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Stupid Pet Peeves

moevillini said:
gotta get this posted while it's on my mind - I've had this stupid pet peeve bottled up inside my brain for at least two weeks now...

oversized toilet paper rolls - I've been buying Costco's brand - the toilet paper is just fine and dandy, but when a new roll is put in the holder, it is too overstuffed to properly roll - - and no matter how slowly and carefully you try to get a few sheets, it tears at the first perforation and you just get one sheet at a time - - it doesn't roll easily until about 1/4 of the roll is gone.

yes, it's annoying.
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Yep, I know exactly what you mean. I don't buy oversized rolls any more for exactly that reason.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I don't disagree but things aren't always this black and white. One of my best friends got the head coaching gig at the high school at which he teaches. He got it after one year. Never even played baseball in HS I don't think. But he went to clinics, and watched baseball a lot, and did research. Long story short, he won 20+ games his first 11 years coaching I think.
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The difference here is your buddy had some sweat equity in it. The coaches I'm referring to are only there for a check. It's irritating because there are some damn good players on the team and others with a lot of potential but they get virtually zero coaching. The principals kid, a senior, got hosed in the Championship(different) game but the coach that did it is still on staff. It's mind boggling. If the same head coach is there next season my nephew will not play. Fortunately for my nephew he's playing on a travel team out of California at multiple tournaments so he'll get some exposure and potential interest from college scouts. The team he's on now, few if any, will get scholarship offers.
 
moevillini said:
and on a related note - I just had to buy some facial tissues (a/k/a kleenex) and I thought all the boxes they had seemed larger than those I had been buying - and they are - 160 tissues per box rather than 120 tissues, and the new box doesn't fit in my tissue holder.

I am having issues...
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I think it is a conspiracy of the highest order. Where is babe?
 
Ron Mexico said:
Who opens CDs? I have not bought a CD since the 90s. I have bought more 8 tracks for my old Bronco than CDs in the last 15 years.
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Last year I bought all of Pantera albums on cd.
I have a cd player in my truck that I use often. I also use pandora and listen to am and fm radio. Have a bunch of cd's in my truck that I listen to often.

My previous vehicle (that I trade in last october) had a 6 disc cd changer and it always had 6 cd's in it.

But that is all beside the point... new cd's are hard as **** to open.
 
moevillini said:
and on a related note - I just had to buy some facial tissues (a/k/a kleenex) and I thought all the boxes they had seemed larger than those I had been buying - and they are - 160 tissues per box rather than 120 tissues, and the new box doesn't fit in my tissue holder.

I am having issues...
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Tissue holder? They come in a box with a perferated part that you open. Then you just take the tissues out of the box that they come in.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I don't disagree but things aren't always this black and white. One of my best friends got the head coaching gig at the high school at which he teaches. He got it after one year. Never even played baseball in HS I don't think. But he went to clinics, and watched baseball a lot, and did research. Long story short, he won 20+ games his first 11 years coaching I think.
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Is 20 wins a lot in baseball?
 
fishonjazz said:
Tissue holder? They come in a box with a perferated part that you open. Then you just take the tissues out of the box that they come in.
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It's something like this that fits right over the tissue box. It's part of a set with a soap dish, toothbrush holder, pump dispenser and waste basket.

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You find them at all the best loos.
 
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