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All the big animated images with sound in the Cute Thread do not like my iPhone browser, so it’s hard to browse that thread at work.
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I took a set off for a staycation (12 days off) mostly for the purposes of sleeping in for almost two weeks, and my dumbass brain has been waking me up almost exactly 5 hours after I fall asleep, everyday.
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Sep 21, 2019 18:08
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I have a coworker who literally will not stop talking at you without letting you get a word in, to the point that if you're stuck around him for too long he'll start repeating stories. He always starts walking away then comes back and the only way to get away is to break line of sight when he walks off and be gone when he turns around. I work day shifts most of this week which means I need to figure out how to avoid drawing aggro for multiple days 
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Sep 21, 2019 18:29
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Danaru posted:I have a coworker who literally will not stop talking at you without letting you get a word in, to the point that if you're stuck around him for too long he'll start repeating stories. He always starts walking away then comes back and the only way to get away is to break line of sight when he walks off and be gone when he turns around. I work day shifts most of this week which means I need to figure out how to avoid drawing aggro for multiple days I have one like that but they will dominate all conversations with a ton of questions, not let anyone answer and then get frustrated when they don't get the answers they want. We had a very good employee leave their section just to get away from them. They're also incapable of noticing social cues. I was eating lunch at my desk, watching something with headphones in. They walk to the end of my desk and start talking for about five minutes before I notice them. I only know it was that long because someone nearby told me so afterwards.
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Sep 21, 2019 20:40
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Mikl posted:I absolutely feel this. This definitely isn't on the same level as deadly food allergies BUT I like jewelry, I wear a lot of it, and it's all sterling silver (accessories) or titanium (piercings). Why? I have metal allergies and if I wear just about anything else I get horrific-looking itchy red rashes everywhere it touches my skin within hours. (Ask me about getting my ears pierced with ten carat gold studs at fourteen. And then digging out ten carat gold studs from inside my earlobes.) The rashes take days to go away. So, my favorite thing is people who straight-up lie about their wares. "Is this sterling?" "Oh yes, it's all silver, all sterling." Like man I'm not asking for bragging rights or some poo poo, I'm asking because if you're lying to me within a few hours I will loving know. I've gotten really good at detecting real vs fake sterling by touch and heft, let alone the presence of the 925 stamp. "Yeah that's real!" Oh word? Can I borrow your polish cloth? No? Yeah I thought so. You poo poo.
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Sep 22, 2019 10:05
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My insurance provides me with free uber rides if they are medical related somehow, and none of these drivers know the drat shortcuts to get me from point A to point B. It doesn't matter on the ride back home so much, but its like they absolutely rely on google maps to get them places which adds an extra ten minutes to the ride if they don't listen to me. It makes me feel like a jerk to have to dictate the better route to them, but if all they do is drive around constantly for work, I would think they should know the better ways to get places at least.
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Sep 22, 2019 16:00
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cinni posted:My insurance provides me with free uber rides if they are medical related somehow, and none of these drivers know the drat shortcuts to get me from point A to point B. It doesn't matter on the ride back home so much, but its like they absolutely rely on google maps to get them places which adds an extra ten minutes to the ride if they don't listen to me. It makes me feel like a jerk to have to dictate the better route to them, but if all they do is drive around constantly for work, I would think they should know the better ways to get places at least. On the surface that seems like a reasonable request that someone should be good at their job but look at how many people every day do their job badly or inefficiently like that guy what’s his name MR PRESIDENT DONAL TRUMP
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Sep 22, 2019 18:00
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cinni posted:My insurance provides me with free uber rides if they are medical related somehow, and none of these drivers know the drat shortcuts to get me from point A to point B. It doesn't matter on the ride back home so much, but its like they absolutely rely on google maps to get them places which adds an extra ten minutes to the ride if they don't listen to me. It makes me feel like a jerk to have to dictate the better route to them, but if all they do is drive around constantly for work, I would think they should know the better ways to get places at least. Nah. Just like taxis, they know the best routes to let the meter run.
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Sep 22, 2019 18:08
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Lot of uber drivers in my city aren't from here and don't bother to look at the road since they are glued to the phone screen the entire time. I find the taxi drivers don't know jack either.
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Sep 22, 2019 18:09
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frogge posted:Nah. Just like taxis, they know the best routes to let the meter run. Uber drivers don’t make more if it takes longer. The fee is set when you reserve the uber, before the ride even begins.
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Sep 22, 2019 18:11
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That fee is an estimate not always the actual cost or the drivers would lose a shitload of money in any amount of congestion. It's mostly negligible, but pay attention to your estimated cost and actual payment the next time you ride.
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Sep 22, 2019 19:08
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RCarr posted:Uber drivers don’t make more if it takes longer. The fee is set when you reserve the uber, before the ride even begins. Not in my city. I had one miss a turn off and had to do a big loop around and it added $4 to the quoted price.
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Sep 22, 2019 19:24
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Picnic Princess posted:Not in my city. I had one miss a turn off and had to do a big loop around and it added $4 to the quoted price. That is ridiculous.
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Sep 22, 2019 19:38
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Uber apparently also knows the battery life of your phone and charge more if it's low.
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Sep 22, 2019 19:39
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:This definitely isn't on the same level as deadly food allergies BUT I like jewelry, I wear a lot of it, and it's all sterling silver (accessories) or titanium (piercings). Why? I have metal allergies and if I wear just about anything else I get horrific-looking itchy red rashes everywhere it touches my skin within hours. (Ask me about getting my ears pierced with ten carat gold studs at fourteen. And then digging out ten carat gold studs from inside my earlobes.) The rashes take days to go away. Crap earrings make my earholes bleed and that's not a euphemism.
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Sep 23, 2019 19:13
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Hit pothole. Wheel damaged. Good news, in work van. Bad news: wait is so far two hours at discount tire, dispatch refuses to help me, I have a late delivery by three hours and no one can pick it up from me, and my manager is useless and won't help because we are short-staffed so God forbid he get in a delivery can himself. I have 90 minutes left on shift and about a two hour drive home. Once I get the van back. It just got in the rack.
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Sep 23, 2019 23:08
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My brain decided, after an overnight shift at work, that it just needed a little bit of time to wind down, and then it'll get tired enough for me to sleep. "A little bit of time", obviously, was "at the point where it's, like, three hours until you have to wake up for another overnight shift" People I know joke/kvetch all the time about circumstances forcing them to be awake for a long time, I didn't expect to have that, myself. I  Late edit: oh yeah, and I cannot seem to get my washed pillows entirely dry. I've burned off a lot of singles at my place's driers, I've let them sit where my AC spits out dry air, and they are still relatively heavy as poo poo. It's gotten to the point where I'm not sure if I'm just feeling dampness where there isn't any (hows that for a thread title?) or I really haven't gotten the innermost core actually dry. I miss my old place, where I had access to the roof and could just put them up there for a few hours and let them air dry. MisterBibs has a new favorite as of 21:27 on Sep 24, 2019 |
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Sep 24, 2019 18:47
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My long weekend was great, this morning was great... now I have a headache.
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Sep 24, 2019 20:11
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It's 15C which isn't actually cold, but there's snow on the ground from a cold snap earlier this week. So I'm in my tank top with an iced coffee and just getting fuckin stared at by everyone wearing full on winter gear. If y'all keep dressing like that when it's warm, those clothes won't feel warm when it's actually cold outside. The sight of snow just freaks people out I guess. See snow, have to bundle up! It's so weird to me.
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Oct 2, 2019 20:07
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I bought all the snacks I've been craving, which is awesome because, since I don't eat them very rapidly, we're set on snacks for months. Problem is, we both randomly gorged on those snacks (since we haven't had them in ages), so we're not hungry for actual dinner.
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Oct 5, 2019 00:08
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The weather here can't decide which season to actually be in. We've gone from yesterday being 30c and sunny like it's summer to today being 15c and raining like it's winter. I've packed my jumpers away because it's actually spring and now I'm going to need them for this week because it's cold again. And yes, 15c is cold for Australians.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:08
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I had to go into work 4 hours early and my brain is all hosed up. Also the yard is busy as gently caress at this hour, I had forgotten why I was glad the higher ups ditched the 7 to 11 shift
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Oct 5, 2019 03:42
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I used to be upset that The New Pornographers were the hot indie band when I was in college but that now nobody cares about them. But I listened to the new 2019 album and realized they just suck now. Neko Case should just do solo all the time.
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Oct 6, 2019 02:55
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I'm getting over a cold, I'm slightly hungover, and I slept for mayyybe 5 hours last night because I'm an idiot. Had a headache nearly all day, but I was at work and didn't have anything to take for it. Until I remembered I work at a store where such things can actually be purchased.  In my defense, my head hurt enough that it made rational/coherent thought difficult and I probably should have just called out but honestly I didn't feel that bad when I got up and it's not like anybody could cover my shift anyway.. Helith posted:The weather here can't decide which season to actually be in. We've gone from yesterday being 30c and sunny like it's summer to today being 15c and raining like it's winter. Californian here, can confirm 15c is cold. After having converted that into Freedom Units (tm). Over here the weather can't decide if it's still summer or not. Last week we had a few days that were >90f, followed by a several days of mid 60s and 70s. We actually turned the heater on for a bit last night. Monday is supposed to be 90 again. 
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Oct 6, 2019 06:39
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I usually have my Halloween decor up by now but my neighbor's lovely kid has me hesitant. The older one is maybe 11 and he's not super bad but he does tend to ignore his sibling. The younger one is about 8 and a loving nightmare. I feel bad because there's no kids in his age right around here, he is by far the youngest (3 years can be a lot really) and he acts out a LOT. He started throwing all kinds of garbage into my back yard; I talked to his parents about it and they were rather mad to figure out that was happening. More pissed when I told them I had about 4 raw eggs chucked into my yard (a few broke) and that broke the mystery of where their new eggs were going. He's been caught in my yard, grabbing rocks from there and throwing them at his house, or simply grabbing handfuls and throwing them all over the sidewalk and street, and when I confronted him, he tore off screaming his head off and refused to speak about it. I honestly don't know if he has autism or is just acting out but I don't want to set out all my Halloween poo poo (and I got a lot) only to come home and find he's destroyed them.
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Oct 7, 2019 01:10
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MisterBibs posted:My brain decided, after an overnight shift at work, that it just needed a little bit of time to wind down, and then it'll get tired enough for me to sleep. No, they're still wet. I have one too. It takes literally 8 hours in the dryer, I timed it (to be fair, it has to be at low heat). I don't really wash it anymore, seems too wasteful.
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Oct 9, 2019 03:34
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The version of the song I like on YouTube is slightly different than the version being sold on iTunes.
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Oct 9, 2019 17:22
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Man, seriously? I just brought a sixer of beer back from the corner-store and didn't notice they are all covered in diesel soot. Not that I mind, but I specifically said, "no nuts".
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Oct 10, 2019 22:53
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I bought ghost pepper potato chips from trader joe's and there's like zero spice to it. Don't market it as having ghost pepper if it's not spicy. Flaming hot cheetos are spicier than this weaksauce bs.
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Oct 11, 2019 09:50
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The inability to have YouTube audio play in the background while I browse the internet on my iPhone.
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Oct 11, 2019 21:45
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Mu Zeta posted:I bought ghost pepper potato chips from trader joe's and there's like zero spice to it. Don't market it as having ghost pepper if it's not spicy. Flaming hot cheetos are spicier than this weaksauce bs. Wendy's for a brief period did something similar. It was ghost pepper cheese fries or something. Now, I'm a fan of belligerently spicy food so of course I had to get a basket of them. They were really good pepper cheese fries but weren't spicy at all. Definitely no ghost peppers involved.
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Oct 11, 2019 21:51
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Dr Christmas posted:The inability to have YouTube audio play in the background while I browse the internet on my iPhone. The Youtube app sucks. It constantly bugs me about signing up for Red/TV/Prime/whatever if I dare to turn off my screen or switch apps while a video is playing. There's no decent Youtube alternative app out there, either. There is one that can be installed through F-Droid that I like (NewPipe), but it doesn't let you load your account subscription feed.
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Oct 11, 2019 21:58
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If you have Android, Vanced works pretty well for me. You can load your account with that but you might have to be rooted, I can't remember. I don't subscribe to anything in the first place so I didn't bother. For iOS, cercube might be an option?
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Oct 11, 2019 23:09
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I had to work a double yesterday and everything hurts now. On the upside, the overtime pay will be awesome but I also didn't work quite enough to get double time.. Ah well, there's always next weekend.. 
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Oct 15, 2019 02:43
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Phy posted:If you have Android, Vanced works pretty well for me. You can load your account with that but you might have to be rooted, I can't remember. I don't subscribe to anything in the first place so I didn't bother. Vanced doesn't require root. You can use vanced by itself or install microg as an add-on to allow account sign-in. It's the only YT app O use now.
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Oct 15, 2019 05:55
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Queen Combat posted:Vanced doesn't require root. You can use vanced by itself or install microg as an add-on to allow account sign-in. It's the only YT app O use now. Phy posted:If you have Android, Vanced works pretty well for me. You can load your account with that but you might have to be rooted, I can't remember. I don't subscribe to anything in the first place so I didn't bother. New first-world problem: I'm on their site trying to download the APK and the remote server seems to be timing out.
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Oct 15, 2019 16:31
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People in the PYF games threads keep mentioning a late game boss in Control by name outside of spoiler tags which is annoying because everything else they talk about in that game is in the tags so they have no excuse. It's an obvious one, but annoying that I couldn't find out for myself first.
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Oct 15, 2019 17:15
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Mikl posted:I absolutely feel this. your genes are inferior and your bloodline is weak and should be erased
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Oct 16, 2019 20:58
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Found in the wild: "The audible version of a book series I read doesn't have books 4-6 available in my country. What can I do?" Just get a print version and read that.
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Oct 16, 2019 22:40
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So it looks like the computer I put together in June 2014 that was, even then, pretty good but not cutting edge, is maybe not terribly well-suited to playing Control even at the lowest settings. IMAGINE THAT
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