4/14/25 - Revenge Quitting, Coffee, and Mac-N-Cheese
- bribriny
- Apr 14
- 3 min read
Monday 4/14/25
Celebrate:
Dreams of Reason Feast Day - dedicated to discarded and debunked scientific theories as well as to visions of the future from science fiction that have yet to come to pass.
Ex-Spouses Day
International Laverbread Day
International Moment of Laughter Day
Look Up at the Sky Day
National Dolphin Day
National Grits Day
National Pecan Day
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Reach as High as You Can Day
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Second weekend for A Minecraft Movie and it held 52% on it's massive opening weekend. $80.6M also gives it the 16th best second weekend ever for a movie, and the second best second weekend for a videogame movie after Super Mario Bros’
2. The King of Kings $19.1M
3. The Amateur $15.0M
4. Warfare $8.3M
5. Drop $7.5M
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Ahead of Easter next weekend, Cadbury is revealing the world’s largest creme egg standing three feet tall and weighing 99 pounds!
It took them 2 1/2 days to make it by hand!!!!! It's in England.
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Your morning coffee ritual might be getting a scientific upgrade. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have found that simply changing how high you hold your kettle can dramatically improve your pour-over coffee’s strength—without using more precious beans.
Pour-over coffee brewing is where hot water flows from a specialized kettle onto coffee grounds in a cone-shaped filter.
The three key things
Higher pours = stronger coffee: Pouring from greater heights creates more turbulence and better mixing, yielding stronger brews without using more beans.
Avalanche physics: Water jets create “avalanche dynamics” in coffee grounds, causing waves of mixing that continuously expose fresh grounds to water.
Pour slower for better results: Thinner, slower water streams allow longer contact time between water and coffee, potentially improving extraction efficiency.
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It's Monday and you just can't deal with your office co-workers.
According to The NY Post, aggravated, burned out and cranky 9-to-5ers are virally revealing their most “unhinged” hacks for getting payback after being wronged by a colleague, manager or high-level executive.
One said that “When the boss went on vacation, I removed all the furniture from his office and replaced it with dollhouse furniture.”
Forget quiet quitting, it's now Revenge Quitting, and pranks!
“I arrived early [and] took a screenshot of [an annoying coworker’s] desktop. Then removed all the icons on her computer and replaced the background with the screenshot. She called IT to the office. It took all day to ‘fix.’”
“I applied for every weird job available and used their work email and our bosses phone number to call him.”
“I (fake) befriended him at work, gaslit him into thinking he’s way too good for here and he’s wasting his talents, kept sending him job offers, within 5 weeks he was gone.”
“I became their boss. they HATED that.”
“When they say something ridiculous, I look them dead in the eye and say, ‘What an odd thing to say,’ and hold that stare just a little too long. The sheer panic is my reward.”
“I put my two weeks in and said I was quitting because I couldn’t stand working next to someone who doesn’t work. They fired the other person to keep me AND bumped my pay $20k a year.”
“Plugged in an extra wireless mouse where they couldn’t see the fob. I’d move the curser when they were in the middle of things so that they’d have to retype it jump all over the screen.”
“When I would overhear them talk about taking a vacation or day off, I would immediately request the same days so that theirs would get denied.”
“She always kept a box of cereal on her desk for breakfast and I’d get in early and crunch up the flakes until they were dust.”
DON'T TRY THESE AT YOUR WORKPLACE!!!
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Backyard barbecue season is almost upon us and Kraft Mac & Cheese is bringing a brand-new flavor to shelves, and it’s perfect for anyone who’s yearning for the smoky-sweet notes of summer. The offering is dubbed Smoky Barbecue, and the limited-edition boxed mac and cheese flavor tastes exactly like you’d imagine, cheesy and smoky with the subtle sweetness of barbecue sauce.
Kraft calls the innovation a “bold, smoky comfort."
Two separate snack-sized flavors, Jalapeño and Ranch, are arriving on shelves as mac and cheese cups.
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Lobster wasn't always considered a delicacy . . . before the late 1800s, lobsters were called the "cockroaches of the sea" and fed to prisoners to save money.
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