Random Thoughts II - Page 62

ChaosWulf · 24th August 2008, 23:27

Out of boredom ended up watching Beetlejuice on C4 this evening. Easy to see where Ledger got his inspiration for the Joker.
Is the term "plagiarism" applicable for acting?

Cyberbob · 24th August 2008, 23:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaosWulf

Out of boredom ended up watching Beetlejuice on C4 this evening. Easy to see where Ledger got his inspiration for the Joker.
Is the term "plagiarism" applicable for acting?

Yea, I watched this too, was thinking this as soon as I was refreshed on Keaton's Beetlejuice.
So similar it's scary.

Not only in how they look, but so similar in the way they act, the way they talk..

leadinjector · 24th August 2008, 23:40

beetlejuice was one of my all time favourite movies as a kid, must track down a copy

Hazmat · 24th August 2008, 23:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaosWulf

Out of boredom ended up watching Beetlejuice on C4 this evening. Easy to see where Ledger got his inspiration for the Joker.
Is the term "plagiarism" applicable for acting?

Said the same thing to my wife tonight.
I don't know if it diminishes my respect for Heath Ledger, or increases it for Michael Keaton

crocos · 25th August 2008, 01:36

Cat sleeping on my bed stretched and rolled off the bed. THUMP-YOWL!

I laughed

dead goon · 25th August 2008, 01:38

Heath Ledger saved that movie, just.

flic · 25th August 2008, 09:43

Went to New World on the weekend and used the self service check-out (as we normally do)

I noticed the grapes and apples we had bought both had PLU codes on them.

So I tap "enter code" and put inthe 4 digit number .... "product not found". Hrmmm ok, look up item and away it goes.

Next item, same thing. This annoys me and I say out loud "what's the point of putting codes on fruit and not having them in the system, that's just stupid and a waste of time"

The attendant guy comes over (very gay) and says "If you are having trouble using the self service system we DO have checkouts with people who can...." (very patronising)

I cut him off with "I'm aware there are checkouts, it's just silly to have a system that doesn't recognise the codes you have on the items"

He starts to try to explain that progressive supermarkets create the codes but they're different in some way so.....

I reply "How as a customer am I meant to know that? your codes don't work - but they should. Why even have codes on the items...

He litereally threw his hands up in the air and yelled "FINE THEN JESUS I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP" and storms (minces) off back to the supervisors area.

I told him not to have a hissy at me and not to take it so personally.

StN · 25th August 2008, 09:58

Stuff would have called it "Funny story about fruit"...

Asriel · 25th August 2008, 10:16

Working in a supermarket sucks. Even though you didn't mean it personally, if you were to have customers speak like that to you all day you'd be shitty too. Though also, wtf have a self service option if it doesn't even work.

Helious · 25th August 2008, 10:18

lol flic, it's funnier because he was a toot

Draco T Bastard · 25th August 2008, 10:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delphinus

What if you *dont* keep things super hygienic... therefore building up your immunity?

A study late last century showed that those working at rubbish dumps had the strongest immune systems.

StN · 25th August 2008, 10:34

I got castigated by a colleague because I reloaded the plastic bag dispensor at the self checkout. He claimed I was doing the job of the attendant. I pointed out that it was the only part of the job that wasn't being done by a robot.

Kryten · 25th August 2008, 10:35

I freely admit that if given a choice at the supermarket, I'll take which ever product off the shelf is going to make a hole in the display. Shelf fillers need more to do, right?

Having worked the toy department at The Warehouse over multiple christmas shopping periods while funding my tertiary education, they should consider it additional motivation to get the hell out of a place like a supermarket.

Baal · 25th August 2008, 11:04

Ideally you go for the highest item, that is sort of stuck to other items so when you pull it out you start a small landslide. Works even better with beer.

crocos · 25th August 2008, 11:08

Always take the BOTTOM apple from the pile

A Corpse · 25th August 2008, 16:35

I grab the milk at the back, since it tends to have the longest expiry date and has been kept colder than the stuff sitting at the front.

I also take fruit from high up on the display on the theory that the shortarses can't manhandle it as often. I still wash fruit though. The amount of times you're on the shitter at work and you hear someone come in, take a leak and walk out, ech. Doesn't anyone wash their hands anymore? And then you have to use the doorhandle they just used, after you've washed your hands.

Wow, I derailed my own post.

cEvin · 25th August 2008, 16:40

sif touch the doorhandle with bare hands.

Helious · 25th August 2008, 16:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Corpse

I grab the milk at the back, since it tends to have the longest expiry date and has been kept colder than the stuff sitting at the front.

Not sure if this is something that happened 2months ago, 6months ago or a year ago now. But I noticed that Milk has a good 10days on the date now. I go through 2L's every second day. Never really a concern eh.

I think it's since all milk brands now have the seal on them, they're staying fresh for longer?

Ab · 25th August 2008, 16:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by Draco T Bastard

A study late last century showed that those working at rubbish dumps had the strongest immune systems.

You mean, all those that didn't die of typhus and cholera and AIDS before the researchers got there?

Baal · 25th August 2008, 16:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by A Corpse

I grab the milk at the back, since it tends to have the longest expiry date and has been kept colder than the stuff sitting at the front.

Milkmaid!

A Corpse · 25th August 2008, 16:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Helious-

Not sure if this is something that happened 2months ago, 6months ago or a year ago now. But I noticed that Milk has a good 10days on the date now. I go through 2L's every second day. Never really a concern eh.

I think it's since all milk brands now have the seal on them, they're staying fresh for longer?

Yeah 10 days is pretty standard but a 2-litre can take us anywhere between 2 days and a week. And if you check the dates at the supermarket there's usually a 2 or 3 day spread.

MadMax · 25th August 2008, 19:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kryten

Having worked the toy department at The Warehouse over multiple christmas shopping periods while funding my tertiary education, they should consider it additional motivation to get the hell out of a place like a supermarket.

i worked at a large warehouse for three years ... three years too long. at least the last two years involved driving around in forklifts with the pedal flat to the floor, wizzing down isles with other drivers doing the same from the opposite direction in isles just wide enough for the two forklifts to pass. shifting pallets around got so tedius and boring it hurt the brain.

there was a quiet day where we had finished all the work within two hours of an 8 hour shift. everyone had to help the back fillers which involved pulling the product forward on the shelf. i started feeling ill out of pure boredom after i had done a mere 20meters of stock, and to think that there were half a dozen people employed full time to do just that.

CCS · 25th August 2008, 19:42

Motherfucken supermarkets should have spring loaded gizmos at the back which push stock forward as one item is taken from the front.

Even better, instead of having several boxes of each product on the shelf, they could save space by just having a big picture of the item. This picture would in fact be a large button itself, so you would press the picture of desired item and then it would drop down a shute. Then a helper midget would place this item in your trolley or basket.

MadMax · 25th August 2008, 19:45

pak n save's ultimate plan is to make everything self-serving. that means full pallets of say milk are loaded into a fridge which backs onto a door. shopper opens the fridge door and digs out the bottles of milk from the suppliers plastic crates.

one day the inside of a supermarket will look like this:

and your fridge at home will do all the ordering.

chiquelet · 25th August 2008, 19:46

Also an ex-Warehouse employee here. Saw plenty of NZGamers in my time, although don't know if they recognised me (if you did, say so you rude gits)!

MadMax · 25th August 2008, 19:52

scary: when i was about 10 i had a dream of a shop running like this:

(google image results)

iirc it was a nightmare because all the conductive lines were high voltage and you couldn't walk on them, and i was somehow trapped and had to navigate my way out

CCS · 25th August 2008, 19:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

pak n save's ultimate plan is to make everything self-serving. that means full pallets of say milk are loaded into a fridge which backs onto a door. shopper opens the fridge door and digs out the bottles of milk from the suppliers plastic crates.

I like my idea better. Vacuum shutes + midgets = win.

MadMax · 25th August 2008, 19:58

(assuming those are conductive lines, and not marks left from being driven over so many times)

Ajax · 25th August 2008, 20:46

In the not-too-distant future, gigantic discount barns will cover thousands upon thousands of square kilometres, displacing all other structures.
Tremble before the power of the incredible savings offered within.

MadMax · 25th August 2008, 21:07

Lightspeed · 25th August 2008, 21:12

Idiocracy.

Rivertrog · 25th August 2008, 22:22

googlezon

zeekiorage · 25th August 2008, 22:23

Judge restricts online reporting of case

Quote:

A judge has today taken the unprecedented step of banning news websites from naming two men charged with murder while allowing newspapers, radio stations and TV networks to reveal who they are.

Judge David Harvey said online media could not use the names, or publish images of the accused, to prevent the public searching for the information when the case comes to trial.

He said he was "concerned about someone Googling someone's name and being able to access it later".

So apparently the judge teaches Law and Information Technology and has written books about law and Internet but still thinks that banning online media while allowing TV and print media is possible.

leadinjector · 25th August 2008, 22:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asriel

Working in a supermarket sucks. Even though you didn't mean it personally, if you were to have customers speak like that to you all day you'd be shitty too. Though also, wtf have a self service option if it doesn't even work.

my partner worked weekends at farmers for 3 years, and because of her name and her appearance everyone assumed she was a muslim (she isnt)

some of the stories i heard were pretty bad, part of the reason i made her quit the place. I don't know how people do that, maybe I have a short fuse but if some asshole I didn't know from a box of bricks insulted me I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. Where I work now i can just throw them the fuck out.

fidgit · 25th August 2008, 22:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by flic

story about plu codes and mincing checkout supervisors

He's entirely wrong about the codes being anything to do with Progressive.

There are international bodies that organise things like plu codes so that products can be stickered in one country and those codes can stay consistant all over the world. In particular to this case, it's probably the International Federation for Produce Standards.

Foodstuffs Wellington (and I think Foodstuffs Auckland did it even before them) re-aligned their entire Produce and bulk food departments to utilise these codes at the end of last year (or beginning of this year... I forget exactly when). I know this because I had to help technophobes understand what was going on with the scary magical computers, and had several discussions about "Why can't things just stay the same".

Prior to your post I'd have assumed the codes on the stickers would have worked in Foodstuffs SI stores.

fun fact: An '8' in front of your produce's plu code means its GE. A '9' means its organic. The More You Know! -rainbow-

ChaosWulf · 25th August 2008, 22:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by leadinjector

i made her quit the place.

lol

CCS · 25th August 2008, 23:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by leadinjector

my partner worked weekends at farmers for 3 years, and because of her name and her appearance everyone assumed she was a muslim (she isnt)

some of the stories i heard were pretty bad

Tell us the stories about your muslim girlfriend!

Spoon1 · 26th August 2008, 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by cEvin

sif touch the doorhandle with bare hands.

This man speaks the truth.

Paper towels at work.

- Elbow open door
- Take piss
- Turn on tap with hands and wash with soap from dispenser
- Leave tap running and pull off a piece of paper hand towel
- Turn off tap with paper, bin it and pull off a larger section of paper to dry hands on
- Dry hands and then open door with used paper towel
- Hold door open with foot, throw paper into bin and walk out

Done.
[/Ramsey]

cEvin · 26th August 2008, 00:33

or wait patiently at door for someone to come through

CCS · 26th August 2008, 00:36

Do you wear a surgeon's mask in the bathroom so that piss germs don't rise up in the piss steam and get up your nose?

25th August 2008, 09:43	#2447
flic Dee Hast Mish	Went to New World on the weekend and used the self service check-out (as we normally do) I noticed the grapes and apples we had bought both had PLU codes on them. So I tap "enter code" and put inthe 4 digit number .... "product not found". Hrmmm ok, look up item and away it goes. Next item, same thing. This annoys me and I say out loud "what's the point of putting codes on fruit and not having them in the system, that's just stupid and a waste of time" The attendant guy comes over (very gay) and says "If you are having trouble using the self service system we DO have checkouts with people who can...." (very patronising) I cut him off with "I'm aware there are checkouts, it's just silly to have a system that doesn't recognise the codes you have on the items" He starts to try to explain that progressive supermarkets create the codes but they're different in some way so..... I reply "How as a customer am I meant to know that? your codes don't work - but they should. Why even have codes on the items... He litereally threw his hands up in the air and yelled "FINE THEN JESUS I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP" and storms (minces) off back to the supervisors area. I told him not to have a hissy at me and not to take it so personally. __________________ In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes

25th August 2008, 16:35	#2456
A Corpse talkative lurker	I grab the milk at the back, since it tends to have the longest expiry date and has been kept colder than the stuff sitting at the front. I also take fruit from high up on the display on the theory that the shortarses can't manhandle it as often. I still wash fruit though. The amount of times you're on the shitter at work and you hear someone come in, take a leak and walk out, ech. Doesn't anyone wash their hands anymore? And then you have to use the doorhandle they just used, after you've washed your hands. Wow, I derailed my own post. __________________ Broke my addiction! Bye bye Eve, hello Minecraft. Wait... >_<

25th August 2008, 19:42	#2463
CCS Stunt Pants	Motherfucken supermarkets should have spring loaded gizmos at the back which push stock forward as one item is taken from the front. Even better, instead of having several boxes of each product on the shelf, they could save space by just having a big picture of the item. This picture would in fact be a large button itself, so you would press the picture of desired item and then it would drop down a shute. Then a helper midget would place this item in your trolley or basket. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

25th August 2008, 19:45	#2464
MadMax Stuff	pak n save's ultimate plan is to make everything self-serving. that means full pallets of say milk are loaded into a fridge which backs onto a door. shopper opens the fridge door and digs out the bottles of milk from the suppliers plastic crates. one day the inside of a supermarket will look like this: and your fridge at home will do all the ordering. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 25th August 2008 at 19:49.

25th August 2008, 19:52	#2466
MadMax Stuff	scary: when i was about 10 i had a dream of a shop running like this: (google image results) iirc it was a nightmare because all the conductive lines were high voltage and you couldn't walk on them, and i was somehow trapped and had to navigate my way out __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 25th August 2008 at 19:53.

24th August 2008, 23:27	#2441
ChaosWulf Don't worry, be harpy	Out of boredom ended up watching Beetlejuice on C4 this evening. Easy to see where Ledger got his inspiration for the Joker. Is the term "plagiarism" applicable for acting?

24th August 2008, 23:40	#2443
leadinjector	beetlejuice was one of my all time favourite movies as a kid, must track down a copy

25th August 2008, 01:36	#2445
crocos	Cat sleeping on my bed stretched and rolled off the bed. THUMP-YOWL! I laughed __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

25th August 2008, 01:38	#2446
dead goon	Heath Ledger saved that movie, just.

25th August 2008, 09:58	#2448
StN I have detailed files	Stuff would have called it "Funny story about fruit"...

25th August 2008, 10:16	#2449
Asriel	Working in a supermarket sucks. Even though you didn't mean it personally, if you were to have customers speak like that to you all day you'd be shitty too. Though also, wtf have a self service option if it doesn't even work.

25th August 2008, 10:18	#2450
Helious	lol flic, it's funnier because he was a toot

25th August 2008, 10:34	#2452
StN I have detailed files	I got castigated by a colleague because I reloaded the plastic bag dispensor at the self checkout. He claimed I was doing the job of the attendant. I pointed out that it was the only part of the job that wasn't being done by a robot.

25th August 2008, 10:35	#2453
Kryten	I freely admit that if given a choice at the supermarket, I'll take which ever product off the shelf is going to make a hole in the display. Shelf fillers need more to do, right? Having worked the toy department at The Warehouse over multiple christmas shopping periods while funding my tertiary education, they should consider it additional motivation to get the hell out of a place like a supermarket.

25th August 2008, 11:04	#2454
Baal	Ideally you go for the highest item, that is sort of stuck to other items so when you pull it out you start a small landslide. Works even better with beer.

25th August 2008, 11:08	#2455
crocos	Always take the BOTTOM apple from the pile __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

25th August 2008, 16:40	#2457
cEvin Love In Vein	sif touch the doorhandle with bare hands.

25th August 2008, 19:46	#2465
chiquelet Mrs Colin Farrell	Also an ex-Warehouse employee here. Saw plenty of NZGamers in my time, although don't know if they recognised me (if you did, say so you rude gits)!

25th August 2008, 19:58	#2468
MadMax Stuff	(assuming those are conductive lines, and not marks left from being driven over so many times)

25th August 2008, 20:46	#2469
Ajax Architeuthis	In the not-too-distant future, gigantic discount barns will cover thousands upon thousands of square kilometres, displacing all other structures. Tremble before the power of the incredible savings offered within.

25th August 2008, 21:12	#2471
Lightspeed	Idiocracy. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

26th August 2008, 00:33	#2479
cEvin Love In Vein	or wait patiently at door for someone to come through

26th August 2008, 00:36	#2480
CCS Stunt Pants	Do you wear a surgeon's mask in the bathroom so that piss germs don't rise up in the piss steam and get up your nose? __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?