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Chief McHeath: Apr 23, 2002

not as many ducks anymore

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 18:32

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Chief McHeath: Apr 23, 2002

beef jerky cost the same but now 2.85oz instead of 3.25oz in the bag�

bad bad bad

# ¿ Jun 15, 2023 23:27

Chief McHeath: Apr 23, 2002

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

The garage parking at the Omni Parker was $58 a night lmao.

We parked 2 blocks away at Pie Alley for $23.

leaving your car in pie alley could get sticky

# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 01:40

Chief McHeath: Apr 23, 2002

Cerekk posted:

During the break, one of the officials stands out on the field preventing play from starting while a countdown clock counts down the time until the commercial break is over.

The Man In The Red Hat is the most disgusting, vile man in all sports

# ¿ Jan 15, 2024 03:17

Chief McHeath: Apr 23, 2002

credburn posted:

The RAZR couldn't do loving anything well. It would break when it opened, the screen would bleed, temperature was an issue to be concerned about, the Internet was slow, the screen refresh rate was abysmal, the colors were limited, the sound chip sucked, everything everything everything about the RAZR was absolute complete overpriced garbage. It was objectively a bad phone in every single metric EXCEPT it was so cool to have.

(I worked for T-Mobile customer service in the 00s and the calls we got were like 25% tech support for data devices (early smart phones), 50% billing, 25% something regarding a RAZR not functioning correctly.)

If the RAZR hadn't been made, I think the entire cell phone industry would have had to lay off a third of its customer service workforce. That stupid broken piece of poo poo phone created a demand for customer support.

There was a lot of folk from our side would spend the day making fun of people who bought RAZRs, who were usually middle aged dads who know nothing about technology or consumer reports, buys their kid the cool thing that every kid must have, even though it has half the features of other phones and costs twice as much. We had a white board with a tally to mark every incoming call that had to do with a RAZR breaking -- usually in a way that wasn't technically the customer's fault at all, but due to the way the moisture censor worked, or any other little "tampering detector" would be tripped, and the customer would have to eat an insurance claim, which was frequently more than it cost them to purchase the phone in the first place, because they would get a discount initially if they also signed up for a two-year contract.

What a vile industry cell phones were in the 00s. Sign a two year contract and you can have the industry's worst-performing-phone for two hundred dollars. When it breaks in a month, you can buy a replacement for 400! And if you need out of your contract because you have no phone, it's another two hundred bucks! That was also in the days of overage. T-Mobile could have lost money on every single phone they sold, every tower they built, every cell phone plan they subscribed customers to, and they would have still made so much fuckin money off overage alone.

too long; call after 9

# ¿ Apr 6, 2024 20:49

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 12:26

Chief McHeath: Apr 23, 2002

pencilhands posted:

why do people desire to be homeless

eh, if i had the means to build or buy a suitable van/bus/RV and a job that could be done fully remote the idea of living untethered has its appeals

# ¿ Apr 21, 2024 17:43

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