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I don't really like any politicians. I know it's a really cringeworthy 2edgy4u Reddit teenager thing to say, but I just don't. None of the ones where I live are any good and I don't really like any of the big name national-level ones either.
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With health care (for rich and prominent people who can get what they need) in modern times being as good as it is I feel like we might be seeing a lot more geriatric politicians. Look at former presidents or the Queen, they almost always make their 90s. Unfortunately, politician ghouls doddering on affects us, while the ancient Queen having tea parties at age 110 only affects Prince Charles.
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Jan 10, 2019 01:41
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't know. I like old painted movie posters. I'm told that the reason they don't really get made any more in favour of comparatively drab-looking Photoshops is that people do think they look "old". I guess that reaction in other people might be a peeve of mine. I’ve kept an old VHS of Blade Runner specifically because I love the art. 
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Jan 10, 2019 02:08
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Wheat Loaf posted:I don't really like any politicians. I know it's a really cringeworthy 2edgy4u Reddit teenager thing to say, but I just don't. None of the ones where I live are any good and I don't really like any of the big name national-level ones either. That's pretty normal, isn't it? Who likes politicians?
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Jan 10, 2019 04:52
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If your car is set to honk when you lock the doors, eat a dick. There's no point to broadcasting the fact that you locked your doors to everyone in the area, turn that poo poo off.
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Jan 10, 2019 04:57
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:If your car is set to honk when you lock the doors, eat a dick. There's no point to broadcasting the fact that you locked your doors to everyone in the area, turn that poo poo off. I think its a thing specifically to broadcast your car's location. I know I use it for the "poo poo, I parked three hours ago and I can't remember where" purposes. Petty sure I'm not alone in this; most times I leave a theater there's a low-level of chorus of people doing it. Personal peeve: I hate tightly-constructed boxes with a product in it. I understand that shippers don't want to pay for 'wasted' space in their deliveries, but man alive I hate having to destroy a box to get to what I paid for because there's a low-level vaccum at play.
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Jan 10, 2019 05:32
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MisterBibs posted:I think its a thing specifically to broadcast your car's location. I know I use it for the "poo poo, I parked three hours ago and I can't remember where" purposes. Petty sure I'm not alone in this; most times I leave a theater there's a low-level of chorus of people doing it. Very guilty of this. I always park in a different row than I remember parking in.
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Jan 10, 2019 05:36
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Tiggum posted:That's pretty normal, isn't it? Who likes politicians? Usually when people say it, it's the sort of "THEY'RE ALL THE SAME  " attitude you expect from self-consciously edgy people.I acknowledge that they are not all the same; some are subjectively better or objectively worse than others. I still don't like any of them.
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Jan 10, 2019 09:15
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Henchman of Santa posted:Sanders hasn't thrown his hat in yet but Kamala Harris is a likely candidate in her mid-50s. Cory Booker is a few years younger and his name is thrown around a lot. Yeah, their whole bench pretty much consists of Old White Guys. Then of course toward the end you'll get the "Third Party Candidate" who'll try to swoop in and get some attention, some Libertarian or "Independent" or whatever who'll get barely enough votes to get his name on the board. 
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Jan 10, 2019 13:12
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MightyJoe36 posted:Then of course toward the end you'll get the "Third Party Candidate" who'll try to swoop in and get some attention, some Libertarian or "Independent" or whatever who'll get barely enough votes to get his name on the board. Wait and see, it'll be Post Malone.
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Jan 10, 2019 13:21
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Wheat Loaf posted:Usually when people say it, it's the sort of "THEY'RE ALL THE SAME Yeah but it’s also pretty common for people who can at least make people think they aren’t politicians to pull a lot of votes purely based on that. No one really likes politicians. Consider how dudes like Berlusconi and Trump can effectively hit opponents with corruptuon accusations despite being obviously corrupt. They come off as regular everyday dudes with their blatant sex abuse and money skimming and bribe taking. Most politicians who do their corruption behind closed doors come off as sinister and shadowy and leave people wondering “what ELSE are they up to??” 
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Jan 10, 2019 13:38
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Even "honest" politicians are off-putting to me. The fact is that they need votes to get elected and that means you can never completely trust anything they say, because they're after your votes. No doubt I'm drowning in my own cynicism here, but I've never been able to shake it off. The the worst of them all are the ones who are always get people defending them for being "principled" as though that's a necessarily good thing in and of itself, which I am almost expected to admire regardless of what those "principles" actually entail. It really gets on my nerves. A person's political and religious beliefs don't deserve this intrinsic "respect" they always seem to demand and receive, regardless of what they are. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 13:53 on Jan 10, 2019 |
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Jan 10, 2019 13:49
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:If your car is set to honk when you lock the doors, eat a dick. There's no point to broadcasting the fact that you locked your doors to everyone in the area, turn that poo poo off. My dad does this every loving time he parks. I hate it so much, and made sure to turn that feature off on my car. It's doubly terrible when it's happening at your apartment at 11:47pm, you're not that loving important and no one cares that you're home. MisterBibs posted:I think its a thing specifically to broadcast your car's location. I know I use it for the "poo poo, I parked three hours ago and I can't remember where" purposes. Petty sure I'm not alone in this; most times I leave a theater there's a low-level of chorus of people doing it. No one uses it like that, it's always so they don't can just walk away instead of spending 10 seconds to lock your drat car. Also, you deserve to spend 15 minutes locating your car if you can't figure out how to locate it after 3 hours somewhere. Really, when I'm in a large parking lot, I use the camera on my phone to take pictures of the markings so that I can find my car with ease when I return. It works especially well when you park it at an airport for 10 days. MisterBibs posted:Personal peeve: I hate tightly-constructed boxes with a product in it. I understand that shippers don't want to pay for 'wasted' space in their deliveries, but man alive I hate having to destroy a box to get to what I paid for because there's a low-level vaccum at play. It's not a wasting space issue, it's an issue of making sure that your goods aren't going to get damaged during transport. The less space there is for it to move around the less likely it is to get damaged or destroyed.
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Jan 10, 2019 14:08
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MisterBibs posted:
Mine is the opposite: I hate very large boxes with a product the size of an iPhone in them. All that wasted space with those plastic balloon things in there for one small item.
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Jan 10, 2019 16:05
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MightyJoe36 posted:Yeah, their whole bench pretty much consists of Old White Guys. If someone like Sanders wins the nomination the third party candidate will be a centrist dem, possibly running some kind of horrifying unity ticket with like, John Kasich.
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Jan 10, 2019 16:12
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Is Buttegieg still in play? Imagine a world where the first openly gay president is named Pete Buttegieg.
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Jan 10, 2019 16:50
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You know what's really annoying? Those security things that want you to type a blurry series of numbers and letters, where you never get it right the first time no matter how careful you are. Even the "CLICK EVERY IMAGE WITH A TREE" ones are better.
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Jan 10, 2019 17:08
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Wheat Loaf posted:You know what's really annoying? Those security things that want you to type a blurry series of numbers and letters, where you never get it right the first time no matter how careful you are. Even the "CLICK EVERY IMAGE WITH A TREE" ones are better. I like the ones that just say "Meh, just click whatever, we don't even care any more"
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Jan 10, 2019 17:11
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I hate that they still ********* passwords. Like people get hacked by others looking over their shoulder and physically stealing the pw. Especially in conjunction with various bullshit requirements so you can’t tell if you’ve typed your appropriate quota of capitqls and numbers and symbols and kanji
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Jan 10, 2019 17:14
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I hate that they still ********* passwords. Like people get hacked by others looking over their shoulder and physically stealing the pw. My employer added a 14 character minimum last year without telling anyone and I had to wait for IT to show up because I got locked out due to assuming it was because I put the wrong password in to begin with. This year they updated the policy to every 60 days. I get it, but god drat, passwords are hard, this is getting ridiculous.
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Jan 10, 2019 17:25
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Iron Crowned posted:My employer added a 14 character minimum last year without telling anyone and I had to wait for IT to show up because I got locked out due to assuming it was because I put the wrong password in to begin with. Going too far with that stuff just means that people will write down their password somewhere, reducing your security instead of improving it
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Jan 10, 2019 17:34
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Andrast posted:Going too far with that stuff just means that people will write down their password somewhere, reducing your security instead of improving it I have no doubt that there are passwords written everywhere around here. I have a suspicion that the policy is passed down from corporate, who as everyone knows is always out of touch with everything ever. This particular building opened in 1977, and there are people who have been here since then, and are not particularly computer literate. Which relates to a peeve of mine: I have to deal with some people here who are in their 40's that that seem to think what I do is magic. I mean yeah, if you're coming from 2D AutoCAD, sure a 3D model in Inventor looks like magic, but I can't just instantly change things, let alone with the pitiful sketch you've given me, especially when you added a zero to the number, which changes the size of things quite a bit.
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Jan 10, 2019 17:46
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MightyJoe36 posted:Mine is the opposite: I hate very large boxes with a product the size of an iPhone in them. All that wasted space with those plastic balloon things in there for one small item. Giant box, iPhone sized item placed in the very bottom, and a couple of air pillows set on top of it as if that does anything to pad it. The padding needs to be AROUND the item, dumbasses! You can't just set them next to each other! Lately, a lot of places have been using padded envelopes instead of using boxes at all. That means that whenever I order a Switch game or book, that poo poo is folded in half and pulverized by the time it gets to me.
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Jan 10, 2019 18:40
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is Buttegieg still in play? Imagine a world where the first openly gay president is named Pete Buttegieg. Trump would call him "buttgeek" in the first debate and destroy his whole campaign.
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Jan 10, 2019 19:07
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Giant box, iPhone sized item placed in the very bottom, and a couple of air pillows set on top of it as if that does anything to pad it. The padding needs to be AROUND the item, dumbasses! You can't just set them next to each other! I had a somewhat expensive piece of glass reach me via padded envelope. The outside looked hosed to poo poo. My heart skipped a beat, but it was also wrapped in bubble wrap so it was ok.
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Jan 10, 2019 19:45
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Henchman of Santa posted:Trump would call him "buttgeek" in the first debate and destroy his whole campaign. He needs to pre-empt it. Hire some goons on as consultants. Pretty sure SA came up with “Butt for Chair” when he ran for DNC chairman
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Jan 10, 2019 19:46
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:He needs to pre-empt it. Hire some goons on as consultants. Pretty sure SA came up with “Butt for Chair” when he ran for DNC chairman Didn't the guy who won (or came second - I can't remember - one or the other) get done for abusing his wife or something?
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Jan 10, 2019 19:48
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Wheat Loaf posted:Didn't the guy who won (or came second - I can't remember - one or the other) get done for abusing his wife or something? Yup, the runner up. And he was the “progressive” one. I think it was a girlfriend.
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Jan 10, 2019 20:34
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Here is another things that I find annoying: when you open a new email, then go and do something else, and when you come back to the email you can't remember who it was meant to be to or what it was meant to be about. And another one: why is it that even when I’ve got my hair cut to my preferred length (short - suedehead sort of length) it still sticks out noticeably in the morning. Doesn’t matter how short it is, it still sticks out. Wheat Loaf has a new favorite as of 01:46 on Jan 11, 2019 |
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Jan 10, 2019 22:01
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I desk jockey and pet dogs at a vet’s office for way more money and better hours than my years in loving restaurants and people respect me *more* It’s real dumb. Life is way easier now and I am not and never intended to be a Veterinary Professional but I wear scrubs, get weekends off, and often have a clipboard so I must be Talented. gently caress off. Tip your waiter.
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Jan 11, 2019 03:17
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Yup, the runner up. And he was the “progressive” one. I think it was a girlfriend. Did they resign? Anyway, here are more things that annoy me: The way I can never remember details about a book or a movie after I have finished it; I only ever remember broad strokes about the plot. The way every time I'm at the gym, there always seems to be one person who's doing nothing but sitting on the machines taking selfies, which is blocking access to equipment for people who actually wants to use it. That one old man who was at the gym I used to go to who would walk around barefoot and leave the most disgusting sweat footprints everywhere, and then sweat all over equipment and not clean it up. And a more specific example: some time ago when I was at the gym, there was one older guy who would load up the weight machine with a whole bunch of plates, struggle and strain through one rep and then scribble something in his notebook and move off to some other area without removing the weight as is basic gym etiquette. To this day, I have no idea what on Earth he was getting out of that. You're doing one rep and you were barely able to do that one.
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Jan 11, 2019 09:25
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Wheat Loaf posted:And a more specific example: some time ago when I was at the gym, there was one older guy who would load up the weight machine with a whole bunch of plates, struggle and strain through one rep and then scribble something in his notebook and move off to some other area without removing the weight as is basic gym etiquette. To this day, I have no idea what on Earth he was getting out of that. You're doing one rep and you were barely able to do that one. The ego is hungry and wants to be fed.
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Jan 11, 2019 11:41
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Wheat Loaf posted:And another one: why is it that even when I’ve got my hair cut to my preferred length (short - suedehead sort of length) it still sticks out noticeably in the morning. Doesn’t matter how short it is, it still sticks out. I got my whole head buzzed to, like, #3 about a month ago, and yep, every morning I've still got loving Inspector Gadget hair.
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Jan 11, 2019 13:23
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When rims of drinking glasses start to crumble
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Jan 11, 2019 14:08
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:gently caress off. Tip your waiter. After doing my time as a server, I tip pretty good. It's been 8 years, but it still hurts when I see someone being a lovely tipper. Over Christmas I had the fortune of going to the Outback with my family, and with their general neediness, it pained me that they left a used gift card and just enough on the check to make it to that standard 18% tip, I had to sneak some cash on the table when they weren't looking.
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Jan 11, 2019 14:23
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Mobile versions of websites. Almost always there's an image or a table or something that is too wide and it doesn't let you scroll side to side. Whyyy?
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Jan 11, 2019 18:43
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Iron Crowned posted:After doing my time as a server, I tip pretty good. It's been 8 years, but it still hurts when I see someone being a lovely tipper. I've never been a server, but I go out enough to know they have a lovely job so I always tip extremely well unless my server is really bad or has an attitude. I always try to tip in cash as well so they don't have to claim it on their taxes.
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Jan 11, 2019 19:05
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Here's something that bothers me: when I watch a dvd on my laptop, I always get distracted by other stuff I have open. I can watch a dvd on a dvd player and work on something else and divide my attention evenly and effectively but if they're both on the same device, I keep pausing the thing to do something else and keep losing the plot.
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Jan 11, 2019 23:54
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Wheat Loaf posted:Here's something that bothers me: when I watch a dvd on my laptop, I always get distracted by other stuff I have open. I can watch a dvd on a dvd player and work on something else and divide my attention evenly and effectively but if they're both on the same device, I keep pausing the thing to do something else and keep losing the plot. I never realize how often I look stuff up based on what I'm watching until I have to alt+tab out of it. I'm the guy with IMDB and Wikipedia open on my phone while watching a movie.
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DontMockMySmock posted:Mobile versions of websites. Almost always there's an image or a table or something that is too wide and it doesn't let you scroll side to side. Whyyy? Any mobile site that bombards you with “IT WORKS BETTER IN OUR APP!” I assure you I’d get the app if I came here enough or liked you.
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