Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 934701 times)

BlackWidow · « **Reply #2200 on:** May 06, 2007, 09:16:25 PM »

Quote from: Vespertine on May 03, 2007, 05:29:21 PM

Well, you read my story. Overtly aggressive doesn't work. He stands there and argues about it because...he's the smartest person in the FREAKING room!!!

I feel your pain V ... that was my ex husband's fave line "... but I was the smartest guy in the room" <gag/>. Sometimes you can almost block out what the dumbasses are saying but its that condescending "I've got a superior intellect" tone that's like nails on a chalkboard making a person want to ram the speaker's tongue down their throat and pull it out via their left nostril.

Hmm ... I think I have a little pent up rage. If you want help dealing with the neighbour dude I'll gladly assist

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Vespertine · « **Reply #2201 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:10:05 PM »

So, here's an excellent add-on to this story. For well over three months now, I have been telling fuckwad neighbor that he has a leak in his sprinkler line. He has claimed every time that the problem is that the sprinkler head just needs to be adjusted (turned 'inward'). Part of my back yard has been wet for so long that the ground has a covering of mold/mildew on it. I LIVE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA. IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT!!! For the most part, we don't have mold/mildew problems here. So, this past weekend I happen to go outside right after his sprinklers shut off. I can see water FLOWING through the cinder block wall and pooling in my yard. I go inside and call him on his cell phone. He tells me "the dog probably bumped the sprinkler head" and he just needs to adjust it again. This morning, before work, I go in the back yard again, and see the same thing; water flowing through the fence and pooling in my yard. Then I hear asshole back there; turns out that he's talking to me. He tells me - and this is just eye-rollingly DUH - "I think I might have a leak in my sprinkler line. I can see all the water in your yard, and my yard is just soaked to the point that it's mushy". Well, fucking DUH!!!! I've only been saying this for three months. But of course, I have no flaming clue what I'm talking about.

ivan · « **Reply #2202 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:29:45 PM »

Well, at first I was going to make a comment about your idiot neighbor's gender bias (every woman runs into this sort of thing all the time), but I think it's possible that your neighbor does and says those things to you not because you're a woman, but because he is actually a complete and total moron. Against such idiocy, even the comforting protective male appendage offers no defense. I have dealt with these kinds of clowns, with much the same results as you, and I'm a man. Honest, I am. I think if I were a woman, it would sting more, because there is the overall smarmy "let me tell you how it is little lady" attitude, but the results are the same for everyone. Filthy stupid is filthy stupid. The only benefit I have as a man in dealing with this kind of cretin is that the exchange might trigger a testosterone rage that might result in injury or death, thus preventing the promulgation of his genes. Good for society, but not so good for me.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #2203 on:** May 08, 2007, 01:49:32 PM »

I love it when an auto mechanic or someone of that ilk pulls that on my wife. It's so fun to see her eat them alive.

12AX7 · « **Reply #2204 on:** May 08, 2007, 01:56:08 PM »

"Yeh, your bulb sockets are out of filament. We can change just the bulbs; but unless we go ahead and swap out the sockets, too, it's just gonna burn another bulb out eventually."

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2205 on:** May 08, 2007, 04:25:03 PM »

You could always take some bolt cutters at night and chop the hose into as many pieces as you can. Boy will he ever be suprised in the morning!

Vespertine · « **Reply #2206 on:** May 08, 2007, 04:30:35 PM »

Hose? There's no hose. It's a sprinkler line. He put in his own sprinkler system and has a leak in a PVC pipe that he buried.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2207 on:** May 08, 2007, 04:39:10 PM »

Oh sorry, I misunderstood. It's a bit harder, but with a long bit and a good strong cordless drill you could make many holes in it at night as well, and get much the same result. Another good idea would be to somehow block off the sprinkler until SOMETHING explodes from the pent up pressure.

Min · « **Reply #2208 on:** May 08, 2007, 04:39:31 PM »

That plan wouldn't make her yard any LESS wet.

BizB · « **Reply #2209 on:** May 08, 2007, 05:02:58 PM »

Yeah! More Detta!

Min · « **Reply #2210 on:** May 08, 2007, 05:07:34 PM »

Only about 28 days left of school!!!

pbsaurus · « **Reply #2211 on:** May 08, 2007, 05:31:52 PM »

:kickass

Be sure to tell us what happens 28 Days Later.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2212 on:** May 08, 2007, 05:35:10 PM »

Quote from: Detta on May 08, 2007, 04:39:31 PM

That plan wouldn't make her yard any LESS wet.

The idea is to let the water leak underground in HIS yard.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2213 on:** May 08, 2007, 07:29:49 PM »

Does anyone know if burnt steel wool is iron oxide? I've heard conflicting reports about this.

BizB · « **Reply #2214 on:** May 08, 2007, 07:32:08 PM »

Evonus · « **Reply #2215 on:** May 08, 2007, 09:41:31 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on May 08, 2007, 05:31:52 PM

Be sure to tell us what happens 28 Days Later.

This gets the official seal of lame. Congrats sir!

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2216 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:13:37 PM »

I'm watching that movie right now.

Evonus · « **Reply #2217 on:** May 08, 2007, 10:15:35 PM »

Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on May 08, 2007, 07:29:49 PM

Does anyone know if burnt steel wool is iron oxide? I've heard conflicting reports about this.

Iron oxide is rust.

Nosferatu · « **Reply #2218 on:** May 08, 2007, 11:10:19 PM »

Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on May 08, 2007, 10:13:37 PM

I'm watching that movie right now.

Greatest Brit-Flick ever.

Friday fast aproaches! =D

xolik · « **Reply #2219 on:** May 09, 2007, 10:15:15 AM »

I'm in Washington D.C. on training all week. It's a pretty neat place so far. However it was a great letdown when I found out that the National Mall wasn't what I had in mind.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #2220 on:** May 09, 2007, 11:41:44 AM »

Quote from: Evonus on May 08, 2007, 10:15:35 PM

Iron oxide is rust.

Correct. Another word for "burning" is "oxidation".

ivan · « **Reply #2221 on:** May 09, 2007, 12:14:17 PM »

Quote from: xolik on May 09, 2007, 10:15:15 AM

I'm in Washington D.C. on training all week. It's a pretty neat place so far. However it was a great letdown when I found out that the National Mall wasn't what I had in mind.

It may not have a Gap store, but things are still being bought and sold there.

Souls, for instance.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #2222 on:** May 09, 2007, 12:15:25 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on May 09, 2007, 11:41:44 AM

Correct. Another word for "burning" is "oxidation".

Oh good call, thanks everyone for indulging my n00bishness. The reason I asked was because on several sources of thermite recipes (textfiles.com, TOTSE, Anarchist Cookbook, all the standard places the Darwin Award hopeful goes for extremely dangerous ideas), the given way to prepare iron oxide is with steel wool in water (sometimes with electricity to speed up the process), and I was wondering why they wouldn't just stick a nine-volt into a clump of steel wool and burn it all up in a few seconds.

Apparently they're just not that smart, which comes as no suprise to me since many of those sites still have plans for blotto boxes and other such uber-1337 yet wholly imaginary things.

milifist · « **Reply #2223 on:** May 09, 2007, 12:23:55 PM »

I'm almost afraid to ask, but why are you reading up on making thermite?

BizB · « **Reply #2224 on:** May 09, 2007, 12:24:07 PM »

Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on May 09, 2007, 12:15:25 PM

Oh good call, thanks everyone for indulging my n00bishness. The reason I asked was because on several sources of thermite recipes (textfiles.com, TOTSE, Anarchist Cookbook, all the standard places the Darwin Award hopeful goes for extremely dangerous ideas), the given way to prepare iron oxide is with steel wool in water (sometimes with electricity to speed up the process), and I was wondering why they wouldn't just stick a nine-volt into a clump of steel wool and burn it all up in a few seconds.

Apparently they're just not that smart, which comes as no suprise to me since many of those sites still have plans for blotto boxes and other such uber-1337 yet wholly imaginary things.

I expect a new influx of 11 year old girls joining the forum over the next couple of days.

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