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Ha! I still remember two words of Icelandic!
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Oh god I have another one: when you purchase an app and then it moves to a subscription format and won’t let you access the features you paid for unless you subscribe 
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Nov 8, 2021 01:50
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I put a line through my sevens until my most recent manufacturing job, where everybody universally misread it as a two. "How can this be pallet 5 of 2???" This phenomenon has not happened before or since, so I still wonder if they were just doing the most pointless gaslighting ever.
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Nov 8, 2021 02:17
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When you are making out with a guy who shaved recently, but its since come back juuuust enough that the stubble is like kissing a faceful of needles. I just wanted to make out, not just my face sandpapered off 
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Nov 8, 2021 16:34
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cinni posted:When you are making out with a guy who shaved recently, but its since come back juuuust enough that the stubble is like kissing a faceful of needles. I just wanted to make out, not just my face sandpapered off Free exfoliation
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Nov 8, 2021 16:48
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Yeah stand aside for those of us who DO want our faces sandpapered off
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Nov 8, 2021 16:50
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Pet peeve: people who complain about/blame daylight saving time for anything beyond maybe the day it takes effect. First off, it's one measly hour. I can see how that might make you tired if you really missed an hour of sleep on the given day. But the next day? For the entire week afterward that I've heard people complain about it? Secondly, it takes place on a Sunday morning, so why did you even "lose" (or "gain") an hour of sleep unless you go to church or work on Sunday morning?
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Nov 8, 2021 17:10
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If you do something at 5 PM that requires daylight and it's now dark at 5 PM, you lost that something.
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Nov 8, 2021 17:34
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The sun is barely over the horizon when I get to work, and it's in it's last hour when I get home from work.
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Nov 8, 2021 17:40
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I'm more talking about the people who will gently caress something up on, like, Thursday this week and go, "loving DST got me messed up this week, man." Dude. It was one hour, five days ago. Not much different at that point in my book from blaming it on a full moon or Mercury being in retrograde or something.
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Nov 8, 2021 17:49
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All my problems are actually caused by invisible gremlins.
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Nov 8, 2021 18:25
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Iron Crowned posted:The sun is barely over the horizon when I get to work, and it's in it's last hour when I get home from work. Lucky, on my way to work the sun's right in my eyes where it can't be blocked by a visor & sunglasses barely help
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Nov 8, 2021 19:15
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Gort posted:If you do something at 5 PM that requires daylight and it's now dark at 5 PM, you lost that something. I'm currently working overnights. I'm so excited to get to work in the dark and go home in the dark. This definitely won't gently caress with me at all. No sir. Just great.
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Nov 9, 2021 00:55
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Back when I had to transit to the office, I actually really liked winter when it'd be dark leaving and getting home. It made me feel like I was working really hard, like i'd done a 12 hour shift when really it was the normal 8
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Nov 9, 2021 01:04
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I'm glad these edge cases totally refute my pet peeve about the dullards in my 8-5 M-F cube farm office job blaming their mistake at the copy machine this Friday on how DST this past Sunday messed them up.
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Nov 9, 2021 01:06
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I think you people are making up this concept of "sunlight in winter". I've never seen it
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Atticus_1354 posted:I'm currently working overnights. I'm so excited to get to work in the dark and go home in the dark. This definitely won't gently caress with me at all. No sir. Just great. I work early mornings and it’s kickass to not have the sun up at 9pm Also the sun comes up earlier under winter time. The phenomenon you’re experiencing isn’t DST being over, it’s that winter days are shorter.
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Nov 9, 2021 14:43
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Iron Crowned posted:Grown rear end men who pronounce "wolf" as "woof" My parents pronounce lawn as lond, like "The lond needs to mowed" I hate it
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Nov 9, 2021 19:42
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Having to work 17 hours instead of 16 because DST ends during your shift is hell.Improbable Lobster posted:My parents pronounce lawn as lond, like "The lond needs to mowed" "Melk" "Pellow" These are weird because they seem to be totally independent of region/accents, sometimes with people within the same household pronouncing them differently.
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Nov 10, 2021 02:58
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Pretty much my entire family pronounces Whataburger (whose ads emphasize their name as What - A - Burger) as "Werderberger"
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The worst is when you demonstrate the different pronunciations side by side and they are just " you are saying the same thing". No, I am not. I am standing right here and I can hear myself. Again, this is not a regional or accent thing, we grew up in the same house, you stupid rear end in a top hat. Shut up and listen.
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Nov 10, 2021 07:14
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Dip Viscous posted:The worst is when you demonstrate the different pronunciations side by side and they are just " you are saying the same thing". No, I am not. I am standing right here and I can hear myself. Again, this is not a regional or accent thing, we grew up in the same house, you stupid rear end in a top hat. Shut up and listen. At least one goon will always double down that there is no difference in english between voiced and unvoiced "th" sounds if you mention it.
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Nov 10, 2021 12:32
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That's kind of like those people who inadvertently, unknowingly tune into something in standard definition on their HD TV and sit there watching it all stretched out to 16:9 and grainy and swear that they can't tell that anything is different and act like you're some kind of precious aesthete for insisting otherwise. 
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Nov 10, 2021 12:43
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:At least one goon will always double down that there is no difference in english between voiced and unvoiced "th" sounds if you mention it. That makes me shake with anger
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Nov 10, 2021 12:52
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Imagined posted:That's kind of like those people who inadvertently, unknowingly tune into something in standard definition on their HD TV and sit there watching it all stretched out to 16:9 and grainy and swear that they can't tell that anything is different and act like you're some kind of precious aesthete for insisting otherwise. I don't understand those people. How can they not tell that everyone and everything onscreen has completely hosed up proportions?? They must have legit problems with either their vision or their brains (seriously, some sort of neurological issue). I hate people who complain about "black bars" covering the image when the aspect ratio is correct, because that I just chalk up to them being dumb. How can you not tell that nothing in the image is being covered up, but actually, instead, now you can see even more of the image than you would at 4:3?
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Nov 10, 2021 15:55
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Nonsense, there's black bars so they must be cropping off those parts of the screen to make it look more like a movie theater! Who knows what I'm missing down there or up there?
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Nov 10, 2021 16:08
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Rabbit Hill posted:I don't understand those people. How can they not tell that everyone and everything onscreen has completely hosed up proportions?? They must have legit problems with either their vision or their brains (seriously, some sort of neurological issue). These people don't actually care about preserving the proper aspect ratio, because they bought a big TV and they want to use all of it. They're not getting their money's worth if half of it is covered in black space.
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Nov 10, 2021 16:13
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:At least one goon will always double down that there is no difference in english between voiced and unvoiced "th" sounds if you mention it. I am have a speech impediment that prevents me from saying the dental fricative sounds, and even I can still tell the difference between them.
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Nov 10, 2021 16:39
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FFT posted:Pretty much my entire family pronounces Whataburger (whose ads emphasize their name as What - A - Burger) as "Werderberger" My wife's friend in college, who was from Texas, constantly talked about Whataburger because she worked there as a kid. She pronounced it "Waterburger". I thought there was a chain called "Water Burger" for decades until I ended up visiting Texas and found out that the real name makes way more sense.
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Nov 10, 2021 17:12
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People in Kansas pronounce "burger" as "booger" that drove me nuts. I'm not picking up boogers at McDonald's
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Nov 10, 2021 17:24
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When you come up with a good/new idea thats beneficial to an organization', but since YOU came up with it, YOU get to put it into action and figure it out! I'm not even an employee, I'm a client!! Pay me first bitch!!! cinni has a new favorite as of 17:34 on Nov 10, 2021 |
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Nov 10, 2021 17:32
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Iron Crowned posted:People in Kansas pronounce "burger" as "booger" that drove me nuts. I'm not picking up boogers at McDonald's I have lived in Kansas almost my entire life and I've never heard this
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Nov 10, 2021 18:04
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Nostradingus posted:I have lived in Kansas almost my entire life and I've never heard this Maybe I was getting influence from Oklahoma, as I worked with a ton of people in the 9 years I lived in Wichita who did 
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Nov 10, 2021 18:10
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Rabbit Hill posted:I hate people who complain about "black bars" covering the image when the aspect ratio is correct, because that I just chalk up to them being dumb. How can you not tell that nothing in the image is being covered up, but actually, instead, now you can see even more of the image than you would at 4:3? Why would there be "black bars" when it's in widescreen? Are you somehow talking to people who are still using CRTs? The black bars are when you watch a 4:3 show on a widescreen TV and, obviously, there's nothing on either edge of the screen, right? So some people will set it to stretch or zoom to 16:9 to "get rid of the black bars"?
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Nov 11, 2021 08:12
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Tiggum posted:Why would there be "black bars" when it's in widescreen?
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Nov 11, 2021 08:17
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My Pet Peeve is that Lowtax is dead and I can't think of a good quip about it.
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Nov 11, 2021 08:33
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Tiggum posted:Why would there be "black bars" when it's in widescreen? Are you somehow talking to people who are still using CRTs? The black bars are when you watch a 4:3 show on a widescreen TV and, obviously, there's nothing on either edge of the screen, right? So some people will set it to stretch or zoom to 16:9 to "get rid of the black bars"? Basically all TV shows made before the rise of flat screens in the mid 2000s are in 4:3. That's a lot of TV to stretch out awkwardly. Also a bunch of movies are a bit wider than 16:9.
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4:3 was the aspect ratio of cinema before televisions came onto the market, or technically slightly wider than that once they reworked things to fit sound onto the film strip. For all of like five seconds, film and television were in harmony. Then in the fifties, film studios went wide to differentiate their product from television. They ended up mostly 1.85:1 that is still common today today, but it’s not uncommon for films to go as wide as 2.4:1. Televisions and television cameras could not follow because the broadcast standard was fixed and besides, picture tubes and vidicon tubes become less practical the further they deviate from a circle or its inscribed square. 16:9 (1.78:1), meanwhile is a compromise ratio that has always been bad.
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Nov 11, 2021 10:48
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:My Pet Peeve is that Lowtax is dead and I can't think of a good quip about it. And this is how I found out that Lowtax is dead. e: it’s probably kinda fitting in a really weird way tbh. Helith has a new favorite as of 12:20 on Nov 11, 2021 |
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The escalator at the train station nearest to my workplace goes up in the morning when I arrive and need to go down, but it goes down in the evening when I'm leaving and need to go up.
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