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I am the rear end in a top hat who exclusively uses Apple earpods because those are the only things that fit in my ears and because the mic is good enough for conference calls. But I only buy the Apple earpods that get sold cheap because they didn't pass QA, so I'm also the rear end in a top hat on the conference calls with an annoying pops and hiss. Blue Footed Booby posted:This is so specific it has to have really happened. Yeah, and how many Frosty's were you able to buy for those headphones?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:This is so specific it has to have really happened. Krispy Kareem posted:Yeah, and how many Frosty's were you able to buy for those headphones? It did happen, and I blame myself more than I do the person who actually broke 'em. I'd had numerous crash-course lessons in "don't bring your good gear to work" before that, and still thought for sure that nobody would touch my "good" headphones. I bought no Frostys with the gift card, and instead offered it to my neighbor's son (with his parents' permission) in exchange for taking care of my fish while I was on vacation. That little fucker must've been the Frosty King while I was away, and the pain of seeing those broken headphones lessens every time I think of him erupting from the back seat of the family sedan at the drive-thru, poking his parents with the card, offering to buy his sister and him delicious treats 
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Aug 8, 2016 19:23
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republicant posted:It only narrows things down to about 50 different houses within a half mile from my house and doesn't reveal my name, so I'm not too worried about it. I count eight houses, and that’s just the limitation the first free online tool I found.
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Sorry to continue the headphone derail, but does anyone know of any good earbuds that are this shape? I had these Bose ones, and I loved them, but one ear crapped out on me. They were pretty drat expensive to barely last over a year, so I don't want to buy another pair of the same. I can't stand most earbuds but I found this type super comfortable. I already have some good over-ear headphones but I like to have earbuds for when I'm walking.
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bunnyofdoom posted:But I thought people were all about that bass bout that bass bout that bass no treble? I have it on good authority that everyone's addicted to bass.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Gumy is absurdly good for something you can dig out of a bin at a discount store. The KOSS UR20 are also exceptional for their price. IDK, I've always known how to do electrical work so I used to just buy old school headphones from the 70's and rewire them when I was a broke teen. The real trick is to just get your headphones at TJ Maxx. I absolutely wreck earbuds on a constant basis so when I need replacement ones I just go to TJ Maxx and in between all the skullcandy and sharper image garbage they usually have a pair or two of decent mid range earbuds that have been marked down to like 11 dollars.
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Aug 9, 2016 06:41
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I got my first mysterious bobcat in a box item!
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Aug 9, 2016 20:58
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Looks like Bobcat service consistently sends out less than $.50 worth of random garbage, plus shipping. If the process is automated, someone is making a killing out there
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Aug 10, 2016 11:25
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Iron Crowned posted:I got my first mysterious bobcat in a box item! That looks an awful lot like something printed by a laser printer with SUPER TONER SAVER set to "so fuckin' on it hurts." Please continue posting your sweet loot hauls, Bobcat poo poo In A Box fans 
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Aug 10, 2016 18:52
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Nitrox posted:Looks like Bobcat service consistently sends out less than $.50 worth of random garbage, plus shipping. If the process is automated, someone is making a killing out there It seems much less fun than it sounds!
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Aug 10, 2016 19:08
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Iron Crowned posted:I got my first mysterious bobcat in a box item! haha.  It is a joke though, right? 
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Aug 10, 2016 19:16
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OctoberBlues posted:haha. I dunno, I think it's kinda neat  Then again I like technical things
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Aug 10, 2016 19:22
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Iron Crowned posted:I dunno, I think it's kinda neat Do you own a printer?
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Aug 10, 2016 21:28
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 Not even a minute on Google.
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Where the gently caress is my lovely picture of a train? I want to throw it in the trash next to that flower-poem postcard.  Maybe I pissed off the filters by putting in too many "don't send me this" phrases and not enough "I want this" phrases.
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Iron Crowned posted:I got my first mysterious bobcat in a box item! Waffleman_ posted:
I gotta give Bobcat in a Box credit, they found a way to be even cheaper and lazier than just sending boxes full of plastic vampire teeth and used DVDs sitting around their apartment.
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Aug 11, 2016 00:39
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New idea; for one dollar a month less than bobcat in a box, I'll google a series of boring images and email them to you and you can print them out yourself.
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Aug 11, 2016 00:49
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call it jaypeg inbox "curated 'artifacts'"
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Iron Crowned posted:I got my first mysterious bobcat in a box item! .... holy poo poo I got this a few days ago. Like, exact same postcard as my first package How many people added postcard to the buy list after watching the video on the site?
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Aug 11, 2016 01:36
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Countdown until the market corrects itself and people start posting random literal trash just under the BCiaB threshold with a bunch of optimizing keywords. RARE GENUINE EMPTY 20OZ DR PEPPER BOTTLE L@@K - $1.99 with free shipping
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You can't cancel the automatic monthly billing without emailing the guy who runs the site, and it has tried to bill my card four times over the last four days. If I hadn't signed up with a prepaid card that just declines each transaction then I would be really irate. I didn't want to email to cancel because then it becomes even more unlikely that I'll get anything besides the postcard (I at least want my money's worth of random junk, dammit).
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Aug 11, 2016 01:45
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Monthly mystery boxes are a honeypot for goons. Whoever runs this is laughing their way to the bank. When will you learn?
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I'd make a monthly mystery box that sends you an actual murder mystery to solve every month.
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Waffleman_ posted:I'd make a monthly mystery box that sends you an actual murder mystery to solve every month. 
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Wasn't the goonmart scambox thread posted right before the Bobcat stuff?
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The Door Frame posted:Wasn't the goonmart scambox thread posted right before the Bobcat stuff? From the makers of JustWorld Box comes GamblerFallacy Box: So many mystery boxes are complete ripoffs that surely the next one will have to be something good, right?
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Iron Crowned posted:I got my first mysterious bobcat in a box item! Iron Crowned posted:I dunno, I think it's kinda neat Cancel this stupid thing you dumb gently caress box.
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Decrepus posted:Cancel this stupid thing you dumb gently caress box.
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darkhand posted:call it jaypeg inbox Do I look like I know what a jay-peg is? SiKboy posted:New idea; for one dollar a month less than bobcat in a box, I'll google a series of boring images and email them to you and you can print them out yourself. I just want a picture of a god-dang hot dog!
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A few pages ago goons attacked me because I said this was a tax on their idiocy. They were promised poo poo, they will receive poo poo. Now said goons are mad they received poo poo. It's beautiful.
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Everyone defending the bobcat box was hilarious. People compared it to the lottery, but someone actually wins and at least you get to think about what you might do with money. This just offers you the fantasy of looking around at a flea market or browsing ebay.
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Non Serviam posted:A few pages ago goons attacked me because I said this was a tax on their idiocy. They were promised poo poo, they will receive poo poo. No, they were rightfully making fun of you because you were calling the lottery an "idiot tax" which is some clasist dunning-kruger bullshit. The fact that you were so sore about it that you crawled back three weeks later just to launch a parting shot is hilarious, thanks for living up to everything your custom title promised about you as a person 
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Waffleman_ posted:I'd make a monthly mystery box that sends you an actual murder mystery to solve every month. Well, it's not actual but I saw an ad on facebook recently for a mystery box that actually sends you the clues to figure out a new murder mystery each month. At least...I assume it's not actual
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Guy Mann posted:No, they were rightfully making fun of you because you were calling the lottery an "idiot tax" which is some clasist dunning-kruger bullshit. The fact that you were so sore about it that you crawled back three weeks later just to launch a parting shot is hilarious, thanks for living up to everything your custom title promised about you as a person Choco1980 posted:Well, it's not actual but I saw an ad on facebook recently for a mystery box that actually sends you the clues to figure out a new murder mystery each month. At least...I assume it's not actual "..." "wait please don't answer that question actually"
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Guy Mann posted:No, they were rightfully making fun of you because you were calling the lottery an "idiot tax" which is some clasist dunning-kruger bullshit. The fact that you were so sore about it that you crawled back three weeks later just to launch a parting shot is hilarious, thanks for living up to everything your custom title promised about you as a person Realtalk holier-than-thou nerds who badmouth the lottery are the worst.
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Guy Mann posted:clasist dunning-kruger bullshit. I mean I can sort of see the classist thing, but where the gently caress are you getting Dunning-Kruger?
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cheerfullydrab posted:Realtalk holier-than-thou nerds who badmouth the lottery are the worst. But the lottery is bad 
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Guy Mann posted:No, they were rightfully making fun of you because you were calling the lottery an "idiot tax" which is some clasist dunning-kruger bullshit. The fact that you were so sore about it that you crawled back three weeks later just to launch a parting shot is hilarious, thanks for living up to everything your custom title promised about you as a person I don't understand what your rant is trying to say, other than that you don't like him very much. The math is very clear in this regard, no game of chance is ever in the player's favor. Statistically speaking, it is never smart to spend money on anything that is literally an RNG. I wouldn't say idiot tax, because I understand how these games are designed to make people give up their money for nothing besides the excitement of possibly winning, maybe, someday. I also resent the people who run the lottery, despite its predatory nature and dubious benefits. However, the reductive term "idiot tax" is somewhat applicable to playing RNG games, since it is a poor decision to ever play in the first place. Claiming intelligence as the deciding factor in all purchases is certainly disingenuous when looking at what are clearly the victims of a Skinner Box. Calling it a tax is also disingenuous, since it is an exploitative system built to milk people for every penny that they can spare. Using reductive terms to describe complex socioeconomic problems that become compounded by addictive behavior just makes someone sound like an rear end, it's not proof positive that they are so stupid that they couldn't grasp the concept of being wrong
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I still don't quite understand how this thread evolved from making fun of bad marketing to suckers paying for badly printed jpegs of trains.
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hackbunny posted:But the lottery is bad It's a cheap thrill for people who don't have the money to pay for more expensive pursuits. If you're rich you can buy a horse, and teach it to dance, and enter it into horse dancing competitions. If you're poor, you can spend a dollar or two and talk to your work friends about what you'd do if you won big while on your smoke break. People are smart enough to know they won't win, but it's an inexpensive fantasy, and a hope, no matter how dim, of a supposedly better life. It's not an "idiot tax" and statements like that are classist as gently caress.
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