You Laugh, You Lose

[sersoft]

if they were exclusive celebrity nude pics not found elsewhere the kid would be rich

[Orpheon]

@MSKyuuni

Still though, they shouldn’t have sold it as “new”

It’s really baffling that so many stores do this. At any given Walmart you can probably look around for five minutes and find a bunch of used products haphazardly stuffed back into their original packaging and taped up. Even hardware stores do this, whose products arguably get the worst beatings. Bought a shop vac the other day and it when I went to use it it was already filled with dust and didn’t work right. At least most tech stores will give you a discount for open box and display units, but I don’t understand why superstores don’t do that.

[LordSkunk_707]

They don’t do it because they’re greedy assholes.

[bur]

if only the walmarts of the world would fucking DIE already

[Diabolical]

I just don’t understand why the person who’s behind this, put over dozens of pornographic pictures on 3DS, and just to take back where he originally bought it from, so someone can purchase it. Unless he has no life.

[Chickenprotector]

Most people tend to not wipe their shit after the pawn/sell it back to the stores. You’d be surprised how often it happens.

I’m surprised their techs didn’t catch this, it should have been caught pretty fucking easily.

[Orpheon]

@Lord 707

They don’t do it because they’re greedy assholes.

Yet there’s a price to be paid for pulling crap like this…or there would be, if it wasn’t the biggest store in the world.

@Chickenprotector

I’m surprised their techs didn’t catch this, it should have been caught pretty fucking easily.

How much training do you think Walmart employees get for stuff like this? How much do you think they care? The answer to both is probably zero.

Anyway, let’s try getting back to the funnies.

THE ALMIGHTY LOAF

[k3nny1550]

Poor, poor Hybrid Theory…

[Fnork]

The first one really does describe me.

[COLOR=’#191919’]And if you want to know I came up with the name before either of those entries were made or I knew what the Urban Dictionary was, there is certainly no connection on my part.

[TheeGoatPig]

Maybe, but the second one has me worried…

[Khaney]

oh god…

[GilCMassey]

D: oh what fu- I mean, fnork!

[Diabolical]

https://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/24328378/2013/12/30/police-fake-cop-pulled-over-real-cop

[danielsangeo]

Wawa skittletits

[sersoft]

https://forums.blackmesasource.com/showthread.php?t=17363

[Chickenprotector]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/12/31/this-photo-of-kim-jong-un-riding-a-ski-lift-is-north-koreas-way-of-flipping-off-europe/?tid=sm_fb

This photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sitting alone on a ski lift might not look like North Korea flipping Europe a giant middle finger. But that’s exactly what it is.

I’ll explain. Kim is thought to have developed a love for skiing when he went to boarding school (under a fake identity) in Switzerland. One of his pet projects since taking power two years ago has been building a giant ski resort, something that does not immediately serve the world’s poorest country but would be meant as a show of national greatness. So Kim made it a top national priority to build the resort, Masik Pass, and work has been proceeding feverishly.

But Kim’s pet project hit a major snag this August: ski lifts. Kim just could not get his hands on any ski lifts. North Korea doesn’t have the technology to build its own. And the countries that make them all tend to be in the West, where new sanctions imposed in March make it illegal to sell luxury goods to the Hermit Kingdom. North Korea tried offering millions of dollars to Austrian and French companies to import ski lifts, but both said no.

Finally, North Korea tried to import from a Swiss company, offering $7.7 million for the lifts. It would be a logical choice: The country’s well-known history of neutrality at times extends even to Pyongyang. But the Swiss government blocked the deal, calling the Masik Pass resort a “propaganda project.”

Pyongyang was so angry it issued a furious response via official state outlet KCNA, declaring, “This is an intolerable mockery of the social system and the people of the DPRK and a serious human rights abuse that politicizes sports and discriminates against the Koreans.” Yes, you read that correctly: North Korea called Switzerland’s refusal to sell it ski lifts a “serious human rights abuse.”

In the four months since Switzerland blocked the sale, North Korea appears to have somehow acquired ski lifts. It’s not clear how or from where; presumably they’re confident in the lift’s safety for Kim himself to take this lonely ride up the slope. The photo is surely meant primarily to demonstrate to North Koreans that the ski resort is coming along and that the ski lifts have the leader’s confidence. But it’s hard not to also see this as Kim thumbing his nose at Europe, as if to say that he doesn’t need their stinking ski lifts anyway.

Oh the irony.

[TheeGoatPig]

My favorite part of that article you quoted is where they say North Korea doesn’t have the technology to build their own ski lifts. THEY DON’T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD SKI LIFTS. All it takes is a diesel engine, some cable, a couple pullies (why isn’t this a word?), a tower or three, and some welded together seats. That’s not high technology. The US and Europe had those things back in the early 1900s. How in the world of fuck does North Korea not have technology from over 100 years ago? We aren’t talking about rocket ships to Mars here, we are talking about ski lifts. SKI LIFTS ARE OUT OF NORTH KOREA’S REACH.

[Pyroclase]

^ I would think that pulling a mile or so of cable with stuff attached to it between two points continuously in harsh conditions actually takes a fair amount of engineering prowess, particularly since it needs to be safe as well.

On a more amusing note: https://mobile.twitter.com/TNG_S8

[danielsangeo]

@TheeGoatPig

pullies (why isn’t this a word?)

*pulleys

[TheeGoatPig]

@danielsangeo

*pulleys

I have terrible spelling and spellcheck wasn’t helping.