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Things that frustrate us all

My neighbor growing up was a Washington State Patrol Officer for 30+ years before retiring, and he's an avid Trump supporter, who voted for him twice, is now on Facebook angry that Trump pardoned the January 6th rioters, and I just want to tell him, "Why are you angry/upset?! He said that's what he was going to do. You knew that would be one of the first things he did when he got back in the Oval Office. You voted for him!"
It's not even that we had to extrapolate this action from nonverbal information. It was literally an action Trump said he was going to do. I really don't know what to say to someone who's heard what's going to happen then gets upset when it occurs.
 
yeah, kind of like Biden pardoning his son. Everybody knew he was gonna do that too.

When your father is the president, it's pretty much a get-out-of-jail-free card.
 
My neighbor growing up was a Washington State Patrol Officer for 30+ years before retiring, and he's an avid Trump supporter, who voted for him twice, is now on Facebook angry that Trump pardoned the January 6th rioters, and I just want to tell him, "Why are you angry/upset?! He said that's what he was going to do. You knew that would be one of the first things he did when he got back in the Oval Office. You voted for him!"
That's what he got for voting for the leopards face eating party
 
Medical bureaucracy is a nightmare to navigate no matter where one is in the world. Back in September, after finally clearing all the hurdles set by my medical provider, I got approved for starting feminizing HRT, and they submitted my application for the off-label prescription of my medication to the Hungarian National Centre for Public Health and Pharmacy, in what was described as a routine process that should take no longer than 1-2 weeks. I won't bore anyone with the details, but the authority ended up sitting on the applications (hundreds of them, in fact) until today, forcing my medical provider to transfer all of us on paper to a clinic in Belgrade so that we could get foreign prescriptions on a temporary basis until the matter was settled.

Despite all my documents (including the two valid medical diagnoses for Gender Dysphoria, one by a clinical psychologist and another by a psychiatrist) having been in order when we had applied, the NCPHP abruptly ruled that they won't take their own five-month-long inactivity into account, and will enforce their arbitrarily decided six-month term of expiry of the diagnoses, giving us 15 calendar days (extendable a single time for another 15 days upon request by the medical provider) to produce a replacement diagnosis no older than six months old. You can imagine how that would go for hundreds of affected people living in a country the size of Indiana where there are only a handful of psychiatrists willing to produce Gender Dysphoria diagnoses, let alone on an urgent basis.

The fact that my medical provider sent me an e-mail about this and requested an urgent reply 30 minutes before their closing time is only the icing on the cake.
 
This morning at my store - right after we opened up, it was about 7 AM - there's a page over the PA system rerminding us to keep our cars locked.

Apparently there were guys out in the parking lot, tugging on door handles to see if the cars were locked, obviously with intent to steal.

Fortunately, my car was locked (it locks automatically when I walk away from it) but just to be safe I moved it to right near the front door so I could keep an eye on it.

That's a fucking brand new car, if anybody even LOOKS at it wrong they're dead! :mad:
 
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I know it's from last year but thank Belgium for making my country and my city a joke, I guess we should called ourselves Christmas tree eaters instead of noose bearers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_Ghent_(1539–1540)
You've never seen the Euell Gibbons TV commercial for a breakfast cereal from 1975?
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He died of an aortic aneurysm just after the commercial at the age of 64. They stopped airing the commercials after that.
 
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You've never seen the Euell Gibbons TV commercial for a breakfast cereal from 1975?
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He died of an aortic aneurysm just after the commercial at the age of 64. They stopped airing the commercials after that.
Shouldn't this go under "dumb shit people do on public record" Hey that'd be a fun thread
 
It's not even that we had to extrapolate this action from nonverbal information. It was literally an action Trump said he was going to do. I really don't know what to say to someone who's heard what's going to happen then gets upset when it occurs.

“Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as Celebrity does. Remember that.”

~~ Gilderoy Lockhart
 
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