Growing up a Knicks fan I just hate the Celtics in general. Often I pronounce it with the “K” out of spite. It is interesting that in all the uproar over naming teams after Native American cultures that “Celtics” gets a free pass, probably because they are white.
vikings. (fighting) irish. im sure there are others.
Yeah, how are we defining this?
In the NFL alone there’s: Packers, Steelers, Patriots, Buccaneers, Texans, Cowboys, Commanders, the aforementioned Vikings, Bills, Chiefs (Native American, so presumably not ok), Raiders, Saints, 49ers all named after various groups of people.
Add in others sports and colleges and … hoo boy there’s a lot. Sooners, Pirates, Mariners, Yankees, Rebels, Dodgers, Hoosiers, Cornhuskers, Musketeers… surely scads more.
Pretty much how my grocery shopping works in general, just on a larger scale with Costco but it lasts longer.
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Let’s not forget the occasional uproar over high schools teams with ‘Devils’ as or in their nickname.
Which, bringing this back, if Costco sold devil’s food cake it would of course have to be delicious, right?
Missed the planned Costco run again. A “storm” was coming so it was the most crowded place in town. Got a few snacks at Target to hold us over.
Angel food cake would have to taste better
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Waiting in the Costco cafe for my kid. It’s very people-y in here for a Monday afternoon! 
I like the frozen bags of 3-types-of-berries, put a handful on my cereal daily.
Buying salmon at Costco the other day, a random stranger stepped up to advise us of all the horrible evil additives in the salmon. We bought it anyway. 
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Had some Costco salmon this weekend. Grilled it up and it was delicious
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Reminds me of the old Jim Gaffigan joke.
“Do you have any idea what they do to that chicken?”
“No, but it’s delicious.”
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Farm raised “Atlantic” salmon is supposedly not really all that healthy. I’m sure it’s better for you than a lot of other things, but he coho or wild caught should be a lot better for you.
Of course, they are also much easier to overcook… lower fat content.
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a horrible evil stranger stepped up to advise us of all the random additives in the salmon.
…amirite?
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I did that once in home Depot. Buddy was buying a dryer vent pipe as was I. I told him the one he was buying wasn’t code because they could catch on fire.
He bought that one anyway.
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He had a burning desire to buy it
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Oh are we telling stories about strangers giving advice on what to buy? I’ve got one!
When I was trying to get pregnant I was buying pregnancy tests somewhat regularly and I had a two-pack on hand. Period was due Saturday-ish. Nothing on Sunday, nothing all day Monday at work… could it be? Took a test Monday evening. Negative. Nothing overnight or all day at work on Tuesday. And I was starting to feel lousy. But not like ill-lousy… a different kind of lousy I’d never felt before. Surely I must be pregnant. Took the second test. And I mean that second line… you could sort of tell where it would be if it was going to be positive, but it really really didn’t look like it was positive. (Now with all of the photos of positive Covid tests out there it’s quite obvious in hindsight that it was positive, but it was not obvious to me at the time so I felt like I truly didn’t know and it was killing me to not know.)
So Tuesday night after the “inconclusive” test I was reading up on pregnancy tests. The more expensive ones will detect pregnancy earlier than the cheaper ones and you want to test first thing in the morning when your pee is the most concentrated. OK. But I had an early meeting Wednesday morning, so I’ll hit up the store Wednesday after work and test Thursday morning. But I was SO exhausted Wednesday evening (all signs pointing to being pregnant) that I went straight home and went to bed at like 7:30 PM.
Thursday morning I wake up and I feel even worse and I really want to pee, but I need to wait until I have the pregnancy test. So I hopped in the car, drove half a mile to the store that I normally walk to, pick up the expensive pregnancy test that I’d researched online and man alive… I had to pee SO BAD at this point all I can think about is paying for the test and getting home so I can finally pee.
This lady stops me to explain that I can buy pregnancy tests at the Dollar Store. I’m wasting my money! No, this is the one I want. She stops me again because she’s going to show me on her phone how much I can save at the Dollar Store.
OUT OF MY WAY LADY! I HAVE TO PEE LIKE NO HUMAN BEING HAS EVER HAD TO PEE IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN BEINGS AND I’M NOT WASTING MY PRECIOUS CONCENTRATED MORNING PEE ON AN INFERIOR DOLLAR STORE PREGNANCY TEST!!!
(I barely made it through the checkout and decided I couldn’t make the half-mile drive home so I took my new expensive pregnancy test into the grocery store bathroom and learned that I was definitely pregnant in the grocery store bathroom.)
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I see that unsolicited advice pisses you off
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Not usually, but the second round of unsolicited advice was above & beyond. Especially because she was literally blocking me and did I mention that by that point I REALLY HAD TO PEE!!!