My wife is always changing out shampoos, soaps, body washes with all sorts of new brands from companies like Lush on a zero waste kinda kick. Every couple weeks is a new brand and combo. I have no idea what I wash with these days or in what order....

Speaks for itself. Kid using Microsoft copilot to do his entire assignment for him. And as much as I wish I could've ignored it, his screen was super bright and directly 4 feet in front of me. That and the fact I was trying to take a photo of my classrooms squeaky ass doors and unfortunately he got in the shot. Apologies for not clarifying in the first rendition of this post.

UPDATED POST: my bad for the first one, I shouldn't have posted his face. I will however post his arm because there's no defining features to identify him other than the side of his face. Also, this was typed after the rest of my lecture so I did in fact pay attention! Very neat lecture actually, we were looking at ancient Egyptian and Greek artwork (statues, vases, etc) since it's an art history class. Very cool stuff!

Was at a restaurant and was given this fork, thankfully I didn’t need it

Apparently I'm an idiot. But they still aren't great

Update: going in for round 2 with a lot of butter and low heat. Stay tuned (10:58pst)

Update update : see pics below of retest on low heat with all the butter

As the title suggests I(22M) had an interview yesterday at a clinic pharmacy. I dressed up a little nice and everything.

Well I call my friend telling them how the interview went, and I decided I would love to "treat" myself to some mcdonalds... prolly the worst choice not only cause well it's mcdonalds but also because of my experience with the cashier.

So I end up wanting to pay cash cause I got a few tips from a drag performance I did this past weekend. So I wanted to spend that first before I touch my bank account.

So I order at the kiosk, and just get me a cheap little mchicken meal.(it's pretty bussin sometimes)

And I go up to the counter to hand the younger cashier(M) my ticket so I can pay him.

First this out of his mouth

"You like Jesus?" Dead as fuck serious to...

(A little lore about me. I'm a gay man who has not been treated nicely by Christianity or most off shoots of it. So I've grown to me more anti theist than anything)

I say No.

He says, "You don't believe in god?"

I say no.

He says, "that's not right x2"

As if you saying once wasn't unprofessional enough

He then keeps asking more questions, while holding my money, and just apparently refusing to finish the transaction.

A few more of his questions included

"Do you pray?"

My response. No I go to therapy

"Where do you think yo go when you die"

My response. Idk in an urn or a grave depending on how my loved ones wanna go about that.

Proceeded by more

"That's not right x2"

Finally this man finishes the transaction and hands me my cup.

I just wait by the counter to grab my order and sit down with it in one go. Cause efficiency.

So when I get my order. I go play my food down, and go to fill up my drink..

And this man's is actively blocking the drink machine... talking about me to his coworker.

This coworker was our and about in the dining area just laughing up a storm during this whole experience.

Safe to say when I sat down. The first thing I did was make sure my friend on the phone heard everything. I didn't hang up cause I didn't realize checking out your order was also an invitation to get put on trial over ur personal beliefs.

And then I said for a little whimsy... "I didn't even think I looked that gay"

And I didn’t notice until it was too late. Doh!

we just ended up swapping meals bc we were starving and didn’t want to wait longer and lowkey this is my ideal color of burger so alls well that ends well but if i were someone like her who got icked out by meat being red i can imagine being annoyed.

It completely pisses me off that it's possible to make one wrong movement or put too much stress for too long and be down and out for 3 or more days. It's been 72 hours since the injury flare and I'm improving but still can't put on direct weight.

I accidentally grabbed a fork when I packed soup for my lunch for work.

My wife and I have been together for a little over 20 years. This entire time she's has had this silly little clock in the bathroom that she purposely sets ahead about 20 minutes. She says this is because she wants to know when she'll be done in the bathroom in the morning while getting ready. She's an actual smart person, like one of her three degrees is in math, so I know she can figure out what time it will be 20 minutes from now yet still she keeps it set ahead. It's really crazy because of course it takes her longer than 20 minutes to get ready in the morning.

One day without warning about five years ago, she did actually set it to the correct time. After that making me late for work one day (I just thought I was really early so took my time), I was happy I could just ignore the alarm clock...then she decided to set it back, again, without warning.

So here it is today, still the wrong time, and it still irritates me every time I see it.

(side note-- she gets annoyed if we don't change the clocks on the oven/microwave immediately during daylight savings time)

It’s irritating when someone keeps trying to have conversation. I don’t mean normal levels of “hey what’s up” I mean jumping into any and every conversation, or saying something general to bait a response, or even worse when these don’t work asks someone a direct and often meaningless question then springboards a convo from there. Like, relax. It’s okay to not be talking to someone right now.

Is the question instead of "Hey, would you please..." or "hey, would you mind if..." Its always:

"Do you want to clean the kitchen?"

"Do you want to grab groceries?"

"Do you want to clean out your car?"

"Do you want to look up x, y, z?"

Its always things that I absolutely do not **want** to do, but will do them because it was asked(?) of me.

What's up with that?

This hamburger helper box didnt give me a topping mix instead it gave me two taco mix

This bitch spoiled! I found out when I took a sip. Did not ingest. Still tasted absolutely vile! Expiration date was March 2027.

Why they didn’t wait for it to dry and then just cover it up with the yellow and repaint the latter half of the word is beyond me

The box was sealed. I got it from a dispenser in the bathroom at work. I opened it and it’s completely empty!

I am a child studying for an exam about children

This is so fucking irritating, its been stuck on 98% since the last 15 mins.

I had a couple of listings up on Facebook Marketplace for collections of art and craft supplies. About five weeks ago, a young woman reached out to ask about one of them. She told me that a close family member had just died and she wanted to make some memorial pieces for herself and her family, as well as starting a home business to help with the payment plan for funeral and cremation costs. She said that she knew this was going to sound crazy, but would I be willing to let her have the supplies for free, or trade for some of her own art supplies?

I thought about it. This stuff had been listed for a long time and no one had shown any interest; I had pretty much decided to take down the listings and sell things individually on Etsy instead, but had been lazy about it. I looked closely at her profile and what little I could find online under her name. I told her I'd get back to her, then spent part of an evening going through what I had. Finally, I decided that it wouldn't be a big deal to give her the raw materials and a few tools that I had, a variety of embellishments, and a handful of other supplies that were directly relevant to what she wanted to make. The stuff I'd spent actual money on would stay with me to be sold. What I set aside for her was enough to loosely fill a 12"x12"x12" box. I decided not to ask for anything in exchange as it was clear that she was in a difficult situation. Besides, I'm trying to destash, not add to my small hoard.

When I told her what I had for her, she was very thankful. Then she offered to make a small digital art piece for me in exchange. She sent me some screenshots from her art account on Instagram, which I immediately looked up. I'd seen one of the pieces posted there on her Facebook when I first looked it over, and when I went back to double check, I saw that the posting dates matched. I liked her work and loved the idea of an art trade. We talked about what she could do and what I wanted, I sent some reference photos that she requested, and we were both excited about the whole thing. Or at least that's how it seemed.

For the next month, this woman repeatedly made arrangements to pick up the supplies and no-showed. She lived a couple of hours away and had to borrow a relative's car, so I tried to be understanding. It wasn't a huge deal because I work from home, but it got to be pretty annoying when I postponed important errands because she said she was coming and then ghosted me, not even answering messages for days. After the second time this happened, I googled her again and saw her family member's newly posted obituary, which mentioned her by name, so I knew she was telling the truth about that. I figured she was just busy with all the logistical challenges that can arise after a death. Regarding the art trade, she said twice that she was going to send a sketch for feedback and didn't. A couple of other times, she asked follow-up questions about certain details. I answered them, but didn't push her for a sketch because it seemed crass under the circumstances and she didn't have my supplies yet, anyway.

A little over a week ago, she said that she and her boyfriend were able to come in a few hours, if that was okay. I said yes, but wasn't really expecting her to show up. But she did! Or at least, I think she did. When they arrived, she said she was sending her boyfriend to the door and staying in the car with their dog. I handed off the box to him. He was extremely polite and thankful, saying that this was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for her and her family were excited about it. I sent her a message with a couple of additional notes about what was in the box, and she replied, thanking me and saying that she had worked hard on the art piece and would send it when she got home. About 20 minutes later, she sent another message in which she again thanked me profusely and talked about what a difficult time she'd been having and how much this was going to help her. I responded supportively.

I waited a few hours, knowing how far away she lived. The art piece didn't arrive. I thought that maybe she had gone to bed and would send it the next day. Nothing. I waited a few days and messaged her again to wish her family well and reiterate how excited I was to see the art, but she never replied. It has now been a week since I sent that last message.

I can't say that it was a total scam because she was honest about her situation, but she obviously never intended to make any art for me. I'm not hugely upset because again, I never asked her for anything in exchange for the art supplies, I was trying to get rid of them anyway, and nothing that I gave her was expensive or hard to replace. All together, it wouldn't have been cheap by any means, but no one item was all that pricey. I will certainly get more money for the remaining items than I would have for what I gave her. That's why this is only mildly infuriating.

Just...don't make an offer like that and lead someone on by asking for reference photos and making plans and design decisions and asking follow-up questions if you're not actually going to do it! I was legitimately excited to see what she was going to draw and now I feel stupid and a little used. This won't stop me from doing nice things for people in the future, but I'm sure I'll be quite a bit more cynical about any offers they may make to do anything in return.

Something that annoys me is whenever public transportation comes up in the US people act like expanding it is automatically going to make everyone’s life easier.

I get the idea, but I feel like some of the people suggesting this have never actually had to rely on public transit to get anywhere.

A trip that takes 20 minutes by car can easily turn into an hour and a half by bus. First you have to get to the bus stop, wait 30 minutes, then take some ridiculous route that goes through half the city before getting anywhere near where you actually need to be. Sometimes you have to transfer, which means even more waiting, if you miss one bus, good luck and that’s just one way. What gets me is how casually people dismiss all that extra time. Someone with a car can leave whenever they want, go directly where they need to go, and be home while the other person is still standing at a bus stop.That’s time people could be spending with their families, working, sleeping, or literally doing anything else.
And the response always seems to be that we just need more buses or trains. Which, sure, having them run more frequently would help, but it doesn’t automatically fix terrible routes or having to make multiple connections just to get somewhere.
I also wonder why we don’t talk more about helping low-income people afford reliable cars, or even giving them something like $1,000 toward transportation expenses. Depending on where someone lives, that could be a lot more useful than expanding a bus system that still takes forever to get them anywhere.

Obviously public transit makes sense in some places. I’m not saying get rid of it. I just find it weird how much we talk about making transportation affordable without talking about how much of people’s actual lives get eaten up getting from one place to another.

This girl has been on and off texting me for months. Every two months ever since my last relationship ended this girl I met through my old job has been taking wild shots for almost a full year now. At first I was nice and friendly with her, but we didnt really vibe well and she lives far away, so I told her I didn’t like her, she and I didn’t talk for about 3 months.

Now every 2 months is the same thing. She texts me “u up?” As I’m literally closing my eyes and begs me to reconsider. I’ve tried being nice and letting her know I’m not into her, I don’t think we’d be good friends, but I wish her all the best. I tried being distant and obviously disinterested, and at this point I’m just being blunt. Finally, I blocked her, maybe now she’ll get the message.

Over all, these texts don’t ruin my day, but I’d be lying if this girl didn’t infuriate me with how often she blatantly ignores how many times I say no.

The image was the last thing we said to each other before I decided to finally pull the plug.