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Is it time to start a Current Annoyances II?

Give me a few minutes to really, really annoy you then feel free to start a thread about it.

I don't think it's gonna take that long.

Et Tu, Jack S Pharaoh?

Jack thanks you to remember to insert the period after the S when referencing his name.

If we start a new thread, will this one need to be renamed "Past Annoyances"?

I'm all for the starting of a second thread.  Once a thread gets to be over nine pages long, I become less attached to it.

Just make sure that if we do start a new thread, Horso gets a mention early on.

It was officially 90.4 degrees in the back of the house when the power went out on Wednesday.

It's funny, you know one or two of your neighbors in a city like this, pay no attention to the rest, but when something like a power outage happens, we hit the street and start talking to everyone: "Did you lose power? Do you have somewhere to go if it doesn't come back on?" "Has someone checked on the old guy at 5804?" "Do you need me to bring you some ice?"

Nothing like a crisis to unite the neighborhood.

A pair of wire cutters:  $10.99

A crow bar to prise open the junction box: $4.99

Bags of ice to use as conversations starters: $1.99

Red getting to talk to her new neighbours without the need for forced and stilted small talk:  Priceless.

Fuck that.  The bar has a/c.  And beer.  I don't talk to neighbors.  If there was a flood and they floated by on a raft and offered to give me lift, I'd tell them I don't talk to strangers and swim to the bar.

But if you didn't have power, you wouldn't have a/c, and you'd have warm beer.

I'd swim til I found a bar on a different grid.  I'm in Wisconsin.  There are more bars than churches here.

Not true. 

 in Wisconsin? Probably true. I used to live in the classy half of the state, and it was true even there. 

http://bigthink.com/ideas/21502

I'll believe it when I see a real stat.  Until then, I'll just go on believing people noticed it has a bunch of bars, and thought it would be humorous to make the claim that there are more bars than churches.

At the same time, an alarming number of serial killers lived in or around Wisconsin.

Cereal is really fucking annoying sometimes, though.

200 million cereals are murdered every morning. It's completely out of control!

I can understand murdering the ones with loops.  Those holes are just so inviting!

The Swollen Goi... wrote:

I can understand murdering the ones with loops. Those holes are just so inviting!

That Captain Crunch has been askin' for it for years. YEARS.

The Cap'n would have yer head if he were ta hear about yer callin' 'im "Captain."

Cap'n Crunch got capped.

I see things have taken a turn for the surreal around here.