Parenting Skillz

[EvilEmpryss]

It can't possibly be worse than "Renovation Realities". I shudder at the lawsuits inherent in a camera crew watching morons work on active gas and electrical lines with reciprocating saws and not telling them to stop!

[BusBus]

I know I know, I'm late. But I had to ninja strike the last day of Best Buy's Boxing Day/New Year's sale.

That was potential plan #2 for me today (have a Best Buy GC). Alas, I opted for potential plan #1-Metrotown.

SC: “Wow, I’m surprised you’re answering!”

Wow, I’m surprise you’re calling at 3am to ask me how to set the timer on a washing machine!

I'm surprised that there is someone calling about the timer on the washing machine at 3am and someone to answer their question at 3am.

Low Standards

C: “Thanks, honey!”

Beats being called "ma'am"

I would greet you all with the optimal salutation of “Happy New Year”. However, I have just witnessed a man urinating on the ATM machine inside ( Yes, inside. ) 7/11 while bellowing “Singing in the rain” and it has somewhat dampened any jubilation I may have had for welcoming in the new year.

I unfortunately had already dispensed my rounds of "Happy New Years" for 2010 by the time I had stepped in vomit at Metrotown today. Still some on my shoe when I got home.

Hot Tips #2

SC: “Yeah I just figured out how you can catch every serial killer on earth.”

Pit them against Jon Voight?

SC: “see they all keep in touch with each other over the computer. So just check their computer and you’ll find the rest.”

…..so you’re saying they have a Facebook group? Got it.

Because serial killers are members of a secret elite organization?
I smell a Dan Brown novel brewing.

They are not giggling because they think you are cute. They are giggling because they think you are retarded.

Sort of like when I laugh with/at my clients?

Parenting Skillz

I keep telling myself I should just walk to the Skytrain and give up on the blackened chariot I normally ride. But alas, I am persistently a lazy sow and continue to board the bus like an obedient pleb. Even though I should know better by now. Thus I once again bore witness to the very fringes of humanity’s collective intellect.

The exact reason that I refuse to take the bus to work. I walk in whatever weather Vancouver cares to throw at me (therefore, I own an umbrella and rubber boots).

In other words right now. You see she had purchased a concession fare. Specifically a monthly one. You know, concession. Normally reserved for those age 5 to 13 or 65 to dead.

Judging by the rest of this story (i.e. her behaviour) , I'm guessing that the 7/11 clerk thought that she was of concession age (high school students can also use the Concession pass in conjunction with their Translink-issued student ID card).

Apparently the bus driver was thinking something similar and told her to go sit the hell down and shut up. I’m not really paraphrasing that either.

Didn't think for a second that you were paraphrasing....

[Chromatix]

I dunno, I think the small hours are a good time to want to use the washing machien timer, so the machine doesn't wake up the neighbours, but is still finished when the owner gets back from his early-morning shift.

But in general, if a machine *has* such a timer in the first place, it's also braindead simple to use it. It might even be described in the "manual" which was probably provided in the "box" the machine arrived in. And is printed in multiple languages.

But I suspect none of those languages is Nunavutese or Newfish.

[Gravekeeper]

Hey! Canada's Worst Handyman is great ;p as is Canada's Worst Driver. Only different is watching Canada's Worst Handyman doesn't fill me with abject terror at the thought of walking anywhere near a street. There have been some terrifying individuals from Vancouver on that show.

Besides, both shows are strangely educational.

That was potential plan #2 for me today (have a Best Buy GC). Alas, I opted for potential plan #1-Metrotown.

If you saw someone struggling through the crowd with an awkward box and an aura of distain and hatred for humanity, that was me. =p You have to go through Metrotown to get to Best Buy, and Metrotown was crazy.

I swear to God almighty no one in there is capable of walking faster then the speed of smell.

Beats being called "ma'am"

I suppose, and I *have* been called ma'am before.

Judging by the rest of this story (i.e. her behaviour) , I'm guessing that the 7/11 clerk thought that she was of concession age (high school students can also use the Concession pass in conjunction with their Translink-issued student ID card).

There is no way on this earth you could mistake her for being concession age. It sounded more like the clerk was either ignorant of how the system worked or pulled one over on her and she didn't want to admit it. Remember the clerk told her she could use the concession pass as adult fare as long as she paid the difference every time.

It can't possibly be worse than "Renovation Realities". I shudder at the lawsuits inherent in a camera crew watching morons work on active gas and electrical lines with reciprocating saws and not telling them to stop!

See at least on Canada's Worst Handyman the host will leap in to stop your rampant stupidity if it looks like its about to kill you. >.>

[Jester]

I shudder at the lawsuits inherent in a camera crew watching morons work on active gas and electrical lines with reciprocating saws and not telling them to stop!

Any show like that unquestionably has the people they are filming sign waivers, so lawsuits are pretty much a non-issue.

[Gravekeeper]

Any show like that unquestionably has the people they are filming sign waivers, so lawsuits are pretty much a non-issue.

Yeah, hell, if the camera man is standing by watching that he's hoping for it just for the ratings. -.-

[Broomjockey]

Any show like that unquestionably has the people they are filming sign waivers, so lawsuits are pretty much a non-issue.

You can waive injuries. I'm fairly certain you cannot waive death.

[EvilEmpryss]

Sure you can... bungee jump companies do it all the time. So long as you can prove that you (the company) did everything possible to warn the customer of the potential dangers and then took all reasonable steps to protect against accidental death, you're covered. If the moron/customer then goes and does something stupid that you told them not to do and took steps to prevent someone doing, you can't be held responsible for their death.

It won't stop the family from trying to take you to court anyway, but they shouldn't win.

[Broomjockey]

So long as you can prove that you (the company) did everything possible to warn the customer of the potential dangers and then took all reasonable steps to protect against accidental death, you're covered. I

Somehow I doubt not telling someone to not cut in to a live powerline doesn't fall under the "we did everything we can to prevent death" clause.

[Jetfire]

See at least on Canada's Worst Handyman the host will leap in to stop your rampant stupidity if it looks like its about to kill you. >.>

And usually snark at you big time for the stupidity you just did too. (Andrew Younghusband has gotta be one of the snarkiest hosts/TV personalities out there. And after 10 combined seasons of CWD and CWH, he's had a long time to refine his talents. )

And yes, knowing that there are people like CWD's out there makes me scared to step out on the road. What's nice is both shows you usually see improvements in most of the contestants, but some are just too dense (or ditsy) to clue in about what they're doing wrong. (And Angelina, CWD #5, there is NOTHING wrong with taking Public Transit... other than GK's posts. )

BTW, while most Christmas celebraters do the gift exchange around the 24th/25th (if they do exchange gifts), some people celebrate old Christmas, which is Jan 6th. And some people will buy the gift for delivery later. (Granted a big discussion on the difference between a blanket and a throw is a different matter entirely. )

[Gravekeeper]

And usually snark at you big time for the stupidity you just did too. (Andrew Younghusband has gotta be one of the snarkiest hosts/TV personalities out there. And after 10 combined seasons of CWD and CWH, he's had a long time to refine his talents. )

He's half the reason I watch the show, frankly. I love how he drops little sarcastic observations of the blatant stupidity going on and half of the contestants never even catch his "hints". >.>

There's also his ability to turn everything into a sexual euphemism that somehow makes it by Discovery Channel's censors.

[PixelJockey]

He's half the reason I watch the show, frankly. I love how he drops little sarcastic observations of the blatant stupidity going on and half of the contestants never even catch his "hints". >.>

There's also his ability to turn everything into a sexual euphemism that somehow makes it by Discovery Channel's censors.

Well let's face it, home improvement is just one big sexual euphemism waiting to happen... the wife & I redid the kitchen tile a few months back and we're still saying caulk and giggling to each other... (yeah, maturity I know)...

I have to say I was a bit disappointed that there were no Vancouverites in this last season of CWD, both because I like to support the home team, and because I recently moved to Southern Ontario... where like 60% of this seasons driver holocaust came from. I may never drive again.

[EvilEmpryss]

Somehow I doubt not telling someone to not cut in to a live powerline doesn't fall under the "we did everything we can to prevent death" clause.

LOL! Agreed! Which is why watching that show is like watching a train wreck about to happen.

[BusBus]

If you saw someone struggling through the crowd with an awkward box and an aura of distain and hatred for humanity, that was me. =p You have to go through Metrotown to get to Best Buy, and Metrotown was crazy.

I swear to God almighty no one in there is capable of walking faster then the speed of smell.

DAMN DAMN DAMNIT! I completely forgot that there was a BestBuy in Metrotown.
Bah, I'll probably still end up at the one on Cambie.

It's a lucky day if people are moving at all in Metrotown....seems like the preferred location to have family reunions right in the middle of the walkway.



Was that your vomit that I stepped in?

[Gravekeeper]

DAMN DAMN DAMNIT! I completely forgot that there was a BestBuy in Metrotown.

Was that your vomit that I stepped in?

Yar, its just across the street on the other side of the mall. Just head out the exit by EB/McDonalds, turn right and head down half a block and viola.

and no, no it wasn't. -.-