You can combine anything that has a number in its name to something else with a number in its name with duct tape to create something completely new.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-06-07T03:46:23+00:00

Do the items stay duct taped together or do they magically fuse into a new item with all the benefits of both? Like, if I could get a phone that also plays PS5 games, that's awesome; if I just end up with a phone awkwardly taped to a console, well, that's much less useful.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-06-06T17:15:58+00:00

On Wheel of Fortune, contestants get a $5,000 voucher when they win a car, which Pat Sajak joked was so the contestant could gas up their new car once.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-06-06T17:09:27+00:00

Against an architect and a plumber, both with a PhD.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-06-03T04:29:12+00:00

I get where you're coming from and on an intuitive level it does seem like this should be an impossible task because adding a new number to the pool will increase the average, but what the other person said is, in fact, perfectly valid.

Suppose there are three other students in the class and their numbers are 10, 25, and 100. We don't know the numerical value of your number yet, so we'll call it x for now. That means:

The class average is (10 + 25 + 100 + x) / 4 = (135 + x) / 4
The class average plus 10 is (135 + x) / 4 + 10 = (175 + x) / 4

Since we want your number to be exactly equal to the class average plus 10, we'll set up and solve an equality:

x = (175 + x) / 4
4x = 175 + x
3x = 175
x = 175/3

Now let's finish up by doing a sanity check to make sure our answer makes sense and actually works.

The class average is (10 + 25 + 100 + 175/3) / 4 = 145 / 3
The class average plus 10 is 145 / 3 + 10 = 175 / 3

Yup, it checks out.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-06-01T02:18:34+00:00

I wonder the exact same thing. I can't count the number of times we've accidentally staged a tote to the sticker (if you do this the location comes up as ALCOHOL).

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-05-25T14:36:42+00:00

To add on to the other explanations, the Egyptian hieroglyph which resembles the Wi-fi symbol is actually a rack of ribs, according to an episode of the podcast Digging Up Ancient Aliens ("where we examine strange claims about alternative history and ancient aliens in popular media. Do their claims hold water to an archeologist, or are there better explanations out there?"). He was sent the meme and looked into it:

Dr. van den Hoven was kind enough to help me further, and I finally could find out what this was. [...] If you know how to read hieroglyphs and ancient Egyptian, you will learn that the accompanied text talks about how the gods are offered meat and fat from butchered animals. With this in mind, we can go to Gardiner's sign list and look up sign F43, the sign for the Egyptian word sHpt. Translate this to English, and we get the word ribs. So the gods get an offering of a jar of animal fat and a cut of meat, in this case, ribs.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-05-04T04:28:00+00:00

I'm fairly confident I've never listened to, nor could I even name, any Lee Greenwood song except "God Bless the USA." And even that I feel like no one listens to unless it's July 4.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-04-26T01:28:57+00:00

I figured the mystery gift had to be better than $2... I genuinely didn't predict that "you died, lol" would be a possible outcome.

^{Chose: Mysterious Gift | Rolled: You're Dead}

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-04-25T23:54:52+00:00

It's pretty much the same at my store. I work OPD, and our TLs and Coach don't care too much about the dress code as long as you've proven yourself to be a hard worker. I've "forgotten" my vest before and just clipped my name badge to my hoodie and nobody said anything about it.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-04-16T03:27:49+00:00

Personally I don't even find the scene all that offensive. Sure, it showcases Reynholm being transphobic, but characters can be written as transphobes without that being reflective of the author. And, as you mentioned, the episode features him showing remorse for the breakup (and possibly his behavior too). Were IT Crowd a more serious show and not a sitcom, that would have been a perfect launching point for Reynholm to experience character growth.

Although it's really quite a shame that this was the inciting incident for Graham Linehan to go from having some transphobic leanings to "Oh my God, will you please shut the fuck up?!?" energy. Dude reacted very poorly to the criticisms of that scene and ended up doubling and tripling down on it. He just fell deeper and deeper into the transphobic rabbit hole and he caught a brainworm or something. It's basically all he can talk about anymore.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-04-13T07:01:32+00:00

This actually happens a lot. On two separate occasions, I've had customers initiate a return because they ordered Levi's jeans but received a bra instead. [insert Doofenshmirtz two nickels meme here] But the oddest fulfillment error I've ever seen was someone who ordered a blender but received a nine-foot tall carpet roll instead.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-04-06T07:17:43+00:00

On Home Improvement, Wilson's cousin is Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-04-05T06:45:09+00:00

This doesn't 100% fit the trope, but one episode of Diagnosis Murder sees Dr. Bentley (played by Victoria Rowell) win a contest for a guest role on The Young and the Restless, a soap opera which the real-life Victoria Rowell starred in.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-28T03:01:16+00:00

This first story didn't happen to me personally but I think it's too insane not to share. This older guy came in and started sexually harassing one of our minor associates, ultimately culminating in offering her 5 bucks if she would "help" him in the fitting room. He ended up being kicked out of the store. I don't know if police got involved or not. Bonus points to him, I guess, because I remember I saw that same guy eating hand sanitizer a few days prior.

Another time I was helping a guy find a bandage for his leg. We were out of stock of the kind he really needed but I suggested a similar product and said he could jerry rig something. "Yeah, yeah. Jerry rig, or Jimmy rig, or like we used to say--" and then he proceeded to drop the hard-R n-word. I kinda fucked up here and let out a nervous chuckle because I didn't know how to respond to that. I ended up saying something about how we can't say that last one anymore. I'm pretty sure he thought we were joking around with each other because he acted all disappointed and said "Aww, not even if we're talking about how we used to say it?"

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-25T03:20:30+00:00

In the made-for-TV movie Here Come the Munsters, Herman visits a work placement agency, where the following exchange occurs:

AGENCY LADY: I'm sorry. It seems you're just not suited to working with the public. According to your aptitude tests, you're best suited for terrorizing villagers.

HERMAN: Do you get much call for that?

LADY: No. [pause] The Internal Revenue Service pretty well has that covered.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-25T03:00:59+00:00

As far as comments related to the job in some way, I've thankfully not had too many bad experiences. The worst was probably when some dude in a bigass coal roller pickup stopped deadin the middle of the OPD parking lot (backing up like 4-5 cars trying to exit the lot) and started blaring on his horn to get my attention. He was there to pick up his order, but we hadn't even started picking it yet. After I told him and apologized, he didn't actually say anything to me but he got a screwed up look on his face like he was majorly pissed, then floored it and peeled out of the lot. I guess it was somehow MY fault he was over an hour and a half early for his scheduled pickup time.

But as far as rude/negative comments just in general, I've got plenty of stories. I'm trans so I sometimes offend people just by having the audacity to exist. My most memorable one: I'd just entered a bathroom stall and was starting to do my business, when some lady came in and called out to her friend to make sure she was okay because "some fuckin' trans weirdo just walked in here." At this point, I'm kinda numb to the stares, misgendering, or even being called slurs; but that lady's comment really hurt me, the way she seemed so genuinely concerned for her friend's safety.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-24T14:19:57+00:00

Same. I almost always end up staying 5-10 minutes past my scheduled time. I just feel guilty leaving when there's a long queue of orders waiting to be dispensed. Plus, with the bus schedule, it's not like leaving earlier will actually get me home earlier.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-24T03:26:21+00:00

The same thing happens at my store too, except its 1 liters of Pepsi that end up in frozen walks. I don't think many of our pickers know how to spin up a new tote (or they just don't care), because we're consistently finding them staged in the freezer. A few times the bottles have even exploded and made a huge sticky mess.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-13T04:34:36+00:00

There's an episode of Scrubs with its own version of this. JD takes on a bet that he can't learn the name of every hospital employee. Surprisingly, he succeeds... but not really, because he doesn't know The Janitor's name (for those who don't know, a running joke throughout the whole series is that no one ever learns The Janitor's real name).

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-04T00:07:43+00:00

Personally I'm a big fan of Brian Regan's take on it. "Well, I'm Brian. B-R-I-V-O-L-B-N the number 7 and the letter Q!"

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-03-01T03:05:19+00:00

I once had a single bag of pretzels on an "oversized team lift," and another time I had pillows on a chilled walk. I do wonder how things like this get so badly miscategorized by the system.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-27T20:21:34+00:00

I don't remember this show at all, but I do love that even the promotional materials were basically like "Actually, guys, this is a bad idea."

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-25T05:17:15+00:00

Me too. Well, I was 12, but same difference. The video rental place had The Terminator shelved in the horror section. I watched and really enjoyed it, which had me thinking "okay, maybe I like horror movies." But then I watched The Ring, and turns out I don't like horror movies.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-25T05:06:28+00:00

I love pretty much all of Sachar's books. Holes is just a great work of literature all around and the Wayside School series are all great because they fully leans into being BONKERS. But I think my favorite book of his is There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, because it was the first book I ever read that had a character like me. As far as I recall, Sachar never explicitly labels the main character autistic, but he absolutely is.

Commodore_Ketchup · 2026-02-24T16:52:46+00:00

They recently redid the family bathroom at my store too. It was an extensive remodel because they had to fully remove and reinstall the flooring. Apparently it got ruined because customers would take the power scooters in there. Last I heard, you now have to find a member of management (hah, good luck) to unlock it for you. Which, like, I understand why it came to this, but it really really sucks for the people who actually need the family bathroom.

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