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Things that frustrate us all

Anyone here on Facebook? For the last few years, it seems like every time an account is hacked and then posts spam links while tagging the friends of the hacked account so that friends of the friends see the spam too, that the links are always about weight loss and improving appearances.
 
I just had to call somebody up to my hotel room (in Montréal) because I couldn’t find the A/C unit.

They showed me where it was…behind the bedroom door.

Dude’ll be telling his grandkids about this one. STUPIDEST HOTEL GUEST IN THE WORLD. And it’s ME. :brickwall:
 
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Aragorn said:
Anyone here on Facebook? For the last few years, it seems like every time an account is hacked and then posts spam links while tagging the friends of the hacked account so that friends of the friends see the spam too, that the links are always about weight loss and improving appearances.
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Yeah, it always seems to be those.
 
flandry84 said:
Just had my first experience of gout.
Sounds like something that only affects 18th century monarchs and boy do I wish it were so.Exquisite pain.
This growing older lark is no effing fun at all.
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I heard those are painful. Sorry to hear you're going through it.

What you said about getting old reminds me of the Meat Loaf song "Life is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back".

(That man really had a thing for excessively long song titles.)
 
I was watching a Mets/Dodgers game and the Mets broadcasters said their hotel lobby was on the 27th floor.

What the actual FUCK? :wtf:

I mean, I know this is LA.being LA, but…logically speaking, how does this even happen? :confused:
 
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Just watched a driver require a bit of extra time to park her giant van right next to an SUV when there were several empty spaces in a row in the parking lot she could’ve gone right to instead. If the SUV driver gets back first, opening the driver door is not going to be a pleasant task.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I was watching a Mets/Dodgers game and the Mets broadcasters said their hotel lobby was on the 27th floor.

What the actual FUCK? :wtf:

I mean, I know this is LA.being LA, but…logically speaking, how does this even happen? :confused:
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That's a deep underground garage, then...



Aragorn said:
Just watched a driver require a bit of extra time to park her giant van right next to an SUV when there were several empty spaces in a row in the parking lot she could’ve gone right to instead. If the SUV driver gets back first, opening the driver door is not going to be a pleasant task.
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A lot of drivers in Miami also park too close to other cars. While there are some parking lots that have the spaces a bit too close together (they seemed to have been designed for compact cars), there are quite a lot of instances where it's the driver just not parking within the lines.
 
Farscape One said:
A lot of drivers in Miami also park too close to other cars. While there are some parking lots that have the spaces a bit too close together (they seemed to have been designed for compact cars), there are quite a lot of instances where it's the driver just not parking within the lines.
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Have I ranted about parking lots in this thread yet? Yes, well, I don't care.

I fucking hate parking lots. You know how you go to driver's education of some stripe, pass a couple of tests and get your license eventually (depending on age and local laws)? Yeah, in parking lots all that shit goes right out the window and smashes in to tiny pieces. Because people do not park in the lines, they do not abide by stop signs, companies do not patch pot holes causing more disruption and, my least favorite of all, people not fucking using proper lanes of traffic! Driving crisscross all over the lot because of perceived convenience basically makes me feel like I'm stepping in to a lawless wasteland.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I was watching a Mets/Dodgers game and the Mets broadcasters said their hotel lobby was on the 27th floor.

What the actual FUCK? :wtf:

I mean, I know this is LA.being LA, but…logically speaking, how does this even happen? :confused:
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You already asked, and got an answer to, this question two weeks ago.
 
Aragorn said:
Just watched a driver require a bit of extra time to park her giant van right next to an SUV when there were several empty spaces in a row in the parking lot she could’ve gone right to instead. If the SUV driver gets back first, opening the driver door is not going to be a pleasant task.
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My mom and I have run into this on our early morning walks with our dogs a few times and it really confuses us. We'll get to the park to walk the dogs early in the morning, and when we first stop they'll only be one or two other cars in the parking lot, and then when we get back one more car will have come in and will be parked right next to our car.
I ended up getting in a bit of a game of chicken with a jogger while I was out on my bike Thursday or Friday. I was riding in the bike lane, going with traffic, and there was a guy jogging in the bike lane on, without a bike, going against traffic and coming straight at me. At first I wasn't going to move out the way since I was the one on the bike going in the right direction, but he just kept coming straight at without reacting to my presence at all. I finally gave up and moved over into the regular car lane when I was about 10 or 15 feet away from him.
I've mentioned it before, but it really drives me crazy when people are walking and jogging in the bike lane when there's a perfect useable sidewalk right next to the street, which there was in this case. It's a bike lane, which means it's for people on bikes, if you want to walk or jog, that's what the sidewalk is for.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I just had to call somebody up to my hotel room (in Montreal) because I couldn’t find the A/C unit.

They showed me where it was…behind the bedroom door.

Dude’ll be telling his grandkids about this one. STUPIDEST HOTEL GUEST IN THE WORLD. And it’s ME. :brickwall:
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AC units behind doors are not terribly effective if the door is open. Dangerous if the bedroom door is the room exit door, doubly if the room is above the first floor.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I was watching a Mets/Dodgers game and the Mets broadcasters said their hotel lobby was on the 27th floor.

What the actual FUCK? :wtf:

I mean, I know this is LA.being LA, but…logically speaking, how does this even happen? :confused:
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Multiuse building. Lower floors are office, middle hotel, upper floors apartments.
If it is the hotel at L.A. Live next to the Microsoft Theater and Crypto.com Arena, then JW Marriott hotel is on floors 3-21, the Ritz-Carlton on floors 22-26, with floors 27-52 being the Residences at the Ritz Carlton condominiums.
 
Non Sync said:
Multiuse building. Lower floors are office, middle hotel, upper floors apartments.
If it is the hotel at L.A. Live next to the Microsoft Theater and Crypto.com Arena, then JW Marriott hotel is on floors 3-21, the Ritz-Carlton on floors 22-26, with floors 27-52 being the Residences at the Ritz Carlton condominiums.
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That’s a good point. I never considered that the building could have things in it other than the hotel.

Thanks for actually answering my question. ;)
 
I didn't think of that, either. Every hotel I have seen or stayed at was entirely a hotel.

Multiuse buildings down here have usually been for various businesses, like where my office is located. But not businesses and apartments or hotels in one.

Is this common in L.A.?
 
Farscape One said:
I didn't think of that, either. Every hotel I have seen or stayed at was entirely a hotel.

Multiuse buildings down here have usually been for various businesses, like where my office is located. But not businesses and apartments or hotels in one.

Is this common in L.A.?
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They've actually been around for a while. The film The Towering Inferno, along with the two books the movie was based on, had buildings that were both commercial and residential.
 
Mr. Laser Beam said:
I was watching a Mets/Dodgers game and the Mets broadcasters said their hotel lobby was on the 27th floor.

What the actual FUCK? :wtf:

I mean, I know this is LA.being LA, but…logically speaking, how does this even happen? :confused:
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There is a 27th floor in LA?? :eek:
I haven't been there in a decade but I always found it hilarious how they cheat with their skyline of towers that you see on postcards, posters, even on a Win11 wallpaper. It's actually only one single street and the rest of the city is 2-4 story buildings due to the earthquakes.
 
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