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You also need to know not to buy your fish from strangers in trucks gran.. very important.But what if I want to buy a truck from a fish in a stranger? Why didn't they teach me about that?
That's a mighty impressive eel, right there.
Just remember it's all about having a cod do attitude.
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OOH now that burns me up I hate when tests ask questions that aren't on the study materials. and also 1 year sounds waaaaaay too long.
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This is why i always say Industrial organization psychologists are the dark side of the psych world. Although actually it doesn't really sound like a professional designed that one.
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I used to go with a friend to pick up the seafood order for the Monroe Country Club, we had to drive to Dickeyville and pick it up from the back of a semi truck in a parking lot.
I don't eat seafood at restaurants after that.
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Clearly your friend did not take gran's test...
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Clearly your friend did not take gran's test...
He was the head chef.
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This is reminding me of the Bill Hicks monologue about being offered the low-end drugs because he looks like he can't afford him... guy ahead of him walks down the sidewalk, Bill hears the dealers saying, "Psst, buddy... Cocaine? Heroin?" Bill walks down the same sidewalk, the dealers say, "Glue?"
He answers, "F****er, I can afford cocaine!"
I want to know why no one is offering me suspicious fish off the back of a pickup. I'd buy a body freezer for my garage just for my sketchy pickup fish.
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This is reminding me of the Bill Hicks monologue about being offered the low-end drugs because he looks like he can't afford him... guy ahead of him walks down the sidewalk, Bill hears the dealers saying, "Psst, buddy... Cocaine? Heroin?" Bill walks down the same sidewalk, the dealers say, "Glue?"
He answers, "F****er, I can afford cocaine!"I want to know why no one is offering me suspicious fish off the back of a pickup. I'd buy a body freezer for my garage just for my sketchy pickup fish.
Beats me, it's quite common for freezer trucks to park in a grocery store parking lot up here and advertise "fresh seafood from Texas!" Or somewhere similar along the gulf coast.
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Back when we lived in the mountains in northern Cali, my mom used to do a lot of trout fishing in the river. She would clean them and gut them, but leave the heads on, and freeze them nose-up in an empty quart milk carton. When they had frozen, she would just stack them up. It was a side-by-side freezer/refrigerator, so one entire narrow compartment of the freezer was just trout, frozen in quart cartons and stacked like cordwood, all the little faces just staring at you. It was creepy.
Another whole compartment was peaches from our next-door neighbor's tree, individually wrapped in tinfoil and tossed into the bottom freezer drawer whole. Mom would just cut off frozen slices to eat.
I have never met anyone else who stores either trout or peaches this way.
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Our TN fish have a warning that we shouldn't eat more then like 2 a year. To me that warning just says don't eat the local fish.
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f~++ that shit. We can hit ignore now.
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Those sound like the ignore buttons to me.
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f+*$ that s*&$. We can hit ignore now.
Happy Love Your Feet Day!
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"The secret to success in Food Safety is quite simple. Recognize and develop your strengths. Recognize and minimize your weaknesses. Remember that you are unique. Make a plan and stick to it!"
I'm not sure why the bold is necessary, and one of those things is not like the others.
I feel this should go on a bad motivational poster.
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f!+% that s+~&. We can hit ignore now.
Congratulations on another lap!
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f!#& that s+*&. We can hit ignore now.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Happy B-Day, VE!
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That Fallout is like a toothache or an open wound, isn't it? You (plural, including GothBard and probably Shiro too) keep telling how bad it is, and yet you returning and poking it with a stick to see what seeps out of it?Bad Quote Night:
GothBard: Two dogs, one corpse...
NobodysHome: Wasn't that a really famous, really foul internet meme video a few years ago?
GothBard: Shut. Up. NOW.
So, Fallout 76 bores me to tears. I have no idea why anyone would keep playing the game past the main questline. It's basically, "Pick up every bit of junk you ever see on the off chance that it might be useful, then spend hours sorting through it trying to manage your weight."
Kind of like my actual life, but video-game-ized.
But Shiro and Lara Croft guy love it, and both of them live alone with no family in the area, so video gaming is their *only* social interaction.
I consider it very much like how in old times you suffered through Scrabble or Monopoly because just sitting around with your friends doing nothing "isn't done".
But yeah, Fallout 76 is a buggy, boring, crappy game I wouldn't recommend to anyone.
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f~!* that s##~. We can hit ignore now.
happy birthday buddy wanna buy a cheap haddock?
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Y'all some damn good people. You know that, right? Just a reminder.
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Y'all some damn good people. You know that, right? Just a reminder.
Pshaw.
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I live two hours from coast. I trust certain restaurants with seafood. But I grew up in KY, so am much more beef/pork inclined by default. On truck, or off truck.
That said, some of the best shrimp I have had for a low country boil was off the back of a truck. There was a lot of beer and bourbon involved, so that may contribute to my fond memories.
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SQUEAK SQUEAKUM SQUEAK SQUEAK!
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But Shiro and Lara Croft guy love it, and both of them live alone with no family in the area
Sounds like me... And still, I am feeling meh about that game without ever playing it...
so video gaming is their *only* social interaction.
Meh. Overrated. Who plays games for social interaction anyway?! Give me my solo games anyday of the week. When I play multiplayer games, it's because I like the game but they failed to make solo version...
I consider it very much like how in old times you suffered through Scrabble or Monopoly because just sitting around with your friends doing nothing "isn't done".
Scrabble is sort of ok... Monopoly... Ugh. That game became a prime example of how to not design a board game. Nowdays if anyone suggested playing Monopoly I'd counterpropose almost anything else, including watching the paint dry as better way of wasting time.
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Monopoly gets a bad rap because people don't actually play by the rules. As written, it is a highly entropic game that usually lasts less than 45 minutes (not the multi-hour slogs about which you see people complain).
I don't expect to change your mind, but do read the rules and see how many house rules you have.
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Monopoly gets a bad rap because people don't actually play by the rules. As written, it is a highly entropic game that usually lasts less than 45 minutes (not the multi-hour slogs about which you see people complain).
I don't expect to change your mind, but do read the rules and see how many house rules you have.
Growing up, what always amazed me was how every other family had all these weird rules about all the games we played: Monopoly and Hearts come to mind. They'd say, "Oh, no! If a Chance card makes you pay a fine, that fine goes on Free Parking!"
"WTH? That's not a rule!""Yes it is! Look it up!"
And it always turned out that our family played by the rules, because my father was a pedantic physicist, and the other families didn't.
And yes, I really enjoyed both Monopoly and Hearts growing up, and the random rules that got thrown into the game (you can't lead a heart until someone has eaten one?!?!? What kind of pointless rule is that?!?!? Hearts is a dagger fight, not Nerf boxing!) just detracted from them.
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Random Old Man Complaint of the Day: Cell phone requirements.
These days, more and more companies are trying to require a cell phone number in order for you to do business with them. The orthodontist I just scheduled and appointment with. Chase Bank. And there's not even an, "I don't own a cell phone," option to let them know that you're old and crotchety.
So far, I've managed to get past the screens with a "Maybe Later" every single time.
But the idea that every human being on the planet MUST have a cell phone by now is so naive, and so ridiculous, it frustrates me every time.
(According to this site, cell phone ownership is at 96%, and smart phone ownership is at 81%, but that means you could be cutting off nearly 20% of your clientele, especially older or poorer folks, just by requiring some kind of smart phone interface.)
Let me click, "I don't have a cell phone," darn it!
(Technically, I have a cell phone, but it spends all day every day on my bedside table, so it can be 3-4 days before I notice a text message. Email or calling my land line is WAY faster.)
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Random Old Man Complaint of the Day: Cell phone requirements.
These days, more and more companies are trying to require a cell phone number in order for you to do business with them. The orthodontist I just scheduled and appointment with. Chase Bank. And there's not even an, "I don't own a cell phone," option to let them know that you're old and crotchety.
So far, I've managed to get past the screens with a "Maybe Later" every single time.
But the idea that every human being on the planet MUST have a cell phone by now is so naive, and so ridiculous, it frustrates me every time.
(According to this site, cell phone ownership is at 96%, and smart phone ownership is at 81%, but that means you could be cutting off nearly 20% of your clientele, especially older or poorer folks, just by requiring some kind of smart phone interface.)
Let me click, "I don't have a cell phone," darn it!
(Technically, I have a cell phone, but it spends all day every day on my bedside table, so it can be 3-4 days before I notice a text message. Email or calling my land line is WAY faster.)
man.
You are OLD.
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Odd - must be banned in the US... O well. All you missed out on was some Fairy Pickle Klezmer.Sitll don't know what that means!
I'm guessing fairy pickles are made of mushrooms and is German for some reason (because "Klezmer" looks like a German word).
So German fairy pickles made from mushrooms.
Science wins again!
()
I don't know about Drejk, but that's giving me more goblin alchemy ideas. Grumble, grumble, "PF2E alchemy isn't magic," grumble
Back when we lived in the mountains in northern Cali, my mom used to do a lot of trout fishing in the river. She would clean them and gut them, but leave the heads on, and freeze them nose-up in an empty quart milk carton. When they had frozen, she would just stack them up. It was a side-by-side freezer/refrigerator, so one entire narrow compartment of the freezer was just trout, frozen in quart cartons and stacked like cordwood, all the little faces just staring at you. It was creepy.
{scribbles down notes about "haunt/undead marine life frozen in iceberg/glacier warbling on in oracular stanzas/beat poetry/Dad jokes"}
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{scribbles down notes about "haunt/undead marine life frozen in iceberg/glacier warbling on in oracular stanzas/beat poetry/Dad jokes"}
Please ma'am, may I have some more?
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I have revolved the sun again today.
My family made it a good day yesterday (they work today) despite our horrible prelude events.
Mom took us out to eat. Good family times.
Brother took me to his house and let me play his PlayStation 4 with a "smoke all you want from my stash while you're here but take none home" offer. It was a video game and weed buffet.
Of course drama didn't stop. But f!+% that s+~&. We can hit ignore now.
{slaps on animated Frosty the Snowman tophat:} Happy Birthday!
Congratulations on another lap!
"It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage."
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I just got new texts to translate (into English).
The completely unrelated samples posted by grey make me squirm while I try to reverse engineer the original meaning...
I had, in the past, done reverse-engineering of a translation from Polish to English back to Polish so I could correct the errors - because the original author made a lot of direct calques from Polish to English that made no sense in English because idioms, idiomatic expressions, and different grammar.
Ah, reminds of my many days translating manuals written in "American engineer-ese translating Japanese engineer-ese, neither of whom have apparently ever met a non-engineer human."
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happy birthday buddy wanna buy a cheap haddock?
You also need to know not to buy your fish from strangers in trucks gran.. very important.
You just have to know where to shop, man.
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Our TN fish have a warning that we shouldn't eat more then like 2 a year. To me that warning just says don't eat the local fish.
{makes note not to eat TN pinkskins as they are full of toxic pollutants}
Hmmm...
{...or at least have a divine caster/several healing & antitoxin potions handy}
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Happy birthday VE.
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And there's not even an, "I don't own a cell phone," option to let them know that you're old and crotchety.
Add a Google Voice phone number to one of your google accounts. Use that exclusively for the "you can't set up an account until you provide a number" sites.
For a long time, those number ranges weren't accepted as "cell phones" but several years ago the last site I was dealing with to require a real phone number folded their hand and began letting me use GVoice as my 'phone number'
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{checks} Nope, Google Voice is still not available in my area code or city.
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And there's not even an, "I don't own a cell phone," option to let them know that you're old and crotchety.Add a Google Voice phone number to one of your google accounts. Use that exclusively for the "you can't set up an account until you provide a number" sites.
For a long time, those number ranges weren't accepted as "cell phones" but several years ago the last site I was dealing with to require a real phone number folded their hand and began letting me use GVoice as my 'phone number'
I typically use the old "time lady" phone number. Because I'm THAT ancient...
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{checks} Nope, Google Voice is still not available in my area code or city.
That's a good thing!
You can choose a GV phone number from anywhere in the country. When running a misdirection scheme, it's good to have even more misdirection.
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Two In One Day: Following Instructions:
Having traveled in Europe multiple times, I know 100% that this isn't a uniquely American thing, but holy carp why is it so d**ned impossible for most people to follow even the simplest instructions?
Today's example? Picking up Impus Minor's yearbook.
We all got an email.
(1) Please read all of these instructions before coming.
(2) Please place a sign with your child's name in your windshield that is visible from at least 6' away.
(3) If your child's last name starts with A-M, pull up on the left side. If your child's last name starts with N-Z, pull up on the right side.
That was it. That was the entirety of the instructions.
Of the 8 cars that were there while I picked up:
- I was the *only* car with a sign
- 3 of the cars went to the wrong side of the street in spite of the large signs with arrows saying, "A-M left, N-Z right".
And that's really why I despair for humanity: It's not just instructions that people find annoying or inconvenient; people just ignore any instructions at all and expect the people who are working at the location to bail them out.
I'd really love to see all companies start enforcing their rules. "Sorry. There's no sign in your car windshield. We can't give you a yearbook. You'll have to go home and make one."
It seems petty, but gods, do I get tired of being delayed at whatever it is I'm doing because multiple people in front of me can't figure out the basic instructions they've been given, and can't mimic the behavior of those in front of them.
(European groceries are different from U.S. groceries, especially in the way they sell fruit, so we dutifully went in, watched how the locals did it, and then mimicked them, moving effortlessly through strange situations because we were willing to learn and behave like the locals.)
Grr...
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My family gives me crap for working in construction, but I don't see their bosses hiring a camera man to film them at work.
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"The other guys keep asking me how my dad got his super powers, I keep telling them he doesn't have any super powers, but they don't believe me" - Crookshanks, overheard talking to her cousin about work.
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Oh, we watched the first episode of Norsemen last night.
Our best description? "Game of Thrones meets Sean of the Dead".
It was really just utterly charming and bizarre. It doesn't seem to have much of a plot, not much happened, and it's a lot like taking a bunch of modern-day, uber polite, uber laid back Swedes and saying, "Now you're vikings! This is what you do!" and having them say, "OK. Whatever," and not particularly changing their attitudes.
I mean yeah, it has a bunch of NSFW warnings because vikings, but some seriously laid-back, polite, "Sorry I scratched your Volvo" vikings.
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Two In One Day: Following Instructions:
Having traveled in Europe multiple times, I know 100% that this isn't a uniquely American thing, but holy carp why is it so d**ned impossible for most people to follow even the simplest instructions?
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Grr...
It would probably help if we paid our workers enough to care about enforcing such things and backed them up when they confront a customer, rather than run employees on a shoestring paycheck so there's little investment beyond needing the job for survival and employers/managers capitulating to troublesome clients rather than risk losing their business.
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Monopoly gets a bad rap because people don't actually play by the rules. As written, it is a highly entropic game that usually lasts less than 45 minutes (not the multi-hour slogs about which you see people complain).
I don't expect to change your mind, but do read the rules and see how many house rules you have.
My brothers are notorious Monopoly cheats, I always hated Monopoly. I played it with the General and kids and we were done in about an hour and no one had to cry. It was like a completely different game.
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Happy Birthday VE!