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rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Cell phone use is literally as dangerous as driving drunk but people don't realize it so they are much more willing to do it.

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rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Yeah the three main causes of car accidents are alcohol, cell phone use, and speed, but every one ignores the last two because they don't want to admit they are part of the problem.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Mu Zeta posted:


"The 00s were when the REAL music was made. Sorry for the millenials today with their lovely pop :("


There are so many great bands out there today but I saw someone recently get nostalgic for the backstreet boys. Same thing with everyone suddenly acting like Linkin Park was any good after the singer died.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Steak is so boring to me because anyone who cooks it does it exactly the same because they're deathly afraid of "mistreating" the steak. Every steak dinner is just a huge slab of barely seasoned meat some potato and a vegetable if you're lucky.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Tiggum posted:

You've never had surf and turf? Or steak with mushroom sauce? Or even just steak and salad?

No but aren't 2 of those 3 things still the big slab of meat except with different sides than what I mentioned?

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Yeah I don't understand how they keep pushing the amateur submission stuff when you can clearly see by the page view count they make visible on every article that pretty much everyone checked out when they made the change.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I'm pretty sure it's at least partially geographical and you get suggested what people on your area look for.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I'm 31 and multiple people still expect me to make them a Christmas list. It's a pain because when I was a kid I could just ask for a bunch of video games but now I barely have time for my steam library as it is. I end up just holding off on buying some of the stuff I need toward the end of the year just to have stuff to ask for.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

It should be illegal to make work schedules less than like, two weeks in advance.


New York is working on something like that. If they don't give you enough notice they have to pay you more.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Khazar-khum posted:

Baggers make min wage. The cashiers make $18-22/hour and up around here. They pay very little for their health bennies, something like $15/week. They aren't starving.

Where do you live that pays those wages? I'll start packing.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Brawnfire posted:

When you think the coffeemaker's done so you go to grab a cup but it turns out it's still brewing so drips of coffee get on the warming plate and smells acrid so you have to wipe them off or else it'll just keep popping and hissing until you turn it off

This except my coffee maker claims I can get coffee before it's finished

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Elizabethan Error posted:

you can't turn at a red light :thunk:

There's a lot of poo poo you can't do that people do if they think they can get away with it

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Brawnfire posted:

All you can kinda do is look at each other and nervously hope someone's having a *good* time.

If you're in a somewhat rural area it's probably a fox.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

NYPD: known bastion of justice

No joke, a post like that is why so many people react negatively to terms like “flyover state”

Jeez why can’t all these assholes have the luck to be born in a liberal area?? Why can’t they afford to move to one? I never got a gun pointed at me by cops! Heh, idiots

You say that like the people in the middle states don't act like they're the only "real" Americans.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I'm glad my junior high made everyone take home ec. I was taught early about the danger of dull knives. I can't imagine being too insecure to accept that I should use the right tool for the job.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Nettles Coterie posted:

If you had a baby that died a few months after birth, that's extremely sad and understandably something that will affect you for the rest of your life. If it's 5 years later and you still post 5+ Facebook statuses every day about the topic, ranging from benign "I miss my child" posts to long-winded poo poo about how nobody will ever understand the pain you're in and how nobody cares, maybe you should get off the internet and into a therapist's office.

Are you saying they should move past it and heal?

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Restaurant industry is weird because if the restaurant is doing poorly it's possible that the servers are making more than anyone including the owners. People ought to just pay a living wage and abolish tipping entirely, but that's not going to happen when people can't make a living in some places at even double the current federal minimum wage.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

It was allegedly supposed to be a take down of toxic masculinity but they didn't bother to show any downside to a bunch of young white men getting together and carrying out terrorist attacks.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

poptart_fairy posted:

Used to work with one nurse that was queasy around blood and vomit. Fair enough - we were in a residential home at the time, and these weren't hugely common for the people we were looking after.

She took a job in a hospital.

Yeeeeah, didn't think that one through too well. Within a week she'd quit that and was trying for her old job - was all but told to gently caress off by management because she'd apparently been slating the home and its carers.

We are a bunch of drama queens.

I work in dementia care and of course almost everyone working here believes in lunacy for some reason.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

ADD is caused by your brain not having the energy to focus. Stimulants help you focus. Adderall is just a delayed release amphetamine.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

The worst of it was the Olson twins where somehow creeps counting down until they were legal was somehow culturally important enough to make it into the news cycle.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:

This is the first 4th of July that fireworks have been legal in my state, so everyone is already going hog loving wild setting them off nonstop and shooting Roman candles from moving cars and poo poo. The actual 4th is going to burn down half the town.

With the heat wave and recent fireworks law changes I expect half of Buffalo NY to burn to the ground Wednesday.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

life is a joke posted:

Are you one of those people who waits until the last second to merge?

That's literally how you are supposed to merge though. You go to the end and each Lane is supposed to take turns. It just doesn't work because they don't actually teach people this and everyone is an impatient rear end in a top hat.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I started saying tortilla and jalapeno wrong on purpose and now I can't stop.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

People in tv/movies just barging into crime scenes with cries of “that’s my son!!” Or whatever and the cops just let them.

You just reminded me that this parody of your pet peeve exists: https://youtu.be/Uhv3uXMriRk

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Yeah I don't even have my ringer on vibrate any more I get so many spam calls. If you don't text or leave a message I'm not even going to try to respond.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Get rid of urinals and make everything gender neutral. If you miss the experience of a urinal splash a little pee on your shoes while you hold a picture of someone's dick in your peripheral vision.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Brawnfire posted:

No you're not wrong, I often find the number and speed of cuts to be disorienting. That also cuts down my enjoyment of choreography like you mentioned, such as a fight scene where I can't quite tell where people are and where they're moving because they keep doing fancy things. Show me a setting and let me watch things play out from informative angles.

I feel the same way about sound in modern films. I can't tell what's going on because everyone is whispering while things explode.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

People who take medicine by putting water in their mouth first and then taking the pills.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

yeah I eat rear end posted:

On one hand, it is valid to say they have a lot of "non-PC" jokes on seinfeld, but on the other jesus christ these people (for the most part) need to lighten up, especially morgan. You can simultaneously find offensive jokes funny and recognize that they aren't really inappropriate, you won't get in trouble. The way they cringe at parts that really aren't that bad is annoying, like they are watching something illegal.

thanks for giving me a new peeve

That toy episode is basically one long rape joke and is probably the worst episode of the show though.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

yeah I eat rear end posted:

In terms of being inappropriate, yes, but there are episodes that are far less funny. Have you ever seen the pilot? It's pretty terrible.

My biggest problem with the episode is that it's pretty much the only joke in the episode and as much as Seinfeld bitches about political correctness, he isn't really all that good at dark humor. I'm annoyed that they picked such a bad episode to show to people who haven't seen the show before, but I suspect that they did so intentionally.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I feel like it should be illegal to have horns or sirens in radio ads. I always end up looking around for some sort of emergency.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

bobjr posted:

There was a general "We don't want to be political, so respect people and their holiday traditions" email sent out, and that person could be using it as a cover, but they've also said it's their favorite song ever.

Also a lot of other people in the office listen to their own music in headphones and the person has a decent amount of seniority, but I'm probably in a weird minority in that I can't listen to music and work to my best, so it could be just distracting to me more than anyone else in the office.

Considering the controversy you just this person has to be doing it to "trigger the snowflakes" I don't know anyone who gave a poo poo about the song before this year.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005


Is that Bobby Moynihan?

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

It's basically official policy of border agents that if you joke with them it means you're nervous and therefore you have something to hide. I'm pretty sure it's just so they don't have to hear the same joke declarations from everyone going in to Canada.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Have any of you ever had to drive a truck or full sized work van? It is absolutely safer faster and easier backing into a space than backing out of it.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Rabbit Hill posted:

I'm currently trying to listen to an online training webinar, and the speaker has a hacking wet cough and -- GUUHHGHSHGH -- is audibly snorting up her mucus into her throat. :barf:

It's 3 minutes into the webinar, I need it for my job, but Jesus CHRIST, this is torture.


Maybe 50% of all my posts in this thread are complaining about webinar speakers' voices, and maybe I'm unusually sensitive to sound or something, but for the love of God, if your job involves recording your voice for others to hear:

1) :siren: Don't loving snort your snot into the microphone :siren:
2) Get some loving elocution lessons or practice first or SOMETHING, dear God, so we don't have to listen to you lisp/drone/whine/screech/uhhhhhmmmmmm for an hour.

This includes Ira Glass and Sarah Vowell, who are abominable.

I binge watch TLC while working the graveyard shift and I swear to God everyone on my 600 pound life must be coached to be as bored and lispy as possible in the narration.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005


You were rather quick to post that tweet from a furry porn artist.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Cops found a meth lab in the sewers under my local Walmart.

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rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

I had a pedestrian who wasn't paying attention run into my stopped car with enough momentum to do a weird roll over my hood. People need to look up from their phones every once in a while.

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