The Summer 2015 Anti-Chuff Thread

[pbj]

Oh, and someone tore down the shower curtain and my friend pissed himself passed out on the guest bed.

So this morning the dryer repair got escalated.

 

[jennifer]

   It"s probably that nasty wine you make... Makes people crazy like a  house rat.

[eds1275]

I have been reaaaaaly wasted before but I cannot imagine how far you would have to go to pis yourself sleeping.

[pbj]

I have been reaaaaaly wasted before but I cannot imagine how far you would have to go to pis yourself sleeping.

We've been comparing notes and I think he slipped in the bathroom, grabbed the curtain, and did the deed face down in my bathtub.

 

[Generic Eric]

Lucky Bucket "Certified Evil" tastes like Leinenkugel's "Creamy Dark."


That isn't evil at all!  I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't Creamy Dark, that is for sure!

[Howard_Casto]

Evil tastes like sweat and disappointment..... at least that's been my experience.

[Generic Eric]

Evil tastes like sweat and disappointment..... at least that's been my experience.

I guess I expected more hopps, or at least some exotic spices.

[BadMouth]

Lucky Bucket "Certified Evil" tastes like Leinenkugel's "Creamy Dark."


That isn't evil at all!  I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't Creamy Dark, that is for sure!

Had one of these over the weekend.  It was alright.  Just alright.

[pbj]

I've just about hit my limit on "whimsical" craft beers.  I've thoroughly enjoyed this fad and have had many delightful brews... but it's done.  Time to put away the clip clop double bock triple ipa cider and go back to Shiner for a few years.

[harveybirdman]

I don't drink a ton of beers in one setting any more, therefore I have become enamored with Belgians

St Bernardus Apt 19 and Tripel are my favorites....

The Anti-Chuff?  Their price... Ouch!

[pbj]

I had an Atwater Cherry Stout a few weeks ago.  Thought it was one of the best things I ever tasted. Had four of them.  Then I looked up the calories.  560 per pint.

[BadMouth]

I've just about hit my limit on "whimsical" craft beers.  I've thoroughly enjoyed this fad and have had many delightful brews... but it's done.  Time to put away the clip clop double bock triple ipa cider and go back to Shiner for a few years.

Yeah, the whole IPA thing is over around there thankfully.  The place close to my house makes very drinkable stuff.
I drive new bartenders crazy by ordering stuff by what it actually is.
"I'll have a wheat beer and the chicken sandwich"
They go to the POS machine, don't see anything labeled "chicken sandwich" and then look at the menu.
Hardly any of the goofy names make enough of a reference to the actual food that you could figure it out.

The area where I live is so saturated with micro-brews that I view the beer no differently than anything else on the menu.
It's no different than two places selling cheeseburgers.  One might be better than the other, but really it's just a cheeseburger.
If I'm in the mood for a cheeseburger, I can get one at either place.  I'm not ordering one based on it having a clever name.

EDIT:  The beer pictured above was brought to me by a friend who absolutely buys beer based on clever names.
The last thing he brought me was some kind of "walking dead" beer.

[dkersten]

I've just about hit my limit on "whimsical" craft beers.  I've thoroughly enjoyed this fad and have had many delightful brews... but it's done.  Time to put away the clip clop double bock triple ipa cider and go back to Shiner for a few years.

Craft beers becoming too "mainstream" for you?  You loved it when only you and a handful of others knew about it, but now that everyone's doing it, it's "so yesterday".. ?
 

[yotsuya]

I've just about hit my limit on "whimsical" craft beers.  I've thoroughly enjoyed this fad and have had many delightful brews... but it's done.  Time to put away the clip clop double bock triple ipa cider and go back to Shiner for a few years.

Craft beers becoming too "mainstream" for you?  You loved it when only you and a handful of others knew about it, but now that everyone's doing it, it's "so yesterday".. ?
 

He's out-hipster'd himself!

[pbj]

I have accepted the fact I am a bona fide hipster and come to peace with it long ago. 

After 10 years of craft beers, I'd just like some regular stuff for a change.  I was in a total dump of a bar last week and the taps were Bud Light, Miller Light, and Sam Adams Rebel IPA.  I mean, wtf.  What do you even do with that.  That's "never mind, I'd rather have some water" territory.

The craze will end, the market will normalize.  Remnants of the improved tastes and enhanced selections will remain.  We're all better off for the experience.  Don't worry, your grubby flyover town will be right there with me in 3-4 years.

[BadMouth]

I went to see a friend fill in with a different band on Saturday night.
Got $60 out of the ATM for the evening.
$2 cover, drank $2 miller lite pounders, got a couple 2/$1 hot dogs on the way home.
When I get home, I'm shocked to discover that I still have $46 in my wallet.

This made me reflect on my $35-60 evenings at the brew pub, but the thought passed quickly.

[Slippyblade]

I went to see a friend fill in with a different band on Saturday night.
Got $60 out of the ATM for the evening.
$2 cover, drank $2 miller lite pounders, got a couple 2/$1 hot dogs on the way home.
When I get home, I'm shocked to discover that I still have $46 in my wallet.

This made me reflect on my $35-60 evenings at the brew pub, but the thought passed quickly.

Wow - that's hella cheap for a night at the pub.  Kinda jealous.

[dkersten]

As the summer comes to a close, one final "F U" from the Anti Chuff dept.  It got chilly the other night, so I fired up my furnace.  I replaced it about 8 years ago, although it feels like a year or two ago.  To me it's still my "new" furnace.  It came on, then turned right off and then the air blew cold for a few minutes. 

So I called a local HVAC guy and of course he wanted $150 to come out on a weekend.  He figured it was the flame sensor, and sure enough, the flame sensor read bad.  He cleaned it up and it was metering perfectly, except it was still only running the gas for about 5 seconds before stopping.  After a half hour of tinkering he announced the control board was bad on it.  Of course, they didn't have one in stock, so I ended up having to wait until Monday anyway.... So much for the $150 weekend service call.

So the board is $457.  I already owe $150 and now it will cost more to install it.  The guy who called me actually said maybe it's time for a new furnace... WTF!!  I mean, sure, it is older than I think, but my last one was 30 years old when I replaced it.  "Well," he says, "You are already a quarter the way to a new furnace with repairs..." FFS, this should be under warranty still, and I'll be damned if I'm going to replace the whole thing again! 

Am I just getting old and feeling the years slipping past too fast?  I seriously feel like this thing was installed just a couple years ago, maybe 5, but even so why do I feel like a $6500 furnace and AC should still be practically brand new after only 8 or 9 years? 

And WTF is with all my damned appliances failing suddenly?  Last year it was cars.. 2 engines and a transmission along with a dozen other repairs that totaled well over $10k.  This year I'm somehow replacing appliances that aren't that old.  Granted, aside from the fridge I am replacing the rest just to match, but damn, first the fridge, then the water line, then the furnace....

Yesterday me and my son and my girlfriend walked through the house and I explained all the things I WANT to do in each room.  It took over two hours just to go through each room and point out what projects I had in mind.  I am sure it will be around $30k to do them all, which is why they have been projects on the back burner for ten years.  Thing is, most of the stuff I did 10 years ago is already needing a refresh.  And this is all if I do it myself, if I hire it out, which I might have to since my back is getting so bad, it would be twice as much or more. 

I start to see why people want to buy new construction homes that are completely move in ready, even if it means being in a townhouse or duplex with a hundred square feet for lawn and your neighbor's window seven feet from yours.  I can't even imagine what it is like owning an older home if you aren't handy and in good health.  I suppose that is why you find so many houses on the market that are just dumps and need more work than the house is worth to make habitable.

Anyway, I almost made it out of Summer without another blow, but the Naff caught me at the last second. 

[eds1275]

Do you do the yearly maintenance on your furnace? Change the filters as required etc? If it's just a "control board" isn't that usually a circuit board with a few ribbon cables coming off of it? It might be something you can do yourself.

[BadMouth]

Was considering replacing my 30 year old furnace which still works fine.
You've convinced me not to fix what isn't broke.

[dkersten]

Yeah, I do the maintenance.  It's easy to swap but I already paid for the guy to be there on Saturday, so the $30 more dollars for him to come out and swap it in isn't a big deal.  Plus if the board doesn't work, this way I'm not liable for buying it.  It's always good to have someone you can point the finger at and say "He did it."

I might see if I can get a hold of the guy who installed the thing originally.  He can get the board at a discount and even put it in, but I will still owe the $150 for having a guy show up and not do anything.

[pbj]

That guy that "didn't do anything" also wasn't able to go do something else while he was dealing with your walking catastrophe ass.

[dkersten]

That guy that "didn't do anything" also wasn't able to go do something else while he was dealing with your walking catastrophe ass.

I agreed to pay the $150 for him to drive to my house, spend 5 minutes testing then cleaning the flame sensor before declaring it wasn't the problem, then another 10 minutes staring at the control board before calling his boss and asking a couple questions then telling me he couldn't fix it and he would call back on Monday.  If they charge me the full amount, I will pay it, but I won't be happy about it.

BTW, the $457 part costs $125.  I had the guy who sold and installed the furnace check on it and he will have the part here tomorrow.  The downside is if the $150 diagnosis is wrong I am stuck with a $125 board I don't need and still have to fix it.  The upside is there is only 4 parts that can really go bad on these, one is the igniter and one is the valve, both work fine.  The third is the flame sensor, and that costs about $20, so worst case scenario the guy who charged me $150 to come by on a Saturday morning got his diagnosis completely wrong and it will STILL cost me 70% less than it would have to have him fix it. 

[yotsuya]

As the summer comes to a close, one final "F U" from the Anti Chuff dept.  It got chilly the other night, so I fired up my furnace. 

Furnace? We'll still be running our AC until the end of October here....

[dkersten]

As the summer comes to a close, one final "F U" from the Anti Chuff dept.  It got chilly the other night, so I fired up my furnace. 

Furnace? We'll still be running our AC until the end of October here....

was getting down to 45 degrees on Thursday and Friday.. Back up to 80 today, but this is Montana, it could snow tonight and be -30 tomorrow, lol. 

Friday morning it was about 55 down in my basement, and that was just chilly enough to turn the heater on.  Glad I did though, would suck if I waited until the first freeze and then found I had no heat.  If it had been that cold, that HVAC place would have charged me $1500 and then told me I have a leak in the heat exchanger and insisted I replace it..  lol.

[Howard_Casto]

It's still pretty hot here.  I wore shorts today at least. 

The old furnaces work better and last longer... definitely don't replace it until it breaks.  We got an industrial unit from my grandmaw's house and it doesn't heat/cool as well as the old one did and it was half busted!

So I got the dash on my car halfway presentable and I was ready to take the car to paint.... now the speedo dies and the door buzzer is coming on when you turn the lights on.  Ugh...old cars.

[BadMouth]

I was informed today that my bosses have sold the company and new owners are taking over next month.
Not sure if I'm chuffed or anti-chuffed since I hate my job anyway. 
I'd always hoped they'd just close up shop and I could collect unemployment for a while.

I'm anti-chuffed at the moment because I got the structural issues on my house taken care of just yesterday, and I was getting ready utilize a personal line of credit to remodel the bathroom which is already halfway gutted. 
Now I'm not so sure I want that extra debt/payment.

At the moment, the feeling I have is that I'm going to tell the new bosses to go ---fudgesicle--- themselves over the terms of the employment agreement.

[Vigo]

I was informed today that my bosses have sold the company and new owners are taking over next month.
Not sure if I'm chuffed or anti-chuffed since I hate my job anyway. 
I'd always hoped they'd just close up shop and I could collect unemployment for a while.

Hope your goes better than mine, brother! My days at work have been nothing but filled with disaster lately.

[harveybirdman]

After 6 years in a leadership pseudo-supervisory role at a company I've been with for 12 years I have to go back to production Thursday in what feels a whole lot like a demotion.

Why didn't I become an engineer....  Oh yeah Physics....

[jennifer]

After 6 years in a leadership pseudo-supervisory role at a company I've been with for 12 years I have to go back to production Thursday in what feels a whole lot like a demotion.

Why didn't I become an engineer....  Oh yeah Physics....

Most likely your co/workers will try to get their collective revenge now that your one of them again.... I would consider a new job.

[yotsuya]

After 6 years in a leadership pseudo-supervisory role at a company I've been with for 12 years I have to go back to production Thursday in what feels a whole lot like a demotion.

Why didn't I become an engineer....  Oh yeah Physics....

Most likely your co/workers will try to get their collective revenge now that your one of them again.... I would consider a new job.

You're assuming he was an ---uvula--- to his coworkers when he was "supervising" them.

[harveybirdman]

I see what the jennifer means, but  they all love me... probably why I'm not the best leader.

And really I do need another job, one that pays like 100k a year to build arcade machines, drink PBR, and tell people why their arcade machines suck.

[jdbailey1206]

And really I do need another job, one that pays like 100k a year to build arcade machines, drink PBR, and tell people why their arcade machines suck.

Ive been looking for this for the past 10 years.  Oddly enough it doesnt exist.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm pretty sure it does.  Ever seen Angry Video Game Nerd?  It's pretty much the console version of this job.   Now if I could just get that time machine finished so I can go back to when it was possible to be an emerging youtube celeb I'd be good to go.

[jennifer]

   **Jennifer grabs a PBR**.... your game just SUCKS bro.

[pbj]

I'm pretty sure my wife and I narrowly avoided being gang raped by bisexual swingers last night.  I'm not sure which one of us got touched more.  That flamboyant guy in the custom made half unbuttoned shirt that's down to party at the bar and sure likes stroking your back and squeezing your arm?  His friends show up and they're just like him.

When it got down to, "what's it going to take to get you to come with me to this little private club down the block...." = GTFO.  NOW.

[pbj]

Pork brisket. Cheap.  Huge.  I'm intrigued, so I buy it.

Turns out when they destroy ribs by making them St. Louis style, they've got to do SOMETHING with the good part they lopped off.  So they creatively bundle them and sell it to idiots like me.

Ho hum.  I'll be eating this while the Cowboys lose.

[BadMouth]

I was informed today that my bosses have sold the company and new owners are taking over next month.
Not sure if I'm chuffed or anti-chuffed since I hate my job anyway. 
I'd always hoped they'd just close up shop and I could collect unemployment for a while.

Hope your goes better than mine, brother! My days at work have been nothing but filled with disaster lately.

Boss gave me a stack of employment papers to fill out for the new owners and then left for the day....W4, citizenship verification, etc.
So I'm supposed to have these filled out by tomorrow, but I don't even know the name of the company I am now employed by?!?. 

I'll go along with it until they put a non-compete clause or anything else I'm not going to sign in front of me.
As far as I'm concerned, if the company I was working for last week doesn't exist anymore than the non-compete clause they have on file is null.

[Vigo]

If I lived by you, I would buy you a drink, brother! Don't expect the circus to end anytime soon.

My boss just put in his notice last week, so if I don't get fired as part of the fallout, I won't have a department or a boss. It will be an interesting situation how it will play out, because my office doesn't have authority to assign me to a new department, and the buyers don't have any experience in my realm of work, and they mostly don't even acknowledge that I exist. I could very easily end up like Milton from Office Space. 

[yotsuya]

If I lived by you, I would buy you a drink, brother! Don't expect the circus to end anytime soon.

My boss just put in his notice last week, so if I don't get fired as part of the fallout, I won't have a department or a boss. It will be an interesting situation how it will play out, because my office doesn't have authority to assign me to a new department, and the buyers don't have any experience in my realm of work, and they mostly don't even acknowledge that I exist. I could very easily end up like Milton from Office Space.