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Fuckin' toaster knob goes from 1 to 10 but 4 results in barely warmed bread and 5 turns the slice solid black. Not a particular brand, every toaster I've ever encountered. Why do they all pretend that the settings work?
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Lockdown has led me to watching a lot of dumb poo poo on youtube and the like, which leads me to... AMATEUR FOOD REVIEWERS WHO DON'T LIKE FOOD  I'm not having a go at "picky eaters" - like what you like, I don't care. But if you're reviewing something thats main ingredient is, say, mushrooms, and you state that you detest mushrooms at the beginning then it's probably going to be an utterly pointless review. Hate tomatoes in all forms? Then your review of this pasta sauce is probably not going to be that positive or helpful in the least!
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Jul 9, 2020 08:48
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Dip Viscous posted:Fuckin' toaster knob goes from 1 to 10 but 4 results in barely warmed bread and 5 turns the slice solid black. Not a particular brand, every toaster I've ever encountered. Why do they all pretend that the settings work? Possibly the most annoying thing about this to me is that the method of operation means every toaster is going to be different. Even two of the exact same model of toaster will be different. Toasters work via a little filament next to the knob that gets heated while the toaster warms up and, y'know, toasts. The filament slowly curls inward as the toaster heats it up, and when it touches a circuit or switch the power is automatically cut and your toast pops up. You adjust the length of the toastin' sesh by rotating the knob, which physically rotates the filament. But this of course means that there is no consistency at all because it's not like it's going to heat up evenly and in exactly the same amount of time every time. Also, constantly being heated and cooled means the filament will warp over time and so the rotating knob eventually won't even make a difference anymore. More expensive toasters have solved this by just having a circuit board with a timer inside and the knob adjusts the timer. But man I can't be bothered to shop around for a luxury toaster! It's a toaster!
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Jul 9, 2020 08:57
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"Anyways." I hate that word, I hate how prevalent it's become, I hate that complaining about that word draws the "DESCRIPTIVE NOT PRESCRIPTIVE" tools out of the wordwork, I hate seeing it in formal writing, I hate seeing it in otherwise-great tattoos. It's kin to "supposably" and "for all intensive purposes" and it just sounds backwoods and lame. So I tell myself it's like "towards" vs. "toward" -- maybe the "toward" users were flipping out about this godawful "towards" business 200 years ago, but now either word is perfectly valid and accepted and I don't get bothered by "towards," do I? No, I use "towards" myself. But ANYwaysss... UGH 
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Jul 9, 2020 16:01
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The thing about toasters is America's Test Kitchen tested them, and unless you're getting an industrial toaster made for restaurants to spit out perfect toast every time, they all loving suck, and you should just get the cheapest one you can find.
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Jul 9, 2020 16:11
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Do what I do: have an apartment so small that there's no counter space for a toaster. Make toast on a frying pan. It's slow! It heats the whole place up to like 30 degrees! But you're definitely in control of it
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Jul 9, 2020 16:38
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Killingyouguy! posted:Do what I do: have an apartment so small that there's no counter space for a toaster. Make toast on a frying pan. It's slow! It heats the whole place up to like 30 degrees! But you're definitely in control of it With that much effort you should just make a grilled cheese sandwich instead
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Jul 9, 2020 16:40
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Iron Crowned posted:With that much effort you should just make a grilled cheese sandwich instead And put peanut butter on top of it? Gross, dude
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Jul 9, 2020 16:46
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Jul 9, 2020 19:28
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Ok if you're gonna poke your head up out of your loving phone just long enough to make a comment/joke or ask a question, could you at least stick around for the response before you dive back into whatever worthless poo poo you're doing? I'm so sick of answering someone and receiving a yawning wall of silence. I stopped reading the forums for long enough I could hear your pointless poo poo, grant me the same loving courtesy!
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Jul 11, 2020 16:30
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Rabbit Hill posted:"Anyways." *it's akin to, unless you meant to type kin in which case holy poo poo that's way more backwoods. Anyways, our toaster broke last year and now we just make toast in the oven. The power usage sucks but I don't really miss having a toaster, it's fine.
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Jul 11, 2020 16:48
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I did mean "akin to" and I blame auto-correct.  On that note: I loving hate typing on my tablet, and my participation on message boards and social media (and even email) has declined considerably since I began using my tablet more than my laptop. I used to post a lot in TVIV and The Book Barn, but no way am I making effort-posts on a tablet. (I'm on my laptop now, though.) On an unrelated note, and this is more than a pet peeve, but, man....having ADHD sucks. If I misplace something in my apartment, I can't just look in the obvious or logical places, I have to look everywhere, because not only am I scatterbrained, I don't form memories when I'm distracted. Things turn up in places I don't even remember going to. Oh no, I lost my keys! After searching the 3 logical places, the 10 most likely places, and 2349978 unlikely places, I find them in a drawer I have no memory of opening within the past 6 months. How did they get there? When did they get there? What was I doing when I put them there? No idea. Sometimes I forget to fill my weekly pill organizer. That means that sometimes I get to have the exciting adventure of trying to remember if I've already taken my meds today, or if the memory I have of taking the meds is a memory from some other day in the past. If I guess incorrectly, I'll either have terrible anxiety and heart problems during the day, or terrible withdrawal symptoms beginning that night. Why don't I just remember to fill the pill organizer? Because I have ADHD.
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Jul 11, 2020 20:03
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Rabbit Hill posted:On an unrelated note, and this is more than a pet peeve, but, man....having ADHD sucks. If I misplace something in my apartment, I can't just look in the obvious or logical places, I have to look everywhere, because not only am I scatterbrained, I don't form memories when I'm distracted. Things turn up in places I don't even remember going to. I've found it helps by having dedicated spots for things, like the instant I get home I put my wallet, keys, and watch in the exact same spot every day. Tiggum posted:The song Rude by MAGIC! I loving hate this song with a passion
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Jul 13, 2020 14:38
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It's so loving annoying that some places (like flights) mandate masks, but not that people wear then correctly. A couple of these passengers boarding aren't wearing it over their nose. The majority haven't used the nose-bendy-bit. It just makes it all feel so performative. Norway currently doesn't have anyone in respirators, and covid hospitalisations are <10. So people will soon stop taking it seriously, I imagine.
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Jul 13, 2020 14:45
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"There's a message on the answering machine for you" "What's the message?" I don't think you understand the purpose of answering machines.
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Jul 13, 2020 18:23
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SubNat posted:It's so loving annoying that some places (like flights) mandate masks, but not that people wear then correctly. Motherfuckers walking around with chinstrap masks jesus christ. I hate them more than people that flout masks entirely.
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Jul 13, 2020 18:32
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Motherfuckers walking around with chinstrap masks jesus christ. I hate them more than people that flout masks entirely. 2-3 people on this ~36 person flight were even wearing their masks with the wrong side out. (Yes, ~36, tiny 2-prop plane.) 'Blue side out, white side in' is not a hard concept to understand. (For those standard, disposable facemasks that seem to be the most common type here, at least.)
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Jul 13, 2020 19:52
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Wearing a mask but pulling it down at least once per minute to scratch face/lick fingers.
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Jul 13, 2020 20:38
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Rabbit Hill posted:On an unrelated note, and this is more than a pet peeve, but, man....having ADHD sucks. If I misplace something in my apartment, I can't just look in the obvious or logical places, I have to look everywhere, because not only am I scatterbrained, I don't form memories when I'm distracted. Things turn up in places I don't even remember going to. As someone with ADHD who has been panic searching her apartment for her debit card I understand. (gently caress)
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Jul 13, 2020 21:33
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Rabbit Hill posted:On an unrelated note, and this is more than a pet peeve, but, man....having ADHD sucks. If I misplace something in my apartment, I can't just look in the obvious or logical places, I have to look everywhere, because not only am I scatterbrained, I don't form memories when I'm distracted. Things turn up in places I don't even remember going to. yeah i have ADD and i also dont form memories when i'm distracted. i cant really remember poo poo people tell me verbally if it's more than one thing at a time either. it's very annoying because there's a very easy workaround: explain things to me and give me a sec to write all that poo poo down while you're quiet, but that's too much for most people, they just have to keep yapping while i'm still trying to remember the first thing they said
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Jul 13, 2020 22:44
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i hate when people expect you to remember all kinds of poo poo about them when youve only met them once. i forget what day it is all the time why should i remember whether generic short haired lady #34 is married or not
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Jul 13, 2020 22:56
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Dip Viscous posted:Wearing a mask but pulling it down at least once per minute to scratch face/lick fingers. Wearing a mask but pulling it down every time they talk
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Rabbit Hill posted:On an unrelated note, and this is more than a pet peeve, but, man....having ADHD sucks. If I misplace something in my apartment, I can't just look in the obvious or logical places, I have to look everywhere, because not only am I scatterbrained, I don't form memories when I'm distracted. Things turn up in places I don't even remember going to. Late one night after work a few years ago, I parked and locked my car then walked the block to the front door of my apartment building. I reached into the side pocket of my jeans, but my keys weren't there. I checked my other pocket, and every pocket in my jacket, but I could not find my keys. I spent probably half an hour walking back and forth along my route between the parking lot and front door, at midnight, desperately trying to find where I'd dropped my keys. Frustrated and freaked out I looked up at the sky, shoved my hands into my back pockets, and felt my keys. I've never felt more relieved and confused at the same time. I never put anything in my back pants pockets. Never did before then, never have since. It was weird.
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I'm wondering if this played a part in the origins of the legends of mischievous ghosts and fairies who hide and then misplace your things. In an earlier time, what other explanation would they have had as to why their missing soup ladle turned up in the coal bin, if they lived alone and had no memory of putting it there?
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When a meme is really funny but there's an egregious typo in it that distracts badly from the joke so you feel stupid sharing it but fixing it feels also quite stupid
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Jul 14, 2020 23:25
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When a cord falls behind the desk in such a way that it cannot be reached from any angle.
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The Mighty Moltres posted:Late one night after work a few years ago, I parked and locked my car then walked the block to the front door of my apartment building. There have been many occasions when I'm driving down the street in my car, and I suddenly start panicking because I cannot find my keys, because they're not in my pocket. Yesterday I could not find my sunglasses because I was already wearing them 
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Jul 16, 2020 15:20
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Sometimes I'll start panicking that I forgot my phone somewhere while my phone is in my lap and I'm playing some stupid game on it. Brain, please. The sunglasses thing I've never done but my mom does it all the drat time.
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Jul 16, 2020 15:26
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I've straight up gotten to the level of pressing the "find my phone" button and watching it start ringing. I was stoned, but that's not nearly unusual enough to excuse
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Jul 16, 2020 15:37
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People that just keep going hey, hey. HEY. HEY. HEY! HEY!! to get your attention, no matter how much you acknowledge them, and never transition from going HEY!!! to saying what they want.
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Jul 16, 2020 16:19
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When staff in restaurants or shops get obsessed with my baby and don't leave her/us alone. Like, yes, she's super-adorable, and I will think you're a monster if you don't agree, but we didn't actually invite you to this meal out with us, so maybe give us more than a few minutes peace at a time...
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Jul 16, 2020 16:58
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I try to do car repairs myself. It's a...mixed bag. Some thing go really well and are simple, like when I replaced the thermostat on my truck's coolant system. But other things are a LOT more complicated than any youtube tutorial makes them seem, because I guess they are all filmed in, like, Florida or southern California because the loving cars are drat near rust-free. I just wanted to replace the brake pads and rotors on my car. The first one, the FIRST ONE I tried resulted in me having to buy a whole new brake caliper because a loving $5 little spring was so rusted in the old one that it was impossible to remove. I've already looked at the other caliper, and I can see it's the same situation...worse, actually. So there goes any chance on saving money, already spend another $80 more than I wanted on a caliper, and now I feel I have to go to a garage to get the rest done because there's a chance they, with better tools and skills can remove that old rusty spring without any sort of caliper damage, but it'll cost me in labor, so...maybe I should just buy a new caliper for that side, too? gently caress cars.
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The Perfect Element posted:When staff in restaurants or shops get obsessed with my baby and don't leave her/us alone. Like, yes, she's super-adorable, and I will think you're a monster if you don't agree, but we didn't actually invite you to this meal out with us, so maybe give us more than a few minutes peace at a time...
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Jul 17, 2020 23:16
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It's called the loving Torah not the "old testament" and motherfucker there are a few more sections before you get to the Jesus parts Peeve is goyim
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's called the loving Torah not the "old testament" and motherfucker there are a few more sections before you get to the Jesus parts There are many more books in the Old Testament beside the Torah (which is essentially the first five books). Good examples are the Book of Daniel and the Book of Ezekiel. In the former God protects prisoners from being burned alive, in the latter a prophet relays information detailing the coming of a messiah.
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The Perfect Element posted:When staff in restaurants or shops get obsessed with my baby and don't leave her/us alone. Like, yes, she's super-adorable, and I will think you're a monster if you don't agree, but we didn't actually invite you to this meal out with us, so maybe give us more than a few minutes peace at a time... Sadly I missed it, but when I was a server while carrying two plates of Mexican food bend over and motorboat some baby on the way to a table. She got fired on the spot, but I know it happened because everyone was like "What the gently caress" about it for the next three days. DrBouvenstein posted:I try to do car repairs myself. I feel you there. My most recent experience was a squeal on the belt. Pulled the old belt off, and spent 2 hours fighting the tensioner to get a new belt on. I had replaced the belt before, no problems, but now I'm exhausted, and it's about to start getting dark. I drive it to the shop with no power steering or water pump. Turns out my alternator was failing again and it had damaged my tensioner and the pulleys. This was early March. I've just learned I can replace a battery, spark plugs, and disc brakes, if I have to get under the thing for any reason it's going to the shop. gently caress cars
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Jul 18, 2020 21:57
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"Plague times" and "age of COVID" annoy me- this poo poo needs to be taken seriously but it's not a plague. Smallpox, black death (actual, literal plague), things where if you got it death was not only possible but likely, sure. But a bunch of people have spent waaay too much time online and are talking like if you get Coronavirus, you're dead. I had that poo poo bad and it crippled me for weeks- stopping the spread is pretty important! But talking about it like it's the virus from Outbreak just gives room for idiots to talk about how it doesn't kill as many people.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:"Plague times" and "age of COVID" annoy me- this poo poo needs to be taken seriously but it's not a plague. Smallpox, black death (actual, literal plague), things where if you got it death was not only possible but likely, sure. But a bunch of people have spent waaay too much time online and are talking like if you get Coronavirus, you're dead. I had that poo poo bad and it crippled me for weeks- stopping the spread is pretty important! But talking about it like it's the virus from Outbreak just gives room for idiots to talk about how it doesn't kill as many people. Tell that to my friend you dumb piece of human trash COVID loving kills people and you're a moron for pitching anything otherwise
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