Things You Just Don't Get

belinmad said:
Sounds like the guy did not enjoy that first date as much as your friend did…
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Yeh, my take was that it’s not looking good- either he has shit going on in his life he hasn’t told her about or he’s lost interest and is figuring out a polite way to say ‘I’m nust not interested, you freak’ or ‘you seemed much nicer over text’😂
 
Dropbear said:
Yeh, my take was that it’s not looking good- either he has shit going on in his life he hasn’t told her about or he’s lost interest and is figuring out a polite way to say ‘I’m nust not interested, you freak’ or ‘you seemed much nicer over text’😂
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she have could been a bad lay. too many people are unwilling to give things a second chance these days.
 
Who here actually enjoys winter?

I'm not talking about people who live on the equator.

It's dark, it's cold, it's dreadful. I'm shivering all the time without layers of clothing. I'm going to look so pastey white I look like an addict soon. I only need to listen to Bing Crosby and Burl Ives for one day.
 
Fwiffo said:
Who here actually enjoys winter?

I'm not talking about people who live on the equator.

It's dark, it's cold, it's dreadful. I'm shivering all the time without layers of clothing. I'm going to look so pastey white I look like an addict soon. I only need to listen to Bing Crosby and Burl Ives for one day.
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Hate winter, love winter attire.
 
You would think if I gave you country code 1 that you would at least wait till after 12:00 PM CET to ring me?

In fact I'm happy to take a call at 10:30 AM CET if you actually told me you were going to ring me that early.
 
I walked into a retail store yesterday. As customary for this time of the year there was plenty of Christmas music in the background. Suddenly it breaks into Bill Nighy playing "Billy Mack" in the Love Actually movie singing Christmas Is All Around. It's a movie soundtrack song written for an actor who plays a (fake) singer. How is this Christmas music?
 
It's 8c. Does that mean you should be wearing flip flop sandals to pick up your packages, go grocery shopping, or otherwise muck around in wet rainy weather? Are your toes burning up?
 
I love winter, but I only live places that never get particularly cold. Winter for me, means 50-70F
 
Why are these shoes considered appropriate for men to wear with suits? Not a blazer and dark coloured (unripped) jeans, but a full 2 piece suit.

shopping
 
I just had an Australian violinist telling me a story about waltzing matilda, Billabong, stealing sheep and the Australian spirit.

It blew over my head. Also I have no idea how it had anything to do with his solo piece.
 
I was in the weight room today doing a few maintenance sets at 5:20 AM. Someone walks in - new bloke - starts setting up his speaker/device to serenade me with his music. As I moved past him after finishing he fist bumps me. Why? Do I know you? Are we in solidarity?
 
A meta moment.

I first thought it was a Zuckerberg moment.
 
People who have small intricate tiles. Especially the hexagon ones. I look at the grout and I shudder at the thought of cleaning them.
 
Fwiffo said:
People who have small intricate tiles. Especially the hexagon ones. I look at the grout and I shudder at the thought of cleaning them.
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It was a fashion there at one stage - now its all HUGE big tiles
 
I noticed many jeep wragler drivers have a row of rubber duckies on the dash by the front windshield, can someone explain?
 
Pauly Chase said:
I noticed many jeep wragler drivers have a row of rubber duckies on the dash by the front windshield, can someone explain?
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it is kind of a random act of kindness token. Leave one on an out of state TJ to say welcome. Leave one if you dig their rig for whatever reason.

Someone put one on my wife's '94 Cherokee Country. She chucked it out.
 
Going home in the evening with two bouquets of flowers on Valentine's Day. Buy one get one free or I need to drop one off for the mistress before the real one?
 
Fwiffo said:
Going home in the evening with two bouquets of flowers on Valentine's Day. Buy one get one free or I need to drop one off for the mistress before the real one?
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Give a flower to the homeless folks you encounter on your way home.
 
Beginners learning to ice skate together whilst holding hands. Why? If one of you falls down you'll drag the other one with you.

Better to go it alone and increase your chances of staying upright.
 
Mexicans driving lifted trucks with LED lights on the rims. Watching them climbing into the truck is exhausting.
 
Price of onions.

Awhile ago I saw red onions were going up to $2.49, $2.69 and now $2.99/lb. So I switched to Spanish onions which were at $1.69, $1.99. Now those are at $2.49 so I kept moving to different onions. Last week I saw someone sell small cooking onions for $3.00/lb. Really? White onions are at $3/lb too.

The Korean people I buy from the local market still have theirs at $1.19/lb for spanish onions, $0.99/lb for cooking onions, but even their white onions are at $2.99/lb. Except I figured out how they do that. They imported awhile ago and put their onions in cold storage so I'm actually buying onions from God knows how many weeks ago. Now some of the onions are starting to go bad so even though it's cheaper I'm discarding 1/3 of the onion to get to the good parts.

The other thing I noticed is there aren't any tins of datterini tomatoes anymore. The same thing phenomenon happened. The $1.99 tins were gone. The $2.99 tins were gone. I even went to Eataly and the cheapest one is $3.49 or jars of preserved datterini tomatoes at something like $7.00. This one I somewhat understand. I'm guessing except the southern hemisphere it's not tomato season anywhere.
 
Merch

When did merchandise shorten to merch? I even hear it in Italian.
 
Three people told me last week - we'll get around to it, but you know next week is spring break [so everything is closed because we're with the kids].

What about people without kids? Do they just continue toiling away in the salt mines?
 
The contractors in my building decided to paint my front door a new colour. Except they painted the entire door except the panel facing the inside. Even the sides were painted.
 
I'm under 62kg now. From 69kg going into New Year's eve. And I am not trying to imitate Gandhi.
 
I can't see my test results for hepatitis because the laboratory says only physicians can see it. Is it that difficult to interpret?
 
Gaudy or childish stickers on people's laptops. Why? Does it make it compute faster?
 
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I love the ending: "well, no matter how you mustard it, it is still a fuck ton of hotdogs"

But I do not believe that in any world we are eating 70 hot dogs per person, and I will never believe it until I am given solid and tangible proof.

UPDATE: An anonymous source with access to the NielsenIQ database of consumer behavior has reported to Defector that 760 million packages of hot dogs are sold retail each year. This is a possible explanation for the nine billion number presented by Big Hot Dog: If you assume all of those were 12-packs (a stretch), you get nine billion hot dogs. More likely they are eight-packs, which gives you six billion. The source notes that their data does not include some independent retailers, so could be off by 10 percent or so. With this information, we still do not reach anywhere near 20 billion hot dogs per year, but it seems plausible that Americans are buying at least 10 billion hot dogs, which would put the average around 30 hot dogs consumed per person per year.
 
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