Random Babbling Thread 120

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I agree, didn't want either but we might see some kinda result out of this. My biggest fear was WWIII out of this situation

 

Why the heck is it that lately every time I try to use the bathroom at home a phone rings?
It's almost always a robocall scammer on the landline, but not always.

For that matter, I used to be able to set my old answering machine to anywhere from 10 seconds to 1 minute.
Now I get a fixed 20 seconds. My voicemail on the cell phone is the same.
Why are we now forced to scramble to answer the phone in 20 seconds instead of having a whole minute like we used to?

 

Stupid lazy recruiters don't want to bother to leave a message, then e-mail me and say "I can't reach you on the phone" and even when they do if I'm in the bathroom they don't answer when I try to return it less than 2 minutes later, it goes right to voicemail.

 

Maybe they're watching you?

 

That would explain why the phone rings every time I've either got my hands dirty when cooking or am in the middle of using the toilet.
Almost always a robocall or scammer.

 

My girlfriend and I talk about things in the living room and somehow what should be coincidence turns into random things coming up on the phone or smart tv WAYYYY too much!

 

FTFY

 

Yeah, I know I can't spell and WTF does FTFY mean?

 

Fixed That For You

 

Thank You twice

 

Ey kant spel vari wel ey-ther, en kase yu halvent knotised bi noh.
Hukt on fonics wurked fer me!

 

If you're with someone else at a movie theater, discretely have them call your phone. They put their phone on speaker, yours on mute, and that way you can at least hear what's going on while you're in the restroom.

 

Not a bad idea now, but it wasn't an option as a kid in the 20th century. I didn't get a phone with enough minutes to use freely until the mid-2000's and even then it had a limited number of "rollover" minutes. Heck I didn't get a cell phone at all until 2000 when I was about to graduate community college, and that one was something my mother got me after her mother had a stroke and we had to sell her (grandma's) house and take care of her with hiring caregivers when we were at school (mom worked at a school) and there needed to be away to get in touch with one of us if something happened with grandma. The phone had no pre-paid minutes, unlimited talk was unheard of or extremely expensive, and cost more than long distance to use.

I haven't really gone to the movies much in the last decade. In fact I'm trying to recall what the last film I saw in a theater was and drawing a blank.

 

So did anyone watch the Lord of the Rings animation War of the Rohirrim that is in cinema now? I'm going to check it out tonight.

 

Well, I'm having a better Christmas than last year.
I've got a stomach bug that's making me puke, and a lot of my family is sick too with various things. My cousin Maggie came in from Missouri for Christmas, but she started getting sick and tested positive for COVID the night before Christmas so my aunt called off Christmas dinner since Maggie's staying in her old room. My Uncle on the other side has COVID, and my cousin from another aunt and uncle is also sick.
I've spent Christmas home in bed trying not to throw up.

Still better than last year's Christmas. Nobody's being informed that their loved one is about to die on Christmas (not a joke, it's when I found out my mother didn't have a stroke, it was a brain tumor and she was dead by the 7th) and everybody is expected to recover by 2025. Maybe not 100% for the COVID, but they will recover.

So, still better than last year's Christmas.