'round here we call them “fucking posers”.

well that was a fun little rabbit hole where I found this gem 😄

I see I am amongst people of culture, so I won’t bore you with too many ignoble details. It was last October and my wife and I were on our anniversary trip to the mountains of western North Carolina, and my wife dragged me to one of those musical dinner theaters in Pigeon Forge Tennessee. I’m not going to say which one, because the show was just so god-awful I’m afraid that naming them would seem impolite. It was a patriotic themed show, and the place was maybe a tenth of the way filled at most. I’m one of those people who easily suffer from second-hand embarrassment, and I was cringing so hard it was beginning to manifest into physical discomfort. It couldn’t end fast enough, and when it was over my wife looked at me and actually apologized for inflicting that upon us. I must admit, I had a hard time masking my lack of enthusiasm when she first told me of her plans…

from Wikipedia:

Elwood Francis (born August 23, 1961) is an American guitar tech and bassist. The longtime guitar technician for bassist Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, Francis replaced Hill in the band after Hill’s death in 2021 at Hill’s request.

In 2022, Francis went viral for performing on stage with a 17-string bass guitar, an instrument he found “late at night while internet surfing on one of those Chinese websites”.[7] He sent the listing to Billy Gibbons and they ordered the bass from China. Francis has admitted that he hates playing the instrument as it is hard to play and he struggles finding the frets on the bass’ neck.[7] The bass was later eventually discovered to be a knockoff of Jared Dines’ Ormsby 18-string.[8]

just the fact that my data is accessible to anyone is upsetting enough. I take a little comfort in believing my data is like water molecules in the ocean of everyone else’s data…

The repair company we use told us it wasn’t worth fixing, and I believed them. To repair the microwave would have cost more than the new GE we replaced it with for <$220 on sale, which I installed myself. We also had an Electrolux double wall oven that kept burning out computer boards at about the 10 year mark. We had them fixed twice in 6 months, and when it went out the third time we wrote it off and replaced it with a Kitchenaid. One of the burners on the stove top is slow to heat up, but still usable. The dishwasher doesn’t seem to have a drying cycle anymore, but still cleans, tho we rarely use it. We did a big remodel back in 2011, and bought all Electrolux appliances and were quite proud of them, but alas… The first thing my wife did when the new kitchen was open was bake 6 trays of cookies at once :)

We recently had to replace a $500 Electrolux microwave that was only 11 years old. We mistakenly thought that brand was supposed to be higher quality :(

My mom had a microwave that lasted for decades. I left home in '81, so it was bought prior to that. She was still using it when she passed in '16. That thing was huge. I remember that before my dad would sit down to the table to eat, he would open the door on it to just the right angle so he could continue watching the TV in it’s reflection. The only thing wrong with it was the top and bottom rows of red LED lights had quit shining which made it a little tricky to tell how much time was left on it, but that never bothered my mom. Also, they didn’t have turntables in them back then, so you had to frequently turn the food. Mom bought a wind-up platform that you’d sit the food on and you could hear it in there ticking away while it slowly turned your food. She had to give up about 2.5 inches of height for it, but that oven was so big it didn’t matter…

just looking at this gave me a blister.

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I spent a dozen years managing auto service centers from '87-'99. Chevrolet Z-71 owners were by far the biggest dickheads I had to deal with on a daily basis. Back then, Ford and Dodge truck owners were all just fairly normal folks, but something about those Z-71’s seemed to attract the most extreme shitwillies…

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31 more murders on that fat fucking pedophiles head

JefF Foxworthy’s routine about that was pretty funny… He rambled through all the different body parts whose size could indicate a man has a big dick; his feet, hands, ears, nose, etc… “Well he needs to be packing because he’s probably one goofy looking SOB…”

an anagram of epstein is “peniest”.

that’s a word, ain’t it? I’m sure it describes them somehow…

I’ve started saying it every time I grab the remote control to get his fat ass off my TV screen…

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thank you. That clarifies things for me. All this time I’ve been using smartphones and I didn’t know this was a thing. I use my calendar a lot, so I assume for something to appear in it like that, it needs to be put there intentionally. Not gonna lie, but when that last one appeared right before my eyes I got straight-up spooked.

yeah, but I haven’t downloaded or installed anything for years. I can’t stand staring at these tiny screens for very long, and for me, most internet surfing on mobile is an exercise in frustration. Aside from the maps and a crossword puzzle app I’ve had for years, all I use it for is the phone, texts, and sometimes work emails and IM’s, and of course the calendar, which I rely on quite a bit. Mostly, tho, I live behind a desktop PC.

hmm… they reference my personal email addy, which is a yahoo acct I’ve had for decades. It’s associated to my Samsung acct, which I guess I have to assume is how they’re getting to my calendar. My work email (everything, really) is through Google, and I get calendar notifications through them all the time, which I expect. I’ve never seen anything associated with my yahoo acct tho. It’s just weirding me out I’m getting spammed the same way I get notified for a work meeting or a doctors appointment…

*Edit: Adding that I just went in to my app permissions and turned off the Yahoo Mail apps access to Alarms and Reminders. Hopefully they stop…