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Post by arrogantmodel on Nov 2, 2018 10:17:11 GMT -5
My wife pronouncing drowning like drownding and I hate it. You're married to Roman Reigns?
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Post by Spider2024 on Nov 2, 2018 10:24:37 GMT -5
My wife pronouncing drowning like drownding and I hate it. Please tell me this is "your song" for you guys?
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Nov 2, 2018 11:42:59 GMT -5
Bringing back to food service, pizza places in particular - There are still people who think they should get a discount, or even free food, if their order isn't to them in 30 minutes or less. Jesus, that was done away with in the late 80s or early 90s because it proved to be dangerous to the delivery people and someone actually DIED. In the same realm, when ordering for delivery and a delivery time is quoted it's meant to be an estimate. Once again, there a a LOT of people who expect arrival within that time period, no exceptions for even a minute longer(and I've actually had a good amount of people complain about it arriving BEFORE the quoted time.) Lastly, the damn delivery fee is not a tip nor does it go to the driver in any way. Using the fact that stores charge that fee to not tip a driver, who is not only having to deal with food service responsibilities but having to act just as a person in a normal retail environment would AND is killing their car while doing so, is idiotic.
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Post by Spider2024 on Nov 2, 2018 13:19:15 GMT -5
Bringing back to food service, pizza places in particular - There are still people who think they should get a discount, or even free food, if their order isn't to them in 30 minutes or less. Jesus, that was done away with in the late 80s or early 90s because it proved to be dangerous to the delivery people and someone actually DIED. In the same realm, when ordering for delivery and a delivery time is quoted it's meant to be an estimate. Once again, there a a LOT of people who expect arrival within that time period, no exceptions for even a minute longer(and I've actually had a good amount of people complain about it arriving BEFORE the quoted time.) Lastly, the damn delivery fee is not a tip nor does it go to the driver in any way. Using the fact that stores charge that fee to not tip a driver, who is not only having to deal with food service responsibilities but having to act just as a person in a normal retail environment would AND is killing their car while doing so, is idiotic. Heaven forbid any of them try to order food on a Saturday afternoon. "How could you guys possibly be THAT busy?" Well, most food places are on Saturdays at noon time, it just is what it is.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 3, 2018 3:38:52 GMT -5
Note to panhandlers: when I'm taking a piss is the absolute worse time to ask for money. Why are you even in the bathroom to begin with?
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Nov 3, 2018 3:51:26 GMT -5
I hate high pressure sales techniques, there is no more surefire way to get me to walk away from a deal
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Post by arrogantmodel on Nov 3, 2018 5:12:57 GMT -5
Note to panhandlers: when I'm taking a piss is the absolute worse time to ask for money. Why are you even in the bathroom to begin with? I also hate when they trick me into talking to them. By that, I mean...one time I was walking to work and an older guy, who didn't look homeless or hard up for money, says to me, "Hey, young man. How you doing today?" I was thinking, "Wow, a nice person." So I say, "Good. How are you?" And then I get hit with, "Very hungry. Could you spare anything?" Not only was I annoyed, but I had just crossed a very busy street. Even if I did have money to give, you missed your chance. I'm not crossing back over to give it to you. Another thing is, when I have to go in really early on Sunday mornings, I get hit up by every single homeless person on the way over to my building. 1) I don't have any cash on me. 2) I'm on my way to work, I can't chat. 3) It is Sunday morning, even if I gave you money, everything is still closed for a few hours. 4) If you saw me shoot down the last guy ten feet away from you, what makes you think I'm gonna give you something? Don't get me wrong, I feel bad, and I'd love to help, but they are aggressive sometimes and I rarely carry cash. Furthermore, I know there are a couple shelters a few blocks away.
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Post by Paul on Nov 3, 2018 5:53:00 GMT -5
I keep getting YouTube Ads for Groupon featuring this really annoying woman. I don't know who she is. Maybe she's someone famous? I don't know. I just know that she annoys me.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2018 9:58:09 GMT -5
My wife is cute and has a pleasant demeanor. Which apparently makes her a person to stop and talk random about something.
TWICE in the past 3 days, some old cranky bat stopped us outside a store.
Halloween eve, we buy candy - mainly for us. (Kids don't trick or treat in our area much anymore.) Lady behind us asks about the candy. "Getting ready for Halloween?" Candy for home, we might have kids coming. "I used to do that, but certain people bring a carload into the nice neighborhoods and drop them off there." (Stay classy, lady.)
Yesterday we are loading groceries into our car and a lady getting into her vehicle stops us. "Did you buy potatoes?" No, we didnt. "$3.79 for this bag of potatoes! Can you believe it?!" Okay? "I'm not shopping here anymore!" (Gets in her car and leaves.) Wife and I load the rest of our stuff muttering to each other, "Why do we draw the weirdos? Don't shop here, I don't give a shit."
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Post by Fade on Nov 3, 2018 10:33:21 GMT -5
Note to panhandlers: when I'm taking a piss is the absolute worse time to ask for money. Why are you even in the bathroom to begin with? My initial reaction was "well don't piss next to them!" before the last sentence.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Nov 3, 2018 11:29:08 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my dad would run into someone he knew and stop to chat Every. Single. Time we went out, whether it was shopping or to eat or whatever. He even played football with my middle school vice principal. The weirdest thing is, my dad is from a small town in rural Manitoba, so as I got older, all I could think was "how does this happen all the time? I'm pretty sure there aren't even this many people from your town!"
I thought it had stopped, but no. A few months ago, my parents, some family from out of town and I go to South Beach Casino, which is about a ~90 minute drive from Winnipeg, for the buffet dinner there. We sit down to eat, and lo and behold, one of my aunts's old friends is sitting at the table directly next to us. It is literally inescapable.
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Post by ERON on Nov 3, 2018 15:15:33 GMT -5
I have a few work-related ones I thought I'd share.
I'm an English teacher, and one of the reading strategies our administration has been pushing for the last few years (mainly because one of the administrators did her Master's thesis on it) is called close reading. It's exactly what it sounds like: reading a text closely. Basically, you have students read through something once just for understanding, and then have them read it more closely a second time, looking for subtext, figurative language, etc. It's a good strategy, but what bugs me about it is how everyone uses the term "close reading" as if it is some fancy technical term rather than just another way of saying "reading closely." They'll say "I'm going to have my students perform a close reading of this text," instead of "I'm going to have my students read this text closely." Also, they pronounce the "close" in "close reading" like in "close the door" rather than like "close to you," which makes no sense.
The learning objectives that our students are supposed to master are referred to collectively as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS for short. The term TEKS was intended to be pronounced "Tex" as in "Texas," but 99% of teachers and admins pronounce it "teeks." That doesn't bother me, but what does bother me is that they also treat the S in TEKS as if it indicates a plural word rather than being part of the acronym, meaning they will refer to a single objective as a "TEK" (pronounced "teek"), as in "What TEK are you focusing on this week?"
I don't hear this one that often any more, but it's still worth mentioning. The standardized test our students have to take every year is called the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness, or STAAR. It replaced the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or TAKS, which was the last in a long series of tests starting with the letter T for Texas, preceded by the TAAS, TEAMS, and TABS tests. Since the STAAR was the first test not to start with a T for Texas, a lot of educators mistakenly thought that the word "Texas" was left out of the acronym, and would call the test "Texas STAAR," even though the ST stands for "State of Texas," meaning they were calling it the "Texas State of Texas Assessment..."
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Nov 3, 2018 17:32:46 GMT -5
Rather than make something worse, be man enough to admit you don't know how to fix it.
Don't take up time at the store asking how something works when you're going to do the same to your significant other at home anyway.
No, texting does not excuse bad grammar and missing letters.
The phone rings, you know someone wants to talk to you, yet you take a bite of food before answering anyway.
Jeans low in front. You only come off as desperate, dear.
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Post by chrom on Nov 3, 2018 18:03:55 GMT -5
It should be made legal to give someone who's wearing their jeans down so low that you can see their boxers or worse a good swift kick in the rear
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Nov 3, 2018 18:17:56 GMT -5
When somebody in a resturant has to air their dirty laundry loud enough that everybody else in that section will have no choice but to hear it. "Oh if I have chocolate I'll be in the bathroom for days" "if I have one drink I'll have a hang over for days" "oh everything gives me heartburn" That was my dinner tonight.
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Post by markymark on Nov 3, 2018 18:20:00 GMT -5
I dislike how Goku is still a popular character despite becoming Mr ATATATATATATA and KA KA KA KA KACHIDAZE that comes form his butthole, he is pretty much an Asspull machine.
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Post by ayumidah on Nov 3, 2018 21:05:58 GMT -5
People who come in to ramble on about nothing important and instead of accepting that I'm clearly focused on whatever I'm doing online, try to "subtly" peek around the monitor to see what I'm doing, then act all innocent when I stare back at them.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Nov 4, 2018 0:32:45 GMT -5
My wife is cute and has a pleasant demeanor. Which apparently makes her a person to stop and talk random about something. TWICE in the past 3 days, some old cranky bat stopped us outside a store. Halloween eve, we buy candy - mainly for us. (Kids don't trick or treat in our area much anymore.) Lady behind us asks about the candy. "Getting ready for Halloween?" Candy for home, we might have kids coming. "I used to do that, but certain people bring a carload into the nice neighborhoods and drop them off there." (Stay classy, lady.) Yesterday we are loading groceries into our car and a lady getting into her vehicle stops us. "Did you buy potatoes?" No, we didnt. "$3.79 for this bag of potatoes! Can you believe it?!" Okay? "I'm not shopping here anymore!" (Gets in her car and leaves.) Wife and I load the rest of our stuff muttering to each other, "Why do we draw the weirdos? Don't shop here, I don't give a shit." Ugh, this is my life. My mom and I hate small talk with strangers, yet we both apparently have "come talk to me!" faces.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2018 1:48:02 GMT -5
My wife is cute and has a pleasant demeanor. Which apparently makes her a person to stop and talk random about something. TWICE in the past 3 days, some old cranky bat stopped us outside a store. Halloween eve, we buy candy - mainly for us. (Kids don't trick or treat in our area much anymore.) Lady behind us asks about the candy. "Getting ready for Halloween?" Candy for home, we might have kids coming. "I used to do that, but certain people bring a carload into the nice neighborhoods and drop them off there." (Stay classy, lady.) Yesterday we are loading groceries into our car and a lady getting into her vehicle stops us. "Did you buy potatoes?" No, we didnt. "$3.79 for this bag of potatoes! Can you believe it?!" Okay? "I'm not shopping here anymore!" (Gets in her car and leaves.) Wife and I load the rest of our stuff muttering to each other, "Why do we draw the weirdos? Don't shop here, I don't give a shit." Ugh, this is my life. My mom and I hate small talk with strangers, yet we both apparently have "come talk to me!" faces. On this topic, I used to ride a little rev and go scooter, 125cc, max speed 70mph. People would see me carrying my crash helmet in a store and come and speak to me about motorbikes. Now I don't mind that so much, there is a huge biker community, but I'm not part of it because a) I only rode one through necessity and HATED it throughout and b) I know not thing one about bikes other that the fact mine had 2 wheels and cost me money. So most guys would come up and say "hey what do you ride?" "125 scooter" "Oh they're fun, is it a Jiggledy Hoogladoll 750 with reverse thrust injection and *continues on in a foreign langu "I have no idea sorry, it's just how I get around" Most people realise I'm not a biker and politely go at this stage but some, usually older men decide they either need to educate me OR ignore what I said and start asking more questions. One even followed me around the store when I politely excused myself.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Nov 4, 2018 2:27:39 GMT -5
Ugh, this is my life. My mom and I hate small talk with strangers, yet we both apparently have "come talk to me!" faces. I especially hate small talk with people I don't know. Hell, I'm not even keen on small talk with anybody I'm not extremely close with, and can sometimes literally go days without uttering a word to another human being. So, naturally, the last ten years my two main jobs have been bartender and hotel receptionist, making small talk with strangers utterly unavoidable. Baffles me that I wound up in those roles.
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