Vending machine wtf
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Coke is to Pepsi like Toblerone is to Taco Bell-fueled diarrhea.
I like Mountain Dew though. Means if I go out to eat there's always something I can drink regardless of whether it's a Coke place or a Pepsi place.
- I really dislike Coke. Glad someone likes it. But please, stop pissing on my Pepsi.
- Your analogy doesn't make sense. "Coke is to Pepsi": good so far, these are both sodas. Colas even. "Toblerone is to Taco Bell-fueled diarrhea": ERROR, no similarities found. One is good Swiss chocolate (take that @luhmann), and the other is . Also, many people (myself included) eat Taco Bell food without any digestive issues at all, so the second half of this analogy fails to process.
- I've been to plenty of Coke places that don't carry Mountain Dew. Probably because Mountain Dew is a Pepsi product.
Mod - PJH...
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Are you trying for a "Didn't Get The Joke" badge mashed up with one of the Pedantic Dickweeds one? If so, 3/10. Would have been higher but Point 3 has nothing to do with anything.
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Point 3 has nothing to do with anything.
Ummmm ...
I like Mountain Dew though. Means if I go out to eat there's always something I can drink regardless of whether it's a Coke place or a Pepsi place.
<L>3. I've been to plenty of Coke places that don't carry Mountain Dew. Probably because Mountain Dew is a Pepsi product.
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If the restaurant is a Coke place, I drink Coke. If it's a Pepsi place, I drink Mountain Dew. That's why there's always something I can drink regardless of whether it's a Coke place or a Pepsi place. I'm not sure how you read that to mean Mountain Dew is a Coke product.
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If the restaurant is a Coke place, I drink Coke. If it's a Pepsi place, I drink Mountain Dew. That's why there's always something I can drink regardless of whether it's a Coke place or a Pepsi place. I'm not sure how you read that to mean Mountain Dew is a Coke product.
I (apparently) misread it to mean that you were getting Mountain Dew no matter what. I blame it on a parsing error caused by poor sleep last night and not enough caffeine yet this morning. Apologies.
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I knew a guy once that urinated on an ATM. Of course it had to be the closest ATM to where I lived at the time.
A couple of years ago I pulled up to an ATM in a sketchy part of town (that was close to the kind of strip club where one might go if C-section scars are your thing) and the keypad and everything was covered in vomit. Why? When you think about it, a person would have to try to do such a thing. It would be more natural to do so on to the ground.
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Also, many people (myself included) eat Taco Bell food without any digestive issues at all, so the second half of this analogy fails to process.
Yeah, I've never had an issue with mexican or spicy food in general, digestion wise. Now, if you have a pre-existing digestion issue and have some spicy food...look out.
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Most food doesn't bother my digestive system, it's just a common joke around my area. Taco Bell is often called Taco Hell.
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My favorite is Toxic Smell. But I miss the days when their food was really inexpensive. Now it's about on par with other fast food dumps.
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Are you trying for a "Didn't Get The Joke" badge mashed up with one of the Pedantic Dickweeds one?
You don't think point 2 is the biggest whoosh in a while? I actually flagged his post to nominate him.
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@Intercourse said:
(I wonder how many NSA filters we have tripped on this board, BTW)
a lot of them, possibly all of them...
if we cause enough activity maybe they'll try a raid? </VERY BAD IDEA>
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@Intercourse said:
When you think about it, a person would have to try to do such a thing. It would be more natural to do so on to the ground.
Some people smear shit on the walls in public restrooms. I've actually been in one where someone smeared it on the inside door handle.
Now, those people are almost a sufficient argument for video cameras in public restrooms. I don't try to understand 'em, but I acknowledge that they exist and and think they should be removed from the gene pool.
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Also, many people (myself included) eat Taco Bell food without any digestive issues at all, so the second half of this analogy fails to process.
Funny.
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I (apparently) misread it to mean that you were getting Mountain Dew no matter what. I blame it on a parsing error caused by poor sleep last night and not enough caffeine yet this morning. Apologies.
We should give you the "Didn't Get the Joke" badge anyway.
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Some people smear shit on the walls in public restrooms. I've actually been in one where someone smeared it on the inside door handle.
This is why I refuse to work for the EPA.
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One is good Swiss chocolate
It is. Belgian pralines are however the best. Not simply good.
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@Intercourse said:
Does this qualify you for a "Whoosh" badge?
No, I knew what he was talking about. That's why I said "funny."
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antiquarian:
We should give you the "Didn't Get the Coke" badge anyway.FTFY
No way, it was me who din't get his Coke, you just can't give it away that easy.
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@Intercourse said:
Also, the sad thing was that back in the day my friend told me that you only needed to copy the front of the bill. My friend told me that the back of the bill mattered fuckall.
This happened at a gas station I worked at during my college days. Someone paid for $10 in gas using a black-and-white photocopied $10 bill. Our manager brought this up at our next staff meeting, but did not reveal who accepted the bill. Fortunately, I had been off that week. ;-)
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Someone paid for $10 in gas using a black-and-white photocopied $10 bill. Our manager brought this up at our next staff meeting, but did not reveal who accepted the bill.
Wait, someone used a BW copy to pay not to a shitty reader but an actual person? TRWTF.
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Someone paid for $10 in gas using a black-and-white photocopied $10 bill.
That's impressive. The closest I came to that was a worker from the restaurant next door who had been in enough I assumed she wasn't trying to rip me off, tried to give me an odd-looking $100. I think what tipped me off was the color-changing ink didn't look right. I felt kind of bad telling her it was a fake because it was probably a tip.
As far as I know nobody's managed to counterfeit the security strip in US bills larger than a one--but I have seen several that tried to fake it with a watermark. If you're not sure if a bill is real, try to rip across the strip: if it's not there, the bill's fake.
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But I miss the days when their food was really inexpensive.
The main, if not only, reason for eating there. I used to think their food was ok, for fast food, but I recently went there after not having been in a really long time. Why did I ever think it was ok? Where I live now, just down the street from the local Taco Bell is a local, (AFAIK) non-chain Mexican place that's reasonably priced ($5 for a carne asada burrito that's almost big enough to make two meals), better than TB, and open 24-hours (the local TB isn't). Taco Hell can go to...
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I was in the drive-thru line at a TB once at oh-dark-hundred and saw a couple of people being rousted by the cops out of a camper in a parking lot directly behind the TB's lot.
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@Intercourse said:
I had something remarkably similar happen to me. I had a couple of meetings downtown and I had no small bills. After the first meeting (which had a very expensive parking garage) I went to the payment machine (pay before you get in your car) and I knew I would need some 1's for the next parking area. My parking came up to $10.50, so I thought I would be smart and feed in a twenty and get some small bills in change. As soon as I put in the $20 bill the display flashed "out of bills" and proceeded to spit out 38 quarters.
For bonus points, the elevator was on the fritz so I had to hook it up 5 floors of stairs, jingling all the way.
For more bonus points, I felt like an asshole making people wait so I could pay for my parking at the next meeting with a fuckload of quarters.
I'd tell the meeting organizer to FOAD, I'm not going to a meeting where I have to pay to park.
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A few minutes ago I decided getting something from the vending machine at work wasn't worth 76 quarters, or even 19 dollar coins, in my pocket afterwards.
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I'd tell the meeting organizer to FOAD, I'm not going to a meeting where I have to pay to park.
Ok, I might have thread winner here. Years ago, when I was first working professionally, I had to go into downtown Boston to meet with a client. I couldn't find a close-by parking spot, and I wasn't going to pay parking garage rates. It turned out there was a stub of an alley behind the building which had a handful of spots, and one was open. You parked and gave your keys to one of the maintenance guys.
When I came out, they'd moved my car, to put a Mercedes or something behind me. When I pointed this out, they were gonna just hand me the keys to this other guy's car and have me move it. Because I was young and either dumb or not dumb, I declined, which resulted in me spending 10 minutes trying to edge around his car, but I finally did it.
Next time I drove to the nearest T station, where parking was only a buck, and rode the rest of the way into town, and told my boss it was going to take a little longer for the trip.
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I'd tell the meeting organizer to FOAD, I'm not going to a meeting where I have to pay to park.
I don't care, I just pass on the cost to them. So I park close.
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A few minutes ago I decided getting something from the vending machine at work wasn't worth 76 quarters, or even 19 dollar coins, in my pocket afterwards.
A while back we arranged to have two pieces of furniture delivered to our house. The price was $30 for both downstairs or $50 for both upstairs. We agreed on the upstairs price.
When they came to deliver they got the smaller piece up without a hitch but reckoned there was no way to get the larger one up. I'd measured the wardrobe in question and, while it was definitely awkward, I felt it would be possible.
They disagreed, refused to try and left it downstairs. When it came to pay I told them I was only going to give them $40 seeing as the wardrobe was not upstairs. They grumbled but couldn't really argue, and there was a bit of ill feeling...
I went to get the money and only had a $50 note and they reckoned they had no change. I went back inside and took a pair of pliers to a money tin we had been saving change it and came back with $40 in 50c pieces.
As they drove away I called to them "You'll have plenty of change for the next job"
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But did you eventually get the wardrobe upstairs?
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I figured out that the reason we're probably not getting whoosh badges is that people aren't flagging.
I'd flag your post but I'm hoping to get the badge first, so I can't help the competition.
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I do not believe a whoosh badge is appropriate here1. I got that the joke was giving them $40 in change, and in the snarkiness of the parting comment. I did not feel that required a response, other than a like (which dicsores is refusing to acknowledge that I have given). However, @RTapeLoadingError left us hanging as to who was right about whether the wardrobe could be gotten upstairs.
1For my post, anyway; yours, I'm not so sure.
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I understand all that. FWIW your post slightly reminded me of the old Gilda Radner "woman who missed the point" skits, and I'd been waiting for an excuse to drop that reply.
But if you want to flag me for a whoosh I won't object.
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But if you want to flag me for a whoosh I won't object.
Nah. I didn't have a particularly strong feeling of whoosh to start with, and this post convinced me not-whoosh. I've only flagged for pedantry, and a couple of times that someone crossed the line with a personal attack that seemed really malicious, rather than the back-and-forth we normally have.
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pendantry
I can do that. In fact, my daughter's Christmas present, that I finally finished almost 9 months late, is a pendant.
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I was hoping that link was to a picture of the presents.
BTW, to be a bit of a downer, try to avoid such kinds of lateness. You really don't want to be in a situation where you're too late in a final sense.
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I was hoping that link was to a picture of the presents.
I packed it up to mail last night, then realized I hadn't taken pictures of it or my son's present. This emoji sort of vaguely resembles the emotion I wish to convey; disregard the name of the emoji. Oh, well. I'll ask her to take pictures when she gets them; she has a just as good or better camera than I do.
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But did you eventually get the wardrobe upstairs?
Yep. A mate and I hauled it up a couple of weekends later. It was a bit hairy and involved tipping it over and leaning it over the handrail, with me as counterweight. But we did it in less than 5 minutes.
That's what pissed me off - I knew it could be done and the 4 of them, professional movers, told me it couldn't.
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I knew it could be done and the 4 of them, professional movers, told me it couldn't.
I've occasionally encountered that (in my case, it was with kitchen design firms) and it's a good reason to not recommend the firm to anyone else. On the other hand, a good professional will be worth it, doing the task in far less time than you possibly could because they've the expertise and the tools.
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
I knew it could be done and the 4 of them, professional movers, told me it couldn't.
On the other hand, a good professional will be worth it, doing the task in far less time than you possibly could because they've the expertise and the tools.
All the other movers we've used have been miles better us and that's what made this so surprising. The move to swing it over the handrail was not for the faint hearted but pretty straightforward.
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It was a bit hairy and involved tipping it over and leaning it over the handrail, with me as counterweight. But we did it in less than 5 minutes.
Did you have anyone on hand to help you pivot?
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Plumbers are the worst. I've never found a decent plumber. I just do all my plumbing myself now.
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Plumbers are the worst.
If @miketheliar was a plumber, would he be the worst of the worst of the worst?
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If @miketheliar was a plumber, would he be the worst of the worst of the worst?
Under an analogy to the theory that two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do, it would probably make him the beast or a bust, or something.
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Plumbers are the worst. I've never found a decent plumber. I just do all my plumbing myself now.
We've had a lot of success with plumbers. All I can really advise is to ask your neighbours; maybe you'll get a decent recommendation, or maybe you'll just find out some more people to put on the “avoid” list.
It's always a great idea to stay on good terms with the neighbours.
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Under an analogy to the theory that two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do, it would probably make him the beast or a bust, or something.
If two wrongs don't make a right but three lefts do, what happens if you add a Jeff to the lefts?