Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And that surprises you on a site where there are several folks who do that with books they haven't read and/or editions/RPGs that they haven't played?

"I'm an American and I have a right to my opinion!" -- every Facebook comment

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I assume others have posted these heroes. If so sorry for repeating it…

 

[billd91]

All aboard the Nitpickery Express!

 

[Scribe]

You know it really makes a guy wonder. Whats the percentage of companies, talking like the big international types, using Azure. 90%? 95%?

 

[RealAlHazred]

Either this plot summary stops just short of a REALLY DARK TWIST ENDING, or Amazon has screwed up matching the book with the summary...

 

[Hussar]

I’m sure after running at that wall a bunch of times before, THIS time will be the one that succeeds.

 

[MNblockhead]

Tangent: I may have mentioned this before, but I love clothes. And I always try to take care of what I own.

I have never understood the desire to own things that have been artificially aged OR designed to have an accelerated aging process as a marketing tactic. I saw it first with expensive ripped up jeans. Then in guitars- both “reliced” and nitrocellulose finished.

The most recent was boots. I was looking at some Grant Stone brogued cap-toe boots with an almost ivory finish. Absolutely gorgeous, and currently out of stock. Good thing, too- as I looked longingly at the gallery, I noticed that some pix showed the boots with reddish brown markings on them. The marks are from where the finish has scuffed off after a few months of wear as it is designed to do.

I had already asked for a restocking notification before I noticed this. I’ll be able to ignore that if & when.

Yeah. When I was a pre-teen and teenager in the 80s I always looked down my nose at pre-ripped, pre-faded, and shotgun jeans. That was less about me having any pride in taking care of my clothes and more a teenagers misplaced sense of pride at having earned my faded, ripped jeans.

And yet, I was a hypocrite, because I loved buying stuff from the army surplus store and I certainly hadn't earned the used look of that stuff.

In my 50s, I have two modes, formal business attire with everything clean and in good shape and dress like a bum at home and the weekends. It is not that I wear worn out casual clothes as a fasion statement. I'm just a cheap ass, resent the money and time I'm spending on updating and cleaning my work clothes, I can't be bothered looking nice out of work.

 

[MNblockhead]

So, I got ants. A lot of ants.

Haven't needed the pest control company I use for a couple of years and we are down to the dregs of the bait they put out last time (it is a pet safe gel substance in short cut up straws). I find out their tracking system is down because the web service they use is down. They are literally trying to remember the client schedule for today from their hazy memory of the calendar they saw in the past couple of days...

I know this is not payroll (mine went off without a hitch) or banking or airline travel or medical systems or anything else super important but, ANTS!

Ant networks defeat human networks once again!

 

[trappedslider]

Either this plot summary stops just short of a REALLY DARK TWIST ENDING, or Amazon has screwed up matching the book with the summary...View attachment 373374

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Yeah. When I was a pre-teen and teenager in the 80s I always looked down my nose at pre-ripped, pre-faded, and shotgun jeans. That was less about me having any pride in taking care of my clothes and more a teenagers misplaced sense of pride at having earned my faded, ripped jeans.

And yet, I was a hypocrite, because I loved buying stuff from the army surplus store and I certainly hadn't earned the used look of that stuff.

I wouldn’t classify wearing surplus military the same as pre-ripped/worn clothes. The damaged new clothes were 100% pretense, sold to emulate something they absolutely weren’t.

Unless you added military patches, pins, and other accoutrements, military surplus is just clothing.

I used to have a surplus winter camo (white/gray/black) jacket I wore to the gym and other sporting events where I was a participant. The loose fit; the surplus of pockets- perfect for my “everyday carry” when I was wearing shorts or sweatpants that (typically) didn’t have pockets at all. Even though I was an Army brat with access to all the real deal stuff, I never adorned that jacket with anything.

(My Dad would probably have been pissed off if I had, too.)

In my 50s, I have two modes, formal business attire with everything clean and in good shape and dress like a bum at home and the weekends. It is not that I wear worn out casual clothes as a fasion statement. I'm just a cheap ass, resent the money and time I'm spending on updating and cleaning my work clothes, I can't be bothered looking nice out of work.

I’m a bit of a chameleon, but I absolutely insist on culling my wardrobe of anything that gets too worn out looking.

Anything I get rid of during a cull is either thrown out because it is completely unfit to wear, or gets donated to charity. Anything that is repairable gets repaired before donation.