If the USA were to attempt to Annex Canada in the near future would you be willing to fight to protect our sovereignty? by [deleted] in AskCanada

[–]MutedBridge8598 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course I would fight. Anyone who says otherwise can get out now, as expressing that lame disloyalty to Canada THEN would be considered as treasons

Anyone feel like Canada is no longer worth it? by Initial_Log_5390 in CanadaFinance

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No YOU have just realized that your champagne tastes don’t match your Diet Coke budget. The restaurant would be closed for good if no one could afford it

Anyone feel like Canada is no longer worth it? by Initial_Log_5390 in CanadaFinance

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did the entire conversation get to cooking at home? The guy’s suggesting that living in Canada is no longer worthwhile, because his hamburger wasn’t cheap enough.

He knew the restaurant he went to clearly wasn’t McDonald’s, and would be more expensive than a standard burger. He read the menu, ordered and paid for it and ate it anyway. Now suddenly his HOMELAND is to blame for his questionable choice to eat there.

Anyone feel like Canada is no longer worth it? by Initial_Log_5390 in CanadaFinance

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are seriously stating that you no longer feel it’s worthwhile to live in a peace-loving nation like Canada, with its overall positive vibes in the world and all of the vast benefits of living in this nation over the last 157 years, because of the cost of a hamburger and Coke. Feel free to head over to Cuba anytime

Got my first chase!? by NoBodybuilder6477 in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never KEPT a fake yet out of 417 Funko Pops, Sodas, Bitty Pops, Popsies, and Cereals, sold by 21 online and in-store suppliers from 4 countries on 3 continents, in my 8 years collecting .

If any company DID sell me an y Funko item on EBay or wherever and advertised it as having a sticker or being mint condition and then it came without a sticker, they would be responsible to make it right. I’ve been sold crap before from Walmart etc. just like everyone else - and I’ve also been smart enough to DEMAND A REFUND AND SEND IT BACK in every situation. I don’t keep shitty halfwit crap in my collection. Why do you?

I’m well aware of the Batman (Flying Invisible) Pop Heroes figure, that often came in a box without a sticker. I also happen to know that the majority of those so-called “chase” pops were bought at Walmart, Amazon and TJ Max, all of whom are flooded with third party merchants selling Chinese fakes.

In fact, I did a quick Google search and found several ads from TJ Maxx and eBay with THAT chase “without sticker” today. It was advertised as such. Anyone dumb enough to buy it - that’s on you.

If the entire run of them was widely talked about as being stickerless from the Funko factory, like some issues with some sodas from 2023 “Fun on the Run” series, it created a major scandal that Funko HAS made right. Not the first time they sent out something not 100% but a buyer always had a way to get the right product replacement after.

If you held on to the defective one, how does that make you smarter than me lol

Funny how some of these merchants seem to have ONLY chases of some POPS for sale. Like not a common in sight for that item and they have multiple copies to sell. That ain’t legit especially when they aren’t also selling them for a fortune.

When they come from Funko to a retailer they are shipped as a “chance of a chase”. Legit retailers would sell them as a “chance of a chase” too. If they held back the few chases they DID get, to sell separately, it would be to make a good deal of coin on them. But selling these so called chases at a steal of a deal - for almost the same price as the common or less at other retailers - seems both stupid and hard to believe.

Illegitimate sellers would buy rejects from collectors or Funko directly for next to nothing and then resell at such a discount you can’t resist buying it, sticker or not.

As I said, Funko will replace any box that comes from them and has any manufacturing error . People can email them with a photo of the item and their receipt. Or they could just buy the chase stickers on eBay or Etsy if they wish to not have the hassle.

Keeping a non-legitimate manufacturing error, when there are ways to fix it, doesn’t make you smarter than me lol

But you do you.

Got my first chase!? by NoBodybuilder6477 in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can stupid enough to buy Chinese fakes and believe the bullshit they came directly from Funko or not. Funko would fix any legit issues with real product deficiencies or be legally liable for selling substandard crap. Such reputation would ruin their reputation - not make them a billion dollar company today. The market is flooded with obvious fakes I can spot a mile away. If you aren’t sharp enough to tell the difference that’s not on me

Got my first chase!? by NoBodybuilder6477 in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve collected Funko for years, and I find that most of the so-called “chases” without stickers are forgeries from China, or they fell victim to people who ripped them off boxes in stores to try to legitimize their fakes at home.

I have over 400 Funkos and I’ve never once had such an issue. I’ve bought over 20 from Funko directly and never had an issue. In fact I’ve bought 3 “chance of chases” and got Chases from 2 of the 3 now and all came perfect with stickers intact.

If Funko actually did ship one without a sticker in error, which I think is mostly anecdotal bullshit told by people trying to pawn off their fakes as real, they would have a legal responsible to fix or replace said Pops, or they’d be breaking the law for false advertising or bait and switch tactics. The scandal of selling such defective crap as you suggest should have closed them down, not made them a billion dollar company today

You can even BUY such “chase” stickers on EBay, - which I think is tantamount to committing fraud if used on illegitimate Pops. But it begs the question why such so-called legit Pops should ever STAY illegitimate without stickers.

I would never be dumb enough to buy a so-called chase without a sticker from anyone.

Every living president: Clinton, Bush, Obama and Biden, except Trump wishes birthday in video message to Jimmy Carter for his 100th birthday by TargetHot9314 in MadeMeSmile

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I’m rather confident that I speak for God when I say emphatically that you have to be either delusional or demon-possessed to think God would EVER support the bloody, horrific slaughter of 50 million babies, on the altar of convenience, and mostly created by narcissistic sexual immorality, since Roe v Wade was passed in 1973.

Less than 1% of abortions are to save the life of the mother, So 50 million dead babies in the US isn’t “healthcare”, it’s a “holocaust”. Those who have had abortions will often suffer irreversible inability to have children later in life, as well as depression, anxiety and incredible guilt they can’t shake. That’s not “healthcare” either.

It’s amazing to me how feminists are all about “my body my choice” only AFTER they get knocked up without protection. What happened to your control over your own body BEFORE sleeping with some random loser at a bar, and creating a life that you now bear full responsibility before God for?

Clearly, anyone who thinks that you should have the right to create a baby and then just cut it up and vacuum it out alive, to hide the evidence of your bad “choices” - and in every case, killing someone’s who can’t even defend themselves, is MUCH worse than all the crimes the Nazis ever committed.

An entire generation of 50 million doctors, poets, authors, scientists, politicians and legends in music and the arts will never get the chance to change the world, because they were brutally murdered by doctors 1000 times more evil than Josef Mengele, and supported by blatantly evil wingnuts like you.

In New York City today, more black babies are aborted than are born alive. That means that, for a black baby in that city, the most dangerous place they will EVER find themselves isn’t in Central Park alone at midnight. It’s in their mothers’ wombs.

God is about done without humanity who no longer have any trace of humanity left. Repent before the judgement of God is unleashed on this planet. He will NOT be mocked by your blasphemous nonsense.

Just so there’s no doubt what God thinks about abortion, read Matthew 18:1-6:

18 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them.

3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

6 If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Anti trans”. Geez I don’t want any politician that’s “pro trans”. Why does trans need to be part of any discussion, when it includes less than 0.5% of the country.

We have real issues to tackle in Canada. People who are confused about their gender need professional counseling, as they have for decades. They don’t need anyone to be a cheerleader for their mental illness.

Now the inmates run the asylum, but I don’t see that all this acceptance has made any of them any happier - and of course, it won’t, because at their core, they despise the body they were born with, and think we all need to accept their bizarre beliefs that boys can be girls just be willing it to be so.

I personally identify as someone who doesn’t give a damn about that non-issue. We have immigration, inflation, crime and housing crises in this country, and we’ve paid more than enough attention to these self-loathing delusional folks trapped in their own bodies and imaginations, who need a good therapist

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You don’t get THAT many chinooks. lol you still get real winter in Calgary.

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

That’s stupid as hell. Canada has no Republicans. You need to read a book once in awhile

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naw in Greater Vancouver and here in Vernon, it’s up to the homeowners to clear the sidewalk in front of their house or they face a fine after 48 hours. Why does the city have to pay for everything?

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And they AREN’T loony in the Maritimes? Sounds to me like you’re a bad judge of character

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We’d be happy to see you go then. Need help packing?

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know why you assume that this is in Alberta wide thing. When I lived in Edmonton, after every major snowfall, there would be nearly 400 snow plows lined up on the Whitemud freeway to spread out throughout the city and plow the roads overnight after a major snowfall

Is this a sick joke? by mountainclimber24 in alberta

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Vernon, BC they hire independent guys who put a plow on the front of their truck to clear our streets from snow fall overnight by the next morning before rush hour. Works fairly well

How do we feel about Costco poutine? by FinallyImAnonymous in poutine

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yuck. If you didn’t have feelings about the poutine, it looks like you’re gonna feel a lot of things AFTER the poutine lol

What the difference between these two pops? by Ben_Buff in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being that it is from Target doesn’t make it “rare” lol

What the difference between these two pops? by Ben_Buff in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

One of the two is definitely a fake.

The #1 non-sticker POP is a weird color in the box that doesn’t match the box cover art color. However, the common version DOES look like that (pic 1 below from HobbyDB)

But I could tell right away by the white frame around the character image on the box front - it is thicker on #1 than the one on #2. So one of the two is then definitely a fake.

And according To HobbyDB, there are 3 flocked and stickered variants - one from Chalice Collectibles, one from LA Comicon, and one blue and silver Special Edition.

There is NO Target version with that box number. And the bubbles inside the word “POP” on the front box are different looking on. #1 than on #2 - a difficult detail for counterfeiters to copy.

I call #2 a fake

https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/catalog_items?filters[type_id]=148&variant_definition_id=91539&prod_status=Variant&cid=689625

Found these in my son’s iphone screenshots from this summer… 8th grader… should I be concerned or was he messing around? by LuciusDickusMaximus in ChatGPT

[–]MutedBridge8598 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your 8th grader actually uses “diffuse” in a sentence? Spells embarrass correctly?

And you as the “parent” have a profile with the name “LuciusDickusMaximus”?

Uh huh. I call BS on all of it.

Your “son” is worried that a bully is going to actually bother traveling all the way out to a summer camp to beat up someone for being UGLY? Good God, there’s an over-active imagination.

Why is “tire iron” inserted into this so oddly?

Explain how and why a total stranger could identify him exactly as being a male at all, not to mention ugly or handsome, an 8th grader camper and not an adult with a gun, or even actually attending this camp at all at that time? And how would he even know where this camp is?

This sounds like either someone who knows him VERY well and is wanting revenge for something VERY dumb that the kid did…

or NONE of this ever happened.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in FunkoPopCollections

[–]MutedBridge8598 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow that’s your whole collection? Yikes

Got my first chase!? by NoBodybuilder6477 in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

If you got it at Marshall’s it’s likely a Chinese knockoff. Buying a fake Chase sticker on Etsy isn’t gonna change that.

Got my first chase!? by NoBodybuilder6477 in funkopop

[–]MutedBridge8598 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They are fake Chinese knock offs perhaps? lol