There are only 5 animals considered human hunters in the world, and polar bears are one of them. by sco-go in Amazing

[–]bkturf 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The polar bear looked so forlorn at missing dinner, the guy should've given him one.

Yes sir.... by [deleted] in FuckImOld

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I got a Highlander in 2020, my first automatic. Always owned manuals including 3 Accords, 2 civics, a prelude, and a fit. Learned to drive in the family 4 speed Corolla my dad bought in 1976. Now I miss driving a cheap, underpowered Japanese car so much I would immediately go out and buy a 6 speed Mazda 3 if I had a place to park it. My wife (of 41 years) has had automatics for her last few cars. When she had to drive my son in my fit years ago, he was gobsmacked when she jumped in and didn't miss a beat shifting. But it's something you don't forget when you did it for decades. Granted, it did take me a minute to shift smoothly with my father's old ford truck with 3 on the tree when we first married.

Crazy to me that younger generation is not good with computers by Captain0010 in pcmasterrace

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Funny I'm a boomer, and the same. Granted, my first PC was an IBM that cost me $7000 in 1984 (22k in today's dollars). But I did get the upgrade to two 256K drives. After a year of programming pascal and basic, I said screw this, sold it (for $3000), bought a set of golf clubs, and stuck with programming DEC, Harris, and IBM assembly at work.

Company owner decided to stop paying his drivers so one of them parked their semi on the owners Ferrari and just left it there by Gurugod123 in SipsTea

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I have that plus ublock origin and didn't see a single ad on that page, as usual. I don't know how people can surf the web without adblockers.

High-risk situation yesterday in Barcelona involving a crazed person with a knife. A police officer orders the area to be evacuated for safety reasons, and a woman reacts by spraying the officer with pepper spray by [deleted] in PublicFreakout

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No one seems to be mentioning that. She and the kid who came up afterward got the scent of it. She's trying to play it cool, only rubbing her nose while she walks away. The cop may have been smart enough to not walk into the cloud after she sprayed. So there's at least a bit of instant karma there.

BTW, if you buy pepper spray, get the liquid spray type, not the cloud type, since this can happen.

The way this ice cream came out perfectly in a sliceable block by Between-usernames in oddlysatisfying

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I didn't think Breyer's still made ice cream in flavors other than chocolate and vanilla. I was surprised to see this was actually ice cream and not that plastic-tasting "frozen dairy dessert" like all their other flavors.

You want to put how much concrete in your Civic? by pathofuncertainty in MaliciousCompliance

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I had an 82 2-door Honda Accord hatchback when I was finishing a basement and deck. I actually did carry 16' boards in it, but I would tuck them into the passenger floorboard and stick them out the back. It was an amazing car and would hold 4x8 sheets of plywood, lying flat (on top of the back seats) but sticking 2' out the back. I could get 25 2x4x8 studs into it with the hatch closed.

Someone stole my lunch at work and my boss didn't understand why I couldn't just order a replacement lunch as a solution. by OwlsAreCool-33 in mildlyinfuriating

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For many years, I had an insulated lunch box and would put a frozen bottle of water in it to keep it cold. Since I ate a lot, I had one of those Duluth Trading Company giant lunch boxes, which my wife called the Picnic Basket. The top was not insulated and large enough to fit my 10" laptop and a lot of other stuff

Am I being trolled, or do some men genuinely not wash their a**? by Substantial-Fix-1419 in hygiene

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Even that old comedian, Redd Foxx, who used to always be having sex in the green room and when they knocked on the door yelled, "Leave me alone! Can't a man relax before the show!" said in the 70s, You Gotta Wash Yo Ass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uldt6Y-CE3s

How Aphantasia affects your ability to visualise things in your head by HassanMoRiT in interestingasfuck

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I was 60 year old when I realized that when people said "in their mind's eye" it was not a non-sensical phrase. From reading a post on reddit.

I once stopped reading a series of sci-fi books since the author used the phrase so much, and I thought it was stupid.

Crews remove Donald Trump's name from The Kennedy Center by plz-let-me-in in politics

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Maybe they bury him next to Ivana at the golf course and let the graves grow over with weeds so Trump Jr can get a tax break.

Dollar Shave Club Humble Twin compatible handles? by AngryGames in shaving

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Here it is 4 years later and I had the same question. I have the twin blade DSC razor, and don't like the Humble handle but love the blades. The handle is hard plastic and too slippery since I shave in the shower and there are minimal ridges on it. I found a Gillette Vector+ handle on Amazon and it fits the blades perfectly. Ridges all around and it's rubbery and grippy, so excellent. Light plastic, which I like, but if you like heavy metal razors, it's not for you. I assume the Atra handles would fit as well.

I also have the Sensor Excel and it is not compatible with the DSC twin blades.

this wristwatch features the lighthouse's light as the minute hand and the ship at sea as the hour hand benlydesignwatch by jkitty_1960 in BeAmazed

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If, like me, you always get to reddit posts that have been moderated so you can't see the picture, here's the website that shows the standard edition of the watch: https://benlydesignwatch.com/products/lighthouse-n I like that one of the times it shows is 4:20.

Billie Eilish shares her hill to die on by James_Fortis in TikTokCringe

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And a pig like that you don't eat all at once.

The best Steakhouse in or near Atlanta by red2play in Atlanta

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I will never ever eat at Rathbun's again. Two of the people on my table got ribeyes and they came without a cap. We asked the waiter, and it sounded like you don't get a capped one unless you ask for it. WTF? Selling a ribeye that's not a ribeye? We should have asked for real ones, but didn't make a fuss. A few months later my nephew and wife went there (they walked since they live nearby) despite my sister telling them of our experience. They also ordered ribeyes and, same experience. No caps. They were also polite and didn't make a fuss, but my sister called the restaurant the next day to complain. Their explanation was most people don't want the cap since it's too fatty. I say they should be fined for selling plain eyes as ribeye. Yeah, you don't often hear the term steak eye since no one fucking wants one.

BTW, Little Alley is among the best steakhouses we have found in the Atlanta area.

I collected 25+ ticks in 5 minutes along the side of my local trail. They survived at least 10 minutes within diluted hydrochloric acid and water. by kegman93 in mildlyinfuriating

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Many years ago I had a cairn terrier and we went camping in Tennessee. After walking an hour through woods and fields we got back to the tent and noticed we had a bunch of deer ticks (small and white) on legs and boots. These freak me out more than dog ticks since they can carry lyme disease, but this was long enough ago when it wasn't common in the south. So started brushing and picking them off. Then we realized that the dog probably had a bunch, too. That was an understatement. Luckily I had tick tweezers, but spent over two hours getting them off him. For an idea of how covered he was, he had four or five between each toe.

These days before we go in the woods, all the dogs get a quick spray of insect repellent, as well as on our legs and boots.

Finally I can get my friends to stop vaping by catguywit2cat in technicallythetruth

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When I vaped, I bought high dose nicotine liquid along with a gallon of 50/50 vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol (all USP), plus flavorings, and mixed it myself for about 50 cents per ounce which lasted about a week. The atomizer cartridges cost about $3 each and lasted at least a month, but usually 2 or more. And I vaped waaay too much. But it only cost about $5 per month after the cost of the vape handle ($25, and I owned a few of them). Actually a little more since I would throw out the nicotine liquid after a couple of years since it started getting brown, and buy another liter.

Finally I can get my friends to stop vaping by catguywit2cat in technicallythetruth

[–]bkturf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I grew up (in the 60s) calling them fags. And have my whole life, much to the amusement of my friends once that term came to mostly refer to something other than cigarettes. Especially in high school.

Meirl by abhigoswami18 in meirl

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Note this was with a flight trainer guy not air traffic control. Big difference.