This is what happens when you don't have signs in your mask.
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One neat thing about Progress is if you try to print something that doesn't fit the mask, it's a runtime warning, and what prints is the mask, with all characters replaced with ?.
Annoying but it means stuff like that gets caught.
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Mac and cheese cheddar vegan
Huh?
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I'm more confused by the Organic Elmo Noodlemo(?) Soup in the background.
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>Mac and cheese cheddar vegan
Huh?
http://earthbalancenatural.com/product/vegan-cheddar-mac-and-cheese/
So not so much cheddar as supposedly-cheddar-like-substance.
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I'm more confused by the Organic Elmo Noodlemo(?) Soup in the background.
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Will it make my insides tickle like Elmo?
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Huh?
That's what throws you? Not that the product has three different prices?
It's either 49.9 cents, $2.99, or $3.50! Guess and check!
(Actually that label seems to be using the term "unit price" in a weird demented way nobody else has ever used before.)
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"Your kids love this character! With our soup, they can practice EATING HIM! Enjoy EATING ELMO, kids!"
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(Actually that label seems to be using the term "unit price" in a weird demented way nobody else has ever used before.)
Cents per ounce. Compensates for different sizes of cans, I guess, but why the fuck?It's not even a fair comparison since it's a condensed soup and so "loses" against ready-to-heat ones.NEVERMIND.
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but why the fuck?
Wasn't there some Error'd recently that had computer parts listed with prices per ounce?
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Is Earth Balance different from Moon Balance? What are they balancing? Who is even they? I AM CONFUSE!
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Could you please repeat that in Outside Baseball? I have no idea what “This is what happens when you don't have signs in your mask” even means. What has happened? What is a mask? What kind of signs are we talking about here?
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I'm assuming it's the "signed integer" kind.
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Oh, ok, I think I get it — the savings are actually negative a dollar, but the polarity symbol was stripped out somewhere between where the value was calculated and when it got printed.
Fun fact: I actually realized that after clicking the notification, but before this thread loaded. I was like “what the duck would @ben_lubar know about that”, then it immediately clicked.
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the savings are actually negative a dollar
Yeah, took me a while to get that.
The biggest :wtF: isn't the missing sign, it's the offer price being more than the non-offer price."This is what happens when morons decide prices."
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Oh, that picture needs a [Trigger Warning]! The parentheses around the list of ingredients for the VEGAN SAUCE SEASONING are not properly closed…
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Am I stupid? I don't see anything wrong, and I've been staring at this for over a minute. All the math seems to add up...
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$2.99 each before the offer, with the "special offer" of 2 for $7, or $3.50 each. The "offer" costs $1.02 more.
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That's what throws you? Not that the product has three different prices?
The prices are run of the mill pricing WTF. Vegan cheddar mac and cheese is TRWTF.
"Your kids love this character! With our soup, they can practice EATING HIM! Enjoy EATING ELMO, kids!"
Dude...anything to get the kid to eat something that might have nutritional value.
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Oh, I'm way too tired. I thought the $1.02 savings was correct for some reason
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That's what throws you? Not that the product has three different prices?
Different people have different reactions to different things.It's either 49.9 cents, $2.99, or $3.50! Guess and check!
There's no guessing - all prices are correct at once. It might blow your mind, but if you just read the damn plaque, very easy to understand: regular price is $2.99, but if you buy two, you pay $7. No misinformation at all - they just fucked up the bundle price. And 49.9¢ is price per oz. (whatever this oz. thing is).Actually that label seems to be using the term "unit price" in a weird demented way nobody else has ever used before.
Totally, never in the history of universe, not at all.
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If there's more than 1/6 of a pack of that mac and cheese in the country, you're getting a great deal!
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Could you please repeat that in Outside Baseball? I have no idea what “This is what happens when you don't have signs in your mask” even means. What has happened? What is a mask? What kind of signs are we talking about here?
Shouldn't you ask the person who made the joke?
But yes, as @ben_lubar guessed, that's it: a display format specification. Either whoever made that sign can't math, or it was autogenerated by a program that can't show negative savings when you buy in bulk.
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I doubt most people:
A) see past the word "sale"
B) can do the math
C) will do the mathResult - profit
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Presumably renet-free, and possibly cheese-free, cheese.
Definitely cheese-free, since I'm pretty sure all real cheese contains milk from some kind of animal by definition.
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Will it make my insides tickle like Elmo?
Maybe. Do we know how Elmos reproduce? Those little red things could be Elmo seeds, just waiting for a host to burst out of.
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Oh, I'm way too tired. I thought the $1.02 savings was correct for some reason
It is correct. It's just that it's a saving for the store, not for you.
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I wanted to use the term outside baseball, and I was worried it might be too inside baseball for him ⚾
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I wanted to use the term outside baseball, and I was worried it might be too inside baseball for him
Why don't you ask @ben_lubar? I knew immediately what you meant, and it's not as if the term hasn't been used here before.
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Yeah, but what I'm saying is, I knew that you knew that, but I wasn't sure if he would.
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"This is what happens when morons decide prices."
has been answered by
@brianw13a said:I doubt most people:
A) see past the word "sale"
B) can do the math
C) will do the mathResult - profit
could have been posted as answer to first quoted postAnyway, people who believe there's such a thing like vegan cheese are very likely to believe everything labeled with the letters 's', 'a', 'l', and 'e', is cheaper.
Vegan food can taste excellent (if properly done) and have good nutritional value. (My wife and I tried some vegan diet for 30 days and during that time, we even forgot do eat stuff while watching tv.) But I simply can't believe there could be any other possible reason for vegan food to resemble meat/milk food except for marketing reasons. Marketing reasons for intellectually challenged and/or lazy people (which would be the majority).
The prices are run of the mill pricing WTF. Vegan cheddar mac and cheese is TRWTF.
+1Dude...anything to get the kid to eat something that might have nutritional value.
Another +1, if I could.
Finally I get it - it is a vegan made from mac & cheese cheddar.
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Finally I get it - it is a vegan made from mac & cheese cheddar.
Is that like the mutton vindaloo beast, but instead of being violent it's constantly condescending?
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Is that like the mutton vindaloo beast, but instead of being violent it's constantly condescending?
Actually, I suppose it is very violent to all vegetables. (Do you remember The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?)
But I think I'll buy one to find out. Or rather 2, for SALE raisins.
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Consumerist has an entire series on Target Math: http://consumerist.com/tag/target-math/