“I’ve NEVER. Eaten a DONUT. In my ENTIRE LIFE. And I’mNOT. About to start NOW.”
-Crazy customer I had today, upon being offered a complimentary donut
Why is this a real thing that happened in the real world what’s the meaning of this
I’m just gonna copy paste the story here from discord because honestly the whole story is worth hearing
so lady comes through drive thru. “Hi what can I get for you?” “A sesame bagel with extra cream cheese.” “A sesame bagel with extra cream cheese, sure no problem, can I get you anything else today?” “No” “Alright, you can pull up” and I just hear this quiet disgrunted “ ‘Please’ ?”
I’m like uhhhhh, was that even directed at me, I don’t know, I don’t know how to respond to that so I just ignore it like I didn’t hear it. I go up to the window and see this woman, which she honestly looked like a tomato with messy gray hair. Before I have the window halfway open I see her roll her eyes at me so I’m like oh boy here we go, time to put on the stupid sweet customer voice
“Hi how are you today?”
She hands me the money for her bagel and goes “Just a tip. It’s ‘Please pull up to the window.’ not ‘pull up.’ I found that incredibly rude.”
I go “I’m sorry about that, I didn’t intend for that to be rude, I just meant that it was okay to pull up to the window now.” “I know what you meant. But it was rude.” “Well, I apologize. Here’s your bagel, have a great day.” She goes “I’m a MYSTERY SHOPPER.” (If you don’t have Mystery shoppers where you are, it’s kind of like undercover boss where the store owner hires someone through the Mystery shopper program and they place a regular order just to make sure people are following policy) I’m like “… ok”
So I’m about to tell my boss and coworker what just happened when she comes in. And I jump to the front counter because no way I’m letting her talk to my boss before I do.
“Hi, can I help you?” “Yes. This bagel was supposed to be NOT toasted. You toasted it.” “Ohh, I’m so sorry about that! I didn’t hear that. I’ll make you a new one right now.” Coworker beats me to the bagel and I say “A little extra cream cheese on that.” She looks at my boss “She just said a LITTLE cream cheese. I wanted EXTRA cream cheese.” Boss goes “Oh, she said a little extra cream cheese.” “Oh”
Boss goes into kiss ass mode as well and says, “I’m sorry about the mistake, would you like a donut?” Lady goes “I’ve never. Eaten a donut. In my ENTIRE LIFE. and I’m NOT. About to start NOW.” Boss is like “… ok” and we’re all internally going sdhakgsdgkja?
So we get the bagel out and she says to my boss “And I have one more thing to say.” She leans in with a sneer. “Mystery shopper.” boss goes “We don’t do that here.” “yea you do.” “No we don’t.” “yea you do.” “Have a good day.”
Basically we’re pretty sure the lady was crazy and she was absolutely lying because Mystery shoppers are not allowed to tell you that they’re mystery shoppers, and they aren’t allowed to coach you. And even if she was, “please” is not one of the things they look for. They look for a Greeting, whether or not you repeated the order and the price back, and whether or not you upsold. We haven’t participated in the program in over 7 years.
like listen I know we’re all for owen and claire running off and loving their adopted clone daughter but like….they really did just essentially kidnap that child I feel like someone should address that
Some initial thoughts on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
It should go without saying but there are spoilers
Love that lingering shot on Claire’s boots as she gets off the plane on Isla Nublar, as if saying “LOOK SHE’S NOT WEARING HEELS IN THIS ONE.”
The very pointed way what’s-his-name called Zia a “nasty woman” was uh… Not Subtle.
You guys the Indoraptor is JACKED
I feel like this one just abandons the series’ own internal logic and science just to have Maisie exist as she is AND give her the emotional arc at the end
fuckin’ BD Wong
needs more Jeff Goldblum
my nerd ass hopes the inevitable next movie deals with like, the ethics of this whole mess. Will PETA take up the cause? What are the ecological implications of all these new species being introduced? How will that be dealt with, will the government sanction a dino cull? How would society change when there’s pteradactyls that could swoop down and snatch up anyone at any time? Is that lion gonna be ok???
the fuck has that water thing been eating for 3 years?
who’s making the fan art of Claire, Owen and their adopted clone daughter Maisie? Featuring Vodka Aunt Zia and Disaster Uncle Franklin?
I don’t care that much about the dumb shit in the movie, it was fun, whatever, these movies were never scientifically sound
I want Jurassic World 3 to be a 2+ hour Nat Geo style documentary on dinosaurs and at one point the cameraman just gets fucking eaten by the Mosasaurus because they got too close, and the narrator doesn’t even bat an eye and goes “the mosasaurus is known to swallow small creatures, such as humans like this one, whole.”
Thousands of fanboys are going to be furiously mashing their keyboards and calling Franklin “annoying” like they wouldn’t be having anxiety attacks and melting down at every snapping twig on the island.
the director of jurassic world really made the mistake of telling tom holland the plot of the film, tom immediately went and told it to chris pratt who’s the star of jurassic world, pratt didn’t believe tom but later read the script and found out that tom actually did spoil the plot for him, then over a year later the director found out that tom spoiled the film for pratt and he called tom holland a weasel on twitter and tom said that he genuinely couldn’t help himself
me in 2015, watching the first jurassic world: See this is cool and all since the dinos are on an island and can’t go far but what about the mosasaurus? What would happen if the barrier around the island broke or they opened the gate? did they ever think of this? do they know how dangerous she is-
me in 2018, watching the new jurassic world: I’ve been thinking about this for 3 years and it actually fucking happened I can’t believe it
god i love anti steve content bc i cant even be mad at it bc it lit sounds like stan content its all like “steve rogers betrayed his country and committed treason all for some dick” like yes he did thats my baby and im proud of his anti american gay ass
Don’t let people make fun of you for liking japanese culture.
I am living in japan right now and let me tell ya:
There are people here who can’t speak or understand English who play nothing but Missy elliot and ludacris, even in businesses like housing offices and restaurants.
There are people who have cowboy hats and dead cow skulls in their home because they idolize what they assume American homes are like.
There are people who learn English strictly through music videos and American television shows.
There are entire karaoke bars with english songs often sung by people who have no idea what the lyrics mean.
Japan often takes American shows like the powerpuff girls and make japanese versions of them.
They often mistake common Americans for celebrities. I have been mistaken for Micheal jordan, tiger woods, Shaquille o'neal, Tyler perry, and saddest of all: queen latifa.
The act of sprinkling English into your japanese sentences is considered cute and cool and is popular with teenagers. Bonus points if you happen to use it correctly.
Japanese stores sell shirts with english on them and people buy them not knowing that most of those word combinations are nonsense.
Don’t let someone shame you for singing an anime opening, using japanese in your sentences, wearing clothing with japanese on it, ect. If anything, this is just one more thing that you have in common with them.
The American/Japanese cultural exchange is so pure and wonderful and I love it so much
OK BUT RESONATE WITH THE SHIRT THING THOUGH
My Chinese relatives buy me shirts from China with English letters on them hoping I think it’s cool
I have a shirt that says “Hi Quality Uality”
It’s amazing
It happens alot.
And then what’s really great is Americans getting tattoos of Chinese characters thinking they mean one thing when they really don’t
Also a topic where the reverse happens.
lemme tell you..i have been in a grocery store in Japan and heard the unedited Get Low playin over the intercom..it was literally a Katt Williams moment
Oh, unsensored songs are pretty common.
I should not be hearing an unsensored ‘Magic Stick’ playing at a family restaurant.
And the best thing is when literally no one shows that they understand what is being said.
I used to work at a restaurant owned by Chinese immigrants (in America) and one of the chefs who could hold an english conversation with me (i only spoke english fluently) would try to talk to me often. We got on the topic of tattoos and I asked if he had any. He did. I asked if they were any I could see. He explains that one was in mandarin and the other two were in english. I think ‘oh that’s cool’, I think to myself, ‘so we aren’t the only ones who get tats in languages we don’t fully know’. He shows me one and it says ‘freedom’ with some ambiguous birds around it on his chest. That’s pretty cool. And the other is on his arm and it just says ‘laughing’. Just ‘laughing’. All lowercase. I LOVE that one. so much.
look, hamilton is great and everything but I’m pretty sure lin manuel miranda’s crowning achievement and most hashtag relatable content is that one vine where he’s lying in the grass going “come on brain, think of things, come on brain, be so smart”
Fandom prefers their mentally ill characters to be like a fairy tale character, cursed to become a monster after spending 100 years with a wicked witch. Fandom loves Bucky Barnes because they see him as this cursed princess. When Bucky shows symptoms they manifest either as Sebastian Stan Looking Sad And Pensive, or as Literally Not In Control of His Own Body.
Tony Stark, a more realistic day-to-day portrayal of mental illness, is pretty widely hated and treated like a villain within the fandom. When Tony displays symptoms, it’s in making poor decisions out of desperation and fear. He goes to extremes. His mistakes made from fear based in his trauma blow up in his face. He displays coping mechanisms by being obsessive and unintentionally endangering people. He uses false arrogance and humor to distance himself, he lingers on his past trauma and it continues to shape his actions, often negatively, years later. He lashes out violently when he is faced with losing the few people he is close to.
Tony’s poor choices should not be excused because of his mental illnesses. He needs to be held responsible. But the way fandom treats Tony versus how they treat Bucky is pretty telling. Fandom doesn’t want mentally ill characters. They want innocent victims who cope in perfectly healthy ways and have never made any mistakes or poor choices as a result of their mental illness or trauma. They want someone they can feel sad about, but not someone with any messy symptoms.
Just as long as that mental illness isn’t inconvenient, unattractive, or uncomfortable!
“They want innocent victims who cope in perfectly healthy ways and have never made any mistakes or poor choices as a result of their mental illness or trauma. They want someone they can feel sad about, but not someone with any messy symptoms.”
I don’t even go here, but I’ve definitely noticed this thing.
