Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Pale Violet Light]

This is the path I walked before finally getting Apple AirPods. I felt the hot glare of Sam Vimes on my neck as I discarded cheaper crap I tried to save money with repeatedly.

I’ve followed the opposite path because I’m constantly losing my filthy expensive high-end earbuds; after misplacing the second pair downgrading seemed like the financially prudent move.

 

[prabe]

Unrelated to the above: You really are a worst-case scenario, aren't you?

 

[Pale Violet Light]

Unrelated to the above: You really are a worst-case scenario, aren't you?

I think three pairs would be a worst-case scenario.

 

[prabe]

I think three pairs would be a worst-case scenario.

It'd certainly be an awkward poker hand.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I’ve followed the opposite path because I’m constantly losing my filthy expensive high-end earbuds; after misplacing the second pair downgrading seemed like the financially prudent move.

I used to lose pens all the time, until I bought myself my first serious one in the early 1990s. Since then, only one has been lost, and that one was destroyed in a freak accident.

That said, earbuds are something I DON’T buy anymore. Besides the fact that I don’t find them comfortable, since almost all of them are wireless/bluetooth, they’re so much easier to lose.

 

[Staffan]

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G'Kar and Dukat are nothing alike. If there's a counterpart to Dukat in Babylon 5, it's Londo Mollari: trying to advance himself while also doing what he thinks is best for his empire, and convincing himself that the empire's conquests were good for those conquered actually, and turning to terrible deal-making to get an advantage over the competition.

 

[Ryujin]

G'Kar and Dukat are nothing alike. If there's a counterpart to Dukat in Babylon 5, it's Londo Mollari: trying to advance himself while also doing what he thinks is best for his empire, and convincing himself that the empire's conquests were good for those conquered actually, and turning to terrible deal-making to get an advantage over the competition.

He's a bit of both, at various points. The self-promoter, who longs for the good old days of empire, and the religious figure. He's just the Mirror Universe versions of both.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I’ve followed the opposite path because I’m constantly losing my filthy expensive high-end earbuds; after misplacing the second pair downgrading seemed like the financially prudent move.

I used to buy expensive sunglasses and would always lose them. I started buying them at the dollar store, and, while they get destroyed occasionally because they're made of plastic shavings, packing tape, and the hopes of Temu executives, I now have managed to keep several pairs.

I started following the same logic with umbrellas, and the same thing happened.

It makes me suspect I wasn't "losing" the items, but, rather, they may have been, uh, "walking away."

 

[Artamo]

I used to buy expensive sunglasses and would always lose them. I started buying them at the dollar store, and, while they get destroyed occasionally because they're made of plastic shavings, packing tape, and the hopes of Temu executives, I now have managed to keep several pairs.

I started following the same logic with umbrellas, and the same thing happened.

It makes me suspect I wasn't "losing" the items, but, rather, they may have been, uh, "walking away."

I did the same thing - I had a pair of Ray Bans that I had bought when I was younger and lost them, and because it wasn’t the kind of thing I was willing to just get another pair because “oh well”, I just bought drugstore Foster Grants for years, losing them and mistreating them as time went on. Few years ago, I got another pair of Ray Bans, and these I baby now. I think part of it was just I was younger and I didn’t treat things with the same care that I would today.