The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[PoetPhilosopher]

Had to get home early. I fell like ****.

I feel sick but I'm coming around. I caught a bug. My advice is if you do have to eat spicy food while sick, limit it. Let's just say I learned a lesson about that today.

 

[Revoltingest]

If it was just the picture, I never would have thought that is Brock Samson. Sid Eudy looks more like Brock Samson than that.
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Sid Vicious looks too sensitive to be a Brock Samson.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I like that song

Everyone who's opinion matters likes that song.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Sid Vicious looks too sensitive to be a Brock Samson.

He's still probably the closest to a real life looking Samson that there will ever be.
But clearly he's not because he snapped his shin in that turnbuckle incident.
That clip is forever seared into my memory. Definitely a "wrestling hurts an awful lot for something that's fake" type of thing.

 

[Martin]

You know when you order stuff online, what's the difference between "dispatched" and "out for delivery" and why is there sometimes a long gap between the two? Does "dispatched" mean the supplier has given the item to the courier, or something?
What does it all mean?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You know when you order stuff online, what's the difference between "dispatched" and "out for delivery" and why is there sometimes a long gap between the two? Does "dispatched" mean the supplier has given the item to the courier, or something?
What does it all mean?

Basically that, with out for delivery meaning it has left the final whatever and is in the vehicle of the person who will be delivering it to your door.

 

[ChristineM]

You know when you order stuff online, what's the difference between "dispatched" and "out for delivery" and why is there sometimes a long gap between the two? Does "dispatched" mean the supplier has given the item to the courier, or something?
What does it all mean?

I see dispatched as meaning the supplier has handed to the courier

Out for delivery is when the package is given to the courier who will be delivering it

The gap between the two is the package waiting for the correct courier move the parcel closer to the destination. Which may take a day here, a couple of days there etc

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My youngest nephew is visiting. Mom said he would want to do this and that and all this stuff. He doesn't. And she's changed her wording to "I thought he would" and giving the reasons she thinks someone would want to go do or see something.
We ate a restaurant yesterday. I didn't want a drink to go. She got me one anyways.
I have enjoyed the last two weeks with her gone, because she is a living, breathing definition of gaslighting.

 

[Martin]

Yes, that does make sense. Internet shopping is convenient (too convenient sometimes!) but I sometimes miss actually buying stuff in a shop.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The gap between the two is the package waiting for the correct courier move the parcel closer to the destination. Which may take a day here, a couple of days there etc

Sometimes the delivery route here goes north of where I'm at to Fresno, and then back down south to me.
Once it went up even further north than that, and in one day it only moved about 90 minutes south, if even that much.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Yes, that does make sense. Internet shopping is convenient (too convenient sometimes!) but I sometimes miss actually buying stuff in a shop.

I do many things, but having spent most my life in the country once I started learning how to use the internet (late teens/early adulthood) I started becoming very dependent upon it because it was the only way to get a lot of stuff.
But many things (like clothes and art supplies) I very much prefer buying at a real store.

 

[ChristineM]

Sometimes the delivery route here goes north of where I'm at to Fresno, and then back down south to me.
Once it went up even further north than that, and in one day it only moved about 90 minutes south, if even that much.

I've had a parcel i was sending to england (1300 miles north west of here) get stuck in Turkish customs (3200 miles south east of here) for 3 months.

And another addressed to me go between Paris and Brive (500 miles apart) 4 times before being returned to the sender

It can be a great geography lesson if you have the tracking number

 

[Martin]

I do many things, but having spent most my life in the country once I started learning how to use the internet (late teens/early adulthood) I started becoming very dependent upon it because it was the only way to get a lot of stuff.
But many things (like clothes and art supplies) I very much prefer buying at a real store.

Same here. I tend to use Internet shopping for stuff I can't source locally.

 

[Wu Wei]

Probably just @Wu Wei in one of his dinner disguises.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

You look quite stylish. Sure to make other RF'ers jealous. Just don't wear the hat around @Revoltingest as he might get excited.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've had a parcel i was sending to england (1300 miles north west of here) get stuck in Turkish customs (3200 miles south east of here) for 3 months.

And another addressed to me go between Paris and Brive (500 miles apart) 4 times before being returned to the sender

It can be a great geography lesson if you have the tracking number

Also a great stumper. Like, how in the hell did something from France and bound for England end up in Turkey? My mom sent some Christmas gifts to Indiana, amd somehow they wound up in New York.

 

[ChristineM]

Also a great stumper. Like, how in the hell did something from France and bound for England end up in Turkey? My mom sent some Christmas gifts to Indiana, amd somehow they wound up in New York.

I wish i knew why it went to Turkey, it was a birthday present that ended up as a Christmas present

 

[ChristineM]

I do many things, but having spent most my life in the country once I started learning how to use the internet (late teens/early adulthood) I started becoming very dependent upon it because it was the only way to get a lot of stuff.
But many things (like clothes and art supplies) I very much prefer buying at a real store.

We are in the country, the closed town with half decent shopping is a 2 1/2 hour drive away. So internet shopping is handy.

 

[Revoltingest]

You look quite stylish. Sure to make other RF'ers jealous. Just don't wear the hat around @Revoltingest as he might get excited.

I am NOT excitable!

 

[ChristineM]

I am NOT excitable!

Hmmm.

Spoiler: Not even for

A haggis and bacon sandwich?