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Videos with the overlay "recorded live".  When is something NOT recorded live?  or do they mean un-cut / pre/post-produced?

 

Or videos that are broadcast later, that are still stamped live.  Well shit, it aint live anymore - take the label off

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People that can't answer a question in the format required.  If you are asked "How many ..." and your answer does not include a number, fuck you.  If you are asked "When ..." or "How long ago ..." and your answer does not include a date or some number associated with a calendar unit (days/weeks/months/years), fuck you.  All day long with this shit.

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On 4/26/2018 at 8:40 AM, Cheeseweasel said:

 

Every financial interaction has now turned into an attempt to shake me down for your charity.

I have to give credit to my local Petco.

About 6 months ago, they stopped asking that crap.....now, it’s just a yes/no question on the debit/credit card screen.  

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9 hours ago, Llogg said:

People that can't answer a question in the format required.  If you are asked "How many ..." and your answer does not include a number, fuck you.  If you are asked "When ..." or "How long ago ..." and your answer does not include a date or some number associated with a calendar unit (days/weeks/months/years), fuck you.  All day long with this shit.

Jeez. You know my employees?

I say, “the only possible 2 answers to the question I’m about to ask you are ‘yes’ or ‘no.’  Please provide me with a “yes” or a “no.”

The typical reply I get:  “uh, uh, green?”

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4 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

Anyone with kids try to buy their kids socks lately?  I saw an entire rack of packs of socks and every dang pack had unique pairs.  So when one gets lost then the other is worthless.  Can't buy just a10 pack of plain ass pink or purple socks for my daughter. I can barely find plain white or black

Ha I was bitching about this very issue a few weeks ago. I feel your pain.

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12 hours ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

Anyone with kids try to buy their kids socks lately?  I saw an entire rack of packs of socks and every dang pack had unique pairs.  So when one gets lost then the other is worthless.  Can't buy just a10 pack of plain ass pink or purple socks for my daughter. I can barely find plain white or black

Sure as hell doesn't feel trivial in the morning, when you're trying to get to work, and you have five minutes to get them off to school, and you can't find a damned matching pair of socks. Match 'em by thickness, is my advice, and be damned with the whole thing.

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6 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

Sure as hell doesn't feel trivial in the morning, when you're trying to get to work, and you have five minutes to get them off to school, and you can't find a damned matching pair of socks. Match 'em by thickness, is my advice, and be damned with the whole thing.

What sort of heathens don't match their socks up when they come out of the dryer? 

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On 4/25/2018 at 7:10 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Hotel points system/account log in security. These fuckers take themselves so goddamn seriously, like they're guarding Fort Knox and the recipe for Coca-Cola in there or something

We don't recognize your new phone, Mr. Prepuce, even though you arrived at our site by clicking on a link we emailed to you, so please scan your retina and your anus and fax us a blood sample before you can enroll in the Double Points Promotion. 

Fuck off, Starwood. 

Verizon is the same way. Such a beating. 

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On 4/26/2018 at 8:40 AM, Cheeseweasel said:

From another thread:

Every financial interaction has now turned into an attempt to shake me down for your charity.

agreed.

I know I just spent $50 on beer, cigarettes, and lotto; but fuck Jerry's Kids.

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2 hours ago, El Diablo said:

What sort of heathens don't match their socks up when they come out of the dryer? 

I've never had much use for random number generators, because they haven't taken advantage of the only real source of mathematical chaos which has been proven conclusively: the multidimensional nature of socks in dryers. Good luck matching socks straight out of the dryer, even if socks were the *only* thing in there.

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On 4/28/2018 at 9:44 AM, Llogg said:

People that can't answer a question in the format required.  If you are asked "How many ..." and your answer does not include a number, fuck you.  If you are asked "When ..." or "How long ago ..." and your answer does not include a date or some number associated with a calendar unit (days/weeks/months/years), fuck you.  All day long with this shit.

Are you my office's accountant/bookkeeper?

She asks what she thinks are "yes or no" questions but which are so drastically oversimplified and narrow in scope that to answer with a yes or no would be seriously misleading, or even technically correct but overall inaccurate. And then she gets pissy when you provide her with the necessary details. 

It's become such a known problem with her that the rest of us let her suffer with one-word answers if it will only create more work and headaches for her, but we stubbornly insist on forcing her to accept clarity for matters related to  billing. 

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3 hours ago, El Diablo said:

What sort of heathens don't match their socks up when they come out of the dryer? 

or when i get only one sock back in my stack of laundry( i do my own laundry but not always,  we split it about half and half on any given chore)

I wore them 2 at a time...where the fuck is the other one?

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It's not getting the socks out of the dryer, it's getting them into the hamper.

 

my gf is the queen of answering straightforward questions without the information that is implicitly being requested.  Still not sure how to address it, my natural reaction is to repeat back the information but putting in wrong information for the thing I'm unsure of, and then let her correct.  I take the grocery list and go over it with her

list item - "cheese"
"what kind of cheese do you want?"
"grated!"
"Ok, grated italian mix cheese."
"no, cheddar!"
"ok, grated mild cheddar"
"no, sharp!"
"ok, and what kind of hummus?"
"the kind that I like"
facepalm

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10 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

The difference between gf and wife is simple: with a wife, you know the kind of hummus she likes. It's the other one, not the one you bought.

getting there.

"Ok, roasted pumpkin seeds.  Where do I find this?"
"Just any HEB."
"So I'll go to the shitty HEB across the street?"
"No, a real HEB."
"Ok and I'll look next to the sunflower seeds in the salty snacks section?"
"No, in the bulk section."
arrive at the bulk section - there are two types of roasted pumpkin seeds

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1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

It's not getting the socks out of the dryer, it's getting them into the hamper.

One could think that this is where the problem starts. Unfortunately for me I've lived my life in a sock sucking wrinkle in the space-time continuum and there's no guarantee that socks I've removed from my feet and placed in the hamper are still there when the hamper is unloaded into the washing machine.

It's either that or the machines have an insatiable desire for socks that reek of human sweat.

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19 hours ago, deadshank said:

Jeez. You know my employees?

I say, “the only possible 2 answers to the question I’m about to ask you are ‘yes’ or ‘no.’  Please provide me with a “yes” or a “no.”

The typical reply I get:  “uh, uh, green?”

Or - "let me explain"....  No just answer the question - "yes" or "no"

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1 hour ago, dufus said:

Or - "let me explain"....  No just answer the question - "yes" or "no"

“Let me explain” is what I call “making snowballs.”   They are in your office nervously explaining something while pressing their cupped hands together like they’re making snowballs.  

Yes, book fags, I lifted that from A Man In Full by Tom Wolfe.

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7 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Are you my office's accountant/bookkeeper?

She asks what she thinks are "yes or no" questions but which are so drastically oversimplified and narrow in scope that to answer with a yes or no would be seriously misleading, or even technically correct but overall inaccurate. And then she gets pissy when you provide her with the necessary details. 

It's become such a known problem with her that the rest of us let her suffer with one-word answers if it will only create more work and headaches for her, but we stubbornly insist on forcing her to accept clarity for matters related to  billing. 

Read again.  Did not describe yes/no questions.  But a question regarding quantity or time requires an answer to include numbers and/or units.  If I say, "How many Vicodin do you take in a day?"  and your answer is akin to "My dad's cousin's sister-in-law had a headache like this and she took oxycontin and felt way better," well, fuck you.

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2 hours ago, Llogg said:

If I say, "How many Vicodin do you take in a day?"  and your answer is akin to "My dad's cousin's sister-in-law had a headache like this and she took oxycontin and felt way better," well, fuck you.

That’s your fault for asking a question you know you won’t get a straight answer to.

The person that is asked a question is not beholden to the asker’s expectations on how a question is to be answered. Unless they are under oath in a court of law. If you ask me how much is 2+2 and I answer Bunny, go fuck yourself. Bunny is my answer. 

People that get shitty answers to their questions are either asking shitty questions, or they don’t know enough information about their audience to ask the right questions.

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On ‎4‎/‎25‎/‎2018 at 1:21 PM, BurntOrangeCrush said:

Yesterday, I'm at a convenience store. I am last in line with 5 people ahead of me. I guess the other cashier was outside or on a break. It's taking forever. Finally, I am on deck, and the clerk tells the lady in front of me, "your total is $2.17". 

The lady then proceeds to dig through her person and open up a checkbook and begins writing the check. For freaking $2.00! I didn't know anyone wrote checks anymore. Then she can't find her license. At that point I told her that I would pay her total if she would move out of the way and she mumbled something at me and continued digging thru the purse.

You can't start the check writing process at some point while we are standing in line for 10 minutes? Also there is a cool new thing they offer now called a debit card.

Look at Daddy Warbucks, he's so rich he's willing to just throw away money so poors will get out of his way!

(I would have done the same thing).

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18 hours ago, skipperj said:

That’s your fault for asking a question you know you won’t get a straight answer to.

The person that is asked a question is not beholden to the asker’s expectations on how a question is to be answered. Unless they are under oath in a court of law. If you ask me how much is 2+2 and I answer Bunny, go fuck yourself. Bunny is my answer. 

People that get shitty answers to their questions are either asking shitty questions, or they don’t know enough information about their audience to ask the right question200w.webp

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