The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread
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Oh awesome. Somehow my eyes glazed right over that extremely obvious part. Thanks.
I want to know more about this really bad stuff and how I can get it.
I was thinking of torpedos but won't that need a sub?
Can't remember is there a C4 product?
Well, they say it takes all kinds, but it really doesn't have to, IMHO.
So long, Brian Wilson.
I wouldn't say it's bad, per se. To me, a bad product is one that doesn't work, and the quality might be great. It's just not to my taste.
The way I do it is hit up renderhub, search by Daz Content, and then do a ctl-F search for the word "free". Then it just skips you down the page to the next free thing, and you're less likely to miss one. (I know there's a section just for free stuff, but I haven't found a way to filter it by Daz-only.)
...yeah, and on Tuesday we lost Sly Stone. Saw the Beach Boys (a couple times) as well as Sly & The Family stone in concert back in the day. Had pretty much all of the Beach Boys albums including the Beach Boys Concert Album recorded at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium in 1963.and 64.
I remember the Beach Boys music from my highschool days more than 60 years ago, and I even saw the Beach Boys at a July 4th free concert on The Mall in Washington, DC in '83. What a political circus that was (look it up).
I enjoyed their music, but it was not my favorite music, but at least it was catchy & iconic music, apparently still suitable for septuagenarian & octogenarian nostalgia.
I'm kind of weirdly ambivalent about the Beach Boys.
On one hand, when I was in jr. high in the early 90's, our choir director's choice for music was a lot of Beach Boys (and similar era). We begged for something more modern, but nope... "this is what your parents will enjoy hearing at the concert" -- never mind that it was an hour concert and they'd probably like whatever was playing because we were their kids, and we had to practice music we didn't like for literal months in the meantime. Choir was probably 80% female, and all the songs he picked were the "OMG BOYS!!" songs. And then got one of the girls in class to choreograph a whole lot of simpering "girly" motions to go with them. I didn't feel great about it then, and 30+ years later it feels even ickier, considering we were 12-15-year-olds and he was old enough to be our dad.
On the other hand, I also have memories of it playing at the classic car shows I used to go to with my dad when I could still count my age on one or two hands. I didn't specifically have a lot of interest in cars, but it was so magical to have a day out with just the two of us, and he REALLY loved cars, so I loved watching him light up as he'd tell me all about them. And we'd stop for ice cream after. And once we got to drive one of his friend's hot cars in for the show... I felt like an absolute princess.
But regardless, the man was an artist and a musical trailblazer, and it's always a loss when creative spark leaves the world. I hope those who loved him dearest find comfort in their memories, and the musical legacy he left behind.
...hmm, currently 1776 pages in the Commons forum.
An Observation: Hmmm..., I've been noticing packaging methods since I was 5 years old (71 years ago). I've watched toothpaste delivery transition from powder in a can, to metal tubes to plastic tubes. I've watched milk bottles transition from glass to waxed cardboard. I've watched soda bottles transition from glass that you could hammer nails with to plastic that wouldn't hold up to a fingernail file. And now I notice for the first time that butter (real butter), which has come as four long sticks in a pound, since my earliest days, now being available as eight half-sticks. per pound
Are they preparing us for a price doubling? Or going to find a way to give us only six in a 3/4 pound box for the same price?
I opened a box of butter last night and shook out what I thought was four long sticks into my hand, but they were half-sticks and went tumbling all over my hand and onto the floor.
And for a obsessive compulsive personality, dented butter sticks are painful.
Why invent half-sticks of butter?
I'm waiting to see if anyone markets a half-stick butter plate.
We still get butter in a block, wrapped in paper or paper with a foil layer (mostly the latter). 250g (half-pound, roughly) or 500g (pound, roughly)
I've never seen half sticks of butter. That is weird.
Complaint: I paid $20 for Amazon to gift wrap five presents, and they just put them all in one bag.
What if they had been gifts for different people? Fortunately they were all for my (adult) son's birthday. I don't even know how/where to complain to Amazon about this. Ugh.
Yeah, I we can still get a one pound block of butter in the grocery store, although wrapped in waxed paper, not foil, inside the same sized waxed thin cardboard box as the sticks come in. But the blocks are generally for restaurant kitchen uses or obsessed home cookie bakers.
The sticks on the otherhand are wrapped with paper marked with graduations of 1 tablespoon lines for convenient measurement. I keep the butter sticks in the refrigerator and will slice off the amount needed for a recipe situation (usually 2 or 3 tbsp). And I also have a habit to slice off a one-tablespoon chunk, unwrap it and further slice it into four quarter-tablespoon chunklets or even slice a couple of chunklets in half. The unwrapped chunklets go back into the refrigerator and sit on top of the outside of the wrappings of the other butter sticks in the refrigerator door until needed. For cooking, the quarter-tablespoon chunklets go into a small frying pan as lubrication for light frying(ham, diced potatoes, or hash), and the eighth-tablespoon half-chunklets are used as lubrication under a fried egg. If I want soft butter to spread on bread I'll pull out a chunklet or two at the beginning of meal preparation and by time I need it, it's softened enough to spread.
As someone who doesn't use much butter, being able to buy a package half the size of the usual might be nice.... or I can see it being useful for those with tiny fridges (living in an RV for example).
Wait. You haven't seen half-sticks before or you haven't seen them by the pound? Obviously they are for making the StoveTop boxed stuffing (which uses a half-stick per packet of stuffing). I used to buy them about 15 years ago but they were only sold at one of the two grocery stores I shop at and then they seemed to stop selling them. I can't remember if they were four half-sticks or eight half-sticks.
I hate having to cut the quarter stick in half for the stuffing because then I have a half-quarter stick wrapped up in the fridge hoping I'll make stuffing again before it starts to grow stuff.
I see your point, and as we all know, multitudinal choice is the halmark of American grocery stores. So there is apparently a market for half-sticks, and even multi-pound tubs, and even boxes of individual butter-patties which are also available. I've never made stovetop stuffing so I wasn't aware of the connection. But I was surprised to hear of half-sticks available 15 years ago, although I'd never heard of them until yesterday when I spent time squishing some back into tolerable stick shape.
If one is worried about a too slow consumption rate, then buying a pound, whether packaged as a 1-pound block, or 4 sticks, or 8 half-sticks doesn't help, it's still a pound. Butter can last a year in the freezer, 5 months in the refrigerator (2 months if unsalted), and less than a week at room temperature. I always keep my butter in the refrigerator and still I'm probably guilty of overstoring butter, but it hasn't killed me yet.
True that a pound's a pound, I was just thinking it would be nice if they sold a half-pound. (And my freezer's usually quite full, so... if I managed to shove one in somewhere, it'd probably just disappear.)
Another benefit for me: once in a while little dude gets into the fridge, and he loves grabbing the butter sticks and chewing on them. Not eating them -- just chewing with the wrapper on. Must be a good amount of resistance or something? Anyway, I'd much rather lose half a pound than a whole pound. I've taken to hiding it, but that doesn't always work.
(...but at least it's better than raw eggs, which at first he had the world's largest "what the heck" look when he dropped one and it broke -- when you think about it, nothing else really does what an egg does. But now he likes the texture, so... raw egg is not a safe toy, and also murder to thoroughly get out of the carpet.)
Anchor have switched to 200g packs, another case of Shrinkflation? Or is it a case that cows are getting smaller? Not sure about other brands, the supermarket own brands still seem to be 250g, so double check those prices and sizes, it may not be the bargain you thought it was.
Here in the UK, the shrinkage games are regular now. I'm off into town to do my routine Saturday shop tomorrow. And while my choice of butter (Country Life Salted) has thankfully so far managed to escape shrinkage, I am neverthelss expecting it any week now.
They're even shrinking organic produce, like lettuce, which will soon be the size of an onion at this rate!
With produce I always have to wonder if they're picking it earlier, or if it's just not that great of a growing season. As we're entering summer here in Minnesota, I expect the main topics of conversation to become 1. the weather, 2. the mosquitoes, 3. road construction, 4. baseball, and 5. the progress of the corn crop. Not necessarily in that order. (As opposed to winter, when the topics are 1. the weather, 2. what the weather is doing to the roads, and 3. hockey.)
Tell me about it, ordered a savoy cabbage a few months back, we have our main weekly shop delivered, what turned up wasn't much bigger than a brussel sprout, honestly it fitted into the palm of your hand, wouldn't be so bad if they charged by weight but with cabbages it's by the unit.
Note, I am in the UK, at least I was last night, not checked the news yet this morning (it's 5:50 as I'm typing) and we may well have been invaded overnight, which would be a bit of a bugger as I'm lousy at languages, but so far I can't see any little green men/women/others wandering around in the street outside so we may be okay.
...as to the half sticks of butter, I find them to be rather handy. The weight is still 1#.
Same down here, with 50g markings on the paper/foil to make your baking easier. Pure New Zealand butter, om nom nom. I may be partial to a little scone with my butter.
Yep, that's my brand. "Land-O-Lakes" butter. Semi-interesting history.
I went to Walmart yesterday. I was just looking at the receipt that was on the Walmart app. It wasn't on paper.
I got 4 teriyaki bowls, but I forgot to ring up two of them. I rang up 34 items. My ride was waiting for me so I didn't check the number of items versed item of numbers I got. I don't knowwhat to do about it.