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MightyJoe36 posted:Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. A day off from work, no cards, no gifts, no decorations, no holiday music. Just getting together with my family and friends, eating a big dinner, drinking beer, and watching football. Thank you for reminding me what really gets to me about Christmas going on so long: it's the only holiday with a dedicated playlist, and there aren't nearly enough unique songs to excuse that. Countless covers of the same songs, from the decent medieval ones to the annoying 40s ones, to the terrible terrible 70s and 80s ones, and the less we say about XMas music after that the better. Every other aspect of Christmas, from the happy to the stressful to the depressing, is monstrously worsened by the strains of Christmas music grating away at you anywhere there's a speaker grille able to play it.
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MightyJoe36 posted:Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. A day off from work, no cards, no gifts, no decorations, no holiday music. Just getting together with my family and friends, eating a big dinner, drinking beer, and watching football. That's pretty much every holiday in my family
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Brawnfire posted:Thank you for reminding me what really gets to me about Christmas going on so long: it's the only holiday with a dedicated playlist, and there aren't nearly enough unique songs to excuse that. Countless covers of the same songs, from the decent medieval ones to the annoying 40s ones, to the terrible terrible 70s and 80s ones, and the less we say about XMas music after that the better. It's all about the boomers
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Aug 20, 2019 15:38
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one of my pet peeves is how on somethingawful there's like this unspoken "if you are enthusiastic about a piece of media and want to talk about aspects of it that you enjoy you're a loving loser nerd"
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Kanine posted:one of my pet peeves is how on somethingawful there's like this unspoken "if you are enthusiastic about a piece of media and want to talk about aspects of it that you enjoy you're a loving loser nerd" also if you like ____ you're a child as if actual adults give a poo poo, lol. reminds me of being a kid and insisting i was an adult because i don't watch that show-- it's for babies
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Aug 21, 2019 06:35
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Nobody has that attitude if its something cool though, but if you like Star Wars then yeah
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Aug 21, 2019 06:35
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yeah but who fuckin cares? i could give a poo poo about star wars, etc, but it doesn't affect me if someone likes it edit: i guess getting caremad about what other people like is the real pet peeve here
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Aug 21, 2019 06:37
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If you have any hobbies or interests you're a manchild, and if you have any physical possessions they are a dick substitute.
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Aug 21, 2019 11:35
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MightyJoe36 posted:Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. A day off from work, no cards, no gifts, no decorations, no holiday music. Just getting together with my family and friends, eating a big dinner, drinking beer, and watching football. In my experience it starts out that way, but when you have multiple family members that turn into alex jones after a glass of wine or two it's a ticking time bomb. Once the talk about "the libs" and "the globalists" putting chemicals in the water start everyone not involved (the sane ones) breaks off into different rooms and watches football in silence until a sufficient amount of time passes that it doesn't feel rude to leave.
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:If you have any hobbies or interests you're a manchild, and if you have any physical possessions they are a dick substitute. This is true though. Real adults focus on creating value
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Aug 21, 2019 13:15
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value deez nutz
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Aug 21, 2019 13:18
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Silver Falcon posted:Back to school season infuriates me somehow. I haven't been in school for a dang decade and I still cringe when the back to school sales happen. In my area the kids went back to school literally the first week of August  So the 4th of July back to school poo poo was appropriate. Now my pet peeve is kids going back to school way too early.
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Aug 21, 2019 14:10
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yeah I eat rear end posted:In my experience it starts out that way, but when you have multiple family members that turn into alex jones after a glass of wine or two it's a ticking time bomb. Once the talk about "the libs" and "the globalists" putting chemicals in the water start everyone not involved (the sane ones) breaks off into different rooms and watches football in silence until a sufficient amount of time passes that it doesn't feel rude to leave. Yeah, you're talking about my MIL and my wife and her sister have learned over the years how to steer her off into a different direction using scratch-offs and more wine. My sons and I have retired to the living room to watch football and drink beer by this time.
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People (well, friends) who won't just ask you for a favour. Got a message from a friend today that was a multi-paragraph moan about how the postman hadn't dropped off a package of car parts that he needed to fix his car that he needs for Friday, and now the package was at the local post office and he was at work all the time the office was open unless he raced back home and then fixed the car in the evening etc. Oh Woe Is Me. I reply along the lines of "yeah, that sucks when that happens. What's up with the car?" and I get back another long rant about how crummy the Royal Mail is and how he can't *believe* he's got to hurry back from work to try and get the parcel before the office closes and he can't be sure he's going to make it and he really needs the car to work on Friday and it's all so difficult. Alright, I see what's going on here, so I ping back "I'm happy to help if I can, but I'm not sure how!" and I instantly get a detailed plan back about how he can leave the delivery card in his porch, I go over to get it in the morning and then go to the post office, get the package and then run it over to his work so he can fit the parts during his lunch hour in the car park. Which is fine. I'm happy to do it and I'm sure he'd do the same for me if I was in a similar jam but, dude, just ask! We're friends, and helping each other is kind of the basic job description. Just say "Hey, the loving Royal Mail have a package for me at the depot, would you be able to go and get it for me while I'm at work?" Don't go fishing for help from me like I'm not going to give it willingly. Also, you've known your car needed new coil packs for months, but you always end up doing these things at the last minute and then getting all fraught when something goes wrong (like not getting the package on the expected date...) Sort this stuff out as it arises and you won't be permanently in crisis mode! Peeve 2: People who can't do even a little bit of forward planning and then get angry when it bites them in the rear end.
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Ebola Roulette posted:In my area the kids went back to school literally the first week of August Christ, that's terrible. When do they let out? Related peeve I guess, not giving kids time to be kids.
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Aug 21, 2019 15:32
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In Texas schools got out in May and went back in August and the New York they get out in late June and go back after Labor Day
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BalloonFish posted:People (well, friends) who won't just ask you for a favour. I have the opposite problem to peeve 1: my roommate relies on me doing her favors, which I never should have done the first goddamn time she asked because she's now spent a year taking advantage of my kindness and planning her entire loving life around the assumption that I will be there to give her a ride or lend her money. Leads right into peeve 2. She can't plan ahead and just assumes that somebody will bail her out if she whines enough. She once asked me to lend her some money until payday, which was literally two days away. I said no and she offered to pay me back $20 more than she was asking for. THIS IS WHY YOU'RE ALWAYS loving BROKE, YOU IRRESPONSIBLE IDIOT also because I manage the building for the landlord she assumes that all household things are my responsibility and actually loving had the audacity to demand that I replace a lightbulb in her room and told me it was my job she never takes out the trash and now I realize it's because she thinks it is literally my job to clean up after her does she seriously think the tenants in the other apartments come bug me when a loving lightbulb burns out
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Silver Falcon posted:Christ, that's terrible. When do they let out? They get out in mid-May. In the south it's kinda nice to have some time during early summer cuz by July/August playing outside can be loving miserable.
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Aug 21, 2019 18:01
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Silver Falcon posted:Related peeve I guess, not giving kids time to be kids. Peeve: the idea that a summer vacation is necessary. Sure, some of them might spend it doing self study or going on an expedition camp or something, but most just watch Let's Plays or some poo poo for 3 months, and forget a lot of what they learned during the last school year. Also disrupts schedules and puts parents on the hook for child care. School should be year round, with more frequent breaks spread out
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Killingyouguy! posted:Peeve: the idea that a summer vacation is necessary. Sure, some of them might spend it doing self study or going on an expedition camp or something, but most just watch Let's Plays or some poo poo for 3 months, and forget a lot of what they learned during the last school year. Also disrupts schedules and puts parents on the hook for child care. Summer vacation kicks rear end you weirdo
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Andrast posted:Summer vacation kicks rear end you weirdo Yeah it kicks rear end to have the school system turn out worse students
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Killingyouguy! posted:Yeah it kicks rear end to have the school system turn out worse students Somehow countries with good education systems manage to have summer breaks and have kids learn stuff just fine. If a summer break fucks your schooling up the problem is not with the summer break. Also there is more to life than being a better student Andrast has a new favorite as of 18:18 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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I think it originates from when 99% of the population were farmers and it's insan e that the shool year is still so short compared to other countries like Japan. Government will never change it through because it means teachers would need to be paid more.
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What is even the point of children if they arent turning out results or creating value What the gently caress is "fun"
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Danaru posted:What the gently caress is "fun" Precisely what I mean though, 'fun' is nice but isn't so sacred that a quarter of the year needs to be blocked off for it, a week or two would fit everyone's needs better
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Bobby Digital posted:Pretty sure adults can have preferences. My favorite color is Reflex Blue. I'm red-green color blind and it's the strongest color that I can always see. I don't like it per-se. I just can see it well. Also, yes, I can see yellow. Everyone can see yellow. Don't hold a number two pencil in front of me and ask me what color it is. I know it's yellow. Try pink. Red-green color blind people have a lot of trouble with pink. If it looks pink to me, it's actually light red. True pink looks like white to me.
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Sunswipe posted:Agreed. I love Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, Commando, and Heat, to give three examples of some favorite movies. How the hell do you declare one of those "better" than the others? Kung Pow is a terrible drama, while Heat comes up short when I want some laughs. Commando... ok, I can watch Commando pretty much any mood I'm in. After my dad retired from farming, he applied for a job at Barnes and Noble. They asked him what his favorite book was. He said, "I have 10,000 books at my house. I don't have a favorite." This is true, he has well over 10,000. They said, "But you must have a favorite..." He said, "I'm reading (x) and (y) right now and I'm a pretty big fan of (z) but that's just today. Again, I have 10,000 books. What's the real quesion?" He was not hired. He ended up driving part time for FedEx for a few years. Apparently Barnes and Noble is not a fan of people that read books. They just want Oprah's book club people.
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Aug 21, 2019 19:14
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I hate people hearing I'm colourblind and thinking that means I see in greyscale.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Precisely what I mean though, 'fun' is nice but isn't so sacred that a quarter of the year needs to be blocked off for it, a week or two would fit everyone's needs better It wouldn't.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I hate people hearing I'm colourblind and thinking that means I see in greyscale. Hey! What colour is this book?
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Aug 21, 2019 19:47
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He’s blind, not deaf
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Killingyouguy! posted:Precisely what I mean though, 'fun' is nice but isn't so sacred that a quarter of the year needs to be blocked off for it, a week or two would fit everyone's needs better Absolutely! Children must learn that their time is not their own and that they must spend every waking moment working at the behest of some wealthy tyrant and content themselves with what few scraps of leisure that tyrant sees fit to bestow (or not) upon them. Or, you know, hang the jerk who invented work. One of those.
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Killingyouguy! posted:Precisely what I mean though, 'fun' is nice but isn't so sacred that a quarter of the year needs to be blocked off for it, a week or two would fit everyone's needs better Lql you probably also agree with most American businesses that one or two weeks of vacation time is all a person needs in a year huh
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Aug 21, 2019 20:22
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People who refuse to join the appropriate platform/chat/forum for some BS reason other than the fact that they cannot listen to other people. I am the one planning the DnD adventure, inviting people to my home, making the adventure, running it, organizing the information etc. All you have to do is press on a link. You have to do the bare minimum to make my life easier. Discord is not necessarily app based, you can use it with a browser. And even when you loving explain that people say "I don't want to make a discord account". How can I expect you to meet up once a week and spend 3 hours while being active and social when you cannot follow simple instructions. Midig has a new favorite as of 21:50 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Person I’m talking to has a friend who keeps saying “Jew” as in “he jewed me out of my change” after I asked him to stop and I swear I’m about to go mossad on this motherfucker. Also he told the ashtray joke while we were all drunk. Lol yes Holocaust so funny. I hear you. Used to have a friend of a friend who kept doing the same thing except "Gypped" for stealing. As in "I gypped a lipstick today". Yes, she liked to shoplift for a thrill. As well as "Feeling like a Gypsy soul today" aka dressing in tie dye hippy style skirts and too many scarves. When told off she would respond with "Get off your high horse/It's only a joke/Stereotypes exist for a reason". Do NOT missing having this person in my life. (Luckily I have no idea what the ashtray joke is, and not googling)
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MightyJoe36 posted:Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. A day off from work, no cards, no gifts, no decorations, no holiday music. Just getting together with my family and friends, eating a big dinner, drinking beer, and watching football.  Thanksgiving & Halloween are my 2 favorites, neither get enough recognition IMHO
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halloween is absolutely the best holiday. an entire day devoted to horror, intrigue, eating candy and being someone/thing else? c'mon what other holiday can my friends serve me jello shots out of big-rear end syringes
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Danaru posted:What is even the point of children if they arent turning out results or creating value Have a few weeks off and additional holidays and breaks throughout the year. Japan is only like 30 more days of school than us and they seem to use every bit of it.
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