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Using three letter airport codes in place of actual geographic names. Sorry, but I don't happen to know where BAK is.
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May 1, 2017 13:48
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Cowslips Warren posted:One of my friends has a six year old who likes to hit people. Not hard, but sometimes if you tell him some bad news (IE, the popcorn bag is empty) he'll let a punch fly at you. His parents don't think anything is wrong with this. just call cps on them.
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May 1, 2017 13:51
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gleebster posted:Using three letter airport codes in place of actual geographic names. Sorry, but I don't happen to know where BAK is. Unless they are pilots that is really obnoxious, but I do know the type - a person who constantly refers to themselves as a "jetsetter" and feels really superior because of it. So you fly a couple times a week, who cares? Flying isn't the interesting part, talk about what you do after you land.
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May 1, 2017 13:55
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gleebster posted:Using three letter airport codes in place of actual geographic names. Sorry, but I don't happen to know where BAK is. I like the ones that are named after the identifier, makes things so much easier for everyone and I kinda wish that was the norm. LAX, RDU, etc. E: I know they're technically not named that but 99% of people call them that. Rolo has a new favorite as of 15:54 on May 1, 2017 |
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May 1, 2017 15:32
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Quote isn't edit. I hate people being anti sports on the internet like it's not much more annoying to read 'hand egg, sports ball and superb owl' over and over and over every time someone brings up football.
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May 1, 2017 15:53
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Rolo posted:I like the ones that are named after the identifier, makes things so much easier for everyone and I kinda wish that was the norm. Where the hell is RDU?
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May 1, 2017 16:02
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yeah I eat rear end posted:You guys must have some delicious cough syrup down there if you think it tastes like root beer. I heard the root beer/cough syrup comparison from an Australian girl I used to know, and I also heard the same thing about vanilla from a Taiwanese guy, so root beer floats are my go-to remedy whenever I feel a sore throat coming on. It works.
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May 1, 2017 16:05
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Root beer was medicine used by pharmacists long before they started loading it up with sugar
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May 1, 2017 16:10
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yo rear end is grass posted:I heard the root beer/cough syrup comparison from an Australian girl I used to know, and I also heard the same thing about vanilla from a Taiwanese guy, so root beer floats are my go-to remedy whenever I feel a sore throat coming on. It works. It totally tastes like cough syrup. Thing is...I like the taste of cough syrup.
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May 1, 2017 16:39
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gleebster posted:Where the hell is RDU? Raleigh NC. I used it as an example because even the big greeting while driving onto the property calls it RDU.
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May 1, 2017 16:40
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Did George Lucas write that episode.
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May 1, 2017 16:43
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Rolo posted:Raleigh NC. I used it as an example because even the big greeting while driving onto the property calls it RDU. Oh, I've never been in North Carolina in my life. I thought you were deliberately doing an obnoxious little thing to make me become unreasonably angry. gleebster has a new favorite as of 17:10 on May 1, 2017 |
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May 1, 2017 17:02
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gleebster posted:Oh, I've never been in North Carolina in my life. I thought you were deliberately doing an obnoxious little thing to make me become unreasonably angry. Almost gotcha 
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May 1, 2017 17:59
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Norfolk's airport is ORF, and apparently they embrace it and "take ORF" is a slogan they use. At least BOS and PVD are fairly intuitive with regard to where they are. Although PVD is actually in Warwick, not Providence, because ???
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May 1, 2017 18:37
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Rolo posted:Quote isn't edit. It's a big nerd thing in general to be super condescending about very ordinary things. Like I get it, you were bullied in school and you're still hung up on it, but it's normal and ok for adults to have a diverse range of interests and for sports to be one of them. That's a pet peeve actually - people who define themselves extremely narrowly by a single interest, and get really adversarial about it. It is ok to like a thing and for it to be a major interest, but if you have one singular interest and nothing else, and also you get super defensive about it, that isn't mentally healthy.
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May 1, 2017 18:46
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Norfolk's airport is ORF, and apparently they embrace it and "take ORF" is a slogan they use. Try working in shipping - I work for an ocean liner and our 3-letter designations are all hosed up F96 - NY YSV - Savannah or there's Ho Chi Minh City which is still SGN, which tells you how old a lot of these designations are.
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May 1, 2017 18:52
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I am unfamiliar with cough syrup that doesn't taste like awful grape or worse cherry, and root beer certainly doesn't taste like either of those.
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May 1, 2017 19:45
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The restaurant I work at does deliveries. More often than you'd think, those deliveries are cancelled after we've made the order. When that happens, the food is put in the back for the staff to freely eat. It's surreal seeing the entire wait staff progress past the kitchen, as the kitchen itself becomes a ghost town. I'll often be stuck dealing with bills by myself. They will literally abandon their duties on the spot to stuff their faces. These people are either perpetually starving or I work with vultures in human suits. The same goes for when mistakes are made. If a customer* orders X and the cook makes Y, then it's up for grabs. This leads to repeat offenders, and it's obvious as hell. Like "Oh man I've worked here for 6 years how could I make such a foolish mistake every other day? But my goodness does that look good!" kind of obvious. *I mean guest. When you go to a restaurant you are referred to as a guest. Because I know that when I have guest over I charge them for everything I can think of, up to and including extra salt and pepper. The Mighty Moltres has a new favorite as of 19:54 on May 1, 2017 |
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May 1, 2017 19:49
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Norfolk's airport is ORF, and apparently they embrace it and "take ORF" is a slogan they use. The airport in Warwick is only about 10 minutes from Providence, so everybody calls it Providence except a couple sassy signs in the terminal.
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May 1, 2017 19:56
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Joey Freshwater posted:Try working in shipping - I work for an ocean liner and our 3-letter designations are all hosed up It gets worse in aviation as the airports get smaller. Our airways are all mostly numbers, but the 5 character waypoints can be fun, like NINJA TRTLS going into South Carolina, or several routes: FFORD SHLBI, MOPPR CHRGR and CHVEE CRVET all converging on FLLGG FFNSH going into Charlotte (a big racing community.) It's obnoxious that they weren't this fun with all arrival procedures.
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May 1, 2017 20:01
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Tiggum posted:Have you asked him why he doesn't just go commit a crime then? It's not like going to prison is difficult to accomplish. This being Australia, he'd have to nearly murder someone in order to go to prison, especially as he was 18 at the time. He settled by crashing his car and having his licence stripped off him, and moving to some bogan breeding hive in New South Wales.
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May 1, 2017 22:32
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My city has branded itself over the last few years after its airport code for literally everything. Every hashtag pertaining to the city has the code in it. Every festival or event is named after it now. Businesses are naming themselves with the code. It's got to be even more pervasive than LAX at this point. The city is practically being renamed. I'm sure in a couple of years it will be on the greeting signs on the city boundaries. Here are a few examples:             
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May 2, 2017 00:25
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Picnic Princess posted:My city has branded itself over the last few years after its airport code for literally everything. Every hashtag pertaining to the city has the code in it. Every festival or event is named after it now. Businesses are naming themselves with the code. It's got to be even more pervasive than LAX at this point. The city is practically being renamed. I'm sure in a couple of years it will be on the greeting signs on the city boundaries. Now that's obnoxious. Especially because no one is going to get from "YYC" to "Calgary" unless they already know. That you for including at least one sign with the actual name.
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May 2, 2017 00:36
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yo rear end is grass posted:The restaurant I work at does deliveries. More often than you'd think, those deliveries are cancelled after we've made the order. When that happens, the food is put in the back for the staff to freely eat. Free food makes people do really stupid things. We used to get free breakfast delivered on Fridays, and people were like vultures. The food wasn't even very good, but it was free. One guy would collect yogurts from Friday breakfasts and keep them, uneaten, in his cubicle. He finally got a cubicle mate who sneaked over and threw them all out while he was on vacation. Unrelated peeve: "HIPPA." You may be a HIPAA expert, but until you learn how to spell the acronym, I'm not going to trust anything you say about it. It's not a zoo animal, it's a law.
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May 2, 2017 00:47
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Rolo posted:I hate people being anti sports on the internet like it's not much more annoying to read 'hand egg, sports ball and superb owl' over and over and over every time someone brings up football. Sic Semper Goon posted:This being Australia, he'd have to nearly murder someone in order to go to prison
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May 2, 2017 04:06
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my new roommate has a few annoying habits, but most of those are related to being a total sperg. Like actually diagnosed and fairly deep on the spectrum, but still mostly functional, but gets disability and only works a little bit, and goes through school through voc rehab, kinda stuff, so its kinda easy to overlook some of the stuff like the compulsive lying like a five year old desperate to make friends. Yes, I'm sure your grandfather killed a serial rapist with a sniper shot. Yes, I'm sure you totally fought five gang members yourself. Yes, I'm sure I'm sure you had a chance at being a professional video gamer. Or the not quite getting the hint that we are not interested in what he is talking about. And that we are trying to sit here and watch a movie.Or "My husband is a former marine drill instructor. He very much likes order. His idea of order. Don't bother trying to wash dishes, because he's only going to wash them behind you and you're going to have wasted your time. Doesn't matter how good a dishwasher you are, he's going to do it his way." Or "Fussing over our child when he falls down trying to walk is just going to encourage him to ham it up to get cuddles. Pick him up, make sure he' didn't actually hurt himself and just scared himself and tell him he's tougher than the floor. He stops crying about .2 seconds after he's back on his feet" and wants to make a show out of it. But he's never been around kids, so it's not an awful thing to go towards. Like he wants to make himself useful, he just has no idea...how. So I appreciate the effort, it's just these sorts of things go right over his head, so we cut him some slack. But the one thing he does that I absolutely can't look past is that when he smokes he like forces it out of his lungs and is loud as gently caress doing it. It is so loving annoying. That, and he's paying our rent for us. Not his share, all of it, and then $30 on top for food. So...yeah. My nephew is autistic, so I'm kinda used to a lot of it, and a lot of roommate's issues are just from being in an awful negative feedback loop for too long - his parents kinda stuck their head in the sand to his issues until he was out of high school (not to mention that he is from a small town...with probably no special ed department, or if there was, it was likely for kids way less functional than someone who is functional, but just pretty well on the spectrum.) and he kept getting arrested for stupid rear end poo poo like trespassing, and a condition of his release wound up being that he see a psych, who diagnosed him with autism and schizophrenia right quick, and now that he's on meds, his worst mannerisms are just minor annoyances.
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May 2, 2017 05:01
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People who have yet to embrace the GPS. These come in all ages. And I don't mean that these people refuse to use them. But that they refuse to accept that other people use them. I need you to go to place okay text me the address and I'll be there You know where smith street is? No Well it's right above minister ave. You know where that is right? No. Can you send me the address? What about the pizza pizza place on third street? No Burger king on fifth street? Yeah Okay well you drive straight past that. Then take the third turn to the right, then make a left at the pizza place and continue on that road until you see a white building, at which point you turn left. What address is that? This happens either because the other person is so old that they can't comprehend the GPS. Or they are so familiar with the city itself that they can't grasp that someone else would have trouble navigating by rambled directions.
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May 2, 2017 07:48
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Catberry posted:This happens either because the other person is so old that they can't comprehend the GPS. Or they are so familiar with the city itself that they can't grasp that someone else would have trouble navigating by rambled directions.  "Well, you go left from the train station, then take the third right-" "Hold on, I'm not going to remember that, just give me the address." "Oh, just let me explain, it's much easier." "Not for me, I prefer to look at a map." "But I can just tell you how to get there!" "If I have a map I can just refer to it if I need to, it's much easier." "Well, if you're sure... but it'd be much easier for me to just tell you how to get there!"
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May 2, 2017 08:14
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I still don't understand why tourists ask for directions now. Use your loving phone. No it's not here, it's 4 miles that way. Use Google Maps.
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May 2, 2017 08:42
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Mu Zeta posted:I still don't understand why tourists ask for directions now. Use your loving phone. No it's not here, it's 4 miles that way. Use Google Maps. It's quite possible they don't have data on their phones. Roaming is insanely expensive for me so turning it on isn't something worth considering.
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May 2, 2017 09:02
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Or you could just tell them. There have been many cases where I have driven by where google maps says it is and either couldn't see it at all or it just wasn't there. Google maps is not infallible and sometimes detailed verbal directions make things much easier.
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May 2, 2017 09:06
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I'm not talking about some hidden road, I mean large tourist attractions. Also there's like thousands of google employees working here it's pretty well mapped out.
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May 2, 2017 09:09
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Or they don't want to share their email and social media accounts with a sweaty airport customs agent.
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May 2, 2017 09:14
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When you are trying to find a parking spot in a completely full lot and you find someone about to leave so you put your turn signal on and they get in the car and...just sit there. For well over a minute. What are you even doing? Start the car and move, I've been looking for a spot for half an hour.
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May 2, 2017 11:28
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Standing still on moving walkways like cattle at a slaughterhouse. Okay, some of them might be old and need to rest for a bit but try to stand to the right at the very least. 
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May 2, 2017 13:02
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Rolo posted:Quote isn't edit. I would share a screenshot of his poo poo but I can't black-out people's names at the moment. My Facebook post: "I turn on the Mets game. Five seconds later, deGrom gives up a two-run homer that brings the game from 2-1 Mets to 2-3 Nats. gently caress this. I turn on the Marlins game. Less than one second later, Adam Conley hits Gregory Polanco with a pitch to load the bases, then gives up a triple, bringing the score to 8-0 Pirates. I'm a jinx." Response #1: "Yay sportsball?" Response #2: "Put the ball in the place and get larger numbers of things!" Why do people think this is so clever? I know if I said some poo poo like "Yay video games, put a pixel through another pixel and win points!" they'd have something to say about it.
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May 2, 2017 13:41
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Picnic Princess posted:My city has branded itself over the last few years after its airport code for literally everything. Every hashtag pertaining to the city has the code in it. Every festival or event is named after it now. Businesses are naming themselves with the code. It's got to be even more pervasive than LAX at this point. The city is practically being renamed. I'm sure in a couple of years it will be on the greeting signs on the city boundaries. Maybe get Rush to write a song about them.
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May 2, 2017 13:49
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Grevling posted:Standing still on moving walkways like cattle at a slaughterhouse. Okay, some of them might be old and need to rest for a bit but try to stand to the right at the very least. http://nordic.businessinsider.com/more-efficient-better-stand-escalators-busy-tfl-holborn-tube-station-study-walk-2017-3?r=US&IR=T
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May 2, 2017 13:52
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YeahTubaMike posted:Why do people think this is so clever? I know if I said some poo poo like "Yay video games, put a pixel through another pixel and win points!" they'd have something to say about it. "But with video games its about your own personal achievement not just being happy because someone else played a game well!" *Ignores the existence of pro video gamers, streamers and let's players* 
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YeahTubaMike posted:I would share a screenshot of his poo poo but I can't black-out people's names at the moment. The only thing more banal to post  /  Doesn't make me unreasonably angry though so sue me 
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