Out of Pod Experience

Other people using Grrr when I'm the one thats supposed to say it.

My real job is a firefighter. So you can imagine some of the excuses i hear or the things we see that caused a house to burn.


Cause of blaze: Dropping your blanket over a gas heater.

Me: "Sir, why did you do that?"
Mr Stoner Dude: "I wanted it toasty so i could wrap it around my feet man."

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Cause of blaze: Throwing firecrackers into a wood burning fireplace to scare his sleeping friend. Said firecrackers popped out all over the place setting fire to curtains, carpet and the couch. Hilarious.

Me: Sir (I try and use this term as much as possible), what possessed you to do that?
Guy: "I thought it would be funny! He sure was scared!"

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And my personal favorite..

Cause of blaze: Trying to kill a spider with a blowtorch.

Lady lights the blowtorch and heads towards the spider, said spider decides to gtfo, jumps and startles the lady. She then throws the blowtorch AT IT and runs away! Mr blowtorch continues to merrily flame the couch. The couch takes care of the rest of the apartment.


Now i love it when i can save a persons life. But i'm not all that excited to know that someone has put my life and others at risk because of brain-fade.

Me: "Well, from what I've seen, issue X is about this, that and those. I do believe that the correct thing is Y and Z."
Friend: "But it's not."
Me: "Why it isn't?"
Friend: "Because."



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Last time this guy (for whom I have total respect and I consider a great friend of mine btw) did this, he took a slap in his backhead.

I find it extremely irritating that people attempt to counter any hipothesis, be it right or wrong, but at least constructed within reason, with a "Because reasons." type of response. Come on, use the goddamn grey matter you have between your ears, and don't use a friggin "NOPE BECAUSE NOPE." answer.




well, I can see understand why it happened tho. It's a freakin' spider for ****'s sake! I know that there are quite some spiders out there that are harmless, and most of the cases they are more scared of us than we are of them, but.... IT'S A FREAKIN' SPIDER! KILL IT WITH FIRE BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS FOR ****'S SAKE!

Oh goodness, where to begin?!

I hate it when I go the grocery store and they only have one or two checkouts open out of 10. Especially when there are a few people in front of you and you have no choice but to wait for a them to unload their entire cart and checkout. Then they usually don't know how to work the credit card machine and it takes an additional few minutes for them to leave the checkout.


Oh and I have to add I also Grrr at the people that talk on their mobile phone at the checkout. It's like really? Can't you put that damn thing down for just a moment?

My grrrrrr......

When the neighbors in the house next door decide to throw a children's birthday party, complete with bouncy-house, that begins about 1 in the afternoon, and then somehow morphs into a full on adult party at 8 PM complete with sub-woofered sound system, and about 30 cars are jamming not only the private parking lot for our building, but even blocking the street. And they go till 2 AM.

...then the next day, all seems well, but about 5 in the afternoon, folks start pulling up to this house again, a shelter tent is erected in the front yard, the sound system set up again, and the whole things starts a rockin' again, and again till 2 AM.

....then the next day, around 5 PM, here comes the tent, here comes the sound system, here comes the cars, here comes the 75 people in their yard and spilling into the street. Oh, and the music now has a live MC on the mic, louder than the music. Till 4 AM.

I had no idea what was going on. That house has never had any kind of "behavior" in the 18 months I've lived here. Family reunion was all I could think, but they usually are for just a weekend.

Anyway, I was not calling the police or anything, as I was willing to be patient if this was going to be only for a few days.

Anyway, lather, rinse, repeat on the above, FOR A TOTAL OF 15 DAYS !!! (nights). I got so sleep deprived it was actually scary.

Can you believe people would have the gall to inflict that on an entire neighborhood ? For that long? 15 days total.

I was finally able to talk to "the lady across the street", and it turns out that during that initial birthday party, the owner of the house next door had a son who was shot dead that afternoon. So this whole thing was sort of celebration of......I don't know. If my son was shot and killed, I would not spend the next 2 solid weeks partying like a fool with near 100 people in my yard every single night. Do none of them work ??

It was just seriously astonishing. Just an insane reaction for one person taking a bullet. I wonder how many of those people actually knew the guy.

I'm just angry for no reason. Grr.

Biggest current Grrr...

This would be other foreigners in Tokyo who thnk they are Gods gift to women. Especially the 'young corporate guns' on business trips who are often taken to the same bars / restaurants / clubs i take clients too.

The worst offenders are the Americans and Germans in about equal measure. Actually the Germans are worse because theyre usually Euro trash. And spend half the time bad mouthing other foreigners in the room. Especially any Americans in the room with stupid BS stereotypes.

You are in public, in a room with people enjoying quiet drinks with friends or clients. We dont want to hear about your graphic sexual conquests with hookers you picked up in Roppongi or how some Nigerian hostess bar scammed you with a $500 door charge. And stop trying to ass grab the waitresses or peer up ladies skirts.

Show some God damn decorum as youre making the rest of us look bad.

Oh and your clients might be laughing and smiling but their eyes are saying 'wtf is he doing?' And when they speak Japanese and you dont. They are usually insulting you.

being an european myself, Euro trash is the reason why I sometimes agree with americans about us, europeans.
as far as americans go tho, I think it's more of a need to get to know the rest of the world better, really.

Ive been watching "Attack on Titan" on Netflix.

Japanese impersonations of Germans fighting giant carnivorous eunuchs with swords and batman-esque utility belts... with subtitles.