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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    Dawn and Don. I had a friend who repeatedly pronounced them for me to convince me they were different. I never could hear a difference.

    My father used to drive me crazy saying, "Yaller." I'd say, "Yellow," and he'd say, "That's what I said." I don't think he was trying to be funny. He just couldn't hear the difference.

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    · Edited by auntlada

    1 hour ago, TattleTeeny said:

    That is true--and if those people are dumb, they are set to public, hahaha! I have fallen prey to random bouts of "Hey, I wonder what ever happened to that guy?"

    I find it useful for checking out the unknown parents of my son's new friends. He makes new friends every year at school, and I never know the parents. And since his birthday is pretty soon after school starts and he always wants to invite his new friends to his party, I have to find addresses so we can send invitations. (I like to mail invitations because you can only give them out at school if you invite the whole class, which I don't want to do, and also kids like to get mail addressed to them.)

    1 hour ago, PRgal said:

    People who don't take into account other experiences.  I had a mom who criticized me for not adopting domestically and opting for surrogacy.  She was even MORE critical of me for my concern of my family NOT being open to me adopting transracially and that I could just "dump" family.  No ma'am, you can't do that in most East Asian cultures.  And even if I could "teach" my family to be politically correct (since my immediate family seems to be more open/accepting), you can't necessarily do that with the broader community.  I live in Toronto.  We have a HUGE  community here.  People talk.  It's VERY DIFFICULT to retrain older people.  You can't teach an old dog new tricks.  That mom just said I was ignorant.  I'm not.  I'm looking out for people.  

    Does she also criticize women who give birth to their own children instead of adopting domestically? I mean, what business is it of hers how other people decide to have children?

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    I'm with @Browncoat. I never know which pronunciation of data I will use or why, but sometimes one pronunciation just seems to fit better.

    I'm also often anxious about things even when I am eagerly awaiting them. I didn't realize this until I was an adult, but looking back at my childhood, I can see that it was true. I always looked forward to school starting, but I also always had an unset stomach and couldn't sleep every year before it started.

    I had a boss from Nevada once, and he would always correct the way people pronounced, but I can't remember now which pronunciation was correct. I want to say that he said it was Nevadda, but I'm not sure.

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    41 minutes ago, Sweeneyswt said:

    I dislike mass emails from companies that have the subject line say, “Re:” No, I haven’t written you. Quit acting like you’re replying when I guess you mean, “regarding.” Groupon sent one today that said, “Re: Your Question.” Ugh. Aggravates. I try to unsubscribe but that can also be annoying to attempt!

    Any email that arrives in my inbox that says "Re:" and is not in response to something I actually sent goes immediately into the trash. I generally regard those as spam and don't even open them.

    Just now, annzeepark914 said:

    Is this what they're sending notices about? I keep hitting "remind me later" cause I don't trust Facebook to make a change that I'll like. Can't we opt out? All I use Facebook for is to see family and friends' photos, my hometown's photos & info, and that's it. I wanna be left alone, FB 🤬!

    You can opt out for a time, but eventually everyone will get it, I think.

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    Looking Dapper: Favorite Fashion From TV

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    1 hour ago, Shannon L. said:

    Ok, I need to ask how you all are getting so many decent sized pictures in one post.  For my first post, I copied and pasted the two pictures off of Google Images, but it wouldn't let me post any more (said that it couldn't be bigger than a certain size). The next post, I couldn't post any, so I tried saving them and editing them smaller, but no matter how many times I did it, I kept getting the same message. 

    That happened to me the first time I tried to post a picture, and I think I had to leave the page and come back or reload it before trying a second time with smaller pictures because it was still counting the first pictures as part of my size limit even though they were no longer there. It's been a while, though, so this may not be a problem any more.

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    Dear Diary: Question Of The Day(s)

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    I got 5 or 6, depending on how much I want to stretch it. Like others, the cord collection is not so much hoarding as I have these cords that go with things I may or may not have any more. And many of them aren't my cords. They belong to my husband, who would score much higher than me. It might be hoarding, though, because I feel that if you throw the cord away, then you'll find something you need it for -- possibly even the thing it went with.

    I don't know that I want to assist Doctor Who, but I wouldn't mind hanging out for a while, as long as we weren't being chased by things that wanted to kill us (which seems to happen regularly) and as long as it was the Ninth or Tenth Doctor. I'm not interested in any others.

    I wouldn't mind partying with hobbits, either. There's likely to be lots of food because hobbits like to eat a lot, and if it's a birthday party, hobbits give presents to their guests, rather than the other way around. And if you're lucky, a wizard might show up with cool fireworks. (Yes, hobbits do party.)

    I would submit that some of those questions are dumb and that there are other questions that probably should be there, possibly more about actually gaming than just owning (one!) 20-sided die. For instance, do you have the collection of dice with different numbers of sides? Is it a matching set? How many do you have? How many six-sided dice do you have (because you need to roll more than one sometimes for attacks and defense).

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    9 hours ago, Jaded said:

    It's like they stretched out a mobile theme and forced it on desktop users without making any changes.

    I wrote them a note that said that exact thing in their comments box (I forget what I had to click to get it) before I went back to the old design. I'm keeping it for as long as I can. Of course, I'm still unhappy that even when I make my feed "most recent," it doesn't show me everything (apparently) since the last time I logged on. I don't want Facebook curating my feed based on what its algorithms (or whatever the right word is) thinks I want to see. I want it to show me everything and let me decide what I don't want to see.

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    Unpopular Opinions

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    30 minutes ago, DearEvette said:

    I love it when you are reading a series and you are five or six books in an things start to click from the earlier books and you realize the author had a plan and it is starting to pay off.  It is like following a treasure map.

    This is why I didn't like when they renumbered the books in The Chronicles of Narnia. It was nice to get to later books and read something and think, "That's how that got there!"

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    My grandfather used to (or so we were told) bury money in jars in his backyard. He had a map for where they were, and every now and then, he'd dig them up and move them (redrawing the map). I don't know if this is a true story or not. He had a lot of gold coins, and that may be what he buried. He also had money in several different banks partly because he didn't want to put too much in one bank and lose it and partly because if the bank was giving away something to people who opened accounts, he'd open an account. By the time I remember, he worked in a hardware store and my grandmother did alterations at a laundry and cleaners business. He'd done a lot of different kinds of work in his lifetime, though, and never got over the depression, I think. They lived in a small three-bedroom, one-bath house in a not very good part of the city.

    4 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:

    That also comes in handy since the previous owners of my 'landline' number still haven't changed their contact numbers, and I've stopped explaining that it's been my number for years, and just block it.

    We used to get phone calls from some guy looking for his mother. I finally figured out she had the same number as us, but in a different area code. She lived in a town about 20 minutes away, but somewhere between here and there, the area code changed. I never could figure out why he didn't know his mother's area code and that he needed to dial it.

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    A Case Of The Mondays: Vent Your Work Spleen Here

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    · Edited by auntlada
    I confused myself.

    1 hour ago, ParadoxLost said:

    I have nine and a half hours of meetings tomorrow.  I have one thing that I have to get done by Friday and there is just no way in hell I'll be able to do it tomorrow.  I was going to do it this Monday but its been that kind of week.

    So cancelling my vacation day Friday because I'm not trading working extra hours at night so I can take a vacation day in my house.

    I do not know why people schedule this many meetings.  I probably attend  twenty for every one I schedule.  Do these people have nothing to do?

    Yes. Or maybe no. I'm not sure which is the right answer to say these people have nothing else to do.

    That has been one of the things I've liked about teleworking. During meetings, I can do other things also. I have to go back to the office in a week or so, though, at least until school goes back to distance learning, which I hope is better than it was in the spring. If it's not, at least now I know where to go on the web to find lessons to supplement.

    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    I've always had issues with wrap dresses fitting properly on the top and bottom because my top is a smaller size than my bottom. I have the same issue with any V-neck crossover dress (I don't know what the real name is, but where one side crosses over the other to form a V-neck), which is a peeve, because I so often like the way they look, but if they fit my bottom, then they are gaping open on the top. The only time I have been able to wear such a thing was when I was pregnant.

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    I was driving on a two-lane highway today, and a little sportscar going probably 10 mph above the speed limit (which was already 65) zoomed past me. I was going the speed limit. I'm not sure where he came from because he wasn't the car right behind me, so he passed at least two cars at once and possibly more. About 20 miles down the road at a four-way stop where another highway crosses the one I was on, I saw him pulled over. First time I've ever seen that actually happen, I think. And he really didn't even bother me when he passed because he hadn't been riding my bumper, and he passed very quickly when there was plenty of space. But it was nice to see him stopped anyway. (I say "he," but I really don't know if it was a man or woman.)

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    Pet Peeves: Aka Things That Make You Go "Gah!"

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    7 hours ago, JTMacc99 said:

    Ugh. I completely believe this. Poor dogs. I adopted two fish during the pandemic, but I do feel confident that I'm capable of taking care of them for the long run.

    I bring my good dog (Norm!) to dog friendly places, because I know the worst he will do is shed on people. Or drool. He's a bit slobbery. I wouldn't bring my other dog.  We adopted him when he was ten and about to be sent off to a shelter, and he came with some issues that I've never been able to completely overcome. He's a friendly little guy but can get snippy if you surprise him. He also gets weird and barky around other dogs. It's best for him to always be in comfortable, controlled situations. As opposed to what the people we're talking about here do with their dogs.

    Interestingly, Norman is such a friendly dog that we often get stopped by people at Lowe's (for example) who have children who are afraid of dogs, because they want to use him to work on that fear. Lots of "This is how you approach a dog. Let him sniff you. See! He likes it when you pet him." 

    Norman looks like a good dog. I would probably start off afraid of him. When dogs like him are around, though, I try to use them to help my son not be afraid of dogs like I am. I've taught him (or tried really hard to teach him) to always ask the owner if he can pet the dog and then hold out his hand and let the dog sniff his knuckles before patting. He seems to have learned that lesson. He tries to get our cats to sniff him before he pats the cats. The cats really don't care what he smells like as long as he gives them food and plays with them and pats them (but not like that because cats are always particular about how you pat, and you usually are doing it wrong).

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    Faux Life: Things That Happen On TV But Not In Reality

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    1 hour ago, Shannon L. said:

    I have an addictive personality, so I have to be careful.  I don't sleep well at night and drugs, like Vicodin, that make you drowsy, make me practically comatose (I'm really sensitive to meds-a bendryl can render me useless for a few hours), so I could see myself getting addicted to them simply for a good night's sleep.  Of course, as I said, I need to be careful and always have been, so I never developed an addiction, but yeah, I could have.

    It didn't make me sleep, but Benadryl and NyQuil don't too much either. They relieve the symptoms (mostly coughing) so I can go to sleep, but then four hours later, I'll be wide awake. So for me, the thing that happens on TV that doesn't happen in my real life is someone takes a Benadryl or a dose of NyQuil or some other medicine and is still out 12 hours later or is sleepwalking and doing loopy stuff. I suppose it's all a matter of body chemistry.

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    Faux Life: Things That Happen On TV But Not In Reality

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    1 hour ago, Lugal said:

    I had a Vicodin prescription after having a wisdom tooth out.  I do not understand the addictive quality of that drug.

    I had that too when I had a wisdom tooth out. At least I think that's what it was. I hated it. About three hours after taking it, I would throw up. After my C-section, I had Percocet. I hated that, too. I couldn't sleep and kept half hallucinating things that were just outside my vision. It was not a pleasant experience.

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