start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

celebs who endorse a charitable effort to save something for the nation, when they could just buy & donate it with their own vast fortune.

Definition of first world problems, but I get annoyed when I order something online and get a notification that they've created the shipping label for my order within hours, but it takes them another week and a half to actually get it in the mail.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to bag on small labels and business owners here. I don't think they need to make daily trips to the post office, but I kinda feel like if mail order is a significant part of your business, you might want to ship things out more often than once every two weeks.

Yeah with sometimes 2 or 3 contractors in the delivery chain the notifications can get a little out of hand. 'Hurray! We've dispatched your order!' 'Good news: our handling department has received your package.' 'Your double-ended dildo has just been loaded onto a forklift in Slough!'

Found a Schott leather jacket in a charity shop for what seems to be a reasonable price.
BUt finding that the number desiognation isn't one from the US database.
Sio not sure if it is a genuine one. the number seems to have been used for several different styles that may be overseas territories ones. BUt the fact taht there are several different styles makes me wonder if they are knockoffs.
BUt main pain is this doesn't have the top external pocket taht is on the similar style in the US.
Ho hum.

'Your double-ended dildo has just been loaded onto a forklift in Slough!'

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:31 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

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.....forklift?

Mazeltov

People who can't or won't crop screenshots or don't know how to share things.

One of my neighbours wanted to helpfully let us know the rubbish collection days over Christmas so instead of just sharing the council's page she took a low res unreadable portrait screenshot of a landscape pdf with thick black bars top and bottom along with her battery indicators etc from her phone.

Posh jogging duos that seem to be having a VERY LOUD conversation that sounds like it was scripted for an incidental scene in The Archers as they go past. Running and talking seems a bad enough combo... Anyway I know I'm the one that is bad and at least they literally do "jog on".

Our friend gave us the sign in for their Popular Exercise Bike app, which means we can watch the same classes they watch but on our significantly cheaper exercise bike. There are dozens of instructors, so the best plan is just to find a personality and playlist that you like for the type of class you want. The personalities are varying degrees of cheerleader, which means you can't really win there (and I admit you want a cheerleader), but the music can kind of be all over the place; the other day the post ride stretch was to Phil Collins' "Another Day in Paradise," today it was Massive Attack's "Teardrop." During the rides themselves, though, I've had some shockingly discordant experiences, like the Old School Hip-Hop ride that was, like, J. Cole, which bummed me out. But yesterday's instructor/ride, despite being all over the place, did use Prince's "I Would Die 4 U," and I thought, OK, that was fun, I'll try to filter by "'80s." Except I guess you can only filter by style, and the styles are pretty generic: rock, pop, R&B, hip-hop, etc. There was one "indie" setting, which made me curious, but when I tried to find the class I wanted with an "indie" playlist there were literally no results. Fine, I figured, I'll just go with "classic rock," by definition a pretty known quantity. And I swear to god, this was the exact playlist:

Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line"
Sam Cooke, "Twistin' the Night Away"
The Cure, "Lovesong"
Jerry Lee Lewis, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
Rod Stewart, "Forever Young"
something by Incubus (I forget)
something by Alabama Shakes (I don't really know them)

So fucking weird. I was, like, "classic rock?" Not what I think of, for sure. I guess the relationship between some of these instructors and the music they pick is strictly mercenary. Does it have the right tempo/cadence? Does it pump them up, or whatever? I appreciated the eclecticism, but I couldn't help wondering who in the world wants to hear Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, the Cure, and Incubus on their "classic rock" exercise playlist.

No Skynyrd, no credibility.

"A Recipe For Seduction" premieres on Lifetime Sunday, December 13 at 12 p.m. ET/PT.

Saying 12 p.m. or 12 a.m. instead of noon or midnight. I don't know whether this stupid fried chicken movie is on in the middle of the day or middle of the night!

https://i.imgur.com/1noJOJi.jpg

Yeah sometimes people will intentionally schedule something for 12:01 PM just to make sure people understand what is meant, as noon and midnight are technically neither

Alternatively, they could schedule their event for 12:00:00000000001 PM and still be *technically* post-meridian. I agree most people have zero idea if 12:00 PM is midnight or noon, but that whole actually argument is senseless.

going from 11am to 12pm never made much sense to me. We should all just switch to a 24 hour clock.

have some stupid collection agency bothering my folks and then they started calling me (no idea how they got my number). they always ask for my dad and won't tell me what it's about. dad can barely speak, they won't talk to me, they just want me to find him.

my folks have no debt that has gone to collections (or been sent any documents about any). I finally filed a BBB complaint since I saw they actually reply to them, asking wtf the debt is, and saying if there are documents, they need to send them to us

They reply saying there's no record of any debt on file for my dad and asking me for an account number

IF I HAD AN ACCOUNT NUMBER....oh neverfuckin mind

(or a zero-based 12 hour clock if that's easier for people, nobody would misunderstand 0:00pm)

xp to myself

Counterpoint: people who use military time in civilian life are often dicks.

Ex-military guy: "Let's meet at fourteen hundred."

The rest of us: "Um, okay, I guess. When is that?"

24-hour clock? Yes. And the USA should just switch to the metric system, too, while we're at it. But Esperanto can wait. There are limits on what people will stand for.

I think we can simultaneously admire the elegance and precision of the metric system, 24-hour time, and Esperanto... while also thinking that certain smug and supercilious advocates of those systems can be tone-deaf assholes.

"Yeah just turn left in about two point three kilometers."

For lots of people, you might as well have used versts, or furlongs per fortnight. Read the room.

going from a 12 to 24 hour clock seems much easier than switching to metric, which is something that takes multiple generations

the people I teach would probably screw it up.

"why did you show up at 11 pm for training class"

"you said the class was at 13:00, and I subtracted 13 from 24".

The entirety of Europe and the UK manage the 24h click just fine, get with the fucking program my fellow Americans.

you're talking to a nation that screams in anger that they have to press 1 to speak to an English-speaking representative on the phone

And any mention of doing something "like in Europe" gets met with cries of "Socialism!"

like why people refuse to watch soccer to "own the Brits"

OTM. After the last five years (and especially 2020), I don't think it is a stretch at all to say there would be guaranteed at least one armed protest somewhere in the country if we tried to mandate the 24-hour clock or the metric system.

"My Meters Don't Kilo"

Canadians also don't know the 24 hr clock ime.

Oh, man, you want to hear a fight we've had here so many times? Today is Monday, in a few days it will be Friday. So is that "this Friday" or "next Friday?" I think it's "this" Friday, because "next" Friday is next week, a la ..."next week."

The best way to sell the metric system to the US is to start referring to it as the tactical system.

Americans switched to 2-liter bottles of Coca-Cola in the blink of an eye. You have to make us care about it somehow.

that's mainly because most consumers of two liter bottles of Coca-Cola mentally translate "two liter bottle of Coke" as "a buttload of Coke".

Yes ideally you want to make an American think they're getting a good deal

the Guy Fieri system

Our big secret is pssst, we do know how to use the Metric system. We just don't tell anyone that we do.

Cooking in metric produces better results. Baking, particularly so.

confusing Celsius with Fahrenheit results in some hilarious cooking results

Yes ideally you want to make an American think they're getting a good deal

you get more kilometres per hour than you do miles, going at the same speed. job done.

every American only knows "kilo" in terms of drug buys

Brits work in fluid variations of half-arsed metrimperial hybrids depending on age, location, school and general disposition towards our European mainland cousins.

One thing I liked some places in Japan, was how they sometimes even extended the 24 hour clock into the small hours, so that e.g. a bar open from say eight in the morning on a Saturday to three hours past the next midnight would have the opening times "Saturdays: 08:00 to 27:00" on the doors rather than the somewhat illogical hybrid "Saturdays: 08:00 to 03:00", signalling those final hours as really late Saturday, rather than really early Sunday. Haven't seen this anywhere else.

this really tickles me, particularly as one of my previous jobs involved documenting bar opening hours and having to explain to various officials that 02.00 was the next day

There used to be this loophole here, where there are still blue laws for liquor stores.

Liquor stores are allowed to stay open until 1 a.m. on weekdays, until midnight (of fuck, 11:59:59 p.m.) on Saturdays, and not at all on Sundays.

Which meant there were certain establishments who'd throw open their doors at 12:01 a.m. Monday, after being closed 24 hours, to serve thirsty customers for exactly 59 minutes.

xxp There were protests against the adoption of the metric system 40 years ago, IIRC.

lol @ the logo for the United States Metric Board (1975-1982).

https://i.imgur.com/ps8ryUe.png

ripoff of logo for Missionary Position Association

The Wonder Woman Doing A Handstand Foundation.

This is how I use my bluetooth speaker with my laptop

1. Turn on speaker
2. Turn off bluetooth on my phone to stop it connecting
3. Click the search button on the taskbar
4. Wait for about 10 seconds
5. Write "bluetooth"
6. Wait another 15 seconds
7. No results for "bluetooth" - ah yes, but I know this now, no worries
8. Click the settings tab and select 'bluetooth and other system settings'
9. Wait for what feels like about half an hour
10. Click the button to turn on bluetooth
11. Click another button to connect to the speaker
12. Play and enjoy music for a few minutes until the devices belonging to my wife and kids decide that actually they would like to use the speaker instead, tell them to turn off bluetooth please
13. At this point the computer kicks back in, but the computer now thinks the speaker is a communications device and switches to very quiet low-bitrate sound.
14. If I can be bothered, reset everything to make it work again

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