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Justin Tyme posted:Anything that results in ugly as gently caress strip malls occupied by Subway and nail salons to go away is fine by me So you're opposed to self defense and minorities, good to know.
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FilthyImp posted:
Gotta admit, I wanna shop at Kenny's.
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Justin Tyme posted:Anything that results in ugly as gently caress strip malls occupied by Subway and nail salons to go away is fine by me Our unemployment office is between a Rent-a-center and a placed called "Shaunta's Hair and Nail salon" across from that in the same parking lot is a car title loan place and a Little Caesars that advertises it can accept EBT On the other side of the road is the White trash containment zone that features a lovely sportsbar, 2 pawn shops that are overflowing with lovely power tools, baby furniture and guns, an actual gun shop and a used car lot that sells overpriced used trucks with awful financing
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Sep 5, 2016 13:53
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If you guys like big catalogs, just look in the direction of a B & H Photo store and you'll be blessed with their 5lb monstrosity every couple of months. I do like getting the American Science & Surplus catalog. They hand draw all the product images, and not very well. So you have to use a little faith when you're ordering. TheGoatTrick posted:The people who owned Best got bored with the whole running a store thing and got an artist to start designing the buildings. In Richmond, it resulted in this. We used to shop at a Best store in Virginia. I was like, 8 so I don't remember much except it.was.awesome. I think it was one of the first big box stores I had ever been in.
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Sep 5, 2016 14:02
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TheGoatTrick posted:The people who owned Best got bored with the whole running a store thing and got an artist to start designing the buildings. In Richmond, it resulted in this. those are loving fly, they seem decades ahead of their time
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Sep 5, 2016 14:14
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This thread reads like a bunch of older millennial and Gen-X white computer touchers pining for the time their dads used to take them to the store rather than calling them to talk about how the world is ending because a black man is president.
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Sep 5, 2016 14:47
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Wtf is an old millenial
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Sep 5, 2016 14:55
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Old millennial : people that aren't me
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Sep 5, 2016 14:55
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unpacked robinhood posted:Wtf is an old millenial Millenials that aren't appropriately woke
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Sep 5, 2016 15:05
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Justin Tyme posted:Anything that results in ugly as gently caress strip malls occupied by Subway and nail salons to go away is fine by me We now have tons of abandoned "Internet Seeepstakes Cafes" in Ohio. Shady places.
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Sep 5, 2016 15:22
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My lovely working class suburb has like 50 vape shops and head shops. They occupy at least one storefront in every strip mall.
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Sep 5, 2016 15:27
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Krispy Kareem posted:We used to shop at a Best store in Virginia. I was like, 8 so I don't remember much except it.was.awesome. I think it was one of the first big box stores I had ever been in.  When I was 8, Kmart was the closest thing to a big box store where we regularly shopped (although it really was just a store sans the "big box"), and Montgomery Ward was the department store to get bigger things, but we would occasionally visit BEST for some stuff that neither store had. It was so cool seeing your stuff come out on a conveyor belt like an everlasting gobstopper and browsing the showroom like it was the set of The Price is Right. I think the last thing I ever bought at BEST was Sonic the Hedgehog 2 when I was 13, because Walmart had come to town by 1992, and Kmart was building a newer larger store just down the street from me. My family and I never had any desire to shop at BEST ever again because it was guaranteed that one of the two stores had what we were looking for, and BEST went bankrupt for the first time (out of two bankruptcies) shortly thereafter.
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Sep 5, 2016 15:40
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When I was 8 I loved it when dad would bring me to the RadioShack across the street, because I could try out all the instruments on the big-rear end demo keyboard and gaze longingly at all the cool electronics project kits.
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Neurion posted:When I was 8 I loved it when dad would bring me to the RadioShack across the street, because I could try out all the instruments on the big-rear end demo keyboard and gaze longingly at all the cool electronics project kits. what is it like knowing that part of your childhood is dead?
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Sep 5, 2016 16:04
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Those electronic project kits were the poo poo when I was a kid. Building a simple AM radio with a few strands of wire sounds dumb as all hell as an adult, but when you're a kid, it's like you're an omnipotent god. FEAR ME, FOOLISH MORTALS, FOR I HAVE CREATED SOMETHING FROM NOTHING THAT PICKS UP TALK RADIO AND 1950'S EASY LISTENING.
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Sep 5, 2016 16:04
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My friend's granddad took us to a K-mart and we played some shooter game on the display TS-80 for hours while he got so drunk in the bar next door that he couldn't find his truck. Cops showed up and I got to ride in a cop car for a hour while they tried to figure out where I lived. The point of this story is that playing on display electronics was the best.
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Sep 5, 2016 16:10
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fits my needs posted:This thread reads like a bunch of older millennial and Gen-X white computer touchers pining for the time their dads used to take them to the store rather than calling them to talk about how the world is ending because a black man is president. Welp that hits a little too close to home
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Sep 5, 2016 16:27
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A lot of you are confusing strip malls and outdoor malls. Strip malls are those lovely blocks that are all connected. There might be a deli in there, probably a nail salon, most likely an odd store or two. Outdoor malls are more like a faux village with no cars so you can walk around from store to store and cross "streets" without worrying about a car coming through. They typically have much nicer stores than strip malls and they usually have very good restaurants. We have them here in the more ritzy parts of Connecticut.
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Sep 5, 2016 16:42
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Business Gorillas posted:i'm going to do a special shout out to TIME magazine because they're in some sort of cool paradox where they know they're dying with the baby boomers so they're making a bunch of "gently caress these dumbass millenial" things, which makes sure that they don't have a new consumer base in the future 
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Sep 5, 2016 16:45
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fits my needs posted:This thread reads like a bunch of older millennial and Gen-X white computer touchers pining for the time their dads used to take them to the store rather than calling them to talk about how the world is ending because a black man is president. Hey, I'm gen X and I try to buy everything from online retailers. There are so many I don't get the whole touchy feely thing. If I can save money by just clicking a button and not have to waste a couple hours of my time and waste gas so that I can touch a new smartphone that probably feels a lot like a smartphone or whatever I'm buying. I think its because people in general are retarded and can't visualize anything. People who have to touch stuff are just as bad as people who only go into staged houses when buying because they can't possibly imagine how to arrange furniture when looking at an empty house. Speaking of strip-malls, my favorite is on I69 just north of Fishers, IN. On one side of the interstate, there are quite a few businesses that do well so someone had the awesome idea to build a strip mall on the other side and in the last 15-20 years, the only one space has ever been occupied and is an Amish-built furniture store.
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Sep 5, 2016 16:45
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TheGoatTrick posted:The people who owned Best got bored with the whole running a store thing and got an artist to start designing the buildings. In Richmond, it resulted in this. Well I can definitely see why they didn't go with that parking lot idea. Would only take one dipshit trying to park on one of the 45 degree angle spots to ruin it for everybody.
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Sep 5, 2016 16:51
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:I think its because people in general are retarded and can't visualize anything. 
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Sep 5, 2016 16:52
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Krispy Kareem posted:I do like getting the American Science & Surplus catalog. They hand draw all the product images, and not very well. So you have to use a little faith when you're ordering. They started putting actual pictures online now. It is truly the end of an era
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Sep 5, 2016 16:57
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:Hey, I'm gen X and I try to buy everything from online retailers. There are so many I don't get the whole touchy feely thing. If I can save money by just clicking a button and not have to waste a couple hours of my time and waste gas so that I can touch a new smartphone that probably feels a lot like a smartphone or whatever I'm buying. you sound like someone who does not have a significant other, has children or likes to buy nice fitting clothes. do you buy your clothes online in bulk?
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Sep 5, 2016 17:01
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fits my needs posted:This thread reads like a bunch of older millennial and Gen-X white computer touchers pining for the time their dads used to take them to the store rather than calling them to talk about how the world is ending because a black man is president. Pretty much, except my dad is(thank Christ) still left-wing as gently caress so he calls me to talk about whatever code came up on one of his old cars and I get to explain for the 3,745 time how OBDII works and what he needs to check/fix.
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Sep 5, 2016 17:07
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Cool_tony posted:They started putting actual pictures online now. It is truly the end of an era But there's still a button to switch to the hand drawn, artisanal autismal version.
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Sep 5, 2016 17:37
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JnnyThndrs posted:whatever code came up on one of his old cars and I get to explain for the 3,745 time how OBDII works and what he needs to check/fix. I dont think cars with the OBD thing qualify for "old"
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Sep 5, 2016 17:39
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PCOS Bill posted:You're like 40 minutes south of McCandless Crossing, and the T doesn't go to it. Why do you even give half a fart about something that's not even anywhere near the city? We're talking about mixed use developments and that's a mixed use development. Try to keep up.
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Sep 5, 2016 17:41
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Mixed use sounds like something intentionally not exciting
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Sep 5, 2016 17:43
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unpacked robinhood posted:I dont think cars with the OBD thing qualify for "old" Obdii has been mandatory for 20 years. In 5 years you'll be able to register an obd II car as a classic in Texas.
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Return Of JimmyJars posted:Obdii has been mandatory for 20 years. In 5 years you'll be able to register an obd II car as a classic in Texas. Even if its technically right it's kinda misleading though.
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unpacked robinhood posted:I dont think cars with the OBD thing qualify for "old" You're right, but he's always working on stuff with upwards of 200k miles, so it's "old" one way or another. Maybe "beat to poo poo" is a better descriptor 
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Sep 5, 2016 17:55
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Circuit City, CompUSA, and Video Update.
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unpacked robinhood posted:Mixed use sounds like something intentionally not exciting Mixed use is really good when done in a sane way. It's atrocious when handled by idiots who don't understand that they're not supposed to be cramming a square suburb peg into a round urban hole
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Sep 5, 2016 18:04
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Best mixed use is when there's a shop with apartments over it on a regular city street. One of the local delis in my neighborhood was ran by a guy who lived in an apartment on top and he loved it because his commute was walking down a flight of stairs. Then he fell down the flight of stairs and died and it got bulldozed and it was a Wendy's but the Wendy's went out of business and crackheads moved in and burnt it down and now it's just a vacant lot. I guess my point is walk down stairs carefully or your house/shop will get bulldozed and then replaced by a Wendy's and burnt down.
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fits my needs posted:you sound like someone who does not have a significant other, has children or likes to buy nice fitting clothes. do you buy your clothes online in bulk? No, actually I'm happily married, have twins and don't buy most of my clothes online. I do buy shoes online because most retailers offer free returns. For example, Air Max 2015s last year were $45 less than finish line plus were at my door in 2 days and I could have exchanged them for free without stepping in a store. Our diaper subscription to Amazon saved us a ton of money because Amazon saved us about $15/box cheaper. I buy pretty much all electronics and home goods off the net as they are much cheaper. Also never go to dealerships and save a ton of money for parts/accessories for my 3 bikes and our two cars. I don't need to feel the carbon fiber or smell the stainless fasteners before ordering just like I don't need to hold a new cell phone that is just a faster, better version of the one I'm holding when it's time to upgrade.
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Dirk Squarejaw posted:No, actually I'm happily married, have twins and don't buy most of my clothes online. I do buy shoes online because most retailers offer free returns. For example, Air Max 2015s last year were $45 less than finish line plus were at my door in 2 days and I could have exchanged them for free without stepping in a store. Our diaper subscription to Amazon saved us a ton of money because Amazon saved us about $15/box cheaper. I buy pretty much all electronics and home goods off the net as they are much cheaper. Also never go to dealerships and save a ton of money for parts/accessories for my 3 bikes and our two cars. I don't need to feel the carbon fiber or smell the stainless fasteners before ordering just like I don't need to hold a new cell phone that is just a faster, better version of the one I'm holding when it's time to upgrade. are you that afraid of human interaction that you would expand the length of buying shoes to multiple days if the first shoe doesn't fit? jesus christ, that's just sad! : 
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fits my needs posted:are you that afraid of human interaction that you would expand the length of buying shoes to multiple days if the first shoe doesn't fit? jesus christ, that's just sad! : Please put more effort in
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cool and good posted:Please put more effort in nah, it's fuckin labor day.
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mrwuss posted:what is it like knowing that part of your childhood is dead? That part of my childhood died while working at RadioShack. Best part was we eventually got a manager who just did not give a poo poo and would let me take 1-hour long paid breaks, because the company was clearly going down the toilet. I'd drive across town to have a meal in a sit down restaurant, and by the time I got back we'd have made like $5 worth of sales.
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