AngryDeuce

I work in IT so I still work with discs from time to time, though not so often as I used to. Last work disc I burned was an ISO of a bootable utility to wipe out the local admin password for a coworker that was going onsite to restore a controller PC on a plasma cutter that had decided to toss out it’s nic drivers and nobody could get into the stupid thing to fix it lol.

In my personal life, last things I burned were a bunch of music mix discs for my girlfriend (now wife) when we started dating. That was 2013. Even then I didn’t really deal with discs very much, but she didn’t even have a smartphone at the time, so the discs were all she used or knew.

Hell, even just having a completely different conversation can sometimes lead to huge breakthroughs! I’ve seen it happen!

We’ve normalized saying “bless you” after a good burp lol

My wife cannot abide me asking my son to pull my finger so I save that for when she’s not around.

I’m fine with capitalism when the responsibility and expectations are proportionate with the compensation for a given job.

The problem is they’re not, somehow the higher up the chain they get and more money they make, the less they actually seem to fucking do, and worse, the more insulated from their own decisions they become.

“It was a bad call, Ripley”

“Bad call!? 15 plant workers died because you denied a request for additional CO2 monitors in the processing shed!! What was your bonus for cutting that?!?”

Except unlike in Aliens, we don’t even get to enjoy seeing the xenomorphs eat the assholes at the end.

Dude, as someone that worked, briefly, in retail at a corporate level, the agreements between the major players like Coke and Pepsi and the big boxes are like some Van Halen “no brown M&Ms” level shit on both sides of the equation.

I have seen emails describing what happens when a coke representative walks into one of those stores and finds that their product is not merchandised within X feet of X aisle or is out of stock on the shelf and there are serious financial sanctions for that shit. Something is minor as a customer setting a 12 pack of 7-Up on top of the stack of Sprite has gotten escalated to levels that would be ludicrous to a layman.

Everything, every single shelf or peghook or rack in that store, has a dollar amount attached to it, and the sums of money being exchanged over whether your product is placed at eye level or down on the bottom shelf is unreal.

Dude in Philly when I was a kid it was literal prison food, it came on trays of individual meals that they threw into the oven for 15 minutes to heat it up before handing it off. $2.50 in 1989!

Or my personal favorite, when my son was getting a full lunch packed every day and also getting a school lunch on credit and when his mother and I said “uh, the kid has a lunch and we do not want him getting school lunch on top of his packed lunch because DUH” they straight up said they will not disallow him from getting a school lunch on top of it because he must be hungry.

Except plot twist! He admitted he was only getting the school lunch for the treat and the chocolate milk and throwing the rest away. Kid got cookies or a brownie or something sweet in every packed lunch, and ate them every day, ate his whole packed lunch, as he didn’t even like 90% of the food on the school menu.

Mentioned that to the school and was told that they couldn’t control what he does or does not eat. “But you can control him not racking up debt that we have to pay that we didn’t expect, can’t you?!”

NO.

And that’s how my wife and I together paid roughly $200 over the course of his first grade year for lunches that he largely threw out.

yeah i aint built for that shit lol

theres a reason i live in the land of always winter

Was playing a board game (I dont even remember which) and I had to give the name of a tropical place that starts with letter M that no one else would guess. I said Manila and this person I was playing with argued with me for 20 minutes (this was pre smartphone) that Manila isn’t tropical. I had to seriously find a book with a world map in it to show this person where the Philippines are located to prove that it is, indeed, tropical and honestly she was still unconvinced.

I played it off but I lost a lot of respect for my then girlfriend, who I was with, because I know she knew I was right but wouldn’t defend me because she didn’t want to take sides against her other friends. That was honestly the beginning of the end for us, that stupid fucking game night I didnt want to go to anyway lol