Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Scribe]

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1. IT screwed up my laptop, ruined my plans for work over the weekend and today.
2. Many errands ran today instead.
3. Watched some lady chuck a cigarette out her window on the road. I despise that. Absolute trash move and disgusting.

 

[overgeeked]

I guess letting people like unproblematic things really is too much to ask.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

1. IT screwed up my laptop, ruined my plans for work over the weekend and today.

I had the "delightful" experience of turning my work laptop on a few weeks ago and finding that my documents, downloads, and desktop folders were empty which was, er... terrifying, given how many days of work that would have lost (yes, yes, put it in the document management system I know, but with the role I do that's not really viable!).

Luckily it turned out this was just part of an unasked-for procedure to put me on an unasked-for new laptop (which did have my data), which no-one had told me about. But it took IT themselves a long-ass time to even figure out what had happened.

3. Watched some lady chuck a cigarette out her window on the road. I despise that. Absolute trash move and disgusting.

It's bad, especially in dry times where it might start a fire, but at other times I'd rate it as a huge amount less bad than anything else being thrown out of a car, because at least cigarette butts can and rapidly do biodegrade. I will admit seeing someone throw a drink or the like out makes me want to GTA press triangle the person out of the car though.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I guess letting people like unproblematic things really is too much to ask.

In this house, our only faves are problematic!

 

[payn]

How is it that the days drag on but the years fly by???

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Work:

If you don't like the answer to a question, sending a different minion every work day to ask the same question is not going to earn you a different answer, just an ass kicking.

 

[Gradine]

Sometimes, you have a perfectly normal day in the library, and then other times, you have baby possums

 

[trappedslider]

Sometimes, you have a perfectly normal day in the library, and then other times, you have baby possums

Did you show them the kids area?

 

[Ryujin]

It's bad, especially in dry times where it might start a fire, but at other times I'd rate it as a huge amount less bad than anything else being thrown out of a car, because at least cigarette butts can and rapidly do biodegrade. I will admit seeing someone throw a drink or the like out makes me want to GTA press triangle the person out of the car though.

One problem is that wildlife eat them and get nicotine poisoning.

Back when I was doing regular 2.5 hours drives to and from the track, I would routinely see idiots toss there cigarette butts out the window. In Summer. During a drought. With a "no burn" warning in effect. You really don't want to see what truckers throw out along long stretches of remote (or even not so remote) highway.

 

[CleverNickName]

One problem is that wildlife eat them and get nicotine poisoning.

Another problem is birds building nests with still-smoldering cigarette butts, and causing fires.

Stockwell fire blamed on bird carrying lit cigarette

A bird carrying a lit cigarette to its nest is being blamed for starting a fire in a building in south London.

www.bbc.com

Bird Starts Fire With Cigarette

Bird Starts Fire With Cigarette

www.huffpost.com

Fire marshal: Bird carrying cigarette may have caused fire

Click here to view this article from winchesterstar.com.

www.winchesterstar.com