OT: Name some things that drive you fucking nuts

[Comeds]

People who insist on riding their bike in snowstorms.

It's already tough enough looking out for cyclists and manoeuvring with/around them in clear conditions. In a storm you can barely see whats in front of you it can be downright impossible.

Does anyone else read this as meaning BBB ran over a cyclist or three this afternoon?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Does anyone else read this as meaning BBB ran over a cyclist or three this afternoon?

yep ... framing his defense me thinks

 

[esls79]

Does anyone else read this as meaning BBB ran over a cyclist or three this afternoon?

In BBB's defense those cyclists probably shouldn't have been on the sidewalk in such weather conditions.

 

[Comeds]

In BBB's defense those cyclists probably shouldn't have been on the sidewalk in such weather conditions.

I agree, let the record show that I think its hard enough looking out for them when its nice out, much less when its snowing.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

In BBB's defense those cyclists probably shouldn't have been on the sidewalk in such weather conditions.

If sidewalks aren't for driving why do they make curbs so easy to mount with a GMC Yukon?

 

[dare2be]

I drive on the driveway and park on the parkway, as grammar intended.

 

[Darkstone42]

I'd be one of those cyclists because I don't have a choice. I don't have a car; my bicycle is my only vehicle.

 

[forty_three]

Went home at lunch to find a UPS delivery "sorry we missed you" tag on the door. Weird because I was not expecting anything.

Looks like it was coming from CDW. So, something electronic. I am taking a security class online and I think I know what it is and who it's from. So I think I will just change the UPS delivery to a UPS store nearby and go get it tomorrow.

Uhhhh, no. Seems the shipper has deemed that sending it to a store to hold is not a safe enough option.


But I could change it to literally any other address in my neighborhood.



Also, UPS won't let me pick it up at their facility either.

Things CDW doesn't trust: UPS
Things UPS doesn't trust: me
Things they both trust; anyone in my neighborhood.

 

[Darkstone42]

Alright, what the actual crap is this?

Federal Workers Told To Halt External Communication In First Week Under Trump | The Huffington Post

It's actual crap is what it is.

 

[dash]

Alright, what the actual crap is this?

Federal Workers Told To Halt External Communication In First Week Under Trump | The Huffington Post

It's actual crap is what it is.

If you change the title of George Orwell's book from '1984' to '2017', there's your answer DS.

 

[dare2be]

Will the official White House press release about this be:

"Fake News...Sad!"

 

[dare2be]

Never underestimate what could happen if Darkstone science gets halted.

 

[Darkstone42]

Never underestimate what could happen if Darkstone science gets halted.

I've already been compelled to turn my twitter political. This is serious.

I've been forced to publicly take such controversial stances as, "Science should inform policy," and "federal agencies should be allowed to communicate scientific information to the public." It's really out of hand.

 

[dash]

Just wait until Oceania goes to war with Eurasia.

 

[Darkstone42]

Just wait until Oceania goes to war with Eurasia.

Liked, but accompanied by a heavy sigh.

 

[Darkstone42]

On the bright side, if this gets extended to all researchers on NSF grants, while my research is being funded by the NSF, I am not personally being paid out of that grant, so a gag order can't touch me yet!

 

[KennyBanyeah]

On the bright side, if this gets extended to all researchers on NSF grants, while my research is being funded by the NSF, I am not personally being paid out of that grant, so a gag order can't touch me yet!

 

[KennyBanyeah]

Seriously though, fight the power. That's crap of government -)) that some agencies in Canada were forced to endure under the last Canadian administration.

It's bullshit and has no place in a democracy.

 

[Comeds]

It's bullshit and has no place in a democracy.

What about in a Trumpocracy?

 

[KennyBanyeah]

What about in a Trumpocracy?

Didn't they make that into a movie?