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My fiancée (now wife) expressed an opinion nearly 20 years ago that diamonds are simply ugly, and she didn't want one.
Her engagement ring's major stone is an emerald.
How Millennials Are Killing the Diamond Industry
Having gone to a rival school (hint: Go Green!), I find that moderately amusing. :)
Rude Zoo Visitors Learn Lesson After Taunting Rhino
From BasementRat: A friend who is a docent for a large U.S. zoo often tells me about his fun encounters , both the animal and human kind. He is studying to be a large animal veterinarian. It is mostly outdoor work, which he enjoys and he has come to know the habits, likes and dislikes of the...
Just a couple.
Poor Planning: A Few Too Many Legs
Ah, Flying Dog.
Hey, We All have Those
--insideoutfit
If you live near an active rail line and complain about the horns, you are a... now what is that word... oh, yeah - dumbass. You're a dumbass.
(For what it's worth, I've lived about 100m away from a railroad *intersection* for almost 15 years. You get used to it. I don't even wake up anymore when the trains go through during the summer and we've got the windows open.)
Justice Served: Railroad Clerk Transfers Hell Customer To Hellcat
From Plonq, TalesFromRetail It was near the end of my shift when the switchboard phone rang, and since one of my duties involved taking calls that came in on our main line, I grabbed the call. I answered it in the friendliest tone I could manage, hoping that my voice did not convey the annoya...
Two jobs ago, one of the bathrooms had one of these things that was dispensing so much air freshener that it made me gag.
I routinely turned it off if nobody else was in the bathroom.
Bathroom Hell For Tall People
From tgabben: Spotted in the washroom at work... Dewey_Oxberger: Wow, I thought I was the only one. The place I used to work added those to the restrooms. They trigger about 90 seconds after the lights come on. That would always be just as I was leaving. I'd get sprayed in the eye every ti...
What's that in Imperial arseloads?
(...and yep, looks like quite a few of them, indeed. Of course, because of Google's tendency to think it knows what you're looking for better than you do, you have to filter out irrelevant stuff...)
Retail Balls Awards: "Oh Well!"
From NoForReally, AskReddit I used to work for the Department of Motor Vehicles and the one I worked at had pretty limited parking, surprise! I had left for lunch, came back and was having a hard time finding a place to park. I finally found a spot so I drove up to it and put my signal on sho...
I didn't know Norway even had a Ministry of Silly Walks. :)
Silly Signage From a Cross Walk in Norway
From Tepperotta
I've always been fond of this particular version, altered slightly from the Jargon File: "F*** Walmart with a piledriver and 16 feet of curare-tipped wrought-iron fence _and no lubricants!_"
Christmas Creepiness: This Walmart Display In The Front of Their Store
Screw you, Walmart. Sideways. With a cactus. --Dweazzle
According to my parents, at one point I had a diet consisting of a significant amount of Lake Huron beach sand.
...and now I'm a software developer. Silicon FTW!
Horrifying Products: Silicon Dioxide
What it is: Silicon dioxide is what gets in your bathing suit and your hair at the beach. Affectionately known as sand, it’s also found in food. “It’s used in a lot of things as a flow agent and partly because it does a nice job of absorbing a little bit of atmospheric humidity that would...
Towne Club used to have pineapple flavor (just checked - they have something labeled "Pineapple Passion"), but I'm not sure how far they distribute outside the Detroit area.
Product Flops: Life Savers Soda
According to Time article Top 10 Bad Beverage Ideas, “The drink, developed in the 1980s, actually fared well in taste tests. But it tanked once in stores. Explained one brand critic, quoted in the 2005 bookBrand Failures: ‘The Life Savers name gave consumers the impression they would be drin...
...however, you can reserve the gazebo for human sacrifices starting at 9 p.m.
Rules of the Park
From defire101
@ShutterBug: I already knew that, but if your part of Michigan is the part I think it is, I grew up there, so that's not really surprising.
Abandoned: Blockbuster Video
Having had pizza beer (yes, such a thing actually exists), I'm going with fast mark down. :)
Pizza Milk
From AFeastFrom Pizza Milk: My 4 yr old niece told me she was thirsty and wanted "Pizza Milk".
My (German) father-in-law has the Blinkenlights thing in his office.
I'm told that there exists a version written by Germans in deliberately-poorly-translated English. :)
Seems Legit: High Quality French & German Translations
--RonaldMcTrump
I had a friend who did something similar when we were attending university, only instead of pictures of himself, it was little 1"x1" pictures of Richard Nixon.
Note to self: Elmwood Hall, back staircase, third floor, in the door hinge. Must remember to check. :)
Passive Aggressive Coworker Notes: Gone But Not Forgotten
From CaptainCatchem: A co-worker posted pictures of himself in random places when he quit. This is the back of a clock, and he quit 2 years ago.
On the flipside, one of my wife's cousins got married last weekend. If you looked at the seating arrangements, my brother-in-law (whose real name is, in fact, Chris), was listed as "Mr. Christ [last name]." My wife and I were at the same table... and I was *so* tempted to ask Chris if he'd seen that he'd received a promotion to Savior. :)
Is That Jesus' New, Modern Name, Or Is It Imperative To Know That Some Dude Named Chris Got Out Of Bed Today?
--RHUer
...as it should.
Customer Reject of the Day: Coors Loses The Beer Battle
From nmbguy
That looks like a mains plug at the end. Too bad you can see the other end of it, or I'd wonder if someone had made the Etherkiller from Hell. :)
50 Shades Of Sysadmin
--GuacamoleFanatic
Hell, the AARP says you're eligible for membership at 50, IIRC.
Town Creates Special Parking For Older Persons
From ciorcal:New parking spots in my town.
Not terribly surprising to anyone who works with technology - in the Eastern District of Texas, they've got a friendly judge in Rodney Gilstrap, so the patent trolls establish an office there to allow them access to the venue.
Scams and Scammers: The Patent Scam
From Viral Viral Videos: With technology surging society forward, you may have heard of a new brand of lawyers dubbed Patent Trolls. They don’t actually make or do anything positive. Instead, they sue people, mostly app creators, for supposedly infringing on their patents. App creator Austin ...
Saw those in at least two different states (Missouri and Indiana) on my way back from my brother's wedding.
Bad Billboards: Where Are You Going?
From Bluepop1302
I'd have said amishrakefight.org/gfy
That might be a bit overboard, though. (Oh, note that if you visit that site, it's NSFW, and watch the volume on your speakers.)
Discount Rat Comeback Line: Why Can't I Have This On Sale?
A great place to send all those annoying Discount Rats who won't stop haggling for stuff on sale!
We've had a couple of run-ins with ransomware where I work (CryptoLocker and Locky). They've largely been mitigated by the fact that the machinists save all their work to the server anyway, and that we have comprehensive backups.
It was the first one that really ticked me off, though.
We'd purchased some software to automate quoting of jobs. It was written in VB6. (This was in 2014 - VB6 dates back to the era of Windows 98.) It was incredibly fragile, required administrative privileges, and was exceedingly picky about which AV packages it would work with.
At some point, our estimator (the person using the software - I'll call her K) was the victim of a drive-by download of CryptoLocker. While I was dealing with the fallout from that (wiping and reinstalling her computer, plus some cleanup on the server shares she had access to), it came out that, at the behest of the tech support for the quoting software, K had uninstalled her AV software. Supposedly, their tech support had a list of AV packages that would work. Did they provide that list?
F**k no.
Yeah, we were just a wee bit angry at that point...
Tech Support Hell: Ransomware aka The Boss Is An Idiot
From: s4b3r6 I had a fun one a few years back. I was remote help for about four small businesses, all who needed a full time on-site tech, but weren't willing to pay for something that they couldn't see directly affecting their profit. At this particular business, we had everyone's home direc...
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