Trivial Things That Make You Surly

[SilasCoade 2620]

1. Specifically the spoons are a kid's drawing of what a spoon is.

2. Skinny handles aren't very forward thinking for the arthritis years.

3. They look like some pretentious MoMA shit.

[HouTex 1841]

9 hours ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

You must not have kids. Either that, or you sweep your trash bags with a metal detector before you take them out. 

This right here.  Our kids--when they were little dumbasses-- would throw away the spoons with their cup of yogurt, fruit or whatever.  Before we noticed it we had like 6 spoons left of 16 place settings.

[El Diablo 4232]

46 minutes ago, Llogg said:

1. Specifically the spoons are a kid's drawing of what a spoon is.

2. Skinny handles aren't very forward thinking for the arthritis years.

3. They look like some pretentious MoMA shit.

Also look like the shit you'd get at the grocery store back in the 70's.

[luke duke 6364]

i always liked the design of this set.  and its fully functional too.  coincidentally it was used by a local restaurant and i really liked the hand-feel and balance of it -- particularly the knife.
 
i was convinced it was made/sold by WMF, but now when im actually trying to buy it, they dont list it.  could only find this under Cutipol, and a bunch of chinese knockoffs.  Not sure if any of these are original, or they're all ripped off from an older design.  the exact model i looked at had black handle with pattern almost like wood grain.
 

 

Not sure if serious. I’d rather use a spork. If you want chopsticks, buy chopsticks.

[52-80 19044]

8 minutes ago, luke duke said:

 

Not sure if serious. I’d rather use a spork. If you want chopsticks, buy chopsticks.

 

I got chopsticks for days

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

1 hour ago, HouTex said:

This right here.  Our kids--when they were little dumbasses-- would throw away the spoons with their cup of yogurt, fruit or whatever.  Before we noticed it we had like 6 spoons left of 16 place settings.

Haha, no, we have kids albeit they are older now. When they were little, though, we had children's table ware for them from grandparents/shower gift. As they grew and were learning how to help with the dishes, they were fairly supervised so they learned how to scrape or rinse off what they used and place it by the sink/dishwasher. We don't have as large a setting as you, so it would have been noticed pretty quickly if we were missing items. In the early years before we bought a house, we didn't have a dishwasher, so I was washing dishes frequently. It's one thing I do like about a kitchen with a window by the sink: it makes washing the dishes much more pleasant.

 

But, back to trivial things that make me surly: why is it that some pens get those little ink blobs that you don't notice until you've dragged your hand through them?

[TornACL 7666]

I make the decision to help clean up my inbox and unsubscribe from some stupid marketing mailing list I've somehow ended up on. First thing after hitting the button, I get an email notification from that same company. 

We're sorry to see that you unsubscribed? Was this a mistake? blahblahblah

Mother fucker, the reason I unsubscribed is that I don't ever want to get an email from you ever again. 

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

"frankly" and "quite frankly" are verbal tics that either mean nothing to the listener, or imply that you've been less than '"quite frank" up to that time

[El Diablo 4232]

13 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

"frankly" and "quite frankly" are verbal tics that either mean nothing to the listener, or imply that you've been less than '"quite frank" up to that time

My dear, I don't give a damn.

[ABSR 5286]

49 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

"frankly" and "quite frankly" are verbal tics that either mean nothing to the listener, or imply that you've been less than '"quite frank" up to that time

This is like when someone says "To be honest", or "honestly".   I always want to ask if they have been less than honest before, and also to let me know when the honesty clause expires in what they are telling me. 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Boom boom boom still doesn't rhyme with moon moon moon.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

1 hour ago, SwanderedTalent said:

"frankly" and "quite frankly" are verbal tics that either mean nothing to the listener, or imply that you've been less than '"quite frank" up to that time

Frankly implies I'm going to tell you something, bluntly and brutally, and you might not like it, but......

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

36 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Frankly implies I'm going to tell you something, bluntly and brutally, and you might not like it, but......

Frankly implies YOU think it's blunt or brutal or something I won't like. It is meaningless to me as the listener. It prepares me for nothing.

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

Shirley if you're going to be frank then you shouldn't bob around the subject but get straight to the t(r)uth.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

16 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

Frankly implies YOU think it's blunt or brutal or something I won't like. It is meaningless to me as the listener. It prepares me for nothing.

It does if YOU know what the term frankly means.....

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

5 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

It does if YOU know what the term frankly means.....

frankly I don't think you do

[ztejas 43170]

6 hours ago, HouTex said:

Before we noticed it we had like 6 spoons left of 16 place settings.

Who are you, the fucking Brady Bunch?

[JSB 677]

My phone broke today (speaker no longer works) and had to buy a new one. Damn near $900, just 2 weeks after I had to spend the same to get my wife a new phone. I know technology is a ton better than it used to be, but what happened to the free phone with contract days?

Edited July 31, 2019 by JSB

[ztejas 43170]

2 hours ago, TornACL said:

I make the decision to help clean up my inbox and unsubscribe from some stupid marketing mailing list I've somehow ended up on. First thing after hitting the button, I get an email notification from that same company. 

We're sorry to see that you unsubscribed? Was this a mistake? blahblahblah

Mother fucker, the reason I unsubscribed is that I don't ever want to get an email from you ever again. 

for me, /thread

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

7 minutes ago, JSB said:

...but what happened to the free phone with contract days?

 

[Prepuce of Doom 20954]

Perhaps better for the Old Sucks thread, but I somehow managed to jam the shit out of my right index finger while doing nothing more strenuous than washing my hands with soap and water. 

[WhatTheBuck 28696]

2 hours ago, ztejas said:

Who are you, the fucking Brady Bunch?

And they're fully prepared to have the Partridge family and Mr. Kincaid over for dinner. 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

4 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

And they're fully prepared to have the Partridge family and Mr. Kincaid over for dinner. 

That Ruben was such a clueless tool.

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

Do NOT start dissing Davy Jones or I will have to send a sternly worded letter.

[HouTex 1841]

Who are you, the fucking Brady Bunch?

LOL. We've always had more settings than most, mainly for entertaining. We also run the dishwasher as seldom as possible so we often use 12-14 place settings (3 or 4 days worth) before we run it.

[retsevlys 408]

5 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said:

frankly I don't think you do

[SilasCoade 2620]

1 hour ago, HouTex said:

LOL. We've always had more settings than most, mainly for entertaining. We also run the dishwasher as seldom as possible so we often use 12-14 place settings (3 or 4 days worth) before we run it.

Gross

[HouTex 1841]

Gross

Rinse and hold.

[Walden Ponderer 12638]

14 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

The most over rated general ever, but he was right about the Chinese, and Norks.

Interesting question, really, because that implies that there is a consensus that he was pretty good, but I'm not sure that's the case. Same sort of reason why Horatio Gates or George McClellan can't really be called "the most over rated ever" -- they may have been highly hyped at one time, but pretty much every historian who knows what the hell they are talking about knows that Gates was gawd-awful, and that Benedict Arnold saved his bacon. Likewise, "Old Mac" was probably one of the best pencil pushers to come out of the Civil War, but in the field? It's hard to find many who were worse than him, on either side.

You could make an argument for the Roman general Scipio, since his victories were mostly of the sort that pretty much anybody could have won were they in his position, yet he has a generally favorable reputation among historians. Marc Antony, too, has a sterling reputation, but the majority of the time, if he was on the victorious side, it was owing to the superior strategic vision of his mentor, Julius Caesar. On his own, he was a bit of a flop.

An argument could also be made for Napoleon, given his lack of long term thinking. Hard to argue with his tactical success, though.

In World War II, Mark Clark has a golden reputation, even though I always thought it sounded like he more or less bumbled into success in Italy. If he'd been facing anyone other than the Italians, it might have been a bit less of a rosy outcome.

Then of course there's Charles De Gaulle, who was much more effective as a politician than he ever had been as a military officer.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

2 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

Interesting question, really, because that implies that there is a consensus that he was pretty good, but I'm not sure that's the case. Same sort of reason why Horatio Gates or George McClellan can't really be called "the most over rated ever" -- they may have been highly hyped at one time, but pretty much every historian who knows what the hell they are talking about knows that Gates was gawd-awful, and that Benedict Arnold saved his bacon. Likewise, "Old Mac" was probably one of the best pencil pushers to come out of the Civil War, but in the field? It's hard to find many who were worse than him, on either side.

You could make an argument for the Roman general Scipio, since his victories were mostly of the sort that pretty much anybody could have won were they in his position, yet he has a generally favorable reputation among historians. Marc Antony, too, has a sterling reputation, but the majority of the time, if he was on the victorious side, it was owing to the superior strategic vision of his mentor, Julius Caesar. On his own, he was a bit of a flop.

An argument could also be made for Napoleon, given his lack of long term thinking. Hard to argue with his tactical success, though.

In World War II, Mark Clark has a golden reputation, even though I always thought it sounded like he more or less bumbled into success in Italy. If he'd been facing anyone other than the Italians, it might have been a bit less of a rosy outcome.

Then of course there's Charles De Gaulle, who was much more effective as a politician than he ever had been as a military officer.

All pretty good examples.  

Mac Arthur was extremely popular with the average citizen, and was given the MOH because of that (per The Admirals).   That's why I refer to his status as over rated.  His peers didn't think he was great of course.

MacClellan was popular with the citizenry even after he was removed from the army of the Potomac. Many thought Mac would/could come back and win the war, and even become president ala the next Napoleon.

 

[Trey3216 15321]

My across the street neighbor started mowing his yard at 7:10 this morning.  On a Saturday.  Then at 7:45 he commenced with weed-eating/edging.   Talk about burning you up a bit.   

 

 

[Trey3216 15321]

On 7/31/2019 at 2:22 PM, clapclapclap said:

Boom boom boom still doesn't rhyme with moon moon moon.

B-O-O-M, that spells moon 

[El Diablo 4232]

5 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

My across the street neighbor started mowing his yard at 7:10 this morning.  On a Saturday.  Then at 7:45 he commenced with weed-eating/edging.   Talk about burning you up a bit.   

 

 

Just trying to get it done before it starts pouring down rain. 

[Trey3216 15321]

Shiiiiiiit. That’s like 3 hours from now.  The general rule for the weekends is no earlier than 9.  Even if it was 8:15/20 I’d let it slide, but 7:15 is early as shit to mow the yard on a weekend

[WhatTheBuck 28696]

45 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

My across the street neighbor started mowing his yard at 7:10 this morning.  On a Saturday.  Then at 7:45 he commenced with weed-eating/edging.   Talk about burning you up a bit.

He's giving you permission to shoot off fireworks until midnight. Take him up on it. 

[Jack Straw 2953]

38 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

Shiiiiiiit. That’s like 3 hours from now.  The general rule for the weekends is no earlier than 9.  Even if it was 8:15/20 I’d let it slide, but 7:15 is early as shit to mow the yard on a weekend

Does it bother you because you are still sleeping? Or just because you want some quiet to start off your weekend?  Because the grown ups are all up by 7 AM. 

[Trey3216 15321]

11 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:

Does it bother you because you are still sleeping? Or just because you want some quiet to start off your weekend?  Because the grown ups are all up by 7 AM. 

I was fully awake by then, but just enjoy some quiet relaxation to start off a weekend.  I wake up everyday at the same time 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

27 minutes ago, Jack Straw said:

Does it bother you because you are still sleeping? Or just because you want some quiet to start off your weekend?  Because the grown ups are all up by 7 AM. 

Grown ups know better than running loud equipment at 7:00 am on a weekend.

[SilasCoade 2620]

7am is not too early you buncha pansies. The fuck.

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

31 minutes ago, Llogg said:

7am is not too early you buncha pansies. The fuck.

Not  if you're a rude jack ass, no not at all.

[Prepuce of Doom 20954]

Buy $5-10 worth of Matchbox cars (earth tones and camouflage paint jobs preferred) and toss them here and there in the dudes yard. 

Next time he mows at 7am will be a little more exciting for him. And you. 

[luke duke 6364]

My across the street neighbor started mowing his yard at 7:10 this morning.  On a Saturday.  Then at 7:45 he commenced with weed-eating/edging.   Talk about burning you up a bit.   
 
 

Call 911 and report a hostage situation at his house. The SWAT team will take care of your problem.

[Underdog 28382]

2 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:

Buy $5-10 worth of Matchbox cars (earth tones and camouflage paint jobs preferred) and toss them here and there in the dudes yard. 

Next time he mows at 7am will be a little more exciting for him. And you. 

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[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

If someone mows early, the mower usually doesn't trouble me too much, but the high pitched whine of the leaf blower induces surliness.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8791]

I was fully awake by then, but just enjoy some quiet relaxation to start off a weekend.  I wake up everyday at the same time 

Maybe your husband can get you a spa day if you need to relax.

[Trey3216 15321]

56 minutes ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

6 hours ago, Trey3216 said:

I was fully awake by then, but just enjoy some quiet relaxation to start off a weekend.  I wake up everyday at the same time 

Maybe your husband can get you a spa day if you need to relax.

As in...I hadn’t even brewed my coffee and gotten to enjoy a cup yet.  

[deadshank 24646]

Nugget jewelry and the buffoons that adorn themselves with it. 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

While we are on jewelry, men who wear pinky rings and are obviously not pimps.

[deadshank 24646]

Just now, Patricio Swayze said:

While we are on jewelry, men who wear pinky rings and are obviously not pimps.

They’re sending signals to you that you are not understanding.    Meet them in the alley and, well...

[Underdog 28382]

The fuck is nugget jewelry?  We talking chicken nuggets or something completely different?  Not much of a jewelry wearer, wedding band is it.  I have/had a hard time wearing a watch, thank god for cellphones and now don't have to worry about it.