The point of any hyper-expensive thing is simply that you can, and so many others can’t.
And for things of fairly limited production, like that car of which only 375 were made, it’s even more important that lots of your other peer many-millions-aires and up cannot have one that they want because you already took one of the few. Neener!
No different than you and your 8yo brother fighting over the “good” seat in the car so your bro can’t have it.
Huh. Well, damn my lower middle class upbringing, which taught me that the point of owning a luxury something is to enjoy the luxury.
ETA: My lower middle class upbringing also failed to teach me an appreciation for status and prestige. I care naught about either thing. If I have the money, I’ll pay for primo experiences - like a 3-Michelin-star tasting menu, but that’s because I want to enjoy the food, not because I want to be able to say that I did it.
Back when they slacked off making BIG cars (after the first gas crunch [?]), did they go around making all the parking spaces smaller and now that big cars are a thing again did they forget to make the spaces bigger and is that why I can’t get out of my car in parking lots?
Developers and businesses only provide as many parking spaces as code requires and the less acreage they take up, the better. Cities could require bigger spaces but that would encourage more people to buy bigger cars which are generally considered less socially responsible than smaller vehicles.
I think it’s more like
Cities could require bigger spaces but that would
encourage more people to buy bigger cars which are generally considered less socially responsible than smaller vehiclesannoy the real estate investors who rule every city government in the land.
The large car (read “pickup truck”) drivers do not care. Like the obese on airlines, the fact they don’t fit in their seat is their neighbor’s problem, not theirs.
When I was in college someone on campus had a big old 1970s era Lincoln Continental Mark IV. I often saw it parallel parked on one of the streets on campus. That car was literally longer than the parking spaces. When it was parallel parked, both the front and rear bumpers were over the lines delineating the spaces.
I think you might like this book.
Don’t be put off by descriptions that say it’s for children. I first read it in my 50’s with great enjoyment and re-read it from time to time. Pratchett gets you laughing and then while he’s got you there whacks all your assumptions up the inside of your head.
That doesn’t really make a good excuse. Jokes whose point is to be nasty about a group are still nasty.
-– another liberal farmer
Because that’s the day the retailer can return them (or just the cover) for a refund.
There are a lot of threads on the theme of “Why do people like stuff I don’t like?” that I generally avoid reading, even though sometimes I ask myself a similar question. Today I am asking myself “Why are there grown adults still excited about Pokemon?”
But it is okay for any bright reading child.
I know!
True. Many of the best books are for people of any age.
If you mean the game: I never got into it. But the answer is still pretty simple: it’s a fun game (for those who enjoy that type of game). The collectible aspect (oooh, you got a super-duper-rare Bungledard, that’s worth at least $100!) adds to the fun.
If you mean the show: I got nothing. I’ve tried to watch anime and I get absolutely nothing from it.
I mean all of it. I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, I’m sure they love these things because they grew up with them, much like I love many silly childish things. But I’m not going to scalp toys for a 500% markup or stay up till 3am for a Lego release day, which is what’s been going on for Pokemon lately.
How many female novelists or writers have ever written a novel or screenplay that had a man as the main character? Harry Potter doesn’t really count, and neither does anything else in which the male character is a little boy or a teen, really. Men writing female protagonists is common enough, but women writing adult male protagonists is much more rare kinda
What are some things that most people like but you don’t like, and conversely what are some things you like that most people don’t like? Things most people like that I don’t like: 1) green peppers 2) onions 3) cold cuts (why do people like cold cuts so much? They lack flavor and are kinda nasty in my experience) 4) Sports. Things I like that most people don’t like: 1) Rats and mice (as discussed already) 2) Anchovies- I don’t prefer them, but if they’re on pizza I don’t hate them and might not even bother removing them 3) The Crusades- most people probably find them pretty long and boring, but I find The Crusades fascinating (please eschew any Monty Python references 
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But they can also disregard that date and keep the magazine on the rack, because someone might end up buying it eventually- so my next question is, How far past the “Display Until” date can the store still get a refund for the unsold magazine; is there a point too far past the date when they can’t get a refund?
Have you ever studied law cases/studied documented court trials just for fun? And I’m including the act of doing random keyword searches on law case databases. For example: I’ve done many searches on websites that allow free database searches for US law cases, and some of those searches were pretty random search keywords, like how many law cases or trials mention The Big Lebowski anywhere, etc. I’ve put in the names of cities I’ve lived in, or local shopping malls, names of people I knew in the past, et al. Also: Have you ever come up with any fictional legal situations/cases that are more interesting than the average courtroom thriller or lawyer show/series episode? Bonus points if your story doesn’t mention anything supernatural.
Naomi Novak with her Temeraire series.(nine books) and more-
Maybe, i think it happened once, but that zine had gone away.
I’d love to hear you expound on this- I’ve never considered this idea before or heard this argument
The “Display Until” tells the rack jobber (the third-party representative who stocks and restocks the magazine racks at the stores) when to pull the old issue, as the magazine publisher undoubtedly doesn’t want to have older copies sitting out there – they’ll want those replaced with whatever the next issue is, so that they can have “current” copies available for purchase.
It’s generally not the responsibility of the store’s staff to stock and maintain those racks; it’s the responsibility of the jobber. If you are seeing long “out of date” magazines at your local store, it’d suggest that either (a) the jobber isn’t doing their job well, or (b) the company which has the contract for the magazine racks is short-staffed, and isn’t sending out a jobber to that store frequently enough.
Nope. As I understand it*, periodicals generally use the same UPC for every issue of a given title (“special issues” possibly notwithstanding); they don’t assign a unique UPC to each issue.
When an issue of Time, or whatever, gets scanned, it’ll show up in the system (and on your receipt) as “Time Magazine,” and not a specifically-dated issue.
*- and as I just checked with multiple issues of several different magazines which are sitting around in my house at the moment.
What was your favorite decade and year of the Internet / World Wide Web? The year doesn’t have to be part of the decade, either.
I’ve seen stats before that say that 2,000 cars and motorcycles are stolen every day in the United States. Why do stolen cars not get more news attention (or, oftentimes, any news attention)?
I wish I could eat authentically-made Medieval-style pie. I am not talking about meat pies or the like, I mean European type fruit pies of the desserts kind but Medieval or maybe circa 1600 type pie, made in the style and all. Any comments / suggestions?
Think about the personality and beliefs and ideas you had when you were 16 years old. From 0-100%: How similar are you now to who you were at 16?