credburn posted:

Incorrect. Your RAZR sucked. It was slow, the buttons malfunctioned, sometimes the phone would erase itself, it would melt if left out in the sun for two minutes, the battery life was nil, the camera barely functioned, the sound quality was rear end, the reception was terrible, sometimes half the screen would turn black and probably never return, and the little hidden sticker that's supposed to indicate water damage would always be tripped so your warranty was void no matter what.

Maybe you were the exception?

Everything else Motorola made -- the SLVR, the CRZR, the AIDS, the NAZI, they were all equally terrible. I just hate the RAZR especially because of its popularity. Then again, if the RAZR was never made, then twenty million people wouldn't have had to call T-Mobile to bitch about their broken phone and I probably wouldn't have had a job.

DrAlexanderTobacco posted:

I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with such a great phone

e: I used to work as a phone support monkey like yourself a few years ago, it's probably just confirmation bias because you're only ever going to hear problems when people call.

Cicadas! posted:

They must be making some kind of desperate bid for relevance, because I saw these at a Target today.



I cannot even begin to fathom what was passing through the head of the executive who decided that pressed chocolate dust and uncomfortably chewy red-flavored goop would pair well with each other.

Rollersnake posted:

credburn posted:

Can I post something that I used to hate?

Motorola products. Anything. I worked at a T-Mobile call center between 2004 and 2008 and at LEAST half the calls we got were because Motorola phones were the most cheaply made, slow pieces of garbage there was. Everyone wanted a loving RAZR because it had a stupid loving name and looked like poo poo. I got in trouble with work because I would actively try to dissuade customers from buying it. There were thirty other loving phones that were half as expensive as the RAZR and would last eight times as long and why why why DON'T BUY THIS loving PHONE.

One day some Motorola people came to the call center to tell us about some new bullshit they were making and they gave us all these weird candy dispensers that looked like phones. The girl sitting next to me pushed the button on it and the entire thing came apart like it was spring-loaded to destroy itself. Very indicative of a Motorola product.

To be fair, I don't know much about the cell phone industry now or Motorola. Maybe they got their poo poo together.

-S- posted:

Counterpoint: The Moto X and X2 are fantastic and I wish I had gone with the X2 instead of an S7

88h88 posted:

...and yet if you suggest to most Americans that their bread is awful and bread in name only, they get all upset and defensive.

Crow Jane posted:

I want to get a Moto X or X2, but my three year old Moto G is still going strong. They really do make great phones for the price.

Frankston posted:

What's with the weird colours for the Flintstones characters?

Marenghi posted:

It sounds like you're talking about the city centre supermarkets. The Tesco's there would be smaller than the one you'd find in a retail park, for the obvious reason of land premium.
Though I wouldn't know for sure having never been to America. There's probably someone who could better compare the two.

Rollersnake posted:

Tiggum posted:

I really don't get the appeal of these. What do you do with them? Display them? Why? Do people think they look good as decorations?

Cicadas! posted:

I hate Funkopop stuff. They're precious moments figurines for millennials. Ugly homogenized kitsch, scrubbed of any details that made the original characters distinct or interesting.

Cicadas! posted:

They're precious moments figurines for millennials.

If you collect these, you are a grandmother.

Frankston posted:

What's with the weird colours for the Flintstones characters?

Len posted:

A guy I know collects pops and when his ac broke he sold four and got almost $300 to fix the thing. It's stupid and dumb but apparently the market hasn't burst yet.

dumb. posted:

Actually Sensodyne Repair & Protect is the loving shiz if you can find it. The Novamin poo poo they put in it is insane new medical technology science stuff that's supposedly going to change the dental game for hardcore real:

NovaMin is the brand name of a particulate bioactive glass that is used in dental care products for remineralisation of teeth. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NovaMin )

It literally repairs holes in your teeth.

^{Attn Sensodyne: msg me for address where to send the shill checks}

Guy Mann posted:

I sincerely wonder if during our lives the mental health community will start classifying collecting the same way that gambling is. It just seems to completely obliterate some unfortunate people in the same way, only instead of blowing their paycheck on scratch-off cards it's on lovely plastic statues.

Ohnonotme posted:

Thread from the dead but this stuff (Repair and Protect) is loving brilliant. We get the one with NovaMin in the UK, you poors in the US don't. Canada does.
That, and a Sonicare - feels like you just got your teeth detailed at a really expensive dentist type toothwash.
Another one you don't get is called "Regenerate" - only really available in Boots (the chemist) in the UK, but holy gently caress, it works wonders. I was getting the start of my first cavity ever, at the age of 40 (too much hard cider).
Two weeks of using the stuff - it's gone, totally, and is a nice smooth shiny molar again.
Stuff I hate - alcohol free Listerine. It's poo poo. Get the blue "stay white" stuff and have tartar free teeth forever.

1redflag posted:

It seems like a combination of hoarding and gambling: gambling that the figurines/beanie babies, comic books, etc. will be worth something one day; hoarding them until they can be sold for their "true" value (which never comes because of mental gymnastics).