[Rant] Minor Rant III: For a Few Hollers More

figmentPez

figmentPez

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Get your shit together Feedly. Not getting proper updates for PvP is probably for the best, but I'm pissed about it not working right for Sheldon. I wonder how many other sites it's broken for. I don't have time to wade through and figure out which ones aren't working, that's why I started using an RSS reader in the first place.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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figmentPez said:
Get your shit together Feedly. Not getting proper updates for PvP is probably for the best, but I'm pissed about it not working right for Sheldon. I wonder how many other sites it's broken for. I don't have time to wade through and figure out which ones aren't working, that's why I started using an RSS reader in the first place.
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If Digg's reader had better e-mail integration I'd have already switched over.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

figmentPez said:
Get your shit together Feedly. Not getting proper updates for PvP is probably for the best, but I'm pissed about it not working right for Sheldon. I wonder how many other sites it's broken for. I don't have time to wade through and figure out which ones aren't working, that's why I started using an RSS reader in the first place.
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I am so disappointed with Feedly. It inexplicably doesn't pick up updates for some RSS feeds, it returns items to unread status after I've read them or marked them read over... and over... and over....
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

figmentPez said:
Get your shit together Feedly. Not getting proper updates for PvP is probably for the best, but I'm pissed about it not working right for Sheldon. I wonder how many other sites it's broken for. I don't have time to wade through and figure out which ones aren't working, that's why I started using an RSS reader in the first place.
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I haven't checked today, but Sheldon hasn't updated since before San Diego.
 
Dave

Dave

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So I keep 2 bottles of water in the fridge for just whenever. I refill them and put them back when they get to be half empty. I ALWAYS have at least 1 full bottle of cold water in the fridge. Last night I get up at about 2 am to take some medicine (I have an infected tooth) and...no cold water. Where are they? Both are by my wife's side of the bed. Both half empty. How hard is it to fucking replace a bottle of water? She KNOWS I do this and she can't be bothered? Let me touch one of her yogurts and see her head explode, but my water? Meh.

Infuriating!
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Dave said:
So I keep 2 bottles of water in the fridge for just whenever. I refill them and put them back when they get to be half empty. I ALWAYS have at least 1 full bottle of cold water in the fridge. Last night I get up at about 2 am to take some medicine (I have an infected tooth) and...no cold water. Where are they? Both are by my wife's side of the bed. Both half empty. How hard is it to fucking replace a bottle of water? She KNOWS I do this and she can't be bothered? Let me touch one of her yogurts and see her head explode, but my water? Meh.

Infuriating!
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If you're already going through the trouble of keeping two separate bottles in there, so she can claim one and you'll still have a spare, yeah, no. Annoying as....err, something quite annoying. Yeah, I'm tired :p
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

If I'm like... sweltering and sweaty, then, yeah, sure, cold water. But usually? Room temp. And ice water just baffles me: how would like you be refreshed and THEN BRAIN FREEZE OH GOD
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

I like other beverages to be cold. Juice? Soda? Tea (iced, obviously, I'm in the south,) all cold. But water? Room temperature.
 
Dave

Dave

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On yet another minor rant...

I go to the same place for lunch at least twice a week and always get the same thing. Two pieces of grilled chicken, mashed potatoes & a medium drink: $5.55 (with tax included). Today I go there and the price is $6.62 (with tax). Price went up $1! Now, I could see the price going up some but a whole 20%?!? Guess I need to figure out whether or not it's now worth it for me.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

stienman said:
We hosted a teacher from the Ukraine a few years ago for several weeks, and she was aghast that we put ice in our children's drinks. Apparently the belief that cold drinks will make children ill is very, very strongly ingrained in that culture.

So, of course, we did it at every opportunity and our children were never sick while she was here, but she did occasional remark that one or another of the children seemed to have a bit of a cough or a hoarse throat. She refused ice in her drinks at all times.

The only time I choose lukewarm water is during or after a workout - I can drink it alot faster than icewater, and it isn't as uncomfortable introducing such a large amount of very cold water into my core.

Otherwise it doesn't matter - whether it's hot outside or freezing, I prefer cold, cold water.
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That's interesting.. Also, curiously, this showed up in my twitter feed yesterday:
https://twitter.com/dwangelo/status/361954451252195331

I do find certain cultural superstitions that carry over to be neat, although arrogantly I also find a lot of them frustratingly, well, stupid. I have a Korean friend who -despite living here since she was 8- won't sleep with a fan on in her room, due to a belief that through some mysterious mechanism, it will kill her. And I know it makes no difference to me whether or not she sleeps with a fan on, but for some reason there is a stubborn voice in my mind that wants to look her in the eyes and say, "Oh god, seriously, you're a thinking adult with a master's degree, you can't possibly be unaware there's no harm in sleeping with a fan on!"

Bacteria in your ice? Anymore than in your water? Making the kids sick? Oh well. No one asked me, I guess.[DOUBLEPOST=1375204097][/DOUBLEPOST]
Dave said:
On yet another minor rant...

I go to the same place for lunch at least twice a week and always get the same thing. Two pieces of grilled chicken, mashed potatoes & a medium drink: $5.55 (with tax included). Today I go there and the price is $6.62 (with tax). Price went up $1! Now, I could see the price going up some but a whole 20%?!? Guess I need to figure out whether or not it's now worth it for me.
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I do hate it when places do that. I miss my $5 burger place. It's now $6.50, but you can get two for $7. Which is confusing. And I don't want two hamburgers.
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

stienman said:
I remember hearing about the Korean fan thing as well some time ago. There is some connection between SIDS and fan use in baby rooms in the US (ie, lower risk of SIDS in rooms with operating fan) but I wonder if the studies have looked at the cultures where fans at night are considered dangerous. Should be a pretty clear divide if the fan actually makes a difference regardless of most other factors.

Makes me wonder what cultural superstitions exist in the US. Well, ones that we take action on. Letting a black cat cross our path, walking under ladders, etc isn't as actionable as avoiding cold drinks or turning fans off at night.
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My five-year old niece rushed home the other day, apparently, to ask my sister if her back was okay. One of her friends had told her the "Step on a crack and you break your mother's back," rhyme while they were walking on the sidewalk, and Bella had, to her newfound horror, stepped on a crack. It was pretty adorable.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I met this Ukrainian dietician that would not allow his kids to drink cold/iced drinks. He felt ice is what causes tonsillitis.

Wow, majorly ninja'ed next time I should refresh the page after lunch.
 
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