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Anora posted:P.S.: gently caress Marlboro Smooths, 27s, Parliment lights, wrapping paper, and Cigarellos. They summoned all of the drat potheads and drug addicts. Nothing quite as thrilling as watching a dude basically shut down mentally because he's so high on heroine that when you tell him your out of something (3 times), he can literally not figure out what to do next. I legit sat here scratching my head wondering why the gently caress a stoner would need wrapping paper. Do they just love holidays? Does smoking weed make some people really generous? Then I realized what you actually meant. 
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Baram posted:nintendo selling region locked consoles in 2015 Well hey it's not like they're doing anything really bad like preventing people from uploading gameplay videos of Nintendo games to Youtube without an affiliate agreement or literally selling a handheld that cannot be used out-of-box because it doesn't come with a charger GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 05:22 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 05:19
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Croccers posted:I'd get basically nothing if I trade my 2DS without the charger, but if I trade it in with the charger I'd need to buy a new charger and the cost of the charger would eat the trade-in price so what's the point I'll just still with the 2DS, whatever. I'm sure Nintendo didn't consider the effects of its decision on used game stores before hitting the giant green button labeled "gently caress YOU, CONSUMERS"
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Feb 15, 2015 19:30
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swims posted:I think it's because Nintendo corps knows that every nerd that buys Nintendo DS handhelds already owns the pink anime version that has a cord already. Yeah, gently caress these nerds that play videogames 
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Feb 16, 2015 16:05
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I like that IBM asked the hard questions, like "would you rather be taught by a human being or one of those stupid flash tutorial things"
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Feb 24, 2015 15:18
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Scathing rebuttal inbound. Yo, TB, go play some pool or have a drink or build a model airplane or pet a dog or watch a stand-up comedian or something instead of penning the post you're writing right now. I'm not even trying to be a dick, here. I genuinely want you to be chill and happy 
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Feb 24, 2015 20:46
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Cleretic posted:I still don't understand how they hosed up the PSP's advertising so bad. It's not like the product was hard to pitch; a handheld gaming console that was about as powerful as the home consoles of the time (at the very least, much stronger than its competitor), that you could also watch movies on, at a time well before smartphones got anywhere near being able to do that. It's not like how the N-Gage really struggled because it didn't have a niche, hardware strength, or pedigree, the PSP was a really strong product from a company that had shown themselves to be very capable in that field. I'm glad they didn't do something really dumb right after that, like make a new PSP that can't play all your UMD games and movies and costs substantially more than the previous model GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 16:04 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Feb 25, 2015 16:00
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Honestly in many places in america with a pop of under ~25k this is a real issue. Your choice is between Chili's, Subway and a terrible place that is only still in business because sometimes people get really tired of the Subway and decide to spend two dollars more at that place where the police chiefs DUI-happy daughter desperately tries to make some terrible hoagie she saw Rachel Ray make one time when she was waiting to get patched up in the ER a town over. This hit so close to home that I have a black eye
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Mar 30, 2015 16:39
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swims posted:Whales... This is such a bullshit way of thinking. There are obviously other options besides sending astronauts to a barren iron hellscape and letting them walk around looking for stuff and hoping for the best.
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Mar 31, 2015 15:19
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Yeah, because you're a bastion of great posting. Please take the slapfight elsewhere. We're in the middle of a discussion about slinging orcas around the galaxy here Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Dare to dream big. We'll get orca corpses throughout the solar system one day. I think that with enough planning and focus we can have an orca in a stable orbit around Proxima Centauri in the next 25 to 30 years
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Mar 31, 2015 15:57
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death .cab for qt posted:This sounds like the start to an Event Horizon sequel "Captain, you're gonna want to hear this" *presses 'play' on recording* "WooooooOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooOOOOooo" "We're leaving"
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Apr 1, 2015 02:02
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Postal Parcel posted:UGHHHH, memories of Domino's Cheeseburger pizza with ketchup sauce I ordered one of those once. Even took a bite of it before taking it straight to the dumpster. The sauce tastes like thousand island dressing mixed with HFCS-heavy ketchup, mayo, and cheap mustard.
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Apr 2, 2015 14:23
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That's a good description. You usually see it on pizzas topped with chicken, but it goes well with lots of other things, too. Re: Pizza Hut's new menu I'm friends with a couple people that work at our local Hut, and they say the vast majority of customers are still ordering their usual pies, and almost nobody wants the weird sauce stuff they drizzle on.
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Apr 2, 2015 15:49
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My Lovely Horse posted:What's weird about the whole HFCS/sugar thing is, I've tried imported sodas from the US in Europe and the pronounced HFCS taste was pretty awful, but when I was in the US once I picked up some Cherry Coke and Dr Pepper and those actually tasted better to me than their European versions with real sugar. Shipping the product overseas somehow fucks with the delicate composition of the corn lobby's mind-control serum. Don't worry, though. They're working the kinks out as we speak, so that all worldwide may enjoy delicious HFCS syrup with added water and colorings.
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Apr 6, 2015 22:14
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Back in the days that I very rarely used a cellphone I had a Tracfone. There is so much stigma attached to that sort of thing that I always found perplexing. Fun facts: The guy that owns América Móvil (the company that owns Tracfone), Carlos Slim Helú, is the second richest person in the world, worth $76.5 billion. América Móvil and its subsidiaries are a loving powerhouse in Central and South America, controlling enormous portions of the market in most countries there. I bought a cheap-rear end Tracfone to use as my business line and ended up liking it so much I bought another one and ported my number to it. They were less than $15 at the time, service was cheap, and the phones themselves were rugged as poo poo. If it fell out of my pocket into a toilet or a can of concrete sealant (not that that's ever happened), no big; I'd just go up the street and grab a new one for next to nothing and be back in action in less than a half hour. Re: Store brand chat I actually had an opportunity to ask someone knowledgeable about store brands and pricing to explain how it worked. This is an extremely simplified explanation, but hopefully you'll get the idea. The prices are for demonstrative purposes only and do not in any way reflect current breakfast cereal market circumstances. You're a cereal company, and you make Best Crunch. Best Crunch is your flagship line, a premium breakfast cereal that benefits from national advertising, a cute mascot, etc. It costs you--after all your costs--$1.00 to produce a unit. Being well-established and popular in the market, you can charge grocers $2.00 per unit. The grocers then put it on the shelf for $3.00, and they're pretty happy because they're having trouble keeping it in stock. They allocate inventory space for 100 units per month of Best Crunch. A hundred units per month is great, but you'd like to sell more. The grocers aren't keen on the idea of allocating more inventory space for Best Crunch, though. So, you put some Best Crunch in a different box, brand it Better Crunch, and offer it to the grocers at $1.50 per unit. The grocers are cool with this, but as it's not a "premium" brand, they only allocate inventory space for 50 units per month. They put it on the shelves for $2.50, and it sells pretty well--customers say it tastes "pretty close to Best Crunch" and they like that it's less expensive. A hundred-fifty units per month is pretty good, but your facility can make more cereal than that. So, you get the idea to start a new line: "Good Crunch." Good Crunch is a value line, in a plain-ish box with a hilariously generic mascot and no advertising at all, and it's really just Best Crunch in a different box. You offer the grocers Good Crunch for $1.10 per unit, and they allocate space for 50 units per month. There's not a lot of overlap with the market segments for Best Crunch and Better Crunch, so the grocers are happy, and customers enjoy a bargain-brand cereal that "is close enough to Best Crunch." Remember, it only costs you $1.00 to produce each box of cereal, and by adding "store brand" lines, you're now selling 200 units per month over cost, where you'd only be selling half that if you stuck with your flagship line. It doesn't matter that the Better and Good lines aren't making as much money as Best, because all three are making money.
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Apr 8, 2015 16:01
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Lots of Aldi's in the Midwest have undergone major facelifts and are bright, cheery, and clean now. A decade ago, each one was a dim wasteland of chipped vinyl floor tiles and "that Aldi smell." This means that Kmart has officially taken back the title of "store with the worst atmosphere." Goddrat, Kmart, I know you're circling the loving drain but at least try to look nice during your final days 
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Apr 9, 2015 13:49
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Len posted:Walmart makes you watch a video all about how unions don't look out for employees just themselves and their wallets. It goes on to say if you ever even give your name to a union rep that person will go out and use your name for nefarious purposes. Goddamn, I love that video! I've been looking for a copy of it, too. The union organizer character in it is as sleazy as possible, with greasy hair, aviator sunglasses, and a pornstache. They show him skulking around the parking lot, leaning into employees' car windows to give them pamphlets and poo poo. It's amazing. "UNIONS ARE BAD FOR YOU AND US (mostly us)!!!" I remember years ago a goon posted a thread about planning on quitting Walmart and was looking for ideas of how to go out with a bang. He/the thread decided he should print up a bunch of fake "Walmart Union" pamphlets and put them in the bathrooms and on the tables in the breakroom before he left. They apparently took it very seriously and management had a bit of a freakout over it.
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Apr 13, 2015 15:33
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The White Dragon posted:I wouldn't have minded a Coke commercial that incorporated Hatten är Din. You be drinking CoooOOOOoooke You drink it then You drink it then It's hot, baby HOT BABEH
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Apr 23, 2015 15:17
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mostlygray posted:I live in Burnsville, a suburb of the Twin Cities in the upper mid-west. My convenient takeout food choices are Thai, North-East Africa, Mediterranean, Russian, Nepalese, and Korean. Those are within 5 minutes driving distance and I live well outside the inner ring metro. I'm not including the standard fast-food crap, Green Mill kind of poo poo, all of the ones I list are absurdly good food.  what on earthhave a donut for me, mister cosmopolitan
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Apr 24, 2015 13:10
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HonorableTB posted:What the gently caress is dol sot bi bim bop an exquisite Midwestern dish too refined for your palate
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Apr 24, 2015 18:00
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Ableist scum. Not everybody has a loving nose you insensitive pricks
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Apr 28, 2015 23:02
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Good to see you could count on Radium if you wanted to get screwed even back in the '20s
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Apr 29, 2015 12:16
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How Rude posted:Is there also a butt dryer? Yeah but it never gets your butt totally dry so you end up having to wipe it on your pants
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Apr 30, 2015 00:09
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VendaGoat posted:Every story, i've ever heard, is just one more tally on why I have never and will never do weddings. You're missing out. Seriously, weddings are a spectacular celestial collision of drama, liquor, and formalwear. I mean yeah, I've heard all the horror stories, but the worst thing I've had happen to me is 150dpi uncropped full platen scans of proofs showing up online 
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May 2, 2015 14:02
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MindlessHavok posted:Maybe I'm the crazy one but I'd definitely rather go to a fast food place to use the bathroom than a gas stations on a road trip. After one bad gas station bathroom experience I made this my policy, too. It was late at night and the restroom was outside the store, so the clerk handed me a key with one of those enormous wood blocks chained to it. The area around the door was poorly-lit, but thankfully I had a handy wooden morningstar in case someone decided he or she needed my wallet more than I did. Didn't even need the key--the lock was busted and had been for quite a while. Inside looked like a set from Law & Order. Someone had taken a bat or a pipe to everything in there and there was what looked like either dried blood or poo poo all over the walls. Even the stainless steel "mirror" was warped and dented to hell (and also covered in some ridiculously offensive graffiti). I had a truly horrible travel poo poo ready to ruin my day within the next five seconds so imagine my horror when I noticed that the toilet seat was in two pieces in the corner next to the toilet. You don't have these problems at McDonald's. Well, and Casey's--their bathrooms are usually pretty clean, with the exception of this one time I tried to flush and the toilet was clogged. I went to plunge it out and discovered someone had taken a poo poo on the floor and carefully covered it with the plunger 
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May 22, 2015 17:42
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Your Sledgehammer posted:Advertising is a classic example of a bullshit job. ow my fuckin retinas
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Drunk Nerds posted:Edit for content: What the hell is Nintendo thinking with their janky-looking Metroid reveal? "Look there's no way they're gonna hate it more than Other M so we can't lose"
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Jun 19, 2015 01:30
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Zaphod42 posted:That's it. All the complaints about Federation Force are just EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE FRANCHISE I LIKE AND THE PEOPLE BEHIND IT IS WRONG GOTTA STAY FAI has a new favorite as of 22:15 on Jun 19, 2015 |
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Jun 19, 2015 22:12
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Someone write me a "Millennials to butts" extension Pizza loving Hut has never been a place hip people go and it never will be. Their core demographic doesn't want Peruvian cherry peppers and artisanal crusts, they want greasy fuckin' pizza and breadsticks and to not have to do any dishes. Ever seen an investment banker at a Pizza Hut? No, but I'll tell you what you have seen at Pizza loving Hut: toddlers running around screaming and hitting things with sauce-covered breadsticks, children in high chairs with roni slices just out of their reach while Mom stuffs her face and Dad finishes his second pitcher of cheap beer, belching loudly and bitching about the union rep at the plant the whole time, filthy floors, booths, and tables, out-of-date lighting and decor, and bathrooms that wouldn't look out-of-place at a disused NYC subway terminal. Pizza loving Hut is where you go to take little Billy out to eat as a reward for doing really well in his position as safety for the jr. high football team that night. No hipster Millennial is thinking "I could really go for a unique artisanal slice right now, and only one place in town is classy enough to offer Peruvian cherry peppers. Let's call Pizza loving Hut," it's a place you stop to stuff your faces after little Sandy's tumbling recital ran way too late and you don't want to be up all night doing dishes. It's a place you stumble into for drunk food and pitchers of beer on your way back from seeing American Sniper for the fifth time at the local theater, where you and your buddies smuggled in flasks of cheap vodka to add to your Mtn Dews. Their breadsticks are ok though
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Big Mad Drongo posted:you'd need to split Millennials into at least three separate categories to to get any decent metrics Strauss and Howe came to this conclusion back in 1999 and nobody's following their advice yet, despite their statuses as the preeminent scholars in generational study. It's all just "GOTTA GET THEM MILLENNIAL DOLLARS" without understanding that marketing strategies targeting people born in '86 and people born in '96 shouldn't be identical.
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Jun 20, 2015 16:42
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Craigslist isn't a bad idea, though just about everybody is glued to Facebook and Twitter these days. You could also go old-fashioned and print up flyers to stick up in classroom buildings on local college campuses. You might also try emailing a professor or two in a local school's broadcasting/radio & TV department, saying you're looking for temp PAs. Professors love that poo poo, and students love beer money.
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Jun 21, 2015 14:50
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WebDog posted:But that still doesn't top radio station KDND's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest which subsequently killed a woman from water intoxication. The contestants were in the studio and had to drink til they couldn't cope. That cost them $16 million in damages. This one was especially tragic because more than one person (one of them a medical professional) called the station to tell them how dangerous the contest was and that they should quit before someone ended up in the hospital
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Jun 23, 2015 13:06
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Zaphod42 posted:I find it frankly hilarious that just a page or two ago everybody was complaining that loving NINTENDO had the loving nerve to put out a Metroid game that wasn't about Samus, and when I said that was no biggie everybody told me I was insane. If lowtax released SA DLC for ten bucks that turned every post of yours into "i'm a butt, i'm a butt, i'm a butt," I'd buy it to support the site but I wouldn't download it because I have a thing about installing redundant software
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Jun 24, 2015 19:44
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univbee posted:Deep Space Nine episodes on VHS at $15 a pop I remember staring in disbelief at VHS tapes of single episodes Dragon Ball Z at Suncoast marked $28.99 back in the day. And they flew off the goddamn shelves 
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Jun 25, 2015 15:11
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Regrettable posted:It was one of the Ace Combat games. Specifically, Ace Combat 6, though there are still animu planes in more recent titles. You like meticulously-researched, true-to-life digital models of fighter jets, right? Well for a dollar more, you can have anime pop idols airbrushed all over that poo poo
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pentyne posted:Some companies are just giving it away a year later. Bioware may have dicked consumers around but they're still selling Mass Effect franchise DLC at full price years after the fact, and some exclusive DLC items actually require the end user to construct a loving time machine to go back and buy a bottle of Dr Pepper when the promotion was running
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thewireguy posted:Aww. After some research silk road sounded sweet. Any body know shady folks in Atlanta? the police
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Jul 4, 2015 16:19
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Centripetal Horse posted:Yes. Dead to the tune of $12 billion in sales last year. It's baffling. And people watch films like Boiler Room and The Wolf of Wall Street and groan "I can't believe they got away with stealing all that money from those poor people" without realizing that MLM companies, which are arguably worse, are loving flourishing right now  They're companies that exist for the sole purpose of harvesting their
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Guy's been wanting to put six inches in kids' mouths for almost two decades now, why is this suddenly a problem
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sweeperbravo posted:I always wondered how mattress stores manage to stay in business. You only need to buy a new mattress maybe two or three times over your whole life, and it's not like cars where one person might own more than one for the most part. How many people are really going into a mattress store on any given day? I know people *need* mattresses so it's not like the stores are some unneeded frippery but I just wonder how the places stay in business and can afford overhead/paying employees. In college/university towns (or in any decently-sized town), you can drum up a ton of business by offering free delivery and installation. Nobody wants to move tons of poo poo into his or her new apartment only to have to turn around and haul a new mattress and box spring up several flights of stairs. The guy that runs the mattress store up the street from me is a tricky fucker. In addition to all the high-end poo poo for his showroom, he buys tons of low-tier mattresses from his supplier, then runs ads in the newspaper, on Craigslist, and on a Facebook account with a fake name: "Hey, I got this queen-size pillow-top mattress, it won't fit in my bedroom so I need to get rid of it. I paid $600, you can have it for $300 OBO because I need it gone. Brand new, still in packaging. I can bring it to you if you want. Call 555-5555" Every time he gets a call, he pretends to be some random schmoe who didn't measure his bedroom, and when they agree to buy the poor soul's mattress, he throws one in the back of his personal pickup and delivers it. Clever, if a teensy bit disingenuous 
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