Barkeep! A chilled glass of Gerolsteiner for all my friends here! …give 'em a lime slice if they ask for it; the sky’s the limit.
Now you’ve done it…
Yard lights, though I have to admit, I think this one is not entirely nuts.
Amateur Barbarian lives in the woods of New England? I am SO ENVIOUS. It’s gonna be 93 degrees again here in NYC on Friday. Wish my ass was in the piney woods of coastal Maine.
Was he the one that called it the ‘‘Glow to Hell’’ project? That was funny.
You have to clean it afterwards.
My thermostat only goes down to 93 degrees during curtailment. Curtailment is what the power company does when it’s way too fuckin’ hot for them to generate enough electricity to provide to all the AC units on the grid.
Think about that for a sec. 93 is what you get AFTER the air conditioning has done everything it possibly can. Yeah, I guess it’s worse when you’re in Maine and not used to it, but 93 is lower than the overnight low here.
I may be exaggerating a bit. But still, fuck the heat.
Yep. Puppy’s made out of pure lead. They’re makin’ hundreds of ‘em. They’re gonna install those grid balls all over New England’s aquifers. Like a statement about purity or somethin’.
Great news! I have a dozen tanks of canned cold air I’ll sell to ya! Imported air from Yemen. The best there is.
I just read the first page, and was stunned no one said, “Bong.”
The scary thing is the man is a professional in marketing and communications, but when he posts here, he’s so over-the-top that he turns off even those who agree with him.
But is he really? When asked about his bona fides he got all coy and said he didn’t want the thread to drift off topic (after he managed to make it all about his own bad self) and to start a new thread, and when no one went off to one of the “nice” fora begging him to disclose his CV he dismissed it as people just wanting to be pouty.
The one Authority he cited was a Youtube video which is apparently so much more betterer than even books he’s read on the subject. Of course he didn’t say which books. I’m thinking Curious George Picks His Nose.
And I don’t accept anything from Youtube as proof of anything, because Youtube also contains fucking Fred Figglehorn, and any medium which allows Fred Figglehorn to flourish is automatically garbage.
(For those who don’t know, Fred Figglehorn is a teen who somehow makes a fuckload of money posting Youtube videos of himself shrieking at the camera in a whiny, eardrum-puncturing, screamy toddler in full meltdown voice. He sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks singing castrati. And makes money doing it. :mad:)
I like LaCroix. Flavored fizzy is my jam.
What’s worse is that this dude has clearly swallowed one type of marketing tripe: Hints from Heloise.
All that household advice stuff is pure BS, driven by Big Newspaper and the thousands of dollars that are involved in getting a syndicated column in the Sacramento Bee. AB has drank the Kool Aid that vinegar has 1,001 uses around the house – it’s just not true, it’s not a fucking miracle liquid! Stop peddling this nonsense! It’s like genocide against the makers of quality household products, like S.C. Johnson, a family company!
If you take hints from Heloise, it’s like you’re killing people and molesting kittens. There, I said it.
Too busy watching TV I see.
This is absurd. I’ve molested more kittens than I can remember, and it doesn’t even compare to hints to Heloise.
(To be fair…the marketing for kitten molesters leaves a bit to be desired)
The lack of corporatization** around kitten molesting indicates you are a sincere kitten molester who hasn’t been swayed by Big Pussy. Congratulations!
**God I hope
Okay, so that post he made about there being 50 brands of potato chips and that no one could tell the difference makes more sense now.
Sheesh. I hate advertising and think your life is much better if you get rid of as much of it as possible. I think it’s designed to get you to want things you previously wouldn’t. and that makes you less happy. The old excuse that it lets people know about things doesn’t wash in the Google-internet age when you can look things up before you buy them. If something is really good. you’ll hear about it via word of mouth.
But even I know that advertising doesn’t make you do things. People buy bottled water because it’s convenient. It’s always much easier to spend a little money than to invest that money in something long term that would be cheaper. Advertising is big money, and it does use techniques to make you more likely to do things. But it’s not mind control.
And sorry to interrupt the snarkfest. I’m sure Big Cecil is upset and will punish me.
[BigT] See, here’s the thing. You are not sorry. And you know you are not sorry. A normal human who is upset over something that they might post would end up just not posting that thing. But you decided to go ahead and post it which makes me know that you really are not upset over posting what you posted.
But you posted it anyways knowing it would upset other people. You did it intentionally because you knew it would upset other people. And then you add this piece of bull-malarkey as a way to try to shield yourself from criticism, but we all can see through your smoke screen and we all know that you really wanted to post this with the intended purpose of hurting others.
In my cheese deprived world that just does not fly and you should really be ashamed of yourself for trying to tear down other people instead of trying to lift people up.
Sometimes posts like this and this board makes me so angry that I have to step away from the thread or board for awhile to calm down. And when I read your post I had to step away or else I’d say things that would get me warned. But having thought about it I can not let this post go by without letting you know that we all know what you are doing and what you are actually saying.
You are what is wrong with this board and you are dragging this board down. I can’t let that happen. This board is my life and if you or anyone else were to take that away from me I would have to eat actual cheese. [/BigT]
He seems to have changed his mind about Costco, at any rate.