Once during a phone call, my family needed to know the rough dimensions of something at my brother’s house. He couldn’t find a tape measure, but he had a jug of milk. We determined that the item we needed to know the dimensions of was the size of the height of my brother plus one milk jug.

I’m stupid. Someone explain the joke.

They sometimes make me burp, too. Maybe it’s one of those genetic things because my dad has the same experience.

That definitely is a thing! If you buy English/hothouse cucumbers instead of standard American cucumbers, they are less prone to causing this!

I would like to stress the “well groomed” part. When your beard looks like unkempt pubes, it ain’t a good look. But when taken care of, it really can do wonders.

But then it becomes pointless. If you’re both giving each other a wad of $50 for Christmas, what’s the point of doing it at all? You’re giving each other the exact same thing.

? I thought it did though. I’ve read online stories of Dashers being annoyed at low tips.

Keep vibing, man

Yeah, it’s a lot more common than you’d think. My mom’s dog is like that as well. Been quite a few embarrassing times unfortunately.

I’m not at all excusing it, but don’t prisoners technically get paid for their work? It’s just some horrifically pathetic wage like $0.50/hr or something like that.

As a former Midwesterner (grew up there and lived there for 26 years), I never got used to the cold so I eventually moved South.

But turns out now I get cold at anything below 70F lol.

OP, I know exactly what you’re talking about.

I was visiting relatives this Christmas and wanted to watch some of my YouTube videos on their SmartTV. I have watched YouThe with ads on occasion throughout the years…usually when watching some video on a relative’s device or school or work computer or something. They are annoying, but mostly fairly manageable. So I started up a 20 minute vid from a youtuber I like.

I shit you not…within the first 5 fucking minutes of the video, there were 5 separate ad breaks. And each ad was going to play for minutes on end if I never hit the skip button.

Yep, you read that right. One ad per minute. I am NOT exaggerating. I counted them and watched the video timestamps.

I almost could not believe what I was seeing. My mind was fucking blown. Never have I ever experienced that egregious level of ads. It made the content I was trying to view literally unwatchable and I switched off the video.

To OP, I’d highly recommend getting an Android tv device like a modern Chromecast (not the old models…needs to run android). They are relatively inexpensive and make viewing content on TVs a sane experience. I think I maybe got mine for $40 or something. Install SmartTube Next and you’ll have no ads. Works fantastic. You set it up once and never worry about it again.

This isn’t helpful if you’re doing something like visiting relatives.

Edit: For those curious, here are my personal ways I AdBlock for myself…

TV - get an android TV device like a Chromecast and install SmartTube Next

Phone - install YouTube Vanced; unfortunately not available on iPhones

Web browser - Use uBlock Origin

When I’m out visiting others and not using my own devices though the ads piss me off still lol

The real sad guy is me watching the entire thing and wishing I had 1 minute 48 seconds of my life back.

One time I failed one of these like 5 times in a row. I was so infuriated. Maybe I really am a robot.

Smartboards are much smaller than most room-sized whiteboards and are infinitely more expensive. Smartboards have certain use cases, but in many situations they don’t make sense.

I mean, wireless charging is a thing nowadays

? What do you use instead of a whiteboard?

I dunno. The last time I bought pickles, I was shocked at how expensive they were.

such a tragic gif

I wish there was a reasonable train line to where I’d want to go, but it’s not like that for a majority of us in North America unfortunately. The few times I did have the ability to ride a train to my destination, I actually really enjoyed the experience.