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Trivial Hardships - Share your sad stories here
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flotsam



Joined: 28 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always thought it was Picard.

Ta-da!!!
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

flotsam wrote:
Satori wrote:
My parents were hippy's


I refuse to believe a hippy would claim ownership of your parents.


Trivial Hardship 1) I often make this very same typo (why?), post my message, spot the bloody thing, and then frantically re-edit my post before some other smartarse can get there before me and smugly point it out. I have made many smug enemies on these forums so it's of utmost importance to act fast! Laughing

Trivial Hardship 2) My thoughts are currently being interupted by the image of a certain poster cheerfully and unabashedly swinging his what!? Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Torid
Torid!
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JongnoGuru



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big_Bird wrote:
Torid
Torid!

I bet you did that just to be ironic and clever.

My current (sort of) Trivial Hardship:

This wine I'm drinking is tasting off. Not vinegary, but ever-so-slightly fungal and rotted-corky. Rotted-corky, brutha.

So what's my trivial hardship? It's that I don't know what I should do. Keep drinking it and pretend that gutbomb I just got had nothing to do with the wine? Or should I pour it down the drain right away and start on something nice? I would dump it were it more evidently gone-bad, but that's the problem -- it's right at the cusp. *takes another sip* Okay, that fungal taste is still there, but I'm starting to care about it less.

Argentina
"CRISTOBAL 1492" Malbec, Cosecha 2003 Vino Tinto

If I don't get any more gutbombs, we'll finish this bottle but I don't think I'll buy it again. Gullfiend says it's okay and I'm crazy. I'm not a wine snob, but I do insist that a wine not cause people gutbombs. It's one of those wines where you can't tell if the peculiar taste is intentional (and safe) or was a mishap in handling & storage. I'd say it serves me right for buying Third World produce.
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Qinella



Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Trivial burdens I have born today:

1. For some bizarre reason, the hallway to my deluxe officetel has become a raging windtunnel. The furious sound is almost frightening, it howls so loud. Above that, it's annoying!

2. The speaker on the ceiling way up here beyond the reach of my screwdriver interrupted my late sleep this morning with 30-45 minutes of sporadic one-second siren blares. It would start with the rising tone of BEEEEEEEOOOO, and stop. It was maddening, I tell you. I kept falling back asleep for 3 minutes, or 5 minutes, or 10 seconds at a time, depending on the random interval of peace was afforded me.

I dreamed that I had stacked my dinner table on top of my desk, and then a chair on the table in order to reach the speaker and disconnect it. When I woke up to find it still intact, I was truly miffed.
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Woland



Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What is it with the corked wine? My rioja was off last night; fortunately, I had a bottle of tempranillo in the house to substitute. Next time I'm buying screw cap Napa.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just discovered, via YouTube, that the video for Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees' is awful beyond words. What did such a sublime song ever do to deserve such an abject video?

(Same goes for 'Karma Police.')
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know how to get the balance and recent transactions printed in my bankbook. On the third try I put the damn book in the machine in the right direction, but none of the options that came up looked good. So I chose "cancel".
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Lizara



Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1) I bought unsalted cashews by mistake. I tried adding salt, but it won't stick.

2) My apartment is on the top floor of a building with a church in the basement, so the requisite giant electric cross is right on top of my roof. The church people decided that early this morning was a good time to do repairs on the cross. Not only that, but the cross is still broken, and they seem to have torn the screen most of the way off my window in the process.
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zappalives



Joined: 15 May 2006
Location: Gyeongju

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Even after listening to hard-core rap for the past couple days, I still have a Puffy-Ami Yumi song stuck in my head that I listened to just once. It's really damn catchy!
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twg



Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The batttery on my iPod mini can't seem to decide how much power is in it.

Sometimes it dies at half life. But then I just wait a few seconds, hit play, and it comes back again.

Sometimes it takes several hours to recharge, sometimes just one.

Sometimes it even starts with low battery power, AND INCREASES AS I PLAY IT! Shocked
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theatrelily



Joined: 03 Jun 2004
Location: Haeundae-gu, Busan

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zappalives wrote:
Even after listening to hard-core rap for the past couple days, I still have a Puffy-Ami Yumi song stuck in my head that I listened to just once. It's really damn catchy!



you win. Smile
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LarrytheGiraffee



Joined: 12 Feb 2006

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My curtain rack already had a problem so I had to pull real hard to get the curtains to close. Come home drunk on Sunday morning (when I could really use some darkness), pull the curtain and the rack comes dislodged from the ceiling.

Now I cant screw it back up because the holes are too big.

Woe is me!
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kermo



Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ya-ta Boy wrote:
Last week the bulb burned out in one of my rooms. I do have a chair, so getting the cover off and changing the bulb was no problem. Now I can't get the darn cover back on. It's sitting over in the corner. It will remain there as long as I live in this apartment.

I finally got the pickle relish jar open last summer, but now I have two (2!) salsa jars that refuse to open. I'm reduced to eating my Belgian-made tortilla chips without salsa.


I love this thread.
Ya-ta Boy, I have the same problem in my bedroom. My fluorescent ring-shaped bulbs blew out, so I manfully bought replacements, eased the gigantic cover off, and installed them. Only one of the rings now work, and I can't get the damn cover on again.

However, I beseech you not to eat another chip until you have tried opening those jars with some Kermo-patented help. Heat makes most matter expand, and as this happens, the space between metal lid and glass jar expands a little too. Perhaps you've tried running the jar under hot water. Have you tried using your gas-range? Gently heat it a little, then throw a tea-towel (or even better, a rubber glove) over the lid and mightily strain at it. You should hear a gentle pop and smell the tangy salsa in no time.
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JongnoGuru wrote:
Big_Bird wrote:
Torid
Torid!

I bet you did that just to be ironic and clever.



Does that mean you thought it was ironic and clever? Laughing
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've decided today to become a vegan.
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