What's NOT bugging you? (2020s edition)

[MrTPlush]

Someone being brutally gored by a bull warms your heart?

[JimH5]

Someone being brutally gored by a bull warms your heart?

 

The brutality is the run itself. For hundreds of years, every bull has been tortured and killed in this ridiculous tradition. There are humane ways of killing livestock, but people like to do it this way. So if some dope gets gored, I shed no tears.

[OldHeidelberg]

Goat cheese in place of mayo on a BLT. I was skeptical as I think the mayo makes the BLT but very tasty.

[Outlander]

Someone being brutally gored by a bull warms your heart?

 

The brutality is the run itself. For hundreds of years, every bull has been tortured and killed in this ridiculous tradition. There are humane ways of killing livestock, but people like to do it this way. So if some dope gets gored, I shed no tears.

Geez, didn't see this before, I get your point but a difference between being against animal brutality and warming your heart when someone gets killed. Almost a Dexter like dark versus the sunshine you mentioned.,

[Thurston Fluff]

Someone being brutally gored by a bull warms your heart?

 

The brutality is the run itself. For hundreds of years, every bull has been tortured and killed in this ridiculous tradition. There are humane ways of killing livestock, but people like to do it this way. So if some dope gets gored, I shed no tears.

 

When I was in Italy there was a bull fight on tv. I watched a total of about five minutes and was horrified at how brutal it was. They don't just let a bull out and have a matador fight him with a cape and sword. That at least would be a fair fight even if the bull had no choice. But that''s not how it works. First the matador rides a horse and uses spears to stick the bull to the point where the blood loss takes enough of a toll on it to make it calm enough for the matador to get off the horse and use the cape and sword. It's like 90% dead before that happens. It's not like I'm squeamish or a major animals rights guy or anything. I helped butcher several types of animal including cows, pigs, deer, rabbits, ducks and chickens from start to finish. I personally think everyone who eats meat should do so at least once so they know what it takes to eat an animal. But never would have I thought people would enjoy seeing an animal tortured before it's killed like that.

[AKCheesehead]

The other thing I don’t get is why they would even want to put the animal through all that stress before slaughter. The meat of a stressed animal will not be nearly as good to eat as a result of different chemicals released by the body. Adrenaline, lactic acid, and so forth. Any hunter knows. Basically to me it’s making a big show of sabotaging the food.

[Thurston Fluff]

There is a guy who orders something for every holiday to the same person living in a group home for a couple years running now. I took the order for Thanksgiving and while casually talking to him I asked how he knew this person. He said he didn't actually know her. He had a disabled family member who lived in a group home and always felt sorry for some of the others there who never had any visitors or get any presents. When his family member passed away he decided to call the group home and ask about someone there who never got anything or any visitors. They gave him her name and he's been sending something to her ever since.

This Thanksgiving I'm thankful there are people like him in the world.

[nodakfan17]

^^^

That’s an awesome story!

 

So does the gorilla make Thanksgiving visits or do you have other popular requests?

[MrTPlush]

I used to get countless calls a day from spam and/or companies I inquired about something months upon months ago. Then suddenly halfway through December it all died. No more random spam calls etc.

[CheezWizHed]

Back in December, my company gave me a compensation adjustment based on the market rate changes. It amounted to a 6% raise. And I'm still eligible for my merit raise in a month.

[Samurai Bucky]

Way back around 2000, I bought some Altec Lansing ADA-305 computer speakers. They still sound awesome today!

 

https://www.amazon.com/Altec-Lansing-ADA305-PowerCube-3-Speaker/dp/B00000JBJW?dchild=1

[Jim Goulart]

I completely went through my Costanza-sized wallet and broke it down to the bare necessities.

 

Most liberating thing I've done in years, highly recommended!

[MrTPlush]

I completely went through my Costanza-sized wallet and broke it down to the bare necessities.

 

Most liberating thing I've done in years, highly recommended!

 

So you are saying I should take my college ID out of my wallet?

[SeaBass]

I completely went through my Costanza-sized wallet and broke it down to the bare necessities.

 

Most liberating thing I've done in years, highly recommended!

I'm down to using a wallet that attaches to the back of my phone. Only things I bring with me are my driver's license and 2 credit cards. That's all that fits and it's all I need.

[nodakfan17]

I completely went through my Costanza-sized wallet and broke it down to the bare necessities.

 

Most liberating thing I've done in years, highly recommended!

 

So you are saying I should take my college ID out of my wallet?

The minute you do that, you know someone is going to ask for two forms of photo ID.

[OldHeidelberg]

Kay Adams

[MrTPlush]

I completely went through my Costanza-sized wallet and broke it down to the bare necessities.

 

Most liberating thing I've done in years, highly recommended!

 

So you are saying I should take my college ID out of my wallet?

The minute you do that, you know someone is going to ask for two forms of photo ID.

 

Gotta hold onto it for those stray chances you hit up a restaurant with 10% apps for college students.

[nodakfan17]

I like to pull my college ID out for laughs in front of the 20-something crowd at work. It’s a sobering reminder for them about the toll that even normal work and family life stress is going to soon take on them.

[BrewersSuperCollector]

Another January day without snow.

[hawing]

I like to pull my college ID out for laughs in front of the 20-something crowd at work. It’s a sobering reminder for them about the toll that even normal work and family life stress is going to soon take on them.

In the first year of my post-college library career, I was fresh out of grad school, so the eldest of my student employees were just two years younger than I. I walked into the office once and two of them were talking and said, "She's back, let's ask her. Once you're out of college, does the stress go away?"

 

Readers, I laughed. Then I told them that some stress does go away, but it's promptly replaced by other stresses.

[nodakfan17]

I was a pretty diligent student and also operated under that same fallacy. I didn’t think stress would go away, but rather it would recede around 5:00 pm when I punched out. My wife commented this weekend (from her work laptop at the kitchen table) that our parents have no clue how good they had it with their 40-hour work weeks and overtime pay. I recognize my wife and I enjoy a lot of career autonomy and lead lives that are largely satisfying, but life has been harder than we expected.

[TURBO]

Being a teacher, I sometimes dream of a job that you punch in, and punch out, and don't spend all your non work hours thinking about work related stuff...

[hawing]

I was a pretty diligent student and also operated under that same fallacy. I didn’t think stress would go away, but rather it would recede around 5:00 pm when I punched out. My wife commented this weekend (from her work laptop at the kitchen table) that our parents have no clue how good they had it with their 40-hour work weeks and overtime pay. I recognize my wife and I enjoy a lot of career autonomy and lead lives that are largely satisfying, but life has been harder than we expected.

I'll admit, after literally two days of my first post-college job, I realized upon leaving that there was nothing I *had* to do at home. I adjusted pretty fast to not having to wonder what course readings or homework I was behind on. Of course, that night I spent time unpacking since I had just moved to Green Bay.

[stoutdude04]

Being a teacher, I sometimes dream of a job that you punch in, and punch out, and don't spend all your non work hours thinking about work related stuff...

 

Accurate. I often make the joke to my friends, 'We should open a bar'. Then realize, that would come with other stressers.

[LouisEly]

Being a teacher, I sometimes dream of a job that you punch in, and punch out, and don't spend all your non work hours thinking about work related stuff...

 

Accurate. I often make the joke to my friends, 'We should open a bar'. Then realize, that would come with other stressers.

Yep. At my current job there is very, very little chance that I will be robbed, stabbed, or shot. Considering that I've been working from home for the last two years and live on the fourth floor of a non-elevator building (criminals are not going to climb 56 steps to rob someone), unless I slip with a knife in my hand the chances of any of those three happening are pretty much nil.