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Comments on: Things You Didn’t Want To Know https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:47:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32663 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:47:47 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32663 We are making it, but this is not what the real estate agents told us. Who could imagine that a real estate agent would lie?

Nice opening appearance on the Street, DC. I hoping I can get some things done so that I can comment someplace else occasionally.

]]> By: DCup https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32662 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:41:41 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32662 What a pain. Just yesterday I did the same thing. I shamefully stopped at a Walmart on my way home so that I could pick up bread and milk without spending fifteen dollars at the local convenience store. (Out in the sticks, there are few options.)

I feel like I need to offer one of my cats up to the buy local gods for forgiveness.

Anyway, I hope you’re not freezing too much!

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32612 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:37:28 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32612 Even glacial speed is faster than a Windows network re-boot. The local Mal-Wart would benefit from a few more people and fewer computers. Despite their vaunted inventory control system I saw empty shelves, something that doesn’t happen where I normally shop.

Yes, Hipparchia, parrot’s feather can be a problem, but when it starts to get uppity I grab a few handfuls and pitch them in the compost pile. The fish need cover from the sun during the summer, and from the predators all year long, and they eat the grass. You have to leave room or the lilies won’t bloom.

I really, truly, hate the scale, Ellroon. Everyone uses the system, but the people who are supposed to be entering the weights in the product data base. You can’t put light objects in the bag, you have to put them in the scale or they don’t get noticed. It’s absurd. It’s like putting the little inventory tags in large, bulky items and then not having a hand degausser to deactivate them. The cashier tells you it is going to set off the alarm, but to ignore it. It’s so comforting to know that you are shopping at a store that believes its customers are criminals.

]]> By: ellroon https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32608 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:16:17 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32608 The shopping gods were angry because you didn’t buy enough and weren’t impressed with their warehouse of crap… I mean wonderfulness.

I tried one of those self-serve things at our huge hardware store. Did you know they have a weigher that registers each item as you bag it? And it will not register the weight of a seed packet nor let you move on, but keeps demanding that you put the item in the bag eve when you have done so? It also commands you to put impossibly unwieldy items on the weigher.

Give me a prune any day, thanks. At least they would react when I try to strangle them….

]]> By: hipparchia https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32606 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:54:59 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32606 parrot’s feather? i had to google. a pretty enough plant, but looks like it’s the kudzu of koi ponds.

not to worry. in a few years we’ll have figured out how to easily turn any generic greenery into some kind of biofuel, at which point the waterways will run clear, the hillsides will be be bare, and folks will have to surround their ponds with razor wire and rottweilers to keep out the parrot feather poachers. 😈

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32596 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 06:59:01 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32596 They removed the self-checkout kiosk from my local Wally World because it blue-screened more than it worked. They decided that hiring four old prunes to work four Express Lanes was cheaper than figuring out how to fix it. Of course, the old folks’ hands shake as they try to drag the goods across the scanners, and they move about the same pace as the Presidential election (the two-year root canal, as Mimus Pauley puts it), but hey, the prunes work for cheap, so (shrug)…

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32587 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:54:52 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32587 A persistent raccoon got the last batch, but a lot of pond cover from trees, and surface cover from parrot’s feather and water grasses keeps them from being obvious.

This pond is close to her house and there are a lot of cats to make them nervous, so they aren’t the problem they were when she had her pond out in the front of the house.

]]> By: hipparchia https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/comment-page-1/#comment-32585 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:46:01 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/12/31/things-you-didnt-want-to-know/#comment-32585 i’m wondering how your mother can have goldfish without their becoming heron food.

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