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People to Punch, Pet Peeves, and General Vexations (mega-merge)

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Anyone remember a comic book character who had a rain cloud that perpetually hovered over his head?

Every freaking time I go outside to try to finish yard work, or my Christmas lights, it rains on me. Every. Single. Time.

Including today, when it wasn't even supposed to rain. Started sprinkling, then got hard enough for it to not be worth it to stay outside.
Went in and looked at the radar online. There's NOTHING anywhere near us in Ohio, except for one tiny-ass gnat-sized cloud, which managed to form directly over us.

I take this personally.
 
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LostLassie said:
Anyone remember a comic book character who had a rain cloud that perpetually hovered over his head?

Every freaking time I go outside to try to finish yard work, or my Christmas lights, it rains on me. Every. Single. Time.

Including today, when it wasn't even supposed to rain. Started sprinkling, then got hard enough for it to not be worth it to stay outside.
Went in and looked at the radar online. There's NOTHING anywhere near us in Ohio, except for one tiny-ass gnat-sized cloud, which managed to form directly over us.

I take this personally.
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You sound like a Penn State fan right there... :lol:
 
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LostLassie said:
Anyone remember a comic book character who had a rain cloud that perpetually hovered over his head?

Every freaking time I go outside to try to finish yard work, or my Christmas lights, it rains on me. Every. Single. Time.

Including today, when it wasn't even supposed to rain. Started sprinkling, then got hard enough for it to not be worth it to stay outside.
Went in and looked at the radar online. There's NOTHING anywhere near us in Ohio, except for one tiny-ass gnat-sized cloud, which managed to form directly over us.

I take this personally.
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Joe Btfsplk from L'il Abner.
 
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Systems that decide they know what is good for you.

Opened Firefox this morning, went to Facebook and found I no longer had any news tickers and celebrity BS blocked. Seems Firefox has decided they need to vet all my add-ons for my protection, including Facebook Purity--a little free, easy program that is right up there with AdBlock as a favorite of mine. P.O.S. Firefox won't even allow me to download it again now. They've added some convoluted process that I don't have fucking time to read through, and then who knows?

Don't much like the design for Chrome, but I'm stuck with using it for some things now. Thanks, you over-diligent, intrusive assholes.
 
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How my co-workers apparently use the restroom...


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Here's one a mom (no one I personally know) posted on Facebook:

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It doesn't say if the kid was told to always round numbers off first to arrive at an estimate, or if that was the subject of the entire test. But, I guess my problem is with semantics and the definition of the word "reasonable"--the poor kid demonstrates that the exact correct number is 75, which is reasonably a whole lot closer to 75 than to 70 the last time I checked. Personally, when I estimate something, I'm still trying to get as close to the exact truth as possible. By this logic, though, it's better to be off by several percent than to be dead on correct.
 
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LostLassie said:
Here's one a mom (no one I personally know) posted on Facebook:

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It doesn't say if the kid was told to always round numbers off first to arrive at an estimate, or if that was the subject of the entire test. But, I guess my problem is with semantics and the definition of the word "reasonable"--the poor kid demonstrates that the exact correct number is 75, which is reasonably a whole lot closer to 75 than to 70 the last time I checked. Personally, when I estimate something, I'm still trying to get as close to the exact truth as possible. By this logic, though, it's better to be off by several percent than to be dead on correct.
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How this can be marked down because he didn't estimate really baffles me. Try going into a retail establishment and tell them that 70 is "close enough." This crap is what is wrong with education today as they "dumb down" everything in order not to make anybody feel bad.....
For me getting the correct answer is less of an effort that trying to estimate.....:pissed3:
 
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