You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by bossy22

I'm used to my windshield being chipped up every year, and I accept it's a part of life living here. But a rock caught my driver side window and now there is a big crack in that window.


So I have to replace a windshield, a drivers side window and the front camera because of rocks.

We drove out to Edmonton for my kids hockey tournament and somehow took a rock to the third row window in our family hauler and it shattered. Fortunately the window held together either because it was laminated or because of window tint and we were able to stop in Leduc where a glass shop was still open and the guy there was able to apply an adhesive film over the extra to make sure the shattered window stayed in place until we could get it replaced. That was not something I ever expected to happen.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

What is inside Dubai chocolate because it looks like Alpaca spit? And why am I seeing it everywhere?

Just more efforts to wash what Dubai is….

[Harry Lime]

Saw the flash headline that Beyonce joined the billionaire club.

I've listened to her music. Its alright. Pretty mid.

I guess my issue is that in the age of streaming, you can barely make a living on music alone, even with hits. So its performing and other avenues to roll the real money.

Cult of personality. A billion dollars?

[troutman]

^ She has solid over 200 million records (solo and Destiny’s Child). She’s the top certified artist of the 2000s decade. First solo artist with seven studio albums debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

Forbes said the release of the star's 2024 album, “Cowboy Carter,” and her accompanying tour — which was the world's highest grossing of 2025 — fueled her 10-figure fortune, along with a sprawling business empire, music catalogue and new commercial opportunities from the genre-shifting record.

Beyoncé earns significant music royalties primarily by owning her master recordings and catalog through Parkwood Entertainment, giving her control and a larger share of income from streaming, sales, and licensing, alongside massive earnings from tours (like the $400M Cowboy Carter tour) and big deals (like her Netflix agreement). She retains ownership of her catalog, a crucial factor in her recent rise to billionaire status, generating millions annually from music alone, supplementing huge tour revenue and brand income. [AI Overview]

Her husband Jay-Z has a net worth of $2.5 billion.

[Harry Lime]

So, this should be happening more often, but music companies and record execs are Satan turds.

[woob]

Billionaires RGMG.

[Scroopy Noopers]

What people buy young girls as presents grind my gears.

I’d love for a single member of my daughters extended family to show that they think there is more to her than being a pretty girl. You should see what this kid can build out of Lego.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

Just more efforts to wash what Dubai is….

The crazy thing is, Dubai Chocolate isn't from Dubai. It's Turkish, but they called it Dubai Chocolate to give off the impression of high class...

Yes, some people in this world think "Dubai" is synonymous with class and not tacky, slave labour, desert hellhole.

[curves2000]

Might have posted this in the thread earlier but it grinds my gears with what has has happened to a lot of the beers I grew up liking. Corona, Modello, Heineken, Stella, Sol and others are now all brewed in Canada and just taste really different. Like WTF.

Ironically the prices haven't come down to reflect this domestic garbage, I like some craft beers but then again joe's random lager which is blah costs $9 a proper pint.

The bastards who run the world have taken it all away from us.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

What people buy young girls as presents grind my gears.

I’d love for a single member of my daughters extended family to show that they think there is more to her than being a pretty girl. You should see what this kid can build out of Lego.

I got my niece an F1 Lego car. It was the first thing she got at once presents were opened. She loves it. I always get her stuff she can build, we can do it together and she can be creative with things like marble runs. The older one only likes makeup. BORING.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Cappy

The crazy thing is, Dubai Chocolate isn't from Dubai. It's Turkish, but they called it Dubai Chocolate to give off the impression of high class...

Yes, some people in this world think "Dubai" is synonymous with class and not tacky, slave labour, desert hellhole.

I ended up buying one bar. It’s definitely not my thing, and there are so many better uses for pistachios that I really hope the Dubai chocolate fad ends soon.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I ended up buying one bar. It’s definitely not my thing, and there are so many better uses for pistachios that I really hope the Dubai chocolate fad ends soon.

Yuck no thanks, they’re all yours. I haven’t eaten a pistachio in 20 years since I found a maggot in one that almost went in my mouth

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Yuck no thanks, they’re all yours. I haven’t eaten a pistachio in 20 years since I found a maggot in one that almost went in my mouth

In other nut related news, TIL that the daily advised intake of brazil nuts is basically one or two nuts, because of the high amounts of selenium. I could crush a bag of brazil nuts.

[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by Wormius

In other nut related news, TIL that the daily advised intake of brazil nuts is basically one or two nuts, because of the high amounts of selenium. I could crush a bag of brazil nuts.

Kind of interesting, in that the farms could be downstream from mines producing the selenium. Alberta actively trying to dodge the same issue.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Kind of interesting, in that the farms could be downstream from mines producing the selenium. Alberta actively trying to dodge the same issue.

This is the way South America gets rid of their heavy metals. Alberta needs to create a side industry that crafts selenium into something we can export.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Wormius

This is the way South America gets rid of their heavy metals. Alberta needs to create a side industry that crafts selenium into something we can export.

I bet if you combined it with some clay...

[RichieRich]

Originally Posted by curves2000

Might have posted this in the thread earlier but it grinds my gears with what has has happened to a lot of the beers I grew up liking. Corona, Modello, Heineken, Stella, Sol and others are now all brewed in Canada and just taste really different. Like WTF.

Ironically the prices haven't come down to reflect this domestic garbage, I like some craft beers but then again joe's random lager which is blah costs $9 a proper pint.

The bastards who run the world have taken it all away from us.

RGMG that some of those domestically brewed brews listed are sold as imports.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by Wormius

In other nut related news, TIL that the daily advised intake of brazil nuts is basically one or two nuts, because of the high amounts of selenium. I could crush a bag of brazil nuts.

Oh man Brazil nuts are fantastic, yeah a bag could easily go down in a sitting even if it leaves me with the selenium levels of a sparwood trout

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Wormius

In other nut related news, TIL that the daily advised intake of brazil nuts is basically one or two nuts, because of the high amounts of selenium. I could crush a bag of brazil nuts.

I think more than 4 brazil nuts in a day is considered toxic for humans.

Some geniuses here think Selenium is good, because it is in multi-vitamins.

Alle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift; allein die Dosis macht, dass ein Ding kein Gift ist.

All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.

—Paracelsus, 1538

All chemicals—even water and oxygen—can be toxic if too much is eaten, drunk, or absorbed. "The dose makes the poison" or in Latin, "Sola dosis facit venenum".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison

[troutman]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

Oh man Brazil nuts are fantastic, yeah a bag could easily go down in a sitting even if it leaves me with the selenium levels of a sparwood trout

Sparwood Trout with no gill plates.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/from-...ows-no-borders

Subsistence fishermen and First Nations who eat fish caught downstream from sources of pollution have high selenium blood concentrations. Prolonged exposure to selenium in humans can cause selenosis, a condition linked to hair loss, skin lesions, neurological disorders, and intestinal problems.