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People who seem to subconsciously refuse to match your walking pace and always stay a step or two behind and to the side. Knock it off. I swear if I just stopped dead in my tracks they would start walking backwards just to be consistent.
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Outlets with hard to see holes that seem to always put the holes diagonally instead of the more standard horizontal or vertical. I shouldn't have to get down on the ground and look to see how to plug something in.
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Mar 14, 2018 13:32
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Outlets with hard to see holes that seem to always put the holes diagonally instead of the more standard horizontal or vertical. I shouldn't have to get down on the ground and look to see how to plug something in. There’s outlets that aren’t horizontal or vertical? Where do you live? Some non-  country? I’m also imagining an outlet where the whole thing is 45 degrees to the floor, and it is likely in some modern art home.
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Mar 14, 2018 14:57
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I see that in power strips a lot, but yeah if your wall outlets are at an angle your living situation is even more hilarious that I previously thought.
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Mar 14, 2018 14:59
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My Lovely Horse posted:I see that in power strips a lot, but yeah if your wall outlets are at an angle your living situation is even more hilarious that I previously thought. They are fine at home. This particularly complaint originated at the berlin airport but i have also seen the diagonal holes at conference venues. Always in europe though, i have never seen diagonal us plugs.
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Mar 14, 2018 15:10
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I can’t find any images of this bizarre thing online, but I did find this. This is from some contractors page called “disappearing wall outlets.” The problem is, this is in a bathroom and most likely a tub/shower, as it is rare to have any place other than the shower/tub to have tile. I know they’re bathroom tiles because of their size (and also my mom has almost identical ones). E: oops forgot to post the pic 
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Mar 14, 2018 15:22
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Watches that haven't been sized to the person wearing them, so the fucker is just floppin' all over the place. WHY??? You care enough about your appearance to spend a couple of thousand dollars on a dress watch, yet don't give a poo poo if it fits?
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Mar 14, 2018 15:55
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Thin Privilege posted:I can’t find any images of this bizarre thing online, but I did find this. This is from some contractors page called “disappearing wall outlets.” The problem is, this is in a bathroom and most likely a tub/shower, as it is rare to have any place other than the shower/tub to have tile. I know they’re bathroom tiles because of their size (and also my mom has almost identical ones). that's an impressive paint job that either cost a pretty penny, or is more likely a Photoshop
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Mar 14, 2018 16:05
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Iron Crowned posted:that's an impressive paint job
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Mar 14, 2018 16:15
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Okay wait, $5 on $50 is a decent delivery tip? Have I been way over tipping?
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Mar 15, 2018 03:29
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Please not the tipping tangent again
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Mar 15, 2018 03:36
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Aphrodite posted:Okay wait, $5 on $50 is a decent delivery tip? Have I been way over tipping? More is better.
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Mar 15, 2018 04:31
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Olive! posted:
I added bold and sirens so it’s not an empty quote.
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Please not the tipping tangent again
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Aphrodite posted:Okay wait, $5 on $50 is a decent delivery tip? Have I been way over tipping? There are of course factors to this. Are you far away from the store or just down the street? Is it a couple of expensive items or a bunch of heavy less pricy stuff? Do we need to walk up two flights of stairs or are you in a house we just walk up to the door to? I'd say $5 is totally reasonable unless I've got to lug your poo poo across town in rush hour and then up a bunch of apartment steps that I had to hunt to find in some big complex. The only real truth though is that if you want to tip more, we will not only be super grateful, we will remember you and the next time you order and we have three runs to get to yours is for sure getting priority. Delivery drivers have looooong memories.
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Mar 15, 2018 14:02
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That always seems like an empty threat because if you deliver a pizza super late+cold and/or obviously tampered with i'll just complain to your store and get a free one.
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Mar 15, 2018 14:21
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Modern television and movies seem to have forgotten the important storytelling element of allowing your characters to just chill and hang out, especially to start. In media res has its place, but I appreciate a story that starts with normalcy and ends with a new normalcy. If you never see the main characters relax, shoot the poo poo, and have personal relationships then all you see them as are action machines.
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Mar 15, 2018 14:26
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yeah I eat rear end posted:That always seems like an empty threat because if you deliver a pizza super late+cold and/or obviously tampered with i'll just complain to your store and get a free one. Sorry I didn't mean that as a threat. What I mean is that say I have three houses to deliver to in one go (which means they all ordered at roughly the same time) they will all get there as rapidly as I can, but I'm going to take the ones where I know the customer there is a good person first. Like maybe the one that gets delivered first is a sweet old lady that only tips me a dollar but she also remembers my name and asks how my son is doing in ROTC, or it's the house that give me $10 just for turning up, or maybe it's the guy that always tells me a funny joke. Point is that drivers remember the nice customers and we will do right by those that do right by us.
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Mar 15, 2018 14:45
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How sweet can this old lady even be if she's spying on your kid? I assume you deliver hers last?
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Mar 15, 2018 22:06
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C'mon, if she were spying, she'd know how the kid was doing in ROTC.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:12
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It's a veiled threat. Would be a shame if something happened to him, after all.
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I hate when people deliberately mess up the title of things they don't like, it's such a lazy way of expressing disdain and doesn't even do that, like people discussing modern cartoons calling Steven Universe "Stephen" Universe. It's not clever, it's not funny and it's just annoying to read. At least do something with it. "50 shades of Gay" (made up example but you get the idea) and similar things is just as stupid a thing to do, but at least there is a vague attempt at a joke, although that sort of thing is just as annoying to me.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:58
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Couldn't it just be someone choosing another common spelling of the name unintentionally? I would have just guessed which version it was and have a 50/50 chance of offending you making you think i did it intentionally to make fun of it or whatever when I just didn't know/care how it was spelled.
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Mar 15, 2018 23:03
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BioEnchanted posted:I hate when people deliberately mess up the title of things they don't like, it's such a lazy way of expressing disdain and doesn't even do that, like people discussing modern cartoons calling Steven Universe "Stephen" Universe. It's not clever, it's not funny and it's just annoying to read. At least do something with it. "50 shades of Gay" (made up example but you get the idea) and similar things is just as stupid a thing to do, but at least there is a vague attempt at a joke, although that sort of thing is just as annoying to me. https://twitter.com/UweBollRaw/status/973667993338101760
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Mar 15, 2018 23:07
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BioEnchanted posted:I hate when people deliberately mess up the title of things they don't like, it's such a lazy way of expressing disdain and doesn't even do that, like people discussing modern cartoons calling Steven Universe "Stephen" Universe. It's not clever, it's not funny and it's just annoying to read. At least do something with it. "50 shades of Gay" (made up example but you get the idea) and similar things is just as stupid a thing to do, but at least there is a vague attempt at a joke, although that sort of thing is just as annoying to me. My least favorite is 'Big-chinned Family Guy' in place of 'American Dad.' They're not even very similar of shows. It reeks of the "hating on Seth MacFarlane" bandwagon. For the record, with regards to 'Steven Universe' I honestly wouldn't know which spelling to use. That's really likely an honest mistake ~80% of the time.
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FELD1 posted:My least favorite is 'Big-chinned Family Guy' in place of 'American Dad.' They're not even very similar of shows. It reeks of the "hating on Seth MacFarlane" bandwagon. Yeah, Sorry. I guess with the amount of Irony constantly being thrown around here even something benign can seem deliberate.
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Mar 16, 2018 05:41
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Man when Uwe Boll is saying that it's really damning.
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Mar 16, 2018 06:52
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BioEnchanted posted:I hate when people deliberately mess up the title of things they don't like, it's such a lazy way of expressing disdain and doesn't even do that, like people discussing modern cartoons calling Steven Universe "Stephen" Universe. It's not clever, it's not funny and it's just annoying to read. At least do something with it. "50 shades of Gay" (made up example but you get the idea) and similar things is just as stupid a thing to do, but at least there is a vague attempt at a joke, although that sort of thing is just as annoying to me. I mean if someone is calling Radiohead "The Radio Heads" or something sure but I'd assume "Stephen Universe" is probably an honest mistake. I work with 3 Stephens and I don't remember how they prefer their names spelled.
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Mar 16, 2018 10:44
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Related peeve: if you ask me if i like a show like that and i say no, i am not looking for an argument. Don't start interrogating me to make sure I dislike it for Valid Reasons.
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Mar 16, 2018 10:46
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Related peeve: if you ask me if i like a show like that and i say no, i am not looking for an argument. Don't start interrogating me to make sure I dislike it for Valid Reasons. It's okay, you probably just didn't give it enough of a chance or don't really understand what they're going for or the other dozen inane arguments for why you don't really dislike a show. Look, just watch the first five seasons and maybe if you don't like it by then it's just not for you.
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docbeard posted:It's okay, you probably just didn't give it enough of a chance or don't really understand what they're going for or the other dozen inane arguments for why you don't really dislike a show. Look, just watch the first five seasons and maybe if you don't like it by then it's just not for you. This too. "It really picks up in the fourth season trust me". "So can i skip the first three?" "No what are you crazy youll miss so much backstory." I think i have said it before but around half a season is my "giving it a chance" window.
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Mar 16, 2018 10:54
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yeah I eat rear end posted:This too. "It really picks up in the fourth season trust me". "So can i skip the first three?" "No what are you crazy youll miss so much backstory." Yeah, likewise. I think "give it a few episodes, it will really win you over by episode 4 or 5" has only ever really been true once for me. And I'm generally pretty easygoing when it comes to TV, but there's got to be something that grabs me straight away (or I at least have to be in the right mood for something). And you've also touched on a related peeve for me; no, I will not start with the second season even if the first season isn't very good. It bugs the poo poo out of me not to watch all of something in order when I'm watching it, at least the first time through. I kind of envy people who can do this.
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The reverse is also true; I'm not going to apologize for liking something that other people don't, and your hour-long youtube video won't convince me not to even if it points out flaws that I acknowledge are there. And I do, quite often; there's plenty of stuff I like that I know isn't especially well-plotted or well-acted or whatever, just like there's stuff that I can acknowledge is technically well-done but that just doesn't appeal to me for whatever reason. I HAVE THOUGHTS ON TELEVISION (also movies/books/video games/whatever).
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I think i have said it before but around half a season is my "giving it a chance" window.
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I guess it is a bit much since most of the shows i actually like - i.e. the shield, stargate sg1/atlantis, supernatural etc - had me hooked by episode 1 or 2, or 4 in supernatural's case but i didnt hate it before that.
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On the other hand, people messing up the titles of things by accident rather than out of some sort of lazy ironic disdain is one of my favorite things, like the guy who, having just learned how to pirate media, proudly announced he'd downloaded "The Chocolate Wonka" and "the episode of the Bart Simpsons where Homer smokes weed." Or my mother inviting me over to watch that American history-themed Nicolas Cage adventure movie, "National Investment." docbeard posted:Yeah, likewise. I think "give it a few episodes, it will really win you over by episode 4 or 5" has only ever really been true once for me. And I'm generally pretty easygoing when it comes to TV, but there's got to be something that grabs me straight away (or I at least have to be in the right mood for something). I think a lot of this comes out of how we used to watch TV versus how we watch it now. One of my all-time favorite shows is NewsRadio, but I didn't catch every single episode in broadcast order when it first aired; I don't even remember what the first one I watched was, but I instantly liked it and made a effort to watch it from then on out. Back when shows were broadcast and then disappeared up until they were (MAYBE) rerun, most people tended to start somewhere near the middle unless they were especially prescient or lucky. It wasn't until the DVDs came out (or, more honestly, until I found janky VHS rips online somewhere) that I could sit and watch the whole thing "in order." I think it benefits from being watched in order, since so much of the comedy is improved by knowing the characters, but it wasn't designed that way, necessarily. Once "complete season" DVD box sets started being released in short order after broadcast — and especially after Netflix streaming — binge-watching became a possibility and I think the way TV shows were made changed to account for that. Even so, I think Parks and Rec is the go-to example of "skip the first season;" even with the expectation that TV is no longer ephemeral, shows still sometimes need a bit to find their voice, their groove, their philosophy, whatever.
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docbeard posted:The reverse is also true; I'm not going to apologize for liking something that other people don't  This is why a lot of fandoms get hate, you have two groups of people constantly bickering over what's good or what isn't and it's annoying. I honestly couldn't care less though, I'll watch (or avoid) whatever I want, popularity is subjective.
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Pastry of the Year posted:Or my mother inviting me over to watch that American history-themed Nicolas Cage adventure movie, "National Investment."  That might be the most thing I've heard in weeks.
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Strangers who ask if you're "ok" when you look upset. I had a flight attendant and the grocery store cashier ask me that today. Even if the answer is "no" what are they going to do? Just leave me be.
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I just say "yeah I'm sad because I'm poor" and people just give me money, it's great
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I was a mess on my morning flight after Election Day '16, but thankfully instead of asking if I was okay, the flight attendant just handed me two minibottles of gin with my tonic.
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