The Complaint Thread

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TheSameIdiot said:
I looked this up because I love Olivia's music. As far as I can tell, it isn't her, but I'd love to hear whoever it was.
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Now I need to figure out who it was. It SOUNDED like her but there's a few singers who have similar inflections and since it was a cover I didn't know who the singer was. I'll try to track it down.
AceofKnaves said:
That is an *excellent* film, starring three incredibly talented actors, one gone far too soon. It’s by far the best adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew of all time.
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Yeah, always enjoyed it as stealth Shakespeare for an audience that often didn't know it.
 
docsilence said:
Now I need to figure out who it was. It SOUNDED like her but there's a few singers who have similar inflections and since it was a cover I didn't know who the singer was. I'll try to track it down.

Yeah, always enjoyed it as stealth Shakespeare for an audience that often didn't know it.
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Meghan Trainor did a Christmas album I think. I don't know if she sound Roddish but maybe it was one hers?
 
TheSameIdiot said:
10 Things I Hate About You.
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I'm pretty sure that movie killed my acting career.

I was trying to get professional in Seattle at the time, and my agent sent me to interview for a stand-in job for Joseph Gordon-Levitt. It was a good opportunity, but Gordon-Levitt famously had straight black hair at the time, and I had blond curly hair. I obviously didn't get the job, and only later learned that Heath Ledger, who famously had blond curly hair at the time, was also in the movie and I'm pretty sure I got sent to the wrong meeting by my agent.

Long story short, two weeks later I get a call from my agent saying she was gettng complaints about me causing disruptions on the set of 10 Things, and I was all "I'm not even working on 10 Things." She had to believe me, but I don't think I ever got a call again.

I still wonder if there was another Fletcher Gibson in Seattle at the time causing shit and ruining my name.
 
Swung by my local CVS for a few thing and they had the toothpaste behind a locked screen.

You know what? If someone needs to steal toothpaste, no they didn't. Fucking let them. This country's decision that nobody deserves working teeth is one of its most petty evils in an endless stream of petty evils.
 
docsilence said:
Swung by my local CVS for a few thing and they had the toothpaste behind a locked screen.

You know what? If someone needs to steal toothpaste, no they didn't. Fucking let them. This country's decision that nobody deserves working teeth is one of its most petty evils in an endless stream of petty evils.
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I feel this way about a lot of things, really. If someone needs tampons or shampoo bad enough to steal it, what have we done with this society we've built? Was any of it even worth it when some teenager is stealing deodorant?
 
Damien said:
I feel this way about a lot of things, really. If someone needs tampons or shampoo bad enough to steal it, what have we done with this society we've built? Was any of it even worth it when some teenager is stealing deodorant?
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Diapers and formula. Diapers and formula should be fucking free, not locked behind a glass case. And yeah, deodorant, soap, toothpaste, tampons, anything basic to being a living part of society.
 
docsilence said:
Diapers and formula. Diapers and formula should be fucking free, not locked behind a glass case. And yeah, deodorant, soap, toothpaste, tampons, anything basic to being a living part of society.
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Absolutely. I'd rather my taxes went to provide free diapers and tampons than to dropping more bombs on brown kids.
 
That's a topic that becomes more near and dear to me the older I get. Here in NY, there are so many places where SO much is behind glass. At some pharmacies it's almost everything- candy, shampoo/body wash, vitamins, etc. It's easier to list the things that aren't behind glass. Our Targets vary wildly- most of the bigger ones, lots of things are behind glass- shampoo/body wash, deodorant, vitamins, diapers/formula, clothes, soap, facial cleanser, Clorox wipes, etc. At some smaller Targets, it's only certain things like toothpaste and deodorant, while everything else is out and about. Being behind glass is only part of the problem though, because there only ever seems to be one employee- maaaaaybe two if we're lucky- that have the keys to open the glass for the entire store. I've waited upwards of 20 minutes, ringing the little bell multiple times, just to get a thing of vitamins or a pair of underwear. You better know damn well which kind of deodorant or body wash you want ahead of time, because they don't let you stand there and smell all of them. It's always when I'm trying to be responsible and blow my money on "important" things that life shows me why I don't. 😅 Lots of smaller stores too, like Five Below, more and more of them make you leave whatever bag you have at the front- purse, shoulder bag, shopping bag from another store- because so many people shoplift. It's a first world problem, for sure. If there's any essentials I need anymore, I pretty much just place an order for pickup to take the frustration away.

Like others have said, it's kinda maddening that more effort is going into preventing someone from shoplifting or fare evading than homelessness, healthcare, preventing wars, etc. I don't condone shoplifting per se (depends who's reading this), but I ain't gonna be no snitch if I see someone sneaking out essentials. As someone who's been on both sides, you gotta do what it takes to feed your family. If a homeless person sneaking out a box of M&Ms means they get to eat today, I ain't gonna be the one stopping them. Even the less important things at Five Below and such- even poor people deserve some whimsy in their life. God forbid someone takes a cheap, mass produced toy that probably costs like $1 to make. Sure hope the company can survive that. :rolleyes:
 
I absolutely condone shoplifting. Of basically anything. Just as there is no ethical consumption under Capitalism, there also can be no petty theft under Capitalism. At least not where major corporations are concerned. Walmart (for instance) makes billions of dollars and much of that is price inflation, wage theft, relying on YOUR taxpayer subsidies both directly to the corporation and in the form of welfare systems their workers rely on to survive despite having jobs, and utter market domination done in the sleaziest, borderline illegal ways possible. It is NEVER morally wrong to steal from Walmart. Fill your boots, as they say.


Stealing from the self-appointed 'upper class' is morally correct.
 
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