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Edgar Allen Ho posted:“I love Israel they know how to deal with them there Muslims, as a Jew you must understand what I mean” this x1000
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 08:30 |
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As I continue to listen to "Sapiens, a brief history of humankind", I have to listen to some British guy using 1 and a half hours explaining to me how abstract concepts have no power unless humankind collectively believes in it, such as a government, money, church etc. and that our belief in abstract concepts and myths gives us more power to cooperate. Took me one minute. The title should read "The most pedantic explanation of humankind". Its like all the examples used to explain all of this was made meticulously and purposefully to prevent people from misinterpreting/discrediting it on purpose on a technicality even if they genuinely got the gist of it. I swear if university is like this I am going to become one of those "Learn a trade" people or continue with my dead end job. Midig has a new favorite as of 12:24 on Aug 2, 2019 |
# ? Aug 2, 2019 12:18 |
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More shortness problems: UPS driver just asked me if my mom or dad was home. Funny once. Not funny after eleven years at the same address.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 13:41 |
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The only way to deal with that is to really embarrass them. Make them feel like a dick. Or get really jacked and grow a massive beard.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 13:47 |
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Midig posted:I swear if university is like this I am going to become one of those "Learn a trade" people or continue with my dead end job. Oh strap yourself in and get ready to meet some huge egos.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 14:12 |
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:More shortness problems: Don’t worry, we have higher life expectancy than those gargantuan freaks
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:36 |
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I hate eating on the beach. The beach is gross, sand is nasty, wasps, crowds, sun blinding you as you try to take a bite. I love swimming in the sea but the beach kind of sucks as a place to hang out
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:36 |
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gently caress beachy beaches. Give me a desolate stretch of rocky coast at a comfy -8.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:38 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:gently caress beachy beaches. Give me a desolate stretch of rocky coast at a comfy -8.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:39 |
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To lend weight to my argument, I should add that I am posting from the beach.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 15:45 |
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please note that our shop hours of 8am to 5pm are posted in 18" lettering on our door, yet we had a customer drop her car off last night at 9pm according to the note she left us about it -- with no appointment, either. when she called this morning at 8 she wanted to know that it was done and we were like well the techs just got in and they're handling people who had appointments rn and she said we were making up excuses, why wasn't it looked at last night, so we're like maam last night we were CLOSED and she loving says THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN EXCUSE. i hate her immensely
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 18:34 |
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InediblePenguin posted:please note that our shop hours of 8am to 5pm are posted in 18" lettering on our door, yet we had a customer drop her car off last night at 9pm according to the note she left us about it -- with no appointment, either. when she called this morning at 8 she wanted to know that it was done and we were like well the techs just got in and they're handling people who had appointments rn and she said we were making up excuses, why wasn't it looked at last night, so we're like maam last night we were CLOSED and she loving says THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN EXCUSE. i hate her immensely How long have you lived in Reform, AL?
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 18:46 |
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i am in New York. the south doesnt have a monopoly on aggressively stupid people. the woman is a fuckin teacher at a local school and i feel so bad for her students since she's this loving unreasonable
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 18:56 |
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InediblePenguin posted:i am in New York. the south doesnt have a monopoly on aggressively stupid people. the woman is a fuckin teacher at a local school and i feel so bad for her students since she's this loving unreasonable I hate the person you're describing so much Or that kind of person at least How the gently caress does one end up so goddam entitled
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 19:06 |
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Yeah I'm sitting here genuinely angry after reading that. Thanks.
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 19:45 |
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I mean yeah that's literally what an excuse is. An explanation of why something didn't go the way you expected it to. What a stupid idiot
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# ? Aug 2, 2019 20:06 |
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Is it just me or are more companies starting to do that annoying lularoe thing where they give clothing real people name and refer to it as "she/her"? I know the "who are you wearing" thing has been around forever, but it just sounds weird to see people on facebook saying "she costs 19.99 and she'll look great on you" etc. It's just a shirt, and an ugly shirt at that. It really is amazing how people will pour their entire lifes savings into shilling your crappy product (which barely even sells because all you get are the sizes nobody wants) if you form a weird cult around it.
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 14:22 |
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People who use "op" to refer to anyone other than the person who started the thread.
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 15:38 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:People who use "op" to refer to anyone other than the person who started the thread. When did that start, anyhow? I distinctly remember starting to tell people "that's not the OP" thinking they were confused then it just became standard OPerating procedure
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 15:56 |
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the theme to Mr. Peanutbutter's House has been stuck in my head for days and I want it to stop. nick nack paddywhack GIVE A DOG A BONE
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# ? Aug 3, 2019 18:52 |
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Exterior motion activated lights should be illegal. One of my neighbors has one above their front door that's brighter that what could be useful for anything involving a front door and flips on and off all night every time someone walks past.
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 07:36 |
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I typically walk my dog at night and yeah there are like 1 or 2 houses we go past that just turn the enter street to daytime level brightness and I just shake my head and pity their neighbors. poo poo is ridiculous. If I had a bedroom facing the street across from them it would become some kind of passive aggressive neighbor feud. Luckily I'm blessed to live in a nice quiet cul-de-sac with no a-holes, just outside the HOA boundary. Ok 1 a-hole
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Exterior motion activated lights should be illegal. One of my neighbors has one above their front door that's brighter that what could be useful for anything involving a front door and flips on and off all night every time someone walks past. In this vein, my one neighbor has a quadrillion-lumen floodlight on the back of his garage for some loving reason. They can't see it, it lights nothing at all, but it's a hellish and ugly bright thing when I'm trying to relax by the fire pit in my backyard. It's like five houses away and it still blinds me when I look directly at it!!!
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 16:13 |
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Our neighbors asked us to turn off our side-door auto light because it shone directly into one of their bedrooms. We did, immediately. But ask them not to keep parking their various vehicles up and down there road and right up to our driveway and you'd think we'd asked them to sacrifice their first-born. Assholes.
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Hirayuki posted:Our neighbors asked us to turn off our side-door auto light because it shone directly into one of their bedrooms. We did, immediately. But ask them not to keep parking their various vehicles up and down there road and right up to our driveway and you'd think we'd asked them to sacrifice their first-born. Assholes. Well, at least you know you have a bargaining chip! No cars, no light. And the dance continues.
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Midig posted:As I continue to listen to "Sapiens, a brief history of humankind", I have to listen to some British guy using 1 and a half hours explaining to me how abstract concepts have no power unless humankind collectively believes in it, such as a government, money, church etc. and that our belief in abstract concepts and myths gives us more power to cooperate. Took me one minute. I really enjoyed this book when I read it a couple years ago. Seemed like an interesting and detached way to describe human history in a way that re-contextualizes the present. Then I read the followup, Homo Deus a few months ago, and suddenly the whole charade came crashing down. The author is a dude that very obviously thinks he's a lot more intelligent and insightful than he really is. The book doesn't live up to its title whatsoever, and instead starts preaching the merits of "dataism" – a religious belief in the power of capitalistic algorithms.
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Hirayuki posted:Our neighbors asked us to turn off our side-door auto light because it shone directly into one of their bedrooms. We did, immediately. But ask them not to keep parking their various vehicles up and down there road and right up to our driveway and you'd think we'd asked them to sacrifice their first-born. Assholes. Sounds like it's time to "forget" about your agreement and tell them to buy some curtains when they come by again. If you have to tolerate their crap, they should have to tolerate yours.
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 16:36 |
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They are the worst. Well, the old man's good, but (some of?) his kids and grandkids moved in when his wife died and they're impossible. My first post in this thread was about their goddamn van. It's still there.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:Exterior motion activated lights should be illegal. One of my neighbors has one above their front door that's brighter that what could be useful for anything involving a front door and flips on and off all night every time someone walks past. I love going for predawn runs and getting completely blinded by these motherfuckers
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# ? Aug 4, 2019 18:04 |
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I had to argue with management when I learned tonight that the ingredients we use are far above acceptable food safe temperatures. I'm talking about 15° Celsius higher than proper refrigeration standards for certain items. The general manager of the restaurant immediately began blaming the staff for not covering the ingredients etc, which is bullshit. My co-workers are wonderful, they work hard and they know their stuff. The walk-in cooler is broken, the line coolers are broken, everything is loving broken. As I was (unnecessarily) arguing with the general manager, she offered to show me the report that the health inspector made the last time they visited, approximately 10 days ago. The first line I read said "Items above normal temperature, 8-10°C" That is 5-7° Celsius higher than they should be. The general manager showed me this report confidently, like she would prove me wrong somehow. I laughed. I literally laughed. Her excuse was that because it's summer, coolers get warm. I said that the whole point of having coolers is to keep ingredients cold, despite seasonal influence. She told me that we should be putting ice underneath (yes, underneath) the meats on the line. I left. I went home. I refuse to make innocent people sick.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:I had to argue with management when I learned tonight that the ingredients we use are far above acceptable food safe temperatures. Absolutely ran into this multiple times in food service, and thank you for making a stand about it. I got so much poo poo for not washing lettuce that fell on the kitchen floor, not cutting mold off things to serve them, not holding ingredients over time or over temp. They make me take a servsafe cert then get mad when I use a thermometer and my brain? Work is such a bullshit ballet.
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Yeah that seems pretty widespread if Kitchen Nightmares is to be believed. Send Gordon their way so he can make them smell some mold and smash a rotten tomato on the ground and shut it down while he screams "you're going to loving KILL somebody!" and they play that annoying reality TV show violin noise and cut to commercial.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:07 |
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Restaurant food is almost always way more disgusting than you think, and the owners and managers almost always way more awful I had a kitchen manager once that would straight up jerk off while on the line, like just openly rubbing himself off through his pants while staring down the woman employees. He also did loads of coke with the owner. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 14:12 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Yeah that seems pretty widespread if Kitchen Nightmares is to be believed. Send Gordon their way so he can make them smell some mold and smash a rotten tomato on the ground and shut it down while he screams "you're going to loving KILL somebody!" and they play that annoying reality TV show violin noise and cut to commercial. I remember vividly the Restaurant: Impossible episode where a mushroom was growing from the inside cooler wall. A smooth stainless steel surface. Mushroom. I quit one job when I saw the mop water went right under the waterproof lining around the cooler, and a poo poo-ton of tiny worms washed out.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:27 |
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Repaving the left 2 lanes of a 3 lane high way at an on-ramp at 7:00 in on a Monday morning. The last 7 minute of my drive in to work became 27 minutes.
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# ? Aug 5, 2019 14:30 |
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People who play music in public on a phone should be summarily executed Like on the beach. Cut it out with that poo poo motherfucker im worshipping Poseidon here Shibawanko has a new favorite as of 15:03 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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Shibawanko posted:People who play music in public on a phone should be summarily executed similarly, people who walk around talking into their phones like this
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Pastry of the Year posted:similarly, people who walk around talking into their phones like this You're probably aware, but that style of talking on the phone was invented by reality tv shows so that the cameras could hear both sides of a conversation. So of course dumb dumbs mimic the behavior because they saw famous person do it. My pet peeve, people who park in the driving lane at grocery stores and sit in the car and wait for someone inside to do their shopping. There's a whole lot of spots right there! Park, then pull up to the door once the person comes out. Stop blocking traffic.
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Pastry of the Year posted:similarly, people who walk around talking into their phones like this I once saw a very large woman walking down the aisle at Aldi talking on her phone that was very well balanced on her shoulder.
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Iron Crowned posted:I once saw a very large woman walking down the aisle at Aldi talking on her phone that was very well balanced on her shoulder. My nonpeeve favourite is when women tuck their phones into their hijab to hold it against their ear
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