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Oh, I know! I’ve had good bags and bad bags myself. And I wasn’t really commenting about anyone here in particular, but rather about a general tendency (and one which, as I noted, I’ve indulged in, also).
Also known in social psychology as the just-world hypothesis, and yes, it’s an attempt to feel that your life is completely under your control, and if you just do the right things, say the right things, wear the right things, hang out with the right people, nothing bad will ever ever happen to you or anyone you love.
These are not examples of the just-world hypothesis.
Like **Kolga **just said, these aren’t comparable.
My brain just played a montage of hapless, clumsy hands attempting a variety of simple tasks, failing, and gesturing in frustration. Thank you for the laughs. <3
I can see that - now that I’m thinking about it, those no-boil pasta maker commercials show people damned near killing themselves trying to make some spaghetti. :dubious:
That’s why I said “wishful beliefs that the world is fair”, and not “the just world hypothesis”. 
Ah yes, I forgot about kosher! 0-for-3, cheese bastards!
The local supermarket has started carrying vegan fake cheese, we found. It’s not cheap though; 6 bucks for an 8-ounce bag of a shredded mozzarella-like substance. We went for the 12 flat slices for $4 instead.
Yeah, but I was clearly talking about the just world hypothesis. I’d also say that there’s a huge world of difference between the examples of falacious thinking given for conservatives and liberals (not even including the fact that while I’ve known more than one conservative who thinks the things I reported–and, indeed, they are pretty much the central tenets of modern American conservativism–I’ve never known a liberal to make the assertions you’ve claimed, let along built an entire platform on them).
You know, this might just be the cure for depression…slapping someone who desperately, desperately needs it. Og knows that there are any number of valid targets out there.
I’ve had good and bad results from package zipseal bags myself. Some of them are great, and do exactly what they’re supposed to do. One of my fridge staples is grated cheddar cheese, which comes in a zipseal bag. The zipper words fine. Other zipseals have been either misaligned (so using the zipper would result in gapes at both ends) or they just won’t engage at all. And then there’s the vacuum sealed packages, where it’s impossible to open the package without punching a hole in the plastic below the seal.
For whatever reason, every now and then my computer decides that it doesn’t want keyboard input. Usually when I have several windows of text open. I don’t know if I’m hitting a special key or key combo accidentally, but this is quite aggravating. I can’t save those texts at all, because I can’t name them. And people wonder why I get all stabbity.
You should join us in some of the more retarded clean energy threads sometime.
I’m not sayin’ that I think both sides are equally bad, mind you, just that moonbattery transcends traditional political belief demarcations.
“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?’ So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”
Of course it does. I don’t think any reasonable person disputes that. I just never pegged you as the kind of person who feels an obsessive need to always point out some level of stupidity coming from the other side of a divide, just because someone happened to mention a negative trait from one group.
Like others have said, some are better than others. I don’t tend to trust resealable seals. Try picking up a full two pound bag of resealable rice upside down, and report back on the results. 
(That’s how I got rice all over my kitchen - I don’t think I’ll ever get it all out.)
My computer does that when it’s starting up sometimes - if I unplug the keyboard and plug it in again, it seems to fix up the problem.
Well, I’m not sure that’s exactly what they intended the seal to hold out against. More like, “keep out bugs and don’t spill if it falls over on its side.” I mean, I’m not gonna complain that my shower curtain rings tear out when I try to swing on the curtain.
I dunno; it was pretty easy to do - I store the rice on its side in my fridge, and I just grabbed the wrong end when picking it up. I take your point, though. I also use a twist-tie to seal my rice now.
Uncooked rice in the fridge? What’s up with that?
Keeps it fresh longer. I don’t know where I read about storing rice in the fridge; maybe here, even.
A quick Google suggests that it’s only *brown *rice you need to refrigerate (so the oil in the hulls doesn’t go rancid), while white rice can be simply shelved in a sealed container pretty much indefinitely. Although presumably also refrigerating white rice won’t *hurt *it.
Keeping it in the fridge helps with pantry pests, if your household is prone to that sort of thing.
Please post a sign-up sheet, and include a column so we can nominate people for the “desperately needs it” category.
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To be fair, I was more reacting to having read the idiocy I used as examples on Facebook earlier today. Most of my friends are some species of crazy liberal, and a few of them got into a fight with a nuclear engineer buddy. 
Wait, you have people you’d *actually consider to be friends *who are *that *retarded?