Minor things that bother you

[SSOWorld]

Like Amazon Prime. If you bundle your purchases and are willing to wait a couple days, you can get free shipping without paying the prime fees.

but I want it yesterday!!!!

[Rothman]

No one got rich off of rewards points.  Not even the "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" guy.

[kkt]

People don't see the light or add figures up.

Some people don't add the figures up, and those people are the unscrupulous business's lawful prey.

[roadman65]

Some people even drive several miles from home to save money on food or gas, but if you're paying more in gas than you save, it's not worth it. The average person don't figure the math either but drive the extra miles to get a bargain.

[thenetwork]

Another strategy mostly C-Stores are doing is the "bulk pricing" deals.  The ones that say MONSTER DRINKS -- 2 FOR $5, then in small print ^{or one at regular price ($3.29)}

Or the buy more/save more pricing: 
CANDY BARS
2 for $3.50
3 for $4.00
^{or one at regular price ($1.99)}

[formulanone]

No one got rich off of rewards points.  Not even the "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" guy.

Well, only one. (Basically the Legend That Closed Every Loophole.)

https://www.flyertalk.com/pudding.htm

https://www.uselessinformation.org/pudding/index.html

[Rothman]

No one got rich off of rewards points.  Not even the "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" guy.

Well, only one. (Basically the Legend That Closed Every Loophole.)

https://www.flyertalk.com/pudding.htm

https://www.uselessinformation.org/pudding/index.html

Not sure if I'm reading that right.  The value of the points ended up being $25,000?

[roadman65]

Some convenience store coffee rewards are worth a free cup if you frequent the store a lot for a caffeine fix to and from work.

[mgk920]

One that has always bugged me is misuse of the word 'home', used by many as a flowery, positive way of referring to a quaint detached single family house on a lot.  I have always considered 'home' to mean the place, whatever and wherever it is, where you live, reside, are domiciled, whereas 'house' is the physical structure.

Mike

[GaryV]

'home', used by many as a flowery, positive way

It's just one of those "code words" used by people selling real estate. Home sounds better than house, because it evokes the thought that you will be at home if you buy that property. A house is just a building. A home is a feeling.

[kkt]

Some people even drive several miles from home to save money on food or gas, but if you're paying more in gas than you save, it's not worth it. The average person don't figure the math either but drive the extra miles to get a bargain.

And don't forget the wear and depreciation on the car.

[kurumi]

'home', used by many as a flowery, positive way

It's just one of those "code words" used by people selling real estate. Home sounds better than house, because it evokes the thought that you will be at home if you buy that property. A house is just a building. A home is a feeling.

Agreed, "home" should be singular and not allowed for advertising

"luxury townhomes" (condos)
"curb appeal" (if street is not 100% capacity with parked cars, you can see the curb)

and my favorite back in the day, "4 br 2 ba" (3/2 but they put carpet in the garage)

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Google translating the reviews by default. C'mon, it's obvious I understand English perfectly, there's no need to translate everything into Spanish.

[hotdogPi]

Would using google.us prevent this?

[Rothman]

Google translating the reviews by default. C'mon, it's obvious I understand English perfectly, there's no need to translate everything into Spanish.

No, es necesario traducirlo todo.

[LilianaUwU]

Google translating the reviews by default. C'mon, it's obvious I understand English perfectly, there's no need to translate everything into Spanish.

Related: YouTube forcing subtitles on despite me turning them off in the settings. Oh, and don't get me started on pausing the playlist I'm watching without my consent after a while.

[ZLoth]

'home', used by many as a flowery, positive way

It's just one of those "code words" used by people selling real estate. Home sounds better than house, because it evokes the thought that you will be at home if you buy that property. A house is just a building. A home is a feeling.

Agreed, "home" should be singular and not allowed for advertising

"luxury townhomes" (condos)
"curb appeal" (if street is not 100% capacity with parked cars, you can see the curb)

and my favorite back in the day, "4 br 2 ba" (3/2 but they put carpet in the garage)

That's why you walk through the home prior to placing the offer. My "hardwood floors" is actually laminate that you can purchase from Costco. I still purchased it because it was one of the few available in that neighborhood in January. And, according to the definitions of Merniam-Webster for this context, a "house" is a "a building that serves as living quarters for one or a few families" while a "home" is "one's place of residence". It's those personal touches and adaptions that turns a house into a home.

[elsmere241]

Meanwhile, my wife wants to replace our couch.  Not that it isn't falling apart and hard to climb off of, but I'm not sure we can afford a new one right now.

[vdeane]

In a non-money related one, Vivaldi appears to have adopted Chrome's large-text menus rather than using the system menus with no option to change back.  Ugh.  Chrome's are ugly and too big.

To follow up, it appears that Google is forcing this change on all Chromium-based browsers.  Between this and the Chromium adblocker woes (which I had hoped to avoid with Vivaldi, but Vivaldi is no longer able to block ads on YouTube, and paying for YouTube Premium feels like rewarding Google for their bad behavior).

Because of all this, I'm very seriously considering switching to Firefox, but there are a couple problems: Firefox doesn't have a way to block JavaScript on a per-site basis (necessary for getting around some adblock detectors and news paywalls), and doesn't appear to be an equivalent of the reading list (especially not in any way that can be synced between desktop and mobile), a feature I have come to rely on not only for saving pages for later, keeping track of where I am for reading fanfic or online serials, but also in doing all this while switching between my computers and phone.  I can get around the JavaScript problem with extensions (probably, haven't looked into it, but I had with Vivaldi before the one I used stopped working, at which point Vivaldi had the feature so I never found a new one), but the lack of a reading list is a deal-breaker, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about my YouTube problems for now.

[Scott5114]

I had an appointment to get my new driver's license today, so last night I made sure to take a shower and shave to appear presentable for the photo. And of course I cut myself shaving (which is something I hardly ever do). So my clumsiness will be immortalized in government records for the next eight years.

[Rothman]

I had an appointment to get my new driver's license today, so last night I made sure to take a shower and shave to appear presentable for the photo. And of course I cut myself shaving (which is something I hardly ever do). So my clumsiness will be immortalized in government records for the next eight years.

What I take from this is showering is not a routine activity for you.

[1995hoo]

I had an appointment to get my new driver's license today, so last night I made sure to take a shower and shave to appear presentable for the photo. And of course I cut myself shaving (which is something I hardly ever do). So my clumsiness will be immortalized in government records for the next eight years.

What I take from this is showering is not a routine activity for you.

And now we have an answer to this discussion about why "full-body deodorant" exists.

[Scott5114]

I normally shower every other day because I'd like the lake to keep having water in it.

[J N Winkler]

It gets tough when you can't count on your graywater becoming (after treatment) a downstream user's drinking water.

[Rothman]

I normally shower every other day because I'd like the lake to keep having water in it.

Perhaps you should live somewhere where the fluid your life depends on is more dependable.