Things that annoy me (1 Viewer)

[Panzer ace]

Here is an example of what I'm talking about; FOX news is claiming victims of hurricane Helene are without power, food, diapers, clean water, etc, etc for about a week now, not a FEMA truck in sight, the report states "FEMA is broke due to 1.3 BILLION dollars of their funds being taken and allocated to house, feed, fly, hand out phones, put up in luxury hotels illegal immigrants."

No other news outlet is reporting this; so is it true or not? Is FEMA broke? So they can't help Americans? America last?

There's another hurricane coming too BTW, it's called hurricane season.

I do not believe this story because it mentions a government agency running out of money.

It does not matter which group of idiots is in charge, when Uncke Sucker runs out of money he just prints more!

And when the bill comes the rich are going to say they forgot their wallets and the needy are going to say they don’t have it.

Then the inevitable accusations come from both “sides” about who spent all that money.

Finally, the middle class will have to cover it.

 

[Terp152]

I think there is a law that if you live in the New England area that you have to eat at Dunkin Donuts. There is one on every corner. I'm not a big fast-food fan either but Five Guys is pretty good. Out west there is In-N-Out burger. The one that I really hate is Sonic. Awful.

Whataburger is good, unfortunately there are none this far north, Kentucky. Mostly in Florida.

 

[Combat]

This is where I get irate. We have our CITIZENS suffering and where our government could be helpful, they can't as they have spent it on Illegal Immigrants (that is the proper legal term regarless of what the idiot mainstream media will say). I just don't understand how anyone with a brain thinks this is OK. This dumb practice has to end, we are going to be ruined as a nation eventually. We will disintegrate from within.

I am sure as all news stories have an angle, but I have come to understand independently that FEMA is technically broke and needs more appropriations.

Tom

It's a new world that we live in. The kind of common sense that you exercise is lost on the majority of citizens. Results don't seem to matter. I attribute it to the media which runs a relentless propaganda campaign and our education system.

 

[Combat]

The new Salem's Lot remake on HBO/Max. A great example of how the world had dumbed down. It makes the low budget TV mini series from the 70s seem like a masterpiece in comparison. The only important thing to these modern Hollywood types is having a racially diverse cast. Whether the movie is boring and idiotic does not concern them.

 

[marco55]

Yes I heard a Congressman say he would come back to Washington right now to vote on money for FEMA and Mayorkas said they were broke.
Mark

 

[marco55]

I'm fed up with our tax money being spent on everybody but American people. $750 for people in NC but now they want to give money to Lebanon and of course more money for Gaza. Something has to be done about Washington.

 

[Terp152]

Wife sent shopping for groceries last week and reported the shelves for toilet paper, tissue paper, paper towels, and napkins were empty due to the impending dock workers strike. We went thru the same thing when COVID hit. Fortunately, we keep about 50 rolls on hand in our basement.

 

[Combat]

I'm fed up with our tax money being spent on everybody but American people. $750 for people in NC but now they want to give money to Lebanon and of course more money for Gaza. Something has to be done about Washington.

It turns out that FEMA is as incompetent as the secret service. And you don't have to search hard for the reason. Both agencies appointed incompetents to head them for political purposes. They seek diversity over competence and the results speak for themselves. As with the CDC during COVID, FEMA is making decisions on the fly as though they have never anticipated ever having to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane and had no experience doing so. People should be fired whose sole job it is to prepare for such events. There should be no hesitation as to what to do when a hurricane happens. The plan should be in place and the assistance should role out seamlessly.

 

[Barkmann]

Wife sent shopping for groceries last week and reported the shelves for toilet paper, tissue paper, paper towels, and napkins were empty due to the impending dock workers strike. We went thru the same thing when COVID hit. Fortunately, we keep about 50 rolls on hand in our basement.

Maybe it is people buying 50 or more rolls that empty the shelves, so there is no toilet paper for other people.

I got a Japanese toilet, with internal bidet, people laughed at me but after they came round and used it a few others got one. You can sit there as it cleans [warm water] and then jets of warm air to dry. You can sit there with a brew [tea] and a book and let the toilet do it all.

 

[Barkmann]

Just bought a K & C halftrack on ebay and it really annoys me when all the seller has done is just wrap the K & C box in paper and sent it. It is WSS121 and they did not even bother to take the figures out of the halftrack and put them in the foam inserts and they rattled around the inside of the halftrack and are now damaged.

 

[Horus]

Maybe it is people buying 50 or more rolls that empty the shelves so there is no toilet paper for other people.

Some people prepare for such eventualities and stock up, when there are no shortages, myself included and then when an unexpected event does occur, can sit back in the knowledge of having already done their best to ensure their own and families, comfort, (Perhaps extra thick and quilted in this case ! ) and safety from aggressive folk for whom unexpected shortages and not getting instant gratification always sends into panic mode and lost tempers, and while I don't recall anyone being killed yet for the last roll of TP, there's always the chance of someone being the first !
I'm sure all of us can remember how bare the shelves became during the pandemic.

 

[Warrior]

Best story I ever heard about hording/stocking up; a friend of my parents had a grandson that was in need of a special type of baby formula, his son in law called him and said "We're out of formula for our baby, I've looked everywhere, don't know what to do".........so he got in his car, went to their house and he and the son in law searched a number of stores until they finally found the formula, there were 12 cans on the shelf, the son in law grabbed all 12, my parents friend said "Why don't you leave some on the shelf in case some other family is in your shoes and needs that formula" so he left a few on the shelf.

It costs you nothing to be nice to people/treat others the way you'd want to be treated.

He was a great man.

 

[Terp152]

Maybe it is people buying 50 or more rolls that empty the shelves, so there is no toilet paper for other people.

I got a Japanese toilet, with internal bidet, people laughed at me but after they came round and used it a few others got one. You can sit there as it cleans [warm water] and then jets of warm air to dry. You can sit there with a brew [tea] and a book and let the toilet do it all.

I bought those over time idiot. Everyone else can do the same

 

[Terp152]

Some people prepare for such eventualities and stock up, when there are no shortages, myself included and then when an unexpected event does occur, can sit back in the knowledge of having already done their best to ensure their own and families, comfort, (Perhaps extra thick and quilted in this case ! ) and safety from aggressive folk for whom unexpected shortages and not getting instant gratification always sends into panic mode and lost tempers, and while I don't recall anyone being killed yet for the last roll of TP, there's always the chance of someone being the first !
I'm sure all of us can remember how bare the shelves became during the pandemic.

Exactly Steve. He's too dumb to figure that an will be the first to complain when he's unprepared.

 

[Terp152]

Just bought a K & C halftrack on ebay and it really annoys me when all the seller has done is just wrap the K & C box in paper and sent it. It is WSS121 and they did not even bother to take the figures out of the halftrack and put them in the foam inserts and they rattled around the inside of the halftrack and are now damaged.

Ghee, that's a shame.

 

[Barkmann]

I bought those over time idiot. Everyone else can do the same

but they still add up to 50, you could have stopped at say 20. Hoarding whether you buy 50 at once or over time is still hoarding and selfish. Not everyone is doing the same, so do not try to justify being self-centred by using that excuss, but hoarding is why there are shortages, not because there is not enough to go around but selfish people just only think of themselves. Not everyone can do it, think of people who do not the financial means or the ability to get that many home, possibly the elderly or people with disabilities who use public transport etc. I did originally put in as a kind of jokey response, but obviously hit a nerve, did it make you realise just how solipsistic and inconsiderate you are.

To put it into context, if a TS manufacturer bought out a set and there was only 50 and someone bought 30 or 40 or all 50, how would you feel. Everyone can do it, but not everyone can afford it or wants too, they want 1 or 2. How would that go down on the forum and how would my fellow Tfrogger feel.

My last response to you and will not read anymore, so fire away with further justification for everyone else. Have a good time with all your toilet rolls.

 

[Terp152]

but they still add up to 50, you could have stopped at say 20. Hoarding whether you buy 50 at once or over time is still hoarding and selfish. Not everyone is doing the same, so do not try to justify being self-centred by using that excuss, but hoarding is why there are shortages, not because there is not enough to go around but selfish people just only think of themselves. Not everyone can do it, think of people who do not the financial means or the ability to get that many home, possibly the elderly or people with disabilities who use public transport etc. I did originally put in as a kind of jokey response, but obviously hit a nerve, did it make you realise just how solipsistic and inconsiderate you are.

To put it into context, if a TS manufacturer bought out a set and there was only 50 and someone bought 30 or 40 or all 50, how would you feel. Everyone can do it, but not everyone can afford it or wants too, they want 1 or 2. How would that go down on the forum and how would my fellow Tfrogger feel.

My last response to you and will not read anymore, so fire away with further justification for everyone else. Have a good time with all your toilet rolls.

My, my little man is upset. Must'nt buy anything when the product is virtually unlimited and use foresight to be prepared. I see a warning coming on so rant away moron.

 

[Barkmann]

Some people prepare for such eventualities and stock up, when there are no shortages, myself included and then when an unexpected event does occur, can sit back in the knowledge of having already done their best to ensure their own and families, comfort, (Perhaps extra thick and quilted in this case ! ) and safety from aggressive folk for whom unexpected shortages and not getting instant gratification always sends into panic mode and lost tempers, and while I don't recall anyone being killed yet for the last roll of TP, there's always the chance of someone being the first !
I'm sure all of us can remember how bare the shelves became during the pandemic.

i understand what you mean, but there is stocking up and there is hoarding, i checked and i have 16 loo rolls, bought them on Saturday. Having a couple of weeks or a months supplies in is OK, but if the volume is such an extent you can see it from space then there is a worry. Plus it can be conbustable and a fire risk.

I am laughing at this thread as it is just so funny. Might be cheaper just to buy a cork or bottle stopper or get ourselves a Lota. We can always use newspaper, but avoid magazines, too shiny and slippy. Come on guys see the funny side. There is a great book called 'The Big Neccesary' about worldwide toilet habits, i saw it in a friends loo, so people have appropreate reading while in there.

Remember - stop looking at your phone in the loo, staring at it as you sit there as you hold it in your lap, remember you hold that thing up to your face for a lot of the time.

 

[Horus]

i understand what you mean, but there is stocking up and there is hoarding, i checked and i have 16 loo rolls, bought them on Saturday. Having a couple of weeks or a months supplies in is OK, but if the volume is such an extent you can see it from space then there is a worry. Plus it can be conbustable and a fire risk.
I am laughing at this thread as it is just so funny. Might be cheaper just to buy a cork or bottle stopper or get ourselves a Lota. We can always use newspaper, but avoid magazines, too shiny and slippy. Come on guys see the funny side. There is a great book called 'The Big Neccesary' about worldwide toilet habits, i saw it in a friends loo, so people have appropreate reading while in there.

Remember - stop looking at your phone in the loo, staring at it as you sit there as you hold it in your lap, remember you hold that thing up to your face for a lot of the time.

So you got yourself a little bidet that squirts warm water to clean you and your friends, how nice for you all ! or is it a reflection on your cooking !

 

[Terp152]

So you got yourself a little bidet that squirts warm water to clean you and your friends, how nice for you all ! or is it a reflection on your cooking !

Steve, you're in danger of being put on the ignore list of someone with a self splashing loo who's concerned with the global allocation of TP.