goddamnit. My dining room table is coming this morning. Originally delivery was set for 7:30 - 9:30, and I called to move the time to 9-11 because I wanted to
sleep in. I got a phone call at 7:30 asking if it was okay to deliver the table early, at which point I made it very clear that they had woken me up, and
I'd asked for a later time, but that I was up already so fine, bring it. Still waiting. Oh well, I could use that $20 I was going to give them for a tip
for my pedicure tomorrow.
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Posts: 12400 (06/12/09 8:06 AM) Official Towel Girl Of
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Posts: 3226 (06/12/09 8:29 AM) Didn't laugh at the joke
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I'm finding out very quickly that not all allergies are true allergies. They're called allergies because people are idiots and don't take warnings
seriously, but that most allergies aren't true allergies but more various degrees of sensitivities. I'm looking at having extreme sensitivities...
which is why I've eaten these all my life and they haven't killed me. But they have caused some rather unpleasant side effects that have worsened over
the years (IBS symptoms, fatigue, weight gain, brain fog).
I am still going to insist seeing an allergist and a nutritionist, but I think I'm going to be going into this better educated then a lot of people choose to be about their own conditions. |
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Posts: 7527 (06/12/09 11:22 AM) Delicious when covered
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Well, there are food allergies and food intolerances. A true allergy invokes an immune response. Some allergies are life-threatening, many are not. Allergies
can worsen with exposure. They can also get better with exposure (allergy shots basically introduce small amounts of the allergen into your system to
desensitize it).
An intolerance means that some part of your digestive system can't deal with it very well. I have no known food allergies, but am mildly lactose intolerant, thus will avoid anything made with condensed milk unless I have my enzyme tablets with me. Intolerances can also get better or worse with time too. I went from not being lactose intolerant at all, to being moderately intolerant (no milk, but yogurt and cheese usually ok), and now I can eat almost any amount of any milk product and be fine. How did you find out about these allergies? Did they do a scratch test? |
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Posts: 3227 (06/12/09 2:22 PM) Didn't laugh at the joke
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Blood test because I've been gaining weight despite diet and exercise and wondered if I was gluten intolerant and all this was happening from switching to
whole grains.
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Posts: 12402 (06/16/09 4:03 PM) Official Towel Girl Of
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bah. I noticed some suspicious sun damage on my hands today, and made an appointment for the dermatologist. First of all, blame for that. But secondly, I got
the first available appointment. SEPTEMBER. Jeez.
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Posts: 9597 (06/16/09 4:36 PM) Just Married!
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I AM INDIGNANT BECAUSE TWITTER IS DOWN!!!
n.b. Twitterers are indignant about EVERYTHING. |
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Posts: 656 (06/17/09 2:04 AM) Am I gay? Am I straight? |
Okay, so who are we blaming this year? Whom ever it is, they are to blame for this crap:
Sam and I are moving in together (long story) and so we are looking for a house in a certain metropolitan area (was that paranoid enough? I can get out the tinfoil hat if you want). Anyhow, so we find this advert that seems like the perfect place. Its got the requisite number of bedrooms and bathrooms and dungeons. So after some emailing, the owner wants us to do ye ole credit report. Duh, fine, okay, click link and done with that. No worries since Sam has never even had a late library book, his credit score is higher than my SAT score, okay bitches? Aaaaaanyeeeehow....do credit thingie and wait for person to call and set appointment to lookit house...no call. I'm shocked for 20 minutes, then the cynical angel on my left shoulder tells me to do some digging. Turns out, this idiot is adverting the same house in several different cities. He's scamming ppl into signing up for (and hopefully forgetting) a credit reporting service. Perfect house does not exist and is certainly NOT on the market. GODDAMNIT I hate house-hunting. And I hate whomever is to blame for fake advertisements for houses that don't exist. Bastards. |
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Posts: 6470 (06/17/09 8:52 AM) That's Glay-bay if |
Sorry Dee. Unfortunately it's a fairly common scam these days:
http://consumerist.com/5238705/scammers-advertise-fake-apartments-want-your-real-credit-information
And some tips on what to do next: http://consumerist.com/5277628/help-i-fell-for-the-rental-credit-check-scam |
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Posts: 12403 (06/17/09 11:23 AM) Official Towel Girl Of
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Four weeks into an 8 week project, I finally get something that will further the project. Except I get incomplete (and contradictory) documents and
instructions. Also irritating: when do I have to get this done? Tomorrow. You know I'm leaving early, right? Yeah, when I give a deadline, I don't
really expect people to meet them. GAH, then why give me a deadline at all?
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Posts: 19396 (06/17/09 1:17 PM) GayCowFan85 |
After emailing? If someone wants to unload anything for more than $500 and isn't willing to meet in person or talk on the phone, there's something
wrong.
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Posts: 659 (06/19/09 3:53 AM) Am I gay? Am I straight? |
Rex, you are so right, its just been so long since I used any sort of advertisement to look for a place that I'm really behind the times. I've lived in
my area for 20 plus years, and we are moving to his area, which is a good 1500 miles away....I should have twigged to it sooner, but I'm just not as alert
as I used to be.
Annnneeeeehow...Sam is awesome. He called and canceled the "credit reporting service" he was tricked into signing up for on tuesday, but today they still charged his credit card two days later (on thursday). It has been less than the "free trial period" of seven days since he went to that site, but that doesnt seem to matter to these dirty bastards. Sam is awesome because he actually said "I've never been scammed before, this is kind of interesting". He didn't ONCE point out that *I* am the asshat who picked out that particular advertisement in the first place. Instead, he's mildly bemused by the entire thing. I know its only 13 bucks or so, but it still just pisses me off all 31 flavors of holy hell. This is me we are talking about, so it should not be hard to imagine me getting my panties in a wad over something that is actually pretty minor. In the mean time, a big smooch for Glebe, I'll pass that info to Sam so he can do that also. He's already drilled the dood's domain, complained to his ISP, filed a complaint with the FTC and told his credit card not to pay the fake credit reporting site. We'll see how it all pans out. |
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Posts: 660 (06/19/09 4:03 AM) Am I gay? Am I straight? |
Oh wait, i just GOTTA share this one. Now that Sam and I are hip to the rental scamming, these are just funny. I paste email (drunk giggle):
Hello Thanks for your response regarding your interest in having my house for rent.The house is much available for now and it a 4 bedroom home..I want you to know that i am the owner of this building situated at ---REDACTED IN CASE IM STILL BEING STALKED--- .But i am now presently in West Africa for my Hopitals Project prayer crusade with my wife and we have the keys right here with us.I will like to inform you that it was due to my transfer that makes us to leave the house and also want to give it out for rent and looking for a resposible person that can take very good care of it as we are not after the money for the rent but want it to be clean at the time and the person that will rent it to take it as if it were its own..So for now,We are here in West Africa,NIGERIA our new house and also with the keys of the house,we are trying to look for an agent that we can give this document before we left but could not see and we are as well as don't want our house to be used any how in our absent that is why we took it along with us here.We are only willing to give the house out to a lovely and caring family only, so if you know you cannot give the house the neatness it deserves please don't contact me.But if you promise to always take good care of the house,get back to me on how you could take care of our house or perhaps experience you have in renting a home.Hope you are okay with the monthly price of $1600 with hydro,heat laundry facilities,air-condition Etc.I am looking forward to hear from you ASAP,Our house number is ---REDACTED IN CASE IM STILL BEING STALKED--- below is the application form for you to fill and discuss on how to get the house for rent.. Kindly confirm your interest by filling the form below: ---Then we are supposed to tell him everything up to, and including, our fucking blood types. Yeah, right, asshole--- |
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How come all scammers are in Nigeria? Is this what they think about when they're practicing running for marathons? I'd always wondered what folks
thought about on those long runs.
Hey, congrats Dee. That Sam sounds like a gem. |
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Posts: 3228 (06/20/09 12:13 PM) Didn't laugh at the joke
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Posts: 662 (06/20/09 12:18 PM) Am I gay? Am I straight? |
I hope you feel better soon, lady.
At least yer not allergic to waffles (I hope). |
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Posts: 3229 (06/20/09 6:59 PM) Didn't laugh at the joke
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As long as they're wheat free I'm not. LOL
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Posts: 7109 (06/20/09 10:15 PM) Turns normal men
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You're preggo?
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Posts: 3230 (06/24/09 6:24 PM) Didn't laugh at the joke
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Dear Lord it's difficult to find this place when you're on vacation and surfing on someone else's computer. Thank goodness I'm back at home for
a night where I can surf without having random hotel patrons walking behind me.
No matter what my answer is to that question Tracy, another preggo poll is going to be started, isn't it? 
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Miiish |
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Posts: 3232 (06/24/09 8:24 PM) Didn't laugh at the joke
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Freaking hell, kids are DIRTY making machines. It took an hour and 15 minutes, 2 people, a scrub bucket and 2 vacuums and removing the seats of the minivan to
clean it. I lined the entire floor with a plastic truck liner before putting the seats back in. Now I can just hose out the van next time. (Lining my van floor
in plastic somehow made me think fondly of Slice. Maybe it's for the "well hell, if the kids are going to act like animals, I may as well line the van
like I would if I took animals in my van" sort of attitude.)
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Posts: 14613 (06/25/09 3:06 AM) President of the Cock
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It's been over a week since I've seen my man and it does not please me.
I'm starting to feel like Buff. No checkbook twitching as of yet, though. |
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