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Subway & the Deli Steak

Loco — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:55:48 +0000

So the other day I went to the Subway drivethru to get a couple of sandwiches. A 6″ turkey for myself and a deli for the wife, this time she saw steak on the menu and decided to try that. I place my order and drive up to pay, the total was about $2 more than I thought it should be so I asked why. The conversation went something like this:

:That’ll be $9 something please.
:Why so expensive? Isn’t the steak only $3.19?
:We don’t have a deli steak so I had to charge you for a 6″ steak.
:But your sign says a deli is $3.19
:Oh, that’s a deli steak and egg, you asked for a steak so it’s the price of a 6″.
:Well how about you sell me a deli steak and egg without the egg.
:Oh… uhmm… sure, that’ll be $6 something please.

This happened 3 times before I smartened up and started ordering a steak and egg without the egg, which for some reason they get a kick out of.

Stupid Tester

Loco — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:53:06 +0000

Are you stupid? Do you belong on this website? I thought I did, at least a little, and it turns out I was right. I’m a little stupid, but not too much. I think the questions I got wrong were mostly the ones relating to the US.

More of those Genius Customers

Loco — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:21:29 +0000

: Really quiet night huh? Must be just the way you like it.
: No actually I love to see the store full of people spending money.

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: Brings up movie with big orange “Rented” tag on it.
: Looks at customer.
: I’d like to rent this please.
: It’s already rented.
: Oh that’s what that means.

Epic Movie

Loco — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:12:48 +0000

This was without a doubt one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I never laughed once throughout the entire thing! Normally I like this sort of thing, Naked Gun, Hot Shots and Ace Ventura are among my favorite comedies. Even the original Scary Movie was pretty good, but this, Epic Movie, was a steaming piece of dog shit (and just as funny). If you haven’t seen it, DON’T! If you have seen it, you have my condolences.

The Little Console that Couldn’t

Loco — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:57:49 +0000

I used to own a Dreamcast, like a lot of people, and for it’s time it was a great console. The graphics were great and there were some decent games on it that haven’t been seen since. Armada was one of my all time favorites and despite rumors of an Armada 2 showing up on XBox, PS2 and newer generation systems, it never came to be.

What killed this great console? Sega’s last foray into the console hardware market? I believe piracy had a strong hand in it. Don’t get me wrong, normally when the corporate big-wigs start blaming piracy for the loss of billions of fun bux in the entertainment industry I just roll my eyes. A lot of pirates wouldn’t buy the item anyway, even if that was their only choice, the ‘industry’ loses nothing from those people. But in the case of the Dreamcast it was just too easy to play copied games and I feel that it really hurt their software sales. You didn’t even need to install a mod chip or run any kind of crack on the console itself. Download a game, run a little file to crack it, burn it to a CD and you normally had a perfectly working copy of the game.

I could be wrong in all of this of course, but I’m too lazy to bother doing more in-depth research into SEGAs reasons for letting such a good piece of hardware die an early death. I think I’m right (at least somewhat) and that’s good enough for me.

Idiot Shoplifter

Loco — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:33:53 +0000

This particular idjit I had the pleasure of seeing personally. A guy came into the store I work at and wandered around a bit, he kept looking at the counter and we quickly got the whole ‘this guy’s going to steal’ vibe from him. Sure enough, he bent down behind a shelf for a moment at which point one of the counter girls called over to him “Can I help you sir?”. He stood back up right away and said no, he was just browsing. He finished his walk around the aisle and promptly left.

Thinking that something was amiss I went over to check on the stuff he had walked past and after several minutes figured out that something was in fact missing. I went down to the office to review the security footage and sure enough, at the time when the girl shouted over to him, he was in the middle of putting a box into his jacket, but he put that back on the shelf. The item he stole, he stuffed down his coat sleeve, was a 10 pack of blank cassette tapes. Yep, it’s hard to enough to believe that we still have such a thing in stock let alone someone wanting to steal them.

After being picked up 20 minutes later by the police, stolen goods still in his possession, he even said to the cops “yeah it was pretty stupid to steal that, I should have taken something better..” My immediate reponse to that was “He shouldn’t have been stealing anything in the first place!” What an idjit.

Pelican Stuck in Tree

Supreme Idjit — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:04:32 +0000

I don’t know which is more stupid; the bird for getting stuck in the tree or CNN for treating it as a big news story. I mean, birds can fly so it’s not exactly stuck there, unless it impaled itself on a branch or something. Maybe got it’s foot caught, I suppose there’s a few ways this could happen, but come on CNN I’m sure there’s more interesting things to report on, right?!

From the Mouths of Customers

Supreme Idjit — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:37:51 +0000

I’ve been working in retail for most of my working life, if it weren’t for being self employed during most of those years I’d have run away screaming a long time ago.

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Hey man you wanna buy a 17″ CRT monitor?
Nah, I’ve got a bunch in stock already but no one wants them, everyone wants an LCD these days.
The day everyone has one of those is the day I become president.
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walks in holding a copy of NHL 2003 for GameCube
Any way I can trade this for another game?
Not for something that old, I have those in a $5 bin and they still don’t sell
Oh, well can you give me $5 for it?
We only sell them for $5 ourselves!

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The Panty Shot

Supreme Idjit — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:05:52 +0000

This is one of the stupidest things to get my attention lately. Up-skirt panty shots of celebrities, typically when they’re getting out of a car. Some ‘celebrity news’ websites go on and on about how it’s such a big deal that this or that actress was so careless to expose a bit of cloth. BIG DEAL!

Take this shot of Uma Thurman getting out of a car for instance, yup, those are panties. *yawn*

Wouldn’t it just make more sense to watch some of her movies? She’s bound to be wearing underwear in at least one of them, without a pesky skirt or dress in the way you can just admire the full blown panty goodness.

The Choking Game

Supreme Idjit — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:31:54 +0000

Welcome! to a blog dedicated mainly to stupid people or the stupid things they do.

Our first story comes courtesy of some moronic kids who like to choke themselves to get a short high. When you cut off oxygen to the brain, you get dizzy, and apparently kids all over think this is a cool thing to do. Riiiight. Stupid idjits. Over 80 children under the age of 19 in the US alone have died since 1996 by playing this ‘game’. Many of them were alone, ‘playing’ by themselves, which to me reeks of suicide in at least some of those cases.

The possibility of this game killing you is only one of the bad side effects. Severe brain damage can also occur when the brain doesn’t get it’s oxygen. Spinal damage or neck injuries are also possible since belts and ropes around the neck are often used as the method of choking.

For the most part, parent’s are rather uneducated in this matter. I’m in my mid 30s and I had never heard of choking game before, I guess my generation (or at least the people I grew up with) weren’t such idjits. ‘No choking yourself’ has just made it onto the list of things my daughter needs to be warned about when she gets older. Actually I think I’ll just make her read this blog since by the time she can read it’ll be full of stupid shit that people shouldn’t do. =)