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Rick posted:I am talking about The Loft in Tucson. Is your place in Pasadena? During my exhibition class in college someone did a presentation on one there. But southern CA has a lot of good little theaters. Nope, The Frida in Santa Ana. It's rad as hell and did a (packed) screening of Cats on Valentine's Day. I'm glad there's a decent place for movies down there too
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I remember having Tab Clear either in the late 80s or early 90s. Not seen any Tab branded product in the UK since then.
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My local library has had a Tab extra machine since the early 90s. It's still there, presumably full of Tab.
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I’ve been wondering, was the thing about Fresca that season that it’s something only an rear end in a top hat would drink?
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It's just a funny thing to drink. Kind of like the fly from season 1.
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's just a funny thing to drink. Kind of like the fly from season 1. It was mildly funny but I hope The Donald Trump Show is not renewed for a second season.
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Nucleic Acids posted:I’ve been wondering, was the thing about Fresca that season that it’s something only an rear end in a top hat would drink? It was just a joke the writers found funny. https://twitter.com/therealkripke/status/1315459769725976577?s=21
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DACK FAYDEN posted:The Jonathan Coulton cruise attracts literal thousands of nerds every year I mean, I'm fine with cruises (although I'll never go on one) but I just don't get the appeal of a cruise with Kenny Loggins or whoever as the main draw. Is that the last bastion before the artist starts playing county fairs and such? Just seems... Weird. kumba posted:my neighbor growing up that used to drive me to school used to have tab instead of coffee every morning I used to drink it up until the very early 80s. I am old.
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DACK FAYDEN posted:The Jonathan Coulton cruise attracts literal thousands of nerds every year Isn't the JoCo cruise more like a convention on a boat, rather than Coulton being the main draw? Like, there's a bunch of events and stuff and people aren't just going to hear a live performance if Re: Your Brains?
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buddhist nudist posted:Isn't the JoCo cruise more like a convention on a boat, rather than Coulton being the main draw? Like, there's a bunch of events and stuff and people aren't just going to hear a live performance if Re: Your Brains? I've got a friend that goes, it's a chance for anti social turbo nerds to mingle for a few days without feeling like a total weirdo. Coulton is just one of the acts.
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there wolf posted:That's kind of what happened with bookstores and other media outlets. Little places don't have the overhead or need for mass appeal that big chain does, so they can get by with a smaller customer base and be a lot more flexible in what they offer. If this means more theaters that'll show Rocky Horror, and I'll be able to get a cast going at a local one, then hell yes.
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Are gay cruises still a thing? I feel like those had a special place in the cruise pantheon. And by gay I mean the family friendly versions with people like Rosie O'Donnell and not the sexy sex cruises. It had to be nice to be out and open with your partner and kids and not worry about other people for a week. And looking it up it appears they are very much a thing and now I wish I had used incognito mode because I'm now about to get lots of new focused advertising.
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I feel like Disney cruises have that crossover you are looking for.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Are gay cruises still a thing? I feel like those had a special place in the cruise pantheon. And by gay I mean the family friendly versions with people like Rosie O'Donnell and not the sexy sex cruises. It had to be nice to be out and open with your partner and kids and not worry about other people for a week. I'd like to think what you're describing is a modern day, regular old cruise. Short of an RNC themed week, or one of the Christian Radio weeks, I don't think you'd run into anyone who would give a rooty-toot about bedroom activities. And honestly if you hit up the steam room during one of those weeks, you're more likely to see sexy sex activities.
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Goober Peas posted:I'd like to think what you're describing is a modern day, regular old cruise. Short of an RNC themed week, or one of the Christian Radio weeks, I don't think you'd run into anyone who would give a rooty-toot about bedroom activities. And honestly if you hit up the steam room during one of those weeks, you're more likely to see sexy sex activities. I'm more referring to gay family cruises that started in the 1990's, around the time state governments stopped actively preventing gays from adopting/keeping their kids in a divorce. I just remember Rosie McDonnell headlining some of them. I'm sure there was plenty of sex on them like there is on any cruise, but the focus was families rather than singles. At that time I believe they were sold as a place where you could be open and not deal with whatever we called Karens back then.
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cruises? are you all talking about that thing in the Old Times where people would ride in a ship?
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chupacabron posted:Nope, The Frida in Santa Ana. It's rad as hell and did a (packed) screening of Cats on Valentine's Day. I'm glad there's a decent place for movies down there too Checking out the website, it is very similar as far as what they are doing. I wonder if I ever went there? I lived in Santa Ana for like 6 years as a kid and we went to the movies a lot, but I was very young. Only place I clearly remember was a theater built over an ice rink that I am sure is probably long gone.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Are gay cruises still a thing? I feel like those had a special place in the cruise pantheon. And by gay I mean the family friendly versions with people like Rosie O'Donnell and not the sexy sex cruises. It had to be nice to be out and open with your partner and kids and not worry about other people for a week. Not only are there, one of them is the subject of one of my absolute favorite articles to laugh at in my entire life. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/shannonkeating/lesbian-cruise
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The b-story for an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program was about Brian Posehn freaking out about Tab. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tjARWtCvxV0
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buddhist nudist posted:Isn't the JoCo cruise more like a convention on a boat, rather than Coulton being the main draw? Like, there's a bunch of events and stuff and people aren't just going to hear a live performance if Re: Your Brains? Just slinging this into the void but I've got both a Jonathan Coulton song and some George Clanton stuff on Spotify and I thought it was the same person and had no idea one of them worked on video games.
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https://twitter.com/benmullin/status/1318970637747212290?s=21 What a...tragedy?
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Imagine paying someone hundreds of dollars an hour to tell you something you already knew.
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vyst posted:Imagine paying someone hundreds of dollars an hour to tell you something you already knew. Right? How do people ever need consultants? For a long time I could never figure out what those companies were that advertised on NPR. "Stubbard & Winslow. Solutions-based approaches for answers."
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Iron Crowned posted:I actually heard an ad for Quibi on a podcast this morning they are still sinking money into ads, they seem to think the reason they are failing is because enough people are not aware of their platform when in reality, enough people know about it and they also see that there is no value I am still salty that quibi is where reno 911 was reunited even if it was in a terrible format
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Nucleic Acids posted:I’ve been wondering, was the thing about Fresca that season that it’s something only an rear end in a top hat would drink? I assumed it was a reference to the practice that Mormons can't drink hot caffeinated beverages but will drink Coke. The religion in the show was much more obviously a 'parody' of Scientology though.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Haven’t they continued to refuse to offer any type of free trial, even releasing the first episode of something? Free trial only makes sense if you think people will look at your product and think "Yes, I want to see more of this" instead of "I hope the cancellation process is not too annoying"
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Foxfire_ posted:Free trial only makes sense if you think people will look at your product and think "Yes, I want to see more of this" instead of "I hope the cancellation process is not too annoying"  I bet Quibi has one of those cancellation processes that involves emailing someone
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Haven’t they continued to refuse to offer any type of free trial, even releasing the first episode of something? They offered 3 months free when they first started in the Spring. I signed up and literally never opened the app before I canceled it.
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Iron Crowned posted:
The really desperate ones make you call. I wonder how they calculate the balance point between “making it hard for customers to leave” and “paying people to work the phones.”
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:The really desperate ones make you call. I wonder how they calculate the balance point between “making it hard for customers to leave” and “paying people to work the phones.” They probably only pay one person to answer the phones, that way the hold time makes more people give up
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Iron Crowned posted:They probably only pay one person to answer the phones, that way the hold time makes more people give up drat. They’re clever.
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Carrion Luggage posted:they are still sinking money into ads, they seem to think the reason they are failing is because enough people are not aware of their platform Before this thread I never actually heard of it. The market is absolutely crowded with a bunch of clones of these companies and even established companies like cbs and nbc are having a tough time moving to streaming channels because no one actually wants to play 13 different $9.99 subscriptions. Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:The really desperate ones make you call. I wonder how they calculate the balance point between “making it hard for customers to leave” and “paying people to work the phones.” Customer lifetime value after retention (calculated via analysis) vs cost of having people on the phones (building + salaries + equipment etc). If you're feeling saucy, you can throw the likelihood of customers voluntarily returning later into this, which approaches "lol" the more annoying cancellation becomes.
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Iron Crowned posted:They probably only pay one person to answer the phones, that way the hold time makes more people give up That, or the calls are going to generic call centers where the people answering the phone do so for a ton of random companies. They’ll get banks, airlines, other travel stuff, random communications, etc back to back.
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Yeah I had to call to cancel Sirius XM last year and it went to some random call center. They don’t let you cancel online.
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fartknocker posted:That, or the calls are going to generic call centers where the people answering the phone do so for a ton of random companies. They’ll get banks, airlines, other travel stuff, random communications, etc back to back. Isn't there now Uber but for call centers where people buy their own equipment and fight for the privilege of getting paid well below minimum wage to field random customer support calls?
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