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Iron Prince posted:Hey, speaking of the thread title: gently caress everything about this.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Maybe I got lucky, but my first car was a former rental (2002 Dodge Neon. RIP. I still miss that loving car), and it ran like a champ. I put a lot of miles on that in very short time. Was a tank Christ my aunt and uncle still to this day daily drive a 96 Aerostar mini van they picked up from a rental auction, only 4 big breakdowns in all these years
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May 24, 2020 07:58
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MarcusSA posted:gently caress everything about this. Someone in another thread pointed out that this is just the cast of Scrubs.
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May 24, 2020 11:10
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Weatherman posted:Someone in another thread pointed out that this is just the cast of Scrubs. Well that doesn’t make it better! FFS.
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May 24, 2020 11:20
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It can't be the cast of scrubs because Carla wasn't a doctor and the Dominican female has a doctor coat on.
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May 24, 2020 12:42
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Who said she was African-American?
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May 24, 2020 12:57
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Yeah, she's Puerto Rican.
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May 24, 2020 12:59
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Kinda...Scrubs-ish?
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May 24, 2020 13:05
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Yeah I apologize. I'm really high right now- she is Dominican.
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May 24, 2020 13:06
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Did no one here actually watch the show? You're supposed to reply that no, she's Dominican. They did a whole song number about it.
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May 24, 2020 13:20
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Calling a Dominican a Puerto Rican or vice versa is a good way to start a fight among some folks.
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May 24, 2020 13:23
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Krispy Wafer posted:Did no one here actually watch the show? You're supposed to reply that no, she's Dominican. They did a whole song number about it. Honestly, it's been so long since I've seen the show I just knew she wasn't black after reading those replies and assumed they were correct. Either way to my original point she's wearing a doctor jacket in the Funko if it's supposed to be her.
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May 24, 2020 13:23
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Iron Prince posted:Hey, speaking of the thread title: They can take these and shove them so far up their rear end it comes out their mouth. If my boss gives me one I will literally light it on fire
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May 24, 2020 13:40
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That’ll be pretty funny if in about 20 years these become unusually valuable because absolutely nobody’s gonna give a poo poo about them now.
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May 24, 2020 13:53
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I try so hard to understand the appeal of those things I really want to get it why people spend money on them but it's a complete mystery to me. Just some real stupid poo poo.
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May 24, 2020 15:43
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I try so hard to understand the appeal of those things I really want to get it why people spend money on them but it's a complete mystery to me. Just some real stupid poo poo. BRAND understand my love for THING and how I can express it in the most materialistic possible way! I must give them $20 for a piece of molded plastic to show all my friends how much I love THING! *proceeds to have entire personality based around Kelly Kapowski*
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May 24, 2020 15:58
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Promoted Pawn posted:That’ll be pretty funny if in about 20 years these become unusually valuable because absolutely nobody’s gonna give a poo poo about them now. They've absolutely saturated the market and are dead cheap to design and make. From a business standpoint, sure they aren't sustainable, but it doesn't matter because they make money on every one. If they limit production runs to what they are sure will sell, they can create artificial scarcity and build a collector's market for an easily reproducible object. It doesn't matter if they only sell a thousand figures of a run if it only cost three dollars a pop to produce, they only made a thousand, and sell it for ten dollars.
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vyst posted:Honestly, it's been so long since I've seen the show I just knew she wasn't black after reading those replies and assumed they were correct. Either way to my original point she's wearing a doctor jacket in the Funko if it's supposed to be her. Latino and black aren't mutually exclusive identities. Latino is really a cultiral signifier even though Americans use it to mean mestizo.
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It seems like they're running the opposite of the scalper model with pop figures. Instead of jacking up the value by doing limited runs, they're shoving as many of them into as many retailers as possible while the pop culture fads the figures are based on is still relevant. The number of people who want Rick and Morty memerobilia drops like a rock once the show is over so make as many pickle rick figures as possible while the goin's good.
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May 24, 2020 18:14
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Funko Pops do have some advantages in that they're sometimes the only readily available merchandise for a particular property. They also do more upscale stuff in notably different but similar branding, I've mostly noted with Cuphead figures that are more on-model.
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May 24, 2020 19:03
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Rhandhali posted:You should check out The Rock-afire Explosion documentary. Its fascinating and depressing. If I ever get rich, I'm gonna buy a warehouse, a Rock A Fire set, and do poo poo like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b90Cf6ARscc
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May 24, 2020 19:44
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funko Pops do have some advantages in that they're sometimes the only readily available merchandise for a particular property. Plus some of the non-human Funkos look decent at best   But they wouldn't be so bad if they had pupils.
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May 24, 2020 19:53
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I suggest not filling your house with garbage.
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May 24, 2020 20:02
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I have bad news, most of your house is already garbage
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May 24, 2020 20:07
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Lambert posted:I suggest not filling your house with garbage. Then where will you live?
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May 24, 2020 20:16
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I'm leaving the thread in shame.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I try so hard to understand the appeal of those things I really want to get it why people spend money on them but it's a complete mystery to me. Just some real stupid poo poo. to the extent that funko pops are appealing, it's pretty much just because they have a tendency to pick up licenses that get almost no other merch whatsoever so if you want a little figure of a Steven Universe or FLCL or MST3K character on your desk, they're kinda your only option
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VanSandman posted:They've absolutely saturated the market and are dead cheap to design and make. From a business standpoint, sure they aren't sustainable, but it doesn't matter because they make money on every one. If they limit production runs to what they are sure will sell, they can create artificial scarcity and build a collector's market for an easily reproducible object. Yeah, but I specifically meant the “generic nurse” pops. It just seems like the perfect combination of poor taste and lack of pop culture presence that would cause them to rot on shelves.
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May 24, 2020 21:05
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Iron Prince posted:Hey, speaking of the thread title: They can suck the covid isolation gear sweat right off my balls
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a mysterious cloak posted:They can suck the covid isolation gear sweat right off my balls Tyvek suits fuckin’ suck in terms of sweat, I have never felt grosser in my life than I have after wearing one to haul some 300 pound dude out of his house.
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Sorry if this was posted, but it just read hertz filed bankruptcy. That’s like a staple of car rentals (of the past). I need to try to keep up w this thread, but so many are going under it’s impossible
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Promoted Pawn posted:Yeah, but I specifically meant the “generic nurse” pops. It just seems like the perfect combination of poor taste and lack of pop culture presence that would cause them to rot on shelves. Hallmark figurine market but for nerds. People that feel obligated to give you a gift can be like "well they like x property" and then just buy the little Funko Pop figurine and call it a day. If they can expand that out to job categories, then every nurse office, teachers day, and 'we need a gift for grandma's boyfriend who was in the marines 4 years ago' is a sale. I got one of those thing as a gift, and I even have it out where people can see it because it's a Don't Starve character and I like setting up little displays where he's in peril. I am terrified that that will signal to other people that it's an easy gift option, though so I've gone hard on asking for perishables for gifting occasions.
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I like Funko Pop’s Rock Candy line, but they don’t make as many of those, and they’re harder to find outside of the Internet.
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Hertz was a much better rental experience for me than Enterprise but because of the price difference, I only went to Hertz if I had a company discount.
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Rick posted:Hertz was a much better rental experience for me than Enterprise but because of the price difference, I only went to Hertz if I had a company discount. I use National probably 10 times a year, never a problem. Good rates. It’s weird to see good companies go down at no fault of their own imo.
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Burt Sexual posted:Sorry if this was posted, but it just read hertz filed bankruptcy. That’s like a staple of car rentals (of the past). It was 50 years in the making but this is a direct result of them having OJ as their spokesman.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:It was 50 years in the making but this is a direct result of them having OJ as their spokesman. They shoulda thought of that 20 years before he sliced people’s heads off!
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Burt Sexual posted:They shoulda thought of that 20 years before he sliced people’s heads off! Hey, he at least got people thinking about their fleet of white Broncos. You don’t do that by not trying.
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May 25, 2020 00:16
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Good companies go bankrupt all the time. I don't think there's much need to mourn an international car rental service megacorp.
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Lambert posted:Good companies go bankrupt all the time. I don't think there's much need to mourn an international car rental service megacorp. Agreed on the company part, still a bummer for whomever worked there and is losing their job. In normal times you can do the “yeah, they could have looked ahead and gotten out” (not saying you are implying this btw). def no way to anticipate Covid coming in and crushing companies like this. So really, all in getting at is that yeah, we expected companies like JC Penny to go bankrupt. But to see it hit companies that I assume were decently run, and have employees get hacked as a result, it just loving sucks.
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