My main experience with kale was as garnish when I worked as a hotel banquet server. I tasted some, and it was dreadful.
I’m beginning to sense that the kale-clad Emperor is, in fact, naked.
MY EYES!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
I can certainly understand it in a situation where space surrounding the handicapped spots might be limited. What I’m talking about is something like at the grocery store where I shop, which has a couple of handicapped spots in front, with about three extra feet of space on the outside each and about six feet of space between the two. Cars parked in those spots are invariably halfway into the extra space, and usually at an angle, even though if they pulled into the parking spot straight there would be plenty of room on either side.
Another one:
What, “Thank You” isn’t active enough for you? You have to say “Thanking you”? Something about that just sets my teeth on edge - it’s like they feel they’re doing me a favour.
What about when you say thank you and the other person says “No problem”? That seems to have replaced “You’re welcome.” It’s like what you said, namely that whatever they did that you’re thanking them for was such an onerous burden that they have to assure you it was no problem. Makes me nuts.
How about stores where the employees have to memorize a script? Kohl’s is the worst WRT to this that I’ve encountered. And a couple years ago, Walgreens, which I had to call many times a day because of my job, answered the phone with a script that must have taken 15 seconds to recite. :smack: I’m sure the employees hated it even more than I did.
I don’t get the “artisan foods” craze, either.
This! I hate it! I’m always tempted to say, “I hope not, it’s your job.”
Of course you haven’t lost weight. You forgot the cheese!
Teen moms/single parents. Yeah, they face additional challenges, but just being a single parent, or a teen parent, does NOT make a person eligible for all sorts of free passes and worship.
Soldier/child reunion stories. Daddy is dressed up as the umpire at a ball game. Daddy is dressed like Santa Claus.
Enough of them already. I’m glad the family is back together, but I don’t need to know about it unless it affects me personally.
I thought the answer to that was “more guns”.
Maybe this is too incendiary for this thread, but let’s face it: the only reason this is even being discussed is because the Sandy Hook kids were middle class and almost all white.
True, especially if the single parenthood was the result of a long string of bad decisions.
Some people think that single fathers, regardless of how they became that way, get worshipped. My experience is that they do not, and in fact are generally vilified. If he’s divorced, he just didn’t want to pay child support. If he’s a widower, he was probably responsible for her death on some level, and hired a staff to care for the kids anyway. :smack:
And let’s face it, it will probably only be a matter of months before Daddy’s out of the picture anyway, because of his addiction issues, PTSD, and abuse. This is the main reason why I don’t find these stories all touchy-feely.
People who think “no problem” is some type of insult.
Plus a google plex
Since I mentioned being a redneck from rural Illinois, let me mention something about that that I’m sick of. People who insist that those of us who live in the country and small towns are “stuck here”, or “can’t do any better”. If you want to live in a city and like it better there, more power to you. I don’t have a problem with that. I happen to like rural life. I am not an ignorant bumpkin, contrary to some people’s (that I went to high school with and subsequently moved away) opinion. Closely related is my irritation when people tell me “you’ll move up with time” or “have you ever looked for a better job?” Guess what? I suck at office work. I had an office job once, and it lasted 3 weeks. I happen to enjoy physical work. I’m a nervous type, and working hard helps me burn off that energy. The company I work for is quickly growing and stable, I’m respected and well liked, and my pay has increased steadily since starting. All things many people would love to have in their occupational career.
I’m sick and tired of spending an hour a day pulling up dandelions in my yard, and looking across the street at the rentals with dandelions all over their yards. Hey, assholes! Dandelions spread, you know! We do actually have a bylaw regarding this; I may call the 311 number and bust their asses for noxious weed growth.
+1. Or, to get a little more general, people who feel insulted by any number of common phrases they happen to not like, regardless of tone or context. I think there was a thread here once about people who don’t like to hear, “Feel better!” when they’re ill, because it sounds like an order. Give me a break.
Sobriety. It’s 9:00 pm on a Friday night, and I’m sitting at home, by myself, doing nothing interesting or productive. This is no different from my usual Friday, except that a few months ago, I would have also been drunk off my ass by now, and everything would’ve seemed interesting and productive.
I’ll also jump on the politics = team sports bandwagon.
I was just at the store looking at frozen meals and the gluten-free ones are two or three dollars more expensive than the “regular” ingredient ones. It really sux that the people who need the gluten-free meals don’t necessarily have more affordable options.
I’m sick of my college constantly rearranging its home page. I just want to check my email but there’s no clear indicator of how to access it and I have to hunt through all the menus in it or use the search, which never brings up what you are looking for. Then when I figure it out, they change the page again.
Apparently having a website that looks the same for more than three months somehow deters prospective students? I don’t understand this logic.
Bitey, nasty orangey imitation ladybugs from some absolutely godforsaken place.