Is that wind generated by the wings of an African or a European swallow?

Can confirm.

Source: am American, poop daily, saw a doctor once

Tech-literate non-programmer who gets most of the jokes posted here… that’s what I thought at first, but it seemed like a clunky joke.

The moment I clicked into the comments and saw someone mention interrupts, the joke made so much more sense!

As a longtime McMaster user, our work recently tried to get us to switch to Fastenal and/or Grainger as preferred suppliers because of some bullshit procurement dick-waving (they wouldn’t offer us a blanket 1% discount like the other guys, or something)

It’s honestly astounding how bad their websites are, compared to just about anything else, even if you have the manufacturer’s exact part number.

But yeah, McMaster is awesome,and there was enough hell raised that they were back on as a preferred supplier within a few months. Like, what even is a 1% discount when it means your engineers and maintenance guys are spending untold hours fighting a shitty website to find that one specific component that McMaster serves you up in 4 clicks?

inb4 coolstorybro

… but don’t worry, here’s a 1yr subscription to an identity monitoring service you’ve only ever heard of because that popular reaction vid youtuber reads lines for them. They’ll send you an email when their database gets hacked, which will get lost amongst the daily ad spam they send you, after you signed up for their service.

No weirder than any other accent, TBH.

From a US-centric POV, I always thought the stereotypical Aussie accent kind of sounded like a Texas-ification of the “standard” UK accent. Including the use of wacky phrases and slang.

The original Coke Zero was absolute perfection in a can. Sometime in the 2010s they rebranded to Coke Zero Sugar, which was sweeter and less “sharp” tasting than Coke Zero.

I feel like they have shifted back to the original a bit, but I’m not sure if it’s gotten better, or if I’ve just gotten used to it. But yeah, that OG Coke Zero with the sweetness dialed back was super refreshing when ice cold.

Yeah, the title of the thread is worst names ever. That’s on an orthogonal axis with most likely to make an 11 year old boy giggle

I had to check and make sure I didn’t make this comment and forget about it!

Fucking avocado and white rice…

Honestly, just health care in general being locked behind insurance to the point where people conflate the two conceots entirely!

Dental insurance in most cases is closer to what health insurance should be: an entirely optional, and generally affordable, policy that can offset major expenses. Not an expense that rivals housing in magnitude and is required for most people just to access the basic care needed by nearly everyone.

I had the opposite. In 2007 my mom convinced me it’s conventional wisdom to buy as much house as you can afford, because historically it is one of the best investments you can make.

Thankfully all I could afford at that time was a pretty cheap house…

I was so excited when first got a roomba 5 or 6 years ago, but that faded so fast after it turned into an endless stream of notifications that it was caught under furniture, stuck on a cliff (the edge of a rug), full of dirt, couldn’t find its base, or trapped under a maze of dining room table legs.

I love the idea, but man that was $500 wasted. I’m sure they are better now, but I cant bring myself to buy another one.

Honestly, pulling it out of my ass.

Now your turn… what is your definition of “very small”, and where is your citation that a larger percentage of the population uses their phone camera to discretely creep on people?

This comparison is like saying that, because a car can be used to run over pedestrians at any time, there is no reason to be alarmed about people installing the Crosswalk-pocalypse 5000 (now with 30% more spikes!) on their front bumper.

Of course we know people can discretely record you with a phone. The difference is that the fraction of people doing that is very small, while the percentage of people doing that with Meta glasses is basically 100%.

You’ve thought this one through. No notes!

Just for the record, you’ve been imagining that a single kidney bean between two paper-thin slices of bread would taste like a delicacy?

In fairness, I suppose many modern delicacies derive from things our ancestors ate out of sheer desperation.

Well you see when 3 men love a woman very much…

I thought it was green painters tape wrapped sticky side out. Almost as if this masochist wanted to see ALL THE TICKS.

I have messed up steaks by salting them too much. But if you pat them dry the day before, sprinkle generously with kosher salt, and them leave in the fridge on a wire rack for up to 24h, it removes some of the surface moisture and helps you get a nice crust.

Packing in salt would definitely ruin them 😩

The best way to get an avocado to ripen immediately is to plan to eat it in 3 days.

Upon receiving that psychic message, they will commit every bit of energy into ripening ASAP so they can be overripe in 3 days.