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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:05 AM UTC
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i was waiting in line at my local grocery store today and the woman with the three young children who looked disheveled and on edge was kind enough to apologize for the fact that she was using coupons and her kids were being crazy and she had to pay with half credit and part cash and it was taking her a long time and she thought i was getting upset and i smiled and helped her with her groceries and i told her that i was not a person who complains about having to wait and that i was jealous that she was saving so much money with her coupons and she was astonished that people could be so nice to each other and it made my day, that there interaction we had at that moment in time.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:10 AM UTC
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Bombay wrote:
I go to Starbucks almost daily and ask for a "medium coffee". I've never had any issues.
I guess they accommodate the old-schoolers. Of course, it used to be one size. How much for a medium "coffee"?
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:26 AM UTC
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stevewizzle wrote:
RatBastard wrote:
stevewizzle wrote:
ratbastard… defender of all things undeserving of defense.
I didn't see anything that needed defending nor anything that was.
my mistake, you were just being an asshole. sometimes its hard to decipher the two ;)
Whatever makes you happy, but i can promise you that when I am being an asshole you WILL know it! :)
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:29 AM UTC
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beetsnotbeats wrote:
Bombay wrote:
I go to Starbucks almost daily and ask for a "medium coffee". I've never had any issues.
I guess they accommodate the old-schoolers. Of course, it used to be one size. How much for a medium "coffee"?
The sizes at StarSmucks is one of the things I laugh at the most, that and that silly name that they call their coffee pourers in an attempt to make them feel like they better than the counter help at any other place.
http://illwillpress.com/CHC.html
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 12:41 PM UTC
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stevewizzle wrote:
my mistake, you were just being an asshole. sometimes its hard to decipher the two ;)
I think you meant distinguish.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 01:26 PM UTC
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beetsnotbeats wrote:
RatBastard wrote:
grateful wrote:
Now that this is all wrapped up, can we move on to complaining about the line at Starbucks? I mean, come on! 5 people ahead of me?!? What the hell were they thinking?
I just wonder why it is so hard these days to find just a plain old cup of coffee. You know, one with no espresso, frappe, twist, sprinkles, flavoring, or whatnot. Sad to think that one of the few places left where you can actually order and get coffee is waffle house! :)
I don't drink coffee but I've thought that a fun experiment might be to go to a Starbucks or similar establish and simply (and obstinately) say "I'd like a cup of coffee, please." Politely respond to any of their questions about what kind and size with the same request, over and over again until served "a cup of coffee". See what you get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_dxLiuXuw
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:22 PM UTC
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azaghal1981 wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_dxLiuXuw
@ 1:32… wow. it's like a prophecy.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:29 PM UTC
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DC has plenty of coffee shops that don't make you go through the bullshit Starbucks makes you go through. The coffee there is better, too.
Same with Richmond I'm sure, Ratbastard.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 02:45 PM UTC
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dont you know that we live in a society where people believe the theory that the more you spend on an item and the more complicated said item is to understand and grasp, the better it is?
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 03:00 PM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
dont you know that we live in a society where people believe the theory that the more you spend on an item and the more complicated said item is to understand and grasp, the better it is?
Go on…!!
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 03:25 PM UTC
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name one no name brand item that is actually better than the big name brand version of it? i can only think of one off the top of my head. walmart brand cookies. i go to walmart just for these things, and to stare at people. walmart has mastered the art of ripping off company products and making their own versions of them for food stamp prices. they basically have every girl scout cookie, now, for about a dollar twenty five. they have those chocolate marshmallow pinwheel cookies, where nabiscos version cost four dollars and fifty cents, for about one dollar fifty cents. walmart destroys others because of things like this. cookies are my weakness.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 03:32 PM UTC
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Every generic OTC drug.
Well equal, not better.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 03:42 PM UTC
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or generic under the counter drugs as well. i take a medication for a seizure disorder i have had for over fifteen years. that medication is great, but costs four hundred dollars a month. i switched to the generic version of it a few years ago, which i discovered is the exact same ingredients without the fancy name, and works exactly the same, for roughly fifty dollars a month. i know people who down right refuse to take the generic version because they feel it is not the same. hence, my original theory.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 03:44 PM UTC
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ahh . . . i have another example of no name brand better than full strength brand. the brand name of julian, is not as good as the no name brand, that is brian. brian works better and faster, than julian.
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Re: Why use a ticketing service that can't handle public demand?
March 31, 2014 at 07:00 PM UTC
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azaghal1981 wrote:
Every generic OTC drug.
Well equal, not better.
Actually that isn't true. In Baltimore they used have a testing center where they paid you to volunteer to test the generics against the name brands so the generics could get approved. But they were actually testing the name brand against the name brand. I don't take prescription medicine so I really don't care that much but don't think generic medicines are as good as the original.