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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

MisterCairo

I'll Lock Up
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Coming back from a post-move beer run, Canadian beer being sold in cans and bottles based on the American pint (Fellow Canucks, in case you were wondering why in the hell 473mL was a "thing". It is equal to 16 American fl ozs which is what they cutely refer to as a "pint").

Can you say "rip off"?!

An Imperial pint (by law, the only thing you can sell in Canada outside Quebec and call "a pint") is 20 Imp fl ozs, which is equal to more than half a litre at 568 mLs.

Now, THAT'S a pint...

I may have mentioned this before, apologies for the repetition if such is the case.

NOT.
 

Lean'n'mean

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Cloud-cuckoo-land
There'd better be 20 fl oz in that glass or someone's gonna get floored.
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Hat and Rehat

Call Me a Cab
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Denver
Yeah, but the best Goodman version (Victor 36205, recorded 7/6/37) runs a little over eight and a half minutes. How can they leave out the payoff? A solid send.



I worked late last night and turned the Bluetooth up a notch when I was alone. I usually let Pandora shuffle through the various times, genres and artists I enjoy. An 11 minute arangement, or jam, had me digging it, CCR performing Heard it on the Grapevine. As it faded out in closing I remembered when a bunch of raisins, on the payroll of Madison Avenue, made their first move on what we certainly thought, at the time, was OUR music.a
people just a few years younger than me would be skeptical if I insisted marketing once wrote their own promos and jingles.
 

3fingers

One Too Many
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Illinois
I try very hard to be civil in public at all times but occasionally I find it difficult to restrain myself. Complaining about soup and bread at what amounts to a slightly above fast food restaurant should allow anyone within earshot to ask "WTF is wrong with you?" People behave badly because it is allowed.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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Where The Tourists Meet The Sea
Yeah, I really wanted to say something, but I was working on a bacon cheeseburger -- done exactly as I like it -- and I always was taught it was rude to make fun of First World Problems with my mouth full.

Although I did exchange a meaningful eyeroll with the waitress as she passed. As the saying goes, "Just because we serve you, doesn't mean we respect you."
 

GHT

I'll Lock Up
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New Forest
It's like the setup to a bad vaudeville sketch. "Waitress, there's no body in my soup!" "Well gee lady, who do you want in there?" We could have May Robson as the customer and Mabel Todd as the waitress.
I don't know if this British sitcom ever travelled, so forgive me if you've seen it. If not, John Cleese gives a class act on how to deal with the sort of person who expects "body" in their soup.
 

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