Appleseed said:When you grow up poor, cheeze becomes the flavor of choice , because theres no choice. It's a hard taste to unlearn even though I can afford real, flavorful cheese.
I've gotten over it.
I do still indulge in some canned spaghetti on toast or a fried Prem (not Spam, that's expensive) sandwich.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:Appleseed said:When you grow up poor, cheeze becomes the flavor of choice , because theres no choice. It's a hard taste to unlearn even though I can afford real, flavorful cheese.
With a glass of grape drink.
Our holiday travel takes us from Los Angeles to Santa Rosa and at the mid point is a restaurant/gift shop/gas station complex that offers free cheese & bread samples.
For years, I've developed my daughters skill at holding a jar of the cheese that's for sale in their hands to give the impression that they were likely to purchase something while filling up on the free samples (I don't know, it's just funny to me).
Anyway, just before leaving for the holidays, one of my daughters shared with her class that her dad was "so excited to be getting free cheese".
BoxheadTim said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Customer is always right[1], so when the customer wants two fenders, there better be two fenders in the package, innit. No matter what the listing says.
Vibez trump comprehension of any kind.
[1] ... but not everybody has to be your customer.
The critical part of that phrase is always left out. The customer is always right in matters of taste.
Hit my goal weight today and BF%. Only took getting bronchitis for 8 days.
wearymicrobe said:Hit my goal weight today and BF%. Only took getting bronchitis for 8 days.
My dad lost the 15-20 lbs he needed to lose thanks to two pretty much back-to-back GI bugs. That was last year and he's kept the weight off, and is now terrified of GI bugs, haha.
I hate how literally our company takes "the customer is always right". The amount of time wasted and service lost because we have to investigate baseless complaints while truly inconveniencing so many more customers that are trying to get places is beyond frustrating. We have a customer that has taken four buses out of service for alleged claims of ADA and FTA violations. These violations involve not opening the door at the spot she chose to stand (2x), moving the bus while she was standing (she chose to change seats while they were driving), and not stopping at her stop (she didn't ring the bell and said the driver's should know their regular disabled customers enough to check and see if they were having an issue). Each time she makes a fuss, and creates a situation where the bus can't continue until supervision comes out and takes a report. Everyone else has to wait for another bus, and the bus involved loses an hour + until she is satisfied enough to leave. She's got hours of me explaining policy to her recorded on her phone she's supposedly.been sending to the feds to have us shut down. She's becoming well known enough that if she's in a bus stop people already on a bus will tell the operators not to stop for her.
In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
Thanks for making the rest of us with handicaps look like shiny happy people , lady, you're a worthless sack of crap.
*edited for clarity*
In reply to Appleseed :
Your post could be interpreted in two ways...do you feel that Wally or the lady on the bus is a sack?
In reply to Appleseed :
Wally, in no way, implied ALL people with disabilities are a-holes.
I think if you carefully re-read what he wrote, you will see that.
That would be as ridiculous as to assume that disabled people cannot be a-holes.
In reply to aircooled :
Exactly, 42.5 million U.S. citizens have disabilities..that means that 425K of them are at the 100th percentile of being dicks.
Heck, Wally has 40K+ of them running around in his state alone.
I'm sure that Wally meant that one specific person is terrible, and I think Appleseed was directing that comment at the awful customer in Wally's story, not Wally himself
In reply to Appleseed :
If I had feelings they'd be hurt.
Another week, another canceled order from Lowes because they can't find inventory in their own damn store. Why even bother showing it's in stock if it's nowhere to be found? Thank you for suggesting I pick it up at the next closest store, which is 96 miles away. GFY
budget_bandit said:I'm sure that Wally meant that one specific person is terrible, and I think Appleseed was directing that comment at the awful customer in Wally's story, not Wally himself
Yes, I can see that now. He clearly could have been referring to the one person (hopefully, but I suspect he was), it's easy to miss that with the reply being tagged to Wally (but directed elsewhere). He still potentially could be referring to Wally, but at this point I will assume not... I mean it's Wally, who could be mad at that guy?! I should have considered that(!)
Having to be super careful with wording on the the internet can be a lot of work. It sometimes takes a good amount of work to make even a simple point clear! That is my rant!
aircooled said:In reply to Appleseed :
Wally, in no way, implied ALL people with disabilities are a-holes.
I think if you carefully re-read what he wrote, you will see that.
That would be as ridiculous as to assume that disabled people cannot be a-holes.
You read that wrong. I'm "talking" to the shiny happy person lady that makes us all look bad and forcing people like Wally to have to unnecessarily deal with the E36 M3.
Sorry for the confusion.
Wally (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Appleseed :
If I had feelings they'd be hurt.
No, man, that ain't directed at you. No way.
In reply to Appleseed :
And this is why a lot of people with legitimate concerns due to a disability don't like to bring them up.
I found out last month that a friend's son is colorblind. HE found out last month that his son was colorblind. He's like 20 now.
As a kid, he would rather fail tests and schoolwork than point out that he couldn't see the colors that he needed to be able to see for the assignments.
I'm not trying to paint colorblindness as a disability in the way the term is colloquially used, but if you're asked to differentiate two things that 90% of the male population can do but your body can't, what else do you call it?
Was recently in a new antique shop in my town. It made me realize two things that annoy me: antique shops full of new Etsy/temu stuff and bad covers of songs I like.
They were playing a cover of "poor poor pitiful me" by Warren Zevon that was just awful
Flying during the holiday season sucks even more than it usually does. My flights have all been on time and it still sucks.
I'm trying to think of the name of a certain type of pipe elbow and coming up blank.
It's for extremely tight clearances, and is shaped kind of like a donut on one end, and is supposed to flow almost as well as a straight pipe, with no flow separation.
I have seen photos of it in a book, and I no longer have that book. And I can't think of what the dang thing is called to search for it.
I have to go back to work tomorrow.
In reply to APEowner :
I cover seven midwestern states for sales. I was told to fly more and drive less. I prefer to drive with my stuff - planes suck a lot but the cleanliness of rental cars suck even more.
I think Enterprise Rental stopped cleaning the interior (except for vacuuming) and they leave a big sanitary wipe for you to use for "extra" cleaning.
APEowner said:Flying sucks.
FTFY
I don't understand the majesty of human flight.
It's a bus in the sky.
Now board the tube of despair, be nice to everyone and let's get this over with.
In reply to ShawnG :
My friend that passed away last week was a garbage man from age 18 until he retired - the last part of his career was driving the roll off containers (dumpsters).
His dad was a career long pilot for American Airlines - my friend was his only child.
I wonder at family parties when they've both had a few cocktails if they both joked about "hauling trash" for a living.
gixxeropa said:Was recently in a new antique shop in my town. It made me realize two things that annoy me: antique shops full of new Etsy/temu stuff and bad covers of songs I like.
They were playing a cover of "poor poor pitiful me" by Warren Zevon that was just awful
Warren Zevon wrote "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", and as much as I love Linda Ronstadt, she did the cover...
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