Things that are currently annoying you

Discussion in 'General Chatter' started by Emma, Mar 9, 2015.

  1. raydelblau

    raydelblau the giant rat who makes all of the rules

    y'know what, i'm mostly a lurker here, i'm entitled to a double-post. here's something annoying:

    in a contract, if both parties agree to a predetermined amount of money ("liquidated damages") that'll be paid out if either party breaches, the court decides whether the amount is fair (and therefore enforceable) using the following test:

    1. the amount must be reasonable in light of the anticipated harm
    2. the anticipated harm must be impossible or extremely difficult to calculate

    hey law? hey law??? what is this? who came up with this rule
     
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  2. Kodachi

    Kodachi Well-Known Member

    If it's impossible to calculate, how do you decide if it's reasonable?

    Oh, and my tummy empathizes. My gluten free pizza earlier today must not have been entirely gluten free.
     
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  3. raydelblau

    raydelblau the giant rat who makes all of the rules

    fuck if i know!

    asked my professor about it yesterday and he shrugged so vigorously that i can only assume that this rule baffles absolutely everyone, including legal scholars who are specialists in the field of contracts
     
    Last edited: Dec 10, 2019
  4. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I accidentally melted my curtain linings when trying to get mould off them >_<
     
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  5. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I keep having dreams about ferrets, and waking up to discover I have no ferrets.
     
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  6. Kodachi

    Kodachi Well-Known Member

    Influenza Type B.
     
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  7. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    Tumblr's stupid recommended post thing keeps putting a post I don't want to see on my dash for exactly long enough to annoy me before xkit kicks in and hides it.
     
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  8. chthonicfatigue

    chthonicfatigue Bitten by a radioactive trickster god

    HMRC can't make Amazon pay taxes but can clobber me for importing £25 art prints and nearly double their price

    Ok.jpg
     
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  9. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I stepped in dog shit in the shoes I just cleaned last week, and the treads are so small the brush wouldn't get it out properly so I had to pick the dirt out with a miniature spanner.
     
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  10. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    Slowly losing internet connectivity on my stuff. First the iPad, then my computer, next was my ps4, and now I can’t get my laptop to connect.

    I’m living at my cousins house and she has some really weird internet setup, so I don’t feel comfortable about unplugging it and plugging it back in.

    My father is also being a real asshole about it. “Are you sure you don’t have WiFi turned off.” Fuck off I’m not stupid.
     
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  11. LadyNighteyes

    LadyNighteyes Wicked Witch of the Radiant Historia Fandom

    The fact that Gmail absolutely, positively does not want anyone to use its scripting functionality and keeps quietly disabling all permissions for the script I wrote to flag emails from one-click-petitionbot services and then throwing a tantrum and sending my boss dire messages every time I reenable it.
     
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  12. Wormwitch

    Wormwitch I'm building a squishmallow army!

    I woke up and my jaw hurt and was swollen and I won't be able to see the dentist until January 2nd. The weird thing is none of my teeth hurt but it feels like I also have an earache?
     
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  13. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    You may have an earache or ear infection which can irritate your eustachian tube, causing mouth pain.

    Edit: can also go the other way
     
    Last edited: Dec 21, 2019
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  14. Loq

    Loq rotating like a rotisserie chicknen

    I dearly want soda, but there is no soda in the apartment and I don't wanna go out at 10pm :T
     
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  15. Deresto

    Deresto Foolish Mortal

    My Fair Lady is on about an hour in and it's actually??? Really upsetting?????? He's treating this flower girl like an animal and she's terrified! Fuck! Just, I don't like it and I'm sad b/c I've always wanted to see it :(
     
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  16. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I really wanted a particular style of leather jacket for Christmas but when it got here it's cut for a male body, and has no hope of fitting me even in a different size (won't close over the hips and the sleeves are way too long, changing size would just make one or other problem worse). Browsing leather jackets for women brings up only ones I hate the style of or ones I could maybe fit one arm into.
     
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  17. Kodachi

    Kodachi Well-Known Member

    Can you get the one with long sleeves that otherwise fits and shorten the sleeves?
     
  18. ChelG

    ChelG Well-Known Member

    I don't know if that works with leather or if it'd be too obvious I'd done it.

    It kinda sucks because I specifically wanted a men's leather jacket. Ones made for women are, well, obviously made for women, and it's kind of clear why now because leather has to be shaped more specifically to the body than stretchier materials, but I so wanted a cool-looking jacket which helped me pass.
     
    Last edited: Dec 28, 2019
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  19. Astrodynamicist

    Astrodynamicist Adequate Potato Goblin

    wrist hurty :c
     
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  20. Kodachi

    Kodachi Well-Known Member

    It can be done, but takes the right skills. How many points do you have in sewing and leatherworking? If not enough, might could get someone else to do it.
     
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