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Brawnfire posted:I will never, NEVER understand how bacon packaging ended up like it is Omfg this Also, separating the bacon pieces without destroying them is almost impossible.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 13:08 |
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I had a package last week that practically became bacon lace as I pulled it apart, it's like the fat came par-rendered On a different topic, I don't know if this happens to other people or if I'm an alien but sometimes the cartilege in my ear cone seems to "crackle" or "crinkle" for short periods. It goes away eventually, but still. It's annoying!
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 15:58 |
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The solution to the bacon-falling-apart problem is to only buy thick bacon, I'm not saying it has to be those "mega thick, 1/4" slice" ones, but just something that is at least a little thicker than rice paper. Agree on the packaging. When I first open a pack of bacon, I take it all out, throw the package away, and then place whatever isn't cooked then and there in a 1 gallon zip-top bag.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:26 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:When I first open a pack of bacon, I take it all out, throw the package away, and then place whatever isn't cooked then and there in a 1 gallon zip-top bag. I separate it into two slice portions, then roll each of them up, and they fit just fine in a quart-sized bag with room to spare. That way in the morning, I just grab a roll of bacon (or two if my roommate wants some), and fry those bitches in the pan.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 18:54 |
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Since we had Amazon complaints recently, I figure this is a good place for this: https://miniondeathcult.libsyn.com/unlocked-i-often-say-amazon-is-the-bernie-sanders-of-employers-interview-with-amazon-driver-haley-brown Don't use Amazon folks.
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 19:06 |
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Whenever someone refers to my partner as 'your man' or someone talking to him refers to me as 'your girl'. We're not each others possessions this is creepy
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 19:49 |
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I've had to call people for my work this past week. Now, I hate calling people just in general. I don't even like calling my relatives. But fine whatever, I'm getting paid. But the number of people who have thought I was a telemarketer or a scammer! No, no. I am not trying to sell you anything and I'm not trying to scam you! I am just trying to put a name in our ancient database, mkay? So telemarketers and scammers are a new peeve, because not only are they annoying in themselves, but they're making an already unpleasant task even harder. gently caress those people!
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 19:57 |
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Killingyouguy! posted:Whenever someone refers to my partner as 'your man' or someone talking to him refers to me as 'your girl'. We're not each others possessions this is creepy "the boyfriend"
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 20:38 |
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Shibawanko posted:"the boyfriend" Ugh oh my god this one too!! He's a human being!! Talk about him like he's a real person deserving of respect!!
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 21:49 |
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Please, the preferred nomenclature is "[Borat Voice] my wife!"
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 22:09 |
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People need to stop making fun of accents. I know I sound like a deep woods swampland Texas redneck, I am one. But you don't have to think I'm stupid for it. Wait until I prove it, it won't take long. If you open a conversation by laughing at my dialect you are a dick. Wait until you hear me talk to kinfolk. That there is a bit worth laughin at I tells ya, you ain't know goshitall dangit!
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# ? Apr 6, 2021 22:44 |
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The American use of the word "holiday" to mean, as far as I can tell, literally any day that any person has ever designated as being related to anything. Do you have to go to work? Then it's not a holiday.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 11:52 |
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Tiggum posted:The American use of the word "holiday" to mean, as far as I can tell, literally any day that any person has ever designated as being related to anything. Do you have to go to work? Then it's not a holiday. Give us a break, we only get ten holidays a year, if we're lucky enough to work in an office.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 12:25 |
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Tiggum posted:The American use of the word "holiday" to mean, as far as I can tell, literally any day that any person has ever designated as being related to anything. Do you have to go to work? Then it's not a holiday. Yes. The annoying part of this is that it's so random. Depending on the holiday, most things may be closed, or nothing is closed. Some are "important" enough to get a day off from work, others everybody goes to work. When I lived in Europe, if it was a holiday, you were lucky to find anything open. Not to mention that a lot of their holidays were two-day holidays (e.g., Easter Monday). If it were up to me, Election Day would be a Federal holiday, but that's a discussion for another thread.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 13:05 |
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It's more like a guideline, because there aren't days that people universally don't have to go to work on. I've had jobs that required me at work 7 days a week forever, but I still considered stuff like Christmas and New Year's to be holidays.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 13:06 |
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MightyJoe36 posted:When I lived in Europe, if it was a holiday, you were lucky to find anything open. Not to mention that a lot of their holidays were two-day holidays (e.g., Easter Monday). Dip Viscous posted:It's more like a guideline, because there aren't days that people universally don't have to go to work on. I've had jobs that required me at work 7 days a week forever, but I still considered stuff like Christmas and New Year's to be holidays.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 13:52 |
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Dip Viscous has to work that day, Christmas is no longer holy
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:01 |
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Last November I celebrated the three-week Festival Of Covid by lying flat on my back and occasionally groaning.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:11 |
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Dip Viscous posted:It's more like a guideline, because there aren't days that people universally don't have to go to work on. I've had jobs that required me at work 7 days a week forever, but I still considered stuff like Christmas and New Year's to be holidays. I interviewed at a place that while closed on certain "holidays" such as Christmas and New Years, if you wanted to get paid for it you had to use PTO. Needless to say I accepted an offer elsewhere.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 14:14 |
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Holiday has a literal meaning of Holy Day. So Kramering into a pet peeve thread and saying "If 'My Country/Company/Party' doesn't endorse your religion it is invalid" is a hell of a take. Yeah it's ok to call the Eids a Holiday even if the USA doesn't give you time off for it. If this is not the point you are making, you are basically skirting on the damned razors edge of a popular Fascist talking point. (they love trotting out the 'day off work' definition of holiday, which is second to the literal definition. To invalidate minorities.) Minority Holy days are still Holy to that minority and they are allowed to refer to it as such. Ninja Edit : I could understand being upset poo poo like "Columbus Day" is called a Holiday in the USA even though it is a national Holiday where businesses are closed, since it is not considered Holy by anyone. Unless Chuds still like that guy. Don't get me wrong I love having a day off, but gently caress that guy, right in his dumb boat crashing ear. Lap-Lem has a new favorite as of 19:22 on Apr 7, 2021 |
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Lap-Lem posted:Holiday has a literal meaning of Holy Day. So Kramering into a pet peeve thread and saying "If 'My Country/Company/Party' doesn't endorse your religion it is invalid" is a hell of a take. Yeah it's ok to call the Eids a Holiday even if the USA doesn't give you time off for it. Lap-Lem posted:Ninja Edit : I could understand being upset poo poo like "Columbus Day" is called a Holiday in the USA even though it is a national Holiday where businesses are closed, since it is not considered Holy by anyone. Unless Chuds still like that guy. Don't get me wrong I love having a day off, but gently caress that guy, right in his dumb boat crashing ear.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 19:41 |
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Tiggum posted:What the gently caress are you even talking about? The origin of the word "holiday" may be "holy day", but that's not what it means. Etymology is not the same as definition. A holy day and a holiday are not the same thing. Easter Tuesday is a holy day but not a holiday (unless you live in Tasmania, apparently). This is literally not true, the word Holiday means Holy Day, not just in dictionary definition, but also to many people who are 'not you'. holiday noun hol·i·day | \ ˈhä-lə-ˌdā , British usually ˈhä-lə-dē \ Definition of holiday (Entry 1 of 3) 1 : holy day an important Muslim holiday 2 : a day on which one is exempt from work specifically : a day marked by a general suspension of work in commemoration of an event will be closed for the July 4th holiday a national holiday plans for the holiday weekend 3 chiefly British : vacation —often used in the phrase on holiday going on holiday —often used in plural spent the summer holidays in Spain 4 : a period of exemption or relief corporations enjoying a tax holiday Those 'evil others' are not factually wrong, you are, and you are using false "facts and logic" as a bludgeon to force your will upon them. Your made up definition of the only way to use Holiday is wrong. accept it, or pick up your ball and go home.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 19:56 |
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Lap-Lem posted:This is literally not true, the word Holiday means Holy Day, not just in dictionary definition, but also to many people who are 'not you'. I feel like you're reading a lot into his posts that isn't there and should relax a bit. He's not "forcing his will" on anyone, good grief, he's talking about a semantic difference between Australian and American English.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 20:06 |
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Brawnfire posted:I will never, NEVER understand how bacon packaging ended up like it is Baconsplaining (this is a guess): You want to vacuum seal it so air doesn't make the fat go off. Put slices on top of a flat sheet of plastic, put another flat sheet on top, suck out the air then weld the sheets together. That squishes the slices together hard so they stick. Vacuum sealed hams or big deli meat before slicing is similarly squished together, but there's only one thing in there so you don't notice it as much. Non-vacuum sealed packaging would have much worse shelf life.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 20:07 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I feel like you're reading a lot into his posts that isn't there and should relax a bit. He's not "forcing his will" on anyone, good grief, he's talking about a semantic difference between Australian and American English. In their defense, I wouldn't give Tiggum the benefit of the doubt at this point either.
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# ? Apr 7, 2021 20:33 |
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Tiggum posted:I'm talking about how Americans use the word "holiday" to refer to random poo poo like "national eat a doughnut day" or whatever. That's not a holiday. It's just a day someone gave a name to. A holiday is a day (or longer period) away from responsibilities. Anyone can declare any day to be dedicated to anything they want; it doesn't mean anything. What general term do you use to describe days like Christmas, Easter, Australia Day, etc.? Would you just called them "named days"?
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 03:55 |
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My peeve is that every year, on my work google calendar it marks things like easter monday as holidays but every year I forget we don't actually get those days off as federal employees. I was excited for a long weekend last week but then my boss scheduled a meeting for that monday and I remembered once again that it's only a "holiday".
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:01 |
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Dip Viscous posted:What general term do you use to describe days like Christmas, Easter, Australia Day, etc.? Would you just called them "named days"? As per what Tiggum said, he'd still call them holidays because you get a day off.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:03 |
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Amoeba102 posted:As per what Tiggum said, he'd still call them holidays because you get a day off. but what if you're a retail worker and you don't get the day off but it's still a loving socially significant day
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:05 |
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Amoeba102 posted:As per what Tiggum said, he'd still call them holidays because you get a day off. Last year was the first Christmas I didn’t work since 2014. Was Christmas not a holiday for 2014-2019 for me? I still did christmasy stuff, just worked that day.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:05 |
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Tiggum posted:If you're working, it's not a holiday. It's just a day. Unholiday. Because work is unholy. Ugly In The Morning posted:Last year was the first Christmas I didn't work since 2014. Was Christmas not a holiday for 2014-2019 for me? I still did christmasy stuff, just worked that day. InediblePenguin posted:but what if you're a retail worker and you don't get the day off but it's still a loving socially significant day Then it's not a holiday for you. Some worked examples. Christmas falls on a saturday or sunday - you get a bonus day off on the monday or tuesday, that is called the Christmas Day Holiday (like this year it's Mon the 27th). Others like Anzac day falling on a weekend doesn't get the holiday on the monday (still Sun 25th, not actually a holiday this year imo). Amoeba102 has a new favorite as of 04:13 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Dip Viscous posted:What general term do you use to describe days like Christmas, Easter, Australia Day, etc.? Would you just called them "named days"? Public holidays.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:10 |
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idk why i got involved in this conversation in the first place, it's loving tiggum and someone foolish enough to agree with tiggum
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:13 |
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Amoeba102 posted:As per what Tiggum said, he'd still call them holidays because you get a day off. The example I gave was not getting the day off on Christmas, which apparently means it's not a holiday for me. If I get a day off work it's a holiday, if I'm at work it's not. That part I got, but not what the general term would be for days that are significant enough to have names assigned to them. Doctor Spaceman posted:Public holidays. Thank you. Dip Viscous has a new favorite as of 04:36 on Apr 8, 2021 |
# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:15 |
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Tiggum would hate Canada where we call going to Cuba, at any time of the year, 'going on holiday'. Ain't nothing holy about cuba
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 16:32 |
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This might be the single worst loving most boring conversation I've ever read in the 16 years I've been on these forums. You should all be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 22:15 |
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Killingyouguy! posted:Tiggum would hate Canada where we call going to Cuba, at any time of the year, 'going on holiday'. Ain't nothing holy about cuba Going on holiday to Cuba and working remotely
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FreudianSlippers posted:I always carry a claymore incase I need to cleave any foes in twain I have a kaiser blade. Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. My uncle set me up to deliver that line because he calls it a sling blade and had never heard of a kaiser blade. I did the line and included a bit about potted meat, hmm hmm. I thought I'd get a laugh out of him. Nothing. He had no idea what I was talking about. He hasn't seen the movie. 76 years old and never saw Slingblade. I do have a kaiser blade for real. It's super handy for brush work.
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# ? Apr 9, 2021 02:32 |
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When people you have had 0 contact with, doesn't know anyone you do, and you never even knew existed randomly contacts you, and all they say is 'hey'. Expecting you to start the actual conversation. If you're an artist or whatever on twitter/tumblr/etc with some visibility you'll generally end up getting a bunch of them over time. And it's like, don't reach out to contact me if you literally don't have a single thing to say. You want to contact me, but you're pushing all the work of starting up the conversation and etc onto me. In my experience anyone who genuinely has a question or wants to strike up conversation usually does so as part of initiating the conversation. I generally avoid them because I feel it's all too likely that if I engage with them they'll just turn into those 'we're friends now, why are you ignoring me I thought we were friends?' emotional vampires who can't discern between someone being kind/taking some time to chat and someone being their friend. (Or someone fishing for free 'friend art'.) (I'm sorry, there really isn't a better term for them, the kind of people where if you interact with them they just latch on, and keep demanding you interact/console/support/help them. All the while being emotionally manipulative. Had my fair share of those interactions in the past, not keen on having any more.)
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Walking the same way on a street where only one other person is walking, and they just keep pace uncomfortably close behind you instead of crossing the street or passing you or anything. Get away from me motherfucker. Call me an antisocial shut in goon but I will turn and do a loop around a block before I just walk blocks with some rear end in a top hat ten feet behind me going the same way. It's fine in a city with lots of people on the street but where I am now and it's just the two of us... noooooooooooo
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