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HashtagGirlboss posted:The ones where I live don’t sell any live animals (maybe fish?) but that might be a state law thing Yeah every petco I've ever been to has had a bunch of lizards n' guinea pigs n' birds and stuff
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We bought a budgie from a crazy, intense lady who made us promise to give her kisses every time we picked her up or put her down. We did that for 12 years till she went, miss you chicken tendie
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All my dogs have been rescue dogs and they’ve always been wonderful and loving plus they’ve lived longer than all the pure breds I’ve known. Turns out letting nature do its nature thing might be better than inbreeding animals over and over for the sake of money
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Abongination posted:We bought a budgie from a crazy, intense lady who made us promise to give her kisses every time we picked her up or put her down. if chicken tendie got 12 years of lots of kisses i'm sure she loved you too. sounds like that lady did right by you and chicken tendie.
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Abongination posted:We bought a budgie from a crazy, intense lady who made us promise to give her kisses every time we picked her up or put her down. same, but the amiga 500 we bought from a long-haired dude in 1991. he kissed it goodbye as we loaded up the car lol
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amiga means friend, after all
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Eat This Glob posted:amiga means friend, after all yep i might still have the disks stashed somewhere in my parents attic, incl the school assignments he wrote on guns n roses and metallica as for the capitalism part, stuff was listed like "500 empty disks" in the reader-to-reader for sale columns* and obvs they were 95% pirated games, it was a nice way to skirt the law. i bet folks also advertised like "100 empty vhs tapes" but i wasnt interested at the time. take that, blockbuster netflix et al  * i never learned the english word for that, like craigslist or ebay on paper. we just called it "den blå avis" cause the newspaper was blue and it was titled that. e: okay "classifieds" apparently, i thought that meant like for dating only Carthag Tuek has issued a correction as of 18:03 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:yep Yeah the classifieds is the section for normal people (as opposed to business advertisers) to pay to put little blurbs in the paper, so it's used for advertising garage sales or used cars but also sad lonely people. Though "for sale column" is definitely something I've seen it called plenty because usually the classifieds section is divided into subsections and one of them is usually titled "For Sale" so you're not like wrong or anything.
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On that note I just remembered when I went through some old titillating tabloid magazines from the late 1800's / early 1900's and they had a ton of ads for victorian-era sex stuff that was delightful. Everything was euphemisms because you can't just say you're selling porn, so you're selling "french art photos" or "french postcards", french was the general term everyone used for horny stuff. Makes me wonder if that's where the term "french kiss" came from. There were also ads here and there that took me forever to figure out because they were so vague they couldn't even really use euphemisms (and also I'm mostly a dude and don't have to think about this kind of thing, prolly more immediately obvious for ladies), I still have a screenshot of one of them:  Eventually I realized oh, they're advertising abortion drugs aren't they 
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Shame Boy posted:Though "for sale column" is definitely something I've seen it called plenty because usually the classifieds section is divided into subsections
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Oh I also saved this IIRC it's an ad for mustache wax because of course it is
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ahh thx den blå avis had like numbered sections (classes?), so iirc 300 was computer stuff, 310 was amigas, 311 was amiga peripherals, 312 was amiga games, 315 was empty disks, etc also i read somewhere that sex workers advertised as "lady tailors" in 1890s copenhagen. i guess its a pretty decent cover, dude comes in and you go about "measuring" and figure out if hes there for a pair of pants or the lack thereof without actually saying anything illegal? Carthag Tuek has issued a correction as of 18:41 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Dr. VooDoo posted:All my dogs have been rescue dogs and they’ve always been wonderful and loving plus they’ve lived longer than all the pure breds I’ve known. Turns out letting nature do its nature thing might be better than inbreeding animals over and over for the sake of money it's a mass psychosis: the average inbreeding coefficient of purebred dogs is 25%, the same as full sibling matings.
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HashtagGirlboss posted:The ones where I live don’t sell any live animals (maybe fish?) but that might be a state law thing Petco has "Petco unleashed" which is a smaller version which doesn't sell animals (and they don't sell cats and dogs, period, though they do host adoption events for local shelters or may have some shelter cats living at the store for adoption. This is one of the few good things they do wrt animals). Anyway if you go to work for Petco you will get some initial training on how to appropriately care for animals, how to sell them, and be told that you have every right to refuse sale to people who do not appear to have any interest in keeping good care of the animal or say questionable things about keeping them. Then you will have otj training in which all of that is thrown out the window and you see how many corners are cut to make up for the fact that Petco (a company whose DMs and regional managers frequently brag about how much money they, the company, are making) refuses to staff the stores appropriately or provide adequate time to take proper care of the animals. I have seen horrendous conditions and often was reprimanded for not spending more time with customers despite the fact that "animals come first." And then there's the fact that Petco sells relatively exotic animals with very specific care requirements, knowing that the average person on the street is not equipped to care for them. I frequently had cases where a customer would refuse to listen to me as I described what it would take to appropriately house an animal, and insisted that they knew what they were doing and actually the tiny cheap habitat they were buying would be entirely sufficient for the bearded dragon or the ball python they wanted. And of course if you tried to say, no, that's not acceptable to meet the minimum standard of care that animal needs, it's time to complain to the store manager, who will walk over and undermine you and say "oh it's fine, they'll come back for a more appropriate habitat later" (lol). The fact is that people who actually know what they're doing don't buy animals from Petco, and Petco should stick to animals that are appropriate for beginners and easy to care for and not sell poo poo like burnese pythons or monitor lizards to people who ask nicely. Tbh they (burmese pythons) shouldn't be sold to anyone, anywhere Just disgusting hypocrisy and lack of concern for animal welfare all the way down. absolutely disgusting company that tries to project this happy image of responsible animal welfare practices which of course is just utterly warped by capitalism.jpg
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What level of capitalism hellscape is my insurance provider trying to get me to sign up for home shipped meals subscription?quote:Save on home-delivered meals with Cigna Healthy Rewards
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poemdexter posted:What level of capitalism hellscape is my insurance provider trying to get me to sign up for home shipped meals subscription? cigna deez balls
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Abongination posted:We bought a budgie from a crazy, intense lady who made us promise to give her kisses every time we picked her up or put her down. when we adopted a sun conure from a family who needed to rehome him, we had 3 interviews with the people so they could be sure he was going to a good home. bird people are insane, sometimes in good ways but not always
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how many meal delivery startups are there now, jesus
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every goddamn day my coworkers seem to have some new meal-in-a-box for lunch and it always just looks like mush that costs a lot. like just make some rice and chicken yourself Jesus Christ.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:every goddamn day my coworkers seem to have some new meal-in-a-box for lunch and it always just looks like mush that costs a lot. You are destroying the economy. You monster
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euphronius posted:leftovers are also good meal prep is just leftovers with better PR
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I do have one zoomer coworker who counts every calorie and refuses to partake in group lunches or catered events so there are many sides to this extremely hosed up die.
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i find myself in the boat. not eating meat, white flour, or overprocessed sweets doesn't leave you much at a group work meal unless you can order for yourself.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I do have one zoomer coworker who counts every calorie and refuses to partake in group lunches or catered events so there are many sides to this extremely hosed up die. maybe they are covering for bad ibs
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I do have one zoomer coworker who counts every calorie and refuses to partake in group lunches or catered events so there are many sides to this extremely hosed up die. Your coworker seems cool and smart.
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note to self and others who can read danish, chips med "læsø salt" er overhovedet ikke salte. is it like a low sodium diet brand? what the hell
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I do have one zoomer coworker who counts every calorie and refuses to partake in group lunches or catered events so there are many sides to this extremely hosed up die. i do the opposite of this where i eat barely anything outside of work so the work food dont make me fat, this way i dont get labeled "not a team player" by management but i dont look like a rotting stretch armstrong my body is 99% donuts and pizza at this point, i haven't eaten a home cooked meal during the work week in 2 years
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blatman posted:i do the opposite of this where i eat barely anything outside of work so the work food dont make me fat, this way i dont get labeled "not a team player" by management but i dont look like a rotting stretch armstrong Congratulations on your upcoming colon cancer.
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mycomancy posted:Congratulations on your upcoming colon cancer. here lies blatman. he was a team player.
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Where do you work that there is sufficient work food to not starve? Do you know the desks with mints on them and eat 1000 calories of mints a day or something? Maybe you’re a techie?
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they're living on 70 packets of coffee creamer per day and they look amazing. don't hate
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aw frig aw dang it posted:they're living on 70 packets of coffee creamer per day and they look amazing. don't hate Oh the little containers of half and half? Jesus christ management sprung for the good stuff
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Real hurthling! posted:maybe they are covering for bad ibs nah it's more like they're really super duper into CrossFit and are dedicated to it at a level I do not understand. maybe the massive dumps too, though.
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GoldStandardConure posted:when we adopted a sun conure from a family who needed to rehome him, we had 3 interviews with the people so they could be sure he was going to a good home. bird people are insane, sometimes in good ways that seems excessive only if you aren't familiar with how unbelievably terrible people can be to their pets.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:that seems excessive only if you aren't familiar with how unbelievably terrible people can be to their pets.
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blatman posted:i do the opposite of this where i eat barely anything outside of work so the work food dont make me fat, this way i dont get labeled "not a team player" by management but i dont look like a rotting stretch armstrong
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Ruffian Price posted:fuckin mood. tech bubble workplace teams have to be mostly staffed by people with a feeding fetish considering the amount of slop they expect you to consume in a workday it's the same at the library
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my gently caress buddy gained a bunch of weight from his tech job
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