Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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I mean getting rid of pollution is cool.
But it won't change how, thanks to a childhood battle with pneumonia, I now struggle to breathe if the temperature gets cold fast. Or can require a steroid treatment when I get sick. Or the struggles someone with CF has.
Could help, but we still would like to be able to... I dunno. Feel pretty when we wear masks to breathe better.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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My cousin and her family lived in Dehli for about 14 years, they moved last year to Kathmandu. They've worn face masks when outside (when they went outside) pretty much that entire time, her kids have grown up using them, ect, though it's very rare for people to wear them there until the last several years. I know she felt extremely weird about wearing them for awhile.
A few years ago, WA state had the worst air quality that I've ever experienced here thanks to massive wildfires and puger sound's weird and frequent inversion zones. Regular ashfalls, tasting the smog and wildfire ash as soon as you stepped outside, haze, ect. Even walking from my house to my car was triggering chest pains and wheezing. I tried a box of those disposable filtration masks which helped, my my cousin ordered and sent me the type of mask her family wears (not flimsy, comfortable, cute pattern) and while I got plenty of weird looks I could breathe and resume my delivery work without feeling like I was going to suffocate.
Pollution is no joke. I wish more people got air pollution masks, at least for their kids, in areas where it's frequent. And that they were subsidized too (but yeah right) especially in cities that are extremely dangerous (plenty of those in the US too!)
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@Auspice Spot on. Damp weather, dust, cold. I have barely left my house for a month.
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@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Aria said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
White People Problems: Bitching about the price of hummus.
....But I am also legitimately annoyed at the price of hummus. A single 8 oz tub is $4.89? WTF?!
Hummus recipe:
buy can of chickpeas
drain can of chickpeas
pour drained can of chickpeas in blender
blitzcheaper, tastier, healthier, fresher hummus.
Squeeze lemon and add tahini/salt/garlic if desired.
— your friendly neighbourhood Israeli
You definitely need tahini for the flavor/smoothness, but a big jar of that will make so many batches of hummus. Super easy and affordable to make if you have a high speed blender.
@aria google! you can make all kinds of hummus. Garlic, roasted red pepper, make it with spicy chili oil, make it out of any kind of bean...
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When your routine has been consistently fucked since Christmas and getting that momentum of motivated self-employment and working out back is like pushing a car sized boulder up hill.
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@SinCerely said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
When your routine has been consistently fucked since Christmas and getting that momentum of motivated self-employment and working out back is like pushing a car sized boulder up hill.
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I have tried making hummus at home but none of my efforts could hold a candle to my favorite store brand (Sabra). I'll keep trying though!
One of my all-time favorite snacks is roasted red pepper hummus with a cup of Pace Medium Salsa dumped on top, served with Tostitos Crispy Rounds for dipping. It's so good!
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Currently looking to replace some old beat up furniture. Anyone got any advice on how to pick out a good sofa?
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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Sit on it and see if it is comfortable? If it has a built in recliner, recline in it and see if it is comfortable?
Have I been missing something in sofa shopping all this time?
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- Go to the furniture store with the most options available.
- Find one you really love within 5 minutes.
- Spend the next two weeks going everywhere else in town because you surely didn't find the best option in five minutes.
- After wasting two weeks furniture shopping, go back and buy the first one that you found in five minutes.
- Grouse about two wasted weeks while waiting for delivery while fretting about clearing out enough space in time for said delivery that you could have very easily accomplished in that two week period but for whatever reason, did not do.
- Rip old couch apart in search of stray keys/loose change/jewelry at the last minute when you hear the delivery van pull up in front of the house.
- Wave goodbye to old couch. Try to not wonder how many friends of yours may have had sex on it without you knowing about it.
- Embrace wave of gratitude that you'll never have to wonder about that ever again as the old couch departs the home.
- Chase the cat toy you missed between the old couch and the wall until the old house was gone out of new couch footprint.
- Stare anxiously at light fixtures in swinging range as new couch is brought in and set in place.
- Race cat(s) to be the first to sit on new couch.
This is not how one should. This is how everyone I know in person ever has. YMMV.
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I don't want my boss to stop into the office tomorrow. I want to listen to my podcasts while I do the tedious paperwork shit.
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I just spent 5 minutes trying to spell corduroy. My initial attempts were so bad even spellcheck was like 'bitch i got no idea'.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I just spent 5 minutes trying to spell corduroy. My initial attempts were so bad even spellcheck was like 'bitch i got no idea'.
You dont know how to spell corduroy but you like Conor Oberst.
That's some black belt level "Bad Hipster" shit there. In the years I knew the scrawny douche I don't think I ever saw him wearing anything but.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
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@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Bad Hipster
Is this like the spinoff to Bad Moms or Bad Grandpa? Or Bad Teacher?
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Bad Hipster
Is this like the spinoff to Bad Moms or Bad Grandpa? Or Bad Teacher?
The pitch:
Zach Galifianakis and John Cena try to be hipster amongst a population of hipsters including: Jason Schwartzman, Zoe Deschanel, Demetri Martin, and Jared Leto.
ETA: And no Conor Oberst in the soundtrack because I want to be able to watch it.
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Garbage on Facebook about how x idiotic fad diet, 1 weird trick & 2 cups of chamomile tea a day or whatever cure anxiety.
I shouldn't let it get to me, but it really does. I want to throw rocks at it.
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@Kestrel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Garbage on Facebook about how x idiotic fad diet, 1 weird trick & 2 cups of chamomile tea a day or whatever cure anxiety.
I shouldn't let it get to me, but it really does. I want to throw rocks at it.
I gave up Facebook for the election year. Best decision ever so far. I might not go back.
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Left DnD early tonight because I was tried of being lectured and brow-beaten by one of the player's SOs because I made a mention that I hunt deer and turkey on my family's land.
I can say that it's now our responsibility for keeping the population now that we eliminated natural predators. I can say that by doing so we're practicing good conservationism so that old bucks don't stop mating and start killing young bucks when there become too many in one localized area. I can that it's apart of being stewards of the land, something that my family has taken seriously since we emigrated to the US as my family has consistently been farmers.
I can say all of that, and I still get labeled a murderer and it ruined a good night of tabletop.
I only kind of regret stating that if they kept pressing this issue and not to drop, that I would end up a murderer since my patience had a limit. I probably shouldn't of left and let someone's holier than thou attitude ruin my night. And I don't really care what one's personal beliefs are when it comes to this sort of thing, but I look at it the same way I look at religion; don't shove your views down my throat when I wasn't looking or asking for it.
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@Testament That really sucks.
I hope that person either is not invited back, or is given some boundaries about how they will need to behave towards other people if they want to be part of things, and that you get an apology. -
I got a text from the player. He said he's not going to bring his SO over again if she can't keep well enough alone. She didn't even play she was just there because there are times that players bring their SOs over just for the social aspect.
There's always vegitarian/vegan options because everyone brings something for everyone to share. The DM eats paleo, so it's really easy for him to make non-meat options.
It all started because I made some off-hand comment that my cleric(A 6th level Minotaur Tempest Cleric for those wondering)doesn't eat beef because he thinks it's too close to cannibalism, but will heartily eat deer. To which I added off-handedly, "Just like me in November." That's what started it.
It's not all for naught, the DM said he'd work in some kind of twist for next week.
