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Admiral Snaccbar @Chris Mench Serving shrimp with the tail still on when it’s already mixed into something (pasta, rice, etc) is insane.

137 points

When driving you are making things more dangerous and less efficient by waving people in. If it is your right of way take it.

Be predictable, not polite.

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Almost got into an accident last night on this. Car 1 stopped at a 4way to my right, Car 2 opposite me stopped, then I stopped. Distinctly. Whole ass seconds between all stops. Me and 2 are waiting for 1 to go. It’s 11:00pm. I can’t say for sure, but I just KNOW Car 1 was waving his hands at us, who can’t see through his windshield because that’s how night time works. Way too much time passes, and me and 2 are like, fuck it and start going, then 1 flashes his brights and goes narrowly missing both of us. Was he just really wanting to be an a car accident? Is he drunk? Who knows, but half the accidents I’ve narrowly avoided involve a 4 way stop and an idiot.

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9 points

I point this out to my kids on a regular basis. My oldest is 15 and about to get his license. I tell him that cars being polite are being dicks to those behind them.

Your quote is the exact quote I say to him.

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Drivers that want to queue in single file when you should use all available lanes and then merge in turn at the front.

REEEEEEEEEE!!!

Edit: I really want to know the thoughts of the people that downvoted this lol

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4 points

Simple, orderly zippering when a lane actually ends is the way. Wasting that useful pavement to create slower traffic and more traffic jam is insane and should be ticketed.

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The most infuriating are the wannabe policeman that straddle both lanes to stop people passing.

Like, if you wanna sit in a queue for no reason then good for you, don’t stop people passing that have actually bothered to read the highway code.

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3 points

Got into that with my MIL once.

When confronted with the idea of leaving an emergency lane in a traffic jam, she also vehemently insisted she’d never done that.

That woman shouldn’t drive.

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1 point

I didn’t even know this could be controversy…

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6 points

In my city there is a very popular good samaritan trap on the main drag into town, and I am waiting for the day something nasty happens at that particular parking lot entrance, so then they maybe redesign that section of the street or something.

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6 points

I fucking hate this because it creates ambiguity, usually at times when things need to happen very quickly. It always seems to happen at busy intersections when I’ve got mere seconds to get through, usually a left hand turn. I’m waiting because I need to make the turn, there’s a person across from me going straight who will have the right of way and I can’t go til they go, but I’m looking back and forth waiting for an opening for when that person will go (and then me). The opening comes… and I wait… and they wait, and then I see this fucking person is looking at me like a jackass like they were doing me a favor. The favor would’ve been them following the goddamn right of way, then we both could’ve gone to where we needed to go, now I have to wait again.

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I first thought you were talking about waving to pedestrians to cross when you stop to let them go. Which (edit: stopping and waiting) is a correct and expected behaviour, afaik

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4 points

Stopping for pedestrians at cross walks is correct, but you should never be waving at anyone to go.

When you wave at people to go they are less likely to check that the other lanes are safe for them to cross. You stop and look right at them so they know you see them and wait until they go on their own.

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2 points

That was about what I meant, but thanks for expressing this, sorry I was vague.

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1 point

That’s fine. That’s telling a pedestrian you have seen them and are obeying the rules of the road. That’s reasonable.

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Misunderstanding “right of way” is half the problem.

Right of way is ability to make a road, or the road itself by extension. You can’t have the right of way - it’s usually the government’s - and you can’t give it away. This is why wording is consistently who must yield the right of way, and not who has the right of way.

If it’s a driver’s turn to act, they are obligated to act. It’s not their option or right to act.

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10 points

I’ve usually heard “right of way” used in terms of sense 3 of the dictionary. I’ve never heard it used to refer to the ability to make a road – that just makes me think you have a skilled construction crew on speed dial.

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-5 points

Dictionaries list common usage - even if incorrect. Look up the definition of right of way for your state or other government and I’m certain it will be the thing on which you travel or the right to create and manage it, not your “rights” while traveling on it.

I couldn’t find a list of all definitions by state but the three states I checked all use that.

It would be weird if they didn’t, since that’s been the term since before automobiles existed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way

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8 points

Indeed, in the boating world, the words are “stand-on” or “burdened” vessel, which makes it clear that the vessel that should continue its course has the obligation to do so under the collision regulations. The “give way” vessel should alter its course or intentions to “keep clear.” Nobody — nobody! — has the “right of way.”

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There’s actually no legal definition for “right of way” in the UK. Despite it being a widely understood concept, if you go to court to defend yourself in a road traffic accident and your defence is “it was my right of way, your honour”, you could find yourself in trouble.

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Weird. I found one in seconds on Google and it’s about whether you can use the way, not the rules governing turn order while driving.

https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-public-rights-of-way

Did you look it up before making that comment?

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115 points

Yeah I’ve never understood if they expect me to just eat the tail, or start playing with my pasta with my hands to pull them off. Certainly not gonna waste like half my shrimp by just cutting the meat where the tail starts.

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82 points

“Oh yes sure please make my comfort food more difficult to eat thanks”

I’m right there with you. Serving shrimp tail-on might as well be serving something on a log instead of a plate.

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Ok… I’ve never seen on a log on a plate before.

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35 points

Assert dominance by eating as per normal and when you encounter a tail, spit it at the chef.

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26 points

Am I eating in the restaurant kitchen or walking back there each time I bite a tail?

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12 points

I like each time for extra awkwardness

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3 points

Save them all in your cheeks then blast them at the chef like Yoshi

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3 points

My dad leaves the shell fully on as a stand-alone appetizer of grilled shrimp, so the shrimp is entirely covered in shell. It took until the third time my ex had dinner there for him to ask why the shrimp was so crunchy and for me to realize I’d forgotten to warn him.

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23 points

Press the very start of the tail with your fork sideways so it’s cut, then pull the shrimp from the tail with the fork and knife.

Anyway, the post is right, it’s borderline violent insanity.

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22 points

Yeah but that’s such a fiddly process. I’ve sprayed pasta and sauce all over the table because my knife or fork slipped trying to do surgery on my food

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8 points

I don’t get when a fancy restaurant does it. If it’s not a Cajun boil or similar vibe, please don’t try to make me look polite deconstructing seafood.

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4 points

Great! My fork slipped while trying to perform this insane feat of dexterity and my shrimp flew across the restaurant!

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4 points

My cheat for getting the shrimp meat out is to pinch the tail. It just slides right out.

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87 points

Putting anything inedible on a plate is insane.

If its on my plate in a restaurant, I will attempt to eat it.

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47 points

I was on a school trip to a hotel, and was handed some dragon fruit. They didn’t tell me how to eat it, so I bit right into it. Took out a big chunk and wanting to try something new I kept chewing it.

The man had a look of what was a mix between horror and surprise on his face and told me to spit it out.

Not really a plate but I was handed something with inedible parts and no instructions. Similar I suppose?

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20 points

Not sure if this is a thing everywhere, but a lot of bakeries around here will serve baked goods on a plate with a napkin under the baked goods. Not a big problem with things like croissants, but when cakes and stuff with sticky bottoms are served like this, it drives me insane. Both the purpose of the napkin and the plate has been defeated.

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10 points

You can 100% eat the tails and I 100% do this

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6 points

Do you mean the exoskeleton?

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0 points

same i like the crunch! I’ll eat the whole shell!

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5 points

Fun fact: The original purpose of parsley on a plate was that it was there for you to eat. Specifically there for you to eat at the end of a meal as a breath freshener.

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3 points

People don’t eat parsley?

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3 points

I love parsley. Who are the idiots leaving parsley on the plate?

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4 points

Skewers and other utensils are obviously OK. Some parts of natural foods can sometimes act like skewers or utensils, too, so that just becomes a normal part of the presentation and eating method. Like cocktail shrimp should still have the tails on, as a little handle.

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3 points

When I was a little kid, I ate one of those red peppers at a Chinese restaurant. I didn’t know that you were supposed to pick them out. This probably explains my love of spicy food.

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3 points

You were supposed to not eat those? Well, I figured, I’m not obligated to eat everything if I want less spicy, but I never thought that those are decorative

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3 points

Do it.

Lock eyes with the chef.

Don’t let them win.

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I wouldn’t say insane but that’s defo against the rules for me. I often have chefs who want us to leave the bellybuttons on cherry tomatoes and I get this mildly niggling feeling because I read a few years ago that they’re poisonous.

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9 points

They’re not. Trust me, my niece ate almost nothing except grape/cherry tomatoes for the first 4 years of her life, she’d never have made it. I’ve personally eaten whole cherry tomatoes more days than I haven’t in the last month and I feel great.

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6 points

You now have me wondering if the killer tomatoes in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes are venomous.

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1 point

I think they’re just heavy.

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3 points

Can you direct me to any sort of source on that? I did a brief search, and I see some information about toxins found in tomato plants in general, (mostly stems, leaves, and green/unripe tomatoes), but nothing that specifically discusses a higher concentration in the “belly button” (I assume you mean the core/where the stem connects?) vs. the rest of the fruit.

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Well like I say, I just read it somewhere a few years ago, and I’ve just had a brief search myself and found the same thing as you basically.

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On cherry tomatoes they’re so tiny it doesn’t really matter. You can even eat the stems in larger tomatoes once in a while (though it tastes bad), the amount of solanine left is miniscule. On ripe tomatoes that is.

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44 points

Yup. That’s super gross. I totally agree.

But, probably not for the same reason.

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36 points

Found… ! Oh…

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3 points

found the vegan

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24 points

Beat ya to it.

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9 points

Clever

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As someone who eats the tail: This is fine. I like the cronch.

The only thing I don’t like is when they don’t remove the poop chute and there’s just a big-ass turd in the shrimp. 🤢

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16 points

Yeah I eat the tail. I don’t see anything wrong.

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103 points

That’s because you’re both insane.

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In my case, I think it’s because when my siblings and I were kids, we only got to eat the tail because my parents wouldn’t get shrimp for us but for themselves and then not eat the tail which we would.

I mean, I am insane, but that’s not why.

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2 points

You tell em, Ivanaafterall!

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11 points

For various reasons, I’m calling the authorities… ALL of them.

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5 points

So… Hey Lemmy… Does everybody wanna meet this dude?

Dude’s everywhere. We need to meet this dude.

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1 point

Yeah I eat tail and I’m proud of it

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3 points

It’s the occasional stabby thing that gets me, though.

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