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I bought two cans of Hill Country Fair canned pumpkin at H‑E‑B because the dogs had upset stomachs.  The cans had such a high ridge on them that my electric can opener wouldn’t work on them.  I tried my old time manual can opener and it wouldn’t open them either.  I used a hammer and chisel to open one because I really needed to give my dogs some. I just threw the other can away.  Fuck that.

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On 1/6/2025 at 7:32 PM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I bought two cans of Hill Country Fair canned pumpkin at H‑E‑B because the dogs had upset stomachs.  The cans had such a high ridge on them that my electric can opener wouldn’t work on them.  I tried my old time manual can opener and it wouldn’t open them either.  I used a hammer and chisel to open one because I really needed to give my dogs some. I just threw the other can away.  Fuck that.

 

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1 minute ago, Tex Long said:

They work fine, if the moron who loads the napkins puts in 20 of them, like the boss told him or her, instead of cramming 113 into it, which results in that 50 or nothing. 

I don’t believe you. Those napkins are so thin and flimsy that I’m pretty sure the pressure of the spring alone will cause a napkin to tear when you pull it out even if only one of them is loaded in the dispenser.

And as long as we’re on the subject, how do they manage to load the pepper shaker so full that you can’t shake any pepper out of it? And then, when you unscrew the lid of the shaker in order to unpack it, ground pepper bursts out and falls all over the table because they’ve somehow managed to pack twice the volume of pepper into the vessel than it was designed to hold. How does that happen?

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Meanwhile, back at trivial things that make you surly...

Posters who are already in the running for Bad Opinions Nobility but will also defend shitty opinions with repetitive responses, to the point of making threads unreadable, even when reasonably astute, even somewhat courteous, Surly folks point out the abject stupidity of their statements.

I have been guilty of this on multiple occasions, but not multiple times per day on a daily basis, day after day after day.

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