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Stoatbringer posted:You clearly need a better water sommelier This fellow is silly, but people do have very distinct tastes in water. My favorite water comes from the Fargo area rural water system. My Mom's favorite comes from the well at my grandparents home. The water at my parent's home in northern MN tastes like pennies. The water in Chaska tastes pure, the water at my home in Burnsville is OK, but not great. Omaha Nebraska water is excellent. Minneapolis water is undrinkable. Taste is important. The worst water I ever drank came from a water system in Arizona. It tasted like bottled water. No taste at all. It was disgusting. It tasted like DDI water.
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I've always figured that like Doctor Who actors or Star Wars movies, the water you drank the most when young determines what you like and what Feels Different.
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Pet peeve: coworkers who don't pull up their chairs when they get up from their desks so one must push the chair aside if they want to walk through. Also, is there a law that you can ignore red lights if you're turning into a one-way road? There's a road near where I live that forms a T-intersection with another road, except that road is one-way (traffic flows to the left, from the perspective of the first road, which is bidirectional). There's a traffic light at the intersection that turns red and green, which I assume intends for people to stop to let cars already on the one-way to keep going, and then make the cars on the one-way stop for those at the intersection to make a turn. But whenever I get up to that intersection, cars around me completely ignore the light and just turn when there's a lull in traffic. I get honked at for waiting. Am I missing something here? kalel has a new favorite as of 20:16 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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You're not allowed to ignore the light, no. But turning left onto a one-way road is a lot like turning right onto a two-way road in a lot of places. So you're expected to stop, check for traffic, then proceed.
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Mar 8, 2016 23:50
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bradzilla posted:Because saying "I'm from (shithole an hour away from Chicago)" would cause the followup question "Oh, where's that?" to which you would need to respond "Near Chicago." It's not that hard to figure out. Yeah-- when people ask where I'm going to visit my family, I say "The bay area/around San Francisco" because there's no way in hell they'll recognize the actual name of the city, so that gets the meaning across better. I wasn't aware it was a hipster kind of thing.
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"Where are you from" chat always bugs me because we moved around a lot when I was a kid, and I ultimately settled in Maryland when I grew up before moving to California. So everyone thinks that my family lives in Maryland; when I correct them that they live in WV, they think I was born there, when I correct them that i was born in NY, they assume I was a military brat, which would have been true except my dad retired and my parents divorced when I was really little. The real story is, we were so broke we kept having to move because my parents were broke and kept chasing jobs around the east coast, but that's a lot of information to give to a new acquaintance. Half the time I just let people go around thinking my family is in Maryland and I spent my entire childhood there, when in reality my childhood was spent traveling so much that the idea of a "hometown" is kind of lost on me.
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My answer to "where are you from" gets more vague the farther I am from home. These days I'm so far away I can just answer with a state and people are satisfied.
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Mar 9, 2016 02:25
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I just list the ten states I've lived in.
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Murphy Brownback posted:People who when asked where they are from, instead of saying "I'm from san francisco" or "i'm from new york", they use the ~trendy~ vaguer term for the area, like "I'm from the Bay Area" or "I'm from the City", or the absolute worst "I'm from the West/East coast". It's even more annoying if you live around another bay (like Tampa Bay, for example) and they coopt this so you have to say "which one" all the time. Legit question: I always say I'm from the "Twin Cities". Does that scan outside the Northland?
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My phone. Sometimes when I have music playing, it'll let me change the volume without pressing the power button first, and other times it won't. I just want to be able to change my loving volume without pulling out my phone, turning on the screen, getting to the volume I want, then turning the screen back off! Why is that so hard? It would be easier to deal with if it NEVER let me do it, but being able to do it 20% of the time is just loving annoying. It definitely doesn't help that, when I have headphones on, I tend to compulsively change the volume every minute or so. Also, the mobile browser sucks rear end. It's really inconsistent about what the "back" button does. When I'm trying to go back to the previous page, it NEVER works... instead it'll either close the browser entirely, or go back to a random page I visited in the last 3 days (WHY?) but when I'm trying to close the browser by pressing back, of course that's when it finally works properly and just goes to the previous page.
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mostlygray posted:Legit question: I always say I'm from the "Twin Cities". Does that scan outside the Northland? After thinking a few seconds I think that means Minneapolis, but I couldn't tell you what the other one is.
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mostlygray posted:Legit question: I always say I'm from the "Twin Cities". Does that scan outside the Northland? I'm from Texas and while I have heard the term twin cities I honestly am not sure what that is. I would assume Minnesota on a guess.
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Murphy Brownback posted:After thinking a few seconds I think that means Minneapolis, but I couldn't tell you what the other one is. St Paul.
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People missing the entire point of a lawsuit 'win.' In light of Erin Andrews, no less than ten people at work, both men and women, said they would gladly let themselves be filmed for four or five minutes of grainy video for 55 million dollars, they don't see what the big deal is, that lady never has to work again! Trying to explain just how violated you feel after being robbed or being filmed like that went over their heads. Because "but she gets 55 million, she never needs to work again, she should just disappear and live in luxury forever, that's what I'd do!" Then again same people brag if they won the lottery, they'd quit work asap and never seem to figure out that money can dry up. Especially when you spend it like mad. Just because she was awarded it doesn't mean she takes home 55 million bucks. She has to GET that money first. And then pay legal bills and everything else. So 55 million isn't a check the other side writes out in court and passes over to her as she heads for home. How the gently caress can people not understand you can't get blood from a stone, and money actually doesn't solve everything like PTSD?
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Nettles Coterie posted:My phone. Sometimes when I have music playing, it'll let me change the volume without pressing the power button first, and other times it won't. I just want to be able to change my loving volume without pulling out my phone, turning on the screen, getting to the volume I want, then turning the screen back off! Why is that so hard? It would be easier to deal with if it NEVER let me do it, but being able to do it 20% of the time is just loving annoying. It definitely doesn't help that, when I have headphones on, I tend to compulsively change the volume every minute or so. Windows Phone? Because I have all of these problems. Also, every once in a while, when I'm listening to Spotify on speaker but then I plug my headphones in, it never switches to headphone volume. That means that even if I turn the volume down all the way, the music will blare unbearably loudly. I then have to restart my phone with the headphones in so they recalibrate or whatever.
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Cowslips Warren posted:People missing the entire point of a lawsuit 'win.' It's also weird that THIS is the case where massive winnings bother people. "Won't someone think of the pervy stalkers?!"
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When you're having an amazing dream and then your alarm goes off.  I WAS WATCHING THAT
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:My answer to "where are you from" gets more vague the farther I am from home. These days I'm so far away I can just answer with a state and people are satisfied. It gets even vaguer if you leave the country. Folks I talked to in Europe while I was studying abroad always knew New York City, and are usually aware of California. Most of the time, they knew where Boston is and other major cities. I usually answered with a vague region (like, the northeast), or "near Boston" when they asked me where I was studying, even though I was a good two and half hours from Boston. No one would have known where Rhode Island (where I went to school) or Connecticut (where I am now) are, and forget telling them where I actually grew up- which was Phoenix.
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I'm from Boston because nobody cares about or has heard of the boring shithole suburb I actually live in.
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mostlygray posted:Legit question: I always say I'm from the "Twin Cities". Does that scan outside the Northland? It sounds like someone saying "the Garden State" or "the Sunshine State". Not gonna be obvious to most people.
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I would rather be told some obscure town/state name than a vague relative descriptor myself, but I understand wanting to save time. If someone tells me "an hour outside of Boston," I usually ask them what the town name is anyway, even though it's not likely that I'm going to recognize it. I like learning new town names. 
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People who spend all day continually editing the same internal corporate wiki page instead of working. They clearly don't realize that the page is auto-watched by everyone on the project, who all got two or three dozen emails detailing their struggles picking the exact perfect font and color to make readability a distant halcyon memory.
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the only reason I know which state is the "sunshine state" is because half my family lives there. the only reason I know which state is the "garden state" is because of that crappy Zach Braff movie. usually when people ask where I'm from I start with the state, and if they keep prodding or if they're from that same state, I go region, then county, then largest city in my county within 25 miles of my town, then my town.
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I take it y'all don't have strong regional accents. And speaking of accents, it's frustrating that people think Southern accents are either  or  regardless of all the other South stereotypes.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I'm from Boston because nobody cares about or has heard of the boring shithole suburb I actually live in. I wanna say it's about the same from NY people too - any time I've mentioned being born there, everyone assumes somewhere in NYC/Long Island (even if I say upstate NY). The city I was born in is like 2 hours northeast of Albany, nowhere near NYC.
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I am so so loving sick of Facebook Armchair Warriors. They talk big, they scream big, they miss the forest for the trees. And motherfuckers who use the line "I donated a ton of stuff to you!" Which is right on par with a customer screaming at a poor cashier, "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I SPEND HERE EVERY WEEK?" So I am a member of an aquarium club and every year we host a free fish expo. There's auctions and raffle and guest speakers, and it's all free...so we encourage attendees to donate to the auctions. Donate. Not sell. Now there are 1 or 2 people who support the event and have for years, so they might be able to sell, but it's an 80-20 split. In no way do we advertise anyone can sell anything. Edit out a bunch of stupid poo poo, but in short there are two attendees who are not helping with the event at all, bitching and screaming on Facebook that they can't sell poo poo at the event and I am a liar for saying so and just emails upon messages of curse words and whines....from people who attend the event and donate 20% of their profit to the event, which, to me, is poo poo donation. The event is free and you whine because you can't make a profit on animals you should be 100% donating? Also both of these chucklefucks email me on the regular wanting to add events, like a fish show, a photography contest, other things to do. I tell them both, awesome, great, contact the head of the event and say you're interested in helping with it. Cue them both backpedaling like mad because they don't want to WORK the event, they want to enter and win cash and other prizes (one guy suggested we get a new tank setup with LED lights for a prize...for a contest he bragged he will win) and not actually help at all. I imagine people who run large cons run into this poo poo all the time. I wonder how often Comi-Con staff want to shoot someone. Cowslips Warren has a new favorite as of 02:36 on Mar 10, 2016 |
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People who don't listen when you tell them not to do something. I'm in the process of moving and my sister was nice enough to help me, which I appreciated. However, at one point I told her "hey just leave the closet in my bedroom alone, I'd rather you not look in there". Of course the first thing she does when I leave to go get more packing tape is start packing that up and she finds my private bedroom things. And then she acts like it was my fault that she "had to see that". I told her not to! And now I can't look her in the face anymore. Mortified.
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Yes, people pretending to know about a city while living in the suburbs. "Yeah I totally know what it's like in the streets in LA" *lives in gated community 1hr away
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mostlygray posted:Legit question: I always say I'm from the "Twin Cities". Does that scan outside the Northland? That's interesting. I always use the term Twin Cities with people from outside the area. I've never known someone who lives in Minneapolis or St Paul say they're from 'the Twin Cities' to someone else living in MN. It was actually a good way to weed out spam Craigslist posts. If the listing is from "Twin Cities", you knew it was fake.
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Sociopastry posted:People who don't listen when you tell them not to do something. I'm in the process of moving and my sister was nice enough to help me, which I appreciated. However, at one point I told her "hey just leave the closet in my bedroom alone, I'd rather you not look in there". Of course the first thing she does when I leave to go get more packing tape is start packing that up and she finds my private bedroom things. And then she acts like it was my fault that she "had to see that". I told her not to! And now I can't look her in the face anymore. Mortified. You really shouldn't have been keeping skeletons in there then 
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I really hate what I assume is an iphone message alert tone? It sounds like a catcalling bird or something? So loving irritating. Your face is constantly glued to the screen anyway, you don't need your loving sound notifications on.
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cash crab posted:When you're having an amazing dream and then your alarm goes off. Agreed. But I also frequently experience the version where I'm doing something really important and will try to finish before I completely wake up. Earlier this week I was trying to put together a decent outfit but I could only shop at Sears. I finally found some jeans and flats that fit okay. Alarm went off, had to grab a shirt really quick and just hope it would fit. Was kind of relieved half way through brushing my teeth when I realized I had access to my closet and didn't have to wear the Sears-dream outfit.
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I haven't bartended or waited tables in over 12 years, but I still get "in the weeds" dreams. It's really obnoxious.
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lidnsya posted:I really hate what I assume is an iphone message alert tone? It sounds like a catcalling bird or something? Goddamn, I know exactly which sound you mean
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Delivery people. A courier delivered a large, heavy box of stuff to my house today. Unlike the Australia Post people, he actually bothered coming to the door with the package and even rang the bell, but he sat the box directly in front of the (outward-opening) screen door, and had already started walking away in the few seconds it took me to get to the door. Then when I asked him to move the box out of the way (so that I could get out of my house) he made a tsk noise and rolled his eyes at me, like as though I was being unreasonable. 
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Tiggum posted:Delivery people. I used to order a lot of pc parts so I knew my delivery guy. He once commented on the hotness of my next door neighbour.
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Maggie Fletcher posted:I haven't bartended or waited tables in over 12 years, but I still get "in the weeds" dreams. It's really obnoxious. Can you explain this? I still get "oh poo poo I didn't study for this exam wait what class is this oh god" dreams almost a decade after graduating college. I doubt they'll ever go away.
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YeahTubaMike posted:Windows Phone? Because I have all of these problems. Yes  but where else am I gonna get a decent phone for $30?Thin Privilege posted:people pretending to know about a city while living in the suburbs. "Yeah I totally know what it's like in the streets in LA" *lives in gated community 1hr away "My neighborhood is totally, like, the ghetto of *wealthy white suburban area*" AKA "I saw a black person once!" I think I whined about this before, last time I tried to make plans with this friend group, but... gently caress people who wait for you to make plans with them, then immediately try to hijack the plans into whatever they want to do. Recently, I had a fairly long convo with a friend about getting our group together for a camping trip, and suddenly it turned into this:  my birthday is coming up and I have some time off requested, so we could go camping then. Ooh, yeah! And we can go to this goddamn nerd convention, too! That's around the same time, right? Yeah, I guess so? That's a lot to cram into one week but it would be fun. Cool! We can go to the convention and camp so we don't need a hotel! What?? That sounds truly awful in so many ways, and the con is in the middle of a big city. Ok I guess we'll just go to the con then! ...... wait whatThis particular person seems to do this a lot, but I've run into it with other people too. Like, if you wanna do something, then loving ask if I wanna do it like a normal person! Why wait until I tell you what *I* want to do, act like you're all for it, set a date/time, then suddenly try change the plans to something else entirely.
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