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Personally I love oranges but cant stand orange juice.

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[-] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

There should be more mature games.

I don't mean like sex games, I mean like games intended for adults that can have mature content and mature stories without it being heavily watered down.

Games should have as much leeway as the film or book industry when it comes to mature content - Though I guess that's getting murky too lately.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Probably stereotypical, but I find well done steaks to be a total waste.

I rarely cook steak, but when I do I go to a butcher and get something quality and fresh. Normally I don't care how other people enjoy their food, but when I take the effort to get quality steak and someone at a family get together asks me to cook until the steak is grey in the center it just deflates me. Logically I know that if everyone is happy with their food it doesn't matter, but personally having to mangle a steak so it has the taste of ground beef just goes against every cooking instinct I have.

I've learned that when certain people are coming to a holiday cookout to just cook burgers or BBQ instead. Everyone is just as happy with what they get.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

I consider myself openminded and tolerant.

I once heard a fellow say he was from Minnesota and he thought ketchup was too spicy.

Outwardly I stayed calm but in my heart I wanted to burn the heretic.

[-] f1error@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I'm in Minnesota, and I can confirm there are people who think ketchup is spicy.

The first time I encountered "ketchup is spicy/a hot sauce," I thought it was a joke. Then I also learned that there are truly bland people who think salt and pepper is "too much".

I live in a very weird state.

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[-] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

"Road Works" usually means it doesn't.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

The "End Construction" signs you sometimes see on the side of the road aren't actually protesting growth.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Latin root words that end in -or should use the suffix -trix when applied to women. So a woman aviator is aviatrix, administrator is administratrix, etc.

[-] crimsonpoodle@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago
[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Ok I'm convinced

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Contractrix sounds like a supervillain

[-] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

A supervillainess

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[-] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Steak is overrated. I'd take a smash burger over a steak 9 times out of 10, and that 1 time out of 10 will just be because I'm in the mood for peppercorn sauce.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Never had a steak that was better than a snitzel, or a stew, or smoked, or braised.

Steak is the most uncreative an flavourless way to cook beef. It is fine if you want to check the taste of the ingredient by itself, but it is a waste of meat

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

Folding laundry is a complete waste of time and effort. If it's been through the wash it's clean, it's not going to be any cleaner just because you spent half an hour doing laundry origami.

[-] tensorpudding@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Folding laundry is supposed to be to prevent wrinkles isn't it?

[-] bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 months ago

And it helps to fit it into your storage.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 points 2 months ago

That's another take of mine tbh, if clothes hold obnoxiously visible wrinkles, the fabric is too stiff to be comfortable in my view anyway. I try to avoid buying and wearing anything that needs to be ironed if I can get away with it.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I've never been under the impression folding laundry makes it cleaner? Or am I not understanding the point.

[-] hogmomma@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

You inspire me. I love banana-flavored things, but I don't like bananas.

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

This verges on actually mattering, but knives on magnetic strips should be blade down.

Pros:

  • when grabbing the knife you are holding it in the safest way possible automatically with the blade pointed down rather than blade up like fucking Chucky.

  • If you botch grabbing it, it falls away from your hand/arm rather than toward/on top of it.

  • the handles hook over the strip and are more secure

  • the handles are all on the same plane, and again if you dislodge a separate knife unexpectedly it falls away from your hand/arm

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago

The way the US spells things is stupid

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

The letter "u" belongs in neighbour, harbour, savour, etc.

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[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

If you’ve never worked on a holiday you shouldn’t be allowed to go to stores and restaurants on holidays.

[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yes, I know "kilo" means 1000 - I don't care since it's obvious from context.

Back in the day, using base-10 prefixes for base-2 stuff was considered fine. 1024 is close enough to 1000, after all. It only changed when some dickhead realised that, by insisting that a kilobyte (and the bigger units) was 1000 bytes, they could sell you less hard drive space without lowering the number on the box.

If you don't believe me, look at your RAM. Nobody's ever sold RAM by the "gibibyte".

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

If you want to be upset, look at internet speeds, they sell you mbps (megabits per second), but the standard measurement is mbps (megabytes per second), so they sell you a number 8 times bigger than the one you get.

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[-] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Quantum leap means the tiniest jump and not at all what it's (internationally) used for.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Peeling vegetables is such a waste of food, nearly all vitamins and minerals are stored in the skin.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I save my peels in a bag in the freezer and when it’s full I make vegetable stock with it.

Don’t do potato peels but everything from broccoli stalks to mushroom stems work really good.

Sometimes if there aren’t enough onion parts I add an onion.

Then I freeze it in ice cube trays and then store them in an airtight container

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[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

If a state isn't at least partly in Central Time, it can't be in the Midwest.

Obviously not all states in Central Time are in the Midwest, either, that's just the lowest bar.

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago

Dear Australia, I utterly love you, but please tell me how many vowels do you need to shove into the word No? It's almost become the longest word in Australian English.

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[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 months ago

Have you had fresh orange juice though? The major brands are horrible they taste like acid, not at all like a nice sweet orange

[-] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

The word "utilize" should almost always be changed to "use".

And, people who cannot sing should not sing on stage.

[-] WanakaTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

Oh hell yes, utilize drives me nuts. Its supposed to mean when you find a particularly effective, often different than typical purpose, for usage of something.

I utilize the word utilize as a way to identify people who spit out word jargon to hide their ineptitude

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You would hate my utilization of the karaoke stage.

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[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

People shouldn’t be able to be told what color to paint their house. More people should experiment with wild colors inside and out.

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[-] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

American servers: clear the table when everyone is done. Not before.

And don't ask me if I am still working on it while I am eating. I am not "working on it" to finish my lunch.

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[-] teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu 2 points 2 months ago

Decimate means 1/10th destroyed, lost, whatever. I don't care that the dictionary says that meaning is obsolete. I get that the meaning of words changes over time, but it has the prefix deci. 1/10th. You don't get to decide something that starts with 1/10th means near total even if it's a scary sounding word.

This is my anthill and I'm dying here.

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