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Thin Privilege posted:I have containers similar to these, no more sad cereal boxes. What's up, granola bar buddy?  This is what my box looks like: It's an epidemic.
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Death Zebra posted:The last piece of meaningful feedback I got was in 2009 and it told me what I already knew: that I hadn't answered the teamwork question well enough. They wanted to hear about some big loving teamwork project and I've never even encountered anything like that. I think it was a filing job that involved very little teamwork and no projects. It's not even that I want meaningful feedback, but when they say that they'll be making a decision by x date, it would be nice to hear that I didn't get it. Ah well, I have another interview on Monday, so that's something! Peeve: Interviews. Why they decided to introduce behaviour based questions is beyond me. I hate those!
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I think I've bitched about this before, but why in the hell do people respond to craigslist postings asking for information that is in the posting? I'm gonna lose my marbles here. Why does this happen? I stopped listing furniture on Craigslist because I would state in every ad that the buyer needed to pick it up in their own vehicle and at least half the responders asked if I could deliver it. My sympathies.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I think I've bitched about this before, but why in the hell do people respond to craigslist postings asking for information that is in the posting? I'm gonna lose my marbles here. Why does this happen? The best thing about Craiglist is that now you have a new dangerous friend. My brother sold his car 3 years ago and the guy still emails him with general automotive questions. Not even about my brothers car. At a previous company I worked at, we sold off all kinds of junk just to clear out the building. Every person would act like it was a huge decision about buying a new house or starting a new business. In reality, we were selling broken, un-returnable, 42" TV's for $25-$55. This was at a time where their retail was around $700. They all worked fine, but had a variety of physical damage to the chassis. Thus the almost free price. I bought one myself and it's been working fine since 2008. They would try to negotiate the price, ask if it had a warranty, does it support HDMI, does it come with a wall mount, who do I call when I have problems, does the volume automatically adjust when the movie gets louder, etc? I wanted to pay these assholes the price of the TV just to leave me alone. Do these people argue about the cost of a box of plastic spoons at Kmart?
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Ytlaya posted:For some reason, some people seem to be under the illusion that they are actually "not that drunk" when they actually are, which confuses the hell out of me. I've never had any trouble telling when alcohol is impairing my ability to articulate things well How would you know though? The whole problem is that you can't tell you're impaired, so it means nothing that you don't think you're impaired.
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Apr 29, 2016 05:31
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I dislike young children at movies. Most of the time it doesn't bother me enough to do anything, but today at the Jungle Book, this kid hit the jackpot. Running around, talking, and the kicker, light up loving shoes. Kids being inattentive shits I can generally tune out. But what sort of gently caress wit parents dress their 3 year old in light up shoes with the intent of going to a movie?
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Why do things "drop" so much these days? The new trailer for X-Men 9: Dawn of Legends of Tomorrow just dropped! Taylor Swift's new album drops at midnight tonight! My god, think of another synonym for "released."
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Apr 29, 2016 08:21
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walrusman posted:Taylor Swift's new album drops at midnight tonight! See? Even celebrities do it. Everyone poops.
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Tiggum posted:How would you know though? The whole problem is that you can't tell you're impaired, so it means nothing that you don't think you're impaired. I think most people are aware of the fact that they are drunk, they just tend to underestimate just how it is effecting their speech/abilities (due to, you know, the impaired judgement). I've never seen someone decide to drink and drive that acknowledges "I am way too drunk to be doing this thing with serious consequences if I get caught", it's always "I drive better when I'm drunk", or "I'm barely over the limit I'll be fine, I do this all the time" etc. Also most drunk people take someone telling them they are drunk as an insult, like you're insulting them by implying they are near/past their limit and should stop. Most times I've heard someone do the "go home, you're drunk" thing the response is along the lines of "oh yeah??? gently caress you *orders a bunch of shots until they get thrown out*". On the other hand, the people who act like if you've had 1-3 drinks you have to surrender your keys for the rest of the day are pretty insufferable (even if their heart is in the right place, but I'd argue in those cases it's probably more judgemental than anything). Like let's say you have a glass of wine with dinner out somewhere, and are at the restaurant for a couple hours, or if you've had a few beers spread out over a whole afternoon+evening at a bbq or something. You're almost certainly perfectly fine to drive home. I'm very against drunk driving for any reason of course, but I wish these people (usually overly-concerned relatives or obnoxious ~straight-edge~ types) would ease up a bit. The rate your BAC falls isn't exact and can vary, I know, but if it is several hours after my last drink after a social/light drinking session I'm probably good to go.
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Apr 29, 2016 09:40
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No co-workers, nagging me for the 301st time will not discourage me from buying this packet of smokes. I've had a crummy day and I don't need this right now. 
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queserasera posted:I stopped listing furniture on Craigslist because I would state in every ad that the buyer needed to pick it up in their own vehicle and at least half the responders asked if I could deliver it. My sympathies. mostlygray posted:who do I call when I have problems
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Batman writers insisting that Alfred is a butler. No he isn't. He's clearly a valet.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:I think I've bitched about this before, but why in the hell do people respond to craigslist postings asking for information that is in the posting? I'm gonna lose my marbles here. Why does this happen? I've sold old PC parts on Craigslist and inevitably end up getting one of those dumbass scammers trying to get me to take a check and ship their laptop to their kid/wife/cousin/etc. in some other state. Even when I put in the ad that it's ONLY local deals, ONLY cash, and either they come pick it up or meet somewhere. I'd say close to 75% of the time, I get stupid emails still asking me to take a check and ship the laptop somewhere else, so those get blocked. I barely use CL now because a buddy of mine works at a second-hand computer shop in town, so I just tell him when I've got spare parts and he usually tests it and gives cash. Too many idiots and wanna-be scammers online nowadays to bother trying to use CL, I tried putting in big, bold letters "READ THE loving ENTIRE AD" at the top and that still didn't deter anyone.
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Yeah I don't think people who make their living scamming the elderly are going to be deterred by your polite requests that they not scam you. Sorry. 
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Tiggum posted:Batman writers insisting that Alfred is a butler. No he isn't. He's clearly a valet. I played Trivial Pursuit yesterday and had to answer a question like, "Who was Bertie Wooster's butler?" The answer was naturally Jeeves, but Jeeves was likewise Bertie's valet, not a butler (except in 1-2 stories when Bertie loaned out Jeeves' service to act as a butler, saying something like, "Jeeves could buttle with the best of them"). (And you can bet I was  as gently caress when I said all that.)
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Spanish Manlove posted:PIzza with too much cheese. Whenever my friend is in charge of ordering pizza he gets extra sauce and extra cheese every time and it is a soggy mess
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Rabbit Hill posted:What's up, granola bar buddy? To continue, I decide to open up some more of my boxes  Hey it looks like the apple box opened pretty well!  Oh wait no it didn't. I don't have bugs, and my house is cat-proof, so its bottom falling apart is TJs fault  E: I checked some of their cereal, why is the bottom so much easier to open 
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Women who have gross, clumpy, spidery mascara. Even worse when they use eyeliner around the entire circumference of the eye, thus making their eyes look shrivelled up and tiny. Shrivelled up dead spider eyes. I honestly think with some people make up is like drugs, after a while a small amount just doesn't cut it, so they up the dose, and keep on going and before you know it they are onto their 5th layer of mascara and are thinking 'it's not thick and clumpy enough, I'll just keep going.'
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Lyrics. Are the lyrics on this site or this site correct? I adore the booklets that come with CDs and sometimes records that have no lyrics, but artistic works instead that are an extension of the music's theme. But gently caress man, I just want to know what the lyrics are, and sometimes the singer smooshes the words so that I can't tell 
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Apr 29, 2016 23:44
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Tiggum posted:How would you know though? The whole problem is that you can't tell you're impaired, so it means nothing that you don't think you're impaired. I would know because anything beyond the first couple beers I find myself having increased difficulty translating my thoughts into speech. It really isn't difficult to tell if you're impaired, and I think that in most cases it's just that people don't want to admit it* (especially if they might have an actual problem with alcoholism or something) and manage to convince themselves otherwise. It's naturally embarrassing to realize you've been acting ridiculous or making a fool out of yourself, so I think many people try to avoid coming to that conclusion. *I think this is exacerbated by the fact that being able to "hold your alcohol" is treated as a sign of masculinity, so many (if not most) men do not want to admit when they are being affected by alcohol. Ytlaya has a new favorite as of 01:13 on Apr 30, 2016 |
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I hate when I walk up to a 4-way intersection with stop signs and there's a bunch of cars there too and one or more of them try to be helpful and wait for me to cross even though it would be so much goddamn faster if they all just went and let me cross when I can see that it's safest for me to do so. I really hate when I'm trying to wait one of these assholes out and they honk at me.
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When nothing at all is appetizing to eat and you're hungry. First world problem? When even junk food doesn't make you go "oh okay that sounds good." Especially after you just hit the grocery store. My mom stayed home from work today. I usually get home 3 hours before she does. So today she had all day to chill, and within the first few minutes of me coming inside had a dozen questions, wanted to chat about her lunch date and emails and this email and this call and....loving LET ME TAKE MY SHOES OFF BEFORE YOU START THE WORD RIVER. Despite the fact she'd been home most of the day, she hadn't done any of the afternoon feedings/chores so I had to do those while she sat at her computer, prattling on and on. An hour later when I finally was done with everything and sat down at my own computer, she had to come over and keep talking and only stopped when my answers were clearly short and uninterested. Can you not give me a few loving minutes to unpack my lunchbox and get out of uniform? Give the person who just got out of work and a hour drive home 10 loving minutes to use the bathroom! Unproductive emails. Case in point, we got an email about picking up some foster kittens. Since mom has all this on her email, I tell her to ask where and when we need to pick up the kittens, what time, and any paperwork we need to get them right from the shelter. So she Reply All and asks where the kittens are. We get a reply. Then she emails when we should pick them up. Oh, another email to ask about paperwork. So what should have been one email with one reply turned out to be six and she still forgot to ask what time the clinic is open for foster pickups. Ten. Ten total emails back and forth because she was too busy to type everything out right the first time! Assholes who just are lazy. At work today I had a pickup of 6 boxes. They were set up as 5 pounds, but they were clearly more than that. Close to 60. They were stacked tight on a shelf, and the only way to safely get them out was to move another stack of fragile things that were set up after the boxes were crammed and forced into their shelf. When I finally got the packages out, they didn't have the right scan bar and someone had left all the old shipping info on it, so it was doubly confusing. When I confronted the fuckers who set up the entire mess, they just shrugged. One rear end in a top hat made a huge flat speech how they were so sorry and they begged my forgiveness and would I ever speak to them again after they had hurt me so? And the last one just said he put in 5 pounds for the weights because they didn't have a scale anymore so all boxes are automatically five pounds. When I pointed out one of the boxes had been set aside and almost marked as "not here" because I didn't see any small boxes that would weigh about five pounds around, he just gave me the dead-eye look of a crackhead coming down. Assholes, you intentionally make my job harder because you are too loving lazy to Sharpie out a label, see how often I help you next time.
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Dr Scoofles posted:Women who have gross, clumpy, spidery mascara. Even worse when they use eyeliner around the entire circumference of the eye, thus making their eyes look shrivelled up and tiny. Shrivelled up dead spider eyes. I honestly think with some people make up is like drugs, after a while a small amount just doesn't cut it, so they up the dose, and keep on going and before you know it they are onto their 5th layer of mascara and are thinking 'it's not thick and clumpy enough, I'll just keep going.' I hear you. I have the same thing, I can't see why women want to use so much mascara that their lashes turn into like 10 on each eye. I have a former classmate of mine on facebook, and 8 years later, she still does her eye makeup the same, her sister on the other hand that looks almos similar to her actually know how to do her makeup. I can't see why she hasn't said something.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Unproductive emails. Case in point, we got an email about picking up some foster kittens. Since mom has all this on her email, I tell her to ask where and when we need to pick up the kittens, what time, and any paperwork we need to get them right from the shelter. So she Reply All and asks where the kittens are. We get a reply. Then she emails when we should pick them up. Oh, another email to ask about paperwork. So what should have been one email with one reply turned out to be six and she still forgot to ask what time the clinic is open for foster pickups. Ten. Ten total emails back and forth because she was too busy to type everything out right the first time! Your mom has figured out, whether she realizes it consciously or not, the only reliable way to get all her questions answered through the medium of email. I can't tell you how often I've sent an email asking 2 or more questions, and I get an answer to exactly one of them. Great, thanks now let me repeat my other X-1 questions and continue doing that as you answer the first one each time until I run out. Apparently a large number of people will have an aneurysm if they have to read and process more than one inquiry within a short span of time.
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mostlygray posted:
Judging by how they treat my co-workers, and yell about prices, yes. Yes they will. Also, my peeve is when I am knitting and there's a break in the skein.
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Che Delilas posted:Apparently a large number of people will have an aneurysm if they have to read and process more than one inquiry within a short span of time. I hate this so much. I've had multiple bosses that, in response to a long email with several questions and results that I need feedback on, will just give a "thanks for the update" all-lowercase no effort email. I have to email them individual questions no more than a line or two to ever get what I need from them.
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Tiggum posted:Batman writers insisting that Alfred is a butler. No he isn't. He's clearly a valet. In a way, he was also a batman. 
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My sister keeps leaving her washing in the machine
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artsy fartsy posted:I hate when I walk up to a 4-way intersection with stop signs and there's a bunch of cars there too and one or more of them try to be helpful and wait for me to cross even though it would be so much goddamn faster if they all just went and let me cross when I can see that it's safest for me to do so. Or when one of them is nice and "lets" you cross in front of him (as is your right as a pedestrian ), but the guy on the other side of the road doesn't, or the guy making a turn doesn't, and now you're in the middle of the road playing chicken with a moving car.
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My yahoo e-mail app gives me notifications of every e-mail but the ones I want to read.
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People who complain about red light cameras are loving stupid. Oh, poor baby got caught running a red light and breaking the law, boo loving hoo. Guess what? You're in public and there's not a drat thing you can do about cameras in a public place taking your picture, especially when you're notified in advance of speed cameras being installed. "Oh no, someone DARED enforce the law, mah rights have been trampled!  "What's next, gonna ask every retailer to take down security cameras because one caught you shoplifting, or spotted you breaking into a car in their parking lot, you loving moron? Yeah, that's what I thought. Assholes like that aren't mad at the laws being enforced, they're mad because they got blatantly caught doing the same stupid, reckless poo poo they'd probably been doing for a looonngg time before cameras were installed. If you don't want to get punished for breaking the law, then DON'T BREAK THE loving LAW.
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Supposedly (in Chicago at least), many of those cameras caught people legally turning right on red or entering an intersection on a yellow. They're not a great tool for anything except revenue.
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Ozz81 posted:People who complain about red light cameras are loving stupid. Oh, poor baby got caught running a red light and breaking the law, boo loving hoo. Guess what? You're in public and there's not a drat thing you can do about cameras in a public place taking your picture, especially when you're notified in advance of speed cameras being installed. "Oh no, someone DARED enforce the law, mah rights have been trampled! People aren't mad about them because they get caught doing dumb poo poo, people are mad about them because they don't work properly, are put in place by shady companies that are outright bribing public officials, and they increase rates of injury-inducing accidents. You're pissed off like a little babby because you don't have any idea what you're talking about.
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Ryoshi posted:People aren't mad about them because they get caught doing dumb poo poo, people are mad about them because they don't work properly, are put in place by shady companies that are outright bribing public officials, and they increase rates of injury-inducing accidents. You're pissed off like a little babby because you don't have any idea what you're talking about. Yeah, I thought it was common knowledge that those camera systems are designed to spray tickets at pretty much every motorist in view in the hopes that they'll just pay them. "Ah, poo poo, did I run a red light two months ago over in Houston? I don't remember. Eh, I'll just send them a check. It's too far away to bother contesting it."
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Tiggum posted:Batman writers insisting that Alfred is a butler. No he isn't. He's clearly a valet. For some reason I read this in Archer's voice
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Every day I take my glasses out of their protective case and carefully wipe them down with the special cloth, then gingerly balance them on my face and sit perfectly upright and hold absolutely still and tuck my hands under my legs so that there's absolutely no loving way that I will touch my glasses at all. In 20 minutes a giant smudge will appear.
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artsy fartsy posted:Every day I take my glasses out of their protective case and carefully wipe them down with the special cloth, then gingerly balance them on my face and sit perfectly upright and hold absolutely still and tuck my hands under my legs so that there's absolutely no loving way that I will touch my glasses at all. When it's cold and you walk in somewhere warm and your glasses fog up. GODDAMNIT People who go "  Whenever I watch mysteries, I always know whodunit before it ends". Shut up. Watch the drat movie. My mom does this; we went to see Sixth Sense in theaters and she goes, "Bruce Willis is dead" twenty minutes in.
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I've always treated the "red light cameras are just for making money" thing on the same level as someone assuming that a person who likes X is secretly a paid shill for X. Sure, yes, there are cases where it's true, but it's not enough to justify assuming it wholesale. You hear about the dude kvetching about getting a ticket for a false positive, you don't hear from the people who ran a red light and got properly flagged. If it makes money off those people (or those too lazy to contest if they feel they were wronged), no skin off my rear end. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 05:48 on May 3, 2016 |
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