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Agaragon posted:It has been a year and a half. Put your masks. Above your noses. At this rate I'm going to develop a twitch whenever I see a human nose. YOu'd probably fit in well in the CSPAM COVID thread. As has been summed up there a million times, to these people, and those who do the other weird things like leave them on their chin or hanging off of their ears in public, it's a magic talisman to them. They don't exactly comprehend how or why a mask would work, it's just a ward, and possessing it gives them resistance to COVID.
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Tiggum posted:When people make a sandwich by putting ingredients on both pieces of bread instead of piling everything on one piece of bread. So they can't just sit the second piece of bread on top, they've got to carefully flip it to try to stop anything falling out.
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When I make a sandwich one side is condiments one side is ingredients Except PBJ that's obviously butter on inside, peanut butter on both outsides, dip into ramekin of jelly
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Aug 25, 2021 22:50
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Brawnfire posted:When I make a sandwich one side is condiments one side is ingredients
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Aug 25, 2021 23:01
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Tiggum posted:When people make a sandwich by putting ingredients on both pieces of bread instead of piling everything on one piece of bread. So they can't just sit the second piece of bread on top, they've got to carefully flip it to try to stop anything falling out. What the gently caress  I didn’t know this was a thing but apparently I’m the only one. I’m pretty sure I’d just drop poo poo all over the plate if I tried to do it but I’m pretty bad at most things so  I got a new phone that’s a different size and I’m not used to it yet so my typing accuracy sucks  . Also I have to teach it swear words again
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Aug 26, 2021 00:30
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The correct way to make a sandwich was already perfected some years back by a genius named Dagwood Bumstead. You simply take the sandwich ingredients, and don't just put all of them on one side of the bread, put therm on one sandwich. All of them. Get that chocolate syrup out.
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Aug 26, 2021 02:49
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Ideally, the sandwich should be teetering
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Aug 26, 2021 02:59
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So you're telling me you don't tear out the middle of a loaf and stuff the toppings in like a Thanksgiving turkey??
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Speaking of turkey and Dagwood, when the gently caress is my drumstick with a bone only as a handle?
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Aug 26, 2021 03:06
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For advanced sandwich building technique please refer to the rulebook for the traditional game Jenga
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Aug 26, 2021 04:17
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HOLY gently caress posted:
I watched a kid running down the street once wearing JNCO's. He was trying to be cool and attempted to hop a fire hydrant. His crotch caught the top of the hydrant and he got stuck on it. He hit his face on the ground but couldn't get off the hydrant. It was hilarious. Oddly enough, I've seen that happen twice. Fortunately, I missed the JNCO fad. I was more of a Zubaz guy back in the day for my lame fad.
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Hardcordion posted:So you're telling me you don't tear out the middle of a loaf and stuff the toppings in like a Thanksgiving turkey?? A man who never eats a Fool's Gold Loaf is never a whole man.
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Aug 26, 2021 12:50
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Sandwiches should be long, not tall 
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Aug 26, 2021 15:54
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Danaru posted:Sandwiches should be long, not tall That's not how sandwiches work. If I want a set, <X>, of items on my sandwich, I want to get <X> in every bite. So regardless of how long a sandwich is, it still has to be a minimum height. Who wants to eat a sandwich that is one bite of just turkey, then a bite of cheese, then tomato, then onion, etc...?
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Aug 26, 2021 16:11
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DrBouvenstein posted:That's not how sandwiches work. I, too, cannot comprehend the idea of a sandwich on a baguette Much better to have a giant messburger where everything's dribbling out and only André the Giant or that icelandic Game of Thrones dude can fit their mouths around it.
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Aug 26, 2021 18:11
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Landscaping. NYC or Paris apartment noise was mainly just human poo poo. "Welp sounds like the neighbours are catching up on Game of Thrones, very sorry in advance for them and their extraordinarily loud cat." Small city apartment noise is the godawful drone of weedwhackers and leafblowers.
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Aug 27, 2021 00:02
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Landscaping. A lot of the apartment noise I had when I lived in Brooklyn was the guy under my fire escape chanting racial slurs and conspiracy theories that heavily involved Timothy mcveigh. Also car alarms. And honking, can’t forget the honking. I’d much rather have weedwhackers and leafblowers over that.
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Aug 27, 2021 00:19
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Several times worse when it's people pretty clearly not actually doing anything with the leaf blowers. Even if there are no leaves on the ground they will still go out to run them for ages and wave them around.
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Aug 27, 2021 06:02
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Ugly In The Morning posted:A lot of the apartment noise I had when I lived in Brooklyn was the guy under my fire escape chanting racial slurs and conspiracy theories that heavily involved Timothy mcveigh. Also car alarms. And honking, can’t forget the honking. I’d much rather have weedwhackers and leafblowers over that. I honestly don't understand why car alarms are a thing. How many crimes are thwarted vs just loud useless noise annoying people? It reminds me of another peeve: passwords being displayed hidden when you enter them. Like car alarms that poo poo is just theatre. Accounts aren't compromised by the hacker looming over your shoulder reading as you type the password in.
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Aug 27, 2021 11:31
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
Pretty common now to be able to toggle the hiding of passwords, which is a god send. Not on consoles or smart TVs though, of course, which always have the most laborious possible login mechanisms for all apps and services.
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Aug 27, 2021 11:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I honestly don't understand why car alarms are a thing. How many crimes are thwarted vs just loud useless noise annoying people? You say that but my creep stalker ex did exactly that to access all of my accounts to do horrible poo poo that's still affecting on my life. Don't click the little eyeball if someone is in the room with you, even if you trust them.
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Aug 27, 2021 12:46
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Hirayuki posted:Hey, ophthalmologist's office! Please don't put liquid hand sanitizer in a bottle like this: I know this is from quite a few pages back but this is why I prefer glasses, yeah sure it's another thing to remember to take with you on the way out in the morning but at least they're not in contact with your eyeballs.
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Aug 27, 2021 12:59
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Dip Viscous posted:Several times worse when it's people pretty clearly not actually doing anything with the leaf blowers. Even if there are no leaves on the ground they will still go out to run them for ages and wave them around. Sounds like the suburbs. And it's always on a day when it's nice enough to have the windows open.
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My friend hacked my runescape back in the day by clicking on my username just as I started typing in my password, and I was going from muscle memory and type the whole dang thing in. He would type mean messages in the notes to me and would always move me to a particular house in Ardougne because he said I lived there, never understood why
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Aug 27, 2021 13:16
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Having to take information from people who insist on using "as in ____" to distinguish every letter, regardless of if they need to or not. "Uh yeah, that's Q as in queen, R as in... uhhhh... rabbit? Uh, X as in x-ray, I as in, uh, maybe ice cream? O as in...." Sir, none of those letters sound like anything else and I'm just sitting here with my fingers hovering over the keyboard waiting for you to hurry up and do your word-association game so you can say the next letter, dear God. Bonus points if they insist on using the military alphabet for this, because (a) most people don't remember it well and spend just as much time trying to think of what the word for "J" was, and (b) quit showing off.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Having to take information from people who insist on using "as in ____" to distinguish every letter, regardless of if they need to or not. My loving mom does that. "ZEE as in ZEEEBRA" I guess enough people have thought she was saying "C" for it to be annoying but maybe just really accentuate the buzz?
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Brawnfire posted:My loving mom does that. "ZEE as in ZEEEBRA" Or just say Zed.
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I did play with that for myself for a while (because of Stargate) but it became its own conversation, like "zed? wtf?" Edit: Oh, also the next letter is E so it became ZEDDY Edit 2: Which, now that I'm looking at it, is sort of a cool nickname. Call me Zeddy. Brawnfire has a new favorite as of 16:13 on Aug 28, 2021 |
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Parasol Prophet posted:Bonus points if they insist on using the military alphabet for this, because (a) most people don't remember it well and spend just as much time trying to think of what the word for "J" was, and (b) quit showing off. I don't do it Wheel of Fortune style ("M for Mike") though. If I was giving my name I might say "Mathew with one T. That's Mike; Alpha; Tango; Hotel; Echo; Whisky." It's quick and easy, and saves time and frustration.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Bonus points if they insist on using the military alphabet for this, because (a) most people don't remember it well and spend just as much time trying to think of what the word for "J" was, and (b) quit showing off. This drives me crazy when my work laptop's encryption thing won't let me log in. I have to call up IT and they read some ridiculously long ~20 character code that I have to enter, which generates a code I have to read back to them and they insist on using the military alphabet for it. Since the code is usually not the same length each time, it's very easy to miss a letter or two because whatever phones the IT guys use are horrible, and then you have to start over again. We're just resetting a password, not launching a nuclear missile, why does it have to be this hard? yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 16:47 on Aug 28, 2021 |
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Parasol Prophet posted:Having to take information from people who insist on using "as in ____" to distinguish every letter, regardless of if they need to or not. I've worked a lot in Universities which has meant working with people with all kinds of accents and I've ways appreciated it. Even in Scotland, someone on Glasgow will often say "J" as "Jai" while an Aberdonian will say "Jay", and "p" and "b" can be problems too. It's a godsend with vowels. It's not always necessary, but is appreciated when it is.
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Yeah the NATO phonetic alphabet was invented for specifically this purpose and I don't understand why it would annoy you
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Nostradingus posted:Yeah the NATO phonetic alphabet was invented for specifically this purpose and I don't understand why it would annoy you It relies on the person who's trying to read you something actually knowing the nato phonetic alphabet and not going "a as in alpha, b as in beta, k as in... oh what's the k one?" This has also happened to me so I sympathize with this complaint.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Having to take information from people who insist on using "as in ____" to distinguish every letter, regardless of if they need to or not. In Iceland we usually use names for this B as in Baldur,O as in Orrmundur, Etc. I used to have a car that had a license plate number that started with VBP and as it was an American car so it broke down a lot so I had to spend a lot of time ordering appointments at mechanics and having to give them the license plate over the phone where B and P are hard to distinguish. So it was ,,V...B as in Birkir, P as in Páll..." Peeve was having to order spare parts specifically from America and having to go to expensive import stores to buy something as simple as a new bulb for a headlight because for some reason American parts are all different from the Asian and European parts. FreudianSlippers has a new favorite as of 18:50 on Aug 28, 2021 |
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I had a guy do “e as in Enoch” over the phone once. That’s not useful! Most people aren’t going to know the spelling of “Enoch”! I usually do the phonetic alphabet over the phone, but I always do it over the radio where everything is usually decently garbled.
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FreudianSlippers posted:In Iceland we usually use names for this Is this unique to american cars? I drive a Kia in the US and it still needs specific parts, you can't just yoink a brake light off a Ford or BMW and stick it in there. Now, there are lots of peeves about american drivers. For example, leave a big city and enjoy the 150 million assholes in MAGA-laden ford trucks running people off the road. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 19:49 on Aug 28, 2021 |
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Aug 28, 2021 19:44
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The bulbs are typically more or less generic even if the light assembly isn’t.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Is this unique to american cars? I drive a Kia in the US and it still needs specific parts, you can't just yoink a brake light off a Ford or BMW and stick it in there. It seems to me that things are basically standardised for Asian and European cars but American cars have their own entirely separate standard. Might just be Dodge being weird though because my headlight went out and I went to dozens of gas stations and part stores that all had several different types of bulb but none that fit the Dodge which was only available in one import store that specialised in parts for American cars. I understand more complex parts not being interchangeable but something that simple being so hard to find surprised me.
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Tiggum posted:It's not showing off; it's very easy to remember. And it's very useful if you're spelling out something that needs to be exact, like an email address - especially if it's over a bad phone line or in a noisy environment. That's understandable-- I probably just have a bias against the military and get the feeling that they're trying to prove something (either that they were in the military, or that they went out of their way to learn it). It can also be frustrating too, though, if people don't phrase it like you do-- sometimes they'll just launch into "My email is Mike, Alpha, Tango..." which makes me automatically start typing 'mikealphatango' before realizing what they're doing.
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