What did you learn today?

(Heather Meyer) #241

TIL… Some co-workers can be very mean and some people stuff their emotions so far down that when they explode…it comes out their back end! True story :wink: Thank God i wasnt the one exploding…too bad i got caught in the line of fire…

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #242

Something else we have in common is ADHD. Mine is partly visual and partly audio. People telling me phone numbers or addresses quickly becomes a blur. Voice Mail is especially bad. And now I’m starting to loss my hearing, I just give up on VM most days.

I’ve got a small tad of OCD as well. Just enough to keep me from burning the house down. :fire::fire_engine::fire_extinguisher::man_firefighter:

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #243

Oh Regina. Yesterday I went to Best Buy for a new computer. The first one I looked at was a cheap Lenovo Ideapad my son has and this sales guy speed walks over and tells me I don’t want that computer. I said we already have one and it works fine. He got up in my face and said, well did you buy it before April 2018 and I said yes and he got really excited and said it only has 4 Gb and it takes 3Gb just to turn it on and it’s pretty much useless.

I am not even an excitable person but I looked at him and loudly said, You’re telling me every single 4 Gb laptop in this place is useless and shouldn’t be sold? Yes! he said.

Thankfully an electronic alarm went off and he scurried away and I ended up with a soft spoken, long haired young guy who was super kind and explained why his coworker was acting like a crack head, and the tech. I’m still feeling the love toward him today.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #244

Wow, wonder how long that nut will be employed there.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #245

That is so me on lots of web pages. And I don’t even have any ADHD issues.

#246

My ADHD is so selective. I won’t read a wall of text, but l frequently need to have subtitles on when watching television shows so I can process what’s being said. And I can’t listen to podcasts because I need to see a visual or text to process it, even tho I have no issues with music.

(Jane) #247

:laughing:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #248

No, no, NO—too many calories!

DUH yourself. :grin:

#EATLESSMOVEMORE

(Running from stupidity) #249

Ages, because he upsells.

#DRINKLIQUIDBUTTER #ITSGOODFOROLDPEOPLE

(Lisa ) #250

We did the same thing at university to prep for the OSCEs. Worked a treat.

(Ellen) #251

You just realised you have a weird sense of humour?? (P.s. notice the correct spelling? :wink:)

(Ellen) #252

Hope you’re feeling better soon @Keto6468, how long until your cast is off?

(Karen) #253

I have a splint on it until they pull stitches on the 14th. Then I wear another splint for about a month and a half but much smaller because the plate will hold things together. And then probably a brace. I should be out of this by end of February or mid March. Not hurting much today. Thanks for asking.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #254

Where was the break? I mean, where in your radius?

#255

I’m starting to think stevia is the cilantro of sweeteners - you either have the gene to tolerate it or you don’t. I keep hearing people say how bitter stevia is but I’ve never experienced this taste, it just sounds like we’re consuming two different products. I know now how my friends feel when I tell them I can’t tolerate cilantro.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #256

So wait, you don’t like cilantro and do like Stevia?

I love cilantro and can’t tolerate Stevia.

Very interesting observation!

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #257

@PetaMarie

Some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap because of how the cilantro smells to them: olfactory-receptor genes, called OR6A2

I have the gene but it is not expressed in my system so I love Cilantro. I hope, no I pray, that the OR6A2 never turns on.

(Dee) #258

Recently learned 2 things.

Just because the clothes fit your body it doesn’t mean you should wear them.

Also…
Clothing sizes mean nothing to me now…except maybe a reference point.
I have new pants at each size between 8 and 14.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #259

YEEESSSS!

#260

Women’s pant sizes are kind of like the Tangerine Usurper - inconsistent, demographic-pandering, lack of making sense, centered around egotized branding above all else, only there to make you feel bad about yourself, and have tiny pockets.

Oh, and sexist.