You know what grinds my gears?
POSTED BY: Wulfenstar
UPDATED: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 01:43
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Yeah, I'm visually impaired and so those quiet silent vehicles really piss me off and scare me.
As for Frem's scare tactics, yeah its fun to scare people, my little brother loves to sneak up on me and scare me and make me jump and sometimes scream, he enjoys it so I don't mind. I'm easy to scare. I hope you don't scare your folk though, especially when they first come to you. If they've been around you for a while and you deem it won't be hurtful to scare them than go ahead, but I hope you don't do it to the ones it wouldn't be fun for. Frem, what is your establishment called? Does it have some sort of website? How would someone go about learning more about helping etc.?
You know what frosts my socks? My best friend's husband, that's what. Anyone else have a problem with best friends' spouses? I love her so I want her to be happy, but pa-lease, he's my least favorite person I know.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Well, the ones I spook deliberately are the ones scouting this area for larceny, so I don't feel too bad about it - if I am coming up on someone innocent unawares, I'll drag my heel or something, rattle my keys, make some small noise so that they realize I am coming - doesn't always work, though, some people get all focused on whatever they're doing and pay no mind to anything else, what I call "being in the HUA Zone".
(as in Head Up Ass)
As for organizational names, the original security company name went with the split between those of us who wanted to stick with what we were doing, and those who wanted to work for DepHomeSec/TSA, which amounted to an epic disaster for them, currently we're operating under the name of the realty corp which is our primary customer, since it allows us to collectively handle payroll and health insurance without as much hassle, streamlineing the whole process.
The advocacy setup has two distinct factions, one being the enforcement arm or "muscle", as one would call it, and that is known as "V.I." the meaning of those initials tending to depend on whim, who is using them and what is going on at the time.
The other, is known as CoTL, or Church of The Lost, initially called The Church Of Lost Children.
(*laugh*, I hadn't realized there's a faction in the game Fallout called this!)
And no, there's never been an internet presence, nor is there likely to be, but if you want to know things, you'd have to be a little more specific in your query - I can direct one to resources, but it helps to have a better idea of what you'd like to know.
For a general overview and concept, CITIVAS/ChildTrauma and Doc Perry are your go-to-sources.
http://childtrauma.org/
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/index.htm
And while she has passed on to the hereafter, useful is the work of Alice Miller.
http://www.alice-miller.com/index_en.php
Also, if you're ever interested in the more boot-up-ass aspect of things, the work of Maia Szalavitz is worth a look, but I don't think she has a website, per se, and Jordan Riak, since Shelby and Sue have retired from the field of battle around the time WWASPS collapsed.
(I plan to stand on the grave till I am sure beyond all doubt it's dead and gonna stay that way, myself.)
And that oughta be enough to get you started - CITIVAS/ChildTrauma has especially good resources for caregivers which you should find most useful, although they seem to be in the middle of a website redesign at the moment.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
-People with names you KNOW their parents made up on the spot. Parents with speech impediments, missing a lower portion of their mandible, or who are generally lazy.
Examples: Mercedes, Lexus, Lemonade (pronounced LeMONde), Shaniqua (in fact, anything ending in "QUA"), Porsche...
-Those stupid bottles of windshield washing fluid that fill your cars tank, but then leave JUST ENOUGH that you can't throw it away. So you drive around with about 2 inches of windshield washing fluid until its time to fill it back up again. Then, oh goody, you have just enough to get you to the gas station to buy ANOTHER poorly designed amount.
Seriously? Those "stupid bottles" are generally measured out to ONE GALLON. Seems a pretty standard amount. Maybe you should rail at all the various carmakers who refuse to make their washer-fluid reservoirs hold a full gallon...
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-Air filling stations that charge you 75 cents. Yes, it cost money to recharge the tanks, but 75 cents?
I'm with ya on that one.
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- Bagless vacumes. They DO NOT WORK. "Nuff said.
But not that one. Obviously you've never tried a Dyson. Works like no other vacuum I've ever used, and I never have to go hunting for replacement bags for it. Pricey, but well worth it, and you can find them on sale from time to time.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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I hate to say it, but I agree with Hero re the Dyson. I love my Dyson.
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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
I hate to say it, but I agree with Hero re the Dyson. I love my Dyson.
Ahem. "Hero"? Seriously?
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Yikes. I'm really sorry about that.
Dyson's rule. YAY 
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Quote:You're STILL whining? Good God. Talk about spoiled.
Originally posted by Wulfenstar:
-Spoiled people.
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-Hybrids. My first car, a 4-banger got 36 mpg on the highway. And 26 in the city. THis was back in 1992. Hybrids, on the other hand, BRAG when they get that kind of mileage.
How does that work? I mean, are hybrids not suppossed to get BETTER MPG than the cars of yore?
- Dr Horibles Live Action Blog. Saw it in DC. IT SUCKED. The actors couldnt act, and the singers couldnt sing. If I could have gotten away with it, I would have beaten the "players" into a coma, taken my friends, and DONE IT MYSELF.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies"
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Actually, Wulfie, most hybrids get far better city mileage than highway mileage. Which is pretty handy, considering that for most people, most of their driving comes in driving around town, commuting, etc., NOT driving on the highway.
As to why cars aren't getting better mileage overall, talk to the Big Three, and ask them why they consistently lobby against raising CAFE standards, and why those standards didn't go up a bit from the late 90s to nearly 2010.
Also, have you WEIGHED a new car lately? A new Miata or Mini weighs more than 2600 pounds, compared with my old '85 CRX, which had a curb weight around 1700.
People have this idiotic belief that bigger and heavier = safer, but by this logic, we should all be driving 18-wheelers and Greyhound buses.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Frem, thanks for those, I was so sure you'd give me some sort of "its a secret" copout, thanks for not doing that because I would have been irritated. I'm going to look at the CITIVAS in a few days, you said their site was having troubles so I'll look another day when it might be fixed. So if my little brother got kidnapped for instance, and the police didn't know what to do, and I wanted an organization like yours to rescue him but I wasn't on this forum, so didn't know you, who would I call to get in touch with you guys to go save him? Note that this is completely hypethetical, my brother is safe and sound here at home with us.
You know what gets on my nerves? People who complain about how selfish everyone else is, but won't admit that they themselves are selfish too. I'm selfish and I admit it, people who piss about others being selfish but won't admit to their own faults are just irritating. Note that I'm not talking about anyone here.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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