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This is one of those things that pissed me off, and I could never quite figure out why, like people demanding hot water instead of cold, it's a trifling inconvenience, and then it dawned on me. You bring someone a water - for free - and they immediately begin to bargain with you. They want the water for free, now they want a lemon for free. If you let them they'd demand their meals for free (and some have). It's just fucking bad manners. If I owned a restaurant I'd throw it on the menu - "Add a lemon to your water - only $5.00", an upsell for everyone that didn't know to leave well enough alone...
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Election Day - nobody to vote for and everybody to vote against. Politicians were in the building the other day, rapping on doors, trying to put a friendly face on incompetence and broken promises - the crackheads in the alley are generally a whole lot more likable. And while I have to vote it grieves me that regardless of the outcome, all outcomes are poor.
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YouTube - they're trying to force me to upgrade to premium, I'm being inundated with ads, listening to longer playlists, they've set every one to auto-interrupt, I'm building a list of products I'll never, ever buy.
Christina Applegate in that dumb M&M's ad, I get in French and English. I'm never buying M&M's again.
Grammarly? NEVER NEVER NEVER. FUCK OFF! ... And it's such a long, painful ad that I have to stop whatever I was doing and run to the computer to turn it off.
Internet Entrepreneurs showing me their flashy cars and telling me I could have one too....I don't want one. The UCP party - LOL, I'm NEVER THAT DRUNK.
The list goes on, and every new ad wires my brain to avoid that product at ALL costs...which, I think, rather defeats the purpose of their advertising as much as it defeats the purpose of my listening to uninterrupted music. I haven't burned my CD's yet, I might just have to go back to them...
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But it's good to seeing they're starting to shut down: https://www.eater.com/2019/3/4/18241461/metoo-movement-impact-restaurant-business-mario-batali
It's not just the "Me Too" movement, it's the whole industry - "Hospitality" provides some of the most inhospitable working conditions on earth. What is frightening is how media chooses to glamorize the likes of Gordon Ramsay and create the stereotype of the forgivable culinary genius who can do and say as he pleases because his food tastes so darned good...
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You know, I try to ignore it but they were all so much in the news a few weeks ago. First, in the US 4 cops beat up a black undercover officer after first tweeting things like: “It’s gonna get IGNORANT tonight!!” and “It’s gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these s---heads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!!!!”
But for people that think that would never happen here, not in Canada, I gotta tell you, we topped them:
First, the antics of a couple of drunk Ottawa Officers, which reads like a script for "Bon Cop Bad Cop":
Then, an officer shoots another in Niagara, apparently as a result of losing a fistfight, and the last news update was November 30...?...you'd think there would be a little more interest.
And it rather raises the question, what were the other 11 officer witnesses doing? Just watching? Placing bets? What does that say about the culture? WTF? (and, yes, I know the officers didn't have to be present to be witnesses, but I know - just for a moment - you considered it. And that says a lot...)
Here's a bonus: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/cops-are-set-up-to-be-dangerously-bad-shots and another, try googling "Police Culture of Fear".
Why do we give the people we most wouldn't want to have guns guns? And Vests? And Cars even? Are we that crazy? It appears we are that crazy...