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Yes lets please argue who has the moral high ground of ordering from McDonalds.
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Dec 7, 2015 07:47
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Bast Relief posted:Just get your slop in a bag, take it home, then eat it off the floor like an animal already. Why wait to eat at home when you can eat in the comfort of your car? The people who take forever are treating their poo poo food too seriously. "Hmm this sandwich has lettuce? That's healthy but it's beef... Do you have chicken? Oh you do... Well what's the difference between spicy and home made? Do you have Diet Coke? You only have Pepsi? Oh I don't like Pepsi... Do you have bottled water? Oh can you take the mayo off and put it on the side? Wait hold on, can you do mayo packets instead? Do you have light mayo?" And so on. Just loving order already! I worked in fast food for 2 years, people are really loving picky/dumb when it comes to food, even though said food is universally poo poo. E: I was at Wendy's today, not McDonald's.
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Dec 7, 2015 07:47
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One of the people I know, and try to avoid eating poo poo food with, hates the "pepper or spices or whatever they puts on their burgers" when they order a McDonalds burger. I don't know what the gently caress they're talking about, because it's a McDonalds burger, they taste the same as they always have. But by god they will argue for minutes with the person behind that little drive-thru speaker over whether or not McDonalds puts anything on their burgers and could they not do that.
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Dec 7, 2015 10:39
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McDonalds hasn't change their menu in the last 100 years so there is no reason to be slow unless you were literally born yesterday and managed to get into the drive thru somehow
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Dec 7, 2015 15:42
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Fried Watermelon posted:McDonalds hasn't change their menu in the last 100 years so there is no reason to be slow unless you were literally born yesterday and managed to get into the drive thru somehow This is not true in Australia, but that's not a defense that's me saying that I ran into this poo poo every single time I went, drive through or not, until they introduced self-serve kiosks. Decide what you want before you get in line, goddamnit! 
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Dec 7, 2015 15:47
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DarkCrawler posted:TV shows with an interesting premise that insist on being a procedural. The case/monster/murder/whatever of the week poo poo is never anything beyond middling and usually incredibly predictable and underwhelming. The problem with them is that it's an American Television show, and likely on one of the Networks. The standard full season order is 26 episodes, so if you have an interesting story arc, you are forced to span it for that entire season, when it may very well not be necessary for it to be told in more than say 10 episodes. The smaller season shows that have been cropping up on cable and being amazing in general has been a godsend for Television story telling, sure it sucks having to wait a year for 2 more months worth of episodes, but you don't get bogged down in the filler that ends up in a 26 episode cycle.
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Dec 7, 2015 16:00
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Thin Privilege posted:Why wait to eat at home when you can eat in the comfort of your car? Yeah, I worked at a sit down Mexican restaurant that was essentially the whitest non-fast food Mexican you can eat, like even the name was blatantly thought up by a white guy. I had one lady once complain about the spicyness of our standard salsa (the hot stuff was by request only). The standard salsa consisted of chopped up tomatoes, onions, and cilantro for color. I also had several families that complained about how the food wasn't authentic enough, what were you expecting with the name on the front, it's borderline racist?
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Dec 7, 2015 16:08
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:One time I went to Whataburger and got trapped in the drive-thru for, I poo poo you not, 30 goddamn minutes because the people in front of me had ordered enough food for at least 10-15 people. They had to get their food in at least three giant plastic shopping bags. Once went to White Castle (Don't judge me), and when we went to make our order in the drive thru, the cashier told us we'd probably want to go somewhere else since the car in front of us had ordered a hundred burgers.
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Dec 7, 2015 16:23
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, I worked at a sit down Mexican restaurant that was essentially the whitest non-fast food Mexican you can eat, like even the name was blatantly thought up by a white guy. Taco Gringo? I laugh every time I drive by one of those. Might as well be a big sign reading "THIS 'MEXICAN' FOOD IS SAFE FOR WHITE PEOPLE OK"
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Dec 7, 2015 16:35
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Taco Gringo? I laugh every time I drive by one of those. Might as well be a big sign reading "THIS 'MEXICAN' FOOD IS SAFE FOR WHITE PEOPLE OK" I had to google that to make sure it was real  It was Jose Pepper's, which from the outset seemed like your standard TexMex faire, but somehow it was just whiter, I don't know how to explain it.
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Dec 7, 2015 16:53
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Taco Gringo? I laugh every time I drive by one of those. Might as well be a big sign reading "THIS 'MEXICAN' FOOD IS SAFE FOR WHITE PEOPLE OK" Just googled it, and I'm kind of disappointed that the name isn't actually "Taco Gringo?"
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Dec 7, 2015 17:06
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Thin Privilege posted:When people take really long at the drive thru. I don't mean when there's 5 people on the car, I mean the single person for who, for whatever reason, takes 5 minutes to order. Come on just say "I want a #1 no cheese with a Coke" and go! Don't sit there debating and questioning the drive thru person about whatever while 20 cars pile up behind you!!! Most of the time this is the restaurant's fault, not the person ahead of you. In my experience, most drive-thru cashiers can't handle punching in more than a single item at a time or are too dumb to let you finish speaking before saying "anything else???" Which means they didn't hear the last two items I was trying to order, making me have to repeat what I said, then reverify the whole order to that point with the cashier, then continue ordering. So loving maddening.
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Dec 7, 2015 17:49
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Oh, it's real all right. I've had a couple work lunches there. It's not bad if you know what you're getting yourself into: the blandest "Mexican" food on the continent. I ordered some spicy chicken nachos one time. What I got was store-bought tortilla chips smothered in canned cheddar cheese and topped with shredded bag lettuce, canned black olives, diced tomatoes, and some shredded white meat chicken that at one point had been shown a photo of a packet of fajita seasoning. It's not bad food, it just doesn't taste like anything. My peeve this week is consistency in the language employed by the media. More specifically, how the word "addict" is used and not used. It goes without saying that there are all kinds of substances a person can be addicted to in a medical sense. Stuff that if you don't have it, and you've been using it for a while, you start displaying withdrawal symptoms. Heroin is an obvious example here, but there are lots of others. It's believed that one of U.S. President John Adams's sons died of an alcohol addiction (or possibly withdrawal, but that's related to the addiction). There's a whole billion-dollar industry surrounding tobacco cessation. So, I'm cool with the media saying "Authorities say Smith robbed the store to fund his heroin addiction." Now, there are some things that the media suggest you can be addicted to that aren't substances you eat, smoke, shoot up, etc. There are porn addicts, gambling addicts, when a kid has been misbehaving he might be a video game addict, and now there are social media addicts. And there is actually some interesting research into these types of addictions--recently, I've seen some studies published suggesting that people that use Facebook for more than so many hours a day develop honest-to-goodness withdrawal symptoms when denied access to it. Are these addictions the same as the above ones related to substance use? Obviously not, but I'm cool with the media calling them "addictions," because they're things that some people do so much that it affects their lives in a negative way, and they have trouble stopping. So, I'm down with that. Here's the actual peeve: "Authorities say Smith's heroin addiction drove him to commit crimes." "Police say Jones's alcoholism was a contributing factor in her recent string of convictions." "Thomas, whose wife divorced him two years ago, has since recovered from his gambling addiction." "Richards suffers from cannabis use disorder, and had been under the influence at the time of the incident." Come the gently caress on. If somebody drinks too much, or watches too much porn, or smokes cigarettes, he or she is an addict, but if you smoke too much pot, you're a victim? The inconsistency drives me bonkers.
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Dec 7, 2015 20:05
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Yeah Bro posted:I am also annoyed when people aren't as intimately familiar with the mcdonalds menu as I am and have to take time to make a decision. Dude, it's McDonald's. You don't need to comb the menu looking for hidden gems, because spoiler, there aren't any. Order the first vaguely edible sounding item and put it in your mouth because the only reason you're at the McDonald's drive thru is because you're hungry and don't give a poo poo what you're eating as long as it's convenient.
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Dec 7, 2015 20:25
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Gabriel Pope posted:Dude, it's McDonald's. You don't need to comb the menu looking for hidden gems, because spoiler, there aren't any. Order the first vaguely edible sounding item and put it in your mouth because the only reason you're at the McDonald's drive thru is because you're hungry and don't give a poo poo what you're eating as long as it's convenient. pro-tip, if you're really picky about what goes on your burger, it's impossible to screw up a box of mcnuggets.
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Dec 7, 2015 20:26
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:canned cheddar cheese I can't believe anything like this exists. PP: Any cheddar that isn't proper mature delicious cheddar. (Preferably the west country farmhouse cheddar.)
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Dec 7, 2015 20:38
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Geokinesis posted:I can't believe anything like this exists.  YUMMY YUMMY
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Dec 7, 2015 20:47
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:
Walmart sells this is 6lb varieties. It's a very large can. It's like Christmas for the plastic cheese lover. E: 
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Dec 7, 2015 20:52
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Iron Crowned posted:pro-tip, if you're really picky about what goes on your burger, it's impossible to screw up a box of mcnuggets. Let me tell you about the disappointments of McDonalds. I don't know what it is about the joints here but they manage to gently caress up even nuggets. Last time I ordered a 10 piece because gently caress it, I don't want to cook and McDonalds is a three minute drive from my house. I open the little cardboard box and the nuggets have the general consistency of paper mache. Each one a pale white pasty goo inside a soggy shell. The fries didn't have salt on them either, it was pretty awful even for McDonalds.
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Dec 8, 2015 00:30
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:"Richards suffers from cannabis use disorder, and had been under the influence at the time of the incident." Sounds like the source threw that pot thing in to add information bias. "oh, he does the mary-joo-onna, throw the book at him!"
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Dec 8, 2015 00:42
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Fried Watermelon posted:McDonalds hasn't change their menu in the last 100 years so there is no reason to be slow unless you were literally born yesterday and managed to get into the drive thru somehow Not all of us eat fast food so often that we've memorised the menu.
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Dec 8, 2015 04:20
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Davros1 posted:Once went to White Castle (Don't judge me), and when we went to make our order in the drive thru, the cashier told us we'd probably want to go somewhere else since the car in front of us had ordered a hundred burgers. You'd be interested to know that this kind of poo poo happens way too often. I used to do tech support for a point of sale company. I had customers call us trying to figure out how to re-key a $800 order for 2 tour buses that arrived without notice with a single payer and coupons. They had made a mistake mid-way and couldn't back out of the order in the system. I also had a client try to activate 2,500 (two thousand, five hundred) $5 Wendy's gift cards for a charity donation all at the same time on their terminal while customers were waiting. It ended up taking 6 hours. They could have called the gift card company and ordered them to be over-nighted in a heartbeat, instead they wasted most of their day. Fast food managers need to learn to worry about the normal day to day stuff. When something weird happens, that's the person that needs to wait. When a customer wants a Big Mac, hold the top bun, hold the burger, add onions, add pickles, add lettuce, and add chicken, they can loving wait.
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Dec 8, 2015 05:28
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People telling a story and then getting stuck/wasting time on remembering useless details. Me: "Hey, where's your phone?" Normal person: "I braked for a bunny running over the street and that made some soda spill over my phone. It's broken." The people I'm talking about : "Man, 4 days ago...or was it 3? When was Thursday? Well, Thursday i was driving to visit my brother, you know Tom? The one who married that Asian 2 years ago? What was her name? Rikuchu? Rickachu? I think something starting with Rik....do you remember her? Do you? DO YOU? Yes, alright, so i was driving to see my brother, i used my other car, do you know it? The blue 1996 Volvo. Or was it a 1998? I think it was a 1998. So i was driving out of the city, you know the street that goes a really wide left first and then there's that blue single house? Before the forest? There's a pretty nice place for barbeque's there, we should go there some time. So i was driving there ok i can't any more
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Dec 8, 2015 13:36
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RabbitWizard posted:People telling a story and then getting stuck/wasting time on remembering useless details. This is my mom. She is the worst storyteller in the world because she includes every detail and goes on a tangent every other sentence.
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Dec 9, 2015 02:40
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Henchman of Santa posted:This is my mom. She is the worst storyteller in the world because she includes every detail and goes on a tangent every other sentence. This is my mom's friends, who she seems to hate, but I guess she needs somebody to drink wine and complain about my dad with. My mom's a good story teller, and funny, which is why I guess they keep her around. I can't stand these broads. I'm always waiting for the punchline of the story, and then it turns out the point of the story was indeed the fact that the grocery store bagger looked like her niece, whose mother is the daughter of someone's aunt I have no loving clue but she got her a gift certificate to Buy Buy Baby and it was a boy and his name is Rylan.
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Dec 9, 2015 03:36
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My storytelling peeve is when I'M trying to tell a story or deliver news and my family won't stop excitedly butting in and asking questions/commenting about the thing I'm literally seconds away from telling them. "So you know that project I'm working on? Today Becky came in and said it has to be done three days early, and I said--" "Did you tell them that wasn't enough time?" "Um, well I said I didn't know if I'd have time." "Yeah! You have to, otherwise they'll never leave you alone!" "I did. Then she asked if I wanted to just work on that instead of my other work for a while, which sounds awesome--" "Did you say yes?" "...Yes." It also often takes the form of telling me what I should or shouldn't have done in the situation that already happened and is over, oh my God please just stop talking for a second and I promise all the answers will be revealed My mom also does something similar when we're watching any kind of dramatic TV show, asking who new characters are and what they're doing as soon as they appear on screen. Parasol Prophet has a new favorite as of 04:15 on Dec 9, 2015 |
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Dec 9, 2015 04:11
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The fact that the logical opposite of STEM fields is always somehow "lol bullshit liberal arts", regardless of how applicable the field, i.e.: economics, politics, history, etc. I used to live with a lot of STEM majors (mostly engineering and physics) and a lot of them have this weird attitude that any intellectual venture that isn't going to net you an enormous amount of money after graduation is absolutely worthless. Interestingly enough, they are always the ones who don't understand why austerity doesn't work, or how systemic racism operates. Cool, it's almost like we need a variety of different people who specialize in a wide variety of subjects in order to have society work. HMMM.
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Dec 9, 2015 04:15
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Parasol Prophet posted:My mom also does something similar when we're watching any kind of dramatic TV show, asking who new characters are and what they're doing as soon as they appear on screen. I tend to watch movies with my family because I hate myself or something and my mother is the most aggravating person to watch a film with. The second an actor comes on screen she'll excitedly punch my shoulder "That's snape!" and she'll start telling me all about who the actors is and what they've been in before as she recognizes even if I know who they are, despite the fact that I'm trying to watch the movie. She also applauds the film, like in the middle of the show when something exciting happens she'll just cheer and applaud. 
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Dec 9, 2015 04:51
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Henchman of Santa posted:This is my mom. She is the worst storyteller in the world because she includes every detail and goes on a tangent every other sentence. This is my mom too and it's such a major pet peeve! It's not even necessarily remembering small details; with her it's more like just going on completely random tangents. I remember we were in a car ride together and she started off some story or something and thirty minutes later she hadn't even gotten close to finishing it because she talked about 10 other topics inbetween. Usually I need to ask leading questions to get her back on track but it's a crapshoot whether that will even work or if she'll get offended that I'm interrupting her or something. Which as mentioned must be her pet peeve for me. I do tend to interrupt her or respond to what I think she's going to say, and I honestly think it's because I've been conditioned to know that otherwise she'll ramble on forever. But somehow I end up assuming what she was going to say wrong or whatever, probably because her poo poo never follows a linear path.
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Dec 9, 2015 05:01
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Clocks posted:Which as mentioned must be her pet peeve for me. I do tend to interrupt her or respond to what I think she's going to say, and I honestly think it's because I've been conditioned to know that otherwise she'll ramble on forever. But somehow I end up assuming what she was going to say wrong or whatever, probably because her poo poo never follows a linear path. Related: When I'm talking to someone in person and say "I don't know how to describe this problem, can I just show you what happens?" and they insist on having me explain it, can't figure out what's happening from my description and end up getting me to show them anyway. I told you I wouldn't be able to describe this adequately, why didn't you just look at the thing for yourself to begin with?
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Dec 9, 2015 08:11
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RabbitWizard posted:People telling a story and then getting stuck/wasting time on remembering useless details. These people are also called "old people"
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Dec 10, 2015 16:45
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Clocks posted:This is my mom too and it's such a major pet peeve! It's not even necessarily remembering small details; with her it's more like just going on completely random tangents. My mom is like that too, but on top of that it usually, starts with her asking me a question, and she'll then answer it and keep going.
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Dec 10, 2015 17:14
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Calling sandwiches sammys. Sandwich doesn't have a loving M in it.
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Dec 10, 2015 20:24
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radiatinglines posted:Calling sandwiches sammys. Sandwich doesn't have a loving M in it. "Sammich."
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Dec 10, 2015 21:26
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People who start telling a story and then are like "hey kob you tell it/youre better at telling it" You brought it up you fuckin tell it. People that stand in line for minutes and only decide what to order when they reach the register. Fast food snobs. "Ive havent been to McDonalds in decades  . I havent either I just get my garbage somewhere else.Everyone knows fast food is garbage but i can have it in 30 seconds and its 2 dollars calm the gently caress down. "Taco Bell? Why not get some real mexican food" Because I want Taco bell you dunkass. Of course theyre not the same.
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Dec 10, 2015 21:53
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Thin Privilege posted:"Sammich." I had an ex that called it a "sang-wich"
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Dec 10, 2015 22:52
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Every radio station in my area that plays pop music has some type of morning zoo programming so I can't listen to pop music when I'm driving to work. If I want to listen to rock, or classic rock, or jazz, or opera, or oldies there is no problem, but if I'm in the mood for pop music, all 5 local stations are 2-5 morons talking about celebrity gossip and last night's episode of Big Brother. Why do they assume that people who like pop music would rather not listen it between 6 and 10am on weekdays?
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Dec 10, 2015 23:48
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May Contain Nuts posted:Every radio station in my area that plays pop music has some type of morning zoo programming so I can't listen to pop music when I'm driving to work. If I want to listen to rock, or classic rock, or jazz, or opera, or oldies there is no problem, but if I'm in the mood for pop music, all 5 local stations are 2-5 morons talking about celebrity gossip and last night's episode of Big Brother. Why do they assume that people who like pop music would rather not listen it between 6 and 10am on weekdays? Because morning radio shows are still somehow a thing.
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Dec 11, 2015 00:03
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KoB posted:Fast food snobs. "Ive havent been to McDonalds in decades It's the dietary equivalent of " I don't watch TV", people who derive all their sense of self worth from irrelevant bullshit that doesn't matterMay Contain Nuts posted:Every radio station in my area that plays pop music has some type of morning zoo programming so I can't listen to pop music when I'm driving to work. If I want to listen to rock, or classic rock, or jazz, or opera, or oldies there is no problem, but if I'm in the mood for pop music, all 5 local stations are 2-5 morons talking about celebrity gossip and last night's episode of Big Brother. Why do they assume that people who like pop music would rather not listen it between 6 and 10am on weekdays? maybe they assume they aren't awake yet
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Dec 11, 2015 00:05
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KoB posted:People who start telling a story and then are like "hey kob you tell it/youre better at telling it" Vaguely related but "google it". I loving hate it when someone's talking about a movie or a game or something and you're like "What's that?" because you don't obsessively watch every new trailer and the only response is "Google it". Maybe it's just because my personal stance is if someone isn't interested enough in a thing to explain it, then I don't see any reason to invest my own time in looking it up but moreover why would you bring up something then try to pawn the whole conversation off on to loving google. I don't want to sit there looking at my phone while the other guy just sits there watching me google something until I figure out what it is, that's a stupid way to have a conversation.
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