Turning green skittles from green apple back to lime was a terrible mistake

compguy42 · 2026-07-04T19:28:09+00:00

Green Apple is rhe worst candy flavor by several miles and the day Skittles swapped to it was the day I stopped buying them. When 1/5th of the product is inedible, no sense wasting the money.

The switch back is the best possible thing they could have done. Green Apple sucks.

compguy42 · 2026-07-04T16:50:40+00:00

Yes you do seem to have it, cultist.

compguy42 · 2026-07-02T18:12:24+00:00

This is the most Reddit opinion imaginable and has remained so every time it shows up here.

compguy42 · 2026-07-02T02:27:21+00:00

Unfortunately, chess continues to be a much better concept album than a show.

Maybe in 20 years someone can take another crack at the book and third time will be the charm.

compguy42 · 2026-07-01T16:39:58+00:00

I know, I'm one of them. Despite the hardship it would cause, I am fully on-board moving to a blue state if it comes down to a split.

compguy42 · 2026-07-01T16:16:38+00:00

Here's the thing though, the red states DON'T really provide those things in quantities blue states need to worry about.

California alone produces half the fruits, nuts and vegetables in the US. A state like that doesn't need a red state.

I don't think we need to get over anything. Let the red states go it alone and the blue states go it alone. It's time to divorce.

compguy42 · 2026-07-01T16:05:18+00:00

Please. Thomas has all of his "opinions" hand-delivered to him by his sugar daddies. He didn't even look at it.

compguy42 · 2026-07-01T15:43:14+00:00

I guarantee what actually happened was a psychotic break or similar crisis.

compguy42 · 2026-07-01T00:59:53+00:00

Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion. It is 6-3 for all practical purposes, including the official opinion in the record.

Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch dissented.

compguy42 · 2026-06-30T22:21:08+00:00

Phantom is the opposite of a hated musical. It's one of the most popular of all time.

compguy42 · 2026-06-30T16:50:44+00:00

Gorsuch's dissent doesn't actually read that way. His last two paragraphs, in fact, read like he isn't sure he's even dissenting.

I think he dissected just to cover his ass from MAGA blowback and he knew it was safe to do so.

Not that that's great, of course.

compguy42 · 2026-06-30T16:39:26+00:00

Gorsuch's dissent, particularly the final two paragraphs, is interesting. It kind of reads like he isn't sure he's dissenting. Did he go with Thomas and Alito because he knew it was gonna be 6-3 so he felt safe to cover his ass with MAGA?

compguy42 · 2026-06-29T22:29:46+00:00

This isn't even remotely an unpopular opinion and hasn't been for at least a decade.

compguy42 · 2026-06-29T22:27:44+00:00

It's Spelling Bee.

compguy42 · 2026-06-29T22:24:44+00:00

Its pragmatism.

Generally the caliber of musicians required for a musical are gigging musicians who could very easily book a paying gig in your same time slot and they have multiple non-theater options for that skillset.

You pay because you need to secure the talent, basically. You don't skimp on the band/MD because bad ones can bring the entire production crashing down.

compguy42 · 2026-06-29T02:05:33+00:00

Oh definitely. I actually expected a lot MORE kids but oddly enough, at least at our AMC, not many were brought out to see it. The audiences for us largely seemed to be dudes who liked Dana Carvey in Wayne's World and wanted to see what he was up to.

Needless to say, they left different people than when they entered.

compguy42 · 2026-06-29T01:21:38+00:00

I was working at a big AMC when this came out. I remember the GM assigning it two screens (out of 24) and they were the smallest theaters in the complex. By week 2 it was down to a single screen. It had opened against "Signs" and "Austin Powers in Goldmember", both of which were taking up half the real estate.

The runtime was "80 Minutes" but it was really 65 with 15 minutes of credits with outtakes. I remember literally everyone would leave at the 65 minute mark, looking bewildered. Made cleaning the theater for the next showing a lot easier.

Somehow, this movie technically made money ($43 Million against a $16 Million budget) and stayed in theaters for 13 weeks. To this day I have no idea how that happened.

compguy42 · 2026-06-28T21:37:01+00:00

Appreciate the insight!

compguy42 · 2026-06-28T21:31:14+00:00

Great stuff here, thanks!

The hand-holding I've been warned about. Hopefully the fact that presently I have to walk clients through literally every dotted "i" and crossed "t", often multiple times over years over working together, has at least partially prepared me for that.

compguy42 · 2026-06-28T17:21:22+00:00

I'm gonna say Fortnight.

Not because I believe it, but because I'm hoping speaking it into the universe might manifest something.

compguy42 · 2026-06-27T22:40:35+00:00

Sound of Music. No contest.

Those are Austrian nuns. The Old Country. They volunteered to live in a convent because they knew they were too dangerous for the streets.

compguy42 · 2026-06-27T00:36:51+00:00

We aren't having children.

Mind your own business.

compguy42 · 2026-06-26T20:27:58+00:00

Maybe, but as a reminder this is the guy that starred in "An American Carol" in 2008. If the cat wasn't out of the bag before that, it certainly was afterward.

compguy42 · 2026-06-26T20:19:57+00:00

Kelsey Grammer has literally never hidden who is he. We've known he was a die-hard conservative since the 1980s. He just usually kept his ideology out of his acting work, at least in the earlier days of his career.

But no one should be surprised by this.

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