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Other => Off Topic => Topic started by: Roadrunner53 on September 18, 2018, 12:44:52 PM
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I am despising shipping methods. I am trying to organize my house and I have been purchasing some different type of organizers. Some of the stuff is taking two weeks or more to get here. Some come directly from China and that takes weeks and weeks. This Smart Post delivery is the worst. By the time I get the items I have kind of forgotten what I bought them for. I did tracking on some of my packages and they made around 15 stops to get to CT. Seems we are going backwards in delivery service instead of forward. Like the stuff is coming by mule train. If companies use the Post Office I find the items arrive very quickly. Any other method is so slow!
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This seems like a weird thing to complain about. I can get almost anything I can imagine shipped directly to my door in 2 days! That's amazing!
The advantage to buying stuff directly from China is that it's usually cheaper. The disadvantage is that it can take a couple weeks to get it. Seems reasonable to me. And if you've forgotten what you needed something for two weeks after you ordered it, you don't need it.
What I do hate is stuff that gets shipped in excessively large packaging. Target is the worst about that. Like I'll buy a box of diapers and they'll put it inside another box that's twice as large and stuff the other half with plastic. I've been trying to cut down my online shopping primarily for that reason.
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Celery
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Celery
This made me crack up for some reason.
Re:shipped goods - I hate when my order is completely wrong or damaged. I ordered some outdoor apparel and after hours of browsing to find what I was looking for, and waiting a week for it to arrive, the items came with holes and snags! Now I have to go through the hassle of sending it back, more research, and more waiting. I guess it's not THAT BIG of a hassle but still!
A different company sent me the wrong item entirely but my package slip was itemized with my intended order so I'm left in this limbo of keeping said item or dealing with a potential hassle with claims/customer service. The price difference was even quite substantial at $12 vs $80!
Sigh.
ETA: I guess I really hate hassles. And now the word has lost meaning since I've said it so many times. ;)
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Goatheads. Enough to make a guy spit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris
Ouch. And I hate prickly pear glochids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia
An hour with tweezers and another few days for the last of them to fall out.
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Things I hate today:
Having to answer the phone waiting for job interviews and seems like 90% of these calls are either telemarketers, scammers, or pollsters...
Seems like my favorite cartoons are being destroyed. Rocky and Bullwinkle is a disaster, DuckTales is now unwatchable.
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If we're keeping it to petty things only: I hate that I have yet to settle on a work bag that I really like, but refuse to buy more.
If we're expanding to bigger issues in our lives: I hate that my volunteering has me stretched too thin, and I don't feel like I can resposibly drop any of it yet.
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Mobius strips. More of a love hate but they make my head hurt.
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mosquitos, cockroaches, coworker drama - all about equally
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1.telemarketers
2. plastic shopping bags!!! Every time I step into the woods or get out on a stream I find a F^&*(^ wal-mart bag!!!
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Any kind of marketing that wastes my time.
If I am watching TV, I am already kind of wasting time, so whatever. Since I am currently watching things on the PBS app, they are short and to the point, anyway. But if the mail says "Important account information" from a place I have an account at, and turns out to be an ad? I want to sue for fraud and I have never sued anyone in my life. Telemarketers? I want to sue for harassment. THIS IS MY PHONE AND MY TIME STOP JUST STOP.
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The questions on some of these job applications are driving me crazy. They are so dumb, I'm beginning to wonder if they are trick questions or something. 45 variations of "Will you be a good employee?" Sample:
I never feel upset if things do not go my way.
Very strongly agree, I'm a robot!
And then there is stuff like this that confuses me. There are 5 levels going from strongly agree to strongly disagree:
Getting along with all members of your work team is easy to do.
No room to explain the answer. Yes I agree, because I get along with my team members. Or no, I disagree because getting along takes effort and I am willing to expend the effort. Which way do I go???
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100 degrees outside nearing the end of September!
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People who leave their cars idling in the parking lot. I've got a buddy who hates this too, and he'll actually open the door and turn the car off... if there's nobody in it, that is. I don't have the nerve to do that.
Valet parking. I HATE HATE HATE valet parking. Who wants to give their car and their car key to a complete stranger who parks it in some unknown location? And then, to top it all off, you have to tip them! God.
Crawlspaces
Mosquitos
Fixing broken shit. I know 90% of MMM people find fixing things to be life affirming, but I just consider it a pain in the ass. I'd always rather be playing music or reading.
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Goatheads. Enough to make a guy spit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris
Ouch. And I hate prickly pear glochids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia
An hour with tweezers and another few days for the last of them to fall out.
Get what you can with tweezers, then smear Elmer's Glue (or similar) over the affected area in a thin layer. Wait for it to dry, then peel off. Should get most of the glochids -- you may decide to do a second pass.
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I hate these damn phone calls I keep getting everyday that are trying to scam me out of money somehow. I have NOMOROBO but it still rings once until they intercept and block the call. However these jerks keep changing their phone numbers and it takes a while for NOMOROBO to catch up with them. I have noticed that the last 4 digits of the phone number 7191 seem to show up often. Does anyone else have a problem with these formerly Rachael calls that say they have been monitoring your accounts? Then for a while I got some Chinese guy who kept telling me he was from Microsoft and that my computer had a virus and he would help fix it. I told him more than once he was a scammer and he said he wasn't. I hung up and he called me back again! I hung up and he didn't call back.
I had this septic additive company keep calling and wanting us to buy this product. They would call day after day. Their phone is located in Bristol, CT. Every single day I would have at least 4 calls on caller ID from them. I finally answered the phone and told them to STOP calling. The woman was nasty and I told her I wouldn't buy her stuff ever so don't call anymore.
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I bought these little chrome shelves for my bathroom to get items off the vanity. So, I hang the one little shelf on my ceramic tile with Command Hooks and within minutes it fell off. I had some other double sided heavy duty tape and redid the hooks with it. It lasted a day and the hook fell off. I cleaned the tile with alcohol and dried it before applying the hooks. I do not want to drill holes in the ceramic tile. I bought some different stick on hooks from Amazon. Hope they work. GRRRRR!!!
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Loud noise at night when I try to sleep. I have the last 2 weeks experienced this a lot, both on a campsite and on a city trip. You learn to value your own bedroom.
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I hate it when my neighbor burns brush and the smoke wafts over to my house and I have to close my windows. I doubt he has a burn permit either. Wouldn't you think the smoke would be going into his house?
His kid also has a mini scarp yard over there and makes lots of banging noises, metal grinding and typical noises you'd hear at a commercial garage. This is a neighborhood, not a commercial place to do this kind of work.
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Autocad. Especially Civil 3D.
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I am despising shipping methods. I am trying to organize my house and I have been purchasing some different type of organizers. Some of the stuff is taking two weeks or more to get here. Some come directly from China and that takes weeks and weeks. This Smart Post delivery is the worst. By the time I get the items I have kind of forgotten what I bought them for. I did tracking on some of my packages and they made around 15 stops to get to CT. Seems we are going backwards in delivery service instead of forward. Like the stuff is coming by mule train. If companies use the Post Office I find the items arrive very quickly. Any other method is so slow!
But Smartpost is very cheap! It's generally the cheapest shipping option possible for the seller, saving several $ per package over the next fastest service. UPS Surepost is somewhat better since it often travels in their ground network anyway.
My list:
when a sock or something like that falls behind my clothes drier and requires fishing skills to recover
the impersonal messages left on birthday cards passed around the office
when you discover a gas station pump is broken after you've parked and shut off the car
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I am despising shipping methods. I am trying to organize my house and I have been purchasing some different type of organizers. Some of the stuff is taking two weeks or more to get here. Some come directly from China and that takes weeks and weeks. This Smart Post delivery is the worst. By the time I get the items I have kind of forgotten what I bought them for. I did tracking on some of my packages and they made around 15 stops to get to CT. Seems we are going backwards in delivery service instead of forward. Like the stuff is coming by mule train. If companies use the Post Office I find the items arrive very quickly. Any other method is so slow!
But Smartpost is very cheap! It's generally the cheapest shipping option possible for the seller, saving several $ per package over the next fastest service. UPS Surepost is somewhat better since it often travels in their ground network anyway.
My list:
when a sock or something like that falls behind my clothes drier and requires fishing skills to recover
the impersonal messages left on birthday cards passed around the office
when you discover a gas station pump is broken after you've parked and shut off the car
Surepost and Smartpost both suck! It might be good for the seller but it should be all about the buyer. When I buy something I want it in a reasonable amount of time. Both of those methods take forever and ever to receive. It is a JOKE! One step up from mule train.
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Goatheads. Enough to make a guy spit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulus_terrestris
Ouch. And I hate prickly pear glochids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opuntia
An hour with tweezers and another few days for the last of them to fall out.
Get a good pair of work gloves, and you will get very few of them stuck in your hand.
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I hate these damn phone calls I keep getting everyday that are trying to scam me out of money somehow. I have NOMOROBO but it still rings once until they intercept and block the call. However these jerks keep changing their phone numbers and it takes a while for NOMOROBO to catch up with them. I have noticed that the last 4 digits of the phone number 7191 seem to show up often. Does anyone else have a problem with these formerly Rachael calls that say they have been monitoring your accounts? Then for a while I got some Chinese guy who kept telling me he was from Microsoft and that my computer had a virus and he would help fix it. I told him more than once he was a scammer and he said he wasn't. I hung up and he called me back again! I hung up and he didn't call back.
I had this septic additive company keep calling and wanting us to buy this product. They would call day after day. Their phone is located in Bristol, CT. Every single day I would have at least 4 calls on caller ID from them. I finally answered the phone and told them to STOP calling. The woman was nasty and I told her I wouldn't buy her stuff ever so don't call anymore.
I hate those, too. I stopped answering the phone a long time ago unless the caller is identified by my phone as someone I know. You can also setup the phone so it only rings from numbers in your contacts.
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Waiting. Patience has never been my strenght.
When a machine breaks down or something doesn't go as planned.
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I know I've mentioned it before, but the job getting process is extremely annoying. With all this tech and all these companies out there you'd think there was a way not to fill out your name, address, and qualifications Every. Single. Freaking. Time.
Ziprecruiter seems to have a halfway decent platform with one click application but jobs are mostly through agencies. Out of maybe 30 warehouse postings, 2 are directly from a company, the rest from agencies. What the hell?!
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If you have to go to several doctors or have medical tests, they make you fill out basically the same paperwork over and over and your prescription drugs, how much you take and strength. Why can't these places have one form you fill our and bring it to each doctor or hospital instead of filling out the paperwork a million times. When my mother was sick, I had to fill out all of the stupid paperwork to the point I had to have a 3 ring notebook to remember everything!
Seems in this computer world there should be a better way.
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I hate scam / telemarketer phone calls. They just don't stop. I usually answer and hang up on them.
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I hate scam / telemarketer phone calls. They just don't stop. I usually answer and hang up on them.
+1 Ask them to put you on their "do not call" list.
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Vandals, Thieves, and Haters.
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In mother Russia, things hate you!
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I hate scam / telemarketer phone calls. They just don't stop. I usually answer and hang up on them.
+1 Ask them to put you on their "do not call" list.
I just confirmed I am on the "do not call" registry. Doesn't seem to stop them. I'm gonna start filing complaints on them.
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We're on the do not call list but it doesn't stop 'em all. It's gotten to the point where we now totally waste their time with bs. Fun things we've done with telemarketers:
- tell the "car warranty" people that we have 587,000 miles on our car from a few trips to Alaska and every minute detail about it until they get bored and hang up
- fart really loudly into the phone
- pretend to have sex
- keep them on the line acting as if we are interested and then give them bogus cc info or an address laden with vulgarities
- start singing the chorus of "I will always love you" incredibly loud
- answer in a different language, sometimes mixing a few different ones
- stay on the line and refer to yourself exclusively in the third person
It's quite fun coming up with new ideas actually, I think I might tell them my husband is dead next time they call.
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We're on the do not call list but it doesn't stop 'em all. It's gotten to the point where we now totally waste their time with bs. Fun things we've done with telemarketers:
- tell the "car warranty" people that we have 587,000 miles on our car from a few trips to Alaska and every minute detail about it until they get bored and hang up
- fart really loudly into the phone
- pretend to have sex
- keep them on the line acting as if we are interested and then give them bogus cc info or an address laden with vulgarities
- start singing the chorus of "I will always love you" incredibly loud
- answer in a different language, sometimes mixing a few different ones
- stay on the line and refer to yourself exclusively in the third person
It's quite fun coming up with new ideas actually, I think I might tell them my husband is dead next time they call.
There are some good videos on YT of reverse-scamming to waste scammers' time, e.g. this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPHgb9UaHsM) (guy pretends to be grandmother/granddaughter duo; he has spent up to 4 hours on one call in another video), or even more clinical analysis after hacking into a scammer's operations, e.g. this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5X9ZSXb7xI). I didn't know how these kind of scams even worked until watching videos of this sort.
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I told two of them yesterday to add me to the do not call list. They agreed.
I new twist is leaving a voicemail ad without the phone ringing. That is super annoying.
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We're on the do not call list but it doesn't stop 'em all. It's gotten to the point where we now totally waste their time with bs. Fun things we've done with telemarketers:
- tell the "car warranty" people that we have 587,000 miles on our car from a few trips to Alaska and every minute detail about it until they get bored and hang up
- fart really loudly into the phone
- pretend to have sex
- keep them on the line acting as if we are interested and then give them bogus cc info or an address laden with vulgarities
- start singing the chorus of "I will always love you" incredibly loud
- answer in a different language, sometimes mixing a few different ones
- stay on the line and refer to yourself exclusively in the third person
It's quite fun coming up with new ideas actually, I think I might tell them my husband is dead next time they call.
You can ask them till you are blue in the face to take you off their list or you are on the no call list but they do not care and the robo calls keep coming thru. There is no stopping them. Most times I just let it ring but sometimes I have answered. Usually when you answer, they tell you what number you are on the wait list for someone to speak to you. I wait till someone says hello and I have this little box that came out of a dog toy that when you squeeze it, the thing makes duck quacking noises! LOL! Makes me happy! Sometimes I ask them why they keep calling over and over. They swear at me. Oh, yes, legitimate business people for sure!
Anyone have their computer freeze up and some voice comes on to tell you they have found porn on your computer and that you have to call them or they will report you to the authorities? I have had it happen a bunch of times and had to reboot my computer. The voice tells you if you leave the site they will alert authorities. DUH to them. I don't have porn on my computer. JERKS!
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Anyone have their computer freeze up and some voice comes on to tell you they have found porn on your computer and that you have to call them or they will report you to the authorities? I have had it happen a bunch of times and had to reboot my computer. The voice tells you if you leave the site they will alert authorities. DUH to them. I don't have porn on my computer. JERKS!
"Windows Technical Support" called me. One problem, I use Linux. Hahaha.
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Anyone have their computer freeze up and some voice comes on to tell you they have found porn on your computer and that you have to call them or they will report you to the authorities? I have had it happen a bunch of times and had to reboot my computer. The voice tells you if you leave the site they will alert authorities. DUH to them. I don't have porn on my computer. JERKS!
"Windows Technical Support" called me. One problem, I use Linux. Hahaha.
Make sure to tell them of your problems with your "coffee cup holder". ( CD tray, tech support urban legend)
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I am despising shipping methods. I am trying to organize my house and I have been purchasing some different type of organizers. Some of the stuff is taking two weeks or more to get here. Some come directly from China and that takes weeks and weeks. This Smart Post delivery is the worst. By the time I get the items I have kind of forgotten what I bought them for. I did tracking on some of my packages and they made around 15 stops to get to CT. Seems we are going backwards in delivery service instead of forward. Like the stuff is coming by mule train. If companies use the Post Office I find the items arrive very quickly. Any other method is so slow!
To add to the shipping situations: My "pet peeve" is when I am home, and they mark "delivery attempted" but never even came to the door (usually on a weekend) and they don't even leave a tag for me to go pick up the package in the mean time. I am left waiting until at least Monday even though the package is literally right down the road from me just sitting at the post office/distribution center.
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I am despising shipping methods. I am trying to organize my house and I have been purchasing some different type of organizers. Some of the stuff is taking two weeks or more to get here. Some come directly from China and that takes weeks and weeks. This Smart Post delivery is the worst. By the time I get the items I have kind of forgotten what I bought them for. I did tracking on some of my packages and they made around 15 stops to get to CT. Seems we are going backwards in delivery service instead of forward. Like the stuff is coming by mule train. If companies use the Post Office I find the items arrive very quickly. Any other method is so slow!
To add to the shipping situations: My "pet peeve" is when I am home, and they mark "delivery attempted" but never even came to the door (usually on a weekend) and they don't even leave a tag for me to go pick up the package in the mean time. I am left waiting until at least Monday even though the package is literally right down the road from me just sitting at the post office/distribution center.
My husband had this once on a weekday while he was at home with sick leave. They had never been at our house, but reported as "you weren't home". At least, that day we could prove it.
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I hate scam / telemarketer phone calls. They just don't stop. I usually answer and hang up on them.
My solution is easy. Live is too short for picking up calls from unknown number. If it is legit, they can leave me a vm.
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I hate scam / telemarketer phone calls. They just don't stop. I usually answer and hang up on them.
My solution is easy. Live is too short for picking up calls from unknown number. If it is legit, they can leave me a vm.
But then I have to call the vm and that is more work than just answering and hanging up.
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Lawn service guys who park their truck with trailer IN the road on narrow roads with no parking lane, or even shoulder.
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If you have to go to several doctors or have medical tests, they make you fill out basically the same paperwork over and over and your prescription drugs, how much you take and strength. Why can't these places have one form you fill our and bring it to each doctor or hospital instead of filling out the paperwork a million times. When my mother was sick, I had to fill out all of the stupid paperwork to the point I had to have a 3 ring notebook to remember everything!
Seems in this computer world there should be a better way.
So true. I hate filling out medical history forms, too. I'm almost 60. I have had exactly one doctor in my entire life look at the medical history form before or during the appointment. I sometimes fantasize about filling in random nonsense.
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I hate it when you buy something and they give you a 4 hour window of delivery time. 2 hours should be maximum. Do they expect people to stay home all day and not go to work?
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Another thing I hate is when you make a phone call and go thru all the pre recorded prompts. They ask you to put in your account number and other information. Then they finally transfer you to a human operator and they then ask you for your account number and all the other crap you have just entered on your key pad.
Not to mention when you are on hold and they have the pre recorded music that is blasting, is some horrible song that is on a loop that plays over and over and then is constantly interrupted by more information this company can do for you.
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The shipping thing seems to be a common annoying burr in people's sides. My SO had vitamins on order with GNC, attempted delivery 3 times until finally an email to customer service changed delivery method from FedEx to USPS which finally resulted in our vitamins arriving. We live in an apartment and normally get our packages from USPS or UPS, for some reason FedEx has trouble figuring out how to get to us.
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Another thing I hate is when you make a phone call and go thru all the pre recorded prompts. They ask you to put in your account number and other information. Then they finally transfer you to a human operator and they then ask you for your account number and all the other crap you have just entered on your key pad.
Not to mention when you are on hold and they have the pre recorded music that is blasting, is some horrible song that is on a loop that plays over and over and then is constantly interrupted by more information this company can do for you.
Yep, all the above and I'd like to add that the pre-recorded music sounds like it is coming from bubbles from the yellow submarine.
Also, getting a pre-recorded music that doesn't grate on my ears is a miracle, especially after 5 minutes on hold. I have pretty wide musical tastes, but nearly without fail, the pre-recorded music is wildly bad. There is a reason that "grunge" grates on most people. Nearly everyone in the early Seattle scene worked at Muzak(tm). Disclaimer, I'm a big fan of "grunge" stuff, probably because I was in graduate school (70hrs/week minimum) at the time, and the music (NOT Muzak) was my only outlet.
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Another thing I hate is when you make a phone call and go thru all the pre recorded prompts. They ask you to put in your account number and other information. Then they finally transfer you to a human operator and they then ask you for your account number and all the other crap you have just entered on your key pad.
Not to mention when you are on hold and they have the pre recorded music that is blasting, is some horrible song that is on a loop that plays over and over and then is constantly interrupted by more information this company can do for you.
Yep, all the above and I'd like to add that the pre-recorded music sounds like it is coming from bubbles from the yellow submarine.
Also, getting a pre-recorded music that doesn't grate on my ears is a miracle, especially after 5 minutes on hold. I have pretty wide musical tastes, but nearly without fail, the pre-recorded music is wildly bad. There is a reason that "grunge" grates on most people. Nearly everyone in the early Seattle scene worked at Muzak(tm). Disclaimer, I'm a big fan of "grunge" stuff, probably because I was in graduate school (70hrs/week minimum) at the time, and the music (NOT Muzak) was my only outlet.
I had the absolute worst experience with hold music a couple weeks ago (I'll name and shame: Blain's Farm and Fleet). It was several voiceover recordings talking about how great their store is, fine whatever. But they were badly spliced together so it always felt like the hold recording was being cut off and a human was about to talk. It was not the kind of hold where you could just tune it out until someone picked up. I had to listen to it carefully, and for about 25 minutes. While driving through a freak torrential downpour of a thunderstorm that started around minute 15. With it on speakerphone through the car. It was stupid.
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I hate it when my mailman is lazy and jams tons of mail into my box including a package. He stuffs so much in, it is falling out the back door. My house door is not a mile away. Really only about 50 feet.
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Another thing I hate is when you make a phone call and go thru all the pre recorded prompts. They ask you to put in your account number and other information. Then they finally transfer you to a human operator and they then ask you for your account number and all the other crap you have just entered on your key pad.
Not to mention when you are on hold and they have the pre recorded music that is blasting, is some horrible song that is on a loop that plays over and over and then is constantly interrupted by more information this company can do for you.
I particularly resent the recorded voice interrupting the canned muzak every 30 seconds to say, "Please hold, your call is important to us." No, if my call was important, you'd pay someone to answer the damn call.
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Lawn service guys who park their truck with trailer IN the road on narrow roads with no parking lane, or even shoulder.
+1. We have a narrow access road that connects everyone's garage to the main road. Lawn service guys who have wide trailer will block more than half of the lane. I can kinda tolerate this since they are only parking for short time, everyone has a small lawn here. What really bug me are neighbors who parked on the road everyday while their driveways are empty.
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Okay, this is the latest thing I hate. Husband went to the deli at the grocery store the other day and got two one lb packages of roast beef. Some ham and cheese. He brings it home and I look at the packages and all the meat and cheese is jumbled up in the bags! The roast beef looked like softballs jammed into the bags, same with the ham and the cheese was all in messy piles. I was furious. This stuff is not cheap! So I took each package and had to restack the meat and cheese in normal piles of meat. Slicing meat and putting it in simple piles isn't rocket science. If I had not 'fixed' the meat and cheese it would have been a real problem getting the slices to peel off without ripping. This was a young guy and obviously just doesn't give a crap! Good future for him if he can't even slice deli meat with skill. Imagine if this guy had to do a job where he had to THINK?
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Rising interest rates just when I want to refinance.
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Today got what must be the 40th phone call from some JERK that claims to be from Microsoft and they have discovered a problem with my computer. DUH!
I told the guy...YEAH, you've called me 100 times already and hung up. OMG, if they have called me 40-50 times, have they run out of people to scam?
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I hate light pollution.
I just want to see the stars how they should be again, like I did when I went on holiday to Iceland when I was a teenager. There were so many stars in the sky that my mind was blown. It was genuinely a life-changing moment.
Then I came back home and could once more only see the skeletons of the constellations, the stars' light dimmed by hundreds of street lights and security lights and floodlights. The stars are a genuine wonder of the world, and so many people will never get to properly see them at this rate.
There are better ways to achieve safety and security than to flood the world with dazzling light. I really hope the public's opinion changes on this some day.
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I hate everything and everybody
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jk
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I hate light pollution.
I just want to see the stars how they should be again, like I did when I went on holiday to Iceland when I was a teenager. There were so many stars in the sky that my mind was blown. It was genuinely a life-changing moment.
Then I came back home and could once more only see the skeletons of the constellations, the stars' light dimmed by hundreds of street lights and security lights and floodlights. The stars are a genuine wonder of the world, and so many people will never get to properly see them at this rate.
There are better ways to achieve safety and security than to flood the world with dazzling light. I really hope the public's opinion changes on this some day.
+1000
Indeed, seeing the milky way is just amazing. I do stargazing through a telescope and the difference between doing that at home, near the capital, or somewhere remote in a darker place is enormous. Some objects I just cannot see at all at home. And as long as I have to work, I need to do this hobby at home. The hobby takes away enough sleep as it is, without travelling and setting up the telescope from scratch each time.
In my neighbourhood there are no streetlights. Therefore everyone has a bright light at the entrance, often with a darkness sensor, that is on the whole night. When I am observing, I put blankets over the terrace rack. But I need to sit on a limited part of the terrace to not be bothered by the lights.
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Celery
Coconut. The texture.
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People who leave their cars idling in the parking lot. I've got a buddy who hates this too, and he'll actually open the door and turn the car off... if there's nobody in it, that is. I don't have the nerve to do that.
Valet parking. I HATE HATE HATE valet parking. Who wants to give their car and their car key to a complete stranger who parks it in some unknown location? And then, to top it all off, you have to tip them! God.
Crawlspaces
Mosquitos
Fixing broken shit. I know 90% of MMM people find fixing things to be life affirming, but I just consider it a pain in the ass. I'd always rather be playing music or reading.
People who leave their cars idling at SONIC. Yeah, I get it - some folks are just waiting for their order and then they'll leave like any other fastfood joint. Some will order, idle, wait for their food, idle, and then eat their food, idle, and then leave. We visit places like Sonic twice a year perhaps as a treat for the kids and it would be more fun to sit outside and eat if I didn't have to listen to various cars idle, a/c cycling, and the cooling fan cycling. And then there are those few really oblivious people who leave their headlights on the whole time... ;)
To be honest our patio is a much better place to eat a burger!
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Stressful "emergencies" happening when I am trying to have a quiet breakfast after a difficult wakeup.
And sometimes the emergency turns out to be quite easy to handle, so why make so much fuss about it...
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Suicide jokes and gestures
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Suicide jokes and gestures
Ugh. I reflexively do this from time to time. I really try not to, and I hate myself every time I do it. But they slip out before I can stop them. I do apologize for them, though, because gross.
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Suicide jokes and gestures
Ugh. I reflexively do this from time to time. I really try not to, and I hate myself every time I do it. But they slip out before I can stop them. I do apologize for them, though, because gross.
Thanks.
It never bothered me before, but now it just makes me see my brother's brains all over the truck (which thank god I never actually saw for real). Lately it's getting worse and I had a small meltdown at work when a friend/coworker did it and I struggled to breathe and to get the words out to ask her not to.
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Suicide jokes and gestures
Ugh. I reflexively do this from time to time. I really try not to, and I hate myself every time I do it. But they slip out before I can stop them. I do apologize for them, though, because gross.
Thanks.
It never bothered me before, but now it just makes me see my brother's brains all over the truck (which thank god I never actually saw for real). Lately it's getting worse and I had a small meltdown at work when a friend/coworker did it and I struggled to breathe and to get the words out to ask her not to.
I'm so sorry.
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Suicide jokes and gestures
Ugh. I reflexively do this from time to time. I really try not to, and I hate myself every time I do it. But they slip out before I can stop them. I do apologize for them, though, because gross.
Thanks.
It never bothered me before, but now it just makes me see my brother's brains all over the truck (which thank god I never actually saw for real). Lately it's getting worse and I had a small meltdown at work when a friend/coworker did it and I struggled to breathe and to get the words out to ask her not to.
I'm so sorry.
<3
Thanks
Ironically all day yesterday I was frustrated at work and IN MY MIND I was making those same gestures. I'm hoping that between this and the meltdown I'm at some sort of tipping point and my reactivity will be dramatically lowered going forward.
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I hate delivery windows that are four hours. Do they expect people to work half a day?
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Cars
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I hate delivery windows that are four hours. Do they expect people to work half a day?
My favorite is when they screw even that up. I was told "8am-12pm" for our AT&T DSL/DirecTV install. DirecTV guy shows up at 9am, DSL guy shows up at 2:30pm. He wasn't done until almost 5. They told the DSL install contractor a "whole day window." Thanks, jerks. Literally took almost my entire day to get hooked up.
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Suicide jokes and gestures
Ugh. I reflexively do this from time to time. I really try not to, and I hate myself every time I do it. But they slip out before I can stop them. I do apologize for them, though, because gross.
Thanks.
It never bothered me before, but now it just makes me see my brother's brains all over the truck (which thank god I never actually saw for real). Lately it's getting worse and I had a small meltdown at work when a friend/coworker did it and I struggled to breathe and to get the words out to ask her not to.
I'm so sorry.
<3
Thanks
Ironically all day yesterday I was frustrated at work and IN MY MIND I was making those same gestures. I'm hoping that between this and the meltdown I'm at some sort of tipping point and my reactivity will be dramatically lowered going forward.
It sounds like you could use some help with this. Have you tried contacting a support group?
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Looking for a job, have shot apps to about 40 different companies in the past 3 weeks, mostly warehouse and HVAC companies, and yet I'm still only getting unsolicited phone calls about resumes I've "sent" to marketing companies, which I've never actually sent. Thanks Ziprecruiter for wasting my time with this crap. :-(
I wish there was some option to pay like $50 and get only phone calls from the actual companies I want to work for. Why must so many companies go the suboptimal route for their customers???
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Sorry Johnez on the job search issues. I lost my job twice in my 50's. The older you get the harder it is but they say jobless is down to an all time low. Take a look at jobs your town is offering. Go to the municipal websites and look under careers. Same with State jobs. I know guy who went to college for 5 years and is a janitor in a school system. His benefits are awesome and the pay isn't bad at all. However, I find it a bit disturbing to think his parents paid mega money to educate him and he has taken a job that requires no higher education. I think he hopes eventually he will get promoted to a manager position. Think outside the box on employment. I see lots of signs out for help wanted at car part places. Even if it isn't what you want, it can be a fill in job till you find something that is a better fit. Then maybe you can transition that job to part time when you get a better full time job. Good luck!
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This is another thing I hate! Has anyone noticed that every commercial on tv has to have a STUPID musical jingle associated with it? UGH!
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Sorry Johnez on the job search issues. I lost my job twice in my 50's. The older you get the harder it is but they say jobless is down to an all time low. Take a look at jobs your town is offering. Go to the municipal websites and look under careers. Same with State jobs. I know guy who went to college for 5 years and is a janitor in a school system. His benefits are awesome and the pay isn't bad at all. However, I find it a bit disturbing to think his parents paid mega money to educate him and he has taken a job that requires no higher education. I think he hopes eventually he will get promoted to a manager position. Think outside the box on employment. I see lots of signs out for help wanted at car part places. Even if it isn't what you want, it can be a fill in job till you find something that is a better fit. Then maybe you can transition that job to part time when you get a better full time job. Good luck!
Thanks Roadrunner53 for the encouragement. I actually just started going down the govt jobs route. There is an amazing assortment out there with some really good pay and benefits. If I had any inclination to be a cop, I might have considered that route because there seem to be tons of listings and pretty decent pay rates. Side benefit, almost every govt listing has salary and benefits clearly laid out so as not to waste an applicant's time.
I am considering putting a good outfit together and hoofing it in person with 20 resumes in hand. Good thing with Indeed and Ziprecruiter is I've got all the companies listed right there, just have to map out my day. Better than sitting at home in front of a damn screen for another day!
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Johnez, my Dad worked for the State of CT for the highway department. He was an agent that dealt with eminent domain when the state was building highways and things. He presented the offer to buy the property to the owners and tell them their rights. When he retired he was able to have health insurance and then when he turned 65 Medicare was his primary insurance and the state insurance was his secondary. It basically covered everything and prescriptions were like $4 each. My Mom was also allowed to go on it and she was very sick over the years and racked up tons of bills but never really had to pay much of anything. Once in a while one would filter in and would be very tiny...like $20-$30. There are a lot of hidden perks in State jobs. They used to say the pay was lower than the private sector but the bennies made up for it. I also know a guy who worked for the state working in the sign making department. He worked there from the time he left high school and retired after over 40 years so I imagine his state retirement would be pretty good!
I worked in research and development at one of the biggest food companies in the world. A lot of these companies have maintenance departments or shops where they fabricate stuff. There are so many hidden jobs. Look up corporations in your town/area and look at their career websites and see what they are offering. Sometimes you have to get a grunt job and once they see you have potential, they will move you to a place where you can use your true potential. Good luck!
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Looking for a job, have shot apps to about 40 different companies in the past 3 weeks, mostly warehouse and HVAC companies, and yet I'm still only getting unsolicited phone calls about resumes I've "sent" to marketing companies, which I've never actually sent. Thanks Ziprecruiter for wasting my time with this crap. :-(
I wish there was some option to pay like $50 and get only phone calls from the actual companies I want to work for. Why must so many companies go the suboptimal route for their customers???
Ugh, Ziprecruiter! I've been on the other side of them, and they really suck if you're looking for someone specialized. I posted a job on there for a Lotus Notes (shoot me) developer, specifying local applicants only. We got about 50 resumes, at least 45 of them completely irrelevant (Java/.NET developers and whatnot), and none of the relevant ones were within 500 miles. After a few days of that horseshit, I cancelled, and started getting whiny phone calls from Ziprecruiter every day. Fuck that.
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Following our investment plan and buying index funds at specified times of the year, and then having the fund price drop the very next day. I keep reminding myself that it doesn’t matter in the long run.
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I hate it when I am home on a Sunday morning and someone is banging at my front door. It is always people trying to push their religion on us. My dogs go berserk barking as these jerks keep banging on the door. I typically won't answer the door. Just got a sign on the front door that says no solicitors, no politicians, no peddlers, no religious groups and maybe a couple other things on the list. I hope it works. How dare they try to peddle their religion door to door. I don't go knocking on their door peddling my religion. There is one particular religion and their church is only about one mile down the hill from my house. So they work their way up stopping house to house. DUH, they have been to my house a million times...go away! I wish I could put a blinking neon light on the sign with a buzzer on it because I have a feeling they will still knock on the door regardless of the sign!
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- I hate medical bills.
- I hate trying to pay medical bills, leaving endless messages, and never getting calls back when I am trying to give someone money.
- I hate my friends who have kids, and then completely ditch our friendship. I used to say I didn't mind, but it has happened with 4 friends now, and really sucks!
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I'm guilty of the "ditching friends after kids" thing. I gotta say, it's a major bummer on my side as well because friends are few and far between. Having kids makes life very different though. Leaving the house used to involve me throwing on my shoes and slicking back my hair. Now, we have a baby bag that inevitably needs something packed (change of clothes, snacks, diapers, wipes, blankets, pacifier), 2 babies that need their diaper changed right before we head out the door, have to make sure they are fed, dressed, and cleaned before leaving, and then we get to deal with the baby who threw up as we are halfway out the door while the other one is screaming. Don't even ask me to hang out without mama and the kids lol, I'm sorry but leaving the kids with her while I go to work is tough enough.
Maybe see if you can visit them, a game night or movie night? Ours are babies, so we do movies and pizza when my bro or friends come over. They love it, and it's low stress all the way around.
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Suicide jokes and gestures
Ugh. I reflexively do this from time to time. I really try not to, and I hate myself every time I do it. But they slip out before I can stop them. I do apologize for them, though, because gross.
Thanks.
It never bothered me before, but now it just makes me see my brother's brains all over the truck (which thank god I never actually saw for real). Lately it's getting worse and I had a small meltdown at work when a friend/coworker did it and I struggled to breathe and to get the words out to ask her not to.
I'm so sorry.
<3
Thanks
Ironically all day yesterday I was frustrated at work and IN MY MIND I was making those same gestures. I'm hoping that between this and the meltdown I'm at some sort of tipping point and my reactivity will be dramatically lowered going forward.
It sounds like you could use some help with this. Have you tried contacting a support group?
I've tried a few different groups and counselors, especially in the beginning, but they never seemed very helpful for me. I know my mom gets a lot of help from them.
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Spending a couple of hours of every working day sifting through medical records to determine the significance of marginally abnormal lab results from scattergun tests requested by clinicians other than me on patients I've never even met.
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Cockroach and flying cockroach!
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Stinkbugs and flies!
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The commercial for Peyronie's disease (curvature of the penis). It is on TV all the time. They say on the commercial that you can injure your penis during intercourse. OMG, do we really need to hear this and much worse do children need to be exposed to this?
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I hate leaf blowers. I think they should be illegal. People are constantly wandering around with leaf blowers, blowing lawn clippings, or nothing. Sometimes they just seem to walk around with them running on windy days because they have nothing better to do. I don't get it. It's the worst kind of useless noise pollution.
On the topic of appointment windows, I frequently have clients who try to do appointment windows. "I can be there between 1pm and 2pm, but it could be as late as 3pm." In my head, I always think, "What are you, the cable guy??" Out loud, I try to politely inform them that my schedule doesn't allow for that kind of open window and they'll have to pick a time.
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I hate scam / telemarketer phone calls. They just don't stop. I usually answer and hang up on them.
My solution is easy. Live is too short for picking up calls from unknown number. If it is legit, they can leave me a vm.
But then I have to call the vm and that is more work than just answering and hanging up.
I use Google Voice and vm that leave msgs, the msg gets transcribed and I can read in my notification that msg. If its spam, I block that number immediately. vm that dont leave a mgs goes directly into the spam folder- I dont get notification for calls that went directly to the spam folder, so I dont get bothered with those.
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I hate it when I am home on a Sunday morning and someone is banging at my front door. It is always
people trying to push their religion on us. My dogs go berserk barking as these jerks keep banging on the door. I typically won't answer the door. Just got a sign on the front door that says no solicitors, no politicians, no peddlers, no religious groups and maybe a couple other things on the list. I hope it works. How dare they try to peddle their religion door to door. I don't go knocking on their door peddling my religion. There is one particular religion and their church is only about one mile down the hill from my house. So they work their way up stopping house to house. DUH, they have been to my house a million times...go away! I wish I could put a blinking neon light on the sign with a buzzer on it because I have a feeling they will still knock on the door regardless of the sign!
I have a list of things to say to piss off solicitors, religious or otherwise, posted on the inside of the front door. The religious things have been reviewed by current or former members of the likely proselytizing sects, and been approved/ disapproved. Only used it once. It is a MPP, in that, I'm all prepared, and no one tests the list.
Edit: SUNDAY morning? Shouldn't most of them be in church?
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Not sure they go to church on Sundays, maybe Saturdays. They seem to be out in droves knocking on doors on Sundays. They bring a herd of 3 or 4 people to the door. Yeah, sure, I am going to let 4 strangers into my home to preach to me. Why don't they do something useful like help some homeless people.
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Not sure they go to church on Sundays, maybe Saturdays. They seem to be out in droves knocking on doors on Sundays. They bring a herd of 3 or 4 people to the door. Yeah, sure, I am going to let 4 strangers into my home to preach to me. Why don't they do something useful like help some homeless people.
Even worse IMO, are the ones who come after dark. You probably know the drill, two very clean cut extremely young "elders," in white shirts and ties. No, I'm still not answering the door, even if you have a name tag on.
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Can't say I have had them come to the door at night, mostly Sunday's. It is kind of funny because the tv is near the front door so I know they can hear it and the dogs are barking. We can peek out the front window to see who is at the front door. We just let them stand there and bang on the door till they leave! LOL!
Usually a boat load of people in one car when they leave. Then I see them drive up my neighbors driveway. Seems they leave pretty quick. My neighbor probably tells them to get the hell off his property and drag their A$$!
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Have you noticed the bottle caps on water lately. They are half the size and hard to grip to twist off. Then the bottles are so thin that when you do manage to get the cap off you end up with water all over from holding the bottle too tight. They have made the bottle so thin and the cap so small, how can they manage to cheapen it further? I am sure they will come up with something to make it more miserable.
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Have you noticed the bottle caps on water lately. They are half the size and hard to grip to twist off. Then the bottles are so thin that when you do manage to get the cap off you end up with water all over from holding the bottle too tight. They have made the bottle so thin and the cap so small, how can they manage to cheapen it further? I am sure they will come up with something to make it more miserable.
Hopefully they come up with not selling it anymore!
Solution: reusable water bottle :)
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I hate water bottles too, maybe for a different reason.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/operations/2012/06/poland_spring_s_new_bottles_why_are_they_so_thin_and_flimsy_.html
Like you said, companies are trying to save money but I'm all for minimizing the plastic waste they create. If these little bottles are miserable, you should get something reusable.
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I hate water bottles too, maybe for a different reason.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/operations/2012/06/poland_spring_s_new_bottles_why_are_they_so_thin_and_flimsy_.html
Like you said, companies are trying to save money but I'm all for minimizing the plastic waste they create. If these little bottles are miserable, you should get something reusable.
I do use a stainless steel to go thermal bottle but once in a while I do drink out of a water bottle. Really, water bottles are controversial but think of all the other plastic out there. Juice, frozen fruit in plastic bags, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese in plastic bags, soda, just about everything in the grocery store has some kind of plastic, even bread and milk.
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I hate water bottles too, maybe for a different reason.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/operations/2012/06/poland_spring_s_new_bottles_why_are_they_so_thin_and_flimsy_.html
Like you said, companies are trying to save money but I'm all for minimizing the plastic waste they create. If these little bottles are miserable, you should get something reusable.
I do use a stainless steel to go thermal bottle but once in a while I do drink out of a water bottle. Really, water bottles are controversial but think of all the other plastic out there. Juice, frozen fruit in plastic bags, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese in plastic bags, soda, just about everything in the grocery store has some kind of plastic, even bread and milk.
Indeed, I was trying not to sound too preachy. I often think of the other types of bottled drinks when someone complains about how wasteful bottled water is. Is buying bottled water with sugar and dyes added for a higher price somehow superior? Not to mention soda bottles use more plastic because they need to withstand the pressure of carbonation.
Well then it's settled. I hate drinks in disposable bottles. (except when I really really want one)
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When my rewards credit card gets hacked 2 days before I'm scheduled to make a big purchase. I had to disable the card yesterday and won't have a replacement until after the big purchase has been made, thus missing out on the rewards points. Damn hackers.
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I hate water bottles too, maybe for a different reason.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/operations/2012/06/poland_spring_s_new_bottles_why_are_they_so_thin_and_flimsy_.html
Like you said, companies are trying to save money but I'm all for minimizing the plastic waste they create. If these little bottles are miserable, you should get something reusable.
I do use a stainless steel to go thermal bottle but once in a while I do drink out of a water bottle. Really, water bottles are controversial but think of all the other plastic out there. Juice, frozen fruit in plastic bags, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese in plastic bags, soda, just about everything in the grocery store has some kind of plastic, even bread and milk.
Indeed, I was trying not to sound too preachy. I often think of the other types of bottled drinks when someone complains about how wasteful bottled water is. Is buying bottled water with sugar and dyes added for a higher price somehow superior? Not to mention soda bottles use more plastic because they need to withstand the pressure of carbonation.
Well then it's settled. I hate drinks in disposable bottles. (except when I really really want one)
I am sure there is no real incentive for companies to do away with plastic. Maybe someday there will be cost effective environmentally friendly packaging materials.
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Just heard a commercial for Pepto Bismol and they were singing about stomach upset and diarrhea. Songs about the Big D! Gotta have a jingle for everything!
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Just heard a commercial for Pepto Bismol and they were singing about stomach upset and diarrhea. Songs about the Big D! Gotta have a jingle for everything!
Not the D word would I would immediately connect with that phrase...
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Hardware of software not working as expected. Like things that worked the day or the week before that now don't, for whatever reason. Happens frequently at work, but occasionally also at home.
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Hardware of software not working as expected. Like things that worked the day or the week before that now don't, for whatever reason. Happens frequently at work, but occasionally also at home.
This is why I have a job! :D
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Hate to waste food. Because of my unpredictable room mate, significant amounts of cooked food ends up in fridge and I had to eat it out. Rather I’d cook and eat something fresh.
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I was at Half-Priced books a few years ago and bought a Leonard Cohen album I'd never heard of before called "Death of A Salesman."
It is truly awful. We're talking 1970's film project music awful. I considered trying to make back the money I spent by wager other people that they would be unable to listen to it without using the FF button at least once.
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One way and if someone is way below the speed limit. I am okay if they are old people. But not the ones talking on mobile phones. It often happens at my commute.
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I was at Half-Priced books a few years ago and bought a Leonard Cohen album I'd never heard of before called "Death of A Salesman."
It is truly awful. We're talking 1970's film project music awful. I considered trying to make back the money I spent by wager other people that they would be unable to listen to it without using the FF button at least once.
Maybe you got a bootleg or something, because I'm pretty sure no Leonard Cohen album by that name exists...
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^Perhaps it was Death of a Ladies Man.
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Death of a Ladies' Man is probably his worst album
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MLMs. I know there's a thread where everyone bashes these things, but now I hate em. I contacted a former supervisor of mine to see if he'd be willing to be listed as a reference in my job search, he said yep and would help me out with my resume if needed. Well, that was great then he invited me to his office. I had a sneaking feeling he was into MLM BS because he once told me he was into sales but wouldn't say what he was selling. Go there, and was pitched by him and his "boss" or whatever they call him. Thankfully I was able to stop em and end it before it took too much of my time... No help on the resume and now he and his boss have my info. Ack!
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Having to drive the long way to work, because the short road is closed. And on the long way they are also doing roadworks and today I had to wait for 15! minutes before my direction was prioritized on the one way stretch.
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My town has one main bridge which is the closest for me to cross over the river. It is a two lane old bridge from the 1950's. It is a huge bottle neck and even if we had 4 lanes (2 coming and 2 going) the traffic is so heavy there still would be no where to go. We have two other bridges and they are also two lane bridges but the traffic is much less. However, they are both out of the way in both directions. I hate traffic.
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Having to drive the long way to work, because the short road is closed. And on the long way they are also doing roadworks and today I had to wait for 15! minutes before my direction was prioritized on the one way stretch.
I have the same issue. My commute is already long enough with a school on the way. Now there is a road construction going on and it is one-way. They had to manually stop one lane and let another. This has been going for a while now.
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People going the wrong way in a one-way bike lane.
People blowing cigarette smoke in your face.
People cutting in front of you without looking at traffic when biking.
People who stop at the bottom/top of the escalator in the subway station during rush hour.
People on scooters and motorcycles who like to wait until they are directly beside you to honk loudly right in your ear.
People who like to stand in the middle of the bike lane while waiting for the lights to change.
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I hate it when the baggers at the grocery store put 100 lbs. of groceries in one bag. Or put the bread in with a gallon of milk and the bread gets squashed. I do not understand how this job is so difficult. I would pack like items, produce together, cold stuff together, dairy together or with the cold items. Most times when I unload the groceries in my car, I have to repack, especially the cold stuff in the summer. UGH!
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People passing you on the pavement, in opposite direction, while coughing without holding anything in front of their face.
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I hate it when the baggers at the grocery store put 100 lbs. of groceries in one bag. Or put the bread in with a gallon of milk and the bread gets squashed. I do not understand how this job is so difficult. I would pack like items, produce together, cold stuff together, dairy together or with the cold items. Most times when I unload the groceries in my car, I have to repack, especially the cold stuff in the summer. UGH!
Some are extremely good at their job and pack everything sanely.
Some put bananas and potatoes on top of the lettuce and tomatoes. Some find a way to use more bags than items purchased (or double bag EVERYTHING).
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Tics. I had to remove 2 out of my legs last night (tuesday evening).
Last time I was in the forest was on Sunday with long trousers on. How they get into my legs is not clear, but I suspect my sanitary visits in the forest might be the cause.
I am currently in the process of getting a series of vaccines against tic brain infection. But this won't help against the borrelia infection they can cause we well.
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Death of a Ladies' Man is probably his worst album
I looked it up, and you're correct on the name. Thanks for setting me straight.
I cannot even find that disk right now, a fact that should make me grateful. I remember the cover photo, with him sitting in between two women who look so unhappy to even be in that photo. It's like the whole project is radio-active or something. That album wasn't release, it probably just escaped.
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People who plant landscaping along the side of the road in a place that makes it hard to see if any traffic is coming. You have to stick the nose of your car into the traffic lane to be able to get a view, and at that point you're in the way and may cause an accident. I have a fantasy about driving around town with a chainsaw late at night and hacking down all the bushes that are too close to the roadside.
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Tics. I had to remove 2 out of my legs last night (tuesday evening).
Last time I was in the forest was on Sunday with long trousers on. How they get into my legs is not clear, but I suspect my sanitary visits in the forest might be the cause.
I am currently in the process of getting a series of vaccines against tic brain infection. But this won't help against the borrelia infection they can cause we well.
I've done a fair bit of hiking and have had better luck wearing shorts than with pants. Possibly harder to grasp skin than cloth? Just anecdotal though.
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Death of a Ladies' Man is probably his worst album
I looked it up, and you're correct on the name. Thanks for setting me straight.
I cannot even find that disk right now, a fact that should make me grateful. I remember the cover photo, with him sitting in between two women who look so unhappy to even be in that photo. It's like the whole project is radio-active or something. That album wasn't release, it probably just escaped.
Here is a fun fact: it appears Cohen has just had a 2015 poem posthumously published about Kanye West (https://www.npr.org/2018/10/12/657035439/leonard-cohens-poem-kanye-west-is-not-picasso-as-read-by-michael-shannon). Filed under "not even bad"
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Today, I hate people who weave left...right...left...right...while biking in the wrong direction down a one-way bike lane.
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I don't do enough biking, but participating with this group has conditioned me so that--whenever I see someone biking--I think to myself, "There goes a millionaire!"
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I placed an on line order on October 9th. Got the email confirming my order. Never got a tracking number. Then on October 17th was informed the stuff was shipped and was coming SurePost. It is due to be delivered October 24th! Fifteen days from my placing the order to receiving it! RIDICULOUS! I emailed them and told them I was not happy and would think twice from ever ordering from them again. They responded and said they were sorry and refunded me $5. I am really hating these cheap shipping methods. This package was coming from Ohio to CT. Not like it was around the world! GRRRRRR! 7 days to send a package from Ohio to CT! An old mule could make it quicker!
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I hate it when I leave food out to defrost, remind myself at least a dozen times not to forget to put it away before I fall asleep...and then I fall asleep anyway and wake up in the morning to food (usually raw meat, gross!) that I now have to waste by throwing it out. This doesn't happen often, but when it does I feel like the most wasteful person ever.
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I hate it when I leave food out to defrost, remind myself at least a dozen times not to forget to put it away before I fall asleep...and then I fall asleep anyway and wake up in the morning to food (usually raw meat, gross!) that I now have to waste by throwing it out. This doesn't happen often, but when it does I feel like the most wasteful person ever.
Done that with cooked food too! Fall asleep and hours later wake up. That is no good! Buy yourself an oven timer with a clip and hook it onto your shirt. Put the time on it and let it count down and when it beeps it will wake you up! I have to take eye drops morning and night and the doc wants it to be more specifically timed so I have the timer set for 6 am for the first drop and then 7 am for the second drop. Then I put in 11 hours and have to repeat the same thing at 6 and 7 pm. It drives me to the nuthouse but I am keeping up with a rigid schedule. I have glaucoma and the pressure keeps going up and down. Hopefully, this rigid routine and eye drops will bring the pressure down.
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I hate it when I leave food out to defrost, remind myself at least a dozen times not to forget to put it away before I fall asleep...and then I fall asleep anyway and wake up in the morning to food (usually raw meat, gross!) that I now have to waste by throwing it out. This doesn't happen often, but when it does I feel like the most wasteful person ever.
Set a reminder on your phone.
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Hardware of software not working as expected. Like things that worked the day or the week before that now don't, for whatever reason. Happens frequently at work, but occasionally also at home.
It annoys me when software updates focus on snazzy new features that introduce new bugs instead of focusing on fixing the existing ones.
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Hardware of software not working as expected. Like things that worked the day or the week before that now don't, for whatever reason. Happens frequently at work, but occasionally also at home.
It annoys me when software updates focus on snazzy new features that introduce new bugs instead of focusing on fixing the existing ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern_Instruments
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Hardware of software not working as expected. Like things that worked the day or the week before that now don't, for whatever reason. Happens frequently at work, but occasionally also at home.
It annoys me when software updates focus on snazzy new features that introduce new bugs instead of focusing on fixing the existing ones.
Or take away very functional features! My old gingerbread os phone had the BEST intelligent word prediction, still miss it. Now Google's word prediction really really sucks, to the point that half of their predictions don't even make any grammatical sense.
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Or take away very functional features! My old gingerbread os phone had the BEST intelligent word prediction, still miss it. Now Google's word prediction really really sucks, to the point that half of their predictions don't even make any grammatical sense.
This! My bank has taken away the transaction tracking function, like Mint. Now I'm doing this tracking manually in Excel, which is way more work then the bank doing it automatically and I only need to make small corrections.
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Hardware of software not working as expected. Like things that worked the day or the week before that now don't, for whatever reason. Happens frequently at work, but occasionally also at home.
It annoys me when software updates focus on snazzy new features that introduce new bugs instead of focusing on fixing the existing ones.
yes. autocad is the worst.
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I hate how every building has to have their A/C set at an ungodly low temperature. I went grocery shopping yesterday and was so cold that I couldn't feel my nose, my hands were stiff, and I forgot half of the items I needed because I was so concentrated on getting warm. I was dressed appropriately enough for the weather outside but I guess I'll take my parka with me today even though it's 70°F and sunny.
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First World problems. Doncha think?
Of course, I like to whine from time to time as well. :)
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
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https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Category-5-Super-Typhoon-Yutu-Pounding-US-Northern-Mariana-Islands
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Yep, when I mention nearly anywhere on the globe (and even in the US**) I look like a relative genius for even KNOWing that these places exist.
I had to dig deep into the NOAA website to even find Yutu. I thank MNBen for the notice, as I'm on a low information diet.
**Washington DC and Washington State are two completely different entities and locations, dammitt :-)
Re: Roadrunner's note on teachers. I had a Social Studies teacher, who had been the football coach, who stated that New Guinea is "off the coast of South America". Which is sort of true in that you can probably draw a great circle route between South America and New Guinea without hitting a land mass.
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Younger me meeting someone abroad:
Person: I'm from Georgia.
Me in my head: Whoa sounds like they're from Russia, not Georgia (The state)
*Facepalm younger self*
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Well, this brings up another thing I hate(d). When I was a younger me and was in school, one particular history class was taught by an older male teacher. He was the most BORING teacher ever. He had to have been teaching for 45 years and spoke in a monotone voice that absolutely put me to sleep. Our history books were all in black and white...boring. This is one reason people can't learn history! I love history now! I did have another history teacher in high school who was fantastic and made history interesting. Teachers make the difference. Some teachers whether old or young make the difference. Boring teachers should leave. Some of these teachers just don't have a way to bring history alive in the classroom. All the kids can imagine is people who lived 300 years ago that are long gone. But history is important to guide us to our futures.
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Younger me meeting someone abroad:
Person: I'm from Georgia.
Me in my head: Whoa sounds like they're from Russia, not Georgia (The state)
*Facepalm younger self*
Me traveling around US...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
Me traveling abroad for first time...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
*Facepalm younger self*
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Yep, when I mention nearly anywhere on the globe (and even in the US**) I look like a relative genius for even KNOWing that these places exist.
US President talking to press yesterday about the caravan (being caught in a lie):
"Let me just tell you something. I spoke with Border Patrol this morning. And I spoke to them last evening, and I spoke to them the day before. I speak to them all the time.
And they say -- and you know this as well as anybody -- over the course of the year, over the course of a number of years, they've intercepted many people from the Middle East. They've intercepted ISIS, they've intercepted all sorts of people.
They've intercepted good ones and bad ones, they've intercepted wonderful people from the Middle East, and they've intercepted bad ones, they've intercepted wonderful people from South America and from other parts further south."
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Yep, when I mention nearly anywhere on the globe (and even in the US**) I look like a relative genius for even KNOWing that these places exist.
US President talking to press yesterday about the caravan (being caught in a lie):
"Let me just tell you something. I spoke with Border Patrol this morning. And I spoke to them last evening, and I spoke to them the day before. I speak to them all the time.
And they say -- and you know this as well as anybody -- over the course of the year, over the course of a number of years, they've intercepted many people from the Middle East. They've intercepted ISIS, they've intercepted all sorts of people.
They've intercepted good ones and bad ones, they've intercepted wonderful people from the Middle East, and they've intercepted bad ones, they've intercepted wonderful people from South America and from other parts further south."
Hey! You never know, they may have intercepted people from Antarctica. According to Google, there are approximately 4400 people living in Antarctica.
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Yep, when I mention nearly anywhere on the globe (and even in the US**) I look like a relative genius for even KNOWing that these places exist.
US President talking to press yesterday about the caravan (being caught in a lie):
"Let me just tell you something. I spoke with Border Patrol this morning. And I spoke to them last evening, and I spoke to them the day before. I speak to them all the time.
And they say -- and you know this as well as anybody -- over the course of the year, over the course of a number of years, they've intercepted many people from the Middle East. They've intercepted ISIS, they've intercepted all sorts of people.
They've intercepted good ones and bad ones, they've intercepted wonderful people from the Middle East, and they've intercepted bad ones, they've intercepted wonderful people from South America and from other parts further south."
Hey! You never know, they may have intercepted people from Antarctica. According to Google, there are approximately 4400 people living in Antarctica.
Penguins! At least the wall need only be a 3 feet ~ 1meter high, except where it abutts deep water.
Those penguins get quit a swimming start and pop out of the water like an SLBM.
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I hate having a day off and mentally not being able to get out of the house. I am so in doubt about different options that I end up not going.
But the day is still young. I hope to get over it pretty soon.
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Younger me meeting someone abroad:
Person: I'm from Georgia.
Me in my head: Whoa sounds like they're from Russia, not Georgia (The state)
*Facepalm younger self*
Me traveling around US...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
Me traveling abroad for first time...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
*Facepalm younger self*
Funny, I never had any problems identifying myself as a resident of a US state when speaking with people abroad. Maybe certain states are just better known to non-US residents?
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Younger me meeting someone abroad:
Person: I'm from Georgia.
Me in my head: Whoa sounds like they're from Russia, not Georgia (The state)
*Facepalm younger self*
Me traveling around US...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
Me traveling abroad for first time...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
*Facepalm younger self*
Funny, I never had any problems identifying myself as a resident of a US state when speaking with people abroad. Maybe certain states are just better known to non-US residents?
If you're from Texas, the accent is a pretty big giveaway too. Y'all. :P
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Younger me meeting someone abroad:
Person: I'm from Georgia.
Me in my head: Whoa sounds like they're from Russia, not Georgia (The state)
*Facepalm younger self*
Me traveling around US...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
Me traveling abroad for first time...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
*Facepalm younger self*
Funny, I never had any problems identifying myself as a resident of a US state when speaking with people abroad. Maybe certain states are just better known to non-US residents?
If you're from Texas, the accent is a pretty big giveaway too. Y'all. :P
Don't underestimate how much American accents all blend together for the rest of the world. My GF grew up in Arizona and has lived in Illinois for the last 6 years. A customs guy in Brussels asked (due to her accent) if she was from Boston.
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I really hate the custom of saying "bless you" after a sneeze. Mainly because it puts the sneezer in the awkward situation of having to say "thank you" while they are likely gearing up for another sneeze.
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I really hate the custom of saying "bless you" after a sneeze. Mainly because it puts the sneezer in the awkward situation of having to say "thank you" while they are likely gearing up for another sneeze.
I hate that, too. I mean, there's really no reason for it. It's the equivalent of saying, "You sneezed." Like, I don't feel the need to narrate someone's actions when they cough, or hiccup, or clear their throat, or scratch their nose. I understand why this started way back in the day, but can't we just stop feeling the need to say something when someone sneezes?
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I really hate the custom of saying "bless you" after a sneeze. Mainly because it puts the sneezer in the awkward situation of having to say "thank you" while they are likely gearing up for another sneeze.
Alternatively I hate feeling the obligation to say "bless you"! It is kind of dumb. When I was a kid my dad would try to make it funny by trying to make us "lose" a sneeze, usually by doing a really exaggerated fake sneeze.
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I really hate the custom of saying "bless you" after a sneeze. Mainly because it puts the sneezer in the awkward situation of having to say "thank you" while they are likely gearing up for another sneeze.
Alternatively I hate feeling the obligation to say "bless you"! It is kind of dumb. When I was a kid my dad would try to make it funny by trying to make us "lose" a sneeze, usually by doing a really exaggerated fake sneeze.
Somehow, in our family it's become a joke to say, "May God smite you in his mercy" when one of us sneezes. "God smite you" for short.
Unfortunately, we've been doing it so long that now when I'm out in public it's really hard not to just do it as a reflex. :D
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It bothers me that US Citizens aren't more educated about World Geography, or even the US Territories, outside of basically trying to learn the 50 United States...
Right now the islands of Saipan and Tinian (~50,000 population) are being hit by one of the largest storms ever on the planet - Super Typhoon Yutu - with sustained winds of 180+ mph and gusts 200+ mph.
These are not only US Territories (US Citizens) but I think the general US public is so misinformed, I can't even find it on any common news sources.
Younger me meeting someone abroad:
Person: I'm from Georgia.
Me in my head: Whoa sounds like they're from Russia, not Georgia (The state)
*Facepalm younger self*
Me traveling around US...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
Me traveling abroad for first time...
Person: Where are you from?
Me: Minnesota
*Facepalm younger self*
Funny, I never had any problems identifying myself as a resident of a US state when speaking with people abroad. Maybe certain states are just better known to non-US residents?
Depends on the location for me. When I went to New Zealand in 2003, I started off by introducing myself as from "the United States" under the assumption that they wouldn't know all the U.S. states. I quickly noticed that everyone inquired about the state I was from, so I just started saying I was from Georgia. Many of my acquaintances would further ask about where I was from in Georgia, which really surprised me. Most knew where Atlanta was, and several actually knew where Savannah was (which was only about an hour from where I grew up). It was really obvious that Kiwis were far better-versed in our geography that we were in theirs. Basically the same thing happens when I've travelled to Europe. I say I'm from Georgia, and only once or twice has someone been confused about whether I meant the state or the country.
On the other hand, when I visit Latin American countries, I introduce myself as from the "Estados Unidos", and 80-90% of the people will be satisfied with that answer. For those who want specifics, I'm happy to divulge.
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
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I hate when DH's watch starts to go off in alarm modus at 6:30 am on my day off. Even more so when DH is not home and I don't know how to turn it off. Tonight I will put it in another part of the house.
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
Upgrade the belt on your pants and shoulder bag.
(https://www.angryyoungandpoor.com/store/pc/catalog/thumbs/spikes/3rowbritconebtblk.jpg)
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
I no longer ride the train on a regular basis, but that used to happen to me, too.
Eventually I got really fed up. After that, whenever it happened, I would turn around, look the person in the face and loudly yell, for everyone else to hear, "Will you please stop using the fact that this train is crowded as an excuse to rub your penis against me, you disgusting pervert?!?"
It was a very effective means of stopping the behavior.
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
Where is this?
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
Where is this?
Every crowded train with women on it.
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
Where is this?
Every crowded train with women on it.
This blows. I'm over here annoyed just when someone leaves their backpack on and it hits you everytime they back up and they can't feel it.
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This blows. I'm over here annoyed just when someone leaves their backpack on and it hits you everytime they back up and they can't feel it.
Very familiar. I am so glad I don't need to take the train anymore.
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I hate how when I open a website to read the news, it's dominated by one particular politician every single day. I used to enjoy reading news, now it just makes me agitated.
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Today I hate perverts on the train who use the excuse that it's crowded to lean back against your chest and private parts and start rubbing when the train bumps slightly on the tracks.
Upgrade the belt on your pants and shoulder bag.
(https://www.angryyoungandpoor.com/store/pc/catalog/thumbs/spikes/3rowbritconebtblk.jpg)
LOL. Thanks, I needed that. Going to sew a patch like that on the arms of my coat and on my backpack as well. That’s brilliant!
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Maybe some of this too!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-CANS-OF-FART-BOMB-SPRAY-STINKY-SMELLY-GAS-STINK-BOMBS-GAG-GIFT-PRANK-JOKE/271564289148?hash=item3f3a7e347c:g:g-gAAOSwzZFbXFqS:rk:4:pf:1&frcectupt=true&autorefresh=true
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There are a lot of things that get out of the rut and make you nervous, but there is nothing that you could not cope with. The only thing that pisses me off is human qualities such as irresponsibility, self-interest, not sincerity, etc.
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Today I went to the grocery store and the cashier was SO annoying! I bought these nylon shower scrubbies and she went on to lecture me to wash them. That people touch them and they fall on the floor and they get germs on them! OMG! She was picking them up by the tag like they were infected with small pox!
Then I asked her to pack the cold stuff in my insulated bag and she put apples in first thing and I told her they weren't COLD. She had a long explanation on why she thought they should go in there. Then I had hamburger meat which I had already placed in a plastic bag to guard from leaking and she asked if I wanted it into another bag. I said yes but just to shut her up. She kept asking me if she was doing okay. I said yes. She kept talking and talking and wanted me to answer her. She was slow as molasses and the line in back of me grew and grew. Then when we were all done, she asked me if I wanted her to check on the hamburger meat she packed to see if it was okay. I have no idea what this nit wit was talking about but she would not shut up! Still she asked me if she was doing okay. I said YES but I just about ran out of the store screaming! My only explanation of all this is that she was in trouble for not being jolly with the customers and she was going over the deep end with this crap! I really wanted to use some foul language and tell her to shut the you know what up! This wasn't just idle chit chat it was total idiotic nonsense! UGH! Who checks the hamburger meat in your bag when it was already packed and at the bottom of the bag?
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Celery
+1
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Celery
+1
Raw celery, yes. Cooked celery is excellent though. (Same rule applies to broccoli. I'll eat 2+lbs of roasted broccoli straight off the pan if you let me, but I'll only have a few bites of it raw.)
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I hate water bottles too, maybe for a different reason.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/operations/2012/06/poland_spring_s_new_bottles_why_are_they_so_thin_and_flimsy_.html
Like you said, companies are trying to save money but I'm all for minimizing the plastic waste they create. If these little bottles are miserable, you should get something reusable.
I do use a stainless steel to go thermal bottle but once in a while I do drink out of a water bottle. Really, water bottles are controversial but think of all the other plastic out there. Juice, frozen fruit in plastic bags, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese in plastic bags, soda, just about everything in the grocery store has some kind of plastic, even bread and milk.
If those other items were available from my tap I'd happily forego buying them in plastic containers.
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Celery
+1
+2
why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
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Celery
+1
+2
why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
You people are monsters. Celery with the little trench stuffed with peanut butter is one of the highlights of gourmet flavour.
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Celery
+1
+2
why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
You people are monsters. Celery with the little trench stuffed with peanut butter is one of the highlights of gourmet flavour.
no no no!! peanut butter doesn't deserve to be treated that way! I never understood this flavor combo, and my mom packed "ants on a log" for me all the time for school lunch. yuck!
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Peanut butter? Ugh. Why would you put that loathsome foul sludge on lovely, crunchy celery.
Also, besides peanut butter, I hate bananas.
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I come to this forum because I value the opinions of its members. This thread makes me question that.
Celery, peanut butter, bananas, and raisins, in any combination, are all excellent foodstuffs.
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I really hate the custom of saying "bless you" after a sneeze. Mainly because it puts the sneezer in the awkward situation of having to say "thank you" while they are likely gearing up for another sneeze.
Alternatively I hate feeling the obligation to say "bless you"! It is kind of dumb. When I was a kid my dad would try to make it funny by trying to make us "lose" a sneeze, usually by doing a really exaggerated fake sneeze.
Somehow, in our family it's become a joke to say, "May God smite you in his mercy" when one of us sneezes. "God smite you" for short.
Unfortunately, we've been doing it so long that now when I'm out in public it's really hard not to just do it as a reflex. :D
"God smite you," gonna have to steal that!
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Not sure if celery should be on the hate list. Celery has some things beneficial to health: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/11-super-health-benefits-in-just-1-celery-stalk.html
Chefs use these combos in a lot of tasty foods:
Mirepoix: Onions, celery, carrots.
Holy Trinity: Onions, celery, green bell peppers.
Other tasty uses of celery:
Celery with cream cheese.
Celery in a bloody Mary.
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I used hate the first day back to work after a long vacation. I went kicking and screaming back into hell!
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Celery
+1
+2
why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
+3
I got the chills just now when I READ the word 'Celery.'
EW.
*Cooked it is moderately tolerable, but barely.
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The fact that it takes a full minute for someone using a card to go through all the beeps when checking out at a store. Beep. Wait. Push key. Wait. Beep. Wait. Press dig pen on something. Wait. Stare at screen. OK, a full minute went by, finally done. Only took 20 seconds to ring it up and bag it, then a full minute with the beeping, which is supposed to make things faster, not slower. Paying with cash takes about 10 seconds.
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Cooked celery? How do you dip it in ranch or bleu cheese, then?
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Cooked celery? How do you dip it in ranch or bleu cheese, then?
Even raw celery doesn't deserve to be ruined by ranch or bleu cheese.
/ducks
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The fact that it takes a full minute for someone using a card to go through all the beeps when checking out at a store. Beep. Wait. Push key. Wait. Beep. Wait. Press dig pen on something. Wait. Stare at screen. OK, a full minute went by, finally done. Only took 20 seconds to ring it up and bag it, then a full minute with the beeping, which is supposed to make things faster, not slower. Paying with cash takes about 10 seconds.
Also all of the variations of the machines for card processing. Can we just get some monopolization already? Thx.
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I come to this forum because I value the opinions of its members. This thread makes me question that.
Celery, peanut butter, bananas, and raisins, in any combination, are all excellent foodstuffs.
Since you brought it up, celery is fine, but raisins are horrible. Grapes with all the joy sucked out of them. Few things are sadder than finding baked goods defiled by raisins. It's like baking dead flies into your cookies.
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I come to this forum because I value the opinions of its members. This thread makes me question that.
Celery, peanut butter, bananas, and raisins, in any combination, are all excellent foodstuffs.
Since you brought it up, celery is fine, but raisins are horrible. Grapes with all the joy sucked out of them. Few things are sadder than finding baked goods defiled by raisins. It's like baking dead flies into your cookies.
Totally agree. I hate it when people ruin a perfectly good cookie by putting raisins in it. Disgusting.
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I come to this forum because I value the opinions of its members. This thread makes me question that.
Celery, peanut butter, bananas, and raisins, in any combination, are all excellent foodstuffs.
Since you brought it up, celery is fine, but raisins are horrible. Grapes with all the joy sucked out of them. Few things are sadder than finding baked goods defiled by raisins. It's like baking dead flies into your cookies.
Totally agree. I hate it when people ruin a perfectly good cookie by putting raisins in it. Disgusting.
+1000.
WTH is wrong with people who make oatmeal raisin cookies? Oatmeal chocolate chip is delicious. Why would you ruin a perfectly good cookie like that?
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I come to this forum because I value the opinions of its members. This thread makes me question that.
Celery, peanut butter, bananas, and raisins, in any combination, are all excellent foodstuffs.
Since you brought it up, celery is fine, but raisins are horrible. Grapes with all the joy sucked out of them. Few things are sadder than finding baked goods defiled by raisins. It's like baking dead flies into your cookies.
Totally agree. I hate it when people ruin a perfectly good cookie by putting raisins in it. Disgusting.
+1000.
WTH is wrong with people who make oatmeal raisin cookies? Oatmeal chocolate chip is delicious. Why would you ruin a perfectly good cookie like that?
Because health. Kinda like Diet Coke with your fries haha.
I will accept "craisins" or dried cranberries on cookies though, at least they have a sort of interesting taste, especially paired with orange zest.
I once had the displeasure of eating carrot cake that had raisins instead of nuts. What a rip-off that was!
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I like raisins sometimes. You get tired of them a lot quicker than chocolate chips, and if you're not expecting them they're pretty horrible but they have their place (in oatmeal with cinnamon, oatmeal raisin cookies, pumpkin muffins, etc.). As my age has climbed up, I've noticed that raisin tolerance has increased significantly.
Can we all agree to hate on Christmas cake though?
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^If you're talking fruitcake hell yeah. Otherwise not sure what "Christmas cake" might be.
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^If you're talking fruitcake hell yeah. Otherwise not sure what "Christmas cake" might be.
Does everyone not call it Christmas cake? The bricks of stuff that nobody eats that your grandma gives you every Christmas?
(https://www.acanadianfoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/7-Traditional-Canadian-Christmas-Fruitcake-Sliced.jpg)
Is this a Canadian thing?
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^If you're talking fruitcake hell yeah. Otherwise not sure what "Christmas cake" might be.
Does everyone not call it Christmas cake? The bricks of stuff that nobody eats that your grandma gives you every Christmas?
(https://www.acanadianfoodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/7-Traditional-Canadian-Christmas-Fruitcake-Sliced.jpg)
Is this a Canadian thing?
Yeah. Americans call it fruitcake.
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^If you're talking fruitcake hell yeah. Otherwise not sure what "Christmas cake" might be.
Does everyone not call it Christmas cake? The bricks of stuff that nobody eats that your grandma gives you every Christmas?
Is this a Canadian thing?
Yeah. Americans call it fruitcake.
Christmas cake may be a little different than the US fruit cake, recipes for the fruit cake vary but it typically looks more like:
(http://www.mdpennysaver.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/holiday-fruitcake.jpg)
Also, it's delicious so they must not be the same thing.
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My mom actually loves Christmas cake so much so my sister and I always get her some. But no one else will eat it, we hate it.
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I hate when people post GIANT pictures in a thread that I can't see without scrolling right.
Also, is there any way to resize? plz help
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I hate when people post GIANT pictures in a thread that I can't see without scrolling right.
Also, is there any way to resize? plz help
Maybe just link to the photo for anyone who is super curious, or find a new photo? Or Google "resize my photo"
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Spent over 2 hours on new cover letter. Formatted it to perfection thanks to some of the kindly folks here. Apply for job at Indeed and click on "submit cover letter" button. No option to submit a file, noooooo.......copy and paste!!! Ack! In addition, I had to undo ALL the formatting. The bullet points, the header, and all the random returns Indeed places in the middle of paragraphs for unknown reasons. Well here's to hoping I get the job haha!
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On Thursday I spent an hour on filling out my online application to get travel expenses covered at work. Today I was supposed to just add one more receipt. And my saved application was gone from the system. Had to start from scratch again, specifying each small amount with date and different valuta. Another press on the button to save in between again erased my application, so I needed to start over again after halfway.
I hate buggy software and I hate filling out very detailed travel bills.
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On Thursday I spent an hour on filling out my online application to get travel expenses covered at work. Today I was supposed to just add one more receipt. And my saved application was gone from the system. Had to start from scratch again, specifying each small amount with date and different valuta. Another press on the button to save in between again erased my application, so I needed to start over again after halfway.
I hate buggy software and I hate filling out very detailed travel bills.
I hate it when the cost of the time it takes to fill out an online travel expense report ends up exceeding the cost being claimed on the travel. :P
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I HATE SCOTLAND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJXT6UFhQI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJXT6UFhQI)
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Not sure if celery should be on the hate list. Celery has some things beneficial to health: https://www.care2.com/greenliving/11-super-health-benefits-in-just-1-celery-stalk.html
Chefs use these combos in a lot of tasty foods:
Mirepoix: Onions, celery, carrots.
Holy Trinity: Onions, celery, green bell peppers.
Other tasty uses of celery:
Celery with cream cheese.
Celery in a bloody Mary.
Chopped up in tuna salad!
And, stuffed with braunschweiger!
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I hate it when someone steals things from your yard. Earlier this year we had our awning installed, shortly afterwards we noticed that the cement alligator statues we had in our bark mulch were missing. We had those things for years and just loved them. There are only two companies that come into our back yard and one is the awning company two times a year to put up and take down and the oil delivery people. I am leaning towards the awning guys because they hire seasonal temp guys. My guess is that they came back at nighttime and took them. The statues laid close to the ground and no one could possibly see them unless you come into the back yard. Can't prove anything but it makes me MAD! GRRRRRR!!!!
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this will be controversial, but it's true:
i fucking LOVE fruitcake. and i HATE bread pudding if it doesn't have raisins in it! it must have raisins or it's shit.
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Celery
+1
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why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
You people are monsters. Celery with the little trench stuffed with peanut butter is one of the highlights of gourmet flavour.
EWWW NO. Celery is fowl. I'd be hesitant to even put it in my compost for fear it would contaminate my garden.
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Cooked celery in chicken noodle soup is quite delicious. Raw celery is even worse than raw carrots, which are awful. Raisins are delightful, and I enjoy them immensely, mostly in trail mix or cooked in my oatmeal. Fruitcake is not food, so I feel no compulsion to comment upon its flavor.
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Celery
+1
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why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
You people are monsters. Celery with the little trench stuffed with peanut butter is one of the highlights of gourmet flavour.
EWWW NO. Celery is fowl. I'd be hesitant to even put it in my compost for fear it would contaminate my garden.
Celery is vegetable, not fowl.
:P
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Celery is OK if it has cheez whiz on it. Why yes, yes I am a child of the 50s and 60s. : )
Brussels sprouts are the worst thing ever. I've refused to eat them since I left home over 40 years ago. Don't tell me they're wonderful roasted, or buttered, or whatever. Nope. Awful.
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this will be controversial, but it's true:
i fucking LOVE fruitcake. and i HATE bread pudding if it doesn't have raisins in it! it must have raisins or it's shit.
No, you are exactly wrong.
Fruitcake is disgusting. Bread pudding is good ONLY if it does NOT have raisins in it.
Fight me.
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this will be controversial, but it's true:
i fucking LOVE fruitcake. and i HATE bread pudding if it doesn't have raisins in it! it must have raisins or it's shit.
Fruitcake is disgusting.
Maybe you aren't using enough rum? You'd be surprised how much rum a fruitcake can hold. They're like little rum sponges.
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While we're still on the topic of foods I'll say:
All this discussion of celery is actually giving me the chills. I hate it so much. I do use it for vegetable stock, but ONLY because it's so dang cheap.
Brussel Sprouts are so good.. they're in my top ten. Sorry.
Here's a controversial one for this time of the year: I hate pumpkin and I hate squash. They are mush. They are half sweet, but not sweet enough to be delicious sweet. The smell of pumpkin sometimes makes me gag.
Actually, I hate 'Thanksgiving' food. All of it.
My birthday sometimes falls on Thanksgiving and those were the worst ones.
I hate: mashed potatoes, gravy, that red thing (cranberry sauce?), turkey, squash, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, ALL OF IT. THROW IT IN THE RIVER.
Yeah, I said it.
:::BLECH:::
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While we're still on the topic of foods I'll say:
All this discussion of celery is actually giving me the chills. I hate it so much. I do use it for vegetable stock, but ONLY because it's so dang cheap.
Brussel Sprouts are so good.. they're in my top ten. Sorry.
Here's a controversial one for this time of the year: I hate pumpkin and I hate squash. They are mush. They are half sweet, but not sweet enough to be delicious sweet. The smell of pumpkin sometimes makes me gag.
Actually, I hate 'Thanksgiving' food. All of it.
My birthday sometimes falls on Thanksgiving and those were the worst ones.
I hate: mashed potatoes, gravy, that red thing (cranberry sauce?), turkey, squash, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, ALL OF IT. THROW IT IN THE RIVER.
Yeah, I said it.
:::BLECH:::
(http://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2014/12/12-17halone_standard_600x400.png?alias=standard_600x400)
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Ummm WHAT?? *SIPS PSL*
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this will be controversial, but it's true:
i fucking LOVE fruitcake. and i HATE bread pudding if it doesn't have raisins in it! it must have raisins or it's shit.
Fruitcake is disgusting.
Maybe you aren't using enough rum? You'd be surprised how much rum a fruitcake can hold. They're like little rum sponges.
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You know what else holds a lot of rum?
A glass. Filled with rum.
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this will be controversial, but it's true:
i fucking LOVE fruitcake. and i HATE bread pudding if it doesn't have raisins in it! it must have raisins or it's shit.
Fruitcake is disgusting.
Maybe you aren't using enough rum? You'd be surprised how much rum a fruitcake can hold. They're like little rum sponges.
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You know what else holds a lot of rum?
A glass. Filled with rum.
Interesting, I'm gonna go try that. Can I use a little celery as a garnish?
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I totally hated pumpkin, especially in pie (waste of a pie crust if you ask me) but my SO recently decided to bake a pumpkin in the oven. She then scraped the innerds (left the "skin") and pureed it. Effing amazing stuff! Nothing required in terms of flavoring, no spices, no sugar, no salt. Had a buttery squashy flavor and more texture than a true puree. Made pumpkin bread with it and not sickly sugared frosting, but pecans on top. My new favorite thing. I encourage pumpkin haters to play around with em after Halloween.
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My husband use to despise anchovies. I always loved them on pizza. There was a Rachael Ray recipe that instructed you to add olive oil and anchovies in the pot and sauté them with garlic. You then add hot Italian sliced sausage and sauté them adding more oil. Then you add cooked rigatoni to all of that then baby spinach. More oil if needed. He decided that anchovies are okay! Lately I have been making a Caesar salad with anchovy strips over the top and shredded parmesan cheese. He thinks that is great. So I have totally turned his anchovy hatred around! Now he wants anchovies on pizza too!
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I sometimes hate having too much choice. I desperately feel the need to always buy the best value for money product and too much choice takes a lot of time to compare the different products.
Currently I am spending way too much time on choosing a new phone. But earlier I have experienced the same feeling when seeing 20 different tomatoes in a grocery shop.
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i hate halloween.
i love thanksgiving because of the food.
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Anchovies are my secret ingredient in sauteed spinach. Along with pine nuts and sesame seeds.
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While we're still on the topic of foods I'll say:
All this discussion of celery is actually giving me the chills. I hate it so much. I do use it for vegetable stock, but ONLY because it's so dang cheap.
Brussel Sprouts are so good.. they're in my top ten. Sorry.
Here's a controversial one for this time of the year: I hate pumpkin and I hate squash. They are mush. They are half sweet, but not sweet enough to be delicious sweet. The smell of pumpkin sometimes makes me gag.
Actually, I hate 'Thanksgiving' food. All of it.
My birthday sometimes falls on Thanksgiving and those were the worst ones.
I hate: mashed potatoes, gravy, that red thing (cranberry sauce?), turkey, squash, pumpkin pie, green bean casserole, ALL OF IT. THROW IT IN THE RIVER.
Yeah, I said it.
:::BLECH:::
You didn't mention the ONLY Thanksgiving food that I DON'T like: Stuffing (or dressing, depending on your region). Disgusting. But everything else...mmmmm.
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Anchovies are my secret ingredient in sauteed spinach. Along with pine nuts and sesame seeds.
I am actually seeking MORE recipes using anchovies! I think they are addicting!
Spinach/anchovies sounds good! I have a whole bag of baby spinach in the fridge!
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Celery
+1
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why does celery exist? And why do people pay money for it?
You people are monsters. Celery with the little trench stuffed with peanut butter is one of the highlights of gourmet flavour.
EWWW NO. Celery is fowl. I'd be hesitant to even put it in my compost for fear it would contaminate my garden.
Celery is vegetable, not fowl.
:P
Celery is not a vegetable any more than poison ivy greens.
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Coconuts. The flavor is not good, the texture is terrible. I can eat most anything but its the one thing I put my foot down about.
Linda in Norway: avoid the review articles about phones. I found that they nitpicked details no normal person would worry about. Same as the car magazine articles about new cars. The article is a blend of the manufacturer's press release (the positives) and then perhaps one or two nit picky negative opinions that the writer relies on to prove that they are being objective.
If you want an Android device look at the Asus Zenfone series. I bought an older version 3. Its been great. Nice camera and display, good free apps from the manufacturer, long battery life, etc.
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Coconuts. The flavor is not good, the texture is terrible. I can eat most anything but its the one thing I put my foot down about.
Linda in Norway: avoid the review articles about phones. I found that they nitpicked details no normal person would worry about. Same as the car magazine articles about new cars. The article is a blend of the manufacturer's press release (the positives) and then perhaps one or two nit picky negative opinions that the writer relies on to prove that they are being objective.
If you want an Android device look at the Asus Zenfone series. I bought an older version 3. Its been great. Nice camera and display, good free apps from the manufacturer, long battery life, etc.
These are so frustrating. "Wellll, I really don't like the way you can see finger smudges on the metal backing so there's definitely some cons... but here's 17 AMAZING things about this phone!"
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Coconuts. The flavor is not good, the texture is terrible. I can eat most anything but its the one thing I put my foot down about.
Linda in Norway: avoid the review articles about phones. I found that they nitpicked details no normal person would worry about. Same as the car magazine articles about new cars. The article is a blend of the manufacturer's press release (the positives) and then perhaps one or two nit picky negative opinions that the writer relies on to prove that they are being objective.
If you want an Android device look at the Asus Zenfone series. I bought an older version 3. Its been great. Nice camera and display, good free apps from the manufacturer, long battery life, etc.
These are so frustrating. "Wellll, I really don't like the way you can see finger smudges on the metal backing so there's definitely some cons... but here's 17 AMAZING things about this phone!"
Fun Fact: When you find one of those reviews that has one very miniscule negative point and then multiple positive points, it is likely a paid review. They write them that way so as not to catch Amazon/Ebay/Whatevers attention but to still provide a ranking boost for the company who is paying them.
Maybe you were already saying this and I lost it in the thread, but I just thought I'd mention that.
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Coconuts. The flavor is not good, the texture is terrible. I can eat most anything but its the one thing I put my foot down about.
Linda in Norway: avoid the review articles about phones. I found that they nitpicked details no normal person would worry about. Same as the car magazine articles about new cars. The article is a blend of the manufacturer's press release (the positives) and then perhaps one or two nit picky negative opinions that the writer relies on to prove that they are being objective.
If you want an Android device look at the Asus Zenfone series. I bought an older version 3. Its been great. Nice camera and display, good free apps from the manufacturer, long battery life, etc.
These are so frustrating. "Wellll, I really don't like the way you can see finger smudges on the metal backing so there's definitely some cons... but here's 17 AMAZING things about this phone!"
Fun Fact: When you find one of those reviews that has one very miniscule negative point and then multiple positive points, it is likely a paid review. They write them that way so as not to catch Amazon/Ebay/Whatevers attention but to still provide a ranking boost for the company who is paying them.
Maybe you were already saying this and I lost it in the thread, but I just thought I'd mention that.
I think we were talking about reviews in article or video format, but yes, this tactic can be found in Amazon reviews as well. No one is safe.
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I hate kale. Who decided that kale was the next big thing? I like most of the other greens, just not kale. Chard is probably my fave. Kale sucks.
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I hate it when you call a company and they keep calling you by your first name. After you tell them your complaint or whatever they repeat what you said back and first say So this is what you said Olive...Now Olive, can you give me your address...Olive is this the correct address, let me repeat it back to you...Olive, our product is meant to be used...Olive, where did you buy the product...Olive, can you give me the bar code on the box...ACKKKKKKK
OMG! Just drive me to the nuthouse!
How stupid can you get! Can't they just ask the questions without saying your first name a thousand times?
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I hate it when you call a company and they keep calling you by your first name. After you tell them your complaint or whatever they repeat what you said back and first say So this is what you said Olive...Now Olive, can you give me your address...Olive is this the correct address, let me repeat it back to you...Olive, our product is meant to be used...Olive, where did you buy the product...Olive, can you give me the bar code on the box...ACKKKKKKK
OMG! Just drive me to the nuthouse!
How stupid can you get! Can't they just ask the questions without saying your first name a thousand times?
I bet they are trained to do that. Probably some bullshit about creating rapport with the client or something. Super annoying though, especially for me because they never pronounce my name right.
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Yes, I am sure they are trained like monkeys to do that routine. If anyone watched Young Sheldon (TV show) he was trying to learn how to make friends and found a book that specifically told the reader to say the person's name a lot. Hahaha!
Stuff like that is just so unnecessary and annoying! The cashier at the grocery store drove me nuts with her crazy conversation last week. She kept asking me if she was doing okay and was I pleased with her and what she was doing. OMG, She was slow, slow, slow and beyond gabby with stupid gibberish. I just about screamed and ran out the door. I bought some shower nylon scrubbies and she was picking them up by the string like EWWWW and telling me to wash them because they had germs from people touching them and being dropped on the floor. She kept asking me a million questions on how she was packing the groceries. NOOOOO!!!
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I rarely go to Whole Foods, but occasionally I need something I can't find elsewhere. I assume it's some sort of corporate rule, because in two different states now, the cashiers have asked me if I "have any fun plans for today/tonight/this weekend." Typically it's just a regular day for me, so no, I don't. I almost feel like I should make something up! "The Queen is coming to dinner" or "Yes, I'm so excited to go home and organize my sock drawer!" I understand they're trying to be friendly, but it feels like prying. "Hello" would be sufficient.
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I rarely go to Whole Foods, but occasionally I need something I can't find elsewhere. I assume it's some sort of corporate rule, because in two different states now, the cashiers have asked me if I "have any fun plans for today/tonight/this weekend." Typically it's just a regular day for me, so no, I don't. I almost feel like I should make something up! "The Queen is coming to dinner" or "Yes, I'm so excited to go home and organize my sock drawer!" I understand they're trying to be friendly, but it feels like prying. "Hello" would be sufficient.
You could try the response I would use:
"Nope."
99.9% effective . . .
:P
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I hate standing in the baking aisle at the grocery store minding my own business and looking at vanilla extract only to be interrupted by someone walking past saying "Jesus loves you." Uh, fine bro, you do you, but why was that necessary?
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I'm pretty sure a mistranslation is responsible for water chestnuts being considered a food item.
And for the record: Celery is good. Celery with peanut butter is great. Celery with peanut butter and raisins is terrible. It takes all kinds.
I hate vandals. I also hate thieves but at least I understand the motivation. People who just destroy other peoples' perfectly good stuff for fun deserve all kinds of misery.
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I hate standing in the baking aisle at the grocery store minding my own business and looking at vanilla extract only to be interrupted by someone walking past saying "Jesus loves you." Uh, fine bro, you do you, but why was that necessary?
Respond with 'Salaam Alaikum'.
1 - It's a nice thing to say
2 - It's likely to piss off the sort of person who would say 'Jesus loves you' at people for aggressively dickish reasons
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I rarely go to Whole Foods, but occasionally I need something I can't find elsewhere. I assume it's some sort of corporate rule, because in two different states now, the cashiers have asked me if I "have any fun plans for today/tonight/this weekend."
That's so weird. I've shopped at Whole Foods probably 500+ times and no one ever asked me that! Maybe you just look like you have a lot of fun (or maybe I look like I don't).
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I rarely go to Whole Foods, but occasionally I need something I can't find elsewhere. I assume it's some sort of corporate rule, because in two different states now, the cashiers have asked me if I "have any fun plans for today/tonight/this weekend." Typically it's just a regular day for me, so no, I don't. I almost feel like I should make something up! "The Queen is coming to dinner" or "Yes, I'm so excited to go home and organize my sock drawer!" I understand they're trying to be friendly, but it feels like prying. "Hello" would be sufficient.
I have never experienced this at Whole Foods, but a chain of coffee places "Dutch Bros" does this and it is so annoying to me! It's a drive through coffee place, and while you're waiting for your coffee, some ultra-chipper college kid is like "what exciting things do you have going on today! where'd you come from, where are you going"?" it always catches me way off guard, I just hate random small talk like that. Thankfully I visit this place about 2 times a year, but I am always grumpily reminded of how annoying I find it when I go.
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I'm pretty sure a mistranslation is responsible for water chestnuts being considered a food item.
And for the record: Celery is good. Celery with peanut butter is great. Celery with peanut butter and raisins is terrible. It takes all kinds.
I feel like the universe is playing some kind of funny trick right now... I’m one of those people from above who hate celery aggressively ... aaaand, also water chestnuts are my favorite food.
What
Is
Happening
I hate vandals. I also hate thieves but at least I understand the motivation. People who just destroy other peoples' perfectly good stuff for fun deserve all kinds of misery.
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I hate it when I am trying to read an on line paper and these damn pop ups keep interrupting me! STUPID advertisements. I will never to go to the restaurants that pop up. Or when they force you to watch an advertisement for 30 seconds before you can 'skip' out of it! I refuse to watch it! STUPID!
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Water chestnuts and coconut have the same texture as Styrofoam. I can't do it. Gross.
Something that drives me bonkers is spelling out abbreviates, but not with the words the abbreviations originally shortened. Examples: DJ spelled as deejay, when it really means disk jockey and MC spelled as emcee which is really master of ceremonies. Why are you making up words?! Could also just be the wedding planning PTSD talking...
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Water chestnuts and coconut have the same texture as Styrofoam. I can't do it. Gross.
Something that drives me bonkers is spelling out abbreviates, but not with the words the abbreviations originally shortened. Examples: DJ spelled as deejay, when it really means disk jockey and MC spelled as emcee which is really master of ceremonies. Why are you making up words?! Could also just be the wedding planning PTSD talking...
You mean pee tee ess dee?
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I hate it when I am trying to read an on line paper and these damn pop ups keep interrupting me! STUPID advertisements. I will never to go to the restaurants that pop up. Or when they force you to watch an advertisement for 30 seconds before you can 'skip' out of it! I refuse to watch it! STUPID!
Install a popup blocker in your browser.
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JUUL’s. And the jerks that claim that they are for helping smokers. Just ask my junior high child and his friends
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Oh, and I hate rum raisin ice cream. What spawn of Satan came up with that flavor???
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I know that this is not a popular one but Reece's Peanut Butter cups. Bleugh. And rum raisin ice cream - that is just gross. Also fig newtons.
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
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Raw onions. All of them.
White and yellow onions I dislike but can tolerate somewhat. Green onions have a gritty texture and taste like dirt, so again unpleasant but tolerable. Red onions are a gift to humanity from Satan.
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I hate putting things into perspective and relaxing. Fuck that shit is so annoying.
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
BLT?
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Sorry, but I love raw tomatoes and there is nothing more wonderful than to pick a fresh tomato off the vine, bring a salt shaker and eat it like an apple! Drooling! But I hate it when they get worm holes or black bottoms while growing.
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Sorry, but I love raw tomatoes and there is nothing more wonderful than to pick a fresh tomato off the vine, bring a salt shaker and eat it like an apple! Drooling! But I hate it when they get worm holes or black bottoms while growing.
It’s a slightly unusual thing to dislike. Most people are OK with or even like tomatoes. Even store bought ones.
I’m not one of them though.
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
BLT?
I've never actually eaten one, but I'd assume acceptability in the same way as a burger.
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Some people were never exposed to certain things as kids and have never acquired a taste for textures and flavors.
I have a friend who thinks everything is gross but has never tasted what she think she hates. She 'hated' lobster till she was in her 40's until her SO insisted she try lobster. Now she loves it. I think some of us have bad memories of what our mother's cooked that she prepared badly. Not all mothers are gourmet cooks and struggle to make things taste good.
My friend takes after her mother who was also a fuss pot and would never try anything.
When I was a kid I wouldn't eat green veggies. Of course everything came out of a can and was weird and mushy tasting. I developed a skin disorder and parentes brought me to the doctor. The doctor questioned whether I ate green veggies and it was a NO. He said I had to eat them. I had scurvy which compromises your immune system and your body’s ability to heal itself. Little by little I ate my veggies and got better.
I have an open mind on most food, spiders, snakes, bugs, ants, racoons, skunks, possums...NOPE!
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Some people were never exposed to certain things as kids and have never acquired a taste for textures and flavors.
I have a friend who thinks everything is gross but has never tasted what she think she hates. She 'hated' lobster till she was in her 40's until her SO insisted she try lobster. Now she loves it. I think some of us have bad memories of what our mother's cooked that she prepared badly. Not all mothers are gourmet cooks and struggle to make things taste good.
My friend takes after her mother who was also a fuss pot and would never try anything.
This.
In fact, "people who express disgust and abomination for foods they have never tried" ranks pretty high on my list of things I hate.
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
BLT?
I've never actually eaten one, but I'd assume acceptability in the same way as a burger.
Once you've been on the forums for awhile, you notice there's a few posters you seem agree with a lot and you think you have a lot in common-you guys know what I'm talking about. And then all of a sudden they say something like this and you don't know what to think anymore.
Never had a BLT? what?
Find a good tomato, thin slice it if you must.
Toast the bread in a pan with butter, both sides. Thick, chewy white bread is best.
Any lettuce but it should have some crunch.
Mayo, bacon, personally I like to add some green onion and maybe a little avocado.
Do yourself a favor. You won't regret it.
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Hell yeah, BLT rules...must have a big slater of mayo and giant slice of juicy tomato and lots of bacon. Never had it with avacado but I bet it is good!
DROOL...
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
BLT?
I've never actually eaten one, but I'd assume acceptability in the same way as a burger.
Once you've been on the forums for awhile, you notice there's a few posters you seem agree with a lot and you think you have a lot in common-you guys know what I'm talking about. And then all of a sudden they say something like this and you don't know what to think anymore.
Never had a BLT? what?
Find a good tomato, thin slice it if you must.
Toast the bread in a pan with butter, both sides. Thick, chewy white bread is best.
Any lettuce but it should have some crunch.
Mayo, bacon, personally I like to add some green onion and maybe a little avocado.
Do yourself a favor. You won't regret it.
I'll have to give it a shot. Sans mayo, that shit's vile. Definitely adding green onions and avocado.
When you say thick, chewy bread, do you mean like the kind you'd get separately at the bakery in a grocery store? Like the kind of thing they probably use at Subway or whatever?
(from a guy who's entire past sandwich repertoire was either burgers or peanut butter sandwiches. Italian beef a couple times too, but never made it myself.)
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High horses.
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
BLT?
I've never actually eaten one, but I'd assume acceptability in the same way as a burger.
Once you've been on the forums for awhile, you notice there's a few posters you seem agree with a lot and you think you have a lot in common-you guys know what I'm talking about. And then all of a sudden they say something like this and you don't know what to think anymore.
Never had a BLT? what?
Find a good tomato, thin slice it if you must.
Toast the bread in a pan with butter, both sides. Thick, chewy white bread is best.
Any lettuce but it should have some crunch.
Mayo, bacon, personally I like to add some green onion and maybe a little avocado.
Do yourself a favor. You won't regret it.
I'll have to give it a shot. Sans mayo, that shit's vile. Definitely adding green onions and avocado.
When you say thick, chewy bread, do you mean like the kind you'd get separately at the bakery in a grocery store? Like the kind of thing they probably use at Subway or whatever?
(from a guy who's entire past sandwich repertoire was either burgers or peanut butter sandwiches. Italian beef a couple times too, but never made it myself.)
The avocado should fill the role of the mayo if you're one of those people :)
Any plain sliced bread will do but a thick, dense slice will hold up better. If you're not using mayo, it won't be as messy so I wouldn't worry about it.
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Neighbors who play loud music late at night.
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Neighbors who play loud music late at night.
Yes! For some reason we had this twice in the last week. Luckily my ear plugs helped sufficiently. DH had to listen to music on his phone to be block it out.
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Logging a software issue with customer support of a product that we use at work. I get a quick answer from a person who is trying to reproduce my steps, but needs more details. I write detailed steps. Get a new email that asks for detailed steps to reproduce.... I really don't know how much I will tolerate to do it even more. I will save it a bit for later this day.
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Lazy navigation officers who dont mark chart shifts on the track line. It makes running the DR out so fucking irritating.
Additionally, tomatoes are gross. Particularly the small ones that spurt goo into your mouth when you chomp down. Vile.
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Logging a software issue with customer support of a product that we use at work. I get a quick answer from a person who is trying to reproduce my steps, but needs more details. I write detailed steps. Get a new email that asks for detailed steps to reproduce.... I really don't know how much I will tolerate to do it even more. I will save it a bit for later this day.
I work in software QA at the moment. When I log a problem now, I record detailed steps in text as bullet points. For each step I take a screen shot of the step. If a step has more than one part I take a screen shot of each substep. If possible I'll take a video capture of the entire action. Then I write out a detailed 'expected result/observed result' summary. Yes, it's tedious and takes a long time . . . but I've found that it's still more efficient than ever assuming that the person at the other end is going to understand you.
:P
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We have a full time neighbor who does the exact same thing. He moved from NY to CT to a fairly rural area and leaves his outside lights on all night long. It shines into my bedroom but I have blinds so it doesn't bother me but amazes me he has so many lights on. He went on a kick for a while and had no lights on but now they are back on again. He seems to forget to turn them off and they are on half the day too! Then I have another neighbor who never has lights on and it makes me wonder how on earth they live over there! Once in a while there are lights on and it is such an oddity and I have to gaze at it! LOL!
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Logging a software issue with customer support of a product that we use at work. I get a quick answer from a person who is trying to reproduce my steps, but needs more details. I write detailed steps. Get a new email that asks for detailed steps to reproduce.... I really don't know how much I will tolerate to do it even more. I will save it a bit for later this day.
I work in software QA at the moment. When I log a problem now, I record detailed steps in text as bullet points. For each step I take a screen shot of the step. If a step has more than one part I take a screen shot of each substep. If possible I'll take a video capture of the entire action. Then I write out a detailed 'expected result/observed result' summary. Yes, it's tedious and takes a long time . . . but I've found that it's still more efficient than ever assuming that the person at the other end is going to understand you.
:P
This is exactly the bullshit I have to do with a certain software vendor for lab equipment I deal with all the time at work. Write an outrageously verbose unambiguous explanation of the error like you describe, then compile it into an email and get an answer six weeks later, with a 30% chance the issue will be addressed a year later in their new version of the software that introduces different errors.
If it's not reproducible, I don't even bother.
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Logging a software issue with customer support of a product that we use at work. I get a quick answer from a person who is trying to reproduce my steps, but needs more details. I write detailed steps. Get a new email that asks for detailed steps to reproduce.... I really don't know how much I will tolerate to do it even more. I will save it a bit for later this day.
I work in software QA at the moment. When I log a problem now, I record detailed steps in text as bullet points. For each step I take a screen shot of the step. If a step has more than one part I take a screen shot of each substep. If possible I'll take a video capture of the entire action. Then I write out a detailed 'expected result/observed result' summary. Yes, it's tedious and takes a long time . . . but I've found that it's still more efficient than ever assuming that the person at the other end is going to understand you.
:P
This is exactly the bullshit I have to do with a certain software vendor for lab equipment I deal with all the time at work. Write an outrageously verbose unambiguous explanation of the error like you describe, then compile it into an email and get an answer six weeks later, with a 30% chance the issue will be addressed a year later in their new version of the software that introduces different errors.
If it's not reproducible, I don't even bother.
"Works on my computer"
GRRRAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!! :P
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Logging a software issue with customer support of a product that we use at work. I get a quick answer from a person who is trying to reproduce my steps, but needs more details. I write detailed steps. Get a new email that asks for detailed steps to reproduce.... I really don't know how much I will tolerate to do it even more. I will save it a bit for later this day.
I work in software QA at the moment. When I log a problem now, I record detailed steps in text as bullet points. For each step I take a screen shot of the step. If a step has more than one part I take a screen shot of each substep. If possible I'll take a video capture of the entire action. Then I write out a detailed 'expected result/observed result' summary. Yes, it's tedious and takes a long time . . . but I've found that it's still more efficient than ever assuming that the person at the other end is going to understand you.
:P
This is exactly the bullshit I have to do with a certain software vendor for lab equipment I deal with all the time at work. Write an outrageously verbose unambiguous explanation of the error like you describe, then compile it into an email and get an answer six weeks later, with a 30% chance the issue will be addressed a year later in their new version of the software that introduces different errors.
If it's not reproducible, I don't even bother.
"Works on my computer"
GRRRAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!! :P
My favorite ones are where they have hilariously unrealistic expectations about how the software will be used.
Me: Your software doesn't work on 64-bit Windows, and it's 2018.
Vendor: Use 32-bit.
Me: Your software doesn't work on 32-bit Windows 10, and it's 2018.
Vendor: Use Windows 7.
Me: Your software doesn't work on 32-bit Windows 7, and it's 2018.
Vendor: Try XP.
Me: ...
(That worked. I dug out a piece of crap old XP laptop and threw the brand new laptop we bought for this purpose in a drawer. Gah. Turns out their "new" software literally relies on 16-bit DLLs with a "last modified" date of 1994.)
Me: Your software gives goofy results if you load it up on a machine other than the one the data was collected on.
Vendor: Don't do that. Why do you have more than one computer in your 50-user business, what's wrong with you?
Me: ...
Me: Your "21 CFR Part 11 compliant" software crashes if we try to save to a network location with permissions in compliance with 21 CFR Part 11.
Vendor: Don't use a network drive.
Me: Your "21 CFR Part 11 compliant" software crashes if we try to save to a local drive with permissions in compliance with 21 CFR Part 11.
Vendor: Loosen up the permissions. Give all users delete rights and local admin access.
Me: ...
Me: If a user clicks print and selects a different record afterwards, it prints that one instead.
Vendor: Don't do that.
(This one was at least badly fixed in the next version.)
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Some people were never exposed to certain things as kids and have never acquired a taste for textures and flavors.
I have a friend who thinks everything is gross but has never tasted what she think she hates. She 'hated' lobster till she was in her 40's until her SO insisted she try lobster. Now she loves it. I think some of us have bad memories of what our mother's cooked that she prepared badly. Not all mothers are gourmet cooks and struggle to make things taste good.
My friend takes after her mother who was also a fuss pot and would never try anything.
This.
In fact, "people who express disgust and abomination for foods they have never tried" ranks pretty high on my list of things I hate.
+1 I can accept somebody not liking a flavor or texture, but I can't stand people that either won't try a food or try it with no intent to give it a fair chance.
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Yes, agree. Food isn't always something that you like the first time. Just like babies, not all foods are liked the first try but after several times flavors and textures become more tolerant. Refusing to try and declaring it is gross and they hate it does not makes sense.
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
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Okra is something I have only eaten a few times in gumbo and that texture is pretty gross and slimy. That is one food I would avoid. I don't recall it having any flavor either.
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
I would normally agree with this... but try making chicken or turkey soup in a blender. It doesn't taste too bad, but it sticks to your teeth and the roof of your mouth, ugh.
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
Then take a nice long sip of olive oil and let me know what you think. :P
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Yes, agree. Food isn't always something that you like the first time. Just like babies, not all foods are liked the first try but after several times flavors and textures become more tolerant. Refusing to try and declaring it is gross and they hate it does not makes sense.
Exactly.
I've always been a reasonably adventurous eater (and would today say I am very adventurous) and there are foods that I love now that I used to hate.
Case in point: blue cheese. The story of how I learned to love it is an object lesson to me to always try things more than once. I lived and worked in France for a couple of years in my mid-twenties, and though I loved most kinds of cheese, I could not abide blue cheese. I had a teaching job at a university, and my boss scheduled weekly lunches with me and another colleague to talk about the classes we were teaching. Well, these meetings were at noon on Fridays, and my schedule on those days were four classes back to back at 8, 9, 10, and 11. So, by noon, I was starving and also didn't have a lot of time before my next class, so my boss decided to help me out by buying our lunches and getting a table for us so as to not waste time.
Well, one Friday, he bought us roquefort sandwiches. Roquefort cheese on a baguette. That's it.
I was horrified, but: a) I certainly did not want to act like a picky baby in front of my boss; and b) I was famished. So, I just took the sandwich, forced myself to eat it, and tried to put it behind me.
Except that next week, he did the same thing. Stupid me, because I never told him I didn't like roquefort. Once again, I forced myself to choke it down, and mentally berated myself for not being up-front last week.
Funny thing happened, though. The third time my boss bought us roquefort sandwiches, I kinda liked it. And today, blue cheeses of all kinds are among my very favorite cheeses -- roquefort in particular is easily in my top five. So, the moral of the story for me is, food ought to be appreciated for its uniqueness, and food that is "strange" might just take some time to get used to. And often, taking that time is very much worth it.
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
Then take a nice long sip of olive oil and let me know what you think. :P
I've taken shots of olive oil in the morning as an appetite suppressant when cutting weight for wrestling. Nothing wrong with the texture, but the taste is very strong and seems to cling to your mouth for ages. I found that you have to chase it with cream or milk to cleanse your palette.
:P
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
Then take a nice long sip of olive oil and let me know what you think. :P
I've taken shots of olive oil in the morning as an appetite suppressant when cutting weight for wrestling. Nothing wrong with the texture, but the taste is very strong and seems to cling to your mouth for ages. I found that you have to chase it with cream or milk to cleanse your palette.
:P
Clings to your mouth? Why? Due to some kind of texture that you don't enjoy, perhaps?
:P
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Okra is something I have only eaten a few times in gumbo and that texture is pretty gross and slimy. That is one food I would avoid. I don't recall it having any flavor either.
The only way to eat okra is fried.
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Just about anything fried is delicious!
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
Then take a nice long sip of olive oil and let me know what you think. :P
I've taken shots of olive oil in the morning as an appetite suppressant when cutting weight for wrestling. Nothing wrong with the texture, but the taste is very strong and seems to cling to your mouth for ages. I found that you have to chase it with cream or milk to cleanse your palette.
:P
Clings to your mouth? Why? Due to some kind of texture that you don't enjoy, perhaps?
:P
No, it's just that it's oil. The saliva in your mouth doesn't wash it away. You need something with some fat content to do it.
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
Then take a nice long sip of olive oil and let me know what you think. :P
I've taken shots of olive oil in the morning as an appetite suppressant when cutting weight for wrestling. Nothing wrong with the texture, but the taste is very strong and seems to cling to your mouth for ages. I found that you have to chase it with cream or milk to cleanse your palette.
:P
Clings to your mouth? Why? Due to some kind of texture that you don't enjoy, perhaps?
:P
No, it's just that it's oil. The saliva in your mouth doesn't wash it away. You need something with some fat content to do it.
Now I'm just being an ass, but clearly it's the oily texture of the oil that's the problem. :P
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I do not accept "texture" as a reason not to like something. Flavour, sure . . . but everything turns to mush after you chew it anyway. There are zero foods that I avoid because of texture.
Then take a nice long sip of olive oil and let me know what you think. :P
I've taken shots of olive oil in the morning as an appetite suppressant when cutting weight for wrestling. Nothing wrong with the texture, but the taste is very strong and seems to cling to your mouth for ages. I found that you have to chase it with cream or milk to cleanse your palette.
:P
Clings to your mouth? Why? Due to some kind of texture that you don't enjoy, perhaps?
:P
No, it's just that it's oil. The saliva in your mouth doesn't wash it away. You need something with some fat content to do it.
Now I'm just being an ass, but clearly it's the oily texture of the oil that's the problem. :P
But if it tasted good, I wouldn't care about it hanging around in my mouth for longer. Natural peanut butter gets stuck in my mouth and is hard to wash away too, but I like the flavour so it doesn't bug me.
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You know when you're sick with all kinds of chest congestion and cough up a bunk of junk. That is the texture of raw oysters. For me, texture is as much a characteristic of a food as flavor, and there are some that are revolting. But cooked oysters, clams and mussels are delightful!
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olive oil is fine for keto or weight loss, but try the MCT oil you can get these days. it's completely flavorless and goes down like water.
(medium chain triglycerides)
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how can olive oil or mct oil help with weight loss? Oil has calories!
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how can olive oil or mct oil help with weight loss? Oil has calories!
I found that it made me uninterested in eating more food (thanks to it being gross tasting), and also kept me full for a long time.
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MCT oil is known for satiety/appetite suppression too. GF has used it in coffee sometimes, usually when traveling. Sure, it has calories, all food does, but the benefits outweigh the costs for some people in some use cases. GF is 77lbs lighter than she was a year ago, and she's consumed plenty of oils along the way.
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Yes! Tastes can definitely change. I love all sorts of things that I used to hate. I often ask picky (adult) eaters if they adored the taste of coffee or beer the very first time they took a sip.
Apparently there are also studies that show that you tend to crave later what you eat now. Or at least not hate it so much. Seems to have a lot to do with your microbiome, which can adjust rapidly.
I listened to a podcast that discussed getting kids used to new foods that they don't initially like by having them eat a pea-sized bite of the food every day for a week or two, with a non-food reward at the end of that time. Just that amount is enough to get the gut bacteria going, "Hey, maybe this stuff is okay after all." Then that information gets passed along to the taste buds, which decide maybe it actually does taste pretty good. I think where a lot of parents screw up (including mine, and I'm sure I would have, too, if I had kids) is by forcing kids to eat, say, a big pile of cooked spinach.
More directly on topic... I hate beets. I've tried them a zillion different ways, and I just can't get past the fact that they taste the way dirt smells. Maybe I need to treat myself like a kid and eat a tiny pea-sized bite every day for two weeks. :-)
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Yes! Tastes can definitely change. I love all sorts of things that I used to hate. I often ask picky (adult) eaters if they adored the taste of coffee or beer the very first time they took a sip.
Apparently there are also studies that show that you tend to crave later what you eat now. Or at least not hate it so much. Seems to have a lot to do with your microbiome, which can adjust rapidly.
I listened to a podcast that discussed getting kids used to new foods that they don't initially like by having them eat a pea-sized bite of the food every day for a week or two, with a non-food reward at the end of that time. Just that amount is enough to get the gut bacteria going, "Hey, maybe this stuff is okay after all." Then that information gets passed along to the taste buds, which decide maybe it actually does taste pretty good. I think where a lot of parents screw up (including mine, and I'm sure I would have, too, if I had kids) is by forcing kids to eat, say, a big pile of cooked spinach.
More directly on topic... I hate beets. I've tried them a zillion different ways, and I just can't get past the fact that they taste the way dirt smells. Maybe I need to treat myself like a kid and eat a tiny pea-sized bite every day for two weeks. :-)
Ha! I used to despise them. And then one day about 8-10 years ago, there happened to be beets in something I ate and I thought, "hmmm, these aren't as revolting as I remember!"
Now? Borscht, beet salad.... MMMMMMM!!!!
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Yes, beets always taste like dirt any way that they're prepared. I am only able to choke them down because it makes me giggle to see red pee four or five hours later. (Also they're pretty good for you.)
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Yes! Tastes can definitely change. I love all sorts of things that I used to hate. I often ask picky (adult) eaters if they adored the taste of coffee or beer the very first time they took a sip.
Apparently there are also studies that show that you tend to crave later what you eat now. Or at least not hate it so much. Seems to have a lot to do with your microbiome, which can adjust rapidly.
I listened to a podcast that discussed getting kids used to new foods that they don't initially like by having them eat a pea-sized bite of the food every day for a week or two, with a non-food reward at the end of that time. Just that amount is enough to get the gut bacteria going, "Hey, maybe this stuff is okay after all." Then that information gets passed along to the taste buds, which decide maybe it actually does taste pretty good. I think where a lot of parents screw up (including mine, and I'm sure I would have, too, if I had kids) is by forcing kids to eat, say, a big pile of cooked spinach.
More directly on topic... I hate beets. I've tried them a zillion different ways, and I just can't get past the fact that they taste the way dirt smells. Maybe I need to treat myself like a kid and eat a tiny pea-sized bite every day for two weeks. :-)
I'm not sure what my parents could have done differently, but I was a mess in this department.
As a kid, I was incredibly stubborn about food. I don't know exactly when it started, but as long ago as I can remember (at the very least going back to kindergarten/first grade), 95+% of what I ate was Cheerios, Wheat Chex, skim milk, apple juice, apple sauce, peanut butter sandwiches (no jelly), or pasta with ketchup. The other <5% was occasional things like "snacky" food (candy, individual fruit, etc.), pancakes, french fries, hot dogs, or burgers from McDonald's (and burgers from nowhere else). If a restaurant didn't have pancakes or a hot dog and fries as an option, I basically wouldn't eat there, so I did very very little eating out (that part was a plus, at least, though limiting socially and for family events, which were often just me sitting there with an empty plate or a peanut butter sandwich brought from home).
My parents tried. Sometime around age 8 I at least remember specific times where they'd want me to try "just a bite" of some "new food" every day with my boring dinner. I either refused, choked it down talking about how gross it was, or spit it out (I honestly don't remember the distribution there) for enough days in a row that they gave up. I'm sure there were other attempts along the way, but at some point they basically just let me do my own thing. I prepared (obviously there wasn't much to it beyond putting sandwiches together and boiling water for pasta) all of my own food pretty much from age 10 on as a result. I took a multivitamin every day. Maybe that helped.
This continued for quite a while.
My first sign of progress was at age 19 (yup). I was spending a weekend with some friends in Wisconsin, and we went to Famous Dave's, and I ate a burger from Famous Dave's. That sounds like a pretty pathetic kind of progress, but it was indeed a big step for me. My first ever burger from somewhere other than McDonald's. And I actually enjoyed it. The only reason this happened was social pressure (not deliberate on their part - I had met most of these people online and was meeting them for the first time in-person and most of them as a result had no idea about my food issues).
The about a year and a half later (age 20) I had another breakthrough when I was going to meet my now-GF for steak and eggs at her favorite restaurant near her. I asked my dad about it and he leaped at the opportunity to cook steak and eggs for me. I had it well-done and with ketchup (I've since atoned for this), but I enjoyed it, never having eaten it ever before.
At 21, we bought our first house and lived with GF's sister and GF's sister's boyfriend. Naturally, my life changed a lot. The four of us would often cook together, and while at first it was me standing around while they cooked, I eventually started figuring stuff out. I'd still make peanut butter sandwiches and pasta with ketchup quite a lot for myself, but I ate more and more with them, going from eggs to bacon and eggs to breakfast burritos to baked potatoes to meatloaf to actual fucking vegetables. Later that year, I read some of books and did a lot of research into healthy eating for the first time, making me want to actually be the one to take initiative and try lots of new foods for health reasons.
And sometime at 22, I had my last peanut butter or pasta filled week, switching entirely to eating real food. I became the primary cook in the household. Since that fall, GF and I have been eating what I'll call "vegetable-heavy paleoish" and things have been great. Now there are literally no foods I'm not at least open to trying (I have preferences of course), with the sole exception of anything cheese-based (sorry, still gross if it's present enough that I can taste or smell it - small doses of shredded mixed into something can be ok).
So tl;dr: factors that went into fixing my stubborn/picky eating habits:
I grew the fuck up.
Social pressure from friends unaware of my issues.
A woman.
Learning about healthy eating.
Cooking my own food.
It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
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Wow. I gave you a hard time for never having eaten a BLT... I had no idea.
Does the idea of pasta with ketchup still sound appealing to you or have your tastes completely flipped?
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I love that your username is ketchup. Was that a nickname in school? It would have been if you went to my school! ;-)
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Wow. I gave you a hard time for never having eaten a BLT... I had no idea.
Does the idea of pasta with ketchup still sound appealing to you or have your tastes completely flipped?
It still sounds appealing from the easy-as-fuck-and-a-box-of-pasta-is-$1 perspective, but I'll only do that these days if I'm in super lazy bachelor-chow mode when GF is out of town for like a week. I've had it maybe ten times total in the past five years now. Physically, it doesn't make me feel awesome.I love that your username is ketchup. Was that a nickname in school? It would have been if you went to my school! ;-)
I've used it or variants of it as my online handle since well before my high ketchup consumption ended. :P
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the smell of patchouli oil is like ancient death - probably how King Tut's tomb smelled when it was first opened
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Wow. I gave you a hard time for never having eaten a BLT... I had no idea.
Does the idea of pasta with ketchup still sound appealing to you or have your tastes completely flipped?
It still sounds appealing from the easy-as-fuck-and-a-box-of-pasta-is-$1 perspective, but I'll only do that these days if I'm in super lazy bachelor-chow mode when GF is out of town for like a week. I've had it maybe ten times total in the past five years now. Physically, it doesn't make me feel awesome.
As a child I grew up with a dish: macaroni with ham and cheese. We could add ketchup to that on our plate. This was my mother's easiest dish. I think we ate it once every 1 or 2 weeks. As an adult I have never eaten it, because of the lack of vegetables. But tonight I am home alone and I have a chunk of ham in the fridge. I might just for once do something silly and eat this. Maybe I'll fry some of my dried mushrooms to go with it.
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I hate touching the refrigerator and freezer handles in the grocery store. Plus, the other day I was in the grocery store and so many people were coughing with colds or worse yet maybe the flu! If I have a long sleeve stretchy shirt on I will pull it over my fingers to open the doors to the refrigerators and freezers! GROSS!
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how can olive oil or mct oil help with weight loss? Oil has calories!
I found that it made me uninterested in eating more food (thanks to it being gross tasting), and also kept me full for a long time.
agree with that and i'll add that mct are highly available to your body as fuel. your body doesn't have to do much or anything to process/digest them before they can be used, therefore you get a very quick boost that satisfies your energy requirements and kills the hunger pang.
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CATALOGS!!!!!
Good LORD, I cannot believe how many catalogs show up in my mailbox. I am not even a big consumer. I meticulously go online and submit requests to be removed from people's mailing lists -- several times a week, it seems -- but since businesses so routinely sell their lists to one another, there are days when I feel like I'll never, ever get to the end of it.
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It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
I'm no parenting expert (far from it), but it seems that the "This is what we're eating, and you will eat it too, if you're hungry" approach tends to work for kids. I mean, you don't see kids in third world countries starving to death because they don't like whatever awful food happens to be available.
Which leads me to... I hate the fact that our culture has become one of constant eating. I love food, but I really try to eat only when hungry and not use food as entertainment. The average American's day is pretty much one giant meal occasionally interrupted by an activity. We're surrounded by food, smells of food, discussions of food, and photos of food in ads. I've actually had to explain to people that they will be just fine if their next meal is delayed by a few hours. It won't do any physical harm! People panic when they start to feel real hunger because they're not used to feeling it and think something must be going very wrong!
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CATALOGS!!!!!
Good LORD, I cannot believe how many catalogs show up in my mailbox. I am not even a big consumer. I meticulously go online and submit requests to be removed from people's mailing lists -- several times a week, it seems -- but since businesses so routinely sell their lists to one another, there are days when I feel like I'll never, ever get to the end of it.
Not just catalogues. Junk mail of all kind always makes me kinda angry. I pick up my mail, go through all the stuff that's not addressed to me, and dump it straight in the recycle bin. Then I go through the stuff that's addressed to me and dump all the ads straight in the recycle bin. It's incredibly wasteful.
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The old saying:
You have two choices for dinner
1. Take it
2. Or leave it
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CATALOGS!!!!!
Good LORD, I cannot believe how many catalogs show up in my mailbox. I am not even a big consumer. I meticulously go online and submit requests to be removed from people's mailing lists -- several times a week, it seems -- but since businesses so routinely sell their lists to one another, there are days when I feel like I'll never, ever get to the end of it.
Not just catalogues. Junk mail of all kind always makes me kinda angry. I pick up my mail, go through all the stuff that's not addressed to me, and dump it straight in the recycle bin. Then I go through the stuff that's addressed to me and dump all the ads straight in the recycle bin. It's incredibly wasteful.
No kidding. I periodically will open the stuff that has postage paid envelopes inside it, stuff the material in, seal it, and send it back, just because it gives me a childish sense of vindication.
My ex-husband once taped one of those envelopes to a brick and dropped it off at the post office. It was a funny idea, but I doubt it ever arrived at its destination.
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CATALOGS!!!!!
Good LORD, I cannot believe how many catalogs show up in my mailbox. I am not even a big consumer. I meticulously go online and submit requests to be removed from people's mailing lists -- several times a week, it seems -- but since businesses so routinely sell their lists to one another, there are days when I feel like I'll never, ever get to the end of it.
Not just catalogues. Junk mail of all kind always makes me kinda angry. I pick up my mail, go through all the stuff that's not addressed to me, and dump it straight in the recycle bin. Then I go through the stuff that's addressed to me and dump all the ads straight in the recycle bin. It's incredibly wasteful.
Agree. I keep my email inboxes pristine by unsubscribing from anything not of interest. I should really do the same for the never-ending catalogs that come in through the mail.
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I wonder if you can do 'return to sender'. Just yesterday I received about 8 catalogs in the mail. OMG!
Another thing I hate is when you do open those stupid catalogs they are stuffed with post card type things that fall all over the floor. GRRRR!!!
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What bugs me isn't the junk mail itself, it's the waste. Unfortunately, returning to sender just creates more waste . . . it doesn't address the problem.
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What bugs me isn't the junk mail itself, it's the waste. Unfortunately, returning to sender just creates more waste . . . it doesn't address the problem.
Completely agree. And on that note, I'm horrified and disgusted by the number of print catalogs I get from companies whose entire purported MO is environmental sustainability/justice, etc. Makes me absolutely rage.
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I was getting a letter regularly from a hearing aid company that is about 20 miles away from me. I have no hearing problem and it really irritated me that this stupid letter kept coming and coming. I called the number inside the letter inviting me to a FREE hearing test to complain. I told them I am SICK of getting these stupid letters and want them to STOP! The lady was nice and assured me my name would be removed. So far, no more letters.
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It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
I'm no parenting expert (far from it), but it seems that the "This is what we're eating, and you will eat it too, if you're hungry" approach tends to work for kids. I mean, you don't see kids in third world countries starving to death because they don't like whatever awful food happens to be available.
Which leads me to... I hate the fact that our culture has become one of constant eating. I love food, but I really try to eat only when hungry and not use food as entertainment. The average American's day is pretty much one giant meal occasionally interrupted by an activity. We're surrounded by food, smells of food, discussions of food, and photos of food in ads. I've actually had to explain to people that they will be just fine if their next meal is delayed by a few hours. It won't do any physical harm! People panic when they start to feel real hunger because they're not used to feeling it and think something must be going very wrong!
I don't eat constantly, but I have definitely noticed that I get more distracted and irritable and bothered by smaller things when I haven't eaten in a few hours. My boyfriend has noticed as well, and we joke about him having to carry a granola bar in case I get upset over something minor. I'm usually a pretty happy and easy going person, but being hangry is real, so I always try to keep a snack on hand before I start snapping at people who don't deserve it, or messing up simple work because I can't concentrate as well. Maybe you can handle hunger better, and obviously if I was actually starving or unable to procure food it would be a different problem, but there can be real physical effects to being a bit hungry.
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Hangry is a legit thing.
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CATALOGS!!!!!
Good LORD, I cannot believe how many catalogs show up in my mailbox. I am not even a big consumer. I meticulously go online and submit requests to be removed from people's mailing lists -- several times a week, it seems -- but since businesses so routinely sell their lists to one another, there are days when I feel like I'll never, ever get to the end of it.
I saw a lot of responses, so here are some resources to help get yourself off of mailing lists:
http://www.ecocycle.org/junkmail
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0262-stopping-unsolicited-mail-phone-calls-and-email
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It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
I'm no parenting expert (far from it), but it seems that the "This is what we're eating, and you will eat it too, if you're hungry" approach tends to work for kids. I mean, you don't see kids in third world countries starving to death because they don't like whatever awful food happens to be available.
Which leads me to... I hate the fact that our culture has become one of constant eating. I love food, but I really try to eat only when hungry and not use food as entertainment. The average American's day is pretty much one giant meal occasionally interrupted by an activity. We're surrounded by food, smells of food, discussions of food, and photos of food in ads. I've actually had to explain to people that they will be just fine if their next meal is delayed by a few hours. It won't do any physical harm! People panic when they start to feel real hunger because they're not used to feeling it and think something must be going very wrong!
I don't eat constantly, but I have definitely noticed that I get more distracted and irritable and bothered by smaller things when I haven't eaten in a few hours. My boyfriend has noticed as well, and we joke about him having to carry a granola bar in case I get upset over something minor. I'm usually a pretty happy and easy going person, but being hangry is real, so I always try to keep a snack on hand before I start snapping at people who don't deserve it, or messing up simple work because I can't concentrate as well. Maybe you can handle hunger better, and obviously if I was actually starving or unable to procure food it would be a different problem, but there can be real physical effects to being a bit hungry.
But perhaps we get hangry because we've trained our bodies a certain way? I've also seen people get irritable when they don't have easy access to their smartphones, that's certainly not a natural reaction.
I think we can train ourselves to become irritable over any slight discomfort if we always give in to our discomfort much like any kid will become a brat if you give them what they want whenever they throw a fit. Your body throws a little fit, it gets what it wants.
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It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
I'm no parenting expert (far from it), but it seems that the "This is what we're eating, and you will eat it too, if you're hungry" approach tends to work for kids. I mean, you don't see kids in third world countries starving to death because they don't like whatever awful food happens to be available.
Which leads me to... I hate the fact that our culture has become one of constant eating. I love food, but I really try to eat only when hungry and not use food as entertainment. The average American's day is pretty much one giant meal occasionally interrupted by an activity. We're surrounded by food, smells of food, discussions of food, and photos of food in ads. I've actually had to explain to people that they will be just fine if their next meal is delayed by a few hours. It won't do any physical harm! People panic when they start to feel real hunger because they're not used to feeling it and think something must be going very wrong!
I don't eat constantly, but I have definitely noticed that I get more distracted and irritable and bothered by smaller things when I haven't eaten in a few hours. My boyfriend has noticed as well, and we joke about him having to carry a granola bar in case I get upset over something minor. I'm usually a pretty happy and easy going person, but being hangry is real, so I always try to keep a snack on hand before I start snapping at people who don't deserve it, or messing up simple work because I can't concentrate as well. Maybe you can handle hunger better, and obviously if I was actually starving or unable to procure food it would be a different problem, but there can be real physical effects to being a bit hungry.
But perhaps we get hangry because we've trained our bodies a certain way? I've also seen people get irritable when they don't have easy access to their smartphones, that's certainly not a natural reaction.
I think we can train ourselves to become irritable over any slight discomfort if we always give in to our discomfort much like any kid will become a brat if you give them what they want whenever they throw a fit. Your body throws a little fit, it gets what it wants.
Well I don't think irritability due to low blood sugar is necessarily my body throwing a fit, it's just sending natural signals about something it considers a problem. As long as I'm eating on a regular schedule, I don't think eating when I'm hungry is a problem that I need to solve by ignoring my body's cues. I will usually drink some water as a first resort, but I don't really see the point in purposely delaying a meal to train my body to get over being hungry. That could easily turn into disordered eating.
Of course, this would be a different issue if someone genuinely had an eating addiction or was constantly inhaling food. I eat three meals a day with one or two snacks in between, which is a perfectly healthy schedule, and I usually only get hangry when there's an unusually long stretch between feedings.
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It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
I'm no parenting expert (far from it), but it seems that the "This is what we're eating, and you will eat it too, if you're hungry" approach tends to work for kids. I mean, you don't see kids in third world countries starving to death because they don't like whatever awful food happens to be available.
Which leads me to... I hate the fact that our culture has become one of constant eating. I love food, but I really try to eat only when hungry and not use food as entertainment. The average American's day is pretty much one giant meal occasionally interrupted by an activity. We're surrounded by food, smells of food, discussions of food, and photos of food in ads. I've actually had to explain to people that they will be just fine if their next meal is delayed by a few hours. It won't do any physical harm! People panic when they start to feel real hunger because they're not used to feeling it and think something must be going very wrong!
I don't eat constantly, but I have definitely noticed that I get more distracted and irritable and bothered by smaller things when I haven't eaten in a few hours. My boyfriend has noticed as well, and we joke about him having to carry a granola bar in case I get upset over something minor. I'm usually a pretty happy and easy going person, but being hangry is real, so I always try to keep a snack on hand before I start snapping at people who don't deserve it, or messing up simple work because I can't concentrate as well. Maybe you can handle hunger better, and obviously if I was actually starving or unable to procure food it would be a different problem, but there can be real physical effects to being a bit hungry.
But perhaps we get hangry because we've trained our bodies a certain way? I've also seen people get irritable when they don't have easy access to their smartphones, that's certainly not a natural reaction.
I think we can train ourselves to become irritable over any slight discomfort if we always give in to our discomfort much like any kid will become a brat if you give them what they want whenever they throw a fit. Your body throws a little fit, it gets what it wants.
Well I don't think irritability due to low blood sugar is necessarily my body throwing a fit, it's just sending natural signals about something it considers a problem. As long as I'm eating on a regular schedule, I don't think eating when I'm hungry is a problem that I need to solve by ignoring my body's cues. I will usually drink some water as a first resort, but I don't really see the point in purposely delaying a meal to train my body to get over being hungry. That could easily turn into disordered eating.
Of course, this would be a different issue if someone genuinely had an eating addiction or was constantly inhaling food. I eat three meals a day with one or two snacks in between, which is a perfectly healthy schedule, and I usually only get hangry when there's an unusually long stretch between feedings.
I wasn't suggesting that it's a problem, just that the response of irritability to slight hunger pains is learned behavior that falls in line with what ketchup was saying. And of course every person is different, some people actually have an acute response to low blood sugar.
I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
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The old saying:
You have two choices for dinner
1. Take it
2. Or leave it
Ha. Wish I could use this on my picky eater. He has no feeling from his belly button down (born with spina bifida), and he's only 5, so we're not even sure that he perceives hunger in the same way that we do. He gained zero weight between 6 months and 2-1/2 years, so withholding food was not an option. We have made countless attempts to get him to eat healthier, and they've all ended in hours of crying and resentment, so we just do our best to accommodate his tastes (heavy on carbs and dairy, very few vegetables, and absolutely no fruit whatsoever) and get on with our lives. Frankly, it could be worse. Cheese quesadillas and peanut butter sandwiches are about the easiest foods possible to prepare.
I was a picky eater as a kid, too. The only veggies I ate until college were green beans and Irish potatoes. I grew out of it, and so will he. My daughter is an eclectic eater, but it's not because we forced her to try stuff. She's just naturally more inclined to try foods that she isn't familiar with.
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It's possible my parents could have inspired some of it had they done things differently, but I really have no idea what could have worked.
I'm no parenting expert (far from it), but it seems that the "This is what we're eating, and you will eat it too, if you're hungry" approach tends to work for kids. I mean, you don't see kids in third world countries starving to death because they don't like whatever awful food happens to be available.
Which leads me to... I hate the fact that our culture has become one of constant eating. I love food, but I really try to eat only when hungry and not use food as entertainment. The average American's day is pretty much one giant meal occasionally interrupted by an activity. We're surrounded by food, smells of food, discussions of food, and photos of food in ads. I've actually had to explain to people that they will be just fine if their next meal is delayed by a few hours. It won't do any physical harm! People panic when they start to feel real hunger because they're not used to feeling it and think something must be going very wrong!
I don't eat constantly, but I have definitely noticed that I get more distracted and irritable and bothered by smaller things when I haven't eaten in a few hours. My boyfriend has noticed as well, and we joke about him having to carry a granola bar in case I get upset over something minor. I'm usually a pretty happy and easy going person, but being hangry is real, so I always try to keep a snack on hand before I start snapping at people who don't deserve it, or messing up simple work because I can't concentrate as well. Maybe you can handle hunger better, and obviously if I was actually starving or unable to procure food it would be a different problem, but there can be real physical effects to being a bit hungry.
But perhaps we get hangry because we've trained our bodies a certain way? I've also seen people get irritable when they don't have easy access to their smartphones, that's certainly not a natural reaction.
I think we can train ourselves to become irritable over any slight discomfort if we always give in to our discomfort much like any kid will become a brat if you give them what they want whenever they throw a fit. Your body throws a little fit, it gets what it wants.
Well I don't think irritability due to low blood sugar is necessarily my body throwing a fit, it's just sending natural signals about something it considers a problem. As long as I'm eating on a regular schedule, I don't think eating when I'm hungry is a problem that I need to solve by ignoring my body's cues. I will usually drink some water as a first resort, but I don't really see the point in purposely delaying a meal to train my body to get over being hungry. That could easily turn into disordered eating.
Of course, this would be a different issue if someone genuinely had an eating addiction or was constantly inhaling food. I eat three meals a day with one or two snacks in between, which is a perfectly healthy schedule, and I usually only get hangry when there's an unusually long stretch between feedings.
I wasn't suggesting that it's a problem, just that the response of irritability to slight hunger pains is learned behavior that falls in line with what ketchup was saying. And of course every person is different, some people actually have an acute response to low blood sugar.
I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
I've bonked a few times on long bike rides. My body does weird things to my emotions when I get low blood sugar, things way beyond a little irritability.
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I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
There are actually studies that indicate that fasting can be a risk factor for disordered eating. Not always, and not in everyone, but there is a link there. For a person at a healthy weight, restricting calories or eating times is unnecessary and potentially harmful. For people with current or former eating disorders, fasting is downright dangerous, and for overweight individuals, fasting as a weight loss strategy should probably only be done with the supervision of a doctor.
That being said, I just meant to point out that hanger is real, going too long without food can cause it, and eating when you're hungry is probably the best way to go, instead of trying to train your body to ignore those cues as if eating is some sort of addiction, because it's not.
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I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
There are actually studies that indicate that fasting can be a risk factor for disordered eating. Not always, and not in everyone, but there is a link there. For a person at a healthy weight, restricting calories or eating times is unnecessary and potentially harmful. For people with current or former eating disorders, fasting is downright dangerous, and for overweight individuals, fasting as a weight loss strategy should probably only be done with the supervision of a doctor.
That being said, I just meant to point out that hanger is real, going too long without food can cause it, and eating when you're hungry is probably the best way to go, instead of trying to train your body to ignore those cues as if eating is some sort of addiction, because it's not.
citation link?
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I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
There are actually studies that indicate that fasting can be a risk factor for disordered eating. Not always, and not in everyone, but there is a link there. For a person at a healthy weight, restricting calories or eating times is unnecessary and potentially harmful. For people with current or former eating disorders, fasting is downright dangerous, and for overweight individuals, fasting as a weight loss strategy should probably only be done with the supervision of a doctor.
That being said, I just meant to point out that hanger is real, going too long without food can cause it, and eating when you're hungry is probably the best way to go, instead of trying to train your body to ignore those cues as if eating is some sort of addiction, because it's not.
citation link?
Not a study, but a discussion on why you shouldn't ignore hunger cues
http://nedic.ca/blog/your-hunger-not-meant-be-suppressed
A study that shows a link between fasting and bulimia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850570/
And this is about the link between religious fasting and eating disorders
https://www.scienceofeds.org/2015/04/10/not-so-fast-is-there-a-connection-between-religious-fasting-and-eating-disorders/
From what I can tell, it seems like fasting can be a trigger for an eating disorder for some people, but obviously not everyone who fasts will develop one.
If I can tie this back into the thread title, I hate how our culture pushes such a narrow beauty ideal and so much bad science on nutrition and eating habits to the point that people literally kill themselves and live miserable lives dieting to attain that ideal. I blame the processed food industry too for the disinformation and advertising they push to get people to eat their garbage products. I think the obesity issue and the eating disorder issue are both symptoms of a society that is fed conflicting ideas about how to eat well.
I hate how far removed most people's eating habits are from what is healthy and how it is perceived as too difficult or expensive to eat a diet of mostly whole natural foods prepared at home and shared among loved ones.
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I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
There are actually studies that indicate that fasting can be a risk factor for disordered eating. Not always, and not in everyone, but there is a link there. For a person at a healthy weight, restricting calories or eating times is unnecessary and potentially harmful. For people with current or former eating disorders, fasting is downright dangerous, and for overweight individuals, fasting as a weight loss strategy should probably only be done with the supervision of a doctor.
That being said, I just meant to point out that hanger is real, going too long without food can cause it, and eating when you're hungry is probably the best way to go, instead of trying to train your body to ignore those cues as if eating is some sort of addiction, because it's not.
citation link?
Not a study, but a discussion on why you shouldn't ignore hunger cues
http://nedic.ca/blog/your-hunger-not-meant-be-suppressed
A study that shows a link between fasting and bulimia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850570/
And this is about the link between religious fasting and eating disorders
https://www.scienceofeds.org/2015/04/10/not-so-fast-is-there-a-connection-between-religious-fasting-and-eating-disorders/
From what I can tell, it seems like fasting can be a trigger for an eating disorder for some people, but obviously not everyone who fasts will develop one.
If I can tie this back into the thread title, I hate how our culture pushes such a narrow beauty ideal and so much bad science on nutrition and eating habits to the point that people literally kill themselves and live miserable lives dieting to attain that ideal. I blame the processed food industry too for the disinformation and advertising they push to get people to eat their garbage products. I think the obesity issue and the eating disorder issue are both symptoms of a society that is fed conflicting ideas about how to eat well.
I hate how far removed most people's eating habits are from what is healthy and how it is perceived as too difficult or expensive to eat a diet of mostly whole natural foods prepared at home and shared among loved ones.
ah, got it. in the context of eating disorders, you don't want to encourage at-risk persons to stop eating.
i've mostly seen time restricted feeding and fasting in the context of athletic performance and as a way to reverse metabolic disease.
i share your hate and disgust for the food/marketing/beauty industry. i refuse to watch anything with commercials. my daughter is 9 so she's about to be bombarded with toxic messaging from that segment of our society. she hardly ever sees tv commercials so i'd say 80% of it will be averted, but you can't control what her friends are watching and repeating so i'm sure we'll have an ongoing conversation about image and all that. thankfully she's a fully committed athlete, which keeps her busy and fit.
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I hate it that they are showing Christmas commercials and Christmas music already. GRRRRRR!!!! Now for 6 weeks that is all we will hear.
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I hate it that they are showing Christmas commercials and Christmas music already. GRRRRRR!!!! Now for 6 weeks that is all we will hear.
Not if you don't watch TV and avoid radio like I do from Nov - Jan every year. Bah, humbug.
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I hate it that they are showing Christmas commercials and Christmas music already. GRRRRRR!!!! Now for 6 weeks that is all we will hear.
Not if you don't watch TV and avoid radio like I do from Nov - Jan every year. Bah, humbug.
And Christmas music in general. My taste in music doesn't change with the seasons.
If we could limit it to carolers and Christmas day/eve that'd be great.
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I hate it that they are showing Christmas commercials and Christmas music already. GRRRRRR!!!! Now for 6 weeks that is all we will hear.
Not if you don't watch TV and avoid radio like I do from Nov - Jan every year. Bah, humbug.
And Christmas music in general. My taste in music doesn't change with the seasons.
If we could limit it to carolers and Christmas day/eve that'd be great.
Yes, there are a couple hours every year (either on Christmas eve or Christmas morning) where certain types of Christmas music is appropriate.
Actually, no.
There's only one acceptable Christmas song . . . it's the Carol of the Bells, as performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. That song can be played on repeat during those designated Christmas hours.
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I call for a nationwide ban on The Little Drummer Boy in all its incarnations.
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They play Christmas music in all the stores and it is beyond annoying. They think they are putting people in the spirit. They are putting me into anger mode. I DO NOT WANT to hear it! I have heard it all my life and enough is enough. Play it in your homes, not in public places unless people know it is going to be playing there.
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They play Christmas music in all the stores and it is beyond annoying. They think they are putting people in the spirit. They are putting me into anger mode. I DO NOT WANT to hear it! I have heard it all my life and enough is enough. Play it in your homes, not in public places unless people know it is going to be playing there.
I got to hear someone outside the grocery store singing Jingle Bells yesterday. You're a fine singer, but I don't need to hear that while I'm just trying to go in, buy my bananas and broccoli and GTFO.
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They play Christmas music in all the stores and it is beyond annoying. They think they are putting people in the spirit. They are putting me into anger mode. I DO NOT WANT to hear it! I have heard it all my life and enough is enough. Play it in your homes, not in public places unless people know it is going to be playing there.
I can so much recommend online shopping, especially for things like Christmas presents. Like on Black Friday I want to shop something in the hope that the price will be lowered. But I don't bother visiting the physical shop. At home I don't hear the Christmas music (sound on PC is by default turned off) and I don't have to bother with lots of other customers.
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People who talk in a movie theater!
The rest of us paid our admission fees and there's a pretty good chance that we came to actually SEE THE MOVIE. Not listen to a couple of gal pals who are chattering away mindlessly and discussing who texted them 3 seconds ago. While rustling their way through a $14 bag of Milk Duds. SHUT UP.
Generally you could consider me pretty much of a pacifist. But talking during a movie should be considered a felony, punishable by a year in a silent Buddhist monastery.
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People who talk in a movie theater!
The rest of us paid our admission fees and there's a pretty good chance that we came to actually SEE THE MOVIE. Not listen to a couple of gal pals who are chattering away mindlessly and discussing who texted them 3 seconds ago. While rustling their way through a $14 bag of Milk Duds. SHUT UP.
Generally you could consider me pretty much of a pacifist. But talking during a movie should be considered a felony, punishable by a year in a silent Buddhist monastery.
Why would you plague innocent monks and nuns with people like that? Lock them in a cell for a month and play The Little Drummer Boy 24/7.
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People who talk in a movie theater!
The rest of us paid our admission fees and there's a pretty good chance that we came to actually SEE THE MOVIE. Not listen to a couple of gal pals who are chattering away mindlessly and discussing who texted them 3 seconds ago. While rustling their way through a $14 bag of Milk Duds. SHUT UP.
Generally you could consider me pretty much of a pacifist. But talking during a movie should be considered a felony, punishable by a year in a silent Buddhist monastery.
Funny bit from Tom Segura:
"If you bring a baby into a movie theater, you're a piece of shit. If your reason for doing it is that you couldn't get a babysitter, then you don't get to go to the movies."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOQjJ3lCfpQ
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Why do people bring babies to car races or baseball or football games where there is danger and too much noise for a babies ears?
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Why do people bring babies to car races or baseball or football games where there is danger and too much noise for a babies ears?
Well when they do they usually put ear protection on the baby, and it's not exactly that dangerous to be a spectator at an event like that. Maybe people want to go do activities and not have to worry about leaving their babies at home, and they want to share something they enjoy with their new little human. It's not like babies need to be kept in isolation for their first few years. (Purely speculating, I don't have any children, but it doesn't bother me to see them out in public)
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I bought a new Sony phone and tried to transfer all my stuff from my old Samsung phone. That doesn't work. I have managed to transfer about half of the contacts. The rest is on my Samsung account instead of om my sim card.
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People who talk in a movie theater!
The rest of us paid our admission fees and there's a pretty good chance that we came to actually SEE THE MOVIE. Not listen to a couple of gal pals who are chattering away mindlessly and discussing who texted them 3 seconds ago. While rustling their way through a $14 bag of Milk Duds. SHUT UP.
Generally you could consider me pretty much of a pacifist. But talking during a movie should be considered a felony, punishable by a year in a silent Buddhist monastery.
Big one for me and why i wont go to the movies anymore. Between that and the food crunching its just gotten ridiculous or I am just getting old! probably combination of both. Besides most movies are not worth not waiting for to come out at redbox, netflix or?
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Somewhere higher up in this thread I probably complained about technical issues at my job that didn't work.
The two browser-based programs that I use most all the time, didn't work when I take my laptop out of it's docking station. Madness: I have put up with that for 4 years.
But suddenly today, in a meeting with 2 co-workers, I found out it was working for both of them. I checked my own laptop, and it worked there as well. So now I can finally take my laptop to a meeting room and do some work, instead of logging in through Citrix or other badly working solutions.
So one of my major hate-issues at work has finally disappeared!
The person who made the change could have sent out an email about the improvement though, but all in all I am very pleased about it.
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I hate it that they are showing Christmas commercials and Christmas music already. GRRRRRR!!!! Now for 6 weeks that is all we will hear.
KEEP CHRI$T IN XMA$.
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GRRRRRR, I just went over to a town that is about 8 miles away from my house. I live on an extremely windy State road but it is only two narrow lanes. The speed limit is 30-35 miles an hour (it changes) and even less, 20 miles per hour on certain elbow curves. It does NOT matter how fast I travel on that road someone tailgates me. Today I went around 40 miles per hour which is 10 MPH over the posted speed limit. Can anyone tell me what is the mentality of tail gaters? This is a very dangerous curvy narrow road. I have seen people drive on it going probably 65 MPH. I really don't know how they navigate these sharp curves. Many do have crashes on this road and telephone poles get hit all the time. Why is there never a cop around when tailgaters are tailgating? This isn't the only road I get tailgated on. It seems everywhere people are so obnoxious and disregard all driving rules. Not to mention we have deer and wild turkeys that can be in the road at any given moment. I am surprised there aren't dead bodies all over the roads from accidents.
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I am despising shipping methods. I am trying to organize my house and I have been purchasing some different type of organizers. Some of the stuff is taking two weeks or more to get here. Some come directly from China and that takes weeks and weeks. This Smart Post delivery is the worst. By the time I get the items I have kind of forgotten what I bought them for. I did tracking on some of my packages and they made around 15 stops to get to CT. Seems we are going backwards in delivery service instead of forward. Like the stuff is coming by mule train. If companies use the Post Office I find the items arrive very quickly. Any other method is so slow!
Another reason I don't buy cheap stuff shipped directly from China (or any other place overseas) to save a few bucks. On Ebay, I'll even filter out anything that doesn't ship from North America.
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GRRRRRR, I just went over to a town that is about 8 miles away from my house. I live on an extremely windy State road but it is only two narrow lanes. The speed limit is 30-35 miles an hour (it changes) and even less, 20 miles per hour on certain elbow curves. It does NOT matter how fast I travel on that road someone tailgates me. Today I went around 40 miles per hour which is 10 MPH over the posted speed limit. Can anyone tell me what is the mentality of tail gaters? This is a very dangerous curvy narrow road. I have seen people drive on it going probably 65 MPH. I really don't know how they navigate these sharp curves. Many do have crashes on this road and telephone poles get hit all the time. Why is there never a cop around when tailgaters are tailgating? This isn't the only road I get tailgated on. It seems everywhere people are so obnoxious and disregard all driving rules. Not to mention we have deer and wild turkeys that can be in the road at any given moment. I am surprised there aren't dead bodies all over the roads from accidents.
+1. Many people drive far above the speed limit. And some of them end up with their car wrapped up around a streetlight pole. Some others end up killing someone else.
I try to drive responsibly (slow enough) on roads in my neighbourhood with 30 km/h limit. But indeed, there is always a car tailgating me and passing me as soon as there is a chance.
On particularly dangerous roads, the road owner could/should set up speed cameras or even devices that measure average speed over a distance, if such things are allowed in your country. Can't you request for a speed camera to be set up?
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Coconuts. The flavor is not good, the texture is terrible. I can eat most anything but its the one thing I put my foot down about.
Linda in Norway: avoid the review articles about phones. I found that they nitpicked details no normal person would worry about. Same as the car magazine articles about new cars. The article is a blend of the manufacturer's press release (the positives) and then perhaps one or two nit picky negative opinions that the writer relies on to prove that they are being objective.
If you want an Android device look at the Asus Zenfone series. I bought an older version 3. Its been great. Nice camera and display, good free apps from the manufacturer, long battery life, etc.
These are so frustrating. "Wellll, I really don't like the way you can see finger smudges on the metal backing so there's definitely some cons... but here's 17 AMAZING things about this phone!"
Fun Fact: When you find one of those reviews that has one very miniscule negative point and then multiple positive points, it is likely a paid review. They write them that way so as not to catch Amazon/Ebay/Whatevers attention but to still provide a ranking boost for the company who is paying them.
Maybe you were already saying this and I lost it in the thread, but I just thought I'd mention that.
Thanks. You're right!
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I rarely go to Whole Foods, but occasionally I need something I can't find elsewhere. I assume it's some sort of corporate rule, because in two different states now, the cashiers have asked me if I "have any fun plans for today/tonight/this weekend." Typically it's just a regular day for me, so no, I don't. I almost feel like I should make something up! "The Queen is coming to dinner" or "Yes, I'm so excited to go home and organize my sock drawer!" I understand they're trying to be friendly, but it feels like prying. "Hello" would be sufficient.
You could try the response I would use:
"Nope."
99.9% effective . . .
:P
Oh yes, tonight we are having a group ritual murder of the neighbor's cat. We'll roast him over a fire and then eat him...
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I hate it when I am trying to read an on line paper and these damn pop ups keep interrupting me! STUPID advertisements. I will never to go to the restaurants that pop up. Or when they force you to watch an advertisement for 30 seconds before you can 'skip' out of it! I refuse to watch it! STUPID!
Install these in your browser: EFF HTTPS, EFF Badger, uBlock Origin. Badger and Origin do some of the same things but they don't conflict.
They pretty much take care of all the popups, simplify the ads on a website, and make life better. They are from trusted software sources.
I don't mind websites making a living but some are really obnoxious. I avoid websites that are that intrusive.
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
They are damn good in caprese salads though...
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Raw tomatoes are the Devil. Except - for some damn reason - in Turkey (the country).
I'll agree, but with the exception of thinly sliced on a burger or salad. But nowhere else.
They are damn good in caprese salads though...
Hell yeah!
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I hate empty promises.
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What bugs me isn't the junk mail itself, it's the waste. Unfortunately, returning to sender just creates more waste . . . it doesn't address the problem.
Completely agree. And on that note, I'm horrified and disgusted by the number of print catalogs I get from companies whose entire purported MO is environmental sustainability/justice, etc. Makes me absolutely rage.
If anyone else has a compost worm farm, I can happily report that our worms eat up a decent amount of our junk mail (particularly those newsprint circulars that we can never seem to get rid of). Great for controlling moisture when they get a little soggy.
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What bugs me isn't the junk mail itself, it's the waste. Unfortunately, returning to sender just creates more waste . . . it doesn't address the problem.
Completely agree. And on that note, I'm horrified and disgusted by the number of print catalogs I get from companies whose entire purported MO is environmental sustainability/justice, etc. Makes me absolutely rage.
If anyone else has a compost worm farm, I can happily report that our worms eat up a decent amount of our junk mail (particularly those newsprint circulars that we can never seem to get rid of). Great for controlling moisture when they get a little soggy.
Oddly, I've never received catalogues in the mail. But I have heard you can take them and other junk mail and turn them into logs.
https://www.instructables.com/id/Cook-Using-Junk-Mail-Make-Paper-Logs-Burn-in-a-Roc/
And if your house is designed for it, heat it with a rocket stove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJyxptclos
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What bugs me isn't the junk mail itself, it's the waste. Unfortunately, returning to sender just creates more waste . . . it doesn't address the problem.
If anyone else has a compost worm farm, I can happily report that our worms eat up a decent amount of our junk mail (particularly those newsprint circulars that we can never seem to get rid of). Great for controlling moisture when they get a little soggy.
I have been thinking of starting composting for a while now-can I hear more about worm composting?
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I placed an order November 27th. The items shipped from Texas. I have been tracking the shipment and it arrived to my town in CT on December 5th. I should have gotten it the next day but NOPE, it sat at the PO till December 8th and then went to Vermont! WTF? The location is 4 hours north of my town. So Monday it will be 13 days from time of order IF by chance it arrives here. Post Office blew it. GRRRRRRRRR!!!!
This shipping crap is really irking me. Anyone getting delivery from Laser Ship? Walmart uses it and they are the worst! Packages arrive at odd hours and late at night. They place giant boxes in front of your front door so you can't even open the door! With this cold weather if you order something liquid it will freeze if you don't know the package is out there. GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
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I hate: The architectural " style" that has the garage as the major/ only feature. I've been in residential neighborhoods that looked like industrial alleyways.
I understand tight lots, but would pushing the garage back a few feet really be that much of a problem?
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I have been thinking of starting composting for a while now-can I hear more about worm composting?
You don't necessarily need the worms. We have a large composting bin in the garden that is insulated on the outside and on the top. It is animal proof. We just add greens from the kitchen and from the garden. From time to time we stir the top layer around with a small pitchfork. If it is too humid, we add some sawdust from a bag that came with the bin. It works very well. Within half a year, the lower half turns to earth. This has happened several times already. We can take the earth it out from below. We bought the bin secondhand for a low price. It does smell a bit in the summer, when the decaying process goes fast. So it should be in a place where it doesn't bother you or your neighbours.
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I hate: The architectural " style" that has the garage as the major/ only feature. I've been in residential neighborhoods that looked like industrial alleyways.
I understand tight lots, but would pushing the garage back a few feet really be that much of a problem?
We call that a Garage Mahal. It was a deal-breaker when I was house hunting.
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I hate: The architectural " style" that has the garage as the major/ only feature. I've been in residential neighborhoods that looked like industrial alleyways.
I understand tight lots, but would pushing the garage back a few feet really be that much of a problem?
We call that a Garage Mahal. It was a deal-breaker when I was house hunting.
The name sounds better than they look! It is really bad in cooky-cutter developments. I was trying to insert a pic, but I don't know/forgotten how.
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Tiny lots almost dictate that kind of home design. I new someone whose garage was on the back of the house. There was a driveway's width of space between the end of the house and the property line. Once the car got around back there was a big concrete pad to turn around on or the driver could simply back into the rear facing garage. It worked well and gave the front of the house a tidy look.
From a garage hobbyist point of view a forward facing garage is terrible b/c in the evening if the garage door is open then anyone who passes by can see all your hobby equipment - tools, gym equipment, whatever. Night time lights make it even worse. Great way to attract thieves.
I'm happy someone wants to live in those tight little neighborhoods with the forward facing garages. Not my family though. Our garage is our project space. We don't need a mansion, just a cottage size house but the lot needs to give us enough outside space to play.
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I hate: The architectural " style" that has the garage as the major/ only feature. I've been in residential neighborhoods that looked like industrial alleyways.
I understand tight lots, but would pushing the garage back a few feet really be that much of a problem?
We call that a Garage Mahal. It was a deal-breaker when I was house hunting.
The name sounds better than they look! It is really bad in cooky-cutter developments. I was trying to insert a pic, but I don't know/forgotten how.
I hate it too for aesthetic reasons but see the point of it from an efficiency standpoint. Much less snow to shovel, and you get more green space behind the house. I have never lived in one. My parents have the garage underneath the house, which accomplishes the same thing without being so glaring.
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I hate: The architectural " style" that has the garage as the major/ only feature. I've been in residential neighborhoods that looked like industrial alleyways.
I understand tight lots, but would pushing the garage back a few feet really be that much of a problem?
We call that a Garage Mahal. It was a deal-breaker when I was house hunting.
The name sounds better than they look! It is really bad in cooky-cutter developments. I was trying to insert a pic, but I don't know/forgotten how.
I hate it too for aesthetic reasons but see the point of it from an efficiency standpoint. Much less snow to shovel, and you get more green space behind the house. I have never lived in one. My parents have the garage underneath the house, which accomplishes the same thing without being so glaring.
One of my colleagues is building an underground garage. That is a really expensive solution compared to building one above ground. Pretty, but not the most economic solution.
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I wouldn't worry about occasional fasting turning into disordered eating, there's lots of evidence of health benefits and of all the studies I've seen there's never been any indication that temporary fasting can change eating patterns in an unhealthy way.
There are actually studies that indicate that fasting can be a risk factor for disordered eating. Not always, and not in everyone, but there is a link there. For a person at a healthy weight, restricting calories or eating times is unnecessary and potentially harmful. For people with current or former eating disorders, fasting is downright dangerous, and for overweight individuals, fasting as a weight loss strategy should probably only be done with the supervision of a doctor.
That being said, I just meant to point out that hanger is real, going too long without food can cause it, and eating when you're hungry is probably the best way to go, instead of trying to train your body to ignore those cues as if eating is some sort of addiction, because it's not.
citation link?
Not a study, but a discussion on why you shouldn't ignore hunger cues
http://nedic.ca/blog/your-hunger-not-meant-be-suppressed
A study that shows a link between fasting and bulimia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850570/
And this is about the link between religious fasting and eating disorders
https://www.scienceofeds.org/2015/04/10/not-so-fast-is-there-a-connection-between-religious-fasting-and-eating-disorders/
From what I can tell, it seems like fasting can be a trigger for an eating disorder for some people, but obviously not everyone who fasts will develop one.
If I can tie this back into the thread title, I hate how our culture pushes such a narrow beauty ideal and so much bad science on nutrition and eating habits to the point that people literally kill themselves and live miserable lives dieting to attain that ideal. I blame the processed food industry too for the disinformation and advertising they push to get people to eat their garbage products. I think the obesity issue and the eating disorder issue are both symptoms of a society that is fed conflicting ideas about how to eat well.
I hate how far removed most people's eating habits are from what is healthy and how it is perceived as too difficult or expensive to eat a diet of mostly whole natural foods prepared at home and shared among loved ones.
ah, got it. in the context of eating disorders, you don't want to encourage at-risk persons to stop eating.
i've mostly seen time restricted feeding and fasting in the context of athletic performance and as a way to reverse metabolic disease.
i share your hate and disgust for the food/marketing/beauty industry. i refuse to watch anything with commercials. my daughter is 9 so she's about to be bombarded with toxic messaging from that segment of our society. she hardly ever sees tv commercials so i'd say 80% of it will be averted, but you can't control what her friends are watching and repeating so i'm sure we'll have an ongoing conversation about image and all that. thankfully she's a fully committed athlete, which keeps her busy and fit.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/05/giudice-on-the-self-starvation-cycle/
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Apparently China and other countries are tired of low quality recycling ( really just garbage) dumped on them. Smaller communities are now just chucking everything.
I remember at work the same happened.
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Apparently China and other countries are tired of low quality recycling ( really just garbage) dumped on them. Smaller communities are now just chucking everything.
I remember at work the same happened.
I have seen this before but they went back to normal pick up where they had separate trucks pick it up. Sometimes I think they are short handed and just say screw it and just use one truck. I did hear about the China thing and this has got to be a disaster on what to do with all this plastic, cans and newspapers. What are they doing with all the soda cans that we recycle?
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Some garbage trucks are divided on the back. The rest garbage goes left, the other goes right. Let's hope it was that. Ask a question to your provider or ask the local newspaper to check it.
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I have glaucoma and am always at the eye doctor for pressure checks on my eye balls. I went on Medicare last year and also bought Plan F supplement. With Plan F, I should have almost no doctor bills. So I go to the eye specialist the other day after about 2 months and I am thinking I will not get charged. When I am done, they tell me I owe $55 for the eye test (for glasses). I did not ask for this test and did not give it any thought when the doctor was doing it. I had the damn test done 6 months prior. SOOOO, this doctor is scamming to get additional monies from his patients. Before I went to the appointment, I said to myself, Okay, I am on Medicare and Plan F so I shouldn't pay anything today. Then I get hit for $55 because Medicare does not pay for regular eye exams. I paid twice for this exam in one year! I spoke to the woman in the office and asked how many times a year is this regular eye exam done. She said it is only needed one time a year. I mentioned the glaucoma and maybe that had something to do with it and she said NO, it is only needed one time a year. She asked if I wanted her to put a note in my file to only have one exam a year and I said yes. GRRRR!!! This really, really IRKS me!
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Went to the grocery store on Friday and bought a crap load of stuff. I have some very nice insulated bags and some regular tote bags. I wasn't paying too much attention to the lady who was bagging but what a HORRIBLE job she did. I did not expect she was going to put cans and jars in the insulated bags along with meat and other cold stuff. She also put bread at the bottom of a bag and put some items on top of it and you guessed it, bread was a bit squashed. She also had so much weight on top of the cold cuts, the cheese I bought was bent! I had a box of cereal that was squashed and the box was a disaster. Come on, putting crap in bags is not a job you have to go to college for 4 years. Is there no common sense at all anymore? OMG, when I got out to my car I had to repack everything. This woman didn't look stupid or maybe she just didn't care. UGH! I think as children we all played with blocks and had to figure what shape went into what hole to fit. What is so difficult in packing groceries? Like items go together. Meat and cold items go together. Boxed, items (cereal, pasta, rice, oatmeal) go together. Produce goes together. Canned and glass items go together but not 150 lbs in one bag. Bread, chips, delicate items go together. Laundry and soap items go together. Simple Simon could do this. UGH!
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Ahaha, I am totally totally OCD on the bagging thing. It's ONE of the reasons I go to the cheapie grocery stores that make you bag your own stuff, or I should say *lets you* heh. When I go home, I want to pick up a bag and go ONE place, refrigerator, pantry, warm produce, bathroom, etc.
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Went to the grocery store on Friday and bought a crap load of stuff. I have some very nice insulated bags and some regular tote bags. I wasn't paying too much attention to the lady who was bagging but what a HORRIBLE job she did. I did not expect she was going to put cans and jars in the insulated bags along with meat and other cold stuff. She also put bread at the bottom of a bag and put some items on top of it and you guessed it, bread was a bit squashed. She also had so much weight on top of the cold cuts, the cheese I bought was bent! I had a box of cereal that was squashed and the box was a disaster. Come on, putting crap in bags is not a job you have to go to college for 4 years. Is there no common sense at all anymore? OMG, when I got out to my car I had to repack everything. This woman didn't look stupid or maybe she just didn't care. UGH! I think as children we all played with blocks and had to figure what shape went into what hole to fit. What is so difficult in packing groceries? Like items go together. Meat and cold items go together. Boxed, items (cereal, pasta, rice, oatmeal) go together. Produce goes together. Canned and glass items go together but not 150 lbs in one bag. Bread, chips, delicate items go together. Laundry and soap items go together. Simple Simon could do this. UGH!
We don't have this, people putting groceries in your bag. We are always stressing ourselves to fill our bags while the cashier is still scanning articles. If I have the time, I pack it in a very organized way. But if the scanning goes fast and the next customer is waiting, I throw everything in in a less organized way. Feel really bad about that. Shopping is best when you are two, so that one person can pack and the other can pay. But when does that happen?
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Some garbage trucks are divided on the back. The rest garbage goes left, the other goes right. Let's hope it was that. Ask a question to your provider or ask the local newspaper to check it.
This recycle thing is becoming a real problem in the USA. China used to take our recyclables but now they have more stringent rules on what they will take and that is almost nothing. So the garbage companies are in a bind as what to do with these things they can't get rid of. There was a show on tv about it and one big problem that was discussed is that we have too many one time use containers going into the trash. All those juice boxes, cans, bottles. Styrofoam that cannot be recycled. All the plastic that is in our oceans. Very sad indeed.
Ahaha, I am totally totally OCD on the bagging thing. It's ONE of the reasons I go to the cheapie grocery stores that make you bag your own stuff, or I should say *lets you* heh. When I go home, I want to pick up a bag and go ONE place, refrigerator, pantry, warm produce, bathroom, etc.
My complaint Johnez is geared around what you said. If all my meats, dairy, cold items are in one bag it makes it easier to unload the stuff in the refrigerator. Same with canned, jarred, veggies or boxed things. Everything is in one place and not scattered from bag to bag. I have an organized way of looking at this that the baggers don't seem to have. I do think when cardboard boxes and bread are crushed by cans and jars I do have a reason to crab about it!
Aldi is the only store other than Costco in my area that doesn't pack your grocery bags.
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Went to the grocery store on Friday and bought a crap load of stuff. I have some very nice insulated bags and some regular tote bags. I wasn't paying too much attention to the lady who was bagging but what a HORRIBLE job she did. I did not expect she was going to put cans and jars in the insulated bags along with meat and other cold stuff. She also put bread at the bottom of a bag and put some items on top of it and you guessed it, bread was a bit squashed. She also had so much weight on top of the cold cuts, the cheese I bought was bent! I had a box of cereal that was squashed and the box was a disaster. Come on, putting crap in bags is not a job you have to go to college for 4 years. Is there no common sense at all anymore? OMG, when I got out to my car I had to repack everything. This woman didn't look stupid or maybe she just didn't care. UGH! I think as children we all played with blocks and had to figure what shape went into what hole to fit. What is so difficult in packing groceries? Like items go together. Meat and cold items go together. Boxed, items (cereal, pasta, rice, oatmeal) go together. Produce goes together. Canned and glass items go together but not 150 lbs in one bag. Bread, chips, delicate items go together. Laundry and soap items go together. Simple Simon could do this. UGH!
We don't have this, people putting groceries in your bag. We are always stressing ourselves to fill our bags while the cashier is still scanning articles. If I have the time, I pack it in a very organized way. But if the scanning goes fast and the next customer is waiting, I throw everything in in a less organized way. Feel really bad about that. Shopping is best when you are two, so that one person can pack and the other can pay. But when does that happen?
This is what I hate about grocery shopping here in Italy - I'm usually dealing with 2 kids, while both bagging and paying for my groceries all at the same time. And then other people get grumpy when I'm not fast enough and there isn't room for their stuff. I really miss grocery baggers in the US.
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Went to the grocery store on Friday and bought a crap load of stuff. I have some very nice insulated bags and some regular tote bags. I wasn't paying too much attention to the lady who was bagging but what a HORRIBLE job she did. I did not expect she was going to put cans and jars in the insulated bags along with meat and other cold stuff. She also put bread at the bottom of a bag and put some items on top of it and you guessed it, bread was a bit squashed. She also had so much weight on top of the cold cuts, the cheese I bought was bent! I had a box of cereal that was squashed and the box was a disaster. Come on, putting crap in bags is not a job you have to go to college for 4 years. Is there no common sense at all anymore? OMG, when I got out to my car I had to repack everything. This woman didn't look stupid or maybe she just didn't care. UGH! I think as children we all played with blocks and had to figure what shape went into what hole to fit. What is so difficult in packing groceries? Like items go together. Meat and cold items go together. Boxed, items (cereal, pasta, rice, oatmeal) go together. Produce goes together. Canned and glass items go together but not 150 lbs in one bag. Bread, chips, delicate items go together. Laundry and soap items go together. Simple Simon could do this. UGH!
We don't have this, people putting groceries in your bag. We are always stressing ourselves to fill our bags while the cashier is still scanning articles. If I have the time, I pack it in a very organized way. But if the scanning goes fast and the next customer is waiting, I throw everything in in a less organized way. Feel really bad about that. Shopping is best when you are two, so that one person can pack and the other can pay. But when does that happen?
This is what I hate about grocery shopping here in Italy - I'm usually dealing with 2 kids, while both bagging and paying for my groceries all at the same time. And then other people get grumpy when I'm not fast enough and there isn't room for their stuff. I really miss grocery baggers in the US.
Well Hula Hoop,, I guess in your situation with 2 kids any bagger would be better than none just to get the stuff packed up. I usually end up reorganizing the stuff in my car. It drives me NUTS!
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Some garbage trucks are divided on the back. The rest garbage goes left, the other goes right. Let's hope it was that. Ask a question to your provider or ask the local newspaper to check it.
This irritates the hell out of me too and While in our area we do have some trucks that do both most don't. What i have been watching though is that if there is any weather of any kind then for sure its just dumped in the same truck. I saw a special not that long ago that one of the biggest problems is all these plastic bags jam up the recycling machines. It makes sense and they showed video. You take a plastic bag and twist it up it becomes one piece of strong as rope type thing. Anyhow we seem to have gone backwards in the recycling in our area.
Another thing I am hating of late is I have had to deal with more snow this winter than probably the last 5 years in combined the body is just not built for it. Even with a snow blower.
The robocalls I am with everyone on. So many times to I get calls and it ends up not being a rule human though it sounds like it until you ask a question. Alot of these seem more job related.
I hate the fact I pay taxes for our good schools but yet they are always asking for us to donate and bring more stuff to school. Our teachers in my mind are underpaid and then they need to beg for stuff is ridiculous. This to me is just wrong. Where are our priorities when it comes to kids/Future. This is an area if my taxes had to go up a few bucks then so be it.
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i know this thread is about things we hate, but there is a simple solution to the bagging problem. i take my own bag and tell teh bagger 'i got it, thank you' and they usually are busy enough to find something else to do for 3 minutes while i bag the stuff. also tell the checker to send me the heavy stuff first so it goes in the bottom, or place items on the counter in order i want to bag them.
as for the Looks from people behind me.. oh well! i do my thing you do yours and frankly it's usually faster for me to bag than to wait for the checker to start bagging.
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the thing i HATE the most is when my spendy wife loads up the credit card with $2k worth of shit she wants without a thought about what that does to our finances. i'm honestly so tired and beat down by her financial abuse that fighting is just pointless.
i HATE the phrase 'happy wife, happy life'. more like happy wife, broke life.
(we have an amazing almost 10yr old so anything other than staying married is out of the equation.)
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In Canada, nobody at a grocery store will bag your groceries. It's expected that you will do it yourself with your own bags. You can purchase plastic bags if you want though. :P
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i know this thread is about things we hate, but there is a simple solution to the bagging problem. i take my own bag and tell teh bagger 'i got it, thank you' and they usually are busy enough to find something else to do for 3 minutes while i bag the stuff. also tell the checker to send me the heavy stuff first so it goes in the bottom, or place items on the counter in order i want to bag them.
as for the Looks from people behind me.. oh well! i do my thing you do yours and frankly it's usually faster for me to bag than to wait for the checker to start bagging.
Well, easier said than done. If you have a full cart and are unloading it onto the belt by the time you get the cart emptied the bagger has already bagged up half the order at least. I have nicely given some instruction on what to put in the bags but what I say goes to deaf ears. It is a minor gripe in life but I find it mind boggling that these people are hired to do this job and do it with no rhyme of reason on how they pack bags. I guess I just think in a more organized way.
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I've never had a problem with bagging my groceries. Since I walk or bike, I can only buy as much as I can carry anyway, so it's usually in a basket. I can generally unload while the person before me is paying, and I put heavy stuff first when possible. Then as they scan, I load up my backpack, and then my reusable bags, maybe pausing while I pay, then finish up. If there are baggers, they might help me, and if necessary I'll tell them to leave the heavy stuff for me to put in my backpack.
The part I hate about bagging groceries is using the self checkout, and having to put things on the sensors without bags, and then having to pack it up after. Waste of time all around. I prefer staffed checkouts, but sometimes the lines are so long and the self-checkouts are empty so I'll do that instead. Honestly you should get money off for using a self checkout, it saves them staffing costs and I'm doing their job for them.
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I've never had a problem with bagging my groceries. Since I walk or bike, I can only buy as much as I can carry anyway, so it's usually in a basket. I can generally unload while the person before me is paying, and I put heavy stuff first when possible. Then as they scan, I load up my backpack, and then my reusable bags, maybe pausing while I pay, then finish up. If there are baggers, they might help me, and if necessary I'll tell them to leave the heavy stuff for me to put in my backpack.
The part I hate about bagging groceries is using the self checkout, and having to put things on the sensors without bags, and then having to pack it up after. Waste of time all around. I prefer staffed checkouts, but sometimes the lines are so long and the self-checkouts are empty so I'll do that instead. Honestly you should get money off for using a self checkout, it saves them staffing costs and I'm doing their job for them.
Ha. Are you familiar with that awkward moment when the next person in line sees that you've just paid the machine and starts walking towards your station but you're not actually done yet? Sometimes they get right next to me and look confused because something other than the normal routine is happening.
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Ha. Are you familiar with that awkward moment when the next person in line sees that you've just paid the machine and starts walking towards your station but you're not actually done yet? Sometimes they get right next to me and look confused because something other than the normal routine is happening.
Oh yeah, it happens sometimes. And I've done it too. Then you realize so you look for a free one, but it's too late because then the person behind you is already going there.. awkward all around. This is why I prefer old fashioned cashiers. Although then there's the problem of someone announcing "new cash is open!" and the people at the back of the line run there first. So rude!
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i know this thread is about things we hate, but there is a simple solution to the bagging problem. i take my own bag and tell teh bagger 'i got it, thank you' and they usually are busy enough to find something else to do for 3 minutes while i bag the stuff. also tell the checker to send me the heavy stuff first so it goes in the bottom, or place items on the counter in order i want to bag them.
as for the Looks from people behind me.. oh well! i do my thing you do yours and frankly it's usually faster for me to bag than to wait for the checker to start bagging.
Well, easier said than done. If you have a full cart and are unloading it onto the belt by the time you get the cart emptied the bagger has already bagged up half the order at least. I have nicely given some instruction on what to put in the bags but what I say goes to deaf ears. It is a minor gripe in life but I find it mind boggling that these people are hired to do this job and do it with no rhyme of reason on how they pack bags. I guess I just think in a more organized way.
excellent point. i usually have one big bag of stuff and that's it. we're fortunate to live near 4 grocery stores and never have to stock up on anything.
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When I shop I always get the bargains and stock up. I have a mini grocery store in my basement. I despise running out of anything. I could feed the entire neighborhood and not blink an eye! LOL!
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I've never had a problem with bagging my groceries. Since I walk or bike, I can only buy as much as I can carry anyway, so it's usually in a basket. I can generally unload while the person before me is paying, and I put heavy stuff first when possible. Then as they scan, I load up my backpack, and then my reusable bags, maybe pausing while I pay, then finish up. If there are baggers, they might help me, and if necessary I'll tell them to leave the heavy stuff for me to put in my backpack.
The part I hate about bagging groceries is using the self checkout, and having to put things on the sensors without bags, and then having to pack it up after. Waste of time all around. I prefer staffed checkouts, but sometimes the lines are so long and the self-checkouts are empty so I'll do that instead. Honestly you should get money off for using a self checkout, it saves them staffing costs and I'm doing their job for them.
Ha. Are you familiar with that awkward moment when the next person in line sees that you've just paid the machine and starts walking towards your station but you're not actually done yet? Sometimes they get right next to me and look confused because something other than the normal routine is happening.
That brings up another thing I hate, really just cant stand is when the person in front of me is paying by check and hasnt even filled out the store name yet until there whole purchase is done!
The store I mostly go to the Cashier usually bags but I always help them because I like to pack them heavy and the less bags the better. Plus I pretty much shop every morning its blocks away so we have less waste, save $ and less bags anyhow.
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I've never had a problem with bagging my groceries. Since I walk or bike, I can only buy as much as I can carry anyway, so it's usually in a basket. I can generally unload while the person before me is paying, and I put heavy stuff first when possible. Then as they scan, I load up my backpack, and then my reusable bags, maybe pausing while I pay, then finish up. If there are baggers, they might help me, and if necessary I'll tell them to leave the heavy stuff for me to put in my backpack.
The part I hate about bagging groceries is using the self checkout, and having to put things on the sensors without bags, and then having to pack it up after. Waste of time all around. I prefer staffed checkouts, but sometimes the lines are so long and the self-checkouts are empty so I'll do that instead. Honestly you should get money off for using a self checkout, it saves them staffing costs and I'm doing their job for them.
Ha. Are you familiar with that awkward moment when the next person in line sees that you've just paid the machine and starts walking towards your station but you're not actually done yet? Sometimes they get right next to me and look confused because something other than the normal routine is happening.
That brings up another thing I hate, really just cant stand is when the person in front of me is paying by check and hasnt even filled out the store name yet until there whole purchase is done!
The store I mostly go to the Cashier usually bags but I always help them because I like to pack them heavy and the less bags the better. Plus I pretty much shop every morning its blocks away so we have less waste, save $ and less bags anyhow.
I gotta jump in as my "thing I hate" is sort of related.
I HATE WHEN THE PERSON BEHIND ME IN LINE IS ABSOLUTELY LOSING IT ABOUT HAVING TO WAIT... and trying to draw me into their anger. For whatever reason, this happens to me all the time. There will be some kind of SLIGHT delay... I mean, I am not talking a 30 minute wait at an upscale grocery store where in theory you are paying more for better service... I am talking about the Dollar Tree, the salvage grocery store, places like that.
Inevitably, I get into line and there's an elderly or a person perhaps with a disability a few people ahead of us and it's slowing the line down. Or there's a person getting balloons and we are waiting for them to pick them out.
The person behind be starts shifting around a lot, then they start sighing really loud, then eventually they mutter a few things about how they need to open another register - all while progressively trying to make eye contact with me, or engage me verbally to complain with them.
NO. I do not want to complain. I don't want to ride on the misery bus with you. I have my own misery bus that I ride at different times and I just refuse to add to it. NO.
I genuinely do not know the situation of the person behind me, perhaps they have a medical condition and need to get out of the store as soon as possible- perhaps they have a dependent who is waiting for them to be picked up from school/daycare/whatever, I am sure I am having a blind-spot here.
BUT... if waiting in a line is the worst part of your entire day, that's a pretty ok day... ya know?
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We're on the do not call list but it doesn't stop 'em all. It's gotten to the point where we now totally waste their time with bs. Fun things we've done with telemarketers:
- tell the "car warranty" people that we have 587,000 miles on our car from a few trips to Alaska and every minute detail about it until they get bored and hang up
- fart really loudly into the phone
- pretend to have sex
- keep them on the line acting as if we are interested and then give them bogus cc info or an address laden with vulgarities
- start singing the chorus of "I will always love you" incredibly loud
- answer in a different language, sometimes mixing a few different ones
- stay on the line and refer to yourself exclusively in the third person
It's quite fun coming up with new ideas actually, I think I might tell them my husband is dead next time they call.
There are some good videos on YT of reverse-scamming to waste scammers' time, e.g. this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPHgb9UaHsM) (guy pretends to be grandmother/granddaughter duo; he has spent up to 4 hours on one call in another video), or even more clinical analysis after hacking into a scammer's operations, e.g. this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5X9ZSXb7xI). I didn't know how these kind of scams even worked until watching videos of this sort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1uiinNM_Y
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We don't have this, people putting groceries in your bag. We are always stressing ourselves to fill our bags while the cashier is still scanning articles. If I have the time, I pack it in a very organized way. But if the scanning goes fast and the next customer is waiting, I throw everything in in a less organized way. Feel really bad about that. Shopping is best when you are two, so that one person can pack and the other can pay. But when does that happen?
I don't use bags.
I use a cardboard box from the produce aisle and load it as the cashier scans each item.
One box is easier to carry than multiple bags.
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That brings up another thing I hate, really just cant stand is when the person in front of me is paying by check and hasnt even filled out the store name yet until there whole purchase is done!
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Yeah.
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At the grocery store I hate it when the person in front of me is yakking away on their cell phone and acts like it's some big inconvenience when they ultimately have to drag their credit card and pay. The nerve of the cashier for interrupting their Very Important Call!
When I shop at WINCO you have to bag up your own stuff. At the more mainstream store I go to, they hire developmentally disabled adults to bag up the purchases. I try to be kind and so long as they don't put cans or jars on top of the more fragile stuff I'm good. These people are just doing their best.
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[quote author=soccerluvof4 link=topic=96854.msg2308960#msg2308960 .
That brings up another thing I hate, really just cant stand is when the person in front of me is paying by check and hasnt even filled out the store name yet until there whole purchase is done!
Yeah.
Wait. When do you live?
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Apparently China and other countries are tired of low quality recycling ( really just garbage) dumped on them. Smaller communities are now just chucking everything.
I remember at work the same happened.
I have seen this before but they went back to normal pick up where they had separate trucks pick it up. Sometimes I think they are short handed and just say screw it and just use one truck. I did hear about the China thing and this has got to be a disaster on what to do with all this plastic, cans and newspapers. What are they doing with all the soda cans that we recycle?
A while back we decided to bring metals into the local recycler who takes all kind of metal, including soda cans, food cans, etc. We usually make 1 trip/6 months. We only get ~$15 per trip. The little extra cash is great, but it is not about the money. We just want to make sure these metals get recycled. We also bring plastic bags to local grocery store.
At the grocery store I hate it when the person in front of me is yakking away on their cell phone and acts like it's some big inconvenience when they ultimately have to drag their credit card and pay. The nerve of the cashier for interrupting their Very Important Call!
I have always want a little device that can block/jam cell signals. See someone being loud and ignorant while talking on the phone, turn this device and kill his cell signal for a bit. See someone who cut you off because they are on the phone, maybe this person should not be on the phone... See someone who keep talking loudly on phone while watching little kids practice, yeah time to stop talking :)
Maybe illegal but that would be very useful to have...
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Today, I really hate creepy old men on the bus who ask my five-year-old daughter to stand between his legs.
Sorry...just had to vent.
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I have always want a little device that can block/jam cell signals. See someone being loud and ignorant while talking on the phone, turn this device and kill his cell signal for a bit. See someone who cut you off because they are on the phone, maybe this person should not be on the phone... See someone who keep talking loudly on phone while watching little kids practice, yeah time to stop talking :)
Maybe illegal but that would be very useful to have...
At the very least, maybe you could do this in your own home. Is that even possible? Maybe not in an instant like you're describing, but for a whole evening or something. I never thought about it until I read this, but I'd love to be able to block the cell signal (and turn off the WiFi -- that part's easy) at my house for those rude guests who insist on scrolling Facebook or Instagram while I'm trying to have a conversation with them.
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https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/build-cell-phone-jammer
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Cell-Phone-Jammer
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I hate commercials, especially sing songy ones that try to drill their product name into your head by singing some stupid, stupid song. If you notice, almost every commercial has to have MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC! GRRRRRRR!!!!
New medicines, windows, faucets, insurance, drain cleaning companies...gotta have a song!
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
And the people who feed them:
Throwing half a coffee can of nuts into the leaf pile out our back door feeds the squirrels, but it also feeds rats and mice... Who come into my shop and destroy thousands of dollars worth of stuff. I politely suggest not feeding the squirrels, or at least, do in small amounts in a tin you can bring inside at night so the extra doesn't feed nocturnal pests. This suggestion is met with swear words, how I hate animals, etc.
I considered a agressive rodent erradication program, but the landlord was interested in finding out about this tenant feeding the rodents, which the landlord was battling as well. The new tenant doesn't feed the squirrels, luckily.
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https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/build-cell-phone-jammer
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Cell-Phone-Jammer
Well, turns out they're illegal! So never mind! I'll just have to continue the old fashioned practice of choosing my friends wisely and making polite requests about how things are done in my own home...
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Priceline customer service music sounds like bad recording of a monkey on crack dragging a xylophone upside down across gravel.
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
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We're on the do not call list but it doesn't stop 'em all. It's gotten to the point where we now totally waste their time with bs. Fun things we've done with telemarketers:
- tell the "car warranty" people that we have 587,000 miles on our car from a few trips to Alaska and every minute detail about it until they get bored and hang up
- fart really loudly into the phone
- pretend to have sex
- keep them on the line acting as if we are interested and then give them bogus cc info or an address laden with vulgarities
- start singing the chorus of "I will always love you" incredibly loud
- answer in a different language, sometimes mixing a few different ones
- stay on the line and refer to yourself exclusively in the third person
It's quite fun coming up with new ideas actually, I think I might tell them my husband is dead next time they call.
There are some good videos on YT of reverse-scamming to waste scammers' time, e.g. this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPHgb9UaHsM) (guy pretends to be grandmother/granddaughter duo; he has spent up to 4 hours on one call in another video), or even more clinical analysis after hacking into a scammer's operations, e.g. this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5X9ZSXb7xI). I didn't know how these kind of scams even worked until watching videos of this sort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq1uiinNM_Y
That video was OK. Interesting news today with Office Depot being fined for basically running a tech support scam (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/office-depot-tricked-people-into-buying-pc-support-with-fake-virus-scans/) (I guess the story first broke in 2016 but this is the first I heard of it).
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Well, I hate the cablevision provider I have and previously have had. I hate the scammy way they operate with their specials that run for a year and then once the year is up, they jack up the prices. Then you call to try to get back on the 'special' and they claim there is nothing at this time. GRRRRR!!! On top of that, I eliminated two cable boxes. I had some cable issues at that time and the technician said he could not take the boxes with him. That I had to call customer service and they would send me prepaid labels and cartons to mail them back. They use UPS so I ended up going directly to the UPS facility to ship them out. I just got my cable bill which is outrageous since I don't have any extra sports channels, no HBO, Showtime or Cinemax and my bill is still super high. I opened my bill this month and got a shock! It was $100 higher than normal! Turns out, they charged me a $100 fee for unreturned equipment! GRRRRR!!! I got on the phone and called. Well, wouldn't you know it, the guy tells me they DID receive my equipment. He then adjusted my bill to reflect I didn't owe the $100. I bet they would have gladly taken my $100 and not returned it had I paid it.
Why are these cable companies allowed to operate this way? You get electric from the electric company and they don't put you on a special plan for a year then jack it up. Same with other providers like garbage pick up. My bill is the same unless they have a price increase once in a while. They don't have 'specials'.
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Well, I hate the cablevision provider I have and previously have had. I hate the scammy way they operate with their specials that run for a year and then once the year is up, they jack up the prices. Then you call to try to get back on the 'special' and they claim there is nothing at this time. GRRRRR!!! On top of that, I eliminated two cable boxes. I had some cable issues at that time and the technician said he could not take the boxes with him. That I had to call customer service and they would send me prepaid labels and cartons to mail them back. They use UPS so I ended up going directly to the UPS facility to ship them out. I just got my cable bill which is outrageous since I don't have any extra sports channels, no HBO, Showtime or Cinemax and my bill is still super high. I opened my bill this month and got a shock! It was $100 higher than normal! Turns out, they charged me a $100 fee for unreturned equipment! GRRRRR!!! I got on the phone and called. Well, wouldn't you know it, the guy tells me they DID receive my equipment. He then adjusted my bill to reflect I didn't owe the $100. I bet they would have gladly taken my $100 and not returned it had I paid it.
Why are these cable companies allowed to operate this way? You get electric from the electric company and they don't put you on a special plan for a year then jack it up. Same with other providers like garbage pick up. My bill is the same unless they have a price increase once in a while. They don't have 'specials'.
In Norway we have this with electricity. With the difference that they jack you up much faster than a year. They put you on a new plan with very similar name, but very expensive. Therefore, you better not buy the cheapest, but one that is reasonably cheap over time. And watch them like an eagle.
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I HATE searching for recipe online and having to scroll through all this garbage blogging and stupid videos and 50 ads just to find ingredients.
Stoopid.
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I HATE searching for recipe online and having to scroll through all this garbage blogging and stupid videos and 50 ads just to find ingredients.
Stoopid.
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I hate youtube channels that have 2 minutes of sponsored advertising/some inane guy/girl spouting bullshit before they get to the content.
Makes me so happy I run an adblocker.
If I get annoyed enough with the video I report it for copyright infringement, whether or not there is any infringement.
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I HATE searching for recipe online and having to scroll through all this garbage blogging and stupid videos and 50 ads just to find ingredients.
Stoopid.
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I hate youtube channels that have 2 minutes of sponsored advertising/some inane guy/girl spouting bullshit before they get to the content.
Makes me so happy I run an adblocker.
If I get annoyed enough with the video I report it for copyright infringement, whether or not there is any infringement.
The other thing with electronic recipes, is that the iPad (or other electronic device that you put in the kitchen while cooking) is switching itself off. For security reasons we do of course have a password/fingerprint on the iPad. So every time it switches of, I need go grab it and put my thumb on the scanner. Not practical while you are cooking and have ingredients smeared out on your hands.
Paper cookbooks that stay open on the right page are a relieve. I have a standard for it, bought when we sold out previous house. That does the job.
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I HATE searching for recipe online and having to scroll through all this garbage blogging and stupid videos and 50 ads just to find ingredients.
Stoopid.
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I hate youtube channels that have 2 minutes of sponsored advertising/some inane guy/girl spouting bullshit before they get to the content.
Makes me so happy I run an adblocker.
If I get annoyed enough with the video I report it for copyright infringement, whether or not there is any infringement.
The other thing with electronic recipes, is that the iPad (or other electronic device that you put in the kitchen while cooking) is switching itself off. For security reasons we do of course have a password/fingerprint on the iPad. So every time it switches of, I need go grab it and put my thumb on the scanner. Not practical while you are cooking and have ingredients smeared out on your hands.
Paper cookbooks that stay open on the right page are a relieve. I have a standard for it, bought when we sold out previous house. That does the job.
You can temporarily change your settings so that it doesn't turn off automatically like that. Pretty simple.
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https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/build-cell-phone-jammer
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Cell-Phone-Jammer
Well, turns out they're illegal! So never mind! I'll just have to continue the old fashioned practice of choosing my friends wisely and making polite requests about how things are done in my own home...
I was at the lobby of the gym waiting for the fam the other day. There was this girl, maybe in her 20s or 30s, streaming some movie extremely loud. I can see as people passing by the lobby, everyone was looking at her direction with the wtf look. I thought about asking her politely to turn it down, but decided maybe she has hearing problem and really need to play it that loud. I had to move to the other end of the lobby just so I do not hear the sound.
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https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/build-cell-phone-jammer
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Cell-Phone-Jammer
Well, turns out they're illegal! So never mind! I'll just have to continue the old fashioned practice of choosing my friends wisely and making polite requests about how things are done in my own home...
I was at the lobby of the gym waiting for the fam the other day. There was this girl, maybe in her 20s or 30s, streaming some movie extremely loud. I can see as people passing by the lobby, everyone was looking at her direction with the wtf look. I thought about asking her politely to turn it down, but decided maybe she has hearing problem and really need to play it that loud. I had to move to the other end of the lobby just so I do not hear the sound.
“Woman”, not “girl”.
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All the political adds and shit already starting up.
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No Joke, I remember hearing that Theresa May called for an election in 6 weeks, and they had it, and it was all over in 6 weeks. Here in the US, it feels like a f*cking marathon!!!
And don't even get me started on Texas politics...
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
They do occasionally have women trousers i two lengths.
But if there is only one size, it is probably made long enough for the tall models to show them on the catwalk.
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
You can always hem pants shorter. It's hard to extend them.
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
You can always hem pants shorter. It's hard to extend them.
I have hemmed pants my whole life, very tired of it. How many men have hemmed pants?
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The trouble with hemming pants is that unless the fit is straight all the way down, you're fucking up the taper... the foot opening gets wider the farther up you go and it can look disproportionate.
My brother is 5' 5" and can never find adult pants that go lower than 30" length so he has to get everything hemmed. I'm 5' 9"--the national average for adult men--and wear a 30". Seems bonkers to me that half the men in this country can't get pants made to fit their height.
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so i signed up for spotify's free service. so far i'm good with it and i don't mind the commercials per se but in this day and age you would think the commercials would target me a little better. instead i hear the same commercial for the local casino. i've never been to the casino nor do i plan to go. why not use some of my data that i'm sure is all over the internet and have commercials for bike stuff or car stuff or camping stuff? if they think they can get me to pay for their service by running the same stoopid commercial, they are wrong.
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The trouble with hemming pants is that unless the fit is straight all the way down, you're fucking up the taper... the foot opening gets wider the farther up you go and it can look disproportionate.
My brother is 5' 5" and can never find adult pants that go lower than 30" length so he has to get everything hemmed. I'm 5' 9"--the national average for adult men--and wear a 30". Seems bonkers to me that half the men in this country can't get pants made to fit their height.
This is true and if you have very flimsy, silky pants, it is very difficult to handle and hem. Plus, if you take them to a seamstress you are paying maybe $20 for a pair of pants to be altered.
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
You can always hem pants shorter. It's hard to extend them.
I have hemmed pants my whole life, very tired of it. How many men have hemmed pants?
If I want the pants to fit correctly, then every single pair. Suit pants normally come unhemmed (not suit separates) Jeans, khakis, etc come in 2” increments. That doesn’t always line up.
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When men buy suits from a store the hemming is included in the price of the suit. They measure you and do the work for you so you are not taking a thread and needle doing the work yourself.
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When men buy suits from a store the hemming is included in the price of the suit. They measure you and do the work for you so you are not taking a thread and needle doing the work yourself.
?? Not in my experience. While they have the option to tailor on site, it’s never been an included price.
I take my pants to a tailor anyway. 15-20$ for a pair of pants that I get 5+ years of wears out of is well worth it. If I was buying 10 pairs of pants a year, I guess that would be a problem, and I’d chalk it and sew it myself.
Hard work pants (landscaping/construction) etc, get my sewing skills. Not pants that have to look nice.
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Sorry if that question about men needing their pants hemmed was rhetorical.
I too hate having pants not fit off the rack.
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I live in a very windy, mountainous road that is narrow and has elbow curves and it really dangerous. The speed limit is between 20-35 mph depending on where you are on this road. I am not a speed demon but I usually exceed the limit myself on this road. However, the fastest I go on this road is around 40 mph and people still think I am not going fast enough. Today it is doing some freezing rain and in the higher elevations could be icy and slippery. I still was exceeding the speed limit but was getting tailgated. How fast should I be going on this narrow two lane road that is a death trap?
Oh, and there are several farms on this road and one guy on a farm tractor pulled out into the road so I had to slow down for him and then a little while later some wild turkeys were crossing the road. GRRRR to these maniacs.
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
You can always hem pants shorter. It's hard to extend them.
I have hemmed pants my whole life, very tired of it. How many men have hemmed pants?
I've had some hemmed by a tailor (suit pants and dress pants) and some (work pants/jeans) I've hemmed myself w/ a sewing machine.
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I live in a very windy, mountainous road that is narrow and has elbow curves and it really dangerous. The speed limit is between 20-35 mph depending on where you are on this road. I am not a speed demon but I usually exceed the limit myself on this road. However, the fastest I go on this road is around 40 mph and people still think I am not going fast enough. Today it is doing some freezing rain and in the higher elevations could be icy and slippery. I still was exceeding the speed limit but was getting tailgated. How fast should I be going on this narrow two lane road that is a death trap?
Oh, and there are several farms on this road and one guy on a farm tractor pulled out into the road so I had to slow down for him and then a little while later some wild turkeys were crossing the road. GRRRR to these maniacs.
Can you stop/slow down safely (not sure if there is any space) and let these maniacs pass you? I am in somewhat similar situation. The main road that goes thru our subdivision (speed limit 35mph) has a curve that is deceptively dangerous in winter. Every year, we always see tire track on the grass where one lost control. I always slows down way before the curve, and have many times let someone pass me.
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I live in a very windy, mountainous road that is narrow and has elbow curves and it really dangerous. The speed limit is between 20-35 mph depending on where you are on this road. I am not a speed demon but I usually exceed the limit myself on this road. However, the fastest I go on this road is around 40 mph and people still think I am not going fast enough. Today it is doing some freezing rain and in the higher elevations could be icy and slippery. I still was exceeding the speed limit but was getting tailgated. How fast should I be going on this narrow two lane road that is a death trap?
Oh, and there are several farms on this road and one guy on a farm tractor pulled out into the road so I had to slow down for him and then a little while later some wild turkeys were crossing the road. GRRRR to these maniacs.
Can you stop/slow down safely (not sure if there is any space) and let these maniacs pass you? I am in somewhat similar situation. The main road that goes thru our subdivision (speed limit 35mph) has a curve that is deceptively dangerous in winter. Every year, we always see tire track on the grass where one lost control. I always slows down way before the curve, and have many times let someone pass me.
Yes, I have pulled over but there are very few spots to do so. There is one passing zone and I usually slow down there hoping the maniacs will pass but mostly no such luck. Just recently someone plowed into an electric pole and our electricity was out for about 4 hours. Drove by the pole the next day and it was really rammed hard, like a pencil broke in half. This pole is located at the end of a giant curve coming down the mountain. It has happened 3 times in the last year and a half. There is no solution. I do not know why everyone is in such a hurry. Why can't they relax and go the speed limit and follow at a reasonable distance? Maybe there would be less accidents and road rage. Why is everyone so angry when driving?
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https://electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/build-cell-phone-jammer
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Cell-Phone-Jammer
Well, turns out they're illegal! So never mind! I'll just have to continue the old fashioned practice of choosing my friends wisely and making polite requests about how things are done in my own home...
I was at the lobby of the gym waiting for the fam the other day. There was this girl, maybe in her 20s or 30s, streaming some movie extremely loud. I can see as people passing by the lobby, everyone was looking at her direction with the wtf look. I thought about asking her politely to turn it down, but decided maybe she has hearing problem and really need to play it that loud. I had to move to the other end of the lobby just so I do not hear the sound.
“Woman”, not “girl”.
:)
I wonder if we should start using "womanfriend" instead of "girlfriend" or "manfriend" instead of "boyfriend" but I digress
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Just recently someone plowed into an electric pole and our electricity was out for about 4 hours. Drove by the pole the next day and it was really rammed hard, like a pencil broke in half. This pole is located at the end of a giant curve coming down the mountain. It has happened 3 times in the last year and a half.
Sounds like it is time for your utility company to move the pole.
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The pole is not the problem, it isn't in the middle of the road. The road is curvy and mountainous. People are just stupid speeding, using cell phones and other things. Maybe a deer jumped out in the road and the driver swerved. Who knows...
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The pole is not the problem, it isn't in the middle of the road. The road is curvy and mountainous. People are just stupid speeding, using cell phones and other things. Maybe a deer jumped out in the road and the driver swerved. Who knows...
The street my dad lived on for a long time curved just in front of his property, and a hundred year old oak tree had grown in the front of his house at the peak of the bend. Dad lived there for twenty years, and very reliably had a car a year wrap itself around that tree.
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There is a guy down the hill on my curvy road that has really nice stone structures and in between each he has wooden slats for fencing. For about 3 years people keep crashing into these stone structures busting them all up. He must have his mason on speed dial. Constant repair. The odd thing is that the curve that he is on seems to curve to the other side of the road so I have no idea how accidents keep happening there. It is almost like the cars have to do a 360° spin out to wipe out his structures. He should install cameras to see what is going on!
We have lots of deer and wild turkey so who knows what happens on this road but I do know I see lots of tailgating, speeding, texting, cell phone usage, plus we are always picking up booze bottles and beer cans.
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
Squirrels do terrible damage to roofs, attics, drywall, insulation, wiring. They chew it all.
At our weekend house we are fighting a squirrel infestation in the attic area and they are dropping down into the second floor bedroom.
At our city house we have many fruit trees. These tree rats strip a fruit tree in just a few days. They take one bite of fruit and throw it on the ground. They toss unripe fruit onto the ground.
There are years where we get 0 apricots when we actually have an apricot crop.
They are nasty thieving tree rats.
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
Squirrels do terrible damage to roofs, attics, drywall, insulation, wiring. They chew it all.
At our weekend house we are fighting a squirrel infestation in the attic area and they are dropping down into the second floor bedroom.
At our city house we have many fruit trees. These tree rats strip a fruit tree in just a few days. They take one bite of fruit and throw it on the ground. They toss unripe fruit onto the ground.
There are years where we get 0 apricots when we actually have an apricot crop.
They are nasty thieving tree rats.
+1000
And you know what I really hate? Is when my tulip buds are just beginning to blush color and the horrible beasts neatly nip them right off the stem, leaving a row of bare stems!
I use Deer Stopper spray to prevent this but it has to be reapplied after every rain, and sometimes I have a life and don't get to spray in time.
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
Squirrels do terrible damage to roofs, attics, drywall, insulation, wiring. They chew it all.
At our weekend house we are fighting a squirrel infestation in the attic area and they are dropping down into the second floor bedroom.
At our city house we have many fruit trees. These tree rats strip a fruit tree in just a few days. They take one bite of fruit and throw it on the ground. They toss unripe fruit onto the ground.
There are years where we get 0 apricots when we actually have an apricot crop.
They are nasty thieving tree rats.
+1000
And you know what I really hate? Is when my tulip buds are just beginning to blush color and the horrible beasts neatly nip them right off the stem, leaving a row of bare stems!
I use Deer Stopper spray to prevent this but it has to be reapplied after every rain, and sometimes I have a life and don't get to spray in time.
We have a terrible "town deer" problem where I live...I have at least 15-20 that frequent my yard every day. Last summer in my attempts at vegetable gardening we had many stand offs. We came to an agreement that they could eat a few kale/chard, but don't touch my tomatoes! I had a deer proof (ish) fence up, and we were moving along quite well into summer until one morning I woke up to huge rustling in the garden, and saw a bear ripping down my deer proof fence, leaving it open for the deer to eat whatever they wanted. Farewell tomatoes! I somehow still got a few vegetables out of the deal, but this year I am over fighting yard animals and I will just shop at the farmers market.
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
Squirrels do terrible damage to roofs, attics, drywall, insulation, wiring. They chew it all.
At our weekend house we are fighting a squirrel infestation in the attic area and they are dropping down into the second floor bedroom.
At our city house we have many fruit trees. These tree rats strip a fruit tree in just a few days. They take one bite of fruit and throw it on the ground. They toss unripe fruit onto the ground.
There are years where we get 0 apricots when we actually have an apricot crop.
They are nasty thieving tree rats.
+1000
And you know what I really hate? Is when my tulip buds are just beginning to blush color and the horrible beasts neatly nip them right off the stem, leaving a row of bare stems!
I use Deer Stopper spray to prevent this but it has to be reapplied after every rain, and sometimes I have a life and don't get to spray in time.
We have a terrible "town deer" problem where I live...I have at least 15-20 that frequent my yard every day. Last summer in my attempts at vegetable gardening we had many stand offs. We came to an agreement that they could eat a few kale/chard, but don't touch my tomatoes! I had a deer proof (ish) fence up, and we were moving along quite well into summer until one morning I woke up to huge rustling in the garden, and saw a bear ripping down my deer proof fence, leaving it open for the deer to eat whatever they wanted. Farewell tomatoes! I somehow still got a few vegetables out of the deal, but this year I am over fighting yard animals and I will just shop at the farmers market.
Garden fed deer sound quite tasty!
I understand that firearms in town might be a problem, but bow and arrow might work. A bow and arrow may be classed as "a deadly weapon" depending on jurisdiction.
But 15-20/day ? There should be animal control etc.
Gutting and leaving the entrails in a neighbor's yard might be a problem, depending on your relationship with the neighbors :-).
Dogs should love that stuff though.
Of course, if the critters are in season, then they are not likely to be near anywhere they might get whacked.
I have a squirrel (tree rat) issue with my English walnut tree, and use a supersoaker (water sprayer), mostly for my entertainment.
After a long summer, I noted that there were NO squirrels in the walnut tree. I then noted that there were NO walnuts :-).
I wouldn't mind that much if they just took all the walnuts.
I just despise the fact that they scatter walnut shards everywhere, hurting my bare feet.
Even through flipflops, the shards sometimes bite through.
We have a powerline/TV cable that provides a highway to our walnut tree for two clans of squirrels on either side of our property.
As a former East Coaster, I get flak for admitting that I hunted and ate squirrels in my youth.
It was nice to come home from school, go ~ 200m from my house and relax in the late fall sunshine and occasionally get partial dinner.
edit typo, not important, OCD alert; garden fed, not garden feed.
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
Squirrels do terrible damage to roofs, attics, drywall, insulation, wiring. They chew it all.
At our weekend house we are fighting a squirrel infestation in the attic area and they are dropping down into the second floor bedroom.
At our city house we have many fruit trees. These tree rats strip a fruit tree in just a few days. They take one bite of fruit and throw it on the ground. They toss unripe fruit onto the ground.
There are years where we get 0 apricots when we actually have an apricot crop.
They are nasty thieving tree rats.
+1000
And you know what I really hate? Is when my tulip buds are just beginning to blush color and the horrible beasts neatly nip them right off the stem, leaving a row of bare stems!
I use Deer Stopper spray to prevent this but it has to be reapplied after every rain, and sometimes I have a life and don't get to spray in time.
We have a terrible "town deer" problem where I live...I have at least 15-20 that frequent my yard every day. Last summer in my attempts at vegetable gardening we had many stand offs. We came to an agreement that they could eat a few kale/chard, but don't touch my tomatoes! I had a deer proof (ish) fence up, and we were moving along quite well into summer until one morning I woke up to huge rustling in the garden, and saw a bear ripping down my deer proof fence, leaving it open for the deer to eat whatever they wanted. Farewell tomatoes! I somehow still got a few vegetables out of the deal, but this year I am over fighting yard animals and I will just shop at the farmers market.
Garden feed deer sound quite tasty!
I understand that firearms in town might be a problem, but bow and arrow might work. A bow and arrow may be classed as "a deadly weapon" depending on jurisdiction.
But 15-20/day ? There should be animal control etc.
Gutting and leaving the entrails in a neighbor's yard might be a problem, depending on your relationship with the neighbors :-).
Dogs should love that stuff though.
Of course, if the critters are in season, then they are not likely to be near anywhere they might get whacked.
I have a squirrel (tree rat) issue with my English walnut tree, and use a supersoaker (water sprayer), mostly for my entertainment.
After a long summer, I noted that there were NO squirrels in the walnut tree. I then noted that there were NO walnuts :-).
I wouldn't mind that much if they just took all the walnuts.
I just despise the fact that they scatter walnut shards everywhere, hurting my bare feet.
Even through flipflops, the shards sometimes bite through.
We have a powerline/TV cable that provides a highway to our walnut tree for two clans of squirrels on either side of our property.
As a former East Coaster, I get flak for admitting that I hunted and ate squirrels in my youth.
It was nice to come home from school, go ~ 200m from my house and relax in the late fall sunshine and occasionally get partial dinner.
I wish there was animal control around the deer problem. But, aside from a few deer who have tags, presumably for being "problem deer" there really doesn't seem to be much done about it. I live in a super small town (5k people) in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. I feel like it's just accepted that there are wild animals everywhere...even though the town deer are certainly not "wildlife" since they are super inbred, have never lived in the wilderness, and live in people's yards, feeding off their gardens/lawns. Mostly it's a joke around here, and they are pretty much seen as giant squirrels...annoying, but no one will do anything about it.
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Has anyone thought that we humans have encroached on the deer's homeland and we are the invaders? What if they had guns and could shoot us? We need to find a way to live with them. We are lucky to have such great creatures in our lives. Yes, we need to cull the herds but not eliminate them. Find a way to protect your gardens from them. We humans are pretty smart so we should be able to come up with fences to protect our gardens. Might be a pain in the ass but once they figure out they can't get at the veggies, they will stop trying.
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Has anyone thought that we humans have encroached on the deer's homeland and we are the invaders? What if they had guns and could shoot us? We need to find a way to live with them. We are lucky to have such great creatures in our lives. Yes, we need to cull the herds but not eliminate them. Find a way to protect your gardens from them. We humans are pretty smart so we should be able to come up with fences to protect our gardens. Might be a pain in the ass but once they figure out they can't get at the veggies, they will stop trying.
I mean, that's pretty much what I have done. I had deer proof fencing up for my garden, until a bear tore it down...then I just decided, this isn't worth it I'll just shop at the farmers market. I'd never shoot a deer, in town, or in the woods in actual hunting permitted areas. Just not my thing. I do believe there should be some control of the type of "town deer" we have. I have been chased by multiple, viciously (I know, it's hard to believe a deer could be vicious, but these can be) and it makes me nervous to go for walks in my neighborhood. There are times when I get home, and they are all over my yard and I literally sit in my car until they leave, because I'm nervous they will run at me. It's happened before. Anyway, I am a huge proponent of protecting wild animals, but these animals are kind of at another level and overrun our town. Aside from all of us moving away and leaving an abandoned town to deer (who rely on our gardens/lawns for food) I'm not really sure what the solution is. Until then, of course I leave them in peace...but it can be scary/frustrating at times.
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Has anyone thought that we humans have encroached on the deer's homeland and we are the invaders? What if they had guns and could shoot us? We need to find a way to live with them. We are lucky to have such great creatures in our lives. Yes, we need to cull the herds but not eliminate them. Find a way to protect your gardens from them. We humans are pretty smart so we should be able to come up with fences to protect our gardens. Might be a pain in the ass but once they figure out they can't get at the veggies, they will stop trying.
I mean, that's pretty much what I have done. I had deer proof fencing up for my garden, until a bear tore it down...then I just decided, this isn't worth it I'll just shop at the farmers market. I'd never shoot a deer, in town, or in the woods in actual hunting permitted areas. Just not my thing. I do believe there should be some control of the type of "town deer" we have. I have been chased by multiple, viciously (I know, it's hard to believe a deer could be vicious, but these can be) and it makes me nervous to go for walks in my neighborhood. There are times when I get home, and they are all over my yard and I literally sit in my car until they leave, because I'm nervous they will run at me. It's happened before. Anyway, I am a huge proponent of protecting wild animals, but these animals are kind of at another level and overrun our town. Aside from all of us moving away and leaving an abandoned town to deer (who rely on our gardens/lawns for food) I'm not really sure what the solution is. Until then, of course I leave them in peace...but it can be scary/frustrating at times.
Paint ball gun?
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tips to get rid of deer
http://wildliferemovalusa.com/deer-how-to.html
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Tree squirrels and the people who feed them.
-they're invasive
-They can eat all of my lead flashing faster than they die of lead poisoning
-They destroy landscaping
-They have gnawed, quite literally, 1/2" off the entire top of my fence
Those people sound like they suck. What kind of damage do the squirrels do?
Squirrels do terrible damage to roofs, attics, drywall, insulation, wiring. They chew it all.
At our weekend house we are fighting a squirrel infestation in the attic area and they are dropping down into the second floor bedroom.
At our city house we have many fruit trees. These tree rats strip a fruit tree in just a few days. They take one bite of fruit and throw it on the ground. They toss unripe fruit onto the ground.
There are years where we get 0 apricots when we actually have an apricot crop.
They are nasty thieving tree rats.
+1000
And you know what I really hate? Is when my tulip buds are just beginning to blush color and the horrible beasts neatly nip them right off the stem, leaving a row of bare stems!
I use Deer Stopper spray to prevent this but it has to be reapplied after every rain, and sometimes I have a life and don't get to spray in time.
Well, now know who does that to my tulips, and I had no idea that deer stopper repells squirrels. I got a bottle for free and was wondering if I should keep it, there is no deer in my neighborhood.
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Has anyone thought that we humans have encroached on the deer's homeland and we are the invaders? What if they had guns and could shoot us? We need to find a way to live with them. We are lucky to have such great creatures in our lives. Yes, we need to cull the herds but not eliminate them. Find a way to protect your gardens from them. We humans are pretty smart so we should be able to come up with fences to protect our gardens. Might be a pain in the ass but once they figure out they can't get at the veggies, they will stop trying.
I agree with some of your sentiment here, but feel that you don't have much experience with deer based on the suggestions being made regarding fencing.
It's very hard and expensive to built the sort of fencing required to keep deer out of an area. My dad is a farmer and has a small apple orchard. He originally built an 8 ft fence around the orchard, but found that deer were regularly jumping the fence and damaging his crops. The 9 1/2 ft fence he currently uses works very well, but it's not easy to put up and quite expensive. This of course is not a legal option for many people living in cities where height restrictions on fencing are in place, and cost prohibitive for a small garden.
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Has anyone thought that we humans have encroached on the deer's homeland and we are the invaders? What if they had guns and could shoot us? We need to find a way to live with them. We are lucky to have such great creatures in our lives. Yes, we need to cull the herds but not eliminate them. Find a way to protect your gardens from them. We humans are pretty smart so we should be able to come up with fences to protect our gardens. Might be a pain in the ass but once they figure out they can't get at the veggies, they will stop trying.
I agree with some of your sentiment here, but feel that you don't have much experience with deer based on the suggestions being made regarding fencing.
It's very hard and expensive to built the sort of fencing required to keep deer out of an area. My dad is a farmer and has a small apple orchard. He originally built an 8 ft fence around the orchard, but found that deer were regularly jumping the fence and damaging his crops. The 9 1/2 ft fence he currently uses works very well, but it's not easy to put up and quite expensive. This of course is not a legal option for many people living in cities where height restrictions on fencing are in place, and cost prohibitive for a small garden.
Would guard dogs not work?
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Has anyone thought that we humans have encroached on the deer's homeland and we are the invaders? What if they had guns and could shoot us? We need to find a way to live with them. We are lucky to have such great creatures in our lives. Yes, we need to cull the herds but not eliminate them. Find a way to protect your gardens from them. We humans are pretty smart so we should be able to come up with fences to protect our gardens. Might be a pain in the ass but once they figure out they can't get at the veggies, they will stop trying.
I agree with some of your sentiment here, but feel that you don't have much experience with deer based on the suggestions being made regarding fencing.
It's very hard and expensive to built the sort of fencing required to keep deer out of an area. My dad is a farmer and has a small apple orchard. He originally built an 8 ft fence around the orchard, but found that deer were regularly jumping the fence and damaging his crops. The 9 1/2 ft fence he currently uses works very well, but it's not easy to put up and quite expensive. This of course is not a legal option for many people living in cities where height restrictions on fencing are in place, and cost prohibitive for a small garden.
Would guard dogs not work?
Dad has a 90 lb farm dog that doesn't particularly like deer and has chased many of them away . . . unfortunately the dog likes to sleep at night, which seems to be when the deer around the farm are most active. The dog's presence/scent certainly has never stopped deer from eating the apples when they can. Caring for an animal is also a big enough commitment that I don't think it should be a default suggestion for people with issues with their gardens.
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i HATE when people have their phones on speaker when they're talking to me. i can't hear that well as it is and you're going to add all the background noise? no thanks. pick it up or get a headset!
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Painting. I have been painting inside our house the last 3 days and its just mindless, monotonous work! not to mention the smell of paint no matter how much I ventilate gives me a headache!
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Mulching my yard! Sucks. Its been four years was down to dirt and getting to many weeds so was time. Layed 12 yards today and it is just heavy back breaking work.
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Our yard is full of grubs and moles. The moles dug tunnels under my brick sidewalk and collapsed it last fall. Had to have that repaired and was expensive.
Now our yard has ugly brown areas of dead grass and we have mole tunnels all over. We went and bought Mole Ex, Grub Ex, grass seed and fertilizer to the tune of almost $500! Not to mention all the work involved doing all this work! This is the first time ever we had grubs destroy the yard and moles wrecking sidewalks and the yard too.
Then just had a bunch of limbs and trees cut down in the yard. One tree had a giant limb that was ready to break off the tree and would have fallen onto the electric lines. Another $1400 spent on that!
Now I have giant carpenter bees hovering around my deck! I hate them and they are as big as golf balls!
I hate all this stuff!
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I am a woman about 5'5", average height. When I go to buy pants, hardly ever can I find any that are the right length. These manufacturers make the pants so long you have to be 9 feet tall so the hems don't drag on the ground! Why do they make trouser lengths for men and very few for women?
You can always hem pants shorter. It's hard to extend them.
I have hemmed pants my whole life, very tired of it. How many men have hemmed pants?
Only a few were the right length (short enough).
All the rest were hemmed by me or a tailor.
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Loud talkers on planes. Especially extreme extroverts who just met and make small talk for the entire flight. Earplugs don't block them out, and I want to focus on my book. I always smile and say something friendly in return when spoken to, but I give dead-end answers because I don't want to be dragged into a conversation with someone I'm never going to see again. Why don't people take something quiet to do on planes anymore?! Even when I travel with my husband, we hardly say a word to each other once we're on the plane because it's just too exhausting to try to talk over the engine, and everyone would overhear our conversation.
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Apparently China and other countries are tired of low quality recycling ( really just garbage) dumped on them. Smaller communities are now just chucking everything.
I remember at work the same happened.
I have seen this before but they went back to normal pick up where they had separate trucks pick it up. Sometimes I think they are short handed and just say screw it and just use one truck. I did hear about the China thing and this has got to be a disaster on what to do with all this plastic, cans and newspapers. What are they doing with all the soda cans that we recycle?
A while back we decided to bring metals into the local recycler who takes all kind of metal, including soda cans, food cans, etc. We usually make 1 trip/6 months. We only get ~$15 per trip. The little extra cash is great, but it is not about the money. We just want to make sure these metals get recycled. We also bring plastic bags to local grocery store.
At the grocery store I hate it when the person in front of me is yakking away on their cell phone and acts like it's some big inconvenience when they ultimately have to drag their credit card and pay. The nerve of the cashier for interrupting their Very Important Call!
I have always want a little device that can block/jam cell signals. See someone being loud and ignorant while talking on the phone, turn this device and kill his cell signal for a bit. See someone who cut you off because they are on the phone, maybe this person should not be on the phone... See someone who keep talking loudly on phone while watching little kids practice, yeah time to stop talking :)
Maybe illegal but that would be very useful to have...
I've always wanted a wireless mute button for those huge booming stereos some people put into their cars. And instant mufflers for Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Apparently China and other countries are tired of low quality recycling ( really just garbage) dumped on them. Smaller communities are now just chucking everything.
I remember at work the same happened.
I have seen this before but they went back to normal pick up where they had separate trucks pick it up. Sometimes I think they are short handed and just say screw it and just use one truck. I did hear about the China thing and this has got to be a disaster on what to do with all this plastic, cans and newspapers. What are they doing with all the soda cans that we recycle?
A while back we decided to bring metals into the local recycler who takes all kind of metal, including soda cans, food cans, etc. We usually make 1 trip/6 months. We only get ~$15 per trip. The little extra cash is great, but it is not about the money. We just want to make sure these metals get recycled. We also bring plastic bags to local grocery store.
At the grocery store I hate it when the person in front of me is yakking away on their cell phone and acts like it's some big inconvenience when they ultimately have to drag their credit card and pay. The nerve of the cashier for interrupting their Very Important Call!
I have always want a little device that can block/jam cell signals. See someone being loud and ignorant while talking on the phone, turn this device and kill his cell signal for a bit. See someone who cut you off because they are on the phone, maybe this person should not be on the phone... See someone who keep talking loudly on phone while watching little kids practice, yeah time to stop talking :)
Maybe illegal but that would be very useful to have...
I've always wanted a wireless mute button for those huge booming stereos some people put into their cars. And instant mufflers for Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
always wanted an EM gun to shoot a HEMP directly at the offending object and disrupt/destroy it. I worked in EMI/EMC, there's so much regulation against this. Darn FCC.
But a man can dream...
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Okay, today is my garbage and recycle pick up day. I just watched the garbage truck put all the garbage AND recyclables into one truck and comingled it all! Why am I sorting out this frigging crap when they chuck it all into one truck. This really irks me! Now if I had comingled it all they probably would have refused to pick up my crap!
Does anyone know why this is happening?
Apparently China and other countries are tired of low quality recycling ( really just garbage) dumped on them. Smaller communities are now just chucking everything.
I remember at work the same happened.
I have seen this before but they went back to normal pick up where they had separate trucks pick it up. Sometimes I think they are short handed and just say screw it and just use one truck. I did hear about the China thing and this has got to be a disaster on what to do with all this plastic, cans and newspapers. What are they doing with all the soda cans that we recycle?
A while back we decided to bring metals into the local recycler who takes all kind of metal, including soda cans, food cans, etc. We usually make 1 trip/6 months. We only get ~$15 per trip. The little extra cash is great, but it is not about the money. We just want to make sure these metals get recycled. We also bring plastic bags to local grocery store.
At the grocery store I hate it when the person in front of me is yakking away on their cell phone and acts like it's some big inconvenience when they ultimately have to drag their credit card and pay. The nerve of the cashier for interrupting their Very Important Call!
I have always want a little device that can block/jam cell signals. See someone being loud and ignorant while talking on the phone, turn this device and kill his cell signal for a bit. See someone who cut you off because they are on the phone, maybe this person should not be on the phone... See someone who keep talking loudly on phone while watching little kids practice, yeah time to stop talking :)
Maybe illegal but that would be very useful to have...
I've always wanted a wireless mute button for those huge booming stereos some people put into their cars. And instant mufflers for Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
always wanted an EM gun to shoot a HEMP directly at the offending object and disrupt/destroy it. I worked in EMI/EMC, there's so much regulation against this. Darn FCC.
But a man can dream...
800 or 1900 MHz maser right? As a pedestrian/motorcyclist I've seen a lot of " distracted" cell phone users.
Maybe for enforcement of cell phone handheld use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_cell_phone_use_while_driving_in_the_United_States, the FCC could rule that cops could blast them given a nice maser "rifle".
A federal transportation funding law passed in July 2012, known as the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), provided $17.5 million in grants during fiscal year 2013 for states with primary enforcement laws against distracted driving, including laws prohibiting cell phone use while driving. States with secondary enforcement laws or no laws at all are ineligible to receive this grant funding.[3][4]
Given the vast money and emotional investment of cell phones (anxiety attack if misplaced for example), then since people are immune to killing others while phone/texting ***, disabling the phones seems like a good idea.
Via Wikipedia entry from above.
***Cost of distracted driving
A 2014 report from the National Safety Council, which compiles data on injuries and fatalities from 2013 and earlier, concluded that use of mobile phones caused 26% of U.S. car accidents.[23] Just 5% of mobile phone-related accidents in the U.S. involved texting: "The majority of the accidents involve drivers distracted while talking on handheld or hands-free cellphones."[23]
The U.S. Department of Transportation has established an official website to combat distracted driving, Distraction.gov.[24]
In 2010, the State Farm insurance company stated that mobile phone use annually resulted in: 636,000 crashes, 330,000 personal injuries, 12,000 major injuries, 2,700 deaths, and $43 billion in damages.[25]
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We are in a week of software testing with the customer present. One of the testers has to run the show this morning. I told him on Friday that he needed to be here at 8:00 am, as I had no one else to improvise to on that day. He shouldn't be late, like he was the day before. Still, now it is 08:30 am, he is still not here. Me and the customer are waiting. I feel very embarrassed towards the customer.
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We are in a week of software testing with the customer present. One of the testers has to run the show this morning. I told him on Friday that he needed to be here at 8:00 am, as I had no one else to improvise to on that day. He shouldn't be late, like he was the day before. Still, now it is 08:30 am, he is still not here. Me and the customer are waiting. I feel very embarrassed towards the customer.
Wow so he was late, and now he is late again...
I am guessing he did not text/call to let you know why he is running late? In some job that can get one fired on the spot...
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We are in a week of software testing with the customer present. One of the testers has to run the show this morning. I told him on Friday that he needed to be here at 8:00 am, as I had no one else to improvise to on that day. He shouldn't be late, like he was the day before. Still, now it is 08:30 am, he is still not here. Me and the customer are waiting. I feel very embarrassed towards the customer.
Wow so he was late, and now he is late again...
I am guessing he did not text/call to let you know why he is running late? In some job that can get one fired on the spot...
He ended up being half an hour late one day, letting one customer wait. And another day when we would start at 9 am, he was half an hour late, letting 10 customers wait. I told my boss that I found it very embassarring towards our customers. She will talk to his boss. I don't think they will fire him for that, but it may play in at the salary increase.
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Painting. I have been painting inside our house the last 3 days and its just mindless, monotonous work! not to mention the smell of paint no matter how much I ventilate gives me a headache!
I hate painting too.
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Painting. I have been painting inside our house the last 3 days and its just mindless, monotonous work! not to mention the smell of paint no matter how much I ventilate gives me a headache!
I hate painting too.
It depends on what kind of painting: Painting door frames neatly is much worse than painting a whole wall.
What I do hate about it, is that it never covers completely after one layer. You always have to do the wall a second time.
Listening to a podcast while painting makes it a little more pleasant.
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We are in a week of software testing with the customer present. One of the testers has to run the show this morning. I told him on Friday that he needed to be here at 8:00 am, as I had no one else to improvise to on that day. He shouldn't be late, like he was the day before. Still, now it is 08:30 am, he is still not here. Me and the customer are waiting. I feel very embarrassed towards the customer.
Wow so he was late, and now he is late again...
I am guessing he did not text/call to let you know why he is running late? In some job that can get one fired on the spot...
He ended up being half an hour late one day, letting one customer wait. And another day when we would start at 9 am, he was half an hour late, letting 10 customers wait. I told my boss that I found it very embassarring towards our customers. She will talk to his boss. I don't think they will fire him for that, but it may play in at the salary increase.
Whoa letting 10 customers waiting, and maybe not getting fired. That is a pretty nice boss/manager. I know if I am the customer, and we are supposed to have a business meeting, and the seller is late for half hour, I would expect to get a something in return for wasting my time, but most likely, I would leave and take my business somewhere else (I have done this).
I hate people who is late to business meeting (unless they are involved in an car accident otw or something like that). Not trying to sound like an a** but I usually have other meetings during the day. If one is late by 30 min, most likely we will need to have a follow-up meeting in the near future, and that is just annoying.
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I hate it when I order stuff from certain places on line and it takes like 2 weeks to get the items! They do Smart Post and it seems to be like a wagon train pulled by mules. Right now I am waiting for some thing 11 days. How STUPID!
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I hate it when I order stuff from certain places on line and it takes like 2 weeks to get the items! They do Smart Post and it seems to be like a wagon train pulled by mules. Right now I am waiting for some thing 11 days. How STUPID!
It's all perspective.
I grew up in a small Northern Ontario town and besides a couple general stores, there wasn't really anywhere to shop. Next town over was a two hour drive, so most of our clothing and random other stuff was ordered from the Sears catalog via telephone. Usually came in in a month and a half if all went well. If it was backordered, it might be two or three months.
Tracking was:
- we placed the order
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- the parcel is here!
It's hard to get excited about two weeks wait these days. Seems like everything is being teleported right to me at hyper speed. :P
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Most places ship things so they arrive in no more than 5 days unless it is something special or on back order. Walmart is introducing one day shipping with a $35 purchase. Not all states now but will by the end of year. Costco is two day. J.C. Penny is maybe 5 days. Target is a few days. We have modern shipping and not wagon trains anymore so there is no reason not to get things quickly. The consumer wants it.
Yes, I remember the Sears and J C Penny catalog but those days are long gone.
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This is one if the reasons I enjoy Amazo, they normally do shipping right. And if they don't, they usually screw up in customer's favor. My bro once got two big screens shipped to him. I usually get my stuff on exactly the day or sooner. Problem with Amazon though is fake reviews or fake products. I would figure a company as huge as Amazon would be able to control the products, but I've seen enough to only buy when I'm sure now. Shoes, supplements, cologne? Nope.
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Most places ship things so they arrive in no more than 5 days unless it is something special or on back order. Walmart is introducing one day shipping with a $35 purchase. Not all states now but will by the end of year. Costco is two day. J.C. Penny is maybe 5 days. Target is a few days. We have modern shipping and not wagon trains anymore so there is no reason not to get things quickly. The consumer wants it.
Yes, I remember the Sears and J C Penny catalog but those days are long gone.
Honestly Amazon is Sears 2.0. The shipping may be faster and the catalog replaced with a website, but it's essentially an improved version the same thing.
It's really ironic that Sears was beat by its own original business model. Amazon's website is basically just a modern version of the Sears catalog.
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
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people who bring their sick kids to work.
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
This is actually not his problem, it's the problem of your scrum master. The scrum master's job is to move the meeting along quickly. That means shutting up people who just like to hear the sound of their own voice.
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
I have a coworker like this too, but what irritates me even more is how she has to take 5-10 minutes out of any meeting to make sure anyone listening understands that whoever started the project (or did it before it the project is an update) did it WRONG and we are all so lucky that she is here now to scrap the old and completely restart things by doing it RIGHT because she is clearly so much more competent than anyone else on the planet. She is good at what she does, but not THAT good, and everything she does takes twice as long because of her endless questions and frequent boasting-fests. Yet the system works for her, she has many people convinced that they just couldn't find anyone better. Makes me so happy I only have 29 more days.
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I sat through a meeting once where two dozen people had to bide their time b/c one employee wanted to question the wording of a project summary. Back and forth they went. Finally a few of us left for other meetings and obligations.
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
My mom and I have noted this is an American habit though it seems you aren't in the U.S. We just do not understand these pointless meetings where in the end, no one actually says anything. We have concluded Americans love to hear themselves talk and especially, superfluous phrasing that doesn't need to be said. I leave every meeting thinking "Did we need to have that." IT seems also these meeting do nothing but instill anger as management tries to convince us the media is wrong when they have been right on just about everything...
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I hate driving, especially on the 401 through Toronto. We have three more one-way trips ahead of us in order to move back to Montreal without paying a mover some usurious rate. I hope to never, ever see the 401 ever again after June 30.
In fact, I posted an ad in Mustachian Marketplace in the hope that there is a Mustachian near Waterloo Ontario with a van/pickup who wouldn't mind a drive to Montreal in exchange for a reasonable fee plus expenses. No lifting required and we have almost nothing left to move ... but more than our Yaris will hold.
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I hate driving, especially on the 401 through Toronto. We have three more one-way trips ahead of us in order to move back to Montreal without paying a mover some usurious rate. I hope to never, ever see the 401 ever again after June 30.
In fact, I posted an ad in Mustachian Marketplace in the hope that there is a Mustachian near Waterloo Ontario with a van/pickup who wouldn't mind a drive to Montreal in exchange for a reasonable fee plus expenses. No lifting required and we have almost nothing left to move ... but more than our Yaris will hold.
You can thank decades of successive governments (at the municipal, federal, and provincial level) waffling on and cancelling public transit projects for the current state of traffic on the 401. Give several million people only one way to travel and you get the 401.
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The 401 is fine - until about Oshawa. Then it is hell. I would be happy if I die at 95 never having driven on the 401 in Toronto again.
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I hate bananas that soften prematurely although they looked perfect and felt firm at time of purchase.
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I hate chores. I love learning new skills, or doing projects that get me ahead of the game, or make my life more efficient or effective. But chores, Blegh! Doing dishes, laundry, cleaning, dusting, having to shower/shave/brush my teeth, sleeping.....all must be done, only to be done again the next day, and the next day, and the next day, with no end in sight. Just...clean the thing, only to get it dirty again, only to clean it again, only to dirty it again....
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Having sensitivity in a molar. Recently I ate bread with some hard seeds in it. I noticed that when I chewed with my left teeth, I felt slightly painful. Chewing on the right side didn't feel anything special.
This morning, I took a sip of water and I felt icing on my left teeth, mort in particular one of the molars on the left upper side.
This molar had an old filling. Some time ago I went to a (new) dentist who said the filling was starting to get bad, there were growing bacteria deep in the crevasses of the molar and I needed a partial new filling. I agreed on doing it immediately (I don't want the bacterial growth), so she took out a bit of filling, drilled something and put in a new piece. Now, several month later, the molar is suddenly getting sensitive for cold water. And maybe that was also causing the chewing sensation, although I am not sure.
I hate having to go back to a dentist. It is hassle and it might cost money. One of my co-workers has a similar problem, but with a lot more pain involved. She also hates having to go back to the dentist. I had been encouraging her to go back and now she is encouraging me. But we are both reluctant. At least she has made an appointment. I think I'll wait for a while to see if it keeps hurting.
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I hate chores. I love learning new skills, or doing projects that get me ahead of the game, or make my life more efficient or effective. But chores, Blegh! Doing dishes, laundry, cleaning, dusting, having to shower/shave/brush my teeth, sleeping.....all must be done, only to be done again the next day, and the next day, and the next day, with no end in sight. Just...clean the thing, only to get it dirty again, only to clean it again, only to dirty it again....
Agree, chores are BORING! Laundry is never ending and we are just two people here. My washer is non stop it seems. I wish they would come up with a microwave shower where you could go in and be zapped and be clean. Cleaning the house is the worst chore of all. It never ends either. Vacuum, dust, wash windows, bathtubs, showers, sinks, floor washing, changing sheets, making the bed, washing sheets and bedding. UGH!!!
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
My mom and I have noted this is an American habit though it seems you aren't in the U.S. We just do not understand these pointless meetings where in the end, no one actually says anything. We have concluded Americans love to hear themselves talk and especially, superfluous phrasing that doesn't need to be said. I leave every meeting thinking "Did we need to have that." IT seems also these meeting do nothing but instill anger as management tries to convince us the media is wrong when they have been right on just about everything...
Most working Americans feel this way (I assume). It's the damn useless management and project managers who hold these meetings.
My response to SCRUM meetings is: En Ingles por favor. No entiendo.
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Agree, chores are BORING! Laundry is never ending and we are just two people here. My washer is non stop it seems. I wish they would come up with a microwave shower where you could go in and be zapped and be clean. Cleaning the house is the worst chore of all. It never ends either. Vacuum, dust, wash windows, bathtubs, showers, sinks, floor washing, changing sheets, making the bed, washing sheets and bedding. UGH!!!
@Roadrunner53
You say your washing machine runs all the time, with just 2 people?
Could you perhaps be washing your clothes too often?
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/12/30/are-you-cleaning-out-your-own-wallet/
Or is perhaps your washing machine very small? We own a pretty newish washing machine and the amount of laundry that can be stuffed into is like 50% more than in the machine I had before this one.
I run 1-3 batches of laundry per week, with 2 adults. Three batches is only when I wash the bed sheets. And the second batch only if I have enough white laundry, which is once every few weeks.
I do agree that cleaning the house is a never ending repetitive story.
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
My mom and I have noted this is an American habit though it seems you aren't in the U.S. We just do not understand these pointless meetings where in the end, no one actually says anything. We have concluded Americans love to hear themselves talk and especially, superfluous phrasing that doesn't need to be said. I leave every meeting thinking "Did we need to have that." IT seems also these meeting do nothing but instill anger as management tries to convince us the media is wrong when they have been right on just about everything...
Most working Americans feel this way (I assume). It's the damn useless management and project managers who hold these meetings.
My response to SCRUM meetings is: En Ingles por favor. No entiendo.
There seems to be an attitude that talking in a meeting = power. So people who want more power just keep talking long after they run out of anything useful to say. It's quite infuriating. I've also noticed that people who are in "project paralysis" will keep having the same meetings over and over rather than risk making a wrong decision that moves the project forward but could come back to bite them. Both are dysfunctional work situations. So glad I'm retiring soon.
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Agree, chores are BORING! Laundry is never ending and we are just two people here. My washer is non stop it seems. I wish they would come up with a microwave shower where you could go in and be zapped and be clean. Cleaning the house is the worst chore of all. It never ends either. Vacuum, dust, wash windows, bathtubs, showers, sinks, floor washing, changing sheets, making the bed, washing sheets and bedding. UGH!!!
@Roadrunner53
You say your washing machine runs all the time, with just 2 people?
Could you perhaps be washing your clothes too often?
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/12/30/are-you-cleaning-out-your-own-wallet/
Or is perhaps your washing machine very small? We own a pretty newish washing machine and the amount of laundry that can be stuffed into is like 50% more than in the machine I had before this one.
I run 1-3 batches of laundry per week, with 2 adults. Three batches is only when I wash the bed sheets. And the second batch only if I have enough white laundry, which is once every few weeks.
I do agree that cleaning the house is a never ending repetitive story.
I have a king size bed and even though my washer and dryer are giant sized, I can only wash so much bedding at a time so I might have 3 loads for blankets, sheets and bedspreads. I have some delicate things that I do separately, I have throw rugs that get washed and 3 large loads of normal wash a week. My husband uses rags in the garage that need washing now and then. I have blankets in the car that the dogs sit on that get washed now and then. For some reason it is never ending. I don't wear things for 5 minutes and then wash them. Sometimes I wear them several times. I have fleece jackets that need washing now and then and some crochet throws that need washing now and then. We bathe the dogs about once a month and that takes up many towels. So it all adds up.
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One of my co-workers, who questions everything, including the things in projects that he is not involved in. He makes meetings twice as long as they need to be, because he drags everything out. I hate these (SCRUM planning) meetings anyway, but this co-workers makes it so much worse by his questions.
My mom and I have noted this is an American habit though it seems you aren't in the U.S. We just do not understand these pointless meetings where in the end, no one actually says anything. We have concluded Americans love to hear themselves talk and especially, superfluous phrasing that doesn't need to be said. I leave every meeting thinking "Did we need to have that." IT seems also these meeting do nothing but instill anger as management tries to convince us the media is wrong when they have been right on just about everything...
Most working Americans feel this way (I assume). It's the damn useless management and project managers who hold these meetings.
My response to SCRUM meetings is: En Ingles por favor. No entiendo.
There seems to be an attitude that talking in a meeting = power. So people who want more power just keep talking long after they run out of anything useful to say. It's quite infuriating. I've also noticed that people who are in "project paralysis" will keep having the same meetings over and over rather than risk making a wrong decision that moves the project forward but could come back to bite them. Both are dysfunctional work situations. So glad I'm retiring soon.
Management can't make a decision.
Management wants engineers to make decisions, but management wants to be in charge of how decisions are made.
So they make engineers sit in pointless meetings.
If the decision leads to a bad ending, it's the fault of engineers.
If the decision leads to having more meetings, the engineers are blamed (because the initial engineers' decision was rejected by management).
If the decision leads to success, the managers get the praise and reward for leading a team of "indecisive engineers".
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There seems to be an attitude that talking in a meeting = power. So people who want more power just keep talking long after they run out of anything useful to say. It's quite infuriating. I've also noticed that people who are in "project paralysis" will keep having the same meetings over and over rather than risk making a wrong decision that moves the project forward but could come back to bite them. Both are dysfunctional work situations. So glad I'm retiring soon.
This happened in our board meetings for our private road. Endless discussions about the same subject about taken over an additional piece of road and never any decision about it. At the end, the decision was taken by the member meeting and was really simple: as long as there is a disagreement about this road amongst the owners, we can't take it over.
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Didn't want to make a whole other thread about this but boy there is nothing like the death of a loved one to let you know which of your friends give a shit about you.
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Cool Friend, I am sorry for your loss, and sorry that there are people who are so caught up in their own issues that they are missing a chance to provide you comfort.
And--like you--I hate that people forget the proper way to come together during a time of grief.
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Thank you for saying so. The silver lining I guess is now I know what I mean to some of these people, and I can stop putting as much time and energy into those relationships, since it's clearly not as important to them as it was to me.
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Cool Friend, relationships are not always what we think they are. I worked with this woman for several years. She was a temp and I was a regular full time employee. We were best of friends at work and we worked perfectly together. She was an excellent worker and we had so much fun every day. When she wasn't there, the days would drag. She had a fun personality and was willing to do anything with a smile. She went thru a divorce and I stuck by her. When she moved out of the family home with her kids my hub helped move her furniture. The company decided to close down the operation and after several months she was let go. I was also going to lose my job but worked a bit longer. Another coworker and I tried to meet her for lunch one day just to enjoy each others company. We tried and tried to make a date with her but she would never meet up with us. She never kept in personal contact with me either. I would have thought our friendship went beyond the walls of work but she claimed she was so busy with her kids and her new job and she got remarried. But not even an email or text or anything? WOW, I wonder if she was just playing me or were we really work friends that enjoyed each others company. I have other friendship stories that fizzled out too.
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I FUCKING HATE FUCKING PAPER LAWN/LEAF BAGS.
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Thanks. I feel better now. Still not a fan.
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TVs playing loud on screened-in porches
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Being told my accomplishments are just because I'm "so young."
I have a friend who constantly tells me that I was able to do that hike or recover quickly from that surgery or wear that clothing size because I'm so young. She's only 8 years older than I am! She just doesn't take care of herself very well. I've given her all kinds of examples of MUCH older people who are doing MUCH more impressive things, but it never seems to sink in. I think it's time to just tell her that when she says that, it makes me feel like my efforts mean nothing. I eat healthy food and I literally climb a mountain several times a week. If that doesn't keep you in good shape, I don't know what will, and I don't expect it to be much different 8 years from now, even though she seems to think life effectively ends long before age 50.
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Being told my accomplishments are just because I'm "so young."
I have a friend who constantly tells me that I was able to do that hike or recover quickly from that surgery or wear that clothing size because I'm so young. She's only 8 years older than I am! She just doesn't take care of herself very well. I've given her all kinds of examples of MUCH older people who are doing MUCH more impressive things, but it never seems to sink in. I think it's time to just tell her that when she says that, it makes me feel like my efforts mean nothing. I eat healthy food and I literally climb a mountain several times a week. If that doesn't keep you in good shape, I don't know what will, and I don't expect it to be much different 8 years from now, even though she seems to think life effectively ends long before age 50.
I lost 30 pounds once and my boss was like "must be nice being so young." Yeah, the months of sustained discipline and attention I put towards my goal couldn't have had anything to do with it.
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Being told my accomplishments are just because I'm "so young."
I have a friend who constantly tells me that I was able to do that hike or recover quickly from that surgery or wear that clothing size because I'm so young. She's only 8 years older than I am! She just doesn't take care of herself very well. I've given her all kinds of examples of MUCH older people who are doing MUCH more impressive things, but it never seems to sink in. I think it's time to just tell her that when she says that, it makes me feel like my efforts mean nothing. I eat healthy food and I literally climb a mountain several times a week. If that doesn't keep you in good shape, I don't know what will, and I don't expect it to be much different 8 years from now, even though she seems to think life effectively ends long before age 50.
I lost 30 pounds once and my boss was like "must be nice being so young." Yeah, the months of sustained discipline and attention I put towards my goal couldn't have had anything to do with it.
To be fair: it is easier to lose weight when you are younger. But for them to dismiss your effort is completely unfair. It's the same thing we hear about finances "I wish I could have that much money".........well, you could if you had less stuff!
Last point: 8 years can be a pretty big difference athletically. Certainly the difference between 20 and 28 is pretty large. 28 and 36 is HUGE....it's like an eternity. 36 and 44 is not as bad but still a pretty big difference.
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Thank you for saying so. The silver lining I guess is now I know what I mean to some of these people, and I can stop putting as much time and energy into those relationships, since it's clearly not as important to them as it was to me.
Sometimes people are so afraid of saying the wrong thing that they just don't say anything. A professional acquaintence/friend-ish says her son "died" but I know it was a suicide. Ooh, sticky. I just stuff down the icky feelings and try to do the right thing, like delivering flowers (I'm too cheap to use a florist, lol) around the time he died each year. She says "thanks" and not much else. Should I keep doing this? For how long? Do I mention him in conversation? I do, when it feels appropriate, but I think most people are afraid to. A lot of people are conditioned to avoid doing anything that's hard. Or they do the other thing I'm also guilty of. They write a lovely condolence letter in their heads and leave it there. Oof.
Related: when in doubt, go to the funeral or memorial service. I went for the boy mentioned. They had a receiving line, which I hesitated to enter. When she saw me, she hugged me like I was a life preserver and burst into tears. I just stayed still and held on until she collected herself. Neither of us has mentioned the moment, but I was proud that I'd made the right choice. Even if it was hard. Because it was hard.
On topic: I fucking hate it when people kill themselves.
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Thank you for saying so. The silver lining I guess is now I know what I mean to some of these people, and I can stop putting as much time and energy into those relationships, since it's clearly not as important to them as it was to me.
Sometimes people are so afraid of saying the wrong thing that they just don't say anything. A professional acquaintence/friend-ish says her son "died" but I know it was a suicide. Ooh, sticky. I just stuff down the icky feelings and try to do the right thing, like delivering flowers (I'm too cheap to use a florist, lol) around the time he died each year. She says "thanks" and not much else. Should I keep doing this? For how long? Do I mention him in conversation? I do, when it feels appropriate, but I think most people are afraid to. A lot of people are conditioned to avoid doing anything that's hard. Or they do the other thing I'm also guilty of. They write a lovely condolence letter in their heads and leave it there. Oof.
Related: when in doubt, go to the funeral or memorial service. I went for the boy mentioned. They had a receiving line, which I hesitated to enter. When she saw me, she hugged me like I was a life preserver and burst into tears. I just stayed still and held on until she collected herself. Neither of us has mentioned the moment, but I was proud that I'd made the right choice. Even if it was hard. Because it was hard.
On topic: I fucking hate it when people kill themselves.
Yeah, uncomfortable situation. My neighbor's house was inundated with police cars for hours one day and of course I thought it was the owner or his wife being taken out by ambulance. I went to the wake/service for him. Weeks later I found out their 20 year old kid died of a drug OD. However, the mother didn't seem to want anyone to know because she said he was okay around midnight but in the morning he was dead in bed. It is another one of those really strange situations because the whole family is down to earth and the only thing they do is drink a beer now and then.
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Dogs. There is no place in a civilized society for dogs. Dog attacks and dog bites happen far to often and there's no reliable way to tell a dog that's eventually going to bite from one that won't. Grew up with my own dog and around a great many others that I did love and care about, but enough is enough. Finally applied logic and outgrew my foolish emotional attachment to those instruments of death and destruction.
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Dogs. There is no place in a civilized society for dogs. Dog attacks and dog bites happen far to often and there's no reliable way to tell a dog that's eventually going to bite from one that won't. Grew up with my own dog and around a great many others that I did love and care about, but enough is enough. Finally applied logic and outgrew my foolish emotional attachment to those instruments of death and destruction.
Kinda disagree. Or at least I think the problem is usually not the dog, but the owner.
There's nothing wrong with pets if the pets are responsibly controlled by their owners. I've had a dog living with me for my entire life and none of them have ever bitten someone, let alone attacked. The dogs we've had have all been smaller breeds known for good temperament though (cavalier spaniels, beagles, etc.) who were kept indoors as members of the family. It's kinda ridiculous to think of a 10-25 lb dog as an instrument of 'death and destruction'. :P
A dog is never to be allowed off leash out of the back yard. Much like being in a tub alone, a small child is never allowed around a dog alone. A dog is never permitted to be aggressive about food or toys, and if aggression shows up it is progressively trained out of them.
Breed matters a lot, as does how a dog is trained, socialized, and housed. My closest friend when I was growing up kept huskies in an outdoor pen for sledding. Handling them was very a different situation to handling our family dogs. I think that a lot of the problems people have with the animals comes from simply not being a responsible owner (often through ignorance rather than maliciousness).
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I hate getting a song stuck in my head for days at a time.
I'm on at least 24 hours now with The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma" on loop on my brain. It hasn't let up, even after listening to the recording.
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Dogs. There is no place in a civilized society for dogs. Dog attacks and dog bites happen far to often and there's no reliable way to tell a dog that's eventually going to bite from one that won't. Grew up with my own dog and around a great many others that I did love and care about, but enough is enough. Finally applied logic and outgrew my foolish emotional attachment to those instruments of death and destruction.
Counterpoint-shih tzu.
Most dogs are far too boisterous and just annoying to me. My girlfriend's shih tzu is something else though. If anyone sneezes around her, she'll quietly pad her way to that person and place a paw on them. I hope that dog lives 40 years.
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What GuitarStv said - it's the owners, not the dogs. Just like cars - cars don't (usually) cause accidents, bad drivers /owners cause accidents.
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I hate it when I go to the deli and get a lb. of roast beef and they cut it so thin I can almost see thru it. Then there is the opposite situation where they cut it so thick it is like a slab of meat.
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I hate it when I go to the deli and get a lb. of roast beef and they cut it so thin I can almost see thru it. Then there is the opposite situation where they cut it so thick it is like a slab of meat.
I get the dislike of very thick pieces of meat, but what's wrong with too thin? If you want more, add another slice . . .
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I hate it when I go to the deli and get a lb. of roast beef and they cut it so thin I can almost see thru it. Then there is the opposite situation where they cut it so thick it is like a slab of meat.
I get the dislike of very thick pieces of meat, but what's wrong with too thin? If you want more, add another slice . . .
The slices get all stuck together and is a pain in the butt to try to separate them. I like to use slices not a glob of meat.
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Dogs. There is no place in a civilized society for dogs. Dog attacks and dog bites happen far to often and there's no reliable way to tell a dog that's eventually going to bite from one that won't. Grew up with my own dog and around a great many others that I did love and care about, but enough is enough. Finally applied logic and outgrew my foolish emotional attachment to those instruments of death and destruction.
Kinda disagree. Or at least I think the problem is usually not the dog, but the owner.
In the USA dogs kill 30-50 people each year. People in the USA, on the other hand, INTENTIONALLY murder over 17,000 other people every year. I think it’s clear which species is actually the instrument of death and destruction.
I would also argue that well-trained dogs contribute more to civilized society than many people. Consider seeing eye dogs, epilepsy therapy dogs, or even the dogs that are trained to sniff out peanuts so highly allergic children can go to school or the playground without fear of anaphylactic shock. Human beings don't have innate abilities required to provide these services at any price. Dogs are willing to provide them in exchange for a cushion to sleep on and cheap food.
I agree that dog owners need to be held accountable for cleaning up waste and providing adequate training to their dogs, but eliminating the species altogether would damage civilized society far more than it would help.
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Dogs. There is no place in a civilized society for dogs. Dog attacks and dog bites happen far to often and there's no reliable way to tell a dog that's eventually going to bite from one that won't. Grew up with my own dog and around a great many others that I did love and care about, but enough is enough. Finally applied logic and outgrew my foolish emotional attachment to those instruments of death and destruction.
Kinda disagree. Or at least I think the problem is usually not the dog, but the owner.
In the USA dogs kill 30-50 people each year. People in the USA, on the other hand, INTENTIONALLY murder over 17,000 other people every year. I think it’s clear which species is actually the instrument of death and destruction.
I would also argue that well-trained dogs contribute more to civilized society than many people. Consider seeing eye dogs, epilepsy therapy dogs, or even the dogs that are trained to sniff out peanuts so highly allergic children can go to school or the playground without fear of anaphylactic shock. Human beings don't have innate abilities required to provide these services at any price. Dogs are willing to provide them in exchange for a cushion to sleep on and cheap food.
I agree that dog owners need to be held accountable for cleaning up waste and providing adequate training to their dogs, but eliminating the species altogether would damage civilized society far more than it would help.
It would also be kinda weird. I mean . . . dogs were the first domesticated animals. They've been living with us and helping human society for at least 15,000 years. If we can't trust them, there's not much hope for humans getting along with any other type of animal.
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Most dogs are far too boisterous and just annoying to me. My girlfriend's shih tzu is something else though. If anyone sneezes around her, she'll quietly pad her way to that person and place a paw on them. I hope that dog lives 40 years.
Well, now I want to train my dog to do this! (Yeah, it's not the same if it has to be taught, but it still would be so sweet.)
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Things I hate today:
Politics. But that’s no different from any other day.
Overpriced beer. Cigarettes. Morbid obesity. And Lima beans.
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The fashionable late or People that dont follow up with things.
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I HATE the Peloton commercials.
Every single day hundreds of the same commercial. UGH!
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I bought (4) 10-packs of wooden pencils.
The yellow ones that are ubiquitous.
The lead is broken but cannot be seen so after I sharpen them and use them a little bit the lead falls out because it's already broken.
What's odd is that 3 different brands have the broken lead.
I hate it it when the already broken lead falls out.
It annoys me.
So I threw all of them in the trash bag and bought a 5-pack of mechanical lead pencils.
With them I'm happy.
No more wooden pencils for me.
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Things I hate today:
Politics. But that’s no different from any other day.
Overpriced beer. Cigarettes. Morbid obesity. And Lima beans.
I hate mendacious politicians.
Oops!
Is that a redundancy?
When I make bean soup I'll throw in a a handful of lima beans.
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I bought (4) 10-packs of wooden pencils.
The yellow ones that are ubiquitous.
The lead is broken but cannot be seen so after I sharpen them and use them a little bit the lead falls out because it's already broken.
What's odd is that 3 different brands have the broken lead.
I hate it it when the already broken lead falls out.
It annoys me.
So I threw all of them in the trash bag and bought a 5-pack of mechanical lead pencils.
With them I'm happy.
No more wooden pencils for me.
Love, love, love my mechanical pencils! I get the really good hard plastic Pentel ones...I have the refill lead and refill erasers!
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Love, love, love my mechanical pencils! I get the really good hard plastic Pentel ones...I have the refill lead and refill erasers!
Mine have erasers too.
I also have the mechanical pencils architects use.
They use very thick leads that are ~5 " long that can be sharpened to a very fine point.
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Cooking raw meat. Yuck!
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Cooking raw meat. Yuck!
You prefer cooking cooked meat?
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Ok...dealing with raw meat that I am cooking...better?
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Ok...dealing with raw meat that I am cooking...better?
Just get surgical gloves thru walmart or almost anywhere to handle the meat. No biggie.
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Great idea...thx!
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Right about now, I really hate the coronavirus and having to stock up on non perishable food and disinfectant and face masks (which were sold out, luckily, I have a friend who stocked up and gave us some). And I hate reading the Chinese news of all the people dying and the doctors in Wuhan dying and not having food while working 24/7 to save lives because the food delivery people won’t go near the hospital, and because the doctors themselves are under quarantine and the transportation system is shut down, they can’t go home. And the major Wuhan hospitals have run out of basic medical supplies like face masks and the kits needed to test for the virus. (Red Cross and Alibaba have reportedly stepped in to make sure the doctors are fed and they are trying to source medical supplies from other parts of China and from medical manufacturers that sell on the Alibaba platform. Alibaba will pay for the goods and ship things for free to the Wuhan hospitals.)
And a coworker just sent a message that people are going through the trash looking for used face masks to resell, so she recommends cutting up the face masks before throwing them away. It’s ridiculous. If I were the swearing kind of person, this would be an appropriate time to break out a few expletives.
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Right about now, I really hate the coronavirus and having to stock up on non perishable food and disinfectant and face masks (which were sold out, luckily, I have a friend who stocked up and gave us some). And I hate reading the Chinese news of all the people dying and the doctors in Wuhan dying and not having food while working 24/7 to save lives because the food delivery people won’t go near the hospital, and because the doctors themselves are under quarantine and the transportation system is shut down, they can’t go home. And the major Wuhan hospitals have run out of basic medical supplies like face masks and the kits needed to test for the virus. (Red Cross and Alibaba have reportedly stepped in to make sure the doctors are fed and they are trying to source medical supplies from other parts of China and from medical manufacturers that sell on the Alibaba platform. Alibaba will pay for the goods and ship things for free to the Wuhan hospitals.)
And a coworker just sent a message that people are going through the trash looking for used face masks to resell, so she recommends cutting up the face masks before throwing them away. It’s ridiculous. If I were the swearing kind of person, this would be an appropriate time to break out a few expletives.
Wow that really sucks.
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On a lighter note I really hate the electric seat mover in my husband's car. It is slow to begin with and even slower when it's cold out. A manual one would be much faster and more convenient.
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Ok...dealing with raw meat that I am cooking...better?
Just get surgical gloves thru walmart or almost anywhere to handle the meat. No biggie.
I hate wasting plastic :)
Really though, the meat won't hurt you. I grew up with the notion that raw meat should be handled as if it's poison until it's cooked, but it's not nearly as dangerous as some people would have you believe. Putting on a new pair of gloves every time you touch it sounds like a lot of unnecessary work to me and gloves with meat juice on them will make your trash stink the next day.
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I do too. Was thinking about looking for something reusable (if such a thing exists (and is safe for food prep).
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Reusable...here ya go.
https://www.amazon.com/LANON-Protection-Dishwashing-Household-Waterproof/dp/B07KR6LBNY/ref=sr_1_13_sspa?keywords=reusable+gloves+for+meat+handling&qid=1580147532&s=home-garden&sr=1-13-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExMUlRSTNaSUNFSU44JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwOTQ1MTMzMzVHTkQ1VVRUNTNBJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAxMTIwMTIyTUw5QjQ0SjcyQjJFJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfbXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==
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I've seen these, but they seem to be for cleaning. Is there a version for prepping meat that anybody uses?
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Okay here are some biodegradable disposal gloves.
https://www.amazon.com/Green-Monkey-Biodegradable-Disposable-Gloves/dp/B07TBHB71J?th=1
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Biodegradable looks interesting...I'd prefer re-usable, but that's probably less safe. Thanks!
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people that leave their cars idling while they run in the store.
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People who park on the sidewalk.
Just saw a mom & stroller that had to go into the street to get by. All because someone wants to avoid the low possibility that their car gets sideswiped on the street.
Metal scratches are more important than people? I don't get it.
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Biodegradable looks interesting...I'd prefer re-usable, but that's probably less safe. Thanks!
What is the purpose of reusable gloves for preparing meat? Rather than sanitizing a pair of gloves between uses, wouldn't it be easier to just sanitize your hands?
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Of course...if it didn't make me gag to handle it. It's not logical - just something I hate!
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Pharmaceutical commercials, especially the ones with a line like "Don't use [drug name] if you are allergic to [drug name]."
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...lists about things I hate...
Just kidding... Someone already used that joke upthread I'm sure....
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people who are chronically late. disrespectful.
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people who bring their sick kids to work.
there's a sick kid wandering around our office right now.
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I don't like it when there's a bike lane, and automobiles drive half in it/half in their own lane. Yelled at a lady this morning who was sliding into the bike lane I was occupying. Probably not her fault, it's hard to concentrate on driving while texting with the phone on your lap. :P
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I don't like it when there's a bike lane, and automobiles drive half in it/half in their own lane. Yelled at a lady this morning who was sliding into the bike lane I was occupying. Probably not her fault, it's hard to concentrate on driving while texting with the phone on your lap. :P
i see it every day on my way to work. hate it.
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hate the dipshits driving with phones in their hands and looking at social media at 0600... what the fuckity fuck.. go get a coffee and check your noggin-garbage-feeds while you wait.
and move bitch*, get out the way.
(* refers to males too, i'm an equal opportunity offender)
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I don't know how many people, with a phone glued to their ear, that I have avoided hitting with my car because they step out to cross the street NOT even looking to see if traffic is coming their way. What is so important that people can't put their phones down while walking or driving?
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Yesterday, for about 3 1/2 hours there was a kid on a mini motorcycle circling his house a million times. I think he went down the shared driveway and then looped back to drive around the house. The house is two houses away from me but I could see the kid riding around his house. I do not know the neighbors or their name. The kid is a maniac and is disturbing the peace in my neighborhood. Then I ask myself, where are his stupid parents? He is circling THEIR house and they have to be able to hear the constant roaring for hours on end. This racket has got to be bothering the other two neighbors even more than me because they are closer. This happened for the first time last fall. Just one day of the noise, 3-4 hours, then cold weather came and didn't hear any more of this nonsense. Now the weather is warming up and the maniac is back at it.
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Just read back to the poster complaining about how dogs are 'dangerous' and got a kick out of that. They are incredibly beneficial to society, if not just being great companions. Their personalities and tendencies are mostly due to training and upbringing anyway (although breeds tend to exhibit certain traits over other breeds). Maybe I won the lottery, but I like to think I trained my dog well. I've never seen another dog that can "read a room" like she can. She is a very energetic and bouncy 65 lb. ball of fur but so gentle with puppies (and human kids) and senior dogs (and old people). I specifically taught her the "gentle" command which basically translates to "cool your jets dude". If other dogs are getting a little feisty/fighting with each other, she stays out of it. But at the same time she wrestles HARD with other dogs lol, as long as they're into it too.
Thing I hate: when you're trying to turn right on a red, and some dipshit in the lane beside you keeps creeping out past the stop line into the crosswalk so you can't see traffic around them. Drives me insane.
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Yesterday, for about 3 1/2 hours there was a kid on a mini motorcycle circling his house a million times. I think he went down the shared driveway and then looped back to drive around the house. The house is two houses away from me but I could see the kid riding around his house. I do not know the neighbors or their name. The kid is a maniac and is disturbing the peace in my neighborhood. Then I ask myself, where are his stupid parents? He is circling THEIR house and they have to be able to hear the constant roaring for hours on end. This racket has got to be bothering the other two neighbors even more than me because they are closer. This happened for the first time last fall. Just one day of the noise, 3-4 hours, then cold weather came and didn't hear any more of this nonsense. Now the weather is warming up and the maniac is back at it.
We have a guy in our neighborhood that we refer to as "leaf blower guy." Should even a single stray leaf find its way into his perfectly maintained yard, he whips out his gas powdered leaf blower to blast that thing to kingdom come for a few hours. He's out there every weekend day it seems for a few hours blowing stuff around his yard. He's been out there in the sun, in the rain, even in the snow. To say that it's irritating is an understatement.
Karma came for him one day though. I don't know what he is doing, but he had several dump truck loads of dirt/sand delivered into his backyard over the course of several days. Well one of those days it happened to be raining and his perfect yard was quite saturated. So much so that one of these huge dump trucks got stuck. Its wheels spun and spun while the driver tried to get it out, digging trenches in the perfect yard. Then leaf blower guy tried to pull out the dump truck with his half ton truck (comical to say the least) which dug another set of trenches. Eventually a tow truck was called, and that guy had the good sense to winch from the roadway. As the dump truck was slowly dragged out, leaf blower guy was walking behind trying to tamp the remnants of his formerly pristine yard back into place to fill in the trenches. We watched this happened from our living room window like a sit-com. It felt to satisfying after listening to that leaf blower for weekends.
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Yesterday, for about 3 1/2 hours there was a kid on a mini motorcycle circling his house a million times. I think he went down the shared driveway and then looped back to drive around the house. The house is two houses away from me but I could see the kid riding around his house. I do not know the neighbors or their name. The kid is a maniac and is disturbing the peace in my neighborhood. Then I ask myself, where are his stupid parents? He is circling THEIR house and they have to be able to hear the constant roaring for hours on end. This racket has got to be bothering the other two neighbors even more than me because they are closer. This happened for the first time last fall. Just one day of the noise, 3-4 hours, then cold weather came and didn't hear any more of this nonsense. Now the weather is warming up and the maniac is back at it.
FindingFI Great story! I have one more story. My next door neighbor has a burn barrel and for years and years burns leaves, branches and I think even tires. It always seems to be a slow smoldering burn so we get the stink and some smoke. So, we can't sit on our deck because it gags us. Recently, in our area, they issued a no burn warning and even for those who have permits. This guy has never had a permit. Anyway, on this particular weekend, the jerk starts to burn in the barrel and he created quite a bit of smoke. Another neighbor called the fire department and volunteers were swarming the area looking for the source of smoke then a fire truck came roaring up burning mans driveway. Well, I think he got caught with his pants around his ankles and I am sure they read him the riot act! I witnessed this whole thing going down! It was such a happy day and I am hoping this put the scare of the devil into him and he won't be burning anymore.
We have a guy in our neighborhood that we refer to as "leaf blower guy." Should even a single stray leaf find its way into his perfectly maintained yard, he whips out his gas powdered leaf blower to blast that thing to kingdom come for a few hours. He's out there every weekend day it seems for a few hours blowing stuff around his yard. He's been out there in the sun, in the rain, even in the snow. To say that it's irritating is an understatement.
Karma came for him one day though. I don't know what he is doing, but he had several dump truck loads of dirt/sand delivered into his backyard over the course of several days. Well one of those days it happened to be raining and his perfect yard was quite saturated. So much so that one of these huge dump trucks got stuck. Its wheels spun and spun while the driver tried to get it out, digging trenches in the perfect yard. Then leaf blower guy tried to pull out the dump truck with his half ton truck (comical to say the least) which dug another set of trenches. Eventually a tow truck was called, and that guy had the good sense to winch from the roadway. As the dump truck was slowly dragged out, leaf blower guy was walking behind trying to tamp the remnants of his formerly pristine yard back into place to fill in the trenches. We watched this happened from our living room window like a sit-com. It felt to satisfying after listening to that leaf blower for weekends.
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Junk fees on your bill.
Like "dial tone" $7.95 on your monthly landline phone bill. Ummmm, isn't a ****ing dial tone included?
Or, $15 fee added to your water bill for "stormwater runoff". Same question "Ummmmm, isn't that already part of your ****ing job?" Just a money grab.
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What city do you live in with the "storm water" runoff?
The EPA was issuing a series of consent decrees on older cities (Cincinnati is an example) mandating that they spend $billions to update combined stormwater/sewer systems. While the goal is laudable, the cost was stratospheric. Cities often had to add a new tax somewhere to raise the money that was needed for this large scale of infrastructure spending. In the example of Cincinnati, a city with an annual budget below $300 million was taking on a project that would cost $3,000 million.
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What city do you live in with the "storm water" runoff?
The EPA was issuing a series of consent decrees on older cities (Cincinnati is an example) mandating that they spend $billions to update combined stormwater/sewer systems. While the goal is laudable, the cost was stratospheric. Cities often had to add a new tax somewhere to raise the money that was needed for this large scale of infrastructure spending. In the example of Cincinnati, a city with an annual budget below $300 million was taking on a project that would cost $3,000 million.
Don't want to blow my cover by identifying the city. It's a medium size city in one of the midatlantic states.
A lot of things about this fee gall me.
I have zero runoff from my property. I wish I had runoff, since then maybe I wouldn't have those permanent wet spots in my yard all year. So I get to pay for runoff, which I don't even have. And no, I don't want to spend 20 grand to have my yard regraded, so the wet spots go away, but thanks for the suggestion, in advance. :)
They should be taxing new construction, especially the huge new warehouses, with huge parking lots, which is the cause of the problem. Yes, they are taxing them, and at a higher rate than just a fee, but they should pay for all of it. It's the purposeful overdevelopment that is causing the problem. It's a classic case of rich folks causing a problem which the average Joe and Jane taxpayers have to solve for them with higher taxes and/or fees.
The burden should not be put on Joe and Jane Homeowner, most of whom have little to no runoff. And even if they do have significant runoff, it wasn't a problem until the overdevelopment was allowed and encouraged.
City planners allow the overdevelopment and the horrible traffic congestion and downgrade in quality of life, and guess what, your taxes are going up because of it. Yippee !!!
Finally, I had no idea that this fee was in the works. Now I see that the City Council advertised it in a few local papers, and had discussions about it at city council meetings. But everyone was obsessed with the election and missed it.
How hard would it have been to add a line to the quarterly water bill (where the fee will be charged) informing everyone about it their intentions? No, if they did that, there would have been an angry mob at every meeting, protesting. Can't have that, no no.
Rant mode off. (hey, this is the things we hate thread, no?) lol.
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I hate overpriced beer, too. Someone mentioned that before.
But I want to say I like buying craft beer on sale for 50% off, at my local beer store, when it's there.
Just felt like saying something positive after my previous rant, lol.
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Kidney disease in my dog.
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I hate COVID for all the usual reasons but also because it seems to be affecting some of my work place team making it more difficult to get things done as quickly and efficiently as before.
its probably simple distraction by life but still sometimes its like people are a little bit more befuddled than they were in the past. Not everyone. Just some.
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I hate COVID for all the usual reasons but also because it seems to be affecting some of my work place team making it more difficult to get things done as quickly and efficiently as before.
its probably simple distraction by life but still sometimes its like people are a little bit more befuddled than they were in the past. Not everyone. Just some.
About 10% of them maybe?
https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html (https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html)
:P
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Kidney disease in my dog.
My dog too. Do you have your dog on prescription dog food? Mine is on Hills KD canned dog food. He was on lamb but now on the chicken stew. He hates dry food. He is doing pretty good at almost 17 1/2 years old!
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Kidney disease in my dog.
My dog too. Do you have your dog on prescription dog food? Mine is on Hills KD canned dog food. He was on lamb but now on the chicken stew. He hates dry food. He is doing pretty good at almost 17 1/2 years old!
She was, for about 16 months, but once things really started to go south in January she became super picky about her food. We are in end days now, so I have given up on any pretext of a special diet and feed her whatever she is inclined to eat, some days that means putting out a smorgasbord of options ranging from fresh fruit, yogurt, chicken etc. She is only turned 10 two weeks ago, and was first diagnosed due to routine blood work for a dental cleaning 18 months ago.
My heart is broken.
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Kidney disease in my dog.
My dog too. Do you have your dog on prescription dog food? Mine is on Hills KD canned dog food. He was on lamb but now on the chicken stew. He hates dry food. He is doing pretty good at almost 17 1/2 years old!
She was, for about 16 months, but once things really started to go south in January she became super picky about her food. We are in end days now, so I have given up on any pretext of a special diet and feed her whatever she is inclined to eat, some days that means putting out a smorgasbord of options ranging from fresh fruit, yogurt, chicken etc. She is only turned 10 two weeks ago, and was first diagnosed due to routine blood work for a dental cleaning 18 months ago.
My heart is broken.
My dog was diagnosed about two years ago but it was so minor, the vet said if they had not used this new test, they wouldn't have even known. I still feed him some meat. He has always been a picky eater his whole life. At his age, I just hope for the best.
I am so sorry to hear about your dog! It is the hardest thing ever. I had a Pomeranian for about 10 years and for the last few years of his life he had cancer. He had 4 surgeries, chemo and was on some horrid cancer drugs that cost a small fortune. I didn't care about the money but nothing helped after a while. We had to put him to sleep last October and I am still heartbroken. He also became a terrible eater and also had to take a ton of pills each day. It was so hard. I rotated his food one day chicken, then beef, hot dogs, hamburger, even fish but after a while he just would eat a little and walk away.
We can rejoice in what they gave us, unconditional love.
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Kidney disease in my dog.
My dog too. Do you have your dog on prescription dog food? Mine is on Hills KD canned dog food. He was on lamb but now on the chicken stew. He hates dry food. He is doing pretty good at almost 17 1/2 years old!
She was, for about 16 months, but once things really started to go south in January she became super picky about her food. We are in end days now, so I have given up on any pretext of a special diet and feed her whatever she is inclined to eat, some days that means putting out a smorgasbord of options ranging from fresh fruit, yogurt, chicken etc. She is only turned 10 two weeks ago, and was first diagnosed due to routine blood work for a dental cleaning 18 months ago.
My heart is broken.
I hate that you are going through this
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I hate this for you, @FIRE Artist.
We have a 16 year old cat currently going through kidney disease. He is doing OK on the KD diet. But the day will come when he won't. Older animals are so sweet.
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Thanks all. Their lives are so short, it is so hard to accept, even though we bought into the future heart break the day we brought them home.
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I hate COVID for all the usual reasons but also because it seems to be affecting some of my work place team making it more difficult to get things done as quickly and efficiently as before.
its probably simple distraction by life but still sometimes its like people are a little bit more befuddled than they were in the past. Not everyone. Just some.
About 10% of them maybe?
https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html (https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/covid-19-long-haulers.html)
:P
Perhaps. I didn't think of the connection but perhaps...
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What city do you live in with the "storm water" runoff?
The EPA was issuing a series of consent decrees on older cities (Cincinnati is an example) mandating that they spend $billions to update combined stormwater/sewer systems. While the goal is laudable, the cost was stratospheric. Cities often had to add a new tax somewhere to raise the money that was needed for this large scale of infrastructure spending. In the example of Cincinnati, a city with an annual budget below $300 million was taking on a project that would cost $3,000 million.
Don't want to blow my cover by identifying the city. It's a medium size city in one of the midatlantic states.
A lot of things about this fee gall me.
I have zero runoff from my property. I wish I had runoff, since then maybe I wouldn't have those permanent wet spots in my yard all year. So I get to pay for runoff, which I don't even have. And no, I don't want to spend 20 grand to have my yard regraded, so the wet spots go away, but thanks for the suggestion, in advance. :)
They should be taxing new construction, especially the huge new warehouses, with huge parking lots, which is the cause of the problem. Yes, they are taxing them, and at a higher rate than just a fee, but they should pay for all of it. It's the purposeful overdevelopment that is causing the problem. It's a classic case of rich folks causing a problem which the average Joe and Jane taxpayers have to solve for them with higher taxes and/or fees.
The burden should not be put on Joe and Jane Homeowner, most of whom have little to no runoff. And even if they do have significant runoff, it wasn't a problem until the overdevelopment was allowed and encouraged.
City planners allow the overdevelopment and the horrible traffic congestion and downgrade in quality of life, and guess what, your taxes are going up because of it. Yippee !!!
Finally, I had no idea that this fee was in the works. Now I see that the City Council advertised it in a few local papers, and had discussions about it at city council meetings. But everyone was obsessed with the election and missed it.
How hard would it have been to add a line to the quarterly water bill (where the fee will be charged) informing everyone about it their intentions? No, if they did that, there would have been an angry mob at every meeting, protesting. Can't have that, no no.
Rant mode off. (hey, this is the things we hate thread, no?) lol.
@slackmax , apologies if I got you wound up. This is a great place to do it!! The "mid-atlantic" region suggests that it's an older city, which was what I suspected. And I feel you about everyone being obsessed with "the election", as national politics seems to get people so angry that they cannot devote clear study to what is going on around them in the meaningful local elections. And the most local elections are often settled during primary season.
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People stealing bicycle saddle bags.
Some people have the common curtesy to simply rifle through my belongings and then leave them alone once they find nothing of value*. Not so lucky this time.
I feel fortunate that my whole bike wasn't stolen, though. I hear that's on the rise, too.
* Well, unless they're in dire need of a replacement tube. In which case: okay but please leave a thank-you note next time.
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Loud unmuffled engines.
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Loud unmuffled engines.
Word.
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
Depends how old your car is.
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
Depends how old your car is.
My 16 year old corolla doesn't have one . . .
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
Depends how old your car is.
My 16 year old corolla doesn't have one . . .
My 15 year old mazda does
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
Depends how old your car is.
My 16 year old corolla doesn't have one . . .
Sorry to have to tell you this, but it sounds like someone broke off your antenna. A quick google of 2005-2008 corollas shows that they have an antenna coming out of the roof above the rear windscreen. The first year with no antenna appears to be 2009.
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
Depends how old your car is.
My 16 year old corolla doesn't have one . . .
Sorry to have to tell you this, but it sounds like someone broke off your antenna. A quick google of 2005-2008 corollas shows that they have an antenna coming out of the roof above the rear windscreen. The first year with no antenna appears to be 2009.
You made me go out to the driveway to check it . . . you're right. I have apparently never noticed it at the back of the car. :P
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Kids breaking/stealing antennas off of cars
Cars don't have antennas you can break off any more do they? I thought they were all built into the windscreens now.
Depends how old your car is.
My 16 year old corolla doesn't have one . . .
Sorry to have to tell you this, but it sounds like someone broke off your antenna. A quick google of 2005-2008 corollas shows that they have an antenna coming out of the roof above the rear windscreen. The first year with no antenna appears to be 2009.
You made me go out to the driveway to check it . . . you're right. I have apparently never noticed it at the back of the car. :P
Nice, glad it's not actually broken! A lot of cars in the 2000's moved the antenna to the back, I think it's more aerodynamic and reduces drag?
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Laptops with number pads. I'm not a gamer, accountant, engineer, or professional number cruncher of any variety. I'm a writer. The off-center keyboards on laptops with number pads literally give me wrist cramps and hand numbness. Oh, and when I try to center the keyboard on my lap, the actual laptop is over to the right. I have to angle my head strangely to see the screen. Then the laptop slides off my lap onto the sofa or wherever.
It seems like 90% of all new laptops have a number pad now. FML.
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Laptops with number pads. I'm not a gamer, accountant, engineer, or professional number cruncher of any variety. I'm a writer. The off-center keyboards on laptops with number pads literally give me wrist cramps and hand numbness. Oh, and when I try to center the keyboard on my lap, the actual laptop is over to the right. I have to angle my head strangely to see the screen. Then the laptop slides off my lap onto the sofa or wherever.
It seems like 90% of all new laptops have a number pad now. FML.
I'm the opposite - I hate laptops without number pads.
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I've never used a number pad on a keyboard in my life. The numbers at the top of the keyboard are fine for me. :P
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I've never used a number pad on a keyboard in my life. The numbers at the top of the keyboard are fine for me. :P
Same here. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, so am used to the top row number keys. So I've always used the "number pad" in navigation mode as it's more compact than the split navigation / t-arrow keys... Really messes people up when they try to use my keyboard. Seems everyone else I work with uses the number pad...
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Nice, glad it's not actually broken! A lot of cars in the 2000's moved the antenna to the back, I think it's more aerodynamic and reduces drag?
I hate that cars ever had antennas on the back. Fortunately, the one on our 2010 Prius easily screwed off so it could be stored forever more in the glove box -- it got in the way of carting the kayak around on the roof. Cheap kayak transport without a rack trumps over the air radio!
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I will trade you all for your laptops with number pads! My work laptop doesn't have one and I miss it so much. Half my job is in Excel and it would save me so much time.
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Same here. I learned to type on a manual typewriter, so am used to the top row number keys. So I've always used the "number pad" in navigation mode as it's more compact than the split navigation / t-arrow keys... Really messes people up when they try to use my keyboard. Seems everyone else I work with uses the number pad...
The people who design laptops are computer engineers who think everyone must like number pads because they like number pads.
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I will trade you all for your laptops with number pads! My work laptop doesn't have one and I miss it so much. Half my job is in Excel and it would save me so much time.
I won't buy a laptop without a number pad. my 10-key game is on point, due to mavis beacon being the only thing resembling a game we had on the pentium I PCs in my elementary school!
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Number pads are essential even if I only used it for entering 2FA codes for my work logins I use daily. There's also my Master's program schoolwork which is ultra-nerdy with constant number inputs.
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Number pads are essential even if I only used it for entering 2FA codes for my work logins I use daily. There's also my Master's program schoolwork which is ultra-nerdy with constant number inputs.
They're also really nice for getting accented letters like é ü ç ã etc.
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Guys, just buy a wireless keyboard!!!
I like number pads. I like a real mouse too. I hate the little touchpad on the laptop. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse that I use with my laptop. Problem solved.
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Guys, just buy a wireless keyboard!!!
I like number pads. I like a real mouse too. I hate the little touchpad on the laptop. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse that I use with my laptop. Problem solved.
Oh, how I hate touchpads. I can only use one for about half an hour before my fingers quit working on them. I don't know if my fingers get dried out or what, but the touchpads will stop responding. If I'm portable and a mouse won't work out logistically, my second choice is the Lenovo red nub thing in the keyboard.
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Guys, just buy a wireless keyboard!!!
I like number pads. I like a real mouse too. I hate the little touchpad on the laptop. I have a wireless keyboard and mouse that I use with my laptop. Problem solved.
Oh, how I hate touchpads. I can only use one for about half an hour before my fingers quit working on them. I don't know if my fingers get dried out or what, but the touchpads will stop responding. If I'm portable and a mouse won't work out logistically, my second choice is the Lenovo red nub thing in the keyboard.
Ugh. Those little electronic nipples are the only thing worse than a touchpad. I'd rather use a damned trackpad.