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I wish I could just record my co-worker Dolph. He is literally Forrest Gump except not nice. He's just an annoying moron. -He doesn't believe in evolution because "no one was around to see it", and if you try to explain it he gets angry and shuts the conversation down by stalking off in a mini-tantrum like a toddler -His mouth breather 18 year old son has been in 5 accidents and totaled as many cars, probably texting while driving; he says "every car we get him seems to have problems with the brakes, I can't figure it out." -He was talking about how his cat is scratching constantly and zgoing bald, in a "ha ha get a load of this funny story" way, not an "I am concerned" way. I told him to go to the vet because the cat probably has mites or some other kind of parasite or disorder, and he said "You think so huh? Cause he's old and I thought cats can get bald like a man that way." -Any of our part time staff who are any colour other than white, he is unable to remember their name and instead refers them to such names as "the dark fella", or "the Chinese girl", etc. I asked him once if he even remembered the name of one of the Asian girls who had been there over 2 years. He said "foreign names are really hard for me to remember." Her name is Amy.
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Jan 19, 2016 19:45
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Nutsngum posted:He is sort of right... in a really stupid and innacurate way. That is true, but his point was that they'll keep refilling indefinitely because the earth makes the oil and there will never be a decrease in volume or quality. He also believed that green energy initiatives were a conspiracy by the government. At that point, I think that I made an excuse that my phone was dying, and we had to get back on topic or what needed to be done wouldn't get done. Part of Everything posted:I wish I could just record my co-worker Dolph. He is literally Forrest Gump except not nice. He's just an annoying moron. This reminds me of a story an English professor friend told me. Early in the semester, the professor mentioned that her husband was an archaeologist and a student responded "how can he study something that doesn't exist?" Another student that semester told her that he doesn't believe in Native Americans because "no one was around to see them." Apparently, their grasp of American history is a little fuzzy. luloo123 has a new favorite as of 20:58 on Jan 19, 2016 |
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Jan 19, 2016 20:49
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:It's like a pulpy, sparkling orange drink (contains like 3% Between this and San Pellegrino I wonder how many Europeans actually know what an orange even tastes like.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:01
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Roro posted:Isn't it still "in production"? Star Citizen won't fail because it's Wile E. Coyote running off the cliff and it doesn't have the self awareness to look down yet
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Jan 20, 2016 01:17
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"...So here he was with his cure for cancer, right? But when Big Pharma caught a whiff of it, they hired the Mafia to burn his lab down."
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Jan 20, 2016 01:27
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Nutsngum posted:He is sort of right... in a really stupid and innacurate way. He's also right about oil not being made of dinosaurs.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:34
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Why is it everyone keeps treating cancer like it's one monolothic disease that could be cured by a single pill or something and not a huge collection of similar diseases?
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Jan 20, 2016 01:35
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Because (a) nobody has decent health education in the US, (b) people are socially conditioned to believe in One Weird Trick, and (c) many people can't mentally handle the fact that Grandma is going to die and nobody can save her.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:39
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FreudianSlippers posted:Why is it everyone keeps treating cancer like it's one monolothic disease that could be cured by a single pill or something and not a huge collection of similar diseases? Plus the company or person that figures out how to cure a cancer basically has a license to print money. He or she will have "Big Pharma" and/or venture capitalists begging to give him money. And you bet it will become an arms race of cancer cures at that point.
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Jan 20, 2016 01:48
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Hirayuki posted:"...So here he was with his cure for cancer, right? But when Big Pharma caught a whiff of it, they hired the Mafia to burn his lab down." Man, Big Automotive leads one little massive conspiracy to shut down public mass transit in the United States and suddenly everybody's gotta get in on the act.
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Jan 20, 2016 04:20
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Part of Everything posted:I wish I could just record my co-worker Dolph. Is Dolph short for "Adolf" or "Dolphin?" Content: When I was 19 and going to community college, the professor in Psychology class said "necrophilia" when she meant "narcolepsy." It sort of set the tone for the whole community college experience.
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Jan 20, 2016 07:42
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My community college intro to physical anthropology prof. Was a Bigfoot hunter.
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Jan 20, 2016 09:15
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:"Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain that!" Bread comes in, toast comes out. You can't explain that!
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Jan 20, 2016 09:16
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Humboldt Squid posted:My community college intro to physical anthropology prof. Was a Bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot hunter sounds silly and p cool at the same time though...am I the idiot too?
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Jan 20, 2016 09:18
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If you are then I'm an idiot too, cause that sounds fun to me. No reason professors can't have interesting but goofy hobbies imo. I guess unless they were one of those bigfoot people who are way too into it and get all weird. Like the bigfoot version of chemtrail-believers. e: MikeCrotch posted:Well if you want to be happy she's not wrong The relative's daughter is now 17 and already has two children with two different fathers. So she never even finished high school. I reeeally think her mom should've concentrated on the smartness thing just a bit more. Telemaze has a new favorite as of 13:21 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 13:09
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Telemaze posted:If you are then I'm an idiot too, cause that sounds fun to me. No reason professors can't have interesting but goofy hobbies imo. I'd be kind of weirded out knowing my ostensibly logical anthropology professor believed in pseudoscience and cryptozoology personally, if only because that kind of stuff could seep into their teaching
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Jan 20, 2016 13:45
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 : "Well they already proved its no big deal if the polar ice caps melt." : Pardon?: "Yeah, if you fill a glass with water and ice cubes, it wont overflow when the ice cubes eventually melt."
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Jan 20, 2016 15:21
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Woolie Wool posted:Between this and San Pellegrino I wonder how many Europeans actually know what an orange even tastes like. Orangina is quite literally orange flavored Fanta. I would rather just buy the cheapest orange juice available.
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Jan 20, 2016 15:45
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Besesoth posted:Man, Big Automotive leads one little massive conspiracy to shut down public mass transit in the United States and suddenly everybody's gotta get in on the act. 
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Jan 20, 2016 16:12
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When I was in college, my friend had an incredibly stupid roommate. When he learned that I am Jewish lady, he had a question for me: Let me see your scar. Well, I had a knee surgery- Nah, your Jew scar. What? From your tail. Wha- what? Come on, everyone knows Jews are born with tails, and they get them cut off when they're babies- and that's circumcision. My dad told me all about Jews.There was a really long talk with him after that, including some Googling and pictures.
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Jan 20, 2016 16:54
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Aesop Poprock posted:I'd be kind of weirded out knowing my ostensibly logical anthropology professor believed in pseudoscience and cryptozoology personally, if only because that kind of stuff could seep into their teaching I know a couple of bigfoot hunters. It's a really good excuse to go drink in the woods.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:15
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Mouse Dresser posted:When I was in college, my friend had an incredibly stupid roommate. When he learned that I am Jewish lady, he had a question for me: This sounds like something I would tell a kid. I am not a father.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:37
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This is not the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but there other day a couple coworkers were counting calories and asking how many servings were in a little bag of chips. I said serving sizes were a joke and that everywhere else nutrition and calories were labeled by the gram. Their response was that Americans don't have a grasp on the gram yet. Woosh
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Jan 20, 2016 17:40
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radiatinglines posted:This is not the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but there other day a couple coworkers were counting calories and asking how many servings were in a little bag of chips. I said serving sizes were a joke and that everywhere else nutrition and calories were labeled by the gram. Their response was that Americans don't have a grasp on the gram yet. Woosh Well she isnt wrong! Here in Australia we have servings, grams per servings and nutrition per 100gs on all labels. Companies try and get around the whole serving part giving away the sheer amount of sugar/fat/salt etc in their food by claiming that single person mars bar has "two servings" because they divided it in half.
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Jan 20, 2016 18:12
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Humboldt Squid posted:My community college intro to physical anthropology prof. Was a Bigfoot hunter. So Community is actually a documentry on the Community College experience?
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Jan 20, 2016 18:19
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Nutsngum posted:Companies try and get around the whole serving part giving away the sheer amount of sugar/fat/salt etc in their food by claiming that single person mars bar has "two servings" because they divided it in half. This is exactly what I was getting at, and despite the fact that they were just talking about how they were confused by serving sizes, all they took away from what I said was that they don't know how heavy a gram is.
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Jan 20, 2016 18:23
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At a local Subway my uncle ordered a footlong sub which they prepared, and as they were cutting in half like they do, he asked if they could cut it into quarters instead "Sorry, I already cut it in half  "
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Jan 20, 2016 18:58
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:At a local Subway my uncle ordered a footlong sub which they prepared, and as they were cutting in half like they do, he asked if they could cut it into quarters instead Well they're a sandwich artist, not a sandwich mathematician.
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Jan 20, 2016 19:06
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Mouse Dresser posted:When I was in college, my friend had an incredibly stupid roommate. When he learned that I am Jewish lady, he had a question for me: Wow. You ever think we could solve our issues in the world by slowly raising the taxes on people like this and then explaining it away as 'it doesn't matter, numbers can mean anything' and that would actually work? Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:At a local Subway my uncle ordered a footlong sub which they prepared, and as they were cutting in half like they do, he asked if they could cut it into quarters instead Then a few seconds later. "JARED FOGLE TOUCHED MY BUTT." And the sandwich maker runs out in tears, never to return.
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Jan 20, 2016 19:49
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Woolie Wool posted:Because (a) nobody has decent health education in the US, (b) people are socially conditioned to believe in One Weird Trick, and (c) many people can't mentally handle the fact that Grandma is going to die and nobody can save her. Why give decent health education when you can spend weeks elaborating on the evils of STI-guaranteed casual sex and why you need to save it for WaltherFeng posted:Orangina is quite literally orange flavored Fanta. I would rather just buy the cheapest orange juice available. Your tastebuds must be malfunctioning because Orangina is most definitely miles apart from Fanta in taste and texture. Mouse Dresser posted:When I was in college, my friend had an incredibly stupid roommate. When he learned that I am Jewish lady, he had a question for me: This guy sounds like the type of person who would use the term "Jewess" unironically. Teriyaki Koinku has a new favorite as of 20:04 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 19:54
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Aesop Poprock posted:Had a dude tell me he was disapointed in me for dating black people because he didn't believe in mixing the races. He was trying to tell you that you can't be gay AND in an interracial relationship. This is a radio button world, get with the times. (I can guess that he would be one of the "Douchebags of Grindr" people)
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Jan 20, 2016 20:46
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luloo123 posted:This reminds me of a story an English professor friend told me. Early in the semester, the professor mentioned that her husband was an archaeologist and a student responded "how can he study something that doesn't exist?" Another student that semester told her that he doesn't believe in Native Americans because "no one was around to see them." Apparently, their grasp of American history is a little fuzzy. I would like to know more about both of these things. What the hell did either person think they were talking about?
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Jan 20, 2016 21:00
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Aesop Poprock posted:I would like to know more about both of these things. What the hell did either person think they were talking about? My best guess is that a young earth creationist confused archaeology and paleontology.
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Jan 20, 2016 22:24
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Your Dunkle Sans posted:
He, in fact, did. As well as other racist terms. His favorite was "Orientals." Edit: This was in 1999-2000, too.
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Jan 20, 2016 22:33
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Nutsngum posted:Well she isnt wrong! Serving sizes are always the stupidest things. Tiny 99 cent bag of chips? 2.5 servings (when there's maybe 40 total chips if you get lucky). On the other end, cheap-o advent calendars, the kind with super thin chocolate in them, usually say "Serving Size: 1 Calendar"
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Jan 21, 2016 00:07
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Choco1980 posted:Serving sizes are always the stupidest things. Tiny 99 cent bag of chips? 2.5 servings (when there's maybe 40 total chips if you get lucky). On the other end, cheap-o advent calendars, the kind with super thin chocolate in them, usually say "Serving Size: 1 Calendar" The best is when a bottle of regular Coke is 1 serving, and the same sized Diet Coke is 2 servings, so the numbers look smaller (and better!).
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Jan 21, 2016 00:24
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Mouse Dresser posted:When I was in college, my friend had an incredibly stupid roommate. When he learned that I am Jewish lady, he had a question for me: I had a Jewish friend in college who swore up and down that he had been asked where his horns were, on more than one occasion. I mean, obviously they're under his frizzy hair. 
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Jan 21, 2016 00:41
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Fashionable Jorts posted:The best is when a bottle of regular Coke is 1 serving, and the same sized Diet Coke is 2 servings, so the numbers look smaller (and better!). The main reason is so they can claim 0g of sodium and 0 calories in big letters on the label of the diet sodas. It's the same with some "sugar free" mints like Tic Tacs. There's sugar, but since a serving size is one tic-tac, it comes in to under a gram so they can legally label it as having 0g of sugar per serving.
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Aesop Poprock posted:I would like to know more about both of these things. What the hell did either person think they were talking about? Pretty much what Blue Footed Booby said. I have no clue what they were talking about when they said they don't believe in Native Americans since he wasn't my student. They were probably asleep during their young Earth creationist Bible study classes and history classes and didn't realize that the first European contact with Native Americans happened fewer than 6,000 years ago. The more I think about it, the more it makes my head hurt. His world view ignores the stories about Columbus making contact with Native Americans and thinking that he had landed in India. It ignores the huge monuments in South America. Hell, in his history, I have no loving clue how the whole Pilgrim story would have worked. luloo123 has a new favorite as of 01:00 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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