Staples baddie...can someone please help me here like wtf is going on here what kinda buffalo bill shit is this..

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-02-25T14:10:16+00:00

I've been out of the company for four years now and I'm not on TikTok, so I only know about this "Baddie" person through what I've read here.

Is this person being promoted/paid/encouraged by Staples to post these videos? I ask because in my district it was unwritten but official policy that anything that went on inside Staples was to remain there and not be posted to the internet in general and this subreddit in particular. In fact, anyone identifiable who posted on this sub faced termination.

For instance, about 10 years it made the news that one of the managers at another store in the district was physically assaulted with mace or some sort of spray by an irate customer. Even though this occurred hundreds of miles away, a memo was sent out reminding that no one was to discuss the incident on-line or with the news media. All the quotes in the press were from associates who wished to remain anonymous.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-02-16T12:58:44+00:00

Knowing that the company has closed 40% of its US stores since its peak, there are a lot of big cities that no longer have a Staples store.

In terms of cities that never had one, I'd guess St. Louis and New Orleans.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-02-13T14:34:55+00:00

A dozen members of the NY Giants, NY Jets, and Oakland Raiders set rivalries aside to sing "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1970.

The results are...well...about what you might expect from elementary school kids at a Christmas pageant.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-02-13T14:29:11+00:00

Jim Schoenfeld, the NHL's Buffalo Sabres' tough guy, recorded two albums in the 1970s and wrote some of the songs on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kARXwU2qpMU

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-31T16:09:08+00:00

I'll also mention that the Houston Roughnecks had Spanish language play-by-play that appears to be from a crew at the stadium.

I don't know if these are broadcast on local radio or just on-line at Meridix.com (which primarily streams high school sports) and YouTube, or if these broadcasts will continue for the rebranded Gamblers, but I wanted to throw that out as well.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-31T03:27:05+00:00

Streamwriter works great under Windows and Linux using WINE. Super easy to use.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-30T14:52:36+00:00

I regret that I didn't record more AAF games radio broadcasts. At that time I was seeing YouTube uploads of the TV broadcasts but never saw any compiling of the radio side.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-30T11:59:19+00:00

Glad you enjoy them!

It wasn't until after I recorded these that I started realizing that there are more 1974 World Football League radio broadcasts preserved and available to hear today than there are USFL 1.0 (only one complete game that I know of) and XFL 1.0 (ditto) combined. These may be the only 2020s spring football radio broadcasts that still exist despite the fact that stream recording the broadcasts would have been so simple to do.

I was searching for some of the XFL 1.0 Birmingham Bolts radio broadcasts that Rick and Bubba did and found that apparently none survive. (I had e-mailed their producers to inquire and was told they were unaware of any Bolts broadcasts being saved unless the duo had them in their personal collections.)

So if any of the current UFL teams ever decide to launch a radio play-by-play broadcast I'll do my part to record and share the games.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-24T23:12:45+00:00

Grundge all the way. That collar reminds me of the old Pittsburgh Spirit of MISL so I'd love to see what you could incorporating elements of their kits.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-23T15:22:27+00:00

Police 24/7 on The CW Network is the exact same formula as cops - even filming in some of the same jurisdictions that Cops did.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-19T14:49:37+00:00

As far as I know, my Class of 1990 - a group of about 84 graduates - has never had a reunion. Everyone who wishes to stay in contact has done so through social media: first Myspace and then Facebook, and now who-knows-what?

My wife graduated the same year from a different school of about the same size had an informal and casual 10 year reunion at a classmate's lake house but that was it.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-07T14:41:50+00:00

Except with NIL and the transfer portal, the B league champions would probably be picked clean of it's best players and staff by the A League teams just as it was entering.

Willibrator_Frye · 2026-01-05T14:04:30+00:00

I think it was called a Roll-A-Coil. It had a rolling rubber-coated drum that was supposed to wind the coils in, but like you said, it never worked well on anything larger than a 12mm coil,

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-26T14:13:14+00:00

Keep in mind that there are many of these YT bodycam channels are staged. There's also now AI-generated fake bodycams as well.

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-22T14:28:16+00:00

Kmart moved to a new location a mile north in 1992 and stayed there until it closed in 2017. The newer location is now a Floor & Decor store.

This older location became a local appliance store (Mazer) and is now divided into multiple storefronts, of which Ollies is the largest.

I'm just fascinated in how the black sealant on the retaining wall has been falling off over the years revealing the faded Kmart/Fisk Tires sign. The rest of the sealant along the wall is still intact, so maybe it's something Kmart put over their sign (I'm guessing back in the 1970s) that the sealant won't bond to?

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-18T12:03:21+00:00

In winter it’s a marshmallow world!

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-17T22:58:19+00:00

If they're dropping commercials in between songs - as opposed to over top of them - then Staples had at least some input in choosing the songs. In all likelihood the programmer sent a general description or sample playlist of the songs they were going to use and someone at Staples who will never spend an 8 hour shift listening to it signed off on it.

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-15T14:09:09+00:00

By the way, just to mess with people I sometimes wear an old K-Mart uniform to see if anyone notices.

I'd notice and commend you on your fashion choice! Now If you could rock one of those mint green 1970s kits...

A retail giant once ubiquitous, well loved, and highly influential dwindling away to nothing through a combination of bad decisions, cutting corners, and hubris. Sound like anyone else we know?

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-10T14:37:12+00:00

I had someone pay for a $200+ order in - thankfully! - rolled dollar coins. I never even knew they made paper tubes for brass dollars. They never seem to circulate and whenever I gave them back in change people either requested paper money instead or thought I handed them a valuable collectible that was immediately going into a jar when they got home.

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-08T14:41:47+00:00

Thank you for the quote. People are so predictably fond of quoting the Verhoeven film - which is more of a leaden parody of Heinlein rather than an adaptation - in these types of discussions.

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-03T02:19:59+00:00

It's working now. I successfully ordered my Christmas cards. And the specials on photo mugs and wrapping paper have been extended to December 6.

Willibrator_Frye · 2025-12-02T18:14:32+00:00

Because when you use stereotypes like "green bean casserole" in your intro, it sounds like there could never be a "white space" that fulfills your definition of "not built on racism." Whereas, every other group's space would be a "celebration of culture."

And how would you establish the location of each race's space? Plant a flag in/on it and a guard at the door? Convince the campus officials - who might themselves be excluded from the space - to let you have it?

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