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Weirdest question this week.
"Will you sell me this Barbie remote control car on display" (even though it clearly doesn't work and has visible scuff marks from being thrown)
Captain Yesterday: No.
Sometimes, you have to protect them from themselves.
Edit: typical.
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We got new Pops in last week, the EBay collectors (whom I hate) ravaged our inventory this morning (I know because I straightened them out last night) and then the kids with their parents earlier in the evening. So of course the casual nerds are all coming in and making rude comments about our inventory.
To which I get to bust out my "shoulda come in last night/week/month" comment.
Which helps me a lot.
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Dumb teenage cashier: Can you watch the service desk for me
Me: okay, but if anyone comes up I'm walking away
Dumb teenage cashier: You don't know how to do returns, they're easy, I'll show you!
Me: No, that's okay
Dumb teenage cashier: What are you, a lazy bum!
Me: No, that's why I work in the back.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'mschizophrenica disassociative identity disorder sufferer
And so am IFtfy!
(This is actually significantly different from schizophrenia, and, while I get that it is a joke, I try to always remember to take the time to mention the difference to further education and understanding on a really unusual subject that has been... surprisingly misunderstood by pop culture.)
see it at work all the time.
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We got new Pops in last week, the EBay collectors (whom I hate) ravaged our inventory this morning (I know because I straightened them out last night) and then the kids with their parents earlier in the evening. So of course the casual nerds are all coming in and making rude comments about our inventory.
To which I get to bust out my "shoulda come in last night/week/month" comment.
Which helps me a lot.
the only pop I want is a hot topic exclusive mei.
That's it.
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We have a hot topic here, I can look for it if you want. :-)
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I don't get it either. :-)
Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls looks pretty cool, and Professor Farnsworth from Futurama is adorable.
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Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want those Pop things (assuming I'm thinking of the right stuff). I think they look dumb, but hey, whatever floats your boat.
I have a doctor hooves one.
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Can I borrow a kiss? I promise I'll give it back.
Sorry... No one's going to do it, ya know man.
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Why is "You're a peach" a compliment, yet "You're bananas" is an insult? Are we condoning fruit discrimination?
Oi! You ever fight off a man eating fruit? I'm all for fruit discrimination mate! Its how I keep in business ya know. Discriminating the good fruit from the bad.
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Personally, I don't understand why anyone would want those Pop things (assuming I'm thinking of the right stuff). I think they look dumb, but hey, whatever floats your boat.I have a doctor hooves one.
But yes, for the most part they look silly. I think it is part of the appeal though.
I have Darth Vader, a Classic Stormtrooper and Holographic Emperor Palpatine.
Dal has Magneto and Doctor Strange.I really like them!
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If there's any in particular you're looking for, I happen to work at a toy store. :-)
Edit: We're pretty much out of Star Wars though, I spent a good twenty minutes tracking down the last one for this kid Pea Bear's age. :-)
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I am not such a big fan of Star Wars as my collection might suggest xD
I started with the stormtrooper as a joke (because I am a stormtrooper) and the others followed.
I might ask you if I am looking for any specific one, though. Do you ship worldwide?
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Okay, stupid question, but what is there in Gdansk other than the shipyards? All I know about the city is that it's the birthplace of the Solidarity movement.Also, Warsaw, the capitol of Poland is much more expensive. Krakow is pricey but nowhere near the level of Warsaw. They don't have a real castle (though Royal Palace is miscalled Royal Castle) nor dragon cave.
Other cities aside of sea-side Gdansk (aka Danzig)-Gdynia-Sopot triple-city complex and maybe Szczecin are cheaper.
There is a district with historical buildings (which, incidentally is not Old Town, which was mostly destroyed in WWII, but Central Town...)
I actually had a picture of Lech Walesa up in my room throughout high school. I was a serious fangirl.
Until I actually got to meet him after 9/11 and got really angry because [redacted political rant].
Heroes have flaws. Who'd have guessed?
*sigh*
Don't get me started...
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On the insurance front, it seems that the company switched providers a while back, and I simply fell through the cracks. Not a pleasant feeling.That sucks!
Honestly, I'd start calling around to find out whether it's worth lawyering up. I know employment laws are pretty lax, but I'm pretty sure that dropping an employee's health insurance without informing him is illegal.
But of course I'm no lawyer.
Where's Gorbacz when you need him!
Maybe if I leave a trail of legalese from the product discussion area...
He'd mock Americans for privatized healthcare for hours.
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He'd mock Americans for privatized healthcare for hours.On the insurance front, it seems that the company switched providers a while back, and I simply fell through the cracks. Not a pleasant feeling.That sucks!
Honestly, I'd start calling around to find out whether it's worth lawyering up. I know employment laws are pretty lax, but I'm pretty sure that dropping an employee's health insurance without informing him is illegal.
But of course I'm no lawyer.
Where's Gorbacz when you need him!
Maybe if I leave a trail of legalese from the product discussion area...
Working in public healthcare and living in a country that gives it a big relevance I have also a strong opinion on this topic. I don't see the point of arguing about that, I feel it wouldn't be of help.
I just hope that John is able to get everything fixed, because his health should be his first concern, not having to worry about the insurance.My best wishes, John.
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I am not such a big fan of Star Wars as my collection might suggest xD
I started with the stormtrooper as a joke (because I am a stormtrooper) and the others followed.I might ask you if I am looking for any specific one, though. Do you ship worldwide?
I was thinking me personally, due to our proximity to a major university it is surprisingly easy for me to ship internationally.
Price is another thing entirely but you never know. :-)
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Time to take out the trash so I don't have to in the morning and make sure the windows are up on the car so I don't have to wake up when the impending storm hits and stab myself in the head with the car door.
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The storm it turns out is nearly on top of us.
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Okay, stupid question, but what is there in Gdansk other than the shipyards? All I know about the city is that it's the birthplace of the Solidarity movement.Also, Warsaw, the capitol of Poland is much more expensive. Krakow is pricey but nowhere near the level of Warsaw. They don't have a real castle (though Royal Palace is miscalled Royal Castle) nor dragon cave.
Other cities aside of sea-side Gdansk (aka Danzig)-Gdynia-Sopot triple-city complex and maybe Szczecin are cheaper.
There is a district with historical buildings (which, incidentally is not Old Town, which was mostly destroyed in WWII, but Central Town...)
I actually had a picture of Lech Walesa up in my room throughout high school. I was a serious fangirl.
Until I actually got to meet him after 9/11 and got really angry because [redacted political rant].
Heroes have flaws. Who'd have guessed?*sigh*
Don't get me started...
Actually, anytime you felt like it, I would be genuinely curious in hearing your perspective on post-Soviet Poland. The Polish-American community in the U.S. is largely about attending performances by folk dance/song troupes and imagining a fantasized past that probably never existed but that was very neatly embroidered if nothing else, and then going to the inevitable reception and eating lots of food to cover the existential uncertainty (although I'm usually disappointed by the bigos). And it's ridiculously nationalistic and covered in eagles. Which anyone can be when they live somewhere else.
But the few Polish emigres I've met in recent years (parents of students, mostly, who usually work in programming) have acted a bit embarrassed about their home country and spoken darkly about how bad things are now and how conservative the government is. (Granted, this is the Bay Area, so most places are pretty damned conservative by comparison.)
So I have no idea what in the hell any of it means.
But I make a damned good poppy seed cake.
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You know, the Light spell should royally screw with your night vision. Sure, anything near the light should be brightly lit, but everything else should be barely visible, if at all. Lindybeige has a great point about this, though with torches. You need something to keep the light away from you (like a flashlight shaped handle you put the object with the spell cast on it into, which should be a no-brainer for any mage to accomplish) to direct it specifically where you want to go if you want to see anything, and that means restricting your field of vision. Plus, the range on them is pretty crappy and whatever you are fighting knows where you are now.
I like the idea of capitalizing on this. It makes night adventuring much more dangerous, especially somewhere like the West that is a massive, undeveloped frontier without a whole lot of light pollution and with a whole lot of monsters
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It is a good idea, and I had a GM who tried to implement something like that. However, in practice, it slowed everything down so much trying to figure out exactly what was and was not visible. And since combat in 3.5 was not the fastest thing possible (especially with some of the players in that group), we had to abandon it pretty quickly just to keep the game playable. Now, different players and maybe a different system and it would work well. For instance, if your players are fine with a loosey-goosey, hand-wavey way of determining visibility, it could work well. But we had 3 players who NEEDED everything to be precisely defined so they could make the 'optimal' choices.You know, the Light spell should royally screw with your night vision. Sure, anything near the light should be brightly lit, but everything else should be barely visible, if at all. Lindybeige has a great point about this, though with torches. You need something to keep the light away from you (like a flashlight shaped handle you put the object with the spell cast on it into, which should be a no-brainer for any mage to accomplish) to direct it specifically where you want to go if you want to see anything, and that means restricting your field of vision. Plus, the range on them is pretty crappy and whatever you are fighting knows where you are now.
I like the idea of capitalizing on this. It makes night adventuring much more dangerous, especially somewhere like the West that is a massive, undeveloped frontier without a whole lot of light pollution and with a whole lot of monsters
I probably have a significant advantage here. Any game in the forseeable future is likely PBP, so it's much easier to both rapidly draw facings on a map in GIMP or CC3, and time to complete actions is far, far less of an issue. I think some GM management software will even compute facings for you in real time. Virtural tabletop is probably my best option.