That's also how you eat noodle soup if you only have chopsticks.
That's why I think the guy just wasn't thinking... he was in full Walter Mitty mode.
Things that frustrate us all
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Idiots with "loudeners" on their motorcycle.
Laws can be way too generous on how much noise pollution is allowed. Limits on bass speakers in cars would be nice too. Neighborhood rattling beats are too much.
New frustration; the demise of veggie pasta. It was a healthier alternative for me but it is gone from all my store shelves now.
I can still find it online at $5.50 for a 12 oz box!
Would somebody please shoot whoever is responsible for those "Scots" Turf Builder ads?
(I rather doubt that there is any actual Scotsman involved in making those stupid ads.)
I'm quite fond of the Minestrone soup at Olive Garden. So that method works quite well.
(I rather doubt that there is any actual Scotsman involved in making those stupid ads.)
I'm quite fond of the Minestrone soup at Olive Garden. So that method works quite well.
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Would somebody please shoot whoever is responsible for those "Scots" Turf Builder ads?
(I rather doubt that there is any actual Scotsman involved in making those stupid ads.)
I'm quite fond of the Minestrone soup at Olive Garden. So that method works quite well.
Are you talking about the grass commercials with Tormund from GAME OF THRONES? I find those really funny.
"Feed your lawn. Feed it!"
Olive Garden... the best soup is the zuppa toscana. Hands down.
I don't know how people can listen to their music like that, like I literally don't understand how people can physically do that without it being painful for them.
I can't remember when I last saw boxes of them, but I have seen quite a few premade and frozen meals made with veggie noodles. My mom get a Tattooed Chef Spaghetti with beef bolognese made with cauliflower noodles, and I get a Gochujang Chowmein with zuuchini spirals also from Tattooed Chef. They are both vegan though, so the "beef" in the spaghetti is plant based.
How come when you're at the checkout queue in a Supermarket, the teller and all the customers are never in a hurry, they always have a long conversation, hold up proceedings etc, but when it comes my fucking turn to get served, the checkout dude suddenly wants to fire my stuff through rapid, and is barking the amount to be paid while I'm still packing my stuff in a bag?
Not only that, he or she is starting to scan all the person behind's stuff. It gets on my tits, frustration is not strong enough a word for it.
Not only that, he or she is starting to scan all the person behind's stuff. It gets on my tits, frustration is not strong enough a word for it.
I have had similar experiences, many times. Every single time it had happened, both the cashier and bagger were part of the same age group.
I have a frustration, though this may be unique to me. (Though I'm hoping it isn't.
)When you create a parody of a song, it sometimes stays with you so much that it won't leave your head for days. And even comes back while taking a shower.
Example: "attorneys love juicy fruit". The MC Hammer cover of "Turn This Mutha Out". One day, after my mom was talking to me about her attorney, that parody just came to me. I sung that parody to my wife, and she found it funny.
Unfortunately for me, that stayed with me for DAYS... even while I was at the office. And I can't exactly leave my own brain... though that would be a nifty ability.
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Don McLean, who did the original American Pie, has said that he occasionally has to really concentrate while performing the song that he doesn't switch to the Weird Al version The Saga Begins.I have had similar experiences, many times. Every single time it had happened, both the cashier and bagger were part of the same age group.
I have a frustration, though this may be unique to me. (Though I'm hoping it isn't.
When you create a parody of a song, it sometimes stays with you so much that it won't leave your head for days. And even comes back while taking a shower.
Example: "attorneys love juicy fruit". The MC Hammer cover of "Turn This Mutha Out". One day, after my mom was talking to me about her attorney, that parody just came to me. I sung that parody to my wife, and she found it funny.
Unfortunately for me, that stayed with me for DAYS... even while I was at the office. And I can't exactly leave my own brain... though that would be a nifty ability.
I am incapable of hearing Taylor Siwift's "Shake It Off" without having this version in my head:
I cannot help but think of Dean Winchester in the SUPERNATURAL episode "Yellow Fever" every time I hear "Eye of the Tiger". Despite the fact ROCKY III is a great film.
Anyone who has seen the episode understands what I mean.
Anyone who has seen the episode understands what I mean.
In my mind, some songs are so indelibly associated with their uses in various media that I can't shake the connection. For example, whenever I hear Laura Branigan's "Gloria," I can't help thinking of that poor figure skater in Flashdance falling flat on her ass.
Funny story (or odd, depending on your point of view)...
During the height of my karaoke days (this was in my 20s), I would do some... stunts on stage for songs.
One of them was "Maniac" from FLASHDANCE. I sang the song, but also brought a chair to the stage. And I had the KJ (karaoke jockey) pour a big glass of water on me. (Yes, that scene.) It always brought the house down.
I've done so many things on stage... and had several stage names. 'Barry Xtreme' was the one used the most, followed by 'Sexual Vanilla'. (That's another story.)
This was back in the day when karaoke was actually fun instead of everyone trying to one-up and upstage each other. I stopped going when the competing became toxic.
During the height of my karaoke days (this was in my 20s), I would do some... stunts on stage for songs.
One of them was "Maniac" from FLASHDANCE. I sang the song, but also brought a chair to the stage. And I had the KJ (karaoke jockey) pour a big glass of water on me. (Yes, that scene.) It always brought the house down.
I've done so many things on stage... and had several stage names. 'Barry Xtreme' was the one used the most, followed by 'Sexual Vanilla'. (That's another story.)
This was back in the day when karaoke was actually fun instead of everyone trying to one-up and upstage each other. I stopped going when the competing became toxic.
THAT was just awesome!
Why the fresh hell do all these medical ads have to keep saying "moderate to severe"? Is that some kind of magical code phrase?
What's worse is when people IN THE ADS say it! "To treat my moderate to severe [insert name of mutant medical condition]". You're the one who's sick, dude. Which one is it?
I don't think I've ever seen an ad using that phrase, but then again, I don't live in the US.
But I guess I'd better go check on my 2.3 kids now
This takes a bit of an explanation, but it is pissing a lot of people off.
So we have some wild horses here in Arizona that live along the Salt River, and there's a independent group that works with some of the state groups call the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group that watches over them, and they've made an arangement where they dart the mares with contraceptives as a way to keep their population down, and save them from being rounded up. The horses are really popular out, with tons of people going down there just to see them.
But now the Center Biological Diversity has teamed up with a group of hunting organizations and suing either the SRWHMG or the state to stop the contraceptives, and then the population with grown again and they will have an excuse to round them up. But pretty much everything they are saying about why they want to do it is complete bullshit, the say there are 600 horse out there, but there are actually only 414, that the horses are eating all cottonwood trees, which horses don't even eat, and that they're driving out all the other animals, even though there are still plenty of them around.
So we have some wild horses here in Arizona that live along the Salt River, and there's a independent group that works with some of the state groups call the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group that watches over them, and they've made an arangement where they dart the mares with contraceptives as a way to keep their population down, and save them from being rounded up. The horses are really popular out, with tons of people going down there just to see them.
But now the Center Biological Diversity has teamed up with a group of hunting organizations and suing either the SRWHMG or the state to stop the contraceptives, and then the population with grown again and they will have an excuse to round them up. But pretty much everything they are saying about why they want to do it is complete bullshit, the say there are 600 horse out there, but there are actually only 414, that the horses are eating all cottonwood trees, which horses don't even eat, and that they're driving out all the other animals, even though there are still plenty of them around.
Sorry I forgot to mention that since they're doing the contraceptive program they're protected from being rounded up. So by stopping that, they'll start having babies again, and when the population goes up that will allow them to remove them.
And the "round-ups for adoptions" are one of the absolute worst things that can happen to wild horses. The rounds up themselves are a terrifying and traumatic experience in which some of them will end up dead or injured, and then once they are rounded up the majority of them don't actually get adopted, most of them go the dirty, overcrowded holding pens, where they get horrible care. Oh, and at least for a while any time they saw a horse with blue eye they would kill it right there, because there is a chance, just a chance, it could be blind. And there are plenty of blind horses who live full, happy, healthy lives.
And now thanks to the Adoption Incetive Program, where the BLM will pay you for every horse you adopt, a lot of the ones that do get adopted, are taken by people who the money, barely keep them alive for the year it takes to get the money, and then dump them at an auction, where they's a very good chance they'll go to Mexico or Canada to be slaughtered.
This is some footage from a roundup last July and stuff like happens all the time
Pretty much everything that comes out of the BLM's mouths is completely. The wild horse advocacy groups have proven their claims false repeatedly, but they still won't stop.
And the "round-ups for adoptions" are one of the absolute worst things that can happen to wild horses. The rounds up themselves are a terrifying and traumatic experience in which some of them will end up dead or injured, and then once they are rounded up the majority of them don't actually get adopted, most of them go the dirty, overcrowded holding pens, where they get horrible care. Oh, and at least for a while any time they saw a horse with blue eye they would kill it right there, because there is a chance, just a chance, it could be blind. And there are plenty of blind horses who live full, happy, healthy lives.
And now thanks to the Adoption Incetive Program, where the BLM will pay you for every horse you adopt, a lot of the ones that do get adopted, are taken by people who the money, barely keep them alive for the year it takes to get the money, and then dump them at an auction, where they's a very good chance they'll go to Mexico or Canada to be slaughtered.
This is some footage from a roundup last July and stuff like happens all the time
Pretty much everything that comes out of the BLM's mouths is completely. The wild horse advocacy groups have proven their claims false repeatedly, but they still won't stop.
