fade
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Doesn't that depend on what it is? (I'm guessing he means Sprouts as in the supermarket)
Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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AMERICA. PEP-SI.
AMERICA.
Comin' at you to quench your unrelenting thirst, yeah!
--Patrick
MC Escher would be proud of those.
...and once again, several of those (the firemen putting those plastic bumps on the tracks, electric box in front of garage, for example) are Belgian. Whoohoo!
Some of them aren't "fails", though, but clever (the sink running off into a urinal underneath - I've seen it before, it saves space) or cultural sensibilities (two toilets in one room with no separator - I don't like it either, but I've seen it before - remember Sotchi?)
Some of them aren't "fails", though, but clever (the sink running off into a urinal underneath - I've seen it before, it saves space) or cultural sensibilities (two toilets in one room with no separator - I don't like it either, but I've seen it before - remember Sotchi?)
I don't think the second one is a fail; I think those are tracks for walking your bike up/down the stairs more easily.
GasBandit
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You're probably right. Somebody in the imgur comments thread pointed that out (most of us americans assumed it was for a wheelchair for some reason), but when you post an imgur album, you don't get to pick which pictures come along - you either take the whole thing, or copy over the pictures one by one the old fashioned way. And there were 130+ of them.
I wasn't really calling you out or anything, it was just an observation. Yes, if they were for a wheelchair, that would be... well, honestly it'd probably be hilarious. Tragic, but hilarious.
Wheelchairs wouldn't get traction if wet, I've seen similar in Sweden for skis, though I suppose they must remove the skis when they get to non-snowy underground.
There was a joke on one of the Big Fat Quiz shows that a penis is therefore a clunge plunger.
Also, I should make my fortune writing bad erotica. I already have the nom de plume.
figmentPez
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No, not actually published. That's not really a quote from the book. The author is pretty livid that this is going around with her name on it.
"I’m not sure who you people are, but before you mock something, make sure you know what you’re talking about. That “exceprt” that was presumably taken from my book is in fact NOT an excerpt. Check page 222 of ROUGH AND READY and you will see that someone is having fun with you, putting in their own purple prose. I don’t mind constructive criticism, but this borders on libel."
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I sent that over to Kati, because she sure does enjoy her some silly, lurid prose, and she replied:
"But," I replied, "it was funny though, wasn't it?"Kati said:
EDIT: ...aaand @figmentPez with the ninja corroboration.Kati said:
--Patrick
"He entered her like she was the lottery"
Oh god, I lost it there. I just blew water out my nose, and I wasn't even drinking.[DOUBLEPOST=1434835299,1434835180][/DOUBLEPOST]
Then she should hire whoever wrote that. Because it's amazing.
figmentPez
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Campbell's soup doesn't know how to math:
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They're trying to claim that they were just conservative in their numbers when they made the cans that said 30%, but that just stinks of bullshit to me. I think someone tried to do the math, and found that a 10.75 divided by 15.2 equals about .7, and figured that means that 15.2 is 30% more. And then no one double-checked before they printed labels and shipped cans.
Also, I think these size cans may exist to sell at Dollar General, so that the price is an exact dollar. I'm not sure though.
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They're trying to claim that they were just conservative in their numbers when they made the cans that said 30%, but that just stinks of bullshit to me. I think someone tried to do the math, and found that a 10.75 divided by 15.2 equals about .7, and figured that means that 15.2 is 30% more. And then no one double-checked before they printed labels and shipped cans.
Also, I think these size cans may exist to sell at Dollar General, so that the price is an exact dollar. I'm not sure though.
From my many visits to Western PA, I found out that Dollar General does not price everything at $1, they charge whatever they want (could be $1), it seems they are aiming for bargain pricing, which doesn't come out much cheaper than CVS. You can drive past a different shop with "Dollar" in the name every 10 minutes.
Yeah... the concept of a "dollar store" is kind of gone these days, as a dollar has basically no purchasing power anymore. As for seeing so many dollar stores these days... that's because they specifically target low income neighborhoods in the same way that video stores do. The only people interested in buying almost expired food and overstocked cloths are people who can't afford any better or don't have the means to get to better priced location. My local Dollar General sells stuff like milk and meat at double the price of the Kroger 2.5 miles away (and it's way worse quality) but many in the Mexican neighborhood right next to it can't get down there when they need to. It's really exploitive.
figmentPez
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Last time I was in one around here, all the prices were in even dollars. They had stuff for $5, $8, $25, whatever, but all of it was rounded. Nothing had a .99 or .80 on the end.
There's one right next to my mom's house. Kind of shows you what sort of economic state my hometown is in.
Believe it or not, it seems @SeraRealm actually posted this back in March of 2012.
I didn't realize it had been making the rounds this long.
(I think she only posted the picture part though, not the Tumblr part)
--Patrick