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DennisD wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:31 am

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mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:48 am Can they also replace the monkeys in animal testing trials?

DennisD wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 8:51 am There are far too many numbnuts CEO's available, so.... by all means!


You were referring to the pool of monkey alternatives at DSS, right?


Notice the LACK of purple font in the above.

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:58 amimage.png

MJuric wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:23 pm This kind of stuff makes me insane. We just continue to build worse and worse products "Because they are cheap" without ever stopping and consider if Cheap+Cheap+Cheap+Cheap+Cheap>Expensive. I mean really, Is replacing my $500 dishwasher every 4-5 years less expensive than paying $1000 for one that lasts 15 years? NO!

I had radiant floor heat in a house. That heat came from a boiler that was made in 1972. I had an HVAC guy in and asked if it made sense to replace it for efficiency. HE flat told me no. He said if I replaced it I'd be replacing it every 5-7 years and that with a few repair parts the one I had would probably last another 20 years.

On the same subject I had a guy tell me he was working on a boiler in an old house in town. He was looking for some identification and he ran into a Nazi Swastika on the casting. Turns out the thing was installed in 1938, was from Germany before the war. At the time that boiler was 80+ years old....still going.

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 12:36 pm I'm with ya. Our dryer went out and I couldn't get the motor off the frame. So, I put it at the curb and got a used one off of Craigslist. EVERY new dryer comes with a circuit board, even the ones that look like they have analog controls have a board in them...FOR NO REASON other than it's cheaper. I've fixed both our washer and dryer multiple times and won't buy new ones.
But, we bought a new range and fridge. So first thing I did was bought surge protectors for them, but we'll see...

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 12:41 pmimage.png

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Reminds me...Many years ago, I wrote "To: Satan" on a check I sent to pay my phone bill...I really didn't like dealing with them. I printed the processed check and put it on my fridge.

DennisD wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:24 pm So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened.
Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - excuse me?
Her - you are wasting our bags!
Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - that's not my job!
Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her - why are you using two bags?!
Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her - exactly.
Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
*me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her- never mind you just don't get it.
And with that, she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.

mattpeneguy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:23 am image.png
This stuff goes in there, right?
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DennisD wrote: ↑Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:24 pm So I am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour "monitors" and then this happened.
Her - why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me - excuse me?
Her - you are wasting our bags!
Me - if you don't like the way I'm bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her - that's not my job!
Me - okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that's all right with you.
Her - why are you using two bags?!
Me - because the bags are weak and I don't want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her - well that's because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn't need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me - so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don't have to double bag.
Her - exactly.
Me - so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her - no because you wouldn't be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me - okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I'm still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it's not the same number of bags.
*me looking around at about 10 other customers who at this point are enjoying the show.
Me- is this like that Common Core math stuff I keep hearing about?
Her- never mind you just don't get it.
And with that, she went back to her little Podium so she could continue texting or playing games on her phone or whatever it was she was doing before she decided to come over and critique my bagging skills.

SPerman wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 3:53 pm I was at the local home improvement warehouse last week, and right in front of the contractors door was a beautiful brand new pickup with a fancy decal on the side advertising that they did "all kinds of constrution work."

MJuric wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:58 pm When I was 20 I was absolutely awful with spelling, grammar etc. 30 years later I'd consider myself pretty good by todays standards....although I haven't really gotten any better.

I find it absolutely stunning how horrific of problem this has become. I very regularly see misspelled words, poor grammar and sentences that just do not meet the standard of whatever language they are attempting to convey. Newspapers, letters sent home by teachers and faculty, magazines and that says nothing about the plethora of web pages, blogs, online articles that are just painful to the point of being unreadable at times.

bnemec wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 5:01 pm like this one?
https://www.google.com/search?q=plover+water+tower

MJuric wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 4:58 pm When I was 20 I was absolutely awful with spelling, grammar etc. 30 years later I'd consider myself pretty good by todays standards....although I haven't really gotten any better.

I find it absolutely stunning how horrific of problem this has become. I very regularly see misspelled words, poor grammar and sentences that just do not meet the standard of whatever language they are attempting to convey. Newspapers, letters sent home by teachers and faculty, magazines and that says nothing about the plethora of web pages, blogs, online articles that are just painful to the point of being unreadable at times.

KaMei wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 1:59 am Crappy-Design-Funny-Worst-Fails-63-5f3e8af146f8c__700.jpg

DennisD wrote: ↑Tue Aug 10, 2021 9:54 pm To make your point. . .
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jayar wrote: ↑Wed Aug 11, 2021 11:46 pm

I may not be able to afford to drink anymore.