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I became lactose intolerant in my 30s and had to basically give up ever eating at a restaurant again because so many places add milk to everything for no reason. I'm sure avoiding beef or gluten is even less possible. Even if you directly ask, the staff will lie to you because 999 times out of 1000 the person asking can eat the thing in question and they just want them to shut the hell up.
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Both beef tallow and milk make things delicious. I am sorry part of the light in this world has gone out for both of you.
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How are there always bongos on FB marketplace until I want a set? And there's a glut of djembes!
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I proofread technical reports as part of my job. I have developed some very specific pet peeves... I'll see poo poo like this way too loving often: the property measures approximately 5.9537 acres. Or "the the elevation is approximately 593 feet above mean seal level." Those seem like pretty specific numbers to me, boss! Are you approximating or are you being exact?! Pick one! Approximately 6 acres or approximately 600 feet above mean sea level. It's okay! There is also an epidemic of them hyphenating measurements. Like "the property measures 6-acres." Every time. I don't know who told them that measurements get hyphenated, but I want to punch them in the mouth. If you say "The 6-acre property" then that's fine! No issue there boss. It's like they know they need to use hyphens sometimes but they don't know when, so they just do it all the time. I've given up on correcting every case of them overusing hyphens. I am not the hyphen police. As long as it's readable, it gets a pass. But the measurement thing I nitpick to hell cuz it looks stupid. I don't want us to look stupid. People are paying us money for these reports!
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Silver Falcon posted:There is also an epidemic of them hyphenating measurements. Like "the property measures 6-acres." Every time. I don't know who told them that measurements get hyphenated, but I want to punch them in the mouth. If you say "The 6-acre property" then that's fine! No issue there boss. It's like they know they need to use hyphens sometimes but they don't know when, so they just do it all the time. 
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Dip Viscous posted:I became lactose intolerant in my 30s and had to basically give up ever eating at a restaurant again because so many places add milk to everything for no reason. I'm sure avoiding beef or gluten is even less possible. Even if you directly ask, the staff will lie to you because 999 times out of 1000 the person asking can eat the thing in question and they just want them to shut the hell up. Just start carrying lactaid pills with you. Assuming it IS just lactose intolerance and not some other sort of dairy allergy/reaction.
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Brawnfire posted:How are there always bongos on FB marketplace until I want a set? And there's a glut of djembes! too many djembe. not enough bongos. i have seen this, this is true. my theory is djembe have become the white dread buttlock ras trent false yogi vegan drum circle instrument of choice
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I am surrounded by gross incompetence and it baffles me. My peers at work, the people on my crew that I manage, other drivers on the road, other posters on this forum. Seemingly all of them are unable to effectively function at a basic level.
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Hirayuki posted:"She was diagnosed when she was 8-months-old."
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:my theory is djembe have become the white dread buttlock ras trent false yogi vegan drum circle instrument of choice They haven't already been this for decades? My crunchy pagan yoga mom got me one when I was in high school.
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Why are there so many image filetypes now, and why do they have such janky, uneven support distribution. I'm sure a webp is 1% smaller in filesize than a jpeg or something, but how have they been around for YEARS and still aren't supported by things like Google Slides or Imgur?
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Waste of Breath posted:They haven't already been this for decades? My crunchy pagan yoga mom got me one when I was in high school. the white unidread buttlock movement has indeed lasted decades
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Muscle Tracer posted:Why are there so many image filetypes now, and why do they have such janky, uneven support distribution. I'm sure a webp is 1% smaller in filesize than a jpeg or something, but how have they been around for YEARS and still aren't supported by things like Google Slides or Imgur? Webp seems to exist solely to be a pain in the arse. Websites love to give them out but refuse to accept them, so if you download a picture you have to convert it before reuploading it anywhere.
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Then after you convert it the site that refuses to accept webp uploads converts it back to webp, with a larger file size than what you converted it to.
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Is there any practical purpose to webp other than forcing me to take a screenshot of the image I want?
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Is there any practical purpose to webp other than forcing me to take a screenshot of the image I want? 
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Anthologies/ short story collections should always go at the end of the section Also, stop making every sci fi/ fantasy book into a series oldpainless has a new favorite as of 01:51 on May 5, 2024 |
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credburn posted:People need to stop backing up at concerts! For fucks sake, it happens all the time. If anyone touches you at a concert you punch them in the face. Hopefully they repay the favour because getting punched is an honour. That's what being in the pit is all about. If you don't bleed it isn't a real concert.
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That being said I only go to concerts when the band is called something like Disembowelment or Cock and Ball Torture so I might be biased.
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oldpainless posted:Also, stop making every sci fi/ fantasy book into a series loving seriously. I've basically given up on reading fantasy because i refuse to pick up book one of the madeupword trilogy, which itself is part one of the notarealname saga. One book, one story, with a start and an end, please.
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Has anyone written a fantasy book since Tolkien and resisted the urge to put a map at the start of the book? Or will people refuse to read fantasy when there's no map?
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Maps, and family trees, are indispensable parts of Fantasy literature.
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Elissimpark posted:Has anyone written a fantasy book since Tolkien and resisted the urge to put a map at the start of the book?
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When people cancel on plans in a way that sounds ambiguous. Like "I'm finishing work late so I'm not sure I'll be able to make it for a 18:00 start." Do they mean that they don't know if they'll be there on time or not? No. Do they mean they know they'll be late but will still be there at some point? No. They mean that they won't be there at all but they don't want to actually say that.
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People who defend companies or products against any suggestions or improvement. Like the Bandcamp music player doesn't have a volume control. I googled it and there were people saying "Just adjust the volume in your mixer/computer" and "If they added it there would be people with problems" as if every single video/audio player in the last 30 years didn't have a volume control. And I hate that "Just turn down your computer volume" take because computers can multitask and I may be playing a game and listening to bandcamp. And I need to have Bandcamp volume at 25% to match the game. Luckily there was a browser add-on to add the volume slider. That also leads to my other peeve, many games these days have super low volume. I assume it's because the sound designer wants to have extremely high dynamic range, but it's very rare that a game's sound design is as good as it thinks.
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The "introduction" to a book should be written with the assumption you haven't yet read it. Don't tell me how the book ends in the second sentence of your intro, Daryl!
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stringless posted:Pratchett famously resisted having maps of Discworld in the books. For a while.
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Muscle Tracer posted:The "introduction" to a book should be written with the assumption you haven't yet read it. Don't tell me how the book ends in the second sentence of your intro, Daryl! Idk, I think any worth while intro will have to be able to discuss the book as a whole, which necessitates spoilers. It is pretty stupid that really you should read the introduction at the end, I agree.
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Brawnfire posted:a glut of djembes This phrase pleases me; I don’t know why.
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This is a very mild one, but people who don't respond to a greeting or say thank you. I was just raised to be extra friendly and polite but the number of people who come into my work and completely ignore a "Hey folks how're you?" and just say what they want is pretty high and it does tick me off a mote. "Hi there, how's it going?" "GUITARS?" "Yeah that's actually next door; we're not connected internally so you have to go back outside and make a left." *they leave without acknowledging, sometimes with a pouty face on* Actually worse than that are the people who come up to the counter and just start reciting their phone number without saying what they want us to do with their account on the POS. Nine times out of ten it's some sort of payment. Yet worse are the phone calls from someone who wants us to deliver something or buy it over the phone and have an Uber driver come pick it up. We have a very specific policy for third-party sales that the driver has to come into the store and get the actual buyer on the phone so we can confirm it. The other day some dipshit yelled at me over the phone over it. People are so poisoned by Amazon and their apps that they think they can get anything they want at the touch of a button.
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Mister Speaker posted:This is a very mild one, but people who don't respond to a greeting or say thank you. I was just raised to be extra friendly and polite but the number of people who come into my work and completely ignore a "Hey folks how're you?" and just say what they want is pretty high and it does tick me off a mote. This is definitely a *me* problem, but I hate "How's it going?" I can't read nuance or body language very well and find myself always in a real awkward state because I know that the person is just saying "Hello." but the other part of me is overwhelmingly saying THE MAN ASKED YOU A QUESTION YOU NEED TO ANSWER IT and then I find I can't really well navigate between a polite response (I know "Good, you?" is the equivalent of just saying "Hello" back but I can't do it, I just can't do it) and a genuine one (this person does not need to know that I'm going through some serious poo poo internally right now and lately), so I try to just make a joke, offhand, but it always comes across extremely ingenuine feeling, and I hate it. The best I can do is say, "Oh, you know," which usually gets a "I know how it is," or a smile and a nod. Then I go hyperventilate out of view in the cereal section for a few minutes.
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I stick with the universally beloved “working hard or hardly working”
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I've tried out "the horrors persist" meme in person at work, which seems to get sensible chuckles. I work on a psych ward, so individual results may differ.
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Passwords: Change Password Create a password for your account. Password Requirements: Passwords must be at least 15 characters but no more than 128 At least 1 lowercase letter At least 1 uppercase letter At least 1 number At least 1 special character, no spaces allowed: @_#/,;~`%&=':!$*+().{}|?><^[]-"\ You cannot use your birthdate, SSN, name, phone number, or ZIP code When changing a password, your new password must have at least 8 characters be different When changing a password, your new password must be different than the current and 10 previous passwords You cannot change your password more than once every 24 hours Enter your password below. Note that: All passwords expire in 60 days and will need to be changed prior to expiration. You may want to note your password expiration date on a calendar. As a security precaution, your password should never be written down. When entering your password below, you will know your password meets the password requirements when all lines above are green. If there are any red lines, go back and adjust the password to meet the requirement identified. You are required to sign in at least once every 180 days to prevent your account from being deactivated. A dreadful pain in the rear end for a site that I visit maybe once a month.
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I also like to keep rear end
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Dip Viscous posted:At a certain point it'd be easier for everyone to require a new password for each login. Swear to God that's what my company portal does. Every time I want to check a paystub or book time off it wants an all new password and stable of security questions. It's the most annoying thing.
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