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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby BoganGod on Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:35 pm

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Dukasaur on Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:48 pm

.... when the sign at Zehrs says "diced rutabaga", but when I bring the bag home and read the fine print it says "diced squash."

I was so looking forward to the firm, wholesome texture of rutabaga, not the disgusting baby-food slimy mush of squash.

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Postby 2dimes on Tue Jan 07, 2014 1:32 pm

Dukasaur wrote:.... when the sign at Zehrs says "diced rutabaga", but when I bring the bag home and read the fine print it says "diced squash."

I was so looking forward to the firm, wholesome texture of rutabaga, not the disgusting baby-food slimy mush of squash.

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Lootifer on Tue Jan 07, 2014 4:26 pm

Def 1st world problem.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby drose on Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:15 pm

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby notyou2 on Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:58 pm

Calling sweet potatoes rutabagas
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby notyou2 on Tue Jan 07, 2014 9:59 pm

Calling turnips rutabagas.

Can't fool me, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby rdsrds2120 on Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:06 pm

Rutabagas.

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Dukasaur on Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:03 am

notyou2 wrote:Calling sweet potatoes rutabagas

Rutabagas are definitely not sweet potatoes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga
The rutabaga, swede (from Swedish turnip),[1] turnip, yellow turnip, or neep (Brassica napobrassica, or Brassica napus var. napobrassica, or Brassica napus subsp. rapifera) is a root vegetable that originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip; see Triangle of U. The roots are prepared for human food in a variety of ways, and the leaves can be eaten as a leaf vegetable. The roots and tops are also used as winter feed for livestock, when they may be fed directly, or by allowing the animals to forage the plants in the field.

notyou2 wrote:Calling turnips rutabagas.

Can't fool me, I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.

Turnips is closer to the truth, but still not quite right.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby notyou2 on Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:20 pm

Being corrected by uppity upper Canadians
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby rishaed on Thu Jan 16, 2014 5:34 pm

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby BigBallinStalin on Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:13 am

Best game I've played for the longest amount of time per day within the least amount of days is:

Don't Starve.


It's awesome, but when you get setup, you're just finding busy work to do. Maxwell's 5-level adventure is pretty awesome though. Raining frogs are difficult.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby notyou2 on Fri Jan 17, 2014 2:02 pm

Who are you? What are you doing here?
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:25 am

Being forced to do projects (school and/or work) with people.

Seriously, how is it that the vast majority of people are basically illiterate? I'm reading over and adding to this joint paper that my group has to turn in, and it's like reading a 14 year old's unedited drafts. I basically have to rewrite every sentence. How does one even get admitted to college with this level of writing skills?

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby DoomYoshi on Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:09 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Being forced to do projects (school and/or work) with people.

Seriously, how is it that the vast majority of people are basically illiterate? I'm reading over and adding to this joint paper that my group has to turn in, and it's like reading a 14 year old's unedited drafts. I basically have to rewrite every sentence. How does one even get admitted to college with this level of writing skills?

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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby notyou2 on Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:09 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Being forced to do projects (school and/or work) with people.

Seriously, how is it that the vast majority of people are basically illiterate? I'm reading over and adding to this joint paper that my group has to turn in, and it's like reading a 14 year old's unedited drafts. I basically have to rewrite every sentence. How does one even get admitted to college with this level of writing skills?

-TG


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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby BigBallinStalin on Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:40 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Being forced to do projects (school and/or work) with people.

Seriously, how is it that the vast majority of people are basically illiterate? I'm reading over and adding to this joint paper that my group has to turn in, and it's like reading a 14 year old's unedited drafts. I basically have to rewrite every sentence. How does one even get admitted to college with this level of writing skills?

-TG


That's why students in group should receive individual grades for a group project. The traditional way incentivizes slackers and rewards the less intelligent--for work they didn't do. Merit-based rewards FTW.

Also, I know that feel. The South might possess the world's wealthiest dumb people.


Note: you should report your complaint to the teacher. Perhaps, name names. If y'all get graded horribly, you might win a saving throw because you told the teacher what was happening ahead of time.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby AndyDufresne on Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:17 am

BigBallinStalin wrote:
TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Being forced to do projects (school and/or work) with people.

Seriously, how is it that the vast majority of people are basically illiterate? I'm reading over and adding to this joint paper that my group has to turn in, and it's like reading a 14 year old's unedited drafts. I basically have to rewrite every sentence. How does one even get admitted to college with this level of writing skills?

-TG


That's why students in group should receive individual grades for a group project. The traditional way incentivizes slackers and rewards the less intelligent--for work they didn't do. Merit-based rewards FTW.

Also, I know that feel. The South might possess the world's wealthiest dumb people.


Note: you should report your complaint to the teacher. Perhaps, name names. If y'all get graded horribly, you might win a saving throw because you told the teacher what was happening ahead of time.


I think the real solution here is some sort of Ukrainian style coup.


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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Army of GOD on Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:32 am

I had a similar situation my freshman year of college, but their (my idiotic partners') best defense was that it was an engineering school so they couldn't write at all.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby notyou2 on Mon Mar 10, 2014 1:44 pm

A language of numbers needs to be invented. Hmmmm?????
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby jonesthecurl on Thu Mar 13, 2014 12:17 am

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Being forced to do projects (school and/or work) with people.

Seriously, how is it that the vast majority of people are basically illiterate? I'm reading over and adding to this joint paper that my group has to turn in, and it's like reading a 14 year old's unedited drafts. I basically have to rewrite every sentence. How does one even get admitted to college with this level of writing skills?

-TG



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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Lootifer on Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:46 pm

Army of GOD wrote:I had a similar situation my freshman year of college, but their (my idiotic partners') best defense was that it was an engineering school so they couldn't write at all.

Tell em to F off.

Engineers who can't write are worthless as engineers.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Army of GOD on Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:31 pm

Fucking BuzzFeed.

Jesus fucking christ, what a fucking pathetic piece of shit website. Nothing makes me hate people more than that venus flytrap.

They have the most inane, terribly-written articles (if you can even call them that) of all-time, all for the sake of pandering to the lower common denominator, getting clicks and making money. Huffington Post is doing the same exact thing now.

I fucking hate BuzzFeed. If I could punch one person in the face, it would be nietzsche. If I had a second person, it would be BuzzFeed.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Army of GOD on Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:27 pm

how people (read: ESPN) are trying to force that women's basketball is at all interesting or something I should care about.

I shouldn't. I don't for the same reason why I barely care about men's college sports and don't give a god damned shit about high school sports, because only pro (men's) sports have the highest level of athletes and everything else is just poppycock. I'm sorry, I don't care if UConn's women's basketball is undefeated, that's "like being the smartest kid with down syndrome".


and yes, I know that's probably (severely) sexist or whatever, but I'd rather live in a world of hatred and dysfunction than one where I have to watch women's sports.
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Re: You know what really grinds my gears...

Postby Dukasaur on Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:33 pm

Army of GOD wrote:how people (read: ESPN) are trying to force that women's basketball is at all interesting or something I should care about.

I shouldn't. I don't for the same reason why I barely care about men's college sports and don't give a god damned shit about high school sports, because only pro (men's) sports have the highest level of athletes and everything else is just poppycock. I'm sorry, I don't care if UConn's women's basketball is undefeated, that's "like being the smartest kid with down syndrome".


and yes, I know that's probably (severely) sexist or whatever, but I'd rather live in a world of hatred and dysfunction than one where I have to watch women's sports.

Can't imagine anything that would make me interested in a game as inherently dull and repetitive as basketball. Well, maybe some well-shaped women might do the trick! Yeah, if I was to watch basketball at all, it would definitely be the women's version!
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