighborhood is in a city, versus 16 percent of people 30 and older.
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If you ask young parents why they have left a star city for its suburbs, or for a cheaper Sun Belt region, you won’t hear most of them say “because I wanted to shop at strip malls and big box stores” or “because I love driving everywhere.” There’s nothing about having kids that necessarily changes your aesthetic and lifestyle preferences that much. What having kids does mean, though, is that you need more living space and are more apt to worry about crime and schools. Many young parents who love city living simply find that the urban neighborhoods they prefer are too expensive, seem too dangerous for kids, are served by underperforming schools, or otherwise feel unsuitable for raising a family.

Maybe not most, but a lot. Part of that is jobs and internet access. There aren't well paying jobs in rural areas and internet access is poor quality. The suburbs allow access to jobs and internet while preserving better spaces for those having children. Suburbs provide the (partial) service and goods access of larger urbanity combined with (partial) environmental quality (air/noise/ground) and greenery of rural areas. The urban environment is horrible for young children, and frankly not very good for humans in general insofar as the research holds.

I called you "gramps" because most able-bodied old people still stick to rural areas. And because you say things like "does not compute."

I hope one day I meet an old person who has "compute" in their lexicon, and of course eventually I'll be that person. My program necessitates that I spend my time mostly around either undergrads or the upper-middle-aged/elderly, and the latter are a much better group of people, so it doesn't bother me being lumped in with them.