Pet Peeves

[ShrekDawg]

Oh my gosh, sometimes we'll get into the same thing with paper towels. We get the type that are perforated as "half sheets", and that causes a lot of confusion when requesting a paper towel.

"Do you want a full, or a half?"
"Just a half."
* proceeds to bring over half of a half sheet *

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Finding the corner of the dish towel with the hanging loop. 25% chance to get it first try. It's ALWAYS the last corner I check.

Of course it is, because you stop checking once you find the corner with the loop, right?

 

[thecatumbrella]

Of course it is, because you stop checking once you find the corner with the loop, right?

Exactly. Wait, is my math wrong? All I know is I'm endless spinning my dish towel looking for the stupid loop! Can't a girl get a break?

 

[notabitail]

Also, whenever you have to do a task with odds, but the odds never match up with your actual luck.

Examples
- Plugging in a USB cable. 50/50 chance for the correct orientation right? Nope. More like 1 in 20.

Usually I can get a USB-A cable in first try, especially if I know the orientation of the port.

USB-C doesn't have that issue. Instead, it has one of my new pet peeves: Having a zillion different USB-C speeds and standards, therefore having a universal connector that can be incompatible with one device. UGH.

 

[The Sniper]

My stepdad worked as a bartender, and did a few private parties. A guy came up to him and asked for a very expensive rum. My step dad said he didn't have any right there, but had some in the back, and when he had a slower minute, he'd go get it and let the guy know.

A few minutes later, he told they guy had had it. The guy said, "Great! Mix me one with Coke!"

maybe im wrong but why not just give the guy his expensive rum mixed with coke, and after the first one he wont know the difference and give him cheapo and (if your a dirt dealer) charge the full price of the expensive one for all of them


for legal reasons the above is a direct quote from somebody that the big corporations hate or something

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Yeah that's illegal and I think doing that could cost a bar their liquor license.

 

[The Sniper]

Yeah that's illegal and I think doing that could cost a bar their liquor license.

honestly I dont understand why anybody would want more than 1 max 2 drinks anyway, and I dont understand how anybody would ever drink beer
Goats and pigs love it but HOOO BOY does it smell TERRIBLE

I can understand how you could like wine, and hard stuff, but I also dont understand why you would want to be drunk

thats like downgrading your bodily function for a few hours and then feeling like crap half the next day
somebody that likes it tell me why

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Alcoholism is a diease. People who drink till they're drunk often have no control over it. Even if they don't want to, don't plan to, or even determine to have only one or two drinks, they can't stop. After that first or second drink they just lose control and can't stop, sometimes until they pass out. It's a horrible thing. And the thing is, you don't know if alcohol is going to affect you that way until it's too late.

 

[The Sniper]

Alcoholism is a diease. People who drink till they're drunk often have no control over it. Even if they don't want to, don't plan to, or even determine to have only one or two drinks, they can't stop. After that first or second drink they just lose control and can't stop, sometimes until they pass out. It's a horrible thing. And the thing is, you don't know if alcohol is going to affect you that way until it's too late.

sad way to live

 

[BigBlueHen53]

sad way to live

Indeed. When my children were young we cautioned them about drinking. They had three grandparents that were active alcoholics (one later died of it). We told them not to ever take even a single drink, and explained why. Well at 15 my son started drinking. He basically didn't quit for 35 years, much like his grandfaher. Unlike grandfather, however, he got into a 12-step program and is now free and sober, one day at a time. For which I thank God.