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Author Topic: The "What makes me go insane!" thread Andy Bajew Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Bellaire, Texas Registered: Jun 2009 posted 09-30-2009 03:40 PM                     I have seen cane sugar coke at every grocery store I have been to in the last year. If they have an international aisle of some sort-it's right down there.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-30-2009 03:42 PM                  God loves Coca-Cola. Satan loves Pepsi  |  IP: Logged Joe Tommassello Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 547 From: Coatesville, PA, USA Registered: Jan 2008 posted 09-30-2009 04:08 PM                  A "Your Stimulus Dollars At Work" sign and the only thing there is the sign.  |  IP: Logged Karl Borowski Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Sulking in GameFAQ Forum Registered: Sep 2009 posted 09-30-2009 05:00 PM                     Joe, you just made me laugh out loud. Better yet, when there's ALMOST nothgin there, like a patch of flowers. Not that I dislike flowers, but how many jobs did *that* activity create?  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 09-30-2009 09:15 PM                     An issue that has been driving me crazy the past few years is when we have some one in the Armed Forces come in and ask is we have a military discount. When we say we don't they usually comment about not "supporting" the troops or some other guilt trip. While I personally support our men and women in uniform in many different ways, it bugs the hell out of me when they assume that I have any control over the pricing structure and to imply that somehow I or the theatre owners don't support them.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-01-2009 01:51 AM                        If they give you grief, just tell them: "I support you with my taxes."  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 10-01-2009 05:28 PM                     Morons who setup restroom stalls where the toilet is off center to one side and they mount the toilet paper dispenser on the side without any room, forcing you to sit sideways on the seat. Then just to be extra annoying, they put the toilet paper dispenser real low to the ground under the excuse "we had to put it underneath the handicap access bars" so you have to lean way over to try and dispense any of the paper and keep it from getting on the ground.  |  IP: Logged Luke Anderson Film Handler Posts: 25 From: Spokane, Wa Unites States Registered: Jun 2009 posted 10-01-2009 07:25 PM                    Loading a program or update that has a % or time clock for how much is left. They always fly by until you get down to that last % or second and then that actually takes minutes. It makes me want to slam my fist through the screen. -Luke  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 10-02-2009 07:30 AM                     quote: Jeremy Weigel An issue that has been driving me crazy the past few years is when we have some one in the Armed Forces come in and ask is we have a military discount. While I and my affiliates go way out to support the troops, I don't think that support means that everything must be discounted. If they want discounts they can go to a base theater same as they can go to the commissary to buy food. I do believe in entitlements for veterans and members of the armed services but they are tied to government programs. Expecting the business community to provide discounts with the notion of not to do so is not supporting the troops, is simply over the top.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-02-2009 11:28 AM                        Public restroom annoyances: Toilet paper dispensers that make you fight for every sheet. Those new motion-detector paper towel dispensers -- when they don't work. You're standing there waving at it like a moron and nothing comes out, and there is no manual-advance lever.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 10-04-2009 03:45 PM                     On some automatic paper towel dispensers, tearing off a sheet is supposed to pull up on the cutter blade to re-arm the dispenser. Gently reaching into the dispenser slot and lightly pushing the blade upward should reset the unit if it fails to dispense. A light push is all that's needed; push hard and you'll cut yourself. I use that reset technique to get a longer sheet on dispensers calibrated to dispense a short sheet.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-04-2009 08:26 PM                     quote: Randy Stankey I'll bet you a nickel that, they are selling "New Coke" right now. They just don't advertise it. When the backlash from the original "New Coke" campaign hit, they withdrew it, for sure. But I bet they gradually changed the formula back and are selling "New Coke" or something very close to it right now but it's just sold in "Regular" cans and bottles. I was told by an employee whose father works for Coke here in OKC, that any Coke product labeled as "Coke" is the actually the "New Coke" formula and any product labeled "Coca-Cola" is the original formula. Example: Diet Coke= New Coke in diet form. So yes Coca-Cola Zero is actually the true diet form of the original formula.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-04-2009 08:46 PM                     Hmmm... I'm going to have to look into that. Thanks for the tip!  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-05-2009 04:05 AM                        I thought they completely and ignominiously abandoned "new" coke once their marketing guys realized that everyone to a person on the entire planet hated it.  |  IP: Logged Phil Blake Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 558 From: esperance western australia Registered: Nov 2003 posted 10-05-2009 06:44 AM                        people that walk over to their car in car park hop in start up select reverse then wait about 200 years before they back out ends up with one waiting for the parking space and several thousand cars piled up behind. and iam with brad on those that dwell in the center of shopping isles.  |  IP: Logged

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