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Post by muskratthemink on Mar 28, 2016 11:33:09 GMT
I just read an article about an Easter egg hunt PEZ set up across from their visitors' center in Connecticut. The event was supposed to be three staggered hunts organized by age group, with eggs laid out and hidden in three separate fields. Unfortunately, many parents not only let their kids gather eggs before the first hunt started, but when it actually did, they stormed the field like it was a 10ยข sale on Black Friday. Actively pushing children and other adults aside in an effort to gather as many of the 9,000 candy-filled plastic eggs as they could. No one was seriously hurt, thankfully, but it ended with hundreds of disappointed and crying kids, one four-year-old even ended up having his basket broken. PEZ employees tried to make up for it by offering free candy and coupons to those who didn't get any eggs, but even that wasn't enough to salvage the mood. Here's hoping things go a lot better if they decide to try this again next year, though I don't think too many would blame them if they stopped the hunts entirely after this disaster. Sigh, leave it to the rotten apples to ruin the fun for the rest of us, here's hoping they're proud of themselves.
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Post by ella on Apr 2, 2016 21:51:22 GMT
The parents were pushing and shoving? That is just sad, those poor kids.
It does remind me of one of the places I worked that would do trick or treating at halloween. This one woman comes up with her kid who was a toddler and said to the kid, "take as much as you can" and the mom scooped up almost the entire bowl of candy and dumped it in the kid's bag. I found a small hope in the thought that the kid would probably have a massive sugar high, which would hopefully annoy the mom, because toddlers and lots of candy can be a dangerous thing
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Post by muskratthemink on Apr 3, 2016 16:38:55 GMT
The parents were pushing and shoving? That is just sad, those poor kids. It does remind me of one of the places I worked that would do trick or treating at halloween. This one woman comes up with her kid who was a toddler and said to the kid, "take as much as you can" and the mom scooped up almost the entire bowl of candy and dumped it in the kid's bag. I found a small hope in the thought that the kid would probably have a massive sugar high, which would hopefully annoy the mom, because toddlers and lots of candy can be a dangerous thing I get the feeling most of that candy didn't actually go to the toddler, since I've seen parents trick-or-treating with four- and five-month-olds pull the same stunt. Like their kid is gonna be eating candy any time soon... Some people are just greedy hoarders by nature and can't feel good about themselves unless they get the most the fastest, even if it means ruining what are supposed to be fun events for children. I've actually heard some of those people admit they act even worse if the event is for kids because their parents never took them or some nonsense. You'd think that'd make them more likely to do whatever they could to make those events better, but sadly that's not always how it works out.
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Post by mrgbh on Apr 16, 2016 9:18:37 GMT
There's a Patisserie Valerie in the shopping centre I work in. There's also a newly-opened Victoria's Secret. The thing that annoys me is that they both use nearly identical bags.
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Post by xebi on Apr 19, 2016 6:35:46 GMT
I always thought Patisserie Valerie's logo looked rather like a vagina, but maybe it's just me.
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Post by muskratthemink on Apr 19, 2016 6:40:30 GMT
I always thought Patisserie Valerie's logo looked rather like a vagina, but maybe it's just me. To me it looks like someone sliced France down the middle, at least from a distance.
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Post by muskratthemink on Apr 25, 2016 3:23:35 GMT
My sister used all our cell phone data again, even after our mom increased the plan from 10GB a month to 12GB, all because she just has to have her phone connected to the internet at school. She shouldn't even be allowed to have it out, but for some reason they're super lenient about that, even though they're strict as all hell about everything else.
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Post by muskratthemink on May 26, 2016 15:15:03 GMT
So, one of my favorite webcomics, Petunia Violet, will no longer be updating. The artist actually stopped posting in the middle of September last year, and from what I've been able to gather, it's mainly because she wanted to avoid the responsibility of fulfilling fanzine orders she'd taken. Everyone had already paid, but she wouldn't send them out. At first, it seemed like she was just overwhelmed but was working on the problem. As time went on, however, it became more and more obvious that she had no intention of fulfilling the orders at all. She was still pretty active in the webcomic world, though, even posting an entire story, and there's apparently been no end of fanart from her. But a lot of this was going on on Japanese sites and other places like that, it just seemed to be Petunia Violet-related things she was avoiding. She also deleted the comments on the website, so I have no idea how the rest of the comic's fanbase is feeling about it, but I'm pretty sure most of them are just as steamed about it as I am.
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Post by DraconRa on May 30, 2016 23:01:05 GMT
*sigh* today I posted in a writers group on facebook:
"Hi, do we have members of color? I'm searching for a sensitivity reader! Paid."
First answer is from a white guy...
Like, really?
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Post by DraconRa on Jun 14, 2016 17:38:26 GMT
The lovely weather this summer... two weeks of this shit. And we did have luck, the really bad thunder storms with floddings and a tornado didn't hit us.
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Post by mrgbh on Jul 10, 2016 6:25:07 GMT
I get unjustifiably annoyed at people mispronouncing Sudoku. I constantly hear it pronounced as Suduku. It's a three syllable word and none of them are exactly complicated.
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Post by xebi on Jul 15, 2016 15:54:30 GMT
I know someone who pronounces it "sod-you-ko." That annoys me.
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Post by glasschmetterling on Jul 26, 2016 16:18:37 GMT
I might be reading the wrong stories right now, but the male love interest beating another guy into a bloody pulp because said other guy did something to the female main character? Not manly. And not sexy. Not sexy at all. More like frightening as hell. I want to be comforted after I've been hurt. What I really don't want is having to worry that my significant other might get into trouble with the police because he just assaulted someone.
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Post by muskratthemink on Aug 1, 2016 1:48:22 GMT
I might be reading the wrong stories right now, but the male love interest beating another guy into a bloody pulp because said other guy did something to the female main character? Not manly. And not sexy. Not sexy at all. More like frightening as hell. I want to be comforted after I've been hurt. What I really don't want is having to worry that my significant other might get into trouble with the police because he just assaulted someone. I never got why that happens so often in books, either, but maybe the writer's trying to show how much the male lead loves his girlfriend? Or they're trying to tell their readers that doing asshole things like that will get them trouble? I don't know, but I'd be lying if I said I never used the trope. The only difference is, while they do confront the guy, they're never the ones who throw the first punch, and they still do what they can to not actually hurt the jerk. It doesn't make them much better, but at least they're not going in with intent to harm like a lot of "love interests" seem to be doing now.
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Post by muskratthemink on Aug 1, 2016 1:49:19 GMT
I know someone who pronounces it "sod-you-ko." That annoys me. ...? How on earth did they get that out of Sudoku?
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