notmyrealnameanymore
Mystik Spiral
notmyrealnameanymore

If they’re working on commission. When they’re not - and they never are in the big box stores - they couldn’t care less.

I just responded to that same criticism to someone else. Not every salesman tries to screw you on cables. Most don’t.

Not every salesman will do that, especially those that don’t work on commission - which is pretty much all of them if you’re going to shop at a place like Best Buy or Fry’s. I bought my last TV from Best Buy and I bought the recommended cables because they were reasonably priced. I also bought a monitor from them a

Being helpful is now considered “sneaky” and a way to “fool” us? Come on, now.

No, that’s not what I said. Clearly, you’re either not paying attention or something’s not clicking in your brain with this very simple concept.

Given that we, as a species, have been “genetically modifying” plants and animals alike for thousands of years, I give less than a shit about what these people think should be on a label. The strawberry growing in the patch down the street ought to have a GMO label on it - a thousand years ago, it sure as hell didn’t

Whether one is driving below, above, or at the posted speed limit is irrelevant. Not moving over when completed passing unecessarily blocks a lane for faster drivers (whether their faster speeds exceed the speed limit or not).

I’m going to reword that last paragraph so you’re not so easily confused.

Your mental gymnastics are amazing. Quite the justification for breaking the law.

On a three lane highway, at 65, I’m consistently passing people while in the middle lane. One after the other. Between the people that are getting ready to exit and the people that are driving 55-60 because they’re slow, I’m literally always passing. The people that zip up behind me, pass quickly on the right and cut

Oh, bullshit. On a three lane highway with a speed limit of 65, if I’m in the middle lane doing 65 and there are douchebags passing me at 75 on the right, I’m not the one doing it wrong.

Worst Friday to Sunday drop for an opening weekend, worst Friday-to-Friday drop for a first week. This movie isn’t a “massive success” no matter how many times you repeat the phrase. It’s barely staying above the level of “tanking” and if the rest of this weekend ends up like yesterday...

I do, unless the general flow of traffic is over. If it’s 65 and everyone’s doing 70, I’m not going to sit there and have people passing me on the left and right - people long ago gave up on the premise that left is proper - so I’ll keep up with the crowd.

They’re really not. As much as people blur the lines, it’s by choice. I’m connected to people that run the gamut. People that live their entire lives in public, putting every detail of their daily lives online. People that stay off social media or only use it anonymously. People that carefully curate what they put out

Now, I actually like Girls

That’s not what personal branding is. Personal branding is merely curating your personal public image. It used to be something reserved for famous people because only famous people got featured in the media. Now, the internet is the media, and we’re all on the internet, so we’re all - to one degree or another - in the

I’ve never been someone to care about what strangers think (we Aquarians pride ourselves on our nonconformist propensities)

Do you, singularly, produce things for public consumption?

Worse than that... I’m sure they licensed its use, but they’re even using the logo from the movie: