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[lamaros]

I very hungry now.

[Sky]

On the way home from work I almost hit two kids (mid 20s) who stepped into the road in front of my truck.

Playing Pokemon Go.

 

[RhyssaFireheart]

After drooling at the computer screen from looking at Ab's dinner, I'll just say "Happy birthday!" since no one else did.  That meal looks very, very tasty.  Now I'm jealous.

[Hawkbit]

On the way home from work I almost hit two kids (mid 20s) who stepped into the road in front of my truck.

Playing Pokemon Go.

 

I hope you shook your cane at them.

[Yegolev]

It probably got stuck on his steering wheel knob.

[Rishathra]

I read it as you playing Pokemon Go, at first.

[Yegolev]

Is that not what he meant?

[Signe]

Why would he shake his knob at children if HE was the one playing Pokemon Go?!? 

[apocrypha]

Fucking hell Ab that looks awesome. And happy birthday! 

[Signe]

Oh right... I meant to say that, too.  Happy Birf, Ab, and gorgeous Bday dinner!  YUM.  What was the "turf"?

[HaemishM]

Happy Birthday, Ab! Me want lobster now.

[WayAbvPar]

HB Ab, and please come to WA and cook for me. Or at least play poker and get drunk with me 

[Abagadro]

Thanks everyone. I generally get really grumpy on my birthday because it makes me feel super old. Tried to just be mellow about it this year.

BTW, cooking those things was pretty damn easy on my gas grill (biggest worry was overcooking them really) and Costco carries them at not outrageous prices.

[HaemishM]

In case you were thinking of trying the new Swedish Fish Oreos



Don't. DO NOT. It tastes like a pharmacy took a shit in my mouth.

[Reg]

How could anybody possibly think that was a good idea for a new flavour?

[RhyssaFireheart]

I, for one, would like to thank Haemish for taking the hit so that the rest of F13 doesn't have to. 

What is up with Oreo's and all the silly flavors they've been coming out with lately?

[Rendakor]

Didn't we have a thread once where people ate terrible food and told us all about it, to save us the risk of disgust and horror?

[Yegolev]

The point might be to sell a bag because NEW and if it is tossed in the trash, the dude will probably just go buy a regular-flavored bag.  So, two bags.

Pretty good for a gentile, yeah?

[apocrypha]

WTF, that's a real flavour? I thought it was some kind of joke when I first saw it. Why. Just why.

[Yegolev]

Yeah, I'll believe anything now.  Shepherd's Pie Oreos?  Probably.

I've eaten some really bad Japanese Kit Kats recently.  One may have been "soap" and another was probably "wasabi".  We are all stupid.

[Bunk]

I actually liked wasabi kit kat *shrug*

[HaemishM]

Someone brought two bags of these things into work for everyone to sample. The general consensus was the flavor was akin to cough syrup mixed with shame.

[Yegolev]

I actually liked wasabi kit kat *shrug*

I'm really just guessing from the picture since I can't read nihongo.

[apocrypha]

I ordered wasabi ice cream in a Japanese restaurant in Leeds on a works do once. The chef came out to ask me what it was like since I was the first person to ever order it. It wasn't great. I'd drunk a lot of sake.

[Furiously]

Wife, kid and I were packing the truck to go on vacation. Wife says let's take your tool box out. I slide it under the back seat and say I took care of it.

We get to the house we are staying at. And enjoy a day of fun and sun. Son takes a bath in the 250 gallon whirlpool tub. The next day we do the same. I join him in the tub because it's a hot tub really. The next day wife goes into the garage and there is water everywhere. The expansion tank on the 250 gallon hot water heater failed.

I turn off the supply to the tank and slowly water stops coming out. The woman who owns the house gets a panicked call from my wife and I drive 30 minutes into town and buy a replacement expansion tank and put it in.

The funny part is I had plumbers tape and all the tools I needed in the truck under the seat. The other odd bit is normally the woman keeps the garage locked but the house is in closing and being turned over to the new owner on Monday so their boat was not in the garage and there was no reason to keep it locked.  I just can't fathom the number of things that aligned so her house wasn't flooded 3 days before she was supposed to sell it.

Part that made me laugh the most was the first hardware store didn't know what an expansion tank was the second one told me three times I wanted the 50 gallon expansion tank and not the extra large extra expensive one. I was like, "No, I want the big one."

[Yegolev]

People who say "Are you sure you want the expensive option?" and simply can't process the answer that I do indeed want it.  Jesus.  Maybe I need to start wearing nicer clothes.

[Sky]

So many people want the cheapest thing, it's a constant stream of befuddled faces when I, having done my research, point out exactly what I want (and it's usually the best).

Went window shopping for cars with the fiancee, her Matrix is starting to go (winter salt does its thing). She's finally come around to my way of thinking that it's better to buy a fully kitted top-end version of a car than squeeze into a base model of a more expensive car.

I was surprised at the amount of decent options (for her, I could never drive anything so small!). My favorite is probably the Mazda 3 Grand Touring or the Subaru Crosstrek (others are the Prius 4, Kia Soul ! (yes, that's the model !), Honda HR-V (leat fave) and VW Golf (she loves Golfs)).

[Nebu]

So many people want the cheapest thing, it's a constant stream of befuddled faces when I, having done my research, point out exactly what I want (and it's usually the best).

Buying anything usually revolves around researching enough to find the point of diminishing returns.  If you buy as much as you can without paying a ridiculous amount for slight improvements, you're probably doing alright.

[Sky]

The thing that gets me is how many people who buy things without doing any research. Maybe it's because I work in a library?

[Nebu]

The thing that gets me is how many people who buy things without doing any research. Maybe it's because I work in a library?

Particularly when it comes to a $20k + investment.  Yeah... I don't get it either.  Then again, I do research for a living.

[apocrypha]

The thing that gets me is how many people who buy things without doing any research. Maybe it's because I work in a library?

I am unable to do that. I struggle to even buy a chicken for Sunday dinner without thinking about exactly what kind of chicken I want and what the different grades of 'free range'. 'outdoor reared', 'barn raised' etc mean. I've just bought a new tablet (refurbished Surface Pro 3) and spent a month researching and deciding before buying. The result is that I'm very happy with what I got for my money.

It'd be easy to say that it's because of not having much money that I choose very carefully, but I know plenty of people who are as skint as I am who just impulse buy all the time. Makes me go     

[Yegolev]

I don't need research when I know a better option will cost me a trivial (to me) amount of additional money.  I think it's the dollar amounts that throw people off.  It's like: "Are you really sure you want to pay another $5 to install an additional 16GB of RAM?" except that I made up the names and numbers here.  Imagine a scenario in which you'd be a dumb fuck to try to save a little money.  This is what I get for living where I do.

[Sky]

On the flipside, "You can get three Sausage McMuffins for only a dollar more!" "But I don't want any Sausage McMuffins, I just want an Egg McMuffin" "But it's only a DOLLAR" *confused silence*

That actually happened recently.

Or this one:

Parked in a parking garage because our favorite restaurant's lot was full. Leaving the lot, the guy asks us if we were at the Margaritaville Party. Clearly we were not, and said so. He asked us again, all noddy-winky. We again repeated that no, indeed, we were not parrotheads and had not attended the party. He said it's ok, if we pull off to teh side, go have the front desk stamp this card, he will let us go without paying the parking fee. I asked how much the fee was, and it was $3.50 (I actually laughed and almost called him the Loch Ness Monster, but I try not to confuse people with my humor). I said fine and handed him a $5 bill. He stared at it, confused. Betrayed. I told him that parking fees are how he gets paid and he probably shouldn't be helping people avoid the fees. I think he realized I was part of The Conspiracy, I was The Man. So much confusion, his brain may have short-circuited, if it indeed had any circuitry.

[Bunk]

Every morning I buy a large coffee at McDonalds on the way in to work. Every morning she asks if I want the muffin for twenty cents more. It's not that I don't think twenty cents is a great deal for a muffin, it's that I know I'll eat it and I really don't need that muffin in the morning.

[Selby]

Kia Soul ! (yes, that's the model !)

Watch out for those.  Ours ate tires every year - wouldn't hold alignment up front so it balded half of the front tires every 10k miles.  The dealer assured me it was normal...

I'd go with the Prius personally, I drove one and it was one of the most dependable cars I've ever had.  Not cheap unfortunately, Toyota knows what people like and charges people for the pleasure...