What's bugging you? (2013)

[DatHoser]

Regarding drivers that fail to yield the right of way to emergency vehicles. How about sending a couple of cop cars along with the firetrucks to pull over and ticket the offenders (rather than sitting on their duffs in speed traps). After a while, the message will get through one way or another.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

The problem is that some call the fire department if they need them or not. This seems to make the police respond faster.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

Saturday night at the Brewer game and they close the roof. What the....

[hawing]

Saturday night at the Brewer game and they close the roof. What the....

Hm. There is some precipitation to the west, but it just doesn't look that close to MP.

 

Some weather people I follow on Twitter were all, if you'll pardon the pun, a-twitter about a couple of games in the last homestand when the Brewers closed the roof for little/no precipitation. It made them (the weather people) wonder what source the Brewers use for their weather information, and I looked into it a bit and got a contact name. I just haven't emailed him yet, but maybe now I will.

[1992casey]

Yeah, I heard that on the radio. I was on the East Side and I saw a couple of raindrops on the windshield. As I drove across the county, I never saw actual rain, though. When it's warm like this, I think the Brewers and their fans can stand the risk if the team ends up being a little late in closing the roof.

[1992casey]

It bugs me when medical professionals use the word "pee."

[splitterpfj]

A friend of mine who both works in the game and knows Barry Bonds personally tells me Barry is trying to find a job in the game, and he's being stonewalled.

 

My question is..."If that's how it's going to be, why does Mark McGwire have a job in MLB?"

[jerichoholicninja]

My question is..."If that's how it's going to be, why does Mark McGwire have a job in MLB?"

 

McGwire wasn't a horrible teammate or d-bag to the media.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

Obviously Bonds was a huge college talent, right. He is so disliked that his college teammates voted him off the team with a 22-2 vote. That should be all you need to know about him

[Invader3K]

A friend of mine who both works in the game and knows Barry Bonds personally tells me Barry is trying to find a job in the game, and he's being stonewalled.

 

I'm sure a team somewhere could use an extra janitor or something.

[1992casey]

I almost never iron if I can help it, but I've had to do it a couple of times recently. The last time I ironed (about six months ago), the iron was spewing out black garbage, so I replaced it. Today, I took the new iron out of the box. The dial with all the settings is obscured by cloudy translucent plastic. The instructions for the unit are actually a brief summary, and the diagram labeling the parts is in Spanish. (There are Spanish instructions and English instructions, but both diagrams are in Spanish.) Actually, you shouldn't need instructions at all for an iron if the controls are designed to be clear to begin with.

 

Moving right along, yesterday, two kids under ten years old on bikes crossed Loomis Road at the Ramsey-Southway intersection against the light. This is a 45 mph zone on a four-lane divided roadway (plus paved shoulders and left turn lanes). There were a lot of cars; it wasn't like there was a break in the traffic. Making it worse, they did this separately. One kid crossed, and all the cars stopped. When traffic started moving again, the second kid decided to cross.

 

EDIT… Here's the intersection:

 

[TooLiveBrew]

Obviously Bonds was a huge college talent, right. He is so disliked that his college teammates voted him off the team with a 22-2 vote. That should be all you need to know about him

I'd never heard this -- can you go into more detail? That sounds crazy... how would that even work? Can a team kick a player off like that in NCAA sports?

[hawing]

With today's issue, The Onion is ceasing print publication in Madison. Capital Newspapers (who brings you the Wisconsin State Journal) decided not to extend/renew the contract they had to print it.

 

The Onion has been a Thursday tradition in my life for almost 25 years. The online content continues, but it won't be the same. I get the business decision (as all CN and its parent company seem to do anymore is relentlessly cut costs), but still, another internet commenter put it best: Area Woman Pissed Off.

[TURBO]

Moving right along, yesterday, two kids under ten years old on bikes crossed Loomis Road at the Ramsey-Southway intersection against the light. This is a 45 mph zone on a four-lane divided roadway (plus paved shoulders and left turn lanes). There were a lot of cars; it wasn't like there was a break in the traffic. Making it worse, they did this separately. One kid crossed, and all the cars stopped. When traffic started moving again, the second kid decided to cross.

This seems incomplete... Did they both make it safely, or is there bad news?

[1992casey]

The kids made it across fine due to a lot of careful drivers.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

Obviously Bonds was a huge college talent, right. He is so disliked that his college teammates voted him off the team with a 22-2 vote. That should be all you need to know about him

I'd never heard this -- can you go into more detail? That sounds crazy... how would that even work? Can a team kick a player off like that in NCAA sports?

 

 

Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero, by Jeff Pearlman.

 

By the way, you should know that the Sun Devils were rated number one in the nation for most of 1984. In Honolulu, Coach Brock laid down an 11:00 p.m. curfew and put his three co-captains (outfielder Oddibe McDowell, shortstop Romy Cucjen, and pitcher Kendall Carter) in charge.

 

Four players broke curfew, including Barry Bonds. "At the stadium the following afternoon, (co-captain) McDowell gathered the four night crawlers together. 'We're trying to win a national championship, and you guys are just killing us,' he said. 'So when we get back to Tempe, y'all are gonna have some serious punishment running to do.' Three of the four nodded in agreement. Barry did not. He looked McDowell in the eyes and said, 'Who do you think you are? You're not the coach here. Jim Brock is. You can't make me f---- run.'

 

"Upon returning to Tempe, Brock suspended Barry and held a team meeting without Bonds. 'It's been brought to my attention that a lot of you think Barry is causing more harm than good,' he told his players. 'And I don't believe I can excuse his actions any longer. So here's the deal -- I'm going to give you boys the authority to vote on Barry's future. Do you want him to continue on the team, or do you want him off? Keep in mind, our ultimate goal here is to win a national championship, and he's obviously a big part of that. But it's your decision.' Brock walked off, and his troops retreated to the players' lounge to talk."

 

What did a team in contention for the national championship decide? Every player voted to expel Bonds, save two: outfielders Devereaux and Todd Brown. Turned out the vote was about Bonds, not about Bonds missing curfew. Team members complained he was late for practice and first to leave practice. They didn't like how he referred to himself in the third person, blamed others for his mistakes, would never throw home from the outfield for fear scouts would see he had a weak arm.

 

Then came a moment like so many other moments in Bonds's life...someone -- usually a coach -- always someone who wanted to use his talent, picked up the pieces. "Brock told the team that because the vote wasn't unanimous, he could not -- 'with a good conscience' -- expel Barry."

[Patrick425]

With today's issue, The Onion is ceasing print publication in Madison. Capital Newspapers (who brings you the Wisconsin State Journal) decided not to extend/renew the contract they had to print it.

 

The Onion has been a Thursday tradition in my life for almost 25 years. The online content continues, but it won't be the same. I get the business decision (as all CN and its parent company seem to do anymore is relentlessly cut costs), but still, another internet commenter put it best: Area Woman Pissed Off.

 

Hmm..perhaps that's why they ran this article in this week's Onion:

 

http://www.theonion.com/articles/print-dead-at-1803,33244/

[Patrick425]

Moving right along, yesterday, two kids under ten years old on bikes crossed Loomis Road at the Ramsey-Southway intersection against the light. This is a 45 mph zone on a four-lane divided roadway (plus paved shoulders and left turn lanes). There were a lot of cars; it wasn't like there was a break in the traffic. Making it worse, they did this separately. One kid crossed, and all the cars stopped. When traffic started moving again, the second kid decided to cross.

 

Yeah, I have had this happen to me on a few occasions, usually involving pedestrians and not bikes, but usually involving a group of younger people (4,5, or more). It's pretty much evident that they are doing it purposely. They cross slowly, deliberately, and will even stop in the middle of the street and talk or shout back at someone on the sidewalk as you sit there waiting with a green light. They know that you as a single drive are not going to honk or ask for any type of trouble or risk any type of confrontation against their entire group. Very, very frustrating.

[TURBO]

Moving right along, yesterday, two kids under ten years old on bikes crossed Loomis Road at the Ramsey-Southway intersection against the light. This is a 45 mph zone on a four-lane divided roadway (plus paved shoulders and left turn lanes). There were a lot of cars; it wasn't like there was a break in the traffic. Making it worse, they did this separately. One kid crossed, and all the cars stopped. When traffic started moving again, the second kid decided to cross.

 

Yeah, I have had this happen to me on a few occasions, usually involving pedestrians and not bikes, but usually involving a group of younger people (4,5, or more). It's pretty much evident that they are doing it purposely. They cross slowly, deliberately, and will even stop in the middle of the street and talk or shout back at someone on the sidewalk as you sit there waiting with a green light. They know that you as a single drive are not going to honk or ask for any type of trouble or risk any type of confrontation against their entire group. Very, very frustrating.

 

Seriously?

 

This bugs the crap out of me just hearing it...

[TooLiveBrew]

Obviously Bonds was a huge college talent, right. He is so disliked that his college teammates voted him off the team with a 22-2 vote. That should be all you need to know about him

I'd never heard this -- can you go into more detail? That sounds crazy... how would that even work? Can a team kick a player off like that in NCAA sports?

 

 

Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero, by Jeff Pearlman.

 

By the way, you should know that the Sun Devils were rated number one in the nation for most of 1984. In Honolulu, Coach Brock laid down an 11:00 p.m. curfew and put his three co-captains (outfielder Oddibe McDowell, shortstop Romy Cucjen, and pitcher Kendall Carter) in charge.

 

Four players broke curfew, including Barry Bonds. "At the stadium the following afternoon, (co-captain) McDowell gathered the four night crawlers together. 'We're trying to win a national championship, and you guys are just killing us,' he said. 'So when we get back to Tempe, y'all are gonna have some serious punishment running to do.' Three of the four nodded in agreement. Barry did not. He looked McDowell in the eyes and said, 'Who do you think you are? You're not the coach here. Jim Brock is. You can't make me f---- run.'

 

"Upon returning to Tempe, Brock suspended Barry and held a team meeting without Bonds. 'It's been brought to my attention that a lot of you think Barry is causing more harm than good,' he told his players. 'And I don't believe I can excuse his actions any longer. So here's the deal -- I'm going to give you boys the authority to vote on Barry's future. Do you want him to continue on the team, or do you want him off? Keep in mind, our ultimate goal here is to win a national championship, and he's obviously a big part of that. But it's your decision.' Brock walked off, and his troops retreated to the players' lounge to talk."

 

What did a team in contention for the national championship decide? Every player voted to expel Bonds, save two: outfielders Devereaux and Todd Brown. Turned out the vote was about Bonds, not about Bonds missing curfew. Team members complained he was late for practice and first to leave practice. They didn't like how he referred to himself in the third person, blamed others for his mistakes, would never throw home from the outfield for fear scouts would see he had a weak arm.

 

Then came a moment like so many other moments in Bonds's life...someone -- usually a coach -- always someone who wanted to use his talent, picked up the pieces. "Brock told the team that because the vote wasn't unanimous, he could not -- 'with a good conscience' -- expel Barry."

Awesome stuff! Thank you for sharing.

[DuWayne Steurer]

Back in February, a good friend got separated from his wife, and needed a place to stay "for a little while". I was thinking......a few weeks, maybe a couple months, tops.

 

Now it's the end of July, and here we are. There's a laundry list of things, but for sake of brevity........I won't go into it.

 

The absolute kicker came a few weeks ago when he brought his 9 year old daughter over to our house, and my wife was cooking, and burned her thumb on a hot pan, and used a curse word that rhymes with duck.

 

"Um........yeah. Don't use language like that in front of my daughter".

 

Not "could you please not swear in front of her" or "I don't want to expose her to that yet" or something a little more along those lines. Just "Don't use language like that in front of my daughter"

 

Wait a sec? Who's house is this..........anyways?

[GAME05]

Basically, if they aren't paying you minimum wage for the hours you work (this includes overtime -- more than 40 hrs a week) then you should be due back wages.

 

 

thanks Baldkin and Invader. today i made $5/hr. last Tuesday was probably my worst day, working 13 hours and earning $55. i'm about the only one paying attention to wages, so things will be fun next week Friday. as it is, every single person is an inch away from quitting. but of course, that gives up unemployment, which is why nobody will do anything. plus the round ends probably Friday before we're back to making about $11/hr.

 

i'll be asking for a photocopy of my manager-signed timesheet on the one-never-knows chance i get canned and can then go to court.

 

but what it comes down to is go to court and get my meager amount of back wages, but lose accrued time on the job for unemployment. ultimately i'm thinking i'm better off just sucking it up. i plan on moving come November/December, so unemployment wages will mean a lot to me.

[jerichoholicninja]

Your situation is a little different than mine but when I was dealing with my former employer not paying me the government was pretty much useless. The Department of Workforce Development did the minimum effort and when I contacted my DA about it I was told his department "doesn't have the time or resources to deal with it." Luckily, I was eventually paid. Don't even get me started on how useless the IRS has been since I found out I was an illegally misclassified employee.

[RobDeer 45]

Back in February, a good friend got separated from his wife, and needed a place to stay "for a little while". I was thinking......a few weeks, maybe a couple months, tops.

 

Now it's the end of July, and here we are. There's a laundry list of things, but for sake of brevity........I won't go into it.

 

The absolute kicker came a few weeks ago when he brought his 9 year old daughter over to our house, and my wife was cooking, and burned her thumb on a hot pan, and used a curse word that rhymes with duck.

 

"Um........yeah. Don't use language like that in front of my daughter".

 

Not "could you please not swear in front of her" or "I don't want to expose her to that yet" or something a little more along those lines. Just "Don't use language like that in front of my daughter"

 

Wait a sec? Who's house is this..........anyways?

 

Boy that's getting sticky. I applaud you for being a good friend, but at some point he has to figure it out. Is there tension in the house or is pretty chill?

[Hammer]

My apartment continuously smells like cigarette smoke. I don't smoke and neither does my wife. My useless neighbor and his son? Yep, they both smoke. Directly outside my door? Yep. Right under my window? Yep. The biggest kicker? One of them (the son) flicked his cigarette butt and it landed on my brand new F150 Platinum. While he ran over to get it I'm thinking he only did that because I happened to be exiting this dump at the time.

 

Only 6 months left in this hole and our new house will be done.

 

I'm contemplating a call to the local PD as it is technically illegal for them to be smoking in the hallway of the apartment...