I note that Excalibre himself has only used it in the Pit three times. And only one of those times was one of saorise’s linked threads. It’s a neologism, saorise. Use it the waythat feels right to you. But as an activity, there’s nothing in the term that necessitates one to intuit it as solely a group activity.
Let me explain this to you… I do hope I won’t need the finger puppets this time:
If no-one has ever been prosecuted for Unlawfully Refilling A Cup From A Soft Drink Post-Mix Machine, then it can hardly be considered a “Crime”, can it?
Oh sure, you can jump up and down about how it’s unlawfully taking something, but if the vendor cared, they’d do something about it. Their failure to care or take action means they can be seen as giving their implied consent, therefore it’s not really theft- and even if a case could be made for it technically being theft, it’s certainly not worth making an issue of.
You can tell the difference between “providing a cite” and “acting like a 12 year old”, right? I notice you haven’t got the good grace to admit you didn’t actually know gold had uses besides currency and jewellery, either.
How old are you, anyway?
Well, something good has come from this thread. Uvula Donor has enriched my volcabulary and I am eternally greatful.
Dustcunted schoolmarm. snicker
Hrmm… Just to put this into perspective:
5 gallons of cola mix apparently costs $10, diluted to a 5:1 ratio means 25 gallons or 200 pints for $10. since a pint is a pound, this is 200 pounds or 3200 oz so we get a per unit price of 0.3c/oz.
Toilet paper on amazon costs $40 for 8000 sheets which means a per sheet price of 0.5c per sheet.
Assuming a mouthful is roughly an ounce, taking 3 extra mouthfuls of cola is a lesser offense than using an extra 3 sheets of toilet paper to wipe your ass at that same convenience store. If your so squeamish as to line the entire toilet seat with paper before you sit down, well, you must be worse than a baby raper or something.
This thread makes me thirsty for unpaid-for root beer. I think there’s an all-nght Subway near here…
If you’re going to pit this practice DWC, you need to include Coca-Cola in your rantings. They’ve been running a commercial that flat-out encourages pilfering with the tag line “Sipping - not a felony in 50 states” or something like that. Pisses me off b/c I know that’s just one more way that they’re trying to increase their profits (I used to work for them - profit is everything). If they could get everyone in America to steal one more sip, they’d make an extra X dollars per year – whoo!!! I can just picture them in the boardroom, rubbing their hands with glee.
I work for a newspaper … and fuck if it hasn’t been FLIPPIN HOT recently. But this worked my last … heated … nerve. Thoughts?
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I bet nipple-licking is illegal somewhere. Let’s just wait until the OP gets outraged about that, too.
So, which of those links did you want us to see? The anonymous closeup of a nipple getting licked, or the gradeschool scribble of a spider that you want permanently inked to your sorry ass? You know, if you’re going to get a tatoo, you really should get one that isn’t going to look like it was done with a sharpened stick by your drunken cellmate.
Oh for Christ’s sake. I never said that list was exhaustive. Recreational outrage threads have been appearing in the pit since there was a pit. It’s 98 fucking degrees. Try not to be an idiot.
It’s the only language you seem to understand. Can’t blame him for trying.
Then why the fuck did you bring it up, genius??
I hate wrestling with pigs.
If you are licking a woman’s nipple, and that nipple lactates and if you drink the resulting milk, are you stealing from her if you don’t offer her just compensation? If you do offer her just compensation, aren’t you guilty of soliciting prostitution? If you immediately spit it out, the milk would be wasted (and the relationship would probably end on the spot). Do you feel that this makes nipple-licking morally wrong?
Nipple: Its what’s for dinner. 
I actually agree with you. Each incident of soda theft is miniscule, but if we use the information given by an above poster (100 refills instead of 120 @ $1 per each) that’s $20 dollars per tank of shorted income for the store. Times that by the number of tanks they go through in a year and it could be a sufficient number, maybe upwards of several hundred dollars. The store just doesn’t want to try to chase that money down on a per drink basis because it would cost more in employees time than that few hundred bucks is worth. IOW, it’s a loss they have to accept to prevent a greater loss (employee time, customer loyalty, etc.)
If it’s a little wrong then it’s a lot wrong.
Wait a minute here. There is a single reason why there is this “theft” going on in the first place. The store has chosen to save money on labor by putting the soda machine in front of the counter instead of behind the counter.
They certainly have the choice to put the machines back behind the counter and “save” all that money from this hideous theft problem. They don’t, because they money they save by making the customer serve themselves more than makes up for the one cent per cup of lost syrup.
Your $20/tank calculation is bullshit too. Unless they are chronically running out of syrup, they’re not going to lose a single dollar in sales, they just have to pay for more supplies for the sales they make, that’s about $1/tank, maybe. If a worker dropped a $10 tank on the floor, would you say he lost you $120, or the $10 it takes to buy another tank?
Hard to follow you. I’m talking revenue lost. Not the actual cost.
If you’re paying for a 20oz drink then you should get 20oz. Not 30, or 40. Pay for the 30 if you want 30. Don’t fill up the 20oz cup and drink 10oz and then refill it. That’s clearly being dishonest. If the store policy is otherwise then it doesn’t matter, but if the store sells different sizes then you should pay and drink accordingly.
Ok, I understand this part after reading it again. You’re probably right. Unless they have a contract from the supplier for X amount of product then it probably won’t matter to the store. They’d be out the $10 bucks, not the $120. It’s still a problem I have on principle, it’s the 30oz for the 20oz price thing.
Posts like this are the reason why people fail to recognize a good whoosh on the SDMB anymore.