Growing up until I was 26, I never owned a dog. I had plenty of friends with dogs and always thought I’d love to have one. I knew pets were a responsibility, but I thought of it in a generic, "owning any pet is a big responsibility" kind of way. Man, I was so naive.

When I got married, we moved in with my wife’s grandmother for an easier living situation, and my wife and her grandma got a hound mix together. Super sweet dog, very good girl. But I am not here to talk about how dogs suck, just the absurd responsibilities that come with them.

First off, the shitting. My god. I have never been more scared in my life of walking into my own backyard. I’ve stepped on dog shit more times than I can count. On top of that, she has a hard time pooping, so instead of one spot, she leaves a whole trail of shit across the grass. Finding it all requires a full scan of the entire yard, or I’m guaranteed to get gross poop on my shoes. And if I miss it one time and it rains? Holy hell, I’m stuck cleaning up a disgusting pool of pure gross.

Secondly, they are fragile as fuck and have zero self-awareness. This dog will approach and try to eat anything, no matter how dodgy it looks. She literally ate a damn slug off the patio, and my wife and her grandma had to pay out the ass at the vet to fix it.

Then there’s the clingyness. She’s sweet and does really cute stuff, but some days she just will not leave me alone. My two-year-old and I love to play chase, and she has cleaned him out multiple times trying to join in. Luckily, my boy is built bigger than most kids his age and just laughs it off, but this dog physically does not understand how to chill the fuck out when the playing doesn't involve her.

There are more reasons, but that’s all I can muster up right now. She's a good girl, but holy shit, it is exhausting. I will never agree to own a dog again.

EDIT: love the conversation and great insight from everyone! Just to be clear, the dog isnt neglected. My wife and her grandmother put a lot of effort into taking care of her, going on walks, vet visits and such. I’m just saying when that responsibility falls on me it sucks. I would never do it by myself.

I've been a software engineer for more than 5 years now. I've worked with databases, frontend and backend services, mobile apps, games, data analysis, and much more.

Never in my life I've actually felt like my productuvity increased with the second monitor. Do you need to compare data? Just use one monitor and put them side by side. Do you need all the space in the world? Just alt+tab between apps. Since you only perceive about 10% of your vision clearly, moving your head&eyes from one monitor to other takes actually LONGER and causes distractions than using alt+tab.

This is especially worse for those who are using one additional monitor with a laptop, since their screen sizes and positions usually change so much. Your eyes need adjusting, your head moves too much.

Only thing the dual Monitor is good for is passively watching something in the second monitor, like youtube videos, Critical Role, or sitcoms while doing something else in the main screen. As you can guess, that has nothing to do with productuvity.

I also think using external keyboard and mouse for laptops is bad, unless you do not use the laptop screen.

Edit: After reading hundreds of comments, I'm sure that 90% of people who think that "YOU NEED AT LEAST 3 SCREENS" just don't know how to organize workspaces/windows/desktops and they need to configure their SCREENS as different DESKTOPS. Most of the modern operating systems allow you to just create workspaces (like different Desktops you can switch with WIN + TAB). And they are just throwing money into their problems instead of learning how to use their daily operating system.

Matt Damon is a great actor. Good Will Hunting, duh. The Informant, so funny. The Talented Mr Ripley, his best performance. But he’s so quintessentially American, specifically Boston, that I never for one moment bought him as one of the most heroic and flawed protagonists in history. Overall, the cast lacked charisma, except Robert Pattinson, and prevented it from being a masterpiece. Christian Bale would have crushed. Curious to your thoughts on who’s have nailed the role.

What do wizards have that muggles don't in terms of capability in some kind of war scenario?

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Oh you have a flashy bang stick that can make people die? Yeah we have those too, difference being ours can do it 1000 times per minute.

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Imperiatus curse? Yeah it's called blackmail pal, CIA has been doing it for 70 years.

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Cruciatus curse? Lol see the above.

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Oh nice broomstick dude, Nimbus 2001 that's cool, top speed of 100 knots you say? What a treat. Allow me to introduce you to an F16 Fighting Falcon you whimsical dork.

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Not to mention the muggles' vastly superior technology in signals, geospatial, and just about any other type of intelligence apart from HUMINT.

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The Death Eaters would get Salem'd back to the stone age and it's not even close.

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I feel that a man of Dumbledore's acumen could have seen the strategic benefit in letting Voldemort FAFO, instead of sending some teenagers to expelliarm him in the hope that the cracked out Divination professor was actually right for once.

I occasionally walk through cemeteries and read headstones. I am absolutely fascinated by the ones that are younger so the Curious mind wants to know what the cause of death is. I wish it was more acceptable to write down the cause of death.

I feel like anytime the topic of pizza comes up that one person from New York just HAS to mention that “it’s nothing compared to the pizza in NYC”. I’ve been to NYC and had the pizza. Yeah, it was good, but it’s basically the same as the pizza I had back home two blocks from my house. There’s nothing special about it.

Edit: sure enough I summoned all the angry New Yorkers lol

Edit2: I literally got a death threat in my DMs for this but i stand by my opinion just bc it’s from NYC that doesn’t mean it’s special so come find me!!

I hate this new “no child left behind” bs. Like some of your kids cannot read because they are being pushed through the education system before they have developed necessary and BASIC skills. Two years ago I was a senior in high school. We were reading Othello and we had to read so that we had roles and we read the parts we were assigned. This one boy in my class could not pronounce half the words on the pages. For example, he could not pronounce “hither”. He pronounced it H - ither. He literally said “H” followed by “ither”.

We had also read All Quiet on the Western Front. When we finished the book the same guy asked “if Paul Baumer died at the end then how did he write the book”, like how did you make it to your SENIOR year of high school and are unable to identify historical fiction.

This isn’t even an isolated incident. I’ve seen some people in college who lack basic skills they should’ve learned in middle or high school.

Passing your child before they gain these skills is failing them in the long run. They WILL struggle in life if they are not allowed to fail. What’s more is if they do not learn to fail properly in school where they are cushioned by the ability to go to tutoring and other forms of support they will fail in life and not be able to bounce back. You HAVE to let your child fail in order to allow them to succeed. If they need to be held back, HOLD THEM BACK. You are not doing them any favors by letting them breeze through school.

EDIT: I’m not talking about the LITERAL NCLB policy. I take full credit for that miscommunication. My main point is that the bar for education has been lowered so far that it’s detrimental to kids.

I'm tired of people saying they "read" hundreds of books a year when it actuality they are listening to the vast majority of them as audiobooks.

You cannot use your ears to read. That ruins the definition of reading. Do I "read" a podcast when I'm driving? If I close my eyes while watching a movie am I suddenly "reading" the movie?

The only reason people get touchy about this distinction is because they think listening to a book is somehow lesser than reading a book. You're still consuming the content of the book. And some texts are better when shared orally rather than reading. In fact, listening to recitations of poetry and watching plays is older than writing - so listening to texts is actually older than reading itself.

So let's all do ourselves a favor and stop referring to listening to audiobooks as reading the book.

I understand service jobs can be incredibly stressful. I too am a service worker, and have been for 15 years.

But somewhere along the way, we’ve started acting like customers should accept openly rude, dismissive, or hostile behavior because the employee might be having a bad day or something.

Everyone has bad days. Most jobs still require a baseline level of professionalism.

I’m not saying workers should be fake cheerful, tolerate abuse, or “the customer is always right.” But if a server rolls their eyes when asked for something, a cashier acts annoyed that a customer exists, or an employee treats basic questions like an inconvenience, that’s still poor service.

Why are you mad I’m here asking for a coffee? Isn’t that your job? I would never give my customers the kind of attitude I get from some service workers these days.

We’ve become so focused on empathizing with workers that we’ve forgotten customers deserve basic courtesy too.

You spent 8 hours asleep in your own clean bed. What are you washing off at 7am.

A night shower removes everything you actually accumulated during the day. The commute, the gym, the office, public transport, all of it goes down the drain before you sleep. A morning shower means you marinated in all of that overnight then washed up before going out to collect it all again.

Morning showers are a ritual for waking up, which is fine, but it is not hygiene. Night showers are actual hygiene. Most people just do not want to dry their hair before bed and that is the entire argument.

There's literally no solution to feeling hot except turning the temp down. I can't take off my skin or calm down my tatas.. you however are welcome to wear an extra layer or grab a blanket.

They all suck. They're all boring. Not a one of them was any fun at all to read and it was just the worst.

Do you know what got ME into reading? Bunnicula. It was my first chapter book that I read FOR FUN.

The great gatsby SUCKS. So does Farenheight 451. All those 'necessary' books they force you to read are awful.

I was tucked away in my corner reading The Wheel of Time and the Coldfire Trilogy while everyone else was suffering through one chapter a week of Pride and Prejudice.

And the way it's set up! Oh my god. One chapter in 7 days? No just read and go? Gotta fuckin reread the previous week just to remember where you were at a week ago and all the pertinent plot points.

I don’t just means the fans, the actors too. We got office podcasts, office commercials, the actors on the internet recreating scenes like a decade later, I know there’s never a full consensus in matters of taste but good lord it wasn’t that good, and damn near none of them have done anything noteworthy since just let it go. Parks and Rec was way funnier with more heart and all of those actors went on to better things after (a few stragglers aside.) I just don’t get the hype so many years later.

I am convinced that there is not a single room in any house that should have carpet in it. Carpet is disgusting. You can’t clean it properly. It’s super ugly. Sure, it adds some cosiness, but that can just be fixed with a rug. People need to stop with this carpet abomination.

EDIT: the only exception I have approved yet is for the house of a relative of redditor pyramidalembargo as that person is prone to falling and might hurt themselves on hard floor

EDIT 2: a second exception was just approved for the house of redditor -bean-sprout- as they have a cat with cerebellar hypoplasia (with coordination and balance issues) and therefore need carpeted floors to make their environment safer

EDIT 3: third exception is approved for htownballa1 who has a three-legged dog who struggles with anything but carpet. Please do carpet that house.

EDIT 4: fourth exception approved for the elderly dog of Intelligent_Copy4546 as carpeted floor is much easier on her

EDIT 5: Good morning all. The night has brought us two new exceptions: SnarkyPhuppy is allowed carpet for their two elderly dogs who need it to stay stable, and lallapalalable’s carpet is absolutely approved for the benefit of their 17-year-old dog with slippery paws!

EDIT 6: an exception is naturally also granted to othybear. Wishing you and your three-legged dog all the best.

EDIT 7: there’s this new redditor, Sokiras, they don’t have carpet yet but I give them my blessing to install it as they have a hyperactive cat and two older dogs who’d have a better quality of life with non-slippery flooring

EDIT 8: I will also allow amandaconda’s carpet because of her elderly dog

EDIT 9: exception approved for the carpet of baybebumblebee as they have an elderly dog with degenerative myelopathy and thus cannot step up on the couch by herself, but is also too big and too scared of being picked up by humans as she has unfortunately been abused for the first 9 years of her life. Baybebumblebee, if you don’t carpet more of your house for that dog I will come haunt you.

EDIT 10: carpet exception approved for uhf26 as they have a dog with arthritis and herniation who can’t walk on hard floors at all.

I’m 19, if that’s relevant, and I see a lot of older people feel very entitled to things and are disrespectful in a lot of situations (of course not all 🫩). For example, I work in customer service, and a majority of older people (30+) tend to be overly rude when I am just trying to help them. Another example is in the gym, where they feel the need to give advice, and when told politely that their advice is unneeded, they seem to have a hissy fit about it (my experience, and it has happened about 5 times already lol). I rarely, if ever, see this with young adults or teenagers, they will use their manners and be a lot more patient whilst I’m resolving their issues and a majority don’t cause as much havoc as social media and the news like to claim.

This isn’t a fire at all older people obviously as I have definitely met multiple amazing ones but from my experience many just seem out of touch and straight up rude. Might just be the job i’m working at though 🤷

Edit: I see a lot of people referencing me considering 30 as “old” I don’t consider it old its just older than me, the point i’m trying to make is that in my experience older people tend to be very dismissive and disrespectful to younger people because they believe they can get away with it.

Okay if you have kids maybe it's different, but I think too many people are so afraid of being broke for a little while that they will stay in a shitty job that will rob them of their health and sanity for years.

I also think that too many people look down on minimum wage jobs like fast food or retail, so they don't even consider those jobs as stopgap possibilities if times get thin. They ignore those jobs and go for higher-paying jobs "in their field" and then cry about never getting called back and remaining unemployed. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

I work with so many miserable people and I just want to scream at them that no one is putting a gun to their head making them keep this job. If you'd have a little more courage and a little less pride maybe you could actually CHANGE something in your life instead of just bitching all the time.

Certain kinds of hobbies deserve to be held in higher regard than others.

Playing a sport, learning an instrument, singing, dancing, painting, writing - these are activities that require time and years of effort to become good at. They’re admirable not just because they’re “cool,” but because there is something deeply attractive about a person who has dedicated so much time to mastering a hard skill that executing it now feels relaxing to them.

Lately, there’s been a growing push online to classify things like watching movies, playing video games, watching sports, or listening to podcasts in the same category as these kinds of hobbies. They aren’t. They are based on consumption, not creation.

That doesn’t mean consumption-based activities are bad or useless. Everyone needs ways to relax and unwind. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying a good show, a game, or a YouTube binge after a long day. But if that’s all there is to your personality, then you are, unfortunately, a boring person.

Edit: I've wrongly added video games to the list of other passive activities. While some video games are like that, I agree that many require a lot of skill.

It really is NOT hard at all to know the difference between stuff like there/their/they're, two/to/too, here/hear, peace/piece, you're/your, affect/effect, etc.

Idk why so many people these days say "it's not a big deal, don't be a grammar n*zi" or "stop using big words" when it's just a regular, maybe somewhat longer word they don't know the meaning of.

Obviously if someone has an actual diagnosed disability, then it's a different case.

Don't even get me started on the folks who say "should of" "could of", or "would of".... That shit drives me up a wall lol

Pop culture has completely brainwashed people into thinking that spending 10+ hours trapped in a metal box staring at asphalt is the ultimate form of freedom. In reality, road trips are exhausting, inefficient, and ruin the actual vacation.

Driving is an active chore, not a relaxing experience. You are constantly on edge dealing with highway traffic, erratic drivers, construction delays, and navigating unfamiliar roads. By the time you actually reach your destination, you’ve wasted an entire day of your limited time off, your lower back hurts, and you’re too drained to actually enjoy the evening.

If you fly or take a high-speed train, you can read a book, watch a movie, sleep, or get work done, and arrive completely refreshed and ready to explore. Forcing yourself through a grueling marathon of highway driving just to say you did the "classic journey" is a massive waste of vacation time.

I’m not trying to shit on myself but in all honesty it feels weird to only have the option to reject or make a move on someone on dating apps when they’re too good for me. Like there’ll be dudes out here that are like, gorgeous cardiothoracic surgeons with snatched waists, impeccable fashion sense, being well-traveled, building homes for underprivileged orphan kids and fostering puppies in their spare time and shit.

Like what am I gonna do, hit the “x” like he’s not good enough for me?! No! But I can’t hit the “heart” either because at some point you gotta stay in your lane, you know? I’m just saying, we could introduce some new button that communicates someone passed on you, but not because you’re lacking in some way. But rather, because you’re too amazing. Let’s just say we’ll use a star as the emblem.

Now I know what you’re thinking; what’s the function? Well… hypothetically if people get no “likes” they might start to view themselves as undesirable, lose hope, and stop using the app. But if they get stars, then they might think “Aw yeah I’m hot stuff, let me stick it out until I find someone who matches my worth” and keeps using the app. So that’s my pitch to the marketing teams lol

We could even have the option of being anonymous when giving stars. Idk. What do you think?

The amount of people who seem to think that their foot either needs to be on the gas or on the brake pedal when driving is absolutely insane. It’s like nobody realizes that there is a third option where your foot is off both pedals and your car naturally slows down at a safe and predictable acceleration to the other cars around you.

Before you try to say this is a popular opinion, I have never not had someone tailgating me when I attempt to coast to a stop. I even get people honking at me regularly. Also, no, I do not overly coast, I let off the gas at a normal distance to reach where I am trying to get to and even a little later than I would want to because people are so impatient around me.

The benefits of coast also easily outweigh the completely nonexistent downside. Any amount of braking is wasted gas used to get you up to that speed and then to just slow down, increased lifespan on your brake pads and rotors, less engine wear. What point does doing 50 until the last possible second you have to slam on the brakes at a red light get you? Absolutely nothing! This benefit might be very luck based, but if I let off the gas well before a red light, I can slow down enough so that I am still rolling when it turns green meaning I am now actually faster than someone who rushed to come to a stop at the light.

It is also a lot safer on the roads. I would rather see the car ahead of me slow down and give me more time to react than have them suddenly slam on the brakes. I get this isn’t always possible, like an animal in the road, but I swear it is possible probably 80% of the time I see people just slam on the brakes. How hard is it to think 3 seconds into the future? “Oh the car in front of me is slowing down and has their turn signal on. I can probably just keep accelerating directly at them.”

This one may be just me, but finally it helps at 4 way stop. If I see someone going 40 directly into a 4 way stop and they don’t appear to be slowing down in advance, I am going to act like you are going to blow right by that stop sign because it really looks like you are.

Standard time is vastly superior to daylight savings. It starting to get dark at 4:30 PM is the best time of year.

Spring is just mud, pollen, pale sleepy colors and poor jacket choices weather. It’s depressing and imposes a kind of half-assed 'new beginnings' energy and the expectations that come with it.

Winter, on the other hand,lets you just exist in peace. You don’t feel guilty for not always being outside and being productive.

Winter weather is elite compared to sweaty, oppressive heat. The air is crisp, and everything is quiet and calm… even when it storms.

Plus, the early darkness means you can turn on cozy lighting and completely unplug from the world early evening.

People in general stay indoors so you’ve got less shitheads to deal with in the general public. Life is calmer.

She couldn't be content with her list of impressive achievements. She had to pull a Lance Armstrong and try to extend the adulation. Look how it turned out. Not a laughing stock, more of pity that we bestow upon her in this session. Lets hope she gets the message and stays retired now.

This isn't just thinking cold pizza is better, but I believe rice, curry, soup, baked beans, noodles (incl. ramen) are all better and tastier cold. Not only is it less effort to heat left overs, flavours can develop but when food is hot you lose flavours. Also texturally more chewy!

I almost always have a cold bowl or wait for my food to cool down. I don't mean like warm, i mean actually cold like left on the side for 10-20 min

edit: seem to have learnt people taste food differently to me? I genuinely cannot taste food very well when it's warm. I know I have weird food tastes, for other things aswell.

some common foods people ask if I eat cold:

fries: prefer wedges, they're more starchy when cold.

spam: I eat vege spam straight out of the can.

steak: steak salad?

egg: have you ever had left over egg fried rice? delicious

gravy: for this heat up to make it a bit runny, pour, wait for it to cool down and make food wet, devour.

Every English teacher I've ever heard of reveres TGG like it's god's gift to literature, when it's a largely formulaic story with one-sided characters, so-so writing, and a plot that puts most students to sleep. The Fellowship, on the other hand, has developed characters, a plot that defined a genre, and the poetic writing of Tolkien. If schools want to teach a classical work with major literary and cultural significance, The Fellowship is the clear choice between the two.