Random Thoughts Thread

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

Who decided that vanilla Dairy Queen ice cream no longer needs to have a vanilla flavour?! 🤨 Had a cone last Fall; thought the owner just was skimping to let the season's stock run out.  Tried one an hour ago, different location, now I am thinking it's 'cheapness'. 😠

[muppy]

On 4/30/2023 at 12:08 PM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

Who decided that vanilla Dairy Queen ice cream no longer needs to have a vanilla flavour?! 🤨 Had a cone last Fall; thought the owner just was skimping to let the season's stock run out.  Tried one an hour ago, different location, now I am thinking it's 'cheapness'. 😠

the last time I ate there made me sick. Nasty never again. #bananasplit

 

the plain vanilla is tasteless  beyond sickeningly sweet and vile. McDonalds vanilla swirl  cone MUCH Better not even close. 

[Augie]

I passed by gas stations around us with gas for $3.25 today. I get to the gas station outside our neighborhood and cars are lined up to buy gas for $3.89. I’m not cheap, but I’m not stupid, either. I want to pull in and question these people, which would result in absolutely nothing good. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

57 minutes ago, Augie said:

I passed by gas stations around us with gas for $3.25 today. I get to the gas station outside our neighborhood and cars are lined up to buy gas for $3.89. I’m not cheap, but I’m not stupid, either. I want to pull in and question these people, which would result in absolutely nothing good. 

Thank computers.  I had it switched right in front of my eyes once.

 

Makes tacit collusion with the surrounding gas stations all that more efficient.  Even the signs can change in an instant. 

[Augie]

2 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Thank computers.  I had it switched right in front of my eyes once.

 

Makes tacit collusion with the surrounding gas stations all that more efficient.  Even the signs can change in an instant. 

 

It’s not about the signs. They weren’t all exactly $3.25, but not much more than $.05 different. EXCEPT the guy at $3.89, and people are still lining up to buy his gas. That was my point. I asked a friend what he thought of that, and he said he never looked or paid attention to the price. He just pulls in and fills up. But unless you are traveling, don’t you know how high that is? 

[T&C]

25 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

It’s not about the signs. They weren’t all exactly $3.25, but not much more than $.05 different. EXCEPT the guy at $3.89, and people are still lining up to buy his gas. That was my point. I asked a friend what he thought of that, and he said he never looked or paid attention to the price. He just pulls in and fills up. But unless you are traveling, don’t you know how high that is? 

Just use https://www.gasbuddy.com/ ... varies around here like that too, sometimes within 1 mile.

[Augie]

1 minute ago, T&C said:

Just use https://www.gasbuddy.com/ ... varies around here like that too, sometimes within 1 mile.

 

I’m generally not cheap, but that feels like a stupidity tax I am not willing to pay. 

[Roundybout]

Pastafarian ritual?

 

[Just Jack]

17 hours ago, Augie said:

 

It’s not about the signs. They weren’t all exactly $3.25, but not much more than $.05 different. EXCEPT the guy at $3.89, and people are still lining up to buy his gas. That was my point. I asked a friend what he thought of that, and he said he never looked or paid attention to the price. He just pulls in and fills up. But unless you are traveling, don’t you know how high that is? 

 

Could be convivence for them.  I have two Sunoco stations near me.  One I drive by every day.  The other is not too far, but I have to go out of my way to go there, and that one is typically 5 cents less than the one closest to my house.  (I have the Sunoco credit card that gets me 5 cents off the cash price) So I usually use the one closer to home, unless I'm out running errands near the other one.  We also have a Costco about a 5-10 minute drive from home, depending on how many red lights I hit.  There is always a line there, so even though it's the cheapest, near me, I avoid it because I'd rather just pull in, pump, and go.  Not wait 10 minutes just to get to a pump. 

Edited May 5, 2023 by Just Jack

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

One station in Welland drops the price by a good 7 to 9 cents per litre between morning (higher) and evening (lower).  Must figure customers are more likely to stop on the way into work than dragging themselves out of a car on the way home.

[Just Jack]

Anyone use DashPass from Door Dash?  I got a free one year membership through one of my credit cards.  I'd debating keeping it once it expires this month, since it's "only" $9.99/month.  I've definitely used it enough, with the travel I do for work, I use it at least twice a month.  They sent me an email showing how I've saved over $1000 in fees and discounts using it in the last year.  

[Just Jack]

18 hours ago, Roundybout said:

Pastafarian ritual?

 

 

The mystery has been solved...

 

NJ Pasta Dump: Old Bridge Mystery Solved – NBC New York

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[ExiledInIllinois]

😏 

50% of US soybean moves through Mississippi River ports and of that 80% passes through a lock. 1 barge = 57,000 bushels of soybean and it takes only one gallon of fuel to move a ton 616 miles.

 

 

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[Just Jack]

The movie "A Man Called Otto" is the same as "Gran Torino" without the gang. 

[Gugny]

I think a beef on Weck with an over easy fried egg on it would taste amazing. 

[Just Jack]

Thoughts while driving:  In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos snapped and a lot of people disappeared.  In Avengers: End Game, The Hulk snapped and brought them back.  In the Disney+ series Hawkeye, you see how this looks to someone that was lost to the Blip in a scene featuring Yelena.  Now that got me thinking, if someone returns to the exact same spot they were in when they left, how would that affect people that were in some sort of transport when it happened? Does someone driving just reappear on a road?  What if someone was on a bus, or subway?  Or a plane?  Do they suddenly just reappear 30,000+ feet in the sky? The plane is not there anymore.  

 

 

[Augie]

It does not take much research into rotator cuff surgery to convince me I SERIOUSLY want to avoid rotator cuff surgery.