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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Ask any politician, regardless of their "side", a simple yes/no question and they will almost always filibuster with a 30 second to a minute reply that does everything except answer the original question. Yes, I know that's 'just the way politics is' but I'm so loving sick and tired of it. Normal people - those who aren't psycho careerists who think being a seat moistener in congress is a meaningful job - are able to say "Yes" or "No" when a simple question is put to them. they want to avoid any 'gotchas' later
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Okay what the gently caress is it about trying to hide gifts that makes people go in the most ridiculous loving spots that they never usually go in? I swear to god it can be months that nobody looks in a particular cabinet on the porch, but I stick some valentine's candy in there and five minutes later sure enough someone's on the motherfucking porch, opening cabinet doors.
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I'm definitely turning into an old man/my own dad but God I loving hate everyone in my family bellowing at each other across the house, rather than getting off their arses and taking 10 seconds just to walk into the same room as the person they want to talk to.
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The Perfect Element posted:I'm definitely turning into an old man/my own dad but God I loving hate everyone in my family bellowing at each other across the house, rather than getting off their arses and taking 10 seconds just to walk into the same room as the person they want to talk to. My 90something grandmother mother in law lost her hearing aids, but continues to yell across the house. Then keep yelling bc she cannot hear the responses. I can’t say I’m sad we’re getting our own place a block away tomorrow morning
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:My 90something grandmother mother in law lost her hearing aids, but continues to yell across the house. Then keep yelling bc she cannot hear the responses. A whole block away!
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Brawnfire posted:Okay what the gently caress is it about trying to hide gifts that makes people go in the most ridiculous loving spots that they never usually go in? I swear to god it can be months that nobody looks in a particular cabinet on the porch, but I stick some valentine's candy in there and five minutes later sure enough someone's on the motherfucking porch, opening cabinet doors. It's really nice when you have enough trust built up in an adult relationship where you can just say "Don't look in the bottom drawer of my file cabinet, I hide presents there." Then you hide your booze there because you know they won't go poking around.
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credburn posted:A whole block away! Yeah, free food and childcare without any of the downsides. Am I supposed to hate my family?* (*i do hate my actual family, that’s why I left the continent)
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Brawnfire posted:Okay what the gently caress is it about trying to hide gifts that makes people go in the most ridiculous loving spots that they never usually go in? I swear to god it can be months that nobody looks in a particular cabinet on the porch, but I stick some valentine's candy in there and five minutes later sure enough someone's on the motherfucking porch, opening cabinet doors. don't put candy on the porch, thermal cycles will ruin it
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poo poo, good point. Moved it to a kitchen cabinet. I just want to surprise people! It's so hard to surprise people!
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One time I got these really delicious homemade sour peach rings in some podunk rear end deliverance north Geaorgia town, then forgot them sitting in the NOLA sun in my car. The resulting melted-then-cooled single mass was the loving bomb. Sometimes thermal cycles work Figure this is how people discovered cuisine. « Woah, the mammoth haunch i dropped in the fire tastes..: better??? »
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There's this trope in RPGs sometimes where a "Vorpal" weapon can kill in one stroke by decapitating enemies. But the line isLewis Carroll posted:One, two! One, two! And through and through
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It’s pronounced New Orleans, not New Orleenz
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It’s pronounced Nawlans. Per Tommy wiseau, born and raised in the big easy
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CelticPredator posted:It’s pronounced Nawlans. Any time someone mentions New Orleans, someone who has never been there and has no frame of reference has to stand up and educate others. Motherfuckers sure don't pronounce any other place the way they think the people living there do. México? Deutschland? GFY e: not you, CelticPredator
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Feb 12, 2024 01:16
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It's French, so the letters are silent. All of them.
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It's pronounced as a withering glare
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Nameless Pete posted:It's French, so the letters are silent. All of them.
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credburn posted:Any time someone mentions New Orleans, someone who has never been there and has no frame of reference has to stand up and educate others. My beloved Biden friend, there is a difference between referring to places in a foreign language and butchering the name of a place that speaks the language you also speak in the mutual language. It’s six or five or one syllables depending on your mood, and there is no -eenz
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Nameless Pete posted:There's this trope in RPGs sometimes where a "Vorpal" weapon can kill in one stroke by decapitating enemies. But the line is Vorpal weapons only auto-kill on a nat 20 and the dude in the poem wasn't rolling that great that day.
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I loathe TrustArc, the company that handles cookie preferences for a lot websites. It seems to be especially popular with US companies/sites. I can't understand how it's possible to create a system so bad that it takes "a few minutes" to decline from optional cookies. It didn't actually take quite that long, but it was stuck there for about 30 seconds, which is hilariously long.
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The "friendly voice" opener script that telemarketers have been using more and more the last few years. You know, the, "hello, it's nice to hear a friendly voice" line when you answer the phone with anything short of "gently caress off and die". Even the door to door people are doing it now! Which is great because it'll be like, someone is hammering on the door like I owe them money, I open the door with an expression on my face like I've just stepped in cat puke with my sock feet, and they'll have the nerve to lead with "OH HI THERE it's so nice to see a friendly face!" Motherfucker this is my tricked face, the way you were knocking I was gearing myself up to tell a cop to get a warrant. I know, I know, joke's on me for doing boomer poo poo like answering phones and opening doors.
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lobsterminator posted:I loathe TrustArc, the company that handles cookie preferences for a lot websites. It seems to be especially popular with US companies/sites. The trick is that it's probably on purpose, and i'd guess that "accept all" is instant.
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The fact that Reddit, Facebook, NextDoor, TikTok and Twitter are used by way too many YouTube creators, news outlets, and articles for their entire content. The number of "articles" that are just describing what happens in a TikTok is ridiculous. A radio or podcast host reads an AITA post from Reddit and adds virtually nothing of their own commentary. I don't need people to regurgitate posts from other media, thanks.
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Indolent Bastard posted:The fact that Reddit, Facebook, NextDoor, TikTok and Twitter are used by way too many YouTube creators, news outlets, and articles for their entire content. Nothing is original and everything is recycled. You can see a popular post on askreddit, askmen, askwomen etc Nd within a week it'll be a listicle on buzzfeed.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I don't need people to regurgitate posts from other media, thanks.
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Tiggum posted:I do, because I will never go to reddit or tiktok. Those and X are so gross and toxic but I guess it's where the news happens. My Internet use these days is: college related stuff somethingawful forums porno That's it. I need goons to filter the gross stuff happening outside my bubble.
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credburn posted:Those and X are so gross and toxic but I guess it's where the news happens. Funny you mention porn bc I mentioned being in porn with my commited partner and got accused of posting homegroan when what actually happened is I mentioned having been in porn and accidentally posted a pornhub tab open in the cat pic thread hen what actually happened was I was checking the great deleting to see if we were deleted for not being official. And you’re one of the goons angry about me mentioning doing porn with y wife It’s a big peeve that being in porn years ago that requires hitting up obscure porn sites to see is still following me. I’m not ashamed, I’m annoyed at it being a shameful thing. I’m happy to admit it happened. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Funny you mention porn bc I mentioned being in porn with my commited partner and got accused of posting homegroan when what actually happened is I mentioned having been in porn and accidentally posted a pornhub tab open in the cat pic thread hen what actually happened was I was checking the great deleting to see if we were deleted for not being official. And you’re one of the goons angry about me mentioning doing porn with y wife God dammit EAH I wasn't angry at you and I wasn't even part of that conversation. I came in later, after all that, and referenced the incident just to add context to my post, which was to say I know too much about you. I think I had even said it wasn't something to be ashamed of. You should be happy. It sounds like it was a good time for everyone. I'm happy for you. credburn has a new favorite as of 03:42 on Feb 16, 2024 |
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credburn posted:. I came later, Me too, brother
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When one drop of water gets into a bowl of chips I don't know how it gets every single loving chip wet, but it does!
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lobsterminator posted:I loathe TrustArc, the company that handles cookie preferences for a lot websites. It seems to be especially popular with US companies/sites. Have you heard of https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic? It auto-clicks quite a few of the popups.
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My absolute favorite thing is spending all day working on a muscle I pulled while sleeping, massage and medicine and a hot shower... then I go to bed and pull it again. IT'S SLEEP. Why can I lift a six-year-old over my head just fine but sleep is crippling me?
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oldpainless posted:Me too, brother more like oldcumless
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At an "Emo Night" show where they're just playing a playlist of the top 100 emo songs at a concert venue with a bunch of people dancing on stage, feeling like I want to die. Which is at least on-theme, so I've got that going for me, which sucks. Got suckered into it because "we made plans!" and "when you were drunk you said you were down to go!" At least the tickets were almost as cheap as the drinks are expensive.
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Watching people get metal detector wanded at the door kinda made up for it in comedy, though.
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Currently, voice recognition and pronunciation chat.
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When you go to supermarket there are dozens of shower gels, but never a single grower gel.
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Read current events articles enough and you begin to see the same tropes used repeatedly: "x scramble(s)/are scrambing to y" "Critics/x pounced" "x weighs/is weighing [policy initiative]" "Shot dead" (which I think I've complained about before. As opposed to what: shooting someone alive?) Find new metaphors. These need to be retired.
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Shot and injured.
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