The initial report also ignores Amazon Music, which is pretty extensive from what I’ve seen.

Many companies lately - last decade or so - have adopted the position of not negotiating. They make an offer, and if they really, really, really want you they may add a few dollars to the bottom line. But rarely if ever does that happen.

Part of the challenge - the important one, imho - is understanding exactly what you earn, and how you earn it. Too many people bank on money that they haven’t earned yet. My daughters favorite is to say “well I’ll earn $50 extra this week so I can afford this $50 pair of whatever”. Yes... ok... but then she says it…

I’m sorry, but how freaking lazy do you need to be to not pay attention to a pot of rice. It’s not complicated - put water in, put rice in, let it cook for x minutes, check for readiness and remove.

I can only partially agree. Yes, store-brand is typically decent value for money, and yes it still tastes decent. BUT... and it’s a big distinction... either the flavor you want is not there, OR the flavor they have is often not really the same. Most often this is true of BBQ flavors, not really the cheese flavors…

Well, simply, you can’t. Not in most countries that support trademark, since it’s a country name. The Olympics, on the other hand, MAY be trademarked, but I get the feeling that ancient Greeks may have prior art claimage.

Call me an idiot, but I’m sure there is a reasonable prior-art claim for Rio and the Olympics?

Wonder if Scotland is sorry it elected to stay...

Would be unsurprised to see it marked at double the price too... which would again, make the question of being better a stupid one even if it is on any level better.

I’m surprised at mention of reliability issues... the Hummer being based on the military design after all. You’d think the military would be highly annoyed at having unreliable vehicles.

I find ice works very well for me... cheap and easy :)

Ford Anything really... cars are ok I guess, but dealing with the dealer network is seriously PITA.

School doesn’t teach you anything really beyond a year or two of properly designed coursework could do in your teens. It DOES however prepare you to be sheep, to fear “the man”, and to consume whatever shit is shoveled to you.

HATE open offices with a passion. It’s seriously never a good thing, especially when you have deadlines and need to concentrate, but the ***hole in the next cube keeps yelling on the phone about some butt cream prescription problem.

THIS... very much so. Except with my wife I have literally no clue what she does with them, they simply dissappear. I think I’ve bought 4 or 5 boxes of 36 so far this year alone because the kids need pens. I’ve learnt the habit of defensive pen hiding to ensure I have one handy for checks/forms/etc

Many things that have dates don’t expire at all, such as mineral water (yes, it may not taste as great but it’s still safe to use long after). In fact, many times those dates are set to “encourage” you to buy the same thing again, or lower quantity just because it’s more expensive to you to do so.

I have the same problem, drives my wife nuts. I’ve had spaces of 72 hours where all I get is “doze” for a few minutes a night. Sucks badly.

Yup, as in if he doesn’t do it he gets punished.

Tell that to the schools that insist they be up at crack of dawn; many of these kids driving while their biorhythms are not attuned to being alert at that time, thus being unable to give them full attention to the road.

Wow... this place is really effed up. IF they perform a great service, IF I’m so taken aback by said great service that me and my guests are wowed to our socks... absolutely I would consider a tip in that case for that person. But, every wedding I’ve been to so far the staff have literally done the required and that’s…