The even randomer thread

[Weave]

2 hours ago, Eleven said:

Lobsters live at the bottom of the sea

While I'm at the bottom of the air.

And both are bottom feeders.  😁

[inkman]

I got a new phone a few months ago.  I purchased a case on Amazon and none of the buttons on the phone would work once I put the case on.  So I returned it and got another case that I love. 
 

Today I got an email from the original case purchase company stating they’ll give me $50 to remove my review.  I’m desperate for cash so the offer is enticing but I feel like my review is necessary.  Discuss.  

[Stoner]

1 hour ago, inkman said:

I got a new phone a few months ago.  I purchased a case on Amazon and none of the buttons on the phone would work once I put the case on.  So I returned it and got another case that I love. 
 

Today I got an email from the original case purchase company stating they’ll give me $50 to remove my review.  I’m desperate for cash so the offer is enticing but I feel like my review is necessary.  Discuss.  

How much for calf pics?

[Eleven]

2 hours ago, inkman said:

I got a new phone a few months ago.  I purchased a case on Amazon and none of the buttons on the phone would work once I put the case on.  So I returned it and got another case that I love. 
 

Today I got an email from the original case purchase company stating they’ll give me $50 to remove my review.  I’m desperate for cash so the offer is enticing but I feel like my review is necessary.  Discuss.  

I think you're going to be out one review and never see the $50.

Edited December 16, 2020 by Eleven

[nfreeman]

@inkman-- now that is an interesting ethical question.

You are not being asked to leave a positive review, right?  Just to delete the negative review and stay silent?

Assuming it's to delete your negative review and stay silent, and assuming that you can ensure that you get the $50 (which, as @Eleven points out, is pretty uncertain, as a seller that would make that offer is the kind of person who wouldn't honor the deal) -- you are still being asked to help a sleazy seller sell crappy merchandise to an unsuspecting public.  It's only a few clicks, so it's kinda quick and painless, but that is nevertheless what is going on here.

Inevitably, part of the way most people would think about this is the matter of how badly you need the cash.  Could you maybe decline the offer, skip booze for a week or something else that costs $50 and end up financially even and feeling glad to have done the right thing?

[Eleven]

9 minutes ago, nfreeman said:

skip booze for a week or something else that costs $50

You implying that my man Ink drinks the cheap stuff?

[SwampD]

Has Covid brought to an end the snow day?

[Eleven]

1 hour ago, SwampD said:

Has Covid brought to an end the snow day?

No, but climate change has pushed them back to March.  Is it snowing there?

[inkman]

14 hours ago, nfreeman said:

@inkman-- now that is an interesting ethical question.

You are not being asked to leave a positive review, right?  Just to delete the negative review and stay silent?

Assuming it's to delete your negative review and stay silent, and assuming that you can ensure that you get the $50 (which, as @Eleven points out, is pretty uncertain, as a seller that would make that offer is the kind of person who wouldn't honor the deal) -- you are still being asked to help a sleazy seller sell crappy merchandise to an unsuspecting public.  It's only a few clicks, so it's kinda quick and painless, but that is nevertheless what is going on here.

Inevitably, part of the way most people would think about this is the matter of how badly you need the cash.  Could you maybe decline the offer, skip booze for a week or something else that costs $50 and end up financially even and feeling glad to have done the right thing?

 

14 hours ago, Eleven said:

You implying that my man Ink drinks the cheap stuff?

Inkman drinks the stuff from work as it’s a part of my job to taste the products.  Beer on the other hand... 🥴

I don’t need the money that bad. I’m leaving it up despite the fact that 5% of purchasers have my exact complaint.  Dude needs to feel the pain of having a ***** product. It’s weird. I’m pretty sure he isn’t making these carbon graphite (or whatever they are) cases in his basement.  He probably is getting them from overseas.  Just fix the issue doosh nozzle.  

[inkman]

15 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

How much for calf pics?

All it would take from you is that sultry glance over your shoulder while taking a break from your ‘Meddling Bozo Owner and his Gold Digging Wife’ Manifesto and you can rub these bad boys all night.  

[ubkev]

On 12/15/2020 at 5:28 PM, inkman said:

I got a new phone a few months ago.  I purchased a case on Amazon and none of the buttons on the phone would work once I put the case on.  So I returned it and got another case that I love. 
 

Today I got an email from the original case purchase company stating they’ll give me $50 to remove my review.  I’m desperate for cash so the offer is enticing but I feel like my review is necessary.  Discuss.  

I've thought about this for about 3 minutes and I keep coming back to my original thought.

***** 'em!

[spndnchz]

On 12/16/2020 at 11:27 AM, inkman said:

All it would take from you is that sultry glance over your shoulder while taking a break from your ‘Meddling Bozo Owner and his Gold Digging Wife’ Manifesto and you can rub these bad boys all night.  

I think I just peed myself 😬

[Sabres Fan in NS]

I've been getting phone calls from all over the world lately.  This morning it was from Greece.  Unfortunately, like all the others, my Greek Godess did not leave a message.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

There was a thread about books we are reading, but I can't find it ...

My wife recently read ... City of Light by Lauren Belfer.

It is all about Bufffalo at the turn of the century and is set in 1901.

She loved it and I am just starting it.

[inkman]

When did folks drop the “up” from washed up.  I read it all the time now.  

[BagBoy]

13 hours ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

There was a thread about books we are reading, but I can't find it ...

My wife recently read ... City of Light by Lauren Belfer.

It is all about Bufffalo at the turn of the century and is set in 1901.

She loved it and I am just starting it.

I bought that book 20 years ago and finally read it last year.  It is quite good.  

[inkman]

On 12/13/2020 at 3:37 PM, Eleven said:

Lobsters live at the bottom of the sea

While I'm at the bottom of the air.

 

On 12/13/2020 at 6:10 PM, Weave said:

And both are bottom feeders.  😁

Deep

[Stoner]

I have this old wall covering in my kitchen. Yeah, it's from the 60s probably. Amelia made me put up after I retired to keep me busy for awhile.

Anywhos, I moved my computer to my kitchen table temporarily back in August, because I was convinced the outlet in my office was possessed. The puter is still here.

So I spend many enjoyables minutes (hours) looking at the bizarre patterns in the paneling.

Let's see who's as Cray Cray as PAy PAy.

Do you see what I see?

 

[Weave]

Yup.

 

what is it?

[SwampD]

1 hour ago, PASabreFan said:

I have this old wall covering in my kitchen. Yeah, it's from the 60s probably. Amelia made me put up after I retired to keep me busy for awhile.

Anywhos, I moved my computer to my kitchen table temporarily back in August, because I was convinced the outlet in my office was possessed. The puter is still here.

So I spend many enjoyables minutes (hours) looking at the bizarre patterns in the paneling.

Let's see who's as Cray Cray as PAy PAy.

Do you see what I see?

 

I see a lady in her summer frock and shawl, looking down, tending to her stitch work while sitting on a settee.

Edited December 23, 2020 by SwampD

[Stoner]

3 hours ago, Weave said:

Yup.

 

what is it?

Hitler taking a nap.

[Weave]

3 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

Hitler taking a nap.

I guess not then.  I see a space shuttle, some obscene graffiti and a dude got his tooth punched out, cartoon style.

I probably shouldn’t admit these things publicly.

[Taro T]

17 hours ago, Weave said:

I guess not then.  I see a space shuttle, some obscene graffiti and a dude got his tooth punched out, cartoon style.

I probably shouldn’t admit these things publicly.

Saw a few random things along those lines, then looked "big picture" and see the old Indian from the 70's anti-littering commercial looking away back towards a pile of something.  Doesn't have the tear in his eye though, so it's probably not him.

[Eleven]

It's an explorer with a fur hat writing in his journal, duh.

[SABRES 0311]

Got evacuated from my house at 1:00 AM due to a wild fire that’s still burning.  Living in a hotel waiting to see what happens.  Didn’t expect that on Christmas Eve.