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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 5, 2021 9:23:07 GMT -5
How can I get the address for the Postmaster General? I want to read that asshat the riot act. Nevermind. Found it. You have mentioned this several places now, and I am starting to wonder exactly what DeJoyless did to you. And how many times.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 5, 2021 11:12:00 GMT -5
You have mentioned this several places now, and I am starting to wonder exactly what DeJoyless did to you. And how many times. Apart from a general slowing down of my mail and the crappy tactics he attempted to use during the last election, my big gripe with his leadership is from a situation that is still reverberating here. First, I never got my mortgage payment bill from a couple of months ago, which then put me late a payment on the next month. Despite never missing a payment for the past five years, I suddenly had emails coming in asking for back-owed money. So, I sent the mortgage company a check for two months. Well, almost two weeks later, it still hadn't showed up, so I contacted them directly and made arrangements for a one-time payment over the phone for the missing two payments. And then of course the check cleared the next day. So, I basically paid for four months at once. All I know is, a piece of first class mail shouldn't take nine effing days. I lay the blame for all this nonsense at his feet for his so-called changes to the USPS.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 5, 2021 21:12:19 GMT -5
You have mentioned this several places now, and I am starting to wonder exactly what DeJoyless did to you. And how many times. Apart from a general slowing down of my mail and the crappy tactics he attempted to use during the last election, my big gripe with his leadership is from a situation that is still reverberating here. First, I never got my mortgage payment bill from a couple of months ago, which then put me late a payment on the next month. Despite never missing a payment for the past five years, I suddenly had emails coming in asking for back-owed money. So, I sent the mortgage company a check for two months. Well, almost two weeks later, it still hadn't showed up, so I contacted them directly and made arrangements for a one-time payment over the phone for the missing two payments. And then of course the check cleared the next day. So, I basically paid for four months at once. All I know is, a piece of first class mail shouldn't take nine effing days. I lay the blame for all this nonsense at his feet for his so-called changes to the USPS. That is a BIG fish bun.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 5, 2021 23:46:08 GMT -5
Apart from a general slowing down of my mail and the crappy tactics he attempted to use during the last election, my big gripe with his leadership is from a situation that is still reverberating here. First, I never got my mortgage payment bill from a couple of months ago, which then put me late a payment on the next month. Despite never missing a payment for the past five years, I suddenly had emails coming in asking for back-owed money. So, I sent the mortgage company a check for two months. Well, almost two weeks later, it still hadn't showed up, so I contacted them directly and made arrangements for a one-time payment over the phone for the missing two payments. And then of course the check cleared the next day. So, I basically paid for four months at once. All I know is, a piece of first class mail shouldn't take nine effing days. I lay the blame for all this nonsense at his feet for his so-called changes to the USPS. That is a BIG fish bun.
Yeah, and I'm already seeing the same effect playing out with my internet. In the past the pushy fuckers at Cox Cable would send an email about the same day I'd receive my bill in the mail. I got the usual "You can now view your bill online!" email a couple of days ago...and still no bill.
I know, I know...just switch to recurring online payments. Join the 21st century! It's the point that my whole life I've had a fantastic relationship with the USPS. Considering the volume of mail I've sent and received, I'd say they have a fantastic track record. At least until last year.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 12, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -5
Well, happy to report that things seem to have resolved themselves with the above postal snafus.
Tonight's conundrum goes thus: Any quilters know a proven technique for removing candle wax remains from a glass candle holder? I honestly have always just thrown away old glass candle holders, but I want to start saving them for storage or at the very least for some Halloween prop. Like this cheapie from youknowwhereIwork that came in a tall thick glass with a handy glass topper. It seals pretty good. It could prove useful for storing things. But I need a simple, no mess way to lose the wax traces first.
It's getting hot enough down here already, I'm thinking I could just turn it over when I go to work and see if it doesn't just drip out of the jar in the afternoon heat. Even after that, there's usually a waxy blurry coating from where the candle once was that is really hard to make completely go away.
Help, Auntie Zaqb! I need your professional household tips now more than ever!
Signed,
Paraffin Perturbed in P'cola
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Post by Deeky on Jun 13, 2021 0:05:19 GMT -5
Hot water? I think that may melt it off fairly easily if it's glass.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 13, 2021 4:47:03 GMT -5
Kobb, if you don't suck that wax out with your own bare lips, you're no kind of a man.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jun 13, 2021 8:15:35 GMT -5
Hot water? I think that may melt it off fairly easily if it's glass. Totally. Hot water.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 13, 2021 10:17:29 GMT -5
Kobb, if you don't suck that wax out with your own bare lips, you're no kind of a man.
I don't know how far the "Dear Marxo" advice column is going to go.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 14, 2021 5:09:50 GMT -5
Kobb, if you don't suck that wax out with your own bare lips, you're no kind of a man.
I don't know how far the "Dear Marxo" advice column is going to go. I have 239,218,321,094,821,094,732,231 subscribers (and that's just the Milky Way).
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 17, 2021 21:14:20 GMT -5
I don't know how far the "Dear Marxo" advice column is going to go. I have 239,218,321,094,821,094,732,231 subscribers (and that's just the Milky Way).
Well I have to say - you're doing a marvelous job. They rarely run into each other and don't seem to explode all that often.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Jun 18, 2021 4:49:56 GMT -5
I have 239,218,321,094,821,094,732,231 subscribers (and that's just the Milky Way).
Well I have to say - you're doing a marvelous job. They rarely run into each other and don't seem to explode all that often. They only explode when I tell them to.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 23, 2021 11:32:52 GMT -5
Can someone tell me whether this DVD is probably playable on a standard USA DVD-player?
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Post by El Santo on Jun 23, 2021 12:04:28 GMT -5
Can someone tell me whether this DVD is probably playable on a standard USA DVD-player? Reel Vault appears to be a US-based company, so I'd expect so.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 11, 2021 12:16:08 GMT -5
Why are the dead during wartime referred to as "casualties"? Seems like an almost disparaging term if, as I assume, it derives from the root word "casual".
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 11, 2021 12:17:25 GMT -5
Is there a name for the function of washers/dryers that always turns your socks inside-out? Bonus: If it's intentional, there ought to be machines that could turn them inside-out and back again.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 11, 2021 12:29:07 GMT -5
Is there a name for the function of washers/dryers that always turns your socks inside-out? Bonus: If it's intentional, there ought to be machines that could turn them inside-out and back again. Are you sure you aren't turning them inside-out when you take them off? Washers really aren't equipped to do that.
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Post by Deeky on Jul 12, 2021 19:11:27 GMT -5
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Post by El Santo on Jul 13, 2021 9:31:39 GMT -5
Why are the dead during wartime referred to as "casualties"? Seems like an almost disparaging term if, as I assume, it derives from the root word "casual". To begin with a clarification: "casualties" aren't just the dead. They're also the wounded, the sick, the unexplainedly missing-- any member of the force who is no longer able to fight because something happened to them. That's because in its earliest usage, "casualty" meant simply "happenstance," which subsequent evolution transformed into "accident" or "misfortune." The insurance industry still uses "casualty" in approximately the latter sense, too, for liability policies that cover damages caused by your fuck-ups. That "happenstance" meaning is at the bottom of "casual," as well, but the adjective has drifted much further from its ancestral definition than the related noun.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Jul 14, 2021 10:53:01 GMT -5
Why are the dead during wartime referred to as "casualties"? Seems like an almost disparaging term if, as I assume, it derives from the root word "casual". To begin with a clarification: "casualties" aren't just the dead. They're also the wounded, the sick, the unexplainedly missing-- any member of the force who is no longer able to fight because something happened to them. That's because in its earliest usage, "casualty" meant simply "happenstance," which subsequent evolution transformed into "accident" or "misfortune." The insurance industry still uses "casualty" in approximately the latter sense, too, for liability policies that cover damages caused by your fuck-ups. That "happenstance" meaning is at the bottom of "casual," as well, but the adjective has drifted much further from its ancestral definition than the related noun. The word "happy" is also related to "happenstance" iirc... Though "I'm actually pretty casualty about how the day went" seems not to work (at least not as intended).
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