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Keefe said:
Plastic bags at the grocery store that one puts certain fruits or vegetables in. I hate that when you get one and try to pull it apart to open it, it takes 30 seconds sometimes. **** them.
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I left a store one time because the bags were more or less impossible to pull open. I was buying a bunch of vegetables and didn't need to have a mental breakdown in the middle of the produce section.
 
Gameface said:
It evaporates the second it hits a hot bagel.
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I'll have to check that. The last time I had it on a bagel I didn't have any problems but I'm not sure the bagel was completely hot from the toaster.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I'll have to check that. The last time I had it on a bagel I didn't have any problems but I'm not sure the bagel was completely hot from the toaster.
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I'm just saying that as soon as you start to spread it the whipped-in air escapes and there's almost no actual cream cheese there. I like a bagel with damn near a 1/4" of cream cheese on it.
 
Gameface said:
I'm just saying that as soon as you start to spread it the whipped-in air escapes and there's almost no actual cream cheese there. I like a bagel with damn near a 1/4" of cream cheese on it.
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Agreed on the cream cheese quantity for sure.
 
Gameface said:
I left a store one time because the bags were more or less impossible to pull open. I was buying a bunch of vegetables and didn't need to have a mental breakdown in the middle of the produce section.
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After about ten to fifteen seconds, I generally start angrily muttering curses to myself.
 
****ing mechanics, need to re-register my car, sent it off for a road worthy mechanic calls back and says it needs 6k worth of work, parts making up 4k of that cost and a 4 week wait for delivery. I said to him send me the list and ill look at it. Sorted the parts myself (OEM parts as well) for 1700 bucks and they arrive next week.
 
Rubashov said:
****ing mechanics, need to re-register my car, sent it off for a road worthy mechanic calls back and says it needs 6k worth of work, parts making up 4k of that cost and a 4 week wait for delivery. I said to him send me the list and ill look at it. Sorted the parts myself (OEM parts as well) for 1700 bucks and they arrive next week.
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The question is, who’s worse? Lawyers or mechanics?
 
Expiration dates on food products. Is it that ****ing difficult to:
a) put the date somewhere easy to find
b) put the date in a font large enough to ****ing read
c) put the date in an ink that doesn’t wipe or scratch off of the glass so I don’t know if the product is expired

**** them all.
 
Best Buy dates

They cause a **** ton of food waste.

The way to know if your food has gone bad is that it smells bad, has mold or fungus on it, or has significantly changed consistency.

The best buy date is the absolute worst case scenario for when the food is no longer at it's best (not even that it has gone bad or "expired"). Having worked in a yogurt factory there are times a production line does not run well, so the yogurt might sit on the line for a lot longer than normal. There are times the cooler or the cooling apparatus is backed up so the product sits at room temp for longer than normal. Same goes for the storage tanks before packaging. Anyway, there are dozens of ways that one cup of yogurt might leave the factory with more "stress" than another cup. Same goes for shipping, storage at the retail side, sales floor, etc. That best buy date assumes the worst possible scenario and then adds 10-20% more assumption of bad outcomes because the purpose of the date is to limit liability, not ensure quality.

That said, an unreadable best by date just adds to the problem and encourages food waste even more.
 
Tailgaters. It's gotten so bad in Utah on I-15 you can barely even change lanes half the time. Bunch of drivers doing 80 MPH on each other's asses. Sometimes you can't even see the dude behinds headlights. And when you give space in front the guy behind either tailgates harder or tries to pass like his life depends on filling every square inch of pavement. Luckily I'm decent at Nascar but my daughter is terrified to go near I-15 these days. My method is to look for the open areas between the packs of brainless followers and just chill but those are getting harder and harder to find. Of all the places I drive Utah is the worst for tailgating.
 
str8line said:
Tailgaters. It's gotten so bad in Utah on I-15 you can barely even change lanes half the time. Bunch of drivers doing 80 MPH on each other's asses. Sometimes you can't even see the dude behinds headlights. And when you give space in front the guy behind either tailgates harder or tries to pass like his life depends on filling every square inch of pavement. Luckily I'm decent at Nascar but my daughter is terrified to go near I-15 these days. My method is to look for the open areas between the packs of brainless followers and just chill but those are getting harder and harder to find. Of all the places I drive Utah is the worst for tailgating.
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I view the spot in front of a tailgater as a personal challenge. I'm currently 100% in my ability to move into that spot, much to the chagrin of the tailgater, often with honks and middle fingers. I give them a thumbs-up in response. Funny enough, when given the choice all of them have decided to back the **** off instead of hit my back quarter panel.

The one time I lose this challenge I might die, but until that day I'm undefeated.

The law in Utah is that you MUST leave enough room for a car to change lanes into your lane. Whoever's front bumper is further ahead has the right of way here. So I just get in position, blinker on, and slowly start moving into the lane. I don't stop. 100% success.
 
Gameface said:
I view the spot in front of a tailgater as a personal challenge. I'm currently 100% in my ability to move into that spot, much to the chagrin of the tailgater, often with honks and middle fingers. I give them a thumbs-up in response. Funny enough, when given the choice all of them have decided to back the **** off instead of hit my back quarter panel.

The one time I lose this challenge I might die, but until that day I'm undefeated.

The law in Utah is that you MUST leave enough room for a car to change lanes into your lane. Whoever's front bumper is further ahead has the right of way here. So I just get in position, blinker on, and slowly start moving into the lane. I don't stop. 100% success.
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My man!
 
Gameface said:
I view the spot in front of a tailgater as a personal challenge. I'm currently 100% in my ability to move into that spot, much to the chagrin of the tailgater, often with honks and middle fingers. I give them a thumbs-up in response. Funny enough, when given the choice all of them have decided to back the **** off instead of hit my back quarter panel.

The one time I lose this challenge I might die, but until that day I'm undefeated.

The law in Utah is that you MUST leave enough room for a car to change lanes into your lane. Whoever's front bumper is further ahead has the right of way here. So I just get in position, blinker on, and slowly start moving into the lane. I don't stop. 100% success.
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This works every time for me because my car is less expensive than theirs.

I usually use this on people that try to not let me in after I turn on my blinker though.

I might have to use it on tailgaters as well, combined with my no brake slow down until they back off completely.
 
Jazz Spazz said:
This works every time for me because my car is less expensive than theirs.

I usually use this on people that try to not let me in after I turn on my blinker though.

I might have to use it on tailgaters as well, combined with my no brake slow down until they back off completely.
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In California this is just how merging happens, but generally people just let you in. I think Californians realized we are all in this ****-show together so it helps no one to be ****** about it. Of course it isn't universal, you still run into douchebags on the road. But generally even though it is way more congested here, I think the average driver is less confrontational and aggressive than in Utah. Utah drivers seem to always be driving on the edge of road rage.
 
Okay I just want to check. When their is blinding rain on the freeway you're supposed to turn on your damn headlights, right?

I drove from SLC to Soda Springs, ID and back today and I hit heavy rain like a dozen times. People without their headlights on completely vanish in the mist.
 
str8line said:
Tailgaters. It's gotten so bad in Utah on I-15 you can barely even change lanes half the time. Bunch of drivers doing 80 MPH on each other's asses. Sometimes you can't even see the dude behinds headlights. And when you give space in front the guy behind either tailgates harder or tries to pass like his life depends on filling every square inch of pavement. Luckily I'm decent at Nascar but my daughter is terrified to go near I-15 these days. My method is to look for the open areas between the packs of brainless followers and just chill but those are getting harder and harder to find. Of all the places I drive Utah is the worst for tailgating.
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Sounds like you belong in the right lane. Move the **** over.
 
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