Here’s a teacher one- black or dark blue ink only!
Well, in my 26 years of teaching, I always said write in any color you choose (except red on a test)! The worst that can happen is I’ll have you rewrite it if I find it too hard to read.
I never understood why the English teachers were so afraid of other colors of ink or pencil.
Yeah, I dont get the rabid hate for some typeface (Comic something or other?)
I admit I hate static on the radio, but I’ll listen to most anything.
Bathroom customs. Look- dont make a mess or if you do clean it up. Other than that- just do it.
Makeup - I’ve never worn it
Microwaved fish - I kinda like it actually
Fonts - so long as I can read it and it isn’t in 15 colors, I’m happy.
Celebrities - meh
Popular TV & movies - meh
Shoes & fashion in general - if it’s comfortable I’m happy. I like to look nice, but not if I’m going to spend the day/evening trying not to itch or cry from pain/irritation.
Eating the same food two days in a row. This seems to be taboo in my family.
Me: I’ll just grab a burger.
Them: (Horrified) But we had burgers last night!
Me: Yeah. So?
Okay, I wouldn’t want to eat the same thing every day of the week, but what’s the big deal about having the same thing two nights in a row or two nights in the same week?
Organic versus inorganic. Honestly, I just don’t care. In the course of daily life, I’m exposed to about a zillion chemicals, so a couple more on my apples just doesn’t phase me.
Coffee. My favorite is actually Chock Full of Nuts - the big can goes on sale for $7-$8 once a month, and I stock up. I don’t want anything in it except more coffee. Tastes fine to me.
Wine. Most of it tastes horrible to me. As far as “real” wines go, a glass of Riesling is about as high-falutin’ as I can manage. When I got a nice bottle of Dom Perignon as a gift a few years ago, I made mimosas, because that’s the only way I can drink champagne. Don’t bother offering me a “really good” wine, because it’s utterly wasted on me. I’d just as soon have a glass of Arbor Mist.
Like others have mentioned, I could care less about video quality and resolution for television, games, etc. If I can make out the picture on the screen, I’m good. I can’t deal with staticky radio or scratchy/tinny sound quality, though…
Preach it.
Latest radio commercial “Pick up some organic stewing beef for only $8.99 a pound…”
$8.99 a fucking pound! Are you kidding me? That’s more than double the cost of normal stewing beef. Fuck that!
What tv/movie/music celebrities are doing/thinking/wearing. Don’t care. And I can’t fathom why anyone else would care one bit. If I want to hear ridiculous opinions and see people doing dumb things, I’ll call my brother.
People are incredibly nitpicky about movies, finding trivial anachronisms and then claiming it “ruins” or “takes them out of” the film. The concept of “dramatic license” is completely ignored.
I’ll spot inaccuracies, but don’t think they ruin a film, and I’ll defend the right of a writer/director to take some license with the facts in order to make a more interesting story.
Amen! Except I’ll call my cousin instead and hear what new kind of I-have-too-much-money-and-no-sense actitivies her daughter is up to.
TV: I never could tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. When I order movies online, I always opt for the SD version and save myself a buck.
I’m the same way man.
Actually, perhaps I’m worse. I have the exact same breakfast 95% of the time. On some occasional weekends I’ll have something different, but most of the time it’s: Oatmeal, milk, protein powder, coffee.
My lunches are typically the same as well. I’ll vary them more often than breakfast though.
I could, quite literally, have the same dinners all year round (like, week after week, Monday is pizza, Tuesday tacos, etc). I could have the same meal for dinner two or three times a week.
Yet I know people who freak out over eating left overs the next night for dinner.
Boggles my mind.
I’ll second not giving two f**ks about pop culture, movie stars, etc. I think about them as often as they think about me.
I also don’t go for fitting aftermarket bells and whistles to my motorcycles or cars. I figure if Honda can’t do a decent job of design on it’s products then how can some dude who doesn’t have the years of experience they have. I once bought a dirt bike from a salesman (Honda) at the local dealership. As he was writing the bike up he asked “How about a pipe (exhaust) for that bike”. I gave him a fake horrified look and said “You mean it doesn’t come with one?”. Same response to his other attempts to gee gaw the bike up. I figure if I’m riding it wide open all the time and it’s still too slow, then I need “performance” accessories. Bah.
Thanks in part to the fact that I’m a cable cutter; I’m this way too. In most cases, If there is a quality program on air; I’ll be able to find it via Hulu Plus, Amazon or some other way. Plus I do have an antenna but I don’t usually watch OTA broadcasts.
Yep, although I’ve recently enjoyed an Americano from the local coffee shop. Which I think is basically an espresso, watered down to equal a regular size of coffee. That was pretty tasty, and it definitely tasted different from a regular cup of coffee. But I still had it black though.
I’m the opposite. Growing up we always had stuff that would last us a week. Meatloaf for a week! Casserole for a week! Ugh!
Pizza is the only thing I can eat multiple nights in a row. In fact I go a little bit too far and end up wasting money. I’ll buy some food I’m in the mood for and eat it that night and a lot of times by the time I get back around to it it’s gone bad or moldy and then I throw it away.
Yeah, I like beer quite a bit, and when I’m buying some to have at home, I’ll spend some time and effort to find something I haven’t tried before. But, really, with very few exceptions*, whatever you have in your fridge is fine. Like pizza and sex, even when beer is bad, it’s still pretty good.
*I once had a Christmas beer flavored with pine. It was the only bottle of beer I ever remember not being able to finish.
Breakfast is different for some reason. I think most people, including my family, have pretty much the same thing every morning for breakfast, except possibly for weekends. The same for lunch. You buy some cold cuts and have a sandwich every day. It’s dinner they seem to be picky about for some reason.
And, along these same lines, always doing math in pencil.
Ever since I started in college, I did my math in ink. Just like people say about doing crossword puzzles in ink: It forces you to think a bit, before you write. Some math profs just go berzonkers over that. I worked out a compromise with my Calculus II prof: Homework in ink if I want, but exams in pencil.
I’ll almost always cook on Sunday, and that’s what my Wife and I will have for dinner for the week (if it lasts that long, it usually does).
I vastly prefer this method. I don’t have to figure out what to make for dinner every night.
I’m not sensitive to the use of ‘cuss words’, even on occasions when I hear children use them. Seems to bother many people, yet to me they are just colorful words.