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Gear Grinding 6: I'm So Over This.

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dxmnkd316 said:
Meh, I'm single so I use the dishwasher as a cupboard every so often. Unless I've made a mess cooking, then I'll unload everything and start loading stuff again. Or if I'm waiting for something and I'm in the kitchen (waiting on a pot of water to boil, etc.)
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I'm the same way.

Also, with regards to proper loading, I used to have a dishwasher whose tines were designed to indicate the type of dish that should be placed in various spots to anyone willing to pay attention. It seemed like nobody else in my house could understand that simple fact, so I would rearrange it in order to make more room. My brother would call me a freak over doing that, but when we had a lot of dishes to clean, it's the only thing to do that made sense.
 
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St. Clown said:
I'm the same way.

Also, with regards to proper loading, I used to have a dishwasher whose tines were designed to indicate the type of dish that should be placed in various spots to anyone willing to pay attention. It seemed like nobody else in my house could understand that simple fact, so I would rearrange it in order to make more room. My brother would call me a freak over doing that, but when we had a lot of dishes to clean, it's the only thing to do that made sense.
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No kidding. The pasta bowls go where there is a large amount of room between the side and the tine, not on the top rack. I could go on and on with things that annoy me and drive me crazy. Yet, I wouldn't have my life any other way.
 
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All the OCD sufferers agonizing over how to load a freakin dishwasher is grinding my gears.;)

Life is too dam short to let that crap bother you....

Now people who won't ever empty the dishwasher.....
 
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goldy_331 said:
All the OCD sufferers agonizing over how to load a freakin dishwasher is grinding my gears.;)

Life is too dam short to let that crap bother you....
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Life is too short to load/run/unload the dishwasher three times, when you can run it once instead. :p I can barely read some of these posts. Plate, plate, bowl, plate? Who DOES that? Only Satan himself would think that makes sense. :p
 
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goldy_331 said:
All the OCD sufferers agonizing over how to load a freakin dishwasher ....

Now people who won't ever empty the dishwasher.....
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or people who leave their dirty dishes on the counter right on top of the empty dishwasher.....
 
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Know what grinds my gears? People who say the specific phrase "please and thank you". One belongs before the favour, the other after. They don't both belong before. It sounds incredibly stupid.
 
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People who post their daily life events on Facebook.

People who continue to follow the above posters.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
No, the point is to make you T'd off. Hence why the "Top Stories" is always stuff that makes your blood boil.
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If your Top Stories on Facebook are things that upset you, then you're following the wrong groups and people. My top stories are a buddy's kid losing his two front teeth and my nephew moving due to getting a new job. Hardly hork-off scenarios there, Col. Flagg.
 
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FlagDUDE08 said:
No, the point is to make you T'd off. Hence why the "Top Stories" is always stuff that makes your blood boil.
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If social media is always stuff that makes your blood boil... well, you should probably quit interneting. Go construct a bubble somewhere in the wilderness and go off the grid.
 
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St. Clown said:
If your Top Stories on Facebook are things that upset you, then you're following the wrong groups and people. My top stories are a buddy's kid losing his two front teeth and my nephew moving due to getting a new job. Hardly hork-off scenarios there, Col. Flagg.
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Install Social Fixer. Also set newsfeed to "Most Recent Stories."

Half the problem is solved with those two steps.
 
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Someone broke into our broadcast production trailer over the weekend. Fortunately, they had no idea what they were doing. Ended up with about $27,000 worth of stuff when it was brand new. However, that included some 8 year old laptops, a couple of broken GoPros and a lot of random stuff they likely won't be able to sell. We were planning on replacing about $20,000 worth of the gear in a month so not that bad.

The worst part is having to compile serial numbers for everything and trying to remember all of the tiny cables and connectors that were in one of the boxes they stole for insurance/police purposes.

FYI, if anyone wants to break into a production trailer... just don't. Unless there are high-end cameras in there, you're going to end spending a lot of time trying to remove gear that is pretty secured and can't be turned into a pawn shop or posted on craigslist.
 
cF[Authentic] said:
Someone broke into our broadcast production trailer over the weekend. Fortunately, they had no idea what they were doing. Ended up with about $27,000 worth of stuff when it was brand new. However, that included some 8 year old laptops, a couple of broken GoPros and a lot of random stuff they likely won't be able to sell. We were planning on replacing about $20,000 worth of the gear in a month so not that bad.

The worst part is having to compile serial numbers for everything and trying to remember all of the tiny cables and connectors that were in one of the boxes they stole for insurance/police purposes.

FYI, if anyone wants to break into a production trailer... just don't. Unless there are high-end cameras in there, you're going to end spending a lot of time trying to remove gear that is pretty secured and can't be turned into a pawn shop or posted on craigslist.
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Out of curiosity, as the son of a broadcast engineer, what exactly did they steal?
 
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Brenthoven said:
Install Social Fixer. Also set newsfeed to "Most Recent Stories."

Half the problem is solved with those two steps.
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I have developed a weird sort of hobby where I reply to the hyperbolic clickbait headlines (you know, the ones like "This 93-Year-Old Woman Went To Her Mailbox. What She Found Inside Will Leave Your Jaw On The Floor") with the JOHN CENA meme.
 
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Now that we've talked about how to properly instal new rolls of toilet paper, and how to load the dishwasher the right way, any consensus on how to squeeze toothpaste out of the tube?

I find myself squeezing it up from the bottom every three or four days, since another family member likes to squeeze it at the top. It is more amusing than annoying to me though. I merely wonder how they'd manage if I left the tube alone and then one day they found all the toothpaste at the bottom. :)

I recall seeing an invention years ago that was like a clip that you fastened sideways to the bottom of the tube and then rolled it up from the bottom end. Sort of how you used to open a canned ham.

Edit: Still for sale.... http://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Tooth...3670&sr=8-5&keywords=toothpaste+tube+squeezer ... along with several other related products.
 
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