(B Rosen)
It’s an unnerving experience as an adult. You’re going along, being a good savvy consumer just like you always thought was the right way, only to discover in a flash that you’ve been doing it wrong all along. Has this happened to you recently?
Sound off in the comments.
Hat tips to Cockeyed, Lifehacker and Metafilter who started similar threads.
Dropped fly balls in foul territory. I always thought that a base runner could advance. I got yelled at in keg league softball for this.
Baseball, they can advance. Softball, depends on the league. Every league I’d been in, runners could advance on a foul fly (if it was caught).
You can’t advance on dropped fly balls in foul territory in baseball — it’s still a foul ball. Caught fly balls, yes. Tag and go.
Yep – rule 5.09(e) addresses drop foul balls. Runners must return to their base.
Wow I read that wrong. I thought he was getting yelled at for dropping fly balls, not for running after it was dropped.
/fail
holding the phone wrong???
+1.
You’re less than three weeks old?
Not looking at the long term consequences of decisions I make critically enough.
“Think It Through” Should be be a rallying cry for everyone.
I’ve been attempting to get a good job and make a success out of my life. I’m now quitting my job I thought I would stick with and moving to Michigan to be with my boyfriend. However, I have managed to find a job I think I will enjoy up there BEFORE I said “yes I will move to be with you.”
It seems weird that my priorities have changed so much. But Life > career sometimes. Weird.
Wait a minute. You found a job in Michigan? That’s unpossible.
/I kid. Good luck.
He had better be a fantastic man, at least twice as good as me. Because I live with me and I wouldn’t move more than 50 miles to be with me.
Lol well it will be six years this november so i hope it”s the right move!
welcome to the neighborhood. If you have a job, this is an awesome place to live. I’m near Detroit (Royal Oak) and am currently paying 563 a month for a 750 sq ft apartment. Includes heat and water and the facility has a pool.
As long as you’re employed, it’s fantastic.
Maybe we should all rethink the whole idea that “success” is determined by the career we choose. When we are on our way out do we really think back on our career? I don’t think it matters if you are a ceo or a bag boy, as long as you are happy and are surrounded by people that love you that is all that should matter. I love my job, I am a title examiner. There is really no room for advancement but I have an open schedule and I work without someone looking over my shoulder. I am free, for the most part, to do as I please. If I have an appointment or if I just want to go to the beach, I can. I have friends that own their own business and I make more than they do, but people stil consider them more of a “you made it” story than me. Our career path should not define us! Sorry, too much “99 bananas”.
I thought it was “Throw kosh into the wind” instead of “Throw caution to the wind.” Kosh, of course, being something that would blow back into your face, like ashes or something.
Kosh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosh_Naranek
That’s what I was thinking…
I have a few of those that I didn’t correct until much (much) later in life. I’m a regular Falstaff.
“intents and purposes” was “intensive purposes”
I pronouced it “awry” aw-ree rather than ah-rhy
I would say “oriented” as ooh-ree-en-TAYT-ed rather than ooh-ree-ent-ed
Technically, it’s pronounced or-ree-en-ted.
I did aw-ree too. I read a lot, but I’d never heard the word pronounced.
Here are some that drive me bananas:
Supposively, instead of supposedly
“All of the sudden”
“A whole nother”
Samwhich
Expresso
Oh, there is more, but anyway
There ARE more?
Haha!! Touche!! I think what I meant to say is there is more of my ranting : )
Expresso used to annoy the hell out of me, too, but it’s actually an acceptable term for espresso in several countries. In France, for example. Because the coffee is made “expressly” for you.
I KNEW someone was going to say that because I have heard this before; however, most people mispronounce it because they think that’s the way it is spelled. I think that’s a weak explanation for it; you could say it was made “especially” for you, also ; )
I know it’s a weak explanation, because you’re right, it is born of ignorance when 99% of people say expresso: but the way I learned it was my old boss was actually French and being the chill guy French (and European folks in general) are we would have coffee or tea from the cafe next door twice a day. And he would say, Tomato, you want an expresso? Being my boss I wasn’t going to correct him, and then I found out that is *was* correct, for him.
But yeah, everyone else can gets my wrath, just a little less, since I once found out that I was wrong. (And of course, that’s never happened since :^P )
Walmarts, one-years-old, and Valentime’s day.
I have grown to dislike: “supposably”
“a whole nother” is a great lingusitics 101 example of in-fixing (like suffix or prefix, but you know, inside the word… though it might more appropriately be called tmesis). Similar to “un-fraking-believable”.
Preggers. Drives me crazy and almost makes me stab-by (also, I know not a word).
Honestly, it’s the lack of grammar and proper punctuation that really gets me. I feel like an old lady sometimes. “Back in my day” and all that.
Get off my lawn!
“Orientated” is a word, too. I always thought that was a Michigan thing, since I only heard it said by those from Michigan. I figured they were just mispronouncing it and it bugged the hell out of me. Then I looked it up one day. Sure enough, it’s a word, and means the same thing as “oriented”.
Still bugs the hell out of me.
“Orientated” is a word, too. I always thought that was a Michigan thing, since I only heard it said by those from Michigan. I figured they were just mispronouncing it and it bugged the hell out of me. Then I looked it up one day. Sure enough, it’s a word, and means the same thing as “oriented”.
Still bugs the hell out of me.
Someone near and dear to me recently told me this is how he pronounced words when reading to himself: “whoa” was “hoo-ah”, “my bad” = “my bag” (very common), and the song by Hall and Oates, “Maneater” was “Band Leader”.
I have a friend who didn’t learn until college that the award is “Pulitzer Prize” and not “Pull-it Surprise”
I’m pretty sure this is the grand prize winner. Why the ^&^* would the “Pull-it Surprise” be a coveted award?
It’s coveted by the guy who presents it.
I thought it was the noble peace prize. Not the Nobel Peace Prize.
A few years ago I got into an argument with a coworker who swore that the north fought the south in the Silver War.
I always thought it was pre-Madonna. Like, she was enough of a musical influence, that music was categorized into pre-Madonna and post-Madonna.
I always thought it was pre-Madonna. Like, she was enough of a musical influence, that music was categorized into pre-Madonna and post-Madonna.
I am still laughing at this hysterically 15 minutes later… “Throw Kosh to the Wind”, hilarious.
I knew someone who used “as a pose” in place of “as opposed” in a paper I was editing for them. I had no idea how to break it to her.
Yes, I bought a house in 2005.
Hi, I’m ARP and I bought a house at the peak of the housing boom.
^This
Not only did we buy a house, we did zero research on the market or the area, took an option ARM loan and took our loan with Countrywide.
We got our mortgage at a local bank without asking if they’d hold it, and they sold it to Countrywide two days after we closed. Now BofA has our mortgage and I’m a sad panda.
Yeah, me too, seems like I’m stuck here for a few decades now.
Buying ours in 2000 was the worst thing we ever did. Selling ours in 2006 was the best thing we ever did. Buying is for some, but not us. It was an albatross around our necks. Living in a nice apartment works perfectly for us. No upkeep, no repair costs, no chance of it going down in value, and we can move if we get sick of it.
Late 2002 here. Now I could get a bigger, remodeled house in a nicer neighborhood with a shorter commute for less money. But at least I still have a job, so life could be worse.
Yes, I always jump too fast and miss the boat. I bought a house and missed out on the $8,000 tax credit and getting a much lower price on the house I bought in the summer of 2008.
2006 here. Then came the money we had to pay to have a leach field installed because our house didn’t have one! it had just a tiny bit of gravel at the end of the hose attached to the tank. My neighbors are all scared because the same builder built their houses. Oh, this was after having the roof replaced (we knew this was coming). …heavy sigh…
Wouldn’t you only be able to truly answer this after you’re dead?
Love you consumerist, but Metafileter and Lifehacker did it first. At least link their threads.
It looks like they have. Maybe updated?
They were always there.
Looks like Dan O. can add “read the entire article before commenting” to his list.
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I think you mean:
“w t b rgnl. Bn shld pst str bt LBrn t. nd tht spll n th glf. whtsthmtt? rn t f thngs t wrt bt?”
You made me laugh.
+1e99. But we shouldn’t hold too much of a grudge on the moderators of this website, shouldn’t we?
(Or, handily pre-disenvowelled: +199. Bt w shldn’t hld t mch f grdg n th mdrtrs f ths wbst, shldn’t w?)
Ben did. I know because I clicked on the lifehacker story before I commented.
Mmmm. Metafilet-o-fish sandwich.
Who cares? Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
For years, I thought premise and demise rhymed. This is what happens when you teach yourself vocabulary from books.
Oh dear lord. I have a few of these, but my fiance and his friends, many of whom gained enormous vocabularies by playing D&D and reading adult sci-fi from around age eight, are AWFUL about this. The one that comes to mind right off the top of my head is that they pronounce “coup de grace” as if it’s spelled “coup de gras.” I think that they still do it now just because they know I’ll automatically retort “cut of fat” now, but it took a long long time to sink in.
The students in my high school English class pronounce ambulance as ambleeance and library as liberry. I tried to correct them by replying to liberry is that there is no fruit there. Unfortunately the correction never really sank in.
Same problem for the same reason. I butcher word pronunciation all the time, but at least I can spell.
slant rhyme maybe?
I think it’s interesting that these comments language problems fall generally into two categories:
1) People who read a lot but don’t know how to correctly pronounce words (you and I fall into this category. I often learn that I’ve been pronouncing words incorrectly in my head because nobody has ever used the word in conversation. Seriously, who says “respite” in conversation and why does it not rhyme with “despite”?)
2) People who talk a lot and don’t know actual sayings (e.g. “intensive purposes” — if you’ve read almost any written commentary, you would likely learn the correct saying)
That doesn’t rhyme? Sheesh.
I learned about “rhetoric” in college. I could say “rhetorical” correctly but for some reason I pronounced rhetoric as ret-or-ic.
That’s how you pronounce rhetoric — rhet·o·ric [ret-er-ik] — what is your “corrected” pronunciation?
I give more of a pass to the readers. No offense to anyone here, but how do you live your whole life and never see some of the phrases people have tossed out here in print?
I love to use all of my vocabulary (that is appropriate) in conversation. But people seem to feel uncomfortable about it. It’s one way to learn the correct pronunciation. That and browsing dictionaries (especially the online ones that have audio clips of the words). Or having my mac read a word aloud to me. But its still hard to know if what’s in your head is right when you don’t hear the words spoken.
Wait, respite and demise don’t rhyme!?
????
respite = reh-spite
despite = deh-spite
(I’m English)
I thought Odysseus’s wife’s name was pronounced to rhyme with antelope until I was like 12 or 13.
I also recently learned the words to Madonna’s like a prayer are not “I go down on my knees I want to taste you there” but I think my version is better.
Until I went to college, I didn’t know that “epitome” wasn’t “e-pi-tome” and “paradigm” wasn’t “pa-ra-di-gim”. I knew the spoken words, but somehow thought that they were different words that meant similar things.
For years when I was younger, I pronounced awry as aw-ree. Also, it took forever for the colonel = kernel thing to click.
Mine was pronouncing misled as mice-uld.
I always thought that “layman’s terms” was actually “lamest terms”. I only found out my mistake when I read it in an article.
If I knew the answer to that, I’d be a millionaire and have 3 wives and 6 mistresses.
Then you’d be doing it wrong, just ask Tiger Woods. Then again, I’d trade places with him, even now.
I think it’s more small things in your life. For Example, I have a friend who still ties his shoes by “bunny ears.”
What’s wrong with tying your shoes bunny ears style? That’s how I do it. It works, right?
I was taught if I work hard and try my best things will work out.
They didn’t.
Seconded. Hard work and perseverance doesn’t really pay off like they tell you. It leads to mediocrity. But at least I can say I have a good work ethic and integrity. It just hasn’t led to all of the glorious things (read: riches) that books/parents told me it would.
The saying “Don’t work harder, work smarter” may be hackneyed, but it is true.
But character is more important, right?
The Gas Company refuses to accept my good character as payment. I have tried and tried, but they need cash.
Have you tried drawing a spider?
HA!!!!!! That guy is priceless.
Perhaps offering misguided advice on secure passwords without fully thinking through the attack space?
http://consumerist.com/2010/07/create-a-different-password-for-every-site-and-never-forget-a-single-one.html
Just sayin’.
It wasn’t misguided as much as just plain horrible. But you’re correct, that should be on their list of things they’ve been doing wrong.
It’s weird, I’ve been doing that for years, except instead of using the site name, I use the name of something different I associate with the site (for example, the bank that my bank used to be before it was bought out or something). Seemed like a better idea at the time.
I should have checked that Meghann was attracted to overweight, 30-something, suburban dads with a minivan before getting that penthouse suite at the Marquis for the week.
(yeah, i know the Marquis is kind of touristy… but I’m marriott gold. i thought she’d appreciate the savvy point accumulation)
not recently – but i learned not to cheap out and to get the “gold” warranty when purchasing a car from a dealership.
I also made a habit of buying tons of cheap clothing from discount stores which all fell apart shortly after. I realized if I spent a little more money, I could wear my clothes longer. I still have issues with that, though.
When I first started using a laundromat (about 3 years ago), I thought I would need to dry the clothes for 60 minutes or so. Then I realized they become dry after 20 minutes.
ummm…….nothing else I can think of consumer-related.
I remember your earlier comment on a previous thread degarding a washer and dryer.
You should really consider getting a W/D rather than using the laudromat. You’d save money in not too long a time.
Consider you can buy a W/D pair for as little as $700, maybe less if you pick the right time. And the energy usage for these is probably $150/year give or take. That’s including water use, which may be covered by an apartment or HOA fees.
If you do 2 loads a week, and pay $1.50 a wash and $1.00 a dry, you’re spending $260/year at a laudromat. That’s a savings of $110 a year, and you would recoup the purchase costs in 6 years. Given that washer and dryer would surely last more than 6, you’re saving money. And that’s assuming only 2 loads a week, which is probably a low estimate.
Go to your scratch and dent place and get a front loader. Save even more energy, water, and it treats your clothes better. Plus you can STUFF them and they still run.
Hmm…
well, when I turned 24 and got my first job, I got glasses with my Christmas Bonus Paycheck.
And I realized how completely blind I was. I cried when I put on my first pair of glasses.
I am now kicking myself for not getting Glasses earlier-
I went through ART SCHOOL being 20/50 in my good eye.
I can only imagine how much I have missed being so short-sighted.
Our photo editor at work knew her vision was a little off, but “I just got a new contact prescription. You’re all a lot uglier than I thought.”
That one made me laugh-snort. +1
I got Lasik a couple years ago. What’s up with leaves? Were they always that cool looking?
For me it was the moon. I had no idea it had craters that you could actually see with the naked eye. I just thought it was dusty shades of gray from down here.
brick here. i had no idea it came in little rectangles.
9th grade for me… to my classmates “You mean you could actually read the chalkboard all this time??”
Sadly, the first things I noticed weren’t the beautiful things, it was the ugly “film” on the shower door, etc.
Have you looked at your skin lately? It’s so weird!
I had no idea you could actually recognize someone’s facial expressions from more than 5 feet away. I kept giving strangers big, goofy smiles, because I got such a kick out of being able to see them smile back.
I had no idea my cat actually had individual hairs. (I was 8 at the time, this was fascinating to me)
For me, buying glasses. My parents used to get them at the eye doctor, which is expesive, but the pair I have now were $30 total (which includes the shipping, anti-reflective coating, etc).
http://www.zennioptical.com
Its also nice to be able to wear sunglasses without contacts for once, too. It’s just $5 extra for tinting.
I hate sounding like I’m selling something but this is just a ridiculously good deal.
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Upvoted because I thought the exact same thing.
Tearing up my credit cards, paying off my car and living on cash only.
Is this a good or bad move?
I just heard my co-worker tell her mom to, ‘make sure she shaves’. Seems like their going to the beach and their might be some unsightly unshaved areas. She also mentioned ‘….around the..’, but the phone rang in another part of the office and I didn’t catch where. She keeps saying, ‘ugghhhh, ugggghhhh’… I can’t stop laughing as I type.
Sorry I had to share that moment.. (abs hurt) silent laughing is a *itch.
also, I like the photo with the article.
Until my mid-20′s I thought that the ‘drumstick’-looking part you get when you order chicken wings at a restaurant was the leg of a small chicken. Kind of like veal, I though the chickens were just killed when they were young. It didn’t occur to me that they are part of the wing section.
Peeling bananas. I always just tore them open at the stem, but apparently it’s easier to open them from the other end. All you have to do is pinch the end, and it splits open naturally.
Also, playing pool. At least, playing pool in bars on coin-op tables. In pool halls where you rent tables by the hour I always play by official BCA rules. Barroom pool players generally don’t, and get really pissy if you deviate from whatever made-up regional rules they’ve always played by that you’re somehow supposed to know.
I don’t understand how you were peeling them wrongly – they have a tab that you pull and it unpeels.. I’m confused as to wtf you were attempting to do.
You took mine! HAHA!! Oranges, if you peel from the “bottom” rather than the stem part, the peel comes off a lot easier-even monkeys and gorillas peel bananas this way. All you do is pinch the bottom part and the peel practically comes off in one piece.
I insert my thumb into the ‘navel’ of the orange until I reach the center. I can then pull it into clean sections that way.
Diasdiem was doing what most people do, cracking the peel at the stem. It’s not always easy to get the peel going that way. Apparently Dias is now peeling it the way my father does – starting at the base and using the stem for a handle (to avoid the yucky insides of the peel).
As I finished typing the above, I thought “is this what I’ve come to, writing about peeling bannanas?”
Diasdiem has discovered the way monkeys peel bananas, which is WAY more efficient than the way people do it. and they ought to know….
Peeling bananas. I always just tore them open at the stem, but apparently it’s easier to open them from the other end. All you have to do is pinch the end, and it splits open naturally.
Also, playing pool. At least, playing pool in bars on coin-op tables. In pool halls where you rent tables by the hour I always play by official BCA rules. Barroom pool players generally don’t, and get really pissy if you deviate from whatever made-up regional rules they’ve always played by that you’re somehow supposed to know.
Posting on consumerist. At least in this instance.
I’ve been using semi-weekly and bi-weekly backwards.
Yes, differentiating “semi” and “bi” seems tricky to me too. Got to be sure to keep them straight. Boy, was it awkward that time when I asked the guy working at Hollister regarding a shirt about which I was semi-curious . . .
Rationalizing and buying stuff even though I know I’m being ripped off by the sleazy scam artist./H/H/H/H/H I mean salesman.
I’ve been nice to women I’m attracted too and careful not to insult them.
Man you’ve really been messin up.
Shit, me too.
Tried to make a difference.
Pointed out illogical thing to others.
Tried to educate those who were ignorant.
Yeah, I thought I’d learned this lesson long ago.. apparently I was wrong.
It must be hard, being so much more well informed than all of those ignorant people.
I don’t know if this counts, but I’ve recently found I’ve been peeling bananas the hard way most of my life. Wehn cartoons draw banana peels, they show the stem in the center. I had always been trying to peel it from the stem, which was more difficult and wind up bruising it. Then I saw my wife peel one from the “bottom.” It was so much easier, and it left the peels looking like they do in cartoons. I asked her why she never corrected me when she saw I was doing it the hard way. She said she thought both ways were valid, but I think she just enjoyed watching me and being smug.
I wanted to point out I typed this before reading diasdiem’s post. Now I don’t feel as bad,
Apparenty, Oranges doesn’t understand what either of you are talking about, and is getting VERY irate about it. Hopefully my explanation under the other post will be a little more clear to them? I do not think anyone understands what you mean by “tab” anyway, Oranges-do you mean the stem? It isn’t a can of soda we are talking about here…
Yes, but he’s referring to the banana as if the opposite end is the stem which has me confused.
Your other comment also mentions doing this other method to “avoid the insides of the peel” which I also fail to understand.. unless you mean the annoying stringy bits.
I don’t really understand how you’d open it without using the stem unless you used a knife. I think he’s been eating his bananas too green, that’s the only time I’ve ever had issue cracking one open.
Yeah, that’s what I mean, you don’t understand what we’re trying to say. On the other side of the banana, the pointy end that doesn’t have the stem is where it is most efficient to open the banana. You don’t need a knife. You just pinch it, and it neatly splits the whole peel in three parts, rather than having the unsheath it one side at a time with the stem side. Just humor us all and try it, it will blow your mind! I don’t know what other people are talking about, with avoiding the strings, you still get those; but it’s just a surprisingly more efficient way to eat a banana, and it makes for great conversation when someone sees you doing it! And for the record, I wasn’t intentionally trying to break BK’s record with ad blow job references : D
Again, I don’t understand WTF you mean. Bananas have a tab, you pull it and it unpeels. How is that difficult or hard to comprehend?
I just learned how to peel a banana like this the other day – this video explains it better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJV56WUDng
Making chocolate milke wrong all my life. I always added the chocolate mix first and THEN the milk. Then to my dismay I saw directions on the side of the nesquik box to add the milk first.
also adding an e at the end of milk. Fail Friday
The first time I had sex with a woman. Who knew there was more than one place to put it.
You should talk to my wife about that.
Martinis… I stir too long, thus watering them down some. But screw it, that’s how I like them!
Keep the gin/vodka in the freezer (it doesn’t freeze), and the vermouth in the fridge – and use more vermouth if you like Martinis weaker. Then you don’t dirty a shaker, and you don’t have to mess around with ice.
Arguing on the internet, I just shouldn’t bother
Yes you should!
Clearly you’re a liberal apologist communist! Hows that “change” working out for you?
???? HUH? WHAT???
Recently I’ve been learning all about the consumer world. This would include using banks, debit cards, credit cards, building credit, obtaining loans, making contracts, getting paid, taxes, using generic brands when necessary, and a lot of other things on my long list of how society works.
I’m still learning, but I fear that my worst mistake was going to college. College was a waste. I didn’t graduate, I have a student loan, and now I’m stuck trying to get one of my first jobs in a market that doesn’t offer them. My circumstances aren’t as bad as many others I hear about, but I still would have liked to take the time machine and see the alternate universe if I didn’t go to college.
I went to a 2 year school, then, 10 years later, finally got my Bachelor’s degree. It was my dream to get out of retail. The career field I was interested in, however, actually paid LESS than my current retail job, at least to start. I stayed in retail for the paycheck…then got fired by a fat, lazy boss who didn’t like being shown up.
I had to take a lesser-paying job…still in retail…since there are no jobs anywhere else it seems. Now I’m earning spectacularly crappy money and my loans are about to come due.
Yeah. Not worth it.
I thought having roommates in college would be economical. Little did I know that the crazy cheap rent attracts does not in any way make up for the savings.
I spent most of my life with rolls of foil and Saran wrap popping out of the box when I was trying to tear off a piece of the product.
It turns out that there are little tabs on the sides of the boxes that you push in to hold to rolls in place.
Thank you. You have just changed my life.
Woah! Me too.
yeah, i just learned about those a year or so ago. it makes a huge difference
I was almost 30 years old before I learned that you should almost never take your car to a dealership for routine maintenance or repairs.
Only take your non-exotic car to a dealer for warranty repairs and recalls.
A trustworthy local shop (trustworthy by word of mouth or cartalk.com, for example) will charge half the rate for labor, charge for what the job actually takes not what the service manual estimates (often 20-50% higher than a skilled mechanic needs), give you OEM-quality replacement parts at a much lower cost, and guarantee his work the same way a dealership will.
When I was younger, I used to make the mistake of waiting until a small car noise or problem would become worse before I would take it in, fearing that if the problem wasn’t obvious, I’d get taken for a ride with additional and unnecessary repairs. Let’s just say I wound up turning minor problems into HUGE ones by waiting. Fear of cost was another reason I would wait; anyway, I can now say that I have a healthy relationship with my mechanic!
Following societal “rules”.
Now I question everything about when or what I “should” do.
I find many things people do make no sense, and people only do them (or do them a certain way) because that is how everyone else does it.
Wow, this kind of makes me sound like I’m bitter about my teenage years or something, LOL. It really doesn’t have much to do with my social experiences. It mostly pertains to parenting, food, and life in general.
Ben, aren’t you going to post about how you posted an urban legend as actual helpful consumer advice, then refused to issue a correction or retraction, thereby hurting the reputation of the site as a place for trustworthy advice?
Just curious.
/Talking about the “uses for coke” post
How is that an urban legend? It actually is a really good substitute for WD-40, at least. Maybe not the blood, but it will get your bike working quick fast and in a hurry!
Letting other people’s opinions affect me. As I come upon my 30s, I’ve learned to stop taking that crap personally. Caring what other people think…I’ve been doing it wrong.
I’ve been eating tuna on toast. All along, it should have been chicken salad on rye.
+1 for Seinfeld reference
I went on the internet.
For years I ate what we’re “supposed to eat”, meaning low fat this, whole grain that. Since forgetting all that and removing grains & sugar, I’ve lost around 70lb and feel healthier than ever. Eat real food, not packaged crap.
All grains–even whole grains, wheat bread, oatmeal, etc?
Grains aren’t food? Who knew.
No problems here. I pay cash for all major purchases.. Save up for things I don’t have the money for. Live within my means, carry good health insurance, and research most purchases. I’ve never had major issues with customer service, except with my insurance company recently. It’s all good. It’s taken me a while to end up here, but I’ve learned over the years.
I used to put the stamp as close to the corner as possible, and wrote the address on the right half of the envelope. Eventually realized it’s better to just put the stamp NEAR the corner instead of on it, and also to write the address in the middle. (Yes, I already knew you were unfamiliar with envelopes, thanks for the info.)
Something that everyone else does wrong is recap their empty plastic bottle before tossing it in the recycle box. Leave the cap off so they can dry out and also be squashed properly. The recycle company doesn’t need a load full of air, thanks, just plastic.
I was a Democrat… then a Republican… two halves of my life up to this point completely wasted.
Check out this LONG thread.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2720564
to contribute, in windows when you need to open a dialog box when you are uploading a file to somewhere else, you don’t need to search with the scroll bar, especially if you have a lot of stuff like pictures. if you know the file name,you just start typing and by magic the filename will appear.
I played basketball in Cleveland for many years until I realized that it is cold there and it is Cleveland so I decided to play basketball in Miami.
I should have gone to school for a lucrative career….not one I thought I’d love or that wouldn’t bother my conscience.
Buying shit. I’m 43, and I die a little when I think of all the hours wasted over the years working meaningless jobs in order to buy things I did not need. For example, I have a picture of myself when I was about 24, I was on the beach with my boyfriend, and in the pic I’m wearing a Ralph Lauren polo and boat shoes. The clothes aren’t the problem, it’s the time I wasted somewhere earning the money to buy them. I should have worked much less (or not at all), gone barefoot and shirtless, swum in the Gulf of Mexico and refused to be a tool. I should have read Walden like others read the Bible.