Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[Wolfsong]

I paid $16.50 for the sorriest looking pumpkin in all of Australia, but it was the only one left in the store, by golly.

[prometheus]

I paid $2.99 for a wee baby pumpkin, carved it and set it up at work. I'll post a picture tomorrow.

[Alladinsane]

The pain Snickie told of was emergency dental surgery.
I have never had a toothache in my life.
Now I know why people can hardly walk with them.
The first dentist couldn't do it (It was not a hygiene issue, just a freak thing)
So we had to travel across town to a "special" dentist. Endontist.
He saved the tooth and it will never hurt again.

Good drugs. I slept for days.

[Snowdrop]

I know it's Halloween, and if someone wishes to celebrate it that's fine with me (I personally don't, never have, probably never will - my mum has always been majorly against it) but I really need to have a mini rant about this:

My mum and I do the weekly shop every Saturday night, and trying to work our way through a (mini) zombie horde (that included a freakishly tall female zombie ) was one thing, they were just stocking up on crisps and stuff...but while we were browsing the frozen foods, we were approached by 3 or 4 young kids (individually, and all unsupervised by an adult!) going "trick or treat?" It was like...uh, no? We were in a supermarket, it's hardly the right place to be trick or treating! You buy things in a supermarket, not get given them. Too much risk of the giver or kid receiving getting accused of shoplifting for starters...

All the kids looked kinda pissed at us when we refused, but maybe that was more down to my mother muttering (not all so quietly) her utter contempt, whereas I was just simply telling them we didn't have anything - which seemed to get a momentary look of disbelief before they said "okay" and moved on.
Seriously though, what were they expecting us to do...take a pack of frozen burgers out of the freezer and hand them over? We weren't dressed up, weren't even looking at anything sweet-like or Halloween related - there was nothing about us to indicate that we were open to trick or treaters...just leave us alone, we're trying to figure out what we'd be eating this week

[BeepBeep]

Snowdrop, this made me laugh so hard. I've never seen that happen in a supermarket and would have reacted exactly the same way.

[Snowdrop]

I'm not sure what happened this year - I've never seen so many people into Halloween in my town before, it really surprised me how many groups I passed while driving. Had the zombie/monster horde thing in the supermarket before as the young adult celebrators gather snacks on their way to parties, but I've never seen so many trick or treaters.

I overheard one of the more senior members of staff talking about the kids while I was at the checkout - didn't really hear what she said, but she certainly didn't approve either

[Misato]

TotD:

Okay, so I've never actually seen my older brother drunk until last night...I wish I could remember what we were arguing about when he jumped into the conversation and insisted that he's a little teapot. And then he whistled for like 5 minutes and passed out on the couch. I thought I was going to die laughing! LMAO!

[Marian]

Argh. Daylight saving time is messing me all up, I just cannot keep up with these ticks anymore.

[sherman]

DST is annoying, who invented it? And clock changes.. Man too much trouble

At least as my evening is hour later I'm waker when actions happens Though ticks... darn

[prometheus]

Ah, drunk people. I worked overnight, retail, a block away from a huge college campus, on Halloween, here:


Up at the front, it looks like this:

We had a guy pointing at that and just going "I need a costume."
"Costumes are in aisle 4."
"I need that costume right there. *points at cigarettes*"
"Uhhh...."
"I need that costume right now."

A guy waited in line, came up to the counter with nothing, looked at me, then the pinpad, and tried to pay.
"Did you....need something?"
"I thought I had....products."
*look at him, he stares at me, expecting me to do something*
"Um..."
"I thought I had....*gestures at the receipt printer* Fruit and *mumbles*"
*helpless staring resumes...eventually he wanders off*


Large group comes up with beer.
"Can I see all your IDs?"
"All our IDs? It's for me."
"Yeah, we don't even know him."
"I'm sorry sir, it's state law." *three of them show me their IDs.* "I need all your IDs."
*girl in tinfoil* "I don't have my ID, I don't even know him!"
The guy then got in a shouting match with my manager, insisting that 'just because he was talking to those people doesn't mean he can't get his beer.' He finally threatened to call the cops on us?
My manager: "Go right ahead, sir." *holds out the phone. The guy storms out....with tinfoil girl following behind. He came in three more times, each time bellowing to fellow customers that no one could buy beer unless everyone in the store had their IDs*

By tonight, I thought I was done with the drunks, was trying to wind down when one of our regular drunks comes in so shitfaced he runs headfirst into the automatic door. He's gay, but this somehow entitles him to be a bitchy diva, so we usually humour him to get him out as fast as possible, because he throws fits if he doesn't get his way. He knocked over our pile of stock getting a large fake gravestone, demanded I go get his PBR for him from the cooler--at the back of the store--and then made me bag everything in separate large bags, by themselves. Including a fist-sized glitter skull and a single pack of cigarettes in a bag large enough for a box fan. The kicker? He was holding up the gravestone and going "I should wear this to work. 'Beware, I don''t like you. Someone comes up: 'Do you have this in another size?' Beware, get out of the store." HE WORKS IN RETAIL. He's such a dick. At least I got to watch him run into the basket stack and the door again on the way out, and now, I'm off.

[SekoETC]

Woah, are cigarettes really that expensive? I pay 5,80 € for a pack, and it used to be 5,40 € before the price hitch, and years ago it was 4,95€.

[prometheus]

In New York, New Jersey, Conn, Mass, yeah. But I'm in tobacco country--the most expensive pack at my store will run you $7, and we're expensive (corporate--even so, we actually take a loss on them just because they get people in the door). You're still paying more than us--the average pack is ~$5, or 4.53 euro. The cheapest is $4.13 after tax, or 3.74 euro.

[Undine]

I was reading some stupid article about "hardcore" gamers versus regular gamers, and it had me thinking about Cantr. Is there such thing as a "hardcore" Cantr player? If so, what are the qualifications?

[prometheus]

Sacrificing work quality or social life to play Cantr? Cantr to the exclusion of all else?

[Optimus Christ]

I was reading some stupid article about "hardcore" gamers versus regular gamers, and it had me thinking about Cantr. Is there such thing as a "hardcore" Cantr player? If so, what are the qualifications?

If I had to think about it, it would be someone who has cantr up 24/7 checking every tick. The word slow paced does not apply to them.

As for Casual Gamer and Hardcore Gamer, the difference is the Hardcore Gamer has a goal to work to IRL, depending on the game they play. Take myself for instance. I stream, Record, Put the videos up on youtube, and all for the purpose of bringing people in, making money, and having a community. It actually takes a lot of work to do this. A Casual Gamer could be defined as "Someone who joins such a community" No real purpose with gaming except to have fun, which is fine and all, but it won't make them money in the future. Plays with friends, doesn't take it serious if they are not looking to go "Pro" as it were.