Things that don't make sense

[beerwax]

.........

 

[PhotonWrangler]

For the most part it seems that foods taste just about like I think they'd taste like based on their smell. But I don't understand why coffee never tastes anywhere near as good as a fresh ground bag of beans smells. If coffee tasted as good as it smells I'd probably drink nothing else!

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Occupancy signs over bathroom doors in Carl's Jr's. It's funny looking at the bathroom door and reading "Occupancy limit: 93" above it.

A sign I saw in Mira Mesa, CA that reads "No bike riding rollerblading skateboarding dogs".

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Occupancy signs over bathroom doors in Carl's Jr's. It's funny looking at the bathroom door and reading "Occupancy limit: 93" above it.

A sign I saw in Mira Mesa, CA that reads "No bike riding rollerblading skateboarding dogs".

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Poop burgers 10-20 times the cost of real beef burgers. Think I'm kidding? It was on Fox News.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Back to school sales that start up in early July. I saw one yesterday. They just got out of school for pete's sake.

 

[KC2IXE]

Back to school sales that start up in early July. I saw one yesterday. They just got out of school for pete's sake.

Lots of kids go year round now, plus there are kids in summer school either
1)Because they are making up failed classes
or
2) Like my daughter, getting ahaead on classes. Her new HS allows incoming freshmen to take up to 3 classes the summer before their normal freshman year. These are the classes in Arts Appreciation and Health ed that all NY state students are required to take, and most kids take as Jrs - They allow this, so that the kids have an extra couple of slots during their Jr year to take AP classes if they wish (BTW - the 'average' number of AP classes a stundent comes out of her HS with thses days is 3.7. I met one last year who was coming out with 9, PLUS a 'real' college course taken at the local college. Hey JTR1962 - yes, it's our old school)

 

[Burgess]

I remember it well . . . .


I always HATED the Back-to-School ads which appeared in Mid-August,

cuz' it was a reminder that I had to go Back to School the day after Labor Day ! ! !

🙁


Now -- the kids hafta' return to school in Mid-August !

:sick2:
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[gcbryan]

I know people hate the online grammar Nazi (I'm not one) 🙂 but under things that don't make sense...why do so many people use "an" instead of "a" when they use it and it's not in front of a vowel?

"I just put an XM-L in my light"? X isn't a vowel so you don't need "an". It doesn't make sense 🙂

 

[mvyrmnd]

I know people hate the online grammar Nazi (I'm not one) 🙂 but under things that don't make sense...why do so many people use "an" instead of "a" when they use it and it's not in front of a vowel?

"I just put an XM-L in my light"? X isn't a vowel so you don't need "an". It doesn't make sense 🙂

Because they write as if they were speaking - "An ex-em-el"

Many, many people have forgotten the difference between written and spoken English, assuming they're competent with either to begin with.

 

[Brewer]

Along the lines of the OP: Airwolf and Blue Thunder (both awesome helicopters and TV shows from the 80's) had 'silent modes' that allowed them to sneak up on baddies.

I was never sure under what circumstances you'd want to switch that OFF...

 

[Brewer]

I know people hate the online grammar Nazi (I'm not one) 🙂 but under things that don't make sense...why do so many people use "an" instead of "a" when they use it and it's not in front of a vowel?

"I just put an XM-L in my light"? X isn't a vowel so you don't need "an". It doesn't make sense 🙂

Can't... Resist... Grammar... Nazi... Urge...

It is actually totally correct to do that, because it is not about whether the next word begins with a vowel or a consonant on paper, but the sound one would form if speaking it.

You wouldn't say 'an user' or 'an Ewing', any more than you would say 'a x-ray'. Initialisms can be a bit of a grey area, as they can be pronounced differently depending on whether the reader is likely to read it as a string of individual letters (CIA) or an acronym (AWOL). You could argue that 'a LEO' and 'an LEO' are equally valid, but unless you are pronouncing XM-L as 'zemel' you'd really have to say (and write) 'an XM-L'.

Sorry, i must go and annex something.

 

[Brewer]

😱 double post iphumble

 

[jtr1962]

2) Like my daughter, getting ahaead on classes. Her new HS allows incoming freshmen to take up to 3 classes the summer before their normal freshman year. These are the classes in Arts Appreciation and Health ed that all NY state students are required to take, and most kids take as Jrs - They allow this, so that the kids have an extra couple of slots during their Jr year to take AP classes if they wish (BTW - the 'average' number of AP classes a stundent comes out of her HS with thses days is 3.7. I met one last year who was coming out with 9, PLUS a 'real' college course taken at the local college. Hey JTR1962 - yes, it's our old school)

Good idea actually, plus she gets acquainted with the school ahead of time. And 9 AP courses is really impressive. Just taking 2 in my senior year was hard enough if I recall.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

Why won't banks place surveillance cameras at eye level at the cashier windows? I'm looking at another article tonight about a holdup, and as usual the perp is wearing a hat and his face is obscured by it. Haven't they figured out that hat wearing is a pattern with the bad guys? With the availability of inexpensive pinhole cameras, I don't understand why they're not using them.

 

[Monocrom]

Why won't banks place surveillance cameras at eye level at the cashier windows? I'm looking at another article tonight about a holdup, and as usual the perp is wearing a hat and his face is obscured by it. Haven't they figured out that hat wearing is a pattern with the bad guys? With the availability of inexpensive pinhole cameras, I don't understand why they're not using them.

If banks wanted to, they could issue one to every teller. Either concealed in a top button or in a pen clipped to a top pocket.

But to a bean-counter, the added expense is likely seen as not too cost effective for the benefits gotten.

 

[PhotonWrangler]

If banks wanted to, they could issue one to every teller. Either concealed in a top button or in a pen clipped to a top pocket.

I agree. Fro that matter they can build them right into the counter surface facing the customer.

But to a bean-counter, the added expense is likely seen as not too cost effective for the benefits gotten.

This is what doesn't make sense. The labor cost alone of a single robbery investigation would likely pay for them.

 

[Monocrom]

True.

But to a bean-counter you're talking about a possible expense that might happen. (Even though it's a likely one.)

Compared to one that will happen. (Having to issue such cameras to each teller.)

 

[lasermax]

Paying tax's where does it say in the amendment that we have to pay tax's

 

[PhotonWrangler]

True.

But to a bean-counter you're talking about a possible expense that might happen. (Even though it's a likely one.)

Compared to one that will happen. (Having to issue such cameras to each teller.)

It wasn't that long ago that many businesses had the same attitude about backup power. Why invest in a UPS, generator and transfer switch if the power only might fail? Now that most businesses rely at least in part on information technology, they've learned that the cost of recovery from a blackout (multiple blackouts, actually) can be much worse that they originally thought. Fortunately it's pretty routine for large companies to invest in power backup and monitoring systems now. In my mind it's the same lesson with bank surveillance systems; it is a necessary item, both for deterrence and remediation.