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Trig Discipline posted:My wife, on my recommendation, ordered a Lyft instead of a taxi to the airport last year. Her driver kindly blew her a very sensual kiss as he dropped her off at the airport. When I wrote to Lyft about how hosed up that was, their reply was "we are so sorry, we won't assign that driver to your wife again". Boy I just can't tell you how reassuring that was. If absolutely horrid creeps suddenly become unhirable, the who will be left to hire?
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TKIY posted:12,000+ poison control centre calls last year: You know, maybe poison control was a mistake
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Panfilo posted:Come on, you know the rep she is complaining to is the same creep that hit on her in the first exchange. She was probably talking to a chatbot. Which would make it even more disturbing if it started demanding boobie photos.
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Iron Crowned posted:You know, maybe poison control was a mistake 
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What kind of bitchass pussy world do we live in where poison doesn’t even kill people anymore
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Kids also get the tide pods in their eyes. Someone I know quite well saw that first-hand in a Pediatric ER. It was ugly.
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oldpainless posted:What kind of bitchass pussy world do we live in where poison doesn’t even kill people anymore Kids these days can't even be bothered to ingest a lethal dose of poison. Talk about lazy!
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SpacePig posted:Kids these days can't even be bothered to ingest a lethal dose of poison. Talk about lazy! Why in my day we'd
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I don't know about the stealing Tide for dope money thing, but bootlegging tide is definitely a thing. I think it was an episode of Cops that tried to bust a guy for it. He was mixing up 5 gallon buckets of detergent, slapping a Tide label on them and selling them as genuine. Doing it all out of a storage unit. They actually set up an undercover buy to get the dude but he forgot to put the labels on and they had to let him go.
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Tide is always way more expensive, and I highly doubt that it's worth the extra money I guess the brand alone allows it to be worth it for people?
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Only the best for MY family, ho ho.
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stringball posted:Tide is always way more expensive, and I highly doubt that it's worth the extra money that's like how everything works though Tide is their markup brand, they own other brands for people who don't pay for the logo what I seen on a NASCAR
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They've also got a specific fragrance, so sufficiently status-attuned people will be able to tell whether you used Tide or not.
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The Lone Badger posted:They've also got a specific fragrance, so sufficiently status-attuned people will be able to tell whether you used Tide or not. But how will they know if I use Tide Free? 
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Peanut Butler posted:that's like how everything works though I mean, they even got Gain pods. They're not called pods, but the pods look exactly the same and they're in literally the same packaging.
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I just buy the biggest cheapest one at Aldi and I'm good
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My family always bought Tide because my sister has crazy allergies, and Tide seemed to be the one detergent that didn't make her break out like mad. (Same with Dove soap, which isn't really soap like Ivory but a "beauty bar") I also own t-shirts that are 25+ years old and still vibrant and hole-free, so I've just stuck with it. #Lifehack: have a sibling with skin issues, enjoy wearing your 1991 Clash of the Titans Tour shirt in 2018 fake edit: poo poo, this isn't the lifehacks thread. Well, my point stands.
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Lifehack: Treat every thread like the lifehack thread, so you don't have to waste time looking for it.
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I bought tide pods or some equivalent while travelling and being the cheap industrious rear end in a top hat I am, would throw all my clothes in the shower or tub, soak them with a pod, and wash them by hand or foot. One time I didn't let the pod soak long enough and when I stepped on it it exploded soap all over the bathroom, splattered the ceiling, got it in my eye. I had to bring a chair into the shower to wash off the ceiling. I also got held up at Christchurch airport because they were in my luggage and they looked like mandarin oranges on the scanner. Laundry pods are generally just bad news.
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CommonShore posted:Kids also get the tide pods in their eyes. Someone I know quite well saw that first-hand in a Pediatric ER. It was ugly. That's a nasty thing to say about someone's child.
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sassassin posted:Lifehack: Treat every thread like the lifehack thread, so you don't have to waste time looking for it. genuine LOL from this, ty
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Brands actually matter with laundry detergent and Tide is consistently good and like JacquelineDempsey said, its pretty neutral when it comes to allergies. And I'm sure now people will say that all laundry soap is the same and for most purposes it is, but if you've got sweaty teenage kids, clothes washed with cheaper brands can come out of the washer still reeking of body odor. That said, I use Gain because gently caress Tide's prices. My kids' clothes can smell a little sweaty.
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I worked at a laundromat/dry cleaners/laundry service place. We used (the sams club generic version of) Tide in powder form for all our washing. It just works best.
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Choco1980 posted:I worked at a laundromat/dry cleaners/laundry service place. We used (the sams club generic version of) Tide in powder form for all our washing. It just works best. 20 Mule Team Borax, Washing Soda, and Fels-Naptha. Works better than anything in the world. It's something like a nickle a load and cleans everything.
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mostlygray posted:20 Mule Team Borax, Washing Soda, and Fels-Naptha. Works better than anything in the world. It's something like a nickle a load and cleans everything. Do you get it directly from the mine or does a traveling salesman come by and offer it with his wares every second fortnight?
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:I don't know about the stealing Tide for dope money thing, but bootlegging tide is definitely a thing. I vaguely recall reading that this is because laundry detergent and also soda both have absolutely insane levels of brand loyalty.
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It's just a recognizable name with a fixed cost. It's basically the Stone of Jordan from Diablo 2.
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Mu Zeta posted:It's just a recognizable name with a fixed cost. It's basically the Stone of Jordan from Diablo 2. loving hell I hated that.
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My apartment's laundry machines are plastered with signs warning that I'm not allowed to use powdered detergent, only liquid HE detergent, and not more than some arbitrary amount or else. Laundry pods are less stressful, and easier to carry.
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RoboRodent posted:My apartment's laundry machines are plastered with signs warning that I'm not allowed to use powdered detergent, only liquid HE detergent, and not more than some arbitrary amount or else. *Drops cupped handfuls of laundry powder* "There's got to be a better way!"
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Life hack: Have your own washing machine in your apartment/house and keep your laundry powder or liquid next to it to avoid having to carry it in your cupped hands to the laundromat! Walla!
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RoboRodent posted:My apartment's laundry machines are plastered with signs warning that I'm not allowed to use powdered detergent, only liquid HE detergent, and not more than some arbitrary amount or else. Also it's fun to see how far away you can throw them from and score a bulls-eye on your laundry.
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Nuebot posted:Also it's fun to see how far away you can throw them from and score a bulls-eye on your laundry. I mean, if you're not doing this with them anyway, you're basically using them wrong.
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Picnic Princess posted:I bought tide pods or some equivalent while travelling and being the cheap industrious rear end in a top hat I am, would throw all my clothes in the shower or tub, soak them with a pod, and wash them by hand or foot. One time I didn't let the pod soak long enough and when I stepped on it it exploded soap all over the bathroom, splattered the ceiling, got it in my eye. I had to bring a chair into the shower to wash off the ceiling.
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RoboRodent posted:My apartment's laundry machines are plastered with signs warning that I'm not allowed to use powdered detergent, only liquid HE detergent, and not more than some arbitrary amount or else. Why does your flat not have it's own washing machine? Do they actually monitor people for using powder? Use whatever you want, IMO.
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Steakandchips posted:Why does your flat not have it's own washing machine? Because this building doesn't have that and I don't think that's unusual at all? Because it's a one-room apartment and as nice as it is, there's only so much space? Jesus, what a weird thing to nitpick. And there's a security camera in the laundry room so presumably if you damage the machine with improper soap usage, they'll track you down.
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BioEnchanted posted:I was looking up an old book I used to enjoy reading as a kid/young teen called Krindlekrax (because I remember it being kinda awesome, also probably gonna look up Clock of Doom) and my god these prices are hilarious: from a few pages ago but there's a sort of neat reason for this. For any given product, Amazon likely has hundreds of resellers offering the same thing. This is especially true for something cheap and generic like a USB drive, or common like a paperback book -- you might have thousands of choices. From the consumer standpoint they're basically identical, so everyone just sorts by price. If you're one of those resellers, the only way you'll get the sale is if your price is competitive with everyone else's. You change up the price a little bit, maybe drop the cost on that one and charge a buck for shipping, increase the price here but give free shipping, etc. but generally you have to stay in the same range as everyone else. But you have thousands of different things for sale, and all the resellers are changing their prices all the time! You can't possibly keep up with the market on your own. So you write a script that scrapes Amazon for all copies of the same product, figures out the median price, and automatically sets yours to a value in the same range. If you trust that everyone else is selling for a reasonable price, you can feel pretty confident that you'll still make a small profit while being mostly hands-off. In order to be extra sure that you're not getting screwed, you might have your script run some statistics, find the lowest price that appears statistically valid (i.e. throw out all the $0.01 + 47.50 shipping offers), then add ten cents to that for good measure. Works pretty well -- enough so that you can buy or download these scripts pre-configured to maintain your prices at a reasonable level. ...works pretty well, that is, until the product goes off the market. Maybe the sixth edition of the book is out and you've still got the fifth. As the stocks run out, there are a lot fewer sellers offering that item. Your script keeps on doing its math, but it has a smaller and smaller data set to work with. At some point you're down to a handful of different sellers. Maybe it's just you and one other person that still have the fifth edition for sale. And maybe both of you are running the same pricing script with the same default settings! Your script finds the one other person offering that out-of-print fifth-edition book for sale, reads the price, and adds ten cents. Ten minutes later their script finds your book, reads the price, and adds ten cents. And it goes back and forth like that hundreds of times, gradually jacking up the price, until you've got something like this  nice.
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Nice to finally have an explanation for the prices in this Seanbaby article.
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Sagebrush posted:
Thanks. That's hilarious.
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Sagebrush posted:from a few pages ago but there's a sort of neat reason for this. Huh, I did not know that. I always kind of assumed it was money laundering tbh...
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