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"I don't accept any mistakes on a forklift. And I expect them even less when you're working forced overtime, because the longer you're operating the forklift at a time the deeper your focus should be"
the vile shitbag warehouse manager who paid a lot of money to repaint all our forklifts just so she could scream at us about the tiniest scuffs.
fuck you Jean, but also thank you for radicalizing me
"The reason they call them "flu shots" and not "flu vaccines" is because they aren't vaccines."
I'm still reeling. I'm still trying to process how someone that I otherwise respect can say something so phenomenally stupid
I'm amazed by some of the shit that falls out of my own mouth sometimes.
This happened a while ago. A guy started a war half way across the globe and caused major problems for himself and most of the worlds population. He tried to pretend he won that war, but he didn't. Starting a war for no reason, or worse, to deflect from some embarrassing crimes he committed, is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Why do we need satellites? when we have eyes to see it ourselves.
I had a community college psychology professor who worked in psychiatric research outside of teaching ask the class, "What is the shape of consciousness? What do you think it is?" He put a clever look on his face and his eyes scanned every perplexed student in the room to see if anyone could produce the simple, obvious answer to the question, "What is the shape of consciousness ..."
Finally he broke the suspense and enlightened us all. The shape of consciousness, according to a man who holds a license to practice medicine, is an oval. It's an oval because you have two eyes and therefore your field of vision is elliptical.
Fuck the blind lmfao
It's okay to eat them because they don't have any feelings.
some people still believe in the moon landing is faked, subsequently any of the news that reported on spaceflight. i know some asian people that believe this sitll.
Just now...
"I hear what you're saying, but have you considered losing your convictions and compromising your principles?"
— average politician
In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I've ever experienced
Some old lady was over fir dinner and she asked me why i only eat certain things. I told her that i don't eat meat. It took some time for her to compute and fired back: but you can eat fish. I said, no, because they are animals too. You could see the gears spinning again before she said that banger: i don't think that's true, because they don't even bleed.
I never got why people think fish is not meat.
Whatever Donny tweeted most recently.
A coworker got drunk at an office party, telling me "Then I can't drive, so when I ask Caroline from marketing to drive me home, she can't say no. wink, wink
When that predictably failed, he drove home drunk.
That's some Dennis Reynolds type shit
dennis would slash her tires first. something JESSE watters did hes the IRL dennis reynolds, hes the fox talking head that slashed a female co-workers car tires in order so that the woman would have the only option to ride with the creep home.
My father told me I shouldn't use regular table salt because "they" were mixing powdered glass in so that it would work its way through your system and embed itself in your heart muscles.
He had called me after I got high though, so I gave him the best kid glove treatment I've ever managed.
Told him that was very interesting. Explained that he could easily prove and expose the conspiracy by pouring salt into a bucket of distilled water. The salt would dissolve, but the glass would sink to the bottom. He could then filter the glass out, then boil the water off to recover the salt safely. He hasn't brought it up since.
My dad is a sweet guy and good at handyman stuff, but dear lord, almost nothing higher level. I truly think it's the lead exposure.
My dad is a sweet guy and good at handyman stuff, but dear lord, almost nothing higher level. I truly think it’s the lead exposure.
I think we may be brothers
"If democrats want to make the vaccine free because it's 'life saving', why come they don't want to make cancer treatment free too???"
Fair point tbh, all medical treatment should be funded with taxes
Politicans think about their voters.
"I dont know. You're the engineer, engineer it" told to me by my boss when I presented the budget for the testing was not adequate for what we wanted and I presented 3 alternatives that were within the buget with their pros and cons asking how we should proceed. The boss in question was not an engineer but a HR manager with an MBA
One of my jobs I was working next to an older man who didn't believe in climate change because "they told us dinosaurs had scales and now they're saying they have feathers!" He also once told me to fix an electrical component by "spraying WD40 on it" as if the electrons just needed some lubrication before they'd start moving again.
Both of those incidents helped me to realize who not to go to for help with that job and shortly afterwards he was let go after having an entire week with no work completed.
Sooooo WD stands for Water Displacer. It isn't a lubricant, it's more of a cleaning agent. It was originally developed to keep Atlas rockets from rusting. WD-40 might fix an electrical component by floating off any water-based electrolyte that might be shorting something out.
One time I was at a grocery store and they sold out of a particular drink I liked.
A manager was standing nearby and I asked when they would restock it.
"Never." He said. "It always sells out and I don't want to constantly order and restock it, so I'm not going to get more."
When the first Covid vaccine came out a coworker told me she wouldn't get it. Supposedly the vaccine had "killed 90% of the population in Bulgaria already". I told her I thought we'd have heard about it if that was the case, but she was convinced that the media was covering it up.
She later claimed she was deathly allergic to the vaccine, so I ask which part of it. From what I know you can react to a vaccine if you are allergic to eggs or chicken. That's a pretty common food item and it would be good to know if your coworker has such an allergy. I also asked where she keeps her epipen so I could help her in an emergency. She claimed she always left her epipen at home and that she was allergic against a lot of medication. She never mentioned any allergies again afterwards and they seemed to have mysteriously disappeared after the pandemic was over.
I ended a close friendship over bullshit like this. For a year, one friend was so deathly allergic that her doctor told her that under no circumstances was she to receive any Covid vaccine.
Then, then-governor of Oregon Kate Brown required anyone in a Healthcare career to receive said vax. Wouldn't you know it, this friend's easy caretaking paycheck was about to end when she spontaneously rid herself of a life-threatening allergy.
Get the fuck out of here. We're done.
The worst part is, this ends up hurting people with real allergies. I myself have an anaphylaxis to nuts so I also carry an epipen. Which is why I asked the coworker for hers, because I am trained to use it. I can't tell you how often I've met people who don't take it seriously and tell me I'll be fine with just a little bit of nut or organic nuts. "I have a cousin who's allergic to XYZ but since eating only organic she's fine and she can eat it now." This type of people will say they have allergies and then eat the item later and it leads dumb people to believe allergies are fake.
bulgaria is such an ODD and specific place to make that claim.
“Just do something, take action”. On what exactly? “Just something”. That’s not actionable advice, and it’s always driven me crazy that people think they’re being helpful.
Low hanging fruit, but "The next president of the United States is Donald J. Trump". And I heard that shit twice. The second time was definitely the dumber of the two, but the drop off from 2nd to 3rd dumbest thing is about as wide as the known universe. It's cartoonish in its absurdity.
But the dumbest thing I've heard personally from an individual is that unbaptised babies who die go straight to hell. I was told this by a woman who liked to preach Jesus' eternal unconditional love in my town centre. I'm atheist, but by default. Like, I didn't read my way into it or anything, I just completely lack any impulse to believe despite being made to go to Catholic mass every week for 17 years. All that's to say that I don't have particular animosity towards believers, but that kind of believer can suck a dirty dog dick.
Apart from it being insanely unfair to babies - roasting away like a rotisserie chicken without even the consciousness to know what's going on - it's also beyond evil to tell that to believers who've lost children soon after birth due to disease before they even leave the hospital, or have miscarried through no fault of their own, etc. Strangely, I never hear that argument from the anti-abortion religious fanatics. That is, "don't abort the baby, or it'll be sent straight into Satan's Big Green Egg!"
Imagine being Satan, and having a daily influx of humans too young and unformed to even walk when prodded by a demon's pitchfork. Even a supremely evil entity like he's alleged to be would have to wonder just what the fuck is going on with heavenly bureaucracy for this to be the way things are done.
Most, if not all things our president says and the rubes that believe it after all this time.
I don’t remember. I can’t let things like that live rent free in my head, and people are always upping their game.
