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aimeeandbeatles
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Rant: My mother thought it'd be funny to startle me into spilling my drink while recording it on her cell phone. I took the phone away and deleted it.
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Recommended reading for those who believe the US border enforcement isn't inherently a fascist enterprise:
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09...TfF3AZGLJnJydHjXDmBrY-obFOYuH23hrlROPinmlHxDE
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/09...TfF3AZGLJnJydHjXDmBrY-obFOYuH23hrlROPinmlHxDE
Good. She really does sound like an awful person.
This is the kind of thing you should tell social services about when you apply for your financial assistance to be taken away from her.
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I was having a fairly good mental day despite the sudden heat and just generally being unproductive so I decided I'd try out a new restaurant.
I got a fairly wide selection: a small Hawaiian pizza, a mocha frappe, an oatmeal chocolate cookie, and a garlic BLT.
I haven't tried the garlic BLT yet, but the rest has been very disappointing. The cookie was okay, not bad but also not good. The mocha frappe was perhaps the worst I've ever had and was definitely not worth the gastrointestinal distress.
One curious thing I noted when ordering the pizza was that it didn't mention sauce anywhere. After receiving it, I realized why: there is no sauce. Or if there is some, there's so little of it that it's effectively invisible. The pineapple was also unusually sweet and that sweetness bled into the cheese. Horrible.
I got a fairly wide selection: a small Hawaiian pizza, a mocha frappe, an oatmeal chocolate cookie, and a garlic BLT.
I haven't tried the garlic BLT yet, but the rest has been very disappointing. The cookie was okay, not bad but also not good. The mocha frappe was perhaps the worst I've ever had and was definitely not worth the gastrointestinal distress.
One curious thing I noted when ordering the pizza was that it didn't mention sauce anywhere. After receiving it, I realized why: there is no sauce. Or if there is some, there's so little of it that it's effectively invisible. The pineapple was also unusually sweet and that sweetness bled into the cheese. Horrible.
There are many jobs with the US government where you can work a full workweek over 4 days instead of 5.
^^^ Yes, working four 10 hour days is quite common.
Yikes.
This is the kind of thing that makes me glad for Skip the Dishes. Complaints of a lack of sauce on the pizza would likely garner Skip credits or a refund equal to or greater than the cost of the meal (something that happened on one occasion when I complained that there was no tartar sauce included in the fish & chips meal I'd ordered; the description on the menu clearly states that tartar sauce is part of it).
But "garlic BLT" =
I prefer pizza places that let me design my own pizza, so I can specify how much I want of everything. One of my current favorites from Domino's is the medium, 4-topping pizza they have available via coupon for $9.99. I get extra pizza sauce, and the toppings I get are pepperoni, sausage, tomatoes, and black olives.
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I have got another round of biopsies tomorrow morning. They are going to stab me in the throat with a bigass needle and then check the resulting cell smear for cancer.
Regardless of the outcome of the biopsy, the surgeon's recommendation is that they just take what's left of my thyroid. It sucks that I have to consider her profit motive in her recommendation.
Regardless of the outcome of the biopsy, the surgeon's recommendation is that they just take what's left of my thyroid. It sucks that I have to consider her profit motive in her recommendation.
A four-topping 'za for $10 Canadian sounds like a really good deal.
rant: I wanted to buy some shaving powder I just found out existed today, but the minimum order would cost $11 once you factor in shipping, and for just $4 worth of product. Long story short, I spent $32 and another hour browsing to get free shipping.
rant: I wanted to buy some shaving powder I just found out existed today, but the minimum order would cost $11 once you factor in shipping, and for just $4 worth of product. Long story short, I spent $32 and another hour browsing to get free shipping.
Ignore the part about the profit and think of the real medical risks.
That the system is meant to encourage selfish behaviour and its dependence on one person's loss for others to gain does not mean that you should let yourself risk death to make a point.
And I'm posting that even after reading that Synsensa allowed himself to be served pineapple on a pizza, which should show how serious I am.
Not if one of the toppings, pineapple, is meant to be your dessert.
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Thankfully, the majority of thyroid cancers are slow growing and unlikely to metastasize, at least according to the surgeon. So there is not a ton of risk I'd die in months if I suddenly developed cancer. I'm also proactively getting ultrasounds and biopsies every 6 months to monitor it.
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My folks missed the last ferry to Tagbilaran. So I'm spending another night at Kayla'a. I am so ready to go home.
None of the toppings on my pizza included pineapple. My non-meat toppings were tomatoes and black olives.
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In the local weekly newspaper, there's an opinion column from some lady that...really has some weird priorities. Last week she was complaining because male drivers prefer to back into parking spots. (I suspect that if it was a male writer complaining about female drivers, it wouldn't get published.) This week she's complaining that there's too many choices in ice cream and coffee. What the hell?
It's not so much that she's complaining about them, but that it somehow gets published.
It's not so much that she's complaining about them, but that it somehow gets published.
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I mean, it is a local weekly newspaper.
Well, that's something.
See, Syn-chan? Pineapple-less pizza is available within Canadian territory.
But do we know for sure that it's available in British Columbia? Remember, Synsensa and I live in different provinces (next door, but in some ways our two provinces have very different cultural attitudes toward some things). I can't recall that I ever ate pizza in BC.
But if I did and just don't remember (haven't been there in over 30 years), it would have had cheese, ham, and pineapple. I didn't really try other combinations of pizza ingredients until some time in the late '80s/early '90s. Even when we made homemade pizza it almost always had pineapple. I was out of fruit a couple of times, though, and substituted Mandarin oranges (very tasty in combination with Parmesan cheese) and fruit cocktail (the trick to using fruit successfully is to make sure it's well-drained before adding it to the pizza). And it's only within the last few years that I discovered that I love Italian sausage on pizza. Pepperoni only joined the list less than 3 months ago, when there was a mad scientist/pizza party in the building here, and pepperoni pizzas were served. I realized I like it, and so my current favorites include it (no pineapple anymore).
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