Just stare intensely and lean forward into the dog's space. Either he will look away in submission or bite your face off... but either way you win the staring contest.
The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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BananaHands
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Big city, little chicken.
Om nom nom.
WOW! Someone terrible is incredibly popular? Who saw tha-DaneCookPhillipDefrancoJeffDunhamAnnoyinOrange-t coming?
I think that it's proof that people have no taste.
Hey, Gared. You want to read something depressing? Depressing only because it'll probably never happen?Gared said:
What the next CEO of MSFT might say (but probably won't)
--Patrick
Cheeseburger may be the most appetizing word in all language for me. I'm not saying cheeseburgers are the most appetizing or delicious food, just the word. When I hear cheeseburger my brain is inundated with all the anticipation of eating a great cheeseburger. I don't get that with most food words. I hear the word cheeseburger and I wanna fuckin' eat a cheeseburger. Hamburger doesn't work. It needs to be cheeeeeeeseburger.
Also, doesn't hurt that I love cheeseburgers.
Also, doesn't hurt that I love cheeseburgers.
This was not a productive week. Ah well.
Gimme dat link!
GasBandit
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Tagging spots for a certain deli meat company. They provided both english and spanish scripts to be read at the end of their agency-produced commercials, to localize the content a little.
The spanish copy goes "Pide una rebanada gratis de los productos de gran calidad [COMPANY] en supermercados selectos, tiendas gourmet y lugares de comidas finas."
Now, I'm no whiz in spanish, but I know what "gratis" means. It means "free." As in, at no cost.
Now, compare that to the english copy: "Try a slice of [COMPANY]'s premium deli meats and cheeses in select supermarkets, gourmet stores, and fine eateries."
Notice a word missing?
It's like somebody at the advertising agency said "Make sure and tell the mexicans it's free or they might not bother. You know. Cause they're poor."
The spanish copy goes "Pide una rebanada gratis de los productos de gran calidad [COMPANY] en supermercados selectos, tiendas gourmet y lugares de comidas finas."
Now, I'm no whiz in spanish, but I know what "gratis" means. It means "free." As in, at no cost.
Now, compare that to the english copy: "Try a slice of [COMPANY]'s premium deli meats and cheeses in select supermarkets, gourmet stores, and fine eateries."
Notice a word missing?
It's like somebody at the advertising agency said "Make sure and tell the mexicans it's free or they might not bother. You know. Cause they're poor."
First thought, "There are Mexicans in Syracuse?", then I was like, dude @GasBandit lives in Indiana.
GasBandit
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The only thing I have to say about Indiana is I like how its capital is right smack dead center of the state with highways radiating in every direction. I find this logistically and aesthetically pleasing.
GasBandit
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What I actually found most outrageous is they expected us to fit that spanish sentence into a 5 second donut hole in the produced spot's music bed. When you translate into spanish, you have to allow double the time to say it from what it is in english... and even the english sentence was pushing it.
Packing all day.... whoooo...
New apartment tomorrow!
New apartment tomorrow!
Anyone else tired of Adult swim lately? To try to do some sort of guerilla ad campaign for a new season of their live action show "The Heart, She Holler", they've been sneaking in jump scares into other adult swim ads and bumps.
I really haven't given a shit about their live action stuff since they cancelled Saul of the Mole Men, which was intentional terrible in the way that Land of the Lost was. Everything else they do just seems to be terrible in general. As for their newer animated comedy shows... how does Squidbillies keep getting new seasons? Seriously.
Whatever... Venture Brothers still has a few more seasons and Boondocks should be back next year with more episodes. In the mean time, Toonami keeps hitting it out of the park with great show after great show.
I was supposed to have an Amazon package delivered today. It's told me for a week that Tuesday will be the arrival date. Today that date changed to Wednesday while maintaining that the package is still on time. That's like being a half hour late to a meeting, penciling over the time on the memo, holding it up to everyone and screaming, "BUT IT SAYS HERE THAT IT'S AT 12:30!"
Is it the free shipping through Fed-Ex? I hate Fed-Ex.
Warning: Fed-Ex rant.
So Fed-Ex uses last mile delivery for packages in our area. This means packages which should arrive 2-3 days from order time show up 4-5 days because it has to be processed by the Post Office first, then the Post Office delivers the package.
Now, you might be saying "well, that makes sense, you're probably in a rural area". Well, no, I'm in the city. To top it off the FARKING TRUCK DRIVES PAST THE HOUSE EVERY DAY.
This basically means I'll never know when a package is arriving if it is through Fed-Ex. I find the tracking system to be a joke.
figmentPez
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You're right about the USPS tracking system being a joke. I've had the system report a package as "delivered" when it wasn't for another 2 days (not weekend). FedEx doesn't always do that last mile shit, though. It's frustrating. I get to find out today if they actually delivered my package on Friday (I live in apartments and all packages get delivered to the front office).
Nah, Amazon in Canada only ships through UPS. There's a new warehouse in BC now, but we still have to get most of our stuff from the Ontario warehouse, so it's a couple of days at best even with fucking Prime.