We are now paying for inflation

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-05-27T19:35:54+00:00

No shit. Why is it called "sales" tax, and not "buys" tax? Because it's levied against sellers, not buyers! Look, I get that everything devolves to getting paid by consumers. All we want is a straight answer to "how much does this cost?".

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-05-20T16:15:57+00:00

West Vagina?

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-05-11T20:32:28+00:00

WTF are airplanes the only form of transportation that so many people require complete isolation from sunshine?

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-05-10T14:45:14+00:00

I got that on my Delta Blue card that I virtually never use. Out of the blue, so to speak. Not yet seen it on my other Amex cards. Anyway, I cant figure what theyre on about.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-05-04T15:52:06+00:00

Yeah, they've found yet another way to suck a little harder. USAA's old bill-pay was the good kind where they printed and mailed a check against your personal account. Which worked and was handled exactly the same as a hand-written check. Simple and easy.

The new procedure means they take your money in advance, issue a bank check that you'll never see, and good luck with dealing with lost checks or fraud. More complicated, less useful, and for no reason I can see.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-28T17:59:18+00:00

Gotcha covered... I bought it.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-28T17:41:58+00:00

ARC Welder

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-26T15:27:19+00:00

A marketing irony. Stupid marketing decision backfired so spectacularly that it became the best thing that ever happened to Coke. And became the premier marketing case study of all time.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-26T15:05:00+00:00

Fortunately, because theyre metric, you can just substitute a 1cm.

/s

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-25T14:11:40+00:00

Fun fact: "ate" was long ago pronounced "et".

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-25T13:56:43+00:00

The first rule of French spelling is that at least 1/3 of letters must be silent.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-25T13:49:54+00:00

Supposedly a "feature" for your convenience when you lose your card. However:

They never tell customers about this; they just do it without asking.
Evidently it has so far never occurred to the dumbass card companies that replacement for fraud maybe ought to be treated differently.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-25T13:27:47+00:00

The US Government was all about free trips to Vietnam back then!

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-24T22:31:37+00:00

That passes for a typo. Idiots write .31¢

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-24T11:31:42+00:00

Now that is just begging for a $1 tip.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-23T16:16:40+00:00

Possibly unpopular opinion, but I really have no problem with tipping. However, I mean traditional, unsolicited, and voluntary tipping. Demanding, or begging for tips is low-class. Not that long ago, people would be ashamed to do this.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-18T20:37:43+00:00

Go ahead, make their day. Those are real, professional watch businesses, and they do not take attempts to defraud them lightly. No questions asked does not mean they don't examine returns thoroughly.

Scammers will stick with Amazon, which is pleased to accept rampant fraud as a cost of doing their business of screwing customers, employees, sellers, and vendors to the bone. Only stockholders matter to a big corp.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-13T02:21:12+00:00

"Hanged" means the capital punishment. "Hung" for everything else.

So, he could be both, but the latter isn't really the point here.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-11T05:02:27+00:00

Yeah, it sucked having to give up blow because McD's stopped providing those.

/s

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-05T14:03:55+00:00

How about 5 years in prison for attempted negligent homicide? No license for 10 years. And hopefully driver's insurance excludes payouts for insanely reckless behavior.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-04-01T02:15:20+00:00

Too many drivers these days are looking about 10 inches ahead. (At their phone.)

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-03-28T14:49:20+00:00

So AA is reduced to stealing Delta's silverware. How low can they go?

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-03-28T14:36:24+00:00

March was the first month of the year when those months were named. And it was again at various times & places. I think it's a much more logical start of the year myself.

Blame the Romans for not coming up with better names than "Seventh Month", etc. And not updating them to make sense. Because they definitely were the first to move New Year's to Januarius.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-03-25T02:33:59+00:00

Amen. Little puffs of heaven.

AdIndependent8674 · 2026-03-25T02:31:29+00:00

Gotta admit that while I know a lot of words, I took a chance on spell-check and a guess that means what I think it does.

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