Random thoughts....
2-Mar-22 10:17pm
#1 shadyfozzie
Post your random thoughts, questions, ideas here... I'll start
1) Have you ever watched America's Funniest Videos and wonder why the winning video is almost NEVER funny AT ALL?? We were watching some older episodes on Disney Plus and the final 3 videos are always stupid and not funny, and the worst one ALWAYS wins.. WTF..
2) How have cereal bags NOT been made with zip lock technology??
3) They need to make a container that can keep to-go french fries from getting soggy...
#1 shadyfozzie
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Post your random thoughts, questions, ideas here... I'll start
1) Have you ever watched America's Funniest Videos and wonder why the winning video is almost NEVER funny AT ALL?? We were watching some older episodes on Disney Plus and the final 3 videos are always stupid and not funny, and the worst one ALWAYS wins.. WTF..
2) How have cereal bags NOT been made with zip lock technology??
3) They need to make a container that can keep to-go french fries from getting soggy...
7-Jun-23 6:25pm
#261 nonamesleft
Years ago I lent Sword of Mana and Children of Mana to a friend of mine. We used to lend each other games. I remember borrowing Oracle of Ages from him. I was pretty bad at the game. Couldn't figure stuff out.
Never got the Mana games back. Every so often I wonder if he still has the games. No idea if I'll get them back. Would be cool if I did though. You never know.
Haven't seen this guy in years. I think he moved to England. Had some great times with this friend. I wonder what he's up to.
#261 nonamesleft
Years ago I lent Sword of Mana and Children of Mana to a friend of mine. We used to lend each other games. I remember borrowing Oracle of Ages from him. I was pretty bad at the game. Couldn't figure stuff out.
Never got the Mana games back. Every so often I wonder if he still has the games. No idea if I'll get them back. Would be cool if I did though. You never know.
Haven't seen this guy in years. I think he moved to England. Had some great times with this friend. I wonder what he's up to.
7-Jun-23 6:52pm
#262 BloodPuppetX
nonamesleft wrote:
I wonder what he's up to.
He's somewhere in England... playing your Mana games.
#262 BloodPuppetX
nonamesleft wrote:
I wonder what he's up to.
He's somewhere in England... playing your Mana games.
7-Jun-23 7:31pm
#263 nonamesleft
BloodPuppetX wrote:
nonamesleft wrote: |>I wonder what he's up to. He's somewhere in England... playing your Mana games.Ha. Made me laugh.
He was a good friend though, so I hope he's at least enjoying the games.
#263 nonamesleft
BloodPuppetX wrote:
nonamesleft wrote: |>I wonder what he's up to. He's somewhere in England... playing your Mana games.Ha. Made me laugh.
He was a good friend though, so I hope he's at least enjoying the games.
8-Jun-23 9:49am
#264 John
theJaw wrote:
You guys hear about this David Grusch fellow? Apparently a whistleblower from one of the highest military ranks who alleges that the military has a "UFO retrieval program" and that they have an intact "non-human craft". I haven't looked too deep into it yet so I'm not sure if this is all nonsense but he apparently plans to have an interview on Sunday. Some lawmakers are urging info from the Pentagon who are, of course, denying it. Pretty fun stuff, real or not. Will be interesting to see what he says in the interview if it really happens.
I have heard about it. There is some hope that this is one of the better "whistleblower" situations. The problem right now is that everything he has is what he has heard from others. He has no direct contact/sight on anything that he's talking about, unfortunately. It is all "I have a high-up friend who told me..." stuff.
That being said, because of him, there are OTHERS that are allegedly going to come forward who DID have direct sight on these alleged objects. So, that will be the "real" story if we get that far. Everything else is basically hearsay.
#264 John
theJaw wrote:
You guys hear about this David Grusch fellow? Apparently a whistleblower from one of the highest military ranks who alleges that the military has a "UFO retrieval program" and that they have an intact "non-human craft". I haven't looked too deep into it yet so I'm not sure if this is all nonsense but he apparently plans to have an interview on Sunday. Some lawmakers are urging info from the Pentagon who are, of course, denying it. Pretty fun stuff, real or not. Will be interesting to see what he says in the interview if it really happens.
I have heard about it. There is some hope that this is one of the better "whistleblower" situations. The problem right now is that everything he has is what he has heard from others. He has no direct contact/sight on anything that he's talking about, unfortunately. It is all "I have a high-up friend who told me..." stuff.
That being said, because of him, there are OTHERS that are allegedly going to come forward who DID have direct sight on these alleged objects. So, that will be the "real" story if we get that far. Everything else is basically hearsay.
8-Jun-23 9:53am
#265 theJaw
Yeah, all I've been able to gather from this particular story so far is that, for once, the UFO community seem to actually be on board with what this guy's saying and aren't immediately poo-pooing it, which is apparently the common way these things pan out. Why that is, I have no idea, but it's interesting nonetheless.
#265 theJaw
Yeah, all I've been able to gather from this particular story so far is that, for once, the UFO community seem to actually be on board with what this guy's saying and aren't immediately poo-pooing it, which is apparently the common way these things pan out. Why that is, I have no idea, but it's interesting nonetheless.
8-Jun-23 1:16pm
#266 John
I agree. This seems more "hopeful" even for many of the skeptics than in the past. It's kinda neat. We'll see what comes of it.
#266 John
I agree. This seems more "hopeful" even for many of the skeptics than in the past. It's kinda neat. We'll see what comes of it.
9-Jun-23 10:25am
#267 nonamesleft
I don't understand something about ads in middle of videos. If I'm watching an episode of a show, and there are a bunch of ads, when the ads start playing, I do something else. I typically don't stay for the ads, nor am I interested in them. Who are the ads targeting?
Superbowl ads can be fun, but that's different.
Your typical everyday ad. I don't get it.
#267 nonamesleft
I don't understand something about ads in middle of videos. If I'm watching an episode of a show, and there are a bunch of ads, when the ads start playing, I do something else. I typically don't stay for the ads, nor am I interested in them. Who are the ads targeting?
Superbowl ads can be fun, but that's different.
Your typical everyday ad. I don't get it.
9-Jun-23 10:40am
#268 Scott
Yeah, I don't understand how advertising is profitable. Everyone seems to hate ads and skip them whenever possible. I'm more likely to NOT buy something if I'm forced to watch their ad too many times.
#268 Scott
Yeah, I don't understand how advertising is profitable. Everyone seems to hate ads and skip them whenever possible. I'm more likely to NOT buy something if I'm forced to watch their ad too many times.
9-Jun-23 9:27pm
#269 HybridCRoW
Ads have been around through ages... The companies pay other companies to place their ads where they place them. Then it becomes a whole psychological thing, sublminal messages, whatever you want to call it to get you to buy products and that's how companies make their money back and then some.
If it's a product by the same company you're watching the videos from, could be another division of the company, kind of like how the tobacco companies and the snack companies are actually one company.
#269 HybridCRoW
Ads have been around through ages... The companies pay other companies to place their ads where they place them. Then it becomes a whole psychological thing, sublminal messages, whatever you want to call it to get you to buy products and that's how companies make their money back and then some.
If it's a product by the same company you're watching the videos from, could be another division of the company, kind of like how the tobacco companies and the snack companies are actually one company.
10-Jun-23 7:39am
#270 Tony
What gets me about advertising is how much profit a company has to be making in order to pay for running a commercial. Does a commercial, in a particular time slot, really increase sales sufficiently to pay for itself and generate additional revenue? A 30 second commercial time slot during the Super Bowl costs over a million dollars. Budweiser probably pays about a million to get a Super Bowl worthy commercial made. How many additional cans of beer do they have to sell to pay to pay for the commercial and the one Super Bowl time slot? How many cans would they have sold without that commercial?
I never noticed a difference, but when I worked at McDonald's the manager told me that he could see a difference in sales of whatever product was being promoted in the current commercials.
#270 Tony
What gets me about advertising is how much profit a company has to be making in order to pay for running a commercial. Does a commercial, in a particular time slot, really increase sales sufficiently to pay for itself and generate additional revenue? A 30 second commercial time slot during the Super Bowl costs over a million dollars. Budweiser probably pays about a million to get a Super Bowl worthy commercial made. How many additional cans of beer do they have to sell to pay to pay for the commercial and the one Super Bowl time slot? How many cans would they have sold without that commercial?
I never noticed a difference, but when I worked at McDonald's the manager told me that he could see a difference in sales of whatever product was being promoted in the current commercials.
10-Jun-23 12:38pm
#271 rayzor6
I sold radio advertising as my first job. It works. The constant of any message over longer periods of time is going to increase sales. And at some point...a LACK of advertising will hurt sales. Out of sight, out of mind.
If you don't believe you can be affected by constant messaging: those old enough...think about your own politically charged feelings now versus 15 years ago. Advertising IS trying to create or keep an 'agenda' and we all fall prey to it.
#271 rayzor6
I sold radio advertising as my first job. It works. The constant of any message over longer periods of time is going to increase sales. And at some point...a LACK of advertising will hurt sales. Out of sight, out of mind.
If you don't believe you can be affected by constant messaging: those old enough...think about your own politically charged feelings now versus 15 years ago. Advertising IS trying to create or keep an 'agenda' and we all fall prey to it.
10-Jun-23 2:15pm
#272 Miranda
Yep. It matters. It makes a difference. I used to write the scripts for commercials for local advertising.
#272 Miranda
Yep. It matters. It makes a difference. I used to write the scripts for commercials for local advertising.
12-Jun-23 2:21pm
#274 lightslime
This is late to the tipping discussion. But I don't think it is feasible for the restaurants to pay a living wage without raising the prices to where the couldn't compete with the other restaurants. I have two jobs one as a bartender and one as a manager at a fast casual restaurant with counter service, where tips are pooled and split between everyone working on the shift, those that cooked the food and did the dishes as well as the person who took your order. Why are people against tipping a barista pouring them a coffee but will gladly tip a bartender for pouring them a beer, other than that it is the culturally accepted norm in the United States? In other countries where tips are not the norm you don't get as good service in my experience, and every time someone doesn't tip it feels like a personal insult because it is now becoming normal to tip at a counter restaurant or coffee shop. The restaurant industry is underpaid but those that make a career out of it are passionate about it, and / or are unable to hold down any other job due to mental health issues etc and deserve a living wage which is currently gotten via tips
#274 lightslime
This is late to the tipping discussion. But I don't think it is feasible for the restaurants to pay a living wage without raising the prices to where the couldn't compete with the other restaurants. I have two jobs one as a bartender and one as a manager at a fast casual restaurant with counter service, where tips are pooled and split between everyone working on the shift, those that cooked the food and did the dishes as well as the person who took your order. Why are people against tipping a barista pouring them a coffee but will gladly tip a bartender for pouring them a beer, other than that it is the culturally accepted norm in the United States? In other countries where tips are not the norm you don't get as good service in my experience, and every time someone doesn't tip it feels like a personal insult because it is now becoming normal to tip at a counter restaurant or coffee shop. The restaurant industry is underpaid but those that make a career out of it are passionate about it, and / or are unable to hold down any other job due to mental health issues etc and deserve a living wage which is currently gotten via tips
12-Jun-23 3:56pm
#275 rayzor6
I think it's all the 'new' entries to WHO put out the expectations of tips and the concern that companies are claiming to pay X+ "you get tips" when in reality; you aren't going to get tips.
That is putting the burden of offering good pay directly on us: the consumer.
And for me, the tipping automatically before any tip-worthy service has happened is becoming a problem. I was at an Everbowl last week and and as soon as the big screen that says what to tip came and gone (and I tipped 20%); the person who was serving me (NOT the one who made the 2 bowls I order) IMMEDIATELY stopped doing things. She was putting the lid on my bowl and stopped and turned around and went into the kitchen the second I was off the tip screen and it was given. If the other person wasn't so nice and did a great job with our two bowls: I would have probably called corporate. But I knew the good one was splitting it with Ms. Lazy; so I just let it go.
#275 rayzor6
I think it's all the 'new' entries to WHO put out the expectations of tips and the concern that companies are claiming to pay X+ "you get tips" when in reality; you aren't going to get tips.
That is putting the burden of offering good pay directly on us: the consumer.
And for me, the tipping automatically before any tip-worthy service has happened is becoming a problem. I was at an Everbowl last week and and as soon as the big screen that says what to tip came and gone (and I tipped 20%); the person who was serving me (NOT the one who made the 2 bowls I order) IMMEDIATELY stopped doing things. She was putting the lid on my bowl and stopped and turned around and went into the kitchen the second I was off the tip screen and it was given. If the other person wasn't so nice and did a great job with our two bowls: I would have probably called corporate. But I knew the good one was splitting it with Ms. Lazy; so I just let it go.
12-Jun-23 4:15pm
#276 HybridCRoW
Tipping is meant to be a gratuity, not a requirement. When you have the services like DoorDash and such requiring the tips up front and then the person delivering your food doesn't deliver as expected, such as handing it to you, or communicate that you've arrived, or whatever it is that they did wrong.. you're rewarding them for bad service? That's essentially "participation trophy," and "entitlement."
I'm not against tipping, I'm just against mandatory tips. I've worked a job as a teenager where I got tips and I didn't know I was going to potentially get them. I appreciated them when I got them because it proved I was doing a great job and it pushed me to do better every time. I never expected them either and still pushed myself to do a better job in any way I can.
#276 HybridCRoW
Tipping is meant to be a gratuity, not a requirement. When you have the services like DoorDash and such requiring the tips up front and then the person delivering your food doesn't deliver as expected, such as handing it to you, or communicate that you've arrived, or whatever it is that they did wrong.. you're rewarding them for bad service? That's essentially "participation trophy," and "entitlement."
I'm not against tipping, I'm just against mandatory tips. I've worked a job as a teenager where I got tips and I didn't know I was going to potentially get them. I appreciated them when I got them because it proved I was doing a great job and it pushed me to do better every time. I never expected them either and still pushed myself to do a better job in any way I can.
12-Jun-23 7:12pm
#277 Foxhack
Tips wouldn't have to be mandatory if restaurants actually paid a living wage.
Also Doordash and similar companies often pocket much of the tips you "give" through the apps. I just give people tips in cash instead whenever I can.
#277 Foxhack
Tips wouldn't have to be mandatory if restaurants actually paid a living wage.
Also Doordash and similar companies often pocket much of the tips you "give" through the apps. I just give people tips in cash instead whenever I can.
15-Jun-23 8:05pm
#278 nonamesleft
Why does tofu have a semi bad reputation? It doesn't have a bad taste, and is a great addition to things like soups. But I've rarely heard anyone get excited for a tofu based dish. Well, except for the guy in the recent ad I saw. He claims to use tofu in a certain dish. (And then a woman says that she gets a hummus wrap for lunch, something like that.) The ad wasn't even selling a product. It was saying to eat more veggies.
Can't believe I'm about to say this, but I'm actually going to look for the ad. Yeah, you read that right. I'm purposely looking for an ad. I'm curious what the dish was that the guy made. Some sort of tofu veggie stew.
#278 nonamesleft
Why does tofu have a semi bad reputation? It doesn't have a bad taste, and is a great addition to things like soups. But I've rarely heard anyone get excited for a tofu based dish. Well, except for the guy in the recent ad I saw. He claims to use tofu in a certain dish. (And then a woman says that she gets a hummus wrap for lunch, something like that.) The ad wasn't even selling a product. It was saying to eat more veggies.
Can't believe I'm about to say this, but I'm actually going to look for the ad. Yeah, you read that right. I'm purposely looking for an ad. I'm curious what the dish was that the guy made. Some sort of tofu veggie stew.
15-Jun-23 11:14pm
#279 HybridCRoW
I've actually had fried tofu before... it was YUMMAY!!! At least I think it was fried... there was also some kind of spicy sauce involved as well... kind of gave it a sweetness moreso than spicy.
#279 HybridCRoW
I've actually had fried tofu before... it was YUMMAY!!! At least I think it was fried... there was also some kind of spicy sauce involved as well... kind of gave it a sweetness moreso than spicy.
16-Jun-23 1:30pm
#281 nonamesleft
@rayzor6 @HybridCRoW
Two people who have good things to say about tofu. Nice.
Aside from not seeing tofu served that often, I hardly see it on menus either. Occasionally you spot a dish or two, but that's it. Maybe it's just that it's more known/widely used in Asian cultures?
#281 nonamesleft
@rayzor6 @HybridCRoW
Two people who have good things to say about tofu. Nice.
Aside from not seeing tofu served that often, I hardly see it on menus either. Occasionally you spot a dish or two, but that's it. Maybe it's just that it's more known/widely used in Asian cultures?
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