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On Wed, 8 May 2024, oldernow wrote:
> On 2024-05-08, D wrote:
>
>>> What ever it takes to thin this ridiculously stupid herd!
>>
>> Yes! And the more they thin out, the better we'll do! =)
>
> Oddly, it took 63 years, but I recently *finally* benefited
> from the stupidity of others.
That's great! =)
> See.. my wife ordered 32 bags of mulch from what's called
> "Walmart", here, but split that into two orders.
...
> But the app kept insisting, so I returned a few days later
> to pick it up. And not only did the fine fellows working
> that day load my vehicle fairly nicely, they managed to
> throw in a couple extra bags for what I can only imagine
> to be my good looks.
>
> So I wound up with 16 + 16 + 18 = 50 bags!
Bingo! A free round of mulch for alt.philosophy! =D
> Now, I'd normally not take advantage of that sort of thing.
> But we've experienced enough heartache and misery at that
> story to stop shopping there for about a year... but their
> mulch price the day we ordered was too good to pass on,
> so in *my* mind, they were finally making good on that
> heartache and misery they dished out in the past. :-)
Reminds me of a plumber I hired, and I asked him for an invoice 3 times
and never received it. So I thought, yes!! Guess what? 5 years later I get
a call from his auditor asking for the money. I asked for a copy of the
invoice and what was done, and luckily even though thunderbird mangled my
email archive somewhat (don't ask me how or why) I did find a reference
that matched with the invoice. So in the end I paid and they were nice
about it too and did not charge 5 years of interest. ;)
>> Boo! Please make my day job easier and become a slave
>> to marketing.
>
> It's one of those "torn within" kinds of things. I've long
> though I'd be good at it, and yet I can't get it out of my
> mind that it's basically glorified lying. I mean, I can
> deal with the guilt of winding up with 18 free bags of
> mulch. But deceiving the masses? *Totally* different.
You're such a gaylord!
>>> There's almost no alcoholic beverage I *don't* like,
>>> unless it's sweetened. Ick! No sugary drinks/concoctions
>>> for this imbiber!
>>
>> For me it's red wine. For some reason I find it
>> disgusting. The best red wine I ever tasted was
>> "ok". Sparkling, sure, white wine, sure, port wine, why
>> not, but regular red wine is the invention of the devil!
>
> I can understand that. I was far more into white *WINE* :-)
> in my earlier wine days.
Just like when talking race, white rulez!! I'd say it's the gaylord of
wines!!
>>> I love all kinds of beers too, and yet every now and then
>>> nothing but a *can* of Pabst will do. I don't know how to
>>> explain that.
>>
>> Well, I guess it must be the nostalgic feeling of having
>> been brought up on Pabst when you were a child, right? ;)
>
> Definitely the advertising. But I was a late-comer to
> alcohol. If I'm remembering correctly, it was mostly a
> "cool" thing to drink in college. But even then, I'd found
> such a great deal on a German Rhine wine in bulk that I
> stuck mostly to that in the dorm, with occasional mixers
> out (I seem to remember "whiskey sours" being popular at
> the time).
Hmm, I think beer was the drink of choice during my university days.
>> What about Busch light? When I was a student in Chicago,
>> we bought Busch light by the bucket, since it was so cheap
>> _and_ it also contained alcohol! ;)
>
> The only light beer I ever cared for was Coors light.
Why coors light? What's the delight with coors light?
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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