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I signed up for the "ad free experience" on Amazon.
Picked a movie, popup says "this feature is not available ad free". Cancelled
How is this legal? Oh yeah, Bezos was on the stage clapping with the other robber barons.
I gave up sailing the high seas during the golden age of streaming. Unfortunately it has already come to an end with the majority of streaming services including ads for their highest tier.
I have wasted so much of my life on watching commercials, I refuse to waste anymore.
I have wasted so much of my life on watching commercials, I refuse to waste anymore.
This, 100% this.
Every streaming I have I pay the few extra bucks for ad free. Keep that fucking garbage out of my house.
"Ribbed for her pleasure"
Indestructible or tough dog toys. My boy will have that in pieces, 15 minutes or less guaranteed
Indestructible toys are a catch 22, anyways. I found a couple of toys my old bud couldn’t destroy but he got bored of them very quickly. All of the satisfaction comes from the destruction.
We just started getting him soccer balls from 5 Below. Cheap enough and big enough to last a little longer.
Get him a stick
When he break it. He now have 2 stick
When he have too many stick.
Go get new stick. It free.
I was in a PetsMart and I swear they had regular ass sticks that they found outside with $5 price tags on them. You could literally walk 10 steps out of their front doors and find the same thing for free.
My fucking big goofy dumball of a dog will continuously get sticks stuck in his mouth from trying to chew of them vertical instead of horizontal and its bad. He'll walk up all happy and just drip blood on my lap with his mouth stuck open. One time we came inside and didn't realize until like 30 minutes later that he had a big twig stuck in there, he was happy as can be .
I love that dog and he loves sticks
You're dog has fuckered up eyes
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Only two things ever last in my house. Beef femors and nylahide chewable. Everything has a lifespan of minutes.
Same with my dog but hes not interested in the nylon or femurs, probably because he can't figure out how to tear them apart.
Same. They dislike them at first but they get bored with them quickly. I don’t mind them shredding toys as long as they don’t eat them.
A "family size" bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.
"Military Grade" is not the flex that civilians think it is.
A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family.
It should be the size of a family.
if it were liquefied
Tbf, a family-sized (now party-sized) bag of Doritos does contain a day's worth of calories (2250) for a single person. I can't keep them in the house, they call to me.
I miss the old military surplus stores. 2/3 of the stuff was cheap crap, but every now and then you'd find something insane. I had this flat periscope, it was designed to go up through a slot on the roof of a tank. You could easily stand on it, and it wouldn't have broken.
A "family size" bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.
It's enough for a family because the portion sizes are like 4 chips.
Military grade
This one is funny to me because the military commonly goes with the lowest bidder. So I take it to mean that "military grade" is absolute garbage made by the lowest bidder.
Not only that, but the US Military runs on state-of-the-art logistics. This means that military equipment can, and often is, incredibly high maintenance because you're never far from a base that always has everything you need to keep it operational. In this environment, there's no need to make anything super robust and reliable, so... they don't.
How state-of-the-art are we talking? Well, let me introduce you to forward-deployed Burger King.
Cereal is worse. I used to get regular sized. Then I got family sized. Now I try to hold out for “mega sized” for myself
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I have been conditioned to think of "Free & Clear" as having no coloring or nasty scents added and then I come across this and was duped
Flavored dish soap is kinda wild in general. Yes, I want the things I eat and drink off of to all taste vaguely of chemical lemons.
The default should be plain soaps and plain dish detergent. Some are so potent that the scent sticks to the dishes even after washing, and unfortunately, the food too. Especially that dawn spray soap.
This is such bullshit manipulative marketing, similar to when companies will put out an ad saying something like "ONLY $1.99/MONTH" in large, bold letters and then below it have tiny fine print saying "for the first month, then $420.69/month".
"Free of dyes. Soft pear scent.". Boom. Done. Not only is it short, but it's clear and accurate. Almost nobody cares if it's "clear" as long as it's dye-free.
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