TGIS!

Things that could tick off your waiter

If you want lemon, more napkins, a side of butter, and more water, great, let me do all that for you. If you ask me for each of these things one at a time in the same 2 minute period, go F&^% yourself. 

We have a menu for a reason. Chef offers specials for a reason. You are not the cook and this is not your kitchen. Making something vegetarian or switching the starch, no problem. Adding different sauces, baking instead of grilling, salmon instead of chicken, get out of my face with that stuff. Tell me what kind of meal you’re looking for and I’ll find it, or not. Just because you’re sitting at a table doesn’t mean I have to serve you exactly what you’re thinking of.

Read the full list here.


It may be time to replace...

1. Pillows

Replace after: One to two years

Besides turning flat with use, pillows soak up hair oil and skin follicles to make a nasty pillow stew of bacteria and disgusting dust mites. Replace your standard pillows after one year. Quality pillows will last up to two years, if you cover them in hypoallergenic-treated pillow-case protectors, which are designed to keep out dust mites and other allergens. 

Read the full list here.

Answers you should know before your job interview

He or she wants to know how you would fit into the company and what your relevant job experience is. You might answer by asking theinterviewer what he’d like to know. Or you might talk about your education, the fact that you’re a team player, or whatever you think might be important to this particular company.

Read here.

Wednesday Break

Happy Birthday Coca Cola!

6. Have you ever heard the myth that only two people in the entire world know the formula for Coke? Supposedly, two executives at Coca-Cola each know half of the recipe, ensuring that no one will ever know the whole thing and be able to sell the recipe. It’s a nice story, but it’s not true. The entire formula is kept in a bank vault in Atlanta, and more than two employees are familiar with it. They have to sign nondisclosure agreements before the secret is revealed to them, however.

Read the rest of the list at Mental Floss.


10 Reasons to QUIT Facebook

7. Facebook is pulling a classic bait-and-switch

At the same time that they're telling developers how to access your data with new APIs, they are relatively quiet about explaining the implications of that to members. What this amounts to is a bait-and-switch. Facebook gets you to share information that you might not otherwise share, and then they make it publicly available. Since they are in the business of monetizing information about you for advertising purposes, this amounts to tricking their users into giving advertisers information about themselves.

via Gizmodo.


and 10 Reasons to NOT quit Facebook

Did I mention free marketing? Zbriceno says “… Keep FB ’cause all types of contact, events, photos, discussion posts, WORLDCAT book searching; one stop shop!” Your organization’s Facebook Page includes status updates, event calendars, comments, discussion boards, videos, pictures, instant messaging and private messaging. All ways to reach your community using Facebook (i.e., potentially 41% of your community) for free. Think about it.

via David Lee King


Failbook

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Clowns... I hate clowns...

#10

Krusty wastes money almost as fast as he earns it: lighting his cigarettes with hundred-dollar bills; eating condor-egg omelets; spending huge sums on pornographic magazines; and losing a fortune gambling on everything from horse races to operas to betting against the Harlem Globetrotters. So why is Krusty on this list? For the simple reason that a person who takes copious amounts of drugs and booze, and sells products that kill (cereal with a jagged metal Krusty-O in each box) – can never be trusted!

Read on to find out who's #1. You'll see why I HATE CLOWNS!!!


Scariest Moments in NON-Horror Movies

24. The wrong man is disappeared

"The Bourne Ultimatum" (2007)

Directed by Paul Greengrass 

The dogged pursuit of Jason Bourne through jam-packed Waterloo Station is one of the "Bourne" trilogy's great set-pieces, but it's also a profoundly unnerving comment on the impunity with which covert government agencies operate in the "war on terror" era. The sequence climaxes with Paddy Considine, a journalist for a major British newspaper, being gunned down in broad daylight -- no surreptitiously cut brake cables or undetectable poisons here -- but even that's not as unsettling as the matter-of-fact manner in which an unsuspecting civilian who's been mistaken for Bourne is grabbed, drugged and thrown into a van, never to be heard from again. The abruptness with which an innocent bystander is converted to enemy combatant is breathtaking, not least because the film lets the moment pass unremarked upon. Bourne never mounts a rescue operation to rescue the poor soul, nor is there so much as a stray line indicating he's been found unharmed. In the government's pursuit of extralegal justice, ordinary citizens are just cannon fodder, and even the good guys don't have time to save them. - Sam Adams

Read on here.