The Bitching Thread

[David75]

Your former roommate sounds like your typical ahole who goes through life not taking care of little things, then puts that shit on other people when it hits him. I wouldn't pay him.

I hate doing the dishes. I try and try to clean as I go, but I always end up with a sink full of dishes. It doesn't help that most stuff I cook requires I use 10 different pots/pans/utensils each time.

Get yourself a wife
or
Get yourself a dishwasher
or
Get yourself a decent job and stop cooking

[Animeniax]

Get yourself a wife
or
Get yourself a dishwasher
or
Get yourself a decent job and stop cooking

Decent job = eating out or paying someone else to cook for me? I'd hate that. I love cooking, I hate cleaning up afterwards. I have a dishwasher but I prefer hand-washing, I just don't have time for it. Same with the car, I could pay $6 at the local gas station for an auto car wash, but I'd rather hand-wash, just don't have time for it.

Latest bitch: got pissed playing BC2 so I hulk-slammed my keyboard so now it doesn't work. Add in that it's wireless, so I can't get the system to recognize it until Windows loads, but I can't get past the BIOS password without a keyboard.

[enkoujin]

Wash dishes as you wait while your food is cooking.

[Animeniax]

Wash dishes as you wait while your food is cooking.

For me, the meals I cook are usually complex and multi-part, so it demands my attention throughout. I've tried cleaning between stages, but I always have to stop, wash off valuable suds, and get back to cooking.

Even cooking ramen, you only have 3 minutes. But that's actually 2 minutes since you have to add the meat and sauce pack at the 2 minute point. Then you let it cook 1 more minute and it's done. Then you have to eat it right away or the noodles get too soggy. No time to clean dishes during all of that. And after eating all that ramen, you're too sleepy to wash dishes.

[Buffalobiian]

@rockmanj: it depends on how that whole situation came about. Did he move out, forgot to cancel his account, and you guys have been getting free gas in the meantime? If so, I think its only fair that you paid it. Sure, legally it's his fault and you don't owe him a dime, but looking at it from a moral perspective whoever used it should pay it.

I'll assume that the former agreement was that the bill went under his name, but you paid half while you two were still living together? There's a shared understanding that even though he's legally liable for the costs, in actuality you both have agreed to pay for what you used (and assumed a 50/50 split for simplicity's sake). This is just an extension of that since he forgot to terminante your agreement.

I don't think you should be pressured into a lump sum payment though. Try to make repaying him back as high a priority as possible without starving yourself or something.

[rockmanj]

@rockmanj: it depends on how that whole situation came about. Did he move out, forgot to cancel his account, and you guys have been getting free gas in the meantime? If so, I think its only fair that you paid it. Sure, legally it's his fault and you don't owe him a dime, but looking at it from a moral perspective whoever used it should pay it.

I'll assume that the former agreement was that the bill went under his name, but you paid half while you two were still living together? There's a shared understanding that even though he's legally liable for the costs, in actuality you both have agreed to pay for what you used (and assumed a 50/50 split for simplicity's sake). This is just an extension of that since he forgot to terminante your agreement.

I don't think you should be pressured into a lump sum payment though. Try to make repaying him back as high a priority as possible without starving yourself or something.

One of my current roommates and I told him we would pay him back, since we were using the gas at the time. The former one said he wants it all at once, and I told him that to demand that is unfair and not going to happen, since my other roommate and i have other bills & responsibilities. He does not think it is his fault at all, even though I constantly told him to terminate the gas bill so we could start a new one, and he did not. We are resolving the problem, just not as fast as he wants us to (I believe I tied the payments to my paycheck, so it automatically sends him money when I am paid). There were other problems with that bill for some reason before...I would ask him how much i owed him and he would say "I will let you know later" then demand money on whatever day he wished to tell me so that it isn't late.

[Kraco]

Today I read from my morning newspaper that the holding company that had earlier acquired the computer hardware store from where I have for years bought almost all of my computer stuff also acquired one old and bloated store from the other side of the city. That in itself wouldn't have mattered much to me, but I got an impression from the article they intend to move all the business in this city to the overly large store of the older company with its needlessly many employees who have very little interest to actually serve people unless you represent some big buyer (that is, a company or institution). Otherwise they only take your money but if you ask them something they can't answer from the top of their empty heads, they literally tell you to find the answer on your own time and go away. Which is the main reason I haven't visited them for a long time now, in addition to their ridiculous prices they still think are great.

As opposed to that, the small store I frequent has great prices (or as great as they ever are in Finland), has really cool guys working there who know much more of hardware and have always been willing to find the answers if they couldn't produce them immediately. And their shop apparently will be shut down in favour of the stupid oversized store with the idiot staff more interested in their suits than computers.

Tells volumes of why holding companies with no practical knowledge of anything they stick their rotten noses into should all go to hell.

[Buffalobiian]

They're still going to be open for a little while, right? Visit them and see where all current staff are going to be. If they move to the store further away, then at least you have some people who you know are reliable there. If not, then see if you can shop with them online in the future, or ask them to recommend a different retailer.

[Kraco]

They're still going to be open for a little while, right? Visit them and see where all current staff are going to be. If they move to the store further away, then at least you have some people who you know are reliable there. If not, then see if you can shop with them online in the future, or ask them to recommend a different retailer.

I read the holding company's own web news bulletin, and now I get why the newspaper article was so hard to decipher; the company bulletin itself both said all the functions in this city will be consolidated, yet a little later they said that all the customers are still able to visit their usual stores... I guess I'll visit my usual store on monday and ask if they are any more enlightened of their own circumstances.

[Animeniax]

Easier solution is to open your own store and become that reliable shop that everyone goes to, until you sell it to a large conglomerate that closes it when they merge it with their other location.

[rockmanj]

Gah! Why are most of the people I have to deal with flakes? I have been getting blown off or not responded to a lot lately, and it's really getting my goat. I may just start cutting people off left and right (again).

[enkoujin]

Man, my family members are slobs.

They make me wash the dishes every night and then they always use a boat load of dishes every day and night because they're not appreciating the work I put into washing the dishes. It's always "used ones go in the sink, clean ones comes out on the dish rack; never a miscommunication" with them. I always find myself slaving over the sink having to wash a variety of bowls, plates, utensils, etc.

Well, washing tableware, bowls and plates aren't too much of a hassle because they require minimal strength for washing. However, washing pans, pots and other cookware sucks too. They're so big and bulky and there's almost never enough space in my sink to wash those bastards. Right now, I've got about four or five pots and two pans that need to be washed. I mean, even if I do use the dishwasher, most hard-anodized cookware aren't dishwasher safe, so you end up cleaning them up anyway because your cooking-illiterate family believed in having your food taste like metal and having evenly cooked food as the best and only way one should prepare their food.

Also, washing wooden spatulas suck as well. Unless they've been lubricated with oil, you'll always bet that food or whatever is going to be sticking to them and then they become really hard to wash out unless you've soaked them in water for a couple of hours. And even then, you've got eggs or whatever shit that's still sticking on them so you have to wash them over and over. And since my family always find themselves using wooden spatulas because they're so incompetent at cooking besides their "great" stir-frying that I always find these wooden spatulas in the sink ready to be washed by me. I sometimes wish that I could buy a bandsaw and cut that shit up into toothpicks so that I can add them to my family's cooking and choke the person who's been using it every second day.

The same goes with tall cups in which your hand can never read the bottom, so you end up breaking it somehow and buying new ones later. It's especially becomes more difficult if my slobby family members drink some milk or some other fluids that are very perishable so then it's like your hand is touching some globs of bullshit. Point is - if your hand can't reach the bottom of the cup, the cup is, instantly, a failed product and the designers who made the cup clearly did not take into consideration the statistical size of its consumers' hands to be used in conjunction with washing dishes. Those mother fuckers.

Then, it gets complicated when you're washing other shit like rolling pins, cutting boards and other kitchen gadgets like can openers. How the fuck do you wash can-openers? They're like the most hardest gadget to wash. Washing pizza rollers? Easy. Washing jar openers? Moderately difficult. Washing muffin pans? Hard. But washing can-openers? You've got to be shitting me.

After that, we've got salad dressing. Fuck that shit, it's a bunch of bullshit! Salad dressing expires really fast if it's left unrefridgerated (which is the case most of the time if you're hand-washing shit) and depending on the sauce, it's just a bunch of white cheese and the shit, figuratively, smells like toenails. After that, if you do soak that shit in, and it's one of the last dishes to be put in the dish (or on the tower of dishes), then the white shit goes all over the god damn pots and dishes once you run it through water. Also, it's pretty gross once it collects in the sink - which brings me to my next point.

Penultimately, we've got those rubber gloves. I almost never use rubber gloves when I'm washing dishes. Why? It's because, occasionally, I'll get some water inside my gloves and the next day I use them, they emit an essence that cannot be described in any human language. Personally, I think it's a combination of shit leaking out of an elephant which has been regurgitated four times, a dead pile of cows all voiding their complex digestive system simutaneously and a roadkill skunk. Who the fuck wants to put their hands in something that smells like that? I wouldn't.

Finally, we've got shit in the drain. Really, this can't be avoided unless your family members ate all of their plates clean (which mine don't, unfortunately), then you get a shit load of shit stuck in the sink drainer and depending on how much shit there is in the sink drainer, you have to waste your time toggling with the amount of waste you let through the sink drainer because if you let too much out, then you might risk clogging up your pipes and waste your time sitting around all day until these guys come to your house, unclogging your shit, then leaving you to clean up the mess. If you let only little bit in, you'd have to waste your time watching water form a small whirlpool going down the drain. Yeah, that's right; it's like having to watch your shit go down the toilet every time you take a shit. It's a waste of time and hell, you could be doing something better while you watch the shit go down like washing your hands (only in this case, washing your hands will increase the time it takes for the water and shit to be drained).

tl;dr

Washing dishes suck.

[Animeniax]

You should spend less time writing these short essays and more time washing those dishes.

My bitch: mowed the lawn for the first time in almost 3 weeks. Lawn looks great but now my allergies are kicking my ass.

[Buffalobiian]

I was browsing this thread from my mobile, and from the reading the first line and eyeing the first two paragraphs of the post knew immediately it came from En. I'm not too sure what to make of it.

@dishes: wooden spatulas suck, I'm with you on that one. Stuff sticking to it isn't so big a problem since I just use steel wool and scrub the shit through it, but I dislike the way it holds the smell of whatever you last cooked for weeks to come. Same with white plastic ladles becoming temporarily discoloured.

I think Australia must have huge pipes for sinks or something. My parents always use those drain catcher things because they think the sinks will clog up. I've tipped saucepans of porridge down the sink for years without problems. (I've known of a Taiwanese family who've carried over a disgusting habit of throwing their used toilet paper in the bathroom bin so they don't clog their toilet. They must be squatting on their toilet bowls too, because I can't think of another reason for how they can fucking miss.)

I can't remember the last time I ever used gloves for dishes. Back ages ago my biggest bitch about dishes was getting splashed in dishwater. We don't have a habbit of using aprons (when we did they were cloth ones that got soaked anyway). Now I just make it a rule to wash dishes before showering, but that's less about splashing since I don't do that anymore and more about not having to reapply moisturiser to my arms.

@lawn: I only feel like shit (sometimess) when I'm actually mowing the lawn. Not after.

[The Heretic Azazel]

It would save money and the awful smells if you just showered with your dishes.

[Ryllharu]

The heater core in my car blew. That part is probably the absolute worst component in a car to lose. Huge labor cost, all day work, and as icing on the cake, the part alone is expensive ($300+).

[Animeniax]

Ate from a place that serves "bulgogi burger." Tastes pretty good, but as expected, it's now tearing through my innards (at least it was cool enough to wait until after I finished taking a final). I tell you, me and Korean stuff will never get along. If she's hot enough, I'd still give it a shot, but I know it would end dismally.

edit: it might not have been the Korean food that tried to kill me! Remembered I drank an expired bottle of 5 Hour Energy before my final and that might have been what messed me up. After purging, I feel better, but not great. Sux that I threw away the other half of my burger, and the last 2 bottles of expired 5 hour.

[rockmanj]

Ate from a place that serves "bulgogi burger." Tastes pretty good, but as expected, it's now tearing through my innards (at least it was cool enough to wait until after I finished taking a final). I tell you, me and Korean stuff will never get along. If she's hot enough, I'd still give it a shot, but I know it would end dismally.

edit: it might not have been the Korean food that tried to kill me! Remembered I drank an expired bottle of 24 Hour Energy before my final and that might have been what messed me up. After purging, I feel better, but not great. Sux that I threw away the other half of my burger, and the last 2 bottles of expired 24 hour.

Tsk, Tsk...do you not watch "The Inbetweeners"? Today I got some hair and debris in my eye, and had to go to an eye doctor. To make things worse, my nose would not stop running the whole time, but she was pretty cool about it. Turns out I scratched my cornea pretty badly and have to constantly lubricate my eye for the next few days (no jokes, plz). At least it was only 50$ total.

[Animeniax]

Tsk, Tsk...do you not watch "The Inbetweeners"?.

I've seen that episode. I stopped watching the show after 5 or 6 episodes because the crew are a bunch of unlikeable limey twits.

Unlike Will in this clip, I stayed home from work today while I recover from this. Gonna try to eat some rice now, wish me luck!

[rockmanj]

I've seen that episode. I stopped watching the show after 5 or 6 episodes because the crew are a bunch of unlikeable limey twits.

Unlike Will in this clip, I stayed home from work today while I recover from this. Gonna try to eat some rice now, wish me luck!

The grains or congee? Maybe try some mint or chamomile tea as well.