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...April 25th is also National Crayola Day, National Zucchini Bread Day, National Plumber's Day, and World Penguin Day
Not to be confused with National Plumber's Crack Day, which is June 26... Technically April 25th is National "Hug a Plumber Day"... unfortunately that ever prevalent butt crack thing seems to thwart getting hugs from all but the most diehard plumber fans.
...you may want to think about retuning that #12 jersey for a refund.
According to ESPN tonight (04/29) Rodgers wants out of Green Bay in spite of being offered a contract extension. It came as a bit of a surprise after he said years ago he wanted to play his entire career there, However, front office management made a few bad decisions that likely have changed his outlook. The foremost was drafting a quarterback with their first round pick last year when a solid wide receiver was needed. I also cannot help but feel the team's management letting Jordi Nelson (who was Rodgers' "go to" receiver) go a few years ago also may have also soured him a bit (I considered it like splitting up the team of Joe Montana and Jerry Rice) . The management's reasoning was low production numbers, but none of the stand in quarterbacks for Rodgers (who that year suffered his second collarbone fracture which kept him out most of the season) bothered throwing to Nelson.
Another factor is there is no more guaranteed money in the remainder of his current contract.
Tonight's draft likely didn't make matters any better as they selected a mediocre cornerback instead of a fairly good wide receiver (this year's draft was pretty rich with respect to WRs) with their first round pick.
A couple teams have already made trade offers (Los Angeles and San Francisco, both with "so-so" QBs) but Packer management said no. It is expected something will go down in early June when Rodgers value will be at its highest allowing them to clear 22.5$ million in cap room.
I'm sorry, but my opinion is that the only people who should be honored and remembered in perpetuity are people who actually accomplish something that means something significantly positive for the future of the human race and the survival of the planet. Anything else is just ego stroking and competetive idolatry.
I choose to ignore that. Everyone gets a trophy! No winners, no losers, just participants...
Yeah, but they don't wear numbered clothing... well, not the ones that end up in jail, but that's beside the point... How can I cash in on their achievements if they don't have a recognizable feature like shirts and jerseys that can be turned into lucrative merch?
Technically, for example, someone like Whilhelm Röntgen had that amazing beard and stash and Einstein had the crazy hair, for which they are both instantly recognizable... think of how many times you've been in a public place and have seen someone with an amazing beard or crazy white hair and have thought "Oh Shiznit! That's Röntgen and Einstein! What are the odds!"... but then it just turns out to be some crazy tramp or smelly hot dog vendor.
Even when it's not someone selling smelly hot dogs or shouting about alien conspiracies on a street corner, you can't tell if they are a fan of Einstein or Röntgen or it's just an unfortunate fashion statement...
Of course if Röntgen had the foresight to wear a lab coat or a top hat with a big red #69 on it (he was a randy old coot), then when we saw someone wearing those items we'd know they were a fan... You kinda get that with Einstein because you can wear a shirt with E=mc2 on it and everyone with a brain will know you are a mass-energy equivalence fan, not a Mariah Carey fan.
I've been calling Nobel prize winners for years trying to get them to wear numbered clothing or distinctive bright outfits made out of polyester or Lycra, but they keep hanging up on me or sending mean restraining orders to me...
There are billions to be made from this, your lament just proves I'm right.
...true. the game was more interesting and fun teo watch before all the big money, agents and contract squabbling spoiled it. it ceased being for the love of the game and became more for the love of money.
Back in the day when Coach Lombardi fined a player 100$ for breaking training, that was a significant sum. Today a star player (pick your sport) gets fined an amount equal to what I earned in a year at my old job, and it's like nothing to them.
It's criminal what happens to a lot of returned items. It costs the company less to just dump them in the trash rather than try to resell them or even donate them. Especially clothing items. Perhaps the mothers of the CEOs of big stores should browbeat their progeny about the hoards of people in lesser countries that could use those returned clothes.
There are a couple of companies now that are buying huge lots of returned items for pennies on the dollar and are selling them for a few bucks less (or more) than full retail price despite them having missing parts or having minor defects... one company got a lot of press a couple of years ago about how they were helping to save the planet by keeping electric drills and novelty singing bass out of landfill while cleverly offering a "huge discount" to "people who might not otherwise be able to afford the full price item"... my guess is they wrote the article and the newspapers just repeated it... I looked them up and most of the stuff was actually the same as or more expensive then in an actual store... of course if you blindly accepted that the item was originally $150, and they were selling it for $85, it was a savings... but if you took two seconds to look up the price at Walmart or Home Depot, you'd see it sold for $80 or $90 and that price for an "as is" item is stupid... but maybe not getting the power cord or instructions and it not being returnable is a small price to pay when you are being told you are saving the planet or providing subpar wages to needy workers... I really hate when I'm suspicious of someone's hype and it actually turns out to be worse than I expected.
This same thing is happening with Imperfect Foods. They claim to be saving you money by selling you food that the store rejected cause it doesn't look ideal, but the stuff costs the same if not more. I was so pissed when I saw that.
I had one of those singing fish that got stuck and was singing "Don't Worry Be Happy" over and over EVEN AFTER I REMOVED THE BATTERIES!
I tried several ways to destroy it, but nothing worked until I rented a wood-chipper. That shut that sucker up.
But one silver lining on the returned items dark cloud is that in some cases, the company doesn't even want to incur the expense of dumping the item in the trash and just placates the buyer by returning their money and letting them have the overpriced or unsellable item anyway. It's a win/win. They get to keep a customer and you get a free item. Whether you wanted it or not.
Did you buy it from a little shop on the shady end of Main Street, from a guy who knew your name even though you never met him before?... and when you went back there was just an empty lot and the guy at the shop next door said there hadn't been a store there since 1952 when butcher shop that was there was burned down by the owner who died in the fire, when the cops came to arrest him for selling organic human sausage without a license?...
I bought a ventriloquist dummy just like that from a similar place... I had to set it on fire and scatter the ashes... when I went back to the store, they were still there and after I bought three or four more dummies and kept getting stabbed and haunted by them, the novelty wore off and I went back to complain and ask for a refund, but then the store had vanished and the neighboring shop owner told me about the fire and cannibalism thing.
I'm wondering if it's a chain or a franchise... I'd like to get another one of those dummies, it's kinda fun... like playing hide and go stab when one was a kid... just more spooky.
So if you have an address, let me know.
...yeah I saw a video on this. Most of the time with Amazon, if items are deemed as still resalable, they'll put it back up as "used" or sell them to a third party clearinghouse which in turn either sells them on sites such as eBay or to discount stores. Otherwise yes items simply are sent to a landfill, usually by the truckload.
If they don't take it back, I'd donate it to Goodwill or another charity (that's what I did with my #4 jersey and autographed football after he came out supporting certain views and people I don't agree with).
...hmm, second brekkie, Hobbits would love you.
Brett Favre is a famous retired NFL quarterback.
How about Flarvus... Full name Flarvus Bandergoots... it's easy to make up names... Nivallian Slatderbutz... Georff Danslorp... Handorff Casdigallion... Joe Smith...
The last one is probably too weird, but you get the idea. If that doesn't work for you, get a friend drunk and have them read a phone book, their slurred speech will create new and interesting variations on actual names.
Wait... they don't make phone books anymore do they?
I have to look into that... it just occurred to me it's been years since I've picked up a new one in my driveway... apparently dropped by the Phone Book Fairy...
Also... I'm now positive the Phone Book Fairy is real, because just now for the first time in like forever, predictive text actually accurately guessed "Fairy" from me typing "Phone Book F..." obviously it has to be a pre-existing thing because normally I have to type 99% of a word for it guess it right, but a wrong variation of the word.
How does one get the Phone Book Fairy to visit?... Summoning circle?... Sacrifice a leprechaun?... Children's teeth?
In the past sorting out all the old directories and getting the heap almost stable was a reliable trigger. However, I think all that flitting along the roads has possibly exposed the Phone Book fairy to dangerous levels of particle emissions as the books it could manage got smaller and smaller, though I think we did get a little pamphlet in the last couple of years so it may not have fianlly gasped its last yet.
My phonebook fairy outsourced his job to my local bank, where I pick up my pamphlet twice a year out of sheer habit.
The Phone Book Fairy retired in 2015. What little work still available (banks for example) has been outsourced to a mail-order company in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Last I heard he was sharlng an apartment with an itinerant tooth fairy.
That's exactly how every post in a forum, in a movie about a Zombie Virus outbreak, begins... "Oh it's just pollen"... the next thing you know you are gnawing on your roommate's noggin...
You say that like it's a bad thing. (emphasis added)
What thread?
I once ordered a bottle of chives on Amazon that I was pretty sure was actually marijuana. They gave me the refund and said I didn't have to send it back.