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(Well, it is the venting thread after all!
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Oh god, insurance companies and warranty policies are all the same. I hate them so much.Axiem wrote:Bought a car a while back, with a warranty coverage package.
After having the car a while, the A/C doesn't work.
I take the car into the shop, they say the compressor is bad.
Warranty company doesn't want to cover a real replacement part; they want to use one of their own replacement parts. They send it to the shop.
The shop installs the compressor, and it apparently wrecks the whole A/C system.
Warranty company says they won't cover "the whole system", and wants to know exactly what's broken.
Shop says they can't figure out what exactly is broken for reasons. Warranty company doesn't like that answer. Shop points out that part warranty company sent over broke the whole thing. Both point blame finger at each other.
Sometimes I hate being an adult.
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.
Congratulations on the ensemble.Frislander wrote:So at Cambridge I'm part of a classical music ensemble, and we just gave a concert in a college chapel. We started out with an audience of 5. We ended with an audience of 3 (I reckon it was the Britten that drove them away: Lachrymae isn't exactly one of his more accesible pieces).
I mean I did enjoy playing in the ensemble and I'm glad to be a part of it, but it's just a bit annoying I guess.
Fair enough, though even one of the biggest names on the Cambridge classical music scene (a Britten lover no less) couldn't turn up for us, which fair enough if he was busy, but still that didn't entirely help.Salmoneus wrote:And yeah, even in Cambridge, Britten is not going to draw in the punters, I suspect. Does he even have accessible pieces? Other than the YPGttO, the Britten I've heard can be divided into the 'inaccessible' and the 'aggressively unpleasant'... although I suppose that by the standards of his day he was relatively populist...
Only problem with that assessment is 1. the concert was less than an hour long and 2. it sttarted at half eight in the evening. I will give you credit on the college chapel thing though, this isn't exactly the most prominent and well-known of colleges, to the point where I think we'd have been a bigger draw over at my place Selwyn.(seriously, though, another problem is just that classical music concerts are very often too long for casual viewers. Put people on dedicated seating in an official-seeming room and give them tickets and a programme, and they may feel they need to stay out of decorum, but put on a lunchtime performance in the college chapel* and you're likely to find people treating it like street entertainment: they come along, listen to a bit, get bored, and wander off...)
No, it's been around for at least a few years, they had a stall in the fresher's fair and everything, and it's definitely an orchestra, with Lachrymae basically being our concerto for the evening (Lachrymae was written originall for solo viola and piano, but we played the arrangement with string ensemble accompanying instead, which was the version I linked to).Is this a new ensemble, or have you joined an existing one? And are we talking 'quartet', or 'orchestra'? (Lachrymae is for a solo string instrument, isn't it?)
I knew Oxford Cathedral was basically a college chapel! Just couldn't remember which one.*obviously it depends on the chapel. The college chapel of Christ Church, has a slightly different ambience...
I had a great time. I could have made some better choices at times, but generally I didn't do too badly. It was good for me to try to put some of my improved understanding of consent into practice. I reconnected with some people I've known forever and met a lot of fun new guys. And I got to see parts of my hometown that I never would have otherwise.Vijay wrote:Ugh, I hate it when my family puts me on the spot, too. Did you at least have fun at the bear run?
It's this thing that neurotypical people claim to have that makes them sleep at regular times, generally in the night.Pole, the wrote:Sleeping cycle? What is a sleeping cycle?
No it isn't; it's a new type of bike.Imralu wrote:It's this thing that neurotypical people claim to have that makes them sleep at regular times, generally in the night.Pole, the wrote:Sleeping cycle? What is a sleeping cycle?
Zompist's Markov generator wrote:it was labelled" orange marmalade," but that is unutterably hideous.
Oh, right, well, this stupid bike prevented me from going on a date yesterday.alice wrote:No it isn't; it's a new type of bike.Imralu wrote:It's this thing that neurotypical people claim to have that makes them sleep at regular times, generally in the night.Pole, the wrote:Sleeping cycle? What is a sleeping cycle?
Are you some how implying that the naked celebration of capitalism and consumerism is meaningless?Ryusenshi wrote:Is Black Friday supposed to, like, mean something? Or is it a naked celebration of capitalism and consumerism?
That was just a flippant way of asking a real question: was it always just a marketing tool, or does it come from some older tradition?linguoboy wrote:Are you some how implying that the naked celebration of capitalism and consumerism is meaningless?
Also in Poland. Maybe that's the same guys (I think I have seen something related to Black Friday in a local Carrefour, although I'm not sure).Ryusenshi wrote:Now they're trying to import the Black Friday to France. (Actually, it seems to have started in 2014, but I hadn't really noticed. Plus we had other things on our mind two years ago.)