Random Crap

orald · Post by **orald** » 07 Apr 2009 09:56

Only in Scotland do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

That actually seems perfectly sensible since you, as a business owner, wouldn't want to scare customers off with a line of sick people at the front of your establishment(that's what pharmacies are for), and considering smokers only really want to grab their dose and be out in the street as quickly as possible.

I was looking at a (mostly)car sales magazine we have in the gas station for people to pick up the other day and noticed the backcover advert, featuring a jaccuzi(sp?) for 5 people, thinking how it represents good marketing.

Now, first off, your audience would be mostly male, right?
So you put mostly naked, attractive females in there.
Second, it's advertized as fitting up to 5 people, so you put only 4 of said females, leaving room for the retarded subconcious mind of the customer to fill in the extra slot with his own flabby body.

And people just don't notice these things, and they probably work quite well. It's 1984 all over the place and people don't get it.

SwordMaster · Post by **SwordMaster** » 07 Apr 2009 11:21

What ever happend to ARCH ?

TheDukester · Post by **TheDukester** » 07 Apr 2009 12:03

Every one of the "only ins" applies to the U.S., too, at least partially.

orald · Post by **orald** » 07 Apr 2009 12:59

SwordMaster wrote:What ever happend to ARCH ?

I guess she might've found it a bit discouraging to hang around here with Chig's awful attitude.

I still don't know what inflames Chig so about her.

Post by **Freakzilla** » 07 Apr 2009 13:16

She seems to have always been a less-than-consistant poster. She will dissappear for a while then post in every thread in a matter of days. She'll be back in a while...

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » 07 Apr 2009 13:20

orald wrote:
SwordMaster wrote:What ever happend to ARCH ?
I guess she might've found it a bit discouraging to hang around here with Chig's awful attitude.

I still don't know what inflames Chig so about her.

I know it seems that way to you, but from what I've seen she brings up all the old bullshit they argued about the last time she popped in, makes a big deal of it, then disappears.

SwordMaster · Post by **SwordMaster** » 07 Apr 2009 13:41

I never could understand much of her posts, random caps and a strange broken English... then she complains about the war and how it ruined her life. It does take some getting used to Chig making fun of your spelling and rating the dune worthy-ness of your posts. But I enjoy it.

Mandy · Post by **Mandy** » 07 Apr 2009 13:46

Chig only cracks the whip out of love

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 07 Apr 2009 13:49

Mandy wrote:Chig only cracks the whip out of love

Then he deeply cares about ARCH...

TheDukester · Post by **TheDukester** » 07 Apr 2009 14:40

Freakzilla wrote:She seems to have always been a less-than-consistant poster.

The terms of her probation likely limit computer usage.

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 07 Apr 2009 15:01

Her gown was quite fetching.

SwordMaster · Post by **SwordMaster** » 07 Apr 2009 15:32

GamePlayer wrote:Her gown was quite fetching.

LOL all I can to that one is LOFL

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 07 Apr 2009 16:30

I hear you should be able to find her quite easily over on C-H Tabr, SwordMaster. She's a little ray of sunshine over there.

inhuien · Post by **inhuien** » 09 Apr 2009 09:37

Here's an article from AfterDawn.

Microsoft, Lionhead settle alleged homophobia suit

Microsoft has quietly announced they have settled with game developer Jamie Durrant who had sued the software giant over alleged homophobia within the company.

Durrant was asking for GBP 45,000 in the case, in which he claimed Microsoft's HR department "blatantly disregarded" his complaints of homophobic abuse within Microsoft's Lionhead Studios.

"We are pleased to have reached an amicable resolution to this matter with Mr. Durrant," noted a Microsoft spokesman. "The terms of the settlement are confidential, but we can confirm that Mr. Durrant will not continue his employment at Lionhead as part of the agreement."

"Microsoft has a longstanding commitment to diversity. We attract, recruit and respect diverse talent and we have included sexual orientation in our anti-discrimination policies for 20 years.

"Our efforts have been recognised by a wide range of groups, including the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in its 2009 Corporate Equality Index. We do not tolerate breaches of our code of business conduct and take any complaints extremely seriously.

"Throughout this process, those to whom Mr. Durrant brought his concerns have taken them seriously and concrete actions have been taken to address them. Neither Mr. Durrant's sexual orientation nor the nature of his complaint had any bearing on the way it was handled," concluded the company.

Durrant had claimed that emails began being sent around the office with subject headings such as 'I'm Jim and I'm Gay' and 'Me and My Favorite Men', while other developers called him "Fag Boy Jim" around the office.

inhuien · Post by **inhuien** » 09 Apr 2009 09:54

I wish I'd read your link as it took me to the Daily Hate, I mean, Daily Mail website. Man, I'm never going to feel clean again.

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 09 Apr 2009 10:29

Isn't that a tabloid newspaper?

inhuien · Post by **inhuien** » 09 Apr 2009 11:05

Very, and a bit right of centre.

SandChigger · Post by **SandChigger** » 09 Apr 2009 12:06

South Africa ... are they still on my surgical strike list or not? I forget....

GamePlayer · Post by **GamePlayer** » 09 Apr 2009 12:20

inhuien wrote:Very, and a bit right of centre.

That's what I thought. Thanks inhuien.

SandChigger wrote:South Africa ... are they still on my surgical strike list or not? I forget....

Don't hate the bomber; hate the bomb

orald · Post by **orald** » 09 Apr 2009 13:18

You're all a bunch of racists! SA is a paradise, I tell ya, a paradise!

DuneFishUK · Post by **DuneFishUK** » 09 Apr 2009 13:23

As long as they all go home with their bastard "work ethics" and shove it up their medelling Brussels bureaucrats with their "human rights" ... stupid Daily Mail

Rakis · Post by **Rakis** » 09 Apr 2009 13:48

Don't hold back, DFUK, tell us how you really feel...

SwordMaster · Post by **SwordMaster** » 09 Apr 2009 14:53

I blame Scientology for most of the world's tragic events.

Post by **Freakzilla** » 09 Apr 2009 14:57

I blame my parents.

SwordMaster · Post by **SwordMaster** » 09 Apr 2009 15:05

Whats with 30 something single chicks that think that the world just does not have anough "nice guys" ?