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Pop-Tarts coming 2 in pack but listing nutritional info for just one.
{makes Will save and avoids linking to Paula Poundstone "poptarts" bit}
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Pop-Tarts coming 2 in pack but listing nutritional info for just one.
Multiplying by 2 tends to be easier than dividing by 2.
Oh, I agree, that's why I give cars a wide berth while walking and assume everything else on the road is driven by an idiot.
This is honestly the safest way to share the road, in my opinion.
especially if you're a motorcyclist.
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Pop-Tarts coming 2 in pack but listing nutritional info for just one.
Halves the calorie count if anyone is reading the label.
Seriously guys, most of this stuff makes sense if you just think eviler.
I noticed a stupid real world thing years ago, which was a bad novel someone wrote that was basically anti-D&D propaganda and may or may not have had a conservachristian slant, and I kind of want to check it out.
Anybody know what it was?
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Mazes and monsters which was made into a tom hanks movie of the same name the next year.
There's also the infamous dark dungeons Chick Tract.
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Upstate New york. Where is it?
If you live in the city, upstate is wherever you can no longer stick out your arm and get a yellow cab.
If you live in westchester, upstate starts at bear mountain.
If you live near bear mountain upstate starts at Albany and is divided by "the thruway" running east/west.
If you live in Albany upstate starts at the Adirondack park.
And if you live in the Adirondack park upstate is known as "Canada"
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Mazes and monsters which was made into a tom hanks movie of the same name the next year.
There's also the infamous dark dungeons Chick Tract.
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.
Incidentally, years ago I received a chick tract in the pages of the used art history textbook that I ordered online, along with an anonymous note about being 'concerned for my soul'.
Ironically, this was in the year 2012, which was two years after I got into viking age history but a year before I started seriously worshipping Thor.
So this might be the wyrd's way of sharing a little laugh with me about conservangelists I guess. (that portmanteau works beautifully)
Upstate New york. Where is it?
If you live in the city, upstate is wherever you can no longer stick out your arm and get a yellow cab.
If you live in westchester, upstate starts at bear mountain.
If you live near bear mountain upstate starts at Albany and is divided by "the thruway" running east/west.
If you live in Albany upstate starts at the Adirondack park.
And if you live in the Adirondack park upstate is known as "Canada"
One day, remind me to tell you about my experience with "The Best Burrito Place In Upstate New York" and how terrible and surreal it really was.
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Upstate New york. Where is it?
If you live in the city, upstate is wherever you can no longer stick out your arm and get a yellow cab.
If you live in westchester, upstate starts at bear mountain.
If you live near bear mountain upstate starts at Albany and is divided by "the thruway" running east/west.
If you live in Albany upstate starts at the Adirondack park.
And if you live in the Adirondack park upstate is known as "Canada"
Reminds me of a joke I heard that I believe went:
"To a non-American, a yankee is an American
To an American, a yankee is a northern American
To a northern American, a yankee is a northeastern American
To a northeastern American, a yankee is a New Englander
To a New Englander, a yankee is a Vermonter
And to a Vermonter, a yankee is someone who has pie for breakfast."
Anyways, stupid real world things? Can't recall anything at the moment that sounds funny. Just depressing.
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Mazes and monsters which was made into a tom hanks movie of the same name the next year.
There's also the infamous dark dungeons Chick Tract.
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.
Incidentally, years ago I received a chick tract in the pages of the used art history textbook that I ordered online, along with an anonymous note about being 'concerned for my soul'.
Ironically, this was in the year 2012, which was two years after I got into viking age history but a year before I started seriously worshipping Thor.
So this might be the wyrd's way of sharing a little laugh with me about conservangelists I guess. (that portmanteau works beautifully)
I'd be amazing if they spent that time/energy/money on something that mattered like world hunger or homelessness. That's cool though, misguided PR propaganda is cool too.
My Dad always had a strip of electric tape over the check engine light "I can't afford to deal with that s*@+ this week" he'd say every week:-D
Uncle of mine (owned a body shop) had a light that kept coming on, took the dash apart, and just pulled the bulb for the light.
EDIT: In all fairness, the car was a beater.
Combovers.
Our governor has a comb over, the last election the lengths his ads went to to not show the top of his head were hilarious!
You know what I find really annoying? Walking down the street and there's a guy who has to walk right in the middle who won't just go right, or at least left or...if you would just please pick one...just left, go left, right, whatever if you'll just...wonderful and now there's people walking in the opposite direction past those sides and I have to keep creeping behind him and NO DON'T TAKE OUT YOUR DAMN PHONE WILL YOU PICK A F*%*ING SIDE AND NO DON'T STOP DON'T STOP MOTHERF&^%ER MOVE!
The more cynical part of me thinks it needs to be socially acceptable for a "Two For Flinching"/"Slug Bug"/"Book Check" slap to the device for these people. (The less cynical part just pushes past with a loud, "PARDON!")
Upstate New york. Where is it?
If you live in the city, upstate is wherever you can no longer stick out your arm and get a yellow cab.
If you live in westchester, upstate starts at bear mountain.
If you live near bear mountain upstate starts at Albany and is divided by "the thruway" running east/west.
If you live in Albany upstate starts at the Adirondack park.
And if you live in the Adirondack park upstate is known as "Canada"
Reminds me of a joke I heard that I believe went:
"To a non-American, a yankee is an American
To an American, a yankee is a northern American
To a northern American, a yankee is a northeastern American
To a northeastern American, a yankee is a New Englander
To a New Englander, a yankee is a Vermonter
And to a Vermonter, a yankee is someone who has pie for breakfast."Anyways, stupid real world things? Can't recall anything at the moment that sounds funny. Just depressing.
That's new to me. Im from connecticut and I always thought "yankee" meant new england in general.
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You know what I find really annoying? Walking down the street and there's a guy who has to walk right in the middle who won't just go right, or at least left or...if you would just please pick one...just left, go left, right, whatever if you'll just...wonderful and now there's people walking in the opposite direction past those sides and I have to keep creeping behind him and NO DON'T TAKE OUT YOUR DAMN PHONE WILL YOU PICK A F*%*ING SIDE AND NO DON'T STOP DON'T STOP MOTHERF&^%ER MOVE!
I'd *love* it if it were only people on smart devices.
My wife and I go on lunch walks. We walk side by side. When we see people coming in the opposite direction, I move behind her so we're in single file on the right side of the sidewalk.
It is utterly appalling how many pairs of people refuse to extend us the same courtesy, even after they've seen us do it. They just keep walking abreast, taking up most of the sidewalk.
The latest offenders took up so much of the sidewalk they would have forced NobodysWife off the sidewalk entirely and into the bushes, had NobodysWife not chosen to just go ahead and run into the offending party. Even then, not even a "pardon me" or anything -- just a minor collision and a refusal to even acknowledge that anything had occurred.
Appalling!
(Being 5'6", 200 lbs, and built like a brick, we've decided I'm going to go in front henceforth and just bowl down people who can't yield us at least 1/3 of the sidewalk.)
I'd be amazing if they spent that time/energy/money on something that mattered like world hunger or homelessness. That's cool though, misguided PR propaganda is cool too.Mazes and monsters which was made into a tom hanks movie of the same name the next year.
There's also the infamous dark dungeons Chick Tract.
Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.
Incidentally, years ago I received a chick tract in the pages of the used art history textbook that I ordered online, along with an anonymous note about being 'concerned for my soul'.
Ironically, this was in the year 2012, which was two years after I got into viking age history but a year before I started seriously worshipping Thor.
So this might be the wyrd's way of sharing a little laugh with me about conservangelists I guess. (that portmanteau works beautifully)
Ha! People like that don't care about homeless people or world hunger, nor do they care about the circumstances that cause world hunger or homelessness.
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Customer sends in a form requesting to be billed electronically every month. My team sets this up.
The following month, the customer sends in a check for their quarterly amount that they used to be paying. We refund it, with a letter explaining that since they're set up for EFT now, they don't need to send in money.
Same thing happens the next month.
And the next.
And the next.
We look for a phone number, but can't find one. So every month, we refund his overpaid premium with a letter asking him to stop sending in checks.
This continues EVERY MONTH for three years. He never writes back, never calls, never in any way tries to contact us to ask why the hell he keeps getting checks in the mail for the past 36 months in a row.
#tableflip
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I work in an open air shop, meaning we have no A/C. Temp has been over 100 for most of the last 2 weeks. Everyday at least half of my customers will ask "Don't y'all get hot out here?"
I honestly want to respond sometimes with "No in fact after so many years of doing it we have adapted beyond the need for A/C. In fact so well adapted that if we don't kick the heaters on in early October the technicians start getting lethargic and want to stand out in the sun just to warm up."
People who make eating noises in my earshot, testing the limits of my already questionable sanity.
Basically I have misophonia. It's a disorder that fills you with extreme uncontrollable anger/rage/panic/hatred as soon as you hear certain benign sounds.
Emphasis on extreme, and on uncontrollable. I literally cannot control my reaction. It's like emotional agony for me.
EDIT: Also, keeping your mouth closed when you eat helps to put a lid on the noises, a lot. In fact, eating with your mouth closed is mandatory in my presence.
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People who make eating noises in my earshot, testing the limits of my already questionable sanity.
Basically I have misophonia. It's a disorder that fills you with extreme uncontrollable anger/rage/panic/hatred as soon as you hear certain benign sounds.
Emphasis on extreme, and on uncontrollable. I literally cannot control my reaction. It's like emotional agony for me.
EDIT: Also, keeping your mouth closed when you eat helps to put a lid on the noises, a lot. In fact, eating with your mouth closed is mandatory in my presence.
Of course I read that post while finishing a bun...
Hey so long as I can't hear you it's all good.
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stupid real world thing I just noticed: "d20 System" is Product Identity according to the text preceding the OGL in the SRD
uh, ok, how do you get more generic than 'd20 system'?
"The World's Most Popular Game System Involving a d20"
Semantic shift happens.
the last one is certainly annoying though, because it makes it very hard to talk about actual anarchism with folks outside of the left (and even within the left, then again leftists who believe in a state are generally bad news anyway)
Yep, semantic shift. it happens.
Take, for example, the word 'warlock'.
Back in the Old English period (and by Old English I mean "hwæt we gardena in gear dagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon", not shakespeare) the word was wærloga
literally 'oathbreaker'. One of the worst insults you could call somebody, and so it was a curse on someone's runestone, threatening to name anyone 'wærloga' who would defile it.
And now it means a wizard for some reason. No I don't know how that happened.
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Scheduling toll booth shift changes for the peak of rush hour.
The mind reels at the logic...
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It is utterly appalling how many pairs of people refuse to extend us the same courtesy, even after they've seen us do it. They just keep walking abreast, taking up most of the sidewalk.
This drives me ape-shit. When I was younger and a lot meaner it never bothered me -- people would see me coming and step aside; even a crowd would often part like the Red Sea. Now that I'm old and inoffensive, people just walk over me without noticing.
It is utterly appalling how many pairs of people refuse to extend us the same courtesy, even after they've seen us do it. They just keep walking abreast, taking up most of the sidewalk.This drives me ape-s@&&. When I was younger and a lot meaner it never bothered me -- people would see me coming and step aside -- even a crowd would often part like the Red Sea. Now that I'm old and inoffensive, people just walk over me without noticing.
When people walk in a row down the sidewalk or hallway and block the whole path, this is what I see.
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Scheduling toll booth shift changes for the peak of rush hour.
The mind reels at the logic...
It means they keep the lowly employee with a minimum amount of money in the drawer. if someone got to work for the entire thing they might skim more.
Management: making everyone's lives worse so theirs can be just a little better since someone decided that burried in the ground wasn't enough for them they needed a pyramid.
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When people use a common phrase/expression, but get the words wrong in such a way as to demonstrate that they have no idea what they're actually saying, and are instead mindlessly parroting something they don't even understand, just because they think other people say it.
Good example:
"For all intensive purposes," when what they really meant was "for all intents and purposes".
fwgafvegag
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When people use a common phrase/expression, but get the words wrong in such a way as to demonstrate that they have no idea what they're actually saying, and are instead mindlessly parroting something they don't even understand, just because they think other people say it.
Good example:
"For all intensive purposes," when what they really meant was "for all intents and purposes".fwgafvegag
I like to mix up the phrase "sharpest knife in the drawer" and its variants
Sharpest brick in the fire, and so forth.
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I think you misread his post. He said his boss wants his emails to say "Dear So-and-so" like you're talking about, but then also lead off with an additional "To So-and-so" before that salutation.I thought that at first, too, but his clarification "But, isn't this already answered in the 'To' space in the e-mail???" led me to believe that, no, he meant the "To: So-and-So" in the email header (which, as stated, appears just above the body of the email). Preachy or not, sometimes it's necessary to point this sort of thing out to people.
Our office manager once actually had to explain to one of the newer people why mass email invitations like "come2the dnstrs conf rm @2 4 mtng with ceo" are not really appropriate -- especially if the CEO in question is on the "cc" list.
Yes, they want flowering titles and praises;
How i do:
Dear Mark,
Annexed with this mail is the requested service's budget, awaiting for reply.
Sincerily,
Morius.
How they want;
To,
Mister Mark Silva
Dear Mark,
...
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When people use a common phrase/expression, but get the words wrong in such a way as to demonstrate that they have no idea what they're actually saying, and are instead mindlessly parroting something they don't even understand, just because they think other people say it.
Good example:
"For all intensive purposes," when what they really meant was "for all intents and purposes".fwgafvegag
I like to mix up the phrase "sharpest knife in the drawer" and its variants
Sharpest brick in the fire, and so forth.
Now, see, that's deliberately making a joke. Totally different thing.
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Yes, they want flowering titles and praises;
How i do:
Dear Mark,
Annexed with this mail is the requested service's budget, awaiting for reply.
Sincerily,
Morius.How they want;
To,
Mister Mark Silva
Dear Mark,
...
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They are idiots, then -- in their model, all that excess crap is an active impediment to efficient reading of the email. That would drive me freaking nuts. (The only thing to quibble with what you do is misspelling "sincerely," which 9/10 of people would never even notice, but my alter-ego isn't Stuffy Grammarian for nothing!)
Now, see, that's deliberately making a joke. Totally different thing.When people use a common phrase/expression, but get the words wrong in such a way as to demonstrate that they have no idea what they're actually saying, and are instead mindlessly parroting something they don't even understand, just because they think other people say it.
Good example:
"For all intensive purposes," when what they really meant was "for all intents and purposes".fwgafvegag
I like to mix up the phrase "sharpest knife in the drawer" and its variants
Sharpest brick in the fire, and so forth.
Good point.
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The "Scar" episode of Battlestar.
Wat.
Being too tired to paint minis with husband and instead resuming my Harry Potter marathon only to fall asleep at my favorite parts D:
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IT folks deciding to make everyone use the network to store all their files, in the process removing a bunch of personal users folders preventing me from installing statistical analysis software I need for said work
Also the payroll people sending my first check to a random office on campus without alerting me. Than when asked why, their reply of "I have no idea why we did that".
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One is far, far cheaper to make than the other.