Current Annoyances
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- Mango
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Re: Current Annoyances
My grandmother has been admitted to the hospital three weekends in a row now.
One of those was a four day observation visit in which the solution to her current heart problem was found.
Of course it would have involved extending her stay, so she declined to actually do anything about it.
One of those was a four day observation visit in which the solution to her current heart problem was found.
Of course it would have involved extending her stay, so she declined to actually do anything about it.
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Re: Current Annoyances
Sorry to hear that Mango.
It seems to be very common that old people get very stubborn when it comes to health issues. My grandparents were a frigging nightmare. Really resistant to any hospital visits due to the fear it was a one-way trip.
It seems to be very common that old people get very stubborn when it comes to health issues. My grandparents were a frigging nightmare. Really resistant to any hospital visits due to the fear it was a one-way trip.
- The Swollen Goiter of God
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Re: Current Annoyances
My grandparents were across-the-board stubborn in their old age. It didn't just have to do with health issues.
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Re: Current Annoyances
My parents aren't awkward. They are just so fucking negative about everything. It's like they spend the whole time coming up with reasons not to do stuff, because of imagined problems or issues. They will not JFDI.
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Re: Current Annoyances
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- neglet
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Re: Current Annoyances
Writing them or reading them? I hate writing them, almost as much as I hate writing synopses.
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Writing. I finally finished it and sent it off. Another job application bites the dust.
- Quasar
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Re: Current Annoyances
You may want to do some investigating into whether Goits sabotaged your career. You've proven yourself invaluable to this new board, and Goits likely came up with the notion that with more free time, you could do even more.
- Adam54
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Re: Current Annoyances
Current Annoyance: I only JUST saw the posts about me from the first page of this thread a week ago. Harrumph.
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Re: Current Annoyances
You need to pull your finger out, boy!
Just because you drift through life with a certain Danish 'laissez-faire' effortlessly collecting Ford Focusses and hot female Facebook friends, doesn't cut it round here!
Just because you drift through life with a certain Danish 'laissez-faire' effortlessly collecting Ford Focusses and hot female Facebook friends, doesn't cut it round here!
- The Swollen Goiter of God
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Re: Current Annoyances
He's not going to pull his own finger. You should do it for him.
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Re: Current Annoyances
The moment this nurse removes hers from me, then I will be good to go.
- Adam54
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Re: Current Annoyances
I've never had a Ford Focus! You take that back, Dimple!
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Re: Current Annoyances
I am fairly sure your new car that you got all excited about was a Focus?
- Adam54
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Re: Current Annoyances
My current car, which I'm wildly in love with (in spite of it not being much of a winter car and me living in the United States equivalent of Westeros) is a Mazda 3. She's beautiful.
My prior car was a Ford Escort. The transmission died in that one ~2010 though, and I drove a couple different junkers in between that one and the Mazda. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of? Or is the Mazda the same as a Ford Focus on the inside?
My prior car was a Ford Escort. The transmission died in that one ~2010 though, and I drove a couple different junkers in between that one and the Mazda. Perhaps that's what you're thinking of? Or is the Mazda the same as a Ford Focus on the inside?
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Re: Current Annoyances
Yes, that's it, I remember the convo now. Exact same car underneath and I pointed out that the Focus was the best handling car in its class due to a new kind of cheaper limited slip diff that would usually be too expensive, back then, to fit in those types of car. I had a Mazda 3 Sport once.
I remember now.
I remember now.
- Adam54
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It handles SO well. Far and away the best handling car I've ever had. My gas milage is down because of hte cold weather, but "down" is basically from 33-34 City MPG to 30-31. Which is still better than the 28 advertised, so I can handle that.
- The Swollen Goiter of God
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Ah, yes. The Ford Convo: 4.3 liters, thirty horsepower, six-cylinder engine (with Stromberg downdraft carburetor), can go from zero to one-hundred kilometers an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color.Bananarama's Bouncy Bits wrote:Yes, that's it, I remember the convo now.
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Re: Current Annoyances
Trouble with that Stromberg carb was that it just kept on stealing subs.
- The Swollen Goiter of God
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Re: Current Annoyances
You transitioned from a reference to an Indiana Jones movie featuring a Bond to a reference to a Bond movie. Not bad.
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Re: Current Annoyances
I wish it was intentional.
- Adam54
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Re: Current Annoyances
I forgot to mention of course that I drive that car exactly as I live my life. A quarter mile at a time.
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Re: Current Annoyances
Have you ever graduated to a whole new level?
- Adam54
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Re: Current Annoyances
An A level.
And when I graduated, I heard an inexplicable "Ka-CHUNK" noise. True story.
And when I graduated, I heard an inexplicable "Ka-CHUNK" noise. True story.
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Re: Current Annoyances
Was your graduation completely unable to cope with a corner? It's OK, you can tell us.