Ouch! A few years ago when this tablet was new it slipped off the table and I interposed my foot so it wouldn’t hit the floor. Bad move, it landed corner first and broke my second toe. Glad your digits survived the encounter intact!
@moondrake
I moved about 7 years ago? Blithely did it myself as usual. And dropped a heavy tabletop on both my big toes simultaneously.
There was lots more swearing that day. Lots.
Both toes were not broken, but quite painful for several weeks, black and blue. And I lost both toenails. Took more than a year to have proper toenails again.
I know broken toes hurt like you wouldn’t believe. Sorry you had that not-fun experience trying to save a tablet.
Couldn’t find my nighttime driving glasses. Which i do not need but the State of Texas makes me wear while driving in order to torment me.
Where the fuck had I put them? Usually I’m good about putting them away properly. Looked for 20 min, getting more and more po’d about having to go to Costco and re-order. Finally got out the backup set and went out of the car.
@f00l I do not wear mine despite the State’s requirement that I do. I see better without them at night as I have very poor depth perception and the lens in front of me makes it worse. I keep them on the console in case I get stopped. I do wear prescription sunglasses during the day, I need sunglasses anyway so the lenses may as well be prescription. My optometrist wants me to retake the test at the DMV as my distance vision is well within acceptable range. It’s just those danged lightboxes they use instead of real world vision tests.
@pitamuffin I get one serious pair of bifocals annually through my optical insurance, and buy any needed prescription sunglasses or night driving glasses on goggles4you.com for about 10 or $12 a pair. I’ve never been dissatisfied with their product. But I have never gotten bifocals from them so I don’t know how they would do on a more complex order.
@moondrake In Kansas, there is a form that can be filled out by your eye doc in place of taking the test at the DMV. It has saved me many a hassle (re flunking) the eye test at the DMV.
@RiotDemon yes, sorry. Sign up for their mailing list and they’ll send you great coupons regularly. Their cheapest frames are very lightweight, like the sunglasses at Dollar Tree, but for me that’s a plus, no headache from heavy glasses. I’ve only managed to break one pair, my favorites, leaning over a tall Costco shopping cart I broke them right in the middle against the handle. This was Monday’s special. I think it’s still active. Plus there’s 30% off on the rest of the site (non-stackable) with coupon code 30off.
@moondrake@f00l I don’t get how they are so cheap. Luckily I have really really good vision insurance. My $750+ glasses cost me $10. They have all the bells and whistles though. Anti glare, anti scratch, transitions, polycarbonate, etc.
I’m definitely going to keep this website in mind when talking to people that need inexpensive glasses or if I just want to try a totally different style for a costume or whatever. I wonder if they adjust for astigmatism.
These online places supposedly can fill any prescription that isn’t highly unusual. I intend to order a backup set or two in case something happens to the Costco glasses.
And I think I want some for high-impact. I am right handed so if I were to shoot a rifle I would be sighting thru the right eye. Which is a wee bit nearsighted. So I need specs for that.
You just need a copy of your standard prescription plus you need more info - something called I think “pupillary distance”? That’s so the they can do the correction on the lenses correctly for your face and eyes? Your optician or normal eyeglasses place can get you that measurement.
They may want other info too. Dunno. Their FAQ will say.
@f00l They have tools on the website for pupillary distance. I’ve needed nothing other than my prescription. Their chat is very helpful for anything you don’t understand. BTW, their dark lens tint is quite dark, much darker than I was able to get from other sources.
i rolled over my big toenail with the fridge. the swearing was immense. on the plus side, i got to tell the boy a dinosaur stepped on my toe. his response, “did the dinosaur say sorry or was he a bad guy dinosaur?”
story #2: when i worked in the ER, i walked in at 7am and there were already patients on gurneys on the hall. knew that day was going to be hell. this one ortho doc kept calling wanting to talk to one of the ER docs. i told him we were pretty busy and he might be on hold for bit. so, he stays on hold for about a minute and he hangs up and calls back. i do the same thing. he does the same thing. this happens a couple more times. finally, i lose it and tell him “hold the FUCK on!!”. he gets real quiet for a couple seconds and says “maybe i’ll call back later”. yeah, good idea.
These all seem like perfectly reasonable and judicious swearing excuses.
I tell our kids, using swearing as punctuation ruins its effectiveness. Especially at alleviating personal pain.
And that I won’t get bent out of shape about them doing so on a limited basis as long as the swearing is not directed as a personal attack like “You fuckhead!”
Am I a bad parent?
Disclosures: - The remaining dependents are teens. - My spouse is not so accepting (not so resigned?) of this behavior.
@RedOak I let my kids drop a swear word occasionally. As long as they don’t forget how to express themselves without using them, I don’t see the harm. They’re just words. And, like you said, as long as they’re not directed at someone (and tastefully used), it’s okay.
They completely understand that not all adults (or children) share my feelings, and know when it is and when it isn’t okay
@f00l Yes, I should have written that. I advise them about a lot of things - that not everyone has the same standards or lack of standards and you never know who is listening… or watching.
But one of my favorite bits of advice for them - “you can judge a person’s character, not by how they treat those who can do something for them, but rather how they treat those who can do nothing for them.”
When my son was about 18 months old, I was building a deck on the back of our house. I took him to Lowe’s with me to pick up lumber and of course, he wanted to ride on the big blue lumber cart. So, we’re going through the store with a lumber cart full of wood at a steady pace and he decides to jump off the front. I grabbed the cart with both hands to stop it, but it weighed around 1200 lbs and took a little more to stop than just that. I stuck one foot out in front of me and pulled. It went under the cart and the large metal wheel rolled over my left big toe. I let out a string of words that brought total silence to the entire store. My son was okay, so all was good in the end, but my toenail took about a year to grow back. I no longer wear flipflops when I go to Lowe’s
Mom’s dog, Lady, decided to attack the Mastiff therapy dog, who was visiting the nursing home today. Lady told the dog that this is her turf and to stay away. What Lady doesn’t realize is that one small bite, and bye bye Lady. -sigh-
@Barney Oh no! Did she actually connect? If she didn’t draw blood you may be able to get a reprieve. But that’s liable to be an ongoing problem if the mastiff is working that facility. Due to his aggression Simba can’t be assigned as a therapy dog anywhere with other dogs present.
@moondrake Nah, she just snapped once and kept growling every time the dog came into the room. I don’t blame her for being so possessive, though, she’s lost so much in her little life. She was twice taken back to the humane society after adoptions. And then Mom adopts her and has basically dropped out of her life. Poor thing probably feels like she might lose me, too, so she’s going to fight for what she has.
She has not been expelled from the nursing home. They understand what everyone’s going through.
@baqui63 It should be a lot fucking better this morning since I put my fucking hands in fucking hot water and all of the fucking ice melted off of them and they’re finally warming up.
Working the fucking faucet handles with my fucking face was fucking tough, but I got it done.
Thank you for your fucking concern. I fucking appreciate it.
@f00l did you have to? did you really have to go there? I’m a delicate flower, I don’t do cold. I’m the one who told my husband decades ago when he started pining for the colder climes that he’d be going without me.
Now, he gets cold, too, and he’s glad he didn’t move.
Seriously, my fingers get so cold I can’t bend them. Before I got married and I worked in a two story office, the boss kept the thermostat low in the winter, since heat rises and his office was upstairs. I couldn’t even type (and that was my job). I wore heavy sweaters and mittens. One morning he came in and asked “is it really that cold down here?”
@f00l In my youth, I’d put the top down on my '66 Mustang, crank up the heat and the music and head for the mountains were there were feet of snow. I can’t even imagine doing that now.
I guess one of the problems is that I’m not used to it now. We’ve been in drought for almost ten years and the winters have been incredibly mild.
Temperatures in the nineties have been fairly common in December, January and February during this time. This year, that’s changed. I really like the rain, our trees need it (we had to do another cut back on the pine trees since they hadn’t been getting watered enough and the beetles attacked them, a lot of dead on the top). Our water usage was up 98% from last year at this time because tree watering. And I’m hoping our avocado trees give us more than just five fruits this year (they’re young trees).
We have a series of storms hitting now, the first of three started this morning. By the time next week gets here, we may have received five inches of rain. That’s just crazy. It will put us over the average for a year (the year ends at the end of June).
Oh, and I am by no means a “delicate flower”. I just like to tell people that. People who know me would NEVER use that phrase to describe me. I was just givin’ ya a bad time.
Ouch! A few years ago when this tablet was new it slipped off the table and I interposed my foot so it wouldn’t hit the floor. Bad move, it landed corner first and broke my second toe. Glad your digits survived the encounter intact!
@moondrake
I moved about 7 years ago? Blithely did it myself as usual. And dropped a heavy tabletop on both my big toes simultaneously.
There was lots more swearing that day. Lots.
Both toes were not broken, but quite painful for several weeks, black and blue. And I lost both toenails. Took more than a year to have proper toenails again.
I know broken toes hurt like you wouldn’t believe. Sorry you had that not-fun experience trying to save a tablet.
@f00l yikes!
My other fun moment this morning;
Couldn’t find my nighttime driving glasses. Which i do not need but the State of Texas makes me wear while driving in order to torment me.
Where the fuck had I put them? Usually I’m good about putting them away properly. Looked for 20 min, getting more and more po’d about having to go to Costco and re-order. Finally got out the backup set and went out of the car.
There they were.
Fuckers.
@f00l I do not wear mine despite the State’s requirement that I do. I see better without them at night as I have very poor depth perception and the lens in front of me makes it worse. I keep them on the console in case I get stopped. I do wear prescription sunglasses during the day, I need sunglasses anyway so the lenses may as well be prescription. My optometrist wants me to retake the test at the DMV as my distance vision is well within acceptable range. It’s just those danged lightboxes they use instead of real world vision tests.
@moondrake
I’m tempted to do that. So far I’ve been good.
@f00l How is Costco for getting glasses? I need new ones and hate thinking about the whole process.
@pitamuffin
You can get better prices on the internet, but I think you can’t count on that quality.
I intend to purchase some backups on the net tho. Perhaps sports unbreakable ones.
Costco is great. And very inexpensive for the service and quality. I got 2 pr for about $425 I think? Perhaps less. Can’t remember.
They have fewer frames than dedicated places have, and the glasses take 1 week to 10 days.
@pitamuffin I get one serious pair of bifocals annually through my optical insurance, and buy any needed prescription sunglasses or night driving glasses on goggles4you.com for about 10 or $12 a pair. I’ve never been dissatisfied with their product. But I have never gotten bifocals from them so I don’t know how they would do on a more complex order.
@moondrake is it goggles4u.com?
@moondrake In Kansas, there is a form that can be filled out by your eye doc in place of taking the test at the DMV. It has saved me many a hassle (re flunking) the eye test at the DMV.
@RiotDemon
That’s one of the best known internet sources. The other seems to be
Zennioptical.com.
I would read threads on Slickdeals before I placed an order. Also run a coupon search.
@RiotDemon yes, sorry. Sign up for their mailing list and they’ll send you great coupons regularly. Their cheapest frames are very lightweight, like the sunglasses at Dollar Tree, but for me that’s a plus, no headache from heavy glasses. I’ve only managed to break one pair, my favorites, leaning over a tall Costco shopping cart I broke them right in the middle against the handle. This was Monday’s special. I think it’s still active. Plus there’s 30% off on the rest of the site (non-stackable) with coupon code 30off.
@moondrake @f00l I don’t get how they are so cheap. Luckily I have really really good vision insurance. My $750+ glasses cost me $10. They have all the bells and whistles though. Anti glare, anti scratch, transitions, polycarbonate, etc.
I’m definitely going to keep this website in mind when talking to people that need inexpensive glasses or if I just want to try a totally different style for a costume or whatever. I wonder if they adjust for astigmatism.
@RiotDemon
These online places supposedly can fill any prescription that isn’t highly unusual. I intend to order a backup set or two in case something happens to the Costco glasses.
And I think I want some for high-impact. I am right handed so if I were to shoot a rifle I would be sighting thru the right eye. Which is a wee bit nearsighted. So I need specs for that.
You just need a copy of your standard prescription plus you need more info - something called I think “pupillary distance”? That’s so the they can do the correction on the lenses correctly for your face and eyes? Your optician or normal eyeglasses place can get you that measurement.
They may want other info too. Dunno. Their FAQ will say.
@f00l They have tools on the website for pupillary distance. I’ve needed nothing other than my prescription. Their chat is very helpful for anything you don’t understand. BTW, their dark lens tint is quite dark, much darker than I was able to get from other sources.
i rolled over my big toenail with the fridge. the swearing was immense. on the plus side, i got to tell the boy a dinosaur stepped on my toe. his response, “did the dinosaur say sorry or was he a bad guy dinosaur?”
story #2: when i worked in the ER, i walked in at 7am and there were already patients on gurneys on the hall. knew that day was going to be hell. this one ortho doc kept calling wanting to talk to one of the ER docs. i told him we were pretty busy and he might be on hold for bit. so, he stays on hold for about a minute and he hangs up and calls back. i do the same thing. he does the same thing. this happens a couple more times. finally, i lose it and tell him “hold the FUCK on!!”. he gets real quiet for a couple seconds and says “maybe i’ll call back later”. yeah, good idea.
@carl669
Glad you lost it re orthodox doc. Sometimes you gotta.
PS. Bad Dinosaur!
@f00l yeah. most i’ve met are actually great people, but they think rather highly of themselves.
@carl669 Dinosaurs or docs?
@Barney both actually! but purple ones are the bestest.
@carl669 Aww… Hmm, you trying to sweet talk your way out of sending me your Meh wine?
@Barney dammit, did i say that? we’ll see how much is left after this weekend.
@carl669 Everyone here will testify that you were having a pretty good time that night.
@cranky1950 start watching at 4:43
@cranky1950 Extra star for finding this obscure Tom Hanks piece!
These all seem like perfectly reasonable and judicious swearing excuses.
I tell our kids, using swearing as punctuation ruins its effectiveness. Especially at alleviating personal pain.
And that I won’t get bent out of shape about them doing so on a limited basis as long as the swearing is not directed as a personal attack like “You fuckhead!”
Am I a bad parent?
Disclosures:
- The remaining dependents are teens.
- My spouse is not so accepting (not so resigned?) of this behavior.
@RedOak
As long as they learn that most places you can’t do that.
@RedOak I let my kids drop a swear word occasionally. As long as they don’t forget how to express themselves without using them, I don’t see the harm. They’re just words. And, like you said, as long as they’re not directed at someone (and tastefully used), it’s okay.
They completely understand that not all adults (or children) share my feelings, and know when it is and when it isn’t okay
@f00l Yes, I should have written that. I advise them about a lot of things - that not everyone has the same standards or lack of standards and you never know who is listening… or watching.
But one of my favorite bits of advice for them - “you can judge a person’s character, not by how they treat those who can do something for them, but rather how they treat those who can do nothing for them.”
When my son was about 18 months old, I was building a deck on the back of our house. I took him to Lowe’s with me to pick up lumber and of course, he wanted to ride on the big blue lumber cart. So, we’re going through the store with a lumber cart full of wood at a steady pace and he decides to jump off the front. I grabbed the cart with both hands to stop it, but it weighed around 1200 lbs and took a little more to stop than just that. I stuck one foot out in front of me and pulled. It went under the cart and the large metal wheel rolled over my left big toe. I let out a string of words that brought total silence to the entire store. My son was okay, so all was good in the end, but my toenail took about a year to grow back. I no longer wear flipflops when I go to Lowe’s
@capguncowboy bummer. Flipflops are otherwise good.
My third one this am. Ok this is about 1/3 of a swearword
We had Le Biblical Deluge Sunday afternoon/evening and I was out and about.
So today i realize that the 5 hour sky waterfall caused my left low-beam to burn out. Now gotta go get the bulb replaced today.
@f00l
Bought bulb. Guy couldn’t get the old one out. Gotta visit mechanic tomorrow. Sigh.
@f00l You have my kind of luck.
@f00l That kind of sounds like a sign off.
“Low beam out, keep it classy”
God damn mother fucking spam email from fucking shit cunt morningsave.com
@knrg You’ll live.
Mom’s dog, Lady, decided to attack the Mastiff therapy dog, who was visiting the nursing home today. Lady told the dog that this is her turf and to stay away. What Lady doesn’t realize is that one small bite, and bye bye Lady. -sigh-
@Barney Oh no! Did she actually connect? If she didn’t draw blood you may be able to get a reprieve. But that’s liable to be an ongoing problem if the mastiff is working that facility. Due to his aggression Simba can’t be assigned as a therapy dog anywhere with other dogs present.
@moondrake Nah, she just snapped once and kept growling every time the dog came into the room. I don’t blame her for being so possessive, though, she’s lost so much in her little life. She was twice taken back to the humane society after adoptions. And then Mom adopts her and has basically dropped out of her life. Poor thing probably feels like she might lose me, too, so she’s going to fight for what she has.
She has not been expelled from the nursing home. They understand what everyone’s going through.
@Barney For her safety you might want to crate or otherwise confine her during therapy visits. Better safe than sorry.
@moondrake Lady is always on a short leash tied to Mom’s wheelchair. As long as the other dog stays away we’re okay.
It’s fucking cold. My fucking fingers are so fucking cold I can’t fucking type worth a shit. The fucking heat is on and I’m fucking freezing.
@lisaviolet Hmmm… You fucking type pretty fucking well for someone who is unable to fucking type worth a shit. Or even a fucking shit.
I fucking guess I’d fucking hate to fucking see you fucking type fucking well.
@lisaviolet Maybe you need one of these:
/image arctic parka
@lisaviolet @barney I think this is more on point. Picked the purple ones just for Barney and Ms Violet.
https://smile.amazon.com/Lsgoodcare-Pattern-Fingerless-Heating-Knitting/dp/B016TLSHGC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1484792445&sr=8-5&keywords=Usb+warming+gloves
@moondrake Perfect!
@lisaviolet
I know you really actually feel cold. But others should know it’s San Diego cold, not N Dakota cold.
Hope you feel warm soon!
@lisaviolet I think you need either hot chocolate, or brandy.
Or both.
@moondrake Those would be awesome!
@baqui63 It should be a lot fucking better this morning since I put my fucking hands in fucking hot water and all of the fucking ice melted off of them and they’re finally warming up.
Working the fucking faucet handles with my fucking face was fucking tough, but I got it done.
Thank you for your fucking concern. I fucking appreciate it.
@compunaut Hot chocolate with baileys.
I’ll pour it on my hands.
@Barney Thank you! It’s my hands and nose that get so cold. The rest of me isn’t so bad.
@f00l did you have to? did you really have to go there? I’m a delicate flower, I don’t do cold. I’m the one who told my husband decades ago when he started pining for the colder climes that he’d be going without me.
Now, he gets cold, too, and he’s glad he didn’t move.
Seriously, my fingers get so cold I can’t bend them. Before I got married and I worked in a two story office, the boss kept the thermostat low in the winter, since heat rises and his office was upstairs. I couldn’t even type (and that was my job). I wore heavy sweaters and mittens. One morning he came in and asked “is it really that cold down here?”
A female chorus of YES came back to him.
@lisaviolet
Apologies. I just thought it was a little humorous that you were so cold. I sympathize. Don’t like cold nearly as well as I once did.
Once I thought it was fun! In my case perhaps youth was stupidity.
Hope you warm up soon.
@f00l In my youth, I’d put the top down on my '66 Mustang, crank up the heat and the music and head for the mountains were there were feet of snow. I can’t even imagine doing that now.
I guess one of the problems is that I’m not used to it now. We’ve been in drought for almost ten years and the winters have been incredibly mild.
Temperatures in the nineties have been fairly common in December, January and February during this time. This year, that’s changed. I really like the rain, our trees need it (we had to do another cut back on the pine trees since they hadn’t been getting watered enough and the beetles attacked them, a lot of dead on the top). Our water usage was up 98% from last year at this time because tree watering. And I’m hoping our avocado trees give us more than just five fruits this year (they’re young trees).
We have a series of storms hitting now, the first of three started this morning. By the time next week gets here, we may have received five inches of rain. That’s just crazy. It will put us over the average for a year (the year ends at the end of June).
Oh, and I am by no means a “delicate flower”. I just like to tell people that. People who know me would NEVER use that phrase to describe me. I was just givin’ ya a bad time.
@lisaviolet
Suspected as much.
Crafting, creative, sweet exterior personality covering a soul of steel, right?
@lisaviolet
/image steel flower
@lisaviolet I’m fucking glad your fucking hands (and fucking nose too, I fucking hope) are feeling fucking warmer.
@baqui63 Fucking thanks.
Apologies if it has been mentioned, but swearing reduces pain… reduces stress… and is a sign of an honest person…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-do-we-swear/
http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/05/14/37426/let-the-f-bombs-drop-science-says-swearing-is-good/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117105107.htm