You just described every rich asshole who ever came into the Denny’s I worked at in Boca Raton in the mid 90's. Acted very, very broke, every one of them. We hated those people.

Some idiot will come along - if they haven’t already, I haven’t read all the comments - and be like, “BUT IT’S A 25% INCREASE!!!”

If you’re not careful, cleaning chandeliers and other hanging light fixtures can get dust and gunk on everything down below.

You get a point for the Rush reference.

That you think the name is what’s being made fun of is even funnier than the joke itself.

Not for nothin’, but... fire extinguishers aren’t that expensive, and if you actually need to use one, do you want to risk having one that doesn’t work? If you have any doubt that yours might not work, or that the contents might be packed, it might be better just to replace them for the peace of mind, you know?

I’m the same way - I need something, and white noise doesn’t cut it. But neither does music. You know what does? Stand-up comedy. Weird, right?

To put it simply, Apple Watch strap pricing is the most egregious example of the “Apple Tax” I’ve ever seen. Case in point, these knock-off Milanese loop straps will only cost you $16, compared to $150-$200 for Apple’s versions.

To put it simply, Apple Watch strap pricing is the most egregious example of the “Apple Tax” I’ve ever seen. Case in…

For as much shit as Hulu gets, I feel like their model for distributing new episodes is pretty good. In most cases, the episode is available the next day.

Wow, you sure disproved his point. Good job.

What? No, that’s impossible. I was told by Very Knowledgable People that a la carte programming would always be the better option, that it would always be cheaper than cable, and it would always be in our best interest to stick it to the cable companies.

I actually did, too - that’s how I learned it was broken! I hope I didn’t imply that people shouldn’t buy it at all, I just meant that they should only get it directly from the developer. My bad for not making that clearer :)

Just don’t buy it from the Mac App Store. It’s broken under El Capitan because of sandboxing restrictions.

Re: the soda example. True, but you can always say no. And it sounds like you do (and good thing, too - I’m with you on sodas. I gave it up after years of drinking the stuff.) I’m not a firm believer in the power of suggestion. It falls a little too close to pseudoscience to my mind.

A few months ago, I bought a sander. I don’t know anything about sanders, but I wanted to try working on this old table I have. The woman at Lowe’s answered my questions and pointed me to a nice, not-too-expensive sander. Then she walked me through the types of paper and suggested which types of paper to buy.

Yeah, and the headline of that section is simply “Encouraging You to Accessorize”, so I’m going to go with the premise that the author isn’t only talking about expensive accessories, otherwise the headline would have said “Encouraging You to Buy Expensive Accessories” - and I would have agreed with that.

The Lucky Charms one, without the rest of the box art, looks fucking evil LOL

There’s some messiness with regard to “almost” this age and “just turned” that age, but... yeah. If she just turned 20 and he’s not yet 24, they don’t have four full years between them. If I’m math’ing right at this late hour, they were 14 & 17, 14 & 18 or 15 & 18 when they started. Regardless... not ideal.

You had these feelings 3 years ago and they are still there, do you think they’re going to go away? They’re not.

Accessories and upsells are barely the same thing, but I’ll grant that it’s the same ballpark and counter with this: are upsells like that really “sneaky” ways to “fool” us into spending more money? I’m pretty sure when the guy behind the counter says “do you want to make your meal larger for 79 cents extra?” there’s…