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just ban all scooters and mopeds and any personal transportation other than normal bikes in cities. ban cars too but allow horse and carriage
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throw them in the river/ocean, OP
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Jul 23, 2020 19:30
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DontMockMySmock posted:throw them in the river/ocean, OP Look, aside from the batteries, that's quite illegal. Bash it with a hammer or baseball bat. When did America lose it's way and stop smashing things that AREN'T like buttons?
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Jul 23, 2020 19:32
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nespresso machines or any kind of cup based bullshit coffee machines. im in an airbnb and it has one of these why do people buy this? it's hideously expensive and not even particularly convenient, and the coffee tastes bad compared to normal ground coffee from a decent brand a normal coffee machine is like: put in water, add filter and appropriate number of spoonfuls, press button, bam nespresso is like: clicky clack retrieve week old used cup from dirty reservoir, get new cup, fill up water, shove in new cup, jam it in there (i admit that its sort of satisfying to mount the cup), wait for the water to heat up/pressurize, press button and get a crappy little espresso
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Jul 23, 2020 22:20
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Shibawanko posted:nespresso machines or any kind of cup based bullshit coffee machines. im in an airbnb and it has one of these the office had one of these in addition to the normal machines and when there was no more coffee for the actual machines i had to use one of the cups and it was really great if what you wanted was warm tap water with a pile of grounds in it idk how it consistently hosed up coffee that bad
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Jul 24, 2020 00:57
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What kind of nespresso machines are y’all using? That’s not me being snide, I’m genuinely curious. I have one that’s a single use deal for espresso and it’s incredibly easy. Put the little pod dealies in and go. It has a reservoir that I have to fill every few shots. Never had any issues with it breaking or spitting grounds into the shot. I bought a few of the sleeves of pods and it averaged out to like $1 a shot or close to it. I got it because I dont want a whole cup of coffee and would rather just she shots of espresso. I also add them to my morning smoothies and it’s perfect.
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Jul 24, 2020 01:29
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Joey Freshwater posted:. I also add them to my morning smoothies and it’s perfect. This is actually the perfect way to use something like that, since even if it’s not great espresso it’s evened out by all the other ingredients.
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Jul 24, 2020 01:30
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loving selfish people with no shame about how selfish they are being even when you point it out to them i work at a grocery store and a few minutes ago i had a white woman with a toddler child trying to buy 4 loaves of a bread we have to ration at 2 per person due to supply constraints. "i have had to come in here looking for this bread every day for two weeks," she says angrily. "i do understand that, ma'am, and it's very frustrating. everyone else has had to do the exact same thing. it wouldn't be fair to everyone else for me to give you more than your fair share." "Then I'll have my daughter buy two. she's a customer." her daughter is, again, a toddler sitting in the baby seat of the cart babbling in toddler speech. "Ma'am, i do understand your frustration but i won't sell them to your daughter right now either." "This is loving ridiculous. I can't loving believe this. Limit of two that's loving ridiculous. I've been looking for this for weeks and you've been sold out and now you'll only sell me loving two. gently caress you." at which point she paid and left in a huff, snarling that she didn't need a loving receipt as a parting shot as if she thought that would somehow hurt me lol I'm not at all surprised by her refusal to even acknowledge when i pointed out that everyone else had the exact same problem as her, but i am disappointed that people are so garbage at times
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Jul 26, 2020 18:18
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InediblePenguin posted:loving selfish people with no shame about how selfish they are being even when you point it out to them If there's one thing the pandemic has been good for, it's reminding you that the vast majority of the world's population are selfish assholes who value their own wellbeing and convenience above literally anything else, up to and including human lives.
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Jul 26, 2020 19:00
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"It's super hard to find this thing! You need to let me break the rules and get more of it, because people doing that is definitely not part of why it's super hard to find this thing."
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Jul 26, 2020 21:55
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Toddlers aren't even people yet. Your only a person once you get your forklift certification.
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Jul 26, 2020 22:02
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i hate when someone brings up something from the internet in real life and tries to talk to you about it. like a meme or "karen" poo poo or something from the twitter or whatever. i just invariably pretend that i have no idea what theyre talking about, even when i do, and go like "oh well thats nice  " to discourage them from doing it any more
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Jul 27, 2020 09:20
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FreudianSlippers posted:Your only a person once you get your forklift certification. Hell yeah! I've been a person since y2k!
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Jul 27, 2020 13:38
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Shibawanko posted:i hate when someone brings up something from the internet in real life and tries to talk to you about it. like a meme or "karen" poo poo or something from the twitter or whatever. i just invariably pretend that i have no idea what theyre talking about, even when i do, and go like "oh well thats nice The internet is real life dude
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Jul 27, 2020 14:23
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When people have their hair styled so it hangs forward, like, partially in front of their own face. It always slips too far forward and falls in front of their eye and they push it back and it falls forward again and it drives me insane. How is it not driving them insane? It makes me reflexively brush my own hair back even though it wasn't bothering me - and if I've been looking at this person for long enough I've probably already done so several times already. It's like when you see someone has some food or something on their face; you just can't focus on anything else until they deal with it.
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Jul 27, 2020 14:58
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CelticPredator posted:The internet is real life dude i still think of it as basically like a videogame
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Jul 27, 2020 16:03
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Tiggum posted:When people have their hair styled so it hangs forward, like, partially in front of their own face. It always slips too far forward and falls in front of their eye and they push it back and it falls forward again and it drives me insane. How is it not driving them insane? It makes me reflexively brush my own hair back even though it wasn't bothering me - and if I've been looking at this person for long enough I've probably already done so several times already. It's like when you see someone has some food or something on their face; you just can't focus on anything else until they deal with it. 
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Jul 27, 2020 16:05
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It allows for usage of the smolder OP
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Jul 27, 2020 16:06
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I hate when people think that nobody uses something they don't use.
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Jul 27, 2020 16:46
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Tiggum posted:When people have their hair styled so it hangs forward, like, partially in front of their own face. It always slips too far forward and falls in front of their eye and they push it back and it falls forward again and it drives me insane. How is it not driving them insane? It makes me reflexively brush my own hair back even though it wasn't bothering me - and if I've been looking at this person for long enough I've probably already done so several times already. It's like when you see someone has some food or something on their face; you just can't focus on anything else until they deal with it. Same but when somebody obviously needs to clear their throat when they're talking.
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Jul 27, 2020 18:38
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Shibawanko posted:i still think of it as basically like a videogame Videogames are real things too. Sometimes I talk about videogames with my friends in person, even!
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Jul 27, 2020 20:25
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DontMockMySmock posted:Videogames are real things too. Sometimes I talk about videogames with my friends in person, even! You have friends? Now I know you're making poo poo up
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Jul 27, 2020 20:33
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This is very much threading the line between peeve and general complaining but goddam I hate how rona has hosed with school and how useless professors are proving themselves at responding to it. Like I paid nearly a thousand dollars for a mandatory credit. In a class that actually, I'd be hella into if the subject matter were actually taught. But nope, useless waste of a "professor" assigns two loving expensive books and then "teaches" by doing daily bullshit trivia quizzes. The quizzes seem to be kinda sorta gauging if you're reading the books but in the worst way, like it's a loving trivia game. My marks have been the same regardless of whether I earnestly read the text and then take the quiz, or take the quiz with the book and my phone both in front of me, or just go "gently caress it" and pick random loving answers. There's a handful of essays and I've done great on all those, entirely from stuff outside of this useless expensive waste of a class. I could literally learn more by going to a/t and asking random goons about it. poo poo be like "What did granny van Rennselaer say about the New York senatorial election of 1802: a. horrible! b. gadzooks! c. a boondoggle! d. thesamebutindutch! e. well poo poo!" I don't loving know but I sure as poo poo am supposed to page through the book to find out, and no point will I learn any loving thing
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Jul 29, 2020 03:12
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When I say something in the simplest way I can think of and the person looks at me like I'm speaking alienese... So I try to simplify even further and they're just like "???" And so I shrug and say "I'm not sure what you're not getting  " hoping they'll throw me a bone re: their blank eyes. Then they're offended, or they get snarky when I enunciate like "I'm not deaf." Then what is your deal, damage to the part of the brain that parses grammar? It always drives me nuts when it happens, because I seriously did my best and I definitely am no mush-mouth.
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Jul 29, 2020 15:51
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:This is very much threading the line between peeve and general complaining but goddam I hate how rona has hosed with school and how useless professors are proving themselves at responding to it. I fuckin' hate quizzes and questions like that, especially in technical courses. If you're teaching a course about applied skills, you shouldn't ever ask a question that can answered by google in a single word. Try "What were the limitations of early aerial photography" instead of "in what year did someone first take a picture from a hot air balloon"
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Riatsala posted:I fuckin' hate quizzes and questions like that, especially in technical courses. If you're teaching a course about applied skills, you shouldn't ever ask a question that can answered by google in a single word. Good news! When you get out of school, your job will give you legally mandated training about various things, like Sexual Harassment. At worst, they're boring and obvious, at best they're extremely surreal but they usually ask you questions, only about half of which actually directly apply to the point of the training (e.g. preventing sexual harassment). I work in finance so I had anti money laundering training, which is a federally mandated thing of course. The training, which was allegedly about how to spot activity that might be money laundering, and what to do if you do notice it, had 10 questions at the end. 6 of them were a variant of "what year was the law named <this> passed" or "what was the name of the law they passed in 1982." 60% correct was passing, repeat as often as you want. Great. Good job, tick that box, "training" complete. Oh, the good news I mentioned is that at least you get paid for this, instead of throwing your money down the toilet of college education for the privilege.
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Che Delilas posted:Good news! When you get out of school, your job will give you legally mandated training about various things, like Sexual Harassment. At worst, they're boring and obvious, at best they're extremely surreal but they usually ask you questions, only about half of which actually directly apply to the point of the training (e.g. preventing sexual harassment). Same with security training.
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Jul 30, 2020 19:07
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MightyJoe36 posted:Same with security training. OSHA training is the same way for a lot of the early stuff; a lot of multiple choice.
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Jul 30, 2020 19:45
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The assloads of annual trainings you have to go through in healthcare are similar. Lots of braindead multiple choice answers where the answer is extremely obvious even if you didn't pay attention to the reading, a lot of them about poo poo that has nothing to do with how you actually do HIPAA stuff/the safety focus of the quarter/etc in real-life practice.
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Jul 30, 2020 23:43
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Red Velvet cake isn't just chocolate cake dyed red! It needs to have a different texture too!
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Jul 31, 2020 00:10
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MightyJoe36 posted:Same with security training. I just did one that had something like "you see an unescorted visitor in a secure area, what do you do?" and there were options like "nothing. I'm on my lunch break" and "that person is someone else's responsibility" Like I know you need wrong answers, but if you fail that quiz with answers like that, it would be because you deliberately did so.
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Jul 31, 2020 03:10
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Walmart employment applications have enormously long stupid quizzes with head scratchers like A fellow associate is stealing from the store do you: Say nothing Join in Tell a manager Loudly confront them
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Jul 31, 2020 11:55
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I think all retail has quizzes like that. To be honest, with some people I've met in my 39 years, I wouldn't be surprised if there are people who fail by being that stupid.
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Jul 31, 2020 12:40
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Those are also very much "What would you do" vs. "What do you think I want you to do" In that instance? I probably wouldn't say anything because I work at Walmart and don't give a poo poo what my co-workers do. What do you want me to say? Tell a manager, obviously
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Jul 31, 2020 14:13
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MightyJoe36 posted:Same with security training. A previous job once saw me need to get a temporary security pass for a military base and we had to do the standard online security training course for civilians working at military establishments. It needed a 60% to pass and the final 'test' was all multiple choice with one blatantly obvious answer like: You are passing down a corridor and you see that the door to the armoury is unlocked, open and unattended. Do you: a) Go in, pick up a rifle and take selfies in a Rambo pose. b) Ignore it and carry on with your task, because security isn't your concern. c) Immediately inform a military member of staff and meet with the duty officer to fill out a JSP 1234/56-d incident form in accordance with Reg. 420-69. d) Gather all the weapons you can and carry them to a more secure place.
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Jul 31, 2020 14:54
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When I gesture for someone to listen closely because I have to say something quietly to not be overheard, and the person stands there and says "what"?
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Aug 1, 2020 19:11
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If they can't hear you, they can't hear you. Maybe you'd prefer my usual tactic to deal with that, which is to pretend I understood what you said and hope it doesn't come back to bite me later?  (depending on the situation you might get one 'what?' before I give up and switch to pretending-I-understood-you mode)Although at least you're getting their attention first. My peeve is people who barrel right into a conversation when you're not in conversation mode and get mad when you ask them to repeat themselves because you weren't paying attention for the first 10 seconds of their rambling.
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Haifisch posted:If they can't hear you, they can't hear you. No I literally mean the part where I dip my head covertly and go "come here" with my hand, (think "it's free real estate") and they look at me like they've never seen that gesture and speak aloud to me. Which I then have to hope didn't arouse any interest from the people who weren't meant to be privy to what I was about to say. Brawnfire has a new favorite as of 19:42 on Aug 1, 2020 |
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I've posted this before but goddam, people that let their dogs run around without a leash outside of designated or at least safe areas. I literally saw a dog get hit today because the idiot owner was letting it roam because it "behaved" until oops, it didn't. Luckily the driver slammed the breaks and the dog looked pretty much fine but like, cmon. Last week I saw a german shepherd running loose with a half-alive kitten dangling in its jaws. If you don't give a crap about common courtesy for other people in the vicinity, if you don't give a crap about your dog possibly killing something else, give a crap about the safety of your own goddam dog that loves you and trusts you to take care of it you absolute monsters
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My neighbor across the street doesn't keep his dog on a leash when he takes it for walks. Any time it starts to wander off he goes "EYY" and it turns around and comes right back. While it's admirable that you have your dog trained enough that it listens to you consistently, you could solve the problem of shouting "EYY" at it all the time if you just put it on a leash like a normal person.
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