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From weird school policies to bizarre workplace guidelines, what’s a rule you’ve encountered that made you scratch your head? For me, it was in high school. If you were disruptive in class, you had to go to a certain little room, presumably to be bored as punishment, but it was full of National Geographics that you were allowed to read while you were in there. Nothing else, just a desk and a shitload of magazines. Everyone would, of course, look for the issues containing nudity. Not sure what they expected of us.
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not allowed to say the australian c word
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Dec 5, 2024 05:16
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THAC0
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Dec 5, 2024 05:17
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I've put myself in prison, and I am my own warden and jailor and also stodgy old rear end parole board.
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Dec 5, 2024 05:22
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Seth's. Honest answer. Unless you count fetish poo poo.
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Dec 5, 2024 05:25
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When I skipped school they suspended me from school.
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Dec 5, 2024 05:29
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HOA dictated allowed colors on the backing of window coverings. Then someone hung the most garish curtains you can imagine, then mounted a huge campaign about how the HOA was being the gestapo and when everyone said gently caress you those are loving hideous, what the gently caress is wrong with you, just replace the backing with a neutral, they sued, and lost.
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Dec 5, 2024 05:33
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Buce posted:not allowed to say the australian c word Canberra?
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Dec 5, 2024 05:54
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Rubber Chicken posted:THAC0 thac0 is a good rule 
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Dec 5, 2024 06:00
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Buce posted:thac0 is a good rule It is and I like it But it's strange
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Dec 5, 2024 06:30
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obligatory tipping
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Dec 5, 2024 06:34
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Tube posted:Canberra? Collingwood
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Dec 5, 2024 06:53
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STAY OFF THE GRASS but drill sergeant there is no grass, not even the dream of grass, only a patch of dirt and gravel and fire ants
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Dec 5, 2024 06:55
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WHATEVER THE gently caress ALL THIS IS
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Dec 5, 2024 06:57
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I worked at a restaurant where we would get in trouble if we got caught calling them customers or diners or whatever normal words for the people who have come to eat at the restaurant. You could only refer to them as guests. Just dumb to regulate talk between servers in the back of house areas, you never call anyone customer or whatever to their face anyway. We also couldnt say servers, thankfully forgot whatever we had to say instead by now when you wanted to bitch that there were too many or too few on.
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Dec 5, 2024 07:03
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Khanstant posted:I worked at a restaurant where we would get in trouble if we got caught calling them customers or diners or whatever normal words for the people who have come to eat at the restaurant. You could only refer to them as guests. Just dumb to regulate talk between servers in the back of house areas, you never call anyone customer or whatever to their face anyway. We also couldnt say servers, thankfully forgot whatever we had to say instead by now when you wanted to bitch that there were too many or too few on. Team members?
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Dec 5, 2024 07:07
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Francophone language protection laws. Back in the web 1.0 days I worked for a department with oversight and admin responsibility for a multinational system of intranet sites containing mostly dashboards for sales backends and hr bullshit. One day we got a call from our Montreal office. They had been raided by the language police after an anonymous tip. Our crimes were itemized in a bulleted list and those included missing or misspelled french translations of several menu items and inlined html comments that were only in English. The worst crime however was the prominent language selection widget on every page had the french flag smaller than the American one, and also it was listed as a third option after English and Spanish.
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Dec 5, 2024 07:16
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Don't Print the Thing, Ctrl+P and save as a PDF first. and you might be thinking "oh, makes sense, you need to save a document for later" Oh no no no, you need to make sure it's then printed by click and drag INTO the browser and then print it. Then, you have to delete it "to save memory" No oversight and no matter how many times you tell them it's going to the same printer, it just becomes a screaming match.
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Dec 5, 2024 07:44
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Buddy, I’m Catholic. We’ve got a lot of strange rules.
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Dec 5, 2024 07:49
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We can get any product from any supplier we have as long as head office adds the product into the system. We often can’t get customer requests because the woman that enters product lines just won’t. She’s not an owner, she’s not really in the “chain of command” and it’s costing the entire chain money. No one knows why this is a thing.
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Dec 5, 2024 08:41
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TelevisedInsanity posted:Don't Print the Thing, Ctrl+P and save as a PDF first. Hahah I'd quit in a heartbeat
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Dec 5, 2024 09:30
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frumpykvetchbot posted:Francophone language protection laws. lmao, or hon hon hon perhaps
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Dec 5, 2024 15:40
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Edward Mass posted:Buddy, I’m Catholic. We’ve got a lot of strange rules. Oh poo poo, forgot it was Friday and got a porkchop biscuit. Time to ask for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin.
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Dec 5, 2024 16:23
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There are a few breweries here that have you wear brewery specific boots and don't allow outside shoes in the brewery. I worked at a place that enforced it. Needless pain in the rear end.
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Dec 5, 2024 17:17
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Did you know they still do a bris?! At 8 days after my non-jewish sister in law is delivering her first child?! My mom and brother have berated her into doing that... I didn't know they still did that. I thought it was all ceremonial now and they did the procedure at the hospital, but nope. SiL is gonna have to have a bunch of guests over to her home and watch/listen as her baby gets his foreskin cut off 8 days after giving birth. Absolutely savage. A lot of other Jewish rules make a lot of sense, but circumcision is just...wild.
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Dec 5, 2024 18:13
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1. Stop touching your penis
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Dec 5, 2024 18:16
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Don't look at the blinding light in the sky!!!!
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Dec 5, 2024 18:17
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The posts in this thread are going to wind up in a YouTube short over footage of a pressure washer.
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Dec 5, 2024 18:20
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Rubber Chicken posted:THAC0 Still very unsure of this one and I play in a 3.5 group
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Dec 5, 2024 19:05
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redshirt posted:Don't look at the blinding light in the sky!!!! An honor to be posting with you Mr. President, sir!
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Dec 5, 2024 19:06
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Don't open the basement door.
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Dec 5, 2024 19:10
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"you get to leave at 5 pm" ok i guess ill just try to think of ways to seem busy for the remaining 3 hours. thanks for activating the motivation and joy centers of my brain boss man sir honcho commander (my boss has a weird name)! it makes me so much more productive and happy  i love this!
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Dec 5, 2024 19:31
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Wearing a tie as a grunt at a loving retail store. Profoundly stupid.
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Dec 5, 2024 19:45
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Navin Johnson posted:Wearing a tie as a grunt at a loving retail store. Profoundly stupid. That's to give an annoyed rich wife the opportunity to lead you around with it like a leash, it's for both your fantasies!
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Dec 5, 2024 19:46
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Except she doesn't want to sleep with you it just helps her sleep better knowing you'll be angrily thinking about her forever
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Dec 5, 2024 19:47
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Aesop Poprock posted:Except she doesn't want to sleep with you it just helps her sleep better knowing you'll be angrily thinking about her forever Ok, so that rule is actually kind of hot, is what you're saying.
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Dec 5, 2024 21:37
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It’s ridiculous I tell ya. No vibes and no bevis. 
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Dec 5, 2024 21:40
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Navin Johnson posted:Wearing a tie as a grunt at a loving retail store. Profoundly stupid. I actually had to do this at my first ever job at a grocery store. Technically bow ties were allowed too so I ended up switching to a dumb little clip on that didn’t bug me as much. Glad I don’t have to dress like a dude anymore holy poo poo.
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Dec 5, 2024 21:44
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You must be this tall to cum ______
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Tube posted:Ok, so that rule is actually kind of hot, is what you're saying. For straight dudes maybe for gay dudes it's just the start of a really detailed drag persona
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