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Zaphod42 posted:Zeus.... you ARE the father!!! It was also a really easy way for someone in a position of power to justify it by saying they were somehow descended from the the gods. Hell sometimes entire city-states/countries would do this to make themselves look cooler - like Sparta claiming their first king was a son of Zeus or Rome saying they were all descendents of Mars (or sometimes Hercules).
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Tunicate posted:
I know it's a joke, but it seems to be enough to get the DEA knocking on his door. 
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Mar 8, 2015 20:28
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I remember hearing the same sort of story about Craigslist and absurdly high priced pencil sharpeners with various details in code referring to child trafficking. I couldn't find it on snopes or any articles within a few pages of a google search, so hopefully that just means it was just some chan joke
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Sentient Data posted:I remember hearing the same sort of story about Craigslist and absurdly high priced pencil sharpeners with various details in code referring to child trafficking. I couldn't find it on snopes or any articles within a few pages of a google search, so hopefully that just means it was just some chan joke I hope so Reminds me of this, which I want to be STH so bad: 
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Kimmalah posted:It was also a really easy way for someone in a position of power to justify it by saying they were somehow descended from the the gods. Hell sometimes entire city-states/countries would do this to make themselves look cooler - like Sparta claiming their first king was a son of Zeus or Rome saying they were all descendents of Mars (or sometimes Hercules). It works the other way round too, like claiming that other peoples were descended from outcasts/murderers/cursed family members/adulterers/etc and therefore it's Good and Right to slaughter every single one of them.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:04
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People who post really high-priced items for sale might also be scam-baiting; the high price ensures they deal mostly with 419 scammers and others who don't really care about the product so much as making contact.
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walrusman posted:People who post really high-priced items for sale might also be scam-baiting; the high price ensures they deal mostly with 419 scammers and others who don't really care about the product so much as making contact. Sounds more like he's selling the sig but since Craigslist has a no guns policy they're trying to be slick by phrasing it like they'er selling the movie and the gun is just there.
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Mar 9, 2015 01:25
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Right, but that's clearly not what was happening with the iPhone. I tried to look up some numbers because $3400 seemed really cheap for 4oz of cocaine, but it turns out that's actually about right depending on quality and location. 
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Tunicate posted:
Something kind of like this happened to a friend of mine. I don't remember the specifics, but he sold an iPhone on eBay and the bidding was going pretty normally until the end when someone bid something ridiculous like $2000. He then got a message from the person who bid the $2000 that said that he hadn't meant to bid that high, but would he still like to sell it to him for a much lower price? My friend told him to gently caress off.
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Pipistrelle posted:Something kind of like this happened to a friend of mine. I don't remember the specifics, but he sold an iPhone on eBay and the bidding was going pretty normally until the end when someone bid something ridiculous like $2000. He then got a message from the person who bid the $2000 that said that he hadn't meant to bid that high, but would he still like to sell it to him for a much lower price? My friend told him to gently caress off. Does eBay in any way penalize people who pull that poo poo or is the only real option leaving negative feedback?
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Pipistrelle posted:Something kind of like this happened to a friend of mine. I don't remember the specifics, but he sold an iPhone on eBay and the bidding was going pretty normally until the end when someone bid something ridiculous like $2000. He then got a message from the person who bid the $2000 that said that he hadn't meant to bid that high, but would he still like to sell it to him for a much lower price? My friend told him to gently caress off. Wouldn't more than person have to have bid that high for this to happen?
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ibntumart posted:Does eBay in any way penalize people who pull that poo poo or is the only real option leaving negative feedback? I posted an auction once where the winning bidder straight up didn't pay. First sent a message where I gave the benefit of the doubt, saying stuff like "i understand if you changed your mind, or if you had some emergency finance situation, just let me know." I got zero response so I went through the official claim channels just to make the issue known to ebay. The buyer ignored that too. There's a deadline by which they're asked to respond/agree to pay/whatever, and afterwards the only outcome was that I was relieved of any responsibility. Fine, cool, but I still have an unsold item and the lack of closure from a buyer who couldn't even muster the energy to communicate. The lovely part after all of this? Their personal feedback history was set to private, so no one has any way of knowing if they've ever flaked on paying. I'm... still bitter.
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mamelon posted:I posted an auction once where the winning bidder straight up didn't pay. First sent a message where I gave the benefit of the doubt, saying stuff like "i understand if you changed your mind, or if you had some emergency finance situation, just let me know." I assume people are automatically suspicious of anyone who hides feedback history
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Lesson learned, then. You can tell my story is sth because I can't provide any cool sound bytes and there's no satisfying ending.
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ibntumart posted:Does eBay in any way penalize people who pull that poo poo or is the only real option leaving negative feedback? I'm not sure, I know that he ended up setting more limits on who could bid on his stuff, like the bidder had to be located in the US and a couple other things. I don't use eBay myself so I don't really know how it works. Armacham posted:Wouldn't more than person have to have bid that high for this to happen? They may have, like I said I don't know the specifics, just that he was pretty pissed because he wasted so much time on that bid.
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I don't even get it. Like this guy has to be making a joke but what the gently caress is the point?
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Testekill posted:I don't even get it. Like this guy has to be making a joke but what the gently caress is the point? He's riffing on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5QJ9i_o5vo I just had a total  response to 'dead in the eye' and magical high-fives.
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Testekill posted:I don't even get it. Like this guy has to be making a joke but what the gently caress is the point? I don't get it at all. The hero is working the bar, queue is four people, and then some guys come in yelling about drinks annoying everyone. Then one of the earlier people in the line called the bartender "chief" and asked for a couple drinks, which I assume was because he was next in line, and the barman called him "chief" and said "not now"? Then they high-fived each other?  monny posted:He's riffing on this video: Oh...
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STDH: This warning following through on its promise
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Found some STDH over at Kotaku UKquote:I worked briefly in Argos. We were briefed heavily about what we could and could not sell, how much of a fine the company and ourselves would get if we sold kids an 18 rated game and what to do if you suspected an adult was buying one for a child. It only really came up once during my brief tenure. A woman with her son, whom I would estimate to be about 7 or 8 came to the desk. Handed me her little slip with the catalogue number on it. Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories for the psp. The boy was holding his psp. I told her the name of the game. She said 'yes thats the one'. I said "Madam, are you aware this is an 18 rated game?". She said "Yes, but he's been good." Then everyone clapped and he got married to the woman, that argos employee? Albert Einstein. seriously though; Strawman character who sees the light through the story teller's calm, superior reasoning, check. Extensive use of the term "Madam" (especially in the UK, what the gently caress.), Check. Almost believable if it wasn't for the fact PSP games are never 'hanging' in ANY store ever. 
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Found some STDH over at Kotaku UK *pinches bridge of nose like a literal anime character* I am sorry ma'am, I am afraid I cannot sell you this title For I do not exist
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Why do these lovely salespeople think it's their job to explain things beyond "Company policy" and "law".
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Courtesy of another goonHonorableTB posted:Nah, I'm firmly middle class, I just hate people messing with my poo poo. Vandals have tagged my car, my house, and my dog (once) so I set up security cameras and rigged up a non-firing sentry turret to discourage other people. My turret fires blanks, but since it's attached to a motion sensor array that causes it to auto-swivel to a target, it's enough to scare off vandals. 
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Zaphod42 posted:Courtesy of another goon drat you, I was about to post this.
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WaltherFeng posted:Why do these lovely salespeople think it's their job to explain things beyond "Company policy" and "law". Because a lot of times when you tell people that, they demand to know what the law is, or what the policy is, exactly.
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Facepalm Ranger posted:Found some STDH over at Kotaku UK Is there anytime anyone in  the media mentions GTA they don't slip in something about the ability to gently caress a hooker then BEAT HER UP AND STEAL THE MONEY BACK?!?  It's even permeating in to stdh. I wonder how many genuine Hanzo katanas that guy owns.
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Dog tagging, the new craze sweeping the nation.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Dog tagging, the new craze sweeping the nation. He needs a scarier dog. Not only that, but I live in a neighborhood that's heavily tagged and people rarely tag anything but businesses or large apartment complexes. My place is right on an alleyway and the opposite wall is always tagged over, but our wall has only been tagged twice ever (and only in the part that is a stone wall, not our wooden fence). Also, both times the owner of the bar across the way painted over the tags for us when they did their wall, so it was barely an issue. I've never seen a car get tagged (except for one artist who paints his own car) and I've definitely never seen a dog get tagged. The palm tree out front of our house did get tagged, which made me sad, but that was a one-off thing. If this guy is really middle class, he needs to move to a better area. If any of that were true.
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I've never not lived in urban areas rife with tagging and I have never even heard of a dog getting tagged, although the mental image is hilarious. BRB gonna tag some middle-class dogs
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CrotchDropJeans posted:I've never not lived in urban areas rife with tagging and I have never even heard of a dog getting tagged, although the mental image is hilarious. Watch out for auto turrets filled with three blanks. Hopefully you're the fourth person to try and tag his dog today.
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Pulsedragon posted:Because a lot of times when you tell people that, they demand to know what the law is, or what the policy is, exactly. No joke, bank teller told me that it was the law that they had to add a monthly fee to checking accounts below 1000 bucks. WaMu being bought-out by Chase sucked. That's why I swapped banks
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Is it really a thing that a parent can't buy adult media for a child while accompanying that child? 'Cause I went to a poo poo-ton of horror movies with my sisters as a kid.
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Das Boo posted:Is it really a thing that a parent can't buy adult media for a child while accompanying that child? 'Cause I went to a poo poo-ton of horror movies with my sisters as a kid. This was certainly the case ten years ago or so. It's like buying alcohol for teenagers, essentially. Don't know if anything has changed since then.
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Paladinus posted:This was certainly the case ten years ago or so. It's like buying alcohol for teenagers, essentially. Don't know if anything has changed since then. I certainly understand something like cigarettes or alcohol, but the media thing seems strange to me. It never came up for me in the 90's.
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Das Boo posted:I certainly understand something like cigarettes or alcohol, but the media thing seems strange to me. It never came up for me in the 90's. I think it happened around early/mid-2000's at least in the area where I lived. I remember being 15, in 2004, I went to a game store after school with some classmates because one of the guys wanted to buy a game with 16 year age limit. We were all shocked when the employee refused to sell it to us. But in the end we go one of the kids who already turned 16 to buy the game. fish and chips and dip has a new favorite as of 11:39 on Mar 10, 2015 |
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