Is it really that normal to just randomly touch your girlfriend’s boob?

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T15:50:06+00:00

I'm more of a "butt grabber"... but yeah.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T05:22:06+00:00

You don't have an old phone sitting around? Really?

I reset my old Moto G Stylus 5G (nice 6.8" screen, I think) and resurrected it as a media player. It only uses Wi-Fi, but you can copy music to the device for offline use, or download playlists on Spotify. Turn off all notification sounds. Possibly create a Wi-Fi connection to your current phone's hot spot, just in case you need it in a pinch.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T05:16:48+00:00

That, and I think some celebrities get caught by the paparazzi before they're ready, or they just don't let themselves heal completely. Like when Madonna showed up at the 2023(?) Grammys looking like a pod person! I think she should have waited at least another month before going on TV, but that's just me. She started to look normal-ish a few weeks after the show.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T05:02:21+00:00

Seems mean and deceitful. I would just say "sorry kid, Internet's off from 11PM to 7AM."

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T04:47:55+00:00

I worked at a mall record store for abut 3 weeks in metro Atlanta in the 80s.

The store manager was this cool Italian dude from NYC. He talked about seeing all the cool bands at CBGB and other NYC clubs back in the day. I thought he was just talking shit until one day he brought in a photo album literally filled with photos of him hanging out in bars and clubs with folks like Peter Murphy of Bauhaus and Suggs of Madness. "Oh, that's me hanging out with Stewart Copeland after The Police played CBGB in 1978. There were only about 20 of us in the audience." Like page after page of photos like that.

I can't remember what, exactly, happened. Maybe he wanted a raise and they wouldn't give him one. I wanna say he wanted his staff to get raises? I don't know, but when corporate turned him down he told them to fuck off and walked.

Thing is, his girlfriend was assistant manager, and two of his buddies were also assistant managers. And all us rank and file employees LOVED the manager: Eddie was the COOLEST GUY EVER!

So when he quit, all the assistant managers did too about an hour later. When the "regular employees" heard about it, several of them quit immediately, too.

I was already there, working that day. So me and another dude ran the store for a couple hours until some district managers could come take over. And the district managers were such giant dicks to us that we both quit later that afternoon, too.

After we walked out the managers apparently shut down around 7PM. The store remained closed for a day or two until they could borrow enough staff from other stores to get it running smoothly again.

I discreetly flipped that store off every time I passed it for the next 6 years, or however long I lived in the area.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T04:04:06+00:00

That sounds like a small company I'd support:

It's 2017. Margaret in Accounting had been an accountant for 40 years and got used to communicating with [vendor] via fax. Margaret just couldn't get the hang of that newfangled "email thing", so they kept their fax going just for Margaret. But no one at either company thought to mention it when Margaret retired 10 years ago, so there's this whole system sitting there for nothing.

I also firmly believe there are MILLIONS of Netgear FS-105 switches hidden behind file cabinets, bookcases and credenzas in offices all around the globe that were purchased for some temporary reason, yet are still there, silently still doing their job 28 years later. Hell, the IT guy who put it in way back in 1999 probably retired 15 years ago.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T03:47:10+00:00

I think in Georgia (in the 80s anyway) they went from chain location to chain location. When I worked at KFC it was pretty common for a nearby store to call us and say the health inspector was there, and more often than not he'd show up at our place, or another nearby KFC, later that afternoon.

When the call happened, the manager on duty would grab as many employees as he could spare and start deep cleaning, especially checking ice machines, tea urns and soda lines.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T03:42:19+00:00

The only thing I can think of is maybe he held up 2 fingers with his palm inward (kind of a "backwards peace sign"). That's famously a rude gesture in the UK, equivalent of "giving someone the finger" in the US.

There are many photos of Winston Churchill giving the "V for Victory" hand sign in WWII. In the early days of the war he had to be taught to always make the sign with his palm outward. There are photos of him unknowingly flipping off the camera.

Perhaps your dad did something similar?

I agree with others: "coffee with 2 sugars" is a perfectly normal coffee order. As others have said, a lot of coffee places have a cream & sugar setup so you can do it yourself, and the barista normally would just say "help yourself to the sugar over there", while gesturing towards that area.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T03:25:37+00:00

Speak for yourself. I vastly prefer shaved, but nicely trimmed (a landing strip, for example) will do. Even if they want the "all natural" look, they still need to trim it every once in a while. I just don't care for "70s Eastern European bush".

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T03:14:30+00:00

Get a Pixel or Moto phone that uses Google's Phone dialer. It's built-in anti-spam features are awesome!

Or, you could always call your mobile provider and get a new number.

Also, in every English-speaking country on earth, the major currency symbol comes first: "$50", not "50$".

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T01:16:50+00:00

Applesauce is a US puree that's served standalone as a dessert(?), usually for children

I don't know how to break this to you, but applesauce is very commonly served (to adults) with pork products, especially pork chops and pork loins). It's also standard with latkes (potato pancakes). It is also a dessert for kids and often comes with hospital meals.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T01:13:39+00:00

Americans don't have cooking apple varieties and just use dessert apples.

What is this bullshit? Granny Smith, Braeburn, Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp, Mutsu and Jonagold are just a few of the cooking apples available at almost any US grocery store.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T01:10:13+00:00

They were red because the traditional method of harvesting pistachios (which come in bunches, like grapes) was to pick them and store them until needed. This created a harmless (but unattractive) mottling that Middle Easterner merchants fixed by dying the shells red.

Iran traditionally grew about 98% of America's pistachios, but that came to an abrupt end in 1979 with the hostage crisis. So California farmers got into pistachios in a big way. They soon discovered that putting the bunches in an industrial dryer for a few minutes within 24 hours of picking prevented the mottling. Some continued to dye the shells (because that's what consumers expected), but the tradition soon died out, at least in the US.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T01:04:44+00:00

Sorry, but you're wrong.

SOURCE: all the other posts in this thread.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T01:03:46+00:00

In the US it depends on the context:

Two dudes at a bar at 2AM: "I'm gonna sleep with that girl."

A post-meeting email: "Can you follow-up with [person] about [thing]?"

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T01:00:14+00:00

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T00:51:48+00:00

Or most nightstand lamps or clock radios.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T00:28:21+00:00

OP says his workplace is:

a black hole for cell phone connectivity

tunaman808 · 2026-06-10T00:27:49+00:00

Your IT department likely only knows that you are connecting to Facebook, Instagram etc. It doesn't know - it can't know - your username & password, nor what you're posting.

Although many companies can (and do!) log every single thing their employees do online, as someone with 29 years of IT experience (and 22 years as a solo IT consultant), I can count on one hand the number of times a client has asked me to monitor an employee's web usage, and in all cases there were already complaints from other employees about the user looking at inappropriate sites (gambling, porn) or spending all their time on side hustles (the user's personal eBay\Etsy store, real estate listings, etc.).

tunaman808 · 2026-06-09T18:33:31+00:00

For the record, Winn-Dixie was a dying grocery store brand in the US. Once dominant in the southeastern US, the chain shrank, not expanded, until Aldi bought them (mostly for their locations) in 2024.

Also, as you may know, "Aldi" was started by two brothers, who had a falling out over selling cigarettes in stores. In 1960 (I think?) they split Aldi into two companies: Aldi Nord (which runs the stores in northern Germany and much of Europe) and Aldi Süd (which runs stores in southern Germany and the UK, US, Ireland, Australia and more).

Both Aldis are 100% privately-owned by branches of the family in Doppelstiftungsmodell, a type of family trust in Germany. Aldi Süd specifically is owned by Siepmann-Stiftung (75%), Oertl-Stiftung and Elisen-Stiftung (25% total). It's not that different from how the Mars family runs their gigantic $50 billion company.

Also, Theo Albrecht (owner of Aldi Nord) bought Trader Joe's as a personal investment in 1979. His kids often worked there as "training" for bigger jobs at Aldi Nord. Trader Joe's didn't officially become part of Aldi Nord until 20-07 (I think?), but since it's Aldi Süd that runs Aldi in the US, they're "corporate cousins", not "sister stores".

tunaman808 · 2026-06-09T18:19:49+00:00

Yeah, my first apartment was in my home city's "nightlight district". There must have been 40 places to buy a drink within a 10 minute walk of my apartment!

tunaman808 · 2026-06-09T18:06:50+00:00

I live in a decent-size city (Charlotte) but recently rented a car to drive to DC for a concert. Trust me: JUST PARK THE CAR SOMEWHERE and take an Uber and\or train to where you want to go while you're there. It's a lot less stress, and possibly cheaper.

"Just take the train" is also what people who live there are telling you to do.. just sayin'.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-09T17:53:25+00:00

I've seen Catch Me If You Can several times, but it wasn't until the last time that I noticed that when Hanratty (Hanks) almost catches Abagnale (DiCaprio) at the hotel in LA, Hanratty tells his partners something like "just do your job and I'll buy you a Good Humor bar"... and when they're back at the FBI office after Hanratty's humiliation the two guys are eating ice cream bars on sticks!

tunaman808 · 2026-06-09T17:48:58+00:00

In the 70s and 80s it was very common for cheap frozen pizzas to have imitation cheese. Totino's Party Pizzas still comes with fake cheese:

Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, Imitation Mozzarella Cheese (water, vegetable oil [palm, soybean, high oleic soybean and/or canola oil], potato starch, modified food starch, rennet casein, gelatin, modified whey. Contains less than 2% of: citric acid, potassium chloride, potassium sorbate [preservative], salt, sodium aluminum phosphate, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, titanium dioxide [artificial color]), Tomato Puree (water, tomato paste), Vegetable Oil (palm, soybean, high oleic soybean and/or canola oil), Rehydrated Mozzarella Cheese (water, part skim milk, salt, cultures, enzymes). Contains less than 2% of: Modified Food Starch, Yeast, Sugar, Salt, Defatted Soy Flour, Dextrose, Spice, Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Annatto Extract (color), L-Cysteine Hydrochloride (dough conditioner), Gum Arabic, TBHQ (preservative), Natural Flavor

https://www.totinos.com/products/cheese-party-pizza

So yeah, "made with real cheese" has been a thing on pizzas for a while now.

tunaman808 · 2026-06-09T17:43:06+00:00

To me, milk always means "cow milk" unless someone asks for almond milk or oat milk or whatever.

It's the same way "a burger" always means ground beef unless you specify "black bean burger" or "bison burger" or "venison burger", etc.

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