Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!

[Xprimentyl]

Welp, today has officially sucked. Found out that my water heater ruptured and soaked a fairly large chunk of my furnished basement carpet. The new water heater, carpet extraction and general cleanup is going to run be around $2000 after my homeowners insurance. . . . . .

The joys of being a homeowner. Sheesh.

That fucking sucks; sorry, dude. While I'm not the title-holding owner of our house, I am invested in it, so every time I hear a drip or creek, my ears perk up to the tune of "how many dollars is THAT gonna cost?!?" Spent an hour last week tracking down a mysterious beep that turned out to be a dying battery in one of our window's security sensors. Say what you want about equity; I really miss being in my apartment when I could just call up to the office and make shit like that someone else's problem.

 

[davidmc1158]

That fucking sucks; sorry, dude. While I'm not the title-holding owner of our house, I am invested in it, so every time I hear a drip or creek, my ears perk up to the tune of "how many dollars is THAT gonna cost?!?" Spent an hour last week tracking down a mysterious beep that turned out to be a dying battery in one of our window's security sensors. Say what you want about equity; I really miss being in my apartment when I could just call up to the office and make shit like that someone else's problem.

I remember an old joke with a young couple in the realtor's office finishing up the paperwork to buy their first house. They wanted to know where the maintenance guy was stationed and how to get ahold of him if anything broke. The realtor just looks at them and says, "You really ARE new to this whole 'home-owning' business, aren't you?"

 

[Bob_McMillan]

One of my saving graces this Pandemic, the Taskmaster TV show, just announced a streaming service. Taskmaster Supermax+. Obviously the name is a joke on how many fucking subscription service we have these days.

Except apparently, it just is an actual subscription service. For a single show... That charges 6 bucks a month. Someone in the comments section of the announcement video mentioned that after a year or so of subscription fees, you could have just bought all the series/seasons on Amazon.

Taskmaster brought our family closer together during the pandemic, and I have plenty of fondness for it, but subscribing to this is easily the most ridiculous task the show has ever put out.

 

[Xprimentyl]

One of my saving graces this Pandemic, the Taskmaster TV show, just announced a streaming service. Taskmaster Supermax+. Obviously the name is a joke on how many fucking subscription service we have these days.

Except apparently, it just is an actual subscription service. For a single show... That charges 6 bucks a month. Someone in the comments section of the announcement video mentioned that after a year or so of subscription fees, you could have just bought all the series/seasons on Amazon.

Taskmaster brought our family closer together during the pandemic, and I have plenty of fondness for it, but subscribing to this is easily the most ridiculous task the show has ever put out.

Subscription services are little more than the suits realizing that cable service is all but dead, and selling $12 a month each for several services is apparently easier for consumers to swallow than $150/month for a singular, less fluid service, i.e.: $1 a day sounds better than $30 a month. I started years ago, streaming Spotify, then got Netflix, Amazon Prime, and a slew of others. I was sticking it to The Man, dropping cable, and only paying for what I wanted... until I realized when all was said and done, my subscription services lump sum was almost as much as my old cable bill, and the money was going to the same people I thought I'd outsmarted; they got me.

In the next ten years, they'll probably be a subscription to unlock your eyelids every morning to see anything anywhere.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

In the next ten years, they'll probably be a subscription to unlock your eyelids every morning to see anything anywhere.

Get sued for jailbreaking your eyelids.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Subscription services are little more than the suits realizing that cable service is all but dead, and selling $12 a month each for several services is apparently easier for consumers to swallow than $150/month for a singular, less fluid service, i.e.: $1 a day sounds better than $30 a month. I started years ago, streaming Spotify, then got Netflix, Amazon Prime, and a slew of others. I was sticking it to The Man, dropping cable, and only paying for what I wanted... until I realized when all was said and done, my subscription services lump sum was almost as much as my old cable bill, and the money was going to the same people I thought I'd outsmarted; they got me.

In the next ten years, they'll probably be a subscription to unlock your eyelids every morning to see anything anywhere.

Being in a developing country, for years I had a clean conscience... liberating streaming content, since most companies didn't bother setting up here. Fast forward half a decade later, we're paying for Netflix and Spotify. It's at prices thankfully that have been scaled for our economy, but I wonder just how much longer it will stick to just two platforms. I listen on Spotify daily so I have no guilt over that whatsoever, but Netflix I use, what, thrice a month?

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

You know what concept I want to put to bed permanently? "Ruined forever". It doesn't matter if someone took your favorite media and used it in something you don't like; it doesn't matter if it got remade, reimagined or Rule 34'd. You still have the original. If the knowledge that another version of it exists somewhere somehow "taints" your enjoyment of it, that points to a weakness in your mentality and nothing else.

 

[Gordon_4]

Regular petrol in Australia is now 201.9 cents per litre. Fuck this timeline.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Regular petrol in Australia is now 201.9 cents per litre. Fuck this timeline.

Fuck it in the spleen.

 

[Baffle]

One of my saving graces this Pandemic, the Taskmaster TV show, just announced a streaming service. Taskmaster Supermax+. Obviously the name is a joke on how many fucking subscription service we have these days.

Except apparently, it just is an actual subscription service. For a single show... That charges 6 bucks a month. Someone in the comments section of the announcement video mentioned that after a year or so of subscription fees, you could have just bought all the series/seasons on Amazon.

Taskmaster brought our family closer together during the pandemic, and I have plenty of fondness for it, but subscribing to this is easily the most ridiculous task the show has ever put out.

Ah, that is disappointing as I really liked the show. From the website for it, it says 'As I've been told quite a few times that not everyone everywhere can watch Taskmaster, we wanted to create a channel where fans can watch all episodes ad-free; the complete global home for all things Taskmaster. Season 9 will premier soon so people in the the US can finally see me dressed up as a mermaid etc. If you're a fan of adverts, don't worry, the old YouTube episodes will stay there completely free' (my bold) so hopefully you'll still be able to watch it.

My whinge: caught my knuckle on my bench sander (brand new 80 grit) and whipped the top layer off. Really fucking stings.

 

[bluegate]

My whinge: caught my knuckle on my bench sander (brand new 80 grit) and whipped the top layer off. Really fucking stings.

Hmm, yeah, that's a big no-no.

Having said that, can we have a picture? Ideally of the bench sander, knuckle would also be appreciated.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

If you're a fan of adverts, don't worry, the old YouTube episodes will stay there completely free' (my bold) so hopefully you'll still be able to watch it.

This was my biggest worry, so at least they're not doing that. But you still have to wonder why they're doing this.

 

[Gordon_4]

You know what concept I want to put to bed permanently? "Ruined forever". It doesn't matter if someone took your favorite media and used it in something you don't like; it doesn't matter if it got remade, reimagined or Rule 34'd. You still have the original. If the knowledge that another version of it exists somewhere somehow "taints" your enjoyment of it, that points to a weakness in your mentality and nothing else.

Would you mind having that engraved on the eyelids of every single Star Wars fan please.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Or LotR fans nowdays.

 

[Baffle]

Hmm, yeah, that's a big no-no.

Having said that, can we have a picture? Ideally of the bench sander, knuckle would also be appreciated.

The sander is just a budget Parkside one. Work well enough though.

Edit: Wow, that picture is really big. Will try a snip.

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[Xprimentyl]

The sander is just a budget Parkside one. Work well enough though.

Edit: Wow, that picture is really big. Will try a snip.

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Yeesh, that looks deep. Gonna take a while to heal.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Never mind that NONE of the Formula 1 2022 preseason testing was televised at ALL, the final round this weekend in Bahrain IS being televised... just not in my area.

 

[bluegate]

The sander is just a budget Parkside one. Work well enough though.

Edit: Wow, that picture is really big. Will try a snip.

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Painful yet intriguing to look at.

Thanks for the picture and godspeed on your knuckle's recovery.

 

[Baffle]

Painful yet intriguing to look at.

I'm averaging an injury a day at the moment so I might set up an Only Fans if there's a market.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I'm averaging an injury a day at the moment so I might set up an Only Fans if there's a market.

I'm sure there's a market if you're willing to go to the dark web. Surly there's no shortage of sick fucks out there willing to pay to see a guy covered and cuts a bruises dancing in the nude. Hell, maybe even a setup a live feed from your garage; patrons can ask you build stuff and get off when you inexorably hurt yourself.