Things That Annoy You

[UnscreenedCaller]

Dave's tactic has always been to divide forum members, and he tried last time Art was on the air. It didn't work then and it won't work now. I have a lot of faith in Bellgabbers who've been through a lot waiting for Art to come back to the airwaves. So if there are Davebots, good luck with trying to pull a Fantastic Forum here, not with so many people who saw firsthand just how dirty Premrats can act.

[UnscreenedCaller]

Sorry to hear that. Perhaps a new doo from your hair wizard will cure your blues?

TY, yep maybe a judicious application of ginger by George the genius will cancel out the blues. If not, there's still apple bourbon left over from my farmer's market apple experiment to chase the mehs away.

[bateman]

Dave's tactic has always been to divide forum members, and he tried last time Art was on the air. It didn't work then and it won't work now. I have a lot of faith in Bellgabbers who've been through a lot waiting for Art to come back to the airwaves. So if there are Davebots, good luck with trying to pull a Fantastic Forum here, not with so many people who saw firsthand just how dirty Premrats can act.

They tend to get spotted pretty early on now. 

[bateman]

TY, yep maybe a judicious application of ginger by George the genius will cancel out the blues. If not, there's still apple bourbon left over from my farmer's market apple experiment to chase the mehs away.

Bateman's favorite bourbons:

1.  Four Roses Small Batch
2.  Michter's 10 Year
3.  Woodford Reserve
4.  Booker's
5.  Buffalo Trace

[UnscreenedCaller]

Bateman's favorite bourbons:

1.  Four Roses Small Batch
2.  Michter's 10 Year
3.  Woodford Reserve
4.  Booker's
5.  Buffalo Trace

I see I have five bourbons I must work through, having spent too much time already on the mass produced stuff. The apple bourbon was the result of adding farmer's market apples, some simple sugar syrup and a cinnamon stick to a liter of bourbon and letting it all blend for a week, strain and enjoy. DIY bourbon liqueur, you might say.

[Heather Wade]

I has de sadz. It's annoying.

Did you know you are the Queen of BellGab?  Hope that helps.   
Love ya, Unscreened. 

[bateman]

I see I have five bourbons I must work through, having spent too much time already on the mass produced stuff. The apple bourbon was the result of adding farmer's market apples, some simple sugar syrup and a cinnamon stick to a liter of bourbon and letting it all blend for a week, strain and enjoy. DIY bourbon liqueur, you might say.

Yum. If you have some Booker's, be forewarned, it's 127 proof so it will knock you on your ass. It's got caramel & vanilla notes, so if you mix it with Coke, it's spectacular.

[bateman]

Did you know you are the Queen of BellGab?  Hope that helps.   
Love ya, Unscreened. 

Popple & Lonevoice would like a word with you.

[Heather Wade]

Popple & Lonevoice would like a word with you.

I can't stay out of trouble!   

[UnscreenedCaller]

Did you know you are the Queen of BellGab?  Hope that helps.   
Love ya, Unscreened.

Aw, (Redacted), don't make me get all teary and stuff! Thank you just for being you! 

[UnscreenedCaller]

Yum. If you have some Booker's, be forewarned, it's 127 proof so it will knock you on your ass. It's got caramel & vanilla notes, so if you mix it with Coke, it's spectacular.

Ooooh. Writing this down. I'll drink it on the floor if that'll help.

[jazmunda]

Popple & Lonevoice would like a word with you.

Popple's a chick? I thought I was masturbating to a guys posts.

[onan]

How dare you not mention TW? or MV for that matter?

[bateman]

Popple's a chick? I thought I was masturbating to a guys posts.

Use a little extra mayo, you'll enjoy it just the same.

[Eddie Coyle]

   Personifying child is father to the man and getting worse with age.

    And VH1 Classic airing Coach.

[lonevoice]

I can't stay out of trouble!   

I'm uploading the video rant to youtube now.   

[Heather Wade]

I'm uploading the video rant to youtube now.   

I might get excited if Elvira rants about me on youtube.   

How dare you not mention TW? or MV for that matter?

From these top secret BellGab documents, I see MV listed as the Drag Queen.  He looks beautiful though, no denying that.   

[Camazotz Automat]

From these top secret BellGab documents, I see MV listed as the Drag Queen.  He looks beautiful though, no denying that.

All these flashbacks I possess of Art bumping up ABBA's Dancing Queen...

In one careless surgical swoop, you've tainted them all.

[jazmunda]

So I changed the plan for all the mobile phones in our office and instead of billing our mobiles, landlines and internet on the same bill like they always used to our provider started billing the mobiles separately. I asked that they be billed on the same bill from now on and they obliged. Because this happened near the end of the month I still received one last bill for $77.

I paid the bill via credit card and today, a month later, I receive a bill for $0.78 credit card processing fee. Now it costs $0.70 cents to send a letter in Australia (no doubt a big telecommunications company gets a cheaper deal from Australia Post) and the paper and the printing has to cost something. I would assume it costs close to the 78 cents that they are billing me for. Hopefully it costs them more than that.

Now do I just continue to pay $0.78 a month just to get a small victory over these incompetent fucks?

So I go to pay this bill via BPAY (an Australian electronic bill paying system which enables payments to be made through a Financial Institution's online banking facility to organisations who are registered BPAY billers) and I cannot make the payment because the amount is too small. How the fuck do they want me to pay this? I can't pay by credit card because I will be forced into an infinite loop of credit card payments and credit card processing fees and if I go to the post office and pay with cash I will be shafted 2 cents because our lowest coin amount is 5 cents and I will be screwed in the rounding. They suggested that I pay via check which will cost me an extra 70 cents to send in the mail. I said I was better off driving down to the post office but then how do I calculate how much petrol I waste driving there.

The nice lady I spoke to on the phone saw the humor in the situation and cancelled the bill and closed off the account.

Fuck them anyway.

[Heather Wade]

All these flashbacks I possess of Art bumping up ABBA's Dancing Queen...

In one careless surgical swoop, you've tainted them all.

What you need to do is repeat "My flashbacks are sacred.  My flashbacks are my own." Three times, while turning clockwise, under the moonlight & it'll go away. 

So I go to pay this bill via BPAY (an Australian electronic bill paying system which enables payments to be made through a Financial Institution's online banking facility to organisations who are registered BPAY billers) and I cannot make the payment because the amount is too small. How the fuck do they want me to pay this? I can't pay by credit card because I will be forced into an infinite loop of credit card payments and credit card processing fees and if I go to the post office and pay with cash I will be shafted 2 cents because our lowest coin amount is 5 cents and I will be screwed in the rounding. They suggested that I pay via check which will cost me an extra 70 cents to send in the mail. I said I was better off driving down to the post office but then how do I calculate how much petrol I waste driving there.

The nice lady I spoke to on the phone saw the humor in the situation and cancelled the bill and closed off the account.

Fuck them anyway.

You're 78 cents ahead!  But still, the absurdity of our times & trying to get simple things accomplished with technology can be mind-bending.  I would have walked there & gave them 80 cents, coin on desk, just to get the receipt.  Your way is better.

[jazmunda]

Why in the digital age are we charged for paying for things via credit card online? We are saving the company from hiring an employee, doing paperwork and filling not to mention saving paper and physical storage space. I just don't get it. Perhaps George does. Too soon?

[PB the Deplorable]

... The nice lady I spoke to on the phone saw the humor in the situation and cancelled the bill and closed off the account...

Not so fast.

It's another 65c to call and speak to a live person at the company

[jazmunda]

Not so fast.

It's another 65c to call and speak to a live person at the company

Lucky for them it was their toll free number.

Also I was speaking to an Aussie in Australia so that had to cost them a bit more than the usual Malaysian or Filipinos I usually get.

[Treading Water]

What you need to do is repeat "My flashbacks are sacred.  My flashbacks are my own." Three times, while turning clockwise, under the moonlight & it'll go away. 

You forgot to mention the naked part....

Oh, (facepalm) it's understood....

[Heather Wade]

You forgot to mention the naked part....

Oh, (facepalm) it's understood....

Naked, or it doesn't work.  So true.   

[albrecht]

Bateman's favorite bourbons:

1.  Four Roses Small Batch
2.  Michter's 10 Year
3.  Woodford Reserve
4.  Booker's
5.  Buffalo Trace

So funny how Four Roses has come back (a few years, or decade,  ago only found in export markets and here in the US was a rot-gut blend) so mine, in no order:
JTS Brown. Yes, I said it. Only in glass bottles though, but the well of choice, but surprisingly good consider the price. And anything drank by Paul Newman, to his detriment, in The Hustler, is fine by me! Evan Williams (if you want that sour mash type.) Much cheaper than Jack Black and still 86 proof. Old-Granddad 101 Bottled-In-Bond (harder to find now for some reason.) But I dig more rye and somewhat harsher, pepper taste so Old Overholt or, if you can find Pikesville.The "new" rye so popular, as also much of the popular sour mashes, are industrial distilled (Indiana even) so I like the old stuff. Whiskey the way it was. Harsh, nice. For bourbon also I like Old Forester. For game days I tend to drink Early Times (hey, flask early in the day so works for me (as Hunter might say!) Bourbon is a little too-sweet for me so if not going full rye I like a higher concentration of rye. Scotch? Ardbeg. Depending on the year but always great. Yum. I want to breath peat for two days further with my scotch.

[b_dubb]

The cost of a refurbished rim to replace this one that was cracked and bent by a pothole on the frigging highway. On the upside the wheel was somehow able to maintain pressure instead of having a blowout at high speed.

[jazmunda]

I hear ya. I had a blowout at highspeed with my whole family in the car. Changing the tire on the side of the freeway with cars whizzing past at 100 kph (62 mph) was one of the scariest things I have ever done in my life.

[Gemstone]

I hear ya. I had a blowout at highspeed with my whole family in the car. Changing the tire on the side of the freeway with cars whizzing past at 100 kph (62 mph) was one of the scariest things I have ever done in my life.

Completely frightening.  Glad you and your family are safe!  I had a blowout on a freeway in SF in the fast lane. After bouncing off the center divide and doing unintentional donuts to the shoulder, the frame of my car was completely bent.  Absolutely one of the scariest things I've experienced.

[b_dubb]

Yeah jaz ... glad you and the family are ok. I don't mind the expense given how bad things could've gone. Just a hassle really.