- When there's a feeder line for multiple cashiers and when a cashier becomes free calls out "I can help whoever's next!" I don't need help, I just need to pay for my things. All you do is stand behind a counter and charge me money....I don't consider that very helpful.
- When I spend almost 2 hours making a custom player in MLB Power Pros, and he gets a career ending injury on the last day of the season. Instant game over. Fuck that.
- The claim that substituting a synthetic genome for a natural one is akin to creating artificial life. Philosophically, the only difference between this and the GMO produce available at every grocery store is scale. The principle is the same. Don't get me wrong, it is an important scientific advance. It's proof-of-concept that could pave the way for incredible bio-engineering innovations. But it's not synthetic life.
- The Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. Two of my least favorite teams beating up on two of my favorite non-piston teams. Uggghh.
- Losing a soccer ball. I kicked a ball over the crossbar and it went into a little forested area behind the goal. It's a relatively small area, and I searched through it for what must have been almost 30 minutes, but couldn't find it. It just disappeared.
- Vuvuzelas. I don't care if it's part of South African soccer culture. It's fucking annoying. FIFA has already announced that they won't be banned from the World Cup, but they should be. It's going to be one whole month of BBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZ.
- Deep sea oil drilling. It's been over a fucking MONTH and they still haven't stopped the leak. That is simply absurd. It is unacceptable to me that we can allow drilling in these areas if we don't have the technology or resources to mitigate problems. There need to be harsh consequences from this. I expect a complete overhaul of the MMS, much more stringent regulations on drilling, and more through inspections and safety procedures. I expect massive fines on BP, it's corporate partners, and anyone else implicated in the spill. The punishment needs to be draconian, or else all this shit is going to happen again.
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I suppose the cashier is helping you by charging you faster...she could charge you after she lets everyone else pay first.
You made it through a whole season of MLB Power Pros? All 162??? And did you even play the playoffs with your created guy hurt, or was it a literal "game over"?
I will be rooting for the Celtics I think. I'm still rooting for Sheed- he was solid for the P's for five good years- and the stuff that Rondo is doing is sick. I never imagined he would turn into the player he has when I first saw him at Kentucky.
How did you lose the ball??? I've lost tennis balls before, but soccer balls are kind of big. And white. Next time kick it into the net, ace =).
I didn't know the name was Vuvuzelas. But I'm with you- fucking annoying. (I'm kind of excited for the World Cup, by the way.)
"It is unacceptable to me that we can allow drilling in these areas if we don't have the technology or resources to mitigate problems." It's both unacceptable they drilled without the technology and drilled without considering the possible consequences (or ignored them). The color green can be very blinding.
Helping me in this context is doing something positive for me, not NOT doing something negative.
Helping me would be if the cashier did something for me that I couldn't do at the automated checkout.
Haha, not a reagular full season, a season (actually 3) in the create-a-player "success" mode. You only play 5 or 10 "games," but you only play your character, not the whole team.
I don't know what happened to the soccer ball. I've kicked into that wooded area many times before and I always found the ball. It's weird.
"The color green can be very blinding."
I like that quote. It can mean green like the color of money, or it could mean green as in the "environmentalist movement."
Resource gathering involves inherent risk. Be it coal mining, gas extraction, oil drilling, whatever. I'm not saying that a technique has to be 100% foolproof (which is impossible) before it should be used, only that the company must be able to mitigate the damage a potential disaster would cause.
I'm not mad at oil drilling, or even that there was a spill. America would shut down without oil right now, and spills are inevitable. What I'm upset about is that they're drilling in an area where they can't fix a problem when it occurs.
Yeah, that's sort of what I meant by drilling without the technology. I'm with you- I don't mind that they drilled, I just don't like that they didn't have a way to fix a potential mistake.
I guess my quote does have a double-meaning. I didn't intend it that way, but it works!
What if the cashier let you bypass all other customers? That would be very helpful if there were long lines at both the self-checkout and regular cashier lines.
Yes, I suppose in that context it would be helpful to bypass all those customers.
But then they wouldn't be calling out "I can help whoever's next!"
Haha, what if they did, but when they were saying it they were winking at you?
Maybe they want to help you, but have to deliver the typical cashier company line just to appease the other loser customers.
If there are a bunch of other customers in a line ahead of me, how would I know that the cashier is winking at me?
But anyway, if that were somehow the case, then I would have to change my entry to:
I hate when I'm the first person in line, but the cashier wants to help the guy 5 places behind me and calls out "I can help whoever's next!" while winking at him.
Haha, no no, they only do it to you. You're the only person in the world that cashier winks to the front of the line.
Very helpful indeed.
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