The First World Whinging Thread

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  1. NobodySpecial

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    I bought a bag of the new Cheetos cheese popcorn, and I’m slightly disappointed. It’s a rather meek cheese flavoring, almost a why-even-bother level flavoring. Certainly not the can’t-touch-this level they purport in the commercials.
     
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  2. Steve Rivers

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    So I read that Cadburys are reducing the size of their multipack chocolate bars in the UK...

    The reason their PR marketing department came out with? "To help people with obesity and reduce the public's calorie intake." whilst keeping the price exactly the same.

    This, despite their regular, single bars aren't changing in size.
    Aren't they so thoughtful and conscientious!

    Result? They've been made a laughing stock on social media.

    When will these numbskulls in marketing learn that sometimes honesty IS the best policy. Coronavirus gives you the ULTIMATE excuse (even if food sales are going through the roof). Just say "Times are tough, we dont want to sack anyone, so we have to reduce the bars in size a little." No one would bat an eyelid, even if that excuse was also full of crap.
     
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    I'm legally forbidden from batting my eyes in all but the direst of circumstances anyway.
     
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    When you think about it -- or at least when I think about it -- it's amazing how many people are working so hard to transfer your money to their bank account, by convincing you that you need a product or service they just happen to have. If you have to be convinced you have a need, you probably don't.
     
  5. Malisky

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    Just gulped down the last drops of wine. Next sip is coffee. It's ten thirty am, I'm sleepless, not the least bit sleepy yet although my eyes feel kinda tired and I have to go to a party in about 12 hours in the edge of the world. I don't wannaaaaaa!!! I feel like throwing a tantrum. I just want to stay in my cave, read, write, watch some stupid xianxia and abstain from mingling with people today, unless I know them all well. Furthermore, I've been in a roll these past couple of days. The weather is perfect for writing. Windy and cool.

    Problem is I ditched going to this friend's party last year too and I promised I'd go... two weeks ago... one week ago too... when I was still feeling heroic and strong. Me and my big, optimistic mouth. Damn...

    As this is not enough, my sister and her boyfriend are returning today from their short vacation, which means no more walking around in the house semi commando from now on again. What a discomfort!

    There's a multitude of other things too, a plethora of rants stuck like fishbones in my throat, oh, here's a brand new one: a friend just pmed me on messenger asking me ironically where I've vanished this time and I just want to Freddie out!

     
  6. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    It's in the 90s so I thought I might go to the theater. Social distancing and all, but they are open. The closest one has four of its ten screens showing Doraemon 2020, the newest installment in the annual series of movies based on that blue robot cat. Thirteen showings in one day, all mostly because Hollywood hasn't been able to release shit due to the pandemic.

    Oh, no, wait, Hollywood has been able to release shit. There's a late show of the newest (nearly annual) installment of Invisible Man. Think I had a chance to see that on the airplane and passed on it.
     
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    In case you are looking for movies I can suggest some pretty interesting platforms outside netflix. Some are free (although I don't know about your location restrictions and one very decent one has a 14 day free trial or something. It's not the big screen but at least it's not Doraemon.
     
  8. Iain Aschendale

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    Thanks, I've got Netflix and Prime. What I was really after was two hours of not seeing my living room :(. I took three weeks to the US back in February, which isn't nothing, but other than that I've been mostly at home since Christmas. Many are in the same situation, I realize, but it's still getting a tad boring and the cinema is within approved safety guidelines, soo...
     
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    Oh, I see. Can't you make at least a brief escape somewhere nice? A two day trip? Over here, I sense a new lock down falling upon us after tourist season is over. Things are already dead and I mean dead for a touristic season. So far I'm trying to harvest the pros of the now and forget about the brutality of what's coming up next.

    Aren't there any outside events in Japan? Is everything cancelled?
     
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    And here in my teens I thought we were all going to die in nuclear fire or revelations sky falling, not of boredom. Being human is going to kill us. o_O
     
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    I got an eye infection from dirt spattered up while digging a grave for the recently demised family dog. The hound was killed by a paralysis tick - nasty blighters. So I went to the optometrist and they gave me eye drops to fix the infection. Now I've got pain from the infection as well as an inability to work because the drops make my vision blurry. I've had to blow up my big PC screen to 250% just to read this message to type it.
     
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    Damn man, I'm sorry to hear it. Already being blind in one eye from having a tumor on a retinal nerve when I was barely a year old, I know how concerning eye troubles can be.

    Hope you get better and back to work soon.
     
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  13. Iain Aschendale

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    The cinemas are open but the only two English language films showing this week are Onward and Inception.

    Family-friendly animation?

    Nope, not with an 18 dollar ticket price and a ten dollar train ride to get there.

    Dicaprio?

    Not if you stapled me to the seat through something tender...
     
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    Probably a matter of cost, but canned goods manufacturers need to switch all their products over to the pull-ring opener so I don't need to have a can opener any more.
     
  15. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    90% of them in Japan have...

    Try to find a can opener in a shop.

    Any shop.
     
  16. NobodySpecial

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    life is a terminal disease.
     
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  17. NobodySpecial

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    I’m sitting here at the tire shop, finally getting those new tires I was whinging about needing last winter, and I’ve discovered where they make the real money around here: the Coke machine at $2.50 for a 20oz bottle of soda.
     
  18. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    Well, that and the stem lube. Winter is coming, y'know.

     
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    At least they didn’t try selling me new hubcap bearings for my aluminum wheels.
     
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  20. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

    Friedrich Kugelschreiber marshmallow Contributor

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    I would never pay more than $1.75.
     
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  21. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    160yen (so about $1.60 USD) is the highest I've seen 500ml bottled soft drinks for.

    Except for the $4.00 12 oz cans of Coca Cola at the vending machines on top of Mt. Fuji, that is.

    Not my picture, but I've been there and seen it. Utterly without any respect for nature or good taste.

    [​IMG]
     
  22. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    It must be expensive to refill it.
     
  23. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    There's actually a dirt road for authorized vehicle traffic up the mountain. Not your corner convenience store, but it's not a pack-train of Sherpas on guest-worker visas either.
     
  24. Friedrich Kugelschreiber

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    Ah. I was thinking mountain, but of course it's Japan.
     
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    Of course, you get up there and then you find what you REALLY want is a Sprite.
     

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