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  • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 9 months ago
    Is me dino prejudiced or not? Me found the T-Rex meme to be the funniest one.
    As for the walker being pushed in a grocery cart, that reminds me of my local Publix grocery store.
    Often an employee will see my cane in my cart after adding bagged groceries into it and will offer to help me to my car.
    I'll say no thanks and explain that the cart is like a walker and I can get around with it better that I can with a cane.
    No, I don't want a damn walker. It takes up too much damn room in a grocery cart with groceries in it not to mention space taken up in my car.
    In most other places I shop, no one offers to help me to my car anyhoo.
    Also, hitting a mugger with my cane may give me time to pull my concealed carry pocket piece. Oorah!
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    • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 9 months ago
      Uh oh, dino, that's not a walker in the cart. It's a dolly. The IQ test is why not leave the cart at the store and wheel the dolly to the car and not fool with the cart. Oh well, maybe the guy does need the cart as a walker.
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      • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 9 months ago
        That's called a hand truck where me dinio lives. Around here that's not the kinda dolly a doll named Ken would ever want to date.
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        • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 9 months ago
          LOL. You crack me up. A dolly can be called a hand truck in these parts, too, but dolly is more common. Officially a dolly is a mobile platform so I'm clueless as to how it got applied to hand truck. One of those imponderables I guess.
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          • Posted by $ allosaur 1 year, 9 months ago
            Unless it comes from a TV or a PC speaker, I've never heard hand trucks called a dolly here in the state of Alabama. I'm sure someone has to have said it somewhere here, though.
            I grew up here and was past the age of 50 when people started to call a soft drink a soda with any frequency.
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            • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 9 months ago
              Yeah, soda came late around here, too. When I was a kid we'd call it pop. When we got older to joke around we'd say let's go out for a couple of pops, which meant a couple of beers. Soft drink was always rattling around there someplace and we all knew what it meant.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 1 year, 9 months ago
    Yep, the Tesla is classic. Here in Ann Arbor we have a new Tesla dealership replacing a bowling alley. I will be on the look out for the service truck. And lmao with the fish and chips.
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    • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 year, 9 months ago
      One of the MANY podcasts explained how much CO2 is saved with a Tesla....

      Effectively, if you drive a Tesla for 5 years, until the battery needs replacement. And charge it from regular electricity.

      Your reduction of CO2 is likely 25% all in.
      Nice...
      And YOU REALIZE the goal is to say "Well, NOT EVERYONE can have a car! NOT Everyone NEEDS a car..."
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      • Posted by Ben_C 1 year, 9 months ago
        Agreed. Its the normal paradigm - short term benefits vs long term consequences. Its about the batteries and what to do with the dead ones. But this has less to do with CO2 and more to do with control. Thank you - I will stick with my MKX. And, I may pull a John Denver and install tanks on my property for my "strategic reserve."
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  • Posted by 73SHARK 1 year, 9 months ago
    Probably more truth than we'd like to know with the first one about building permits. I'll bet you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get that infrastructure money.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 year, 9 months ago
    Ok, so most of these were Bad Ideas, however, there were, possibly 3 that were pretty clever...can you pick them out?
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    • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 9 months ago
      If I had to pick only 3, they would be the first one, the splatting UPC, and young Yoda's wisdom. Got a good laugh out of the T-Rex that can't reach the T-paper and the clever no-permit deck.

      Nice going today, OUC!
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      • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 1 year, 9 months ago
        The Deck, Tesla running on gas and Young Yoda...was my thought. I did think someone would pick the UPC change...I think the meme itself is what is clever...The UPC, old or new...is a pain in the butt: If they change one thing on the product...even color, The UPC has to change...now...try to find where it goes in a store of over 20 million products without being able to "verify" the UPC...now you have to stop what you are doing and run a scan for a SKEW number.
        Some products are easy, some you might be more familiar but faced with a bad description and several empty spots that it could go into..,Plus, many times True Value will just spring a new product on you or send you one you don't want, Houston can't help you with this problem...
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        • Posted by CaptainKirk 1 year, 9 months ago
          I still remember when Toys R Us told their suppliers... NO UPC... No Shelf Space!

          It changed the world overnight.
          Pretty soon, the cashiers at grocery stores were reduced to BEEP CHECKERS.

          And some crafty houligans figured out that you could print your own UPC (say for a $20 toolbox, and overlay it on a $100 toolbox)... and the cashiers did not know...

          Somebody always finds a way to violate the trust we build into our systems... [My wife eats grapes, GASP, before paying for them... By Weight!? Does she not understand it's stealing!!!]
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          • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 9 months ago
            Ah yes, grocery store grape pickers. I always get the packages in the back because of the people that handle and pick the ones in the front. No offense to you or your wife, but I always thought of grape thieves to be lower class and unsanitary people based on the ones I see doing it. Whatever.
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        • Posted by $ blarman 1 year, 9 months ago
          I used to build barcodes. I'm talking about the actual fonts and the calculations that go into them. And they were the best thing to hit supermarkets since sliced bread.
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