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Me: Hello this is (name) with (company). How many I help you?

Them- There is a slight echo when you talk

Me: Well can you understand me clearly?

Them: Yes

Me: Well what is the reason for your call? How may I help you

Them: I'll call back when there is no echo

Literally had someone had someone keep mentioning they can hear the person next to me with a loud keyboard typing. Kept derailing the conversation to bring it up. Like if you would just verify the information this call could have ended 3 minutes ago and you'd no longer have to hear it.

You haven't spoken to this person in years then out of nowhere you get the "how are you doing?" "It's been a while" and the whole pretending to have interest in what you've been up to. Only for the "listen, I need a favor". You don't care how I'm doing. If you need something just ask.

I briefly owned a pickup truck for a couple years and the amount of "how are you?" messages I got that ended with them asking me to help them move something were insane

Unrelated but years ago I drove my pickup to a friend's graduation party and someone(not my friend) needed help moving something and asked if I could drive 15 minutes to their place and help them mid party. I told them no and that I came here to celebrate with my friend and they could just rent a truck if they needed one.

I don't mind people who smoke or drink. A lot of my friends smoke weed and it's no issue. I don't even mind people who are high a lot of the time. But it's the "before we go to the grocery store, let me smoke" "before we go out to eat, let me smoke" "before I take the trash out, let me smoke" "before I shake your hand, let me smoke"

Trying to smuggle weed into every event in life. Like bro, why did you bring weed to your 5 year old cousin's birthday party? They can't or struggle a lot with stopping for a couple months to pass a drug test for a new job. Literally had a friend panic because they'd been trying hard to leave their old job and were applying to other jobs and got accepted but then found out they needed to pass a drug test. When most stoners I know just take a break while closing in on a job(unless it's medicinal)

Everyone hates a chronic interrupter. But I find people who take in long gaps and expect you to know they aren't done talking even more annoying than being cut off

Them: So yesterday I was at the store and I saw this shirt I'm wearing for sale

*Stops talking for 5 seconds*

Me: It's a nice shir-

Them: And also these shoes. Aren't they nice?

*Stops talking five seconds*

Me: They are nice-

Them: Only 60 dollars. Please don't interrupt me

Why do people do this? I have encountered someone who did this often and I literally counted down 5 slow seconds after they stopped talking. Why the gaps in speech?

One of the most irritating things about CCs. I am wfm now but I worked in office for a while. And this still happened and I was literally able to witness it. It'd be a dead time for everyone else and they are all available and on queue but for some reason every inbound gets routed to me back to back.

Literally would be in office fighting for my life while my coworkers are chatting amongst themselves on queue

For example

Them: Can I borrow your car this weekend?

Me: Sorry, I need it. I'm going out of town

**Later on**

Them: I have to catch an early morning train because (me) won't let me use their car

Like no. You have to catch a train because you don't have a car or your car is in the shop or whatever reason there is. If I crashed their car the week before or was using it when they needed it, then it'd be on me. Whatever you were going to do if you didn't know me is what you are owed. "I have to take an early morning train because I don't have a car" is the correct sentence.

This is just one example but there are people who have this weak mindset about things.

I'm sure this happens in other genres but I see it most in pop punk. Like a rapper will drop a mixtape and then the hit single will also be on the album. Maybe mixed and mastered differently.

But it seems with alt bands they'll drop an EP and then later announce an album and I'm excited. Then I see the tracklist and it's 10 songs and 6 of those songs are already on the EP. I totally understand putting one or two of the big songs on the album but the whole EP+ a few songs is annoying

I get that they are just upset in general but I've had several situations like this happen with different people.

Me: Just letting you know, it's pretty spicy

Them: Okay *eats anyway* ah! Why didn't you tell me it was spicy!

Or a situation in a hotel talking about the Continental breakfast.

Me: I know you like French toast sticks. Get up and get there early. They usually run out at 8 am

Them: Okay *shows up at 8:30 and they are gone* why didn't you warn me?

Was 250/140 in February. Since then I've lost 40 pounds, walked an hour at an incline 6 days a week on the treadmill. Been eating in a calorie deficit and limiting my sodium intake. I track and make sure I'm eating a balanced diet(big lean protein portions, big vegetable portions). That and the medicine I've been taking has helped a lot. By BP had actually been too low. Lately I'd been 90/55 typically. First they reduced my amlodipine. But now they've taken me off it completely and reduced a dosage of my other medicine.

Glad to have less medicine and to not feel dizzy when I stand up. Going to stick to this lifestyle forever. I feel great and have lots of energy.

As someone who is 70+ pounds down and has a consistent exercise routine. This is the worst advice and pushes this myth that you can work off weight. And usually you see this from fit gym bros telling an overweight person to get in the gym. When these people are counting calories and macros and know the facts.

I do an hour of exercise 6 days a week. On a normal day I'm burning 500-600 calories. On a motivated day I might hit 700-800(basing this on my weight/height, not what the machines are telling me). And it's great. Everyone should exercise. My blood pressure is super healthy, my resting heart rate is low, I feel good and flexible and have lots of energy. But all of that did very little for my weight loss. My weight loss was in eating in a calorie deficit consistently. Yeah when I exercise it gives me an extra 500 calories to work with but that's not much.

The only time I've ever felt like I truly burned off everything I ate in the day was when I moved to an apartment on the top floor with flights of very steep stairs. From 9 am to 10 pm I was walking up and down those stairs carrying heavy things inside. I was depleted fully by the end of the day and me and my friends ate tons and tons of enchiladas that night. Professional athletes who are currently training are probably burning tons of calories. But your hour on the stair master is great for you and can help overall. But 99 percent of my weight loss is from the kitchen.

I just dislike this "go to the gym, fatty" thing. Same with when people see overweight people eating "unhealthy foods" of any kind. Saw a video from a guy who lost 80 pounds and he was posting his meals of the day and how it all totalled to 1800 calories. One meal he had two Popeyes chicken breasts and mashed potatoes with no gravy. Fit it in his macros and deficit. Comments were scoffing like "1800 calories and Popeyes isn't going to help you" as if they weren't part of the 1800.

All of this to say that now that I've lost substantial weight, it really makes me see how dumb most advice/comments are. So many blatant lies and bad advice from people who are in shape. The best way to lose weight and get in shape is what system works for you and keeps you in a deficit and routine. I have a friend who has been working on losing weight as well and they have an entirely different routine/process and it's been working for them.

This annoys me so much. Especially since I don't even present it with the intention of getting special treatment or forgiven. If I'm late to work because my car broke down and I say that's why. That's literally the reason why. I'll take the attendance point or whatever policy there is. It's extra dumb when they ask you the reason and say it's an excuse

Me: just wanted to call ahead that I'll be 30-45 minutes today

Manager: Why?

Me: Car won't start

Manager: Excuses

Brother, then why did you ask if any reason would be considered an excuse to you? I understand the policy. Just telling you the reason.

This was very annoying in school when lots of things would happen simply because my family didn't have a lot of money. Like when they made it mandatory to turn in reports typed and this was back when it wasn't common for everyone to have their own computer/device. We didn't have a computer in the home until way late. I didn't get a laptop for myself until I was like 17. Had teachers who would assign a typed paper and it had to be done in a week. Owning a computer let alone a personal printer was rare in my poor area. But the printer part wasn't so hard. I'd give my mom a flash drive and she'd print it off at work or something.

Teachers were always like "excuses" when I'd ask to be able to write it for less points or turn it in later. Because computers were down at the library or my parents were working doubles all week and couldn't take me there. I'd always never expect anything. I'd say "mark me off for being late or whatever. Or for not meeting all requirements but this is what I can do right now" and they'd just say "excuses"

It's only an excuse if you're asking to be excused of something

Like what does this even mean? Are you implying you should have been sexy back then as a child? And it's like "oh I was so ugly and weird looking when I was developing into an adult" and?

I feel like glow up before pictures need to start at, at least 21

I always hear from people, "I could never count calories or prepare meals. I'd go crazy" or "I never know what I'm in the mood for until that day so I can't meal prep." Or something along those lines. But to me, I find it a lot easier and time saving.

I grew up poor so this "I never know what I'm in the mood for" is not me. My parents would buy everything with intention and have a plan for everything to make it last as long as possible. Rarely was it just looking in the fridge and whipping something up. We never had snacks or prepacked foods or anything like that. So it was like "we can use this portion of rice for these meals. If we divide the cabbage like this, we can do this with it." So a lot of either eating the same meal for days in a row or knowing having a meal plan ahead of time for the next two weeks based on the groceries we had was the norm for me.

But I also don't eat the same thing every day. I will cook a few things and switch the meals out but I have all my meals tracked for the next two weeks. And when you're meal prepping, it's easy to just track calories out. Measure a portion of rice once and copy that portion for several meals and continue with other foods. It's just relaxing to know where every dollar is going. I found that once I started locking in on meal prepping, my budgeting improved because I could calculate it better. I just find it relaxing when I sit down and enter my meal prep into the app and then prepare it and I know I'm good. I don't have to think. My meals are ready.

Calorie counting and meal prepping has saved me time and money in the long run

And the other things Brian references. He seems to have a huge love of old Americana. Old movies, classic cars, classic music. We've heard him mention The Cool a bunch.

This band was kind of a perfect mix of what I love. My Spotify most listened artist last year was Bruce Springsteen and the second list listened was Taking Back Sunday. So heartland and emo are my top genres. I grew up on Springsteen. My mom loves him and he has such a strong discography. Everything he released from 1973 to 1987 was classic masterpieces. Which is a crazy run. Even after that. He still put out great songs and really good albums. The song writing is just so personal. If you haven't heard a Springsteen album in your life or maybe never dove in. I would HIGHLY recommend Darkness On The Edge Of Town as a starting point specifically if you love TGA.

But it's not just the Springsteen. I also love old country/Appalachian folk. I listen to a lot of albums released between 1930-1960(Grayson & Whitter, The Kossoy Sisters, Carter Family etc). When I heard "high and lonesome sound" my mind immediately went to Appalachian folk music and that term being used to describe what it feels like. Love the old movies. There is just a feeling you get when TGA is on that no other band gives me. If another band were trying it, it would come off as corny or they are trying so hard to be an old band. But they pull it off by blending it well with the punk influence that feeds the emo side of me.

On a side note. I feel TGA fans would enjoy modern Taking Back Sunday. Their traditional emo fan base hates it but the singer has a very raspy heartland rock voice now and the band is in that direction. I was listening to a TGA album in the car with my friend who likes emo music and he was like "is this a new Taking Back Sunday album?" Would recommend their track Call Come Running.

I do an hour of treadmill every morning and have been playing through all their albums. I love all of them but you never realize how often he says "with the radio on" until you marathon them in this way.

If something is an injustice or something. That is one thing. But it'll be something like an establishment closes at 10pm. Someone pushes and tries to stay until 11. The park doesn't allow dogs but that one person sneaks their dog to that park instead of going to another nearby park without that rule.

Just little things like that. Sign says "take one" but someone takes five. Sign says "enter here, do not exit" but they exit anyway.

There will always be something chill and good but because someone constantly breaks a very easy to follow rule, then it gets taken away and they ruin it for everyone else.

People could argue what exactly pop punk is. Meaning, yes, The Ramones are a pop punk band but it's not what you think of when you think pop punk. I'm talking the mainstreamification of it. MTV and funny music videos. When you'd see a Taking Back Sunday music video on MTV and then an Usher music video would play after it.

To me the eras are late 90s early 2000s. Blink-182, Sum 41, NFG. Baggy jeans, spiky hair. Bright big budget music videos. Probably the most popular the genre has ever been. When your casual thinks of pop punk they are likely thinking of this and skateboarding. Anthemic songs

The mid to late 2000s. Where everyone was trying to be wordy and clever with their song writing(Pete Wentz/Max Bemis-core). Cute Is What We Aim For, The Academy Is..., All Time Low. Tight jeans, lumped in with the emo category. When I say wordy I don't mean the songwriting of this era was better. It just feels like when I listen to Cute Is What We Aim For's first album and hear these lyrics they were clearly going for something blink-182 on EOTS and NFG on Sticks and Stones weren't. When I hear that era of Pete Wentz-core writing it all feels very "I think very highly of myself but I also hate myself."

The 2010s Pop-punk/emo revival era. The Wonder Years, Real Friends, The Story So Far. This era will always hold a special place in my heart because I was in highschool at this time. I lived it. I of course was listening to 05 era. The first pop punk song I heard and loved was Dance Dance and it was new and the time. But there's a difference when you are 15 and Handguns dropped and album and The Wonder Years dropped an album in real time and you are of age to truly feel the music. This era is niche as far the genre goes. Fall Out Boy and blink have songs you might hear while shopping at a grocery store. You'd never hear it with the revival bands. Flannel shirts, jeans, hats. This era was very lumberjack-core. I feel it has the perfect mix of the two prior eras.

I feel like the revival has steadily carried on. modern pop punk has basically merged completely with emo. Bands like Hot Mulligan and Arm's Length who basically do both. But to me, they aren't too far removed from that The Wonder Years vibes. There isn't like a definitive "this is a pop punk band" "this is an emo band" today. They all come together.

Today as I'm pushing 30. My favorite era is the mid 2000s. I return to it the most but blink-182 is my favorite band forever.

I work for a massive company that covers multiple countries. We begin all our calls with "This is (name) with (company), on a recorded line, how are you doing?"

Normally either they continue the call, hang up, or ask us not to call. However, there is always that one person who seems interested but doesn't want to talk on a recorded line and will not move forward from that. They ask if I can "turn it off" like this a button I can press.

I usually say, "Sir, we are an international company. All of our lines are recorded. This is not my personal phone." And then cut into the reason for the call. But a lot of people get stuck on the recorded line as if it's something we can do.

I work from home and always have music on in my headphones while I'm working. Played this full album in the background and had this on while on the phone with clients. Made the call way more emotional than it needed to be.

I am in a comfortable position financially now. And it is much cheaper to buy in bulk and cook. Like buying a pack of ground beef, bread, and vegetables and making multiple burgers is way cheaper than buying 1 burger in the long run. And it's good when you know your exact budget and what you'll be getting.

But when I was in my early 20s and never knew what my next pay would be(inconsistent bad retail hours), didn't know when my bad car would break down and I'd need to put my whole paycheck toward something, or anything like that. When I'd pull up a recipe video for how to eat for a week when you only have 10 dollars. It would start with "buy 10 dollars worth of chicken thighs" or something. And it's no help at all when you have 10 dollars in your bank account.

You learn quick in this situations that buying canned goods, seasoning packs, or a premade sauce can help it stretch a lot. Way cheaper to get a pack of taco mix for a dollar than buy an assortment of spices that are 2 dollars each. Yeah, in the long run the spices last longer. But buying each is a big up front cost. I just hate "cheap recipe videos" that have an upfront cost 50+ dollars.

Glad I don't live that way anymore though. My GOAT cheap recipes in the broke days were a pack of chicken legs from Aldi seasoned with some flavor pack(if I had no spices) and rice or roasted potatoes.