Shannon the Grouch

Teaches at a state uni. Christian, but reads the Bible, so not fundamentalist. Prefers no pronouns. ADHD, introvert, Xer, snide. Bluesky: grumpcurmudgeon.

[Shannon the Grouch @GrumpCurmudgeon]

It really bugs me when people say that "No" is a complete sentence. It is not: a complete sentence in English must have both a subject and a verb. However, do I owe anyone a complete sentence? No.

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Hey, @tomcolicchio--I'd like to watch LSAT Chance Kitchen, in which the chefs must argue before judges why their dishes are better than other people's. Nobody tastes anything. Everyone is confused. Sure, it's a typo, but they still must marshal their best logic.

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@RepOgles My dear brother in Christ... three Muslim murderers/would-be murderers are worthy of spending millions of dollars and calling for their expulsion? There's a murder about every half hour in our country. I'll pray God opens your eyes to the powerful forces of love and math.

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"Just don't worry about it!" #DonaldTrump #ClimateAction #Nonsense

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@RealCJ10 Disappointing but not surprising.

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@AgathaChocolats She was practicing for real explosions.

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@bestsbuycare Sus.
Joined this month?
Polite?
Can't be legit.

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@CptAncapistan @Ganeshuor Oof, I question putting economics in with bio, physics, chem, and math. Economics is really a psychological/sociological discipline, not a hard science. (I'd argue math is itself a little different from the others as it's more a way we understand the world than the thing itself).

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@BestBuySupport A last name and a one-time number for a highly-watched order don't seem terribly dangerous to me, especially assuming that you check ID when people pick it up. You... do check ID when people pick up items, right?

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Hey @BestBuy @GeekSquad, your live chat lied to my husband. Told him his PC was ready for pickup at our local store (after being sent away for repairs for WAY too long). He went to the store, they flat told him it was there, they couldn't get to it, live chat lied.

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@BestBuySupport He took it for repairs Saturday, Dec. 6. It's been in transit for five days coming back. That's CRAZY--he was never given the option to expedite shipping in any way, which... missed opportunity THERE to upgrade us with a service fee. We'd have paid it for speed.

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@BestBuySupport Note that at no point in this process did he ever receive a phone call or text message. When they were waiting for him to acknowledge and accept the estimate? NO CALL, NO TEXT. He only knew from refreshing the website. Yikes, BestBuy.

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Next to "Baby, It's Cold Outside," my least favorite Christmas song may be "Mary, Did You Know?" YES SHE KNEW SHE WROTE A WHOLE SONG ABOUT IT MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD OF IT IT'S IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE

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At the end of The Voice, there is always a notice: "@MichaelBuble is a paid spokesman for @ROLEX." My headcanon: That isn't required disclosure; Bublé's just flexing. He wanted to add "Niall, Snoop, and Reba aren't paid spokespeople for Rolex" but they said no.

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Crunch time: grades due at midnight. I saw a speech submitted by a student titled "Adult Activities." I blinked. I did not remember approving that topic. Warily, I opened it. It was "Adult OUTDOOR Activities" and about exercising as you get older. Can I have the first one?

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Unregulated capitalism is the love of money. It seems I've heard something about the love of money. When anyone praises capitalism, picture toddlers in lead dust. It's possible to recycle lead safely, but it's expensive here. So they do it in Africa.

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@SWENGDAD Occasionally I come back from BlueSky to check in and immediately get reminded why I left.

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@ExpressScripts You understand bad PR, your "help" is useless, and I am so tired of spending so much of my life dealing with you. Let's just go ahead and put it on my tombstone: "RIP Grump. The bulk of Grump's life on earth was spent on hold with ExpressScripts."

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There are few companies I have encountered in the world with the level of harm-causing that I've endured from the smug, faceless bureaucracy of @ExpressScripts. @ExpressRxSucks is 100 percent accurate. They (and all other PBMs) are Arendt's banality of evil.