Maybe not a rant, but a bemusement. A few days ago, I went to the grocery store to buy, among other things, a can of spam. There was an empty shelf area and a sign saying that canned meat products could be picked up in Customer Service. There were a couple of representative cans of non-standard spam (low-salt, BBQ, etc.) to show the selection available.
Is there some sort of black market for spam that I wasn’t aware of? Can it be boiled down to make smeth or something?
People use it as bait to hunt Hawaiians. How’s the Hawaiian population in Stockton?
Smeth! 
The only time I’ve seen anything like that was in the section of a liquor store where they normally stocked Courvoisier. Instead of bottles they had little stand-up cardboard figures of bottles on the shelf. Turned out, this was a store that was experiencing a high level of shoplifting and Courvoisier for some reason was the absolute #1 favorite target. It boggles the mind that anyone would shoplift Spam!
I think it’s an awfully high price to pay for ‘symbolism’. And the actors and sports guys aren’t living off the public dole. They are paid to produce.
And yet they cost the British taxpayers so many millions of pounds per year…
I wonder how they acquired their ‘landed estates and financial assets’? Could it be inheritance from being Royal?
Parasites.
Which is really none of my business. And since it is none of my business, I don’t want to see 3 or 4 news stories about the Royals every goddamned day.
Maybe it’s just me, but when a guy is being paid, literally, hundreds of millions of dollars to throw a ball so another guy can try to hit it with a stick (for which he’s also being paid hundreds of millions), I don’t see that as “producing” anything. And that money doesn’t come out of thin air. It may not be tax dollars, but it does come from the public, who apparently feel they are being entertained. And that’s fine. Maybe some feel that the royals are entertaining, too, as well as being role models who are a good deal more exemplary than a guy who hits a ball with a stick or an actor who’s an asshole to his fans.
Let me put it this way. The British people have, as their head of state, Queen Elizabeth, who represents a storied history and national heritage and is a person of incontrovertible integrity. You have, as your head of state, Donald J. Trump.
2006 called up, said that Wolfpup just pwn3d your asses. Just saying.
Playing the DJT card was kinda cruel, but it needed to be done.
It boggles my mind, too. The shelf with the missing spam was up above the shelf with the tuna and the canned oysters other stuff that I, personally, find more enticing.
When I called up the other two I told them the difference is that guy #3 looked at the adjusters statement, saw how much the insurance company was willing to pay, saw what they wanted done, and said “here’s how we can use all their money to improve your home even beyond what they require. And if we find other issues, I’ll file a supplemental claim which will get approved.” The other 2 just gave me low bids on something I wasn’t even paying for.
Business lesson: it’s not about being the low-cost leader, it’s about being able to maximize value.
They’ve been putting in a new water main. We were connected to the new main yesterday and the spray paint lines pretty much stop at the entrance to the parking lot so I’m hoping either today or tomorrow will be the last day of noise.
LORD THUNDERING JESUS, the noise! The exact same thing is going on in front of my house! Every window in this 135yr old house shudders, the pictures on the walls are always askew, and a couple of times things have actually fallen from shelves! Yikes!
They’ve been running that combo steam roller/pounder, up and down, in front of my house all morning. It’s been brutal.
Alas, a mighty thunderstorm has just arrived and all work has ceased! I’ll take the sound of a hard rain any time!
Same thing here last week. Severe storm came through Friday while the water was shut off and delayed turning it back on.
I watch a fair amount of YouTube. I found out just minutes ago that a YouTuber I really like, whose content I really enjoy, is a creep and that he cheated on his wife. Fuck. He’d solicit nudes from his fans and would also send them nudes, sometime unsolicited. One woman was alleged to be 16 at the time. Then he was banging another lady that was not his wife.
Just gross. Why did I waste my time on him?
Dammit, I’ve been kaylasdad99 on here for nearly twenty years, and this is the first time I’ve ever had to contemplate the idea that I chose the wrong handle.
Because Default Value sounds PERFECT!
Be that as it may, Pab Sungenis got in a pretty good one today…
I’ve been here long enough to remember… and you may have participated in… screeching, hate-filled Pit Threads about screenames that define you by your relationship to another person.
Ahhhh, the good old days!
A few weeks ago, the cheap grocery store had bacon at $3.49 a pound. Today I noticed it was $4.49 for the same package.
Good thing I stocked up.
I’m tired of being treated like a potential criminal by stores. Yesterday I went to [big warehouse type place that I won’t mention by name so I don’t get ads] for my family. I’m not a member because I disagree in principle with having to show a receipt at the door for products I just purchased thirty seconds ago and ten yards away. There was a line to do so and I said screw it and just walked out with what I bought. This of course caused squawking and reminded me why I hate these fucking places.
Yes, I realize stores actually do lose a lot of money from shoplifting. I also realize I’m not a person doing that, and I resent this practice. As I understand it, they have the legal right to hold you for the police if they suspect you’ve shoplifted. One day when I have the time, I’m going to make them do it. Except that won’t happen because I only ever go there as a favor to someone and using their card.
Their Card, as opposed to YOUR Card, which you don’t have. And which is a requirement to make purchases at that store. So you’re using someone else’s credentials to effect a transaction from which you’d normally be barred. Sounds a bit like fraud and/or trespassing to me. Criminal. One such place has a sister store that doesn’t require a card, but they still like to randomly check receipts. I just say, “No thanks.” and keep moving. And that’s the end of that. They don’t get paid enough to pull the pin on jackasses like me.