Selective hearing, selective reading, any kind of slectiveness when it comes to accepting input. I like to make sure I understand a statement or question before I respond. I feel like I run into this more and more in all aspects of my life and my patience has been growing thinner on the issue.
THIS is wonderful. And in my informal survey since I read it, correct 99% of the time. Thank you so much-no more crashing into a pull door.
I always glance up at the door closing mechanism. If it’s on your side, you push.
If scroll wheels were universal, sure. But because they’re not (or at least, they didn’t used to be), I’m not in the habit of even noticing whether they’re there or not. If I’m working on a laptop, I’m not going to have a scroll wheel there either.
I did. Nothing happened. I wasn’t sure whether you meant that you held down Ctrl, Alt, and K all at the same time, or whether either Ctrl or Alt would work with K. Tried it all three ways. Nothing.
Also, most of these things are shortcuts for something that isn’t that long to begin with. The only Ctrl tricks I know are X (delete), C (copy), and V (paste). But that’s enough. Instead of Ctrl/Alt K, mouseclick (on URL), ctrl-C, then mouse to email and Ctrl-V does it in about 2 seconds anyway.
But thanks to this, at least I now know that Ctrl-A is what’s been fucking me over all these years. Every once in a while, I catch the Ctrl key when reaching for the Shift key while typing an uppercase A, and with the next keystroke, it all goes away (because Ctrl-A is Select All, and the next keystroke replaces everything with that single letter. Fortunately, Undo is my friend. But it’s a shame there’s no way to selectively turn off some of those Ctrl ‘shortcuts.’
People generally are dumb as shit. They don’t really think about their actions and the possible consequences in any kind of concerted way. Instead, they just sort of self-centeredly blunder around, and then flail about with half-assed solutions to problems that a tiny iota of forethought or preparation would have avoided.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve had people go “Wow… you got that to work! How did you do that?” and I have to tell them “I read the manual”.
To answer the OP’s question:
We used to have a CIO here at work who took it upon herself to harangue the department repeatedly about people coming in to work sick and infecting everyone with their colds and stuff, and suggesting that we just stay home.
When I pointed out to her that so many people coming to work sick was a direct consequence of putting our sick time and vacation time in one big “Personal Time Off” bucket, and that when you do that, people think of this bucket as vacation time, not as “personal time off”, and they guard those days very jealously, coming in to work only if they’re so sick that they can’t function, so as to not give up a vacation day, or if they have children, so that they can save them to nurse sick kids.
Super obvious to me and everyone else, but apparently not to her and the HR idiots.
When pouring from a carton, jerrycan or similar, pour with the opening at the top, not the bottom. No uncontrollable splashing. You can even rotate the carton so the opening moves from the top to the side to the bottom. With a tiny bit of practice, you can got from full to empty in one constant, smooth, uninterrupted stream.
Seriously, don’t ever come to China. This is the MO of pretty much everyone here. It is staggering.
We recently bought a pet door designed to work with a sliding glass door. The outer edge of the pet door assembly is shaped just like the edge of a typical sliding glass door, and fits snugly into the door frame–to wit, exactly as a door would.
So you’d think the opposite, inner edge of the pet door would look like the edge of the door frame, so the slider can fit more or less snugly into that, but instead it’s just plain flat. Unless the door opening is perfectly rectangular and vertical, which is rare, the slider will never close flush against the pet door. The pet door did come with weatherstripping, but it’s not very good for solving this very common problem. I’d say that most of us live in houses or buildings 30 or more years old, and that being the case our doors and windows tend to be slightly off the straight and true. If the inner edge of the pet door assembly looked like the original doorjamb, it would be a lot better even if it still didn’t fit exactly right.
But it’s perfectly clear to me! 
I’ll try being more explicit.
You’re facing the chair from one side, having pulled it back from the table (no real need to turn it, minor7flat5). With the hand closest to the back of the chair, reach to the far side of the seat, where it meets the upright, and grab on. With the other hand, grab the front corner of the seat on the side nearest you. Lift the far side, using the hand on the near side just to steady the chair. As the far side comes up, the chair will tip toward you until you have rolled it upside down a few inches above the tabletop. Try it slowly a few times to start; with a little practice you can throw seventy-some chairs in 10 or 15 minutes.
Heh. Back in the dark ages, we had to leave a group of students behind each day to clean up the classroom: flip the chairs over the desks, sweep, put the chairs back down. The group would change every week. Every Monday there were some people who had been doing most of the rows from the rows’ right side and, when they got to the rightmost line (with space on the left, the wall on the right) needed to rethink the whole thing. The two extreme rows couldn’t be done the way you explain without stepping back; otherwise you would have tried to put the chair through the wall.
The math for figuring out a 15% tip really throws people. Take the 10% number, halve it and add back in, and you are done. Easy Peezy.
But people have to figure it out on a napkin or a calculator.
Better yet, figure ten percent then double it. Then be grateful you are giving, not receiving, the tip.
Don’t introduce any microorganisms into your yogurt or cottage cheese and it will last way past the best-by date. Never put anything in there except a clean spoon that’s never touched your mouth or any other food products, and keep your fingers out, don’t even touch the underside of the lid. If you don’t drink out of the jug, milk will not turn bad, even if it turns sour (which is still delicious). Don touch bread products with your fingers when getting out of the package if you are putting some away (like tortillas or unsliced bread), they will mold quickly where you’ve touched them.
Seriously, who’s still tipping 15%?
I’ve been unable to break my wife of this bad habit. While she wouldn’t dream of licking a spoon and sticking it back into a container, she thinks nothing of dishing out the yogurt with a spoon and then cleaning the residue on the spoon back into the container, using her finger. Also, I can’t tell you how many bricks of cream cheese covered with fingertip shaped mold growths I’ve thrown away.
Control-X is actually cut, though I guess it works as delete as well.
Me.
But if the bill wasn’t that much I always go high enough that the tip isn’t an insult. Twenty dollar meal? Five bucks. Hundred dollar meal? Fifteen bucks, unless they were particularly good servers.
Why would I tip more today than I did thirty years ago? It’s a percentage of a cost that naturally follows inflation, and I don’t think servers are doing anything special today that they didn’t do thirty years ago.
I tend to tip about 30%. But then I’m also usually eating alone, so 30% of my $10-$15 meal isn’t that big of a deal. I’m also a professional cook, and I might have to work with that server some day 
I read this advice here on the SDMB a couple years ago, and it really works. At the moment I have in my refrigerator a 1/2-gallon carton of Darigold Ultra-Pasteurized milk with a May 29 “sell by” date, and it’s still drinkable.
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I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met (even people who should know better, like engineers and technicians) who will say something like “you can’t touch a car battery - it will kill you! Look at how many Amps it has in it!”
Grrrr…
Yes. Certain driving skills just come to me. That and I’m very observant: maybe you are just using me as a ‘pace car’ not to get a ticket, but the physics behind your changes and mine make one thing Obvious: yes, you Are following me. 
PS- that whole phony shove a handset up to try to cover the side of your face? That’s So Cute!
Tell me, did you see that on C.O.P.S.? 
Amateurs…