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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: Hoopz on March 20, 2012, 01:00:31 pm
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Saw that San Antonio had a tornado so just checking if PBJ and anyone else in the BYOAC community that lives in the area is ok.
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Much like myself pinballjim can't be killed with conventional weapons.
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^ because both of you are fat :duckhunt
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Much like myself pinballjim can't be killed with conventional weapons.
Just checked the official Evil Scientist handbook and tornadoes was put on the conventional weapon list late last year. However Girl Scouts still have not been added despite my petition so you may want to watch out. It's Girl Scout cookie season.
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Glad to see you're ok.
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Glad to see you're ok.
Rest assured, when I drop dead, my wife will be paying you dudes to haul all the crap off that she wasn't able to burn or put into trash cans.
PBJ,
You shouldn't have said that.....now people will start scheming...... hehehehe
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^ because both of you are fat :duckhunt
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You could've kept silent for a few days and kept people wondering...
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^ because both of you are fat :duckhunt
Giggle, giggle, ....... Snort!
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^ because both of you are fat :duckhunt
You have won the game my friend with the comment
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Men are supposed to be ugly, strong, and polite.
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
You forgot hairy.
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Men are supposed to be ugly, strong, and polite.
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
You forgot hairy.
If you're American it's synonymous with ugly, if you're European it's a non topic because everyone is.
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I'm frighteningly handsome myself. Sometimes I look in the mirror to comb my hair and get distracted for hours. "Who's that handsome stranger in my bathroom?" 8)
I'm not fat myself, can't speak for pbj... then again I'm not one of these creepy little wisps of a man either... if you are a full grown man and weigh under 200 lbs then you better be a little person because if you aren't then you are actually female. ;)
As for the big three, I guess I'm stronger than most school children and women, does that count? I'm most assuredly polite, and if you don't think so I'll be glad to cuss you out over it. ;) As for hairy, if being hairy is considered ugly then I don't wanna be pretty. Again... no hair just means you are female, unless you are in europe, then it just means you are from out of town. ;)
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Men are supposed to be ugly, strong, and polite.
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
You forgot hairy.
If you're American it's synonymous with ugly, if you're European it's a non topic because everyone is.
You've got it all mixed up. It's not by country, it's a regional thing. Think North California vs South California. Hollywood vs. rednecks, which do think pronounces Rodeo Drive correctly?
Honest to God, up until I moved South, I never saw a man put on makeup unless it was in the theatre or at Hot Topics. Now I see it all the time. :puke
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Maybe it's a sexual preference thing? I mean you are talking southern CA. I'm just saying, I don't shave my body, but then again I don't want to sleep with men.
But I've said too much... no need to get this thing sent to P&R.
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Maybe it's a sexual preference thing? I mean you are talking southern CA. I'm just saying, I don't shave my body, but then again I don't want to sleep with men.
But I've said too much... no need to get this thing sent to P&R.
Whoa whoa WHOA. Whats with all the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking about southern CA?! Man, is that what the rest of the country thinks, that we all shave and are gay?!?! Bummer. My gf sometimes cleans up my uni-brow, but thats it. I have a hairy back and everything! ;D
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Maybe it's a sexual preference thing? I mean you are talking southern CA. I'm just saying, I don't shave my body, but then again I don't want to sleep with men.
But I've said too much... no need to get this thing sent to P&R.
Whoa whoa WHOA. Whats with all the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking about southern CA?! Man, is that what the rest of the country thinks, that we all shave and are gay?!?! Bummer. My gf sometimes cleans up my uni-brow, but thats it. I have a hairy back and everything! ;D
TMI, Bro. >:D
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:afro: Hehe. :cheers:
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Men are supposed to be ugly, strong, and polite.
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
good, I need a piano moved can ya help? :lol
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Maybe it's a sexual preference thing? I mean you are talking southern CA. I'm just saying, I don't shave my body, but then again I don't want to sleep with men.
But I've said too much... no need to get this thing sent to P&R.
Whoa whoa WHOA. Whats with all the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking about southern CA?! Man, is that what the rest of the country thinks, that we all shave and are gay?!?! Bummer. My gf sometimes cleans up my uni-brow, but thats it. I have a hairy back and everything! ;D
I wouldn't go that far, put people, in general, especially men, are sheep. All it takes is one gay man to shave his body and a couple of women flirting with him and at least 5 straight men think about doing it. Move to a location like Hollywood or SanFran and you are officially in enemy territory. You might be converted! Not to being gay of course but to LOOKING like you are gay. I was just teasing anyway. ;)
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Men are supposed to be ugly, strong, and polite.
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
good, I need a piano moved can ya help? :lol
PBJ's response:
Hell NO!
He's only 1 out of the 3 remember?
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Maybe it's a sexual preference thing? I mean you are talking southern CA. I'm just saying, I don't shave my body, but then again I don't want to sleep with men.
But I've said too much... no need to get this thing sent to P&R.
Whoa whoa WHOA. Whats with all the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- talking about southern CA?! Man, is that what the rest of the country thinks, that we all shave and are gay?!?! Bummer. My gf sometimes cleans up my uni-brow, but thats it. I have a hairy back and everything! ;D
Give me a break the mods were doing that in 82, now everyone is doing it. Nothing new about the freaks of West LA.
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There's a bumper sticker:
"Yes, this is my truck, and no, I will not help you move"
http://www.zazzle.com/yes_this_is_my_truck_no_i_wont_help_you_move_bumper_sticker-128339761362687932 (http://www.zazzle.com/yes_this_is_my_truck_no_i_wont_help_you_move_bumper_sticker-128339761362687932)
I so needed that when I had a truck.
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Well kindness is it's own punishment. Whoever came up with that "it's own reward" line was probably using it on somebody to talk them into helping them move. ;)
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Jennifer has the same troubles....Seems the lift gate is a target for like everyone, I just say no, And no, they cant
borrow the cube truck either!
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Why did you just refer to yourself in the third person?
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George is getting angry!
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the thing that gets me is my wife volunteers me to fix peoples computers for them.
1: I hate fixing other peoples messes.
2: I hate having to fix other peoples messes.
3: I hate other peoples messes I have to fix.
4: I hate messes that are other peoples i have to fix.
and I always get the call later saying wheres this program and where's that file and i can't find this...I DON'T KNOW! IT'S YOUR GARBAGE DUMP, YOU FIND IT! I just fixed your crappy MSN messenger program! I didn't do ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- with your files. :angry:
sometimes i think people get other people to fix their computers so they have someone to blame for all the files they lost. OMG I DELETED ALL THESE FILES... uhm can you fix this...YOU DELETED ALL MY FILES I WANT THEM BACK!
/rant
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lilshawn is getting angry!
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reminds me of the time people accused me of breaking their xboxes........
"dude you modded my dvd drive like 9 years ago..now I got red rings..HALP!?!?!"
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For the most part the people I work on are pretty nice when it comes to saying calm and not playing the blame game. What pisses me off is the fact that nobody seems to be able to do what I tell them to.
"Why is my computer so slow?"
"Because you installed this program on it and your computer can't handle it. Not only that but you have it set to run at startup."
"But I really like that program!"
"Then buy a new computer.... in the mean time I'm uninstalling it."
I'm lucky if it's two weeks before I get a call that the computer is acting up again and you guessed it... they reinstalled the same damn program on it.
People are notorously bad about this when it comes to anti-virus programs. I'll come to their house, they'll have some nasty virus and the reason is because their av software is crap or non-existant. Or their computer will be really slow because it's older and they have the latest version of Norton on it or something. I'll install avg or something good on there, fix the computer up and a week later I get the call. It's got a virus again because they've uninstalled the av software I put on their in favor of the one their third cousin picked up for them at Walmart. Now who knows better? A qualified service technician or your idiot cousin?
Even worse they sometimes don't have sense enough to uninstall avg when they put theirs on, so sometimes it isn't even a virus, it's jsut two av programs hogging all the resources and fighting to the death for control.
When it comes to computer service it isn't a democracy, it's a HAC-tatorship!
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Visit Hour Web Side!"
LOL :laugh2:
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Whenever I work on someone's computer, I run a scan of their "My Documents" folder. That way, I can learn what their kinks are right away. >:D
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Whenever I work on someone's computer, I run a scan of their "My Documents" folder. That way, I can learn what their kinks are right away. >:D
I stopped doing that. Now I just delete that ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- and don't look back.
For a long time I sincerely thought I could leverage what I found on the HDD (http://www.cgsecurity.org/). Even if they've got something I could leverage it doesn't make up for the horrors I've seen. Don't ask why. It's rather horrifying.
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I drew the line on fixing peoples' computers years ago. I did it as a side job, like so many of us, for a couple years in college. Made a little cash but as soon as people I *knew* found out they all wanted it done as a favor. Did that for a while until I had to start telling them "would you ask me to fix your car if I was a mechanic?" I finally totally drew the line on friend/family repairs when people clearly started lying to me.
Your machine won't boot at all. Have you opened it up?
"No, never, not at all."
The warranty sticker on the case is ripped. It has been opened up.
"Not me, must have come that way from the store."
I found a cheeto inside the case.
"No idea."
So you didn't open the case? The hard drive is unplugged. This machine never operated this way. Never.
"Yeah, it did, for a year."
Sooo... at what store did you buy it?
"I bought it from a guy down the street."
You just said it must have come like this from a store.
"I did?"
Yes.
"So can you fix it or not?"
Yes. But you can pick it up tomorrow because I'm not going to do so.
"What? Why not?"
Because you keep lying to me.
"WTF dude... you are such an ---uvula---... what is your problem?!"
...and that was family. I won't even talk about the level of lifetime support expected on a free repair.
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Did that for a while until I had to start telling them "would you ask me to fix your car if I was a mechanic?"
I was a heavy duty diesel mechanic for a number of years (been 2 years since I've earned a paycheck doing that sort of thing). I actually get slightly offended when family/friends don't bring their vehicles to me before taking them into a shop... $30,000 invested in tools and a box, I love it whenever I get a chance to use them as long as my ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---'s not what's broken down. But my wife whores me out to her coworkers and people I hardly know and that irritates me.
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...I won't even talk about the level of lifetime support expected on a free repair.
That's what gets me too...I don't mind fixing a PC for a friend...but then I'm 4ever their go-to person if "anything" ever happens again. (I still say yes sometimes...cuz I'm a sucker)
I gave an old PC to my former college roomate, who didn't have one. I swear she could not listen and still expected me to fix it every time she messed it up.
I donated all my old PC parts to charity years ago and no longer build freebies for folks.
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I actually get slightly offended when family/friends don't bring their vehicles to me before taking them into a shop...
For free? In your limited spare time?
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Yup, free labor. It's not too hard to find time to help out a friend or family member.
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Good job. I used to be like that. Nobody ever returns the favor, though. :P
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I guess I'd rather just do the work myself for someone than loan them some tools and have them come back filthy/broken... That's a huge pet peeve of mine, getting something back not in the same condition it was loaned out.
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Perhaps it's because the repairs you do to an engine are more durable and less subject to idiocy than fixes to software.
But FWIW I still fix family and or friends stuff for free too...I just don't let myself get "volunteered" any more.
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I just don't let myself get "voluntold" any more.
FTFY
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I usually build my own systems from parts to get the best bang for the dollar, and have had several family members ask me to help them with putting together a system. So I would spend hours listening to what they wanted, doing research, finding the best prices, etc. and even offered to build it for them for free. Every time, they ignored it and instead went to Sears or Best Buy and bought some crappy system with a low price point, and then complained about how it didn't do what they wanted it to, or they looked to me for help when they wanted to add some new gizmo that couldn't be added to that system. Then there was a time I picked up a refurb unit for my sister at half the price of the same unit new. She called me 4 years later when the hard drive crashed, and did her best to make me feel like I had somehow steered her wrong. Gotta love it.
I used to be offended when they didn't consult with me about the purchase of their systems, but now I see it as a blessing. Doesn't seem to help though. A computer guy in the family is seen as a free, lifetime service contract. :P
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Sometimes I would do the opposite and just build it. My father went through a string of cheap crap pre-fab computers. each time he thought he was getting a screaming deal on A PC for $300. I got so tired of trying to fix them when they failed, and watching him throw away the money, I finally built him a PC for around $600 that lasted him 6 or 7 years. It was like pulling teeth though...My mom still has that PC and it works fine...though now a bit dated.
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That happens to me too...but I kinda give my mom a pass. I'm kinda hard on her if she doesn't try. So if she tries at least I always help out. She is getting better though, she can now sucessfuly switch inputs on the TV especially if I talk her through it over the phone. :banghead: Funny thing is...she's more than capable...just afraid of messing it up.
Fortunatly I can take turns with my brother, so dinner is worth it. ;D
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Get a logitech harmony remote, you can program it to set all that up for one button. You want to watch a movie? Hit the movie button, best 100 bucks you will ever spend, we got one for our inlaws, no more calls.
As for the PC stuff, ditch all the PC stuff and just get them Ipads.
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i had a Logitech harmony for years and I really loved it. It is not always user friendly right off the bat.
One IR command doesn't register and something gets off, and you can't even get a parent to use the help button that wizard's you through finding out what went wrong. I'm happy to now run everything through a tivo remote and even that isn't automatically intuitive for everyone.
I wish my mother would ask for tech support more. Her computer is so gunked up I can't even stand to look at it's 15" monitor, but it keeps on ticking over.
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Yeah, you set up the remote for them, and then they just push the "watch a dvd" button. Then when they call that its not working, you just tell them to push the help button, works for me.
The ipad is built for these people. Its perfect for light web surfing, reading and e-mail. The facetime stuff is a bonus, and its pretty idiot proof. Just get a good case for when they drop it.
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Right, because the obvious solution to "I can't learn how to use the things I have in my house, don't have enough money for it anyway, and invite you over under false pretenses" is "spend $350 on a remote control that they still won't be able to operate". ;D
Over the last year or two I refer them to my older son. Once or twice being told how to use their setup by a 12 year old somehow convinces older folks that they don't feel like asking again.
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"spend $350 on a remote control that they still won't be able to operate".
You obviously don't know what you are talking about. The remotes can be found for under a hundred bucks, you can set it up for them in minutes and they are pretty idiot proof.
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You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
The ipad is built for these people.
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I dunno, seems like a sense of entitlement to me. I want to use this tech but I don't want to spend the time to learn to use it like everyone else because I'm XX years old. That's a crap attitude. If your parents are using it as an excuse to talk to you because they are lonely and miss you that I understand.
My surviving grandfather is in his 90s and is still spry. He's up on social media and has his own genealogy website forum he spends all his time on. My parents are in their 70s and take the time to read the manuals for new gadgets so they can avoid the embarrassment of asking for help to program tivo. Anybody who says they are too old to learn some "new fangled gadget" should make due with the old tech. My father in law is in his 50s and refuses to learn how to use a computer, I refuse to help him fix it when he breaks it and now it sits unused. I'm happy to teach but I am unwilling to enable willful ignorance.
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i had a Logitech harmony for years and I really loved it. It is not always user friendly right off the bat.
One IR command doesn't register and something gets off, and you can't even get a parent to use the help button that wizard's you through finding out what went wrong. I'm happy to now run everything through a tivo remote and even that isn't automatically intuitive for everyone.
+1 I spent 80 bucks on a logitech remote for my mom and even though I've NEVER been able to get it out of sync, she seems to do it every time. The "help" wizard apparently doesn't exist either, because I get summoned regardless of the hour whenever the tv is on the wrong input or what have you.
Seriously, this is 2012! You would think by now that the usb ports on the back of all our tvs, blu-ray players, game consoles cable boxes and ect would allow us to interconnect all the the devices so that only one IR reciever is used for everything.
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When I bought my last entertainment center, I was told that for an extra $150ish I could get a special device that would allow me to keep the doors shut and still operate my IR devices. "Isn't that like a $5 circuit?" :P
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2uh4qr9.jpg)
What doors? :laugh2:
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Seriously, this is 2012! You would think by now that the usb ports on the back of all our tvs, blu-ray players, game consoles cable boxes and ect would allow us to interconnect all the the devices so that only one IR reciever is used for everything.
They do have this now. The new devices are all HDMI+ethernet, and you can set it up so that one remote rules them all, no problem. Our blu-ray, TV and receiver all "talk" to each other, and I can use the TV remote to control them all, no programming or IR code ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. Cable boxes is what screw things up, but since we are cable-free, we don't have that problem anymore. Its to the point where we don't even use the logitech remote we have.
I love the logitech's have had 2 different models, and gave one to the inlaws, I've never had a problem with them at all. I always tell my friends, "get one of these, they are idiot proof" however, it seems that once again, this forum has proved me wrong.
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I'm continuously shocked my wife consented to wire racks in the bedroom.
We don't need to know your kinks, bro.