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The Rant Thread.  Circa 2013.
Continuation thread for:   https://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/757097-save-the-last-rants-for-me/
 
Tell us your gripes, fears, hopes.  (And we'll quickly put you down.)
Tell us your deepest, darkest desires.  (We will return you to reality)
 
All are welcome -- chew the fat here, pass the time.
 
A brief history of this thread:  Created by Steve (user name SAT), it started off as a place for VJers to rant, vent, talk.  It has evolved into an everyday friendly (and rude) conversation.
 
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11.   Have a sense of humor; don't be such a stiff.  Remember?  Humor?
 
Don't take anything personally; half of the stuff said here is just jive (In the case of Steve, it's 100% jive).
 
From SAT, the now sadly inactive OP:
This thread is politically incorrect.  Come in, come in, rant away.  Let us tell you how to suffer.  Let us make fun of you. We're rude and crass. Business, all business!

The freeloaders have finally left. I was giving the Hillbilly until Sunday to deal with them or I was going to take the kids and leave. I could not take it anymore.
 
I already turned off the WIFI to the TV in that room. I refused to cook for them 😈 . Yes I was totally being passive aggressive and I don't care.
 
Well last night the house was getting pretty warm, I had all the doors open all day and then refused to turn the A/C on when they started complaining. The room they were in is also the Hillbilly's office. He was working in there with the door open because they stunk it up. Well his dad comes in closes the door and then takes his pants off. The Hillbilly went nuts. They left before the Hillbilly came home for lunch. They didn't even tell the Jedi Happy Birthday today before they left. Barely said anything as they were hauling stuff to the truck. I was in the kitchen so I said something. I look up as he is walking by me and say packing up? He's like yup yup. They weren't even going to say anything until I did. 
 
Kids say we need to burn the bed. I have stripped it and will sanitize all the linen. Thank goodness I had two mattress protectors on the bed, 1 of them for sure was waterproof. So the mattress should be safe.
 
A/C is on now cleaning the air and cooling the house now  
 
WE will be taking the Jedi out for his Birthday supper and won't have any party poopers to ruin it. His party is Saturday how is my baby 9 already!

Glad that cleared up in time!
 
Not been very cold the last few weeks. I had frozen pipes Christmas week, and a break where the water comes into the house on Christmas day.  The preacher over the road shut the water off at the street for me. He came back the next day and made repairs. Wouldn't even let me pay for the parts. Turns out the heat tape on the pipes was dead. The indicator light was on, but nothing else.
 
So I spent most of yesterday afternoon out there under the house putting on new tape. So far, so good!  

Glad that cleared up in time!
 
Not been very cold the last few weeks. I had frozen pipes Christmas week, and a break where the water comes into the house on Christmas day.  The preacher over the road shut the water off at the street for me. He came back the next day and made repairs. Wouldn't even let me pay for the parts. Turns out the heat tape on the pipes was dead. The indicator light was on, but nothing else.
 
So I spent most of yesterday afternoon out there under the house putting on new tape. So far, so good!  

Preach it, mah Sistuh, si man -- preach it, si Eh ma'am!   

Glad that cleared up in time!
 
Not been very cold the last few weeks. I had frozen pipes Christmas week, and a break where the water comes into the house on Christmas day.  The preacher over the road shut the water off at the street for me. He came back the next day and made repairs. Wouldn't even let me pay for the parts. Turns out the heat tape on the pipes was dead. The indicator light was on, but nothing else.
 
So I spent most of yesterday afternoon out there under the house putting on new tape. So far, so good!  

Participatory Eh ma'am!  Participatory, PARTICIPATORY Eh ma'am!
If we never see another snowflake, we won't care, no man.
Gracias, Eh ma'am.
Sun started coming out during skool retrieval of Mini-B., good timing man.
Getting cold now, Texas weather still not Many man.
 
Din-din was bagged salad and hot dogs, ingest Two Guys man.

Frozen-piped Eh ma'am!  Frozen-piped, FROZEN-PIPED Eh ma'am!
Intrepid Eh ma'am!  Intrepid, INTREPID Eh ma'am!
Please use P-math frozen temperatures, si Eh ma'am.
Fill it with booze so that it too doesn't freeze, si and whee Eh ma'am!   

Just wanted to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!  🎄🎄🎄

I don't do anything outside during the day. Usually it is a bit better after 19:00.  Not looking forward to mowing either, which I will have to do soon. 

Never heard of  those.  Must google
 
Cool-ish today. Mowed entire yard in one go for a change. Back out to weed the flower beds.  The heat will be back in a day or two so taking full advantage. Going to be in the 50's tonight!

It's like walking into a wet sweater. Man I can't wait for fall. I let Herself out one night about midnight last week, and it was as warm as midday. Muggy. I hate muggy  

Yes the last two days have been great. We lost a hen on Saturday with the heat she just couldn't take it. I have 2 fans out there and we even bring them frozen treats.

Never heard of  those.  Must google
 
Cool-ish today. Mowed entire yard in one go for a change. Back out to weed the flower beds.  The heat will be back in a day or two so taking full advantage. Going to be in the 50's tonight!

It's way too hot too fast too. 
Be careful with the gardening in this heat.

Due east of you right now in western TN.. grandma duty over summer. I agree re weather.. Im over it ! Mind you home in SW Missouri isn't any better ! 

Hot. Hot as the doorknob to Hades here.  Herself and I do a bit of work about the yard, early, and then hide inside all day until evening. I am putting in a new garden where there wasn't one before, and between the rocks and the big roots I am finding it has been slow going. Been a heat advisory every day this week, so by eleven o'clock it is miserable out. 
 
I meant to get all this nonsense done in the spring, and I was well on track. Then in the last week of April I went down with the flu for three weeks. So...playing catch up now. At the rate I am going it will be weeks before I get finished. 
 
Himself would not recognize the area around here today.  Farm next door was sold at auction, and nothing at all is going on over there at the moment. One of the prospective buyers wanted it so he could knock everything down and put up a lot of apartment buildings. Thank goodness he didn't get it. Some Taiwanese consortium is meant to own it now, but so far they haven't done a thing with the property. New McMansion gone up over the road, huge thing with a three car garage that looks pretty odd way out here.  Preacher's house has a new extension, and he has painted the entire house barn red. As it is already barn shaped it looks pretty peculiar. He bought up all the land around my quarter acre, and I found him digging  right outside my fence  a couple of weeks ago looking for the survey markers. He's going to fence the entire fifteen acres, and put cows on it.  I dunno what Herself is going to think with cows grazing right around her. 🐄 😄
 
 
 
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We had an oven breakdown  on , I think it was thanksgiving,  some time ago. All I can tell you is what I did.
 
I heated the the thing that took the longest first. Covered the container with a lid to keep the heat in. Next thing, same deal. Once everything was heated, I put it all into separate serving bowls. All that had to go to the table then was four bowls, one trip.  Everything else was already on the table. 

Monday mini-report, minimally see man:
 
Took Uncle T-B. to his wound-care appointment, chauffeur we senior he man.
He is greatly impressed with the new T-B.-mobile, hint hint man.
 
To keep Mama T-B. from going aysheep*, got to appointment way early, yawn man.
     *her standard state, aysheep senior she man
We nearly fell asleep in the otherwise empty waiting-room, zzz we man.
Exceptional care for Uncle T-B., impressive man.
They can probably extend Home Health if we revisit in Many (2+1) weeks, appointment set man.
 
Concurrently, Mama T-B. got the staples out of her head, unstapled senior she man.
And she officially has a concussion, bonkus of the conkus man.
 
Lunch/din-din was the last Many (2+2) hot dogs, ingest we man.

We had an oven breakdown  on , I think it was thanksgiving,  some time ago. All I can tell you is what I did.
 
I heated the the thing that took the longest first. Covered the container with a lid to keep the heat in. Next thing, same deal. Once everything was heated, I put it all into separate serving bowls. All that had to go to the table then was four bowls, one trip.  Everything else was already on the table. 

We had an oven breakdown  on , I think it was thanksgiving,  some time ago. All I can tell you is what I did.
 
I heated the the thing that took the longest first. Covered the container with a lid to keep the heat in. Next thing, same deal. Once everything was heated, I put it all into separate serving bowls. All that had to go to the table then was four bowls, one trip.  Everything else was already on the table. 

You really had a doozy, si and sigh Eh ma'am.
Good grief, Eh ma'am!  Have you been all alone during this, or has anyone been stopping in to help you, huh ma'am?

Tough one, T-Bone. I don't know how the heck you could motivate him to look after himself when he simply won't. Anytime the last few years I had to take Himself away for medical appointments, we had to hire someone to stay with the MIL. Come to find out they didn't anymore than turn up a the house when she would fire them.  Even after I'd made it perfectly clear that I was paying them, that she might argue and complain and be nasty, she couldn't fire them. Made no difference in the end, off they went. And no, I did not pay them. Her doctor did try to arrange for respite care for me, but she refused. Very much like a petulant child, really, "you can't make me"! 
 
I'm up today for the first time in two weeks. I have been flat on my back with the flu and I do mean flat. Couldn't even keep water down. Meals certainly do look peculiar when your choices limit you to what doesn't make you want to yark  on sight. 

Tough one, T-Bone. I don't know how the heck you could motivate him to look after himself when he simply won't. Anytime the last few years I had to take Himself away for medical appointments, we had to hire someone to stay with the MIL. Come to find out they didn't anymore than turn up a the house when she would fire them.  Even after I'd made it perfectly clear that I was paying them, that she might argue and complain and be nasty, she couldn't fire them. Made no difference in the end, off they went. And no, I did not pay them. Her doctor did try to arrange for respite care for me, but she refused. Very much like a petulant child, really, "you can't make me"! 
 
I'm up today for the first time in two weeks. I have been flat on my back with the flu and I do mean flat. Couldn't even keep water down. Meals certainly do look peculiar when your choices limit you to what doesn't make you want to yark  on sight. 

Tough one, T-Bone. I don't know how the heck you could motivate him to look after himself when he simply won't. Anytime the last few years I had to take Himself away for medical appointments, we had to hire someone to stay with the MIL. Come to find out they didn't anymore than turn up a the house when she would fire them.  Even after I'd made it perfectly clear that I was paying them, that she might argue and complain and be nasty, she couldn't fire them. Made no difference in the end, off they went. And no, I did not pay them. Her doctor did try to arrange for respite care for me, but she refused. Very much like a petulant child, really, "you can't make me"! 
 
I'm up today for the first time in two weeks. I have been flat on my back with the flu and I do mean flat. Couldn't even keep water down. Meals certainly do look peculiar when your choices limit you to what doesn't make you want to yark  on sight.