My wife, a keen gardener of heirloom tomatoes, says it’s because the varieties that sell commercially are bred for long shelf-life and nothing else.

I’ve started a fire in the kitchen. Not by messing up, but by using a toaster built in the 1950s and designed to toast bread as a secondary function to killing you. It was thirty seconds of horror, and then things were okay. The toast was in the sink under a stream of water and the toaster was unplugged.

It’s important to realise that even if a fear comes true, things will be okay. Get a kitchen-suitable fire extinguisher. Learn to use it. Don’t use death as an ingredient like I did. Understand that even if things go wrong, you’ll fix it. Your ability to deal with shit is bigger than the shit you have to deal with.

That would have to be the manager who complained to my manager that I was too friendly and wasting his time by saying hello and asking how his day was going every time we talked on the phone. 😐

I’m gonna be the cynic and say it - I think what we have here is a scammer hoping people will reach out with donations.

The account didn’t exist before this post was made. OP has a 76 IQ but uses perfect sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, paragraphs and five-syllable words like qualification. My spidey sense is tingling.

I have a similar story. One of the security guards was found to have a hard drive full of BDSM porn. When interrogated about it, she said “It’s not pornography. Those are my holiday photos.” And sure enough, she was the one holding the whip.

The compromise reached was that she wouldn’t put her holiday photos on her office computer any more.

A lot of the time I’ll read a thread, realise I have nothing useful to add, and move on.

One of my current co-workers. In his previous job, his company had him managing a warehouse by himself. Doing all the work, including the jobs that by the company handbook required two people and protective gear that they also didn’t provide. When they were finished with that place they fired him for ‘working unsafely’.

Not his responsibility, but still a dumb way to get rid of an excess employee.

I see some of the strangest questions in the sub. Objectively awful thing that only benefits a morally bankrupt few - yes or no?

The wealthy have an out. Peter Thiel, for example. He has a private compound in New Zealand he can bug out to if it gets too hot where he is right now.

I’d be kind of impressed with myself if someone disliked me enough to make a voodoo doll of me.

Lazy post. Just a link, nothing else.

Two machines designed to do the same job in the same environment look similar? Nah, that doesn’t track.

Local council food scrap bags. We’re supposed to separate our food waste and store it in compostable bags made of cornstarch plastic. Which start to break down the moment you put something wet in there, like food tends to be. How hard is it to design a bag that stays intact from Wednesday to Wednesday?!

Whatever, now my wife has her own compost bin I can cut out the middle man.

I would LOVE that.

I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.

Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?

What bugs me most is whether ‘biannual’ means twice per year or every second year.

Hell if I know. That was 30+ years ago.

Hoodie, tracksuit pants, woolly socks. Time at home is time not wearing a belt.

I don’t know what soap opera it was, because it was playing on the TV at my barber’s shop while I was in the chair. A woman started shooting at some people who had disappointed her. Just livin’ the dream.