Choo choo! All aboard the Complain Train!

[FakeSympathy]

Okay, I think I wrote all of that after a long and frustrating day, and probably exaggerated how I actually felt.

My comment about the whole "women lying to themselves regarding men's height"... My apologies. OLD and all the social media content I've seen where short men are getting trashed really got over my head. I really need to stop looking at those contents.

All my life, I've heard two very conflicting advice when it comes to dating; "Be patient and wait for the right one" vs "You got to make the opportunities yourself, and take the initiative".

I guess I could never figure out how to balance between the two.

Maybe I really do need a therapy.

 

[BrawlMan]

. I really need to stop looking at those contents.

Please do. Remember at the end of the day, those places are just chat rooms anybody can see or read. Exactly why I don't bother with them.

 

[bluegate]

My apologies. OLD and all the social media content I've seen where short men getting trashed really got over my head.

( In case the timestamp didn't work, it's supposed to be 0:30 )

All jokes aside, the best of luck out there

 

[FakeSympathy]

( In case the timestamp didn't work, it's supposed to be 0:30 )

All jokes aside, the best of luck out there

.....It took me way too long to get the joke. But it got the job done and I got a good laugh out of it. Thank you!

 

[Thaluikhain]

The other day I said John-Rhys Davies was in literally everything.

Due to the media, I've become one of those people who say literally when they mean figuratively.

Oh bother.

 

[Chimpzy]

This image upsets me.

 

[Xprimentyl]

This image upsets me.

Ok, what's the ire here? I recall seeing videos of Italians basically losing their shit watching non-Italians breaking Spaghetti in half before dropping it in the water; what's the problem?

 

[Chimpzy]

Ok, what's the ire here? I recall seeing videos of Italians basically losing their shit watching non-Italians breaking Spaghetti in half before dropping it in the water; what's the problem?

Oh, big problem. Breaking spaghetti isn't necessary. Making half lenght spaghetti is stupid. Spaghetti is already pot-sized. Just put it in the pot whole, in plenty of boiling water, and after half minute or so the submerged part will have softened and the rest will go under on its own. If you're really impatient you can push it down with a spoon or something. If you break it in half, it's too short to properly twirl around your fork and you don't get the right noodle to sauce ratio.

All types of pasta have a purpose, a way to prepare them, and (amounts of) sauces that they go with.

Source: my Italian girlfriend's grandma, who was a real Mama, and who, since my girlfriend is pretty hopeless in the kitchen, thoroughly drilled me on the finer details of Italian cuisine.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Oh, big problem. Breaking spaghetti isn't necessary. Making half lenght spaghetti is stupid. Spaghetti is already pot-sized. Just put it in the pot whole, in plenty of boiling water, and after half minute or so the submerged part will have softened and the rest will go under on its own. If you're really impatient you can push it down with a spoon or something. If you break it in half, it's too short to properly twirl around your fork and you don't get the right noodle to sauce ratio.

All types of pasta have a purpose, a way to prepare them, and (amounts of) sauces that they go with.

Source: my Italian girlfriend's grandma, who was a real Mama, and who, since my girlfriend is pretty hopeless in the kitchen, thoroughly drilled me on the finer details of Italian cuisine.

Ok, but isn't pasta eventually chewed, swallowed, dissolved, and turned into poop regardless? Why are Italians so pearl-clutchy about shorter noodles? Seems something really petty to assign national pride to. I mean, ingredients, proportions, specifics, sure, but the length of the noodle? Literally has no bearing on the ultimate experience. Does twirled pasta taste different than slightly less twirled pasta? Because I once ate spaghetti with a spoon, and while much more inconvenient, I got the gist of "spaghetti" just fine.

 

[Chimpzy]

Ok, but isn't pasta eventually chewed, swallowed, dissolved, and turned into poop regardless? Why are Italians so pearl-clutchy about shorter noodles? Seems something really petty to assign national pride to. I mean, ingredients, proportions, specifics, sure, but the length of the noodle? Literally has no bearing on the ultimate experience. Does twirled pasta taste different than slightly less twirled pasta? Because I once ate spaghetti with a spoon, and while much more inconvenient, I got the gist of "spaghetti" just fine.

Think of it like stacking a cheeseburger like this: bun, cheese, tomato, condiment, second condiment, lettuce, patty, pickle, onion, bun. The order shouldn't matter, right? It all gets chewed together in your mouth anyway, right? But doing it like that still comes off very wrong.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Think of it like stacking a cheeseburger like this: bun, cheese, tomato, condiment, second condiment, lettuce, patty, pickle, onion, bun. The order shouldn't matter, right? It all gets chewed together in your mouth anyway, right? But doing it like that still comes off very wrong.

Eh, that doesn't feel directly analogous. I get where you coming from, but what goes on which level of a traditional burger makes more, I dunno, "common" sense than being particular about the length of spaghetti noodles. What if someone only has a sauce pot where a "whole" noodle might stick more than halfway out of a boiling pot? Would not breaking them in half be an easily solution for what would effectively amount the same bowl of spaghetti in the end?

I guess the argument comes down to people who cut their sandwiches vertically in half versus diagonally: same sandwich, different cut, but traditional Italians and losing their shit when a noodle is cut in half, I'll never get. I can appreciate their passion, but it will never make sense to me. (Wow, I sound like a white guy who doesn't understand why he can't use the N-word...)

 

[Chimpzy]

Eh, that doesn't feel directly analogous. I get where you coming from, but what goes on which level of a traditional burger makes more, I dunno, "common" sense than being particular about the length of spaghetti noodles. What if someone only has a sauce pot where a "whole" noodle might stick more than halfway out of a boiling pot? Would not breaking them in half be an easily solution for what would effectively amount the same bowl of spaghetti in the end?

I guess the argument comes down to people who cut their sandwiches vertically in half versus diagonally: same sandwich, different cut, but traditional Italians and losing their shit when a noodle is cut in half, I'll never get. I can appreciate their passion, but it will never make sense to me. (Wow, I sound like a white guy who doesn't understand why he can't use the N-word...)

I think it's just the frustration probably any ethnic group feels when they see someone not of that group cook their food. Like when white folk make Mexican food. Or when white folk make Thai food. Or when white folk make Caribbean food. Because it usually is some variation of "white makes ethnic food". Any cuisine is a marriage of the right ingredients, the right tools, the right techniques, even the right way of serving and eating, and then 95% of the time they take all these little shortcuts, make all these little mistakes, all these deviations from the proper way, that all add up. Things that seems so obvious to that ethnic group. So common sense. And the end result might be great food, and even look like the real thing, but it's not. Not in the eyes of whatever ethnic group you're cooking from.

 

[Gordon_4]

This image upsets me.

Jesus, if you're that weird about spaghetti not fitting in your pot - which it does as you cook it - just use fucking penne or shells or spirals or something.


Now for my own whinge. I had a PS4 repaired some time ago, and I agreed to pass it on to a friend of my mum's. Now for the life of me for months I've been unable to lay hands on the controller. So with time being a thing, I threw my hands up and went "Fuck it" and bought a replacement - a jaunty red - to go with it. Setting it up on my work bench this morning to run a couple of quick tests and go look in a box for a power cable. Guess what ELSE I found in that fucking box.

Go on. Guess.

 

[davidmc1158]

Jesus, if you're that weird about spaghetti not fitting in your pot - which it does as you cook it - just use fucking penne or shells or spirals or something.


Now for my own whinge. I had a PS4 repaired some time ago, and I agreed to pass it on to a friend of my mum's. Now for the life of me for months I've been unable to lay hands on the controller. So with time being a thing, I threw my hands up and went "Fuck it" and bought a replacement - a jaunty red - to go with it. Setting it up on my work bench this morning to run a couple of quick tests and go look in a box for a power cable. Guess what ELSE I found in that fucking box.

Go on. Guess.

The last two functioning brain cells I haven't been able to find for the last 30-some-odd years?

 

[FakeSympathy]

I did a MAJOR FUCK-UP at work today:

As a data analyst at a research institute, I was supposed to thoroughly review some study articles with a professor I was working with, extracting numbers from the text.

She was talking half-day to respon/confirm ther findings, and I decided to use AI to extract those numbers faster; I didn't tell her I was doing this and forgot about checking in with her, which led to major inconsistencies in the final calculations.....right before our big meeting with the external collaborators. We reported those final calculations as "confirmed" numbers. This fuck-up was discovered after that big meeting. Yeah got chewed out pretty bad.

The good news is that I owned up to it, apologized, and immediately got to fixing them. It was rather a quick fix.

The bad news was that the collaborators took those numbers in as "facts", and everyone was talking about planning a new strategy for the project because of my mistake.

I really have no one to blame but myself. Just want a random burglar to come in and stab me to death or something

 

[Thaluikhain]

I did a MAJOR FUCK-UP at work today:

I decided to use AI

Ah. Yeah, unlikely to end well.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I did a MAJOR FUCK-UP at work today:

As a data analyst at a research institute, I was supposed to thoroughly review some study articles with a professor I was working with, extracting numbers from the text.

She was talking half-day to respon/confirm ther findings, and I decided to use AI to extract those numbers faster; I didn't tell her I was doing this and forgot about checking in with her, which led to major inconsistencies in the final calculations.....right before our big meeting with the external collaborators. We reported those final calculations as "confirmed" numbers. This fuck-up was discovered after that big meeting. Yeah got chewed out pretty bad.

The good news is that I owned up to it, apologized, and immediately got to fixing them. It was rather a quick fix.

The bad news was that the collaborators took those numbers in as "facts", and everyone was talking about planning a new strategy for the project because of my mistake.

I really have no one to blame but myself. Just want a random burglar to come in and stab me to death or something

A vendor that my company works with sent me wrong information that was very clearly generated by AI. I chewed them out during a meeting and asked why the hell I would pay them to give me an AI answer if I can just use the AI myself. They now have a company-wide policy against using AI in any client facing capacity, and if I ever see an issue like this again the company is being fired on the spot. They refunded my company thousands of dollars as an apology. Do I see a penny of that money? Nope.

 

[Ezekiel]

They added a shelter for the smokers a few months ago, but in the process moved the only bike racks too close to the curb. Racks too close to walls and curbs are so common. The norm.

Spoiler

How about a shelter for our bikes and scooters, so that they are not rusting in the rain?

 

[bluegate]

They added a shelter for the smokers a few months ago, but in the process moved the only bike racks too close to the curb. Racks too close to walls and curbs are so common. The norm.

Spoiler

How about a shelter for our bikes and scooters, so that they are not rusting in the rain?

Try taking it up with the "They" who put up the smoke shelter.

Decent bike shelters are surprisingly rare.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Today I learned my new work laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad) is touchscreen. I noticed a few times over the past couple of weeks that when tapping Ctrl+function keys, the screen would jump; I thought it was me somehow knocking the mouse (which made no sense given neither hand had been on the mouse at the time,) but it was my knuckle interacting with the screen. Can't decide if I like or not yet, but still pretty cool. Does make swiping dust off the screen annoying, though.

Aaaaand, I've gone from learning it to hating it. I've found very few, routine practical uses for it, and I touch it accidentally about a half-dozen times a day, closing apps/tabs, scrolling my screen and losing where I was reading, etc. It's a cool feature, but 90% annoying. Turned it off.