ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 1 week ago:
It’s not just cola bottles here, it’s milk bottles, cream, fruit concentrates… Anything in any kind of plastic container with a screw-on cap.
Actually the soda bottles are the least egregious examples. The milk bottles are terrible: you’re 100% guaranteed to spill milk if you don’t detach the cap.
- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 168 comments
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
With a scalpel and a bone saw - at least that’s what the surgeon said - and because sometimes people are born with issues that need fixing later in life.
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
Plus, they very likely can’t sell electrical equipment that has had its cord chopped up and repaired
I did it proper. You couldn’t tell the cord had been replaced. For the rest, yeah I know what you mean. That doesn’t mean it’s not crazy that the Red Cross should refuse free shit. My Dad lived through the war and the food restrictions, and let me tell you, he would have been outraged.
Next time, find a friend with small feet who would like to take it off your hands.
The funny thing is, I’m a clear foot taller than my wife, but my own feet have been shortened surgically a few years ago and are now shorter than hers, and I fit inside the machine just fine. But I didn’t want the machine because I hate foot massages 🙂
- Comment on Astounding absurdity 1 week ago:
Yeah. The only problem with that theory is, they didn’t even open my box. I know that because the box still had the tape I closed it shut with. So they couldn’t know I had replaced the cord.
Besides, it wasn’t a shitty splice: I actually opened it and replaced the whole cord. You could never tell it wasn’t the original thing.
- Submitted 1 week ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on This shit makes me want to murder, some times 2 weeks ago:
The less Google can figure out who you are accurately, the longer the ReCAPTCHAs get. For instance, if you run Librewolf with Resist FingerPrinting, you’re going to eat a metric shit-ton of buses, stairs, bicycles and fire hydrants.
Captchas are maddening, they’re forced labor and there’s a special place in hell for whoever invented them, deploy then and maintain them. However, you should take comfort in the fact that if you have a really hard time getting past a particularly stubborn ReCAPTCHA, it means Google has a harder time tracking you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh the humanity!
- Comment on Thule 1 month ago:
How is this infuriating?
You haven’t been taken for a fool. You haven’t been taken by surprise. Thule isn’t an unavoidable monopoly you have to give money to.
You feel it’s overpriced and you haven’t bought a Thule product yet. So you can, ya know… not buy Thule.
- Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
I block CNN by not visiting their website.
The only CNN worth anything is CNN International, and that still works fine with all ad blockers raised. But even CNN International started pulling the same stunt, it’s not remotely good enough that I would miss it either.
- Comment on Hot Cheetos don't taste the same 4 months ago:
A lot of restaurants tone down their food for that reason
Here’s a little anecdote:
I used to work for a company in Utah that had a subsidiary in London. One day, two of our UK colleagues came to visit us. In the evening, we invited them to the local Indian restaurant, because they said they liked a good curry.
We sat down at the table, and our colleagues kept quipping about how US Indian food is bland compared to what can be found in London, that the best curries in the world can only be found in London, and yada yada.
The waiters arrived, took our orders, and asked each of us how spicy. Feeling cocky, the Brits said “Nuclear!”. The waiters paused a bit, then said “Are you sure?” “Yeah yeah! Bring it on!” “Okay then…” and they disappeared into the kitchen.
We asked why they asked that, and they said it would probably end up mildly spicy here.
Then our orders came : the two waiters served us, then served the Brits, then they simply stood them and waited. They didn’t go, they just waited, with absolute deadpan composure.
Uh oh… The Brits had a worried look on their faces all of the sudden…
Long story short, they got exactly what they wanted. We had trouble not laughing out loud 🙂
- Comment on This is way too expensive for a drink. 4 months ago:
I buy no-name cola - store brands and such. It’s pennies per gallon and I honestly can’t tell the difference between them and Coke / Pepsi. If there is a difference, at the second gulp, I’m already used to the new thing enough to have forgotten. I don’t think I’ve bought the real thing in 25 years.
90% of the price is the brand name.
- Comment on The way this is spelled out really irks me. 4 months ago:
It’s supposed to be a good thing
What part of it is good in any way?
- Guy’s in the military: yeah war. Yeehaw…
- He’s proud to drive a gas guzzling SUV