What is pissing you off this time?

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's a drag, any way of tracking the culprit and treating them to a slow painful death? Somebody knows, start torturing people till one cracks.

[monster]

oh I know who it was

[xoxoxoBruce]

So I guess instead of immediate thermonuclear destruction, you're designing an insidious plan to create the most suffering from your reprisal. Cool.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by monster

oh I know who it was

Did they do anything to try to make it right? At the very least, they should donate some cash to the school fundraiser.

[monster]

yeah, they did try to make it right. I think the repair is horrible and there's still a glaze chip missing. cash donation won't help.

shit happens. but it's ok to be p-d about it. It was my second bad day on the run. the auction people feel the repair is ok and will try to sell it anyway :/


today not as horrendous so far, but still 23 minutes left. tomorrow ....oh gawd State Swim Championships, can't even think about it. Hopefully I've already used up the entire family's ration of shitty for this week.

[Undertoad]

I ordered oil on Thursday morning, then they took $650 out of my debit account on Friday and completely did not deliver me any oil. They say they are delivering today or tomorrow. Can't they take my huge amount of money AFTER they've actually delivered? It would be a lot less alarming.

[glatt]

How long will that oil last you (if they ever deliver it?) Will you make it through the winter on one tank?

[Undertoad]

Last winter was a three-tank winter. This year I am insulating harder, heating less, and hope to make it through on two. But this place is a sieve.

[glatt]

Our house is like that too, but with natural gas heat, it's a little cheaper. Not a bargain though.

I wonder if we'd save more money if the thermostat was coin operated. Or had one of those dollar bill feeders on it. "Got a chill in your bones? Insert $1 for the next hour of heat."

[Lamplighter]

Oregon also has this problem... and it is multiplying and multiplying and ...

Washington Post
Darryl Fears
November 24, 2013

Virginia acts to reduce population of wild pigs, the ‘most invasive animal’ in U.S.

There’s a population explosion of large, wild animals in the Virginia woods,
and it’s not the cute, doe-eyed kind that conjures images of Bambi.

They have razor-sharp teeth, curling tusks and a nasty temper that prompts some to charge humans.
They’re called feral hogs, wild pigs or big boars, but the names are lumped together because,
said Mike Dye, a biologist for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, “a pig is a pig.”

The animals were introduced to America centuries ago,
but the recent population boom, state game officials and biologists say,
is largely the fault of hunters who imported wild pigs to hunt year round.
The hunters either didn’t know or didn’t care that the pigs are considered
the most invasive animal in the United States<snip>.

With no natural predator, a pig population can triple in just over a year.
To keep the population from growing, 70 percent of it has to be killed [annually], which is nearly impossible.
Virginia’s most recent estimate last year put the pig population at 2,500 to 3,000, with plenty of pairs to mate.<snip>

“As far as ecological damage, there is probably not a worse animal that’s out there,”
said Dye, regional coordinator for feral pigs in Northern Virginia.

Feral hogs date back to Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto,
who brought them to Florida as a food source in 1539.
Later, American colonists allowed some domesticated hogs to feed in the woods,
freeing many of them forever. They continue to escape from farm pens, Killmaster said.
But hunters are most responsible for Georgia’s population explosion, he said.
Echoing officials in other states, including Virginia, Killmaster said
they often free pigs to have something to shoot.

What really pisses me off is the hunters who lease land, and release hogs for hunting,
and leave a population feral hogs behind when their "lease time" is up
... or they simply move on to other things.

This may be the ONLY valid reason for a private citizen to own an AK-47 !

[Undertoad]

much better

[fargon]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

much better

What is that?

[Undertoad]

That is the oil gauge, showing just over 3/4 full.

[fargon]

Is that good, or bad?

[Nirvana]

It pisses me off when I am at the grocery store and the check out girl hacks and coughs and snorts all over my purchases GAH!