Things that baffle you? (1 Viewer)

[Jeffrey D]

I love coffee and a good dinner is not complete without a strong cup of coffee to top it off. However, your aversion to it is personal and we all find something gross that other people love. Mine is milk which I find the most disgusting piece of fluid on the planet. Even as a kid I refused to eat my Cheerios or corn flakes with that white muck on it. I ate the cereal dry or with chocolate milk (still disgusting but the flavor is disguised) instead. Curiously I LOVE cheese and ice cream, both dairy products and I always put a little bit of cream in my coffee, just enough to give it some color (but NEVER sugar).

I like milk, but it has to be cold, and can’t have any smell whatsoever. Decades ago, I got a mouthful of rancid milk- not much worse on the planet than that, so my unbreakable habit is I will ALWAYS take a whiff of the milk I’m about to consume. Even if I drank from a carton 5 minutes ago, I’ll smell it to make sure.

 

[Kevin Hewell]

Must be a REALLY BIG receipt!

Have you never been to CVS? I'm exaggerating a bit but it's nuts.

 

[bmasters9]

Have you never been to CVS? I'm exaggerating a bit but it's nuts.

It is-- actress Joey King went one time to one in her hometown of L.A., and she only got 2 packs of M&Ms there, and she got a long receipt, per this Wednesday Wisdom video of hers (go to the 1:28 mark).

 

[Clinton McClure]

A single item receipt at CVS tends to run about 8-10”. My local PerSmart is the same. It is quite absurd.

 

[Jeffrey D]

A single item receipt at CVS tends to run about 8-10”. My local PerSmart is the same. It is quite absurd.

Best Buy receipts need to be folded over a couple of times too.

 

[ChristopherG]

the king of long receipts has to be Sears (one reason in a long list of why they are where they are)

 

[Malcolm R]

Which is amazing as some retailers are now asking if you even want a receipt, let alone one you can wrap twice around yourself.

There are a couple retailers around here that print on both sides of the paper, so even a longer grocery receipt is cut in half.

 

[bmasters9]

A 2018 article from Vox on why CVS receipts are as long as they are (and why Joey King's was for the small purchase she made at her hometown one in Los Angeles):

The long, long history of long, long CVS receipts

Why is a receipt for cough drops the height of a small child?

www.vox.com

 

[Kevin Hewell]

the king of long receipts has to be Sears (one reason in a long list of why they are where they are)

I can't remember the last time I saw a Sears. When I was a kid that used to be the go-to place.

 

[bmasters9]

A single item receipt at CVS tends to run about 8-10”. My local PerSmart is the same. It is quite absurd.

I think you mean PetSmart.

 

[TJPC]

People who pronounce the “t” in “often”.

 

[LeoA]

I've never heard a single person pronounce it "ofen"?

 

[jcroy]

The strangest case of pronunciation I come across, are non-native english speakers who pronounce the letter combination "ll" with an "sh" type pronunciation. (They seem to be from places like Argentina).

 

[Kevin Hewell]

I've never heard a single person pronounce it "ofen"?

I never pronounce the t. That's the way I've always said it. When I hear people pronounce the t it just sounds weird to me.

 

[TJPC]

Here in southern Ontario, the "t" seems to be prounounced by mostly young new Canadians.

 

[Clinton McClure]

In the southern US, the t is usually not pronounced. I have always pronounced it and am usually accused of being from the northeast.

 

[Clinton McClure]

I think you mean PetSmart.

I would go back and fix it but it’s funnier this way.

 

[TravisR]

In the southern US, the t is usually not pronounced. I have always pronounced it and am usually accused of being from the northeast.

Makes sense. I'm from the northeast and I always say the 'T' and almost always hear it pronounced.

 

[Thomas T]

When I make a statement and someone says, "That's just your opinion". Duh! Who else's opinion would I give? If I give someone else's opinion, I credit them ("Pauline Kael said it was trash").

 

[Clinton McClure]

In high school, I failed an essay-form English Lit test about The Scarlet Letter that specifically asked my opinion of the book. I was told I failed with no other explanation than “my opinion was wrong”.