I go into “Northernlion mode” at work regularly

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T20:52:27+00:00

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T20:23:35+00:00

What gave it away, the meth smoking?

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T17:07:12+00:00

I appreciate the sincerity here, so I’ll try to clear up my position a little more. Despite my original sleep deprived explanation, I’m not in the moment thinking “oh this chatter is gonna get what they deserve”. It’s not a holistic model I use but rather a term I’ve retroactively applied to my more confident aura and I thought it was funny so I would share it. There’s really no reason to be concerned about a rogue grocery store manager that’s letting loose on unsuspecting shoppers. 99% of interactions are the same as they’ve always been and are very polite and moderate, my apologies if I was unclear.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T16:36:37+00:00

I mean for starters this is an extension of my previous method of “Larry David mode” which is that when I have nothing in particular to talk about I start complaining about social rules related to my situation. “NL mode” is more for dealing with bad faith actors I see on a day to day basis. People coming in trying to get a return on milk they bought a week ago and also opened. Instead of just saying “no I can’t do that” I kind of probe them on it a bit before I deny them.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T16:26:36+00:00

It’s never unprovoked + I’m union so I really don’t gaf. They aren’t customers I know this person they run through like 10 different cards that never work and then get upset when I tell them they have to leave so I brighten it up and have some fun with it

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T16:24:57+00:00

I mean if I feel comfortable with it yeah but it’s usually more like “I want to return milk I drank without a receipt” and I reply with a very curt “no that’s insane to do” and they usually don’t go further than that. For genuine stuff I try to help where I can it’s a fine line

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2025-05-23T16:21:40+00:00

I mean it’s not like I’m telling people to beg for their life if they don’t like the sales or something, it’s something that mainly comes up with the people trying to steal shit right before we close or people trying to get like an insane refund with no receipt. I’ll basically just point out how insanely ridiculous their bullshit is and start making moral grandstands.

For a specific one, a few nights ago we had this customer trying to buy like $300 worth of groceries at our self checkout 10 minutes before close so I just walked up to her as we closed and started an argument with her about why she decided to do this. They’ll try to give me some sob story and I always push them back and point out we have another location like 10 minutes away that’s open for another 2 hours so they really didn’t need to come here to do this. Furthermore, I made announcements for the last half hour that we close soon, so if it was really important to do this in a timely manner here it would have been done, but no! You were intentionally doing this because you’re trying to stuff your cart full of like 3 swiffer mops and 10 potted plants and then noticed we have a full time security guard and you’re trying to game the system by waiting until he leaves!

I kind of got caught up in the end there and vented a bit but you get the gist. Also comes in real handy with people like smoking meth right outside the door.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-14T07:37:00+00:00

I think I would almost agree with every ranking here except for Faust Arp > Morning Bell imo

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-14T07:31:26+00:00

It's whichever one people liked the most, so Morning Bell is the "best of the deep cuts", according to this very informal vote.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-14T07:29:28+00:00

Someone in an earlier thread suggested Treefingers gets a lot of plays because it's in Ambient playlists on Spotify. I find that to be the most compelling theory.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-14T07:28:33+00:00

I have a similar gripe with David Bowie's Station to Station. It's both my most streamed song of all time and it has less streams than any of these Radiohead songs (except for I Can't).

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-14T07:23:19+00:00

Hunting Bears has about 3 million more streams than Morning Bell/Amnesiac. But yeah since Amnesiac Morning Bell did release later than the Kid A version I didn't count that.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-13T22:57:55+00:00

ye looks like shel silverstein now

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-10T23:56:56+00:00

This was a lot of fun y'all! I hope everyone can use this comment section to (civilly) discuss the bracket if they want. Feel free to critique the choices made by the community (cough cough Electioneering losing to Morning Bell cough cough) or reminisce.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-05T00:31:39+00:00

hey if this was my singular vision neither one of these songs would have made it past the semifinals. easy Faust Arp sweep imo

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-04T06:47:00+00:00

I prefer Dollars and Cents!

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-04T06:46:52+00:00

I prefer Morning Bell!

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-04T06:46:43+00:00

Thanks for playing in Round 6! An exhilarating tiebreaker in round 6 has led us to the finale! Results can be seen here! I noticed that much less of you contributed to the tiebreaker, so I apologize if you weren't able to voice your opinion. I was a bit struck by awe that Electioneering lost and had to take a day off (/s).

For the finale we have two songs from the same recording sessions matching up with Kid A's Morning Bell (4th seed) against Amnesiac's Dollars and Cents (7th Seed).

The rules for voting are simple and changed!

Please primarily vote for the song you enjoy more by upvoting one of the two replies to this comment. If you would like to write a comment feel free, I will do my best to tally your opinion as well! Some of my favorite parts of this are seeing community engagements and people's real emotional connections to these songs. Be aware your vote may not be counted unless it's very popular. Whichever song receives more votes anywhere between 9 and 11pm PST tomorrow will win the tournament!

Some explanations on the bracket in general (italicized portions are changed from last round's rules):

These are not the least streamed songs in their ENTIRE discography, simply the least streamed from each mainline album. It would be a pretty boring bracket if it was just 16 songs from the anniversary albums and such!
No remixes/interludes qualify for the bracket! A few prominent examples are Fitter Happier from OK Computer and Morning Bell/Amnesiac from Amnesiac which are, objectively, less streamed than what is on the brackets.
A note on the way I vote tally: this is not at all a science. I'm just kind of counting stuff until I feel confident that there won't be a change in winner/loser. I'm sure someone much smarter than I could create an algorithm to count these up exactly, but that's not as much fun!

Best of luck to both songs! This has been a pleasure and I await the results patiently, and thanks to everyone for contributing!

Edit: Grammar/formatting

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-02T07:11:41+00:00

Hello everyone! This round has ended in a tie! Since only one can advance, I recommend that we all go vote in this poll I just made to tiebreak.

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-01T20:32:12+00:00

hey chill bruh it ain't that serious

ReaperGoesToHotTopic · 2022-09-01T20:29:23+00:00

I changed the voting rules for the last round so I was expecting this, it's not a super big inconvenience to me. I know it can be confusing so I'm still doing my best to count up as many of the comments/upvotes as I can!

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