So I’m at the 30th Street Station waiting for my parents’ train to show up, and I’m thirsty. There are four Pepsi machines in front of me. I put my $2 in one of them and select the button for water. It tells me it is sold out. Of course, I can’t get my money back. So, I pick another option…sold out. I hit all the buttons…sold out. I start to walk away when I hear the tell-tale kerklunk. I go back and find a Pepsi. I hate Pepsi. I’d rather drink sewage. So I walk down to the Dunkin’ Donuts. On the counter they have a display of all their drink options. Among them is Pepsi and water in the exact same bottles offered in the machine. I tell the man working there what happened with the machine and ask if he will give me a water in exchange for my Pepsi. ‘No’ he says and shrugs. I explain to him that I haven’t opened the Pepsi, that it is the exact same bottle that he offers for sale. He tells me that ‘those are not my machines’. I look at him quizzically. ‘I know that’, I say, ‘just pretend I bought this Pepsi from you and now I have changed my mind and want a water’. He repeats, ‘Those are not my machines’, and he shrugs. So now I’m drinking my fucking Pepsi.
I should collect stories like this. Or I should just stop going out in public at all.
I can see the store guy’s point of view. If he takes the Pepsi and gives you a water, it’ll throw off his inventory, and he’ll probably get yelled at by his boss. (I’ve worked retail before — managers get anal when it comes to inventory.)
Here’s a solution: buy the water from the Dunkin’ Donuts store, then look for a homeless guy/gal who looks thirsty and give them the Pepsi. (Hopefully they’re not too picky…) You get your water, you do a good deed for someone else, and you don’t get a wage slave in deep shit with his boss…
Your idea is good. But on your other point, no one is going to notice one water less and one Pepsi more, or have any idea how it happened if they do. I doubt their inventory comes out exact anyway, and no money is missing.
It’s a sign of what’s wrong with corporate America. If the store had been privately owned there wouldn’t have been a problem.
And as for tampering, the guy could see the machines I was pointing to. The Pepsi was ice cold. He knew I didn’t tamper with it. He just couldn’t do something that wasn’t in his corporate handbook.
…but booman, what if several ppl like you did that and the inventory is really all screwed up then if the man did it for you he would have to do it for others too…
I can totally identify with what your saying, actually. Personally i belive it is because Americans in general are So twisted up about rules that their heads get bent out of shape. Like at cross walks the streets will be completely empty.. but I can always find people that just stand and wait for the silly little walk light to go off.
Part of the reason that homosexuality has caused sooo much issue in the states is (again… i believe) because people HAVE to have simple rules that people fit into. Men should be men and want women women should want men and no gray areas, dammit. Again.. we have women’s rights and abortion… God TOLD us that thou shalt not kill so that means you can’t decide.. sorry those are the rules.
Oh, btw there will be NO questioning the RULES.. we’ll have totally anarchy if we ever question the RULES! What kind of imoral hedons ARE you !!
sorry, but I think you took me wrong…I understand your premice tho. very well, I do..
Im sorry ! it’s possible. i just got off of a tough day at work and my mind is not entirely there right now…
I think what i did was hit reply to you instead of hitting “post a new comment” like i should have 🙁
Heh. Day before yesterday I just paid a $124 ticket for my son in LA for crossing illegally as a pedestrian. He was in a crosswalk, and the light had just turned from the white walking figure to the flashing red hand when he ran across the crosswalk. BUSTED!
Whether you are buying a drink…
Or Voting!
I am still waiting for them to announce that they will be making Diebold machines just like the slot machines in Vegas. (Oh wait? I think they already are…)
agreed 100% about pepsi. what a disgusting liquid. why would anybody drink that stuff anyway?
Pepsi doesn’t have enough fizz!
I don’t like sugar pop but if I did get it, i’d get Canada Dry Ginger Ale.
Best fizzy stuff for me: San Pellegrino.
Pellegrino is the best. If only it hadn’t become a yuppie favorite, and if only the dollar hadn’t lost so much value against the Euro, it would even still be affordable in quantity.
Is it just me, or is ginger ale less “gingery” than it used to be? When I was a kid/teenager I found the flavor bordered on the unpleasant, it was so gingery and just barely sweet. Seems like it’s all too sweet today. Or was that just part of the general lack of sweetness in the world during the Nixon administration? LOL
Could this have to do with the general switch from sucrose to corn sweeteners? I heard a story on NPR once about special kosher colas released around the Jewish holidays that are made with sugar, not corn sweeteners, and supposedly you can really taste a difference.
Does anyone know of a really “gingery” ginger ale?
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Think of it. Selling colored sugared fizzy water at a dollar or so a pop. But with caffeine, it is mildly addictive, so people keep buying it.
Anyone realize how much it costs to truck water around? That stuff is heavy. Yet there is a nearby store that sells generic pop for $0.25 a bottle form a machine – and they make $0.15 on each can.
Time to quit buying bottles just to throw away a few minutes later. If you must have the caffeine, get a tea bag. Oh, and the spring water in the bottle is probably filtered tap water. Just as silly.
Then there is the batch of french fries for a dollar or more. That was $0.03 worth of potato destroyed by hot grease. Again, customers are massively overpaying for stuff that is bad for you.
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I wouldn’t swap with you if I didn’t know you either. I would be concerned that you had tampered with the drink and put something in it, and I’d get blamed when someone was poisoned.
Sign of the times. I wouldn’t take food of any kind from a stranger except in an institutional setting. Even that isn’t safe.
We have a restaurant here in Fort Worth that ordered frozen chile, and when it thawed the chef thought it smelled bad and sent it back to the supplier. The supplier refroze it, restocked it and sold it to a small supermarket. Three people died and the supermarket was put out of business for several weeks. The role of the supplier has only recently came out in a civil suit against them by the supermarket owners. It has been several years.
I don’t trust someone not to be able to open a soda water, put something in it, reseal it and swap it out with some unsuspecting business person.
So people are offering various good reasons why the owner would refuse to swap.
But, it would have been good if he’d provided one of those reasons instead of just saying those aren’t his machines, and saying no.
if he had said, “How do I know you didn’t poison it?”, I would have said, “Do you see the machine right there? Do you see all the condensation on the bottle? Obviously, I just got this piece of crap Pepsi out of that machine right there and walked over here. When would I have poisoned it?”
He was just being an idiot.
he’s an employee of a business…he really doesn’t need a reason. Sure, it would be nice for him to trade water for pepsi with some random guy off the street, but he doesn’t need to explain himself for declining.
He could explain his various reaosns, or he could just say, “sorry, no.” I know I certainly wouldn’t insinuate a guy tampered with the bottle if that were my concern…I’d just say no. Maybe I’d make up a b.s. line about those not being my machines, or whatever. But I hardly think it ranks up there with true consumer-experience idiocy. Sorry booman.
a minor example.
Living in Philly I almost never need to use corporate options. Sure, there is a Starbucks, but there is a local coffee shop that costs less than half as much just as close. There are hundreds of yummy privately owned restaurants, and there private butchers, spice shops, providers of produce, bakers, clothes shops, etc.
And I never encounter the kind of rigidity displayed by Donut Boy as these places. But try to haggle with a corporate employee and logic no longer applies.
stores without rigid corporate policies and rules wouldn’t have given you such a hard time.
I’m guessing boo that it wasn’t so much the minor aspect of the idiocy as the attitude maybe of the employee…my experience is it’s the attitude of people like managers, employees, anyone you deal with like that where they just give you blank looks and say no..no matter what you may say to them or how logical an idea you may present..it’s more like fuck you, don’t bother me or if they do give an explanation it almost has no relation to the question you may have asked.
I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even expect people to think anymore but simple common sense and courtesy might do.
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One story that always comes to mind when ‘dealing with idiots’ is something that happened to a friend of mine many years ago.
He was working with my husband at Penney’s in the auto section and gas station(little town in Elko, Nevada)and this women came in and wanted air in her tires-way back when you still got window washed etc anyway he went to check air in her tires and told her they were fine..what she wanted however you see was the air in her tires let out and ‘fresh’ air put in. She caused a big fuss when everyone refused to do this and left in a big huff saying people that worked there, including the manager didn’t know what they were doing.
Yeah, change the air in her tires..now that is an idiot of the highest order in my book.
My opinion of a whole class of idiots in general is what has happened to me over the years with doctors-how doctors treat poor people-how they talk down to you, how they treat you or don’t treat you, what kind of garbage they write in your medical records that is false or untrue(and nothing you can do about it)…when they don’t want to help you they simply say or write in your records you lied or made up symptoms…geez…better quit now before this turns into a full blown rant about criminally idiot doctors.
Well, with idiot doctors, you always have to remember that they can’t help being that way…their first 3 classes in med school were Ego I, Ego II, and I am God…
I know what you mean about the doctors. A few years ago, I wrote a quite satisfying rant about them. I’ll email it to you if you’d like. I think you’d be amused (others have not been!).
Any doctor basing is fine with me …I pretty much absolutely loathe and despise doctors(my apologies to the 3 and half decent doctors out there).
My disability that I’ve had since early teens was completely ignored and undiagnosed for over 30 years causing me untold problems and denied me getting help, job, college(because since doctors said I wasn’t disabled I was supposed to be able to do everything everyone else was) and made me end up where I am today…I could write a book on what has happened..actually considered it but doubt it would ever be published…my email address is on my info page. And only on my good days am I not bitter about this..and as a matter a fact still do not have a doctor for this neuromuscular disease after 6 years of being diagnosed..oh shit..I think I’ll just stop here or I’ll be writing for days.
I sent it — hope you get a chuckle!
Perhaps I should post it and we can all have a gratuitous doctor bashing thread! I feel a lot of pent up frustration in here. 😉
I’d add my experiences to the comments. Doctors, I hate ’em, arrogant sons of bitches, every one of them, including the women. O, I’ve had a few good ones, I’ll grant that. But, most of them are cruel, heartless egotists looking down their noses as you like you somehow deserve your afflictions.
Oh man, CI, could I tell you some stories about that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, there are some valid points here, but no good reasons that I can see. Pepsi bottles and cans are tamper proof. The store manager may have good inventory reasons not to help, but they’re because of idotic corporate rules.
Our culture has become so damned impotent, that no one can help you, no one can fix things, and if someone does seem to fix something, it becomes unfixed at a later point. Okay, that last makes no sense in the Pepsi example, but it figures large in anthing to do with medical or insurance billing, billing errors on just about any credit bank, or utility statement, and I won’t even go into the hell that is an IRS error (they don’t make ’em doncha know)!!!
Okay <deep breaths> I have issues, I admit that. But this whole system is such a ridiculous mess that you get down to very basic levels of trade and even people who don’t have a corporation to answer to take on this corporate nonsense. Sorry, we can’t do that. The rules are the rules. Just the way it is.
What happened to our “can do” spirit?
Pepsi cans aren’t tamper-proof. You could put a thin film of poison on the lid. Then someone drinks it, dies, and you (the store guy) get sued. Or a criminal could inject a poison just under the top rim.
Okay, tamper proof in the general sense. In theory, a thin film of poison could be swiped on any can in any store — it’s not like they keep them locked away.
And I admit I know nothing about the injecting thing, but it seems to be common sense that this could not be done in any unnoticable way with a carbonated beverage. In my experience, the smaller the hole, the more pressure comes shooting out of the can. Dang, now I want to try this! (not with the poison, of course, just poke a hole and see what happens — under the top rim you say?)
The top rim, yes.
I’ve never tried it, but the theory would be that most of the pop has settled toward the bottom of the can (gravity or divine weight discerned by faith, take your choice,) thereby leaving a tiny bit of empty space just under the rim. That’s where the fizz embryoes come up for air.
I have actually gotten a few cans of pop that seem flat or there’s been leakage and yet the can is entirely sealed (without laboratory analysis this is my conclusion after a cursory scan). My first thought is that they were bumped in transit or handling. My second thought, paranoia from not enough sleep perhaps, is that someone tampered with them. This happened with a bottle of water one day a month ago too, to bring the other half of BooMan’s beverages into the story.
True, you could poison things in a store, but it’d be my guess that most poisoners want to do their dirty work where there’s not a security camera. Such as between a Pepsi machine over there to a water shelf over here.
I’m starting to feel like I’m in a John LeCarre novel, but what the hell! The only product tampering case I’m aware of is the infamous Tylenol one and I believe that was done right in… was it the stores? or the distribution center?
And, really, you cannot cover every contingency for safety or we wouldn’t let people in stores at all.
Still, I’m gonna try the Pepsi experiment — I’m curious now!
Consider using something like a “plug” used to fix a flat tire. Shouldn’t be too difficult to rig. Push a pin with the poison into the can, and the plug stops the hole as the pin is pulled back out The technologically difficult parts would be the materials for the pin and the plug. Dunno what they would be, but I am sure someone knows.
The book “Deadly Doses: A Writer’s guide to poisons” from Writer’s Digest probably has the information on a useful poison.
Ask the CIA. They may have tried it to use on Castro along with the exploding cigars.
Just some thoughts off the top of my head. It might be an interesting engineering project. [I’m assuming that high school students don’t read this blog.]
Ah, if I could write interesting characters, the novels I could write!
I’ve lost so much money in vedning machines over the years, and have gotten so irrationally angry at them when I did, that I stopped feeding them my money long ago.
Side note; As a kid growing up outside of Philly, my fondest memories of 30th St. Station, (and also the 69th St. station, arrived at via the P & W line), was the hot soft pretzels sold from the carts by vendors.
Slathered with brown mustard, these were always a high point of any train ride.
mmm, one of the few things I truly miss about living in SoCal — the abundance of fresh, hot, churros.
I used to get really good churros in DC of all places, (Adams Morgan neighborhood where I lived).
There used to be a pizza shop at the ground level in one of the stops of the Frankford Ave. elevated line – was it Margaret-Orthodox? Church St.? You’d get off the train on a cold winter day and the entire station would smell like hot, greasy, cheesy pizza. Of course the place always had a line at the window every time a train came through!
Does anyone know if it’s still there?
I’m getting agita just thinking about it. But it was worth it. 😉
My apologies to those not from Philly to whom this comment probably makes no sense whatsoever. SEPTA = Southeastern PA Transit Authority, BTW; agita = Italian -American for heartburn.
But according to this, Booman also got agita, without even drinking anything.
From some truckers in Memphis last weekend. They were really pissed at the stupidity of it all.
However, I was really worried that their take on it was – “See? Goddamn gummint can’t do anything right. We should cut some more taxes.”
R plan: Put incompetent cronies in charge of federal agencies. Cut the budget. Watch all of the competent people leave in disgust (if not, then harass them, demote them, etc until they do). When the agency fails, declare R philosophy is correct. Government can’t do anything right.
Dealing with idiots? Dealing with idiots? I, as most of you know by now, manage a 52 unit apartment complex. Try getting a vendor like a plumber, telephone, cable, painters cleaners to first of all call you back, secondly show up, thirdly do the job right the first time or blame me(SBC is famous for this) for their bad lines.
I have been in one type of customer service or another most of my life. It appalls me on a daily basis the lack of customer service or a job well done these days. If it is a grocery clerk, waitress, flight attendent, painter, you name it these people were never taught basic service skills. UGH!!! Right at this very moment I have a leaking pipe in a crawl space the opens to a tenants garage and have called six plumbers, only two have called back and they are at least four hours away before they can get here. Nice way to spend the rest of my afternoon off huh?
plumbers and painters are the worst. The painters down here are so stoned (every one of them) that you can’t find any that will consistently show up or even remember your address. I finally painted my house myself.
And just think, I deal with this on a daily basis. I have now called seven plumbers, only two have called back and I must sit and wait to see if someone can squeeze me in. Weekend emergency calls start at the rate of $125 per hour…any plumbers out there in Houston. Come to San Diego we can use you here.
I worked for one day as a painter out in Montgomery County, PA and can validate your comment about stoner painters. We lit up in the truck on the way to the job and they stuck me painting a closet baked out of my head. I fell asleep against the wall i had already painted and didn’t go back the next day.
I am much more responsible now though 🙂
And here I thought it was exposure to all the chemical fumes that made them that way – all kinds of good stuff like toluene. D’OH!
Okay, first I have to say not all painters are stoners. I have a lot of painters in my family and they are fine, upstanding, hardworking citizens (for the most part).
That said, if one is painting and cannot keep one’s eyes open for some reason and a nap is inevitable, close the door and lay down with the bottoms of your feet against it. That way, if someone tries to open it, it wakes you up and you can claim it’s blocked by a ladder.
Not that any of my relatives would ever do such a thing, but one does hear stories of those other types of painters.
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I hate Pepsi too. I knew there was a reason I liked you. 🙂
The only thing worse than Pepsi was the New Coke.
In 1968 my wife and I took two weeks vacation in Barcelona. I went into the bar and order a rum and coke.
In Franko’s Spain there was no coke. Pepsi had a government monopoly. I tried the rum and Pepsi and have sworn off rum drinks ever since.
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F’ing idiots to say the least!
that no business was harmed in the living of this event. Because Lord knows, if there’s one thing we can all rest assured on, it is the high honor of those engaged in the search for profit. No human feeling or impulse should ever come between a potential for gain and one lusting after it. Maybe the shopkeeper would be interested in a trip to New Orleans. I understand the needs are dire, and the opportunities for markup mouthwatering.
Do you think that perhaps that the republicans out here are asking for their votes back now???!! lets apply the same principle..what would you do? Tell them to drink the pepsi or ask for a water…or go someplace to ask the same question of a different store. Do you think they are drinking the pepsi now…or do they give it to the poor, as suggested above? Just think about it for a minute….you are getting treated like us all out here that ask for our government to exchange our accommoditions for another and told no…..
PS, I happen to like pepsi when I drink colas which is not very often. I do not like coke at all unless it has lemon in it. Which by the way ,makes it taste more like pepsi…:o) to me anyhow…and I suppose something could be said about that one too…the lesser of two eveils…:o)
who will confess to liking Pepsi. I prefer it to Coke – I think Coke’s too sweet. Actually, I like RC cola even better.
Man I’ll admit liking Pepsi– I also love: Crystal Clear Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew Pitch Black 2, Coke, New Coke, Lime Coke, Cherry Coke, Vanilla Coke, Dr. Pepper, Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper, Mr. Pibb, Mello Yellow, Cheerwine, Diet Cheerwine, RC Cola, Sun Drop, Siera Mist, Moxy Cola, Sunkist, Fresca, Sprite, 7-up, Barqs Root Beer, IBC Root Beer, and Tab…
You could put bubbles in V8 and I would drink that shit.
BooMan, this seems to be your day for dealing with idiots, doesn’t it? 30th Street Station, FPers…I hope you get a day without idiots tomorrow. I think you deserve one.
I’ve been catching that thing over at the other place. Booman should have left well enough alone. DHinMI is a dick. No sense in primping his ego with a pissing match.
The other place feels like high school. You have your cool kidz (the FPers and a few others), you have your nerds (mostly the intellectuals), you have your punks (people who like to stir things up for fun), then you have the people who fly under the radar, just trying to get by until graduation. I don’t know about you, I hated high school (I was/am a nerd) and this attitude there is giving me bad flashbacks.
I blew off high school after ninth grade and went on Dead tour instead…I don’t think I missed anything much.
I’m just wondering whose commenting ability is going to get turned off first…I saw someone calling for Kos to come in and referee. Yep, high school.
Wanna bet it’s Booman who gets shown the door? That’s assuming Kos pays attention, which I doubt since he’s so busy working on his epic tome on how he’s going to be the savior of the Democratic party. I think that’s the problem over there – no adult supervision.
Oh lucky you for missing HS. It sucked.
Brinn whacked DH a good one though…we need to buy her a beer!
I must get a life. Oh, wait, I have kids… 🙂
We should raise a glass in her honor next week. And Booman too if he shows up.
toasts and subsequent drinking done in my honor!
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We’ll definitely post something. Keep an eye out on Friday night! Maybe we can live blog happy hour. 🙂
Did I? Ah, well, I’ll take the beer in any case!!
I really want to know what a BooSwarm is though… if it is what I think it is, we must involve catnip! 😉
I’d like to know too. Plus notice he/she didn’t bother to respond when you called him/her on its BS?
Yep, I’ve noticed in both of the threads that I posted in this weekend — it’s like they don’t know what to do with me…they toss a few insults, I don’t take the bait, they downrated me in one thread, but were disappointed that I didn’t seem to care, DH actually accused me of being angry, I had to ask him what part of ROTFLMAO he didn’t understand — jesus, I save anger for shit that matters! It’s just all too ridiculous — but I was in the mood for sparring today!
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What is it?
Is it supposed to be like when Desroko downrates everyone who disagrees with the flying Armando? That same person has made that accusation repeatedly, and no one seems to know what it means…
Now, what kind of beer are we drinking in your honor? Here’s the beer menu.
And I have no idea what a BooSwarm is — maybe people with high intelligence, a quick wit, and a very, very low tolerance for bullshit who gather together?
It has been said before, eh? What a crock of stewed crap — did you understand that Monty Python reference, I love that bit, but in that context, it was a definate WTF?
Actually, I think that whole BooSwarm/Monty Python reference coment was a cut and paste job that seems to appear every time BooMan posts over there.
Did you see the special beers list…I think I might like a nut brown ale.
they mean by BooSwarm is that we are somehow organized so that if I get into an argument with someone at dKos then I will have supporters come in to back me up. And perhaps, they might be referring to BT members recommending my diaries or Susan’s.
I don’t know.
Maybe I am giving them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they are just insane. They are certainly wrong. I’ve never asked people to fight my battles for me.
Dear Boo – weren’t you ever a boy scout? ‘Be prepared.’ Carrying money is not as good as carrying water.
Thanks for this thread – very entertaining first thing in the morning.
What I think they mean by BooSwarm is that we are somehow organized so that if I get into an argument with someone at dKos then I will have supporters come in to back me up.
Which is precisely what they do.
Look, the folks at The last Hurrah are delusional about this. Even in pre-scoop days the people who are now part of that group imagined organized resistance which simply did not exist. RonK, for instance, once loudly and repeatedly accused me of forming an email “cabal” to influence Kos and get petey banned the first time. It’s how they do politics.
A word of warning to anyone whpo wishes to continue participating on DKos, DH has managed to either ban or remove the ratings privileges of all the folks who FP on LSF and used to post on DKos. I fail to see how this improves dialogue or encourages diversity of opinion. I fail to see how marginalizing articulate and intelligent individuals or entire demographics of the democratic base ‘helps’ the Democratic party. My sense is that that blog intends to go hard right ramping up to the election and sell that as ‘we must all work together for the common good’ and pour money into into the campaign coffers of people like Casey and Murtha. They’ve been positioning themselves for this since Schumer decided to embrace Democrats for Life. I would hope that the other blogs do not follow suit because it’s going to be fairly divisive to say the least.
Yeah, that’s what I think too — I caught a raft of shit for giving your “controversial” comment a 4. I didn’t even think about the second half of it, but I wholeheartedly and compeltely agreed with the first half and that is what I rated…
How horrible that they have to endure, eh? pffffttt.
I would never presume to fight anyone’s battles for them, and if you ever see me doing anything that makes you uncomfortable just let me know, but I do get my friend’s backs, it just in my nature.
I caught a raft of shit for giving your “controversial” comment a 4.
I’m sorry that happened to you but,
heh, which one? DH’s pups are the only folks who ‘0’ rate me and they tend to do so as a group.
I would never presume to fight anyone’s battles for them, and if you ever see me doing anything that makes you uncomfortable just let me know, but I do get my friend’s backs, it just in my nature.
My battle is fighting poverty, policies and budget priorities which exacerbate poverty and people who would harm the poor by shoving their religion and regressive tax policies down our collective throats. You’re welcome to join me in this battle any time.:)
My focus isn’t on the self described jackals. I find them…interesting and have studied them and indeed, all the Democratic blogs in order to understand the power dynamics. Thus I’ve a great many observations to share but am not personally disturbed by their obvious hatred when it’s directed towards me. I fully understand why they would hate me. I would be disturbed if they liked me. I’ve nothing but profound contempt for them. My regret is that I spent a great deal of time, years, helping to make the now destroyed experiment in participatory democracy which I was hoping DK would become a viable player and I take full responsibility for my major error in judgement. I had thought Kos was a better leader than he has demonstrated himself to be. But there’s far more ‘important shit’ to focus on than the petty positioning of 3rd rate playahs.
but not to them, heh heh — the comment I rated a 4 was Boo’s comment that started out with “you ARE a jackal….” and went from there!
I’m glad I only invested about 75 days before the pie wars showed me the light!
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Wanna bet it’s Booman who gets shown the door?
I think you fail to understand how DH and DKos works. The people who will be shown the door first are those who rated in a manner DH disapproves of and anyone perceived to be part of a mythical BT ‘swarm’.
How does DH have that much power? Are his and Kos’ egos so fragile that they must resort to banning for daring to be different from them?
What happened between Kos and LSF? They used to be tight.
How does DH have that much power?
I’m not even clear on who has administrative abilities over there anymore. I just see the results. For instance I see DH lobbying for techniques of “shame and humiliation” because he is annoyed with diaries whose subject matter or contents he considers marginal (ironic) and a couple of weeks later Kos starts banning people for writing and, even more absurdly, recommending those diaries. Michelle Malkin was complimentary about that one.
I see FPgers on TNH (and noone else) down rating as a group. I see people he’s been after for years banned or marginalized on the FP under the most flimsy of pretexts. What I see is that he’s intimidated or banned anyone willing or compelled to stand up to his excesses and with the help of very few people and that this has been a consistent and accelerating pattern for quite some time.
Soon enough, it’ll be Free Republic on the Dem side.
the guy at Dunkin Donuts might have been DH. Oh wait! DH is in MI.
I’m leaving it alone now. No point in perpetuating the pissing match.
The day before yesterday my doorbell rang. I answered the door, no one was there, but a large package from the Cartoon Network was on the porch having been delivered via FedEx Ground. Thing was, it wasn’t addressed to my address or anyone who lives here. So my roommate called FedEx and they said they’d come get it.
Yesterday, a FedEx guy showed up with a package that was for us. I greeted him at the door and he asked, “Did you know there’s already a package here for you?”
I explained, “It’s not for us, it was delivered here by mistake yesterday. We called and your 800# said someone would pick it up today.”
“Oh well,” said the FedEx guy, “I better leave it here then because they probably scheduled a pickup for it.”
Whatever. The package was, of course, still on the porch today. So my roommate called FedEx again. This time they told her that they couldn’t schedule a pickup because there was no way to do that without billing our address. For their mistake.
The package is still on the porch. We’re pondering our next course of action. We might be willing to take a Pepsi in trade for it.
Is Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper okay instead?
(How big did you say that box was?}
The box is like 3 1/2 feet tall and nearly 2 feet wide; proportioned just about right for an actual-sized Marvin the Martian. Dr. Pepper’s always okay — no diet, though, sorry! 🙂
Or what about a more obscure soda like Cheerwine or Sun Drop?
I love the Muppet Show Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper commercial
All gothing aside, I think you all are one hell af a buch of ppl in my book..I would stand with you at any old place and raise hell…..I think the world of each of you… OUTSTANDING!!!!!!
Just remember in the end you can walk away from the Drunkin Doughnuts counter, the guy behind it can’t.
I do have to say customer service these days is pretty terrible (if you call corp. customer service, half the time you’re bitching at someone on the other end of the planet)…
I had a cell phone issue where the power cord pulled out the grounding pin… so it won’t charge… and because something broke it went into the “out of warranty” category. Which means I need to pay $100 to get it fixed or upgarde to a new phone for $89. If I break the contract I pay $200. If I give them the middle finger and eat the last couple months I pay $140. If I get a new phone I might as well sign on for another year… Bastards…
It’s life’s small injustices and indignities that cause me to question the wisdom of our most brilliant scientists working night and day on a way to increase the human lifespan.
Maybe we should just make better use of the time we have.