cuck cuck im gay posted:

monster on a stick posted:

What do you care what other people think?

Machai posted:

like with his penis?

JediTalentAgent posted:

I get really nostalgic for old media (games, VHS, DVD, etc.) if see it in a resale shop AND it still has labeling on it that it used to be a video store copy from a local, long-closed, video store. More so if I can deduce it was actually something I rented at some point years ago. I have mixed feelings about collectors of things stripping those off because they almost feel like they add some personality to an otherwise sort of mass-produced item.

a dingus posted:

The entire airline industry is awful and I'm surprised people put up with the garbage that they do. It takes hours just to enter the airport and board the plane, the service people are as polite as the gestapo, the gates and airplanes are cramped, delays and cancellations are rampant... and if it happens and you're stranded? Well tough poo poo as a desk employee my shift is over I'm going home have a nice night sleeping on the floor.

It's poo poo from all angles.

walrusman posted:

God, sometimes I wish they'd just close. A Fred Meyer (Kroger) where I shop sometimes just wrapped up a big remodel, which involved shutting the store down by thirds and completely ripping it to shreds - new floors, new shelves, new fridge cases, new layout. They wouldn't tolerate losing business during this phase, so they just crammed everything into 2/3 the space and carried on like nothing had changed. It sounded and smelled like a construction site instead of a grocery store, and when they tore up a section they'd stuff the products into totally nonsensical places. Bread aisle to the front by the jewelry store, wine section reduced to two end caps near the children's clothes, fruit in the parking lot, etc. It changed several times because they were doing it all by sections, so it was impossible to find anything even if you had tracked it down the week before.

I couldn't help thinking that if they'd just shut the store down for a couple weeks, they could work multiple shifts and bang it all out without disrupting business too much.

To make this thread-relevant: how are grocery stores doing these days? Whenever I'm unfortunate or desperate enough to go to Safeway, I always see a line stretching over the horizon while a single cashier begs into an intercom for help that never comes. It's frustrating as a customer and it must be hell on the employee, too.

Mustached Demon posted:

Isn't Samsung basically a computer hardware manufacturer who happens to make other junk to sell even more hardware?

With gently caress tons of corruption of course.

Detective No. 27 posted:

Just don't use emojis. Problem solved.

Super Waffle posted:

My parents, when I was very young, had a bad experience at Sears with a rude customer service person. From that day on, they refused to even step foot inside a Sears, and taught myself and my two siblings to NEVER go there. I heeded their advice until I was in my twenties, when I needed a specific dress shirt or something. I couldn't find what I wanted at any of the other department stores, so I decided to check Sears as a last resort. It was deserted, dirty, dingy, and miserable and only served to vindicate my parents stance on the company.

Three-Phase posted:

Weird Kmart background music thing: is it just me or has Kmart not changed their background music system since the mid/late 90s? In the couple of times I shopped there it was a mix of early/mid 90s music.

What's odd too is I recall visiting this mall in Ohio and noticing the odd choice in music back around 2005, and it seems like in 2017 they are still playing the same stuff. My understanding is that in the mid-90s they stopped using cassettes and started using a satellite feed to broadcast background music/announcements to all their stores. Maybe they had music licensed with an unlimited use royalty, and just were too cheap to never change it? Like the record company executive was thinking "OK, we licensed them these fifty songs to use... there's no way in hell they would be caught dead re-using the same music for more than five years!" I am pretty sure that they need to pay royalties for the music they send to however many dozen stores are still open.

Or maybe the people in charge just really like "Cotton-Eyed Joe" and "Twilight Zone" (the one by 2Unlimited, not Golden Earring). And "Conga".

I need to solve this mystery.

FilthyImp posted:

The Death of Superman, believe it or not, was also done to delay the comic wedding between Clark and Lois so it could match the TV version for maximum cross-media synergy.

Off the top of my head, as someone mentioned, Spiderman got a cool clone guy (Scarlet Spider)
Thor took a break (Thunderstrike)
Supes also got 4 reinventions before Electric Blue (Teen supes, black guy supes, cyborg supes, visor supes)
Booster Gold got his arm ripped off and needed a life support suit (Extreme Justice)
Captain America resigned (Nomad)
Martian Manhunter wasnt in JL so he cosplayed (Bloodwynd)
JL Hal goes nuts (Kyle Rayner)

McPhearson posted:

I have a USPS package that was delivered about a month ago but the tracking number still says it's on its way, and the last entry says tendered to a military agent

FilthyImp posted:

This is retarded.

That something positive came out of a blatant attempt to hobble the organization isnt praiseworthy you muppet

queserasera posted:

I wish Regretsy was still around. They did a series on handmade from AliExpress.

Yawgmoth posted:

So he's gonna take out everything even remotely enjoyable about football and replace it with... what, exactly? Jingoism?

Choco1980 posted:

You're thinking of The Sixth Day not Gattaca