The [Disco Chives] Misplaced Parrot Complaint Thread
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Hahahaha!!! I can almost see those monkey's typing and painting the walls with invisible color...
Only two complaints today: Only one of them is bad a movie/series. The most recent waste-of-binge was because I was under the weather for a few days and decided to finally check out Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" on HBO. I remembered the Golden Compass from years ago and had kind of enjoyed it so was looking forward to it. The First season of 8 episodes was the first story, so pretty much similar to what I remembered from the old movie. Gave it a mental thumbs up and was excited to dive into the rest of the story... (sigh) Then slowly realized why the others hadn't been made into a movie the first time. It just was a mess. Story just meandered all over the place and world rules would get broken for no apparent reason and it ended in that "tragic" unattainable love theme that is so tried in my opinion... dissappointing.
My second complaint is: fake nice people. Now... I'm not always nice, so this isn't a complaint about people who are not always nice. But, when I am being nice, I'm being true. And when I'm not being nice, I'm being true, too. I tend to expect the same of others. So, I also tend to have very little patience for pretend niceties. Choose a lane. Be true to it, I say. /rant
I didn't mind His Dark Materials, but I hated the ending. They've just spent 3 years establishing that Lyra is the last person in the universes after her father to just go along with the rules if they hurt people. No way woudk she just give up without at least questioning whether it has to be that way.
I adore Dafne Keen, by the way. Incredibly talented.
Exactly! Lyra was so out of character in the final season (book). It honestly made no sense to me. Wasn't she going after her dad/uncle? Then for no reason didn't do that and decides her dead friend is worth leaving her daemon behind on a dock (which was supposed to cause death, I thought?). Then went on to the land of the dead, where (supposedly) all past souls had been "trapped" since the dawn of eternity. Why didn't she and Will rebuke those angels and decide to close the windows together? Suddenly daemons and humans can't exist out of their own world even though they had been traveling to all the worlds together the whole time? It just made no sense! I feel like the only character I understood, was the mother (Marissa Coulter). At least she stayed consistent!
sound like Master Baiters
I want this doll. I think she is so pretty!
last year I mentioned the widowmaker gum tree that failed to get me
well some poor 22yo woman got killed by one in the Adelaide parklands yesterday
Having a memory that has dwindled to the size of an ant's egg, remind me about "widowmaker gum tree". Please.
Was it a species of manifestly lethal down-under tree, or just an average eucalyptus tree that jumps out in front of cars, for sport?
Widow maker gum trees, and why you should clear the deadwood | Sydney Tree Removals
They "self-prune" to conserve water by dropping huge branches from great heights.
Ah, I see. The answer is "both". Manifestly lethal, and vindictive.
So, the insects, spiders, snakes, reptiles, crocs, AND trees are out to kill in Oz. That's re-assuring! So glad the mammals are slightly benign.
Regards,
Richard
I don't know about that. Male kangroos are terrifying.
I'd look into who ordered the hit... Who'd want to bump you off?... Widowmaker Gun Trees aren't known for their ability to formulate assasination plans on their own... usually they are hired by some other trees or shrubs... Acacia and Ficus can be very vindictive and will go to great lengths and expenses in their quest for revenge... A potted ficus tree once followed a researcher all the way to Antarctica because he peed on it at a frat party in college.
Ficus are an exception though... there are more dangerous trees like the Sniper Oak... if you piss one off forget it... they say once you see that glowing red dot, it's all over.
not sure how to search a specific thread but I mentioned here how minutes after I walked along a footpath then sat down, a gum dropped a huge limb on the path I had just been on
scary but like lightning you really have to be very unlucky like the poor young lady in the park
they drop on cars driving along roads too on rare occasions leading sadly to many avenues being stripped of trees
I have no idea what kind of tree it was but we had a similar incident. I wasn't home at the time. But I was told by the other woman that there was a loud crash. And when I got home I saw a large branch had fallen off of our tree, very close to the house. It was a good tree. It had been there for a long time, almost as old as this post. Actually I guess it wasn't such a similar incident because nobody got killed. But there was a tree involved.
was actually a much older post but definitely was thinking about that incident during a storm and looking at my tree
seeing it in 3D on Google Earth made md rralise how big it really is too
Of course there is also the Claymore Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum grandibagum), a secretive species that lurks unseen in many a herbaceous border, helped by it’s apparent ability to mimic the colours of the surrounding flowers, as it waits for an unsuspecting victim to wander by when the flower head explodes sending mass of razor sharp petals spinning across the lawn to instantaneously mulch the flowers victim providing much needed nutrients to the lawn, it is unclear what the chrysanthemum gets from this other than the pleasure of turning it’s victim into mush.
The leading expert in the Claymore Chrysanthemum, Dr. Florence Philadelphus theorised that this explosive destruction of the flower head allowed the plant to fertilise any nearby Chrysanthemum grandibagums without the need for a third party such as a passing bird of bee. Unfortunately the doctor was unable to confirm this before she disappeared during a visit to the Last Garden of Hell-An-Gone in darkest Somerset in 1984, she was last seen entering the Great Walled Garden just after lunch and was never seen again, though it should be noted that the Great Walled Garden subsequentially won the ‘Best Lawn’ category at the prestigious Great British Walled Garden awards later in the same year.
So take care when stopping to smell the flowers, you never know what’s lurking amongst the floral blooms, or should that be floral booms!
I "pity the fool" who comes to this thread looking for honest advice.
But if you want to learn about Ninja Chrysanthemums, or the residents of McGyver's beastiary, this is the place.
I had to look up "widowmaker gum tree". I thought at first it was going to be something like the Sandbox tree, which boggles my mind and sounds absolutely terrifying to me. I mean... the thing can HEAR you coming?!?!? So happy to live somewhere where the plant life doesn't chase you!
Agreed, but there are few mammals a benign as a Quokka. And mostly wild Rock Hyraxes are simply adorable (as we found in Granite Gorge (FNQ). Regards, Richard.
I don't know which invasive species the North American continent has inherited from Great Britain (other than perhaps Englishmen), but now they can enjoy these in their ponds. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68261267
According to a recent episode of QI you have our earthworms, carried over with plants and because you had none of your own they thrived, so as I understand it every earthwrm in Northern America is British, 100% of the population, now that's how you do an invasive species.
Talking about terrifying animals, that TAX animal is coming to a house near you.
Complaint: Taxes. So, I had to change tax guys to do my taxes. They want me to upload my taxes to Intuit's website.
MY Response:
Ok, so who exactly is doing my taxes? If I am uploading tax documents to a website made by Intuit, what am I paying you for?
Never Mind, I'll have someone do my taxes this year. I'll have Intuit do them and bypass paying you also.
Thank you for your time.
Complaint: The inventor of child-proof caps, did they forget we go into our second childhood and need to open our meds?
I call them Adult-Proof! Kids find a way.
Well, if a computer science student wants help getting their linked list working or if somebody wants to know the ins and outs of earned income tax credit, I'd try to help. But if they're just talking about the weather or what movies they like and don't like, I may well take the time to explain how I planned to escape the Western Missouri Mental Health Center.
+1
I appreciate the ones that are childproof but can be turned upside-down to be non-childproof, so you only have to defeat them once, except that when upside-down they extend further into the vial, so you can't do it if they fill the vial to the brim.
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Add to that what I refer to as "arthritis proof packaging" requiring one to have a drawer of specialised tools in the kitchen for opening things other than tins. One item I use for opening jars is an oil filter wrench. It works far better than those "jar wrenches" or rubber grips that fit over the cap. For smaller bottles I use a nutcracker.
The other morning when I was opening a pint carton of half & half for my coffee I found they used so much glue on the end which I was supposed to open, that I nearly tore the spout apart that it was supposed to form.. The worst is that plastic packaging which seems to have a Mohs hardness value greater than tungsten, and plastic which wrap when you try to break it open, just stretches and when it finally gives it splits in the wrong place often dumping the contents on the counter and/or floor For that situation, I have a several different sizes of scissors in the kitchen just for that,
For re-closing bags of items like crisps, and frozen potatoes/veggies I just bought a box of those large black metal binder clips. Cheaper, more durable, and they clamp tighter than those plastic ones sold at grocery markets
I call them Wendy proof
I am doing boring USB drive content shuffling
2 days!!!!!!! later finally copied all my DAZ content to my new 6TB drive, it's half full
now doing all the Rendo and other stuff, it will be almost full but at least on one drive again
formatted the original one and am copying all my other crap from the 2 externals I want to return to my Win7 onto it
(they were from there but was using them after I lost my 4TB one that died)
they were my backups for some of my lost stuff (mostly all my videos) and shall resume that role
intend keeping that practice of having multiple copies in case happens again, incredibly lucky I had done it, still lost a hell of a lot of other stuff
...complaint:
Both frightened and riled at what I just heard this evening but sadly cannot relate the details here.
God giveth and taketh away
after buying my 6TB drive for my Win10 my 4TB on my Win7 with all my DAZ content AND ZIPS
decides to die
the only computer Smart Content worked on too
I am cursed
I think that PC might be a drive killer TBH
as it killed my other ones (except the Win10 C drive that is)
I will try and see if it works on another PC later but not optimistic
oh it works but now my Win7 rig won't boot up
RIP Win7 and all my Music Software
Condolences on your digital tragedies.
Yet another stress of modern life.
Bears in the cave were a pain but errant quantums, and electron stampedes are invisible enemies.