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Kate Jones

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My love of sleep is matched only by my love of not working. I write sometimes, when I'm not sleeping or working.

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Kate Jones • commented on 2 posts 8 hours ago

50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online

god, I'm such a negative nancy. I feel like there's probably a negative counter-argument to every single one of these.

50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online

Some are also gay.

Kate Jones • commented on 16 posts 1 week ago

"I'm A Big Girl And Can Accept That People Don't Like Me": Woman Gets Ignored While On Trip

As a person who's been on the receiving end of this, i can only advise not to confront anyone. I know a few people have told her to ask them what their problem was or to confront her friend. But in my experience, this just makes you seem pathetic and then they end up overcompensating--which you can tell right away--and then YOU feel bad and like a whiner. Honestly, stop caring. That's how I've gotten by. Stop caring and enjoy your own company. Go off and find something to do. You paid for the trip... try to find something to do. I know it sucks to feel like there's something 'wrong' with you and you had probably hoped to have some time making friends and having fun together. But that's not happening and at this point you're better off brushing it off and treating it like a single vacation. Next time your friend begs you to go anywhere, remind her of the time you went and she didn't hang with you at all and left you alone and say no.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I don't think anyone is necessarily knocking other people's favorites. I think it's always just fun to talk about how different we all are and how it changes from one person to the next. Some people can really love something that seems so gross to someone else. Our tastes are just so different and it's fun to react to their messages. No one is sitting there acting like...no, you're wrong for liking this. It's mostly just our own experiences with those flavors. I hate guacamole and I expect tons of people to not understand why. It's a fun conversation.

"I'm A Big Girl And Can Accept That People Don't Like Me": Woman Gets Ignored While On Trip

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Ooo I love melon. Honeydew and Cantaloupe are so good when they're ripe. Also, I like a little salt on my watermelon sometimes. Melons and oranges are my favorite fruit. I used to love plums when I was a kid but something has seriously happened to plums these days. They're super sour. When I was a kid plums used to be sweet and soft. Now they're just hard and sour no matter what type of year you buy them.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I don't mind salted caramel but I guess that's just because I like certain types of toffee, which have that flavor. I love a Skor Bar. And to me that almost tastes like a salted caramel.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I actually love cauliflower in one specific way; in the little container of sweet pickles that my mom puts out at holiday events. Pickled cauliflower is so delicious. There are only a few brand that make this pickle mix and they only put it out around the holidays. But it's so good. We're always fighting over who gets the cauliflower when it gets put out. I've tried making it myself but it just doesn't taste the same.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I totally agree. Sushi is gross. I also hate rice, which I'll concede is a weird one. I just don't like it. And just about anything else that comes on sushi. And can we please talk about Nori/seaweed? I don't want to eat anything that I could pull out of my butt when I go swimming.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Not even pickles? That hurts my heart.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I think the more interesting comparison is crinkle cut, steak or shoestring? People who eat steak fries should just order a baked potato and be done with it. And crinkle fries are just gross and are, somehow, always undercooked no matter where you get them. If you're going to go crinkle then at least get an interesting cut like waffle or curly fries.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I love a nice buttered brioche bun that's toasted in a pan. It's amazing with a burger covered in grilled onions and cheese. People who aren't from the US say that are bread is too sugary already and brioche is definitely more sweet. But I love it with a burger.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I'm a dabber. Like, I'll take a bit on the side. But I don't understand people who cover their fries in it. A girl I used to work with loved ketchup so much she'd make spaghetti with it. She's boil noodles and just squeeze cold ketchup on it and eat it like that. If given the option, I'd prefer tartar sauce for fries instead of ketchup. Or even a cheese sauce. Ketchup is just too acidic.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

It's funny because there are some thing I like the 'flavor' of but not the actual thing. I hate actual mushrooms but I love mushroom gravy or mushroom flavored sauces. I also don't like chicken, but I like chicken flavored things like soup and sauce, gravy, etc. I just don't like the chicken itself. I think it must be a texture thing.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Noooo I love celery. Oh man... celery stuffed egg rolls are so good. Cut up some sticks with dip or egg salad. It's the base of tons of soups. This makes me sad!

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Yes. I find beets so gross. I also hate kale. In any form. Frying it does not help. I generally don't like things that taste like dirt.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I generally feel this way about all alcohol. I will never understand people's love of booze. It all tastes so horrible. I have to add 10 pounds of fruit juice or sugar or just...something to not taste it anymore and at that point it becomes and overpriced glass of juice. I don't understand people who drink wine everyday. I will never understand those straight whiskey people. Not because I can't handle it but...why would I want to? I've drank straight vodka, tequila, whiskey, bourbon, champagne and anything else someone has convinced me to try because they assure me it's 'so good and amazing'. Ugh. I can drink something that tastes horrible and cost 10 bucks a glass, or I can have a soft drink or fruit drink and be happy. Also...I'm pretty sure no one likes beer. I just don't believe that can be true.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

OMG I totally agree. So gross. I don't get it.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

lol no one likes the taste of energy drinks. We all lie to ourselves in order to drink it. but if it teases that it will give me even a sliver more of energy to get through my soul-sucking, 10 hour workday, I'd drink gasoline.

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Kate Jones • commented on 19 posts 1 month ago

50 Incredibly Clever Ways People Solved Problems Most Overlooked (New Pics)

i'd be stressed that it would fall on me.

“Keep Sour Candies On Hand”: This Online Thread Shares 30 Cool Hacks For The Human Body

I don't know why but for years now I can't stretch without cramping. First thing in the morning I go to stretch and my legs will cramp, my forearms cramp, even my neck and sides of my ribs cramp up. Last week I lost my mind and tried stretching my legs out and had the sharpest pain in the top side of my foot like my nerves themselves are stretching or are too short of something. It's so frustrating. I take a daily vitamin so I don't think it's a deficiency but I haven't been to a doctor (I can't afford it honestly). It sounds like a nice relief to be able to stretch out.

50 Incredibly Clever Ways People Solved Problems Most Overlooked (New Pics)

i'd be stressed that it would fall on me.

“Keep Sour Candies On Hand”: This Online Thread Shares 30 Cool Hacks For The Human Body

Man Cheats On His Girlfriend With 300 Women, Loses His Job When She Posts A 58-Page PPT Exposé

Sorry but I don't understand why his employer has a right to fire him for something regarding his personal life. I get wanting to embarrass him and as the woman he cheated on, of course I understand wanting revenge. But why would my employer get a right to chime in? You have no idea what goes on in our marriage. What if it was reversed and he exposed me for cheating on him? Meanwhile, he'd abused me for years or it was a horrible marriage. Even if it wasn't, getting fired from your job for cheating on your husband would be a frightening, Handmaid's Tale-level development. No, no, no. This is why women who have an only fans get fired, too. Unless what I do goes completely against the company policy- for instance, having sex and you're a priest. Or having an affair with a patient and you're a doctor (and even that one would depend on the circumstance)-- then it's none of my employer's business. As loathe as I find this man-- and he should get all the judgement he deserves-- he should sue for unlawful termination. His sex life isn't his employer's business.

“Sniffing Rubbing Alcohol Gets Rid Of Nausea”: 50 Weird Life Hacks That Work For Some Reason

Maybe a better way to phrase it is to do what your job requirements state and no more. Your job is to fly the plane and land us safely. You don't have to volunteer for extra shifts or put on a show for the passengers because your extra hard work won't be appreciated by your company. They'll just give you more shifts. And when you ask someone to switch with you they'll say they can't. Just don't volunteer to do more as a means to be appreciated because you won't be. Do more if you want to but don't expect it back and you'll be fine. Otherwise, follow your job description. Staying late and working harder rarely matters anymore. You just get taken advantage of.

“Sniffing Rubbing Alcohol Gets Rid Of Nausea”: 50 Weird Life Hacks That Work For Some Reason

Lol i haven't used a hanger in years. I hate laundry with a passion. If I was rich, the only thing I'd buy as a crazy rich person thing would be someone to do my laundry and fold and hang it. I ended up buying a few of those over-the-door coat hooks with the multiple hooks on it and hung them on the hanger rod. Now I just hang everything on those and I don't have to deal with hangers and it's fast and easy. I hang my jeans by the belt loops. No folding anything. Just throw it all on there.

“Sniffing Rubbing Alcohol Gets Rid Of Nausea”: 50 Weird Life Hacks That Work For Some Reason

This isn't always the case. I cook for fun, but it's very expensive to do so if you're a single person because it's hard to buy single serve items. Buying in bulk only works if you use it all. Like when I need celery, I can't just buy 1 stalk. And unless I eat it fairly quickly, the bag goes bad before I can take advantage and use more. I try to plan for meals that will utilize everything but there's only so much of something I can eat in a week. I can buy a burger for $5, or I can buy all the ingredients to make one at over $15, but end up throwing the other 5 buns that come in the package out. It's mostly produce and bread that's is a problem because they go bad so fast. And I recently started making my own bread but it's way more expensive to do so unless you have all of the ingredients already. Plus the time and effort it takes. What I save over the year by not buying bread isn't worth the effort. I probably spend that in the electricity to run my mixer so much.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

And you're behind a bunch of old white guys so... not that surprising.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Honestly, I'm so tired of getting my food wrong at fast food restaurants I'm not opposed to the food being cooked/assembled by AI. I generally push for human workers but I'm just so tired of it. It's literally every time I go. I get a sandwich with extra cheese and onions- which I pay $2 extra for, btw- and i don't get it. I worked for McDonald's for almost 10 years all through school and I know how stupid their systems are. There are no QA controls to make sure the sandwich is made right. 4 people are wearing headsets including the initiator (the person who builds the sandwich on the grill) and they still mess it up. And you get old, cold buns and meat that's been in the holding tray well over its time. It would be one thing if prices were still cheaper to offset the annoyance of not getting what you ordered but that isn't the case anymore. They've done this to themselves.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Get this man some lotion for christ's sake.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Stop acting like public places are your home! You have some kind of foot fungus and now my glass is going to be sitting on that or my hands will touch it. THIS. This is why people needed to wear masks. To all those people who act like 'I'm clean and I'm not sick. I don't know why I have to wear one'. It's because of people like this.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Girls do this on flights all the time. They should be removed from society until they can behave like a human.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

If you own a home in the US and a pipe bursts on the street and it's connected to your property (in the sense that it's a main water line connected to everyone on the street), you have to pay for it. They usually split the cost between everyone on the street and if you escrow your insurance/taxes, there's a lien placed on your property and the bank will split it to your over all mtg payment each month over the course of a year. If you own the home and don't have a mtg, they just bill you and you are often forced to get a loan from the bank to pay it because it's usually too much for anyone to just come up with. These costs can be in the 10s of thousands, especially for old lines because they are required to be updated. Another reason I don't want to own a house.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

I recently cut my finger and it needed stitches and I literally duck taped it together until it healed enough to take it off. I have a scar and I don't care because I don't want to go through paying that kind of money.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

I wonder if they buy their own kids groceries since they aren't legally allowed to work? Or does Jesus just come down and magically put food on the table? But good idea warning people about Satan's evil plot to get people to dress up as pumpkins and Napoleon Dynamite. His evil is truly powerful.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Just one more heavy thing to carry.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Why would you continue to stay in that type of account? This is clearly an account where you need to maintain a balance, probably to get interest. So get an account that doesn't require that. Sorry but this is your own stupidity. No one is holding you hostage there and you agree to these terms when you open the account. These fees are not a surprise.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

This whole list shows how expensive, dangerous and ridiculous it is to live here and you're wondering why we're fat when groceries are the only controllable cost in our lives? Our rent is ridiculous. Our health care is ridiculous. We pay crazy amounts for everything and we have no say about it. Meanwhile we can't afford to buy houses or have kids anymore. And then we get sh!t from other countries for being fat because cheap food is the only cheap thing we have. So yeah, with my 40 dollar grocery budget, I'm going to buy 10 packs of cheap but fattening ramen for 5 dollars that will last the week, and not the 4 dollar green pepper that will barely last 1 meal.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

I see she has lettuce in her bag. I'm going to go sit on and fart on some lettuce and ask her to eat it afterward and watch the hissy fit she's going to have.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

I get upping prices where travel is involved. Islands have to that in order to pay the high costs of the travel it takes to get there. But a 4 dollar markup is a little much.

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Kate Jones • commented on 2 posts 8 hours ago

50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online

god, I'm such a negative nancy. I feel like there's probably a negative counter-argument to every single one of these.

50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online

Some are also gay.

Kate Jones • commented on 16 posts 1 week ago

"I'm A Big Girl And Can Accept That People Don't Like Me": Woman Gets Ignored While On Trip

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

I don't mind salted caramel but I guess that's just because I like certain types of toffee, which have that flavor. I love a Skor Bar. And to me that almost tastes like a salted caramel.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Not even pickles? That hurts my heart.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Noooo I love celery. Oh man... celery stuffed egg rolls are so good. Cut up some sticks with dip or egg salad. It's the base of tons of soups. This makes me sad!

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Yes. I find beets so gross. I also hate kale. In any form. Frying it does not help. I generally don't like things that taste like dirt.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

OMG I totally agree. So gross. I don't get it.

“Tastes Like Dirt”: 30 Things Some Netizens Can’t Believe People Actually Enjoy Eating

Kate Jones • commented on 2 posts 3 weeks ago

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Kate Jones • upvoted 3 items 1 month ago

“Sniffing Rubbing Alcohol Gets Rid Of Nausea”: 50 Weird Life Hacks That Work For Some Reason

Not really a practical option at the times I'd want to use it.

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

Jesus famously never gave handouts.... Oh wait a minute!

50 Photos That Perfectly Capture Life In The USA

I'd rather take a dump in the class just to protest

Kate Jones • upvoted an item 4 months ago

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It was Bill Burr, a comic who knows precisely when and how to use anger and sarcasm for our amusement and edification. One of the best now in the biz.

Kate Jones • upvoted 5 items 5 months ago

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The way we are expected to do everything to placate men. Be pretty, but not so pretty you look unapproachable. Wear make up, but not so it looks like you're wearing make up. Don't earn more than men because that's emasculating, but don't ask men for money because that's gold digging. Be smart, but not smarter than men. If you don't go to the gym you're lazy, but if you do you're just attention seeking. It goes on...

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Being able to afford dental care

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I mean, I get why you feel this is over the top and 'charging' you certainly is, but if you're 20 you should think about moving out since you're an adult. If you're still depending on your parents and living under their roof, then they have every right to ask you to follow their rules and you aren't really an adult. You're a dependent.

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*you're *let's - come on Jenny, it's not that hard. If you're going to be a bi**h, at least learn to spell correctly. It's kind of hard to take you seriously otherwise.

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Haha- that is so me!

Kate Jones • upvoted 5 items 6 months ago

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"Science."

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Not learning to manage stress and anxiety—I wish I had developed healthy coping mechanisms earlier in life.

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When I was younger when first presented with a 401K plan, I didn't understand what that was about. Wish I would have ask questions and started one back in my 20's. Wish had kept it up. Way my life turned out not sure how it would have worked out though. I am retired now but not sure if I would be better off financiall y

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personnaly i think Kambucha Taste like carbonnated pickle Juice

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They aren't getting overpaid. Coaches/players get paid a percentage of what THEY help bring in. Without that coach, the players might not play as well. Without that player being as good as he is, taking the physical risks they take, suddenly there could be a HUGE drop in merchandising, ticket sales, advertising, etc. If they were only being paid, say, 200K a year, that means that the corporation that owns them is getting the bulk of that money on the backs of their hard work- which trust me they already do. So they should make a good percentage of that revenue. You can have the broader conversation as to why entertainment is such a huge revenue stream, and how unfair it is that the doctor who saves your life doesn't make the same. They should and we should be subsidizing that. But that isn't the fault of the football player, news anchor or actor- who all make ridiculous amounts.

Kate Jones • upvoted an item 7 months ago

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Everything needs an app. Especially physical devices. I don't want your cheap buggy app to use my thermostat, scale, battery, lock, or light bulb. Ship one if you want, but devices should conform to standards-based, documented protocols so I can control them however I want. I also don't want to install an app just to do something that works just fine on a website. Also requiring Internet connectivity is cr*ppy design. I don't want basic functionality depending on your servers being up (and requiring accounts and giving you unknown data). My whatever should not stop working because you decided to stop spending money on the servers. This is bad with software but egregious with hardware and unacceptable with household devices (my water heater should never depend on outside servers). I've been in tech a long time. While greed and control and access to sellable data drives lots of things, there is also an attitude surviving from the 90s and 00s that the lifespan of anything is a few years. This attitude infects product design even in fields where lifespans are decades and replacement costs are high as we add compute to everything (which can be a great thing). USB was successful not because it had one (ish) plug, but because it standardized the protocols devices used. All mice speak one protocol, so anything that knows it (hci class) can handle any mouse. Zwave and ZigBee tried to do this for household stuff, but instead we got vendor proprietary, Internet connected, phone-home, WiFi devices. Rant done.

Kate Jones • upvoted an item 8 months ago