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NeilPerry posted:I loving hate tumblr FTFY
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 12:22 |
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# ? Apr 29, 2024 12:57 |
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Already online via LAD so no name censoring.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 12:27 |
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Shannonmcn posted:
Uh, what language is this?
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 12:31 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 12:45 |
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My parents clean the tops of their cans with rubbing alcohol for this very reason. Sometimes my very dad cleans produce with rubbing alcohol as well.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 12:48 |
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Shannonmcn posted:
RFC2324 posted:Uh, what language is this? My child just made his first black oval office cry today in the unemployment office. It makes me so happy - love you, son. Keep up the good work, KKK! Ha ha ha. Kirby That's my boy, ha ha! The only thing is that he is left with a mark from headbutting the monkey, ha ha. Kisses! Dean & Kirby WE ARE HORRIBLE HUMAN BEINGS
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 12:52 |
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Yeah I've worked in pubs and I will never drink out of a tin or bottle without giving it a good wipe first. Dunno about needing a scare story of PPL DYING to go with it, but whatever! Shannonmcn posted:
Coming hot on the heels of that Polish family burnt out of Mount Vernon too, I'd find the LADpost but I'm on my phone. Are wee cuntry, eh?
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 13:10 |
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What drives me (and my health inspector boyfriend) crazy is that this person couldn't have summed it up nicely, they had to write out this big long scary paragraph including threats of death. I work in a vet clinic, I see Leptospirosis all the time. Yes, it is dangerous, but you don't get people to vaccinate their dogs for it by bullying them into it. This is all this poster needs to say: - Lepto has been found on the edge of cans from x factory (This article never specifies) - Other cans from other companies may carry this risk also - You can prevent picking it up from cans/bottles by wiping off the top before drinking - Lepto is a major zoonotic risk, and you can pick it up from mice and their droppings, as well as from dogs and small wild mammals - Seek treatment for Leptospirosis from your doctor as soon as you notice it in yourself or your anima; - Report it to your local public health if it's something not endemic/a threat to your area. (For example, Southern Ontario probably doesn't care, but if you don't report Lyme Disease you're in deep poo poo as a doctor)
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 13:35 |
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PutinOnTheRitz posted:What drives me (and my health inspector boyfriend) crazy is that this person couldn't have summed it up nicely, they had to write out this big long scary paragraph including threats of death. I work in a vet clinic, I see Leptospirosis all the time. Yes, it is dangerous, but you don't get people to vaccinate their dogs for it by bullying them into it. Facts don't make people share your links and give you that sweet, sweet advert revenue. Screaming "YOUR FAMILY IS GOING TO DIE!!! " does.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 13:46 |
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PutinOnTheRitz posted:What drives me (and my health inspector boyfriend) crazy is that this person couldn't have summed it up nicely, they had to write out this big long scary paragraph including threats of death. I work in a vet clinic, I see Leptospirosis all the time. Yes, it is dangerous, but you don't get people to vaccinate their dogs for it by bullying them into it. Having worked in warehouses including ones that handle food and beverages I can say with good authority that they are all extremely anal about hygiene and pest control.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 13:59 |
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A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had. http://m.tickld.com/x/20-weird-things-about-america My favorites are the inability to do basic math when working with sales tax, the inability to look up tip etiquette in the country your visiting, bathroom insecurity, the persecution of jaywalkers, and "What's the deal with bread in America? I mean, who needs it that sweet? Are we eating dessert or a sandwich here? I mean, come on? What's the deal?"
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 14:32 |
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Obligatory Handle posted:A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had. What the hell? In America, your athletes are celebrities! What a country. Where I come from, athletes are not famous at all. Instead if you play a sport people frown at you and call you a nerd. I am a bad person because I read every one of these in the voice of Jakov Smirnoff and added "What a country." to the end. In America, your bread is so sweet, In soviet Russia we wait in line four weeks for one loaf of bread and it taste like dust. What a country! ah-ah-ah. That's topical humor.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 14:45 |
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Obligatory Handle posted:A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had. I will defend #17 to the death. Those European toilets where your feces sit on a dry shelf centimeters from your rear end are loving disgusting.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 14:51 |
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Obligatory Handle posted:A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had. All these things sound like pretty standard things in most western countries in general, where is this alleged foreigner suppodedly from?
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 14:51 |
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vxskud posted:All these things sound like pretty standard things in most western countries in general, where is this alleged foreigner suppodedly from? No they aren't. EDIT: Not that the article isn't dumb observational "humour", but those things certainly aren't true of the UK, which is where the author says he's from. Apart from refillable soda. Most fast food and chain restaurants will have that.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 14:53 |
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Lap-Lem posted:In America, your athletes are celebrities! What a country. Where I come from, athletes are not famous at all. Instead if you play a sport people frown at you and call you a nerd. But yeah, genuinely almost everything in that list is pretty weird to me except for free refills in drinks which some (but not most) restaurants have and flags being everywhere, although that has a very different connotation in Northern Ireland.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 14:59 |
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Brocktoon posted:I will defend #17 to the death. Those European toilets where your feces sit on a dry shelf centimeters from your rear end are loving disgusting. 3 gallons (I am basing this off the one toilet I remember looking at and seeing the amount of water in a single flush) is a lot of water. I am sure lots of places have low-flow ones these days though. US shitters on the whole are definitely too low.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:01 |
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Obligatory Handle posted:A guy I used to hang out with long ago posted this today, a dumb list of "I am a foreigner and I'm telling you how fat and stupid your country is" bullshit. Many eye rolls to be had. I cannot possibly get mad at this list, since none of the items are "Your women have let this whole 'feminism' thing really go to their head!" which is one I hear way too often.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:03 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:12 |
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Sebastian Vettel posted:No they aren't. Maybe it's because I'm Canadian, but everything except the pledge of allegiance and the flags is applicable here if you just replace football players with hockey players.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:13 |
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Question Mark Mound posted:But yeah, genuinely almost everything in that list is pretty weird to me except for free refills in drinks which some (but not most) restaurants have and flags being everywhere, although that has a very different connotation in Northern Ireland. Pickles are weird? Sweet bread is weird? Toilet bowls with water are weird? Crappy public restroom stalls are weird? Loud people are weird? The UK has cheese whiz too, and has something very similar to our pledge. I mean come. I can definitely see how some things on the list might be unusual, but a large part of the list are just stupid things that really aren't unusual in many parts of the world.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:13 |
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Obligatory Handle posted:My favorites are the inability to do basic math when working with sales tax, Though seriously, is there an actual reason not to include the tax by default? It just seems so completely superfluous, or is there actually a reason why you'd need to know the nontaxed price more often than the total one?
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:13 |
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RFC2324 posted:Uh, what language is this? Illiterate Scots, I'm betting. Looks like the way most of the folk I went to high school with type. I recently purged almost all of them from my FB because they were a never ending trainwreck.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:16 |
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Perestroika posted:Though seriously, is there an actual reason not to include the tax by default? It just seems so completely superfluous, or is there actually a reason why you'd need to know the nontaxed price more often than the total one? Tax can vary greatly state to state, and sometimes even county to county or city to city. I would like it for sales tax to be included in the sticker price, but it's not really very feasible with our tax system.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:18 |
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:19 |
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Question Mark Mound posted:The point was more about college football. Coming from the UK/Ireland at least, people are celebrities when they play for the big professional leagues - school sports are only watched by the families of the people playing, usually. College sports teams have gigantic followings, usually based on "My family has been rooting for this team for years" or "That's my Alma mater." Some states have zero big time professional leagues (Alabama, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kentucky, etc.), so the college teams make up for that. The large universities are huge money making entities. Basically, the "student-athletes" are professional athletes, but all of their money goes directly to the school and NCAA, instead of in their own pockets...for now.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:19 |
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moerketid posted:Illiterate Scots, I'm betting. Looks like the way most of the folk I went to high school with type. I recently purged almost all of them from my FB because they were a never ending trainwreck. git tae gently caress
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:21 |
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I want to beat up this person good lord
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:22 |
I don't know what else to say
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:23 |
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Austrian mook posted:I want to beat up this person good lord *glomps* :33
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:23 |
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I Feast On Dogshit posted:git tae gently caress More like this
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:29 |
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Apogee15 posted:Pickles are weird? Sweet bread is weird? Toilet bowls with water are weird? Crappy public restroom stalls are weird? Loud people are weird? The UK has cheese whiz too, and has something very similar to our pledge. What does the UK have that's similar to the pledge? Because that's the only thing I'd class as flat out weird on the list. The rest are just different or mildly annoying (to deal with that is, the existence of sweet bread doesn't annoy me unless I mistake it for unsweetened bread)
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:30 |
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Apogee15 posted:Tax can vary greatly state to state, and sometimes even county to county or city to city. I would like it for sales tax to be included in the sticker price, but it's not really very feasible with our tax system. POS systems already have the proper sales tax programmed in, so that when an item is rung up it is properly applied. There is no reason the other computer system that prints the price stickers (which is usually done at the store, not at the shipping location) can't do the same. EDIT: The proper answer, is so that they can advertise products for "under $5" when priced at $4.99. Orgophlax has a new favorite as of 15:39 on Apr 17, 2014 |
# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:31 |
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The pledge is pretty loving creepy, in all honesty
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:33 |
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Please tell me there's more.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:33 |
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Sebastian Vettel posted:What does the UK have that's similar to the pledge? Because that's the only thing I'd class as flat out weird on the list. The rest are just different or mildly annoying (to deal with that is, the existence of sweet bread doesn't annoy me unless I mistake it for unsweetened bread) Almost all bread is sweetened in the US (usually with HFCS), that's the thing. Even US home-made recipes call for like 4-5x the sugar.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:34 |
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Here's an album of a former Nickelodeon star (Drake Bell) talking poo poo on Justin Bieber. http://imgur.com/gallery/xKcUE
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:38 |
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Apogee15 posted:Tax can vary greatly state to state, and sometimes even county to county or city to city. I would like it for sales tax to be included in the sticker price, but it's not really very feasible with our tax system. I don't really see why it isn't feasible, especially in states with uniform sales taxes across the state. Smaller countries like Switzerland or Luxembourg manage just fine, I don't see why a place like Texas or California couldn't. And about that list, I'm an American living in France and pretty much everything on that list except number 7 and number 6 to would be at least a bit strange to a Frenchman. Number 2 isn't weird in the part of France I live in but they're not French flags, they're regional flags. I don't think I've ever seen a French flag flying from a privately owned building, at least outside of Paris.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:39 |
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Orgophlax posted:POS systems already have the proper sales tax programmed in, so that when an item is rung up it is properly applied. There is no reason the other computer system that prints the price stickers (which is usually done at the store, not at the shipping location) can't do the same. Simple reason is, it's against the law. You cannot post the post tax price in the USA. You can say, "this item is $100 after tax it is $106" but you cannot say "This items is $106". Why is it a law? beats the hell out of me.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:41 |
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Soviet Commubot posted:And about that list, I'm an American living in France and pretty much everything on that list except number 7 and number 6 to would be at least a bit strange to a Frenchman. Number 2 isn't weird in the part of France I live in but they're not French flags, they're regional flags. I don't think I've ever seen a French flag flying from a privately owned building, at least outside of Paris. The culture shock about 'american flags, everywhere!!!' is less about the buildings, and more about people that affix flags to their cars, their bikes, their mail boxes, their trees, etc etc etc. Seriously, flags are everywhere there, here, there are 2 official buildings with flags (town hall and local working men's club), and a handful of houses (belonging to known racists) with st george crosses taped to the windows.
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# ? Apr 17, 2014 15:42 |