for real, people, quit force-ripening those things and shipping them all over the country in every season.. you gotta get them in mid/late summer off the back of somebody's pickup, on the side of some highway in new mexico or west texas.. the way god intended!

The Learning Channel helps me learn about the shittiness of other people's lives, does that count?

This headline is disappointing..

Makes me think of this deep-future gem.. Earth has become tidally locked, and humans have evolved into 6-inch-tall, green-skinned pixies struggling for survival against the dominant insects and mobile plants that rule the canopy of a world-spanning banyan tree encircling the habitable twilight zone.

This isn't about animals dying, animals are going to die just like humans. The concern should be the quality of life enjoyed by that animal before it dies. A rat killed incidentally after living a full life in a grain field? Not sad to me in the least. A rat living in a cold glass tank and subjected to invasive tests…

..those are two very different websites.

watch it, it's pretty good, makes me think of kirby's yarn..

think of how much worse it could have been! the character work and expression is very true to the source, none of the "disney mouth" so prevalent in american animation.. i'm curious to hear the score, incongruous music could ruin this for me but i really like what i see here..

The way it's supposed to work, I don't think even management knows who the secret shoppers are until the report is filed, so maybe not such a nasty move by your STL... BS not getting an appreciation and/or wooden nickel at the huddle, though...

I don't think they get paid, I got the impression they just do it for free crap and a small twinge of empowerment.

For real, the mystery shopper program is generally irksome, but I can't imagine working for a place that fires you for ONE bad score. You have to mess up repeatedly and consistently for it to be even a small issue at anyplace I've worked. Also, the shopper is usually supposed to ask a question about the menu or…

Pretty sure I've heard this story related by more than one contemporary protestant youth minister, with drippy piano music piddling in the background.. to teach a metaphor about bible or some such, I don't know, but in their version I don't think the old guy killed the other one..

"hoiked" . . . "minders" . . . hahaha, whatever "mate," now you're just making up bogus British-sounding words..

what if $10,000 means as much (or as little) to this person as $500 might to the average middle-class loser? you may as well say, "any man who pays $500 deserves to part with his $500"