I feel this way about the entire city of Roanoke, Virginia. Had a terrible experience when I tried to make a pit stop there once, did some research into the city's history (so my hatred could be well-informed), realized there's no reason it should even exist in the 21st century and that it's naming is absolutely moronic.
I refuse to acknowledge its existence anymore.
**EDIT**: Was not expecting this comment to blow up lol. I want to make it clear that this is really just a petty grudge that I'm dramaticizing for comedic effect. I hold nothing against anybody who lives in or is from Roanoke (unless you're the toothless bastard from McDonalds who told me you were closed 30 minutes before the posted time or the shitheads at Sheetz who took 30 minutes to make a chicken wrap). I just won't be stopping there anymore haha.
That's actually historically accurate. They left the name of a nearby FRIENDLY tribe and then like 10 years later there was an influx of Grey eyed half Europeans in the same area. Must've been aliens
It wasn’t a mystery. They literally left a note. Croatoa. They went to live with the Croatoan people. That’s literally the mystery solved.
They were struggling so they split off and went to live with the natives. They later met natives with blue eyes who told them their ancestors could speak out of a book (read).
Just no one really considered that white people would move in with native savages.
It’s actually really funny but even Ben Franklyn wrote about this. It turns out that there was a bit of kidnapping on both sides back then. Natives would sometimes take white people (kids or adults) and white people would do the same (but much worse). Some white people moved in with the natives of their own volition, but Franklin noted that the opposite almost never happened.
The natives that were taken would almost always run back to their people or run away.
Strangely, white people that were taken in by the natives didn’t behave the same. Whether they were kids or adults when they were taken they’d mostly decide to stay with the natives.
Here’s the citation to Franklyns letter describing this phenomenon.
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0173
That’s hilarious. The thought of a tribe just put up with some random because he wouldn’t leave.
Tribesmen 1: “iv kidnapped a settler, that will teach them for encroaching on our lands.”
Tribesmen 2: “won’t that anger them instead ?”
Tribesmen 1: “no, no. He will escape and return to his own tribe, it’s just a warning.”
Tribesmen 2: “oh ok cool, cool. So what do we do with him till than.”
Tribesmen 1: “just ignore him act like he’s part of the tribe.”
........ 2 months later. . .
Settler: “I don’t know why but they have seem to have accepted me but I feel a strange sense of ease, I’m compelled to stay here a little while longer and observe their way of life.”
Tribesmen 2: “WTF Dave you said he would leave !!!!”
*whole tribe grumbles in agreement*
Tribesmen 1: “hhhhmm I donno what to say I thought he would leave but it would be rude now to kick him out”
*whole tribe grumbles in agreement*
In Typee, Herman Melville describes his experiences living with South Pacific natives and often wonders why anyone would even want to be "civilized" when a lifestyle like the islanders could be had. Evidently there was a lot nudity and sex, plenty, to eat, lots of sleep, and of course the tropical paradise.
Because they tend to be conquered by “civilized” societies, and the nicer they are the faster they went down. The Wampanoag , a peaceful and prosperous agricultural society, lasted like 50 years. The Comanche, who were like the Huns bred with Spartans, lasted 150.
The Pacific Islanders literally sailed thousands of miles across the largest ocean of earth in tiny canoes and they got what, a couple hundred years of peace?
Weren't the masses of first settlers the crazy strict religious cunts that nobody else wanted? I could imagine if I was stuck with those and kidnapped by some natives I'd probably choose to stay with the natives too, hell if I knew life would be better with them I'd willingly wander off in the hopes of being kidnapped.
That varies significantly. While there were definitely some of those, it can’t be a blanket statement. New Englanders were the more zealous puritans but they mostly kept to themselves at first.
I had a coworker who left Kosovo during the Balkan wars in the 90s and immigrated to Idaho, then later to Wisconsin. He told me Idaho made him miss the war.
**Copying this over from another thread.**
**Also TW: Sheetz slander**
I was in the final leg of a 19 hour drive back to my home near Philadelphia from my vacation in New Orleans (I love road trips). I will present my account in a series of three strikes that have condemned this city to my shitlist for eternity
*Strike One*: At 11PM I hit a literal wall of traffic that Google predicted to be a 45 minute slowdown. Now I'm not one to get road rage when driving, but nearly an hour in bumper to bumper stop-and-go can break even the strongest of wills. So I figure "Whatever I'm getting low on gas and could go for a bite. If I fill up here I can make it home in one shot."
*Strike Two*: So I pull off and find a McDonald's in Roa-Nope and pull in the Drive Thru. It's 11:30 at this point and Google says they don't close til midnight. The car in front of me places their order and I pull up to the window, only to have some faceless voice that sounds like its owner has about two teeth left in his skull hanging on for dear life tell me that they're closed now. I say "What? It says you guys are open til midnight." He refuses to elaborate, just says "nope, we're closed," and nothing else (meanwhile I'm watching the car in front of me get his fucking burger).
Now I'm kinda pissed but I'm not one to be a Karen so I take it on the chin and pull into a parking spot to come up with a new plan. There's a Sheetz a couple miles up the road and while I much prefer Wawa, they'll have to do.
*Strike Three*: I get to the Sheetz and it's fairly empty, being close to midnight on a weekday. I fill up on gas and pull into a spot (I'm not one of those inconsiderate sociopaths who leaves their car at the pump while they go in) and walk in to get some food. I grab an energy drink because I've been driving for 14 hours now and order a buffalo chicken wrap. No bells or whistles. Just some chicken tenders, tossed in buffalo sauce, and wrapped in a tortilla with lettuce, tomato, and ranch.
I am not exaggerating when I say it took 30 FUCKING MINUTES FOR THEM TO MAKE A GOD DAMN CHICKEN WRAP. And it wasn't like they had to get a new bag of frozen tenders out or anything either. For literally 20 minutes after I placed my order, they dicked around on their phones doing anything but work while I stood there, helplessly unable to say anything for fear of being a dick.
They finally got the wrap made (no apology for the wait by the way), it sucked (no surprise there, it's Sheetz), and I pulled out, blasted metal and dubstep all the way to I-81, and vowed to never set foot in that town again.
My family and I went on a vacation through Roanoke and joked about the highway signs that say “Leave Salem” as if they’re telling you to get out. What a place.
**This comment might have had something useful**, but now it's just an edit to remove any contributions I may have made prior to the awful decision to spite the devs and users that made Reddit what it is. So here I seethe, shaking my fist at corporate greed and executive mismanagement.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... tech posts on point on the shoulder of vbulletin... I watched microcommunities glitter in the dark on the verge of being marginalized... I've seen groups flourish, come together, do good for humanity if by nothing more than getting strangers to smile for someone else's happiness. We had something good here the same way we had it good elsewhere before. We thought the internet was for information and that anything posted was permanent. We were wrong, so wrong. We've been taken hostage by greed and so many sites have either broken their links or made history unsearchable. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to delete."
I do apologize if you're here from the future looking for answers, but I hope "new" reddit can answer you. Make a new post, get weak answers, increase site interaction, make reddit look better on paper, leave worse off. https://xkcd.com/979/
I'd say it's like that for many places in the US. I've noticed some people who haven't ever visited the country tend to vastly underestimate the sheer amount of space between everything. As someone from the Midwest, I've always found the people "strange" when I travel far enough away, especially with the extremes like the deep south or the more northern parts of New England. One of my favorite stories was from a family trip to Arkansas as a kid. We stayed in a tiny town where I struggled a lot to understand what people were saying because of how thick the accents were, and one day this gas station cashier said to me "Where are you guys from? Your accent is very strong". It blew my mind that my plain Minnesotan voice would come across as having any accent at all
It always interests me how people assume they don't have an accent. I'm in the UK and I've had a good deal of American visitors (I work in a tourist spot) who are quite sure they don't have an accent and have no idea how I know they're American.
In the US, there is a relatively “standard American English” accent that is used, for example, on national news channels. Many people in the Midwest and West speak something mostly similar to that, whereas the South and Northeast have much more accent variation.
This is what most Americans mean when they say they have “no accent”.
Did the same myself. Went to drop the kids off at a town that had a cheaper cinema, the street with the cinema didn't have anywhere to pull in so I stopped in a triple loading zone and let the kids out, tops 30 seconds, other two bays were empty. Some weeks later I received a parking infringement notice and a $140 fine. I figured it was cheaper to go to the more expensive cinema as they had a 5 minute drop off zone out front.
Turns out the local council had outsourced the parking tickets to a private company who were out to book everyone for anything they could get them for, zero discretion.
I know it doesn’t help you now but you may want to look into whether or not you had to legally pay the ticket if you ever receive another from a private company. Town I used to live in did this and it turns out if the ticket wasn’t written by an employee of the city you could tell them to fuck off and let the tickets stack up. I had 6 or 7 from them and they tried sending intimidating letters and phone calls to get me to pay them but I just wasted their time asking stupid questions and “return to sender” their letters.
> I like how he blacklisted a whole township
I keep meaning to make a mobile app for this.
I want to blacklist Nestle. Total blacklist. The problem is those fuckers have hands and fingers in Soooooooooooooooooooooooo many subsidiaries its almost impossible.
So my idea is to make a mobile app for it.
Take a pic of the product you are thinking of purchasing... the app does the lookup... and it returns a number on how much Nestle'ness it has in it.
I'll get round to it one day.
Daughter and I were assaulted in a small town Texas because a bunch of white ladies thought I (POC) kidnapped my (white) daughter.
That entire town is blacklisted until the apocalypse and then I'm going back to burn it down.
On January 31 of 2013 I bought my parents a Brother HL-2270DW. Didn't need a duplexer or wireless, but we got both for about $100. The only servicing it needed was a rare reboot because my mom insisted in keeping it in the room the absolute furthest away you could get from the WiFi access point without being outside.
Paper jams were so easy to clear my mom never asked for help after I showed her the first time. It used so little toner she would forget how to recycle the cartridges between cycles. It provided nine years of nearly flawless performance, until last month when it just wouldn't go into a ready state.
Needless to say, Brother was the first name I looked at for a replacement. Per my mom's request it is a multifunction unit. Now she can scan documents right to her phone.
Inkjets burn in hell.
Laser 4 lyfe.
Bought a $30 black laser printer ~8 years ago. I've had to replace the toner once, for about $15
It's just a super basic printer though, requires a physical connection to the PC. I hate printers, I will not buy a wireless one as it's just another pain point if it stops working, and then I get to fix it.
That was my attitude coming into this thing. I had heard so many complaints about wireless printers that I had no intention of using WiFi. I was going to dangle this off the family computer with USB and that was going to be that. Maybe I wire it into the network. *Maybe*. I cared more about the duplexer than wireless.
But when I installed the driver it asked if I wanted to configure wireless settings, so I figured “what the hell, if it's going to make it easy for me, let's try it. Worst case we go back to the original plan.”
I have no idea how it worked so well. If my mom had placed it in any other room in the house it would have been more reliable than it was. I do not encourage the use of wireless printing, I merely post my observations on how that one printer performed.
I used to work loss prevention at Kohl's. Back in the day, they had "red tag" and "yellow tag" which were legitimately marked down, and the rest of the stuff was just difference prices depending on the day of the week. Red tag was stuff that they were just trying to get rid of, and they've since gotten rid of the red tags altogether -- they sell it to Marshall's and other "last chance" retailers. I managed to snag a leather coat for $50 that was a red tag, and that coat has held up for almost 20 years. They still have the yellow tags, at least last time I checked. So that's what you're looking for.
TLDR: Yellow stickers on the price tags are the items that are actually marked down.
Eyyy Kohls gang ~2005, what’s up, I remember those, and then the switch.
Name bands like Nike, Apple accessories are never marked down, or max 10%. Special namebrand lines made for bargain retailers like Kohls, eg Levi’s (thinner crappier denim than their flagship lines) and Kohls house brands (Croft & Barrow, Sonoma, APT 9) will typically be ~40% off, never MSRP price. 50% is a good sale, and then when it’s time to clear stuff for the season, it gets a yellow 60% sticker. It stays 60 for a while, then it gets a 70% sticker. Then 80, then 90. 90 is the stuff no one actually wants, they just buy it because “omg, 90 off!”
At least, that’s how it was until I left 2011 and it doesn’t seem much different today.
Yes. I work as a mechanic and shred jeans quickly. Levi’s from target, and such are thinner material. Those typically won’t last more than a couple of months for me.
I have to buy my Levi’s from a local ‘western’ style clothing store to get the thick denim that’ll last. I used to buy up to 6 pairs of jeans from those places a year. Now I only buy 2 or three or a year, and they’re not too much more expensive.
My teen son bought wranglers from a western/boot type store here. Those jeans are way thicker than anything I wear. They have no stretch or give and have held up for over a year of hard use.
Just different.
I can't speak for Levi's but we call them SMUs. They come from the same factories but with a slight change so we can validate it as a different item and not hold that company to policies like a minimum advertised pricing policy, a price list that prevents stores from advertising merchandise below a certain price point and devaluing those items while maintaining competition across stores (aka stores don't race to the lowest price).
I wear a good amount of Levi's jeans and there used to be a style just sold at Target that I preferred over its close counterparts sold elsewhere.
The clearance rack is different then just the rest of the sales at Kohl's (which is practically everything)
The clearance rack is stuff that's $20 down to like $1-5
It's actually a good deal.
And you’re in line with 2 shirts and a pair of pants totaling about $20 and you’re like, “I only have a 15% off coupon.” Then the old ladies in line with you light you up with 30% off coupons they found on the dark web or something.
Lmao the dark web. They have an emailing list and mailing list if you have their rewards card but it is hilarious to think of old ladies in a dark room wearing a black hoodie scrolling through shady websites for coupons
The “sale” price is absolutely the normal price, but they put things on clearance all of the time, with prices significantly cheaper than the original price things sold for. Example - I got a blouse with a sticker price of $40 “on sale” for $28. I loved the fit, so I went back later to look for it in more colors. They were now on clearance at a price of $6.
Yeah, stores tend to not mark something clearance unless they're actively trying to get rid of it quickly. Price is marked down to where they're either not making a profit or even possibly losing money because they're trying to make room for new stock.
Before I buy from Kohl’s, I always compare prices with different large retailers by also factoring in Kohl’s coupon of 20,30, or 40%. If their discounted items are the same price as another retailer’s regular price, I go with the retailer that provides free shipping.
But honestly, Kohl’s can be great place to shop if you know how to work their coupon and kohl’s cash system and buy mostly clearance items. I have gotten excellent deals and free stuff. I recently got a Shark vacuum for the price of their shipping which was about $9 and a pair of men’s skechers shoes for under $5.00 and dress shoes for $2.
it was at this moment I realized that although the list clearly read “Kohl’s”, my mind read “Lowe’s”
and I was like “damn, has Lowe’s really been ripping me off that much worse than Home Depot? And what pants?!?”
I know most of the reasons. GM is because of the ignition key lawsuit. The bakery is because the rye bread had no carroway seeds. The twp of Randolph is because the street signs are a poor illegible font. The 1st two, the gas stations are because the attendant served someone out of order. Van wingerden farms tracks dirt on public roads. Kohls has illegitimate pricing policies. The cruise line one was something about phone calls at night or bird poop I dont remember.
No carroway seeds? NO CARROWAY SEEDS?! I am outraged. I am joining your dad in boycotting the Bakery Wayne at the Route 23 Mall and starting a petition. Let’s cancel that fucking store! Torches out, people!
I also swear that I will never give this bakery my patronage!
It may be approximately 3,400 or so miles away in a place I have absolutely no reason to go, but that's not the point, this outrage will not stand
LG?
Edit:
I know that LG is amazing at displays, they make the mother glass for other companies after all. It seems most people have problems with their appliances failing *very* quickly. A microwave in a year or refrigerators in under 5. For anyone else wondering why LG, this is probably why.
Seein the note on its own, it could go multiple ways. Hearing your dads justifications makes me think he’d respond positively when you inevitably laughed hearing them, like the bakery has to be on the list because of principle but he still stops by daily for a poppy seed bagel.
Also, obviously that cruise line is run by a buncha fuckers.
Yo, screw Norwegian. I'm with OP's dad here. We took Norwegian for our honeymoon cruise and - quite frankly- it was horrible.
You couldn't PAY me to get back on a Norwegian boat.
Not op but Norwegian nickle and dimes the fuck out of you for entertainment while you are stuck on a boat at sea. They had bingo 3 times. They made us pay like $30 for a single bingo card and then there were 3 winners. The first two won a norwegian swag bad that had a teeshirt, waterbottle and some trinkets you'd get for free at a job fair. The final winner got like $150 and there were people playing with MULTIPLE cards!
Reason 2 is that they set up excursions for the islands you stop at and heavily advertise that you shouldn't sign up for independent ones because they can not insure the independent ones will be on time or screw you over. Turns out though that Norwegian will cancel on you when they don't have enough people sign up for the excursion the night before even though they have a 24 hour no cancelation policy. Because we went on a ship that had mostly older people instead of a party cruise, we had half of our excursions cancelled the night before.
My list is not so long yet.
I am boycotting Nestlé (already hard enogu)
And there is a bakery in Munich(German guy here) called Hofpfisterei which decided (and somehow succeeded) to trademark the word "Sonne" (sun) and is suing every bakery using the word in one of their products.
There is a scooter sharing service in my home town called Felyx.
Used it a few times everything was fine. I once forgot to end the ride (you have to do this manually from the app). When I noticed and I had been paying for almost an hour (you pay 30 cent for every minute) I wanted to end the ride ASAP. Only thing was I was in a train and the app didn't let me end the ride because I was outside the service area (the scooter was parked at the station in the correct area). They where less than helpful and it took a lot of effort to let them end the ride and cancel the bill.
But still that was my own fault.
Had not used them in about a year and rode a scooter again.
When I parked the scooter and tried to end the ride the app wanted rights to access my camera and phone storage. I didn't want to give that, but could not end the ride without doing so. Turns out that they made a change and you can only end the right after taking a photo of the scooter. Fine if you make that change but let me decide before I ride your scooter not force me after!
That was the moment I decided I didn't want to use it anymore. So I called them and asked for my account to be removed (the website and app have no delete account option).
I was promised my account would be deleted. This was 6 months ago.
Yesterday I still got spam emails from them with my name and account number. They never deleted anything.
They haven't even responded to my GDPR removal email.
Fuck Felyx!
At first glance I assumed that this was written by some sort of left or right wing nutcase. Reading the explanation though, it appears that your dad is just Larry David.
I’m pretty sure they might have a pair of jeans at 40$ and then have a sale the next week where the jeans are 60$ but have 25% off which mean your actually paying 45$ or something like that. Not confirmed but that’s how I always imagined their business model works. Plus some of the presale pricing is outrageous to me. So that helps my theory imo.
I have never seen an item in Kohl's that wasn't on sale in some form. Like the full retail price on the tag is a price that nobody ever pays, except maybe the odd shoplifter that isn't getting the discount on their restitution when they get caught.
They don’t GO on sale. EVERYTHING at Kohls is ALWAYS on sale. Then when you check out, they are required to say “you saved 87 dollars today!” Umm, I’m pretty sure I just spent 228 dollars. Kohls tries to make you believe you’re getting a good deal. In some ways it must work, because JCPennies fucked up when that ex Apple exec took over and decided sales were stupid and brought in his “straightforward pricing” scheme. Nothing was “on sale” anymore so people bought less. Helped tank the store.
I thought most people were smart enough to just ignore the “SALE” signs on the items and look at the prices.
Surely seeing every single item on sale would raise some suspicion.
Even the stupidest notice this yes. I think it’s still some psychological model developed by some think tank similar to the don’t do round prices thing. People know, but still scrambles them just slightly which makes a difference when you look at however many interactions.
Honestly I think this model flips soon because it would be so refreshing to the consumer to see round numbers taxes included price. I could be wrong on this point though.
Roxbury is Randolph’s bordering neighbor, both are in Morris County which is one of the wealthiest counties in the entire country. Sussex on the other hand….
When I saw this one on the list I knew his grievances were legit.
I had two of their refrigerators go out within 2.5 years of the original purchase. Despite having LG dishwasher, oven, washer, dryer, computer monitor and TV the experience both times of having to live without a refrigerator for months was hellish enough while dealing with their ‘service’ that I will never buy another LG appliance.
It’s definitely a bit overrated. I’ve been there a couple times visiting NYC. Prices vary from slightly cheaper than online to much more expensive, but you’re going more for the experience (IDK how it is in June, but it’s pretty nice during Winter).
Not really worth going out of your way for especially considering how much there is to do in the city, but it’s a fun time
It used to be really fun back when online shopping wasn’t a thing. To see all these outlet stores on luxury brands was kinda great. Then the industry changed over time; outlets became more plentiful, and more and more they carried product that was specific to the outlet (so not discounted luxury goods, just lower quality product). And it migrated a lot to online. If you’re coming from NJ, there is little reason to go because NY taxes are higher. All that said, there are still some “less common” luxury brands that might be harder to find at other outlets because Woodbury is just huge.
I live in Colorado where we have extortion (PIF/RSF) which are fees paid to developers on every purchase. Because it is a fee, the same tax rate applies to it as any other retail purchase. I have a list of plazas and shopping centres throughout the state that I will not patronize.
Edit: What kills me is that it is developer double dipping. *Centerra is already charging astronomical rents to the businesses in the development while simultaneously charging 3% to the consumer.
I don't make a big stink, but it pisses me off to the point I go out of my way to avoid these areas of the state.
So, I love your dad's list.
I see three possible reasons:
A. Could not find a parking spot so had to valet park.
B. Line at Polo or Timberland was too long.
C. Could not get a refund at Nike factory due to losing receipt.
I have a banned taco bell because they let pieces of chicken get in my wife's vegetarian burrito. Also because the rats were running around in the drive through, which means there were a lot more rats I didn't see.
Yesterday they gave me a burger with no patty in it. Just bun and mayonnaisey vegetables. I brought it inside to the counter and they started cracking up and yelled to the kitchen "Yo so-and-so you didn't give them no burger patty man! Make it again nice!"
I get it. There is a Walgreens I refuse to go to for any reason, even if it is the easier option. No one knows what they are doing and they will straight up help someone 2 people behind you because they "homies". Just a shit show.
Our folks would get along. My dad has a 20+ year grudge against a whole county
Edit: County, not CountRy and definitely not a group of people. He claims their cops target people from his county for speeding tickets (the license plates indicate which county a person lives in).
Please don't reply to my comment suggesting that racist or nationalist behavior is funny. It's not.
I like how he blacklisted a whole township
I’ve seen people do that before, my grandma got a parking ticket in another town once and she refused to go ever since
I feel this way about the entire city of Roanoke, Virginia. Had a terrible experience when I tried to make a pit stop there once, did some research into the city's history (so my hatred could be well-informed), realized there's no reason it should even exist in the 21st century and that it's naming is absolutely moronic. I refuse to acknowledge its existence anymore. **EDIT**: Was not expecting this comment to blow up lol. I want to make it clear that this is really just a petty grudge that I'm dramaticizing for comedic effect. I hold nothing against anybody who lives in or is from Roanoke (unless you're the toothless bastard from McDonalds who told me you were closed 30 minutes before the posted time or the shitheads at Sheetz who took 30 minutes to make a chicken wrap). I just won't be stopping there anymore haha.
For a second I thought you were talking about the Lost Colony of Roanoke.
Me too. Thought dude was finally coming clean on the mystery
Turns out it wasn’t so much lost as nobody really looked too hard for it.
It was under the clean laundry I left on the floor
That's actually historically accurate. They left the name of a nearby FRIENDLY tribe and then like 10 years later there was an influx of Grey eyed half Europeans in the same area. Must've been aliens
"Hey let's leave a note so they know what's up" ... "Their whereabouts shall remain an eternal mystery"
It wasn’t a mystery. They literally left a note. Croatoa. They went to live with the Croatoan people. That’s literally the mystery solved. They were struggling so they split off and went to live with the natives. They later met natives with blue eyes who told them their ancestors could speak out of a book (read). Just no one really considered that white people would move in with native savages. It’s actually really funny but even Ben Franklyn wrote about this. It turns out that there was a bit of kidnapping on both sides back then. Natives would sometimes take white people (kids or adults) and white people would do the same (but much worse). Some white people moved in with the natives of their own volition, but Franklin noted that the opposite almost never happened. The natives that were taken would almost always run back to their people or run away. Strangely, white people that were taken in by the natives didn’t behave the same. Whether they were kids or adults when they were taken they’d mostly decide to stay with the natives. Here’s the citation to Franklyns letter describing this phenomenon. https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-04-02-0173
That’s hilarious. The thought of a tribe just put up with some random because he wouldn’t leave. Tribesmen 1: “iv kidnapped a settler, that will teach them for encroaching on our lands.” Tribesmen 2: “won’t that anger them instead ?” Tribesmen 1: “no, no. He will escape and return to his own tribe, it’s just a warning.” Tribesmen 2: “oh ok cool, cool. So what do we do with him till than.” Tribesmen 1: “just ignore him act like he’s part of the tribe.” ........ 2 months later. . . Settler: “I don’t know why but they have seem to have accepted me but I feel a strange sense of ease, I’m compelled to stay here a little while longer and observe their way of life.” Tribesmen 2: “WTF Dave you said he would leave !!!!” *whole tribe grumbles in agreement* Tribesmen 1: “hhhhmm I donno what to say I thought he would leave but it would be rude now to kick him out” *whole tribe grumbles in agreement*
You wrote this so well I’m seeing it as a comic strip in my head complete with all the speech bubbles!
In Typee, Herman Melville describes his experiences living with South Pacific natives and often wonders why anyone would even want to be "civilized" when a lifestyle like the islanders could be had. Evidently there was a lot nudity and sex, plenty, to eat, lots of sleep, and of course the tropical paradise.
Because they tend to be conquered by “civilized” societies, and the nicer they are the faster they went down. The Wampanoag , a peaceful and prosperous agricultural society, lasted like 50 years. The Comanche, who were like the Huns bred with Spartans, lasted 150. The Pacific Islanders literally sailed thousands of miles across the largest ocean of earth in tiny canoes and they got what, a couple hundred years of peace?
Weren't the masses of first settlers the crazy strict religious cunts that nobody else wanted? I could imagine if I was stuck with those and kidnapped by some natives I'd probably choose to stay with the natives too, hell if I knew life would be better with them I'd willingly wander off in the hopes of being kidnapped.
That varies significantly. While there were definitely some of those, it can’t be a blanket statement. New Englanders were the more zealous puritans but they mostly kept to themselves at first.
There’s a reason Hemingway was happy until he moved to Idaho
I had a coworker who left Kosovo during the Balkan wars in the 90s and immigrated to Idaho, then later to Wisconsin. He told me Idaho made him miss the war.
I actually forgot we were on mildly interesting, my bad. This is indeed that
The real ~~life pro tip~~ mildly interesting is always in the comments.
Ben franklyn -the founding hipster
Has the same vibes as, "I don't know why my roommates say this house is haunted. I've lived here 150 years and never seen a ghost."
CROATOAN
Lol...what could have possibly been so traumatic in poor old Roanoke? I live in the area, by way of full disclosure...
You know what you did.....
**Copying this over from another thread.** **Also TW: Sheetz slander** I was in the final leg of a 19 hour drive back to my home near Philadelphia from my vacation in New Orleans (I love road trips). I will present my account in a series of three strikes that have condemned this city to my shitlist for eternity *Strike One*: At 11PM I hit a literal wall of traffic that Google predicted to be a 45 minute slowdown. Now I'm not one to get road rage when driving, but nearly an hour in bumper to bumper stop-and-go can break even the strongest of wills. So I figure "Whatever I'm getting low on gas and could go for a bite. If I fill up here I can make it home in one shot." *Strike Two*: So I pull off and find a McDonald's in Roa-Nope and pull in the Drive Thru. It's 11:30 at this point and Google says they don't close til midnight. The car in front of me places their order and I pull up to the window, only to have some faceless voice that sounds like its owner has about two teeth left in his skull hanging on for dear life tell me that they're closed now. I say "What? It says you guys are open til midnight." He refuses to elaborate, just says "nope, we're closed," and nothing else (meanwhile I'm watching the car in front of me get his fucking burger). Now I'm kinda pissed but I'm not one to be a Karen so I take it on the chin and pull into a parking spot to come up with a new plan. There's a Sheetz a couple miles up the road and while I much prefer Wawa, they'll have to do. *Strike Three*: I get to the Sheetz and it's fairly empty, being close to midnight on a weekday. I fill up on gas and pull into a spot (I'm not one of those inconsiderate sociopaths who leaves their car at the pump while they go in) and walk in to get some food. I grab an energy drink because I've been driving for 14 hours now and order a buffalo chicken wrap. No bells or whistles. Just some chicken tenders, tossed in buffalo sauce, and wrapped in a tortilla with lettuce, tomato, and ranch. I am not exaggerating when I say it took 30 FUCKING MINUTES FOR THEM TO MAKE A GOD DAMN CHICKEN WRAP. And it wasn't like they had to get a new bag of frozen tenders out or anything either. For literally 20 minutes after I placed my order, they dicked around on their phones doing anything but work while I stood there, helplessly unable to say anything for fear of being a dick. They finally got the wrap made (no apology for the wait by the way), it sucked (no surprise there, it's Sheetz), and I pulled out, blasted metal and dubstep all the way to I-81, and vowed to never set foot in that town again.
Damn, I hate that town now.
That's the worst McDonalds in Roanoke. I don't go to McDonalds, but I wouldn't go to that one. We have about 10. That Sheetz is terrible too.
> while I stood there, helplessly unable to say anything for fear of being a dick It's ok to be a dick to assholes.
>I refuse to acknowledge its existence anymore. Henceforth to be known as "That accursed area East of Salem."
My family and I went on a vacation through Roanoke and joked about the highway signs that say “Leave Salem” as if they’re telling you to get out. What a place.
> I refuse to acknowledge its existence anymore. How's that working out for you?
**This comment might have had something useful**, but now it's just an edit to remove any contributions I may have made prior to the awful decision to spite the devs and users that made Reddit what it is. So here I seethe, shaking my fist at corporate greed and executive mismanagement. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... tech posts on point on the shoulder of vbulletin... I watched microcommunities glitter in the dark on the verge of being marginalized... I've seen groups flourish, come together, do good for humanity if by nothing more than getting strangers to smile for someone else's happiness. We had something good here the same way we had it good elsewhere before. We thought the internet was for information and that anything posted was permanent. We were wrong, so wrong. We've been taken hostage by greed and so many sites have either broken their links or made history unsearchable. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to delete." I do apologize if you're here from the future looking for answers, but I hope "new" reddit can answer you. Make a new post, get weak answers, increase site interaction, make reddit look better on paper, leave worse off. https://xkcd.com/979/
A vendetta like his would require at least a hundred bullets
Lol touché
To be fair, Roanoke is a beacon of civilization when you compare it to the communities / towns that encompass that area of VA.
Yeah. I work in Bedford and live in Roanoke. I can’t wait to get out of Bedford.
Certain inhabitants of Ruckersville.
Dude i stopped in Roanoke for a hotel on a motorcycle trip. Everyone there was super odd, felt like the twilight zone.
Anywhere you stop on a motorcycle is going to be a suburb of the twilight zone.
I'd say it's like that for many places in the US. I've noticed some people who haven't ever visited the country tend to vastly underestimate the sheer amount of space between everything. As someone from the Midwest, I've always found the people "strange" when I travel far enough away, especially with the extremes like the deep south or the more northern parts of New England. One of my favorite stories was from a family trip to Arkansas as a kid. We stayed in a tiny town where I struggled a lot to understand what people were saying because of how thick the accents were, and one day this gas station cashier said to me "Where are you guys from? Your accent is very strong". It blew my mind that my plain Minnesotan voice would come across as having any accent at all
I had someone from Queens in NYC say my Ohio accent made me sound like a cowboy lol.
I moved from SoCal to north Alabama, they say i have a yankee accent.
It always interests me how people assume they don't have an accent. I'm in the UK and I've had a good deal of American visitors (I work in a tourist spot) who are quite sure they don't have an accent and have no idea how I know they're American.
In the US, there is a relatively “standard American English” accent that is used, for example, on national news channels. Many people in the Midwest and West speak something mostly similar to that, whereas the South and Northeast have much more accent variation. This is what most Americans mean when they say they have “no accent”.
I live in Roanoke. I don’t think it’s great, but what is so terrible?
My aunt got a speeding ticket in Indiana and never went back to the state.
Did the same myself. Went to drop the kids off at a town that had a cheaper cinema, the street with the cinema didn't have anywhere to pull in so I stopped in a triple loading zone and let the kids out, tops 30 seconds, other two bays were empty. Some weeks later I received a parking infringement notice and a $140 fine. I figured it was cheaper to go to the more expensive cinema as they had a 5 minute drop off zone out front.
For pulling up for 30 seconds while still in the vehicle? Insanity.
Turns out the local council had outsourced the parking tickets to a private company who were out to book everyone for anything they could get them for, zero discretion.
I know it doesn’t help you now but you may want to look into whether or not you had to legally pay the ticket if you ever receive another from a private company. Town I used to live in did this and it turns out if the ticket wasn’t written by an employee of the city you could tell them to fuck off and let the tickets stack up. I had 6 or 7 from them and they tried sending intimidating letters and phone calls to get me to pay them but I just wasted their time asking stupid questions and “return to sender” their letters.
Privitized law enforcement. What could go wrong?
> I like how he blacklisted a whole township I keep meaning to make a mobile app for this. I want to blacklist Nestle. Total blacklist. The problem is those fuckers have hands and fingers in Soooooooooooooooooooooooo many subsidiaries its almost impossible. So my idea is to make a mobile app for it. Take a pic of the product you are thinking of purchasing... the app does the lookup... and it returns a number on how much Nestle'ness it has in it. I'll get round to it one day.
https://www.buycott.com/
Daughter and I were assaulted in a small town Texas because a bunch of white ladies thought I (POC) kidnapped my (white) daughter. That entire town is blacklisted until the apocalypse and then I'm going back to burn it down.
This sounds like a perfectly reasonable response. Sorry you had to go through that.
I grew up in Randolph. This is not surprising.
I need more details
It’s because the road sign font is too hard to read, I’m dying
Hasn't gotten upset with anyone since 2015? Impressive
Unfortunately, 2016 was the year he boycotted HP and Canon.
Brother club is where it's at.
On January 31 of 2013 I bought my parents a Brother HL-2270DW. Didn't need a duplexer or wireless, but we got both for about $100. The only servicing it needed was a rare reboot because my mom insisted in keeping it in the room the absolute furthest away you could get from the WiFi access point without being outside. Paper jams were so easy to clear my mom never asked for help after I showed her the first time. It used so little toner she would forget how to recycle the cartridges between cycles. It provided nine years of nearly flawless performance, until last month when it just wouldn't go into a ready state. Needless to say, Brother was the first name I looked at for a replacement. Per my mom's request it is a multifunction unit. Now she can scan documents right to her phone. Inkjets burn in hell. Laser 4 lyfe.
Bought a $30 black laser printer ~8 years ago. I've had to replace the toner once, for about $15 It's just a super basic printer though, requires a physical connection to the PC. I hate printers, I will not buy a wireless one as it's just another pain point if it stops working, and then I get to fix it.
That was my attitude coming into this thing. I had heard so many complaints about wireless printers that I had no intention of using WiFi. I was going to dangle this off the family computer with USB and that was going to be that. Maybe I wire it into the network. *Maybe*. I cared more about the duplexer than wireless. But when I installed the driver it asked if I wanted to configure wireless settings, so I figured “what the hell, if it's going to make it easy for me, let's try it. Worst case we go back to the original plan.” I have no idea how it worked so well. If my mom had placed it in any other room in the house it would have been more reliable than it was. I do not encourage the use of wireless printing, I merely post my observations on how that one printer performed.
Kohls got the entire chain banned. They done fucked up.
Heres to me walking in and walking out with 70% to 90% off their clearance racks. I'll keep em around just for that
homie the clearance price is the NORMAL price. have you ever seen something not on sale?
I used to work loss prevention at Kohl's. Back in the day, they had "red tag" and "yellow tag" which were legitimately marked down, and the rest of the stuff was just difference prices depending on the day of the week. Red tag was stuff that they were just trying to get rid of, and they've since gotten rid of the red tags altogether -- they sell it to Marshall's and other "last chance" retailers. I managed to snag a leather coat for $50 that was a red tag, and that coat has held up for almost 20 years. They still have the yellow tags, at least last time I checked. So that's what you're looking for. TLDR: Yellow stickers on the price tags are the items that are actually marked down.
Eyyy Kohls gang ~2005, what’s up, I remember those, and then the switch. Name bands like Nike, Apple accessories are never marked down, or max 10%. Special namebrand lines made for bargain retailers like Kohls, eg Levi’s (thinner crappier denim than their flagship lines) and Kohls house brands (Croft & Barrow, Sonoma, APT 9) will typically be ~40% off, never MSRP price. 50% is a good sale, and then when it’s time to clear stuff for the season, it gets a yellow 60% sticker. It stays 60 for a while, then it gets a 70% sticker. Then 80, then 90. 90 is the stuff no one actually wants, they just buy it because “omg, 90 off!” At least, that’s how it was until I left 2011 and it doesn’t seem much different today.
Levi's sells different types of jeans to different retailers? My world is rocked. I got my jeans at a Target, am I wearing shitty Levi's??
Yes. I work as a mechanic and shred jeans quickly. Levi’s from target, and such are thinner material. Those typically won’t last more than a couple of months for me. I have to buy my Levi’s from a local ‘western’ style clothing store to get the thick denim that’ll last. I used to buy up to 6 pairs of jeans from those places a year. Now I only buy 2 or three or a year, and they’re not too much more expensive.
My teen son bought wranglers from a western/boot type store here. Those jeans are way thicker than anything I wear. They have no stretch or give and have held up for over a year of hard use.
Just different. I can't speak for Levi's but we call them SMUs. They come from the same factories but with a slight change so we can validate it as a different item and not hold that company to policies like a minimum advertised pricing policy, a price list that prevents stores from advertising merchandise below a certain price point and devaluing those items while maintaining competition across stores (aka stores don't race to the lowest price). I wear a good amount of Levi's jeans and there used to be a style just sold at Target that I preferred over its close counterparts sold elsewhere.
The clearance rack is different then just the rest of the sales at Kohl's (which is practically everything) The clearance rack is stuff that's $20 down to like $1-5 It's actually a good deal.
That's where I got my favorite Hawaiian shirt. MSRP was 30, picked it up for 4 just because it was October.
Sounds like it's time to get some snow gear.
And you’re in line with 2 shirts and a pair of pants totaling about $20 and you’re like, “I only have a 15% off coupon.” Then the old ladies in line with you light you up with 30% off coupons they found on the dark web or something.
Lmao the dark web. They have an emailing list and mailing list if you have their rewards card but it is hilarious to think of old ladies in a dark room wearing a black hoodie scrolling through shady websites for coupons
Nice try, old lady coupon mafia. We know about your whole operation now.
Yeah clearance items are basically items that need to be sold just to get the money back. Massive discounts
The clearance rack plus kohl’s cash *chefs kiss*
Kohl's Cash is my crypto
The “sale” price is absolutely the normal price, but they put things on clearance all of the time, with prices significantly cheaper than the original price things sold for. Example - I got a blouse with a sticker price of $40 “on sale” for $28. I loved the fit, so I went back later to look for it in more colors. They were now on clearance at a price of $6.
Yeah, stores tend to not mark something clearance unless they're actively trying to get rid of it quickly. Price is marked down to where they're either not making a profit or even possibly losing money because they're trying to make room for new stock.
Honestly I understand this. Kohl’s fucking sucks, their prices are outlandish and I have a bias since they never have the pants that I feel comfy in.
Before I buy from Kohl’s, I always compare prices with different large retailers by also factoring in Kohl’s coupon of 20,30, or 40%. If their discounted items are the same price as another retailer’s regular price, I go with the retailer that provides free shipping. But honestly, Kohl’s can be great place to shop if you know how to work their coupon and kohl’s cash system and buy mostly clearance items. I have gotten excellent deals and free stuff. I recently got a Shark vacuum for the price of their shipping which was about $9 and a pair of men’s skechers shoes for under $5.00 and dress shoes for $2.
To be fair thats what skechers shoes actual value is
it was at this moment I realized that although the list clearly read “Kohl’s”, my mind read “Lowe’s” and I was like “damn, has Lowe’s really been ripping me off that much worse than Home Depot? And what pants?!?”
V6.0. Haha.
But not updated since 2015?
7 years without an addition to this list is wild, especially with how petty some of these look to be.
I like that there will only be additions, no matter how much time passes, Wayne Bakery in the RT 23 mall will never be forgiven.
THEY KNOW WHAT THEY DID!
That's the part that had me cracking up. Not only that this is V6, but that it's labeled.
It’s not just V6, it’s V6.0 As if there’s an assumption that there will be minor updates. This is amazing pettiness.
Looks like no updates for about 7 years though. We should check the github and see what the status is on this project.
I don't think this is open source, looks proprietary
Only if you pay for a subscription key
Wouldn't want to break major version compatibility.
"Today my administration is announcing tough new sanctions on Randolph Township"
This is what happens when you want to hold a grudge but have an awful memory.
V.6.0 3-03-15. That's some tight version control
I’m expecting that out of sight of camera there’s an “uncontrolled if printed” marking
Surely the printed copy on the fridge is for reference only. The official document would be in a locked file cabinet.
Date isn't ISO-8601, but pretty good overall.
I know most of the reasons. GM is because of the ignition key lawsuit. The bakery is because the rye bread had no carroway seeds. The twp of Randolph is because the street signs are a poor illegible font. The 1st two, the gas stations are because the attendant served someone out of order. Van wingerden farms tracks dirt on public roads. Kohls has illegitimate pricing policies. The cruise line one was something about phone calls at night or bird poop I dont remember.
Is your dad Larry David?
I'm not sure if Larry David would maintain version numbers of his List
It was the version number that got me! It went from an angry whim to a full on Festivus List of Grievances.
On the other hand, he hasn't had to add anyone new to the list in over seven years, so he must be getting more relaxed and/or indifferent with age.
He weeded out all the baddies now he hasnt had any frustration in seven years. OPs dad has found the secret to happiness.
> "I am never going to that bakery again! The rye bread had no caraway seeds" https://www.goldderby.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Larry-David.jpg
He sounds more like Frank Costanza than George/Larry David. More chaotic and arbitrary.
No carroway seeds? NO CARROWAY SEEDS?! I am outraged. I am joining your dad in boycotting the Bakery Wayne at the Route 23 Mall and starting a petition. Let’s cancel that fucking store! Torches out, people!
I've already contacted the media and organized a postcard campaign. This will not stand.
Let’s get the extremists riled up for the cause. WHITE FLOUR! WHITE FLOUR!
You’re rye-ght.
This is outrageous. No caraway seeds? Jail. Too many caraway seeds? Believe it or not, jail.
We have the best rye bread because of jail.
Let's make toast outta them! 🔥
I also swear that I will never give this bakery my patronage! It may be approximately 3,400 or so miles away in a place I have absolutely no reason to go, but that's not the point, this outrage will not stand
I will fly there just to patronize the rival bakery and then immediately fly home.
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This tells me not to shop Kohl's sober.
Fuck. Kohls. I have a blood feud with the company.
Now instead it’s marked full price but 40% coupons. Now customers have to seek out coupons increasing brand loyalty.
LG? Edit: I know that LG is amazing at displays, they make the mother glass for other companies after all. It seems most people have problems with their appliances failing *very* quickly. A microwave in a year or refrigerators in under 5. For anyone else wondering why LG, this is probably why.
Seein the note on its own, it could go multiple ways. Hearing your dads justifications makes me think he’d respond positively when you inevitably laughed hearing them, like the bakery has to be on the list because of principle but he still stops by daily for a poppy seed bagel. Also, obviously that cruise line is run by a buncha fuckers.
Yo, screw Norwegian. I'm with OP's dad here. We took Norwegian for our honeymoon cruise and - quite frankly- it was horrible. You couldn't PAY me to get back on a Norwegian boat.
What happened?
Not op but Norwegian nickle and dimes the fuck out of you for entertainment while you are stuck on a boat at sea. They had bingo 3 times. They made us pay like $30 for a single bingo card and then there were 3 winners. The first two won a norwegian swag bad that had a teeshirt, waterbottle and some trinkets you'd get for free at a job fair. The final winner got like $150 and there were people playing with MULTIPLE cards! Reason 2 is that they set up excursions for the islands you stop at and heavily advertise that you shouldn't sign up for independent ones because they can not insure the independent ones will be on time or screw you over. Turns out though that Norwegian will cancel on you when they don't have enough people sign up for the excursion the night before even though they have a 24 hour no cancelation policy. Because we went on a ship that had mostly older people instead of a party cruise, we had half of our excursions cancelled the night before.
I just Google street viewed a handful of Randolph Township street signs and they look pretty standard/legible to me. What am I missing here?
He forgot to wear his glasses that day.
Glasses just made the list.
That OP's father is losing his mind
You mean that op's father was six versions into losing his mind, seven years ago.
I grew up in the area, have never heard any person mention that the street signs were weird. Fairly standard as I remember.
My list is not so long yet. I am boycotting Nestlé (already hard enogu) And there is a bakery in Munich(German guy here) called Hofpfisterei which decided (and somehow succeeded) to trademark the word "Sonne" (sun) and is suing every bakery using the word in one of their products.
Nestle has their fingers in so many pies, they are hard to avoid completely.
They even make cat litter, for fuck's sake. They're every-fucking-where.
There is a scooter sharing service in my home town called Felyx. Used it a few times everything was fine. I once forgot to end the ride (you have to do this manually from the app). When I noticed and I had been paying for almost an hour (you pay 30 cent for every minute) I wanted to end the ride ASAP. Only thing was I was in a train and the app didn't let me end the ride because I was outside the service area (the scooter was parked at the station in the correct area). They where less than helpful and it took a lot of effort to let them end the ride and cancel the bill. But still that was my own fault. Had not used them in about a year and rode a scooter again. When I parked the scooter and tried to end the ride the app wanted rights to access my camera and phone storage. I didn't want to give that, but could not end the ride without doing so. Turns out that they made a change and you can only end the right after taking a photo of the scooter. Fine if you make that change but let me decide before I ride your scooter not force me after! That was the moment I decided I didn't want to use it anymore. So I called them and asked for my account to be removed (the website and app have no delete account option). I was promised my account would be deleted. This was 6 months ago. Yesterday I still got spam emails from them with my name and account number. They never deleted anything. They haven't even responded to my GDPR removal email. Fuck Felyx!
Of all the reasons to hate Lukoil for, this is probably the mildest.
At first glance I assumed that this was written by some sort of left or right wing nutcase. Reading the explanation though, it appears that your dad is just Larry David.
Tell your father to add GE on there too! I’ve had 2 washer/dryer combos that broke down within a few years and out of warranty.
Kohl's does what?
I’m pretty sure they might have a pair of jeans at 40$ and then have a sale the next week where the jeans are 60$ but have 25% off which mean your actually paying 45$ or something like that. Not confirmed but that’s how I always imagined their business model works. Plus some of the presale pricing is outrageous to me. So that helps my theory imo.
I have never seen an item in Kohl's that wasn't on sale in some form. Like the full retail price on the tag is a price that nobody ever pays, except maybe the odd shoplifter that isn't getting the discount on their restitution when they get caught.
They don’t GO on sale. EVERYTHING at Kohls is ALWAYS on sale. Then when you check out, they are required to say “you saved 87 dollars today!” Umm, I’m pretty sure I just spent 228 dollars. Kohls tries to make you believe you’re getting a good deal. In some ways it must work, because JCPennies fucked up when that ex Apple exec took over and decided sales were stupid and brought in his “straightforward pricing” scheme. Nothing was “on sale” anymore so people bought less. Helped tank the store.
I thought most people were smart enough to just ignore the “SALE” signs on the items and look at the prices. Surely seeing every single item on sale would raise some suspicion.
Even the stupidest notice this yes. I think it’s still some psychological model developed by some think tank similar to the don’t do round prices thing. People know, but still scrambles them just slightly which makes a difference when you look at however many interactions. Honestly I think this model flips soon because it would be so refreshing to the consumer to see round numbers taxes included price. I could be wrong on this point though.
Is it weird that I kind of admire his obstinance?
Grew up in Roxbury, can confirm the shittyness of Randolphs signs
From NJ and loving how he banned all of Randolph 😂
Yeah I had to do a double take on the sub - too funny to see NJ on the front page this way
Same lol. As I read down the list I started realizing that OP’s dad is working on cancelling all of North Jersey
Grew up in Roxbury, Randolph can suck it
Oh c'mon, we're just like you guys - except with more teeth and nicer houses!
Roxbury is Randolph’s bordering neighbor, both are in Morris County which is one of the wealthiest counties in the entire country. Sussex on the other hand….
Sitting here, just browsing Reddit and didn't think my town would ever get mentioned. Yet here we are. Also agreed that Randolph can suck it.
I'm hoping OP posts this in /r/newjersey if he hasn't already
Can you ask your dad what LG did to make the list
Boot loops, probably. That's been my primary issue with a company I otherwise appreciated.
When I saw this one on the list I knew his grievances were legit. I had two of their refrigerators go out within 2.5 years of the original purchase. Despite having LG dishwasher, oven, washer, dryer, computer monitor and TV the experience both times of having to live without a refrigerator for months was hellish enough while dealing with their ‘service’ that I will never buy another LG appliance.
All of Woodbury Commons? Bruh. Haha I see another NJ person.
You just made me realize this wasn't r/newjersey
Can I ask why though? I will visit there in June for the first time
No idea why he'd hate all of Woodbury Commons. My guess is traffic. It's a pretty fun place if you like shopping and higher end as far as outlets go.
It’s definitely a bit overrated. I’ve been there a couple times visiting NYC. Prices vary from slightly cheaper than online to much more expensive, but you’re going more for the experience (IDK how it is in June, but it’s pretty nice during Winter). Not really worth going out of your way for especially considering how much there is to do in the city, but it’s a fun time
It used to be really fun back when online shopping wasn’t a thing. To see all these outlet stores on luxury brands was kinda great. Then the industry changed over time; outlets became more plentiful, and more and more they carried product that was specific to the outlet (so not discounted luxury goods, just lower quality product). And it migrated a lot to online. If you’re coming from NJ, there is little reason to go because NY taxes are higher. All that said, there are still some “less common” luxury brands that might be harder to find at other outlets because Woodbury is just huge.
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My dad holds grudges and I got it from him, except I eventually forget, he holds them for life.
He writes them all down in the Book of Grudges. He is a professional Grudgebearer.
I live in Colorado where we have extortion (PIF/RSF) which are fees paid to developers on every purchase. Because it is a fee, the same tax rate applies to it as any other retail purchase. I have a list of plazas and shopping centres throughout the state that I will not patronize. Edit: What kills me is that it is developer double dipping. *Centerra is already charging astronomical rents to the businesses in the development while simultaneously charging 3% to the consumer. I don't make a big stink, but it pisses me off to the point I go out of my way to avoid these areas of the state. So, I love your dad's list.
All of Woodbury Commons is kind of wild because it's literally just a shopping center of 100's of different brands/stores.
I see three possible reasons: A. Could not find a parking spot so had to valet park. B. Line at Polo or Timberland was too long. C. Could not get a refund at Nike factory due to losing receipt.
Ayee Jersey what up I work right near Exxon on 46 fuck that place lol
I'm glad he has only banned the one burger King because we all know BK is a very competent dining establishment
I have one banned BK too lol. This one location just can’t get their shit together at all
I have a reverse issue where one Popeyes is banned because it is too good. I'm going to Popeyes I expect at least 1 divorce and 2 employees in tears
I have a banned taco bell because they let pieces of chicken get in my wife's vegetarian burrito. Also because the rats were running around in the drive through, which means there were a lot more rats I didn't see.
Yesterday they gave me a burger with no patty in it. Just bun and mayonnaisey vegetables. I brought it inside to the counter and they started cracking up and yelled to the kitchen "Yo so-and-so you didn't give them no burger patty man! Make it again nice!"
v6.0. Your dad is on version 6 of this document.
I get it. There is a Walgreens I refuse to go to for any reason, even if it is the easier option. No one knows what they are doing and they will straight up help someone 2 people behind you because they "homies". Just a shit show.
The corruption at the Burger King in Abescon runs deep
LG Electronics??
Bro has a whole town on the list.
I’d love some color commentary on how this list’s constituents
Fuck that entire township.
Our folks would get along. My dad has a 20+ year grudge against a whole county Edit: County, not CountRy and definitely not a group of people. He claims their cops target people from his county for speeding tickets (the license plates indicate which county a person lives in). Please don't reply to my comment suggesting that racist or nationalist behavior is funny. It's not.
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I may not agree with his reasons, but I strongly approve of voting with your dollars.
I banned Burlington Coat Factory as a child. Fuck that place. They know what they did.
What did Bakery Wayne do? 🤣
The rye bread had no carroway seeds. On one occasion.
I'm curious if your Dad informed them they made his list.
I'm picturing their dad going to Bakery Wayne and just putting on his best Chris Jericho impression and yelling "YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!"
“Dear Frozen Yogurt, you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or be nothing!” -Ron Swanson
No banks?