Loungehunter

[squeekness]

oh great, some dudes broke into a house nearby while the owner was inside and stole some stuff

People suck.

 

[ComicChick]

told y'all she wasn't Southern.

i didn't say i wasn't southern, i just don't feel like cooking. and i'm packing, so i don't have time to devote to it.
besides, you should've made me one for a birthday preset

 

[Reek]

did somebody burn down your she-shed

 

[flickchick85]

Well happy very belated birthday, @ComicChick !

 

[Reek]

 

[LightDaggers]

As I don't want to end up on watch list for sex offenders I'll just choose not to answer that question.

no one has ever been corrupted by me... only enlightened.

and Lightsdaggers is 17.... or 22....maybe even 19 or 24...23 is possible. as are 16 and 25.

One of those is right on the money. Good detective skills, Reek.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Fire a shotgun erratically and you're bound to hit something, I guess.

 

[LightDaggers]

^ That is the truth.

 

[Reek]

Fire a shotgun erratically and you're bound to hit something, I guess.

accept the fact that i am better than you.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

accept the fact that i am better than you.

I accept that I accept the rules for proper use of capitalization and puntuation.

 

[squeekness]

I accept the fact that Friday can't go by fast enough.

 

[Schlosser85]

I had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast and a glass of orange juice as per usual.

I stopped at Long John Silver’s on the way home from work and got the chicken and chips, with fries and two hushpuppies.

Also I am here to inform you that I will no longer be carrying photo ID. Know why?

People should know who I am.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Somebody got carded while buying wine coolers again...

 

[Perfect Cell]

Somebody got carded while buying wine coolers again...

If a man wants to break out a six-pack of Smirnoff Ice and feel like he's 16 again, that's his business. Maybe I'll get some Bacardi Breezers tonight. I don't know if there'll be enough time. Some Mike's Hard Lemonade, for sure though.


...high school was stupid. It was like a race to see who could drink the most vile, candy-flavoured **** and throw up the most colourful bouquets. If you had the Bacardis, you won.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

My friends and I were so lame we didn't ever really drink. The hard stuff for us was Mountain Dew.

Even now alcohol is not my inebrient of choice. Even as an adult I've maybe been drunk to the gills only a dozen times or so. And I don't react well when I have been drunk. My stomache goes haywire for days so I tend to go easy regardless if I'm drinking socially.

 

[Perfect Cell]

In Ontario, the lottery is called Lotto 649. When I was 19-20, me and my friends would go to the bar and play "649". The bartender would mix a shot that was a combination of the sixth bottle from the right of the edge of the liquor shelf, then the fourth bottle after that, and then the ninth after that. The bartender would traditionally close their eyes while picking. The counting is more of a "guideline".

And just like the real lottery, you never won.

We... we don't do that anymore.

 

[Schlosser85]

My friends and I were so lame we didn't ever really drink. The hard stuff for us was Mountain Dew.

Even now alcohol is not my inebrient of choice. Even as an adult I've maybe been drunk to the gills only a dozen times or so. And I don't react well when I have been drunk. My stomache goes haywire for days so I tend to go easy regardless if I'm drinking socially.

I like Bacardi and Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Beer smells and tastes like vomit.

 

[Guts]

Just started reading this comic a week ago. Cool to see that it will get a genuinely good adaption.

 

[flickchick85]

My friends and I were so lame we didn't ever really drink. The hard stuff for us was Mountain Dew.

Even now alcohol is not my inebrient of choice. Even as an adult I've maybe been drunk to the gills only a dozen times or so. And I don't react well when I have been drunk. My stomache goes haywire for days so I tend to go easy regardless if I'm drinking socially.

Yeah, I've never once been excessively drunk. The worst hangover I've ever had was just a headache, but as someone whose headaches morph into migraines fairly regularly, that was not something I wished to repeat. So I pretty much never let myself get more than pleasantly buzzed when I go out.

 

[flickchick85]

Ugh, so annoyed. Back on Wednesday when I said I finally cancelled cable? Well, they lied. I noticed that they hadn't cut off service to my cable box and nothing had changed on my account online, so I called Cox back today and they said they had no record of that phone call or change on my account and that I was probably speaking to someone in the billing department, even though I called the exact same number I called this time. And THEN, they said that the quote the guy gave me for keeping just the internet was bogus, and about $40/mo. lower than it actually was. Even though that guy told me it was a done deal, that my monthly bill for just internet would now be $87 and that they would immediately cut off the cable and then I'd just need to take my cable box in and be done, and I'd see a refund on my account for the rest of the billing cycle that I didn't use. Apparently that was ALL BS. I told the lady I spoke with today exactly what he said, and she said, "yeah, the billing department aren't supposed to handle these calls for exactly this reason." And I'm like....AND?! HE DID. If I hadn't called back and had just returned my box as he said, I'd still be under the assumption that the info he gave me was correct and that my TV service was done. I didn't choose to call the billing department, I called the same damn number I just called, and that's who picked up. He didn't identify himself as the billing department or as someone in anyway not qualified to cancel my services. And HE WAS STILL A COX REPRESENTATIVE WHO GAVE ME THIS INFO, so are they not somehow responsible? Apparently not. So why the **** are these people answering phones?!

Anyway, they weren't willing to give me any promo rates or even apologies, and I refuse to pay $125 for a basic internet service, despite the fact that Cox is the only cable internet provider available for my apartment complex, so I'm about to take my chances with Verizon's high-speed DSL and hope it can support a single video stream alright because **** Cox Communications. /rant over

 

[squeekness]

They probably did all that just to soak you for a few more dollars while they could.

 

[terry78]

Getting out of a cable contract is like dealing with the mafia. All I use now is an antenna, Sling TV, and Pluto TV which is free.

 

[C. Lee]

Yeah, I've never once been excessively drunk. The worst hangover I've ever had was just a headache, but as someone whose headaches morph into migraines fairly regularly, that was not something I wished to repeat. So I pretty much never let myself get more than pleasantly buzzed when I go out.

I've never been within a mile of being drunk because I've never had more than a few sips of anything alcoholic. It just never was something i felt like doing.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Ugh, so annoyed. Back on Wednesday when I said I finally cancelled cable? Well, they lied. I noticed that they hadn't cut off service to my cable box and nothing had changed on my account online, so I called Cox back today and they said they had no record of that phone call or change on my account and that I was probably speaking to someone in the billing department, even though I called the exact same number I called this time. And THEN, they said that the quote the guy gave me for keeping just the internet was bogus, and about $40/mo lower than it actually was. Even though that guy told me it was a done deal, that my monthly bill for just internet would now be $87 and that they would immediately cut off the cable and then I'd just need to take my cable box in and be done, and I'd see a refund on my account for the rest of the billing cycle that I didn't use. Apparently that was ALL BS. I told the lady I spoke with today exactly what he said, and she said, "yeah, the billing department aren't supposed to handle these calls for exactly this reason." And I'm like....AND?! HE DID. If I hadn't called back and had just returned my box as he said, I'd still be under the assumption that the info he gave me was correct and that my TV service was done. I didn't choose to call the billing department, I called the same damn number I just called, and that's who picked up. He didn't identify himself as the billing department or as someone in anyway not qualified to cancel my services. And HE WAS STILL A COX REPRESENTATIVE WHO GAVE ME THIS INFO, so are they not somehow responsible? Apparently not. So why the **** are these people answering phones?!

Anyway, they weren't willing to give me any promo rates or even apologies, and I refuse to pay $125 for a basic internet service, despite the fact that Cox is the only cable internet provider available for my complex, so I'm about to take my chances with Verizon's high-speed DSL and hope it can support a single video stream alright because **** Cox Communications. /rant

Nearly an identical situation happened to me about a year ago. It took six months for my service to be fully cancelled, which included:

• about two dozen phone calls.
• untold hours listening to garbled Carly Rae Jepsen hold music.
• me being reduced to near-despair because I couldn't get anyone who works there to take back their damn receivers.
• finally being told that I was being emailed printable mailing labels to send back the receivers, only to find that they were sent to a misspelled version of my name. No one spells it with a Y, you *******s.
• finally receiving the mailing labels and sending the receivers away, following the delivery tracking, seeing it delivered, and then calling to confirm only to find they had no record of receiving them back.
• calls from their internal collections department asking why I was no longer paying for the service I cancelled months ago, and had returned the receivers for.
• the collections guy not being prepared for the level of anger I felt at the above point, and hanging up on me (to be fair, he had good reason to hang up on me... they tell you that if you work in a call centre, you're more patient. I have... and I'm not).
• finally getting the service cancelled, which included a sizable refund for the amount of the last month of service I paid for.
• them arguing the amount of the refund.
• them sending a physical refund cheque for the wrong amount.
• them sending a new refund cheque for the right amount, only after the government itself threatened to get involved.
• people coming to my door, months later, trying to sign me up for new service.

 

[flickchick85]

They probably did all that just to soak you for a few more dollars while they could.

Yeah, I figured this to be the case. I asked the lady where that $87 number came from that the guy gave me, and she said that's the rate I'm CURRENTLY getting with the internet in my cable bundle, which I now know is BS because according to my recent bills, the entire internet portion (including taxes, equipment fees and all that) was $77. So I was already looking at a price hike anyway for leaving the bundle with the number that guy gave me, but a reasonable price hike. But $125? For "100 Mbps" internet that only ever tests at <15Mbps download speed whenever I test it? No. ****ing. Way.