Shit that annoys you

[evdog]

Please don’t tell me you still rent phones up there.

I had been out of the house for a few years when I realized my parents were still renting their rotary phone from the phone company. Put a stop to that. I imagine they were one of the last holdouts in Alberta. That was late 90's. Never heard of having to rent a hot water heater.

When I was living in dorms at UBC a lot of students rented mini fridges. You could wheel it in on a dolly but dealing with the rental was still a hassle. Can't imagine dealing with a full size one, especially navigating the inevitable flights of stairs and tight doorways.

[EWG]

How the hell did we move on from Canadians renting their water heater so quickly?!?!

What the hell is going on up there? I was thinking of moving to Canada, but now, ... I mean what the hell?!

Fucking Canadia.

[papapoopski]

Yeah about this rented water heater thing. Wtf

What else do you rent? The front door? Do you pay by the hour to be in a house? Do you lease to own your food?

So when you travel it's clothes, toiletries maybe a book and then when you land it's rent a car and a water heater? From the same place? Or do you fly with it and if so is there mini carry on size? Do you have water heater vending machines that rent by the hour?

Do you have sexy water heater halloween costumes that can only be rented? Wait, do you even have halloween??

Is there a water heater mascot for a hockey team somewhere? I assume that would be a rental.

Is there a special French Canadian word for a rented water heater?

How are these made? Do you surround the coils inside the heater with maple syrup? Are they made of wood? Like old hockey sticks or something?

Does the rented water heater have a log book giving the history of each place it's been? Do you have really old historical water heaters? Do the rich pine for water heaters rented by famous artists or celebrities? Can you request to rent Alanis Morisettes water heater when she's done with it?

Do Canada people sit around at Canada xmas and reminisce about their favorite water heater? The one that got away? Is there a family portrait around the water heater?

Where do you put it? Here in merka we put it in the basement. Do you put yours on the mantle above the fireplace? Do you have fire in Canadia? Are the water heaters sentient? Do they communicate with other water heaters and gather in the woods during the solstice wearing robes and just gurgle the night away?

Can you add features to the rented water heater like MP3 player, bluetooth etc? Are your water heaters flannel?

Do you have traveling water heater rental salespeople? Do they have a catalog? Are the pictures in black and white or color or something else? Can you get it with Trucoat?

What happens when your time is up with the water heater? Does a black van show up with men in suits? Do they surround your house first or just kick the door in a take it? Do you get to say goodbye to it or do you not have any emotional attachment like some empty shell of a human just staring at the clock on the wall, not counting minutes, but counting water heating cycles until deaths black wings surround you and take you to Valhalla where brand new, never used water heaters await you and you can pick and choose your water heater mate for life like 2 beautiful swans drifting though the cosmos, hand to overflow valve, and just bask in the glory of hot water whenever you desire as you drift further and further into the unknown?

How much per month?

[old goat]

Old Goat vs The Disposal is apparently quite the saga. Might need its own thread pretty soon.

Hey, it works again and nothing leaks. But it's no fun realizing that as time goes on there's less and less I can fix myself.
I've been wrestling with the fucked up drainage system under the sink since we bought the house. I think I finally have it so it won't leak.

[BobMc]

Yeah about this rented water heater thing. Wtf

What else do you rent? The front door? Do you pay by the hour to be in a house? Do you lease to own your food?

So when you travel it's clothes, toiletries maybe a book and then when you land it's rent a car and a water heater? From the same place? Or do you fly with it and if so is there mini carry on size? Do you have water heater vending machines that rent by the hour?

Do you have sexy water heater halloween costumes that can only be rented? Wait, do you even have halloween??

Is there a water heater mascot for a hockey team somewhere? I assume that would be a rental.

Is there a special French Canadian word for a rented water heater?

How are these made? Do you surround the coils inside the heater with maple syrup? Are they made of wood? Like old hockey sticks or something?

Does the rented water heater have a log book giving the history of each place it's been? Do you have really old historical water heaters? Do the rich pine for water heaters rented by famous artists or celebrities? Can you request to rent Alanis Morisettes water heater when she's done with it?

Do Canada people sit around at Canada xmas and reminisce about their favorite water heater? The one that got away? Is there a family portrait around the water heater?

Where do you put it? Here in merka we put it in the basement. Do you put yours on the mantle above the fireplace? Do you have fire in Canadia? Are the water heaters sentient? Do they communicate with other water heaters and gather in the woods during the solstice wearing robes and just gurgle the night away?

Can you add features to the rented water heater like MP3 player, bluetooth etc? Are your water heaters flannel?

Do you have traveling water heater rental salespeople? Do they have a catalog? Are the pictures in black and white or color or something else? Can you get it with Trucoat?

What happens when your time is up with the water heater? Does a black van show up with men in suits? Do they surround your house first or just kick the door in a take it? Do you get to say goodbye to it or do you not have any emotional attachment like some empty shell of a human just staring at the clock on the wall, not counting minutes, but counting water heating cycles until deaths black wings surround you and take you to Valhalla where brand new, never used water heaters await you and you can pick and choose your water heater mate for life like 2 beautiful swans drifting though the cosmos, hand to overflow valve, and just bask in the glory of hot water whenever you desire as you drift further and further into the unknown?

How much per month?

Bravo.

[old goat]

Why the hell are disposals even necessary?! As a Canadian I don't get it, they're not really popular here.

They're not, like I was thinking as I was wrestling with the fucking thing. Table scraps while washing the dishes? That stuff should go through the pipes just fine. A lot of food waste still has to go in the trash. I think it's one of those things that Americans were advertised into buying, they became "indispensable".

Here's wikipedia's take on why---"Food scraps range from 10% to 20% of household waste,[18] and are a problematic component of municipal waste, creating public health, sanitation and environmental problems at each step, beginning with internal storage and followed by truck-based collection. Burned in waste-to-energy facilities, the high water-content of food scraps means that their heating and burning consumes more energy than it generates; buried in landfills, food scraps decompose and generate methane gas, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.[19]

The premise behind the proper use of a disposer is to effectively regard food scraps as liquid (averaging 70% water, like human waste), and use existing infrastructure (underground sewers and wastewater treatment plants) for its management. Modern wastewater plants are effective at processing organic solids into fertilizer products (known as biosolids), with advanced facilities also capturing methane for energy production.[20][21]"

I'd dispute that 10-20% figure, at least in our house. Maybe most people throw out more food than we do.

In Germany people disassemble their kitchen cabinets and take them with them when they move.

[jono]

Yeah about this rented water heater thing. Wtf

What else do you rent? The front door? Do you pay by the hour to be in a house? Do you lease to own your food?

So when you travel it's clothes, toiletries maybe a book and then when you land it's rent a car and a water heater? From the same place? Or do you fly with it and if so is there mini carry on size? Do you have water heater vending machines that rent by the hour?

Do you have sexy water heater halloween costumes that can only be rented? Wait, do you even have halloween??

Is there a water heater mascot for a hockey team somewhere? I assume that would be a rental.

Is there a special French Canadian word for a rented water heater?

How are these made? Do you surround the coils inside the heater with maple syrup? Are they made of wood? Like old hockey sticks or something?

Does the rented water heater have a log book giving the history of each place it's been? Do you have really old historical water heaters? Do the rich pine for water heaters rented by famous artists or celebrities? Can you request to rent Alanis Morisettes water heater when she's done with it?

Do Canada people sit around at Canada xmas and reminisce about their favorite water heater? The one that got away? Is there a family portrait around the water heater?

Where do you put it? Here in merka we put it in the basement. Do you put yours on the mantle above the fireplace? Do you have fire in Canadia? Are the water heaters sentient? Do they communicate with other water heaters and gather in the woods during the solstice wearing robes and just gurgle the night away?

Can you add features to the rented water heater like MP3 player, bluetooth etc? Are your water heaters flannel?

Do you have traveling water heater rental salespeople? Do they have a catalog? Are the pictures in black and white or color or something else? Can you get it with Trucoat?

What happens when your time is up with the water heater? Does a black van show up with men in suits? Do they surround your house first or just kick the door in a take it? Do you get to say goodbye to it or do you not have any emotional attachment like some empty shell of a human just staring at the clock on the wall, not counting minutes, but counting water heating cycles until deaths black wings surround you and take you to Valhalla where brand new, never used water heaters await you and you can pick and choose your water heater mate for life like 2 beautiful swans drifting though the cosmos, hand to overflow valve, and just bask in the glory of hot water whenever you desire as you drift further and further into the unknown?

How much per month?

Quality longform rant with an excellent closer.

[riser4]

In Germany people disassemble their kitchen cabinets and take them with them when they move.

I know. It was an unpleasant surprise for my sister.

[El Chupacabra]

Do Germans rent their kitchen cabinets?

[frorider]

In Novia Scotia renter has to provide the kitchen linoleum. Or Markoleum or whatever the fuck it was called in that thread

[powdrhound]

I was annoyed when my dad’s caretaker thought it was ok to put a sink full of potato peels and stew vege trimmings thru the disposer, without washing them through to the main line.
I was called when the bathtub started filling with soup.
Thanks, Mary...

[Thaleia]

What happens when your time is up with the water heater? Does a black van show up with men in suits? Do they surround your house first or just kick the door in a take it? Do you get to say goodbye to it or do you not have any emotional attachment like some empty shell of a human just staring at the clock on the wall, not counting minutes, but counting water heating cycles until deaths black wings surround you and take you to Valhalla where brand new, never used water heaters await you and you can pick and choose your water heater mate for life like 2 beautiful swans drifting though the cosmos, hand to overflow valve, and just bask in the glory of hot water whenever you desire as you drift further and further into the unknown?

How much per month?

K that last bit was pretty good.

Here's wikipedia's take on why---"Food scraps range from 10% to 20% of household waste,[18] and are a problematic component of municipal waste, creating public health, sanitation and environmental problems at each step, beginning with internal storage and followed by truck-based collection. Burned in waste-to-energy facilities, the high water-content of food scraps means that their heating and burning consumes more energy than it generates; buried in landfills, food scraps decompose and generate methane gas, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.[19]

The premise behind the proper use of a disposer is to effectively regard food scraps as liquid (averaging 70% water, like human waste), and use existing infrastructure (underground sewers and wastewater treatment plants) for its management. Modern wastewater plants are effective at processing organic solids into fertilizer products (known as biosolids), with advanced facilities also capturing methane for energy production.[20][21]"

I'd dispute that 10-20% figure, at least in our house. Maybe most people throw out more food than we do.

In Germany people disassemble their kitchen cabinets and take them with them when they move.

We simply compost our scraps.

[stealurface831]

Thanks, Mary...

Fucking Mary

[old goat]

K that last bit was pretty good.



We simply compost our scraps.

We've composted in Sacramento--lots of grass clippings and dry leaves and warm temps most of the year. In Truckee--no grass, just food waste for the "green" portion, and pine needles--which are not good to compost. And it's cold most of the year. I suppose people do it but not many.
Restaurants and grocery stores put their food waste in special bins for the trash company to pick up and compost, and other people can drop off their food waste at town hall for composting. Burning gasoline to get there in most cases.

[xyz]

People who park in dirt lots taking up 2 spots. I see this a lot at my trailheads. Some get there earlier and park with 1.75 of a cars width next to the car beside. Not a big deal when the lots near empty but a couple hours later, the lot is ‘full’, at only half capacity. That annoys me.

[old goat]

People who park in dirt lots taking up 2 spots. I see this a lot at my trailheads. Some get there earlier and park with 1.75 of a cars width next to the car beside. Not a big deal when the lots near empty but a couple hours later, the lot is ‘full’, at only half capacity. That annoys me.

Most popular hiking place around here has one parking area along the road marked for perpendicular parking but invariably one or two cars will park parallel and take up at least 3 spots each.

[skaredshtles]

My wife... pulling out of the garage, feels the need to "avoid" the pickup, which is parked MILES away on the street... so she does avoidance maneuvers while STILL in the garage, hits a shelving set, pushes it into a stack of summer tires, which get pushed into the fucking laser things for the garage door, throwing them out of adjustment.

Motherfucker!

[plugboots]

My wife... pulling out of the garage, feels the need to "avoid" the pickup, which is parked MILES away on the street... so she does avoidance maneuvers while STILL in the garage, hits a shelving set, pushes it into a stack of summer tires, which get pushed into the fucking laser things for the garage door, throwing them out of adjustment.

Motherfucker!

But JHC, do you still love her?

[riser4]

My wife... pulling out of the garage, feels the need to "avoid" the pickup, which is parked MILES away on the street... so she does avoidance maneuvers while STILL in the garage, hits a shelving set, pushes it into a stack of summer tires, which get pushed into the fucking laser things for the garage door, throwing them out of adjustment.

Motherfucker!

Oh man. There's another thread or two for this.

[skaredshtles]

Oh man. There's another thread or two for this.

I can't be expected to go find one of those.

Related: search function kind of sucks, doesn't it?

[Bobcat Sig]

Social media posters that feel compelled to append their rant, post, or comment with 'smh'. I guess that's new 'lol' wherein it's used in everyday interwebbery lexicon?

[Danno]

I can't be expected to go find one of those.

Related: search function kind of sucks, doesn't it?

literally took me less than 10 seconds. https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...highlight=wife

[skaredshtles]

literally took me less than 10 seconds. https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...highlight=wife

You're a TGR forum ninja.

[old goat]

The search function is great--if you already know what you're looking for.
BTW why doesn't the search function search thread titles. If I search police behaving badly why does that thread show up 2/3 of the way down the list of threads. Well, at least it shows up. Sometimes a search by thread title doesn't show up at all. Am I missing something--a way to specifically search titles?

[Bobcat Sig]

The search function is great--if you already know what you're looking for.
BTW why doesn't the search function search thread titles. If I search police behaving badly why does that thread show up 2/3 of the way down the list of threads. Well, at least it shows up. Sometimes a search by thread title doesn't show up at all. Am I missing something--a way to specifically search titles?

Hit up the Googlator and type: site:tetongravity.com/forums {enter your search terms here}

You'll get back much better results than using the in-built forum searching capabilities.