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Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains "bubblers". They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn't know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.

Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.

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When I was still at university (20+ years ago) a girl asked my to help her figure out why her Internet in her dorm room wasn't working. My first question was "is it plugged in?" She said it was, so that evening I went to her room to check it out. First thing I did was find the end of her network cable and plug it back into her computer. When I pointed out that she had said it was definitely plugged in she responded with "I thought you meant the power cable". I almost pointed out that if the power cable was not plugged in then I'm pretty sure she would not have been complaining that the internet was not working but at this point it was obvious that she was just using her "computer problems" to get me to come to her room and that she was the one that unplugged the cable. The most ridiculous part is that all she had to say was "hey, you should come to my room" and I would have happily obliged.

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Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop

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My 2023 Mazda has a touch screen but you never actually have to touch it. In fact, they put it far enough away that it is difficult to touch while driving and disable the touch when the car is moving. There are knobs and buttons in-between the front seats that control it. Also none of the important stuff is controlled through the infotainment system, it is just settings, satnav, and radio (or Android Auto/carplay). Not having to interact with a touch surface while driving is one of my favorite features of my car, and there are a lot of other things that I love about it too.

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A website I used to frequent changed their cookie pop-up so that there was a message saying if you don't want to accept cookies to go to "manage settings" at the bottom of any page. The only way that you could close the pop-up was to click the "accept all cookies" button. The pop-up was so big it blocked the bottom of the page so you could never get to the "manage settings" link without clicking the "accept all cookies" button to close the pop-up. I have not been back to this site since they made the change.

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What's the most profound thing you did on accident?

We were setting up for a concert one time and I was helping the FOH engineer (sound guy) check all the instrument/mic lines. One of the instruments was a Moog synth. I started randomly playing it (I do not play piano or synth) so he could check it. After a couple of seconds he said something about me playing a song and I told him I had never heard of it. Apparently I had accidentally played the opening of a song he really liked.

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As a passenger in the car, whats the things a driver does that pisses you off, makes you uncomfortable, or terrifies you?

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My wife's family drives like this, not just with the pedals but with the wheel too. Instead of turning it to where it needs to be and holding it they turn it to far then over correct back twords center then back to the first spot they turned it to, then overcorrect, and repeat the entire turn. Thankfully I was able to get my wife to stop driving this way when we started dating and now she hates riding with any of her family driving as much as I do.