Category: fubars
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The state of Oregon screws up huge, wants the victim to pay for it.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. a woman from Alberta, Canada, marries a US citizen who’s still maintaining a residence in the US. She takes her kid down there for a vacation, between the three of them they decide the kid will stick around down there while his … Read the rest
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Good idea: getting to probation on time. Bad idea: breaking your probation to do so.
And here we have one of my reasons for creating, and then recreating, this blog. And just on a day when I didn’t think I’d have much newsworthy to snort over. Out in Alberta, we have a teenager with some pretty no-nonsense conditions on his staying out of jail. Like, … Read the rest
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The latest health risk according to parents: your wireless network.
This probably should come as no surprise. But, well, it does. A group of parents in Toronto has apparently decided that the wifi network services provided by their kids’ schools is responsible for making them sick. They took the matter to the Ontario government, who’s just now referred it to … Read the rest
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This is decidedly not the job I left 2 years ago.
I worked for Dell until mid-2008. They decided around then my job would be much better done from a call center in India. Flash forward to last week or so. One such Indian technical support agent had apparently been called up to help her find and view pictures a customer … Read the rest
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Where’s Jeff Foxworthy when you need him?
Only in Quebec. A guy ends up with a property tax bill upwards of 200000 dollars. He’s not exactly enthused with the rate of increases to his taxes, and decides to make a point of telling the folks down at city hall exactly that by showing up, one assumes on … Read the rest
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Take it easy for a week and it all catches up.
I’ve been talking off and on about doing the college thing. I even went so far as getting set up to apply. Yes, 2 months ago. Things finally got rolling on that prospect around the beginning of June–after finally, after much arm twisting, getting my transcripts back from the … Read the rest
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And once again, a restaurant gets threatened because the parents don’t want to say no.
Parents, when a restaurant pushes out commercials advertising x toy with y meal, and you don’t want your kid(s) anywhere near that restaurant whether they’re giving out that specific toy or $150, do you: 1. Tell them no and stick to it, telling them exactly why you’re keeping them as … Read the rest
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Woman’s failure to use her brain lands her in a legal fight with… Google?
Why you would go walking along an interstate highway at 6:00 in the morning is anyone’s guess. Why you would do it in an area you’ve never been? That’s a leap of logic I don’t feel safe making. Yet, that’s what lead to an LA woman being hit by a … Read the rest
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Someone kindly enroll this kid’s father in parenting classes.
I’ve met some bad–naye, horrible–parents in my 26 years. granted, I’ve med some even worse kids, too, but still. Nothing has quite come close to this. “I’m not worried about his health, he looks healthy”‘ shrugged the boy’s father Mohammad Rizal. “He cries and throws tantrums when we don’t … Read the rest
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I didn’t want to see spring until August anyway.
We got hammered good with a freezing rain storm on Monday. We got absolutely dumped by snow on Wednesday. Upwards of 30 CM in town, here. And we’re expecting a crapload more over the next day or so. A STORM IS CURRENTLY OVER WEST VIRGINIA THIS MORNING AND WILL PUSH… Read the rest
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