Those two sets of professions differ in that one set has to interact with you directly and one doesn’t. So you haven’t really ruled out yourself as the problem.

The problem is, they know a lot more about their hobby than you do, and probably have strong opinions about things about it that you would have no idea about. So it’s a good way to end up getting them something they don’t really want.

IMO the person doing the cooking should get to decide. Like any household chore, you don’t tell the person doing it how to do it, you appreciate them doing it. Now asking them, would they make such and such how you like sometimes, is reasonable. Insisting isn’t.

Probably the fish. The acid in mayo makes it spoil a lot less easily then people think.

Wow, they suck. Also weird to have to come in to take a sick day.

I really appreciated how close the sink was to the toilet in my hotel room during my last bout.

That’s cause AI generates our dreams.

To be fair though, he’s come a long way since kindergarten.

I’m with you in not getting this. I think the concert comparison is useful. What a lot of people get out of a live show is a connection with the crowd. A bunch of people around them all expressing energy about the same thing. I think it’s the same with a political rally. Personally I don’t get this–I just lack the gene for getting into crowd energy or something. But a lot of people really enjoy this, and people ramp each other up. I kind of think it’s a human instinct we’d be better of without.

Assuming they mean this as a joke, there’s not really much point in responding at all. Bad jokes are best just ignored.

But…but…but…that’s not a magic bullet with instant gratification! We expect it to work like Amazon where we just order the thing we want and get it the next day.

Anyone who doesn’t like what someone does can call it robbery. Like charging a price that is too high in someone’s opinion.

But robbery in a legal sense is about property. If you dig up body in a legal cemetary, which generally means owned by some organization that runs the cemetery, that is probably real persecutable grave robbery. Elsewhere, not so much.

The words have very different origins. While I think they converged for a time, they started out different.

I use “mold” for the fungus and the tool, “mould” for composted soil.

I just used up a bag of dried dates that were a couple years past the date on the bag. They weren’t noticeably different from when new. (They went into something baked so also seemed less of a big deal.)

“Reduce cooking time by 2 seconds for each month past expiration.”

Some brands of mayo actually say on the jar that you don’t need to refrigerate them. In the fridge, I’d probably keep that 2 or 3 times longer then the jar claims it should last.

Unless stored in some unusual way, the nut oils would almost certainly have been rancid. Not very healthy for you, but wouldn’t give you food poisoning. Salt can hide the taste of rancid oils.

Preferably GPS coordinates that can be fed directly to the orbital laser.

I’m not giving anyone orders, just trying to convey how ridiculously anal you have to be about it get rid of them. I went through several rounds of “surely these things will be ok, they aren’t open / in a ziplock / not something it would possibly want to eat” repeatedly failing to get rid of them before finally putting EVERYTHING into glass, Tupperware or the fridge.

A flamethrower might work too.