Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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we have a third floor room that’s used for nothing that technically could be a bedroom. it has 2 skylights. We’re redoing it and I’m trying to talk my wife into converting the skylights to this:
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Last edited by tragabigzanda on Sun January 11, 2026 1:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
we bought a new fridge about 6 months ago and the light came on last week to replace the water filter...i ordered one and put it in today only to realize there was never one in there to begin with...
doug rr wrote:we bought a new fridge about 6 months ago and the light came on last week to replace the water filter...i ordered one and put it in today only to realize there was never one in there to begin with...
doug rr wrote:we bought a new fridge about 6 months ago and the light came on last week to replace the water filter...i ordered one and put it in today only to realize there was never one in there to begin with...
This is how the coronavirus spreads doug
welp, i just checked and the filter is made in china..i got a 3 pack
doug rr wrote:we bought a new fridge about 6 months ago and the light came on last week to replace the water filter...i ordered one and put it in today only to realize there was never one in there to begin with...
you should show up on your painter/repair guy's front door and demand a refund
doug rr wrote:we bought a new fridge about 6 months ago and the light came on last week to replace the water filter...i ordered one and put it in today only to realize there was never one in there to begin with...
you should show up on your painter/repair guy's front door and demand a refund
the good news is that the sound bar remote showed up yesterday