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Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

I walked out with a toothbrush on accident once. those alarm things at Walmart didnt even go off lol. think theyre just theyre to scare folks into thinking theyll beep if they try to steal anything

I think some specific items get an extra special security tag placed on them that will beep, probably more expensive stuff than a toothbrush, but you can peel those tags off anyway

Oh and just shoving small things in your pocket from the shelf has a 99.9% success rate. Can't remember the last time I paid for paracetamol or antihistamines

Cameras are meant to counter/dissuade this but after working in retail I learnt there's not one guy just staring at them 24/7 like the mall cop on the Simpsons who catches Bart lol, at least here in Australia.

Its more that people will go back and check them if they notice something big missing or there's a major incident. Usually days later

Funkydog posted...

I'm just curious how you even manage to, given how sensitive the scales on them are here in any I've used in the UK

All kinda methods. The one I've had most luck with is putting some items at the bottom of the shopping bag(under the weird lining thing some bags have to help the bag keep shape) I can fit whole steaks under there and have it look fairly innocuous

You can also just leave items in the bag but if any staff walks over and looks, as unlikely as that is, they'll see everything

Place the bag on the other side of the checkout to where the scale is, go about things normally with a few cheap items you're happy to pay for to reduce any suspicion

And only after paying do you bring the bag over to the other side with the scales and then load everything else into it

Zikten posted...

The worst thing I ever heard. Well ok...2nd worst thing..... (look up pony jar for first)

Was that I heard a story where a group of grown men went to the theater to see a MLP movie. When a pony had her backside on screen, one of the guys whistled and made sexual comments. And there were like 8 year old girls in ear shot and horrified parents

Where'd you hear that? Lmao

Yeah. But there's a store near me where lot of the staff are teenagers who don't care at all

It's never felt really scary

I didn't think people would be using euthanasia for chronic fatigue tbh

Torgo posted...

Yes, and what is causing people over 40 to be so unhappy all the time?

I know what you're getting at but a lot of it is emotional maturity

And no people in their 40s aren't boomers

Edit - actually your post confused me, did you mean to say why are people over 40 happy?

Dark_Arbron posted...

We have very good reason to be.

I guess? It's unpleasant to be around people like that though

Cynicism in general is rampant across people under 40

It's very tiring

That very last panel is definitely the worst one

FinalBraveNUT posted...

Smoking weed instead,

This was the only way I could quit nicotine, replacing it with weed. Nothing else came close to working for more than a week, patches etc and I tried a lot.

I was high enough often enough for there to be basically no nicotine cravings for a few weeks and then I was more or less in the clear

Now, I can easily wait til night to smoke weed. When I was smoking cigs the idea of getting through a whole day without them felt like an impossible mountain

Didn't like every Greek have some slave boy they fucked on the side

It feels like homosexuality was more accepted in that era than in any other in history

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Going with the flow of traffic is almost always safer than following a strict limit. If everyone around you is going a certain speed and youre not, whether thats much faster or much slower, you indeed become the danger on the road.

How often in America are 9 people speeding with 1 old grandma trying to go the speed limit (how dare her) your use of "everyone" makes it seem like going over the limit is the default thing when driving

It's very different where I'm from, you've usually got 9 people trying to drive safe and normal and one idiot weaving in and out of traffic, speeding, tailgating, all to save a few seconds

Don't most Americans still think seatbelts are infringing on rights or have they relaxed a bit there

Fuck me imagine genuinely defending speeding and claiming it's more safe

It's bizzaro land in this thread

This complaint thankfully died off a bit once bumble got popular and women realised how difficult it is to entertain a stranger with one message

When tinder was everybody's primary app, the complaints were very very annoying as a guy

But I honestly don't see it much anymore in online spaces.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

Do you have a link or something for that? If I'm driving the speed limit and a person is tailgating me it seems like I'm following the law and they're not but you're saying I'm the one who's in the wrong.

He's definitely full of shit. Ignore his layman take

The speed limit, like most Australians. A) because we have mobile speed cameras so you're playing with fire to permanently be driving a bit over

B) because we don't think speed limits are a conspiracy like Americans and recognise the danger that are vehicles going too fast

I was actually relieved when I found out she gave him a gun - that certainly is a pretty clear fuck up

I originally thought it was going to be more vague things like she didn't notice the warning signs or something like that which would have been unsettling/unfair

Swift always struck me as someone who could easily slip up eventually and get cancelled

She's a simple country girl at heart who probably didn't have a strong opinion on the world or politics other than Jesus loves me until she was an adult

Giant_Aspirin posted...

i don't think there's a woman alive that would convince me to take a single date over the money.

Yep. If I was supremely confident I could turn the date into a relationship maybe it'd be different but uh

It's certainly not ideal for dating

Name rings a bell, forget which Guides I've read of his though

kingdrake2 posted...

there's plenty of deadly animals to live with... it's not so worth it

even if there's dingo's and kangaroo's.

Australian here. It's really exaggerated how dangerous it is here lol

Slay the spire or Pokemon

Is this from the Hobbit?

Last girl I met off a dating app talked non stop about red flags and all this dating etiquette stuff like it was a science, then invited me into the bathroom while she peed the first time we hung out. And we were meant to be hanging out as friends to, her idea. I made a topic about it recently

Imagine having to hear red flag this deal-breaker that etc and trying really hard to be... on your best behaviour basically followed by something as out of pocket as that. Just has my scratching my head at this point

Imit8m3 posted...

LOL @ weed being a gateway drug. The only reason that is even conceivably possible is because it is illegal. If you could go to walgreens (see what i did there) and pick up an 1\8th of that za, then you wouldnt need to go to illegal places (dealers) to get it. Illegal places (dealers) CAN have more than just weed for sale. But thats not guaranteed, since most weed dealers grow and only sell to make a living doing their thing. But some nefarious people do pray on people and suggest to try this other shit to get them coming back.
On that note the real dangerous gateway drug is pharmaceuticals like opioids. That stuff will hook you like a fucking FISH and keep getting worse over time. Needing harder and harder variants, until you die.
Weed has never killed anyone.

Oh I literally smoke every day so when I say gateway drug I don't mean it as a criticism.... Just reality. My reality anyway

Yeah I'm not gonna argue for or defend opening messages on the app. That must be overwhelming for you

My initial mention of guys taking things too far and getting angry with girls they've simply matched with didn't mean after one date you can never ghost in any circumstances, I was actually trying to say ghosting complaints are kinda meh

I wouldn't do it to someone myself but then again 1% of my matches lead to dates and I'm pretty selective with who I'll go on one with to begin with anyway

So it's straight ghost or brutal, tactless insult/honesty?

Hmm

ArsGoetia posted...

why does it matter if weve met
i meet dozens of ppl every day and i dont owe a single one of them a goddamn thing

acting like im obligated to continue speaking to you just b/c weve been in close physical proximity is kinda shitty imo
unless weve committed to some kind of formal relationship (regardless of label) ghosting is on the table and i really dont give a shit if anyone thinks thats mean

Okay I'm referring to more than ghosting in general and don't wish to make this a "ghosting vs unsolicited dick pics" discussion lol one is obviously a lot worse

But personally once someone has taken the time to arrange and go on a date I feel it's respectful to not just cut contact completely unless they were inappropriate. I do give a shit if people find my behaviour mean so maybe we're just different

ArsGoetia posted...

bold of you to assume your average man actually reads a dating profile
i could literally set my profile text to "im a catfish serial killer and will absolutely murder your ass and bury your remains in an unmarked grave" and still get dozens of replies

I'm talking about more than just opening interactions with each other on the apps etc I mean after meeting

I accept way too many guys go nuts after just matching with someone either by being too pushy or getting angry over a slow reply

Some men take it way too far. Nobody has any right to whinge about a convo dying before two people have met, I barely view that as ghosting. I've seen some guys lose it over things like that

My issue is more with mixed signals and fickleness(after actually going on dates) or words not matching up with actions.

I also think some girls have taken the concept of "self care" and "I need to focus on me" to the point they're basically just selfish and struggle to really care about the guys they're talking to

That's something that has exhausted me and I have to take time to rebuild my confidence between each person I've met from dating apps

ArsGoetia posted...

im trans
ive been on both sides lol
"why wont you talk to me you fuckin whore?"
aint a good look look regardless of gender lol

and like gladius said, unless youve experience it, you really cant understand what its like to be a woman on a dating app
my profile tags specify that i'm asexual and that i will block if you send NSFW pic
what does my inbox look like?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d6f7f9df.png

The "on any large scale" part of my message was for trans people.

And I haven't directly experienced it but I've had girls I was dating show me their tinder chats etc, I'm aware it's rough.

I've experienced a lot of very damaging behaviour on dating apps too. I get annoyed at the general narrative I see online(at least in my algorithm) that it's a one way street

What he do?

Wtf did I just watch lol

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I think neither side really understands what the other goes through - (or at least the effect it has on their mental well-being )on any large scale

It's essentially like being Costanza or Larry David

Over analysis to the extreme degree

I won't argue unless I can attack the argument

No harm in saying "yeah you're right"

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

or neither are a gateway to anything lmao

Most people i know that smoke and drink dont do anything more than smoke and drink. The ones that do other drugs than those werent led to it because they smoke and drank.

I'd say it's very unlikely anyone skips smoking and drinking and still gets into those drugs

IceT posted...

LMAO men have no game on Grindr

They don't need it to tbf

Just like straight girls don't need game with straight dudes

I'm not saying no girls have game, some do, but they don't need it

Serious_Cat posted...

They'd be worth a few hundred dollars for the silver content. Incidentally inflation decreases the value of coins over time, not increases. A 1900 penny still nominally has a value of one cent.

I actually had a bunch of old coins to sell but I'm hesitant I won't get much due to this

VampireCoyote posted...

that would be alcohol and tobacco moreso

Depends I reckon. Alcohol is the gateway to coke and MDMA, weed is the gateway to Acid and mushrooms

Is it bad any potential insecurity I'd feel over this disappeared when I saw the pic

Yes. Very petite torso to go with it

Lol'd @ convid

a-c-a-b posted...

I'm part of a group of guys that get together to play Texas Hold-Em every now and then.

We usually just play $10 games though. It's more so just an excuse to get together and have a guys night than it is any sort of serious gambling.

This. Occasionally we get cigars for it. We're slowly getting better but nobody wants to raise the stakes

SuperExcitebike posted...

They might trick themselves into thinking it's a connection, but they're talking to paid employees or robots

Yeah if there was like a guarantee it was the celebrity running it and answering messages instead of likely ChatGPT or an assistant I'd have a tiny bit more understanding

It's just so likely you're donating money with zero actual interaction