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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

The notion that Android can only ever be and do one thing, as though it's a single proprietary hardware-specific entity annoys me. There have been at least a dozen or so game tablets released within the past year or two, and that's not even counting Sony's Xperia Play or adapters such as the iControlPad, Gameklip, or Gametel controller, yet people continue to insist that mobile gaming "won't work" because of the simplicity and lack of buttons.

Of course, upon being presented with obvious evidence of Android game systems, controller adapters, and demanding mobile games such as Horn, the response is always the same red herring "but how much will it sell?", never mind that mobile in general is far ahead of 3DS or Vita in that regard, or that handhelds, much like mobile, also began with simple games such as Tetris being the most popular.
 
Seanette said:
Very annoyed with nearest grocery store right now. I bought some frozen biscuit dough, baked it, and the results were atrocious. On further investigation, I had grabbed a package almost two weeks past the "best by" date. WHY was this even still in that freezer to be a major disappointment to the purchaser? :(
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It should have been in the discounted section.

Food does last well past the best by date.
The cold must have done something to the yeast or another ingredient. Or it could have been defrosted and refrozen. Someone took it out of the freezer and left it on another shelf somewhere and a store employee put it back in the freezer.
Wasn't sourdough was it?

Here's a blurb from WebMD:
Do Food Expiration Dates Really Matter?
 
What grinds my Stinky Trolley little gears is the belief that when some one wants to sign up for almost any job under the sun but if you have "gaps" in your CV they think "otherwise" of you.

Mother what!

So what are you trying to tell me and everyone else in life???

That you guys are "above" the rest of us???

Seriously no one is perfect in life!!!! :mad:

Like WTF.
 
zuben el genub said:
It should have been in the discounted section.

Food does last well past the best by date.
The cold must have done something to the yeast or another ingredient. Or it could have been defrosted and refrozen. Someone took it out of the freezer and left it on another shelf somewhere and a store employee put it back in the freezer.
Wasn't sourdough was it?

Here's a blurb from WebMD:
Do Food Expiration Dates Really Matter?
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The "best by" date does seem to matter with these (probably baking powder leavening, Southern-style buttermilk biscuits). Could have been bad handling, but the date issue is also a problem for me, since it seems the store should be more on top of these things. When a grocery store (with the word Food in its name) isn't handling their frozen foods as well as Target does, IMO something's not right.
 
The store shouldn't have sold it. Not at 2 weeks. 2 days should have been discounted. But I've had stuff in my freezer 6 months past the best by date and it wasn't that bad.
King Soopers usually discounts day old. Canned foods can and will be older.
 
TRAFFIC!!
Is today the Black Wednesday for food? Supermarkets discounting Turkey and fixings?

Or are people cooking for tonight so they are ready for the Thursday Thanksgiving Day sales?

No damn place to park. Supermarket section full (probably space for 250 cars just in front of store), spilled over to all the other sections of parking lot. I never look for a place close in anyway, but this was the pits. I was just after a prescription, and I can imagine what the food lines were like.
 
zuben el genub said:
TRAFFIC!!
Is today the Black Wednesday for food? Supermarkets discounting Turkey and fixings?

Or are people cooking for tonight so they are ready for the Thursday Thanksgiving Day sales?

No damn place to park. Supermarket section full (probably space for 250 cars just in front of store), spilled over to all the other sections of parking lot. I never look for a place close in anyway, but this was the pits. I was just after a prescription, and I can imagine what the food lines were like.
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Oops sorry that's me. Lol
 
Which -
taking advantage of sales?
or doing sales?

I'm surprised the Vulcan didn't ask for enchiladas. We've never been traditional. The Vulcan usually cooked the turkey if we bothered, and I might just open a can of soup.

The zoo liked turkey. We had a couple of ferrets make this squeak of pleasure if we gave them turkey. They were in ferret heaven.
 
zuben el genub said:
TRAFFIC!!
Is today the Black Wednesday for food? Supermarkets discounting Turkey and fixings?

Or are people cooking for tonight so they are ready for the Thursday Thanksgiving Day sales?

No damn place to park. Supermarket section full (probably space for 250 cars just in front of store), spilled over to all the other sections of parking lot. I never look for a place close in anyway, but this was the pits. I was just after a prescription, and I can imagine what the food lines were like.
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Yeah, I made the mistake of hitting Costco Wednesday morning. Within half an hour of the store opening for the day, it was full (and parking was a royal pain). I commented to an employee that if it was like that the day before Thanksgiving (worse than any Saturday afternoon I've seen there), I was a bit afraid to imagine what Friday would be like. He shuddered.
 
People who can't drive! MOVE!

Oh and people who write checks. Come on! You are holding up the line! Who does that anymore?
 
The people that wait until they're at the cashier before they even consider what they want, or just start digging through their purses or pockets for their money when it couldn't been I'm their hand the whole time.
 
Mikestony said:
People who make a left hand turn from the right hand lane, then gets t boned by you and totals out your car:(
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To get the full effect of your complaint - drive on Friday AM when garage sales start opening. Both sexes do it.

"Oh look, there's a sale on that street" Never mind you are crossing 4 lanes of traffic.
 
zuben el genub said:
To get the full effect of your complaint - drive on Friday AM when garage sales start opening. Both sexes do it.

"Oh look, there's a sale on that street" Never mind you are crossing 4 lanes of traffic.
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I know, right?
And then the end result is this:
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yeah, that was my car:(
 
How about when taking that right hand turn from the right lane, the person swerves into the left lane as if to wind up for their turn.
This is why I buy trucks for 500-800$ and never change the oil. They last a few years, insurance is cheap, and if some idiot hits me because I win the game of chicken when I'm in the right, It is cheap and easy to replace, or I don't care about the dents.
They always crap out for some reason other than me not changing the oil too. This is Minnesota. The frame rusts away, the suspension pushes through the rusted body, or the engine mount break off the frame.
In the immortal words of Eazy-E: "Throw it in the guttuh, go buy anothuh."
 
TheAtheistReverend said:
How about when taking that right hand turn from the right lane, the person swerves into the left lane as if to wind up for their turn.
This is why I buy trucks for 500-800$ and never change the oil. They last a few years, insurance is cheap, and if some idiot hits me because I win the game of chicken when I'm in the right, It is cheap and easy to replace, or I don't care about the dents.
They always crap out for some reason other than me not changing the oil too. This is Minnesota. The frame rusts away, the suspension pushes through the rusted body, or the engine mount break off the frame.
In the immortal words of Eazy-E: "Throw it in the guttuh, go buy anothuh."
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Hey, I like that "throwaway truck" mentality...:) Might be the way to go for me
 
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