What pissed you off today?

[midwestyankee]

@SW, you have my sympathy. I find my body is far less capable of withstanding accidental abuse than it used to be and I winced to the point of not being able to see my monitor when I read your post.

I hear that it's much more dry in west Texas, though they do get their share of ice storms each winter. Phoenix and its surrounding territory is also remarkably much more arid -and thus less slickery - than the northern plains. It's tempting to me, anyway.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Thanks, y'all. I can walk a lot better today than yesterday It still hurts, but not as much. I'm thinkin' I just stretched whatever it is a bit instead of actually pulling, straining or tearing it, and I'm hoping I'll be pretty much back to (my) normal by the weekend. I credit all the good thoughts and prayers and stuff for the rapid improvement.

 

[Bandit58]

Thanks, y'all. I can walk a lot better today than yesterday It still hurts, but not as much. I'm thinkin' I just stretched whatever it is a bit instead of actually pulling, straining or tearing it, and I'm hoping I'll be pretty much back to (my) normal by the weekend. I credit all the good thoughts and prayers and stuff for the rapid improvement.

It sounds like you've pulled the hamstring in the back of your thigh. It's painful but will recover with rest. Try gentle massage with something like deep heat or a good massage oil. We use emu oil which reduces inflammation and pain.

I don't stretch too well either, never been able to touch my toes even as a kid....

 

[DVS]

So... I wandered off to the local grocery to pick up some bread this morning (because we were out, and I decided I wanted some French toast for breakfast). Got the bread - and *her* 100% Whole Wheat bread was on sale for $1.40 off, so I got two for her - and drove home peacefully enough listening to Shania Twain.

Pulled in the driveway (backwards, as is my wont) and parked, got out of the car with my two lightweight bags, rounded the front of the car with the intention of passing between our cars, and hit a slickery - very slickery - spot in the snow/ice/slush just as I stepped and pressed my left foot down for a slight (20º or so) change of direction. My left foot zoooooooooooomed forward at slightly under the speed of light while my right foot remained pretty well planted right where it had been, resulting in my doing a remarkably poor imitation of a cheerleader's semi-split (the one where one leg goes straight out and the other is bent at >90º and balancing the person).

Unfortunately, my aged body doesn't stretch and bend in those directions, or at least not that far in those directions. Even before my carcass hit the cold, snowy ground, I felt either a tendon, ligament or the muscle in the back of my left thigh give way in a manner bespeaking instant and probably long-lasting pain. It's a good thing I have ample supplies of hydrocodone on hand. I'm going to need them. <Sigh>

Some kind thoughts, positive vibes, and/or prayers would be appreciated. I'd like to be at least reasonably mobile within a few days, and my current land speed rate is measured somewhere around .08 tortoise.

It never fails, does it? You think everything is fine and then that one step... I know I don't have to tell you that we don't heal with the speed we once did. I hope you're doing OK now, so you can have a nice Thanksgiving holiday.

 

[DVS]

Cruelty to animals. I don't have any sympathy for someone who hurts animals. If they bite you, you must have done something to cause it. Keep your fucking hands out of the way. Animals are always honest with their feelings. They give back what they get. If you're mean to them, expect them to be mean to you.

To the 31 year old bitch in the UK who killed the kitten. A 10 week old kitten is defenseless and you chose to hurt one of God's beautiful and delicate creatures just to satisfy your own stupid hatred that had nothing...NOTHING AT ALL to do with that kitten. I pray that God makes you suffer dearly for your careless, thoughtless and very evil act. And until that time comes, I hope the RSPCA and PETA both do their best to make your life a living hell.

 

[Stella_Omega]

people who re-write their memories and try to tell me I'm mistaken about what happened. Needless to say, the re-write leaves them blameless for some long term consequences and makes me look like a harridan who invents grudges.

Sorry, won't let you get away with that.

 

[butterfly_flip]

Cruelty to animals. I don't have any sympathy for someone who hurts animals. If they bite you, you must have done something to cause it. Keep your fucking hands out of the way. Animals are always honest with their feelings. They give back what they get. If you're mean to them, expect them to be mean to you.

To the 31 year old bitch in the UK who killed the kitten. A 10 week old kitten is defenseless and you chose to hurt one of God's beautiful and delicate creatures just to satisfy your own stupid hatred that had nothing...NOTHING AT ALL to do with that kitten. I pray that God makes you suffer dearly for your careless, thoughtless and very evil act. And until that time comes, I hope the RSPCA and PETA both do their best to make your life a living hell.

I read about that earlier, fucking bitch
It sickens me that people like her exist


In other news, a migraine pissed me off royally.........damn thing has been threatening all week, and it decided to make today the day it fucking showed it's face Am now in a post migraine fog........hoping it'll lift by tomorrow.

 

[Lilac_Sky]

Racing heart rate for no good damn reason ..... tension sucks, stress sucks, panic attacks for no apparent reason suck

 

[bhndblueyes88]

I'm pissed at my oven, because it always screws up my baking and I'm just PRAYING it does not ruin this cheesecake. The damn thing runs about 100 degrees hot and always takes FOREVER to find the right temperature. Thank god for oven thermometers.

 

[satindesire]

my darling daughter (She's a little bitch) not going to school after I left for work
is ther a cure for 14 year old girls that doesn't take 7 years

I really hope you don't call your daughter a "little bitch" to her face.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

I'm pissed at my oven, because it always screws up my baking and I'm just PRAYING it does not ruin this cheesecake. The damn thing runs about 100 degrees hot and always takes FOREVER to find the right temperature. Thank god for oven thermometers.

I absolutely suck at baked cheesecake.

I stick to chilled ones now.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

I absolutely suck at baked cheesecake.

I stick to chilled ones now.

it came out of the oven alright. been sitting in the fridge. we'll have to see tonight what it tastes like.

 

[Vixandra]

Being told I need to:
Get counseling
Get drunk
Get pregnant
That my mother in law, who said the above thinks she's like hitler for bringing my smooth skin into the family... Hubby's family is Hispanic but MIL is white.

I wouldn't mind family functions so much on his side if I didn't get so much grief for not being her idea f normal, pregnant or willing to face a migraine over drinking alcohol- I hurt enough as is.

 

[Treasured]

The fat twat who smelled at Wal Mart tonight who ripped 3 Wii games out of my hand.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

The fat twat who smelled at Wal Mart tonight who ripped 3 Wii games out of my hand.

buy yourself a discreet handgun.

 

[Treasured]

buy yourself a discreet handgun.

I have one, and if I would have had it with me I would have came home with that game

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I have one, and if I would have had it with me I would have came home with that game

my weapon of choice is a shovel. up close and personal; i can smell the fear, see their eyes, and it makes such a rich, deep *bong* against the cranium.

 

[Treasured]

my weapon of choice is a shovel. up close and personal; i can smell the fear, see their eyes, and it makes such a rich, deep *bong* against the cranium.

She smelled funky, I didn't want to get to close to smell "funky and fear"

 

[geronimo_appleby]

She smelled funky, I didn't want to get to close to smell "funky and fear"

you're turning me on!

 

[Treasured]

you're turning me on!

Honest to God GA she smelled like fumunda cheese.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

Honest to God GA she smelled like fumunda cheese.

i have no idea what that smells like!

... which pisses me off.

 

[bhndblueyes88]

*rant deleted in case it sets someone else off into being offended like it has elsewhere*

 

[OldGuy1026]

The fat twat who smelled at Wal Mart tonight who ripped 3 Wii games out of my hand.

What no pepper spray?

Darn it, one less person the the list of suspects.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

I don't know how much *real* effect the OWS (etc.) protests will end up having, and I'm not sure I agree with all the aims I've heard ascribed to the movement, but the following, if true, *does* piss me off mightily and make me want to contribute something to the cause. (It's too damn far to any of the protest sites for me to consider actual participation.)

The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class's venality

US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park.

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The New York Times reported that "New York cops have arrested, punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed a barrier at reporters and photographers" covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD to raise their hands to prove they had credentials: when many dutifully did so, they were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the story they were covering, and penned far from the site in which the news was unfolding. Other reporters wearing press passes were arrested and roughed up by cops, after being – falsely – informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."

In New York, a state supreme court justice and a New York City council member were beaten up; in Berkeley, California, one of our greatest national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with batons. The picture darkened still further when Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on "how to suppress" Occupy protests.

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I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy. Message coordination of this kind is impossible without a full-court press at the top. This was clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out mayors', city-by-city municipal overreaction against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels....

I was still deeply puzzled as to why OWS, this hapless, hopeful band, would call out a violent federal response.

That is, until I found out what it was that OWS actually wanted.

The mainstream media was declaring continually "OWS has no message". Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online "What is it you want?" answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.

The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.

No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.

When I saw this list – and especially the last agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them.​

Much, much more in the article linked in the headline above.

 

[Jaded_One]

Welcome to the revolution... I never would have survived the protests in the 60's... I watched the video of the officer spraying these kids who were simply sitting on the ground. I can't even imagine what it was like to face down hoses, dogs and bullets.

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson