pbj1968

“Grossly incopitent”

Muprhy’s Law strikes again!

The Planck institute sent some borderline animal to my city where he proceeded to criticize everything and everyone he saw. He directed some blah blah department under their purview. Completely unimpressed here.

X Mutants eventually came out and it was crap. “Rare for a reason” applies to a lot of collectible things. Perhaps we adopt it to “unreleased for a reason.”

I still remember smoking on airplanes. Towards the end, they used to sequester them and close a curtain as though that protected us. Weird times of the tyranny of the minority. It did make for easy times to get a table during the “first available” twilight period of going to restaurants. One of my elders remarked, “nobody is actually smoking in this section.” Shh!

Habitual smokers were never over 50% in America - look it up.

And 2 out of 3 of them died from causes unrelated to smoking.

So it goes.

Five years ago the Mister people were similarly unable to STFU about raspberry pi’s. Mister is still emulation, it still has tons of issues, and it’s still $700 invested before you’re actually playing games. Meanwhile we’re in a golden age of RGB mods, flash carts, and optical drive emulators for original hardware.

This more or less sums up my experience. There’s a reason the market moved on. Not everything is a disposable razor conspiracy.

Labyrinth is a turd.

IPDB is run by an odd dude that refuses to modernize. God bless him, tho, his internet 1.0 website is invaluable.

Imagine being triggered by people assuming someone’s species.

A phenomenon frequently encountered around here. :|

Dear God, we have got to let some of this go. Kids deserve a chance to be a little rascal and grow out of it. The authorities can’t even check to see if the door is actually locked until they’ve been actively murdered one by one for an hour.

I felt like Squadrons mostly nailed it. It was $2 recently on all platforms.

Do you even hear yourself? Back when I had a Samsung phone with an IR blaster, it was a godsend in that era when, say, your dentist that you were handing thousands of dollars to decided you need to hear 30 second Invisalign commercials over and over at full volume in his waiting room.

Thankfully culture has adjusted some and those conditions aren’t as common as they were.

What’s “legally cheese?”

Because the well runs dry quickly if you have specific tastes.

Cull the herd.

Heard a talk once by someone that managed nutrition for an NFL team. She said periodically clusters of players would pop positive for meth and inevitably it would be some new supplement that was giving them results and they told all their teammates about it. They’d just tell them to quit using it and move on. Interesting story, possibly true.

Not at all. The authority figure simply could not live in a world where the question was wrong. A better response, in his role as a school teacher, would have been to tackle the question in depth as a class or otherwise show me how I was mistaken. But given as I was immediately dismissed I’ll never know for sure.

I’m no genius, but I used to score well on such tests as a youngster. I was handed an IQ test circa ~1996 and got about two thirds through it before I found a question where none of the responses were correct. I brought it to the teacher’s attention. “There is no way you could possibly be right, this test was reviewed first!”

Anyway, blame it on photocopy errors or whatever, but the answers were wrong. Still mad about it.

I took another one ~2007 when I was looking to be a marketing person for a construction equipment rental company. This one was about 30 questions over 60 minutes. I got to question 26, which was some extraordinarily complicated question about how many cuts would it take to chop down a large board into the pieces you needed. After I wasted several minutes methodically writing this out, I realized the true test was realizing it was a time waster question one should skip. 27-30 were far simpler and then the buzzer ran out on me.

Repackaging it is a literal strip of tape and throwing it in a drop box that’s likely less than two miles from your house.

The phenomenon that cracks me up, tho, is retail stores serving as points of return for Amazon! Kohls is so damn thirsty for foot traffic they’ll accept returns for a direct competitor!

CVS and Autozone I kind of get it. If you need a prescription or hemorrhoid cream or a car battery you’re probably not waiting on Amazon… but when literally everything in your store is also available on Amazon?

Tick tock, business model.

Shocking games were popular in the 1920s. Fairly intense. High voltage low amps.

Obligatory

https://archive.ph/rHrK9

Should I call you or nudge you?

I had to get a wiser roommate to explain that one. So naive.

Waller County Line BBQ - attached to a Shell and amazing.

Prasek’s Smokehouse - attached to a Shell and amazing.

Rudy’s is okay. Buy a six pack in the gas station and put it under your table. Much cheaper than their bottles of the same stuff. Their smoked turkey is good, tho.

I used to do the same back when I commuted and when it DOES identify it, it tends to be some weird, weird stuff.

One of my greatest free joys in life is subjecting Shazam to the unpopular music I like and watching it be unable to identify it.

(Screaming electro industrial for those that are curious)

Your first one never existed.

Been there, done that. Also sent a credit card number split across two emails “for security.”

lol. They will do absolutely nothing.

All the responses to this post have been an amusing read. Apparently this forum is too young to remember all the Guyana phone sex scam numbers from the 80s and 90s…