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Cake day: February 18th, 2024

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  • I’m with you on it all except for the DQ thing. There’s two bits to that. One is that they kinda force you to do it. The renaming the cups into something they obviously know what you mean? Yeah that’s just annoying and no one cares. But if you don’t flip it you can get it in shit. Part of that is also due to number 2. Flipping it isn’t just a marketing trick, actually checks the ice-cream and stuff as well. If its freshly made and it flips but slides out then the machine isn’t setting the icecream to the right temperature and that can indicate other issues.

    Like it’s ABSOLUTELY a marketing trick but it’s one that is forced on the employees. However at least this marketing trick has an actual secondary purpose instead of just being frilly bullshit for literally no reason.
































  • ZUNE!

    Oh my god you just reactivated a memory and now you gotta deal with it.

    So I had an iPod… nano? When I was a kid. The lil slim bitch. The top of it had a lil plastic cover with a hold button and that cover came off. Just fell the fuck apart. A friend of mine at the time had a Zune with the lil circular pad and all. Looked great, worked great, was durable as hell too. He chucked it at a wall and it still worked so I was sold.

    I got my Red Zune. 80gb I think it was. Big chunky bitch. Square touchpad. Giant clear screen. Built in radio functions and special wallpapers and all. Leagues ahead of the shitty ipod I was using. Then the second I pulled it out in public? Derision. I didn’t get it and still don’t. As far as I’m concerned, it was the superior product and I used it until the day I was forced to sell it. I ended up homeless and I couldn’t justify having the zune for any longer.

    I’ve regretted that sale every day since. The $50 wasn’t worth it. I miss my red zune. I miss listening to Godsmack on it followed immediately by the Fallout 3 soundtrack. I miss the nice wine red color with the silver metallic backing. I miss the big screen with the pictures of naked hairy men as my background to make sure that everyone knew I was gay and exactly who owned it. I miss the feeling of that metal backing sliding over my hands and catching a little bit because it’s almost like it was dusted with metallic powder to help with the grip. I miss the cool Z line-art logo. I miss the shitty software, blindingly white with splashes of oranges and pinks.

    I am not kidding when I say that out of all of the regrets in my life? Selling my zune is in my top 5.

    I actually feel kinda sad now. Treasure it, my friend… treasure it for me.