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Is daylight savings time coming up soon? I have a clock high up on a wall that I can't reach without a ladder and it's been an hour off since October. It'll be nice to have it correct again.
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Inspector 34 posted:Is daylight savings time coming up soon? I have a clock high up on a wall that I can't reach without a ladder and it's been an hour off since October. It'll be nice to have it correct again. This Sunday, yeah. I’m forwards to having the sun out for a bit when I get home from work.
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Mar 6, 2020 20:00
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Ugly In The Morning posted:This Sunday, yeah. I’m forwards to having the sun out for a bit when I get home from work. It just started being light out when I get to work. Now it's going to be dark again. 
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Mar 6, 2020 20:07
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When you're using equipment at the gym that there's a bunch of (bench, squat rack, and elliptical are the common disaster areas for me) and someone comes and starts using the one RIGHT NEXT TO YOURS when there's plenty of empty setups for people to maintain a healthy gap. The squat racks are the worst because they're set up in a double line, and some people could happily go squat with a healthy bit of personal space but will for some reason pick to be directly in front of or behind you. Only pick to be right next to someone if there's nowhere else to work out. It is not hard people! These are the rules!
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Mar 7, 2020 04:49
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Dip Viscous posted:Get rid of time zones completely and use UTC all the time for everything. Businesses in my area will have to open at 2am instead of 8am but... who gives a poo poo? I don't need a clock to tell me if it's currently night. Having the date change part way through lunch is going to be weird.
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Mar 7, 2020 08:03
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:When you're using equipment at the gym that there's a bunch of (bench, squat rack, and elliptical are the common disaster areas for me) and someone comes and starts using the one RIGHT NEXT TO YOURS when there's plenty of empty setups for people to maintain a healthy gap. The squat racks are the worst because they're set up in a double line, and some people could happily go squat with a healthy bit of personal space but will for some reason pick to be directly in front of or behind you. This but with urinals. Doubly so if they start talking to me like we’re not both standing there peeing. I’m not a prude, but...it can wait until I’m all tucked away, can’t it?
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Mar 7, 2020 09:05
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It's getting increasingly common for people to use "OP" to refer to a person that they're quoting instead of the actual OP, and it makes things needlessly confusing.
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Mar 7, 2020 14:21
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I hate it when you almost use up a package of something, but not quite. So you gotta go buy another one, but until you use that first package up, you have two of them and it's obnoxious. Case in point, my pancake mix. I make it a cup at a time, and I always end up with less than a cup left in the box. Every. Time. Who do I blame for this? I want someone to blame.
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Mar 7, 2020 15:07
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate it when you almost use up a package of something, but not quite. So you gotta go buy another one, but until you use that first package up, you have two of them and it's obnoxious. Just did this with m’goddamn sunscreen. Knew I was running pretty low, but would rather not totally run out so I got some more.
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Mar 8, 2020 06:16
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Movies where the music is LOUD while people talk in whispers. Either the music scenes will hurt my ears, or else I won't be able to hear the dialogue. Choose a sound level and stick with it, movie makers!
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Mar 8, 2020 11:47
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Silver Falcon posted:I hate it when you almost use up a package of something, but not quite. So you gotta go buy another one, but until you use that first package up, you have two of them and it's obnoxious. It's clearly a conspiracy by Big Pancake to get you to buy more mix.
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Mar 8, 2020 23:42
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The next person who watches me open up a book, waits for me to start reading and engaging, then IMMEDIATELY goes, "What are you reading?" is going to get a long rant on the Discworld setting with as little context as I can muster. I am tired of having to open up a book then immediately closing it because people think that I'm reading because I don't have anyone to talk to.
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Mar 9, 2020 04:26
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Agaragon posted:The next person who watches me open up a book, waits for me to start reading and engaging, then IMMEDIATELY goes, "What are you reading?" is going to get a long rant on the Discworld setting with as little context as I can muster. Don't threaten me with a good time
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Mar 9, 2020 04:35
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I am at the San Antonio airport and the gate agent at the gate across the row is trying to be a hype man? Like he's on the intercom yelling EVERYONE SAY WOOP WOOP I CAN'T HEAR YOU and making really awkward jokes just so he can get everyone's attention to point out the in-uniform soldier about to board the plane. Consequently I can't hear what my gate agent is saying about my delayed flight and I definitely wouldn't mind if he fell over dead right now. That's like 5 pet peeves to pick out of the pithy matrix of my hatred but I'll leave it there.
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Mar 10, 2020 01:53
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Riatsala posted:I am at the San Antonio airport and the gate agent at the gate across the row is trying to be a hype man? Like he's on the intercom yelling EVERYONE SAY WOOP WOOP I CAN'T HEAR YOU and making really awkward jokes just so he can get everyone's attention to point out the in-uniform soldier about to board the plane. Consequently I can't hear what my gate agent is saying about my delayed flight and I definitely wouldn't mind if he fell over dead right now.
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Mar 10, 2020 01:54
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Southwest, which I almost exclusively fly with. They've never done this to me, but I think it's time to start looking elsewhere.
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Mar 10, 2020 01:59
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Agaragon posted:The next person who watches me open up a book, waits for me to start reading and engaging, then IMMEDIATELY goes, "What are you reading?" is going to get a long rant on the Discworld setting with as little context as I can muster. I am tired of having to open up a book then immediately closing it because people think that I'm reading because I don't have anyone to talk to. That's one thing I like about being able to read books on my phone. People seem to think I'm just browsing the internet or something and leave me to my reading
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Mar 10, 2020 02:03
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I’m at a movie trivia night at the draft house and the host is reading off the little explanation for each round and he trips over every word and seems confused about the rules. Either this dude is dumb, illiterate or didn’t bother to actually look at any of this before right now but no matter what it’s annoying.
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Mar 10, 2020 02:05
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 Jesus Christ, do these people have a weird view of politics. Why, how would electing the right-wingiest candidate and making the socialist out to be unelectable EVER move the overton window to the right? Of course you can just have an infinite number of leftist pushes
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I know the introvert/extrovert dichotomy got ruined by a million dumb twitter people talking about Being An Introvert 24/7 but I feel like it MUST be real and I must be an introvert because of how foreign, rude, and absurd those "WHAT ARE YOU READING/LISTENING TOO??!" people seem. Why do total strangers think that's ok to ask? I am Not Open to small talk, that is why I bring this poo poo around town. What's worse is when it's a podcast and then I have to explain not only what the podcast is about but, sometimes, what a podcast even is.
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Mar 10, 2020 22:17
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Serving sizes on packaging can be right loving annoying. I'm trying to cut down on calories to be less of a lardass, etc. and serving sizes can make that difficult. Package of rolls, serving size listed in grams. 8 servings per container. There are 6 loving rolls in this bag! Why isn't a serving just one loving roll?!
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Mar 11, 2020 13:47
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Silver Falcon posted:Serving sizes on packaging can be right loving annoying. I'm trying to cut down on calories to be less of a lardass, etc. and serving sizes can make that difficult. If you're going to count calories buying a food scale is basically required, because capitalism wants to kill us.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:01
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:If you're going to count calories buying a food scale is basically required, because capitalism wants to kill us. Food scale's probably saved my life. Takes effort to find out nutritional content of something that doesn't list it by weight, but worth it.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:21
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A diet primarily of soylent is a sure fire way to lose weight. Delicious, nutritious, easily prepared and convenient. That’s Soylent.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:56
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more like oldgutbacterialess
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Mar 11, 2020 16:57
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Silver Falcon posted:Why isn't a serving just one loving roll?!
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Mar 11, 2020 17:00
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Because rolls can be different sizes, and when you compare one type to another you want to compare apples to apples, so you use weight. serving size on packaging doesn't always or usually follow this rule. a six pack of juice boxes will be labeled with serving size "one box". mass produced rolls within the same package will be close enough to each other in size for the variations not to matter for the purpose, and the dietary information is not supposed to be there to facilitate comparisons with other brands on the Shelf like pricing information is
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Because rolls can be different sizes, and when you compare one type to another you want to compare apples to apples, so you use weight.
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InediblePenguin posted:serving size on packaging doesn't always or usually follow this rule. a six pack of juice boxes will be labeled with serving size "one box". mass produced rolls within the same package will be close enough to each other in size for the variations not to matter for the purpose, and the dietary information is not supposed to be there to facilitate comparisons with other brands on the Shelf like pricing information is I like the system I've seen in Europe where they also include the nutritional information per 100g or 100mL, so you can do an apples-to-apples comparison, instead of a nebulous definition of "serving" that may not fit anyone's expectation.
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Mar 11, 2020 20:48
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InediblePenguin posted:serving size on packaging doesn't always or usually follow this rule. a six pack of juice boxes will be labeled with serving size "one box". mass produced rolls within the same package will be close enough to each other in size for the variations not to matter for the purpose, and the dietary information is not supposed to be there to facilitate comparisons with other brands on the Shelf like pricing information is Basically that. The particular thing that set me off was a specific bag of packaged rolls. There are 6 rolls in the bag, about equal size. Yet there are 8 servings in the bag. In what universe would that make sense?! Who eats 4/5 of a roll or however that math works out?! mojo1701a posted:I like the system I've seen in Europe where they also include the nutritional information per 100g or 100mL, so you can do an apples-to-apples comparison, instead of a nebulous definition of "serving" that may not fit anyone's expectation. I would also accept this as a solution. I have a scale. I could weigh them myself to figure out how many calories I'm horking down.
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Mar 11, 2020 21:56
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mojo1701a posted:I like the system I've seen in Europe where they also include the nutritional information per 100g or 100mL, so you can do an apples-to-apples comparison, instead of a nebulous definition of "serving" that may not fit anyone's expectation. Huh, we do this in Australia as well and I honestly thought it was just the default. We also have signs in supermarkets saying how much the product is then how much it would be per hundred grams or hundred mL. It's good for comparing things on the shelf. You also get funny situations where something like saffron is $13 for 10 milligrams, and they then have to list it as being $13,000 per hundred grams.
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Memento posted:Huh, we do this in Australia as well and I honestly thought it was just the default. The US and Canada have "x cents per mg/ml" on price stickers in supermarkets, but the nutrition info is all in whatever the box says is a serving. All servings are required to be given in grams or mL as well but it's still an extra step. It'll be like "250 calories. Serving size One Roll (52g), about 8 servings per package." (yes this does mean sometimes the US will literally have poo poo like "one serving = 2oz (57g)" and we will all whip out our food scale and weigh out 57g to figure out how much 2 ounces is, and we will not be taking questions at this time)
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american supermarket price tags are also required to have price-per-unit on there but the law doesn't require a specific unit so some stores game it by putting two almost-identical products side by side and putting the per-unit price on one of them as per pound and the other one as per ounce or per loving hundred or something just to gently caress with you but yeah no i'm sure those rolls say "servings per container 8" for a logical pricecomparison reason and not to trick you into thinking the rolls are less fatty than they actually are
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Stores in the US also don't include sales tax or deposits in the price tag. Groceries are exempt from sales tax, but which items at the grocery store count as a "grocery" are seemingly random so there's no telling what you'll be paying even when you do compare prices. There could be two canned beverages next to each other on the shelf that are both marked 99 cents, but when you get to the register one of them costs 99 cents and the other costs $1.13.
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Yeah, but if American stores did their price tags the way every other country does, we'd miss out on one of my favorite things: Americans kramering into discussions about price tags to insist that actually not pricing things clearly is the superior method and it's the rest of the world that just doesn't understand.
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Mar 12, 2020 10:31
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People who play combative, antagonistic characters in cooperative roleplaying games. Example: The group is discussing what to do with some prisoners since we're the good guys and don't want to just murder them. Then one player just starts killing them, leaving the rest with no choice but to go along with it, because the only alternative is a fight between members of the party and that's not the kind of game we're trying to play. And they've always got the same stupid justification for it: "That's just what my character would do!"
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Mar 12, 2020 11:31
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Tiggum posted:People who play combative, antagonistic characters in cooperative roleplaying games. "then make a better character, bro"
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Sunswipe posted:Yeah, but if American stores did their price tags the way every other country does, we'd miss out on one of my favorite things: Americans kramering into discussions about price tags to insist that actually not pricing things clearly is the superior method and it's the rest of the world that just doesn't understand. I'm american and I wish they would mark it $1.13 instead of .99 (+tax).
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MightyJoe36 posted:I'm american and I wish they would mark it $1.13 instead of .99 (+tax).  But I feel like it's a function of taxes varying wildly depending on exactly where you are and what you're purchasing.
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I believe one of the main reasons that stores don't mark items by price after sales tax is that sales tax can vary greatly from place to place. Different counties, and even different cities within the same county, can have different sales taxes. Take for example the Twin Cities metro area. It includes the counties of Hennepin, Ramsay and Anoka. But within that, cities like Minneapolis and St Paul can also have their own different sales taxes on certain products. A regional grocery store may see something like 5 different sales tax amounts in what is generally the same region. Plus, national chains sell in different states, which all have wildy varying sales taxes. So, far easier to mark an item at one price and add on sale tax later, than to calculate and make signage for lots of different stores that have different sales taxes. Sales tax is a pet peeve anyway, as it's typically a regressive tax.
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