53: Herbie the derp bug.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Aceplace only uses credit cards for those BIG purchases, you know, like over $30.

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...11&postcount=2

Originally Posted by Someone

...Still use post it notes. I got 5 stuck to my monitor now...

I bet I know what those 5 say, too:
1) bank website - username: aceplace57 password: Password1 (with scribble underneath it about "stupid sites requiring extra garbage so I can't use the same password everywhere")

2) Straightdope - username: aceplace57 password: password1

3) email - username is email address: aceplace57@hotmail.com password: Password1!

4) credit card: 5555 5555 5555 5555 Expiration: 04/11 04/14 04/17 Number thing on back: 456

5) credit card website - username: aceplace57 password Password1

[Someone]

Shouldn't there be a user name and logon postit for the computer itself?

[Someone]

Now that'd just be silly. Anybody could use his computer, then. That post-it is underneath the keyboard.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

lissener: eBay Millionaire Extraordinaire!

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...5&postcount=36

But where, oh where are the fabulous antique aquarium ornaments?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I bet I know what those 5 say, too:
1) bank website - username: aceplace57 password: Password1 (with scribble underneath it about "stupid sites requiring extra garbage so I can't use the same password everywhere")

2) Straightdope - username: aceplace57 password: password1

3) email - username is email address: aceplace57@hotmail.com password: Password1!

4) credit card: 5555 5555 5555 5555 Expiration: 04/11 04/14 04/17 Number thing on back: 456

5) credit card website - username: aceplace57 password Password1

I lol'd.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

lissener: eBay Millionaire Extraordinaire!

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...5&postcount=36

Probably starting up a new hoarde even as we speak.

(And when did wall calenders go out of fashion?)

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

He thinks a 13 month old can be called a two year old. Either he sucks at math or.... nope, that's the only possibility.

Perhaps he thinks humans are like horses!

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

lissener: eBay Millionaire Extraordinaire!

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...5&postcount=36

Wait--wasn't lissener the one who had like famous designer scarves* stuffed in old pizza boxes and stuff?





*Good lord--why would you buy a designer scarf if you're a guy? Guys don't wear scarves indoors like ladies can and outside, scarves are all about ultiliarianism. I'm not saying "why buy fancy clothes?", I'm saying "Why buy fancy clothes you can't show off?"

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

*Good lord--why would you buy a designer scarf if you're a guy? Guys don't wear scarves indoors like ladies can and outside, scarves are all about ultiliarianism. I'm not saying "why buy fancy clothes?", I'm saying "Why buy fancy clothes you can't show off?"

You wouldn't be saying that if you ever saw my ascot collection.

[Someone]

You have head-and-shoulders mannequins to shape them, don't you?

[Someone]

It was this thread where lissener is banging on about his $600 Hermes scarf. It is one of those threads where I would pay real money (okay, not much real money, but a dollar or so) to hear the other side of the story.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You wouldn't be saying that if you ever saw my ascot collection.

Can you tie a double windsor?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

You wouldn't be saying that if you ever saw my ascot collection.

< Durper pedant>
An ascot is NOT a scarf. Tsk.

Therefore, I win.

< /durper >

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

It was this thread where lissener is banging on about his $600 Hermes scarf. It is one of those threads where I would pay real money (okay, not much real money, but a dollar or so) to hear the other side of the story.

Yeah, he'd stopped paying the rent, the place was under three years of accumulated filth, and he was blaming the cleaners for not sorting his priceless scarves and hats from a mountain of decaying pizza boxes. And of course the antique aquarium ornaments:

You know how you kind of keep in your head a list of the first say five things you'd grab if your house catches on fire? Here's mine: my Hermes scarf, titled Grands Fonds (Ebay: $500-$600). My leopard-spotted homburg. My binder containing ~300 movies DVDRed off of TCM over the last several years. My two hand-knitted sweaters, one of which took me over six months to make, and has been greeted, when I've worn it into a yarn store I've never visited before, by cries of, "Oh I've heard about this sweater!" My paisley Birkenstocks. My Jeston-Flintstone vase. My porcelain coral. Let's see: gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, and gone.

And of course there have to be Durps to chime in that he was totally robbed and should look for legal aid to sue them the cleaners.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

< Durper pedant>
An ascot is NOT a scarf. Tsk.

Therefore, I win.

< /durper >

I nearly asphyxiated myself when my ascot the door on the way out.

[Someone]

I liked his comment that "but the sweaters weren't on the floor -- they were draped over a box of books!" Um...

(It is possible that the cleaning service sucked, however, I highly doubt everything was as valuable as he claimed it to be. I noted that he mentioned a stuffed animal he bought as a gift, but kept it, because he thought it was too cool to give away. Isn't that a classic hoarding trait?)

Oh, and his boss deleted all the music he illegally downloaded on their store computer.


FWIW, having suffered from depression myself, I do feel for the guy. But he's always been such an insufferable jackass, that I don't feel all THAT sorry for him.

[Someone]

Depression is a reason; it isn't an excuse: and in lissener's world, everything is somebody else's fault, he won't accept any responsibility for himself. Don't want the fucking hazmat cleaners to biff your stuff? Pay your rent, then, and clean your house.

[Someone]

Showgirls sucked.

[Someone]

We need a new thread. STAT.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

It was this thread where lissener is banging on about his $600 Hermes scarf. It is one of those threads where I would pay real money (okay, not much real money, but a dollar or so) to hear the other side of the story.

In the thread he says this:

Originally Posted by Someone

So apparently that makes me a hoarder. Although I don't think that term is right: I have three years worth of garbage in my apartment not because I want to "hoard" it, but because the effort required to take it out overwhelms and defeats me, and so I go to bed. If I can't summon the effort today, maybe I will tomorrow.

Isn't that one of the definitions of a hoarder? From the TV shows about hoarders I've seen, most of them are overwhelmed by thinking about the effort required to deal with the hoard. Many of them are depressed and that's one of the contributing factors behind the hoarding.

Edit - Jeez, also, he wasn't there to watch the cleanup and make sure nothing meaningful got tossed? Whose fault was that? On the hoarder shows, they always have the hoarder participate in the cleanup and decide what to throw away and what to keep. That's part of the process to help them make good decisions.

[Someone]

Is this guy serious?

Why don't we power our mobile devices with petrol engines?

BRB, I have to put gas in my iPhone.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

We need a new thread. STAT.

Well, if you say so!