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What is this "size" of which you speak?!
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Quoth DGoddess View PostSorry, but making people lactose-intolerant is not one of my superpowers. But then I try to use them for good.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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Quoth BeckySunshine View PostI've tried using my superpowers for good. It never works out. The evil always sneaks in....WHY DO YOU TEMPT WHAT LITTLE FAITH IN HUMANITY I HAVE!?! -- Kalga
And I want a pony for Christmas but neither of us is getting what we want OK! What you are asking is impossible. -- Wicked Lexi
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Just, that's what I do. I'm quite good at it.Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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I can understand confusion when it comes to shake size (drink size no, shake size yes)
Places that "hand" scoop, mix their shakes typically (as in not everywhere but for the most part) only come in one size . . . .
Whereas places that use a shake machine tend to offer more options.
So if you have grown up only getting shakes from the places where they only come in one size . . .so you have always said I would like a chocolate shake . . .it could throw you mentally for a moment when asked what size.
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Quoth jayel View PostSorry, yes, relative would be more fitting here. But I'm still waiting for the elusive answer to the pizza question!
I don't go in for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
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I dunno about the "starting at medium" thing, but I'd like an answer too, as I had a related incident at a McDonalds.
I'd asked for a large fries with my 10 nuggets, get my fries, and they are most definitely not a large. I talk with my cashier (who I later found to be the manager) and said "These aren't large fries."
"We don't have large. Only small, medium, and super-sized."
What followed next was an argument in semantics with me getting slightly sucky, but pointing out that if I'd asked for a size "They don't have" then she should have asked for clarification. But seriously, someone asks for large, and you give them medium, rather than the size above medium? *shakes head at the memory*
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Quoth Broomjockey View PostBut seriously, someone asks for large, and you give them medium, rather than the size above medium? *shakes head at the memory*Unseen but seeing
oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
3rd shift needs love, too
RIP, mo bhrionglóid
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Quoth cinema guy View PostRegular implies it is the default size. But customers pretty much buy the sizes they want.
It's worse when they start asking for memory. "Just regular computer memory." Still need to know size and type, folks. There is no "regular" in computer components.
As to pizza sizes, I think many of the pizza places have smalls, but they don't put them on the menus because they're actually the child-size personal pizzas or something. That's a guess because we did have smalls where I worked in high school. I think part of it comes in the psychology of the words, too. Naturally, mediums are larger than smalls, and the prevailing attitude is that bigger is better. Ordering a 12" small is less appealing to most customers than ordering a 12" medium. That's why the owner of that pizza place changed his Shaved Ice sizes from "Baby, Small, Medium, and Large" to "Small, Medium, Large, and Jumbo."I suspect that... inside every adult (sometimes not very far inside) is a bratty kid who wants everything his own way.
- Bill Watterson
My co-workers: They're there when they need me.
- IPF
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Yeah, size is relative. Medium or Regular is the mid-range size option. Small is usually too little unless you're a kid or drink very little, and large is usually more soda than anyone should drink in one sitting. Then you've sometimes got sizes above that which should all be labeled as bladder-buster size.
Quoth jayel View PostSorry, yes, relative would be more fitting here.
Quoth cinema guy View PostThat's just.... Words fail me. And that was a manager
As for the whole pizza question, I wish they'd just give the diameter. Screw all that subjective irregular sizing crap.
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
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