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Shibawanko posted:i hate when in movies, they need blood for something, so they just loving cut the palm of their hand across with a big knife instead of just lightly pricking their finger or extracting it properly with a needle in the elbow the pain is part of the sacrifice? obviously more theatrical too but that’s my guess
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:the pain is part of the sacrifice? obviously more theatrical too but that’s my guess Yeah it works fine if it's for some dark magic or it's Klingons doing it but there are times when it's just done for looks without any regard for how bad an idea it would actually be.
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Yeah, there are a ton of important nerves there. It wouldn't just give you a cool looking scar, it would cause permanent nerve damage to a very important part of your body.
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Aug 18, 2020 05:15
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Dip Viscous posted:The ability of some people to stand in front of the exact drawer you need in the kitchen at all times is eerie. It's like a super specific, super worthless sixth sense. It has nothing to do with whether or not they're your wife or whatever, it's just a superpower some people have. My roommate manages to stay out of the kitchen most of the time when I'm working in there, but every single time when I'm about to do something intensive, she has to get into the refrigerator. It wouldn't be so bad if she just went in there and did it, because by that time I've gotten everything out of the refrigerator, but she has to ask about it, and break my concentration. Same thing with throwing something in the trash can. We have the repurposed clothes bin in the kitchen, but there's about 5 smaller waste bins around the apartment she can just throw the dryer lint in. I think really the only exception to this would be if it was chicken bones, because the cats will steal them out of anything but the big one in the kitchen, but if I'm cooking, she shouldn't have chicken bones yet.
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Aug 18, 2020 13:14
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when americans try to do poor man's impressions of the average german person. "schadenfreude lol" "gesellschaft XD" germans are ridiculous but not because of why you think. only europeans get to make fun of them, except the british of course
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I don't think people talking about schadenfreude (an English word that, like all English words, was stolen from another language) are trying to do impressions of German people.
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Aug 18, 2020 14:23
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I have never seen any american do that and I spend a lot of time around them
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Shibawanko posted:when americans try to do poor man's impressions of the average german person. "schadenfreude lol" "gesellschaft XD" My roommate grew up in Germany, and said "bis morgen" to me one night as I was headed to bed, which to my uncultured ears sounded like "piss morgen," so now it's kind of an inside joke 
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Shibawanko posted:when americans try to do poor man's impressions of the average german person. "schadenfreude lol" "gesellschaft XD" Du hast to lighten up a bit
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Brawnfire posted:Agreed, I don't mind if we're both working on the meal, but if my wife just has her rear end against the silverware drawer and then moves out of the way when I ask and now she's in front of the oven so I'm like oh I need to get back there and oh ok now you're in front of the fridge I was just about to grab some butter, really it's like standing in the middle of a solo ballet you don't want to be there My wife does that all the time. She's always standing in front of something while I'm cooking. We both worked as cooks for years together. She knows how to do the dance when you cook together. She just chooses to be in the way. I just shoulder check her when I'm cooking. I don't have time to say excuse me because she just feels like standing in front of silverware drawer. I don't understand. We worked side by side for years without this being a problem. Now she just stands in weird places. She's not working on anything, she's just getting a spoon. You don't need to stand in front of the drawer for 10 minutes to get a spoon. Just get the stupid spoon. I blame the Internet. The interesting thing is, at Thanksgiving, she does the kitchen dance with the best of them. We can work side by side without issue. But if she makes frozen chicken nuggets for the kids, a less than 1 minute process, she can somehow just constantly be in the way while I'm cooking. I stay out of her way when she cooks, why can't she stay out of mine?
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My German impression: Ver ist mein handy, Doktor Jones?
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Shibawanko posted:i hate when in movies, they need blood for something, so they just loving cut the palm of their hand across with a big knife instead of just lightly pricking their finger or extracting it properly with a needle in the elbow Wish I could find it on YouTube, but It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia did a great take on this joke a few years ago. Mac tries to pledge his loyalty in a blood oath by cutting his hand and immediately starts yelling in pain, horrifying everyone else around him, wondering why he'd even do something like that. They then one-up it by saying it was probably the bar's lime knife, and that the citrus residue is burning him even more.
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Our idiot neighbors, who have a rich history of bad outside decisions, have just brought in a crew to cut the two perfectly lovely, mature ornamental trees flanking their house right down to the ground.  The birds loved the tree on our side; I'll miss it, too. I had a hard time taking down two absolutely dead/dangerous trees in our own backyard; to see these go down for no apparent reason is sad. I just do not get it.If there's a bright side (  ), it's that a very small portion of our front yard is no longer dead-rear end shady.
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On the first ever day of my first ever proper job, like ten years ago, I accidentally took a dump in the ladies toilets, thinking it was the men's. I was just sat there in the cubicle, heard some ladies come in and talk, waited til they left and then got out of there asafp. No one saw me, so no harm done. However, to this day, whenever I need to take a dump in a public toilet, I always get a flash of paranoia that I have repeated my mistake, even though I literally never have. That is my pet peeve.
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People who somehow can’t tell you they’re gonna be late for something when they’re already late. It’s 7:15, friend asked if we could online game at 7. I had to text him where he was and he was like “oh I have to do this thing and I’m running late, I’ll be home in 10 min.” Okay, well why at 7 did you not text me and go “hey that thing I asked you to do with me? I’m gonna be late for it. Go do something else so you’re not sitting waiting for me.” The cherry on top is after he told me he would be back in 10 minutes he texts me again after 30 minutes to say he has to cancel the plans. Just cancel them the minute you knew it was gonna be a while, I killed an hour out of my day just waiting around. Why can’t people give notifications for being late anymore? Just give people a heads up, it’s common courtesy and they can do things so they’re not waiting for your rear end to show up.
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The Perfect Element posted:On the first ever day of my first ever proper job, like ten years ago, I accidentally took a dump in the ladies toilets, thinking it was the men's. I was just sat there in the cubicle, heard some ladies come in and talk, waited til they left and then got out of there asafp. No one saw me, so no harm done. It's not really a pet peeve of mine, but I have a story. A few years back I was road tripping on the way home, and had to take a huge dump. I barely made it to the rest stop, and rushed into the nearest poorly marked bathroom. It was completely empty, so I ran into a stall and went to town. I'm hearing people shuffle in and out, but it's otherwise fairly quiet. So when I'm done I walk out of the stall, and I see 3 women washing their hands, they just sort of look at me. I sorta look at them, eschew washing my hands, and zip on back out to my car and leave as fast as I can. Now you're probably asking why I didn't find it suspicious that there were no urinals. The bathroom was laid out with two entrances, and a partition down the middle with the sinks and mirrors, and logically I assumed the urinals were in the other half.
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When the ice cubes won't pop out of the fuckin tray.
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Iron Crowned posted:It's not really a pet peeve of mine, but I have a story. You could’ve at least washed your hands in the men’s room!
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I really do not like leaving important things in other people's hands. My doctor apparently left the clinic I visit (which I got no warning about) so now it's up to me to find a new doctor. Okay fine, but in the meantime I need my medicine that I take to not die in agony. I call the refill line someone has to manually check, and after the weekend the order still has not been sent to the pharmacy. I call the main desk and ask what's going on, and am told that I can't get my refills until I have a new doctor. So I set up an appointment with one of the other doctors and the woman at the desk says she'll get the medicine sent over to the pharmacy same-day. Unsurprisingly, it was not sent. This is not the first time this has happened and I'm sure it won't be the last. Just do it. It's not hard. Just do it. It takes 30 seconds. When you hang up the phone, the next thing you should do is the thing you said you were going to do. There should be no possibility of it slipping your mind because it's gonna be the first thing you do when the phone leaves your hands. If you tell someone you're gonna do something and voluntarily put that burden on your own shoulders, it's up to you to follow through with it, but so many United States Healthcare Professionals just don't seem to understand or care about that. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 14:09 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:You could’ve at least washed your hands in the men’s room! Yeah, I really have no excuse for that, other than it was not a situation I had prepared for.
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The Chem/Bio building at my college had two floors with an identical layout in every respect except that the male/female bathrooms were switched. Guess what every bio/chem major did at some point or another?
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CJacobs posted:I really do not like leaving important things in other people's hands. My doctor apparently left the clinic I visit (which I got no warning about) so now it's up to me to find a new doctor. Okay fine, but in the meantime I need my medicine that I take to not die in agony. I call the refill line someone has to manually check, and after the weekend the order still has not been sent to the pharmacy. I call the main desk and ask what's going on, and am told that I can't get my refills until I have a new doctor. So I set up an appointment with one of the other doctors and the woman at the desk says she'll get the medicine sent over to the pharmacy same-day. Unsurprisingly, it was not sent. This is not the first time this has happened and I'm sure it won't be the last. Oh my god this makes me furious. I was almost killed by seizures because of this exact poo poo. My doctor retired and it was like pulling teeth to continue getting my prescription from a new doctor. You call and call and nothing ever gets sent or communicated between doctors/pharmacies. What do they even do? Sit around with their thumbs up their asses while people are begging for medical aid? Once, I was calling again because I was really about to run out of pills, and a nurse had the gall to tell me, "Well, that's why you should try to get more medication BEFORE you're about to run out..." despite the fact that I had been bugging them for weeks. And then, "Actually, we can't transfer your prescription until you come see your new doctor in person." Of course, I couldn't get in until after I would be out of pills. I wanted to flip out but I just cried at her instead. Like, WHY didn't anyone tell me that at the start?  And don't even get me started on health insurance companies. Any time my money or health is in strangers' hands, the powerlessness will easily send me into a rage.
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It's heartbreaking to me that practically everyone I know with repeat or chronic illness has more stress, unhappiness, and fear around insurance and the medical establishment than the illness itself. Like they could easily live day-to-day managing themselves if they weren't getting jerked around, bilked, lied to, and ignored as a matter of course. (I'm American if that isn't abundantly obvious)
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Seeing someone play a video game and use the same save slot every time. You're just trusting that you're never going to want to revert to an earlier save? That you're never going to accidentally overwrite it? That, however unlikely it may be, the save won't get corrupted? I'm getting stressed watching you do this; how is it not bothering you?
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Tiggum posted:Seeing someone play a video game and use the same save slot every time. You're just trusting that you're never going to want to revert to an earlier save? That you're never going to accidentally overwrite it? That, however unlikely it may be, the save won't get corrupted? I'm getting stressed watching you do this; how is it not bothering you? If you lose that save it's fine. You think you deserved to get to that point in the game? gently caress you, it's someone else's turn now.
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Tiggum posted:Seeing someone play a video game and use the same save slot every time. You're just trusting that you're never going to want to revert to an earlier save? That you're never going to accidentally overwrite it? That, however unlikely it may be, the save won't get corrupted? I'm getting stressed watching you do this; how is it not bothering you? Some people enjoy Iron Man mode
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Brawnfire posted:It's heartbreaking to me that practically everyone I know with repeat or chronic illness has more stress, unhappiness, and fear around insurance and the medical establishment than the illness itself. Like they could easily live day-to-day managing themselves if they weren't getting jerked around, bilked, lied to, and ignored as a matter of course. (I'm American if that isn't abundantly obvious) Honestly this is unfortunately spot on. I rely on my medicine to function whenever I have a pain flare up, and it really sucks that my ability to live my life is completely out of my hands for 3 or 4 days every month. Will my medicine be refilled by the time I run out, even though I called a week in advance? Will my insurance randomly deny coverage and delay it by a week again? Will the staff actually check the refill line like they're supposed to?? So many aspects of it are totally in the hands of other, equally fallible humans. Once it reaches the insurance level there's not even a number to call, nobody to talk to. Only my doctor or the pharmacy can contact my insurance like a proxy. edit: Just wait till you hear the number of times my insurance has required me to schedule a visit to the doctor just to make sure I still need my medicine for my lifelong condition that doesn't just magically go away. I've had so many endoscopies and colonoscopies just because my insurance required an "up to date" one before they would shell out for any treatment. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 16:57 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Wile E. Toyota posted:Oh my god this makes me furious. I was almost killed by seizures because of this exact poo poo. My doctor retired and it was like pulling teeth to continue getting my prescription from a new doctor. You call and call and nothing ever gets sent or communicated between doctors/pharmacies. What do they even do? Sit around with their thumbs up their asses while people are begging for medical aid? Once, I was calling again because I was really about to run out of pills, and a nurse had the gall to tell me, "Well, that's why you should try to get more medication BEFORE you're about to run out..." despite the fact that I had been bugging them for weeks. And then, "Actually, we can't transfer your prescription until you come see your new doctor in person." Of course, I couldn't get in until after I would be out of pills. I wanted to flip out but I just cried at her instead. Like, WHY didn't anyone tell me that at the start? My friend I feel your pain, I really do. It is truly miserable business sometimes.
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Tiggum posted:Seeing someone play a video game and use the same save slot every time. You're just trusting that you're never going to want to revert to an earlier save? That you're never going to accidentally overwrite it? That, however unlikely it may be, the save won't get corrupted? I'm getting stressed watching you do this; how is it not bothering you? The behaviour you're describing is how I and everyone I know uses save slots? The other save slots are for the people you're sharing the game with
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Killingyouguy! posted:The behaviour you're describing is how I and everyone I know uses save slots? The other save slots are for the people you're sharing the game with Also in most modern games there are a bunch of autosave slots you can go back to if you get stuck somewhere.
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Killingyouguy! posted:The behaviour you're describing is how I and everyone I know uses save slots? The other save slots are for the people you're sharing the game with I think they mean in games where you can save to multiple/arbitrary amounts of save files. Not one of those games where you have a small handful of save slots, and each one auto-saves/saves over itself. Where they're intended to be different users/profiles. Peeve: I go through a lot of effort to turn off the utter loving avalanche of ads that is modern social media, and it doesn't matter because some people I follow on for example twitter just constantly retweet ads for things they're interested in. Why the gently caress do you feel the need to retweet a 'yay this drawing program has now been released on mobile!`/ got an update' video for the nth time? Same for someone else who seems to retweet almost every social media post the Warframe people make. I really wish I could just filter some accounts to only show their original/self-uploaded media. The same goes for people you follow that just loving puke out tweets at a furious pace, drowning out so much else.
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"the Rona" Just say "COVID". It's one syllable shorter and doesn't make you sound like a tool.
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SubNat posted:I think they mean in games where you can save to multiple/arbitrary amounts of save files. You can do that on twitter at least. Go to their profile and the drop down next to their avatar will have an option to mute retweets from them. 
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SubNat posted:I think they mean in games where you can save to multiple/arbitrary amounts of save files.
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Rabbit Hill posted:"the Rona" Ok grandpa
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CJacobs posted:Honestly this is unfortunately spot on. I rely on my medicine to function whenever I have a pain flare up, and it really sucks that my ability to live my life is completely out of my hands for 3 or 4 days every month. Will my medicine be refilled by the time I run out, even though I called a week in advance? Will my insurance randomly deny coverage and delay it by a week again? Will the staff actually check the refill line like they're supposed to?? So many aspects of it are totally in the hands of other, equally fallible humans. Once it reaches the insurance level there's not even a number to call, nobody to talk to. Only my doctor or the pharmacy can contact my insurance like a proxy. Ugh, I can understand your pain, my roommate had a severe asthma attack in May, because her doctor decided to give her an apparently more appropriate inhaler. Unfortunately the insurance didn't cover it, and it was the weekend, so she couldn't get her old inhaler re-prescribed. One collapse, ambulance ride, and four nights in the hospital, the insurance made an exception.
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CJacobs posted:edit: Just wait till you hear the number of times my insurance has required me to schedule a visit to the doctor just to make sure I still need my medicine for my lifelong condition that doesn't just magically go away. I've had so many endoscopies and colonoscopies just because my insurance required an "up to date" one before they would shell out for any treatment. Well, you should be getting a colonoscopy every few years with Crohn's anyway since there's an elevated cancer risk associated with it so at least it's not for nothing Colonoscopies do suck though
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CJacobs posted:You can do that on twitter at least. Go to their profile and the drop down next to their avatar will have an option to mute retweets from them. I mean the issue is more that not all their retweets are bad, only a significant chunk of them. But thanks! I'll probably do that to save some of my sanity.
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Iron Crowned posted:One collapse, ambulance ride, and four nights in the hospital, the insurance made an exception. "Hmm, I guess you aren't a thieving malingerer, probably." *toggles "allow pittance" checkbox*
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