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Is it a cowboy brushpopper type shirt? Some of those have some weird 2 extra square feet of fabric as a flap in the back. I have no idea why and I can't find a picture of one at all.
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CzarChasm posted:Why do some men's dress shirts have a button on the back at about shoulder level, below the collar? I noticed several people in the office today with this. And it seems to sometimes have a pointless little flap of fabric fastened there, but they seem equally pointless. You mean a hang loop and a spare button?
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Aug 23, 2013 20:50
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You are right about the hang/locker loop, but the button is to keep your tie from showing. Growing up you never wanted to be the kid with the loop on the back of your shirt. Other kids would constantly pull on them and yell 'fag tag' or even try to rip them off. Its been a long time since elementary school, and I still try to avoid buying shirts with the loops.
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Aug 23, 2013 21:21
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John McCain posted:You mean a hang loop and a spare button? Not a hang loop. The one I saw today was a pentagon shaped tag, with a slit for the button to fasten said tag. So it kind of looks like the below: code:Sieg posted:You are right about the hang/locker loop, but the button is to keep your tie from showing. I'm not able to picture how a button on the back of your shirt prevents a tie from showing. This is a few inches below the collar. It's where a hang loop would be.
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Aug 23, 2013 22:28
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the posted:Looking for a good free program to take a bunch of screen captures (like 0001.png, 0002.png, ...) and output them in a movie. It also has to be at quite a custom resolution (3300x1100). Thanks. Quicktime 7. File -> Open Image Sequence.
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Aug 23, 2013 22:30
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Is there a furniture megathread or something similar? I did some searching and skimming and found 1 thing that no one reads or replies to. That looked like the only one.
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Aug 24, 2013 00:45
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Right here, dude, http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3411978&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
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Aug 24, 2013 00:50
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Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.
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Aug 24, 2013 02:40
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it seems like every set of headphones I buy seem to end up with the same problem. The wires internally get broken or something even though there is no external damage. What's a good set of durable headphones?
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Aug 24, 2013 04:08
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Volume posted:it seems like every set of headphones I buy seem to end up with the same problem. The wires internally get broken or something even though there is no external damage. What's a good set of durable headphones? http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10823&cs_id=1082303&p_id=9927&seq=1&format=2 My take is that they sound just as good, and at $7.50, I buy them three at a time and order three more when I blow through the first three. They don't feel as solid (namely, the insulation on the wires doesn't feel as thick), but they last about the same amount of time. My experience with monoprice's headphones is that they are a little bulky and kinda cheap looking - but the earbuds are about as good as anything out there in that price range.
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Aug 24, 2013 06:31
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CzarChasm posted:Why do some men's dress shirts have a button on the back at about shoulder level, below the collar? I noticed several people in the office today with this. And it seems to sometimes have a pointless little flap of fabric fastened there, but they seem equally pointless. It's so you can fasten it in to your own shirt to make office prank humping harder to escape. Oh hey there's a whole page after that post, I have been betrayed by the forums.
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Aug 24, 2013 06:50
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Is there a collective name for insects, spiders, scorpions, and so forth?
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Aug 24, 2013 07:18
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Arthropod?
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Aug 24, 2013 07:23
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Volume posted:it seems like every set of headphones I buy seem to end up with the same problem. The wires internally get broken or something even though there is no external damage. What's a good set of durable headphones? You are probably being to rough on the connector somehow. Avoid bending the wire at a sharp angle near the connector (or anywhere) because that's what causes it usually.
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Aug 24, 2013 07:34
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Volume posted:it seems like every set of headphones I buy seem to end up with the same problem. The wires internally get broken or something even though there is no external damage. What's a good set of durable headphones?
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Aug 24, 2013 07:42
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Project1 posted:Is there a collective name for insects, spiders, scorpions, and so forth? Bugs. While there are plenty of reasons that they shouldn't be grouped all together, they're still just bugs. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Aug 24, 2013 |
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Aug 24, 2013 10:13
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Mario posted:Arthropod? Well, true enough, but not so many people know that one. thrakkorzog posted:Bugs. Bugs has always meant insects to me, but I suppose it's the closest fit.
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Aug 24, 2013 11:15
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Project1 posted:Well, true enough, but not so many people know that one. It's not exactly a 1:1 fit. Pillbugs have way too many legs to be classified as insects or arachnids. So they just get lumped into the bug category.
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Aug 24, 2013 11:40
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Volume posted:it seems like every set of headphones I buy seem to end up with the same problem. The wires internally get broken or something even though there is no external damage. What's a good set of durable headphones? Don't they make headphones with detachable wires you can simply jack in or replace?
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Aug 24, 2013 13:39
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What do you call the audio accessory that does not go into your ear? I always thought they were headphones, but apparently I'm wrong.
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Aug 24, 2013 15:12
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Headphones is the more-general term for things that play music close to/in your ears, though they often refer to only the over-ear variety. Earphones/earbuds go in your ears.
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tarepanda posted:What do you call the audio accessory that does not go into your ear? Lots of people use "cans" as slang for the kind of headphones you're talking about.
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Aug 24, 2013 15:31
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In American work culture, is it normal to call people by their last name? I assume it depends on the job? As a filthy foreigner it is always tricky to decipher which parts of American TV series are real and which are exaggerations. I ask because even in the standard cop buddy show after knowing each other for years they'll still often call each other Agent Smith or say "Smith, look here!". Where I live a first-name basis for all your coworkers and your (direct) supervisors is a lot more normal.
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Aug 24, 2013 16:41
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Namarrgon posted:In American work culture, is it normal to call people by their last name? I assume it depends on the job? In jobs where your last name is likely to be used by outsiders (police work is a good example, but so is teaching), you see the last name thing. When I was teaching, I saw coworkers who'd known each other for years say, "How's it going Mrs. Jones?" I think a lot of that was down to reflex, though - if you were mentioning Mrs. Jones to the kids (e.g. "those of you going on Mrs. Jones' field trip next week..."), you wouldn't want to call her Elaine. So it just seemed to carry over for some teachers. I have known cops who confirm that the last name thing is similarly true. I think it may also be due to carryover from sports culture, where "coach" calls everyone by last name. In a normal office, yeah, it's pretty similar to what you're describing. You wouldn't use a last name until you get a step or two above your supervisor.
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Until a few weeks/months ago you could load a video on youtube and then jump to any part easily. Now whenever you move the slider it seems to start a new load. Its like there is no caching anymore. Why is that? \/ Cool, thanks for that! lllllllllllllllllll fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Aug 24, 2013 |
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Aug 24, 2013 17:23
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:Until a few weeks/months ago you could load a video on youtube and then jump to any part easily. Now whenever you move the slider it seems to start a new load. Its like there is no caching anymore. Why is that? They changed the caching system so that it loads in tiny chunks rather than all at once. I suppose it saves them bandwidth when people open tabs and don't finish the video, but it sucks when you're on a slow connection and need to pre-buffer, as well as the situation you mention.
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Aug 24, 2013 17:56
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A recipe asks for heating something over "a brisk heat." I'm guessing it's just a little less than the hottest your hob can go but I really don't know.
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Aug 24, 2013 18:47
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Regarding YouTube buffering, you can apparently choose to disable "Dash Playback" to buffer a whole video (if you have the appropriate extension/userscript): http://lifehacker.com/preload-entire-youtube-videos-by-disabling-dash-playbac-1186454034
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Aug 24, 2013 19:26
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Mr. Squishy posted:A recipe asks for heating something over "a brisk heat." I'm guessing it's just a little less than the hottest your hob can go but I really don't know. Is this an old recipe? "Slow" would often mean a stove or oven that was just barely on, "quick" or "fast" would mean it turned up all the way. Brisk heat probably mean to put it at about the middle point, but a little higher.
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Aug 24, 2013 19:31
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It's from '95. You just saved me from burning some oil.
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Aug 24, 2013 19:46
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hooah posted:Regarding YouTube buffering, you can apparently choose to disable "Dash Playback" to buffer a whole video (if you have the appropriate extension/userscript):
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Hogburto posted:Does this allow seeking to an already-buffered section without buffering it all over again? No idea.
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According to this page (http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/08/20/why-dont-we-tip-flight-attendants/) we don't tip flight attendants because they've always been white. It's the first time I've heard racial ideas about why we tip. "We" meaning Americans, I guess. I can't dig up other references to this idea, does anybody have further information?
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That simply doesn't sound likely at all. Several airlines in areas of the US with a lot of black people would have black flight attendants, and in most places everything we do tip for would be very unlikely to have a black person working that position.
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Maybe its because flights are international and Europeans are used to not having to tip because their waitstaff get paid a liveable wage, and the concept caught on.
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SIHappiness posted:In jobs where your last name is likely to be used by outsiders (police work is a good example, but so is teaching), you see the last name thing. When I was teaching, I saw coworkers who'd known each other for years say, "How's it going Mrs. Jones?" I think a lot of that was down to reflex, though - if you were mentioning Mrs. Jones to the kids (e.g. "those of you going on Mrs. Jones' field trip next week..."), you wouldn't want to call her Elaine. So it just seemed to carry over for some teachers. I have known cops who confirm that the last name thing is similarly true. I think it may also be due to carryover from sports culture, where "coach" calls everyone by last name. Your teaching example is kind of funny to me, because in my small city/town (somewhere in the Netherlands) we've got 4 secondary schools, one which I went to and later taught at, but I know plenty of people from every one of them. My experience (both from my teaching at a secondary school, but also my all my other odd jobs and professions) is that it varies quite a bit from institution to institution and company to company. At the school (second biggest in town) I went to and taught at, it was pretty much unthinkable to call a teacher by their first name as a student or as a colleague within earshot of (and especially when talking to) a student. As colleagues amongst each other we'd use our first names, though, which was something I really had to get used to. For years I'd known a teacher as Mr. Smith, never even known his first name, but now I had to remember to call him Peter. At the biggest school in town, however, it was commonly accepted for everyone to call everyone by their first names, as long as it was done respectfully, of course. There's also a pretty uptight Christian school that required strictly formal addresses (I'd guess Sir or Teacher Smith as apposed to Mister, in a rough translation), and I haven't got a clue what the agricultural school does, because I never taught there, don't really know any people from there (they're all from out of town) and I honestly couldn't give a drat. In my experience it's pretty much the same in any profession. Cultural differences can be huge on all levels, and it's not just related to the country/area/profession/whatever, although I'm sure there's certain trends, of course.
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Hogburto posted:Maybe its because flights are international and Europeans are used to not having to tip because their waitstaff get paid a liveable wage, and the concept caught on. International flights are a minority of flights, and it was especially so in the first couple decades of airlines.
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I really want to know what is up with that shirt/button thing... I have never seen a shirt with a button below the collar on the back of a shirt - I've seen hang loops, but nothing close to what was described.
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Aug 25, 2013 01:05
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If I send an email to someone (craigslist, for example) through gmail they are added to my contacts on my android phone. How do I stop it from automatically adding these people?
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Install Windows posted:That simply doesn't sound likely at all. Several airlines in areas of the US with a lot of black people would have black flight attendants, and in most places everything we do tip for would be very unlikely to have a black person working that position. I don't know if you read the linked article, but it's about historical reasons rather than current ones.
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