In A Year Of Antisemitism, I’m Going Big For Hanukkah.
This Company Is Selling a Single Giant Froot Loop for $19 — Here's How to Get One. (via Pictojam)
The Movie Oppenheimer is Going to be Heavy.
Everything that's wrong with a horse.
This Family Gave the World the Snow Globe. But did they create the famous one with a starring role in Citizen Kane?
The Overlap of Dog Names and Human Names. (via Metafilter)
Waterloo Teeth. (via Nag on the Lake)
‘Unexpected item’: how self-checkouts failed to live up to their promise. (via Fark)
> An extremely popular figure with a huge following started spouting hateful rhetoric about us...
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Bummer, I can't find the toilet paper snow globe that says, "stay safe, stay healthy, stay home", only ones that say the great toilet paper crisis of 2020.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, I love the self-checkout at our local Lidl store. If I only need 4 or 5 items, I put them in a reusable bag (no cart needed), go the the self-checkout (which few people use because they are intimidated?), run my stuff through the scanner and I am out of there. The scanners at that store work without issue 99.9% of the time and when they don't it is usually because I screwed up. When we do big shopping, we use them as well. Wife scans and I bag. I have no doubt it is faster and things get bagged the way I want them to be. I would use self-checkout for a big shopping trip when I am alone. For that, I go to Aldi's.
ReplyDeleteAldi's does not have self checkouts in my area, but they do have lightning fast checkout lines. Well, except when people wait until the entire conveyor belt is empty before even starting to unload their cart. C'mon man!
And people who abuse and cuss at retail workers when things don't go perfectly? Entitled assholes. (Can I say that on here?) There should be an entire ring of Hell reserved for people like that, a part of Hell where they spend eternity as a retail worker whose only customers are people just like themselves.
The giant Froot Loop is sold in an app that does these 'drops'. You have to be there when the 'drop' occurs or you miss out. I tried it out, and checked it a couple of times. The first time--no drop yet. The second time--Froot Loop sold out.
ReplyDeleteI guess if I were younger I could get caught up in the excitement, but I'm not so I deleted the app. Still, a giant Froot Loop is a funny idea.
Pro tip: if you use the self-checkout at Walmart, be sure to put everything you buy in a bag.
ReplyDeleteIf you do not, you will be stopped at the exit for someone to check your receipt to what is in your cart.
If everything you bought is in a bag, you will not be stopped.
The organization that did the giant Froot Loop is the same one that got together with the rapper, Lil Nas X, in March of 2021 and did the 'Satan Shoes'; a limited 'drop' of Nike shoes that featured a pentagram, inverted crosses, and supposedly had a single drop of human blood in the soles. This obviously came to the attention of Nike, who sued the collective for trademark infringement and dilution, claimed that the company had suffered harm by leading customer to believe that Nike was endorsing Satanism (Nike was granted a temporary restraining order and they eventually reached a settlement, but of course by then the horse had long bolted from the stall).
ReplyDeleteSo if you don't mind, I'll just pass on anything coming from this bunch of wackos.
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