The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Wu Wei]

I hate NYC.... but I REALLY like Chinatown.....

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Stevicus]

Bill Cosby says he’s planning 2023 comedy tour | KTLA

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Bill Cosby says he’s planning 2023 comedy tour | KTLA

That's something I won't be watching.

 

[Stevicus]

That's something I won't be watching.

I'm sure I won't be watching it.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Bill Cosby says he’s planning 2023 comedy tour | KTLA

Jeez... I remember watching the Bill Cosby Show on Nick @ Nite

 

[sun rise]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Bill Cosby says he’s planning 2023 comedy tour | KTLA

Fortunately I got to see him before we knew what he was doing.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Shouldn't they look like gay straight gnomes?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

'Disruption we've never seen': What's causing the Southwest Airlines meltdown? (msn.com)

I guess Southwest Airlines is really in a mess. Tens of thousands stranded - and many don't know where their luggage went.

It wasn't just due to the weather, but apparently they've got some kind of antiquated scheduling system and IT issues which have been going on for more than a decade, according to someone from their pilots union.







Top 10 airlines in the world for 2022 (cnbc.com)

Not a single U.S. carrier made the top ten list.

Someone just needs to whomp airline executives upside their heads and some sense beaten into them, and some way thought of to simulate having crappy, arthritic knees and having sit on what they consider suitable legroom for passengers.
And then TSA just needs whomped while the whomps are being distributed. I personally would not object if the whomps included a machete to the hands or wrists, because they are Thieves and Sexual Assaulters and even Jesus agrees if your hand does bad then chop it off.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Looking back on my life, I realize I'm closer and closer to just up and staging a random musical, and hoping people sing along like on TV, and I'm not just in a shopping mall singing to myself, "Whoa-oh-ohhh!"

 

[Shadow Wolf]

We could stage a three-way battle between Neo, Tony Montana, and General Ursus (the Gorilla leader in Beneath the POTA).

That wouldn't be a contest. Fate and giving in and doing what he was meant to do is what it took to kill him. Which means that really Tony should win, because those apes are just nuts and the heroes just cause so much destruction. Tony 2024, because we're all good just so long as we don't mess with him. The other two, one way or another, somehow and someway, we'll end up being thrown into the maelstrom.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

One thing the new Matrix did very good at was making me yearn to be thrown back into the old Matrix.

 

[Revoltingest]

Jeez... I remember watching the Bill Cosby Show on Nick @ Nite

I disliked his show even before
we knew how rapey he is.

 

[Stevicus]

Looking back on my life, I realize I'm closer and closer to just up and staging a random musical, and hoping people sing along like on TV, and I'm not just in a shopping mall singing to myself, "Whoa-oh-ohhh!"

You mean like in this scene, where someone starts singing and everyone on the street starts dancing?

 

[Stevicus]

Saanich woman loses thousands of dollars to puppy scam - Alaska Highway News - (furthertrends.com)

Saanich police say a woman lost thousands of dollars over the course of two weeks when she tried to buy a puppy from an online site.

The case began when she responded to an advertisement Dec. 4 on Facebook Marketplace listing a Maltese puppy for sale.

The “seller” told her they were from the United States and directed her to a website that had dogs for sale, but that has since been taken down.

The “seller” requested a money order from the woman. Once they received it, however, they asked for additional funds for such things as shots, licensing and registration, and warned the puppy’s welfare would be at risk if they didn’t receive more money.

The company doing the money transfers warned the woman she was likely involved with a fraudster, but when she mentioned that to the “seller”, they demanded that she send them prepaid Visa gift cards.

She was told to go a specific store and buy a particular type of card. They were in packages that had already been tampered with and contained fake cards with altered barcodes. When the 15 cards were loaded by the teller in the store, the money was sent directly to the scammer.

“These scammers often resort to threats to defraud their victims of as much of their money as possible,” said Const. Markus Ansatasiades. “We have recently started to see these altered gift cards being reported to police, which demonstrates the level at which these criminals will go to defraud the general public.”

Police recommend that anyone looking to buy a pet try to do it locally through a reputable dealer who can be seen in person before money is exchanged.

Any seller who issues threats is likely a fraudster, said police, who advised inspecting the barcodes of prepaid gift cards to determine if they have been tampered with. In this case, the actual card was replaced with a blank card with a barcode sticker, police said.

There are a few issues which come to mind here.

- How do people get scammed so easily like this? My grandfather was a salesman, and he showed me what to look out for. Maybe that's where my cynical and untrusting side comes from.

- I don't do Facebook, though I noticed that she got this from Facebook Marketplace. It's interesting that social media presumes to take a paternalistic attitude when it comes to opinions they don't like, but when it comes to scammers and tricksters like this, they apparently don't feel any responsibility to be so protective of their users.

- Why in the heck is someone buying puppies online anyway? There are shelters where people can adopt puppies for considerably less money. If they're looking for a particular breed, there are responsible breeders.

 

[sun rise]

After the latest post in this thread, I'm going to take our four-legged person on a short walk because the rain has abated for now.