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OhFunny posted:https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/975711014896504835?s=19 Is that another example of a company bought with debt?
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Horseshoe theory posted:Weird way to write "pay the effected employees all the funds and leave creditors and shareholders with bupkus". Nah, a lot of the time the creditors who get left holding the bag are small businesses who the company has been loving the whole time anyway. Ideally it'd be employees -> creditors below x total revenue (insert your own metric here) -> other unrelated creditors -> minority shareholders -> PE firms dead loving last. Instead it's banks -> other banks -> gently caress you.
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Mar 19, 2018 18:32
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Ideally, the employees would own the business and reach a consensus about how each of them deserves to be paid for what they produce and there would be no investors. And all venture capitalists would be loaded into catapults and flung into the sea.
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Mar 19, 2018 18:37
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Oh no not Clare’s! My town centre is dying and Clare’s is the last shop for teenagers left standing. It’s never the upmarket supermarket or the golf store that gets taken over and bankrupted is it?
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Mar 19, 2018 18:39
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The general trend seems to be that upscale boutique places are surviving, and everything is trending that way (including sports and concerts).
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Mar 19, 2018 18:42
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Halloween Jack posted:Ideally, the employees would own the business and reach a consensus about how each of them deserves to be paid for what they produce and there would be no investors. And all venture capitalists would be loaded into catapults and flung into the sea. Newsletter, etc.
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Halloween Jack posted:Ideally, the employees would own the business and reach a consensus about how each of them deserves to be paid for what they produce and there would be no investors. And all venture capitalists would be loaded into catapults and flung into the Grand Canyon. Fixed for increased entertainment value. Nah, they have a chance of surviving if they land in water. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ryonguy fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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Mar 19, 2018 19:05
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ryonguy posted:Fixed for increased entertainment value. I think it'd be more entertaining in the original watching them be crippled and desperately trying to swim. Like a metaphor or something.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:20
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Beachcomber posted:I think it'd be more entertaining in the original watching them be crippled and desperately trying to swim. Like a metaphor or something. This reminds me of the PS2 game JAWS: Unleashed, which has a fantastic story where oil execs are going to open up Amity Island to drilling, so you (Jaws) have to go get barrels of oil, fling them at the executive's beachfront mansion and then devour their screaming, flaming bodies as they run into the ocean on fire. Jaws: "Nobody fucks with the pristine waters of Amity Island! (eats child)"
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Mar 19, 2018 19:31
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Corrode posted:Newsletter, etc.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:35
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I'm in Montgomery County, MD and our county-run liquor stores are great. Cheap prices and their website will tell you exactly what's in stock at each location and what the current weekly sales are in a searchable database. Even all the craft beer they stock is like $1-2 cheaper per six pack than every other place around, it's just not refrigerated. Plus I live under a mile from one and it's next to my supermarket.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:45
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I'm not too proud to admit I still own and wear some Claire's stuff.  , store I went to for friends' birthday presents all through middle school
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Mar 19, 2018 19:51
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Does Claire's do that unhygenic ear piercing thing with the gun that's rarely sanitized?
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Mar 19, 2018 20:03
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Yes, they do piercings with a gun.
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Crow Jane posted:I'm not too proud to admit I still own and wear some Claire's stuff. I had a girlfriend in high school that was arrested for shoplifting from Claire's 
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Mar 19, 2018 20:14
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Crow Jane posted:Ah, makes sense. gently caress DC traffic/parking. you can't metro in? (or park at the edge of the system?) also LOL that claires is dead but Spencer Gifts lives on
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Mar 19, 2018 20:19
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Caganer posted:you can't metro in? (or park at the edge of the system?) I take MARC+Metro if I go during the day, but both shut down too early to be much good for concerts and whatnot
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Mar 19, 2018 20:22
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Caganer posted:you can't metro in? (or park at the edge of the system?)
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Halloween Jack posted:It's very weird to see how Hot Topic and Spencer's have evolved from their origins; the store full of goth/raver stuff and the store full of penis-themed dice kinda met in the middle. my local mall didn't have a hot topic for a long time, the raver/goth types got their accessories at spencers. i guess they got the jncos etc elsewhere... anyways after it opened a chunk of the abercrombie crowd immediately became scene. i remember one of them giving me poo poo for some band shirt i had and im like "oh sorry i dont have mommy's credit card to swap out all my A&E the second hot topic opens" and him getting mad and punching me for owning him there was a nice weirdo corridor in that mall.. natural wonders for the hippies, the science store for nerds, spencers for stoners / "alternatives", sam goody, gamestop malls used to be good 
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Doctor Butts posted:Is that another example of a company bought with debt? quote:Claire's is another victim of a string of private equity buyouts orchestrated by outside investors who loaded up on debt about a decade ago, saddling retailers with burdensome payments. Yup.
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The excruciatingly embarrassed male models on the hot topic website are a work of art. This guy for example: “I am way too pretty for this, how did I end up here” https://www.hottopic.com/product/star-wars-chewbacca-furry-face-beanie/11056208.html?cgid=accessories-hats “Kill me” https://www.hottopic.com/product/pokemon-umbreon-face-beanie/11064824.html?cgid=accessories-hats
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Mar 19, 2018 21:12
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I never really even understood the practice of being a mallrat, because you needed gas money to drive 45 minutes to loiter.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:13
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Halloween Jack posted:I never really even understood the practice of being a mallrat, because you needed gas money to drive 45 minutes to loiter. WE BOUGHT SODAS!  Edit: I actually defended my gang of misfits from charges of loitering by pointing out to a cop that the mall cop summoned that we had purchased sodas with "free refills" and thus were entitled to sit and drink as long as we want. He promptly told us that doesn't trump trespass law and if we didn't leave he'd give us trespass orders and ban us permanently
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Mar 19, 2018 21:15
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Halloween Jack posted:I never really even understood the practice of being a mallrat, because you needed gas money to drive 45 minutes to loiter. Well, that's when you live 45 minutes away, I guess.
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Halloween Jack posted:I never really even understood the practice of being a mallrat, because you needed gas money to drive 45 minutes to loiter. It was like a buck 35 and 20 minutes on the bus to get to my local mall of choice. Not that I loitered there much. Mostly it was browsing at Brentano's and a soda and a movie with the girl I was going steady with. *doo-wop music plays* /// Oh yeah, this is totally the face of a guy that won't steal your hair and snuggle with it at night... https://www.hottopic.com/product/the-nightmare-before-christmas-jack-skellington-face-embroidered-watchman-beanie/11064388.html FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Mar 19, 2018 21:18
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loitering: the grand crime of existing w/o spending money
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I dunno, as an adult with kids I get pretty irate when groups of teenagers hang out in McDonald’s with one brown bag between them and pretend to drink from a empty cup and hog all the seats while being Loud and Obnoxious . Seriously, there is a park - with several places kids can hang out behind and in, a covered teenage hang out bench and seating area by sports direct that gets McDonald’s free WiFi, and a canal, all of which are preferable to hanging out in McDonald’s, especially since aforementioned places all have toilet near them whereas the ones in McDonald’s are now locked.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:28
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Caganer posted:malls used to be good Malls haven't been good since the arcades closed.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:31
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learnincurve posted:I dunno, as an adult with kids I get pretty irate when groups of teenagers hang out in McDonald’s with one brown bag between them and pretend to drink from a empty cup and hog all the seats while being Loud and Obnoxious . Same but with huge crowds of mainland seniors.
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Baronjutter posted:Same but with huge crowds of mainland seniors. Old people with nothing wrong with them using the disabled toilets drive me up the wall. No I am not impressed that you think it’s your own personal changing room Doris.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:42
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Halloween Jack posted:The fact that I find Richard Wolff's voice soothing says a lot about my personality. Economic Update is genuinely the best podcast about American life coming out these days, to be frank.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:44
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Presto posted:Malls haven't been good since the arcades closed. My mall never had one actually. We were upscale! No riff raff! I think that the movie theater that was in the same lot but not attached did, possibly.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:45
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Taintrunner posted:Economic Update is genuinely the best podcast about American life Yer getting ripped oowoff
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Mar 19, 2018 21:50
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learnincurve posted:“I am way too pretty for this, how did I end up here” to be fair anyone wearing that hat in public likely has trouble making eye contact with people so it's an accurate view of what other people will see
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Mar 19, 2018 21:56
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Doctor Butts posted:Well, that's when you live 45 minutes away, I guess. Riding your bike to the mall was good exercise.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:20
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I used to become a mallrat in summer sometimes just for the air conditioning.
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I went to the mall because there was loving nowhere else for teenagers to go.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:41
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duz posted:Riding your bike to the mall was good exercise. It's possible to ride a bike to places other than a mall. I rode one to work today, of all places.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:42
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Me and my friends loitered at Walmart or dragged Main Street instead because the nearest mall was 120 miles away.
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Star Man posted:Me and my friends loitered at Walmart or dragged Main Street instead because the nearest mall was 120 miles away. 
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