So true, that is perhaps the worst “pitching” ever recorded...

LOL - A $900 gift from a billionaire that has netted hundreds of times that in free advertising for her and Apple. How naive are you? This was a marketing move. And a savvy one at that. Don’t thinking kindness had fuck all to do with it. If kindness was a motive then the media wouldn’t know about it.

“There was also a sumo” ... couldn’t you have emailed the dude who lives in Japan for the proper term? Ashcraft? Ashcroft? Sumo is the sport. The participants are either rikishi or wrestlers. So you can say there was a rikishi or, for a western audience, there was a sumo wrestler...saying there was a sumo is like…

Right but your method is far sillier than just looking at the restaurant you care about...what is the value of learning the average tip at Joe’s diner in Idaho five years ago unless you are talking thousands of data points and you aren’t getting that on a comment thread on a post like this...in other words, your…

You understand her question was rhetorical right? Like she isn’t actually interested in who “ninja” is. She is putting him in his place as somebody not even worth finding out about. It was perfect shade.

LOL - No, it’s not...gymnastics doesn’t have the express purpose of punching another guy in the head with a literal stat for knock outs. If you think a freak injury in gymnastics is, on any level, equivalent to the express purpose of the “sport” you are beyond hope.

Nobody is arguing they aren’t doing it for a logical reason...my point is that I am tired of having to jump through hoops to have an internet experience that doesn’t suck...turn off your adblocker and see just how miserable browsing has become...

Anyone else really tired of having to go through 17 hoops to avoid ads they have no intention of ever clicking on...like ever? I just started getting a giant “whitelist or buy ad removal pass” for the Weather Network...let that sink in...info that is available via literally a billion different websites (including just…

You know every company on earth operates this way right? Like, of course, big customers get better support. Try calling an airline as a bare bones economy passenger vs the highest airmile status (who get their own phone #).

Modern life...look, I got multiple choices for a Tuesday night...Me and friend can get on the subway $6.20, pay $50-$90 for 500 level (aka the worst seats) at a Jays game (depending on opponent), spend $50 to eat crappy terrible food, watch 900 ads blaring across the stadium every ten seconds, spend another $6.2 to…

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That’s the thing, that stuff is always (at least in my experience) a symptom of larger views on the world that are incompatible with me...i.e. it’s not the dishes (I’ve never owned a washing machine and done them by hand for 20 years now, so I have zero issues doing them) it’s that somebody has expectations that…

If anyone is wondering, I offered to wash and she’d dry and we did dishes together then I left and broke up with her on the phone after talking to some friends to make sure I wasn’t being rash about my decision. We went out like 10 or so times.

I broke up with a woman who invited me over for dinner, made me a lovely meal, then ordered me into the kitchen to do the dishes. Not like “hey can you help with the dishes” (which I’d have been more than happy to do) but “go wash dishes, I am going to watch tv while you do it”. It was the first (and only) time I’d be…

I think there is an exponential curve...like every hour after 8 just dramatically increases the horror of the flight...a 14 hour flight feels way longer than two hours longer than a 12 hour flight...it’s like you hit twelve hours and the last two feel like nine... 

I’ve done like a dozen flights over 10 hours...longest was 15.5...I think I was within 1/3 of a second of murder (or suicide) by the end...I honestly don’t think I could do 20... 

When people overwhelmingly responded “well, better safe than sorry” I gave up trying to convince people...I will never understand how people can be so easily suckered...

With this asshole it’s Monday morning at 9:03 am. I am honestly not sure I’d survive another four years of this.

Should they just come out and say “No brick and mortar store can compete with downloadable games and Amazon so we are going to keep cutting costs everywhere we can until we inevitably go down the tubes” but then that means consumers who hear this decide not to shop there and lose out on returns or warranties (or…

About ten years ago I came up with the idea of “Old People Island”. In short, everyone over 55 is banished permanently to an island with tech from their era. OPA has no contact with the outside world. Honestly, who says no to this? Sure you may lose some nice interactions with Grandma but, on the whole, think of all…