Ooh, a self-burn! Those are rare.

Isn’t it well-known that doctors frequently dismiss health concerns with “have you tried losing weight?”

Glory to you and your house!

Two of my favorites are one-pot chicken riggies and baked ziti

Oh, I think that advice comes from a good place, it’s just misguided. People look at it and say “your partner shouldn’t be your cash cow”.

OTOH, I think it’s important for both people to be contributing to the household financially. That helps keep a certain balance in the relationship even if it’s just a token amount.

I think it’s more important that they come up with a system that they both think is fair. If moving in together leaves one person feeling like they’re being taken for a ride, it’ll wreck the relationship.

My wife and I lived together for a bit back when we were dating. We did some math:

Combined rent + $savings = my old rent + her old rent

Then we split the combined rent roughly 1/3 - 2/3 (my salary was higher than hers at the time) so that we were both paying less than we had been before.

We split utilities 50/50 which was kind of a mistake IMO – I regret the accounting chore that it created. One of us would pay the rent by hand (USA, so paper check to the landlord), but utilities were on auto-pay from my account. We’d have to tally up utilities and add it or subtract it to the rent in order to reimburse the other person when they paid the rent.

Instead of that nonsense, I’d suggest estimating your utilities and split that figure 50/50 - then maybe look at it again once a year in case costs change.

New Zealand. Beautiful place, and the coffee, OMFG, they really know their coffee there!

Ugh, infuriating. All I can imagine now is that you were mad that he made you what you asked for. Guess I’ll just be clueless 'til I forget about this thread.

it takes labor to collect the carts

It’s not about that. I was making a reference to the Shopping Cart Theory as a way of responding to the post.

potentially reduce price hikes on food

I admire your boundless optimism! I rather think we’d simply see richer grocery store owners if there were a sudden outbreak of common decency and everyone consistently returned the cart.

You get it

Why should we return the shopping cart when no one else does?

Edit: /s for people that took this too earnestly. I was alluding to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_theory.

spreads the jelly on top of the peanut butter

Um. I mean, what did you expect him to do differently? A PBnJ is peanut butter and jelly on bread, so I don’t understand why the dude adding the jelly was upsetting.

Was there some particular way your mom usually made them that was different from what this dude did?

I’m really struggling to picture what was disturbing in this picture :(

Technically

It’s not even in the outermost layer of the atmosphere! The ISS orbital altitude is somewhere around 420km high (heh) while the thermosphere stretches from 85 to 600km up. The exosphere stretches far beyond that, up to 10000km or so.

It’s so easy to armchair quarterback other peoples’ lives, especially when they grew up in a different culture from your own.

Ha, I was going to comment on this.

Boats are also supposed to have white lights at the stern and (if they have one) at the top of the mast.

Ah, gotcha. I never screenshot for stuff on the web – like you said, you can just save the image. I take screenshots when I’m playing Civ succession games.

Or at work, but I use a MacBook at work.

I don’t think so. I’ve been using PrintScr longer than the snipping tool has existed.

I’m not sure what “saving from source” would be for a screenshot. What do you mean there?

I have too many fucking apps on my phone already. I’d much rather use websites.

I prefer the PrintScr key on my keyboard, personally.

It’s hard to pick out one as THE worst, but generally, if I have to use the site for some external reason, the experience is awful.

Health insurance, doctor’s offices, etc are generally pretty bad. Oddly, tax sites aren’t as rough.

Also oddly, vacation related websites are awful.