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Leavemywife posted:Wait, people will actually get lovely if you don't take a donut? What do they loving care? Isn't that more donuts for them? Do they see it as a personal slight? In my office, yeah. I tend to agree with Indolent Bastard that it's a crab bucket thing, i.e., if everybody has a donut, they don't have to feel guilty about chowing down on junk food they don't need. I also got called a "show off" because I took the stairs up to the second floor instead of waiting for our slower-than-poo poo elevator.
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littlebluellama posted:Southern sweet tea has to be made hot, there is so much sugar in it that it needs heat as a catalyst to dissolve all of it. The sugar will sit at the bottom of the cold tea in a crunchy layer of failure. (I switched to unsweet tea after I realized how much sugar I was drinking in soda and tea. but yeah, if I want it lightly sweetened, I ask for some of the sweet tea to be mixed in, because mixing sugar packets into icy cold tea does not really work that well) That layer is great though? You stir throughout the duration of the drink and the last bit in the glass is like syrup. At least that's what I liked as a kid. 
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Sep 24, 2017 00:36
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Sep 24, 2017 02:23
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My family has always mixed the pink fake sweetener into cold unsweet tea and it works perfectly well/is 0 calories.
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Sep 24, 2017 03:05
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My family has always mixed the pink fake sweetener into cold unsweet tea and it works perfectly well/is 0 calories. Pink packet? That's probably saccharine/sweet n low.
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Zero-calorie sweeteners are my pet peeve. Even the "natural" ones like stevia taste like absolute chemical rear end. Apparently you eventually acquire a taste for them, but if you're willing to do that, isn't it just as easy (and overall much healthier) to acquire a taste for poo poo that's not sweetened at all? Like, I stopped putting sweetener in my coffee/tea and started drinking sparkling water instead of soda. That was much easier to adapt to than some nasty diet sweetener and now that I'm not guzzling sweet drinks all the time, I very rarely crave sweet foods.
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Nettles Coterie posted:Zero-calorie sweeteners are my pet peeve. Even the "natural" ones like stevia taste like absolute chemical rear end. Apparently you eventually acquire a taste for them, but if you're willing to do that, isn't it just as easy (and overall much healthier) to acquire a taste for poo poo that's not sweetened at all? Like, I stopped putting sweetener in my coffee/tea and started drinking sparkling water instead of soda. That was much easier to adapt to than some nasty diet sweetener and now that I'm not guzzling sweet drinks all the time, I very rarely crave sweet foods. THANK YOU sweet and low is so bitter! When I was kid I thought that what made it a "diet" sweetener was that after you put it on your food, the food was close to inedible, thereby forcing you to eat/drink less. Apparently it's genetic whether or not it tastes like rear end to you: http://www.phillymag.com/be-well-philly/2013/08/22/study-fake-sweeteners-taste-disgusting-people/
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The trick to artificial sweetener, I've found, is to combine them. Splenda alone is a little unpleasant and stevia is fairly terrible, but if I put one packet of each into hot tea, they taste fine together and there's no bitter aftertaste.
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Rabbit Hill posted:The trick to artificial sweetener, I've found, is to combine them. Splenda alone is a little unpleasant and stevia is fairly terrible, but if I put one packet of each into hot tea, they taste fine together and there's no bitter aftertaste. That's what my dad's done for years, he's a big iced-tea drinker. Personally, I find clear, highly-carbonated diet sodas like Fresca and Diet 7-up to be perfectly acceptable in terms of artificial sweetener taste compared to colas or (even worse) stuff like diet orange or cream sodas.
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Nettles Coterie posted:Zero-calorie sweeteners are my pet peeve. Even the "natural" ones like stevia taste like absolute chemical rear end. Apparently you eventually acquire a taste for them, but if you're willing to do that, isn't it just as easy (and overall much healthier) to acquire a taste for poo poo that's not sweetened at all? Yeah and that's what happened with me, but there still are times when I really want a piece of chocolate or some vanilla ice cream or a girly drink or some other little treat that I'll never stop loving and then the 0-cal sweetened products are so nice to have. You really do get used to them; some I've even come to really like. Except that loving Hershey's sugar free chocolate syrup, tastes like industrial waste and doesn't dissolve into milk, it just breaks into little soggy pieces--what the insulting gently caress is that poo poo.
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I actually really enjoy diet colas, particularly diet Pepsi. They have a nice sharp taste that I find weirdly refreshing? I had a huge caffeine free diet Coke phase as a teenager so the flavor always takes me back (bless those ugly khaki cans).
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artsy fartsy posted:Yeah and that's what happened with me, but there still are times when I really want a piece of chocolate or some vanilla ice cream or a girly drink or some other little treat that I'll never stop loving and then the 0-cal sweetened products are so nice to have. You really do get used to them; some I've even come to really like. I used to manage a barnes and noble cafe in my early 20s and we had sugar free mocha for a while. The real mocha is like a powder you mix together with water and actually smelled and tasted like chocolate but the sugar free stuff was like black squid ink that smelled like a chemical fire. Nobody loving bought it and I might have actually discouraged people from even trying it so we could get rid of it faster
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Sep 24, 2017 16:57
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Places not having diet options is a peeve, I was drinking Jameson's and ginger the other night with full sugar ginger ale because they didn't have diet and my teeth felt weird and sticky after it was gross And the hangover is definitely worse. And so is the toll on my diet. gently caress you gimme the aspartame.
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Sep 24, 2017 17:38
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To each his/her own. I don't drink enough soda to worry about whether or not it's "diet." And I think all diet soft drinks taste like lighter fluid.
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A pet peeve I have had for a while is when I see guides for games that don't need it. I remember picking up Skyrim and breezing through Master difficulty without doing anything special, just going sword and board build. Sure, maybe the first 5 levels were a bit difficult, but after that, my brain was pretty much turned off. These people are basically just whoring views because people will click on any video with Skyrim in the title. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GEAnd3ZTCk
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Sep 25, 2017 00:32
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Fries that are not crispy.
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Sep 25, 2017 02:01
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Fries that are too crispy.
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Sep 25, 2017 02:06
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Fries that are too crispy. Impossible
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oldpainless posted:Impossible Wrong. Those little brown ultra-crisp shards when places don't cut them evenly are gross.
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Sep 25, 2017 02:12
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Everybody just shut up
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Sep 25, 2017 02:13
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More like oldcrunchless
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Sep 25, 2017 02:22
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MightyJoe36 posted:To each his/her own. I don't drink enough soda to worry about whether or not it's "diet." And I think all diet soft drinks taste like lighter fluid. They just taste like disgusting rear end. I barely drink soda, but the stuff that has sugar in it just tastes so much better. Fresca is a blight on all things that are tasty and my mother in law exclusively stocks it as the non-alcoholic beverage option *gag*.
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oldpainless posted:Everybody just shut up I used to like my school fries that were super soggy more than any other fries
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Sep 25, 2017 04:22
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McDonald's fries used to be the best. Now they're the worst.
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Sep 25, 2017 12:03
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I haven't been to KFC in years but their potato wedges were the best
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Someone needs to figure out how to make fries that can tolerate being reheated in a microwave. It sucks when you get a huge portion of delicious fries with your meal, can't eat them all and take them home with you, but you know that you'll never eat them in their reheated state of Soggy Mush. (Sure, I could stick them in the oven but who has time for that???  )
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Rabbit Hill posted:Someone needs to figure out how to make fries that can tolerate being reheated in a microwave. It sucks when you get a huge portion of delicious fries with your meal, can't eat them all and take them home with you, but you know that you'll never eat them in their reheated state of Soggy Mush. (Sure, I could stick them in the oven but who has time for that??? They have those, they're called microwave susceptors.
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Glazier posted:They have those, they're called microwave susceptors. That's my favorite class in xcom
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Rabbit Hill posted:Someone needs to figure out how to make fries that can tolerate being reheated in a microwave. It sucks when you get a huge portion of delicious fries with your meal, can't eat them all and take them home with you, but you know that you'll never eat them in their reheated state of Soggy Mush. (Sure, I could stick them in the oven but who has time for that??? what's wrong with you?
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One thing I find annoying that I acknowledge is a pretty weird thing to be annoyed by is when people refer to famous singers or actors by their first names. Sometimes it feels appropriate but for the most part it seems strange to me.
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Wheat Loaf posted:One thing I find annoying that I acknowledge is a pretty weird thing to be annoyed by is when people refer to famous singers or actors by their first names. Sometimes it feels appropriate but for the most part it seems strange to me. Calling quarterbacks by their first name has increasingly become a thing during football broadcasts over the past few years, and I also find it weird/annoying.
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Bobby Digital posted:Calling quarterbacks by their first name has increasingly become a thing during football broadcasts over the past few years, and I also find it weird/annoying. This is why I only watch Cyberball.
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Bobby Digital posted:Calling quarterbacks by their first name has increasingly become a thing during football broadcasts over the past few years, and I also find it weird/annoying. I too think that sportsball games should be as robotic as possible. I also like Joe Buck's commentary style
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bradzilla posted:I too think that sportsball games should be as robotic as possible. I also like Joe Buck's commentary style There's a pair of comedy commentators in Australia (Roy and HG) that had a radio show commentating NRL matches. According to my dad, it was incomprehensible due to nicknames for every player.
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Intoluene posted:There's a pair of comedy commentators in Australia (Roy and HG) that had a radio show commentating NRL matches. According to my dad, it was incomprehensible due to nicknames for every player. I liked their olympic coverage where they made up their own terminology for the sports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFWE1xt_x0
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The automatic soap dispenser in my work bathroom broke, so instead of fixing or replacing it, they've just slapped a new working one right beside the old broken one. So every single time I go to wash my hands, I still try to use the old broken one first, despite the fact that I know it's broken, and it's been this way for a month now. It infuriates me slightly every time...stupid brain!
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genetic_knockout posted:The automatic soap dispenser in my work bathroom broke, so instead of fixing or replacing it, they've just slapped a new working one right beside the old broken one. So every single time I go to wash my hands, I still try to use the old broken one first, despite the fact that I know it's broken, and it's been this way for a month now. It infuriates me slightly every time...stupid brain!  my work stopped filling the dispensers at some point in the past and just replaced them with foaming hand soap you would buy for your home. Last week they refilled those with some mystery type of soap that just oozes out of those dispensers in spurts.
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my phone is not very good at picking up a lot of sound but this is what the neighbor's bath sounds like half the time, and i was woken up by this noise a couple nights ago at nearly 3:30 in the morning (i have a different video of that) https://tinyurl.com/ycvaxpan  sometimes the noise is in that wall and it's that volume, sometimes it's... in the other wall...? and slightly quieter. i don't understand. i just want to sleep
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The Snoo posted:my phone is not very good at picking up a lot of sound but this is what the neighbor's bath sounds like half the time, and i was woken up by this noise a couple nights ago at nearly 3:30 in the morning (i have a different video of that) A goon in another thread recommended a white noise machine to me after it turned out we were having the same basic problem, and it has been a godsend. I don't know how it works, but it does, and my only regret is that I didn't get one a lot sooner.
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Pastry of the Year posted:A goon in another thread recommended a white noise machine to me after it turned out we were having the same basic problem, and it has been a godsend. I don't know how it works, but it does, and my only regret is that I didn't get one a lot sooner. Link to the one you got?
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