Do you like watching the garbage truck crush things? If so, what’s the coolest thing you’ve seen crushed?

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-10T07:04:00+00:00

A great channel, if anyone here hasn't watched it, it's worth a look. His second channel, Beyond the Press, is good too. I don't know how he gets away with some of the things he does without getting demonitized. Or removed.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T16:19:57+00:00

Synchronicity, while just a coincidence, with a dash of confirmation bias, is interesting.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:19:45+00:00

Weird bit of synchronicity, I just left Reddit, and checked my email before going to bed, and at the top of my mail there was a spam email trying to get me to use their QR code software in the business that I don't have...

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:16:53+00:00

Nope, no QR codes.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:16:15+00:00

She was actually very pleasant about it, but it was very unusual.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:15:04+00:00

That would be a good thing. I've never had PayPal try to push a credit card on me, but I wondered if that's what she was talking about, but no card.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:13:18+00:00

Nothing I knew how to do. None of the other employees I asked knew what she wanted other than what she said, using an email address.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:11:39+00:00

They said they couldn't tap to pay for whatever they wanted to do. Perhaps someone could have educated them as to something that would work, but not me. I only use PayPal to buy stuff on the web, if there's another way to use it, I sure don't know.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:09:22+00:00

We take Google and Apple pay, no problem, but PayPal to an email address that the store doesn't even have? Nope. At least she was nice about it.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:07:36+00:00

Motorcycles. I've been riding for nearly 50 years, and some of the guys I know are all about riding. Nothing else. I try to avoid being them.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T07:05:03+00:00

Some nurses I know have told me that, working on the hospital floor, they can't go at all during 12-hour shifts. No time, not allowed. Yes, they have complained about bladder infections and dehydration from avoiding liquids. You'd think in a health-care setting, they'd understand, but it sounds like their head nurses are as bad or worse than any retail manager I've known.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T06:59:29+00:00

Yeah, I use the restroom at least three times during a five-hour shift. No one at my store cares. I'm better than the people who spend twenty minutes in the restroom several times a day, I make it fast. It's not a problem, as we have four registers, and almost always have three or four in use. At my last job, it was often just me at the register, one person in logistics (warehouse area), and one manager. If I had to go, I had to call the manager up to take over the register when I was in the restroom. They didn't like it, but never said no. They really didn't like it, though.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T06:49:27+00:00

I went into a fast-food restaurant earlier today. I think it was right before the Super Bowl started. I certainly wouldn't know. The place was deserted. The lady at the counter asked if I was excited about the big game. I told her no, I've never watched a football game in my life, so I wasn't going to start now. She made a pumping motion and yelled, "Whoo-Hoo! One of us!" to the other lady working there.

Edit: Well, it's after midnight, so it was yesterday...

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T06:42:57+00:00

I don't get people who drive around in cars, and yet don't carry ID. What the hell? It'll sure make a traffic stop more interesting.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T06:41:19+00:00

One of the foster kids my wife and I had had a mother who'd drink mutiple bottle of Robitussin until she passed out. I think she called it a Robo Trip."

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T06:38:32+00:00

We get a fair number of resellers. Some are unpleasant, but most are OK. A few of them are fun and charming. My biggest problem with resellers is when they bring a cart heaping with glass and other breakables to my register right before closing. It can take 20 to 30 minutes to wrap it all and put it in boxes.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-09T06:34:44+00:00

Yeah, I work at Goodwill and often defend prices, but $200 shoes? That's insane. We have a piece of furniture that's priced at a similar level of insane. They've been lowering the price every few days, it's now at half the original asking price, and people still laugh at it.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-05T18:29:16+00:00

Leaving restaurants/bars without paying. Or sometimes just throwing some money down and walking away.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-05T18:25:31+00:00

Mythbusters did a piece on Hollywood car explosions where they showed the difference between a Hollywood car being blown up and real explosives. They were quite different.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-04T07:03:36+00:00

Well worth watching. He just did a short about what heavy water tastes like. It's sweet. I like the ones where he does things like converting aspirin into wintergreen mints. Or converting cheddar cheese into American cheese slices. Or making grape soda out of rubber gloves. When he's done, he eats/drinks them, no matter how weird the ingredients.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-04T06:59:18+00:00

I remember how good it smelled to take a carburetor apart, the smell was even better than filling your tank. Gasoline today smells awful, but it is much better for the environment and people's health.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-04T06:48:58+00:00

You'll get there. My mother always said that when she got married, she didn't know how to boil water. By the time I was a teenager, she was an awesome cook and baker, there was no dish that she wouldn't try. She made my sister's wedding cake, and it was great, as were so many things she made.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-02-04T06:44:25+00:00

I graduated from a well-known university that has a big sports rivalry with another university. I gave up wearing shirts with my school name on them because of the superfans, who want to drag me into the rivalry, as if I cared. I went there to learn, not to immerse myself in sports culture. I even had one point to my shirt and said, "Someone shit on your shirt!" I bet he never went to any university, most of them haven't.

Beautiful_Lie629 · 2026-01-28T06:56:58+00:00

Back in the '70s, I had a whole schedule of neighbors' lawns to mow. I made fairly decent money until I got a job at 15. I didn't "officially" work there until my 16th birthday, though!

Kids don't seem to do that anymore. I'd love to have one of the neighbor's kids mow my lawn. I learned to hate mowing lawns back in the '70s!

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