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Sunswipe posted:Just a thought, but maybe she doesn't want to go hiking. I personally don't believe in encouraging people to expect you to read their minds. Pick up on cues and maybe take your shoes off unless/until she says otherwise, sure, but I hate when people are too scared to say no so just waffle until it's either impossible to go or for you to get frustrated and say forget it. Just say no if you don't want to go.
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Sunswipe posted:Just a thought, but maybe she doesn't want to go hiking. I considered this, but dismissed it on account of this being her idea in the first place. You were right, though, she didn't want to go and didn't want to admit that she changed her mind. Still love her, despite all.
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Riatsala posted:I considered this, but dismissed it on account of this being her idea in the first place. Tell her to just loving say “im not feeling it today” But in sweeter words ofc
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Good communication is the key to a healthy relationship. A quick "Hey Dingus, you said we were going hiking, get your tits in gear or I'm going without you" is the remedy this situation needs. I mean it would be for me but 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Tell her to just loving say “im not feeling it today” or not- if your relationship is good, y'all should be able to just say "hey I'm not feeling it" or "sorry but I'm not into X activity" and be fine. I have hobbies my fiance isn't into, and he has hobbies I'm not into, and sometimes neither of us wants to do jack poo poo. It's okay to not do everything together constantly.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Now THAT is the Oz that I am conditioned to squint sideways at  As someone who spends too much money eating fast food (working on that (NEW YEAR NEW ME)), the vast majority of times I've seen cash only has been asian places. I guess the tax office is racist because they have specifically targeted suburbs that have high proportions of asian immigrants https://www.sbs.com.au/news/revealed-australian-suburbs-where-cash-only-businesses-are-being-targeted-by-ato quote:The ATO has made nearly 159 trips to Sydney's Chinatown in Haymarket and has uncovered more than $18 million in misreported transactions. quote:
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Clothing sizes. Not only does every manufacturer and retailer have their own stupid standards that mean nothing, but they never seem to stay the same for long enough to get used to them either. You'd think that if you'd bought shirts from a particular shop last year you'd be able to just look at the size on them and buy more of the same, but nope, they've got a completely different system now and none of the old sizes match. Why do they even bother having the option to buy online? Are people just guessing and then returning stuff that doesn't fit? That seems like more hassle than actually going in to the shop to begin with.
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Tiggum posted:Clothing sizes. Not only does every manufacturer and retailer have their own stupid standards that mean nothing, but they never seem to stay the same for long enough to get used to them either. You'd think that if you'd bought shirts from a particular shop last year you'd be able to just look at the size on them and buy more of the same, but nope, they've got a completely different system now and none of the old sizes match. Why do they even bother having the option to buy online? Are people just guessing and then returning stuff that doesn't fit? That seems like more hassle than actually going in to the shop to begin with. oh my god, this. If I buy a loving 14, it should be a 14! it shouldn't be a 12, or an 18, or whatever the gently caress, it should be the same loving size as every other pair of size 14 pants!
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It even happens on clothes that have sizes specified in inches. Buy some 32" pants, like them a lot, order another pair from the same company, receive pants that are a totally different size. Belts are the worst. I have belts sized from 29" all the way up to 44" that are all the same length. A FUCKIN CANARY!! has a new favorite as of 13:25 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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I’m a short guy and buying from a store is never an issue but buying something online or at a concert is a nightmare because the mediums are often huge and the smalls often have tiny, tight sleeves because they’re really the unofficial women’s shirt. But that’s what I get for being an adult who still wears band tees.
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Iron Crowned posted:Podcasts that spend 20+ minutes of each episode going over listener emails. On this note, I hate in-front-of-an-audience episodes of podcasts. It feels like about 50% of the episode becomes generic "host makes comment to elicit audience participation, audience cheers for a few seconds, host says "Whoa, calm down guys, haha, you're crazy here in *city*!" audience hears city name and cheers for a few more seconds".
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El Cid posted:On this note, I hate in-front-of-an-audience episodes of podcasts. It feels like about 50% of the episode becomes generic "host makes comment to elicit audience participation, audience cheers for a few seconds, host says "Whoa, calm down guys, haha, you're crazy here in *city*!" audience hears city name and cheers for a few more seconds". Same. Also when some drunk rear end in a top hat starts shouting at the hosts.
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I feel very out of touch for just not "getting" the concept of a podcast. Like I listen to talk/morning radio all the time, but I would never listen to a recording of a day that I missed. I don't like when things like that are episodic instead of just talking about mostly things only relevant to that day.
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It's people talking about things. You listen to it at work, during long drives, or when you're doing things around the house. There's podcasts about anything and everything you ever wanted to hear about.
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CelticPredator posted:It's people talking about things. You listen to it at work, during long drives, or when you're doing things around the house. There's podcasts about anything and everything you ever wanted to hear about. If it was live, I would listen to it. I don't know why there's that distinction in my mind, but there is. I like things where i can tune in whenever I want and it's just on and it doesn't matter if i didn't hear the past half hour or listen to last week's show.
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You can listen to it whenever you want. Most podcasts don't require you to pour through their back catalog.
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Podcasts are a good idea but 95% of them seem to be some mushmouth with That Voice who can't go four words without Uhhhh'ing and then they all do That Laugh.
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The Perennial Peeve- youtube “oh you just finished ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning Audiobook’? Perhaps you would like ‘7 Reasons Ben Shapiro Dominates Debates’” No, no I really wouldn’t
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El Cid posted:On this note, I hate in-front-of-an-audience episodes of podcasts. It feels like about 50% of the episode becomes generic "host makes comment to elicit audience participation, audience cheers for a few seconds, host says "Whoa, calm down guys, haha, you're crazy here in *city*!" audience hears city name and cheers for a few more seconds". Ugh, yeah, there are a couple in my feed that minimize the audience garbage, but otherwise when I see "live from the Chapel Hill Mall" I'll just delete it. The other problem I have with live episodes is they're usually recorded very poorly, like it was just someone in the back with an old Realistic tape recorder. I feel like a lot of these places probably at least use a soundboard, but the board operator is either incompetent, or these podcasters have forgotten how to use a microphone. Disgusting Coward posted:Podcasts are a good idea but 95% of them seem to be some mushmouth with That Voice who can't go four words without Uhhhh'ing and then they all do That Laugh. What I hate worse is when the whole thing just sounds like poo poo. It's not hard to get a half-decent microphone, yet there are so many podcasts that sound like they're recorded underwater. I have dropped quite a few that I liked because they just sounded terrible.
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I tend to favor fiction/sketch comedy/improv podcasts to interviews/people rambling on about whatever, but that's also what I tend to prefer in other media, so no surprise there. (Exception: The Worst Idea Of All Time because mapping the descent of two New Zealand comedians into self-inflicted madness is kind of fascinating.) Edgar Allen Ho posted:The Perennial Peeve- youtube “oh you just finished ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning Audiobook’? Perhaps you would like ‘7 Reasons Ben Shapiro Dominates Debates’” God, yes. This is rapidly overtaking my other Youtube peeve, wherein guides and reference materials increasingly only exist in convenient three-hour video form.
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People who mention Donald Trump in everyday conversations. Even if I agree with you or whatever it doesn't matter, just as a part of small talk it's extremely grating to hear the same boring poo poo about him over and over. I don't like him either. Let's just not talk about it.
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I like a few podcasts, but I remember one (about pulp fiction - the genre, not the movie) which I'm pretty sure was a guy reading from the Wikipedia page. Now that's an interesting topic for a podcast to explore. But it's a shame if that was the best I could find! There was another one I tried about noir detectives which was really hard to listen to because the producer had looped the same audio sample of "1920s hillbilly fiddle-playing" (that's what it sounded like anyway) over the top of the entire thing and it was mixed louder than his voice.
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There's a promo for a true-crime-adjacent podcast wherein the voiceover person says "acrosst," and it makes me say "UGH" out loud every drat time.
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Hirayuki posted:There's a promo for a true-crime-adjacent podcast wherein the voiceover person says "acrosst," and it makes me say "UGH" out loud every drat time. "I was over at yer guyses place last week" GAH! I know loads of podcasters are far from professional broadcasters, but I can only handle so much lazy language.
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I am sick to death of Paul Scheer. My wife listens to How Did This Get Made and Unspooled and I have to leave the room when she's playing those podcasts. Between him and *zany crazy wild* Mantzoukas it's infuriating. Edit: this isn't the peeves thread but Scheer is my pet peeve.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:What’s up with the title btw did I miss something? some fyad guy got mod powers in here somehow like a week ago and changed all the titles and the real mods kept some of the changes.
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oldpainless posted:Is it? 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The Perennial Peeve- youtube “oh you just finished ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning Audiobook’? Perhaps you would like ‘7 Reasons Ben Shapiro Dominates Debates’” All Alt Right people are just proto-Olafs anyway.
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Antioch posted:I am sick to death of Paul Scheer. My wife listens to How Did This Get Made and Unspooled and I have to leave the room when she's playing those podcasts. Between him and *zany crazy wild* Mantzoukas it's infuriating. Paul Scheer played Andre on The League, right? because rightly or wrongly I’ve always assumed that’s probably not all that far off from what he’s actually like.
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He’s pretty chill. A little Andre-esq, but not much. I like him and his podcasts. Although HDTGM can get way too nit picky to a point of them not understanding film in anyway shape or form so that kinda sucks.
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It’s news to me that he even does podcasts. I love The League, but that’s actually my only point of reference for most of the people involved.
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Most of the people in The League have had pretty successful careers in comedy/improv. Guys like Zouks or Sheer have carved out a nice little niche in the podcast world and are finally starting to reemerge in acting roles. I thought Mantzoukas was great in the latest season of No Activity (which overall is just awesome), Sheer pops up here and there but not as much since NT:SD:SUV ended, and Kroll has been all over the place for a long while now so no idea how you could have missed him. That said, I also cannot stand How Did This Get Made. They are just so wrong about everything all the time from plot points to character names that it's like they didn't even bother watching whatever movie each episode is about. I think they're pretty good at being funny with each other but everything to do with the actual movies is grating as hell. Or at least it was in the 2 or 3 episodes I tried.
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It depends on the movie. It has to be seriously inept for their schtick to work. Otherwise it sucks. I dunno they’re nice to listen to at work.
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CelticPredator posted:All Alt Right people are just proto-Olafs anyway. Olaf was more well-read
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