this post is fucking hilarious to me because it poses the hypothetical idea of a tolerable threshold of how much you're allowed to physically assault law enforcement before it's allowed to respond
i'm imagining now an alternate universe where protestors carry pneumatic "punching" devices that are carefully calibrated to hit a target with exactly 1 PSI less than the "unacceptable force" threshold and the police carrying little devices that are like spedometers for force and everyone on all sides are running around shoving their incredibly meticulous "is it assault or not?" doodads at each other
Lol sounds almost like a Monty Python skit.
Acclimation is a thing. 70s is a heat wave in Nordic countries.
Those old Americans grew up and lived their whole lives in our fetid shitty summers. There's a reason why Nords went to the midwest where the winters at least were normal to them.
This is the best explanation I've ever heard. I play often with a big ABBA tribute act and in the most random places (to me), we can sell out theaters and it always confused the heck out of me. For example, Bismarck, North Dakota. Sounds nuts but has one of the biggest Nordic communities I've ever seen. We go there and can easily sell out a 2500+ seat theater with nothing but 6 foot blondes in the audience. This shit has boggled my mind for ages. It's like this mostly across the northern half of the midwest. Weird little random cities, nothing special or notable except for huge communities of nords.
I remember specifically during the GG era, much discussion about how "fishmouth" was a legitimate symptom of a batshit liberal chick. Much like sanpaku eyes and colored hair.
@Tim the Tranny I can guarantee you that your father, and your father's father, and his father before him all engaged in haggling. It's a very normal thing to do. Idk why you're being such an autistic sperg about it. My best guess is that some boomer swindled you out of a few bucks because you didn't have the nuts to stick up for yourself and negotiate like a man, so now you're just eternally MATI about it.
I would also argue that haggling is a very American thing to do. Saying: "hey, I deserve to be paid more for x/deserve to pay less for x, so I'll get what I want through negotiation" is far more individualistic and of the American capitalist spirit than going: "well the price was set already, I guess I won't contest it whatsoever even if I believe it doesn't accurately represent the value of what I'm selling/buying."
All of that is to say: you're retarded and you should kys.
Totally. My mother is 82 and she's brutal like an executioner, even at this age. You'd think after decades of hearing her I could handle it but I still have to leave the room when she starts because I can't even bear to hear her do it. I almost get too much sympathy for the person she's haggling with.
When I was in my teens, if I was making a big purchase, like a keyboard, she'd insist on coming to the store with me. Not only would she get the price cut down, then she'd start with shit like, "And I know this thing needs sound cables. You're gonna give me some, right?" and "Doesn't this thing use those cards and stuff for sounds? You'll throw one in, right?" By the time we got to the register, you could see the look on the salesman's face that he's completely reconsidered a future in retail. He'd start ringing it up looking like he just wants to clock out early and forget the day, and then she'd hit him with, "You're not charging me tax, right?" Holy shit, I swear sometimes it was almost like a cartoon, like I thought the salesman was gonna pull out a huge wooden mallet and start hitting himself on the head.
It's definitely a skill but I think the more modern generations (Millennials forward) just don't have the balls for that kind of thing. It's easier to just pay full price and slink away with as little interaction as possible. You can't have the balls to negotiate when the mere thought of having to answer the phone and talk to a live human is enough to cripple you.
Plus when you worship at the altar of the big box corporate store like they do - well - You can't haggle at an IKEA. But you're a fool if you go into PC Richard and buy a stove or a fridge at full price. Anything that's not big box corporate or a supermarket is fair game.
